MystikIncarnate
@MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
Some IT guy, IDK.
- Comment on I am two of them 21 hours ago:
As a straight, I agree with this.
Me personally, I’m ok, for the most part. I’m sure you are too … But all of my fellow straights? Most of them are… Well… Very not ok.
- Comment on I am two of them 21 hours ago:
As someone who is straight/cis/male, and very secure in that… Anyone who takes offense… Probably gay. Just saying.
I don’t take any offense to this stuff. I know who I am. I know what I like. I know where I stand in the grand scheme of things. I live by a very straightforward philosophy: don’t like gay sex? don’t have gay sex. Don’t like gay marriage? Don’t get gay married. Don’t deny someone else of what you don’t want for yourself.
We’re all different, and that’s a good thing.
- Comment on I am two of them 22 hours ago:
Do not apologize. That’s quite the story you have.
If you’re unhappy with where you are, who you are with, or who you are, you can always change. It’s never too late and trust me, as a long term supporter of the LGBTQ+ movement (despite being very straight/cis), they are a very accepting group.
As an outsider, I can’t tell you what, how, or when changes are going to work best for you, nor what changes you could, or should make. That’s entirely your decision and it’s a big one, and I’m sorry about that. I’m only saying that it’s not too late to figure out who you are and how to be comfortable with your life.
All the best. Take care of yourself.
- Comment on Great plan 1 day ago:
I don’t expect to retire.
I’ll probably be found at my desk on a Monday, not even first thing, but like, at 11:45, after dying there sometime Friday afternoon, and people just thought I was “working late” and left for the weekend, while I’m a literal corpse.
Whatever. I’m over it. I won’t have any fucks left to give when that happens because I won’t be alive to give any fucks.
- Comment on Great plan 1 day ago:
4 day work weeks or 52 vacation days per year as a minimum. You can either take one day a week and only work 4 days each week, or save them up and take a 10 week vacation.
- Comment on It is what it is 1 day ago:
I need to check into this, but maybe someone knows.
I assumed that if you’re using incognito and you don’t sign into your Google account, the activity wouldn’t be tied to your Google account. It might be recorded and sent to Google, but anonymously, unless you signed into Google/Gmail/YouTube/whatever, while incognito.
The obvious is that your activity wouldn’t end up on your Internet history in your non-incognito Chrome.
- Comment on Anon pitches a new game 1 week ago:
That’s valid. It’s also part of why I don’t like capitalism. Once an entity becomes large enough, it has the capability to absorb all other businesses in its sector, and often transcend sectors and absorb all competition from that sector as well.
If a company were motivated enough they could essentially buy all other companies and essentially run everything (probably right into the ground).
Yay capitalism.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 1 week ago:
Hilariously, light is an electromagnetic wave.
So, yes, we can see electromagnetic waves… Just, only a very small segment of them.
How wrong he was. Now we use EM daily for everything… Communicating via Wi-Fi, listening to music in the car (FM broadcast), or via Bluetooth and using LTE… Even heating our food. Not to mention medical applications like X-rays…
There’s a shitload of stuff we use EM for without even thinking. It’s all around us, all the time, like the matrix. I love EM science.
This goes to show you that, just because someone discovered a thing, doesn’t mean that they have any idea what to do with that discovery, or that the discoveries end there…
Before, reality was just what humans could touch, smell, see, and hear, but after the publication of the charged electromagnetic spectrum, we now know that what we can touch, smell, see, and hear, is less than one-millionth.
- Comment on Anon pitches a new game 1 week ago:
Yeah. The point doesn’t really change from this fact though.
- Comment on Anon pitches a new game 2 weeks ago:
This one, right here OP.
Capitalism is, at its core: Profits > all
Profit is more important to these chucklefucks than the customers happiness, their loyalty, the staff that make the product, hell, even the product they’re selling… This includes your life; profit is more important than your life. If they can bump their quarterly earnings with you doing something dangerous that turns you into a fucking grease stain, they’ll fucking do it. They’re psychopaths.
Only because of laws does any company do “the right thing”. Everything else they do is to reduce expenses, or increase profits.
They wouldn’t try to make the next fortnite, if fortnite didn’t make its creators disgusting amounts of money. Games wouldn’t become micro transaction hell if microtransactions didn’t rake in shitloads of cash steadily.
Video Games are simply their tool to extract the maximum possible value they can from you. First it was stupid one-off horse cosmetics, then it was paid DLC, then they started shipping half of a game before it was ready (cutting dev costs so they could get their payout faster), then releasing paid “DLC” which was the rest of the fucking game… To now, when we have little more than an idea, some mechanics, and somewhat unique art design before the streaming pile that they call a game gets to be “released”, and they’ll literally add everything later.
Look at halo. Let’s use it as a case study. The original game had its share of problems on release, but it was at least pretending to be a full game when it came out. Full single player and multi player, with a fully fleshed out campaign, complete with working cutscenes. Halo 2 followed a similar path, for the most part… Eventually, the Halo dev team became beholden to the almighty shareholder and now we have halo infinite with an infinite amount of bullshit and no single player campaign… Unless you want to pay extra for it, or for these skins, or for… You get the idea.
I played, and liked Halo. I fell away from it after Halo 2/3 due to life stuff, and at this point, I picked up the matter chief collection for the nostalgia, but that’s probably the last money I’m putting into the franchise. I just can’t be bothered. It was good while it lasted.
Halo is hardly unique in this. I only used them as an example because it was easy. I could have also used Diablo…
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 2 weeks ago:
There’s so many songs, TV shows, movies, etc, that’s all romance or love stories that contain very blatant infidelity.
What tickles me is when very monogamous, very religious people talk that stuff up… Like it’s such a good song/movie/show… Ha. You have fantasies of leaving your spouse and running off with a younger, more attractive person. You slut.
I’m not religious, but I found a partner that gets me. Guess what. I’m not fantasizing about running off with some mythical “better” or “more romantic” person. Yeah, we’re living together unmarried, and we’re good like that. You rushed into marriage for God knows what reasons and now you live in regret. Good job.
- Comment on Anon has a dream 2 weeks ago:
What a loser.
Asking for consent then respecting the answer he’s given… Real Alphas grab them by the pussy! They like that. ( /s obv.)
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 2 weeks ago:
Mushroom mushroom
- Comment on Why do I drag my feet when it's time to start a new task even if I know I'll enjoy it once I get started? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I didn’t think you were disagreeing.
My entire point is that since task paralysis can be a symptom of an executive dysfunction, it is worth the time for OP to talk to their doctor about it.
I don’t think that the previous poster said, nor implied that OP definitely has an executive dysfunction because of this one symptom.
Neither of which I think you have refuted at any point, in any capacity. :)
- Comment on Why do I drag my feet when it's time to start a new task even if I know I'll enjoy it once I get started? 2 weeks ago:
I’m still not a doctor, but as a first-aid certified person, signs and symptoms can be extremely useful in helping someone. It gives you a starting point to try to figure out what’s happening.
Further investigation is always required.
Medical diagnosis is a science. Things need to be proven. You can’t just go on vibes or feelings or whatever.
Since OP describes some symptoms that can be associated with executive function disorders, doesn’t mean that they definitely have those conditions. Only a qualified doctor should be making that kind of conclusion.
- Comment on Why do I drag my feet when it's time to start a new task even if I know I'll enjoy it once I get started? 2 weeks ago:
Oh… Uhhh… Hyperactivity in the name, isn’t behavioral hyperactivity. That can certainly be a symptom but the naming comes from hyperactivity in specific brain functions, as in, your brain works too much on things inappropriately.
While that can manifest as hyperactive behaviors, it doesn’t always.
- Comment on Why do I drag my feet when it's time to start a new task even if I know I'll enjoy it once I get started? 2 weeks ago:
… Which is probably why they qualified their statement with “might”.
OP might have an executive dysfunction.
I am not a doctor, but I agree that the possibility that OP has an executive dysfunction is nontrivial. Depending on where you live, finding out might be free. Just saying.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 3 weeks ago:
Same. Question sucks. Teacher is a tool. Kid needs bonus points for a creative solution.
This always pissed me off about all formal school. They don’t want a good answer, they don’t even want the correct answer. They want you to give them the answer they previously told you to give them, regardless of all other factors.
Real life doesn’t work like that. In reality, the “correct” answer is anything that completes the objective. In this scenario, the answer provided was reasonable, logical and most importantly, it was not incorrect.
- Comment on The solution to many problems 3 weeks ago:
That’s the joke.
- Comment on Avocado 3 weeks ago:
This is gold. Thank you.
- Comment on Avocado 3 weeks ago:
Fair enough. This one is debunked.
Let’s move along people, nothing to see here.
- Comment on The solution to many problems 3 weeks ago:
Yes, smoking takes years off your life.
But they’re the years at the end…
- Comment on The solution to many problems 3 weeks ago:
This reads like a Pharma advert.
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 3 weeks ago:
As a fellow old person, former millennial, I agree.
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 3 weeks ago:
Long term occupancy of the ISS started in November 2nd, 2000. Since then there has always been at least one person Manning the ISS.
So at least one human has not been on earth for every day since then, thus, all of humanity was last on earth on November 1st 2000. The statement is factually correct.
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 3 weeks ago:
Well, someone needs to keep the lights on in the ISS…
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 4 weeks ago:
I gave up on Facebook when they banned my account for the second time after providing evidence that I exist in both cases.
Technically, my account is still “under review”, for the past 8 years.
I used this name, Mystik Incarnate, because, believe it or not, there are more people who know me by this name, compared to how many know me by my legal name.
I remember that Facebook challenged my name back in the day, like 10+ years ago. I took a form of ID and made it say “Mystik Incarnate” as my name, sent that in, and they unblocked my account for a while. A few years later and they did it again. By then, I was already on the fence whether or not I wanted to maintain a Facebook account… But I submitted basically the same thing and… Well… It’s still “being reviewed”.
I do have an account under my legal name, mainly as a collector of messages for people that know me professionally or something that are trying to reach out. I check it every few months at most; but that account has no friends, no connections, nothing. I only keep it so people can message me. I don’t use their apps or anything, I only log in on the website and usually incognito so that they can’t track me across the web.
Every time I see someone’s logged in Facebook account, I’m disgusted by how cancerous it has become. Anyone who reaches out to me on that platform I usually try to have them connect with me by email, or some other chat program that’s more trustworthy.
Fuck Meta.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 4 weeks ago:
Shit.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 4 weeks ago:
As long as they’re paying me for the time, I see this as a win.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 4 weeks ago:
Oh… Oh no.