Rhynoplaz

@Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I was looking for something to play this morning, and I died up D4. I finished the story with a Druid, and hadn’t really been back. So I rolled a new Wizard, wondered around aimlessly for a few hours and quit. It just doesn’t have the pull that D2 had for me.

  You’re not missing much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way to filter news on lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Unsubscribe from any news or political communities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long does it take for pregnancy to become noticeable?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The smaller you are, the faster people will notice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I sure hope so, cause mine has 🍆💦

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Austrian Supreme Court rules that FIFA loot boxes are not gambling⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The only possible way that a lot box can be skill based is of they are only given as play rewards. Which I have no problem with. You win a match, you get loot.

  But if you can purchase loot boxes, then skill has nothing to do with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it true that in the US we are a low context culture and In France, they are high context culture? The video I'm going to attach explains the differences.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The “three times” was an arbitrary number I made up. I don’t think there’s actually a defined number, but you ALWAYS decline the first offer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it true that in the US we are a low context culture and In France, they are high context culture? The video I'm going to attach explains the differences.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll agree with this. There are Midwestern “politeness” rules that defy communication.

  For example, if you’re visiting a Midwesterner, they will offer you something, but it’s rude to take them up on it unless they insist 3 times. The exception to the rule being “I’m grabbing a ___, you want one?”

  This doesn’t really defy the video though, as the Midwest is more homogenous than the coastal US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you touch the light switch entering a room if it's already on?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m more likely to spend an hour in an uncomfortably dim room before I realize I should turn on a light.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people pronounce ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) like it's a word?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  FBI and USB aren’t words, ICE is.

  POTUS isn’t actually a word, but it’s often pronounced that way.

  The Depot of Transportation is often reduced to DOT.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone else having a hard time sympathizing with Americans?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t doubt it at all, but I didn’t want to claim one way or the other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone else having a hard time sympathizing with Americans?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like you’ve listened to many conversations and just assumed that every American is an amalgamation of all of those conversations combined.

  The US has spend 250 years fine tuning a system designed to keep the top people at the top. The system may not be working as it was originally intended, but it is working as it has been designed.

  About 25% of all Americans Voted for Trump, slightly less voted for Harris, and the rest were ineligible to vote or just didn’t bother.

  It’s not like we all supported this and are now shocked that it’s coming to fruition, many of us are currently screaming SEE! WE TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN!! only to listen to people defending what’s going on because they’d rather justify murder than admit they’ve made a mistake.

  For the most part, the people being attacked and killed are not the people who asked for this. They are the people who tried to stop it, and they are being targeted and hunted by a white supremacist regime.

  Maybe the country as a whole doesn’t deserve any sympathy for letting itself get here, but even if we do, your sympathy, thoughts, and prayers, isn’t going to get us out of it any more than mine could prevent it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the cure to doomerism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My doctor just started me on Lexapro.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All I see in that is

  MTHRFKNUSA!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal for mothers to constantly talk to their children about their experience (particulary the part about their pain and suffering) of their pregnancy and giving birth?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You already know nothing she does is normal. No need to question it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im stupid but have money⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck. I’m smart and broke

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if portals are invented, will I be able to eat out myself?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah! You need to share your portal technology so the rest of us can uhh, test this theory, you know, for science.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do these murderers or mass shooters or hostage takers do they actually commit suicide more often than not? Or does a cop take a good shot and blame the offender as suicide? I would do the latter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m with you completely. I said take the credit for it, not necessarily actually doing anything about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do these murderers or mass shooters or hostage takers do they actually commit suicide more often than not? Or does a cop take a good shot and blame the offender as suicide? I would do the latter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the police would LOVE to take the credit for dropping a mass shooter, so I don’t think they would say it was suicide if it wasn’t. (I’m not talking about Epstein situations, just the mass shooters)

  The mass shooters all have different reasons behind what they do, but I’m pretty sure that they know that there is no good ending for them. To be honest, if I had just ambushed and murdered a bunch of people, I would probably end myself too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, so you think the building manager is being lazy by dumping the work on you to contact the people who can solve YOUR problem?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do all the subgenres of music mean? How does anyone make sense of them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bingo!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm about to get fired. How do I make sure my next job is a better place to work?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything that feels like a red flag, probably is, but you never know for sure until you get into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do all the subgenres of music mean? How does anyone make sense of them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think anyone understands ALL of them.

  As you become familiar with a certain style, you notice differences between them. The deeper you dive and the more you listen to, the finer details you can recognize.

  I could probably name at least 25 different genres of rock, and explain how they are different, but styles I’m not familiar with, I can usually only recognize the broadest category. Bluegrass all sounds like bluegrass to me, but an expert could identify 25 different subgenres of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump gives the middle finger to a Ford employee who yells "pedophile protector"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🤢

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetically, if your were a kid and your parents worked for a government intelligence agency, how would you keep secrets / have privacy from your parents?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t remember if it was local or national news, but I believe last month or so, a police officer was charged with using work resources to creep on his ex.

  So, it’s certainly possible, but they could get in a lot of trouble if word got out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump gives the middle finger to a Ford employee who yells "pedophile protector"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love watching things get under his slimy, flabby skin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think all monopolies should be split into different companies, and then given to the workers who would collectivize them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Id say the one with a superior product isn’t a monopoly at all. If it superior to something, it must have competition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do crappy parents defend their child when they are masively publicly misbehaving and being shitheads?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know the situation, but are those her actual words or are you just guessing at her motives?

  It might not have anything to do with you. Some of that sounds like it could be desperation. Possibly “I know he’s an asshole, but I’ve tried everything and he just keeps doing it! Why even bother?” add in some defensiveness because she’s feeling like a failure of a mom while you two are having the conversation about the behavior problems, and it could very well sounds like she’s angry with you.

  Like I said, I don’t know, but no point in adding hostility where there could be teamwork.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do crappy parents defend their child when they are masively publicly misbehaving and being shitheads?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that’s the scenario we’re talking about here.

  I went undiagnosed for nearly 40 years and now I have three with very different levels and styles of ADHD.

  There’s a difference between cutting the kids some slack because they are neurodivergent (hopefully they are still being held accountable and are being taught that they can’t do whatever they want without consequences) and reacting with “That’s impossible! My sweet baby would NEVER do that! You must be lying!” anytime you learn about what they’ve done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do crappy parents defend their child when they are masively publicly misbehaving and being shitheads?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly don’t know. If my kids are getting a raw deal, I’ll stick up for them, but if they are facing consequences for their own intentional actions, they earned those.

  Kids who get away with anything won’t stop doing anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this point, should we form an alternative government of the United States as a micronation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just tell the AI to pretend he’s a benevolent ruler and do what he says.