vulgarcynic
@vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2 2 months ago:
Been spending more and just time with plasma on a few Arch installs. I’ve almost got it tuned to be a great Windows replacement.
After some 20 years of trying to get out from under Microsoft but still be able to game, it feels nice to be so close (again… again…).
Proton really is a game changer.
- Comment on "I wish you well in your future endeavors" 3 months ago:
“Here’s a box for your personal items, Steven will show you out.”
- Comment on Obsidian's Alpha Protocol is available again thanks to GOG 3 months ago:
The amount of my life that I have confused Jason and Matt is almost insufferable. I accept what a terrible person I am.
- Comment on Obsidian's Alpha Protocol is available again thanks to GOG 3 months ago:
Renowned Fighting Scientist Matt Rorie?!
- Comment on Who made more money with it, him or Prince? 3 months ago:
Samuel L. Jackson. The L stands for motherfucker.
- Comment on Book (Album) Club Week 16: The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem 5 months ago:
As a poor white kid in a nowhere PNW town, this album was on constant rotation. I grew up on and still am primarily an extreme metal listener but this record hit just right at 19.
On my way to the shitty mill in the morning? Kill You. Getting high after my shift? Criminal. Drinking excessively with the miscreants I grew up with on our nights off? Drug Ballad.
I gave it a full relisten in a work trip a few months back and… man I still love the shit outta it but I can see it’s limits 20 some odd years later.
- Comment on Saints Row is currently free to keep from the Epic Games Store 5 months ago:
I picked this up shortly after it hit Steam. The arguments against it are valid but I honestly think it is a great reboot of the original Saints. Sure it’s modernized and a bit cringe in it’s representation of the “new generation” but the gameplay is classic Saints Row and I find the characters charming in the same way they were by SR2. Don’t fully believe the “Saints Row had gone woke” bullshit.
- Comment on Is there a name for downplaying your suffering because other people have bigger problems? 7 months ago:
Comparative Suffering is close possibly.
withtherapy.com/…/what-is-comparative-suffering/
I think these thoughts are a bi-product of empathy. When you are attuned to the pain of others, it can be easy to invalidate your own. I once heard an exchange on public transit where 2 strangers were discussing their hardships and a sort of one upping of trauma was occuring. Eventually one of the participants said “we all feel pain in our own way” and that stuck with me as a tool for understanding my own tendancy to under value the trauma I have experienced throughout life.
Hope that helps provide some insight or a thread to tug at for understanding.