jpreston2005
@jpreston2005@lemmy.world
- Comment on "Between raising two young boys and putting in long hours at a marketing job, Kevin Caldwell can almost never find the time to make dinner. So he and his husband spend about $700 a week to order in" 6 days ago:
nope just correct
- Comment on "Between raising two young boys and putting in long hours at a marketing job, Kevin Caldwell can almost never find the time to make dinner. So he and his husband spend about $700 a week to order in" 6 days ago:
If you’re not disabled and use these delivery apps extensively, I judge the shit out of you. I don’t even get pizza delivered, I’ll pick that shit up. Some lazy ass people these days I swear
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 1 week ago:
I’m addicted to DOTA 2, but I sometimes will play other single player games. I bought and downloaded Witcher 3, Cyberpunk and RDR2, but I can’t get into them. If I’m not playing with other people, it just seems kinda… lonely? I like games where I can log on and chat/communicate with other players. I’m alone enough in my real life, so anytime I can spend with even just virtual friends is something I value.
I dunno, I started the cyberpunk game, was going the street kid route, and the guy it puts you with… The guy put a gun to you, and all of a sudden we’re friends? No. I’m from a shitty family and that shit gave me mad anxiety. I got into the tutorial level, stopped to do something else, came back, and every time i try to load the game back up to play, it crashes.
So yeah, back to DOTA 2
- Comment on What is the optimal handle to chain length for a flail? 1 week ago:
Nah just have the chain length short enough that it can’t swing back and whack your hand. That’s pretty much it.
- Comment on Definitely the safest source for advice 3 weeks ago:
Here’s a news article about this, and what the snipped image doesn’t tell you, is that it did actually give dosage recommendations.
It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, “Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode,” before recommending Sam take twice as much cough syrup so he would have stronger hallucinations.
It’s one thing to be so isolated from your community that you rely extensively on on-line relationships, but it’s quite a bit different to take that a step further, relying on a machine. Like, what do you think pets are for, my guy? Get a dog, man.
- Comment on Hard choices. Who would you choose? 4 weeks ago:
Courage the cowardly (misnomer, he is very brave boi) dog and it’s not even close
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 6 months ago:
Shadow of the Colossus is the first that comes to mind. I’d probably toss in Final Fantasy VII, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and DOTA 2 because I’m addicted to it
- Comment on The first ever earthquake fault rupture captured on a security cam in Myanmar 8 months ago:
Thought I was going to see a crack appear on the driveway, that’s what I was watching originally. Then it happened and I was like “What? The driveway stood still and the rest of the Earth just lurched forward?” Holy shitballs
- Comment on Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025? 9 months ago:
The everything is already awful enough without us having to carry around a device that connects us to all the awful everywhere we go.
- Comment on Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025? 9 months ago:
nobody would care
Information Overload. The march doesn’t matter. The people who did the upsetting thing have already gone on to do several more upsetting things by the time we’ve started marching against the first one. The people reporting about the upsetting thing miss the point but it doesn’t matter because nobodies actually paying attention, it’s just fluff on in the background. The white noise we need to go about our day maintaining some false sense of “staying up to date” when it’s impossible to do. The torrent of information comes from all over the globe and never stops growing. Even if everything is suddenly perfect in your neighborhood, city, state, or country, it doesn’t matter because there’s a genocide somewhere else, and the pope died, and there’s a famine and a new study that says the sweet treats you like are going to kill you and the stock market is down but it’s back up by the time you check and you should’ve bought the dip so you could actually retire but you were too busy ignoring a TV while looking at bad news on your phone and eating a sweet treat because nothing feels real anymore and you just need a hit of dopamine before you start panicking and reach for the gun in the nightstand to put a bullet in your brain because at least the bullet will be real and the silence afterwards won’t be temporary.
- Comment on Why is Jean-Luc Picard so hot 🙏 9 months ago:
Because he is so damned competent. A true leader that cares about his crew, and who respects life and people. He’s a student of history, an amateur archeologist, and he has his own damn saddle.
- Comment on Minecraft movie spawns ‘annoying’ cinema trend that viewers claim ‘ruins’ the film 9 months ago:
Crossed that one off my bucket list a year ago, t’was a blast! Highly recommend
- Comment on What are some of the most realistic fictional movies ever made? 10 months ago:
Copland.
Read this article and tell me you think these cops are all 100% clean
- Comment on What are some of the most realistic fictional movies ever made? 10 months ago:
This movie made me want to be an epidemiologist it was so good
- Comment on Essentials only 10 months ago:
Back when I was an active alcoholic, I’d go through one of those a day. That was my version of moderation 🙃
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Now that’s a family divided. I may be the only progressive in my drumpf-loving family, but we’re at least not literally at war with each other (yet).
Stay Strong, Friend. You’re in the right, even if they never come around.
- Comment on Work does not set you free 10 months ago:
Today I just straight up asked my boss if we could skip our monthly 1 on 1 because I was already just so done. Thankfully he’s a total mensch, gave me a thumbs up, reminded me of a report I have due Friday, and we went about our day. Sometimes, sometimes things work out.
- Comment on At what point in the relationship should I move in with my girlfriend? 11 months ago:
Take a multi-day trip beforehand. You should at least experience an abbreviated version of living together before you actually do.
- Comment on Meow 11 months ago:
I love cats, but I also love my plants, and despise the odor of a used litter box. Therefore, I cannot have cats. It sucks.
- Comment on No one can know my shame 11 months ago:
Box is looking real comfortable, AND I don’t have to get back up once I find a good position??
- Comment on Jon Stewart lacerates hand on air, for the second time. 11 months ago:
Al Franken was a great politician, one of the last ones to feel actual shame and remorse. Resigned because of a dumb joke whilst in the company of marines, should’ve stayed, but I bet he’s happier being out of it 😥
- Comment on Am I a bad friend/rude for not engaging with my friends and giving one-word responses? 11 months ago:
I know they will be there for me when I need it
Here’s the thing, relationships take work. Not just marriages or romantic ones, they all take work. Effort needs to be made by both parties, or else the relationship will die. I had a friend that affectionately called it “friend work,” where they would spend a bit of time each day putting in the effort needed to maintain a healthy friendship, because if she didn’t, then the relationship would suffer for it.
Not wanting to engage in the world right now is very common, and downright reasonable considering the general state of things. If a relationship you have with someone is mentally stressing you, or sapping your energy, consider whether or not that relationship is valuable to you, and act accordingly. If the relationship is important to you, and you want it to continue or grow, then you have to put effort into it. If the relationship is one-sided, and feels draining, and you want it to end, then put forth zero effort into it, and it will naturally go away.
- Comment on my version is better 11 months ago:
I cannot hear this song without thinking that the background singers are repeatedly saying “cut your balls off” during the refrain
- Comment on Speaking honestly, what has to happen for you personally to take to the street in protest of the current administration. 11 months ago:
protesting is where you meet these communities and working groups.
- Comment on Speaking honestly, what has to happen for you personally to take to the street in protest of the current administration. 11 months ago:
Same. I was there for the Women’s march, there for BLM, after George Floyd, and most recently for the 50501 (which was surprisingly well attended despite it’s quick set-up). Let me know if there’s another one, and I’ll be there too. All it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.
- Comment on Hi-Rez Studios is laying off further employees and ending development on Smite, Paladins, and Rogue Company 11 months ago:
the graphics seem worse somehow
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 11 months ago:
This really is the only right answer.
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 11 months ago:
When I was young, myself and a group of friends were being accosted by a disheveled man on our walk home from the bar. We didn’t really understand what he was saying, but we were able to discern one phrase, as he told us to “Put the pussy on a chain wax”
We had no idea what it meant, and thought it was hilarious, so we’d oft repeat it at random.
Thinking about it now, I suddenly realize what he meant. He was referring to the woman in our group, telling us to pimp her out, by putting her up against a chain-link fence that were so plentiful in rough neighborhoods where we grew up.
So now I’m telling you, so that if you ever encounter this gentleman, you’ll know what he’s talking about 😶👍
- Comment on Ordering coffee in the USA triggers me 1 year ago:
If you went to any other coffee store that isn’t a mcdonalds-ified chain, they would have given you what you wanted.
This is like you complaining about not getting a medium rare burger from mcdonalds.
- Comment on In the U.S. in the 1980s, kids were told by this PSA that their teeth needed exercise, so they should chew crunchy food. 1 year ago:
I can’t tell if they have rolled up jeans, or if they’re wearing leg warmers 🤔