wheeldawg
@wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works
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- Comment on What are some eras of gaming that you've stopped feeling nostalgic for? 5 weeks ago:
Halo 1 was the first game I ever played online. I played a lot of it.
But I was a very different person then, and replaying it now reminds me of how stupid I was (because I got into a clan that was very based on that kind of person) and the internal ick just his a fever pitch and ruined the game for me.
I never played 2 since that was on Vista and I never went back to it after finally getting Win 7.
After that the series just felt tainted to me. When I first tried it on a console it was really weird with the control setup. I was very used to hundreds of hours on Perfect Dark with the default controls. Having a second stick and rearranging what hand controlled what bent my mind in knots for a while. But it ended up making more sense that way (as you can easily tell by how much it caught on- not saying Halo pioneered it, but it was my first experience with it).
- Comment on Don't let your dreams be memes ✨️ 5 weeks ago:
I mean I’d rather have my entire yard and have no bugs live close to me and not have to worry about the grass. Would absolutely love getting rid of all plants near me except maybe having one little greenhouse to grow some weed in. Insects and bugs of any kind are not welcome anywhere I might encounter them.
- Comment on A conversation with my wife 1 month ago:
You literally can’t, because you’ll be dead by then.
- Comment on no thanks, crystal mami 2 months ago:
Who is dating these women anyway?
That’s cult shit, huge red flag to even casual friendship, much less relationship.
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 3 months ago:
I did like that movie. I saw it years ago, but every time I tried to describe it to someone I couldn’t think of the name. I can’t remember how it ended exactly, but I’ll probably throw it on when I go to my brother’s place.
We’ve been catching up with a lot of culture we missed out on due to being stuck in an overly religious household growing up. So we take time each (well most) Sundays to watch something we know Mom would hate. It’s therapeutic in a word kind of way.
- Comment on When should I start showing someone new to Trek new shows? 5 months ago:
Exactly. That’s why I wanna get him hooked on the show before bringing that up.
Although we just finished Code of Honor, which is a low point for this show. But it’s out of the way early, so it’s all uphill from here.
- Comment on When should I start showing someone new to Trek new shows? 5 months ago:
I had this same question come up recently.
A friend of mine was out of town in a store that has a lot of entire series on BD or DVD (as well as movies of course), and he knew I was constantly referencing Star Trek, and he asked where he should start.
I didn’t have much time to think since he was already in the store and had limited time. All things considered, I went with TNG as the perfect spot to start.
He’s someone I used to work with a few years ago, and we play games together a lot. Knowing him (and just younger people in general), TOS would be so hard to watch with how dated it is. If not just the sexist and racist parts, then even for me it’s hard to look at given how LCARS showed up and instantly made all the technology look immediately centuries behind.
But ever since then, it’s looked mostly the same. At least until SNW and Disco. So I told him as much as I felt I could without boring him about where it’s set in relation to the original show. 6 movies and 3 and a half series in, if I counted correctly.
But if he ends up being interested, I’ll have him go through the other 2 golden era shows before going back for TOS.
Except I will have him watch the Tribble episode before he watches the DS9 episode about it.
He already had a small knowledge of it, the basic identity of who Kirk and Spock were, and the idea that it is a multi-show and many movie kinda franchise (I guess like a STU, which is MCU but for ST)
- Comment on We live in a society 6 months ago:
I heard about some problem with caffeine, but didn’t hear about it being about Panera. Jeebus crissmas that is actually nuts.
- Comment on What's the deal with the popcorn button? 7 months ago:
Same. Been watching him for years.
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 7 months ago:
This is just the beginning of what could be a great movie.
- Comment on Wake up. 8 months ago:
Nah, gotta be at least 2017 when Trump actually won.
But 2013 was at least half good for me. I got my cat in the middle of that year and he’s great. I’m not tryna actually diagnose myself, but I feel like I had something like a depressive episode for a couple years around 2015 because of work issues and that cat just helped me out. I will never know what that really was, but that’s the closest vocabulary I have to guesstimate it with.
For those with actual diagnosed depression, I probably don’t know what that is like, but I feel like I can at least understand it.
I’m past all that now, it only lasted a couple years. But that cat was definitely there for me. Still is. I love that bastard.
- Comment on Wake up. 8 months ago:
I like to think we move up a dimension. Maybe we already came from lower dimensions, but it’s hard to imagine existing in physical space with less than these 3. Maybe next go-around we get to observe things just as easily in the 4th as we do now in the 3rd.
- Comment on Windows: we noticed that you kept the useless search bar disabled since 2015, so we sent an update that re-enabled it without your permission 8 months ago:
So that’s what happened. Thought I just mashed buttons weirdly at some point and caused it.
- Comment on Why wasn't former President Bush of the USA, charged with any crimes, when we marched into Afghanistan and Iraq by his orders, under pretenses? 9 months ago:
That was all too early for me to be following any political news.
In a way (just this one way) I’m glad he didn’t.
At the time I was so in brainwashed conservative land. If I saw Bush get in trouble I would have stood by him simply because “Republicans good, Democrats bad”. And it might have affected my waking up to the actuality, and maybe slowed it down to the point where I’d be defending Trump now. If the last guy got in trouble but was Republican and therefore innocent, it’s just happening again, gosh dang those lefties.
That’s literally the depth of thought in that camp. I’ve been there and seen it. They don’t have any higher functioning logic to speak of.
Has to scrape myself out of that thinking. Took me forever. Turns out deprogramming yourself against the thinking taught you you by everyone you’ve ever known and with only tangential knowledge of others you know doing it is difficult.
I didn’t really have any exposure to anything outside that world until I was 25 or so. I still find pieces of that thinking and influence in me all the time.
Thanks for coming to my accidental TED talk. Got a ramble going there.
- Comment on Porn is harder to access 9 months ago:
They probably meant the other definition of instance. Although I don’t know how many of those there are, haven’t run into any of them myself. I’ve seen usernames from what must be the one you’re referring to, but luckily haven’t run into any content from it.
- Comment on Porn is harder to access 9 months ago:
Been doing that since the bad place. It’s a great system.
- Comment on What's Your Favorite, Not at All Epic, Star Trek Quote 9 months ago:
Classic Voyager. 😂
- Comment on You can't hear pict... 10 months ago:
What… Sound…?
What is the sound you hear in your head for this?
- Comment on fuck netflix and their fucking clickbait sex thumbnails 10 months ago:
You can be disgusted by the surplus of something you don’t care about.
Like I’m disgusted with sports. Not on Lemmy, I don’t really see it here unless I’m on All. But in daily life, it’s everywhere. I can’t fucking stand it. I don’t wanna see it hear about sports leagues or conferences, or athletes.
I like to see a little bit of Olympics, but that’s it. And only then because it’s the top people doing their thing, potentially seeing records for it. As for professional stuff, it needs to just die off, honestly. Meatheads shouldn’t get college degrees paid for just cuz they “throw ball good”.
Fucking disgusting. And I’m tired of pretending it isn’t.
- Comment on fuck netflix and their fucking clickbait sex thumbnails 10 months ago:
Nah, you clicked x on hamsters, clearly.
- Comment on fuck netflix and their fucking clickbait sex thumbnails 10 months ago:
Eh, this doesn’t work. Higher cost items are gerrymandering like fuck.
- Comment on That's my YouTube initial page now 10 months ago:
“serves only to sponsor right wing media”
There’s a ton of comments here proving that false, as well as your own experience in all likelihood. Just because that’s the one thing you hate the most about it does not mean that’s all it does.
What is the point of this post even about? You want us to congratulate you on changing a setting?
I actually kinda wish mine would show some every now and then. The content I do watch uses a lot of clips that I wouldn’t mind seeing the full context of. But I can seek that out if need be, so that’s fine with me. But it never does that.
The closest I’ve come to that experience is when it shows frauditor channels (I watch a LOT of content making fun of them).
For example, for those familiar with it, I’ll get random videos from Chille’s channel, when no sane person has ever figured him to be correct about the current color of the sky, much less anything he says in his content.
Even when I see content from a legitimate auditor, it’s just a waste of time because that’s just boring af. The only fun thing about any of them is watching them get arrested while they scream about “muh rights”.
- Comment on What is wrong with some of you? 10 months ago:
Ah, a glimpse into the German agenda!
- Comment on Is there a more politically conservative part of the fediverse? 10 months ago:
the number of Nazis vs traditional conservatives is sadly pretty high
I think you mean ratio, not number.
- Comment on In songs sung in English, a word ending with "t" followed by "you" sometimes makes the "you" sound like "chew". Does this happen in other languages with different words/sounds? 11 months ago:
This isn’t just in songs, it’s in regular speech too.