HauntedCupcake
@HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world
- Comment on Nobel Prize in Lit 2024 5 weeks ago:
You’re literally here talking about them talking about her.
- Comment on Why isn't everything mouldy? 2 months ago:
Springtails and certain mites also love to eat fungus. I use them to keep mold under control in my terrariums
- Comment on How to treat a man 2 months ago:
Women can experience internalised misogyny, you can also intensive your misandry
- Comment on How to treat a man 2 months ago:
I know you peeps probably didn’t mean it this way, but men fall victim to the same psychological traps women do. It’s not that easy to just leave a bad relationship, especially if you don’t have the expectations and tools required to identify what’s not normal
- Comment on Anon doesn't like Shrek 2 months ago:
That’s a nice dream, and in my perfect world that would be how it worked
- Comment on Anon doesn't like Shrek 2 months ago:
Also, normalising insults based on immutable characteristics is just not good. It harms the good people with those same characteristics
- Comment on Grant Money 3 months ago:
I also think making shit like this activity discredits the thing they’re trying to draw attention to.
“Cats hate water, please view this example.” Image
- Comment on Aluminum 3 months ago:
Pure virgin aluminium vs chad alloyed iron
- Comment on Aluminum 3 months ago:
Uh, I hate to break it to you, but literally all the iron in the human body is either part of a protein or bound to other molecules. It’s not an alloy per se, but it isn’t exactly pure iron
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Yeah but if you call her a chonkin’ land whale first, you can then turn around put your sunglasses on and power walk into the sunset 😎
- Comment on Windows 11 3 months ago:
So CrowdStrike shouldn’t allow real time threat protection? That’s what caused the issue. It needs to update its threat library to do deal with any day 1 attacks. It’s one of the main reasons it’s used
- Comment on Windows 11 3 months ago:
Forced updates of an optional corporate anti-virus designed to immediately detect and distribute information on threats should be illegal?
- Comment on Windows 11 3 months ago:
I don’t understand how so many people are taking “Program with level 0 access shipped faulty code that caused the OS to refuse to boot until a single file is removed” as “Windows bad lmao”. Not that I disagree with Windows bad, just the over liberal application and acting like this is some sort of Linux win.
Give me kernel level access and I can make anything refuse to boot
- Comment on Anon notices 3 months ago:
The correct answer is lizard. No musk, no fur, no allergens. Just needs an appropriate vivarium and a light bulb. If you design it we’ll you only need to spot clean once a week for what the woodlice don’t take care of. Feed him once every week. Costs like £20 a month in food and electricity. Landlords love them, no chance of the tank bursting and water going everywhere. Literally safer than a fish.
Best pet for the modern poor and disenfranchised citizen
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 4 months ago:
tbf, it’s likely significantly cheaper than the 30% margin. I still think it’s silly though
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 4 months ago:
By making it seem that Steam is raking in money and uh, money bad?
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 4 months ago:
The case seems like such a reach. At worst it’s an effective monopoly for devs, not consumers. Devs have a really hard time selling elsewhere.
That said, I love Steam and think it’s genuinely one of the best companies out there. And whilst it’s not great that they’re so big, they aren’t that big due to anti-competitive behaviour. It’s quite the opposite. You can add non-Steam games to your library and use Steam features. The fucking Steam deck isn’t locked down, and you can install non-Steam games. Just because Uplay wants to log me out every time I reboot doesn’t mean Steam should be sued.
There are so many other companies more deserving of the lawsuit
- Comment on What would cause a person to speak in different accents randomly? 4 months ago:
You’re welcome <3 You seem like a kind person, and those people are easily taken advantage of. I don’t like seeing people lose that kindness because they forget to put themselves first.
This person you’re dealing with could have any number of good and valid excuses for their behaviour. But it’s still straight up abusive, and could equally stem from a harmful and malicious place. Unless you know for sure the best you can do is not antagonise them.
An official report would be valid in your situation. But I wouldn’t get involved any further. Just save her messages and any evidence you have of her behaviour, on the off chance it does escalate and you or another coworker need it to protect yourselves
- Comment on What would cause a person to speak in different accents randomly? 4 months ago:
Whilst I agree with the above, remember to look out for number one. It’s important that you prioritise your own mental, physical, social, and financial wellbeing over that of a coworker you don’t seem to know all that well.
It’s important to give the benefit of the doubt and be charitable when you can, but not at any significant expense to yourself
- Comment on J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History” 4 months ago:
Thank you for the response.
The problem is that the accommodation and special treatment is in part separating these women from men and perceived masculinity. We would have to start chopping up support groups into trans-inclusive and trans-exclusive. And I don’t think sending them to a male/trans therapist is going to be very helpful.
Transphobic (I’m not sure of a better word) trauma victims would want some sort of system in place to ensure these extremely unlikely things don’t occur. Trauma can really fuck with your rational thinking like that. I still can’t really cope in certain places and environments.
Once again, I’m aware this is an extreme edge case, and basically never going to happen irl
- Comment on J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History” 4 months ago:
I 100% agree with your post. The issues she raises are nonexistent or extremely rare. In my personal life I believe and practice “trans-women are women” as for all intents and purposes it’s true.
I am however concerned that I don’t really have a response to anyone who doesn’t believe that, particularly women with some sort of past trauma that gives them an instinctual fear response. It feels insensitive to tell them to get over it or go to therapy. Particularly if they’ve been exposed to one of the extremely rare examples Rowling has presented. But I think going to therapy is probably what needs to happen.
My other conflicting thought is that therapy or condemnation it is what we would say to people being racist, but there seems to be a societal agreement that we need women only spaces. And we don’t say “get over it” in regards to men trying to enter a women’s shelter, we offer an amount of sympathy and understanding to the women and allow them that space. Which means there is some amount of gender discrimination is desired/needed. This also indicates there there should be a line or set of fuzzy criteria that determines if we treat trans-women as women or not. But this obviously also feels wrong, and I hate it.
Sorry if this was insensitive, I mostly just want to gather thoughts as I’m not confident in my thinking. I don’t think these issues deserve the amount of attention transphobes are giving them, but we’re here now, so I want to try and figure out a solution or response to more “reasonable” transphobes that I could potentially change the minds of
- Comment on Top post in the conservative subreddit: Being unable to work at a "woke" company 4 months ago:
The original 20 minute video in the article makes it clear he’s talking about job roles, and mentions writers a few times (admittedly not close enough to draw an 100% certain link). I don’t think it’s enough to discredit this just based on the assumption that he’s talking about actors or there isn’t enough context. Obviously it’s vague enough that we can’t draw any solid conclusions, so I agree with you there.
The main reason I think this is bullshit is that the guy’s testimony isn’t credible for two main reasons:
- The guy was recently passed up for promotion, and blames it on being white and male
- The interviewer is posing as a romantically interested date and asking plenty of leading questions, the guy is at least partially telling her what she wants to hear
These two points, regardless of how true his story is, give him an ulterior motive for embellishing the story and exaggerating facts, which ultimately means we can’t trust this.
I’d like to see a full investigation, as with any accusation of discrimination. But we all know that when nothing turns up, it wouldn’t shut the right wingers up
- Comment on Young Women Are Fleeing Organized Religion. This Was Predictable. 5 months ago:
Oh for sure, but you’d hope they’d try to make it a bit less conflicting with the more generic title. It totally makes sense why it’s Christianity focused
- Comment on Young Women Are Fleeing Organized Religion. This Was Predictable. 5 months ago:
The stats they’re using refer to the increase in women identifying as “unaffiliated” regardless of starting religion. However, the examples and stories they use refer to Christianity specifically.
So the title is right, just the article as a whole is just weirdly focused on Christianity
- Comment on Anon is stuck in a rut 5 months ago:
Ah yes, sow class division among the poor and disenfranchised. That’ll show them billionaires what’s what
- Comment on The year is 50424 5 months ago:
It takes a lot of energy to send them back in time
- Comment on Why People Don’t Catch The Politics In Their Favorite Games 5 months ago:
Sorry man, but that’s a relatively milk toast YouTube video with 81k views. Definitely very right leaning, but outright fascist is a bit much. Clearly no media literacy.
Her latest video got only 11k views, and most of her titles look like some right wing grifter shit like “Ben Shapiro SILENCES Candace Owens, CANCELS Debate?”.
And I’m sure that right wing grifters will use this for content, that’s what they do.
I wouldn’t say that shows anything more than a loud minority. Honestly 81k views is lower than I expected and more proves my point
- Comment on Why People Don’t Catch The Politics In Their Favorite Games 5 months ago:
Please could you provide some examples? I’ve legitimately never seen someone upset at the devs for not literally being fascists.
If I have to go out of my way to find this, I’m assuming it falls under the “loud” minority group. I’m sure these people exist, but it’d surprise me if they made up a significant amount of the over 11 million players
- Comment on Why People Don’t Catch The Politics In Their Favorite Games 5 months ago:
It’s more that when the writing is bad something is perceived as “political”, as the insert of whatever political messaging is being used comes out of nowhere and smacks the player like a cudgel. That’s what most gamers have a problem with, obviously there’s a loud minority that rage about stupid shit like Jesse Faden being too masculine. But that’s not what most people are talking about.
Games need to tackle these issues head on and fully integrate them into the world, not just tack on preachy dialog that doesn’t make sense within the wider game world.
FFXV is blatantly about slavery and no one really complained, it’s not exactly peak fiction, but they at least had everything contained within the world.
New Vegas is the best example, it’s simply written well and gives the player agency.
Death Stranding did a great job of both integrating it’s themes directly into the world, and also tackling them head on without any remorse.
Helldivers is so ludicrously full on and absolutely dripping with it’s pro fascist ideology that everyone knows what they’re getting into from the intro video, and then the game starts adding texture and “are we the baddies” energy straight away.
Fucking Disco Elysium is near universally praised by the wider gaming audience, and I don’t even think it needs to explain how that one is political.
It’s the same reason why most ideologically driven media is cringe as fuck. Christian media being a prime example, it’s contrived slop that doesn’t make sense within its own story. Like God’s Not Dead and it’s illogical legal system built on feels and Shapiro logic.
Who remembers the weird pro-life Doctor Who episode? That was bizarre and out of place. The characters stopped acting like themselves for the sake of whatever message it wanted to get across. It just felt really out of place.
The Last of Us Part 2 to label the most controversial example, had periods of good and bad writing, but focusing in on the “violence bad” part of it’s messaging, it completely missed the mark. Giving the characters names that they shout was just hilarious, and having Ellie repeatedly kill dogs whilst Abbie pets them was just so hamfisted. Then making the gameplay violent and fun just divorced it further.
In short,
gamerspeople love politics invideo gamesmedia, they hate hamfisted preaching invideo gamesmedia - Comment on After 10,000+ hours grinding, MapleStory's first level 300 player slams the brakes at 299.99 to rant about the MMO and then quit, all on a dev-promoted stream 6 months ago:
For this guy, it’s because it’s his job as a streamer
