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- Comment on What is the point of this community compared to asklemmy? 21 hours ago:
Well, my understanding was that it’s not for ANY stupid question but for questions with actual answers that you feel stupid asking.
I felt stupid asking this because my understanding doesn’t jive with what I’m seeing. Which is 99% open-ended questions.
I think it does matter, though. Homogeny kills communities.
- Comment on What is the point of this community compared to asklemmy? 21 hours ago:
That’s what I’d expect, too, but that’s not what we’ve been getting unfortunately
- Comment on What is the point of this community compared to asklemmy? 21 hours ago:
Yeah that’s the invitation I get as well. I don’t want to block this community because I liked its namesake but I’m gonna of it’s just going to be these trash posts non-stop
- Comment on What is the point of this community compared to asklemmy? 22 hours ago:
It’s not overlap, though. There are basically no posting rules here which makes it functionally identical. We took the subreddit name but not the rules that made it a good subreddit.
The best communities are the ones with guidelines. There is no such thing here so it’s just asklemmy2 which is… disappointing.
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- Comment on Would the US (if not the entire world) be better if that kid didn't break in to Harambe's enclosure over in the Cincinnati Zoo back in 2016? 22 hours ago:
This is a straight up stupid question. Vague as hell with no real answer. Is this what this community is now?
- Comment on Music just isn't good anymore 1 day ago:
I’ve made a similar “rant” before on this in the hopes to change someone’s mind so I’ll give you the shortened version. And I don’t mean this negatively, I mean it as encouragement!:
Music can be an active or passive hobby. Most people fit the latter category and the older you go, the more it skews that way. Adults have a lot less time to experiment and if you aren’t actively seeking out new music, you can fall into the trap of “they don’t make it like they used to”
But they do! It’s out there! You’re just less likely to stumble upon it because not only do you lack the time, the people around you are in the same boat. We’ve also heard a LOT of music since our teens so fewer songs feel fresh. There’s no such thing as “derivative” if you’ve never heard the original!
I’m an active hobbyist who listens to 20+ hours of music I’ve never heard before on a weekly basis and can guarantee that music in pretty much every single genre is still around.
So I would encourage you to spend a couple hours exploring some time. Even if it’s just googling “modern bands like [old band] reddit” and seeing what the music hobbyists have to say, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
- Comment on Music just isn't good anymore 1 day ago:
I feel like it has way more to do with how knowledgeable you were at the time. Kids generally don’t have the most critical eye for any of those things and most people don’t go back to see what they missed.
I just said to a friend this morning, “every kid’s favorite movie is the last movie they saw”
- Comment on Music just isn't good anymore 1 day ago:
Things have changed but the music industry is very much alive. The barrier to entry dropped significantly with the advent of the internet which definitely affected the established companies but they don’t represent the industry. The artists do.
There’s more independent labels than ever and live music hasn’t changed significantly (minus the feed for “major” venues). I’d even go as far as to say the music industry is better than it’s ever been.
- Comment on 007 First Light review – a triumphant James Bond game made by obsessive fans 2 days ago:
Well 10% is fine with me, thanks for changing my mind
- Comment on 007 First Light review – a triumphant James Bond game made by obsessive fans 2 days ago:
I’m aware but it was getting compared to Hitman, a primarily stealth game, throughout development.
And according to the other reply I got, the comparison isn’t wrong.
- Comment on 007 First Light review – a triumphant James Bond game made by obsessive fans 2 days ago:
Can you play the whole thing stealth or is there mandatory combat? Maybe what I saw was just people not being good at stealth
- Comment on 007 First Light review – a triumphant James Bond game made by obsessive fans 2 days ago:
I was pretty hyped about this but after watching some gameplay, I think I’ll pass. I thought it was going to be a lot more like Hitman but it seems more like a pure action game.
Like others have said, the the enemies are blind and deaf. Doesn’t seem like a bad game but not what I’m looking for
- Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions 4 days ago:
This also isn’t an opinion community. That’s asklemmy.
Or I guess maybe it is. Who knows. With no defined theme like it’s subreddit namesake, it’s just asklemmy2 at this point. Might as well make it a meme community, too
- Comment on Do people really "need" friends? 5 days ago:
Can you please stop posting these useless questions? This is not an opinion community
- Comment on Do people really "need" friends? 5 days ago:
This whole community turned to shit. It’s all open-ended questions better suited for asklemmy…you know, the community for open-ended/opinion questions?
It’s contrary to the point of the subreddit it took its name from which admittedly also went to shit…but not nearly as fast and not nearly as severe as this.
The worst part about Lemmy is how more content is seen as a good thing. I’d rather a community have 2 good posts a day as opposed to 20 garbage posts.
- Comment on Exclusive Interview with Remedy’s New CEO: “Alan Wake and Control Should Have Sold More" 6 days ago:
Haven’t played Alan Wake but Control is worth a spin. The story is decent but I feally enjoyed the ambiance. And that one level (you will know which one) is definitely one of the coolest of all time.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’ve unfortunately had the same experience as you, I’d say at least 2/3 of my office is pro-AI.
- Comment on Is chess the most frustrating game to lose in? 1 week ago:
WHAT HAS THIS COMMUNITY BECOME?
Is this just an opinion sub now? What is the point
- Comment on Would you want to be Michael Jackson-level famous? Why or why not? 2 weeks ago:
Why is this community suddenly filled with these open-ended opinion requests? What is the point of having a separate community from asklemmy?
- Comment on Interesting that the world has 2 weeks ago:
“I’m only kinda miffed about the horrors happening in the world”
- Comment on Interesting that the world has 2 weeks ago:
Is mildlyinfuriating really the right place for this
- Comment on Why do I constantly see testostorone being put into evreything from pills to candy bars but its illegal for trans men to get it? 2 weeks ago:
What does Scotland have to say about Mr. Beast
- Comment on Dumb critique 2 weeks ago:
For something like this it definitely is
- Comment on When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough but my point still stands. People aren’t gonna figure out why it’s happening without being taught to do it themselves so yeah Americans would drive right through
- Comment on When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances 2 weeks ago:
Bike messenger are the real police. They’ll give a homeless guy a sandwich a then turn around and beat the shit out of a pickpocket.
You do not fuck with bike messengers, they’re pissed off at the world and right to be. Plus they know all the escape routes.
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 2 weeks ago:
You’re right we should all just go back to the centralized mainland of censorship
- Comment on When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances 2 weeks ago:
Well yeah… Because it doesn’t look like people are making room for an emergency vehicle lol
Without context I wouldn’t know what was going on here. US law tells you to pull over to the same side so my first thought wasn’t emergency vehicles. I couldn’t blame a US driver for not knowing German road law
- Comment on When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances 2 weeks ago:
That is the law in the US as well. TWICE I’ve seen someone ignore it and both times other citizens (in cars as well as pedestrians) bully the driver into following it.
Driver: I didn’t have anywhere to go!
Bike messenger: Turn into the fuckin alley or I’m breaking all your lights
- Comment on Is it weird that I cringe whenever someone calls my name and I avoid using peoples names when talking to them? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t like when people work my name into a conversation (“that’s a good point, glimse!” Not “hey glimse how’s it going?”) because it makes me…suspicious. Like mind instantly jumps to the tactic taught to sales people to build rapport with prospective customers.
My guess is that it’s a defense mechanism. I’ve been taken advantage of after blindly trusting someone before, now I’m predisposed to look for the signs.
I’m sure it doesn’t help that I don’t really love my name. I don’t care enough to change it but it wouldn’t have been my first pick.