TommySalami

@TommySalami@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virginia is shrinking!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  West by God Virginia. I spent a lot of time there reminding people we fought for the north.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok. Now they've done it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, in context that verse is about being aware one’s belief in Jesus may cause strife with their family/community, and how Christians are meant to endure this strife without denying their faith. The choice of working makes sense in the context of the time it was written, when affirming Christ is God would have absolutely caused some major animosity with those who don’t believe. It’s assuring the reader that the division and pain that will come from those disagreements is not lost on God, and also not something we can turn away from and ignore.

  The Christians that everyone is up in arms about all the time are close to the worst representation of the faith as possible, and you can easily point out their lazy interpretations as well as scripture that, occasionally, outright rejects their twisting of the faith. Modern day Pharisees all the way. Unfortunately the church on a national level is inundated with them, and has done a poor job of separating from them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: Don't eat cicadas if you're allergic to shellfish... or at all⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know what, I’m here for it. Anytime I hear about the cicadas coming back it’s always over the top dread. People freak out, and there’s so much acting like seeing a cicada is going to grind life to a halt. Everyone seems to lean into the bit.

  The fact that the growing answer to the cicadas this year is a wildly different “fuck it, we’ll eat them and then they can’t get us” could not be more beautiful to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thrill seekers⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea the my life is so low stress that I can enjoy simple pleasures? That’s the dream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨zzz⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe a bit, but there would have to be a ton of pressure. Consider the fact we have to use a tourniquet to cut blood flow typically, and those hurt like hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yep, makes sense⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Find Egress; Aquire Ride. That kinda works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redditor when women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t even have mothman as number 1, what are they even doing. That bizarre being is a hero, and he deserves respect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube ads finally got me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure the comment calling for regulation is a corporate shill. It’s a pretty level-headed look at things imo, because the truth is YT cannot afford to operate for free. We live in a system that just doesn’t allow that, for better or worse. Unfortunately, the way we went about funding things on the internet (outside of ridiculous amounts of capital flowing to startups for years, which doesn’t really apply to YT/Google) was ads, and they have gotten wildly out of hand. This is on top of an insane amount of data harvesting. We have to face the reality that any major, data-heavy platform like YT is going to need significant revenue.

  We need a solution to either lower the cost of (opening things up for individuals to host), or more efficiently fund, services we like if they’re going to stick around in the current state of the world. Even if we say “google can eat the cost” we’re still putting all our faith in the goodwill of an entity that is designed to do the opposite of what we’re asking. That’s begging for issues.

  Peer-to-peer stuff is the best solution I’ve seen, or self-hosting. I’m far from an expert, but from what I understand the tech just isnt there yet for it to become the norm. All that data has to go somewhere, and storage is prohibitively expensive at a certain point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Madden should not be 70$⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Jokes on them, my limit is wildly low compared to this. Most sports games are worth 20 bucks at this point, the main content is just reskinned gameplay with updated stats and an unnecessary twist on controls. Its DLC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spider-Man: No Way Home Director Confirms What We All Suspected About the Ending⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s honestly wild, and ranges from stuff that I can only assume is due to people playing on their phones and half-watching to a level of ignorance about storytelling that basically requires the plot being exposition dumped for them to grasp it. I genuinely don’t get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robert Reich on the Hollywood Strikes, Tech “Leviathans” and a Second Gilded Age⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one of those weird family connection I’ve known about for a while, but have to keep reminding myself its real. My brain refuses to associate those two people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 Review Thread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’ve been fantastic CRPGs in the last handful of years. Off the top of my head: Divinity Original Sin 2 (2017), PoE/PoE2(2015/2018), Tyranny(2016), Torment: Tides of Numenera(2017), Pathfinder WotR/Kingmaker(2018/2021), and Disco Elysium (2019).

  There’s definitely been a comeback, I feel like I’ve been eating good on that side for a while now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism indoctrination in progress.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Man, my job pays horribly and the benefits barely cover anything, but they have a ping-pong table so it’s honestly a tough call.”

  I struggle to understand how someone could seriously write something like that question without a lack of self-awareness so dire that a walk to the kitchen would come with a near-death experience. It just can’t be real.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨looking forward to the comments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah man, just like you go scuba diving oo-nderwater.

  it’s a dead end. We can’t pretend that “g” can’t also be pronounced as “j”, or that the words making up the acronym matter. It’s all preference and since GIF’s dad called it “jif”, I’m gonna call it “jif”. At least that’s based on something beyond my own hubris.