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- Comment on Weird 5 days ago:
Yeah, the tech thing makes sense. I used to get really excited by new pieces of tech. My first smart phone, a new game console, etc. Now? I couldn’t even tell you off hand what model iPhone I have nor what the newest one is. When will I get a new one? Probably when my old one breaks.
I think on the gaming side of things, the turning point might be around the Switch. Basically the point where Nintendo stopped experimenting with weird new things for their consoles. They basically just joined MS and Sony in releasing a standard console that could play modern games with the exception of it still having the motion controls from the Wii. The other companies also abandoned trying to do gimmick stuff like motion controls.
- Comment on Weird 5 days ago:
Something similar has been hitting me recently. I’m 30. So I was born is the last millennium, but you know, not by a lot. Most of my life has been the 20XXs. But even though it’s been 26 years of that, it just all feels so recently. Like it’s hard for me to call anything that happened after 2000 “old” because… old was last century/millennium. “That can’t be old, it happened just a few years ago!” Checks when it happened: 2012, 14 years ago…
Thinking about how we perceive the time we live through is weird. When you think about it, the lives of everyone alive today has been radically different than the vast majority of human history. There were times when things might not meaningfully change in your whole lifetime, maybe even several generations of people living the same way. Post-industrial revolution everything has happened so fast. Tech and culture changes so often that we conceptualize each decade in the 20th/21st century as being it’s own thing. (Obviously that wasn’t entirely the case, there’s all sorts of bleed over, but I’m just talking about how we think about it.) We talk about almost any other time in our history in terms of centuries and some key historical turning points.
I have now written way too much for a comment on a shitpost. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
- Comment on DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S 1 week ago:
Well, except for small, unimportant things like sending people to another country to go kill people.
- Comment on Is there any such thing as "edutainment" shows for adults? 2 weeks ago:
To add to the anime recs, there’s a whole sub genre of “Cute girls do the author’s special interest” that can be a fun way to incidentally learn some stuff you’d never have thought to interact with otherwise.
The one that comes to mind at the moment is “Ruri Rocks” which is about geology.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t really felt the need to upgrade since I first got a gaming PC. I’ve only ever replaced it when the last one was broken enough to not be worth trying to repair.
The funny thing is, these days maybe 85% of my time gaming is spent playing games that absolutely don’t need all the processing power I have. It is nice to be able to play the occasional AAA game, but all of them have looked fine to me. I haven’t really thought “damn this could look/run so much better if I spent another thousand dollars or so.”
I’ve actually been joking with friends about the unnecessary level of detail in some of these games. I was streaming God of War Ragnarok for them and we zoomed in on Kratos’ head and we joked about how some guy had to model the wrinkles on the back of his head/neck when it never matters and you only notice it when you’re going out of your way to zoom in on the details.
Games have reached a level of detail that is more than enough to convey any gameplay or narrative sufficiently. There’s nothing to keep pace with and I’m just hoping this one lasts long enough to avoid the price spike.
- Comment on Why don't people complain about Gary Stus? 4 weeks ago:
Others have good answers, but I wanted to add something that’s overlapping with this topic, especially since you mentioned anime.
I’ve watched quite a bit of anime since college when my friends got me into it. Recently I’ve been showing some anime to my mom based on things I like and which I think she would like. She commented that she thinks anime seems to have a lot of women in it.
To some extent this is skewed by my selection of shows for her, but it got me thinking. At least from my own personal experience, there do seem to be a lot more women in anime than you see in western media. There are many shows with female protagonists or all female cast and even the ones with a male protagonist frequently feature a prominent supporting cast of women.
While they do tend to get over-sexualized, there are plenty of shows where that isn’t the case and even when they do get objectified, there are a lot of them in strong or at least traditionally non-feminine roles. This is a medium where magical girls, battle maids, lady knights, female professionals and leaders are fairly well worn tropes. There are also definitely a lot of them that could be described as Mary Sues because they are just super powerful/competent at whatever they do.
At least from what I have personally observed, I haven’t seen nearly as much misogynist complaining about the prominence of women in these roles. But maybe that’s just the discussion sites that I visit. I also haven’t really done any kind of rigorous counting of shows with predominantly female casts, but they do seem to make up A LOT of the shows I have watched and enjoyed. So maybe this observation is just the result of a bias of my own viewing habits.
idk. I’d be curious to see what others have observed and thought about this. Maybe I’m way off base.
- Comment on How plausible is a medical tricorder? 5 weeks ago:
Oh yeah I saw the whole Theranos thing. I know a lot of this stuff isn’t possible for now at least. I was just curious if in principle there are physical things stopping this from ever being reality or not. I remember part of the thing with Theranos was something about the machines not even being big enough for the size of the things they were looking at or something like that.
- Comment on How plausible is a medical tricorder? 5 weeks ago:
I guess the portable part is less what I was interested in than the possibility of being able to diagnose more things just by waving some sensors over the body instead of needing to cut someone open or stick a camera in them or take some blood, etc.
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- Comment on What do you think realistically would happen the moment we meet extraterrestrials? 5 weeks ago:
Die of some random common illness we don’t have any antibodies for.
Hopefully a species advanced enough to master interstellar travel would be mindful of that kind of thing though. I suppose at least they would probably be protecting themselves against that, so maybe it would go both ways?
- Comment on Why do I not see the same posts on the browser and on Voyager? 5 weeks ago:
Where do I see the filters on the browser? I haven’t touched them yet, so they should just be the default.
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- Comment on How do I drink more water? 1 month ago:
The advice about keeping water nearby is good. I do that. Although I still sometimes forget anyway lol.
Besides that: Is flavor the problem or do you just not like having to drink period?
If it’s flavor: Add a tiny bit of a drink you do like. I add maybe like 5-10% apple juice to my water at meals. Just enough to get some of the flavor without adding too much sugar.
If it’s the 2nd: There are others sources of water. Most fruits work and they also come with fiber, which is also important for hydration.
Also, unlikely to apply here, but worth mentioning: When I was having problems being dehydrated, I talked to my doctor about it and we figured out that one issue was that I was mostly drinking filtered water, which will lack a lot of the electrolytes you normally get in water. I fixed this by getting a powder to add to my water. (Filtering bc of town water supply issues.)
- Comment on Nerve-controlled prosthetics 1 month ago:
If a full robot body were available, I’d jump on it right away, but ONLY if it has absolutely no way to wirelessly communicate. Absolutely the sole way of interacting with the software would be a single USB port inside a panel in the body with a physical lock.
- Comment on Never doubt the commitment of horse-girl fans: Umamusume cosplayers are having actual races at tracks around the world 2 months ago:
I think the distinguishing feature of the newer “isekai” genre is just how trashy they all are. :P
- Comment on An intelligence of pure malevolence. 2 months ago:
This is just reminding me of my current cat who will open the door to my room, then get inside and close it. I think it’s to get my attention, but the funny part is always when he is ready to leave and he realizes the consequences of his actions.
- Comment on An intelligence of pure malevolence. 2 months ago:
I’m also pretty sure that cats understand human languages and just choose to ignore us most of the time.
- Comment on When is the last time you had actual conversations with friends? 2 months ago:
Semi recently. I’ve got a group of college friends who hag out on discord most nights to game and chat. Most of the time it’s shooting the shit, but we occasionally mix in life talk. We all have some bundle of mental health issues, so stuff related to that comes up a lot. One of my friends has been trying to find a romantic partner and we’ve been giving our fairly limited advice to him on his search.
It’s kind of a shame that we’re not geographically close enough to see each other in person to be more directly supportive, but it is what it is and we’ve had a few visits over the years. ATM I’m with 2 of them on a trip and we got to spend a lot of time chatting.
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 2 months ago:
Do you think they’d actually bring back the draft? I feel like after Vietnam they realized that it’s too hard to send the general population to do terrible shit without getting a lot of pushback. A professional military that’s already filtered out anyone with a conscience is half of why they can just do shit like this while most of the country doesn’t want it. Plus technology has improved a lot, allowing a smaller force to do the same thing.
As for me. I’m already out of that age range, but I’ve already been wanting to move for a while. Maybe that would be the last kick in the pants necessary to get me to actually do it. But with the depression it’s still kind of a coin flip so….
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I couldn’t even buy it for like an hour because Steam was getting overloaded lol. I’m playing it now and having a lot of fun.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
The thing that bothers me about the whole discussion around the Epstein files is why do people think THIS will be any different? The rich and powerful have been getting away with heinous and illegal things in public for a long time. Wars which aren’t just immoral, but illegal by both international law and the laws of our own country. Gross violations of civil liberties and human rights. Police just straight up kill people and get away with it. Illegal torture facilities. Companies have killed tons of people through either negligence or outright malicious greed. Etc.
We KNOW about all of these thing already. Some were just straight up done in public, some done in private but eventually got leaked or declassified, but either way, we’ve had plenty of evidence of these people doing things that should have put them away for the rest of their lives and the worst consequences they’ve ever suffered were slap on the wrist fines if they even got those.
To me, the Epstein files are a perfect crystallization of the broader reality that the rich and powerful can use their money and influence to commit crimes with impunity. The idea that they are distracting from these crimes by committing even bigger crimes is just sheer absurdity. Not in the sense that it may be wrong, but rather how it shows how fucking insanely broken our system is. If you can get out of one crime by going out and murdering a bunch of people… what the hell are we even doing? Why do we think any of these people will ever pay for their crimes? The very system that would do that has been corrupted by those same criminals. They’re not going to put themselves, their buddies, or their benefactors in jail.
Something needs to change. Something needs to be done. But the idea that all that we need is for people to see the complete evidence of this particular set of crimes and the legal system will finally work properly is beyond delusional.
- Comment on Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising? 4 months ago:
Yeah I shower right after. Shower temp is a bit inconsistent but I try to get it to be warm but not hot. I use body wash in the shower then I do moisturize and then I’ve been using clyndamycin that I was prescribed for this issue.
- Comment on Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising? 4 months ago:
When you say do sets and groups, do you mean to do each of the exercises one time a day or only one part of the body rotating each day?
Also should I still pair this with the running? How much could I reduce my running if I started doing these? I’m currently doing an hour. I start seriously sweating after like 15 mins maybe and by around 40 mins I’m usually out of towels.
Also perhaps this is a silly question: But do you know a good set of workouts that I could do while watching anime? That’s what I do while running to keep my brain occupied and part of the reason I stopped going to the gym a while ago was because I couldn’t really do more than listen to podcasts, which isn’t really enough of a distraction. In other words, exercises I could do while facing towards a stationary screen like a tablet or maybe I could do some in front of the TV.
- Comment on Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising? 4 months ago:
huh. I actually did start one somewhat recently (a few months now) and that somewhat coincided with when I increased my run from 30->60 mins. I do end up sweating a lot on my head, although also on the chest, back, and armpits. Probably not a reason to swap off the meds, but good to know I guess.
- Comment on Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising? 4 months ago:
Thanks. I think I’ll at least try the running shirts. At the moment I just use whatever t-shirt I happen to be wearing that day. I guess if the sweat evaporates faster that is sort of a solution.
- Comment on Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising? 4 months ago:
At least for now I mostly just want to exercise in the house. I have some mental health issues and I find that unless I have something to watch to distract me, I can’t really exercise for long without getting bored/stressed/mentally tired.
Perhaps when that issue is better I’ll do a wider variety of activities like swimming, but of course weight can contribute to those problems, so it’s a bit of a chicken and egg situation.
- Comment on Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising? 4 months ago:
That’s not really my concern. The issue is comfort and I end up getting a lot of pimples, which excessive sweat can contribute to.
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- Comment on Stardew Valley Creator Shuts Down Rumors Haunted Chocolatier 'Will Be Abandoned,' Insisting: 'It Will Come Out When It’s Ready' - IGN 4 months ago:
While I generally agree, I think there is some value in imposing some kind of deadline or limit to a project. Nothing is ever going to be perfect. There will always be more work that could be done on something. If you let yourself just keep going until you think it’s done it might never come out.
But it’s a balance and when publishers push those kinds of deadlines they’re not really considering that.
- Comment on Belief 5 months ago:
I think I get it and kind of share a similar belief. Most people are “good,” although I’d use a less morally relative term to describe it: Pro-social. People tend to behave in a way that works well with others. This makes sense if you think about it without getting caught up in all the “humans bad” philosopher stuff. One of our defining features as a species is our ability to work together. We form communities, developed languages to communicate, cultural norms and laws to create agreed upon guides on how we behave towards each other, etc. We wouldn’t have gotten this far if we were always stabbing each other in the backs.
At the same time, there are some unfortunate behaviors and phenomenon that emerge out of these dynamics. In group/out group thinking, an unwillingness to change things if it means causing disunity with the community, etc. And while I think most people are good, there are different people with different personalities, and clearly we have at least some psychopaths who are willing to exploit peoples’ natures for their own gain. Also, circumstances can create constraints on how people behave. If you can’t afford to be altruistic, you might end up acting in a selfish way, although even then that’s not always the case.
The fact that you can look out into the world and feel bad about all the people who are getting hurt, even if you aren’t personally affected, should already tell you that there is this “ goodness” to most of humanity. Otherwise a) you wouldn’t care and b) all those bad people would deserve it anyway. So that is the hope that keeps me from full on nihilism. Unfortunately I also think that there are a lot of other factors in place which make it increasingly unlikely that we’ll be able to organize enough to survive. Wealth disparities and technological asymmetry allows those handful of psychos to wield a lot of power and it’s getting harder and harder to fight back against that.
So yeah, I don’t think “people are doomed even if most of them have good intentions” is that contradictory of a view to hold.