darthelmet

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never doubt the commitment of horse-girl fans: Umamusume cosplayers are having actual races at tracks around the world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨Why are Americans so hung up on Epstein and his egg head island and "the files"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

• Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising?
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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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can Trump get away with and what can he not? Hell one president shot an enemy to him. Can he do that?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We like to think we have rule of law, but in practice that is a fairly flimsy concept that ultimately depends on how many people in power are willing to adhere to it. Something could be against the law, the Supreme Court could rule that it’s against the law, (although with all the right wingers they stacked the court with, even that’s not gonna happen often.) the legislature could object, but at the end of the day, if the executive instructs the government workers to do something and they’re willing to do it, well… they can do it. So the politics of those government workers ultimately determines what can and can’t be done. And since those workers are downstream of appointments made by the executive… they’re likely to agree with them. And we see that bear out especially in the military and law enforcement agencies. The culture of these institutions is fairly right wing and the people in them have demonstrated a willingness to follow illegal orders and commit some truly heinous acts, even if they rationalize it as “just following orders.”

  It’s not just under Trump either. The government has been acting in ways that violate our own laws for a long time. Every war we’ve been in since WWII has been an illegal act since they were never formally declared as wars and many of the things done in them have violated various international humanitarian laws. Police have straight up killed people without trial and were protected by their fellow officers and the government. And of course now we see ICE agents be more than willing to commit crimes to pursue this anti-immigrant agenda, whether they are just following along or they’re also ideologically committed to this.

  So yeah. The answer can be anything as long as he find enough amoral right wingers or pushovers to staff the administration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Last Epoch players turn on the action RPG for announcing a paid DLC class, tanking its Steam reviews: 'go play Path of Exile instead'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah. I didn’t know they said that. It’s definitely shitty to go back on that promise. Although in a vacuum, I think this is the kind of non-cosmetic content that’s somewhat acceptable to me as paid DLC. It’s not a competitive game and assuming the class is balanced, it’s just adding content that gives more variety. I’ve been fine with paid DLC in other big games as long as it’s a worthwhile amount of content for the price and it’s sold in a straightforward way without any funny business. Given that this game has online co-op, I think it makes sense that they’re gonna keep the content expansion free so it doesn’t divide people who would want to play together (also I guess there is trading, but I’m a CoF player so…) and then this is something that mostly just affects someone’s individual experience. Like if you were going to be happy enough to keep playing the game with existing classes, then this doesn’t really affect you.

  So in principle I’m ok with this… but like I said, the bigger issue is them going back on their word.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I pretty much almost never buy AAA games anymore outside of some very specific creators/franchises. Price is definitely a part of that, but the bigger things are creativity and business practices. Indie games are where all the new ideas are and where you get honest expressions of the artist’s intent. And you generally don’t need to put up with bullshit micro transactions, DRM, etc.

  I’m not gonna pay $60+ for Call of Duty 500 when I can find full, fun, inspired indie games for less than $30. I will still buy the handful of more creative AAAs that do come out sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this sub may be wrong. There are some stupid questions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 or Clair Obscur: Expedition 33?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I played BG3 twice but I bounced off of E33. But I’m not as much of a fan of JRPGs so /shrug. I might go back to it at some point though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Last Epoch - Season 3 | Patch Overview - Beneath Ancient Skies⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I think they’re still playing catchup from their launch commitments, but what’s been added so far has been pretty good. Season 2 expanded out the endgame content and crafting loop by a lot. This season looks a bit tamer in the grand scheme of things. A relatively smaller endgame content system with some new loot. Some class reworks. A new chapter in a still unfinished campaign.

  Tech-wise I haven’t really had problems with it after the first few days of s2’s launch, but new patches always come with new bugs, so I’d expect some instability at s3 launch.

  Also like others said, they got bought out so………………. Yeah… we’ll see what happens with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can it be crystal clear your president is a child rapist and every one just carries on? Scary stuff friends.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The same way people go on knowing their president is a war criminal. We’re so far past the line that this doesn’t even register.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried it out when the testing started. It’s… fine. I’m not much of a shooter/action game player, so the higher skill elements of it are a bit of a barrier on top of re-learning a lot of DoTA-type stuff. I can imagine getting into it more if it came out years ago. But now it’s hard to find the time and motivation I’d need to dedicate to even get back to the level of incompetence I had with DoTA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really hard for me to separate my nostalgia for older games with what I’d think about them now. There are some games I’ve played a LOT but haven’t touched in years for one reason or another.

  Some pre-Steam games would be things like Halo 3, World of Warcraft, Runescape, and few Pokemon games.

  On Steam my most played game BY FAR is DoTA 2 at ~2100 hours. I loved that game and I still think it’s really well designed… I just haven’t played it in years because it makes me too mad to play with randos and it’s impossible to get 5 friends who play DoTA online at the same time anymore.

  If I was going to pick a top 3 outside of those nostalgic outliers, maybe:

  • Slay The Spire
  • Dark Souls
  • Deep Rock Galactic
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite frankly I had such a high Inland Empire on my playthrough that the only things I’m sure are real are the things Kim or my good friend Horrific Necktie backed me up on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It just depends on what classes you need and when you get access to registration. I got lucky some semesters and managed to craft a schedule where nothing started before noon and some semesters where I was dying because I had a class at like 8am.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta love it when companies put something in their legal agreements that just says “we can do whatever the fuck we want.” Is the rest of the wall of text just there to hide that somewhere someone won’t read?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't have good public transportation⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then there’s “if it ain’t broke… how can we break it to extract a few extra bucks from it?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because I don’t think sticking my head in the sand is good either. Besides, it’s not just abstract far away things that are bothering me. A lot of what depresses me in my personal life is connected to the broader problems we face as a society. I kind of can’t ignore that if I want to make sense of my own life. That doesn’t stop it from feeling hopeless, but the alternative isn’t really an option even if I didn’t care about others.