aesthelete
@aesthelete@lemmy.world
- Comment on 1 day ago:
And you’re in one lane of like five going in the same direction.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Do you also believe that only you can prevent forest fires? Or that we can recycle our way out of climate change?
Get real. Uncoordinated individual actions cannot solve systemic problems.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
You’re right of course, the reason traffic exists is because you, DancingBear, cannot be on every roadway in America at the same time.
Seriously dude, have you ever been in traffic? I’m not talking about a small slowdown on a one, two lane, or even four lane road. I’m talking about sitting on the 5 or the 101 in any of the multiple times it becomes a parking lot daily.
Manually maintaining a large gap in front of you is not solving that shit, and it’s frankly ridiculous to suggest that it will.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
You aren’t solving traffic as an individual driver anyway. Sorry to burst everyone’s atomized bubble here but that’s complete nonsense.
If you manually maintain a large gap in front of you, everyone behind you becomes complete weirdos.
We could “solve traffic” by not requiring single occupant car drives to accomplish everything in our daily lives.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
I have adaptive cruise with a settable car length and increasing the gap length just makes the cars behind you act more deranged.
I’ve found the only setting that doesn’t make everyone around me fly off the handle is the lowest (one car gap) setting.
I also drive in the diamond lane on long trips and typically have my upper speed limit set well above what the person in front of me is driving.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 6 days ago:
From 187 on a cop to blue lives matter.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 6 days ago:
Everyone was kind of dumb, they only talked about other people they knew, and told drunken stories about being drunk before- it was boring.
Yeah, somehow that’s a thing, “…and we got so wasted!”. Being somewhat of a lush myself, I am sitting there drinking heavily listening to these stories and want to blurt out, “I’m getting wasted right now just to deal with having to listen to this.”
I’ve found that nonsexual friendships between the sexes aren’t usually possible in practice. It’s not because it’s necessarily the case that all friendships are based upon sex, but instead because someone somewhere (most often outside the relationship) will eventually believe that, and it will lead to drama that degrades or ends the underlying friendship.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 6 days ago:
It’s really been strange to me that my whole life people have insisted that it isn’t possible for men and women to be friends and that every relationship there has to be either sexual or sexually motivated.
I’m a bit of an odd ball in that I am straight, male, cisgendered and have basically always felt better hanging around girls since I was a child. However, I never felt like I could just have girls and women friends though because inevitably it would be implied from some direction that I actually just wanted them sexually.
I’ve also met very few guys that weren’t into talking about sex and women as soon as there were no women around, and I’m just plain uninterested in talking about sex with other guys.
So, instead now I’m married and I basically talk to no one.
- Comment on Be Fast. Be Spontaneous. Don't Suck. Get Paid. 1 week ago:
Read this in Nathan Fielder’s voice.
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 1 week ago:
Reaching new depths of absolute loserdom daily.
- Comment on Now I finally get it 1 week ago:
Fucking thing’s got plot holes big enough for a sperm whale to swim through comfortably and yet it’s regarded as 100% literal truth by most lunatics governing us and most of the mouth breathers that voted for them.
- Comment on True art is polarizing 2 weeks ago:
feeling something at the extream makes it pretty fucking good Art.
Uh, no. A good movie should make you feel something at least close to an intended emotion set, or at least get you thinking about its content.
I’m gonna venture a guess that nobody intended for the reaction to the movie to be someone having trouble thinking about how to write a 0.5 star review for it and then quit and tell other people not to waste their time.
The people watching yet another rehash of war of the worlds are not going to be (for the most part) art snobs. When the audience that would bother watching this watch it and say it sucks, I fucking believe them.
I haven’t wasted my time because I heed warnings rather than touching hot stoves.
- Comment on If you were born after 1990, you've never had this experience 3 weeks ago:
They’ll also never understand the pleasure of finding a dusty machine like this on a hot day after biking a long distance, putting in a quarter and being shocked when it works(!) and the sodas are ice cold.
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 3 weeks ago:
That would require people to have three to four close friends that could tolerate their presence. That’s an exceedingly rare thing in the US as we’re mostly all intolerable cunts.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 3 weeks ago:
Claire Obscur has rpg elements, like level ups, skills and equipment.
Pretty much those elements are my definition. I feel like what you’re describing with nonlinear storylines with lots of choices isn’t all necessary for a game to be an RPG either. But I’m not a purist about any of it. Genres in general are approximate markers, and you can argue all you want about what belongs in what category.
If asked to describe the genre of Clair Obscur I’d say JRPG because purists have bickered enough to make me add the qualifier. But I’ve seen it described as RPG in lots of places, and given my thirty years plus of playing games it’s very similar to other games I’ve seen described as RPGs.
But I’m no d&d player, and I don’t really like the Renaissance faire that much.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 3 weeks ago:
Yeah part of the reason that Disco Elysium isn’t the “greatest RPG ever made” is that there’s no objective way to rank such things and stating that as a fact seems on its face kinda absurd.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 3 weeks ago:
Nope, Clair Obscur is a better RPG (and game) than Disco Elysium IMO.
I didn’t even get through Disco Elysium because it was kinda boring. I get how some people could really dig it, and I plan to attempt to pick it back up for the third time. But it was much closer to being an old school point and click adventure game (albeit with a lot more reading) than an RPG anyway, and it’s certainly not the “greatest RPG ever made” IMO.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’d argue clair obscur is better and that’s only talking about recent ones.
- Comment on Yeah 4 weeks ago:
You can serve up a git repository remotely on any machine that has an outside access path.
- Comment on Yeah 4 weeks ago:
It’s easy to do a lot of things people don’t do.
- Comment on Yeah 4 weeks ago:
Git is so easy to host yourself and everyone went and handed over all their code to evil corp to farm on anyway.
(Though I do understand that they were bought, but that was a while ago and it was only a matter of time before the evil seeped in.)
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 4 weeks ago:
I think some representative of mobile gaming should be on this list (as much as I hate them). Probably either Candy Crush or Angry Birds.
There should also be a motion gamer entry somewhere on here like Wii Sports or something.
And maybe a casual gamer entry…like the Sims maybe (the first one).
Relatedly, I think we’re still waiting for a VR or AR game that anyone gives a real shit about.
- Comment on Who's got the morbs? 4 weeks ago:
Me
- Comment on nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore 5 weeks ago:
They also continually forget that you can’t do frontend only validation for things.
- Comment on Everything is a problem 5 weeks ago:
This fan of yours sounds fucking terrible, bud.
- Comment on How Coldplay actually sounds 5 weeks ago:
Of course, the arrow of time remains unchanged.
But what did change is the type of music Coldplay made. They went from Radiohead-lite to whatever you want to call that crap now.
- Comment on How Coldplay actually sounds 5 weeks ago:
Coldplay was termed Radiohead for your parents. I think that was accurate for their early career but now they’re more like EDM for your parents or U2 for your great grandparents or something.
- Comment on The good old days 1 month ago:
Hah, joke is on you. I’m balding and I’ve paid off my mortgage.
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 1 month ago:
These are awesome thanks for sharing. Also, if you can do magic eye and stereograms, try crossing your eyes when playing those “find the differences between these two pictures” games. They are incredibly easy if you cross your eyes.
- Comment on Costco changed the bag to plastic!! 1 month ago:
Similarly, the packaging change they made to the rotisserie chicken means me never eating that heated plastic bag garbage ever again.
It was plastic before but it was at least a tray and a covering. So the plastic at least seemed more durable and not all of it was touching the bird. Now it’s just a shitty plastic bag being warmed under a light. Disgusting.