prongs

@prongs@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average Australian place names⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Aboriginal culture of Australia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average Australian place names⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where I live, you have boring reused English place names like Brighton and Canterbury, and then much more distinguishable and interesting place names from the indigenous peoples like Dandenong and Bullengarook. When you learn the interpreted history of the name, I really appreciate the name more. Dandenong is thought to have come from Tanjenong, which means “lofty mountains.”

  Then there are some bastardisations - what is now known as Toorak is from the word Turrak, which means “reedy grass”

  Indigenous culture here is so willfully ignored and diminished by so many people. I think it’s really cool that we do have some ongoing reference to the oldest continuous culture in the world, even if it only comes up in meme culture as a funny haha :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyrim teaches a Lemmy user about fascist propaganda⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think at this point it’s a lot of nostalgia. But the game does have a lot in it, do once the jank becomes endearing rather than off-putting, it is easy to lose yourself in my experience. There are still heaps of quests and parts of the game I haven’t time. And if I want to replay something, I can approach it very differently each time.

  I think it’s an okay game. I think it was the best available game with mass appeal during formative years for a lot of people, which extended and amplified the volume of discourse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Took me by surprise⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because males as a term had not picked up culturally loaded meaning from those who would exploit them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad news⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I finally have a reason to use my weeks of accumulated sick leave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon comes out to his religious parents⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stole $1000 (likely from someone who wouldn’t realise it’s even gone) to prevent untold trauma. I understand it’s a grey situation but knowing how damaging conversion therapy can be to a person, I’d say theft is certainly the lesser of two evils.