What the heck is “cooker” referring to?
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melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 week ago[deleted]
fancy-straw-simple@piefed.ca 1 week ago
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Oh, it’s an Aussie slang word referring to a conspiracy theorist, often one that’s engaging in antisocial behaviours or very far down the rabbit hole and imposing it on others.
Think aggressively screaming antivaxers, sovereign citizens, Qanon, you get the picture.
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
My suggestion would be to do something. Make something. Learn to code, learn graphic design, pick up another language, study a topic you’re interested in.
Whatever your health issues are there is a lot that you can do indoors - I’m assuming given how much you’ve been able to type that you can type, so learning to code is a great option.
There’s also role playing games - getting into a regular d and d game can be a great, social thing to do that is way more fulfilling than passively consuming content.
On top of all of that, pirate movies, pirate tv shows.
That would be my advice anyway.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 week ago
[deleted]krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I get that you may have some very significant roadblocks in your life - and they may keep you from doing some things - but they don’t keep you from doing everything.
Your choices are your own to make but if you’re not happy just passively consuming brainrot - and doing so could violate your privacy - then you CAN do something else.
If your concentration is shit then work on getting better at it. If you can’t take art classes just make art.
There are always going to be a million reasons why you can’t or shouldn’t do something. These don’t mean the things are impossible. Just that they’re challenging.
Look - it’s not in me to tell you how to live your life. It doesn’t matter to me one way or the other. But I will say that a lot of what you just wrote sounds like excuses.
You don’t need to make excuses to me - because I don’t care. But please don’t make them to yourself.
If you’re happy with the way things are then cool. If not then there are other paths forward. If you want to take them.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 week ago
If you’re interested in multiplayer games with a more mature playerbase, may I recommend the Age of Empires franchise? With its most popular game having originally released in 1999, but being rereleased in an excellent remaster in 2019, plus a brand new entry in the franchise in 2021 and remasters of the other games having come in 2018, 2020, and 2024, you get the feel of playing a modern game, with an audience that is mostly more mature purely because they’re older (or because they learn the community norms from people who are older).
That said, Minecraft is a very diverse game, and I’m sure there would be some corners of it that are more mature. I know there’s an ongoing project to very faithfully recreate the entire Middle Earth, I assume that attracts a more mature type.
Just touching on the RPGs mentioned in another comment, if sitting up at the table is the problem, the prevalence of virtual tabletops and online TTRPGs these days may mitigate that concern. If you can sit at your computer for video games or social media, you can likely also sit at it for an RPG. Though focus may be its own issue still, I can’t speak to your experience with that since it’s so personal.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I actually played Age of Empires when it was on disc! I had no idea it was an mmo now. Thanks, I’ll have to sort the problem of almost full drive and give it a try.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Oh sorry, it’s not. Still an RTS. I just figured since you had mentioned MMOs, Minecraft, Roblox, and CoD, a specific genre wasn’t necessarily what you were looking for. But if you are interested, the games are on Steam and the Xbox store for Windows, under the “Definitive Edition” titles (Age of Empires 1, 2, and 3: Definitive Edition), or Age of Mythology: Retold, as well as the new Age of Empires IV. AoE2, 4, and Mythology are also on Xbox and Playstation with a pretty clever controller-friendly control scheme.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Ha sorry, still a good suggestion though