Nemo

@Nemo@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favourite era for video games?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Adding a separate comment to add, if you’ve never played it, Super Mario X was a very fun, apparently not-entirely-legal fangame made my Redigit (who went on to create Terraria). He took it down at Nintendo’s demand, but you can still find a copy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The gullible often become victims. I don’t understand the distinction you’re making. Between personal failing and societal failing? They feed into each other. Both warrant correction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favourite era for video games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I did play that on emulator a decade or so ago. It’s part of the same series as Illusion of Gaia, right? I don’t really remember Terranigma that well, maybe it’s time for a replay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favourite era for video games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  NES: River City Ransom, Crystalis, Zelda ][

  SNES: Super Mario World, Chrono Trigger, Link to the Past

  GB: Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Minish Cap, Tetris

  DOS: The Quest for Glory series, ZZT

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favourite era for video games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The present. I can use emulation to play all my old favorites, often for free, and there’s never been such a rich plethora of indie and studio games available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually protested for marriage equality here in Illinois; my wife and I refused to file our marriage license until the law was updated and asked our wedding guests to forgo gifts and instead donate to Lambda Legal and other organizations also working for marriage equality.

  So when I say “families”, I do mean queer couples as well. But also intergenerational households. The focus on individualism and geographical mobility has been destructive to intergenerational wealth and wisdom, to familial connections, and to mental health. It’s one of my big gripes with the way capitalism operates in the US, honestly; the balance of power lies far too heavily with employers rather than the workers and this often means that family life suffers for the sake of economic advantage.

  But yeah, I’m also talking about children. I don’t think anyone who doesn’t want kids should be pressured to have them, but for those who do want kids, that’s something we as a society should encourage. To that end I favor pronatalist policies as well as policies that seek to make adoption easier and less expensive, especially domestic adoption.

  And while I know sometimes pronatalism is used as a fig leaf for anti-immigration sentiment, that’s not the case here; I’m very pro-immigration for a variety of reasons but it’s no secret that immigrants tend to have larger families and are more likely to have international households.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, typos, but this is not the kind of comment you want marked as “edited”. My apologies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That most changes are bad and this people who advocate for change are to be viewed with skepticism

  That there is inherent value to human labor

  That the family is the primary unit of society

  That heirarchies are natural to humanity and can be beneficial OR destructive

  That freedom of religion (including the freedom to disdain religion) is the most important human right

  That human rights are real things on their own, an essential part of the human condition, and cannot be granted or removed by governments, only respected or infringed

  That any discussion of policy must include a discussion of what will cost, the likely secondary effects, and how likely it is to actually address the problem it seems to address

  That government spending should not exceed government revenue over a ten-year period

  That the Constitution is a carefully constructed document that has seen the US become the longest-lasting liberal democracy in history, and should be defended as such

  That Enlightenment liberalism is the best form of society thus far, and while it can be refined it ought not to be replaced

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, a lot of both conservatives and Republicans are part of a middle-eastern death cult, but so are are a lot of progressives and Democrats and moderates and independents. I am.

  Some don’t like to think of Christianity in those terms, but the shoe fits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to make a second comment, from the point of observation bias:

  OP obviously knows people who have been attacked by vicious, hateful people on the right. But OP is probably hanging around neither the people on the right being attacked by vicious, hateful people on the left, nor around the vicious, hateful minority of the left who are attacking people on the right.

  So she hasn’t seen it. But I have. I’ve been attacked from the right for my progressive views and from the left for my conservative views, and from both by people who assume that if I think A I must also think B and C, no matter how benign A is and horrific C is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if we’re using “conservatives” to refer to the entire right wing here, insurrectionists and those who support them are a tiny minority.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming that you used “liberals” to refer colloquially to the American left wing and “conservatives” to mean the right…

  You do see the inverse. You see it in this thread: Calling conservatives rats, saying they don’t have morals. I just read all the current answers, and less than a third of them made any attempts to understand those on the right instead of othering them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men over 30, what do you keep in your bedside nightstand?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The spare sheets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people actually dumpster dive to get free food? Are there any other cheap/free ways like this to get food?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  fallingfruit.org used to list a few dumpsters that reliably held good food; bakeries especially toss a lot of product at the end of the day

  as for tips, check for rat poison first

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Meta] Looking for mods⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was / ama mod on multiple Ask subs on reddit. I’m happy to pitch in here.

  I usually check lemmy about three times a day: When I get up, after work, and after dinner. I’m in the Central time zone, GMT -5/6. My comment history on Lemmy is robust and speaks for itself; if you want, I can show my moderation history on reddit as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many songs are about Courtney Love?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, she definitely wrote “Celebrity Skin” about herself, so at least one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So we currently have all these left wing folks claiming men are more dangerous than bears, why is the same group pushing multi gender washrooms so hard?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What about my right to arm bears???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So we currently have all these left wing folks claiming men are more dangerous than bears, why is the same group pushing multi gender washrooms so hard?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A lone human in an isolated situation where you don’t expect them and can’t seek help is scarier than a lone bear in a situation where you can reasonably expect them and hopefully prepared with that in mind.

  There’s a reason pepper spray is stronger than bear spray.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is triple triple the same as triple triple triple?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “A triple triple” would be “triple, triple, triple”.

  “Triple triple” without a preceding article is ambiguous and could be lots of things.

  “Triple triple triple” souls similarly be lots of things.

  Punctuation is important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, it’s usually a series of reflections throughout my plsytime, no notes, rather than one big reflection at the end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do companies get out of rewards programs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  data harvesting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any gadget that helps find, kill or repel mosquitoes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Repel? Anything that makes smoke or moves air around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a few attention-grabbing retro game ads that would land studios in hot water today. (more in post body)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolute best way to play Pokemon Red & Blue, IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games that still need more patience: what games released a year ago (or older) are you waiting for a sale on? Or that need another patch?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll probably pick up the Switch version of Link’s Awakening eventually, but not until I get bored with the games I already have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout 4⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I enjoyed it so much more in Survival mode, but with a “save anytime” mod.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a few of us further right than that, but when I was forced to cut back on reddit I realized that political discussion online was deleterious to my mental health. I resolved to not seek out or sub any political discussion communities on the new platform. A spontaneous discussion, sure, sometimes, but I can’t do it every day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zelda. The minish cap⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s one of the best Zelda games period and certainly the best made for a handheld console — and that includes the Switch ones. Enjoy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going fucking crazy? (Regarding explicit songs being censored on various music streaming services.)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  white fragility

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[CW: Slurs/pejoratives, morality] When is it considered immoral if someone is saying something that they know is pejorative and they are not intending it as disparaging towards the original group?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s a lot different with a word like “queer” that has a preëxisting use case that never completely went away.

  Compare with people who still say “that’s retarded”. Now, they are probably not thinking about anyone with an actual mental diagnosis when they say that. But it clearly came into use as a broadening or misapplication of a term referring to a specific group.

  Now, I would say that it’s ableist, and a slur. But I know others disagree. Before continuing, may I ask if this is the kind of usage you’re asking about?