Vespair
@Vespair@lemm.ee
- Comment on Press F to pay respects 3 days ago:
You never forget your first
- Comment on Press F to pay respects 3 days ago:
I don’t love their decision to defederate hexbear, but otherwise I like this instance.
Not to say I don’t understand their reasoning for defederating, because I do, I just prefer as little defeds as possible aside from corporate influence (fuck threads)
- Comment on Press F to pay respects 3 days ago:
I genuinely cannot express the depths of my sorrow.
I understand the decision and hold no ill will towards the admin team, I just think lemm.ee was exactly everything I wanted from an instance and am truly sad to not only lose the account history being associated with me, but also the most neutral of the instances.
- Comment on "Can i ask you for a favor?" Is it rude to say no? 4 days ago:
I have severe anxiety too. It is an unfortunate additional challenge, but it does not absolve us our part in society nor give us an excuse to treat others poorly.
- Comment on How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years? 4 days ago:
I use Infinitebacklog, which is basically the video games version of what letterboxd is for films or rateyourmusic is for music
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 1 week ago:
If “everyone” keeps reading a sentiment you did not intend out of your message, perhaps it is time to consider that you are doing a poor job of communicating your point.
Or you’re being disingenuous and just don’t like being calling on your hissy fit.
I dunno, take your pick.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 1 week ago:
I see this kind of comment before and I will never understand it - “other companies do it so just bend over and let us do it to you too!”
People say this all the time about Denuvo too: “Other games already have Denuvo, why are you crying about it here when you’re playing other games?”
And see, that’s the problem - we aren’t playing those other Denuvo games. And same thing applies here, guess what, a lot of us aren’t buying games from gross companies like EA with these shit terms. So when a company we are doing business with suddenly changes their terms to be shit, that’s a valid complaint. Some of us have already been boycotting bad business practices in the industry, so the idea of company changing terms towards the boycott after we’ve already invested in the game feels like a betrayal because it is.
So maybe stop focusing on what you assume the rest of audience is doing and instead go back to focusing on what the people at the goddamn podium are trying to pull?
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 1 week ago:
Frequently the point of comparing the two is to caution before they actually become comparable, though. I think it’s intentional hyperbole to make a stark point, not an insensitive reduction.
- Comment on I feel attacked 1 week ago:
No, I’m pretty sure it means being or becoming a weeb
- Comment on I feel attacked 1 week ago:
Well I’m forty now and about 6 months ago I decided that after nearly 30 years of listening to metal music I was going to finally learn how to do harsh vocals/metal screaming. Still an enormous amateur, and I have a lot to learn, but basically just this week I finally got to the point where I don’t hate listening to my own screams.
So uh, whatever you wanna call that midlife crisis, that’s mine.
- Comment on Don't Look Up 1 week ago:
A contributor? I would call it a primary source, tbh.
- Comment on Don't Look Up 1 week ago:
Real talk, we have to figure out how to handle this kind of chronic fear and paranoia, because this shit ain’t normal, but it is frighteningly common.
Like yeah this is a hilariously over-the-top example, but the amount of people you and I both know who go through life genuinely thinking that they’re going to be the victim of a kidnapping or worse at any given time is astounding. And it’s not without impact either, because this is exactly the unfounded sense of fear that conservatives/fascists seize on to manipulate the population.
I don’t know the solution, but a world where everyone is afraid of their own shadow is a literal hellscape.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 2 weeks ago:
Alright, fair, I’ll take the note on your use of deviant as a response to my unfathomable comment. I’m did not mean to imply your thinking was deviant, as that word comes with a negative suggestion, just incomprehensible, but I understand the ambiguity. So I retract my comment on victimhood with that new context.
I don’t retract the rest of my ire though, sorry, and now I’m confused as hell, because in what world are people who engage in casual sex the same ones berating people for being horny, and how is that relevant to the conversation at hand? I feel like I accidentally skipped a couple important chapters in the book that is this discussion.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 2 weeks ago:
Show me where I said we should reject all human progress and revert to animals.
No, I simply said we should evaluate the social choices made by humanity, even ones as old as clothing. I’m not saying we should reject it all; I’m saying we should be thoughtful and investigate these things to find out if they hold true or not.
Personally, I think in the case of nudity and shame, we’ll quickly find it doesn’t really hold much water beyond empty religious mumbo-jumbo.
And who exactly is calling you a deviant for liking clothing? Was it not you who came in with the statement, “Nudists are weird people and I wouldn’t accept what they have to say about sexuality at face value,” and now you’re trying to act like you’re just responding to some sort of victimization from nudists of all people after throwing the first punch? Come on, dude.
But I’m sure it all does just come down to religious mumbo-jumbo bullshit for you because you said “perverts who enjoy casual sexual encounters,” as if a healthy casual sexual encounter is somehow a “perversion.”
So, like… grow up and get better opinions, maybe?
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 2 weeks ago:
My guy we are literally the only creature on the entire planet with a sense of shame who covers are body. If you don’t think there’s benefit to at least understanding why this enormous difference exists, I can’t even begin to fathom what your mind is like
- Comment on Hot in the car today 2 weeks ago:
Wait I thought you didn’t make it to church?
- Comment on Don't do Caffeine and Complex Analysis, kids 2 weeks ago:
Okay so I know I’m not a spider but like, where do I sign up for these trials?
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 2 weeks ago:
It’s not even real. It’s a fabricated story to push an agenda of a special interest group.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day" 3 weeks ago:
People eat and talk about McDonalds every day, but that doesn’t make it haute cuisine.
- Comment on Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs 3 weeks ago:
I’m so confused, I’m a Spotify user and there are multiple artists I’ve selected “don’t play this artist” on that Spotify blocks for me; it won’t even play those artists when I click playlists including them.
- Comment on Yabba-dabba-doo! 3 weeks ago:
Web browser, lemm.ee?
- Comment on Yabba-dabba-doo! 4 weeks ago:
bro fr
- Comment on Yabba-dabba-doo! 4 weeks ago:
Oh weird, they’re showing up under the “Chat” option for some reason?
I’m so confused by this post.
- Comment on Yabba-dabba-doo! 4 weeks ago:
So this is a weird one… I’m seeing in the post details that there’s 8 comments on this post, but none are showing as visible to me.
I’m also not seeing anything in the modlog for this post… so where are all the comments?
Did we decide to start fucking shadowbanning on Lemmy or something or is there some other explanation here?
- Comment on If the entirety of the internet was a simulation how would prove it? 4 weeks ago:
Personally, I think it’s extremely unlikely. That’s why I think Apatheism is the way:
The theist says there is a God with certainty, and atheist says there is no God with certainty, the agnostic says we cannot be certain the existence of God, and the apatheist says “guys why are we wasting our time stressing out about unknowables? Let’s go get a pizza.”
- Comment on If the entirety of the internet was a simulation how would prove it? 4 weeks ago:
This suggests a cosmic reason or purpose, yet I find no evidence for that conclusion exists.
There just might simply not be a “why”?
- Comment on If the entirety of the internet was a simulation how would prove it? 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely. But the harrowing part is realizing this applies to some folks we deem delusional in the context of our world too.
- Comment on If the entirety of the internet was a simulation how would prove it? 4 weeks ago:
My friend, we cannot even prove that our entire life is real.
We know the human mind is capable of extreme delusion, we can observe this in mentally unwell patients who are convinced their delusions are reality.
So if we acknowledge the human mind is capable of delusion, delusion so strong to be certain in its veracity, then there is no way that we can confidentially conclude that anything and everything we know isn’t delusion.
So in short, there is no way to definitively prove the internet is real because we can’t even definitely prove that reality is real.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I tried to look into this, but I couldn’t figure out how any of it works.
Also my name is Violent J
- Comment on How I view others in social media 4 weeks ago:
For extra accuracy you should have made it a repost with tons of engagements of an original post by a different users with barely any engagements