Pronell
@Pronell@lemmy.world
- Comment on Going to bed makes any dream possible 2 weeks ago:
Believable shower thought… wanting to go back to bed.
- Comment on What level of interest do you have in "empire building" location based games? 2 weeks ago:
I’d give it a shot, but I honestly leave my home only once a week, which makes these types of games less appealing to me.
I almost never travel either.
I’d still play a game that let me use/invest in local resources generously, and unlock more areas with travel.
I’d never be competitive in such a game, but I’m comfortable with that.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
What works for you, works for you.
It may be possible to slowly wean yourself off of these behaviors that are worrying you. If it’s down to once a month, there isn’t as much of a jump to zero times a month, but maybe sometime. And then once it’s been a year, congratulate yourself for that and keep going.
Habits are hard to break and much easier to fall into. But if you are more conscious of these decisions, it all becomes a little bit easier with time.
That kind of mindfulness is a skill that is hard to develop, but your post leads me to think you’re already on your way.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 3 weeks ago:
That’s a tactic I’ve seen widely used, especially by the assholes we are talking about.
Words have meaning to us, and fascists love that because they are not beholden to any truth at all.
- Comment on (i feel really stupid asking, but what the hell!) could i be of french descent? 3 weeks ago:
Ah, then I guess I don’t know how to interpret that.
- Comment on (i feel really stupid asking, but what the hell!) could i be of french descent? 3 weeks ago:
Maps cannot answer that question.
Genealogy could, but has its downsides.
- Comment on Of all the vegetables beets is the most metal 4 weeks ago:
Stewed beets are delicious, and beet greens are quite tasty too. A nice addition to any garden.
- Comment on When you think about it The Sun is actually at the very bottom. 4 weeks ago:
Now that is a good shower thought!
- Comment on Thank you guys for the advice last post. I found a tech support job now. One step closer to leaving homelessness 5 weeks ago:
I’d rather see your face than the job offer. Well fucking done, dude.
I’m someone who struggled and went bankrupt but not homeless. I put my shit back together with a lot of help, and now I have a wife and mortgage payments… and soon I’ll be unemployed again by choice.
Life is fucking scary but you’ve made one huge leap to overcoming a massive hurdle I never had to clear, homelessness. Fucking props dude.
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 1 month ago:
Hour by hour, my job evolved from taking calls from clients who owed us money, to then answering questions from agents who weren’t as skilled at it as I was.
In the process of being promoted, I was asked to join a daily meeting of over 100 people talking about the issues affecting our department.
Once in a great while, something came up in that meeting that gave me the heads up to prevent chaos in our department and stress to members.
There’s a whole shitload of cogs turning in modern corporations. There’s also a huge danger of people leaving and nobody understanding why the cogs are there.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
My Dad is a Buddhist, so I have some knowledge and respect for that philosophy/faith.
But yes, he was a hippy too.
And I think he would agree that this question is poorly formed at least. But then I’ve never heard my Dad talk about chakras either.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
There is a !Buddhism@lemmy.world community.
- Comment on The worst part of all this political nonsense is that porn never makes it to my homepage anymore 1 month ago:
I blocked it because I browse all and every day dozens of communities were being created. And I don’t need porn communities here really. I just didn’t want to miss out on the non-porn NSFW content, comics like Oglaf.
- Comment on Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do? 2 months ago:
Games have been around the $50-$70 mark my entire life.
It’s a sad reality, but I expect prices of major mainstream games to go up, regardless of tariffs.
- Comment on Rachel Reeves just doesn’t get it. None of us should pay tax on savings 2 months ago:
They will never tax the rich without taxing passive income.
But of course they’re also going after the little guy first.
- Comment on This watchdog is tracking how AI firms are quietly backing off their safety pledges 2 months ago:
Pledge?
It’s a cleaner. You spray it on and then wipe it off.
deep sigh
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I should’ve given the full context - when I was a kid watching the news with my parents it was likely late in the Carter administration, or early in Reagan’s. So yeah, fully agreed.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
And this is why the Left can’t win.
It’s too obsessed with purity and infighting to focus on the true enemy.
The fascists, on the other hand, focus on the true enemy, then focus on purity and infighting!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The gish gallop has gone mainstream.
What we needed, twenty to forty years ago at the bare minimum, were journalists who were willing to shut that shit down.
I remember being a child watching the news with my parents and seeing an oil company defender accusing the scientists of chasing profits.
Like what the fuck? How did that not end immediately with “And who is currently profiting?” is and always has been beyond me.
…I’m not sure that’s a great example of the gish gallop. Technically.
My point was that we now report the untrue claims rather than saying, from the start, “This candidate said something completely false and not worth repeating.”
For clicks, views, the algorithm, for profit. Nope. It was all to game the system in order to destroy it.
Sorry, this probably isn’t coherent but I’m tired and tipsy, and I’ve chosen to hit save.
- Comment on Pets hate the vet clinic and groomer because they smell the combined terror/anger of a thousand other animals who've been poked and prodded in that room 2 months ago:
Just replying again since my wife got home.
She said what actually happens is that when the pet is in the exam room, the customer is brought to the room. I just didn’t know the whole process post-covid. You were right!
- Comment on Pets hate the vet clinic and groomer because they smell the combined terror/anger of a thousand other animals who've been poked and prodded in that room 2 months ago:
Typically the owner is in their car outside so they can still inquire and be brought inside as needed.
- Comment on Pets hate the vet clinic and groomer because they smell the combined terror/anger of a thousand other animals who've been poked and prodded in that room 2 months ago:
My wife works at a certified Fear Free clinic. Customers are only allowed in the building when their animals are being put down. (A greeter goes out to retrieve animals from the cars and return them after the appointment.)
Animals are happy to be there, because it doesn’t smell like fear any longer. There’s no waiting room with other animals. Just the staff who are happy to see them.
It is a real game changer.
- Comment on Split Fiction's Josef Fares says they'll never offer microtransactions: "Just make games. Period." 2 months ago:
I don’t know his work but that background makes so much sense because as good as these games are, they are extremely rigid. There is only one plot path to success.
There’s a point in It Takes Two that some people might not want to take the action suggested, but you have to in order to move the story forward.
(Slight spoiler, it involves deliberately attempting to make their daughter cry.)
- Comment on Fucking leeches 2 months ago:
All so that none of their tenants can afford any of those four things without constantly struggling!
- Comment on This Industry Analyst Explained Why NetEase Laid Off Marvel Rivals' Studios In Seattle - And Japan 3 months ago:
Don’t work for China.
- Comment on Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away? 3 months ago:
He goes back to Metropolis.
He owns The Daily Planet.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 3 months ago:
It is definitely not too late for that.
- Comment on Someone should recut episodes of "Friends" so that they only include Ross, and call it "Friend" 3 months ago:
Appropriate username.
- Comment on Why do I laugh in my dream? 3 months ago:
Examples? I’m really curious!
- Comment on A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 3 months ago:
Simon says sudo.