Pronell
@Pronell@lemmy.world
- 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? 4 days 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Pledge?
It’s a cleaner. You spray it on and then wipe it off.
deep sigh
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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." 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 1 month ago:
Don’t work for China.
- Comment on Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away? 1 month ago:
He goes back to Metropolis.
He owns The Daily Planet.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 1 month 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" 1 month ago:
Appropriate username.
- Comment on Why do I laugh in my dream? 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
Simon says sudo.
- Comment on Our brains remembers at random cringe and awful things we did in the past to prevent us of doing them again. 2 months ago:
Here is an article discussing it.
I would personally think that Buddhist techniques like mindfulness and meditation would be helpful here.
I don’t know how I really achieved it, but one thing I do remember I did was altering my negative self-talk so I would be alarmed and notice I was doing it.
I basically changed “I should kill myself” to “I should kill (some other specific person)”, as the latter horrified me. Might be a similar technique.
- Comment on Trump wants to tax the world 2 months ago:
Okay, so what’s the other side? He decides not to tariff them if he gets a personal bribe or policy concession.
That’s the Trump tax.
- Comment on Our brains remembers at random cringe and awful things we did in the past to prevent us of doing them again. 2 months ago:
We remember those moments with shame because we keep reliving them and reveling in the shame.
Remembering something taints the memory with your current mindset.
When those memories come up, choose a different response. Laugh at yourself. Forgive yourself. Love yourself.
Those memories will change in response when you stop the self-abuse. And it really does feel better too.
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 2 months ago:
Even the archive.org version is pay walled for me. Very strange.
- Comment on I hate how many people are against russian ancestry 2 months ago:
I gotta say that anecdotally I’ve heard how awesome and accepting and loving the people living under totalitarian governments are except for Russian people.
So I honestly apologize, it’s just been reinforced by my media consumption and lack of travel to learn and mingle.
- Comment on Axel Rudakubana: 'Evil' Southport killer jailed for minimum 52 years 2 months ago:
He looks a bit sketchy.
- Comment on Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok 2 months ago:
When they get it back up and running, they should apologize for The Blip.
- Comment on Trump Says He Wants No Wind Turbines Built During Administration 2 months ago:
Time to start researching if I can build my own wind turbine, I suppose…
- Comment on I pissed myself off in the shower. No, not in that way. 4 months ago:
The way I look at things it’s a disease, the root of it being that it makes you not at ease with yourself.
We can’t treat this disease by altering the brain, but we can alter the body. So this is the best treatment we have to offer at the moment, and people should be allowed to pursue it.
I only became more adamant about this in the last year since my wife and I took in a trans person in need. It’s personal for me now.
- Comment on Disney Said to be Considering a Surprising Replacement for Bob Iger: EA CEO Andrew Wilson - IGN 4 months ago:
The Aristocrats!
- Comment on Disney Said to be Considering a Surprising Replacement for Bob Iger: EA CEO Andrew Wilson - IGN 4 months ago:
Fuck EA.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I would never trust anything Kennedy said.
- Comment on Robot vacuum cleaners are being hacked to spy on your family, chase pets, hurl verbal abuse, and the makers claim users 'do not need to worry excessively about this' 5 months ago:
My Roomba only turns on when I press the button. Granted it can have wifi access but I work from home and never set that up. All it can do is translate error codes and I can Google those.
It’s my fourth Roomba in 20 years. Not bad as I’m someone who never vacuums otherwise.