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- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 1 day ago:
On Reddit, I once bragged about having universal healthcare and got called a Nazi and a communist at the same time.
This is what happens when Xbox kids that use the n-word grow up. They learn new “bad” words and throw them around out of context and contradictingly. They don’t actually know what those things are, though, so it never makes sense.
I’ve been called a tankie here. I didn’t know what it was and looked it up, just to discover it was the literal opposite of the things I was saying. I was very confused and just put it down to frustrated self-projection. At some point they had been called that, it upset them, so now they use it to upset people too but they still don’t actually know what it is they’re saying.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
It’s just racial stereotypes but it’s funny because the words Donald John Trump are randomly at the top.
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 4 days ago:
I work in statistics and we never use girl of woman, only female. The line is vastly different in age and meaning depending on culture, religion, law, or heritage. Even in western societ, 13, 16, 18, and 21 are all valid before tipping to 40, 50, 60, 65, 68, and 70 where the term can be prefixed with some form of adjective.
It’s old-fashioned. Just say female and every culture/society understands you without confusion or insult.
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 6 days ago:
Thanks to coding, I see center as a position and centre as an object. But for the most part, I find US spelling to be lazy spelling for poor pronunciation. Like people just started saying the word wrong and rather than fixing that, just started spelling it wrong too.
Aluminium is prob the weirdest. Like everything on the periodic table ending with -ium; the Latin morpheme in chemistry. But the US just-…like, how?!
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 1 week ago:
Yeah, the more I use it, the more I regret asking it for assistance. LLMs are the epitome of confidentiality incorrect.
It’s good fun watching friends ask it stuff they’re already experienced in. Then the pin drops
- Comment on Flushing 1 week ago:
When I first went to eastern Europe, I was confused why there were signs saying to not flush paper down the toilet. Like, obviously. That’s for body waste and TP only.
“Paper” means “toilet paper”.
- Comment on Oh NOOOO 2 weeks ago:
St Germaine
- Comment on The System Shock 2 remaster comes out June 26th 2 weeks ago:
Unpopular opinion, but I actually didn’t like Bioshock. Loading it up first time it was initially cool and all, but after a while of playing, I realised it lacked a lot os “somethings” and I only completed it because I’d gotten far enough in, may as well.
- Comment on Video Game Workers Launch Industry-Wide Union with Communications Workers of America 2 weeks ago:
This should be good for games being finished on launch.
- Comment on Papers, Please: USA Edition | Official Trailer - YouTube 4 weeks ago:
You may enjoy Contraband Police. A well done first person take on such a game. I’d also still consider it “casual gaming” in difficulty, pace, and length.
At first I thought it was just a cheap knock off, but the devs have been very active since release.
- Comment on I'm gonna be really pissed if my chtistofascist parents were right 4 weeks ago:
Nah, there’s an apocalyptic phase that goes on for a long time and chances of ultimate survival are quite positive. Six billion could perish, making life much easier for the remaining, though there’d be hard times for a few generations during recovery.
Always look on the bright side of life 😙🎵
Or, ya know, astroid… Whatever it is, it beats dying of dysentery at age 34.
- Comment on I'm gonna be really pissed if my chtistofascist parents were right 4 weeks ago:
The book states ‘no one knows when’ several times; even in Revelations, the book literally about end times.
And there are many times in modern human history that people were sure it had kicked off. But it didn’t and things just got better again. It’s like our thing to almost wipe ourselves out but miserably kick on for another day.
We only just appeared here anyway so we’ll likely disappear just as recently as well and some other living thing will have its turn, and so on, and so on, until the sun takes out the atmosphere and then the planet. And fin.
- Comment on I'm gonna be really pissed if my chtistofascist parents were right 4 weeks ago:
It was always going to end. And I’d rather be there for it than be born in some other boring and eventless time. Unfortunately, as exciting as times are, I think there’s still quite a while to go and we won’t be around for it. But you can still enjoy all that’s happening now; sure is a lot!
- Comment on Opening Lemmy in the morning and seeing dozens of unread comments in your inbox makes you think: what the heck did I say yesterday? 4 weeks ago:
Then you read your original comment and, no, you didn’t say that; someone’s just trying to gaslight you or they’re straw manning.
- Comment on Battery tech really does move fast 4 weeks ago:
- It’s designed to fail the day after the warranty expires.
- Comment on South Carolina conducts first US firing squad execution in 15 years: ‘Barbaric’ 4 weeks ago:
In the article, he chose it for fear of issues occuring with the other two.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Releasing March 28 on GOG 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, that argument falls apart when henry just randomly moves the pick even though you didn’t move the controller.
Literally—well at least from the devs and ever since KCD1—that’s how it works.
How else would they express how noob he is?
Look at Henry like you look at yourself 10 years ago. So confident, knew so much less. He’s your intern. Interns are frustrating. You were also a frustrating rumbler at the beginning of everything you learned.
That “random” movement increases the further through the lockoick he gets. But when he’s skilled, it doesn’t. He’s patient and gentle with the tension.
What more could you want from a lockpicking system that’s super basic for all gamers but still represent reality?
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 4 weeks ago:
You got the rawdog, mate! Congo rats.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Releasing March 28 on GOG 4 weeks ago:
Like all of Henry’s skills, he sucks at the start.
You’ve got some faint knowledge that it can be done, but no idea how exactly, and with rudimentary tools to boot.
Just like you IRL, it takes Henry learning how locks fundamentally work, what picking is actually doing inside, then getting better at the feel of it. And just like ORL, Henry gets good at lock picking quite quickly after some practice and some books.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 4 weeks ago:
That’s three paragraphs of “I took this serious.”
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer 4 weeks ago:
BG3 is the same as any of the other games previously. A D&D game with an amazing DM. Immersive story and characters, great system at the foundation, and excellent gameplay to channel the story and system through.
I think BG3 spent most of their time saying no to dull or shallow ideas, rather than reinventing the wheel. And of course it worked incredibly.
- Comment on Pounce 4 weeks ago:
And reverse psychology doesn’t work on cats.
“You can go into the gun cabinet whenever you want. It’s not off-bounds at all. Help yourself! I’d be happy if you did.”
“Who’s asking you for permission, bitch?”
- Comment on Does 'attempted murder' require a viable method? 5 weeks ago:
Wishing on a star?
- Comment on That can't be good 5 weeks ago:
“Yeah, I’ve been seeing it for weeks, Grimace. Every time he delivers McNuggets he gets tipped $5K. And it’s $10K for a Happy Meal!”
- Comment on Little treat 5 weeks ago:
I travel a lot and it’s usually huge distances on the road, often followed by long distances on foot. Constantly in the zone, eating up kilometres, taking up the entire daylight and sometimes longer.
My favourite part is the end when I sit and open a beer.
“Good job, brain. Fantastic work, body. You can both switch off now, we’re giving ourselves a delicious pat on the back, or four.”
- Comment on He's taking some deep drags on that Marlboro as he considers what to do 5 weeks ago:
I like the idea that everytime someone proclaims to be Jesus right before the cops kill them or they’re relegated to skid row, it’s true.
Meme’s also on point that way. Christ trying to return for the 7000th time expecting a different result.
- Comment on I'm not original at all but feel a bit amusing about thought somebody takes it to heart 5 weeks ago:
The wounds are still healing, but I’n up for round two if it ever lets me back on the couch again.
- Comment on I hate how my lefty friends make everything political 5 weeks ago:
Think Cultural Marxism without the whacky details.
- Comment on Don't you demonRATs UnDeRStAnD, I just need the people I don't like to be hurt!!!1!1!! 5 weeks ago:
This seems to be the online modern world.
Idiots providing personal definitions for terminology that already has longstanding established meaning that can be looked up and read in under 10s.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 5 weeks ago:
There are small phones. There’s more small phones than big phones. And I have big thumbs so stop whinging about the minority.
