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- Comment on Bringing Achievements To The Nintendo Entertainment System 1 day ago:
Achievements have made games worse.
I discovered this after buying a steam game that I had pirated. All of a sudden I’m doing boring and repetitive stuff that I don’t enjoy, just to unlock some dumb trophy.
Any enjoyment for the players and creativity by developers has been long eclipsed by the lazy paint-by-numbers boring achievements who’s only function is to artificially extend “engagement”.
They should just sell the platinum trophies.
- Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio 2 days ago:
It’s so gratifying to hear from people on the internet who are older than I am. And this article reads like it came from a Listserv to a yahoo email address.
- Comment on Be careful what you name your kids 2 days ago:
- Comment on Fascinating and efficient new lamp design 3 days ago:
In America, they often cut the lampshade off right after manufacture.
Not even for religious reasons, just some 19th Century health nuts like RFK jr convinced everyone that it was good for your health.
- Comment on Husband needs proof news is censored 3 days ago:
E.S. Herman and Noam Chomsky’s book Manufacturing Consent is a great place to start. You can skip most of the book honestly, (it’s out of date), but the “5 Filters” part is like a decoder ring for American Legacy Media.
- Comment on Dr Strange saw 4 billion possible futures and none of them had Thor lopping off Thanos' head on his first shot 4 days ago:
Dr Strangelove saw one possible future and it had 10 women to each man.
- Comment on How can I decide on who and how to love? 5 days ago:
I think I loved about a dozen women relatively recently tho I haven’t even kissed them
Romantic love is always both ways. Crushes are normal and healthy, but no matter how strongly you feel, it ain’t nothing like when they wanna kiss you back.
When I was young I had anxiety about getting betrayed or abandoned. Well, all that came to pass, but what I didn’t know then was that I am perfectly capable of hurting people who care about me. These days, I regret the harm I did way more than what I suffered.
- Comment on Gonna need to refresh the page and hope for a easier one. 1 week ago:
How the hell is Brad Dourif not in this movie!? Was he busy with Chucky or something?
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- Comment on Letter from the Levant - On the Origin of the Pork Taboo - Archaeology Magazine - March/April 2025 1 week ago:
Pork is the protein of the poor. You don’t need land to raise them and you can feed them scraps and garbage.
Consider a goat or a sheep. Not only do you need the animals, you need access to grazing lands for that. You need wealth.
The best explanation for the taboo: elite snobbery.
- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 1 week ago:
Alcohol. Sometimes it takes 30 or 40 years to be effective. Not very good for murder, but wildly popular for suicide.
- Comment on Oh NOOOO 1 week ago:
- Comment on Men who have their balls removed at an early age are 300% more successful. 1 week ago:
This is dumb. If you don’t have any balls, how can you pee?
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are in prison and want to communicate with the outside world without being detected, what are some ways to hide a message within an innocuous letter? 1 week ago:
Just use a contraband cellphone. That gives you access to powerful encryption.
- Comment on Hamburger Helper and Rice-A-Roni might be the same thing. 1 week ago:
Hamburger Helper is one of the biggest rip-offs in the grocery. You get what? $0.50 of noodles and $0.15 of spices? You have to provide the beef and the milk.
I was a sucker for years buying those salad dressing packets before I figured out how to make my own.
It’s like every business is out to rob you if you’re not paying attention.
- Comment on Why don't Palestinians set up their own power pla... 3 weeks ago:
Israel must approve all construction projects in Gaza. IDF soldiers routinely dismantle private roof-top solar to prevent Palestinians from being independent of Israeli electricity.
Gaza has no airport, no docks to accept shipping, and all land borders are controlled by Israel or Egypt. And the whole point of the Egyptian crossing is to be a corridor for Palestinians to “self-cleanse” and flee the brutal conditions that Israel imposes.
Hamas has never controlled Gaza.
- Comment on Reminder that even if you're dead you can still be useful 3 weeks ago:
It’s wild that they promote the length of the book. Is that real?
- Comment on YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech 3 weeks ago:
If you pay attention to the reactionaries, they always steal ideas from the left. Fake news, media bias? That’s Noam Chomsky. Incels stole the idea of critical examination of gender from feminists. Racists are banning books on the theory that they target people based on their race.
That’s why they’re called reactionaries. They cannot organize and ideology or a movement except as an opposition to the left dragging society forward. And like anyone motivated by spite and envy, they study us closely.
- Comment on I'm gonna be really pissed if my chtistofascist parents were right 3 weeks ago:
The oldest human writings are lost to history. But we know that they bitterly complained about the young generation and predicted that the world would end soon.
Sooner or later, one of the kooks will be right by coincidence.
- Comment on uhh… my ex girlfriend and long-time friend is now cishet, very christian, and makes those “i identify as” jokes regarding trans people. would it end up bad for me if i continued to be her friend? 4 weeks ago:
If you accept someone unilaterally, your sending the message that they matter more.
- Comment on Is it a pattern that most of Zendaya's haters are right-wing or is it just a coincidence? 4 weeks ago:
You’ve got the vin diagram of haters because she’s popular and successful; the bigots who resent representation; and the normies who are influenced the former two.
- Comment on List of Jeff Bezos Companies 4 weeks ago:
This can be confusing. Should I stop reading the WaPo? Well, I already don’t subscribe, jump the paywall, and block ads. Me using the site hurts him more than if i didn’t. Same thing with the Smart Speakers. Amazon has lost (IIRC) like 12B on that venture, and so long as you don’t use it to order stuff, it’s costs Bozo for a person to use it.
- Comment on Should have stayed in the basement and talked to no one 4 weeks ago:
This meme is too quality for a shitpost
- Comment on Classical Meme 4 weeks ago:
Of course.
- Comment on Times are tough for everyone 4 weeks ago:
I enjoy the fan theory that B.A. Baracus was not afraid to fly, he was just addicted to tranquilizers.
- Comment on Do people really believe politicians are salesmen? 4 weeks ago:
This is what consumer culture does to the brain. Yes, these people expect politicians to “sell” them on ideology. What they mean is they expect to be flattered and have all their thinking done for them, just like Tick Tock and Insta.
It’s endemic on the right and common on the left for people to have this “customer service” attitude toward politics.
Of course very few people are actually persuaded by anything they didn’t already believe, but it gives them agency of choice to imagine that they went with the side that was the best value proposition I guess.
- Comment on If Europe and the rest of the worlds response it to make weapons of war, someone will eventually insure they are all used. 4 weeks ago:
What do you care? If what you say is true, we’re already doomed to nuclear war.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
You should seek advice from a doctor, or perhaps a community for people with allergies.
I’ve noticed that many flights hand out pretzels instead of nuts. Perhaps there is a way to find out which airlines and witch flights do this.
- Comment on Whats the most downvoted comment/post on lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
What you have to understand is that Lemmy is full of tech people who are bombarded with “AI is the future” messaging all day long. And implicit in all of that is layoffs for tech workers and enshitification for everyone else.
Seeing a reaction without context is always going to look irrational. People know that AI has it’s uses and can even be pretty neat. But what it’s being sold as is a gigantic lie that’s going to hurt people.
- Comment on What are the exact ramifications and consequences of the recent meeting with Zelenskyy and Trump/JD? 4 weeks ago:
The press conference was a big fucking deal. Photos of it are likely to make it into school textbooks.
What you’re seeing is a re-alignment of the global hegemony. The last time that happened, it took 2 world wars to sort it out.
