Soggy
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- Comment on Most American headline 4 hours ago:
I think you missed my point if you’re accusing me of straw-manning, I was pointing out that even their flimsy justification is baseless.
- Comment on Most American headline 6 hours ago:
Nevermind that lots of countries allow for personal firearm ownership.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 16 hours ago:
Final Fantasy VIII, almost at the end of the third disc. Hot take: this is my favorite PS1 entry in the series (and IX is my second favorite). I’m not going to pretend it’s a perfect game but it takes a lot of chances and I think most of the them pay off.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 16 hours ago:
I got half on my own, but I threw in the towel after half an hour and I’m glad I did.
- Comment on YSK that after leaving power, Margaret Thatcher became a lobbyist for tobacco companies 1 day ago:
Well, she’s a prominent figure in relatively recent world history whose actions are responsible in part for the world we have today. It’s kinda weird to be proud of historical ignorance.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
.world was already the closest thing to reddit on the fediverse.
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 4 days ago:
Yeah it’s not like the movies, people don’t just fall over when they’re grazed by a blade or pistol-caliber bullet. If all I had was a knife to defend myself against an attacker I would choose “keep stabbing until they stop moving” even if that looks worse to juries. Better than being shot in the back trying to run.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 5 days ago:
People can prefer lots of stuff, “this aspect of the English language is not to apply to me” is a lot of cognitive load to ask for.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 5 days ago:
Which is an awkward and strange way to speak to people.
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 2 weeks ago:
Teens are kids, they’ve just got half a brain and adult hormones mixed in. They still need guidance and supervision.
- Comment on The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities. 2 weeks ago:
Ok but there’s zero movement in a lot of hobby communities here, and I’m not talking about niche interests. There cannot be quality when the quantity is none.
- Comment on Tekken 8 replaces their entire balance team after disastrous Season 2 update 3 weeks ago:
Pretty much for as long as online games have gotten updates. DOTA kinda codified it with the Battle Pass system but WoW battlegrounds/arena had seasons way before that. They’ll wait and do content/balance updates in chunks and that effects the meta in waves defined as “seasons”.
It’s everywhere now. It can be weaponized FOMO or a clean way to provide regular novelty without being tied down to legacy content.
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 4 weeks ago:
I’d happily have a phone half an inch thicker if it meant a folding or sliding physical keyboard for my large hands.
- Comment on Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like 4 weeks ago:
Ok, well, I am. It’s not “pointless story” it’s entertainment and I’m struggling to come up with a game that has zero plot or setting or characterization. Rocket League maybe.
- Comment on Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like 5 weeks ago:
It’s set in the Titanfall universe, there’s lots of lore scattered around. People work hard to integrate a narrative into the level and character designs, to imply plot in incidental dialogue or cinematics, or just literally write text entries that the majority of gamers will never read because only shooting and rare skins trigger their dopamine.
- Comment on Do you think Square Enix should remake other Final Fantasy entries? 5 weeks ago:
Leave Draw exactly as it is, thanks. Maybe increase magic damage scaling but the Junction system is neat and the whole thing ties into the plot.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 5 weeks ago:
They don’t actually know why it happened. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
- Comment on More Americans are financing groceries with buy now, pay later loans — and more are paying those bills late, survey says 5 weeks ago:
That seems backwards to me, I would absolutely tell my friends if I thought their life choices were harmful.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 5 weeks ago:
It can also just be a fun hobby. Old-fashioned soap making is a very approachable historical craft. (Modern soap making is also very approachable if you’re comfortable handling lye)
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 5 weeks ago:
Old English is significantly harder than Middle English, yeah.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 5 weeks ago:
I’m really hoping to stay where I am. I’d rather try to integrate with the Coast Salish people than 14th century Christians.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 5 weeks ago:
Crude soap is easy to make. Wood ash + water + fat. From there you just fiddle with ratios and timing while trying not to burn your skin off with strong alkalinity.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 5 weeks ago:
If your argument is that humans can only be “native” to southeast Africa… that’s dumb. It might be defensible in an ecological sense but sociologically the word is used differently.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 5 weeks ago:
Middle English is understandable. It’s tricky and there are lots of unexpected differences but you’d get used to it. This is right at the edge of Early Modern English and the Great Vowel Shift.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 5 weeks ago:
American here: governments have never cared about signed treaties with natives. But your heart’s in the right place.
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 5 weeks ago:
The day I can’t avoid advertisements is the day I drop the service. You want my money? Provide a product that isn’t trying to wring me and my data dry.
Video is expensive to host, I get that. I’d happily give a few bucks a month (which is way more than my ad views would be worth) but their asking price is laughable.
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know why anyone would willingly default to the algorithm, I set my bookmark direct to the subscription page.
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 5 weeks ago:
I’d have to hold me phone so close to my face I can’t comfortably focus on it to match the relative size of my computer monitor, and it’s not a big monitor. Why would I settle for the jumbotron from the cheap seats when I can sit front row?
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 1 month ago:
I don’t want more apps, I want to return to
monkeearly 2000s web forums. - Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 1 month ago:
Most sports never make the news. Even in the US it’s pretty fringe except for the wrestlers who transition to Hollywood, like John Cena or Dave Bautista. Though it had a heyday from the Hulk Hogan era through Stone Cold and The Rock when people were much more aware, generally. I don’t know anyone who watches but I know a bunch of people who used to watch.