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- Comment on Is it "weird" for kids to co-sleep with parents through their teenage years? 4 days ago:
I mean, see for yourself. OP specifically requested it in another post.
- Comment on Is it "weird" for kids to co-sleep with parents through their teenage years? 4 days ago:
I would only join my parents in bed if I had a nightmare in my own bed, which wasn’t very often. They would let me sleep between them in the middle of the bed, which made me feel safe and cozy.
When I was maybe 7-8 years old, they started encouraging me to not do that anymore. If I had a nightmare, my mother would calm me down, talk it out with me, and then send me back to my bedroom. I never shared a bed with my parents again.
It’s strange to me that OP started sharing a bed at 8 years old and continued into their teens. At that point, it would make sense to start enforcing independence.
But if I recall, OP mentioned in another thread that their mother regularly insisted on expressing how much she loved them, then demanded to know if OP loved her too. So it sounds like OP’s mother has some extreme anxiety and self-worth issues, which she reinforced by over-mothering her “child” long past the stage where they should’ve been growing up and learning independence.
- Comment on wir suchen dich‼️‼️🗣️📢📢 1 week ago:
I used to… until I heard someone read it aloud one day.
- Comment on Keep it off please! 1 week ago:
You’re looking for Umamusume: Pretty Derby. It’s a Japanese video game franchise that has expanded into anime and manga as well.
The games are all gacha games (collect items through gameplay or in-game currency). In this case, you collect and train tons of horse girls to compete in races. The original game is a mobile game, but there’s a free version on Steam that lets you play on your PC.
All the anthropomorphic horse girls are based on real-life Japanese race horses (same name and hair coloring), and some of the game’s stories are based on real races too. It’s not an adult game series, if that’s what your curious about, but I’m sure there’s plenty of “fan art” in the darker corners of the Internet, if you know where to look.
- Comment on Keep it off please! 1 week ago:
I think that’s the one thing that truly drew my interest with Umamusume. Every “horse girl” is named and styled after a real-life Japanese racing horse.
If it was just an anime show/video game about anthropomorphic horse girls, I wouldn’t really care. But now I’m interested in comparing them to their real-life counterparts.
- Comment on Streaming didnt exist in 1970 2 weeks ago:
I cut all streaming services out of my life last year, except for Curiosity Stream, a sort of “Netflix” for educational documentaries.
But I haven’t even been watching that in a while, so maybe I should stop paying for it.
I just got sick of rising prices and invasive ads despite paying to avoid them. I use Plex now. I paid the one-time fee for the Lifetime Plex Pass and now I have access to all their advanced tools and streaming content, plus I can rip my movies/TV shows/music to my PC and stream them myself through Plex. No ads, no extra junk, no “are you still watching?” pop-ups. Just hit play and enjoy.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
100% accurate. My wife is my best friend in the whole world.
During COVID, a lot of married couples divorced because they were forced to spend time together at home every day and realized they can’t stand being around each other so much. Going to a job every day got them out of the house and away from their spouse/family for a few hours, which made married life tolerable.
But for my wife and I, self-isolating at home was business as usual. We always hang out, even if we’re doing our own separate things. Just existing in the same space together makes us happy. Heck, we both retired young, so we’re now just sitting around the house all day long together. And we’re still enjoying each other’s friendship and love.
Find someone you can vibe with on a personal level, not just someone who’s pretty or has one or two traits you want to associate with. Marrying my best friend had been the best decision I’ve ever made and it pays out tenfold as you get older together.
- Comment on Subtitling a video, what is this sound called? 3 weeks ago:
I’d need more context than a single screenshot and a second of audio. What’s happening leading up to this sound? What came right after? Can you make a video clip with at least 10 seconds of audio to pair with this specific capture? Visual cues and a bit more audio around the event will help make sense of it. As is, it doesn’t sound remotely like whimpering. Or anything recognizable.
Also, The Amazing World of Gumball is an excellent show! I’ve re-watched it 3 times already, and I’m in my 40s. Despite being a kid’s show, it’s highly entertaining no matter your age.
- Comment on Day 593 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
Chronologically, Metal Gear Solid 3 is the first game in the series. It shows Snake’s origin story, which leads into the original Metal Gear 1 and 2 games for the old Nintendo Entertainment System (long before the Metal Gear Solid series). So it’s a perfect place to start if you’re picking up the Metal Gear franchise for the first time.
Metal Gear Solid ∆ is just a modern remake of Metal Gear Solid 3, so it’s basically the same thing but better graphics and controls. I read once that due to the falling out with Hideo Kojima, Konami can’t legally re-release the original MGS3 game, so a remake from the ground up was their legal compromise.
Now Metal Gear Solid 4 is the only Metal Gear game that hasn’t been re-released on any other platform since it debuted on the PlayStation 3. But Konami plans to finally release it for PC and all modern consoles in August this year. Woo!
I had planned to review Metal Gear Solid ∆ for my Lemmy screenshot series, but I was having so much fun with the game, I forgot about preparing a review and just played my way through it. MGS3 is my favorite of the entire franchise! There’s something rewarding about actually trying to avoid detection in a game. It’s easy to go in guns blazing, but sneaking past guards and not alerting anyone? That takes skill and dedication.
- Comment on SERIOUSLY THOUGH. WELCOME TO LEMMY. 4 weeks ago:
I gave up Reddit the day I moved here. Haven’t been back to Reddit since. I much prefer it here.
- Comment on Unhinged... I'm gonna start doing that 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think I’ve ever heard him laugh.
It’s like posting “lol” or “roflmao” in text, when your face doesn’t even change IRL. Except we’re voice chatting, so he’s using a laugh track instead of “lol.”
- Comment on Unhinged... I'm gonna start doing that 4 weeks ago:
I voice chat with friends on Discord pretty regularly. I have one friend who, instead of laughing, will click a laugh track on our soundboard, filling the voice chat with boisterous sitcom laughter. I don’t know why, but that’s kind of unsettling.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Interestingly enough, the reason Brad Pitt is advertised so heavily is the reason I still haven’t watched it.
Don’t get me wrong, I think he’s an excellent actor and I enjoy seeing him on screen. I just don’t understand why an F1 movie needed Brad Pitt. I’m here to watch race cars, not some famous actor behind the wheel!
If they cast an unknown in the lead, I’d be more intrigued because I’m interested in Formula 1 racing. But putting a famous guy in the lead makes me feel like this is gonna be some dramatic feel-good fantasy story, not something more grounded in reality.
And yes, I know this movie is just a giant advertisement for Formula 1. But that’s a real motorsport race, so I’d be more invested if the movie felt like watching a real person’s story, not an actor telling a fictional story in the setting of F1 racing.
- Comment on Always there, just waiting. 5 weeks ago:
I know this is a shitpost, but to answer honestly… the last pear I had was when I was a child, and I’m in my 40s now.
I still remember their wonderful taste and I haven’t been intentionally avoiding them. I just never came across an opportunity to eat one since my childhood. I’ve primarily consumed apples and oranges over the years and I can’t even remember seeing pears at the store.
Maybe I should go check out my local grocery store and buy a few.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 weeks ago:
Two of my childhood friends helped develop that game. One of them wrote the music for it, the other was a programmer who helped code it.
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #67 - HELLDIVERS II 1 month ago:
There was a moment in that fight where Pink got killed and dropped a bunch of grenades when he went down (an ability one of your custom uniforms grant you). And we all happened to be grouped a little too close together, so we all got blown up by him. That’s my one death in that mission - a team kill. I wonder if that did enough damage for his score, or if he kept flagging people with his rifle while shooting enemies.
That’s one of the interesting things about this game. Some players have asked the devs for the ability to turn off friendly fire, but they refuse, saying that friendly fire is funny and part of the ridiculousness of the game.
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- Comment on Sure, Jan 1 month ago:
That’s “Rock the Country,” aka “MAGA Fest.” It was a different show held in South Carolina, where all the other artists started dropping out when they realized it was promoting MAGA.
Kid Rock was headlining that show, but it’s separate from Turning Point USA’s halftime show starring Kid Rock. As far as I know, that one is still happening.
- Comment on Are there any cultures where kissing is taboo? 1 month ago:
In India, it’s a huge taboo to kiss anyone whom you’re not married to. Public affection in general is mostly frowned upon there, and sometimes charges as a crime depending on where you live.
That’s why you never see lovers kiss in Bollywood movies. They always just hug or hold each other at arms length. They would be outraged if two actors who aren’t married to each other kissed on screen.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 1 month ago:
American here. My childhood home was completely covered in thick carpet, except the entryway and the kitchen, which was laminate tile. Yes, even the bathroom was carpeted. My bedroom literally had shag carpet.
My family always wore shoes indoors. And then wondered why the carpet was discolored, worn, and tearing in places.
I spent 20 years traveling the world after becoming an adult and learned about many other cultures who took off shoes before entering homes. Now I feel weird wearing shoes even in the entryway.
By the way, I’m retired now and living back in my childhood home, which I inherited when my father passed away. The whole place has been re-carpeted, the bathroom and dining room floors have been swapped out for laminate/wood paneling, and when I get around to remodeling the living rooms, I’ll probably switch them to wood floors as well.
- Comment on lightbulbs 1 month ago:
I dunno why, but warm lighting at night just makes me feel depressed. I need daylight bulbs across my house. Adjustable brightness preferred though, so I’m not blinding myself at night.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yeah, they must mean the original, since this mod just released today. But if you read their whole review, they don’t directly reference the original game once, they just gripe about all the things they don’t like about this mod.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I love this negative review. Notice their hours on record.
- Comment on This is why you should respect our vets 1 month ago:
As a veteran, I thought this was going a different route when it mentioned “vets.” But it’s very true. I’d trust a veterinarian as a doctor in the zombie apocalypse.
- Comment on Natural Disaster Risk in the Continental U.S. 2 months ago:
The Northern West may have the lowest risk of natural disaster right now, but the Yellowstone Caldera in Wyoming is a supervolcano that’s way overdue for erupting, and it’s gonna take out at least a third of the US when it does. I live on the east side of Minnesota and I’m still in the blast zone from that eventual rupture.
- Comment on Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate - Leiden Medievalists Blog 2 months ago:
Ah. Well, that would explain it. Folks usually share current articles, so I assumed this was written recently, not a half decade ago. That’s my bad.
- Comment on Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate - Leiden Medievalists Blog 2 months ago:
Thank you! That’s because I don’t have corporate requirements for writing. Nobody’s paying me, I’m just doing it as a hobby, so I’m not limited in my writing. I can gush about anything I want!
I try to stick to the format of walking readers through an introduction to a game. So many times, I see people talk about games but not explain what the game actually is. They assume their audience has some base level of experience with it. So I introduce the games I play so my readers are familiar with them when I get to gushing about why I’m enjoying it.
Plus, my posts started as sharing a bunch of screenshots of my gameplay, so of course, I try to share as many visual aids as I can while walking through the gameplay.
- Comment on Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate - Leiden Medievalists Blog 2 months ago:
I blog about video games as a hobby (all my posts here on Lemmy are blog reviews of games I play), so I tend to write a lot when I’m interested in a game. I’ll admit, this is the first time I’ve been accused of potentially being an AI bot, but I get your skepticism.
Manor Lords is not a game I’m particularly interested in, because as I mentioned, it was pretty difficult for me and I gave up pretty early on. But it was a unique style of gameplay compared to other city builder games, so the experience has stuck in my head.
When I read this article, every complaint about modern city builder games reminded me of Manor Lords, and I was disappointed that game wasn’t addressed anywhere in the article. I had hoped to see the author’s thoughts on it compared to other games in the genre.
- Comment on "Oh wow a kryptonite radiation machine, I volunteer Superman to go inside! Doesn't feel so good does it?" 2 months ago:
The value of minerals is based on their scarcity (or companies agreeing to price-fix *cough* ~diamonds~ *cough* ). If Superman brought a large chunk of gold back to Earth, it would upset the market value of gold, thus devaluing the chunk he found as well as all gold on the planet.
You can’t just “print money.” That’s how you get hyperinflation. Same goes for rare earth minerals; bring home more and the value for all of them globally is reduced, creating a hyperinflation of minerals.
If Superman brought home a large enough chunk of gold, he could essentially crash the gold market and then it would be a practically useless shiny rock. He couldn’t even buy bread with it.
- Comment on Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate - Leiden Medievalists Blog 2 months ago:
I was hoping the article would mention Manor Lords. It’s a medieval city-building game where you fight against brutal changing seasons and invading enemies, hoping to eventually develop your own kingdom from scratch. And you can plan your city pretty early on or grow it from a single small farm. It’s surprisingly difficult because there’s not a set progression. A single bad winter can kill off your entire civilization.
The article mentions building curved roads rather than just straight plots of land. Manor Lords sort of plots its own roads based on where NPCs travel most. So if you put a well in a central location and a farm off to one side of a strip of homes, roads will automatically form in desire paths between resources and homes. Your city infrastructure can follow these desire paths while expanding, or cut them off and force your citizens to form alternate roads around new buildings.
I haven’t played much of Manor Lords because it was so difficult. I was having trouble keeping a civilization alive with neighboring armies ransacking my villages, or not stocking enough resources before winter set in to survive the season. But it seems like a game the author of this article should check out.
