Krudler
@Krudler@lemmy.world
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 4 days ago:
Being able to function on the deck does not make it a good game, just saying
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 4 days ago:
Torchlight is so highly spoken of… Am I the only person that thought it was pretty pedestrian?
- Comment on Epic Games Unreal Fest News 4 days ago:
The last feature Epic added that was meaningful was the ability to look at my own game library.
They still have a storefront without reviews… They have ratings “captured from the ecosystem”.
They remain a joke.
- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 5 days ago:
I’ve read a lot of comments.
My personal experience is very different than what people are saying, maybe it applies to you, maybe it doesn’t.
I have the same thing over my life with different types of pain. I would be given different pain relievers from surgeons, dentists, doctors, etc. For the most part it did fuck all.
Now that I am decades older and I’ve gone through all this bullshit, I basically learned that I’m immune to most painkillers. I metabolize caffeine very quickly and codeine and morphine are in the same family - so they’re useless on me!
Freezing at the dentist always took double or triple. And very often the dentist would have to stop mid procedure and reapply freezing.
These are just a few, but certainly not all of my experiences, being completely baffled at the ineffectiveness of painkillers.
My friends could never understand why I was so blasé when I was prescribed heavy duty medications. And I could never understand why they were doing flying cartwheels to get them off me. It makes a lot more sense now that I figured shit out.
And like you, I turned to alcohol, actually at the advice of one of my oral surgeons who finally just said “look go home drink a 6 pack you won’t feel any pain”.
Let’s leave all the completely unethical recommendations out of the discussion for now, and accept the fact that we now have more knowledge about painkillers than we did back in the day.
All of this to say, you may be just simply immune to painkillers. There’s a variety of reasons for that, and it’s no sense trying to explore those in the comments with laypeople like myself.
But on to any advice that I might give you? Perhaps not advice per se… but to tell you that what I did which helped me and perhaps it will help you.
I finally got over all my chronic pain by stretching and strengthening. I’m not going to sugar-coat it, certain parts of it were hell. I went to an athletic therapist who made me cry, but made me stand up straight. And I devoted myself to doing all the exercises and stretches… yes… 45 minutes every 2nd day for like 10 weeks. But damn did it pay off. That initial investment (not trying to half-ass it or go through the motions) got me to a certain plateau where I barely have to stretch anymore, my body is pretty happy.
I sincerely hope any of this applies to you and can be used but if not oh well maybe it will help someone else!
- Comment on Had a take about Supergiant Games that recieved a lot of pushback fromy two longest running best friends. 5 days ago:
It wasn’t groundbreaking, it was a bad design decision.
And they weren’t even the first.
- Comment on Is lemm.we actually shutting down? 5 days ago:
As somebody that created and moderated communities for almost 20 years you nailed it.
Nobody should actively want to be a moderator, it’s a hell job.
- Comment on How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level? 5 days ago:
End the friendship now.
She doesn’t want you plus the suicidal ideations complicate matters.
Don’t make it a thing, just stop being in her life slowly. It doesn’t need to be an event, just stop being around her.
- Comment on How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level? 5 days ago:
The whole world is better off without you and your shithead remarks
- Comment on Had a take about Supergiant Games that recieved a lot of pushback fromy two longest running best friends. 5 days ago:
Bastion is an absolute stinker of a game.
It’s completely pedestrian, and there are so many bad design decisions it’s hard to even take it seriously.
It’s a game where marketing really did its job because the game could never carry itself based on its presentation or mechanics.
- Comment on [Announcement] The community and its future 1 week ago:
Please, no more “I’m posting screenshots every day because I need attention”
Take your fucking screenshots and go to hell already.
- 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? 1 week ago:
This is really truly the best advice.
I am a straight male. But by definition I’m gender fluid. I have endured through my life no end of abuse for this, and it’s nothing close to what my trans partners in the past have experienced.
But in the end, it comes down to having a spine and being able to assert yourself.
Especially in trades, there is no end of ball-breaking and risque dialogue. If you are not able to defend yourself or say okay dude the joking has gone far enough, you are not going to have a happy life and you need to find something else to do to make money.
If we live in the online reality where “ideal” behavior is constantly advocated and expected, we are never going to connect to the truth of life which is that bullshit is everywhere and we have to learn to stand up to it and flow with it.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
Squarez Deluxe
Originally a paid DOS game and the developer is a cool dude who changed it to freeware. You can download it on myabandonware or archive. Then grab a free copy of DOSBox.
In my view, it is the best shape packing game ever made, and it never really got its due, possibly in part to somewhat extra complexity, and partly from the time it came out.
You learn the ropes in the early modes, but you really need to play on EXTREME Mode. There are many different special pieces, and you decide how to move them in the playfield and rotate them.
There are mud traps and acid pits and missiles and bombs and traps. And you have to not only play the shape packing aspect, but you have to continually think about how to deploy these hazards, to your best advantage, or least disadvantage!
Over the years, I continually come back to this game, and I have probably sunk over a thousand hours since I was young.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
It’s low-grade trolling, chill bro. They’re not serious.
- Comment on VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI 1 week ago:
I feel you, and AI tech has been completely squandered.
My phone knows everything about me and has for the last decade.
It is not able to do a single useful thing for me.
It knows where I go, when I go, what my schedule is, what I buy, what I don’t.
It has never been able to suggest anything useful, advise me of a sale on products that I buy, let me know about a vendor in my area that can deliver for cheaper.
It’s not able to notice that I’m trying to format text on my screen and I’m entering the same bullet at the front of things. It would never take over and say oh let me copy paste this very obvious task you’re doing that even a child could deduce from your primitive actions.
“Transfer all of my image files off of my phone into a folder on my computer, then reorganize all of the photos on my phone into sensible groupings instead of random folders all over the place that have piled up over the years”. Not going to happen, because that’s useful.
“Hey phone, I’m going out. Take a look at my shopping lists and let me know what stores have what on sale so I can save a few bucks. You know all the stores I go to, because you’re watching my every move.” Not going to happen, because that’s useful.
When AI is implemented into businesses, it’s qualified to direct you to an FAQ. Any opportunity to win new customers with high level service is squandered.
I do not hate ai, I detest the fact that the possibilities to improve the lives of people have been completely ignored, while it is primarily implemented as a cost saving measure. Completely short-sighted and fucking useless.
- Comment on Bitmap Brothers nostalgia in Atomfall 2 weeks ago:
Man that game was so good. It’s one of the first games I played that kicked the shit out of me and made me it’s bitch and taught me that aggression is key. It’s also a game I bought for like $0.97 in a bargain bin, but I did recognize the bitmap bros name! Was such a great surprise when I installed it and played it
- Comment on SteamOS finally released by Valve 2 weeks ago:
Talking to that ill-mannered, petulant child
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 2 weeks ago:
What species of grass do you think will produce the most acceptable results should I touch it? Do you think Kentucky bluegrass is the best?
I hear what you’re saying, my point is invalid because I haven’t touched grass, so I need you to answer this question.
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 2 weeks ago:
There’s communities designed for that. For example Casual Conversation.
I’m not backing down.
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 2 weeks ago:
Right! “No stupid questions” isn’t just a cute saying, the intention behind it was to remove the shame people would carry for asking a question that they “should” already know the answer to.
It was never meant to solicit opinions, or to ask pointless questions that cannot be answered.
It’s time for this community to change, I’m not going to make a big poo poo about it, but I’m going to leave if something doesn’t happen. I can sense other people have had it as well.
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 2 weeks ago:
They are wrong.
They are lazy.
If they don’t want to shape this into a community where people can actually ask questions that can produce a meaningul answers, it’s just a pointless chat room.
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 2 weeks ago:
I have many pins here, so try again.
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 2 weeks ago:
It already is. That was the whole point of this post.
Yesterday a moderator told me that it was not a stupid question to ask if a ship can fit in a Klein bottle.
So I’m basically trolling. I’m leaving this community if the mods don’t step up.
It’s gotten totally out of hand.
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 2 weeks ago:
Please answer my question.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 59 comments
- Comment on Is there a community dedicated for serious discussion? 2 weeks ago:
Please don’t be disheartened!
The people screaming at you are the ones who feel personally insulted, because they are terrified that you might not want to hear the stupidity that flows from their keyboard.
You can see them constructing, in real time, all kinds of strawmen about why it shouldn’t exist.
And to support you, many communities exist where moderators undertake the task of preventing uninformed and pointless discussion from taking over. There’s a couple of science and physics-based ones that I can recall from Reddit… where if you made any comment that he was slightly off topic, speculative, or not rooted in the ethic of scientific discovery… it was instantly removed.
Further to that, I can think of many communities where if you are not a professional in the field, a credentialed scientist, or able to demonstrate competency, you’re simply not allowed to be there. Not just not comment, one can’t even be there.
Stay strong. Your point has been more than proven by the babies squabbling here.
- Comment on Is there a community dedicated for serious discussion? 2 weeks ago:
This entire comment section is filled with people talking to the music in their head, not to you or the topic you’ve raised.
This is the fundamental issue at play, people have severe self worth and emotional issues, and they leap at any chance to show it to the world.
- Comment on Why is it so hard to buy the same toothbrush twice? 2 weeks ago:
You really nailed it, plus it constantly creates this cloud of confusion in the consumer’s mind.
I do a lot of electronic repair, and I see people make incredibly stupid decisions because they are convinced by one small detail that the manufacturer emphasizes, which has no actual bearing on quality!
For example, I do a lot of repair for different types of salons in my city. I might repair professional hair tools that don’t have available replacement parts, or I will fix professional nail UV lights. I fix vacuums for one-woman small cleaning companies, etc.
And I see very interesting things. Every one of the small businesses I serve, also has a small second-hand market that goes along with it. They are constantly buying and selling their used devices among one another.
I will see those markets completely collapse when a manufacturer that has made a device for 15 years suddenly adds the word “xtreme” to the product. Like magic, the used salon tool that was selling for $200, is now worth $50 at best because it’s not “xtreme”. Exact same device. They are professional workhorse tools that have not changed in 40 years.
- Comment on Can you put a ship inside a Klein bottle? 2 weeks ago:
If a question is structured such that it’s unanswerable you’ve got a stupid question on your hands.
Everybody knows that “no stupid questions” means you’re not supposed to be embarrassed by asking something you don’t know.
But when you show up asking a specifically unanswerable question, you’re just a troll. Yes a harmless troll but it’s just trolling; it’s just time wasting.
- Comment on Does the average person know markdown? 2 weeks ago:
Nope. Most tech people don’t know what markdown is.
- Comment on How are Americans so outgoing and extroverted and how can I become the same? 2 weeks ago:
Well that’s just not true.