shneancy
@shneancy@lemmy.world
just me
- Comment on Thats fair 4 days ago:
no don’t apologise, i know that even just writing things like that out makes the world and your mind make a bit more sense for a while. and if you don’t mind some virtual touch i’m sending you a virtual hug. i don’t know what to say what you probably haven’t thought to yourself already, but since i know the critic in your mind probably doesn’t let you hear this often then - you’re doing great, considering everything you’re doing great, keep going
- Comment on Thats fair 5 days ago:
huh, that is- strange, it sounds almost as if knowing “from the start” about being twice exceptional fucked you up more than being oblivious. very few know about my IQ, and i only got tested at 18, same with adhd where i had my first suspicions at university and started trying to get diagnosed after it. what you’re describing sounds like a deeply confusing child/teenagehood. it sounds like you were kind of taught to feel helpless and doubt yourself
and oh man, i hope that the spark to do silly projects captures you again soon :( they’re so fun, best of luck <3
- Comment on Y'know... 6 days ago:
bi five? so, ten
- Comment on Thats fair 6 days ago:
ayyy twice exceptional high five, how are the unfinished projects going? it’s a strange life to be both allegedly gifted and also have a learning disability, your whole life you get told how much potential you have, but you can only reliably pull off being kinda average
but i digress, yeah that’s a fair point. i guess i assumed when they said “better brain” they meant “better brain power”. i too would like a brain that can perhaps manage to do things when i want it to do things, instead of only doing things when they become emergencies
- Comment on Thats fair 6 days ago:
being smart is overrated, and it actively makes anxiety worse because you can come up with pretty good rationalisations and then be anxious faster
- Comment on Thats fair 6 days ago:
my skin, i think the one organ that protects all the other organs is long overdue for an upgrade
- Comment on Nine out of ten dentists approve! 6 days ago:
you haven’t lost that magic - you know why placebo really works? it’s the context, the ritual of going to a “making you healthy” building, talking with a “i’ll make you healthy” person, and then receiving a “healthy making” pill. the ritual is what makes the magic of placebo happen, it’s what makes the belief that it’ll work easier.
what home remedies/traditional cures have lost is the ritual of watching your grandmother, or in the older times the local wise woman, preparing your “cure”. A wise person giving you a drink or something and promising that’ll make you feel better is on the same level as a doctor giving you a pill.
just buying over the counter meds without a doctor’s order, or just making your own health brew isn’t as effective
also don’t forget that placebo work even when you know it’s placebo, that’s how powerful the ritual of it is. i don’t know if it’s some low magic, or if our subconscious has a deeper control over our body than we realise, but the fact is - it works on everyone
- Comment on Oblivion Remastered or something idk 1 week ago:
10 min walk and 5 minute sprint, there’s a bandit camp (tower bridge) adjacent to the road
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 week ago:
Nintendo shouldn’t be trying to own mechanics. if someone took their core idea and made it so good people who are Pokemon fans are buying it en masse then maybe they should take a hint and make a game that people want. but instead they’re out there suing devs for “stealing” their idea of holding onto the feet of creatures with wings to glide? they’re clearly unable to take down the game and decided to blindly keep stabbing away at random things trying to bankrupt them with trivial lawsuits. it’s pathetic
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 1 week ago:
re: european outlets number: we usually just get an extender with multiple ports, i have 5 of those in my small flat
- Comment on Prices are out of control 1 week ago:
yes exactly! in another comment i described it as a sweetened and carbonated bathroom potion made by a 6 year old. i shorthand that taste to vomit because it reminds me of how doing that little puke into your mouth after a big meal feels like…
- Comment on Prices are out of control 1 week ago:
dang! good to know
- Comment on Prices are out of control 1 week ago:
does drinking things with sucralose make your mouth have an aftertaste like carbonated and sweet vomit? if yes then i think i have the same thing
- Comment on Prices are out of control 1 week ago:
pepsi max genuinely makes me want to vomit. i once only had the option to take a pepsi max at a KFC, took a few sips and felt so disgusted i didn’t even want to eat anymore. threw it out, packed my food, and went to buy a coke on the way home
are my taste buds broken? or do people really like the flavour of what i can only describe as a 6 year old’s bathroom potion of various chemicals, died black, sweetened, and carbonated
- Comment on French culture 1 week ago:
also good luck basically upheaving the entire ESL world by making all the texbooks obsolete. would be pretty wild
- Comment on Redditor accidentally reinvents discarded ’90s tool to escape today’s age gates 1 week ago:
that reminds me a bit of the Polish incident with liberum veto. in theory a good thing - those who could vote all had an equal voice to stop any Sejm gathering they wanted. but the obvious thing happened obviously - lower ranking nobles were getting bribed by domestic and foreign forces alike to veto new legislations seconds before they got signed, wasting days if not weeks of work, and basically stopping Polish politics in place. Poland only got our shit together too little and too late, in 1791 we got our constitution that finally removed liberum veto, but the damage was done, two years later the Second Partition happened
- Comment on French culture 1 week ago:
English might be a bit- creative with the spellings of words but at least they pronounce most of the letters, not just half of them
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
you’re a good person :) thank you for your work in shaping a generation of healthy people
- Comment on Redditor accidentally reinvents discarded ’90s tool to escape today’s age gates 1 week ago:
yeah democracy as it is most common today has its issues, sadly, and propaganda is easier to spread than ever. and the soviet system of rotating positions also ensured people that were easy to control because they were new to the job. i do wonder if there is any system that could work for us humans
i hope you stay safe in Russia, you sound highly aware of the motions in politics, and as you surely know the intelligence is often targeted first when a dictator wants to dictate without being questioned
- Comment on Redditor accidentally reinvents discarded ’90s tool to escape today’s age gates 1 week ago:
even though it made me a little depressed - thank you for the explanation, this really sucks no matter how you look at it doesn’t it, ehhh
- Comment on Redditor accidentally reinvents discarded ’90s tool to escape today’s age gates 1 week ago:
i genuinely cannot see how this improves anything. if they want to keep them kids in the dark about sexual stuff - how is pushing them to be exposed to most likely hardcore bdsm on the front page assuring that?
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 1 week ago:
the researchers said all AI posts were approved by a human before posting, it was their choice how many lies to include
- Comment on Day 289 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 2 weeks ago:
honestly i’m not surprised. now i look at the old graphics my eyes hurt, even though i remember it looking like the remake, my mind’s eye really had to work overtime on that. makes sense that people were put off by the bright textures with both over and under saturates colours and decided to not play it
- Comment on Youre welcome 2 weeks ago:
is it breaking the cycle? it sounds to me like like leaving the cycle and then living in fear of ever connecting with anyone because you’re afraid that the cycle is the only way you can be
- Comment on Silksong is playable in a museum this September, but that probably doesn't help narrow down its release date 2 weeks ago:
i’m willing to bet the sheer pressure of having to follow up Hollow Knight added a couple of years to the development stage. they’re a small studio and their first game that got any attention got all the attention. and now they have millions of people salivating over the implications of word spellings in their dialogue and lore texts. everyone suffers from a debuff to performance when someone is watching, and the eyes are all on them
- Comment on Redditor accidentally reinvents discarded ’90s tool to escape today’s age gates 2 weeks ago:
But overall, enforcement causes nearly half of users to stop searching for popular adult sites complying with laws and instead search for a noncompliant rival (48 percent) or virtual private network (VPN) services (34 percent), which are used to mask a location and circumvent age checks on preferred sites, the study found.
what a fucking surprise. now the teens only watch porn that is already skirting around laws just by virtue of existing. truly nobody could’ve ever imagined this would happen
jesus christ i’m so tired of stupid politicians
- Comment on [Digital Foundry] Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems 2 weeks ago:
yeah i’m aware, i wasn’t generalising it was just my personal experience
- Comment on [Digital Foundry] Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems 2 weeks ago:
i’m looking past it because my laptop is 7 years old and i’m happy it even runs lol
- Comment on Rev up those 3D printers! 2 weeks ago:
gotta be international, my genitals are starting to get sore-
spring has truly come i think
- Comment on Here the fuck we go again 3 weeks ago:
oh it’s here already? dang, there was one whole .jpeg of marketing and now it’s here… it feels weird for some reason