essell
@essell@lemmy.world
- Comment on Meta progression in roguelites was fun for a while, but it's starting to feel unrewarding 3 hours ago:
For a while, meta progression felt like a clever way to keep games fresh. You’d unlock new gear, perks, or passive bonuses between runs, and that sense of forward motion made failure feel productive.
Sounds like regular progression?
- Comment on If you receive a high medical bill, don't pay it immediately. Ask for an itemized bill first. 1 week ago:
Funny for me too. I’ve never received a bill from a hospital visit.
- Comment on Almost a quarter of UK GPs are seeing obese children aged four and under 1 week ago:
Can we take collective responsibility for our society without taking any collective blame?
Need to split it out. Take out the blame and punishment, and see it from a grown up point of view.
Coz I hear you, I’m not taking the blame for stuff I had no control over. That makes no sense. I owe nobody anything for that stuff.
I am over okay with taxes, or other measures, which address society’s needs even if they aversely affect me. Ws we have a shared responsibility to make society a better place.
- Comment on How to study nature 1 week ago:
*We sit together.
The mountain and I
Until only the mountain remains.*
Li Po.
- Comment on POSTAL: Classic and Uncut is free on gog.com 1 week ago:
What other game lets you…
Stun Gun till they wet themselves.
Pour petrol on them while they’re down
Flick a match on them when they get up
Piss on the corpse when they fall down
Wonder if there’s something my subconscious is telling me?
😁
- Comment on Captain, masking is highly illogical 2 weeks ago:
Speaking as a therapist… Seriously… I’d say it in the right context… Its not a binary thing, caring what other people think.
Of course it matters, and sometimes it really hurts someone when they’re caught between who they are and who they believe they should be.
So if the client had made unmasking a therapeutic goal and I knew they identified with Spock it might be a fun way to encourage them not to negotiate on points that are entirely their choice.
- Comment on RSPB 'shuts down' X account in 'foreseeable future' update 2 weeks ago:
Too many fake tits on there
- Comment on CES 2026: Meet Tiiny AI, a pocket-sized AI supercomputer 2 weeks ago:
Reads like an advert, more than journalism, that’s why it gets my downvote.
- Comment on Should speakers hum when they're connected to a stereo, but the volume of is turned all the way down? 3 weeks ago:
Someone should make an Amazon for used gear, with the same fast shipping and return policy. BC you are right and the new stuff is often such low quality.
That’s eBay, isn’t it?
- Comment on Oh nooooooo 3 weeks ago:
I’m asking myself whether the humans in Australia became extra dangerous in order to acclimate 🤔
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on The cliche "sex talk" starts with a lie 3 weeks ago:
No, it isn’t. Only in online pop psychology.
And it’s not what’s happening for the people involved either.
This ain’t Sunday school 🤣
- Comment on The cliche "sex talk" starts with a lie 3 weeks ago:
I do.
It’s sickening and I love you for it.
- Comment on The cliche "sex talk" starts with a lie 3 weeks ago:
Sociopaths?
Maybe going a little too far there? 🤣
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Most enjoyment for me since Voyager.
Best of the new stuff but I feel mean to lower decks for saying that.
- Comment on Rainbow Six Siege Has Been Hacked Again, And Players Are Reportedly Getting 67-Day Bans 4 weeks ago:
I was confused by your metaphor so was genuinely trying to clarify!
I couldn’t work out if you thought they’re wasting resources on Linux or should be investing in Linux
- Comment on Non-Americans: what would you do in a situation where a foreign country run by a extremist dictator began producing nukes? 4 weeks ago:
Personally?
I doubt the government, military or intelligence agencies are going to be asking for my input.
- Comment on Rainbow Six Siege Has Been Hacked Again, And Players Are Reportedly Getting 67-Day Bans 4 weeks ago:
Can you clarify, are they focused on Linux or ignoring it?
- Comment on Self hosting with subdomains 4 weeks ago:
Ah, gotcha! Thanks.
I feel like that information could have multiple implications in future. Thank you!
- Comment on If I go crazy will you still call me Superman? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve not read the comics but I imagine hr has, a few times?
- Comment on Self hosting with subdomains 4 weeks ago:
Did you learn that about my jellyfin by looking at my post history or connecting to my server? 😀
It’d struggle a bit on some setups, like when I’m using the Jellyfin app on my GFs smart TV… Or explaining to a friend in Europe how to setup a VPN without breaking anything else on his network… It is a risk for sure.
I’m too tired right now to parse what you mean about the port forwarding. I guess the idea is to reduce the impact if Jellyfin were breached or exploited. If you’re up for it, can you explain more about why that relates to port forwarding?
- Comment on Self hosting with subdomains 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure that’s gonna work with my Jellyfin 🤔🫤
- Comment on I know its hard to digest. 4 weeks ago:
And Meteors and meteorites.
- Comment on Days after Christmas are confusing 5 weeks ago:
Oh, cheese on the noodles?
I like it.
- Comment on The invention of smartphones probably made the idea of international travel less intimidating since you now have a pocket translator tool and can find your way in a foreign place with GPS navigation. 1 month ago:
If you’re going to end your sentences with “lol” you don’t also need to say that you’re Gen Z. One or the other will do. 😏
I agree your original point stands, regardless of the timescales involved.
The invention of the smart phone did make international travel less intimidating, even if some of the functions took a while to appear.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I’ve heard of both unusable-ass websites and unusable ass-websites.
- Comment on The Messiah! 1 month ago:
And on the fourth day he rocked a Samurai concert
- Comment on Love what you do 1 month ago:
Well, isn’t that the question of the ages.
Each generation wants to know why the next is getting it so wrong!
Its mostly good news on that front, from a psychology point of view. Perhaps the best lens is to use developmental models to answer your question, though I will say the assumptions in your question are only partially true. Your own experience might be giving you the impression it’s “most”
If we consider developmental needs, child take a long journey from being totally dependant at birth to being totally independent, usually by their early twenties on average.
Individual stories vary but one part of that process of individualization is pushing back and creating friction between the existing power structures and themselves.
It’s why teenagers are so famously, and seemingly, unnecessarily hostile especially to parents and authority.
Its a short answer to a complex question, does that give you something to go on?
Its a part of growing up, happens in every generation, even if it looks a bit different each time
- Comment on Love what you do 1 month ago:
I’m a psychotherapist. And I train others in the field too, from entry to degree level.
- Comment on Love what you do 1 month ago:
I dunno. I switched careers 10 years ago, and I have some good years and some bad years for my income but I still love it and wouldn’t want to do anything else.
A proper “I’d still do this if I was rich” job. Still, I really do need and appreciate time off from it to recharge.
I was warned it’s easier to burn out doing something you love because you won’t want to stop even when you can, and it’s true.