Lost_My_Mind
@Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
- Comment on 7 minutes ago:
That may all be true and all, but other services aren’t one guy.
It would be like signing up for a fediverse instance, which uses closed source software, and it’s just one guy running the service for a small amount of people.
I don’t know who runs Lemmy.world, but at no point do I think the admins are targeting me, to read through my inbox. My judgement says that’s not what the admins are doing with their time.
But this myspace clone had 300ish registered members on a single centralized closed source platform being run and created by one guy with zero oversight. I can’t say that he created the service specifically to spy on people, but it certainly doesn’t pass the sniff test.
- Comment on Have you guys played Super Mario Bros Remastered??? 1 hour ago:
Well hot damn! Thank you! I fiddled with this for 30 minutes the other night. I even deleted all data. I even uninstalled, redownloaded, and reinstalled.
I would have never guessed that you need to beat it in normal mode first to then do challenges mode. I would have stumbled upon it, after casually playing. And then maybe a week later trying to figure out how to unlock challenges, only to discover them already unlocked. Then I’d be REALLY confused.
But at least now I get what I need to do. I get whats going on, and it works!
Oh, one slight correction though. You don’t need to beat the stage. Just play it. After reading your reply I decided to try beating 1-1 and 1-2. Then I died on 1-3. I was expecting to see 1-1 and 1-2 unlocked with 1-3 still locked. But 1-3 is unlocked too.
So, thank you for the info so I can stop being frustrated. I at least know now I need to play every level at least once, so I can play challenges mode! And I assume that’s also why most of the boo levels were locked.
- Comment on Better do it anyway, though 🤔 1 hour ago:
As an American who doesn’t support fascism, I read this as “Fuck the democrats, lets start a REAL opposition party!”
And…yeah, I’m in. What’re we doing?
- Comment on Administrative task management 4 hours ago:
Is uh…is that like a sex thing? Or…ya know what? I’m not sure I want answers.
- Comment on American Foreign Policy 4 hours ago:
Oh my boy…you are in for a treat! I see others have already linked this exact video, but this is part of a series. There’s like 4 seasons of this. I cannot think of a single bad episode.
Also, that’s Tiny Tina with the dildo. And the guy dressed like Ghandi is the writer of Borderlands 2. Also, they’re real life brother and sister.
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 18 hours ago:
Intellectual nepobabies? I don’t know what that means! These words challenge me, and I want no part of that! Nooooope! I will not think about such things! I mean really! What even is “nepobabies”? Did you mean “muppet babies”? Because they stopped making that show a while ago…
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 18 hours ago:
When I was 5 years old, I used to go to a bakery. And it was locally owned.
I’d go in, and I’d buy a brownie. And I’d do my moms shopping. Just lite stuff. Gallon of milk. Carton of cigerettes. Loaf of bread. Sometimes pancake mix. Then I’d buy a brownie from the bakery.
Every Saturday morning.
This went on for years. Until one day, I came in, clearly something wrong. I bought all my moms groceries. I’m 15 by this point. But I didn’t get my brownie. And so when Abeer (shop owners name) put my brownie on the counter, I said no. She could already tell something was wrong before the brownie rejection. But now she had to ask. I said “I don’t want a brownie today”.
She said “I’ll give you one. It’s ok if you don’t pay this week.”
I said “No. It’s not about money. I don’t want a brownie.”
She asked “Whats wrong?”
I said “Papa died…” and I burst into tears. Papa was my grandfather. He had died the night before. I just wanted to get in, and get out. Without talking really. But when she heard Papa died, she rushed around the counter and hugged me.
Here’s a woman who I’d grown up with. Every weekend talking for 30-60 minutes. She was the shopkeep, yes, but she was also a close family friend.
I was in this trance/haze of doing what I need to do, because I need to, but my mind was elsewhere. I was just trying to do my moms shopping, and get home in 5 minutes so I could curl back up in bed. Not to sleep, but just to try not to remember that I exist.
So when she ran around the counter to hug me, I didn’t even know what was happening. I thought she was still behind the counter, and now suddenly she’s hugging me.
I’m 42 now, but I cannot imagine kids today being able to understand the core concept of old school communities. They’ve been ripped out and replaced by walmart and other heartless souless corporations.
Can you imagine a 6 year old leaving his house, walking 10 minutes, entering walmart, and spending 30 minutes talking to the workers, telling them about the week at school? Showing her your TMNT toys you got for your birthday? Telling them various things about your life?
I cannot imagine that, but that was how the whole neighborhood was growing up. Every store a small community shop. Every adult knew every kid. Every kid knew every kid.
One time I was walking home and it started raining. So I just went onto the doorstep of the first house I saw that I knew a kid lived at. I’m just standing on the porch, waiting for it to stop raining. Suddenly Andys mom opens the door. She says “Andys not here right now. He’s over at James house.”
I said “Oh, ok. I’m just using the porch as shelter until it clears.”
And thats when Andys mom drove me home. Thats just how it was. A whole community looking out for the whole community.
Now anytime I go back to my old neighborhood, I don’t recognize it. C-Town pizza is gone. Obviously the video rental stores are gone. One time I even went and knocked on the houses of the kids I knew. Wondering if anyone I used to know inherited their parents old houses. Nope. I had a woman yell at me for disturbing her time. Wasn’t anyone I used to know.
But just looking around, I could tell the street layout may be the same, but this wasn’t a community. This was an isolated set of houses.
And now I’m sad. Because I miss those days. I miss the idea of everyone caring about everyone. I miss the wholesome nature of a new family moving in, and everyone just bombarding them with welcoming arms. I miss the idea of just going to my friends house, and walking in, Kramer style (minus the racism).
Now life is just cold and isolated.
- Comment on 21 hours ago:
There is a myspace clone I saw about 2 years ago. I was new to the fediverse. I THOUGHT the myspace clone was part of the fediverse. It wasn’t.
I was going to join, but turns out this service was not open source. It’s not part of the fediverse. It’s essentially just some guy running the service, and can freely read anyones messages.
So I didn’t join. But if there were an open source federated version of myspace? Yes. I would join.
- Comment on Top 10 biggest unsolved mysteries. 21 hours ago:
I think they raped baby hitler?
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 21 hours ago:
Enshitification has been a thing since the 1940s. I remember in the 80s my grandma saying she used to get pretzels from the corner store. Big soft gooey chewey pretzels.
Now, in the 80s, I could only get a factory made crunchy pretzel rod.
And today? Unless you’re buying a whole bag, you can’t get pretzels at all.
- Comment on Have you guys played Super Mario Bros Remastered??? 21 hours ago:
Hey, I got a question for you. If you go to challenges, you should see 1-1. Next to it, is 1-2. I beat 1-1. I got the 5 red coins. I got the yoshi egg. And I got the score.
So all 3 objectives are done.
Why can’t I unlock 1-2?
- Comment on Fuck it, put me on a list. I'm ready 1 day ago:
…who?
- Comment on Chloe, Chloe, Chloe 1 day ago:
Chloe, Chloe, Chloe
We saved you from being interred
Now you’re out eating a turd
I yell but you are undeterred
Maybe it’s just me, since I didn’t realize Amy Winehouse was a singer, so I don’t know Amy Amy Amy…
But when I read your lyrics, I hadn’t realized this was about a dog. I thought Chloe was the woman who covered her nose when trump shit himself.
- Comment on Fr🤮nch 1 day ago:
Ahhhhhh, the french! Champaign! Has always been celebrated for it’s excellence!
…does he do anything?
- Comment on We all forget that for a time they were out of style. This 1940 magazine proudly announced that they were back 1 day ago:
Hmmmmm. Racism and pedophilia…or boobs.
Ya know, I gotta say, I prefer the boobs on this one.
- Comment on It makes sense to subscribe to niche communities on Lemmy because the popular ones appear in c/all anyway. 1 day ago:
He MAKES…them pay!
- Comment on It makes sense to subscribe to niche communities on Lemmy because the popular ones appear in c/all anyway. 1 day ago:
On day one, I joined and had no communities. So I just started browsing, and being like “Oh, join this, and join that, and join this, and this, and this and this and this one too”
Then about a year later after the dust had settled, and I had fallen into my habits, and such, I noticed that I was subscribed to about 100 communities. But I only ever saw content from about 15 or so of the bigger ones. So I decided to revisit each community individually that I had joined. A few of them still had “Join Pending” in yellow. A year later, with no content in that year, and my join was still pending. A vast number of these communities were abandoned. I hadn’t considered to check for activity as I was joining these. I just said “A community for SNES? Uhhh, yes please!” But nobody posts there.
So I decided to start posting in these abandoned communities. I got some upvotes. So people were seeing the content I was posting. But I didn’t get any replies, or see any further activity of other people posting new topics. Which I really don’t understand the concept of “I’ll join a community, but I won’t contribute”. Especially when it’s a dead community, and you could reply to the ONLY guy posting there.
I also tried posting in the three different Cleveland communities I saw. I live here, and I loved the Cleveland subreddit over on the other site. I won’t explain all the little localisms that we would discuss there. If you’re not from here, you’re not going to understand the idea of seeing a billboard on the side of a highway, which is nothing more than a closeup of a bald mans eyebrows. No product. No text. Just an extreme closeup of a bald mans eyebrows. Out of towners would see that and be like “What the hell???” but if you know, you know.
But here, even though there’s three different Cleveland communities, none of them are active. There’s a few people who post. I’m still on all three of the front pages of those communities for posts I had about 2 years ago. And only one of the three communitys would actually reply.
My point in all of this is, you can and should join niche communities, but also…the rest of you need to pull your fucking weight around here, and engage these communities! I can’t be the ONLY one posting. That’s not how being social works! Typically, with online conversations, I will say one thing, and then you respond back with something like “SHUT THE FUCK UP LOSER!!!”. At least, that’s what I’ve found to be historically how these things go. It doesn’t work without the replies!
- Comment on Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon 1 day ago:
What??? I thought being part of Federation meant being part of the WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATION!
OOOOH YEAH, SEE I’M ALWAYS THINKIN THINKIN THINKIN, YEAH. AND WHEN IT’S ALL SAID AND DONE, WE DO THING IN THE RING! DIG IT! THE TOWER OF POWER TOO SWEET TO BE SOUR, FUNKY LIKE A MONKEY! OOOOOOH YEEEAAAHHHH!!!
Pomp and circumstance plays over the house speakers
ELIZABETH!!!
- Comment on Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon 1 day ago:
Tacos become pizza toppings. Full size tacos, on top of your pizza.
- Comment on Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon 1 day ago:
If anyone ever asks “Do we need more tacos?” it becomes your responsibility to slap this individual. Because obviously yes. The answer is ALWAYS yes. Always more tacos. Always.
- Comment on Life advice from the pedophile in chief himself. 1 day ago:
…oof. You’re not misrepresenting him, but man I wish you were.
- Comment on Life advice from the pedophile in chief himself. 1 day ago:
My favorite part of that is the bald guy went on years later to be a regular cast member of superstore.
The commercial was probably 2002?
Superstore was 2018?
He looks EXACTLY the same.
- Comment on Life advice from the pedophile in chief himself. 1 day ago:
I’m not watching, because trump is the one delivering it. Is there shit falling out of his pants leg?
- Comment on Did I discover a fake conspiracy theory? 1 day ago:
Has the same ring as “Danny Dan Avidan”.
- Comment on Did I discover a fake conspiracy theory? 1 day ago:
I was with you on this until that last part.
What are you talking about pissed in public?
- Comment on Don't forget to wash up! 1 day ago:
Hoping english isn’t your first language.
- Comment on Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon 1 day ago:
Well now this sounds interesting. And I assume it’s open source?
- Comment on For a limited time only 2 days ago:
Really taking the SHIT post part literally, aren’t you?
- Comment on Smokin' meat 2 days ago:
I had a friend who was about 10 years younger than I am before we drifted apart. About 5 years ago, we were at the grocery store, and I couldn’t find it. And he said "Why would they carry some specialty BBQ sauce nobodys ever heard of before?
It was one of those “Listen here ya little shit…” kind of moments.
- Comment on Smokin' meat 2 days ago:
My man!
comes over for BBQ once the outside world thaws from a frozen tundra