ameancow
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- Comment on There should be more negative awards. For example: the most pathetic nation or the most monstrous person of the year. 1 week ago:
People will compete for those negative awards to get famous.
Source: look at the fucking internet.
- Comment on How do you "feel" gender? 1 week ago:
As a cishet man, I don’t. I recognize it, I know my social expectations, I know what the unwritten “rules” are and I am just “comfortable” with it. In that it doesn’t bother me enough that I want to change anything.
That doesn’t mean I “feel like a man.” I don’t know if there’s such a feeling. It’s words we use to describe having comfort with your life and situation, and I bet there are very few men or women or anyone else who feel that sensation all the time. Even though I feel comfortable being a man, there are so, so many things I don’t understand, but cannot change.
I would say the way I feel my gender the most is physically and sexually. Without delving too deep into the horny-pool, all I can say is I feel like a man in sexuality. I feel very “male” urges tickling the back of my mind which are very pleasant to indulge in the right circumstances. I have attractions and desires that line up with being heterosexual male and that’s probably the only place where I enjoy maleness.
Everything else? It just feels like wallpaper, and I don’t care. I wear a beard because I know there are people who like beards and have decided I look better displaying facial hair, but I don’t stroke it and say “damn, that’s nice man-hair.” I would feel better smooth shaved but it makes me look like gumby.
I am the first downstairs with a gun when someone hears glass breaking, not because I like being first in line for danger, but because I know I am larger and well-trained and can probably survive an injury better than smaller humans around me that I care about.
I am the one who does the “guy things” because I am the guy. When I (rarely) get support or reward for specifically male things, it feels good but I don’t connect it with my gender. I don’t even know what that means. I feel more like I happen to be in this body in this culture and need to do the best I can with it, and feel no strong urge to change that dynamic. No glaring discomfort, but also no real sense of “identity” about my gender.
Honestly, maybe it’s because I keep the company of people with a few more brain-cells than the stereotypes you see in media, but my male friends are usually the same. We don’t “talk like guys” together, if anyone tried that they would get stared at. Most of our conversations are about healthcare and problems with our homes or backs or family members, real-world, material issues with life more than our gender roles. Most men I know are just “people inhabiting male bodies and roles” and I don’t think that’s rare, I think it’s largely what most people feel.
There are things I recognize that are deeply painful about my gender role, as well as things that give me benefits. If I let myself feel anything at all, it would be a level of despair that no matter what else happens, there is an expectation on me that I will have to work, solve problems and do the hard things in my family/social circle that people who do not identify or “feel” like men don’t have to do. I don’t get that part on a broad, social level.
- Comment on xkcd #3182: Telescope Types 1 week ago:
The good news, is after you lose everything at least once, life broadly becomes a lot less scary. Best wishes and I hope you land on your feet whatever the results.
- Comment on xkcd #3182: Telescope Types 1 week ago:
Very much got USA’d in the middle of trying to grow a business. Ended up losing basically everything and starting over in life, out of everything though, that telescope was the only thing I really miss.
- Comment on xkcd #3182: Telescope Types 1 week ago:
But bathing in the telescope is still fine, right?
- Comment on xkcd #3182: Telescope Types 1 week ago:
Had to sell my Meade LX200 12" to pay for medical bills a number of years ago. Made me very sad.
- Comment on Do we have No Man's Sky fans here? 1 week ago:
I have high hopes that Light No Fire will learn the lessons from NMS and make a world that is both dynamic and interesting, but grounded enough in a single planet that it’s not such a slog to explore and it’s not just “Oh, neat, a green planet with blue worm aliens and purple trees, this is a color/creature combo I haven’t seen in hours.”
Also, imagine how nice it would be if they just drop it as a huge MMO and you just drop in somewhere and people start randomly finding each other and building communities. That would go so hard, and yet the studios capable of making that kind of experience are soooo scared of the 2% of players who will play that and whinge all over the forums that they’re “bored, lost and can’t find anyone.”
- Comment on What are your gaming highlights of 2025? 1 week ago:
I am using a 7-year-old video card on a 5-year-old machine and have been notified my health care premiums are going up 1000%.
I’ve been playing small, cheap, low-res social games with friends and family like Misery or RV There Yet and those are nice. But I feel like gaming broadly is starting to recede in my rear-view mirror. Too many real-world problems and stresses and not enough pay.
I am not sure what all these huge companies are going to do when nobody can afford anything anymore.
- Comment on Do we have No Man's Sky fans here? 1 week ago:
That may be it, I am expecting something more grand or epic or complicated to start uncovering, not really realizing that what I’m already doing is “it” and the rest is just exploring for the sake of exploring.
- Comment on Do we have No Man's Sky fans here? 1 week ago:
I really really really want to like this game
Same, when it comes to games with vast scope and scale of a universe, it’s either this, Elite Dangerous or Star Citizen.
Elite Dangerous feels very “cockpitty” even with recent updates, it’s just not very pretty or engaging and I’ve tried several times to launch myself into it. VR was amazing for a little while, but still felt very “yellow cockpit” after a bit and a dark field of stars everywhere you look.
Star Citizen was very engaging for a bit, the open-world PVP, realistic scale, social, busy world and hyper-realism and absolutely beautiful environment have sooooo much potential, I log in annually and stand in a viewing area on a space station and just look out at the universe… but that’s it, I don’t like the janky, unpolished controls, the broken missions and lack of personalization/incentive to survive. I would even take very basic survival mechanics like base making, farming, upgrading skills and devices and places to loot and gather furnishings like No Man’s Sky.
No Man’s Sky feels a lot like “less intuitive minecraft” and I think I rather just play minecraft if I want to dig and build in a colorful, cartoonish world. The whole "harvest oxygen and swamp gas and process it with tungsten dust and then turn that dust into widgets which you refine into super widgets… it gets grindy and off-putting because it’s not comfortably accessible, it’s not intuitive, and that’s where my biggest beef with NMS is, the lack of an intuitive direction or goal and the feeling that there’s just too many lonely planets and not enough rewarding experience in spending so much time landing on each. Even if it was an actual MMO it would be more engaging.
- Comment on Do we have No Man's Sky fans here? 1 week ago:
I really would like to love the game. Everytime a new update drops I try to pick up the game
Are you me?
I have it installed right now, I logged in to play all this new, raved-over content and found myself on some planet with too much air-traffic making noise overhead, needing to collect minerals to power my ship, and a base with some minecraft-like chests of loot.
I know the game is vast and deep and full of surprises and such, but I have the hardest time connecting with it enough to feel like I want to explore several hundred hyper-colorful planets.
- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 2 weeks ago:
Nah fam you should probably wait until Trump dies, which won’t be much longer.
My point was only that a lot of the news is a little hyperbolic, you should check other sources to see exactly what people in your situation are facing, I ain’t passing out financial or travel advice, just providing perspective.
- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 2 weeks ago:
A couple points that media routinely skips right past because the current drama is great for clicks and views.
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The current “escalation” of immigration hostility is only slightly more aggressive than it’s always been.
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And that percentage of bad cases and horror stories against tourists is very, very small to begin with. At least compared to the HUGE number of people flowing in and out of the country every hour. This is why the whole spectacle being played out by this administration is so ludicrous and pointless. More people were still deported under Biden. More people still stay in the country illegally just by overstaying their permits or travel visas.
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- Comment on It will trickle down any second now 2 weeks ago:
about to blow.
about to
It’s not. Speaking from decades of living under this, it’s always framed this way, but there are no international financial cops, there’s nobody with American held debt that dares try to collect, we are the biggest, bloated monster with the biggest, baddest bloated military.
At the end of the day, the one with the biggest stick wins. Until that collapses, USA will continue to have an economic hegemony.
- Comment on It will trickle down any second now 2 weeks ago:
Not shown: the innumerable corporate wars fought to create and expand these borders.
This is already happening guys, this IS going to be our medium-term future.
- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 2 weeks ago:
If you can separate out the politics, America really is a beautiful country. So is China, I’ve been to both. Everyone should see both at least once.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 2 weeks ago:
I’m not policing shit, but it paints an impression that you might not be aware of if you care about people’s impressions.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 2 weeks ago:
I can’t imagine using the word “normie” unironically in 2025.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 2 weeks ago:
A lot of people get called “idiots” but that doesn’t mean I can’t actually differentiate who’s really an idiot.
(There is a subtle subtext in this reply, see if you can catch it.)
- Comment on Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS 2 weeks ago:
The year is 2064. The world outside is fire and riots.
A new life is brought into the world, the hospital lights flicker. The doctor, dirty and worn out, pushes the new parents a form on a battered clipboard.
“Congratulations to you both, now please sign this release to bring your baby home, but not before you designate which formats of Skyrim your child will inherit, please understand this is not optional, and we no longer take Bitcoin to pay the mandatory $60 Skyrim Fee, so please use cash, credit or ration cards to pay.”
- Comment on After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series 2 weeks ago:
Go buy Vein on Steam.
Yah it’s nothing like CoD Zombies, but it IS a zombie game, and it’s made by just two people trying to make a quality survival game and it’s obviously a work of passion worth supporting.
I haven’t bought a big company release in years at this point. There are so, so many good indie games being made right now, this will be a nostalgia point for kids someday, back when there were was a flood of games and half were huge, bloated AAA wastes of money that nobody liked, and the other half were amazing, weird, experimental concept ideas produced in low fidelity and released for $5 - $20.
- Comment on That's interesting 2 weeks ago:
When it’s a few hundred people now and then, we have potential for natural selection.
When it’s hundreds of millions of people who run our businesses, our hospitals, our food delivery network, our power stations and all the vast support systems that make those systems work, then we have a much, much bigger problem than a few people putting their baby in the freezer because chatGTP doesn’t actually have a concept of how the world works.
And this is just how it is right now, still a brand new technology. What’s it going to be like when it can predict all our behavior patterns, all our thoughts and wants and be able to find all our emotional backdoors and hack our brains like hypnotizing a chicken by drawing a line in front of its beak?
- Comment on That's interesting 2 weeks ago:
Sam at home: “In the oven? Are you SURE?”
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 2 weeks ago:
Every country is worried about their currency collapsing because all economies are deeply connected.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 2 weeks ago:
There are a lot of delusional people in here posting about their personal shower-fantasies of what they would do in the apocalypse. You can safely discard all that. If it gets so bad you need guns and tools and… blacksmithing supplies? you are so utterly fucked that gold and bartering will be the last of your concerns. People will be fucking eating each other.
Read some Cormac McCarthy for a more realistic view of the end of the world. (Then have a therapist on hand for the after-effects.)
For a financial collapse, gold would probably retain value, a society still needs something to base the value of its trading on, we can’t just all carry around sacks of grain. How much value gold will retain is very hard to predict, but people have been using it for so long that it’s already survived several widespread disasters and is still in use.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 2 weeks ago:
If it gets so bad that you need tools for building shelter, you are absolutely fucked unless you already have farmland and can defend it. People are massively ignorant about how difficult it is to live off the land if you don’t have experience in it and a lot of supplies and knowledge accumulated. It takes acres of crops and animals to support a couple people. It takes months or even years to make that land productive enough to keep you barely alive. Then if you have hard winters you better hope you have a stockpile.
Financial collapse is one thing, but a total societal/technological collapse would be bad in orders of magnitude that I don’t even know how to describe it.
Source: work in logistics.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 2 weeks ago:
Why? It’s not inherently valuable beyond a handful of industrial/electronic uses.
It has the precedent of societal agreement going back thousands of years longer than literally anything else besides food and prostitution. If the world started over from the stone-age, people would be using precious metals to represent value all over again. You don’t need it to make sense, you just need a social agreement, and that doesn’t happen with just anything that can fall apart or decay or be found easily.
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 3 weeks ago:
I do have a problem with morons saying that buttholes are the cleanest part of your body and then suggesting to eat ass.
You are unhinged, possibly insane and cannot converse like an adult. Have a good one. I’ll never see your comments again.
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 3 weeks ago:
There’s no such thing as a part of your body that “won’t get clean no matter how much you clean it” you have to understand that is an irrational statement and if you don’t understand that, you’re going to have a lot of issues in life with understanding how hygiene works and what “clean” even means.
I implore you to understand how the world works a little deeper or you’re going to be that insufferable partner who bases their ideas of what’s “pure” or not by vibes and tradition.
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 3 weeks ago:
it’s not a clean location, no matter how much you clean it.
This is irrational, you may be on an OCD spectrum and I don’t say that to be a snark but many people learn they have issues from exchanges like this when they realize the stories they write for themselves to explain things aren’t normal or rational.