rumschlumpel

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disgrace to you disgrace to your family disgrace to your cow⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I just don’t want to listen to English voice actors all the time, and I like that degree of separation of listening to anime dialogue in a language that’s not native to me - it shields me from truly knowing how cringe a lot of anime dialogue is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disgrace to you disgrace to your family disgrace to your cow⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  So true. Related: I don’t read Japanese, so it’s usually English translations for manga, but whenever I read manga in my native language it just reads way to much like comics for grade schoolers with cringy dialogue - this might very well be the same if I read it in English if I was a native English speaker, but I’m not, so I’m enjoying that degree of separation that shields me from truly knowing how cringe a lot of manga is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My world is so much better because of immigrants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I did write that they came as slaves, but that’s not the necessary part. I’m starting to think that you just really want me to be racist, facts be damned.

  Brits didn’t need to immigrate to the US in order to learn about American rock music.

  Yeah, because american rock music already existed, and USA and UK have a long shared history. Inventing rock music without close personal proximity is much less likely, and inventing a style is one thing but popularizing it is quite another. It wouldn’t have gotten as popular in the USA and Europe if all the early blues and jazz musicians were in Africa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My world is so much better because of immigrants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But the claim that you have to whip people and chain them up to synthesize European folk melodies with African base rhythms seems at once absurd and sadistic.

  Cool, I never made that claim. They probably needed to immigrate to a western country to invent it, that they went there as slaves is a different matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My world is so much better because of immigrants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s counterfactual, though, and there’s little chance that immigration wouldn’t have been involved somehow in your scenario(s).

  Hell, maybe it would have come from middle class American Natives in the Mississippi Delta. Or Chinese rice farmers in a country not ravaged by opium. Or Iranians not ground under by the Shah’s dictatorship. Or Austro-Hungarians who weren’t cannibalized to fight the Napoleonic Wars or the 30 Years War that caused the Caucasian Exodus across the Atlantic.

  They might have invented interesting musical genres, but I really doubt any of them would have invented something that closely resembles 1950s-1960s era black music. Maybe one of them could have invented techno, but jazz, soul, blues and blues-derived rock music as we know it? I highly doubt that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My world is so much better because of immigrants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The world would be a lot poorer without the music genres that spawned from the USA and UK, too. And most of those were only possible because people from Africa were (forcefully) brought to the USA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That how it always start⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TBF, back (and neck) massages are really nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vitamins are good but idk....⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Smell it … if you dare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cold water was probably less refreshing for early humans due to most cold water likely only being available during colder weather.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Early humans already had mountain streams, which are refreshing as fuck in summer. And Africa is actually pretty mountainous, it’s kind of an issue for infrastructure development.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I thought it made more sense this way. Bit of a bad habit. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an ‘edited’ indicator on Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you Australian or just that freaky?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it’s winter sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You sleep with short or no sleeves in winter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You people sleep in tshirts instead of longsleeves?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do Vampires know they are immortal without first living forever?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IDK about you, but if I became a vampire, got 150 years old without visibly aging and recovered from severe wounds without medical assistance I would probably consider myself ‘immortal’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I usually have a good time with isometric fantasy rpgs in the vein of Baldur’s Gate. They don’t really have grind, the world is generally well-filled with a relatively dense story and interesting quests (denser than Skyrim at least), and if the game becomes too hard you can turn down the difficulty. Though you do need to actually be interested in the combat mechanics (which are much more complicated than e.g. in Elder Scrolls games) to really enjoy these games, IMO. One downside is that these types of games are usually really long; I’ve dropped a couple of them halfway because they overstayed their welcome.

  Some examples:

  • Baldur’s Gate 3 (don’t really need to have played 1+2 to enjoy this one, though they’re still very good)

  • Divinity: Original Sin 1+2

  • Pillars of Eternity 1+2 (2 has much better combat, but the first one is pretty important to understand the world)

  • Tyranny (this is a relatively short one)

  • Pathfinder: Kingmaker 1+2

  For more Skyrim-style games, I really enjoyed the Gothic series. I think their level of grind is about the same as Skyrim (probably a little less, but it’s been a while), and if you can get past the outdated graphics of the early titles they’re quite fun. The dialogues are pretty fun!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  said one user on X.

  The irony.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL about Jervis Bay Territory⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, somehow I was convinced that Perth was the capital, not Canberra. That port definitely makes more sense with Canberra as the capital …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL about Jervis Bay Territory⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What are they (or were they) actually doing with that port, though? Kinda impractical to have a federal government port so far away from the capital …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But I am mighty!!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you actually avoid vitamin d production if you stay long enough in the sun that you need sunscreen to avoid sunburns?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But I am mighty!!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  WTF are those prices. I’d start looking into importing from abroad …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But I am mighty!!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s gross :C

  (summer sunshine is also gross even without sunburns, though, so I never get sunburns anyway)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man on my word⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sex AND getting free labor? Move aside girl, I’m gonna date that handy(wo)man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI can kill information⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Traditional search engines like Google can already do that, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Usually the word "alternative" should be replaced with the word "bullshit". Ex: alternative facts, alternative medicine⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there has been a certain amount of cultural change in the rightwing - used to be they just considered themselves the status quo upholders, the ones who were subversive were hippies, educated-but-not-rich city-dwellers, artists etc… Now that more progressive forces became somewhat mainstream, major parts of the rightwing have adopted a more subversive identity and messaging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Usually the word "alternative" should be replaced with the word "bullshit". Ex: alternative facts, alternative medicine⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  alternative rock is fine

  In my language, ‘alternative’ is somewhat synonymous with ‘progressive’. Is that not a thing in English, too? We rarely have an original thought when it comes to words like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How about ‘fucking nuts, dude’?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snek detected⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But salamanders have frog skin, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is U2 considered "grunge?"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair. There are a lot of bands that usually have a completely different sound from their popular songs (which can be pretty disappointing when you like listening to albums).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is U2 considered "grunge?"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘pop rock’ seems appropriate.