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- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 2 days ago:
I am at a weird-feeling place at the moment. I got too comfortable buying things from Amazon, so my brain doesn’t know how to shop now. But I canceled my Prime soon after the inauguration, and I’m thinking I need to delete my account all together to kind of force myself to start working on using alternatives.
- Comment on This speaks for itself 3 days ago:
As an adult, when I entered a redesigned MacDonald’s it did not appeal to me at all. It was like being inside the architectural embodiment of depression.
Not that it matters. MacDonald’s didn’t seem to mind Trump associating himself with their brand, so I won’t be eating anything from there ever again anyway (ignoring the myriad of other reasons to avoid them as well).
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Maybe you use a better projector than I did one time, but in my experience they are a recipe for massive headaches and pretty much the worst eye strain.
- Comment on How do we know this is actually Earth, and not just some torture chamber in Hell and we are just being punished? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 weeks ago:
This is the thing making me lean more toward leaving than trying to change things. Even if Trump were magically impeached today, and our election system were left as near-intact as it is, somebody just like him could be just as likely to be elected in the next cycle. And odds are he’s going to pull off rigging the system to make sure that happens by then.
I think that on a long term scale, to get at the root, something needs to be done about the media machine behind him. Culture eats policy for breakfast.
- Comment on Getting a Steam Deck to emulate retro games? 2 weeks ago:
I have a Steam Deck, Miyoo Mini Plus, and Retroid Pocket 5. Even though the Deck gets cumbersome, it’s still what I use 99% of the time. One of the best game devices I’ve ever had.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 2 weeks ago:
As far as catch-all rule of life rules go, do you have any greater alternatives?
But again, your problems aren’t really problems with the idea itself. You’re just trying to make a general life guideline do more heavy lifting than it was meant to, and all your issues are again solved with a little bit of common sense and conscientiousness.
As a quick sidenote, “do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” is not Yeshua’s (Jesus’s) principle law. His highest commandment was, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.'”
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 2 weeks ago:
Really more of a communal theocracy. It says right in the New Testament that you are expected to give all of your wealth to the church, with the implicit trust that the church is meant to distribute those resources fairly, starting with those most in need.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 2 weeks ago:
Those seem like misinterpretations to me. Underlying your desire to be left alone is the desire to be treated how you want to be treated. So you can quite easily extend that reasoning, how do others want to be approached? The golden rule then suggests we should have the conscientiousness to inquire and respect the relative boundaries that each of us have.
This gets into letter of the law, vs spirit of the law. If you care about the latter, then the golden rule is quite good. But if you take advantage of the former, then you can subvert and break down any rule.
- Comment on Games franchises that need metroidvania spinoffs? 3 weeks ago:
Omfg I can’t believe I forgot about this one. Ecco the Dolphin metroidvania!
- Comment on How important is flirting within the dating scene? 3 weeks ago:
Flirting comes in a lot of forms. It should spring naturally, a fair bit more naturally with experience. But awkward flirting isn’t always a bad vibe either. On a date just let go of specific goals, be there to have a good time, being open to whatever that can entail as you connect. If you fixate on specific goals, you might overthink and become paralyzed when the date inevitably doesn’t go as planned. Try to be in a happy, relaxed headspace.
Generally flirting is pretty important, because it should be a natural, unforced extension of both parties feeling safe, being light-hearted, and having fun. But don’t try to force it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You do you, but why not keep it simple? Friend to friend, just give your peers a link to the same instance you’re on. We can start instance sports teams and find out who wins the tournaments!
- Comment on Games franchises that need metroidvania spinoffs? 3 weeks ago:
Lol, that’d be interesting. Would the whole thing take place in that semi-first-person perspective?
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
Then I’ll just quote it directly:
“Here’s what all these complaints about federation choices reminds me of: every job I’ve ever had, new people get hired from time to time. What do they do? Long before they’ve had any time to get any training or learn how things work to maybe get a better understanding of why some things are done the way they are - day one, they start complaining about all kinds of little things, waxing fantastical about how they’d do things differently. Same energy.
Nothing is perfect, and maybe things can be improved in a number of ways as time goes on. But also everything has a learning curve, so maybe try learning that curve before making demands about getting rid of the core elements that make federation what they are.”
That’s the thing: no matter how well a system is designed, there will always be a subset of people who find it confusing and frustrating. I’ve seen Facebook users who refuse to touch reddit because it makes no sense to them. People who never “got” Twitter. Hell, I love digging into operating system environments and learning how they work, and even I ragequit Apple devices every time I touch them - systems whose design is the most celebrated in the tech world.
Learning new things is just uncomfortable, and there will always be people who refuse to do it.
But the fediverse is here, and despite your gatekeeping attitude about it “never being adopted by the masses” because it doesn’t follow your personal views; it is growing just fine. New users come and go every day. New systems get federated regularly. Maybe a different reddit clone than lemmy will prove to be the most favored one? Who knows. But it’s doing just fine, one day at a time. And it’s open-source, so if you don’t like it, then code something about it.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
If somebody gave up on the registration, how would you know? They wouldn’t be here to say it.
If you gave up on the registration, then how are you here? You’re inventing impossible physics to support your arguments. Are you a professional programmer for doge?
Here’s what your expert opinion is really about:
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices. 3 weeks ago:
If the full extent of this kind of internet existed, Tor would be completely irrelevant on it. Imagine that there essentially are no other sites than what’s approved by isps. It’s the cable model.
Not that such a wild vision of the internet has any chance of taking hold now days. The point of the thread was to make fun of the people who are complaining about lemmy providing too much choice.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
Where they are is having spent most of their life in a walled garden corporate internet. What you need to understand is that all new things have a learning curve, and the process of learning needs to be accepted - rather than trying to pressure free systems into being the very thing everyone is wanting to get away from.
Freedom means having choice. Sometimes a lot of it. Sometimes that’s scary. But it’s worth embracing.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
If I send you (assuming you’re an average person) a link to lemmy.world, that site has a basic signup. That is the same as virtually any site. There is no functional difference between joining reddit, and joining a lemmy instance. The only difference is you’re not in a walled garden here.
I know freedom is scary if you’re not used to it, but try it for a while. Once you get used to it, you’ll find the corporate web is stale and banal.
You can’t expect things to be different if you’re applying old ways of thinking and looking at things, and trying to box the new into being the very thing you migrated away from.
- Comment on Games franchises that need metroidvania spinoffs? 3 weeks ago:
If you’re not aware, Megaman Zero series, and Megaman ZX games are pretty much metroidvanias.
There’s also the fanmade Megaman X Corrupted which is reimagining the Megaman X games as a metroidvania.
- Comment on Games franchises that need metroidvania spinoffs? 3 weeks ago:
Dunno, but if that’s true, then ideally the rights would be bought and used by people who don’t suck, or maybe there could be a spiritual successor.
- Comment on The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices. 3 weeks ago:
Why would you do that? You can just watch Star Wars recycle the same story over and over.
- Comment on Games franchises that need metroidvania spinoffs? 3 weeks ago:
Commander Keen metroidvania?
- Comment on The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices. 3 weeks ago:
Here’s what all these complaints about federation choices reminds me of: every job I’ve ever had, new people get hired from time to time. What do they do? Long before they’ve had any time to get any training or learn how things work to maybe get a better understanding of why some things are done the way they are - day one, they start complaining about all kinds of little things, waxing fantastical about how they’d do things differently. Same energy.
Nothing is perfect, and maybe things can be improved in a number of ways as time goes on. But also everything has a learning curve, so maybe try learning that curve before making demands about getting rid of the core elements that make federation what they are.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
And? The tech bros currently ransacking the federal government also work in IT.
- Comment on Games franchises that need metroidvania spinoffs? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I didn’t consider that. The game would probably have to design the map in a way that keeps all the characters relatively nearby, or introduce a mechanic for them to converge more seamlessly, like maybe having save rooms that teleport all of them together or something.
- Comment on Games franchises that need metroidvania spinoffs? 3 weeks ago:
Oooh, another one: Demon’s Crest.
- Comment on Games franchises that need metroidvania spinoffs? 3 weeks ago:
Sonic Adventure 1 is my favorite Sonic game. I was thinking more along the lines of a 2d sidescrolling Sonic metroidvania though.
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- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
And yet here you are.
