spankmonkey
@spankmonkey@lemmy.world
- Comment on Everyone here is a thief 1 week ago:
I appreciate you giving artists credit so I can go find more of their stuff to steal.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 1 week ago:
30+ years is old for sure, and platforms fit in that range.
20+ years could be debated, but I consider that old too.
Being old is not a negative, just a description about how long something has been around.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 1 week ago:
I hear it has a good story and clever platforms stuff. I picked up the first one and dropped it quickly because I remembered that I don’t like playformers.
Good to see people that do enjoy them get great games!
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 1 week ago:
Dude, platformers like Hollow Knight were popular in arcades back in the 80s and d early 90s. Contra (87) and Metal Slug (96) are the first two that came to mind but there were tons of others.
They were literally arcade games and adapted to new mediums like home gaming systems and computers.
- Comment on do you apologize, even if it's not your fault just to make the other person feel validated? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 week ago:
With Florida ditching vaccine requirements it looks like the East Coast/West Coast feud is going to pick back up again.
- Comment on do you apologize, even if it's not your fault just to make the other person feel validated? 1 week ago:
This upsets me and I demand an apology.
- Comment on do you apologize, even if it's not your fault just to make the other person feel validated? 1 week ago:
Only if I can come up with a way that the thing could possibly be my fault, intentional or not. Like making a decision without asking first, or because I reminded them of something upsetting without intending to like reminding them of something other than what we are talking about. The latter is going to be the ‘I’m sorry I upset you’ not a real apology, because I’m not really sorry for saying the thing, just that it caused them to be upset.
In the past I would apologize for things I didn’t do and all it did was make things worse because it was just a reflex response and it wasn’t like I could avoid doing things I didn’t do in the first place in the future.
At work I will apologize for things that may be due to not having enough information, but in that case at best I’m going to apologize for not finding out what I didn’t know. It is kind of bullshit, but at least they tend to provide more information in the future. It is catering to people who can’t admit their own faults to a degree, but ends up being like small talk, something we do to get other people to work as a team.
- Comment on Make America Great! 1 week ago:
That would help, but it isn’t just the money. Both Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were able to secure offices when they were right around 30 years old and both lacked solid support from their own party. Entrenched political parties are arguably an even bigger barrier to involving younger participation in government, not just because the parties control their own purse strings but because they resist up and coming candidates by treating office holders like they have tenure.
- Comment on Make America Great! 1 week ago:
Yes, but that would require learning from history and we suck at that.
- Comment on Make America Great! 1 week ago:
That is actually a good reason to have a wide variety of ages in government, so that there is a mix of those connected to the world today and those that have more wisdom.
- Comment on Make America Great! 1 week ago:
Indigenous people being humans means there were violent conflicts between different cultures and groups within cultures like anywhere else in the world. It was relatively less violent than colonial occupation like how Europe was less violent than during the world wars.
- Comment on Make America Great! 1 week ago:
That was a pretty great time for middle class white people!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Architecture and engineering for construction are on par with doctors and nurses in medicine. Medicine has a ton of grunt work that doesn’t require higher education.
It doesn’t seem like you posted this question in good faith.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You are conflating the result of society filtering people with less education into blue collar work with the potential for the work to involve bigotry.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
What makes you think blue collar contexts have a higher potential for bigotry?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
That’s true to an extent, but saying that a feminine woman or a feminine gay man (for example) would be treated better in a blue-collar job than in a white-collar one isn’t really grounded in reality.
Is anyone saying that?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It isn’t anti intellectualism, it is a overcorrection for the decades of insisting that going to college (and taking on massive debt in the US at least) isn’t worth it anymore. It isn’t saying that knowledge and learning are bad, but they aren’t as economically advantageous as they were a couple decades ago.
The trades are good for a fairly quick return, but you are correct that they and to take a physical toll and the pay is generally exaggerated.
Offices are full of misogyny, homophobiaz and other forms of bigotry too.
A better approach would be to promote both on their own positives and negatives, but humans tend to swing wildly from one extreme to another.
- Comment on Humans can't consent to reading. 2 weeks ago:
They consented until they didn’t and that is their right!
- Comment on Me, whenever I see AI slop on my shitposts (original content I suppose) 2 weeks ago:
Serif top text.
Sans sarif bottom text.
You have brought a curse upon your house!
- Comment on Me, whenever I see AI slop on my shitposts (original content I suppose) 2 weeks ago:
It is not ethical.
Next!
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 2 weeks ago:
Sadly, some women just don’t enjoy receiving oral. Not when it is done wrong, not at all.
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 2 weeks ago:
Also works for slippers.
- Comment on I saw what you did there 2 weeks ago:
Don’t forget a second bucket for all the blood.
- Comment on I saw what you did there 2 weeks ago:
Show it your hardwoods.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Middle East
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
“From my perspective it is democracy that is evil!”
- Comment on The other kind of crab 2 weeks ago:
No, not that kind either
- Comment on The other kind of crab 2 weeks ago:
Why not Zoidburg?
- Comment on Bad impression 2 weeks ago:
Yet another better option:
What?
