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- Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast 6 days ago:
I organized pen and paper RPG conventions back when D&D 4 came out. We banned D20 based games even then as a boycott of WotC.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 6 days ago:
I read posts just like yours ten years ago.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 4 weeks ago:
The best new use of woke is the woke right.
The author James Lindsay has defined it in similar terms, as “a victimhood-based identity politics” whose “victim groups are whites, Christians, men, and straight people”. He argues that the movement is “roughly intersectional” insofar as it is obsessed with identity politics and a grievance relating to anti-white racism. “Like their counterparts on the Woke Left,” Lindsay writes, “the Woke Right have accepted as fact that there’s a conspiracy against people like them and that their only real hope is to lean into the identity grouping and advocate for collective power under that heading”. In these terms, the “woke right” is a kind of ideological doppelgänger, whose members exhibit the same precisionist and absolutist tendencies of their leftist counterparts.
Pierce Morgan uses it more and more often against right wingers to great effect.
- Comment on YSK some cities in the US are starting to build an affordable community built wifi network that goes around big telecom companies 4 weeks ago:
I see freifunk networks more rarely nowadays. They also are notoriously slow. Usually the mobile phone network is faster, even in Germany.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 4 weeks ago:
Woke is now a synonym for Social Justice warrior.
A person or movement prioritizing moralizing outrage about minor grievances over actual effective societal change.
As my half Nigerian cousin likes to say on issues like white people wearing dreadlocks: “That’s something only white privileged women care about.”
- Comment on i broke 5 weeks ago:
Allow yourself to feel something first.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 1 month ago:
Is it that long ago already? I thought they had kept it around. Thank you for updating me.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
We felt poorer, so economists should be lynched!
The contrast between people’s experiences in their everyday lives and what politicians or experts say is important.
If the economy is supposedly doing great but I can afford less and less and my life gets worse, that’s a contradiction.
The USA is moving more to something like the gilded age with more wealth disparity, more suffering for the poor, more violence.
The anti-intellectualism and anti-elitism of the cultural revolution was far more extreme. You are right that there are some similar ideas brewing.
When the political and economic system is no longer delivering for the population, it will turn against the (perceived) leaders. Trump and the right spins this very well by directing the anger against „woke“ liberal academics, foreigners, and away from the billionaires.
The „woke“ elites are also in crisis. The Democratic Party is in shambles.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 1 month ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
often people know that, for example, elections are fraudulent, but they are too scared to say anything
People might vaguely understand that elections don’t produce good outcomes or have systemic bias. That’s then condensed to „elections are rigged“, regardless of the facts and details.
Most people know little about most things. It’s difficult to even have good fundamentals about most things in our complex world. So people will defer to their personal experience and information seeped into their minds by osmosis/exposure.
Things like an economy or political system are extremely complex already and not fully understood even by experts.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 1 month ago:
Samsung has it own OS on some phones.
- Comment on At some point, kids watching older cartoons will no longer understand why putting a thermometer under a desk lamp was a way to skip school. 1 month ago:
Skill issue. I practiced and was able to hit 38-39 °C consistently.
- Comment on I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game 1 month ago:
Try a different genre than you usually play.
Tetris Effect Connected
A Short Hike
Cult of the Lamb
What Remains of Edith Finch?
- Comment on What do you guys suggest i should watch? 1 month ago:
What genres are you interested in?
- Comment on What do you guys suggest i should watch? 1 month ago:
Classic anime sci-fi movies Ghost in the Shell and Akira are must watch.
- Comment on What do you guys suggest i should watch? 1 month ago:
I can also highly recommend Planetes and Cowboy Bebop.
- Comment on Do you use other federated software besides Lemmy (e.g. Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc.), if so which? 1 month ago:
Mastodon. It’s much better than Lemmy.
- Comment on Glue used to be rare and magical. 1 month ago:
Egg is pretty good.
- Comment on Hottest Star Trek character? 2 months ago:
Natasha Yar
- Comment on In heat 2 months ago:
It works. It will also find others who posted that question.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 2 months ago:
Is Lavender AI made by Microsoft or uses Microsoft technology?
- Comment on China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative — GPMI boasts up to 192 Gbps bandwidth, 480W power delivery 2 months ago:
Projector
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 2 months ago:
Do drugs. Look at all the content on lemmynsfw. Masturbate.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 2 months ago:
For me Reddit was Alien Blue. It all went downhill after Reddit bought it and then stopped updating it.
There was never an app that had such a great UI for iPad. Apollo never introduced a two column Split View like it.
Narwhal had one, but was a bit meh otherwise.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 3 months ago:
There’s more than one web UI.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 3 months ago:
I’ve been on Lemmy for a while and still find the duplicate named communities on different insurances confusing. The number of users only somewhat. There are lots of communities still listed from dead instances like feddit.de.
Unique names for communities would be helpful.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 3 months ago:
Well the folks over at .ml aren’t from Mali or host their server there.
- Comment on Dancing in the dawn 3 months ago:
There are a couple of them.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 3 months ago:
The ml stands for Marxism-Leninism.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 3 months ago:
That’s more a feature for a client app.