faythofdragons
@faythofdragons@slrpnk.net
- Comment on arriving 3 hours ago:
I moved from Oklahoma to Washington, don’t let your dreams be dreams.
- Comment on arriving 3 hours ago:
Nah, summer is super depressing. All I have the energy for is to lie under a fan and slowly melt into a puddle of listless, sweaty sadness and long for death. In the winter, I’ve actually got the energy to get up and get shit done, build a snowman, frolic. Less sun is less headache too, so bonus points for it being dark all the time.
- Comment on Cooking 16 hours ago:
Those are embers lol
- Comment on Stupid Sexy Scientists 1 day ago:
Either fuck it, or fuck with it.
- Comment on Every time I make biscuits from a can 1 day ago:
No spoilers, but you’re close!
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 3 days ago:
Yes, it’s not a high bar at all. It just requires slight divergence with reality. Some degree of unreality, if you will.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 3 days ago:
See, I hear ‘fantasy’ and think of orks and fairies and shit, but I can think of many non-fantasy movies that have incredibly unrealistic aspects.
Like, idk, James Bond’s gizmos are completely unrealistic and break the laws of physics, but it’s not fantasy to me.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 3 days ago:
Like I said in another comment
Yeah, I really think it’s a type of media illiteracy, and it’s much larger than just sexualization.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 3 days ago:
I envision ‘realistic’ as a spectrum. If it is 100% realistic, it’s a documentary, if it’s 100% unrealistic, it’s probably a fantasy movie or something, and most works of fiction fall somewhere between.
characters and everything that happens to them are the product of the writers and their research
Like, you understand this is my point, right? The plot is not real, and that’s what makes it fictional?
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 3 days ago:
Fiction does not require unrealistic elements.
If it is entirely realistic it is no longer fiction. Ergo, fiction needs some degree of unreality. I don’t see how that’s controversial, haha.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 4 days ago:
What’s wrong with it?
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 4 days ago:
Nah, fiction needs unrealistic elements. You can have realism in fiction, but fiction is defined by its deviance from fact. If a movie were completely realistic, itd be a documentary.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 4 days ago:
Yeah, I really think it’s a type of media illiteracy, and it’s much larger than just sexualization.
Like, I grew up in the church, and remember when they adopted the Left Behind novels into church canon as prophecy. It’s the same kind of not being able to tell fact from fiction, and my parent’s church encouraged it because they were a bunch of con artists.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 4 days ago:
Somebody else said that, not me. But regardless, it’s still a problem with people not being able to recognize fact from fiction. Makeup is not the problem, the problem are people who expect you to to look like that without makeup. Boob jobs are not the problem, the problem are people who think there’s something wrong with you if you’ve not had one.
If they replaced everything with mocap tomorrow so actors didn’t have to look the part any more, the problem would still be that people look at Marvel and think it’s an accurate depiction of reality.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 4 days ago:
I propose it’s not the fiction that’s posing unrealistic standards, but the people who can’t tell the difference between fiction and nonfiction. Fiction, is by definition, unrealistic.
- Comment on Many of the younger generations of folks don't know what it's like to watch TV series out of order by virtue of channel surfing on live TV and grabbing random episodes here and there 4 days ago:
I dunno. I find that enough movies and tv shows get chopped up into shorts and served to my fyp that it’s very similar to channel surfing sometimes. I feel like I’ve seen most of a few different movies served to me in random order with no context.
- Comment on What if LGBT adopts a white and grey striped flag to replace the rainbow? Then Florida would have to abolish crosswalks entirely. 6 days ago:
Ugh, I can’t believe my towel is only into me after it’s been used by my partner.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 6 days ago:
Oh no, over here a mil is 1/1000 of an inch, haha
- Comment on Foolproof advice 1 week ago:
I like the idea that these are all steps to one process. Like, you gotta steal her shoe and some hair and pins, and the best distraction is with cheese.
- Comment on If autism is a spectrum, does that mean everyone is on the spectrum? 1 week ago:
Agreed. A lot of things, at its root, is dopamine seeking. Binge eating, gambling, drugs, high risk behavior, anything for a hit of dopamine. We’re finding that ADHD brains struggle with dopamine signaling, so it makes sense that you’re going to see more dopamine seeking behavior in that cohort.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 1 week ago:
I always assumed that ‘expatriate’ meant that you gave up citizenship in the old country to get citizenship in the new country. Like it’s a type of immigration that a lot of people like to pretend they’ve done because it’s pretty hardcore.
- Comment on A conundrum 1 week ago:
And I do think this is part of the rural angst that has taken root. The town started out as a farming town, with a vibrant community centered around agriculture, that is slowly getting replaced with houses made of ticky-tacky. Combined with income stagnation being worse in outlying areas, there really is a sense of erasure that has no outlet.
- Comment on A conundrum 1 week ago:
The stuff that is farther out is newer
But built shoddier and rented out cheaper in my area, haha. You could get a newly remodeled apartment in a historic brick building for $$$ downtown or a new apartment in a building that went up in a couple months and is already leaking for $.
I think it depends enough on area that we really can’t make blanket statements.
- Comment on A conundrum 1 week ago:
See, it’s the opposite here. In the nearby city (pop 90k), the downtown areas are hellaciously expensive because they’re closest to amenities. The farther you get from grocery stores and bars, the cheaper it gets. It’s so weird to me that there are places where living next to shopping is cheaper than living far from shopping. It doesn’t help that the downtown apartments are being remodeled into luxe apartments and the suburbs and rural areas are where the affordable housing is being built.
The suburbs are cheaper, but you have to drive to do the shopping, and the rural areas are cheapest because everything smells like cow when it rains, and you have to drive to do the shopping.
- Comment on Like a heart 1 week ago:
You’re not wrong, but they call it Super instead of Heavy for some reason. You can get L, R, S, and S+ tampons.
At my worst I was flowing over a S+ in under an hour, but that’s not okay and I’ve got health problems that are causing it. They’re supposed to last around four hours, and you can’t leave them in for more than eight hours or you run infection risks. They can be painful coming out dry, so if you’ve got a lighter flow, you’ll want a lower absorbancy so they’re nice and juicy coming out.
- Comment on A conundrum 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m living rural because living in the city is still more than twice as expensive. Some bad faith actors want to reclassify it as ‘suburban’ because it’s doubled in size since covid, but I’m closer to cows than the grocery store, so that falls flat.
- Comment on How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers 1 week ago:
Yeah, you gotta get the bag of holeding instead
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 1 week ago:
I don’t remember that one
- Comment on Desiccant dehumidifiers are fascinating... but not for everyone [29:19] 1 week ago:
Growing up in Oklahoma, my grandfather ran a humidifier in the winter, and a dehumidifier in the summer. Even with a HVAC system, he’d have to dump out the dehumidifier every other day.
- Comment on Just a little bit more 1 week ago:
Now hang on, you can’t expect us to actually admit what we’re doing here.Image
