Tonava

@Tonava@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bingo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Sims 2 is 100% the best of the series, yeah. At this point you can basically mod the game to look however you want, and mod it to play as you want, there’s insane amounts of mods and content available. There’s custom options for the UI, you can even get a fixed version for the launcher. I’ve been playing it for around 20 years now, and last I played “like you’re supposed to” was like 18 years ago lmao.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a girl asks you if you're big, are you supposed to lie or not?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, what’s the endgame if you lie?! If you’re going to fuck, they’ll find out the truth anyway. And if you lied, they’ll pobably be less inclined to actually continue when they see you there, pantsless

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We'll be seeing an uptick in UFO sightings soon⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It was just too big for that. If it was, it’s not something that was commercially available here, but if someone had build something that size and flown it around, I couldn’t have been the only witness in all these years!

  There’s one company I know that’s been building unmanned airships here, so I’ve thought could it have been one of those. But I think their test flights weren’t yet made in that year, and those are anyway too slow to disappear like that. And not things you’d fly at that place at that time either…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We'll be seeing an uptick in UFO sightings soon⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw UFO a couple years ago, and I have no idea what the fuck did I actually see. I’m still so baffled I always want to share this story:

  I was walking my dog way past midnight, and saw some lights move steadily, hovering over the nearby highway I was walking towards, and thought, ah, a helicopter, how weird for one to fly so low and close to the road. Only after it had moved out of my sight (there was forest both sides and the path I was on was going under the highway) I suddenly realized it couldn’t have been a helicopter; there was no sound and at that distance it would have been LOUD. I saw nothing when I got to a higher place where I could see the highway in both directions. There were no other people around or even cars driving by, since it was so late.

  I checked all flights in the area for that night, since maybe I had seen something fly far away and mistook it to be closer? But I found nothing, no planes or helicopters had been in the air in couple hours at that time. It was way too big to be some commercial type of drone that were around then (about a small helicopter sized), and a military drone sounds just unlikely considering the time and place (Finland, no military bases or border anywhere close, and we weren’t in the NATO yet either). It couldn’t have been a truck or something since it was clearly floating and a bit too high for that, and from that position and distance I would have heard the road rumble under the tires too.

  I don’t think I was hallucinating, since that vision was so clear and lasted long enough for me to look away a few times, and I don’t have a history of visual hallucinations or anything. Too bad I didn’t film it, but I really didn’t realize something was weird until it was too late!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tabletop convection oven ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just won’t risk it with anything that heats up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tabletop convection oven ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  PS if you don’t own a rice cooker what the fuck are you doing

  It’s hard to find a good one that doesn’t have PFAS. And having one that has isn’t an option because it can easily kill my birds

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wax on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Trypophobia?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Punch Time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At least the english ones are usually somewhat understandable; as a native finnish speaker, the machine translations to finnish are notoriously bad. The worst case has been some random anime from netflix, where I had to change the subtitles to bad machine translation english, because the finnish ones were just straight up complete gibberish and I could understand more of the japanese than those (and I don’t know japanese outside some words and common expressions!). Reading them felt like I was having a stroke lmao.

  I have no idea why they’re even made in finnish because they’re very often just fully unusable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which one and why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  1: unpleasant form

  I thought the very opposite lmao! That 1 shape looks very appealing to me. Like eating with a more symmetrical seashell. Nice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I landed in another toxic workplace after quitting a previous one. What would you do in this scenario? (Open to all suggestions)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  that may or may not be legal by the country’s employment laws

  What’s your union situation? Can you join a local trade union for your profession, or does it require some more permanent citizenship-thing there? Maybe it’s unhelpful for this specific problem, but join one if you can. If there’s any issues with holidays, payment, etc., they’re the ones that can help you out - they know the laws. That’s invaluable especially when you aren’t exactly sure how the local stuff works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨💩.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If any form of your shit regularly includes blood, also maybe consult your doctor. Might be just hemorrhoids, especially if it’s bright red blood, but even those can be treated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah no, I think I get it. I just thought I’d add one perspective to why weird names might be so appealing to transfolks even though it can cause more issues than calling yourself Jean or something

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you pick a name that is kinda weird… well it’s kinda weird.

  As a transperson with a weird name; I picked mine because I have never fit in, and instead of causing a desire to fit in, it made angry (but that might be because I am autistic as well, who knows). Choosing an unique name was kind of a middle finger and a final stamp of refusing to conform, if that makes any sense. If I’m not accepted anyway then I sure as hell am going to do whatever the fuck I want with my name and identity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh cool⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people doing the science there are likely on the spectrum, so I wouldn’t expect anything less

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’d never choose any other than B, how could I keep on living without mämmi?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  a lot of gamers categorically refuse to buy a game in early access and wait for the 1.0 release for the “full experience”

  I refuse to buy early access games just because if they sell enough, the devs won’t complete the game and it’ll be stuck in the “10 years in development” -phase

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Misogyny or something... Idk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’m asexual yet I still look at people’s tits and asses. I don’t feel any attraction, I’m not really aesthetically pleased by seeing them nor will I get aroused, but you are socially conditioned to check others or it is very much biological (or both).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hep mak fren⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve clearly had too many canines as family members since I immediately just imagined the sad puppy eyes they give you after not getting any treats for like five minutes, instead of understanding what was implied

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3126: Disclaimer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re still garbage in finnish. Even if they manage to make grammatically correct sentences, it sounds like incredibly awkward word salad, often there isn’t even real meaning in the sentences. Non-human translations have struggled from the beginning and I’m not surprised even the LLMs aren’t doing that well.

  Kuulostaa siis ihan paskalta ja on edelleen tosi helppoa tunnistaa. Ei akateemikot väännä sellaista tuubaa omin käsin, eikä kukaan normitason juntti taas kirjoita niin jäykästi. Tai ok varmaan oman elämänsä jarisarasvuot yrittää suoltaa samankuuloista tyhjää konsulttiroskaa, mutta olettaisin että ne on juuri sitä porukkaa jotka käyttää tekoälyä muutenkin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meanwhile in America⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah numbers are pretty hard to conceptualize unless you already know what they mean. The addition I would do is put the actual numbers there as well at the same time, so you could get a good reference with an example

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Hey why don’t you use this tool you don’t need? It does the thing worse than you do and also fucks up the planet in the process!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is kindness often viewed as a sign of naïveté?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also the stupid belief that being mean = intelligent, which kinda overlaps with this. I somewhat blame House MD for that; that show was popular around the time when the idea got normalized in media, and now it just keeps going and is repeated in multiple ways in movies, series… etc. Rick and Morty is another great example of what that type of portrayal can cause, it’s done terrible damage in making it’s target audience associate meanness and assholery with being intelligent.

  You can be both kind and intelligent, these qualities are not linked in real life, just like being naïve and kind are not. This means that being mean doesn’t make anyone look any smarter; it just makes you look like a mean asshole. This also seems to escape a lot of people and worsen the hateful shit both irl and online

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I went insane already in the early 2000s, when I realised nobody gave a shit about climate change and ecological destruction and nothing I could say or do made people understand or care. I had a good chuckle when the whole Greta-thing happened and suddenly more people cared, even though we’ve known this is happening for decades now. Too little, too late. There’s always war and genocide going, now we just know it’s happening in real time. Knowing changes nothing, we don’t learn from history, too few care and those who do get in power too rarely for any lasting change to happen.

  I was about to kill myself for the first time in 2013 and honestly I should just have done it, it’s the decision I now regret the most in my life. I already died that day anyway, I have just been sort of lingering remnant after that, barely a person anymore. At least my parents could have had a decade to grieve me, now I’ve just dragged more people to care about me and will hurt them as well with my death. My suffering has just gotten worse and worse together with my physical and mental health; sometimes thing not only don’t get better, but just get worse. I don’t even know how I’m still here, probably just out of spite and lack of access to handguns. Eventually I’ll get to see what will manage to end me first, my body or my mind, I don’t even know which one is leading the race.

  To conclude my insane and personal rant: not everyone can get a happy ending. Enjoy and do good if you still can

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even got their own island⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get it. Never felt really welcome in those spaces, even though I’m trans and very much on the left as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deserved honestly⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just the risk that has to be taken when threatening to bite, if the threat is bluff it’s not wise to try it. I mean it’s probably not wise to try it in the first place, but sometimes idiots just need some bared teeth at them to learn

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deserved honestly⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Verbal warnings are for when the touching attempts haven’t yet happened. When the hands get close, the first snap is the warning. To have aura of insanity there are no second warnings

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deserved honestly⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People are prepared for punching or screaming and shit, but usually nobody is prepared to get bit, so probably even if the risk of violence is higher. But getting a chunk out of some jerk has its own satisfaction, they will remember it even if you get hurt worse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deserved honestly⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just quickly lean towards their hand and snap your teeth like you’re going to bite. Works with all sorts of unwanted touching, just be ready to actually bite if they’re also nuts and try again to call your bluff. Even if they get angry they’re much less likely to want to throw hands with the high possibility of getting bit hanging in the air.

  The downside is you will look even more insane than with just fork stabs, but on the plus side you will look insane enough people will stay the fuck away in the future too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think his reasoning was to see how far the sign holding folks would go for money, and they apparently didn’t really have any limits. Should he have done and shown it on youtube is the thing he can be criticized for

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people have it worse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never understood the argument that you shouldn’t complain about the environment you interact with because other people interact with worse environments.

  I call this the “children of Africa” -argument. Basically, it’s an argument that you can never complain about anything or do anything to better something, because “some kids are starving in Africa”; someone always has it worse. It’s purpose is to belittle and brush aside either the problem worded out or the person saying it (or both).