Draegur
@Draegur@lemmy.zip
Poly-Panro-Ace It/They
friendly neighborhood wholesome degenerate abomination from beyond the stars (mostly harmless™).
Atomic energy enthusiast. Architecture enjoyer. Mecha appreciator. Sci-Fi reader.
Winged caniform cybernetic biped techno-lich in its dreams.
- Comment on SERIOUSLY THOUGH. WELCOME TO LEMMY. 19 hours ago:
It’s neat here.
I’m actually here more often than on Reddit now.
- Comment on Moats are back! 5 days ago:
You need to be more alarmed about this.
Conservatives (and the rich tend to side with conservatives) have no imagination and project their own intentions on others.
I cannot possibly stress this enough:
IF THEY THINK WE’RE GOING TO VIOLENTLY ATTACK THEM, IT’S SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE THEY ARE PREPARING TO ATTACK US THEMSELVES.
They have THOROUGHLY demonstrated that they can’t imagine anyone wanting to do anything that they themselves want to do, are preparing to do, or are ALREADY DOING.
Mark my words:
The rich are preparing to exterminate us all.
- Comment on Palantir Technology salty about Swiss Magazine 'Republik' uncovering their failed attempts establishing surveillance technology contracts (you can donate to their defense fund) 5 days ago:
Oh, what’s that?
Palantir doesn’t like it when people know about THEIR dirty laundry?
Wow. Golly. Gee whiz. Color me shocked with a marker that is bone fucking dry.
Maybe they should’ve thought about that before trying to fuck with OUR private business.
Palantir has violated social contract and no longer deserves privacy.
- Comment on the wok agenda 1 week ago:
The cool thing about Barq for me, though, is that it functions as a proximity IFF transponder–or at least that’s how i think of it
because it shows you other furries within range. hypothetically speaking, if there IS a “local furry community” you’d want to connect with, some of them MIGHT be on Barq.
Like, by default, any fur you end up talking to on barq is going to be within hanging out / getting food / social activity range.
Just kinda wish it was a little easier to pitch group activities to the local area. I’d absolutely be interested in knowing if there’s any such events happening nearby but as it presently stands i have to actively search through fragnented and static message boards where the proximity feature has no presence, and there may be boards for your area that are not obviously named because the board names are user defined… And frankly, i have too much going on to set aside time for commiting to in-depth perusal on a regular basis where i might not even find out about anything actionable most of the time.
If the fediverse had an optional “see users near me in dirtspace” feature … I don’t think anyone would use it??? I dunno it just feels like the “meeting up with people” task and goal NEED to be compartmentalized to a specific system for that purpose so you can cut it loose entirely at a moments notice without destroying everything…
- Comment on the wok agenda 1 week ago:
I use barq!
sadly it isn’t terribly effective because there’s way too much friction when it comes to local interaction
two people have to like each other first before they can even say hi? that’s like … literally the opposite of how meeting people works though???
that isn’t to say that DMs should be unlocked but rather that there oughtta be a localized/proximity public channel where you can just sorta microblog to the void and others who are nearby enough to see it can comment.
i’d call that system “howling”. kinda like the twilight bark from the old animated 101 Dalmatians movie ^_^
- Comment on Why is GOG not as succesful as a Gaming Alternative? 2 weeks ago:
i figure it’s a momentum thing.
Valve benefited from being First To Market with this model. They were already well established before anyone else tried to make their own.
epic games store, ubisoft connect, and also whatever used to be origin, all these launchers were HEAVILY marketed and users were shoehorned into them as a mandatory condition of playing a game, and they are all floundering.
GOG, though? No marketing. No coercion. Mostly it’s word of mouth and good will. And they are doing pretty alright. I’d say that, for NOT being first to market, and for NOT wasting loads and loads of cash trying to push themselves onto people–hell, you buy a game from GOG and you don’t even NEED to install their launcher! All their game installers function perfectly STAND-ALONE!
I’d say, with all that in mind, GOG is literally doing better than anyone that isn’t Steam.
And in my view, they are ever improving, even now.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
i dunno if it’s the same one, but the feelings OP described are how I felt about bronies.
there was a time before the infestation of predators took hold when almost every person you’d meet among them was unflinchingly, unashamedly, relentlessly wholesome, sincere, and genuine. people who really took honesty, loyalty, kindness, and generosity to heart. but that kind of environment was not hostile enough to defend itself from exploitation. an object lesson in the paradox of tolerance: there are some things that no society will survive tolerating, and there truly are some behaviors that cannot be rehabilitated. there is hardly anyone around anymore from the height of the subculture around 2014…
- Comment on Tips 5 weeks ago:
Blankets are great because you only have to pay for them once, and now that you have them, they can keep you warm basically forever.
Now, when it’s HOT weather, fuck it I’m using electricity for air conditioning; it’s getting legitimately dangerously hot lately and THAT SHIT is what will kill me if I don’t pay up x.x
- Comment on Tips 5 weeks ago:
I’d say it’s because consumerism is a kind of brain rot all its own. The media landscape we’ve been living in for generations has sold us this ridiculous fantasy that happiness means owning (or at least temporarily renting) luxury goods.
The plurality, if not majority, of the population here has never had to adjust their expectations or really sit down and think hard about what’s actually worth acquiring. We treat desires for convenience and novelty as though they are necessities. But they aren’t.
What’s actually a necessity is having something fulfilling to occupy your time, as a counterbalance to keep you sane, and that activity does not HAVE to be of the sort that costs a lot of money. Take up art using cheap supplies–just sketch with standard number two pencils on white lined notebook paper or perhaps play music on improvised instruments made of household objects. It doesn’t have to be good in order to become meaningful and if you do it enough it’ll BECOME good. Walk outside when the weather happens to be nice. Learn to ride a bicycle again. Visit a library. Pretend to sword fight with a friend using a fallen tree branch. You don’t have to drop several grand on a resort vacation. You don’t have to go into debt for a fancy car. You don’t need to buy the latest edition of “triple a” micro transaction slop from so-called “studios” that don’t give one single solitary wet shart about actual creativity and fire all their devs immediately every time a project wraps.
Money can’t buy whimsy.
All it can do is, at best, remove obstacles from between you and being able to enjoy something. If it’s not being used to simplify your life, then it’s COMPLICATING your life: Giving you only empty distraction that does not provide your experience with any fertile ground for meaning. This is but one of the many ways we are socially “poisoned” and then told that conspicuous consumption is the antidote. It’s not. it’s just even more poison.
You know what the most enjoyable experience I had was in the past several months? Just sitting in the living room at a gathering of friends where everyone brought a little home made food and listening to their happy voices. It cost me next to nothing but turned out to be worth more than anything.
My computer is more than ten whole years old now but it handles old games i could find on sale just dandy and doesn’t need some suped-up rtx gpu to let me pirate some shows XD
I stopped mindlessly gorging myself on junk food, and now basically only eat either efficient daily maintenance nutrition OR choose to visit a small locally owned restaurant no more than once per week. I’m never spending upwards of fifteen fucking dollars on a fast food burger “meal” ever again.
Divest of tacky opulence. Defy Wall Street and its siren song of ruin disguised as prosperity. Embrace the elegance of simplicity and spontaneity. If this sprawling parasitic infestation we’ve mistaken for an *economy" can’t survive without sucking the life out of us all then maybe it deserves to collapse.
- Comment on Tips 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been losing weight, which has been good for me. But someday … I’m going to run out of stored calories. For the very first time in my life, it has crossed my mind to wonder if I might starve someday ._.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 1 month ago:
You are based for stanning gog and thus are absolved <3
I love their zero tolerance for DRM so much
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 1 month ago:
…
oooooookayyyyyyyy.
billionaires, man: they not like us ._.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 1 month ago:
huh wow. i was going to presume it was a storage volume quantity calibration of some kind. neat.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
There is no kind of person who obsessively fixates upon the subject of penises with a frequency or intensity greater than that of a transphobe.
- Comment on Lemmy and PieFed users in 50 years 2 months ago:
🧅
(the style)
- Comment on Everyone is so close to grasping your unique vision! 2 months ago:
Fact: 90% of all leftist infighters MUST quit as a prerequisite before the movement can be capable of revolution, irrespective of “purity”.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
All these fucking chuds complaining about censorship. I wish they fucking WOULD get censored so i could stop hearing them BITCHING about it.
- Comment on Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal 2 months ago:
I really wish someone would cure our civilization’s cancer. I’m tired of Altman, Thiel, Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg.
- Comment on Palestine | Hamas proposes long-term ceasefire if Israel fully withdraws from Gaza 2 months ago:
Making a colonizer “just leave”? If only that ever worked…
- Comment on Good advice 2 months ago:
Stop fantasizing about falling in love with literally any person who is nice to you and breaking your own heart.
- Comment on I fall for it every year. Every. Year. 2 months ago:
They are literally those.
- Comment on I fall for it every year. Every. Year. 2 months ago:
If i want McRib, i skip the middle man and just buy q bulk family-size tray/tub of frozen microwaveable riblets and go to fucking TOWN
- Comment on Change my mind 2 months ago:
Not shown: the lower lines that list “Arguing in the Shower” and “Arguing in Your Imagination”, and the bottom line of “Not Arguing At All”
- Comment on The floor is lava 3 months ago:
I utterly adore her even in the cursed ones ^^
- Comment on Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes? 3 months ago:
Ohhh yeahhhh the lava lamp like ones are cool. Sometimes vague impressions of cyan and red, sometimes propagating in waves. I’m so glad other people are describing it!
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 3 months ago:
Never. Ever. EVER. INSTALLING. ELEVEN.
- Comment on Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fears 3 months ago:
when you see the rats running from the end of the ship that’s settling a little lower in the water… that water ain’t outside the hull anymore.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 3 months ago:
I for one like this fella’s takes.
He services these appliances. Which is to say, he is specifically doing business with people who want to repair and keep theirs, and he has hands on in depth experience not only restoring them to working order but specific direct observation of what their faults and failure modalities are. He bases his positions on how robust a machine is such that people actually bother to get it fixed instead of just replacing it with a “new” one as if whole ass several hundred dollar appliances are single use appliances.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 3 months ago:
See, now that they’ve strongarmed everyone into using their new shitty OS and no longer using the old kind of okay one, they can change it however they want and all their users are stuck with it!
(Excuse me while i cackle madly in linux)
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 3 months ago:
Heh. That’s how i “delete” my credit card info from a service that i don’t want to do business with anymore.
- Generate a virtual card through my financial institution
- Assign that card to handle payment of that subscription via the merchant
- Shut off the card.
Eat shit Disney. I’m never paying you a dime ever again.