HalfSalesman
@HalfSalesman@lemmy.world
I don’t have access to this account during weekends.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Our nation has failed itself by letting Trump fucking win.
This assassination just makes it more likely I get dragged into violent civil conflict. One that could have been avoided had every anti-trump individual had fucking voted against him winning and they didn’t.
Kirk was a piece of shit but I wont be the accelerationist’s pawn. This all could have been avoided and I deeply resent that it wasn’t.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Not have Trump as president right now is a small first step.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I don’t give a shit about Charlie Kirk, rest in piss, but my celebration is mildly stunted by the fact that this is a dangerous thing to normalize and this is a massive notch in that direction given how huge of a public figure he was and the nature of his assassination being so public.
Of course, the right is largely responsible for that normalization, and Charlie Kirk’s death is actually on people like Charlie Kirk’s very hands. However, for me its just the consequences and the dark future that this seems to push us further into.
Hopefully the right fails to capitalize on his death effectively and we move onto largely forgetting about the piece of shit.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 2 weeks ago:
Yes, stuff still happened, but it was all mostly local scale in consequences or temporary blips. Conflicts, economic downturns, weather events can all be huge tragedies, but an entire super power cratered in on itself in '91 and splintered into smaller countries massively rewriting the political landscape. And in 2001, 9-11 happened and its arguably a starting point for a domino effect of terrible unhinged shit that followed that also had massive global political ramifications, arguably to this very day.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 2 weeks ago:
Its actually that between 1991 and 2001 that we merely had a full decade of relative stability in world events. Crazy shit stopped happening for a while and we have collectively imparted that things used to be “normal” on people born after 2001 but they’ve interpreted their own childhoods as the normal years.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 3 weeks ago:
Yo, I’m on my brother’s premium. I told myself if my brother stopped wanting to pay for it I’d pay for it myself because I hate ads that much.
On the other hand, if Youtube itself takes it away from me I’m going to just stop watching Youtube.
- Comment on Sad to hear it 4 weeks ago:
Pooh would be just as sad to have caused such a problem.
But yeah we need a new 3D Rayman but Ubisoft would ruin it anyway.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah we’re going into flu season soon. And covid vaccines actually should be updated even more often than flu.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 4 weeks ago:
Just got my second HPV vax and my understanding is I have to wait at least a month before I can have a different vaccine.
That said, I intend to get the Covid and Flu vax once its been a full month. They’ve never told me I can’t do both of those at the same time.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 4 weeks ago:
And while none of those things are wrong per se, the general vibe of asking about all of those things was very weird and pervy.
Unshackle your mind. Reject the puritanism bonk and embrace the horniness tentacles.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 4 weeks ago:
I know that this is all just theater to just destroy any semblance of free speech and privacy on the internet but if I’m completely honest I also don’t even understand people who freak out about kids looking at porn. Like, I get protecting children obviously from predators (fucking Roblox), but also I saw hardcore porn on the internet super early when I was like 8 and the only trauma I ever felt was the fear of being caught looking at it by my parents, who were otherwise pretty chill about me seeing really violent media.
And before me and the internet, kids were looking at their grampa’s/dad’s porn magazines or finding it in the woods or getting some 18 year old to buy it for them. It was harder but I’m telling you they found it.
I feel like a bigger concern for kids right now is microplastics, lead poisoning, and climate change and you don’t see nearly the same hysteria about that shit in mainstream politics.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 1 month ago:
I did not look that deep. Its not been important enough since again I mostly have been using my Deck more than my Desktop anyway.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 1 month ago:
Performance is still noticeably worse. Based on some cursory research, the 4070 Super gets like ~20% less FPS on Bazzite compared to Windows on a 4070 Super and I tend to play high fidelity shooters on my desktop so frames per second matters.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 1 month ago:
Them insisting on having match making for the main modes was my red line. While not a deal breaker for me, I almost always tryhard a single multiplayer game at a time anyway if I’m playing multiplayer at all. This sounds like I’m dodging another future headache whenever the next game insists on kernel level anti-cheat though.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 1 month ago:
IDK I liked 7 pretty much as much as I like XP. For me it was 10 that was just alright.
My brother convinced me to switch to 11 when I built my most recent gaming desktop and I somewhat regret listening to him but I know dual booting is a waste of time for me and I’m not quite ready to make the full jump to Linux because my desktop has a 4070 Super. It’ll ahve to wait until my next PC. Fortunately, I don’t have the version of 11 with Recall pre-installed at least.
I use my Steam Deck more than my gaming desktop these days anyway.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
No, you shouldn’t be embarrassed.
I mean, it probably wont work out unless your dad has a good eye for matchmaking but it is worth a shot. Plus its like he is suggesting a chance to grow as a person.
Part of me wishes my dad had done this but I know he’d be a terrible matchmaker for me. Though again, at least I probably would have learned from it.
- Comment on Alpha males 1 month ago:
I guess. I was able to engage in real conversation on Reddit and still do here, sounds like you’ve not really trying.
- Comment on Damm WaterCatholics 1 month ago:
That first one a real thing? Its hard to know what is real anymore.
Are they catholic converts? I bet they are.
- Comment on One Angry Man 1 month ago:
The Bird Monster, Inc. The Goonie Car Man in Black District 1 1 Day Later
Inverse (not as fun but still I love these movies): Fight Clubs The Signals (2007) The Matrices
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 1 month ago:
As a male bi who tends to sleep with women more than men and tend to favor fem guys (I’m picky), I wish I was gayer.
That said, bi and poly women are fantastic.
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 1 month ago:
More people should watch this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmHHnPLllUk
The CC companies have religious morons contained within their executives but they’re mainly being puppeted by outside religious evangelical organizations with a long history of wanting to destroy all sex work or erotica art.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 1 month ago:
If you elaborated and actually explained the specifics of your point instead of being vague you run the risk of having to make an argument in favor of it instead of just feeling safely morally or intellectually superior to a stranger on the internet.
I don’t want to waste my time on ego. I know I can be ignorant, I’m looking to learn. I also know some people think they have it all figured out, I hope I can provide a meaningful counter for them to chew on. Maybe I didn’t understand you: then fucking explain your point or stop wasting people’s time with smug vague posts. This isn’t bluesky.
Otherwise, it sounds like you were actively hoping I did not understand your point so you could enjoy the aroma of your own flatulence.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 month ago:
I don’t know who the bad guy is here because closing the source a while back makes me distrust this dev yet also I 100% believe Linux users (or at least the power users) are almost certainly insufferable in ways that would drive a reasonable dev out of development for Linux.
- Comment on Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg writes a manifesto on bringing "personal superintelligence" to everyone to improve humanity, but doesn't even define what superintelligence means. 1 month ago:
The thing is, he is referencing specifically a model that recently demonstrated (to its developers at least) the ability to self improve without direct human input. But obviously there are caveats to what that actually means.
That he is referencing something specific and recent though makes me think he’s being genuine here, he believes what he is saying.
Obviously, hes almost certainly jumping the gun. Hes demonstrated a lack of critical thinking when it comes to new technological developments. See: all the money he dumped into VR and the Metaverse.
I see some commenters here pointing out that he is a coder, but he’s probably not coded anything for more than a decade at this point. He is fully immersed in the Silicon Valley koolaid, only he seems to use more public facing optimism about AI compared to other CEOs.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 1 month ago:
Fiction is definitionally not true or is made up.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 1 month ago:
Convert churches into museums for art and displaying the horrors of religion
Not all of them have pretty art. Just turn the boring looking ones into secular club houses or even just regular housing.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 1 month ago:
Do you support incest and rape video games being globally banned from sale? I mean, I can kind get it, its fucked up porn.
But I don’t like the idea of fictional smut, even if of particularly morally type of porn, gets globally banned (as long as its just fictional obviously).
What people jork their peanits to as long as no one was actually harmed in its production is none of my or your business.
Obviously, there is also the chilling effect of letting this slide and the anti-democratic nature of payment processors being the ones enforcing this. But I suspect those are unconvincing to you and you are happy this stuff is harder to get now. Am I wrong?
- Comment on I feel like it was on purpose 1 month ago:
IDK, maybe. I’m no expert. I would imagine it depends on how globalized the market was during Boomer’s 20’s and 30’s.
- Comment on I feel like it was on purpose 2 months ago:
Most millennials graduated shortly after the housing crisis of 2008. Its a major reason so many of us are unusually much much poorer than the average Gen Xer (who are only somewhat poorer compared to Boomers).
- Comment on Admit it. WE all do this 2 months ago:
The conversation continuing is fun. If I say something that makes them uncomfortable that tends to end the conversation. Depending on how extreme/strange the belief might even open some hostility.
That said, I agree with your sentiment anyway. Its probably worth the risk just to avoid the more “sad but safe” questions like work, weather, etc.