queerlilhayseed
@queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Lots of different aliens probably see rainbows. 1 week ago:
Why would you prepare me for stupid lore and then hit me with fabulous lore? I love this ❤️
- Comment on Are Americans Actually Idiots? 1 week ago:
Certainly. I think it’s kind of a truism that a high opinion of one’s own intelligence is comorbid with idiocy.
- Comment on Are Americans Actually Idiots? 1 week ago:
Anyone that lived ~through the pandemic~ knows that yes, most people are idiots
- Submitted 1 week ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on Is Flappy Bird a good game? 1 week ago:
LMAO thank you, I spent a while trying to figure out what title to give this post. I generally don’t like sorting games (or art in general) into “good” and “bad” buckets, but I didn’t really have a good handle on why people liked Flappy Bird, and I didn’t want to make assumptions about which parts of the game make it good or bad in people’s minds. “Is it good” is the most generic criterion I could come up with, so I went with that and hoped people would expand on their reasons in the comments. I appreciate the thoughtfulness of the comments (yours and others), it’s given me a lot to think about ❤️
- Comment on Is Flappy Bird a good game? 1 week ago:
That’s a good point, I too think it nailed one of the requirements of “simple” single-mechanic games, which is getting the player up to speed and into the fun part as quickly as possible.
- Comment on Is Flappy Bird a good game? 2 weeks ago:
That makes sense. I think with more complicated games (or any art) there’s some leeway where you can appreciate some things about the game enough that you endure the parts that don’t tickle your fancy. With games that really focus down on a single element, whether you are interested in the game at all hinges entirely on whether your tastes align with that one thing.
One of the reasons I asked is that, since precision timing games are not my thing, I can’t really tell if Flappy Bird is an exceptional example of the genre, or if it’s more of a Tiger King situation where it’s not that good, but it’s a fun thing that became a fad. Seems like the crowd is leaning closer to the latter.
- Comment on Is Flappy Bird a good game? 2 weeks ago:
IIRC the reasoning was that if the play store / app store synced, the app would be removed from the phone. I think for the vast majority of people, you may as well ask them to cast a spell as ask them to “sideload an APK”, so if they really really wanted to play Flappy Bird and felt that was beyond their capacity, this was the only alternative. Or maybe people thought phones with the “original” app would appreciate in value as collector’s items? The whole thing is mysterious to me.
- Comment on Is Flappy Bird a good game? 2 weeks ago:
I can see why people like games like Flappy Bird. I like a game that does one thing but does it really well. Precision button pressing has never been my forte so I have no sense of whether Flappy Bird was a “pretty good” precision button presser that just happened to get weirdly famous, or if it got famous because it really nailed the precision button presser genre.
- Comment on Is Flappy Bird a good game? 2 weeks ago:
It was extremely popular. For a while after it got pulled there was a small market for phones in airplane mode that still had a working version of the app. Some of the auctions went into the high five figures.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 33 comments
- Comment on Anyone remember that "First is the worst, second is the best" rhyme kids used to do? Where did that come from? 3 weeks ago:
Also third is the one in the polka-dot vest.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on YSK the phases of the moon 1 month ago:
It’s useful for flirting with a very specific type of nerd. Also I think it’s good for if you want to cast certain spells. And, unlikely though it may be, you could turn into a werewolf and it’s nice to be prepared.
- Comment on RFK Jr. food pyramid site links to Grok, which says you shouldn’t trust RFK Jr. 1 month ago:
I wonder how much HHS is paying Musk for that integration.
- Comment on New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles 1 month ago:
It makes sense to me to have low power chargers on a UPS. Once your power comes back online, it needs to deliver enough juice to power everything plugged into the UPS plus the battery charger. A fast charger would be more likely to trip a breaker.
- Comment on Using the same abbreviation scheme as "internationalization" -> "i18n", the word "to" can be abreviated as "t0o". 1 month ago:
I’m still working on my first one, apparently :/
- Comment on Using the same abbreviation scheme as "internationalization" -> "i18n", the word "to" can be abreviated as "t0o". 1 month ago:
N0o one is happy about this.
- Comment on Using the same abbreviation scheme as "internationalization" -> "i18n", the word "to" can be abreviated as "t0o". 1 month ago:
I am so mad right now
- Comment on Using the same abbreviation scheme as "internationalization" -> "i18n", the word "to" can be abreviated as "t0o". 1 month ago:
haha same. I went years knowing from technical osmosis that it meant “supporting other languages” but I never knew what it represented or why it had numbers in it. There are so many acronyms in tech I think inevitably some of them fall by the wayside for everyone.
- Comment on Using the same abbreviation scheme as "internationalization" -> "i18n", the word "to" can be abreviated as "t0o". 1 month ago:
Still at a loss as to what “"Sk8er Boi” is short for.
- Submitted 1 month ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 33 comments
- Comment on Starting to think affluenza might be a real thing. 1 month ago:
I don’t think it’s as simple as there being “good people” and “bad people”, and that only the worst people are capable of extreme wealth. I think wealth just happens to some people. Some people are born into it, some stumble into it, a lot of people seek it out and a few of those people “succeed”, though I’d argue even then it’s mostly chance. Of the people who get substantial wealth, some give it away, some retire into a wealth cocoon and are never heard from again, some lose it, and some actively grow it because they love the feeling of gaining wealth.
I don’t know if it’s addictive in the same way that some chemicals are addictive, but I bet it’s addictive in the same way that gambling is addictive, and wealthy people get hooked on the feeling of “winning” more wealth. I also think that it’s not strictly wealth addiction, but power addiction, which is why some super wealthy people tend to extravagantly flaunt their power: building megaprojects, influencing or simply taking over governments, violating laws with impunity, forcing the working class to work in extreme conditions if not outright enslaving them, etc. The use of power is their drug and they won’t stop themselves because they can’t. Does that make them bad people? It makes them harmful people who need intervention, the same way an alcoholic needs intervention before they get behind a wheel. I feel bad for kids born into wealth, who never had the chance to just be a human without the veil of power being drawn between them and the rest of humanity. The Don Jr.’s of the world. That doesn’t excuse their actions, nor does it mean that they don’t need to be stopped. But I think it hurts us to think of them as fundamentally “bad” in the same way I think it’s unhelpful to categorize alcoholics as “bad”. The real horror is that the monsters are just like us, and treating wealth hoarders and power addicts like they’re a different, less human kind of human is the same thing that they do to rationalize their own abuses.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Will no one rid me of these troublesome conspiracy laws?
- Comment on US approves major new arms sales to Israel worth $6.67 billion and to Saudi Arabia worth $9 billion 1 month ago:
I am so fucking tired of my taxes being used to kill people so rich assholes can take their land and resources.
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 2 months ago:
I think oppressors have a conscience already, they’ve just been taught to ignore it or accept exceptions to it. Or rather, I think it’s more that oppressive leaders are in on the game, but the vast majority of their coalition has to be hoodwinked into following along. Look at the modern American news media machine: we kind of forget how expensive it is because it’s also profitable, but that’s a huge amount of concerted effort directed at making white americans afraid of and angry at non-white people. If people were just naturally OK with oppression none of that would be necessary, they would just do it and not bother trying to justify it with scare tactics. It’s also fragile to argument, which is why books get banned and civil rights leaders get assassinated.
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 2 months ago:
Have there been cycle breaks? I’m not trying to be combative but I am curious to know what examples you have in mind. I don’t think human history has ever seen a break in the cycle of violence as I would define it. The active bloodshed has waxed and waned over the centuries, or at least moved from place to place, but violent oppression has been alive and malignant in every chapter of human history that I can think of.
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 2 months ago:
That’s a hard question and I don’t know. I don’t know that a strictly nonviolent movement can work if there’s a critical mass of oppressors who believe that those they oppress deserve to be oppressed. I think the theory of nonviolent resistance is built on an assumption that, deep down, we all know that what oppressors do is wrong and that there is a contrivance of convenience that allows oppressors to except themselves, or simply ignore that knowledge. I don’t know if that deep down knowledge is universal. But I know from personal experience it’s quite easy to ignore it, especially when one’s own life is hard, or when the oppression is mostly hidden from view, or simply when the problem of oppression seems overwhelming and unassailable. I believe that most people who don’t try to resist oppression either disapprove but feel helpless in the face of it, or they benefit from it and therefore try to justify it, or usually a combination of the two. If that belief is correct, then the answer I think is one of education. Give people the tools they need to fight nonviolently: Educate about local elections, form citizen watchdog groups, show how propaganda uses common tropes to reinforce ideas about the “inherent criminality” of the oppressed, teach the history of how oligarchs use flunkies like trump to implement favorable policies while deflecting blame onto minorities, and the million other things that people need to know to have a well functioning society. Use shame to dislodge the privileged from their comfortable niches and force them to answer for the consequences of their actions or lack thereof.
I think, especially now in America, this seems so far away that even to seriously consider it seems fanciful. Maybe it is. Maybe we’re at the point where violence is necessary to jerk us back from the cliff of autocracy. It certainly seems like trump and his goons want a fight, and it seems likely that sooner or later they’ll get one. But I don’t think violence can be solved with violence, and even if America goes through some violent convulsions I don’t think they’ll end us in a place where we aren’t doing violence to each other. Nonviolence requires nonviolence.
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 2 months ago:
Yeah. The question is whether to work to continue the cycle or work to break it.
- Comment on The longest finger is typically in the middle of the hand but the longest toe is typically at the end of a foot 2 months ago:
There’s something nice and showerthought-y about a relationship so mundane and inconsequential that it barely registers as a discrete idea being rendered as a factoid.