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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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  • I mostly agree, though there is a biological clock to consider. Evening people can be evening people because of many reasons. It can be relative to the normal day schedule, defined by societal norms and the timezone, it can be relative to when other people are around, but it can also be relative to the natural clock which should be in sync with sunset/sunrise. This factor definitely matters, we just moved the clock one hour backwards here and it’s completely fucking me up.


  • Wtf. How did they not at the very least build in a reasonable safe state whenever the thing gets disconnected. Something like “keep current position, disable heating” or return to flat position.

    But the more pressing question is: why does a bed have an internet connection? Who does this help? And why does it NEED an internet connection? Surely a few Back-up buttons for when the service eventually goes down isn’t too much to ask? Who would buy such a thing?!





  • I have this with lots of other things currently. Whenever I cannot do one of my hobbies, I will fantasize about them and come up with all kinds of ideas of what to do, but when the time comes to do them I just cannot get going and sometimes even get stressed. My brain would rather just stare at YouTube videos all day. I believe it’s our dopamine systems being completely fried due to all the easily accessible instant gratification online.

    I recently read a book again for the first time in years, Dune, and I was struggling so hard in the beginning. My brain just wanted to scroll. I enjoyed the book, but nevertheless my brain wanted instant gratification and I had to resist the urge to grab my phone while reading the book. Luckily this subsided after getting a bit further.

    I don’t often have this for games yet luckily. I’m currently absorbed in Hades II and no amount of brain rot can get me out of it. But it’s one of the last sacred places, and even gaming sometimes suffers this fate. There are so many gun things to do that it’s just overwhelming, whenever you do something your brain always has something else it wants to do more. Not because it actually wants it, but just because it likes the idea of it. As a kid I didn’t have all this stuff, and didn’t experience all these things, so everything I did felt special.


  • gerryflap@feddit.nlto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneour girl rules
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    1 month ago

    Because she tends to fight for things they people know to be true, but just have accepted to ignore because it makes their life simpler. Getting confronted with being a bad person tends to make people defensive, especially if it’s a young girl doing that to “though” men. These guys can’t handle criticism like that because it hurts their ego



  • gerryflap@feddit.nlto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneWoke rule
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    This list is hilarious. It’s so inconsistent. Assassin’s Creed is woke because of a line in the fucking start screen of the game. Most games I love are woke according to them. What a sad existence must these people have when they cannot play all these great games. Cyberpunk? Woke! Satisfactory? Woke! Hades? Woke! Jedi Fallen Order and Survivor? Both woke! Celeste? Extremely Woke!

    They should make a second meme page for it that changes woke to based and reverses the colours while keeping the comments intact.






  • (Mild spoilers) That scene isn’t sexual tho, at least not with Fem V and the female option, Skye. As an asexual person who would rather not watch sex scènes, I was so ready to bail on that mission the moment things got spicy. But I ended up running through the entire conversation tree without having anything spicy happen. Rather, it turned into a sort of therapy session for V and honestly a quite emotional moment in the game.

    It’s funny though to imagine that whole mission with a homophobic dude and having to do the same thing with the guy, Angel. Must be prime content to watch the homophobe be stressed beyond belief for what’s to come.



  • gerryflap@feddit.nltoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHuh?
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    2 months ago

    Probably, but in this case it fits. If there’s anything that generative AI is good at, it’s capturing the vibe of that fucked up thing your brain does in dreams. This image perfectly represents what my brain does when I’m just awake or almost asleep. Messing with proportions and unable to form a normal picture of things.


  • Recently my parents showed me some stuff they saw on Facebook. It was all just AI slop, rage bait, advertisements. Seriously, there was barely anything useful on it. They were very avoidant of acknowledging it tho. “But there’s also fun stuff on it”. They were constantly wondering whether what they were reading was real, yet it did plant seeds in their brains. It’s even influencing their politics, I had to have a whole discussion with them (traditionally centre left voters) about how our left wing parties didn’t want to let an unstoppable horde of immigrants into our country. And why voting for a centre right guy because “he looks pretty competent” will also fuck with poor people and important topics like abortion.



  • Imo the whole incel thing is a symptom, not the cause. Many men feel lonely, lost, and useless in today’s society. Without a proper support network and raised to hide away our emotions, many of us don’t have the proper tools to tackle this monster. Then, conveniently, there are these people who tell you that none of it is your fault. That it’s not you who needs to change or improve yourself, but society that went wrong. That it’s the “woke people” who paint you as a villain, that it’s the women who deny you the “right” to a relationship .

    Many men are looking for answers. And the whole incel alt-right pipeline gives easy answers. It blames everyone else. And when you’re already in a dark place, tired and lost, it can be hard to resist. Not that I want to excuse incels in any way, they’re dangerous and we have every right to vilify them. But imo they’re not the cause, just a symptom of the broader issue. And to prevent more incels from appearing, I think it’s time they men’s mental health is taken a bit more seriously. Society needs to adapt, starting from how boys are raised.