I’ve always heard it said to never skimp on the things that come between you and the ground. Shoes, mattresses, tires, chairs, etc. Gravity is an unforgiving mistress and it has ways of subtly wearing down your body and your equipment if you don’t protect against it well enough.
I’ve lived in apartments most of my life, so I wouldn’t even know what to do with a big home if I had one.
What I will say is that, when playing Skyrim, Breezehome in Whiterun was always the house for me. Not nearly as big and opulent as some of the other ones you can get, but it’s compact and efficient, it doesn’t have a lot to maintain, and I don’t feel like I’m forced to fill it with stuff just for the sake of not letting empty space go to waste.
I feel like similar logic would apply to a real-world house for me. I’d like at least some space in there to be able to host gatherings of small groups of friends, but I like to live minimally and efficiently. I don’t want a lot of stuff to maintain or space to clean, I want to know where everything is when I need it, and I want to leave as small a footprint as I can (within reason).
I think my main grievance right now, looking at the housing market, is mainly that no one is building smaller homes anymore. All new developments are these massive mansions with huge yards which I don’t want, but when I’m looking for a smaller home, they’re all 50-100 or more years old and need a lot of work done.
Thanks to Lemmy, I don’t feel a need to return to Reddit, but I agree that we’re still essentially in “pale imitation” territory and I’m not sure if that will ever change.
In Twitter terms, it’s like everyone left for Mastodon but are really just waiting for a Bluesky to come around. I’d prefer to keep whatever platform I use open and free, but I’d like “approachable and vibrant” along with it if possible, which Lemmy is still struggling to accomplish.
Not the optional hardware survey, but they automatically collect other data just through usage of Steam and applications run through Steam.
They just get statistical data instead, then. I know some folks don’t care about companies knowing your activity and other telemetry data, but I’d probably still count that within the “bullshit around” exclusion criteria that OP defined.
It’s also normal for people to become nose blind to their own BO while still having an otherwise normal sense of smell. I think simply being direct about it is easier than trying to set up tests.
Usually Diablo and Diablo-likes are called ARPGs, a term that originally just meant “Action RPG” but is now mainly used to describe games similar to Diablo. Isometric, real-time, character builder RPGs.
Like: I guess I have to give it to Icarus and Daedalus. There’s something so sympathetically tragic about a kid who was just so excited to be free flying too close to the sun.
Dislike: Zeus disguises self and commits adultery, take your pick.
Honorable mention to Hades and Persephone; when I first heard this myth as a kid, Hades was painted in a villainous light where he kidnapped Persephone and then tricked her into eating the pomegranate seeds so she could never leave. But I prefer the reframing of the myth I see more often these days, where Persephone actually loved the unfairly maligned Hades and chose to elope with him.
The past is a good reference to learn from, but it can’t be a blueprint for the present. There are different circumstances between then and now which complicate things, like the aforementioned big money in politics.
Agreed. I started steps needed to be certified as an educator in my state but decided against it. ChatGPT isn’t the only reason, but it is a contributing factor. I don’t envy all of the teachers out there right now who have to throw out the entire playbook of what worked in the past.
And I feel bad for students like me who really struggled with in-class writing by hand in a limited amount of time, because that is what everyone is resorting to right now.
Online can be ok, but I do think that a game should take the Nintendo approach to online gameplay if it wants to be accessible to kids. Games like Splatoon or Mario Kart have online components that seem kid-friendly enough to me.
I always hate to dip into to “back in my day” territory, but I am grateful I grew up when I did, when all games were offline experiences. I never had to grow up with “the algorithm,” and my social gaming experience was just talking about them with friends at school the next day. I know times change, and tastes along with it, but I have to believe 10-year-old me wouldn’t enjoy today’s games as much. I was a shy kid and would have hated randos intruding in my gaming time.
Oh, tourist? I thought they said terrorist.
Just to expand, having a fixed sexuality that is unchangeable is an expression of “homonormativity”, which is to say it is queer identity that tries to coexist within the heteronormative default without challenging it.
It is easy to box oneself into a sexuality archetype like “gay” or “bi” or “ace” because they provide convenient labels that can be used to more easily understand/relate to others, and it helps to be able to organize and rally under a defined identity, but it fails to acknowledge that not everyone can perfectly fit the same mold, nor are they inherently going to follow the same path throughout life.
Semi-relevant side story: over Thanksgiving, I went to visit my folks, and walked in on them watching some cable TV channel which was airing an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond about (fittingly enough for my visit) a misunderstanding that Ray’s brother might be gay. And so there were some deeply uncomfortable canned laugh tracks at gay stereotype jokes that made my skin crawl before the two brothers confirmed their mutual heterosexuality, to great relief of both, but there was one line that stuck with me as having something of a grain of truth (paraphrasing): “Maybe I could be gay and I just haven’t met the right guy yet”.
Obviously if you’re a man who is into women 99% of the time but one day end up genuinely attracted to a guy, it doesnt make you “gay” (bi, maybe) but I’d argue that no one is inherently “gay”, nor can one be perfectly “straight”. Heteronormativity instills that concept of essentialism in order to perpetuate the “us vs them” binary of sexuality, and so essentialist identities are as much a trap as they are a convenience. People are better off thinking less “What am I” and more “Who am I attracted to”, and accepting that can change over time.
It’s not so much people being worried about wasting it, as much as they’re worried about paying someone to continue fueling spirals of addiction. People can be homeless due to any number of different factors, so I hate to assume someone’s circumstances, but it’s impossible to know when giving cash is helping or making things worse.
My place of work is a nonprofit that coordinates with a variety of local social services, so I donate to those causes each year instead and help others connect to the resources they offer when I can.
Depends on the game. Some of them, absolutely. Roblox is one that comes to mind, probably Fortnite as well. And one shouldn’t even start on mobile games.
Call me basic, but since I have a Spotify subscription for music, I just use it for podcasts, too.
People who are very good at instruments. I wish I just knew guitar to be able to shred on demand, but I just could not put in the time and effort to get there myself.
I think the worry is that they are capable of doing to Lemmy what they did to Reddit: regurgitating content or producing astroturfed content while appearing like authentic users.
The real TIL is always in the comments. Cheers!
To be honest, the UHC CEO was probably responsible for more loss of life than Al-Qaeda was.