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jjjalljs,

One of my cool older cousins was playing this one christmas when we went to his house! I was vaguely disappointed when we went back the next year and he was like “oh yeah that was fun but i beat it and don’t play it anymore.” Little kid brain assumed the game just went on for much longer than it does. Playing it together (ie: taking turns) is a fond childhood memory for me, though.

jjjalljs,

I remember reading about that one in a video games magazine when I was a kid! I never played it. I kind of assumed it was a bigger deal because it had a lot of coverage in whatever magazine I was reading.

jjjalljs, (edited )

There was an old PC game called “Dominus”. I don’t really know much about it. My dad just randomly picked it up as an xmas gift one year for me. It was pretty sweet.

You’re the lord of a kingdom that gets invaded by like eight armies. You have your own monster units you can deploy. You can deploy traps. You can cast spells. You can go down and fight hand to hand. If they make it to the throne room and kill you, it’s game over.

If you capture enemy troops, you can interrogate them. There’s a little animation where they get poked with a red hot iron poker. If you capture a leader, you can sometimes negotiate peace. If you capture an enemy mage, you can learn part of a secret spell. I never got a secret spell working, though.

It was super cool. Never met anyone who’s played it.

jjjalljs,

This is a lot like this Bors comic dailykos.com/…/-Cartoon-You-made-me-become-a-Nazi

Do honest people really migrate to “climate change is fake and queer people are a threat” because someone was mean to them online? Probably not often.

jjjalljs,

Belief is social. If you’re surrounded by people that all believe a thing, you’re more likely to also believe. If challenged on something that threatens group membership, your brain reacts like it’s a physical threat. Group membership is that important. Facts matter far less.

This happens to everyone.

jjjalljs, (edited )

Lady I used to sit next to at work didn’t use an ad blocker. She also would have like the “do you want to install this plugin?” thing open in her ide for weeks. I don’t know how she did it. She’s a software developer so she’s reasonably tech literate. It just didn’t bother her enough to think about doing something about it.

jjjalljs,

Yeah JavaScript is a horrible language and ecosystem in a lot of ways, but package.json and friends don’t really give me much trouble.

And even if you hose something, you should be able to clear it out and reinstall easily.

I’m assuming the maintainer didn’t (knowingly) make a breaking change in a minor/patch release. That’s a high crime.

jjjalljs,

The common “curse” words like “shit” and “fuck” are pretty impersonal. They can signal an escalation, but are typically pretty minor. They don’t even do that when the speaker is like “I just took a huge shit. Don’t go in there for a while”

Other words, like racial slurs and anti-queer stuff, invoke more history and violence. If someone calls someone an asshole that’s probably not that big a deal. If they call someone a n-word f-gay-slur, there might be a hate crime about to happen.

So I don’t use those words. I don’t want to bring the stuff they import into the scene.

People who are the typical recipients of the slurs using them themselves is a related topic I’m not very qualified to speak on, and I wouldn’t try to police their language.

jjjalljs,

Normal people seem to look at a lot of social media, yes. Instagram, tiktok, whatever. Some people also have a lot of group chats.

Some people read. Your library probably offers free ebooks. Comics, too, when I want something even simpler.

jjjalljs,

Would like there to be less stigma around sex work.

As with all work, I want better work protection. Unions. All that.

Specifically, I’m really tired of the “step-” stuff that the major free sites seem to push a lot. I don’t know why it’s trending but I don’t like it.

I think in a couple years ai is going to be good enough to make video, and that’s going to be weird. Like today you can type “big tit redhead” and hope you get results that do it for you, but in the future it’ll probably be able to create results. That will open whole new fronts in ethical debates.

jjjalljs,

If I was going to do more lotr content, I’d probably do something with the Eastern front of the war. What did the blue wizards get up to?

jjjalljs,

One, those are famous works that used characters they didn’t create. Just off the top of my head. Also The Aeneid, which I haven’t read but the internet is telling me is basically Ascended Fanfiction.

Two, you don’t really seem to have an informed opinion on this topic. Which is, like, fine. Most of us don’t know most things. But maybe consider there’s good reasons many people are disagreeing with you.

jjjalljs,

Not long ago I saw a woman’s profile on tinder in NYC that said “No bi men”. I guess it’s good that she put her phobia right out front like that.

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    jjjalljs,

    That’s weird because it looks fine for me

    imgur.com/a/U6fNqqP

    jjjalljs,

    The unpleasant “step” part is in the title of the video so it’s not really avoidable.

    I’m not sure if it’s a client thing, but using dashes also made bullet points. Are asterisk points different?

    • dash one
    • dash two
      • sub dash one

    And

    • Star one
    • Star two
      • Sub star one
    jjjalljs,

    I think even if you enter in via Google or ddg with “-step”, the porn site itself will probably have them as related (no pun intended) videos and recommended videos. It’s a small complaint certainly.

    The bullets I think might be a client thing? They look fine for me. I won’t say I know markdown super well but I use it at work sometimes.

    I’m on lemmy using Firefox Android.

    imgur.com/a/OU8ATAS

    jjjalljs,

    Is there a way to make it stop recommending weird “step-” stuff? Like, the top page right now (incognito, but I guess it’s possible they fingerprinted my device so it’s not entirely a “new” user)

    • stepsister
    • roommate
    • step sister
    • step siste
    • step sister
    • "i met her in the elevator" - ok at least this one isn’t a family member
    • step daughter
    • step sister
    • "snapchat leak" - ok this is differently gross
    • "best friend" - sigh fine
    • thick asian - acceptable
    • "best friend", again.
    • step sister and so on.

    Everyone I’ve talked to about this hates it, but I guess enough people either like it or click it anyway for it to be the dominant theme.

    jjjalljs,

    Neither Pornhub nor xvideos seem to support that :(

    Does "Rock music is evil / of the devil" have racist roots?

    As a Christian most of the circles I’m around are pretty chill…no stone-cold fundamentalists. But I have been around people (and even had family members) who are 100% convinced that rock music is evil and will lead people to engage in witchcraft and draw pentagrams all over their home....

    jjjalljs,

    I’ve never heard anyone blame the drums before. Usually it’s thinly veiled “rock is blues, blues is black, black is bad”

    Also sometimes “too left wing. Damn commies”, sometimes.

    jjjalljs,

    I understood that reference

    jjjalljs,

    I don’t think anyone is in favor of relaxing DUI laws.

    If it remains a black market good, that precludes a lot of safety and regulation. Humans love drugs. If I was writing a sci-fi setting, drugs would probably be the Human Special Thing. They’re not going away. Focus on harm reduction. And as far as harm from drugs go, marijuana is pretty low on the danger factor.

    jjjalljs,

    Does conservatism mean “preserve the way things are”? Things are bad. Things are really bad for a lot of people. Trying to preserve things in such a state is difficult to justify.

    Is it “outgroups to bind, in groups to defend”? Well that’s obviously a bad framework.

    jjjalljs,

    This is one of my biggest peeves in games. Ass Creed Valhalla was really bad about it. Identical looking dudes on opposite sides of a river. One set are pushovers the others are completely lethal. Hate it.

    jjjalljs,

    I made some friends through Meetup when it was a more popular website. I think it might still be around. I went to some board game and rpg meetups.

    One of my friends met a lot of her friends through the local music scene. Go to shows, talk to people.

    jjjalljs,

    I was going to say something like this but probably less well written.

    I’ve definitely had coworkers that I simply do not trust to commit code without review. And there’s one guy who’s a cool dude and all, but all of his ideas seem to be “let’s throw everything out and do it with a different library/language/paradigm”. And I’m just like no please no.

    I’m not a manager thankfully.

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