God of War 2018 isn’t the same as God of War 2005, I’m not that old.

How did you support yourself after getting out?

That’s a fair point. My family isn’t exactly known for getting old. I didn’t even meet half my grandparents and the only one I really got to know only lived into my early teenage years. I’ll probably only get to around 70 myself.

Damn, I’m about a decade older than you and there’s no way I’d call 1950 recent in any way. For all I care, it’s just as much ancient history as the roman empire. I don’t know anyone alive from either period, at least not on a personal level.

2100 on the other hand feels closer because I’m expect to come close to it within my lifetime. At least closer than I ever was to 1950.

Honest question, what’s the point of screens off if your game plan is nodding off in front of your TV?

Guess I’ll start with the same disclaimer: I don’t think I’m too smart for chess or anything.

I always thought chess is kinda boring. Don’t get me wrong, it’s fun enough as a novice. It’s probably also fun for people who mastered it, I’m not denying that.

However, for everything inbetween, it’s mostly about memorizing stuff. You just learn hundreds of openings and how to counter them. From what I’ve seen, a lot of intermediate players fall apart once they go off-script. It takes years until you’re good enough to strategize properly on your own, like a novice would, without some going “That’s the ‘double helix chin twister’” and beating you.

It’s kinda like the problem multiplayer games often have for me. There’s a set meta and you either learn it or lose. To experiment yourself successfully, you have to invest a massive amount of time. Experimenting myself is the fun part. I’m don’t want to invest hundreds if not thousands of hours before I get to have fun.

Iirc, we had sex ed in 3rd or 4th grade at age 10 or 11. Maybe younger, depending on the age you entered 1st grade.

It was repeated at grade 5, I think.

I don’t remember ever asking my parents anything and they never sat me down. I don’t think anyone ever seriously told me any fairy tales or misinformation.

Getting off = orgasm

The top seems to be the same size, the old one just bulges more while the new one almost goes straight down.

I honestly don’t get it. I’ve been playing the same game for about three months of real time now and clocked in about 120 hours. I didn’t play anything else and and it’s consuming most of the time I have to myself. The game is Witcher 3.

Now, that means every 1000 hours would take me 25 months or just over two years of playing a game exclusively. Probably more since my data above includes my Christmas vacation, which was quite lengthy. No single game is good enough to take such a big place in my life. I could play so many shorter better games.

Honestly, it’s the right image for both. At least for team based games. The first thing that comes to mind are unpleasent people when I hear ladder.

If you’re amazed by that, I’ve got a lot of stories about a certain pandemic for you. So many people got fooled, and still are to this day, you wouldn’t even know which side I’m on from this paragraph alone.

Another movie in the same vein is ‘The Last Dragon’. A fake documentary about dragons, plainly stating so in the beginning. Yet, some people still got fooled.

Or Beyond Believe, which your movie is related to.

There’s even that one time a mass hysteria happened due to a dramatic radio play. People overall just don’t get better at not getting fooled.

About 3 days. I do it every now and then since it does help relief a medical issue.

Interestingly, I don’t get hungry and don’t feel much difference overall. I could go much longer, but I don’t want to worry about refeeding syndrome.

Pretty much everything? I have very specific likes and pretty much stopped consuming things outside of those, since I can’t even fit all the stuff I’m guaranteed to like.

I guess among like-minded people, Final Fantasy 7 is the most glaring omission.

For lemmy, it’s probably anything Star Wars or Star Trek.

Given an unlimited amount of tries, I can win any major lottery 10 times in a row.

Given an unlimited amount of tries, I still cannot go super saiyan. Believe me, I’m close to that amount of tries!

The internet. We’ve had a solid few years, but it has become a giant heap of shit for the most part.

Back then, not everything was an AI generated, SEO, ad riddled, interaction fishing, time wasting, data collecting nightmare with auto-playing videos and a dark pattern employing cookie banner.

Politically speaking, there is a clear-cut answer for what a good person is, I think. Someone who wants to improve the life of as many people as possible - even at the risk of decreasing their own circumstances. And that is usually what the left should aspire to be.

Socially speaking, this usually means to grant the same rights to everyone. Giving up privileges, overcoming the bias one might have against certain groups and stopping to exploit them.

Fiscally, this usually means supporting the poor. Conservative fiscal policies are mostly based on greed - ‘conserving’ the wealth of those who already have it at the cost of the poor. Going to your example, Germany, conservatives are all about taking money from the poor (Bürgergeld, Bafög, etc.) while denying any policies against the rich (just listen to the conservatives speeches during the vote of confidence: ‘These so called super-rich people don’t exist! We can’t take from those! They are all family-owned businesses! Their wealth creates jobs!’ [loosely translated summary of both Merz and Lindner] Which is just emotionally charged trickle down nonsense that has been disproven multiple times over.). The myth of ‘fiscal responsibility’ is also easily disproved if you look at Merz’ policies he is campaigning on - they have been proven as nonsense within days if not hours.

It’s easy to see which is morally the better choice, both if you’re poor and if you’re rich. Robin Hood isn’t recognized as a heroic figure for nothing.

I think they want to intimidate others, but honestly giving him this much of a spotlight should be the dream of anyone thinking about attacking another CEO for attention.

Leftism is strange because most people aren’t left-leaning in every topic, just ask them about veganism e.g. Suddenly, a lot of people sound just like your average right-winger. Unfortunately, these people suck at acknowledging their own biases - just like pretty much every other human. They only support necessary social change up to the point they too would have to change.

The really strange thing is, call them out, and they may even turn right entirely, just for calling them out. I remember reading lots of people saying this after the election, despite the right having as much infighting as they have inbreeding. But it works for them.

The point is, I think a lot of people like to think about themselves as being on the left. They acknowledge it to be the correct way and want to think of themselves as being a good person - but they really aren’t, and it often shows.

And I repeat, that’s okay. We all suck at this. But we should still strife for better.

Lemmy users are normal people. However, only compared to other white males in their late twenties to mid thirties working in the tech industry. At least that’s what a survey on the German instance showed. Depending on your instance, the main variables are probably country of origin, sexual orientation and whether or not you’re still male - but statistically, that’s what you’ve been born as.

Compared to the general population, we’re probably more tech savvy, have higher education and therefore more money (mileage depends once again on you country of origin), are more left-leaning and we count way more furries among us.