I find it’s even worse with music than movies, especially if you include not knowing the thing in question at all. The movie guy reaction to not having watched the #8 top grossing movie the year is “dude how have you not seen it??? You’ve gotta see it!”, the music guy reaction to not hearing any of the #8 top musician/band this year is “are you a shutin or a dumbass? everyone I know listens to them!”. I’ve even seen both of these reactions from the same person lol.
I swear, a lot of gay dudes just don’t have “bisexual” in their vocabulary. Like they don’t stop to think that maybe “hey, any straight guys around here like the thought of making another man cum?” reads like “hey bachelors, hows the wife doin?” to anyone who knows what words mean?
Like, I can get there being some fetishization/roleplay around “converting” a straight guy gay. But that’s never the angle. They just use the word straight like they know everyone on earth wants to suck their dick.
I like the idea of scaled; boosting posts from smaller communities seems like it’d be a great way to find the niches I’m into.
The problem I run into is that it goes so far that not being upvoted at all is enough to put a post on the front page. That’d be fine if it was pulling from a variety of sources, but testing it out just now I saw 5 posts in a row from the portugal comm, all with a +1 -0 score. Is it supposed to work like that or am I missing something?
edit: 6 actually lol
Whenever some tabloid interviews some 112 year old lady, without fail she’ll attribute her longevity to some random habit like having a lot of chocolate. Maybe this is what she meant…
It’s got an N shape in my experience. Stuff someone recorded just because the’re horny sucks. When they know how to operate a camera then it’ll be the most genuine fulfllment of whatever specific thing you’re into. When they’re being payed to do it you can tell everything’s kinda stilted and it sucks. When they have enough budget and acting skills to make it theater quality then it’s good again (though I’ve rarely seen that for whatever reason).
The reaction to “I’m not your fucking therapist” being “Do you believe there is truly not a single valid reason to use windows whatsoever” is just as absurd IMO (though some of these threads show that, yeah, some people think that).
The scenario described by OP is they’re just complaining about something about Windows/iOS/whatever just to vent and these people come in thinking they’re being helpful by mentioning an alternative. I’ve come to find that there’s 2 (relevant) personality types; people who complain because it’s cathartic, and people who complain because they want their problem solved. Linux users are overwhelmingly the latter. So, from their perspective, they see someone who is complaining yet expects people to just sit there and listen, hence the “I’m not your therapist” comment.
I don’t think any of that is new, except for maybe the OS part. As a kid I remember seeing a bunch of interactions like this and it’s always been much more a personality than a culture thing.
Here in the US I’ve gotten a lot of pickled herring over the years, and “mild” is NOT how I’d describe it. It’s super sour and sweet (and creamy if you get ones with sour cream, which I usually do) One of my favorite foods, but now I’m worried that I’ve been eating something else lol.
incidentally had some in my fridge for reference
I posted a negative review of kithack model club over this exact issue and got 50/50 clown to other awards on it. When I also talked a bit about it on the steam forums, I noticed there’s a guy who clearly isn’t working for the dev and goes to every post to tell them to go to the discord. I’d be fine with that if he didn’t also argue with anyone who doesn’t think that’s good. Some people man.
My body forces me to wake up at 6am and I hate it. The only classes I could take to fill out my degree mean I get home at 9, barely enough time to make dinner / clean the house / have free time AND get 8 hours of sleep. Doesn’t matter if I go to sleep at 2am, I’ll still wake up at 6 and feel like crap. Everyone I know acts like I’m a weirdo for hopping off a group chat to wind down at 9. The times I’ve been lucky enough to have a schedule that works for me it becomes clear that I’m the only alert person in the room at noon.
Y’all complain that you can’t do anything in the morning without sacrificing your health. I wish I could take that instead of losing my evenings. Grass is always greener.
I don’t play hollow knight, but a friend who does told me there’s a line in the game that strongly implies she’s a lesbian. Methinks that implanted horny bug smut into many a gamer.
The part where he talks about video games definitely feels like my experience, at least when it comes to meeting people outside of the context of a specific game and its community.
When I’ve gotten into convos in these situations, usually it’ll be evident they mostly only play some set of the following games:
That’s not a complete list, but for the most part it will be a bunch of games like that with a sizeable, committed, “normie” following that I don’t play. I can’t bond with these people over games even though on a surface level we’re both “gamers”, because the only game we’ll have in common is Minecraft.
I think the gap here is that for someone like me or anon, we have interests and want to find people who are also interested in that thing, but from the sounds of your post you’re finding people and getting your interests from them. In the latter case, of course there’s no trouble connecting with people, because you’re more willing to mold yourself to do so.
Is that not a relevant thing to say?
Not OP, so I don’t necessarily feel this way about skong, but have you ever had your feed filled with discussion of something that you just don’t care about? And then you go talk to your friends and they’re also talking about it? Then you talk to a relative and they’re asking you what all the fuss is about? All while you give 0 shits about it?
I’ve been there, and it’s easy to just get plain annoyed at the subject coming up, even if innocuously. It’s the real life equivalent of squidward tuning into boxing because it’s not about cardboard boxes, only to be greeted with 2 cardboard boxes going at it.
And if you’re somehow in doubt that skong has satuarated discussion everywhere
“wallwiz” is also pretty closely related to the topic. As OP states it also sounds less juvenile.
using a penguin as a mascot in foss is hardly unique.
we’re on lemmy so there’s almost certainly going to be a couple other replies that hammer on this specific point. But for my part: use of AI, to me, communicates a lack of effort. If they had commissioned someone who could be more familiar with the actual project to do the branding, that would tell me it’s a project they gave a shit about.
I don’t consider “ai art” to actually be art. This is a whole debate we could have but I’ll leave it at that.
Unless you’re talking about the functionality of the program, but that’s separate from the branding issue OP is complaining about.
Yeah that’s just what the program does. OP has no issues there.
The branding is ai generated, which is to say: it looks like any other github repo with a filled out README.md
What do you mean by this? Feels like a random adjective to throw out there.