Are_Euclidding_Me [e/em/eir]

What are you talking about? I haven’t had to fuck with drivers on Linux in like a decade, and even then it was because I had one of those weird gaming laptops that had two GPU’s. “Works flawlessly” to me means just that: install it from your distro’s package manager and it’s ready to go, with perhaps a smidge of configuration if necessary. Retroarch is “a chore” in the sense that it took me like an afternoon of tinkering to get working, and most of that was because I simply didn’t understand the core concept of how to get controllers working.

“Two weeks of fraught driver installs” my ass. And “commands taken from the necronomicon”, really? Are you that afraid of the command line? I’d say you owe it to yourself to give Linux a shot. You’ve got the wrong idea about it, and about those of us who use it.

What the fuck is this post?! Leave the damn mud crabs alone! Both from a vegan perspective and an environmental perspective. Don’t catch mudcrabs, you fucking ghoul, just leave them the fuck alone

I’m begging people who think of video games like this to play Pathologic 2. Please. It’s so good and will hopefully change your mind about what kinds of art games as a medium can produce. Of course it’s all hand-made on purpose for the player, of course it is, that’s what games are, but hell, aren’t fucking novels hand-made on purpose for the reader? I’ve never had anyone explain to me how novels are worth reading but games aren’t worth playing, when, to me, they seem more similar than different as mediums.

Now, of course, there are different kinds of games. One of my favorites, Doom 2016, is very clearly exactly the kind of “dopamine factory” kind of game you’re talking about. Of course they exist, but they’re, in my mind, sort of the “fast food” of video games. Sure, I can boot up Doom 2016 and slay my way through hordes of demons, it’ll make my brain happy in the moment, but I don’t get any lasting effects from such a spree, and too much of it absolutely makes me feel like shit. But not every game is like this!!! Play Outer Wilds. Play Disco Elysium. Play Pathologic 2 (yes, I’m recommending it twice in one comment, it’s that good). Or maybe Journey or even A Short Hike! All of these games will make you feel something, the way a novel or a TV show or a movie would.

I guess it just pisses me off when people don’t take games seriously as a medium. I know it shouldn’t matter, but like, you never hear people saying this kind of shit about movie buffs, do you? I’ve never once heard anyone say the following: “Watching movies isn’t a real hobby. Movies have no functional purpose. They are made purely for you to consume, so you get a hit of dopamine, which you won’t get elsewhere. Everything is made for you so that you’ll feel whatever it is the filmmakers want you to feel, but those emotions aren’t organic or real.”

We seem to, as a society, respect movies, TV shows, and novels. We view them as forms of entertainment that are worth engaging with and thinking about. But games often don’t get the same treatment, even when they should. It doesn’t help, of course, that there is indeed a contingent of gamers who want games to continue to be shitty slop that isn’t worth engaging with or thinking about. Thankfully, as loud as this crowd is, they are a minority. Most of us who play and enjoy video games want good ones, which for me means games with the narrative depth of a good novel or TV show.

Oh, you really should! I mean, I know you know, but like, it’s really good! Very good send-off to the series, quite funny, good stuff from beginning to end!

Does this guy look like Cooper from Twin Peaks to anyone else or is that just me?

I make these in the oven. They aren’t quite as good as I think they would be in an air fryer, but I don’t have one of those and don’t have enough room for another kitchen gadget right now.

If you want to try them in the oven, follow the recipe up until it’s time to put them in the air fryer, then instead lay them on a baking sheet, ideally lined with parchment paper to help them not stick to your sheet, and put them in the oven at 400F for like an hour. You could try to flip or stir them halfway through, but I find they’re usually slightly stuck to the parchment paper at that point and it’s just not really worth it to try to flip them.

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Hey thanks for doing this! I realized after I’d gotten banned from the .ee one that you can’t block comms you’re banned from. Which seems like a real lemmy oversight, gotta say!

Fucking hell, against my better judgement, I’m going to try just one more time to reach you.

Even doctors washing their hands between patients was a major controversy among doctors even though the statistical evidence proving that washing hands saves lives was very clear.

How do you think this changed? It wasn’t the pro-hand-washing doctors throwing up their hands and saying “you’re all idiots and incapable of understanding the truth”. If they’d done that, hand washing would still be controversial. No, they explained, they did experiments, they argued, they used evidence. It’s hard, people suck, people are stubborn, but if your message is worth sharing, it’s worth sharing in a way that doesn’t immediately make people roll their eyes and stop talking to you. And your method of communication does exactly that.

I was a math teacher for many years. Do you know how frustrating it is to try and teach kids what a derivative is? It’s so fucking clear and obvious. Derivatives are rates of change. They’re the slope of tangent lines, how the hell can I make this any clearer?!? And yet. Some portion of them don’t get it. So, as a teacher, do I throw up my hands and say “fuck it, this student is mathematically incapable, get them out of my class”. Absolutely not. I try again, with different words, a different picture, a different context. And if they still don’t get it? You guessed it, you try again. And you start asking them questions to try and figure out what is causing the misunderstanding. You ask them to tell you what a function is, what a slope is. You ask them to tell you everything they can glean from a diagram. You do the hard work to figure out where exactly the disconnect is and what you can do to fix that.

Prophets aren’t so different from teachers. You have wisdom you want, or need, to impart, and there are people who could learn from your wisdom, I guarantee it. But people don’t want to learn from an asshole. Especially not an impatient asshole. And that’s what your posting style says to me: you’re an impatient asshole. Now that may or may not be true, and I’ve dabbled in assholery myself, believe me (or just check my post history, there’s a lot of assholery there), but you don’t have to post like an impatient asshole. And you’ll get better engagement, more people willing to listen to you, if you don’t post like an impatient asshole.

Well, I’ve done all I can here. Good luck with your life as a prophet! You’ll either learn how to explain your ideas to people or you won’t, and clearly nothing I can say will make any difference.

Of course you did. But look at the responses you’re getting, people aren’t convinced! So the way I see it, you have two options: continue as you are, jumping down people’s throats the instant they push back on your claims, pushing people away and making it harder to spread your message, or, explain more, again, in a different way, never stop explaining. If people need to hear your message, if god wants you to spread it, then you gotta do it in a way that gets people to listen, right? And immediately going on the offensive the second you get any pushback isn’t going to work! You’ve got to do the hard work of gentle persuasion.

Well, I read your post, it doesn’t seem very explanatory. It reads like someone just making claim after claim, with no backing for any of them. And sure, maybe the backing is “god told me this in a conversation we had last week”, but then I feel like maybe your job needs to be to take what god tells you and find textual evidence to support it in the bible. You have very little of that. You’re “connecting the dots” in a way that I’m sure feels true and obvious to you, but to the rest of us, your connections are not at all obvious, and instead of trying to explain them, you just call people idiots or say you’re not surprised they’re mocking you or say you’ve already explained.

Hey buddy, I’m an atheist. I don’t believe in god at all, so of course I don’t believe you’re really hearing the word of god. I’m sorry you’re insulted by that, but friendo, as a prophet you’re going to have to endure way worse treatment than just some random atheist on the internet not believing god is real. You might practice not letting the non-believers (it’s me, I’m the non-believer) get to you. If you know you’ve been contacted by god, what the fuck does it matter whether I believe you or not? Believe in yourself and your message enough to be willing to explain it, over and over and over again, because as a prophet that’s what you’re going to have to do.

If you get insulted so easily that you immediately go on the offensive and refuse to explain your revelations at the first sign that someone doesn’t believe you, you’re simply not going to be a very effective prophet, that’s all I’m saying.

So that’s a yes then. Wild! At least that explains why you’re so unwilling to back up your claims! You’re expecting all of us to simply believe you immediately because you’re god’s chosen or whatever. You do you, of course, but I’d suggest being a little more willing to meet people where they’re at and actually explain where you’re coming from rather than trying to browbeat them into agreeing based on nothing other than you stating you’ve experienced divine revelation. Alternatively, be a little more up-front with the fact that you feel you’re god’s chosen so that people know they’re not going to get an interesting conversation about bible scholarship with you, but instead your interpretation of the revelations you’ve received, with no discussion.

Holy shit, are you a prophet?

This one hit me as a little off. I usually like their gaybaiting, it’s usually quite funny and clearly coming from a place of “hell yeah, being gay is awesome”! But for whatever reason, this video had a couple jokes that felt more like how people would call stuff “gay” as an insult back in the early 2000’s. I might be too sensitive, and I’m certainly not trying to “cancel” Alex and Aleksa for a couple of jokes that didn’t land for me, but still, I didn’t like this one. It felt at points like they were using “gay” to mean “effeminate (insulting)”, and I think they know better than that, so I don’t really know what happened here

Yup! The amount of meat being produced is very much not sustainable! I would love to see animal ag subsidies go away so that the true cost of eating animals is clear.

Oh my, apparently the “carnivore” we’re talking about here believes eating only animal products protects against sunburn! You can’t make this shit up.

I really should go do something productive with my day and stop reading the post history of some jerk on the internet.

I mean, they’re a “carnivore” (I don’t have enough eyes to roll to express my feelings about humans who think they’re carnivores), what do you expect? Literally every “carnivore” I’ve had the displeasure of interacting with has had some online guru they follow, many of whom pretend to be doctors, even though usually with a bit of digging you find out they either never were or no longer are a doctor.

But hey, now I’m banned from that shitty comm, so I count that as an absolute win!

I don’t actually care about your reasons for eating the corpses of sentient beings. If you think I’m “impolite” for asking you to stop, that’s fine, but it’s still true that you pay to have sentient beings murdered so that you can eat their corpses. That’s just a fact.