he also cheats in single player puzzle games

of course there is no way to definitely prove that, which was probably an intentional tactic, but certain puzzles he “solved” in “hours” took a whole community weeks to figure out (brute force was the only way) and there’s no way he’s just happened to guess the right answer

if i was cis and stayed white i’d vibe in 1950s or something. but as a trans person hell nah, i like having some healthcare, not much but some

oh thank goodness. An image of students typing their notes with the on screen keyboard flashed in my mind and i was scared

please tell me they have those little external keyboards which would make them basically a shitty laptop

is gemini on all androids? i remember there once was something called bixby, now when i accidentally hold the home button for too long it tells me to enable “circle”. i’ve disabled all of those “smart” features but fuck knows what is going to get automatically installed in an update next week

i mean, yeah?

the cookies you accept, the addons you have, hell, even the size of your monitor when you maximalise the window is a part of your browser fingerprint

anyone who’s ever downloaded the Tor browser will know it. that browser screams at you if you try to maximalise or install addons exactly because of that

hmm, i do wonder which causes which. Depression makes you prone to addictions as you seek anything to give you the happy chemicals. But constant social media exposure is rather harmful when you just take it all in, and that can cause depression Especially if you don’t block keywords for war coverages and politics.

i stand firm in my opinion that human brains are straight up not designed to take in a constant stream of bad news from around the world, which sucks because we are designed to focus on negatives for our survival. Memories of accidents and deaths take priority over nice memories so that we can avoid dangers better. from evolution’s point of view you being happy is an afterthought, you just need to live long enough to fuck. and across history it worked! we never had to distinguish between dangers nearby and dangers so far away it literally does not matter for you, as all news were brought by foot or with an otherwise huge time delay - they were either nearby or already history, and only one or two at a time. well, never… until today, and our neuroplasticity doesn’t seem to be enough to counter this, and evolution doesn’t work fast enough to fix this

Could also be a vicious cycle where if you trip and fall once both will create a negative synergy where you try to drown your sorrows in addictive doomscrolling, which only makes you worse

fascinating how far we’ve gotten in the science of abusing every aspect of human psychology

there’s so, so many ways to influence others

recently i’ve been binging some true crime, two videos by two different youtubers, same topic. A mother murdered by her adopted teen son

• video 1: the mother is presented as a flawed saint, not perfect but with a big heart. the teen is presented as a sociopathic monster, troubled, ungrateful, heartless. the second to last fight he broke her arm. the last fight he killed her. when he spoke of how his mother abused him the youtube comments sang “what a monster, to try to slander his mother after he killed her”

• video 2: a few more details appear, the focus shifts towards the mother. she once had two adopted sons, the second she adopted so “[her son] can experience having a sibling”, some time later CPS had to intervene as the second kid had bars in his windows and a bucket for a toilet. he was deemed troubled and ultimately ran away from home. she had a tendency to fight with her remaining son, degrade him on the basis of his race “if i hadn’t adopted you, you’d be standing on the border with the rest of those people” (she might’ve said “idiots” but i can’t be bothered to check). she felt like her teenage son owed her money for phone bills. the narrator here goes into detail how antisocial personality disorders can be caused by both genetic and environmental factors, they can be learnt behaviours. the remaining son often left home and lived with others after he fought with his mother, mostly about money. here the fact he broke her arm in a fight is ommited, just mentions how he lived with another person and thought long if he should come back. he’s presented as a troubled teen abused by his mother who taught him heartlessness and who ultimately snapped and killed her. the youtube comments sang “what a terrible woman, how could she treat him like that”

same situation, two videos giving you the “correct” interpretation of the events. if i hadn’t accidentally found the other one i wouldn’t even have known there was more to the story, it seemed very matter of fact, very objective, just reporting on what happened & the context that caused it.

it’s really that simple, all it takes is to pick the facts that suit your narrative and present them, you’re not really lying that way, but who would consider it truth either

and that’s one tactic amongst many

hah same, it was the first thing i did after getting some emulators. and yeah the emulation gives some lag that’s normally not noticable, but in rhythm games that require perfect timing it can make the whole experience miserable

you can skip a bar without loosing fever :) take things one at a time!

patapon 1 & 2 replay is releasing on steam soon as well! in case you didn’t know

oh heck yeah! as a patapon fan i finished the demo and i absolutely adore it! it feels like the natural evolution of patapon, we skipped a few games that’d make the transition smoother but the soul is there

oop sorry, seems like i’m from the opposite side of the world and my phrasing after waking up could also have used some work

by “there” i meant reddit in that comment

to this i’d like to add that when i browse there sometimes i keep seeing people saying things like “this is reddit libs are everywhere” “this is reddit even slight conservatism will make people call for a death sentence” or “this is reddit you can’t say anything non-progressive” and those are getting many upvotes, whilst anything said that’d paint you as anywhere left of centre will get you downvoted.

it seems like the conservatives have taken over and yet they still feel like they’re surrounded

ah yes, seeing deepweb market-esque exit scams on the surface web is a sign of a healthy system

as someone who hates turn based games, and heavily dislikes JRPGs and this game has both…

yeah it’s still amazing, even just the story, character writing, and world building can carry you through at peak investment in the game, for people who actually like the core mechanics it must be even better of an experience (thank god for storymode)

imo go watch the first ~10min of a silent gameplay (to watch the cutscenes)

i’m so tired of ai

Nintendo shouldn’t be trying to own mechanics. if someone took their core idea and made it so good people who are Pokemon fans are buying it en masse then maybe they should take a hint and make a game that people want. but instead they’re out there suing devs for “stealing” their idea of holding onto the feet of creatures with wings to glide? they’re clearly unable to take down the game and decided to blindly keep stabbing away at random things trying to bankrupt them with trivial lawsuits. it’s pathetic

that reminds me a bit of the Polish incident with liberum veto. in theory a good thing - those who could vote all had an equal voice to stop any Sejm gathering they wanted. but the obvious thing happened obviously - lower ranking nobles were getting bribed by domestic and foreign forces alike to veto new legislations seconds before they got signed, wasting days if not weeks of work, and basically stopping Polish politics in place. Poland only got our shit together too little and too late, in 1791 we got our constitution that finally removed liberum veto, but the damage was done, two years later the Second Partition happened

you’re a good person :) thank you for your work in shaping a generation of healthy people