Sometimes it feels like that with social media and related platforms. Both Zoom and TikTok seemed to go from something I’d never of to things that everyone was talking about overnight. In Zoom’s case, it definitely seemed like guerrilla viral advertising. Like when everyone was talking about Stanley™ cups for a while, not flasks or water bottles but Stanley™ cups.
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Character_Locked@lemm.eeto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you keep your phone in your right or your left pocket?English13·4 days agoLeft pocket if I’ve got it in my pockets. These days I usually use a smol little backpack to put all of my things into and hate having crap in my pockets.
Character_Locked@lemm.eeto Casual Conversation @lemm.ee•Do y'all just sometimes don't feel like eating? Like you're hungry, but don't have the mental energy to eat.English51·5 days agoYep. Often and for various reasons, usually related to some mental anguish. In times like this, plain buttered toast with maybe a little salt sprinkled on top is the winner for me. With a glass of water to help chase it down. Definitely not the healthiest thing you could eat but it works for me when I’m hungry but have no appetite.
Just dropped my phone and now half the screen is messed up and barely readable. Great. Guess that anything I save now is going to another cheap piece of shit phone that I dislike first, before it goes to anything worthwhile.
2 or 17. Sometimes (rarely) 20.
Character_Locked@lemm.eeto Casual Conversation @lemm.ee•What's the climate like in your country?English3·6 days agoSouth Africa, Western Cape. Pretty shit actually. There’s like one month in the year that I actually get to dress up nicely without sweating and stripping off layers. And there’s barely any autumn or spring to speak of. It’s just hot weather into hotter weather into less hot weather again and into a month or two of cold. I preferred the weather on the eastern side of the country in Kwa-Zulu Natal. Winter and summer are more defined and there’s at least a hint of autumn and spring.
Ultimately I want to be somewhere cold though. I feel like the older I get, the more I hate this endless fkn summer. I want to be cold and cozy and comfortable and wear all my jackets and cool shit daily.
Character_Locked@lemm.eeto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's a good instance that basically has no sign up duration and access to basically any instance?English23·6 days agoI feel like they’ve probably all got pros and cons and probably require a little research. I recently signed up here on lemm.ee and the sign up process seemed pretty quick and simple. And they seem to do minimal de-federating. But the flip side to that is you can’t upload any images for your first 4 weeks on the server. 4 fkn weeks.
And if I’d read that first, I might have reconsidered joining here. I think I’d rather be inconvenienced by sightly more in depth questions and a 1 day wait time for signing up than a 4 fkn week wait before I can even upload a profile pic and banner image.
Edit: in fact I’m gonna go as far as saying that it’s false advertising. They advertise as general purpose instance but seemingly can’t even handle a thing that about 50% if this type of social media entails. They should change their blurb on join-lemmy to “We would like to be a general purpose reddit-like instance but our servers catch on fire every time someone uploads a meme, so we should actually be doing something smaller scale instead of pretending that we can hang with lemmy.world”.
Character_Locked@lemm.eeto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are your desert island video games?English31·6 days ago- Stardew Valley
- Skyrim
- ADOM
- Burnout Paradise
- Vegas Solitaire (or I think a decent Solitaire collection is a fair exception to that one rule because you can get many games out of a pack of cards)
Stardew Valley, Skyrim and ADOM for games that you can keep going back to over years and playing in different ways and still discovering new things. Vegas Solitaire for more of a mindless time passer when you don’t want something immersive and involved. Burnout Paradise for something in between complex and mindless and something different once in a while.
Edit: I hope I eventually get rescued though because there’s a LOT of shorter titles that I’d miss.
Character_Locked@lemm.eeto Casual Conversation @lemm.ee•What clothes do you wear round the house and would you wear them outside?English5·7 days agoTracksuit pants and hoodies for me. If it’s particularly cold, I’ll wear a jersey over my hoodie. I also have a fairly sizeable collection of bathrobes that I practically live in sometimes.
I’ll wear the same hoodies out but that’s about it. Although I’ve got a pair of plaid tracksuit pants that I’d love a more wearable out and about version of.
Character_Locked@lemm.eeto Casual Conversation @lemm.ee•What lemmy meme commuties do you visit??English2·7 days agoI kinda think Witchy Memes and WitchesvsPatriarchy should be merged.
Character_Locked@lemm.eeto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is your favorite season? When that season actually comes, is that still your favorite season? (Or do you only like the *idea* of that season?)English11·7 days agoYou pretty much answered this for me.
Character_Locked@lemm.eeto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your favourite Studio Ghibli movie?English51·7 days agoAbsolute favourite:
Kiki’s Delivery Service. Character and story that I relate with most of our of all of the movies. I wish I’d watched it when I was a kid.
Other favourites:
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- Pom Poko
- Whisper of the Heart
- Howl’s Moving Castle
- The Tale of Princess Kaguya
- When Marnie Was There
Almost favourites:
- Princess Mononoke (I don’t like Ashitaka that much by the end)
- Spirited Away (only because this is the only Ghibli that I ever came across in the wild before watching all of them, I’m over exposed to it)
- Earwig and the Witch (love the concept and general story, not a fan of the animation style and a lot of specifics)
Character_Locked@lemm.eeto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are the most unhinged cartoons in your expert opinion?English71·7 days agoYeah this is the answer that I came here to see. These definitely belong in this list. Cow & Chicken could be particularly unhinged.
Character_Locked@lemm.eeto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Which TV show do you watch again and again?English11·7 days agoI rewatch a lot of things that I enjoy but in recent years, shows that I’ve seen multiple times the most for various reasons like watching again with someone else are: iZombie, Doom Patrol and Fringe.
There’s also ‘neptunic’, which sounds like what you’re describing, plus attraction to androgyny.
Absolutely. People here can’t even help themselves when it comes to going into a community literally called “Reddit” to shit on people for talking about Reddit. Or going into a community called “WitchesvsPatriarchy” to not all men any conversation about the patriarchy.
You can bet your ass that any community like one that you’re talking about would be flooded by smartass replies and jokes at first. And the moment moderators start banning people, they’ll be crying about their ‘free speech’.