A geologist and archaeologist by training, a nerd by inclination - books, films, fossils, comics, rocks, games, folklore, and, generally, the rum and uncanny… Let’s have it!
Elsewhere:
I watch a lot of horror but that managed to unsettle more than anything in a while.
That was my reasoning.
Ahhhh, I didn’t check… Now I feel bad.
It’s an artform, like perfectly baking a poo. If you time it right you can basically fall straight asleep without your brain going “hey, I just thought of something!”
I messed up last night when I hit the wall after 9 days solidly on the go - I thought the bed looked nice and a little lie on it wouldn’t hurt but I still had shit to do before bed. So I dropped off but my brain kept prodding me back to near consciousness and I kept on having weird sleep paralysis/false awakening dreams - including one in which I heard a woman murder a friend outside my bedroom door but I couldn’t force myself off the bed to intervene.
That is going to annoy the Turks too.
What is “real”?
Why would I want a photograph of your mom?
I’ll second Blaze - very enthusatic about making Lemmy great.
Perhaps it’s just that their username is unforgettable, so you notice it when it appears. Definite Rimjob Steve territory.
This only works if you signed up on lemmy.world
As OP is posting from a lemmy.world account, I was answering the question as it applies to them.
Although this adds to the problem of centralisation, so if you want to try another general instance:
https://lemm.ee/create_community
You likely will need a new account though.
You can do something cathartic. After getting dumped, I once pushed a tree down in my back garden and carried it around to the front of the house for disposal. My muscles ached and I was cut and bruised but felt a lot better afterwards. Other times I’ve just gone out drinking with friends. There are sater more controlled ways of doing it - try exercising to exhaustion, get away for the weekend and GI hiking, drive a tank, go to one of those places where you can smash things up, organise a big paintballing session, etc. Something that breaks you out of your routine, preferably gets you out of your local area, needs all your focus and tires you out. It should take your mind off things, get you so focused and tired you aren’t brooding about it and provide a symbolic break so you can leave your baggage behind on the other side.
It’s not an instant cure, this will all take time but it’s a decisive first step.
What I wanted was the social experience of chatting with people about games.
There’s !letstalkaboutgames@feddit.uk
Me too, I’m working on encouraging it. Progress is slow.
There’s a cantankerous old git we drink with in my local and I have the PIN to his phone. Once I installed Grindr on it (didn’t create an account), so now all I have to do is let him “catch” me with his phone unlocked and he can spend days trying to figure out what I did, but as I did nothing he never finds it.
His wife and daughter annoy him as they live with him, and he gets irate at WhatsApp group chats that are too chatty. So I got his phone and created a WhatsApp group for his family, then posted “I love you” to it. He didn’t discover it until the next day and was fuming.
While I’m not saying that happens, it is a ruthless business model that would maximise coverage that, in turn, makes their data more valuable.
So, for example, I create a video doorbell. I offer AI facial recognition at $5/month but it’s free if you let me use and resell the data from your doorbell footage. It’s a useful feature for a household (unlike number plate recognition for a parcel delivery van) and could increase sales, leading to extensive coverage.