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  • Sadly the older I get the less interested I am in reflex-heavy action titles.

    I know Control had some welcome accessibility options including 100% aim assistance and 1 shot kills (that didn’t affect achievements!), but uhhh, at that point I’m just like what am I doing here?

    I want a multiplayer game with roles for slow farts or non-sweaty people. Phasmophobia’s onto something with having someone sit in a van. Division almost had it with that tablet role they pulled before the game was released, where someone could just be on a tablet and buff/debuff people.

    I’d love to see a 5 player spaceship game like No Man’s Sky where a ship can have someone just watching engines or shields and doing their station with no stress about much else.

    …this comment digressed, but uhhh, all’s that to say this game looks good for people into it, but sadly not for me.




  • doug@lemmy.todaytoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldmfw I get hit on by women
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    2 months ago

    When I was in high school, a girl called me at home and this embarrassing conversation happened:

    Her: So, this girl I know likes this guy I know, but he doesn’t seem to get any of her hints. What should she do to tell him she likes him?

    Me: uh, I dunno, just tell him she likes him?

    Her: …like, “I like you?” Just like that?

    Me: yeah

    Her: I like you.

    Me: yeah, you got it, just tell her to tell him that and she’ll be all set.

    Her: …

    Me: …was there anything else?

    ——
    The first girlfriend I had (not her) pulled me aside angrily in the hallway between classes and said something like “listen, I’ve been hitting on you for two weeks now and everyone else thinks we get along like gangbusters, I’m going insane; do you wanna go out with me or not?”
    ——
    Anyways, I learned a few years ago I’m on the spectrum and it really helped give a lot of context for me and my dumbass.

    If it weren’t for pre-shitty OKCupid I’d probably not be married rn





  • It’s fun to think up thought experiments that explain away the reasons we can’t prove they exist.

    Time isn’t linear, we’re just limited to experiencing it that way while we’re alive.

    After we die, we experience time differently; in an impossible-to-describe way, but is akin to a book with limitless pages. Your existence is a bookmark in this book, and dying makes you lose your place.

    It is possible to re-find your place, but with unfathomable access to unfathomable histories and futures, there is a near-infinite choice of other events and timelines for a ghost to visit and observe and experience.

    Coupled with that, there are laws— some sort of physical laws, not arbitrary— to visiting the pages of this book, in that they can only be done in areas that do not cause pages before or after to change dramatically. A ghost is a spec of ink on the page; it cannot write letters, words, or sentences. If anything like this were ever done, we would never know as our minds would simply accept the memory as fact without knowing, or delete the memory of a ghost the way we space out driving on a highway or having to look at our watch a second time.

    Lastly, our senses are all on varying spectrums; some of us able to see, hear, smell, experience things others cannot. One of our senses is a sense of time. Some people’s sense of time operates on a scope of a wider caliber than others, experiencing things others cannot, which is why some of us may have experienced ghosts while others haven’t.

    edit: I guess it needs clarification based on the downvotes, I don’t believe any of what I just wrote (except the true bits like time not being linear & sense scopes). I don’t believe in ghosts/have never seen one, but I try to stay open-minded for friends who might disagree.


  • I think it was a Reddit scraper years ago that taught me that I should probably lie more often on the internet about my work, friends, family details, etc.

    Just like, little lies that don’t really matter in the comment, but would misdirect an AI or investigator into things that aren’t true.

    It’s just so much woooooork to think about this shit. And to come up with different screen names everywhere? And to like, sub to a city I don’t live in and comment there about shit I know nothing about? Exhausting.

    Thankfully my brothers and three uncles are here to support me. And my alligator.