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  • ameancow@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldI like to travel
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    13 小时前

    Have a sibling like this. They went to Thailand and shacked up with a scammer for a few months, did the whole thing where he promises to take care of her, fled to the US and ghosted her. Just scum preying on scum and ending as classlessly as you could expect.

    That became his whole identity for years. “When I traveled in Asia…”

    Bruh, you traveled from your bungalow that our dad paid for to the beach and back every day while contracting god-knows-what from someone you said had a “prostitute’s black book” in her handbag but you explained it as “she’s very social.”







  • Organic molecules aren’t dangerous or infectious in any way. They might have smells but they are chemically identical to other sources of the same particles.

    If particles bother you, you are gonna have a hard time.

    You’re getting downvoted because you’re trying to make a somewhat scientific argument about a thing that is completely a subjective feeling of disgust. It’s totally valid and honest to say you have that feeling, we all have irrational feelings about things. But many of our problems in the world come from people trying to write stories to explain their irrational feelings rather than shrugging and saying “It’s just how I feel, I know it doesn’t make sense.”


  • I think if the average person had fecal-vision they would either have a nervous breakdown at the amount of personal body fluids and materials that coat everything we see and touch, or they would have to get over squeamishness immediately in order to keep functioning.

    I promise your phone, right now, has bacteria that are produced in the bowels of a person. It’s also on every surface of your bathroom, on your keyboard, shoes and hands and probably everything else.

    Your body is constantly seeking equilibrium with your microbiome. You wouldn’t want to get rid of that bacteria or you would die.

    If you have good hygiene and don’t let shit dry in your ass cheeks, those areas are actually more likely to be in equilibrium than other parts of your body, because they don’t get sterilized or handle sources of foreign bacteria. Meaning there isn’t a harmful imbalance of one kind of bacteria versus another.

    It’s very easy to test. You take a swab of your ass, your hands and your mouth and let it grow. Can you guess what petri dish is more likely to look like the opening credits to The Last of Us?




  • ameancow@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldExhausted
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    19 小时前

    Great then, you are a shining example of what I’m talking about. You can adapt and you can be who you need to be when you need to be it.

    If having the label as an identity gives you comfort and you’re happy with it, then there’s no issue. But a lot of people aren’t happy and are actually more scared of change than remaining alone and unhappy. The world demands that we put ourselves into it and gives us what we put into it, and life demands that we have social connections. All muscles that can be developed and stretched no matter what you call yourself.


  • these games

    If you’re talking about the skyrim/oblivion franchise in particular, it has a wide open feel that many players connect with the first times games gave them real freedom to explore a world and not just throw them on rails to go from place to place. I do think a lot of it is nostalgia. I don’t think the games have aged too well from a standpoint of what we expect games to offer nowadays.

    Elden Ring was a much more recent attempt at a sprawling game, and had a style of action/adventure game closer to “adult zelda” but also had that feeling of freedom that players liked, and Witcher 3 was just all of that but with a different style and different focus. Witcher 3 was a product of these kinds of games and evolved from them, so it’s expected that they would have figured out a few extra tricks to get you to connect, I do agree there was a lot more work that went into Witcher 3 in terms of making a world that felt convincing and solid. Not everyone wants that all the time though.

    Also, Witcher was about a dude in a grittier world. Skyrim was about your view of sparkling mushroom caves and dragons from behind a bow. They both try different ways to engage you and they both appeal to different types of players.




  • We so desperately want to believe in shadowy cabals of genius villains pulling all the strings.

    One of the harder pills to swallow in the world is that there isn’t anyone “on top.” Nobody is in charge.

    Sure there are people with great power and influence, but even the mightiest among them are just people tripping over themselves, having social anxiety, making poorly calculated moves that conflict with others also trying to act like super villains, and basically everyone, everywhere are just people having the same exact human problems and nobody wants to share power with others or be told they’re wrong.

    The idea of the Shadow Cabal feels thrilling because it also suggests the opposite is possible, that elite groups of heroes can lead us to a better world and we just have to survive or topple the bad guys.

    These ideas are all products of the human need to weave narratives and find our place in complex systems. It’s why conspiracy theories are so addicting to some people.


  • It was actually Elon and the cigar that tipped me off. Can you imagine him possibly looking so natural and “cool” and masculine? He would be holding it so weird that everyone in the circle would be staring at him and he would be doing this really weird laugh while his shoulders turned into cursed parallelogram of flesh and too much bone.

    Also, if it were real I would expect to see Peter Thiel’s face pressed against the glass of the Cybertruck, looking out with bug eyes as he smears oil all over the window.