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CautiousCharacter@awful.systemstoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•With JD Vance reaching his expiration date, it's time to look at potential GOP VPs for September /s15·8 months ago
An air horn.
CautiousCharacter@awful.systemsto Technology@lemmy.world•From the White House to Caesar's Palace: Trump at the 2024 Bitcoin Conference (blog post)English6·9 months ago!buttcoin@awful.systems would appreciate this post (and you might like the whole instance if you’re not already aware of it).
CautiousCharacter@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 28 July 2024English9·9 months agoThey targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We’re a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We’ll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it’s fun.
We’ll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We’re already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren’t shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We’ve been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that’s already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they’ve threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can’t is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You’re not special, you’re not original, you’re not the first; this is just another boss fight.
CautiousCharacter@awful.systemsto politics @lemmy.world•Trump rally: American politics enters a dark and dangerous new chapter24·10 months agoI like how they edited it to “didn’t loss” after your comment.
CautiousCharacter@awful.systemsto Technology@lemmy.world•EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat ControlEnglish5·10 months agoIt looks like they might have meant SVT (Swedish public television). This article has similar wording.
CautiousCharacter@awful.systemsto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why isn't jerking off more valorized as an easy dopamine hit that's also literally good for you?2·11 months agoFor anyone on Lemmy interested in these issues there’s also a !mensliberation@lemmy.ca.
Please don’t do that. All humans are products of a bygone area. We have imperfect minds and bodies that evolved to solve problems that aren’t really relevant anymore. But hopefully you can find some kind of peace inside that existence. You don’t have to be defined by other people’s prejudice toward you.
Have you tried therapy? I had to try multiple therapists before finding someone that worked for me, but I’m so happy I went through the process.
CautiousCharacter@awful.systemsto Boost For Lemmy@lemmy.world•[BUG] Saved feature brokenEnglish1·1 year ago1.0.12. Maybe you could try this idea?
CautiousCharacter@awful.systemsto Boost For Lemmy@lemmy.world•[BUG] Saved feature brokenEnglish1·1 year agoI had the same issue and fixed it by logging out and logging back in again.
CautiousCharacter@awful.systemsto World News@lemmy.world•How Taiwan preserved election integrity by fighting back against disinformationEnglish9·1 year agoThe first democratic election in Taiwan was in 1996. Probably a major reason why the Taiwanese are so wary of Chinese influence is because most voters have actually lived through authoritarian rule.