Yeah, it’s definitely all ten, although I can see how I would regret that choice from time to time.
Fortunately, robot hands are pretty cool, and I’m sure that if the world were prosperous and they saw somebody with no fingers, they would all chip in to help back out. So it wouldn’t be like terrible forever, but it would definitely have its moments where it sucks.
I would actually prefer anonymous advice when I’m having issues in a relationship because typically when people gripe about their relationships they only talk about the bad things and they only talk to people that care about them.
This ends up making it so that the people you are talking to hear all the bad stuff about the other person, and that causes them to start to dislike that other person.
It’s too easy to build negative feedback loops that can destroy relationships.
If talking to the internet isn’t good and talking to your friends isn’t good, then the only thing that’s really valid and valuable left would be to talk to a relationship counselor, or a personal therapist, whose only goal is to help you achieve your goals in a way that is healthy for you.
Have you ever had a recurring dream before?
Like, over a period of several months or years or whatever having roughly the same content and the dream pop back up again?
I have friends who have dreams about going to work.
I have friends who have dreams about showing up to a hangout and hanging out with people.
I dream about leading a choir of nuns on a singing rampage through New York and fighting epic space battles where it turns out that the Darth Vader equivalent of my dream is actually my cousin, which I only learn after I kill him, where priceless and irreplaceable books on witchcraft are destroyed to make wrapping paper due to a shopkeeper’s error, where I am told mysteries of the universe and song and hear songs that have never been sung before.
Dreams are like your brain’s way of processing information and defragging your personality.
Everyone’s got different kinds of dreams.
Cave Story, the original 2004 version.
I played it a long time ago and I still think about that game from time to time.
I know no one is going to take my idea and run with it so there’s not really anything to be gained by shooting it down, lol.
That being said, your issue could be solved with a combination of regulation and divestment.
Regulate that certain subjects have to be taught even if they are loss leaders for the university otherwise the university loses accreditation, and then for the people who want to learn artistic things like pottery and music that might cost the university more to run than they can make on it, create new schools that focus on that rather than keeping them in the university system, but attach valid degrees to them by requiring the mandatory core classes to be taken at the local community college or university of the students choosing.
Maybe you can subsidize them somewhat by making them non-for-profit systems and doing fundraisers for the arts and requiring that universities in their communities include them in their annual donor drives as a separate option.
It’s not a perfect solution, but its the first of many possible ones that I can think of, I’m sure that if we were appointed as the committee to fix the American College system we would make many more and better all-encompassing solutions and solve the problem in a matter of years.
I put a $50 pre-order down on the new slate electric vehicle.
Hopefully it pans out, and in like two years I’ll be able to buy one, but if not, I mean it was only 50 bucks and it’s investing towards a more electric theoretical future, so it’s like I won’t cry too much about it if I lose it, but I hope I don’t.
shit my copium supply is running low
That is true, but I feel like we could do better.
Community colleges should be as close to free as is reasonable, and normal universities should be federally limited to charging no more than, say one year of the maximum average income for a particular degree.
If the college wants to teach something like everyone’s perennial mocking favorite underwater basket weaving, then that should be done as an elective and paid out of pocket by the student.
Even if you were to pick something like being a doctor, the fact that you might make a quarter of a million dollars a year and end up having to pay a quarter of a million dollars to do it is infinitely better than working minimum wage for the rest of your life.
forget what number you’re on and say, “um”.
Okay, how about a game where you are a voodoo priest, and you move a doll through a board full of traps and whatnot, and then the person who you have possessed with your voodoo doll then follows the path that you navigated with the voodoo doll.
Spice it up by having extra events happen while the person is moving through the real life version of the board that you then have to use your voodoo powers to compensate for while you now no longer have any more control over the person who you’ve taken over.
I guess that’s more of like a puzzle thing, so sure, for an RPG, How about an Isekai game where you plop down into a magical world and you’ve got all the pop-up screens and everything like you would see an anime and manga, but there is no Demon King, there is no great evil to defeat. It’s just you exploring the world and having fun with your kind of cheat OP powers while meeting people and learning about the history of this world you’ve been plopped into.
You can have actual events happen by like being involved in small-scale battles between kingdoms and uncovering lost relics and dungeons that have never been explored even by the locals and building a party of people to establish your own kingdom in a neglected land.
The latter would give you an opportunity to go like City Builder Sim-style for a bit of the game.
Or if you think that’s stupid, How about a role-playing game where you and a bunch of your other magician, wizard, witch, whatever friends, have built the first fantasy spaceship, and now you’re flying through the celestial realms, visiting all of the other planets in the solar system, and encountering new people, and helping them to solve their problems that have nothing to do with your planet but rather with the goal of establishing diplomatic relationships with other nearby planets.
This shit is easy. Coming up with an idea for a game, a new one that sounds fun and interesting to play that covers a different storyline and gives opportunities for dozens of different authors and creators to put a piece of themselves into it and come up with interesting fun things to do, that shit is fucking easy, and I don’t know why they’re not fucking doing it.
I don’t know how it has become so fucking easy for large corporate content creators to push the narrative that coming up with ideas for new stories or new games is actually difficult.
There are so many games that have yet to even be thought of.
There are so many storylines that have never touched pen to paper that we could experience, And I know that it is a little risky to offer something to people that they have not personally experienced before, but holy shit, why do we have to remake everything 650,000 fucking times?
If your views are not compatible with the moderator or community’s views and they keep getting removed, you are free to go and find a different instance.
Nobody’s getting paid to work here, so the only people that do the work are the people who volunteer their time, and chances are if they’re constantly exposed to the same stupid shit over and over again, they’re gonna get grouchy, they’re gonna get grumpy, and they’re gonna just start blanket banning anything that even slightly aggravates them.
You can say it’s power-tripping, and you can protest it when it’s unequally applied to you. That’s fair, But you just have to live with it because this is not a business, this is not a customer service oriented situation, this is a “make the community as comfortable as possible for as many people as possible while maintaining your sanity” position for the mods.
I am not a moderator. I would not do moderation tasks because I see how stressful it is. I am also not apologizing on their behalf or trying to sugarcoat the situation.
It sucks for you, getting your posts removed. It sucks for a lot of people not getting to interact with those posts, but it’s a take what you can get sort of thing.
The good thing is, if you absolutely do not want your post to be removed, you are perfectly welcome to spin up your own lemmy instance and federate it and then share your post with the entire fediverse without any sort of moderation whatsoever.
Even with that though, the other instances of the Fediverse can defederate with you if they find your whole thing to just cause more headache and hassle than it’s worth to them.
Could you imagine if Brian Jacques had added six foot river otters into Redwall?
When my dad was teaching me how to ride a bike, I kept falling.
He noticed that I was paying so much attention to the road that I couldn’t focus on riding the bike.
Finally he picked me up, looked me dead in the eyes and said, “You rule the road. Don’t let the road rule you”.
Somehow that phrase immediately gave me the ability to ride a bicycle.
I have shared it with other people learning to ride a bicycle after they have fallen down at least once.
It freaking works.
This is poetry. I read this comic and I became a changed man.
They asked me to do things instead of telling me to do things.
He was explicit about it. He said, I know I’m your boss, I can’t just say go do this thing, but I have found I get better results and have happier co-workers when I ask you to do the things I need you to do instead of telling you to do the things I need you to do.
A specific example would be, instead of, “please clean the lobby”, Saying, xwill you go clean the lobby for me, please?"
And it’s one of those things that’s really, really subtle and really minor. It only takes a small amount of adjustment in it in the way that you speak, and it yields excellent results.
I mean, foster the people.
I’m hoping that’s the obvious one for everybody.
But also for me, Jamiroquai. Dropping some line about how it’s not nature’s way for a mother to be able to choose the color of her child randomly in the middle of a song about how the world is changing so quick, and nobody can keep up with it.
At the same time, though, I’m nitpicking. It’s just that one line in otherwise a cool song.
Flipside, I do not enjoy ICP, but my friends started playing the Shangri-La album, and I didn’t know it was ICP, and I was like, man, this is actually pretty good, and then they were like, yeah, it’s ICP, don’t you like it? And I was like, well shit, they got like, one kind of decent album, fuck.