amio

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[–] amio@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Nothing at all, if it's been maintained and "upkept" much better than theirs has. But, y'know.

Starfield is starting to seem pretty spackled together, and the engine was already sort of infamous for bugs. It's not just BSW being sloppy about content (although they are), it's also the engine and tooling. The CKs tend to look... grim.

[–] amio@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What do you mean, "nowadays"? Mobile games always sucked.

[–] amio@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Scientists and other rationalists. If you wanted to be dramatic, their fight to save ourselves and the planet would be against the inertia of "common wisdom", known bugs in human psychology, the resistance of wanting to disregard the unknown or unpleasant, everyone for whom the truth (to the best of our knowledge) is economically inconvenient with the considerable economic and societal power they wield.

They are not good odds, but it is correct against incorrect and often against malignantly incorrect, and they are all extremely formidable villains.

[–] amio@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Oh, no no, capitalism welcomes competition, don't'y'know.
Just as long as it doesn't mess with the profit margins.

[–] amio@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

You giant nerd, you. :)

Not so much manga and anime on my youtube, even though I'm also a bit of a weeb.

[–] amio@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Technically true, which is the most generous I could possibly be. It is not good advice. Telling someone to live more brightly is, begging your pardon, freaking useless.

Edit: to be clear, a lot of the rest of your advice isn't bad or anything. I just really hate this particular phrasing. It will not help, I guarantee it.

[–] amio@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My youtube recs would mostly just out me as a huge fucking nerd who's into cooking, I think it may be a rare W.

[–] amio@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Absolutely essential. SponsorBlock is very nearly as important, and BlockTube also does a lot of annoyance damage control.

[–] amio@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Reclassify meaning "still protected, we just don't consider it the literal antichrist anymore"

Pretty underwhelming but I guess it's better than nothing.

[–] amio@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Not in the very rare case where the positivity is warranted because the product is decent, appropriately priced, and not too shittified.

[–] amio@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Life is too short to be miserable. You will die the same way unless you take action to course correct and start living more brightly.

bruh

[–] amio@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Been there, sort of. Lifelong depression does tend to make you "negative" and apparently some people hate that. NTs are not necessarily genius communicators who've worked at it a lot, it's just that most people per definition tend to communicate their preferred/"natural" way. This means that whatever is pissing them off is a) not necessarily wrong, b) not necessarily what/why they think it is, and c) something you'll likely have to work at whether you're "in the wrong" or not.

Kinda depressing, eh?

Unfortunately, sometimes negativity is contagious - sharing something negative with someone is likely to worsen their mood. I won't conjecture why that is - I can only really say that whenever people dump long lists of everything wrong with the world on me, I rarely feel great about it afterwards. Negativity is often warranted, usually realistic, sometimes funny in specific ways etc., but mostly it is still just negativity.

Try and be mindful about this: what are you communicating? Is the content or tone negative? Did you get onto a negative track from something more positive? It is not easy, but you could unironically put up a visible reminder. Don't overdo the self-censoring either, though, that's also not healthy.

Also, are you taking up a lot of space in the conversation relative to others? This can add some friction too if the disparity is big enough. I have been both the loud person (usually from boredom) and the person getting annoyed at someone individually being like 50% of a chat. One man's dead chat is a reasonable level of activity for another, after all.

(All the above is personal experience - reasonably sure the buzzkill stuff is an actual thing but I wasn't able to find a citation or anything.)

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