darthelmet

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Villain Decay in c/curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works
[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We can have room in our hearts to hate more than one monstrous US president.

Who here is incognito? in c/autism@lemmy.world
[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Car and oil companies?

Too bad we can't have good public transportation in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Then there’s “if it ain’t broke… how can we break it to extract a few extra bucks from it?”

Warner Bros. Discovery Announces Post-Split Company Names, Warner Bros. and Discovery in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago

If you ever feel like your job is meaningless, remember that there are people who are paid to be marketers.

Damar wanted to make his world a better place, took a look at himself, and made a change! in c/tenforward@lemmy.world
[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He's an example of a trope I'm not found of. I don't know if there's already a name for it, but it's the trope of the villain turned hero at the last minute but dies by the end so that the story can give them both redemption and punishment without having to have our heroes deal with the messy matter of bringing them to justice when the story ends. It's romantic to see the villain have a change of heart and do the right thing in the end. Less so watching them get taken away in handcuffs for their crimes after the fact because one good deed doesn't erase what they did.

How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Because I don’t think sticking my head in the sand is good either. Besides, it’s not just abstract far away things that are bothering me. A lot of what depresses me in my personal life is connected to the broader problems we face as a society. I kind of can’t ignore that if I want to make sense of my own life. That doesn’t stop it from feeling hopeless, but the alternative isn’t really an option even if I didn’t care about others.

How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

That’s the neat part. I don’t. I’m depressed as fuck.

Do we dream smaller now than we did decades ago? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Was Idiocracy written by a time-traveller?

I’m always a little irked when people say things like this. Art is a product of its environment. It responds to what it’s seeing in the world and talks about it through abstraction, extrapolation, and embellishment. The world Idiocracy was created in already had these problems. The movie just turned that into a comedy with enough distance from real life for people to laugh at.

To the question: I think it just speaks to the lack of opportunities we have today. The American Dream was always a lie, but there was at least a period in the post war years where it was somewhat accessible to a relatively larger part of the population. The US was still an industrial economy. It was building new things. Now all that manufacturing is being done in poorer countries and now our economy is largely based on rich people shuffling money around and skimming off the top while the rest of us serve them to get the scraps.

When success looks like a Wall Street investor making money from doing nothing and failure means barely being able to afford to have a home and feed yourself, it’s no wonder people are dreaming of finding a way to make an easy buck.

But going back to art looking at the reality it exists in, this isn’t super new either. Look at the movie Wall Street from 1987. The movie revolves around a Wall Street broker who is the son of a union airline mechanic. The father is working in a productive job, but despite the union, isn’t exactly living in luxury. The son, in pursuit of this ideal of success, works in a job that leeches off people like his dad and to advance his career further he starts doing insider trading. So the parasitic criminal gets grossly rewarded while the hard working guy stagnates. And of course by the end of the movie, the son’s greed ends up almost ruining his dad’s job before he finally tries to make things right at great cost to himself.

Do you think it's an ok idea for me to get a cat in my scenario? (details inside) (**crosspost**) in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I think it would be fine. Cats are a lot more independent than dogs, so as long as you can sort out food and litter, they’re fine to leave alone for a bit. I’ve had 4 cats in my life. The first two we had solo and the last 2 were a pair.

Having a second cat definitely makes them happier if you can’t be home often, but it’s not strictly necessary. It’s not AS much work as you’d think to take care of an extra cat, but that also depends on personality and how the cats get along. The pair of cats we had loved each other, but they’d occasionally get into some minor fights. For food we had to separate them because one would try to eat more than his share and the other cat wasn’t assertive enough to stop him. But otherwise it wasn’t that much worse than when we had a single cat.

I definitely recommend you go to a shelter and play around with the cats enough to get a sense of their personalities. All of our cats have been super friendly and didn’t scratch much. The cat from the pair that’s still alive (they’re old, so one passed last year.) is so tame I have never had to worry about him scratching me. I can safely rub his belly and stuff and the worst he’ll ever do is get up and leave. But that’s definitely not all cats. My uncle had some cats with some big behavioral issues and he used to be an animal trainer.

Gaza genocide in c/autism@lemmy.world
[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It’s definitely made my depression worse, but it’s sort of just another example of the thing that makes me depressed in general (aside from the brain juices): We live in a society that’s built around not caring about people. The people in power have so little regard for humanity that they will subject people to unimaginable horrors and cruelty if it means they can keep making a buck. There are tons of regular people who do care, but they’re kept so occupied by their own problems that they don’t have the will to band together to push past the barriers we need to break to help each other. Between stuff like this and the ticking time bomb of climate change, it feels like we’re running out of time while also getting further and further from having the capacity to fight back. And it’s not like I’m above any of this. I have had trouble trying to get involved in stuff because of all my issues and it feels really bad. Having learned more about organizing lately, I’m now pretty convinced that just voting isn’t going to do anything. We NEED to get out into our communities and make connections with people to get things done. Good thing I don’t have crippling social anxiety and autism on top of the depression… hehe.

I’m watching history repeat itself as little more than a spectator… and this might be the last show.

Last Epoch developer Eleventh Hour Games gets acquired by KRAFTON in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wall that sucks. On the bright side, the game has a full offline mode, so as long as I can stop or revert updates, there’s only so much they can ruin it for me.

Ice cream trucks still around? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I’ve seen one around town still. Although I suspect like 90+% of its business is just from parking right outside the town pool in the summer.

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How to fix discord connection while streaming a game? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by darthelmet@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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EDIT: Thanks for the replies. The solution was to turn off Lenovo Vantage Server Boost.

So I have a fairly specific problem that has been surprisingly hard to troubleshoot for some reason.

Very specifically, when I am streaming on discord, while any game software is running, (we've tried it with a few different ones, online/offline, steam/non-steam, 2D graphics vs 3D graphics. Same issue although maybe with varying amounts of time before the problem starts, but hard to be sure.) and when at least one other person starts watching the stream, my discord connection gets unstable. Voice and video start cutting in and out and the connection icon starts turning red. This doesn't just affect the person watching the stream, others have trouble hearing me as well. No stream? No problem. Stream but no game? No problem. Stream and game but no viewer? No problem. Just when all of these are together. Also this doesn't seem to impact my other processes or connections. The game keeps running like normal and for the online ones they don't lose connection. I can still go access sites on my browser, etc.

I got a new PC recently, I haven't had this issue before that. It didn't happen right away though, things worked fine at first. It happened for the first time a few weeks ago and after running through the basic troubleshooting steps, the thing that seemed to fix the issue was updating my nvidia graphics drivers, but it's hard to say for sure. The problem popped up again tonight. For reference the last time I streamed to someone was on Thursday, so it was working very recently.

I checked and there was a graphics driver update, so I went to install that, thinking that would fix it again. It did not. There also seemed to be some problems around the graphics driver installer. Both times this happened the download initially stalled at some % and I had to restart to get it to work again. Plus this time I went to try to reinstall the graphics driver to see if maybe the first time it didn't do it right and I briefly had bigger problems with the PC. During the install, the screen just went dark and didn't come back. The rest of the computer was running, I could still chat on discord, but I had to kill it and restart to get the screen back. That restart took a while longer than normal and when I got back the start menu wasn't working. That got fixed on another restart though.

Anyway, that's concerning and maybe relevant, but back to the discord issue: Other troubleshooting steps that didn't work:

  • Turning hardware acceleration off/on.
  • Telling windows to use my graphics card on high performance for discord and the games I was testing with. (It already seemed to be doing that on it's own anyway, but I made sure.)
  • Lowering stream quality and FPS.
  • Making sure discord was added to my firewall allowed software.
  • Cleared discord's cache.
  • uninstalled and reinstalled discord.
  • Checked for windows or other driver updates and didn't find any.
  • Tried switching routers and did some speed tests that turned out fine.
  • Checked resource usage and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

I'm kind of at a loss here. The most I can turn up on google is all the generic troubleshooting advice you get for every problem and none of it has worked so far.

System Info:

  • Windows 11
  • It's a Lenovo prebuilt desktop PC and it comes with their driver/system management software.
  • Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700F, 2100 Mhz, 20 Core(s), 28 Logical Processor(s)
  • BIOS Version/Date LENOVO O5TKT3BA, 12/17/2024
  • Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 32.0 GB
  • GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
  • Headphones/mic: Razor Blackshark V2 Pro

Any ideas?

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How to get involved with unionization efforts? (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by darthelmet@lemmy.world to c/unions@lemmy.ml
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I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but does anyone have any advice on how to get involved in union organizing efforts? I actually went to school for labor relations, so I've got some familiarity with the concepts, but for all sorts of reasons, the main one being mental health, I haven't really been working or doing much of anything for a few years now. I want to try to get out and do my part and I view the labor movement as a really important avenue for political change.

But I don't really know where to look/start. I'm also pretty shy/socially anxious, so I kind of need some way to ease into this since it involves talking to people a lot. I've also been thinking of trying to learn a language that would help me interact with more workers who might be recent immigrants like maybe Spanish or something. (Although I'm not really sure which would be most useful for this and I'm not exactly a fast language learner, so if I was going to do that I should really prioritize one.)

I'm in the US close to the New York City. (Long Island) Does anyone have any suggestions for resources, organizations, advice on how to talk to people in this context, or other ways to help in a less direct way, etc. that could help me get started?

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How to handle getting overwhelmed late game? (lemmy.world)
 

My friend and I were playing for sort of our first time at 1.0. (We played a bit a few months ago, but stopped around computers when we heard 1.0 would be soon.)

We were having fun, but as we got later in the game, it felt like things got really overwhelming and slowed down a lot. Especially once we got to T7/8. We ended up spending like a week just to mostly get nuclear power running. (We still aren't handling the waste completely.) We tried using blueprints a bit, but they were kind of clunky and it felt like there was only so much we could do with them.

At this point we're on pause with the game. Does anyone have any suggestions for making things go smoother late game or is this just how the game is after a certain point? It feels bad stopping so close to the end, but the way things were going it felt like we might have ended up spending more time on the last few tiers than everything before that.

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What has the show been like recently? (lemmy.world)
 

I mostly like Doctor Who for being a fun, campy show. I stopped watching after Capaldi initially because it felt like the show wasn't really doing that anymore. I've been re-watching the modern show after checking out classic Who for the first time along with family recently. We recently got back up to where I had stopped and... I'm still not really feeling it. But the show has been on for quite a while since then. So I'm kind of curious what it's like now and if it's worth pushing through/skipping ahead to get to a part that I'll like more.

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More things like Star Trek? (lemmy.world)
 

Over the last few years my family and I have binged all of Star Trek, then moved on to Star Trek adjacent shows like The Orville and Stargate. At the moment we're not really watching anything sci-fi. I was wondering if anyone had recommendations for similar shows (or maybe some books) that fill the void left by Star Trek. In particular I really like the episodes that deal with interacting with other civilizations, diplomacy, and exploration more-so than say, an anomaly episode.

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Eating healthy when various foods make you uncomfortable? (lemmy.world)
 

I've been very overweight for a long time. Lately I've been trying to eat healthier and lose weight. (among dealing with other nutritional deficiencies.)

One of the big problems I have though is that I have a lot of trouble eating foods with weird textures, smells, tastes, etc. This of course includes a lot of vegetables and some kinds of healthier proteins like fish.

A doctor I was working with recommended talking to a nutritionist who is familiar with these kind of problems. However, I didn't find them to be that helpful. They didn't really have a good understanding of what kind of things bothered me and didn't really seem to want to learn or incorporate that into a plan. I got a lot of "Well can't you just try to put up with some of these things that bother you?" So eventually I gave up with them. So I'm back to eating either miserably small portions of unhealthy foods (which doesn't really solve the nutrition problem and makes me hungry) or a handful of rather bland healthier foods that are fine to eat but just make me sad.

Does anyone have experience navigating these kinds of problems? What did you do? Do you have any suggestions? Types of foods, recipes, resources that deal with this, etc?

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Question about Astarion quest in act 3 (lemmy.world)
 

Obviously spoilers ahead:

I recently got to the lower city and after taking a long rest I was ambushed by some of Astarion’s vampire spawn siblings who want to take him back with them. The dialogue suggests that killing them would close off the option to have Astarion ascend later, but it seems like I can’t avoid fighting with them. I thought maybe using nonlethal attacks would be the way, but upon reading the description it doesn’t work on undead.

What am I supposed to do if I don’t want to kill them? I tried looking up the quest on some wikis/guides, but they don’t seem to give advice on that option. They just mention that if you fail in this encounter Astarion could be kidnapped, which… wouldn’t be ideal considering at the moment I have no spare party members to fill the 4th slot due to… circumstances…but I’d also prefer not to shut off the option for this quest line.

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