elkaki

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[–] elkaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

It really isn't, at least in the way the term is used. For example, would you describe the feeling you get after snorting cocaine as a "health benefit" just because you feel better momentarily???

[–] elkaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

Most probably, but there is always the possibility of people either being underage, stupid or unaware due to upbringing (imagine being told your whole life something is in a particular way, it isnt unreasonable not to doubt that) and I prefer to engage honestly with people even if I look like an idiot, just in case.

Of course when clear bad faith is shown I will just not engage, or call it out, but in

[–] elkaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

I love this response, dont worry about length this is in part what I was looking for. Sorry for not replying earlier I have not been near my pc for a few days and replying on my phone is a pain since I'm clumsy and often delete long responses by accident. PD: I have really been enjoying the Cynic Clinic youtube channel.

Having said that, I think a better question would have been "what is a review", my problem mainly is that I have trouble grasping the term and its usage in each page. To clarify, If I want to recommend something I call it a recommendation and media essays are essays, you focus on whatever caught your attention as long as you are able to convey it in an interesting or thought provoking way, what I thought at the beginning of what reviews where was a general thought about the work exclusively intended for people that have already engaged with the work. My doubt has come from two places, first steam calls the "reviews" section to something that is clearly recommendations, it is extremely clear you are supposed to recommend over there, not include spoilers and generally point it towards someone interested in buying, so reviews over there arent really reviews.

Then comes Anilist, I have been using that site a lot more in the recent years for tracking purposes and I thought it would be great to engage with it a bit more towards people there since I dont usually talk about anime or manga too much irl , I saw the "review" section over the front page on each manga and usually its left empty, so I proposed to myself I should write a review. Here is where the conflict comes, it being so visible made me think it was for recommendations more than reviews but then again you could find proper reviews, recommendations and a mix of the two over there.

I wanted to be cautious just in case the review section is used for recommendations only as it would be pretty bad if people were using those spaces to see whether they should read a manga and they saw a full spoilers in first paragraph review...

Having said that I still havent decided whether to write a recommendation or more of an essay style review, both have their pros and cons and are interesting in their own right

[–] elkaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago

If this is why people want their instances to do it that's mainly because lemmy hasn't give appropriate tools at the user level to block entire instances unlike Kbin or Mastodon. (For now you can kind of block seeing them with apps like connect for lemmy, but someone from that instance would still be able to see and repply to your comments, or send you DMs)

As to why a user would want to block an instance and not just particular communities, there are many use cases, for example I didn't want to bñur NSFW images but I didn't want to see my frontpage filled with porn, so instead of blocking 10000 communities I just blocked 2 nsfw instances. There is also the culture fostered inside some communities that can lead them to become filled with alt right people or openly facistic rcho chamber which often harrass people, especially minorities.

I agree completely this request is dumb, but this doesn't look like the community to have this discussion.

[–] elkaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

Hope this turns out well, I greatly enjoyed the 10th dentist sub on reddit since I felt it actually mangaged to make "upvote things you disagree/don't do, and downvote those that you do" as opposed to the extremely popular vailidation seeking posts over at unpopular opinion

[–] elkaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 years ago (7 children)

"so I can still get the health benefits from it"

Seriously, you aren't getting healt benefits. You might feel better but that is the nicotine, it's a psychological effect not something that is improving your physical health in any discernable way.

Just understand, people don't smoke because it's good for their bodies, people smoke because it feels good, it's an important distinction.

[–] elkaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I wonder if this is the community for this kind of petition, especially since the petition is instance specific and not about this community in particular.

[–] elkaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I also didn't expect to like it as much, but I really ended up licking the character design (on chapter one I didn't really like the tomboyish look but after a while I got into the "coolness" of it all)

The protagonist personality and weird unpredictable shifts from goofy to a menace in expression is also endearing

[–] elkaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

I forgot to add Roborecall!!??

This might feel like a "demo game" to some people, also it's from 2016~ which is an era that didn't produce that many diverse and interesting vr titles, but this one feels really good.

It's an arcade shooter where robots have gone crazy and you have to kill them, the action and combat is fast, you can grab and dismantle robots in melee. One thing though is that like many of the games of that era, this game is teleportation movement based (like half life alyx when you play on the default mode) which is a bit annoying, at least for me.

[–] elkaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can always connect your quest to pc right? (Hope OP has a good computer to do that, haven't checked the quest 2 but I remember how much worse roborecall looked on quest 1)

[–] elkaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

Yes, this so much! VR minigolf is amazing, you barely need any space to play. The skill ceiling is jogh and the multiplayer is really enjoyable (you only see floating hands and it plays like normal minigolf)

The maps are colorful, the themes really interesting and also they look really special, like you are on an incredible theme parl of sorts, the inmersiveness of this game and gameplay are unmatched.

[–] elkaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Haven't tried bonelabs myself but I heard the campaign was lacking so I just recommended boneworks instead since to me at least back when it released it felt like the most complete vr game.

Haven't tried the vr chat alternatives, I don't know if it is because I mostly visit Spanish talking communities but my experience has not really degraded. Admittedly I'm not a hardcore user who spends a lot of hours there, but I have fun whenever I hop in. I will try them zometime but since they are smaller they will probably have limited communities in my language, and speaking in english is a bit uncomfortable for me at least.

I had no clue DRG had a vr mod??? Literally my first time hearing about it... Lol

Lastly, I can vouch for the minecraft mod, if you set up a server correctly you can even play with friends that have it on desktop together, there are also movement commands that were fun instead of ussing the buttons on controllers.

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