wizardbeard
joined 2 years ago
If you can bear it being on .world, this seems to be the most active ED comm on Lemmy as far as I've found: !elitedangerous@lemmy.world
I love using spansh to plot a trade route then just turning on a show, youtube, or a podcast on my second monitor while I space truck at the end of a long day. Relaxing.
Have fun, and never fly without a rebuy o7
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I'm going to assume you were raised by at least one narcisist. This hits way too close to my childhood, and I've been out from under my parents' thumbs for well over a decade now.
Good luck getting out, and with the therapy that you seriously should look into. That I seriously need to schedule.
Try to relax. You're only 21 or 22 and likely coming to terms with a lot of things about life. People talk a lot about the challenges of puberty, but a hell of a lot less about the massive transistion into being an "adult".
There are a shit ton of people your age all claiming to have it figured out, and most of those "genius" ideas tend to boil down to sex booze or some other concept of bacchanalian freedom compared to a repressed childhood. Anyone your age who thinks they have it all sorted out is, at best, going through the life experience version of the dunning-krueger effect. Ignore them.
The majority of what you've described is bog standard nostalgia and missing the freedom and free time of childhood. You were far more connected than my generation immediately preceeding yours, but I have the same sort of thoughts about childhood. Just with different cultural touch points to make up my "this is evidence things were so much better".
Every generation has this to differing degrees.
I miss playful, joyful, and wholesome content too... like internet before major centralized social media. Before the concept of "going viral" was even a thing. That goddamn dancing baby gif. When the closest thing to an "influencer" was a local news host.
You talk of making Miis. I remember playground rumors about Pokemon Red and Blue. The amazement after beating the elite four in Gold to find the whole first gen map as post-game content. Mother. Fucking. Runescape. Exploring every inch of the City Trial map in Kirby's Air Ride. Coming up with custom "game modes" in Smash Bros Melee (highest spawn rate of items. Only crates, party balls, capsules, and bob-ombs. Sudden death, 5 minute timer, doubled launch speed). All sorts of shenanigans with Star Wars Battlefront 2, some friends and I used to record play sessions on VHS and narrate over them like some sort of proto-let's play before those first became a thing on the Something Awful forums.
There is definitely acceleration towards more and more things being efficiencied to hell and back, more focus on everything milking as much money out of all things as possible... but most of what you're describing is the loss of childlike wonder and the time to "explore", which is experienced by every generation.
I can't stress enough the massive difference that losing the absurd amount of free time you had as a kid causes. It's also a shit ton easier to make and maintain friendships when you're all in roughly the same places at the same time instead of spread over god knows how many place of work, work schedules, etc.
Life as an adult is harder. There's far more things eating your time.
I've been watching a lot of old Mister Rogers Neighborhood with my infant daughter lately. We just finished the first season/year of it. 1968.
This is a song he originally made for young children in 1968, but it still has something I think may be relevant to you as a 20 something year old in 2025. From his song "Please Don't Think It's Funny"
In the long, long trip of growing There are stops along the way, For thoughts of all the soft things, And the look of yesterday.
For a chance to fill our feelings, With comfort and with ease, And then tell the new tomorrow, “You can come now when you please.”
Life gets harder, busier, and more complicated as you age. It's not a particularly comforting fact. But there's a different kind of feeling of accomplishment that makes it worth it.
The world is just as wide open as it used to be. There's just as much room for creativity, warmth connection, etc. You're just becoming more aware of the work it takes to get there.
Also, my biggest advice: get offline more. Go to local parks, gardens, etc. Get out into the world and go experience things that interest you. It's the best cure for the overconnected blues I (and most people I speak to) have found. It's cliche, but go touch grass. Read books instead of doom scrolling.
Stop every once in a while, like once a week, and try to evaluate how you spent ypur time. For your free time, did you truly enjoy it or were you just wasting time. I waste a ton of time in ways that aren't really refreshing/recharging/satisfying and it just takes continued effort over time to change that.
You'll make it.
You must have a very different experience with social media if you are seriously able to say that with a straight face.
Most moderators use those criteria exactly the same way I have, and many other sites and communities restrict posting privileges on new accounts as an effective measure to curtail spam and astroturfing. The only reason that isn't being used on Lemmy is a lack of moderator tools to do it.
Additionally, shitpost is not some catch all category. Traditionally shitposts are intentionally false, misleading, or low quality posts done for the sake of humor or to try and elicit an emotional response from others (see: trolling). But fair enough, this particular comm has been becoming a catch all lately.
EDIT: Maybe a better place for this sort of thing would have been !casualconversation@lemm.ee
Anyway. You want to look more natural? Go participate in other comms. Make comments on a wide variety of topics, not just about the latest social media site that's clamoring to profit off the current situation.
Until then your response amounts to little more than an indignant "nuh uh!" with nothing behind it.
OP joined six days ago, and this is the only post and comments they have made.
Plus, how is this a shitpost?
Totally organic content.
I think believing that any one of these platforms isn't trying to maximize what they can get out of the TikTok ban is a very naive assumption.
It's a fun meta-game to see in any survival game if the katana is good or not.
Zomboid? Rare, one of the best melee weapons.
Death Road to Canada? Otaku Katana breaks in about three swings.
Good luck with the travels! If I recall right, you've been planning this since shortly after the election results were announced, right?
Anyway, take your time settling in. You and your daughter are more important than internet communities.