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  • I watch some trash reality TV and always find it kind of funny how contestants spend a long amount of time internalizing the stress of the situation the show they agreed to be on is putting on them.

    Half of Love Island is “Why did you kiss them?” “Why did you go on a date with that person?” “Why did you break up with me?” Guys it’s a SHOW. The SHOW is making you go through these completely unnatural circumstances!

    And then I think about real life and it’s like “why don’t I have energy? why am I so depressed? why can’t I be more productive?” …guys it’s CAPITALISM/SOCIETY. SOCIETY is making you go through these completely unnatural circumstances!

    …except of course I didn’t agree to be on this show.







  • I wish they’d expand on it and have a filter for player count in co-op. I have a game group of five and finding co-op, 5 player games is hard/most of them cap at 4.

    The ones that don’t cap at 4 and aren’t requiring high dexterity (i.e. fps) are base building survival games all the way down— which are fine for the most part, don’t get me wrong, I just wish we could find something with the production quality and premise of Outlast Trials.

    So far we’ve done: Conan Exiles, The Forest (1 & 2), Astroneer, Core Keeper, Return to Moria, Green Hell (may have been before we were at 4), Demonic, Deep Rock (with a 5 player mod), and a little REPO (which was good, but no progression system yet). I wanted to try Barotrauma but the puppet movement’s a bit janky for me.

    I know there’s a third party search engine I can use, but it’s sooo full of junk it’s hard to find anything worthwhile.

    Looking forward to The Big Walk, and am keeping an eye on Dune when it comes to consoles.












  • doug@lemmy.todaytomemes@lemmy.worldIt’s gonna be close
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    24 days ago

    I assure you I only found humor in people personifying a person into “Amber Lamps,” I did not recognize I was laughing alongside others who were laughing for racist reasons centered around poking fun of urban phonetics.

    …ok so for this one I was laughing at him thinking he confidently could break his cuffs and people turning it into songs and adjacent memes, I didn’t think at the time about the power dynamics and systemic racism surrounding the incident at the time.

    …ok so for this one, um, so that’s MS paint, a chainsaw, and a banned website… yes, ok you know what? I’ll just uh, I’ll see myself out.


  • doug@lemmy.todaytomemes@lemmy.worldNo pets
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    24 days ago

    I wish I didn’t have an easier time empathizing with animals than I did people; rats are so friggin’ cute

    Hell if I watch an ant long enough I’ll find them cute too. Wiping dirt off their little antennae 🥺

    I’m probably gonna die getting bit by a rabid raccoon as I try to pet them.