Lost_My_Mind @ Lost_My_Mind @lemmy.world

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To know whats up, ya gotta be down

Here's what you do.

Just think about the fact that you don't control your destiny. You're a wage slave. Doing whatever is told to you. You're going to die alone, and the only friends you have are only your friends because they are afraid of not having friends. The world is a dark and miserable place, and during the cold war America straight up lost 53 atomic bombs. Presumed to be in the oceans. Nobody knows their condition. Nobody knows if they are a threat to explode at any time.

On top of that, the soviet union lost an unknown number of nukes during that same time. Whereas the united states says they're pretty sure they lost them in the ocean, the soviet union makes no such claims. That means it's possible they dropped it from a plane, and it didn't explode. Maybe they were stolen from storage, and sold to whomever. No regulation needed.

So now, instead of laughing at some meme, you can have a look of dread and uncertainty on your face. Like you're holding back tears. And THEN you'll fit right in with todays soul crushing society.

Ew. No. I've known people who are happy, and giggly all the time.

I want it to be legal to strangle them.

A batman mask.

.............I don't even get it.

See, if it were me, I'd say "Oh, ok." And keep watching tv with her. I'd have zero sense that she's NOT fine.

So she would be yelling internally that I don't care enough to ask whats wrong.

In reality, I'd have zero clue she was upset. So I'd just keep going, and she'd keep being angry.

And at some point she'd have an outburst that from my perspective came out of nowhere.

This is why I don't date. People expect you to read their minds, and I don't. Then she gets mad that I'm unclear whats going on.

There was a girl I was living with 20 years ago that came home, slammed the door, and screamed. I asked whats wrong. She said "LIKE YOU DON'T KNOW!!!"

To this day I have no idea what that was about.

He’s an awful human being with awful evil beliefs, but at least it seems like he’s not a fascist, just a christo-nationalist.

The limbo bar is on the floor. The bar to beat isn't "Person who wants the best version of this country to exist, and sells his base on his vision of that"

The bar to beat is now "Still an awful human who intends to enforce policies that will actively harm millions of Americans......but NOT a fascist!"

The arabs and the jews hate each other. The blacks and the whites hate each other. The japanese hate all outsiders. The russians just hate. Just everybody.

Then there's the religious wars. The land expansion wars. The "fuck you for shooting my pig" war. (No really, that happened. Although my description is a bit......oversimplified.)

You got all these wars, all these murders, all this hate. Now the shootings are happening from kids at school. Hate from pre-puberty until you reach your casket. However fast that may be.

And who does the capybara hate? Nobody. Capybara doesn't give a shit. Don't bring your BS hate around capybara. Capybarais gonna chill with some ducks, or some cats, or some cows. Whoever, man! Capybara does not give a FUCK. He's just here to chill, and you can chill too, or you can get the fuck out. Capybara brings the chill, and humans should learn from that.

If you ever find yourself about to kill another person, for any reason besides LEGITIMATE self-defense, then you're an asshole.

Unless they're a billionaire. Pretty sure all of them have it coming for the misery they willfully inflict on others for profit.

Maybe my friends are growing apart and they text me less because of this, but I’m kind of okay with that because I know they will be there for me when I need it

I have someone I used to be friends with. I'd text her while watching wrestling, and she'd reply.

Then her replies got shorter and shorter. I'd write a paragraph, and she'd write "Yeah lol". Eventually she just stopped replying. Eventually I just stopped texting.

This past Christmas I got a text from her that was clearly mass texted. It was just a "Merry Christmas" thing.

I looked at it, and realized we hadn't talked at all in almost 2 years. Why is she texting me this? Do I reply? Is she trying to reopen communication? Then I realized she probably clicked "select all" in her contacts list, and I just happened to still be in there. I didn't reply.

When you don't commicate, you send the message that you don't want to communicate. I have a rule about friends. If I'm ALWAYS the one starting the conversation, then you clearly don't care about me. And I stop caring about you over time.

It's not that your friends are drifting apart from you. It's that you're pushing them away from you. If I asked a friend if they wanted to come out on whatever event to hang out, and they just bluntly and coldly said "No.", I would take that as an insult. Like, oh, ok. You don't enjoy my company. Fine then. I'll go without you.

And at some point, you push everybody away. Then you wake up one day at 30 years old, and realize you need new friends. Except 30 year olds aren't out there trying to make friends. And it gets harder and harder progressively as the years go by to make new friends.

So yeah. I totally see you as being at fault here.

Instead of saying "No." just say "No, I need some recharge time." At least then it's about you taking care of your own mental health, and not just "Do I want to hang out with YOU? No!"

See, that moves it away from them being the problem, and lets them understand you just need some alone time. Always remember, every relationship always has at least two sides. You are not the main character in a story.

........wow.

You realize that every single product in capitolism, whether it's a Mercedes-Benz car, a Coca-Cola beverage, a Kensmore washing machine, a video game, all of it......it's all sold based on what the people selling it think they can afford to charge.

Look at Nintendo. They could have a game out for 10+ years, and they'll still charge $60. Why? Because people will pay it. I fault Nintendo for almost every business decision they make. Especially the lawsuits. But their pricing model isn't something I fault them for. From a business perspective, making money is the whole point.

These other retro games that don't charge much is because they just throw the game together, with no care. Then sell it cheap because it was made by 1-2 people in a short amount of time. The price is the hook.

For shovel knight it was developed, and added to, for almost a decade, by a full development team. It's like the difference between getting a hand crafted knife, made by a professional who's world renouned for his bladework, vs going to walmart and getting a cheap knife. Yeah, they do the same thing, but one is so much better quality and it shows.

Why would they discount it now, after giving people 8 years worth of free DLC?

You put the lime in the coke, YOU NUT!

Please don't tell anyone I know about this feature.

Here's how my next family gathering would go if I were in the movie Liar Liar:

"Son! We never hear from you anymore! It's so hard to get ahold of you these days!"

"Yeaaaaah........"

"Everytime I call, there's never any answer, and your mailbox is full."

"Yeah. I've intentionally kept my voicemailbox full for the past 3 years. Then I turn the ringer to silent, as it has been for 10 years"

"Why?"

"Well, I love all of you, but it is EXAUSTING to talk to most of you for more than 30 minutes, and not very often. If you notice, at Christmas, and other holidays, I tend to flutter. I don't want to spend any more than 15 minutes with any one of you, so when you start building up your bs, I flutter to the next person, and the cycle renews. Look, I know my niece is only 13, but she better start dating by 15, and have a kid by 18. Look, BEST case scenario, I don't get to play retro video games with a kid seeing them for the first time for AT LEAST 8-9 years. And that's assuming my niece grows up waaaaaaay faster than I expect her to. She may not have a kid until she's 30! I'm not going to be the cool uncle in his late 40s, spending time with the kid, so he feels included.......I would be the weird uncle in his late 60s, trying to show his great nephew novelty video games from 80 years prior. And at that point I lose my buffer! Ok, I'm sorry. I would absolutely prefer to play video games with a kid I talk to once a year, and show him games of the past, than have to go have "grown up conversations". Which roughly translated means hearing my boomer mom get progressively more openly racist, which historically was NEVER the case, and my boomer dad become increasively more peaceful, and accepting of others, and less racist......which is even MORE surprising! Because before Obama, he would not hesitate to throw the n-word around casually. So basically I don't understand life right now. Then you got my sister, who I feel I should feel guilty for thinking she's a bad person....but I don't. She belittles anyone, even those close to her. She loves to argue and make those around her feel bad. Then there's my other sister who used to be this social animal party drinker when she was in her 20s, and now in her 50s she loves judging people, and gossiping about the neighbors or whoever. Again, historically unlike her. Then there's my brother in law, who I feel like is the reason my sister turned from free spirit to mean judgy type. And then there's his parents, who aren't bad people at all. His parents are salt of the earth people. They're just really really......boring in every way. Finally there's my niece. She's 13, so she's in that self awkward phase where she doesn't talk to anyone and somehow gets away with it. Maaaaaan, just a few years ago she was my buffer! I played untitled goose game with her, pokemon with her, some driving game.......now she stays in her room and avoids everybody! Lucky...."

And then everybody would look at me and stare. Everybodys feelings are hurt. So instead I just say

"Heh, yeah. I get a lot of telemarketers these days"

I swear to god, their dog better live like 30 years. She LOVES me everytime I come over. And she gets super excited and energetic. So I'm just like "I'll Maisey for a walk!" And my sister is like "It's 10 degrees, and blizzarding out there!" And I'm like "So does she have little doggy boots, and maybe like a sweater with overlaying wind breaker....orrrrr......what are we doing? Is this like a pulling her on a sled situation?" And she'd say "No there's no doggy boots or sweaters, or sleds!" And I say "Well, I mean that's kind of cruel though, don't you think? To take her out in this without protection from the elements?" And she says "I WASN'T GOING TO TAKE HER OUT AT ALL!!!" and I just say "Woooowwwwwwww! Hear that Maisey? I'm the only one who loves you enough to take you for a walk. C'mon, we get the old wagon, and at the very least a blacket!"

And then leave the house for like.....45 minutes to an hour.

Look, I love my family. I just don't have the social stamina to interact with them.

Edit: Oh, and if you've never seen Liar Liar, the concept is this guy (jim carry) has a spell put on him where he can't physically lie. So instead he just blurts out the cold hard truth. Go watch it. It's good.

To be fair, it was like that in the actual NES era too.

Unless you're an actual enthusiast, there are TONS of NES games that you've never heard of, that inspired the gameplay of other games.

Then there's the games that were japan only, never got an outside release. But then a later game that DOES get an outside release uses elements from those games. From out perspective, that 2nd game invented that formula. You find out years later it wasn't.

I'm SO confused by what you're saying. And I think what is happening, is you're saying something so outragous that my brain REFUSES to process the information. Leaving me bewildered by recent developments.

Let me get this straight......you think that the studio behind shovel knight doesn't deserve to state their opinion on how to mske good retro games??? And this is based on the fact that they don't discount their games, and they take the genre too seriously.........just to make sure I understand you. That's what you're going with?

Every day my grey hairs get greyer. I was already in my gaming prime by the time N64 came around. A seasoned veteran of the gaming world. Having had saved the princess in multiple series, in multiple games, in mjltiple consoles, for over 10 years by that point......

Now the kids ask if I got "Rizz". No. I know not of this Rizz.....what I do have is a very particular set of skills. Skills I have developed over a prolonged career. Skills that make me a nightmare for punks like you. If you put the controller down now, that will be the end of it. I will not pursue you. If you don't, I will look for you, I WILL find you, and I'll plug my toys r us gold exclusive N64 controller into port 2, I will pick Jaws, insist you pick oddjob, and still wipe the floor with you!

Hail to the king, baby!!! Oh, sorry, wrong N64 shooting game.

Yeah, but after you've taken a shot of vodka, what are you going to do about the money?

foot clan operations intensify

What about spiked cleats?

No no no. Chop chop master onion head taught me everything I need to know.

Kick punch it's all in the mind, if ya wanna test me, I'm sure you'll find, the things I teach ya are sure to beat ya! Nevertheless you get a lesson from teacher! Now...

KICK!

I like this whole chain. I don't have a horse in the race. I don't have my old genesis anymore. And I don't know the solutions, but I do like the idea of a community coming together to help each other out with this stuff.

It's good.