SpoonyBard

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[–] SpoonyBard@lemmy.world 108 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

I don’t know why, but “stealing him” is such a funny way of saying that.

[–] SpoonyBard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

These are great tips. I generally don’t take long term medication other than allergy pills, which don’t have side effects like this and I’m very new to Adderall, so this is very helpful.

[–] SpoonyBard@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (4 children)

My wife has to remind me often to eat food because I just forget.

Ironically just started taking Adderall for ADHD and a common side effect is that it kills your appetite and people forget to eat.

[–] SpoonyBard@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Even spiders have that one uncle that’s like “pull my horseshoe vortices”.

[–] SpoonyBard@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Weird, I haven’t heard anyone say they hated Coldplay for this. In fact, I’d say that Coldplay is one of those bands that is regularly hated on, well before any of the cheating CEO and now, if anything, Coldplay is more liked, even if indirectly just because the situation was funny and meme’d so much.

[–] SpoonyBard@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Remember when cabinet members went to prison for taking bribes from giant companies and in return giving them government contracts (the teapot dome scandal)?

And now that’s just normal “business” for politicians.

[–] SpoonyBard@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Well, it makes sense then that we used to describe it as being a “Doom-like” game lol.

[–] SpoonyBard@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

You’re a saint.

[–] SpoonyBard@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

That’s why I mentioned that the US is just operating in a form of soft despotism. It is not obvious the the American people.

Most US citizens believe they have the power or believe they have a lot of power or even at least some power.

Soft despotism gives people the illusion that they are in control, but actually they don’t have any real influence over the government.

 

This oddly very fun game came in a box of cereal back in the late 90’s. My cousin and I jokingly decided to install it, fully believing it was going to be a terribly made game. However, we were pleasantly surprised at how good it was and played it a ton.

I can’t say if it still holds up and will need to see if I can find a copy somewhere online to check it out, but it randomly popped up in my head recently and needed to share with others who may have also played it.

[–] SpoonyBard@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

“No polling indicated public opinion shifted on this and we are being adaptive!”

What is “this”? What is the topic?

“Saving lives is efficient” doesn’t even sound like a full thought.

It’s efficient in what regard? In what way is saving lives commonly thought to be inefficient?

[–] SpoonyBard@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Here’s the issue. The nice guys you’re talking about, the “real nice guys” don’t care about advantages and disadvantages of being nice because they aren’t being nice in order to gain something from others… cause that’s not actually being nice. They aren’t being nice and then getting upset that their kindness isn’t being noticed when dating or that they get upset when their kindness is taken advantage of. They are nice because they believe being decent to others is the best way to live and treat others, even if it’s sometimes taken advantage of by others. They find more in the act of being nice itself, than what they may benefit from it or even what possible negative results may come from it from other people taking advantage.

The second you said “when it gives you a disadvantage while dating” you’ve already crossed the line into r/niceguys. You’re trying to give kindness a value that can be traded or points and essentially stating it deserves something in return.

Don’t be nice to gain something from others. That isn’t being nice. That’s being manipulative. Be nice knowing you aren’t going to gain anything in return, but still choose to be nice anyway.

As for helping others.. it sounds weird when you put the two topics together. Helping people that are being abused.. and dating. I don’t want to make assumptions, but talking about both of these things together makes it sound more like your main focus is dating, but kind of using “helping others” as a guise. It’s one thing to want to help abuse victims, but it’s another if you’re essentially saying that you want to help them out of their abusive relationship and into a relationship with you. That doesn’t sound like the goal is to actually help them. It sounds like “come date me because I’m a nice guy and will treat you better”. Then getting frustrated that the don’t, because you “deserve” the relationship because your a ‘nice guy’ and it’s an afterthought that it may so happen to benefit them too.

Maybe I’m reading into it wrong. This is a complex conversation over a couple paragraphs, so.. kind of hard to gauge accuracy over what is being said.

[–] SpoonyBard@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You think there is democracy in the US? Our votes don’t even matter because politicians purposefully draw the districts to favor the outcome they want (gerrymandering) and it’s completely legal because the people in charge of making the laws are the same people that are in control and want to stay in control.

The US is soft despotism. Giant corporations literally buy the laws they want at the expense of the people, because politicians like money and are happy to sign away bills for a large ~~bribe~~ gift of a million dollars. The people aren’t in control and haven’t been anywhere close to in control for nearly a century.

What was illegal for President Warren G Harding in the 1920’s (giving all his under qualified buddies cabinet positions, so they could all make huge deals with government contracts) is now just the norm and completely legal.

 

The series is set in a dystopian, alternate-history United States divided into seven nations

The storyline focuses on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the imminent end of the world. The tagline for the series is "The things that divide us are stronger than the things that unite us". The plot explores the tension between the inevitability of the apocalypse and the persistent hope for a different future.

 

The story follows Grant McKay, a renegade scientist who, along with his team and family, embarks on a dangerous journey through various dimensions of the "Eververse" using his creation, "the Pillar". Unfortunately, the Pillar is sabotaged, trapping the team as they randomly jump through increasingly perilous and hostile dimensions.

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