vonbaronhans

It very much has the "we must give meaning to life for the idiots who can't run their own life... and by that we mean we think you aren't human so just do what we need to be comfortable and dominant ourselves" vibe

Yep. I was in the primary market for it back then, and even I was like, meh.

Remember Battleborn? FPS MOBA from Gearbox that came out in like... 2018 or thereabouts. Never got off the ground and got completely shuttered in like, a year, iirc

Yeah there's a lot of moral/ethical calculus that should be done when attempting to circumvent rules. Unfortunately, people who are looking to circumvent rules are not usually the people who would reliably do that calculus.

Kind of the same thing for political revolution. If you're willing to go beyond the state apparatus to achieve your ends, are you also going to be dedicated to rule-following after the revolution is done? It's a tough thing.

Aaah. Yeah that tracks.

"photos to signing 80s songs"?

I wouldn't say proudly, but I do say "easier to ask for forgiveness than permission" semi regularly. But it's never in the context of like, regular interpersonal relationships. It's work stuff, usually. I could write a report and beg my superiors for their input and budget for some initiative, or I can just go do the goddamn thing and get it done in a quarter of the time it would take to get the first leadership meeting on the calendar.

Strong Towns is another useful example. They make cool, good, human-centered urban developments. When the mayor or whoever shows up to check it out, they go "wow this is fantastic!" and the organizers THEN say yeah, these are the 70+ local zoning ordinances we broke to make this happen. Then a bunch of nonsense pro-suburbia rules get lifted to enable more cool stuff.

I dunno. I pay for premium. The price feels justified given how much I use YouTube pretty much every day.

But if others feel differently, that's fine.

The far right shit is bad, there's a lot bad in general, but I still get a lot of value from lefty politics to atheism content to video game essays to music videos.

Same. I gravitate towards female avatars for the most part, usually because I just like looking at them more.

Sometimes it's more game specific. Mass Effect, for example, the stock fem Shep is just the canonical version of the character in my head. Had a cooler and more relatable face design. And perhaps most importantly, default masc Shep just really looks like every dudebro I've ever disliked in person.

Yeah, everyone's got their preferences, fo sho.

I ended up marrying my work colleague. By the time we started dating I was already slated to leave the state for another gig in a couple months. Figured if it didn't work out, I'd be completely out of the picture soon anyway. If it did work out... well a year of long distance turned into a marriage, so it really worked out.

That said I have a more corporate long term job now, so I'd certainly have to be a lot more socially careful if I were single trying to meet someone at work.

Lemmy users tend to be young?

This place is full of grognards, compared to any other social media I've ever interacted with. Could still skew young in absolute terms, I suppose, but boy there's a lot of oldheads in here.

Just gonna add this to the pile.

Most kids spend more time at school than at home, and during their prime functioning hours, and their teachers prime functioning hours. Kids come home to parents that are often burned out by their job. We still do our best for our kids, but the vast majority of us aren't professionally trained teachers, either.

I'm not saying schools should be in charge of everything a kid learns, but if there's a baseline expectation of knowledge that we expect from every adult in our society, then yeah, we probably do want our children to learn those things in school so we can at least try to ensure every kid gets a chance to learn them.