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  • Are they making some sort of corellation between testosterone and propensity towards violence? Like a cartoon would?

  • Hehe yeah, that is sort of what I meant. Gaming isn't what changed. Affordability changed.

  • Simpsons created it. In the episode where jebediah springfields quote "a noble spirit embiggens the smallest man" is scrutinized for "embiggens" not being a word. They say it's a perfectly cromulent word. Which itself was not a word, but given the context has a clear meaning. And people decided to start using it as a joke, and then enough people used it, it eventually became real.

    Technically all words work that way, but this feels just that little bit more artificial. There wasn't really a need for it, we have words for that context already, so it wouldn't have naturally spread. But it's still fun to have watched it happen over time, knowing it was probably gonna happen even though it shouldn't have.

    Edit: the details may not be exactly right, it's been nigh-on 30 years now since I've seen that episode, but that's the gist of it, from what I recall.

  • Gaming, is joining everything else at becoming harder to afford.

  • The ram in the system went from 200 dollars to 600 dollars. Not increasing the price of the console by 400 dollars would have meant scrapping it instead.

    There is literally no choice, the ram would have been sold either way, just to someone else instead.

  • I don't know what you trying to say should have been done. What else could have been done?

  • Ok, convince an entire crowd that they have nothing to fear and everything is ok and they can calm down. And do it quickly because the boy is being dragged around like a rag doll, which seems to be having the opposite effect.

  • The trouble and difference with the Harambe situation is that he was disobeying his handlers and riled up by what he thought was a crowd angry at the kid(he likely wouldn't have thought the crowd was scared of what he might do, since he knew he was being helpful and didn't have presence of mind to consistently realise others might have different opinions than his own). So he wouldn't let go of the kid, and would have likely been defensive if handlers tried to come in and get the kid. He also was large enough that if they tranquilized him, he could have easily crushed the kid just by slowly passing out on him. They unfortunately had to take the only guarantee they had and shoot him at a moment when he was far enough from the kid that he wouldn't fall on him.

    Harambe also didn't have any previous experience with taking care of kids, gorilla or otherwise. And believe me, that makes a huge difference. While the kid ended up mostly ok physically, he was dragged around by his ankle, through water and over rough terrain.

    Nobody wants to kill a zoo animal. Especially not beloved ones. Especially not while they are trying to be nice.

  • I think the fact that literally everyone else here read it as it was intended to be read and is trying to explain it to you might suggest that you probably did indeed misinterpret something. No one else thought this person was implying women belong in the kitchen... you are bringing something personal into this.

  • The pointless gendering is coming from Hegseth and what the army had already been doing prior. They are explaining why Hegseths new policy is leading to poorer performance in those areas because of the pointless gendering. It doesn't matter what gender the people coming in are, it matters why the people were there before and are being removed, which was due to the previous pointless gendering.

  • The refund policy is that it is an automatic "no questions asked" refund if it qualifies by being under 2 hours played or 2 weeks owned. If it doesn't qualify, you can still get a refund, there just are questions asked then. Their refund policy is pretty much the gold standard.

  • Ah, an actor. I suppose I would have missed that take.

  • That is generally the impetus behind religious institutions disdain for it. Their best chance to increase their numbers is through indoctrination of the children of their current members. Conversions rarely occur, despite how much they are talked up when they do.

    They are, of course, wrong to think that. Toys, in practice, generally increase intimacy and likelihood of a couple having children. But not as much as being raised your entire life being told that it is the entire purpose of life and if you don't have as many kids as you theoretically could, you have done yourself a disservice. So as long as they conflate the results, they will keep assuming they are correct in doing both.

  • I literally don't think I ever saw anyone say that.

  • What is a person like me?

  • That is an entirely separate problem that has nothing to do with if your country has universal Healthcare or privatized Healthcare. Places with private Healthcare can have just as long wait times, and places with universal Healthcare can have short wait times. Only the people trying to corrupt a system say that it will fix the wait times, don't believe them.

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  • Ah, fair. Upside down I's. Yeah that checks out. Ok. Well at least that does mean the premise is possible, if they typed "We going to Disneyworld!" Which, could be the case if English is the dad's second language. Though without going off the clues of which partial letters are attached to the same scraps of paper, not sure why/how you would go about piecing this together linearly instead of putting common or uncommon words together first.

    But for us, a puzzle is a puzzle. Clearly I didn't spend enough time looking. Doesn't matter if the premise was real or fake, the puzzle was real to us.

    My only excuse is that I just got home from New Zealand, and it was a total of 16 hours of flying and 4 hours of driving. And like 8 hours spent in Airports. And I didn't sleep for any of it.

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  • Which I was originally the I for going. They both seem to have part of a round letter after them. Unless they typo'd and did like giong or something. But none of the O's fit that guess either. And the S isn't partially cut off to be the round part following either I for Disney. It's all just a little off from making sense. Like one or two of the letters have the right partial letter to make sense for having been together before cutting. It's almost weird at this point that a couple of them do line up properly to make sense. Since the majority don't.

    Not sure what exactly was changed on it to make it fit their fun little joke better. But something for sure was.

  • Hehe yeah, I was always put off on souls games because people described them as being hard, then when there wasn't alot of choice early on in VR games, I picked up a souls-like since it was the closest I could get to a long-form rpg at the time. And it wasn't that hard at all, but people were still complaining about how hard it was all the time... so I tried other souls games on desktop, and they were fine too. So I picked up the actual dark souls... this is what people were complaining about? It's like, not even megaman difficulty?

    That was when I learned that it's a good thing there wasn't much internet yet back when I was playing megaman games, or I might have never tried them either. And also it turns out I like "hard" games, to me that is like the whole point of games. If you finish something first try, then you didn't get better at anything.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world

    How long until someone is allowed to make a safety can opener with a long crank?