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I think I speak for most people when I say that I’m a good representative of the general population.

  • Alien abduction

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  • What is something you can see, hear, smell, etc., that others can't?

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  • Before I lost my sense of smell I was absurdly sensitive to ranch. If my ex opened a ranch dip in the apartment I would be dry-heaving very quickly. When I was a kid I would sometimes move seats eating lunch at school because other kids had ranch doritos. Not having to deal with that anymore was a rare positive to come out of my awful experience with covid.

    I can enjoy coldcuts and cheeses, but they'll make me sick if they're not extremely fresh. In some cases they already smell and taste like they've gone rancid fresh off the slicer.

    Pancreatitic sepsis fucked my tastebuds, my hospital stay was extended a full week because I couldn't keep down foods other than sweets. They actually restarted me on the feeding tube because of that. When I went off the NPO and got to eat again for the first time I asked for a spicy sandwich from Chick-Fil-A, I'm pretty sure it was just an ordinary spicy sandwich but in that moment it tasted like the spiciest thing I had ever eaten in my entire life. I don't like the taste of water anymore, which is miserable.

  • What is something you can see, hear, smell, etc., that others can't?

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  • Ever since I had pancreatitic sepsis I hate the taste of water, it's so frustrating. I mostly drink a few specific zero-sugar sodas now, I wish the prebiotic sodas weren't so expensive because they would be the best solution.

  • Why do some people try to humanize the wealthy and people in positions of power?

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  • I think it's increasingly easier to feel empathy for a killer the more steps there are between them and the trigger. I personally find it much more jarring when someone can just fully turn off empathy when given context. A lot of the time what you're talking about goes hand-in-hand with dehumanizing the impoverished, that's the one I can't fathom.

  • The Last Truly Custom Nintendo: A 3DS Retrospective

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  • I didn't realize there were alternate hardware options available. I have the custom firmware installed on mine, but I had two of them crap out of me in the past so it's crossed my mind that if that happened again the resale market for them might force this one to be my last.

    Some ds and 3ds games tried to shoehorn in touchscreen usage, which was annoying because there's no shame in a good game not making use of the stylus. With that said, the ones that made good use of both screens were spectacular. Shoutout to Yo-Kai Watch 3.

  • What are your cats' nicknames?

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  • My favorite cat was named Buddy, but since he would get into a lot of mischief we would often refer to him as "the monster". Once you start calling your cat Buddy Monster, you'll find you're now a very short distance from Monster of Buddies I'm pulling your strings.

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  • Brutalize me I WILL HEAL

  • How couples meet in the US

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  • The reason I'm inclined to turn to online dating is because the real me is someone whose dream life would be spending most of his days sitting around with a good friend playing with cats. It's not like I have no solo interests at all, they're just not ones that can invite a connection by doing them in public. Sometimes I read math, I have papers on the arXiv on category theory and categorical homotopy theory, but I'm out of academia right now so that's not a way to connect with real people.

    I absolutely love talking to people and forming connections, but just with one other person at a time, otherwise I get behind the conversation and go into deep introversion. I like getting to listen to someone tell their stories and talk about themselves. One of my favorite activities is reading books out loud with a friend. I don't know how to go out into the real world and just do that with one other person. Online I can, and have made some wonderful connections. It's just that dating apps specifically look like a nightmare.

    If I were really into hiking or whatever I would be all about living that out. Unfortunately, the person I am is someone who would be doing activities as a means to socialize, rather than the other way around. Doing those things would very much not be the real me. It's not easy to live a solitary life for an extended period and not dream about more, and those dreams start to feel like an ulterior motive if I'm seeking out new connections.

    I don't think at all about what "top" should mean in a dating pool, it hadn't even crossed my mind, so I'm not sure why you're bringing that up. I don't care about whether I find someone in a top percentile of anything, I just want to find someone who is empathetic and who I connect with.

  • How couples meet in the US

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  • I'm going to start dating again sometime soon, so this is something I've been thinking about a lot.

    I hate that if I go on an app and make a contact, the ostensible purpose will be to date. When that's the purpose, at some point an evaluation will have to be made. Either that purpose is met or it isn't. You could have a conversation about being friends or considering your options, but I'm sure starting that conversation feels awkward and hurtful. It would feel like downgrading them from the original intent behind meeting.

    Not starting that conversation could be delaying the dreams of two people though, so there would be a time crunch to make a decision before I might be ready. It feels like this will inevitably end up with throwing aside people who could be great to have as friends.

    A connection shouldn't be a decision, it should be something that happens. I'd rather just hang out with someone with the expectation that we're hoping to be friends, and if there is a connection we'll see it in each other sooner or later. Unfortunately for me, striking up conversations with single women to be friends with while having the thought of going further in the back of my mind might as well be the definition of creeper behavior.

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • I'm just pirating, but from I saw a lot of people have the opinion that the original is a better experience. If I remember correctly it's an option to just go with original graphics and audio in +, but I figured I'd test out to see if how well the modded DSi works for me.

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • I've started Cave Story for the first time and it seems really cute. I recently modded my old DSi, so I'm playing that version.

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  • When I lived alone I was great about cleaning up any messes made in memory, but dust bunnies had eternal lifespans.

  • I'm 40 now by Kplx

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  • I think the person who drew this comic was born into the wrong generation. (They're a boomer at heart.)

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  • Often when I upset strangers online I feel bad and log out for a few months.

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    you watch

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  • Any impact protest voters might have had could be outweighed a thousandfold by nonvoters. Why call out protest voters unprompted as a cause of an election swing when their impact is a drop in an ocean?

    Half the country didn't vote. If 1% of them leaned Biden they would still have had more impact than protest voters, and I feel like the percentage leaning Biden might have been slightly higher than 1%.

    I feel like I see protest voters called out 300x as much as nonvoters and I can never understand why it's so disproportionate.

  • What's the most ridiculous reason why someone sent you death threats?

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  • Like 10-15 years ago I took a screenshot from my pokemon game. I named my ditto "children" and then put it in the daycare center, so that when I went to pick him up the daycare lady says "If you want your children back, it will be $5000".

    As someone who had never watched the movie "Taken", it was kind of unsettling to login to reddit the next day to find like five messages in my inbox saying some form of "I don't know who you are but I will find you and I will kill you".

    Probably doesn't fit the intent but thankfully those are the only examples I have.

  • He looks so shocked

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  • Yeah I opened the door to the wrong car once before and almost got in. I can picture myself getting as far as sitting down, but I can't picture myself realizing and then thinking "hey there's no rush so I should pull out my phone to take a photo of this dog before leaving".

  • Google just broke all third-party YT clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required.

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  • I'm relieved because I saw this post and assumed it meant in a more serious way than normal.

  • what questions do you have but don't feel you can ask trans people?

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  • I genuinely do appreciate you saying this, because I felt pretty bad about myself and logged off for a while.

  • Hockey @lemmy.ca
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    The Mark Messier NHL Leadership Award is probably the one award a player on my team can win while making me feel fully indignant about the selection.

  • Creative @beehaw.org
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    Mastodon account for my terrible screenplay ideas.

    sunny.garden /@originalscreenplays/
  • ADHD @lemmy.world
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    Man I'm comfy in bed and really want to sleep but I just thought of a task that will only take me a couple minutes to accomplish.

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Realizing that my cat spent months teaching me he likes head massages.

  • Arch Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Error with recent deepin-icon-theme update, how should I address this?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    I'm working on a screenplay for a remake of Castaway, but I'm considering not using a volleyball this time. Give me your best casting ideas for which inanimate object should play Wilson.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Relationship advice?

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Stackexchange sites tend to be pretty reliable for any questions you can't find answers to with a simple search

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Grainy photo of my cat sleeping sitting up

  • Libre Culture @lemmy.ml
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    What do you guys recommend for language learning from scratch?