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rainynight65

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Migrated from rainynight65@feddit.de, which now appears to be dead. Sadly lost my comment history in the process. Let's start fresh.

  • Born in the USA Was a Protest Song

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  • Nobody should use songs by Die Ärzte in earnest for that kind of purpose - they're tinged with irony and sarcasm as a matter of principle. I love the band for that.

  • Born in the USA Was a Protest Song

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  • 'Born in the USA' did not 'fail to convey' what it was about. It was just wilfully misinterpreted.

  • What's a community that gatekeeps really hard?

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  • Railway and train modellers, of all scales. To their credit, a fair fee people are becoming more open, but especially modelling clubs are often run by old white men with questionable politics and problematic behaviours. They will sneer at anything that's not steam, or at people who run modern instead of vintage trains, or who don't get a train model exactly right the way the original ran that one time in the mid 50s from Bumfuck, Idaho to the middle of nowhere. They have little patience for newbies who might not have internalised all the lingo, or who might need something explained in simple English. If you build something that is not an exact replica of a real world location, they'll say you're not doing model railway, but merely toy trains. And then these same people go and wonder why they can't attract new people to the hobby.

  • What's a community that gatekeeps really hard?

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  • I don't have a lot of comparisons to dubs in other languages, but most german dubs I know are average at best. The biggest problem is that they often pick voice actors who just don't suit the character or the original actor. The stilted reading/talking is another issue, which is also often present in original German productions.

  • What's a community that gatekeeps really hard?

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  • As an older metalhead, this makes me a bit sad, but I guess I shouldn't be too surprised. The metal scene I joined in the early 90s did have its tolerance problems specifically against other music genres, but I never knew it as particularly gatekeepy, at least the circles I socialised with and the concerts and festivals I went to. There were some people who though you weren't a real metal fan if you didn't exclusively listen to metal, but they were a minority. Nobody had a problem with me not particularly liking Slayer or Motörhead, and there was no requirement to have long hair and be covered in leather and/or band patches.

  • ‘NIGHTTIME BLUES’ [OC]

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  • I once slept in a hotel room where the TV had a blue LED standby light. I had to go and cover it up, it was way too bright.

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    I'm tired, boss

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  • I'd like to know your sources, because to my knowledge there is no such ban in Germany.

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    Made a thread about what other social media Lemmings use, and I was shocked by the amount of Meta platforms in the replies.

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  • Spoken like someone who has never tried to get a group of people larger than two to collectively change their behaviour in a specific way.

  • Nancy Faeser bricht ein: Deutsche Innenministerin will der Polizei das Einbrechen in Wohnungen erlauben, um sie heimlich zu durchsuchen oder Spähsoftware auf Computern und Smartphones zu installieren

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  • Das dürfte eindeutig verfassungswidrig sein.

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    Made a thread about what other social media Lemmings use, and I was shocked by the amount of Meta platforms in the replies.

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  • If you're ever a parent, and you have one or more kids in school, and they engage in extracurricular activities - you'll be surprised how many amateur sports clubs and similar places communicate predominantly or even exclusively through Facebook.

  • How do you get over the fact that not everyone will like you?

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  • Many people suffer from impostor syndrome to a degree. Many people make mistakes even when it comes to subject matters they are very familiar with. Everyone has technical problems every now and then - that's outside of your control. Technology is finicky and increasingly shit.

    You'll always get people who think they know better than you, or could do something better than you. But they aren't. You are. You got where you are through your work and experience. As long you feel that you're prepared to the best of your ability and knowledge, I think your conscience can be clear.

    You will never have everyone you meet like you. Some people are just basic shitheads, and some of them will write reviews like that precisely to gaslight you into doubting yourself and your abilities. They do it for kicks. If 95% of your reviews are positive, you're in a good place.

  • J.K. Rowling, Elon Musk Named in Imane Khelif's Cyberbullying Lawsuit

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  • These people never walk back their bullshit. When called out on it, they will double down. When proven wrong, they will change the topic. But they need to be seen as strong, and right. Admitting that you're wrong or even apologising is neither - it's weak, and it can create doubt. If they were wrong about this, then what else are they wrong about?

    They radicalise their followers with lies and falsehoods, and they can only keep that up if they are not seen as being wrong about what they say. They spread their lies with confidence and zeal, and if reality disagrees, then reality is wrong.

  • Streamyfin, a simple and user-friendly Jellyfin client for iOS and Android

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  • Last time I checked, on iOS it didn't have either.

    Edit: just checked, the iOS version still doesn't have downloads and does not support casting to Chromecast.

  • Streamyfin, a simple and user-friendly Jellyfin client for iOS and Android

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  • Support for downloading and Chromecast? Sign me up.

  • The Witcher 4 "won't focus on Geralt," but his voice actor says he'll at least be "a part" of the RPG sequel

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  • You're not exactly making yourself look intelligent there, both with your original post and this reply.

    If what you **said **- there's enough games with female leads; female leads are only fine as long as the game is good; female lead is bonus points for a good game; it's no longer special - isn't what you meant, then why didn't you say what you meant?

  • The Witcher 4 "won't focus on Geralt," but his voice actor says he'll at least be "a part" of the RPG sequel

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  • Roughly 50% of human beings are female. It's only fitting that around 50%0 of games have female leads. It doesn't need to be special, a female lead doesn't need to justify her existence. It should be commonplace.

  • "Sozialneid nach unten": Statt Steuern für Superreiche fordern viele Menschen Sanktionen für Bürgergeldempfänger. Laut Forscher Christoph Butterwegge haben sie Angst vor dem sozialen Abstieg.

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  • Irgendwie ist das doch absurd. Man hat Angst vor dem eigenen sozialen Abstieg, aber man will die sozial benachteiligten Menschen noch mehr benachteiligen. Macht man denn damit die iegene Angst nicht noch schlimmer?

  • Neil Gaiman: Three Women Accuse Author of Sexual Assault

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  • But do you have to?

    For me, knowing that the artist is a terrible person ruins the art for me, or at least compromises it to the point where I don't feel comfortable in my skin continuing to peruse it. And that even if I wouldn't be buying anything new or otherwise be giving the artist money.

    Take as an example Jon Schaffer, head of metal bad Iced Earth, which I liked quite a bit in the past. Later it became clear that he is at least problematic, and once he was identified as having participated in the January 6 riots, that was the end of it. I still own older Iced Earth CDs, but I can't listen to them any more.

    Or Joss Whedon, whose work I used to love, and I own a lot of DVDs of his stuff. But watching it now knowing what he's done particularly to many women he worked with just seriously hinders my enjoyment of what I once really liked.

  • Neil Gaiman: Three Women Accuse Author of Sexual Assault

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  • The count of women accusing Neil Gaiman of sexual assault is now up to five.