jaycifer

joined 2 years ago
[–] jaycifer@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

This image makes it look like he’s about to say he was turned into a newt.

[–] jaycifer@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

Two terrible, groan-inducing puns for the price of one? I love it!

[–] jaycifer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I love the soundtrack in this movie, especially during the bike chase scene!

[–] jaycifer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

It’s wine all the way down, but it’s never all wine!

[–] jaycifer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It looks like Harold’s purple crayon if it was red more than a pencil. I like it the least of the first four, but I think all of these look fine. 5 and 6 are a little busier than I’d prefer.

[–] jaycifer@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Its a procedurally generated detective game. You get plopped down into a voxel-looking city and investigations to conduct are generated to solve. I haven’t played it, but I’ve heard as of a year or two ago when it released that it is pretty fun for a while until things start feeling samey. Workshop support sounds like just the thing a game like this should have, so this is great news!

[–] jaycifer@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hey, it’s been a year but I just want to say that your comment helped me when my dad’s death was fresh. Thank you.

[–] jaycifer@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Oh yeah, my roommate calculated utilities yesterday and all I sent was a thumbs up. Time to set an alarm!

[–] jaycifer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for reminding me Assassins Creed Syndicate came out 10 years ago.

[–] jaycifer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I agree, but I think there are enough people who conflate working class with blue collar that making the distinction is justified.

 
[–] jaycifer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I haven’t heard anything about BG3 getting a major update since modding tools were added, and it looks like that was 2024. It’s a very weird game to even be nominated.

Edit: It sounds like Larian added native Linux support and new subclasses in 2025, that sounds like enough to qualify for a labor of love award to me!

[–] jaycifer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I think a lot of it stems from living in a relatively young, immigration heavy, multicultural country and the little conversations that arise from that.

At least in the city I grew up and still live in I have met a lot of people who either immigrated or whose parents immigrated from other countries. In high school human geography I learned it takes a couple generations for an immigrant family to fully assimilate into a new culture, so a lot of these first/second generation immigrants still have connections and traditions from their family’s old country. The history of those countries (or at least the regions modern countries occupy) stretch back hundreds to thousands of years. I think many caucasian Americans, often raised to be competitive, want that sense of history when comparing to their own family but American culture has “only” developed over the past 300-400 years. To get an older/deeper sense of heritage they have to ask where their ancestors that immigrated to the US immigrated from, and because a sense of superiority is at least some part of American culture that older heritage has to be better than the other older heritages and therefore something to be loud and proud about. Even if it isn’t actually a big part of one’s life.

All that to say yes I think you’re right about it being a matter of ethnic distinction, which I think is brought about by the circumstances of US history. I definitely get how it’s annoying.

 

I had never heard this word before a week or two ago, and now I’m seeing it in memes, discussions, etc. Why is a resin becoming more prevalent online?

 

Yesterday was my birthday. A few years ago, when I was in a bad place mentally, I didn’t answer my dad’s phone call to wish me a happy birthday. He left a voicemail in which he sang the song to me and hoped I wasn’t just working at the pizza place and went out with friends.

That was about a year before the isolation of Covid times led him to start drinking vodka on the regular. He was never able to stop more than a few months at a time after that, even with rehab, therapy, and AA. It felt like a race between him figuring out how to quit and how long before his body couldn’t give him more chances to do so.

At the start of September, I moved him across the country to be closer to family while he recovered from another round of binge drinking and starving himself. I had quit hard liquor a couple months prior after getting too drunk too fast for comfort at my friend’s wedding. After this weekend I stopped drinking everything else.

At the end of September, he lost the race. He managed to call an ambulance when he realized this detox felt different, walked himself outside to meet them and only passed out when he was on the stretcher. A day later in a medically induced coma complications ended his brain’s faculties and he died. The only sign of what he had been thinking was the book he brought to the ambulance. The last marked page ended with a character scared after an encounter whispering to himself “still alive, still alive.”

I have not drank for 9 months now. I was headed that way before, but now I feel I can’t drink. To do so would disrespect what my dad went through. Yesterday was my birthday. I made plans with my friends for a full day, but before I left I listened to that voicemail for the first time since he left it for me, before I had reason to worry about him, when I was the one he worried about. I miss him so much. I hope he would be proud.

 

In college a few years ago, I decided to spend that time building up a foundation of beliefs and philosophy while my brain finished developing that would serve me for the rest of my life. This focus on self-improvement led to less mental energy spent on other people.

I think this has given some the impression that I’m a little narcissistic, but I’ve been pretty good at avoiding overconfidence. I’ve long considered myself self-absorbed but not self-centered, focussing on myself but only so I can be a better person than I’ve been.

Last Friday I realized that at some point I moved from one to the other. I stopped listening and started waiting to get conversations over with, only wondering what I was going to need to do for them. I stopped growing because I ran out out of things I had thought of that I had a reason to learn.

I don’t like being like this. I am trying to shift from a “what do I need to do?” attitude to a “what do others need that I can help with?” Any advice?

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