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Tudsamfa

@ Tudsamfa @lemmy.world

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Gamer™

I have commited the Num-Code for ™ to muscle memory.

Other interests include bicycles, bread making and DIY. I do own a 3D-printer and adore the Nintendo 3ds.

  • What's a popular game series that you just can't understand the hype for?

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  • I can't even make the most explicit Gacha hating post without you guys saying how yours is the one, the special one that's good.

    I hate the concept. They are designed to obfuscate how much money and time you spend on them with different currencies that don't feel like real money. They are dark pattern after dark pattern, trying to get you to look at the shop every time you boot up, and entice you with limited offers every chance they get. And this all is then defended by well meaning people like you and me with "Well, you can play for free if you grind hard".

    And when I look up if the different in-game currency thing applies to this game, I find out I have heard of Limbus company as the Korean one that got a "radical feminist" artist fired because a swimsuit didn't reveal enough skin for the fanbase's liking.

    You misunderstood my comment. Fuck off with your recommendation.

  • What's a popular game series that you just can't understand the hype for?

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  • Gacha.

    For most anything else, I can simply chalk it up as a difference in tastes when I don't like the gameplay, or art style, or whatever. Even those shitty horror games for babies I despise are perhaps fun if you dive into the lore at the right age, who knows. I certainly have obsessed for less than mediocre games.

    But no one likes gacha, or at least should like it. It's gambling marketed to kids, preying on the people without impulse control. No "you can spend 2 hours of your life every day on this and save up 2$ in currency" is changing that, in fact that is even worse.

    And yet they give hoyoverse a pass for their series, because everything around it is so high quality. Open your fucking eyes! Games are not supposed to punish you for not playing!

    But of course, no accusation without confession, I am quite fond of the yugioh simulator, and used to defend it the same way. I try to resolve this double standard by doing what I feel they should do: Never gush about it, only mention it in shame, and always warn people to not pick it up.

  • What meals do you cook when very low on money?

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  • Well, same back to you. I never doubted you having that experience, but I asked if it's normal.

    Your own source says it's only 12.8% of the US living in such areas. So it's safe to assume that OP would also be interested in the cheaper recipes that involve mostly produce. Your life experience isn't universal either.

  • What meals do you cook when very low on money?

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  • Every supermarket I ever went to had a vegetable aisle and potato sacks for a few €. Variety in produce may be low, but that's what a Turkish supermarket is for.

    Granted, I never lived in an American BestBuy town, so this might be a cultural thing. But produce being unavailable or even just being out of one's way seems insane to me. You sure that normal where you live?

  • What meals do you cook when very low on money?

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  • I agree that how healthy something is should be put on the back burner (hah!), true, but when cost is the most important factor, produce is unbeatable. While not created equal, the means to prepare for most are 1 pot, 1 board and 1 knife, and there sure are recipes that don't take up too much time.

    Someone asking for recipes can be expected to have some time to cook them, while working 2 jobs is way too common nowadays, there are still more people struggling for money with some time on their hands. If you have no money, no time and no energy for cooking, you're beyond asking for advice and should instead be asking for help.

  • What meals do you cook when very low on money?

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  • My ultimate struggle meal:

    In 1 pot:

    • Rice (the good one from a sack, forget about minute rice)
    • Carrots, sliced
    • Whatever is cheapest between Sweet potato, Pumpkin or Eggplant at the time, cut into cubes.
    • Thai Curry paste & Soy sauce
    • Salt
    • Cook 15 minutes
    • Put into a tortilla with mayonnaise

    Fast, really cheap, and has the important bonus that the only dish to clean is the 1 pot. When struggling, I also don't feel like doing a lot of housework.

    Sadly, I can never remember the best ratios, so the mayonnaise is rather mandatory as it can save a rather bland filling. Sometimes, I splurge and use guacamole instead, sometimes I also put in mini-spring rolls from the same shop I buy the rice and curry.

    With my "recipe" out of the way, the important thing is to find some ingredients that have a low price for lot's of weight, and then choose a recipe that's like 90% cheap ingredients by weight. (Remember that some ingredients take on a lot of water, rice taking on twice it's volume for example, so they're cheaper than the price tag implies). I personally look for food that's under 3€/kg. The other 10% of the meal can be way more expensive (curry paste in my recipe), but, because you only use so little of it, as a whole it's still cheap.

    Probably the absolute cheapest meal are homemade hash browns, potatoes are ridiculously cheap, with apples being the cheapest fruit where I live. Next cheapest vegetable around here are carrots.

  • What is your opinion on national pride / patriotism?

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  • The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellowmen. The man who is endowed with important personal qualities will be only too ready to see clearly in what respects his own nation falls short, since their failings will be constantly before his eyes. But every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

    Arthur Schopenhauer

    It may a 200 year old quote, but the only thing that has changed is that we have since found even worse things to be proud of.

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    Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say

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  • This, too, is c/fuckcars.

  • How do your toughts work?

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  • I believe you are acting way too definitive about something rather unknowable.

    For example, what is Aphantasia then?

  • How do your toughts work?

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  • I'm in the "inner monologue" camp. Most of what I think materialises as thought words. I don't have to move anything in my throat to do that unlike OP though, I can think in words without mumbling to myself.

    But I know the voice can't be all. It's difficult for me to think in words while actively saying something, but I can have new thoughts while speaking. Sometimes, I get interrupted in thinking mid-sentence, but then I return to that sentence to finish it because... it's just satisfying? It's not that I learn anything new.

    I feel like I don't have very much imagination any more. Its hard to produce images in my mind, not impossible but I do have to concentrate - remembering images is easier.

    Weirdly, way harder to me: imagining a voice. Inner voice is what I sound like to myself, I can remember and replay songs and quotes as I heard them, but having any voice say anything is hard, especially female voices. Went through some examples in my head couldn't make anyone say anything - until I thought to make different tf2 mercs sing "Oh Canada", that somehow worked despite me definitely not having heard that before. Brains are weird.

  • What free things online should everyone take advantage of?

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  • Ad blockers

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    How many of you use Lemmy and ONLY use Lemmy vs Reddit?

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  • Discord, YouTube and Twitch. Even if I don't count 1 because I don't really build any online presence, all 3 together probably count as having mainstream social media no matter how strict the definition.

  • What grocery items are always worth the extra $1-$5?

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  • For purely economic reasons, the less often I need to buy it, the more I allow myself to splurge.

    So vegetables and my go to drink I consume everyday are bought the absolute cheapest, but that spice blend for those veggies lasts me months so I really don't care if there's a cheaper alternative.

    Of course, expensiveness is measured per kg/litre, paying a bit more up front is always worth it if it means a lower price per kg (if you can consume it before it goes bad).

  • Which Video Game was most influential on you as a child, and why?

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  • If we don't have to have played it - the Zelda Cdi games, for obvious reasons. My most recent subscribtion is an active YTP channel.

  • Which Video Game was most influential on you as a child, and why?

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  • The edutainment games presented by Germany's beloved children's show host Peter Lustig, published by Terzio.

    The tie-in video games to both his TV series Löwenzahn as well as the Swedish Gary Gadget (Mulle Meck) books were elevated by his voice clips and I still quote them regularly. They really put a lot more effort into these games than anything I've ever experienced, there was fucking free DLC for Gary Gadget if you visited their website and had your father put some files in the right folder.

    The worlds themselves both star an excentric man tinkering on inventions, but while sometimes fantastical they are more grounded that the world of Peterson and Findus. They teach children about community and physics, similar to the book "the way things work" - guess who presented its animated show of the same name in Germany?

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    how do i explain “it’s raining” to my boyfriend?

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    Roommate refuses to use my body wash cause it's not "manly"

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  • It really is up to him if he wants to smell like roses or not, it's totally understandable to pass on that.

    If only he wasn't such a bitch about expressing that preference though.

  • When you marry someone who thinks ahead

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  • I have to imagine this peanut butter was intended to feed animals, probably for hunting.

    So it isn't even particularly sweet and processed at a lower standard than the stuff the husband was used to. But what do I know, maybe he always intended to bait hogs with it.

  • What hills are you dying on?

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  • Not only is Gacha a bad game monetization from a consumers perspective, the moment it's implemented the game is shit, and you should be ashamed to play it.

    I dont care about Genshin's cultural impact, Fortnite's mechanical depth or how hot the latest team fortress character is, you should always have the thought of supporting the indefensible in the back of your head while playing them and consider it a guilty pleasure. Meaning: keep your damn pulls to yourself!

    And since I used to say it too: "You can absolutely play without paying money" isn't an argument when you need to pay with time instead, doing dailies is a chore, not leisure.