Draegur

Is that why the animetitties sub now has actual anime titties again instead of being a more serious version of world news like it was for a while?

2012 does indeed still feel like a major inflection point.

the internet was awesome for like ... twenty years. thirty if you count the era where people mostly communicated through newsgroups and such. it feels like the enshittification was so sudden...

There are many many many insane people who are running no virtual machines at all.

Bravery means doing the right thing even when it's dangerous.

not gonna lie, sting fucking SLAYED that role.

Especially now that aniwave is dead ;_; good night sweet prince

i learned from appreciating those rare and beautiful versions of "i don't know who hear to this but..." that are unironically wholesome and sincere. somebody someday might see something we wrote and feel better, be encouraged, or grow wiser. knowing how many neurodiverse people come through Lemmy and would click on that greentext because they identify with it... knowing they might explore the comments too? i want those future people to come away better than they were before they approached, even if only in a teeny tiny infinitesimal way!

I would congratulate OOP for this. this is how it's done. in fact, it's refreshingly normal. they were probably alarmed that it wasn't innuendo or an attempt to hit on them. a lot of their hesitancy might have been their metaphorical "threat radar"s proverbially "overheating" as they strove to detect SOME sign of impropriety, and feeling even more alarmed when they couldn't. Which is why one of them reciprocated socially, to test the waters. Whether OOP knew it or not, he made a disarming impression, which is good. Stay good, OOP!

Also, MAN, having assignments that pre-date the very first day of class is annoying >_< i've had that at least twice in my years of being a student as well, but it's usually just a way for the professor/instructor to get an idea of what their student group's level of understanding is for the material so they have a better idea of how to hit the ground running after they go over the usual First Day Stuff.

Richard Johnson

TRUE! It's nice to have the option!

I bought palworld.
i played it.
i enjoyed it.
i had enough.
i stopped.
there is nothing wrong with this sequence of events.