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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is why everything you hear from pop-evolution theories in sociology is likely bs.

“Women like shopping because they used to be gatherers” or other such garbage.

It’s all trying to simplify human behaviour based on half-baked knowledge of the past, and to pass it off as scientific insight. It’s not much different than the pseudoscience used to fuel racism 100 years ago.

Human behaviour is complex. And even though our societies are more complex now than 10000 years ago, it doesn’t mean people back then were simple.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

We laugh but this does an excellent point of underscoring the whole power dynamic in Reddit.

Who normally keeps these subs on message, and controls content? The mods.

The mods are volunteers that curate the content of Reddit. And Reddit did a shit job by getting into a pissing contest with their own best assets.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@Mkengine

@Mynkla

Seconding this. I also started to simply directly reading articles on things I found interesting, rather than just reading reddit discussions on things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

So many....

Top I would have to say Witcher 3 OG game (though both DLC were amazing)

For a single boss....not for the 'wow' moments but more for the 'omg I finally did it!': one of the following from the Dark Souls series:

Black Dragon Kalameet (DS1)
Fume Knight (DS2)
Slave Knight Gael (DS3)

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (15 children)

If they had charged API fees such that 3rd party apps would have had to charge a monthly fee to users....I would have probably just paid. And I know I'm not the only one.

But they priced it intentionally to kill 3rd party apps, because they wanted to channel access through their garbage app with its "promoted" ads all over the place.

It's not about "free vs. not free" it's about intentionally killing off the applications that made reddit likeable as a platform.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’d agree with this.

I feel like overall DS2 just has so many areas that while it has some amazing things (Fume knight one of the best bosses in any souls game IMO) it just has so much forgettable stuff too.

That and the fact that so many areas (and even bosses) are only made hard because they throw multiples at you, it makes it worse than the others in the series.

However…. I probably played more multiplayer in ds2 than in all others combined. Don’t know if it was due to balance, the overall slower mechanics of combat or whatever, but I enjoyed it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Not stiff enough, I’d say. And honestly, steel wool breaks into small pieces pretty easily too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I’ve played that a TON but am nowhere near as good as a lot of people seem to be at it. So I guess a lot of time to git gud?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yea! Thank you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I love donating blood and do it as often as I can.

But with 2 kids in daycare it’s so often that my appointment comes and I’m some form of under the weather.

I’ve learned to just re-book in those cases, as if you say “no” to their questionnaire they don’t like you rebook for 3 months. So perhaps they should revisit their policy on that at least? No reason why having to take an Advil for a headache once should mean not donating for 3 months.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fully agreed that the sports betting ads are out of control and need to be toned down / regulated.

But the REAL problem I have is with how - in just one year or so - gambling has invaded all sports broadcast. The intermission panels are talking about odds, live odds appear during the game, talking heads mentioning how much X dollars could would make if placed on team Y to win right now etc etc.

Even if you try to avoid the commercials, that content gets to you. And if you have a gambling problem, do you just accept that you can't watch sports at all without risk of being exposed to that?

We treat all other addictive properties with heavy regulation about exposure to the general public. Gambling should be no exception.

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