I've never understood that either - Is it different from say stubbing a toe or biting a tongue? (Not hard enough to do permanent damage) Those should release endorphins also, right?

It seems to me like people rarely hurt themselves on purpose except food and sex stuff, and the sex stuff appears to be uncommon.

Anything outdoors. Like I go on walks for exercise cause I don't like the gym, but if I wasn't trying to lose weight I wouldn't bother. Anytime I talk to someone and they wanna talk about nature, wild animals, plants, or outdoor sports (honestly sports in general can be added here) I just tune out.

Stack overflow still had an amazing percentage of answers to tech question but of course it’s not the only source.

Realistically I used to use a search engine for answers and it was pretty good about discovering relevant answers. Usually I clicked a handful off links from the first page of results, evaluated them, and selected the answer

Now the search engine returns an ai summary of the top results. It’s a bit slower but sometimes I can just use that. Other times I may need to click into sources for more information or to evaluate what it’s telling me. The big difference is who does the first evaluation/summary. Originally the ai was slower and less accurate but it rapidly improved

But here’s the problem. The older approach meant I clicked into the source. If they relied on ads or tracking, they received their income to support themselves. If it’s a gamified community source, responders got their karma. It was sustainable. Now with the ai, no one visits the original site and no one has incentive to contribute more answers. The ai is rapidly improving at the cost of its own sources

-American health insurance

-High level maths

-American taxes

I don't use seasonings that hurt. And literally can't imagine a flavor so good it would be worth that.

Everything I've had with even the slightest amount of capsaicin is something I thought would be much better without it. In extreme cases I can't even taste the normal flavors the food would have because the pain is a stronger sensation.

I guess if that's really a genetic thing and not learned then it makes sense, but that isn't the impression I've gotten.

I agree that flaming asshole level of heat is silly. But capsaicin activates heat receptors - people with less tolerance perceive it as pain but for those of us that can tolerate it, it’s more heat coupled with maybe just a little pain. Heat (or the perception of heat) can act as a flavor enhancer.

Usually how those divisions occurred is much more interesting.

I'm fascinated that certain ideas have persisted over millennia and curious what it is about them that has captured minds so consistently. Religion, but more broadly spirituality, seems to have a constant presence throughout human conciousness and that is quite remarkable.

Ah, I haven't used wireless VR yet, so I can't comment on that. Planning to wait for the Steam Frame, I'm sure Valve will make it work well enough. There is a project called ALVR that I keep reading about in the context of wireless VR on Linux, might be something to look at if you wanna dig deeper.

I'd argue that my setup allows you to not treat the OS as a hobby, but your mileage may vary :) I'm using an atomic Fedora variant (specifically Aurora, which is focused on developers - but there's also e.g. Silverblue (Gnome) or Kinoite (KDE) as normal day-to-day versions, and Bazzite which focuses on gaming). Steam is running through Flatpak, and everything else - SteamVR & the games themselves - honestly just worked for me. Sometimes SteamVR shows an error after starting, in that case I have to quit, unplug my headset for a few seconds, plug it back in & start SteamVR again, but other than that it's been a fairly painless experience.

I should mention that I use a Valve Index, but as long as you're using SteamVR, things should work the same.

I'm with you. And I don't mind some spice from time to time. In fact, I'll shill some Dirty Dicks here, absolutely the best hot sauce there is - because it has good flavor, which so much spice seems to forget. I'll eat with folks who are like "Tapatio on everything!" and I just wonder if they actually like the food they're eating, or just know that they can tolerate the spice, so anything carrying the spice is palatable.

Even a mild Jalepeno?

This is a really fair way to put it. I can't understand it personally, but I read fantasy books to escape the real world, and I tell anyone I can that I read fiction only because I live in the real world and I've had enough of its shit. So appreciate your shedding some light on it, because I certainly didn't understand it (celebrity nonsense). Still don't, but maybe I will soon.

For me, video games have always been about "accomplishment," which is why I don't think I was ever into the battle royales and that ilk. Do it, win game, repeat. I liked games that you built up to stuff, longer, more difficult levels, that sort of thing. I also enjoyed racing cars in Forza, but that was almost a workout, squeezing the controller, it would get my heart racing. Platformers like Celeste did the same.

I used to enjoy sitting down and playing some shoot em ups with my buddies, but it was more social hour than the game.

Yeah, there's nothing wrong with being into football, just like there's nothing wrong with not being into it. If you're an asshole about either of those things, that's a problem.

Amen brother.

I'm from New Jersey and we all make a very big distinction between Catholicism and Christian. And lots of us were raised Catholic around here, and Christians all seem to be late-in-life converts, at least where I'm from. And I'm a typical nothinger now, but I'd take Catholicism and it's bullshit (not kid touching) over what I've experienced with the Christians around here, never met a faker bunch of people.

now they throw virtual acorns at anime girls to “nut on” them

I almost feel bad for laughing at this.

Sup, I'm only here to get mad.

I have no idea what the difference between those labels are.

Yeah, I just have a tough time believing you guys, from my limited experience with Linux, but also from many others here who seem to be Linux users, but can appreciate why others don't use it. Folks talking about updates bricking peripherals and whatnot. It's something that has literally never happened to me in the last 30+ years I've been Windowsing.

If Linux users could stop being so hyperbolic in their superiority, it might entice me to try it out. Windows isn't some unusable shit and everyone knows it. It's had its issues since day one. And to suggest Linux is just this set it and forget it OS is preposterous. Let's all be real.

And a good skidibi toilet to you, sir

Preach. Any thread remotely about operating systems turning into a "Fuck windows" Linux cicrclejerk is just annoying as fuck. I'm almost refusing to use Linux just to spite Lemmy.

And I'm well aware I'm a spiteful person, it's how I've survived 38 years, and I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing, it's worked out just fine!

Ugh, yes everything seems to be a four door and way too tall.

I wish El Camino type low cars with beds made a comeback.

NFTs. I'm too old for that nonsense

It's funny ain't it? I know those older Gen Xers said the same shit about me and my generation, and here I am. I try to remind myself that. But sometimes the stupidity of these kids exceeds my abilities.

Especially those.

Sure, whatever. I’m just saying it’s a very broad cultural Japanese thing, and not just “hundreds of soap opera” episodes, or Naruto or whatever, I don’t even know myself. A lot of variety is what I’m saying.

It’s actually pretty interesting. I guess “the west” is kinda prejudiced about what anime really is.

Short form content that isn't a to the point tutorial.

Hell, on that note, tutorial videos where the person rambles on and on and on before finally showing you what to do. I came for a tutorial on how to do something and not a blog!

Now I'm on Arch, where learning is fun

I was gonna make a comment about the differences before I realized I couldn't tell you the difference between them outside of how they choose to represent themselves.

Celebrities, French language

Entertainment is a "social lubricant", so it's not entirely useless. A live show, a party, a sports game or a theater play are great for bringing people together and give them something common to talk about.

The problem is that a lot of the electronic entertainment (games, movies, series, internet) in the past 30 or so years has become fully individual.

Oh. I misunderstood. "Learn to swim" didn't read as a survival thing to me, I assumed it meant "swim quickly for sport" not "avoid drowning". I took it for granted not everyone knows how to do this.

The down votes are still funny.

Vtubers are people pretending to be anime girls

No, I agree, and I'm not saying I dislike it for a good reason or even a vastly informed reason; I've watched a few, and they felt varied in content and style and tone (at least to me). I'm just saying sometimes it's as simple as "just don't like it". I don't like eggplant either; had it prepared a few different ways. I don't think it's that I just haven't found that magical preparation or mix of seasonings or whatever; just not a fan.

The kardashian universe. I’ve never seen an ep, don’t know their names or whatever the fuck they do or say. As a 30 year old woman I feel like a unicorn not knowing shit about fuck when it comes to that whole thing.

When I was a child I played and really enjoyed AAA open world games with loads of collectibles like ACBF or Just cause 3.

Nowadays I enjoy rogue likes, story games and visual novels much more. It is less of a time sink and sometimes I really feel like I got value from it. Like insights into myself or reevaluating some beliefs.

Here are some story games I particularly enjoyed:

• Citizen Sleeper
• Epistory
• DDLC
• Novi News
• Oxenfree
• The wolf among us
• Frostpunk: Last Autumn>New Home>Fall of winterhome>Refugees>Arks
• Road 96
• Yes your grace

Rogue likes I enjoy:

• FTL
• Into the breach
• Hyperlight Drifter
• The king is watching
• Shattered Pixel Dungeon
• Out there. Omega edition.
• Banners of ruin.
• Inscription (particularly part 1)

Great puzzle games:

• Talos Principle 1
• Portal 2
• Superliminal
• Stanley Parable

Playing/Planned:

• Chants of sennar
• Outer Wilds

FLCL has like 6 episodes and is a good entry point

I straight up quit lemmy for almost a year due to people pushing stuff so hard where even unrelated communities weren't safe from anything and no one would care because c/all would act as one feed anyway. It really does feel like people want to be outraged for the sake of outraging rather than wanting to change something for the better while doing it at the cost of undermining what they wish to "protect".

Sports

I've definitely met people who physically cannot tolerate spicy food, but then I'll go and eat the exact same thing and think it's quite pleasant.

obviously I'm not calling you a liar, but I've definitely seen it happen

Vagina tubers?

Chess theory. If i wanted to play against someone that knew all the best moves id play a chess robot

Cars. I drive them, but I leave the technology to the professionals.

Hobby Horsing. It really is a thing and it’s not something freaky deaky strange. It’s just kinda cringy & well why not ditch the pretend horse thing and just parkour? That there is another thing that I don’t care about.
I do enjoy the outtakes of parkour mishaps.
On second thought, if a highlight reel of Hobby Horsing accidents exists, I’d absolutely watch.
It could really be quite entertaining.

French was my only choice for a second foreign language in school and I hated it. Such a weird language. They need a writing reform. Bordeaux is just comically bad. English could use a writing reform as well.

Have a 6 7 my dent

That's a fascinating subject IMO.

Like there is a king/celeb/hero/... hole in ther mind they just must fill.

It's appel vs fruit. There are lots of types of christianity, chatolicism is a type of christianity.

Heey I live there!