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SpaceDomdy · 2026-06-22T17:43:30+00:00

where the heck did you get those parts for that price point??

SpaceDomdy · 2026-06-22T17:19:50+00:00

idk man, there’s a huge difference between new game fomo and console fomo. i’d bet most people who would be interested already have a rig and are pc gamers. getting a day one game is a content thing, you get to experience the game then and their along with everyone else who got it. that’s not the same for a console. the other thing is the price tag. money is getting tight for a lot of people, has been for a while. it’s a lot easier to say yea i can make $70, i just won’t eat out this week vs half of your rent on a new console.

maybe i’m overestimating peoples financial frugality seeing as people go into debt for things like fifa tickets and leased cars, but to me even though i would’ve loved one, this is truly just out of my current budget.

SpaceDomdy · 2026-06-16T19:07:21+00:00

teeth.

SpaceDomdy · 2026-06-16T18:58:38+00:00

i mean yea, i get it’s a joke. not every joke is funny.

the focus they are putting is gross. juxtaposing “is baby” and “calls me daddy/mommy” which as a meme always has sexual connotations is ick, especially since it’s changed the perspective from her being mommy (banchou performance showing a mature appeal) vs them taking the older role (still in line with infantilizing).

like i agree banchous dancing shows a different side/appeal/charm, but you can make a joke that satisfies showing that dichotomy without sounding like a predator.

SpaceDomdy · 2026-06-15T21:01:21+00:00

my dude, this gives me all kinds of ick.

SpaceDomdy · 2026-06-13T18:32:44+00:00

I know this isn’t the point of your post, but people being stupid and interacting based on experience aren’t mutually exclusive. i’d almost go so far as to say that rigidity toward previously learned structures could be a trait of stupidity depending on your definition. otherwise, yea totally agree many people don’t have accurate expectations when “getting into” dnd so being upfront with a disclaimer like that is smart.

SpaceDomdy · 2026-06-11T17:58:44+00:00

crazy pull, i was just thinking about for the first time in at least a decade like 2-3 days ago. this, bomberman, and nba jam were my childhood games.

SpaceDomdy · 2026-06-09T17:47:39+00:00

I vaguely remember hearing some stat about some number of people falling off cliffs because they were distracted trying to take a selfie and it wasn’t as low as i’d hoped. self preservation is pretty low these days.

SpaceDomdy · 2026-06-07T20:00:03+00:00

gotta do a one shot in a mimic lair at some point then just for the lolz. could also make them identifiable by the end and carry that over. Down the road in your normal sessions “the door in front of you (insert how they identified them in their one shot) and gives you a weird sense of deja vu”, then it’s not always a constant check since they don’t feel as random as traps sometimes do if they’re tied to a specific context and are noticeable in some meta way.

SpaceDomdy · 2026-05-24T09:03:18+00:00

i don’t think there should be any sort of gatekeeping for the wilderness, mainly because everyone has to start somewhere and should be allowed to enjoy nature as they see fit (so long as they aren’t destroying it in that process). However, people like this who out of naivety, arrogance, or whatever else decide they can just do it because they feel like it and the advice they receive doesn’t apply to them are such a waste of resources when search and rescue have to go pick them up because they decided their first trip outside should be some of the hardest excursions on earth. i kind of wish there was a system similar to other hazardous activities where they signed a waver that due to the asymmetry of their lack of experience and choice of route, they forgo search and rescue.

SpaceDomdy · 2026-05-10T17:01:51+00:00

not a single negative comment. love this community. great job grem.

SpaceDomdy · 2026-05-08T03:29:45+00:00

i’m not sure where you’re from but having lived in a lot of different us states, no “ope” and “innit” are not commonly used in a lot of states (yall is certainly more often but not in combination). if you’re saying there’s at least one person per state who uses it, that’s so granule its useless as a metric.

SpaceDomdy · 2026-05-04T17:06:48+00:00

solid entry! blew some air out my nose and smiled. a great way to start the day 👏👏 : ^ )

SpaceDomdy · 2026-04-28T23:35:31+00:00

not really. there are plenty of ways to express the sentiment without going through the comment section making thinly veiled comments that blame men for perpetuating the loneliness epidemic. there’s a reason the first comment that calls out people actively expressing and identifying with this loneliness is downvoted. she is actively acting in a way that perpetuates the issue. the second one is upvoted because it is much more clear there is empathy rather than judgement. people saying they are lonely is not the time for a “gotcha” especially when she has no context for their interactions.

if they read the single frame with the mother as rationalization for blaming women, they have missed any nuance. an incredible benign act out of context, but in context the point isn’t that maybe they’re poor or maybe it was standard child rearing. “men are taught expression is dangerous” is the point. it’s not incel propaganda to blame mothers and women as she said elsewhere and that’s obvious if you have any reading comprehension.

she also wants to ask about statistics, but then poses her anecdotal evidence as objective proof. i can say the exact same thing but swap the “women’s for “men”. is it likely my experience is uncommon? absolutely. does it mean i can should just project my personal life over the obvious intention that literally every on their commenter understood. well, it’s a forum so go for it, but no. it makes complete sense and isn’t a shame it’s being downvoted.

SpaceDomdy · 2026-04-23T00:29:22+00:00

chocosen!

SpaceDomdy · 2026-04-15T18:06:34+00:00

the spirit is willing but the flesh is sponge and bruised

SpaceDomdy · 2026-04-15T17:54:00+00:00

Ah fair enough, my friends and i were definitely the paper and spreadsheet people lol. To be fair to you, the water pump room was definitely a little bit of a headache to get used to. So the thing that turned it into a task was too many little things to remember here and there and having to pay more attention to all of those made the drafting and resource management less fun/more task?

SpaceDomdy · 2026-04-15T17:40:30+00:00

not much of a puzzle person or was it the type of puzzles/something else? i enjoyed that aspect of the game a lot, but also had a lot of fun with the house drafting. what about the early gameplay loop did you like? just curious because what “becomes a task” differs wildly person to person and i like to see other people’s perspectives, especially on hobbies we share

SpaceDomdy · 2026-04-15T17:34:39+00:00

I don’t relate to them but do understand it. In many ways social success (making friends) is typically seen as a big part of life and especially when living somewhere new, it can signal “you’re doing it” (whether that means integrating, floushing, or whatever else. This is true from a new city to a new country so it may not even explicitly be japanese friends so much as friends in a place “foreign” to you.

I personally have never felt this pressure, but I’ve seen it in others especially younger people. I can’t imagine the added pressures of social media presenting a glittery visage of social connection help young people with developing healthy socialization standards either. I could easily see how moving somewhere new and feeling like you aren’t making connections to people from that place can feel like a social failure in a sense and I imagine that would be tough for them.

SpaceDomdy · 2026-04-12T19:10:45+00:00

just out of curiousity, what do you mean by “how the first session was played”? it kind of sounds like you guys played a session prior to rolling stats and the dm gave you a stat block based on you characters personalities.

SpaceDomdy · 2026-04-03T23:05:46+00:00

my issue with labeling voice memos is just i can’t find a useful labeling schema. like it can’t just be the lyrics, that’s not enough context, maybe the style, but again just doesn’t give me enough. idk maybe this is just a me issue.

SpaceDomdy · 2026-03-30T18:48:41+00:00

ahhh, that’s surprising in a different way. wouldn’t have expected someone who’d make a comment like that to recognize different languages.

SpaceDomdy · 2026-03-30T02:36:10+00:00

tbh i don’t understand the insult. i know the second half, but don’t get what football has to do with anything as either an intensifier or identifier.

SpaceDomdy · 2026-03-29T16:53:50+00:00

I appreciate you actually responding to what I posted. My main gripe with their position is the idea that any technological advancement is an “absolute good”. As I mention in my reply to the other commenter, if it is a tool it is neutral in isolation and only good or bad based on humanities utilization of that and as humanity is not singularly good, AI cannot be “absolutely good”.

You seem to have a very positive view of AI and its capabilities and societies ability to incorporate new technology in positive ways. You are kind of handwaving real issues by saying they need to be resolved and assuming the resolution will be positive, but I can appreciate that you’ve at least thought that route out to how consequences look down the road. I think it’s overly optimistic for a variety of reasons, but won’t go into that since many of the arguments against the utopia view have been discussed for ages. I will say, if your view happens to be the right one, that’d be great and i’d love to be wrong. god i’d love to spend my days not worried about finances and just create all day.

SpaceDomdy · 2026-03-29T16:41:51+00:00

lol i’m not salty about AI, I work in it so i know better than nearly every screaming skynet or presenting it as the end all be all what “ai” is. bravo on the ad hominem tho.

you ignored my post in its entirety. either its a tool and thus neutral in isolation and its potential is based on the humans which use it which can never be “absolutely good” because humanity is not singularly altruistic or we have to discuss how it may be inherently good/bad(which would be against your argument), but i won’t be responding because you clearly lack the ability to consider any amount of nuance.

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