WhipperSnapper

joined 2 years ago
[–] WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 years ago

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[–] WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hawken

I still feel like this had one of the best atmospheres in gaming. Something about it felt so visceral. I had such high hopes of playing it in VR eventually, but by the time VR really came out, Hawken was already dying away.

[–] WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Chopper Commando on the PC Jr and River Raid on the Atari 2600 were my first gaming loves.

[–] WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I was trying to figure out how to wipe at all! Even if you stood all the way up, there's hardly room for your arm to reach around.

[–] WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Your reply helped me understand what on earth was happening. I was like "wimin and wimen?!"

[–] WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My doc once explained that nails, or anything that causes a puncture wound, are worse than a cut because they compress tissue within the wound, creating places where there is no exposure to oxygen.

[–] WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

That actually makes a lot of sense to me. Such a large portion of how we communicate is in our body language, I can see how stripping that out would leave someone scrambling a bit in that situation. Thanks for sharing!

[–] WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I wonder if it's just because it feels less natural, and therefore forced, as if you're having to perform.

When I was young, I had a lot of anxiety over calling things like businesses, doctors offices, places where people had an official role. It felt intimidating. What eventually got me past that was remembering that though these people are in an official capacity, they're also people who can joke and make mistakes and ramble and get confused, just like me. Once I stopped seeing them as their capacity, that feeling kinda went away.

[–] WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

That's just flat out rude. Jeez.

[–] WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I this a phone calls thing, or just a talking to people at all thing? Like, is it difficult to have a conversation with someone at dinner, for example?

[–] WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

easier and faster to text than to call

This is an interesting perspective to me. I use text/email if it's not time sensitive, or a call if I need to communicate quickly or what I'm trying to communicate is complicated, because I absolutely can speak faster than I can type on my phone.

Sometimes I split the difference and walk to my computer so I can use a keyboard if it's a lot to type, but also not time sensitive.

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