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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

There's this Norwegian metal band called Kvelertak and I absolutely love their sound, but have no idea what the lyrics are about as I don't speak the language.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I think your fundamental misunderstanding is how many people just scroll, lurk and at most comment. Let's call those passive users. They are many and therefore worth catering to. Reddit, especially the big subreddits, are engagement generators. Their point is not to answer the questions that you as an individual might have. Their point is to maximize engagement. Providing the kind of content that keeps thousands of passive users engaged in the app has more monetary value than letting you as an individual post your personal question. So it's geared towards letting users with a solid track record of creating engagement post easily, while being careful with users who don't have that track record.

You can see this in supermarkets too. Hundred different types of sweets but if I simply want nuts roasted without oil, I'm out of luck? Why? Because there's orders of magnitude more people who will buy stuff without reading the ingredients. The people who care about not having oil added to their nuts are so relatively few that they're not worth catering to by a mass-appealing supermarket.

At least those are my theories, not that I have any inside knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I've been interested in the degree to which this is true, so I did a sample of some other boards. I always picked the first thread per board to avoid cherry picking results.

  • /fit/ had a dick size thread that obviously turned sexist
  • /mu/ had a kpop thread, it seemed okay
  • /an/ had a big cat general with nice photographs in it :)
  • /g/ had an AI chatbot general. I only skimmed the beginning and that already had outright pedophilia in it.
  • /a/ had an Evangelion thread with a mix of genuine discussion and softcore coomer pics of the underage girls in it
  • /c/ was just cute pics of an anime girl
  • /int/ discussed taking showers surprisingly
  • /his/ had a thread about Anne Frank, with some users posting antisemitic content and others pushing back against it

After those I got tired. Overall I'd say the SFW boards are a very mixed bag, with some of them actually being nice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

First season of that show was incredible.

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

For veggies, I usually get frozen mixed veggies, it's more varied and some even have mushrooms mixed in there making them very tasty. Or I cook some tomato-based sauce.

For protein, I mostly eat Skyr and Tofu. Eggs, nuts and lentils also have good protein content, but they have other macros as well.

Unless you're doing some aggressive 1000kcal deficit every day, there's also plenty of space for "normal" meals in each day. Just do the math for the macros you need to eat for your goal. I don't think eating only veggies + protein is a good idea long term.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yeah, what the fisting enthusiast said. It'll be fine.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

The success of algorithmic feeds does not imply that humans are predictable in general. It just means that humans are predictable in terms of what content will keep them scrolling/watching/listening for some more time.

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

Interesting observation. Can you give an example where this is relevant?

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

Stay out of my territory.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 weeks ago

"No, I am your father."

"You're absolutely right! When Obi-Wan told me about my father's death, he probably meant that the person he knew my father as is dead, since your personality and appearance have changed drastically since then. I'm glad we could clear up this misunderstanding!"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've come across this image several times over the last years, but it only worked the very first time I saw it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

She's fallen hard for me, I can see it in her eyes. She acts just like a nurse with all the other guys.

 

Hello, I am currently playing a high elf spellsword around level 18 on Xbox (so no mods). I maxed out the intelligence and destruction skill a few levels ago and unfortunately the strength of destruction spells is completely broken. I one-shot or two-shot pretty much any enemy I meet with a custom touch fire spell. It's not even min-maxed, I could increase the damage per magicka by making the damage hit more slowly and adding frost and shock damage. My blade damage is negligible in comparison and at this point I just swing the sword for aesthetics. It takes a lot of fun out of the game.

This is on adept difficulty. If I move to expert, the difficulty goes from way too easy to way too hard. Especially since higher difficulty reduces both the damage I make and increases the damage I receive. Maybe there are some Oblivion experts here that can recommend a playstyle with a non-broken difficulty? So far my ideas are:

  • Increase the difficulty to expert, drop melee combat, play as pure mage with optimized spells, and lean into how broken magic seems to be in this game

  • just continue and hope the difficulty balances out later in the game (I don't know if this will happen though?)

  • start a new game in a different class without destruction magic (sucks cause I'd lose my progress)

I'd appreciate it if some Oblivion experts could give their thoughts. I had a ton of fun with this game before the difficulty broke and would love to continue.

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The wolf is loose (lemmy.world)
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Ok, I guess this will be a niche meme and require some explanation. Recently there was this post where a guy rescued a kitten from the neighbor's dog: https://lemmy.today/post/29489052 Today I was listening to the album Blood Mountain by Mastodon about a hero encountering all kinds of dangerous creatures while lost in the mountains. And the lyrics reminded me of the kitten's dangerous journey into the neighbor's garden.

 
 

I wonder if they did that intentionally.

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In heat (lemmy.world)
 
 
 

Happened when I used an old autosave for a modified ROM.

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