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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • Vegans simply existing make people feel uncomfortable, so defense mechanisms in the brain trigger.

    Since it’s an ethical stance, and people at least deep down know that killing innocent animals for 5 minutes of taste pleasure is wrong, but they don’t want to change themselves.

    So the brain tries to rationalize how it’s definitely not wrong and really the vegan is wrong, and/or demonize the position to shield itself from the discomfort of knowing.

    Basically psychological defenses kick in to defend unethical behavior that someone highlights by simply existing.


  • I used to use Reddit every day. I just replaced Reddit time with Lemmy and YouTube.

    If YouTube goes down… I’ll live. It’s not a life support thing like income or housing so I’ll just find other things to fill the hole.

    Will it suck? Sure. Will I live? Yep. I’d prefer they put out a reasonably affordable subscription instead of just nuking themselves with ads and more enshittification, but it’s not like life itself depends on YouTube.

    Their current subscription is too pricey. At least last I looked.

    They can get some of my money if they put out a sufficiently lower priced option. I paid for Reddit premium and used none of the features I just liked the site before Steve Huffman decided to be super extra shitty. I’d do the same for YouTube.


  • That reminds me of a generational difference I heard about where when someone says “Thank you”, the older generation will say “you’re welcome”, seeing that they did something worth thanking. But the younger generation feels uncomfortable saying “you’re welcome” and says “no problem” instead, implying it was simply an expected thing for them to do.

    I’m in the “no problem” generation. And yeah, saying “you’re welcome” really does just feel weird to me.




  • If your keyboard has home/end buttons (right side, towards the top for me) and scroll to top does what it sounds like, you can probably ditch that one.

    Pressing home automatically sends you to the top of the page, pressing end sends you to the bottom.

    I personally got rid of Honey because I got word of it being a data harvester, which makes sense to me since it spammed advertising to YouTube sponsorships despite being a “free” thing… so I honestly didn’t bother looking to far into that I just chucked it and moved on. It wasn’t important enough for me to bother checking how they got the money to advertise through content creators.

    I do use Dark Reader, RES (rip Reddit though. RES gets far less use now but I’m still keeping it), Sponsorblock, Return YouTube Dislike, and uBlock Origin from that list. So obviously I (currently) agree with them.




  • Hmm.

    • Usually open world. I like occasional other types, but a world with an explorable world map is more likely to keep my attention.
    • Has to at least start more green than city. Cityscapes/Sci-fi settings bore me visually. This applies to real life too.
    • Bright. If I need to play at night with lights off to see where the heck I’m going, I don’t like it.
    • Usually some creature in the world to catch my interest. Like (inklings/octolings/salmonids in Splatoon).
    • A good story is nice but not at all needed. I like environmental storytelling and aimless wandering.
    • No “game complete”. I want to keep my save file forever.

    Not hard rules of course, I have exceptions.

    Like Metroid sounds perfect for me in some ways, but because it’s so dim and sci-fi, I can’t stay interested. Unlike Zelda, which usually starts with brightly lit forests that keep me in.

    Splatoon has amazingly dark lore that’s only visible past it’s bright happy exterior that I LOVE. Stardew Valley/Minecraft/Animal Crossing are in my alley.


  • Hmm.

    • Usually open world. I like occasional other types, but a world with an explorable world map is more likely to keep my attention.
    • Has to at least start more green than city. Cityscapes/Sci-fi settings bore me visually. This applies to real life too.
    • Bright. If I need to play at night with lights off to see where the heck I’m going, I don’t like it.
    • Usually some creature in the world to catch my interest. Like (inklings/octolings/salmonids in Splatoon).
    • A good story is nice but not at all needed. I like environmental storytelling and aimless wandering.
    • No “game complete”. I want to keep my save file forever.

    Not hard rules of course, I have exceptions.

    Like Metroid sounds perfect for me in some ways, but because it’s so dim and sci-fi, I can’t stay interested. Splatoon has amazingly dark lore that’s only visible past it’s bright happy exterior that I LOVE. Stardew Valley/Minecraft/Animal Crossing are in my alley.