I can strike up a conversation with most strangers in real life pretty easily.
But online? There’s almost zero context. Even something as simple as the weather makes a load of difference for the small talk that can develop into richer conversations later.
Online social anxiety, especially forums like this one where you get a grade (the upvote/downvote), is very understandable.
Yeah! It’s what makes being an adult great! I can choose to spend time with my friends.
Do you go to the movie theater by yourself?
It’s just a tv show. I went to watch parties for Legend of Korra, anime, movies, and board game nights.
I’m not sure there’s much more to get
A watch party for people that like the television show and fandom surrounding My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
My wife and I are huge nerds
I met her at my university’s Brony club. I sat next to her because she had a sketchbook open. I brought out my own sketchbook and struck up a conversation.
We had a two-year courtship and have been married for 6 years now.
You know how hand sanitizer kills 99.7% of germs?
The current strain of tumblr user that survived the porn ban leans more aromantic/asexual. With less competition this new strain has thrived, and can solely focus on its main food source: fandoms for obscure media.
The English language is missing a gender neutral term for a cow/bull.
Cows are female
Bulls are male
Steers are castrated bulls
Cattle - the term for multiple cows and/or bulls and/or steers
It’s odd because every other animal with gendered language has a gender neutral term. Take chicken for example.
Hens are female
Roosters (or Cocks) are male
Capons are castrated roosters
It’s so nice to have a word like chicken to describe all these animals. But no word for that exists for cow/bull in English.
The writer of the tumblr post above either didn’t know the right word to use would be “Bull,” or the writer wanted to make sure they were understood so used the word Cow. Which… linguistically at this point may have become the gender neutral term for this animal because people need one.
Cow is such a common word, and bull is so uncommon that to be understood by everyone, cow might just be the best word.
Though anyone with knowledge of animal husbandry would be baffled because by the strict definition cows are always female.
I’m sorry you had to learn this nightmare language.
There are few things that boost inspiration and innovation quite like a competent competitor.
I still don’t feel comfortable here. Lemmy feels too much like an echochamber of the same opinions. The lack of diversity makes me feel more comfortable on tumblr than Lemmy at the moment.
It’s frustrating when I do need to check Reddit for any niche things. I love forums, but find chatrooms like Discord anxiety inducing. Sometimes the only forum for a niche topic is a subreddit :/
It’d be cool if CGPGrey remade his “What is Reddit” video, but exchanged it for: “What is Lemmy”
He unlisted that video, so I don’t think he has that popular of an opinion of Reddit these days.
Celebrities like him joining would be a big help.
I suspect you aren’t the target audience.
Most mobile game marketing is done with ads in other free-to-play mobile games. Unless you play those types of games regularly, you’re unlikely to come across it.
I don’t touch any game I can’t pay for in full once and be done. So I know I’m not the target audience.
That article is from 10 months ago.
Is open source catching up still? Or have the goalposts moved too much since then?
I am glad to see some effort to find middle ground. The United States is so divided right now, I worry what the future holds.
Though this isn’t really the issue I’m enthusiastic to see that alignment on.
If we had proper care for the mentally ill and living on disability payments wasn’t so awful, people with severe PTSD (and likely sleep deprivation) wouldn’t be forced to have jobs.
Just a few more plot points away to re-enacting Burrow’s End in real life.
I desperately want this as well.
It’s funny seeing how much of my gaming is the 30 minutes to an hour detoxing after work before going to other tasks. I rarely play a game for hours on end anymore.
Shout out to Hades and Inscryption (Kaycee’s mod) for being less than an hour to beat a run. Perfect for a detox.
The folks over at The Accidental Tech podcast are the first that comes to mind. But that’s less learning and more week-to-week discussions.
As far as tutorials go, check out all the things from David Sparks - MacSparky.com. In addition to all his field guides (those do cost money), there’s his podcasts like Automators, and Mac Power Users.
By the time I’ve called the police (which would feel utterly horrible), and the police have confirmed it was just plastic, I’d be a rattled mess for a long time. (I’m already mildly mentally ill and this would not help)
That’s a good question. I don’t know.
Just speculating, the upvote/downvote does help a user know what is expected behavior and some understanding to build from.
It also provides a rich incentive to post because “number go up” feels good.
I’d love to know YouTube’s data on hiding the dislike button. It wasn’t great for viewers, but it may have had an effect on creator satisfaction. But I don’t know for sure.