A_Very_Big_Fan

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

*unequips pronouns* simply do not refer to me

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We learned masking like...week two of my highschool Photoshop class. And I bet it's way easier nowadays with AI tools.

It's been a while since I've seen warped background pics but I always assume they do it as a joke.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm not even vegan/vegetarian and I find it vaguely disturbing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I've never seen someone so pissed off and offended over not getting any bussy lmao

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

I thought it was a weird looking RaspberryPi before I realized the thing on the left was the GPU

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Bloons Tower Defense 5/6 are great for kids. They do have microtransactions but they don't nag you to buy anything, and everything is easily obtainable just by playing. Also, nothing that you can buy is "content."

If you're able/willing to download ROMs and emulators, the first handful of generations of Pokemon games are great for touchscreen/mobile. My favorite was always Pokemon Emerald (GBA) but you can easily emulate all the games up to about X2/Y2 (DS) on any modern Android device. (I use "MyBoy!" for the GBA games, but PokeMMO is good for combining both the DS and GBA games into more of a mobile game experience rather than an emulator experience, if that makes sense. Everything is just easier, and probably a lot more accessible for a primary school kid.)

It's also worth noting that girls like a lot of the same kinds of games boys like. 🤷‍♀️ Just give her as many good options as you can find and let her decide what she finds fun. Me and my sister had a blast playing CoD Zombies on our aunt's tablet when we were kids.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks, I hate it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

I’m a bigger fan of him now

I'm a very big fan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You can change the difficulty, it's just not spoon-fed to you with a single button. Their games are RPGs, if they're too hard then level your character and upgrade your weapons. There's also a myriad of items and spells you can use to buff/assist you through challenges, and if that's still not enough you can use wikis to find what attack types enemies are weak to or strategies/cheeses other people used.

And if all of that is still not enough, you can use mods to make the games easier.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

The koopa cut

 

I just want somewhere that won't even show me new episodes until an unghosted version is released. I primarily watch anime for the animation, so blurred and darkened frames really ruin it for me.

 

(TL;DR): I love being terrified, and this has led me to a fascination with imagining being a witness to / a victim of various tragedies. Is that weird?


The earliest example I can remember of wanting to know what it was like to be a victim of a tragedy was when I first learned what happened on 9/11. We were visiting my grandma, and she was watching a documentary about it. That's the first time I had seen the footage and heard an explanation of it all, and I was still a child (like way too young to be processing what I was seeing), but I was fascinated by it. Even after everyone had left the room to hang out on the porch, I stayed in the living room to watch more. I wanted to know everything, but most of all I wanted to know what it was like to be there. Both as a witness and a victim.

To this day, I would pay good money to get hooked up to something like Roy from Rick and Morty so I could safely experience it without knowing I was safe. And I'd like to choose as many perspectives as I want. From the hijackers, to the people on the directly impacted floors, the people on floors adjacent to the impact, the people who jumped, the people who were outside and witnessed the crashes and collapses, the people who were trapped on the upper floors and remained inside during the collapse...

Besides 9/11, others at the top of the list are things like mass shootings, earthquakes and other natural disasters, catastrophic workplace accidents (mostly explosions), the sinking of the Titanic, Hiroshima/nuclear testing sites, other war related events, various atrocities committed by/against mankind (like the torture committed by the CIA against people suspected of being involved in the 9/11 attacks), the Heaven's Gate mass suicide, a significant portion of Charles Manson's life... It's a mix of wanting the experience and curiosity about the stories/information that never made it into public knowledge.

I don't have a death wish or anything, it's just for some reason I have a fascination with terror. I love getting sleep paralysis and having nightmares, and I feel a weird sense of catharsis when I wake up and realize I'm safe. My favorite ones are when I'm utterly convinced I'm going to die. Even as a kid I loved terrifying shows (like Courage the Cowardly Dog and Mr.Meaty), and as a teenager it evolved into broader consumption of surrealist art, and then I started watching Live Leak videos where I got a more realistic sense of terror. I watched all of the Bjork stalker's tapes, which, if you aren't familiar, they end with him shooting himself after mailing a letter bomb to her. Knowing he filmed his suicide was what piqued my interest, but I also wanted to get into his head so I started from tape #1.

How weird is all of this? Any psychological explanations/speculations about why I'm like this? (And are there any other subs I should ask this in?)

 
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