I would actually prefer anonymous advice when I’m having issues in a relationship because typically when people gripe about their relationships they only talk about the bad things and they only talk to people that care about them.

This ends up making it so that the people you are talking to hear all the bad stuff about the other person, and that causes them to start to dislike that other person.

It’s too easy to build negative feedback loops that can destroy relationships.

If talking to the internet isn’t good and talking to your friends isn’t good, then the only thing that’s really valid and valuable left would be to talk to a relationship counselor, or a personal therapist, whose only goal is to help you achieve your goals in a way that is healthy for you.

Have you ever had a recurring dream before?

Like, over a period of several months or years or whatever having roughly the same content and the dream pop back up again?

I have friends who have dreams about going to work.

I have friends who have dreams about showing up to a hangout and hanging out with people.

I dream about leading a choir of nuns on a singing rampage through New York and fighting epic space battles where it turns out that the Darth Vader equivalent of my dream is actually my cousin, which I only learn after I kill him, where priceless and irreplaceable books on witchcraft are destroyed to make wrapping paper due to a shopkeeper’s error, where I am told mysteries of the universe and song and hear songs that have never been sung before.

Dreams are like your brain’s way of processing information and defragging your personality.

Everyone’s got different kinds of dreams.

Cave Story, the original 2004 version.

I played it a long time ago and I still think about that game from time to time.

I know no one is going to take my idea and run with it so there’s not really anything to be gained by shooting it down, lol.

That being said, your issue could be solved with a combination of regulation and divestment.

Regulate that certain subjects have to be taught even if they are loss leaders for the university otherwise the university loses accreditation, and then for the people who want to learn artistic things like pottery and music that might cost the university more to run than they can make on it, create new schools that focus on that rather than keeping them in the university system, but attach valid degrees to them by requiring the mandatory core classes to be taken at the local community college or university of the students choosing.

Maybe you can subsidize them somewhat by making them non-for-profit systems and doing fundraisers for the arts and requiring that universities in their communities include them in their annual donor drives as a separate option.

It’s not a perfect solution, but its the first of many possible ones that I can think of, I’m sure that if we were appointed as the committee to fix the American College system we would make many more and better all-encompassing solutions and solve the problem in a matter of years.

Far right. She’s awkward af in a cute way

I put a $50 pre-order down on the new slate electric vehicle.

Hopefully it pans out, and in like two years I’ll be able to buy one, but if not, I mean it was only 50 bucks and it’s investing towards a more electric theoretical future, so it’s like I won’t cry too much about it if I lose it, but I hope I don’t.

shit my copium supply is running low

That is true, but I feel like we could do better.

Community colleges should be as close to free as is reasonable, and normal universities should be federally limited to charging no more than, say one year of the maximum average income for a particular degree.

If the college wants to teach something like everyone’s perennial mocking favorite underwater basket weaving, then that should be done as an elective and paid out of pocket by the student.

Even if you were to pick something like being a doctor, the fact that you might make a quarter of a million dollars a year and end up having to pay a quarter of a million dollars to do it is infinitely better than working minimum wage for the rest of your life.

To follow up with this, I personally do not think that AI should be telling people who do not already have an opinion on something, how to think.

That is the responsibility of the instructors and society.

That being said, it should also not present known falsities as valid topics of debate.

I don’t know what the prompts were. I do not know what the answers were. These are just general statements.

I’m personally of the opinion that it is societally appropriate to punch Nazis when you encounter them, and that the world would be better if any person that is a Nazi or adheres to Nazi or Nazi-adjacent ideology were to die, and I would prefer that every other human being thinks the way that I do.

My responses are a mere quibble.

This is just a guess, But I’m thinking that it’s the filters that are placed on the AI that’s trying to make it be this milquetoast, ultra nice, uncondemning, servile and spineless thing rather than that there’s an explicit “Be nice to the Nazis” thing.

You would probably get similar answers out of almost any evil hate group that you queried it about.

Once again, this is my assumption. I’m not attempting to apologize for the AI or the AI creators. I’m just saying that this seems like it might be what is happening.

A co-worker once told me that I had the most unique metaphors they had ever heard.

forget what number you’re on and say, “um”.

Okay, how about a game where you are a voodoo priest, and you move a doll through a board full of traps and whatnot, and then the person who you have possessed with your voodoo doll then follows the path that you navigated with the voodoo doll.

Spice it up by having extra events happen while the person is moving through the real life version of the board that you then have to use your voodoo powers to compensate for while you now no longer have any more control over the person who you’ve taken over.

I guess that’s more of like a puzzle thing, so sure, for an RPG, How about an Isekai game where you plop down into a magical world and you’ve got all the pop-up screens and everything like you would see an anime and manga, but there is no Demon King, there is no great evil to defeat. It’s just you exploring the world and having fun with your kind of cheat OP powers while meeting people and learning about the history of this world you’ve been plopped into.

You can have actual events happen by like being involved in small-scale battles between kingdoms and uncovering lost relics and dungeons that have never been explored even by the locals and building a party of people to establish your own kingdom in a neglected land.

The latter would give you an opportunity to go like City Builder Sim-style for a bit of the game.

Or if you think that’s stupid, How about a role-playing game where you and a bunch of your other magician, wizard, witch, whatever friends, have built the first fantasy spaceship, and now you’re flying through the celestial realms, visiting all of the other planets in the solar system, and encountering new people, and helping them to solve their problems that have nothing to do with your planet but rather with the goal of establishing diplomatic relationships with other nearby planets.

This shit is easy. Coming up with an idea for a game, a new one that sounds fun and interesting to play that covers a different storyline and gives opportunities for dozens of different authors and creators to put a piece of themselves into it and come up with interesting fun things to do, that shit is fucking easy, and I don’t know why they’re not fucking doing it.

I don’t know how it has become so fucking easy for large corporate content creators to push the narrative that coming up with ideas for new stories or new games is actually difficult.

There are so many games that have yet to even be thought of.

There are so many storylines that have never touched pen to paper that we could experience, And I know that it is a little risky to offer something to people that they have not personally experienced before, but holy shit, why do we have to remake everything 650,000 fucking times?

If your views are not compatible with the moderator or community’s views and they keep getting removed, you are free to go and find a different instance.

Nobody’s getting paid to work here, so the only people that do the work are the people who volunteer their time, and chances are if they’re constantly exposed to the same stupid shit over and over again, they’re gonna get grouchy, they’re gonna get grumpy, and they’re gonna just start blanket banning anything that even slightly aggravates them.

You can say it’s power-tripping, and you can protest it when it’s unequally applied to you. That’s fair, But you just have to live with it because this is not a business, this is not a customer service oriented situation, this is a “make the community as comfortable as possible for as many people as possible while maintaining your sanity” position for the mods.

I am not a moderator. I would not do moderation tasks because I see how stressful it is. I am also not apologizing on their behalf or trying to sugarcoat the situation.

It sucks for you, getting your posts removed. It sucks for a lot of people not getting to interact with those posts, but it’s a take what you can get sort of thing.

The good thing is, if you absolutely do not want your post to be removed, you are perfectly welcome to spin up your own lemmy instance and federate it and then share your post with the entire fediverse without any sort of moderation whatsoever.

Even with that though, the other instances of the Fediverse can defederate with you if they find your whole thing to just cause more headache and hassle than it’s worth to them.

Like, I don’t know how much that surgery costs if you get it done by a doctor, but like, if you’re trans, and that’s something you want to do, that is a hell of a deal.

Could you imagine if Brian Jacques had added six foot river otters into Redwall?

Me too, but I don’t get an article written about me

Also, the distance from center of the rotation matters.

For instance, doing a bicep curl with a 10 pound weight with your elbow by your side is easy.

Holding that 10 pound weight with your arm straight and lifting it up to eye height is much more difficult, but for most people without impediments still doable.

Now imagine the difference in distance between the ball and heel of your foot versus the distance between your knee and your hip.

Sorry, your insurance doesn’t cover that, so it would have to be out of pocket.

Bring a cashier’s check for $7,400 to lunch and we’ll take care of the rest! ❤️