Tech and Social Science | Humanist | Avid Sci-fi Reader | Apolinario Mabini stan

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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Does abandonware count? If yes, then absolutely lol

    My childhood was spent playing abandonware because our home pc wasn’t strong enough for modern games at the time, so this is basically just reliving that while getting paid lol.

    If abandonware doesn’t count, there’s still enough stuff that’s ended up in the public domain to make it worth it (books and movies).



  • Weirdos of the world unite! I’m all for equal-opportunity horniness lol.

    I guess it’s unnatural for a large group of people, since a lot of people aren’t sex positive due to upbringing or some other factors.

    I’m personally mostly okay with how the game handles sex and romance, and I also have friends who are completely okay with the game’s nudity as well (heck we even have a multiplayer character running around naked in camp lol). But I do have some other friends who were taken aback when character customization came up and genital customization was a thing.




  • You and me both. Also means giving up certain comforts, but that’s kind of the point. Maybe that’s why the secular monastery doesn’t exist- it’d be a huge sacrifice for those who would participate in it and still require some cooperation/consent/aid from others in the community/society (as much as self-sufficiency would be ideal). I’m thinking about how much people (and governments) already don’t want to fund universities which give tangible benefits, and how much worse it’ll be for secular monasteries.

    But hey, I also want this, and it’d be interesting to see what insights would come from a place of thinking unconstrained by the trappings of modern society.

    (Or it could basically just be libraries and being a librarian but more extreme lol)





  • Prior to my health and endurance being absolutely wrecked in the past year, I used to run. Ran as hard as I could through the fields near where I lived until my legs would die, all in the chase for that runner’s high; but when it did hit, it was good. Nowadays I can’t run as much, so I’m still trying to find new outlets, one of which has been messing with my selfhosted setup, another being writing paragraphs on lemmy lol.

    Also, certain video game soundtracks evoke feelings of catharsis and calm for me, so there’s also that.


  • I kind of have the same thing! We have hearing tests at my place of work and the tests show I have above-average hearing, and it does translate outside the tests as well. It’s really nice to be able to hear the intricacies of music for instance.

    Unfortunately, it doesn’t translate to speech, and I often struggle to comprehend what people are saying, and it gets even worse when it’s in something that’s not my native language… It’s like I can hear the sounds people are making, inflection and all, but I can’t quite form what the entire thought is.