If you don’t mind using an exploit for the pantheons, Hollow Knight is a very fun game to 100%.

If you don’t use the exploit, you will become a shell of your former self.

Internet person, I think you and I agree on almost everything. I’m not attacking you, but it feels like you’re getting really defensive.

Your comment here paraphrasing what I wrote grossly misrepresents what I was saying. I never said you were wrong. What I was replying to was at the time the first comment in the thread when I opened the post. The comment blamed any woman who is killed by their abusive partner as at least partially responsible for their death. While technically true, that is not a helpful place for our collective understanding of the issue to rest. My point was to redirect focus onto the root problems. I didn’t scour the comments to see if you completed your thought elsewhere.

“Don’t even bother trying to leave ladies” is obviously not what I was saying, and you know that.

Yeah the analogy falls apart, my bad. I guess the point I was trying to make is better put another way.

Many women are subject to some sort of physical abuse. For some, they have a partner who gives them bruises or worse whenever they are angry. Other women may have been slapped open handed once over the course of a 10 year relationship. Both of these things are bad, obviously.

Some women have been thoroughly educated on what to do in an abusive relationship. Some women have been taught their husbands are superior to them in a relationship and must be submitted to. People are equipped differently to handle things based on their upbringing and life experience.

Implying that every woman regardless of their background or relationship situation is giving permission to their spouse to continue being violent if they don’t immediately leave is absolutely victim blaming. Like, you’re right that they should leave. No one who cares about these women would say they should stay. Despite people like you and me telling them to leave their unsafe households, they keep staying. They keep dying.

Think of the cops responding to reports of violence, then leaving with nothing to show for it. Would this make the husband more likely to keep acting violent? Would it cast doubt on the wife’s mind whether she was crazy? Maybe she routinely saw her mother struck by her father, and just accepted it. Maybe her husband apologized profusely and promised to never do it again, and again and again. Maybe she is financially dependent on her husband. Maybe dozens of other things, depending on which headline we are talking about.

Of course we both agree she should have left, but framing it as her giving permission for the violence to continue and escalate helps no one, especially not the victims. Police should take these reports more seriously. Abusers should not be given systematic reinforcment for their behavior. Families and friends should intervene when safety is compromised. This isn’t because victims are helpless and can’t do anything, but rather because they are often too close to the situation to be able to help themselves in time.

People need each other, let’s not try to isolate them when they are most vulnerable.

Everybody loves zombies - Shane Lacy Hensley

If your house is broken into and your TV is stolen, are you obligated to move in order to not be stolen from again?

I didn’t think I was old. Now I do.

Come to Pathfinder, where all the spells are kind of okay I guess.
please don’t kill me

It is a luxury to not consider worrying about yourself as related to politics.

Not caring about politics is a luxury afforded by living in a country that has had at least a semi-functional political landscape for a while. Those who have lived under oppressive governments will be the first to tell you not to take for granted what you have.

Yes, it is worth the 3 hour watch time.

I’ve been saying since EVs hit the market that I couldn’t wait for them to be cheap enough used for me to justify purchasing one. That hasn’t happened yet. Most I’ve ever spent on a car was $7k.

This isn’t my POV, this is the reality of the performance conversations I’ve been involved with.

Pick one
I upvoted your comment for being insightful, not trying to dismiss what you’re saying. I get where you’re coming from, and I agree that what you’re saying is likely true for most businesses, but there are other people who’s reality of conversations they have been involved with resulted in being fired unfairly.

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand cropped memes. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of memetics and linguistics most of the jokes will go over a typical reader’s head. There’s also the high contrast color pallette, which is deftly woven into the message. Lemmy users understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike cropped memes truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in longing for the bottom half of the text, “Join our Discord”. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as the meme’s genius wit unfolds itself on their smartphone screens. What fools…

Fine, I’ll say it. Doritos and peanut butter go well together.

Terraria was released in 2011, and still gets free updates with similar frequency to Stardew. Minecraft alpha was released in 2010.

Sure, Eric won the cozy farming genre. He is also clearly passionate about the game. Maybe looking out for his own health is exactly why he continues to dabble with the game.

The title seems to imply that it’s a bad thing? Why should he let go of it? Should Minecraft devs let go? Terraria?

Adding a splash of heavy cream to my cereal.

Easy, don’t know what to tell you

That’s fair, it works for me because I just have one cup but it would be tedious for multiple cups each morning.

Same, but Aeropress for my coffee. I haven’t yet tried a mocha pot, though I’d like to.