[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, that definitely seems like the sort of loser thing he would ask. Like the kid who never got invited to any parties in HS and college finally thinking they got in good with the cool frat guys only to never rise above the rank of simpering pledge..

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

I’ve recently fallen down a rabbit hole of fake video games. Not fake like fraud, but fake like art; games that don’t exist to play, but do exist to tell their stories. I’m super into it but finding more is kinda difficult, so here we are!

What fake games do you like? Why do you like them? Pictures, links, videos, whatever.

I really enjoyed Petscop (video 1/25 linked) and Valle Verde (video 1 linked, Spanish with subtitles), both series are let’s play style, exploring fake games to tell their stories. Petscop is much more narratively involved, and tells a great story (you’ll probably want an explainer video afterwards.. it’s involved) while Valle Verde is more ghost-in-the-machine horror.

I found this rabbit hole through this video, from Super Eyepatch Wolf about fake video games, why they are made and how they “work” as an art form. Their content is weirdly enjoyable to me, and pleasingly entirely too long. Plus they have their own fake video game.

Edit for clarity: Fake video games is a super broad category. Pictures with gameplay hud that implies a video game, videos of gameplay or cutscenes styled after games count (even those weird live action “games” people record for TikTok count), books or stories that describe gameplay for games that don’t exist count, even soundtracks modeled after game sound tracks count. So if it’s a game or part of a game that doesn’t exist, it counts!

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Ava Max - So Am I (www.youtube.com)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/music@lemmy.world

I love other Ava Max and just found this one and it resonates so enjoy friends!

Ultra-upbeat pro-feminist reality in dance music format! If you like this check out sweet but physcho, kings and queens, and not your Barbie girl!

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Are there any fediverse or self-hostable sort of platforms made for mutual aid? Ideally with some sort of inventory system?

I’m looking to set up a one person super efficient “farm” to be the hub of a mutual aid network (it’s going to take a while to ramp up but I intend to support everyone I can as soon as I can, as long as they are worth supporting.. oooh sorry conservatives 6x prices for you..). I’m looking for a self-host able or fedi platforms, that maybe I can link to nearby mutual aid cells, perhaps. Or get them to join by mouthy-words?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/badrealestate@feddit.uk

Sleeps 16! Newly renovated! 6,000+ sqft! Indoor pool in your very own gymnasium building! Apparently great for doomsday preppers for some reason! What’s not to love?

Ok so I don’t love whatever this thing is. It gives me creepy basement entrance vibes that don’t fit.

I like ceiling elephant if stuff has to be there at all, but the rest of the cave drawings…

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1920-S-Springdale-Rd_New-Berlin_WI_53146_M87031-21597?from=srp-list-card

(You may recognize this house from a comment on my prior post, cuz I wasn’t really thinking about posting this one separately, but hey might as well liven the place up)

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/badrealestate@feddit.uk

This whole house is painted seafoam green inside. Whole thing. And it does not have electricity, so you get natural seafoam green light, and either darkness or a fire hazard. What a gem!

Kitchen? Yep.

Living room? Yep.

Bathroom? Absolutely!

Wonder why it’s been available for 846 days 🧐🤔

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/3403-Garner-Lake-Ln_Blue-River_WI_53518_M98613-44532

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 68 points 1 year ago

I love going to holiday light displays and just let my eyes relax and everything is all spiky with halos around, and it’s all quite overwhelming but really pretty.

I do hate driving at night, though.

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 77 points 2 years ago

Or the very first time you open the bag, the zip seal pulls away from the rest of the bag.

Or the seal doesn’t line up properly and can’t be zippered no matter what you do.

Or the seal is one of those cheap single layer ones that cross-threads and pops back open every time you think you’ve got it.

Or the zip opening doesn’t cover the whole bag, and you, moron you are, cut the top instead of the disturbing mouth hole they want you to use.

I end up clipping them half the time anyway.. good thing large packs of wood clothes pins are still commonly available at the dollar store :)

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 66 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This would absolutely flag me for something. I tend to have flat delivery, low pitch, avoid eye contact, etc. and when combined with other metrics, could easily flag me as not being a happy enough camper.

I mean don’t get me wrong, I’m never going to be happy to be working, but if I showed up that day, I’m also in a good enough headspace to do my job… and if you want to fire me for that… for having stuff going on and not faking vocal patterns…

This is why I don’t want to work anymore. It’s gotten so invasive and fraught if you happen to be anything but a happy bubbly neurotypical fake. And that’s wildly stressful. I’m not a machine, and refuse to be treated like one. If that means I have to die in poverty, well, dump me in the woods, I guess.

This shit should never be legal.

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 2 years ago

I don’t have friends and still got Covid…

I definitely did something wrong (it was “being employed”)

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 62 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If something like this actually works as designed, I’d like to see companies start to offer it free to employees, in much the same way a lot of them pay for financial planning services as part of the bennies.

With the amount of data brokers can have on people, and the sheer number of brokers, I could see something like this being a valuable component of a good enterprise security team. Help prevent social engineering breaches.

It would also disrupt the data brokerage model, and that’s a win.

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Obligatory-

If you are a legal resident of Wisconsin, and are not currently serving time or on paper, you can register to vote entirely online if you want, and you can request absentee ballots for all elections for the entire year (no reason needed, but necessary annual renewal, it’s my New Year’s resolution every year because it’s so easy to accomplish. entirely free of charge ofc.).

Just go to www.myvote.wi.gov to register, request absentee ballots, check your registration, or find your polling place. If you have any difficulty with your registration, you can find your local rep and contact them directly.

Please vote. Please vote for your own wellbeing. Please.

Edits to fix link redirect per convo below

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 255 points 2 years ago

Am I the only one surprised there were even that many in the first place?

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 2 years ago

I just say “it’s personal, and I won’t be discussing it.” If they don’t want to hire me because of it, I don’t want to work there anyway.

It’s absolutely none of their business what I was doing, especially that I went into a deep depression after my mom died and my live-in ex cheated on me while I was caring for her, and then spent a couple years selling her non-sentimental possessions to live off. And I’m not willing to make up some bullshit to hide it either, it happened and I’m not ashamed of it, but I’m not sharing it with interviewers. Meh meh.

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 99 points 2 years ago

Even the used furniture market is obscene.

Used flat pack shit that lasts maybe 10 years in optimal conditions goes used for only half the price, bad lean and all.

Anything solid wood you might as well buy new, cuz it’s nearly the same price, like damn.

I now go to habitat for humanity restore locations or goodwill, because they -can’t afford to charge a lot for big stuff- because they don’t have the space to store it. It’s not great stuff, but refurbishable.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net

I checked for posts about this and didn’t see any. Hopefully the cross post works properly.

Archive links: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/hKYX9

https://archive.ph/qleLE

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 85 points 2 years ago

If Donald Trump goes to prison, he would likely go to a federal prison. Conjugal visits are not a federal right, so Trump would not enjoy conjugal visits with Melania.

She wouldn’t enjoy them either.

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I went digging through settings (always do) and couldn’t find an option to show the instance of commenters.

It’s very helpful to me to have that information. The app I was using, memmy, had it, and I really like the context it provides for users of niche instances, but memmy doesn’t support direct messages and doesn’t handle images well, so it was time for a change. (Of literally all available iOS apps and the couple PWAs I tested, Thunder seems to handle hexbear/other inline images best at the moment - well done!)

Is there a way to enable that? If not, I’d like to request it 😁

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 2 years ago

Why does it always have to be the consumer’s job to watch out for this crap? It’s exhausting going through everything looking for allergens, imagine doing so just to make sure the product you’ve been buying for years hasn’t changed to lower quality without warning.

Better solution - require that products have a front label stating their recipe has changed, and including a list of changes to it on the back. Quicker reference, easy as hell to tell when something changed.

Consumer protection really needs to be more robust. We shouldn’t let these companies have all the power to mess with our bodies on a whim without warning.

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Contact management (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

I am looking for a contact manager to replace a google account or iCloud account.

I am currently on iOS (and actively dislike it after being on android since forever) and looking to increase my privacy by cutting ties with my google accounts.

A Google account presently manages my contacts, and I do not want iOS to take over this job, I’d rather manage them myself.

I tried searching for FOSS contact managers but all I found was client relation software which isn’t what I want at all…. I don’t think.. I just want my phone numbers and names saved for easy personal use.

Is there anything good for managing a personal phone book?

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I was using memmy because it used the default option for voting breakdown to show up and downvotes separately.

I would like to see all apps add a toggle for those of us who want a granular breakdown on voting (the same suggestion has been made to memmy and will be made to any others I try which don’t have it, and I’m on android as well!), for our mental health or for whatever other reason (for me the total vote count up/down is a mental health feature, and why I’m drawn to the fediverse. I want to know my overall reach and how many agreed, disagreed, and, inadvertently, the vote to reply ratio (which tells you a lot about how strongly someone feels about their agreement or dissent). I don’t want that hidden behind an aggregate number when it exists there as data already that need to be suppressed.

I have downloaded and installed your app and have found it does not have this, so I would like to request it. It can be a toggle for those who want to know aggregate data, but it is my opinion that the default splitting of votes into up and down counts should be preserved as the default for apps as well, largely for the reasons above but also to give Lemmy a different feel from Reddit/other SM. We want this place to be different, and our UX choices matter in how that ends up working. If we want to maintain a more collaborative environment, the detailed counts do matter.

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She’s one of a pair, but easier to photograph 😻

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