Gaywallet (they/it)

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Cake day: January 28th, 2022

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  • That’s just cherrypicking. Yes some people will review bomb. Others will make fake positive reviews to counteract people review bombing a game for being too “woke”.

    In the end the only thing that even could matter is how people in aggregate work - and that’s easy to account for, you just readjust the distribution to be more spread out to get the “true” score of things.

    This video seems more like clickbait than anything. I’m finding it hard to find anything worthwhile to engage with here even from a high level.




  • On the good side of things: It literally changed my life. I had no idea how poorly I had been sleeping, and once I did have some healing, and started getting good, consistent sleep, many of the things I struggled with just suddenly disappeared. I didn’t have the rapid mood swings. I didn’t struggle with anger. I could think more clearly, and focus on tasks. Life was truly a fundamentally different experience for me.

    Interesting, thank you for sharing this.






  • Yeah, I’ve also noticed that sometimes replies don’t show up in the inbox for threads with a bunch of replies. I think it automatically mutes replies after a certain number? Unsure, and unfortunately not likely something to be fixed anytime soon as we are not planning on updating our version of Lemmy anytime soon as we wish to migrate to another platform.



  • Just wanted to chime in and thank you for providing a valid critique and reality check for folks. No matter what we do as admins and moderators, humans are gonna human (myself included) and we should be realistic about what this space can and cannot be.

    I personally never envisioned this place as being a be-all end-all solution to the problem with social media, just one attempt (among many) to find ways to do it a little bit healthier. Building on the shoulders of giants and all - maybe some of our principles will make it into another healthy platform in the future.

    With that being said, I do want to be clear that if you ever have a critique or would like to report things that aren’t working on this instance, please speak up about it! We can only act on information that is surfaced to us and we want to do our best to curate the best space we possibly can in our little corner of the internet and fediverse.

    This is also as good a time as any to remind our newcomers, such as @kimagurevenus@beehaw.org, to go read through our docs when you’ve got a minute. Of particular note the core principles outline most of what kind of community we’re trying to provide a space for and how we expect people to act on our instance.





  • Sold my old car a few weeks ago. Finally got a new (used) car last Friday. I’m so glad for it to no longer be consuming some of my brains processing power in the background constantly.

    I had a very slutty weekend, which was satisfying. I think I’m in heat. I think I’ve been in heat a lot the last few months. I wish I had a solution to this. Being slutty didn’t really seem to solve the horny, although it was a nice outlet.







  • Started and finished 1000xResist over the course of a few days. In general I often find myself turned off by games with aging graphics, not for any good reason but more that I just find less of a pull towards them. I have more trouble being engaged or immersed, unless there’s a really strong art focus. This is one such game that I was worried I wouldn’t get pulled into, and in fact one that sat on a list of “maybe I’ll pick it up” because it was so highly reviewed but I was worried about that facet. It did not take very long for the game to grip me, however, because of it’s excellent storytelling. In fact, the game is almost entirely about storytelling, so there’s not a ton that I can share other than to say that it deals with a lot of difficult themes like intense trauma, bullying, having a tough childhood, extreme ideologies, and the long term effects of violence. It also deals with more societal and human issues like protests, fascism, extreme duress, how self-interested and powerful individuals can cause serious problems and inflict violence, being optimistic or nihilistic in the face of overwhelming odds, and the threat of extinction.

    While it isn’t a very long game, consisting of maybe a dozen hours of gameplay, I found myself putting it down for a while after certain chapters in order to process what just happened. The story throws a lot of curveballs and reveals information that can easily change the way you frame entire chapters of the story from earlier, but it never feels like it’s done in a way that inspires whiplash - nothing ever feels like a ‘sudden’ realization and I’m honestly not sure how much of it can be attributed to such a difficult story (if everything is fucked, what’s one more thing?) and how much is because they do a masterful job at slowly unraveling the enigma of the story that very few pieces of information ever really feel out of place. There’s unfortunately only so much I can write without spoiling the story, but I will say that it was one of the best stories I’ve heard or played through and I’d thoroughly recommend it to anyone who likes a good story or wants to explore the themes I’ve mentioned above. Also, if anyone else out there played through this, I’d love to hear your thoughts on the story… what did you think? Do you have any lingering questions left over? Were there parts of the story that irked you or that you found particularly moving?