I don’t really care if it’s displayed or not, I’m just glad it’s not used for gatekeeping purposes. (Must have so much upvotes/karma to post, comment, etc.) I just read that as: “community not open to new members, got it.”
I think the way it’s implemented is good. You can get your validation by seeing the upvotes on a single post or comment, but since the basic interface itself doesn’t total them, people aren’t as driven to say things just for the upvotes. It’s like those speed signs that tell you how fast you’re going: if you measure something like that, people will try to get the “top score” (which is why most of those have been replaced with ones that just say “too fast” over a certain speed).
Since the counts are there, individual apps can sum them up and display that, but it’s not basic to Lemmy.
kind of obvious to say ig but correlation =/= causation. for ex: fiber, (the plant material in our diets that is undigestable by us, but is digestible by the healthy bacteria in our intestines) both leads to a healthy “gut microbiome” while having the side effect of making your poops bigger and softer, such that it is easier for your intestines to push it through your digestive system.
Still, in case anyone was wondering, you are supposed to be pooping, aka “having bowel movements” once every day 2-3 times every day. If you aren’t that regular, you may need to eat more beans & grains and less processed foods & meats
Exactly what I’ve heard from our pediatrician when talking about baby pooping. When someone reaches a certain age anything between 3 days and 3 times a day is OK, as long as it looks as a normal poo
Normal frequency is between 3 per day to 3 per week, but normal doesn’t necessarily mean healthy. Populations eating high enough fiber diets to reach that 2-3 times a day number have 1/50th the rate of heart disease, gallstones, and appendicitis, 1/25th the rate of diverticulitis, hemorrhoids, varicose veins, and hiatal hernia, and 1/10th the rate of colon cancer
I really don’t get most of these comments. There’s so many games out there you can play that aren’t competitive. So why waste your time on a competitive game and complain that people try hard? That’s the whole point of competitive games.
A real answer is my spouse plays them. I occasionally try to get into a game they are playing to spend more time together, but it’s so toxic it never lasts more than a few nights.
Most competitive games like shooters, mobas, etc have casual modes for beginners, people playing while watching something in the background or just for a fun game night. The opposite mode being ranked, which is obv more competitive and it’s expected for you to tryhard. I wouldn’t have any problems if it weren’t for said tryhards joining casual games and going off on people who are still getting their foot into the game or some baked discord group and acting like it’s all fair.
I might actually be able to answer that: toxic overcompetetive players can’t be kept out. As soon as a game is of a certain genre, size, design, they flood the game and complain about it being too easy and having no endgame, therefore being dead. Since toxic overcompetetive players dominate all online channels by sheer time spent alone, they raise the impression of being “what gamers want” while actually like being less than 10% of a playerbase.
So far, every single game that started out as casual has become a playground for toxic overcompetetive players over time thanks to this mechanic. Funnily enough, the usual “you can just play something for casual” is usually being used after invading the casual game and demanding it turning more toxic and overcompetetive.
Yeah I’ve noticed this in ESO as well. I’ve been playing since the beta and people have constantly complained that the endgame content was too easy. Cue some cycles of power creep where your character can get progressively more powerful with better gear followed by more difficult dungeons, and now there is content that the average player just can’t do anymore without min/maxing. I was in a Vet dungeon with three other experienced players and couldn’t complete it after around 7 hours worth of attempts, and our gear/setup was good and we understood the mechanics of the bosses.
There’s no way that Meemaw who picked up this game to casually play as a cute Khajiit and questing would be able to beat it.
nothing is wrong for having a competitive mindset and therefore beating weaker casual player. The toxic part there is blaming the casual player for being bad like most (not all) tryhards in some communities. What they didn’t know, with such a behavior they actively prevent newer player to access the game cause todays casual gamer could be tomorrows competitive player.
Cue PUBG. The only ones left in the subreddit are the sweats. Telling them it’s a bad experience for a beginner to be matched with a high ranking tryhard in their first games is met with a response how you should suck it up and get good.
It’s so weird playing games like CSGO and seeing two completely opposite sides of the same toxicity. You have the “try hards” that are toxic to the lesser skilled players, and the toxic players that talk shit about people who “try hard.” They’re not even necessarily talking to or about each other. A player just playing the objective and doing well will be called out as a tryhard, and a player who is doing pretty well and makes one mistake can be berated by his team for being a noob.
Having spoken with so many gamers who behave like this, I have found one common theme among them: They never played sports or team games IRL. Which leads me to believe the real root issue is a complete and total lack of sportsmanship, since video games do absolutely nothing to promote or teach good sportsmanship.
Win or lose, some people are going to asshole. If they are winning, they can be dicks to those who are losing, if they are losing, they can be dicks to are winning. If they don’t think they can win, they just won’t try and will make fun of those who are trying.
I’ve always thought the same thing. I grew up playing a few sports and there was never room for toxicity, even the one or two times I played in a somewhat competitive league. Now I’m playing casual esports and I gg after every match, win or lose. I don’t really get why that’s hard for some people, and they have trouble focusing on the win condition.
It’s especially frustrating to see people give up in a 4v5 or something like that too. Like yeah it’s not going to be easy, but it’s not impossible. And when you end up coming out on top against the odds, you feel like a god, and you remember that match forever. I think people just want the high from winning without actually needing to try. It explains why there’s so many people who make smurf accounts too 😐
Well I think there are enough games which attract both types of players and there is a lot of friction. Most Blizzard games fall into that category.
World of Warcraft and Overwatch attracted a lot of casual gamers and it is a shame some competitive players give them a hard time.
Taking World of Warcraft as an example, it would actually make more sense for competitive players to play with their guilds only. But many want to use the random dungeon tool additionally, out of lazyness in most cases, and than go ballistic on casuals.
If you can’t deal with players being in a dungeon the first time or doing LFR, than don’t use the tool…
Back in the days before SBMM became the norm, you could have fun playing a competitive game without everyone being sweaty. My best gaming memories are of Halo 3 social games. It was still competitive but you rarely got ruined by full teams of hyper-sweaty no lifes. Even if you got put with people a lot better than you, most times they wouldnt just ruin your game, you could communicate through teabagging and just hang out. But now that CSR and loot box rewards etc are on the line, everyone is a hyper sweat and will just continue to dick on you so they can get their next lootbox faster.
Honestly? makes sense. I suffer chronic constipiaton and generally either go “regularly” every 2 days or get borderline diarrhea every 3-4 days, depending on my diet and the moon cycles or whatever the fricking hell.
And I know that I have a harder time focusing and thinking if I feel bloated. Part of it is the worry that I am going to need to step out three times in two hours to empty my colon out. Part of it is just that it is uncomfortable.
That said
About 16% of the worldwide adult population experiences constipation, but it’s even more common among older adults due to age-related factors such as lack of exercise and dietary fiber, and the use of medicines that can cause constipation as a side effect.
Makes me think a lot of this is just another side effect. If you don’t exercise you tend to suffer from emotional issues* . Poor diet leads to “weird” feelings, and medicine goes without comment.
*: Seriously, even just running up and down some stairs or lifting a rinky dink 5 pound weight goes a long way to keeping your body active and help balance out the various hormones
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