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What's your Patient Gamer's Unpopular Opinion?

Share your unfiltered, unpopular gaming opinions and let’s dive into some real discussions. If you come across a view you disagree with, feel free to (respectfully) defend your perspective. I don’t want to see anyone say stuff like “we’re all entitled to our own opinions.” Let’s pretend like gaming is a science and...

vonbaronhans ,

This is the line of reasoning I used with my parents as a kid. Dollar per hour entertained.

But I think differently about it these days. I’m looking for maximum value per hour, with an eye towards minimal hours, and with a definite end point if applicable.

And value in this sense could be raw entertainment, but it could be something else, like exposure to new ideas and novel perspectives on life etc.

But I suppose that’s what happens when you get older and you’ve got less and less free time to fill.

America's nonreligious are a growing, diverse phenomenon. They really don't like organized religion (apnews.com)

Mike Dulak grew up Catholic in Southern California, but by his teen years, he began skipping Mass and driving straight to the shore to play guitar, watch the waves and enjoy the beauty of the morning. “And it felt more spiritual than any time I set foot in a church,” he recalled....

vonbaronhans ,

I think their point is that the pilgrims set the cultural precedents for what would later become America, to which later immigrants would be beholden.

I don’t know how true that is, but I think “protestant work ethic” is at least one example of that sort of thing.

vonbaronhans ,

The only thing that applies to me here is the new SAVE IDR plan. But hey, it still lowers my monthly payment a little bit AND let’s payments actually go to principal instead of just shaving off interest. It’s not nothing.

I would still like to see full debt relief, but I think that has to be a matter of legislation if I understand correctly. And I’ll take baby steps over nothing at all.

vonbaronhans ,

I’ve used pixel phones for a long time, but I’ll eat my hat if Google actually honors more than 5 years of updates for the pixel 8.

vonbaronhans ,

“I saw one post. Most agreed. 100% extreme.”

I ain’t saying you’re wrong, but the route you’re taking there is not exactly valid.

vonbaronhans ,

Is that considered tankie? I know it’s pro revolutionary socialism, which is typically what the countries tankies like did to start out.

When I think ‘tankie’ I usually think people who are still pro those countries to the point of denial about genocides and other bad things those countries are doing.

vonbaronhans ,

yeah, fair enough.

vonbaronhans ,

Okay?

vonbaronhans ,

Oof, hard disagree there. It’s a subjective preference, of course, but you are objectively wrong and I will die on this hill.

vonbaronhans ,

I wouldn’t call either of these particularly secret, but whatever, they’re fun.

Excess material = a very large shit, often multiple shits.

Trip insurance = using the bathroom before getting in the car, whether it’s needed or not. I came up with this one as a child, and it’s now in widespread use in my extended family, especially with the nieces and nephews.

vonbaronhans ,

There have been plenty of phones and tablets with 3D camera systems. It’s just not something that most consumers really want or need, so it tends not to become mainstream.

It still comes up every now and then. The iPhone 15 has a computational 3D camera thing it can do, but I’ve seen virtually no buzz about the feature.

vonbaronhans ,

Pixels are definitely a small slice of the market, but by golly, it’s still my favorite line.

But I am a nerd, so. No argument there.

vonbaronhans ,

On the first point, I can’t speak to the overall volume, but I can definitely say that people willfully misinterpreting me was a pretty common occurrence over on Reddit and definitely pushed me to comment less over time, just for the sake of my mental health. I don’t think I’ve been on Lemmy long enough to make a meaningful comparison though.

To add to your second point, Lemmy definitely feels very stale very quickly. Reddit, for all its faults, has a much larger user base with thousands of active communities. On Lemmy, even browsing the everything feed, I only see maybe a couple dozen new and interesting posts a day, and it only takes about 10 minutes of scrolling before I’m looking at stuff from days or weeks ago. Most communities I’ve tried to explore have one, maybe two posters. Subbing to a community often feels like subbing to one person and hoping it becomes a real community in the future.

I dunno if any of that will push me back to Reddit. If Lemmy doesn’t really fit me… I’ll probably just give up this last little bit of social media and just browse Imgur for memes when I want.

vonbaronhans ,

Isn’t that what communities and subreddits are for?

vonbaronhans ,

I just paid the one time fee for no ads. Works for me.

vonbaronhans ,

Nissan cars bad? Is that a common US complaint? The others I hear all the time (as an American myself).

vonbaronhans ,

Yeah, I’ve never had an ad like that on a work laptop, ever. A good IT dept will lock down the experience to minimize distractions for business purposes, and lock down features that aren’t appropriate for work.

vonbaronhans ,

I may not be any of those things… but turns out I enjoy the humor of all of them greatly!

vonbaronhans ,

While this is true, I’ll add that a huge swathe of the same people are huge hypocrites. All it takes is one of their own children to be inconveniently pregnant, and then it’s all “rules for thee but not for me”.

I don’t think it’s possible to know the proportion of evangelicals who are hypocrites in this way with confidence, but if you look for examples you’ll find plenty. The most recent one I saw was a BYU student who was paid 500 bucks to prank called his mother and say he got a prostitute pregnant (for the filmer’s tiktok or whatever), and after a couple exasperated questions, the mother told him to make the fictional prostitute get an abortion.

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