[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 52 points 4 days ago

Since when is it illegal to dump games? I understand distributing them being illegal but this is my own hardware, if I wanna dump BotW to my Deck I'm gonna dump it

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Same. This is why I hope Reddit continues to get worse. I want another exodus, and I want my niche communities back...

Still not going back tho.

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago

Useless "nobody".

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago

Why the hell wasn't it opt-in from the beginning?

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 46 points 4 months ago

Just another instance of common anti-consumer behavior from multi billion dollar companies who have no respect for the customers that line their pockets.

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submitted 4 months ago by A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world to c/anime@lemmy.ml

I just want somewhere that won't even show me new episodes until an unghosted version is released. I primarily watch anime for the animation, so blurred and darkened frames really ruin it for me.

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(TL;DR): I love being terrified, and this has led me to a fascination with imagining being a witness to / a victim of various tragedies. Is that weird?


The earliest example I can remember of wanting to know what it was like to be a victim of a tragedy was when I first learned what happened on 9/11. We were visiting my grandma, and she was watching a documentary about it. That's the first time I had seen the footage and heard an explanation of it all, and I was still a child (like way too young to be processing what I was seeing), but I was fascinated by it. Even after everyone had left the room to hang out on the porch, I stayed in the living room to watch more. I wanted to know everything, but most of all I wanted to know what it was like to be there. Both as a witness and a victim.

To this day, I would pay good money to get hooked up to something like Roy from Rick and Morty so I could safely experience it without knowing I was safe. And I'd like to choose as many perspectives as I want. From the hijackers, to the people on the directly impacted floors, the people on floors adjacent to the impact, the people who jumped, the people who were outside and witnessed the crashes and collapses, the people who were trapped on the upper floors and remained inside during the collapse...

Besides 9/11, others at the top of the list are things like mass shootings, earthquakes and other natural disasters, catastrophic workplace accidents (mostly explosions), the sinking of the Titanic, Hiroshima/nuclear testing sites, other war related events, various atrocities committed by/against mankind (like the torture committed by the CIA against people suspected of being involved in the 9/11 attacks), the Heaven's Gate mass suicide, a significant portion of Charles Manson's life... It's a mix of wanting the experience and curiosity about the stories/information that never made it into public knowledge.

I don't have a death wish or anything, it's just for some reason I have a fascination with terror. I love getting sleep paralysis and having nightmares, and I feel a weird sense of catharsis when I wake up and realize I'm safe. My favorite ones are when I'm utterly convinced I'm going to die. Even as a kid I loved terrifying shows (like Courage the Cowardly Dog and Mr.Meaty), and as a teenager it evolved into broader consumption of surrealist art, and then I started watching Live Leak videos where I got a more realistic sense of terror. I watched all of the Bjork stalker's tapes, which, if you aren't familiar, they end with him shooting himself after mailing a letter bomb to her. Knowing he filmed his suicide was what piqued my interest, but I also wanted to get into his head so I started from tape #1.

How weird is all of this? Any psychological explanations/speculations about why I'm like this? (And are there any other subs I should ask this in?)

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 77 points 4 months ago

Douglas Adams was such a brilliant writer. He was taken from us far too soon

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 116 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Here's the single sentence you're looking for out of this several-paragraph long AI generated article:

They changed Bender's career chip to read "chainsaw juggler" instead of "prime minister of Norway" because of a terrorist attack on the actual prime minister of Norway, which works better because Bender had his dismembered arm.

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 44 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Never understood why people found that look attractive. Even I did find it attractive, there's still that layer of insecurity that comes with putting so much money and effort into looking borderline inhuman that just puts a bad taste in my mouth

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 37 points 9 months ago

I've literally never met someone who claimed we actually live in a simulation though

[-] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 104 points 11 months ago

I just want one with a removable battery and a headphone jack...

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