Someone below suggested that it removes commercial incentive to get people addicted, which makes sense to me. Additionally, those clubs will serve as a support group, if anyone does struggle with addiction or other unwanted side effects.

Awesome, I hope this catches on, or at least serves as a tiny argument why egoists might not want to buy SUVs.
In our small town, you practically can’t park an SUV on most parking spaces without reaching into the also-far-too-narrow sidewalk or street, but law enforcement is far too lenient for the egoists to care.

The dumb part is that most Cookie Banners do not actually adhere to the law. While I do see room for improvement in the law itself, those improvements will go unseen, too, if the law is not enforced.

I quite like the star-button on Mastodon for this. Just pings the comment author that you appreciated their comment. So, it’s not an indication to some algorithm that this comment is incredibly relevant for everyone, because well, some comments just aren’t.

“Open-source” is not up for interpretation. The word was coined by this definition being made public: https://opensource.org/osd/

This person (unintentionally) tested it: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/375713

Sure, but hopefully you have no trouble believing that simultaneously, nuclear power companies and governments wanting to use nuclear, despite the risks, have been propagandizing for nuclear.

Pro-nuclear folks are often completely unaccepting of there being risks and externalized costs, which feels to me like they’re subject to propaganda (notwithstanding that I’m likely subject to different propaganda).

• The Terminator - It shows how the main character becomes pregnant with minimal exposition

So, you’re saying the Terminator is not the main character in The Terminator? 🤔

Kind of feels disparate from it being a video game, but it’s difficult to really make this experience another way:

I wanted to play a healer in an MMO. It was a shitty MMO, so healers could only be female characters wearing skimpy armor.

Well, it took about half a minute until I had people walk up to me, to then just stop 3 meters away. From the way they were moving, I have to assume, they were working their cameras to look underneath my skirt, and probably doing so with only one hand.

Some of them were sending me “hello :)” messages, which I guess is basic decency, if you’re going to use my body, but it felt weird, too, since we had nothing to talk about.

All in all, it felt uncomfortable. And I did not even have to fear for them to start touching or even raping me. Plus, I was able to log out, delete my account and basically just leave all of that behind.

Well, except for one thing I did not leave behind: I do not want to be the other side in that experience either.

Seems just a tad excessive…?

Connect Four, I win!

These are rarely mutually exclusive. Rather the opposite, as these textures and whatnot need to be pumped through RAM and VRAM via the CPU.

For anyone left behind, Minetest is a community-developed alternative.

It’s more of a game engine/launcher + highly moddable, so the base game is rather minimalistic, but you can simply install more extensive games. For example, for a very Minecraft-like experience, MineClone2 is your best bet.

I agree that it would look quite different with the genders reversed. However, gender equality is not like mathematical equality, where every situation needs to be reversible.

Women have traditionally been less sex-positive and less dominant, which many consider indicators of a lack of true gender equality, so a progressive community will celebrate a reversal of that.

A long time ago in high school, my crush at the time was panicking, because a bug was crawling around her table. I was nearby, caught the bug, but then while still panicking, she told me to kill it.

I didn’t care to kill it, it was a harmless bug, but figured, eh, at least I’ll be her hero.

…nope. Immediately after I stepped on it, she hit me with “Why did you kill it?”. She’s vegetarian, just forgot her own principles for a moment while panicking.

Yes, she was not the most rational lady, but either way, that was when I learnt to have my own principles.

Few years later, there was a wasp in our classroom, which was drowsy from the heating. It managed to fly half around the room, then landed right on my sleeve. Everyone told me to whack it with a book, but I figured, fuck it, it can’t sting me through my sleeve, I’ll carry it to a nearby window.

She was in the room, too. This was long after I could have been her hero for anything. But that made it feel all the better, to show her I’ve grown up since.

What felt even better, though, was that I was my own personal hero, because these were my own principles.

It’s German for “cinema”. No idea, if that’s the context, though.

I did not know what an abaya is, but it did not matter to know this is a stupid ban. Just let people wear whatever the fuck they want to wear.

I don’t know, man, I’m still routing for having a bulldozer drive over random walkways throughout the day.

Bad at parking or got a car that just won’t fit into parking lots? → Enjoy a newly shortened car.

There’s been tons of right-leaning Reddit alternatives before, but they always quickly devolved into Nazi spaces.

Lemmy was the first one that I’m aware of, which told Nazis to fuck off right from the beginning.

My personal favourite is Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, although it’s quite tricky to get into and still brutally difficult, even if you are in it.

It’s similar in concept to Shattered Pixel Dungeon, which others have mentioned here. Maybe try that one first. 🙃