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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 13:23:56 JST
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i wonder how much of seal clubbing is the monopoly studies again. the ones where they found people with handicaps at monopoly come to genuinely believe they are good at monopoly and deserve to win.
i watched one on stream once and he kinda had that energy going on. kept bragging about killing rats and it really makes you wonder about how poorly they take it when someone of the same gear check + elo shows up :neocat_thonk: -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 12:43:00 JST
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i fail to understand how anyone manages to enjoy gear check games. do monotonous task for an artificially throttled maximum xp/hour to make number biggest so you can.. go hold mouse button one and club seals in wooden houses.
i just see these things and laugh about how the game designer is the biggest superpredator of them all because you're doing meaningless shit on their treadmills and paying for the privilege of being abused :blobcatgendou:
i'm sure this is just a lack of functional dopamine cycles in my brain :blobcatnomouth: -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 12:20:35 JST
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@strypey while i tend to be strongly against tech regulating, one of the few i do post about is interop protocols should be open by mandate.
there are good technical reasons to outsource interfaces to glassware, but no legitimate social reasons for the interface to be secret. -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 12:07:53 JST
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@Nimbius666 i remember that bodyguard game from the gentoo repos -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 11:38:17 JST
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apparently the class of people who audit their own thought trails is called metanarrative intelligence or somesth and its also among the rarest in the population. -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 11:36:20 JST
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the funny part about autism vs modern books is that a lot of modern books do in fact just restate the thesis 3 times to pad page count. which is something that gets you censured as a human being but is hypernormalized in publishing. -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 11:28:34 JST
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@mr_penguin the thing with the torment nexus is you don't use it and then become demonstrably sad. you experience it and time passes but you neither feel particularly happy for having used it or frustrated enough to walk away. by comparison people who do something they actually like (say they were decent at music, got an instrument, weren't socially destroyed trying to learn it..) by comparison they are a lot happier doing that.
afaik the 'happier without social media' crowd tends to have an actual tribe instead, which is why they are happier by comparison.
like i mentioned originally if they're just locked in a closet they won't be happier, i don't think. -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 11:24:05 JST
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@mr_penguin millions of dollars goes in to tuning the platforms to avoid psychological triggers where someone would organically walk away from it. they like them just under the level where you'd have any sense of fulfillment.
something that took me a while to identify as an adult and paying a lot of attention to time records. somewhat publicly documented nowadays.
then there's the issue that alternatives may not really be available. as a child i couldn't get any encouragement from anywhere to keep doing other more productive things. -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 11:06:14 JST
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log in to soulmask
one guy in super endgame whatever rolling through the base
yeah thats my problem with conans in general :blobcathuh: PVP in those is about 0% skill. i've seen fights where people parry/roll/reads and they just lose to someone holding M1 because "well they had tier n+1 gear, so."
its kind of funny how in systems like GURPS you can still get shot in the head wearing n+1 gear. like you are more likely to win if your tech is better, but it's not guaranteed, and its something D&D folk don't adjust to well -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 10:57:27 JST
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@mr_penguin i've been hearing that my whole life. including just using computers or something. parents were even like "we wouldn't have given you one if we had to do it again"
i think it'd be possible to do A/B studies on the subject. you'd also need to deal with a handful of other controls, though, because i have a feeling if they had access to social media and choose not to use it they probably have a more supportive environment and those are already known to result in less depression. if they have the same helicopter parent enforced isolation and now don't have the computer outlet, they're probably not going to be less depressed. there's a lot of confounders. -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 10:54:21 JST
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latelty attempts to be awake during daylight hours are met with sickness resulting in being awake at night anyway :blobcatpain:
go to bed a reasonable our, sleep for 12 anyway. try to get up and just can't. -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 05:24:42 JST
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you cannot tempt me with mechagingers, gacha industry :blobcatglare2: -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 12:45:56 JST
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> your citizens get extremely upset when they accidentally drink poo
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 07:11:10 JST
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wtf the mouse and keyboard controls use right click to put stuff down and pick up, but the xbox controls use the trigger to pick stuff up and the bumper to put it down :blobcatwaitwhat: -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 04:23:11 JST
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think its been a year since i played this last. money counter go brr -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 04:23:06 JST
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@snacks i had a classic for a year and a half until family butt bounced it on the floor :ablobcatderpy: was great -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 04:21:17 JST
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@snacks trackball :blobcat3c: -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 04:01:34 JST
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@snacks :ablobcatwave2: -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 03:58:28 JST
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@lispi314 @mia @navi > using it for mirrors
sure, i think that was suggested too. ultimately they just went to github because nobody wants to deal with infrastructure work. -
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iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 25-Apr-2026 03:58:00 JST
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someone saying they spent 500 on magnetic planars for gaming and music
:gutkato_konsternita: my blob in crepes
:blobcatheadphone: sure why not lets wear the ploopys for a bit