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Yes, I am. Why? Curiosity. You always see this question regarding what do Europeans find unusual about Americans and vice versa. I am curious to know about the opinions of my non-American, non-Europeans fellows. Our perspectives are not so common to find in websites like Lemmy.

Though a few minutes in I'm already seeing the post in the negatives so I'm assuming this one is sadly already dead.

It's somewhat common for me to read in my dreams but I can barely see the text for a second (it is decipherable though): My perspective instantly shifts "inside" the book, or rather the story it's telling becomes the new focus of my dream and I can visualize it just fine (sometimes I don't even come back to the previous world, my dream is now about this new story). Same thing if i'm playing a game: for a second I see the frame of the monitor on the borders of my vision but quickly it disappears and all I see is the content of the screen. Sometimes it keeps looking like the game (like, Civ always looks like Civ) and others it becomes more flexible and cinematographic I guess, a new story that can go anywhere.

What I've heard is that it's very much like Chrono Trigger aesthetics-wise but very different regarding writing quality. Now, a lot of people play JRPGs not necessarily for their plot, story, character motivation/development and quality of prose but for their particular atmosphere crafted by their use of graphics, music, animation/sprites, etc and there's nothing wrong with that, so maybe it will be your vibe

Sadly I have never felt any effect drinking coffee, so I haven't drank much all my life. I recently tried it again too after reading so many people with ADHD swear by it. Once again, felt nothing during or after, and I was pretty attentive to its possible effects that whole day.

I used to do that but as I get older it's harder to stay awake and just brute force it. I started using a sleep routine I found online that's basically: 1 hour before the time I want to fall asleep at I'll turn off all screens (computer, cellphone). Have a warm, relaxing bath. Optionally write in a paper whatever is in my head (like stuff to do tomorrow) so that I can take it out of my mind. Dim the lights if you can. Optionally meditate. Then read a book until it's the time I want to fall asleep at. Go to bed, if I didn't fall asleep in 20 mins then read for 30 min more and try again until eventually you fall asleep. Works pretty well and fixes my sleep schedule in a couple of nights (something unthinkable for me for most of my life).

But having that fixed doesn't magically help everything else. I find out that when I wake up at morning it's still dreadfully difficult to do whatever I'm supposed to do. That's why I'm looking for morning routines to help me just start doing it without getting distracted. And reset routines in case I do become unfocused so that I don't just straight up lose the rest of the day if possible.

What’s your reset routine?

I don't have one either but the place where I saw this gives this example: "meditation, exercise, journaling, playing music and making some tea"

There has been one constant in my life: the older I get the more I understand that few things are objectively true/scientifically proven and (while I do hope that number grows) the more I realize the importance of being comfortable with uncertainty. Not only uncertainty about particular facts, but about my positions on stuff being right.

I know that you can't really answer this perfectly since you (or any of us) don't have that omniscient smartness, but if you were tasked to do this but with your current intelligence: in what ways would you transform humanity to better reach that goal?

Funnily enough, this is the sort of stuff I half-assedly think about when I can't fall asleep (i.e. all of my life). Through the years I fine tune it or even change it completely. For some years now the current idle thought has been something like "How would you make life as fair as possible for everyone if you had unlimited power?". IIRC current thought is something like:

• All sicknesses and illness are no more. People (and animals) can't get sick anymore. This also eliminates getting old and dying of old age (more on this below). If they so desire, people can regrow lost limbs or part of their bodies or heal lost capabilities (covers current and future losses). One's own brain can't be involuntarily destroyed, which means you can always regenerate back to full no matter what happens to you. The idea is to make people functionally immortal (brain is also immune to degradation, dementia, etc).
• Since people don't get old and can't die, the fail safe for those that do wish to finish their own existence (I know I probably would want to eventually, be it after 70 years, 200 or a million) is that anyone can voluntarily die. I'd say it's not instant though. They must maintain a firm and constant will to die for a long period of time (maybe a year? maybe that's too long). If they have maintained a will to stop existing for that long, they do die. No one can kill other people, only each person can decide if and when to die. It's painless.
• It is no longer necessary to eat, drink, breath, sleep, etc. This goes for all humans and animals. People can still do it of course for the pleasure of it but it's not needed.
• People can alter their body in whatever way they want. They can change body types, including bone and muscle, can change (or add or delete) genitals, can gain or get rid of bodily functions (e.g. you can get rid of periods but still be able to be pregnant, or gain the capability to be pregnant if you already didn't have it). And yes, you can grow furry ears and whatever.
• But at the same time, since everyone is now a shapeshifter, people now also have the ability to identify other people no matter what their appearance is. You suddenly went from being a 3 meter hulking alligator man to a little 50 cm fairy girl? I can still instantly tell you are my sibling.
• There are different ways of conceiving a new human. It occurs whenever 1 or 2 or more humans intentionally will it. All parties must maintain a firm and constant will for it to happen for a long enough period of time (maybe 9 months). If at some point any of the parties has doubts, it will not happen. Sex isn't technically required (though it can absolutely happen for those that enjoy the tradition). The new baby will automatically share the DNA of all the parties. If the parties want the actual pregnancy to actually occur in the body of one them, they can will it so and it will be so (again, as long as everyone keeps willing it for the whole time). If no one wants to actually carry the baby in their body, the baby will simply pop into existence in the hands of one of the parties after the necessary time period passes.
• All humans have now the same baseline strength regardless of their bodies. When a being attempts to do something to another being against their will, they instead become paralyzed for an hour. For kink enjoyers, don't worry, if deep inside you want to get roughed up for some fetish reason the paralysis will not occur, since it's not actually against your will. In general, this should mean no more rape and unwanted violence.
• With no illnesses and functional immortality, the planet might become overpopulated eventually. Humans can now more easily go to space of course (since they no longer require breathing and all that). But since many might prefer to stay on Earth, from now on Earth (and every planet) is functionally infinite. That is to say, the planets occupy a defined mass in space, but once you set foot on the planet, it becomes a plane that infinitely expands in all directions. There will always be enough Earth for everyone as long as they are willing to travel it and explore. Same goes on for every planet. Think of them like magical tents that occupy a small space but once you are inside it contains an infinite world. So for Earth the "center" of the plane would be our current 2D world map but from then it would expand with new lands and seas. So yeah, while you are in a planet it is flat, once you leave it from your perspective it becomes a sphere again.
• I've talked about physical illnesses, but what about mental ones? Well, the spectrum is too ample and varied and I don't feel qualified to sort out which ones are 100% harmful vs which ones are harmful some of the time vs which ones are simply neuro-atypical. So I'd say I'd give every person the ability to switch from neural state of mind to another. If you have down's syndrome and you want to keep living like that, by all means. If you want to change it, you can too. And if you want to switch on and off between those states, then that too. The only thing I'd "change" is that you always have some level of intuitive understanding that this is a possibility, that you can switch. The same goes for every personality disorder, for every mental condition, for every mental illness, for every personality feature, for every compulsion, for every trauma. You can even switch on and off for remembering certain things.
• All these points serve to try to make it more fair for every current and new human that exists and will exist. But what about the humans that are already dead? What about the babies that died of sickness, the kids that were murdered, the victims of sex trafficking that endured a life of horror, and at the end of the day what about every single human and animal that ever lived and was shaped by an unfair world even if they in turn hurt or even killed? So... since the world's infinite and space is not a problem anymore, every single being to have ever existed is revived. The previous points apply to them too.

Ursula K. Le Guin is an example of a writer that does deep but focused worldbuilding. Her sci-fi books tend to be about a single planet, sometimes two like in The Dispossesed. You could try that one or even better start with The Left Hand of Darkness. I like how she sets up various unusual alien factors (geopolitics, biology, society, natural environments) and lets them interplay but also without forgetting a plot.

Oh I think I just worded it poorly. English is not my native language. I took it out now, but basically I meant that while Wanderbots has shown to be explicitly progressive a couple of times, Splattercatgaming has not. Actually now that I think about it when there's explicit moral/ideological decisions in-game he does tend to pick the most "right-wing" ones, but I know that shouldn't be posited as indicative of anything IRL. Like in this one (link to the video but also to a comment from someone else highlighting how he usually does just that).

For videogame gameplays, I like 2BSkyen. It's a secondary channel of his (his main ones being TBSkyen and TBSkyenShorts or something like that) and I tend to find that secondary channels are the ones that are usually less plagued by chasing trends and sponsored stuff. In his main channels he has a focus in character design but I like him because he's sort of an all-rounder: he's insightful, knows a bit about everything and is much more eloquent than the average youtuber. I also like that he wears his progressive politics on his sleeve and that he's not scared of playing like a patient gamer and reading the lore. He's also a bit of an insider in the videogame industry and sometimes shares interesting stuff regarding that.

If you like to discover indie games, I have two channels for you: Wanderbots and Splattercatgaming. The first one is a progressive guy that explores all kinds of indie games (but I do think he likes bullet heavens and turret defense games because there's a lot of those), he also sometimes plays with his wife and friends. The second one has quite a high quality channel and he periodically revisits what feels like every single RPG and/or strategy and/or roguelite and/or space related indie game out there giving his insights on each version of them along their development. Both of these channels tend to play just a bit of the game, not full walkthroughs: that way you can choose if you'd like to play the actual game yourself and support indie devs.

My last gameplay channel recommendation would be MKIceAndFire. Now I don't know if this fits your criterium exactly because he does very much upload the latest mainstream games the second they come out, and very often before they do because game companies seem to give him early access. The reason for that is that it's the biggest no commentary gameplay channel in YT. So... it kinda feels like and old school YT channel if you used to watch no commentary let's plays on YT, which is something that I did. And if there's a mainstream game I want to watch that I know I won't find an insightful letsplayer playing it... then I know I can watch it in MKIceAndFire. It's not often that I need him, but he's always there. He also has a lot of Mortal Kombat and fighting game videos if that's your thing.

For non gameplay channels, there's a number I follow that do their own thing and disregard the algorithm:

• Brian David Gilbert: He just does weird song videos, his humor is kinda 2000s YT.
• Errant Signal: He does good video essays analyzing videogames, usually indie ones. He also has a phenomenal series he has been slowly building lately called Children of Doom which I absolutely recommend if you like videogame history. I don't even like FPS games and I found it entrancing.
• New Frame Plus: The guy does video essays on videogame animations. I particularly like his Final Fantasy ones, where he goes through the animation of every FF game starting from the first one, and the Best Game Animation of the Year where he shoutouts a lot of noteworthy animation in videogames for the whole year. I like how it feels he loves and relishes every single detail of animation work.
• Innuendo Studios: This one doesn't upload very often but he does interesting political essays on the alt right from a leftist perspective.

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BTW anyone reading this that made it to here: if you have channels you would recommend me based on the things I've said I like I'd love to hear it.

For me it's just that

1. I don't have unlimited time to scroll through stuff I'm not interested in. In my previous post I mentioned the few things that kinda annoy me but there's a lot more stuff that I feel neutral about but I'm just not into. Like sports. There was an unending amount of sports subs at Reddit for each team of every discipline and after a couple of years of browsing /r/all I realized I saved more time if I just hover+clicked them once to filter them instead of reading the title every time.
2. I feel like clearing up my /r/all from many big subs I wasn't into allowed me to find a lot of interesting, smaller communities.

The things that annoy me about some Lemmy users are the same things that annoyed me about some Reddit users (lots of frequently upvoted meme subs that don't work for me, posting ragebait, political compass subs, etc) and I'm dealing with them the exact same way I dealt with them at Reddit throughout 10 years: block and move on. The best thing about this type of forum is that you can heavily personalize your feed by filtering/blocking/muting and you'll still have some reasonably good quality content (which includes both your niches and the potential to discover either general or specific stuff you'll like) thanks to the upvote system.

If it's worth anything, all the visibilization, representation and positive portrayal of disability and chronic illness I've ever seen (and it has steadily grown in the past 10 years in my experience) has come through LGBT+ or LGBT+friendly spaces or hand in hand with them (once again, in my experience). I don't known how mainstream it is though, since my browsing habits are not that mainstream

Is there a way to insulate apps in my phone from looking at stuff they shouldn't? Kinda like Firefox Multi-Account Containers.

Yep! The second one

I watch a few, but the first worthy one that comes to mind is TBSkyen.

Let's see who gets this one:

Find your 107 pals (if you bother to do it), build up your castle and go up against that psycho dude weirdly fixated with porcine epithets.

FWIW I just read the first book and while I found the world interesting I got tired of the book jerking the main character off so much.