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  • Noone has mentioned Avatar - The Last Airbender yet...? I thought that would be amongst the first answers.

  • Holy Denial Batman.

    This sounds like the digital equivalent to a pizza party.

  • Under the Skin

    I just read up about it and I must admit, it sounds interesting. Might give it a go when I get the chance. Thanks ^^

  • if it serves the plot

    To be perfectly honest, I can't think of a single movie right now where this would even apply. The movies I can think of wouldn't exactly change much if those scenes were removed ...

    On a semi-related note, I am personally also sick of romance being shoehorned into movies where it doesn't belong, doesn't further the plot, or even outright takes away from the main story. WTF was Tauriel doing in "the Hobbit" for example? The literally only point she served was being a flick for one of the less important dwarves, and they knew each other for maybe like six hours of which said dwarf was unconscious for at least four of them. But sure, let's call it True Love™ and shove it into a movie that's already nearly 3 hours long. sigh

    I have nothing against romance in movies in general - but it needs to actually fit the narrative at least.

  • In addition to what others have said already (seriously, see a doctor), it can also help to redirect the urge. If your brain currently demands something to be picked, it doesn't have to be your skin - plucking on loose threads or fabric fuzz in an old towel until the surface feels smooth again, peeling labels off glass bottles until there is no paper left, anything with "tiny imperfections" that you can remove with a bit of fumbling can help to easen the urge without you damaging yourself in the process.

    This is not "the solution" tho - it is only an additional little help to medication and therapy.

  • Exactly this. And looking at the sheer amount of locally sourced, all-natural bullshit reddit does day in, day out, we really don't need to fabricate reasons to roll our eyes at them, like pretending a joke ban was somehow a real, unironic mod action. I mean, even if the sub name wasn't THAT clear, the message itself oozes sarcasm on a level that one can't possibly take it seriously. No idea what message the OP is trying to convey here other than not getting what sarcasm is.

  • I made it through 100% of all the bad days, weeks and months in my life so far. I will also make it through the ones that have yet to come.

    ...and on my more cynical days, this follow-up:

    And if, one day, I won't survive a bad day, then it is not my f[%$]ng problem anymore.

    I tried to have a more positive mantra, but eventually realized that sheer spite can be a powerful motivator in bad times, even more so than trying to stay "nice" to the rest of the world.

  • My coffee machine gets a little "thank you"-pat whenever it is finished brewing my coffee. No idea why exactly I started doing it, but nowadays it feels wrong to not praise it a little before walking away.

  • "All the proof I need"? I don't think so. There must be even more studies! Peer review! Blind tests! That sample size is wayyyyyy too small.

    Luckily, I'm positive that this community is willing to help expand on that study with their own fluffy participants ;)

  • A friend of mine was convinced that the "middle ear canal" goes all the way through your skull in a more or less straight line, connecting your ears. Y'know, because otherwise you wouldn't be able to hear sounds to the right of you with your left ear or vice versa. Maybe HE had such a thing where the brain was supposed to be...

  • I once overheard two ladies in a restaurant, on Easter, arguing about whether or not there are people who work on holidays. One was convinced that literally everyone gets a day off then, and the other one claimed otherwise but failed to come up with examples. I mean, it is one thing to forget that firefighters, nurses etc. exist, but it is a whole other level of stupidity to sit in an effing restaurant, having waiters run around your field of vision constantly, getting served freshly cooked food, on a holiday, and still failing to come up with a single example of people working on holidays.

  • Not hate per se, but my grandpa was very uncomfortable around any kind of "persistent noise", be it too many people talking at once (he usually spent the most part of family reunions in the garage, tinkering with his gadgets), loud machines running for a long time (he'd rather walk a few miles than sit in a car for longer than five minutes) ... or music. Then again he was a German WWII veteran who never went to therapy, so who knows what kind of memories he buried deep down ... he never talked about it.

    So ... not exactly "hating all music" in the actual sense but I think he had a good reason to avoid it nonetheless.

  • Zootopia: "I may be just a dumb bunny, but we are good at multiplying." Judy after calculating Nick's taxes.

  • The simple answer is; it won't work. It works in theory if - and only IF - all people involved will automatically behave on their own and treat all others with respect. An open-to-all social media website without any moderation at all will attract assholes sooner or later, and it will turn into a shitshow eventually. The question is not IF it will happen, but WHEN.

    What you are asking for is like planting a garden full of flowers, deciding to never ever weed out the plants you don't like, and then wondering why you end up with an overgrown, tangled mess instead of a flower field. It won't magically regulate itself just because you don't want a gardener.

  • An otomatone cover of an Evanescence song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmxLja-DRIw

    I didn't even know what an otomatone was before watching that video, and I have no idea why youtube recommended it to me as this isn't exactly my favorite music genre, but I have to admit that it is kinda cool nonetheless.

    The second weirdest thing youtube did was recommend my own videos to me, like "here, watch your own sh*t again you nerd!" ... I feel like there should be some sort of programming that prevents this useless behaviour. That algorythm is bonkers sometimes.

  • Quick, someone call a Bondulance!

  • mods basically ruling over them

    A proper mod isn't a ruler, but rather a janitor - someone who keeps the place clean so others can enjoy it. Without that, it is only a matter of time until someone decides to shit all over the place for funsies and then you can either decide to clean up - at which point you become a mod - or continue hosting the shitshow, and that is never fun. I don't know about a single "anarchist" social media site that lasted longer than a week at best, so I doubt it is possible.

    Imagine you actually hosted a completely anarchist site and then you start to recieve death threats, doxxing, literally illegal content etc. .. what are you going to do then? Serious question.

  • One Arabian Night. Sheherazade fails to tell more than a single story.

  • Einer der etwa drei Dutzend Leute auf Lemmy die nicht aus Amerika stammen, jep ;)

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  • Hard agree. Especially when a no small amount of gameplay is "postgame content" so you're basically expected to rush an 50 hour playthrough to unlock extra features just so you can play the game, at which point you might have lost interest already. I'd rather complete a full playthrough of a shorter story that holds my interest to the very end, instead of playing a game that takes so long to finish that it feels like a pointless chore towards the end.