I don’t think that it’s been proven that reading makes you more empathetic, I think that there has been a correlation established between those who exhibit empathy and enjoying fiction (or at least narratives where you adopt another perspective).

I think it would be almost impossible to prove that reading improves empathy, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the part of your brain responsible for empathy gets a workout when reading fiction.

Isn’t water divining pseudoscience? I get that isn’t the point of the post, but I always thought it was bullshit.

Edit: should have responded to the comment about water divining, whoops.

Which goals, donating money to charity and opposing fascism? Or opposing fascism and supporting Ukraine?

I’ve gardened all my life and my favorite flowers are morning glories, please shove a cactus up your ass. Thank you.

Even if you can’t play the game, watching a 100% playthrough with no commentary is worth it. The story is easily the best part of the game.

At least, in my opinion.

It’s temporarily embarrassed millionaire syndrome. Look at Alex Hormozi. Dude is the definition of faking it til he made it and he puts out stupid posts like ‘I ate Chipotle 500 times in a year because it saved me time I could be spending on making money’.

Most of the people in this ‘subculture’ don’t realize that they are crabs in a bucket.

Probable cause generator, maybe. Pseudoscience, no — dogs can be trained to have low false positive rates. It just so happens they’re trained to generate probable cause, more than they are detecting drugs/bombs.

This makes me wonder, is the Big O notation connected to the square cube law in any way? Cuz Big O being named for one of the things that makes its existence impossible would amuse me.

Honeybee alarm pheromone smells exactly like bananas.

If you’re a beekeeper you either already know about it or can test it. Just make sure you’re in a bee suit, they will attack you.

That is false

It’s perfectly fine if you wouldn’t date a trans person because they don’t match your genital preference, sex related things can be a deal breaker. But you’re not gay for dating a trans person of the opposite sex.

Ok, then the equal is true — I’m not transphobic for deciding I don’t want to date a trans person. Regardless of sexual part compatibility.

Who would be the arbiter of truth in this instance?

Like it’s a cool idea, just practically impossible.

be pretty cool if we could fairly easy add an option for people in a wheelchair to get them walking. Clearly you’d rather they didn’t.

Great so you missed the point entirely, just like most people miss the point of games with one difficulty setting.

Silksong is a game, bright moving colors on a screen, meant to amuse and entertain.

You’re not an elite mountaineer for pressing buttons faster than a disabled person

Crying about difficulty in video games isn’t going to stop. There are thousands of video games that are not difficult. Play those.

You’re right, difference being that what you’re saying is more akin (following the analogy) to putting wheelchair ramps on a mountain.

Silksong is the mountain, git gud and climb it or shut the fuck up.

And the idea that every game should be for everyone is the reason why Elden Ring is… kind of a bad game.

Great open world, beautiful scenery… bad boss design, which yes — that is the game.

Like, think about this in the real world setting. Think about how this hyopthetical would play out, person becomes disabled and has to sit in a wheelchair. Everyone agrees ‘it’s not fair that they can’t walk, no one should walk because this person can’t’. And then everyone sits in a wheelchair despite being perfectly abled.

Does that make sense to you? Because it doesn’t to me, I’m sorry if there are people who can’t beat these games — but damn, at some point you have to recognize life isn’t fair and just enjoy the shit you do enjoy. If being good at a video game isn’t important to you, ok that’s your prerogative. Do not play the hard video game. But this constant whining about difficulty settings and nerfs is just obnoxious.

Everyone heard Hornet say git gud. If you say you didn’t, you either didn’t play HK or you’re a liar.

Silksong is the git gud game. It is the Bloodborne 2 we never got.

Edit: also it isn’t that hard.

Hey, another person who refers to children as petri dishes! Neat.

It’s in my peripheral and it never disappears, I had no issue understanding the instructions.

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