Well, a lot of people who don’t have good reading comprehension tend to be neurodivergent people, especially autistic folk like myself. I tend to approach things with a benefit of the doubt attitude but I’m more or less “high functioning” and some people have an even harder time understanding social cues via text. I use /s just out of mindfullness of folk who struggle with those kinds of thing.

Domestic cats are actually a very social species, I read a couple studies on it, despite what the stereotypes make you believe. They’re just very aloof and picky with who they choose to bond with. I’ve had cats who desperately needed other cats, and I’ve had cats who really don’t like other cats, but those cats are extremely clingy with people instead.

It’s also why feral cats are found in colonies and most vets and shelters will recommend having at least 2 cats because they actually need the companionship. It’s pretty interesting!

I mean, this is kinda just an internet problem in general, but it’s just a prevalent here on Lemmy as anywhere else, so it does count as something annoying Lemmy users doing. And that’s just general aggression

It seems like saying anything is a great way to get someone downright furious with you. Again, that happens everywhere, I just wish there was less of it on Lemmy. I think FOSS topics are a great example. Just in this thread alone you can see people already getting just… really worked up on both sides of the FOSS subject.

People get really aggressive about what qualifies as a good meme, ffs. And there also just a general culture online (it’s died down recently, I think? It was really bad starting in 2016, imo) of humorous aggression, where reacting in really aggressive ways just as a joke is really common, which leads to misunderstandings and causes people to get actually mad if they aren’t in the loop of the joke in the first place.

On a bright note however, I have noticed there’s a lot less bigotry being treated as acceptable on here. Transphobic memes and stuff of that nature would show up in random communities on reddit a lot more than should ever be acceptable, and they would occasionally (not always) get more support in the comments than they should. Here on Lemmy it seems folks are a lot more proactive in shutting that stuff down before those types get a foothold here. Hopefully it stays that way.

That belly… I want to rub that belly…

What?

Yo what

Y’all realize that saying things like “You’ve just lost a user!” or “Deleting my account!” or “This is now the worst instance on Lemmy!”… you sound like a Karen telling the kid at the register in CVS that she’s leaving a bad Yelp review… right? Y’all seeing this? Am I going crazy here?

It doesn’t only bother me for villains, I just had villains in particular on the mind. I get it though. I was just watching TV and Aquaman came on and I’ve seen a bunch of other superho movies on TV lately, so I was just thinking a lot about the tropes I see a lot, and that particular example was at the front of my mind.

I’d also recently scene Age of Ultron, where the twins had, in my opinion, a really questionable reason for siding with Ultron.

I also love writing fiction myself, and I have a terrible habit of disecting just about every plot point I encounter in media to see what “makes them work”, or not work, to see what I can learn from them for my own writing. Makes me awful overly critical of some things.

It makes sense, I suppose. maybe I’m just a bit jaded about villain writing. I just feel like a lot of the time villain motivation seems to come after the villain themself. Like the villain and their methods was created, and then a motivation for that was created to make it make sense. Rather than creating a motivation and then designing the villain off the motivation. Not all villains, of course. there’s some pretty complex and fantastically written ones out there. But sometimes, there’s a lot of villains where it seems the writers just REALLY needed some kind of relatable motivation.

I have disgraphia which makes hand writing really friggin difficult (and even painful!) for me, and makes everyone else’s day worse if they have to try and understand what I’ve written. I need computers to be able to write shit.

Is it him? My guess is him!

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I think that sums up my views on money and capitalism. It’s VERY necessary for equality, like your example. With money rather than simply trading goods, the cobbler has the ability to have a full pantry as often as the shopkeep who has more to provide far more frequently. But it’s also extremely flawed, and also make inequality really, really easy. The cobbler can only make and sell so many shoes in a period of time, but a general goods shopkeep has lots of things to sell all the time, and he doesn’t have to make those goods himself, so he’s bound to be wealthier than the cobbler, unless the cobbler raises his prices, at which point fewer common folk would be able to afford his shoes, giving them less options for shoes, and/or less money to spend on other necessities. If only the world could be a little simpler sometimes.

Not physically or emotionally abusive, doesn’t leave me… doesn’t exist…

Tf are you talking about my dude?

They told r/dndmemes to stop posting goblin porn so someone posted a link to the fediverse… and I made an account. Simple as, really.

It just forks!

Maincoone, I think 🤔

I’m brand new to Lemmy and thoroughly enjoy the old memes filling the feed. In fact they were part of the reason I enjoyed my first scroll so much.