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  • doug@lemmy.todaytomemes@lemmy.worldHere we go again
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    6 months ago

    My retirement plan likely involves explosives and a penthouse or penthouse-equivalent that may or may not be occupied by the richest, douchiest person I can successfully stalk.

    My inevitable colon cancer diagnosis is the go signal.

    /s tag for when this comment comes up as “exhibit a”




  • It’s fun to think up thought experiments that explain away the reasons we can’t prove they exist.

    Time isn’t linear, we’re just limited to experiencing it that way while we’re alive.

    After we die, we experience time differently; in an impossible-to-describe way, but is akin to a book with limitless pages. Your existence is a bookmark in this book, and dying makes you lose your place.

    It is possible to re-find your place, but with unfathomable access to unfathomable histories and futures, there is a near-infinite choice of other events and timelines for a ghost to visit and observe and experience.

    Coupled with that, there are laws— some sort of physical laws, not arbitrary— to visiting the pages of this book, in that they can only be done in areas that do not cause pages before or after to change dramatically. A ghost is a spec of ink on the page; it cannot write letters, words, or sentences. If anything like this were ever done, we would never know as our minds would simply accept the memory as fact without knowing, or delete the memory of a ghost the way we space out driving on a highway or having to look at our watch a second time.

    Lastly, our senses are all on varying spectrums; some of us able to see, hear, smell, experience things others cannot. One of our senses is a sense of time. Some people’s sense of time operates on a scope of a wider caliber than others, experiencing things others cannot, which is why some of us may have experienced ghosts while others haven’t.

    edit: I guess it needs clarification based on the downvotes, I don’t believe any of what I just wrote (except the true bits like time not being linear & sense scopes). I don’t believe in ghosts/have never seen one, but I try to stay open-minded for friends who might disagree.


  • doug@lemmy.todaytomemes@lemmy.worldgood idea
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    6 months ago

    The problem for me is empathy is often the missing ingredient in my disagreements with others, and it’s harder or impossible to foster, teach, or cultivate that empathy via a remote text exchange.

    It is easier to press the button that shocks the stranger when the stranger is in the other room.

    …coupled with that I get enraged at injustice and bigotry enough that it likely affects my blood pressure, as well as my ability to articulate my political views in a respectful and/or cohesive manner.

    Fuckinggoddam piece of shit nazifucks make me want to KILL. KILL. KILL. RRUFUDUDJDJCH JNENDUCHBR








  • I know I can Google it, but uhhhhh I’m lazy and wanna help drive Lemmy engagement:

    Wasn’t there a multiplayer Resident Evil game wherein you could get bit and become a zombie? But like… it was ahead of its time kinda because you needed 4(?)+ PlayStations on a LAN to play it?

    I remember it looked fun, and iirc reviews said it was fun, but they gave it low reviews ‘cause of the hardware hurdle.

    Anyways… did anyone ever mod that into a playable, non-LAN experience one can enjoy from their PCs? If so… I’d totally put up a game date on here for that.

    I might go search for my own answer and edit it into this if my phone doesn’t die.

    Edit: looks like there is a fan-made pc port of it, but getting it setup looks like a bit of a project. hmmmmm