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Cake day: August 23rd, 2023
  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Does anyone else miss traditional forums?English
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    12 hours ago

    I’d counter that point though, and say ‘then you should be/stay on topic’ and not forking the discussion into other topics. It’s certainly not difficult to create a new topic about a related discussion, and if it interests the original posters then yay, they might join in, but either way you aren’t cluttering up the original discussion.

    I see forums as more… professional? Whereas layouts like we have here are much more ‘lol memes’. The two types serve two different users.

    I spent a good chunk of my teen years on forums and it was definitely a direct, ‘here is A Thing and I want to discuss A Thing’ conversations. Lemmy/reddit comments are like ‘I have this one thought of a kinda-tangible idea for A Thing 2’ and it’s just… It’s not ‘bad’, but it’s most definitely scatterbrain thoughts, just shared for other wandering thoughts to collide. Scribbled brainstorming vs careful planning, I guess? I dunno.

    Maybe I’m just old. Blah.

  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Does anyone else miss traditional forums?English
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    12 hours ago

    If only we had a system where anyone could report anyone… Maybe have a link that says ‘report’… And we could have it on every topic, and every reply, so it would be easy to do… And after a number of reports by users of sufficient account age and in good standing, the reported comment would be moved to a quarantine so if the admins are unavailable, the forum can operate on autopilot to keep the users safe…

    Ah well, nobody would ever implement that wild idea… sigh

  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•What does Gotye think about all of this?English
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    17 hours ago

    Barq >>>>> grindr. Only furs, haven’t had a single conversation start with a slur, almost everyone has a picture that isn’t just a blank photo or ‘another picture of someone’s abs’, you can view their kinks easily, no paywall, groups of all types to socialize with, convention and meetup information…

    It’s been like 15 years now, but grindr was such an absolute dogshit experience that if I became the CEO of that atrocity, I’d immediately close the service. With jerry cans and molotovs.

  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•If you were forced to play one professional sport as your job until you were 65, which would you pick?English
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    7 days ago

    Esports/mlg. I actually wanted to explore video gaming as a competitive career as a kid, throughout my teens and a bit beyond. Disability and near-death struck at 21 and dashed that, though. I still play rather well for racing games, but fps I struggle competitively due to partial blindness and loss of the use of my right hand. I use an ambidextrous Logitech G903, using both sets of side buttons (both left and right side), if you’re wondering; all critical functions and movements go on the mouse, with secondary (like map, equip/use, toss item, inventory/hotbar…) remaining on the keyboard.

    Also, while not a sport…

    Spoiler

    I also looked into being a ‘working guy’. My sex drive has always been -really- high, and that stupid saying ‘find something you love and you’ll never work a day in your life’… well, I definitely love pleasing people. Nearly all my relationships failed because of, or directly linked to, my unquenchable needs (it’s not my fault you are studying for a full load of courses and I’ve been at it for 4 hours, okay?), so…