The term has been diluted I guess, or this is a strawman. I’ve never seen real life protests or action called “virtue signaling” before. That’s absurd.

Back when I first started seeing the term used online, somewhere around 2009-2013, it was being used to describe the non-religious version of people making “hopes and prayers” comments online.

Like people using filters over their Facebook profile image to raise awareness of something and then patting themselves on the back for a job well done. That problem sure was solved!

You think something the Russian invasion of Ukraine is bad? And you feel that so strong you’re going to make a post online about it? You sure showed Putin with that one!

At least taken in the most forgiving light, it was sneering at the type of people who were explicitly preformative with their sense of justice. The type of people to do the day of silence about LGBT bullying, who would then strut around afterwards as if to say “We did it gang! We solved LGBT hate!” Then continue to use LGBT terms in derogatory ways and bully LGBT people.

I always thought the phrase was pretty self explanatory. It’s virtue signalling, not seeking, not spreading, not defending, not living, not actually embodying.

This wouldn’t be the first time this comic creator made a strip against something that seems to be a ridiculous strawman to me though.

I’m fairly sure the update cadence is set by the game dev/publisher, not GoG.

Then get a laptop and a phone. No one needs a tablet.

OP said jack shit about the US.

Wow, what a surprise. This is my surprised face. The character they’ve been assassinating for use as fap bait for ages gets an honest to god fetish comic.

I had thought that the general consensus online from the moment of the announcement was that this was pretty clearly fetish material, but I guess a site named “Batman News” has to maintain an absolutely absurd level of “benefit of the doubt” lest they drive away their readers.

Buddy, they already skipped those ones. I can dream though. Those were jank but had charm.

No, because you can literally look this shit up, or talk to most hiring managers or business owners.

Surely if that was how it worked then someone would have posted the documents, or emails, or any sort of paper trail. Come on, we’re all waiting.

Thanks! You want some glue? I brought extra!

XCom and XCom 2 can be played entirely with the mouse. Minor typing if you want to name your soldiers, but nothing requires quick reflexes. Everything is turn based.

There’s an older breakout style game on steam called Shatter that can be played entirely with the mouse and has a banger soundtrack and neat visual style.

Emulation opens up a lot of options for old school turn based games. RPGs, turn based strategy. Any of the Pokemon games gen 1-3 can be played one handed with some clever button mapping. Any game made to use just the Wii-mote as a pointer would also work, but I don’t know those off the top of my head.

You might want to look into one handed controllers, or something like the FLIR USB dongle that you can use to map IR TV remote signals to keyboard button presses. Just need to use a remote that doesn’t already control something.

So is this (unfortunately the comment was edited to what it says now after Cranston responded to it).

Don’t get me started. I’ve got trauma from an ex’s careful manipulation that happened over four and a half years. Multiple times during when I truly thought I was losing my mind.

It took years afterwards for me to feel I could have any baseline trust in my own memory and my own interpretations of other people, because how in the hell could I have been so wrong about the ex? How could I have been so blind to so much manipulation, that with the right puzzle pieces in place and the benefit of hindsight is now so obvious?

It’s been more than a decade, and still when I’m challenged on my recollection of events, I tend to default to not trust myself.

I sincerely don’t want anyone to know the meaning of gaslighting first hand like I do. At the same time, I wish people would stop overusing strong specific words when describing more “regular” banal bad stuff.

Lemmy is small and still somewhat insular, so certain topics tend to get more content than others. You can solve that issue by blocking what you don’t want to see (by community or by user), and most importantly: participate by posting content yourself.

We don’t have anywhere near the amount of users that you can treat this place entirely like reddit and just expect the content to just come to you.

Edit: Also, if you don’t like how a community is run here, there’s most lilely another version of it on another instance with different community mods. There’s a ton of “ask lemmy” communities out there if you don’t like lemmy.ml’s moderation style.

The tradeoff for no ads and no corporate incentives is that you have to put in just a little bit more personal effort to curate the experience you want.

Gender being a construct doesn’t mean you can’t willingly put yourself into that pre constructed idea, you can be whatever you like. It’s prescribing it to others that’s fucked up.

Thank you. That was the point I was trying to make. Anyone can be whatever they want. Categorizing others is the problem, and one that feels especially wrong for me to keep seeing come from the LGBTQIA+ and ally/adjacent communities (please don’t nitpick me on terminology here, my point is that it seems to be coming from the people who I would expect to be better about this than other groups).

As others have said: filter filter filter. Lemmy is small enough still that you can massively curate by blocking communities and even users where you don’t like what they post.

Yeah, this sort of shit has gotten under my skin since identity stuff started exploding into public discourse.

If gender is a construct, why the fuck are we still using traditionally masculine and feminine actions/interests to prescribe identity? What gives anyone the right to prescribe someone else’s identity?

You mean the overtly over the top “my family member is (mildly) infuriating” posts? Yep.

16 hour old account. Only this post and comments on it.

It’s pointless too. Account karma doesn’t exist here, so it’s not like they can farm it.

I was going to say that it’s not nearly as much of a problem on lemmy with the lower user count and lack of allocated per-account karma (karma is only per post/comment), but less than a month apart is silly.

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It’s Stamets. C’mon now. There’s a lot more you should recognize their account from than just “reposter”. They’re a mod of many of the Star Trek based communities and one of the most active posters on Lemmy. Seems to be a stand up person but can let their righteous fury get the better of them at times.

Lemmy is small enough that the community can legitimately self manage this sort of stuff, and we probably need the content anyway. Downvote. Block if you feel the need to. Lemmy is small enough that curating via blocking users is still very effective.

Lemmy doesn’t seem to be in any danger of growing influencers yet, and again: karma isn’t a thing that collects on accounts like it does on reddit. Karma farming isn’t possible here.

Not the commenter, but Christian as well. Consider myself non-denominational, but attend/worship at an Episcopalian Church. The hobby comment isn’t entirely untrue, but there’s more meaning to it than that for me at least.

Most hobbies don’t have such an outsized influence on my life. The hobbies that could would cost a lot of money.

Yes, as the comment you replied to already said. That is called the wet bulb temperature.

If you want instant liver failure, take a shot every time someone uses an incredibly oversimplified understanding of the human brain and LLMs to assert LLMs have human properties.

Also, shoutouts to !techtakes@awful.systems and !fuck_ai@lemmy.world

Don’t go in those if you have any sort of desire to defend modern content generation/content thievery AI.

Also, yes LLM style AI has it’s uses. Mainly to generate shit that we shouldn’t need in the first place, or stuff that we should pay a person to do well. And the cost is stupid when compared to the minor benefit.