fartsparkles

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[–] fartsparkles 8 points 1 month ago

That’s the part I’m asking “why” about.

[–] fartsparkles 19 points 1 month ago (20 children)
[–] fartsparkles 2 points 1 month ago

I totally get you but my rather elderly father loves 3D games - they’ve put hundreds of hours into Skyrim at this point haha. Could never get comfortable with keyboard and mouse but took to a gamepad incredibly quickly.

Sometimes a theme like fantasy or history can be the catalyst to give something the time and patience to learn it. My old man was a huge LOTR fan back in the day (the books especially) and thus the desire to play Skyrim was enough for him to suffer through learning a gamepad and analogue sticks.

[–] fartsparkles 1 points 1 month ago

Arma Reforger has amazing community servers that mean you can always find somewhere to hop in and have fun.

[–] fartsparkles 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

OpenTTD (Transport Tycoon)
Hedgewars (Worms)
Battle For Wesnoth (awesome turn-based game)
Shattered Pixel Dungeon (Rogue-like)
0A.D. (Age of Empires)
Frozen Bubble (Puzzle Bobble)
Pingus (Lemmings)
Mindustry (Factorio)
FreeOrion (Masters of Orion)

[–] fartsparkles 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

The hardcore/toxic crowd do nothing except alienate and turn people against the cause and make people think being vegan means being surrounded by assholes.

It’s people like you that welcome everyone into the discussion that inspire more people to try it out; you’re bringing about the real change.

[–] fartsparkles 7 points 1 month ago

I love that approach you’re taking! So many times, even in shows with official subs, they’re wrong because of homonyms and I’d really appreciate a hedged transcript.

[–] fartsparkles 1 points 1 month ago

I regularly dock my Deck and run games at 1080p or even 2160p on my TV so there’s still a use case for Deck owners.

[–] fartsparkles 7 points 1 month ago

I would. I don’t like it as is.

[–] fartsparkles 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Pretty sure the lyrics are:

Girls who are boys
Who like boys to be girls
Who do boys like they're girls
Who do girls like they're boys

Which basically means girls taking the stereotypical male role during intercourse while the boys take the stereotypical female role.

Basically “Pegging: The Musical”.

[–] fartsparkles 1 points 1 month ago

I turn the brightness on my phone as low as it goes, turn on night shift to get rid of blues, and read (white text on black background / dark mode).

Don’t read in continuous scroll; find a way to turn the page with minimum animation.

Read something you don’t find so compelling as to keep turning pages but enough that you’re happy to read.

I find history books most successful at the moment since there is often no desire by the author to build tension, suspense, etc that keeps you alert.

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