I drew a comic of myself once that got turned into a meme. So I totally get how surreal it is to be scrolling through the front page of reddit and unexpectedly seeing a picture of yourself. Although mine was certainly under more pleasant circumstances.

In any case you seem to have a positive outlook on the whole thing, which is great.

Reminds me of this classic:

But one of the things Russian troll farms are paid to do is spread general anti-American sentiment. I’m not trying to explain away the comments; I’m describing a real thing that happens.

I appreciate your perspective.

I’ll do you one better and say that a lot of times it comes from chronically online Americans who got their opinion from said Europeans. And at least some of the time it’s from third world bots whose marching orders are to spread any and every kind of anti-American sentiment.

Lately I just prefer to put the opposing idea out into the aether rather than try to dig into a whole online argument… thing.

There are large sections of the US that don’t have consistent access to great food, so crappy fast food is what they get.

Then there are other parts of the US where the fast food is amazing. Also the other food.

I’ve played Magic against him a couple times. Great dude.

Fun fact: when birds have sex it’s called a cloacal kiss.

Stranger in a Strange Land. I was told I’d like it because it was critical of religion, but it turns out it was only critical of organized religion. Too specific for my tastes.

Why do you think his kidney failed? That’s where he hid the gold!

Lego.

There’s something about it that’s just so satisfying to me. Putting every piece in exactly its right place. I got into it as a kid, kept it up until college.

A few years ago I started getting into it again. At first it was just the Marvel sets, but then I got a couple of castle ones. I still love it as much as I did back then, except now I can share it with my kids.

Two things can be true.

I’m pretty sure that Morgan Freeman picture is AI.

I like “Sneeze Louise!”

They’ve been saying it on the national news for 40+ years as though it’s true, but yeah one of the hundred and fifteen people who read this on Lemmy are definitely going to be the first ones to actually do it.

🙄

That certainly makes me feel better about not having mopped in six months.

Me too!

I feel this.

Me: I’m overwhelmed, but I try to focus on the important things.

Therapist: That’s a really healthy way of looking at it.

Me: Like I spend quality time with my kids every day and make sure they always have healthy meals to eat, so who cares if I haven’t mopped in a month?

Therapist: (visibly astonished and a little disgusted that I haven’t mopped in a month)

Me: (not telling her it’s actually been three months)

Honestly I’d probably give it another shot if they just made the Master Sword unbreakable. Why wouldn’t it be? It’s Link’s main weapon in other games.

But they’re all in on this temporary weapon gameplay loop. And I get that; I understand that sometimes it can be a good thing to push the player into playing the game a certain way. Except they already did that for most of the game. If the Master Sword were unbreakable, you’d still have plenty of players doing the constant weapon swapping, but you’d also have a few more players like me actually playing the game. I’d probably even swap weapons most of the time, secure in the knowledge that I still had a weapon that wouldn’t break when I need it.

Plus how good is your gameplay loop if you have to force it on the player?

But I know I’m in the minority on this. It’s weird to see people loving a Zelda game more than I do, because for 30 years of my life that would never have been the case. Hopefully they return to the old formula for the next game.

I was thinking specifically of Breath of the Wild.

For me, Zelda has always been about scratching my completionist itch.

Making all the weapons temporary means I never get to feel the power of a completed inventory. Instead I’m just trading off weapons that I don’t like for more weapons that I don’t like. And if I do like one, it breaks anyway.

I didn’t even bother with Tears of the Kingdom for that reason. It’s a feel-bad mechanic, and I’d rather not do it.

For me: weapon durability.