Everything you do in it is stuff you can make yourself do in real life.

That depends which of them, and the style you play it. I have played the Sims 2 for twenty years, and do not remember when was the last time I played some boring everyday life with a single family. I do things, like create huge family trees and play the entire neighborhood as one, tangling the relationships, and making drama and whatever I feel like. Murder mysteries, cults, monasteries, a nursing home for the elderly, fill big graveyards with a serial killer, build random stuff like an opera house or an art gallery, and run them as a businesses… Adding mods especially lets you play however you want. I even played a genuine Zombie Apocalypse scenario, with mods, that made the zombified sims npc’s, that would attack everyone on their own, and infect the attacked, who would then soon die and turn into another zombie.

Sounds extremely familiar, I am partially face-blind, so I have had plenty of those encounters, over the years. So far my worst one was, when I completely forgot a teacher, that was teaching the art class I was taking, for a year. I had zero recognition, even after they told who they were - and they remembered me very well. Talk about awkward… I just do not learn faces, and if I learn to remember them over long, continuous exposure, I will quickly forget again, once we stop seeing. I cannot even form a full picture of a face in my mind.

Euthanasia should only be used as a last resort

That is… that is what it is now, basically? People in animal shelters generally don’t want to kill the animals, but what are they going to do, if they have places for fifty, and five hundred in need? They are killing them, because it is the last resort. There just are not enough resources for all the dogs - or other animals - needing help.

Probably schadenfreude, annoyance and frustration combined, I would guess. The US politics are blastered constantly on your face on the web, news, everywhere, and dominate the discussions on Fediverse as well. Being here, you basically cannot escape, reading people from the US fighting each other about things, that sound asinine, in the context of many other cultures. I have observed this annoys many people (myself included, though I try to just avoid engaging), and with how the Trump idiocies fuck with the rest of the world as well right now, these combined seem to cause all sort of unhelpful lashing outs.

I can recommend Zorin as well, it has been very beginner-friendly.

In my experience, the drama is bad in the hobby spaces too, the more people, the worse. I think it is just something, that happens, every time enough people interact with each other.

I will add, that “support” includes parents needing to tell beforehand, what is appropriate behavior, since that step is failed too often. Then if the kids mess up, they can recognize easier, what went wrong, compared to just fumbling and getting consequences for it, and having to figure out why. Outsourcing the responsibility to teach, just to the environment, leads to catastrophes too. Neither suffocating nor negligence, are good strategies for raising children.

I totally agree with that. It was in poor taste.

She was treated so shitty by the media and all, that I do not wonder why. Comparing how she and how our PM right now are talked about, is like misogyny laid bare. Her “scandals” were being filmed partying, and that considered inappropriate, and using breakfast bonus thing, other PM’s were using before; he is in the middle of a big corruption scandal right now (involving 35 million €).

Healthy humans, unfortunately.

//Seems like at least someone reading this, has not experienced trying to digest stuff like legumes, without a large chunk of their intestines.

In the situation of that comic, talking would not improve his chances much, though. That is a totally wrong place, and time. You go and stare at women just walking by like that, and they will assume you are some creep.

Mine is being chronically ill. With this miracle diet, you too, can become thin!*

*Side effects can include: looking like a cancer patient/skeleton/drug addict, losing hair, losing intestines, major depression, etc…

I delete my comments regularly few weeks after posting them, because often my paranoia kicks in, and I feel like I have to at least cover my tracks a bit. I do however, do my best to leave up all comments that answer something or have relevant information.
When I switch accounts to a new one, I delete my full comment history, though. I know this is bad for the continuity and history and everything, but I have not figured out ways to lessen my paranoia. And it does not help, that I somewhat lack in emotions, and do not care much, what people I do not know, think about me or my actions. So my options are, either keep doing this, or stop commenting. So far the first one has won.

I agree, yes. I always try to have that conversation, even if the other side seems to be arguing, since at the beginning I am interested in their thoughts and motives, and trying to get them to understand mine. I do enjoy getting people angry though, so at certain point, if they are clearly arguing in bad faith, the calmness becomes a tool, to make them look like morons.

If you want people who know, to suffer, just randomly ask them “what does the dog say?”, and then answer that. If it has been long enough, they have forgotten, but will immediately remember again. Instant emotional damage.

Prosopagnosia - face-blindness - is a real thing, that is especially common with autistic folks. Personally I struggle a lot with faces, but I can learn to recognize the faces of people, that I interact often with (still, sometimes I cannot recognize my partner from pictures, for example). Some people cannot learn faces at all.

That being said, in cases like these, it is definitely racism.

Ironically, that extra might be converted into estrogen, and can then cause things, like breast growth.

Same for me. I browse this stuff for fun, and Reddit just stopped being any fun. I do not want some “curated” experience, where algorithm tries to feed me stupid sport news, if I refuse to sell my soul to the corporate shits.

Yeah, my family has hunters, and none of them would in no way describe it as “horny”. Though they kill for food, so I do not know how trophy hunter people are. And if someone kills just for their enjoyment, well… they are already kind of messed up, really. I do not think it is common, but I would also not be surprised if someone…

Oh, I was not even part of that conversation (luckily). I just happened to read it (sadly).