B when I wake up, G till I lay my head back down

Star Wars: Fighting space Nazis

Superman: protecting people from Lex Luthor; evil billionaire

Star Trek: Post scarcity society where all humans are treated as equals and nobody “gets” to be a billionaire (Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism)

Doctor Who: had a woman Doctor once

Marvel: “Evil is bad, how about let’s not genocide” (ignoring the billionaire worship w/ Iron Man)

X-Men: always been an allegory for LGBTQ+ and disabled folks

RATM: I mean, it’s in the name.

Starting to see a theme here hmm

Fit to be on the cover of GQ (genderqueer) 😎

Probably related to education and being broke, yeh?

Working a shit job and having to tolerate roommates doesn’t exactly equate to having time, money, or ability to eat regular meals with friends and family.

He looks like a constipated toad banded bullfrog in that second picture

Edit: frogs are awesome, this dude is not.

I have no idea where my old game devices would be in my childhood home, but I’ll remind my ma to be careful if she comes across them since she refuses to throw any of my old stuff away (I’m out of state now).

Fall asleep to the Biblical Silmarillion ¯\(ツ)/¯

“My wife grabbed my balls to bring me home when I was fighting a guy and now I’m making it law that she can’t”

Naïve teenager or bad relationship dynamic?

The world may never know

Your satire/parody skills have visibly improved lately, bravo. I chuckled 😄

They did him so dirty I’m still mad to be honest

Evolution is about making babies before you die, and those babies grow up and make babies before they die.

“Purpose” is largely irrelevant, unfortunately.

Restricting free speech and lining their pockets, while taking away from our children, veterans, and retirees has been their game since time immemorial.

The Fox “News” pipeline seems to make people forget that Grandma can’t get her medications anymore and Uncle Billy who served in Iraq is denied his education because of these pricks.

Careful, South Dakota can put you in prison for that now.

Limited mobility due to living in a city without a car -> maybe look at the correlation between car-centric city planning vs. pedestrian-centric + increased reliable public transport and satisfaction instead.

Ars Technica comment sections do not disappoint

My sleep is boooorked lately but I’m strangely okay with it. Maybe because it’s summer where I am.

Also I’ve been getting super into my modded 3DS lately to the point I’ve put down my switch, mostly for being able to make it do things like stream Portal 2 via Moonlight lol. (I’m always thinking “can it run DOOM?” But for Moonlight/Sunshine streaming, I may one day try it on the dryer). I also want to figure out Tailscale better so I can stream when I’m outside the house. I think it miiiight tie in to my Linux obsession, maybe. FOSS all day every day 😎

As always thanks for making an infodump-friendly space! It’s nice to have an outlet with like-minded folks.

Are you okay, friend?

The thing about Lemmy is there are different instances/(websites), each with different rules. I think there’s an ask community on .world as well if you’re not comfortable with this one.

All websites open to the clearnet are potentially vulnerable to DDoS and other attacks, that’s just part of being on the network and cybersecurity is a thing for a reason. Likewise you can get a sunburn or rained on when you go outside, which is why we have sunscreen and umbrellas.

I’ve been dealing with stress from living in this seemingly uncaring, all-seeing world too, if it helps you feel less alone. Best we can do is be there for each other as humans when we can in the meantime.

TL:DR; do what works for you and don’t judge others for their connection choices, either.

For about the last ~6mos Lemmy has been my only social media, and for about 2 years before that it was Reddit. I didn’t get off Facebook and Instagram to feel superior, I did it because my mental health was spiraling downward like a bent Slinky on old stairs. I was chronically online since my early teens, so it wasn’t an easy pull either.

I don’t judge my loved ones for still being on those sites because it works for them, and I get my pop culture from them so it’s a win-win for us.

I’m still an online weirdo since I’m here on Lemmy, and I still fill the rest of my screen time with tech projects and video games. I’m no better than my peers, just different hobbies on occasion.

Finding your balance takes time, and it won’t always look the same depending on where you are in life. That’s okay! We’re messy, complicated things and trying to be “perfect” only adds stress.

Don’t be afraid to experiment in the meantime to find what feels “right” for you in your gut and mental well-being. You got this 🌼

Come back at it in a different mood, time, setting, etc. and run it against multiple people who you know won’t just coddle you about it if you’re really concerned.

Part of human psychology is coping with the world around us, not just learning about it. Our individual natures, moods and pasts will always color our experiences and that’s not necessarily a bad thing; the sooner you accept it’s okay to be human, the more authentically you can work with the quirks that come with it.

I do know personally I can be prone to overthinking and getting fuzzier in my logic when I’m tired, hungry, or overwhelmed. I also know it’s fixable.

On the flip side, I also have a history of trusting/getting anxious about bigger picture things based on precedent rather than imagined ideas (new things don’t bother me, but having to face certain known patterns stresses me to a very bad point).

I factor both of these things in when I get to an almost-crisis point. But at the end of the day, the human perspective is like a prism in water: multifaceted, fluid, and dependent on environment but also sometimes beautiful. :)