anytime i mention that i play games it illicits are very negative/suspicious reaction. but if i say i spend 10 hours riding my bike or reading or going to restaurants that’s seen as worthy and legit. i guess i don’t see any of those as more ‘constructive’ than any other activity.
I’ve never met anyone what was pro video game other than on the internet. Even people who do play games I know only do so on the DL because they know it is a social faux pas.
that’s the other thing. hating video games is like saying you hate books, or anything on a screen.
it’s a medium with tons of genres and game play types that are often radically different. plus the ‘haters’ often do like games like guitar hero or dave and busters stuff or phone games. i guess because it’s ‘normal’, but apparnetly playing mario on a switch isn’t.
there is no ethics in politics. there is only power.
the ethics is what the people in power say it is.
hence why the dems eat their own over a misunderstoodjoke, and the republicans promote child rapists.
you can plug an ergo keyboard into your laptop. my workplace gives a person two keyboards if they need ergo. one for home and one for office.
mouse is expected to travel.
the left supports their own wallets too. everyone does.
nobody is voting to give their money away to other people.
The right also supports all that. It’s just disagree about who should benefit and what the government should intervene about.
That’s a name that you barely hear anymore outside of YouTube.
Define left.
If it’s ‘not republican’ than the Democrats are it. If it’s ‘socialist values’ than no, that’s considered fringe politics. Sanders is a moderate socialist who’d be a center or center-right figure it many european countries, but American overton window makes him a extremist because our political history is far more libertarian and less centralized than most european states.
Yes, the left has no coherent vision.
And the funny thing is when they find someone to rally around, like Obama. They act like it’s some miracle of his personality or something. No, Obama just had a coherent policy and message that people could get behind, including the white-working class. For some reason the Democrat leadership refuses to even consider having such a platform, and like you said, pushes all these niche interests to various voting blocs, instead of having one vision that appears to many voting blocs.
they just go after low hanging and inconsequential fruit… like Al Franken.
Carter was a a good person and put forth good policies.
That’s why he’s seen as weak by everyone including democrats/left. Good policy and good actions make everyone feel bad about themselves. Carter also asked Americans to make sacrifices and inconveneince themselves for the greater good… which is a huge political no no. Americans love convenience above all else and gladly sacrifice their children’s happiness for lower taxes and cheaper gas.
Part of what makes Trump so popular is his unhinged assholery makes people feel good because he gives them permission to embrace their shittier selves.
yes, but the left is more interested in infighting and sabotaging itself than building any political unity or coherence like Trump has done with the republicans. They don’t care they are a ‘joke’ because they mostly care that their seats are secure. Imcumbancy is the major issue why Democrats have become so weak, and anyone with new ideas or any political drive is often seen as a threat to the ‘keep my job at all costs’ who make up the majority of democrats.
Democrats used to do things, but that was in the 1980s and 1990s. Remember Bill Clinton, even had a republican house and managed to get shit done. No?
So if we leave women alone in groups do they become very toxic/sexist?
Or are you just bying into a false belief that men can’t be decent unless women are involved?
Part of the problem, that I’ve personally witness, is groups/communities that form male social cohesion get attacked. They are considered wrong and bad for not including women, and therefore they must be evil.
So men are basically damned if they do, and damned if they don’t.
yep. the popular read on male lonliness skips over the detail that a huge chunk of these men are in relationships.
they are just in relationships with people who don’t care about them, and are aware of it. which, for me personally, is far worse than being actually alone.
the cognitive loop goes like this:
If I am not a mass murdered/pedophile/etc, and those are the worst people, and I wish death on them, then I am good.
It’s basically shitty people trying to justify to themselves that they are ‘good’ by their dislike of ‘bad’ people, but taken to an extreme.
It’s also the loop that causes mentally unwell people to justify violence. Because while killing is bad, if they do it to bad people, it must be good.
It’s largely an exercise in ego-inflation and blame-shifting, like the ‘I am shit, but someone else is shittier so I’m not that shitty’ mentality that just entrenches negative behaviors. Further, there is no ‘reason’ to improve your life if the evil rich people stole your life from you, so your justified in wallowing in your misery and fantasy-projecting rather than… taking actionable steps towards improving your life.
I don’t really care about my gender.
but everyone else does. It is very annoying. and they never listen to me because their gender assumptions are so visceral and emotional and they love to shove them in my face and get pissed off that I don’t take the ‘compliment’ they are giving me. whenever i ‘open up’ about myself honestly I am met with hostility and rejection for not being ‘a real man’. this could be as simple as talking about how i like to cook, or read, or ride bicycles.
i also don’t relate to the ‘privilege’ of being a straight male. my gender/sexuality has often been used against me to justify abuse and sexual assault, as well as the policing of my opinions, behaviors, and interests. I simple don’t understand why people are so angry at me for me being me and not conforming to some idea they have of ‘people with a penis must be this way or we feel entirely justified at screaming and hitting them until they act that way’. which of course, talking about my abuses… results in more abuse because it is ‘wrong’ for men to talk about abuse, especially at the hands of women. never once has anyone IRL who I was ever open to ever received me positivity about those experiences. oh, and often too about positive things in my life i get the same negative reaction because my gender is not supposed to ‘be happy’ about the things that make me happy.
it’s funny when people go on about ‘male privileged’ as if we are free from all these expectations and fears of abuse that apparently only women supposedly have. Because I’ve had them my entire life and frankly I hate them.
Welcome to being an adult. It only gets worse as you get older. Other adults do not want to hear about your feelings.
You realize it’s a futile cause and learn to live without it. Or you hire a professional therapist to listen to you.
If you are physically attractive you can also try dating. Lots of people on on first dates and use the date as a therapy session.
I went to PAX many years, only place ever met such people, but even then there many were board game only snobs. There are a lot of board game snobs in my city, but they generally hate video games for being ‘anti social’.