I’m a 27 year old furry. my fursona is a fox. I’m agender; any pronouns are fine with me.

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Cake day: June 14th, 2023
  • Dae@pawb.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•RuleEnglish
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    23 days ago

    I appreciate posts like this. It’s nice to see people calling out this shit.

    Every time I see so-called “progressives” talking about succeeding from the union or writing off southern states, I feel incredibly terrified and abandoned as a queer person born and raised in Texas.

    So… What? I just get to die? I’m just an “unfortunate casualty” Collateral? I get it’s tiresome. I get it’s scary what’s happening. But don’t call yourself an ally if you’re not willing to fight tooth and nail for us. Cause I guarantee, if states started succeeding, it would be game fuckin’, over for a lot of minorities. There would be no way out of the shit holes we’re trapped in, and nobody to speak up or fight for us when they start actually shipping us off to “Wellness Farms.”

  • Dae@pawb.socialtoDeGoogle Yourself@lemmy.ml•Your guide to a new Music Streaming service (Reworked)
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    2 months ago

    Music artists absolutely fucking hate music streaming services! It’s too big to not participate, and in a lot of cases, their record label won’t let them not do so. But the pay is absolute shit! If you care about tbe artist behind the music, buy their music. If you don’t want to have all your music stored on device because it takes too much room, there are self-host options.

    Going solely with streaming is actively screwing artists over, especially in the case of Spotify, which pays out to the tune (pun intended) of 0.0001¢ per stream. Even an artist as well known as Weird Al barely makes enough to buy a sandwich from what Spotify pays! Other platforms are better, but not by much. I don’t say this to guilt trip; many big names make good money from record deals and will be just fine, while most of us don’t make much. Indie artists are the real losers here.

    That said, music had gotten cheap! Most of your favorite indie artists will sell FLAC versions of their albums for $10 an album, or $1 a song on Bandcamp, and prices are between $10-20 for major artists on platforms like Qobuz. It might take time to build your library back up, but the average person can make a huge difference here by taking the money you would spend on Spotify or any other platform, and buying your music directly. You’d be paying the artist more than they’d get from you streaming nothing but their album every day all year, eventually you’ll be paying less in the long run by not being subbed to a greedy music platform, and you’ll get better quality!

  • Dae@pawb.socialtofurry_irl@pawb.social•Tired_irl (Art by Gay Breakfast)English
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    2 months ago

    Maybe I’m not a loud person. Maybe I’m anxious. Maybe I live in a state where I can be shot for being loud about it. Maybe I have other people who need me, and my death would inevitably lead to theirs too. Maybe being loud about it endangers my well-being in other ways.

    Or just to circle back to the first point, maybe I just don’t wanna fucking be loud and that’s my goddamn business! It’s not “giving them what they want,” it’s giving me what I want!

    Being queer isn’t about being the loudest most obnoxious person in the parade, it’s about being who you are! If you’re loud, good for you! I’ll be home playing video games with my polycule.

  • Dae@pawb.socialtoMemes@sopuli.xyz•Can't fathom it
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    2 months ago

    The secret is to be incredibly neurodivergent and unlock the secrets to extreme hyperfixation. The more you lose track of time, the better, as this is also the threshold where hunger ceases to exist.

    -source, one incredibly autistic fuck (me)

  • Dae@pawb.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you believe in free will?
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    3 months ago

    Tl;Dr, yes*

    I find this discussion to be an exercise in frustration. There’s a lot of philosophical jargon that gets glazed over and nuances that often get ignored. I also think it’s an incredibly complex and complicated topic that we simply do not have enough information available to us to determine in a scientific manner.

    For instance: what kind of “free will” are we talking about? Often it’s “Libertarian Free Will,” that is, absolute agency uninfluenced by any external factors. This much is disproven scientifically, as our brains run countless “subconscious” calculations in response to our environment to hasten decision making and is absolutely influenced by a myriad of factors, regardless of if you’re conciously aware of it or not.

    However, I think that the above only “disproves” all notions of free will if you divorce your “subconscious” from the rest of your being. Which is where the complication and nuance comes in. What is the “self?” What part of you can you point to as being the “real you?”

    From a Christian perspective, you might say the “self” is your soul, which is not yet proven by science, and thus the above has no bearing on, as it cannot take the soul into account. But from the opposite side of the spectrum, from a Buddhist perspective, there is no eternal, unchanging, independently existing “self.” And as such, the mind in its entirety, concious awarness or not, is just another part of your aggregates, and from that perspective it can be argued that a decision is no less your own just because it was not made in your conscious awareness.

    With my ramblings aside, I am a Buddhist and so my opinion is that we do have free will, we’re just not always consciously aware of every decision we make. And while we cannot always directly control every decision we make, we can influence and “train” our autopilot reactions to make better decisions.

  • Dae@pawb.socialtoGaming@beehaw.org•Open World Games: yay or nay?
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    3 months ago

    It depends. I like Open World games that feel like there’s a purpose to them being Open World.

    Like the Elder Scrolls. The point is for you to feel like you’re living in Tamriel. There’s a point to it being Open World.

    Or Far Cry (which I admittedly haven’t played), where you’re supposed to be lost in some place, deep in a place that is hostile to you.

    And I might get crucified for this, but I honestly feel like the first Breath of the Wild game had no real reason to be Open World. The second one? Yeah, they figured it out. But the first one feels like it was OW just to be OW.

    Tl;Dr, the game has to have a reason to be OW. Otherwise they’re just aiming for quantity of content and poitnlessly hurting the quality.