People complain that a woman comic artist isn’t somehow living up to expectations that are 10,000X higher than the average “gaming comic slop” chud comic artist so every time she makes a comic that’s just “meh” it’s like a dinner-bell and the post gets 1000 comments arguing and debating why she’s “overrated” and then the goalposts move and people start bringing up nebulous nonsense like “She’s actually a terrible person because she got in a reddit argument this one time, here’s a link with 50 pages of conversations, I know you want to read it all.”

This is just the needle pushing more towards subscription models for all the things.

In a few years you won’t own games or game systems, you will have a controller to the side of your monitor and all your PC functions will be outsourced to a microsoft server and your games will be streamed to you according to whatever subscription tier you’re on.

If you all want to stop this, STOP BUYING NEW GAMES. Just put the stupid fucking companies out of business, we can “acquire” plenty of PC games for our PC’s and there are vast numbers of used games out there, alongside whatever is kicking around in our steam libraries that we didn’t have the attention span to even try. Let’s go on a spending diet and enjoy the lives we have for a little while until the oligarchs all starve.

Cheap fruit drinks have been this way for the last half century, probably longer.

There’s not going to be a major health difference between chugging this shit and fruit juice in terms of how much sugar you’re taking in, your body doesn’t really care where the sugar comes from, it acts the same inside you. An 8 ounce glass of Welche’s Corn Syrup versus an 8 ounce glass of fresh squeezed orange juice are both going to be basically 8 ounces of candy. The orange juice just has more vitamin C and maybe some pulp to slow down the sugar spike in your blood if that’s an issue for you.

“Real” fruit juices might have added vitamins or even some amount of fiber, but fruit juice is generally not a healthy drink. It’s an alternative to other things like soda or alcohol but you don’t reach for a fruit juice bottle for daily hydration. Drink more water, then whatever sweet treats you want on occasion.

A fresh piece of fruit is a bit healthier because it has all those vitamins and minerals and fiber which is good for you, and the fiber content slows down the rapid sugar digestion. But again, it’s all carbohydrate calories, that’s the area you should be focused on more than if something is “natural.”

You can even go to the produce section and get relatively fresh made juices and smoothies, pasteurized and safe and in almost any flavor you want.

If you want to pay $1.50 for a half gallon, then yeah you’re going to get that 10% shit.

There was opportunity in there for a far better and wackier joke, but instead we get a watered-down veganism joke and a jab at an annoying parent’s habits that the artist will regret hating one day.

Okay I invite you to block me because again, a lot of people are going to be making dark jokes right now because it’s how we cope. I didn’t want any of this and I can’t stop it.

That is indeed the dark humor, if you can’t handle it, it’s a rough time to be reading the internet at all, most of us can’t do much other than laugh through the tears. If you want to just pick a fight, you won’t find it here and I suggest you use that energy for something more productive.

I demand to know what country is still trapped in the dark ages. They need to be freedom’d

The use of commas instead of periods to denote fractions is making me want to harm someone. What in the fuck are they teaching you in school nowadays.

I would say the shut-ins on Lemmy are worse, even less exposure to the outside world. I’ve seen takes on Lemmy that make reddit incels look sharp, progressive and dashing.

No you’re right, the only way to win the game is to not play.

As long as you’re staying aware of what you’re taking in, and you regularly think about how you’re thinking, you’ll be miles ahead of the broad swath of humanity.

That’s a good point, what do we choose to feed ourselves? There’s massive industry built around people’s food diets and almost no attention paid to what our media diets are like and what they’re doing to us.

I think at the end of the day we all need to really understand how maliable our brains are and how easily we can change the way we think just because of the stuff we’re watching or listening to, and this has been an unpopular topic for a long time because it makes people worry that what they enjoy might not be good for them, but I think as long as we stay aware and keep our diet varied enough we probably will do a lot better than people who just mindlessly draw emotions from people shouting on Twitch streams all week long.

I found a number of really good rising streamers and progressive advocates back in the day by watching Charlie Kirk debates and probably became a lot more involved with further left politics than I would have normally if it wasn’t for Charlie Kirk.

Truly, we still carry the flame. 🔥

This is basically all of media now, there is no such thing as objective media of any kind anymore, everything produced is meant to pander to some group or another.

Even if we accept the passing of the internet, we have to also understand that this is how it’s going to be always, forever. Unless social attitudes broadly change, this is just what the world is going to do with recordable content from now until eternity.

Everything you see, no matter your political ideology or attitude or values, is cultivated and selected just for you to reinforce your beliefs even if that reinforcement is inaccurate.

A few of you reading this are going to frown and downvote and roll your eyes, and to this I warn you: the more you think you’re outside of this system, or the more you think you’re invulnerable to manipulation… the more vulnerable you really are.

My life consists of spending 5 days a week getting 4 -5 hours sleep per night, steadily wearing down to a state of nearly non-function and being less and less productive at my job until the weekend, where I catch up on a little sleep if possible, just enough to start over by Monday.

They were largely warm-blooded like birbs.

Nope, not doing line by line contentious essay shit, I’m not doing this at all. Bye.

It’s an opinion, sure, I stand by it, but it’s not an emotional or hyperbolic term, so the impression of “intensity” you’re getting is kinda weird.