“Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two conflicting ideas simultaneously”
- Spec Ops: The Line (loading screen hint)
“Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two conflicting ideas simultaneously”
As someone on the autism spectrum, I don’t mind using it or hearing people use it at all, as long as it’s being used as a synonym for “dumb” and not being used to specifically disparage someone with a disability. Just like “idiot”, words evolve over time from being specific words to refer to disabilities to just general words for someone being a dumbass.
If you are sleeping so heavily that you sleep through your alarm every time, you probably aren’t getting enough sleep. Go to bed earlier.
Anyone who can’t pedal is also gonna have trouble standing upright and maintaining a neutral balance on a thin board
A shitpost is something low effort, that simply takes up space in the content feed without being engaging, entertaining, or interesting.
One of the primary forms of shitpost is a meme or joke that isn’t very funny, or has been reposted to death. So “shitposting” can refer to the act of spamming shitty meme posts.
One of those isn’t a benefit and the other isn’t true. Also, e-bikes are a thing
Gob Bluth rides one, which reality captured the vibe they gave for the average person.
Except it didn’t really sound promising
I really wish the ttrpg.network munis were more consolidated in general. It seems like the ubiquity of lemmy.world has made it hard for other instances to carve out a niche
!osr@lemmy.world (Inactive, but I’d love to see this one get some new activity, I just started getting into more OSR stuff recently)
Yeah, you could make it the “traditional/tabletop games” thread, in the spirit of the divide between eg. /tg/ and /v/ on ye olde 4chan
We need more maths terminology in our regulations
No. But I’d comment with some of said communities in the gaming thread
Maybe broaden “video games” to just “games” to let the board gamers, TTRPG-ers, and CCG-ers post about their stuff as well. Right now I feel like those don’t have a great bucket in the categories there.
Tell me you’ve never worked a day in your life without telling me you’ve never worked a day in your life.
Further: all toasters should be able to steal the sunbeam radiant control patent since it’s being squatted on and not used in any toaster on the market
The number of hotdogs in a hotdog pack and the number of hotdog buns in a hotdog bun pack cannot be coprime
An illustration of Satan
Lol, someone loves the taste of boots