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That’s totally fair. Not everything has to be an excuse to get drunk or stoned or whatever. Just being in good company, eating good snacks and hanging out can be enough.

Sometimes it feels like that with social media and related platforms. Both Zoom and TikTok seemed to go from something I’d never of to things that everyone was talking about overnight. In Zoom’s case, it definitely seemed like guerrilla viral advertising. Like when everyone was talking about Stanley™ cups for a while, not flasks or water bottles but Stanley™ cups.

Lmao fine! It’s annoying but I get it. If we’re having a picnic, everyone must be comfortable and happy. So let’s do it this way, anyone that wants to meet up for a smoke session before the picnic is welcome to join me and if you me slipping away from the crowd your few moments, you know what’s up. But I’m actually fine with keeping the picnic itself PG for the sake of all ages and cultures.

Oof, in that case I guess I’ll have to go with a legal and socially acceptable drug that’s actually worse for you. Wine it is! I prefer dry red myself but I’m open to whatever lol

Left pocket if I’ve got it in my pockets. These days I usually use a smol little backpack to put all of my things into and hate having crap in my pockets.

I’ll bring the weed! Edibles so that no one has to inhale smoke if they don’t want to. Also, what this day needs is lying back and looking for shapes and pictures in the clouds. Haven’t done that since childhood.

As a lowly end user that just wants an online space to park in, I’m putting my trust in a platform run by strangers who I don’t know that could have all sorts of agendas, whether I’m signing up on a decentralised or centralised platform.

I know that this opinion is always going to be controversial around here because people here are very excited about and into the whole concept behind the Fediverse. But as someone that just wants a place to shit post, laugh at funny things and connect with people, it’s 6 of one and half a dozen of the other. The experience for me is the same because I’m not trying to run a server or anything.

I could be on Bluesky happily posting and then they turn bad and start removing posts for political reasons. Or I could be signed up on Feddit.org happily posting and then they turn bad and start removing posts for political reasons. In both of those cases, my only option as an end user is to abandon ship and years worth of posts and comments and go somewhere else.

I don’t personally know any admins around here. And they can talk about their ideals just like Mark Zuckerberg can talk about his. And all I can do is blindly trust that they’re on the level and aren’t going to take their masks off at a later stage. So as an end user, it really makes no difference.

So does that mean it gets one more season before Netflix cancels it?

2 or 17. Sometimes (rarely) 20.

I feel like they’ve probably all got pros and cons and probably require a little research. I recently signed up here on lemm.ee and the sign up process seemed pretty quick and simple. And they seem to do minimal de-federating. But the flip side to that is you can’t upload any images for your first 4 weeks on the server. 4 fkn weeks.

And if I’d read that first, I might have reconsidered joining here. I think I’d rather be inconvenienced by sightly more in depth questions and a 1 day wait time for signing up than a 4 fkn week wait before I can even upload a profile pic and banner image.

Edit: in fact I’m gonna go as far as saying that it’s false advertising. They advertise as general purpose instance but seemingly can’t even handle a thing that about 50% if this type of social media entails. They should change their blurb on join-lemmy to “We would like to be a general purpose reddit-like instance but our servers catch on fire every time someone uploads a meme, so we should actually be doing something smaller scale instead of pretending that we can hang with lemmy.world”.

• Stardew Valley
• Skyrim
• ADOM
• Burnout Paradise
• Vegas Solitaire (or I think a decent Solitaire collection is a fair exception to that one rule because you can get many games out of a pack of cards)

Stardew Valley, Skyrim and ADOM for games that you can keep going back to over years and playing in different ways and still discovering new things. Vegas Solitaire for more of a mindless time passer when you don’t want something immersive and involved. Burnout Paradise for something in between complex and mindless and something different once in a while.

Edit: I hope I eventually get rescued though because there’s a LOT of shorter titles that I’d miss.

You pretty much answered this for me.

Absolute favourite:

Kiki’s Delivery Service. Character and story that I relate with most of our of all of the movies. I wish I’d watched it when I was a kid.

Other favourites:

• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
• Pom Poko
• Whisper of the Heart
• Howl’s Moving Castle
• The Tale of Princess Kaguya
• When Marnie Was There

Almost favourites:

• Princess Mononoke (I don’t like Ashitaka that much by the end)
• Spirited Away (only because this is the only Ghibli that I ever came across in the wild before watching all of them, I’m over exposed to it)
• Earwig and the Witch (love the concept and general story, not a fan of the animation style and a lot of specifics)

Yeah this is the answer that I came here to see. These definitely belong in this list. Cow & Chicken could be particularly unhinged.

I rewatch a lot of things that I enjoy but in recent years, shows that I’ve seen multiple times the most for various reasons like watching again with someone else are: iZombie, Doom Patrol and Fringe.

There’s also ‘neptunic’, which sounds like what you’re describing, plus attraction to androgyny.