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And anime.

I'm a furry and even I don't get most furries, haha!

Like, I'm here to be an animal. I heard "people who like to be animals" and went "whoa, sign me up!" and it turns out a lot of furries DON'T like to be animals, they just... pretend to be animals but "oh that's a character not really me" and they still consider themselves human...?... also they're only half-human-half-animals, not actual animal shape either?... I don't get it

turns out most of the actual "I'm just an animal" animals are the therians instead (once I found them I decided I'd be both). I'm still a non-character, non-anthropomorphic (the furry jargon for normal animal shape is "feral") furry though, and the anthro furries can just deal. :3

-- Frost

Some folks get deep into D&D and build encyclopedic knowledge on estoric spell combos, some delve deep into trains, and some memorize how many lifetime touchdowns Joe Namath has. Dumb, but I understand it.

Same here. And it used to cripple me during meetings, and basic conversations with coworkers. I’ve worked in sales, construction, and inventory management and the sports convos were inescapable and apparently a huge key to relating to customers and colleagues.

Just could never get into it, and not the type to fake it either. Unless I’m playing the sport, I could give a fuck less about others who I do not and will not ever know playing a sport.

Some aspects of streamer culture I get, I do not understand vtuber culture. Youtube started recommending one to me because apparently played a video game I like and watch videos about, and...as far as I can tell her job is to be professionally sexually harassed. Like, men used to whistle at showgirls in saloons, now they throw virtual acorns at anime girls to "nut on" them.

Fun part is her mom apparently found out, and participates.

Thats why I dont watch porn.

difference is between a Catholic and a Christian

Not sure if the error was intentional to make the point that you don't care, but Catholics are the largest denomination of Christianity, rather than an alternative to it.

Zeus is the most important but he sucks. Poseidon is in charge of the sea and he really likes sinking ships. Hades is in charge of you when you're dead. Artemis and Athena are both aroace, but Artemis like platonic bathing with her besties while Athena prefers maps. Everyone hates Ares but not as much as Hephaestus, Hera will kill you if you cheat on your wife, and Hestia and Dionysus can't agree which one is more important. Some people say Persephone is a victim, but the truth is she's ruled the underworld a lot longer than her husband has. Demeter is not supportive.

23 skidoo daddy-o!

It has gotten almost impossible to find a practical pickup truck. they're all giant penis enhancent vehicles.

You've just described 95% of lemmy

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

• Albert Einstein

Sports are fine when you do them. Watching strangers perform is quite uninteresting.

That's one of the reasons I switched from Windows to Linux.

Every single patch and every single version upgrade made using worse as all the settings changed weirder and weirder and hidden or missing.

There's so many options for Linux though. Mint is super beginner friendly and doesn't focus on the terminal. You don't have to set up Arch your first time around.

I can't ever tell what is critical to people. I got my wife her first MacBook last year. She's used it three times and hates it. I'm like.... red yellow green, and everything else is just like iPhone. Nope, she despises it.

I moved my daughter from windows to Linux Mint, and she barely noticed. She can't use her VR the same way, and that was the only difference that bothered her.

So I can't say you wouldn't hate Linux, but I can tell you I don't want my hobby to be fucking with OSes and Mint was perfect. You can just use it. Steam games, browsing the web, damn near everything works exactly the way you'd expect on Windows. I don't happen to need a second computer after my work MacBook, but if I did it would be Linux for sure.

Well, except no OneDrive. Which another point in Linux's favor.