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Dresses are pretty rule by TheControlled in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[-] TheControlled@lemmy.world 76 points 2 months ago

I was literally playing as a girl before it was cool in the early-00s (as a straight cis guy). My friends called me gay or thought it was weird and so did other gamer guys. Now all my friends do it and it's popular in general (again, in relation to straight cis guys).

I sometimes want to play as a guy now because it's too mainstream and I'm a hipster asshole. Only half kidding.

Ant smell by TheControlled in c/science_memes@mander.xyz

[-] TheControlled@lemmy.world 79 points 2 months ago

Holy shit I thought I was either full of shit or a mutant freak. I'm happy to be a mutant freak.

I feel so validated right now you guys have no idea.

Women-only museum becomes a toilet to keep men out by TheControlled in c/globalnews@lemmy.zip

[-] TheControlled@lemmy.world 81 points 3 months ago

There shouldn't be such thing as gender x only spaces. Or race, or sexuality. The women aren't wrong about their points, but that doesn't make it an acceptable or thankfully, legal thing to do. I'm sure the guy who sued them did it for all the wrong reasons though. Both sides seem a bit slimy.

Arch user by TheControlled in c/4chan@lemmy.world

[-] TheControlled@lemmy.world 121 points 3 months ago

I admit that I secretly am disgusted by people like this but taking their photo, or anyone's, and putting it online to mock is fucking evil and wrong in every way.

The Divinity: Original Sin board game took 6 years to make because Larian was determined to do right by the series by TheControlled in c/games@lemmy.world

[-] TheControlled@lemmy.world 72 points 3 months ago

Larian is the new CDProjectktRed. And by that I mean they are projected to be a perfect, infallible, manifestation of developer perfection that gamers will worship and praise blindly until Larian proves themselves to be mere mortals by making a mistake.

The Glasses! They do NOTHING rule. by TheControlled in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[-] TheControlled@lemmy.world 78 points 4 months ago

True story: Today I was on my college campus in California, on the quad, hoping to admire the partial eclipse today. Some enterprising young woman next to me was selling glasses for three bucks. I saw some people buy some and decided what the hell. Unfortunately the only thing she had left was some kind of monocle. I bought it anyway and enjoyed the partial eclipse. After around 10 minutes of looking on and off, I sat down to read the text on the monocle. It said it was exclusively for phone use and under no circumstances was it to be used for viewing with your eye. Saying it could cause serious damage. Thankfully no pain so far, but I hope I didn't do any kind of serious damage. I've had anxiety about it ever since. The seller said to not worry about it and it would be fine. She had no idea either. Lovely!

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Interstell(rule) (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by TheControlled@lemmy.world to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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First post! Here's a stolen meme!

/196 is the only place I really like on Lemmy.

Genocide Joe Rule by TheControlled in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[-] TheControlled@lemmy.world 73 points 5 months ago

Genocide Joe? The US isn't committing genocide, it isn't even a proxy war. It completely adds a level of responsibility on Biden that isn't his to bare. I'm not saying he has none, but that's farcical.

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People who generalize as if the US is one government instead of one big inept government and then 50+ governments that have districts and counties and cities are aggravatingly ignorant and smug. (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by TheControlled@lemmy.world to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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"The US should do X and they suck because they don't!" Each state has it's own laws on education. Some places suck, some do not. It's not a monolith.

"The US has shitty beer lol" We have some of the best beer in the world but it's local/state/region only and never exported unlike fancy Euro beer.

The US for better or worse is a, hmmm 🤔 a unity of government states under a federation called America. It's very hard to get federal laws and bills passed, especially for education. The states want the power to chooses for themselves what they do, and the federal government hangs above them, sometimes intervening.

We are a huge country that has a relatively unique circumstance of government, population, and young brutal history. I'm a Californian and I live in the Bay Area which almost literally a different country than most of America, especially the South and Midwest.

I'm so sick of people, especially smug Europeans, talking like they know Americans and America but they don't really know shit about us except the movies and going to NYC and Miami.

Yes I am having a bad day.

To be honest I love Europe and have friends there that I miss dearly! I've been many times. But dumbassery is dumbassery.

EDIT: You people are an exhausting swarm of pecking ravens and I've spent all the "toxic" energy I want arguing with half you because you just hear what you want to hear and fit the stereotype I loathe I think you only commented out of trained reflex and a few of you are just unsophisticated haters. Whatever, fuck you, and all that jazz.

Unbiased AI Rule by TheControlled in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[-] TheControlled@lemmy.world 127 points 6 months ago

But this is accurate. Columbus was an explorer, that was his mission. I've read his letters to Spain and he wanted to find bounty for the Spanish crown to convince them to give him more money. He murdered, tortured, enslaved kidnapped, interrogated, and raped people to find even more bounty. But he was an explorer, not a conquistador or conqueror. Those were military positions.