You already answered your own question, bud.

it doesn’t make sense TO ME. Based on what I was taught

Why do you think other people are different than you?

Y’all are crazy.

Ew.

Gris is great. Small, but beautiful.

Sayonara Wild Hearts. I love that game and often load it up when I’m feeling out of sorts.

Gabe Sparrow: “But it does run.”

but you could also just forget all about it and your life will be the same.

Some big “Thanks I’m cured” energy here. If they truly are germophobic, then just saying “get over it” isn’t gonna do jack shit as advice.

NASA: “Hold my beaker.”

I swear I’ve seen a video of someone timing the speed of pushing a very long pole to prove this very thing. If I can find it I’ll post it here.

*Found it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqhXsEgLMJ0 I can’t speak to the rigorousness of the experiment, but I remember finding it enlightening.

Or they know that force-feeding themselves needless media that will just make them miserable is not worth it. People that don’t do things they won’t like aren’t “boycotting”. They’re just not doing it.

Woke is not a bad word. It originated with progressive and civil rights groups. Don’t let hate take it away.

“Fight”. Far be it that we don’t turn everything into a zero-sum “war” 🙄. Can the SD community please not carry over the same console war bullshit just because it’s kinda-sorta similar to the switch? That shit is so lame.

I can’t help but figure it’d be cheaper to custom build a device instead of stripping down a Steam Deck. I suppose it was probably gotten used, but still.

“Big man” trump knows how to beg with the best of them.

Yeah. Lemmy’s biggest strength (decentralization) has also shown to be one of it’s biggest flaws when micro-managing admins/mods turn their instance into their own personal fiefdom, inflicting their “justice” broadly and without discernment. I’ve been banned more here in under 2 years than on reddit for over 13, almost exclusively for voting “wrong” according to what feedback I can find, which is a a seriously treacherous practice in communities like these. I have no real sense of loss over it, but I do worry the Lemmy-verse will end up with tons of siloed off instances instead of an interconnected community if it goes on unadressed.

“Sex isn’t a bad word”

Insults woman for having too much sex

Make up your mind. Or is sex only OK when men do it?

If you don’t have a separate device to steam link with your deck, I’d recommend getting a Bluetooth keyboard. Even if you do, the keyboard would be handy if you’re out. It really helps with navigating the desktop mode when you need to mess with that side of it.

That’s great. I’m glad to hear it is having at least some positive impact despite my reservations.

SED also uses the clickbait tactics, so I wouldn’t exactly consider them an ubiased source. They’re also all profiting from these tactics. Let’s not pretend it’s just some virtuous sacrifice to “teach the kids”.

LDS former NASA engineer that makes silly devices and gadgets. Some interesting videos, though he’s big into the clickbait game. Seems at least relatively sincere in his push for encouraging interest in STEM with children, though he can be a bit “flash over substance” for my tastes. But he is better then a lot of others I’ve seen in that regard.