If those numbers were so simple, Caracas would have streets paved with gold. It would be the Qatar of the Caribbean. That oil is there, but much of it is not accessible/profitable to extract

I pay for Amazon Prime and Sky Showtime (I think it’s the continental European version of Paramount+ and Peacock combined). I pay for the first one because of the shipping and I’m still thinking of canceling it; the second one because they haven’t said anything about sharing an account yet, and doing so is frankly cheap.

Nothing screams “I’m a loser with no life” louder than worrying so insistently about the sex lives of people you don’t even know.

Sure, you show me a video without context and expect me to, I don’t know, make it up or something, and of course, since I don’t guess, it’s my fault for not realizing what you mean, but you don’t say, okay, see you next time

According to your idea, everything is psychological since you process everything in your mind.

No, psychological horror is based on psychological damage, not physical harm: domination, psychological trauma, diffuse fears like the unknown or the indefinable, things like doubting reality and one’s own sanity.

There are movies and games that deal with it, but never as well as a first-person narrator who puts a partial vision into writing, that’s why Stephen King hates the adaptation of The Shining; it doesn’t capture this at all.

I was thinking of some Stephen King story (It, to be specific, which I think is his most Lovecraftian work) but I agree with you 100%, the charm of Cthulhu is largely the vagueness of its description, any drawing you see out there is ridiculous compared to what the novels do

okay, that’s not very shooter, but it’s still 100% body horror and gore, nothing even remotely close to psychological horror

I haven’t played Dead Space but from what I read about the plot, a shooter with aliens, I don’t think it fits the type of horror I’m talking about.

You may be right about classic horror and jump scares, but I think psychological horror needs more space and introspection, and that fits better with literature. That’s my opinion, of course.

The movie was better than this. Well, the first one was; the second one is unwatchable.

Yes, working through a third-party cloud is not ideal, but I have not seen anything that matches the price/simplicity and is self-hosted.

Regarding security, I don’t have it so I can’t confirm it 100%, but it’s not supposed to override the traditional key or block the handle, so you shouldn’t have that problem.

I think Lemmy is better prepared to withstand that part of the massification if it becomes popular. The fragmented server system helps distribute the moderation work, and if any instance goes too far in one way or another to the point of becoming a problem, its users would move between them.

If you commit to making a post, I commit to being nice to you and not being a jerk.I try not to be like that in general and appreciate people’s willingness to contribute.

Are you aware of the amount of free porn on the internet? No matter how weird the weirdest thing you can imagine, there’s at least one website dedicated to it.

After that Supreme Court decision, I believe the United States will not be able to recover a full democracy without a massive constitutional overhaul or a completely new constitution.

I feel sorry for anyone who has to go for work; I imagine tourists will choose another place to go.

If you think the presence of other groups would have changed that, you don’t understand how the algorithms of commercial social networks work. Twitter is actively promoting far-right content, and believing that occupying that space will change it is absurd; it only legitimizes it through institutional accounts.

It’s as if in the 1930s the communist party had actively participated in radio stations or newspapers affiliated with the Nazi party.

That kind of irrational fear of being left out is what keeps Musk as one of the richest and most powerful men in the world.

If all European politicians moved to mastodon, they would drag a bunch of journalists and media behind them. On Twitter, only four insignificant influencers and far-right spammers would remain; all serious debate would shift immediately.

I understand why you consider this problematic and I agree that, being such a massive platform, it worsens society as a whole. I also believe that the best thing you can do as an individual is to stop creating content on a platform like this, don’t participate; make your comments and contributions here or on another site where you feel comfortable and that they treat you like a human being and not like a lemon to be squeezed.

When you create content, contributions, or comments, you add value to the platform. One single contribution might not generate much, but if more and more people leave, Reddit will become less and less useful while the rest win