Not sure that I’m even going to be able to watch this to be honest. I’m also pretty bummed about Dead Boy Detectives, which was cancelled pretty quickly after the news about Gaiman broke. But I battle to separate the art from the artist and even if Dead Boy Detectives had another season too, probably would’ve felt the same way I feel about watching this.

Well for someone that cares so much about your feelings of self worth, he sure seems to be putting you through a hard time here. Although also, I don’t really know anyone in this situation and here on the internet we’ll always arrive with our pitchforks out. So I hope your assessment of the situation is right.

Red pill ideology is basically ‘manosphere’ shit. Where they talk about “high value women” that can carry their babies and gender roles and shit. Like Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson and shit.

Your whole story makes me kinda sad or at the very least uneasy, if I’m being honest. I’m guessing you’re pretty young, like gen Z. And if things are like this in general now for people growing up online, I dunno. I feel bad that you’ve grown up this way and this is your experience of men and relationships and shit. Although I guess I already saw signs that things were partly this way when I was younger too, going by what I heard from certain people I used to talk to.

This guy sounds insecure and kinda mean if I’m being honest. And from my perspective, the obsession with body count gives me suspicions of red pill ideology. I hope that you eventually meet someone that doesn’t even ask questions like that.

I saw that series of posts, that user spammed multiple communities with the same post where all of their ‘evidence’ was just a screenshot of your profile and the fact that your profile pic is AI generated. Thankfully no one seemed to be taking the bait and it was clear to see from a mile away that this user was somehow deeply wounded by something that you said or did and lashing out with bullshit.

Sorry that happened to you. Unfortunately there are some pieces of shit around here, even though in general this place seems pretty progressive and welcoming. Hope that doesn’t chase you away from here.

Funny, but I for one think that this place could do with more silly and fun questions to beat the boredom and / or break the ice for new users. It’ll probably get more engagement than 5 or so hyper specific questions a day at least. But to answer your question, I didn’t see the need for both a TV and an air hockey table.

Sounds like I’m going to have to get hold of this book. Both Superman and Lois are two of my all time favourites and this sounds great. I’m throw in another random fact. Pretty sure he only got his ability to fly during the running of the Fleischer cartoons. Originally he could “leap tall buildings in a single bound”. Then somewhere along the line in the cartoons, they just found it more convenient if he could actually fly to take on some threats.

And this one even has a little homophobia sprinkled in.

Yeah, every time I see people saying that they like the amount of users now just makes me think “hmmm must be nice that all of your particular niches and tastes are accounted for”. It’s pretty silly to be so anti growth for this place anyway. Even on Reddit, you literally have a choice to take part in the bigger ‘default’ subs or find a smaller one if that suits you. And I like choice.

This place still has a long way to go IMO. I’m starting to resort to lurking chat / ask style communities more just for something to do around here and even there, it’s not quite as engaging or active as it should be. As a humble user, sometimes I don’t have something particular in mind that I want to see. Sometimes I just want to bed rot and scroll and read people’s stories and discussions, maybe give my two cents if I feel so inclined. And there isn’t really that here yet because once you’ve checked AskLemmy or whatever, you’ve already seen 90% of the content for the next week.

Oh no I’m sorry to hear that :( And I’m guessing my story here nudged you to reach out, I’m sorry. And that’s really shitty. How long ago was it that you last spoke?

South African here. Not really that invested in seeing any South African communities grow here if I’m honest. I don’t really feel any particular connection or pride for any sort of heritage. My ‘culture’ is cartoons and comics and video games and western music subcultures.

I do like that non-Americans are more visible here though. It feels like much more of an international crowd here on Lemmy.

Can’t say I’ve found any particular subreddits that feel like home yet. Once I’m back on the horse watching pro wrestling I’ll probably use SquaredCircle a lot again. On Reddit, I’d be most active in subreddits based on whatever I’m currently watching or playing. Which isn’t really a thing here yet. Like, one of the last subs I was fairly active in on Reddit was the Sonic the Hedgehog sub. There’s a community here but last I checked it was pretty dead. Most of the communities that I would be active in are entertainment based, I guess.

And of course I appreciate a lot of the communities in Blahaj. Although I’m still mostly floating around finding myself in the regard.

Something else that I’m appreciating is the amount of random animal subs that come through my feed that I’m slowly subbing to. From cats and dogs to raccoons and possums and otters and crows and owls. There’s a new one I’m coming across almost every day and I love it.

I have a feeling that they’re not just scared of their kids ‘turning gay’ but also scared of them developing empathy and realising that LGBTQ+ people are in fact people too. Which would probably make them question what they’ve been taught at home and by religious leaders.

Charlie the Unicorn

Ah yeah, didn’t even think of that and I even saw a post come through my feed this morning from there. I tend to associate this kind of stuff more with hippies lol but maybe that’s a good place to ask too.

Ah, I was talking about the satanism connection here lol.

I don’t think I’ve really seen any communities around here dealing with anything metaphysical or whatever. Or this kind of spirituality.

You might possibly get a better reception in [email protected] but that’s really the only community around here where I think people who have information or advice could possibly be lurking.

Ah fuck is Katy Perry actually cool?

They allowed a self proclaimed dictator to take power a couple of months after the courts decided that presidents should have dictator powers and the full plans for what they’re doing now called project 2025 was doing the rounds.

I truly feel bad for the good and decent people that were born into a country of fucking sociopath illiterate inbred clowns but Donald Trump’s ‘approval’ rating has never even gone below 40%. In fact just last night I saw an article saying that his approval rating has actually rebounded a little bit.

I used to love Americans. There’s still a few that I think are pretty cool. But this whole thing has changed my opinion of them in general. In a not at all good way. I think I despair more about the otherwise decent seeming people who claim they voted for the price of eggs or some shit than I do about the stereotypical ‘Murica’ people that worship Trump like Jesus. My image of the USA was betrayed the most by those people.

Trump: “Hannibal Lecter is a wonderful man! Wind turbines are killing whales in numbers never seen before. I’ll beat Obama in this election again.” shuffles around to YMCA

This lady and countless other Trump voters: “He just gets me! Shares all of my views, praise Jesus!”

Yeah but Katy Perry went to space though.

At this point, he wouldn’t even need to call it anything or make any excuses. His followers would just suddenly no longer have a problem with pedos.