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  • I remember in 1993 my dad tried saying that video games make kids violent.

    For anyone too young to pick up on the obvious situation here, 1993 was the year the media started looking at games like Mortal Kombat, and saying video games are violence simulators. In those days, news was different. Today there’s heavy bias in reporting. Watching the same story from 2 different reporting sources will often paint a vastly different picture. In those days however it wasn’t nearly the issue it is today. Fox News didn’t exist yet I don’t think. And even when it first started, it wasn’t what it would later become.

    The news was just the news. And the news was saying video games make kids violent. My dad was doing the modern day equivilant of parroting fox news talking heads points. No opinion of his own. Just parroting the news.

    So when he said that video games make kids violent, I said “Dad, I have 3 games. Sonic 2, Madden 93, and Jurassic Park. By your logic, I should be a star athlete who can play in the NFL, who runs so fast that I become a blur , and is also a velociraptor. Teenagers in the early 80s would be great at tennis, crossing the road quickly, and know how to shoot down UFOs.”

    He had no rebuttal, because nobody on the news made those arguements.









  • You know…birds are actually very intelligent. And some of them actually are very good at remembering faces.

    Crows will even teach their young who they trust, and who to divebomb.

    Now you may be thinking that I’m going to say that crows teach their young to poop on your car. But that’s not true. Birds don’t have a spincter. Which means they can’t close their butthole.

    Basically if a bird has to poop, there is a 100% chance they are pooping right now. So no. Birds cannot target you with their poop.

    What they can do however is refuse to send you an invitation to the social event of the season. The “Going South Gala”. Where we all gather at the park, and engage in random groupings of people to perform oral sex on each other while birds watch and rate our performances. And thats not even to speak of the grandest gathering of the year, The Grand Big Ball. We get 1000 guys, and 2000 girls. The girls group up, two to a guy. One girl on each ball. And they suck and lick, and compete with each other over who’s the BJ queen.

    Then the birds all rate the girls. The girl with the lowest score is then divebombed by all the birds until she’s dead. What? You never heard of a murder of crows before? Oh what am I saying? You don’t get to go to The Grand Big Ball!

    Silly me!




  • Please stop being a stereotype.

    I like Lemmy. I don’t like any of those things. Well…ok, I like beans, but only raw. Preferably freshly grown.

    Point is, if you limit the image of what Lemmy is, outsiders will say “Well I don’t give a fuck about Linux, or Star Trek. I guess I don’t belong here…”

    And yes, I do acknowledge that your interests are ALSO valid, and deserve their own communities. I just think the only way Lemmy grows is if the answer to the question “Whats on Lemmy?” is “Everything”.