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Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell in c/gaming

[–] Aloomineum 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What a gross comment.

[–] Aloomineum 1 points 2 days ago

Honestly I was offended at first, I remember thinking what kind of society lets disabled people kill themselves instead of improving the conditions of their lives. But I've had time to think about it and the reality is there is no button that can be pressed that would suddenly make large improvements for every disabled person's life. Even if there was it would cost a lot of money and likely be unpopular with voters. So this is the alternative, which is painless and peaceful compared to other means someone may choose to exit this world.

how's your week going, Beehaw in c/chat

[–] Aloomineum 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I was speaking to her about how difficult it is to navigate a world that wasn't made for people like myself, and she suggested MAID.

how's your week going, Beehaw in c/chat

[–] Aloomineum 8 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

I am autistic and in my country I've been told before by my case worker that I qualify for MAID. This cruel world just isn't meant for people like me, and I am now starting the application process for MAID.

Silent Hill 2 (2024) Review Thread in c/gaming

[–] Aloomineum 3 points 1 month ago

Looking forward to this one. The original trailer kind of had me worried at first but it's a nice surprise to see it reviewing so well. Youtubers who got it early are loving it too, which is promising. If the game does well I hope Konami doesn't squander it, imagine entering a new age of silent hill and it's actually good again.

Sort of off topic, it would be a great end of the year treat if both this game and Dragon Age manage to surprise everyone.

10 Years Ago, Hideo Kojima's P.T. Scared the Hell Out of Us on PS4 in c/gaming

[–] Aloomineum 4 points 3 months ago

It really was so sad when they cancelled it. It also sucked when Konami removed it from the Playstation store. Every few months I'll be sitting around doing something unrelated when my brain is like "member P.T.?" ah.. At least we got to experience this playable teaser before it was all canned.

10 Years Ago, Hideo Kojima's P.T. Scared the Hell Out of Us on PS4 in c/gaming

[–] Aloomineum 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

We were robbed of a potential masterpiece of horror media.

I eat horror for breakfast, it's one of my favourite genres. Games, movies, novels, comics, you name it. Playing P.T. for the first time was the most unsettling, paranoid, anxiety inducing experience I have ever had in the genre. And the almost hysterical community at the time trying to piece together this demented puzzle was an extra layer of mystery and madness.

Ultimately we don't know what the finished product would have been like, but I have a hard time imagining anything else but a master class in horror.

Kojimas new horror game OD will likely be good, I'm sure. But you can only do a game like P.T. once, and that boat has sailed.

A manipulated video shared by Elon Musk on X -viewed more than 123 million times- mimics U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ voice, raising concerns about AI in politics in c/politics

[–] Aloomineum 4 points 3 months ago

How was racism and sexism funny? Implying that she is only a DEI hire is funny?

Here's 3 reasons I'm actually pretty optimistic about Dragon Age: The Veilguard despite being an old school RPG sicko in c/gaming

[–] Aloomineum 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I've been replaying the Mass Effect series for the first time in a long while. They are still great games, but I think on replays, 2 and 3 suffer a little for removing so many of the RPG elements from the first game. The RPG mechanics in the first game weren't perfect, but I think improving them instead of removing them would have gone a long way.

I guess what I'm worried about from what I've seen, is that this game will mechanically be more similar to Mass Effect 2 and 3. Limited inventory, no meaningful armor stats, unable to change party member equipment, that sort of thing. That doesn't mean it will be a bad game, ME2 and 3 are still great games, but they are not RPGs, more third person action game with lite RPG elements.

Maybe I'm wrong and someone can correct me (I'd love to be wrong.), but from what I've seen it seems like this is the direction the game is headed.

Let's discuss: Super Mario in c/gaming

[–] Aloomineum 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wow I love this story, I used to watch that show all the time! I can still hear the theme song as if I just watched it yesterday. That was super cool of them to send you a copy. I hope you still have it!

Let's discuss: Super Mario in c/gaming

[–] Aloomineum 1 points 4 months ago

The second game feels like where they found their footing before leaning into wario with the third game, but I still enjoyed the first because of how unique it felt at the time.

Let's discuss: Super Mario in c/gaming

[–] Aloomineum 3 points 4 months ago

It's time Nintendo brings back the scary flying mask enemies. Love SMB2!

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First time DM going on to my 5th session (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Aloomineum to c/tabletop

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I've played D&D pretty casually from time to time, but always as a player and usually just short one shots and not big campaigns.

This year I started feeling the urge to play in a big campaign, and some of my friends were showing interest. I decided why not try my hand at DMing! I went all in, I bought 6 books (DMG, PHG, Xanthars guide, tashas, MM, and MotM) a ton of paint supplies, and some tiles/maps.

And I'm glad I did! We've had four sessions so far and it's going great. We are starting on the Lost Mine of Phandelver campaign, and afterwards we will be moving into homebrew, eventually reaching level 12+. I have already started changing a few things from LMoP to fit the homebrew campaign I am planning where the BBeG will be Atropus and its chosen Warlock who is trying to attract the elder evil to Toril.

I didn't have any experience running a campaign, or even painting, but there are so many useful resources on youtube that I feel confident I've got a handle on things!

If anyone has any tips or pointers for a first time DM I'd love to hear them! I am always willing to learn.

If anyone wants to see more of the figures I've painted, heres a couple of pics https://imgur.com/a/1SMF4jr?

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I just deleted my 8 year old reddit account (self.neurodivergence)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Aloomineum to c/neurodivergence

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This is a bit of a vent, I'm sorry in advance. I'm still a little bit triggered honestly. If this type of post doesn't fit for this community I apologize, I don't really have anyone to talk to about this.

Reddit has been pushing me away over the past year, mostly because of how antagonistic people are becoming.

The straw that broke the camels back for me was encountering a user with the "r" word in their username, being used in a derogatory way. I am autistic, and that triggers me based on my past experiences. It's a slur against autistic or ND people, and it violates the reddit content policy that states "Users that promote hate based on identity or vulnerability will be banned."

So it turns out on Reddit there is no way to report someone for using slurs in their username. I tried all the other avenues for reporting and nothing worked. I tried to contacting a handful of admins but was ignored over several weeks.

This was all very frustrating for me and I thought I would post about it on the autism subreddit, but I was met with rude responses that boiled down to "Get over it." or "Shut up." I posted on a few other autism related subs and was met with similarily harsh responses. Some of the subreddits actually deleted my post.

I honestly didn't expect that kind of response from other people on the spectrum, and its at this point I realize reddit is unhealthy, regardless of the subreddit.

I have deleted my account and wont look back. I am thankful that a place like beehaw exists, its a shame more spaces online don't try to cultivate a friendly userbase.

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How do you deal with mean people online? (self.askbeehaw)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Aloomineum to c/askbeehaw

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Some background - I am diagnosed with autism and it can be hard for me to just "ignore" the awful things people can say to me when I'm online.

The latest thing someone said to me really got me feeling down and depressed. Honestly having darker thoughts because of it.

I have IBS-D, which means there is an insane amount of food I cannot eat - if I do eat the things I cannot, my intestines get shredded and I bleed like crazy. Honestly the list is massive and my diet has basically been chicken green beans and potatoes every night for the past 3 years. I have lost over 60 lbs, and currently weigh 130lbs as a 5.11 male. Doctors have been trying to figure it out but they haven't been able to and say I may just have to live with it.

This person was calling me a monster because I eat meat, even though I have a medical condition that makes my diet extremely limited. Unfortunately meat is one of the only things that agrees with my stomach across the board. I'd like to be vegetarian but I literally will die from malnutrition and weight loss if I did try. I explained this to the user but they didn't care.

I explained my autism to them, and that what they were saying was making me depressed and they just continued with saying how I was a monster and killing myself wouldn't be as bad as killing all the animals I have to "enjoy" meat. They said my condition wasn't an excuse and compared me to the "sexual cycle of violence" of dracula.

This user made me feel really sad and crappy. Afterwards I cried for a while but I don't feel better.

The problem I have is that there are many people online who seem to get pleasure from being awful to others, and it gets to me every time.

Does anyone have any advice for handling these situations online? Often I hear people say you should just ignore these people and move on, but I end up ruminating on what they've said and it can make me feel bad for weeks on end. Sometimes I feel like I should just give up using the internet because of these people.