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NaClKnight

@NaClKnight@kbin.run

"NaCl" pronounced like "Tackle" or "Salt" or just "Knight"
Black AF. He/Him. CisHet

I build PCs, Arcade Sticks, and Xbox Controllers.

I'm a lot of things. FGC member. Fantasy & Martial Arts Fiction Writer. Martial Artist. Mechanical Engineer. Friendly MF. Socialist. Christian. Designated extrovert and friendly jackass. Stubborn MF. Gamer, especially fighting games.

Rap, post hardore, anime, cartoons, comics.

Let's get it.

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NaClKnight,
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Wait, you're blocking porn, sports, and anime?

Those are the fun parts...

NaClKnight,
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Blocking regional communities is one thing, sure.

I was partially joking, but anime, cartoons, sports, and some tasteful/ethical NSFW are all topics I'm hella interested in but don't get much play here. There's basically no boxing/MMA/basketball/football here.

Each day i feel too normie for this place

I'm not into the skinny models that most porn features and a lot of irl porn comes with a host of ethical issues,

NaClKnight,
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Sure! Your reasons are valid and I'm not asking you to defend them.

I certainly don't like everything in any of those categories either. I've got slices I'm into, but yeah, the broad categories are def part of my interests.

NaClKnight,
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It varies wildly from person to person, and my wife and I work so well as partners cause we have vastly different lists of what we consider exhausting.

Specifically for me?

  • Well-intentioned but unskilled people who insist on helping but don't have the capacity to do so or the self-awareness to understand when their efforts are counterproductive
  • Talking to my side of the family
  • Checking work emails. Not writing them. Just checking them.
  • Code-switching to talk to white people.
  • Watching shows or reading books I dislike just for the sake of completing them
  • Dealing with zoners in fighting games
  • Lingering in silent spaces.
  • Following recipes.

Talking to strangers? No issue. High intensity games? Let's do it. Complicated or arduous manual labor? Hell yeah.

NaClKnight,
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Increased rates of neurodivergence on a leftist founded Reddit alternative?

It's less "venture to guess" and more "I'd bet my life savings on that being true."

Shit. I'm here with ADHD.

NaClKnight,
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This makes sense considering who is here, but I would be very interested to see a Lemmy/kbin demographics survey.

NaClKnight, (edited )
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Damn, that's fucking awful. What female-centric communities existed? I know what ones my wife follows on Reddit but not their analogues here

Edit:
Nevermind. The Reddit communities i found with analogues here are dead AF. Even the big pooular stereotypical topics like Fashion, cooking, weight loss, wedding planning, cozy games, skincare, hair styles, TV shows, romance books, dating, are all dead here.

Goddam, Lemmy users literally scared all the women away.

A real life example of "Stop scaring the hoes"

I am increasingly unable to take this place seriously.

NaClKnight,
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"Scaring the hoes" is a catch all term for when the things men enjoy in private or with other men create environments that are inhospitable to women.

I've always heard it in a comedic context, said with nearly the same tone as when Eustace berates Courage the Cowardly Dog.

NaClKnight,
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Volkanovski said he'd pick Holloway to beat Topuria in a theoretical matchup

NaClKnight,
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Mastodon. The people are kinda weird, in different ways than I am weird, but if I post consistently enough I'll build a community or something. I bounce between there and Twitter cause neither community is 100% satisfying

MBin, cause I want to be able to access Lemmy without being on Lemmy

NaClKnight,
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Do we have any reasonable/substantive speculation about why they canceled the bigger die in the 8000 series?

NaClKnight, (edited )
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The issue i think is that it reinforces the belief that Nvidia cards are faster and that AMD cards are cheap/budget,

AMD cards being just as fast (besides RT) with good/better value is one thing, but AMD being slower is a harder misconception to unravel

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The RDNA 2 vs Ampere generation featured the 6900 XT vs the 3090 in a really competitive showdown.

The RDNA 3 vs Ada generation sees AMD compete really strongly everywhere except the very very top. The 7900 XTX is cheaper and faster at raster than the 4080 and 4080 Ti in most cases (with worse efficiency and RT), for instance. You can make a competitive argument for either company at each pricing segment except Nvidia below $200 and AMD at the very very top.

That's a farrrr cry from "the 8700 XT competes with the 5070, but past that there's no AMD card"

It's reminiscent of the RDNA 1 vs Turing, where the 6700 XT and 2070 were competitive but AMD had no answer for the 2080, let alone the 2080 Ti, except this time it'll be more obvious since they'll be a 5090 as well.

NaClKnight,
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I'm rooting for a Sean return in a later season

NaClKnight,
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Hell yeah. Finally some gaming news i care about.

If you listen closely you can hear every Ryu main preparing to drop him like a hit rock. We'll see if Ken and Luke mains persevere

He looks scary enough but I'm curious how he'll end up feeling to fight against as a Marisa main.

They appear to have nailed the vibe/aesthetic though. That new Raging Demon looks excellent.

NaClKnight,
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Awesome! Thank you! Now i gotta go back thru my physical/hoopla/libby collection and figure out where i fell off

What makes everything after the Lives/Deaths of Wolverine worse?

NaClKnight, (edited )
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None. I use none. Kraft Mac is already bad but if I'm in the mood for something nostalgic there are a dozen other things i would add first

NaClKnight, (edited )
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I think this sort of unfulfilled promise has been the biggest obstacle of my full scale adoption of a reddit alternatives.

As a non-typical Lemmy user (No interest in privacy, piracy, Linux, FOSS, Web Dev, SW Dev, Veganism, or discussing political theory with strangers online) finding active communities in topics i am interested in (basketball, football, hip hop and rap, martial arts, boxing, mma, PC building, relationships, kink, and the specific humor and nuance that comes with being a Black person on the internet) has been a struggle.

Many of those communities have two people or less posting in them or don't exist at all.

People are talking here but not about things i wanna discuss and that's disappointing so i have a hard time "sticking" if that makes sense

NaClKnight,
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Are there people discussing comics or pro wrestling on here with any frequency?

NaClKnight,
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Yeah i hear you. Reddit was white on average but Lemmy/Kbin feels like baby powder on top of fresh snow

NaClKnight,
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What do you mean by "actively surpressing a community?"

Do you have any articles on the origin of Reddit? It came out of Digg, right?

NaClKnight,
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Actually, I'm kind of curious:

What do you mean "because of the nature of the reddit migration?"

NaClKnight,
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That's what i thought you meant. Thanks!

in my case, the diaspora didn't change me so much as it displaced me.

Now I'm here and there.
Much like Twitter and Masto where i do more content viewing on the legacy site where there's more content, but more posting on the FOSS alternative because of ideological imperative to see it grow even if its content doesn't serve me (yet?)

NaClKnight,
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The mod history you posted definitely makes it look like they have a clear idea what kind of bikini/community they want and you don't fit and neither of you were gonna change.

I've got negative interest in Beehaw. I'm not defending them or calling you a malcontent. They might be actual fascists for all i know. I've had 0 interactions with them.

Just saying that it's clear who they want and it's not you

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