Seasoned_Greetings

I recommend lemmy.world to my low tech friends and lemm.ee to everyone else. Lemm.ee is great. Only reason I'm on my lemmy.world alt right now is because lemm.ee is having some server issues that are getting resolved this weekend

Not for the corporations that make money off of extorting a basic necessity from poor people! Won't someone think of the corporations?

Translation: "I watch exclusively conservative media and consequently have no idea what's real or not"

The guy who makes these lives in Italy or Greece or something. It's been awhile since I saw the bio, but he's definitely not American. He's either a wannabe alt-righter cosplaying an American MAGA hat or he's a genius troll poking at the American right. Either way, don't take these comics as anything but heavy satire.

News used to be 60 minutes just after prime time. Now they have whole channels with news 24/7/365. Have to fill all that air time with something

Or Woefully ignorant. I know some of those

World of Warcraft ushered in the "games as a service" model, not the "pay to access online features" model. Warcraft doesn't charge you for accessing the internet on your computer.

If WOW was available on console, you'd be paying Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo as well as Blizzard. That's the difference. They are similar, but WOW didn't cause consoles to go pay only for online games.

There is a voice I consciously control, and there is one that I don't. They kind of intermingle into a single monologue, but I can still hear the one I don't control when I consciously turn off my monologue. It's still a quiet presence almost in the back of my mind.

One way I've rationalized it, it's like when you meditate and your thoughts still flow over you. You don't actively control those thoughts, that's kind of the point. I'm finding that those thoughts have a coherent voice for me. They speak through my monologue, but they are still there when I shut my monologue off. Under the surface, quieter, with the rest of the thoughts I don't control.

One of the "constantly" group here. It's a bit more like having someone to talk to all the time who is also me. I can turn it off, but it has to be a concentrated effort and as soon as I'm not concentrated on keeping it silent it comes back.

I've spent many years wondering at the nature of the little voice, especially after I learned that not everyone has it. It's not controlling or contradictory, it's a bit more like a narrator for my feelings and a driving point for logic.

I've come to the conclusion that what it actually is is my subconscious manifesting as a conversational partner. Kind of like an avatar that represents the part of me that isn't the literal point of consciousness inside my head. Make of that what you will.

Don't get me wrong, I still think in pictures and non-verbal inclinations. That doesn't really go away either. But it's like having a narrator alongside it that also speaks in the first person.

A true man of the people! With the right connections, you'd do quite well in 14th century Europe!