Good lord, what an inconsiderate asshole

Jesus, some people just have no awareness whatsoever.

Thank you.

Thank you, I appreciate that.

This one hit me hard. I’m 39 and a huge movie and stand up comedy nerd, also dealing with lifelong depression, and growing up watching Robin always put me in a better place. Felt like losing a family member. I can’t quite bring myself to watch much of his stuff nowadays. It almost feels like watching old home videos to me. The one exception is World’s Greatest Dad. I lost my father to depression, he took his life a few years ago and I can’t help feeling like I’m going to end up the same sometimes. That movie, I just connect to on such a deep level, it somehow makes me happy to watch.

I really think despite that we don’t have overall karma, people still get off on getting highly rated posts. I mostly lurked on Reddit, but would occasionally post something and I can’t deny that I enjoyed seeing the post get a lot of upvotes. But here on Lemmy, I became a mod of a couple communities and I post a lot and I’ve noticed I don’t even pay attention to the scores at all. I think one reason is since I post a lot more, I don’t pay attention, and also the scores don’t generally get as high, due to the smaller userbase. But I agree, people need to get out of that mentality of trying to get the highest rated post scores. It really makes it much more enjoyable to get involved in discussions, IMO.

I’ve said for years that I think one of the biggest problems in this world and in the USA specifically (because I live here) is lack of empathy. People just don’t care about anyone’s problems until they face the same. Especially in America. Our society is built around the “do it yourself, overcome all odds” mentality. I feel like the world would be a much better place if everyone were more empathetic. That being said, I think I would reduce intelligence and gain more empathy. I tend to shoot myself in the foot with correcting people and wanting to “teach” a lot. That plus my extreme social anxiety makes it hard to get along with people.

The recent God of War games come to mind immediately. They’re both made to look like a single continuous shot throughout the game and it’s obvious the developers put a lot of thought into the cinematography.