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[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 9 months ago

Insisting to spend your attention on exactly 1 (one) significant other.

I can't imagine being monogamous.

[-] pixeltree 7 points 9 months ago

Hahahaha I'm the other way around, I can't imagine having enough energy and attention for more than one person

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[-] Bremmy@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago

People who stay with abusive partners the first time they are abused

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[-] critical@reddthat.com 11 points 9 months ago

Kissing. Why? What's the point of it? What's the appeal?

[-] Subtracty@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Do you mean making out? A quick kiss as a sign of affection makes sense to me. Locking lips and moving your tongues around? Weird. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but if you are doing something that intimate, there are a lot more fun things to be doing.

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[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

So at least for me it’s as simple as, it feels really good and creates an intimacy between the parties involved even if it’s fleeting

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[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

A very light one, but "Gotta have it all" attitudes in video games.

I too, remember the Gamecube days when the console didn't connect to the internet, and if there was anything to unlock in the game, it came from hitting buttons really well. We're now in the days where the glittery, shiny purple armor (with the same armor stat) sometimes costs money. And yeah, quite often it's more money than I'd say it's worth.

I guess I just don't get the people who still get a bunch of "cool" things in the game, but still feel angsty and frustrated because they don't have everything - because they haven't completely cleared their minimap of every objective, gotten a platinum achievement, or grabbed that one pointless thingy that only shows up through RNG.

I tend to experience a "majority" of games that I enjoy, and that already is enough to absorb a lot of my time. For games that have DLC content, I might buy one or two skins I like, and still spend less in total, inflation-adjusted, than I would on one disc back on my gamecube.

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[-] TheChargedCreeper864@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago

Having or liking pets. Pictures of then I can see the appeal of, but the living beings are annoying at best or downright scary.

Never grew up with them, was always silently judged for being afraid of my classmates' pets if I came over

[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

I'm the total opposite. If I'm not surrounded by animals, I feel lost. I grew up on farms, so it's natural for me to be among critters. I have quite the menagerie of my own. 2 dogs, 2 cats, and 10 ducks. I also informally adopted a horse, but I don't pay for her bills. I just buy her things she deserves like a winter blanket and treats and other things like that.

[-] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

One of the cats that I've been lucky enough to know in my life was quite simply the kindest, most lovable soul who has ever walked upon this Earth.

Everyone who met her loved her, and everyone she met, she loved.

Her heart was unaware of the existence of hatred, or cruelty, or guile, and she breathed the air of this world for 12 years having never experienced any of those feelings.

I promise you: there are connections that you can make with animals that can change the shape of your heart and the course of your life. It's fine and no biggie if you never want to or get to experience that, but just know: some of the most beautiful hearts you might ever meet just happen to be animals. :)

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[-] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Watching reading videos.

I also enjoy these, but what on earth is that about? We have videos of someone's face telling a story, we have videos of things happening for us to see (real and fake), why are stories read aloud while the words appear on the screen so interesting?

Also, we have access to the websites where these stories are coming from. This is the part that does make sense to me, I often miss those certain comments that make the best stories... So it's like a best of the best compilation to watch the reading videos.

But still, why? Why is a reading video the preferred way to find these cherry picked posts and comments from Reddit and Tumblr. Wouldn't a Best Of collection of screenshots or reposts do that job?

[-] deepfriedchril@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

In a similar vein, reaction videos. I don't understand why anybody wants to watch somebody watch a video and do over the top "reactions".

[-] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

That one makes more sense to me, when someone is prone to para-social relationships, it's a way to make fake internet friends. We are meant to get to know people around us by how they react to things, so this type of video is meant to exploit that

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[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

I'm going to be the 'tenth dentist' here and say eating spicy food.

I understand that eventually people build a tolerance so it hurts less but I can't comprehend being willing to even reach that point, especially since it's still not completely pain free I have been told.

Those I've asked say it's a really good flavor, but to me that sounds like being willing to eat a handful of broken glass (assuming no long term damage) as long as it tastes good. There are other foods that taste good and don't hurt, not even slightly.

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[-] 7uWqKj@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Most of them

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 months ago

Why people use comic sans

(Don't come at me, dyslexic people)

[-] CerealKiller01@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Not technically a behavior, but - having hurt feelings over other people expressing their negative opinion about myself.

Like, say someone tells me I look bad of that I acted badly or whatever. I see three options:

  1. They're right, so it's a good thing they told me.
  2. They're mistaken, so it doesn't really matter (though the fact some people might think that way is still valid information)
  3. They're being mean, in which case I don't really care about what they say.

I guess it's some defense mechanism? I can see how that would work with people prone to narcissism, but having ones feeling hurt over things like that seems normalized in (most?) societies.

Oh, also religion. People believe in an all powerful being that personally cares about every person in the world, but is unwilling to reveal itself? Despite having zero corroborating evidence? And he's responsible for every good thing that happens to me therefore I should see that as proof it exists and believe more, but if something bad happens that's because I didn't believe hard enough and should therefore believe more? And you're sure about that and don't see how that might be purely because this answers a psychological and social need? I understand I'm exaggerating a bit, and no offense to religious people, but... I don't get it.

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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 7 points 9 months ago

This product costs $14 to make, they sell it for $30.

They remove three screws and replace the beautiful $6 screen with a bottom of the barrel $3 screen saving $3.06. People would easily pay $5 more for the nicer screen, but they can only focus on cost cutting instead of making a still modestly priced great product.

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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Dancing.

I'm biased because I'm rythmically deficient, but it makes no sense to me. It's just weird wiggling.

Worse still is clubbing, which is just dancing in a hot, sweaty dark room where the drinks are $13 each amd you don't get to pick the music, or turn the volume down.

This might be the most boomer thing I've ever written.

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