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Seeing some extra spicy #USPol takes on my timeline right now suggesting certain actions that "someone" should take and y'all I 100000% get it but *especially* today you NEED to watch this:

#ShutTheFuckUpFriday #STFUFriday #ShutTheFuckUp

I have a theory about this: people have trouble fantasizing about things that are Just Good, because I guess it feels too unrealistic. so if you add drawbacks then they’re able to fantasize about it

but also, if you add a second Good Thing but frame it like a Bad Thing, that sometimes works too. especially if it would actually be a Bad Thing for certain people

here’s an example of “good thing + drawback”:

• would you drink a potion that turns you into your ideal form, but you randomly transform back to your old form for 1 day per month?

and here’s an example of “good thing + {another good thing disguised as a drawback}”:

• would you transfer your consciousness to an android body that was designed by you in a character creator, even if it meant you became the property of [insert pic of very hot techie girl]?

anyway I think this is a big part of why CYOAs work so well, and why it’s often so satisfying to make TTRPG characters

someone on Fedi is going to vibe with this really hard

also I’m doing really cursed metaprogramming: you can actually run regular Python functions from inside of kaslisp, because I’m able to introspect about what arguments a Python function expects. every kaslisp function that isn’t a special form and isn’t defined in kaslisp itself is going to be a Python function

(or, that’s the idea anyway. I haven’t tested it yet)

it would be really cool if I could write all of kaslisp‘s interpreter’s unit-tests in kaslisp itself

the only problem is, in order to do that I would have to figure out how to print the line number that the error came from. otherwise the error message would amount to “something broke lol”

maybe I could find a way to print the S-expression that failed? hmm

anyway I’ve been writing this thing in a haze of sleep deprivation so I’m adding unit-tests to tell me if/when I break everything. and they work! 3 of them failed so I broke 3 things that I know of. I’ll fix them later

Playing Games Slowly - YouTube

someone sent me this video recently, about how FOMO pushes people to rush through games and treat them as objective lists instead of gestalt experiences to be savored and to put yourself into

and in a way I feel lucky that big, popular games are almost never aimed at me. so I don’t have to worry about this

but, I do rush through games sometimes. because there are so many that I’ve been meaning to try. sometimes it feels like I’m falling behind on my ever-increasing backlog if I’m not rushing through whatever I’m enjoying right now. but the truth is that I don’t like most games that I play. I play them for an hour and then decide to stop. so I’d much rather keep playing a game that I’m enjoying, instead of going through several games that I probably won’t

when I’m able to set my FOMO aside and deeply immerse myself in a game’s world, it can be a very special and personal experience. although for me to want that level of immersion, it has to be a certain kind of game. I’m not sure what exactly it takes, but I know that Fallout 3, Skyrim, and New Vegas make me want to deeply immerse myself in their worlds. and I’ve had similar experiences with many other games - just in a more limited way

sometimes, like with Alien: Isolation, I’ll love the surface-level vibes so much that I want to fully immerse myself in the world of the game. but when I try, I discover that the world starts to fall apart - because little details don’t make sense. so attention to detail and internal consistency are very important, at least

there are also a few different games that I would love to try immersing myself in, but unfortunately they all have stories that are told very effectively, so I don’t want to risk trying them. Witcher 3, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Cyberpunk 2077 are good examples

the way that this video describes walking everywhere, listening to the sounds that your footsteps make on the different materials: I’ve noticed things like this and I’ve even imagined how it must feel to walk through the snow in Skyrim, or how the different kinds of mead must taste. things like that really ground me in the world. and I use the word “ground” very deliberately: I’m using real-world grounding techniques to pull my focus into the game’s world instead of the real world

unfortunately when I play these games for too long, I do end up treating them as a list of objectives again. and I think that’s because the novelty and beauty of that world fades for me over time. and also because no matter how sophisticated a game is, there are only so many things that you can do in it. and sooner or later that repetition and inflexibility will start to chip away at my immersion

but it’s always worth it, to be able to live in another world for a while. to escape from all of my problems and be empowered to do and be whatever I want. I’m always looking for new worlds to put myself into. new places to explore and new experiences to have. I don’t think I could stop if I tried

which would make the best partner?

@aperture @ovvie nope it was someone else! unfortunately they disappeared from the internet a year or so ago, but they were really cute and had kind of a quirky, chaotic, {Windows 95 except pastel pink and colorful} vibe to their streams hehe

I hate this UI element so much. I can never tell if it’s supposed to be on or off. like I know it changes color but does the slightly darker teal mean “on” or does the slightly lighter teal mean “on”? does left mean on or does right mean on? and every UI has a different set of colors to mean “on” and “off”. it drives me crazy

please just use checkboxes

@Shivaekul @Owlor awww! I hope that you’ll find the confidence to wear that hat someday. I bet you look great in it

@ovvie I used to watch a streamer who was mute, and she had some kind of setup where she was able to type things that would display in her stream as she typed them. she also streamed VR games and was able to be really expressive just with her movements. text-to-speech is another possibility! I’m not sure if these help but I hope so

The fact that hotels have started hiring escape room designers to hide their light switches seems related to the fact that UI designers turned scrollbars into the world's shittiest video games/hand-eye coordination tests.

@Owlor I hated that entire bit of 2010’s internet culture to be honest. it felt like it was conflating a lot of harmless things (being autistic, liking stylish hats) with terrible things (being a sexist, just kinda being a bad person in general) in a way that I think was common in cringe culture at the time