@konstruct I think “utilitarian” is a series of styles - each one is the aesthetic of the unique problem-solving style (and preferences) of the person who created it. everyone’s bare practicality ends up looking different and I find that beautiful

for example when a bunch of people are problem-solving at a table together, they tend to lay out papers and tools and etc. in a specific pattern and each one will look different, in terms of organization (or lackthereof) and overall layout. and no two tables will look the same, even if they’re trying to solve the same problem

More studios should hire conlangers to create the incidental scripts and languages for their shows/games. Is anyone gonna care except for like five deeply obsessed people? Maybe not, but you'd be surprised what the devotion of five neurodivergent people can do for the longevity of a fandom.

I have seen "save the animals" being a big deal at GDQ but never really seen anyone explain why that's such a big deal, it's just a contextless meme a lot of the time.

For the record, it's a moral choice in Metroid that's in this really funny position where it's not different enough from the main run to make a whole different category for it and going for it slows you down, but not enough that it really matters in a live speedrun setting. It makes for a good donation incentive cus it's completely unecessery, but a good crowd-pleaser.

What's funny about the whole thing is people speculate all the time about how to design games specifically for trolling the speedrunning community, but none of them have topped a game that was never designed for speedrunning to begin with.

The fact that I love kubernetes probably says something about me thats in the DSM5 right

@Owlor your description also kinda reminds me of The Left-Right Game which is a story that I’ll recommend at every opportunity lol. although it has multiple characters and is told in the form of a text transcript of a podcast instead of an actual podcast

there’s also a podcast version but I wouldn’t recommend it, because it takes things that are clearly explained in the text transcript and turns them into sound effects which are much more ambiguous. you would think that ambiguity would be a good thing in a horror podcast but IMO it actually takes away from the experience, because scary things that were delicately implied in the story are instead buried pretty deep in implication

@fargate three years is a lot less than I would have guessed. and that’s totally okay that you don’t know for sure! thanks for answering my questions 💙

@Owlor oh - this reminds me of a YouTube series that I’ve been enjoying! it’s a backrooms-flavored found footage horror series that is also a character study and a cooking vlog, and there’s one episode where he does skincare as well. there’s only one actor and it’s fascinatingly weird. it’s called The Glendale Archives

I'm developing a fondness for one-person scripted audio-drama podcasts. They don't require a lot of resources to put together (just an audio editing program, a half-decent mic and a willingness to learn how to voice-act on the fly), so they are an excellent way to start with dramatic storytelling. (Plus, you can usually expand the voice cast later once you've gotten some experience under your belt.)

Because of the low barrier of entry and the independent nature of it, you can find some pretty fascinatingly weird stories in the format.

It's a particularly good format for character-studies, one particular setup I've seen around a couple of time is "character investigates some sort of anomaly and it gradually becomes clear by their approach that whatever is wrong with them is as fascinating if not more than the weird thing they are investigating."

Since it is a one-character sort of deal, at least initially, the main character needs to be compelling enough to spend time with.

They don't need to be super-wacky right away, especially when it comes to reporter-type characters, they may initially start out being focused on the story they are investigating and it only gradually becomes clear that there's something distinctly off with them.

@fargate ooh that’s really cool to know! do you know around what time you started being able to hear accents in English? or I guess what I’m really curious about is how much practice it took to be able to reach that level of familiarity with the language

@bagelcollie I bet the LEDs would be nice and warm in winter!

OLED panels getting more flexible till they could almost be as soft as cloth. This could be the future.

There was a dad in the store with his family yesterday and while they were shopping he was really curious about the yarn winding apparatus, so i explained how our tools work, and he started excitedly telling me that his hobby is making fly lures for fishing and i’m like welcome my dude youve been a fiber artist this whole time

I wonder if anyone has made a low-level #Lisp that is specifically designed to be semantically close to #WASM code, so that it compiles to be very very efficient (kinda like how Lua is really fast because it’s very semantically similar to C code, which is what its interpreter is written in)

like WASM already reads kinda like a Lisp to me, and I bet that would run crazy fast

(I’ve been tempted to do this several times I’m ngl. I think I want to learn WASM one of these days. sadly most of the “learn WASM” tutorials are more like “learn how to compile some shitty language like C++ to WASM”)

something that I’ve been wondering about lately as a monolingual person:

I wonder if folks can hear accents in a non-native language. like can they tell that their accent differs from others’ accents? can they tell that two native speakers have different accents?

a long time ago my Finnish friend would help me try to pronounce Finnish words and I was trying my best lol, to the point that I literally couldn’t hear any difference between what I was saying and what he was saying. but I inferred that I definitely still had a strong accent (and it would be really weird if I didn’t!)

so I wonder if that inability to detect accents continues until you get really really experienced with a language, or I wonder if a non-native speaker is ever able to detect accents

I’m ngl this kinda makes me want to write more about how my personal bullet journaling system works. but in order to do that I would either have to retread a lot of stuff about how bullet journaling works in general, or assume that the reader already knows about that stuff. hm or I could try to give a simplified explanation and then direct folks to bullet journaling resources if they want to know more

idk but I’m thinking about this now. I feel like I’ve learned a lot of valuable lessons from refining my own journaling system that folks could benefit from if they have the right kind of brain to also be able to keep a journal updated consistently

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@dfxluna I have this exact problem. I tend to procrastinate and avoid things, so rereading old journal pages can be pretty painful for me just because it reminds me of a lot of stuff that I want to pressure myself to do, but I also want to avoid, which is a bad combination

I have a system that kinda helps though! I have a section called “rewrites” which are just thoughts that I rewrite by hand about once a week (it’s more of a rolling thing though, so I rewrite some of them every day and get through all of them about once a week, then start from the beginning of the new list)

sometimes I just want to internalize them, so I rewrite them exactly as they are. other times I want to process and refine them, so I rephrase them with every rewrite to try to distill them into the shortest/simplest essence for me to internalize. sometimes it’s more like a question that I have, so I’ll rewrite them each time trying to explore the question from different angles until I find a good answer. sometimes I feel like I’ve internalized them properly and I choose not to rewrite them anymore. and of course I’m always adding new things to the rewrites as well. I try to always keep the list manageably short, which naturally causes me to think about what I really value being there

but recently I’ve added a new type of rewrite, which is essentially “here’s something that I can do, and here’s all of the good things that it would do for me”. so instead of it being a task that I pressure myself into doing, and then avoid in a spiral of self-imposed stress and pressure, it just becomes a positive statement of “it would be great if I did this, and here’s why!”

and often while I’m rewriting something like that, I’ll get the sudden urge to Do The Thing, and I try to always follow that urge as soon as I get it. which works really well for me!

but with all of this said, I can also find myself procrastinating/avoiding rewrites as well, because I think that they’ve become too much of a list of “I’m not doing this well enough” things instead of “here’s what I like about myself” things, so it’s a negative experience for me which makes me want to avoid it. so I’m trying to balance it more with more positive self-esteem-building things as well. I think I focus way too much on how I can improve, and way too little on how I’ve already improved, or what’s already good about me. and focusing on the latter is an important type of self-improvement too!

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