crimsonpoodle

@crimsonpoodle@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I get myself to actually do thing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It will depend on you as a person. I will tell you things that helped in my experience:

  • Buying things isn’t the same as starting. Although ordering is seductive false substitute for it. Don’t buy things until you need them. If you want to sculpt clay start with some dirt and a fork. Only when your 10hrs in do you buy things. (Obviously caveats abound but generally use the imperfect things you have)

  • it can be overwhelming deciding what hobby to invest in; they pile up and each takes a little mental effort to sustain even in purgatory. This tends toward guilt in the long run. When new things arise, write them down, don’t start them, there is time. Even if you have to choose randomly, all are valid, commit to it for at least enough time to do something.

  • planning can become an all consuming task. If you find yourself on your phone during the weekend; just get up and start. If you want to do wood working; just get up go collect some sticks and start making a chair. It will be shit, it may not even be functional, but begin, and you will learn more from that and be more energized than a month contemplating.

  • Know the difference between something you enjoy watching, and something you want to do. It’s ok if you just like watching people make sculptures, there are plenty of other hobbies, it’s not a black mark on your creative ego.

  • Don’t immediately seek external validation or comparison when you do start. Odds are you will be shit. And thats ok. If your interest wains without external validation; it might be that you crave the validation of being good at something and not a hobby. You can still succeed with that being your aim; but it is a long road to walk and the validation you seek will be hard won. You chances of success increase if you can find a hobby which you enjoy, and that you could happily perform in isolation after a ling day. If you find that then external validation will be a sweet and unexpected reward before you know it.

  • if you have projects that have been abandoned, and weigh on your soul. Be willing to set them free. Value them for the experiences they gave you. Give them to someone who will use them. It might be bittersweet but much of their value is in memory. If you ever decide to restart you will be surprised how quickly you reach the same level of completion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell Divers 2. Cool soundtrack, cool visuals. But replay ability doesn’t seem that great. Some of my friends play it a ton. For me though, there was a lot of just slowly walking between objectives, hit a button, fight some, walk between objectives. Repeat each map with slightly different monsters and maps. But might just be that i didn’t get far past the first worlds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And so the king of wood bore me away from Isengard faster than the wolves and orcs released from the gates could match. Though he more me, his take was only to bear information; so I bade him take me rohan where a small toad and I would race to the shire in a sucession of expensive cars, likely to wreck a great number of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mint⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True but mint is woody so eventually stems harden and become brittle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do a majority of nation's flags use the rectangular shape except Nepal?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Many old coins were stamped from blobs of metal; harder to create a perfect square than a mostly perfect circle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you were to generated a completely random sequence of sounds, how long would it take to produce music or a voice?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well how fast are your producing it? Is it analog or digital? What is the interval of music / voice that is required? Are you normalizing it? Or are there variations in magnitude as well as frequency? Once you have these params then you should be able to create a closed form method and figure it out with statistics. (Now actually finding all those things out is probably difficult, what kind of random generator are you talking about? If it literally spits out a random wave for each tiny time interval then you could be there a while, if your adding random frequencies then it could be technically done very soon for certain definitions of music)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why does almost nobody live here?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why i want to move there lol (not to detract from your point)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all know crack was introduced primarily to black neighbor hoods. Why them? Why not people in the Appalachians? Or in Asian neighbor hoods all over the west coast?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to disagree with your point on drugs but… gambling? Macau dwarfs vegas

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  1. Reduced stigma led to more diagnosis and less hiding
  2. decreased socialization and internet escapism increased the percentage of the population exhibiting these symptoms and aided in self diagnosis
  3. people like to make groups to simplify their world and feel a sense of belonging, see: astrology, personality quizzes, omegaverse, sports

  Its a big complicated mess with no clear answer. We all do exhibit these feelings to a certain extent, the magnitude and ceiling for our ability to cope and adapt to them however feeds our definitions, yet everyone can look at this and feel a little but of ourselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you change your towels?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Use bath towel, then that bath towel becomes bath mat for next shower, when I have no more towels wash them while impatiently waiting to shower.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this colour?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More like olive stylish

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this colour?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Olive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fragile masculinity⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno i just doubt this person exists to any great extent. All plants are great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is implicitly classist and unhelpful to chastise someone for kids they ready have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with breakfast in bed?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair you do you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with breakfast in bed?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm like I get you should brush your teeth but, why would you brush your teeth before you eat in the morning?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BattleBit Remastered is surprisingly alive - a huge Operation Overhaul update test arrives in November⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh I remember this game I played it all night on election night calmly telling my partner that Harris was going to win until she didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The non-profit helping people from all over the world to become successful game developers⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Friendly reminder that not everything needs to be funneled through the lens of the geopolitical, capitalist, and technological quagmire of our times. People need things to live for, to dream for, to imagine. Even people who are fighting everyday for a better world need some time doing recreation. If it is the requirement of utopia to give up on frivolous yet joyful endeavors then what do you strive for?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027)⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean they could always use VMs or docker vs locking the actual base level OS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention it was a rag tag game dev studio who through that hype had their dream come true, did they’re best to deliver it, and have continued to work on it for over a decade now. People are human; and they’ve more than shown it wasn’t ever intended as a grift.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Mexican food uniquely good with alcohol or have I just been conditioned?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  10/10 analysis would eat again— will have the try this lip hop beer you speak of

• Is Mexican food uniquely good with alcohol or have I just been conditioned?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking the generational barriers⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on how much grease you have— always stored bacon grease in glass jars to use later for greasing pans and given bacony flavor. Secondly, grease pours easily and is liquid when hot, but because it’s hot you can’t pour it into the trash, or wipe it clean with paper towels as mentioned. You have to let it cool which means it becomes more of a mess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Steam controller was ahead of its time⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got a $50 GameStop gift card in 2015 as part of some hackathon I went to— which was cool since as a kid didn’t have a credit card or anything; and bought the steam controller with it, would play CS:GO with it between class. Still my favorite controller and one of the only ones that lets you change the turn on sound too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it feel like protesting isn't as "extreme" as it used to be?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Successful protests have clear policy objectives; also work from home and the lack of large factories that can be shut down by walk outs means that the collective bargaining is slightly weaker in places like USA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People make connections with objects, same reason why people start hating certain art pieces when they’re told they were made by hitler. It’s perfectly normal— also good for the environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Electoral college, propaganda, tribalism, stupid people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see a mention of an inside?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hitler was not left leaning. He was supported by the old guard and the industrialists like Krupp until he out grew them and then turned on them. At the end of the day he was an autocrat, a totalitarian. Think was Gaddafi liberal? How about Suddam? They both had extensive social programs, but they were not left leaning. In the Weimar Republic it was the right wing courts that tried to censor and throw people in jail, and often let the right wing activists off the hook for similar offenses. Left and right wing groups can both censor and throw people in jail, ie USSR, but generally this is in service of totalitarianism, the ideology at that point is just a husk to keep people in line while people vye for control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The price breakdown of my flight is kinda funny, 80% taxes and fees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait so if you go to the airport without planning for a flight in advance it’s cheaper? I mean seems kinda like a very cross your fingers way of traveling. However could be fun if cost reduction is significant and going on a common flight route.