latenightnoir
@latenightnoir@lemmy.world
- Comment on All things have a right to grow. The blossom is brother to the weed. 4 weeks ago:
Generally, yes, even during winter for the most part.
- Comment on All things have a right to grow. The blossom is brother to the weed. 4 weeks ago:
Oh, I 100% understand that. Wanted to try handling a tarantula in a German pet shop, nearly feinted (knees got weak the instant I registered her on my skin, and I could tell she was not in any way aggressive…).
On the other hand, I’ve had one of those massive cockroaches sniffing around on my face, and not even a twitch. I seldom understand my brain.
- Comment on All things have a right to grow. The blossom is brother to the weed. 4 weeks ago:
Oh, wow! I’d probably just die if I ever saw a wolf spider in my tub! Like, complete simultaneous organ failure, the energy which is me would just eject from my body.
Lucky for me, I live in Temperate-Continental, so my biggest threat is seeing a Long-Legs dangling down to check up on me while I’m showering!
And I’m serious about this. Maybe it was just me imagining things, but I swear they started inspecting me every now and again. Like, I’d be at my desk playing, and I’d see one rapelling from the ceiling, like 20-30 cm away from me. Seldom has any descended onto the actual desk, though, they’d just hang for a bit, then climb back up.
- Comment on All things have a right to grow. The blossom is brother to the weed. 4 weeks ago:
Even though I still have arachnophobia, I’ve intentionally lived with spiders for over a decade and I’ve not had issues with mosquitoes even if I left all of my windows open. And my roommates are thriving!
They’re very chill roommates, too! After about 1-2 months of adjusting to living together in my old apartment, they stopped spinning webs in the areas which I used frequently and focused on the zones which I left out for them - ceiling corners, gaps between walls and furniture, etc. I did occasionally clean up their old webs every now and again (while taking great care not to bother the spiders themselves) because they also gathered a lot of dust. But they’d replace the old webbing in a matter of days.
And they never developed overpopulation issues, even though I did see them producing egg sacks regularly. I was expecting to droqn in spiders by the end of the first year of trying this arrangement, but I never counted more than 15-20 spiders apartment-wide.
- Comment on Anon has no social skills 4 weeks ago:
“Boost shields! Shut down non-essentials! Ensign, get us out of here!”
- Comment on Anon has no social skills 4 weeks ago:
“Greeting attempt registered. Reciprocation deployed.”
- Comment on Anon's friend is Buddhist 5 weeks ago:
Agreed, at least around water, my kidneys are hyperactive and need constant lubrication. Food, though… meh…
And I wouldn’t do it for the suffering, I would genuinely do it for relaxation, like a full habitat sensory deprivation chamber.
What I do for suffering is try to face the sun for longer than I feel comfortable, the whole idea of self-immolation being purifying and such. I can see why some would think that, baking in the sun really does a wonderful job at bringing me back to the present through widespread pain.
- Comment on Anon's friend is Buddhist 5 weeks ago:
My initial reaction, the socially acceptable one, was akin to “oh, wow, that’s weird.” After I gave it a minute, though… Gotta say, if I could be certain of the facct that I wouldn’t be interrupted in any way and had full control over the situation… yeah, that actually sounds like a nice getaway…
- Comment on Acorns! 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t even understand what I was seeing and I started shivering instantly. Now feel a deep urge to scrub my skin with steel wool.
- Comment on Homer Simpson irl 1 month ago:
Yaaay, new nightmare unlocked!
- Comment on answer me, gregory 1 month ago:
Would’ve been useful knowledge while I was still living in the dorm…
- Comment on tig ol bitties 1 month ago:
I mean… I think we can all agree that boobs are at least universally non-threatening, even without counting the symbolisms of nourishment, nurturance, life, fertility, etc. At least I don’t think we’re at the point where hiding machine guns or hellish snakes in boobs is viable. … Right?
- Comment on Let's gooooo 1 month ago:
I knew smoking’d pay off if I just kept at it! (kidding)
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 month ago:
Well, pretty much any RPG - used to play a lot of Neverwinter Nights, developed an addiction to TES and Fallout 3/NV just like everyone else, dipped my toes in the classic Fallouts in high-school
In addition, a lot of well-made RTS/management/sim games [Warlords Battlecry III, Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader, 40k: Dawn of War (the first and second batches, I devoured them as they came out, but III is… no), the C&Cs, several Total War titles, StarCraft, the SpellForce series, Age of Empires, the classics, pretty much], also taught me the importance of unit/team composition, which, to me, is an abstractised and simplified way of keeping track of such aspects. They don’t teach everything which one should keep in mind, but they sure taught me to keep an eye on skills in general.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 month ago:
Well, there ya’ go! I still suck at Warcraft III, and not for a lack of trying!:))
Maybe you do have a point about having predilections for certain skillsets, but I can say with certainty that I’ve never aced a game the first (dozens of) time I picked it up. But they helped me narrow down my thinking in terms of priorities, they helped me develop a “nose” for strengths and shortcomings in someone’s skillset, they basically taught me what the practical side of management entails.
Same with long-form sim games, those taught me how to plan for the long-term, how to form contingencies, how to deal with the unforeseen, etc.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 month ago:
I respect your opinion, and the fact that it differs from mine:))
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 month ago:
I strongly believe that video games are underappreciated in just how much they help us develop certain skills.
I’m talking long-term planning, resource distribution, tactics, hand-eye coordination, teamwork, skillset comprehension and task allocation based on it, language skills, interpersonal skills (ironically), and can even serve as font of self-knowledge if one dives deep enough!
- Comment on me irl 1 month ago:
To my mind, that caters to a different set of… preferences:))
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 month ago:
Woo, means I can officially add Warframe to my work experience (2.7k)!
- Comment on me irl 1 month ago:
Is that a threat, or a promise? ;) ;)
- Comment on tetrapods 1 month ago:
Nnnoooo, god damn it! I was in the midst of rewatching Voyager, and now you’ve seared “Janeway cheese” all across my perception! Thanks…
- Comment on so, this is how it ends 1 month ago:
… I mean, it’s only fair…
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 1 month ago:
Uuh… wrong? That’s obviously a Petri dish in full bloom?
Everyone knows this Universe exists solely as a grad student’s thesis experiment…
- Comment on Anon tries to impress a woman at the gym 1 month ago:
Woke up at hers with a splitting headache and profound nausea, after that things didn’t really go anywhere. Nothing dramatic, she was lovely, we just didn’t match.
- Comment on Anon tries to impress a woman at the gym 1 month ago:
People really need to watch 28 Days Later, they’ll be sitting ducks otherwise!
- Comment on Anon tries to impress a woman at the gym 1 month ago:
I was out with my friends once in my early twenties, drunk at the limit between “flying high on the wings of booze” and “incoherent mass of sick and confusion.”
There was this girl who kept catching my eye every time I saw her out and about, and this time she happened to be at the same dive as us. I finally decided to try talking to her, so I kinda’ awkwardly accosted her at the bar and I think I started pulling my “over-the-top intellectual” bit for a laugh.
Somehow, it worked! We kept chatting (she was buzzed but significantly more sober than I was), we kept laughing, then she asked me to accompany her on an ATM trip after a while. Now, I’d completely lost my capacity for reading between the lines at this point, so I just took it as a generic action. About midway through the trip, she started pulling in very close to me, my current guess being that she had intended to try smooching. My drunk brain thought “oh, she must be feeling the drag, we need to keep her blood pumping.” So I called a race, last one to the ATM is a rotten egg.
Again, surprisingly, she was into it! I could hear her giggling as I was pulling away. I was running like a madman, I could feel my legs moving by themselves. I was a beast, a high-performance machine, a force of nature! Almost started congratulating myself for being such an irresistible hunk, when suddenly I could feel the curb grabbing my left foot. I plunged forward, but luckily my stage fighting reflexes kicked in and I completely unexpectedly started doing landing rolls. I literally rolled the rest of the way to the ATM - about 4-5 meters, not kidding… She won and was laughing her ass off, the alcohol inside me had been angered and my brain was oatmeal.
I don’t remember many details after that. What I will say, though, is that it worked! Also, that I never again tried wooing or racing anyone while drunk.
- Comment on Anon experiences freedom 1 month ago:
“Do not operate heavy machinery 4-6 hours after administering a dose” - starts grunting
- Comment on Anon experiences freedom 1 month ago:
Can you imagine, training rec algos for porn sites on intensity of movement and facial expressions…
- Comment on Anon experiences freedom 1 month ago:
I’d rather go back to (poorly) drawing boobs and stuff…
- Comment on Anon's coworker is a femcel 1 month ago:
Honestly didn’t have a clue about this, the aesthetic results were plenty for me… Things literally got explosive several times…