Alabaster_Mango
@Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Pope Joan 1 week ago:
Same energy as the boy wolf girl wolf post, lol.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t say your advice was wrong, I said your mindset was weird to me. I will never knock people going into more manual jobs. The world needs janitors just as badly as it needs doctors.
Your argument was that their lack of drive is caused by their comfort, and the cure is to toil the days off. In my experience I’ve seen plenty of people in all quadrants of the “comfort vs drive” graph. For example: a friend of mine is worked to the bone in a warehouse, but doesn’t have any drive to look elsewhere. Also, at my last job some of the cushiest positions with very little required work were constantly used as a stepping stone for even higher paying roles with seemingly more responsibility. My friend has a surplus of labor but lack of drive, while the ladder climbers at my last job had plenty of comfort and drive.
So, in my opinion, I do not think the amount of labor/exhaustion someone experiences in their job has a guaranteed effect on their drive. Your comment makes it seem like you do think that, so that position is “weird” to me.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Hello! I also have little drive or ambition compared to the standard portrayal in popular media. Lots of people act like what you’re “supposed to do” is keep grinding, push for promotions, be a type A or whatever. Nuts to that I say.
Back when I graduated high school I didn’t know what to do either. I come from a small small town, and I’m good at math, so everyone said to become an engineer as that’s what all the “smart people” do. The schooling sucked for me, and I didn’t really want to pursue the kind of career that an engineer would have. I ended up flunking out of the first year. That killed my mental health and self worth. I do not recommend.
What worked for me (but maybe not everyone) was to find topics I found interesting, and see what kind of jobs are available in those areas. I ended up going for electronics engineering technology (a technologist is kinda like a diet engineer) because I think it’s cool stuff, it was a shorter two year course, and there are a reasonable number of employers in my area who are hiring. I’ll probably never be “rich”, but I make enough money to not worry about food or housing, and I have time for my hobbies on the side.
My biggest takeaway from my career so far is to not fall for “grind culture”, and to maintain a separation of your work and life. Do not make your job your whole identity. I’ve seen plenty of grinders burn out and hate their jobs/lives. I’ve also seen people who want to change careers, but they’re so caught up in their work that they don’t have the time or energy to change.
If you’re unsure of what to do, shoot for something that will make you comfortable. Reasonable average pay, decent employment opportunities, and good work/life balance. Once you have that you can do some more soul searching over the next few years. Not everyone knows what they want to do at 20. The rest of your life is a long time, so don’t feel like you have to set it in stone now.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
That is a heckin’ weird mindset to me. Comfortable people can still have passions and drive. You don’t need to suffer to want something different. Plus, some people like working hard labor jobs, are they wrong to do so?
- Comment on The Palworld dating sim was supposed to be a joke, but now it’s not 1 month ago:
Yeah, 100%. It’s just that usually when something like this gets a large-ish negative reaction it’s because people associate it with furries or some other “taboo” fetish/lifestyle.
I also find that furry stuff gets way more hate than it deserves (which is none hate). I say boo to that! So long as stuff is consensual and nobody gets hurt (who doesn’t want to, lookin’ at you BDSM), then let people enjoy things.
Side note: It’s hilarious how for years people were cheering on Captain Kirk for banging green alien chicks, but cat ears and a tail is a no-go. Cross-species stuff is cool so long as they’re from another planet? What if it was planet Yiff? On the topic of aliens, do we even know if Superman has a human-like penis? Maybe Kryptonians bust onto egg clutches, who’s to say?
Anywho, people are silly and really like policing other people’s likes.
- Comment on The Palworld dating sim was supposed to be a joke, but now it’s not 1 month ago:
Eh, I say let the furries have their fun. Like, they’re going to do stuff like this anyway. Might as well sell it to them.
- Comment on >meme arrows 1 month ago:
You are right! The funny thing is I was trying to think of it that way and got it backwards anyway. Not enough mental RAM left after work for that kind of thing, apparently.
- Comment on >meme arrows 1 month ago:
Unsolicited formatting help
If you want to see the arrows and not format as a quote throw some backslashes in front of the less than signs.
\> Typing this > Gets this
Otherwise, if you want to get rid of the gaps between the quote lines then put less than signs on the empty lines.
> Typing > > this
Gets
this
- Comment on What movie was this for you? 1 month ago:
Aren’t all adaptations “high-budget fanfiction” though? Like, what about the film makes it more fanfictiony compared to other comic or book adaptations?
- Comment on I choose...you? 2 months ago:
I choose you, Dummythiccachu!!
- Comment on Doppler 2 months ago:
One shift Two shift Red shift Blue shift
- Comment on Playing Dragonsweeper because of Ars' article. Did I have any way out of this without guessing? 2 months ago:
I think if you find all the gnomes is when it gives you gold.
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- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 6 months ago:
Appears to be real (note, this is an X link).
- Comment on Rusted Moss is pretty good (Metroidvania) 7 months ago:
“Blaster Master?” takes long drag on cigarette “I haven’t heard that
namegame in years.”Man, I remember playing the OG on NES. Didn’t know they remade it… And made it all anime lookin’? Neat. If you’ll excuse me, I must go and tidy my crypt now.
I recently picked up the Castlevania Anniversary Collection. For all the Metroidvanias I’ve played as an adult, I never really got too into them as a kid. Gotta make up for that at some point, lol. Symphony of the Night isn’t on there, but I don’t want to start mid storyline (I’m kidding). My biggest fear is playing Castlevania will just make me more impatient for the next season of Castlevania Nocturne.
- Comment on Rusted Moss is pretty good (Metroidvania) 7 months ago:
Sweet, thanks! I loved the heck outta Blasphemous and the Ori games. I’d love to see another game in the Ori universe, it’s so pretty. Some of the others have been on my wish list for a bit. Might be time to crack one open.
Another not bad series is Guacamelee. I haven’t played the second one yet, but I really enjoyed the humor and gameplay of the first.
- Comment on Rusted Moss is pretty good (Metroidvania) 7 months ago:
Looks neat! I’m terrified of the ocean though, lol.
- Submitted 7 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on Pi Day 9 months ago:
Yeah, that’s my thinking too. English, and language in general, is very fluid. Different regions will have different colloquialisms, and even different dialects of the same language. So long as we all understand what is meant does it really matter all that much how it was said?
- Comment on Pi Day 9 months ago:
But “Coffee fourth”/“fourth coffee” and “23rd July”/“July 23rd” are different things. I don’t think it’s a good comparison.
With the coffees you are counting how many you’ve had. The thing being counted is explicitly stated in the phrase.
With dates, you are not counting the number of July’s. This isn’t my 23rd July, but the 23rd day of this July. The thing being counted is only implied by colloquial understanding.
So yes, “coffee fourth” doesn’t work, but that doesn’t have much bearing on how to say a date in my opinion
- Comment on Pi Day 9 months ago:
They could be from Canada too. We’re in that fun zone of being mostly Oxford/metric/DMY, but due to proximity and history we still use a lot of Webster/imperial/MDY. My dad is from the past so he speaks in Fahrenheit but calls it “English”. Send help.
However, saying “July 23rd” feels more natural and efficient to me than “The 23rd of July”. That translates to me writing 07/23 over 23/07. To each their own though, I’m not gonna harsh any mellows over date formatting.
- Comment on Time Terror 10 months ago:
There’s a Cypher System RPG called Old Gods of Appalachia that’s pretty neat too.
- Comment on Why are quantum computers these gorgeous golden chandelier 10 months ago:
I am just now realizing: Baroque In Mind… Broken mind? Maybe they’re a troll.
- Comment on Why are quantum computers these gorgeous golden chandelier 10 months ago:
Yeah, totes. Scentless non-toxic gases can still be deadly by merit of not being oxygen.
The only recreational octave-shifting gas I indulge in is Sulfur Hexafluoride. Bolsters the ol’ baritone.
- Comment on Why are quantum computers these gorgeous golden chandelier 10 months ago:
I’m prepared to be proven wrong on this, as my exposure to quantum computer cooling systems has been super brief, but as far as I know there are no toxic coolants.
The pre cooler is a Pulse Tube Refrigerator, and the main cooler is a Dilution Refrigerator. Those both use helium, and that stuff floats out into space. I doubt it’s going into the ocean. Here’s another article that talks about the operation.
Like I said though, my exposure was brief. Unfortunately we didn’t land any projects with the supercomputer people 😞. I’m always down to learn more about niche topics though. Makes me super fun at parties. If you have good sources shoot them my way. I couldn’t find anything in my 5 ish minutes of web searching.
- Comment on Why are quantum computers these gorgeous golden chandelier 10 months ago:
This is the right answer. It’s a big cryogenic refrigerator called a Dilution Refrigerator. It’s fancy stuff. Needs Helium-4, which is more common, and Helium-3, which mostly comes from nuclear production.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 5th 1 year ago:
I’m playing the ninja platformer N++. I’m probably not good enough to 100% it, but I’m having a blast with it.
- Comment on Blueberry milkshakes 1 year ago:
It’s specifically non-fatal:
Bleeding horseshoe crabs to death is not an acceptable practice in the U.S.
The volume of blood taken is actually quite small, as most of the material in the collection jars is anticoagulant.
It may look uncomfortable to us humans, but keep in mind that horseshoe crabs are not human. What’s normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. Granted, it would be kinda weird to be hoisted from your home by a giant ape and forced into a blood drive. It’s done as gently as possible though.
