I like infodumping, then being infodumped back at, until we arrive at some crossover subject of mutual curiousity we can discuss till the cows come home. Unfortunately while my gf loves this, my bff doesn’t appreciate this tho.

I understand the viewpoint but this seems exaggerated. If anything I think good interpersonal relationships are far easier and more widespread than like 20 years ago (mid-2000s), though 2010s were def peak 👌

I have that too. I just wipe it with microfibre wipes every few weeks and before guests come over.

Honestly - you do you and have fun! Don’t listen to those who moralize/pathologize this, it’s pure slave morality shit, especially amongst Christians. Just make sure you’re doing it for you and not for society.

I only ever hear that in movies. I assumed it happens if you eat low grade meat or smth like in the wild west in the US back in the day and it just became an old wives’ tale turned pop culture myth.

I do actually not like spicy food though, especially Chinese and Indian, but I’ve had enough of it to know I never had any gut issues.

I could see it being effective, yeah. Obviously in this situation she just needs to try it (carefully obvs) and report the effects. If it’s not/won’t be medically prescribed for her condition then she would be in somewhat untested waters, so it’s a trial and error thign obviously keep it safe and acetone wash it.

When I was self-medding with amph, I bought a scale and would pack it in capsules weighed out to 40mg each and pop two - four a day. Don’t snort that shit.

Definitely don’t do Cocaine that shit doesn’t help much of anything and even if it seems to, lasts all of 10 minutes unless you OD.

I would also suggest wellbutrin. It’s sometimes used as a generic stim, but unlike amph and etc. it’s also a smoking cessation aid - because it works on the nicotinic receptor, similar effect to nicotine but without the addiction (and in fact,.you won’t want to ever consume nicotine on it).

I was rarely if ever punished, at most they took away my PS2 for an hour or so despite my fledgling shit grades at best, and me stopping all homework from grade 5. I had a pretty happy childhood as a single child of a happy, loving, married family, my parents were relatively well off. The only dark note was being beaten frequently in primary school, but I made up with the bullies later.

I have no mental health issues and have never really had any, despite suffering plenty in my mid to late teens from gender dysphoria and being thus rejected by those parents later and suffering to stay afloat in a foreign country, including a brief stint as a poly-drug addict to fight panic attacks over being fired by a bigoted boss on whom my visa depended after she tried to fire me on my day off for having a migraine.

I still don’t want kids.

I don’t think so, the game critics video and the cyberpunk video and most videos other than the Starfield one I mentioned are older than that, but even if I am mistaken - I would be mentioning them because they’re fresh in memory, but my overall impression is that pre-“I’m done making good videos” he was doing a lot more in terms of quality of the essays, the humor and structure.

I guess he’s focused on running his publishing studio, doing music and streaming these days? Godspeed honestly.

One of my fav funniest ones would be his Game Structure or the Game Critics and Remasters mini-videoessays. Japan World Cup is pretty funny too. I also like that joke from the Cyberpunk 2077 vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPW6fkcM-14

Out of more recent ones, Starfield was pretty funny, every now and then I’m washing dishes and the repeated animation of that “GENDER AMBIGUITY” guy with the boiling kettle pot sound effect keeps popping into my head and I chuckle.

Timestamp link for mobile users with fat fingers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4JWMxV8pz0&t=69

Really it’s hard to decide since his jokes are pretty well spread between his points, but I gotta say he really did stop making good videos for the most part these days.

No it actually is that.

Depression is not the same as Feeling depressed/ Feeling down. Depression is like a prolonged MDMA hangover (also caused by neurotransmitter depletion, namely serotonin).

I’ve never had depression or anything like that but as an ADHDer I feel intense solidarity with folks who have a medical condition caused by chemical imbalance that is not taken seriously because randoms without said condition muddy the waters by using it as a soapbox to talk about some bullshit societal/cultural thing they’re mad about at this moment.

Russian

Started learning it from video games at about 5-6 years old, had tutor classes paid for by my dad (for the whole class) from 7 years old. Then from 10 years old I had summer camp overseas every year until 13, then sent off to the UK.

Tried to pick up other languages along the way from Japanese to French to Italian to Spanish to Ukrainian to Polish, but none of them really stuck, shit just takes forever and it’s hard to keep coming back to it after the novelty has worn off from a few hours of translation exercises and flash cards and such.

History.

I had a great teacher and it was my favourite subject. I wish I could’ve demonstrated more gratitude instead of feeling the need to act like I didn’t like it for fear of being bullied about it by my classmates, and wish I applied myself more and wasn’t held back by ADHD, but it was a well-earned B on the exam.

I didn’t know it then, couldn’t have, but it taught me critical thinking then and there through the simplistic exercises of looking at old political cartoons and recognising the biases and influences there and to see symbolism and metaphor and allegory not just as purely confined to the “entertainment art” realm, but as a core part of communication in general and a tool wielded in politics and propaganda.

Good timing too, that was during gamergate, two years later it’d be 2016 and the first time I would be exposed to targeted propaganda that had any chance in earnest. Growing up in Russia I had already known not to trust, but it was easy not to trust the weird revanchism of a country I never liked that much anyway, compared to loud young and relatable people on the internet, which was my one and only space to socialise back then due to being bullied and ostracized a lot in school.

Not sure if it counts as “High School” though, idk the American school system, I did History for what used to be called “GCSE” in the UK, it was year 11 for me, out of 13 years total in school.

No, it’s not a protected characteristic because being a nazi isn’t innate.

I state my opinions on the internet without adherence to any particular side or filter for pacifying and self-censoring what I genuinely believe or facts that I know with certainty and back it up with reason, logic and evidence.

IRL this seldom annoys anyone unless I’m overly impolite but I try to be polite generally.

Huh? I don’t know where I implied that. You ofc need an understanding but you also need practice.

Oh god the lemmings are optimizing posts for engagement. We are approaching peak content

Clearly non-functioning in this case as the wrong has been started already

Truly awesome that this hobby is getting coverage! I’m very very lazy when it comes to self-hosting, by far my largest project was moving off Spotify and archiving all my playlists.

Rotating 3 API keys for spotdl and a YTP free trial for that sweet sweet 256kbps AAC then Musicbrainz Picard to label correctly all the music (automatic was nearly almost always wrong), then automating rebuilding the m3u8 playlists followed by the insane work of correcting all the little imperfections. Must’ve taken me like 2-3 weeks of just working on it most of the day.

But the result? A proper offline music library with all my main playlists with each song at the proper position and order in my playlists with the correct (Spotify) metadata using correct versions of the songs in at least 256kbps AAC (and many cases FLAC and where available non-vinyl hi-res).

Tossed on an old dell workstation I got for £50. Hosting navidrome where my JF, Qbittorrent-nox and Immich live. Using symfonium on my phone. Can access remotely via OpenVPN. Couldn’t be happier.

Yeah I’d wish for a better alternative but fundamentally any society needs some way to isolate wrongdoers to prevent them from doing wrong and it’s the only option we presently have.