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What other over the top and funny Youtubers have I missed that I would enjoy? I’ve burned through most of Contrapoints already I enjoy musicals and theatrical/clever content in general

PSA: All you need to make pulled pork is pork, a slow cooker, and either coke or root beer Soooo goodhttps://twitter.com/random_eddie/status/1224185694345736192 …

Browsing a bunch of 80s/90s fantasy art These guys (mostly guys) were so much better at drawing improbably perky and detailed breasts than remotely realistic/handsome men’s faces

Experimental Game: Give me a human trait, activity, or behavior, and I’ll give you an uninformed, gut level guess on whether I think its origin is more influenced by biology/genetics or culture. Then we can argue, learn, maybe cry I call it “Let’s Create an Attack Surface”

Heyyyy my tripod came! Finally I can take my iPad and start that camgirl career I always imagined I’d get to in my mid 30s (I am so kidding but I AM excited to play with some stage work for myself)

This, by the way, is especially pernicious if you tend to be initially pretty good at a lot of things for whatever reason... "the suck" feels more unpleasant if you sample a lot of stuff and do okay at first, because the "yay success" hit is easier to get at novice lvl elsewhere

This probably means that finding ways to force yourself to grind through "the suck" and develop a level of familiarity and expertise with any new skill is a key part of sticking with it... after which it becomes self reinforcing

I tend to lose interest in new activities quickly when I slam into "the suck" portion because trying something new always seems more appealing than grinding out 30 hours of something unpleasant unless I'm really motivated somehow

I think that as we get older, we tend to forget that "the suck" (that first 30 hours or so after the novelty wears off) of any activity is a natural part of the learning process and doesn't mean you're "not good at something"

If you think about any of the activities you really enjoy, consider that you're probably pretty good at them and you probably also went through an initial learning phase at some point in your life where it wasn't as fun... but it might be so far back you've forgotten it

As we played more games together (Skyrim, ME, Fallout, etc) he started to develop more of an intuitive sense for the systems and began to really enjoy playing them. This probably took 30-50 hours of total play time.

When my ex first tried videogames (and hadn't grown up playing them) he hated it. He used to get so mad at the controls, the situations, the failures. He didn't have an intuitive sense for what to do. His first 20 hours in Mass Effect he didn't even know he could upgrade skills

A lot of times I think there's an initial cliff for people trying something new where either you're naturally inclined toward it, and you have a few hours of novelty, or you're not, in which case you immediately hate it.

This creates a positive feedback loop where you perform well, feel good about yourself, and want to continue to do it.

A lot of the enjoyment from performing an activity comes from developing some level of competence or mastery with that activity.

I'm really starting to feel like this gacha game I love so much is a comparably destructive addiction to my nicotine habit in terms of the daily time it wastes... But I need my daily grind

What are some interesting experiments to run on yourself when you have no job and no responsibilities for a while? Polyphasic sleep? Lucid dreaming? What else ya got, fam?

It’s interesting to compare the cultural narrative around SF right now with the one about NYC I remember from the 90s. Back then that was the town everyone talked about like this. I wonder if we just slam our current cultural fixation for normal features of crowded communities?https://twitter.com/antoniogm/status/1224382464669339648 …

Broke: Being a shaman and healing with crystals Woke: Being a Druid and transmogrifying animals Bespoke: Being an Influencer and channeling the zoomer zeitgeist