kazerniel

My issue with language learning is that I hate illogical and inefficient systems, and sadly languages have so much organically accumulated bullshit in them, that I get too frustrated to continue 😅 (Yea I know, I should try Esperanto, but even that has genders.)

Same lol. And the weird thing is that I quite enjoy number-based games like Picross and Hexcells, but I hate actual arithmetics.

but ASMR is generally just annoying/grating to me

It’s so rare to find other people like this! ASMR sound effects make me viscerally uncomfortable, and I especially get creeped out by the whispering voices as if they were right next to your ear 😰

and you can watch in real time as their world view starts wobbling and they start making up rationalizations and excuses for behaviour that is utterly narcissistic.

I encounter this when chatting with a family member and she mentions that she “loves animals” and who “couldn’t hurt a fly” while also being an omnivore. She feels sorry for the animals when she thinks of industrial farming, but does her best to never think about it. When this topic comes up, I don’t say anything (we’ve been through the topic in the past), but she sees the impatience with her bullshit on my face, and gets flustered by the fact that someone doesn’t consider this cognitive dissonance normal.

This! Oddly the more socially confident I’ve got with age, the more draining and annoying I find social hangouts and noise 😅 Not having to interact with anyone the whole day is bliss (at least in-person, I don’t mind reading/writing on these forums).

I definitely game less than in my teens mostly due to reddit & lemmy, but I have a browser mod to disable social media sites and other timesinks (TVTropes lol) after 8pm, so I have several hours a day ringfenced for gaming :) (But I also got better at actually playing rather than spending hours preparing to play. I was an anxious teen 😅)

Thanks for the background! And I love that anecdote 🤣

Pál utcai fiúk is a pretty fun historical snapshot from what I remember. I only read it in middle school, but I remember I found the kids’ lifestyle and hobbies interesting :)

I grew up in Budapest, but have lived in Glasgow for 15+ years now. I couldn’t bear the Hungarian heat lol.

Swedish and Hungarian as first languages, how did that come about? :) (I’m Hungarian too.)

Haha I live in Glasgow, so it’s often not fully dry, and I have to turn bottles and cans upside down to let the rainwater pour out before bagging them.

Thanks :) I really like that it has an immediate positive effect. I typically work on digital documents and long projects, so it’s at most a couple times a year that my work has a tangible end result that I can leaf through. Litter picking gives immediate satisfaction :)

It reminds me of a scene in Iain Banks’s sci-fi novel Use of Weapons:

Gardening, walking in forests :)

Litter picking is also a very in-the-moment activity, like an IRL hidden object game.

I’d also say that I read a lot, but I do it on an ebook reader, so it doesn’t feel properly offline 😅

…or any music really. My partner is an enthusiastic amateur musician in several instruments, and it can get painful 🙃

The only time I would say it isn’t justifiable, if it’s a book/game/etc. made by an unrecognised creator who needs every purchase they can get. In every other case, go for it!

oh I remember there being a literal version of this in Hungary ( Túlélők Földje ), a play-by-mail RPG where you would submit your moves on a paper form by mail and they mail you back what happens. According to wiki you could execute a series of actions every 9 days :)

this format reminds me of Twitch plays Pokemon :)

On reddit I occasionally get replies years after my original post/comment, and it always throws me a bit, like sitting in a time machine, travelling back to a random old conversation, the state that the discussed game was in at the time, etc.

I’m of a mixed mind if keeping old comment threads open is a good idea. For advice-based communities definitely, but for random conversations not really. The context changes, the people’s lives changes, dragging old conversations back to life just feels out of place.

I think it’s for different moods. When discovering a new community, I can spend a couple hours looking through several pages’ worth of of All Time Top posts, but for daily quick visits I just look at 1-2 pages of the Hot feed of my subscribed communities. If something doesn’t make it there, I’ll likely miss it. (I occasionally venture over to the Scaled feed too.)

I don’t think I ever looked through a community’s entire back catalogue though. Though tbf I did most of my deep diving on reddit, where it just wasn’t practical with the volume of posts (also like 10+ pages in it often started to feel like I was down to the dregs in quality). But it may be more practical on Lemmy/PieFed.

if it helps, as a lifetime Windows user I installed Linux Mint on an old laptop a few weeks ago, and used it for a week while travelling, and it went well :D It’s just different enough from Windows to have a bit of a learning curve, but nothing too scary.

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I think the most crucial part of the context in which a work was created is the mind it was created from. If that mind has the personality of an irredeemable asshole, that affects the way I perceive the art.

I’m more surprised that/if historically people separated the art from the artist. No art is created in a vacuum, their creators live in the world along with everyone else. I guess the only justification I can see if someone believes that art solely comes from divine inspiration or similar.