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yofuckreddit
1d ago
And, Fundamentally, the hobby still has a chip on its shoulder when it comes to being actually inclusive (i.e., bringing in non-nerds and especially women). Board games are only fun if you have other people to play with, so there's going to be a push to support whatever "current thing" is.
yofuckreddit
1d ago
I think this is a reasonable question. I don't even think "adversarial" would be required. Something analogous to Bernie Sanders on the JRE podcast would be sufficient.
She excels in set-pieces where she gets to play shitty, 10-second-web-clip gotcha games or field those softballs. I'm not impressed at all and I think she's probably my least-desired Dem candidate.
I would be interested in seeing exactly what you're looking for, and would still be very open to the idea of her performing well. The little I've seen suggests she's incapable of it.
yofuckreddit
1d ago
I've been a very lightweight user for 15 years - while I think it's an incredible drug, I've never gotten close to forming a habit.
I'd agree 100%, though, that it absolutely can be harmful. Many friends wallowed post-college for far too long after getting addicted. I think it's more dangerous for teenagers and early 20-somethings as opposed to someone cjet's age.
yofuckreddit
2d ago
I was in this same situation early this year. For what it's worth, it's been awesome improving it. The nights I do drink feel more fun, even though I drink less. Some tips:
- I started using THC as a crutch since I typically only consume one substance per night. I then phased that downward later.
- If you make it through dinner without drinking before and during, then you're pretty much home free. Depending on when you eat now you can push that time back to late enough (730?) to where once you're done it'll be so irrational to crack open a beer you won't do it.
- Activities that are seriously harmed by drinking can be weekday buffers. Reading while drunk is possible but not great, likewise working out. If you do post-dinner runs/stationary bike sessions they can prevent you from getting a session started.
- I needed cooperation and accountability from my wife. In the morning it was easy to say "We aren't drinking tonight" and then if I slipped up and suggested a glass of wine (which would lead to 3-4) she'd stomp it down.
Best of luck!
yofuckreddit
2d ago
What message did you send? How long has it been?
Yeah it is what it is. Out of all the Red Pill advice out there, the one that's most valuable is "abundance mentality". It's trivial to keep relationships going and get things started when you have 2-6 options, but I feel like women can smell when you're only talking to them and not in an exclusive relationship.
You can synthesize the right amount of communication delays for yourself by being busy as fuck with other stuff, but it's best to be talking to multiple women at a time. Godspeed.
yofuckreddit
3d ago
Frankly, for a forum like Reddit, I think you can proofread an LLM's output, and nobody would be the wiser. That's the dataset it's trained on anyway.
Here, though, it's pretty obvious when someone's using one. If you're going to go through the effort of cleaning it up to seem like an intelligent human trying to persuade, you might as well have written it yourself.
If it's a way for a reply poster to "skim" Scott's article without reading it, then that's also anti-ethical to what we're supposed to be doing here.
yofuckreddit
4d ago
... why a color specifically? You'd think that type of clothing, hair style, distinguishing feature, or a half-dozen other things would be more relatable than color.
OK so then you can go back to the 2020/2021 Microsoft meetings where people built more detailed models of themselves and got made fun of for that.
Do I find it intolerably cringe and another way for narcissists to discuss themselves with the excuse of accessibility? Yes. But if I were in a meeting with someone blind I think this is all a reasonable accommodation, is the point.
yofuckreddit
7d ago
For those of you wondering which 2 films Rov thinks you shouldn't skip ;) and aren't interested in replicating my ctrl+f fun in sublime:
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Giant
yofuckreddit
10d ago
The bigger it is the longer I'll take to report back. 25 or 50 is ideal IMO.
yofuckreddit
10d ago
It's been so long since I read it I've forgotten many details, but not that I loved it for some of the same reasons you stated here.
yofuckreddit
10d ago
I've heard from multiple people secondhand that one cool thing about Camino is the members are also mostly normal and good dudes. I'm going to get to see them on this tour which I'm psyched for.
I wouldn't say that I can't find anything to like about old music at all. I enjoy a good chunk of it, it just doesn't get pushed into making the cut here. If I tried to pinpoint why, a few things come to mind:
- I am constantly on a musical treadmill. I save playlists of what I'm listening to for literally that season of my life, and then hear more of what's produced and add to that and so on. It's almost a blessing that I'm single-driven as opposed to album-driven nowadays since some 320kbps MP3s of what I listen to would take up a lot of disk space.
- Old music is played a lot. I love Hotel California, but after hearing it once a night every night while closing at a restaurant, I don't want to hear it again.
- My peers as a kid generally had more limited musical tastes and I was the one making mixtapes. This was rectified by college but then I was fairly set in my ways.
- Some of my favorite genres are younger. It's a bit of a hot take, but hip-hop and rap have undergone a lot of "pure improvement" since their inception.
Bottom line though: I'd love to have a sample playlist of your suggestions. I would prefer to rectify this blind spot rather than leave it hanging.
yofuckreddit
10d ago
Here's a dump of tracks, also following the rule of limiting the number of songs per artist to 1. Otherwise a ton of artists would show up multiple times.
Side note: Excellent exercise to do with friends, and it's about the same length as a monstrous road trip. Highly recommend.
- Mutemath - Prytania
- The Limousines - Get Sharp
- Caracara - Better
- LAYNE - !!! OMG !!!
- Anberlin - Feel Good Drag
- The Temper Trap - Fader
- Wye Oak - Civilian
- Frank Ocean - Swim Good
- Florence + The Machine - Bedroom Hymns
- Drake - Shot For Me
- Counting Crows - Anna Begins
- MS MR - Hurricane
- Bon Iver - Skinny Love
- Now, Now - Prehistoric
- Carolina Liar - I'm Not Over
- The Black Keys - When the Lights Go Out
- Bayside - Tortures Of The Damned
- Brand New - Sowing Season (Yeah)
- Into It. Over It. - Where Your Nights Often End
- Rise Against - The Good Left Undone
- The Wombats - Jump into the Fog
- The Avett Brothers - Kick Drum Heart
- Matt Duke - Spilt Milk
- Kacy Hill - Arm's Length
- Run The Jewels,El-P,Killer Mike,Diane Coffee - Crown
- Mumford & Sons - Dust Bowl Dance
- Aesop Rock - Rings
- City and Colour - The Hurry and the Harm
- Darius Rucker - Wagon Wheel
- The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - January 10th, 2014
- The Band CAMINO - Daphne Blue
- Oh Wonder - You > Me
- Kelsea Ballerini - hole in the bottle
- ILLENIUM,Jon Bellion - Good Things Fall Apart (with Jon Bellion)
- Lemolo - South of Sound
- Kacey Musgraves - justified
- Ben Rector - Old Friends
- Geto Boys - First Light of the Day
- Petey - DON'T TELL THE BOYS
- Jon Bellion - Stupid Deep
- Emily Reid - Wine
- G Yamazawa,Joshua Gunn,Kane Smego - North Cack
- Andy Grammer - Good To Be Alive (Hallelujah)
- Aries - FOOL'S GOLD
- Miguel,Kacey Musgraves - waves (feat. Kacey Musgraves) - Remix
- DWNTWN - Bloodshot Eyes
- Highly Suspect - Little One
- The Weeknd,Drake - The Zone
- The Neighbourhood - Sweater Weather
- Frightened Rabbit - The Woodpile
- Queens of the Stone Age - Turnin On The Screw
- Pusha T - Numbers On The Boards
- The Shins - The Rifle's Spiral
- Foo Fighters - Everlong
- Cage The Elephant - Ain't No Rest for the Wicked
- Incubus - Dig
- TOOL - Eulogy
- Kendrick Lamar,MC Eiht - m.A.A.d city
- ScHoolboy Q - JoHn Muir
- Vince Staples - Norf Norf
- Them Crooked Vultures - No One Loves Me & Neither Do I
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
- Audioslave - Gasoline
- Fireworks - Arrows
- Reignwolf - Are You Satisfied?
- Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
- Dawn Richard - Return of a Queen
- 6LACK - Free
- Selena Gomez,A$AP Rocky - Good For You
- Tyga,Offset - Taste (feat. Offset)
- J. Cole - MIDDLE CHILD
- Kanye West,JAY-Z,Rick Ross,Nicki Minaj,Bon Iver - Monster
- A Day To Remember - All Signs Point To Lauderdale
- Taylor Swift - Wildest Dreams (Taylor's Version)
- fun. - Some Nights
- Grace Potter & The Nocturnals - Paris (Ooh La La)
- Semisonic - Singing In My Sleep
- Paramore - Misery Business
- Miike Snow - My Trigger
- Matchbox Twenty - Angry
- How To Destroy Angels - The Space In Between
- Dexter Freebish - My Madonna
- Fall Out Boy - I'm Like A Lawyer With The Way I'm Always Trying To Get You Off (Me & You)
- Nine Inch Nails - Discipline
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Moya
- My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade
- Colter Wall - Sleeping on the Blacktop
- Linkin Park - Bleed It Out
- Say Anything - Admit It!!
- Halsey - Gasoline
- The All-American Rejects - Move Along
- Jimmy Eat World - Coffee And Cigarettes
- Chevelle - The Red
- Miley Cyrus - Zombie (Live from the NIVA Save Our Stages Festival)
- Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks
- Childish Gambino - Bonfire
- Panic! At The Disco - Say Amen (Saturday Night)
- Sigrid - High Five
- Lil Wayne - A Milli
- Whethan,Oh Wonder - Superlove (feat. Oh Wonder)
- glaive,ericdoa - cloak n dagger
yofuckreddit
10d ago
I loved the fact that she tried to dip into things that were more serious with Goblet of Fire, things became far more "real" with the introduction of other schools, and I thought the length was more appropriate to what would happen in a school year.
That said, I've re-read Philosopher/Sorcerer's stone at least 6 (?) times and Goblet of fire ~3. The later books I've probably only re-read once. I don't think you can beat the first one all-in-all.
yofuckreddit
11d ago
Question though - after UoW and Player, did Phlebas grow on you a little?
In particular, I think having the main character be an avowed enemy of the "main character" of the rest of the series is just such an excellent expository vantage point. The world was built around The Culture before you started seeing things from its point of view. It was a multi-hundred-page prologue.
I'm not going to read the spoiler because I'm 10% into Excession but... now I'm nervous. Damnit.
yofuckreddit
11d ago
You're right about this - after posting I realized this point was silly, even if it leans closer to 2024 than 2000.
yofuckreddit
11d ago
I don't think it's difficult to figure out why the list sucks, even if I've read only ~10% of the books on it. You can read each blurb since the Times can't help but virtue signal even in this format:
A {not white | not straight | not man} struggles in {not contemporary America} against {struggles we think exist in contemporary America}. But the book is about more than that, it also deals with themes of {living | laughing | loving}.
Lazy writing with mediocre prose and crappy anachronisms is what will make you hate yourself, just for wasting your time. As I've gotten older I've gotten smarter at sniffing out when things won't get better after the first 20% of the book.
yofuckreddit
11d ago
The NYT has dropped a list of the 100 best books of the 21st Century. According to them.
I find the list to be vapid beyond words. The inclusion of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow alone, even in the upper 70s, disqualifies it from being anything except for a circlejerk of the rag. Trash like The Fifth Season cements it.
You can walk through the list and see the same themes being hammered over, and over, and over, and over. It is exactly what you'd expect from the culture war, and the percentage of books written in the last 10 years (much less the last 20) is absurdly high.
A couple years ago I collected what I think are the best hundred songs of all time. A friend's python visualization of my Spotify playlist illuminated that, despite all the deep cuts, I didn't have a single entry from before I was born. My musical blind spots are enormous, and I think most old music just fucking sucks. At least I can admit it's because I'm susceptible to the level of manufacturing that modern music goes through, along with a huge obsession with sick beats. My list is "wrong" for most people.
I can't imagine having this level of navel-gazing weakness in self-reflection. Did nobody look at this list and realize how stupid the title is? Did anyone over 25 contribute to it?
In any case as the number got higher there were at least some decent books listed that you could read without hating yourself. They're all still liberal, by default, but at least have significant redeeming qualities.
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- The Goldfinch
- A visit from the Goon Squad
- The Overstory
yofuckreddit
11d ago
I just finished the 4th Culture novel, "The State of the Art".
Easily the worst entry so far, and it's not close. It started with a couple of vignettes that shifted both tone and setting from the previous novels, and then the back half was back to a more typical entry.
It just wasn't interesting. Basically, yet another screed about how communism would work if it wasn't for those capitalist dirty tricks. How awful the earth would seem to an advanced, egalitarian race in a post-scarcity economy. Ian Bank's superiority complex barely shrouded through fiction. The only connection to other books was a one-character cameo.
Despite its shortness compared to the other entries, I'm frustrated because it seems like it was a waste of time. So far, the fifth book is starting off much better.
yofuckreddit
11d ago
What stopped you? Just not your thing? I really dug almost everything I read in the compendium I read back in high school.
yofuckreddit
13d ago
Had this happen in a personal group chat as well and had to slap it down. I've had enough.
TDS continues to be one of the most insane and embarrassing diseases to contract that I've seen in my lifetime.
yofuckreddit
14d ago
My approach to my wife's thrillers has always been closer to yours. She's gotten laughing-annoyed enough at me guessing right through raw trope assumptions that I prefer to hold who I'm thinking in until she finishes.
Your genre requirements are pretty tight. A ton of these thrillers have women becoming investigators through necessity or interest instead of being a professional to kick things off. Have you dipped into the wider pool at all, or do you find it insufferable?
I have an upcoming multi-week sabbatical as part of one of my job benefits.
I am obsessed with bikepacking / touring, and am fairly experienced in the former. I'm also obsessed with accomplishing multiple things at a time. In particular, I love visiting Europe. I'm less interested in pushing boundaries the way most Bikepackers do by surviving through South America (friendly people but crappy food) or Africa (the same, but with less water and bike parts) or Magnolia (even less people and less bike parts).
After visiting the UK, I'm tempted to confine my trip to that island. No language barrier, Scotland is fucking amazing, and I'll have ample opportunity to stop at a hotel instead of a tent or swing by a distillery to relax. The only downside here is... I've been. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to escape my white-collar drudgery and family obligations for more than 4 days. It seems like a cop-out.
It will more likely be a collection of 1-2 other central/eastern European countries, using the train as a band-aid. I'd like to mix in 70% off-roading and 30% relaxation and tooling around urban centers. Good cycling infrastructure to support that is ++. I'm interested in Germany, Italy, and maybe dipping into the Czech Republic since I have people in each place.
The final and biggest challenge would be that I'm very comfortable being on my own for long periods of time and enjoy it. But having another person along for at least part of the journey would be an upgrade. Not many people can physically hang for the type of riding I want to do, and then fewer would be able to invest ~2 weeks of time to do it. At a minimum, I'd like to organize checkpoints where I'm meeting with someone I kinda know at a few locations.
Any opinions from the peanut gallery? Are any Euro mottziens open to grabbing a beer or training up to come along?
yofuckreddit
16d ago
No moral framework can justify the dregs of our society incurring $350/day in costs. It's absolutely unmitigated cost disease through unions and regulatory capture.
Perhaps most importantly, the Californian prison system doesn't even give us anything for those costs. They have all the same problems with rape and overcrowding as any other US prison system, even if it's not at the same scale as the worst of them.
yofuckreddit
16d ago
Sounds like the American built camps for former German soldiers.
Jesus, TIL. Fascinating and horrible.
I'm with ya. I don't get it. Gattsuru did a great counterpoint to you but I've tried to like sushi really hard and failed. It hit me a few weeks ago that it's really expensive, not particularly nutritious, and worse than any other "Asian" food to my palate.
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