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naraburns  nihil supernum  1yr ago (text post)   3624 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for November 25, 2022

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I like to get some fresh air and a change of scenery on the weekends. Take a long walk at a park. I usually avoid shopping and restaurants on the weekends because they're always packed with people, so I like to do those things on weekdays. I prefer parks that are large enough to avoid too many people. If the weather isn't nice for walking, I'll take a long drive in my car.

Reading, watching movies, walking, blogging. Occasionally going to the range. Now that ski season is open, probably skiing too.

Making me feel guilty for not getting in a single range day all summer, damn it.

TMD - The Motte Majority Demographic. Mostly grey tribe, men, computer professionals, and engineers.

Off-topic, but I think certain cultural programming has psyoped a lot of TMD into thinking they are introverts. I have all the physical markers for "introverted nerd" but every time I do a big 5 test, I score around the 40-50th percentile in Extravertedness. And I do find all the introverted talk in "nerdy" subcultures unrelatable. And I suspect that my Extravertedness percentile in tests ends up being lower than it should be because of my low Agreeableness, I have a bitch of a time interpreting what the questions are actually asking and interpret them in a way where I might be prone to the "autists mistake".

The ideal weekend starts with having to do some extroverted activities before the weekend, preferably something I really don't want to do, like going to a very crowded event for a long period which has people I'm vaguely acquainted with and will likely have to make small-talk; like a wedding. Then a weekend with absolutely no plans. If the following few weeks also contain no plans or appointments, it makes my weekend even better, since my mind can be completely free from thinking about the future.

It doesn't matter what I do, as long as what I do is completely uninfluenced from my anxieties of socializing.

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