chatting casually into the void
You can call me Fyb (pronounced fib) for short, because I think that’s a funny play on my blog url. I’m an adult millenial and any neutral pronouns are fine. I reserve the right to reblog NSFW stuff, though I don’t do it often. I try to tag common triggers, but no promises.
I tend to be chatty in tumblr replies, but I’ll stop doing it on your posts if you ask!
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just finished this month's book club book, went skimming goodreads reviews afterwards as you do, got my breath taken away by this absolutely brutal ending to one of the multi-paragraph 1 star reviews
i know i'm just rehashing something that people have been saying about movies and video games for decades but it's crazy how a ttrpg having sex moves is widely seen as bizarre and automatically gets it described as "niche" while a ttrpg having rules for how to kill other people is so normal that players and pundits will treat their absence as notable in and of itself
The way adult fandom people hold indie online creators and cartoons to a much higher standard than their actual local politicians. You could be putting that energy into terrorizing and protesting conservatives at your town hall and actually make a good material impact on the world but instead you're background checking everything the trans woman who made the amazing digital circus has ever said
Absolutely valid...
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@/motelsink: I'm heavily involved in local activism/politics/my union and i gotta say, there are plenty of annoying adults with zero reading comprehension or critical thinking skills who show up to those meetings IRL, and i have found myself on more than one occasion wishing that these people would go fight with each other about cartoons instead 😭
@/passionpeachy: lmfao I did not think about this perspective 😭
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Annie Dillard
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"One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes."
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what is your go-to brainteaser/puzzle game?
sudoku
minesweeper
solitaire
crossword
kakuro
mahjong
nonogram
chess
reversi/othello
something else that i will reveal in the replies
logical deduction games like cluesbysam.com
you have to love the victims more than you hate the aggressor. you have to love the victims more than you hate the aggressor. you have to love the victims more than you hate the aggressor
i miss the days before AI when you could read a story on the internet and not have to worry about whether or not it was fake
I rather like the critique of what I'd call "notegooning" in the first half of this
The notetaking people—and I say this with all the love in the world—are never, like, a researcher at the cutting edge of their field, building this vast cathedral of knowledge, note-by-note, so they can derive new insights. Never a historian who has to read tens of millions of words across thousands of sources to synthesize the life of some historical person. It’s never someone doing something hard. It’s always some blogger. Their “digital garden” is about how to keep a digital garden. It’s very solipsistic: there’s no output, no deliverables. The deliverable is you take a screenshot of your Obsidian graph and tweet about it to show off how much it looks like an incomprehensible ball of twine.
Sometimes, tools don’t move the needle because there’s no needle to move. Because the “needle” is not a concrete, realizable material need but a vague, aspirational idea about who we are as people.
I liked this also:
The reason knowledge is still a bottleneck, in the AI era, is not: “if you don’t have the knowledge, you can’t write the prompt”. Rather: if you don’t have the knowledge, you don’t understand the question, or why it matters, or how to judge the answers, and you won’t ever think to ask.
i don't read much period military history but every time i do i'm like. (1) wow being a soldier fucking sucked for the vast majority of human history and (2) you can tell the soldiers would agree with that assessment b/c the amount of violence/coercion their superiors have to employ to keep their soldiers from mutinying/deserting all the time is frankly offensive to human dignity
