I just find it hard to be empathetic when I've meet people interested in DnD that literally tell me they would not play with me.
Yea, that's fair. I never experienced that but most of the people I played with were folks I either worked with or knew from other areas of life.
This sortof thing exists in all activities, but I get it's hard to put aside and puts a sour taste in your mouth about participating. I've encountered it a lot, in some cases it turned me off entirely, in others I just found better people and stopped worrying about the others. Either way, it sucks, especially when it's something you have to do as a group.
If you live in a big city it's not just DnD, board games or other hobbies like this that are difficult to find groups for, it's everything.
Most people in public or semi-public areas like outdoor workout areas in public parks, private gyms, public gyms, golf clubs, leisure clubs and et al generally want to do their own thing, headphones on, not talking to anyone or even entertaining the idea of socialising.
It's a result of lack of free time to fit these activities in, combined with a busy lifestyle and everyone is a stranger syndrome that you get in big cities.
Idk the solution either but some tips I've been given is to make yourself seem approachable by, for example, not having headphones or hoodies/caps on, smiling back at people that smile at you, that kind of thing.
‘Project Hail Mary’ Becomes Amazon’s Highest-Grossing Film Debut
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Project Hail Mary was the No. 1 film at the US and Canadian box office this weekend with $80.5 million worth of tickets, scoring the highest grossing debut of any movie this year. $140.9 million at the global box office.
It's a result of lack of free time to fit these activities in, combined with a busy lifestyle and everyone is a stranger syndrome that you get in big cities.
It's a big time issue with the outdoor community. I rode mtb for about 11 years (still do but...painfully and shittily courtesy of nerve problems) and around a lot of places in the US. Some of the biggest *** I met were on bikes on trails in big cities. There can be a lot of elitism especially in certain activities and everyone is NIMBY in some capacity or another. We have constant problems with other user groups trying to ban us from the trails in the forests here. The hikers don't like the mtbers who don't like the equestrians who don't like anyone, the fly fishermen don't like the climbers (don't ask, I don't know why), who I'm sure don't like someone. It's just so exhausting.
I moved to a small town eventually but things here have gotten weird. When I moved here about 9-10 years ago, there were probably a dozen group rides people organized either individually or through shops. It was very social. Now, none of those exist anymore, they are all gone. I had one I ran for 2-3 years of night riders during the darker times of the year, we had 15-20 people show up on average, now all but one of those people has vanished into the wind. I made friends here on the trail that I just ran into and they were lost, so we rode together, or just meeting random folks at the top of the mountain and chatted. Now folks just ride past and don't say anything to each other.
‘Project Hail Mary’ Becomes Amazon’s Highest-Grossing Film Debut
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Project Hail Mary was the No. 1 film at the US and Canadian box office this weekend with $80.5 million worth of tickets, scoring the highest grossing debut of any movie this year. $140.9 million at the global box office.
I think its pretty much a guarantee that his third book gets made into a movie.
I would say all but certain. But. Artemis has a female protag.
And it's not like The Martian and Hail Mary really. It would've come before Hail Mary if it were that good.
Unless you mean his next book, which whatever it is probably gets an instant yes as long as it's a lonely boy scientist saving something.
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Andy Weir is a fun author, but he can only write a Mark Watney type character. Even the protagonist in Project Hail Mary is essentially Watney. The protagonist of Artemis was shoehorning a female overlay on the Watney model. Artemis was my least favorite of his books by far.
Yeah, Im kinda wondering about chatGPT right now. Yes, it is a all sizes fit in tool, but also good in all, but master of none.
For coding, I would prefer some tool integrated with VS Code. Copilot for me, or Claude Code if I ever reach a point I feel like trying the next level.
For images, I think it would be worth investing in a more specialized tool, as image generation feels like the one area that still has a lot room for improvements.
For translations, using the free google is basically enough. I did the chinese to english translation, and had no issue dropping the image and receiving the text. And for free.
At this point, chatGPT is being an improved Google for me, and still using it for image generation but yeah, not entirely satisfied with the results
Unrelated, I didnt want to use the pirate chinese scanlation, but when I went to the Korean site to sign in and legally buy the legit manhwa, the site flagged my IP as “untrusted” for no reason, and prevented my login.
I mean, WTF?
Those easterners really dont like selling stuffs to westerns. So I will need to keep using the images from the chinese pirates, while I try figuring how to do it legitimately.
The major problem is that there are small watermarks here and there.
Working on Plaything, I ended actually working the full weekend in video editing.
After publishing 2 chapters in a row, right now the ch79 was released... and I have to go to office today...
This will be a long week of work, I thought I could take easy for the rest of the week, but I need to keep the momentum and milk it for all it's worth.
Gonna try to do the translation part before heading out, do the scripting and composition sketch at office, and finally editing for the rest of the day.
EDIT: translation done, and this chapter didnt had much progression story wise. I could sum up all the canon events in one line, but this chapter focus more on the action part.
And trying to make a static page into an interesting scene in a video requires more work from the editor. And inspiration.
Ive got some ideas. Im not sure if I can beat my magnum opus, but I think I can make it interesting enough
It's a result of lack of free time to fit these activities in, combined with a busy lifestyle and everyone is a stranger syndrome that you get in big cities.
It's a big time issue with the outdoor community. I rode mtb for about 11 years (still do but...painfully and shittily courtesy of nerve problems) and around a lot of places in the US. Some of the biggest *** I met were on bikes on trails in big cities. There can be a lot of elitism especially in certain activities and everyone is NIMBY in some capacity or another. We have constant problems with other user groups trying to ban us from the trails in the forests here. The hikers don't like the mtbers who don't like the equestrians who don't like anyone, the fly fishermen don't like the climbers (don't ask, I don't know why), who I'm sure don't like someone. It's just so exhausting.
I moved to a small town eventually but things here have gotten weird. When I moved here about 9-10 years ago, there were probably a dozen group rides people organized either individually or through shops. It was very social. Now, none of those exist anymore, they are all gone. I had one I ran for 2-3 years of night riders during the darker times of the year, we had 15-20 people show up on average, now all but one of those people has vanished into the wind. I made friends here on the trail that I just ran into and they were lost, so we rode together, or just meeting random folks at the top of the mountain and chatted. Now folks just ride past and don't say anything to each other.
3rd location is something that I just started hearing people talk about more, but I've been saying this to my wife for years. Unless you want to get drunk or fat, there is nothing to do in my town. Going out to eat or going out drinking is literally the only options.
I've definitely noticed that I get looked at more and more weird when I interact with random younger people. Holding a door open or even just saying "good morning" as I walk past them and make eye contact, you'd think I was covered in open sores the way they look at me.
One other thing I've noticed is that younger people do not have the ability to understand sarcasm. Being a child of the 80s and 90s, literally every form of entertainment was just full of sarcastic stuff and we just learned how to read the inflections. People now have such a problem understanding basic human communication, sarcasm just does not compute with them at all.
One other thing I've noticed is that younger people do not have the ability to understand sarcasm. Being a child of the 80s and 90s, literally every form of entertainment was just full of sarcastic stuff and we just learned how to read the inflections. People now have such a problem understanding basic human communication, sarcasm just does not compute with them at all.
Where is Mad magazine now that a new generation, or several generations, really needs it?
Or perhaps we need a hand signal like air quotes to signal sarcasm to those raised on the internet.
Or perhaps we need a hand signal like air quotes to signal sarcasm to those raised on the internet.
Funny you should say that. I was friendly with a person at a club at one point, and he was teaching me how to stretch. Just a "what do you do you're pretty flexible" kinda thing, laughing and joking.
Guy started repeating a very inappropriate phrase as to how the lower limbs should be splayed in order to feel a good stretch very loudly, in a public space within ear shot of people we both see almost daily.
I made a blank face comment about them buying me dinner if they want me to do that, which in my mind was obviously a joke. Not even a sarcastic joke, just a regular joke said with a blank face.
Guy never spoke to me again.
/shrug. My bad, I guess.
I think a lot of people today will look for any excuse to not have to interact with other people. I blame the immediacy of interaction on the Internet which for a lot of people has substituted face to face interactions.
This is a thread that I found on another website I post at. It can be really really interesting. I thought it deserved a place here.
Post your random thoughts for the day here, or anything else that intrigues you.
For starters, is it possible to give constructive critism to someone who doesn't have a neck? I totally just walked by a girl who didn't. Someone isn't getting a necklace for Valentines day!
And who decided black and white can't be colors? I want to say a racist. I really do.
