yofuckreddit
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yofuckreddit
2hr ago
So, a word of warning. I am an LDR vet. 5 years of LDR dating before I was 21.
My "big" breakup that fucked me good was a 3 month situationship where we knew we should break up, but she pushed to stay together after a month, we kept falling deeper in love, and then cheated on me a couple months later. I'm fairly confident if we hadn't done that it would have been a good relationship when I returned.
In short, just don't expose yourself to more risk of heartbreak than you need to. Keep moving forward while she's gone and make the call to rekindle or not when (if) she comes back.
yofuckreddit
2hr ago
While Visual Studio and C# are my drugs of choice, the worst thing about them may be the default linter & style guide's insistence on Allman.
K&R has always been the best, and as you say, it's not close.
yofuckreddit
2d ago
- I also did basic homebrewing in college, in this case to get around being too young too buy beer myself. I used low-tier equipment and a low-tier process. With the focus and knowledge of cooking I've gained since then, not to mention the vast amounts of information, I think you would get great results and it would be fun.
- Mead is in between winemaking and brewing in that you are a bit more restricted in terms of ingredients, so execution is paramount. The guys I know who do it are generally more focused and weird than brewers, and you'll sometimes get sick of drinking your own stuff. You need other people who can drink your product.
- I investigated home distilling for a bit, which has fewer resources than brewing because of its illegality. My read after watching some videos is that it's far more difficult, has a far longer time between effort and analysis, and requires more specialized equipment. I love whiskey but plan to leave this to the professionals.
yofuckreddit
2d ago
- I'd say no, a second message is a key part of the funnel and I wouldn't outsource this. Please say you have decent game and can actually perform better than a robot here.
- You could have it schedule for you while scanning recent messages - you handle the human part, it handles the paperwork.
- I would, at the first date. If she thinks it's cool, you've found a good match. If she's offended, she's probably too solipsistic and sensitive to be a long-term play.
What's your goal here? Sex or love?
Side note: I fucking love that you did this for many reasons. Congrats!
yofuckreddit
2d ago
Well, for one, a lot of TRT clinics are, as you seem to have noticed, whitewashed ways to get roids, and you can absolutely game the measurements to apply for it.
If I knew a crazy dude who wanted to know more about this, where would he go to learn more about it? Or, even better, would you replicate the approach here?
yofuckreddit
3d ago
You seem to have misunderstood what I was saying here.
It didn't guess anything that I hadn't told it, it just extrapolated from the memory of multiple chat threads, asking about useful how-to topics. There's no magic.
The point is that even with my complete avoidance of anything truly personal, a platform has valuable information. If you're spilling your guts to a virtual therapist, It's a huge vulnerability.
yofuckreddit
3d ago
This is the problem for me. I tried a fun little game recently with my OpenAI instance, in which I've still been careful about what I write. It still had a ton of personal information from our chat contexts and was able to do a decent job figuring out pressure points in my life.
If I can't have full opsec with a virtual therapist then it's as worthless to me as the judgemental lefty who will call the cops on me if I'm sad.
yofuckreddit
5d ago
Bro, you're not even going to mention "Good Time" by Owl City? Perhaps it's just too easy.
I'm embarrassed I liked so many of these songs, though by 2011 I had started to get really sick of it and hated (for instance) "Give me Everything Tonight"
yofuckreddit
5d ago
Fuck me HL2 is so good. I literally replay it once every 2 years or so.
yofuckreddit
7d ago
On one hand I agree.
On the other this took serious intent from AOC or her Twitter admin. It only took seconds, but why remove it at all? Thousands of software suites have been updated to allow pronouns and gender spectrums whenever dealing with people. They fought so hard for this - why back down on the signal?
yofuckreddit
8d ago
This has far more to do with Trump monday-morning quarterbacking than anything else.
yofuckreddit
10d ago
Do they really do no advanced filtering before donation? I guess I thought they would for some reason.
yofuckreddit
11d ago
No - it has a high Rotten Tomatoes rating but that's not as solid a thing to have faith in anymore. Have you?
yofuckreddit
11d ago
I'd say I've been diverse in what I've read, and haven't disliked much. Also read a good amount of fantasy though scifi is my first pick.
- Classics - Asimov, Heinlein, Bradbury.
- Midrange - Niven, the aforementioned culture series, Orson Scott Card, William Gibson, Michael Crighton, Dan Simmons
- New school? - I really liked Peter Watts, Paolo Bacigalupi, and read some of the tie-in novels for video games.
If I had to pick what I'm into I'd say harder scifi appeals to me far more than the alternative. Once you have that, I tend to like grittier/dystopian stuff I guess.
yofuckreddit
11d ago
My assumption is that these are all extremely low. <10%.
When was the last time a western democracy executed any meaningful deportations? These are huge percentages of people to ship back, and the propaganda machine already has been preparing bullshit about how it's impossible for 2 months (much like the wall, but I digress).
yofuckreddit
11d ago
I finally finished The Culture series, ending on The Hydrogen Sonata. @roystgnr asked to hear what I thought of it when I was done:
I heard that Banks didn't want this to be the last culture novel, but I do think it fits in a way. The focus on Subliming (definitely the most hand-waved, mystical part of the series) was arguably a great topic to wrap up on. I think he did a good job peeling back the curtain just enough, but any more books about it afterward would have been too much.
There were elements of it that felt a bit disjointed and unrealistic.
In any case, I've moved on to other books. I discussed being recommended "Normal People" from a woman I have a bit of a complicated relationship with. I discussed it in the Friday Fun thread. To be frank, I don't think it will tickle the fancy of many people here. It's a modern romance novel with a little bit of woke dashed in. Great sex scenes, and refreshing in terms of how it treated an intense relationship. I haven't read a romance in many years. Many commit the sin making what's supposed to be a great love just... not very good. I much prefer the type of book that reminds me of what it felt like the few times it's happened.
I've also started on Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion. The title is hilariously "standard" for a history book, but I'm very into it so far. At one time as a child, I had an abject fascination with the California gold rush after getting a basic book about it from my San Franciscan cousins. Anyone living in the Bay Area probably considers it played out, but for a guy in the Southeast, it was exciting stuff. Reading about it with the level of fidelity a book like this provides (just in the first 25 superdense pages) is a treat. I'll wait to recommend it, but so far, it's been good.
yofuckreddit
11d ago
"Normal People" by Sally Rooney
yofuckreddit
13d ago
I think being compared to what appears to be a braver and more charismatic character is... pretty positive. Nice.
Factorio is a uniquely addicting game for me. I love it - however I can't escape the fact that the time I spend playing it is the same muscles as programming (which has a high $ROI compared to gaming), and I just don't have the time right now. If my battletech group takes a sabbatical I may be able to schedule 1-2 days a week to play.
I suspect that most of the 3d games use a grid system somehow. My buddies have really liked Satisfactory if you'd prefer to get the 3d experience.
Also, speaking of factories, I watched an awesome little sci-fi vignette about it recently: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cntb3wcZdTw (Mid voice acting/writing but can't have it all)
yofuckreddit
13d ago
I liked Rodrigo's latest album actually. Almost like... rock? Sabrina's "Taste" is a fantastic cuckquean anthem, but the rest of her stuff is only OK, but she's nice to look at when building a youtube playlist so it's fine.
I don't get Chappell Roan at all.
It is funny that these women essentially have to pay homage to Taylor Swift though.
yofuckreddit
13d ago
Might be critical for late game, who knows.
I only read the developer diaries. I can't play the game, because I have a family and a career that would be destroyed by it. But I've heard this is the case.
The only downside is, it's not 3d. Why, I can't tell you
There are a ton of 3D imitators in the genre, so it's 100% possible, and I know a couple people who can't play Factorio because of it. I think the devs are obsessed with the quality of the code and design in the game to such a degree that they believe 3D will never allow such precision and control of the player's viewpoint. I think they're right.
yofuckreddit
13d ago
I'll echo that the creation of covers still goes on, and I think people still do really well. In fact, I maintain a playlist of great covers that continually expands. Some suggestions from the past few years (I'd do the whole playlist, but I'd be dipping into early 00s covers etc.):
I'm powering through an enjoyable book recommendation from friend, and it's reminding me of how much I've recently thought about how much - or if at all - people send messages through art.
I miss mixtapes, dearly. I still have a few scrawled CDs in sleeves that never get played, most of which I did make myself. It's a bit arrogant to say, but I have historically gotten positive feedback from those I distributed to others. Truthfully, I'd put some effort in - parsing through a wide collection to find things I truly believed the other person would like. And yes, sometimes, sending a message. I suspect that thrashing genres thew some people off occasionally, but I think it was worth it to get them hooked on something new.
As time has gone on I've found that people's recommendations of books and music haven't hit the spot as much as they once did. We've spoken endlessly about the degradation in quality of art on this forum, and yeah that's part of it, but I also see it as a consequence of the distance we keep from each other as we become adults.
Books are particularly challenging. I think sharing a great novel with someone has a sort of intimacy that is matched by very few things, perhaps as a result of how long of an investment it requires. But I also think the medium just has more emotional potential than movies/TV (definitely) or music (probably).
I love fiction and tend to stay in the realm of fiction focused on anything other than people, but I do occasionally treat myself to more "realistic" interpersonal fiction. I still think "This is Where I Leave You" was one of the best books I've ever read. It either helped process some trauma or inflamed it, not sure, but the recommendation that set me off on this rant is of the genre. It's kind of nice to be back after what's probably been a 4 year hiatus from it.
In any case I'm not sure how common talking to each other indirectly through this stuff is. It feels like most people view the exchange of entertainment recommendations as somehow related to status - like they're just pushing something to you to get the endorphin hit from you saying you liked it. Given how much content is available, how freely it flows, that's all anyone has time for. But it seems like a waste of time, even if "sending messages through art" is presumptuous or paranoid.
yofuckreddit
14d ago
Agreed. I can't believe this whole planet fell for the scam, to be honest. I guess double-walled steel water bottles were more expensive in the 90s or something but...
Dang it, I wish I could be more creative, because I love the idea of the chair and think the obvious choice is a great one.
A clock, already suggested, is a great option. My parents have disabled the grandfather clock they have that mine built. They found the ringing too annoying. I disagree, but be aware of the potential downside.
For my grandmother, we spent a fraction of the money on a vacation to some of her favorite places, and generated pictures and experiences from it that will stick around for a while. I assume you considered and discarded this, but wanted to throw it out there.
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