#need to get the good rates though

[arsenicflame]

i have just done Several financially responsible things please congratulate me

[lokh]

every day im reminded that though my parents may have wanted a dog they clearly did not want to take care of a dog

[icewindandboringhorror]

I've referenced before how I have a big google document to keep track of every media I've ever seen in my entire life (just for reference because I like to track everything possible lol… I am the Data Collector), but recently as I was updating it, I thought of actually evaluating them to find out random percentages (like for example, out of Total Shows Watched, what percentage did I finish vs. stop watching, what percentage did I like or dislike, etc.)...

Evaluating these things is made easier by the fact that I already place everything on each subsection of the list into 6 broad ranking categories, so I don't have to go back and guess to figure out how I feel about them or anything. The categories are: Ranking 5 - overall best* (despite some criticisms of course because I'm too much of an Analyzer to ever find anything Perfect lol) Ranking 4 - more positive than neutral, but not good enough to be 5 Ranking 3 - either the good + bad negate each other, OR it's just not memorable/interesting in any way enough to be ranked higher or lower (this is the Default category ALL things are placed in if no other rank applies) Ranking 2 - maybe a few redeemable elements but largely more negatives than positives Ranking 1 - So bad that it circles around to being fascinating to observe in some way (not necessarily Funny, or Good, but just interesting somehow) Ranking 0 - Bad in a genuinely frustrating or obnoxious manner

*("best" primarily defined here as most interesting, rather than most good in a technical sense, or some other measure. I tend to value more highly whether there's something novel or thoughtful about the worldbuilding, tone, writing, base premise, etc - than about whether it's actually executed perfectly.)

And here's the amount of shows that have so far been placed into each category -

TV shows ~ Rank 5 (highest) - 20 shows ~ Rank 4 (mid-high) - 28 shows ~ Rank 3 (neutral/default/meh) - 114 shows ~ Rank 2 (mid low) -33 shows ~ Rank 1 (low low but intriguingly so) - 14 shows ~ Rank 0 (iredeemably low) - 2 shows

This would make for a total of 211 TV shows overall. However, there are 57 shows within these list marked as "didn't finish" (typically meaning I quit on the very first or second episode - but log them still to keep a record that I at least had a brief view of them).

So my total of genuinely fully watched shows would be more 154. 211 Total, but a More Accurate Total of 154.

Counting them all and using the Total Number Of The List (211) -- that means roughly 9.5% of all total shows I have ever watched (or at least attempted to watch) have been Mostly Good, 13% have been Moderately Okay, 54% have been either entirely Forgettable or some mix of good + bad that lands them right in the Neutral Middle, 15.6% have been Mostly Bad, 6.6% have been Bad (but in an interesting way), and 0.9% have been Terribly Bad.

Additionally, I didn't even get past the first two episodes of about 27% of the total.

Sooo, discounting ones I didn't finish, my total TV shows ever watched in my life would be about 154 (maybe give or take a few, assuming I might have forgotten some from very long ago).

But instead of entire life, let's just say this is the total for 'About 20 Years' (so, not counting very early childhood when I likely wouldn't remember things I saw/have no detailed recollection of them (like for example, I'm sure at some point when I was like 4yrs old I must have seen an episode of Spongebob or something, but I have zero distinct memories of it, can't quote anything of it, and barely recall the premise - so I don't count it on the list, etc.)).

In that case, 154 divided by 20 would be roughly 7.7 shows a year.

Which is actually surprisingly low considering that I often have stuff on in the background for hours whilst I make sculptures and do costumes and stuff (maybe I should have also marked some distinction between 'things I fully paid attention to' and 'things I kind of half listened to whilst sculpting', but that would further split the categories too much probably lol), but I guess a lot of that is youtube videos or random documentaries, so .. eh.. maybe I get it being lower.

Now, doing the same thing for movies-

Movies ~ Rank 5 (highest) - 4 movies (3.4% of total) ~ Rank 4 (mid-high) - 12 movies (10.3% of total) ~ Rank 3 (neutral/default/meh) - 91 movies (78.4% of total) ~ Rank 2 (mid low) - 8 movies (6.8% of total) ~ Rank 1 (low but interesting) - 1 movie (0.8% of total) ~ Rank 0 (irredeemably low) - none in this category (0%)

That makes 116 for a Total (Actually Remembered) Movies Watched In Lifetime (Or At Least In 20 Years).

116 divided by 20 is roughly 5 or 6 movies a year (I feel this has probably been skewed though by adding everything since like elementary school onwards, as I remember a lot more movies from child/teen years.. Whereas, the past 3 years I feel like I've barely seen maybe even 5 movies?? lol). I also have "Didn't Finish" marked on 18 of them. Which means I quit halfway through about 15% of the total movies.

So, a for broader summary stuff..

I seem to be less forgiving to movies than tv shows, by far. Which makes sense to me, I guess, because I love elaboration and details, so "short form" things that only last an hour or two are often lost on me a bit. My biggest complaint with movies is indeed usually walking away just wishing there had been more exposition, more scenes where characters are doing nothing, more "mindless bantering" conversations, more Quiet Downtime and Lore Elaboration and so on lol, so... of course most 1-2hr films end up feeling a bit Not Enough To Draw My Interest/Nothingy to me.

If you count 5 and 4 as "like" and rankings 2 to 0 as "dislike", then for TV shows I at least somewhat liked 48 of them, and at least somewhat disliked 47 of them.. So it's almost exactly the same lol. I'm just about equally as likely to find something bad as I am to find something redeeming about it. But overall, the largest chance is that I just won't really care much for it at all and it will be tossed into the 'neutral' pile, forgotten forever. Movies have a bit better of a balance, "liking" 16 of them, and "disliking" only 9 of them. So I'm slightly more likely to enjoy a movie than to find it annoying - though still VASTLY more likely to just not find it anything in particular, possibly not even finishing it.

ANYWAY.. this is vague and literally pointless, but like I said, I just really find information fun. Like my document where I've rated every apple flavor I've ever tried (like 40 of them now?), or reviewed every oreo flavor (32?), or ranking data from my entire 10 years of Trying To Make Friends process (out of 100 people, roughly 8% chance of a moderate compatibility, 3% chance of high), or etc. etc.. I love to have random pointless things to analyze I suppose lol.

I doubt anyone tracks things in their life in this same exact way, but I'd be interested in hearing any at least somewhat similar data !!! (like, how many TV shows you watch a year on average, and what percentage of those you like vs. dislike (if you keep track of that sort of thing), etc.)). I guess it might be easier with movies, since I think some people use those websites where you curate a list of movies you've seen and you can rate them or something, so maybe the numbers are already available on those places. :0

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

Interesting. Don’t necessarily think I’m autistic but I have more going on than just ADHD and I’m not sure what that is.

[anghraine]

I spent much of the day with my parents, who I'm visiting after the requisite post-COVID time (I still have a cough and am easily tired, but neither is nearly as bad as a couple of days ago). It was really fun—we talked a lot, I got to see the family pets, my dad and I played one of my favorite card games (Neolithic; it's simple but fun), and then we all ended up playing City of Heroes, which is officially legal again (not that we were playing for years before the official license or anything >_>). We're currently doing an experiment to see if it's even possible to get to level 50 without ever leaving my favorite region of the game (Praetoria).

(I like Praetoria in part because of the various urban aesthetics underpinned by horror, in part because Praetorian characters get actual choices and it's easier to imagine they have real personalities and stories, and in part because it's a sort of mirrorverse AU of the main game where superheroes aren't really a concept. I don't especially care for superheroes despite most of the game being all about them, and mostly like the game for mechanics and costuming options, so a story-centric customizable character arc in a dystopia zone where people with superpowers are understood in wildly different terms than the rest of the game is ideal. Nobody else seems to much care for it; sometimes I'm the only person who seems to be in Nova Praetoria at all and my mother doesn't much like it, but she volunteered to join the experiment, lol.)

We were also waxing nostalgic about the good old days when we used to play Might and Magic VII together, and I was like... you know it's on GOG, yeah? You could just play it. I don't think it's expensive. So we looked and, good news, she actually already had it on GOG, but bad news, it wasn't working on her new laptop.

She went to bed and after about half an hour of finagling, I figured out what was wrong and got it working again. Arcomage is in our future once more :D

[diltonsstrangescience]

A moment of appreciation, please, for these unreasonably adorable evil lackeys.

[fionnaskyborn]

pros of learning how to play fighting game:

undergoing a learning experience, trying out something entirely different from anything i have previously played

i get to look at a little guy do cool things on my screen :)

cons of learning how to play fighting game:

i am clumsy as all hell with the inputs

the order in which you press and/or hold buttons to create inputs is less like trying to get a sequence of movements right and more like playing a rhythm game (down then while not letting go of down press forward then let go of down and THEN press an attack button on the other side of the keyboard). i suck at rhythm games. hell world

sometimes, the damn things just... won't register? at all? you do a half circle to forward input and the game says "half circle forward? oh, sorry, that's ensenga :)" or, worse, "too slow, that's a regular heavy slash move :)". brother. why must you do me like this.

the area between the knuckles of my ring and little finger hurts like a motherfucker (though this has hurt in various areas since at least this morning, but i'm willing to bet that practicing quarter and half circle inputs for at least an hour did not make the situation any better)

[pastafossa]

You have my sympathies, Pasta 🥺 I’m chronically ill/disabled, too, and the first time I got Covid (thankfully AFTER my first vax dose) I was sick as fuuuck for three weeks 🙃🙃

Here’s a virtual hug to help you get through

Thank you friend! 😭 It's def a shitty club to have a membership in. I've only had covid once before, in feb 2020. There's absolutely an improvement now that I'm vaxxed and was put on paxlovid within 24 hours of symptoms (first time around I had a few moments I literally blacked out because my breathing just wasn't working), so I'm grateful for that 100%, but like you, I'm still just sick as hell thanks to other health issues piling on, exhaustion squared. Fuck chronic illness. 😪

[supercantaloupe]

ANTI CHORAL SYMPHONY??? BLOCKED???

joking but omg I can't believe mahler 2 doesn't do anything for you it reshaped my bones

maybe if i heard it live or studied it i would change my tune but so far at least mahler 2 does very little for me. i tend not to be a huge fan of late romantic works in general, and the overwhelming length/size/expansiveness of these gargantuan symphonies from the likes of mahler tend to strike me as tedious more than majestic. and as for choral symphonies, i think in pretty much every one of them i've heard post-beethoven 9 i've not been terribly impressed by the addition of vocalists. (honestly, one of the things that frustrates me so much ABOUT beethoven 9 is that it really is the one that makes it work, and beethoven's legacy/impact was such that he made so many other composers think they can do the same things he did just as well if not better, which i think succeeds in very rare cases only...but i digress.) in its smallest form (ie a soloist or two added to a movement or two) it just feels like an unnecessary addition to me, and in its largest form (full choir in every movement that is the true focus of the work, a la vaughan williams' sea symphony) i kind of think these works cease to be symphonies at some point. like, apologies to vaughan williams, but that's just a cantata. you can just call it a cantata. it's okay. i know it follows traditional symphonic structure to some extent but it's vague enough and totally dominated by the singing to be a different genre to me. and returning to mahler for a second, a symphony like mahler 2 feels very much like the precursor to something like das lied von der erde, which is more of a song cycle with orchestra (or a "song-symphony" but you can probably guess by now my feelings on that name). mahler 2 of course isn't quite that voice-heavy but it bears strong resemblance to what would come later in his output, i think; i'm still comfortable enough calling it a symphony, but i'm not entirely convinced that the choir ultimately adds to the genre in mahler 2 or in any other late romantic-modern choral symphony. personally, i'm not convinced that we should even cling so fast to the genre label of symphony for all of these works; many of them i think can (and probably should) be classified with a different genre label, whether it's something extant like "cantata" or "song cycle" or something newly coined and retrofitted (it's not like musicians have never fiddled with the naming of past works without the blessing of the composer before). idk, maybe i'm biased as to accept a much narrower definition of "symphony" than most, but the distinction matters to me.

[moe-broey]

FINALLY................

Elusive battle lines 👀👀 (usually only heard in Tap Battle, save for "Not today!" That one can be heard if you just tap on him LMFAO -- interesting how it's an offensive line as well!)

Current set up! I'm really not sure if Atk/Spd Unity would be better than Atk/Spd Ideal 4, Unity seems like it would be more situational? And I do like how reliable/consistent Ideal 4 is. Again, he's mixed support and offense, so I like to try and keep him as reliable as possible!

[rubys-domain]

i'm so glad there's a weekly boss i can use him to fight, as underbuilt as he is rn

[freepassbound]

Actually, no, I'm not done with that.

Look, I grew up on the '80s/'90s Trek - the seven seasons, 200+ episodes - and so sometimes I think that nostalgia is clouding my thinking, and that maybe I'm just the crotchety old man yelling at the clouds for moving.

But I don't think so this time.

When I was teaching at my old school, the kids were watching "The Office" and "Friends"; now, kids here (by which I mean anyone under 28 😂) are watching "Columbo"!

Long-running shows with lots of episodes - in the network style - give the viewer a chance to really get comfortable with the characters, and it gives all the characters a chance to shine! Over the course of that many episodes, eventually everyone gets some A-plots, and a decent number of B-plots. Streaming just doesn't offer that.

Take Discovery as an example - in four seasons, how many times have Detmer or Owosekun had an A-plot? Has there been even one? How many times have Rhys or Bryce had any at all? These are the helm, ops, tactical, and communications officers - primary characters on every Star Trek show ever! It would be unthinkable for them not to have featured in the old style of show - each would have certainly gotten at least one A-plot, and several B- or C-plots to feature in every season. But there they're barely elevated above background.

I know it's possible to make memorable and/or high-quality shows under the kind of constraints streaming imposes - hell, the British have been doing it for decades. But it feels like that's a different kind of memorableness/greatness than a 200+ episode show. And, like any ecosystem, it's weaker when there's less diversity.

[spikeisawesome456]

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[thehealingsystem]

i want to draw abstract self-harm art but I don't know how to draw abstract art

[buggysmalls69]

Girl help the Miku guy you follow on Tumblr is becoming hyperfixated on fortnite

[stikybug]

liking paranormal shit is so frustrating . because while i still ( believe ) i have my head on my shoulders the community at large is like

mistakes a lense flare for a ghost orb

mistakes obvious mental illness for mediumship

gets memory fade-outs and instead of checking for carbon monoxide poisoning assumes it's a ghost

and or comes to the conclusion a ghost does it instead of the much more horrible possibility that a human did it ( and of course, doesn't put any cameras to catch anything in action )

mistakes an animal suffering for a cryptid

mistakes what is most likely a far off commercial/military craft/balloon/bird/drone for a UFO