#there was a youtuber i watched that helped me understand this

[headspace-hotel]

It feels like the line between "alternative medicine scams" and legit medical info is crumbling apart and it scares the hell out of me.

I was on youtube looking up some stuff for my friend, to see what unreliable stuff they might have to watch out for, and there are a lot of scams being pushed by people who are using academic-sounding terminology and appear to the uneducated outsider (me) to actually have an understanding of the science. A lot of these people either are medical doctors or are posing as medical doctors using a sketchy bullshit degree from some obscure illegitimate institution.

What's more, there's a lot of content creators enabling this by building their channels around vague, essentially benign claims that are too unspecific to be labeled misinformation, like "Avoiding these foods could help with this condition!"

Like yeah, in the broadest sense, maybe eating less "refined sugars" could make you feel better, but once you watch this video, the algorithm immediately starts pushing other videos with similar titles making similar claims, except those claims are "Refined sugars cause disabilities and cancer," and that will bring you to "Sugar is a drug more addictive than cocaine and you can detox by eating only raw beef and butter."

I got recommended a Jordan Peterson video within 3 clicks of simply putting the name of a chronic illness into youtube search.

[patricia-taxxon]

Suits is an unironic starship troopers ass piece of fascist propaganda and i dont understand how no one caught it. Ice Age is cute and i might be over-rating it because its warmth and optimism towards humanity was a breath of fresh air after so much misanthropic reddit scifi. Helping Hand shot up for me in favor, "grossout gore horror set in space" is the perfect place to use the unreal engine 5 realistic artstyle because the realism enhances the gore and the animated format allows for the big fantastical space setting, it's top 3. very few of the shorts feel prepared to actually utilize the short format and tell a story that concludes, lots of critically poor economy in scriptwriting. Sucker of Souls stands out in that regard, you only have 13 minutes and you're doing youtuber ass flash forward cold opens and wasting time establishing things that don't matter only to suddenly end in the middle of a scene. The Secret War is literally just one sixth of a boring action movie the guys wanted to make, it is unbearable. I found myself gravitating more towards the well paced short story type episodes that feel like they have a beginning/middle/end on this watch, even if I didn't really "enjoy" them. like there's really nothing to complain about technically with The Dump even if it's extremely rank and juvenile. I short served Sonnie's Edge in my video way back in the day, like it's not "self aware" exactly but they do a cute lampshade at the idea of it being a rape revenge thing, the main character scoffs at the idea, made it all the more weird that Good Hunting couldn't even offer us that. what a weird fucking project.

binged all of love death & robots season 1 with a friend yesterday, my opinions on this show keep evolving. zima blue is the best episode but it also obviously doesn't belong in the show and cheapens the rest of it by being included, the witness is the one that actually makes me understand the vision of what a modern reboot of heavy metal could be. shapeshifters is still the worst episode by a great margin

[trashworldblog]

also... hot take... but i think expecting to get entertainment for free is actually bad for artists

[jennilah]

chrome was like "aw.... ublock origin doesnt work anymore.... aint that so sad..."

im stubborn but i saw the utterly unusable vanilla internet for all of 1 minute before i moved all my bookmarks to firefox and resumed there. go fuck yourself ♥

[goobygnarp]

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[whilomm]

okay i was gonna leave it in the tags but I found a better illustration of the stable polar vortex, bc the image above exagerates it a lil (its straighter but not THAT straight usually)

(too lazy to delete orig tags and rewrite em here so lookit them if u wanna)

iirc these videos from weatherbox go into the science of how the pressure systems effect this shit, with case studies of some really bad winters a few decades ago (70s and 90s)

part of it is the earth has these semi-permanent high and low pressure systems that typically just sit in the same area, and theyre effected by seasonal stuff, so the average map for the july usually looks a lil diff than winter. theyre not completely static or anything, but theyre reliable enough that they have names,

(note: idk the full deets of what them being seasonal means. do they just get smaller/bigger when the seasons change or do some of them disappear and reappear? probs in the youtube vid but i dont have time to rewatch rn. maybe later.)

so, when those pressure systems that are TYPICALLY super consistent and have well understood patterns are fucked up, say, by global weather changes? it messes with a LOT of other stuff. like the jet stream!

watch the vids for a better explaination from someone who understands this stuff a lot better than I do, but these vids were the first time i understood WHY global warming can result in colder weather. oh, turns out the earth has fairly regular patterns in pressure systems, and when stuff warms up, it throws those outta wack. pressure systems go outta wack, the wind blows diff, and that diff wind throws some of that arctic shit lower than it should be (these are the scientific terms i assure u)

So many people do not understand the relationship between climate change and cold weather.

[maddymoreau]

Hii Maddy, do you have any recommendations for getting into Fear and Hunger without playing the games? Are there any good play throughs maybe? Im so intrigued by the world and characters but I doubt I'd have the free time and patience to really dig into the games </3

✧ദ്ദി( ˶^ᗜ^˶ ) OF COURSE!!!! Here's a bunch of Fear & Hunger recommendations!! As a warning: Most people who upload Fear & Hunger content sadly have to use a mod that censors nudity and some of the gore because of YouTube and Twitch's policies.

So if you see pine cones everywhere that’s why.

Connordawg: Click Here

He has a very fun edited letsplay of both games!

Frapollo94: Click Here

I'm OBSESSED with watching his Fear & Hunger challenge videos. I've learned a lot about the games' mechanics and bugs from him.

NoCommentaryArchive: Click Here

Their entire channel is just scenes from both Fear & Hunger games.

Omni World: Click Here

They also upload scenes from both Fear & Hunger games.

Shadow the Axolotl:

Part 1: Click Here Part 2: Click Here Part 3: Click Here

They have a great three part series going over the time line in chronological order. I also like that they acknowledge what endings are canon.

Pugsr: Click Here

They have a video about Le'garde and one about the God of the Depths that I like.

Lucky: Click Here

She makes these AWESOME analysis videos about different topics within Fear & Hunger. Lucky's voice is also extremely soothing.

Fear & Hunger Wiki: Click Here

Highly recommend using this wiki instead of the fandom wiki.

[uncanny-tranny]

I think every artist needs to experience the sheer rage of learning how wrong you were about something and exactly where you went wrong. As weird as it sounds, it's grounding and can be really awe-inspiring after you're done being pissed off. It reminds me that there is so much in this world I don't know, that I need to turn every stone, or I will feel my brain peeling itself with longing

[shattered-pieces]

Perhaps my psyche is too fragile to immerse in this kind of stuff...

But because I'm sensitive and empathetic i care about it.

But because not much of it kind of starts making me fall apart.... i can't really do much. It feels like a lot but is barely anything

I want to do more than research and post things on tumrblr and facebook...

But perhaps i should put my own oxygen mask on before i try to help anyone else....

By then it'll probably be too late to help in any meaningful way.

[purpurussy]

good video essay. watching it now and making it about dan and phil and the way they choose to dress because i have phrainrot :)

[aropride]

Where do you get most of your autism info?

oo good question,, tbh a lot of stuff i just know cuz my both my brothers are diagnosed + my best friend growing up has it, so a lot of stuff i just kinda absorbed over the years from my family + friends. usually with factchecking that stuff i just google it and scan a couple sites that look trustworthy to see if it's something that seems widely agreed on or not before i say it conclusively

for specific online sources, i know the autism self advocacy network has a lot of good info, and embrace autism is also good. also spectrumnews.org and autistic women and nonbinary network <- these r all as far as i know but also i havent done like, a full background check on all of them so i might be incorrect

i think the main thing is double checking anything from social media or any article/news story/whatever with big red flags- it definitely varies and most of these things arent like, 100% indicators that something is wrong, more that the source might be biased or ableist or just outdated. but for me big red flags are -> allistic writer/speaker insisting on person-first language (tho thats still very common in psych spaces unfortunately), calling autism a "disease"/"epidemic" or saying it needs to be cured, the puzzle piece logo and "light it up blue" (red instead is the alternative movement for that, it's for autism Acceptance rather than awareness which is the movement with weird ableist undertones (overtones?)), that sort of thing. also checking for things written by autistic people or with imput from autistic people

also academic papers can be super dense (and somewhat ableist tbh) but they also have good information sometimes, so again just checking and seeing if there's other sources for stuff & if those look reputable

+ id say just in general be especially careful with stuff on social media bc ppl will Lie or misinterpret stuff or misremember or whatever and misinformation gets spread very very quickly . but also community is nice & can be incredibly helpful so it's difficult to completely disavow it yknow .

but yeah a lot of stuff ive learned from my family & friends over the years, and dont have super good specific sources for learning that sort of thing other than just hanging out with autistic people and absorbing stuff via osmosis HAHA but i hope some of that helps :}

[sevicia]

Also she'll get mad at me whenever I go to help her but don't actually know what to do or how to do it the way she wants/needs me to so she'll tell me Well why the hell did you even come here then????? like sorry I don't know... to try and help you out?? which is what you always say no one does????

[mokeonn]

I'll make a post about it later but I swear the WORST advice I see being passed around in art circles is that art is a popularity contest and the only possible way to make money off of art, especially online, is to get popular first. Like that is BLATANTLY false.

The art community CONSTANTLY has to remind artists how damaging the numbers game is, and I think a huge reason why is because of how common a misconception it is that you have to be popular to make a living. It feels like the second I leave my specifically curated tumblr art community, I am bombarded with this idea.

[thecherrygod]

bitches be like “i dont get why people love french accent that much” until they play disco elysium with the voices on and hear kim kitsuragi, having their entire view changed

thats me. im bitches

[newdayslinguine]

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[echthr0s]

I am disappointed about how this BG3 experiment turned out but I cannot be too disappointed because I also learned some things in the process, namely about what makes games "work" for me and the difference between appreciating something's artistic value and enjoying the experience of it. cut for length

I don't enjoy Larian games. which feels bad to say, because I think Larian games are beautiful and intricate and full of amazing worldbuilding. why would I not enjoy that? it's very simple -- they are mechanically dense in a way that I find very unrewarding. and that feels bad to say, because the way people tend to interpret "this doesn't work for me" is as "this is bad and shouldn't exist", and sometimes I internalise that. but I know damn well that's not what I'm saying. what I am saying is that what makes games enjoyable for me is different than what it is for the people who enjoy Larian games, which is a perfectly neutral concept

I had to compare how I feel when playing the games I love to how I felt when I was playing BG3. Can Calah pointed out that he has never heard so many frustrated noises per minute from me while playing a game that didn't end up in me immediately dropping the game, and that's a good point. at one point I was literally in tears. this is not because the game is difficult to me. it is, in a way, but it's not like Bloodborne where I literally couldn't get past the first mob of enemies, lol. that didn't make me feel bad, I knew I wasn't gonna get through that game, I just wanted to try it anyway and laugh at how bad I was at it. what BG3 is to me is taxing.

here's an example: I'm familiar with isometric RPGs and especially their movement set. but BG3 is like... some hybrid of isometric and straight 3D, and I constantly want to move the camera down behind my character and use WASD for movement, expecting the camera to circle around the environment in a 3D fashion when I move my mouse. and this is a minor peeve -- not even a peeve, more like a "the way this game looks to me and the way this game is meant to be played are at odds, apparently" -- but it sets a baseline level of minor irritation. like a lil IRL debuff. so then when I hit something else that is irritating (like gnarly turn-based combat scenarios or having to reload a bunch of times trying to get past one NPC without activating a gnarly turn-based combat scenario), I'm already irritated, so I have less mental resources to deal with this new thing. I did not immediately recognise this was happening, but it's definitely the main roadblock for me

last night I went to do some research to see if I could figure out ways to make my Act I experience a little less taxing. I love learning tips and tricks about games I play, or finding out how the game works behind the scenes, stuff like that. when I look up stuff about ESO or FFXIV or Mass Effect or whatever, I feel curious and excited to try out whatever new thing I learn. (this is why I don't read the ESO subreddit at night, because then I learn something and I immediately want to boot up the game and try it out and I can't bc I'm supposed to be going to sleep and I get mad LOL) but I didn't feel that way at all last night. I just felt... tired. the curiosity and excitement did not magically appear. because ultimately this is just not a game I can play. not right now, at least. and yes, this upsets me, because I wanted to play it. but enjoyment cannot be forced and it's not fair to myself to go "look at all these other people having a great time, why can't you be more like them?" (talk about a line straight out of the Bad Parenting Playbook lmaooo)

yes, I would have loved to find out what it's like to be half-illithid, I would have loved to fall in love with Wyll, I would have loved to learn more about Faerûn and the various cultures and wow, would I have loved to see the Underdark, finally! I won't be meeting that drider guy I kept seeing gifs of and that makes me sad! but "the journey is the important thing" is never more true than when it comes to video games -- if I do not enjoy the minute-to-minute gameplay, if the journey itself is not inspiring joy in me, then it won't matter if I somehow push myself long enough to get to those moments. because I will be so stressed and tired and annoyed by the time I get there that I won't even enjoy the victory. so then is it really worth it?

the insight I've gained about myself as a gamer from failing to become a BG3 player is, however, quite worth it, I think