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Reader's digest 1

To retain some information, I'm going to occasionally sum up what I've been reading and watching and thinking about lately.

Most relevant to my own life

The Stallion Theory: How aimless creativity ruins your life This one's full of ideas. While most YT videos are fine at 150% speed, I was pausing and rewinding this video to process everything. I should make a separate post about it - tl;dr how to fight option paralysis when making art - set your constraints, write down a goal, find your fuel (long-term motivation), find your car keys (initial impulse to get started - not just initially, but regularly), set a deadline, define the scope and outcome in clear, concise words

"Emotionally Bypassing" - how the 'tism can make it easy to rationalize trauma and thus avoid actually emotionally digesting it

Society

A decently lucid article about Dril

Depressing alert: an interview with a woman who was sex trafficked. Therapy, dog, and ketamine treatment apparently helps her deal with trauma.

There's a series of interviews from VICE News with people like a jewellery store robber, deck hand at billionaire's yachts, hacker, sex worker, flight attendant, autopsy technician, luxury hotel staff, former wall street trader, voluntourist etc. Frequent mentions of abuse and exploitation, sex work, orgies, death, drug abuse, etc. Not a happy watch, but eye opening nevertheless.

Why men get so few matches on dating apps and women get up to their neck in messages - while the analysis is relatively shallow from the societal/psychological perspective, it is intentionally so - and the video wisely focuses on the math of finding a match. It's simple and not too presumptuous.

Are electric cars sustainable? No. Talks a lot about the costs and infrastructure of transitioning to electric-only cars. Not an exhaustive video on the topic, but informative nevertheless.

OceanGate is getting sued lol

high profile Buddhist lamas were abusing women and children for decades and Dalai Lama did nothing about it, not even condemn it

More non-shocking news about how processed food is bad and how Nestle are corrupt orcs

IT Stuff

guy makes a simple game in 9 game engines

There is no privacy under attention economy: Even if you're paying for the product, you're still the product (yes even with iPhones)

Making of Vampire Survivors - interview

Science

The New Yorker: How Plastics Are Poisoning Us

Nanoplastic crosses blood-brain barrier

How caffeine affects - and exacerbates - your sleepiness

Entertainment

Saw Barbie (2023). Was good. Lots of thoughts about treating people as "Just Ken" in your life while you live in a "myselfworld" shutting yourself from reality. Strange how easy it is to live a life centered around yourself. Strange how easy it was to build your identity centered around an idea of a romantic partner.

Started playing Siberia 4 (2022). Hearing talks about nazis and salt mine slave labor was. idk. too real right now. OK game so far.

Beacon Pines (2022). MY WORD. The cutest bestest game this year probably. Short, branched, well told story. A bit of a tearjerker.

Bonfire Peaks (2021). Puzzle games about dragging boxes, but in isometric 3D. Sometimes hard. Very stylistic and sentimental.

Oxenfree II (2023). I'm... I'm not sure. I like it. It's good. But it's very different from Oxenfree (2016). Not as branched. Not as replayable. Not as many memorable characters. I wonder what it's like, being owned by Netflix.

I don't have any specific feelings about Adam Sandler but it was interesting to see a different side of him than just the mainstream hate of his bad comedies. Your unfave is unproblematic?

A short opinion piece about multitasking while playing games from Polygon

Music

how to recreate Boards of Canada's Roygbiv only with hardware

music promotion business is a big time scam

MuseScore 4.1 released and it's prettier than ever

Ten rules of techno

More and more of music industry is owned by like 4 companies yay

Video Editing and Color Science

Cullen Kelly and Casey Faris talk: a fairly basic discussion, but with one important takeaway for me: people are much more sensitive to differences in luminance than chromacity.

Resolve 18.5 released a stable version, after 5 (decently stable) beta versions. Automatic audio-to-subtitle transcription yay.

[woogurl]

so i decided to make a short analysis and i say short because i don’t know how short it’ll be. 

this is in regards to the anon who said that kq seems to push woosan too much in choreos/taking pics together/high fives/etc.

don’t get me wrong, i’m not here to prove to you that these moments aren’t fanservice because as i mentioned before, that they often are. however, i do not think kq is always responsible for all these moments. i think they have many subtle moments that make me think otherwise. 

i know when we think of fanservice moments, there’s no doubt that fake love

and this legendary, sensational ass performance tops them all.

now before we rid these moments as just fanservice, can we talk about how comfortable they are with doing this kind of stuff. yeh many group ships do fanservice, but understand that MOST do not go this far. Nor do they commit to this degree. even with korea’s culture, there are just some boundaries most of these men do not want to cross. let’s talk about a fanservice moment with nct, and use mark and johnny as an example. there’s a moment where they get very close and intimate during superhuman but they always seem very uncomfortable. at least mark does. he simply does not seem to like this type of intimacy with males. and that’s completely fine.  

i also want to use nct as a whole as an example there’s many times where the company tries to get them to do fanservice but to no avail. they just laugh and joke around, and that’s because they see each other as brothers. i’m not referring to any specific ships. i simply mean in general. so the company makes them do fanservice but they’re not forced to “enjoy it or do it often”.

now let’s take a very intimate taejin moment didn’t want to do a popular ship for obvious reasons. sorry taejin shippers. 

the intensity is there on tae’s side, but not jin. it just seems like he’s doing his job and giving the fans a bit of fanservice. there’s also a more intense taejin moment where there seems to be a lot of sexual tension, but i’m not convinced that there is because they’re obviously doing it for the camera. they’re both good actors so. i’m sure they could convince anyone that they have incredible chemistry and sexual tension.

but let’s be real, it’s not convincing when it’s obvious that they’re just giving their fans a show. so i can understand why people are like woosan are doing it for show. esp because unlike any other ship there’s so many woosan moments in their choreos and they just dance together so often. and i’m gonna assume the anon brought this up because there’s woosan moments in their newest song inception and fever. LET’S NOT EVEN MENTION THE LYRICS. now ateez is one of those groups who does a lot of fanservice in choreo’s in general, but they def use woosan to their advantage. why? because it’s such a popular ship, but so is seongjoong as i mentioned before. they could capitalize on seongjoong as well, but their moments are often less organic when they do do fanservice. like i said they don’t pretend to enjoy it. hongjoong is very open about his disgust with skinship. so no i don’t think kq forces woosan to pretend to enjoy it. i think they just genuinely enjoy the fanservice.

so let’s take some subtle moments during woosan choreo’s.  

now, this iconic moment was during random play dance in budapest and it isn’t actually apart of any choreo, but mind you seonghwa and mingi were supposed to do a couple dance as punishment. but was like fuck fanservice. well they did give us a different type of fanservice hip thrusts. while woosan was basically like...

can u see the difference in atmosphere, like woosan didn’t have to do anything but they started dancing as if they were really at a club. san was literally eye-fucking woo and biting his lips and shit like damn. lmfao.

woo of course was like okay, that’s enough and pointed to mingi and seonghwa, u prob can’t see because it’s hard to capture but if u watch the vid u’d see woo was like. “ok, das enough, pay attention to mingi and seonghwa”. san was really feeling it tho. enfen.

next moment was during the expedition tour in lisbon. they were doing a random play dance. 

first of all i didn’t even know this moment existed. someone pointed it out in a dm. @ 1:48 there was a lot of tension between woo and san. it was just a random moment during the play dance. the way they looked at each other and san flicked woo’s chin. oomph. HONGJOONG WAS NOT HAVING IT and quickly intervened. san was lowkey mad at hj. 

in the end, woosan ended back up together, despite being separated. 

anyway next moment during Random Dance in Milan (Magazzini Generali). they were dancing to monsta x shoot out and woo wanted him and san to do it together. so he went the opposite way of everyone else.

at this point woo and san were trying to find a way to properly interact with each other but it was so messy because everything was unplanned. they were so attentive to each other that when jongho came and asked them to do the second verse(?) move they just ignored the poor baby. ‘cause they obv had other plans.

jongho ended up doing it by himself while woosan continued with their own plans. ooOOP.

woo wanted to do another song with san, and i guess he wanted them to do the same thing i’m not sure, but san looked just as confused as well. but he did his best in doing what i guess he figured woo wanted him to do. he was up for it tho, he was like what is it? i’ll do it. xD. i know some of y’all are like btch get a youtube channel so we could see the moments better. but idk how to do utubesokey;c

woo ended up getting shy and embarrassed for some reason and san was quick to comfort him. it was super sweet.

next moment is the Random Play Dance in Berlin. Where they were both shyly dancing to twice. They didn’t know what to do, or at least was too shy to do it so san just grabbed woo and started dancing with him. It was another cute moment.

the entire time they were just planning on what they should do together, and san literally waited on woo to see what he wanted to do because woo often takes initiative in general between the two of them. they would just constantly keep touching each other and looking at each other. he was so attentive to woo that he wasn’t paying attention to yunho and seonghwa dancing so jongho and woo both had to point at them so san would turn his attention there. lol. 

san’s attention was still mostly on woo because he grabbed him to dance with. what i’ve noticed during these random play dance moments during tour is that they absolutely love interacting with each other, touching and keeping their attention on each other. it would be foolish to think they’re forced to act that way 24/7 because of kq. they react this way because they’re naturally close to each other and are okay with psychically being close to one another.

next moment is the Random Play Dance in Atlanta. 

yes, it does include the famous fake love woosan dance, but i still think it’s valid because as i’ve said before they’re incredibly comfortable with these types of interactions. also would like to mention how attentive san is to woo once again. for the most part his attention is mainly on woo if you pay attention to him closely.

next the Warsaw ATEEZ My Way SAN focus, san was incredibly attentive to wooyoung. san locks eyes with woo multiple times. i’m just gonna highlight obv moments.

0:45

2:12

NEXT. let met just say 181118 was a glorious fansign. 

Pirate King SAN focus the moment at 1:36 during pirate king where san was like, 'c'mere' to woo.

the moment at 2:22-24 where he was trying to get woo's attention but woo's focus was elsewhere.

the moment at 2:26 he really wanted woo's attention. crjkc j fjmk. that tongue tho mingi.

he then decides to use seonghwa to make woo jealous at 2:39.

he tried to get his attention again at 2:56.

let's talk about the my way cam too, that was full of subtle woosan as well.

not subtle, but still includes moments that isn't part of the org choreo.

once again san is so attentive to woo. if i haven't said this before san is so much more transparent than woo. and u can see that during these moments especially.

san all up in my man's space. sxdrcfgvbjkl 

san being relatable. He's so focused on woo that the members have to push him to the correct spot.

anywaY the point is they enjoy these kind of things  because they’re naturally close and intimate irl. so it makes their interactions looks completely natural and organic. so u don’t have to worry about them being ‘forced’ to do fanservice. ‘cause what woosan has is just something u can’t compare to another ship.

[sportsleague365]

Wayne Rooney has finally left Manchester United. Having earned himself the status as the club's top goalscorer and having won trophy after trophy, he has decided to take his quickly fading abilities elsewhere. The Red Devils will be better off for his absence. But we have come to praise Rooney, not to bury him. Bleacher Report spoke to a number of United writers, podcasters and YouTubers to ask them what they would remember about the forward's career at Old Trafford. Everyone was asked the same three questions: their most cherished Rooney game, their most cherished of his many goals and how he would be remembered in five years' time. Here's what they had to say. Musa Okwonga: ESPN Columnist Twitter: @Okwonga Most cherished Rooney game: The hat-trick on his debut against Fenerbahce. From the opening minutes, you just knew it was the beginning of something incredible. When Rooney was on form in those Champions League matches, he seemed to galvanise everyone around him—crowd and team-mates alike. Most cherished goal? Either the one when he chipped David James in the FA Cup, or the FA Cup volley against Middlesbrough. There was a period of his career when he regularly seemed to score goals that were works of art. Both of these strikes were thrilling pieces of imagination. As for his time at the club, five years from now I will remember him as one of the most unselfish forwards English football has seen, with—in his prime—a vision and fearlessness that truly set him apart. Greg Johnson: Features Editor, Squawka.com Twitter: @gregianjohnson Most cherished goal? AC Milan 2007: It had a bit of everything, as these things often do. The awareness and pace of his run to offer the option down the right-hand channel, and then the power and precision of his shot to fire it home at the near post was ridiculous. His time at the club will be remembered as a job well done, regardless of whether or not some people think it's a job he could have done better. He has won everything and topped the charts for goals scored, and it seems the sacrifices he did make during the tougher years have been forgotten, to some extent. While eyes may now roll when talk turns to his work rate, back in his pomp—when United hardly had a midfield to speak of—he was taking care of creating chances, scoring goals and ensuring the deficiencies in the middle didn't undermine the whole team. He was the sort of combination player, a footballer of many roles all at once, that would be lauded as the future of the game today. In the future, hopefully his value, besides the statistics, is remembered and understood. Sam Pilger: Sports Writer and Author Twitter: @sampilger My favourite Rooney goal is certainly not the best he scored, but it will remain with me for personal reasons. It was scored at the Emirates Stadium against Arsenal in November 2014 to help secure a 2-1 win for United, offering a false glimmer of hope amid the turgid Louis van Gaal era. With five minutes remaining, United were leading 1-0 when Angel Di Maria slipped Rooney through to allow him to expertly chip the ball over Wojciech Szczesny to claim three points. Beside me stood my nine-year-old son in the home end surrounded by Arsenal fans. This was a test for him: Could he keep in his celebration and feign disappointment when he wanted to be jumping up and down at the sight of his hero scoring such a decisive goal? He did not flinch, and made his dad proud, allowing us to conceal our smiles as a few minutes later we walked in to the north London night. Most cherished Rooney game? With only minutes remaining United were heading for defeat in the 2016 FA Cup final, trailing Crystal Palace by a goal when Rooney decided to intervene. He picked the ball up in the centre of the field and made his way past four players before cutting it from the byline for Juan Mata to grab an equaliser and take the game to extra time. This was the bullish Rooney, the one who would simply not accept defeat. Jesse Lingard scored the winner, but it was the striker's determined run that made it all possible. How will I look back at Rooney in five years? History will be kind to him. He has scored too many goals and won too many trophies for it to be anything but generous to him. With distance, his legend will grow. Rooney's achievement's will be respected and revered, even if he won't inspire the same sort of blind love as other United greats such as George Best, Eric Cantona and Roy Keane. Doron Salomon: United fan, former blogger, regular Tweeter Twitter:@DoronSalomon For my favourite Rooney game, I'd say his debut. There was so much anticipation and excitement, and then when it finally happened no one could have foreseen a hat-trick particularly in the manner it arrived—a striker's finish; a goal out of nothing and a set piece that showed skill and deftness. For my favourite goal of his, I'd go with that overhead kick. I know it's an obvious one and there are some terrific counter-attacking goals, volleys and chips, but that one against Manchester City was something else. Unusually I was sitting at pitch level, second row, for that game and had a perfect view of it. Despite the fact it seemed to all happen in slow motion at the time, it was only once I was out of the ground and having seen a replay that it hit home how good it was. People were losing their heads in the stands, complete disbelief at what they'd seen. The improvisation and skill to pull it off is unquestionable. But for me, being there with a perfect view of it down low where you can really feel the speed of what's going on, it was incredible. How will I look back on him? That's harder. Assessing him purely as a footballer, I think he's had an incredibly selfless career at Old Trafford. His peak coincided with United's best team during his spell at the club and his role in that side was essentially to help get the most out of Cristiano Ronaldo. His contribution in terms of goals is evidently excellent, and I'm aware how highly regarded he's been as a leader off the pitch for the younger players. He was a fantastic footballer, easily one of the best I've seen in a United shirt. However, he played on at United for too long, and watching him over his final three or four seasons was quite uncomfortable. On occasions, it clicked but most of the time he struggled and ultimately on a regular basis it cost the side any kind of attacking rhythm. I'll forever be pleased United signed him and that we got to watch him, but I don't revere him in the same way I do others. Scott Patterson: Writer, Republik of Mancunia, ESPN Twitter: @R_o_M My most cherished Rooney goal was his winner against AC Milan in 2007. That's one of my favourite seasons, and it just felt like we were back. He scored right at the end and just looked totally overwhelmed. My favourite game is probably when we beatEverton 4-2 in the same season. He played a blinder, and his goal turned the game. His goading of the Toffees fans made it really feel like he was one of us. That was the day we won the league, even if not mathematically, and it was because of him. In five years' time, it will probably be fairly similar to now but maybe a bit softer. He was a brilliant player for us—at times our most important—but the only reason why he's our record goalscorer is because the club wouldn't let him leave on the two occasions he asked to. So that taints what he achieved. Ed Barker: Writer and Podcaster, United Rant Twitter: @unitedrant Rooney had better games, scored better goals and had more influence, but I still cherish his debut more than most. At Old Trafford, on one of those European nights, he scored a stunning hat-trick. It doesn't get better, does it? Roy of the Rovers stuff. Magic, spine-tingling and why we watch football. That goal against Manchester City still stands out. For the quality not only of Rooney's strike (ignore the fact he shinned it) but the buildup and final delivery. But also for the opponent, moment and iconic imagery. Six years on and it is probably his finest moment in a United shirt. It may be that memories of Rooney's double attempt to get out—to Manchester City and Chelsea, of all places—will fade over time. It may be that memories of his horrendous decline over the past four seasons will also be forgotten. It may be that, instead, he is remembered only as United's finest goalscorer and as one of the best players to have performed for the club. It's not binary, though. It's OK to remember both the good and the bad. Elijah Sofoluke: Football blogger Twitter: @MrScripto The game I would pick is the 5-2 against Tottenham Hotspur in 2009. It epitomised Rooney; playing out of position for the team and still being the best player on the pitch—and the catalyst for the comeback. My most cherished goal would be his second in 2007 against AC Milan. That was the first time I had seen United in a Champions League semi-final and winning the game like that was amazing. But mostly it was the celebration and seeing how much it meant to him. In five years I will look at him as I do now. My favourite United player who could have been even more but was still enough to be a great. Richard CannCo-host, Red Voices Podcast Twitter: @RichardCann76 Choosing a most cherished Rooney game is tough, simply because he has played so many huge games and produced so many wonderful goals, both in terms of technique and importance. The match I remember most fondly is his debut against Fenerbahce. Having arrived as an 18-year-old for a vast sum, the pressure must have been huge, but it didn't show as he hit a stunning hat-trick. We knew his potential after his emergence at Everton, but that game confirmed to me and other United fans we had a genius on our hands. His most cherished goal is much easier to pin down. While his stunning volleyed equaliser in a home win over Newcastle United, powered by anger and frustration, was representative of Rooney as a player, nothing will beat scoring a ridiculous overhead kick at home to win the derby. He has been our real life Roy of the Rovers. In five years, I think Rooney will be viewed much as he is, or should be, now: one of the most important and productive players in United's history—a legend in spite of his perceived disloyalty—but also as a genius whose decline started all too soon and who stayed at the club too long. His departure will bring about a mixture of sentimentality and relief; a sad but necessary parting of ways. Sam Homewood, Television Presenter, YouTuber, CITV, Full Time Devils Twitter: @SamHomewood I didn't want to pick his debut as I'm sure everyone else will, but I have to. To arrive at that age and for that amount of money and then deliver that performance was astonishing. Most cherished goal is the volley against Newcastle; it was Rooney summed up. Temper, frustration, brilliance and glory. There should also be a shout-out to the last-minute goal again Milan too, not his best but one I remember fondly. I really don't know what it will be like to look back at Rooney's career in five years. Looking back at his early years, it almost feels that the longer he's been at the club the more he's pulled away. He once celebrated a goal against Everton by kissing the badge, but time has changed everything so dramatically that he's now criticised for "not really getting it". I understand that, but it's a weird situation. Maybe the transfer requests will be forgotten, and we'll all say we were there when Rooney surpassed Sir Bobby Charlton's goalscoring record and we'll sing his name forever. Or maybe—and I suspect this is what will happen—he'll return to Everton as their ultimate "boy done good," with the bad blood between them completely forgotten. He was never quite completely Manchester United's, in his or anyone else's heart. After all, once a blue always a blue. Quotations obtained firsthand. Read more World Football news on BleacherReport.com #WayneRooney #ManchesterUnited #ACMilan