Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
@emerald You can just open /var/log/pacman.log and scan from the end.
video games, ???
We like playing with One Hit KO, but what about No Hit KO? You must get hit, constantly, or you die.
video games, kink
Speedrunning is for emotional masochists because we use negative emotions (feeling bad about taking time or risks) to make decisions more quickly. This doesn't mean we're not enjoying ourselves, but it is a danger if we don't understand what we're doing.
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If you are following more than 500 people and I get a follow request from you, you've had enough and I'm cutting you off.
@hollie I think it's the jpeg compression artifacts.
@minego Competitive scenes are highly incentivized to come up with time-efficient ways to practice things.
@minego I mostly encounter them in speedrun and randomizer communities.
@minego Practice mods/hacks are very common.
@minego What's surprising to me about this is that you're apparently still able to process the audio you heard before while people are saying more words to you.
@hollie RIGHT? And no one ever told me it was a skill I'd have to learn.
adjusted my time management based on the assumption that I can get a maximum of two 90 minute chunks of "brain work good time" per day
Do you ever get a little short of breath trying to process how much the world?
@hollie My RSS reader didn't throw any errors from youtube feeds today, so they may be back.
I need to find new samefoods. What are some complex carbs, proteins, and fruits/veggies that are cheap, easy, and relatively healthy to eat a lot of?
@minego OK, so imagine there's music playing in your head all the time, except 4′33″ is in the rotation.
Went back to the uBO defaults to have a clean slate to work on this, and even with a working ad blocker the web has gotten worse than I realized. Near-constant distractions and interruptions.
Not much in these yet, but here it is: https://github.com/madewokherd/ublock-filter-lists
If you want to use this, please send me examples of stuff you want rid of, as you encounter it. Let's squash all those unnecessary distractions that get in the way of reading websites.
Fantasy: This won't work because there are all sorts of technical work-arounds and corner cases that it doesn't account for, that us tech people can imagine. Kids will pass around USB boot drives and use them to
Reality: This won't work because NOBODY CARES.
Like, it kinda makes sense if you use computers the way I do, and every device has a password, and if I let anyone else use it they get their own account, but I am NOT NORMAL. People don't do this shit. And for anyone who does, all they need are parental controls.
Joined Aug 2018
