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I love it when ur watching D20 and BLeeM goes “You can do that, but if you fail this save your character will be obliterated” and everyone makes eye contact around the table and decide the bit is simply more important

hellenhighwater

Well those are allllmost done

codebreakerblue

question. why do you have 7 featureless grey monoliths in your driveway

hellenhighwater

There's eight actually but the last one is still in the garage

jackfromthefairytale

question. why do you have eight featureless grey monoliths

hellenhighwater

They're actually a really dark purple

fishofthewoods

question. why do you have seven featureless really dark purple monoliths in your driveway and an eighth in the garage

hellenhighwater

Some of them do have features though. There's holes and hinges and stuff, so I can put secrets in em

nobodywasneverhere

question. why do you have 8 really dark purple occasionally featureful monoliths

hellenhighwater

The heart wants what the heart wants

fred-the-dinosaur

this reads like a muppet sketch

fred-the-dinosaur

see? See!??!

hellenhighwater

You're not wrong

hellenhighwater

This post is less than six months old.

zwoelffarben

Sometimes posts just, have olde tumblr post energy. And ya gotta live wit dat.

parkchanwoohoo

I'm not as reflexively anti-AI as a lot of people tend to be (like I don't think you can make a meaningful delineation between Generative AI Bad, Predictive AI Good or whatever, and I am more of a "this is a symptom of capitalism" guy than anything else). But, while I know this is far, far below the much stronger oppositional reasons of environmental and economic impacts, I think like... low on the list but STILL VERY MUCH ON THE LIST for me is how goddamn lame it is. So profoundly, existentially uncool. A thriving breeding ground for the most bush-league shit.

Every ad operating from an assumption that you are a huge dipshit with no friends. Every ad's sample use case consisting of questions asked solely by people with no interiority but who for whatever reason can't be assed to see what other people have already said about the subject ("Write a birthday card for my friend! Questions to ask my s/o"). Like I don't think art becomes automatically soulless because it's AI. I've seen AI things that I do think are interesting and thought-provoking (I'm not interested in getting into a conversation about "intentionality" here). It's just that its strongest proponents are people who have never really thought about art in any significant way beyond "What clipart can I use in this powerpoint presentation" and are subsequently drunk with euphoria upon being able to generate a video of a cat weeping.

And sure, a lot of it is because the point IS churning out easy, effortless shit in the hopes of making money (its strongest proponents aren't making art for themselves so much as they are enamored by the idea of turning a profit, unable to fathom the notion of an audience with "taste" (nowadays considered an antiquated, even borderline elitist fossil of a concept anyway)). But Christ, you can't even TRY? You're allowed to TRY. Sure, the appeal is that you don't have to, but like, don't you WANT to?? Even a LITTLE BIT??? Wouldn't that be KINDA NOVEL

agarthanlaboratory

A little something for @3dprintcess to thank them for their unhinged long form Taskmaster fic.

#oh that is a particularly good Greg

copperbadge

Me for the last 15 years: Starting a timer when you have to wait for something or stand in line can be helpful, because no matter how impatient you feel you can check the timer and remind yourself it has not been several eternities and has in fact only been five minutes.

Me setting a timer when I got to bag claim just now: I'm so clever! I will now be reminded that it's only been five minutes and bag claim usually takes about twenty!

Me looking at the timer thoughtfully: ...another Very Neurotypical Moment With Sam, it appears.

copperbadge

FTR it was 17 minutes from "arriving at the bag claim" to claiming my bag, so right on time.

copperbadge

Someone tagged this post "#it’s all fun n games until baggage check takes over an hour" which is 100% legit; a common sentiment in notes is that sometimes you don't want to know how long something has taken. But that is one of the reasons I started doing the stopwatch thing in the first place!

On the one hand, timing something is about reminding myself "No, it's only been five minutes," but it is ALSO about knowing when something is taking way longer than it should.

If I'm put into an exam room in a doctor's office, I start a timer. Because I have been forgotten about in a doctor's office before, I get nervous that I'll just be sat in there forever, and the timer tells me "No, they haven't forgotten you, it's only been 10 minutes." But it also tells me if I have been there longer than appropriate (generally more than 40 minutes) so that I know when it's justifiable to flag down a nurse to find out what's going on.

At bag claim, because I know it usually takes about 20 minutes to get my bag, I don't get concerned until the timer passes the 20 minute mark without any bags appearing. At that point I know I need to take off my headphones and start paying attention -- looking at signage, maybe asking someone if I'm at the right carousel. Maybe don't worry yet, but start double-checking. Perhaps the delay is unavoidable and it'll just be an hour, but at least, having asked, I KNOW it'll be an hour, and the timer will tell me when the hour is past and I should maybe check in again.

Now, if the bags do start showing up before 20 minutes but my bag hasn't shown up by the 40 minute mark, I know that again it's time to put my head on a swivel, and at the 50 minute mark it's time to go speak to someone in the baggage claim office. This has more than once helped me locate my bag when it's accidentally been sent to the wrong part of the airport. There is no point at which, without the timer, I would go "man this is taking a long time" and then actually go ask, because I wouldn't actually know how long it had been.

The timer both prevents me from worrying before I need to and tells me when to start worrying -- essentially, because I'm both perpetually impatient and also infinitely patient, I've outsourced my patience to a stopwatch. And because I time a lot of things, I now know the average time a lot of things take, which helps me calibrate my concerns appropriately. Ten minutes is a long time to wait for a burger from McDonalds, but it's actually on the short end of the time it takes to get a burger from Shake Shack. It's not a long time to be on hold with the HR office of my old employer, but it's longer than I'd usually be on hold with my pharmacy. Et cetera.

I know I say this all the time but I still find it hilarious that I didn't know I had ADHD until I was forty years old.

copperbadge

dreamtofswallowingcoins

just want to add that I've started timing myself doing everyday chores and tasks and having a more realistic, personalized idea of how long things take has helped a lot with my time blindness.

I only just started, and it's not yet habitual, so there's only a small bit of info, but it's already made it easier to avoid rushing or getting stuck in waiting mode because it takes out a lot of the guesswork.

And it lets me have grace for myself when something is really taking it out of me. I'm right, this *is* taking forever and it isn't usually this hard, so what's going on? Do I need to rest? Eat? Did I forget my meds? Am I overwhelmed? Etc.

I feel like a scientist gathering and applying data.

Showers on typical days only take "about ten minutes" (me, 2025), therefore, I CAN shower before my appointment that's two hours away.

Contrary to popular belief, doing a quick tidy takes "less than half an hour" (me, 2026) and will not take the better part of a day. I don't need to dread or put it off because I can start a 20min episode and I'll be done before the credits roll.

The proposed estimate of "10-30 miserable minutes in the cold when the warm blankets are right there" (time blindness and depression, 2024), is erroneous, and based on pre-medicated data. As tempting as it is to go straight back to bed after peeing, my research shows that brushing teeth, including "prep and cleanup," rarely takes more than four minutes and may even improve morale and momentum when getting up for the day.

copperbadge

This is awesome and hey guess what: you ARE a scientist gathering and applying data!

I'm super proud of you and everyone who is working to keep their lives together in the face of disability and the general horrors of the world right now. Keep up the great work! And if things slip a little that's ok too. None of us are perfect. Just keep taking notes...for SCIENCE!

wheresmyutopia

I haven't posted on here in years but instagram is hellish and i wanna post my art

#DAYUM

doityourselfbombs

every day I have to make decisions

elftwink

[id: two tabs of google docs, the first one titled "blond man torment nexus" and the second, "my fuckign masters degree" /end id]

andy-in-space

for the Supernatural fandom

everyshadeofwrong

hey, mate

everyshadeofwrong

I looked like a reverse stripper, didn't I?

#this has ruined me #phil ellis the man that you are

gupdoo3

Average Taskmaster intro

Greg: And next to me is a man who once confided in me that he thinks the NHS is run by Satanist Freemasons, IT'S LITTLE ALEX HOOOOOORNE!

Alex: Hi Greg. I've decided to start raising salmon

#eerily accurate

mostlyvalid

A proposal

Sometimes, in fandom, we just want to write id-tastic fic that rolls around in tropes that might be viewed as problematic. But we don’t want to address the problematic side of things in this particular fanwork; we just want to roll around and wallow.

It is considered courteous to give readers a heads-up via use of AO3 tags. I propose a tag that signals that a given fanwork is for rolling around, not giving a measured evaluation of anything. The MCU has carved out a space for this sort of fic with the “HYDRA Trash Party” tag, for which I commend them. Trash Party is a bit too specific to cover all of the ground I’m thinking of here, though; I propose “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat.”

For those of you not familiar with Arrested Development, Michael Bluth finds a paper bag in the freezer labeled “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat.” He opens the bag, finds a dead dove, and reacts as follows:

[gif of a white man saying “I don’t know what I expected” in a deadpan manner]

The “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat” tag would essentially be a “what it says on the tin” metatag, indicating “you see the tropes and concepts tagged here? they are going to appear in this fic. exactly as said. there will not necessarily be any subversion, authorial commentary condemning problematic aspects, or meditation on potential harm. this fic contains dead dove. if you proceed, you should expect to encounter it.”

(more at KnowYourMeme: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-dont-know-what-i-expected)

lazy-universes

WHOA WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS THE POST THAT SPAWNED DEAD DOVE DO NOT EAT

socksandcandles

I’ve been having stomach issues, so I’ve been drinking this lactose free probiotic yogurt drink. I was working the closing shift today and I didn’t eat dinner, so when I got home I took my bottle of yogurt to bed with me and I was debating sleeping with it in my bed, but near the air conditioner so it stayed cold. Then I realized sleeping with my yogurt is very Gilear coded and I contemplated my life choices.