I mean I used to wear sunglasses at work at my desk because everything in the office was just too damned bright. Same with a restaurant job for about 2 hours of sunset when the light streamed in the windows.
Who cares what people think? Protect your eyes and do whatever you like when entering a store. As long as you can see fine, it doesn’t matter.
This is my mom picking my traits in the character creator screen… she was cheap but called it frugal.
Well we want smart so let’s add that, oh but it’s cheaper if we buy the autDHD brand! It’s just as good and half the price!
We want good at something, oh hey look there’s good at everything on sale… fine print says can’t stick with anything, but I’m sure it’ll be fine!
Oh, those two traits are locked in and have unintended interactions like anxiety and depression… well this is going to be a bumpy run but the challenge is half the fun right?
I mean that’s a big question…
Most of the stuff I struggled too much with I’ve forgotten about, tbh. I like to try to find everything I can, and I’ll sit on stuff for months if I have to… I’m definitely a data hoarder. I have 498 cartoon series and most of them aren’t anime or pre 1990s. But I have adhd and no attention span so sometimes i just give up.
Specific things that have caused significant issues and I’ve already watched and enjoyed: wolfboy and the everything factory, Elliot from earth, crossing swords, costume quest, human discoveries. I know a lot of the ones on my to-watch list were also tantrum inducing and I have a whole ass list of others I can’t find at all
But most of the stuff that’s had the fewest seeds and leeches has been stuff from the last 10 years, especially the last 5, if it wasn’t on syndication (and even a lot of that is painful to get)
I’m not so sure it didn’t have a target audience so much as it was a casualty of the shift to dispersed streaming where everyone pays a ton for platforms so they only consume what’s on it.
It just dropped at the wrong time and didn’t see widespread chatter because everything is so fractured.
It feels like these days things need to either be picked up by a platform willing to ride it out (like Apple+ seems to be), or find some way to get a solid piracy footprint before the contract ends. And that’s a tall order for animation not aimed at kids, sadly.
But most of the best animation in the last 5-ish years is super difficult to find on most piracy sites… so nobody gets a chance to actually see if they like it.
Missed opportunity for “does not owlways mean”, but cute grump either way ;)
I really enjoyed both the plot and the animation honestly. I’ve only watched through it once so far so I’m probably not remembering everything (I have a lot of “new” stuff I want to see), but despite not getting more seasons, I personally felt it was decently self-contained.
I really liked the whole internal/interpersonal conflict with the main character, and making the …position? purely based on compromise.
I mean it’s literally shrinking over time… deteriorating. It will very likely eventually become useless, and die out.
I guess you can call that evolution if you want… it’s certainly a selection pressure, anyway.
https://www.earth.com/news/will-men-disappear-the-y-chromosome-is-constantly-shrinking/
The Y chromosome is also deteriorating over time as it gets passed down with errors and doesn’t have a backup copy nor relevant genes to swap with, and men have less robust immune systems (iirc partially because of testosterone). So that’s fun.
Mirrors don’t exist in my dreams, I don’t think… I’ve never seen one that I’m aware of, anyway… and I have a quite extensive lucid dreamscape… interesting.
I find the easiest thing to do is check my pulse. I don’t replicate that in dreams, so I don’t feel anything where my heartbeat should be.
Only downside is I’ll never realize when I’m actually dead.
This must be how Oscar Meyer wienermobiles are made. I mean I don’t see a buncar anywhere, but all the same.
I’d rather not have robot bees. I’ve seen hated in the nation (black mirror episode).
https://www.wikihow.com/Boil-Sweet-Potatoes
I think I might be going on a quest in middle earth…
I’ve only used genAI once, to re-write my resume. (And I played with image generation to sort of see what it can do and be a muse for me because I’m aphantasic, but I was wiiiiiildly disappointed.)
It spit out something less good than what I fed into it, hallucinated a ton of skills and experience I don’t have, and it looked like AI slop when it was done. So a lose-lose.
Might be good for people who don’t know things or who can’t write for shit (so your average first year college student, IME) but… honestly it’s garbage if you aren’t average or below already. So I’m not surprised it’s ruining people’s ability to function.
Ai is a tool for dumb people (sorry. not sorry.) to land good jobs that dumb people shouldn’t hold or be hiring for, and that’s about it.
What do battle passes even do? Is that the same thing as “season pass” things in other games (not that I know what those do either tbh)?
I never pay for, and thus don’t look at, any game stuff that’s not included, so I’m totally ootl on this one.
When I was a kid and would send very stuffed letters, we just left a dollar paper clipped to it, they would leave the change the next day for heavier stuff.
When I was even younger I used to leave flowers in the mailbox for the mail person, and they got me a little flower statue for xmas and left it in the mailbox for me. That’s a memory I haven’t thought of in a long time so that was pleasant :)
Better yet, use some thin sliced ham wrapped around cheese and whatever red sauce (bbq, ketchup, marinara, whatever) to create a gooey cavity in the middle…
I imagine one willing to be rented out would be extra delightful, too.