Shinji_Ikari

Yeah, once I accepted I don't actually need to return to the to-do list and accepted they're more "externalize the noise" lists, they became helpful. before that not so much.

Idk, to me to-do lists are things I use to externalize the 10 different thoughts bouncing around in my head, which quiets it down for a bit and allows me to think about the most important one(usually the first one on the list that inspired the list). Makes me feel good the other things are documented and lets me forget about it for a moment.

I always saw it as jest over viewing someone who, when forced into something as terrible as suicide, is then reveled and called a hero once they're gone, despite no one caring prior.

Like making "an hero" into a meme was making fun of the way people need to make it about themselves by creating a spectacle and lesson around someone else's hardship.

Viewed through the 4chan lens, the people on 4chan were all suicidal and depressed, and had contempt for others who disregarded them until they were no longer around.

Maybe I gave them too much credit but I also saw that shit happening real-time in high school after a couple deaths. One guy who committed suicide after a particularly bad benzo withdrawal was a step away from getting a purple heart, while another guy who died a week prior from cancer got a 5 second blurb in the announcements and was quickly forgotten about. I somewhat contradicted my point, but the real thing I'm trying to get at was the performance of grief over genuine grief, and I always read the og "an hero" post as a performance.

I've been getting those for months and I've just been blocking them immediately. Half my block list is corporations, the other half are made up names and stolen e-girl pictures.

My buddy got a deal on a full sim racing setup on Craigslist and holy shit the difference between tv and vr headset is night and day. It's very immersive.

The one time I tried it for war thunder sim sucked because the resolution was too low to identify friend from foe and made it unplayable.

I don't own a vr headset, just borrowed them a few times because otherwise its totally not worth it.

For sim applications, it is game changing though.

Someone i know second hand couldn't get his chemo drugs and had to go to his health insurance to ask for approval for a different medication.

I got a demo for this game in the mail as a kid and had a very very different horny video game experience than most it seems.

I think that zone was loud more than numerous. Think leftist shitposter guys on twitter, there's an endless stream but that's because you're where they hang out.

Its really frustrating because the site is a mix between the worst VC brained dipshits in the world and the true technological craftsmen of our day. The blog posts on there have a ton of amazing info then the comments are like "mmmm llms make gud books"

Good luck! guitar is a ton of fun and super rewarding. Don't get sucked into gear circles too bad, a well practiced picking hand can out perform many thousands of dollars in gear when it comes to tone.

I'd be pretty happy to have the technical skills to pick up new songs quickly

This is primarily from the almost 20 years(ow holy shit what) of having a guitar near me and learning challenging songs. The real key to it is learn songs slowly, build up speed, and play along with the record. But this method creates a lot of blindspots. I'm terrible at playing to a metronome(but playing with a drummer is easier for some reason). I can't "jam" with people, if someone says "do a blues in A", until recently they might as well have been speaking korean to me.

I took lessons for years and sorta stopped taking it seriously during college, a couple years after I graduated I decided I wanted to take it more seriously. I sorta plateaued for a bit and just bit the bullet and got a teacher and my progress has skyrocketed in a few weeks.

My biggest struggle was learning and holding onto theory because I couldn't tie the many disparate parts together. I had learned and forgotten how to sight read several times, as well as various theory bits. Now I'm properly learning the fretboard and connecting it to concepts in a way that I'm able to just find scales and arpeggios rather than memorizing them.

Being able to make the connections and go "Ah! that's why this works!" is a huge game changer and confidence booster.

For a greater context, I got really bored playing most kinds of rock, learning songs just felt pointless to me. I'll go back to classical guitar occasionally but what I really wanted to do was create my own jazz chord melodies and that's sorta hard. I'm really good at learning songs from tab, but it began to feel sorta empty.