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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
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Comment on LGBT tolerance slumps in the Netherlands as debate turns vicious in ~lgbt
CrypticCuriosity629 (edited )Link ParentFrom my perspective left-wing movements from all over the world over the past few decades had this collective delusion that leftist politics were a natural progression instead of constant work. I...It seems like the days when the younger generation would be looked towards as being more to the left than prior generations is a thing of the past.
From my perspective left-wing movements from all over the world over the past few decades had this collective delusion that leftist politics were a natural progression instead of constant work.
I know so many people here in America coming off the heels of Obama's term that thought we had the future in the bag, that it was smooth sailing and we could all just sit back and let nature take hold of progress.
They assumed younger generations would become more progressive naturally, so they stopped putting in the work, and the right has now filled that void in a way we have to fight right now.
And because of that, a lot of people got lazy when they thought about politics. IF they even chose to vote, they'd vote for status quo options on ballots instead of progress options, and it eventually put a lot of people in power in left wing politics that kind of let things rot from the inside.
Those same people who got lazy with politics have now had the rudest awakening possible for the past 10 years realizing just how fragile progress is and how progress is not in fact natural, it's something we have to fight for continuously every single day of our lives tirelessly, because if we don't those that want to destroy progress are sure as hell working their every moment to destroy it.
Frustratingly I still think people have had a hard time catching up to this realization.
The fact is, right wing movements all around the globe have taken advantage of younger generation's feelings of instability and uncertainty and provided them with a reassurance that left wing movements haven't been able to replicate since Obama and similar leaders. The closest thing we have right now is Mamdani showing that politicians can still work for the people and provide hope to the bleak empty future our slabs of glass relentlessly warn us about.
We've seen this here in America with both Clinton and Harris who's campaigns basically hinged on "Not Trump" instead of mirroring Obama's campaign of "Hope". People are angry and uncertain about the future, but more than anything people need reassurance about the future, they need a plan forward. These campaigns did not provide that.
Right wing movements have been providing "solutions", stupid and idiotic "solutions" based on discrimination, bigotry, and lacking any logic, but "solutions" nonetheless. They identify problems and tell people that if they get rid of those problems things will get better for them, whether it's LGBTQ+ people, Immigrants, liberals, litter boxes in schools, feminism, etc. And unfortunately those kinds of things can sound really reassuring, it can sound like the solution to all your problems is within your grasp.
I feel like progressive politicians like Mamdani have caught up to all this and are now providing those hopeful solutions and are getting good at providing an alternative to growing right wing ideology. And politicians like AOC, Bernie, and Mamdani all understand that the fight is constant and you see that through their actions.
But a lot of establishment left-wing political leaders are not stepping up to fight this surge in right-wing sympathy in any kind of genuine capacity and that's what makes me so frustrated. Often times fighting progressives harder than fighting the right.
Edit: Apologies if I kind of went on a US based tangent on an article based on the Netherlands, it just sparked some thoughts that might extend outside of the US.
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Comment on TV Tuesdays Free Talk in ~tv
CrypticCuriosity629 LinkOh man I'm obsessed with Lanterns. It's getting very very good and all the actors are fantastic. I'm loving the lived in DC universe that doesn't try to reinvent origin stories or start from...Oh man I'm obsessed with Lanterns. It's getting very very good and all the actors are fantastic.
I'm loving the lived in DC universe that doesn't try to reinvent origin stories or start from scratch. Adds an entire dynamic of worldbuilding we don't often get to see.
Plus it's got me all hot and bothered to make me a replica of Hal's ring and lantern, so I'm dusting off my SLA printer and started modeling out the ring so it's sized to me and is screen accurate. Also going to see if I can fit a smart ring into the 3D Print, so I can pick up a cheap chinese smart ring and connect it to an open source non-chinese app. If that doesn't pan out I was thinking of adding a programmable NFC or RFID chip into it so I can use it as a keycard for work.
And I've already ordered a magnetic activated lighting mechanism for the ring, and a cheap chinese "aurora night light" device for the lantern.
Also I watched Neagley this week and that was also fantastic, surprisingly so. I really appreciate the show for humanizing the protagonist. While Reacher usually gets painted as a stoic tank with everything figured out, Neagley's dealing with trauma and still getting to be a badass.
I had to look the actress who played Neagley up, Maria Sten, and was surprised to find out that she was was crowned Miss Denmark 2008 in a beauty pageant. And it really made me appreciate the actress and the showrunners for not reducing her character to overt sex appeal which other shows would have done in an instant, and instead characterizing Neagley more modestly.
Finale of Reacher was also great but a bit forgettable. This season was definitely weaker than others. I feel like the two assassin women were turned into cartoon knife twirling villains, the only thing they were missing were mustaches and a tophat.
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Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books
CrypticCuriosity629 Link ParentSo I finally finished Hellboy: A Plague of Wasps, and boy am I disappointed and frustrated. Spoilers below. 1st off, whoever's idea it was to do a Hellboy graphic audio dramatized story then turn...So I finally finished Hellboy: A Plague of Wasps, and boy am I disappointed and frustrated.
Spoilers below.
1st off, whoever's idea it was to do a Hellboy graphic audio dramatized story then turn around and fill the large majority of it with walking while the narrator thinks to herself in illustrative prose needs to re-evaluate their writing experience.
I can't believe for such a shortish story in entirely audio based on an action oriented character that there's so much walking. It takes me 20 minutes to drive from home to work as I'm listening to audiobooks, and during multiple drives to and from work NOTHING happened in the story. Everything interesting that happens is over in like 10 minutes broken up by 45 minutes of walking it seems. It starts with walking from the plane to the town, then driving from the town to the dig site, then driving back from the dig site to the town, then walking from the town to the car, then driving back to the dig site, then using a boat to go up river, then walking from the river to the temple, then walking from the temple to the chamber, then walking from the chamber to river. It's never ending walking.
It doesn't feel like any of the travel is truncated. It's like 1:1 with the characters. If the characters walk for 45 minutes it's like you have to listen to them walk and talk to each other and themselves for 45 minutes. Meanwhile the action parts are over in like 10 minutes.
Second, I feel like they've nerfed Hellboy. Hellboy, who's gone up against armies of occultist Nazis, literal gods, armies of the dead, assasins, occultists, the works, gets his ass handed to him to the point he thinks he's definitely going to die after... Checks notes: He got stung by a wasp in a jungle.
Mind you, it's supernatural wasps, but Hellboy practically rolls over and accepts he's going to die after roughly 2 hours of walking in the jungle.
I feel like Hellboy's enemies should be using supernatural wasps more often, because these wasps would have gotten him if the hidden weak point was just slightly better hidden or hard to get to.
To put it simply: The stakes of the story did not feel earned. Hellboy nearly dies after being stung by a wasp after surviving literal armies of Nazi occultists and their armies. Ffs
It feels like they had a 1 hour story they needed to make 6 hours, and they filled the gaps with walking and talking. I wouldn't have minded this kind of thing if it had been a non-Hellboy short story based on a supernatural wasp goddess, but like I don't even see why Hellboy needed to be there. I'm not picking up a Hellboy Audio Drama to listen to Hellboy's girlfriend walk and talk to herself for 5 hours.
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Comment on Australian athlete apologizes after winning race despite involuntary bowel movement in ~sports
CrypticCuriosity629 (edited )LinkAs a non-sports guy and generally fecal-matter averse, I can not fathom in any way shape or form why athletes are entirely ok with doing stuff like this. I've seen it happen in running and whatnot...As a non-sports guy and generally fecal-matter averse, I can not fathom in any way shape or form why athletes are entirely ok with doing stuff like this. I've seen it happen in running and whatnot too, and call me an armchair athlete or whatever but if you can't complete some kind of athletic feat without shitting yourself then maybe that's the point where you regroup and try again later.
And if you have a medical issue where you're prone to that kind of thing then maybe prepare better ahead of time or ask for some accommodations.
Accidents happen, I get that, but I'd expect if an accident happens, then exit with dignity, regroup, then try again later. I can't imagine a single scenario to shit yourself in front of others then to not stop.
I can't fathom any competition or marathon being important as much to continue after shitting yourself. I can't fathom any medal or award being worth being known as the person who shit themselves when getting it.
Like I just can't see anything in my life save for running for my own survival or the survival of someone I love being worth shitting myself amongst my peers.
I just feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I read about stuff like this or see pictures of runners who shit themselves.
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Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books
CrypticCuriosity629 LinkWell it's an audiobook/dramatization, but I'm finishing up Hellboy: A Plague of Wasps. I'm nearing the end and it started off strong but became a bit monotonous with long descriptions of walking...Well it's an audiobook/dramatization, but I'm finishing up Hellboy: A Plague of Wasps.
I'm nearing the end and it started off strong but became a bit monotonous with long descriptions of walking through the jungle, multiple long descriptions of wasp nests, and Hellboy becoming progressively sicker. It's like I get it, lets get to the next part where something actually happens.
After that I'm reading The Infinite Extent from Dennis E. Taylor! I'm excited to hop back into the Bobiverse, but admittedly I think I need a refresher.
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Comment on Just got laid off. Now what? in ~life
CrypticCuriosity629 LinkI am so sorry to hear that. Before I get into advice, here's a bit of a laugh. When I woke up and checked my socials as I do, I saw this post and missed the "off" part, and opened this post...I am so sorry to hear that.
Before I get into advice, here's a bit of a laugh. When I woke up and checked my socials as I do, I saw this post and missed the "off" part, and opened this post entirely thinking the title was "Just got laid. Now what?" and was momentarily confused when the top comment was "Sorry to hear that."
But more seriously, it's good that you feel a weight has been lifted, that just shows it was probably for the best.
Take it one day at a time, clean up and update your resume, look into some self hosted job-searching assistance software. There's a couple AI assisted ones out there that will automatically tailor your resume to each job posting using common resume ranking logic. Whatever your stance on AI is, companies are now using it in recruiting.
The two that I'm aware of is Job-Ops and Career-Ops but I'm sure there are more. Both of those help you find, track, and apply to jobs and job listings.
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Comment on Ed Sheeran’s tour in trouble after opening acts drop out in solidarity with rapper Macklemore in ~music
CrypticCuriosity629 Link ParentI mean, that's the part of Sheeran's explanation I find hard to square up with the economics of a stadium tour. Obviously the promoters and venues have contractual power, and relocating an...I mean, that's the part of Sheeran's explanation I find hard to square up with the economics of a stadium tour.
Obviously the promoters and venues have contractual power, and relocating an already-booked stadium show isn't simple. But Ed Sheeran is also the product they're all making money from. There are very few artists capable of filling stadiums at his level, while there are multiple promoters, venues, and cities competing for artists who can generate that kind of revenue.
Canceling an Ed Sheeran show doesn't just affect him. It potentially costs the promoter, venue, vendors, workers, and surrounding local businesses a substantial amount of money.
So I think it's INCREDIBLY sus for Ed Sheeran to frame this as though he had no meaningful power because the promoter technically made the decision. The promoter may have had the contractual authority, but Sheeran almost certainly had substantial commercial leverage if he'd been willing to use it.
That's what makes his response blaming promoters feel bizarre. Like both the venue and promoters lose far more than Ed does with a canceled Ed Sheeran show, so I think they were 100% bluffing in a laughably obvious way. And for people like Robert Kraft, self described capitalists, you're telling me he'd throw that money away like that on a whim? No, like many like him he's accustomed to throwing his weight and power around and barking loudly to get what he wants.
My suspicion, and this is totally not backed up by anything, is that Ed Sheeran is being advised about how to handle all of this by his management and the group he surrounds himself with and he's just spineless and doesn't stand for anything to stand up to them or to make any decisions or calls himself. This just smells like a behind the scenes mis-management disaster rather than a one man self destructive shit-show. Not defending him at all though.
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Comment on Ed Sheeran’s tour in trouble after opening acts drop out in solidarity with rapper Macklemore in ~music
CrypticCuriosity629 (edited )Link ParentBut do you realize how much privilege is involved in being able to take a break from politics? Even the privilege and luxury to even think that everyone can take a break from politics equally....You're right that politics is in everything, but that's exactly why I think it's so critical to have some spaces where it isn't at the forefront or even come up. I can't emphasize enough how the human brain is NOT made to handle 24/7 negativity. We NEED to be able to have spaces where we can take a break from it for just a couple hours, for the sake of our mental healths. Even when talking to people who are in full agreement about a topic, the negativity wears us down because it just further solidifies how shitty it all is.
But do you realize how much privilege is involved in being able to take a break from politics? Even the privilege and luxury to even think that everyone can take a break from politics equally. It's not about want or compulsion, it's about the ability to escape.
The very people Macklemore was advocating for that started this entire thing, don't have the option of stepping away from the politics and circumstances shaping their lives. They can't turn it off for a couple of hours and come back when they feel emotionally rested. That's part of why he chose to say something in the first place. And if we're talking about what the human brain is or isn't equipped to endure, the people actually living through war, displacement, loss, constant fear, and genocide are carrying a burden far beyond the momentary discomfort of having politics brought into a concert.
I live in a country where I am not waking up every day afraid that I or my family might be killed in a war. I believe that myself and others can afford to give up some of our own comfort and emotional bandwidth to pay attention to and advocate for people who don't have that luxury.
And this goes beyond war. For a lot of people, politics isn't something that exists separately from everyday life. Women, minorities, poor people, workers, immigrants, LGBTQ people, and plenty of others can have their safety, rights, healthcare, housing, employment, or basic freedom directly affected by political decisions. For them, "taking a break from politics" doesn't necessarily mean taking a break from the consequences of politics.
That doesn't mean people never need rest. Of course they do. Nobody can remain emotionally engaged with every injustice every hour of every day. But there's a difference between saying, "People need moments to recover," and expecting public spaces or artists to remain politically silent so that the rest of us don't have to be confronted with something uncomfortable.
Sometimes speaking up temporarily disrupts the escape. But the reason people speak up is often precisely because someone else doesn't get to escape at all.
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Comment on The latest weird thing to play Doom is the mapped-out brain of a fruit fly in ~tech
CrypticCuriosity629 Link ParentThink of it as building a computer in the exact shape and wiring of a fly's brain. The neuron map is the motherboard: every trace and every socket is in the right place. But the parts soldered...Think of it as building a computer in the exact shape and wiring of a fly's brain. The neuron map is the motherboard: every trace and every socket is in the right place. But the parts soldered onto it aren't fly neurons. Each one is a simplified stand-in, and none of them can change or adapt. The biology that actually makes a brain run, the chemistry and hormones and neuromodulators that turn a signal into a state, isn't part of it. So the board is wired correctly, but nothing on it works the way a brain works.
Then someone plugs a keyboard into the socket labeled pain receptor. Typing triggers it. But there's no biological software there to interpret that signal as pain, and no organism for it to be pain for.
And here's the part that seals it: the actual "ouch" isn't in the fly at all. It's in the scoring rule of a small program the developer wrote, which says "bad" when the game goes wrong.
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Comment on The latest weird thing to play Doom is the mapped-out brain of a fruit fly in ~tech
CrypticCuriosity629 Link ParentSo my understanding of this tech is that none of these flies are conscious or even being simulated as being conscious. I think the article is overselling what this actually is. They are not...So my understanding of this tech is that none of these flies are conscious or even being simulated as being conscious. I think the article is overselling what this actually is. They are not recreating a functioning fly brain or a fly mind; they’re using the fly’s mapped neural wiring as the structure for a computational network, then attaching Doom inputs and controls to that network through engineered interfaces.
So the “pain” claim is especially misleading. Taking damage just causes the software to feed a particular artificial input into part of that network for reinforcement. That input might be a receptor that is classified as a pain receptor to an actual fly, but it's not translating that as pain in this digital simulation, it's just an input. Frankly they could have used any input not just a pain receptor and it'd have accomplished the same thing. That is not the same thing as simulating a pain system, much less demonstrating that anything is consciously suffering.
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Comment on Deciding whether (or not) to have a child in ~life
CrypticCuriosity629 (edited )Link ParentWelp. First, I think calling my comment a “nothing argument” and “reddit well actually,” is uncalled for here. I'd prefer if we engaged with what I said instead of using condescension to dismiss...Welp. First, I think calling my comment a “nothing argument” and “reddit well actually,” is uncalled for here. I'd prefer if we engaged with what I said instead of using condescension to dismiss it. That's what I'll do.
Second, you say the child does not exist yet, as though that makes the child’s eventual well-being irrelevant.
The second point confuses present existence with future consequences. The child does not exist at the time of the decision, but the decision is specifically about whether to create a person who will exist later. We routinely evaluate choices based on the foreseeable effects they will have on people in the future. This is no different.
The truth of the matter is that having children is one of the only instances where the future child cannot consent to being born, cannot choose their parents, and cannot choose the circumstances into which they are born.
And I'm not arguing for or against that philosophically, just stating that as the reality. And that DOES NOT mean having children is wrong or immoral, again that is just the philosophical reality of having children. It just means the people making that decision have a responsibility to think beyond their immediate personal feelings and consider the life of the being they are choosing to create.
Parents can want children for personal reasons. That is normal and not something I'm arguing against. My point is that personal fulfillment should not be treated as the complete moral justification for creating another human being.
My other point is that in discussions around having children, the avoidance of talking about the child as a future human is in itself dehumanizing.
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Comment on Zack Snyder's ‘The Last Photograph’ is getting destroyed at TIFF: “Unabashedly sh*t on every level” in ~movies
CrypticCuriosity629 Link ParentYeah I kind of hope so, but I can't shake the feeling that this guy is good at sweet talking studios into giving him budgets, and we'll get another film meant to be his "comeback" and it'll just...Yeah I kind of hope so, but I can't shake the feeling that this guy is good at sweet talking studios into giving him budgets, and we'll get another film meant to be his "comeback" and it'll just end in the same result.
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Comment on Deciding whether (or not) to have a child in ~life
CrypticCuriosity629 (edited )LinkSo I have a relatively complex view of this. One of my biggest problems when the discussion around having children comes up is that everyone tells you about how having children will make YOU feel,...So I have a relatively complex view of this.
One of my biggest problems when the discussion around having children comes up is that everyone tells you about how having children will make YOU feel, and very rarely if ever do they talk about the child as if it will one day be a fully grown human being with thoughts and feelings. And I feel like that's very dehumanizing towards the child since it doesn't factor in the well-being or the future of the child.
Even in this thread, just about everyone talking about having kids is only talking about how it makes THEM feel, and talking about the children as if they aren't human beings who will one day have to navigate the world themselves, but are instead things that make their parents feel fulfilled or simply vessels to carry on their lineage.
And that feels EXTREMELY dehumanizing to me. Shouldn't we want what's best for our children? Shouldn't we be factoring in our children's future into the equation?
In my opinion the only thing you should want out of having kids is for them have the best life possible. It shouldn't be about you or how you feel, you shouldn't have kids to make yourself feel complete or fulfilled, it should ultimately be about them because they're the ones who will either thrive or suffer from being born.
Frankly to me it feels to back up the notion that people generally have trouble thinking long-term about anything, be it the environment, the economy, or even having children. They have this thought of "Not my problem, I'll let someone else figure it out." Whether that's leaving future generations to deal with environmental issues or economic issues, or whathaveyou, or if it's about the future of the child. It's always this underlying sense of "That's not my problem right now," and I can't always get behind that.
I know humans are biologically wired to want to have kids, that's the entire point of evolution, but I feel like people try to justify and explain that biological urge with surface level logic and justifications that don't hold up when you think of the child as a full human being and not just something that's filling a selfish desire.
None of this to say that I don't think people should have kids, I just dislike the way that discussions around having kids are framed as I find it dehumanizing towards the child.
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Comment on Zack Snyder's ‘The Last Photograph’ is getting destroyed at TIFF: “Unabashedly sh*t on every level” in ~movies
CrypticCuriosity629 (edited )Link ParentActually my entire problem with Zack Snyder is that against all reason, studios for some reason I can't fathom, keep taking him seriously. He's got some cool movies, but absolutely none of his...no one’s gonna take him seriously.
Actually my entire problem with Zack Snyder is that against all reason, studios for some reason I can't fathom, keep taking him seriously.
He's got some cool movies, but absolutely none of his movies are what I'd consider good.
Like not even Watchmen or 300 is what I'd consider good, but they did look cool though.
Hearing him talk about his movies in interviews, whether it was the themes of Suckerpunch, his reasoning for leaving the squid out of Watchmen, or his disregard for Batman or Superman's mythos, you can tell he only has surface level comprehension of complex themes which leads to what looks like a disrespect of the source material or a disrespect towards sensitive themes in his movies. I remember him saying that Suckerpunch was about women empowerment when he was promoting the movie, then it turns out all the women get lobotomized in the end.
He comes off as the hyperactive and impulsive ADHD kid in theater class with these crazy outlandish ideas like trying to re-write Romeo and Juliet with aliens and zombies and giant robots then acts confused and complains when nobody understands his vision. Haha Not sure if anyone else knows that kind of person, but I sure have.
The guy got lucky on some stylistic choices early on in his career with 300 which is something that lends itself purely to style, and both himself and the public at large mistook that for talent. And everything that happened after that was people being told they should like his movies without deciding for themselves why they should like his movies, that and making liking his movies a part of their identity. At least in my opinion.
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Comment on What is your "when I found out about 9/11" story? in ~talk
CrypticCuriosity629 LinkI was in 5th grade and for some reason I was militantly convinced that it was the Empire State building that had been attacked. I was correcting teachers and everyone. I don't think I'd have ever...I was in 5th grade and for some reason I was militantly convinced that it was the Empire State building that had been attacked. I was correcting teachers and everyone. I don't think I'd have ever seen, noticed, or heard of the world trade centers.
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
CrypticCuriosity629 LinkSo I'm finally creating my dream ADHD task/scheduling/productivity app. I've had this idea for a very long time, and it's something I've done manually, and for me and my ADHD and my issues around...So I'm finally creating my dream ADHD task/scheduling/productivity app.
I've had this idea for a very long time, and it's something I've done manually, and for me and my ADHD and my issues around executive function, task initiation, time blindness, etc, it's been VERY effective, however because I've had to manually set up the tasklist and schedule each time that's exactly what triggers my ADHD.
Anyways, the concept is that it's like envelope budgeting but for tasklists and schedules. So kind of like how the concept of envelope budgeting says "Every dollar should have a job" and you assign your dollar to savings goals, this concept basically says "Every minute should have a job" and you assign your time throughout a day to tasks, and freetime.
But the key to this is also balancing flexibility, So there's built in support for breaks, freetime, and "rewards". So it's not like you have to fill your day with constantly doing stuff, but it lets you plan for freetime as well.
For example what works for me is to break my tasks up with short 30 minute gaming breaks where I'll play a few rounds of Deep Rock Galactic or something similar. And how I manage those breaks is that they're like rewards for finishing chores or whatnot.
And to build in flexibility, those breaks are dynamic too. So lets say a break is scheduled for 30 minutes with a minimum of 15 minutes, however if I finish the previous tasks early the break time increases for more than 30 minutes, but if I take longer on tasks, the break time decreases to 15 minutes before the break gets pushed out. Alternatively people can instead have one big "Free evening" task at the end of the day that increases or decreases too.
There's also the ability to be as granular or as broad as you want. So you can either have something like:
- 7:00am-7:45am: Take shower and get ready for work
or you can have
- 7:00am-7:05am: Get clothes together.
- 7:05am-7:20am: Take shower
- 7:20am-7:25am: Brush teeth
- 7:25am-7:30am: Shave
- 7:30am-7:35am: Get dressed
- 7:35am-7:45am: Style hair
And you can end tasks early of course, and it expands the freetime blocks later.
For me at least, it really helps when I've broken things down granularly like that. Having a timer per granular task helps me keep pace and not get distracted.
And planning breaks and stuff feels nice because I don't feel guilty or like I'm in a rush or anxious about the break.
The idea for this app is that it structures and automates this concept and gives it a UI. I'd been doing this manually and using LLMs to restructure the schedule, but it's too much work and triggers my adhd.
Some features I'm planning:
- Templates/Routines: Tasks or groups of tasks that can be dropped in a schedule
- Live task interface: has a countdown to next task, an add-time button, or a finish early button, as well as a "stuck button"
- Daily overview: Will ideally look like a full calendar.
- Task Types:
- Activity Task: Fixed duration. If you finish early, the next Block starts early and downstream Flex Blocks expand. If you run over, downstream Blocks shift forward and Flex Blocks compress.
- Flex Task: A reward, break, or freetime Block that expands when you're ahead and shrinks (to a configurable minimum) when you're behind, then gets pushed if things go even further over.
- Split Task: A Block with a beginning, an uninvolved middle, and an end, where you can do other things during the middle. For things like Laundry where you put the laundry in and can do other things while you wait.
- Anchored Task: A block that has a rigid time that can not move. These are things like appointments, meetings, or anything on a rigid schedule.
- Automatic Travel time/ready time blocks: If you have a doctor's appointment, you can put the address in and it will block off time telling you when you should leave. Ready time is configurable so it automatically gives you a small block to get ready before a following block. Can be applied to any task type.
- Overflow: Can configure for delayed tasks that fall off the daily schedule to carry over into the next day or to go to a queue so you can reschedule.
- LLM assisted scheduling: Uses an LLM to intelligently break down tasklists and create a daily schedule. Also can convert a vague task into granular pieces, or can help reorganize a day.
- Panic/Stuck button: If having difficulty starting a task, or not sure where to start, you can hit this button and it'll use the LLM to walk you through completing the task. For me, this is things like "Clean the apartment" where it can be overwhelming. It'll break that into smaller steps like "Look around, first clean all the countertops," etc.
Anyways, I've decided to go with Go and Typescript for this. My first iteration will be a self-hosted docker server that serves a PWA, but I'm planning on making standalone mobile apps that can either work on their own or sync to the server.
I'm planning on allowing people to connect their own LLMs to it for the AI features, and potentially looking into offering a paid subscription for those who don't have access. First and foremost I want it to work for me lol.
Since my main thing is design, I'm currently working on the design and branding of the app as well as the UI because I think that's important. I might update this post when I have something I'm comfortable showing, I've only got drawings right now.
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Comment on That book you remember some details but can't recall the title in ~books
CrypticCuriosity629 LinkOh man I have a few. First of all there was this one book that had to do with a giant multi-person swing, a black hole, and time dilation. My memory of this book is entirely visual, as in I don't...Oh man I have a few.
First of all there was this one book that had to do with a giant multi-person swing, a black hole, and time dilation. My memory of this book is entirely visual, as in I don't remember the words, and I sort of remember the cover being mostly black, but the visuals I saw while reading it. I can't remember ANY other information on it, I can't remember the characters, plot, or title, just the swing, the black hole and the time dialation. I don't even remember how any of that was important. It's like a fever dream.
The other one is this book about some kids who were about to die or something got abducted by aliens to be put into an alien zoo, but one of them had a calculator that allowed them to break out of their cell, and there was dirt that when eaten would turn the user into a hairy monkey creature, and there was chrome spheres and lasers.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
CrypticCuriosity629 Link ParentHonestly she said she'd never really thought about it. Which is insane to me. Like to not have an inherent curiosity about literally everything.Honestly she said she'd never really thought about it.
Which is insane to me. Like to not have an inherent curiosity about literally everything.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
CrypticCuriosity629 LinkI realized a friend didn't know what the size of the sun was so I downloaded Universe Sandbox to show her. She thought the sun was slightly larger than the moon. It was painful.I realized a friend didn't know what the size of the sun was so I downloaded Universe Sandbox to show her.
She thought the sun was slightly larger than the moon.
It was painful.
So I started playing Stellar Blade.
I didn't think I'd enjoy a game like that, but I've been pleasantly surprised.
I did trick the girl I'm dating into thinking it was called "Bootylicious Blade Fighter".
I made a redisgned logo that said "Bootylicious Blade Fighter" and sent her a bunch of screenshots with the logo in the corner.
We joke about stuff like that, I'd told her about the smut novel I read out of curiosity and so now me reading or playing weird gratuitus stuff is a topic of jest.