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Comment on I'm Not a Robot in ~games
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Comment on You need to be bored in ~life
MechanicalMagpie Link Parentsame for me. I have adhd and there is a giant gulf between "my mind is wandering and im pondering the meaning of life / daydreaming" and "I'm bored". boredom is physically painful, i can't...same for me. I have adhd and there is a giant gulf between "my mind is wandering and im pondering the meaning of life / daydreaming" and "I'm bored".
boredom is physically painful, i can't concentrate on a single thought. its like the gears in my brain are slipping and never catching, nothing holds my attention for more than 5 minutes, and I actually can't daydream, my mind won't wander. it feels like the mental equivalent of getting your car stuck in the half melted slushy ice and just spinning your wheels as you frantically try to get unstuck.
idk maybe thats not actually boredom but its the thing ive always labeled as boredom bc it feels like how ive heard other people describe being bored.
what he's describing in the video is just kind of what i do by default when i run out of phone things to do, but thats never felt like being bored to me. its always felt like....exercising my brain i guess lol.
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Comment on Planning documents for the US Donald Trump-Vladimir Putin summit left in the hotel's business center in ~society
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Comment on What is the most insane, tedious, difficult, and/or noteworthy gaming achievement you have completed or given up on? in ~games
MechanicalMagpie LinkI've gotten Ghost, Shadow, and Clean Hands in the OG Dishonored game, while playing on max difficulty. I have 137 hours in the game and thats absolutely because I've played it start to finish at...I've gotten Ghost, Shadow, and Clean Hands in the OG Dishonored game, while playing on max difficulty. I have 137 hours in the game and thats absolutely because I've played it start to finish at least 5 times.
... I'm unfortunately very bad at it now though. i started playing on easy and i still got clocked escaping the prison 😂
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Comment on How are you planning for a potentially bleaker future? in ~life
MechanicalMagpie Link Parenthey samesies! my plan is basically "support as many of my friends as i can for as long as i can and then go die in a ditch somewhere cuz Boy Howdy Am I Tired". its been working out p well so far i...hey samesies!
my plan is basically "support as many of my friends as i can for as long as i can and then go die in a ditch somewhere cuz Boy Howdy Am I Tired". its been working out p well so far i think!
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Comment on Is anyone working on an Android version of ICEBlock? in ~comp
MechanicalMagpie Linkive come across https://www.stopice.net/. it seems pretty legit from what i can tell? web/sms based so like. theres the whole issue with sms being unencrypted and all that but given the info...ive come across https://www.stopice.net/. it seems pretty legit from what i can tell? web/sms based so like. theres the whole issue with sms being unencrypted and all that but given the info that's actually being sent i dont see that as a huge issue.
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Comment on Victories and challenges: An A[u]DHD community and support fortnightly thread #2 in ~health.mental
MechanicalMagpie Link Parentnot necessarily autism or adhd specific but TheLatestKate might be worth a look.not necessarily autism or adhd specific but TheLatestKate might be worth a look.
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Comment on LukHash - Bootloader (2025) in ~music
MechanicalMagpie Linknew lukhash album? oh hell yeahnew lukhash album? oh hell yeah
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Comment on How many languages do you speak? in ~humanities.languages
MechanicalMagpie Linki can speak/read/write english (for a given value of all of those considering i am american 😂) im barely conversational in ASL (i sign poorly and if my conversational partner goes too fast i get...-
i can speak/read/write english (for a given value of all of those considering i am american 😂)
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im barely conversational in ASL (i sign poorly and if my conversational partner goes too fast i get completely lost lol but if were both slow im.....okayish)
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i can read cyrillic, but i dont actually speak enough russian (the reason i learned cyrillic) to know what im reading (so ig it'd be more accurate to say i can decode it?? idk the actual terminology for "i can look at the letters and know what sounds they make, more or less correctly, but idk what the word i just
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i can puzzle my way through reading german, spanish, and french provided i have a translation app for words that arent related enough to english or latin for me to recognise
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i know the bare bones of latin. i more or less understand how conjugation works and i can recognise a decent number of words, but i cant actually read anything more complicated than a prayer or a song (and even that might be pushing it) lmao
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im teaching myself mandarin, i cant really sight read much other than simple, common internet phrases, but im also not actually learning with any regularity due to who i am as a person
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oh and i can pick out a few letters of arabic, i could probably brush up on hebrew enough to be able to "read" hebrew again the same way i can "read" russian (except i know a few more words in hebrew - primarily liturgical tho) and i kinda remember how to read korean, enough to shop at the korean market near me lol.
so basically, my only language is english. i dabbled in enough other languages that im really good at mimicking the sounds, and that i sometimes fuck up my english grammar in odd ways when im speaking, but i cant actually converse in any other language with any degree of reliability
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Comment on How did you learn to read? in ~humanities.languages
MechanicalMagpie Linki learned phonics at age 3, though i suspect my mom actually started me sooner than that bc she got tired of me constantly asking her to read me things. i think i was reading early readers by 4 or...i learned phonics at age 3, though i suspect my mom actually started me sooner than that bc she got tired of me constantly asking her to read me things. i think i was reading early readers by 4 or so and after that i just kinda....ran with it? i dont think anyone ever taght me to read in the sense that I was supposed to read the words on the page in a specific order to maximise my retention.
That said, i am an excellent speed-reader, and a terrible comprehension reader. I read fast af but i only retain like ~50% of it. its not really a problem in the day to day, i can skim through work-related reading material like nobodys business, and since most of that stuff just requires me to follow directions, skimming for the general concept is actually way more helpful than reading for complete comprehension.
it does mean though, that if im reading for fun, ill enjoy the heck out of a book, but i wont be able to tell you a thing about it other than "this was a cool book, i liked it a lot, you should check it out" which for some reason has never really sold anyone on anything ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ (like for example, i read Iron Widow semi-recently. There were mechs, it was kinda like darling in the franxx except less....uhhh...Weird (iykyk), the main character was a complete badass, and i 10000% support womens wrongs in her case specifically. Also the love triangle was solved with poly(!! yes!! fantastic!!). Anyway thats pretty much the entirety of what i remember about it. Excellent book, 10/10 i recommend it!)
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Comment on What's an atypical thing you do that you'd recommend to others? in ~talk
MechanicalMagpie Link ParentIm not the person you asked, but i am non-binary so i figured id chime in. The wikipedia article is pretty good and very thorough. If you want a lighter intro, this article from the national...Im not the person you asked, but i am non-binary so i figured id chime in. The wikipedia article is pretty good and very thorough. If you want a lighter intro, this article from the national center for transgender equality is good.
You could also check out Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg. This book was pretty instrumental to me personally when it came to figuring myself out. 10/10 do recommend, along with anything else written by hir that catches your interest.
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Comment on Post something from your notes app in ~talk
MechanicalMagpie Link ParentThe sentence is "the quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" because im boring and couldnt remember the cool sentence that uses all the letters. Here is the key. im still not entirely decided on...The sentence is "the quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" because im boring and couldnt remember the cool sentence that uses all the letters. Here is the key. im still not entirely decided on how i want to combine and shape letters/words so I'll probably end up changing some things for using it for english. im gonna toss it at a conlang though, and see how that shapes up.....once i find the notebook i put the conlang in 😅
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Comment on Post something from your notes app in ~talk
MechanicalMagpie Link Parentthis is super cool, and has inspired me to make my own version! thank you for posting itthis is super cool, and has inspired me to make my own version! thank you for posting it
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Comment on Post something from your notes app in ~talk
MechanicalMagpie Link Parentanswers 1. no idea strawberry?? ???? kimchi! (though evidently it originated in china before korea put their own spin on it. According to ppl on rednote anyway.) comrade ngl i have no clue what a...answers
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strawberry??
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kimchi! (though evidently it originated in china before korea put their own spin on it. According to ppl on rednote anyway.)
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comrade ngl i have no clue what a hyperbolic paraboloid is but it sounds like math and im allergic
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chicken eggs! my mom told me for years that we didnt get flu shots bc she had an allergic reaction and she thought i might too (neither of us are, or ever have been (afaik) allergic to eggs.)
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avocados, im assuming.
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is this the giant bean?
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banh mi
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chick peas/garbanzo beans
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~life
MechanicalMagpie Linkmy high school diploma is on a bookshelf somewhere, bc its small enough to fit there. My college diplomas are in the envelope they came in and that envelope is...uh. Well. Its probably in my...my high school diploma is on a bookshelf somewhere, bc its small enough to fit there. My college diplomas are in the envelope they came in and that envelope is...uh. Well. Its probably in my apartment somewhere? Most likely in a box that is in my apartment, along with some professional certificates, some old MRIs of my knees, and other assorted detritus. i probably didnt throw it away but i couldnt say what box any of that is actually in lol.
But, i dont think i actually need any of it? I've never had a job ask for a physical diploma, just official transcripts, and my degrees are basically worthless anyway so ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ -
Comment on Confess your food crimes in ~food
MechanicalMagpie Linksometimes ill make a ton of rice and then instead of making a real meal ill just put some rice in a bowl, add about a quarter cup of minced garlic (the jar kind (costco's is really good)), an...sometimes ill make a ton of rice and then instead of making a real meal ill just put some rice in a bowl, add about a quarter cup of minced garlic (the jar kind (costco's is really good)), an inadvisable amount of lao gan ma, and some fish sauce or soy sauce.
and then i eat it with a spoon like its cereali usually make enough rice that i can just rinse/repeat until the rice is gone (usually over the course of the whole day)
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Comment on No Man's Sky: Worlds Part II in ~games
MechanicalMagpie Linkme reading this: "ooh, all that sounds cool, new biomes are super exciting, love the autophage, purple stars sound excellent -- record scratch INVENTORY SORTING?!?!?!?! 😍😍😍 i have yearned for this...me reading this: "ooh, all that sounds cool, new biomes are super exciting, love the autophage, purple stars sound excellent --
record scratch
INVENTORY SORTING?!?!?!?! 😍😍😍
i have yearned for thisfor centuriessince 2018
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~talk
MechanicalMagpie LinkThedas. Like, yeah, the world is constantly ending, theres a terrible deadly plague that regularly ravages the world and yeah its a feudal monarchy but like......Magic. Id also take Pokemon, Star...Thedas. Like, yeah, the world is constantly ending, theres a terrible deadly plague that regularly ravages the world and yeah its a feudal monarchy but like......Magic.
Id also take Pokemon, Star Trek TOS, or Naruto. lmao. Basically i just want the ability to do some kind of magic, ride or die friends, and the ability to save the world with the aforementioned friends; im not super picky about the where or how lol (inb4 "star trek doesnt have magic" comrade have you seen vulcans and betazoids? that's magic and i will die on that hill 😂 also, pokemon are close enough to magic. i too would like to talk to my cat and have them understand me)
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~health
MechanicalMagpie Linkholy shit. What a horrifying article. only vaugely relevant anecdote when i was three, the family dog pushed me off some stairs, and i fell ~6 feet down to a concrete floor and landed on my head....holy shit. What a horrifying article.
only vaugely relevant anecdote
when i was three, the family dog pushed me off some stairs, and i fell ~6 feet down to a concrete floor and landed on my head. my parents didn't take me to the doctor. In retrospect, this was probably due to a combination of this sort of absolute bullshit, and also the hslda recommendations that people keep their homeschooled kids away from cps/cops/whatever at all costs lest they imprison the parents for exercising their pArEntAL riGhTs of educational neglect. -
Comment on How do you decide when to buy a book? in ~books
MechanicalMagpie Linkif its a book i really love or that shaped me as a person, i buy it in physical format. Otherwise, i just go with digital.if its a book i really love or that shaped me as a person, i buy it in physical format. Otherwise, i just go with digital.
this really reminds me of The Impossible Quiz, except with a little less stupid 2000s humor. anyway i accidentally said im a robot on level 14 so ¯_ (ツ)_/¯ i guess my true nature has been revealed.