Y’all seem to be into this, still! Kind of fascinating yet sad AF, but anyway.
Personally, I left rings of power and dragons and monarchy behind at age 10, many moons ago.
At that time, Akira, Saint Seiya and Dragon Ball Z—just to name a few— whooped my ass and looked a gazillion times more interesting than heroic fantasy.
What makes medieval stuff with magic that compelling to grown folks in the age of zombie-people walking around looking at they phones, I don’t know.
Stay safe, though.
I’ve been using a Mac daily at work for a couple months now, and I’m here to report that:
Considering that we spend a good 80% of our time in front of computers to read some stuff, this is some shit.
I remember some old mid-2000 threads about Macs having blurry rendering, but now I know. I experience it. *personal growth*
The Melancholy of Subculture Society.
“Internet links small groups, helping dissolve big groups; good, bad? But a bit sad.”
How Sleep Deprivation Decays the Mind and Body.
“Getting too little sleep can have serious health consequences, including depression, weight gain, and heart disease. It is torture. I know.”
“Habit is the glue that gives perception its stickiness.”
Video Game Music Preservation Foundation Wiki.
1,786 artists, 2,656 songs.
“the best inoculation against naïve realism—the illusion of personal objectivity—is a healthy dose of fact, aggregated from non-biased sources with no skin in the game. But against the backdrop of a highly polarized political landscape, and a media environment flush with disinformation, it is exceedingly difficult to even know where to begin in de-biasing oneself.”
Hot Girl Summer Is a Utopian Notion.
“Hot Girl Summer is utopia. What we hope for, and then mourn as we slide into September, is a different reality.”
(I really loved that movie)
Chicago Sky was the favorite but Connecticut Sun was on point.
That block from Jonquel “FOH” Jones got me jumping.
And then Courtney Williams, above, sunk a midrange jumper -that thing that most basketball analytical dudes say is the worst but regularly wins games at the last second- to put the game away and her face says it all. done deal, bitch
After that, Dewanna Bonner made her free throws and screamed so hard and for so long, it was incredible to watch.
Finals incoming!
It’s impossible to describe what it feels like to hear about that thing, Twitter, once you’re completely off of it.
I read this headline: “Former Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company found that “a substantial portion” of Twitter’s users were “not real”, when Disney considered buying Twitter in 2016”
And I’m thinking “well yeah; it’s full of nonsense and clout bots lol” while the tech crowd is *actually* pondering if it’s really full of fake users or not in 2022 LMAO.
What are you all doing
Meanwhile I’m looking for something in my YouTube history, where search is utter shit (it’s Google so that makes sense right?), and I couldn’t find it. Thankfully I had kept that tab open since early 2021.
A MESS
Looking at the world today and how the West behaves, I wish we had been ferociously selling our lifestyles instead of imposing fake views of purity, meritocracy and whatnot.
Imagine the message to the world:
“We like how we live here, free to do any kind of activity. Mostly enjoying life!”
“Women and men and lgbtq+ all together, no pressure, just vibes!”
“We focus on maintaining a fair society, as it only makes our society better: everyone can go ahead and become the best at what they want. They will be supported!”
“Yes, we have legalized everything but we’re not stupid; we maintain moderation!”
“We live together, in our own respective lanes. Sometimes we intersect, sometimes we don’t. It’s all good!”
Etc. Basically a propaganda of collaboration, pleasure and “if you try to beat our asses, we still have nuclear heads and missiles ksksksks” type of warning.
I think that would have worked much better than *waves at whatever the hell is happening in international politics since WWII*
It was so great! OMG.
Abby cracked me up so much. They absolutely nailed voice over and rhythm and cuteness and 13 year old energy and eye technology and etc.
Onward, Soul and Luca were SO whiny, I was scared. Turning Red is like that apple sour candy, it makes you smile and gets you excited just because. Kind of like OG Toy Story.
Despite a very classic theme, it’s just awesome. Is it a coincidence that the first fresh Pixar movie in ages is the first one lead and directed by a team of women? I don’t think it is.
Domee Shi and your team? I can’t wait to see what’s next.
For instance, to take the first dichotomy that I had trouble with, I couldn’t decide whether my subjects were selfish or unselfish. But I was forced by sheer pressure of fact to give up this Aristotelian style of logic. My subjects were very unselfish in one sense and very selfish in another sense. and the two fused together, not like incompatibles, but rather in a sensible, dynamic unity or synthesis very much like what Fromm has described in his classical paper on healthy selfishness. My subjects had put opposites together in such a way as to make me realize that regarding selfishness and unselfishness as contradictory and mutually exclusive is itself characteristic of a lower level of personality development.
Abraham H Maslow on Creativeness in “Toward a Psychology of Being” p 139
This is spot on and I am subjects? Don’t be too hard on yourself, sir. He goes on:
These same people, the strongest egos ever described and the most definitely individual, were also precisely the ones who could be most easily ego-less, self-transcending, and problem-centered.
I’m not going to say that’s me like that but uh, it kind of is? I feel like doing the switch daily, constantly. I just think that it’s healthy and efficient. It’s always about balance.
In trying to figure out why all this was so, it seemed to me that much of it could be traced back to the relative absence of fear in my subjects.
Again, quite spot on.
What I am saying in effect is that the creativity of my subjects seemed to be an epiphenomenon of their greater wholeness and integration, which is what self-acceptance implies.
I like that, Mr. Maslow. It fits my whole life 100%. It’s kind of great and wild to read in one sentence.
The civil war within the average person between the forces of the inner depths and the forces of defense and control seems to have been resolved in my subjects and they are less split. As a consequence, more of themselves is available for use, for enjoyment and for creative purposes. They waste less of their time and energy protecting themselves against themselves.
YESSIR. But as for everything worth it, it is a constant effort.
Oh by the way, there’s no pyramid of needs. It’s all a flat hierarchy. I’ll come back to this.
I don’t know how this playoff run is going to end, but the 2022 Las Vegas Aces can run a train on me. Anytime.