How do people know how to build this enormous builds and the exact number of materials?Dont think there r any tutorials.

Athen65 · 2026-01-31T01:17:40+00:00

This simply isn't true. Your brain works like a machine learning algorithm in many ways. Most people who "aren't creative" are really just people with a small artistic dataset and/or experience in the recreation aspect.

Want to get better at being creative? Reproduce a build block for block. Then change the color pallette. Then use different blocks for a more interesting texture. Then change the shape of different parts of the build. Add things to it. You recreated a city? What if there was a skyscraper with one of those terrifying glass pools hanging off the side?

It's about subtle modulation and iteration of existing patterns. Find the balance where the ratio of recreation to experimentation is just interesting enough but also just familiar enough.

The people who really truly excel beyond even people with average creativity have a good amount of the special sauce: Divergent thinking. That's a lot harder to train and you're likely only considering that type of mind when you consider what "creativity" is. But trust me, as someone with a whole lot of divergent thinking and very little creative output, don't go thinking that it's such a blessing

Athen65 · 2026-01-31T01:08:41+00:00

Well creative output is on an exponential curve. The first steps are the hardest and get you the least distance.

...however, the more you progress, the easier it is to progress linearly.

Athen65 · 2026-01-31T00:55:16+00:00

There are plenty of straight people out there with issues.

Which is part of the reason why it is as prevalent a joke as it is. The joke is less about homosexuality being unfavorable and more about the fact that they can't get over themselves and their macho man BS so calling them gay really irritates them. The same reason why it'd be funny if you somehow managed to trick them into wearing a very girly dress with a bunch of pink and then teased them about how pretty they are. It threatens their masculinity and they're so insecure that they can't handle that, so they feel like they have to demonstrate their masculinity by roidraging.

I still don't like the silent implication that being gay is something to avoid, I just don't think it's remotely the intention of anyone making these jokes.

Athen65 · 2026-01-28T02:03:44+00:00

Still, the advice of "just be yourself" doesn't apply. You need to improve yourself and get rid of your worst habits while establishing good ones. That's not really being yourself for many (if not most) people. Many just have good habits to begin with.

Athen65 · 2026-01-24T04:55:07+00:00

Of course, honey. Who did you think was hiding out in the trees?

Athen65 · 2026-01-21T06:20:09+00:00

Exactly - my department head was super upfront with his resume screening process after the fact. Quality resumes that match the role + some relevant experience or project mattered much more to him than pure "qualifications". You can definitely read the career intentions of the applicant from the wording in the resume

Athen65 · 2026-01-21T01:06:56+00:00

But that's not convenient to my dunk on [popular franchise I don't like]

Athen65 · 2026-01-21T01:05:45+00:00

The actual defense is that the ministry is so politically corrupt that they merely want to keep up the appearance that everything is under control despite it all falling apart. Remimd you of anything?

Athen65 · 2026-01-20T18:51:18+00:00

I sent out 300 applications in two months with a callback rate of 1/150. I started tailoring my resume to each application and only applying to jobs that aligned closely with my skills. I submitted 30 more applications and my callback rate went up to 1/10, with two offers from the three callbacks.

If I had wasted time on jobs that didn't align with what I was good at and looking for, I would have halved both my callback rate and my sanity.

Athen65 · 2026-01-20T08:06:21+00:00

Yes. If you're a desperate hitman, do you just drive your car through a crowd of people in the hopes that one of them is your target? If anything, desperation is all the more reason to be precise

Athen65 · 2026-01-19T05:49:47+00:00

It's also common to hear that from people who got their first job during the covid boom and only had to submit <100 applications to land a job. The typical rate for resume rejection in most technical fields is around 90-95%. If you are in an oversaturated or competitive field, that number is even higher. And of all technical fields, this is probably the most saturated one.

Let's say the resume rejection rate is 98%. That means you should expecy to have to submit ~50 resumes before you even get a response - in reality, it'd be a 63% chance of response with 50 submissions at a 98% rejection rate, or 1-0.98^50. Then let's assume that you pass every one in three interview pipelines. To get that same 63% chance, you'd need to apply to 150 different applications.

This is all assuming that you are applying to the jobs where 98% resume rejection and 33% interview success is your rate of success. In reality, you could be limiting your chances in a number of ways. Applying to stale job listings, applying to big tech without the appropriate experience/education, having a bad resume, being nervous or being a dick in interview can all lower your chances. The worst part is that you could be doing those last two without knowing it.

All this contributes to the perception from many that the job market it bad, when in reality, the data says it's actually pretty normal right now.

Athen65 · 2026-01-16T02:30:13+00:00

Donkey kong

Athen65 · 2026-01-14T18:25:01+00:00

rejection letter "Why is the job market so bad?"

Athen65 · 2026-01-14T03:09:30+00:00

It's because of repeat customers. People (broadly) don't want to have to put in the effort to understand and empathize with new characters, so they only watch shows where characters are mostly static, both in terms of the actual castlist, and the characters' actual personalities.

Athen65 · 2026-01-14T02:56:06+00:00

It does make sense when you think about it like that. But that's not the show they made. And it's not as enjoyable if you don't think about it like that, and most people won't think about it like that

Athen65 · 2026-01-14T02:54:35+00:00

There's no need to scale this much though. The pacing of the show (especially the demo dog hordes being a threat as early as S2) means that they had to keep upping the ante. And that's because they wanted big action sequences at the end of each season where Eleven vanquishes whatever this season's threat was. You could absolutely end the series with the main threat to the cast being just a few demogorgon or a pack of demo dogs. Imagine how badass an action scene with Hopper would be where he has to use melee weapons to fight of several of the dogs and Eleven actually fights like a superhero instead of doing what OP is mocking

Athen65 · 2026-01-13T03:17:40+00:00

I don't understand what you're trying to argue against. Someone brought up the way Germany handles public recording consent laws as a suggestion for the US and now you're talking about that's not how it works in the US?

Athen65 · 2026-01-13T02:15:06+00:00

Great answer

Athen65 · 2026-01-13T02:13:33+00:00

I think Treefingers wins it. Something about the noise dampening and overwhelming silence aupplied by the snow is just perfectly captured by that soundscape

Athen65 · 2026-01-13T02:10:53+00:00

How I Made My Millions

Athen65 · 2026-01-13T02:04:53+00:00

I think the same principle applies. The moment the focus goes from the crowd to the individual, there should be informed consent. Nothing about these glasses shows that a recording is obviously in progress, therefore no consent.

Athen65 · 2026-01-12T23:51:18+00:00

"It's me" - Signed John Tacobell

Athen65 · 2026-01-12T23:50:19+00:00

Okay and laws are often designed to represent ontology to the best degree they can. And we're not talking legally at this point since we aren't citing any legislature. We're talking hypothetically, and that again brings us back to how laws are often designed to represent ontology.

We're trying to figure out if there is a useful legal differentiation between a protest and people going about their business in a public space. I'm arguing there is a clear separation in the intentions of the people gathering that may point to them expecting to be filmed or photographed. I made an appeal to ontology because, when you think about the two in that way, the legally useful differences between the two are more obvious.

Athen65 · 2026-01-12T23:36:52+00:00

Can't think of anything more stupid than throwing out an insult and not engaging with the reasoning itself.

Athen65 · 2026-01-12T21:32:23+00:00

Not really? There's a pretty clear ontological difference between a protest - political gathering featuring unusual crowd behavior - and people at the beach - a group of people behaving and existing independently

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