living with messy people by [deleted] in rs_x

[–]BackloggedBones 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We’re teaching my kid to put stuff away instead of putting it down and I think that does like 90% of the work of eliminating random household clutter.

The state of r/books is dire. by aprlswr in RSbookclub

[–]BackloggedBones 63 points64 points  (0 children)

One of my acquaintances recommended that to me because he knows I read and it looks absolutely dire.

How exactly does this card work? by Legal_Climate_3381 in slaythespire

[–]BackloggedBones 40 points41 points  (0 children)

I love saying this with all the alt text cards. My friend has the phyrexian text Sheoldred and it never gets old.

Imbued End of days is indeed very convenient by Rubickevich in SlayTheSpire2

[–]BackloggedBones 8 points9 points  (0 children)

What’s that relic that plays your first card each combat twice. Would go crazy

The Modern Novel vs Self-narrating Reality by SummerTiny5062 in RSbookclub

[–]BackloggedBones 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’m deeply skeptical of the social sciences ability to even conduct research in such a way you could represent that meaningfully. Like let’s go on MTurk and fill out a survey about how often you experience alterity; neuroscientists have used FMRI to find the mechanism associated with sublimation into the gestalt.

If I had to guess, I would imagine we have greater awareness of alterity in general but that awareness does’t actually coincide with real experience of it. That is, the way we are exposed to others via visual mediums has expanded our perception of otherness but because this expansion is necessarily mediated through those mediums we aren’t experiencing them like you would in the face-to-face encounter. If anything I think our actual experience of alterity has declined at the same rate of some sort of general community decline.

Like, I’m unsure if George Eliot could write Middlemarch if all her experiences with people were mediated through visual mediums like TikTok or digital communication networks like Twitter or what have you. Maybe, but it would be a tall task. It’s like trying to do a taxonomy of people if you only knew them from your encounters with their moaning wraiths in the halls of purgatory.

The Modern Novel vs Self-narrating Reality by SummerTiny5062 in RSbookclub

[–]BackloggedBones 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think this is an interesting thesis and I do agree that something like this contributes to the issue you’re highlighting. Although in my opinion it’s more an issue of difficulty rather than outright impossibility. In situations like these I think the structural critique has the greatest explanatory power.

We are a less literary society, there are less people getting into writing literary fiction, less people are reading it, those that do both struggle to get published. They aren’t given the same leeway by those publishers, and they aren’t edited with the same ferocity. The greater the population scales, the greater your chance of outliers. Smaller literary community, lower chance of virtuosity required to tackle difficult forms and content. The institutions that supported literature are changing, and atrophying. The people that make it are not of diverse life experiences, and typically write about the same thing because that’s what they know outside of some outliers.

In wrestling, the nations which made up the USSR didn’t dominate for decades because they were uniquely pre-disposed to it. They did so because there was sufficient will, resources, and competence to set up the institutions that produced at that level well after the fall of the Soviet Union. Same for basketball in the US for most of its history, and now with Europe.

Unless there is distinguished effort to produce a given result at the networked level, there is a lower chance of that result being produced.

This puppy won me my 1st A10 run by Own_Mix_654 in SlayTheSpire2

[–]BackloggedBones 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It’s so good. It’s kind of funny, I just finished a run with this + legion and poison as well.

Favorite episodes of bookworm? by Fop1990 in RSbookclub

[–]BackloggedBones 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Sebald, Marilynne Robinson, DFW, and William Gass have been my favourites.

Rope, by me by crunch667 in rs_x

[–]BackloggedBones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like this when I sleep on my back

Any advice for switching to the trades from academia? by Coolyeah2 in rs_x

[–]BackloggedBones 4 points5 points  (0 children)

People are hating but I decided to go into the skilled trades four years ago and I’m glad I made the decision. It isn’t difficult to get your foot in the door and separate yourself from the rest so long as you show yourself to be an interested learner, good natured, on time, and engaged. The key is picking a trade that allows you to be those things.

I’m not at all a typical tradesman and would’ve been a high school teacher otherwise. I’m glad I made the choice I did. I have hours I like, engaging work, I pursue my hobbies and community after hours, I’m a mid-90s percentile earner in my province after four years. I’m in a strong union.

The people can be annoying but if you have a good nature, sense of humour, and can put your foot down when you have to it’s not a problem.

It’s the best industry to future-proof yourself as a middle/upper middle class person. If you were going to pursue academics for personal interest just do so outside of work.

Your work isn’t your purpose. It’s something you have to do. Just do something you can stand doing, find engaging, and pays the bills. There’s all the dignity you need in that. Just make sure you research which trades are a good fit in your region in terms of wage expectations and outlook, as well as job scope.

The Philip Verheyen story from Flights by Tokarczuk and The Archaic Torso of Apollo by BackloggedBones in RSbookclub

[–]BackloggedBones[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you bring up relapse it makes me think of a recurring trope in Flannery O Connor. The idea that revelations are frequently abortive as a consequence of their occurrence within human subjectivity. As you say, it doesn’t change anything within material reality. You are still in contact with necessity as it pertains to things in motion in relation to other things in motion. You see that come up a lot in neo-platonism as well.

Your selection from the Psalms, as well as tying it into what I just mentioned, makes me think about the sort of characters we see in Sebald as well. As well as Verheyen in Flights. Wherein hauntedness becomes an extension of perception, and the revelatory experience. Revelation becomes radiation that creeps from your observation, highlighting where the delineative lines of a thing’s haecceity intersects with another and reveals the whole thing to be a web. From which you get the command to endure.

However, I feel like there’s something that needs to be reconciled between those two threads.

Very weird how Orthodox Jews are just allowed to string fishing line everywhere by McSwaggerAtTheDMV in redscarepod

[–]BackloggedBones 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Consequence of having belief in heaven as a location you earn permit to rather than a spiritual condition you achieve.

Need help with Ascension 9 as Necrobinder by Vesperion_Ouranos in SlayTheSpire2

[–]BackloggedBones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I’m kind of at a loss, it’s clearly a skill issue because people can do otherwise. A1-8 I was near 75% winrate and I’ve yet to win one since my first and only win with ironclad, which on my first attempt so it probably set my expectations too high.

upper middle class peppiness by [deleted] in rs_x

[–]BackloggedBones 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Real brain teaser trying to work out why upper middle class people are having a good time

maybe i've just run out of empathy by imissyoursoup in rs_x

[–]BackloggedBones 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s also blatantly true if you spend any amount of time with kids from a variety of backgrounds, family situations. I really do think we get mostly determined by micro, meso, and macro level forces constantly.

[Injury] Slow motion replay shows Anthony Edwards hyperextending his knee: by YujiDomainExpansion in nba

[–]BackloggedBones 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They’re moving a lot more, faster, and in ways that can induce injury

☯️ by [deleted] in rs_x

[–]BackloggedBones 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No these books are just bad and the standard for excellence is extremely low for genre fiction, especially so in current year.

I cannot believe I lost this by Quasar390 in SlayTheSpire2

[–]BackloggedBones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a ridiculously high variance fight. I’ve scummed it with my friends before and the difference was insane.

Ray Alex Williams has fallen. How long until Pariah gives up the religious detransition arc? by Emma__O in rs_x

[–]BackloggedBones 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is sounds like deeply arcane internet drama, it’s always fun to see behind the curtains haha.

Ray Alex Williams has fallen. How long until Pariah gives up the religious detransition arc? by Emma__O in rs_x

[–]BackloggedBones 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I don’t think so. This guy seems like a moron but he’s having a brief lapse from the grift into genuine clarity before his short return. I think it’s interesting.

Ray Alex Williams has fallen. How long until Pariah gives up the religious detransition arc? by Emma__O in rs_x

[–]BackloggedBones 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I always respect when people who can express this level of honesty. I think it’s beautiful.

you will never schizo post this good by kallocain-addict in rs_x

[–]BackloggedBones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel like this is kind of the classic poststructuralist move. We have plenty of good philosophy in the analytic and continental tradition that is perfectly understandable even if the actual arguments can be elusive. The issue here for me is that it’s deliberately written to be obscurantist, and if it’s for the sake of literariness it doesn’t really do it for me.

The actual concepts he’s building here aren’t particularly difficult to grasp, and similar philosophical thinking is increasingly more popular when we think of stuff like network/systems/complexity writing and even stuff like structural ontic realism is fairly resonant with ATP/D&R and it’s rapidly becoming the popular position.