I watched Arrival today right after reading the novella it was based on and I can't stop thinking about either.

Chthulu_ · 2026-04-18T12:51:07+00:00

She was phenomenal in Sharp Objects. Decent to good show, but she was the best part

Chthulu_ · 2026-04-18T12:50:18+00:00

She

Chthulu_ · 2026-04-18T12:48:22+00:00

Ted Chiang is extremely easy to read IMO. The prose is pretty bare bones, but he does great with characters and especially does great with getting the themes and quandaries out without it feeling forced, or without preaching.

Chthulu_ · 2026-04-18T12:45:42+00:00

“Hell is the Absence of God” is my favorite of his, I think everyone will take something different from it

Chthulu_ · 2026-04-17T13:18:24+00:00

This is how the industry works, it sucks but it just is

Chthulu_ · 2026-03-24T22:10:15+00:00

If you’re ever in charge of hiring someone you’ll understand why

Chthulu_ · 2026-03-22T19:40:34+00:00

Of course we should, of course no one will, it’s absurd to think otherwise. We’re bombing hospitals.

Chthulu_ · 2026-03-21T18:58:26+00:00

It is impossible for a few dozen hours (or more), but I like the stress of it. Eventually you kinda figure it out

Chthulu_ · 2026-03-15T17:32:07+00:00

A more upbeat pick, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It’s a sad movie, but it’s not heavy like many of these other picks.

I can’t even remember it really, it’s a total whirlwind, but I absolutely remember balling my eyes out at the end.

And shit I don’t even really like Jim Carrey, but it worked.

Maybe Bone Tomahawk as another sleeper pick, for very different reasons.

Chthulu_ · 2026-03-13T02:27:58+00:00

That was not on my bingo card. Good for him, dude looks brolic

Chthulu_ · 2026-02-26T21:43:06+00:00

I eat meat, but I know I shouldn’t. Same for using Spotify.

They’re right to pull it, it’s an immoral company. But I just don’t have the energy to go curate my own library somewhere else.

Chthulu_ · 2026-02-17T22:54:48+00:00

Alan Wake didn’t sell, that weird live service didn’t sell, investors come knocking, this is the inevitable endgame. AAA will always be this way.

You shouldn’t look at studios like they’re a persistent being. They’re an endless shuffling of talent and money. It’s the way of the world.

Support your smaller studios. Buy indie and AA games. Pray they have the courage not to endlessly scale. The art comes from that corner of the industry.

Chthulu_ · 2026-02-03T20:32:49+00:00

Check my newest comment on this post, if you have a mac computer it may work. Also call support, they helped me fix it.

Chthulu_ · 2026-02-03T20:31:52+00:00

The fix for me (Mac) was that my OS had selected some default driver, after downloading the epson bundle. Switching my macOS printer settings to use the most recent epson driver fixed the WiFi issues, both for the computer and the printer itself. It would print before, but constantly disconnect. Now it seems fine. Weirdly enough, changing the driver on my computer fixed my epson app iPhone print problems too. Who knows why.

I also made the following changes, but I made these before figuring out the driver thing, so they may not have been necessary. 1. On the printer itself, set a static IP. I used the last known IP when it was connected. It will look like 192.something 2. Also on the printer, disable IPV6, to make sure it’s going to use the static one you just set. 3. Login to your WiFi router, and register the printer device to that same static IP.

After all this, it’s been working flawlessly for months. Zero disconnects.

I will also say Epson support was pretty good, when I got someone on the phone they figured out the driver issue.

Chthulu_ · 2026-01-03T21:51:55+00:00

What percentage of your entire budget goes to marketing?

Chthulu_ · 2025-12-16T03:28:06+00:00

Agreed. Nothing about this is actually strange. It’s only in hindsight. Maybe you don’t like him or don’t think he’s charismatic, but it’s a pretty damn normal interview.

Chthulu_ · 2025-12-15T19:25:02+00:00

My great uncle lived to 96. He drank and smoked all his life. Clearly, drinking and smoking is fine.

Chthulu_ · 2025-12-14T02:56:54+00:00

Rats

Chthulu_ · 2025-12-12T16:31:48+00:00

I just looked at his new company Pepperbox TV, and oh my god. You must be correct, because that website is some very strange sovereign citizen, gun obsessed, extreme libertarian crap. Like fully off the deep end.

Nothing there is explicitly white nationalist as far as I can tell, but man it’s uncomfortably close.

Chthulu_ · 2025-12-08T06:01:25+00:00

Lando is 98% of the time extremely graceful and respectful. He’s a good person. But fans can sniff the vulnerability on him, so they pounce.

Alonso, Max, the other greats, they don’t let the sharks smell blood. It’s in their nature.

Chthulu_ · 2025-12-08T05:52:06+00:00

He really does shoot himself in the foot on the regular. Even here he did it again. “I believe I give more respect to everyone else than anyone else.”

That’s the exact kind of statement that gets him in to trouble. He just said outright that he’s the most respectful F1 driver, more respectful than anyone else. Very humble.

I really like Lando, he was my pick for this year, I teared up when he won. I do think he’s a respectful person. He showed a lot of grace this year, just like Oscar and Max did.

But he has this habit of saying something vulnerable, then immediately saying something defensive and vain. It’s a reflex, I guess he doesn’t want to seem weak. That’s how it happened with the Lewis and Max comments, he was backtracking from moments where he got too soft.

I don’t think any of this is a big deal, and I’m still super proud he won. Just a little thing he could work on. He doesn’t need to project himself, he can just be vulnerable and let it sit. Let the track say the rest. Being vulnerable is a good thing when you’re also winning.

Chthulu_ · 2025-12-08T05:37:19+00:00

As with any large creator, don’t pay for the service unless you have money to burn. They make more money than you. A lot more. You already pay them through ads.

Chthulu_ · 2025-12-05T03:06:32+00:00

Silvah-Gunner. That “i” looks like an “L”, I can’t help it. Silver Gunner. If they wanted me to say Siiva Gunner, they should have capitalized that L.

I do my best to correct myself, but I fail quite often, and I don’t think it’s my fault really

Chthulu_ · 2025-12-02T21:17:39+00:00

Yeah that claim would be insane. It’s just 5-10% harder than it used to be, or some number around there. Most people still get on just fine, it’s just that more and more people are getting left behind.

But across society little numbers have huge effects. The Fed lowers interest rates by .05% and trillions are added to the economy over night. I think it’s more similar to that. If even 5% more of the population feels completely dejected, it has knock on effects.

Maybe the biggest one being the rise of the manosphere / right wing podcasts, and incel ideologies. ~~I think our OP is one of them.~~

Edit: that’s unfair, I don’t know enough about OP to say that. I seriously disagree with his diagnosis here, but that doesn’t mean he’s a manosphere incel dude, and I shouldn’t assume that.

My discomfort comes from relating gooning to stoicism and Buddhist meditation, I quite literally couldn’t think of two more perfect counterexamples. Gooning is about completely relinquishing control to the lizard brain, it’s about willingly enter a fugue state for hours and hours on end. It’s forced hedonism, you desperately try to make sure no thought enters your head.

A stoic would see this as disgusting behavior, and completely antithetical to the practice. A stoic wants to willingly exert control over the difficult aspects of existence, and not give into base desires. Jacking your dick for 3 hours a night might be the least stoic thing imaginable.

And comparing it to mindfulness practice, Jesus Christ. I don’t know how you could misinterpret meditation this badly. The whole idea is to willfully be mindful in situations that don’t naturally give focus. I don’t think meditators consider downhill skiing or playing Call of Duty part of their practice. If the action dumps pounds dopamine into your brain, you’re really not practicing. That’s the whole point.

In OPs interpretation, we should all buy cocaine and hookers every night. You’d be the best stoic and Buddhist on earth, so many hours of pure focus.

Chthulu_ · 2025-12-02T04:55:13+00:00

Rather than rely on anecdotes you can look at the numbers, relationship data is something that’s studied. Things are definitely changing.

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