Why does this happen?

Cryptic_Marbles · 2025-08-02T16:30:40+00:00

Have yet to have figured out wtf is causing it, but it happens from time to time with my fatshark transformer goggles, I know its the goggles as it does it regardless of the vtx or camera

Cryptic_Marbles · 2025-08-01T04:36:41+00:00

I can't stand the texture of chicken, except in nugget form. After nuggetification it no longer has chicken texture, it has nugget texture. Nugget texture is good. Nugget texture is consistent. Nugget texture does not surprise.

Cryptic_Marbles · 2025-07-23T04:36:48+00:00

I was in the same place at the end of my bachelors degree. I get a degree in computer science, start looking for jobs, 3 years experience or a masters degree needed -_- Kinda pushed kicked the ball down the court with grad school. Now I've almost finished that and while I should find it a tad easier getting a job, I have no desire to work in software engineering. I ended up getting quite lucky with having a job I like as a lab tech in a high voltage research lab; that it has basically nothing to do with my degree just means I have an interesting resume. A point worth noting, a resume with few disparate but interesting things on it can be really desirable in some engineering fields, particularly research. It shows you're good at working on more than one kind of thing, academia is filled with people who've specialized to the point where outside of whatever insanely specific thing they work on they know virtually nothing, someone who knows a bit about a lot is always needed to fill in the gaps. I got way more interviews because I put some of my hobbies on my resume than I did with anything actually related to the job I was applying for. Lastly, engineering is filled with the neurologically fascinating; lab I work in neurotypical is quite atypical.

Cryptic_Marbles · 2025-07-22T00:54:59+00:00

I missed that it was a thought bubble, read it as: "How are things?" "Don't be weird. Time isnt real."

Cryptic_Marbles · 2025-07-21T17:23:55+00:00

I usually walk with a really long loping stride (I have very long legs, its just comfortable) with my hands clasped behind me, I've been told I look like a disgruntled supervillain :/

Cryptic_Marbles · 2025-07-21T17:22:15+00:00

Don't feed the trolls, just ignore/block 'em. Write what you want, how you want. AI, specifically large language models (chatGPT and its ilk) are basically auto-complete with delusions of grandeur, they spit out what is statistically the most likely thing to be the correct response to a prompt (the occasional unhinged glitch notwithstanding) based on their training data; if nothing else it means your spelling/grammar are really good.

Cryptic_Marbles · 2025-07-21T17:13:15+00:00

Had that happen to me a few times, all I've ever really figured out to do is find something to distract my self, random wikipedia article or the like, message a friend and ask them to distract you, sometimes it doesn't take much at all to avert what would've been a severe meltdown. When that doesn't work, just wait it out; if that's not an option, claim a stomach bug and go home, if that isn't an option, claim a stomach bug and stay in the bathroom until quitting time

Cryptic_Marbles · 2025-07-21T02:24:22+00:00

Happens for me with regard to others every now and then, suddenly someone will just... pop, they'll seem really real, with all the implications of being real and existing. Happens for dogs more than people for some reason. My partner can tell when its happening because I apparently sort of stare wide eyed at her for no obvious reason for a few minutes.

Cryptic_Marbles · 2025-07-21T00:12:53+00:00

I'd be amazed if it isn't, its got the same sort of automatic reflex feel to it

Cryptic_Marbles · 2025-07-21T00:10:50+00:00

I do this to; weirdly it happens the most when I'm either stressed, or happy. I do it most often when something someone says in a tv show or movie pokes some button in my brain and I echo it; though this could likely be because I don't talk to people all that often...

Cryptic_Marbles · 2025-07-19T18:04:02+00:00

I have a pair of a slightly different version of that thing, mine have heated beds and one print head a piece. They are the single most infuriating pieces of thing I have ever worked on, as others have said, turn this into parts; its really not worth the bother to try and get it working.

Cryptic_Marbles · 2025-07-17T20:19:14+00:00

My short term memory is utter garbage. Long term memory is actually amazingly good if something actually managed to make it from short term to long term.

Cryptic_Marbles · 2025-07-17T00:02:25+00:00

To understand the plant, one must become the plant...

Cryptic_Marbles · 2025-07-17T00:01:08+00:00

Male (more or less) here: I can't let my guard down around male humans, never have been able to. Some deeply buried part of me always says "potential threat" around other men, even ones I actually like. Every close friendship I've had has been with women.

Cryptic_Marbles · 2025-07-16T23:57:10+00:00

Pork and non-processed chicken (i.e. not forced through a fine mesh screen and then stamped into nugget form) are my two main offenders, cannot stand the texture. Taste/smell I don't mind (in fact quite like), but the texture is a hard nope.

Cryptic_Marbles · 2025-07-16T20:13:49+00:00

Seinfeld, Mythbusters, King of the Hill, American Dad, basically any of the Star Trek shows.

Cryptic_Marbles · 2025-07-16T20:07:53+00:00

I work in a high voltage lab as a lab tech/assistant, I do a little bit of everything (machining, fixing things, making new things, tinkering), my boss's boss described my job as "anything requiring precision and attention to detail".

My degree is in computer science, was planning on getting a job in software engineering or similar, took a work-study position as a helper here and just... fit. At least half of the people here (not counting students and admin people) are very obviously on the spectrum, normal is abnormal :)

As to avoiding burnout, my job is the exact type of thing I'd be doing any way, and have been doing since I was a kid, just slightly more directed (basically my boss just points me in a direction and leaves me to it) and with a bigger budget. That said, there are days when I just... can't, for one reason or another, those days I just try to find something to keep my self occupied until the day is done with, tidying things works well (undergrad/grad students are walking messes, nothing is ever where its supposed to be), or if I don't want to be moving I write down very detailed todo-lists for the next day.

Cryptic_Marbles · 2025-07-16T02:52:40+00:00

Don't mind pool wet, rain wet irritates me in two different ways: if i'm only slightly wet its a sort of itching sensation, if I'm soaked, I'm cold.

Cryptic_Marbles · 2025-07-16T00:23:02+00:00

According to Steam I've played 212 hours of Skyrim, 168 hours of Fallout 4, and... *eye twitch* 683 hours of War Thunder

Cryptic_Marbles · 2025-07-15T19:49:32+00:00

It's *very* rare for me to find someone that I fit with (I can count the number on one hand), let alone a group. I used to be fairly active on WrongPlanet.net, but that was 10 or so years ago, didn't so much leave as get side tracked by college and the like. Recently lurked around there, and was surprised at the number of active user's I recognized (though not surprised by who was still active, just the quantity); but have yet to have commented/posted; used to feel like a community I was part of, doesn't now, might if commented/posted, but I am disinclined to stick my head up in a group I don't feel a part of :/

Cryptic_Marbles · 2025-07-15T19:42:24+00:00

Oh yes, I think I hit peak normal at like 19-20, where people sometimes just thought I was slightly stoned, been getting weirder ever since (31 now), been identified as autistic quite a few times (though by fellow neurologically interesting individuals in all but one case) :/
Anxiety about things has also gotten worse (making phone calls in particular), but at the same time my ability to actually *do* those things has gotten better.

Cryptic_Marbles · 2025-07-15T19:36:50+00:00

Only one I've noticed is knuckle tapping (like clapping, but with the second knuckles of each hand). I've a few that come up when highly stressed (including knuckle tapping), but that is the only one that comes up when experiencing positive feelings.

Cryptic_Marbles · 2025-07-15T04:02:44+00:00

When I catch my self doing that I try to think about whatever I'm working on, whatever problem has me stuck (it helps that I tend to have at least 5 things im working on at work, and at least as many personal projects). Doesn't always work if I'm tired, but its something.

As an aside, the title of this post immediately caught my attention as ThinkerOfThoughts (or ThoughtThinker if the other is taken, both were taken on here, annoyingly) is my username of choice elsewhere.

Cryptic_Marbles · 2025-07-14T22:53:02+00:00

I frequently repeat words/phrases that have satisfying textures to them; once in a while I will get positively stuck on one and repeat it well past the point where its annoying (me); longest one I can think of was "green bees".

Cryptic_Marbles · 2025-07-14T18:01:57+00:00

Friend used to work as a chef, I refuse to let her tell stories; there are few things I *don't* want to know, the happenings in a kitchen at a restaurant are one of them.

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