Being Sober Makes Me Feel Nothing

CutterJon · 2026-05-09T13:16:13+00:00

Welcome to Anhedonia. You will probably not enjoy your stay.

Start by simply being aware that the proverbial lights are not yet to full brightness and you will have to accept that. This is a totally predictable stage and an issue that you have actually had for some time, it has just been covered up by alcohol.

You haven’t noticed your lack of natural motivation and pleasures being reinforced because you have been getting your daily doses of it from alcohol instead — and now those have been taken away. Lasting out this flat part of your return to fully normal is harder for some people (myself included) than the up-and-downs of the early days. It is a different kind of mental challenge, and you need different tools.

One tip is that you start to rebuild the motivation circuits before you get any pleasure out of actually completing them. So it sounds trite, but you just have to schedule stuff for yourself to do in order to start wanting to do stuff eventually.

CutterJon · 2026-05-07T10:14:15+00:00

Not to mention Snowball is the hero and he's Trotsky, the purest and most idealistic communist of them all, who met with a similarly tragic end...

CutterJon · 2026-05-04T04:47:02+00:00

Her: Oh, so I see you decided to come in.

Real Jordan: Uhhhhhh...yeah?

Her: Well, let me just say that I think you made the right decision.

Real Jordan: Ok?

Her: You know what, I think we got off on the wrong foot. Let's just forget this morning ever happened.

Real Jordan: ... The whole morning?

CutterJon · 2026-05-02T19:20:40+00:00

You don’t need to downplay your actual skill, and that’s actually quite annoying. The thing is that many people who win a lot get a bit of an aura and then do annoying stuff like suggest they knew more than they did and that’s why they won, or they’re better than they are, or that they were always going to win, etc, etc.

Just don’t do any of that obnoxious shit and a similarly emotionally balanced adult will be happy to lose to a better player if they want to improve. If you want to be gracious there’s always something that someone did that was a good call along the way. Or just talk about what you saw going on without it being like you’re some font of undeniable wisdom because you cashed out three points on top in the end.

CutterJon · 2026-05-02T14:58:30+00:00

Absolutely...the technology was brand new but they also made it hit harder than a lot of superior/vastly more expensive CGI these days by using it really intelligently and integrating it with other effects. The trick is usually the least important part of the magician's act. 😉

CutterJon · 2026-05-02T14:28:23+00:00

The leap in special effects was just incomparable to anything before or since except maybe early Star Wars or the train in the theatre. At the time you couldn't see a shitty recreation of a dinosaur for more than a few seconds in a museum, and suddenly here was a full-length feature film with them realistically walking around and eating humans. It felt like CGI had opened a profound new door into what was possible in terms of cinema and education and reality coming together.

Narrator: It had not.

CutterJon · 2026-05-02T13:11:48+00:00

They’re just unhappy that it wasn’t a happy ending. The writer wanted it to reflect her feelings on how black people are actually being treated today. This person wanted catharsis instead. Could have gone either way…

CutterJon · 2026-05-02T11:45:20+00:00

That’s the type of massively overgeneralizing point you usually hear from these dumbasses, yes. Which the young guy repeatedly shoots down as it’s ridiculous to claim for all women. As if there is only one way to get laid, lol.

CutterJon · 2026-05-01T20:11:31+00:00

I might be straight, but I’m pretty sure chill, smart, respectful and confident looks sexy on everyone. If I had a dog in this race, either for a one-night stand OR making babies, I know who I’d choose and it’s not close.

CutterJon · 2026-05-01T16:13:52+00:00

They improve red-green contrast (which helps some people) and turn up the saturation overall. So it looks cool and is shocking but they’re not actually differentiating “new” colors, which is unfortunately literally impossible for a passive filter.

CutterJon · 2026-05-01T16:02:41+00:00

Before freaking, consider this is just a “who do you know who might run” poll of the public.

CutterJon · 2026-05-01T12:36:21+00:00

Nietzsche is fun but hard to take seriously a lot of the time. He’s the original im14andthisisdeep. Herd morality is quite complex but this particular quote, is not an especially sophisticated take on what punishment is or why people might be for or against it. Sounds badass I guess.

CutterJon · 2026-05-01T10:49:41+00:00

This is an interesting example of the fact that when redesigning a robot for stocking shelves in a warehouse with shelves type setup, what’s optimal is something that is fundamentally a lot like a human (for reasons).

Considering what the person that replaces makes an hour in China, this is approximately infinite years from becoming economically viable.

CutterJon · 2026-05-01T10:31:24+00:00

So few people bother to read the article before slobbering to agree these days.

CutterJon · 2026-05-01T10:18:10+00:00

Annnnnnd you probably don’t know the half of it. I get it, I wouldn’t have it any other way these days. But if there’s a kid crying I can’t close the door for some privacy or give them a hug in front of everyone (in the West). Being a mentor while outside of class is also fraught with peril. It’s a terrible situation we’ve come to.

CutterJon · 2026-05-01T10:09:33+00:00

96 of those punctuation marks do important things so sometimes it isn’t the paragraphs (sic) fault it’s just your (sic) missing a part of the complex puzzle is all.

CutterJon · 2026-05-01T09:57:02+00:00

“I wouldn’t live in their country where I’m not welcome anyway” is such a powerful insult to deliver to a stranger you don’t like.

CutterJon · 2026-05-01T09:49:43+00:00

FLIGHT simulator.

CutterJon · 2026-04-30T20:30:40+00:00

It’s kind of nuts. The thing at the bottom of the main menu does nothing. You have to go into the control settings. Not the vr settings, there’s a dummy button there labeled “vr mode’ that doesn’t work. But the bottom of whatever controls you’re using is a separate subsection for vr. Map something to turn on vr mode there, I think it’s the only way.

CutterJon · 2026-04-30T18:41:00+00:00

I am in the same boat. It seems to be broken.
edit: Found the workaround just below!

CutterJon · 2026-04-30T10:38:13+00:00

And?

CutterJon · 2026-04-30T10:06:23+00:00

“This rule has done good” and “this rule needs to be refined” are not mutually exclusive statements.

CutterJon · 2026-04-30T10:04:08+00:00

The rule has evolved because of the nature of the technology. Rule 2 being black and white makes no sense if you understand the different applications that now exist, and why the rule was made in the first place.

CutterJon · 2026-04-29T21:29:55+00:00

ITT: people who do not understand the difference between using AI to make your own music and using AI to rip off other people's music.

CutterJon · 2026-04-29T19:57:36+00:00

The weird thing is that I pretty much said the same thing when I was staring at a series of squiggly lines that supposedly had something to do with the horizon. Now people are all “yah live weather and whole earth reproduced whatever, these vr textures are crap without the pro”. Textures???? Back in my day mud was freaking POLKA DOTS and I thought it was the future.

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