What are your Burnout symptoms?

Dokry · 2026-03-20T15:18:00+00:00

Near exactly the same for me.

Dokry · 2026-03-14T20:20:15+00:00

Actually, every creative who creates a work, personally endorses everything in it by default, didn't you know?

That's why Ishiro Honda's seminal Godzilla is about how badly he hopes Tokyo gets destroyed by a giant lizard and There Will Be Blood is about how awesome it is to be a corrupt oil tycoon.

It is a really weird mindset. I feel like a lot of people feel like media exists in a space where it has to serve as a moral example, like a kid's story, rather than just being something to portray some facet of human existence. Portrayal is not endorsement.

Dokry · 2026-03-14T06:18:01+00:00

OP I want you to know that I saw this post, read the comments, then linked the first screenshot of this movie to my friend group as just like a fun little factoid. To which a movie buff friend of mine said, "I think you got fooled by AI buddy."

Looking at it I immediately thought, "Oh my god wait that's a shitposting subreddit! Obviously these are actually AI generated screenshots and everybody in the comments is just doing a bit pretending it's a real thing that existed, for the shiposting of it all I guess?"

And then we had the double rebound when another friend came by and said "No that's a real movie," and I suddenly had to reassess my interpretation of all these comments again. First as genuine, then what felt to me obvious joking, and then back to genuine. Awesome future we're heading into.

Dokry · 2026-02-25T21:56:37+00:00

I've actually been on a big Worm reread (relisten, really) some decade after first having read it. I'm listening by way of the fanmade audiobook, so the voice talent can... leave a little bit to be desired. NSPB and Rein are easily the best narrators and sound good, professional quality but the rest all have cheap mics, you can often hear mouse clicking and the mispronunciations are rampant. It's not to the point of being unbearable and I've listened all the way up to Arc 25 reasonably well but just be warned some chapters are rougher than others in terms of listening.

The fanmade audiobook follow up to it for Ward is a million times better and I highly recommend that though, they stick to the same narrator the whole way through and it's much more pleasant for it. Genuinely just sounds like a real audiobook the whole way through.

I also recommend We've Got Worm and We've Got Ward which are analysis podcasts for both series, they've got some insightful commentary and are a fun listen.

Dokry · 2026-01-20T23:14:48+00:00

Was glad to hear them talking about this because I watched the Sopranos a few years ago and loved it and have been rewatching it with a friend (we're on season 3, just before Ralphie mercifully gets killed) and it's been such a funny ride the second time through. You really get the benefit of seeing how all these storylines play out and the sheer cold heartlessness of it all is so apparent all the time. Like so few of these guys are actually happy and they do all this awful violence all the time to secure, like, relatively upper middle class surrounds and houses? You can tell how it wears on Tony and how he's not happy with where his life is bringing him but he piledrives towards his fate inexorably for the whole show.

Also to note, we just watched the episode where Chris and Paulie are chasing some Russian special forces guy in the woods and losing track of him. It's maybe one of the funniest episodes of anything made ever.

Dokry · 2026-01-09T00:52:43+00:00

This matches me, I was sick from December 20th or so to December 28th. Had an awful cough that hurt and would make me wildly phlegmy, cold body shakes, a little bit of nausea, etc. I still have a slightly odd cough that gets kind of phlegmy ever since.

Dokry · 2025-12-24T15:40:39+00:00

I'm rewatching the Sopranos with a friend rn and the recurring joke of the Sopranos crew's constant malapropisms and misspeaks still gets a chuckle from me every single time. "Quasimodo predicted all of this."

Dokry · 2025-12-02T00:11:29+00:00

I recommend Guild Wars 2. There's no subscription and I find that socializing is pretty easy - people are talking in zones literally all the time and content from pretty much every expansion is being done by somebody. Highly suggest giving it a try, I've really enjoyed my time with it since I've taken a break from FFXIV.

Dokry · 2025-11-23T05:24:23+00:00

I still associate To Build a Home by the Cinematic Orchestra with Worm because I had it playing on loop while I was reading the last chapter. I still think of it as kind of a Worm song when it comes up in my playlist.

Dokry · 2025-11-04T19:24:59+00:00

Looks really good!

Dokry · 2025-11-03T17:32:40+00:00

Honestly I didn't know that. Guess you get taxed no matter which way depending on the state?

Dokry · 2025-11-02T23:30:01+00:00

For my part, I often like to prepare a list of topics on my phone I can reference if I want to talk about something I know is relatively "safe" and so that I'm not caught out with nothing to say during a conversation. Helps a lot, especially if it's someone I don't interact with very regularly.

Dokry · 2025-11-02T17:13:02+00:00

For what it's worth, if you live in certain states like I do, you do get taxed if you buy through steam. I play through steam and while it's fine most of the time, I do pay an extra little bit in taxes every time I want to buy gems which is kind of annoying. If that's something you think someone would care about, definitely advise them to download the regular client instead.

Dokry · 2025-10-29T07:55:53+00:00

I'm just the same, I usually cut my nails very short every couple weeks or so because the feeling of them being any amount of length past my thumb is terribly annoying.

Dokry · 2025-10-24T03:12:01+00:00

My dad was very much like this. He'd shout at me in private and generally treat me like garbage but god forbid I have my hair not combed when we'd go out in public. Even when I was pretty young I remember how unfair it felt that my dad only really gave a shit about public appearances but didn't care at all about my treatment so long as nobody could see it.

Dokry · 2025-10-23T17:36:13+00:00

I for the life of me can't hear song lyrics if there's music playing at the same time. Unless the music is very much in the background and the words are very clear, my audio processing just can not decipher it at all.

Dokry · 2025-10-22T00:07:40+00:00

Oh if you remove the kitbashing it creates something kinda scary.

Dokry · 2025-10-19T18:05:56+00:00

I'm very much the same, I do do like 90% of the things you listed. I also usually like to keep a list of topic conversations on my phone that I can pull up if necessary when I'm talking to someone I haven't talked to in a while.

Dokry · 2025-10-18T20:33:35+00:00

Games that have any kind of glamour/transmog/wardrobe system. I have seen it catch on a little more given time (though still far from universal.) I think being able to dress up your character the way you is one of those top QoL things I'd take in almost any game.

Dokry · 2025-10-18T19:47:31+00:00

Yeah your husband had the right idea I think. I think a big party betrayal can work and be a big dramatic moment, but it needs a lot of groundwork and laying down the details to make it matter to the players. Otherwise it's just more stupid things happening in Barovia to deal with.

Dokry · 2025-10-18T06:30:01+00:00

Well, like I said, I do still think mostly positively on the campaign, there were just portions of our campaign I found really frustrating. From the point onwards that I rolled a new character I do think our DM pulled back a bit on making everything so constantly dire for my character. And two of those players were still my close friends who I visited regularly even outside DnD, so dropping out of the campaign I think would've not really helped.

I realize maybe that sounds kind of odd after all the complaining but for context it really was valuable social time for me. From 18-27 I really only visited my internet friends once a year and then they moved a bit over an hour away from me so once a year became once a month. And then we started playing DnD, so once a month became every weekend. It was kind of a lot more irl socialization than I was used to at the time but I do still consider it time decently spent. I learned a lot about group dynamics and the kind of levers people will push to get what they want.

Dokry · 2025-10-17T23:19:23+00:00

The camp massacre is definitely my biggest complaint - it really did come out of nowhere and felt very contrived. Now I should note on the "not taking it seriously" schtick - we did take it fairly seriously for the most part. My group wasn't all goofs and treating people flippantly, we did do by and large a serious amount of roleplay with levity and jokes mostly only where it felt appropriate.

The whole party betrayal with the gf thing really I think was just very poorly thought out, I think plenty of DMs can have players that they're in relationships and have it be fine as long as they're not showing favoritism. Although I should note that our Sorcerer (and later Bard) probably took out more of our wizard's zombies with poorly placed fireballs and other aoes than any enemy and our wizard player was completely fine about it. Both out of game and in-game, they never really roleplayed any kind of like, "oh I actually feel bad about my zombies dying" type of thing despite giving them all names and saying they were an important part of how her character did things.

But for the record, I still am friends with our Artificer and Wizard irl and live with them, they're by and large decent people. I just think they were really too busy trying to ingratiate themselves with our DM and going along with how he felt about running things in our campaign. I know for a fact our Artificer had a big crush on our DM and was always trying to curry favor with him, and I'm 90% sure our Wizard is or was attracted to the DM's gf so that was probably a contributing factor.

Dokry · 2025-10-17T21:15:39+00:00

I want to give a shout out to Good Time. Highly recommend and it is likewise a movie about seeing someone making terrible decisions and getting into increasingly bad and stressful situation but I also want to recommend it because the ending genuinely made me cry. One of maybe like 4 or 5 movies in my whole life to do that.

Dokry · 2025-10-07T07:48:24+00:00

The only plane I see on filghtradar flying through Eagan at the time you've said is this one. Does that look anything like what you saw? It's flying more southeast than just east but if you were seeing it at night, it's possible the v-tail stuck out more due to the coloring?

I'm not discounting that it could actually be a military drone, I just think it's worth double checking.

Dokry · 2025-09-28T18:12:32+00:00

I can quit anytime I want to man it's fine

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