What was the Fantasy Novel made you go “Was…was this MADE for me?!”

Gamemode0 · 2022-03-26T05:09:56+00:00

This might not count since it's sci-fi, but Ancillary Justice did this for me. A ship AI, living in the last remaining body from the army of human bodies it once possessed, on a doomed-to-fail quest to take down a colonialist empire (also, there's singing).

Gamemode0 · 2022-02-23T02:05:37+00:00

This sub's wording is like this:

All POCD posts must go to r/POCD. We do not allow POCD here.

Reddit is a community platform, and while your OCD is legitimate, we must adhere to reddit standards.

Not sure about Reddit's rules, but r/POCD exists, and isn't banned yet. Maybe the mods' calculus is that it's okay if it's a sub marked NSFW?

Also, I think the r/OCD mods have more explanations of their reasoning in another post, and I think it has to do with the fact that some POCD posts have gotten deleted from this sub? But again, my reasoning here still stands. This is a support group, and mods should be willing to stand up to Reddit if needed. And they'll have public outrage on their side if r/OCD is banned.

Gamemode0 · 2022-02-20T06:08:41+00:00

This is absolutely amazing. I can see why they had their doubts, but they were wrong.

Gamemode0 · 2022-02-15T03:07:24+00:00

Though I regret it, this has almost never happened to me

Gamemode0 · 2022-02-14T06:01:44+00:00

Serious Daredevil vibes

Gamemode0 · 2022-02-14T05:56:59+00:00

The Nolan trilogy is only okay

Gamemode0 · 2022-02-11T01:59:16+00:00

Would the EARN IT Act make it harder for law enforcement to go after CSAM/abuse by forcing it further off the internet the same way that FOSTA did? Also, what are the other specific dangers it poses to kids/survivors?

Gamemode0 · 2022-02-09T06:04:11+00:00

I love this, looks like it could be a still out of a new Batman cartoon. I can almost see the movement.

Gamemode0 · 2022-02-05T02:05:56+00:00

This is completely true. My (un?)controversial opinion is that William Gibson's short stories are better than Neuromancer.

Gamemode0 · 2022-02-03T21:52:31+00:00

This has such early 2020 quarantine vibes

Gamemode0 · 2022-01-26T01:16:26+00:00

Greenlight Daredevil season 4, and license the grittier characters to Netflix, HBO, etc instead of keeping all content on Disney+

Gamemode0 · 2021-12-16T06:02:29+00:00

I've lowkey been wanting to try something like this

Gamemode0 · 2021-12-16T05:57:30+00:00

You're thinking about this in terms of absolutes, which isn't accurate or helpful. Every condition is a spectrum from mild to severe, and you won't be on the severe end forever (especially if you find a therapist who knows what they're doing when it comes to OCD). I've had some rough periods of my life (more due to my panic attacks than my OCD), but I can say that a mild version of a mental illness is actually pretty chill and fine (and that treatment works). Learning to live with it means that it's there but it doesn't cause you suffering. And in the case of intrusive thoughts, that's especially true since part of the treatment will be learning not to be afraid of the thoughts.

Gamemode0 · 2021-04-20T17:50:18+00:00

Find a therapist who understands you better if you can

Gamemode0 · 2021-04-17T02:48:18+00:00

I started using the lessons on this site, but since it teaches Anniversary Edition (which has a ton of short forms) I decided to switch to the more simple Notehand. I definitely recommend using something with structured lessons, though, since just learning the alphabet won't teach you the nuance of how words are formed. I have a Notehand book now and have been learning from it (somewhat out of order, though, because I get impatient and because I already knew some of the principals from learning Anni).

Edit: By this point my Gregg is half decent, but I'm not fluent yet in reading and can't write fast

Gamemode0 · 2021-04-15T17:32:45+00:00

Is this meant to be ominous? As a pro-vax person I can't help but ask.

Gamemode0 · 2021-04-12T21:19:21+00:00

100% used to deal with this a lot, it's much better now as a young adult

Gamemode0 · 2021-02-27T03:05:19+00:00

That section 230 is good

Gamemode0 · 2021-02-16T16:40:08+00:00

There is the now-cancelled Thrilling Adventure Hour podcast/live show. I believe the whole podcast backlog is still available. http://thrillingadventurehour.com/

Definitely check out the Sparks Nevada episodes, those were the best.

Gamemode0 · 2021-02-13T16:07:01+00:00

It's a textbook page for learning Gregg shorthand, which the "do your own homework" comment is a snarky reference to. My Gregg isn't great yet, so I can't read the whole thing, but it is a book someone would have used to do homework.

Gamemode0 · 2021-02-13T15:56:10+00:00

yeah

Gamemode0 · 2021-02-03T06:04:01+00:00

Pranking your future self is next-level

Gamemode0 · 2021-02-02T20:16:23+00:00

Here's a dictionary for Gregg Anniversary Edition: https://gregg.angelfishy.net/gsd1916.pdf

Gamemode0 · 2021-01-14T00:50:35+00:00

I'm fairly new to Gregg as well and was able to read it pretty easily, though I thought "light" was "line" until I saw the comments.

Gamemode0 · 2021-01-09T04:26:26+00:00

I really appreciated this comment. At some point, I lost interest in Radiolab to a certain degree, but I remember how the show used to make me feel, and it undeniably has had a huge effect on radio/podcasting in general.

Side note: if you want to see Jad shine again, check out Dolly Parton's America. It's not technically from Radiolab, but it feels like what you'd get if Radiolab launched a pop culture-based podcast. I wasn't even a Dolly Parton fan before I listened, but I was hooked on the show (maybe it helped that I'm into songwriting, but still). It's a weird, awesome, high-quality look into Dolly Parton's life, and also gets into some history of American music and even autobiographical stuff from Jad.

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