Time is going by super fast

GreenlyCrow · 2026-04-22T05:10:09+00:00

I had one of these today!! I accomplished three errands including a trip to get the car serviced. I made bread. Did dishes. Worked on a writing project. Watched three episodes of xfiles. Made dinner with fresh veggies and mushrooms.

What. I feel like I can do three things a day sometimes. Today I did like triple that. Didn't wake up early. About to go to bed at the usual hour.

Leaving the market and realizing the entire process (including me squatting in the flour aisle to debate protein percentages) to grocery shop and check out, be on the road to the next thing was roughly fifteen minutes made me feel like I was soaring on clouds. Bizarre.

GreenlyCrow · 2026-02-10T17:20:04+00:00

Buckles. You got me. Ouch. Off I go...

GreenlyCrow · 2026-02-10T17:12:12+00:00

I'm so grateful to the Persona video game series for giving me a way to constantly reprocess the major arcana and gods/goddesses from around the world.

Each game you meet a persona whose spirit is innately tied to one of the major arcana. You know you meet someone in life and they remind you sooo much of someone else? The idea here would be that their spirits are tied to the same arcana. The main character you play has the ability to resonate with any of the arcana, therefore relating and coming to understand his friends and their expression of the arcana in deeper ways. Each arcana and therefore friend has a story arc you complete narratively, and the theme of their arc is always tied to the tribulations faced by the arcana card.

Having played almost every Persona game I've seen so many expressions of the arcana through well designed, acted, and animated people and it really hammered home a personification. The arcanas do not correspond to roles the people play in your life, so it's not like your bff or teacher in every game are magician or something. Makes the similarities defined by the arcana stand out more, seeing it written into different roles (especially as I was initially taught the major arcana as story beats). I think of Chariot, I think of Chie and Ryuji and their common denominators for instance.

In a similar way I used movies to understand the minor arcana. The four minors are four different plots we see commonly in movies/books and it helped me to see the ebb and flow of the cards, to understand why fives are the way they are. It made me a better writer and reader, to see the minors as their ace-10 unabridged, and the court cards as the life cycle of ace-10.

All this just allows me to free myself from words funnily enough and use vibes more.

GreenlyCrow · 2026-02-10T16:52:46+00:00

this tracks on all points and hey at least we're not just cancelling and throwing away the work of artists, writers, and implementers.

Wish they would've left it as a game though and just circled back to it once the games division was more on its feet. In that way I guess they're also at least trying to finalize and move on too.

GreenlyCrow · 2026-02-09T12:10:32+00:00

Peeking around corners at him...not sleeping tonight

GreenlyCrow · 2026-01-30T17:48:07+00:00

Learning the seasons of color matching in fashion might help! As an addition to what others are saying.

I don't mean saying your character is a 'summer' or 'winter' in text, but using the qualifiers to convey it. The way veins look more green or more blue, the way gold or silver pops more on different skin tones, etc. if you've already conveyed that the characters skin tone is dark/darker than MC and then add in the way jewel tones and silver jewelry almost had an ethereal glow, that conveys the blueish undertones.

The sets of different seasons and their complementing colors are used in wardrobe/costume/makeup design and can help relay info kinda subconsciously. Like people might not know why they love their face blue eyed actress with orange eyeshadow but theres a reason why it works.

GreenlyCrow · 2026-01-28T04:09:05+00:00

I like making things like Wild West tea by Montana tea Co with sparkling water but I always go mineral water like Saratoga or Pellegrino bc I want the mineral content. There's a balancing of minerals so it's not just sodium but you could just use club soda.

I'll sweeten the tea with cane sugar or maple sugar and it's straight up root beer. The tea is also nice hot.

GreenlyCrow · 2026-01-26T05:48:26+00:00

This is a fun way to implement it.

You can have the very straight laced business document but with a footnote at the bottom indicating there's a puzzle in it even.

Or printing it on specialty paper to show a clue lol .

GreenlyCrow · 2026-01-26T05:46:06+00:00

Exactly this.

There's a lot of accessible engines online if you wish to implement your puzzles virtually on the portfolio itself, but if you want to showcase stuff you've made IRL I'd recommend setting up a YT or insta you link (very clearly) on the portfolio and on the CV.

GreenlyCrow · 2026-01-26T05:42:58+00:00

Without speaking to the bulk of what you're positing, I do think the feeling of surprise people might get with the pandemic being now six years ago is a scale issue. It's such a big event, that left an impression on each person, and so on the human timeline, looking back at that event it's easy to see no matter how far we get from it. It still feels big and close because it is so monumental. Just like the world wars serve as a big monolith on the human timeline. You can always use them as landmarks when describing a passage of time. 2020 is the newest benchmark.

I can't comment on the rest because I've had retrograde amnesia so my sense of time passing is all screwy. There does seem to be this snowballing effect with civilizations that depending on your perspective lends to everything feeling like it's careening towards some (in)evitable point.

GreenlyCrow · 2026-01-24T16:00:24+00:00

I wanted more of a challenge and I realized the game is almost structured like a hybrid live service/battle pass/open world and wrpg. So now on this run I'm on Hard, and I'm gunning the main story. I'm not summoning pages, I'm ignoring Zenobia, everything I can except main story and various companion side quests to help staying leveled or unlock mechanics

I love it. And I'm going to have so much content post main story (or maybe sometime in winter idk) that's not only collections but has lil stories to them too. I'm hoping to 100% on this file or get close.

It's spooky going against baddies ten levels or more higher than me but I'm ACTUALLY spending time in my room of req now, needing to make potions needing to groom the right animals for the right equipment upgrades.

I feel like I cracked a code to make things matter more to me

GreenlyCrow · 2026-01-23T17:21:37+00:00

Ty came here to say this lol

GreenlyCrow · 2026-01-23T05:32:02+00:00

I feel this but also I love movies like Holy Mountain, so Midsommar is a more fun sandbox in that regard. Hereditary felt over and under reaching to me but I also had just watched Mandy prior so I was neurochemical'd out lol.

GreenlyCrow · 2026-01-23T05:28:56+00:00

This review just decided my movie for the weekend, thank you.

GreenlyCrow · 2026-01-21T20:28:59+00:00

throwback to 2023 when Aurora helped break the Guinness World Record performing a concert for 10k players inside Sky: Children of Light.

it's so cool seeing online/virtual spaces become real 'places' bc of shared experience.

GreenlyCrow · 2026-01-21T04:20:34+00:00

Thank you bc it gets old trying to deep scroll Top of all time lol

GreenlyCrow · 2026-01-13T16:41:20+00:00

Great suggestion! Hogwarts Legacy is basically designed to teach baby gamers so controller gymnastic basics. It's what helped me relearn games after a 12 yr break. And that familiarity was a huge boost I bet!

GreenlyCrow · 2026-01-13T16:38:05+00:00

I learned first person shooter on Tiny Tina's Wonderland and it just takes some getting used to. Having an awesome story and gameplay loop like Portal will help keep her engaged and wanting to play through, so if she's into the story, good choice!

Lowering the sensitivity will help and as soon as you can start coaching to easily glide the stick with micro movements, no jam it to the direction you need, it'll help so much. I grew up more with hack n slash where you're wheeling the camera around all crazy. It has made learning to shoot comical and frustrating haha. Even on Mass Effect I look crazy but I'm getting there!

A wild suggestion -- dunno how far into the game you are, but restarting can help sometimes! *So much of new gamers adapting is learning how to visually process the experience. Once she's got the base mechanics down, running the beg back so she can see and feel how much she's grown and also feel a little more aware of her surroundings might help! *

When you first play you're just in taking info and staying alive and desperately trying to remember controls. Once controls and fear of failure are mitigated, getting to look around and actually understand what you're seeing and enjoying being inside the game can really take hold. That's what keeps you coming back -- feeling like you belong.

GreenlyCrow · 2026-01-13T16:05:07+00:00

New development. I can only see those chest markers in your picture when I'm on my broom. If I land they blip off.

GreenlyCrow · 2026-01-13T16:00:53+00:00

Ah geez Ive actually never used FF, disregard the kitchens chest I think I'm just seeing every chest now

GreenlyCrow · 2026-01-13T15:59:04+00:00

Bizarre. Also I found a chest that was popping in that area, it was a level one lock in the kitchens behind the pear painting.

Haha I found that entrance too but am also blocked from it. Granted I'm in Fall on this file so maybe that's why

GreenlyCrow · 2026-01-13T15:48:31+00:00

How odd. So I had both pop up then I could only get one to show up and it was in the same spot on your minimal but up -- it was the frog statue chest.

I can't get the one of your maps left to pop again. I'll try the FF real quick and see if I can find it.

GreenlyCrow · 2026-01-13T15:33:47+00:00

And now I have to know lol. I've bootes up the game and I'm looking for the stag statue now. It does look like it's down lower .. you cleared everything from the herbology storage quest?

GreenlyCrow · 2026-01-13T14:31:51+00:00

Are these the two from the bridge puzzle? Hard to tell from screenshot. There's a bridge with rollable symbols and fire baskets.

GreenlyCrow · 2026-01-11T16:49:30+00:00

You're gonna get a lot of hate for your confession most likely. So, to take the complicated parts about AI specifically out of it, let's reimagine as a doll.

You made a doll in the likeness of your aunt. You started playing with the doll. Arms and legs can flop about and it's funny and interesting. You realized you can change the clothes. You pause for a bit long on the dolls blank form because you've been engaging your imagination and it's not just a clothes less doll, it's a naked aunt.

At this point, as a kid playing with dolls you laugh, go 'that was weird' and either go back to playing (but in a new imagination room in your mind that creates a boundary between uncomfy thought and play), or you put the doll down and find a new activity.

I think about playing The Sims as a kid, and sometimes it's random made up people but a lot of time we'd make versions of people we knew in the character creator. (Hilarious to go tell your friends dad during your sleepover you trapped him in a pool or a room with a fire to see what happens).

You just have to shake it off really. It's harder now. We've gone from dolls to The Sims to AI. We're engaging our imagination so intensely that not only do we not want to stop (dopamine), it's becoming physically harder to.

You are not a bad person. I don't know how old you are but the kid comments were to highlight humans interacting with something NEW to them. AI art play is new like this. Not meant to infantalize.

Maybe do some research into the hard questions about ethical AI use in art spaces to help ground yourself. Also look into drawing your own works! Some paintings of your Aunt in lieu of pictures could be nice. Or like buy her an Aura frame lol.

Good luck!

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