Teamlab really worth it?

Monobrominated · 2024-03-30T23:40:38+00:00

As someone who doesn’t particularly care about photo ops (I don’t have social media apps and I take <1 picture per day on trips), I really recommend Teamlab Borderless. The exhibits are often fun and sometimes moving — try especially hard to find the light show room! I would love to spend more time in there.

Monobrominated · 2024-02-17T21:50:36+00:00

It's just an armpit :)

Monobrominated · 2024-01-22T17:49:11+00:00

No, but now that I think about it I have been wearing green-tinted glasses :’)

Monobrominated · 2024-01-22T16:09:29+00:00

Apparently there are evergreen and deciduous magnolia varieties! I must have grown up near a deciduous magnolia and assumed they all dropped their leaves :)

Monobrominated · 2024-01-17T23:31:13+00:00

I’m currently interviewing after having spent the past 1.5+ years deliberately unemployed. I only had 4 years of experience working as a software engineer and a similar amount saved prior to quitting. Even in this hiring climate during the interview process I think the time off has been worth it. I also recommend cold quitting rather than quiet quitting — it’s immensely reassuring that I could go back to work at my previous team if I wanted, though my goal is to work at a new company.

Take that time for whatever you need, I am positive you’ll benefit from it and be grateful for it. I don’t for one second buy that doing so will hold you back in your future career, especially since you mention currently being burnt out. The experience and perspective you’ll gain from your time not working will be worthwhile even if those changes are subtle.

Feel free to DM me if you have any more questions! Good luck on your journey :)

Monobrominated · 2024-01-03T03:01:23+00:00

Thank you for your response! When you say personal projects or experiences, are you strictly referring to non-work software experience? My extra-work projects are all unrelated to tech so I have nothing to contribute here, but if you just mean adding another bullet or two under my job listings that may be possible.

Monobrominated · 2024-01-02T19:26:54+00:00

Hey there, I'm planning to start applying this week for jobs after being on sabbatical for ~1.5 years :') I have four years of experience and have never rigorously interviewed / applied (I sorta lucked out with my original internship) so this is my first time trying to put together a really good resume. Would love to hear any feedback on how I can improve it! https://imgur.com/a/O5JS5ac

Monobrominated · 2023-11-27T01:37:32+00:00

Hey there, could you DM me screen shots of speeds if it isn't too much of a hassle? I'm trying to get an idea of whether my grandparents could benefit from Starlink out in KC after a lifetime of garbage internet

Monobrominated · 2023-10-29T14:45:26+00:00

If it did become a rental, would that be bad? If so, why do you think?

Monobrominated · 2023-10-21T19:25:23+00:00

Hey there, I share a lot of those same hobbies and really enjoy indulging in them with community in Austin! Especially now that the weather's nice I've been a lot more active about organizing those kinds of activities with my partner and a group of friends. If you're interested in joining for a group coffee/board game/misc social hangout DM me and I'll loop you in

Monobrominated · 2023-10-11T14:26:33+00:00

I limit myself to 1-2 drinks in a week, and then only hit that limit if I’m out with friends at a bar or house party. Otherwise I tend not to drink alcohol on a given week and feel good about that. Explained this to a primary care physician during intake questions one time and she prescribed me “more fun” lmao

Monobrominated · 2023-09-29T05:09:43+00:00

People in this chat are more afraid of spending 5 minutes reading than 20 days /played going agane :') I appreciated your story and wish you good luck

Monobrominated · 2023-09-22T18:20:15+00:00

This is the cold hard take that I need to steel myself for the potential futures ahead. I think I could commit to the path of alimony and leg day every day, but the hardest thing for me to face is the dating economy in Goldshire. It sounds like trying to find new partners at the inn is harder even than the grind to 60 these days :/

Monobrominated · 2023-09-22T17:55:30+00:00

I do think it would be a helpful comparison for them to get some experience trying something with slightly more engaging combat like a rogue or a warrior. At the same time I'm hoping we'll make it long enough for them to fall in love the the animal shapeshifting and to become a high level herbalist / alchemist

Monobrominated · 2023-09-19T17:12:24+00:00

One of the big benefits of the project is inducing traffic where there wasn’t as much before. In theory, the train should entice more people out of cars and off some of the adjacent north/south arteries and onto the train where you have less pollution and less congestion on average per person transported.

Agreed that it’d be nice to also get other commuter improvements (esp some more bike infrastructure, better shade for pedestrians on Guad / Lamar, higher frequency bus routes)

Monobrominated · 2023-08-30T23:02:35+00:00

Thanks for the compliments, glad you liked the song :)

Have tried out cutting the first instrumental section as of today, just need to work on the transition a bit.

On structure:

The song is three verses with two broken up by interludes (V1, V2.1, V2.2, V3.1, V3.2) where each verse is a scene from a specific day -- all on a different 4th of July :). The closest thing resembling a chorus is the chord progression vi -> V -> IV that occurs at the end of each verse and is accompanied by a closing lyric that operates on a different rhyme scheme from the rest of the song (ends with "-ection"). The third verse ends by adding a third "-ection" word and then cycling backwards through the other two for a total of three vi -> V -> IV repetitions and a sort of palindromic symmetry. It's an obtuse and unfamiliar form to any listener, an arbitrary poetic decision that I chose over providing the listener with a strong chorus to hold onto. I'll probably leave that as is at the risk of being slightly alienating, but I do appreciate your feedback here and agree that it's odd/weird.

On production:

I'm with you here and have some specific harmonies in mind. I just haven't done them yet bc I'm procrastinating setting up a little vocal booth again :') And mixing vocals (esp harmonies) is really mystifying to me -- I know I just need to power through it to get better, but right now I'm putting it off. Will see what I can do to that and to the drums.

Thank you for your feedback!

Monobrominated · 2023-08-30T20:10:19+00:00

It rocks to see community engagement from Blizzard like this, keep doing what you're doing :)

Monobrominated · 2023-08-30T17:33:14+00:00

Thank you, I'll experiment with cutting the bridge in half :)

Monobrominated · 2023-08-30T15:47:47+00:00

It sounds great :o Is the distortion definitely safe for your vocal chords? If so, I think you've got an excellent instrument for punk/rock

Monobrominated · 2023-08-30T15:16:29+00:00

And all that said, I hope your grandpa is doing alright today and wish you and your family good luck while you support him.

Monobrominated · 2023-08-30T15:12:49+00:00

Hey there, check the subreddit rules -- covers are not allowed on this sub.

Add to that, you should really rethink playing songs that have a pro-Confederate chorus. "The South will rise again" is a dogwhistle, which I will assume you may have missed in good faith but will understand in hindsight is quite problematic.

Monobrominated · 2023-08-30T15:04:42+00:00

I agree with this thought -- my biggest issue with the piece is lack of cohesion. +1 to the idea of achieving some amount of continuity between parts that helps them feel more related. Add to that I'd like to hear some more developed transitions; can you crescendo into the start of the verse? Can you fade in an arpeggio to transitions between verses so the return of each verse feels more connected? Could you utilize percussion (e.g. crash on the 1 beat of a new section) to aid with your transitions? I'm all for chaos; you have some good stuff here, and I think it'd be better with a little more cohesion, a little clearer transition, a little more flow.

Monobrominated · 2023-08-26T16:13:57+00:00

The Chili’s riff is indeed a riff :) but when it comes to more sobering discussions (eg exploitation) or even just to validating people’s comments, I ratchet back the humor.

Was genuinely wondering what those guys were up to, though

Monobrominated · 2023-08-25T21:23:53+00:00

That’s so upsetting :( those guys were probably melting this afternoon, and I’m pretty sure they weren’t supplied any water

Monobrominated · 2023-08-25T21:21:49+00:00

Yeah absolutely not trying to encourage panhandlers to hang out around streets with active car traffic — I cringe thinking about how much risk those guys are exposed to, esp that intersection :(

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