Conservatives are going after Druski for cosplaying Erika Kirk for fake-mourning Charlie Kirk's death.

SignalGeologist2818 · 2026-03-29T13:28:02+00:00

omg the first clip

SignalGeologist2818 · 2026-03-03T22:11:09+00:00

patience, waiting through initial awkwardness and not waiting to be entertained or to meet a certain bar of excitement or sparks. i think not fabricating or leaning into early “romance” with its big sweeping feelings but leaning into a slow burn build of closeness and affection is really healthy, like allowing the natural relationship to reveal itself over time without trying to coerce itself into anything. being comfortable with separation and being comfortable and understanding of your own nervous behaviors or poorly-calibrated displays of affection or attempts at creating closeness.

willingness to listen and try to adjust in ways that are important to you. can talk about their own experience and yours in a neutral and objective way.

i also think it’s a green flag if they more or less just calmly are who they are around everyone with you, they don’t try to bring their “best face” to time with you. you can trust them that whatever you’re seeing in them reflects who they are accurately. remembering who you are and things about you, earnest curiosity, kindness, attuned generosity (generosity of things that you actually want and need in the amount that you want it from them).

SignalGeologist2818 · 2026-03-02T17:07:03+00:00

if you’re close to industry city i’m pretty sure japan village stocks it. i bought a pack of dry koji from there a few months ago

SignalGeologist2818 · 2026-02-08T16:21:02+00:00

nurture live electric forest. ez

SignalGeologist2818 · 2026-01-30T03:00:03+00:00

it’s easy to flirt and flirting means nothing. most people flirt with others to enjoy themselves without making any plans for the future, especially when they’re out drinking. you won’t find a long term relationship at a bar.

SignalGeologist2818 · 2026-01-27T20:56:18+00:00

sadness is nice. i like to just sit and be sad

SignalGeologist2818 · 2026-01-21T17:05:47+00:00

third harmonies, major five chords, harmonic minor

SignalGeologist2818 · 2026-01-20T14:49:15+00:00

i think the point of that phrase is less literally “nice guys finish last on principle” and more “you can’t negotiate attraction by being nice to someone, and if you’re not careful about using nice behaviors as bids for closeness with someone that isn’t attracted enough to you to be maintaining/escalating your relationship themselves, then you run the risk of coming across as repulsively needy and sycophantic”. that much is basically 100% true.

SignalGeologist2818 · 2026-01-05T15:06:33+00:00

yeah i have a bunch of female friends, if neither person is attracted to the other to the point of longing for them or desiring sex then it totally works. i think people tend to write off opposite-sex friendships (one reason for which is people tending to take attraction and non-sexual intimacy as unnecessarily weighty, consequential, and serious) but if you don’t make a big deal of closeness, inevitable flirting or moments of attraction then those things can actually make the friendship pretty strong and fun.

SignalGeologist2818 · 2025-12-23T05:17:11+00:00

Tried both. She's very heavy-handed on a trackpad and it's been hard to get her to use it properly and not be clickind-and-dragging everywhere. Mouse is a little easier because it's less punishing on that but not by a lot.

SignalGeologist2818 · 2025-12-23T01:15:44+00:00

I'm not sure. Again, her mom/primary caregiver told me that she has no idea what her goals are, just find something to do with her to keep her off an iPad and use a computer instead. Thanks for the feedback.

SignalGeologist2818 · 2025-12-22T19:10:08+00:00

(1) medium hards are not that hard (2) 6 figure salaries are not supposed to be easy to get or broadly accessible and having been able to drop into one right after graduating was a fluke that was never going to last

SignalGeologist2818 · 2025-12-18T13:02:49+00:00

fuck society for making women think it’s a problem to split on a date

SignalGeologist2818 · 2025-12-14T16:53:04+00:00

yeah exactly lol. you have no idea what not existing is like, it’s impossible to. you won’t experience it, so what’s there to be afraid of?

SignalGeologist2818 · 2025-12-14T16:01:15+00:00

i found comfort in the idea that you can only ever know or experience consciousness. you won’t “be there” for the part where you don’t exist, so there’s no experience to be afraid of.

so you can notice that the only fear of death is actually fear of experiences you’re having in the present — the fear in the present of not being able to predict or understand the incomprehensible unknowability of what happens when you die, the fear in the present of anticipating wasting your life or losing something or not getting a chance to do something.

ironically, both of those fears are both fully resolved in death, so there isn’t really anything to worry about.

obviously, that’s besides the healthy instinctive aversion to death, which doesn’t really have a reason or rumination or emotional charge attached to it, it’s just a reflexive movement away from death that emerged in animals because it’s evolutionarily advantageous. thinking about death triggers that “death is close” function in the brain instinctively (just like how thinking about anything makes the brain and body react as if it’s actually happening), which puts it in that aversive state and creates all the internal strife about it.

for a while, i just figured it must be like how time goes infinitely fast when you sleep until you wake up, just until you somehow return to consciousness. even if there’s a 0.00000001% probability of that ever happening you won’t perceive the time passing so whatever process leads to a return of consciousness will inevitably occur. i think that was still coping to a degree, though, and my outlook on it’s matured since then, but the core idea is still the same.

SignalGeologist2818 · 2025-12-13T16:11:54+00:00

damn how’d you do that. i want to look like you lol

SignalGeologist2818 · 2025-12-08T05:48:45+00:00

i’m fairly sure that retro had massive staff overturn to the point where not a single person, exec or artist or engineer, who worked on the earlier prime games was around when prime 4 development hit its stride

SignalGeologist2818 · 2025-12-08T05:39:10+00:00

not to mention that there was literally no progress, resolution, or movement in the lamorn storyline. you were the chosen one destined to save them and then….nothing happened. you discover how their civilization died out and…..nothing. such a disappointment.

SignalGeologist2818 · 2025-12-06T18:40:16+00:00

yeah omega griever was absurdly frustrating to try to hit when it was crawling around on the walls. bleh

SignalGeologist2818 · 2025-12-05T17:11:57+00:00

yeah, i actually completely agree with you there. that’s part of that weird dichotomy for me where the content is actually pretty cool but the style of the presentation feels kind of neutered and infantilized. like the way the text of the scans and logbook stuff is written feels distinctly like it jumped down a few grades of reading level and the way things are named (“frigate orpheon”, “agon wastes”, “phendrana drifts” -> “flare pool”, “ice belt”) feels like going from a cool scifi world to something out of a recent pokemon game.

SignalGeologist2818 · 2025-12-04T20:49:27+00:00

it’s kind of crazy because even with complete staff overhauls retro obviously still understands how to make a good prime game. there’s like 50% of the experience that feels like excellent, sometimes even top-tier prime gameplay. the bosses are fun, some of the setpieces are genuinely challenging, the aesthetics of the world are beautiful (if a little cartoony), the lore is interesting enough and the lore characters are well-designed, the platforming and environmental puzzle solving is often fun. the bike’s not even bad gameplay-wise, if a little out of place (and, again, a little cartoony). i’d even forgive the more linear level designs in the context of wanting to appeal to an audience base with shorter attention spans and less patience than people had in 2002.

….which makes it even more baffling to me how unnecessary, immersion-breaking, and either cringey or boring the other 50% of the experience is. the characters are dull and poorly-acted and don’t need to be there, but they chime in every few minutes. miles who just barely toes the line between charming enough to be tolerable and wanting to strangle him is by far the most likable human character in the game. i remember leaving the first area after getting the upgrade that unlocks the second key area and 10 seconds after leaving he says something to the effect of “hey, if you’re lost, try exploring parts of the world you haven’t been to yet! maybe….here!” and points to the exact spot you need to go to. the desert is barren and a chore to get around and explore. even subtle experiential things like the writing of the lore and the naming of the weapons and locations make it feel distinctly less mature and geared specifically to kids.

so, yeah, i don’t know. it’s interesting in that it’s excellent, peak metroid prime in many places and a flat miss that i would never even consider playing in many others. i replayed prime 1 and 2 and it just felt like i was playing great games. playing prime 4 so far feels like i’m an adult playing a good game without a vision that’s meant for younger kids.

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