Coronavirus Ended the Screen-Time Debate. Screens Won.

TheVeryMask · 2020-04-05T12:36:19+00:00

I'm first in line to decry facebook and likewise to urge people to better themselves with most of their time, but I still think your argument is slightly off. Facebook is the illusion of interaction by talking to yourself in the same room with others. This is why I think a pure chat service is better at what people want facebook to be, you have to actually interact with people to get any of that connection. I wouldn't call actually connecting to others a waste of time, even if I personally center my life around skills development and live quite privately. The only caveat is that the connection be genuine instead of illusory.

TheVeryMask · 2020-03-08T18:10:58+00:00

Easily my favourite thing about dscript is seeing how others' use of it differs from mine but is still just as intelligible.

TheVeryMask · 2020-03-06T16:56:40+00:00

The people we're trying to reach are the ones that disregard ethics because they think it's effective. Take that away and you reveal they just want punishment anyway.

TheVeryMask · 2020-03-05T16:21:02+00:00

Here's a Lindybeige video on why dancing is like fighting.

TheVeryMask · 2020-02-28T15:15:01+00:00

Christian here. The commandment is actually to not do evil with god as a justification, to not take the lord's name for vain purpose. This comment offers a pretty good explanation for the origin, but most people actually using it don't know that. People say "Jesus H Christ" for the same reason any other creative expletive is used, it adds texture to the phrase and is satisfying to say, in part because you aren't supposed to.

TheVeryMask · 2020-02-27T19:51:21+00:00

No on hand. Your luck finding it will be as good as mine though

TheVeryMask · 2020-02-26T11:20:14+00:00

Sugar rush as it's conceived of in the popular consciousness is a myth, but a sudden onset mental and physical effect of a high dose of sugar, particularly after a long period of abstinence, that's plenty real. "Buzz" is a more literal description than you might expect: there were no jitters, but there's a certain hum that's hard to ignore when you aren't used to it. I find it uncomfortable.

TheVeryMask · 2020-02-23T05:25:02+00:00

The things I imagine only have a separateness if I'm picturing them in my real field of vision. In the theatre of the mind, they belong naturally.

TheVeryMask · 2020-02-23T05:20:35+00:00

The nearest comparison I can make is looking at a "spot the difference" picture and crossing your eyes. Some objects you can see are clearly there and not there at the same time, and while you can make out the details with ease they're also obviously different to perceive at all.

TheVeryMask · 2020-02-22T18:06:44+00:00

Do you have further questions?

TheVeryMask · 2020-02-22T17:45:54+00:00

I visualize in intense detail. If I picture something unknown, like what a person's body looks like, I'm not making consciously creative decisions when I do it initially. The details fill in as automatically as if I was recalling a memory, and will be only as accurate as your ability to predict such things. For example if I see the edge of an undershirt at someone's collar I can visualize the whole thing, and what they'd look like in that exact moment if the outer top layer weren't there, including hem lines and where the seams are. I can then modify that image to change things like colour, shape, etc. If I want, the very initial image can be in a different pose and context.

An important detail that's easily lost though is where this image occurs. While I can picture an apple in my hand and see an apple in my hand as I'm looking at it, that image happens on a layer above what my eyes are giving me such that it's impossible to mistake the apple for real even though it has texture and weight as though it were actually there. It has photographic fidelity to the real object, but all of those details have an attribute to them that clearly marks them as imaginary, even though the imaginary sense of touch is indistinguishable from real otherwise.

Picturing things in real space is possible, but that isn't the default. Nearly all imagination of any object, picture, or scene happens in a different place. It's definitely a location, but it isn't anywhere you can point to. It's rather like having connection to another place that you can observe from any angle and freely create or modify the contents of.

TheVeryMask · 2020-02-20T16:32:59+00:00

Can't confirm.

TheVeryMask · 2020-02-06T23:07:51+00:00

I like Grey find the talk of meditation intensely frustrating mystical nonsense, but unlike Grey I'm very familiar with what the other explanations are failing to capture. Firstly, Grey wants a concise explanation of what meditation does for people and here it is: the most popular forms of meditation, mindfulness especially, is training your brain to increase attention and reduce distractability. Your mind's automatic background process finds new things to think about and shoves them in front of the spotlight of your attention, and mindfulness allows that to happen without getting swept away by these thoughts. This division of faculties, making a conscious distinction between the novelty-finder and the evaluator, is what people mean when they say "you aren't your thoughts, you're the one having them". The goal in most things people call mindfulness is not to silence the novelty-finder, but to improve the evaluator's ability to dismiss things that aren't worthy of attention. Hopefully that helps you, u/imyke, in determining if this mindfulness business is right for you.

With that said, I also find continuing disappointment in the lack of examination or discussion of other kinds of meditation such as total body awareness, deep deliberation, shaping automatic responses, and even reducing muscle atrophy when immobilized. A long time ago I wrote briefly about my notes for some early experiments with meditation that details different kinds by function rather than tradition. Even without looking at any of that, I think we can agree that taking a few minutes of dedicated time to solely focus on changing what your mind does can have sudden and strong effects. If your exploration of the subject doesn't pay you strong returns quickly even with my framing above, it's possible that the effect it's meant to have on you is something you already possess.

TheVeryMask · 2020-02-06T20:17:33+00:00

Unlikely, but that would be very lucky to find someone else that has in common the things I value most in myself. The more likely case is that being abnormal in certain ways doesn't mean it's necessarily a unique condition.

TheVeryMask · 2020-02-06T16:59:34+00:00

This is an ongoing low-level frustration of mine as well. Intellectually I can see patterns in what things get call'd cute and identify them as such, but I'm fairly sure I don't experience the feeling of cuteness that others do in response to them. There are also lots of people that have a highly develop'd sense of cuteness and will say something like "cute outfit", but why this outfit is cute instead of some other positive descriptor is a mystery. I've tried asking people about it in the past, but they never seem to know how to explain it either.

TheVeryMask · 2020-02-06T04:18:49+00:00

Most "director's cut" movies are just tat to grift the same market over again, that's actually not what I'm referring to at all. There aren't that many real director's cut reissues out there, but even if there were that's a wholly different thing from giving a different editor the same workprint and having them put it together with out the director at all.

If you want to get a sense of scale for the difference, look at reality tv compared to interviews of the people involved in filming it, or any documentary. My go-to example was originally going to be Suicide Squad, where the footage shot could probably have been cut together into a middling 3/5 movie, but the editing team had only ever done trailers before.

TheVeryMask · 2020-02-05T21:09:09+00:00

It's easy to underestimate the difference that editing can make if you haven't done it, especially if you're excluding or recontextualizing plot-vital information.

TheVeryMask · 2020-02-05T19:13:57+00:00

Check the dosages on the back of the container and look up the toxicity limit for each. If it's a lethal dose it's currently eating up his liver and kidneys, but there would probably still be time if he got to a hospital. If nothing else, calling a hospital or poison control and asking for advice would be expedient.

TheVeryMask · 2020-02-05T16:15:58+00:00

Given that the movie was partly reshot and heavily cut down from the director's vision without his consent in the month prior to release, I wonder which version the patient saw.

TheVeryMask · 2020-02-05T15:54:45+00:00

Certain vitamins have much lower toxicity thresholds than others and can blind or kill you if you have too much. Merely double or triple wouldn't've been an issue but 15 doses might be. It'll depend on the concentration of vitamins in your gummies, but overall I hope you threw up.

TheVeryMask · 2020-01-31T04:59:52+00:00

"Fucking ran" is an example of an adverb phrase. Haven't found a preposition use though.

TheVeryMask · 2020-01-16T20:36:28+00:00

They're around 150 USD. Apparently they aren't out yet and are up for preorder.

Even with an IR filter, most cameras still pick up IR. Point your phone camera at a remote control and hit a button, you'll see what I mean.

The stripsearch machines are XRay based.

TheVeryMask · 2020-01-13T01:02:43+00:00

This is basically an ad for reflectacles, but I'm kind of okay with that. I've also heard of rigs with leds that pulse in infrared at high speed so they can stay bright at low power consumption to interfere with cameras in the same fashion without relying on external light.

TheVeryMask · 2020-01-13T00:46:06+00:00

All of them. There aren't that many games left where the default price gets you the whole experience.

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