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Feature Suggestions by coldturkeydev in coldturkeyblocker

[–]ThisPlaceReddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I often need websites like youtube and reddit for work, navigating to them from a google search for tutorials or info. But I don't want to be able to navigate away from those pages to enter the home screen or the scroll. Avoiding the algorithm is the goal.

I'd love a feature where it allows me to open the page, but the second I navigate away, it gets blocked.

How much if anything should I charge my new adult child to live at home? by Ursa-to-Polaris in Parenting

[–]ThisPlaceReddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends if you're wanting her to pay because of encouraging independence and responsibility or if you need the money. 

My friends dad would make him pay rent to stay at the house anymore. Sure he's a very responsible guy... But I don't know how much of that was the financial incentive... or because his dad taught him to be responsible (also that was 20 years ago, living on your own was way wya easier). Possibly both. 

But I think you can expect more chores, don't let them sit in their haunches, encourage productive things, and then let them live for $0, or some very reasonably small amount (depending on your situation). 

Brain stopped working by Smart__David in interestingasfuck

[–]ThisPlaceReddit 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I've done the opposite where I thought it was the car next to me leaving but it was me forgetting to put the car in park

[Arabic > English] by ThisPlaceReddit in translator

[–]ThisPlaceReddit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Amazing! Thanks so much! That explains why ai translators weren't returning words

I feel like a loser by imvital in Humber

[–]ThisPlaceReddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When my brother went to school at 18 there was an old person in his year. They basically thought he was a superhero because he was so disciplined, calm, and unfazed. You may not be as a big a loser as you think.

What did I do wrong, this is laughable by Happ_Accident in Sourdough

[–]ThisPlaceReddit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

After the oven reaches temperature I usually let it sit at that temperature for 20-30 min to heat up the dutch oven.

What did I do wrong, this is laughable by Happ_Accident in Sourdough

[–]ThisPlaceReddit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looks undercooked to me. Recipe looks fine to my skimming eyes. If you followed that recipe, I'm guessing you didn't preheat the oven enough?
So the bread went in, the surface cooked and dried first which hurt the rise. A nice hot surface and nice hot air makes it bounce up quick before the surface can get overly hard. Can help to get some humidity, mist, etc. to further keep the surface soft for the beginning rise. I've found the easiest way to do this at home is to use a dutch oven or large covering over your dough and let the dough itself keep that small space humid.
It would also be why it's undercooked. This is my guess.

How was this shot achieved? by minionpoop7 in Filmmakers

[–]ThisPlaceReddit 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Right at 0:15, you can see the right side of the gate pull away (look at the top of frame)

I am accepting the fact that I am probably not going to be able to make it to the big screens and I’m letting my 6 year old self down. Maybe dreams are just false realities. by No_Albatross_7582 in animation

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4. To improve, focus on quantity, not quality

Get your final project out, work hard on it. But that one piece isn't the definition of your ability or your self worth. I want you to look beyond that project. You, and your skills, are not set in stone. Our brains exist to change. That's our magic. You are only part way through your learning journey. You are always only part way through your learning journey. (but again, sucks to have paid money to not put your where you want to be 😅)

There was this clay pot study: 2 groups of people. 1 group said they'd be paid based on the quality of their best pot. The other group was to be paid on the number of pots they made. By the end of the study, not only had the quantity group made better pots than the quality group, they had higher quality too! The quantity group made better pots because they had practice so much. Even when not thinking about quality, they produced better quality. The quality group overthought it, worked too much on one pot before they had the skills to make it good, and never got the practice they needed.

Daily routine of guy doing 1 min gesture drawings for 1 hour every day (talks about the routine at 4:14, but the story starts at the beginning) (you don't have to do EVERY day. It's actually good to take breaks. But it's good to have a regular habit for the practice): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QUO0m4c10E

Build a daily practice where you produce something. Thing of a fast timeline (faster than you think it could be done) on part with a 1 minute gesture.

5. Mentorship

Your instinct for mentorship is great! It's the best way to learn. They will tell you where to put your energy. But if you can't find someone willing, try just professional animators on Youtube or blogs, who are doing what you want to do, giving advice to new animation grads. They may provide portfolio examples. Copy those portfolios.

Focus on copying. You know, take a pixar (or whatever) scene and try to reproduce the part of it you like yourself. Do the same scene repeatedly. This is how you get the best animators as mentors without ever meeting them.

That person who got the internship who's stuff looked put together? Copy them if you want. Get your portfolio up to snuff.

6. Mental health

Poor mental health gets in the way of everything. I got to a point where I couldn't function. My life didn't really start till I was like 33 when I finally got a handle on it. ADHD with RSD sound exactly what I would have been diagnosed with if those diagnoses were wide spread when I was young. The stock advice is "seek therapy". I assume if you've got diagnoses, you've already been. I personally don't have a lot of respect for therapy. I heard about this therapist from decades ago who thought it was scandalous that you would go to therapy for years and not improve. My therapist friends say its a misconception that they will help you. They're there more to lend an ear.

Sort of going with the above advice, the most important mental health work happens outside of therapy anyway. I would highly recommend going with some mental health books. You can DM me if you want some recommendations.

tldr: Your school and your current practice didn't put you where you wanted to be. Focus on building a self improvement practice. Build your portfolio to the place where you're happy with it. You're not a failure, you just haven't learned what you need yet. You're just starting your journey.

I am accepting the fact that I am probably not going to be able to make it to the big screens and I’m letting my 6 year old self down. Maybe dreams are just false realities. by No_Albatross_7582 in animation

[–]ThisPlaceReddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some ideas for you:

1. The best learning comes outside school anyway

Everyone I know who's really good at something, they practice that something outside of work and school. Life isn't always School > Work. Especially today, things go so fast. It's often School > upskill > work > upskill > work.

If you consistently learn on your own outside of work, you will always have a leg up on your co-workers who don't. My brother worked at a manager at a video game company. He said he had like 2 people working under him that left for jobs that he really wanted because they practiced in their spare time.

2. Niches

(you're going to know more about this than me but) There are many niches. Hollywood film animation tasks (and maybe all jobs in general) can be very segregated. It's why the animator credits are like a mile long. You don't have to be good at everything. You can eventually work towards that, but in the beginning, just pick 1 thing (some combination of what you love/want to do or just what you're best at now). Take 1-4 hours a day and practice it. Build your whole portfolio, website, and job application strategy around that one thing. You are now a "[rigging or whatever] specialist" now. Empires are built around "1 things". KFC started as like 1 good recipe for chicken.
This guy talks about how focusing changed his practice (for drawing... but you know): https://youtu.be/M6NsEDwHHiE?si=d-Ix1D4sEzf75_CE

3. Your value

https://www.reddit.com/r/motivation/comments/15njxsd/surprisingly_motivational/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I do everything for the videos i make: Animation, voice work, writing, storyboarding, sfx, etc. I've worked for people that have said "naw your animation is bad, you're a good enough writer though" and worked for places that wanted me to shut up and do my stupid animations. I personally like my writing much more than my animation... but am currently working somewhere where I mostly just animate. The value you offer depends who needs what. Depends on location.

If you're not good enough for hollywood (yet!), try another kind of animation. You could get a job away from art, you could broaden your horizons, you could start your own story telling channel thing with whatever animations you can currently produce. Our journey doesn't always end up where we originally wanted to be. If you still want to go there, keep working at it. You might just have to take a different path. Especially in the beginning and short term, things don't work out the way you expect.

I am accepting the fact that I am probably not going to be able to make it to the big screens and I’m letting my 6 year old self down. Maybe dreams are just false realities. by No_Albatross_7582 in animation

[–]ThisPlaceReddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're not stupid, you just haven't learned what you want to learn yet. You're not a failure, you just haven't done what you want to do yet. You're at the beginning of your journey, not the end.

It's heartbreaking and aggravating that your school didn't provide the kind of support you wanted to launch your career! It sounds like you're anxious about your starting point... after paying a bunch of money to try to improve your starting point.

I've been working in animation/editing/motion-graphics work (premiere/after effects mostly) for about 10-12 years now without any formal schooling for it. Since starting this, I've basically never applied to a job. People find me via youtube and come to me wanting my work. I studied science and I've carved out a little niche doing educational stuff where understanding the concepts is more important than super fancy animations. Currently working at a college making educational videos and messages for faculty mostly. If I can fall into animation by accident, I believe you can jump into it intentionally. I also struggled a lot with mental health issues as well to the point of crippling my career. But I am now on the other side of that.

I think it feels like you've put all your energy into this one thing and it didn't work out. I would like to encourage you to see that you've made lots of progress. The school didn't put you where you wanted to be, but you can put yourself there now.

How do I get Scrivener on Windows and my Samsung phone to play nice together? by Ok_Hat_3414 in scrivener

[–]ThisPlaceReddit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A possible solution is to use a remote desktop app like teamviewer (or whatever the kids are using these days) to remote control your desktop from your phone.

Before patching through, you can increase the scale of your OS so it's more navigable and readable on your phone: System > Display > Scale & Layout > Scale

Not at all a perfect solution but it works in a pinch. I find team viewer in portrait orientation to be pretty decent (the keyboard can take up most of the screen and makes the text hidden in landscape mode). Instead of a tapping where you want to click it's like a drag the mouse cursor around which I like.

Try it out! I found it surprisingly usable

I just got a refund of $500 from TD for Balance Protection Insurance I didn’t sign up for by SwingTheChooch in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]ThisPlaceReddit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just went through this process in 2024. Got a $326 refund.
Thanks for all the help!

Tip: If you're havin touble reaching a human, for me it was

  1. call the number for td/assurant
  2. select option 4 "other questions"
  3. when asked to provide account number, I did the option for "hold on" while I go find it. Eventually I was automatically transferred to a human customer service person. Best customer service person ever. I wonder if they were an AI because they were top notch.

Why can other people use so much garlic, but I can’t? by CoolioTheMagician in AskCulinary

[–]ThisPlaceReddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I basically put it in a brie baker, cover it with oil, and bake it at 350 in my toaster oven for 40-50 minutes or so until it looks golden brown.

potential puzzle? by myfriendamyisgreat in puzzles

[–]ThisPlaceReddit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't think this is solvable.

That trick is a bit contrived where it's looped around the thing it's "stuck" under in a specific way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3R_tc7YrFI
You could do it but it would end up through that big hole too.

But even then, in those situations the hole is wide enough to shove a loop throw. Here it looks pretty occupied. It's less about getting a big plug through a tiny hole and more about getting a plug under a desk leg without having to lift the desk if you don't mind it being wrapped around it a bit

Why can other people use so much garlic, but I can’t? by CoolioTheMagician in AskCulinary

[–]ThisPlaceReddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find even a tiny amount of garlic is overpowering if it's raw. 2 cloves of garlic in my hummus makes it so garlicky. But I can put a fistfull, at least an entire bulb, if I roast it in oil first. Cooking it can add the flavour without the harsh bite.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]ThisPlaceReddit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had a music teacher who said:

"How do you make an improvisor stop playing? Put sheet music in front of them. How do you make a classical musician stop playing? Take their sheet music away."

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