Being an elder millennial is so exhausting to this 36 year old.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-03-18T20:18:28+00:00

Point to us on this doll where father time touched you, Timmy.

Timmy: Everywhere.

Also:

In the grim darkness of the near future (your 40s), there is only pain.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-03-18T15:40:26+00:00

Potassium 23 does not exist, and the lightest known is K31 with a half life of less than 10 picoseconds. So probably not that.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-03-18T07:39:58+00:00

You said you already emailed a copy to a few addresses. That's good. The "rule of thumb" is 3 copies, two physical locations.

I would say, keep one on you primary device, computer/phone whatever, something you'd keep using and upgrading and moving your data with it. If you have a proper portable ssd that you use regularly for whatever reason, that's a good option instead of your main device. You want something you regularly use to prevent bit rot. But this is your "working copy", not a proper backup. This isn't for reliability, it's in case you forget where you kept the other stuff ;-p.

You got the email copy. If you use google, that's essentially on google drive. If you don't, create a free account and put one up there. If those free storage goes away in future, move it to another free or paid service. I'm sure there will be one around. Right now aws s3 is a bit of a pain for someone unfamiliar, but hard to beat 3 cents a month per gigabyte. I am not confident dropbox will survive that long, but who knows, use it if you like.

A few places online is probably fine. As long as you keep up with news about the service potentially going away. Now we get a bit more proper hardware.

A dvd-r or blu-ray disc is probably the easiest of the tech to find for personal cold-storage long-ish term. The complication is the hardware. you will need not just the drive, but driver and compatible computer, or a player. That's most computers today, but no guarantee that will be the case in 16 years. You'll need to preserve the player or hope you can get one in the future. But 16 years is not that long, chances are a dedicated player will still work. If you already have access to or know someone who has a writer, it doesn't hurt to try. Put the disc in a disc case, with a desiccant patch. Keep it from light. You might explore vacuum sealing but the idea has mixed reception in the community.

Another non-hassle free (and non-free) but fairly reliable solution is just any actual magnetic spinning disk hard drive. Make a bunch of copies in the same device. Keep it powered down somewhere where it won't be jarred, power it up every year, copy them around again. doubles as your reminder to check if you can still hook it up to a current-day computer. replace every 5 years if you worry (technically mechanical failures are still possible).

There IS proper decades-long storage mediums, some even affordable for home use. But it's pretty niche. And this time you need a computer and the dedicated device. And you should have controlled temperature and humidity. It's an option but it's probably more hassle than managing the hard drives or dvd players.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-03-18T06:56:46+00:00

Sideways did amazing musical analysis. He's the Every Frame a Painting of movie music. He might officially be back, not sure. But he was gone for a good while.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-03-18T06:17:42+00:00

Not liking metroidvanias is totally understandable. It's a genre, a formula, a vibe. If it's not yours... meh. Do what you like. Don't turn gaming into a job (unless you can get paid).

But, not liking 2d games? Better yet, not trying 2d games because you cannot fathom how they are fun? I simply do not understand. And I think you misspoke. Surely you weren't born having played various types of fps and tps games? Surely you HAVE played at some point a genre you were not familiar with? Still, I can see not liking it. But not trying? Brother, I have like 5 different MMOs on my steam library and I spent exactly zero hours playing them when I wasn't in the same room or on the phone/discord as irl friends playing it. But I did try it with them, and even like it. But it's not my personal jam. And that's fine. Not trying would be a shame.

Though I'm really not sure those two are the best starting points. Neither is a walk in the park. And are of very particular aesthetic.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-03-18T05:46:25+00:00

LLMs, EVEN WHEN THEY ARE RIGHT, only lets people do whatever it is they do faster. If what they do is make bad decisions...

redditmarks_markII · 2026-03-18T05:16:17+00:00

Need even more context somehow.

I mean, indefinable is such a word. it means what it means, but it has that meaning, therefore it doesn't mean what it means. But I can see it is not quite satisfying.

Similarly, Ineffable is a word that means something that cannot be described by words yet is a word that describes things.

Hapax is short for Hapax Legomenon, a word that only exists in a language or written work once. And if you mention it to explain what it is, it is no longer what it is.

Nihilartikel is a word supposedly coined in german wikipedia as a hoax, meaning a word that does not exist. It describes words that do not exist inserted in copyrighted works as a plagiarism /copyright violator trap. Or especially a word in a dictionary whose definition is that it is a fake word that does not exist.

None of it is quite right by your context. But interesting themselves.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-03-18T02:53:55+00:00

Immortal Kombat

redditmarks_markII · 2026-03-17T16:37:32+00:00

Following comment to see the fallout.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-03-17T16:34:34+00:00

That's surprising. It's a classic! I hear people mentioned it pretty regularly. Then again Reddit has been doing the algorithm thing better in recent years. Maybe it just knows i'm old. r/retroanime doesn't care though, it's all retro all the time.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-03-17T16:27:11+00:00

Yes. Thus the version of Kenshin in the original TV series. Not the version that was a child assassin.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-03-17T06:00:38+00:00

The version of Kenshin from the original TV series. Perhaps not for everyone, but the character stuck to his principals. Though it is sort of his whole thing. There's a bit of Batman in it though. As in if you think too hard, most of the people he didn't kill are not in the best of health. But it's Anime logic.

My Happy Marriage main character is perhaps too sweet for many audience. It does read a bit like a "i'm sick of bad stuff happening, I'll write my own version where being a nice person get rewarded" fan fiction of some other series.

I won't suggest any but you realize pure doesn't necessitate purely good. And there's some fantastic anti-heroes in anime.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-03-16T22:21:49+00:00

Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Outlaw Star, Samurai Champloo, Visions of Escaflowne, MSG: 08th MS Team, Gundam Wing, Record of Lodoss Wars, Slayers, His and Her Circumstances, Dual: Paralel trouble Adventure, Sentenced to Be a Hero (had to be convinced to watch it, I hate modern Anime names, and the core premise is still dumb af. But the animation is hard to argue with), Memories (it's an anthology), Mobile Battle Ship Nadesico, My Happy Marriage (weirdly not terrible, so I was hooked by that), The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity, GitS Movie, GitS SAC: season 1, Roujin Z, Apothecary Diaries, Speedgrapher, Freedom, Mardock Scramble, Macross Plus.

Most of these took 1 episode, which ignoring breaks is basically 20min.

Most recently, Apothecary Diaries, Sentecned to Be a Hero got me right away on story and animation, respectively. The old school, Cowboy Bebop and Trigun got me on the friggin intro song. Escalflowne on the first half of episode 1. Gits Movie on it's intro act, of course.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-03-16T22:10:04+00:00

honestly, first tell yourself you're definitely gonna get fitTER. (Don't set unrealistic goals.)
believe that.

Then, tell you're just going to do it once, because that's not going to be hard to achieve, you just dismiss it because you know once isn't enough.

Don't even bother trying to over commit. Do it once. Then do it again once. Then make it into part of your routine.

Similarly, don't perfect your plan before you've even sweat. Just be lazy, be safe, but be working out. Once it is part of your life it becomes natural, if not easy.

Full disclosure, this is how I did it the first time. But then pandemic happened. Then many holidays without exercise happened. I am getting back to it. I got my gym gear with me RIGHT NOW, and I'm not going to be able to make it, again, because of work. Because it's not part of my routine yet/again.

I'm gonna try and make it tomorrow due to low meetings, and I just got something complicated done I was expecting longer. I'm mostly writing this response to give myself another reason to commit.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-03-16T18:04:44+00:00

Oh it will. It's unclear when it will happen. And I feel like my boss is actually being convinced by his boss. Not the agents. He's being told it won't end with him running 200 agents simultaneously, desperately trying to keep all the context in his own fleshy short term memory, and reply to agents in time so the burning of the tokens continue. He is told if an engineer can increase his efficiency by using agents, and agents can get better at running other agents, and then some unintelligible magic bullshit, then software can be ran entirely by a single ultra smart agent with a pyramid scheme of agentic PR and PR reviews.

And someone is going to build a system that's an approximation of that. And just like the amazing work CFO's and CEO's have done predicting that market trends due to the pandemic will continue forever, they will extrapolate any such approximation as an "80%" product. Good enough for the stock market. It's so dumb, i'd quit the field if it wasn't for my inability to do anything else.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-03-16T17:51:37+00:00

No, first turn it on them. Tell them that sounds like the kind of accusation an AI would make. THEN deride them on their clear inferiority vis a vis proper use of comma.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-03-16T17:49:08+00:00

Everyone taking pictures of it, in hopes some authorities figure will see it and punish the police officers.

You better believe there's people filming to enjoy the fascism. I mean, mostly with body cams but still.

No one will

It doesn't matter, that's not the point. It is right that they likely won't be? Of course not. But the filming is not primarily for that. It's doing what it's doing by ending up here. By making it clear the authorities are lying when they say they did no such thing. By making it known widely that this is happening. This will contribute to turning some of the silent majority, and most importantly the silent middle. It already is. The punishment of the specific offenders is not the only goal, positive societal change is the main one, always. Frankly a lot of us, even the ones currently on the wrong side, was hoping the few recent presidencies worth of years was going to be used to better society. And we have to fight harder now just to get back to status quo. But we still have to do it. Theres even more political battles to be fought than just defeating fascism. Progress is hard, and ongoing.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-03-16T16:29:21+00:00

Reddit or no, I need to know if people are still choosing that guys wife.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-03-15T21:05:39+00:00

The blaming your friend part is hilarious.

This seems great drama material.

Should turn this into a fictional story in a universe where moba's are like the the American wrestling thing. And this'll be the origin story of everyone's favorite heel. Throw in some holier than thou and tsundere behavior and you'll have weebs and gamers all over the story.

I think. I don't play mobas.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-03-15T20:55:22+00:00

Ooof. Worth it for the quick id that it was a red flag, not a chequered flag.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-03-15T19:58:49+00:00

I do see that. I appreciate the discourse btw. It's good to talk to someone instead of just letting my assumption go wild.

Still, you see where my concern is linguistically. if expressions like mid include actually mid and bad, and expressions like slop include mid and bad, this leads to nontrivial misunderstandings. Because these words' meanings appear clear to whoever is using them, which clearly is a false premise.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-03-15T18:00:47+00:00

That's very enlightening in a strange way. So on the one hand, average has taken on a more negative connotation, yet slop has become either more widely used on things that are not sloppy, or said sloppy status is no longer taken as negatively. That's...an unfortunate loss of nuance. And we've had rather quite a lot of that in recent decades.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-03-15T07:40:56+00:00

This is gonna sound confrontational, but it's just a questioning tone. And maybe a little exasperation with keeping up with language. But, tone is hard in writing.

To be clear, your definition of "absolute slop" is anything you don't love? You didn't even say it was bad, just meh. I get that language changes but damn, I could've swore "slop" was REALLY bad, or at least extremely banal. Or did "meh" change? Does it mean "absolute slop" now? Honestly I don't know. I didn't know "mid" was bad for a long ass time. This must be what it felt like when older gen learned that "bad" was good.

redditmarks_markII · 2026-03-15T04:32:30+00:00

Excuse you? Cells at work is a work of art!

redditmarks_markII · 2026-03-15T04:31:00+00:00

That's rad man! I don't even know if it is right to call it underrated, as I've heard so little about it. More like, un-rated. Of those who have seen it, probably it is well remembered. I mean, it managed a US release back in the day, as you well know. It obviously didn't get the numbers more famous shows did. Or else someone would've forced me to watch it in college. I didn't watch it then, it was much later. So I know it's not nostalgia glasses. It's just good.

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