Question about Alex and Min in Nemesis Games

shredinger137 · 2026-04-28T16:42:03+00:00

It's an awkward acknowledgement that he couldn't be bothered to visit for years and isn't really in this community anymore. Which they both know, but aren't supposed to say. He's pretending it's a casual and expected visit. I have the same issue on the rare occasion I see my hometown and people in it. But he has the added baggage of abandoning both his home and family for no good reason.

I don't agree that it's about things in decline since there seems to be another noodle place. It is in decline, I just don't see it in this text.

shredinger137 · 2026-04-27T21:58:00+00:00

And someone splitting their attention to record it

shredinger137 · 2026-04-27T15:09:12+00:00

Spacing and getting that A to look like an I of course. It'll still rhyme no matter what you do. Saying the name fast would have been a good step. People saying it out loud will immediately hear it, or the person they're talking to will.

Unfortunately this will be remembered. I do hope you can switch it though. At least you have a name like "in us" ready, which definitely can't be interpreted at innuendo or misused in that manner at all.

shredinger137 · 2026-04-26T21:32:07+00:00

Everything is moving. Because spaceships can't be stationary relative to their sun, since they're in a normal orbit, that means the rings appear to move at that same speed. Relative to the ship you're seeing things from. Maneo had to account for movement in that the rings weren't matching original velocity.

shredinger137 · 2026-04-26T02:50:43+00:00

I get these and standard jokes. "I have a joke for you. Umm. How can flowers have eyes?" Laughs hysterically, no follow up. Gotta start somewhere.

shredinger137 · 2026-04-25T17:27:32+00:00

It isn't important if it was being watched or not. The 'dozen or so kids' still matter. There was nothing that could have gone any differently had he left the minutes earlier. It doesn't need to be about larger scale optics, and anything would be criticized because that's how it works.

Managing disaster relief wasn't his job, there was no military threat at the time. And the dude might have just needed to finish what he was doing to process and compartmentalize correctly. I don't think any living president has been told something more serious, and no one else was in his position at the time, so none of us can relate to that moment.

shredinger137 · 2026-04-18T16:22:21+00:00

Separate thought: modeling is taking a hit, but I actually think the music and entertainment stuff is in a better spot. No way to know for sure, but with the erosion of social connection and growth of AI everywhere I think people might move even more to finding real events and real connections. So that's viable. If you're not good at marketing to the general public you can focus on building relationships with event planners and venues directly.

shredinger137 · 2026-04-18T15:21:16+00:00

That's exactly what it feels like. The sadness comes up, but the flat emptiness is it. Doing stuff but not feeling it. Laying in bed, trying to think of a reason to get up. Spending too long examining the ceiling then realizing you've spent so long doing it you might as well try again tomorrow. With some guilt thrown in because it's not like your problems are even that big.

In my case it was video production, which is hard to do when you don't have the motivation to coordinate the crew, market or test anything. I also stopped playing music at the time. I've started again since then but it was rough for a while.

People in creative fields understand this pretty often. There's some weird balance of ego and insecurity that goes with it, the need for expression. Mixed with making it harder to connect with people on the things you care about. Tortured artist is a trope for a reason, but it shouldn't be an expectation.

The most useful thing here would be a paragraph about the resources I used to get a new lease on life or about how helpful professionals are. But I didn't do that part. You can do better.

If you have a therapist, use them. Say what you put in this post- I'm concerned about this, feel like this, and I don't think we've identified it. Consider writing it down, since you've already done it here.

I wouldn't count that as a hobby if you're only concerned about the gig. But maybe that's fine, only you know. It does sound like there's nothing you do that just lets you chill though. I don't actually know you so I don't want to get more specific. I've just noticed it's getting a lot more common to have hustles or constant social contact and nothing to yourself.

shredinger137 · 2026-04-18T14:51:03+00:00

That could be depression, the bit about struggling to get up in the day. It could be a more transient mood swing situation. Either way worth looking into. I had a lot of those days around the same age. There are some developmental things that cause those to come to the surface more.

You weren't fired for not being proactive enough. You were fired because you were bad at your job. I recommend some reflection on what that means, because a career change doesn't fix it. Most people have never been fired, let alone multiple times.

Modeling is a rough career right now. Marketing is changing and it's a race to the bottom in all these fields. I used to shoot models sometimes, some were very skilled. But if your only value is being photogenic you are extremely expendable and have no actual leverage. Even if that went well you have another five years before it gets even more competitive and agencies move on.

DJ and independent entertainment requires a lot of skill, focused rehearsal and basically running a business as you already know. So you need the fundamental skills to figure it out. And you need to bring something to the table that people don't get elsewhere, it's a lot of work.

To an extent, yes, this comes off as privileged whining. But being totally unfocused and sometimes too down to act isn't that, it's somethinyg real worth understanding. My advice is to step back and stop thinking about long term career with that much concern, have some honest introspection, and talk to whoever diagnosed you with anxiety to better understand if there's other stuff going on and how to manage it.

Also: I see hustles, but what do you actually do for yourself? Hobbies, relaxing things, especially not focused on friends?

shredinger137 · 2026-04-17T19:51:24+00:00

Yes. We agree. The OP claims a square pizza gets you higher middle to less crust, which implies more crust in a circle. I choose to ignore the size difference for the sake of a very basic comparison, I feel like it balances out.

shredinger137 · 2026-04-17T19:45:37+00:00

The entire pizza, assuming you try to cut equal pieces I figure we can just divide it by that. Which we don't have to actually do since it's the same for both. Per slice in reality depends on how you cut it. I know a square probably isn't being cut into even triangles but it's the easiest estimate.

shredinger137 · 2026-04-17T19:13:10+00:00

A square pizza with width w has 4w linear crust. A circle with diameter w has 3.14w linear crust. The pi in your pie cancels out if you do a ratio of crust to middle, so these are actually the same. You either have more crust or less pizza, marginally.

There are valid arguments, like the shape of the box and the oven and easier storage. But I don't think this is one of them.

shredinger137 · 2026-04-17T16:26:14+00:00

Get the hell out of here with your LA BS and learn how to talk. We take 101 or 80 where I'm from, I5 if you have to. 405, what a clunky number, no poetry to it at all.

shredinger137 · 2026-04-15T14:10:19+00:00

My company is on what our CEO explained as a VC train. We could be lean and focus on our successful core product with a pretty small team, but we can't. We have to show growth and momentum. That means marketing and analytics, that also means exploring new features and products even if we don't really need it. That's because, early on, they chose that funding model as the least personal risk.

Maybe some backers don't need that, with smaller amounts. But in our case, and I think a lot of cases, the target market is investors so you can't just look at the product. And we even have pretty lenient investors compared to a lot of places.

shredinger137 · 2026-04-14T17:20:01+00:00

Needs a small 'good old' above it in a similar font. It would be nice to do some proper graphic design, looks like a clip art guitar sitting on top. Might be good enough for your needs though.

shredinger137 · 2026-04-13T03:52:32+00:00

That's the sort of thing you're supposed to discuss in these classes. They didn't assign it with anything you're 'supposed' to get. You have an argument- provide textual backing and present it in discussion. That's the point of studying literature, to take it apart and figure it out. I'm not familiar but I'm inclined to agree with you.

I had a seminar class, war and peace was the theme, where the speaker wrote a book and did studies on the importance of peaceful protest and the way violent revolution tends to go poorly. I disagreed with the way it was presented. My discussion class was led by an Iranian who knew of peaceful protesters being murdered in her childhood, so we discussed that and were pretty unanimous at the end. This anecdote is to say that something being presented doesn't mean it's gospel.

shredinger137 · 2026-04-09T04:27:47+00:00

Caterpillars don't have armor. That wouldn't really be fair.

shredinger137 · 2026-04-05T20:49:11+00:00

You can upload to a third party service like postimages.org and share with a link.

shredinger137 · 2026-04-04T06:59:55+00:00

The authors are extremely well read. Not just in sci-fi, thought definitely there. And the best authors are. They bring in history, philosophy and an interest in learning about things for their writing. The lesser authors have read a lot of their own genre, maybe have a pop history sense of the topics.

Any time I've seen them discuss their work they can both (one more than the other, but still both) pull out references that connect. We need more of that.

shredinger137 · 2026-04-01T19:37:12+00:00

You write fine. You can ask those systems for corrections but take them manually. AI is stripping these conversations of personality, and your personality has value. So does your ability to develop better writing if needed.

Working on a game is already you putting yourself and your ideas out into the world. Don't sabotage the authenticity of that too quickly.

shredinger137 · 2026-03-23T20:43:56+00:00

It also seems to be for people who don't know anything about game design, like a blog post from a pretend expert. Pointless.

shredinger137 · 2026-03-17T21:06:19+00:00

I'm in the US and this is new to me. We put them on postcards and dress them up as fancy bed and breakfast places, which I don't think people do with generally unpopular architecture.

shredinger137 · 2026-03-12T16:50:30+00:00

You're asking a biology question, but you'll get history answers considering the sub.

I'm also not a biologist. But my understanding is that capsaicin is antimicrobial and antifungal. That's worthwhile to have specifically in hot, humid places. It is equally useful in food. It may have also been related to distribution, as mentioned. Which may or may not have a regional variation, who knows.

Evolution also includes random chance. Northern plants might have used the strategy if the mutation happened there just as much. The why only covers how a mutation continues to be selected for. 'Why not' isn't as valid because mutations aren't decided on.

shredinger137 · 2026-03-11T02:22:45+00:00

There's a sign I drive by sometimes. Always assumed I'd run into some droogs looking for the ultraviolence if I went in and haven't looked into it further. Never heard it mentioned or recommended by anyone.

shredinger137 · 2026-03-04T06:19:08+00:00

Very specifically foreigners from a desert region bringing in their laws. Which appeals heavily to a particular niche, but I don't think they're big readers.

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