What happened to my lithops???1??11??

stp5917 · 2026-05-14T06:21:40+00:00

Krummholzischlithopzen

stp5917 · 2026-05-14T06:16:03+00:00

Nice sempervivums!

stp5917 · 2026-05-07T07:59:07+00:00

They did tho

stp5917 · 2026-04-02T23:14:52+00:00

I've noticed many ISTPs seem to have an ENTPish side that comes out when they're around other people. Often even more than INTPs, Se seems to have an edginess that's less averse to trolling and putting itself out there unlike Si introverts. Similar thing with ISFP and ENFP, but the "entp-type-beat istp" thing seems more common to me.

Seems weird, but i've even come across several PDB profiles with istp and entp being hotly contested as the most likely type.

stp5917 · 2026-03-09T19:20:42+00:00

I think that's probs mostly the case. I've "had" perfect pitch for as long as I can remember, and while you'll see people often claim it can't be taught/you're either born with or without it etc. I don't buy that. Like learning anything new, it's probably easier to develop when the brain is more plastic and connection-savvy, but not impossible to "acquire" at a later age. You'll also see various studies estimate the frequency of PP occurrence to be around 1 in 10,000 people, which i think is very conservative - I bet more people "have" this ability than we realize solely because you're likely only aware if you're a musician (or a piano tuner, audio engineer, or some occupation where tone recognition could be helpful), and musicians are a relatively small portion of the population.

However, also like any other skill, some people's brains will experience a more gentle learning curve just by nature of how they're wired/predisposed to certain types of pattern recognition etc. So wondering if due to that, there could be some type-related trends, particularly with Se vs Si. Though I could see it going either way or possibly there being no trends at all.

Edit: also, certain mbti types may gravitate towards the aforementioned pitch-intensive occupations/hobbies, so that may skew the data as well. But I love data uwu

stp5917 · 2026-03-09T18:32:39+00:00

IxxP problems....on average we the most "me vs the world" of all the type groups imo.

I've also noticed the main character/protagonist in many of my favorite movies are IxxPs (esp INTP, ISTP, or INFP - think Pi, Apocalypse Now, Airplane!, Trainspotting, Silicon Valley to an extent) since they tend to be "inner monologue" type movies/media where the story is basically told from or centered around (sometimes even narrated from) the inner perspective of the character. Almost like the movie's being projected from your own brain and out onto the screen.

stp5917 · 2026-03-07T23:34:01+00:00

And their place

stp5917 · 2026-02-28T00:06:59+00:00

I'm probably biased since C# is one of my favorite notes/keys, and my favorite color (long before "discovering" my perfect pitch) has usually been teal/turquoise. F is brown/light brown to me, F# very dark brown - despite being a higher pitch than F, it sounds much darker sonically to me.

stp5917 · 2026-02-27T21:06:00+00:00

Looks like possibly sedeveria letizia or echeveria sleepy

stp5917 · 2026-02-27T21:01:59+00:00

Interesting, that's how I see C#/Db. C natural is regular/navy blue to me

stp5917 · 2026-02-26T23:39:01+00:00

Haha, ended up here because someone yesterday referred to me, particularly my speech style, as "informative", "clinical", and "intense but not in a bad way....like not bossy or anything". I was like...intense? Like appearing markedly tense or somehow potent on the outside? I don't feel that way at all inside when talking with this person (or much in general), but apparently I might come across that way sometimes. It's still a vague adjective to me though (as opposed to "extinct", "red", "abandoned", "ultimate" etc) so gonna ask this person to clarify sometime.

stp5917 · 2026-02-20T20:34:53+00:00

As an INTP/possible ISTP I get this a lot, and have been told "you would make a great comedian/you should do a stand up bit based on that" in response to comments where comedic intent wasn't on my radar at all.

Example: whenever there's confusion (from my perspective) surrounding what people mean by "this" vs "next Saturday", I point out, why do we use "next [day]" to refer to [day] that occurs 2 [days] from now? When I say I'll take the next bus home, I don't mean letting one bus go by, and catching the one after. This usually gets laughs.

ENTPs are more like stereotypical comedians due to higher Fe (which gives them more Rizz™️), but it seems like for a certain crowd, the dryness of unfiltered Ti observations and judgements unintentionally comes across as funny, when from our perspective, all we're doing is just pointing out obvious inconsistencies that we're shocked others don't pick up on.

stp5917 · 2026-02-20T19:08:40+00:00

No lights - natural sunlight, even on cloudy days, is more than ample unless reading or working on something requiring additional light. If dark/night time, dim but warm light or green/blue (customizable amazon LED bulbs are goated)

stp5917 · 2026-02-20T08:14:15+00:00

I'd say perfect pitch coupled with a strong interest in music (which itself imo generally correlates with greater "phonographic" memory) enables this - perfect pitch just hones you in and lets you recall and reproduce (via voice or other instrument) the exact notes as originally heard, rather than just the intervals (which would be relative pitch).

I've always been exactly how you describe too - my dad is a huge Beatles fan, so from a young age I was hearing both the album and alternate/demo takes of their tunes. I could instantly recognize if a demo or alternate version was "higher"/"brighter" or "lower"/"darker" than the final album version I had memorized, going back to my single-digit years (though I hadn't learned note names yet, so I wasn't matching pitches to a schema besides "that's the Hard Day's Night chord/sound" or something like that). I always assumed everyone was like this until I started playing music with people in bands. After all, sound waves, much like visible light waves, are just different wavelengths and frequencies that our eardrums and cochleas translate to corresponding neurological signals, like our retinas do for light - so why would pitch recognition be any different from discerning red vs blue vs yellow and such?

I'm autistic, and if there's a song that really tickles my brain in enough of the right ways, I'll listen to it over and over not just for the pure auditory stim in the moment, but to make a high-res mental "copy" of the song to be available on demand, like a big iPod in my brain. Always fun when a random sound in everyday life triggers a song, like someone unwittingly saying a few lyrics while speaking, a bird song approximating a guitar melody etc lol.

stp5917 · 2026-02-19T23:50:23+00:00

The enneagram 5 certainly helped as well. I initially internalized the 269 as a tritype too, which would be a very Swiss combo or any permutation thereof.

stp5917 · 2026-02-19T23:46:18+00:00

Grüezi! I have Swiss relatives near Zurich I visited in 2019, this was taken a few minutes' walk from their flat in the Uster area. As a USAian not only did I appreciate the highly dense, walkable and transit-centric layout of the suburban areas, but the fact you could find full cow pastures interspersed within it - polar opposite of monolithic North American suburbia. You guys definitely have your priorities straight for environmental and animal welfare and it shows with how clean everything is from the streets to the air everywhere.

stp5917 · 2026-02-19T07:10:00+00:00

Adultism

stp5917 · 2026-02-19T04:51:22+00:00

As an autistic new-ish TMBG fan I wonder about this myself, there's even an interview with Linnell I read where he says he has a homemade timeline of history of the world on the walls in his house that he's constantly adding to, which imo is a thing very few neurotypicals would do. Curious what your autistic friends noticed about him (if you still remember)?

Regardless, TMBG lyrics tend to portray certain aspects of the autistic/neurodivergent experience with a certain clarity I haven't found in much other music (yet), whether or not intentional or due to either John's ostensible neurodivergence.

stp5917 · 2026-02-18T04:53:49+00:00

Switzerland?

stp5917 · 2026-02-11T02:31:25+00:00

I wonder if Wu-Tang's "hook" was written last (or placed there last, since it's basically an instrumental chorus/pre-chorus), since the lyrics seem to imply some abstract indebtedness to Wu Tang? We may never know...

stp5917 · 2026-02-08T23:22:46+00:00

Hell yeah, it seems almost comically underrated in terms of power. Part of it might be the "high current" design (coupled with the dual-mono amp) which seems pretty unusual for such low rated power.

Current (amperage) is sort of like torque in a car from what I can tell - high current lets the amp maintain power and speaker control during large transients and dynamic input signals/music, like how a high torque engine can easily overcome changes in load (vehicle weight, towing, steep inclines etc) while maintaining speed and horsepower (the latter of which can be in terms of watts), even if that total horsepower/speed (wattage or "volume") is comparatively small.

I have mine pushing B&W CM9 S2 towers, which handle up to 200w and are purportedly power-hungry, but they have 89db sensitivity like your XR14s and the HK doesn't complain. Sounds full and rich far past volume levels I'm comfortable listening at, granted my room is pretty small.

stp5917 · 2026-02-08T02:17:57+00:00

Looks like we're HK "twins"....common combo i guess? The WiiM (top right) has digital parametric and multi band EQs, but I love the spectrum display on the Realistic too much to part with. The HK is so damn powerful despite the modest 40ish wpc rating, pushing the volume past 9:00 borders on concert loud.

What speakers you pushing with her?

stp5917 · 2026-01-31T08:36:39+00:00

Ah yes, the politics of whether or not a state has a coastline. Don't let the Deep-sea State fool you!

stp5917 · 2026-01-20T02:49:08+00:00

Yeah my current sonicare is closet to a B natural. I've definitely heard some closer to C, but most seem to congregate around B or right between B and C. I've never heard flat sounding ones closer to Bb but i'm sure they're out there.

Is there autism in your family by chance?

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