caseyweederman

joined 2 years ago
[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

"I don't put oil in my car. It's not natural."
Everyone's brains have cells that manufacture dopamine, receptors that detect dopamine levels, and cleaner proteins that keep your brain from just being full of dopamine all the time.
My cleaner proteins are overpowered, so the dopamine is rarely in my brain long enough to get detected, so I don't get the "good job sport/hamster treat button" reward feeling unless the dopamine burst is REALLY STRONG, like the first few times I accomplish or learn something new.
That's why I struggle with brushing my teeth or doing the dishes or making it to appointments on time or doing my homework, but I thrive off of picking up new hobbies that I'm sure I'll stick with, this time, and not drop the moment I didn't spend a bunch of money on tools and materials for, like all the previous hobbies.
It's why I literally cannot form habits.
So I take a medication that inhibits those dopamine vacuums. The dopamine gets produced and gets to stick around long enough in my brain juices that the receptors can take a meaningful poll of my levels. Now when I press the button, the hamster treat comes out!
For decades I thought I was just lazy, and bad, because everyone around me was telling me that I just needed to apply myself. So much potential. It turns out my brain is just too good at one very narrowly specific thing that makes it hard for me to be good at anything.
And meditation or cutting back on sugar or just pushing through it, none of that did a goddamn thing because it's not a moral failure, it's not that I'm not trying, it's that my brain needs a little help managing chemicals.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Linus is.

This link has the transcript for the image above, but here's a key point:

And dammit, if that all makes me “woke”, then I think anybody who uses that word as a pejorative is a f*cking disgrace to the human race. So please just unfollow me right now.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Right. The question behind the question: so what's the problem?

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Be Like A Crow, the solo RPG by Tim Roberts, is currently in the Humble RPG Bundle. Which I won't link to, because their minimum "Humble Tip" value is gross and also they're owned by IGN now.
I've got a physical copy and I love the aesthetic.
(A small book, black text on white pages, the left face titled Rook with some characteristics, both real and for use in-game, along with a monochrome ink sketch of a rook. The facing page matches, but the content is on the Raven. Example sections: Length, Nesting, Diet, Habitats, Creating your ___ (bird name), Special abilities)

I think my phone saved the image rotated by 90°.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Hmm.
Is there much risk, if the source is open, and we build and self-host?
If the maintainers use the codebase for evil, can we fork it and make a librelnlyoffice 2wo?

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

Make your game as a total conversion mod for Unciv, then we all get TWO cakes.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 week ago

I run archosaur btw

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I had the Chocolate Flip and loved it.
Edit: looking at it now, it's just a generic flip phone.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

That's Noel Fielding in IT Crowd

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 week ago

I think you mean "justify bigger bonuses"

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Rust is calling to me

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