Stalinwolf

joined 1 year ago
[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 hours ago

This is one thing that had held me back from building/working with computers for a living. I would be a natural fit for the job, but I don't want to ruin one of the only technical things I enjoy doing in my freetime.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 hours ago

My brother explained skatole to me once, and I remember the balancing act he had to perform to explain that he's not saying my shit smells good in particular, but that it shares a certain quality with the odor of flowers. . But not a good quality, mind you.

I appreciated the compliment.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's crazy to me that people are still watching TV and tuning into things like new episodes of The Simpsons. My wife and I just drove out to Vancouver last week and stayed in a few hotels along the way. Using the TVs at each one (with a living, breathing TV Guide Channel) felt a little surreal. We were supposed to have sex the one night and instead I fell asleep watching the Paralympics.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I fucking love my kid. She's incredible. And some days I kind of understand where Casey Anthony was coming from. Doesn't sound so outlandish. But outside of extreme cases, I probably cap out at about a 6.5/10. I feel like that's pretty good. It's those 8s and up that get you thinking about Casey Anthony.

(since people are increasingly unable to detect satire, I should probably get ahead of it and specify I don't actually fantasize about killing my kid)

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The lore books in The Elder Scrolls series, hands-down.

There is an entire universe of conflicting knowledge, personal bias, and unreliable narrators that leave Tamriel's history feeling very real, and very open to interpretation. The fun of it is piecing together the truth somewhere in the middle. But I'll die on the hill that the Arcturian Heresy is absolute horseshit written by a madman, and comparable to the scribbles of a paranoid schizophrenic on an anti-vax forum. Anyone who references that volume in regards to Tiber Septim and the forming of the empire is an impressionable dweeb.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh, somehow I glazed over that part.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

Hate when that happens..

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

My great aunt also called it Snoops, and it irked me that she saw the logo a million times and never once questioned her pronunciation.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah, the white, brown and green uniform.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Monolith look so rad.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago

I rage nearly every day when a bag either rips beside the seal, or has such garbage perforations that you have to use scissors on it regardless of their presence.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

After some digging I've learned I'm misremembering it being Homey, and it was instead the 1991 film Shakes the Clown.

 

My daughter (4) is very into exploring cities, homes and villages in Skyrim, feeding aliens in No Man's Sky, and cleaning houses in House Flipper. She gets annoyed in games like House Flipper because she can't leave the property to explore all of the visible houses on the block. I'd like to find other PC games that are relatively kid-friendly (or at least with my guidance and supervision) and easy for her to just wander about and be nosy.

Any suggestions? Simple adventure/fantasy would be great and provide us with something to progress through together, but anything that lets you explore a neighborhood and/or poke around in buildings and such would be perfect. I'm picking up Goat Simulator today for that exact purpose.

I appreciate it in advance.

 

Made with Bing Image Creator / DALL-E Prompt: "Old woman hugging sasquatch in her vintage kitchen"

 
 
  • Elicit

I seem to experience intense feelings of nostalgia rather frequently in my everyday life. It's brought on by the simplest or mundane of things, like the way the sun hits the top of conifers in the morning or evening, the trilling of a bird in the distance during certain seasons or weather conditions, the way a wall clock ticks away steadily in the stillness of my home (especially when accompanied by motes of dust in the sunlight), or the smell of a running air conditioner.

These moments ~~illicit~~ elicit both mysterious and beautiful emotions, but are hurled at me constantly. While I enjoy the feelings they give me, I seem to experience them far more often than I think most would consider normal. I don't know if there is a term for this sense of hyper-nostalgia, or what (if anything) it's indicative of. Most of it is tied to insignificant moments from my childhood, like lying in the melting snow on a Spring day (the trilling bird), or sitting bored in the car waiting on my mother (the sun on conifers), but a lot of it is more ambiguous.

So I thought it would be fun to ask other people what their strongest (and perhaps recurring) moments of nostalgia are triggered and/or tied to. What are some of yours?

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