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Okay, which director would make a more appealingly terrible adaptation of "Dune"?

re: How to ADHD. (mh -) 

But, on a happier note: Congrats on ten years, @zx3 – I'm genuinely glad you've kept it going for this long! Sorry I wasn't there last night. You know how it is.

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How to ADHD. (mh -) 

- get really involved at the start of something awesome that happens every couple weeks
- maintain involvement in that thing for a long while
- get distracted from it by other stuff twice in a row
- forget about it the next couple times
- try to resume
- get dragged away once more
- expect to return to it next time
- continually forget to do the thing until it's too late
- give up until years later when reminded that a big anniversary of the start of the thing is coming up
- plan to be there
- get dragged away by other stuff
- give up
- but not really because the brain never lets go of a thing one could maybe attend next time
- forget about it again
- repeat until dead

@starkatt Yay! Maybe now I can start walking off the quarantine 15... before it goes from pounds to kilos!

tired: baseball card in bicycle wheel spokes
wired: clapping coconut halves while on foot
inspired: this → imgur.com/gallery/3yyeffw (sound)

@Leucrotta Oh, and in case you're curious but not conversant in IPA – not judgin', I'm not either – you can plug that into ipa-reader.xyz/ and set the voice to the very last one (Gwyneth) to hear it. I love that site.

@Leucrotta I don't know if I didn't know that or forgot it, but the mispronunciation thing is kinda wonderful! That's actually how my character Millimax comes by her name; when very young, she had trouble learning and pronouncing the clan name (/mækʃɪnɪɬjɑnᵊ/, acceptably "Anglicized" as Maximillian). She later picked it up as her art-name, and now she goes pretty much exclusively by that.

So now I ask: 23? And does it carry any particular associations, anecdotes, or the like?

@starkatt "Synthetic Is Not Artificial". Because I've been so over the whole made-of-meat thing since I was, like, count-on-one's-fingers old.

@hystericempress I have such fond memories of putting together new icons to denote general subjects. Some for City of Heroes, some for retrogaming, some for music....

Shaggy, Baggy, and Craggy Game Design 

medium.com/kitfox-games/in-pra

Shaggy Design
A shaggy game design is one that forces the player to experience wildly varying systems and gameplay along the journey of the game. Rather than the smooth predictability of an elegantly cohesive experience, a shaggy game is jagged and perhaps even shocking. It’s less of a smooth ‘arc’ or power curve, and more of a wild ride.
Ex. Nier Automata

Baggy Design
A baggy game design is one that has a wide, some might even say excessive breadth of systems. Imagine a pair of cargo pants, each pocket brimming with goodies. It not only allows the player to wander off the critical gameplay path, but rewards doing so, and in fact the player might forget what the supposedly “core” gameplay was at all.
Ex. GTA, Yakuza

Craggy Design
Craggy design is one that has surprising, some might even say excessive depth of systems. Imagine you’re walking along a mountain pass, pretty sure you know where you’re going, stepping over small gullies, when you take a moment to look into a gully and realize it plunges down into a crevasse. Do you dare to follow it to the bottom? Will you ever make it back to the trail?
Ex. Breath of the Wild

The gender today is the smell of lavender and gasoline.

@hystericempress I love stats like that, but the polygon-on-spokes is the worst way to represent that information! It's even worse, somehow, than the line graphs on the back of old Transformers boxes – you know, the ones meant to be read with the red lens?

It's what bar charts were invented for. Bar charts are nice. 📊​

Not unusual: Having David Bowie's "I'm Afraid of Americans" stuck in my head.

Somewhat unusual: Having that spontaneously mash up with the start of Bobby Prince's "Barrels o' Fun" from Doom II.

🧠​+​🎶​=​❓​

ADHD means I end up wanting to do insignificant tasks before important ones.

Adderall helps me focus on those insignificant tasks.

@porsupah @Leucrotta That's a really good cover!

However, it's really, _really_ weird that nowhere in that video's info is it mentioned who did the original track they're covering.

How to get the Electric Keet experience from social media. (second person, implied mh) 

1) Decide whose posts you want to see.
2) Follow most of them, and a few other interesting-looking folks.
3) Fret about who you might have missed.
4) Read posts that vaguely align with your hobby interests; respond with paragraphs of minute trivia.
5) Read close friends' posts that resonate deeply in philosophical and personal ways and absolutely beg for insight or comfort; respond by clicking the little star.
6) Via mobile device, read posts that seem very interesting but require audio or long-form reading, then punt them to a "read later" list for when you're at a less mobile device.
7) Never go through those "read later" posts. There are more posts to read.
8) Continue to fret.
9) Get a bit of courage to type a little about your current interests, mood, thoughts, or environment.
10) Get discouraged halfway through when it doesn't come out right and you're not sure what CW to put on it anyway.
10b) ...unless the Adderall's kicked in!
11) Keep on fretting.
12) Refresh feed.
13) GOTO 3

@noiob I played a lot of Splatoon 1, and these pics are dredging up nostalgia for my Luna Blaster. Or, as I like to call it, the "Death Yam".

come on down to new england! we got:

- false spring
- smarch
- double summer
- fool's autumn
- fimbulwinter

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