Crinklewott 💕 @thingywott@awoo.space

hee oops, my erbot seems to try and respond to irc server messages

i know it's pretty early to be thinking about this, but i really do care a lot about making good ones

i'm thinking that maybe my next new year's resolution won't be me attempting to get better at a skill like i usually do--but rather me getting out there more!

basically, my goal would just be becoming more social, and less hesitant to put my stuff out into the public space

i shouldn't need to feel like i'm imposing on others by putting the things i cared enough to make in places where people can actually see them

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz Actually Pretty Cool, for example ^^

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz my absolute favorite is definitely planet robobot. it has this techno aesthetic, and the new mechanics are all really, REALLY satisfying!

plus you get to go full mecha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziF2FtsXUOU

@pandora_parrot it's sooo good!

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz you are not

sometimes things resonate, even if others make fun of those things

@kerplunk@snouts.online hee. glad i could help someone with that!

i've had to navigate burnout before, and thought that i was basically just doomed to ruin the things i liked by coming to rely on them

luckily, it seems like things don't have to be that way–you just have to keep your mental health in mind

the bad part is that overextending is so easy to do when you want to keep up a certain pace for too long

but when you give yourself short time limits, you not only work faster, you also burn out less

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz oof, it's so obvious after re-reading too! i'm just bad at this sometimes i guess

but i really liked older kirby music too! i actually liked rainbow resort from kirby's adventure enough that it was the first thing i ever decided to make an arrangement of

there were some nice sounds on amazing mirror too, the forest area had such a comfy adventure sound to it

my favorite though? has got to be the pseudo-chip style in robobot

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz kirby music is an aesthetic!

but yeah, i sometimes dive into triphop and nu jazz too. i really like melodic piano with chill backgrounds

for example, this triphop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjYsA_wTlg0

i don't really do a lot of classical, but that might just be because i don't know a lot. got recommendations for any kickers?

@noiob i managed to swipe a 400GB micro SD card for $100 the other day

storage prices are so much nicer than even just a year ago

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz by at least a factor of 10

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz i've listened to the kirby star allies OST more than i've played the game

love too scroll through comments and accidentally RT something

@ShugoWah@snouts.online there's likely ways to be nicer to yourself, and to keep the things you enjoy out of burnout. it's *extremely* worth it to find those things

try things! even if you aren't sure they'll do anything for you. you might be pleasantly surprised!

also, if you're doing fine, you still shouldn't overextend or deviate from the things that keep your mind in good form, because it's a lot nicer to stay in a good space than it is to dig out of a nasty one

anyway, i hope this is helpful..! ^^

@ShugoWah@snouts.online burnout can make the things you enjoy feel like trying to jog through waist-deep mud

it also gets worse by trying to spend your willpower to get over it

two ways out of it are either to recognize that you have burnt out, and to allow yourself to do other things until inspiration sparks again, or to trick your brain into getting over the inertia, and to limit how much willpower you use when you are working on something (that's why tricks work for me, actually)

@ShugoWah@snouts.online thing is, i know that it totally sucks to want to *want* to do things, especially when those things are largely the actions you describe yourself with--but motivation is like a wave that rises and falls

some days, (or maybe lots of days) you might not feel it. and actually, in your case, it kinda sounds like burnout--which is a nifty little affliction that actually can happen by simply worrying about not doing enough

luckily, recognizing it for what it is can actually help you out!

@ShugoWah@snouts.online i have to trick my dumb brain into doing things all the time, because otherwise i either burn out, or can't for the life of me get started

two things that seem to help me are the pomodoro technique and permissive streaks (basically streaks, with allowances to skip days according to well-defined rules)

i also find that organizing things into a kanban helps overcome the resistance when you finish a thing and don't know what to do next

maybe you can find tricks that help you too..?

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz aww, look at that cutie..!