Postmortal_Pop
@Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 6 days ago:
Oh you are in for a treat! it’s an antique instrument with a very distinctive sound.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 6 days ago:
That you either passionately love or viscerally hate droning instruments.
- Comment on Boxing day nightmare 6 days ago:
I’ve got a few of those bags, they’re fucking Invincible.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 week ago:
Too many beautiful sculptures melt under the scorching gaze of capitalism.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 week ago:
The biggest sin is when you see cheap plastic goggles with gears and spikes covering one eye. The point if goggles is to protect the eyes, not obscure your vision and carry your trash.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 week ago:
It’s not quite the same as you describe, but I do carry the tenets of that old steampunk to my modern crafts. Right now I’m making an electric hurdy gurdy cello out of a broken guitar, a kitchen mixer, and 3d printed models of my own construction. If steampunk taught me anything it’s that anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 week ago:
I’ll have to listen to this after work, but I already feel at home in the comments.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 week ago:
I’m much the same. When I got into it, the brass goggles forum required you to hand make and chare your goggles to be a full member. By the time I had the skill to do that, the forum had died and the fandom was a tag on Etsy for dropshippers.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 week ago:
I have a tangentially related thing. I got big into steampunk decades ago when it was still young. Back then, it was a maker culture, a loosely defined idea of cogs and boilers that gave you a fun little world to practice your craft in. It wasn’t just form, it was function. Hammering brass to make functional goggles, learning the Victorian techniques to whalebone corsets, clockwork to accomplish something we only do now with variable controllers.
Now I look for my people and I find a rusting husk of I knew. Gone are the color and texture, replaced by brown on brown in cotton and leather. Where once gears and cogs were carved to spin and move, now they serve only to be glued to cheap accessories. The gleaming promises of brass and copper and steel, userped by soulless luster of plastics.
We should Never have let the world in.
- Comment on These little bastards are about to feast! 1 week ago:
Be having a good shitpost tomorrow.
- Comment on From our family to yours, merry Christmas! 1 week ago:
How the holidays begin:
How they end: 1000050125
- Comment on From our family to yours, merry Christmas! 1 week ago:
The worst part about it is that they had all those things made in practical effects and ready to go before the studio told them to do it in cgi to show off the new tech. You can see behind the scenes where they show off some of the real things.
- Comment on With how the republican party works in 10 years the presidential candidate will be an open pedophile and they will say they defeated wokeness. 1 week ago:
I’m hoping tomorrow it becomes socially shameful to be a Republican.
Better dead than red.
- Comment on Is there self help for narcissism? 1 week ago:
Speaking from personal experience, that’s simply not true. Narcisism is a mental disorder just like any other and can be treated with it’s own form of therapy. You are right that it can be difficult to treat as the onus of understanding falls on the patient choosing to want change in their life which means they have to admit they are wrong. That’s not impossible at all though and many full on narcissists often have a eureka moment when their cognitive dissonance can’t write off an event. On top of that, hormonal changes through life can also play a big role with many people literally growing out of it with different stages of life. Lastly, it’s often adopted by people as a trauma response, meaning that fixing the traumatic stimuli can lead to lessening narcissistic tendencies.
I personally was raised to be a narcissist, lived only with narcissists, and still have narcissistic tendencies that spawn from formative points of trauma. My moment was finding myself alone with a kid I never wanted to have and realizing that I literally had no one in my life to blame anymore. When you put yourself on an island alone so other people can’t fuck up your life anymore only to find out your life is still steadily fucking up on its own, it’s hard not to realize it’s actually you. Couple that with the pressures of parenthood, hormonal changes that no one warns men about, and the realization that I was going to do to my kid what was done to me until he found himself on that same island at 21, I decided to take drastic action.
It’s been a decade. I compartmentalize by joking that I killed that person and took his place. I still occasionally slip, I have a hard time being corrected by people I don’t respect, I instinctually judge things I don’t like as inferior, and I’m sensitive to people blaming me for things, but all of these are now within normal human response levels instead of where I was. Having that kid taught me a lot about empathy. I’m a lot more understanding of people because i realize threat people that aren’t exactly like me aren’t just idiots and fuck ups.
Narcissists are people and nobody is incapable of change.
- Comment on Is there self help for narcissism? 1 week ago:
It’s messy. Kinda like knowing you have anxiety disorder doesn’t make you not anxious. Knowing is a big step but from there you have to work out the behaviours and viewpoints that come from it and fight the instinctual drive to respond that way.
I was raised with some heavy narcissistic tendencies and my first response when I hear about people growing up with power ragers is still to assume they’re trashy and beneath me despite knowing more examples to the contrary than the supporting. I have to stop myself and actually remember not to be judgmental every time. Eventually it becomes your nature, but dome things will always put you in that head space.
- Comment on Corn peoples, Onion peoples, I offer you... 1 week ago:
Now add beans!
- Comment on Nanobots will be used to attack people, rendering guns obsolete 1 week ago:
I mean, we’re doing a great job terraforming earth, just not for us.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 1 week ago:
- Comment on Someone has a LOT of dusty computers 1 week ago:
Also very flamable that way.
- Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders 1 week ago:
That’s exactly what I’m thinking, newest game I play is 10 years old so I’m not expecting my cards to be out any time soon. I’m just miffed that I said I’d get more ram in December and then AI decided to eat all of it in November.
- Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders 1 week ago:
Funny enough, I’m actually running bazzite. That’s why i know there’s a memory issue instead of windows dicking around lol
- Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders 2 weeks ago:
My PC currently experiences a memory overload if I play ~150mods Skyrim for more than 2 hours straight. I currently have 16gb DDR4, Gtx1660 Nvidia. My thoughts are that the graphics card is the weak link but those are still too big a ticket.
- Comment on Music aficionado 2 weeks ago:
Top comment: “Remember when the whole internet was like this?”
Me: 1000049990
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 2 weeks ago:
So I’m stretching the term “nature” here because when I was posting this I actually completely forgot about real natural clay by rivers. You can also get workable clay from any large amount of sand over dirt that’s gotten wet enough times. The water pulls silica out of the sand and into the earth over time, then you can wash it to get the extra crap out, decant off the water, dry the slip, and boom clay.
Some of the best clay I’ve used came from under an old school playground.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 2 weeks ago:
Ceramics is stupidly cheap to get into. All the tools can be replaced with your hands and a needle, finding workable clay in nature is stupidly easy if you know what to look for and even the garbage clay can be made usable. Most ceramic shops let you rent a shelf on the kiln for like $5. Your first ceramic statue is literally 2 hours of research and $5 away no matter where you are in the world.
- Comment on Self-harm 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, wotc has been up to some shadey shit for years. Buy your cards in the secondary markets and proxy the shit out of your decks. The best thing we could do for the game is run the company into the ground.
- Comment on THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short 2 weeks ago:
Then I got 8
- Comment on Timesplitters Rewind, free fanmade recreation of the trilogy, enters Early Access 2 weeks ago:
I’ve already installed it and it runs so great! They’ve only got most of ts1 and I was a future perfect boy so I’m still waiting for my nostalgia, but the gameplay is exactly what I remember and it feels so damn nice.
- Comment on THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short 2 weeks ago:
Does it could if I’ve used them for the novelty?
- Comment on THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short 2 weeks ago:
I highly suggest finding a typewriter, they’re actually really fun.
