kelpie_returns
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- Comment on Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem 4 days ago:
Shake my head lol. Haven’t seen it used that way before
- Comment on Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem 5 days ago:
Ted Cruz is, afaik, not using a pseudonym, but he is a literal Oogie Boogie (see; a writhing mass of bugs wrapped in a pseudo-skin) and nobody seems to have a problem with that either
- Comment on 1 week ago:
He also glowed tf up, in both the mental and physical
- Comment on You only know if you're bad at something after a lot of practice and hard work 1 week ago:
Depending on some things, I think it definitely can be. The world sure does not make it feel that way tho
- Comment on What Are Ya'll Playing? 1 week ago:
Ive been playing through the gens 1, 2, and 3 Armored Core games, and got most of the way to my second ending on 3 before my controller broke. The x and square buttons both go into rapid-fire when held down, making maneuvering even more difficult and the tougher stages fully impossible.
So I jumped ahead to Formula Front since you can play it fully with Ai controls. Im seeing a lot of complaints about this title online, but I personally love the pure engineering challenge it offers. Fiddling with my mechs is the best part of the game imo, so this one is easily my favorite non-core story title so far. Would recommend to anyone that likes experimenting with different builds and sinking time into deep thought on strategy and counterstrategy. Good stuff
- Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice. 1 week ago:
You said that practicing something the same way over and over is wrong, fullstop. I said that’s not always true because after a certain point, that is the exact kind of practice that keeps the skill ready. I miss, lose, and never find many points, but I see this one clear as day. Your absolute statement was not absolutely true, and it’s really just not that big of a deal.
While I don’t appreciate that you misconstrued what I said earlier, wilfully or otherwise, I also don’t think that’s a rightful excuse for me to get as rude with you as I chose to. So, take it or leave it, I offer my apologies for that.
- Comment on Lies, all lies 1 week ago:
Haven’t talked to old boy in a long, long while, but I’ll ask for some recs if I can get ahold of his crazy ass. Chances are not high so don’t get your hopes up lol
If you’re just in the mood to try something different tho, I’d suggest Joe Ely. More south of the border folk than what we’ve been talking about, but he def dips (maybe dipped? not sure) his cup in that same omni-american stream of proto-proto-rock here and there. Any song off Letter to Loredo is somewhere between ‘hey, that’s pretty good’ and ‘yo this fuckin slaaaps’ imo
- Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice. 1 week ago:
Oops. I appreciate you clearing up the confusion. You ever just feel like a big dumb idiot sometimes? Cause I sure do.
- Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice. 1 week ago:
If that’s the point, then I had it right the first time, and only seemed to lose you when I followed the idea to its obvious next leg. After you figure out how to do it right, then the rest of that initial comment comes into play.
You not following along well enough until it’s been reiterated and fed to you as directly and simply as possible is not the dunk you seem to think it is.
- Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice. 1 week ago:
Why are you pretending I said things I didn’t say? Finding the optimal way of doing something involves getting it wrong before you get it right. We all know this. What I was talking about was not greenhorn entry-level practice, but the practice of an expert who has already figured that much out. Obviously, you have to learn the right way to do something before you can do it the right way.
Ask literally any half-decent guitarist if trying to do the same exact thing in the same exact way helps or hurts their skill. Now ask a martial artist. A dancer. A singer. A painter. An engineer. A carpenter. Even a bowler, as someone else already mentioned. These are all skills that are honed through repitition.
In the spirit of the dialogue, I am going to repeat myself because it seems like I might need to; none of them got it right the first time. But after they did get it right, I guarantee you, their practice became about doing it again in exactly the same way. And then, once they were happy with their newly refinded skill, they learn something and start that cycle again.
What’s that Bruce Lee quote? “I do not fear the man that has practiced a thousand moves once. I fear the man that has practiced one move a thousand times”. Skill comes with understanding and understanding comes with focus. At first, you focus on placing your fingers on exactly the right frets at exactly the right time, and then, after you’ve figure that out and can do it correctly, you do it over and over again until you’re sure that can always do it exactly the way you want to whenever you want it done. This isn’t esoteric lore. It’s common sense.
- Comment on Humans are not meant to be happy; people are supposed to keep working till they finish or get replaced by another sad human being. 1 week ago:
More things than either of us could count happen every day. Make your point or don’t.
- Comment on Lies, all lies 1 week ago:
Examples that I know inspired his music specifically? No can do, mate. I’m not big on country either, and I dont know the guy or follow interviews he’s done or anything like that. I just know that the music he makes reminds me of the music I’d here when frequenting redneck hotspots. Like, the deepwood living, liquor distilling, 6 broken down cars scattered through their inherited land having kinds. Not the ‘I wear john deere as a status symbol’ kinds. Old country about how fucked the government is and trying to wrestle with identity in a world that could care less how we feel or think. Woodie Guthrie comes to mind (also not explicitly country and leaning more folk, ik) but I know for certain they were playing a lot more than just that.
I was talking more about influence in the long division sense and agree that he definitely leans more folk. But also reasoned that folk and country (and bluegrass as well) all share their origins in what is now generally referred to broadly as “folk music”, and which evolved, largely but not entirely, from the lilting string tunes of the celtic cultures, with old Irish music probably having the most sway there. I know this much, but dont know specific artists to direct you toward as it’s just not my bag. Sorry lol
- Comment on Humans are not meant to be happy; people are supposed to keep working till they finish or get replaced by another sad human being. 1 week ago:
Some big leaps you got there, frogger.
Prove that you are the first person to have definitively and undeniably figured out what humans are “meant to be” and you might just have a gumbo going. Otherwise, all this is is just the kind of nonsense you need to talk to a professional about before it eats you alive.
Because I see how you’ve responded to others in the comments, I want to be very clear; that is not intended as an insult. You have presented a very obviously unhealthy way of viewing oneself and others. If this is your genuine belief, you should seriously consider seeking help with your mental health. Happiness is attainable with the proper aid and effort, and you deserve to give yourself better.
- Comment on Dogma is the mask one wears to hide ignorance from one's self 1 week ago:
Sometimes, for sure
- Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice. 1 week ago:
That’s not always true. Finding the optimal way to do something is only one potential aspect of practice. Another is getting to a level where you can do it consistently and on demand, over and over and over, without missing a beat.
And even once you’ve reached that level, that skill can be lost or degrade over time if you dont keep at it, so repeatedly performing the same motions in the exact same way becomes entirely necessary in order to maintain your skill level.
- Comment on Hotdog, egg, and pickle bunt aspic 1 week ago:
I will definitely be putting this to use. Thanks for the tip!
- Comment on Lies, all lies 2 weeks ago:
Better than the “country” they play on the radio, without a doubt.
He’s definitely not a strictly country artist, but check out Lord Huron. Bag of Bones is a good starter. He wouldn’t be making the music he does if it wasn’t for the country artists that came before, and he’s pushing the genre in some real Modest Mousian directions in the best of ways
- Comment on Lies, all lies 2 weeks ago:
Otyken?
- Comment on I baked eye ball cookies for Halloween 2 weeks ago:
That was the first scp I have read in nearly 20 years and I am not sure if I should thank you or threaten you, so I’ll say this; I have your address and I hope you like tulips, you fuck.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
No, but I do think really hard about it whether I want to or not. That void do be callin sometimes
- Comment on I baked eye ball cookies for Halloween 2 weeks ago:
Mmm…did you tho??
- Comment on Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong. 3 weeks ago:
Without both perfect symbols and perfectly understanding wielders of those symbols, there is no such thing as perfect communication.
To me, this unfortunately means that your dream will forever remain a dream because there is no such thing as perfection in any field. People will always make associations with words that were not initially intended to be made with those words, meaning that, even if we correctly define something and generally agree on that definition, through culture and more specific types of interaction with symbolic phenomenon, those true meanings will all always be open to alteration and redefinition. Making words more precise does not change the user-end of this phenomenon, meaning that no amount of accuracy will be enough to correct for human blunder and ignorance. I dont think there is a fix to this problem :(
- Comment on Hmm this "unisex" bathroom seems biased... 3 weeks ago:
People of the penile persuasion can sit while peeing. It is very easy to do.
- Comment on This game is fantastic. 3 weeks ago:
It’s a communal writing project. Ofc that’s the case lol
- Comment on It's finally here! 3 weeks ago:
Toot-toooooot!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yes.
- Comment on This game is fantastic. 3 weeks ago:
It’s a communal project in which people make up lovecraftian monsters and share them to a wiki, basically. There’s an expansive system of lore to it, including an MIB-esque organization that is collecting and, when possible, innoculating them, as well as all these different methods and procedures for interacting with them and categorizing them and junk.
Lots of strange and creative ideas scattered throughout. I liked it when it was just starting off, but haven’t kept up, so I can’t speak for the modern quality overall, but Im sure they’ve still got some bangers here and there
- Comment on A month remains. 3 weeks ago:
That’s nice to know. I might just take that dive after all
- Comment on A month remains. 3 weeks ago:
That…is a lot easier to remember than I had feared. Im gonna do a little reading on the subject and think about rolling them bones when I have the time. Thanks for the info, dude!
- Comment on A month remains. 3 weeks ago:
Wish someone would do this for me tbh. I’d like to make the change, but am tech-incompetent enough that I fear I might brick my only computer were I to try.