johnnyenzyme@piefed.social

As a fan of Shatner (warts and all), I love that. 😄

Yes. I still play games for the Atari 2600 sometimes, especially with all the new user-made content coming out. What was that considered… 2nd gen? (ditto for the C64, a semi-console)

Also a few Super-Nintendo Chalmers titles, which I guess would be 4th gen? That was almost the perfect era to me, because the mix of memory, graphics and CPU were perfectly sufficient to pull off any number of good, fundamental games.

Better graphics were never really needed via later consoles IMO… except when it came to FPS-type games. One of the few arguments for more pixels and color depth, but obviously I date myself. XD

I’ve always felt the pull of the arts, directly flowing from my mother, a professional photog and hobbyist artist (oil, watercolor, pastels, etc).

Me, I absolutely suck at math, but one time I managed to construct a nicely-fitting-together wooden dice box for my AD&D needs. It was embossed with a piece of thick leather, in which I designed a picture of a noble stag (deer). Now, I think the impetus upon all that came from a short workshop I was attending, but the instructor was blown way by how much farther I’d taken things than everyone else.

At first I was like Scooby Doo– "ruh..??", but it later hit me– my mom had unintentionally gotten me started upon fine arts, and it somehow resonated with my DNA. Or something like that.

Anyway, yeah, I used that dicebox faithfully over the years, and of course eventually lost it in a major house move. 😅

IME “just be yourself” sometimes works, and sometimes it doesn’t, ditto for “faking it until… whatever.”

What I’ve found is that mixing the two in proportion to what the needs of the situation are is in fact how people commonly handle such situations. I don’t know how the fluff two such extremist pieces of advice got started, but I suppose they have their uses at times.

Good one though, and I love how you dismantle the usual advice-givers. 😄

Personal data-harvesting alert.

FASCINATING, thank you, mate. <3

I’ll need to re-read that like 5x to absorb the full meaning, but yeah– the whole concept of discrete divisional bands upon genetics, sorted in to species, genus, family was always sort of a Linnean convenience and conceit, for sure.

“Clades” of course does some heavy-lifting in a bunch of these cases, but it does seem like… um, overall hard definitions upon genetics and DNA distinctions can be sort of convenience-mechanisms meant for doofuses like me, and not really all that representational about best, appropriate science.

Hahaha, trying to keep a foot in both worlds, and likely failing hard. XD

Would love to see this summarized or excerpted. Most of my internet’s down right now.

Detoxified link:
https://antifandom.com/memory-alpha/wiki/Daniel_Davis

And not to gatekeep or anything, but the guy’s simulated Brit accent was… well, not quite as bad as Dick Van Dyke’s, lol.