Cracks_InTheWalls
@Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Poor Sega just didn't get the timing right. 22 hours ago:
In an age of LLM, Seaman needs a remake.
- Comment on The internet connects people 3 days ago:
No need to apologize, was just curious - figured folks is gender-neutral as is, never saw an alternate form of it before.
Sincerely, thanks! Didn’t know this was a thing for anyone.
- Comment on The internet connects people 3 days ago:
Off-topic, but if you don’t mind me asking, why folx over folks?
- Comment on I don't get how people can become depressed, when we live in the century of Fentanyl, easy access to alcohol and amusement arcades. 6 days ago:
There are people trying pretty hard to make that happen though mostly in the context of supervised medical interventions.
Which I’m here for - while a lot of people do OK, (fantastically even) with less structured psychedelic experiences, many do not. A really bad trip can do a number on you, sometimes for a long while.
- Comment on Get sorted... 6 days ago:
You may not be into the music and culture - and that’s cool - but you definitely get it.
Thank you for sharing this - sounds like it was hard, but necessary, thing for you to write. Send your cousin that text man, I’m sure he’d appreciate it.
- Comment on Get sorted... 6 days ago:
A lot of Juggalos take the Juggalo Family thing very seriously.
Doesn’t describe all of the fans, but think about it for a sec - think like the biggest stereotype of a Juggalo. Fucked up home life, outcast at school, not well educated, hopeless feeling, more than average chance they’ve been homeless or dangerously close to it, etc. Then offer them some semblance of feeling like they belong to something, as they are, and are part of something like a family.
For a lot of people, that’s powerful fucking stuff, and most of the Juggalos I know are there for it (whether these were their circumstances, or not) and act accordingly.
Fuckin’ love Juggalos. There’s a demo cd or something for The Great Milenko album that has a track that pretty much sums this stuff up, imo, if I find it I’ll leave the link.
- Comment on From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction 1 week ago:
Did a unit on interactive fiction for a grad seminar once, and sent a link to the Infocom Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy game as an optional primer.
I mean, that was fun for me…
- Comment on Tacos. 1 month ago:
Brain - Candied Tapeworm - Fed Heads - Crushed Chicken- Ladied
Take that, atheists 😎
- Comment on [Kind of weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going? 1 month ago:
That sounds wonderful. Makes me wish I had made more of an effort to keep up with my old friends/make more in adulthood.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going? 1 month ago:
Thanks! Started off as a one-shot goal, but I’m now taking a look at multiple legs, starting from Sunday’s turn-around point, in the near future.
Will be arranging a ride back for those future stops, though :)
- Comment on [Weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going? 1 month ago:
Good on you for doing the right thing and prioritizing your safety. You’re right, there are other jobs out there better suited to where you’re at.
Takes some sand to recognize the danger here and adjusting as necessary, even if it create temporary difficulties. This, my friends, is manning up.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going? 1 month ago:
Started off with a 40 km there-and-back walk from my home to a town on the outskirts of my city on Sunday. One of the weird little goals on my bucket list, been riding that high through the rest of my week so far.
- Comment on Progress! 2 months ago:
I agree - figuring out how to take advantage of time dilation for therapeutic purposes would be very cool, snd potentially quite useful. This is kind of what I hope comes from renewed research into psychedelics, being able to pick out the mechanisms for all the different effects and developing techniques to cherrypick just a few with therapeutic benefit with a much reduced risk of freak out. We may already be there re:time dilation alone with TCMS or something, idk.
But real talk - which do you see getting funded for wider use first, 5 year retreat in an hour, or psychic prison?
(Actually, saying it at loud it might be even odds, depending on the price tag folks can assign to the retreat)
- Comment on I'm not bored or anything, it just feels like forever. 60 more years left of my shift on earth... 2 months ago:
Man, fuck society’s outdated edicts - as long as you’re able to feed yourself, you’re doing amazing in my book.
What now? A lot of options still on the table, but here’s something to think about: one element of the whole fatherhood thing is passing down the knowledge you’ve gathered from all of this for your child’s benefit/enrichment. But you aren’t going to have kids, which is fine. So - are there any other means to share your knowledge/experience with the next generation? Preferably in meatspace?
- Comment on Shout-out to the mods, keeping this instance clean 4 months ago:
Nope. sh.it.heads (or sh.itheads, if you’re swine)
- Comment on ‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything 4 months ago:
I would love to see someone discuss any enshitification trends with EHR software, as well as any initiatives to bolster FOSS stuff like OSCAR for hospital use cases (far as I know, it’s pretty much just used at the clinic level, with more and more uptake of proprietary solutions for that use-case as well here in Canada [obligatory Fuck Telus]).
- Comment on Ubisoft CEO defends Skull and Bones’ $70 price despite its live service leanings, calls it ‘quadruple-A’ 4 months ago:
As a cannabis enjoyer, I feel in this case, as is usually the case in my world, quad claims are bullshit.
- Comment on Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration 6 months ago:
What about patronising as in ‘patronising this business’? A little archaic, but I do hear it from time to time, usually with the ‘pay’ pronounciation.
Then again, if someone is accusing me of being patronizing (which happens a lot for reasons I don’t quite understand, but I digress), it’s split odds whether I’m “pah-trun-ising” or “pay-trun-ising”.
English is weird (perhaps this is its wyrd?)
- Comment on Gen Zers are turning to ‘radical rest,’ delusional thinking, and self-indulgence as they struggle to cope with late-stage capitalism 6 months ago:
Yep - magic can mean a lot of things depending on context. You usually hear about spells and such when it’s an exercise in intent projection - trying to send some signal into the universe or whatever to align with your personal goals. The other definition you mention is more about unexplained phenonena. There’s definitely others, too.
I probably should have asked this first - when you say getting more into witchy stuff, what does that look like? Say you decide to start tomorrow - what does tomorrow look like for you?
- Comment on Gen Zers are turning to ‘radical rest,’ delusional thinking, and self-indulgence as they struggle to cope with late-stage capitalism 6 months ago:
It’d probably be best for OP to flesh out what they mean, but when I responded I took it to mean occult ideas - magick, correspondences, projecting personal intent via ritual activities, etc.
An example I’ve seen in the Tiktok world is manifesting, where you do some sort of ritual or whatever activity with the goal of trying to obtain some boon (money, romantic interest, whatever).
Quite a few people dismiss this stuff out of hand, which I get - I personally don’t think a manifestation ritual, for instance, will get you much by itself- but I think these things can be useful for some people in a limited sense. My opinion is activities like this can put you in a state of readiness to notice real things you might otherwise pass over, or provide you with some sense of solace or control over your personal circumstances.
This isn’t getting into things like high magick and other activities, which again I feel have a place so long as you keep yourself grounded.
- Comment on Gen Zers are turning to ‘radical rest,’ delusional thinking, and self-indulgence as they struggle to cope with late-stage capitalism 6 months ago:
An idle thought: who says you can’t a foot in both worlds? While ‘witchy’ points of view typically obscure material causes and effects, the rituals and concepts they provide can still be useful. The trick is recognizing what their utility actually is for you, and where a more rational pov needs to be deployed.
I’ll give a pretty tame example of the idea here: horoscopes. I do not believe in astrology, in the sense that the position of stars and planets have a real, direct influence on human activities. But when I read a horoscope, I typically find myself looking at events from a different perspective, and it may cause me to notice something I otherwise would not have. That thing may be legitimately advantageous, and I may pursue action to my benefit because I noticed it. I should pursue that action rationally, with an eye to protecting my safety broadly understood (financial, bodily, etc.) and maintaining a level of risk I can legitimately manage - but I wouldn’t be acting on it at all without that moment of magical thinking.
Now, on the other hand, if I just blindly accepted that what I noticed due to the horoscope is truly pre-ordained, and therefore I should pursue action whole hog without any risk assessment or any rational thought, more likely than not I’d find myself in a shitty set of circumstances.
It’s a very fine line to walk, and too many people fall off into really wacky, dangerous or delusional shit. But if you can strike a balance, you may find yourself in far more unique, beneficial position than you would be otherwise, simply by widening the field of stuff you’re watching for.
Tl;dr: Deliberate, controlled fancy can be useful if you’re careful to not let it fuck with your ability to eat, cloth, house and protect yourself and your loved ones, or fuck with members of your community. You also need to take pains to not confuse those moments of fancy for objective truth.
/wook-rant
- Comment on They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust. 8 months ago:
Big brain move: Tell your students about this neat loophole, gets them started on actual research.
(Ideally - I’d be lying if I said I’ve never used a quote from Wikipedia citing the stated source without actually reading it [usually at 5 am for papers due in two hours], but more often than not Wikipedia was the signpost for the rabbit hole)
- Comment on What's your warp slogan? 8 months ago:
Por qué no los tres?
- Comment on What's your warp slogan? 8 months ago:
As prospective captain of the USS Vancouver, “Pitter patter let’s get at 'er”
- Comment on Military Time vs 24hr? 8 months ago:
Quebec would like to have a word with you.
Then again they also have some opinions on that whole ‘Canada’ thing too.
- Comment on It seems Gen Z is just fine with parents knowing where they are all the time 8 months ago:
So I live with a member of Gen Z, and it must vary from group to group, but the kids I come into contact with are always able to see exactly where their friends, including randoms they briefly interacted with on Snapchat once, are.
I agree that It’s fucking weird. Location sharing on an adhoc basis to coordinate meetups makes sense, but they seem to have this open and broadcasting literally all of the time.
I also get a lot of chuffing and “You’re being ridiculous” when I try to point out how fucking insane, unsafe and dystopian that is.
- Comment on Phones should have FM radio again 8 months ago:
Imma just leave this here: www.campus-fm.com
- Comment on xkcd #2834: Book Podcasts 8 months ago:
You know what I found pretty enjoyable? Descriptive audio versions of movies, intended for the blind. Someone posted an open directory with tons back at the old place once, found it a nice change of pace. With the right movie it’s an audio drama with Hollywood actors.
- Comment on Are We Ready For This Site's Endless Feed of AI-Generated Porn? 9 months ago:
“You mean … fluid transfer?!” 🤮
- Comment on Study suggests single dose of psilocybin safe and effective as treatment for major depressive disorder 9 months ago:
Huh, interesting. I wonder if there are mushroom retreats/‘resorts’ (for lack of a better term, what I’m thinking would be pretty small). If it was 100% legal this seems like a no brainer, and a good opportunity for psychedelic therapists to practice (similar, in some ways, to people going to Mexico for medical procedures, but addressing a different access problem).
I’ll need to look it up myself - I have a hard time trusting social media posts that say mushrooms are no-strings legal (I see a lot of folks saying this about Canada, which is just straight-up false - if you’re part of a clinical trial or your doctor filled out a LOT of paperwork, sure, but despite being open those mushroom dispensaries and clear web services are still 100% illegal). But if true, I’d be curious to see how that’s taken advantage of from a business and therapeutic point of view.