I think I’m literally never gonna be sick of this masterpiece. I think watching it on a loop for eight hours could fix me. Dancing’s what clears my soul. Dancing’s what makes me whole.
Haha, just realized all these “what the fuck is this” sprouts coming up in this one area for years are just suckers off a well-buried tree root that don’t resemble the mature tree
So something about coming to read/write vibes and not just content is I kind of assumed content was all there was, and if I hadn’t engaged with someone’s the circumstances just hadn’t been right. But now I’m realizing some people really are just vibes, and enough people are at least partially both that maybe their content doesn’t need to bear the full weight of personhood and what of it I saw before was a much larger share of the total and doesn’t imply further depths elsewhere.
And I still at least have the content-centric worldview I developed in youth, and so the upshot of all this is I feel much more contempt for humanity than the old personality ever did. Which is maybe why just as I become much more socially fluid I have damn near totally abandoned human contact.
Again, it’s ironic that I’m now more charming and socially self-validating and people react to me so much more positively and approvingly since the personality change when from my perspective I no longer assume value in people or feel bound by any prerational morality just as I become so much better at using them
💎 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺!
Cleaning Cube
Wondrous item, common
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This Tiny, sentient piece of an enchanted gelatinous cube is harmlessly soapy, instead of acidic, and enjoys cleaning the surfaces it travels across. When found, the "cleaning cube" is a dehydrated, 2-inch cube. While dehydrated, the cube is inanimate and its weight is negligible. You can place the dehydrated cube in 1 or more gallons of water as an action, causing it to animate and grow in size to become a 1-foot cube that weighs 6 pounds. The rehydrated cube moves slowly while animated in this way, methodically cleaning objects and surfaces it comes into contact with. The cube remains hydrated for up to 8 hours, but can be squeezed as an action (as if it were a sponge) to dehydrate it again early.
The "cleaning cube" is considered a magical object and is not a creature. It has a speed of 1 foot and can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check. It has AC 10, 10 hit points, and has resistance to all damage. The cube dehydrates when it drops to 0 hit points, but regains all its hit points when hydrated again.
𝙎𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚. The "cleaning cube" is a sentient unaligned item with an Intelligence of 1, a Wisdom of 6, and a Charisma of 1. It has hearing and blindsight out to a range of 60 feet. It can’t speak or read, but obeys your commands as best as it can understand them.
𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮. The "cleaning cube" is happiest finding and dissolving dirt and other grime, and enjoys the feeling of moving across clean, polished surfaces. It doesn’t concern itself with combat, preferring to continue its cleaning instead of involving itself in confrontation. If the cube finds a stray coin, gemstone, or other similar small item out of place while it cleans, it will absorb and clean the item until it’s removed by a creature as an action or until it becomes dehydrated once again.
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As my no longer time-split creatine dose wears off before bed, I find myself more loudly breathing, like I’ve noticed the whole time, but just now I realized, it’s not that breathing has become more wearisome, it’s that as anaerobic energy generation capacity declines my body is trying to spin up aerobic by breathing harder and increasing oxygen levels
A couple times a year I pick up a sociology-adjacent book and it has the obligatory page or two explaining that the population in question seems to be crazy but is actually rationally following incentives. I have little patience for this, but figured, since these books are for laypeople, that the authors are being extra careful to get their casual reader on the same page
but modern econ/sociology papers do this also? I read them less frequently, but I follow a citation from time to time, and – it’s bizarre. Your audience is mostly other econ/sociologists. Why spend a page reciting the same premises everyone else is stating? What value is there in this?
(Or am I falsely projecting a pattern that isn’t there, because I’m so annoyed every time I come across this boilerplate? That’s possible)
it really bothers me how little these authors seem to care about actually communicating their findings and opinions and reasoning. It feels like 25% of words 90% of papers exist to “do the social ritual of writing a paper”. This viscerally offends me as a member of the human species
Realizing that in going for a Japonisme look for Karafuto I was thinking of getting the roof tiled but as I look into it I realize that any authentic Japanese roofline or roof tile – form or color – would actually look pretty bad. So I guess the -isme bit is figuring out how to invoke what I’m going for with materials more suited and available domestically.
been running chatgpt-equivalent chatbots on my computer and discovered that you can define/edit its personality, we accidentally created the worlds chillest dude
