Very Important Business
Added 2024-12-23 18:39:15 +0000 UTC
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The multihour videos explaining the lore of like Nier or those crazy in depth analysis videos of like Star Wars or Lord of the Rings come in great
Nora Knox
2024-12-23 21:29:03 +0000 UTCThe key is choosing the right video or video series. It has to have nearly continuous sound, and be pleasant to the ear while simultaneously not drawing excessive focus… like a backup dancer. How much mental bandwidth you can devote is a function of how important the main task is, and how much mental bandwidth THAT requires. If you’re doing a repetitive manual task requiring no real thought, like matching and folding socks, you could learn anything you’re capable of learning, minus the mental capacity required for the task. If, however, your folding of socks is critical—hypothetically if your life depends upon folding them neatly, probably best to have a cartoon in a language you don’t know and that makes no sense playing in the background, ideally with audio just loud enough to hear. This is why background music is so popular. It may even help if it’s essentially at random. Hence why some employers who have workshops hire a DJ to entertain (but not distract,) the worker drones as they go about their jobs. Prolly they can’t listen to music on headphones as they need to be able to hear each other, or the warning sounds of machinery, etc., and also it could enhance fellow-feeling among them—build esprit de corps or some such thing. Or something like that, I dunno. If bandwidth somehow doesn’t make sense in this context, it can alternatively be thought of as mental horsepower… or available brain beam current… Sorry… as always lately… I’m in a certain amount of discomfort and trying to see if it’s tolerable this morning without the high powered painkillers I’ve been using sparingly. I’m dealing with it but cannot pretend I’m having fun. I’ve already listened to “Everybody Wants To Rule The World,” twice today… mostly for the first couple of lines of the song, which contain words of which I feel, sometimes, the need to be reminded. In fact, increasingly, I’m thinking of making it my alarm in the morning, and with each line, I think about what each phrase could mean to me in particular. “Welcome to your life.” (You wanted to be a girl so much for so long that eventually you had to concede that the feelings would never go away and that you should probably admit, first to yourself, that you’re nowhere near as “cis-gender” as you pretend. Why ARE you still pretending? For whom? If you can’t answer that question, or if you can and when you do you realize just how nonsensical your only answers to that question are, maybe… stop doing it?) “There’s no turning back.” (You changed your name and gender marker on government documents and records, started HRT, told everyone who still matters that you are female (notwithstanding the genitalia you were accidentally born with,) changed your whole wardrobe, and spent every penny you had and then some on “bottom surgery;” there’s definitely no turning back, and THANK GOODNESS that your attitude about this irreversibility is, “THANK GOODNESS that there’s no turning back.” Because if you had regrets now… that would be… unfortunate.) (I do have regrets, coincidentally, but only that I did not do this decades earlier! Why did I wait?) “Even while we sleep, we will find you acting on your best behavior,” (Day and night, you no longer have to pretend to be male,.. you’re free to be the woman you were meant to be from before even the very day of your birth.) “Turn your back on Mother Nature,” (She plainly fucked up when she made you. Oops. Either your brain was wrong for your bits, or your bits were wrong for your brain, and your brain is the part you think with, so… like the customer being always right, so it is with the brain in nearly any dispute with the body. So… don’t be overly concerned about the small stuff, like the parts that the kindly magician, (a surgeon and magical girl herself,) excised from your body. Whatever marching orders your father’s sperm might have given the ovum it fertilized resulting in you, you’re woman so the instructions aren’t relevant anymore if they said anything in particular and just weren’t followed.) “Everybody wants to rule the world.” (We naturally want to be in charge of our world, the world we inhabit… our social circle, etc. Some desire to control more than that but, as a minimum, each of us seems to want to be the master of our fates and the commander of our destinies… or whatever. Nothing to be ashamed of there.) “It’s my own design,” (I have taken charge of my aforementioned destiny, and refused to allow a little thing like a tiny lump of tissue, and what some people believe having one of those meant, dictate to me who I can or shall be.) “It’s my own remorse,” (I must accept the bad along with the good; I can bewail and bemoan my fate, but not the consequences of my actions, including the pain I’m in.) “Help me to decide,” (Dress or skirts?) “Help me make the most of freedom and the pleasure,” (If you’re not at least basically enjoying your life, and taking what pleasures you can, when, where, and as you find them, what’s the point?) “Nothing ever lasts forever,” (Life’s precious and pretty damned short, ask anyone who’s died, so treasure every moment, even the tough parts because you need their contrast truly to appreciate the sweet moments, may they be abundant and enjoyable,) Et cetera. I don’t think the song was penned with Trans Folk in mind specifically, but it seems apropos to me.
Nadia Novak
2024-12-23 20:40:02 +0000 UTCCan confirm, I built nearly 1000 points of my Warhammer army while just listening to FNAF Lore. Haven’t played any of the games or read any books, but I can tell you the Lore after that 3 hour long video.
NeoTorchwick
2024-12-23 18:44:57 +0000 UTCThe background video is possibly the most important part
Ashleigh Way
2024-12-23 18:42:03 +0000 UTCHmm, that could be amazing or terrible. XD
Remrie Arrie
2024-12-23 18:41:16 +0000 UTC
