Free time

I think I’m one of the lucky ones with a natural aptitude for music, but I don’t quite take it seriously enough to really hone my skills and become an expert at it. Whenever I’ve tried, I’ve found it to be more stressful than it is fun. I’m not trying to make it a side hustle, so if it stops feeling fun, I back off of it.

I guess it also depends on the instrument a bit. I mostly play solo, and some instruments don’t seem to lend themselves well to that for me. Piano is my instrument of choice these days.

Nah, just poor choice of phrasing on my part. Clarified in edit above.

Sorry for the vagueness. Pannenkoek is like the authority on weird Mario 64 quirks, and makes excellent videos. As soon as you see that name, there’s no need to keep reading – just go watch the video.

Like, this article could have been one sentence: “New Pannenkoek vid just dropped: [link]”

I read until it mentioned pannenkoek and immediately clicked away after that.

edit: clicked away from the article to watch the video directly from the source. Go watch the video, pannenkoek is great.

Wow, that is a coincidence. But nah I’ve never heard that song before lol

“How can this invention help us sell more sugar water?”

Creativity is hot. That makes more sense, thanks.

I still don’t understand.

What’s the y axis?

Volume adjusters

What’s your question?

I’m on a jammin’ jelly kick right now. Jam on toast, jam in oatmeal, jam in yogurt, jam on… well, that’s about it.

I don’t get triggered just by opening the fridge tho. Usually it’s like “hey I haven’t had this in a while” and I eat it nonstop for like a week until I’m sick of it, then don’t touch it again for a few months. Nutella is currently on the hate list.

Being able to say “oh that was x+1 years ago” instead of “x years ago” when reflecting on all my past traumas.

how do you think he types with those boxing glove hands

give my bro harambe a bullet proof vest

Good question for the brilliant minds at askouija

Make everyone’s interpretation of “small thing” slightly more similar.

Dang, that’s wild.

I’m still not going back to the office.

I’ll throw one out for COVID, but not just the lockdowns or the immediate work changes. It was more about how the deaths kept happening. And happening. And happening. Yet people still failed to take it seriously, even to the point of rebelling against seemingly common-sense safeguards like vaccines, masking, and staying the fuck home.

In the US, we lived through about 4 years of shenanigans and bullshit and lies from an incompetent federal government leading up to the pandemic. But surely that wouldn’t fly for long. You can lie about the number of people at a rally (because who the fuck cares), you can apparently lie about where a hurricane is projected to go (because it’s jUsT a PrOjEcTiOn or something), but surely you can’t bullshit your way out of a pandemic. Hospitals at capacity. Bodies piling up. Loved ones lost. Visible, real, tangible impacts of poor leadership and poor decisionmaking.

But, turns out you can. Even in the most dire of circumstances, you can still convince people that reality isn’t real. Or even if it is, it doesn’t really matter and it’s not their problem. And there are enough people out there who will buy into that message that it will ruin things for everyone else.

Edit: To the original point of the question… I guess I had a little more faith in humanity before all that happened. More faith that real-world consequences would win out against rhetorical bullshit and tribalism.