• esc27@lemmy.world
    542·
    1 day ago

    Then they briefly acknowledge you before returning to whatever uninteresting topic they were already discussing and tighten the circle so that you could not join in even if you wanted to…

    You look around the room and everyone is in tight circles, making mostly small talk, with a few people in each circle dominating the conversations. At best, all you can do is stand outside a circle, essentially eavesdropping, but that’s creepy.

    So you just wander the room admiring the art and architecture, look out the windows, etc., before either finding a way to leave or finding a quiet corner and pulling out your phone.

    • iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com
      13·
      19 hours ago

      It’s pretty unfriendly not to leave an opening for others to wander in and join the conversation at a party. I’ve been standing around wondering why I’m there for sure though. Something to keep in mind as you’re enthusiastically chatting yourself at some point in the future. 😆

      • Pyflixia@kbin.melroy.org
        13·
        23 hours ago

        More like the one where there’s three panels, a group of people on the right side. Then the middle one, some guy just gives a big thumbs up before returning to their circle while the left person is talking about whatever.

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
      2313·
      23 hours ago

      Then they briefly acknowledge you before returning to whatever uninteresting topic they were already discussing

      The fact that you call their topic uninteresting means you don’t care about others but expect them to care about you. That is you being self centered. You expect others to listen to your interests without first listening to theirs.

      That means taking a real interest in their topic even if it’s something stupid like sports. If you don’t know enough to contribute the conversation that means you are learning something new- which is a good thing.

      And just because you listened to them doesn’t mean they immediately owe you to listen to you.

          • glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
            32·
            13 hours ago

            I didn’t argue against what you said because technically you’re correct. Divorced of all context, I’d agree with you. However, in the context of the current conversation, I see why the majority of opinions are downvoting you (it’s actually closer now than it was when I previously commented, so let’s see where public opinion goes).

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
    19·
    22 hours ago

    I don’t do great with “normal” conversations. I actually love it when someone brings up some random ass special interest. This allows me to have a clear decision tree A. I know nothing about this, but it sounds interesting, here is an opportunity to learn. B. I know a little bit or maybe even more about this than this person, let’s nerd out a bit C. This doesn’t sound remotely interesting to me - I don’t like talking all that much anyway, but this seals the deal, I’m Noping the hell out of this conversation asap.

    So thank you to all you autistic conversationalists for smashing your cymbals!

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    56·
    1 day ago

    I am fully aware that I am about to clang some cymbals, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.

    • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
      8·
      22 hours ago

      I’m fully aware of what I can do to stop it.

      But then other people wouldn’t get to gear the wonderful clanging sound!

      And they need to know!

      So stop it I shan’t.

        • glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          15 hours ago

          I posses the ability and the willpower to shut the fuck up, but I’ve had to deal with everyone else’s bullshit long enough, they can deal with mine for a change.

    • Overshoot2648@lemm.ee
      18·
      1 day ago

      I’ve got a whole repitoire.

      Did you know that the Cubic represention of color that computers use is inherently flawed?

      Did you know that cucumbers are melons and that all fruits are vegetables, just like root, tubers, and leaves?

      Did you know that a lot of things we take advantage of in our conscious experience can vary wildly like a lack of different types of bonding modes, the ability to and qualia of distinguishing senses, and the little tools like facial recognition and speech synthesis can malfunction?

      • glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        15 hours ago

        Some of those things you just said made no sense to me and I want to know more about all of them.

      • Nougat@fedia.io
        15·
        1 day ago

        Did you know that cucumbers are melons and that all fruits are vegetables, just like root, tubers, and leaves?

        Botanical vs culinary

      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
        6·
        23 hours ago

        Cubic color? What do you mean? I’ve always seen color spaces represented as triangles filling the curve.

        • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
          4·
          16 hours ago

          I don’t know if this is what the parent poster was talking about, but color pickers in many programs present you with a cubic representation of their available color space. The default Windows color picker does nowadays as does Corel. Maybe Adobe too, but I haven’t used any Adobe software in years so I don’t know how they do it now.

          Since computer monitors suck at truly displaying three dimensional information [citation needed], you’re presented with a rectangular slice of a cube. Here’s the Corel color picker, for instance:

          The X axis is saturation, the Y axis is intensity, and the “depth” or Z axis is hue, which is controlled with the little slider on the bottom. As you move the slider up and down your “viewpoint” of the slice moves up and down through the depth of the cube, essentially representing it in 256 little vertical slices (or however many based on your bits-per-pixel).

          Despite being the graphics nerd that I am, I can’t tell you off the top of my head how this cubic representation is flawed, although computer monitor color rendition itself is inherently flawed because most color spaces probably can’t actually fully represent all the colors that normal human vision is capable of differentiating, but what the hell do I know. Browns and oranges are famously difficult to reproduce with only red, green, and blue, the usual three additive colors available to you. The cube map itself, at least, gives you a spatial method by which to select any of the 16581375 possible RGB values actually possible an 8 bit per pixel format, even if the methodology for presenting them all to the user might not quite make intuitive sense.

          You can also do cubic map of only hues, with each axis in the cube corresponding to red, green, or blue, like this one courtesy of Wikipedia:

      • Almrond@lemmy.world
        7·
        1 day ago

        It may be inherently flawed, but we can’t just arbitrarily emit wavelengths of light with current technology. Realistically I doubt we ever could, we would need to alter the emission energies of materials on the fly, which would be akin to actual magic. It is frankly amazing it works as well as it does notwithstanding.

        • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
          2·
          23 hours ago

          I don’t think that’s what they mean. Because our cones send a signal for only 3 colors of light with overlap. We detect 3 and our brain interpolates the rest.

      • pH3ra@lemmy.ml
        14·
        22 hours ago

        2 hours later “… Which brings me to the importance of self-hosting, and that is…” and you go on for hours totally oblivious, the friend that usually gives you social cues is crying in the corner…

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      12·
      22 hours ago

      I used to do that too, but then I learned how to gently build enthusiasm and also when to know the signs of when they’re losing interest.

    • glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      15 hours ago

      Fuckem.

      also, cool username.

      also also, I used to do that too. It would be rude to interrupt, and they’re probably not interested in what I have to say anyway, right? Fuckem. I’ve dealt with their bullshit for figuratively ever. Fuckem. They can deal with my bullshit for a change.

      I will to you the power to subject your bullshit onto those assholes.

  • Dr_Box@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 day ago

    Me wanting to know what my friends think about superdeterminism while we play monster hunter

        • tetris11@lemmy.ml
          3·
          5 hours ago

          Oh wow that was a deep rabbit hole. So if I’ve understood correctly, by super determinism, the outcome of the big bang has more influence on the measurement of particles than particles have locally with one another.

          If two particles are entangled, “independent” measurements to verify this are contaminated by their causal connection to the big bang, which will still give readings that the particles are entangled.

          Or, if I have a bag with an orange and an apple, I throw one at random to Alice and one at random Bob, Alice catching an orange has nothing to do with Bob catching apple, but more to do with the which side of the bag the apple was leaning on in the bag initially?

          Is that right?

          • Dr_Box@lemmy.world
            2·
            4 hours ago

            Thats correct. Superdeterminism suggests that the initial conditions of the universe, like the state of the big bang, could be responsible for everything that happens, including our measurements and decisions. In this view, all particles, including those measuring the experiment, are part of the same predetermined system. So, when we talk about entangled particles, their behavior is not just influenced by their local properties but also by the shared history of the universe.

            In your apple and orange analogy, it’s less about which side of the bag the apple leaned on and more about the fact that the bag, the apples, and even Alice and Bob’s actions were all predetermined by the conditions of the universe at the big bang. Alice catching the orange and Bob catching the apple wouldn’t be a truly independent or random event—it would be the result of an unbroken chain of causality going all the way back to the beginning of the universe.

            • tetris11@lemmy.ml
              1·
              3 hours ago

              I think I understand it now, but damn that’s just… weak?

              It’d be like me smoothly sidling up to a pretty girl in a bar and saying “HEY GURL, YOU DON’T KNOW ME AND I DON’T KNOW YOU BUT YOU AND I SHARE THE SAME MOST RECENT COMMON ANCESTOR OVER 155,000 YEARS AGO AND CAN I BUY YOU A DRINK EVEN THOUGH THERE IS NO UNCERTAINTY IN YOUR DECISION AT A COSMIC LEVEL.”

              It just feels wrong to do that to women.

        • glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          15 hours ago

          I don’t know if I didn’t understand that because I’m too drunk, or because I’m too stupid. It’s probably both but I really want to come back to this sober so I can try again.

      • sundray@lemmus.orgEnglish
        4·
        17 hours ago

        Another person mentions Gerry Anderson-related topic

        Slowly begins raising the cymbals

      • Matriks404@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 hours ago

        Then go into it. For these two there’s a lot of resources online, although if you want to go deeper into linguistics field, I guess you’d need to either go to university or find good resources elsewhere (books, etc. (Well, you probably can find these online as well)). It’s just phonetics (in lingustics/) that might be hard to learn on your own, since you might make errors without proper instructions from an experienced person, or at least that’s what I’ve heard.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    6·
    23 hours ago

    “So Amicus is a gay, alien, wolf guy and he kidnaps you to be his pet and show up his brother who also has a cool pet, but humans forgot that aliens exist so Amicus basically broke the Prime Directive for which the punishment is death, and they also don’t have gas anymore to take you home so you have to pretend to be a dumbass while also helping Amicus become emperor so he can get gas from the Gods and send you home, but then you fall in love and don’t want to go home but the Gods say you have to go back to Earth for 8 years to do some missionary work so Earth can join the Galaxias…”

    • TechnicallyColors@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      22 hours ago

      The OP immediately made me think about Echo since I just played all the routes on your sorta-recommendation and I haven’t stopped thinking about it ever since. I’m in the process of attempting to force my non-gay non-furry friends to play it so we can all live in the new upside-down world that it’s created for me. I haven’t done Arches yet, planning on it soon.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
        2·
        22 hours ago

        I just described Adastra, which was made by the same team :D

        Definitely give Arches a try, too. It was really good. Actually haven’t been disappointed by any of Project Echo’s stuff, except for hitting the “to be continued” screen on all the unfinished ones.

        • TechnicallyColors@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          22 hours ago

          I’m planning on at least doing Arches. I don’t know if The Smoke Room will ever be finished but I’m down to try that at some point also. I’m still on the fence about Adastra; I’ll probably get around to it at some point but it looks so different to what I really liked about Echo so I don’t know if it will really grab me the same way. I’m not a furry but I did grow up gay in Hicktown, USA, so Echo’s story sort of knew right where to hit me to cause maximum emotional damage.

          • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
            2·
            22 hours ago

            I know that from the last update of Arches that they are going to be focusing entirely on finishing TSR before moving back to Khemia. And I also can no longer recommend what was there for Khemia because Howly explicitly said he was re-writing the entire intro which is basically all it is right now anyway.

            I’m excited. I just got to the end of what’s in TSR last night.

            • TechnicallyColors@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              21 hours ago

              That’s great to hear. All I vaguely know is that the writer for TSR got kicked from the project a month ago so I wasn’t sure if TSR was going to just remain unfinished or not.