“We are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you any different.” --Kurt Vonnegut
Like this comment if you recently farted.
I farted while reading it, so idk what to think here
It’s the smell of success. No doubt.
Vonnegut is so based. Just all the time.
Definitely. It’s hard not to be upset that I spent the first half of my life in church learning bullshit.
well hey at least you made it out instead of sticking with the crazies for a few more decades
Yeah the wasted youth I spent doing church shit weighs on me.
You mean life?
As a software developer, more frequently than I’d like. Pouring a couple weeks into an epic only to see the entire thing scrapped… At least I got paid.
Happens with personal projects too sometimes, I’ll start refactoring and decide at the end of the weekend I really don’t want to waste me next weekend on it and it’ll go to the archives lol.
But even in those cases, not entirely worthless. I still learned and grew my knowledge. Same applies to similar scenarios not related to writing code.
There will come a day when all the code we’ve ever written will be dead.
I know the majority of mine is.
“A man dies two deaths. The first, when he draws his last breath. The second, when the last bit of shitty band-aid code he wrote is overwritten.”
I’ll have you know that these are safety-certified band-aids
Hah! Only if you’ve never written a “temporary” dirty hack – that code will live forever.
Until the product is killed off.
I have ADHD, anxiety, and trauma.
A solid 75% of everything I’ve ever attempted to do takes more time to do than regular folks because it has to be perfect. And then I may not tell anyone about my efforts because I don’t want the attention. Or if the work is too hard or I’m too scared of revealing I can’t do it all myself, I give up. Assuming, of course, I don’t forget about what I’m working on until the relevance has passed.
Oh shit are you me? Adhd + anxiety is such a shitty combo, I feel like I can never accomplish anything and when I do I don’t even get the satisfaction of a job well done because the chemical reward system in my brain is screwed up. Shit sucks.
In my retail days, every time we had visits from corporate. We would bust ass on overnights to make our location look good.
One time, as a fucking manager, I was told I needed to literally scrub the floors. Our machine that did it hadn’t been repaired in 6 months due to the GM pinching pennies. He told me to scrub the real bad parts by hand.
Corporate came the next AM. Spent all of 5 fucking minutes in our store to tell us his flight got changed and had to leave. I chewed out my manager and told him it was the last time myself, or any of my crew was slapping lipstick on a pig for a corpo visit.
Work.
Early in my career, I made the mistake of revealing to my employers that I’m competent at my job. More and more work flowed onto my plate and before long, I was assigned tasks that were supposed to go to seniors. So, the seniors received almost double my salary while they enjoyed more open schedules since I was doing my work + some of theirs.
It’s simply not worth it to go above and beyond at work, unless it’s your own business.
Why yes, I am human.
No no don’t you know how these things work?
We’re to use this extremely common feeling to diagnose a variety of mental illnesses over the Internet. You can then take that information and put it into your Insta Bio, and your AIM status to up your street cred.
- Signed a Bi-Demi-Autistic-AHDH-Bipolar-Split-Personality-Australopithecus-Queen
Honestly, slay!
Who hasn’t? We really don’t have the foresight to avoid pointless activities.
I spent years of my life and a ton of money on a 150 gallon salt water tank. I had a thriving coral population and a lots of cool little fish and crustaceans. The metal-halide hood alone cost $2,500. I moved houses and just couldn’t bring myself to set it back up.
Often… I have sometimes spent hours trying to photoshop faces of my mates (with permission) on random objects or random scenarios, like a cat or kettle, trying to make it look as normal as my skills allow for a 1-off joke.
bro you gonna have phtoshop skill of a god, you just need to make it useful
You have more faith in me than I do xD
Appreciate the kind words
That feels like time well spent.
Most things, in my experience, are not worth the effort. I really feel that a lot of people who are constantly hustling, going out and doing things, etc. are doing so because they can’t allow themselves to stop and think. I tend to focus on necessary things (food, shelter, etc) and some things that let me feel comfortable. For the rest, I just try to live a quiet life.
Yeah, a lot of things tbh. I think if I hadn’t then I’d not be who I am today. I’d probably be a better and happier person.
I’d probably be a better and happier person.
don’t say that while i’m in university, i’m gonna start second-guess myself…again.
Sometimes, and I think that’s normal, but usually upon reflection there aren’t many things that are truly worthless. I totally sound like a bad motivational poster but I really believe that even poor uses of time can teach you things - even if only how to be patient, forgiving to yourself, or wiser. It’s a life philosophy of mine that you should always be pushing yourself enough that you might fail (research shows that failing about 15% of the time is the sweet spot for motivation and learning). Plus sometimes just passing the time is a goal in and of itself, especially if you’re doing something you enjoy. Playing a video game, listening to music, etc doesn’t “accomplish” a lot but makes life better.
Most of games these days. After a couple hours I feel like I was doing chores, not playing game and have fun.
“Oops! It’s all fetch-quests!!”
Or maybe it’s just me. I’m getting old now and doesn’t have infinite free time to do mundane virtual chores anymore. I got 1-2 hours of free time per day, if I’m lucky and the kid won’t tear up the house.
It’s a shame, one of my favorites was Elite Dangerous. I love explore the universe in peace. But to be able to do so would require months of constant and repetitive grinding for material to upgrade the ship.
Oh no, it’s definitely not just you.
I feel like the overall design of games has been lazy lately and they’ve just filled them up with mundane chores to pad the completion time.
No one’s going to pay $70 for a game if they know there’s only 2 hours worth of story to play through.And I deeply loved elite dangerous but it was definitely just space trucking simulator, I feel like frontier really messed up whenever they pushed all their resources to whatever idle Sim game they were designing that flopped.
This is why I have failed to make any headway in Skyrim even though I’ve tried to play it 5 - 6 times.
Indie > AAA
An oh dear, I DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR LORE. Just let me start playing the stupid game, no need for a giant cinematic.
