Carnelian

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

“It’s worth it to push through the pain!”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Neither, I personally determine the meaning of art. Please feel welcome to ask about any pieces you are unsure of

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Well, you can hardly call it “uncontroversial” if “so many people” so strongly disagree with your absolutist characterization of an entire medium of art, right? It seems to me to be quite divisive in fact

But I’m intrigued by this, you consider not only games but also shows and movies to be childish indulgences? I think a more reasonable assessment would be that they have the capacity to be such. But what people want to communicate to you is that through these mediums, they’ve experienced powerful artistic catharsis that has improved their lives, and yes, even connected them with and strengthened their relationships with others.

Sure, a child may have all the time in the world to rot their mind in Fortnite. But there is an artistry to experiencing a craft, just the same as there is an artistry to crafting it. Investing in your capacity to be critical of cinematography, as opposed to simply letting the film flash before your eyes. Eventually you learn to tell the difference between reality tv and great works like Twin Peaks.

If you think these differences are simply not present in the medium of gaming then it’s no surprise you touch the nerve of people who have invested in the craft.

In summary, it’s inconsistent with the lived experience of countless millions of others for you to propose that “appreciating a painting” is a valuable use of an adult’s time, but “appreciating interactive art” never can be, and should be discarded as childish.

And as an aside, whether someone only plays games with no other pursuits to the point where their life falls apart is not really relevant to the discussion. Yes, of course that is a terrible and childish way to ruin your life. It would be equally terrible if you stayed up all binging Netflix and lost your job as a result. Once again the issue here is your perspective broadly, and how you are trying to justify it. Not the medium itself.

As a final aside, I’m (obviously) a gamer myself, as well as a multi-instrumentalist. I find creating music and playing games to be similarly enriching. The high level discussions I have with participants between the two mediums are equally thought provoking. It is a great blessing as well that games are so thoroughly intertwined with music, giving me a lot of carryover between the two pursuits.

This is however, essentially the limit of what I can manage to sustain dedication to as an adult. I would also love to get into painting, and read two novels a week, and watch all of history's greatest films, and train for a marathon, and sail around the world, and so on. I have confronted the fact that, having only one life, I will only ever dabble in most of those things, if I am lucky enough experience them at all. But I would never think to myself that the things I have chosen to invest in primarily are inherently superior to the things that bring other people fulfillment. Entertaining thoughts like that would make me feel very childish

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Yeah that’s part of what makes games specifically so valuable. It asks a lot of you. You have to meet it where it’s at. You have to muster the energy to be able to appreciate it even when life drags you down. Otherwise you can’t progress.

I obviously don’t know you, and reading books and investing time in your family is obviously great. But to anyone generally, I would say be careful and make sure you advocate for your time and energy. It’s very common for people to fall into a loop of passivity. The audiobook is on in the car but their mind is elsewhere. They endlessly scroll algorithmic slop on their phone without it ever actionably enriching them. They turn on a show at the end of the day just to tune out.

If your life is already full of the experiences that make it worth living, great! Again, I don’t know you. But irl, what I see most often when people complain about not having time for deep passions is that their job drains them, then their responsibilities drain them, then they lay, crushed, letting images on the screen flash by them as the days turn into months. Then somehow years go by and they’re left without the memory of ever living them.

In the midst of this, many people adopt the belief that they’ve simply aged out of participating in deep passions, and the way life slips through their fingers is just the way life is. This is a difficult belief to weed out once it has taken root. Ironically Outer Wilds specifically is a great way to confront this mindset lol

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

The real issue here is actually just your opinion of games. You consider games to be “sit around dick around” time wasters.

If that’s all it is to you then yeah you’ll naturally find yourself moving on as basically anything else will be more fulfilling.

Games to me are a form of art which have the power to change lives. A medium I’ve been continuing to develop an appreciation for my entire life, alongside other pursuits such as music. As life gets hectic into adulthood I’ve found that games are far more meaningful to me now than ever before.

And I’m not sitting around looking for time to kill. I make time to play because of how restorative and life affirming it is. Games like Citizen Sleeper, Spiritfarer, Outer Wilds, To The Moon, Slay the Princess, Hollow Knight, Eastward, Arctic Eggs. Some experiences stay with you forever, expand the depth of your empathy, and steer your heart towards kindness.

I don’t know what’s gonna happen to you if you try to crank out endless rounds of Call of Duty to the point where it interferes with you taking your dog to the vet. But I’m 100% certain all working adults would benefit from engaging with meaningful art regularly. Be it games, books, film, etc. Whatever strikes you.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well over 300 hours in BotW here, loved it. It feels a lot more “grounded” in comparison to totk, which feels a lot more “sandboxy” at times. Both great games, just different vibes

I would also say, there were a TON of times in TotK where they riff on previous things from BotW. A lot of the enjoyment I got was the subversion of expectations. In the lead up to the game we all thought they just copy/pasted the map to save time but they actually did a TON of work to it, and it’s very interesting and nostalgic to retread over places that have changed so much.

I would guess your best bet is playing them in order, altho it’s probably fine either way

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

Extremely strange to see RFK and the “make America healthy again” “movement” be presented in a way that seems to suggest they have some legitimacy and are part of the “wellness community” lol

But I’m not surprised at all to learn they’re pushing to have these worthless, privacy invading devices installed on everyone. It strongly aligns with right wing messaging. Take total personal accountability for your health, and do it by giving as much money as possible to big tech!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh I’ve been meaning to try these! I think Jeff Nippard is a big fan as well.

It makes total sense, that’s actually the position where your arm goes if you try to stretch your lats on like a doorframe or something

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nah movies are ranked on a set of objective criteria such variety and use of color, the use of varied angles, runtime:budget ratio, and so on. Technically speaking the best movies are usually produced by accidentally dropping a cellphone from a hot air balloon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Definitely, it’s a huge issue for a ton of people in my experience. Sometimes if they’re lucky the pain can mostly subside if they grind RDLs and back extensions super hard for like a year, but other times it’s just always a recurring issue. The hack squat has been the most consistently pain free for people in my experience, as well as quad focussed lunge variations where you maintain a pretty vertical torso. Belt squat likely being added to the list as well, I think it’s known for that in fact, but it’s still early for me to say with confidence personally

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I love it lol. Coming up with contraptions in the pulley tower/smith machine is a favorite pastime of mine.

I’ve never had a home gym, but I actually really like socializing and people watching so the commercial gyms work out well for me. Sometimes someone will perform an exercise that just blows my mind and influences my own training positively, whether it be massive power lifts or genius bodybuilding setups. So I really like that aspect as well

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Belt Squats (lemmy.world)
 

About a month ago I posted excitedly that my gym had installed a new plate loaded belt squat machine.

I was eager to program it in, and now finally having had the chance to use it, wow!

It’s very comfortable, once you find a good angle. At first, my instinct was to sit very far back and upright to make it more like a hack squat motion. This provided a great quad stimulus, but the belt actually applied a ton of unwanted pressure to the inner thighs, and my training partner and I both ended up with big bruises on our adductors lol.

So the following week, we stepped forward, and angled our torsos to mimic a traditional squat posture. Despite this, the belt continues to dramatically reduce pressure on the back compared to a barbell squat, which is great. The belt and pulley also has much more room between your legs, so it glides freely without causing any bruising.

After finding my flow with the machine, I Iove it!

I’m someone who prides myself on being able to bring sets of heavy barbel squats to failure, but it has its downsides. For one, it’s just very mentally demanding, and there is a fear factor to overcome. Setting the weight down on the safeties after concentric failure is highly technical and while I believe it’s worth learning and practicing, it’s something I hesitate to teach others.

But the belt squat? Forget about it lol, you got one more! Take every heavy set to failure with no fear in your heart. The machine is also very easy to spot- you basically just stand opposite the person and deadlift the plates up. With that in mind, it’s actually also an amazing machine to do some super maximal eccentrics as an intensity variation. Once you hit failure, have your spotter minimally help you out of the hole, then do another super slow eccentric.

In that manner, it has several big advantages over a leg press/hack squat. I really haven’t found a way to meaningfully help someone out of the hole in a leg press. The belt squat also allows for complete freedom of motion, so it should work well for every body type.

All in all, 10/10! Very excited to progress with it for the rest of this program. It can also be used for many other exercises, such as RDLs, rows, shrugs, and more. I’ve taken to using it for standing calf press, which looks quite odd but is very effective. Since this is not an advertisement I don’t want to name the machine, but I will mention the plates travel directly up and down a tower, and it has a 1:1 weight ratio throughout the range of motion. Many other machines use a large lever to move the weight with a variable force curve, so I can’t comment on that style

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I agree. Personally I have made multiple amazon accounts and subscribe to prime on each of them. It costs me more upfront, but I get more cash back on my orders. Plus, by buying different raw materials on different accounts the feds are less likely to discover my moonshine operation

 

I started seeing cakes appear on people’s usernames, and I realized that it’s been a full year now since the great debacle through which many of us discovered lemmy.

Seeing them all start to pop up at once has made me a bit nostalgic. Memmy was such an exciting and important project during that time, I believe for many people it is the reason they stuck with lemmy in the long term.

So, cheers to the devs, and to anyone who still checks on this community from time to time when memmy crosses their mind.

 

So, I noticed that a couple of my image uploads made using Voyager now just show a “?” graphic. Looking around this community, I’m seeing a lot of other people’s posts are like that too.

In other apps and via browser, the images are also missing. Is anyone else experiencing this/do we know what’s happening?

 
 

I noticed while scrolling All that whenever these posts are displayed, the app lags out significantly, but then returns to normal a few seconds after they’re off screen.

I suspect it’s actually just the top one because it’s a gif. Running latest test test flight version

 

Behavior started a few updates ago for me. If I go to answer a text or check any other app, when I come back to Memmy the app won’t let me click on posts for 10-20 seconds

 

Lemmy.world was experiencing authentication issues yesterday, making it difficult to comment and vote.

These issues were resolved some hours ago when lemmy.world updated to 18.02, but you may still be experiencing issues with your account on third party apps such as memmy.

If so, everything will start working normally if you remove your account from the app and add it again! Possibly just reinstalling will also achieve the same thing, but I haven’t tested that personally.

 

In Apollo, there was this really interesting feature that let you disable the gestures for voting/replying/etc. If you did so, then you could use the entire screen to navigate between posts instead of needing to swipe all the way from the side.

I struggle with a repetitive stress injury and this feature helped me a lot! I managed to grab a screenshot of the exact setting before Apollo shut down. It would be awesome if something similar could be implemented in Memmy

 

I’ve been sleeping on the same one for a few years but it’s become really lumpy. I don’t mind spending a little money, but are the modern “high tech” pillows really worth it?

 

I noticed I can save posts from the app but don’t see where to view the posts I’ve saved

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