Sunsofold

joined 6 months ago
[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 8 points 1 day ago

Do nothing.

This is not a joke. Sit comfortably, commit to doing nothing for a period of time, and then do nothing. Do not have your phone. Do not prepare by 'just taking care of these few things' before doing the nothing. Do not look up the random thing that pops into your head. Do not set up music, a podcast, or some other distraction.

Just. Be.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 17 points 2 days ago

It'd be kind of funny if some rep from steam just came out and said, 'Wait, the Aussies wanted this? Put it all back! Add on a few more new ones even. This won't stand.'

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm imagining a slightly lower tech version which is just a little flag that unfurls over the butt.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 8 points 3 days ago

Becky: "Brenda, I'm with Belinda now. Stop trying to sabotage my happiness."

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 1 points 4 days ago

Less of a complaint and more of an experience of vicarious embarrassment.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 9 points 5 days ago

Oublievish, god of the forgotten

We cast him into darkness so deep that the light could not reach him, and he ceased to be. From him, we stole the ability to forget. And then we used that ability to erase our memory of our crime. Now, no one knows he even existed.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 3 points 5 days ago

Tobias, from accounting: The shipping department is the only one running at a loss. Why is your department ordering so much furniture?

Thomas, Shipping: How else are we supposed to make 1 ft^3 of packing peanuts fill a box big enough to destroy the spine and sanity of the UPS driver?

Tobias: Why would you want to do that?

Thomas: It's part of the departmental vision statement. The company has one. Why can't we?

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 3 points 6 days ago

They create and release tension, like a joke, which creates a pleasure burst greater than the discomfort of the tension.

Starting from basically birth, we learn. Learning is the process of creating models in our heads of corresponding causes and effects. This is what makes intelligence powerful. You can know, to a point, what is going to happen before it does. However, the causes in reality are complex and not always perceivable. When this happens, we experience emotional discomfort, the fear of the unpredictable. In stories, there is nothing but the story, so everything is built to create and then satisfy that sense of tension. This is the pleasure of learning.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 17 points 6 days ago (4 children)

You can order packing peanuts for ~$5/ft^3 and some places will do free shipping over a certain value. There are also decorative balloon bunches, though I don't know about price there.

Liquids would also work. Heavy, sloshy, awkward, etc. and you don't want to drop them because it'd make a mess.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 17 points 6 days ago

Why is this in funny?

 

A coworker showed me a trailer some years back. It was first person view, maybe horror, sci-fi setting like a ship/space station with flesh the colour and texture of an eye socket growing over everything. There were other elements modeled after body parts, like bones, teeth, intestines, etc.

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