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         |  EpicMegatrax
             from Greatest Hits on 2024-04-01 06:35 [#02634327] Points: 25602 Status: Regular
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 | that i should really paint it like it is: i have a thought and i dash it off. the thought leads to a following
 thot and i'm back. at this point i'm dodging work and a part
 of me likes this very much so i keep writing. at that point
 some sort of momentum takes hold and i turn into a
 juggernaut.
 
 that i know i've written this somewhere before as i do it, i
 simply can't remember, for sure, if darius asked me about
 adderall before and that was my reply. because yep, pretty
 sure. and that's the same answer i would have then. but i
 can't say for sure that's where i last dropped that old
 grandpa story
 
 to deepen my reply, in 2016 it went something like: "i've
 hit upon this exciting vein of ideas. maybe i could goof off
 on a bunch of adderall instead of working? this sounds
 fantastic"
 
 and i miss having that few bills, i have to say. and that
 much room to fuck around. but i got so deeply high-level
 fucking around in that zone i can wander back anytime
 
 
 
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         |  EpicMegatrax
             from Greatest Hits on 2024-04-01 06:44 [#02634328] Points: 25602 Status: Regular
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 | now here are even more tedious details: when, somewhere in bullshit thread, i'm saying "i was entirely sober when
 someone changed lanes into me" i'm actively then writing
 about taking a mental inventory and making sure this is
 true, and what i come back with is a can of yellow red bull
 and that sends me on another writing tangent -- but, no, i
 was literally too broke to afford a can of red bull when
 someone totaled my car, so unless there was something
 strange in the tap water i was, truly, sober, i had not even
 had adderall in perhaps a year and a half at that point
 
 and there is, probably, that i had that leading edge and
 recalling blah blah but then we're into conversations where
 i say -- no, that actually wasn't a factor here. i'm just a
 fucking odd duck
 
 
 
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         |  EpicMegatrax
             from Greatest Hits on 2024-04-01 07:14 [#02634329] Points: 25602 Status: Regular
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 | are you bored yet? around 14-16 i started to have enough algebra to write real computer code and i began to get very
 focused as i then started to get into web servers and php
 and
 
 mom would knock at the door asking about dinner, or
 whatever. and then mom would have to ask again, because i
 have this tyrannosaurus rex of... hang on... just have to
 finish... typing thi-
 
 and mom got very tired of having to ask again to the point
 where it started to sink in and i then found myself in a
 strange nebulous zone in between. that i feel a buffer of
 sorts, like, i can finish typing the rest of the line before
 the buffer disappears and i lose whatever mom just said. but
 i can hold off processing that enough to finish... this...
 much. and then i play back what mom just said and at that
 point mom's job got slightly easier
 
 my medication at that point was a bunch of horrible, boring
 risperdal serzone antidepressants, assholes tinkering
 around, after one switch i gain 20lbs and i'm fat for 20
 years
 
 so when i pulled that off at 15 or something, i was
 actually, arguably, on anti-drugs. like, lead weights on my
 legs and that's not enough to stop me from getting to that
 mental state
 
 or noticing how, actually, even earlier than that, 13 maybe,
 how songs triggered goosebumps and i see where those starts
 and since then i can give myself goosebumps voluntarily [if
 i sit there and focus; it's not like a lightswitch]
 
 what were we talking about again? right. i'm just a fucking
 odd duck. who was like: drugs? this is just what i need to
 become even stranger. then that's been taken care of and i'm
 very excited to keep dodging work writing bullshit thank you
 for reading my post(s)
 
 [what was this thread about again?]
 
 
 
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         |  dariusgriffin
             from cool on 2024-04-01 15:11 [#02634344] Points: 12516 Status: Lurker
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 | lol sorry for pestering you and forgetting about it. i suppose at least my concerns are persistent!
 
 
 
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         |  EpicMegatrax
             from Greatest Hits on 2024-04-02 00:10 [#02634345] Points: 25602 Status: Regular
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 | i've heard that if you're consistent, that means you're incomplete
 
 i was just playing back "wonderboy" by tenacious D in my
 head, for no reason [or rather i could find reasons but i
 really suspect they'll be boring toss] and i get to the part
 VOCIFEROUSLYLONGrunnonsentenceBECAUSEheHAS.A.HUGE.FUCKINGPO
 where jack black is doing one of his
 INtpowersthatareequaltoorperhapsgreaterthan--- gguuuUUUGGHH
 
 that he'll pause in one of his red-faced, every bit of air
 he's got bits like that, and literally just guzzle air
 because he's run himself right to the end of his lungs and
 FUCK YOU I'M NOT DONE YET and since he's worked himself into
 the corner let's just play up guzzling the air too
 
 i'm actually very much like this
 
 
 
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         |  EpicMegatrax
             from Greatest Hits on 2024-04-02 02:53 [#02634353] Points: 25602 Status: Regular | Followup to EpicMegatrax: #02634230
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 | on NPR's "wait wait don't tell me" they're on about some chinese hotel having a schtick where you sign a waiver and
 then you can spend the night with a live tiger in your hotel
 room. one of them quips, "...but tigers will kill you if you
 turn your back on them, so it's important to be the big
 spoon" and then another one of the talking heads gets all
 wistful, like "awww, now i want to snuggle with a
 tiger"
 
 after you get past "it's an intellectual trap to just
 anthropomorphize the behavior of animals and then simply
 stop thinking" you get to the arguably much-easier-to-get-ya
 "it's emotional trap to anthropomorphize animal
 behavior" which leads to the ultimate corker, "ultimately i
 want this to be nice and beautiful and i'm always going to
 give it the benefit of the doubt but i have to point out to
 myself how many times i've been tricked into attempting to
 spoon with a tiger" -- that is, thinking an ugly thing is
 beautiful simply because that means not considering that it
 may be ugly.
 
 it actually pains me greatly... you see me struggle, really,
 with something like "the socially constructive way to treat
 the matrix" i suppose and i am torn in a very real nub in
 between "if you make the movie about trans people you really
 do rob people of spiritual development they could get out of
 simply thinking about it on their own terms" and "trans
 people are not nuts for talking this up at all, esp. given
 the wachowskis, but you're effectively..." ...arguing that
 gender is a social construct, when it's a construct that
 goes above mammals.
 
 so it's hard to ask, like: what is transgender for? the
 answer may not make people happy, even though i really do my
 best to smooth things over. so far, though, all i have is:
 we're trying some new branch of evolution out. i can't tell
 you how it'll work or if it makes any sense yet
 
 
 
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         |  EpicMegatrax
             from Greatest Hits on 2024-04-02 02:58 [#02634354] Points: 25602 Status: Regular
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 | "sometimes things just gotta play hard" --Kima Greggs, TV Lesbian, The Wire
 
 
 
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         |  EpicMegatrax
             from Greatest Hits on 2024-04-02 03:09 [#02634355] Points: 25602 Status: Regular
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 | but if i then be blunt to the point of insensitive and say "you're an evolutionary experiment with an undetermined
 result" that's not very nice is it. i've managed to smooth
 things always this time, i suppose, i'm just saying i can't
 always promise it. but i will try
 
 
 
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         |  EpicMegatrax
             from Greatest Hits on 2025-02-11 02:28 [#02640975] Points: 25602 Status: Regular
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 | ahead of my own curve sometimes 
 
 
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         |  w M w
             from London (United Kingdom) on 2025-02-11 23:34 [#02640994] Points: 21639 Status: Lurker
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 | squid are like octopi but no joke, they are large and hunt in groups and on some "72 dangerous animals" episode some
 guy mentioned how they almost murdered him underwater. This
 was on NWO netflix (also "my octopus teacher" which was
 surprisingly good given that netflix curates all video art
 available, nothing can economically survive outside of
 netflix so is culled and only netflix curated content
 remains. Octopus tentacles do supposedly have neurons
 according to some other video I saw. They mainly lack the
 long human lifespan to develop more sophisticated culture.
 In another video an octopus was in an acquarium with a shark
 and it turned the shark upside down which puts them into a
 dormant state.
 
 
 
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         |  EpicMegatrax
             from Greatest Hits on 2025-02-12 10:34 [#02641004] Points: 25602 Status: Regular
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 | Octopus tentacles do supposedly have neurons according to some other video I saw. They mainly lack the
 long human lifespan to develop more sophisticated culture.
 
 
 not many only like 70k per tent or something. that's why
 there's no sophisticated culture of octopi tentacles living
 underneath the ocean
 
 
 
 
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         |  steve mcqueen
             from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2025-02-22 03:29 [#02641220] Points: 6639 Status: Regular
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 | Octopi  haaaaa 
 
 
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