What’s worse is that it’s become increasingly more difficult for me to find people I am interested in talking to. My interests have become very niche and specific and tbh boring and weird within the last few years.
Just as I have no interest in hearing about celebrity gossip or the latest TikTok trend, most normal people have no interest in deep discussions about hypothetical moves away from global capitalism or literary analysis or nerdy space games.
I would love to have deep conversations about all kinds of things, but I have difficulty serializing my thoughts and converting them to words so even when I find someone with similar interests, it ends up being exhausting…
That’s why I appreciate discussion online. You can sit on a thought, type it out, amend it, and nobody is sitting across from you wondering why you’re touching your face so much.
The other side of the sword is that it can be hard to find communities that engage in deep and/or non-combative conversation. While Lemmy is pretty light on the hostility, it can be hard to find people to interact with sometimes.
I think I will have to start watching some sport I don’t care about to have something in common to talk with other men, discussing the weather only gets you so far
Nah fuck that you could not force me to watch sports. Okay maybe some obscure ones nobody here really does like bobsled.
Bobsled is weirdly hypnotic with all the white and jingling bells.
I finally decided to start doing a sport. But to make sure I wouldn’t have to discuss it, I picked archery.
I think I read somewhere that the meteoric rise in sports is inevitable in a dying culture.
They are mostly devoid of humanity, nothing more than PG battles in a seasonal PG war that contributes nothing to the betterment of humanity. That’s my take, at least.
I used to view sports fanatics with derision, but now I view them with pity. We are fortunate to have such wonderful minds and such wonderful surroundings and yet we see more and more people prefer to immerse themselves in brainless athletic conflict.
Australia seems to have always been obsessed with sport, but I guess that’s the apple not falling far from the tree with Britain’s obsession with inventing sports that we then lose at.
nerdy space games
What nerdy space games?
Elite Dangerous is my poison of choice, although Sins of a Solar Empire II has been beckoning to me for a while.
If you’re at all interested in Factory type games I highly recommend Dyson Sphere Project. You start planetside but building / flying around your Dyson Sphere as it’s being constructed is amazing. Also a mention of No Man’s Sky wouldn’t be bad. They’re still releasing content for it, which is crazy at this point.
What literature are you analyzing?
I just finished Infinite Jest for the first time. I stayed up late to finish the last 100 pages and couldn’t fall asleep afterwords because there were so many lines to connect. Really cutting-edge insight into the damaging effects of American culture and entertainment as a hobby. In my StoryGraph review, I stated that it’s “secular scripture for the modern age”. I’m pretty proud of that — I think it is the most concise way to convey what I got from the book.
I also just started reading You Sound Like a White Girl, a short book about America’s historic and current-day battle against Hispanic culture and why assimilation should be rejected. It does a great job at blasting a hole through the wall of lies erected for centuries by white Americans. If you think the selective way slavery and the civil rights movement are taught is bad ( it’s terrible), just wait till you see how much Hispanics have been fucked over and how literally none of it is taught.
Oh wow those both sound really interesting! I’m gonna go add those to my ereader. Infinite Jest sounds really interesting, and You Sound Like A White Girl reminds me of when I read The Hate U Give
For a contrasting opinion, Infinite Jest is pretentious drivel…
You should totally read Infinite Jest, just make sure you understand what you’re getting into. It’s really long and verbose.
The author kertwangs you all the time and some of the scenes will definitely give you the howling fantods.
Ooh alright!
I’m guessing these word choices have something to do with the book lol
Yeah, they’re terms invented by the author.
A kertwang is basically a prank of misdirection. The howling fantods are the spooks/dread or general bad vibrations, essentially.
The guy made the rookie mistake of leaving his curtains open, and then another one in acknowledging the existence of the outside world.
acknowledging the existence of the outside world.
The what, now?
what
Extroverts are an oppressive class.
Much like morning people.
I call both of them “crack head energy people”
Omg, have you seen them panic when things go wrong? :D
But you repeat yourself. (Hasn’t it been shown there’s a high correlation between morning people and extroversion?)
Dictatorship of the socialitat
I hate the Internet’s “extrovert vs introvert” tribalism. And it’s always the same two jokes. “Extroverts bad will suck out your soul and shame you for not liking it” and “ha ha we introverts use extroverts to get friends we don’t want friends we want to stay home and read and extroverts adapt us”.
and then people wonder why there’s a loneliness epidemic and complain they have no friends.
It’s not a joke. You clearly just haven’t spent any time around or are an insufferable extroverted early riser. We literally have to change the time the sun comes up because getting to work at 9 is just out of the question.
what’s with the seemingly paired together disdain for extroverts and early morning people, I haven’t heard of this pairing before
sincerely, an introverted early morning person
it’s just nice to clock out at 3 and fuck off to live my life before it gets dark
My brain doesn’t fully boot until like 10pm
I cannot control it. Life would be a lot easier if i could
my brain is fuckin ded after 3pm due to nonstop activity at work lol
I wasn’t discounting the existence of people in the sides of the Venn diagram, just talking about people in the middle.
yeah I’ve just never seen the combo mentioned before tbh
Then you must be one of today’s lucky 10,000.
Agreed. Early mornings and late nights are the times of day where you don’t have to worry about human interaction. These are introvert hours.
I’m with you on the morning people at least. I’m saying the tribalism is stupid.
and then people wonder why there’s a loneliness epidemic and complain they have no friends
Life’s short and it’s nice spending it and sharing it with others.
A lot of my friends that prefer to be alone actually want to hang out but most people hate organizing and stuff. So I usually make the effort. It’s better to have stories and experiences that are shared. Better being like, remember when we saw that game together? Remember trying to get home and being stranded? Remember going on that trip? Life’s short.
I’m also surrounded by friends that say they wanna do stuff a regret not doing it. Although most have kids now, so they’re unable to have the time nowadays.
To reiterate what you said, there’s about as many comments complaining about loneliness and how people forming bubbles and parasocial relationships with internet people and even weird AI relationships now. People act like it’s the worse thing in the world to hang out. It only gets harder when you’re older too.
Let me be clear. I don’t waste time on people that never wanna hang out. If you wanna be home and are rude when I invite you out, I will very simply leave you alone. That’s fine by me.
Parasocial relationships with internet people
Are you talking about those people who simp streamers or just normal internet pals? Because if we talk about normal people then you are soo wrong about it
I mean this, as per Google’s definition (because I suck at it):
A parasocial relationship is a one-sided, one-sided connection where an individual develops a sense of intimacy and friendship with a public figure, like a celebrity or fictional character, who is unaware of their existence
I don’t think Internet normal friends beats meeting friends in real life but frankly it’s the only way some of us even get to have friendships nowadays. I still play games with friends in Poland and the UK despite being in Canada. I also think that it’s a more important part of life now because kids “seemingly” play less in the streets and they seem to play Roblox, Minecraft, or Fortnite or whatever with friends online and as much as I hate giving kids too much screen time … they’re socializing with their friends and it’s important to keep that going too.
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During my morning meeting at work, it was announced that the junior person on the team will as of tomorrow be running morning meetings from now on, so they can be more ENGAGING and FUN. At 9:30am. They are mandatory. I am the only one that hates this idea. If I take off my mask I will be fired.
TL,DR: I am in this meme and I don’t like it
When does the work start if the morning meeting is at 9.30?
9am. Stupid timing imo.
America in like 2 months
Two months ago.
Should I get popcorn?
Fill your pockets with kernels before you’re put on the pyre.
This will make you pop
This has been both the left and right for decades.
Not a centrist, but we have to get better about understanding how manipulable we all are to social trends and pressures.
Evangelic extroverts and morning people are the worst.
Strangely, they didn’t used books for the fire pit.
It feels like this is what Plu1bis is going to be about.
I both do and do not want to be alone. I really just need someone who can be there for me… between the hours of 6pm to 6am. Outside of those hours leave me the hell alone!
This reminds me of the song Dearly Beloved by Bad Religion.
Dearly beloved, dearly beloved, dearly beloved
(Make no mistake, despite our traits I’ve seldom seen)
I can’t relate to you (I can’t relate to you), I can’t relate to you
…
Do you know my name - sing a light refrain
For a man estranged - I won’t deny that I’m inclined to isolate
Dearly beloved…
Sounds familiar… We’re these the lyrics for “Everything is Awesome”?
Have you heard the news everyone’s talking
Life is good 'cause everything’s awesome
Lost my job, there’s a new opportunity
More free time for my awesome community
I feel more awesome than an awesome possum
Dip my body in chocolate frosting
Three years later wash off the frosting
Smelling like a blossom, Everything is awesome
Stepped in mud, got new brown shoes
It’s awesome to win and it’s awesome to lose
watching him burn together, that checks out
