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Hey there! Tell us what you like! Share your interests, you might find some other buddies who share interests with you. Either way, think of this as sort of a show and tell. Share as much as you'd like. Feel free to show/link some examples if you'd like. Let's have fun with it =)!

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  • I'll try to keep it short. These are the things I love doing, even though I sometimes don't have the energy for any of it, except lying in my bed. Being autistic can be quite exhausting.

    ...tinkering with alternative operating systems for notebooks and smarties.

    ...watching Star Trek - grew up with it and just don't get tired of (re-)watching. My fav is Voyager.

    ...playing video games - my favs are Loz - Breath of the Wild and Horizon - Zero Dawn

    ...reading - mainly SF, fantasy, and non-fic. My fav authors are Stephen Baxter, Robin Hobb, and Henry David Thorau.

    ...strength training - one of my rooms was turned into a training room.

    ...cycling - I own an almost 20 years old Specialized Rockhopper and prefer day trips.

    ...travelling and hiking with my GF - mainly in remote areas such as Lapland for example.

    ... lying in my bed, since it is the one place with the least sensory triggers.

    • Yeah, my therapist said unfortunately the thing that neurotypical people don't get about being neurodivergent (as a whole) is that sometimes even resting can be exhausting. Which sounds bonkers, I know - but when you sit an think about it for two seconds you say...oh yeah - that is right.

      Tinkering is always good, because you can help those around you learn to fish if they're willing. Then in turn...they can help others around them learn to fish...if they're willing. Or you can just work on open source stuff that helps everyone eat =P!

      My gal loves Star Trek. She works with the tv on and I keep going out there and seeing her watching one of the new ones. I think her favorite might be the one with the female captain (Jane...Way? Idk - I probably have that wrong. Red headed woman). She said everyone hates it, but she likes it. It's probably the one I've seen the most of as a whole, and I liked it.

      My gals' fav game is Breath of the Wild. But we both agree Horizon kinda creeps us out. I dig MoCap (I like it in the made by Supermassive) but there was something always off about Horizon to the two of us. Idk if it's the shadows or something as horror games tend to be dark, and Horizon as far as I remember it was super bright. On my end, it's Curious Expedition all the way. Hands down, my favorite game ever. It's on the Switch if you've got a vague interest in trying it out. Idk if you can mod it though, which really extends the lifespan of it on the PC.

      Strength training is always good =)! Same with cycling, although it's not really taken on as much out here. Is Lapland where the indigenous folks are? I gave it a look and saw the reindeer. Just making an assumption, feel free to fill in blanks if you'd liek.

      Beds are good, and I 3 mine. Well, no actually. I tolerate mine. I like zzzping on the floor more =P!

      Cheers buddy!

  • Linguistics, data hoarding, and when I'm in the mood or have time, gaming and reading.

    • OMFG, I love LINaskflhasklahsfkhasfkhasf - LOVE! Linguistics. How the fudge popsicles did I forget that!?!?! I have noticed an awful homogeneous movement in the US when it comes to linguistics. The slang (terminology) might differ, but I think the internet spread a lot of frustrations and shame to the point that many people have opted for SoCal accents over their native spaces and everyone has started to sound like a slurry of shit. Which is really offensive, I know. But I wish we could keep regional dialects going for as long as they can go. I also know that class (and upwards mobility) tends to kill off dialects. And I think that's because you have to speak a common "white tongue" and "middle class(+)" tongue to get anywhere in business and do relatively financially well. So I guess ultimately shame and capitalism are killing something I love. Which is probably the case across the board so...eh!

      But let's talk linguistics! They're so freakin' interesting.

      (I also love reading, but it's been kinda hit or miss lately.)

      • Two places that are of interest for me recently are Spain and Norway, since both end up being very central for at least understanding somewhat languages nearby. I find it super interesting to understand languages around without studying them specifically, and it also helps drawing an etymological map in my head. =D

  • I'm in a space of flux right now. I once could tell you everything on the face of this planet about dogs, I really got into the AKC. Which is funny because I didn't have a dog myself. I still talk dogs, with my mother. Who really loves them herself (well a certain type) and think maybe my interests might have been influenced by hers? Not sure.

    There was a time when I could tell you the price of everything in the store, down to the penny. But prices fluctuate so much nowadays. And there really isn't much point to this "super power." I think I picked it up so that I could always budget, and it really helped me fly for a long time. Now I soft-budget instead and guesstimate based off of average prices of things in relation to their worth to my being.

    I am super obsessed with mustalids and am pretty sure they are god's gift to the world. I've been known to crack a fact or two at (and yeah, I mean at here sadly) people at random because they jazz me up so hard.

    I feel a swing back into my one true love, illustration. I am not sure where this is going right now, but I have been dreaming of hitting up a series. That I have been unraveling as I sleep (literally in my dreams - I can have a think when I sleep) about how I want to go about it. Some cool folk on here showed me a new art program and I wanna give it a go with a series and see how it turns out. I want it to be convoluted, uncomfortable, and in the style/surrounding my interests of some of my favorite illustrators. I have been smooshing and smashings bits together and I am about to move on it. So pretty excited there.

    Here's to hoping you guys share yours =)

    • I love dogs! I don't have one yet, but I most certainly will. I'm pretty sure it will help me cope with stress.

    • I am super obsessed with mustalids and am pretty sure they are god’s gift to the world. I’ve been known to crack a fact or two at (and yeah, I mean at here sadly) people at random because they jazz me up so hard.

      I know very little about mustelids except that most of them are SO CUTE. Tell me some cool things, please?

      Also, are you a fan of the illustrator Michael Whelan? I just rediscovered some of his works because he started posting on Mastodon and it's lovely nostalgia.

      • Hey, hey! I don't know Michael Whelan actually, but I did look him up while on the phone yesterday. Which by the by, sorry I am getting back to you late. I was on an epic quest with my mama searching for a lost 30+ year old game. Didn't find it, but she was happy by the end, so that was nice. Oh hey, now that I am having a look I wonder if this is the guy a former roommate told us (my partner and I) about when I was drawing a fantasy image one time. Cause he kinda looks like it. You know, I will tell you I am absolutely awful at backgrounds. To this day, I wish I were better. Scenery is ??? an abstract idealism to me. Even with that picture, was hard for me to push through. I wish I could get stronger with it - and it's something that I swore to myself I would do.

        I personally think that mustelids are the coolest guys around, and thanks for asking about them. I have three little blubs, and they're my sweet babies. They're carnivores, not rodents - which a lot of folks get twisted. In fact, they eat rodents, which was a fun thing to see in the wild this year - as I looked outside and watched a small weasel speed its way past my door with a dead curled up mouse in its mouth. They've actually got the smallest mammalian carnivore in their order, and they contain some really cool relations including otters and badgers.

        While I love them, they are an invasive species in some locations, as they're obligate carnivores that are opportunistic eaters. Colonist in attempts to keep down certain populations (such as rats in Hawaii and rabbits in New Zealand) ended up disrupting the ecosystem and as these places have a lot of ground-birds the weasels they introduced just decimated the population. But in all honesty, they will eat anything they can take down. Which might not be much as most are solitary, but they have also been known to be quite vicious when paired (which can be known as a boogle or a buisness).

        I love the fact that most weasels tend to mate for life, forming bonded-pairs. Which is unfortunately a double-edged sword for domesticated babes, because one will kill themselves with depression if their other passes. Which I have seen first hand, and no amount of love tend to bring them back. Another interesting fact is that they tend to be diurnal - and typically hunt at dawn and dusk. Although some can be nocturnal. Their coats change with the seasons, which can include changing colors or growing thicker or thinner. I believe the lot tend to shed bi-annually. But I could be wrong on that one. As I can't imagine a honey badger doing so. But I haven't looked into it exclusively.

        Outside of that we've been domesticating them for 2,000 years. WWI veterans kept them in their bags as what I'd like to think of as emotional support animals. If you bag train a babe, you can take them around and they just chill with you. But they are for sure an exotic pet. They're very high maintenance and I would explicitly recommend them for individuals who can support the lifestyle they need and are absolutely obsessed (like, yo!) Otherwise I would recommend something simpler like a dog or a cat.

        We've got our litter trained, and they are free roaming. But we have to keep the house a pretty brisk temperature because they can't go over a certain temp or they can heat stroke out. I am not sure how well a majority of them are going to fair with global warming. One of DaVinci's six (I mean not actually six, but he doesn't have an excessive painting catalogue and tended to linger on paintings for extended periods of time) was Lady with an Ermine which looks like one of my bebs! But it always geeks me out, by the by I believe the ermine was added later to the painting, but I don't really remember the ins and outs of it. Speaking of which, these guys are long - have slinky bodies which are great for tunneling. And they are both predator and prey. You should have a look at the weasel war dance because it's pretty funny =)! They also make hilarious noises, that a fellow fur-mom describes as "chicken noises."

        Idk if that was enough, but it's all that came from la cabeza real stream of conciousness style =P!

        Eitehr way, cheers, and I hope you go and watch some really cute fur-boy videos and cool conservationist docs. p.s. - I joke that once we were all weasels because look at the first mammal.

    • Video Games Mostly those that allow me to tinker or engineer or just optimize from a lot of options available to the player. Minecraft, especially with the Create Mod, is a great example. I can engineer to my heart's content with it. Space Engineers is one that if feels like I should love it but I have a hard time getting into it.
    • Leftist Political Ideologies Mostly Marxism and it's sub-groups but also Anarcho-Communism as well. This includes the history of attempts at those systems and modern examples. Sometimes this gets frustrating when I encounter an unironic use of a wholly, or almost wholly, false point being brought out again. Unfortunately some of the big names have writing styles so dry they could sap the moisture from the Atlantic.
    • World History in general Especially early to mid modern history and ancient history. Military history from any point in time is also pretty enjoyable to me. Sometimes it's frustrating like learning that a major problem of today was almost wholly caused by one person in the past having a particular preference for X over Y (ex Ford preferring internal combustion for his cars over battery power).
    • Urban Design I like learning about what is and isn't effective in terms of how to build places that work for people. What makes places safer or more dangerous, how to reduce stress through little design tricks, and how places can be a net positive for the wider area they're in. Also trains on both large and small scale.
    • Computer Programming/IT Out of all my interests this is the one I'm perusing as something I could have a job doing. Working with computers strikes a nice balance between rules being clear and exact and being open-ended enough to allow for creative solutions. Also learned I have a strong preference for C++ over Javascript. That may be because I learned C++ first and Javascript is a lot more typing intensive to do simple things.
    • Hey, are you the human that said that you felt uncomfortable with the weird movement? Cause someone here said that and said they were Anarcho-Communist and here ^^ You're saying that too. I, without reading anything (like a well informed human) have been kicking around what this concept could even be. I didn't want to read about it yet, because it's really easy to just tip-tap-type on the internet and click bing - get an answer. But I wanted to kick around what this is. And I am still kind of at a loss. Best I can come to is Anarchism ---- Void order/government | Organized for the people/Equality ---- Communism. So you're like a...order-less egalitarian? Idk, you can give me the low-low or I can start giving it a lookie loo, but it's what I came to.

      On history, I have been trying to tease this out of my brain as well. But more so this concept that humans are not wholly different than we ever have been. Even if technology has changed us. And I was thinking that perhaps we could use the basin of knowledge of historians to point towards past-follies which might help our current ones. I know someone on here had a fantastic explanation of fascism and how it often uses arguments that contradict themselves. I would love more easily digestible factoids that could be slowly spread en-masse to others to wake the masses from their lulls. I think it'd be pretty great. Also thanks to someone on here I spent about three hours chunking through the 30 Year War earlier. I wish history was one of my fixations, but it is fun to dabble with.

      Urban design is interesting, because I think the way American cities are built are pretty bunk and I would love to see a revitalization movement not full of all those weird mod-esq blocky greige apartments. I wish we upped the foot traffic and downed the car traffic. Trains are great too, not sure why America didn't want to install rails all over the joint. I feel crippled if I don't have a Metro I can hop on =

      If you have a quaint personality and can communicate well you can do well as a dev. I wish you could be a cave troll, living in isolation, rolling out code waterfall style. I want to hunt whoever created Scrum Most Dangerous Game style. But that's just me. If you dig C++, study C++. It doesn't really matter what language you learn, just that you understand the concepts behind the act. And then you can translate that to other languages if you need to - and pick up the nuances as you go. And of course, first and foremost just being able to understand what to look up and what to reach out over.

      Eh.

      But I'm not genius or nothing. Either way feel free to talk back =)

      • Actually I'm a Marxist. However don't see much reason in perpetuating the red/black divide. Both groups have the same end-goal in mind, we just want to do the two major steps in reverse order compared to each-other. The end goal is a stateless society without need of currency and without the division of people into different classes. To drastically oversimplify centuries of work to get there we need to do two things:

        • Abolish Capitalism
        • Abolish Nationalism

        Side note: As you may be able to infer from those two steps Anarcho-Capitalism and National Socialism aren't really from either system, rather they've pretty much just stolen the terms for their use rather that denote relatedness to other Anarcho-s or Socialisms.

        Communists want to do them in the order I presented, generally by seizing control of the State and using it to destroy capitalism then adopting reforms to slowly make the State pointless. Anarchists want to destroy the State first then get rid of Capitalism.

        One big misconception about Anarchism is that it isn't for chaos and disorder, it's for the end of unjustified hierarchy. An actual Anarchist experiment would still have social order, rather than be the chaotic social breakdown that is called Anarchism as a means of disinformation. A lot of Anarchist works explain how systems of voluntary cooperation can work and would be helpful to society.

        Unfortunately America's bad urban design is the product of legal corruption, lobbying, on the part of the automotive industry. Good urban design invalidates any need for a car and so the companies that make and sell cars pour billions into ensuring that ours will continue to be horrible. We used to have trains that went everywhere and they were great but again that was all unraveled for the sake of the dead-last worst way to move people in bulk: cars.

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