HatchetHaro

I’ve had a cube for quite a few years now for casual fidgeting. My current best time is just under 50s using this official Rubik’s Cube guide (plus a few personal optimizations).

I’ve tried my hand at proper speedcubing algorithms, but they’re just a bit too complex for me to handle, and I’m perfectly happy where I am at with my cube.

Anyways, be proud of your son, and don’t kick yourself for not knowing how to solve it. At this point it’s a memorization game, and if that’s not your cup of tea, that’s fine!

I agree with you, but only if everyone is paid a living wage, aka universal basic income.

play an MMO game. plenty of ways to break into friend groups there.

just learn at your own pace and don’t burn yourself out. if you’re enjoying what you do, you’re good to go. if you have an off day where you’re just not feeling it, then take a day off from it.

any fucking thing with touchscreens or touch buttons. those stupid things barely ever work and imagine not being able to use your appliance once that shit breaks.

Not really an answer to your question, but Firefox + Ublock Origin will fix that problem for you.

technical art and programming for video games

English, Cantonese, Mandarin, German, Japanese

I’m native at the first two, fluent in Mandarin, currently learning German, and Japanese I learned by watching Puyo Puyo gameplay.

you’re mixing up sex and gender.

sex is the genitals you are born with.

gender is a societal role, stuff like “males are supposed to be strong and emotionally distant” and “females are supposed to be beautiful and submissive to males”.

one does not necessarily have to lead into the other equivalent. why can’t men wear dresses and makeup? what makes something “boyish” or “girly”? why does a “male” or “female” label define what a person can and cannot do for the rest of their life? do they not get a say in what they want to be defined as?

the only, only useful thing about biological sex labels is for medical and sexual purposes, and yet we base almost everything else in life and society around it. that’s just an inefficient use of space on an ID card.

Oh man, I had that phase in my teenage years where I was absolutely obsessed with all that EDM music. My tastes are more varied now but I still enjoy those absolute headbangers.

• I.Y.F.F.E - Jurassic
• Lock N Bounce - Illusions
• Rameses B - Full Force
• xKore - Full Russian
• RIOT - Overkill

Monstercat Uncaged is still a great label to search through if you want more of this high energy stuff.

i didn’t learn art from tutorials; it’s mainly some passion, some practice, and then going to art school where i learned new techniques, then stopping and finding my true passion in game programming.

anyway, a couple of tips:

• draw what you see, not what you think you see; to illustrate, take a picture, flip it upside down, and try to copy that in procreate
• pay attention to negative space; that’s the space between objects. if you’re drawing a still life of a fruit bowl, focus on area around the fruit bowl.

i mean, if you say so.

not everyone lives somewhere where it is socially acceptable to be LGBTQ.

i feel like this YT short might help explain it.

blueprint work in unreal engine.

i simultaneously love making a big fuckin mess of the nodes like it’s a wall of modular synths and cleaning it up into neat blocks.

bro that is manly as fuck. keep doing you because it’s hella manly to be gentle and caring and nurturing.

you need to stop worrying about all that “not alpha/sigma male = not attractive” self-doubt. you also need to stop worrying about your attractiveness. you’re already attractive to some people. just find people you really enjoy hanging out with one on one, and eventually you’ll land a partner.

hong kong do be like that a lot of the time

avoid ceiling lights. keeping lighting closer to eye-level can help make the space feel way cozier, so try floor lamps and desk lamps.

i once bought a random led light bulb for my desk lamp from a dollar store back when i was in college, and that thing was just bright enough to light up a room while still keeping it cozy. loved it to bits.

I got two identical messages from her on separate accounts lol.

Veering slightly off topic, but does anybody know if there’s an alarm clock app that rings at set earlier times to the final alarm?

For example, I want to wake up at 8:00am, and so I set one single alarm for 8:00am, along with “earlier times” of 30 minutes, 15 minutes, and 5 minutes. The alarm will then ring at 7:30am, 7:45am, 7:55am, then 8:00am.

I’m basically sick of having 4 alarms for every separate thing I have to wake up for.