If you do this, please keep an eye on how that individual person is reacting. Some people will love this and think you're a wonderful, friendly person. Other people will be made incredibly uncomfortable. Both are valid responses.
I am personally in the latter camp. I'm autistic, I find eye contact difficult. If you're being quite insistent about it, I will find it aggressive.
As for the smiling, I am immediately distrustful of anyone giving me a giant smile while talking to me for the first time. A little smile is normal, but if you have a massive grin without any observable cause, my assumption is that you are trying to corner me into something. Maybe I'm just too cynical or damaged in some way, but this just sets off my alarm bells.
A few, it was just like any weekend day except I couldn't go shopping.
Christmas doesn't have any significance to me or my mother, so we don't go out of our way to spend time together. In fact she tends to gleefully pick up extra hours at work because they pay her more. If I'm single or my partner is unavailable this results in me spending Christmas alone, which I honestly enjoy. If I'm in a relationship, I usually get sucked into whatever Christmas shenanigans my partner's family gets up to.
I'm a big fan of the book. Couldn't stand the movie.
I was really surprised because, while I have a track record of hating adaptations of books I've read, a lot of my friends that had read the book absolutely loved the movie. So I thought maybe it would be okay, even if I didn't love it. But I couldn't finish the movie at all, I didn't even make it halfway.
Out of curiosity, have you watched and read 2001: A Space Odyssey? How did that comparison go, if you have?
I've actually been working on a stream overlay too! Mine doesn't include the chat, because I'm pretty happy with what I already have, but I'm currently in the middle of moving all my stuff from streamerbot-triggered OBS sources/filters to a streamerbot-triggered Godot overlay hahaha. It sounds silly but it's cleaned up so much clutter in OBS, and my actions in streamerbot are a lot tidier and easier to manage too. I'm also hoping it'll improve performance, because my previous setup had quite a few nested scenes to make things work.
Sometimes the games that people will watch is not the same as the ones they will play themselves. The same goes for games that are played on-stream vs off-stream, its just a very different way of enjoying the game.
For example, I would hang out in a twitch stream with someone playing a JRPG or a MMO or a dating sim. But I don't have any interest in playing those genres myself. The fact that I'm watching someone else play doesn't cut into the studio's profits at all, because I never would have bought the game in the first place.
For visual novels in particular, I only play these live on stream. I get the most out of them this way. I like to pause the game and talk about things that were brought up in the dialog, or react to something that happened. My favorite is trying to guess things like plot twists. I had a whole Charlie Day pinboard situation going on while I played the Zero Escape games, and I have a lot of fun just chatting with viewers on all sorts or stuff like this. It makes me stop and really appreciate the game a lot more. Completely different experience to when I play by myself - I didn't even think I liked the genre until I tried playing a smaller one on stream, and now I'm a little bit hooked.
On the flip side of this, I enjoy management and automation games but I absolutely hate streaming them.
Basically the point I'm trying to make is that playing the game solo vs streaming the game vs watching someone else stream the game are all very different ways of experiencing the same game and story. If I find a particularly chatty streamer doing a visual novel I've already played, it can be really fun to compare their thoughts and suspicions and reactions to my own, so there's totally value to both watching and streaming visual novels for me in particular. I'm sure other people are the same way.
Some people's skin are more sensitive than others. Buy what you can afford and do a test patch - maybe your skin won't mind too much. Or maybe it works well enough on less sensitive areas, and you can save money by using smaller amounts of the pricier lotion on the more easily irritated parts and the rest with the scented lotion. Good luck!
I've been drawing ever since I can remember. There are parts of the process I enjoy and find satisfaction in, and other parts that can just be a chore. The feeling tends to vary with time as well. Some days I enjoy drawing/painting, and other days it feels like I'm only doing it because it's what's expected of me.
A mid-30s from New Zealand here. Out of my friends and family living in the country that I still keep in touch with, I can only think of 2 households that don't currently own their home.
One of them was pretty undecided for a long time about where he wants to live and what career to pursue, so didn't really settle down anywhere. He's in a serious relationship now though so that might change.
The other one is my brother-in-law and his partner. They're planning on purchasing a house at some point but it's not a priority for them - they're actually renting out our first house from us so they don't need to worry about getting kicked out without warning or dealing with unpleasant landlords or any of those usual things. When they leave, we plan on selling the house instead of renting it out again. We only kept it to make sure they had a safe space to be themselves.
Out of the homeowners, there's a quite a mixture of people. Some have come from privilege and got handed money from their parents. Others grew up in a lower socio-economic group and earned all of the initial deposit themselves.
One guy has a single dad that's never owned his own home and has relied on disability income for most of his adult life. My friend had a lot of trouble finishing his university degree and finding work, it was years before he landed his current job at a small store. They're living together in a house he owns himself now, I thought that was pretty sweet.
New Zealand has had a housing problem problem for a while now, so whenever I think of owning/renting in general it's usually with negative feelings and frustration. Thanks for giving me this moment to reflect on a more personal level, I think my friends are doing great.
The reading out loud tip does worse than nothing for me. On multiple occasions, I've read something out loud to someone else and then had absolutely no idea what I just said. I focus so much on vocalizing the words that I'm diverting power away from the part of my brain that would be processing the meaning of them.
Similar thing for listening to the words without any visual aids - I'm just really not a verbally orientated person at all and do much better when reading/writing the information.
Not wasted! If she's anything like me, the fact that the coffee is fancy is largely for herself. I can't stand offering anyone in my house worse coffee than I would make for myself, unless they specifically prefer it that way. It just feels so wrong.
If you get any extra enjoyment out of the fanciness level, that's just additional icing on the cake.
It's not that exciting, but I'm working on a Pomodoro timer.
There are a lot of Pomodoro timer apps out there, but I still haven't found one that has all the features I want, they're always missing something or other. I'm sick of compromising, so I'm making my own. I've coded a Pomodoro timer before so I've got the general logic down, but my prior implementation is attached to something else and I want it as a standalone application. Thought this would be a good little project to learn godot with, especially since it will let me export it for mobile as well (in theory).
I hate doing UI stuff and most of this project is UI so.... wish me luck.
Exactly this. Your brain gets absolutely blasted with a bunch of chemicals during childbirth and your memory of it becomes very hazy, especially the pain parts. This happens with or without pain management.
I recently read all the discworld novels as well, but I took everyone's advice about not reading them in release order and I really regretted it. I swapped to release order partway through and it was so much better.
If you do this, please keep an eye on how that individual person is reacting. Some people will love this and think you're a wonderful, friendly person. Other people will be made incredibly uncomfortable. Both are valid responses.
I am personally in the latter camp. I'm autistic, I find eye contact difficult. If you're being quite insistent about it, I will find it aggressive. As for the smiling, I am immediately distrustful of anyone giving me a giant smile while talking to me for the first time. A little smile is normal, but if you have a massive grin without any observable cause, my assumption is that you are trying to corner me into something. Maybe I'm just too cynical or damaged in some way, but this just sets off my alarm bells.
A few, it was just like any weekend day except I couldn't go shopping.
Christmas doesn't have any significance to me or my mother, so we don't go out of our way to spend time together. In fact she tends to gleefully pick up extra hours at work because they pay her more. If I'm single or my partner is unavailable this results in me spending Christmas alone, which I honestly enjoy. If I'm in a relationship, I usually get sucked into whatever Christmas shenanigans my partner's family gets up to.
I'm a big fan of the book. Couldn't stand the movie.
I was really surprised because, while I have a track record of hating adaptations of books I've read, a lot of my friends that had read the book absolutely loved the movie. So I thought maybe it would be okay, even if I didn't love it. But I couldn't finish the movie at all, I didn't even make it halfway.
Out of curiosity, have you watched and read 2001: A Space Odyssey? How did that comparison go, if you have?
Ayyyyy nice work!
I've actually been working on a stream overlay too! Mine doesn't include the chat, because I'm pretty happy with what I already have, but I'm currently in the middle of moving all my stuff from streamerbot-triggered OBS sources/filters to a streamerbot-triggered Godot overlay hahaha. It sounds silly but it's cleaned up so much clutter in OBS, and my actions in streamerbot are a lot tidier and easier to manage too. I'm also hoping it'll improve performance, because my previous setup had quite a few nested scenes to make things work.
I had to pay $19.99 for that last one :(
This looks really awesome! I'm excited to give it a try!
Sometimes the games that people will watch is not the same as the ones they will play themselves. The same goes for games that are played on-stream vs off-stream, its just a very different way of enjoying the game.
For example, I would hang out in a twitch stream with someone playing a JRPG or a MMO or a dating sim. But I don't have any interest in playing those genres myself. The fact that I'm watching someone else play doesn't cut into the studio's profits at all, because I never would have bought the game in the first place.
For visual novels in particular, I only play these live on stream. I get the most out of them this way. I like to pause the game and talk about things that were brought up in the dialog, or react to something that happened. My favorite is trying to guess things like plot twists. I had a whole Charlie Day pinboard situation going on while I played the Zero Escape games, and I have a lot of fun just chatting with viewers on all sorts or stuff like this. It makes me stop and really appreciate the game a lot more. Completely different experience to when I play by myself - I didn't even think I liked the genre until I tried playing a smaller one on stream, and now I'm a little bit hooked.
On the flip side of this, I enjoy management and automation games but I absolutely hate streaming them.
Basically the point I'm trying to make is that playing the game solo vs streaming the game vs watching someone else stream the game are all very different ways of experiencing the same game and story. If I find a particularly chatty streamer doing a visual novel I've already played, it can be really fun to compare their thoughts and suspicions and reactions to my own, so there's totally value to both watching and streaming visual novels for me in particular. I'm sure other people are the same way.
Some people's skin are more sensitive than others. Buy what you can afford and do a test patch - maybe your skin won't mind too much. Or maybe it works well enough on less sensitive areas, and you can save money by using smaller amounts of the pricier lotion on the more easily irritated parts and the rest with the scented lotion. Good luck!
I've been drawing ever since I can remember. There are parts of the process I enjoy and find satisfaction in, and other parts that can just be a chore. The feeling tends to vary with time as well. Some days I enjoy drawing/painting, and other days it feels like I'm only doing it because it's what's expected of me.
A mid-30s from New Zealand here. Out of my friends and family living in the country that I still keep in touch with, I can only think of 2 households that don't currently own their home.
One of them was pretty undecided for a long time about where he wants to live and what career to pursue, so didn't really settle down anywhere. He's in a serious relationship now though so that might change.
The other one is my brother-in-law and his partner. They're planning on purchasing a house at some point but it's not a priority for them - they're actually renting out our first house from us so they don't need to worry about getting kicked out without warning or dealing with unpleasant landlords or any of those usual things. When they leave, we plan on selling the house instead of renting it out again. We only kept it to make sure they had a safe space to be themselves.
Out of the homeowners, there's a quite a mixture of people. Some have come from privilege and got handed money from their parents. Others grew up in a lower socio-economic group and earned all of the initial deposit themselves. One guy has a single dad that's never owned his own home and has relied on disability income for most of his adult life. My friend had a lot of trouble finishing his university degree and finding work, it was years before he landed his current job at a small store. They're living together in a house he owns himself now, I thought that was pretty sweet.
New Zealand has had a housing problem problem for a while now, so whenever I think of owning/renting in general it's usually with negative feelings and frustration. Thanks for giving me this moment to reflect on a more personal level, I think my friends are doing great.
Same here!
The reading out loud tip does worse than nothing for me. On multiple occasions, I've read something out loud to someone else and then had absolutely no idea what I just said. I focus so much on vocalizing the words that I'm diverting power away from the part of my brain that would be processing the meaning of them.
Similar thing for listening to the words without any visual aids - I'm just really not a verbally orientated person at all and do much better when reading/writing the information.
Not wasted! If she's anything like me, the fact that the coffee is fancy is largely for herself. I can't stand offering anyone in my house worse coffee than I would make for myself, unless they specifically prefer it that way. It just feels so wrong.
If you get any extra enjoyment out of the fanciness level, that's just additional icing on the cake.
It's not that exciting, but I'm working on a Pomodoro timer.
There are a lot of Pomodoro timer apps out there, but I still haven't found one that has all the features I want, they're always missing something or other. I'm sick of compromising, so I'm making my own. I've coded a Pomodoro timer before so I've got the general logic down, but my prior implementation is attached to something else and I want it as a standalone application. Thought this would be a good little project to learn godot with, especially since it will let me export it for mobile as well (in theory).
I hate doing UI stuff and most of this project is UI so.... wish me luck.
I had absolutely no idea that menopause was something you could seek treatment for, or how much it can affect day-to-day life. Thank you for sharing.
Just realized my response might be considered negative, so I deleted it 🙏 sorry team
Your game sounds really cool and perfect for my family, thank you for the link!
Exactly this. Your brain gets absolutely blasted with a bunch of chemicals during childbirth and your memory of it becomes very hazy, especially the pain parts. This happens with or without pain management.
That looks amazing! I think the size is perfect.
I recently read all the discworld novels as well, but I took everyone's advice about not reading them in release order and I really regretted it. I swapped to release order partway through and it was so much better.