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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Just for fun, I decided to check my distances against yours

    Here are my walking distances:

    • To the nearest convenience store: 1.13km
    • To the nearest chain supermarket: 2.74km
    • To the bus stop: 33.8km
    • To the nearest park: 2.41km
    • To the nearest *big* supermarket: 17.7km
    • To the nearest library: 2.41km
    • To the nearest train station: 24.14km
    • Straight-line distance to Nashville’s “The Batman Building” (closest approximation to a large unique cityscape building): 67.76km

  • So, this is gonna sound weird, but I actually find a lot of these bands calming to listen to. I’m autistic, and have a lot of weird sensory issues because of it, so music that’s too simple (a lot of pop or punk or other genres that show up on the radio usually) doesn’t fully grab my attention. Like, there’s not enough happening at once for me to feel immersed in it.

    So I’ll end up listening to Power Metal to fall asleep sometimes because I can hear every instrument individually, and my brain switches focus to each one at random times, and it’s stimulating enough that I can be completely distracted from my other senses and calm down. Dragonforce is my go-to because they even have two lead guitarists at the same time.

    That said, I do have songs of every genre in my library, and if I do want something slower or simpler, there’s a ton of Metal ballads that aren’t necessarily high energy. Try something like Crimson Day by Avenged Sevenfold, Remembrance Day or Trail of Broken Hearts by Dragonforce, Christmas Truce by Sabaton, or Mother Gaia by Stradivarius.

    There’s a lot more examples, but you can certainly have slow, calm metal. I could probably make a decent sized playlist


  • TeckFire@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlOne way ticket to midnight
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    6 months ago

    I will!

    Metallica for a dark, thoughtful mood

    Dragonforce for fun, energetic, silly moods

    Mick Gordon’s DOOM soundtrack when working out

    Avenged Sevenfold for a carefree, fuck the world attitude

    Blind Guardian when I’m looking for high fantasy, “take me away” mood

    Sabaton when I want some motivation for work

    Rhapsody of Fire for when I’m cleaning alone and want to get into some classical feeling stuff

    Killswitch Engage when I’m feeling edgy

    Korpiklaani when I’m wanting to go on a run

    Parkway Drive when I’m angry or sad

    There’s so many more than this, and much of these have overlap with specific songs instead of general artists, but this gets the point across, I think











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    9 months ago

    That’s why the only take I have ever found that’s reasonable regarding religion goes a bit like this:

    Hell is not real. Not in the literal sense, anyway. We all go to “heaven” or whatever afterlife it is, but we get a chance to reflect upon our entire lives. If you were a good person, then you may feel some regret for the harm you caused others, but you can generally feel satisfied with your previous existence. If you were a terrible person, you probably wouldn’t want to be around a being such as God, which, if he’s everything he’s cracked up to be, is the most “goodness” that ever good-ed. So by extension, your “hell,” your “separation from God,” would be the guilt that drives you away, by your own accord, despite his forgiveness, and not actually a sentence that you are condemned to.

    I can see some merit to that thinking, at the very least it’s not completely unfair as we see with so many mainstream religious takes.





  • For real. Like some enemies in Killzone 2 “act” pretty clever, but aren’t using anything close to LLM, let alone “AI,” but I bet you if you implemented their identical behavior into a modern 2024 game and marketed it as the enemies having “AI” everyone would believe you in a heartbeat.

    It’s just too overencompasing. Saying “large language model technology” may not be as eye catching, but it means I know if you at least used the technology. Anyone can market as “AI” and it could be an excel formula for all I know.