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Post by Friendly Person :) on Dec 20, 2020 3:17:27 GMT -5
At least you have the luxury of being able to veg out all day without any guilt over putting off work.
Just kidding: you seem the type of person for whom there is always guilt.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Dec 20, 2020 3:27:07 GMT -5
Agghhhhh I accidentally committed my Postgres DB password to GitHub. Luckily I caught it almost immediately, changed it, and rebased my branch to squash the offending commit, but those cryptominers...
I have been enjoying my time off work quite a lot, actually! Haven't missed it one bit. Historically, yes, though, I've felt guilty taking time off. In general, I am not someone who is good idle. I have to be working towards something.
I think it's an interesting question to ask people if they're happy. I mean, not in person. That's weird. But I asked on a forum once. I thought the answers were interesting. I don't consider said forum to be a bastion of well-adjusted people, but it was about 50/50 split. I can be content and have extended periods where I've really liked life, but I generally tend towards the melancholy.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Dec 20, 2020 11:51:41 GMT -5
I finished deploying my app last night and now ... uh ... don't have anything to do.
wat do.
I guess I could restart my other Clojure project.
I wish some super cool addictive video game would come out. Haven't had any interest in video games in months. This year is actually perfect for JRPGs, since having time-gobbling hobbies is a huge plus right now, but TBH? I don't play JRPGs anymore not because of the time commitment, but because I find them unsatisfying. I want some deep, thoughtful story. Serious question: what JRPGs actually have a meaningful story?
I guess I could play Mass Effect, since I've had that sitting around for several years, but this involves me unearthing my PS3 and stuff.
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Post by Friendly Person :) on Dec 20, 2020 11:55:37 GMT -5
Is it weird to say that, for me, "happy" is too broad a term? It's like hot and cold. If everything is "hot" all the time, it soon becomes the new normal. What is hot for me and what is hot for other people (and likewise with cold) are entirely different concepts. On the flip side, if someone is happy all of the time, I don't know if they're really 'happy'. Personally I don't think of myself as 'happy' or 'unhappy': generally I'm just 'content'. I have good days and bad days. But I'm definitely used to being the weird one, so I dunno...
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Post by Friendly Person :) on Dec 20, 2020 12:12:11 GMT -5
Serious question: what JRPGs actually have a meaningful story? Serious answer: yes, but no.
To simplify something I said in the past, the problem with JRPGs is they have interesting thematic ideas, but seeing as the primary target is teenagers, they are presented in a relatively immature way. For instance, Tales of the Abyss had a lot of interesting thematic ideas about identity, but the presentation didn't dive into it anywhere near as much as it could have. It was very... anime about the whole thing (not that anime can't be deep, but you understand what I mean).
Meanwhile most WRPGs present their stories in more mature ways, but they're about as vapid as a Christopher Nolan film.
Of course, "meaningful" is a very subjective term. To me something "meaningful" has some kind of thematic depth that I can either relate to or makes me see things in a new light. That may not be the same for you or what you're looking for. For some people as long as the characters are likable, it becomes meaningful to them.
Sorry I can't be more helpful.
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Post by Derman on Dec 20, 2020 14:01:26 GMT -5
Congrats on finishing the project! It's always nice to make something that feels complete.
Whether or not I can say I'm happy changes every day, even though the circumstances might be exactly the same. Although it is interesting that the split was 50/50. I've always thought that people are more likely to say they are unhappy when asked, because when you start thinking about it, you'll always find something that could be better. Maybe there are more generally happy people out there than I thought. As for JRPGs that have meaningful story: depends on what your expectations are. A lot of games don't have meaningful stories, so games like Abyss or Persona 4 stand out as something that at least try to explore interesting themes. I'd throw NieR: Automata in that pile as well, despite not being a traditional JRPG. I personally prefer JRPG stories to western RPGs. The last western RPG I played that tried to do something interesting story-wise was Torment: Tides of Numenera. The question that game attempts to answer was "What does one life matter?" but it kinda felt like the game forgot because it was busy telling me how cool and quirky the game world is. And the last part of the game was way too rushed to be satisfying or leave me with any thoughts.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Dec 20, 2020 16:50:09 GMT -5
Serious question: what JRPGs actually have a meaningful story? Serious answer: yes, but no. To simplify something I said in the past, the problem with JRPGs is they have interesting thematic ideas, but seeing as the primary target is teenagers, they are presented in a relatively immature way. Yeah, it's part of my problem. I like stories, but I'm just not a teenager anymore, so stuff I was ok with at 13 feels unsatisfying. I think WRPGs tend to be less about character development or exploration of themes. I feel like it's more about exploration of the world around you and self-agency in making different choices? At least, that's my impression, as someone who has never played a WRPG. Yeah, I'm similar to you in that "meaningful" needs to be that it made me think in some kind of way. Likable characters are nice, but if the story didn't make me stop and think a little, I don't really care. Re happiness, one thing people brought up is the difference between being "content" and being "happy". Happy, some people argued, is a temporary state of being. For instance, you're happy when you get a new laptop or have fun with friends. But content is a more general state of being. You can be content with your life, but not happy in that moment, and vice versa. I ask my question in the vein of "content" or "satisfied with one's life". Even when you're unhappy in that moment, can you say on the whole, you feel fulfilled by your life and wouldn't change most of it? I suspect among the general population, more people are happy than not. I wonder why? Not to say they're wrong for feeling that way, but I'm just curious what makes a person feel fulfilled. Well-being is all relative when you think about it. People are wringing their hands now over children not being able to socialize and go to school with other kids, but no one has the same laments about children in the Australian outback who do homeschooling or distance learning, because it's the expected norm. And the pandemic is, well, really not that bad compared to the Black Plague, where 1/3 of Europe's population died. People muddled through that, too. All of that isn't to say "well, it could be worse, therefore the situation isn't that bad," but, rather, your baseline will always set what is acceptable vs. not. Suffering is relative, and the subject pain of objectively not-as-bad situation can be just as acute as objectively-worse situation. That's how you can have rising levels of depression and anxiety in a society that, for all intents and purposes, has only gotten more and more prosperous.
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Post by Friendly Person :) on Dec 23, 2020 19:52:46 GMT -5
Summer begets Fall Fall transforms into winter And still I play Quake
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Post by Youngster Joey on Dec 23, 2020 21:17:19 GMT -5
I've eaten so many butter cookies.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Dec 24, 2020 15:03:11 GMT -5
my poor brother just walked by and asked what IDE I was using, and then revealed he has to use vim at work. He didn't know he could use a more modern IDE to ssh into his Linux instance.
I'm really sorry.
I tried using vim and emacs at various points and then decided this was stupid because it's not 1980 anymore.
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Post by Derman on Dec 24, 2020 17:14:19 GMT -5
I know few people who swear by vim, and keep telling me how it's the best thing ever once you learn it, and how all the features make you ten times more efficient. I don't really care about learning it to make the most out of it, I sometimes use it to edit files when using ssh. Modern IDEs are good enough for anything more serious. But I actually didn't know you could use modern IDEs through ssh, even though it makes sense now that I think about it.
btw, what IDE do you use? I'm mostly using VSCode, but using IntelliJ for Java was great and I could see using Jetbrains' stuff more. Would need to ask the company for a license though.
It's funny when the best thing I've eaten during Christmas has been my brother's sourdough bread. All of the other Christmas food is ok, but the bread is great.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Dec 24, 2020 17:45:24 GMT -5
I use VSCode too. You can install an extension to use SSH. I used to use PyCharm, which is also by JetBrains, but it became less convenient once I started coding in Clojure. I'm kinda meh on VSCode in terms of UI tbh? It's supposed to be super configurable, but I find configuring it to be sort of a pain...
I like sourdough bread. Really can't go wrong with sourdough bread.
My mom went on a full-on baking spree. Giant tin of butter cookies, two cranberry coffee cakes, and a chocolate cake. The chocolate cake was to be expected because it is her birthday cake (she was born on Christmas), but sheesh. I'm going to be so fat by the time I leave...
Say, in Finland, do you have the tradition of opening gifts on Christmas Eve? I know a lot of European countries do this (or they'll have a tradition of opening one gift on Christmas Eve, etc.).
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Post by Derman on Dec 24, 2020 18:10:34 GMT -5
I have the same issue with Rust as you have with Clojure. Too new to have any huge IDEs. Sublime Text used to be the best option for Rust development for a while IMO, but I think VSCode is now on the same level. And I agree on the UI (although Sublime isn't any better...) but it does the basics just fine. I miss the inline warnings from Sublime but it was pain in the arse to configure, so I gave up since VSCode does better with no configuration.
I haven't actually eaten much of anything this Christmas, although it's hard to resist to not stuff myself full of that bread.
We open gifts on Christmas Eve yeah. We traditionally have someone dress up as Santa and have him give the gifts. All my siblings are now old enough to know that it's actually our dad dressing up, but he still does it for fun.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Dec 24, 2020 23:15:58 GMT -5
My brother just told me they don't use git. For version control, they use ClearCase Version Tree from IBM, which IBM no longer even maintains.
Yikes and a half.
That's super cute. When I was really young, like preschool age, my friend's dad came over dressed as Santa, and I remember thinking it was the real deal, hah. I don't remember when I learned that Santa Claus wasn't real. I know I believed when I was 8, but by the time I was 9, I didn't.
Surprisingly, when I was 8, the Easter Bunny, which brought us gifts on Easter, left a note saying that Pokemon Yellow was "delayed and still coming in the mail" (we lived in France at the time, and internet shopping wasn't as established then, so I guess that's why they didn't order from the UK). I didn't find that explanation strange at all. Like, yeah, of course the Easter Bunny uses the postal service to send gifts from the US.
What do you typically do Christmas Day? I assume church services?
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Post by Youngster Joey on Dec 25, 2020 3:56:07 GMT -5
Well, either my brain wants to pull an all-nighter for no reason, or the tea I drank wasn't decaffeinated. Either way, my brain is not tired. Sigh. I'm not 20 anymore, brain. All-nighters suck.
I guess I'll use the spare time to cry about how the hell I integrate Java into this project. Truly I have reached depths of desperation if I am going all the way down to Java.
All I wanted was to send a byte array through the interwebs! Why is this so hard. Am I just dumb.
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