I created this post on the toilet while I was taking a dump at work.
It's a random thought that occurred to me. It's not an issue and it's not big and I don't have an "issue" or any fucking "issues", and it's fucking insulting for you to insinuate anything of the sort.
Hey if the people ITT don't owe me the benefit of the doubt for being ever so slightly different than their hyperonline idea of a person - so much so swarm downvotes at the very notion of someone just existing who's basic experiences contradict their faulty assumptions about what's what - then I don't owe them that either.
If you're a fan of strategy games and like the premise and alt. history in general, definitely check out the Hearts of Iron IV mod The New Order: Last Days of Europe. It's a similar premise sans the films and...
Interdimensional travel
(God when will Lemmy Devs make inline spoilers possible this is ridiculous.)
...done in a super detailed fashion, even if not a gamer, I'd read the TVtropes page on it just because of how wild the mod is.
Yeah. The writing is just as shit, it's just served by being more episodic. I don't care about Pike or Kirk or Spock or Picard.
I just want good sci-fi with well written and clever stories with attention to detail, produced and made well by people who care.
That's why I liked Star Trek, it's the depth and the fact you can engage with it actively by thinking about the stories and the characters and the premise and the message, not because it was specifically star trek or because they say certain catchphrases or because it has a ship called enterprise in it or whatever else.
I enjoyed TOS when it was clever, and not so much when it wasn't, much the same as I enjoyed many episodes of the original Twilight Zone or some episodes of the X-Files.
Nu-Trek is dumb on every level, not just the obvious utterly nonsensical stories and the plot or the confused tone and messaging, it is dumb on every level - from the graphic design of all the ship controls on each and every panel to the ship designs themselves all the way up to the internal lore and logic of the world it's portraying.
Stargate SG-1 (haven't finished it yet so no spoilers), Firefly, BSG 2005, The Expanse and For All Mankind are all a lot more like Star Trek than anything with the label on it these days, heck two of those involve lots of TNG/DS9 era people behind them from Ron D. Moore to Joe Menosky to the wonderful Michael & Denise Okuda.
Bad Robot, JJ, and Alex Kurtzman and CBS/Paramount/whatever-the-fuck do not give a flying fuck, they are peak Hollywood nepo babies and if I were a conspiratorial type i'd honestly say them running Star Trek into the ground was done on purpose to crush the spirit of the people.
That's interesting, for me music helps me focus, otherwise I just end up endlessly distracted and completely away from the world.
Obviously I understand the point about boredom and am aware of it, only the most brainrotten people think boredom isnt good for you, but I am still bored when walking, out of all the senses, only my ears are occupied, almost everything else is kind of an autopilot, like in those studies where people who drive down the same roads for decades end up being dangerous because their brain is no longer actively processing their surroundings.
For me it's more like music is a way to direct my thoughts or to set a tone for them. Maybe I'd like to think about something nostalgic, or something new, and music sets the tone and tunes out distractions in the world so I can stay cognitively engaged.
Then so does most everyone. It's one thing to be "out for a walk" with the purpose of a walk, like in the forest or a park, but it's a whole other thing to be walking for groceries and day after day just zoning out into the same things over and over. That's insanity.
So are you gonna explain your point or just keep feigning shock at what is fairly normal and common IRL?
I'm starting to think you must not go outside very much, because when I look around, people who don't have earphones in are very much the exception, they stand out, hence the question, and on a personal level I honestly don't even know any people IRL who just march on alone without music or like some podcast or audiobook or something.
My girlfriend does this, all my friends do this, the only people who do not do this are usually some older people with kids when they're out with their kids, but then again they're not really on their own, and obviously I wouldn't listen to music on a walk if I was with somebody for that walk like on the weekends etc.
Obviously I do, I don't get why you spun what I said into hyperbole. But what do you do after you've experienced the surroundings, and now have to experience them again, and again, and again?
Honestly y'all must be kinda boring people if you're happy just staring off into nothingness doing nothing at all, just left foot right foot like some kinda robot to and fro on the daily.
When I was a youth, walking with headphones or earbuds meant you had a tapedeck or CD player (and later iPod or smartphone) that could be stolen, making you a more attractive target, as well as one that was easy to sneak up on.
I started off with a cheapo MP3 player, then a PSP as a kid, now it's just my phone.
don't use earphones outside because it's unsafe: Awareness of surroundings is paramount.
No offense, I get it bad things happen but where tf y'all live that this is something you even need to worry about? I'm not getting mugged in broad daylight in a city centre wtf.
What do I do instead? Listen to the birds sing. Listen to snow or leaves crunch underfoot. Sing! Read a book. Skip! Admire the sun through the trees. Look for cool bugs. Have a conversation with a friend. Rehearse a future conversation in my head. Solve math problems. Philosophize.
Yeah I'm not talking about a hike, I'm talking about walking to the grocery store. If I saw someone skipping and singing randomly on the pavement I'd probably ask them if they were alright and maybe call the services.
I obviously can't teleport my friends or S.O. to me every time I go to the store.
The rest of those I do just fine, while also listening to music. Idk how many times you can listen to "leaves crunch underfoot" before it gets a little stale.
Is it really that bad in America? Like I lived in London where cars were plentiful as well but honestly I never had to worry about them, even when I crossed a red by accident or something like that they go so slowly that it was fairly easy to dodge them.
Depends on the specific path, but there are 4-6 trees, planted in the middle of a small parking lot in front of an office building. I'm no tree specialist, so Idk, they're just fairly normal common kind of trees.
There is a lot more around the corner itself and they were a delightful shade of gold a few weeks back, to the point at certain angles they'd actually do that ray tracing thing of bleeding colour onto the concrete paths, I was tired from work that week and because of how dark it got I never got the chance to take my DSLR out and take some shots at mid-day, contrasted with a cloudless blue sky it would be quite beautiful, but oh well.
The world is endlessly interesting, even in the mundane. Even if it's just keeping an eye out for new street art or thinking about a project or figuring out what I will do this weekend or just listening to my body and feeling the new aches or am old pain going away. There's often not a need for music for me.
I agree with all of this except the last part, because if anything all of this is enhanced by music for me.
I created this post on the toilet while I was taking a dump at work.
It's a random thought that occurred to me. It's not an issue and it's not big and I don't have an "issue" or any fucking "issues", and it's fucking insulting for you to insinuate anything of the sort.
Meditate on that you condescending prick.