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You should get a job or work on something fulfilling (not school).
And then you can put it on your college apps because I know your parents are forcing you to go to college.
true. if i didn't super dislike shift work (either shift. first makes me wake up way earlier than i want, second means i get no social life) i'd just work on moving up from the warehouse out to the production floor.
Who wants to work in the fields? Benefits including working at 6 AM on thru, catching the sunny rays of the Sun, and taking home some produce like lettuce.
You should get a job or work on something fulfilling (not school).
And then you can put it on your college apps because I know your parents are forcing you to go to college.
I'm glad school has good classes that aren't completely warped to fill state standards or something
or else I might have to take a class that's a waste of time like modeling
terrifying.
Probably going to try to get a job or something second semester. I'm still planning on doing Cross Country in the fall so everything isn't a complete loss.
Also sociology.
I bet they're going to tell me if they (mass of people) think someone has a bomb they'll run away.
or if someone is giving away free stuff they'll flock to them
I'm glad school has good classes that aren't completely warped to fill state standards or something
or else I might have to take a class that's a waste of time like modeling
terrifying.
Probably going to try to get a job or something second semester. I'm still planning on doing Cross Country in the fall so everything isn't a complete loss.
Also sociology.
I bet they're going to tell me if they (mass of people) think someone has a bomb they'll run away.
or if someone is giving away free stuff they'll flock to them
My girlfriend is doing a sociology and psychology bachelor's atm. If you're just taking an intro course it probably won't be interesting. Anyhow it's a very intuitive field, it's just made to look like a science by authors who use difficult words and redefine simple ones in vague, ambiguous ways. Sometimes I feel like she's doing a degree in etymology.
Sociology isn't really about people, contrary to what you might think at first glance. It's moreso about society as a system and the infrastructures that guide people's lives. It's useful in work market analysis and, unsurprisingly, describing social injustice and its roots.
My girlfriend is doing a sociology and psychology bachelor's atm. If you're just taking an intro course it probably won't be interesting. Anyhow it's a very intuitive field, it's just made to look like a science by authors who use difficult words and redefine simple ones in vague, ambiguous ways. Sometimes I feel like she's doing a degree in etymology.
Sociology isn't really about people, contrary to what you might think at first glance. It's moreso about society as a system and the infrastructures that guide people's lives. It's useful in work market analysis and, unsurprisingly, describing social injustice and its roots.
I'm the biggest most baddest moderator in the whole web. I can take away your posting privileges so hard that will make running through a giant desert without water look like a ****ing relaxing spa resort.. ***** I'll come to your favorite forums (when you're offline) get approved for modship and get settled in. When I see you paling around with your "E" friends I'll log in and sneak in a ban then log out. You'll start panicking stressing the **** out your sodium levels will triple. After finishing wallowing in your corner crying about your 10 second timeout you go back into the forum to ***** about said ban (via pm's). As soon as you're about to hit the send button I'll swoop in a permaban your account. I'm just letting you know how easy it is to block you from posting your unfunny bull****s but to go to such lengths to rid the forums of cancerous post, you little ****. Prepare for "the storm" maggot, the storm that deletes the pressies thing you called your account. Oh and don't think about creating a secondary account to get around said ban I'll ****ing ban that account and ban your ip.
Welcome to hell Population: you
I was home today (yesterday because it's superearly morning now?) and I'll be leaving tomorrow (or this morning since it's really soon?)
Might have a window next Weds/Thurs but otherwise I'll be gone until June or July depending on who needs me to be where. So probably back then.
Plugged Melee and PM in today for about 5 matches of each with someone else who hadn't played in a while. Last time I touched Smash was in November. First few matches felt awkward, then it started flowing. Smash is fun.
Will for sure play this game again, just have a lot of variables on when I want to binge on it.
Meeting another one of our better players in another city this weekend (they're coming back from a 6 month trip to Burma) and he'll probably join for the summer-binge whenever I do it.
So we're getting the whole crew back together slowly!!
:D
We're going to see a talk by Paul Fleischman this weekend and hanging out at a center with him on another day.
He's a teacher of the same practice me and many others locally work with (mental practice, like meditation but of a specific kind, not weird mumbo jumbo stuff with chanting or whatever people think meditating is these days) and a few Smashers started too so they're coming. Should be fun.
I've read some of the books he wrote and seems to be right in line with what I'm doing too, as expected given he's a teacher of my favoritest thing to do as a person experiencing life on earth, so this might be a good LAST stint of adventures before I'm home for a decent chunk of time (finally) until August anyway.
tl;dr Smash is fun but I'm helping a lot of people and having a lot of fun so it's on the shelf
/end current life story-story.
In other news.
I had a talk with my most recent smash-apprentice or whatever. Someone who was trash and over 9 months of specific practice and study became the best in the region.
Melee and PM, seems mostly Melee these days but locally the players apparently want to try PM more so that's cool. *thumbsup
It's a facebook conversation but I copy-pasted it to a word document, hopefully it copy-pastes to here decently well.
I don't know who reads this kind of ranting-junk anymore, or if anyone ever did, but in case you've been looking for a fix of Nausi-cray
Maybe you'll get something from it (entertainment or whatever) but here's probably the only 'rant' I'll be doing for another few months.
This is a preface to it. Convo happened in April between binges.
9:47pm
alright
im trying to make the new people beast in town so u dont get board again lol
9:48pm
it wasn't boredom, just got shiz to do ha
9:49pm
ah ok lol
btw how did u teach me to be ok in neutrap
this is literally my conversation with --name--
"pay attention"
"i am"
"no you arent"
"then what should i pay attention tp"
"things that are happening, interactions"
"i am"
he isnt
its so hard
i cant believe i was like this LOL
9:53pm
HAHAHAH
welcome to life
You know those ah-ha moments where you have clarity? Not just smash but in general life? Well THAT is basically the time you're most 'living' and you'll notice when they seem to be 'about' smash, it's about everything else too, and when it's about anything else, you'll notice smash makes more sense too. And it's not really something you can go back on once you understand it EXPERIENTIALLY. Anyone else has that same thing, they set foot in the right direction once in a while, or get glimpses of things that 'are' and they're always THAT close to being fully alive. It's very different now that you're actually living, isn't it?
As some random monk once said, the measurement of a Sage is by 1 thing, those who are on the path, and those who aren't. You can only ever be ONE step from going the direction you want to go. As ProfX from Xmen says, no hope is lost in anyone. In better words though, ha. Liveliness is an oddity in the movement of life. Pretty sure I've mentioned how Victor Wooten put it well too, how you can only ever be ONE NOTE off the right note. That's all.
9:55pm
whoa
wait isnt that like a paradox or something
im confused
9:55pm
we'll have to go over that stuff sometime, like just what things like dash dash shield short hop aerial even MEAN ha
you know, go further than that so you know not only 'what' is, but how to express/understand it in ways that can translate to others seeing what you see too
9:56pm
yeah im awful at that
at the translating part, i can usually understand things beyond a literal point
if i care about it/am interested in it
--name-- keeps messaging me with stuff like
i saw your set with –name--, im gunna learn runnings shines now
*facepalm*
9:59pm
hehe
classic
we'll get these new 'ok' players together sometime to actually see what's going on with stuff. peeps like –name-- will need a lot of support from various sources/etc to come through unless he's given major specific attention to his personal stuff.
when players have 'personal issues' coming before their 'player issues' then there's a personal touch needed, AKA, the players he's surrounded by need to be people, or they can easily be stuck as players-with-issues for essentially ever.
It's not really something to 'deal' with, it'll come when it does as a side effect through other stuff
but yea, people are awesome, just sometimes handy for someone to point out how they can look at themselves and they'll 'get' every last bit of it. We all do it regardless anyway, simply to different extents.
This is the discussion we just had today.
5:03pm
people try to simplify neutral game by over complicating their character i.e: players trying to do unnecessary frame perfect stuff
people like this can't play other characters because they win by manipulating their character, rather than playing the game
thoughts? i'm not sure i just thought of this and would like to hear some input
6:59pm
Basically yeah. Though that's actually a small part of something a little more broad and apparent. If that makes sense.
Maybe think about what I might say before I say it. AKA, What could 'manipulating actions on the screen rather than manipulating the way you're playing the game' be a side-effect of?
7:01pm
not paying attention?
7:01pm
Not sure if there's a direct/wordable answer to that, but that makes sense yeah?
7:01pm
yeah i can sorta see the direction you're going, not sure if i understand though
7:01pm
ya it's weird to word (language stuff)
Overplaying oneself into fluency will do ONE of those things
7:02pm
mui english not good enough to explain things
7:02pm
Playing to become fluent brings the OTHER one
It's pretty obvious which leads where (going through tuned actions VS intelligent play)
7:03pm
yeah
im still working on trying to beat all the autopilot players
its harder than i thought lol
i posted a thingy
7:04pm
lol
it is
basically robotics can't be mind-gamed, so you gotta just sit around a lot and let the robot runs its course and pick it apart slowly
7:05pm
dash shield short hop aerial, im not the greatest at explaining things, hopefully i can get through to people though
7:05pm
it's annoying but brainlessness is common in every irl thing that exists ha
7:06pm
yeah, i've learned that, having only a 2/3 set in tourney is definitely difficult, especially if they have practiced their perfect chaingrabs and i die every mistake
but im getting better at it
its funny, even when people are studying in school they create brainlessness
7:09pm
lol ya
gotta study how to study so they know how to study, but how do you study studying if studying is what you need to study?
learning how to learn
but that's all abstract
can't SEE it clearly unless you just 'see' it
so you gotta use CONTEXT
aka, something like Smash
aka, learn how to PLAY THE GAME
aka, 'learn how to play' THROUGH the act of playing the game/learning to play the game
so learning how to PLAY, you just need a thing to play, and have that thing be dynamic enough that you learn more than just the game when you play it
but ya gotta PLAY it to learn to PLAY it, and that takes playing, not aimless/mindless craving-chasing
7:12pm
mhmm, but people dont play it, at least not to the extent/ way that they should?
7:13pm
could* and *would if they knew how to do what they were trying to do
fits better
people often don't approach things with a clear understanding of what they're DOING in the act-of-approaching-something
so people go into things with 'ideas' usually built around the simply lack of care (like 'considering things') and don't know what they're getting out of what they're doing even when what they're doing is slapping them in the face with obvious lessons
tl;dr, peeps be silly
silly as in, the efforts of an individual are laughably superfluous when it comes to blind devotion
7:15pm
blind devotion is actually a great way to put it
7:15pm
BLIND devotion to practicing tech, BLIND devotion to developing habits, BLIND devotion wrecks themselves
7:15pm
putting in hours without knowing what your intent is and what your getting out of it
7:16pm
basically
but again we can only really discuss that stuff like it's a side-effect of the greater thing
the fact that people go in with an intent, usually being something like 'looking to get something out of it', and don't even LOOK at that fact...
that's way before the 'hours put in' even come into play
Approaching something with a CONCLUSION already
'I need to practice run-up shine because it will be good'
'I need to practice chaingrabs because they're are needed'
I need to do this, to do that
this character can do this, this matchup is like this, this playstyle can beat this ad this
etc
THAT makes 'seeing what's ACTUALLY THERE' crumble away
and taking its place is the image/illusion a person puts in front of themselves
and they play, and they play, and that image gets polished a little more with every little motion
and fluency of doing exactly that, builds
and the fluency of being able to respond accordingly, appropriately, with either immediate action or mental developments, crumbles and crumbles
until a person is fluent at playing the game they've unknowingly decided to exclusively play, and not at playing the game they knowingly wanted to play when they first sat down (smash)
7:23pm
i think i understand it in the context of smash, but maybe if i tried other things i might fall into the same pattern
like what i did when i started playing melee xD
7:39pm
tl;dr, what are you doing?
whatever it is, it's being done
so you do it
what are you doing?
whatever it is, it's being done, so you do it
what are you doing?
7:40pm
so theres nothing im avoiding doing?
7:40pm
When you see what you're doing, what's being done, as you do it, then everything becomes quite obviously VERY clear
if you see yourself banging your head against a wall, you can trust yourself to stop
when you see yourself benefiting from something, you can trust yourself to go that way
simple as that
all ya gotta do is 'look'
but just saying 'pay attention' has too much behind it, you can't JUST say 'pay attention'
because that 'should' simply means that you turn it all around and go...
what am I doing?
simple as that
7:42pm
alright
so trust myself not to be an idiot?
and if i am recognize it?
7:43pm
lol
if you see yourself doing what's right or wrong by you, you WILL know
and you WILL do what is necessary
but you gotta know how to see
how do you see?
NOT WITH CONCLUSIONS
7:44pm
oooh
7:44pm
there's NO way to approach something like 'looking for good/bad things'
you'll miss it all
at the root
just LOOK at what is there to see, and you will see what is there
the rest falls into place
this is the law of nature, everything abides by this
humans have a tendency to be so arrogant that they think they fall outside of the natural laws of the universe
Read that and check out how it relates to what we were saying. He essentially talks about the same Bruce Lee style 'no way AS way' but about writing as the CONTEXT instead of Smash
but relating to life all the same and everything else you could do in it. We're using smash as our tool, and through using life properly, we can smash properly, AKA have way more fun and be way better at everything ha
same thing I've told you about what it's like talking to Victor Wooten or Jeff Watts, life folds into everything and all context within life folds back into greater living
That's like the end-game last-boss of intellectualizing what it is to be a living human being
but start with that other stuff, it's more Smash-related and generally context-related, rather than being DIRECT to the root of it
Use smash as the medium, as if ALL of this stuff was ABOUT smashing
Alan Watts and Hunter Thomson and etc, as if they're were talking about life stuff but as if they also knew what it is to PLAY SMASH
which, in the most abstractly true ways, they probably do a lot more than most smashers do, ha
7:53pm
in an abstract way being smash is life? haha
assuming smash is the medium to life, and we're talking how to live
again, abstract
7:55pm
how do you OBSERVE anger? happiness? etc?
You could observe the OBJECTS of them. But they themselves are abstract unless you're using your faculty of attention properly.
If this faculty is missed, it's approached blindly.
If learning is blind, it's misdirected and misunderstanding what is. If what is, is missed, then you will never be able to do anything like make a 'what could be' come to be.
Abstract crap indeed ha
7:58pm
Through listening to Kirshnamurti/Alan Watts/etc, you might be able to pick up on HOW to develop this faculty. Otherwise things like Vipassana are exactly that. There are other ways too, like using Smash properly/becoming fluent/learning to learn/giving attention to what attention is on/etc, but without a tool and without this faculty of attention, it's easy to get in a mess.
7:59pm
Hence people are, Smashers are messed up no differently. lol
It's like if you use your faculty of SIGHT, your eyes.
You open your eyes and see.
If you close your eyes, you can still understand/imagine/KNOW even, what seeing is, what you would be seeing, what's in front of you, etc.
But that's the way everyone is approaching everything. Coming into smash with closed eyes because there's an image we want on the foreground of our attention.
Rather than just opening the eyes and seeing what's there to be seen.
Fun to play with that too if you get into it. Games like, if you teleported into your exact position, what would be the first thing you notice?
Then don't really 'think' about it too much, but do it. What would I notice? And look.
And that'll eventually become the pressure on your feet while standing butt while sitting torso while turning fingers while typing, whatever.
And that'll eventually become something you realize you're DOING quite literally all the time. Teleporting to your exact position, mental AND physical position, every. single. moment.
The funnest game you'll ever play. And you can play it while playing any other game. Just got a learn how to PLAY, and you can play anything.
8:05pm
because your eyes are open?
8:05pm
Yeah
Everyone is playing all the time, they just don't usually know they are because they don't know what to look for/how attention (attending what is taking place) is even happening while they're THERE
Once you see, you can't UNSEEN what it is to see (still know what an 'image' is). Same goes for attention.
Hence you're still trodding down that path. There's no turning back for you now. You're on the dark side MUHAHHA
Anyway imma go watch a movie cya and GL with shiz
8:07pm
cya later
good tallk
i read the hunter guy's article, interesting
really thought provoking
10:41pm
good good
yeah fun chats as always
relay that to the peeps and I bet most wouldn't understand it
just like 'but when do I dair?' lol
10:49pm
I think some of this would be useful for other smashers, mind if I send it to peeps?
10:49pm
ofc not
10:49pm
was here today, plugged in both melee and pm
first 5 matches or so were really awkward, but game is fun af
10:50pm
just the convo?
so u played 5 matches?
10:52pm
lol no we played about 15
once with every decentish character
except Puff cause he didn't wanna
and I played Roy to start and end
cause he's our boy
and yeah just the convo
or the parts of it that aren't about okanagan-specifics
10:53pm
yea u can use it
smash IS fun
maybe someday we should get the 'newgood' smashers of our region and talk about how to play and stuff
im stsrting to feel like some of our better new players arent learning anything from matches
from matches
11:31pm
XD
classic of course
comes and goes in waves it seems, on small AND large scales, with everything
Last thing, this is a thing he made to try and help the locals.
It's terribly written and misses some of the key points but he's trying.
lol
I'm the biggest most baddest moderator in the whole web. I can take away your posting privileges so hard that will make running through a giant desert without water look like a ****ing relaxing spa resort.. ***** I'll come to your favorite forums (when you're offline) get approved for modship and get settled in. When I see you paling around with your "E" friends I'll log in and sneak in a ban then log out. You'll start panicking stressing the **** out your sodium levels will triple. After finishing wallowing in your corner crying about your 10 second timeout you go back into the forum to ***** about said ban (via pm's). As soon as you're about to hit the send button I'll swoop in a permaban your account. I'm just letting you know how easy it is to block you from posting your unfunny bull****s but to go to such lengths to rid the forums of cancerous post, you little ****. Prepare for "the storm" maggot, the storm that deletes the pressies thing you called your account. Oh and don't think about creating a secondary account to get around said ban I'll ****ing ban that account and ban your ip.
Welcome to hell Population: you
my number one problem: I keep trying to do other things in life such that when I'm at school I only play smash/fgs as a stress reliever which means that I'm inherently on autopilot
I seem to only be capable of playing smash for what it actually is when I'm on an extended break from school and don't have other things crowding my mind
i had a roommate that had an english teacher in college who was hard, hard obnoxious brand feminist, and i sat outside of one of his classes and was amazed at how raw she was about it. so the following semester i signed up for one of her classes, and whenever she went into the tank with vitriol i would support and agree with her as much as possible. she would say how women have to take birth control because men are too irresponsible and stupid- and i was right there with her telling her how i had all these one night stands to pump and dump and laughed how i never used condoms. or she would say how women had to get day jobs because men arent worth anything and cant support a family, and i would tell her how i was trying to marry rich for a sugar momma trophy wife. i told my girlfriend about it in advance and when she came with me to a class i smacked her on the ass and told her to buy me lunch in front of this professor and make it snappy, etc. infinite entertainment that class.
Won a couple locals since the last time you showed up here so that's cool I guess, but the local PM TO keeps scheduling on days I can't make it so it's hard to see if I can apply anything I've learned in the interim
Sociology isn't really about people, contrary to what you might think at first glance. It's moreso about society as a system and the infrastructures that guide people's lives. It's useful in work market analysis and, unsurprisingly, describing social injustice and its roots.
Sociology and gender studies tend to be pretty interesting classes, likely to distract you from the fact that the degrees themselves aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
Surprised Mech ain't here yet. Guess I'll post it in place of him.
i had a roommate that had an english teacher in college who was hard, hard obnoxious brand feminist, and i sat outside of one of his classes and was amazed at how raw she was about it. so the following semester i signed up for one of her classes, and whenever she went into the tank with vitriol i would support and agree with her as much as possible. she would say how women have to take birth control because men are too irresponsible and stupid- and i was right there with her telling her how i had all these one night stands to pump and dump and laughed how i never used condoms. or she would say how women had to get day jobs because men arent worth anything and cant support a family, and i would tell her how i was trying to marry rich for a sugar momma trophy wife. i told my girlfriend about it in advance and when she came with me to a class i smacked her on the *** and told her to buy me lunch in front of this professor and make it snappy, etc. infinite entertainment that class.
well as with any other larger social movement, you end up with a wide range of people that fall under the same label so it dilutes "real" representation. and i get that, something like christians are the same way. i just found one rare specimen and went it on it, because im more or less a terrible, terrible person lol
What office job is it? My current major is probably going to give me an office job I won't enjoy much. Also it baffles me how many people are actually studying computer engineering now, that's if I can even get a job in the first place.
Also what Life
said like way too big of a book to read in 1 post wtf
tho I was gonna try to sum up what he said but it's 30 different massive points so I don't really know how that could work
Intense study is good but that was like massive thing after massive thing
This is one of the most concise things I've seen relating to intense study and it's over an hour long by the best teachers in anything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX0MrnzBJ8M
So you could take a snippit of that and compact it but it doesn't really work that way
barely anything naus says makes sense to me in the first place, out of context and I wouldn't learn anything and I know where he's coming from because I've talked with him and his crowd of that Jeff^ guy and all those people in person so I see how everyone else is screwed LOL