FailForward @FailForward@qoto.org
Exploring, failing, backtracking, just to identify the only viable path forward. And then scarred, stumbling forward into the future. Learning.
Boring and steady. Knowing little and questioning a lot. Mostly harmless.
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This is an experimental scrapbook space. A collection of stuff I want to keep in a form somewhere on the spectrum between a blog and a shoe-box full of scraps, cut-outs, quotes, links and reading notes and sometimes my own silly thoughts about them.
Perhaps it might be of marginal interest to others too, but I don't care that much.
Joined Jan 2021
Charlotte Brandi feat. Dirk von Lowtzow: WIND
Was hab ich davon ein Mensch zu sein, wenn wir Tage in Bernstein verwahren
Ich wiege mich nur im Wind allein, und ich träume fast jede Nacht davon wie wir waren– Charlotte Bandi with Dirk von Lowtzow: Wind
All Time Low: Monsters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlnwXIigAAs
Why do all the monsters come out at night?
why do we sleep where we want to hide?
why do I run back to you like I don’t mind if you fuck up my life?– All Time Low: Monsters
An interesting note on depicting dinosaurs based on their skeletal remains. The main point is that real life animals have all sorts of skin flas, fat deposits, etc. Dinosaurs probably looked much different than we depict them. To illustrate the point, the piece contains several pictures of contemporary animals drawn in the same style as we draw prehistoric animals: take the bones, put some muscles on the skeleton, shrink-wrap in skin and we are done.
The animals like baboon, hippo or zebra look really hillarious this way.
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Netherlands with natural sea level:
https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/post/127626999276/the-netherlands-compared-to-sea-level-via-reddit
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Singende adelte Rauchschwalbe.
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How do you eat pancakes?
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Ivan Dobric made this a few years ago
I still think about it
@piggo I see you posting some Minecraft pics, could you please help me with this? What do you do in that game so that it captivates you?
Minecraft: request for explanation
So I downloaded Minecraft demo to see what is it what is it what all the kids around rave about. Call me a “late adopter”.
Alright, I get it. Or so I think. You can destroy stuff and thereby “mine” materials, sometimes you can find something and get it. I learned how to dig myself out of a deep hole, how to drown, get killed by a zombie, how to build some simply blocky structures. So far, so good.
What I am not getting is what is the whole point. Where’s the fun part?
I know, this is a silly remark. I grew up in a world of Princes of Persia, Doom, various flight and car simulators, etc. Those games have a clear hook, a clear objective, etc. You start it, you get it, you go on. I now see kids playing Roblox and what I think is this: if anybody would tell me 20-30 years ago that this would be a thing, I would laugh my head off (same way as if anybody would tell me in 2005 that phones won’t get smaller, but rather larger - whatever, I tend to be wrong mostly 😐 ). Still in Roblox you can interact with characters and some of the games have a competitive spin, so I still grok those. But Minecraft? I feel like a stupid old fart who’s just staring at the screen not having a clue how this could have become the “best-selling game of all times” (c.f. Wikipedia)
Can somebody enlighten me on how to play Minecraft so as to “get the point quickly”?
I mean, I want to play it a bit with fun and perhaps have fun with my kids with it too, I just want to “get it” sooner then they will :-).
This is be probably one of my more embarrassing posts :-D.
Mariama - Grains of Wisdom
the only lies that exist are the ones you choose to believe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIaMANGiLjs
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Gestern an einem Feld voller Kornblumen vorbeigefahren und heute nochmal zurückgekommen. 📸
You may need to have some irrational inner talks with yourself to help you get to a rational place. The key is not to wallow and get stuck on repeat too much.
– somewhere
Exploring, failing, backtracking, just to identify the only viable path forward. And then scarred, stumbling forward into the future. Learning.
Boring and steady. Knowing little and questioning a lot. Mostly harmless.
***
This is an experimental scrapbook space. A collection of stuff I want to keep in a form somewhere on the spectrum between a blog and a shoe-box full of scraps, cut-outs, quotes, links and reading notes and sometimes my own silly thoughts about them.
Perhaps it might be of marginal interest to others too, but I don't care that much.
Joined Jan 2021
