In other news, a million people use openai???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero's_journey

The Meeting with the Goddess - This is where the hero gains items given to him that will help him in the future.

Atonement with the Father/Abyss - In this step, the hero must confront and be initiated by whatever holds the ultimate power in their life. In many myths and stories, this is the father or a father figure who has life-and-death power. This is the center point of the journey. All the previous steps have been moving into this place, all that follow will move out from it. Although an encounter with a male entity most frequently symbolizes this step, it does not have to be a male—just someone or something with incredible power.

It all seems like a stretch to me. Someone found/created these in a story, maybe some other folks repeat the pattern, but some significant portion is just errors in our pattern recognition, people applying these themes post-hoc.

Eh. Even mediatek chips are getting to the point where they’re enough. Chip doesn’t really matter anymore.

As an iPhone owner and former pixel owner, pixels are more premium, cost less, work better, but depreciate faster. I look forward to the day I replace this with a pixel.

This is a tough one for me. I want refillable deodorant for zero waste but cannot obtain it locally. I use Wild without a subscription, just ordering a year supply once a year to minimize shipping impact. I use a single dispenser because more feels wasteful so I only use once scent at a time.

I got sick of all the Pidgeys so quit after a week. I did come back to it eventually… and then quit again when they over-enshittified it

Don’t forget to circumcise them!

Convert them. Everyone is weird in some way, find their weird.

Sweet shots like Crown and Jaeger. Cloyingly sweet. I’ll take a bitter burn over that any day.

I <3 Mallort even though I hate Chicago.

I’ve heard others say that too. Interesting!

The Transporter. Dude is a professional delivery driver for bad guys. But the music is perfect, the driving is fun, the fight scenes are creative and exciting. The love scenes suck… but all in all it was way better than I expected and is still my favorite JS movie.

I’ve had a few over the years. In high school I got all stars in Mario 64 and I beat Quake 2 without getting shot for the lulz.

In college I went through and beat all of the Adventures of Lolo games. I played hundreds of hours of FFXI but the real gem was later on when I could solo almost anything, including legendary Pokémon that normally take a party of six.

Portal and portal 2 are great experiences I’ve been through a few times.

I was obsessed over Pokémon Y. It was the first time I got into breeding perfect Pokémon with egg moves, hidden abilities, and perfect or zero IVs. I also tried for weeks to get 100 consecutive victories in Battle Maison but the third time I failed at 99 because the game cheats I threw in the towel.

In Pokémon Scarlet I really got into shiny hunting and have 200+ now. I also tried Masuda method for the first time but dang is that slow.

Took me three tries to get through Quicksilver but then I couldn’t stop. Worth it.

Sorry, to clear it up I’m team juice very bad fruit occasionally.

Juice being bad doesn’t necessarily make the whole fruit good. The glycemic index still has to be considered in the context of the person and their diet.

Can disconfirm. I dive in completely, obsessing over a hobby until I meet my desired skill level, then drop it almost completely and move to the next thing. Some stuff gets rolled into my routine but I stop thinking about it at all, just following whatever skill/method I learned when I was obsessed.

I have also figured out how to use this superpower at work to root cause problems, implement solutions that sustain themselves, and never think about it again.

I do have a long list of hobbies I want to try, but I don’t actually try them until I finish obsessing over the last one.

Good guy Greg, stealing your phone to help with your addiction.

Yeah matching set for life. They don’t make it any more but I am still able to buy replacements from Replacements ltd.

My rule when picking this set was the spoons have to be strong enough to scoop ice cream without bending.