I am fully aware that I am about to clang some cymbals, and there's nothing I can do to stop it.
this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2024
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We're cymbal folk. The few not the many.
I've got a whole repitoire.
Did you know that the Cubic represention of color that computers use is inherently flawed?
Did you know that cucumbers are melons and that all fruits are vegetables, just like root, tubers, and leaves?
Did you know that a lot of things we take advantage of in our conscious experience can vary wildly like a lack of different types of bonding modes, the ability to and qualia of distinguishing senses, and the little tools like facial recognition and speech synthesis can malfunction?
Did you know that cucumbers are melons and that all fruits are vegetables, just like root, tubers, and leaves?
Botanical vs culinary
Vegetables are a social construct.
It may be inherently flawed, but we can't just arbitrarily emit wavelengths of light with current technology. Realistically I doubt we ever could, we would need to alter the emission energies of materials on the fly, which would be akin to actual magic. It is frankly amazing it works as well as it does notwithstanding.
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Cubic color? What do you mean? I've always seen color spaces represented as triangles filling the curve.
I don't know if this is what the parent poster was talking about, but color pickers in many programs present you with a cubic representation of their available color space. The default Windows color picker does nowadays as does Corel. Maybe Adobe too, but I haven't used any Adobe software in years so I don't know how they do it now.
Since computer monitors suck at truly displaying three dimensional information ^[citation^ ^needed]^, you're presented with a rectangular slice of a cube. Here's the Corel color picker, for instance:
The X axis is saturation, the Y axis is intensity, and the "depth" or Z axis is hue, which is controlled with the little slider on the bottom. As you move the slider up and down your "viewpoint" of the slice moves up and down through the depth of the cube, essentially representing it in 256 little vertical slices (or however many based on your bits-per-pixel).
Despite being the graphics nerd that I am, I can't tell you off the top of my head how this cubic representation is flawed, although computer monitor color rendition itself is inherently flawed because most color spaces probably can't actually fully represent all the colors that normal human vision is capable of differentiating, but what the hell do I know. Browns and oranges are famously difficult to reproduce with only red, green, and blue, the usual three additive colors available to you. The cube map itself, at least, gives you a spatial method by which to select any of the 16581375 possible RGB values actually possible an 8 bit per pixel format, even if the methodology for presenting them all to the user might not quite make intuitive sense.
You can also do cubic map of only hues, with each axis in the cube corresponding to red, green, or blue, like this one courtesy of Wikipedia:
Some of those things you just said made no sense to me and I want to know more about all of them.
I'm fully aware of what I can do to stop it.
But then other people wouldn't get to gear the wonderful clanging sound!
And they need to know!
So stop it I shan't.
I do possess the ability to shut the fuck up, just usually not the willpower to follow through with it.
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Then they briefly acknowledge you before returning to whatever uninteresting topic they were already discussing and tighten the circle so that you could not join in even if you wanted to...
You look around the room and everyone is in tight circles, making mostly small talk, with a few people in each circle dominating the conversations. At best, all you can do is stand outside a circle, essentially eavesdropping, but that's creepy.
So you just wander the room admiring the art and architecture, look out the windows, etc., before either finding a way to leave or finding a quiet corner and pulling out your phone.
Basically this
It's pretty unfriendly not to leave an opening for others to wander in and join the conversation at a party. I've been standing around wondering why I'm there for sure though. Something to keep in mind as you're enthusiastically chatting yourself at some point in the future. 😆
Then they briefly acknowledge you before returning to whatever uninteresting topic they were already discussing
The fact that you call their topic uninteresting means you don't care about others but expect them to care about you. That is you being self centered. You expect others to listen to your interests without first listening to theirs.
That means taking a real interest in their topic even if it's something stupid like sports. If you don't know enough to contribute the conversation that means you are learning something new- which is a good thing.
And just because you listened to them doesn't mean they immediately owe you to listen to you.
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ah the famous "cant leave the conversation till I am done" nape lock
If only I was comfortable touching other people, then I could subject them to my inane ramblings EVEN LONGER!.
Imagine if they start dating:
"Do you guys know about Free and Open Source operative systems?"
"Also, have you heard about decentralized and federated social media platforms? Well- "
2 hours later "... Which brings me to the importance of self-hosting, and that is..." and you go on for hours totally oblivious, the friend that usually gives you social cues is crying in the corner...
"Do you guys know about Free and Open Source operative systems?"
what are "operative systems"?
😉
systems which do not merely operate, but have active agents ("operatives" if you will) that act in murder/plot intrigues in the background to keep the systems running. The less you know the better.
XD english isn't my 1st language and the auto correct got me this time
I don't do great with "normal" conversations. I actually love it when someone brings up some random ass special interest. This allows me to have a clear decision tree A. I know nothing about this, but it sounds interesting, here is an opportunity to learn. B. I know a little bit or maybe even more about this than this person, let's nerd out a bit C. This doesn't sound remotely interesting to me - I don't like talking all that much anyway, but this seals the deal, I'm Noping the hell out of this conversation asap.
So thank you to all you autistic conversationalists for smashing your cymbals!
Me wanting to know what my friends think about superdeterminism while we play monster hunter
superdeterminism
Is that like supermarionation?
Another person mentions Gerry Anderson-related topic
Slowly begins raising the cymbals
The fiend teeth makes this
I learned to just keep it to myself.
I used to do that too, but then I learned how to gently build enthusiasm and also when to know the signs of when they're losing interest.
We need your guidance. NOW!
inhales smoke
But I'm retired chief, I jus can' parley so good no mor
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Totally unrelated, but you should check out 20 em 1 for the Sega Master System!
"So Amicus is a gay, alien, wolf guy and he kidnaps you to be his pet and show up his brother who also has a cool pet, but humans forgot that aliens exist so Amicus basically broke the Prime Directive for which the punishment is death, and they also don't have gas anymore to take you home so you have to pretend to be a dumbass while also helping Amicus become emperor so he can get gas from the Gods and send you home, but then you fall in love and don't want to go home but the Gods say you have to go back to Earth for 8 years to do some missionary work so Earth can join the Galaxias..."
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Yeah tough to find someone who likes anime..
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