Contribution; Defaults

[eevee]

Today, and today only, you get two half-thoughts for the price of one full thought!

1I've long had a strange half-resentment-half-wariness towards people who only, e.g., drink and play video games. (Unfortunately, this is most of my age group. Whoops.) This has been heavily supported by PurpleKecleon, who's a little more adamant about it. I

Comments

[marko_the_rat]

Re your first half thought: I feel the same way. :)

[steffo42]

Seconding the thumbsup on the first one. So I guess I'm thirding the idea. Or something.

[eevee]

Huh! I was half-expecting to offend people by calling them boring and useless to human culture. 8)

[steffo42]

Well, I just assumed present company was excluded. :B
I seriously am trying to be less boring and useless lately. Just a couple years ago I'd be putting together a list of video games I wanted for xmas; all I want this year is microcontrollers and gadget components. Now I just need to actually come up with an idea worth developing, instead of just sighing at every hackaday post and thinking "Why didn't I think of that?"

[eevee]

Trying is always better than not!

[anonymous]

I especially agree with the section about creating content for someone else.
Everything, every small side-project I do but never finish, I archive. Either in public archvies, or personal, but I just do it. I know that if I or someone else ever needs what I did, I can find it. The worst thing that happened in my life yet was when my hard disk of three years broke. All the cool stuff I had there. Sigh...

[gabemobius]

Hm, I actually don't tend to get offended when I get called out for my faults. In fact, my first reaction to your first post was to go 'holy shit am I like that' with the full intention of correcting myself if I was, because I do agree with you on it.
Of course, I do tend to create a lot, and some of it is quite public. I will create world settings, characters and concepts (and many times even post them publically!), and I will write short stories and post them places. Hell, I'm even interested in starting up a small project to try and summarise and give little blurbs of new animu and shows using only the first 3 episodes.
So I feel less bad about myself, but I do need to make more of my stuff public. Perhaps a proper blog, yes. Either way, thank you for the insight. It was... insightful. :B And it furthered my self-improvement, so yay.

[eevee]

I had him in mind when I wrote that. 8)