The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread XXXIV

[Synobun]

That alone seems impossible.

Many of them are short stories or screenplays. Screenplays are lame and I don't read those. Short stories are, well, short.

It took three years, which is pretty good for ~170 books.

 

[Tigranes]

Ok, I really hope some Cable News savvy person can help me here. So I have a habit of watching CNN and Fox News by switching between them every so often. Tonight, few minutes ago, I saw the same guy, professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz LIVE on 2 shows: CNN and Fox News;s Tucker Carlson. HOW? how is it possible to be live on 2 different networks at the same time and and also taking sides, seemingly, with both opposing networks at the same time? Carlson was discussing how CNN got caught with their Trump Tower story, because their source was Michael Cohen's attorney, who now is not sure events happened in the same way he leaked them to CNN...

 

[Synobun]

News is very rarely actually "live".

 

[Gori the Grey]

I think Tucker tapes his show. Not sure.

Dershowitz has become annoying whichever channel he's on, frankly.

 

[tjs282]

HOW? how is it possible to be live on 2 different networks at the same time and and also taking sides, seemingly, with both opposing networks at the same time?

Quite clearly PKD was an eerie prophet, and 24-hour news-networks in the 21st century are now all staffed and guested by malignant androids.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Why do modern games take up so much space?

 

[Arakhor]

The high poly graphics would be a big contender, I'd say.

 

[GenMarshall]

Not sure if this would be the right place, but it’s mainly related to creative persuits.

How do I get back into a creative pursuit after taking a long hiatus from it because of writer’s block and apathy towards it after negative feedback?

 

[Synobun]

Not sure if this would be the right place, but it’s mainly related to creative persuits.

How do I get back into a creative pursuit after taking a long hiatus from it because of writer’s block and apathy towards it after negative feedback?

 

[Snerk]

Read up on microdosing. I hear good things.

 

[The_J]

Why do modern games take up so much space?

The high poly graphics would be a big contender, I'd say.

Anything what takes up lots of space for a normal user is normally multimedia related.
If your HDD is clogged up, then it's either music, movies, photos or games. And in games it's again the graphics (mainly), and the music.
The related code is laughably small, it's all the graphics.

 

[sophie]

Focus on small, easily digestible goals rather than trying to conceptualize the finished product as a whole. Schedule time effectively. Stick to schedules you make for yourself. Set firm personal deadlines. Stick to those deadlines. Identify possible sources of procrastination, work in places or in such a way that those sources of procrastination are inaccessible.

I spent most of June not writing my thesis because I had serious writer's block and was struggling with where to start. I eventually broke through that writer's block and finished the thesis by treating the writing process like a job; I broke the thesis into digestible mini-chapter chunks, and then scheduled eight hour blocks each day to write one of those chunks. It's much easier mentally to go "ok, I have eight hours to write this 5-page mini essay today and then I'm done", than it is to go "ok so I have to knock out an unspecified portion of this 45-page paper today and then another unspecified portion of this 45-page paper tomorrow and then..." At the end of the day, the key to breaking my writer's block was really to cut out all distractions, and just force myself to sit at my desk and not move until I had made demonstrable progress.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

A famous professional writer, when asked "what do you do when you have writer's block?" would answer "I write. That's my job."

 

[sophie]

A famous professional writer, when asked "what do you do when you have writer's block?" would answer "I write. That's my job."

Yeah, pretty much. Procrastination, at least for me, is usually a product of options. Either I'm putting it off because I know that "I can start it tomorrow and still finish with plenty of time" or because the paper as a conceptual whole is already mapped out in my brain and all that's left is the writing itself so "as long as I start at some point it's basically done" and I'll just put the paper in eternal stasis because of that. At the end of the day, the key to breaking writer's block is to just start writing.

 

[Zkribbler]

Not sure if this would be the right place, but it’s mainly related to creative pursuits.

How do I get back into a creative pursuit after taking a long hiatus from it because of writer’s block and apathy towards it after negative feedback?

The Arts & Entertainment sub-forum here would be a more appropriate place for this
or http://ideasarelikestars.com/

You're basically are me 9 years ago.
The way I broke my writers block & got positive feedback was to do the one thing writing instructors rail against , I got into fan fiction. https://www.fanfiction.net/ I used-the-crutch of utilizing someone else's characters and settings. My first story was to take Casablanca and tell it from Yvette's point of view [she was being blackmailed by the Nazis into being a spy for them]. It took me quite awhile* to find the confidence & skills necessary to try something original. I still often fall back into writing parodies [which are exemptions to copyright protection].

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* "quite awhile" > e.g. 50,000 words of "Pirates of the Caribbean" fanfics.

 

[Takhisis]

At the end of the day, the key to breaking writer's block is to just start writing.

It's basically this.

Of course, starting to actually write something is the real trouble sometimes.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Why do modern games take up so much space?

Anything what takes up lots of space for a normal user is normally multimedia related.
If your HDD is clogged up, then it's either music, movies, photos or games. And in games it's again the graphics (mainly), and the music.
The related code is laughably small, it's all the graphics.

I think one problem is that modern consoles have relatively weak CPUs which would be a bottleneck if textures had to be decompressed while playing, so developers are just not compressing data as much as they could. That might be the reason why the PC version of Witcher 3 with all DLC still takes up less space than the PS4 version with no DLC at all.
If the game has a lot of pre-rendered cut-scenes you get over 70 GB for XCOM 2, a game that really shouldn't be 50% larger than Witcher 3.

 

[shadowplay]

Anyone know if Newsweek is sold in Canada? They have a special Simpsons issue this coming week I'd like.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Anyone know if Newsweek is sold in Canada? They have a special Simpsons issue this coming week I'd like.

Probably available at Chapter's. It will cost a premium though, their magazines are ridiculously overpriced.

 

[dusters]

Not sure if this would be the right place, but it’s mainly related to creative persuits.

How do I get back into a creative pursuit after taking a long hiatus from it because of writer’s block and apathy towards it after negative feedback?

Why negative feedback is bad feedback? I have been writing for 15 years. Most of the time it is zero reaction from the readers if I post stuff on my blog. If I get ANY feedback, that's good. I have left an impression.

Yeah, pretty much. Procrastination, at least for me, is usually a product of options. Either I'm putting it off because I know that "I can start it tomorrow and still finish with plenty of time" or because the paper as a conceptual whole is already mapped out in my brain and all that's left is the writing itself so "as long as I start at some point it's basically done" and I'll just put the paper in eternal stasis because of that. At the end of the day, the key to breaking writer's block is to just start writing.

What about speech to text programs? You can just dictate to Word what you need and it writes itself? Is technology there yet?