Brendan Heisler🧢

@TisTireless @liminal_warmth Exactly. I bought it while watching someone play the magic-free run thinking that that was too wild, but that the magic would be satisfying. It WAS satisfying, but now the magic-free run seems like a fun and relaxing multi-day grind 😂

@hei_br @liminal_warmth Yeah, one of the rare games I wanted to do a speed run of after finishing. And I am considering doing a magic free playthrough

Recommend a videogame for my decompression vibe-cation You win if it's awesome and I haven't played it (but the challenge level is very high bc I'm very on top of game releases) Right now the front runner is probably Lobotomy Corp and/or Afallon

@TisTireless @liminal_warmth Came here to say this

@liminal_warmth Did you try Librarian: Tidy up the Arcane Library? Very cozy, but still could be optimizable. Way more engaging than I would have guessed.

Always, you do it because it's CHEAPER. And cheaper means you need less money. Which means you're less RELIANT on earning and all that goes with it. Spend less, need less, work less = "time rich," free to do as you like. "Difficult" is the price you pay for "freedom." Always.

@OldHollowTree Nice shaggy 🙏

Living in a rapidly aging rural place sometimes feels like being the caretaker of a shockingly beautiful mausoleum. Vermont—my verdant but childless necropolis.

@shagbark_hick @MatthiasReedV Yeah, if you're bagging $4k per month aren't you way above the line for that stuff? 😂 I see the joke, but also you already built the skill to effortlessly, even accidentally, make too much for welfare 😂😂

@MatthiasReedV But you're trapped once you do that. They want your assets, they want you to not make money. So if you go that route it's a trap.

Many seem not to realize that monetary success is NOT a linear thing. It's actually "horseshoe-shaped." Those at the extreme ends of the horseshoe are in an arena of risk that is foreign to "employee" types. If you can live frugally and do it well, you're often in a far better position to make durable monetary gains than those who are in the lowest-risk, highest-cost, dead-center position on the "horseshoe." For example, because I keep my expenses insanely low, whatever I earn, I keep ~85% of my post-tax earnings or more. For every ten months I manage to save $4k or so, I have enough cash for another cheap house, 40ac of timberland, etc. Or I can put it in the market, in gold, in businesses, and so on for a substantial return. Moreover, what returns I see are worth more to someone in my position in real dollar terms. For the W2 employee who spends $4k/mo, earning $4k/yr in interest or in real profits is not substantial, as it's only a month of his expenditures. But for me living on $800/mo, that profit represents 5 months of living expenses, which buys me TIME to devote to new projects, investments, etc. This is an asset the W2 employee really never gets. This exact principle has brought my savings up to the point that I could cover my living expenses for *many* years if I chose to. More or less, I'm living in a kind of "FIRE" scenario where as long as I keep my main living expenses incredibly low (which is not difficult here), I can tolerate big purchases, large investments, pricy trips, and have an abnormally high level of disposable income if I want it. I can use this income (plus my infinity of free time) to engage in activities that will further increase my income. Amongst the rich, many call this "fuck you money," and I only have it because my expenses are on the extreme side of cheap. In real terms, I'm far closer to being genuinely wealthy than the average 9-to-5er will ever be, and it's only because I enthusiastically "slummed it," used my free time to build a business, and quickly saved up a nut that is substantial relative to my needs. I started with only $10k I'd saved up in the military. From this perspective, "refusing to get a job" has been an immense strength for me, not a weakness. Of course I still work, generate income, etc -- but I do so as an independent freelance business owner with complete control of my own time. Though all the risk is mine, 85% of every dollar I earn goes into savings and investments, and after just three years of this, I am generating passive returns that pay an increasingly large percentage of my monthly living expenses. As that percentage increases further, you can see that I'll fast approach a point where ANY money I earn is used to make more money with rather than getting burned up on living costs. If later, down the road, I want to work my way up to a "normal" high-cost American lifestyle, I'll be free to do that if I wish. Except if and when I arrive there, it will be without a boss, without a 9-to-5, and without debt. Absolute worst case, I stay living in the house I own outright for ~$800/mo. Even if I lost all sources of income today, I could cover that on minimum wage easily. In fact, FT minimum wage in NYS is $2132 post-tax, meaning even on the lowest legal wage, I could bag an extra $1332/mo. That's roughly $16k/yr -- or quite enough to start this whole process over again if I had to. Within a few years, I'd be back on top again. That's real security, but it demands equal measures of extreme frugality as well as resistance to more or less endless social pressure to live the high-cost, high-debt lifestyle. If you can nail those down, and generate ANY amount of income, you will do very well. And it just so happens that in spite of its flaws, deep rural Upstate NY is a *fantastic* place to do this.

@CharlesMullins2 @fchollet Dang, I was gonna come in here going "obvi self-development/self-discovery /s" but this was a much better answer.

Maybe the word is autopoiesis. In biology it means a system that creates and maintains itself through its own actions. You become what you build because the act of building reshapes the system doing the building. Kids do it naturally. Scientists do it with ideas. Engineers do it with tools. Making things is one of the fastest ways to remake yourself.

There should be a word for this trait. Something like "selfmaking". You make your self by making things yourself.

@TiredActor Also your recent communications about having to postpone stream were so on-point. Kind to self, taking others into consideration. Made me think "wish I learned how to say that earlier."

@TiredActor You nailed it! As a fellow chronic-illness-haver (rheumatoid arthritis) I agree definitely the hardest thing is understanding that the limitation is real. Accepting "this is as much as I can do even if I can imagine doing more" is hard, but necessary if we want any consistency.

Sorry for the long video, but here’s an update on how I am

@TansuYegen @SellswordArts I figured out the problem with reverse grip swords: they should just be axes!

I think his mom never told him not to run with the scissors ..

@BrettRocketSci Looks like the first one got a healthy number of RSVPs. Are you thinking of hosting another one?

FYI !

@zoyyysauce New subathon once we hit zero?? 👀👀👀

finally have the next few days off to CONTINUE THE SUBATHON let’s see if we can get the timer to zero!

I shared this in my newsletter yesterday, but today, I want to share it right here in the belly of the beast. I’m asking all of you to go on an extreme crash diet. This is not a crash diet for your nutrition…those don’t work. This is a diet for your mind. It will work.

@nixcraft Just installed Flameshot so I didn't have to keep opening GIMP for screenshots.

How many of you use open source image editors like GIMP, Krita, Inkscape? Be honest!

@OldHollowTree S.A.D.

This post has made the Canadians emotional for some reason. I don’t think they’re doing well.

I make a point to pass my baby around to young women at parties in an effort to unlock their maternal instincts and increase the total fertility rate in my town. This is a public service.

@TiredActor Bro please, that's the Golden ratio 🙏

the shimp

economy so bad u might as well follow your dreams and see what happens

@zoyyysauce Submitting a report to BPELSG rn. Can't believe you claimed to be licensed.

holy shit ***architectural designer did not think the proper wording would’ve mattered when i made this tweet thinking only a few people would see it i have a bachelors in architecture, was a designer in a firm, and was on the path to getting licensed i did it all babyyy i did floor plans, designing, consulting, modeling, rendering, production, etc

i’m an architect that got laid off 6 months ago and fucked in the job market so yeah i had to go back to starbucks but go off king

@jmbourne2011 @zoyyysauce @zoyyysauce if you decide to try this route don't ask Mr. Bourne for a chance because he won't hire you apparently lol

@hei_br @zoyyysauce They likely had architectural engineering degrees, which is a degree that’s an actual blend of architecture and civil engineering. She could not get hired as a civil engineer. A firm may hire her as a drafter/designer, but not an engineer.

hey so 36k likes is crazy guys to clear up some things - i got laid off due to restructuring in my company on the design side, alongside 7 other people in a small-sized firm - i have been nonstop applying to architecture positions for the last 6 months - i have gotten 2 interviews in those 6 months that i did not get offers for - i went back to starbucks because unemployment was running out and deferred student loan payments are coming back, and it’s easy to get re-hired - i am not a licensed architect so that definitely limits my job capabilities - the job market is indeed ass, the masters graduating class of 2025 at my architecture school had 36 students and only 12 of them found jobs by now - i have always loved working at starbucks and i am happy to be working at all right now - also i love being a streamer! have been doing it for 3 years now, check out my twitch!

@zoyyysauce The last place I worked was a small civil engineering group that was always willing to train up people from the ground, and I think two people in that group came from an architecture background, so this isn't just theoretical!

@zoyyysauce Have you considered applying to civil engineering positions as well? Especially if you want to build drafting skills, a lot of entry level civil positions, or technician positions, would accept an architecture background and fill in some of those experiences.