I’ve never heard that phrase before but it sounds like something I can use to annoy the piss out of my kids and their friends. Kind of like yeet, rizz, or cap. Especially if I use it wrong intentionally.
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I don't know. Perhaps familiarity? Or the subject matter?
I just happened to see the comment and wanted to contribute. From a Mastodon perspective, you guys have 'default' avatars and sometimes the conversation seem to fly by. Might be a reason others don't engage. On reddit type places having a default was "norm" but at least on Mastodon I think it's considered "norm" to have an avi.
Different interface so the engagement is different, maybe?
I’ve hated Reddit for a while now and was originally happy to move to another platform but I’m already seeing lemmy start to show the same behaviors I hated Reddit for so I don’t think I’m gonna last long on here anyway
Yeah, it was great with more content. Or was it - so much of it is just stupid articles written as clickbait or strongly opinionated pretending neutrality.
And all the bad memes… really wish I could block communities my regex.
But I kept visiting Reddit while Apollo was up, so… and there are good Content here as well.
There are still more sane alternatives, like joining Beehaw and stick to local communities, or check out Tildes.
Hello there! I hope you’re liking it here. Could you please edit your post title to include a question? It’s our first rule, and it will also help your post gain more traction. Cheers :)
Yes, anyone can write a book! If you have an idea, write it!
If your only goal is to finish a book, check out nanowrimo.org for inspiration and support just for to force yourself to write and keep writing!
If you want to publish it, self-publishing is surprisingly cheap, if you’re happy if you only sell a few hundred copies, many just to friends and family.
If you want to publish a real novel that appears in bookstores and gets featured and advertised, you need to submit it to publishers…and be prepared for LOTS of rejection. Some of the BEST novelists I know write 10 books for every 1 they get published. Now imagine the worst writers!
@minorninth I'm seconding NaNoWriMo. It helped me write two novels, and I got my whole family into it as well. Plus there's a very robust community around it that is full of help and support.
Also, the best book on writing I ever read was oddly enough by Stephen King (it's called On Writing). It's not long, it's a very easy read and I swear I learned more from that book than I did in college.
Life is too short to read books you’re not going to enjoy, OP.
My biggest enemy is boredom - I have to be engaged to keep reading. Although the last two books I’ve abandoned were for other reasons. One because of a graphic animal-abuse scene that I couldn’t make it through and one that turned into a Christian novel half-way through. None of the reviews mentioned it, but apparently the author found god and released a new, improved printing featuring extra Jesus. Blech.
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I did not like The Martian at all. I’ve seen so many people say they love Project Hail Mary and that it got them out of their reading slumps and you have to read it. Do you think there’s a chance I’d like this one even though I did not like The Martian? I want to give it a chance because so many people whose opinions I trust seem to really like it, but idk, maybe Weir just isn’t for me.
What specifically didn't you like about The Martian? Hail Mary is weirder and in some ways, a more exciting story, but Weir's writing style is the same in both books and there is some similarity in the plots.
I didn’t connect with the character very much, and as much as I appreciated the realistic hard sci fi approach, I just didn’t find it interesting to read from a story standpoint. Sometimes it felt like I was reading a science textbook instead of a compelling narrative.
I didn’t hate The Martian, but I did not love it. I really liked Project Hail Mary, though. The sciencey stuff was still there, but it was bolted on to a much more compelling and interesting story.
Yeah, I wouldn’t say I hated it, but maybe it was just hyped up too much and I expected more. I don’t mind the sciencey stuff if it fits in with a good story, but I just wasn’t that interested in the story in The Martian. Project Hail Mary does sound like it’s more intriguing, I guess I should just read it and find out for myself.
Honestly I haven’t read the Martian (just seen the movie) but I think you might have a better time with Hail Mary. The science is defiantly still prominent and robust but we don’t have a single main character which I think sews the science and story together better.
I thought The Martian was just ok, but I didn’t like Project Hail Mary. It’s full of ridiculous and contrived coincidences and convenient events rather than actual problem solving. I know a lot of people love it but IMO it’s very weak writing and plotting.
Yeah - the whole dynamic of claiming that you don't intend to do the specific shitty thing that you then intentionally and specifically do is infuriating already, and "yuck your yum" just adds an extra layer of cringe to it.
Yeah, I've only ever seen it used as an admonishment against someone. Like, someone says something rude as fuck and they get told "don't yuck someone else's yum" ... which, isn't terrible, when it's advice being given to people acting like children.
Saying "I don't want to yuck your yum, but, the thing you like is blah-blah-blah" could easily be changed to "I'm an asshole and I think the things you like are blah-blah-blah" and the context of what was being said wouldn't change.
It's so good. Once the other character shows up and you hear him talking and Grace starts making sense out of what he's saying it's like the book just lights up. That was a really nice touch.
I don’t hate it, but every time now that I get linked to a Reddit post, I look at the comments, and every time I get a little more shocked at the amount of low-value, hateful comments over there compared to here.
In other words, I don’t hate it, but I feel like it hates me.
Nah, when I think whether it was worth it overwriting 10+ years worth of content in Reddit I just look over and see them come up with yet another shit move. It instantly validates getting off that sinking ship.
After fucking up API access they decided to delete all PMs older than 2023, get rid of awards/gold, and add more dark patterns to force people to their garbage apps.
Seems now that they’re gonna add “tipping” as if it was a disgusting instagram clone with ‘content creators’
They’re quickly tearing down everything that made Reddit unique at all. They don’t want a discussion board, they want a tiktok clone or whatever.
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