This is definitely how I improve my writing. I have a ton of different projects, books I’m reading in different genres, and other media I’m absorbing

An artistic depiction of a Vulcan’s head, Superimposed over a primitive metallic fastening device.

This is illogical.

Don’t really have many people to celebrate this with.

I guess you must not have had many followers on Instagram 😂

If this hasn’t been tilt-cropped, would I be seeing an iFunny watermark? 😂

Are you playing Holographic Vic Fontaine?

I think the amount will depend on you. Are there any hobbies you have put down and come back to before? I’d start with those, and expand as necessary. I’ve also found it helps to have hobbies with different levels of energy requirements. Writing, for example, take a lot more mental energy than watching Star Trek, so Star Trek is a good fallback for me. Often watching an episode or two will be enough to get me in the mood to read, or write myself.

TTRPGs are high energy investment as well, but they have the added benefit of being a group activity, so there are other people I’m motivated to not disappoint by flaking. I would definitely recommend a regularly scheduled social hobby. It can be a lifeline when everything else is chaos

I mean, yeah, that’s how we prepare for disasters. We just need to find it all better

A two piece seersucker suit in the standard style for ~$30. I usually can’t find anything off the rack with long enough arms, but it fit me perfectly!

There are definitely things AI is good for. Archival search is obviously the biggest, because that’s what we’ve been using it for decades. It can also be helpful for subterranean and medical imaging, and art restoration. But the companies selling it want to sell a Magic 8 Ball with ads

There used to be a line on my street in Lansing 😭

I agree with everyone else. Having a bunch of different hobbies that I can bounce between keeps things fresh and exciting. They can be related though. For example, I enjoy writing, I also enjoy reading. And I love sci-fi and fantasy in television, movies, and video games as well. And I play TTRPGs in various genres. Oftentimes, because of how related a lot of my hobbies are, by the time I start losing interest in one specific thing, I’ve already been inspired in something adjacent. So overall, it’s like one big hobby that I slowly work theough

That scene was so funny

IIRC, he got the memories when Soong realized the colony was going to be destroyed by the Crystaline entity, and he was never really alive on the colony, so that doesn’t quite work I don’t think lol

An effective form in fact!

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Everything mentioned here is great, but remember, he also has the memories of all the colonists from Soong’s planet, so, not only is he programmed for sex, he has first hand experience

If you’re playing D&D 5e, no perception check, no matter how high, will let you notice an object is actually a mimic.

False Appearance (Object Form Only). While the mimic remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from an ordinary object.

The zero sugar versions of things are not any healthier. In fact, artificial sweeteners can be less healthy

It was discovered “aboard an old derelict freighter,” so probably pirates

You know who wasn’t?

We’ve got a British one, which I think explains a lot