Own it!
Own it!
Haha, I can definitely understand this feeling. It can be difficult to overcome! It doesn’t always “work”, and sometimes you will just stand there awkwardly. The good news is that nobody is going to care or remember. Seriously. You’re basically an NPC to people you don’t know. I’ve been to hundreds of parties in my life and have zero tangible memories of other people’s “awkward proximity”. Nobody cares about you as much as you do, which is slightly sad but majorly liberating.
Since I didn’t see any responses that directly answered the question of what do you DO, I’ve prepared a short guide for a generic social gathering. This guide may be inappropriate in some contexts such as a dinner party or event/tv show watching party, etcetera:
This was probably too much info. I have insomnia. I hope someone reads this.
The answer might be impossible or impractical like a Dyson Sphere.
You’ll be missed, my cocaine.
Alrighty then. I’m on it. Prepare to be mildly amused, lemmy
Efff
Wait what do I do? Is there a mod manual somewhere?
Fuck it, I’ll do it. I’ve never moderated anything in my life, but I’m mildly interested in the idea.
Tutor people trying to get better at solving coding puzzles?
I’m going to make a solar powered, battery backed, portable power supply that’s beefy enough to power an Amcrest wifi security camera 24/7. The front gate entrance to my house is pretty far away and I’d like to point a camera at it that I can view on my local area network.
Shit like that really yees my haw
Yeah, Neanderthals were famous for their efficient large-scale manufacturing capabilities
Governments are one of the few entities that are able (and occasionally willing) to spin up a mass production endeavor without the profit motive necessarily present.
Sometimes they essentially do this themselves via federal employees, or contractors. Sometimes they achieve the ends indirectly by incentivizing private companies with subsidies and the like.
Regardless of how it gets done, everyone shows up for work in the morning motivated by something. In the Soviet Union this was often the fear of imprisonment or other such violence, which was a really shitty situation for a lot of people to be in. In the modern world, it’s typically the hope that the money made will pay for food and housing and such.
Without the motivation to make a profit, few entities are both willing and able to engage in the considerable expense, risk, and effort required to spin up a mass production line.
My sense of Texan pride is basically on life support, but shit like this is a ray of light in the dark, blighted void that is my hopescape.
Well now I’m gonna watch it even harder!
Wow, this sounds terrible! The new gold standard for en$hitification!
Just finished my 300+ hour play through of BG3, so something short and snappy to fill the void sounds perfect!
They would know I guess