to buy gifts or even have time to make something meaningful for the people i care about these holidays, am i just going to be considered the a'sshole this year or what? ive never been in this spot before. i mean i can probably transfer people a dollar in bitcoin as a "surprise!" and make it seem like they're soon gonna be rich
thhen there are things like trying to work out a way to play minesweeper on paper that probably are theoretically impossible without using inelegant tactics rendering it utterly pointless as a solution... now that, that i uhh htotally didn't waste half a day thinking about (without concluding anything except that i was a dunce... so far!!!!)
problems that seem impossible, or at least extremely hard, are fascinating
but when i feel like i have t ocome to a conclusion and like, *theoretically* can't, or like no matter what i do i won't find anything new about it, that can be a deterrent for me. not always, but boy is it infuriating
you could consider buying and selling online coins to be making money from "nothing" the same way morons like to say online coins are "fake" and have "no inherent value" except you'd be right and they'd be morons
but, like...
Online coins are better than that! Online coins have inherent value as ways for people living in countries like Zimbabwe to... eat. Theoretically, that is. I think. Right? Anyhow it feels like such a shame the atmosphere around online coins atm. The atm-osphere. ha. ha. ha.
(i had this on my clipboard but decided to stop being stupid and talking about things i know nothing about. changed my mind)
I'm slightly masochistic, I always gravitate toward problems I know are going to be pretty well impossible to make progress on. They just fascinate me and draw me in like a moth to a flame.
but it seems far more complicated than we as a society have built the groundwork for understanding or whatever. and god do i hate when i want to solve a puzzle but feel like i AM INCAPABLE of making progress, or coming to any new/interesting conclusions.
The thing is though, you just know there's an elegant way to describe humor lurking there somewhere, it almost makes trying to solve something that's systemically frustrating to try and solve worth it.
You want earn monies tips? Focus on something really intently until you're sure not very many people know as much about it as you, then use your knowledge to service a demand.
right now it seems so utterly befuddling that thinking about it doesn't feel like making progress or finding anything new, except to notice patterns -- and that doesn't necessarily lead to an -understanding- of it, in that sense. It's weird and befuddling. Sarcasm and wit and irony have different effects on us, beyond just creating laughter. So what gives? Obviously we can say vague things about surprises generating laughs -- but again, it's a deeply inadequate explanation and creates contradictions if used on its own
Yeah it's easy to identify patterns that are commonly found in humor, like what you said about foreshadowing, but none of these patterns work without some other elusive element, so it's never reproducible.
we can equivocate about some slight survival elements it could have and all, but again, i feel like it always falls flat when we try to extrapolate from any one explanation to encompass *all* forms of comedy
comedians and comedy sketches often do this comedic foreshadowing thing where they bring something up and then reference it later, after we've mostly forgotten it
