See, the first time I grew parsnips, I fucked it up good. I hadn’t seen parsnips sprouting before, right, and in my eagerness I was keeping a close eye on the row. And every time I saw some intruding grass coming up, I twitched it right out, and went back to anticipating the germination of my parsnips.
But it turns out parsnips take a bit longer than anything else I’d ever grown to distinguish themselves visually. It’s just the two little split leaves, almost identical to a newly seeded bit of kentucky bluegrass when they first come up, and they take a good bit to establish themselves and spread out flat before the main stem with its first distinctive scallopy leaf gets going.
I didn’t get any parsnips, not that year, because I’d weeded them all out as soon as they showed their faces, with my ‘ugh no that’s grass’ twitchy horticulture finger.
The next year, having in retrospect come to suspect what had happened, I left the row alone and didn’t weed anything until all the sprouts coming up had all had a bit to set in and show their colors, and I’ve grown lots of parsnips since. They’re kind of a slow crop, not a huge return, but I like them and watching them grow and digging them up, and their papery little seeds in the second year, if you don’t harvest one either on purpose or because you misjudged the frost, so it’s worth it.
Anyway, whenever I see someone stuck and struggling with their writing who’s gotten into that frustration loop of typing a few words, rejecting them, backspacing, and starting again, I find myself thinking, you gotta stop weeding your parsnips, man.
love how capitalism made it so AAA video games with millions of dollars poured into them are so notorious for being broken and buggy that its safe to assume that one coming out wont work at launch and indie games made on a shoestring budget by like 3 people runs like a dream
nerd has a lot of pent-up anger, might pretend you are his dad
because of the jock’s exposure to jazz music, his attack patterns and movements are a lot less predictable
Buff nerd because as a fellow nerd I can more easily de-escalate the situation by finding common fandoms and then we just calm down and hangout and talk. Or. Distract the nerd by saying it is better to settle our differences in video games/card games/board games. Especially if it is one the nerd struggles to find others that like the thing.
Hey. Quick thing to people that recommend anime and other shows. Don’t just say “it is good, go and watch it”. Especially for anime since anime has a WIDE variety of genres and not everyone is into watching them all and they could stumble into something they don’t want because someone pushed it on them like this. Especially don’t tell people to not look things up before going in. Like. I know going into certain kinds of mystery shows (and even games) is the best way to experience them because the more surprising it is the more entertaining it is for the viewer. But. That all banks on whether the viewer likes that kind of genre. For me there are genres and themes I don’t deal well with. And I don’t really like stumbling into those stories. They mess me up man. Like. Sometimes I can enjoy them with the right kind of supernatural or sci-fi twist. But not always. It’s also annoying when the thing has stuff in it that would inadvertently lure me in. That would upset me worse because I am going in expecting one kind of story and then get blindsided by something I can’t handle very well.
absolutely could sell the daylights out of something like that, this feels brilliant to me
I am pretty sure some games have that. I think Deathspank might? But that might not be good for kids… Mario and Kirby games have second player modes. Untitled Goose Game just has co-op, but it is Untitled Goose Games, so it is a chill puzzle game.