So I’ve been reading Worm ( parahumans.wordpress.com ), and there’s this tiny thing that’s been growing ever-more annoying, and I can’t hold off asking about it any longer.
I keep seeing passages like this: “Realizing the position he had me in, feeling the pressure of his thighs against my hips, his weight resting partially on my lower body, I must’ve blown a synapse. My thought process ground to a halt. It didn’t help that the first place my mind went was interpreting his ‘start’ as being this position leading to something else.”
Do people actually think like this? Seems like it would be really inconvenient.
I pretty rarely wrestle with people (or otherwise have such close physical
contact), so if someone I have a crush on is literally sitting on top of me
pinning me on my back, I have trouble staying calm. (I’m thinking of a
particular time this happened to me. I felt about like Taylor does in your
Worm quote.)
I practice jujitsu, an art which involves a lot of close physical contact. At times I’ve worked with people I find attractive, but the mindset’s different enough that I don’t have those sorts of intrusive thoughts during practice. It takes time to develop that mindset, though—beginning students are often uncomfortable.
Haven’t read Worm, though, so I’m not sure how applicable that would be.
Interesting. Does this.… urgency ever turn out to be useful? I’m assuming that at the worst it’s not distracting enough to justify taking the time to prevent it.
(In case I was not clear, I was talking about a more general thingy than being sat upon. Pretty much all of 6.3 for example.)
I’d say it ranges from enjoyable through
distracting-but-pleasant to just distracting, but it’s never
bad enough to noticeably affect my ability to get stuff
done. Maybe it sometimes was in my teens and twenties, but
I haven’t been able to remember a clear example. Arguably
one example would be my wrestling anecdote. That feeling
was sudden enough (my friend “attacked” me without warning)
and intense enough to make me not able to fight back very
well. Long story, but this meant that the playfight didn’t
last as long as I would have liked it to.
I’ve just finished Worm! At the pace of 10^5 words/week it left me little time for other activities. I hope someone makes a movie out of this web novel, it’s so visual.
Anyway, the passage you quoted seems like a perfectly good description of one’s physical contact with her crush. Especially if it’s the first crush of a not-quite 16 year-old girl.
It does, but not even HBO has the budget for the necessary special effects in every episode. Maybe a LoTR-size trilogy would do. The first installment could end with the hospital scene.
No, it does not. The way it works is that a variety of humans painstakingly create the complete digital description of the special effect you need (which might involve 3D modeling, motion capture, creating textures, etc.) and once they’re done this digital description is handed off to the rendering farm which spends some time—from minutes to months—rendering high-resolution movie frames from the digital description.
Better rendering hardware might reduce the time from months to days, but that’s not where the costs are—the costs are in creating the world, not in rendering it to frames.
Sure, better hardware in general will also give more efficient tools to modelers and such, but I don’t think the productivity gains here are going to be large.
I’ve had moments like that. It’s much more of a thing I think when you’re extremely lonely and inexperienced. But I still get emotional thrills when sitting in very close contact to someone I find attractive regardless of the fact that I have plenty of physical fun these days.
Yes. Not even being attracted to anyone, physical contact (especially the close kind in grappling) tends to have me consciously trying not to panic over those sorts of implications. It might be a cultural thing? Possibly mixed with personality type/experience?
So I’ve been reading Worm ( parahumans.wordpress.com ), and there’s this tiny thing that’s been growing ever-more annoying, and I can’t hold off asking about it any longer.
I keep seeing passages like this: “Realizing the position he had me in, feeling the pressure of his thighs against my hips, his weight resting partially on my lower body, I must’ve blown a synapse. My thought process ground to a halt. It didn’t help that the first place my mind went was interpreting his ‘start’ as being this position leading to something else.”
Do people actually think like this? Seems like it would be really inconvenient.
I pretty rarely wrestle with people (or otherwise have such close physical contact), so if someone I have a crush on is literally sitting on top of me pinning me on my back, I have trouble staying calm. (I’m thinking of a particular time this happened to me. I felt about like Taylor does in your Worm quote.)
I practice jujitsu, an art which involves a lot of close physical contact. At times I’ve worked with people I find attractive, but the mindset’s different enough that I don’t have those sorts of intrusive thoughts during practice. It takes time to develop that mindset, though—beginning students are often uncomfortable.
Haven’t read Worm, though, so I’m not sure how applicable that would be.
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(Taylor is new to this sort of training during the scene in question.)
Interesting. Does this.… urgency ever turn out to be useful? I’m assuming that at the worst it’s not distracting enough to justify taking the time to prevent it.
(In case I was not clear, I was talking about a more general thingy than being sat upon. Pretty much all of 6.3 for example.)
I’d say it ranges from enjoyable through distracting-but-pleasant to just distracting, but it’s never bad enough to noticeably affect my ability to get stuff done. Maybe it sometimes was in my teens and twenties, but I haven’t been able to remember a clear example. Arguably one example would be my wrestling anecdote. That feeling was sudden enough (my friend “attacked” me without warning) and intense enough to make me not able to fight back very well. Long story, but this meant that the playfight didn’t last as long as I would have liked it to.
I’ve just finished Worm! At the pace of 10^5 words/week it left me little time for other activities. I hope someone makes a movie out of this web novel, it’s so visual.
Anyway, the passage you quoted seems like a perfectly good description of one’s physical contact with her crush. Especially if it’s the first crush of a not-quite 16 year-old girl.
God, I hope not, can you imagine trying to cram that thing into a movie? It needs the Game of Thrones treatment.
It does, but not even HBO has the budget for the necessary special effects in every episode. Maybe a LoTR-size trilogy would do. The first installment could end with the hospital scene.
You could just give Moore’s Law some more time, and special effects will get cheaper.
The cost of special effects isn’t in the rendering hardware, it is in the expensive human labor to create them.
Better rendering hardware means more efficient tools for the human.
No, it does not. The way it works is that a variety of humans painstakingly create the complete digital description of the special effect you need (which might involve 3D modeling, motion capture, creating textures, etc.) and once they’re done this digital description is handed off to the rendering farm which spends some time—from minutes to months—rendering high-resolution movie frames from the digital description.
Better rendering hardware might reduce the time from months to days, but that’s not where the costs are—the costs are in creating the world, not in rendering it to frames.
Sure, better hardware in general will also give more efficient tools to modelers and such, but I don’t think the productivity gains here are going to be large.
Hmm, I wonder if any studio bothered to calculate, plot and extrapolate the cost of visual effects over time and plan/budget accordingly.
I’ve had moments like that. It’s much more of a thing I think when you’re extremely lonely and inexperienced. But I still get emotional thrills when sitting in very close contact to someone I find attractive regardless of the fact that I have plenty of physical fun these days.
Yes. Not even being attracted to anyone, physical contact (especially the close kind in grappling) tends to have me consciously trying not to panic over those sorts of implications. It might be a cultural thing? Possibly mixed with personality type/experience?
(Yes, it is annoying.)