The Fun Scale (2014)
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The Fun Scale (2014)
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#2I think a good balance between Type I fun and Type II fun is where its at. Type II fun really tickles the curious part of us and provides a healthy does of challenge and growth(hopefully). Type III fun is great until you're in a stretcher on the way to the hospital and no one knows if you're going to make it, at which point it ceases to be any type of fun.
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#3This is a long time favorite post of mine. Kelly Cordes is rad.
As alluded to at the end of this, the real bastard about the fun scale is that if you live in type II fun long enough, the things you do for type II fun become type I fun.
... and that's how people wind up thinking ultras are a great idea, kids!
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#4This misses one type of fun, Type 4 Fun:
When something is fun in the moment, but in retrospect was not fun at all and was awful. The most obvious example is drinking too much on a night out, or binge eating.
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#5This misses one type of fun, Type 4 Fun: When something is fun in the moment, but in retrospect was not fun at all and was awful. The most obvious example is drinking too much on a night out, or binge eating.
> The most obvious example is drinking too much on a night out
I've found interesting (russian meds) and creative (supplements like NAC) solutions to that problem on reddit.
Even funnier: they seem to actually work! No headache the next day!
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#6One of my favourite examples of type III fun: The Apollo 13 mission. It's just so ludicrous, and it embodies the "not fun in the moment and let's not do that again" sentiment.
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#7This misses one type of fun, Type 4 Fun: When something is fun in the moment, but in retrospect was not fun at all and was awful. The most obvious example is drinking too much on a night out, or binge eating.
Like when REI's CEO starts a DEI initiative but then uses it to prevent worker organization https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/rei-s-union-bust...
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#8My friends and I used to dare each other to run around the house barefoot in the snow. By the time I was half-way, my feet hurt so bad I could barely walk, but it didn't matter, because I saw my friend who was running faster than I had ever seen before, that I could barely stand up due to laughter.
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#9This is a long time favorite post of mine. Kelly Cordes is rad. As alluded to at the end of this, the real bastard about the fun scale is that if you live in type II fun long enough, the things you do for type II fun become type I fun. ... and that's how people wind up thinking ultras are a great idea, kids!
Agreed. I started backpacking with my brother a few years ago and it was miserable the first few times because there were so many things that we were anxious about, we bad with, or just didn't know to do. For example, we bought heavy waterproof gear and learned quickly there is no avoiding getting wet, so might as well trade in the waterproofing for fast-drying. Now we can open up a little and have a little fun in the rain. Same with coffee. We used to lug gear around to make piping hot coffee, now we heat up a little water and mix in a little instant and we get 75% of the benefit with very little overhead.
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#10This misses one type of fun, Type 4 Fun: When something is fun in the moment, but in retrospect was not fun at all and was awful. The most obvious example is drinking too much on a night out, or binge eating.
> The most obvious example is drinking too much on a night out I've found interesting (russian meds) and creative (supplements like NAC) solutions to that problem on reddit. Even funnier: they seem to actually work! No headache the next day!
I'm not only talking about the hangover (But you've inspired me to look into MAC), I'm talking about the things you do when too drunk at a bar. Acting like a fool and being embarrassed about it, spending a lot of money on drinks only to not even remember the next day.. things like that.
Going out to a bar and having the right amount of drinks can definitely be Type 1 fun, but when you pass a certain threshold of drinks it slides to Type 4