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Re: User: Junnn11

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Post by OJFord »

doesnt_know wrote: post #17

Wonderful illustrations! Whenever I see someone that is interested in a very specific niche and obviously expends a lot of effort towards it, I'm always in awe. How did they become interested in the topic? Why choose this specific thing? How do they keep their motivation to continue with it? I've personally never really felt like I've cared enough about anything this much. Because of this, I've always felt like I'm m…

I would guess they're an academic in the area (not that that entirely answers how/why they became interested) and so it's kind of like being prolific in open source on the side of your professional SE job.

Re: User: Junnn11

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Post by 20wenty »

doesnt_know wrote: post #17

Wonderful illustrations! Whenever I see someone that is interested in a very specific niche and obviously expends a lot of effort towards it, I'm always in awe. How did they become interested in the topic? Why choose this specific thing? How do they keep their motivation to continue with it? I've personally never really felt like I've cared enough about anything this much. Because of this, I've always felt like I'm m…

Reminds me of the George Costanza line from Seinfeld,

Jerry (on Keith Hernandez): Yeah, he's a real smart guy too. He's a Civil War buff. George: I'd love to be a Civil War buff. What do you have to do to be a buff?

Re: User: Junnn11

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Post by PcChip »

telchior wrote: post #68

I recently needed a 3d model of a crab and found that some similarly obsessive user over at Sketchfab had created dozens (possibly hundreds?) of extremely detailed crab models -- at 500k - 1.5 million tris, so basically unusable for most typical animation needs, but they're beautifully detailed and free for download. My first thought was that it might be the same person, since they had a Japanese username! But I don'…

Holy crap those are amazing! (and some are terrifying)

Re: User: Junnn11

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Post by docmars »

itsmemattchung wrote: post #46
jaredandrews wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hell, just this youtuber is a good example of what you are saying. This guy, 'DistroTube', has a ton of entry level videos about seemingly niche linux topics. Even the video you posted has a little command line tutorial embedded into it. I come across him whenever I am trying to figure out what a specific distro or tool _looks and feels_ like. If you search any distro name plus "distrotube" there is probably a video…

That's amazing. As someone with a non-linear journey into tech, love hearing about people like this. Insane that he's been able to write Linux related YouTube content despite never working in industry.

I wonder how much imposter syndrome one would have to go through to finally feel comfortable after releasing so many videos, with the potential scrutiny of more academic/formal Linux communities.

Re: User: Junnn11

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Post by docmars »

itsmemattchung wrote: post #47
doesnt_know wrote: post #17

Wonderful illustrations! Whenever I see someone that is interested in a very specific niche and obviously expends a lot of effort towards it, I'm always in awe. How did they become interested in the topic? Why choose this specific thing? How do they keep their motivation to continue with it? I've personally never really felt like I've cared enough about anything this much. Because of this, I've always felt like I'm m…

> I've personally never really felt like I've cared enough about anything this much. Because of this, I've always felt like I'm missing something in life. I would love to be passionate about something as much as Junnn11 is about Arthropods. I myself have tried to force myself into one (or more) passions. Never works. I'm 34 now and part of me is just (radically) accepting my ADHD. That's not to say I cannot cultivate…

Thanks for saying this. I suspect I've long dealt with ADHD or some similar neurodivergence as well which, more prominently in my 20's caused me to bounce between so many things that I started to feel overwhelmed with excitement, but ultimately frustrated that I couldn't invest fully into something without eventually feeling bored, almost too early.

Today (34 as well!) I've managed to narrow this down with trying numerous video games and exploring political topics that interest me, and occasionally a few side dev projects.

Finding routines I enjoy has created stability overall.

Re: User: Junnn11

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Post by danjoredd »

kube-system wrote: post #55
danjoredd wrote: post #27

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People obsessed with niche subjects and go all out on that are the backbone of society. My mind goes to the guy that packaged 1/3 of all Arch packages in the official repo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqMf6XFacR8&pp=ygUKZGlzdHJvd...

Which is terrifying. https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dependency.png

That is absolutely true. I remember a while back an emulator developer that made the PS2 emulator for mobile phones got bullied out of developing it anymore, so once that stops working then we won't get to play PS2 games on phones anymore which, while not the worst thing ever, definitely sucks

Re: User: Junnn11

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Post by agentwiggles »

saeranv wrote: post #24

The animated illustrations of the "arthropod" biomechanics is fascinating. It sheds some light on why arthropods would be interesting enough to draw in their own community of enthusiasts. Spearing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:20220123_stomatopod_strik... Smashing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:20220123_stomatopod_strik... In case they manage to find this thread: @Junnn1, do these biomechanic animations in…

This is amazingly cool, I've been fascinated by mantis shrimps for a long time. I've been watching these on a loop for a while, the "latch" mechanism is really interesting to me, I've never seen something like that in biology before (not that I've got any real experience with biology, but still, how ingenious!)

Re: User: Junnn11

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Post by thih9 »

telchior wrote: post #68

I recently needed a 3d model of a crab and found that some similarly obsessive user over at Sketchfab had created dozens (possibly hundreds?) of extremely detailed crab models -- at 500k - 1.5 million tris, so basically unusable for most typical animation needs, but they're beautifully detailed and free for download. My first thought was that it might be the same person, since they had a Japanese username! But I don'…

Are these created or captured with some 3d scanner? Impressive in any case.

Re: User: Junnn11

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Post by thih9 »

sk0g wrote: post #31
nsajko wrote: post #5

This is awesome! A long time ago I used to browse Deviantart looking for similar stuff. Here's a nice example: https://www.deviantart.com/albertonykus/art/The-Cartoon-Guid...

DeviantArt has taken a very particular direction! I suspect the advent of ArtStation has siphoned away the creatives posting for their portfolio. I kept trying to use it for finding reference material for a game I was working on, except every query I tried returned results like I had suffixed porn to the search. Maybe deviant is doing more of the heavy lifting in the name now...

What queries did you use?

I haven’t used deviantart for 15+ years but I still remember the site and a small chain of followers dearly.

I looked at search results and didn’t notice any changes in my sample queries (elf, goblin, potato), they looked similar to what I’d expect 15 years ago.

Re: User: Junnn11

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Post by alanning »

imadethis wrote: post #38
danjoredd wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People obsessed with niche subjects and go all out on that are the backbone of society. My mind goes to the guy that packaged 1/3 of all Arch packages in the official repo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqMf6XFacR8&pp=ygUKZGlzdHJvd...

I'll add this guy, who is building a 1:60 model 777 out of paper, with unfathomable levels of detail: https://www.lucaiaconistewart.com/model-777

That is incredible
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