suboptimalism
8 months ago
it's a little heavy-duty for what i wanted to do, had to spend some time dumbing it down, in the end it's pretty convenient though
saddleblasters
8 months ago
imagine spending your hard earned dollars on a subscription to your favorite substack writer, only to discover they never actually finished any of the subscriber-only posts, and when you email them about it they admit "It never occurred to me someone would be stupid enough to actually give me money!"
balckwell
8 months ago
i would legitimately pay to read the suboptimalism guide to meeting girls in 2025
suboptimalism
8 months ago
are you sure... it's over 6k words, never been put into practice, based entirely on memes and vibes, contains half a dozen irrelevant rants about things i dislike. one of the suggestions is to become a cult leader
letslearntogether
8 months ago
I was genuinely curious as soon as I saw the ใจใใใใกใขใชใขใซ image.
burgeritchi
8 months ago
OMG!!!!! i get so excited when ppl mention biloxi/gulfport!!! my moms family lives there + i partially grew up there!! so cool to hear ur experience/how it is to someone visiting.
suboptimalism
8 months ago
as a free trial i'll give out the password for one post... but which one...
michaelmas
8 months ago
Once I called your writing "vaguely substackesque" & wanted to apologize for the transgression lol
labyrinth-limbo
8 months ago
this is now the most alarming website design i've ever seen...even the favicon is cursed.
lilybeetle
8 months ago
ty for introducing me to the northern caves, just spent so long reading the entire thing. it is incredible
ophanimkei
8 months ago
(โ_โ) Tomoko Kuroki. There's actually context provided for how her actions are seen by others later in the manga.. She is umm.. A character for sure... The cringe of the anime was actually too much for me at times leading me to fast forwarding through one of the episodes and reading a summary instead
sorbier
9 months ago
update: it was good, a little sweet;;;;;;;;;; per your influencing, i may try the unsweetened black next
suboptimalism
9 months ago
western manufacturers have stepped up their game lately but they still don't make anything like japanese unsweetened black coffee... closest they get is unsweetened cold brew.
suboptimalism
9 months ago
not canned, but i'm also fond of this UCC "่ทไบบใฎ็็ฒ" that comes in a rectangular PET bottle with a blue label, it's black coffee with just the slightest hint of sugar, no milk or cream or anything, somehow it works perfectly
suboptimalism
9 months ago
one of these days i should update the canned coffee page, i've still been collecting cans this whole time, i have a backlog of maybe 40 of them
saddleblasters
9 months ago
One thing I noticed since Special Sauce became the standard sort order, at first it seemed like there was a lot of variability -- I'd see a different assortment of websites every time I checked -- but now a few months later it feels like it's settled on the same 30 or 40 sites, just shuffling them around based on who updated most recently
saddleblasters
9 months ago
of course still much better than the old default of sorting by follower count
suboptimalism
9 months ago
the upside of special sauce is that those sites only stay up there because they are very active, if they stop updating constantly they'll drop out of the top pretty quickly. the old follower count sort had many long abandoned sites that stayed at the top forever since they steadily gained followers merely from being the most visible, and at a rate that was hard for newcomers to outpace
ghostscape
9 months ago
I think the text on your sort by hits url has a typo (says featured instead) but the link itself works!
suboptimalism
9 months ago
thanks... one of these days i'll write about why doremi is the best mahou shoujo, but i'm not ready to take the heat yet...
The substack update was funny but I sighed in relief when your normal layout came back, lol