[HN Gopher] Getting to Gnome Mode
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Getting to Gnome Mode
Author : jger15
Score : 52 points
Date : 2022-06-19 12:16 UTC (1 days ago)
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| 0des wrote:
| It's alarming to me how much I see genuine sentiment being
| expressed that equates to "do less, be less, it's better that
| way".
| waste_monk wrote:
| Rejecting burnout / the conditions that cause burnout is
| perfectly reasonable.
| raverbashing wrote:
| Putting your clothes in a clothes hamper shouldn't cause
| burnout
| laputan_machine wrote:
| At no point does the article say this or infer it, at most
| the article says it's a side-effect of burnout.
|
| Even then, it's a _story_, it's not saying 'if you are
| burnt out this will happen'.
| coldtea wrote:
| As opposed to burnout, hurt yourself and your family, and
| possibly die or have health issues?
| puranjay wrote:
| Gnome mode is replacing work with play.
|
| Most great things in human creation emerged from play, not
| work. Work is what's done to refine the output of play.
| freiherr wrote:
| > do less, be less It's a relative tip. Absolutely true if
| you're just pushing yourself to burnout at the sake of your
| health. Absolutely false if you're wasting whole days on weed &
| games alone.
| suprfsat wrote:
| Nobody's stopping you from getting to KDE Mode
| h2odragon wrote:
| I suspect there's a point under all this but I don't have any
| confidence I've understood it. I get goblins are bad but are
| gnomes good or not? Where's the halflings and kobolds?
|
| I advocate "dragon mode". Find a defensible place, keeps what's
| precious to you there; burn the solicitors and anyone who looks
| tasty.
| [deleted]
| Nursie wrote:
| After the third mention of "normies", I quit. There may be a
| point hidden in there, but the writing is too poor to decipher
| it.
| [deleted]
| hhmc wrote:
| It's a very deliberately affected style, which (clearly) won't
| be to everyone's taste -- but I don't think it's fair to call
| it poor writing.
| johnchristopher wrote:
| Fair enough.
|
| But the usage of "normies" around here is on the rise and
| it's in poor taste[0]. There might be a parallel to draw with
| the now defunct usage of "brogrammer" of a few years ago and
| group identity: one is about in-groups, the other is about
| out-groups (but both suck).
|
| [0] and ambiguous.
| throwaquestion5 wrote:
| In this particular case, the word normies is just pointing
| out more that goblin mode is something an average person
| can end up.
|
| According to the article goblins have the career path
| track, money is good mindset that most people have. They
| are just in a burnout. When they rise again out of that
| state, they will be career focused again like before,
| a.k.a. 'normie' in this article. The article talks about
| Gnome mode as the alternative track when moving on from the
| goblin mode .
| corrral wrote:
| I expected the analysis of the "gnome mode" language to make a
| connection to Tom Bombadil. The imagery and language is similar
| enough to "Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow!" memes that I
| figured that had to be one of the main inspirations it's drawing
| on.
| smitty1e wrote:
| I have referred to the Second Month panel as "Two Pile Theory".
|
| TPT would be the clothing article view of this system, I suppose.
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