• confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    5 hours ago

    The folks in these comments mad they had to work to understand are cracking me up.

    And yeah, it could be much better executed.

  • voodooattack@lemmy.world
    12·
    10 hours ago

    I didn’t get the message as well.

    I think the big reason is the tree to the right obscuring the continuity from the pond to the house. Maybe the row of flowers continuing towards the pond’s edge (sans tree) would have made it more obvious.

    • Screamium@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 hours ago

      Also because it shows her walking to the right then flips perspective and she’s on the left, confusing the viewer

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
    10·
    10 hours ago

    This applies to ADHD as well: We might seem to be procrastinating, but i at least get a whole lot of stuff done during that “procrastination” period, such as reading unrelated wikipedia articles. I wouldn’t learn stuff if i didn’t do it because i’m procrastinating on something else.

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      33 minutes ago

      I’ve got two words that I’ve coined that I use to describe this stuff.

      “Para-productive” tasks are like what you describe. Usually procrastination related, but in a useful way. Examples might include tidying up my desk rather than starting the essay I need to do. For me, that kind of thing helps me to gear up towards the proper task. Random reading of fun stuff also helps me to focus better when I get onto the task. I find that I work best when I do a sort of task “circuit training”, where I have an array of tasks that I cycle between — and some of these tasks need to be fun for it to work.

      “Psuedo-productive” is similar, except bad vibes. It is often associated with unhealthy avoidance towards tasks that I’m dreading, or an excessive level of procrastination. This word is mostly just to distinguish between the good and bad kinds of procrastination.

    • decended_being@midwest.social
      2221·
      16 hours ago

      The leaky bucket caused the row of flowers to grow.

      Moral is something like, ‘even if you think you’re failing at a task, your benefit is simply not being measured / seen.’

      • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        294·
        10 hours ago

        The leaky bucket caused the row of flowers to grow.

        I just gotta say the execution in this comic horrible: it neither showed nor told. Just made guesswork.

      • stupidcasey@lemmy.world
        1323·
        14 hours ago

        That’s great and all but I can’t eat flowers, my nana broke her back from the extra work you caused and my wife is deathly allergic to flowers, if you were only good at your one job we could have saved my entire family, go sit in the scrap heap and think about what you’ve done.

        • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
          1·
          26 minutes ago

          The bucket is clearly still functional enough to be used, otherwise the other bucket would be difficult to carry due to lack of a counterweight. Of course the metaphor doesn’t work when you distort it as you have — the flowers clearly are meant to represent something unexpected and positive that arises from a minor fault in an item. If the person in the comic had a wife who was allergic to flowers, then the minor flaw would be recontextualised as a major flaw, and in that scenario, it would be the silly person at fault for continuing to use a functionally dangerous tool.

  • frog@feddit.uk
    491·
    17 hours ago

    The difference of weight on each side would drive me crazy.