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This 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 d

by stnmtn 5y ago

This 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.

csdvrx 5y ago
> 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!
- stnmtn 5y ago
  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
  - csdvrx 5y ago
    Then a few years later you joke about it with your friends and it becomes Type 5 fun :)
Lammy 5y ago
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-busting-podcast-shows-how-diversity-programs-can-n1288965 https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/rei-s-union-bust...
cshimmin 5y ago
Interesting, I've never heard Type IV before. I've always heard the more succinct definition: Type I -- fun now, fun later, Type II -- not fun now, fun later, Type III -- not fun now, not fun ever. But now that you mention it, the fun classification is obviously just a 2x2 truth table: fun now? +------------+------------+ | Y | N | +-----+------------+------------+ fun | Y | Type I | Type II | |-----+------------+------------+ later? | N | Type IV | Type III | +-----+------------+------------+
- at_a_remove 5y ago
  Clearly, we have to switch the Y/N, both in rows and columns, then start our numbering scheme a bit earlier. Type Null fun is not fun: not now, not later. This puts something as being fun now and later at Type III, which sounds just like a lot of fun, and so it is; Type I and II Funs would be mixed bags. You could even say that Type I + Type II = Type III.

by stnmtn 5y ago

csdvrx 5y ago

> 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!

stnmtn 5y ago
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
- csdvrx 5y ago
  Then a few years later you joke about it with your friends and it becomes Type 5 fun :)

Lammy 5y ago

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-busting-podcast-shows-how-diversity-programs-can-n1288965 https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/rei-s-union-bust...

cshimmin 5y ago

Interesting, I've never heard Type IV before. I've always heard the more succinct definition: Type I -- fun now, fun later, Type II -- not fun now, fun later, Type III -- not fun now, not fun ever. But now that you mention it, the fun classification is obviously just a 2x2 truth table: fun now? +------------+------------+ | Y | N | +-----+------------+------------+ fun | Y | Type I | Type II | |-----+------------+------------+ later? | N | Type IV | Type III | +-----+------------+------------+

at_a_remove 5y ago
Clearly, we have to switch the Y/N, both in rows and columns, then start our numbering scheme a bit earlier. Type Null fun is not fun: not now, not later. This puts something as being fun now and later at Type III, which sounds just like a lot of fun, and so it is; Type I and II Funs would be mixed bags. You could even say that Type I + Type II = Type III.