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I've already been doing that for years.
I've dealt with parents who have had pretty severe neuropathy. Shit sounds scary.

I refuse to post Padoru until Thanksgiving night.

heIly posted...

it's really not that big of an issue tbh

i'm sure it was before like, 2005 sure, but these days, nah

I wrote this thread thinking you'd come in here. Aren't you T1D / use an omnipod? That's much different than people with T1D who basically have to life with the fact they fucked themselves.
That being said being limited on what you can eat and having to monitor insulin levels like they're a hunger meter in a survival game just scare the shit out of me. The idea that not eating correctly could lead to a diabetic coma too.

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One of the few games I can still play. I have grown sour on basically everything but the Hades series has been a jewel in the rough for me. Both of them do rougelite correctly and even the pacing is on point.

heIly posted...

hades 2 i got sick of during early access, so unfortunately i hold no such desire to 100% it, or even get the full ending anymore

I learned this lesson with Rimworld and Dead Cells. I will no longer play EA games.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

what, scared of a lil diabetes?

Fucking terrified.
It is genetic in my family on my mother's side and both of the people I lived with for the past 25 years had it. It is very easy to avoid, so as long as I don't fucking eat like a pig I'll continue being good.

heIly posted...

cap managed to look exactly how i thought he would

just a big jovial fella who looks like he gives an excellent dad hug

you are too pure to be on this website

He has posted pictures of himself before. His posting and name really fit him well

Blood test came in and my rough interpretation is that muscle loss due to malnutrition is causing this. I am working on that and it was one of the main reasons why I moved out in the first place.

Thank fucking God.

You do not know how happy I am to be blessed with good health.

adjl posted...

low blood pressure

I actually have both low blood pressure and circulation issues and is something I've talked to my doctor about. Waiting for labs to come up, but it's one of the follow up questions I have for them.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

It was probably me. I definitely point out when people on PotD post the exact same thing every few months and act like no one will notice.

Sometimes I wonder why you and the other stable people on here continue to post for decades on end. I have to take breaks every few months because of certain posters and their "obsessions".

Damn_Underscore posted...

Mr. Feeny's reaction to Corey's comment about Krusty the Klown is subtle but it says so much. I know this is just a TV show but Mr. Feeny is a great teacher

You do understand that part was not the point of his monologue right? It is all about how we're wasting the potential of modern technology by indulging in very surface level stuff like "saving the princess". This is an actual thought provoking way of expressing yourself that is completely lost to the vast majority of people these days and the closest modern equivalent would be saying "bing bing wahoo" in reaction to an adult being overly obsessive about video games or any other hobby for that matter.

SunWuKung420 posted...

You don't go to the doctor if your cold unless your going into hypothermia.

And it would be especially stupid seeing as I got my physical this week.

Kinda crazy that people are so jaded for a sitcom that they likely grew up with.

Absolutely. It's great that BMW is still relevant 30 years later. Remember that Corey / Shawn and Topanga are all millennials.

hockey7318 posted...

Damn, look at Moneybags up there! That looks like a girthy money clip.

Also, what 'cha measuring up there?

I basically only use cash with places that won't take Google Wallet or for Laundry. That's basically all 1s.

Last week I got two canisters of https://www.target.com/p/harvest-candy-corn-crunch-trail-mix-31-5oz-favorite-day-8482/-/A-85457116 and remembered why I don't keep junk food laying around the house.

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Breakfast

I was at Walmart like 5 hours ago <_< >_>. I may go to Target tomorrow to pick up some discounted Halloween Candy.

Honestly I'd like to try these but I'd have to find them first. Amazon sells them $6 a cup. I bet they're like buldak and they're an influencer thing.

I took the shower and put the heat on (at least until I go to bed).
My heat is actually free but I want to be respectful to my landlord, although she seems super apathetic.

captpackrat posted...

The part of me that usually gets the coldest are my feet and my hands. Wear nice thick socks to keep you feet warm. (Costco and Sam's Club usually have an amazing price on wool socks, which are ever so warm in the winter, and which wick sweat away in summer).

I currently wear these around the house. It's a nice LPT tho:
https://www.target.com/p/dickies-men-s-6pk-dri-tech-tipped-crew-socks-6-12/-/A-94654974

I currently have a sweatshirt on. The feels like outside is 46F. Thoughts on how I can fix this?

I am having an amazing time right now planning out goals for the next year. where at the end my intention is to find a more permanent place to live. Cost isn't an issue, but mainly the fact that I am looking to own a very small space. More than two rooms is excessive for me, but finding properties that you can actually buy at those parameters while having a functioning kitchen and bathroom doesn't seem to happen. For example, something like a mobile home is actually probably larger than I want (and the dimensions aren't good anyways).

I learned that "Brainrot slang" is a thing today, but the only person I interact with who is under 18 seems to mainly not use it (although he does have some worrying newspeak-like speech habits that I can't remember off the top of my head).

SunWuKung420 posted...

Go to a deli and buy your own meats. Make a sandwich. There, you paid by weight

Someone's going to go on a tangent that their 5 different half pounds of deli meat are wasteful and they'll throw it all away but seriously people lack meal planning ability.

Everything that can go into a sandwich can go into an omelette or be put into a calzone. A lot of it can go on a Pizza. Unless you're buying something like bologna, then you might as well fry it up or... just make sandwiches for a week. I like to buy some amount of cold cuts or cheese every week because it goes well in an omelette and I like to eat sandwiches for a snack.

Next week I might make a Calzone, but for that I might consider doing something else. Maybe Chicken Parm.

Also as a tangent something I found is that as long as I'm not eating processed foods (which I don't normally eat anyways) I'm not gaining weight.

adjl posted...

Who said anything about Reddit? The stats capt linked come from a Gallup poll, the full methodology and results of which are readily available if you look for them. The main bias you'd be concerned about with those stats are that they were collected via phone surveys, so they're excluding people that aren't okay answering phone surveys, but I'm reasonably comfortable assuming that that won't do anything to confound a poll about sports interests.

I'm more interested in that the stats are collected by people who do phone surveys. You have to go out of your way to be involved in phone surveys. It's very similar to any other kind of survey. I don't know how many times I've had to, for example decline the Steam Hardware Survey.

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Well this thread made me put words to action.
I am now a Fleet/PWHL fan.

Hive minds like reddit are not accurate representations of reality. Basically every niche (or even non-niche hobby in this case Sports/Baseball) are not at all representative of the type of people you'd talk to in real life. I could list tons of experiences I've had (and I'm not known for experiences) that contradict what is going on with reddit, so I think that Muscles is right here and it also matches a lot of my experiences where I know two people who semi-regularly stay informed about the Red Sox but they're both in their 60s. I'd love to shit talk and watch a game next season at like a sports bar or something if I knew of one locally (too bad I moved out at the end of the season).

That being said Hockey is on the table, I just can't keep track of when Bruins games are on and the pace of play is totally different from Baseball where you can pretty easily keep track of game state. I also kinda wanted to go to a Fleet game because they're hosted in my city.

Muscles posted...

Well a lot of them were from outside the Chicago area, sometimes when I went to other places but also there are a lot of people from different states and even different countries around here, so yes. I have talked to them outside of the sports I do like or adjacent to sports I like, though a vast majority still go football > other big 4 sports > other sports.

I'm talking strictly about people I have talked to in real life, going to specific sports boards/forums/subreddits isn't a good way of getting a general idea about sports

Yea I know, I'm not a huge sports fan, but during Red Sox season I go pretty hard and I'm the "Red Sox fan" in an office full of people who if they watch sports it's Football.

adjl posted...

And did you select those respondents randomly from across the country? Or did you talk to them in the context of viewing or otherwise being adjacent to sports in which you are personally interested and/or are of significant local relevance?

Probably the thousands of sports generals he posted on here before the people who actually posted in them went away.

I live next to a field and while there are two or three baseball diamonds I don't think I've seen kids use them as that. They're mainly there playing volleyball or fooling around.

No I do not watch them. I only peak out when they're making absurd noise way past their bedtime.

bachewychomp posted...

Damn you couldn't go more for the stereotypical "bedroom hacker" look if you tried

That was intentional!

Kids have not visited this site in 20 years.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/0a15d7a6.jpg

Very rare for me to post pictures of myself online.

You guys could just create a forum (that nobody will proceed to use, because forums are a relic of another age).

I've been banned on reddit so many times over the years (and yet I haven't been banned here in 2 decades) that I'm seriously debating just creating a vlog channel. That's apparently the only medium where you're allowed to talk about things anymore because grifting is culturally acceptable.

Doctors Office visit for the first time in 15 years. Might queue up the dentist out of curiosity too. No Halloween plans this year, and might not even get discounted candy. Depends on what happens as Friday night is my game night. Bought myself a Countertop Dishwasher https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CVX5GBY5 and a Lemokey L3 + Silent Switches + a nice keycap set (Cost $333 after shipping and import taxes) https://www.lemokey.com/products/lemokey-l3-qmk-via-wireless-custom-mechanical-keyboard.

Might shock you to know but Dragon Ball was ongoing up until and after Toriyama's passing (and was in production from 1984-2025, 41 years). Basically every one of the big Shounen Jump manga has continued to see new chapters in recent years.

One Piece is 21 on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manga_series_by_volume_count and Naruto is 75 (But doesn't count Boruto).

Did everything I set out to do, and I'm starting to build https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-215471/CreationCaravan%20%28Brad%20Barber%29/uss-enterprise-ncc-1701-midi-scale. I'm guessing it will take me a few weeks. If I have a good experience with this I think I want to source the pieces to build https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-136473/monty_builds/stargate-bc-304-daedalus-deep-space-carrier-midi-scale as that would be a pretty cool set piece.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Kind of surprised you don't have at least one 24/7 laundromat nearby then. Unless that's stopped being a thing because of crime (I suppose it depends on exactly what sort of city you live in).

As far as I can tell one of them used to be 24 hours but isn't anymore (at least they weren't open one time I walked by). I think the next town over had a 24 hour one but it's out of my reasonable range.

Woke up at 4:30, went and did my laundry at 6:30, went out for breakfast. and now I'm waiting for the rest of my Saturday deliveries to come. Need to grab a couple of things from the store later because I have a bunch of cooked chicken I need to either use or throw away and I'm not in the mood to have Ramen. I am thinking chicken burritos.

I have like 4 different laundromats in a 1 mile radius of me and 1 places that would be considered a diner. All of the laundromats close by 11 and the diner's hours are only 6:30-3pm. I also live in a city.

The more I'm out and about the more I realize that people just don't go outside much anymore unless they have to.

Am I seriously the only one who likes to go for a walk at night to go do something like my laundry? It's not even financially sensible for me to get my own washer/dryer.

Now i can understand why people do not buy shit at physical stores anymore. Amazon pushed everyone out, even for produce. The fucking apples I get from WFM are the same price and quality as the ones I get from Market Basket (this week I got some cortlands) but then again I'm not buying %0.99/lb totes from MB which would destroy WFM's pricing as the lowest they go for apples is $1.99/lb (so don't buy generic Apple cultivars from them like Galas or Fijis).

GreenKnight127 posted...

I get "people'd out" after a while. It's not that I don't like people, it's just that I like tranquility more.

Even if it's a romantic partner. Eventually, I just want some time to myself.

I love people, I just don't have the energy for people for more than a few hours.

Interacting with people is fine in moderation but I can only really do it for 2-3 hours before getting exhausted.

I'm 6'00'' and 145lbs. Mainly trying to maintain that right now. Threw a lot of words at multiple AIs last night to develop a meal plan that would allow for that. Was very surprised at how little food I was eating over the past couple of years and how I was basically killing off all of my muscle like someone on here mentioned. Was literally living off of 1000 calories a day.

Yea I totally get why he did that now. When you're trying to plan around a menu, and you want to eat a healthy diet you end up gravitating towards the same 3-5 things and when living alone you eat those things a lot. I realized that it's genuinely difficult to actually add some kind of variety with your diet, and that basically every meal ends up being some combination of protein + starch.

So the reality is pretty stupid. Why not just eat eggs, rice, and sausage (changing the variety of sausage) ad nauseum while adding peppers, onions, mushrooms, ect to the mix? This is really no different from restaurant food.

Lokarin posted...

I only do roundup tipping now, out of convenience to me; unless the bill is like $19.99 so they'd only get a 1 cent tip then I bail

In this scenario I would pay $25.

There is nothing wrong with tipping. My rule of thumb is that if I paid for the foot after I ate it, then I will tip 20%.

Breakin it in:

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Far-Queue posted...

Yo you're in Massachusetts right? Sell it to a local retro gaming store. I know a few in Mass I can PM you if you want

The one in Lowell is in the middle of moving to a new building and the people they're moving to screwed over their tenants giving them a wrong move in date so they're opening up first week in November I think,

To be honest the selling off of video game related stuff started off last Christmas when I RMT'd away both my Runescape and Path of Exile assets. This is just the next part of the process of getting rid of stuff I haven't had any use for for at least 10 years now and goes along with how I am donating a large amount of my excess clothes away (much of which doesn't even fit me anymore and hasn't for years). Clothing donation is easy, but i'm more annoyed that the email I sent out to the local game store hasn't received a reply, but that is largely because they are moving locations.

I think I could probably hardwareswap away the graphics cards I have. Maybe the consoles too. It's moire about getting rid of excess stuff as I don't like having excess stuff in general.

Lokarin posted...

Unless you need emergency money

I want to throw it all away but I'm stopping myself because there's monetary value. None of this has any value to me anymore.

bachewychomp posted...

Secondhand store if you just want a safe place to get it over with and don't care about getting the most money you can for it. Craigslist if you want the most amount of money for it and can handle the awkwardness and potential danger (however unlikely) of meeting people in person. eBay if you want a medium where it's pretty safe but they do take a little cut.

If you do CL look into if your local police station has an area where you can do those transactions. Maybe I'm a little bit paranoid but I personally wouldn't go around selling hundreds or thousands of dollars of stuff in person to a stranger. An individual game here and there, sure. Aside from the safety aspect, selling as a lot will also most likely get less value than doing them individually.

Not like you have to choose only one thing. If it was me I'd probably sell the higher value games on eBay individually and then package some lower value ones together as a lot (whether it's to sell on eBay or CL).

Thanks for the advice about selling. I haven't really sold anything online before.