General Talk

sonoko · 2024-07-24T17:24:52+00:00

Unless I'm being stupid, which is very possible, there is no thread for general chatting. Hopefully this will fix that. How has your day been?

sonoko

gemisthon What made you switch teams?

I don't know. I had been a vegetarian since I was literally about 7 and I just thought "hey, you gotta try these things in your life".

gemisthon Ginger is really the key ingredient to a good dumpling in my humble opinion. Anything with fowl is good. I

Noted, thank you.

frijole del alta
Especially on a forum as small as this. That's a good thing though, this place is comfy. I really hope it stays that way.

Toobie

Hope everyone is having a good start to the week. Life may be busy, but when we can get back to our comforts, it makes it all worth it.

sonoko

It was 33 degrees here in the UK today which is frankly absurd. We're not prepared for it. I work at a place where business levels can vary pretty drastically depending on weather and up until now our weather has been too bad to be busy. Now, it's too good to be busy. We Englishmen get a bad rap when it comes to complaining about our weather but, you know what, I think we're completely justified in all of our complaints.

sanner

sonoko hey, i've also been vegetarian for as long time. did you feel a discomfort when eating meat for the first time. this does t have to be moral discomfort but just the general strangeness that comes with trying new foods. if so, how did you overcome it?

gemisthon

Ross_R About two tablespoons of diced ginger per 500g mince in the recipe I use. Just enough to give it a little zing.

sonoko

sanner There's definitely a weird feeling of "holy shit this was an animal" and it can be kind of offputting to think about all the fibres and muscles and things like that but it went away relatively quickly to be honest, mostly just because I liked the taste so much.

Ross_R

gemisthon
Thanks.

Porter

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I strained muh back yesterday by trying to yank a wet comforter out of the washing machine (it was like 25lb wet and wrapped around the agitator). Feelin' like an old man today.

Not even the first time this has happened. Hopefully second time's the charm and I learn my lesson this time.

Melon

Just found out there is a Hardstyle Event next week in my area and I had almost missed it so I'm pretty excited. Just hoping it won't be too hot.

Porter
Wish you a speedy recovery
and take it easy

Lumeinshin

sonoko
Our combined moaning about the heat has served us well as always, its been pretty moody this week

Porter
Have you managed to recover?

Melon
I read it as "hairstyle".. lol
I hope it is/was good!

My sense of time has gotten totally shot over the past couple years so i'm trying to organise myself a bit better 😅

Porter

Lumeinshin Yeh I'm doing fine now. I just got to LARP as a man forty years older than me for a couple days. I think between starting a new exercise routine and doing yard work for a couple hours that day I just overdid it a bit. Taking it a little easier this week and trying to find some bodyweight stuff I can do to reinforce my back.
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In other news I'm trying to learn (and eventually run) a new tabletop system. Hc Svnt Dracones 2.0 which is basically 'what if the solar system was a hyper corprotized dystopia but also everyone was furries? And there's some eldritch horror stuff happening on Jupiter/Europa/Earth too.'
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Despite the admittedly niche elevator pitch there's a bunch of interesting stuff happening under the hood and it's one of the only systems I've been interested in running in it's stock setting. It's also got a kind of weird dice resolution system that I'm interested to see play out, although I worry my table is going to find it clunky due to having to compare check difficulties against their stats all the time. Hopefully they'll just get used to it.

Melon

Caught one of those fancy new Zoropsis spinimana in my home today. A climate migrant spider that will be more common in my country going forward.
It's called Nosferatu Spider in German but it's not that scary. Well I mean it still makes jump, I'm skittish with spiders. Maybe I should get one of those spider catcher thingies.

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Melon
What do you think about snails?

sanner

Does anyone else feel exhausted after a day at work or in classes? Not necessarily doing anything physically exhausting, but after getting home I've been feeling a sort of sleepy even when my sleep schedule hasn't changed much. On the weekends i can use my computer for hours and i feel fine even though i'm basically exerting the same physical energy as i would have in class. Does anyone else experience this? If so, do you have any solutions? or maybe you've parsed the cause. regardless, i'm interested in hearing your opinions

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sanner
i've read that being sedentary for a long time can often decrease overall energy levels, so maybe it's that? not sure

Lumeinshin

sanner I always had a similar experience, I imagine it's probably a mix of a few things.
-Lack of interest/boredom
-having to sit still for long periods
-having to try and focus a lot is quite tiring.
Forcing yourself to do a task rather than naturally being motivated to adds like an extra 40% to how tired you get imo

I also spent a lot of time not sleeping when i was supposed to which probably had a big impact overall too

sanner

Lumeinshin you're right. can't really focus on anything if you aren't caught up on your sleep! im going to have a rest.

Toobie

Stress can be paralyzing for me. I wish I had more motivation but I feel like I can’t keep up

Colgatto

sanner
One other thing that can cause this kind of tiredness is your carbohydrates levels, especially if you notice that you don't have the same eating schedule when you're doing computer stuff at home, as when you're working/studying outside. Peaks of carbohydrates can induce tiredness.
I'm no nutritionist, but that may be a factor, as it was once for me. Maybe look that up.

sanner

Toobie hm, sorry to perform necromancy on the message, but if you still feel this way, what sort of things make you stressed or how do you deal with them?

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