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    Quote Originally Posted by The Eye View Post
    My laptop has reached its breaking point, it can't load games, the videos are in slowmotion and now it's loading sites with the speed of molasses. But I just moved to a new apartment and I don't have money to buy a new one, at least not a good one.

    The amount of stress and unhappiness this has caused me, made me contemplate how dependent I'm of the internet and that I need to find something else to do with my freetime.
    I think mine is getting to that point as well. While doing nothing other than checking my email and listening to music, the song froze up multiple times.

    I've uninstalled every extension and toolbar from my browser save two: Ad-Block Plus and FireShot. I've gone through my active processes to see if there's anything I can stop from running when I don't need it. None of it seems to help. About the only thing I haven't tried is a factory reset, and that's mostly because I'm far too lazy, and also I'm not sure if I have whatever discs and info I might need to reinstall key programs and stuff.

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    I don't know if this advice will help, but most guys I know who are overweight, drive a lot, and sleep only a little, wheras most slim guys walk or bicycle more.

    So selling the car and paying more in rent aides in slimming down.
    I don't own a car.
    I have two Achilles heels (yes, one on each foot) sugar, and a distaste for raw vegetables. Vegetables need to be interesting or I won't want to eat them.

    I'm also not confident working in the kitchen, so while I can help out a cook, I don't know how to make my own food from base ingredients.
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    Every time I post in this thread, I worry that I am posting something I've already said before.


    Confession:

    I've got independent confirmation that I do repeat myself!

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    While I partly agree with you (I have noted my disagreement with you about related subjects in the past) I...

    Other Confession:
    I'm in a dark and melancholy mood.

    And instead of trying to snap out of it and listen to AC/DC and Sham 69, or watch something funny like Broad City, or Tropic Thunder, I feel compelled to listen to a lot of Kurt Weill
    ("There are some who live in darkness, there are others bathed in light,
    You can see the ones who're shining, those in darkness fade from sight."),
    and watching The Threepenney Opera, or listening to Sergei Prokofiev, and watching Alexander Nevsky.

    I'm just not brightsiding.

    It feels unamerican.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Prince Zahn View Post
    Okay, new confession - I swore off sugary foods and drinks recently, but just last Friday I had a spoonful of this really good cheesecake. and it was amazing. I would have felt much worse if I didn't eat it, but a sin is still a sin. I had to start from scratch. it sounds harsh but I won't lose weight by being lenient with myself.
    I'm not so sure about that. I think one of the most common reasons that diets (and other programmes of self-improvement) fail is that people try to be too strict with themselves, fail, and give up altogether. Obviously, with some things you have to give them up altogether (like tobacco, say) but in most cases I think it's better to moderate than to eliminate. If you enjoy sugary foods (and who doesn't?) cutting them out of your diet altogether and beating yourself up if you eat them is just going to make you miserable and make you hate your diet. Even if you do complete it and reach your ideal weight, chances are that as soon as you no longer have to lose weight you'll go back to eating all the foods you missed so much and before you know it you'll have put the weight back on again.

    So you could try to build small quantities of such foods into your diet, and use them as a reward. Had a good week of eating healthily and avoiding sugar? Go ahead and have a guilt-free slice of delicious cheesecake.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aedilred View Post
    I'm not so sure about that. I think one of the most common reasons that diets (and other programmes of self-improvement) fail is that people try to be too strict with themselves, fail, and give up altogether. Obviously, with some things you have to give them up altogether (like tobacco, say) but in most cases I think it's better to moderate than to eliminate. If you enjoy sugary foods (and who doesn't?) cutting them out of your diet altogether and beating yourself up if you eat them is just going to make you miserable and make you hate your diet. Even if you do complete it and reach your ideal weight, chances are that as soon as you no longer have to lose weight you'll go back to eating all the foods you missed so much and before you know it you'll have put the weight back on again.

    So you could try to build small quantities of such foods into your diet, and use them as a reward. Had a good week of eating healthily and avoiding sugar? Go ahead and have a guilt-free slice of delicious cheesecake.
    you might have a fair point. On the other hand I don't crave sugar as much as I would have 2 weeks ago (I would finish a big bottle of Nestea per meal without even thinking twice about it). I get by drinking tea(good quality teas) with a spoonful of honey, some milk (which I know both also contain sugar) and a sprinkle of cinnamon. 1 cup in the afternoon can quell my cravings for a good day I think.

    The biggest problem is how blunt it feels when I have sugary treats right in front of my face - chocolates, pastries, 3 really good ice cream parlors within walking distance, the list goes on. - and I know that I must refrain from eating it or risk of of reverting to old habits. My nutritionist reassured me that this feeling goes away with time, but so far it has been pretty difficult to ignore.
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    I still do. (I'm back in the conversation!)
    I make them!

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    I make them!
    Me, too! I'm an indie developer!
    Well, sort of; I haven't made many games.
    Okay, I've made one game. But it was a *really* popular game in its time!

    Okay, I remade Pong once when I was learning Python...
    That's all I can think of, at any rate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Strigon View Post
    Me, too! I'm an indie developer!
    Well, sort of; I haven't made many games.
    Okay, I've made one game. But it was a *really* popular game in its time!

    Okay, I remade Pong once when I was learning Python...
    We have the next Shigeru Miyamoto over here!
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    Most days, I really envy my cat's life.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Velaryon View Post
    Most days, I really envy my cat's life.
    That must be one luxurious life for a cat
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    I'm sorry that I'm mostly AWOL from my PbP games lately.

    It's been a very fatiguing week, and even minimally creative writing just takes more energy than my non-sensical ranting posts.
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    Confession: I have never played a table top DnD game before. Only played 1 game for like a few weeks in the PbP forum. And I have been reading this comic for over 12 years now. I get the jokes though. hehe

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    Most days, I really envy my cat's life.
    I don't blame you my cat also sleeps all day, eats when he wants, plays when he wants, and gets to treat everyone like dirt. Our nickname for him is "The Pasha".

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    Confession: I have never played a table top DnD game before. Only played 1 game for like a few weeks in the PbP forum. And I have been reading this comic for over 12 years now. I get the jokes though. hehe
    Hey, even if you know enough to appreciate gamer talk, get psyched about our geeky merchandise, and laugh at our inside jokes, that's STILL better than most people ever will
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    Quote Originally Posted by Prince Zahn View Post

    Hey, even if you know enough to appreciate gamer talk, get psyched about our geeky merchandise, and laugh at our inside jokes, that's STILL better than most people ever will
    Been playing games since I was small so yea I do get the jokes and such.
    Sadly, all I can ever get is get psyched. Can't buy merchandse :( I'll be all like "woah cool, wish I had that"

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    Quote Originally Posted by anjxed View Post
    ....Sadly, all I can ever get is get psyched. Can't buy merchandse :( I'll be all like "woah cool, wish I had that"
    I do buy a lot of RPG merchandise, and since I really don't have time for tabletop anymore, my purchases don't make much sense.

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    Hey, even if you know enough to appreciate gamer talk, get psyched about our geeky merchandise, and laugh at our inside jokes, that's STILL better than most people ever will
    I started reading the comics before I got into D&D.

    Then I play a lot of TRPG games.

    A played a lot because a lot were short lived. Three letters: TPK
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    I play D&D 3.5 three times in my life. The first two were inactive but the third I'm currently playing is very active.

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    I don't feel like I'm being a good friend right now. My best friend just got into a fight at work, and I'm not going to talk to him in person. I mean, I have my reasons, but it feels wrong to just sit here and text when he may lose his job.

    Edit:
    And no, I'm not worried he's injured. First off, he would have said something. Second, he referred to the other guy as "Twiggy McEatSomething", so I'm guessing it was a real short fight.

    Edit 2:
    Yeah, the guy hit him and he broke the guy's leg. So, liability may be kinda nasty on that one, but he's not hurt.
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    I may not be a good friend. My best friend just got into a fight at work, and I'm not going to talk to him in person. I mean, I have my reasons, but it feels wrong to just sit here and text when he may lose his job.

    I most definitely am not a good friend.

    Many of my friends died in the 1990's (motorcycling), and with my apprenticeship starting during the last year of the Clinton administration working and family took my time.

    I no longer have friends, only co-workers and family.

    Colleagues and relatives still die, but not as often as friends.

    It's easier on the heart.

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    This thread took a rather dark turn... I will just wait over there now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bicorn View Post
    This thread took a rather dark turn... I will just wait over there now.

    Sorry about that. The work week does make me somber.

    This weekend I hope to start reading a book I just picked up (A Conjuring of Light) which was signed by Victoria Schwab the author, maybe listen to some Jimmy Cliff (except "Many Rivers to Cross" which makes me teary), and catch up in PbP.

    If someone wants to send me some bottles of NewCastle Brown Ale, I can more quickly get back to non-sensical happy ranting.

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    I lost a friend at my old school that I graduated. He died by falling off a building. It was an accident that all my teachers said and it was in a newspaper. I miss my friend.

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    I'm fortunate not to have terminally lost any close friends so far. I have lost one or two less close friends, all young (under 22) to suicide or misadventure, which was bad enough.

    A good friend of mine did get into a horrific accident a few years back, his survival of and recovery from which was frankly little short of miraculous, and for a while we thought we'd lost him. But I am thankful that is the worst I've had it (touch wood).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aedilred View Post
    I'm fortunate not to have terminally lost any close friends so far. I have lost one or two less close friends, all young (under 22) to suicide or misadventure, which was bad enough.

    A good friend of mine did get into a horrific accident a few years back, his survival of and recovery from which was frankly little short of miraculous, and for a while we thought we'd lost him. But I am thankful that is the worst I've had it (touch wood).
    Well this is the confession 2 thread and things like this get to be dark and sad every once and awhile.

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    Well this is the confession 2 thread and things like this get to be dark and sad every once and awhile.
    They say the second one in the trilogy is the darkest
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    The Confessions Strike Back?
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    The Confessions Strike Back?
    And the third one will be the Return Of The Confessions.

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    And the third one will be the Return Of The Confessions.
    Are we having Ewoks in that one?

    Because I heard people hate those.
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    Are we having Ewoks in that one?

    Because I heard people hate those.
    Yes and I don't hate Ewoks. I think they're cute.

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    Yes and I don't hate Ewoks. I think they're cute.
    Then be a rebel, like the Ewoks.

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