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SamuraiFoochs posted:Is there a way to minimize the chances of having bad dreams? I've been having them pretty constantly lately and I'm sick of it. Personally, I find hugging a stuffed friend helps. I was on the verge of crying one night because my invasive thoughts had gone completely haywire in bed but my meds had knocked me on my rear end so thoroughly I had trouble getting up. Luckily my bear had fallen between the nightstand and my bed so I picked him up, hugged the poo poo out of him and my brain cleared up. Strangely I've also found that thinking of how much I don't want to have bad dreams when I'm going to sleep also helps.
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Also hi friends. I wasn't around for the last thing but it must have been pretty bad.
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I was having a string of bad dreams a few weeks ago that made me not want to sleep. Except I couldn't put my finger on what was bad about them. They felt less 'bad' and more 'exhausting'. Then I realized that it was probably due to my increased dose of requip. I was suffering side-effects that made me feel lovely And since I took it before bed I was blaming my lovely feelings on the dreams. So I detoxxed off of it and have felt pretty drat good ever sense. And I will continue to feel good until the restless legs syndrome it was treating comes back but it's been 2 1/2 weeks so here's hoping. This doesn't have much to do with everybody else's dreams though so sorry.
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drat it I missed the chance to talk about video games. My game of the decade and possibly my favorite game of all-time is Skyrim. If you ask me why I prefer Skyrim to New Vegas I can only give you two feasible answers. 1) New Vegas's map is designed to herd you in a counterclockwise direction along the map. Which is absolutely not what I want in an open-world RPG. 2) Beyond that minor detail, I don't really know. It's just one of those things where my knee-jerk reaction is always 'Skyrim' when I ask myself that question. Obviously New Vegas gets a very honorable mention along with Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Fire Emblem: 3 Houses
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Dec 17, 2019 09:47
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CobiWann posted:How did I go nearly ten years without seeing this commercial? He looks more ready to gently caress the percolator than his sister.
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Therapy helps, Kitteh helps, supportive family and friends helps. But I think what I really need is hope for the future.
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extradite THIS! posted:Sorry for making GBS threads on your favorite game by the way, ChrisBTY. It's just that I know people who'd say the same as you, but, while I hopefully made clear that I do in fact like Skyrim to some extent, nowadays I can't help but see the glaring problems in it. Bethesda turning out to be a real piece of poo poo company in the recent years also doesn't help I guess Don't worry about that, I know familiarity breeds contempt. Luckily one of my gifts is "It doesn't take much to get me invested/immersed" so I can handwave a lot of storyline stuff. And I think Skyrim was better than FO4 in that regard.
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Dec 17, 2019 23:39
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Speaking of being burdens. During my most recent SSI Financial Review the reviewer asks me 'why arn't you on your mom's social security, you'd likely get more money that way'. First, I've had HOW many of these calls and somebody is just mentioning it now? Second, ok I'll try to do that. Can't hurt. Today I just got a big pile of paperwork from Social Security. It's like the stuff I filled out nearly 15 years ago. Now I'm worried and confused that it's going to be like applying from scratch. And if that's the case, no loving way. They denied me initially, I had to go to a loving hearing and I got lucky that the consulting doctor on the panel was sympathetic. I am NOT going through that poo poo again. So I'm going to the social security office tomorrow and try to make sense out of this. So maybe it can hurt.
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Dec 19, 2019 21:41
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Blast Fantasto posted:Oof the new Star Wars is an incoherent mess that seems designed to appeal solely to 40 year old men who hated The Last Jedi So my best friend then.
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Dec 20, 2019 09:54
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First my best friend died then my hope of ever finding love died then my hope for the future died. So this hasn't been a great decade. OTOH: Skyrim
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Dec 21, 2019 05:43
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Dec 23, 2019 18:39
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I kinda like Columbo. But I really like the episode of "King of the Hill" where there's a murder investigation and the sheriff plodders around trying to be Columbo only to get clowned at the end of the episode by the Texas Ranger assigned to the case blowing it wide open by doing actual detective work. I like Detective Conan best though.
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Dec 24, 2019 12:13
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For the first time in over 25 years my mom and I will be opening gifts on Christmas more rather than Christmas Eve. Basically the tradition began when I was kid and got so excited for Christmas that I couldn't sleep on Christmas Eve so after a few years of that my mom went 'ok we should probably open presents Christmas Eve so you can sleep' Buuuut I've been getting super sleepy due to not having a Dopemine enabler in my body and my mom has to work for Midnight so we were both 'ehhh, probably better to open it in the morning' I'm not a kid any more and also I'm used to not sleeping at night. Plan sorta backfired when I fell asleep at like 1PM and woke up when we'd normally open gifts. Oh well. At least my mom gets to sleep.
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Dec 25, 2019 01:42
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WSAENOTSOCK posted:Your story is rad, but this has me super curious. Is that a thing? I'm not sure what the technical term is, I was taking Requip (Ropinerole). It has something to do with Dopamine. A quick read indicates it is a Dopamine simulator.
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Dec 25, 2019 06:19
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Io Saturnalia everybody! I've been introducing my two new friends to the internet because I'm soft and I love them. This is Sloth and Captain Chunk and they are good and soft and my friends. And thanks to them I got to teach my mom that sloths are real things that exist. (I also got other stuff for Christmas)
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Dec 25, 2019 23:07
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I am too tired because my body is used to having dopamine simulators in it. I took two separate naps yesterday. And this is on top of sleeping 8 hours.
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Dec 28, 2019 08:11
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Ok Chris, potluck/Yankee swamp at the LGS today. STAY AWAKE!
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Dec 28, 2019 18:32
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I feel sorta bad but what I'm giving up can't possibly be as bad as what I'm getting. (I'm regifting the card I got last year) The Yankee Swap is all Magic: The Gathering cards.
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We are encroaching on the year 2020 and I am scared and sad. I am sad that I gaze everlong into the endtimes and people can only tell me "The end will come no matter, change the things you can control" I am scared that people haven't learned poo poo coming into 2020 from 2016. The only silver lining was 'things have to get worse before they can get better'. I was unable to accept how much worse they will have to get. I am scared that I will not be able to survive in world or prosper in any sort of utopian ideal on this side of the veil or otherwise. I am sad that I feel like I am shedding the last of my youth in 5.5 hours. Tomorrow is the next day of the rest of my life and the rest of my life involves being a 40+ year old man who is only going to get older. I am scared that this is the decade where the script will flip and I will be the one who will have to take care of my mom. I love my mom to death and I do it gladly, but I don't know how well I can do it. I can barely take care of myself. I am sad that the odds of me having a romantic partner compatible with me is looking bleaker and bleaker. I am scared that nothing truly good will ever happen again. I am sad that I was diagnosed with ASD (well, NVLD) in 2005, spent the last 15 years "working on me" and while I've made progress...I have this to show for it. I am sad that almost everything that happens outside of this screen either bores, confuses or intimidates me. Sorry, I'm usually immune to date-related symbolism but this one isn't going down easily.
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Jerusalem posted:It's a Rogue-lite where you play Zagreus, son of Hades, trying to escape Tartarus. Every time you die you start right back at the beginning and the entire hellscape rearranges itself and you lose all the blessings you gained on your last run. But you can also permanently level yourself up, improve your equipment and weapons, learn patterns and abilities etc and each time you play through you get to talk to more people, learn more backstory, uncover secrets and use them to your advantage to speed things up. Each run you can find random messages from the Gods of Olympus (or something else) that gain you blessings that help you survive and fight further etc. If I really liked Rogue Legacy would I dig this?
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Holy poo poo I have been playing intermediary to one of the most amazing social interactions I have ever been involved in in my life. But it's been exhausting. I have a headache.
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Jan 3, 2020 23:19
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Ever spend a day helping a timid friend get assertiveness advice from a pro-domme friend of yours then spend your night helping teenagers play Magic: The Gathering? Because that was my Friday.
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Jan 4, 2020 16:30
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I own a copy of Akiba's Trip.
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Jan 8, 2020 20:59
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I am 40 and I feel goddamn ancient and I'm a bloated ugly NEET mess and I missed my chance at love and...
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dromal phrenia posted:being old is a state of mind, or a state of appearance, depending on whether you interact with other people or not I freaked out about turning 40 for that reason; I fell off a lot of people's radars once I hit 4-0 I'm sure. But it's not like I was on anybody's radar anyway so what the gently caress ever.
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Happy birthday to Fooches, the person I should aspire to be.
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NienNunb posted:Y'all have you ever had a game that you love everything about except for actually playing them? I really wanna finish Disco Elysium but playing that game is like slamming my face into a wall. I have really bad problem solving skills and conflict aversion so severe it leaks into my game playing. I am uniquely unsuited to playing that game.
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Yes. Very sorry. Going into the game I thought I could handle being a roughneck. High Physical (whatever the one that lets me punch people is), heavy authority (the idea was to be a socialist skullknocker buuuuut somehow Authority = Authoritarian just went whoosh). But when it came time to put the rubber to the road I inevitably put too much of myself into him. As I always do with this poo poo. Like, you need me to kill a dragon, I'll kill a goddamn dragon. You need me to Display dominance over a bunch of dockworker heavies and their lawyer? Oops. Too real guys. Too real. ChrisBTY fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Jan 14, 2020 |
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Cavauro posted:i occasionally have issues doing stuff like that but i don't think you ever really are forced to. Maybe if your character is only able to do violence. you could try starting over, knowing that you can't be that guy this time. it's not a bad game to do-over I leveled other things over time but yeah I think nice guy/sorry cop is the only thing I can do. Though the spoiled part felt real 'go hard or go home'
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Ok I'ma do it. I'm going to try a second playthrough of DE with a build more reflective of 'me' I hope this works. (And that I don't dire of boredom reading through 8 tons of stuff I already read)
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So I solved a problem in Disco Elysium by taking off my pants. That was fun. It's the jump you have to do to get your jacket/into the docks. My pants gave me - Savoir Faire and they were my only pair so off they went Also I'm running 4-4-2-2 because I'm too much of a coward to run 5-5-1-1 Also if I did the ceiling fan would have killed me
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I don't get what they're so salty about. We don't have Alm, Sigurd, Leif, or Eliwood yet.
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Smash has 6 Billion Characters and almost no chance that Sora was going to be one anyway. Repping the newest FE was going to happen. It always happens. (They are the most represented franchise because they have the most main characters of any Nintendo IP).
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Jan 17, 2020 21:06
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Rapture's Delight and Tearjerker are the absolute high points of American Dad.
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I get really fidgety watching movies these days so I seldom do it. Last movie I watched in theaters was Detective Pikachu. I loved it but was ready to go home at pretty much every point in the film. I really need to interact with my entertainment these days. I'm not sure if this constitutes a problem or not. Also when I do watch movies, I opt for levity and escapism above all else. If I can't fix this stupid world let me run away from it please. I'm sure 1917 is great, but why? Do I suffer from an acute lack of thinking World War I was unimaginably horrendous?
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I spent elsewhere earlier talking about how the other 4 people in the copter were condemned to being faceless statistics. Then I find out one of them was Kobe's 13 year old daughter, which evokes an entirely different sort of depression.
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Goku didn't know what marriage was 5 minutes before he got married. He didn't remember who his wife was 10 minutes before they got married. That should have raised some flags with Chi Chi. But she held him to a promise he made when he was like 6 so what did you expect?
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Goku is just ridiculously min-maxxed. He fight. That's IT! Point him to the world-ending threat, let him do his thing, and hope he doesn't make it worse in the name of getting a better fight. Other than that, leave him be. And for Kami's sake don't MARRY him? Are you goddamn insane?
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I can only say that you served your time. If thinking of it as a tour of duty makes you feel better then by all means do.
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Jerusalem posted:All that said, his speech at the end of The Great Dictator about evil never triumphing and how things WILL get better is superb. That speech has a way more optimistic view of the human condition than I ever will have again. The critical reaction to the speech at the time backs me up on this. ChrisBTY fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Jan 29, 2020 |
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I don't like crime stuff or serious stuff in my movies so I never watch Scorsese's stuff.
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