#off-topic-bond-james-bond

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sterile tartan
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you might remember what you did later. that's usually how it works anyway. idk if it's that way for you or not

silver mantle
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I usually remember bits and pieces

tribal siren
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I usually remember most stuff but I was especially drunk. I've just regained the ability to type tbh lol

silver mantle
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I can use those bits to slowly remember everything else; if I really want to

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If I want to forget I do that too

tribal siren
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I want to forget about the rest of the world

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Just have my little bubble and unknow all the shit that's happening

silver mantle
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That takes a bit more mental concentration so drinking doesn't really help

tribal siren
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In the short term it does for me. But it never lasts

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I struggle to be present I think

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Always in the future or the past

silver mantle
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I have a natural tendency to overthink, but I also have temper problems

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Both required a lot of self focus

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And they both kinda fall apart when I'm too drunk haha

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Like buzzed I'm usually ok

tribal siren
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Overthinking is my main issue tbh

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I'll notice any little possibility of something being wrong (almost always health related) and I can spend whole days doing nothing but thinking about an illness I don't have

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It's been better since I've got housemates now though

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It keeps my away from being alone with my thoughts I guess lol

silver mantle
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Mines always about if I'm a good person/doing the right things, etc

tribal siren
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That must be not nice to think about a lot

silver mantle
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Which is why I worked on changing it

tribal siren
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You've always been a good person on this server, if that helps at all

silver mantle
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Thanks

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Gah my coffee is giving me heartburn

tribal siren
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I'm off to pass out and regret drinking tonight

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Good luck with the coffee

silver mantle
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Alright gnite haha

tribal siren
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Gn

void plank
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Just eat a shredded smoked brisket burger. Was great but I feel myself getting fatter LMAO

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Sorry didn't mean to lmao so enthusiasticly... Not sure why my phone auto corrects it to all caps...

silver mantle
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I kinda want a fried chicken sandwich tomorrow

mint spear
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We will never forgive you for your sin of caps locking a lmao

glad cypress
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L.M.A.O.

mint spear
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You will go to hell for this severe transgression

glad cypress
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Laughing Out Loud.

mint spear
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@glad cypress ok you're really going to hell this time

glad cypress
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sounds great

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listening to "The Only Thing They Fear is You" rn

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hell sounds lit

silver mantle
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Haha lol.

mint spear
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It is, if you're an immortal rage filled being with super armor and guns that can shred metal

void plank
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Well that escalated lol

mint spear
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I mean that's what doomguy is

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IN THE FIRST AGE
IN THE FIRST BATTLE

silver mantle
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I still kinda prefer original doomguy :x

glad cypress
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okay boomer

mint spear
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Spoiler ||new doomguy is old doomguy. If you see the flashbacks||

silver mantle
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Nah nah nah

mint spear
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Well I mean in terms of story lore

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Not in terms of just the game itself

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I get what you mean lol

silver mantle
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Everyone has a annoying stubborn gamer thing

void plank
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I still prefer original wolfenstein. The one before they cut out hitler as the last boss lol. I suck at the new wolfenstein games

silver mantle
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This is mine

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I have many issues with doom eternal especially haha

void plank
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I have not played the new doom games yet. Last one I played was doom 3 bfg edition on pc.

silver mantle
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I'm not gonna rant about it

void plank
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Go for it lol. I cheated my way through it not because I had to but did it to make the game more fun... It was pretty slow paced

silver mantle
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The new ones aren't slow horror themed games at least

void plank
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And getting bored and spawning in shit to blast through was how I made it through

silver mantle
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Though 3 made sense being that way as the lighting was a big part of the new engine

fiery mason
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do you guys know about Spacex Starship?

mint spear
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Ok I'm going to run a poll right now:
Should I eat dinner?

  1. yes
  2. Yes
  3. Ye
silver mantle
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I don't really keep up with spacex

mint spear
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I'm gonna have to go with yes

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Ok

void plank
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  1. Definitely
mint spear
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And also yes @fiery mason

glad cypress
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Ok I'm going to run a poll right now:
Should I eat dinner?

  1. yes
  2. Yes
  3. Ye
    @mint spear y
mint spear
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@glad cypress that wasn't one of the options aeyes

glad cypress
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no u

mint spear
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Uno reverse

glad cypress
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a

mint spear
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Umum

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Umœm

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æœ

void plank
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Dufk

mint spear
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Ümùúœm

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Hispaniola

silver mantle
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😐

void plank
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What is this language you are all speaking lmao

mint spear
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Uvvevevevevevvvevevvevevevveveve osas

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buddy

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I am fluent

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Ok

silver mantle
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Looks like spam

mint spear
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Wtf that's literally what planes say

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Osas

silver mantle
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I'm not gonna explain why you shouldn't use that term, just dont

mint spear
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What happen?

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. o.

silver mantle
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Nothing, I'm off to control point

mint spear
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Why must point be controlled

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😔 🙏

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This is so sad

silver mantle
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Cuz nuclear scary

mint spear
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I have nuclear fallout on my 2020 bingo card dont interfere with fate smh

void plank
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I think I might just go back to slaughtering the people of outer worlds in a bit lol.

mint spear
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Today's episode of me cooking is brought to you by misreading the cooking instructions

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Ok

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buddy

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Pull up

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I mixed up the serving size for pasta and the amount of water for cooking

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Nice

void plank
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Lmao

mint spear
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Ended up cooking 3/4cup of pasta in fucking 4 quarts of water

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🤤

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"This seems right yea"

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I am smort cook man

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Blissful ignorance

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I envy you

void plank
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That is awesome

mint spear
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Still haven't gotten dinner

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The place closes in 15 minutes

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ohno

undone moat
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why are all the shitters in this place square

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it's throwing me off a bit

void plank
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Never seen a square shitter before and driving 18 wheelers I seen many lol

mint spear
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Ahhhhhhhhhh 8 minutes fuck

void plank
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Quick order a pizza

mint spear
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Damn

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Yknow what

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I could lol

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😳

void plank
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Lmao

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Stuffed crust cheese pizza... Damn it now I want pizza

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All our pizza places took damage though....

fickle obsidian
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😐 love when reading stuff and they give something to try to work out, but they haven't given any explanation of how to work it out yet

dusty magnet
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Plans for tonight: To not be sober.

undone moat
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you know, I wonder how many people have had sex in this bed.

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Hopefully none, as I think this might be a kids' room at second glance

silent pebble
undone moat
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... on a COMPLTELY DIFFERENT NOTE, Charles Martinet voices Mario bu also voiced Paarthunax. Do you think that, somewhere in an alternate timeline, their voices were switched?

silent pebble
undone moat
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like fucking imagine: you're finally getting to see this big ol threat everyone's been telling you to kill, and he just comes out echoing from the mountains: "IT'SA ME, PAARTHUNAX, HERE WE GOOOOOOOOO"

silent wagon
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I guarantee that's a mod somewhere

undone moat
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I have to believe you this time

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last time I didn't... it didn't end well

mint spear
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I'm still upset that they made you unable to say no to the stupid blades to kill parthy

silent wagon
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Wot

mint spear
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it's just retarded honestly, like you're the fucking dragonborn

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why can't you just refuse the damn quest

silent wagon
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I tell them to fuck off every time

mint spear
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at least we have mods for that

silent wagon
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I've always told them to fuck off, nobody kills my Parthy

silent pebble
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Whomst

mint spear
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First actual dinner in almost a week lol

silent pebble
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Hand over the fries

mint spear
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did you order that off of amazon

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it looks like it came in a packaged cardboard box lol

clever vessel
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Better than plastic 👍 👍 👍

silent pebble
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Anything is better than eating plastic

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🤢

undone moat
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even plastic

mint spear
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@mint spear nah, I had just ordered the clubhouse sandwich, but at the last moment this big burly dude behind the counter was like "cmon bro let me stuff some fries in there!"

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I couldn't resist 😎 👌

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Had to cram them in there like sardines

clever vessel
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Why does he have the urge to stuff fries into random dude's boxes

silent pebble
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Oh lord

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2ManySnacks made another video and the memes are spreading like wildfire

fickle obsidian
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🤨 some mathematicians are really good at making figuring stuff out look convoluted af

mint spear
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Someone who has a lot to offer is a good thing for you and your business and you will not need a lot to be a member to be a part time to go out to dinner 😊

silver mantle
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The ship better close this thing quickly I'm way too fucking tired

limber fractal
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Which ship?

silver mantle
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Carrier

limber fractal
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Work?

silver mantle
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Yeah

limber fractal
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🥺

silver mantle
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Don't worry pretty much everyone else got to go home already 🙄

limber fractal
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😩

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What do you have to do?

silver mantle
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Close a door and lock it

limber fractal
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Yuck. So just waiting, huh?

silver mantle
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Yep cuz I don't have the key

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Tempting to just go fall asleep down there

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My punishment would be a lecture and being sent home

limber fractal
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Is there a cozy spot?

silver mantle
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Well

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Today they fucked up and sprayed oil all over the area

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So no

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It stinks

limber fractal
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😩

glad cypress
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😔

silver mantle
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Its also an engine room so its loud

limber fractal
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Yuck

silver mantle
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They uh paint it white which I still can't figure out

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Cuz it literally shows off alllll the muck and staining n shit

limber fractal
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😖

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Not a fan of that myself.

silver mantle
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They also took the fan away

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So its hot as balls

fickle obsidian
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fuuuuck

limber fractal
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Yuckkkkk

fickle obsidian
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i would die

limber fractal
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Worst place to sleep it sounds like

silver mantle
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Yeah its the only reason I never can hahaha

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Sorry I'm whining ill stop

limber fractal
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Valid venting

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I had to vent to someone earlier cuz I felt shitty. And talking through it helped.

silver mantle
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Yeah its mostly just the feeling that I get stuck doing the most stuff all the time

limber fractal
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Shitty. Ngl. I'd be annoyed too if it's a pattern. Any way to discuss it to improve things in the future?

silver mantle
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Nah

limber fractal
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Are you able to say no to some of the tasks?

silver mantle
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Other people are just better at being lazy and I can't compete

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I could but I can't live with myself being a pos

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Nothing asks that much of me really

limber fractal
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Sometimes you gotta make a compromise. With a part of yourself for another part of you.

silver mantle
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Its not a challenge; but no one really treats me like I'm knowledgeable or "good" at it and I have my theories why

limber fractal
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Ocd you has to learn to let go sometimes. You can take it as a challenge that can benefit the group, not jut a part of you.

silver mantle
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Yeah but I can't just say no to doing my job

limber fractal
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You know you can and will do xyz better, but you can't do it all all the time. Cuz one day you'll not feel well, and everyone (lazy) gets so used to you filling in, that you end up hurting. And the people who could've and should've improved didn't cuz they got used to depending on you so much, all the time.

silver mantle
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Yeah that's already been true tbh

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Someone didn't get relieved on time cuz everyone just expected me to do it

limber fractal
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We all get burnt out. So one day you won't be there to do it all. It's okay to let go of some responsibilities, even if the result won't be up to your ocd standard. I say this from my own personal experience.

silver mantle
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Cuz im always early haha

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Yeah but when it doesn't get done then the supervisor goes and tells me to make sure it gets done next time

limber fractal
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Then wait for that moment. And call it out.

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Don't avoid that moment all the time. Now and then, slack a little. Test people and poke a little, find out if ppl can pitch in a little more. It'll benefit them as employees and people.

silver mantle
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I guess I could try

limber fractal
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Even if the end result sucks a little. It's better than you doing it all. Future Aethena will appreciate it.

silver mantle
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I mean I do slack more than I used to

limber fractal
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That's good. I know it's hard.

silver mantle
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Its very hard cuz this job is cheese

limber fractal
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But the work load feels uneven. I mean, when I've taken my work to heart, I get a bit obsessive. And have gotten burnt out. So later I suffer the consequences.

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It's weird cuz as a woman, in my field, I also felt a need to prove myself. To prove I was a great developer. So I worked extra hard. Then I'd get burnt out. And work was just not enjoyable, even though I loved the core of my field.

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I saw an episode of Criminal UK on Netflix. The interrogator's take at the end, it rung true to me. Her boss was trying to get her to step up and essentially do more work. But she knew she wanted a healthier, more balanced personal life, and she declined. And I loved how she was able to measure when it was too much, without the need to prove to anyone she was good enough.

gaunt reef
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nms philosophy channel's gone?

silver mantle
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@limber fractal thanks it means a lot that you kinda get why I push myself so hard

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Philosophy had very little traffic so I dropped it

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I can always bring it back if its really needed

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Every time I get a grade increase too I always feel like ill get more respect and be treated like I actually know what I'm doing

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But nah

limber fractal
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Philosophy had very little traffic so I dropped it
@silver mantle Yeah, I did notice that. I'm sorry I didn't get as involved cuz I kept getting sidetrcked. 😔

silver mantle
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One of my promises to myself was to always say no to overtime

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And use more leave

limber fractal
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Every time I get a grade increase too I always feel like ill get more respect and be treated like I actually know what I'm doing
@silver mantle Yeah, it's just never enough for "them", you know?

silver mantle
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I know 😩

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I get made fun of for always saying no to OT too but i still do it haha

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And here I am with almost 300 OT hours anyway xD

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I gotta go back down soon 😭

limber fractal
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Trust me. It's never "enough" for bosses, especially when the work load is uneven. Make sure you prioritize YOUR health (physical, mental, emotional). Cuz there just isn't enough money in the world to repay personal time, that chips away at your health. You're still young. But as we grow older and more health issues pop up, you're like, "ummm why did I work so hard for <insert boss name or company>"? Was it really worth it? When I could've been spending more time taking more care of me.

silver mantle
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Well I am taking a week off when I get home

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2 weeks away

limber fractal
silver mantle
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Thanks for letting me vent and for the advice tho ❤️

limber fractal
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It's my pleasure. I enjoy the two way street in friendships. We all share and learn together. BlobHeart

silver mantle
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Its true but a lot of times people forget that

dusty magnet
limber fractal
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Vape pen or scalpel? 🤔

dusty magnet
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Dab pen

limber fractal
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Oh good. I'd be worried if it was a scalpel, with your history with knives 😆

dusty magnet
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Yeah I'd be bad with a scalpel lol

gaunt reef
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you're bad with knives and yet

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so it would make sense in a bad way that you're carrying around a scalpel

dusty magnet
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Where would one even get a scalpel

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Update: dab does not taste good.

limber fractal
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Oh really?

dusty magnet
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Can confirm.

eternal thorn
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Almost thought it was one of those for a sec

gaunt reef
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lmao

limber fractal
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I used to smoke wax. And that didn't have any yucky taste. Maybe it's the type you bought.

gaunt reef
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smoke wax?

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what

limber fractal
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It had the least amount of taste for me compared to all other forms of thc products. It sucks that any form of smoking is just not good for my asthma. So I stopped.

gaunt reef
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funny how smoking for me was not affecting my lungs so much as my stomach

limber fractal
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It affects my bronchial tubes. That's what gets inflamed when my asthma is triggered.

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Interesting about your stomach.

gaunt reef
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acid reflux

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gets worse if you smoke

limber fractal
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Yuckkk. I even had to stop using inhalers (for asthma) cuz that also fucks with my esophagus, in turn causing acid reflux.

gaunt reef
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damn

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90% reason I have acid reflux every morning is probably from lack of exercise and I'm still not feeling motivated enough to go out for a jog in this humid heat

mint spear
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Reflux

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Nice

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Go and exercise boyo

gaunt reef
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soon tm

limber fractal
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Diet can affect acid reflux. As in consuming more foods with probiotics (like kimchi or sauerkraut). That helped me a lot. Also avoiding over processed sugars.

gaunt reef
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my reflux is mild probably because I have yogurt everyday

limber fractal
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That's awesome! Great source of probiotics.

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Also processed foods like not fresh tomato sauce, like the stuff in jars and cans. That's the worst. And not freshly squeezed OJ.

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Those are very acidic.

gaunt reef
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yeah I think diet wise I'm fine but since this started around the time of the pandemic its safe to say its just my lack of movement

limber fractal
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That's an easy fix at least.

sterile tartan
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Had a coworker once who didn't have an esophagus

gaunt reef
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uh

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how did they live

limber fractal
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We need explanations

sterile tartan
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I assume there was surgery of some kind to give him a pseudo-esophagus

limber fractal
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Wow

gaunt reef
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oh then it's sensible

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but wow brutal

fickle obsidian
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yeah, they can connect ur stomach up to whatever little bit of esophagus may be there

sterile tartan
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He drank drain cleaner as a toddler
Maybe don't do that, for anyone reading

fickle obsidian
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😱

gaunt reef
sterile tartan
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He was awesome tho
Gave me a ride home once

sterile tartan
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Wait it isn't

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But it may as well have been

gaunt reef
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you're my popsicle

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nom

sterile tartan
dusty magnet
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Okay so this is the best $65 I've ever spent

sterile tartan
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Oh?

dusty magnet
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Don't do drugs kids

silver mantle
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ugh i feel like im gonna puke

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idk if its the being steeped in oil smell for like 4 hours but prolly is

limber fractal
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Definitely 😔

silver mantle
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im home tho nyaDed

limber fractal
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Yay! PikaGroove

silver mantle
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"do you know how to use the phone" man that short dude today almost died i swear to god

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ship phones require you to hold the button down to stay connected

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its really fucking simple and i hate when people think i haven't figured it out by now

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soda time

limber fractal
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Prob need rest

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Like me. I'm so bad with sleep. 4am. I should get some now.

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😴

silver mantle
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go to bed!

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i am the eldest i command

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its only 1am here

limber fractal
silver mantle
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nite nite!

sterile tartan
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G'night redhot

silver mantle
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decided to eat before bed OMG THIS IS TOO SPICY

terse cargo
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what did you eat?

silver mantle
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im having a shrimp diablo burrito

terse cargo
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well the word "Diablo" kinda gives it away doesn't it

silver mantle
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i swear the first time it wasn't this spicy 😭

terse cargo
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ah yes a classic case of, i swear last time was better

silver mantle
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its still tasty its just setting my mouth on fire

terse cargo
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the spiciest thing i ever ate was a fish soup, i think

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i opened the container it was in and immediately my nose started running and my eyes got wet

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good soup

silver mantle
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spicy stuff is SO good

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its worth the pain

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my mouth hurts now 😛

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tbh i was kinda surprised this is the only really hot thing i've gotten down here in sandy

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considering normally there's a rep for mexican food having a lot of spice

terse cargo
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hmm gotta try Indian food but i don't know if i have a good Indian restaurant next to me

silver mantle
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i only know good ones in Japan (ik thats strange)

terse cargo
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hmm that is indeed strange i thought Japan's where very focused on their own culture

silver mantle
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nah they have amazing french bakeries too

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they've been reversing that whole inward focus thing tho

spark niche
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@rare mauve what claim is rejected?

gaunt reef
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hey that's pretty good

granite wing
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Hot sauce on everything @silver mantle

limber fractal
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@silver mantle saw this and thought of our convo the other day...op posted it saying "I need this vest!" 😆

silver mantle
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i would love to be ignored at parties for sure! haha

mint spear
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I need that sign taped to me 😩

silver mantle
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last party i went to i actually just ended up talking with a friend for most of it because i found out her boyfriend was super possessive and was getting mad that she went out and did something

gaunt reef
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wow

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even as a spectator its such a pain to see a super possessive other

silver mantle
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when i wasn't talking to her i got cornered by the random dude i didn't know trying to strike up a conversation; so I was slightly happy for the bailout

mint spear
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I think it depends on the type of party. Sometimes places can be a bit unsafe so people can end up being over protective. Besides that sometimes people come off as possessive when it's really nervousness. Like I normally 100% stick around Arc when we go places, but I also have social anxiety nyaShrug
If I dont have Arc I find the nearest dog or cat SCgoodjob

But yeah since that guy was getting mad he was probably a duck

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Duck.....

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Dick

eternal thorn
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When you're a kid and not allowed to swear yet

mint spear
silver mantle
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well i also found out that he does it more often than just that

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but yeah i get you

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the most i ever had to protect my ex from luckily was spiders xD

mint spear
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Haha, yeah I deal with the spiders in my relationship too SCgoodjob

silver mantle
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im just lucky because centipedes, at least where i live, are such a rare encounter haha

mint spear
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I find them quite often, but its because I go out looking for critters like lizards, spiders, n snakes.

silver mantle
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millipedes are more common at my place and for whatever reason they don't bother me

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i think its prolly cuz they look bumbly

mint spear
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Millipedes are so cute nyaLovepls

silver mantle
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it really helps that theyre slow and plodding

mint spear
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They like to eat apples MNApple 💙

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I wanted one so bad from the bug museum in Bremerton

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But they dont sell them anymore

silver mantle
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oh hey i know that place xD

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i drive by it on the way to work haha

eternal thorn
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For the life of me I can't remember what I've bought from there, but it was for her

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For the location though, I'm surprised it stays in business

silver mantle
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i work at the place with the big boats 😛

mint spear
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Spider necklaces. I dont approve of dead spiders, but since they're already dead better to not let them go to waste nyaShrug plus I love freaking out my family when wearing those necklaces

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I kind of figured

silver mantle
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i am surprised too especially the way traffic is there during rush hour

eternal thorn
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Good god

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Its terrible both ways

silver mantle
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its why i never work dayshift

eternal thorn
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Well, from Silverdale as well

mint spear
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Yeah I was expecting it to go out of business years ago

silver mantle
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i have to take a route thats 5X as long just to make it in slightly less time

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everything in Belfair does because of the traffic

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Belfair also kinda sucks tho

mint spear
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Yeah it's really boring happybread

silver mantle
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it survives off the ridiculous expensive housing that's around there

spark niche
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(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

mint spear
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I've lived here since I was 4, can confirm as well SCgoodjob

silver mantle
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ive always just drove through it fortunately

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Shelton aint much better tho

mint spear
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Never spent too much time there

eternal thorn
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Had to pass through there.... once... on my last job, only for the one time I took on a delivery role for a bit.

silver mantle
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pretty exciting right

eternal thorn
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Not a bad looking town, but eh

mint spear
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To be honest I forget that place exists

eternal thorn
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Better than Bainbridge I guess

silver mantle
#

theyve actually been making it look nicer and im unsure what's causing it

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i think its becoming like a distant suburb of olympia or something idk

eternal thorn
#

My boss would joke if I had raised the property value every time I entered Bainbridge

#

Or lowered

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One of the two

#

It's supposedly inhabited by snobs

mint spear
#

And Serval cat that keeps getting lost

silver mantle
#

bainbridge was prolly lowering its pretty upscale

mint spear
#

Fuzzy nyaLove1

silver mantle
#

if i woke up with that sitting there i'd actually panic at first haha

#

ngl

eternal thorn
#

effortless jump tho

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and tall

#

Tall kitty

silver mantle
#

im amazed by cats having this seemingly unnatural vertical jump

#

my cat apollo does it all the time and it doesn't look like he's jumping its just suddenly WOOP

undone moat
#

my back is in terrible pain

eternal thorn
#

Actual footage of Computerman

#

Go fix your back

#

So you can

#

Get back to it

rare mauve
#

@spark niche bruh I don’t even know. I’m sorry

spark niche
#

it chill

dim egret
#

Any word on the new NMS update?

eternal thorn
#

Its this coming week

#

That's all we know

dim egret
#

Well

#

All i know is that

#

I want to be your best friend

#

And hopefully give you a high five in person someday

dim egret
#

And he never responded

ornate fable
#

Rip, I'll high five you in his place

#

We can be friends

undone moat
#

Luigi has been rescued

glad cypress
#

well done

undone moat
#

I REPEAT, Luigi has been rescued

mint spear
#

Mario is fucking dead

clever vessel
#

I REPEAT, Luigi has been rescued
@undone moat luigi has been rescued

glad cypress
mint spear
#

Damn that makes me HARD

glad cypress
#

Hey Anders.

mint spear
#

Hey

#

What's up

glad cypress
#

I actually had orange flavored milk once.

mint spear
#

😳

glad cypress
#

Central California is wack af.

undone moat
#

;>$;[

mint spear
#

It is

undone moat
#

ops

mint spear
#

I was in Central cali 6 months ago

#

Can confirm, weird

glad cypress
#

what part of central California

#

or...

undone moat
#

central cali is hell

glad cypress
#

CeCal

undone moat
#

source, I lived in it

mint spear
#

Bakersfield

undone moat
#

AYYYYYY

#

I WAS BORN THERE

mint spear
#

Lmao

#

Nice

glad cypress
#

My grandmother was born there.

mint spear
#

Wtf

#

Small world lol

glad cypress
#

It’s a p big place, Bakersfield

mint spear
#

Bigger than a baker's field?

glad cypress
#

lol

mint spear
#

🤮

undone moat
#

I think I'm starting to experience joycon drift

#

fuuuck

mint spear
#

Rip

glad cypress
#

I’m house sitting and one of the cats is attacking my shoe voraciously

mint spear
#

Nice

glad cypress
#

they left their radio on and she started doing it as “Eye of the Tiger” started playing

mint spear
#

Also I hope that monke in the gif is OK:(

glad cypress
#

same :<

undone moat
#

yep def experiencing it

#

cock

sterile tartan
#

Balls

undone moat
#

... torture?

jaunty copper
#

i did put tang in milk once

sterile tartan
#

No

glad cypress
#

pcman bad

#

no

jaunty copper
#

(grew up in socal)

undone moat
#

hUEh

glad cypress
#

wouldn’t that curdle it?

jaunty copper
#

it did not

sterile tartan
jaunty copper
#

it was like a shitty melted dreamsicle

sterile tartan
#

He's crosseyed, his hair is all gray, but his stubble and body are like 30 while his eyes and up are 70

jaunty copper
#

fallout 4

mint spear
#

looks like a romance novel

jaunty copper
#

about werebats

mint spear
#

which I'm honestly surprised to see on store shelves like Walmart lol

#

they are pretty cringe/erotic

silent pebble
#

E

glad cypress
#

A

mint spear
#

T

glad cypress
#

M

jaunty copper
#

E

glad cypress
#

that was rather spontaneous

jaunty copper
#

was it tho

undone moat
#

vore

sterile tartan
#

Romance novels are generally cringe
Or they're just. Regular people doing regular people things

dim egret
#

@ornate fable we are friends now

mint spear
#

wut

glad cypress
#

I

#

uh

#

wtf

undone moat
#

so many reasons to be bothered by it

sterile tartan
#

It's definitely strange
Doesn't seem like something that should be discussed in off topic tho

arctic eagle
#

Dude you fucking KNOW how someone thought of it, it's right there

#

But yes kids are in this server we mustn't subject them to such things

silver mantle
#

😐

#

keep it Pg13 im tired of reminding offtopic about this

#

the rules of the server still apply here.

undone moat
#

okayyyy I'll tone it down a bit

arctic eagle
#

smh

undone moat
#

man what am I supposed to DO here

#

can't swim cuz there's sharks out in the water

#

it's overcast and cold so tanning really isn't a thing

#

can't really go to restaraunts n shit cause of covid

#

can't go shopping because I'm broke

silver mantle
#

yeah tbh that's why i don't go out

#

like at all

gaunt reef
#

its way too hot and humid here to go out

undone moat
#

I should at least get up and take a walk

silver mantle
#

i kinda want to order sorbet or something today

gaunt reef
#

look at this shit

#

so much for end of summer

silver mantle
#

or ice cream

gaunt reef
#

I dont even eat ice cream anymore

undone moat
#

don't get me wrong, it's nice to wear hoodies again but meh

mint spear
#

Damn
I want your temperature

undone moat
#

the timing for this trip is absolutely shit tbh

gaunt reef
#

I WANT 18 DEGREES

#

SO BAD

#

I hate summers so bad its a waste of electricity and sanity

#

winters way better

#

I'd totally wouldn't mind living in perpetual winter

undone moat
#

go to russia

gaunt reef
#

if only

silver mantle
#

scandanavia

limber fractal
#

In the past I'd say, Alaska. But even they get heat waves nowadays. And not enough ACs cuz you know, that wasn't a thing before global warming blobfacepalm

silver mantle
#

it just needs to hurry up and trigger the ice age 😠

silent pebble
#

Time for a change of pace

limber fractal
#

I'm with Sohail about cold. I prefer it so much more over heat. I lived in Florida too long. When I moved to Colorado, I'd dread summers, while everyone else looked forward to them. Ontario, Canada's summers aren't as bad.

silver mantle
#

my preferred temp is 20F-40F

#

i mean i dont really mind anything lower than that but once it starts to get above 60 i hate it

mint spear
#

I hate heat

limber fractal
#

Yeah, 70 for me is Hot. I love being able to wear warm clothes, drink my hot green tea lattes without sweating up a storm, but feel super cozy drinking it. Sigh.

mint spear
#

I want rain, cold wind, mist (not fucking smog and smoke), morning dew

silver mantle
#

im already hot i don't need it to be hot outside 😎

mint spear
#

And yeah, what Red said

silver mantle
#

cozy is also the best feeling

mint spear
#

Here you can barely wear just pants and a t-shirt, no socks or shoes indoors without feeling a bit hot

silver mantle
#

i mean i don't wear much more than socks when its like 60 in my house in the winter i love it haha

#

and then get under a fluffy blanket

#

and play games

limber fractal
#

Here's the other thing that's crazy in hot places. The AC is turned up so high, you have to carry around a jacket with you everywhere. So your body has to be constantly adjusting its core temperature cuz that just ain't natural. It even affects your immune system.

#

AC cold can never compare to natural cold for me ever.

silver mantle
#

thats what i hate about SoCal

mint spear
#

Meanwhile I have to have two fans directed at me indoors to play games comfortably, in a tshirt and pants

silver mantle
#

i just wanna wear my hoodie damn it

mint spear
#

Socal
More like SoSuck

#

Wait you're socal too Aethena?

gaunt reef
#

I thought you were asking if she's social

silver mantle
#

i am for 2 more weeks lol

#

im gtfo

mint spear
#

I wish I could leave

#

Like, not super badly to the point where I can't stand it

#

But I hate hot weather so goddamn much

silver mantle
#

i am very skillful in social situations; just yesterday I didn't murder someone who asked if I knew how to use a phone @gaunt reef

mint spear
#

That's basically the only bad thing I can think of where I live now

sterile tartan
#

My immune system is fucked anyway

gaunt reef
#

who asked if I knew how to use a phone
what the fuck

#

how

how

silver mantle
#

i just don't like the summer tbh

#

all of it

sterile tartan
#

Hi sohail

gaunt reef
#

Hi Spirit

#

do you know how to use a phone

silver mantle
#

spring is beautiful, autumn is more beautiful with beautiful crisp mornings

gaunt reef
#

Ellen Degeneres moment

silver mantle
#

winter has snow which is beautiful

#

what does summer have? fire and heat and suckage

gaunt reef
#

this

sterile tartan
#

Not a clue Sohail

silver mantle
#

getting bugged to go to the beach constantly nyaAttack

sterile tartan
#

Sorangehail

limber fractal
#

Fall's def my fave.

sterile tartan
#

Same

mint spear
#

spring is beautiful, autumn is more beautiful with beautiful crisp mornings
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

limber fractal
#

It's right after hell, and can look forward to winter.

mint spear
#

I also love winter too

sterile tartan
#

Fall is usually a good temperature, it's pretty, and it has Halloween

mint spear
#

Sometimes I wish there were three seasons

silver mantle
#

like im ngl one of the most beautiful weather things I've ever seen is snow with ice rain, despite it being horribly dangerous

mint spear
#

Spring, autumn and winter

sterile tartan
#

Speaking of, fall starts in two days

arctic eagle
#

I mean summer has its advantages

silver mantle
#

hey this makes us Fall Guys? seanbomination

clever vessel
#

Already feels like fall

sterile tartan
#

Unless it's the 21st for you. Then it's tomorrow

silver mantle
limber fractal
#

"Advantages" to burn the world for sure

arctic eagle
#

Nah, other advantages

#

I'll tell you when you're older

sterile tartan
#

I like swimming. Havent gotten to in like two years tho

mint spear
#

Like melting ice cream and self confidence?

#

Ohh you mean other uses for summer

clever vessel
#

Flowers

mint spear
#

Strange
I can't think of any uses for summer

#

We have spring for that

arctic eagle
#

A

gaunt reef
#

summer crops?

mint spear
#

And spring isn't fucking hot like summer

arctic eagle
#

Are you all missing my jist

mint spear
#

Fuck summer
All my homies hate summer

arctic eagle
#

It was a joke anyway but like

#

Huh

mint spear
#

I know lol

limber fractal
#

Is it a pg13 jist? 🤔

mint spear
#

But what if we could just lengthen spring autumn and winter and take out summer

silver mantle
sterile tartan
#

Just tell the sun to calm down, should work

mint spear
#

And make plants grow faster or smnth

arctic eagle
#

It's implication it's fine

sterile tartan
#

Time to make. Coffee

arctic eagle
#

Anyway summer is fine for reasons

silver mantle
#

i should prolly just stop laying in the dark and just get up

#

sleep later

sterile tartan
#

Cake by the ocean 🎶

arctic eagle
#

Two reasons in particular cough cough

#

It's nice to go out and chill with people when the heat isn't too much

#

Summer is just the Winter of heat

silver mantle
arctic eagle
#

I'll always be more of a gloomy day guy though

#

I prefer the cold, heavy air to light, sunny breeze

silver mantle
#

i like hiking in the summer sometimes when its mild; but hiking in the rain is dope

arctic eagle
#

I've hiked in the HOT sun once and hoo boy

hallow isle
#

as long as its warm and rain

arctic eagle
#

Thankfully when I got to the top it was nice and windy

silver mantle
#

the Olympics are beautiful year round though so its not a special summer thing

#

just a lot of the trails are more treacherous with heavier rain

hallow isle
#

cold + rain + hiking isn't fun

mint spear
#

Well depends on how cold I guess

#

And what you're wearing

mint spear
#

And what terrain you're on

hallow isle
#

not really

gaunt reef
#

woah nice

mint spear
#

That's a beaut

hallow isle
#

cold is fine, wet is fine, combination of the two is unpleasant.

silver mantle
#

still trying to get that one done with my dad but covid kinda ruined it this year haha

mint spear
#

I mean I guess

#

If you don't like cold rain

#

But if you have a jacket, it could be refreshing

silver mantle
#

i like cold and rainy because when you get soaked it can be somewhat unpleasant

#

but then you go inside and have hot cocoa and its cozy as fuck

mint spear
#

Hence why I said what you're wearing can matter

#

Yeah

hallow isle
#

weirrrrd

mint spear
#

Not weird, just different from what you like I guess

silver mantle
#

i find it super refreshing

mint spear
#

It is tbh

#

Getting out of any cold tho

sterile tartan
silver mantle
#

ignore it british people can't techncally call anyone weird lionnice

sterile tartan
mint spear
#

Well going from cold to hot choco

#

Spirit no-

hallow isle
#

watch me 👹

sterile tartan
#

Too late

mint spear
#

Ay gday guvnah! Wud ja loik a noice cupa tee?

hallow isle
#

british people are experts on both cold and rain and complaining

silver mantle
#

Discord is just proof that once you launched Undertale there was no escape

#

game's still going 👀

mint spear
#

Hicc hyuck pass the deep-fried ranch, would y'all?

#

😤

sterile tartan
#

I have coffee with caramel macchiato creamer. Am happy with this

mint spear
#

Hello orange

silver mantle
#

trust me adam im quite familiar 😏

arctic eagle
#

The British are the least weird wdym

silver mantle
#

fuck that my ex was weird af and i LOVED it

mint spear
#

Well have I got someone for you.

#

Woop

silver mantle
#

weird also = actually interesting

limber fractal
#

@hallow isle How you feeling?

arctic eagle
#

I'm not weird I'm the most normal wdym

hallow isle
#

good!

sterile tartan
silver mantle
#

oh yeah i was gonna get up wasn't i

sterile tartan
#

Yeah

arctic eagle
#

Anyway yes British girls are very good I am not biased at all nope

mint spear
silver mantle
#

im super biased

mint spear
#

My wife is British so I'm quite an expert.

#

I mean we're all biased

silver mantle
#

love of my life was british

arctic eagle
#

Literally every girlfriend I've ever had was British

mint spear
#

In one way or another whether or not we realize it

limber fractal
#

The accent gets me. Ngl.

silver mantle
#

she had two which was funny

limber fractal
#

That is funny. Depending on who she talked to?

sterile tartan
silver mantle
#

yep like she never used her normal one in public

undone moat
#

we went into a pizza shop and I'm pretty sure there was a dude who had covid in there

#

dude was coughing and it sounded like death

silver mantle
#

her mom taught her a london type accent to use so she sounded better in public i guess some weird thing

undone moat
#

we bailed like asap

hallow isle
#

that's a thing, particularly for northern folk

silver mantle
#

she was west midlands

hallow isle
#

brummie, even worse

sterile tartan
#

Murphy is trying to pull my hair to him to chew on

silver mantle
#

i thought it was cute

arctic eagle
#

I have different voices for different crowds but that's the usual

undone moat
#

why did we take a golf cart

#

it's cold

sterile tartan
#

I... Don't

mint spear
#

I have one voice lol

silver mantle
#

i can do a really lame redneck type accent

#

but it works since im from hicksville

mint spear
#

Anything else is me just doing an accent on purpose

sterile tartan
#

I accidentally sound Russian sometimes

silver mantle
#

i did it once at school and everyone ofc was like "never stop doing this voice ever"

glad cypress
#

I accidently mumble sometimes.

mint spear
#

I have a weird thing where I might start to use an accent to match the way someone's speaking though

glad cypress
#

By sometimes I mean I mumble every time.

#

It's a serious problem.

sterile tartan
#

My great grandma was Russian but I never met her

undone moat
#

mumbling marmalade

silver mantle
#

my ex def made me do british a bunch cuz she thought it was adorable

sterile tartan
#

Then I'd get him confused with mumbles even more

limber fractal
#

MarvelousMumblingMarmalade what a name

undone moat
#

I have no idea what I sound like tbh

limber fractal
#

'Murican?

sterile tartan
#

You sound like you look like you should sound

mint spear
#

I don't know how I sound tbh, I never thought about it too much.

hallow isle
#

I got a recording @undone moat

sterile tartan
#

I know what I sound like. But only because of singing

limber fractal
#

I have to hear most of your voices / accents still.

undone moat
mint spear
#

Your knee is?

silver mantle
#

you sound pretty normal but fun hex if that makes any fuckin sense

undone moat
#

not having a door

mint spear
#

Hmmm. I think that's a good thing.

silver mantle
#

kai sounds like a vampire

undone moat
#

I have a seatbelt but I still feel very unsafe

mint spear
#

Yes he do.

#

I know that my voice sounds deeper to other people than it does to me

hallow isle
#

omg he does

mint spear
#

And often sounds emotionless lol

silver mantle
#

fluffy sounds like a magic playerlike a friendly person

mint spear
#

Like everything I say almost sounds monotone, even though it doesn't to me

sterile tartan
#

My voice is higher than I hear when talking

mint spear
#

I love it when Fluffy calls me a silly goose, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.

undone moat
#

ill tell you all what, when I come back I'm gonna do a vr stream and shit's gonna explode

silver mantle
#

like im ngl i could listen to commentary from him cuz its a relaxing voice

mint spear
#

Genuinely yes.

undone moat
#

tbh I'd love to run through half life alyx with a bunch of people

#

think of it like a let's play series but it's live

silver mantle
#

time to ninja my food into my room and hope no one walks by lmao

mint spear
#

"It's ya boi Computerman and today we're gunna thud.... dicks."

sterile tartan
#

S0ul is arguing with people over stupid stuff. It's kinda funny

undone moat
#

nah not hla - it needs to be a blind run of something

silver mantle
#

got myself an oreo milkshake :3

mint spear
#

Spirit, last night in the shower I realized you missed an opportunity for a joke and I hate that it took me 4 hours to notice.

gaunt reef
#

I never thought that I sound like an Indian

#

but yeah I do apparently

mint spear
#

Why wouldn't you?

#

I guess it's normal for you actually.

silver mantle
#

i always knew i sounded like a bland american haha

gaunt reef
#

grown up watching too much western media so I thought I'd have a different accent than usual

mint spear
#

Oh I see. Yep, that'll do it.

arctic eagle
#

YO I SHOULD join vc one time and kill you all with my voice

hallow isle
#

so, i remember reading something about this a long time ago

gaunt reef
#

especially when I hear other Indians talking and it feels like I dont have those nuances

hallow isle
#

children don't pick up accents from TV media

#

they don't really learn from it either

#

it's pretty much exclusively parental/relative interaction

gaunt reef
#

makes sense

hallow isle
#

In fact, some studies suggest exposure to TV et al. may actually slow speech development

sterile tartan
#

@mint spear what joke

hallow isle
#

difficult to prove conclusively though without being horrendously unethical

sterile tartan
#

Every kid is different, that's a hard thing to study. I had a friend who taught herself to read using Pokemon games

mint spear
#

@sterile tartan - You shared a filtered picture and said something like "soul face reveal" and the joke you could have ran with... Get this...
You could have said it was a SOULFIE.

limber fractal
#

I learned my English accent from friends cuz English wasn't my native tongue.

mint spear
#

OMG I'm too funny.

sterile tartan
#

Haha

#

So punny

mint spear
#

Ayyyy

hallow isle
#

@limber fractal you should sue them 😉

limber fractal
#

Def no tv or parents for me.

undone moat
#

I could do fuckin uhhh

#

idk

limber fractal
#

@hallow isle Wow. I sound that bad? Lol

hallow isle
#

no I'm just kidding 🙂

silver mantle
#

i wouldnt be able to tell you didn't speak english natively red no joke

hallow isle
#

your accent is interesting

silver mantle
#

at least from what i remember

limber fractal
#

I know that when I get nervous or tired, the Miami accent comes out more. Not a fan lol

#

Friends I learned from both had pretty neutral accents. So I tried to imitate as best I could.

sterile tartan
#

If I say anything in another language besides English, I soubd like a Russian speaking that language

#

Sound

limber fractal
#

But learning at age 12 does make it harder. Cuz that part of your brain (for accents) is fully developed at age 6 iirc.

#

@sterile tartan So funny. And cute.

undone moat
#

I sound uh

sterile tartan
#

Yeah, but people remain impressionable their whole lives
Like the actors/singers from elsewhere who sound more american the longer they stay in the us

hallow isle
#

@limber fractal we don't start learning any additional languages in the UK until we're 11 D:

undone moat
#

well Nyxara always said my voice was smooth but I don't believe him

sterile tartan
#

It is

undone moat
#

wHAT

hallow isle
#

Fortunately the whole world learns English for us

silver mantle
#

i think the only thing i picked up from my parents that isn't just a bland american accent is that I tend to go for long A's more

limber fractal
#

@hallow isle That's sad. Most European ppl I met seemed to have learned multiple languages at a very early age. I'm always so jealous lol

hallow isle
#

Europe is definitely different

silver mantle
#

Ah instead of eh

hallow isle
#

And I do try a little

#

I just lack focus and skill 😛

undone moat
#

from what I can tell drunk computerman sounds far different but that could just be my memory

hallow isle
#

I know little bits of french, german, dutch, and japanese

mint spear
#

Why should we learn other languages when other countries can just learn English? 😤

limber fractal
#

I love Dutch. But I'm weird.

hallow isle
#

but never really stuck with any long enough to get past the "the cat is sat on the mat" level

limber fractal
#

I also enjoy French now as an adult.

sterile tartan
#

I can read German
Doesnt mean I know what I'm reading always. But I can read it

mint spear
#

rofl

silver mantle
#

i honestly feel like I need to learn Japanese since I'll have to go there for work

hallow isle
#

Problem is I can read them a lot better than I can write or speak

#

Which makes duolingo real tricky

limber fractal
#

Japanese is hard. Or at least it seemed to be when my mom was learning it. They had two sets of numbers depending on type or shape of object. Or something like that.

undone moat
#

I used to know a bit of Italian but I know very little of it now unfortunately

sterile tartan
#

I could learn German probably
I remember most of what I learned in like 7th grade

hallow isle
#

They have two alphabets, hiragana and katakana

gaunt reef
#

I believe written japanese is harder than spoken

hallow isle
#

hiragana is for most things, katakana is for loan words, signs, nouns, technical words...

#

then there's kanji, which represent entire words or concepts in a single symbol

limber fractal
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If I was given a choice to be born or raised in another country, I'd include Japan as one of the top choices 🤔

gaunt reef
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I wouldn't

sterile tartan
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duolingo scares me
Just because
Idk
But I could learn German prolly

hallow isle
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so, @limber fractal imagine having to learn 2 alphabets, and then not using either of them 90% of the time

gaunt reef
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as much as I like Japan in anime/manga, I would rather live in a slavic country or Canada

limber fractal
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I'm a fan of various aspects of their culture. Unrelated to language.

gaunt reef
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Japan for tourism would be nice

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but their work ethics is just plain no

limber fractal
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I enjoy language. So I'd be fine learning 2 alphabets at an early age.

arctic eagle
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If I could be born in a different country I would pick the UK again so I have another shot at being king

hallow isle
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the thing that annoys me so much

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is that

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this stuff can literally be learned by a 4 year old

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I'm better than a 4 year old

limber fractal
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I'd enjoy learning 5 languages before age 6.

sterile tartan
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4 year olds absorb everything, it's a lot easier to learn anything at that age

arctic eagle
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I should touch up on my French

silver mantle
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i absolutely love japanese food

hallow isle
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is it though? or is that just the lie we tell ourselves when we're getting our asses kicked by 4 year olds?

sterile tartan
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Jasper hates umbrellas with a passion. He'll lay his ears back, hiss, growl, and slap the shit out of them

limber fractal
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It goes back to what I said. About the region of our brain linked to language and sounds. It stops developing around age 6.

gaunt reef
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lmao

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Japanese curry is nice

silver mantle
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okonomiyaki blobreachdrool

gaunt reef
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I just like my food to be slightly sweet, idk why

limber fractal
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@hallow isle It's science

silver mantle
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ramen blobreachdrool

silver mantle
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😐

hallow isle
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if I ever get a time machine, learning a language is on the list of things to fix

limber fractal
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Same

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More more more

gaunt reef
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I have nothing I want to fix about my past

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is that weird

hallow isle
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Yes

glad cypress
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I want to go back in time and shoot that bitch-ass toddler. Fucking annoying ass piece of shit like wtf was i thinking.

gaunt reef
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I feel like the bad stuff that's happened to me are all part of who I am now, along with the good

silver mantle
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infinite time to learn more stuff would be pretty rad

hallow isle
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  1. Start learning languages 30 years earlier
  2. Start learning guitar 30 years earlier
  3. redacted
  4. You don't need pizza at 2am, stay home
limber fractal
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The older we get, the more weird it may be. It depends on where we're at in life, how we were raised, what kind of traumas we experience, etcetera etcetera.

gaunt reef
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like yeah I've had stuff happen that I regret and would like to change but I also feel like that because I feel like this I will not make the same mistakes again

silver mantle
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trust me im aware of many things that are different now that im an old lady 😐

gaunt reef
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obaa chan

silver mantle
limber fractal
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When brain function is affected, and you realize you can't undo past mistakes, or you've run out of time, regrets may pop up... when we're young, we can feel we're invincible.

silver mantle
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its unfortunate wisdom comes too late; so much wasted time

limber fractal
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I speak for my mother's early onset of dementia.

gaunt reef
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😔

hallow isle
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sometimes major things happen to you that have absolutely no upside, and it's difficult to understand that unless it's happened to you

silver mantle
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i hate that so many years get stuck finding out who you are; but i also blame some of that on society

gaunt reef
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oh boy did I give up on that fast

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I had a bit of time where I was getting an identity crisis, then realised "wait isn't all this based on what people want of me? fuck it"

hallow isle
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people say that every cloud has a silver lining, but that's not true - some clouds really are just dark to their core

gaunt reef
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bro... darkness cannot exist without light...........

arctic eagle
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OPTIMISM MY DUDE BE OPTIMISTIV

limber fractal
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Optimism isn't a fix it all. Trust me.

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Sometimes you must accept it's not always the way you want things or hoped for them to be.

arctic eagle
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It certainly helps morale though

silver mantle
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i think there's more to mental toughness than optimism; there's many layers to changing ways of thinking and what not

limber fractal
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Acceptance is a better place.

arctic eagle
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I REFUSE to accept bad things

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I shall instead destroy them

hallow isle
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If only it worked that way 🙂

limber fractal
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Brain chemistry is a powerful mechanism, for the good and the bad. Hence why youngins can feel they're invincible.

silver mantle
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its been extremely difficult haha

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actually a daily thing

limber fractal
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Acceptance and gratefulness are more balanced states of mind from my personal experience. When the clouds get very very very dark.

silver mantle
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even just like working on a temper its like super difficult to recognize and stop it when its happening cuz it feels so justified

limber fractal
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Yup.

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That's what I love about Tao Te Ching tbh. The Yin and Yang.

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Not good vs evil.

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Just forces of nature. Energies. That flow.

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You try to find a balance. But you accept the flows.

silver mantle
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that was something interesting my dad got really into but sort of by "accident?" because he's old too so his joints and muscles ache more so he started Tai Chi and Qi Gong

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and then absorbed the mental aspects of it too

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similar to me it came out of a really really bad year

limber fractal
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Omg I LOVE internal martial arts. It's lovely he got into it.

silver mantle
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its kinda nice cuz its another journey we kinda share in a lot of ways

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im just bad at routines

limber fractal
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I did a 2 month Taoist retreat. It was like light at the end of a tunnel.

silver mantle
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ah man that sounds awesome

limber fractal
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I lived in a tent for 2 months. We woke up before sunrise to do our Chi Gong and Tai Chi movements, facing where the sun would rise.

silver mantle
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i really wish i could do something like that tbh

hallow isle
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you've got 2 months of leave right?

limber fractal
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When I came back "home" to Colorado, I felt a huge sense of loss tbh. The space there was like no other I've experienced.

silver mantle
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something random about Japan that i really loved was being in Tokyo on one of the main roads with all that noise and traffic and wandering off into a small garden between some buildings with a shrine on the far side

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all the noise vanished and it was like being back in a forest

gaunt reef
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woah

silver mantle
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it was a really crazy experience

arctic eagle
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I'm too headstrong to see sense I shall instead block the badness out via my overwhelming ans sometimes overbearing positivity

silver mantle
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i would def just like to do something to sort of cap off all the years of self work that ive done

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cuz ive always just kinda done it myself

limber fractal
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What you resist persists, is my motto.

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Flow like water, and the badness shall pass.

gaunt reef
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lmao this reminds me of something I wrote years ago

silver mantle
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i just feel like im so close to something really good

limber fractal
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Def reach for it.

gaunt reef
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Life is the river in which the water of time flows. You're a piece of lint floating in the water. If you keep yourself loose enough, nothing will stop you from flowing and you'll eventually drain into the ocean of... Afterlife?
But if you keep yourself tight, you're bound to hit a rock or any other stationary object and you'll end up being stuck to it. Either a little time, or a lot of time, maybe even forever. 
And the water of life will slowly erode you.
You'll then get detached to that rock, but a part of you is gone.
This process might keep happening till you are reduced to a mere grain of near nothingness.
Sure, nothing won't stop you now, but well.. You're a grain now.
Don't let the water of time erode you by delving into the past. But don't go too fast by thinking of the future either or else you'll hit a rock REALLY hard and a big part of you might just break off, you know?
Float with the waters at it's pace. The present. The present matters the most.```
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bro 5 years ago

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jeez

limber fractal
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Thank you so much for sharing that ♥️

gaunt reef
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I vaguely remember writing this to someone but idk who

silver mantle
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oh that's very nice

gaunt reef
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thank you

silver mantle
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this talk is also very nice haha

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usually if i go this route people are pretty like "excuse me what"

limber fractal
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That writing contains a lot of wisdom. @gaunt reef ablobsmile

gaunt reef
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haha its still rough but thanks

limber fractal
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Yeah, I used to get a lot of that type of response in South Florida. @silver mantle Colorado was different.

gaunt reef
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usually if i go this route people are pretty like "excuse me what"
just intersperse the talks with a random "BRO DIGANBALLS" to keep it zoomer relevant

silver mantle
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not surprising; SoCal is also a very different experience than WA

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and then even in WA things are very different from one city to another

limber fractal
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Here used to be my perfect depiction of South Florida.

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I was at work, and a friend and coworker of mine introduced me to one of his newer employees. A girl. Typical cute girl, with nice (suspiciously) fake boobs. Etc.

sterile tartan
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In my part of WA no one questions other people's stuff usually

limber fractal
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He tells her, "She doesn't own a television." Which I didn't. On purpose.

sterile tartan
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Woe

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Wow*

limber fractal
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Girl responds in genuine shock: "Omg! So what do you do?!"

silver mantle
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haha yeaahhhh

sterile tartan
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._.

gaunt reef
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how

silver mantle
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i still get those conversations with my coworkers cuz the only thing ive done socially with them lately is learn magic the gathering

gaunt reef
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I thought TVs arent as popular anymore now that the world is about Netflix and Chill

silver mantle
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its very confusing to some of them

gaunt reef
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the more "crazy" thing would be if someone didn't own a smartphone

arctic eagle
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TVs are still pretty popular yeah

limber fractal
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Yeah, this was back in 2006 maybe? 🤔 Can't recall. Things have changed a lot.

silver mantle
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i understand the context

undone moat
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everyone I work with is 20 years older than I am so anything I try to talk about with them goes over their head no matter how much I dumb it dowm for them

gaunt reef
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no I mean popular enough for someone to think you're crazy for not owning one

silver mantle
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i actually work with people of many varying ages; younger same older

arctic eagle
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I can come work with you, I'll acceptta position as your boss

gaunt reef
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what do the younger ones think of you?

undone moat
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I'll reserve my comments, woop

silver mantle
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i think the younger ones just think of me as anti-social haha

fickle obsidian
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i like how even if you talk about old stuff like Aethena & Red were talking about, it still manages to go over older folks' heads, lol

silver mantle
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actually that's been the most common from all of them is im wasting my life cuz i wont go out and meet people

arctic eagle
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Yeah dude some people are like REALLY OLD