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Off Topic / Re: new year's resolutions?

« on: December 27, 2023, 07:00:53 PM »

to be clear: indoor rock climbing
its very stable and safe, you can start easy with indoor bouldering where you're never more than 5 ft off the ground (and will by design and training fall on your back onto soft flooring if your muscles do give out)
belaying/auto belays are great for the tall stuff, you're safe cause you've either got a person or a device rated to hold your weight and more, and you'll never fall uncontrollably

the main downside you'll have to face is pretty high monthly fees, so to get good value you have to go frequently (ie more than once a week). most places also have a day fee if you just want to give it a go occasionally/for your first time.

even when i have a harness on i get pretty freaked out unfortunately. i did a high ropes course in the trees one time in high school and even though i had a harness and line and everything i had a panic attack when i finished climbing the ladder lol

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Off Topic / Re: new year's resolutions?

« on: December 24, 2023, 09:02:06 AM »

I should probably make mine "be nicer to myself" but im not sure if i deserve it... this is a joke, i'm fine i should probably still make that my resolution tho

a good goal

go do rock climbing at the local gym at least twice a week

i'd love to try out rock climbing but unfortunately i have a fear of unstable heights :(

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Off Topic / Re: new year's resolutions?

« on: December 23, 2023, 06:01:09 PM »

mine is also fitness related but less specific. I just want to do strength training every other day and walk at least 30 minutes on the off days. surely over time I will increase the scope of these goals but I think that's a manageable place to start. the most important thing for me rn is just getting some kind of activity every day and trying to get in better shape. I'm not especially worried about changing my diet at the moment because that's never gone exceptionally well in the past and it's going to have to be a much more gradual process. trying to change both at once would not work for me

good luck on yours

i've really loved getting fitness involved with my daily routine (started back at the end of march of this year). i've been doing lifting 5 to 6 days a week and trying to run/walk outside 1 or 2 days a week and i've felt great after doing it. i feel a lot better about myself in general thanks to it too. the only real diet change i've made is just trying to get a lot more protein in my diet to support the gains, like protein shakes in the mornings and increasing how much lean meat i eat

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Off Topic / new year's resolutions?

« on: December 23, 2023, 04:49:23 PM »

following hot on the heels of the christmas time thread: anyone have any new year's resolutions?
mine are both fitness related: do 1 unassisted pull-up and run a nonstop mile (doesn't matter how fast, just never breaking a running pace). i'd wanted to accomplish an unassisted pullup this year but didn't manage it so hopefully next year i can do it

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Off Topic / Re: christmas time

« on: December 23, 2023, 01:50:25 PM »

i got my christmas present early, a garmin venu 2s to replace my fitbit whose battery couldnt last even a mile long run anymore. early christmas present to myself has been a fully custom built keyboard that i've worked on with another forumer. then for actual festivities, i'm spending christmas eve and christmas itself with two other families since my own family is so far away

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Off Topic / Re: I keep opening the forum to see if there's anything new and interesting on here

« on: December 13, 2023, 04:30:26 PM »

i still keep the forums page pinned to my browser. i can't bring myself to unpin it. i always worry one day i'll click on the tab and it won't load up anymore.

keep in touch with a few people from the forums still, mainly the crew from abs fiesta over in community projects. qwepir is running a sequel adventure to it over discord these days, and a bunch of the players are making a pilgrimage to have another in-person meetup in a month or so

A lot of us were probably too young and naive to notice or care, but there were a good few who did notice and tried to point it out, but they would just be ignored or overshadowed by whatever other discussion(s) were going on

i remember always hating bisjac and trying to call him out on some of his gross opinions, but i was also a teenage girl at the time, so... i kind of got dismissed from what i remember lol

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Off Topic / Re: got jumped by some bootleg fireworks

« on: December 13, 2023, 04:21:57 PM »

interesting new market for badspot to branch out into....

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Off Topic / Re: E3 is done

« on: December 13, 2023, 04:19:46 PM »

i have fond memories of sitting with friends in a skype call watching the e3 presentations and playing e3 bingo. kinda sad that it's gone

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Off Topic / Re: Kambucha, can you feel the alcohol?

« on: October 04, 2023, 04:18:17 PM »

i love kombucha and used to drink it daily. never felt the effects of alcohol from it, and neither did my super skinny best friend who also used to drink it a ton

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Off Topic / Re: Please stop dying - or make a time machine!!!

« on: October 04, 2023, 04:15:53 PM »

like, i understand the argument he's making, but i also genuinely believe the world would be a better place without twitter, facebook, reddit, tiktok, and 4chan
EDIT: also instagram

god i wish facebook and tiktok didn't exist

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Off Topic / Re: What's something you miss from the 2000s?

« on: August 16, 2023, 04:50:58 PM »

i miss browsing flipnote hatena for hours on my dsi :(

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Off Topic / Re: What plate carrier yall run?

« on: August 06, 2023, 05:04:13 PM »

personally i like to go for a good bra

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Off Topic / Re: Best Meat

« on: August 06, 2023, 05:03:15 PM »

Actually for some more etymology Meat apparently meant "food" in general.

This is kinda cool because I think people refer to pulp as "meat" sometimes.

reminds me of how we use "meal" to refer to like. food times. when meal is just ground up grains. and how japanese uses "gohan" (rice) as a general term for food times. humans really be like "staple crop"

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Off Topic / Re: Best Meat

« on: August 04, 2023, 01:17:38 PM »

lamb is goated. i love beef if it's rare. and fish is also top tier if it's raw. but chicken is old faithful because you can do so much with it and it's pretty cheap

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Off Topic / Re: Drippy Outfits Thread

« on: August 03, 2023, 06:29:19 PM »

"Fuuuuck are those blue eyes? Fancy meeting a fellow Esoteric Riddlerist here. Come friend, I have original prints of Einsatzgruppen genocide manuals and Himmler's personal copy of Bhagavad Gita I want to show you. The hour of Kalki draws nearer..."

that dude is built like stuff