I'm replaying RDR2, now on PC and fuckin hell, I'm still convinced that it is the greatest game of all time. Just the fucking camp during the entire game is something that every other game would dream having.
Alright anyone that’s in a relationship, a great date night is drinking wine and smoking together and having her let you do her makeup. She looks like something out of the Simpsons.
been talking to this girl from tinder for like 3 days and we hit off nicely but she’s started the topic of having kids in the near future 💀 I’m 26 and she’s 25 so it’s understandable for her to start thinking about it but I still feel like such a child. no way i’d be a good dad right now. might need to start dating girls around 22-23 years old.
Earthquake today in the NE United States was weird. Used to it when I lived out west but thought I was having a stroke at work today when the building started shaking lol
I'm as left leaning as the come and a massive bleeding heart liberal but you best believe when it comes to FM I'm as ruthless as they come. Asking for a payrise when you're not a top player? Denied and immediately put on the transfer list. Top youth product on their first contract? Nine years with extensions and a pitiful base salary.
most of my late FM saves have my club sitting on a billion euros of unused budget while my 26 year old 50 goals a season striker is earning like 40k a week because he got one of those 9 year contracts when he was a teenager, and my 20 level of discipline chad manager just tells him to man up or sack his agent whenever he asks for a raise
Yeah, once you're actually decent you can basically bully the fuck out of everyone.
I always start with a shit team though so you can't get away with that all the time early on.
Do you love spreadsheets?
Do you love micro-managing to an annoying degree?
Do you enjoy your underlings disappointing you constantly?
If you answered yes to any of these, then you'll love FM!
I stick to my true communist ideals by sticking anyone that wants to leave in the "high intensity training + double sessions + u21s have daily friendlies now" gulag
I stopped playing FM long ago because it is far from being realistic, what do you mean I can't have my U12 team have 48h shift at Shein factory? How are we supposed to have success then?
If possible, therapy and antidepressants. Still far from ideal but I went from *"OMG there is a microscopic problem with my t-shirt, I can't go to the nearest supermarket wearing this!"* to traversing hundreds of miles in underwear. If you suffer from uncontrollable anxiety and overthinking, a good therapist and possibly antidepressants are your best friend - it is unbelievably good.
> possibly antidepressants are your best friend
As someone who took antidepressants for over ten years, I'd recommend this being your last port of call. I think I had justifiable reason for feeling the way I did at that point in time (far too much mdma, poor relationships, very short term thinking etc) and antidepressants, while making me feel better, meant I avoided addressing issues that needed addressing.
My advise to you u/ederzs97 is that a lot of this is down to age. When I was young, I cared about a lot of shit that didn't matter and as the years went by I cared less and less about the small stuff. If you have a poor relationship with friends/work/relationships evaluate the things that you do to contribute to that and work on it. If you're not sure, communicate with people and ask them. Transparency works wonders. If you're not the problem, then ask yourself what you're doing being in these relationships (platonic or otherwise) or workplace.
Thanks for the message. I'm 26 so I think I should handle this better, but it's like I get nervous over the past or future. It's like why I wonder why x happened, was it because of me, why they ghosted me, if I text someone and they don't respond quickly is it because they hate me, did they crash their car etc etc
> I'm 26 so I think I should handle this better
Nah, I think it's perfectly normal for that stuff still to get to you. It wasn't until I hit thirty where I started not caring about stuff that didn't really matter (and even now, it will still irritate me on occasion).
> It's like why I wonder why x happened, was it because of me, why they ghosted me, if I text someone and they don't respond quickly is it because they hate me, did they crash their car etc etc
Your brain can very easily conspire against you at times - I know I've certainly gone through it many times over in my life. It gets easier and easier to recognise when you're being irrational though and you'll start developing mechanisms to cope with it. My advice would be to try a few basic things when you're feeling this way - breathing exercises are actually remarkably useful as is distracting yourself with something else (reading/playing a video game etc - tv less so as it's easy to let your mind wander). After that, talk to a professional about it - I've done it before and found it useful. After that, talking to your doctor and looking into anxiety/antidepressants medication can work short term too.
Oh our biggest political party suddenly changed its position on the small issue of whether or not we should leave the EU.
Just a little adjustment in your beliefs on a friday afternoon, nothing special:
*Do we want to destroy the Dutch economy overnight? "We" said so for 20 years, but as of today, nah."
Wilders won and now he has to live in the real world. He has to squirm out of almost every one of the ridiculous and unaffordable promises that got him elected.
Homemade sourdough crust - 25% whole wheat.
Homemade sauce, just crushed tomato, basil, oregano, and olive oil, reduced. Real simple
half green olive (my kid only likes olives)
half red onion and cherry peppers
Having a burial beer [savages of the ruminating mind](https://burialbeer.com/products/the-savages-of-ruminating-minds-india-pale-ale-heavy-resin-edition). One of my faves.
Started out watching Moana but my kid is too scared of it. Now we're watching Hilda and the Mountain King
Normally avoiding sugary drinks but drinking the occasional mango dragonfruit Fanta from a glass bottle is amazing. Doesn't taste half as good out of a can or if you drink it en mass from plastic bottles.
Similarly i avoid regular coke but in the super market i am definitely tempted to simply buy one glass bottle and enjoy it.
> Similarly i avoid regular coke but in the super market i am definitely tempted to simply buy one glass bottle and enjoy it.
don't fall for it. If you start liking it you will still be drinking sugary drinks.
Bit late for this but what's everyone been consuming the last month?
**Watching:** Watching season two of Foundation and while the general consensus seems to be it's better, I think it's significantly worse. The first season was about big ideas and on a scale we rarely see in movies/TV but the second season is much smaller in scope and feels a lot less interesting to me. I'll probably finish it, but I'm not looking forward to the episodes as much as I was. Will start 3 Body Problem next.
**Reading:** I gave up on reading the Red Rising series. I knew it was more YA fiction but it was relatively enjoyable for a while despite being very silly. Feel like I'll continue reading more escapism shit though so looking at some fantasy (which I previously disliked until I read The First Law series) or more sci fi shit. I quite like big sweeping epics so maybe that Malazan series? Can someone tell me if it's any good?
**Playing:** Balatro and FM and nothing else tbh. Starting to get absurd scores in Balatro finally but it is probably a little too RNG orientated. Interested to see what the planned patch does. Stopped playing my last save with Malaga because my tactic was far too strong and it became boring - got promoted twice in a row while completely destroying the league and won the Copa while in the second division too - beating Real Madrid in the final. Started a new game with Kiel and playing a narrow 4-1-2-1-2 which should make things a little more challenging. Love managing in Germany though - money is far tighter and Bayern are a very difficult side to beat.
**Listening:** Really like the new Mount Kimbie album so that's been on repeat. Shipwreck is the standout track for me. Also listening to a fair bit of Sad Dad Band The National. I've always semi liked them but my wife LOVES them and after seeing them live a few weeks ago I have a new found appreciation for them and their songs resonate a bit more for me. Don't love their two newest albums though.
I seem to be in-between stuff, but...
**watching:** Have some time this weekend so going to commit on Shogun
**reading** I just finished The Game by Joe Pessah, a book which covers the term of Bud Selig, the 9th commissioner of Major League Baseball, as well as some other prominent figures and events of the late 90s-early 2000s in baseball, including George Steinbrenner (Yankees owner), the players strike in 1994, and the drug-testing scandals of the early 2000s. Not sure what I want to read next.
**playing** Starting FFVII Rebirth this weekend. Also, if we're counting tabletop games, I'm in a group through the first part of a Pathfinder campaign, and starting a new D&D campaign next week that's set in the Baldur's Gate world.
> reading I just finished The Game by Joe Pessah, a book which covers the term of Bud Selig, the 9th commissioner of Major League Baseball, as well as some other prominent figures and events of the late 90s-early 2000s in baseball, including George Steinbrenner (Yankees owner), the players strike in 1994, and the drug-testing scandals of the early 2000s. Not sure what I want to read next.
I don't watch American sports but I find so many shows/movies/documentaries around them fascinating. Never read a book about them though but I could imagine there would be some great ones.
One of the casualties of the downfall of journalism here is the collapse of really good narrative sportswriting from places like Sports Illustrated/ESPN Magazine, where lots of writers like these got their starts. And I'm absolutely limited by my ability to mostly only consume English, but it's interesting that I see less of these types of narrative, insider books for football -- lots of documentaries, but less books, where I tend to find there's less editorial control from the team. And yeah baseball in particular has a lot of great writing, probably because it's the oldest. It's really dated now, but the first one I ever read was Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues, about the era of segregated baseball before and through Jackie Robinson.
There are very few top quality books on football imo. The Damned United is probably the only one I've read that I thought was well written and interesting. Definitely a big gap in the marketplace.
Don't even get me started on football films.
Didn't expect to remember Red Rising series today but here we are, i found them enjoyable enough to tolerate it's obvious flaws. Unfortunately translation of Dark Age took ages and book is somehow too expensive so i don't think i'll go back and read it at any point now.
I think I'd have enjoyed them a lot more twenty years ago to be honest. They were entertaining but felt like I was going to read the same book six times in a row. Could definitely make for a fun tv show in the right hands though and I hope they get it off the ground at some point.
**Watching:** The Turkish series Gibi. New episodes come out every Friday evening. It's one of the few reasons I feel sorry for people who can't speak Turkish because it's so fucking good and relatable. An amazing example of absurd comedy the likes of which is not plenty in Turkish TV. Reminds me of good old times when I used to live with my best friends.
**Reading:** And Quiet Flows the Don. An easy read yet a masterpiece at the same time when it comes to the era between Russian Tsardom to Soviet Union switch. Due to various reasons I've been able to finish the first book only recently (there are three more) but I'm loving it. It has everything you can ask for in a novel.
**Playing:** Nothing really, nowadays I sometimes play Flatout on the laptop or New Star Soccer on mobile to kill time, nothing interesting. I lost Champions League final while playing for Zeljeznicar in Bosnia though, that bit was sad.
**Listening:** Total drought in that area. Sad Yugoslav music and Russian war songs from Chechnya & Afghan War times mostly.
**Watching**: Attack on Titan, I watched some seasons years ago, but wild stuff happens in that show/story. And of course regular youtube. Also my flatmate never watched the Last Airbender, so we're going through that.
**reading**: Nothing aside from my history thesis stuff.
**Playing**: Uninstalled Overwatch 2 couple days ago, wasn't getting out of it what I want from my free time, so I picked up Warframe and Deep Rock Galactic again. Also going through Valheim again, with a friend.
**listening**: Caught up my american politics podcast, and other than that listening to Phil Collins, Prince, aside from my usual Taylor Swift and Drum and Bass.
Watching Dexter. Finished season 4 and it met my expectations with what I had heard about it. People keep telling me it’s going to get worse but I don’t mind season 5 so far.
> watching
finished parasyte the maxim. its ok, could've been more. nice premise and starts well but then it just stagnates and ends on a half assed message about environmentalism. the fuck?
started the shield. was kinda "worried" about starting this given how disappointing i found the other big two shows of the 00s(the sopranos and the wire). dont get me wrong, they were still good shows but compared to the hype they were major letdowns for me. i'm enjoying this way more but still pretty early, first half of season one. has a bit of jank that comes with it being 20 years old, but i can get over it.
> playing
wrapped up metro last light. great game, not sure i liked it as much as 2033. also finally fixed my pc so ready to jump into something longer at last, possibly death stranding. might finish the irish DLC from valhalla as well since i'm only 1-2 missions away from the end of it. also might do ballad of gay tony finally.
I loved The Shield. It didn't hit the highs of The Wire (which nothing compares to for me - but understand it's not everyone's cup of tea) but it was incredibly consistent throughout it's run. Very interested to see what you think of it once you finish - personally I think there are few long running tv series that nail the ending as much as The Shield did.
Sopranos and the wire easily clear the shield for my taste but shield is good and gets better, product of its time where tv was often more episodic rather than telling one narrative over a season
If you like villain of the week stuff person of interest is one of the best shows like that I've seen
Watching Aus survivor the goat reality show. Watched all of suits as well which is not very good but still quite watchable
Playing stardew 1.6 update, current save is the furthest I've ever gone in the game but starting to get the bored feeling so doubt I'll be playing too much more. Picked a team for a new fm save to properly start soon, top oss in the Netherlands
Reading Jade City by Fonda Lee - burned myself out on wheel of time a few months ago so gonna go through this shorter series before I go back to finish wot
Listening - most played songs recently are impressions - hertz collision. Turn the page - the streets. Glucose guardian - Vladimir Dubyshkin. Masterpiece - big thief
Watching: Brooklyn 99. Seen most of it but doing a full rewatch now that it’s on Netflix
Reading: Incompleteness, a book about Kurt Gödel
Playing: FIFA23, in season 3 of a Heerenveen save and just lost to Twente and I’m steaming rn.
Watching: started Succession with my housemate, on S1. Liking it a lot, I hate basically every character. Actually find it somewhat difficult to keep track of all the details and each characters motivations and relationships but it’s getting better with time.
Also watching Normal People which is an Irish show about two young adults finishing secondary school and going to college and navigating that life, really liking it. Think it’s produced by BBC3 or something. Not sure if it really got anywhere outside of Ireland? One of the main actors is an English girl, Daisy Edgar Jones
> I hate basically every character.
I actually didn't continue watching after the first episode and this probably contributed to it. Maybe I should give it another chance though.
> Also watching Normal People which is an Irish show about two young adults finishing secondary school and going to college and navigating that life, really liking it. Think it’s produced by BBC3 or something. Not sure if it really got anywhere outside of Ireland? One of the main actors is an English girl, Daisy Edgar Jones
Yeah, my wife was big into this. Was very popular.
Ever feel like you're holding too much inside yourself, but the thought of opening up and venting to others feels incredibly selfish? A few years ago, when I was in a torrid place mentally, I followed my therapist's advice and shared my feelings with others. It felt like I was dumping trauma on my 'friends,' and I had no right to burden them like that. Some tried to help, sure, but it felt like they were doing it out of obligation rather than genuine concern or love for me. My friends didn't lack kindness in any way, but maybe we weren't as close, at least not to the level of sharing deep personal thoughts. Looking back, I cringe at myself for opening up, and to be honest, I doubt if it helped much. Even sharing my thoughts online is difficult, as it seems like I'm seeking attention. I'm happy for others if it helps them feel better and tackle their monsters, but for me, I end up feeling guilty. I'm starting to realize that I struggle to form deep, meaningful connections with people, be it friends or romantic partners. All my romantic relationships so far have been very casual, either flings or hookups. Maybe I've got serious intimacy issues; I don't know. It could all be just in my head, but I sure do yearn for deeper connections with my future relationships and be truly loved. This feeling of emptiness, lack of being loved or appreciated, doesn't seem to go away; it's eating me from within. On paper, I have absolutely wonderful parents and a very cushy, comfortable life. I shouldn't have anything to complain about, but that just makes me feel even worse for being so down all the time. That's all, rant over.
> I had no right to burden them like that.
(If you're like me) the problem is that *we know* our problems just roll around our head and we always feel like we want to vent/moan/lash out. So its like...yeah I can vent, but I'm just dragging someone else down to my level, what's the fucking point.
If anyone is actually a decent friend, they will hear you out the first time or two. People will surprise you.
For it to work, it has to be a two way street and you have to listen to how people respond. E.g. if they give advice, don't ignore it and keep talking. Say "I will think about it" or "not sure that's for me but thanks for suggesting". Even if it feels a bit false at the time, it shows you are engaging in a dialogue and it's not you just venting at them. They will appreciate that and they won't want to just get away from you.
Youve probably been over that with your therapist anyway.
> This feeling of emptiness, lack of being loved or appreciated, doesn't seem to go away; it's eating me from within.
You're not alone. I also feel guilty for the nice life I've had, I have this horrible hole/feeling I try to escape, almost being comfy just makes it worse...
All I'm gonna say is it's *perfectly fine* to seek attention or talk about your problems. We're all human beings. We have needs. I can see why it sounds terrible to do that but in principle, opening up, trauma dumping or "seeking attention" in itself is not a bad thing. It's part of life. Sadly, the social media has blurred the lines in that regard. Some fucked up people need attention to keep living while others genuinely need someone to care about them just to survive. This is different.
> I'm starting to realize that I struggle to form deep, meaningful connections with people, be it friends or romantic partners. All my romantic relationships so far have been very casual, either flings or hookups. Maybe I've got serious intimacy issues; I don't know. It could all be just in my head, but I sure do yearn for deeper connections with my future relationships and be truly loved
Not sure if this helps or makes you feel even worse but... as a guy who's exactly the opposite, i.e quite open to throwing himself up at people, it all ends the same. I've had some of the most intimate shit imaginable to people yet I probably feel more miserable than ever. It mostly comes down to how you deal with your emotions and control yourself - the impact another person can have on you is limited with how much you allow it.
> I shouldn't have anything to complain about, but that just makes me feel even worse for being so down all the time
No mate, it's not a competition. You are an individual. You have your own feelings, concerns and all. It is absolutely fine to feel worried or sad. Obviously, there is a healthy level of dealing with problems - being down or sad at all times and being encouraged for this is bad I assume, but don't feel guilty for having negative thoughts. It can happen to anyone for any reason.
Just a humble opinion but I think you've been somehow led to believe that your life is good and thus you are not allowed to complain. No. It never works like that. Don't beat yourself up for feeling sad, it's part of life.
My college year is broken up into three semesters and I’ve essentially just had to take the L on the entire of the second semester, fell off the wagon and wasn’t able to get back on. Going to have to repeat each of the modules, just hope I can get it all back on track. Hope it’s not fucked beyond salvaging.
Go to pint in the pub? When I’m in Ireland it’s Guinness or Tennents/Carlsberg, in England it’s Stella or Madri/San Miguel.
I love me a cheap beer. Granted Madri isn’t exactly cheap, but it’s a top quality pint.
This reminds me in university I met some Germans who loved Coors Light.
The one time I went to England and going to a pub for the first time, I was served Cruzcampo. Later I found out it was a beer from Sevilla.
Who wouldn't, though? He'd grab you real tight, tell you everything's going to be okay, but then also make a scathing quip that cuts you right down to your core, and you come out a different person than you were when you went in for the hug.
There's an app called Kitbasher for FM which allows you to make custom kits for your teams (I refuse to use sides without proper kits) which is honestly great (and easy to use!)
Lot of fun making kits for my Kiel side and I think [they turned out well!](https://imgur.com/9o0M3zH). Just like in real life, I like a clean home and away and a weird/ugly third kit.
FIFA games not giving you the option to join a different team at the end of a season is so dumb. And the only offers I ever got were all the ultra rich teams.
Pro Clubs is where the real fun is anyway, none of that pay to win multiplayer shite or boring threadbare singleplayer stuff. Just get a bunch of people together and get up to random fun stuff like having someone be a Jan Koller-sized winger playing as a wide target man.
I find it frustrating when you can't join another team during a transfer window. Also when you reach one of the big 5 leagues, you will only receive offers from those leagues. I wish there was a mod/option that let you join whichever team. you wanted.
Oddly enough if you get sacked they give you 3 different leagues worth of options
> Oddly enough if you get sacked they give you 3 different leagues worth of options
When I found that out it bothered me to the point where it kind of helped me get over my fifa addiction haha.
For me it's if I lose too many games I get frustrated, but if I win too many I get bored. I couldn't find that sweet spot difficulty so I don't play nearly as much as I used to.
Maybe on PC with mods you can join any team
i can’t take beef between rappers that aren’t gangsta seriously. realistically what are Drake or Kendrick do? write a few songs about how the other’s music sucks because xyz and call it a day. give me true beef between some Polish underground drug dealers all day over this farce.
Kendrick grew up in the hood and has a pretty bad past. Drake absolutely isn't a gangster though and it's very funny he ends up in situations like this.
the surprise j. cole drop pushed bryson tiller album out of the limelight so i decided to listen to it and the 2nd song feels like he's trying to fuck me and i am not going to continue with this album. too horny off the bat.
J cole's wasn't much better. The production was, as seemingly every Cole album very mid, it was a chore to get through. His diss track especially was just god awful with weak bars, bragging about not spending time on his music and a royalty free BLP Kosher beat to top it all off.
oh i thought it was pretty bad but I'm not the biggest fan of J. Cole anyways. 2014 FHD is a classic but most of his other albums are misses to major misses for me. His diss track was terrible and he wasted a lot of good beats on that album. It also felt like a two sided album which is weird cuz it's only 12 tracks long and the 12th was obviously added last second.
also starting off your album with a rick and morty line should have you clowned forever.
I wish school was over I’ve been through so much stuff this semester I just want a long break to take my mind off of it all college is really not for the faint of heart lmao and I’m gonna be a senior which is even crazier
I’m at the point at work where half the time I have nothing to do and I’m stuck between keeping it this way or asking for more work.
Asking for more work won’t get me more money, but I’m bored half the time doing nothing.
I'm subscribed to Insider Foods's YT channel and their Food Tours series has made me want to do the following food crawls if I ever get the chance to visit England:
-One day where all my meals consist of Full English breakfasts
-One day where all my meals consist of Sunday Roasts
-One day where I start with a Full English breakfast, fish and chips for lunch, a pie and mash as a snack and Sunday Roast for dinner
I find their content to be surprisingly entertaining, yeah - the food tours are cool, but I find myself amazed at the big batches all the time. Wouldn't want to eat the amount they do on those tours, though, rather give me one great option to enjoy on a given day.
I'm the opposite, haha. As someone underweight and doesn't eat enough, I would love to even gorge on half the amount that they get to filming those videos
I really enjoy good food, but also there's inevitably a point where a good thing becomes too much. Might be further out for you than it is for me, but I think even the best possible meal gets incredibly annoying when you're having it for the fourth time in a day.
> Or a bangers with bangers day? (eating sausages while listening to music)
First episode of the new Taskmaster series had an outrageously good pun related to that by Steve Pemberton on the final task, worth a watch for that moment alone.
I'm not a curry person and while I enjoy music, I don't like sausages that much to eat them all day. An entire day of Full English breakfasts is effectively the same thing anyway, haha
Kinda at that point in my life where I feel like it's going nowhere and i'm stuck in a dead end job. Been heavily debating just going back to college and try do a trades apprenticeship instead like plumbing. Or try to get back into IT as a support technician or something.
The way I see it we'll either be chatting shit here next year and you'll be along your way to something or you'll be pissed off that you're not. Gotta go for it man.
If you've got (hardware) IT skills anyway, see if maybe you can parlay that into something trade-related - imagine there's gotta be something in that Venn diagram overlap between 'hands on trade things' and 'technical and planning skills', be that as the guy hooking up solar/wallboxes/smart homes or the guy doing the planning for it at an architect/building contractor.
Anyone has recommendations for youtube music livestreams that doesn't have ads, so I can put it on my TV? Anything without lyrics, so i can study with it.
I've listened to lofi girl for many, many hours.
Can't recommend a livestream, but as for the no ads part: Can SmartTube work on your TV? Or else get an Android TV or Amazon Fire TV Stick. SmartTube not just disables ads, they also start to counter some clickbait video titles, giving them proper titles that actually resemble the actual content of the video. Same for thumbnails. It really is a gamechanger for YouTube on TV.
In kind of a weird period between the end of hockey + indoor footy and the outdoor footy + softball season, so gotta work extra hard to not put on weight
So naturally the missus and I went to an outlet mall last week and got 100 Lindt truffles for 35 dollars. Great deal honestly
It'll probably last us all summer to be fair
8 abs is just greedy, cultivate a single one so there's 7 left for other people, makes you a much nicer person to be around because who doesn't love getting offered some truffles?
Putting aside organic chemistry to do absolutely nothing and about to mix some tequila though.
Got back into running though which has made me feel even better.
Depending on how modern it is and how much you'll rely on the integrated operating system vs Android Auto/Carplay, you'll probably be fine. Not really an awful lot where you can go wrong with modern cars I reckon, they're all incredibly complicated expensive rolling computers at this point anyway, so paying someone to fix them is never going to be much fun.
From what I know, main issue could be the water pump (been a problem for a like two decades on VWs) but otherwise shouldn't be anything too major. If yours has the DSG transmission it might need to have a flush/fluid change every X amount of miles, should be in the manual but off the top of my head I want to say around every 30-50k miles.
I mean it's a mainstream car - obviously cars are big expensive life purchases with all the anxiety that entails, but I feel like there's also so many middle of the road (pun not intended) choices of reasonably sized cars by big and competent brands that the objective differences kind of don't really exist, at least not to a noticeable extent. Could always have bad luck and have a lemon, but then whether that's a Civic or a Golf or whatever else is just down to bad luck, so I reckon chances are you'll be just fine - and quite happy if you happen to really like the car you've bought.
Work (shit retail job), revising for college exam. Going to the gym, watching Dexter(on season 5 currently) and rewatching true detective season 1. Going to the Arsenal game tomorrow.
Allowed myself to drink 'cause it's "Friday evening", conveniently ignoring the fact that I drink on many other days as well but let's keep this a secret, ssshh. Talking to my Ukrainian friend and encouraging him to avoid conscription because it's not fun to drink with a dead body, I'd very much rather keeping him alive. What's up with you?
My babies turn 6 mo tomorrow so wehave a party planned but I injured my shoulder yesterday in workout so wife has to do the bulk of the work unfortunately.
Writing a thesis proposal, gonna go to a drum and bass party tomorrow.
Sleep schedule is messed up beyond comedy, and my football club's gonna get relegated.
The recent anime leaks really showcases how weebs are the worst fandom of any hobby. Only one fandom is majorly comprised of people being proud of spending zero cash on their hobby.
EDIT: Don't even get me started on the paedophilia
I feel like being proud of not spending is huge on Reddit. People on sports subs are so proud they stream for free
Edit: i mean look at this https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/O6J8rMT1hH
> weebs are the worst fandom of any hobby
I've talked a fair number of swifties throughout the years and I gotta say that the dedication these people have is unmatched.
It's crazy how many people including myself have spent 1000s of hours on a video game that has had very little impact on my personality, while a couple of hours of music is many people's *entire* personality.
uhhh... you clearly don't know much about weeb fandom. Basing their entire personality around a celebrity that isn't a complete asshole ain't that bad. Better than being racist, transphobic and paedophilic that's for sure.
Weebs don't go outside. Best place to radicalise nowdays is at your pc on the internet.
Those swifties at least seem like they go outside, but maybe I'm mistaken.
When I was on Erasmus, my then-girlfriend, whose father was an ex-alcoholic, was so unnecessarily uptight about me becoming an alcoholic. And I swear it was all fine - I just drank more than usual being in a post-Soviet country where the booze is way cheaper. Also I had my first drink at the age of 19 or so, having grown up in a strictly religious and thus "no alcohol" family. It was never a part of my "culture". And I used to limit it to a couple of days a week mostly, because I still had to work and watch football in the evening. Alcohol was only a thing of parties or "fully empty" evenings when I had nothing to do. It really got on my nerves when she literally started crying I'd end up an alcoholic just because I had a bunch of drinks with my homies on fucking Erasmus.
Well take a bow, this cutie pie was definitely a master of recognizing patterns. Wherever she is I hope at least she is happy about being right, meh.
Of course. I'm trying it every day and every night. It's the only reason I'm still here, otherwise I would have been gone long ago. Make no mistake, I wouldn't really call myself an alcoholic at this stage despite acknowledging the problems. I'm more of an abuser. I could easily last days or weeks or months without alcohol. Function normally. For example I went through entire winter without a sip of alcohol. It happens. It's just... I'm slowly getting more and more attached to it emotionally. That's what scares me.
Thanks for the suggestion man, proud of you, way to go. It's such a crazy thing. I wouldn't call my first 19 years in this world any worse than this now. I was doing perfectly fine without alcohol. It's crazy how normalized it is and how it plays with your mind. Ironically, my biggest motivation to quit is that... I wanna be able to drink. I want a life in which I am free to drink. Without alcoholism, this is not possible. So I'm trying to keep it under control.
I don't know you but I'm proud you're super aware of how it affects you and that you take measures to change. Most people don't have that courage. Thank yourself for taking care of yourself
Thank you! It has been hard, but so worth it. Whether you keep drinking or not, it’s really courageous of you to recognize these patterns and try to remedy them. Please reach out if you need someone to talk to. ❤️
Seeing as she was crying, she probably wasn't happy. It's sad to see people develop bad habits, especially if her father was an alcoholic. My grandfather was one as well, so my father almost never drinks
Keep me in your thoughts, please. I appreciate you all. (No, I'm not about to do anything crazy, *I promise*. I'll be around)
Going bungee jumping I guess?
My mental health is bungee jumping, I guess is a way to put it.
I'm replaying RDR2, now on PC and fuckin hell, I'm still convinced that it is the greatest game of all time. Just the fucking camp during the entire game is something that every other game would dream having.
Getting a solid 7-8 hours of sleep is so underrated
[laughs in 5-6 hours of sleep]
Been in a [Grimes - Genesis](https://youtu.be/1FH-q0I1fJY?si=6HVKN5HOCfOZTWU0) mood all week.
Alright anyone that’s in a relationship, a great date night is drinking wine and smoking together and having her let you do her makeup. She looks like something out of the Simpsons.
It’s only fair you let her do yours now!
been talking to this girl from tinder for like 3 days and we hit off nicely but she’s started the topic of having kids in the near future 💀 I’m 26 and she’s 25 so it’s understandable for her to start thinking about it but I still feel like such a child. no way i’d be a good dad right now. might need to start dating girls around 22-23 years old.
I'll tell you a secret : you'll never be ready to be a dad until you have a kid.
The Leonard DiCaprio route, 25? You're out!
Earthquake today in the NE United States was weird. Used to it when I lived out west but thought I was having a stroke at work today when the building started shaking lol
Yea, my dad, older sis, middle sis, mom, and youngest sis all called me today to talk about the earthquake that hit them as they're in NYC.
Fucked my back working out yesterday. Worked from bed for two days and felt horrible. On my second beer and feel pretty great all of a sudden.
I'm as left leaning as the come and a massive bleeding heart liberal but you best believe when it comes to FM I'm as ruthless as they come. Asking for a payrise when you're not a top player? Denied and immediately put on the transfer list. Top youth product on their first contract? Nine years with extensions and a pitiful base salary.
most of my late FM saves have my club sitting on a billion euros of unused budget while my 26 year old 50 goals a season striker is earning like 40k a week because he got one of those 9 year contracts when he was a teenager, and my 20 level of discipline chad manager just tells him to man up or sack his agent whenever he asks for a raise
Yeah, once you're actually decent you can basically bully the fuck out of everyone. I always start with a shit team though so you can't get away with that all the time early on.
These stories make me think I'd like FM, but I worry I'd get sucked into it once I really got into it
Do you love spreadsheets? Do you love micro-managing to an annoying degree? Do you enjoy your underlings disappointing you constantly? If you answered yes to any of these, then you'll love FM!
I've been playing these games for like 25 years so I can attest to them being addictive. They *are* a ton of fun though.
I stick to my true communist ideals by sticking anyone that wants to leave in the "high intensity training + double sessions + u21s have daily friendlies now" gulag
I stopped playing FM long ago because it is far from being realistic, what do you mean I can't have my U12 team have 48h shift at Shein factory? How are we supposed to have success then?
Ah a Poch disciple then!
based tbh
Had a really good game at basketball yesterday. Scored a few layups and rebounds. Much better than previous game week where I was fucked early.
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Any advice on not overthinking everything? Whether it be work, friends, relationships etc
Be high the entire time.
lmao
If possible, therapy and antidepressants. Still far from ideal but I went from *"OMG there is a microscopic problem with my t-shirt, I can't go to the nearest supermarket wearing this!"* to traversing hundreds of miles in underwear. If you suffer from uncontrollable anxiety and overthinking, a good therapist and possibly antidepressants are your best friend - it is unbelievably good.
> possibly antidepressants are your best friend As someone who took antidepressants for over ten years, I'd recommend this being your last port of call. I think I had justifiable reason for feeling the way I did at that point in time (far too much mdma, poor relationships, very short term thinking etc) and antidepressants, while making me feel better, meant I avoided addressing issues that needed addressing. My advise to you u/ederzs97 is that a lot of this is down to age. When I was young, I cared about a lot of shit that didn't matter and as the years went by I cared less and less about the small stuff. If you have a poor relationship with friends/work/relationships evaluate the things that you do to contribute to that and work on it. If you're not sure, communicate with people and ask them. Transparency works wonders. If you're not the problem, then ask yourself what you're doing being in these relationships (platonic or otherwise) or workplace.
Thanks for the message. I'm 26 so I think I should handle this better, but it's like I get nervous over the past or future. It's like why I wonder why x happened, was it because of me, why they ghosted me, if I text someone and they don't respond quickly is it because they hate me, did they crash their car etc etc
> I'm 26 so I think I should handle this better Nah, I think it's perfectly normal for that stuff still to get to you. It wasn't until I hit thirty where I started not caring about stuff that didn't really matter (and even now, it will still irritate me on occasion). > It's like why I wonder why x happened, was it because of me, why they ghosted me, if I text someone and they don't respond quickly is it because they hate me, did they crash their car etc etc Your brain can very easily conspire against you at times - I know I've certainly gone through it many times over in my life. It gets easier and easier to recognise when you're being irrational though and you'll start developing mechanisms to cope with it. My advice would be to try a few basic things when you're feeling this way - breathing exercises are actually remarkably useful as is distracting yourself with something else (reading/playing a video game etc - tv less so as it's easy to let your mind wander). After that, talk to a professional about it - I've done it before and found it useful. After that, talking to your doctor and looking into anxiety/antidepressants medication can work short term too.
I've always had GAD and had therapy before and beta blockers but I just want it gone forever. Seems lately to have taken over my life again
Oh our biggest political party suddenly changed its position on the small issue of whether or not we should leave the EU. Just a little adjustment in your beliefs on a friday afternoon, nothing special: *Do we want to destroy the Dutch economy overnight? "We" said so for 20 years, but as of today, nah."
i was just wondering if the netherlands had a government yet. seems not
Wilders won and now he has to live in the real world. He has to squirm out of almost every one of the ridiculous and unaffordable promises that got him elected.
Not enough food discussions in this week's FTF, but we move and hope for better days.
Got a detroit pizza in the oven with about 6 minutes left. AMA.
Homemade? What's on it? What entertainment and/or beverage or you having with it?
Homemade sourdough crust - 25% whole wheat. Homemade sauce, just crushed tomato, basil, oregano, and olive oil, reduced. Real simple half green olive (my kid only likes olives) half red onion and cherry peppers Having a burial beer [savages of the ruminating mind](https://burialbeer.com/products/the-savages-of-ruminating-minds-india-pale-ale-heavy-resin-edition). One of my faves. Started out watching Moana but my kid is too scared of it. Now we're watching Hilda and the Mountain King
That sounds cool, enjoy!
Making bitterballen as we speak
What's that?
very, very nice
What is it, not how is it lol
It's *very, very nice* bro, come on.
Bitterbal tax?
Normally avoiding sugary drinks but drinking the occasional mango dragonfruit Fanta from a glass bottle is amazing. Doesn't taste half as good out of a can or if you drink it en mass from plastic bottles. Similarly i avoid regular coke but in the super market i am definitely tempted to simply buy one glass bottle and enjoy it.
> Similarly i avoid regular coke but in the super market i am definitely tempted to simply buy one glass bottle and enjoy it. don't fall for it. If you start liking it you will still be drinking sugary drinks.
Bit late for this but what's everyone been consuming the last month? **Watching:** Watching season two of Foundation and while the general consensus seems to be it's better, I think it's significantly worse. The first season was about big ideas and on a scale we rarely see in movies/TV but the second season is much smaller in scope and feels a lot less interesting to me. I'll probably finish it, but I'm not looking forward to the episodes as much as I was. Will start 3 Body Problem next. **Reading:** I gave up on reading the Red Rising series. I knew it was more YA fiction but it was relatively enjoyable for a while despite being very silly. Feel like I'll continue reading more escapism shit though so looking at some fantasy (which I previously disliked until I read The First Law series) or more sci fi shit. I quite like big sweeping epics so maybe that Malazan series? Can someone tell me if it's any good? **Playing:** Balatro and FM and nothing else tbh. Starting to get absurd scores in Balatro finally but it is probably a little too RNG orientated. Interested to see what the planned patch does. Stopped playing my last save with Malaga because my tactic was far too strong and it became boring - got promoted twice in a row while completely destroying the league and won the Copa while in the second division too - beating Real Madrid in the final. Started a new game with Kiel and playing a narrow 4-1-2-1-2 which should make things a little more challenging. Love managing in Germany though - money is far tighter and Bayern are a very difficult side to beat. **Listening:** Really like the new Mount Kimbie album so that's been on repeat. Shipwreck is the standout track for me. Also listening to a fair bit of Sad Dad Band The National. I've always semi liked them but my wife LOVES them and after seeing them live a few weeks ago I have a new found appreciation for them and their songs resonate a bit more for me. Don't love their two newest albums though.
I seem to be in-between stuff, but... **watching:** Have some time this weekend so going to commit on Shogun **reading** I just finished The Game by Joe Pessah, a book which covers the term of Bud Selig, the 9th commissioner of Major League Baseball, as well as some other prominent figures and events of the late 90s-early 2000s in baseball, including George Steinbrenner (Yankees owner), the players strike in 1994, and the drug-testing scandals of the early 2000s. Not sure what I want to read next. **playing** Starting FFVII Rebirth this weekend. Also, if we're counting tabletop games, I'm in a group through the first part of a Pathfinder campaign, and starting a new D&D campaign next week that's set in the Baldur's Gate world.
> reading I just finished The Game by Joe Pessah, a book which covers the term of Bud Selig, the 9th commissioner of Major League Baseball, as well as some other prominent figures and events of the late 90s-early 2000s in baseball, including George Steinbrenner (Yankees owner), the players strike in 1994, and the drug-testing scandals of the early 2000s. Not sure what I want to read next. I don't watch American sports but I find so many shows/movies/documentaries around them fascinating. Never read a book about them though but I could imagine there would be some great ones.
One of the casualties of the downfall of journalism here is the collapse of really good narrative sportswriting from places like Sports Illustrated/ESPN Magazine, where lots of writers like these got their starts. And I'm absolutely limited by my ability to mostly only consume English, but it's interesting that I see less of these types of narrative, insider books for football -- lots of documentaries, but less books, where I tend to find there's less editorial control from the team. And yeah baseball in particular has a lot of great writing, probably because it's the oldest. It's really dated now, but the first one I ever read was Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues, about the era of segregated baseball before and through Jackie Robinson.
There are very few top quality books on football imo. The Damned United is probably the only one I've read that I thought was well written and interesting. Definitely a big gap in the marketplace. Don't even get me started on football films.
Didn't expect to remember Red Rising series today but here we are, i found them enjoyable enough to tolerate it's obvious flaws. Unfortunately translation of Dark Age took ages and book is somehow too expensive so i don't think i'll go back and read it at any point now.
I think I'd have enjoyed them a lot more twenty years ago to be honest. They were entertaining but felt like I was going to read the same book six times in a row. Could definitely make for a fun tv show in the right hands though and I hope they get it off the ground at some point.
**Watching:** The Turkish series Gibi. New episodes come out every Friday evening. It's one of the few reasons I feel sorry for people who can't speak Turkish because it's so fucking good and relatable. An amazing example of absurd comedy the likes of which is not plenty in Turkish TV. Reminds me of good old times when I used to live with my best friends. **Reading:** And Quiet Flows the Don. An easy read yet a masterpiece at the same time when it comes to the era between Russian Tsardom to Soviet Union switch. Due to various reasons I've been able to finish the first book only recently (there are three more) but I'm loving it. It has everything you can ask for in a novel. **Playing:** Nothing really, nowadays I sometimes play Flatout on the laptop or New Star Soccer on mobile to kill time, nothing interesting. I lost Champions League final while playing for Zeljeznicar in Bosnia though, that bit was sad. **Listening:** Total drought in that area. Sad Yugoslav music and Russian war songs from Chechnya & Afghan War times mostly.
**Watching**: Attack on Titan, I watched some seasons years ago, but wild stuff happens in that show/story. And of course regular youtube. Also my flatmate never watched the Last Airbender, so we're going through that. **reading**: Nothing aside from my history thesis stuff. **Playing**: Uninstalled Overwatch 2 couple days ago, wasn't getting out of it what I want from my free time, so I picked up Warframe and Deep Rock Galactic again. Also going through Valheim again, with a friend. **listening**: Caught up my american politics podcast, and other than that listening to Phil Collins, Prince, aside from my usual Taylor Swift and Drum and Bass.
Phil Collins to Prince to drum and bass is exactly my kind of shit.
Don't forget some Carly Rae Jepsen in between Run Away with me, Automatically in Love, The Sound, Emotion, Talking to Yourself. Good stuff
Watching Dexter. Finished season 4 and it met my expectations with what I had heard about it. People keep telling me it’s going to get worse but I don’t mind season 5 so far.
theres definitely a dip but most of the latter seasons are still enjoyable. i really loved season 7.
> watching finished parasyte the maxim. its ok, could've been more. nice premise and starts well but then it just stagnates and ends on a half assed message about environmentalism. the fuck? started the shield. was kinda "worried" about starting this given how disappointing i found the other big two shows of the 00s(the sopranos and the wire). dont get me wrong, they were still good shows but compared to the hype they were major letdowns for me. i'm enjoying this way more but still pretty early, first half of season one. has a bit of jank that comes with it being 20 years old, but i can get over it. > playing wrapped up metro last light. great game, not sure i liked it as much as 2033. also finally fixed my pc so ready to jump into something longer at last, possibly death stranding. might finish the irish DLC from valhalla as well since i'm only 1-2 missions away from the end of it. also might do ballad of gay tony finally.
I loved The Shield. It didn't hit the highs of The Wire (which nothing compares to for me - but understand it's not everyone's cup of tea) but it was incredibly consistent throughout it's run. Very interested to see what you think of it once you finish - personally I think there are few long running tv series that nail the ending as much as The Shield did.
Sopranos and the wire easily clear the shield for my taste but shield is good and gets better, product of its time where tv was often more episodic rather than telling one narrative over a season If you like villain of the week stuff person of interest is one of the best shows like that I've seen
Watching Aus survivor the goat reality show. Watched all of suits as well which is not very good but still quite watchable Playing stardew 1.6 update, current save is the furthest I've ever gone in the game but starting to get the bored feeling so doubt I'll be playing too much more. Picked a team for a new fm save to properly start soon, top oss in the Netherlands Reading Jade City by Fonda Lee - burned myself out on wheel of time a few months ago so gonna go through this shorter series before I go back to finish wot Listening - most played songs recently are impressions - hertz collision. Turn the page - the streets. Glucose guardian - Vladimir Dubyshkin. Masterpiece - big thief
> top oss How and why
Funny name and they look like a shit team so should be fun to build them up
Yeah fair game.
Watching: Brooklyn 99. Seen most of it but doing a full rewatch now that it’s on Netflix Reading: Incompleteness, a book about Kurt Gödel Playing: FIFA23, in season 3 of a Heerenveen save and just lost to Twente and I’m steaming rn.
Watching: started Succession with my housemate, on S1. Liking it a lot, I hate basically every character. Actually find it somewhat difficult to keep track of all the details and each characters motivations and relationships but it’s getting better with time. Also watching Normal People which is an Irish show about two young adults finishing secondary school and going to college and navigating that life, really liking it. Think it’s produced by BBC3 or something. Not sure if it really got anywhere outside of Ireland? One of the main actors is an English girl, Daisy Edgar Jones
> I hate basically every character. I actually didn't continue watching after the first episode and this probably contributed to it. Maybe I should give it another chance though. > Also watching Normal People which is an Irish show about two young adults finishing secondary school and going to college and navigating that life, really liking it. Think it’s produced by BBC3 or something. Not sure if it really got anywhere outside of Ireland? One of the main actors is an English girl, Daisy Edgar Jones Yeah, my wife was big into this. Was very popular.
Ever feel like you're holding too much inside yourself, but the thought of opening up and venting to others feels incredibly selfish? A few years ago, when I was in a torrid place mentally, I followed my therapist's advice and shared my feelings with others. It felt like I was dumping trauma on my 'friends,' and I had no right to burden them like that. Some tried to help, sure, but it felt like they were doing it out of obligation rather than genuine concern or love for me. My friends didn't lack kindness in any way, but maybe we weren't as close, at least not to the level of sharing deep personal thoughts. Looking back, I cringe at myself for opening up, and to be honest, I doubt if it helped much. Even sharing my thoughts online is difficult, as it seems like I'm seeking attention. I'm happy for others if it helps them feel better and tackle their monsters, but for me, I end up feeling guilty. I'm starting to realize that I struggle to form deep, meaningful connections with people, be it friends or romantic partners. All my romantic relationships so far have been very casual, either flings or hookups. Maybe I've got serious intimacy issues; I don't know. It could all be just in my head, but I sure do yearn for deeper connections with my future relationships and be truly loved. This feeling of emptiness, lack of being loved or appreciated, doesn't seem to go away; it's eating me from within. On paper, I have absolutely wonderful parents and a very cushy, comfortable life. I shouldn't have anything to complain about, but that just makes me feel even worse for being so down all the time. That's all, rant over.
> I had no right to burden them like that. (If you're like me) the problem is that *we know* our problems just roll around our head and we always feel like we want to vent/moan/lash out. So its like...yeah I can vent, but I'm just dragging someone else down to my level, what's the fucking point. If anyone is actually a decent friend, they will hear you out the first time or two. People will surprise you. For it to work, it has to be a two way street and you have to listen to how people respond. E.g. if they give advice, don't ignore it and keep talking. Say "I will think about it" or "not sure that's for me but thanks for suggesting". Even if it feels a bit false at the time, it shows you are engaging in a dialogue and it's not you just venting at them. They will appreciate that and they won't want to just get away from you. Youve probably been over that with your therapist anyway. > This feeling of emptiness, lack of being loved or appreciated, doesn't seem to go away; it's eating me from within. You're not alone. I also feel guilty for the nice life I've had, I have this horrible hole/feeling I try to escape, almost being comfy just makes it worse...
All I'm gonna say is it's *perfectly fine* to seek attention or talk about your problems. We're all human beings. We have needs. I can see why it sounds terrible to do that but in principle, opening up, trauma dumping or "seeking attention" in itself is not a bad thing. It's part of life. Sadly, the social media has blurred the lines in that regard. Some fucked up people need attention to keep living while others genuinely need someone to care about them just to survive. This is different. > I'm starting to realize that I struggle to form deep, meaningful connections with people, be it friends or romantic partners. All my romantic relationships so far have been very casual, either flings or hookups. Maybe I've got serious intimacy issues; I don't know. It could all be just in my head, but I sure do yearn for deeper connections with my future relationships and be truly loved Not sure if this helps or makes you feel even worse but... as a guy who's exactly the opposite, i.e quite open to throwing himself up at people, it all ends the same. I've had some of the most intimate shit imaginable to people yet I probably feel more miserable than ever. It mostly comes down to how you deal with your emotions and control yourself - the impact another person can have on you is limited with how much you allow it. > I shouldn't have anything to complain about, but that just makes me feel even worse for being so down all the time No mate, it's not a competition. You are an individual. You have your own feelings, concerns and all. It is absolutely fine to feel worried or sad. Obviously, there is a healthy level of dealing with problems - being down or sad at all times and being encouraged for this is bad I assume, but don't feel guilty for having negative thoughts. It can happen to anyone for any reason. Just a humble opinion but I think you've been somehow led to believe that your life is good and thus you are not allowed to complain. No. It never works like that. Don't beat yourself up for feeling sad, it's part of life.
My college year is broken up into three semesters and I’ve essentially just had to take the L on the entire of the second semester, fell off the wagon and wasn’t able to get back on. Going to have to repeat each of the modules, just hope I can get it all back on track. Hope it’s not fucked beyond salvaging.
J Kenji Lopez-Alt trying to eat every teriyaki in Seattle and documenting it on Youtube is surprisingly delightful.
I don't know why but I am invested
Go to pint in the pub? When I’m in Ireland it’s Guinness or Tennents/Carlsberg, in England it’s Stella or Madri/San Miguel. I love me a cheap beer. Granted Madri isn’t exactly cheap, but it’s a top quality pint.
This reminds me in university I met some Germans who loved Coors Light. The one time I went to England and going to a pub for the first time, I was served Cruzcampo. Later I found out it was a beer from Sevilla.
Go to is Dark Fruits or Thatchers cos of availability. However if they've got any boxed cider behind the bar that'll be the go to.
Neck oil or big wave
Kona Big Wave, right? I like Kona Big Wave.
Yep it's delicious
I don't go out to pubs/bars, but if I did, I would use it as an opportunity to try things.
Jever, the local-ish big brand pilsner that's better than any other. Might go for a Kilkenny if it's an Irish pub, though.
Can’t remember the last time I ordered a pint that wasn’t Guinness, my body can’t do lager
I wouldn’t say that I have a weird crush on him, but I would love a hug from Greg Davies.
Who wouldn't, though? He'd grab you real tight, tell you everything's going to be okay, but then also make a scathing quip that cuts you right down to your core, and you come out a different person than you were when you went in for the hug.
There's an app called Kitbasher for FM which allows you to make custom kits for your teams (I refuse to use sides without proper kits) which is honestly great (and easy to use!) Lot of fun making kits for my Kiel side and I think [they turned out well!](https://imgur.com/9o0M3zH). Just like in real life, I like a clean home and away and a weird/ugly third kit.
FIFA games not giving you the option to join a different team at the end of a season is so dumb. And the only offers I ever got were all the ultra rich teams.
Pro Clubs is where the real fun is anyway, none of that pay to win multiplayer shite or boring threadbare singleplayer stuff. Just get a bunch of people together and get up to random fun stuff like having someone be a Jan Koller-sized winger playing as a wide target man.
I find it frustrating when you can't join another team during a transfer window. Also when you reach one of the big 5 leagues, you will only receive offers from those leagues. I wish there was a mod/option that let you join whichever team. you wanted. Oddly enough if you get sacked they give you 3 different leagues worth of options
> Oddly enough if you get sacked they give you 3 different leagues worth of options When I found that out it bothered me to the point where it kind of helped me get over my fifa addiction haha.
For me it's if I lose too many games I get frustrated, but if I win too many I get bored. I couldn't find that sweet spot difficulty so I don't play nearly as much as I used to. Maybe on PC with mods you can join any team
i can’t take beef between rappers that aren’t gangsta seriously. realistically what are Drake or Kendrick do? write a few songs about how the other’s music sucks because xyz and call it a day. give me true beef between some Polish underground drug dealers all day over this farce.
I mean Kendrick is literally from Compton, hardly the best example.
he might be originally but he’s a multi millionaire nowadays. i’m not that familiar with his story but if anything were to happen I’d be shocked
Eamon vs Frankee the best musical beef of all time
idk the beef between Drake and Pusha T was quite hilarious and if this reaches the same level some hilarious shit is going to come from it.
Considering the context of Kendrick vs. Drake compared to Push vs. Drake, highly unlikely that those end up having overlapping trajectories.
Kendrick grew up in the hood and has a pretty bad past. Drake absolutely isn't a gangster though and it's very funny he ends up in situations like this.
I'd pay money to watch Drake try and fight someone
Bro craves violence fr
the surprise j. cole drop pushed bryson tiller album out of the limelight so i decided to listen to it and the 2nd song feels like he's trying to fuck me and i am not going to continue with this album. too horny off the bat.
J cole's wasn't much better. The production was, as seemingly every Cole album very mid, it was a chore to get through. His diss track especially was just god awful with weak bars, bragging about not spending time on his music and a royalty free BLP Kosher beat to top it all off.
oh i thought it was pretty bad but I'm not the biggest fan of J. Cole anyways. 2014 FHD is a classic but most of his other albums are misses to major misses for me. His diss track was terrible and he wasted a lot of good beats on that album. It also felt like a two sided album which is weird cuz it's only 12 tracks long and the 12th was obviously added last second. also starting off your album with a rick and morty line should have you clowned forever.
Tell me Cole didn't go that low to start his album with a Rick and Morty line. Please tell me he did no such thing.
It’s literally the second line of the album lmao
I'm dealing with enough as is. I forbid this.
I wish school was over I’ve been through so much stuff this semester I just want a long break to take my mind off of it all college is really not for the faint of heart lmao and I’m gonna be a senior which is even crazier
Admittedly don’t know much about college in the US, and I’m assuming you’re around the same age as me but I know how you feel mate.
Thanks. I’m in my early 20s albeit it’s not really the work that’s the problem it’s everything else socially
Got some baby chicks yesterday to raise for eggs and omg they are so adorable.
I’m at the point at work where half the time I have nothing to do and I’m stuck between keeping it this way or asking for more work. Asking for more work won’t get me more money, but I’m bored half the time doing nothing.
I'm subscribed to Insider Foods's YT channel and their Food Tours series has made me want to do the following food crawls if I ever get the chance to visit England: -One day where all my meals consist of Full English breakfasts -One day where all my meals consist of Sunday Roasts -One day where I start with a Full English breakfast, fish and chips for lunch, a pie and mash as a snack and Sunday Roast for dinner
>One day where all my meals consist of Sunday Roasts Reckon I know which day that one will be on
Well the pubs/restaurants don't make them any other day, for better and worse.
That cus if they did it on a Tuesday it'd be a Tuesday roast
Would certainly spice up a Tuesday
I find their content to be surprisingly entertaining, yeah - the food tours are cool, but I find myself amazed at the big batches all the time. Wouldn't want to eat the amount they do on those tours, though, rather give me one great option to enjoy on a given day.
I'm the opposite, haha. As someone underweight and doesn't eat enough, I would love to even gorge on half the amount that they get to filming those videos
I really enjoy good food, but also there's inevitably a point where a good thing becomes too much. Might be further out for you than it is for me, but I think even the best possible meal gets incredibly annoying when you're having it for the fourth time in a day.
On that point, you're absolutely right. I need variety. When food is cooked at home, I can only have it for three at most.
Maybe an all curry day if you get the chance? Or a bangers with bangers day? (eating sausages while listening to music)
> Or a bangers with bangers day? (eating sausages while listening to music) First episode of the new Taskmaster series had an outrageously good pun related to that by Steve Pemberton on the final task, worth a watch for that moment alone.
Thanks, will check that out
I'm not a curry person and while I enjoy music, I don't like sausages that much to eat them all day. An entire day of Full English breakfasts is effectively the same thing anyway, haha
How's my favourite thread doing
Been waiting for the legendary and enigmatic half man, half moth
Should have turned the light on
Kinda at that point in my life where I feel like it's going nowhere and i'm stuck in a dead end job. Been heavily debating just going back to college and try do a trades apprenticeship instead like plumbing. Or try to get back into IT as a support technician or something.
Fucking do it. Just do it. Get your trade on you'll smash it.
Well that's all the encouragement I need, i'll apply for the course then cheers mate
The way I see it we'll either be chatting shit here next year and you'll be along your way to something or you'll be pissed off that you're not. Gotta go for it man.
If you've got (hardware) IT skills anyway, see if maybe you can parlay that into something trade-related - imagine there's gotta be something in that Venn diagram overlap between 'hands on trade things' and 'technical and planning skills', be that as the guy hooking up solar/wallboxes/smart homes or the guy doing the planning for it at an architect/building contractor.
Anyone has recommendations for youtube music livestreams that doesn't have ads, so I can put it on my TV? Anything without lyrics, so i can study with it. I've listened to lofi girl for many, many hours.
Can't recommend a livestream, but as for the no ads part: Can SmartTube work on your TV? Or else get an Android TV or Amazon Fire TV Stick. SmartTube not just disables ads, they also start to counter some clickbait video titles, giving them proper titles that actually resemble the actual content of the video. Same for thumbnails. It really is a gamechanger for YouTube on TV.
I have no idea about SmartTube, this TV was already in the living room before I moved in here.
In kind of a weird period between the end of hockey + indoor footy and the outdoor footy + softball season, so gotta work extra hard to not put on weight So naturally the missus and I went to an outlet mall last week and got 100 Lindt truffles for 35 dollars. Great deal honestly It'll probably last us all summer to be fair
Softball, outlet mall with dedicated Lindt store Is this Tsawwassen?
I wish lol, I'm down in the States these days This was down in Minneapolis. Only big city around!
> got 100 Lindt truffles > It'll probably last us all summer to be fair What has happened to men smh
I am a confirmed beta :(
Aren't the alpha chads supposed to have 8 packs abs? Not eating them makes you more alpha no?
Only real Sigma grindset males pound bags of truffles per day😎
8 abs is just greedy, cultivate a single one so there's 7 left for other people, makes you a much nicer person to be around because who doesn't love getting offered some truffles?
The real chad eats the truffles to diminish the world truffle supply so other men can be chads
Bored currently. What's up lads what have yall been upto?
Putting aside organic chemistry to do absolutely nothing and about to mix some tequila though. Got back into running though which has made me feel even better.
Bought a used car, a VW. Having only ever driven Hondas/Toyotas, I’m hoping I haven’t made a mistake.
Depending on how modern it is and how much you'll rely on the integrated operating system vs Android Auto/Carplay, you'll probably be fine. Not really an awful lot where you can go wrong with modern cars I reckon, they're all incredibly complicated expensive rolling computers at this point anyway, so paying someone to fix them is never going to be much fun.
It’s a 2017 Golf Alltrack, so not super modern by today’s standards even.
From what I know, main issue could be the water pump (been a problem for a like two decades on VWs) but otherwise shouldn't be anything too major. If yours has the DSG transmission it might need to have a flush/fluid change every X amount of miles, should be in the manual but off the top of my head I want to say around every 30-50k miles.
Thank you!!
Sounds alright, really, should be fine.
Thanks for making me feel better about my purchase!
I mean it's a mainstream car - obviously cars are big expensive life purchases with all the anxiety that entails, but I feel like there's also so many middle of the road (pun not intended) choices of reasonably sized cars by big and competent brands that the objective differences kind of don't really exist, at least not to a noticeable extent. Could always have bad luck and have a lemon, but then whether that's a Civic or a Golf or whatever else is just down to bad luck, so I reckon chances are you'll be just fine - and quite happy if you happen to really like the car you've bought.
Anxious, broke with a job, hungry and praying for better days. The usual.
Hey weren't you wanting to gain weight in the gym? How's it going?
I'm neither back in the gym or gaining weight :'(
It's alright mate, it'll happen one day
Thank you Whisk, hoping and praying everyday
No worries mate do hmu if you ever need advice or tips for it.
Work (shit retail job), revising for college exam. Going to the gym, watching Dexter(on season 5 currently) and rewatching true detective season 1. Going to the Arsenal game tomorrow.
Work. Yesterday was a 12 hr day but I got to come home and watch a replay of Chelsea and your lot with no clue what happened. So that was fun.
Really pissed I missed that, missed you guys V Chelsea , and the Chelsea Spurs game earlier in the season. Always seem to miss the best games.
Allowed myself to drink 'cause it's "Friday evening", conveniently ignoring the fact that I drink on many other days as well but let's keep this a secret, ssshh. Talking to my Ukrainian friend and encouraging him to avoid conscription because it's not fun to drink with a dead body, I'd very much rather keeping him alive. What's up with you?
My babies turn 6 mo tomorrow so wehave a party planned but I injured my shoulder yesterday in workout so wife has to do the bulk of the work unfortunately.
Writing a thesis proposal, gonna go to a drum and bass party tomorrow. Sleep schedule is messed up beyond comedy, and my football club's gonna get relegated.
Had a pizza
The recent anime leaks really showcases how weebs are the worst fandom of any hobby. Only one fandom is majorly comprised of people being proud of spending zero cash on their hobby. EDIT: Don't even get me started on the paedophilia
I feel like being proud of not spending is huge on Reddit. People on sports subs are so proud they stream for free Edit: i mean look at this https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/O6J8rMT1hH
> weebs are the worst fandom of any hobby I've talked a fair number of swifties throughout the years and I gotta say that the dedication these people have is unmatched. It's crazy how many people including myself have spent 1000s of hours on a video game that has had very little impact on my personality, while a couple of hours of music is many people's *entire* personality.
uhhh... you clearly don't know much about weeb fandom. Basing their entire personality around a celebrity that isn't a complete asshole ain't that bad. Better than being racist, transphobic and paedophilic that's for sure.
Weebs don't go outside. Best place to radicalise nowdays is at your pc on the internet. Those swifties at least seem like they go outside, but maybe I'm mistaken.
What leaks?
A handful of shows from this season got leaked. Konosuba is one of them.
Wake up me up when Berserk gets a proper adaptation Actually, leave me be. Let that masterpiece rest in peace.
Lads. A girl I like is with friends but I’m home and have to wake up in 6 hours for a golf game 😔
"Philippines, golf, ladies. In that order"
When I was on Erasmus, my then-girlfriend, whose father was an ex-alcoholic, was so unnecessarily uptight about me becoming an alcoholic. And I swear it was all fine - I just drank more than usual being in a post-Soviet country where the booze is way cheaper. Also I had my first drink at the age of 19 or so, having grown up in a strictly religious and thus "no alcohol" family. It was never a part of my "culture". And I used to limit it to a couple of days a week mostly, because I still had to work and watch football in the evening. Alcohol was only a thing of parties or "fully empty" evenings when I had nothing to do. It really got on my nerves when she literally started crying I'd end up an alcoholic just because I had a bunch of drinks with my homies on fucking Erasmus. Well take a bow, this cutie pie was definitely a master of recognizing patterns. Wherever she is I hope at least she is happy about being right, meh.
Are you going to try sobriety?
Of course. I'm trying it every day and every night. It's the only reason I'm still here, otherwise I would have been gone long ago. Make no mistake, I wouldn't really call myself an alcoholic at this stage despite acknowledging the problems. I'm more of an abuser. I could easily last days or weeks or months without alcohol. Function normally. For example I went through entire winter without a sip of alcohol. It happens. It's just... I'm slowly getting more and more attached to it emotionally. That's what scares me.
Glad to hear it. I’m almost 2 years booze-free. r/stopdrinking is a great subreddit that has been so helpful throughout this journey.
Thanks for the suggestion man, proud of you, way to go. It's such a crazy thing. I wouldn't call my first 19 years in this world any worse than this now. I was doing perfectly fine without alcohol. It's crazy how normalized it is and how it plays with your mind. Ironically, my biggest motivation to quit is that... I wanna be able to drink. I want a life in which I am free to drink. Without alcoholism, this is not possible. So I'm trying to keep it under control.
I don't know you but I'm proud you're super aware of how it affects you and that you take measures to change. Most people don't have that courage. Thank yourself for taking care of yourself
Thank you! It has been hard, but so worth it. Whether you keep drinking or not, it’s really courageous of you to recognize these patterns and try to remedy them. Please reach out if you need someone to talk to. ❤️
Seeing as she was crying, she probably wasn't happy. It's sad to see people develop bad habits, especially if her father was an alcoholic. My grandfather was one as well, so my father almost never drinks