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Happy New Year chat denizens!
Let's make it a goal this year to be a bit less insular and a bit more welcoming. To shitpost a bit less and sincere post a bit more. To take a break from in jokes and memes in favor of ORIGINAL JOKES DO NOT STEAL.
No rules are changing here - this is still a no politics zone - but this OP is an invitation to reintroduce yourself (as much as you'd like) to folks here, and for people new to chat to jump on in and be welcomed. We savor fresh blood We can always use some new perspectives around here!
Meta-questions about chat or the rules can be directed to my PM box.
So without further ado:
What's up?
Let's make it a goal this year to be a bit less insular and a bit more welcoming. To shitpost a bit less and sincere post a bit more. To take a break from in jokes and memes in favor of ORIGINAL JOKES DO NOT STEAL.
No rules are changing here - this is still a no politics zone - but this OP is an invitation to reintroduce yourself (as much as you'd like) to folks here, and for people new to chat to jump on in and be welcomed. We savor fresh blood We can always use some new perspectives around here!
Meta-questions about chat or the rules can be directed to my PM box.
So without further ado:
What's up?
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I'm all about pixel art, digital art, video games, board games, and making my own pixel art video games and digital art board games.
I'm currently playing through Octopath Odyssey and don't really consume much non-game media anymore.
i look forward to posting with you.
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*ORIGINAL CONTENT AHEAD*
I welcome you all, in this coming year, to kiss my ass.
Come Overwatch with meeeee
Health benefits, yes, but honestly we're gonna save a lot of money. IPAs are expensive.
My friend Jess is doing this till March. Which is a nice way of coming back in time for 3 people's birthdays that occur in a 3 week period.
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That's crazy-talk, @CelestialBadger , I'd be taking a huge bath on the labor.
Hypothetically, though, how much flour do you think a 5 year old grind in a day?
Legally speaking.
You guys sound like you're in the market for a half ton of wheat!
Only 200+shipping.
Don't read the quote tree.
:bro:
I actually always stress about that. :C
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I like to knit and make bad jokes.
<This is me
I live in eastern Washington State and I’m a dialysis patient so I post here a lot when I’m getting my blood (which SiG can’t have nor would she want it) sucked.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I used to average 800-1000 calories in soda each day.
I have not replaced it with other sugar drinks.
Come Overwatch with meeeee
Lot of shit to figure out before tackling the "what is my path to happiness" question.
"So pusheen is a kyara" ( @simonwolf )
"A what?"
"Like, a mascot character? Like you know how Hello Kitty is this character and her main deal is that she's a character--"
"And she's not in any game or show"
"Well, she is in games and shows cause she's a whole media franchise thing which we are not going to get into here but yeah the concept of a character-centered thing, except instead of being form Sanrio, Pusheen is from an american webcomic artist"
"She's really cute!"
"Yeah honestly this merch is some of the least cute pusheen merch and normally it's even cuter..."
I still don't own any pusheen-branded items, but some day perhaps.
...I basically always post really sincerely and self-disclosingly so maybe I should aim to meme more in order not to be so fucking *earnest* all the time, but since I'm neither funny nor knowledgeable about most beloved nerd shit, what I bring to the community is just...micro-anecdotes and snippets of honest communication. Which is not the worst.
YOU WILL LISTEN TO ME!
I don't drink unless in a social situation. And then I drink very little. Booze sets off Crohns in large amounts.
I don't drink soda or eat a lot of processed food. My bad cheat snack is air popped popcorn.
I am basically by habit kind of a semi-healthy person?
Its mostly out of my own laziness and my hatred of going places once I get home from work and I tend to head home to walk the dog.
I do think last year I may have finally hit double digits in ordered food here? Took a while to do that.
That's so great
I was never a huge soda drinker but dropping it completely was great
LaCroix for life
(this is not what my actual PhD was about [which was more along the lines of examining contemporary trends in the presentation and consumption of "narrative" in Japanese media franchises] but the meme is the meme so Whatever)
China has been okay so far. We went to Hong Kong for a few days before we settled in to Guangzhou for a little longer, and I have been eating and drinking Very Well Indeed. Egg waffles, fried pig intestine, curry fish balls, frog, those little egg tarts everyone loves... delicious
i knew it and i love you for it.
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You're not a person you're a porp
we have to post better or something
y'all know we can't do that
My drunk calories are the milk and sugar in my coffee in the morning. So that is half a serving of milk and about a tsp of sugar. I can afford that.
You bring a lot to chat, no need to change anything!
Let us let the memes fall by the wayside
Dr Simon!
Apparently the Russian one is the original one and the japanese one is borrowed. Weird! I would have guessed the opposite.
This may be because I’ve mostly ever known them as an ingredient in gross three-bean salads my mother used to make me eat as a kid.
Anyway these ones are good. They are dipped in chocolate and have some chai flavor as well.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Try.
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Yup and I’m going to hold onto that forever
I try to only eat meat once a day at most. And usually it is chicken or turkey or some sort of bird. I fell off that for a bit by eating maybe twice a day. Going back to it. If anything it just saves money.
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I'm Ath, or Myridiam in my Wow / freeform online roleplaying days. He/him, cis, white, male, hetero... I tend to define my life by the fact I've never been on a date or kissed anyone, which means I'm under constant pressure from the family to mate...
I tend to think of myself as background noise on my bad days, someone who has been around the forums for a long time but is a little more than a lurker. I find my posts tend not to get much notice, and I don't like making posts just to make noise. Part of that is because I also know that if I'm overly enthusiastic, it tends to rub people the wrong way. And.. more than anything, I don't want to upset people. Which is a problem when I over-apologize or speak about things I don't know about.
On my good days, I'm a 36 year old English major who works as a systems administrator for a major state university, and is considered one of the most valuable employees in the department. I'm often turned to for advice and leadership, and have taken it upon myself to set a good example for everyone else... and it seems to be working. My biggest accomplishment has been starting a book club where us techs can discuss ideas and collectively improve.
Mostly I just... get by. Many of my friends have moved away, and I'm not that great at making new ones, so I find myself... just not socializing as much as I'd like. I have an unhealthy addiction to YouTube, including watching randomized Link to the Past runs for the last few weeks. I would give anything to be able to watch that kind of stuff while on a treadmill of something, but I live on the 3rd floor of an apartment and I'm already worried I am annoying as a 460+ lbs white man tromping around...
I actually apologized to my mail carrier once for ordering too much stuff on Amazon that needed to be delivered up to my 3rd floor apartment. I also find myself way too fixated on awesomes/agrees, and what people will think of giving them, getting them, so on and so forth.
I also tend to overshare.
I understand it to mean empty wordplay and knee-jerk reactions, especially stuff you don't have a strong genuine feeling for... a stronger term for posting stuff that doesn't reflect anything about you or your thoughts
idk if that's correct tho
On topic, I'm sick and I got back from my New Year's Day Tea invitation. It was nice and I liked the tea and now the host wants to play board games while he's furloughed. I saw a real cool friend I never see anymore and his less cool wife and they told me some former friends of mine are divorcing
It's funny going over to my brother's place cause him and his wife are totally the kind of people who will come home from work and pop open some beers and have a drink with dinner and whatever. And I know a bunch of people like that. And some peeps I know online, most of them hopefully having stopped by now, seemed to drink pop like it was water.
And then, like, me and my wife like beer. A lot. But it would just never occur to us to do that. We drink at like parties or when going out or whatever but at home we literally just never think of doing that and beer sits untouched in our fridge from one gathering at our place to the next.
We have pop but it's basically like a specialty drink for us. I buy "fancy" ones and we split one over meals like pizza where something fizzy feels obligatory.
Other then that she subsists on coffee and tea and I just drink tap water all day.
I'm not sure I could ever give it up but I end up drinking so little it hardly seems to matter.
I gotta take up curling again as a way to drink more though.
The trade with Russia in the northern ports of Japan (esp. Hokkaido and northern Tohoku) is a part of history that is less well known compared to the other trade countries but had an interesting impact on Japan
There's several Russian words that entered the Japanese language as default for certain things, like "kachusha" (Katyusha) for hairbands, and there was a relatively major influx/conversion to the Orthodox faith in those regions in the late 1800s