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[Avis-Mergulus]

My skills are high, my standards are higher. My skills rise fast, my standards rise faster. Story of my life.

This is that little disease we in the medical profession like to call 'being 2 fuckin hardcore'

_{don't quote me I 'm not a real doctor}

[JoshuaFH]

My skills are high, my standards are higher. My skills rise fast, my standards rise faster. Story of my life.

I've started recently reading a book called "The Paradox Of Choice" by Barry Schwartz, the premise of the book is that the vastly increased choice in our modern lives has actually made us less happy, more regretful, and constantly incentivizing us to use our mental resources on imagining on fictional, better scenarios where we might have made better, more perfect decisions had we simply had enough time or ability; effectively draining us of our mental energies to do and think about the things that are truly important.

In the book, there's a distinction made between 'perfectionists' and 'maximizers', where both aim the very best results that can ever be obtained, but perfectionists have no expectation of ever attaining true perfection and accept that it's impossible, and they're happier and healthier for it, while maximizers can't accept that it's impossible and they DO place the expectation of attaining that perfection onto their own shoulders, and they're much worse off for it in being frustrated and dissatisfied with any accomplishment they could ever make.

It's a really good book, after I return it to the library, I might buy a copy for myself.

[TheBiggerFish]

*hugs MagmaMcFry*
You are an amazing person.

[Reudh]

Spoiler: Welcome to Australia. (click to show/hide)

This is infuriating when I'm trying to work on my uni work and be proactive for once. That download failed six times before it finally went through.

[Caz]

Saw an old friend in the street today. He ain't happy. Trapped into a relationship due to kids he didn't want to have, life post-heroin addiction, chronic pain due to injuries etc, mutual friends dead, he's depressed af I think. I was going to try and bring some optimistic banter into the conversation but I actually think he would've hit me.

Makes me think that I am so very damn lucky to be where I am right now. It's pretty good that I'm compelled to flee when there's smack involved. There's a difference between being reckless and being suicidal. Shit, there's a difference between being suicidal and doing smack. At least your corpse doesn't shamble around after suicide, right?

No offence to anyone who's been through it, but every single person I know who has seems to be this complete shadow of themselves. Do you come back? I'm sure it's possible, but probable? Ehh. At least if you're a drunk you can sober up from time to time.

Not sure if this is even in the right thread, I'm ambivalent about the whole thing. Yeah, I'm sad about my friend but I already gave up on those folks donkeys years ago? Really it was more of a revelation of the tank-sized bullet I managed to dodge.

Woo...

[Reudh]

Yeah, a lot of drugs of that ilk do a lot of physical and mental damage. Meth is probably the worst in that regard, though heroin wouldn't be far behind.

[ChairmanPoo]

Yeah, a lot of drugs of that ilk do a lot of physical and mental damage. Meth is probably the worst in that regard, though heroin wouldn't be far behind.

For reference's sake:

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*hugs Arx*
Stay safe.

*hugpats ECrownofFire*

@MSH:
*hugs*

Notice how he didn't hug King of Starry Skies

[Lord Shonus]

The great flaw of that graph is that alcohol is used by far more people (orders of magnitude more people) than everything on that list except tobacco and possibly cannabis - outside of Muslim countries everybody who doesn't drink regularly knows somebody who does, and it is accepted as normal. There's a massive synergistic effect with the harm caused by mind altering substances, so anything that comes close to having as much effect as alcohol is -has to be- much more potent in direct effect.

[scrdest]

How 'bout some tabletop RPG thing,

Poland.

Calling bullshit on that.

There's a tabletop renting place a short (under 30 mins) walk from here, and at least two cafes where you can go play, and that's not counting the shops and people playing privately (my lab apparently has/had a tabletop night even).

Granted, this is a major city, but I also know there was a ton of people wargaming in my middle school and a whole weeb club in my high school in a 70k backwater town, too.

[Kot]

Where you live?
Also, then apparently people are totally hiding from me because I, in my 60k backwater never seen anyone ever mention wargaming or anything similar.

Spoiler: ALSO, BIRTHDAY IN TWO DAYS. (click to show/hide)

[TheBiggerFish]

*hugs Kot*
I don't know what to say, other than I really hope your birthday presents don't include a noose.

@ChairmanPoo:*glare*

*hugs Caz*

[sprinkled chariot]

Where you live?
Also, then apparently people are totally hiding from me because I, in my 60k backwater never seen anyone ever mention wargaming or anything similar.

Spoiler: ALSO, BIRTHDAY IN TWO DAYS. (click to show/hide)

May be there is club dedicated to winged hussars somewhere? There definetly should be one. And I bet, that you like winged hussars.

[Kot]

Well, yes.
The point is that I don't have few million spare to buy myself a set of armour, weapons, a horse and all the assorted stuff.

[Arx]

Take up armouring as a hobby! Poland has a strong HEMA/Living History/SCA/BotN/other historical society scene.

[Dunamisdeos]

Co worker's pet bunny got eaten by a dog that got into it's lil' home