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Gonna have a bit of a cheat weekend.

When I'm not feeling well I tend to really crave some carbs and comfort food.

I know I'm down 13 pounds in a month and a healthy lifestyle can handle you know, a bad weekend... but I still tend to beat myself up about it.

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I love the dub for the fact it is overly dramatic and and just goes to 11 at every opportunity.

But Mokuba sucks. Does he suck in the sub too?

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I'm assuming he doesn't wanna risk becoming more injured for a team that won't make the playoffs. Ooooof

DirkDiggles posted...

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Extremely fun games. I highly recommend these.

Which is the best one?

https://youtu.be/s2ei-0etF-0?si=AF8y1uFL08pE1Okn

I honestly didn't play any of the whole series as I just wasn't that big into flight based games that weren't Tie Fighter or X-Wing on the PC at the time. >_>

It reviewed really well and Sega kids in particular speak highly about the series as a whole and I can totally see the appeal though!

Previous Poll Results

Aero the Acrobat - 20 played, 7 did not
Beyond Oasis - 22 played, 10 did not
Cool Spot - 34 played, 8 did not
Dynamite Headdy - 12 played, 8 did not
Ecco the Dolphin - 43 played, 3 did not
Fatal Labyrinth - 7 played, 14 did not
Golden Axe - 60 played, 10 did not
Gunstar Heroes - 35 played, 9 did not
Jurassic Park - 30 played, 6 did not
Kid Chameleon - 29 played, 18 did not
Landstalker - 16 played, 21 did not
Mutant League - 10 played one or the other, 9 played both, 10 played neither
NBA Jam - 45 played, 2 did not
Out of this World - 16 played, 12 did not
Phantasy Star 2 - 31 played, 7 played a sequel/prequel, 7 did not
Quackshot Starring Donald Duck - 12 played, 16 did not
Ristar - 35 played, 18 did not
Sonic 3D Blast - 38 played, 4 did not
Truxton - 6 played, 20 did not
Vectorman/Vectorman 2 - 30 played, 11 did not
Wonderboy in Monster World - 7 played, 11 did not
X-Men - 58 played, 8 did not
Ys 3 Wanderer's from Ys - 9 played, 15 did not
Zero Wing - 13 played it, 13 did not
Adventures of Batman and Robin - 7 played it, 7 did not
Boogerman - 17 played, 13 did not
Comix Zone - 40 played, 3 did not
Death and Return of Superman - 6 played, 19 did not
Eternal Champions - 16 played, 13 did not
Fire Shark - 4 played, 25 did not
Gemfire - 7 played, 15 did not
Haunting Starring Polterguy - 16 Yes, 20 No
The Immortal - 9 yes, 15 no

Imma do a new topic later today.

Humble_Novice posted...

Forgive me for asking this, but have you by any chance shared you and your late wife's story on other platforms like Reddit or Facebook?

Yeah everyone on my Facebook knows the story.

I've also shared it with the Dying with Dignity website here in Canada since they were instrumental in pointing us in the right direction.

It'll be two months since Lindsay passed this Sunday.

Feels simultaneously like it happened only yesterday and like... years ago. I'm pretty used now to living alone in my place. It doesn't feel so oppressively lonely anymore which is a good thing but it also just feels strange. I miss her every day in so many little ways but I won't lie that I don't miss watching her die slowly, you know? The last three months of her life were almost entirely her on an all liquid diet, barely being able to move around even our shared home, much less the community. I helped her to try and quell panic attacks and stress. I remember about 3 weeks before she passed, before we got the approval and whatnot, I went to my older sister's house and I just wept on her shoulder after my wife had an exceptionally hard day. I was so sad and so defeated and I remember asking her if I was a bad person for just wanting it all to happen for my wife so that I wouldn't have to watch her slowly die.

Now two months later I still struggle with some guilt over those feelings, like somehow my moment of things just being so overwhelming FINALLY after years and years of being so strong, manifested the end result. It makes no sense since my wife was also happier than I'd seen her in years when she was given the news that she could pass away and have control over that element of her life finally.

It's almost been a year now since the whole process started. It was at the end of September in 2022 that my wife made the decision to go for MAID and I agreed to support that decision. I kinda assume that I will always have some lingering guilt over all of that. Maybe not guilt as much as regrets. I think it's easy to use those words interchangeably at times, you know? So many years were spent just trying to keep shit together, ensuring that we could always pay rent, that we didn't have to go to my parents and ask for a "hand out". My wife was a very proud woman and was scared at the idea of being a burden. She would much rather that we were self-reliant on our own rather than taking support from someone else and I respected those feelings.

I'm proud of the fact that I was literally the best support I could be for her given how she wanted to live out her life. That I supported every avenue she explored, regardless of maybe my own thoughts. I was thinking about it today, she spent a third of her entire life with me. And while in many ways it was some of the worst times of her life, she always said it was also the best times of her life.

As we spent our last few minutes together she told me she regretted nothing beyond just not being able to live the life we deserved together for longer. I try hard to focus on that when my own guilt/regret about what she missed out on starts to creep into my mind. She wrote in her memoirs that I saved her life. I also helped her to end that life on her own terms. I'm not sure if there is ever any greater accomplishment I will ever have in my life than to know, to REALLY know, that is what I did for someone I loved.

I really hope I get to do it again. Hopefully with less struggles and the opportunity to share in a lot more of the fun stuff, but as long as the love and support between us is there, I know I will be able to handle it.

Mario is basically a superhero in his world.

A lot of people want on Captain America. So, it goes to show that yeah, a lot of people would want on Mario's dick.

https://youtu.be/de2GFWsG9Ug?si=JJWh_8JaMuPwTm2b&t=2224

Enemy AI is programmed to shoot for the mid-point of your ship. So, if you make your midpoint an empty space, they just keep shooting at it?

One last bump!

320 pounds this morning.

A month ago I was 333. Not too shabby.

Attack on Titan Final Season Part 3 dub episode 1 is up!

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Sounds like she realized she wasn't wanting to be with him anymore. She has her own reasons and while it is unfortunate that he didn't do anything wrong to end the relationship, both people need to agree to the relationship for it to... you know... be a thing.

SweetNut_Farm posted...

Don't forget the "always".

That is definitely the first one I thought of so I will do that one for sure.

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I like this one that I found online.

https://youtu.be/P8Omszkd5KQ?si=kU2x1PfkM5Y3u9yR

I'm pretty sure this game is infamous for being kinda ridiculously hard. I never played it at all but it seems to have gotten itself some life once more with some online pundits talking about it again and people coming out of the woodwork to praise its... I dunno, good parts I guess?

Previous Poll Results

Aero the Acrobat - 20 played, 7 did not
Beyond Oasis - 22 played, 10 did not
Cool Spot - 34 played, 8 did not
Dynamite Headdy - 12 played, 8 did not
Ecco the Dolphin - 43 played, 3 did not
Fatal Labyrinth - 7 played, 14 did not
Golden Axe - 60 played, 10 did not
Gunstar Heroes - 35 played, 9 did not
Jurassic Park - 30 played, 6 did not
Kid Chameleon - 29 played, 18 did not
Landstalker - 16 played, 21 did not
Mutant League - 10 played one or the other, 9 played both, 10 played neither
NBA Jam - 45 played, 2 did not
Out of this World - 16 played, 12 did not
Phantasy Star 2 - 31 played, 7 played a sequel/prequel, 7 did not
Quackshot Starring Donald Duck - 12 played, 16 did not
Ristar - 35 played, 18 did not
Sonic 3D Blast - 38 played, 4 did not
Truxton - 6 played, 20 did not
Vectorman/Vectorman 2 - 30 played, 11 did not
Wonderboy in Monster World - 7 played, 11 did not
X-Men - 58 played, 8 did not
Ys 3 Wanderer's from Ys - 9 played, 15 did not
Zero Wing - 13 played it, 13 did not
Adventures of Batman and Robin - 7 played it, 7 did not
Boogerman - 17 played, 13 did not
Comix Zone - 40 played, 3 did not
Death and Return of Superman - 6 played, 19 did not
Eternal Champions - 16 played, 13 did not
Fire Shark - 4 played, 25 did not
Gemfire - 7 played, 15 did not
Haunting Starring Polterguy - 16 Yes, 20 No

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I like Tom Sellek and some of the videos I see from it in Facebook seems like it is alright. Formulaic but interesting.

Before she got really sick, my wife was a heck of a talented artist. I was going through some of her things and I found what she described as a "self portrait pin-up" style drawing that I am thinking of getting tattoo'd as a pin-up.

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She also drew an AWESOME Totoro that I might do as well.

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Any suggestions for I?

This isn't being voted on. It's literally the Cons stating what will be in their platform moving forward.

Cons can't enforce anything right now.

hockeybub89 posted...

Are people legally compelled to give a character reference? If one of my favorite co-workers turns out to be a serial killer, do I need to list their good attributes if prompted?

First of all, what if you don't think they did it? Regardless of a court giving them a conviction, what if you legitimately think your friend is innocent? It's easy to throw stones when we all know 100% know and have no question of guilt.

Second of all if a loved one did something terrible 20 years ago and has since shown to be a good person since, would you want the judge to know that so maybe they have the opportunity for some sort of chance at anything beyond 30 years in prison?

hockeybub89 posted...

He's a convicted serial rapist. Were they completely unaware of what was going on and someone told them their friend was in prison for some unknown reason? "He was my friend" is a really bad excuse to ask for leniency on rape.

Like I said, their letters were poorly written and without any thought to the victims at all. I don't think they are bad people for giving a character reference, but the way they approached it was awful.

I feel like there is a lot of nuance to this that is being entirely lost.

1. As a young actor was he supposed to basically refuse to be an actor and lose his job? He was put into a really shitty situation with the age gap on the show and as an 18 year old fresh actor I don't think anyone would have refused on moral grounds. Sounds like he even asked all THE ADULTS around him about the rules and laws and they told him it was fine.

2. Both Kutcher and Mila Kunis were trying to help their friend maybe get less jail time and give a character reference to the potential he had to be a good person and father. It is very common for people who have committed terrible crimes to have family and friends try to get a lesser sentence. It definitely makes them look like powerful people trying to game the system but it happens all the time with regular Joe Schmoe's as well.

I think their letters were poorly written, but I don't think they are horrifying people for trying to make a character reference for a friend.

The gap is narrowing when it comes to basketball. It is actually a huge accomplishment for the sport that it is so world-wide.

Toonstrack posted...

Do you care about the content of the OF? Like if it's just suggestive pics that's one thing but others go all the way. Does that matter?

If she wasn't engaging in sex acts with another person, so just like solo stuff (masturbation, whatevs) I'd be fine.

I think it would depend on the context.

Are they on Only Fans creating content solo? Probably.

Actively in more mainstream pornography? I don't think so.

Working in brothels? No.

What I personally need from a relationship is pretty conventional. I would never judge anyone for wanting different things in a relationship, open relationships, not having any sort of problem with who their partner is engaged with sexually, all that. Cool, whatever you are comfortable with. I just know that I require monogamy, or perhaps involving another person that we are both agreeing to involve them in together as a couple.

Sunday is always a "cheat" day (I don't believe in cheat days, balanced diet can have a day here and there where you just sorta eat what you want, rest of the time it should balance out) as I go to my sister's house for supper. Had a bigger meal today so I ended up doing 2.25 miles on the treadmill and then did a bit more of an arm workout than I normally would.

I feel good. Tired, since I workout around 9pm, but that also helps me sleep.

Bumpies

Think of it in the sense of being proactive as much as you can. Life is complex and has a lot of things going on. Being able to point out when something changed (good or bad) can be a huge thing for knowing yourself and how your body reacts to things.

It's how we started to recognize that my wife didn't just have allergies from the same family of intolerances. Having that journal helped our specialist think about MCAS and get the testing. If we didn't have the log of the way it all worked he might not have come to that conclusion.

Sometimes you want a simple good guy vs bad guy story that makes you cheer and smile and laugh. AT figured that out.

Fucking look at Buu Saga. It's totally silly and stupid. It made us laugh and snort and just facepalm at the absurdity.

Guide posted...

What advice would you give on getting doctors to acknowledge invisible illness? My girlfriend isn't in nearly so bad a state, but she does have health issues that I worry will make later life a struggle.

As much as you can be there to advocate with her/for her. It is easy for doctors to just brush off someone who has invisible illness as a manifestation of mental health. It changes A LOT when another person is there to reinforce what the patient is saying.

She should start a journal of her health and how she felt when certain things happen. Beyond being able to paint doctors a better picture of cause and effect, she can also look back to know the same. My wife, in all her medical trauma, would forget feeling a certain way. Having a journal of those things helps her to not panic if she is experiencing something again. Remember that it is also invisible to HER, and it can lead to a lot of additional stress and anxiety.

Encourage her to find an online group (on Facebook or whatever) of people who also are experiencing what she does. Invisible illness can make you feel so alone and isolated. While it wad scary for my wife to read other people who were further along in their Ehlors Danlos, she could also compare experiences and feel less alone that others out there are also suffering, for lack of a better word.

Finally, this is mostly for you as the caregiver, be really cognizant if your GF wants to problem solve or just wants your support. It took my wife and I too long to be honest with that. Sometimes my wife didn't want me to try and problem solve. She wanted my support and love and maybe the only safe person to unload all her fears and stress. My wife was a very pragmatic person who always tried to be proactive. I would often try to meet that energy when what she needed was to just unload.

I certainly hope whatever is happening with your GF there is ideally a solution, but if not she finds a few medical professionals who support her unconditionally. Our physiotherapist couldn't fix many of the problems but was ALWAYS on her side.

I had a very emotional moment with an employee yesterday.

I had went to meet up with her to do a "refocus". We are talking to all staff members just to talk shop and focus back on how we provide support and all that. This staff member I was chatting with has no problems at all with her performance so it was more of a formality to just say we did it, heh.

I hadn't seen this staff member since my wife passed. I sent out an email to the entire organization explaining what happened to control the narrative, if that makes sense. Enough people knew bits and pieces that when I took two weeks off and if people were told "not to ask about it", stories would come out. So I told the whole story in the e-mail.

Anyways, I go to see this staff member and she has been having some health problems, a difficult ongoing pregnancy and stuff like that. I knew bits and pieces about it but nothing more than that. We start chatting about work stuff and then she just kinda stops me dead in my tracks. She goes on to tell me that when she read my e-mail and everything I went through... basically she just told me how inspirational I was and how strong I was. She said that an entire year she wouldn't have known that I was going through everything I was... that I handled myself with poise and dignity and a professionalism that she takes with her now. She said she talked about me when she was in the hospital recently with her pregnancy and how the story of my wife and I gave her strength in those moments.

She said she doesn't understand how I could be so strong and be back to work and still be the same caring person that I've always been.

I didn't exactly know how to respond to all that. We spoke more about her own health struggles and what her experiences were like and I made sure she knew that she can always talk to us about what she needs and if she needs more time off, things like that.

I was always hopeful that sharing our story would educate, maybe inspire others. It's a little different when all of that comes pouring out all at once from someone who quite frankly I have a cordial working relationship with, nothing more. But it was powerful enough to stay with her and really impact her. After our meeting was done it made me cry a little bit. Just not what I was expecting.

Definitely check in with a doctor to see if you do have some ongoing health issues that would impede your overall health and thus your weight.

Calorie Blockers I don't think are a thing. Appetite suppressors maybe, but speak with a legit doctor about all options you have.

I'm gonna make some people hate me here.

After the main anime series ended, the rest that came next became all flash and no substance. The continued narrative kinda ruined the whole thing for me.

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KFHEWUI posted...

Yes, but no continue system and only one life was completely idiotic!

How do you have one life if you are already dead?

So, one of the people who I reached out to, an old friend (and girlfriend for about 9 months in my early 20's) and I got to chatting tonight.

Turns out she is taking care of someone who is also dying. She divorced from the abusive father of her child and got together with someone new about 2 years ago. They found out about 14 months ago that his teenaged son has Stage 4 cancer. Seems like he will not make it.

So we started sharing about taking care of dying loved ones. She shared with me about starting fresh after her 8 year marriage ended, I shared my experiences taking care of Lindsay and what it was like to watch her pass away.

I'm really glad I'm reaching out. Our stories are definitely helping one another.

https://youtu.be/spai8LUa3Yw?si=JnPnen6EF_bOS8Tx

As recommended by BlazinBlue, let's see how many people got the chance to play Haunting Starring Polterguy!

I never got the chance to play it, which is a real shame since it looks absolutely unique and insane in the best possible ways! You have to haunt your family after your death?! I mean... sure why not? It's played for laughs and it just seems so cool.

Previous Poll Results

Aero the Acrobat - 20 played, 7 did not
Beyond Oasis - 22 played, 10 did not
Cool Spot - 34 played, 8 did not
Dynamite Headdy - 12 played, 8 did not
Ecco the Dolphin - 43 played, 3 did not
Fatal Labyrinth - 7 played, 14 did not
Golden Axe - 60 played, 10 did not
Gunstar Heroes - 35 played, 9 did not
Jurassic Park - 30 played, 6 did not
Kid Chameleon - 29 played, 18 did not
Landstalker - 16 played, 21 did not
Mutant League - 10 played one or the other, 9 played both, 10 played neither
NBA Jam - 45 played, 2 did not
Out of this World - 16 played, 12 did not
Phantasy Star 2 - 31 played, 7 played a sequel/prequel, 7 did not
Quackshot Starring Donald Duck - 12 played, 16 did not
Ristar - 35 played, 18 did not
Sonic 3D Blast - 38 played, 4 did not
Truxton - 6 played, 20 did not
Vectorman/Vectorman 2 - 30 played, 11 did not
Wonderboy in Monster World - 7 played, 11 did not
X-Men - 58 played, 8 did not
Ys 3 Wanderer's from Ys - 9 played, 15 did not
Zero Wing - 13 played it, 13 did not
Adventures of Batman and Robin - 7 played it, 7 did not
Boogerman - 17 played, 13 did not
Comix Zone - 40 played, 3 did not
Death and Return of Superman - 6 played, 19 did not
Eternal Champions - 16 played, 13 did not
Fire Shark - 4 played, 25 did not
Gemfire - 7 played, 15 did not

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Probably my last bump! 18 votes so far, not too bad.

Haunting starring Polterguy eh? I'm not familiar but isn't it insane? Wasn't someone else talking about it recently?

I could see them arguing that Masterson was taken in by a cult and that he can be rehabbed and maybe wanting him to be in a lighter Security type place?

Questionmarktarius posted...

Cult of personality

Great song, terrible concept for sure.