I can see how the oxygen thing gets frustrating in some early points in the game, but at some point it really doesn’t matter much anymore. You’d either never die from it anyway or ride a Stingray everywhere.
In 4 they did the same flying mechanics but without the oxygen which is kind of cool.
Considering the raging success of Borderlands 2, I feel like TPS was more than serviceable. It was received quite badly, even though the gameplay was the same as 2 and the story was at least 65% as good as 2. Maybe the playable characters were not as great. But the world was very well crafted and I actually loved the way the Eridian arc was so much more present, even though there is no Siren character.
I’m currently doing 4. It feels like a soft hommage to the first game, but it also has some references to TPS. But it also feels like it was made for people who don’t even know there are previous games. Of course, the ones who played the original are maybe outside the target demographic, which was already the case with 3 going by the villains of that game.
In short: I still love all Borderlands games equally and The PreSequel is definitely up there!
I sort of promised myself I could have a couple of our home brewed beers at my wife’s birthday party. So I had a few but quickly realised I just really don’t have the ability to apply the brakes. It got very late. I was super hung over the next morning.
All in all, I think I’m ‘cured’ for the time being, I don’t feel like having drinks on weekdays anymore and I’m not busy thinking about the next time I’ll allow myself to have a drink.
After a full month of not drinking, I think I see what it’s doing my body and I’m just curious to see scar happens if I apply the same to February. So my rule will be that I can have a drink at a special occasion and it’s still okay to go a little overboard, but other than that I’ll drink tea or lemonade or whatever.
26 days in and I think this is where some of the actual recovery is starting. I feel horrible, like I had one too many last night. But usually in these cases my eczema would also be flaring up but my skin, especially in the face, feels better than it has in a while.
I still feel like I won’t stop drinking altogether but if I feel a lot better in a week or two I have some serious thinking to do.
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”. Seems a pretty simple rule to live by and the world would be a far better place if everyone lived by it. The irony of this is, to me, that this is a statement found in religious scripture, religion being pretty much the main cause of violence.
There was a time when a law was in place which loosely translates to ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’. It means that whatever crime you committed, if you were found guilty, the same would be applied to you. I wonder how long it will take for Minnesotans to start asking ICE agents for weapon permits, training certificates or even their citizenship papers (ie prove you’re Minnesotan).
I support violence against nobody. That said, I suppose these guys won’t stop harassing people by asking them nicely. It’s just sad to see these people are clearly bullying Walz because he at some point had an influence in the elections. It’s straight out of the fascist handbook: disable your political opponents. Next up is deporting not only those with a different skin colour than Trump’s (meaning white, not orange), but also anyone with a known affiliation to the Democratic Party.
After that they’ll start threatening Republicans who are now in the ‘Leopards ate my face’ stage. Once nobody is around to stand up to him anymore, he’ll start systemically executing people, maybe invade some islands or Larin American countries (even more).
I never ‘dated’ in the traditional sense of the word. When I started college, I was about 19 and met someone when I went on a trip with my study association and was in a relationship with her for 8 months. It was sort of love at first sight.
After that I would meet people through my study association which was all fine but never really turned up anything serious.
The day I met my wife, I just got out of the relationship I mentioned before. It still took well over a year for us to start anything romantic. We were just okay friends, although at some point she started hanging out at my house more and more so that also kind of just happened.
I don’t regret not having to go through all the dating things. It might have been nice to meet some more new people, but I’ve always lacked confidence in these situations so I’m not sure I’d be at all comfortable with it either. If there is no click right away, might as well call it a day and stop wasting time.
I assume the edges are still sharp as fuark. The little nubs aren’t the issue. They might even be kinda nice
Know that feeling of stepping on a LEGO brick? How about you do that all the time in the stylings of Crocs? It’s a lose-lose!
I’m actually from 93. Also no not really.
Any blurb that sounds like sound psychological advice people on the Internet can use to self-diagnose will do
I’ve sort of promised myself to at least finish the month without a drink and now it feels like I have something to prove to myself. Although I must say the health improvements are minor at best. Today I don’t have to work and I’ll spend all day at home alone. This would normally be the kind of day where I’d have had a couple of glasses before 3PM. Not because I wanted to spend my evenings in a daze, but because I’d probably be bored most of the time and drinking makes it tolerable.
So today, I will be committed to taking it easy, try to find stuff to do, maybe take a nap if I’m not feeling up to it. A self-care day without alcohol, I’ll be fine.
Calling it a multi billion dollar project is factually correct but quite the understatement
Pretty sure the one with the racing bumper is the real deal. I’d say that one takes the cake for me then
The last one is clearly AI generated. I like the one with the long shocks monster truck style
Completely dry through January, been in stone situations where friends would enjoy a good glass of wine or a nice beer and I didn’t partake. It’s fine but I haven’t really noticed any difference in how I feel physically.
I’ve lost about 4 kilos though.
It’s kind of a relief to me to find out how easy it is not to drink. (sorry to anyone reading this who has trouble with keeping the bottle at bay). I was sort of afraid to become a bit irritable or give in once someone would ask me what I’d like to drink. Even when we bought a new car for my wife, usually something I’d open any bottle for, I just had a Rivella at dinner and some tea while others shared a bottle of wine.
I’m still sort of waiting for that crossover point. I think maybe there is a point in the future where not drinking will hit me like a hammer.
And like I’ve said before, I don’t want to stop drinking altogether. It’s still one of my favourite things to explore what there is out there. I just need to stop drinking during weekdays, having a beer or a glass of wine just for the sake of it. It’s too little to have any noticeable effect anyway and since I like the taste so much, I go through beer bottles quite quickly so having two beers rapidly becomes four and that’s a slippery slope.
Thanks for reading my wall of text and good luck on your journeys!
Sober now for 12 days. I’m not finding it difficult so far, I’ve been in some situations where friends would be drinking but I felt no pressure, not even really the urge.
It’s not that I’m addicted to the stuff, I just really like the taste. It’s not even about the feeling of being tipsy or drunk. Even though I loosen up a bit more if I’ve had a few, problem is that once I start it quickly becomes about how much of the stuff I can get in me before I have to go to bed.
I want to keep going for at least 4 more weeks. After that, I’ll probably return to drinking, but far less often and far less at a time. So a couple of glasses on a weekend is fine, but no more than that. And if I do go overboard once, I’ll just not drink for a couple of weeks to get the liver back to a healthy condition.
I used to really not get Dry January and I really underestimated the time it takes for a liver to really recover.
As I’ve had a bit of a scare from the doctors telling me my liver is overly fatty for someone my age, I’m committed to really get by without the stuff for a while. So far so good. I’ve done a couple weeks before just to see if I could, but lately, especially in December, I felt like I really couldn’t do without.
Right now, I feel like I can go without for a long time, if I have to. I’d really rather not, but health comes first.
Boots are made for Walken
A Dutch talkshow host absolutely wrecked the notion of this sport, and skeleton as well. It’s basically just going down a slide one at a time on a little sled, was his point. And the difference between these sports is the way you lie on the sled.