Mine‘s getting so accustomed to cold showers that I a) absolutely do not mind cold water for swimming etc. anymore and b) could not enjoy warm or hot showers anymore. They just weren’t nice at all.

  • Bluetreefrog@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Inspired by another comment, I’ve been to the mountain that Monkey (of the 80’s TV show) “hatched” on. It is more of a hill really, and it’s brown, not black as shown in the intro.

  • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
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    7 months ago

    b) could not enjoy warm or hot showers anymore.

    Grew up without hot running water and I can relate. It’s only a problem in some hotels really, where the showers don’t get cold enough.

    My weird flex would be being so accustomed to command line that I don’t know how to use well, and get frustrated by, GUI applications.

      • IronKrill@lemmy.ca
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        7 months ago

        I enjoyed 7 when it first released. The visual style in the first 10 minutes was appealing and I figured we were retreading the same notes for nostalgia before going on a different plot with Finn. Nope, just poorly written rehashed story lines with nonsense plot devices. So much potential thrown away.

      • kuneho@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        yeah, that’s what I heard, too.

        funny thing is that I haven’t seen any of them, still know everything about it, thanks to 9gag through osmosis.

        for a long time, this is why I decided not to watch any of thr movies, as I never would be able to experience it as first time.

        but now, since I’m a bit older I know that’s stupid, it’s just some movie so I’ll watch those eventually with gf.

        • anothermember@lemmy.zip
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          7 months ago

          The thing I like about the original Star Wars trilogy is not that they were great stories, but just that they had really, really good pacing. The characters and scenarios were introduced at just the right rate so that when the big action scenes came around you really cared about them, especially in the first one. That’s also where the later films fell down. I don’t consider myself a huge Star Wars fan, but I would say it’s worth appreciating for the art of it even if you already know the stories.

      • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
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        7 months ago

        With that reduced amount of “me time” (he/she time?) I bet OP wouldn’t understand videogame references /s

      • kurcatovium@lemm.eeEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Me too, but I’m too lazy to go to bed. I rather procrastinate till late night, not wanting the day (and my onyl me time) to end. So i go sleep late and wake up grumpy every single day. Yay!

  • Valmond@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I made a full fledged MMORPG, playable up to level 12 with items, quests, bosses…, in full 3D and a victorian setting.

    In hindsight I think it was therapy. There was a video about it on daily motion (mindoki).

  • fool@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    As compulsion, I watch YT tutorials at breakneck speed: 2.5x-3x.

    YouTube tutorials can be pretty low information density. Sentences have important pointers every 5 seconds or more (“The thing is, like, if you’re trying to do this, or this, do X first” – predictable/less functional words), and the first third of a YouTube video is often useless. Of course, denser videos get slowed to normal and have clips replayed.

    Internally, this stems from nervousness of wasting time (oops), and it hurts my head if I do it too long ( but looks cool beforehand B) )

      • ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Not OP, but most of it.

        Tutorials I might need to go a bit slower, remembering broad strokes isn’t enough, and detailed steps in order is probably too much, but that would be true at 1x speed as well.

        For videos generally I watch almost everything at 2x or higher. Headphones help, it would be much harder if there were any competing audio stimulus. If I’m forced to go at 1x I retain almost nothing.

  • Frisbeedude@feddit.org
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    7 months ago

    I have a stomache of steel. Nothing will pass my digestive tract alive or intact. I never had any kind of stomache trouble and I can not puke. I ate every dish in south-east-asia that landet in front of me, even from some dirty streetfood shack in the middle of the burmese jungle. Most of the stuff would have killed the average middle european slob. Not me.

    It even goes so far that I cannot use edibles. Which is funny, because all the growmies make fun of me now.

    • Wooki@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Street food is often the safest anyhow, its the hotels and water you have to worry about

    • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I have a pretty ironclad stomach, but not as strong as yours. I’ve been with my wife for 13 years and she’s witnessed the horror that is me puking twice. And the first time came 4 years ago. My friends say it sounds like I’m “calling the dinosaurs” and it is very traumatic for me.

      Edit: I forgot my point. I’m jealous.

    • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.orgEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Omg I love trippy ambient electronic. PM me if you want. I have so many suggestions and would love to get some from you too.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    After over half a century of action, a lot of it in “extreme sports”, and countless injuries, I have yet to break a bone.

  • Lorindól@sopuli.xyz
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    7 months ago

    I have a hyper sensitive sense of smell. Sometimes useful, most often a nuisance.

    At work the roof had small leak few years ago, I could smell the wet concrete several days before the water reached the ceiling of the upper floor office and became visible. I told my boss about the leak as soon as I had first smelled it and located the correct room. “There is no leak here, you’re just imagining things” was the response after I showed the room to my boss. “There is and we shall see in a few days.” After 4 or 5 days the ceiling started dripping water and I received an apology.

    I’ve been able to mentally bypass most of the awful smells of the world and people around me as long as I can remember, so it isn’t so bad. But after a few drinks the mental filter turns off and I can smell everything, including my own metabolized alcohol infused sweat. That is not fun at all.

    • RBWells@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I would hate this superpower. Having grown up with brothers, I learned to breathe defensively without smelling, but it’s also so nice to be able to use scented products and perfume without it hurting.

    • Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      I was a super smeller but lost the sense during Covid. It still hasn’t fully returned. I have good days where I’ll surprise myself by picking up something subtle and off days where popcorn smells like vomit or skunks smell like brake dust. I was considering a sommelier course prior to this.

      • Lorindól@sopuli.xyz
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        7 months ago

        Yeah, Covid was a freaky experience. I got off easy, no fever or other symptoms, I just realized one day that I was unable to smell freshly cut grass. Then I realized that I did not smell anything at all.

        My sense of smell started coming slowly back after a few days and I can’t tell if it’s diminished or not. But after Covid every brand of whiskey smells and tastes like vomit to me, so there was a price to pay. Also the smell of someone eating rice cakes became utterly disgusting, as well as yogurt. Before Covid I barely registered these two.

      • Lorindól@sopuli.xyz
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        7 months ago

        I don’t usually bring this “gift” of mine up in real life, it tends to create pretty awkward and unpleasant situations.

        “Oh, if you have such sharp sense of smell, then tell me what deodorant/lotion/perfume I’m using?” How the hell could I know the names of every hygienic/cosmetic product, especially when the reek of detergent, fabric softener and sweat is mixed with the scent I’m supposed to recognize?

        Or people just laugh at me and call me a liar.

        But my friends are aware of my talent, when someone is considering to buy an apartment they often ask me to accompany them for a presentation. I can tell almost instantly if there’s water damage or mold. When I was buying my own apartment I found one spot under the stairs that had a very faint but odd smell, like wet cement mixed with the smell of a wet dog. There were no water pipes or sewers even near that wall, nor were there any signs of leaks from above. I called the seller to ask about this and he started laughing. The spot was their old dog’s favourite place to curl up for a sleep after a walk in the rain. And it was years since the dog had passed away, they had even painted the wall once and renewed the floor laminate after that. So no worries, I bought the place.

    • Notyou@sopuli.xyz
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      7 months ago

      Are you like person that posted they can smell ants? Dude was able to find a single ant by sense of smell.

      • thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz
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        7 months ago

        The ant-smelling trait is a genetic thing. I have a co-worker that can smell ants, but otherwise their sense of smell is unremarkable

      • Lorindól@sopuli.xyz
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        7 months ago

        I do not know. I have never actively tried to smell ants nor had them inside any apartments I’ve lived in. I shall test this when summer returns one day. But I do remember that the ant guy wrote about having some genetic quirk that ables him to register some compound that’s out normal human range of smell.

        • frosch@sh.itjust.worksOP
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          7 months ago

          actively tr[ying] to smell ants

          Is my funniest mental image for today, thanks. Just some person outside creeping around the ground vigorously sniffing ants.