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.
I go to bed at 9pm everyday, and get 8hrs+ of sleep.
Alright tone down the bragging, we get it , you’re “well balanced” or whatever
Fucking superpower right there, straight out of a videogame
I need this so much
I can eyeball the smallest available Tupperware that will fit the leftovers, every time.
Bro was a hermit crab in his past life
Wow, I can do this too! I thought it was just a human thing, like being able to evenly split something in half or hang something on the wall level without a level.
I was Time Person of the Year in 2006.
I love this dog and always forget where he comes from
From a mother dog and father dog who loved each other very much.
That’s wholesomest thing ever read in Lemmy
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).
Heey there it is!
Thank you :-)
Nice! I made an almost full recreation of Settlers of Catan in 3D complete with multiplayer. But it now sits somewhere on my hard drive due to copyright and platform concerns (I set it aside during the Unity scare). It almost landed me a shitty, low-paying job so there’s that.
Cool!
We should make a club of mental developers 😋
I haven’t seen any Star Wars movie.
Watch the first 6 and then stop
That’s fine, but don’t make it a personality trait.
I ran over 1000 miles in 2023! I’ve taken an 8.5" circumference toy anally!
Congrats on your personal achievements, as I reckon they both required quite some determination, training and stretching!
Were those things related… thematically or chronologically?
Not really, I’d started running like 2 years before starting toying and running with stuff it would end up chafing you terribly. Life kind of came to a crashing halt and I haven’t run since March and still can’t really fit half the things I used to
I hope these two achievements aren’t related.
Possible interpretations:
- They’ve run a distance of 1,000 miles while wearing a butt plug.
- The 1000 miles is the distance the device has moved back and forth within their rectum.
Nah, too hard to run with a plug in without it chafing you terribly
Only in that they happened before life got really terrible
I’m sorry you’re going through that. I’m in a pretty bad place myself, and have been for what feels like forever. I hope things get better for you.
I’ve been running every single day for the past 4.5 years or so. Not counting the days anymore. Related to that, my smart scale puts my physical age at 17 years below my real age. Before I started running, the same scale had my physical age 21 years above my real age.
But how old are your knees and ankles?
Hahaha, I used to run; I had the same question! I can’t run anymore because knee pain :(
There was an arrow involved…
Running is beneficial for knees and ankles over medium to long timeframes. There’s a 100 year old guy that runs 10k every day and his knees and ankles are doing fine.
Not too bad. But to be honest, I started mixing trail running into my schedule. It’s fun, better for your joints (even though I’ve never had problems), and as a runner gets older, longer distances become more appealing. I’m beginning to consider some easier ultras, and they are usually on trails.
I was a fairly regular runner up until about year ago, and I’ve not had too many knee or ankle issues either. Trail running sounds fun. Might give it a go (once it’s not fucking freezing here).
Some code I wrote is buried in an archive storage underground in the Arctic
If you had some code in an active GitHub repo before February 2020 you may too, https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/
I can turn off my inner monologue at will. Complete silence but it limits the complexity of my thoughts.
Do you meditate? This is pretty much my meditative state.
I don’t, but I’ve suspected that’s what I’m supposed to do if I ever do it. Lol
So this means you hear your thoughts as if they were on speaker, right? I don’t, which is a form of aphantasia, which i also have.
I this is why i mumble to myself all the time, my brain has no speakers
Some people can’t turn off their inner monologue?
To me it’s as easy as it is to stop talking. I feel like I’m misunderstanding you.
Yeah, for some (like me) it’s almost impossible.
But then, there are also people that do not have any inner monologue at all…
Yeh, me. I don’t really think in words. More like visualisations of what I’m doing, have been doing, or are going to do.
If I try to stop thinking I just ended up thinking “stopthinkingstopthinking shutupshutupshutup”
I wouldn’t say that I stop thinking, but I can act out thoughts, pay attention to things or have new experiences without internally processing them verbally, although it does help with more complex issues.
If I’m having a shower, I just put soap on a flannel, I don’t internally verbalise “put some soap on the flannel, I’m putting soap on a flannel now”.
Nah it’s more like putting soap in a flannel and thinking “where is the soap, oh that’s a nice smell, did I feed the cats? Why is he snoring again? Oof it’s cold. What was that song? All of the things that I said that I wanted, come rushing back in my head when I’m with you…”
Ok, thanks for clarifying, it’s quite interesting to try and understand other people.
Yeah I can’t. I think in words, in English, very occasionally Spanish, but always language, words words words.
Some people can’t turn off their inner monologue?
Apparently not. I struggled with that as a kid and I remember having some sleepless nights when my head would be yapping nonstop. Then one day I learned to stop it.
But I mostly remember this in threads where people on either side of the inner monologue vs no inner monologue discussions discover the opposite exists. And so I’m like, what, you guys can’t just turn it on or off? I’ve concluded that we must be in the third group looking on, who can do either at will.
That’s really awesome, that is one of the main goals of most meditation techniques! Sometimes I‘d really like to do that as well.
Have you actively worked on this or were you just able to do this?
Is it difficult to „turn your thoughts back on“?
Communicated from California to E. Europe via SSB during solar maximum aka worst possible RF condition’s with only 5 watts. Plus I communicate about 200 miles with a half dead 9v battery and and 100miliwatts. ✅QRP / QRPp
I could walk both ways up a hill both ways in the snow after dialysis treatment.
Past tense because I got a kidney transplant.
Which caused a very rare Cancer (1st condition to get it, you must’ve never gotten Epstein Barr virus, ever, which 90-95% of the world has. Second is getting a transplanted organ that carries the virus lol).
Which led me to weird flex #2: I have unusually high cold resistance and can also mentally raise my body temperature. This was helpful when having to walk to the patient hotel in a strong blizzard with nothing but hospital clothes.
Unfortunately that means I do terribly in the heat, and there’s not much AC in Finland for the summer…
The funny thing is I grew up in El Salvador, and then Texas.
Does getting cold hands and feet from watching terrifying movies count?
Sometimes, my sneezes smell like buttercups.
Sometimes I’ll sneeze, and people will ask who is wearing perfume, or comment that someone’s clothes smell like they were fresh out of the wash. What’s actually happening is they’re breathing my spores, and they love it.
wtf 😅 eww?
You sound like some kind of Anime villain
What’s actually happening is they’re breathing my spores, and they love it
What is your final goal when you have successfully bred enough spore-bearing drones out of us, huh?
Holy shit bro that could be a sign of diabetes. See a doctor
Already have, it’s definitely not diabetes. Apparently it’s a genetic thing, but it’s both pretty rare and just isn’t caught by people that “have the gift”.
Oh. Lol. Weird…
Haha, it’s so weird that the only people that have caught on that are my sneezes are my wife and my parents. My wife used to think it was cute, until she realised that her smelling it basically means she’s breathing in my sneezes, which is pretty grim.
It’s maybe 1 in 5 sneezes, but I can almost always tell when it’s going to be a “smelly” one.
Everything about me is a weird flex
- I invented two novel fire eating tricks, one of which involves my split tongue
- I can scratch the back of my skull through my nose with an icepick. I can also put a running power drill in my nose or feed a silicone tube through and out the mouth
- I often shave with a torch or lighter
That… raises some questions 😅
Can I assume that you’re some kind of performer or is this stuff you’re just doing as a hobby or when bored?
Did you mean „inside of your skull“ or actually the back of your skull? Cause if it’s the latter, I thought there would be some… err… critical components in the way of the icepick?
Was there any reason you tried these things or dis you just go „hmm, how about…?“
Also - this is the most pressing one - is there a video of you with your powerdrill?
Yeah, I’m a sideshow performer (fka a freakshow). This is my fav video of the drill because of the audience reaction
I didn’t realize there were fire eating tricks (other than a touch transfer or dragon’s breath), but I only dabbled in it ~20 years ago-- my main focus was with fire staff. What’s the trick that doesn’t involve your tongue?
Vapor tricks have come a very long way over the last 20 years. Look up Joseph Kerr if you wanna see insane shit. I’ve met him before, he’s super friendly.
Fire staff was my first prop :P
I don’t have insta and your account is age restricted so I can’t see it. The Joseph Kerr stuff looks cool though. Also saw some other vids of maintaining fire in the mouth for long durations-- cool stuff.
Wish there was a community near me so I could get back into fire stuff.
After a lifetime of allergies, I’m really good at Dracula-sneezing in the least bad direction
After over half a century of action, a lot of it in “extreme sports”, and countless injuries, I have yet to break a bone.
Congrats! Must be all the malk.
We don’t have any malk, but I can get you some MILK
Good god, I have to rewatch that right now. Thanks, I’m not the only one thinking of that video!
Now with vitamin R!
