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- Comment on Do you ever feel full and hungry simultaneously? 2 days ago:
This might be relevant, but I was like this for almost my entire life until my 30s. Found out I have a kidney disorder that makes me lose potassium way too fast. Started treating that and most cravings went away.
My takeaway was that cravings can be driven by nutritional deficiencies. Figure out what you’re missing and eat more of that, or supplement. The cravings can also be totally wrong about what to eat. I would crave purely salty stuff but what I actually needed were bananas, avocados, and strawberries (bc they’re crazy high in potassium). A lot of the foods I craved were actively worse for my cravings (very starchy foods lower potassium levels; worst offenders are pizza and alcohol).
I’m not saying you have my specific thing, it’s crazy rare; all bodies are unique, however, and yours might be missing something. Keep an eagle eye on what you actually consume and try to correlate cravings to your eating habits.
Completely unrelated, but if you have ADHD you may have also ingrained the “food=dopamine” correlation deep into your psyche. People often use food to regulate their mood unwittingly and it becomes a destructive habit.
Sometimes it can be both of these things. So good luck and godspeed.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 1 week ago:
I’m about 3 hours in and the benches are far more generous than in the first game. Also corpse runs aren’t required; you just lose your money.
- Comment on PSP games that are enjoyable without the nostalgia-factor 2 weeks ago:
Fun fact, an exploit in the Lumines save file is how the original PSP jailbreaks worked
- Comment on In shower today: "I bet my YouTube account is older than most of the people on YouTube." ...Yes, yes it is. 2 weeks ago:
Watching Kimbo Slice beat the shit out of people in random back yards was peak. Beat the hell out of needing to download the whole thing before watching it like you had to do with Red vs Blue
- Comment on In shower today: "I bet my YouTube account is older than most of the people on YouTube." ...Yes, yes it is. 2 weeks ago:
My oldest account I can still access is my eBay account at roughly 20 years old. Next oldest is my Steam account at 18.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
I bought metal earwax spoons. Sure, q-tips feel great and all, but pulling the clod of wax actually responsible for the itch is divine
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 3 weeks ago:
Why should the benefits of my labor not pass on to my children just because it’s a creative work?
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement Stream (starts in 48 hours) 3 weeks ago:
Duke Nukem Forever was just ok. StarCraft: Ghost got cancelled.
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 1 month ago:
Steven Segal
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 1 month ago:
Not multistage, but it’s a heat pump with auxiliary heat. I have multiple zones controlled by dampers, too, soni have two of these thermostats.
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 1 month ago:
I bought a Honeywell Z-Wave thermostat because I have a more complicated HVAC setup than the typical American home. It was one of the few I could find that was compliant with a home automation protocol that didn’t require something that announced its existence to the Internet. It’s been solidly reliable, replacing my dead Nest thermostat.
The thermostat:
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 1 month ago:
If Google assistant ends up dying this is the way I’ll be going with. I’ve already got HA up, I’m just using stuff that predates my HA setup.
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 1 month ago:
No need for this. A Z-Wave or Zigbee thermostat does the same thing.
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 1 month ago:
I have three lights that were wired to one switch. With smart bulbs, I can individually turn them on and off or dim them. No “dumb” solution exists for homes that were wired in a stupid way.
- Comment on Beercicle 2 months ago:
A room temperature can of full sugar soda takes at most 2 hours to chill in a 0 °F freezer. A refrigerated can of full sugar soda takes about 45 minutes to get to just above freezing (the perfect temperature for Dr Pepper consumption).
Diet sodas take about half the time in both scenarios.
This is for 12oz cans.
I’ve got it down to a science.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 2 months ago:
The main thing I remember about this game is that it was financed by the fortune of a former MLB baseball player, independent of any game studio.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
90s kid here, but in a poor and rural area. I would play in my yard all day and couldn’t leave because it bordered a highway, and the nearest business was 5 miles away. Libraries were special trips. I had no neighbors, and no friends aside from school and church.
I played a fuckload of super Mario and read everything in the house whether I enjoyed it or not. Got halfway through the encyclopedia before we got free dial up Internet through AOL trial CDs and NetZero, but even then time was limited because phone line time was expensive.
- Comment on Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck) 4 months ago:
Death road to Canada is pretty solid.
Spelunkey 2 is fantastic, albeit incredibly challenging.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 4 months ago:
Nobody would be able to understand me because English has diverged so far from 12th century English that it’s a different language. Also I’d be in north America where nobody had even seen a white person. Additionally, I’m 20 ft above the ground right now in a building that didn’t exist back then. Finally, I’d be rightfully blamed for bringing plague to the native tribes of the area and likely killed.
Assuming those hurdles were all cleared: I’m a mechanical engineer. So, I’d tell the natives where iron ore, coal, and oil was buried and how to extract and refine it. Tell them how to make gunpowder. Speed run making steam engines and lathes. Get north american natives armed, industrialized, and organized against the external European threat.
- Comment on What peripheral do you think should make a comeback? 5 months ago:
Cranks and dials like the Tempest arcade cabinet and the more recent Playdate.
The Playdate almost nailed it.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer 6 months ago:
I can tell you haven’t booted the game up recently because they completely redid the perk system and cyberware not too long ago.
CDPR has been atoning for the sin that was their failed launch for years. In my opinion, the game is a good game now.
- Comment on That explains a lot 6 months ago:
If I read this post without any context I would think “this guy is too b poor to hire a black prostitute” and not " this guy doesn’t have a particle accelerator capable of making a miniature black hole"
- Comment on BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired 6 months ago:
Forgot about this one. I loved this phone back in the day. Remember when it would say
DROIDwhen you booted it up? - Comment on BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired 6 months ago:
The LG Env2 would have been the perfect smartphone form factor, change my view.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Shame, because on its face, I thought it was a really interesting technology that solved an underlying infrastructure problem in the fediverse’s makeup.
- Comment on Co-op campaigns are a rarity these days, and that should change 7 months ago:
Railbound is a fun one
- Comment on What do I do? 7 months ago:
ADHD memes apply to everyone sometimes, but you might have ADHD if they start to describe reasons why your life is going poorly rather than funny relatable behaviors that people do sometimes.
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 8 months ago:
Killing Vivec and then getting the message about being doomed was probably my favorite “oh shit” moment of all time.
- Comment on How many games do you manage to play at the same time? 8 months ago:
Slay the spire, FTL, and Into the Breach probably have the most hours from me because the controls are entirely cursor driven and can be paused indefinitely.
Balatro is quickly taking the space that the built-in Windows solitaire game used to.
Those are the ones that I open when my brain can’t brain.
At least one idle game. I just finished antimatter dimensions after a year or so. Starting on NGU idle next.
And one “100% attention” game like outer wilds or hollow knight.
- Comment on Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center? 8 months ago:
Seasons in Texas:
June 5-October 25th: fuck you it’s 100+° F / 38° C. Most non-native plants die if they receive direct sunlight all day. It’s 85°F / 30°C at night.
October 26th - December 10th: fuck you it’s 90° F / 32° C but also 40°F / 5°C in the morning; you’d better have 2 sets of clothes for the day
Dec 11th - Feb 28th: actually decent weather
March 1st - May 1: it’s getting hotter but also raining a lot so it’s muggy but the weather is still tolerable sometimes
May 2 - June 4: Hot and humid, sensory nightmare, air outside feels like your lungs have been filled with a damp blanket. 95+% humidity at all times.