southsamurai

@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an anti- sleep-paralysis device?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can try looking into a sleep position trainer. It isn’t what you’re asking about, but it has had good results in reducing or eliminating the paralysis episodes, so it’s a similar outcome.

  The problem with what you’re specifically asking about is that nobody has gone into production afaik. There’s patents for things like they, but they’re either junk (and obviously so), or would be way too complicated to set up and use reliably. Sleep paralysis isn’t usually responsive to just shaking by itself.

  But you could try something similar to the alarms made for deaf people, if you have a consistent timing with your episodes. Or do something like strap a massager to your hand where you can cut it on and hope that the vibration breaks through. People have made that work, though it isn’t consistent afaik.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Took me a moment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Much appreciated!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Took me a moment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I almost get this one, but I’m not sure why LOGe would be In

  Just don’t speak enough maths lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨North Korea's Kim decorates troops who fought for Russia against Ukraine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, he’s still an asshole, but at least he paid respect in a humble way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it okay to eat after brushing in the night⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, short term it’s no big deal. Teeth are durable as hell and won’t get fucked up by anything that minor if it’s a rare thing. But, the more you do it, the more damage accumulates over time. A few times a year over decades? Never gonna notice it.

  A few times a month, and it’ll be a decade or two before it would be a problem.

  A few times a week, and you’d better have dental coverage and/or good income, because you’re looking at a few years before it starts showing up as carries. Less if circumstances are bad, or you didn’t start out with very good teeth.

  There’s also the fact that keeping in the habit of brushing after eating stays a habit better if you don’t deviate from it without an important reason. In my mind, if you’re awake enough to eat, you’re awake enough to brush afterward. If you aren’t awake enough to brush, then you probably shouldn’t be eating either. Fucks with digestion and metabolism. It’s better to just stay on track and skip the snack, if you dig me.

  But nah, if it’s a rare thing, you’ll take more damage from a soda than a single night skipping brushing after a midnight nosh. It’s all about the acids.

  Now, if you can’t be bothered to at least swish out with some water, I’d say you’ve got worse things to worry about because you can do that on your way back to bed, swallow it and take zero extra effort beyond the mouthful of water. If your energy is that low, or there’s some other impediment involved, focus on that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does water necessarily seep in your butthole when fully immersed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How immersed?

  Tye sphincter can and will resist pressure, but only so much. You won’t run into that kind of pressure freediving, or even anywhere you could use a wet suit afaik, but you get deep enough and it would become an issue.

  Or, if you’re immersed somewhere with water moving heavily, you could get breaches in your breeches I suppose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does water necessarily seep in your butthole when fully immersed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ummmmmm…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you do if your gym trainer is 5 minutes late?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’d be looking for someone else too. I don’t believe in being a slave to a clock, but he’s just not matching your needs and expectations even when he’s there, so it just isn’t a good pairing. A trainer and client have to be on the same page for them to be able to really guide you.

  Sorry you’re working so hard and not being supported right. There’s plenty of room for a relaxed trainer, but that’s not what you need to meet your goals. Sucky position to be in. If it wasn’t prepaid, I’d say just walk entirely since it’s a recurring issue.

  Good thing is that trainers tend to have a fairly high turnover rate, so he may end up not being there long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you do if your gym trainer is 5 minutes late?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IDGAF about five minutes in most circumstances. There’s just too much shit that matters way more.

  If it was something that was a dealbreaker metrics because it fucked other things up for me, I’d want to know what the deal was, communicate that my needs weren’t being met, and decide to stay a member/customer based on that, but it’s not something that would bother me.

  I refuse to be a fucking slave to the clock on my phone, and wouldn’t insist anyone else be either. Back before network clocks, we all did fine without and nobody died.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you do if your gym trainer is 5 minutes late?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, no update?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Amen.

  My wife loves the game, so I’ve heard a lot of the music, and it may be the best sounding game I’ve ever heard overall. Not just because individual tracks are good, but because they fit the feel of specific scenes and locations so well.

  I could never play it, but it’s one of those rare games where I can sit and read a book happily without the audio being totally annoying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Amen to that. Keeping a sense of open communication is vital while kids are going to be experimenting and exploring. Not just their bodies amd sexuality, but definitely for those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a little weird for sure. But the whole “do not shove things into you that aren’t fingers or designed for it” conversation is a lot less disturbing than the potential disturbance of that hospital visit. For that matter, it applies to the “don’t shove yourself or rub yourself against anything not designed for it or on/in a consenting and legal human” as well.

  I’ve known a few people that suffered injury from humping stuff that wasn’t wise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ignoring context, it would be unusual, but not inherently worrying. There’s plenty of mothers that help good guide their daughters to an age appropriate sex toy, and some that will did the same for their sons. Rarer, there are fathers that will do so, but men have to worry more about external opinions about such. A mothers buys a dildo for their kid, the default assumption is that it’s weird, but not bad. A father does it, and the default assumption is that he’s over the line.

  That being said parents should be the default source is advice about such things, because a bunch of young idiots (as opposed to old idiots) trying to advise each other about things they don’t have much experience with is a recipe for hospital visits.

  In terms of general purpose guidance, and funding/ordering sex toys, there’s nothing wrong with a parent helping their kids in that way, assuming care is taken. There’s even an argument to be made that verbal instructions on safe use are even to be encouraged, and helpful hints aren’t exactly out of line (for real, a lot of young people masturbate in unhealthy ways that just a few sentences could prevent much trouble down the line).

  In context, with the info you provided in comments, the mother in question is not being a good parent in this case, so it fits the word abnormal in the sense that it is unhealthy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ice cream trucks still around?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, we have one that covers this side of town during early spring until late fall.

  I’ve even seen them out in winter, but I suspect they’re selling warm products, not frozen, then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Mexican food uniquely good with alcohol or have I just been conditioned?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, part of it is the margaritas I specific. That tangy goodness is going to match well with the general range of spices used in Mexican foods. Fajitas in specific have that bold and spice forward flavor profile that goes well with anything citrusy. Tequila has a fairly distinct flavor that mixes well with that lime and orangey mix. Most people already put lime on fajitas to begin with.

  Stuff like guac is fatty enough to benefit from something like that to cut through it as well.

  So you’ve essentially got a mouthful of amazing flavors that are used in Mexican food because they go well together.

  Some alcoholic beverages are going to work with damn near anything. But if you tried a margarita with your meatloaf, you’d not be as impressed. Not until the fourth or fifth drink anyway.

  Something like a low hop beer goes with pretty much any non dessert foods, allowing for personal preference. But you can select bears or wines that would not do well with mexican. Or select for those that would be as good as a margarita. Same with a u cuisine; the right beverage enhances the food, and vice versa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, for a given value of good.

  It really depends on the tuna used, imo. You use shitty canned stuff, expect a shitty result. Use decent canned stuff, get decent result. You get the idea.

  Me? I’m not a fan of tuna mixed in with pastas. Doubly so if there’s cheese. It’s edible, but not enjoyable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Gangster granny’ jailed for leading family gang dealing drugs worth £80m⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Had to be a Gallagher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it sexist to say "I've never worn a wet dress before"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to be blunt, this reads like reddit rage bait. As such, I’ll respond that way, then give a more neutral answer in case it’s real.

  The response to it as bait is that anyone saying that seriously is an idiot.

  More neutral, anyone saying that has an obligation to explain themselves because it makes no sense by itself. And it doesn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Predators⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had the Dying Fetus song “wrong one to fuck with” pop in my head as soon as I saw the image.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blunthead Slug⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ngl, while it is definitely weird as hell, it has a surreal beauty because of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Muppet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn… I missed that on first read. I had down voted for it being off topic until I saw this one.

  Which is both a sign of a great joke and a bad one lol. But excellent word play!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do movie actors or actress keep the skills they learned? Like no one would screw with Keanu after seeing all the John Wick films? And if they did would they just be fucked from the start?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I’m not sure what level of familiarity you have with martial arts/combat training. Or with what goes into “stage” combat, or fifty choreography.

  But there’s no single answer here. It’s going to vary based on the production of the film/show/play, and the individual actor’s interest/ability.

  Let’s point to the stuff I’m familiar enough with to have done personally: stage combat. Someone does a play with a fight scene. Actors that do stage work tend to pick up the very specific skills involved in making a fight scene in stage look “real enough”. You don’t have to learn how to fence for real, you just have to look interesting while you clash fake swords together.

  That goes for hand to hand scenes as well. Matter of fact, in both cases, you’ll often be training how to miss and still look like you hit. This means that an actor that doesn’t train outside of stage combat is going to have trouble in a real fight because their reflexes and perception of range aren’t going to work right.

  Movie fighting can be exactly the same. The actors aren’t supposed to hit each other at all. Fight scenes are planned ahead of time, with camera angles set so that the shoot is reasonably safe, but the action looks good on screen.

  So, again, most movies or shows aren’t going to be training actors to actually fight. They may not even do amy marital arts training at all, even just to look a little more realistic, because it’s faster and cheaper to have an actor just memorize steps like in a dance. Which isn’t too far off from what kata are tbh. So an actor in that kind of production isn’t going to gain any practical skills at all.

  However, some productions do have the actors train to some degree or another because it allows for a little improv and for the actors to move like they know how to fight both within a fight scene and in other scenes.

  That productions sometimes end up with actors having a degree of real proficiency in what they’re taught. However, it’s very rare for a movie to have the budget for that. Even the Matrix and John Wick didn’t go super deep into it. They hired top end stunt performers and choreographers that prepped the actors extremely well. The Matrix in particular was a lot of wire work, really heavily influenced by Hong Kong style kung fu movies. So they didn’t teach the actors any significant fight skills, more how to look like they knew how to do stage/movie kung fu.

  Now, Keanu is actually a really great example to use. He’s got a reputation for putting his work in outside of what’s required. He’s done a shit ton of firearms work over the years on his own. And, supposedly, he has done some h2h training too, though I’ve heard conflicting stories about what kind.

  And there’s been plenty of actors that have a background in some variety of fighting art. Plenty of actors end up finding a love for one style or another from acting. Fencing ends up being fairly popular among stage actors, though they rarely compete, and never seriously that I’ve ever heard of.

  But could Keanu do the same things as in the movies? Hell no. Dude is human, and doesn’t have an entire team supporting him in a real fight. Nobody could pull off the stuff John Wick does because he has plot armor. He’s going to get hurt, but not catch a stray bullet in the head and drop dead.

  Could Keanu hold his own in a realistic fight? Probably. He’s physically fit, has done at least a little training, and those two things are huge advantages in a random fight with some asshole looking for trouble. Could he step into an MMA gym and hold his own with fighters his own weight class and age range? I don’t know. Maybe, like I said, he stays in good shape, so he wouldn’t be an utter failure.

  But it depends on how much work he puts in on his own time. A year of training for a movie isn’t going to mean shit if that’s all the training you ever do, no matter how good the training is. Fighting is one of those things where you will lose your skills to some degree if you don’t practice in some way. I’ve lost a good bit of ability over the years since I can’t train the way I used to. I can’t take falls, I can’t move the same, so if I was to jump on the mat and try to roll, I’m likely going to need a doctor. I might, however, be able to fake it on camera with a little help.

  But I have had violent encounters since becoming disabled, and that’s not the same as sparring with someone trained in controlled settings. So I did fine. Came out of it uninjured entirely in every case, though I felt like I’d been beat to hell because my body just ain’t what it used to be. So I wouldn’t count an actor entirely as untrained if they were dealing with a low threat fight over a parking spot or whatever.

  So, there’s no single answer here. In some cases it’s a hell no, they’re toast; in others it’s where I’m not likely to start a fight with them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D Printed Damascus⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alex Steele is bloody awesome

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guepinia helvelloides - Apricot Jelly⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just looked it up because the joke answer, while perfect, isn’t very useful to a genuine question.

  Apparently it is safe to eat, but lacks any significant flavor, so it isn’t eaten much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guepinia helvelloides - Apricot Jelly⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least once

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guepinia helvelloides - Apricot Jelly⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re like a real life version of Willy Wonka’s edible buttercups

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this 82 year old woman dressing like she was 40 or younger makes me think about how ridiculous I'll look like when and if I reach that age. Am I misguided?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, you’re misguided.

  Be yourself, all the time, unless you’re a bigot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you see magic eye pictures?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s harder than it was before I needed bifocals, but yeah.

  Once you learn the trick of it, it gets easier to do.

  I wanna say I was late teens/early twenties when they first started showing up in my area, and I stood in the store I first saw one for like a half hour trying to see the image. My vision was kinda bad across the board, even then. But I got the first one, which was a boat, and then flipped through the rest of the selection they had, maybe five or six different ones?

  But any time I got new glasses, it would take a few minutes to adjust when I’d run across one again. Same if I needed new ones.

  They really are fun

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yet another community about Mod Abuses and Power Trips⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Horse shit, there’s a few regular commentors that do their best with every question they can, and even more that contribute irregularly but in good faith, even if they fall short of accuracy.