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I’ve developed a move, and as the title suggests, I’ve named it Quaxyalf’s Gambit. The move is to wait for my wife to be asleep, and move a hidden, empty bottle of vodka from behind the dryer which is outside (yes, outside washer and dryer setup, it works), to my closet interior, where she wouldn't look for it. I'll then dispose of this of this on recycle day or when I take a walk around the block. This is a symptom of a problem. I probably drink about a pint of vodka a day. I’m sorry brits, do you have pints? It feels like, maybe it would be 1/3rd of a liter, or maybe a touch less. I’m not crunching any specific numbers here. I need to quit drinking. PROS of quitting drinking: I’d sleep better, my sleep is a bit broken sometimes I’d be more hydrated I’d have about 1000 less calories a day, and I’m about 1000 calories a day overweight. I’d be less sneaky with things like the Quaxyalf’s Gambit Side Note: Vodka seems to be “the alcoholic’s choice.” Vodka is ALL I drink. I mix it with diet energy drinks, and smoke too many cigarettes. I probably smoke 25 a day. AND, I’m a bit fat as it is... 30-40 lbs overweight? I'm not talking 400 pounds or anything, but I have a bit of a gut. I am actually going to die randomly someday like Tony Soprano or John Candy. CONS of quitting drinking: I like myself when I’m buzzed. I’m friendlier and easy to get along with. People like me, always have, never had a problem making new friends. Never an angry drunk in my life. AT A CERTAIN LEVEL OF ALCOHOL: I make music better. What I mean is… not too drunk, but just right. Stuff flows properly. I don’t think this is necessary, but it’s a bonus. AT ALMOST ANY LEVEL: I like to listen to my own tunes and fix them in my head. It helps me to iterate, to clean up a track. AT A CERTAIN LEVEL: I play video games better. Better at fighting games. Better at tony hawk, better at driving games, better at shooters. I’m not worried about stats, but I like to play clean, a |
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bout stats, but I like to play clean, and my cleanest is like… 3 shots? |
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Either way I need to quit. I need to figure out the right way. I've had willpower before in my life, I just seem to lack it right now. I also need to catch on on everyone's xltronic tunes, I'll do that soon. I see new stuff all over the front page, which used to be a day's worth of posts but is now like 2 months. |
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Have a good day xltronic. |
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Who the fuck has a "wife"? That seems very square. All those games are quaternion filled reality simulators. See if you can beat my xbox leaderboard times in 2d sideview Dye while drunk, a precision platformer where probability of failure accumulates with each subsequent precision attempt. Maybe make a rule where you can drink whenever you want but each time you do you have to open the window and yell "I'm a bad boy!" while pinching your nipples at tight as you can. |
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nice to see you wolfie, thanks for the update drinking a beer right now |
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cut down before you quit man, a pint of vodka a day is going to cause withdrawal symptoms if you cold turkey it. best of luck |
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there is another trick that helps avoiding drugs/drinks. find something that works better when you´re sober. it will motivate you and help you enrich your life with something else for a little while. something you havent thought you could do until you just did it. maybe you have a friend who has a hobby or there is someone in your life who always wanted to start a hobby or a sport. then start it together. bonding over it will help finding a routine in it. Help building a routine to be enjoying yourself without it. For me the goal is to be able to enjoy as much with as without, thus being stable after having had a drink. |
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thx guys. wmw: there's definitely a sweet spot where I play stuff a LITTLE better with alcohol. Not enough to shatter reaction times, but just enough to let muscle memory and "the flow" work... less inhibition or something. It's a narrow spot there. Yeah wife life is square, but my lady is a compatible nerd so I lucked out. I dunno about this dye game but I will take your super meat boy scores down to china town, my friend. mo: appreciate the words and enjoy the brewski belb: thanks for lookin' out, I should mention.. I take occasional days off and my drinking is probably only 6 days a week. The noticeable side effect at 48 sober is just a bit of sinus congestion (probably related but maybe not) and irritability... and well, wanting to drink, especially in the afternoon. Also I looked it up and I guess a "UK pint" is 568 ml, where a "US pint" is 473 ml. Which is incredibly stupid, but there it is. That's a good like 20% difference. Either way, it's too much. ijon: yeah filling the gap. my hobbies are gaming, reading, and makin tunes. In my brain, which has an addict's distortion, I never get "drunk," only buzzed enough to enjoy those things more. That, or I overdo it a bit, cook food and go to sleep. I realize there's a cognitive error there, and probably finding a hobby outside my established ones would be a good call. |
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My brother went through this phase, empty bottles of Vodka in his room, he was going to work drunk but could mask it somehow?? What Belb said is sage advice to avoid the DT's and hellish side effects |
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Super meat boy is great. The xbox leaderboards are broken/hacked or something, often the times are like 0:00 seconds, so I don't know what weird hack they're doing to get that, maybe something dumb like pausing the game and having the time "buffer overflow" or something dumb. But the xbox dye leaderboard times are all legit. Its a very different and much better way to play videogames, at least for someone with autism or something, to compete for fast times (has to be a good game, no dumb stuff like cut scenes all over the place or slow boring gameplay). Creates hair pulling hyper frustration but way more dopamine when you win than a typical xbox "achievement" of "killed 100 skeletons" participation trophy. Mostly videogames took a wrong turn in the multiverse, like the rest of reality, into a bunch of shoulder button having (dye uses no shoulder buttons) walking simulators with participation trophies. celeste is good too but I hate "maze"/finding stuff so I simply don't want to find all those strawberries.. if they were just presented in order without having to find them I'd get them all. I need a "guide" open on the computer which isn't that close to locate them so I didn't bother. Glams incredible run is good/challenging like that but you don't have to wade through a maze to find hidden crap. I hate all metroidvania games (except the original metroid probably) because of the maze/backtracking "where do I go/what do I do" time wasting crap. |
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Mr run and jump is another meatboy-esque game, and high quality/very challenging.. the flaw with that one is once you start playing the later very difficult levels.. you're stuck playing for like an hour or the game won't save your progress, even though there are good checkpoints throughout, at least that's what I remember. You have to do an entire series of difficult checkpoints rather than just one at a time and save. |
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My new tunes are strictly for the dance floor. They're not suitable for listening to at home or in the car. In fact I've made it impossible and my tracks only get played, via the Internet, on the dance floor. A DJ rings me up and asks me if I can play the song now, and if I say yes I start streaming it via a special link when they're DJing, and they sort of blend it in. |
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What if the song is recorded by cyberleggers? |
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The word quaxyalf resonated inside me all day. its growing into my mind to make me aware of questioning my behaviour and what actually makes me happy. Amazing what a single word can do. its like fnords are actually working. Quaxyalf's gambit... |
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