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Sell all my vehicles. I’m tired of computers and subscriptions just for a little comfort.
Restomod my old car in the garage and keep it all analog. No Bluetooth, no internet connectivity, no fucking automatic transmission.
I want to drive my car and feel connected again.
3840x2160
1366x768 gang rise up
you younguns with your fancy numbers, 1080p is good enough for anything.
this is a hill i will die on 692 times and then some
I will assume you want to be buried in it? I'll get the shovel.
I think most of my screens are beyond 1080p, but I still use 1080p for everything, streaming, gaming... I can easily tell between 60fps and 120fps, but I can't tell the difference between 4k and 1080p when I am on the couch
How far away is your couch, homie?
Propose to my gf.
I too choose this guy’s gf.
Congrats! 🎉
Same as every year since 2017: Stand up to racism whenever I see it.
How'd it go? There's a lot of racism out there, but I think I did okay.
Who downvotes this without an explanation? Even if you think that racism is good, it's somebody else's resolution, so...?
I have to assume they thought I could've done better.
I didn't even have a resolution last year.
I guess this years resolution is just:
Don't kms, try to survive as long as possible
Never forgot those who have hurt me, I need live long enough to watch their demise
Sending a hug your way if it helps friend, thank you for being here.
I want my mom to hug me...
like an actual hug filled with warmth, not just hollow and only for show, because I just don't feel the warmth, not anymore at least.
I’m sorry to hear that. I would believe that she would give you one at a time like this when you need it.
I hope you can find the warmth you need, in any case.
The world is cold enough as it is, it’s nice to have that genuine care to remind us that the warmth is still out there.
Don’t kms, try to survive as long as possible
Yeah, like same here lol.
I hope you both stick with us if only for spite Fuck those haters Be around to rub it their ugly faces
Zero parking citations.
Learn how to do my hair & makeup.
Meh I already still don't care about worrying about any of that.
Don’t use the ParkNYC app if you’re anywhere in that location. They will ticket you for not displaying a receipt on your dash.
That’s right. Hope your phone has a printer.
Oh, and appealing it does nothing. You’ll pay no matter what.
That's outrageous. Well I live in Los Angeles and my experience is they do anything they can to trick people into paying more or paying a fine even if they're parked legally. Two examples:
The parking meters are broken, shitty, screen unreadable, or if it does work, it takes so long to approve your card or tap that it tricks you into swiping/tapping multiple times and by the time it's approved you see you paid for your parking spot two or three times the time amount you intended. And there's no option for canceling & starting over.
Yesterday I was the first one to park along a particular curb where the parking meters are not perfectly aligned with the parking spots. The nearest meter to my vehicle appeared to be in the next spot forward but I surveyed the area carefully and was confident that was indeed my parking meter so I paid it up. A couple hours later a car had parked in front of me thinking that his spot was paid for. Hope he got a ticket LOL
I’m going semi-vegan? I don’t know if there’s a word for it.
I cheated and started a few weeks ago, but from now on I’m not buying any more animal product although I’ll make exceptions for already bought food that would otherwise go to waste.
In January, a lot of people promote Veganuary. The idea is try veganism for one month. Plenty of new resources will be there. Plus, if you need any help or motivation, you can DM me, or post your questions on c/vegan. Moreover, we have a small group on Signal, if you want to join, I can share the link.
I've been vegetarian for almost 10 years, but then I got kids and we didn't want to make separate dinner each night, so now I also eat wild game, e.g. pheasants, red deer, wild ducks, etc. Am I just a regular carnivore or does there exist a word for my weird ass choice?
I still haven't eating any meat from conventional or organic farms for more than 10 years.
I don't make resolutions because when I did, I never managed to keep them.
That said, I do have an unwritten list of things I'd like to do in the new year. Like may be lose a little weight. And I really need to go for my eyes testing.
And then there's the whole philosophy of "why next year? why not now?" and "tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life".
For the eye test, I've no good excuse, but I don't want to walk to the place and find they're closed for the holidays. For the weight, I'd have to throw out a lot of food first. Not the greatest excuse there either, but waste not, want not.
(Can you see why I never managed to keep them previously? Yeeeah.)
ADHD thingy: I'll make more comprehensive list of projects I was supposed to complete and actually do it.
I can think of at least a few big code projects I was supposed to get going this year. Well, now it looks like at least both of those are getting some wind under the wings.
No fucking more drunken shitposts I swear. No matter how good idea it seems like at the time
Edit: Oh yeah and my Steam hours are still pretty pathetic. Will need to make my Skyrim hours match those on Xbox
Publish my novel and get back to studying Japanese. 私は少し日本語が話せます but I'd like to learn more. I don't even know if I said that right. But by the end of the year I'd like to be fluent enough to have a conversation.
Hey man. Same boat, different rower. Can you share your publishing plans? Are you using an agent or self-publishing? Who’s doing your editing?
Sorry about all the questions!
Sure, I'm planning in using an agent. I just recently went through a round of editing with the help of some beta readers. Not editors but I've combed through it probably 5 times already and had some others look at it so I'm confident it's good enough for an agent. I'm not worrying about professional editors until the manuscript can get picked up.
Well, good luck, friend! Thanks for answering!
I'm also trying to punish a book. good luck with that.
Tough love is the best way to shape a story from what I hear so I hope it turns out well
Get back to my pre-COVID weight. Thankfully I just moved to a new place with a gym literally across the street.
More so than a gym, weight loss happens in the kitchen. Smaller portion sizes and healthier options. A calories deficit is the only way to lose weight. And don't think of it as a "diet"... It's a lifestyle change.
Forty pounds and counting. Good luck!
Yea I know. I went from >400lbs to 195; but then COVID. I swear to god I can do week long fasts and barely lose weight, I really need some kind of sustained cardio exercise on a regular basis. Just give me an elliptical and some time.
If somebody pisses me off or upsets me, I need to stop brooding about it like a little bitch and call them out directly.
Over the last few years I've learned that I avoid confrontation to a fault.
Bonus: how did this past year's go?
Shit.
This time last year I was meant to be moving into my own apartment, then I was laid off, my mortgage offer expired and I had to pull out of the purchase. I now work in a shitty purchase ledger job as a temp, where my office is 50 miles away. The pay sucks and I question why I'm torturing myself working in this role just for some recruiter to earn commission from my misery.
Halfway through the year I had a (kinda close) friend disappear for roughly two months after a rough breakup. I met up with her at a karaoke eve when she reached out because I was worried about her wellbeing. She came on to me pretty hard, we kissed at least a dozen times, dirty danced a few times and made out once, but then she apologized and friendzoned me via text after I got home. And to make it clear, she was the one initiating all this.
My love life wasn't all bad though. I did date someone at the beginning of the year and while that relationship didn't last, the breakup was amicable and we're still really close friends.
Still not sure what I'll do NYE tomorrow....
Probably 1080p, tbh, but I'd like to get at least 1440p60, just to try it out
Live a little. 4K 60 with Ray Tracing is the standard!
Exercise. Because being a sedentary 40 year old man is catching up to me.
I don’t set New Year-specific goals anymore since I find that being honest with myself about efforts from any starting point is more helpful than promising to make significant life changes at a specific date. That being said, my general goals are:
The same as last year, to do something to surprise myself. This year was a close one, but a few weeks ago I managed to interview a presidential candidate, so not bad (for an engineering student)
2500km of running. Did 2000 this year
I'm sticking with 1080p. that's my boomer opinion
This coming year I have so many! In the last few years I lost my parents and pets, last one was my loyal dog.
To be reunited with my wife, this stupid visa system has kept us apart 8 months and counting.
To start living together and rearrange the house to our liking and needs.
To give home to another dog, it's what him would like.
Keep exercising and building the home gym, involve the wife in such tasks.
Be more involved at work. I like what I do but these years have taken a toll on me. I try but apathy it's there.
Help the wife adapt to a new country and culture.
House reparations.
Small wedding celebration here (we married in her country)
Planning honeymoon
I want to be a better Christian sometimes I have strong feeling about topics I care about and I come out as very aggressive so I want to avoid that.
Keep enlightening people about anarchism and to fight, in whatever way possible, against the bully system of States.
Not on my hands:
New years' resolutions don't really work for 2 reasons:
Or,
I find myself luckily in the latter case. I'll take the new year as a chance to evaluate where I am with my goals and adjust priorities, if needed.
this is gonna be my first time really doing one ^^
i want to work on my awareness of my volume speaking and stuff, read 30 books, and work on voice training :3
Finish the Wild Beyond the Witchlight campaign that I've been running for my friends but had to put on a 6 month hiatus as I'm still getting over a break up.
Last year's resolution was to run 10 sessions of DnD and I at least doubled it.
