Potocobe

Sub conscious pattern recognition is what tripping is all about. It’s nice to know I’m not the only one who has experienced this.

I will die on the steaks in a skillet hill. On the grill it’s all wizardry. In the skillet it’s all science. I just want a consistently yummy steak without having to invoke the winds or mumble prayers to the spirits of flame. Also I’m in Texas so mosquitoes are all up in my business while grilling.

Too many hallucinogens in my youth? I hear music in the shower too. Anywhere where a white noise is the dominant sound my brain just starts making shit up. I get the same deal staring at static on an old tv. I start seeing patterns in the chaos.

Sorry, that one is on me. I don’t follow politics closely. I thought he got the boot when everyone else did but I see now that his defiance of trump got him first. I stand corrected.

Not reliably, I tend to hear metal or jazz and I think that correlates with the amount of noise in the white noise. It’s more like a slower flow makes less noise so I hear less music or none at all. It’s gotta be saying Ssshhhhhh or I don’t hear squat.

I know this is an old topic but I got to ask. Do you slide between notes a lot? I tend to lose little patches of skin here and there from regular playing. Then I wrote a song that is nothing but sliding notes from one fret to another for like 3 minutes or so. Playing that one song just destroys my callouses because the round wound strings are acting like a rough file on my fingertips. If you do a lot of sliding up and down the strings you are going to lose some skin for sure. Hammer ons and pull offs for instance hardly do any damage at all. I used to be able to do those all day long without any damage. Oiling the strings just accelerates your skin damage in regards to sliding around a lot. I learned that the hard way. To be fair I used to drag my fingertips on everything everywhere I went when first started playing. Rough concrete, office style carpet, brick walls and whatever I could use to just rough them up while I was out and about and going through my day. I recommend at a minimum just taking more frequent breaks while practicing.

I see it more as he doesn’t have anything to lose by starting impeachment. He got voted out and now he can be free with his votes and power without kowtowing to anyone.

I will admit that I do. However, in my defense, I hear music coming from the faucet while it is on and I like to jam to hallucinatory music while I brush. My brain just makes whatever it wants to hear from any white noise source but water from the tap in the bathroom produces the best results.

My wife and I spent around 10 years looking for the best place to get a steak in Houston. We tried everywhere and the best steak we ever found was from a guy grilling them on the deck of a bar we used to go to. I asked him his secret. He told me it wasn’t a secret and that it was all in the quality of the meat. He used to be the meat picker for Taste of Texas back in the day and had tons of experience. As far as seasonings he only put teriyaki sauce on the steak while he was searing the first side followed by a quick shake of regular old Cajun seasoning. It was for real one of the best steaks I ever had. Good meat will taste great even if salt and pepper are your only seasonings. Learn to identify a good quality cut of meat.

I recently taught myself to cook steaks in a cast iron skillet and now I will never go back to grilling steaks for as long as I live.

The only thing that has ever brought me back to reading after a hiatus has been the prospect of a really good book. Since I was a child I have lived by the same rule. A book gets 3 chapters to get good or I put it down and find something else to read or do. I used to go long spells of not reading followed by periods I can only describe as binge reading when I would devour every book in sight and then I would eventually end up with a book that sucked and that would knock me out of my groove and reset the cycle. Nowadays I listen to audiobooks 50 hours a week while I work. Finding new books to listen to is almost a second job at this point. I can’t even remember the last time I read a book I had to hold in my hands.

Normally, I would point out that there are more books than a person can read in one lifetime and an immeasurable amount of short fiction you can read for free on the internet. However, since you are looking for Pokémon fan fic you are probably S.O.L. Good luck on finding something you enjoy.

I feel the same as you but for different reasons. Games with mtx have a different pace and game progression to account for the mtx. If I’m paying full price it’s for the kind of game that is very much not a mtx kind of game. There are certain expectations that game developers keep trying to change for the worse when it comes to what you are getting when you buy a copy of a game. The only way to fight it is to be picky about what you buy.

Nah, I meant the banks are the scam. They hold your money in a low interest rate savings account. Then they loan out your savings account (on paper at least) to someone at a higher interest rate and so on. Every bank for the longest time was a big old house of cards that only held up as long as no one moved too much money at once. I get what you are saying about wealthy people wealth acquisition, though.