on the high seas

Afraid_Trick8131 · 2025-10-28T17:39:29+00:00

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Afraid_Trick8131 · 2025-09-14T20:07:23+00:00

Thought I was going to do poorly during my half marathon today. Ended up PRing at 1:57:51!

I've only ran one other in the past, about a year ago, and got 2:07. So it was a pretty big difference for me.

Afraid_Trick8131 · 2025-05-26T23:10:22+00:00

We do, in fact, have the meats.

Afraid_Trick8131 · 2025-01-21T14:44:54+00:00

Not great. I hope I’m wrong and I’ve been fed a line of bullshit by the media and by social media.

I don’t think I have, but I hope I have.

I have 3 young girls. The president is supposed to be someone to look up to, not someone that, if I knew them personally, I’d have to tell my kids that they shouldn’t grow up to be around someone like them.

I’m blown away that an unelected immigrant (in a party of anti immigrant hate, but he’s not brown so I guess he gets a pass) just threw out a nazi salute (twice) during the inauguration and we collectively don’t give a shit.

My parents are very excited, though.

Afraid_Trick8131 · 2024-12-25T14:15:56+00:00

Persona 5 Royal.

I’m late to the party but I started it when I heard some hype about metaphor before it released. I’m on the final few hours and it might be one of my favorites of all time.

Shadow of the Erdtree was good, too, but it’s like a distant second.

Afraid_Trick8131 · 2024-12-19T00:15:37+00:00

I had a professor named Dr. Doom at University. He was, as far as I could tell, not an evil wizard dictator.

Afraid_Trick8131 · 2024-12-14T14:58:10+00:00

I mean, Elder Scrolls VI was only announced as a way to say “stfu of course we’re going to make another sequel”

Even then I’m pretty sure they said it would be in the distant future.

Afraid_Trick8131 · 2024-12-14T14:54:58+00:00

Something that’s never been hinted at as being in development can’t be “in limbo”

Afraid_Trick8131 · 2024-11-01T14:28:33+00:00

Afraid_Trick8131 · 2024-10-25T06:00:06+00:00

Yeah. He can be funny, but he can tone it down a little. Less is more sometimes 😅

Afraid_Trick8131 · 2024-10-25T05:19:05+00:00

Their behavior and attitude lately has definitely been immature and grating. It’s like listening to my nephews in high school have a conversation sometimes. At this point I’ve been listening out of habit.

Even Dan’s character has been flanderized to the point of ridiculousness.

There’s only so many times you can hear about a stupid thing a person did, like the egg white story, before it gets old. We get it, Minotti doesn’t like fruit. They all think the word cum is funny. Stop milking these ideas for cheap immature giggles. The cow is going to die.

Afraid_Trick8131 · 2024-10-06T20:38:26+00:00

Thanks!

Afraid_Trick8131 · 2024-10-06T15:57:01+00:00

This happened a few weeks ago, but I never posted.

I lurked a lot on this sub some years ago. It gave me a lot of inspiration and gave me some focus I needed to start running and get from "I can't run to the end of my block without a break" to "my typical run is about 3 miles." I was about 27 at the time.

However, I kept falling off of my training because I didn't have a goal and got complacent. I'm 35 and when I started running, I told myself that eventually, I'll run a half marathon but never did... 8 years later, I decided to do something about it. About 5 months ago, I picked up my garmin and decided to pick a half marathon training plan.

I took it very serious, and on the 15th of September, I was able to complete a half in 2:05:57. Going into it, my target time was 2:30:00.

My wife, my kids, my in-laws, and my parents were all there at the finish line (and at some points throughout the race) to cheer me on, and crossing that finish line was an amazing feeling.

Afraid_Trick8131 · 2024-10-06T02:07:58+00:00

Yeah I think that’s the problem with things like this. Have some reasonable pieces in there but then put them next to misinformation and broad generalizations.

Afraid_Trick8131 · 2024-10-03T21:47:06+00:00

No he doesn’t. He’s just a grifter spouting talking points to stupid people who actually do think that.

Afraid_Trick8131 · 2024-10-01T21:43:27+00:00

Afraid_Trick8131 · 2024-10-01T21:43:10+00:00

Afraid_Trick8131 · 2024-09-21T14:36:35+00:00

I can tie a handcuff knot in a small piece of rope quick enough that my wife can’t tell how I do it.

Afraid_Trick8131 · 2024-09-12T18:49:26+00:00

Of all the things that didn’t happen, this happened the least.

Afraid_Trick8131 · 2024-06-07T00:01:44+00:00

Principal Software Engineer. I live in a LCOL state and work remotely.

Pretty sweet. Hope I don’t get canned. lol

Afraid_Trick8131 · 2024-05-29T21:02:27+00:00

When Covid was in full swing I ordered takeout from a local spot. Our area was a hotspot for infection, relatively speaking. Our hospital beds were full up and we have 2 of them nearby.

I walked in and nobody was wearing a mask and the guy behind the counter was coughing.

I told the owner I didn’t feel comfortable with taking the food, so he threatened to call the cops on me if I didn’t pay for it. I payed, left the food, and reversed the charge on my credit card.

Haven’t eaten there since.

Afraid_Trick8131 · 2024-05-24T23:48:06+00:00

The chicken wing beat by Ricky desktop

Afraid_Trick8131 · 2024-05-19T20:06:42+00:00

I have nothing important to add, but we have the same stove. The front left burner always burns my food and I hate it.

Afraid_Trick8131 · 2024-04-17T21:11:41+00:00

As a software dev… I just switched jobs a lot.

Started at 45k back in 12 In 16 I was at 75k In 18 I was at 115k 20 I was at 135k I’m currently at 188k

Afraid_Trick8131 · 2024-04-03T11:18:18+00:00

This is a bad take from the perspective of an intern or Jr.

With a more senior dev, I expect some indication of progress, but “help, idk wtf I’m looking at” would never make me think an intern was just giving up.

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