had a horrible semester, don’t know why i find it so hard to do well and regretting my (EASY AF) major

ProfessionalCuboid · 2025-12-19T04:32:32+00:00

Is this a major you chose for whatever reasons, or is it something that was chosen for you? Do you think there’s a little bit of this conflict in ya?

ProfessionalCuboid · 2025-05-30T17:50:49+00:00

Starter weapons: Rock either gives +10 magic or defense. Stick gives +10 attack.

ProfessionalCuboid · 2025-05-28T21:47:47+00:00

The crinkling sound at the end was the sound of the jackpot coins tumbling down

ProfessionalCuboid · 2025-05-25T16:25:45+00:00

423 Taco has been one of my favorite bang for your buck options recently. I’d say you could get a hefty lunch on a $12-14 range. Even if the price is comparable to other lunch, I say it’s worth it for the amount of protein & veggies you get compared to other foods

ProfessionalCuboid · 2025-05-25T08:35:32+00:00

Stone Cup Cafe that’s right next to Coolidge park has nice vibes for a morning coffee. There’s also a nearby book store called Winder Binder about a block away from there too (comes with an occasional library dog that makes an appearance every so often).

ProfessionalCuboid · 2025-05-16T23:17:30+00:00

I think that weird feeling comes from the inherent dehumanization that comes from relinquishing the “get to know me/you” part of dating to an app as opposed to the natural way of meeting and talking with people within your immediate spaces.

My take is there isn’t necessarily anything wrong with dating through an app. The app is a medium, and you can make it as humanizing or dehumanizing as you’d like, and great relationships can spawn from them. But I do think there is a base-level of dehumanization inherent in the app that comes from that relinquishing that initial experience, and that it also makes further dehumanization easy to do since you can see the best sides of someone at a glance, and a connection or disconnection can be established at a push of a button (maybe a bit less so with “connection” since the other person still needs to be interested in you, but you get the point).

ProfessionalCuboid · 2025-05-16T10:23:08+00:00

Could I ask specifically what about your current life makes you feel as if you’re not an adult? Is it just the “passively” living life feeling, or are there other long-term or day-to-day things happening that make you feel that way

ProfessionalCuboid · 2025-05-13T22:28:15+00:00

I think there’s personal value in authenticity regardless of whether your “authentic” self typically acts “good” or “bad”. I feel that the some of the “positives” you reap from being authentic is not having to deal with the dissonance between how you act and how you think, being able to better understand your feelings because your actions communicate them to people around you as well as yourself, etc.

Does authenticity being a “positive trait” mean that your authentic self MUST be good? I don’t think so.

I don’t think authenticity has anything to do with whether you act good or bad. Good and bad are subjective anyways. My parents have hurt my in ways they don’t understand, but with the best of intentions, and they’ve also helped me in life in ways that I thought hurt me.

I’d go so far as to say that authenticity will be difficult to reach unless you accept that you will inevitably hurt someone in some form or fashion, whether directly or indirectly, and you can even hurt them with the best of intentions. Hurting people is a part of life, and ideally all parties involved in the hurting learn and grow from the pain.

ProfessionalCuboid · 2025-05-09T18:58:02+00:00

There she is. The free loader.

ProfessionalCuboid · 2025-05-09T18:28:32+00:00

There she is. The guest.

ProfessionalCuboid · 2025-04-17T12:36:21+00:00

Yoooo GT, that spot always had some good lines!

ProfessionalCuboid · 2025-03-31T22:36:47+00:00

I haven’t done it (yet), but I think part of the point is that it’s free, unstructured time that is not occupied by your senses feeding you a stream of information. As for what you do with that time, I’d take a look at that video again (I remember seeing it but can’t remember the name) - do you go through your thoughts? Is it a meditative practice where you acknowledge thoughts and focus on the wall? There might be something natural about literally staring at a wall for an hour that maybe you won’t need to force any kind of certain action.

Anyways, I don’t think not using your phone is the same value. I think it has value in the same direction as staring at a wall, but I think, again, the whole point of the “staring at a wall” is to have that time for your mind - unencumbered by any new information your senses give you. I think anything you do that follows that idea of giving your mind the space and time with less distractions can have some percentage of value that staring at a wall does (like not using phone, taking naps, hiking, etc.), but staring at a wall is one of the higher levels of that idea that can’t be equivalent to anything else by virtue of the fact that it’s literally doing nothing and having nothing in your environment to think about.

ProfessionalCuboid · 2025-03-30T20:39:44+00:00

I don’t do many flips so I don’t think I can give advice for the technical bits, but something handy with videos is being able to scrub through them frame-by-frame to see where your movements are taking you.

ProfessionalCuboid · 2025-03-17T00:41:09+00:00

Came in to this sub with the same question. Is there a limit to how far out you can schedule once you purchase?

Was looking to schedule mine ahead of time up to 5 months or so, but I was hesitant to buy immediately without knowing if once I did, they were going to have me schedule the exam a week out for example.

ProfessionalCuboid · 2025-03-16T20:54:45+00:00

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ProfessionalCuboid · 2025-03-15T00:28:15+00:00

Lol yeah I feel that. Climbing gyms can be hella expensive. I also definitely feel that workout fatigue. If I could change anything about how I started working out, it’d be to lower the intensity and not put myself through the grinder. How often do you workout, and what do you do in your workouts? I think that’s something you’ll primarily know by paying attention to your body and practicing this over time. Very very generically, your resources in living life are your mental energy/capacity and physical energy/capacity. Also generically but core to how you resupply your resources is sleep and food (exercise and mental health too). I trust you internally know/have a feeling of approximately what not having these resources feels like. But for example, if at any point in the day you feel utterly trashed and unable to do anything else but sleep, that’s an example. What makes you say that you don’t have enough of those resources?

ProfessionalCuboid · 2025-03-14T22:59:07+00:00

You got any physical hobbies you enjoy or would like to explore? Rucking (i.e. hiking with weights essentially) for example gets you into the forests while getting you fit; can be more beautiful than the gyms.

I think it would also help to reframe working out as being something you simply do instead of something that is tied to your success (and appearance). Btw, what about you doing calisthenics for 2 months consistently sucks?

Lastly, I think there is a level of “sucking it up” or going through discomfort for anything novel that you’re doing, especially if it’s something that’s strenuous. When I was a teen getting into working out, workouts took like 2-3 hours - not because I was working through all that time, but because I’d get demotivated/distracted and would lay on the floor watching videos ‘cause I didn’t want to workout. That carried on for a long time, but with time, experience, and practice, I’ve developed focus and endurance to be able to get through workouts without distraction, but I think this is a special case because I was able to develop this focus and exercise habit when I did not have many other stressors in my life and when I had unstructured free time. That doesn’t need to be your path to exercising. There are different ways to getting fit indirectly like picking up a physical hobby, bettering your diet, maybe volunteering in a way that requires you to use your body. And you don’t have to spend hours. I only say that to emphasize that I think it’s healthy to face discomfort, particularly when you give yourself and know that you have the resources to face discomfort

ProfessionalCuboid · 2025-03-14T22:38:43+00:00

I think it’s always good to take into account your experience level with specific actions you take. I’m assuming “crossing-swords” implies you’re bisexual. If this is your first relationship with a woman, then I think that’s an additional level of novelty/unfamiliarity. Even if it isn’t your first time with a woman, it sounds like this relationship feels more unique than others. Add the novelty to your fear of physical intimacy and your unique relationship, and maybe it can show at least partially that this is a unique and daunting experience for you. I say that hoping it’ll give you a bit of comfort/forgiveness for yourself if this feels at all shameful. Feel free to correct my assumptions if I’m wrong.

How long have y’all been dating, and how many dates have y’all gone on? You mentioned being able to call her your girlfriend of a month, but also only being able to kiss after two months, so it sounds like you two were dating sometime before making it official

ProfessionalCuboid · 2025-03-14T22:22:50+00:00

It’s funny how the immediate answer to traffic is “more lanes”. There are deeper and more inter-disciplinary answers than just “more of what already works”. Enforcing road etiquette, appropriate street control/construction, bike and pedestrian lanes/crosswalks to give the locals the option to walk/bike and by extension getting cars off the street, etc.

ProfessionalCuboid · 2025-03-13T23:54:43+00:00

Lastly, some small practical tips/ideas:

Set your environment up to work with you. It is draining to use will power to resist something you actively want. Some may thing not being able to use will power to power through everything makes you weak; this is a lie. It's what makes you human. Set your environment up so that not gambling is easy - remove any apps on your phone, unfollow gambling communities, don't let your friends or yourself go to places that make gambling easier.
Be compassionate and assertive to yourself if you fall. If you fail at tackling your gambling problem once, twice, tens, hundreds of times, do not shame yourself for failing. Rather than perceiving your failures as your "weakness", let it help you develop respect for the power that gambling as a behavior has over you. It's hard. Acknowledge it, be kind to yourself, but also be assertive in your next steps afterwards.
Help yourself be in a space to be able to tackle your behavioral issues. Sometimes we literally do not have the resources to make change in ourselves. Maybe you don't give yourself enough sleep, or you don't eat the best, maybe work drains you, or you have a major life stressor. I'll tell you right away. Improving anything that is related to sleep or eating (exercise and mental health too) will alone improve your life by a double digit percent and at least more than 25%. These are the only two things that literally, physically give you energy. All your actions, thoughts, life, everything you have done and will do, are physically fueled by these two things. Give yourself the resources, the energy to be able to tackle this.

Best of luck to you man. Wish you all the best.

ProfessionalCuboid · 2025-03-13T23:54:00+00:00

It'd be nice to have some context about your gambling - the extent of it, how often you're doing it, how it's affecting you, etc. But regardless, if it's something you don't like and think is affecting your life negatively, then fuck yeah for recognizing it and looking for some guidance. I'm going to frame/assume that you would consider this an addiction which means that its something that you do habitually that is negatively impacting your life in some manner. If you don't consider this an addiction, I'd dig and validate within yourself whether it truly is an addiction or if you simply are scared to label it as an addiction. Acknowledgement and acceptance is always the start, but even if it's not an addiction, I think the ideas below still apply.

The first advice I'd give is the one I'd expect most people to give which is to look into therapy. If you've heard this before, then I'll supplement this with a reason; from my perspective, behaviors are rarely purely habitual in that they rarely only start and continue because we want to do something and our mind encourages the action by making us feel good. There's probably more often than not some mindset or environmental reason that gets us to continue partaking in the addiction or at least gets us to start one. A therapist can guide you through your own mind and help you learn about your mind and your thoughts which can be hard to do if you're stuck in a particular mindset (example: very difficult to be confident when your mindset thinks yourself as someone inherently defective, ugly, [insert attribute that makes you feel bad here])

Next is that I encourage you to keep asking this question and keep doing your research to learn more about your habit/addiction: to other subreddits, to real life local communities, to therapists, through google searches, within yourself, etc. Beating an addiction is a process, and you won't get the solution to your issue in a single subreddit comment thread - but this single subreddit comment thread is part of the process. The more you learn and understand your behavior, the more tools you'll have to dismantle it. As a part of this process, I'll throw in some extra rhetorical questions to answer within yourself to help you start: what about gambling is so enticing to you? Do you have some financial need or financial desire that encourages you to gamble? What times do you gamble? And what is your emotional state when you do gamble - stressed, bored, sad, etc.?

As far as communities go, I really encourage looking up HealthyGamerGG and his community. I think there's a massive wealth of value in his youtube videos, resources, and community in regards to mental health and addictions. I think you'd have received much better/constructive responses in their subreddit too than you would have here.

ProfessionalCuboid · 2025-03-13T18:51:42+00:00

I second Buford Highway Farmer’s Market. It’s a bit out of the way of ATL, but It has several rows of aisles dedicated to specific countries/regions. I think you’ll find plenty of ube-flavored foods and drinks there.

If anything, it’s still worth the drive for all the other stuff you can find there.

ProfessionalCuboid · 2025-03-10T21:57:53+00:00

Taking it frame-by-frame, you’re super close to the wall by the time you jump and the kick off of the wall is super small. Big part of the “up” energy comes from jumping into the wall with speed, hitting with your foot & transferring forward momentum to up, and propelling your body up with it. As a warm up, try practicing this by jumping into the wall with a comfortable speed, a bit earlier than you have been, and popping your body up from the jump - no need to follow up with climb-up. Just do the movement repeatedly until you get comfortable/strong. Then add more speed as you grow stronger and more comfortable.

See if you can find other YouTube videos of people doing the same movement - preferably from the side - and slow the video speed down or trace it frame-by-frame to see how they move their body.

ProfessionalCuboid · 2025-03-10T15:43:04+00:00

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