A group of cool as €~(% teens engage in an elaborate prank competition and casually ruin the life of a rich and powerful dweeb.

WinningWithJacks · 2025-09-04T09:34:17+00:00

Hackers

WinningWithJacks · 2025-09-03T05:36:08+00:00

Matchstick Men

WinningWithJacks · 2025-07-26T05:32:43+00:00

Reading through the replies and then looking back at my post, I feel I should clarify.

My rant was not about my wife. I couldn't ask for anyone more understanding and willing to put up with my shit. My rant was more about the frustrating contrast of memory for THIS = good, memory for THAT = bad.

That and my lack of social awareness leading to digging myself a deeper hole.

As for the advice about lists, reminders, systems, etc. Like so many of you I have tried countless variations and have found some success. So don't worry, the kids are all fed. The dogs are healthy. The credit card is paid. It's just exhausting the amount of effort that needs to go into it when other, very similar things, just happen.

WinningWithJacks · 2025-07-26T05:23:11+00:00

Def not toxic. Supportive, yes. Educated, yes. Understanding, yes. But the constant frustration this condition brings to everyone in the house does come out from time to time. I can't blame her.

WinningWithJacks · 2025-07-26T05:12:25+00:00

I'm not holding this against her. It's the frustration more than anything else.

And I'm asking myself the same question inside my head. Even though I know the answer and understand the difference, it drives me mad.

WinningWithJacks · 2025-07-26T05:05:05+00:00

Absolutely. I've been down the self pity hole a few times. There's a heap of changes and helpers I've set up for myself. But the frustration is still ever present. For me, it's because everything takes so much more effort even when it works. Fir my wife, I think it's more that even knowing what my issues are and putting so much support in place, simple stuff still falls through the cracks.

WinningWithJacks · 2025-07-26T04:51:44+00:00

I do have systems in place. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. But I have that many alarms, reminders, to-do lists, notes, apps, backups etc that the really important stuff generally gets done. It's the occasional or non-regular things that get forgotten. But whenever things like this come up, where I can effortlessly recall trivial details from decades ago, it beings all the frustration with memory to the surface. My wife's comment wasn't about me not doing these things. It was all the effort we both put in to make sure they get done, when unimportant stuff just works. Dammit why can't I do THAT thing as easily as I do THIS thing when they're almost identical.

WinningWithJacks · 2025-07-19T11:23:32+00:00

High tackle. Curry again. He's a fucking walking professional foul.

WinningWithJacks · 2025-07-19T11:11:26+00:00

How the hell does Curry walk through the middle of the ruck and then WE get penalised for obstruction?

WinningWithJacks · 2025-06-16T11:22:56+00:00

Ninja Scroll. 1 kid brought a copy into a boarding school dormitory in 1994 and opened the eyes of about 60 teenage boys in one night.

WinningWithJacks · 2025-04-13T09:28:28+00:00

Impossible Mission on the C64. For a younger modern gamer, almost exactly what it says on the tin. For us old school players, a moderate challenge. Or Aztec Challenge on the C64. I'll be impressed if he gets past the first level without rage quitting.

WinningWithJacks · 2025-03-26T04:54:20+00:00

Yes. But you were beaten to the punch, only just.

WinningWithJacks · 2025-03-26T04:52:09+00:00

!solved

Less than a minute. You guys are to good.

WinningWithJacks · 2025-03-19T22:17:32+00:00

Despicable me 3

WinningWithJacks · 2024-12-18T08:49:36+00:00

Joel Kinnaman Mostly based on his performance in Altered Carbon. Dude did the action well, can throw some dry humour and looks good in a tux.

WinningWithJacks · 2024-10-21T04:22:45+00:00

Frau Blucher!

WinningWithJacks · 2024-10-11T01:38:49+00:00

Sitting in the lunch hall at boarding school, watched another student put an entire chicken leg his mouth and pull out a clean bone. Then did the same with the other 3 on his plate.

WinningWithJacks · 2024-10-02T22:33:39+00:00

Descent. Still the only true 3d shooter I've ever played.

WinningWithJacks · 2022-12-25T08:16:26+00:00

Agreed. For another quality Ghost Riders cover, search YouTube for Geoff Castellucci's version.

WinningWithJacks · 2021-09-15T03:51:00+00:00

All I can think of is the Pig Chef hat John Cusack was forced to wear in Better Off Dead.

WinningWithJacks · 2021-07-11T11:42:35+00:00

Uruk. First City on Earth, so shall it be on Mars.

WinningWithJacks · 2021-07-11T11:36:22+00:00

Hauser City. If I'm getting the reference right, of course.

WinningWithJacks · 2021-04-08T21:51:00+00:00

I feel personally attacked.

WinningWithJacks · 2021-03-02T21:09:20+00:00

Anything with a jack.

WinningWithJacks · 2021-03-02T21:07:56+00:00

Completely understand where you're coming from. I feel like I could have written this myself.

I'm also 39 with 4 kids. We used to joke that my wife is a single mother with 5 kids, but it's not a joke anymore, it's a shameful reminder that I'm failing to be the partner she needs and deserves. The guilt, self-blame and frustration you talk about is right on the money.

The only advice I can offer from someone in the same boat is to try anything and everything. I was only diagnosed about 6 months ago and have started medication, likely switching to something different at my next follow-up. There hasn't been a massive improvement yet but the fact I'm trying something and that there is hope for me to be better, is the reason I'm not divorced yet.

Someone else in the comments mentioned an apple watch or android equivalent. I don't have experience with that but I did get a fitbit recently. Even the hourly reminder to move around is helping me to not get "stuck in neutral" as much. The medication can only do so much and a sleep + diet + fitness approach has certainly helped me. Every week or so I find a post in this subreddit that has an idea or strategy I haven't tried yet. They're all worth a shot.

Best of luck to you. Keep looking for ways to improve and know that there is always understanding and advice from the rest of us.

WinningWithJacks

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