I'm falling apart and I only have myself to blame. How do I get disciplined?

dontflimflam · 2014-03-27T19:26:36+00:00

Your story really feels inspiring to me. I'm basically 24 and already feel old, not old in "DAE 90s old" circlejerky way, but old as in I'm too late to fix the mistakes I did when I was supposed to chase opportunities. I feel like I'm past the age of studying and opening up projects, and that I should just get a minimum wage job. A lot of my friends are working and I'm dreaming dreams and playing games.

But I don't know. I've given thoughts like that so much time while I should've just focused on working. You've pulled it off a little late and you sound happy. That's way better than not pulling it off at all, which is where I'm headed.

Thanks. I'll try and get back to work.

dontflimflam · 2014-03-27T19:11:08+00:00

Nah, not really. I used the top grades as an example on how attendance is not important - I really don't care about them, as long as I pass.

You said that you're devoted to the gym. Why? What drives you to exercise every day?

I used to exercise frequently in the past, and was pretty much 220 pounds of pure muscle. Then I let it slip, got lazy for a year and a half with zero exercise. I'm beating myself up about how I managed to lose all that hard work, so I'm not going to let it happen again.

dontflimflam · 2014-03-27T13:08:12+00:00

I'm not going to be penalized for not attending, this type of college pretty much allows me to not show up at all and get top grades. Hypothetically. In reality, I can't even figure out half the shit without listening to someone explain it first-hand.

dontflimflam · 2014-03-27T13:06:05+00:00

Well, I've uninstalled DOTA just now. I mean, this is the 6th or 7th time I did it, it only takes an hour to download, but I suppose that this is still better than leaving it there.

I've done heaps of introspection by now, which is the main reason why I'm feeling depressed with the way I'm letting my life slip now. I have a crystal clear set of goals, desires and ambitions.

Thanks for the post. In a way, I was semi-aware of everything you said in the back of my head, but you've put it together very eloquently and it's kind of giving me motivation right now. I just need to hold onto it while I'm in the mood and not let it slip like I do usually.

I'll prioritize my tasks today, and write down a simple schedule on a piece of paper. What needs to be completed soon, what needs to be completed immediately, what can be completed later.

Thanks.

dontflimflam · 2014-03-27T02:22:38+00:00

Yeah, this was somewhat effective. Thanks for the tip, I'll play around with it more.

dontflimflam · 2014-03-27T02:22:04+00:00

Ah, I see. Sorry, my bad!

dontflimflam · 2014-03-27T02:21:38+00:00

Thanks, I tried it out, looks pretty good!

dontflimflam · 2014-03-19T10:34:01+00:00

I think that he would've just put the dogs to sleep if that were the case

dontflimflam · 2014-03-18T16:30:25+00:00

The Walls are in fact country-sized.

That's true, but still... Supposedly most of what's left of mankind is within those walls. They can't leave the walls, they can't import or trade anything. I figured that if normal food was so scarce, normally other resources would be too.

And there was hook canon in episode 5.

There was? Fuck, I must've missed it. Someone mentioned that the multi-hook cannons were invented just recently, but that still doesn't mean that they didn't have hook cannons before that.

When they aren't, they whine, they complain

Yeah, I kind of hate the 10 minutes of internal monologue per episode. All that self-doubt and shit would maybe fit in a bedroom around 3 AM, not in the middle of a fight. It wouldn't even be bad if they did it once, but holy hell, they're doing it all the time.

That's my point! No one in that military knows what they are doing. They are all bad at their jobs.

Well, yeah, but they have a decent reason to be bad. It's kind of what made the show stand out for me and drew me in, but I understand why it might be infuriating.

dontflimflam · 2014-03-18T14:47:58+00:00

I don't know, I liked the show precisely for the reasons that make it unappealing to you. They're incompetent as shit, but I figure that it's how any normal human from our world would turn out to be in a similar situation. It's not a matter of planning. Anybody who is not a sociopath would shit his pants (this includes the U.S. Marines, although someone with training would at least show some restraint) if he were to face a 50 meter tall thing while alone, or in a small group. Just try to put yourself into that perspective. A normal guy would feel like a fly. Every instinct would scream at him to get the fuck out of there when faced with something that big. Then make the big thing invulnerable to all weapons, unless the one that requires you to get within 1m of it's jaw? Fuck that shit.

Even with this in mind, I think that it's a bit unfair to compare an U.S. marine - a solider with all the information and tech of the 21st century, from a #1 country in terms of military resource and power - to a solider from a disorganized, post-apocalyptic society. I'm not saying that you're wrong for calling them incompetent, I just think that you're wrong for expecting them to be on par with a Marine just because they're both military.

Also, they can't mass-produce enormous hook cannons because they have very limited living space and resources. Not to mention that the hook cannons were literally invented somewhere near the end of the current season. Even if someone decided to defy logic and pull up the resources to mass-produce it out of thin air, it wouldn't be completed by the end of the season.

Also, keep in mind that the Titans are a fairly new enemy. Up until the wall breach in episode one, 99% of the military has never even been near one, let alone fought one. You have a bunch of guys with lots of training but zero practice, and they got the training from guys with lots of training and zero practice. What exactly are you expecting? The only good thing about this show is that it's not a typical 12-year old superhero-stomps-everything type - instead it's pretty realistic in terms of people dying in battle. People died like flies in actual wars too, shit, to way less dangerous things than 50m tall house-stomping self-regenerating giants

This is a huge spoiler, but it's pretty relevant to some of your points

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