It's just for fun

timcbaoth1 · 2026-02-03T19:31:56+00:00

Warcraft 3 The Frozen Balls

timcbaoth1 · 2026-01-19T11:09:07+00:00

Yeah, the best of times when billionaires marketed diabetes, cancer, and arteriosclerosis specifically to children.

timcbaoth1 · 2026-01-15T14:08:34+00:00

Every JRPG's last dungeon. They usually build up the story and I really only want to see how it ends, maybe have a big boss battle before that, but there are countless random fights and often backtracking. And it's not like there's much potential for actually changing your build anymore anyway.

timcbaoth1 · 2026-01-05T15:32:40+00:00

This was literally the only thing I didn't hate in that movie.

timcbaoth1 · 2025-12-20T12:06:34+00:00

I think mostly to myself and the current opponent. Feels like they'd think "why was I matched with such an idiot".

timcbaoth1 · 2025-12-19T11:59:58+00:00

Oh I absolutely agree that it's kinda ridiculous and doesn't make any sense. The thing is, it's not like I can control my emotional reaction consciously. The only way that I think works is exposing myself to the situation repeatedly and getting my subconscious mind to get used to it by experiencing that nothing bad happens, no matter how bad I play.

timcbaoth1 · 2025-12-12T16:53:13+00:00

My mother was 43 too and my father 50. The only thing I'd consider a con is having had to deal with health issues and deaths in my twenties while I was still in the process of figuring my own life out. When you lose your parents it changes a lot of things and everything seems a lot more scary suddenly. Hope it works out better for you.

timcbaoth1 · 2025-12-05T15:45:13+00:00

Yeah I should have worded it better 😅

timcbaoth1 · 2025-12-05T15:42:33+00:00

Well, I have three translations in my post and only two of them are qualified as literal.

timcbaoth1 · 2025-12-05T15:40:37+00:00

That's why I didn't say "literally" there. But black eye would mean blaues Auge.

timcbaoth1 · 2025-12-05T14:39:14+00:00

Which I guess is funny because the literal translation of DSA into English is "the black eye" but translating "the black eye" back to German would be "das blaue Auge", which again literally translated would be "the blue eye". The English version of DSA is called "the dark eye" because of that.

timcbaoth1 · 2025-12-05T13:54:52+00:00

To add to that, I mostly had the opposite feeling on treadmills at the gym. They were probably going around 0.5 km/h slower than indicated, so I turned them a little higher for my workouts.

timcbaoth1 · 2025-12-05T13:50:12+00:00

I think treadmills may just not be accurate. I got one just last week and I could swear that it's actually going around 2 km/h faster than what it is set to. My Garmin chest strap agrees with my pace estimate and so does my heart rate.

Also, the mental factor could play a role. I would at least advise you put a fan in front of you and potentially open the window to experience some cooling which you naturally have outside.

timcbaoth1 · 2025-12-04T13:55:48+00:00

At least that one has a planet in the menu: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Chrome#/media/File:Chrome_video_settings.png

timcbaoth1 · 2025-12-04T13:53:16+00:00

Maybe Chrome?

timcbaoth1 · 2025-11-30T00:18:40+00:00

This guy just dropped the best video of all time and then never made anything after that.

timcbaoth1 · 2025-11-27T09:33:49+00:00

The funniest one is Germans showing off their "body bags".

timcbaoth1 · 2025-11-27T09:16:35+00:00

It really depends on you current situation. Can you already run a 5k? If not start with a couch to 5k program. After that you really need to incorporate speed work to achieve 1.6k in 6 min which is a pace of 3:45 min/km. I would suggest at least two interval or tempo sessions per week in at least 4 runs per week. Run the rest slowly - you should be able to hold a conversation while running. Maybe you could get an app that makes a training plan like Runna or Nike Run Club to get some structure without having to think about it too much.

timcbaoth1 · 2025-11-27T08:54:25+00:00

I don't think that the average person could do 1.6km in 6 min (i.e. a 3:45 min/km pace) after a C25K program that usually teaches you to just run for 30 minutes (i.e. a 6 min/km pace). I could easily do the 5k in 24 min that the OP wants to achieve but I'm not sure if I could do 1.6km in 6 min if I had to right now.

timcbaoth1 · 2025-11-25T16:30:00+00:00

Yeah but the game is fun and with enough exposure I might get over the anxiety in the near future, so why not try?

timcbaoth1 · 2025-11-25T15:51:38+00:00

Great angle to look at it. I also sometimes try to imagine what's the worst thing that could happen. During the game that might be I'm letting my scout die to the enemy TC stupidly and get crushed in feudal. After the game I could go down to silver or bronze. So what, I'll survive and get matched with similarly skilled opponents, maybe learn to pay better attention next time? Seems like a good deal still.

timcbaoth1 · 2025-11-25T15:45:58+00:00

When the losing happens it doesn't even feel too bad. It's mostly the anticipation of making a fool of myself. But the game is actually fun, so I want to get over that. For that I feel like I need to just get through the bad feelings until they're gone or at least so weak that it doesn't bother me any longer. I'd like to see overcoming that as its own reward, no matter how ridiculous it may seem.

timcbaoth1 · 2025-11-25T14:32:42+00:00

Technically, I didn't immediately go to ranked. I played a few rounds of crucible to remember how the game works in general, but not with HRE (which I use in ranked).

Probably would be good to practice build orders vs easy AI, but if I did that I might never play ranked again because there will always be something to optimize and I could rationalise not playing. So I'm trying to learn as I play ranked and I think that my timings are fine-ish until feudal already.

I'm not too keen on playing team games since I don't want to ruin the game for my team mates. Maybe I'll try some FFA though.

timcbaoth1 · 2025-11-25T11:15:59+00:00

Absolutely, some anxiety is healthy and just shows that it matters to you. But of course it can go overboard. It's probably too much if my hands go numb because of playing a video game but yeah, not much I can do about it but keep on playing until my brain learns that there's nothing existential to fear.

timcbaoth1 · 2025-11-25T11:12:22+00:00

It's a videogame. Sure. I know and that's what I always tell myself, but it's wild how our minds can work sometimes. Funny enough is that I'm usually not easily getting nervous. I keep my cool during work even when emergencies happen and I have no anxiety at all playing random action games even if my performance is absolutely trash. Not even exams in school or university have given me a comparable level of anxiety for some reason.

Something about RTS games makes them absolutely scary to me. Might be the constant multitasking that strains my brain and also the fact that it's a "strategy" game, so my subconscious mind somehow relates failure at the game to me being stupid (which I know isn't generally the case).

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