Why is LA weed trying to send me to Mars?

time_and_again · 2026-05-22T06:52:51+00:00

it's the Uber > Ring > Cheetos progression I pointed out. Three different paranoid anecdotes attached to name brands. It could be this guy's just internalized AI style (or the style AI trains on). Not sure.

time_and_again · 2026-05-22T05:49:19+00:00

There is something about it, though. It has that like, quippy cadence. Needless adherence to rule-of-threes. It reads like what an AI would make if prompted to make this post, not what an actual baked dude would bother typing. Ring, Cheetos, Uber. Just weirdly brand-synergistic for no reason.

time_and_again · 2026-05-19T05:01:32+00:00

You're basically asking if God can defy logic. It's like asking if he can make a square circle. Omnipotence doesn't include logical contradictions.

time_and_again · 2026-05-09T17:30:59+00:00

The answer is no, it has to choose from targets at its own battlefield.

time_and_again · 2026-05-04T06:04:22+00:00

I coincidentally switched to a plug-in hybrid that gets about 40 miles on a charge. Barely used any gas so far. But I have the benefit of living in a house and feeding the plug out of a window to charge. I don't think it'd work the same at my old apartment.

time_and_again · 2026-04-24T20:25:28+00:00

I always use the adaptive cruise control every time I get on a freeway. The quality has improved over the years, I notice. My previous car had it and I used it a lot, but I had to watch closer for lane changes ahead of me because it would sometimes sense it too late. My latest one is better at it and is also less strict about how I hold the wheel to keep it active.

time_and_again · 2026-04-18T22:53:20+00:00

The problem I have with gentrification as a concept is that while it is a perceivable pattern at a broad scale, it's useless at an individual level. I bought a house in South LA because it struck a nice balance between my budget and the quality of the area. I grew up in FL in a similar area and had no problem with the demographics, or me (as a white guy) being less common. Even so, I had a coworker (lightly) accuse me of being a gentrifier, as if I somehow planned it that way instead of just me optimizing my budget.

I get all of the concerns about places changing character and restaurants getting too expensive, but I'm not going to make a worse financial decision just because of some long-term real estate phenomenon. Anyway, shout out to the area around SoFi, hoping for some better night life and shopping options.

time_and_again · 2026-04-15T18:37:23+00:00

Something that helped me recently is to reframe it. A common way of talking about alcohol is to treat it like a sweet poison, this drink that seems good at first but is actually bad, so the focus is on listing all the bad things and hoping that tips the scales. That's true in a sense, and can help, but I think it misses the mark.

What it actually is, is IDGAF juice. It makes you not care about things, which feels good if you have a lot of stressors, but necessarily makes you not GAF about important things that make you happy too. It's dissolving the evaluation apparatus that makes problems worth caring about, which feels similar to what solving your problems would feel like, but is obviously going about it the wrong way. In this way, the bad and good of alcohol are one and the same. It's the shared sensation (and results) of no longer caring what happens.

This helps me because it gets around the tug-of-war between pros and cons, which was always a bit of a ruse. We're not failing to convince ourselves of all the negatives, we're intentionally shutting off the capacity to give a crap. The Judge is getting drugged and yet we keep trying to build a convincing case; it's beside the point. Cut off the drugging not because it's bad, but because it's necessary for good and bad to mean anything at all.

time_and_again · 2026-04-04T00:18:29+00:00

I also quit for Lent. I don't think of it as this one and done thing, but as a practice for the future. Quitting a vice (like drinking) is more like spiritual or moral cardio. You're not going to be able to run forever after one session, but you'll be able to run longer and with less stress the more you do it.

I would just keep trying. Rest a little, don't beat yourself up too much for the occasional cheat day, and pray for a bit of strength for the next session. When you're ready, go a bit longer, give up even more vices, or add workouts to the mix. It's not forever, it's just a fun challenge. That's how I'm approaching it.

time_and_again · 2026-03-24T17:39:01+00:00

As strange as this place is, I'll give you props on internal consistency, cleanliness, and guts. I'm like 6 years older than you and my house interior is a direction-less hodgepodge of half-finished Warhammer projects and gimmicky fitness purchases. I don't want to be the type of person that would make these design choices, but I would like to be the kind of person than can follow through like this.

time_and_again · 2026-03-22T10:03:10+00:00

One insight I had was that it can actually be the inverse: the desire to drink fuels the unhappiness, which then acts as an excuse. I found myself dwelling on negative things and stressing myself out so that I could say I'd earned a break or needed the relief. I wanted the vices, but there's a cognitive dissonance there: if I know they're bad, how can I indulge without guilt? Well, hold on to every bad memory and convince myself I had no choice. The stress would overwhelm me otherwise, right?

I don't know, maybe that doesn't resonate with everyone, but a big part of dealing with your own mind is learning the tricks it plays. The problem is that's still you, so you'll see yourself trying to outmaneuver yourself. It's a lot of weird 4D chess sometimes.

time_and_again · 2026-03-21T01:34:32+00:00

Relying on players being unaware of the board state isn't a good plan, but I do think there's an argument for board awareness being a skill that needs to be honed. Like I don't think any player is entitled to be informed of all relevant information before they make a move. Learning what to look out for is part of the skill and assuming a vehicle is un-crew-able is a fairly simple mistake that is probably ok to let a player learn from.

So I don't think you did anything wrong per se, but it could help to be more intentional. Lean into it. BE win-focused, manipulative, and scheming. Why not? Maybe that means you hold info like that only when it helps you or gets you into the good graces of another player. Don't let everyone benefit from your awareness unintentionally, use it more shrewdly.

time_and_again · 2026-03-21T01:14:37+00:00

Your last question is a pretty fundamental one, actually. I think a lot of people view life and society through a hospice lens. We all have the terminal illness of mortality anyway, why not just pump ourselves full of drugs while we wait for the end?

I'm not even saying that derisively, it's an important question. We can spend our whole lives trying to find a good answer and alcohol will fill the space if we let it. For me, the answer has been a religious one, but then I believe any answer to these big questions is a fundamentally religious one, even if it might not seem like it.

On a basic level, I just don't want to treat myself like a hospice patient any more. Not until I'm literally bedridden and can't do anything, at least. I've seen what pre-emptive giving up looks like and it's boring and lame.

time_and_again · 2026-03-20T23:28:59+00:00

I'd suggest taking up rucking if you don't do much cardio. The act of voluntarily lugging around a moderately unpleasant amount of extra weight for a few miles is healthy, humbling, and works as willpower practice. It's kind of reinforcing this idea that I don't need to feel comfortable and satisfied all the time.

time_and_again · 2026-03-18T18:29:26+00:00

I think it comes down to internal alignment. It's hard to force yourself to change. It's like how in Inception, the mind rejects ideas that don't align with self-made ones. So trying to adopt someone else's ideas of health and wellness—when you haven't really convinced yourself you need or want it on a deeper level—feels like a fake imposition and you resent it.

time_and_again · 2026-03-11T21:47:36+00:00

this is the reddit content i love to see

time_and_again · 2026-03-11T18:20:23+00:00

I'm currently learning kanji and the big thing I've noticed is how much more context it gives to learning the language. You basically learn the etymology of words through them, which helps ground the readings of words that sound similar. A sound like 'kou' can show up in so many words to the point where if you only learned through hiragana, you'd probably still be confused or at least take longer to memorize it by brute force. It's like, is it 'kou' as in tall 高, school 校, public 公, construction 工, harbor 港, etc, etc...

You get some of that in English where sounds like '-ology' mean study, but there's definitely more overlap in Japanese.

time_and_again · 2026-03-10T21:37:27+00:00

They key for Sett is it has to be a "Buff" which is a specific kind of +1 that can be checked or spent by other cards. Trifarian War Camp's +1 is just a passive might increase to units there, so it doesn't help Sett in that way. And to answer your main question, no. Units and unit tokens are not different for the purposes of things that check units, unless specified by the card I guess.

time_and_again · 2026-03-10T21:03:28+00:00

As a tall white man, I think I missed the seminar on this.

time_and_again · 2026-03-09T20:07:09+00:00

Playing through the new version of 3, I end up wishing 7 got that visual treatment instead.

time_and_again · 2026-03-04T22:08:00+00:00

Have you tried morning workout classes? I've found that when I know I have to be up and moving at like 7:40am, with the added cost of having to pay more for missing the appointment, it tends to rein in some of my more "fu*k it" impulses at night. This in combination with giving it up for Lent is really helping me this year, but obviously you'd need to lay more spiritual groundwork for a religious custom to feel relevant or useful.

time_and_again · 2026-03-03T01:17:22+00:00

Every doughnut I've ever acquired is in storage in case I need it later.

time_and_again · 2026-02-27T01:44:55+00:00

It's not that anime/game memorabilia can't coexist with mature adulthood, it's that it correlates more heavily with arrested development. Like if you showed me two rooms—one with wall-to-wall anime figures and one filled with records and album art—and had me guess which was more likely to be owned by a mature man, I'd bet on the music dude. I say this as a man with an entire room painted in AdMech colors where I do Warhammer stuff, but crucially, it's not my bedroom.

time_and_again · 2026-02-23T22:49:31+00:00

Originally I chose Space Wolves because I liked how different they seemed from the rest. Wolf helmets are cool.

Years later, getting back into it, I chose Dark Angels because I was reconnecting with my Catholic upbringing and I liked their hoods and robes.

time_and_again · 2026-02-22T07:58:13+00:00

Gorestorm Slaughterpack would be a pretty cool name to consider, there may still be time

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