I had a teacher with the surname “Sizemore”

Anyone coding with no backups or version control in place doesn’t have anyone to blame but themself for sabotaging their code. A sudden power outage would be their undoing.

You could almost say, a Forever War

I think they might be a descendent of Lord Timothy Dexter

There are also plenty of videos of people slipping on ice and eating it over and over again trying to stand up. I don’t know the circumstances of this story to say definitely nothing fishy happened, or definitely something fishy did happen, but drowning in shallow water, in itself, is not necessarily suspicious.

I use Antennapod to listen to podcasts, but previously had used Google Play Music and Spotify.

Finding new podcasts is usually through recommendation. Friends have recommended several podcasts, podcasters that I like have had collaborations or recommendations for other, similar podcasts, and I’ve picked up a couple from similar discussions as this one. Once a member of a live play podcast was promoting it where I work and I gave that a listen for a while. I don’t typically use a service or discovery tool to find new podcasts, though. Sometimes I’ll search a topic and see if something pops up, but usually I see one I recognize having heard about and pick that one.

Three recommendations of my own are:

Mission to Zyxx - An improvised science fiction sitcom following a team of ambassadors as they attempt to establish diplomatic relations with planets in the remote and chaotic Zyxx Quadrant… better known as the “ass end of space.”

The have five seasons of their original run, and have recently started a new loosely connected series. A friend discovered this one, not sure how they found it, and we all listened to it together. Tons of fun if you have other people you can convince to listen along!

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong - A podcast about exactly what it says it is: examining the bad ideas, mistakes and accidents that misshaped our world.

This was one of the podcasts I found through a similar discussion as this one. I’m a huge fan of weird and strange history, and Mark delivers. They are usually independent of other episodes, unless numbered, so feel free to hop in anywhere. I started from the beginning, and the quality has noticeably gone up, but I never had an issue with the earlier episodes.

History for Weirdos - A deep dive into the strange obscure and relentlessly entertaining portions of human history. Married couple and armchair historians, Stephanie & Andrew, discuss the often overlooked parts of humanity. Whether the subject is an obscure event that has confused historians for centuries or a historical figure that doesn’t get enough credit, we have you covered.

This is one of the podcasts I discovered by searching “weird history”. They have started taking longer breaks recently, while other things in life have started taking more and more time. They cover wide swaths of history from Ancient Greece to Prohibition. They are (or used to be, haven’t checked recently) fairly active on social media as well, with pictures relevant to podcast episodes, or from trips they take to locations they’ve talked about.

I think they want to drop the lobbying red tape, not the safety standards

That’s a gorgeous one!

Why is for aesthetics. I have a pocket watch like this. I think the gear work is beautiful in its own way, and the front of it is like any normal watch face (just with a transparent face so you can see behind it).

Morrowind was my first ES game, played it when it came out! I never deviated that far from the path to kill the important NPCs for the main quest (well, anything I guessed was main quest), out of fear of locking myself out of finishing the game. I learned early in the game that you could screw yourself over…

Don’t you have to use some exploits to beat the game if you kill certain NPCs, though?

That added context puts it into a different light for me. Don’t think it would be something I’m interested in, but can see what the appeal is for other people

Isn’t this just being a chef, except instead of nutrition pellets it’s vodka and cigarettes?

Agreed; the idea of “you can kill any NPC, do anything you want, and still beat the game” doesn’t sound appealing to me. If there really is that much freedom in how the game is “completed”, then it doesn’t sound like it’s earned in any way. Just make it a sandbox game with no end at that point.

I’d much rather the freedom to do anything you want, but then have consequences and close off possible routes or even the ability to complete the game altogether. Maybe that is what this game actually does, I don’t know, I admit I didn’t read the article. But the idea of “do anything, still win!” isn’t something I want.

Most people I know that enjoy music do it this way. Taking time to just relax, listen to music, maybe have a drink along with it.

I can’t sit and listen to music like that for long periods of time (like, maybe 2 songs), but I always figured I was the weird one for it.

You’re perfectly fine. Do what makes you happy and enjoy music however you want!

“I know the first one is an E, but I can’t read it”

Because it is comfortable for them, it is familiar, it is safe. It definitely is sad when people don’t try to experience new things, and it almost definitely gets them stuck in a rut. But that’s what they want.

Not having (persistent) hobbies isn’t much different than only ever doing the same thing. There is plenty “new” to experience by improving a skill in something, just as much as trying something new at only the surface level.

Comfort, predictability, familiarity, routine, not needing to think about it or make decisions, catharsis, not needing to pay attention and being able to zone out, actually enjoying the thing itself and not getting tired of it when repeated, fear of trying something new, fear of mistakes or choosing wrong…

Sometimes I like to try something new, go on an adventure, experience novel stimuli. Other times, I just want to exist, or I want to comfort of something familiar.

Do you never repeat something? Are there hobbies that you enjoy that require repetition to progress? I enjoy painting miniatures, and I like trying new techniques or finding new (types) of models to paint, but in order to improve my skill I need to do the same or similar things over and over. If you also have a hobby that you return to, there’s part of your answer why people will do the same thing - they enjoy it. You don’t have to enjoy what they enjoy, and I’m sure they don’t enjoy everything you do.

If you mean the upper part of the torso around the neck, I’m guessing it probably wore away from the motion of swimming

That’s interesting to me. I don’t think I’ve ever lived near a Little Caesars that had in-house delivery (or delivery at all outside of like DoorDash), and every Dominoes I’ve ordered from has had delivery. I can’t say for sure if it was in-house, but it was delivered in a car with the Dominoes signage.

I was once hired as a lifeguard, but the pool wasn’t finished being renovated in time for summer so instead I spent the summer repainting speed bumps of the community.