Working out. (I do it most weekdays, too).
I work in software, and I’ve seen far too many guys in my industry who are either skinny as a rail and surviving on Cheetos dust, or painfully overweight. Had several co-workers croak unexpectedly, at shockingly young ages.
It’s a real problem in the industry. People simply plop themselves down at their computers and forget to do anything else for an entire day.
I have kids, and refuse to let them lose their dad early, so I hit the gym for an hour in the mornings, at least every other day. I do a mix of cardio and weight training. I also never stay seated for longer than 45 minutes.
Seriously, guys… If you work in the software industry, make a habit of getting up and moving around. It doesn’t actually take much to reap enormous benefits just from staying more active.
I have an IT company, and believe the same. We’re all working remote, and we organize competitions regularly like who is doing the most interesting sports, making the most progress, being the most consistent, etc.
I think it’s also important for the long term sustainability of the team too, we want people to have healthy lifestyle balances and not burn out.
Bingo. When my body is healthy, my brain is healthy. When my brain is healthy, my code is better.
I started working out because I was super weak and just had a kid, and I realized there was a legitimate risk that I wouldn’t be able to pick up my own child, so I started doing some strength training and holy crap this is amazing. Then I went back to college and lost my workout schedule, but after college I started running the following super smokey summer and didn’t make much progress, but this summer I’ve picked up biking and I’m currently up to about 3 miles of extremely hilly biking every day.
I seriously forgot how fun biking is, and it’s also nice just how much healthier I feel from the regular fitness
Right? Just getting up and doing something is so important. Whatever works to keep people from being sedentary.
Human beings aren’t meant to be sedentary. Absolutely get moving in some way or another!
I never had to before, always had reasonably active jobs. Supervisor role and middle age and a scolding from my doctor has made a difference.
I’ve been giving myself 20 minutes a day for the last six weeks. I haven’t really lost weight, but I do feel better.
I actually gained weight when I first got serious about the gym, and that worried me until my doctor reassured me that I was putting on muscle, not fat. These days, it’s pretty obvious in retrospect.
The real metric I pay attention to is blood pressure. As my dad’s getting older he’s been struggling with blood pressure, and I don’t want that to ever happen to me, so cardio is important.
Blood pressure is the real reason I started.
It’s called “the silent killer” for a reason. Maybe you’re just tired lately from working hard, or you’ve been having headaches from eye strain, or maybe your blood pressure is at 170/120 and you’re actually near death.
That’s the shit that scares me. I’ve worked really hard to get my blood pressure way down (currently 110/60) and intend to keep it that way.
Yeah me too, but I haven’t gotten my shit together with diet or exercise and my doctor is taking it way too cautiously with medication.
I’m constantly too tired t put enough energy into getting my doctor to be useful and getting myself in gear …… actually Pokémon Go is the only thing that works. Every Saturday I’ll take a 3-5 mile walk with my teens (except recently with heat waves)
I’m 31 and I’ve always been on the nerdy side. I have ADHD which let’s me lose whole days really easy. I decided a long time ago that dripping out of college was probably the best thing that could have happened for my health. I eventually got a job working outside and I’ve never looked back. If only I didn’t have one of the (if not the) most dangerous jobs in America right now.
If only I didn’t have one of the (if not the) most dangerous jobs in America right now.
Is it being a lifeguard to Donald Trump? WELL DON’T LEAVE US HANGING.
Tree work. Super dangerous. Specifically, I climb the trees to trim/remove them.
So basically, you’re the one that doesn’t want to be left hanging.
Thanks for filling us in!
and work standing
Yep. I have a standing desk.
Playing D&D
Pretty much same, but TTRPGs in general. I abandoned D&D after it became clear that Hasbro is going to continue making the game worse to squeeze money out of the fans.
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I’m a bit out of date, but what prevents you from picking the edition you like the most and just sticking to it?
It depends on the edition, and whether or not you want to pirate or have access to new content or digital companion tools, either 1st or 3rd party.
4e is basically unplayable digitally now because of licensing issues for the companion technology. If you still have the books you could try, but it’s an edition that leaned heavily on the assumption that digital tools would be used.
5e scared off a ton of 3rd party creators with the proposed licensing changes last year, and their new 5.5 edition looks to not be very open at all in terms of creator content. You might as well play a spinoff system like the Kobold press 5e or the LOTR 5e.
3.5 and earlier is still possible but the content was mostly never digitized into a good online resource. You could still play pen and paper, but if you’re going back that far you might as well just play a more modern system that draws inspiration from the older D&D system like OSR or PF.
All that being said, it’s all still playable, it just doesn’t have much of a future if you don’t want to get sucked into enshittification, ads, and microtransactions that Hasbro has committed to transforming the game into.
PF2e works pretty well on Foundry. I’ve been playing it for a while now and while there are some glitches, there has been steady progress and only a few niche activities aren’t decently accounted for. I heard PF described as D&D5e with some homebrew rules added on to fix the balance issues, and 2e takes it a bit further. There are things I don’t like, but it’s pretty fun and having a computer take care of most of the tedious math is nice.
Yeah I play PF2e on Foundry as well. It’s fantastic.
I never went past pen and paper, interesting insights.
Fair enough. I personally can’t go back to physical. Digital is just so helpful for me as a DM. I think pretty much anything can still be run as long as you have the books, but again it’s a question of whether or not you want new published content. If you are happy with the snapshot of the game that exists in the materials you have, then by all means.
Everybody else in the group, however…
Their kid was ill, their partner had a thing, they didn’t remember another event that they had previously agreed on, they said yes but they were thinking of another date, “is it for that game? I thought we were gonna play something else.”, that’s a long weekend week so they had out-of-state plans, etc… etc…
I sometimes feel bad for DMs.
Edit: If I say I’ll come, I will come, I’ll force myself. Otherwise laziness will get the best of me. Few things I own, better to keep my word.
Getting thoroughly zooted
What’s the admission cost to Castle Anthrax?
You must spank us all.
Sleep
Having sex.
it would be heaven if i could go out every weekend to the same places and fuck all the guys who wanted it like i am now, for the rest of my life.
Five-a-side football (soccer). I’m not a sporty person, but started going with a local group a few years ago and have reaped the benefits of doing some intensive team exercise once per week. I go with a bunch of guys way older than I am, and it’s amazing how fit and healthy they are compared to the average person I meet of their age. I certainly plan to keep this up so long an injury doesn’t prevent me.
TIL soccer is 5 man teams.
Five-a-side is a specific format of football (soccer), aimed at more casual play with a much lower bar to skill level. Outside of five-a-side leagues (which do exist), it’s rarely played with fixed teams and often ran in a more “pick up group” fashion.
Ooohh, I thought you were just using that as a substitute name for football.
I can totally see how it could be read like that!
Breathing, even though breathing is extremely dangerous. Evidence shows that 100% of all people who breathe will die. This can be traced back genetically; everyone who breathes was born to people who had also breathed during their lifetimes.
I hear folks that drink dihydrogen monoxide can become addicted after their first sip. One sip, and they are chasing that dragon for the rest of their days on earth, sad really. It’s why I only drink soda, love me some sugary teeth rot
Spanking it.
You do that anyway, choose another one.
Spanking YOU.
Ohhh myyy. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Why you dirty, dirty boy! O_o
…who me? Couldn’t be!
Apparently, waking up by 6 or 6:30 because my stupid body is on a schedule and we’re sticking to it every day, I guess.
Oh, and laundry. No matter what else I have going on, the laundry never stops.
Laundry is the real answer
my stupid body is on a schedule
Sticking to the same schedule is supposed to be good for you. Some kinda circadian rhythm thing.
So be okay with it. Your body is doing you a solid.
I know, but it would be nice to sleep in until like, 7 on the weekend.
eating a meal
A succulent Chinese meal?
I have a Pang for one.
Gardening and plant care. Winters would be quiet tho
Greenhouses and indoors plants exist though. And some vegetables like kale grow well in winter. And I’ve seen some impressive greenhouses that use geothermal energy (think water pipes 3 meters deep feeding warmth all winter long).
I’d love to have a geothermal greenhouse. Saw them on YouTube and was impressed. Here I have to make do with what I got, but one can dream.
Napping.
It’s a skill I unlocked about five or so years ago and it’s marvelous.
MMORPGs!
meuporgues ?
Reading a book (hopefully)
What I’d like to do? Play Pente with friends and family in the morning in a cafe. It’s an easy going game that you can have conversations over and it is a family favorite of mine.
Realistically? Forage for mushrooms and be successful at hunting in a post apocalyptic nuclear wasteland.
Sounds pretty optimistic to me. Nobody’s going to live in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. At least not in the northern hemisphere.
Sometimes all you can do is hope
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