Mine is plain/lightly salted Doritos/tortilla chips dipped/scraped in unsalted butter.
I’m now wondering whether this is a little too specific of a question and I just really needed somewhere to get this off my chest…
A lot of people are saying porn, drugs and alcohol which sure i indulge in but not really in excess. I would if i let myself own any but i dont. My biggest indulgence is media, i consume slop in excess, i let myself fall into meaningless entertainment. Usually drama, youtube drama, it makes me feel so gross because i know how much of a waste of time it is. I could be studying or spending quality time with the people i love but instead i just listen to drivel.
I know it seems relatively harmless but i hate that about myself. I dont even enjoy it much, i just do it becuase id rather do that than nothing
I had similar problems and finally realized it was a symptom called executive dysfunction. I’d do easy dopamine drips like video games or watching YouTube videos instead of projects I want to do or tasks I need to do
Yeah im severely adhd and also have autism, dopamine seeking is like all i do. Trying to do better though
As someone who watches +5 hours of YouTube a day I’d say the main issue with this stuff is the ease of access. I can easily lost track of time and spend hours organizing screws in my tool shed but that mean I need to actually decide to go there first. That takes effort. Sitting in front of my PC and opening youtube (or xvideos) doesn’t take effort.
Are you introverted? If you are, it sounds like you just need some time to recharge on your own.
But then if you don’t enjoy the dramas then maybe you could try actively seeking out a solo activity that you do enjoy? Because it sounds like it might just be a procrastination activity which isn’t usually as rewarding as we want and you’ll feel better actively taking time out to do something you truly want to do.
It is a procrastination ativity unfortunately, my school work is hard and i need breaks but dont have anything i really enjoy at the moment. I dont know what id want to do and have time to do rn
My time is split between work and spending time with my girlfriend which while i enjoy isnt personal time yk?
That’s fair enough and completely relatable. In which case I’d say go ahead and embrace watching them man. They may not be the most top tier of all TV ever, but they’re entertaining and cathartic enough to give you what you need.
If I had people to spend quality time with, I’d do that, but I don’t so I’m online like 12 hours a day
I’m a 45 years old male. The only alcohol I’ve been drinking since last summer is Smirnoff Ice.
People at the supermarket must think in buying this for a 16 years old.
I’ve never seen it myself, but my wife spent most of her childhood/teenage years in Shetland, and apparently up there, back then, Smirnoff ice was the drink of choice for hard working middle aged men. We’re talking about a bunch of islands where the main employment is offshore fishing and the oil & gas industry, and where they’re very proud of their Viking heritage. (Image search Jarl squad to see what I mean, those guys who are picked for the squad will grow their beards all year to look the part)
This one is pretty hilarious. I would 100% assume you’re buying booze for people you are way too young to be hanging out with.
I buy a 6 pack of smirnoff ice once per year. My buddy loves golfing on his birthday and I hide ices throughout his bag, cart, and course because even in our mid 30s it’s funny to see someone chug an ice while on one knee.
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I love grainy apples. If it’s too hard, I might not finish it. They need that dry crumbly texture
Damn you are a savage.
I use light mode on Discord, and just about everything really. I don’t like the feeling of being in a gamer cave. I always have a bunch of lamps on, and light themes too.
It’s the dark moders who should be ashamed
Are you every one of my coworkers who unknowingly send me black text on a clear background because they always use light mode?
Disgusting.
Personally I use light mode on everything work related and dark mode for everything personal. Helps my brain separate the two
I always thought the common way to do it was light theme for when the room has light and dark theme when it was dark in the room.
A valid positon but also…
How dare you?
OK but hold on - are we not gonna talk about friggin doritos in unsalted butter???
Shh, I have successfully distracted the masses.
I cram study science or engineering.
I put a little salt on muffins. If I don’t I can only eat like one before I hit my muffin limit, but if I salt them I can eat like 5.
I love that you use this trick to increase your muffin limit.
It’s a problem that most people don’t know they have! :D
I loooove salting things most people would never salt! I love a good salt-dusted blueberry muffin. You’ve got good taste :P
quicksand
I actually saw this documentary about people with a quicksand fetish, who go out in groups and just lounge in quicksand (without the getting swallowed/dying part). They said they loved the way it felt on their skin and being enveloped by it, among other things. It wasn’t desert quicksand, but it looked kind of wet.
oh yeah I know all about it. Technically, quicksand is sand suspended in water. It has non-Newtonian properties, sand particles are able to slowly move around like a fluid, but if they move too fast they lock up. So you can sink into it slowly, if you struggle too fast it locks around you. But more commonly the term is broadened to include deep mud pits, usually clay silt, and peat bogs. All of them are denser than water, so there’s no real danger of sinking under, you’ll float around chest deep. Though you can push yourself under.
Cigars. It’s a common topic of judgement, as if I don’t know it’s an expensive hobby with increased risk of cancer. I just love them, and the rituals involved.
I’m an academic who no longer smokes (thanks grad school…) You meet a huge variety of folks in smoker’s pits. The folks a university relies on a hell of a lot more than at least half of faculty. I’m thankful for the daily, sometimes hourly, rituals that taught me that.
I recently picked up a pipe. It has all the rituals and escapism of a cigar, without the hour-long commitment.
That being said, sometimes being”occupied” for an hour is part of the appeal. Each has their place ime.
I knew a very smart manager who quit smoking but still used to go hang out in the smoking area just to stay in touch with everything. I’ve learn more in 10 minute conversations while smoking with coworkers than entire week long seminars.
Everything I have found says that one or two cigars a week has a fairly minimal impact on cancer risk. Daily or multiple a day is probably bad though.
Before Covid, I was at about one a week, now maybe one a month during the winter and a bit more often in the summer. I usually only buy cigars when I’m on a trip to somewhere that’s cheaper than Canada, and I’ll stock up there. Fortunately, being Canadian, I can go to Cuba as well as to the US to get cigars, so my humidors have a nice combination of Cubans and new world (I have one for strictly Cubans and the second for new world). Otherwise, cigars here are stupid expensive and I’d probably only have a few a year tops (a $5 USD cigar in the states is often $20CAD or more here).
For context I am almost 40 year old women. Okay, so I like to watch gaming videos on youtube. Markipler, Let’s Game it Out, CallmeKevin, RT game, Dunkey, y’know moslty geared towards kids, young adult gaming content. I never do this unless I am home alone because I don’t think anyone would get why I’m watching an adult man play a wrestling game with his bright red, 20 foot tall wrestler named Johnny Hotbody.
I think you would be surprised how many people would not only understand but also engage in the same activity.
Playing stupid phone games. Really mind-numbing, no talent required games. Currently into “Whiteout Survival”. I am over 60 y.o.
It scratches an itch.
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No lying, I have in the past. I spent $5 here and there on a game I played for about two years. The total was certainly under $50. I have known people to spend a lot though.
Sad story, I stopped playing that game because I betrayed my long-time league by using a hacked game and getting banned from the game. They had invested a lot of trust in me and given me leadership over their original team. I wanted to be like them, but I didn’t have the skill, so I cheated. I lost that team for them forever. I loved those guys, I really did, what a great time and a great social outlet. I even met one of them for lunch. Real friends online.
#Feelsbadman #Injustice2
Respect. You know what you did, why it sucked for everyone, accepted your consequences and moved on to tell it as a warning tale to others. If only we could all be so graceful with our mistakes.
Man I feel this. I’ve been obsessed with Cooking Diary since May of last year.
Just this morning, I popped awake, threw on some YT drama videos for background noise, and just played CD for like an hour and a half before I was like “Time to be productive”. Good easy start to a Sunday.
That being said, I saw further down you try not to spend money on the mobile games. I went through a phase in 2019/2020 where I was fucking massively into a Chinese dating Sim game called “Mr Love Queens Choice.” I spent $850 over the course of 2 years. It was a great game and I had a ton of fun, but there was a point where I crossed into a bonus tier that you could only get to by spending a certain dollar amount. And then I was like “Oh. Oh no boo boo what is you doin’?!”.
Damnit. You know I’m gonna go check out those games now! Lol
Ok that game looks really fun and cozy though. Is it actually? Is it one of those games that demands your money or limits everything with cooldown timers?
You can spend money but I don’t. Everything seems to be coming to me pretty quickly F2P. They have a great in game communications system that keeps you from having to use discord to coordinate or socialize. It also has an amazing translation system that allows people from all languages to work together.
It has a LOT to do at first but then just as you get tired it backs WAY off and you have a casual game where you could easily start a second account if you wanted.
Yeah, I recommend this game 😀
It scratches an itch.
They are literally designed to play on your brain chemistry. It is the same biochemical manipulation that TikTok capitalizes on.
What the heck is a plain dorito
Apparently PepsiCo just sells unseasoned tortilla chips under the Doritos brand in the UK.
The UK? That checks out.
Blasphemy
It’s even weirder. Not only was that the original flavor and the namesake of the brand, it was also the first brand of tortilla chips sold outside socal
Wow TIL. Around here there are so many plain chip options, and Doritos are exclusively flavor blasted.
A tortilla chip.
Doritos are to tortilla chips as Potato Chips are to Flavored Potato Chips. They both rely on a dusting of flavor on a type of chip.
The flavoured kind, sure. But I’m talking about these - do these not qualify as a proper tortilla chip? They are just Corn, Rapeseed Oil, Salt and Anti-oxidants.
Huh? Not for us. The blue bag in the UK are their ‘Cool’ flavour, which IIRC is lime-y ish kinda.
It’s a European thing lol
Daydreaming about me, my projects in 10-30 years. Imagining convos with people. I’m a recovering neet.
I think I can relate a bit; I applied for a job and I thought I had it in the bag. Then they told me there weren’t interested. Finding jobs, making relationship, and starting big projects is hard because failure is scary and sometimes inevitable, but we are stronger and more resilient than we usually expect. Be brave, and give life hell.
Sugar in a raw tomato. It’s really fun to eat and grosses a LOT of people out!
I can understand why it would work. But a salted tomato? Om nom nom.
Dice about equal volume tomato and cucumber into a bowl, add salt, pepper, and a drizzle each of balsamic vinegar and olive oil. 5 minutes and tasty AF.
Divine. I’m out of balsamic though :(
