Nice. I am the target audience for this post. Only played one of the older games on the SNES but find platformers quite difficult so never really played it seriously. I love Dracula (the novel) though and love the over the top Gothic atmosphere. Enjoyed the Netflix series of Castlevania too. Weirdly find the whole Dracula's castle aesthetic cozy.
Power naps? In the car (since you're not driving) or at any point you can get even 5-10 mins. Get a sleep mask and ear plugs if you need to. Try to sleep max 15 mins at a time, so you don't get that super groggy feeling. Set an alarm or timer. If you drink coffee or tea, supposedly if you drink it just before your nap it will metabolise while you nap and give you a boost when you wake up.
Go for a walks in between to energize yourself. You can also do a sort of walking meditation to try and reduce stress, just kind of look around at the colours, light, shade and movement, listen to the sounds around you (and the gaps between sounds), the feeling of your feet meeting the ground and lifting up again, etc. Try to just take it in as pure perception and if you start thinking, just return to the physical sensation you are focusing on. Even 10 mins will do.
Eat an apple or two for a healthier sugar rush.
Even though I've seen TOS I never connected the dots! Didn't realise their characters had appeared before. Must watch those episodes again some time.
I never really played 2, but the art and music in 3 are amazing. Very fond of that era in fantasy art.
I would second this. Find social events that are structured around some shared activity, whether it's sporty, nerdy or anything in between. Takes the pressure off to meet somebody, alleviates loneliness even temporarily by keeping you busy and engaged. And if you do run into somebody that interests you and that might be interested in you, it's way easier to break the ice and get talking naturally without any expectations by just focusing on the activity at hand. It's a chance to forge a bond over shared interests and activities rather than the transactional detached experience you seem to be describing from dating apps. Some scenes also soft of have a naturally less conventional and more diverse following, so it might be easier to find somebody compatible.
Cool, my friend always told me about it but when I looked into it last it didn't seem to work on Linux. Must try it.
I'm not British, but I know about Kielder Forest because of Geowizard's straight line mission YouTube videos.
Not part of the Commonwealth since 1949.
Hmm, I see. I do this all the time as well. Always wonder with memes can I just relate because they're ordinary human reactions or traits or actual indicators of some kind.
Sorry was too lazy to link everthing. Extra Ordinance was more an example of the fact that Luanti can do all kinds of stuff and it's a single game.
These might be more to your taste:
https://content.luanti.org/packages/Wuzzy/mineclone2/
I'd second Luanti, but just clarify that these days it's more of a game platform than a single game. It has a built in content management system to download games, mods and texture packs.
The games available to install via Luanti range from Mincraft clones like Mineclonia, to semi-clones like Voxellibre, to original blocky survival games like Exile, all the way to arcade style games Extra Ordinance and platformers like Glitch, where you'd swear they were built on a totally different engine.
Mods for Luanti games are also pretty great, everything from fully fledged train systems to airships and everything between.
https://content.luanti.org/packages/Sumianvoice/extra_ordinance/
Good point, only thought of it after. Meteorology is as legit a subject as anything else.
Surely this was meant to be a geography teacher, with the map and pointer stick?
There is a decent possibility he is a money mule, he may be unaware that what he is doing is illegal. There is some precedent specifically for criminals in China using people overseas as money mules.
Legitimate question, did you temporarily disable it, or did it just not manage to block this post because those words aren't in the title?
Huh, interesting. The disadvantages of the centralised vs distributed approach really makes sense here.
The Russian tactics seem like total madness. Might have worked in WWII still but looking at the videos in this community, surely they will eventually have to run out of vehicles and willing men (if they haven't run out of the latter already).
Ball bearings, Jesus.
I wasn't aware they had been used in terror attacks, but I saw an article about an attempted assassination of Maduro on the site you linked.
I'll take your word on that Amazon link, disturbing shit.
Are these attacks on single soldiers tactically relevant too, or is it mainly intended as a psychological weapon, knowing that these things could hunt you down and you basically can't do anything against it? I'm not Russian, or a soldier, or in Ukraine but I'm scared of these things.