Posted by alexandra_k on July 23, 2018, at 3:31:00
In reply to Re: Paul Jay » alexandra_k, posted by beckett2 on July 20, 2018, at 19:36:12
The Sims is a computer game.
This is probably far more than you wanted to know, but the first 2 minutes tells you the basic idea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohwbklm3w_E
The Sims seasons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5XWyPgUCm4
valentines day is in the spring? (fall southern hemisphere)
thermostat inside the house? (lmfao)
no skin cancer from sunburn? (i remember the non-burny sun)
harvest meals in fall / autumn? (spring southern hemisphere)
winter for indoor decorating? (bbq beach time over here)It is sort of a user interface friendly version of second life... I think... sorta...
I remember being simply blown away by how fun dancing was in second life. Virtual dancing. Yeah. The Sims just sorta works... In some weird way...
I spent nearly a year in North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
I also visited St Louis, for around a month.
I was diverted to a Texas airport at some point and was disturbed that the largest fries that I could buy from the airport McDonalds were not very large indeed (Mike Moore does not know what it means to try and survive on potato, methinks).I was amazed at how different States genuinely did have something like a distinct feel of different countries (says the girl from NZ where Australia is a different country).
I have never been to Europe (e.g., England vs France sense of different country).
But some sense of diversity in the USA, for sure.
Also some sense of diversity within North Carolina, for example. I had one hispanic friend who was a grad student at Duke -- but otherwise only saw hispanic people serving in the lunch cue or working on the road works. UNC Chapel Hill was all about women's rights (around 1/2 the graduate student intake being female) -- but my heart went out to the one (and only) local, black, graduate student in the department. Who was rather ashamed(?) to acknowledge all of us in front of his actual friends... Diversity...
Beckett... Are you a girl or boy? You don't have to say... Typically girls have more trouble with long limbs, but is not always the case. My core strength is terrible. I don't quite understand this because I have a short torso with long limbs. I have only recently come to understand that the idea of long limbs is that weight creates torque -- so with longer limbs you need a stronger core than most because you have more torque (force trying to rotate) than most transferred from your longer limbs. So... The dwarven folk are stronger for their shorter limbs... It isn't that they have a stronger core than me -- it's that they don't need as strong a core as me because their limbs simply don't create as much torque about their joints. So... They can move the weight better (from a stronger core -- since you can't shoot a cannon out of a canoe) whereas I have trouble because I leak power from my core because my limbs are so long and everything sort of goes... All mushy, really, and collapes into a pile of mush whah whah poooooooooor me. Buuuuuuuut long limbs are fun in the pool...
I have learned 'train the muscles - spare the joints' is really really true. If you can activate the relevant muscles (basically all the muscles you have got) about the joint then you can hold the bones such that they don't create much stress about the joint. It is a hard thing to train, though. Requires a lot of focus. Into what is most comfortable for the joint -- which is simultaneously often what is hardest with respect to muscular recruitment about the joint. Basically training the muscles to activate to pick up the load instead of grinding the cartilage / bones. It's a fiddly little thing to be doing... It's what I've struggled to be doing such that I can do the weightlifting that I do (to the extent that I can do it). Weightlifters (with their naturally dwarven stature) simply don't understand what the big deal is... But swimmers get it... Because with swimmer limbs (long limbs) having muscular control of the lever (arms and legs) about the joint such that you don't distress the joint is a really big deal. I've worked really hard and from a swimmer point of view what I can do (that I've worked hard for) is an accomplishment. The dwarven folk are still puzzled at how / why 35kg front squat (*ss to grass) is really very genuine work for me, indeed, when the dwarven folk females in my weight class are front squatting around 100kg, however...
I am lifting still, a bit. Not as much. I would like to be lifting a 15kg womens bar with 10kg bumper plates (so 35kg total for clean and jerk and snatch) but I only have access to 20kg bar and 40kg with bumpers is too much for training weight... And with less than training weight I can't drop the weights if I get into trouble... So... Just mucking about the with 20kg bar mostly and trying to get my front squat back to a 5x5 @ 35kg at least - and ideally up to 5x5@40kg because that will give me a little to burn...
My ankle dorsiflexion and foot flexibility generally is getting quite a lot better in the pool... Which is good... But then I really need to work on strengthening (on land) the new ROM I've got (or I'll likely injure the joints - for sure).
Hospice helped my Dad die comfortably, too. I do appreciate that. Even though... Everyone was too quick to... Accept his death. I don't know...
Yeah, the surgery tourism. I don't know why we haven't gone that route, here. I mean, all the sell-out ways to make money that people are constantly up to that seems like the really f*ck*ng obvious no-brainer of a money making scam to anyone with half a brain solution... I mean ACC and no fault ffs... No right to sue for f*ck ups...
Change is often appealing. I understand the desire to experience more of the world. For sure. I still have it, too. I've just become so very much aware of how so very nearly the same geographical terrain can result in such fundamentally differnet experiences depending on where you sit in some sort of a hierarchy.
Perhaps the thing to do is to simply move on until you find yourself with an acceptable way of / position in life.
That's why people flee flee flee all the skilled and talented people can't flee any more quickly than they are currently doing from here... Because those people don't thrive / flourish here. That's simply not... Rewarded. Or something.
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