I feel attacked

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I sort of wonder if the next generation will still romanticize Japan in quite the same way. We're past the peak trendy-products era of Weird Sony and the Toyota MR2, anime is no longer a secret exotic thing, and it feels like if you want "15 years ahead of us optimistic techno future", you could easily slide in Chongqing or Seoul instead of Tokyo.

Is this the guerrilla warfare copy pasta?

Omou again, fucker.

My sides.

And I know it's a copypasta and the bad translation is the point, but "akachan" is way too friendly for "You're fucking dead, kiddo". I'd go for "gaki", which is a common part of weeb lingo and literally means "kiddo", with the same connotations and all.

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Welcome friend.
We all mid-life down here.

I picked drinking and having a band. Except that's also what I did from age 16 to 40. Maybe I've always been in crisis.

You're perfect, yes it's true!
But without me-e, you're only you

This post is definitely missing gay and trans signs.

Cycling, an instrument, home brewing, a golden retriver...

!birding@lemmy.world is a community on Lemmy! we have birb

You must be thinking of a retirement-crisis

oh weird, same. Though switch golf with mushroom foraging

Been using that since my teens

That comes under running , grad school and Japan

Oh wait. You said ignore...I had already committed and planned my escape to Japan

I was gonna say, women have been getting sick of men and turning into bog witches for centuries now, probably longer. The more socially acceptable version was nunneries for a while, since men need to feel like they're in control of that some way or another. I'm the city apartment version where I'm becoming a night shift vampire /other undead into tarot cards and Gnosticism.

Stick with it, and soon you'll have a rolling chassis with destroyed interior, body full of rust holes, a crippling Miller lite addiction, and lots of friends with similar rusty old beaters that just need a little TLC.

Just as I thought I weren’t a stereotype… oh well…

Does this come with a "let's try growing that beard back out" starter pack?

I thought that was assumed since Lemmy?

True, true, this is me too. I’ve got to admit to having to hold myself back from a full on outdoor kitchen. But I have a nice grill and a huge smoker, and I’ll be here every weekend wondering how to find people who want to share 15# of pulled pork or something.

I’ve actually gone overboard with cooking in general. Replaced teflon with cast iron and stainless steel, and a griddle top , and learned how to cook so many different foods from so many cuisines.

Here in my backyard, smoking these meats.

Running and smoking meats and everything that is food, my kettle is having a hard time

どうですね!

That's awesome! Well done, and keep up the hard work. Don't forget to stretch.

At avoidance of being real: no it means Japan.

No, I'm pretty sure it means being or becoming a weeb

That's a sub class, if you pick running then you'll date a younger runner. If you pick Japan then you'll date a young Japanese person etc.

That's the post divorce crisis

Fucking legends

I see I've found another Type 2 connoisseur.

I’m on track to do the same right now. Was virtually sedentary until January of this year and now I’m doing 25 miles a week and get grumpy when I can’t run.

Wait, BDSM is a group event?

I thought it was more like a partner tennis, not community soccer.

Are you a software engineer

These are just hobbies.

You're never too young to have a midlife crisis. Have two or three.

Ham radios are awesome though and that's less of a midlife crisis hobby, and more of a crisis hobby.

People won’t stop laughing when you refer to the shuttle-cock.

So now we say “Slap that pickle, Chet!” And no one giggles.

Go on…

Try self-teaching yourself programming If you like math, you'll greatly enjoy being able to apply it.

Hey... Wanna go down the geometry rabbithole?

https://archive.org/details/introductiontono031680mbp/page/n76/mode/1up

It has points at infinity, area as a function of angle defect, a triangle whose angles sum to 0...

If your pedals have power meters, you've gone too far.

Running isn't even a hobby, it's my default speed.

Probably quite decent in all of them too

Millenials ain’t making it to our 50s, the water/climate wars will solve that for us.

As a fellow gen-x, I had one in my early forties and again at fifty-seven!

Less like a crisis, more like a solution

My local Goodwill sucks so I go to a thrift shop run by a church and listen to their horrible Christian rock.

Man are those dudes horny for Jesus.

Maybe I should get one again. Not driven in over a decade.

That was my quarter life crisis, I fear my midlife crisis

have you thought about trying cycling?

Maybe do strength training and stretching exercise first that target the leg muscles. A lot of knee pain comes from imbalanced leg muscles. Like when one side of the leg is too stiff or too weak.

Running is in most cases good for knee health in the long term. It could be that you just need to take it slower to build up the knee strength.

Important: If you feel pain, stop and wait for it to recover.

https://youtube.com/@thekneesovertoesguy

Check out this guy. Now full transparency I've never checked his stuff out, but people who know far more than I do say he is legit and I know a few people who have used his videos to work through injuries and improve their range of motion and it worked.

Theres also some "Performance enhancing compounds" that can supposedly improve longevity and recovery that can help with joint issues but thats a whole rabbit hole and the research just isnt definitive, I've dabbled and I feel like they worked and know stuff but I'm not trying to advertise for that sort of thing.

I used to always run for fun. I was a go run a "real quick" 10k to hatch a pokemon egg kind of guy. I can't run anymore because of my knees, my doc said I need surgery, but I'm waiting until I feel that I need it.

Btw if I were you and my doctor said something dumb like that, I'd find another doctor.

My advice is to use an elliptical to test the waters. They are when used correctly low impact on the knees.

It depends. Do they hurt because the cartilage is gone? Then I'm pretty sure you are boned and have to pick one of the other three midlife crisis. Otherwise try physiotherapy. Lots of things cause knee pain: imbalance of muscle strength, muscle tightness, poor running style, bad shoes. Don't power through on pain killers - you don't want to also be in pain when you aren't running. Oh, and bad shoes is the last thing to look at out of those four. People can generally run in anything. A shoe that compensates for one of the other three problems is not a good shoe.

Have you tried insoles? Mine started to hurt and it was from my knees turning in because of bad arch support in my shoes

I get pain in my shins when I run outside. I exclusive run on the treadmill now and that works for me.

Don't use drugs to solve a problem like this. You'll just build a tolerance and solve nothing.

Look into strength training as others suggested. Start with bodyweight exercises before moving on to weights. It'll take a while though as you'll need to experiment to find what works, and ofc exercise isn't an overnight thing.

Maybe also consult a physical therapist.

And if all of that is too much, running isn't the only effective cardio exercise. Cycling, swimming and less obvious/weird ones like slideboard mountain climbers, which should all be easier on the knees

I bought a roadster ... which turned out to be probably the best financial decision of my life. $11K (used, obviously) and I drove it for nine years and then resold it for $5K. The thing about roadsters is that they're thoroughly impractical, so dudes buy them and then keep them in a garage for a decade or two and then sell them for next to nothing. I have no friends so I don't even need the one passenger seat let alone a back seat.

I did this as a hobby anyway, but I just can't find the time.

Pretty much. I've got frozen shoulders going on, a sore neck for about a year, and I have to head straight to the bathroom when I get out of bed.

Biking fills a similar crisis role, as long as you paid $15K for the bike. Bonus points for removing three of the six chainring screws when you're 50 pounds overweight.