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Ooh, I'll check this in a little bit this morning!

Thanks for the ping! This could be interesting...

At the risk of overanalyzing a tweet, this is actually generally good advice. Scanning your body to release tension is a common stress-reduction coping skill taught in therapy, and in clinical settings is often referred to as "progressive muscle relaxation", which has been shown in many studies to reduce stress in the short-term. If you google this term, you'll have better results.

Here's an NIH article that covers a few things, including progressive muscle relaxation:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8272667/

It's not intended as a permanent solution for underlying causes (e.g. doing coke or alcohol, like you said), but more of something to mildly reduce stress/anxiety in the moment.

Souls-likes: you wake up in a jail cell

The only one of these I recognize by name is "Punisher skulls", but I bet the others would look familiar if I saw them.

Where in the US? I've never seen anything like this.

I do! Well, when I know I'll have time to get back over before my turn.

The only game that I'd considered playing that my build couldn't run was Starfield. Seems like that worked out for the best.

All the information is in the meme.

I was straining to think of another minor TNG character, and then I noticed - Guinan!

I can hear the harrumph of judgement.

I've never seen this, but it's hilarious.

Ok ok, it's fixed!

Yeah, I gave his most recent specials a shot, but it's mostly just him ranting about his various beefs, which isn't good comedy.

Like, there are a handful of decent jokes, but the pacing sucks because he wants to air out all this dirty laundry in between.