u/AndGutsWasBERSERK

About 5 years ago I started consistently working out 4-5 days a week. I managed to stick with it for about 2 years with a few ups and downs, but managed to go from a 130lb twink to a 145lb twink. I ended up getting a girlfriend and I started hitting the gym maybe once or twice a week until I dropped it altogether.

Ended up trading working out for getting laid like a loser. Now I have a baby and I just spend the little free time I have playing video games and eating junk food.

I have no desire to workout, but I’m also sick of being skinny as fuck. What’ll force me to be interested in working out again? Legit, my girlfriend has made comments about how I “used to be so muscley.” Bummer that I’m not any closer to working out even with her saying that stuff.

Dick size: you wouldn’t believe me if I told you

It’s my first summer in my new apartment, moved in last year in mid September. We didn’t have anything like this back then.

Since probably May, I’ve had fruit flies. They were in my apartment in the hundreds, literally filling multiple traps daily. I ended up removing my AC, getting rid of my coffee maker, and throwing all of my trash into the freezer. Also used green gobbler on my drains a couple times. The problem started to go away, went from hundreds of fruit flies down to less than a handful that I’d notice any given day for a couple weeks.

Maybe I got comfortable and didn’t freeze every bit of food scraps that I had. The problem never really went away, so I feel like that kept the problem going. Now, I’m really at a loss.

I’ve cleaned the drains, freezing trash or taking it to a gas station trash can every night, I only drink out of cups with lids, I don’t dare leave anything out. I’ve hit the drain again. I spend my first half hour home from working hunting them down.

I feel like I’m not just dealing with fruit flies now. I’ve got random house flies and some flies that are small but more erratic than fruit flies. The cat litter box also has flies in it now even after changing the litter and scooping it multiple times a day.

I have looked everywhere. I’ve checked my basement and they’re down there on the window, but not on anything else. Same with the rest of my apartment. The windows are where they hangout. I can’t figure it out for the life of me. There is nothing that I can find that they’d be drawn to. I know that what I’m doing isn’t going to solve the problem overnight, but it should be doing something.

What can I do? I’ve considered just removing all of my acs in case they’re coming in through the windows and that’s why they hangout there. Do I call a pest specialist? I’m in an old duplex from the 19th century that needs a lot of love on the outside. Do I call my landlord and see if he can sort it out?

I’m a little unsure what to call what I’m dealing with.

I’m not the kind of person who masturbates everyday, I’ll go a few days without sometimes and not have much of a thought about it. But I watch porn still. Not for long, maybe just casually looking through some subreddits that I like and then moving on with my day.

I know that technically watching porn at all isn’t a healthy thing to do. I tell myself this pretty much any time I consider looking at porn. Still, I just tell myself that I’ll be better about it “next time”.

It doesn’t interfere with my life or my relationship. At least I don’t think it does. We don’t have sex more than once every week or two, but that’s partly because we’ve got our baby to take care of and our work schedules don’t exactly fall in line with each other.

Anyway, is this a problem that I’m not taking seriously enough? I think I’d prefer to get away from it altogether, but I haven’t been able to follow through. It sounds like a problem to me

I had Xfinity for probably about 8 years. The rates would get pretty ridiculous if I didn’t pay attention to my autopay, but after talking with customer service I’d be able to get bumped down a more reasonable price.

A few months ago I had someone from Fidium come to my door and offer 2gb speeds for something like $50 a month. The speed didn’t matter to me, but seeing that i could cut one my bill nearly in half was appealing. I’ve always turned people away, but this one time I made the mistake of saying yes.

Fast forward to now. My experience, for gaming especially, is pathetic. I can experience great ping, but will suffer from packet loss and latency issues every minute or two that’ll make online unplayable. Recently even the ping has been so bad that I don’t even see the point in trying to game online.

A tech came to my apartment yesterday after I called and complained a couple days before. Super nice guy and the appointment was pretty quick. He said it was my ONT that needed to be replaced, so he took care of it and left.

It’s not ANY better. I’ve been waiting for a 10 gb game to install to my ps5 for about 20 minutes now and it’s only half way done. This is a process that typically takes minutes. Instead this likely wont be installed for close to an hour. I’ve even gone on the app to boost the signal to my ps5 and that’s done nothing. Meanwhile the app says my speed is 2200 Mbps download and upload.

I think my only remaining option is to get a new modem and see if that does anything, because this is crazy. With Xfinity I don’t even think I was on a 1GB plan and I’ve never had close to as bad of an experience as I get using Fidium 2GB plan.

Just an observation I made after watching Bush Comes to Dinner for the 50th time.

Hayley vehemently denies the flask Stan finds in her bag is hers. Stan calls her a lost cause and the episode really hinges around this. She continually denies the flasks hers throughout the episode and Stan just continues to call her a liar.

Eventually we learn that the flask IS Hayley’s after everything. The episode drives home this idea that Stan’s being unreasonable and mistrusting, but HES RIGHT.

I know it’s just a show and it doesn’t matter, I just feel like the framing of it doesn’t make sense when Stan was right all along.

Of course the morale of the story is that even some trouble maker can become the president, so I get that. I’m reading too much into it lol I’m sorry

I’ve played video games since I was probably 6 years old, I’m 33 now and I don’t find them as enjoyable as I used to and just can’t break the cycle. I only play for up to an hour a day, I don’t have time outside of work and having a 6 month old. When I do get that free hour everyday, it’s not even a thought.

About 5 years I go I managed to keep gaming to after 7pm and mostly on weekends, worked out 4-5 days a week for an hour at the gym, and would aim to read about 30-50 pages of a book a night.

I know this is possible because I did it before. BUT I didn’t have the restraints on my time the way I do now when it came to my free time. I worked the same hours I do now, albeit my jobs more stressful now. That and I didn’t have a baby back then or a girlfriend, just had casual things going on here and there.

How can I get back into this way of life while taking care of my son and my relationship? I want to cut back on gaming, but not completely. Working outs difficult because my girlfriend and I have different schedules so we’re often alone to take care of the baby. As for reading, I just need to find a way to make it fun, I guess? Any advice is greatly appreciated

I keep very little if any food out that isn’t in a wrapper. There’s no fruit or vegetables left out at all, they stay in the fridge. I throw nearly all food that would spoil into a bag and put it into my freezer until trash day. I can’t for the life of me figure out what the problem is.

We’ve put out traps for over a week, probably catch 20-30 in each one daily and kill another 20+ myself on the windows throughout my duplex. I can’t figure out what the problem is. Every window on both floors have at minimum 5 on them at any given time and the kitchen windows will have 10 or more. I used green gobbler the other day for the drains and it kind of seemed to work as there seem to be less on the window above my sink, but it’s still bad everywhere else.

What am I missing? I’ve got a couple of acs on the second floor and I’ve taped off the window around them as an added measure in case they’re coming in from there. I took out the ac on the main floor because that was the window they seemed to be on more than any other. I’m beyond frustrated. I can’t even think of anything I could’ve missed anymore. The coffee maker is in a trash bag tightly sealed and cleaned. We’ve wiped down any and every surface. There’s just no end.

Any ideas??? I’m close to calling an exterminator but it seems like a problem I should be able to handle. The last thing I can think of is checking my attic and seeing if maybe something’s living up there and leaving gross ass food behind, but they aren’t nearly as bad upstairs. 🤦‍♂️ help

Idk if this is really the right place, but I’m gonna lose it if I don’t just throw this out there.

I’ve got a hell of a fruit fly problem and have for at least a couple weeks. We set traps every couple days and they are always filled with the damn things. We keep things clean, freeze any food that could spoil in the trash, have no fruit that we keep out, and it just doesn’t stop.

It’s not just the kitchen, but the bathroom and living room too. On different floors! I just bought a new trash can, took out the trash we do have, moved our recycling bin further from the back door, and went around killing around 30 of them in the kitchen and living room.

What’s the proper way of being rid of this problem?

33M I’ve been playing video games since I was probably about 6 years old, started on the psone and haven’t stopped going since. Problem is, for the last 10 years or so I’ve had a toxic relationship with them. Worse than some of the actual relationships I’ve had in the past.

I’ve consistently played anywhere from a 4 hours a week all the way up to maybe 15 hours a week at different points in that time. Currently I get about 4 or 5 hours in a week, I have a 5 month old baby and work 50 hours a week, so the time just isn’t there.

The real issue I have is that gaming seems like fun, until I actually do it. It’s not a matter of skill, I think I just get kind of bored with it and don’t want to invest the time. I still play regardless because I haven’t found another hobby that can replace gaming, it’s also something I just don’t want to fully quit. I have probably 400 games in my PlayStation and another 100 or so on my steam deck. BUT NOTHING TO PLAY.

I’m willing to try just about any game, other than RTS, so it don’t think it’s stemming from a lack of variety. I like challenge so I play a handful of rougelites and mix
In rocket league so that I can scratch that itch. But it’s just not giving me that same excitement I used to feel. I’ve considered playing through some older games that I know I like, but I want to try something new.

Idk, is it time to just forget about gaming for awhile? Or am I just making things too complicated?

I bought a 10000 btu AC without really considering the demand it might put on my old ass duplex’s power. I’ve plugged it in and tripped the breaker twice now. If unplug certain things it works, but does not seem worth the risk or hassle. Just sharing my sad story on a disgustingly hot day.

Bought some discounted merch from the Liquid Death site yesterday at 40% off.

Went to buy show my girlfriend some stuff that she would be interested in today by using google to get the website link and everything was marked 70% off?

Very confused. I realized the link names were different. 40% off liquiddeath.com but liquiddeathus.com led to the store front with prices at 70% off. Any of that make sense? They look identical aside from the US site missing reviews on the products.

I’ve been following this sub Reddit for awhile across a few different accounts. I’ve been wanting to increase my volume as well as my power for ages. My baseline for volume has generally been good but I want more, the powers only been there a handful of times ever.

A week ago I had to get a tooth pulled because of a broken filling that I took too long to get fixed. Was given antibiotics after and sent on my way with a list of instructions. Simple stuff really, but no sex or strenuous activity for a week is the one that stands out.

Taking time off from banging was easy, me and my gr have only had sex a few times since we had our baby in December. I get head a once or twice a week if I’m lucky. Because I’m not getting much action, I’ve been giving myself a good beating daily.

Taking antibiotics meant drinking a lot of water, I probably doubled or tripled my water intake for a week (I’d be surprised if I drink more than a few glasses a day typically.)

As the week went on I was getting hornier and hornier, but didn’t want to go against the dentist’s instructions. The last couple nights on antibiotics I wanted something, but she was too tired and I wasn’t willing to waste what was hopefully a big load by myself.

Last night I finally got the opportunity to let it fly. A week of proper hydration, abstinence, and a pretty overwhelming desire to fuck. Thinking of all the information I’ve read on here, I was hoping for the best.

Generally speaking, it was the biggest load I’ve shot in years (I can think of one bigger back in high school 15 years ago). The volume was impressive, made me think of dudes with hyperspermia. Unfortunately, the power still wasn’t really there. It didn’t ooze out. But I basically made a big puddle on her stomach, still no ropes. I feel like if I changed my grip in the moment I might’ve gotten some range out of it, but I wasn’t sure what to expect and wasn’t sure if that would work anyway.

Still, I’m now a huge advocate for hydration and abstinence. And arousal of course. I’ve yet to try any supplements, just take my daily vitamin and carry on. But now I’ve seen some success and it’s got me motivated to see how much more I can improve.

I guess the moral is that hydrating is huge, arousal is huge, and not beating it helps a ton. I’d be happy if someone could steer me towards some good supplements and brands that’ll keep this party going