u/Improooving
▲ 24 r/Watches
[Quartz] anybody else on the quartz squad?
I've bought and sold a few different automatics now, and I love them conceptually, but there's always something that doesn't quite click, usually the bulk and the weight. If I had the budget, I'd try the Longines Titanium GMT, but that's a bit rich for my blood currently
So I'm going back to my roots, started out in the watch hobby with my trusty Timex Weekender I got as a teenager. Trying to find that in my old boxes of stuff is proving to be something of a challenge, but it'll turn up
I had a Casio PRG601, which was absolutely great, but it seems to have walked away in the gym locker room and I didn't love the bracelet.
Anybody else got recommendations or just favorite quartz models they want to talk about?
Bonus points for Ana-Digi or movements that are loud as hell, I know most people found it tiresome, so I tried not to wear it at work, but I found the Weekender clunking away to be oddly relaxing.
Seriously thinking about going absolutely crazy with it and trying to scare up a Breitling Aerospace, but prices seem to be climbing. I'd be 99% wearing it on a NATO or leather strap, so I'm looking for one without the bracelet, not sure how much money it'd save, but those , Breitling titanium bracelets are $600+ on ebay.
Other higher $$$ option would be the vintage Arnie, I do really love the Ana-Digi versatility for timing workout intervals and similar
BTW, strong recommendation for the Pro-Trek, wore smaller than its dimensions would suggest, although it's about the max size my wrist could take, and the feather weight helps a ton with the bulk. Only "downside" was how quiet the ticking was, but I think most of you might like that haha
u/Improooving — 7 days ago
▲ 6 r/Balding
First few are recent, been slowly balding for years, but a lot of guys in my family stay at NW3 for life, so I was coping and hoping. Lost ground super slowly for a while, was on and off fin and min, then had one more big shed last fall and realized I’m in that NW4-5 garbage zone :(
Been on and off fin, dropped it because I thought it was making my depression worse even on EOD dosing. but my depression issue comes and goes anyway, so idk if that was even the problem.
Even at a low dose, fin seemed to pause my losses, but I got the watery cum and possibly libido issues, so it was a little sketchy.
First six pics are current, hair is super dry and crispy because I’m just about to hop in the shower and it hasn’t been conditioned in a second. Also been depressed with the big shed and haven’t gotten a trim in a while.
7-8 are last summer
9-10 are the winter before that
11, 12, 13 with the black T shirt are two summers ago
14-15 are 3 years ago, in the spring
16-17 are 4 years ago in the summer
Flannel shirt and buzz cut are from 6 years ago
And the last one in the blazer is from when I was 19, didn’t start losing ground until 23 or so
Wish I’d just stayed on Fin after pic 15, but I was catastrophizing about being “stuck” at NW2+thinning, and I fucked up. These days I just wear hats a lot.
Anyway, not sure if trying to save it even makes sense. I have little vellus hairs all through the thinned/receded areas, so if those can turn into real hairs again, I could get 95% of my hairline back, but idk. At my age, idk if it’s worth it or makes sense, I’m aging out of partying and being young and good looking anyway haha.
But there’s that part of me that wants to give it 9-18 months while I save up for a transplant, I really miss being the cool hair guy
Been afraid to go to my stylist and get it cut for like a year now
u/Improooving — 14 days ago
▲ 631 r/redscarepod
Sex with prostitutes would not fix these guys, nor would “government issued GFs”
Their actual emotional problem is that they’re not chads, and they want the ego validation that comes along with being a handsome and desirable person. The lack of sex is just a symbol of the way they fear that society sees them as fundamentally worthless and offputting.
I guarantee that if you gave the average guy posting on those forums the choice between looking like young Matthew Mcconaughey, everyone thinking he’s a real ladies man, but keeping his current lack of casual sex, he’d prefer that over staying himself, getting laid often, and nobody knowing that it’s happening.
The perception that you’re a consistent sex haver is far more important to these guys than the actual reality. If they were just horny they’d go to massage parlors like some divorced boomer guys do.
Look at the way some of the looksmaxxers talk about sex as being really not that interesting once you have regular access to it. Once they’re hot enough to have the option, the hole in their self esteem is mended, and the actual connection with other people or sexual enjoyment is entirely irrelevant
There’s a separate subtype of incel-adjacent guy who is just an autist with a hyper-romanticized view of young love caused by watching too much anime. That’s a whole different issue, no clue how to fix them.
u/Improooving — 22 days ago