u/Sweet_Brief6914

I was out with my friend in a bar at night and immediately I noticed this cute looking girl sneaking a peek at me every 15-20 minutes. She was there with whom I guess are colleagues, then we approached midnight, the 2 male colleagues of hers left, and I'm ever so slightly tipsy, it's time to go, and I tell my friend, "see the girl in the cute glasses behind you? I'm thinking of approaching her" and bro immediately locks me the f in and he goes, "Yes, why not? Let's go, don't think about it, do it" AS HE'S LITERALLY GETTING UP OF HIS CHAIR 😂😂😂 I love my friend.

They're in the middle of a conversation and I say, "Hello, we're leaving, but before I go, would you like to see a magic trick?" And they both start smiling and the girl in glasses especially gets giddy and excited.

I'm very good at magic. I blow their minds.

I'm in the middle of the trick, and one of the male colleagues comes back and stands next to me like a tower. The girl looks at him and says, "omg he's showing us a magic trick!!!" And I just kinda read the room, finish the trick up wish them a lovely night and make my way to the toilet. The guy's energy was off, he didn't enjoy the trick and he did not say anything, he just stood there like expecting something to happen.

The bartender grabs my attention and tells me he does magic too.

The girl was sitting at her table the whole night, as I'm speaking with the bartender, she stands up and goes to the toilet and I see her and I just kinda freeze 🥀😭

God I have so much work to do.

I'm still working the courage to do in daylight. Any advice would be heavily appreciated!

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But then I took that back real quick after I remembered why I quit in the first place.

I quit smoking around August 2023 and switched to nicotine pouches and I quit that October 2024, and I've been clean since.

In the first few months of quitting, I did have some urge to smoke again, especially when some bad things happen in my life or feel lonely, but one thought kept stopping me over and over: whatever it is that you're feeling right now, when you smoke, you only make it worse.

As a matter of fact, this doesn't only apply to feeling bad but to also feeling good, the view from the rooftop yesterday was breathtaking, and if I had smoked I wouldn't have enjoyed it and taken it as much as I did because I'd be too tired to focus.

Since I quit, a lot of things have changed. I found 2 apps, found a few new hobbies, and the list goes on and on, I'm working out, lost some weight...etc and it feels good. And here's the thing, when I go to sleep late now it's not because I can't sleep due to nicotine, it's because I was probably busy working on my side projects or playing video games, both are valid for late night stays. But today when I have shitty sleep and I wake up feeling groggy, it's nothing, it's absolutely fucking NOTHING compared to having decent sleep while smoking.

It's a weird sensation, feeling awake, you know how when you smoke, you simply always feel tired and sleepy? It's how I felt 100% of the time when I used to do nicotine, now I feel like that only when I stay up until 4-6am or some shit. If I get 4-5 hours of sleep I feel the sharpest the next day.

If you're curious how I quit, I can tell you. I waited for a national holiday weekend where everything, including tobacco shops, were closed for +2 days, and I basically took all of my savings and my money and transferred it to an international offshore bank account so this way the transaction takes a few days and I have no access to no money. Bought food for a week and just did it. In the meantime, I listened to Easy way to quit smoking by Alan Carr and played video games. First 2 days were rough, it got easier as the days went by. Here I am 1.5 years later.

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Today, I ask you great people to assist me with the release of **Workout With Me!** An app that aims at connecting people through the simple joy of Fitness!

1.Sign up to the Google Groups:

https://groups.google.com/g/workout-with-me-beta

2.Commit to the beta:

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.workoutwithme

3.Download the app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.workoutwithme

Please leave a screenshot below and give me your Google Groups and your link!

Today, I ask you great people to assist me with the release of Workout With Me! An app that aims at connecting people through the simple joy of Fitness!

1. Sign up to the Google Groups: https://groups.google.com/g/workout-with-me-beta/
2. Commit to the beta: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.workoutwithme
3. Download the app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.workoutwithme

Please leave a screenshot below and give me your Google Groups and your link!

Workout With Me is an app that brings people together through the simple joy of working out at the gym or at the park. The idea and concept are simple:

1. Choose the gym(s) you go to

2. Schedule a workout or join one already scheduled

3. Link up with people in the area and workout together

The app is kinda "over-engineered" with a matching and a sophisticated workout system based on my friend's program who is a fitness coach. The program is called "SHARP" (Strenth Hypertrophy Adaptive Recovery Protocol" and what it does is that it recommends workouts for you based on your current recovery status. The logged exercises in the app would trigger the recovery gauges of the targeted muscles and those in turn tell the system what exercises/workouts to recommend later. Everything's computed andn accounted for in the backend so really all you have to do is download the app and hit "Suggest a workout for me".

• Sign up to the Google Groups: https://groups.google.com/g/workout-with-me-beta/
• Commit to the beta: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.workoutwithme
• Download the app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.workoutwithme

Today, I ask you great people to assist me with the release of Workout With Me! An app that aims at connecting people through the simple joy of Fitness! The app comes with a lot of great features (which will then turn into premium ones 😉😉) and I invite you all to please:

1. Sign up to the Google Groups: https://groups.google.com/g/workout-with-me-beta/
2. Commit to the beta: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.workoutwithme
3. Download the app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.workoutwithme

Please leave a screenshot below and give me your Google Groups and your link!

I bought the Creative T60 for aorund a budget of $120 a year ago. I had another Creative bluetooth speakers that I was using for playing music in my place, but I gave that to my parents and I thought I'd try to buy a new one that's more "serious" and most improtantly, I wanted bass. I wanted something to sound very very very bassy but not go all out on money. I read a couple reviews on the T60, many said it has alright bass, so I just bought it.

When I bought it, I literally just plugged it into power and connected it with bluetooth to my phone and started playing music (lol). The music sounded alright, but I remember feeling immediately disappointed, it was ASS, I didn't hear any lick of bass in that sound, it sounded so weak and so bad, but, it did sound crisp and clear. I just kept it around for the sake of just having something to play music on and not having time to return it.

Here I am, a year later, fresh out of a shower, wanted to listen to some OG 80s music, and I wanted to feel that bass. My earbuds and earphones do that beautifully, but I didn't want to ruin my freshly dried hair because I got another place to be. So I thought, okay, let me connect the speakers to my PC and figure out how I can boost its bass or improve its sound.

I went into sound - properties - enhancements, and... there it was, sitting there all along, "BASS BOOST", I clicked on it, clicked settings, set the lowest frequency with the highest db, and jesus lord almighty, it sounded like it was about to make the whole desk shake, and I'M LOVING IT, omg my purchase has finally come to fruition after a year because my dumbass couldn't figure out that you should just connect it to your PC!

TL;DR: bought speakers for bass, used it for a year with weak bass, today I realized you should connect it to a PC to boost its bass and sound

I'm turning 30 this year, and for the past few years, I've been stuck with addiction and a few other issues that prevented me from achieving many things in life. Right now, I feel very good about myself, I quit many of my addictions (nicotine, gaming...etc) and my mental state allows me to resolve these problems. My dating life has been nonexistent for the past 4 years, which I don't have an issue with since I've gained a substantial amount of weight...etc.

I recognize my problems. I strive to solve them. I do my own research, I find solutions, I apply them, I'm successful in some implementations, not so much in others, and that's okay, the important thing is, I try, and I keep trying.

I've been going to this social event in my city and in it I meet many other men. Men, also in their 30s, also struggling with loneliness, have very similar problems to me, and I feel like I understand where they come from.

It's just, it feels like their defualt position is: this is they I was, this is the way I'll always be, and this is the way I'll die, I'm not interested in changing that. I met many men who have a low body fat percentage, who look "nice", lean, clean, well-groomed...etc, but unfortunately, they just think they'll never make it in the dating scene and they'll never get out of their "loser" status, and I'm astonished at how self-defeating their mentality is. The men I meet I keep telling them that they're actually in a very good position to date, they just need some tweaks.

These tweaks are always advised here and many other subs and all over the internet: figure out a better haircut, dress better, find your style, lift, but just to correct posture and gain a minimum amount of muscle, maintain your hygiene, these tweaks, they will take them from looking average, to immediately above average and become an instant potential for dating partners and actually get out there and date.

When I tell them about this and why they should do it, many of them are like, "Holy shit, what? Why I never thought about this?" and many have this gloomy overwhelming CONVICTION they'll never compete in the dating scene. For example, I met many Indians in this event, brown guys, and I kid you not, they're very good-looking, some of them are 6'+, but they dress in the most basic way possible, they have these weird haircuts that make them look like homeless, and overall, just n ot taking care of themselves, and when I ask them why they're not successful with women, the answer is always the same, "I'm Indian, you know the stereotype about Indians". And it's astonishing. Stereotype about Indians is bad because IG and other stuff, I get that, but if someone believes in that and minimizes you into what they hear about the internet, do you really want to keep them in your life? And it's like a light bulb that went bright in their heads.

IDK, why are we like this? Why can't we help ourselves stop being sorry and actually figure it out? The age we live is the most accessible ever to information about anything, LLMs make all the more pronounced, I really don't get it.

P.S. I'm down 20lbs since 2 months ago, and I need 30lbs more to ogo back to my "healthy" weight range. I really can't wait! 😃

I come from PHAT, Layne Norton's great power and hypoertrophy program that kicks off every cycle/week with a power day where you push your 1RM with minimal sets and reps then 2-3 days of hypertrophy training with medium weight and higher reps and sets and finally a leg day.

This program worked wonders for me. But I had one simple issue with it: sometimes, I just felt crushed. Some days, I literally couldn't keep up with the pressure, especially in the beginning, instead of taking 1-2 days off, I needed more. The more I did it, the more I realized, you know what, I don't need to push all that hard all the time. The exercises and sets per one workouts were extensive, sometimes 7-10 exercises per workout that target chest, shoulders and arms in one day then back and arms the other day.

I digress. I worked out like this for a year then I switched to a lighter version where I kinda train following PHAT, but I reduced exercises and dduration time and I train more frequently per month. This fit my style of exercising and busy life style much better.

I thought I'd take it up a notch and create comprehensive maths thata calculate recovery time, couple it with your estimated 1RM then push out exercises and workouts based on targeted muscles and recovery time for each muscle groups.

The program works very well for me. I look for feedback from an outsider to see how the program sounds to them and where it could be improved and where it falls short.

I have full documentation.

Thanks in advance! 😄

I know right after release the AI stuff in the phone were disabled but they're not planning on turning them back on? Has anyone figured out a way to maybe turn them on?