How are you all dealing with lockdown?

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Pretty decently. I've picked up a guitar and I've started learning with musical guidance from Brook. I've fallen behind in uni work but as others have said in this thread, it's best not to make a big deal about it. The two biggest downsides are that I can't go out to see my friends and I can't exercise anymore. And maintaining a normal sleeping schedule has become more challenging.
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I'm laid off (cook at a fancy place that's not doing takeout). Living in Canada I'm lucky that the gov't unemployment program they've done for beer virus covers me.

Mostly been catching up on playing video games that I've meant to play for awhile. Finished Sekiro a couple weeks ago. Also gardening and landscaping a fair bit, I'm lucky enough to live on some land. Couldn't imagine being cooped up in my old 600sq ft apartment in Vancouver.
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I spend a good amount of time today reading the apology threads and I don't even feel bad about it
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I still work 32 hours a week (At least, on paper. It's hard to actually be productive). Work helps because it forces me to be online at 10 AM each morning to have a daily standup (a small meeting where everyone tells their plans for the day) and it means I'm still financially stable. I also live with my fiancé/gf which is pretty great, we have quite a few hobbies in common luckily.

However, my social life is really suffering. I used to see friends 3-4 times a week and go to parties and conferences which has suddenly stopped. Online activities with friends help me not getting depressed, but I can feel it getting to me.

With gf and one other friend I am playing Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective which is one of the best real-life things I have done past month. It's basically deducing a murder mystery by reading well-written content about London in the late 1800s. Connecting clues, making notes, working out crazy theories and checking the solution in the end. I can highly recommend it for those that like those sort of puzzles.
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Fine, I'm fine, everything is fine, really this is really fine. [:
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I learned today that we're white priviledged people and shouldn't be experiencing any stress over this lockdown. Apperantly life has just been too easy on me.
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RefluxSemantic wrote:I learned today that we're white priviledged people and shouldn't be experiencing any stress over this lockdown. Apperantly life has just been too easy on me.
Elaborate pls
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I cleaned up my room. It looks nice.
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gamevideo113 wrote:
RefluxSemantic wrote:I learned today that we're white priviledged people and shouldn't be experiencing any stress over this lockdown. Apperantly life has just been too easy on me.
Elaborate pls
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I go to work, try to get mozzarella balls, fail, get some other fast food, do some chin ups, then rot
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evilcheadar wrote:I go to work, try to get mozzarella balls, fail, get some other fast food, do some chin ups, then rot
ya there was this guy on eso idk who he was something french, he called u a cuck.
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GiBthedurrty wrote:
evilcheadar wrote:I go to work, try to get mozzarella balls, fail, get some other fast food, do some chin ups, then rot
ya there was this guy on eso idk who he was something french, he called u a cuck.
Tell him he is idiot
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For me, my sleep schedule is as fucked as it can get. But I do have lots of time now. So basically what I do is workout, study some, do some house chores, and waste time(play aoe3 like a game or two, smoke weed, watch twitch/youtube/Netflix, spend time on discord.) So it's both good and bad I'd say for me. It is basically an adult summer vacation. I consider myself lucky to have it.
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Shikari wrote:For me, my sleep schedule is as fucked as it can get. But I do have lots of time now. So basically what I do is workout, study some, do some house chores, and waste time(play aoe3 like a game or two, smoke weed, watch twitch/youtube/Netflix, spend time on discord.) So it's both good and bad I'd say for me. It is basically an adult summer vacation. I consider myself lucky to have it.
Stop smoking weed, iirc you're under 25, it's awful for you before 25.
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Riotcoke wrote:
Shikari wrote:For me, my sleep schedule is as fucked as it can get. But I do have lots of time now. So basically what I do is workout, study some, do some house chores, and waste time(play aoe3 like a game or two, smoke weed, watch twitch/youtube/Netflix, spend time on discord.) So it's both good and bad I'd say for me. It is basically an adult summer vacation. I consider myself lucky to have it.
Stop smoking weed, iirc you're under 25, it's awful for you before 25.
You know what else is awful? Acting all high and mighty and telling people what to do lol
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bittersalt123 wrote:
Riotcoke wrote:
Shikari wrote:For me, my sleep schedule is as fucked as it can get. But I do have lots of time now. So basically what I do is workout, study some, do some house chores, and waste time(play aoe3 like a game or two, smoke weed, watch twitch/youtube/Netflix, spend time on discord.) So it's both good and bad I'd say for me. It is basically an adult summer vacation. I consider myself lucky to have it.
Stop smoking weed, iirc you're under 25, it's awful for you before 25.
You know what else is awful? Acting all high and mighty and telling people what to do lol
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 5814002095
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 3687926201
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 8210001310

After 25 it's fine, because your brain is mature, if you're just smoking heavily on your own before your brain is mature you're just putting yourself at a massive risk. The guy also made a thread a while ago saying he was depressed, cannabis will just make this worse.
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Riotcoke wrote:
bittersalt123 wrote:
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You know what else is awful? Acting all high and mighty and telling people what to do lol
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 5814002095
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 3687926201
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 8210001310

After 25 it's fine, because your brain is mature, if you're just smoking heavily on your own before your brain is mature you're just putting yourself at a massive risk.
I understand all that but telling people not to do something will make them want to do it even more lol. Everyone has to make that decision for themselves whether or not they want to do drugs or not.

It's good you're making him aware of information he may not have known but at the end of the way like hodgetwins used to say... "It's just advice do whatever THE FUCK you wanna DO"
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bittersalt123 wrote:
Riotcoke wrote:
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 5814002095
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 3687926201
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 8210001310

After 25 it's fine, because your brain is mature, if you're just smoking heavily on your own before your brain is mature you're just putting yourself at a massive risk.
I understand all that but telling people not to do something will make them want to do it even more lol. Everyone has to make that decision for themselves whether or not they want to do drugs or not.

It's good you're making him aware of information he may not have known but at the end of the way like hodgetwins used to say... "It's just advice do whatever THE FUCK you wanna DO"
Well of course everyone has their own choices to make and should be free to do so, maybe my wording was wrong i should have said it in a more advise driven tone.
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Riotcoke wrote:
bittersalt123 wrote:
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I understand all that but telling people not to do something will make them want to do it even more lol. Everyone has to make that decision for themselves whether or not they want to do drugs or not.

It's good you're making him aware of information he may not have known but at the end of the way like hodgetwins used to say... "It's just advice do whatever THE FUCK you wanna DO"
Well of course everyone has their own choices to make and should be free to do so, maybe my wording was wrong i should have said it in a more advise driven tone.
Exactly. I know you mean well but when dealing with drugs n shit like that the tone is everything. I like this approach.

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bittersalt123 wrote:
Riotcoke wrote:
Shikari wrote:For me, my sleep schedule is as fucked as it can get. But I do have lots of time now. So basically what I do is workout, study some, do some house chores, and waste time(play aoe3 like a game or two, smoke weed, watch twitch/youtube/Netflix, spend time on discord.) So it's both good and bad I'd say for me. It is basically an adult summer vacation. I consider myself lucky to have it.
Stop smoking weed, iirc you're under 25, it's awful for you before 25.
You know what else is awful? Acting all high and mighty and telling people what to do lol
Is acting all high and mighty and telling people not to tell people what to do ok?
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chris1089 wrote:
bittersalt123 wrote:
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You know what else is awful? Acting all high and mighty and telling people what to do lol
Is acting all high and mighty and telling people not to tell people what to do ok?
Is acting all high and mighty and telling people who tell people not to tell people what to do ok?
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Nothing really changed for me, except a couple more places started doing food deliveries. So that's good; I got more to choose from.
I already have a ton of experience in not leaving the house. One could say I'm a professional.
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chris1089 wrote:
bittersalt123 wrote:
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You know what else is awful? Acting all high and mighty and telling people what to do lol
Is acting all high and mighty and telling people not to tell people what to do ok?
You had your fill of internet logic for the day yet?
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