Literally anything. Even the things I still have that use AA and AAA batteries (of which the newest things are my VR controllers which is so stupid…), I have rechargeable lithium ion AAs and AAAs for so I don’t have to constantly buy batteries.

As a kid, tho, I loved 9volts because they had the best connectors. I could take a little battery powered motor apart, glue it to some legos and use it to make machines that moved or did stuff. I almost killed myself once wondering what would happen if I took the cord from a busted fan, wired it to the 9volt battery motor and the plugged the cord into the wall outlet.

It blew up the motor and started a fire. 🤣

Just DuoLingo, watching Japanese stuff without subtitles (including cultural guides for further understanding) to force myself to listen, and then looking up words I don’t know when I come across them.

My goal was never to learn how to speak or write anything; just understand it well enough to watch Japanese media in the original language. I still often have to rewind and play back stuff to get it all. Especially if they are saying a long sentence really fast.

It also probably helps that Language itself is one of the things that tickles my autistic brain.

If it was a sign on a broken escalator, it’d be okay.

Still bleeding internally and will die soon, but he isn’t worrying about it!

If Merry stood on Pippin’s shoulders, would they be a wholeling? 🤔

Find someone you know who smokes weed and ask them to hook you up with a dealer. Become friends with them. Smoke at their house.

That’s how it worked for me, when I was a teenager, anyway.

Love how it only took several months of guessing.

I can do the same thing. You. Yeah you. The person reading this. I bet your name is John.

(Everyone named John reading this is now shitting their pants)

I’ve only ever seen it grilled. Either in a skillet or on an actual grill for BBQ with a little bit of oil. Though, I have never even had the cheese myself. I’ve wanted to try it ever since I first heard about it and the way it doesn’t melt.

straps coconuts on his feet

What about now?

Depends which side of myself is currently speaking.

This is a pretty average lunch if ever I saw one.

The more recent movie or a stage production? If the movie, that means there’s footage of his feline butthole somewhere.

I wish the logic was more like a real store (some roguelikes do this so it’s not even a new concept) so you can grab whatever you want and it’s only stealing if you try to exit the store without paying.

Death. 😔

“I once spent an entire year talking through a fan to make my voice do the thing.”

I mean… If that’s what you want. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Bend over.

Oh, I just meant that one specific scene. The rest of the deluge is saved on a hard drive.

There was a nudist camp!

And I can’t believe the lewdest thing I’ve seen made of it is that someone added censor bars and not actual genitals.

I’ve been doing daily lessons on it for almost a whole year with the goal of being able to watch anime without subtitles.

I have achieved my goal almost completely. I just need to learn more vocab because DuoLingo has only taught about 150 or so words. Gamifying learning works; if you can stick with it. Which is the whole point in making it like a game: so you stick to it.

Whether or not that will continue to be the case when everything is handled by AI has yet to be seen. I am doubtful, considering how fucking God awful LLMs are at providing ACTUAL info and not just creating a madlib with what it has been trained on.

I live in the city now after years of living in the country, and I definitely wanna go back to the country. The only good thing about the city is that I can just walk across the street for groceries which are way more expensive here than where I moved from. City has more pests, too. Once in a while I’d see a field mouse get into the kitchen when I was living in the sticks. In the city, cockroaches and big fat fucking rats all the time, everywhere, the minute the sun goes down. It’s gross.