[ SECRET POST #6966 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6966 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Practical Engineering (Youtube), Team Fortress 2]



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[(Anonymous)]

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Cheers,

a secret maker

Things you enjoyed more than you expected

[philstar22]

What were things you enjoyed more than you expected or in spite of not thinking you would enjoy at all?


Inspired by me really enjoying Starfleet Academy.

Re: Things you enjoyed more than you expected

[kaijinscendre]

Breaking Bad! Binged the fiesta four seasons in like a week once I started it.

Re: Things you enjoyed more than you expected

[(Anonymous)]

MDZS. In 2019 I watched The Untamed because I was bored and between hyper-fixations and I kept seeing weird yet kinda pretty gifs on my dash. I expected it to be like a snack, pretty and light and not very deep. It's still my primary fandom and I have way too many tabs of fic open.

Re: Things you enjoyed more than you expected

[(Anonymous)]

Sumo. so much so that I'm sitting through someone's 3hr recording of Terunofuji's retirement ceremony from yesterday and actually loving it.

We went to Japan in March 2023, not knowing the Osaka tournament was happening when we walked around Shin-Osaka station and saw signs and artwork. Along the way, we would usually be in a hotel room taking a pre-dinner rest break about 4pm, which was when the makuuchi-rank matches were televised live. I don't even remember when we started watching it ironically, like "haha we're in Japan let's watch sumo" but by the time we reached Sendai we were pretty sure we were hooked, not watching it to be silly anymore. Thanks to NHK World I've watched every tournament since and am following rikishi actively, subbed to the stables' youtube channels, and planning for when we can go back, we are fucking getting sumo tickets no one can stop us. Even if we can only get into the queue to get the $30 nosebleed seats, we're going to an Osaka tournament and buying so much merch from our faves.

Re: Things you enjoyed more than you expected

[(Anonymous)]

Heated Rivalry
A Youtube video of a driver's eye view of a train ride through Wales: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bAiNshgbss

Re: Things you enjoyed more than you expected

[(Anonymous)]

Beer. I don't like it as just a drink but I've recently found I enjoy certain types paired with certain meals. I started to order a different Thai beer at my favorite Thai place and it's been really fun and a surprisingly delicious pairing.

Re: Things you enjoyed more than you expected

[philstar22]

This was me. I thought I hated beer, had mostly just had cheep American ones. Then when I was in Mexico I tried Dos Equis (alcohol options were I was were wine or that, and I really hate wine). And I loved it.

Re: Things you enjoyed more than you expected

[(Anonymous)]

Heated Rivalry. Sorry, OP of secret #2, lol.

Since I have never enjoyed Hockey, Hockey RPF nor Hockey AUs I figured that I wouldn't click with the show either but I was pleasantly wrong about that.

Re: Things you enjoyed more than you expected

[(Anonymous)]

Red One. A goofy fun Christmas movie that is my current comfort watch.

Re: Things you enjoyed more than you expected

[nocowardsoul]

Mark Twain.

Re: Things you enjoyed more than you expected

[greghousesgf]

Tomorrowland. I originally just went because Hugh was in it, I am not a Disney fan, but I wound up liking it a lot.

Complaing or venting or whatever

[(Anonymous)]

I don't want to hurt someone irl so I'm posting a little vent here

Re: Complaing or venting or whatever

[(Anonymous)]

Do what you gotta.

Telling someone I love deeply but who is sensitive that I need some quiet time

[(Anonymous)]

Instead of trying to delicately do this, I am lying and saying that I have a bad headache and am going to bed early.

I'm so tired. Mainly emotionally tired, but also a bit physically. I've never shoveled snow in my life until this week, the ice/snow has been so stressful to deal with getting to work and back. Along with, well, the general state of the world, worrying about my family, and just life stresses in general. This week has felt like a month. This person won't stop texting me about trivial stuff and I cannot sit here and relax because I have to keep answering. Literally I want to sit here with my jaw hung open and my eyes half closed while I watch the pretty colors on the computer screen. I don't want to have to think. Nothing is *wrong*, I am just tired.

But instead of saying that and explaining it all and trying to provide reassurance and then possibly still being messaged, I'm just going to lie. :( I feel guilty about it, but I am just not up to that today, and I have to have a few hours of peace, because each time my phone goes off, I get just a little more worn down.

Re: Complaing or venting or whatever

[(Anonymous)]

That seems healthy. Vent away!

I am complaining because I am trying to be healthy so I didn't buy snacks at the grocery but now I am angry because I really want snacks.

Re: Complaing or venting or whatever

[(Anonymous)]

My local Indian takeaway has been taken over by a new owner, and it is now a generic Turkish kebab shop which does a couple of superbasic curries.

There is nowhere within a 20mile radius that does a decent butter chicken now.

Re: Complaing or venting or whatever

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh, I feel really physically shitty to the point where I'd at least like the option of going to urgent care or something, but most healthcare workers for the HMO I use are striking. Plus I would probably talk myself out of going even if they weren't on strike, because I hate going to the doctor.

Just got publicly shamed on a server in game

[(Anonymous)]

When I didn't do what they were all accusing me of. I know it shouldn't bug me, but it does. What bugs me more is that I only went in to help them and then they accuse me server wide "so the server knows what you did" of trying to steal. Makes me not want to actually interact or help anyone in game, which is a shame because this community has been really kind until this incident.

Re: Complaing or venting or whatever

[(Anonymous)]

It's so cold outside that my home's mediocre insulation is falling short and the floors and walls radiate cold.

Conversations with people online

[(Anonymous)]

I just realized today that I really miss having actual conversations with people online and this place is about as close as I get to it. I feel like reddit used to be that but now it feels like just another place people like to throw their thoughts out into the void and not have any actual interactions more than one comment or two.

I tried Discord but haven't found one that clicked. They are either too busy and I can't keep up, or dead.

Re: Conversations with people online

[(Anonymous)]

I find it's hard to have conversations on any site that has some sort of 1-click like/dislike, approve/disapprove, upvote/downvote system.

Granted, for the purposes of stuff like AO3 or other 'display collections of creative works' sites, it's nice to have the easy 1-click kudos button, because conversation in the comments isn't really what people are there for.

But on older sites and forums, even this one, to show you agree or disagree with something, you have to leave a comment... and while sure, you could simply say 'I agree' and nothing else, most people go further than that because they're leaving a comment anyway. So it facilitates discussion.

Re: Conversations with people online

[(Anonymous)]

Instant messengers were awesome back in the day. Yahoo, ICQ, AOL. Sure, feels a bit like texting feels now but at least those conversations could continue.

I am guilty of having a couple of convos here and then dropping off. One, I'm never sure who's a troll and who isn't, especially when many of us are anon - including me - and two, most of my interests don't align with the interests of folks here, so the most engagement I might have is in random topics like this one. I guess it's like when you don't flex the muscle, it atrophies. But I know that's something I need to work on.

Agreed on Discord... mixed results there. Makes me miss mIRC, but even that got stale when everyone was online 24/7.

Re: Conversations with people online

[(Anonymous)]

I have no idea how to use discord. If it's quiet I feel weird starting a topic. If a conversation is already ongoing I feel weird jumping in, like I'm interrupting something.

And then every discord has a million boards/rooms/subgroups/whatever and I'm never really sure if I'm posting in the right one.