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I also used to run a LOT and now can't anymore cause of injury. Tried swimming but it wasn't enough to keep me in shape due to my age and...indulgent lifestyle.

Going to the gym became my only option and yeah, the results were almost instantaneous. I lost quite a few kilos, felt more energised, and my outward appearance improved.

I think when you consider the positives it makes a lot of sense...

• You feel good for challenging yourself, and even better when you succeed.
• You feel good full stop because exercise gives your endorphins.
• You feel good for sticking to a routine. This has the added benefit of demanding that you are more organised generally, in order to make time for workouts.
• You feel good because you start to look better.
• You feel good because it helps to relieve day-to-day stress that builds up.

I'm not aiming to get huge or anything. But I think the benefits should be pretty obvious. I enjoy going for the reasons I just listed and cause I can listen to music on my headphones and kind of zone out.

Nearly finished The Glory. I think I have three episodes to go, hopefully it sticks the landing, but it's been good so far.

Fair enough. I live in Japan and there's a massive second hand market for mostly Japanese watches (most of which are Seikos lol). Nobody uses eBay here, it's Mercari, and only knowledgeable people sell stuff. It's still definitely cheap, but not 'I have no idea what this is actually worth' cheap.

I don't mean to steal attention away from Iceland and hope you are all safe, but it's a similar thing in Japan. We're due for a megathrust earthquake that could be way way worse than Fukushima.

Fair enough. I'm not at that stage yet, still trying to find communities to join haha.

Honestly I'd like to know a good answer to this question too.

When I was in my teens, I was an overachiever; I played in the state team for two different sports, played guitar and wrote songs, got near-perfect grades, and still had time for other shenanigans like skateboarding, screwing around with my friends, blogging, occasionally gaming, gettin' drunk at parties, etc. I was an avid reader too. I don't know how on earth I had time for all of it.

Now I'm 37 and I live alone and work full time. Taking care of my apartment and looking after myself (gym, cooking, shopping, etc.) barely leaves me with enough time left over for the aforementioned screwing around. I don't play guitar anymore, can't play competitive sports anymore due to injuries and stuff. When the weekends roll around I just wanna take myself out for lunch somewhere and then drink in the evenings (I really should break the drinking habit). I enjoy gaming but that too is a hobby that comes and goes for me.

I am for sure guilty of doomscrolling Reddit (now Lemmy) instead of doing more productive things, including reading books.

Others have suggested picking up an instrument. My musical tastes have evolved a lot over the last 20 years but I still listen to music like 12+ hours a day. If you're more into electronic music, maybe consider getting a cheap mixer and learning to mix/beatmatch. I say this as someone who now listens to a LOT of electronic music and bought a mixer for myself a few years ago...but still never really took the time to learn it. It would be the perfect hobby for me cause I get to listen to the music I love and be creative at the same time. But my motivation has been lacking...

Sorry this turned into a personal rant.

Where do you buy them if you don't mind sharing?

Knew this would be about the MoonSwatch lol.

I love watches but have a hard limit at about $200-300. I live in Japan and you can get extraordinarily good quality mechanical (i.e. "real") watches that are made domestically for that price or even less from great brands like Seiko and Orient.

Anything beyond that is IMO just pretentious and tacky in the sense that you're kind of just flaunting your wealth.

My point is that yeah watch fandom kind of really sucks, I unsubbed from r/Watches and never looked back.

As a fountain pen user and fan of stationery, I can assure you not all paper is created equal. For me it's 100% worth paying for the good stuff.

I'm on Jerboa for the moment, it gets the job done, was more intuitive for me than Liftoff. With that said I will 100% be switching to Boost when it's available.

I loved this game too! But was never able to beat it :(

Tunic is the best new game I have played in a long time. It's very very clever. It's definitely not just a Zelda clone, or an isometric Soulslike. I 100% recommend it but DO NOT LOOK ANYTHING UP BEFOREHAND. The feeling of discovery it gives you is the best part.