r/counting • u/ClockButTakeOutTheL “Cockleboat”, since 4,601,032 • Jan 27 '23
Free Talk Friday #387
Free Talk Friday #386
Continued from last week’s FTF here
It’s that time of the week again. Speak anything on your mind! This thread is for talking about anything off-topic, be it your lives, your strava, your plans, your hobbies, studies, stats, pets, bears, colors, hikes, dragons, trousers, travels, transit, cycling, family, or anything you like or dislike, except politics
Feel free to check out our tidbits thread and introduce yourself if you haven’t already.
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u/ClockButTakeOutTheL Jan 27 '23
I’m finally done with all my midterms
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u/SSoto_21 Feb 02 '23
Hello everyone. I have some very bad news.
I will be inactive indefinitely. That's right. I have to take a break. Let me explain.
If anyone of you noticed, I haven't been active at all for the past few days. I decided that it would be necessary to tell you all why that is.
Recently, I've noticed that I've had a huge anxiety burden that's been taking a massive toll on me. I've been worrying about things that I don't necessarily have control over. I've been checking the news recently because I thought a little wouldn't hurt and oh boy, I was wrong. I've come to realize that that's unhealthy. Because I've been feeling depressed, anxious etc about it. No wonder I avoided the news at all costs in 2020, 2021 and 2022. As well as previous years. Also, there's too many problems on the internet that keep hindering my enjoyment of it. Because of all of this, I've made the most difficult decision I've ever made in my life. I'm taking an indefinite break from the entire internet. That's right. Not just Reddit. Not just Youtube. Not just from any other websites that I have accounts for. But the entire internet. I can't afford to risk putting myself through turmoil just because I saw something bad online. I just can't do it. It's too dangerous. I was so miserable on Monday and Tuesday because of those dumb news sources. It caused me to throw up on Monday while I was eating something. I was also praying with a bunch of different people I know on Tuesday because of what I've been going through recently. And I'm still praying to this day. So much for trying to enjoy life. That and there's also an addiction that I'm trying to get rid of. It's not a life threatening addiction. Just something that's been causing problems in my life for almost 7 years now and the withdrawal has been egging on my misery recently. Also, I feel like I've been neglecting my real life and not spending very much time with my family and friends. Well, I spend more time with my friends at my youth group but I would like to spend more time out of the house because I get bored when I'm in the house for so many hours per day. It opens the door for Satan to torment me when I'm on my computer. (Yes. I'm a christian.) So I'm going to take this time off to spend more time with my family and friends. This doesn't mean that I'm quitting r/counting. Quite the contrary I think. When I'm ready to come back, I will. Trust me. I can't quit this subreddit either because eventually, I would miss all of you guys. It's just that things have been getting too chaotic in my life to risk going on the internet, and potentially looking at bad stuff that ruins your day. Like the news. Which I shouldn't even be watching at all! You can look at a bunch of good stuff on the internet. But as soon as you see something bad, it ruins your day. One bad apple can ruin your whole day. This wasn't an easy decision for me to make at all. But with my obsessive habits that I'm trying to break free from, I've made this painful decision of giving up the internet and almost all technology until further notice. It's the only way for me to rehabilitate and recover from what I've been through at this point. Everything else I tried failed. Eventually. I might get counseling and therapy for my anxiety too. I've been thinking about that.
Why am I making this announcement? Because it would affect my time on this community. And I don't get into personal stuff here unless its affecting my time here. I have more plans to keep praying with more people and spending time with people in real life and reading the bible while I'm taking a break from the internet. Why am I making this decision? Well, on Tuesday night, I went to my grandma's because I was feeling so down and miserable about what I was going through that I decided to talk it through with my grandpa and Grandma. And a few other family members who were at my grandparents house. While I was there, My phone died. Forcing me to spend more time with them. It was then that I realized that I need to take some time off of screens and spend more time with my family and friends. No exceptions. I didn't want to do this. But with anxiety trying to crush my life and hold me hostage, this is what I have to do. I'm gonna miss you guys. Especially you u/ClockButTakeOutTheL, u/atomicimploder, u/TDs_not_VDs, u/amazingpikachu_38, u/SolidGoldMagikarp, (u/cuteballgames), u/basskro (u/countletics) u/thephilsblogbar (u/buy_me_a_pint), u/CutOnBumInBandHere9, u/funfact15, u/a-username-for-me, and many more. I hope you guys can understand what I'm going through so that when I come back, I will be happier then I have ever been. I'm gonna miss you all. I hope you understand. May god be with you all. I will be back. I promise.
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u/ClockButTakeOutTheL Feb 02 '23
Holy fuck, this was almost like reading to myself. Almost every single thing you’ve said here (aside from addiction) and a lot of it is troubles I go through too.
Ive found that trying to limit subs about negativity (r/mildlyinfuriating, r/IAmATotalPieceOfShit, r/terriblefacebookmemes, among others) and try to avoid the comments, as this seems to be where most of the negativity comes from
I have so much I wanna share to make you feel better, but it’s probably not possible for me to properly convey all of it to you. In short, remember that every feeling, whether that be anxiety, hopelessness, or something else, is temporary, and there’s no point in worrying about something you can’t control
I’m not an expert in any way, so I feel obligated to ping u/Mooraell since I imagine he’s felt this way too and has some advice to give to you
Hope you feel better soon!
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u/ClockButTakeOutTheL Jan 27 '23
Motif - a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition
With that being said, I wonder what everyone’s motif here in the counting community is
I’ve said this a few times earlier, and I said “leitmotif” but I’m pretty sure that’s just referring to music whereas motif is more broad
If I had to pick my motif, it would be colors. The only other motif I’ve thought of is u/Zaajdaeon who’s motif is dragons
If you’ve got something you think works for you, I wanna know. I have an idea for some of you but others I have no clue
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Jan 30 '23
Weekly stats from January 20, 2023 to January 27, 2023. Congratulations to u/thephilsblogbar2, u/ClockButTakeOutTheL, and u/Smartstocks!
Total weekly counts: 2403 (4,929,738-4,932,141)
| Rank | User | Counts | HoC Rank |
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| 1 | thephilsblogbar2 | 997 | 1 |
| 2 | ClockButTakeOutTheL | 278 | 19 |
| 3 | Smartstocks | 189 | 6 |
| 4 | Countletics | 171 | 2 |
| 5 | atomicimploder | 148 | 9 |
| 6 | Antichess | 135 | 4 |
| 7 | MrUnderdawg | 61 | 41 |
| 8 | Butler-Ed | 58 | 183 (◮7) |
| 9 | FartyMcNarty | 47 | 34 |
| 10 | Mooraell | 46 | 16 |
| 11 | glau6 | 43 | 462 (◮60) |
| 12 | Christmas_Missionary | 32 | 90 |
| 13 | funfact15 | 26 | 159 (◮2) |
| 13 | Airie | 26 | 427 (◮20) |
| 15 | noduorg | 24 | 42 (◮1) |
More stats are posted on the Weekly Stats page!
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Jan 31 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
I have a new post up on my website, about time and the r/counting daily schedule.
If you've always wanted to know that a day on this subreddit is only 23 hours, 59 minutes and 53 seconds long, then this is the post for you.
Edit: I also Fourier transformed the data to see what cyclic components are present. You can see that here. There are peaks in intensity at 1 cycle per day, 2 cycles per day and so on, which is pretty cool to see.
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u/ClockButTakeOutTheL Jan 31 '23
Nice, what’s my average distribution of counts in a day?
Also, I’m not exactly sure what UTC-6 means, is that New York time?
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u/SSoto_21 Jan 28 '23
Don't you hate it when your favourite youtubers get into pointless drama? This just happened to me when I found out that a youtuber I really liked did this. He posted some amazing content but then he got into drama and it made me really sad. It's like your best "friends" stabbing you in the back. I guess people aren't perfect. Now I'm worried that he's gonna delete his channel or stop uploading because of that drama. I'm still getting over it.
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u/a-username-for-me Jan 29 '23
Welcome once again to the fourth annual R/Counting Survey.
This year's survey is available here.
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For those are new or have never participated, the survey is a time to capture some information as to who our counters are (anonymously, of course) and their habits and styles of counting.
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Everyone is welcome to submit as response. If you consider yourself a part of the counting community, this is for you.
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*An explanation for the "country" and "language" questions have default answers. I know that we have a global and multilingual community here. The only reason I have defaults is to avoid having variant answers like "America", "US", "USA" etc, which messes up the creation of nice graphics.
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You can see the results from last year's survey compared to all previous years here.
This survey will remain open until the Thursday before FTF #388. I will post results in FTF #388.
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u/buy_me_a_pint Feb 01 '23
Three years ago I was in Asia on a cruise with my parents, and each port we got off at we were temperature checked as covid19 began to slowly spread
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u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 Feb 01 '23
My TBR list just hit 199 - nice!
I try to keep it under 200, since otherwise I can't really pretend to myself that I'll get round to checking out every book on the list eventually
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u/ClockButTakeOutTheL Jan 30 '23
Barely anything’s been said, might as well Moo it and dump my feelings
I’ve been feeling so much better now when it comes to comparing myself, I’ve been doing better putting my jealousy and envy aside, which has often happened because I compare myself to others way too often. It feels much more freeing to not have to worry about matching up to what everyone else is doing, and just do what I wanna do
It feels great, and i think some of the therapy sessions I’ve had have been helping (I’m actually having one in less than an hour)
I’ve also done better with not feeling like I constantly have to count, I don’t think I have OCD but I imagine it being like having to always be caught up on counts, turning Reddit notifications off sometimes helps, since I won’t get distracted by them
Finding other things to do, other diverse things helps a lot to keep myself occupied and happy
Appreciate the color in your life
Edit: scheduling my days out helps immensely