clove

joined 7 months ago
[–] clove@kbin.melroy.org 12 points 11 hours ago

I had a doctor try to force me off my atenolol and metoprolol to amlodipine. Ostensibly because she "didn't like" that I was taking such a high dose of two separate beta-blocker meds. Not sure if she thought I was going to take them all in a fit of despair, or what, but it went really badly. My anxiety and ADHD were a lot worse, rather than better, and my BP skyrocketed.

I can't take stimulants. My body can't metabolize them well (or at all?), so I end up knocked unconscious for half the day. Basically, 6-8 hours where I can stay awake only by fighting tooth and nail. Even on fractional doses! Wild stuff. While their results are interesting (especially for those like me who failed every single non-stimulant, hard) this could be helpful. Oooor it could just be more big pharma BS with no up-side. So hard to tell anymore.

[–] clove@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Ew. Is that a text editor? (I use KDE and that kind of UI WTF would irritate the hell out of me enough to switch, too! I don't use kate, though, if that's what that is.)

[–] clove@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nice, I don't know why, but I was picturing the pink car going fast enough to squeal their tires like they used to in the one nearest where I live. We only got roundabouts here a decade or two ago, so they're still a novelty to most. I don't drive much, as you can probably tell.

[–] clove@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 6 days ago

Glad to help! XD

[–] clove@kbin.melroy.org 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I've been meaning to try Logdy out. Thanks for the reminder!

[–] clove@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't know what to tell you. I'm glad your experience was better than mine and you enjoyed them!

[–] clove@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 6 days ago

Haha, yeah! Most home theaters don't have a decent set-up, either. (I sure as heck can't afford that hardware if I can't afford theater tix...) When even headphones don't help me understand the dialog, then something is really wrong in their process. :b

[–] clove@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't follow the rules only because I don't drive at all. Otherwise, yes, you are correct, I don't follow rules which endanger my life. Just weird that way.

[–] clove@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Haha. I had access to subtitles when I watched Dark Knight, so it wasn't as awful an experience.. For Inception, Tenet, and Interstellar I just had no idea what was even happening, at all. (Bounced off Inception in the first few minutes because I just didn't GAF.) My experiences have been so frustrating I vowed not to watch his stuff until he improved his craft.

Like, I get that he's not interested in anyone else's opinion about his art. That's cool, he should be doing his own thing! But he's making a lot of inaccessible shovelware crap that's gonna be on sale in discount bins in only years, and really truly doesn't care. Bleh!

[–] clove@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I tried, I really did. It just made me uncomfortably bored. (Which from someone who's rewatched every MST3K I could get my hands on a dozen or so times each, is saying something. :)

I love bad movies as well. This one was too far over the line for me, I just wasn't interested in its specific brand of "meh". (Admittedly I have never read the book, and have never heard anything good about this author before, despite reading a ton of sc-fi. Maybe you need to know the author to enjoy it?)

[–] clove@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 6 days ago (7 children)

I love how the meme assumes everyone trusts everyone else's driving. Utopian ideals, man.

[–] clove@kbin.melroy.org 26 points 6 days ago (13 children)

Great. Now if he'd invest in some sound techs, microphones, or ADR studio time, he'd be making films that might interest me...

I can understand less than half the dialog in his works, which is pretty frustrating. If I remember correctly he's actually gone on record that this is intentional, too.

view more: next ›