The last book I read was Monstrous Regiment, a Discworld book that had somehow slipped past me.
It was pretty good. It's more or less a stand alone book in the setting with some minor cameos by established characters. There is one conceit that the book runs on, which you'll likely catch onto early, but it manages to mix up how it uses that conceit to keep it fresh enough. The ending big action set piece is contrived even for Discworld action, but the book really isn't about the action anyway so it gets a pass. B+ book, one of the lesser Discworld books which still puts it way above most other books.
I had seen studies that say that training or even just daily walks can highly improve mood, but I had never heard that they fully cure depression.
The solution people are commonly offering helps then, even if it isn't a silver bullet. If a silver bullet existed that instantly and universally cured depression I'm sure people would offer that instead. People are offering the best they can to a stranger.
Despite the fact that not all people are capable of doing both.
If you go online and ask strangers, you're going to get general advice. If you have a paragraph of reasons why you can't do both, either, or a modification of the advice of exercise and therapist then I feel for you but aggressively rejecting generally helpful advice while looking for some other solution is putting the responsibility on random strangers to come up with something.
I'll add that while some people may not be able to do some of the common advice, I privately suspect that at least a healthy percent of the time that resistance to the advice isn't coming from inability to do it, or in the case of the exercise part to follow the spirit of the advice by being more active. If you truly have a chemical imbalance, a therapist is the person who can help and is qualified to talk about drug solutions.
Short of telling you to see that therapist to get actual professional help, and doing exercise which while it might only a partial solution is something that you can do right away, what exactly do you want of random people?
It is good to see this comment. Seeing the same joke of "I'm 30 and basically invalid" repackaged over and over on the internet and so many people finding it relatable is worrying.
[US] Any suspect that says "Am I free to go?" during an interview where they haven't been Mirandized, and then if they are free to go leaves immediately.
Or if they are not free to go and Mirandized "I demand a lawyer." and "I am asserting my right to silence." and nothing else. Playing cute games in an "interview" so you can get off some zingers at the cops is at best not going to make your situation worse. Very likely though, the longer you talk, the worse it will get. Therefore any technique that is giving up your right to silence and council is sub-optimal.
This footage doesn't catch the public eye as often because it isn't spicy. It's just boring. You want to be boring because the cops who booked you are not the right people to be spinning your side of the story to.
Airsoft has grown massively. While it is more of a whole day event, it fills that same niche but better in many ways.
Most lazertag places I remember seeing were inside or connected to arcades, and those really aren't a thing for kids these days either so it makes sense the lazertag places aren't as widespread as they used to be. If you're specifically going to travel to just do lazertag, you'll probably just travel to do airsoft or paintball.
I love Battletech, but I understand why it isn't for everyone. The crunch of of detailing armor hits and internal effects, and keeping track of heat sinks is all the kind of thing that appeals to a specific kind of numbers nerd.
Yes Alpha Strike exists, but it's relatively new and I think it exists as this weird thing that by stripping out the details takes away the appeal for the loyal crunchy brained people.
Further, the miniatures are really neat, but 28mm (or 32mm, whatever is happening with 40k scale creep these days) scale really allows people to paint and customize characters which is appealing to more people than relatively less characterful mech sculpts.
It's got a unique third person-ish view where the player swaps between different fire teams or special units, and orders them. It looks like a third person shooter but is just a real time ground level tactical game. It's demanding but fun. It's the kind of game that Brothers In Arms, old school Ghost Recon, or Doorkickers players would love. I don't know why nobody really remembers it or why somebody hasn't made a spiritual successor.
I would say to go and check out independent local game stores. It's not uncommon for people to run 3D printing as a side hustle, and game stores tend to have boards where people put up flyers or cards.
You want resin for 28mm characters. FDM, the alternative leaves noticeable printlines and not what you want if you're paying for a mini.
In U.S. pricing, I've found these individual print people charging $1-3 USD for a human 28mm figure. Part of the idea is paying less than it costs to buy figures out of the box.
My definition of a plot hole in a story is something that simply can not happen given the existing rules of the story, or something which could only happen in an unexplained and if not literally impossible than at least so unlikely it is practically impossible way that defies everything else we know about the story.
This would be an item inexplicably jumping locations, a character having knowledge they could not possibly have, or a character or item being in two places at once. Things like that which gnarl the story.
What it isn't: A character making a bad decision, a character acting unusual (even to the point of acting out of character- that can be bad writing, but not a plot hole), a character forgetting something, a plot contrivance, an unlikely coincidence, something being unrealistic but consistent within the context of the story.
I commonly see poorly written scenes, or scenes where someone thinks a character was acting irrationally, or scientific or legal or other plot points that are intentionally written to serve the story described as plot holes.
With that description, I'd say quite a great number of works of fiction don't have plot holes.
I'm not going to count shows aimed at adult audiences because that feels like cheating (that also includes not listing anime aimed at adults because that doesn't seem like the spirit of the question). Of shows aimed at and easily accessible during their run to children I'm going to say Courage The Cowardly Dog and Invader Zim.
Courage had insane creepy visuals in almost every episode.
Zim wasn't consistently freaky to the point of being notable in every episode, but the ones that were, they were really out there. The show was from the mind of the creator of the Johnny The Homicidal Maniac (which I read as a kid thanks to my interest in Invader Zim) and the show's darker elements are obviously reigned in just enough to get on TV.
I like the convenience of being shown all my subscriptions, and with a trained algorithm actually being shown suggestions I'd be interested in. I think with an account used just for YouTube and nothing else the value to Google is minimal. It's the last thing I have left from de-googling everywhere else.
The last book I read was Monstrous Regiment, a Discworld book that had somehow slipped past me.
It was pretty good. It's more or less a stand alone book in the setting with some minor cameos by established characters. There is one conceit that the book runs on, which you'll likely catch onto early, but it manages to mix up how it uses that conceit to keep it fresh enough. The ending big action set piece is contrived even for Discworld action, but the book really isn't about the action anyway so it gets a pass. B+ book, one of the lesser Discworld books which still puts it way above most other books.