I used to get this sometimes. Turnes out my body doesn’t process fructose well. Look into FODMAPs if none of the other suggestions work for you (usually the FODMAP thing requires an elimination diet, I just lucked out due to weird circumstances)

Regardless of age, weight, or overall fitness, I have never been able to touch my toes when bending over from standing.

Maybe SpiralLinux? It’s basically just Debian with a few twealks, but the btrfs+Snapper might come in handy if/when you need to do tech support.

Nope. Never had a water-related incident with any cellphone in the 20ish years I’ve been using them. Just not relevant to my life.

That’s OK. No piece of art or media is gonna be everyone’s Thing.

Steven Universe. The online fandom was insane. The actual show was incredible.

Came here to suggest this. I’ve been doing IFS stuff with my therapist and it’s probably the most helpful therapy I’ve ever done.

Dementia specifically I don’t know about, but if you don’t eat enough it will affect brain function, since your brain requires energy to, yknow…work. Found a review article about it from a few years ago if you’re interested.

I’m not at my place right now. If you come to my friend’s place where we’re at, you can have a donut and maybe pet the cat.

I have anxiety and I’m also into horror. I dunno if it’s helped, but I don’t think it’s made anything worse at least.

The anoles are one of the few things I miss about living in Florida. There are lizards here in Kentucky, but they’re more elusive.

E-bike?

I agree with contacting local charities (kitchens, food banks, etc) and see if they can use them.

My devil’s advocate argument for the elves being there is that there were a bunch of battles in the north that didn’t make it into the movie and only get mentioned a little in the books, and one of the important themes of LOTR is that all these disparate groups had to band together to fight Sauron. So having elves be at Helm’s Deep is a way to show the different people fighting together in a movie series that was already pressed for time. Necessary? Maybe not. But it doesn’t bother me as much as some of the other changes, because I can at least see a rationale for it.

Yeah I ain’t watching that. They left out like at least a third of what made the books good IMO. Sounds like a waste of time.

OK, here’s the thing. Overall, Peter Jackson’s LOTR trilogy is extremely good. I think it’s the best Tolkien adaptation we’re likely to ever get.

HOWEVER.

The random “Arwen is dying!” subplot was incredibly fucking stupid and while it didn’t ruin the movies for me, it did dampen my enjoyment of them. There had to be a better way to get more screentime for Liv Tyler, surely.

Honestly? Gotta disagree. It’s been a long time since I’ve read the book but I remember being disappointed by it after seeing the movie. Maybe I’ll give it a reread and see if my opinion’s changed. ETA: fuck all the movie sequels though, no one needed that shit.

I love the Dark Tower series and hadn’t seen the movie yet. They dropped Susannah out ENTIRELY? Seriously???

Well, at least next year you’ll meet a dental hygenist with a spatula tattooed on her arm

Director’s cut of Goncharov