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I figured it was associated with the military as WW2 would have come to an end 10 years beforehand so it would still be in the public zeitgeist but it is just so odd and out of place with his country club tennis outfit.

What is the deal with the tattoo on his hand?

Homo Sapians

Thanks for posting this, it was interesting to read as I know nothing on the topic.

The real reason for my reply though is to say; congrats dude, it must have been a long struggle with weight and health to be this dedicated to go from morbidly obese to fit and healthy at the age you did.

Seriously, well done and congratulations; keep up the good work!

I wish you all the best with your journey.

Ok… oddly I am coming to the defense of my small hometown.

Robles means Oak (Tree) in Spanish. The full name of Paso Robles is El Paso De Robles which means the The Paso of the Oaks.

Pasta Robles would be blending two languages together and would mean Oak Tree Pasta.

I think the name would make more people, from various cultures and language backgrounds, upset than just naming a pasta restaurant Oak Tree Pasta.

Also, there are already enough pasta restaurants in Paso, a quirky name like Pasta Robles wouldn’t fair well against their established competition.

BUT if a Vietnamese or Indian restaurant were to open with a fun Paso Robles themed name then I think it would do well regardless of the name. The redneck fortress looking Big Bubba’s Bad BBQ was the only place to get semi-legit BBQ in Paso for a long time despite the name and venue. I guess they have recently rebranded to Bubba’s Smokehouse & Spirits but the redneck fortress aesthetic is still on full display.

“Oh, Mary!” on Broadway in NYC a couple weekends ago.

Interested as well.

I need to move some D&D games to another platform.

“Despite all my rage I’m still just a rat in a cage”

&

“So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you could tell?
Did they get you trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here
We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have we found
The same old fears
Wish you were here”

I think it is possible but just not probable.

I’d like to believe that at least.

Brown noise helps me stop random intrusions and provides calm and focus. I use the Star Trek TNG Enterprise D engine noise piped into my earbuds, headphones or home speakers.

I go into a meditative state when it gets really bad, like pushing everything to the side and focus past it all.

I’m 47, I don’t know how old you are but I’ve struggled with this throughout my life along with the other sensory stuff I have (emotion > color, Concept > shape, perceived emotion > color, mirror touch, texture > color/shape and a few other types of synesthesia). I have found that practicing to calm my mind, mute my senses and practice holistic balance in my life has greatly improved my quality of life.

I do not know how debilitating this is for you but it greatly affected my life. Realizing that I cannot stop my mind or isolate myself and live a fulfilling life. I learned to acknowledge these things and live with them as a benefit. The best analogy is that I surf the waves of my thoughts and no longer let the waves crash over me. Or like emotional/mental aikido. Learn to turn it to your advantage and empower you instead of letting it overwhelm you. Figure out triggers, isolate them and understand them.

Anyway, if you struggle with this you are not alone. There aren’t a ton of us out there but there are others. Don’t fight against it but learn to live in balance with it. When I did my life greatly improved. I have skills that no one else has and while people do not know what it comes from they can tell that my insightfulness, pattern recognition, logical decision making, memory and creativity are very different from the usual sort.

Apologies if this comes off as preachy, you may have your thing on lock already but 7 out of 10 times the person who I am discussing this stuff with who has something similar doesn’t. I will always be learning new tricks or hidden features and I am always looking for tips from others I interact with in the wild.

DM me whenever.

I am the same way, it is a constant slideshow of vivid images, videos loops, complex shapes and colors projected into my vision. Whatever I am thinking about has these associations, like my brain works on complex hieroglyphs and not words. Which seems to be backed up by science as neurological studies into language processing show that metaphorical image/sensory association happens before language processing within our brains. Language is a translation layer after all the sensory input.

I thought everyone was like this until my preteens when I would reference some aspect of it to others and get weird looks back.

Sounds like it could be a form of ticker tape synesthesia with a less vivid variation of hyperphantasia.

According to lore anyone over 30 who is still a virgin becomes a wizard and that is why there are so few wizards about.

So your competition would be a wizards battle. No offense but I’d buy tickets to that event.

This is an aside that is not really a response to your message.

Most people assume that because something isn’t easy to make explode that it is also isn’t easy to turn it off.

I’ve always assumed this isn’t true, that the two things are asymmetrical.

If it was built by the military or some other professional outfit that makes explody things, and not hobbled together in a cave somewhere, then the people making it actually don’t want it to explode for the vast majority of that things existence. Bombs are designed to only explode under very specific circumstances and there should be many off switches to prevent it from accidentally exploding or to accommodate for people changing their mind after activating it.

Like, you should need codes, special keys, synchronized activation switches and a countdown to make bombs blow up but I always assumed the designers of such things would build in so many failsafes that there would at least be a very prominent off switch that is clearly labeled on the outer shell… heck, there would probably be several depending on the size of the bomb.

Anyway, I always imagined that if I was alone with an ICBM I could disarm it somewhat easily during the countdown. I’ve never really researched whether my assumption is right because I’ve never thought I’d ever actually find myself alone with one during a situation like that. I could be wrong 🤷‍♂️

Heck yeah, I went to the launch party for it at the PlayStation Store in SF. They gave away these dog tag things.

My friends and I played this game so much using the PS2 network adapter thingy before moving to the Xbox for Halo 2 over Xbox Live.

I do in some sense, but it doesn’t present like eye floaters in the traditional sense though they are projected into my vision.

I have High-Production/Complex Concept->Shape Synesthesia

Listed as the most-complex type on the linked page. https://www.thesynesthesiatree.com/2021/02/concept-shape-synesthesia.html?m=1

Btw, your figurines, and the framing/setting of the picture, are pretty rad.

So you make these as a hobby?

Are all of the models you make similar characters just in different settings/outfits/poses?

What kind of printer do you use?

This happened about 16 years ago.

One of my buddies is a semi well-known photographer who was editing some photographs on his laptop while he was over at my place. One of the pictures he was editing showed the feet/toes of one of his subjects prominently, not the focus of the shot but they were easily visible. I knew he was going to post the picture to his socials once he was done as he did that for most of his shoots for marketing purposes so I joked, “I wonder if anyone would notice if you were to add an extra toe to that persons foot.”

So he photoshopped an extra toe onto one of the subjects feet and posted it. There were many comments about the photo but no one has ever pointed out the sixth toe on the most forward foot of the subject.

Every few years I check-in on that photo to see if anyone has said anything yet about it, still nothing. I do like/thumbs up that photo each time and then wait a week to remove my like/thumbs-up as an inside joke so he gets the notification from me on that photo as a notice that I am still keeping tabs on the outcome of my suggested joke.

In response he does the same thing to a very old profile photo of myself that I hate on an old social account I no longer use but check in with every couple years.

Him and I only get to catch up every several years when our paths cross but we communicate more through that thumbs/liking joke on those two photos more often, which is kinda fun.

I am not saying you are right or wrong but I am really excited to see if someone posts a link to a scrabble dictionary that has that word in it.

I think it would be an exhaustive search to prove either way and I am way too exhausted to even try… but I am so hoping a person comes along that reads your comment and innately knows the exact scrabble dictionary that has that exact word in it and posts the link with proof.

I love it when an incredible amount of coincidences come together and we all learn something.

Low probability but I am here for it.