2025-11-21T00:00:00Z:
Tobaccoless days: 523.
名探偵コナン。第18巻。FILE 10: チェックメイト-
葬送のフリーレン。第5巻。第43話：特権
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(if you exclude Koichi)
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That’s very interesting…
I thought this badge was granted to those who have been here for a while, but your info says you’ve joined this August… And, of course, there are people here who have been here much longer than me… The way of Badges is very meowsterious 
Maybe, by removing all widgets and discovering the proto durtles, you became one yourself…
I got my badge for remembering EtoEto…
And as for Koichi 先生… Well, he is the proto durtle even among proto durtles
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The proto-est durtle Koichi
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2025-11-22T00:00:00Z:
- Tobaccoless days: 524.
- 名探偵コナン。第19巻。FILE 1: どうして・・・
- 名探偵コナン。第19巻。FILE 2: 蒸発した文士
- 名探偵コナン。第19巻。FILE 3: \frac{1}{2}の頂点
- 葬送のフリーレン。第5巻。第44話：隕鉄鳥奪還
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2025-11-23T00:00:00Z:
- Tobaccoless days: 525.
Nihongo con Teppei for Beginners. Up to episode #935「回転寿司について」- 名探偵コナン。第19巻。FILE 4: フランスにて・・・
- 葬送のフリーレン。第5巻。第45話：水を操る魔法
This is such a great advice! Struggling to get yourself out of a mess – is always not only hard, but also not pretty at all. Like, if you fell into a pond of mud and are out of strength, there is no graceful way to get out. The only way out – is to swim through the mud any way you can. You would look both dirty and weak while doing it – very uncool. But it would give you a chance to get out of it.
Reminds me of how whenever I had let my reviews pile up, the reason it was so hard for me to start doing them again was not only the work required, but also (and even more so) the unwillingness to see myself making mistakes, failing items I used to know… In other words, I didn’t want my way back to look ugly. Which is why, on many occasions it was easier to just do a reset. And in case of WK reviews, reset is indeed a valid option, but with other things in life – it might not alwasy be the case. Sometimes, you just have to accept looking uncool for a while and do the job…
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Hear hear! Wise words, @trunklayer-さん。 Settling for ‘good enough’ has served me well too, on many occasions 
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2025-11-24T00:00:00Z:
- Tobaccoless days: 526.
- 名探偵コナン。第19巻。FILE 5: 食い倒れの街
- 葬送のフリーレン。第5巻。第46話：もっと美味しい味
Another bit of Denken’s wisdom: 食事は楽しんでするものだ。
I am the same in this regard. When I eat, I concentrate on food and don’t like to be distracted
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its addictive, it kills your ambition after a while, but as long as you focus on the things that matter on you and know how to push on them, good enough might not eat all of your brain functions after a bit ^^
currently im recovering from the “good enough” condition because i’ve noticed that i stopped caring in some areas of life, but damn isn’t it comfortable ^^
ahh, favorite part of starting a new hobby xdd
it’s always fun to look back and go like “WAIT THAT USED TO BE ME???”
korean study log when ^^
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With all due respect, I find this phrasing to be very strange and misleading…
My issue with this phrasing – is that makes it sound like those who prefer to settle for “good enough” – become somehow “defective”…
I don’t think that setting for “good enough” kills ambition, let alone, brain functions. For one thing, you are the one who decides how much is “good enough” – nothing prevents you from setting the bar of “good enough” really high…
For another, being able to determine what’s achievable at current stage and what’s not – is also an important skill. Trying to achieve too much at very early stage might lead to burnout instead…
There is a great video I found in @Aleithian’s log:
And there are these words there: “Perfectionism is fear disguised as ambition”. I very much agree with those words.
I’m the opposite – I used to set myself unrealistic goals, fail them, fall into depression and end up not doing anything for a long time. In my experience, what really kills both ambition and brain functions – is constantly being in a stupor of depression and anxiety attack… I found that when I’m only using a small part of my abilities – I actually manage to achieve more 
Then again, to be fair, there is nothing wrong with setting yourself really high goals, as long as it’s something you yourself want (and not something someone told you you have to do, even though you don’t see why) and also something you can achieve.
It’s also true that in order to become really good at something, one often has to leave their comfort zone. As Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor”…
You are a very cool purrson who not only has high ambitions, but actually manages to achieve them. If this was Dragon Ball, you’d be Son Goku or Vegeta, or at the very least Tenshinhan 
While I probably wouldn’t even be Yamucha
So, to rephrase what you said, not trying to achieve the best possible result would significantly hinder one’s chances to become the very best. But one doesn’t have to be the very best, not being the very best doesn’t make one “defective”.
It’s always a tradeoff. One one end of the spectrum are cool people like you who set high goals and sacrifice their comfort to achieve them. On the other end of the spectrum are those who give up on any kind of ambition and always prioritize comfort. Between those two extremeties – is the whole spectrum. Finding one’s place on that spectrum – is never easy, but it’s important to remember that there are no “defective” or “wrong” places on it. One just needs to find one that suits them the best.
Also, returning to the original quote by Denken, I think that it was not so much about settling for “good enough” as it was about recognizing and accepting the fact that under the circumstances the struggle wouldn’t look pretty. Like getting out of the pool of mud. Or, like you’ve pointed out, the first attempts at starting a new hobby. But those ugly first steps are essential…
TLDR: I think that every approach has its pros and cons. The important thing is to be able to set your own goals and priorities for yourself and do what you yourself consider appropriate effort to achieve them.
In any case, may you and everyone else reading this – have a very nyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaice day, regardless of which appurroach you choose!
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2025-11-26T00:00:00Z:
- Tobaccoless days: 528.
- 葬送のフリーレン。第6巻。第48話：零落の王墓
As I’ve mentioned, I haven’t watched the anime yet, but I knew about this particular scene and was wondering when would I reach it. Well, now I have reached it
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2025-11-27T00:00:00Z:
- Tobaccoless days: 529. Had another dream of breaking the streak, was very glad to realize it was just a dream upon waking up
- 名探偵コナン。第19巻。FILE 6: 四人目の財布
- 葬送のフリーレン。第6巻。第49話：迷宮と魔導具
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Ooh!
That’s a little scary ちょっと怖いね
I no longer have any such thoughts, but it’s been more than 10 years…
Here with my uncle, we watched an old “screwball romance comedy”, called Man’s Favorite Sport
(which is “women”)…
I was a little surprised to be reminded about how much they smoked!
My uncle had party of his throat and having removed due to cancer from years of smoking. He cannot eat any solid food, and had survived more than 10 years on fiber-containing protein shakes alone…
… Anyway, back in the day, he had a crush on the 女優actress from that, Paula Prentiss (who was quite lovely)… And I was pleased to find that she is still alive and still married to the same also still alive husband, at 87 years old!
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That link is broken, but not completely, so I managed to find the page from it:
Anyway, I’m very sorry about your uncle, but I’m glad you both managed to quit smoking too!
May the Great Cat of Health help and purrotect you!
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im really glad i never got into that stuff in the first place because i know how hard it is to quit and how addictive it is, but it oh-so-much frustrates me each time i go to the cinema of knowing that when a cinematographer doesn’t know how to make a scene visually appealing, one magic trick they think that works is just to frame a character holding a cigarette and smoking, and once you start paying attention to it, you just cannot unsee it
it’s in like maybe 80% of the movies with a budget below $10M, it’s so annoying knowing that not even IRL as many people are smoking as they make it out to be in the movie reality, but maybe im the one that doesn’t get to hang out with the cool people 
but it really does feel like every film school student starter pack for indie movie production: have a character smoke to make a scene look more appealing 
good luck on holding in there trunklayer, you’re doing great so far 
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Doumeow arigatou gozaimeowshta!
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2025-11-28T00:00:00Z:
- Tobaccoless days: 530.
- Nihongo con Teppei for Beginners. Up to episode #940「お会計について」
- 葬送のフリーレン。第6巻。第50話：水鏡の悪魔
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Less than 3 weeks to a 550 day celebration!
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And after that – only 5 days to 555 day celebraton!
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