35-40 is finally being able to equip yourself with some pretty good gear and maybe some spare loot, but your stamina and mana are decreasing rapidly.
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You also start to suffer random status ailments.
Nightpisser debuff fucking sucks man. Waking up 3x in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. I slept better when my kids were babies.
Everybody warns you about babies not letting you sleep, but your own bladder waking you up is just a joke.
Have you gone and gotten your plumbing checked? 3x/night seems excessive.
It's partly my fault. I forget to drink all day and between dinner and bedtime end up drinking like 2-3L of seltzer.
Ahhh, that makes sense and I definitely feel ya. I just get concerned about people who have problems like that because I've seen folks that wait too long.
It came from a place of love, Internet stranger.
Nah, that starts at like 25
At least you get to team up a little, and the combined recovery rate of stamina and mana is a little better. Of course, you eventually end up taking an arrow to the knee.
40-45 is the part of the game where you think maybe you've got this sword swinging thing figured out but like, damn, you've been doing this forever and you just want to be allowed to chill.
45-50 is when you realize people older than you knows even less stuff and the world is this mess because they made one decision that made sense and forgot about the other 99 that didn't
Being 50+ is realizing it was a grind fest the whole time designed for someone else's profit, and even the fun times weren't as great as advertised.
But you play it a bit more, because maybe this time it will be different.
I'm 40 and it feels like I have chosen to play Dark Souls with no weapons or armor and without leveling up.
I just keep running around yelling "let me solo her!" And I don't even own a jar hat.
Ah, a speed runner. You must be good at this.
Being [age]-[age] is like when you're playing a game and you realize pretty much everyone else is moderately capable and even when struggling they seem to at least grasp the basic concepts of the game. Meanwhile you seriously don't understand what the fuck is going on nor the reasons things are happening to you the way they are. You try asking people for help but the advice they give might as well be in another fucking language as it doesn't help at all because they literally can't imagine the issues you're struggling with. You end up brute-forcing minuscule amounts of progress but doing so is existentially tiring and you're not sure it's even worth it in the end.
You did find a shiny rock though, so there's that.
Being 35 up is watching the kids swinging the swords and being too tired to bother correcting them.
I don't even have kids and I'm tired.
I meant 'the kids' as a general term for those who are younger than me.
To paraphrase George Carlin, there are two kinds of people in the world. Old farts who are older than I am, and punk kids who are younger.
I remember when I was in my early 20s in my first apartment, they were doing work on the gas lines and a maintenance person had to come in and reset the pilot light on the water heater and lightly chastised me for having a bunch of stuff stored to either side of it in its little closet due to safety concerns. I was too embarrassed to admit it but I had concluded that was just some metal junk someone had left taking up space in my closet, no idea it was the thing making my hot water work. I had even discussed this with my girlfriend at the time, who also came to the same conclusion about it, just some large metal junk inexplicably taking up most of the space of a small apartment closet.
Man, it's like when I found out you have to clean your dishwasher, washing machine, and garbage disposal.
"You mean they don't always smell bad?"
wait, you're supposed to clean your washing machine??
HOW??
there is a small flap near the bottom of the machine. Modern machines just a a slit that is minimally wider where you can insert a screwdriver to open it. Sometimes the mechanism is different.
Behind the screws and lids and stuff is a sieve you need to clean. If you see a tube on the side before reaching the sieve, open it firstand let the water run out (careful, can be quite a bit of water) If you have a toploader the cover and sieve is sometimes on top to the side.
You can check your manual if you don't find it or are unsure how to open.
Sometimes socks, jewelry or other stuff gets trapped in there and can not be chemically cleaned away.
Look i just found out this year too, don't panic. Go to the grocery store, find a thing called "affresh". It does the job.
It's basically a powder acid. Anything that gets water on it has some buildup and sometimes mold n stuff that gets left around and the acid stuff eats it away.
I'm pretty sure you can use vinegar to do it too.
Yes you could use vinegar, but please don't. Long term gunks up sieves and small tubes.
Please use citric acid or the aforementioned products (sometimes just called machine cleaner)
45-50 is swinging that sword wildly so much that you actually are pretty good at it now but you need to sit and have a rest every 10 mins or so
50-60 is OK I think I know what I'm doing now, can I go back to being 20 please?
50 up - your sword broke...
Mine broke at 29 when I took Strattera for a week =/
Being 60+ is finally getting to the end game and wanting to do the side quests you skipped, but sometimes you still have to grind for resources.
And if you feel behind, realize that some of us get debuffs, some several, that take time to overcome.
I hate the accuracy.