Pouring one out for all the folks out there who have to get in a car to go to a bakery
One time I was promised cake if I just did a series of tests on a prototype, though the tests seemed more like they were testing my problem solving skills rather than the prototype itself.
Anyways, the cake was great, so delicious and moist.
It was overall a very rewarding experience that I recommend everyone sign up for.
I actually installed it this week to give it another go, this timing is golden haha
I’m trying to nudge my daughter into playing it, but I guess I shared too many other interesting looking games with the family. A Game About Digging A Hole caught her eye first lol.
Are you a lab mouse?
Aperture Science doesn’t test on animals, all tests are ethically done on humans, of which I am one who is definitely still alive after finishing all the tests and full of cake.
Can also bake one.
On top of probably tasting better, it’s also more fun.
I sometimes want to do this but then I realize I can make a better cake myself.
Lifetime of healthy eating discipline made me think that this is gross. Forgive me op.
The death of innocence is reaching the point where you could do that, but it wouldn’t even make you happy because of health reasons.
Diabetus, by L Ron Hubbard
Your wallet may disagree.
My local supermarket has a lot of fresh cake in stock, usually half of the display is 40% off because of the expiration date is “today” or some goof held the box at a silly angle causing a visually ruined cake.
I’ll happily snack away on the poor whip cream squashed sugary treat. Especially when it’s super cheap.
I forget this on purpose, just like how I can just make one myself and my wife won’t stop me
When I was kid, I loved bananas, but my mom wouldn’t buy them because she felt they were too expensive, so bananas became even more rare and precious to me.
I grew up, got my own place, and did my own grocery shopping. I remember walking through the grocery store, and passing the bananas, thinking they were too expensive, but I noticed they were 69 cents a pound. That didn’t seem so much, so I weighed a few, and it was less that 2 pounds. I could buy a bunch of bananas for $1.50! That wasn’t so much!
So I bought the bananas. That was many years ago, and I still buy bananas almost every shopping trip. That preciousness still exists though. Whenever I eat a banana, it feels like I’m eating a candy bar.
I’ve done this for a while. I’ll just buy a birthday cake and snack on it. 33 now, still skinny… But for how long 😬
I eat my dessert first…cause no one can tell me no and I’ll still be hungry for an entree afterwards…
Ah but you see I bike there, which means that it is healthy! Fitness is my passion.
I run often, and unfortunately it’s a lot harder to stay thin as I’m pushing 40 than it was when I was pushing 20. And by stay thin I mean stay average.
Kurzgesagt had a good video on exercise that basically talked about how, if you exercise regularly, your body basically doesn’t burn the calories the same. If you’re a couch potato and then you start to exercise, you will get a benefit, but then there’s diminishing returns from continuing to exercise, to the point your body now says “hey, this is my new normal,” and essentially burns the same calories whether you’re on the couch or exercising. There’s a lot more nuance to it in the video.
It seems we’re all doomed to just get old.
As a kid, you have the time but not the money.
As an adult, you have the money but not the time.
I use the example in the meme a lot. As adults we’re in a post-scarcity mindset. If you tell a kid you can eat chocolate ice cream for 3 meals a day and don’t do it because you don’t want to (because you know you shouldn’t), it would blow their minds. You’re growing up when you get access to things and stop thinking “if you can” and start thinking “if you should”.
for me it’s not that i think that i shouldn’t, but i can’t. i just cannot ingest that much sugar at once, i get really bad feelings from that!
My knee swells up. Highfive, we’re old.
I started feeling like an adult when I stopped doing things just because my mother had told me not to.
or the metabolism
It’s the metabolism one.
I could consume 4000 kcal most days as a teenager without putting on weight. That is no longer the case and adjusting has been difficult. I’d need to go near 2000 to lose weight.
Yeah, as a kid in high school, one of my go-to high snacks was an Entenmann’s All Butter French Crumb Cake (~1740 calories) and a half gallon of 2% milk (~950 calories). It wasn’t an everyday thing, but I’d house it no problem, and it wasn’t the only thing I’d eat that day. I also swam competitively, although as I’ve grown older I’ve learned that it’s essentially unrelated, and that your metabolism is just your metabolism, essentially regardless if your activity levels. I had trouble breaking 140 pounds at 5’8.
That all stopped. It’s pretty incredible how it all just stops. I’m still fairly active, but I wouldn’t consider eating more than a serving at this point, and I instead have trouble cracking 165 (except from above this time). Oh well, this is life.
Forgetting is sometimes a survival instinct
