• mkhopper@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    This is directed to everyone who has posted in this thread who mentioned they have their phone in or nearby while they shower for music, audio books, etc.

    Why?

    How long are you showering that you need some content to fill the time?
    It honestly concerns me that some people can’t go five to ten minutes, alone with their own thoughts.

    Someone here mentioned meditation, and that is how I shower. A quick, five minute chance to disconnect from the noise of the world.

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      if i don’t have music playing i might fall asleep in the shower. like, just monday my wife had to wake me up because i forgot my phone.

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      2 hours ago

      The shower and the shitter are the last places I’m alone with my thoughts. Not giving it up.

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      3 hours ago

      My wife has mixed irish and black hair. It takes legit 25 minutes with running water (45+ without) to detangle her hair.

      Most people i know take 20+ minute showers. I fully believed they were lying when the local water company did a presentation at my elementary school and priced out 5-10 minutes for a shower.

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      4 hours ago

      I was wondering the same. Even though my showers always end up taking 15-20 minutes (I get stuck in the warm water), why would you fill that nice, short time, with some extra noise?

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      2 hours ago

      After noticing that I had a harder time enjoying being around water because of concern about my phone getting wet, I’ve just been being water resistant phones. Haven’t really tested how resistant they are but it’s nice not caring about that anymore.

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      4 hours ago

      I have used my Bluetooth speaker every day since I bought it like 3 years ago, I never imagined how much I’d enjoy it

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      3 hours ago

      You don’t get why people would fantasize about getting to leave their old shitty life behind and start a new one in a cooler place with cooler friends or a new body or magic powers? I’m not a huge fan either but the appeal is pretty straightforward.

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      2 hours ago

      Isekai is just the fantasy version of sci-fi. It presents that, “what if?” question but (usually) with cat girls, swords, and magic.

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        2 hours ago

        Yeah, it’s the what if totally ungrounded outside of reality that bothers me, because if anything is possible, then there are literally no stakes. The writer can deus ex anything

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          Right, this is why a lot of them suck. There are good ones though, depending on what you like of course.

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              28 minutes ago

              I’m honestly not a huge fan of the genre myself, but in general I find "I don’t want to be a badass I just want to be a carefree adventurer " slice-of-life type ones the best.

              Fun with a dumb premise: Campfire Cooking. The protagonist is in magical world and his super power is that he can buy groceries from his home world “online” and have them magically shipped to the new world.