I just had a sirloin stake and cheap noodles + a beer
I just shat water all day, so this is my first meal
I'm watching Fargo as I eat and drink
I am 33 years old and I have had sex 5 times
I guess the grass is always greener on the other side
having no one in my life is on the one hand freeing because no one depends on my getting anything done, if I want to I can watch Fargo all night and sleep in tomorrow
on the other hand, the fact that no one else is relying on me makes me lazy and underachieving and frankly quite depressed
I think men need to feel useful to be good, and I don't think anything would change if I dropped dead
at least for your family they would be devestated if they lost you
We need to feel seen, recognised, legitimised. There are people without families who belong to a community that provides them a sense of purpose and existence. Charity work is highly recommended, such as fostering animals, walking rescue dogs, picking litter as a group etc.
We need to feel seen, recognised, legitimised. There are people without families who belong to a community that provides them a sense of purpose and existence. Charity work is highly recommended, such as fostering animals, walking rescue dogs, picking litter as a group etc.
You are correct anon, men need to feel useful and needed, this if often provided by a family. Having a wife and kids gave me a reason to not be a useless piece of shit all day.
Left alone my only motivation was to be a neet for as long as possible and consume vidya.
I just had a sirloin stake and cheap noodles + a beer
I just shat water all day, so this is my first meal
I'm watching Fargo as I eat and drink
I am 33 years old and I have had sex 5 times
I live like this and there's honestly nothing wrong with it. I'm happy to come home from work every day to do exactly that, just Infront of a PC instead of a tv.
Sometimes I think it would be nice to have kids and a family like my colleagues, but it would also be an absolute nightmare not to be able to make my own decision only for me anymore. I have a cat and that's already enough responsibility for another living being, I don't need to model my whole life after another human like my colleagues
It is a very brutal condemnation of our society that many people prefer this route... living lives completely without meaning, all joy, comfort, and emotion extracted from corporate entertainment and media, nothing truly creative, productive, or procreative going on in their lives whatsoever.
What have we done...
>without meaning, all joy, comfort, and emotion extracted from corporate entertainment and media, nothing truly creative, productive, or procreative going on in their lives whatsoeve
holy projection batman
I don't it's that sad to be honest, take the clock back around 100 years, kids were dying of polio at 8, those that weren't dying of it died at 20 after spending their entire adolescence working in a coal mine or factory. Take the clock back 2000 years and men would be enslaved, they would have their wieners and their tongues cut off and they still lived. So is it really that bad?
4 months ago
Anonymous
It's not "bad", per se... it's just entirely wasteful, in my view. We each have the ability to do great things, some more than others. The fact that these digital nightmares (tv, internet, etc.) actively dissuade people from doing important, fulfilling, and meaningful things is just kind of sad and disheartening.
4 months ago
Anonymous
I grew up in a small village in a third world country, and not everyone there lived a picture perfect romanticized trad life, there were losers there too, but instead of tv and internet they spent their entire time gambling, drinking and playing shitty card games and harassing women and children on the street. By all definitions everyone viewed them as losers, so I don't think your type of thought that "everyone can live a happy trad life with wife and kids if there's was no internet and tv" is true.
4 months ago
Anonymous
That's not my point. TV and internet serve a number of purposes. The choice that people seem to me making is that there is almost nothing else. Everything else is basically phoned in or done "through the motions" so that they can more quickly resume their staring at the screen. I wish those things could be enjoyed by us normies in moderation, and in a way that didn't completely destroy any sense of ambition, fulfillment, and creativity.
Why did they pretend like single men are so miserable? Literally the only guys I have seen acting like this irl are men in relationships. The single guys I know are the only ones who seem to actually be enjoying life.
>you could say the same thing about women, until you can’t. There’s a certain percentage of the population that are psychos and hedonists (those people will likely never be fulfilled anyways), but there’s a reason why even rich and wild men settle down eventually. We’re not supposed to admit it due to toxic masculinity but fricking bawds and getting drunk loses its shine eventually. After a while you’re just using someone else to jerk off and managing your addictions to feel normal. Not saying married with children is the end all be all, but most people sooner or later need more meaning in their life after they sow their wild oates.
i'm about to move out of my parents' at 30
my apartment is basically going to look like that because i only have one small room's worth of shit
don't even have a couch
Good luck to you, when i moved out at 26 i felt immediately lonely, guilty for leaving, and lost. A few weeks later while keeping up all other aspects of my routine (gym, guitar practise), i felt very empowered and proud of myself for getting over that hurdle. I would never voluntarily go back to living with my parents, though I do love them and see them every sunday for dinner. Unfortunately growth seems to be synonymous with (sometimes extreme) discomfort and fear, but it makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint.
Moved out at 26 as well, 28 now, with my brother, but still. He had a divorce, moved back with me and my parents, and then my sweet life was gone because there were suddenly two grown men still at home.
Happy I left though, and it's weird, my relationship with my parents is better than ever, I can actually talk about shit besides >when are you getting a better job, moving out, getting up earlier, etc.
I can finally talk about real shit.
Wish I did it sooner.
More like absolutely fricking comfy. >noooo you need some dumb b***h in the room complaining about things
Nice try. I'm not falling for that leftie psyop.
Bros, am I wrong to think that being divorced father is god tier life? You get to have children and you get to have freedom. I know a guy who is living the dream
>married young >had two sons >he is a guy who is into fitness and meeting new people and his wife is a stay at home nagger >they get divorced >starts dating a woman 15 years younger than him >his sons love him and want to spend time with him >gets to have peace and quiet in his bachelor pad a few days a week
>dealing with lawyers and courts for years in the nightmare that is an American divorce >b***h ex wife you’ll have to deal with forever >your kids will grow up to fricked up (even if they don’t like you because you’re “the cool dad” they’re gonna be even more screwed up) >will probably still end up alone
Worth it for the corvette and younger girl with daddy issues? Maybe.
I know a lot of divorced dads who do better in the short term but those were gonna have a midlife crises anyways. Long term sure you can be happy, maybe even a higher chance of being happy than the average married gay, but from what I’ve see the happiest fricks are the ones who stay married to a wife that stays hot, have good kids, decent job. I think the trick is to marry a non-white woman with an education and a job.
The thing is that kids need their dad just around all the time. Its not about having them for the weekend, its about being a constant presence in their life. More than teaching them life lessons, they need to see their dad because thats going to be their example of the ideal male, good or bad.
>his sons love him and want to spend time with him
he got really lucky with this part, a lot of divorced kids will gravitate towards one parent or the other and can really hold a grudge that's hard to get over
>old scumbag uses wealth advantage to hoard two women to himself and ruins both of them for other men
A younger man should have the right to beat him to death and claim the daddy issues prostitute for himself without pig cops getting involved to prop up the old selfish boomer.
Hmm
I think about this a lot, I'm in a relationship purely for our kids. If I were to leave I'm sure I would have a better life. But I can't do that to the kids. Parents splitting is bad, and we're not even married.
i'm nearing 30 and living in my mom and grandma's house. no gf, no offline friends, just jerk off and draw furry porn and play vidya all day
and it's preddy gud imo, govt gives me money for being autistic, and when mom dies i get her govt. pension until I die.
long as society doesn't collapse totally im good.
lived alone and like this for 4 years during college. there is no better feeling than just taking the delivery of some good food and sitting down in front of the laptop with previously prepared content and hitting play. bonus points for the nights when i didnt have to get up early next morning so id just drink a couple of cold ones while watching kinos
I wasted several YEARS browsing the same boards, reading the same posts, playing the same 2 online games, rewatching the same tv shows, eating the same pre-made food. once in a blue moon I will feel adventurous and watch a movie, binge watch a new tv show, play a singleplayer game or cook a new meal
it's insanely depressing to me that I wasted my best years like that and barely got to experience anything life offers. now I also started to feel like shit physically and idk if improving my diet and exercise will undo this.
i feel almost allergic to effort and risk. watching a new movie, reading a book, sitting down and trying to draw, trying to cook a new meal... feels terrifying
after so many years of living like this change feels almost impossible. but I have to change. I feel like I'm wasting the opportunity of living in the most technologically advanced times.
the cliche advice is also the accurate advice. you do a little today, and a little tomorrow, and you keep going, one foot in front of the other. keep pushing yourself. small steps.
as my old karate instructor used to say >how do you eat an elephant? >one bite at a time
Unless you're over 50 it's never too late to start eating right and working out. Just start small with one push up. then the next day do two pushups and keep continuing until you feel comfortable doing 10 pushups a day. You'll get hooked on the high that comes from physical exercise and start doing different exercises until you're built. I guarantee you'll feel better you just have to put in the effort.
>it's never too late to start eating right and working out
The whole reason to lose weight is to have sex (yes it is, "for my health" is a meme just like when women say "for myself" when they wear make-up to score men) and if you're already past the point of fatness where you're going to have skin sag after losing weight then yeah it basically is too late. You're gonna look like a mutated freak and have less chance of having sex than if you stayed fat
I can tell you have never once lifted a weight. The endorphins that run through your system when working out is the best high on the planet and I've taken ecstasy. Once you start working out you realize how good it feels and how much better your mood is general that it does start becoming something you do for yourself.
When my parents became ill it was like a shot to the system. I had to start leaving the house. I had to start cooking. I had to start trying to care for them. I had to take them to appointments and things on the bus or taxi.
So crushing fear and desperation will drive you outside your comfort zone I would say. And perhaps if you don't have that, know that it is coming round the bend, and you will need to anticipate its arrival.
Overcoming inertia is easy. Physically move yourself from point A to point B. Apply for something, whatever. Be it a job or a hobby. Make an appointment with another person and then make the commitment to be there. The ball gets rolling from there.
I'm allergic to risk and effort as well, and it doesn't better with aging. But I was lucky enough to learn early on that it's as easy to make an appointment. I booked a plane from point A to B. And it changed my life. Everything just kinda followed from there. I'm still averse to risk, but you just put yourself into a situation and then discover how you deal with it. For better or worse, it can backfire. >Technologically advanced times
What the frick does that have to do with anything except making a stronger case for you to just do something about it.
Frick man I’ve been in the same spot. Especially since my mom died. Get up at 1pm. Spend all day scrolling through Twitter, tiktok and Cinemaphile, go for a walk in the evening. That’s it. Can’t even give myself the motivation to fill out a job application
Yet you have the energy to shitpost and go for a walk. You have food, electricity, clothing, a roof. Hot water. It takes no more energy to fill in a job application than it does to make a shitpost. Sort yourself out.
It's not the actual effort of the act itself, there's tons of non-essential things I do in a day that are arguably harder than filling out a job app. It's the gravity, headspace, and dire implications that the act wields over my mental state.
Same reason they eat tv dinners and don’t decorate their walls in apartments like this. They get everything handed to them due to being good looking white guys and when it gets taken away they realize they can’t do anything else because they never had to develop a personality. Same reason wyteppl are imploding right now in general.
Its a hella good life.
that's a remarkably clean carpet for how filthy the mattress which sits upon it is.
Carpet?
Is that not carpet?
I'm going to do this exact same thing tonight and I am very much looking forward to it at the end of the week
I’m so afraid of getting old bros.
Boomers are fragile as frick lol
there isn’t a whinier bunch of b***hes than millennitards
is this what boomcels actually believe?
>whaaaa boomers made it so I can’t afford a house
lmao loser
I just had a sirloin stake and cheap noodles + a beer
I just shat water all day, so this is my first meal
I'm watching Fargo as I eat and drink
I am 33 years old and I have had sex 5 times
I'm on the other end, I have a wife and a kid, it's good but sometimes I wish for your life. Maybe for just a day
I guess the grass is always greener on the other side
having no one in my life is on the one hand freeing because no one depends on my getting anything done, if I want to I can watch Fargo all night and sleep in tomorrow
on the other hand, the fact that no one else is relying on me makes me lazy and underachieving and frankly quite depressed
I think men need to feel useful to be good, and I don't think anything would change if I dropped dead
at least for your family they would be devestated if they lost you
We need to feel seen, recognised, legitimised. There are people without families who belong to a community that provides them a sense of purpose and existence. Charity work is highly recommended, such as fostering animals, walking rescue dogs, picking litter as a group etc.
You are correct anon, men need to feel useful and needed, this if often provided by a family. Having a wife and kids gave me a reason to not be a useless piece of shit all day.
Left alone my only motivation was to be a neet for as long as possible and consume vidya.
Good luck in finding a purpose.
This
I have 2 kids and am desperate for just a week alone
And I know people who are permanently alone and would love a family to come home to
lucky bastard
Bruh what about when we're 43 though
>and I have had sex 5 times
today?
>I am 33 years old and I have had sex 5 times
good for you normalgay
What’s the source of the vid he’s watching? Is that real?
I love how they tried to show this as sad and depressing. This is literally an ideal life for me.
I live like this and there's honestly nothing wrong with it. I'm happy to come home from work every day to do exactly that, just Infront of a PC instead of a tv.
Sometimes I think it would be nice to have kids and a family like my colleagues, but it would also be an absolute nightmare not to be able to make my own decision only for me anymore. I have a cat and that's already enough responsibility for another living being, I don't need to model my whole life after another human like my colleagues
It is a very brutal condemnation of our society that many people prefer this route... living lives completely without meaning, all joy, comfort, and emotion extracted from corporate entertainment and media, nothing truly creative, productive, or procreative going on in their lives whatsoever.
What have we done...
>without meaning, all joy, comfort, and emotion extracted from corporate entertainment and media, nothing truly creative, productive, or procreative going on in their lives whatsoeve
holy projection batman
He described exactly what I described. I'm not judging, I'm stating how sad it is that that is the choice many people make in society.
I didn't say that, though that is a key aspect. He said he lives the life depicted in the wemb, but except for tv he stares at his computer.
I don't it's that sad to be honest, take the clock back around 100 years, kids were dying of polio at 8, those that weren't dying of it died at 20 after spending their entire adolescence working in a coal mine or factory. Take the clock back 2000 years and men would be enslaved, they would have their wieners and their tongues cut off and they still lived. So is it really that bad?
It's not "bad", per se... it's just entirely wasteful, in my view. We each have the ability to do great things, some more than others. The fact that these digital nightmares (tv, internet, etc.) actively dissuade people from doing important, fulfilling, and meaningful things is just kind of sad and disheartening.
I grew up in a small village in a third world country, and not everyone there lived a picture perfect romanticized trad life, there were losers there too, but instead of tv and internet they spent their entire time gambling, drinking and playing shitty card games and harassing women and children on the street. By all definitions everyone viewed them as losers, so I don't think your type of thought that "everyone can live a happy trad life with wife and kids if there's was no internet and tv" is true.
That's not my point. TV and internet serve a number of purposes. The choice that people seem to me making is that there is almost nothing else. Everything else is basically phoned in or done "through the motions" so that they can more quickly resume their staring at the screen. I wish those things could be enjoyed by us normies in moderation, and in a way that didn't completely destroy any sense of ambition, fulfillment, and creativity.
Okay now take the clock back 50 years.
>living lives completely without meaning
>your life is completely without meaning if you don't have kids
what a stupid thing to believe
The anons you're talking to work, eat, and watch tv or play on the computer. That's a bit different than just "not having kids".
Who had the better life?
Rust, seemed more content with his life
he actually let it all go instead of desperately holding on
Why did they pretend like single men are so miserable? Literally the only guys I have seen acting like this irl are men in relationships. The single guys I know are the only ones who seem to actually be enjoying life.
>you could say the same thing about women, until you can’t. There’s a certain percentage of the population that are psychos and hedonists (those people will likely never be fulfilled anyways), but there’s a reason why even rich and wild men settle down eventually. We’re not supposed to admit it due to toxic masculinity but fricking bawds and getting drunk loses its shine eventually. After a while you’re just using someone else to jerk off and managing your addictions to feel normal. Not saying married with children is the end all be all, but most people sooner or later need more meaning in their life after they sow their wild oates.
Sitting outside, peacefully drinking a beer while watching the sunset over a placid lake. Wow, so frickin' miserable.
Im so lonely bros…
i'm about to move out of my parents' at 30
my apartment is basically going to look like that because i only have one small room's worth of shit
don't even have a couch
Good luck to you, when i moved out at 26 i felt immediately lonely, guilty for leaving, and lost. A few weeks later while keeping up all other aspects of my routine (gym, guitar practise), i felt very empowered and proud of myself for getting over that hurdle. I would never voluntarily go back to living with my parents, though I do love them and see them every sunday for dinner. Unfortunately growth seems to be synonymous with (sometimes extreme) discomfort and fear, but it makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint.
thanks bro
Moved out at 26 as well, 28 now, with my brother, but still. He had a divorce, moved back with me and my parents, and then my sweet life was gone because there were suddenly two grown men still at home.
Happy I left though, and it's weird, my relationship with my parents is better than ever, I can actually talk about shit besides
>when are you getting a better job, moving out, getting up earlier, etc.
I can finally talk about real shit.
Wish I did it sooner.
More like absolutely fricking comfy.
>noooo you need some dumb b***h in the room complaining about things
Nice try. I'm not falling for that leftie psyop.
i'm rewatching S1 of true detective right now
great post anon. well done
I've had the same mattress for 20 years
that shit looks like one of my latest dreams
>eh, it's a living
>dude have kids so they can grow up and ignore your texts while you sit by yourself waiting to die
i'm 24 and live like that right now except i buy ingredients for sandwiches instead of ready meals
Literally me.
Same hairline too.
>cheats on pic rel
nah the fricker deserved it and worse,
Been married, been single. Single is better.
>heart attack from seeing a israelite
what did Lynch mean by that
Relationships are more terrifying than loneliness. You are probably too young to understand that.
y he no face tv
Because he’s stupid.
Why is his TV behind him?
Bros, am I wrong to think that being divorced father is god tier life? You get to have children and you get to have freedom. I know a guy who is living the dream
>married young
>had two sons
>he is a guy who is into fitness and meeting new people and his wife is a stay at home nagger
>they get divorced
>starts dating a woman 15 years younger than him
>his sons love him and want to spend time with him
>gets to have peace and quiet in his bachelor pad a few days a week
I'm sure his sons wouldn't agree with you
What do you mean, in a way they would disagree it's a good life or in a way they don't like him?
Because his teen son actually told me his mom was impossible and he gets why dad had to get away.
They'd likely prefer to have their father with them at home
I don't disagree with your post, but I honestly doubt it's good for children, no matter how often they see their father
>woooo yeah my moms a total psycho b***h man I’m gonna spend the summer with dad and Kelly they so cool they even buy me and my friends beer!
I’m sure they’ll do great and will have stable, loving, families of their own someday.
as a horny teenager I had several step sisters and step mothers. it was pretty good.
did you do the
>we're not blood related
thing like in my japanese animes?
>dealing with lawyers and courts for years in the nightmare that is an American divorce
>b***h ex wife you’ll have to deal with forever
>your kids will grow up to fricked up (even if they don’t like you because you’re “the cool dad” they’re gonna be even more screwed up)
>will probably still end up alone
Worth it for the corvette and younger girl with daddy issues? Maybe.
I know a lot of divorced dads who do better in the short term but those were gonna have a midlife crises anyways. Long term sure you can be happy, maybe even a higher chance of being happy than the average married gay, but from what I’ve see the happiest fricks are the ones who stay married to a wife that stays hot, have good kids, decent job. I think the trick is to marry a non-white woman with an education and a job.
The thing is that kids need their dad just around all the time. Its not about having them for the weekend, its about being a constant presence in their life. More than teaching them life lessons, they need to see their dad because thats going to be their example of the ideal male, good or bad.
>his sons love him and want to spend time with him
he got really lucky with this part, a lot of divorced kids will gravitate towards one parent or the other and can really hold a grudge that's hard to get over
You missed:
>old scumbag uses wealth advantage to hoard two women to himself and ruins both of them for other men
A younger man should have the right to beat him to death and claim the daddy issues prostitute for himself without pig cops getting involved to prop up the old selfish boomer.
Hmm
I think about this a lot, I'm in a relationship purely for our kids. If I were to leave I'm sure I would have a better life. But I can't do that to the kids. Parents splitting is bad, and we're not even married.
i'm nearing 30 and living in my mom and grandma's house. no gf, no offline friends, just jerk off and draw furry porn and play vidya all day
and it's preddy gud imo, govt gives me money for being autistic, and when mom dies i get her govt. pension until I die.
long as society doesn't collapse totally im good.
>tv dinner instead of home cooked meal
>watching TV instead of playing games or on the net
>no scene of fapping to porn
Highly unrealistic.
lived alone and like this for 4 years during college. there is no better feeling than just taking the delivery of some good food and sitting down in front of the laptop with previously prepared content and hitting play. bonus points for the nights when i didnt have to get up early next morning so id just drink a couple of cold ones while watching kinos
It's not for everyone and even if you're suited for that kind of lifestyle, it takes some getting used to anyway
Once you embrace the lifestyle it's hard to change it though
how do you overcome inertia?
I wasted several YEARS browsing the same boards, reading the same posts, playing the same 2 online games, rewatching the same tv shows, eating the same pre-made food. once in a blue moon I will feel adventurous and watch a movie, binge watch a new tv show, play a singleplayer game or cook a new meal
it's insanely depressing to me that I wasted my best years like that and barely got to experience anything life offers. now I also started to feel like shit physically and idk if improving my diet and exercise will undo this.
i feel almost allergic to effort and risk. watching a new movie, reading a book, sitting down and trying to draw, trying to cook a new meal... feels terrifying
after so many years of living like this change feels almost impossible. but I have to change. I feel like I'm wasting the opportunity of living in the most technologically advanced times.
the cliche advice is also the accurate advice. you do a little today, and a little tomorrow, and you keep going, one foot in front of the other. keep pushing yourself. small steps.
as my old karate instructor used to say
>how do you eat an elephant?
>one bite at a time
Unless you're over 50 it's never too late to start eating right and working out. Just start small with one push up. then the next day do two pushups and keep continuing until you feel comfortable doing 10 pushups a day. You'll get hooked on the high that comes from physical exercise and start doing different exercises until you're built. I guarantee you'll feel better you just have to put in the effort.
>it's never too late to start eating right and working out
The whole reason to lose weight is to have sex (yes it is, "for my health" is a meme just like when women say "for myself" when they wear make-up to score men) and if you're already past the point of fatness where you're going to have skin sag after losing weight then yeah it basically is too late. You're gonna look like a mutated freak and have less chance of having sex than if you stayed fat
I can tell you have never once lifted a weight. The endorphins that run through your system when working out is the best high on the planet and I've taken ecstasy. Once you start working out you realize how good it feels and how much better your mood is general that it does start becoming something you do for yourself.
When my parents became ill it was like a shot to the system. I had to start leaving the house. I had to start cooking. I had to start trying to care for them. I had to take them to appointments and things on the bus or taxi.
So crushing fear and desperation will drive you outside your comfort zone I would say. And perhaps if you don't have that, know that it is coming round the bend, and you will need to anticipate its arrival.
Looks like moronic pasta, please KyS.
Overcoming inertia is easy. Physically move yourself from point A to point B. Apply for something, whatever. Be it a job or a hobby. Make an appointment with another person and then make the commitment to be there. The ball gets rolling from there.
I'm allergic to risk and effort as well, and it doesn't better with aging. But I was lucky enough to learn early on that it's as easy to make an appointment. I booked a plane from point A to B. And it changed my life. Everything just kinda followed from there. I'm still averse to risk, but you just put yourself into a situation and then discover how you deal with it. For better or worse, it can backfire.
>Technologically advanced times
What the frick does that have to do with anything except making a stronger case for you to just do something about it.
Frick man I’ve been in the same spot. Especially since my mom died. Get up at 1pm. Spend all day scrolling through Twitter, tiktok and Cinemaphile, go for a walk in the evening. That’s it. Can’t even give myself the motivation to fill out a job application
Yet you have the energy to shitpost and go for a walk. You have food, electricity, clothing, a roof. Hot water. It takes no more energy to fill in a job application than it does to make a shitpost. Sort yourself out.
It's not the actual effort of the act itself, there's tons of non-essential things I do in a day that are arguably harder than filling out a job app. It's the gravity, headspace, and dire implications that the act wields over my mental state.
why would anyone ever drink beer
Same reason they eat tv dinners and don’t decorate their walls in apartments like this. They get everything handed to them due to being good looking white guys and when it gets taken away they realize they can’t do anything else because they never had to develop a personality. Same reason wyteppl are imploding right now in general.
best part of this is his reaction to the taste of the TV dinner
Anon, should I rewatch season 1 or do you have something else for me?
ITT
>he talm bout me frfr ong
twitter gay probably fricks std ridden prostitutes and smokes weed and thinks he’s deep and cool for it, hope he gets run over and crippled for life.
Only to the uniniciated. You grow into it. Except for drinking beer with a meal, I will never understand it.
One of my neighbors sits outside all day everyday with the radio on doing frick all probably collecting gibs and he seems happier than me.
you have been living life on easy mode if this is all it takes to spook you