I feel attacked

Japan...

i just really freaking love public transportation infrastructure

i want to ride ALL THE TRAINS

You might like the AdamDoesNotExist YouTube channel
- Notjustbikes is also wonderful.
I sort of wonder if the next generation will still romanticize Japan in quite the same way. We're past the peak trendy-products era of Weird Sony and the Toyota MR2, anime is no longer a secret exotic thing, and it feels like if you want "15 years ahead of us optimistic techno future", you could easily slide in Chongqing or Seoul instead of Tokyo.
- As far as I can tell, gen z's more into Korea, Japan already seems passé (being in a midlife crisis meme doesn't help)

Nani the fuck did you just fucking iimasu about watashi, you chiisai bitch desuka? Watashi’ll have anata know that watashi graduated top of my class in Nihongo 3, and watashi’ve been involved in iroirona Nihongo tutoring sessions, and watashi have over sanbyaku perfect test scores. Watashi am trained in kanji, and watashi is the top letter writer in all of southern California. Anata are nothing to watashi but just another weaboo. Watashi will korosu anata the fuck out with vocabulary the likes of which has never been mimasu’d before on this continent, mark watashino fucking words. Anata thinks anata can get away with hanashimasing that kuso to watashi over the intaaneto? Omou again, fucker. As we hanashimasu, watashi am contacting watashino secret netto of otakus across the USA, and anatano IP is being traced right now so you better junbishimasu for the ame, ujimushi. The ame that korosu’s the pathetic chiisai thing anata calls anatano life. You’re fucking shinimashita’d, akachan.

Is this the guerrilla warfare copy pasta?
Omou again, fucker.
My sides.
And I know it's a copypasta and the bad translation is the point, but "akachan" is way too friendly for "You're fucking dead, kiddo". I'd go for "gaki", which is a common part of weeb lingo and literally means "kiddo", with the same connotations and all.
orz

What do I do if mine's not on here? What kind of mid-life-crisis is this?

Welcome friend.
We all mid-life down here.
I picked drinking and having a band. Except that's also what I did from age 16 to 40. Maybe I've always been in crisis.
You're perfect, yes it's true!
But without me-e, you're only you

Does HRT count

This post is definitely missing gay and trans signs.

Add gardening, birdwatching, golf, volunteering?

Cycling, an instrument, home brewing, a golden retriver...
- Home brewing started in my mid 20s for cheap mead. Now the only difference is slightly nicer gear like glass demijohns instead of cola bottles and added variety. Started infusing spirits with things too.
!birding@lemmy.world is a community on Lemmy! we have birb
You must be thinking of a retirement-crisis
oh weird, same. Though switch golf with mushroom foraging

I got the bonus 5th one: Linux

Been using that since my teens

I don't see "an increasingly difficult to ignore urge to bomb an oil pipeline" on here.

That comes under running , grad school and Japan
Oh wait. You said ignore...I had already committed and planned my escape to Japan
- S Tier response

Hufflepuff.

Wait a minute...

No, I stand by it. Just replace the badger with a blunt.

I'm turning into a bog witch

I've let like half my yard grow out and turn into a de facto butterfly garden. I've got a birdbath where I leave shineys for the crow. It's going pretty well, I recommend it.

I was gonna say, women have been getting sick of men and turning into bog witches for centuries now, probably longer. The more socially acceptable version was nunneries for a while, since men need to feel like they're in control of that some way or another. I'm the city apartment version where I'm becoming a night shift vampire /other undead into tarot cards and Gnosticism.
- I'm going bog witch, but I'm a dude, so I guess druid?
- Oh yeah I did that when I was like 18-20, it's cool. Gnosticism and tarots are fun, I'm incorporating them into my middle aged dad bog witchery for sure.

My midlife crisis: I bought a ten year old car and started fixing it myself.

I have bloody knuckles and bruised forearms and now a pretty bad oil leak but I replaced that goddamn turbo.

Stick with it, and soon you'll have a rolling chassis with destroyed interior, body full of rust holes, a crippling Miller lite addiction, and lots of friends with similar rusty old beaters that just need a little TLC.
- Yeah but she'll sound awesome and handle like a dream
- Excuse me, those are speed holes to reduce drag.

You forgot about bouldering / rock climbing

Just as I thought I weren’t a stereotype… oh well…

Cycling, linux and archery

Smoking meats

Here in my backyard, smoking these meats.
True, true, this is me too. I’ve got to admit to having to hold myself back from a full on outdoor kitchen. But I have a nice grill and a huge smoker, and I’ll be here every weekend wondering how to find people who want to share 15# of pulled pork or something.
I’ve actually gone overboard with cooking in general. Replaced teflon with cast iron and stainless steel, and a griddle top , and learned how to cook so many different foods from so many cuisines.
Running and smoking meats and everything that is food, my kettle is having a hard time

Where's the "Reclusive hermit" one.

Does this come with a "let's try growing that beard back out" starter pack?
I thought that was assumed since Lemmy?

None of the above?

Strength training and returned to a hobby of my younger years - cars.

E: wouldn’t even call it a midlife crisis. Just finally having a little time to have a hobby and understanding that being healthy will extend what quality years I have left.

私も攻撃されたと感じる。。。

どうですね!

Japan? Does that just mean travel?

At avoidance of being real: no it means Japan.
- We are all Japan on this day.
  Konnichiwa bitches.
No, I'm pretty sure it means being or becoming a weeb

I guess running. About 4 years ago, I started on the treadmill with an exhausting 30min/mi. Earlier this week I completed my first 7min/mi. Along the way, I added a 28min/5k@1.5% and am working on a 60min/10k (today did 62min/10k).

That's awesome! Well done, and keep up the hard work. Don't forget to stretch.

Where is the one for dating someone 15-20 years younger than you?

That's a sub class, if you pick running then you'll date a younger runner. If you pick Japan then you'll date a young Japanese person etc.
That's the post divorce crisis
Fucking legends
- Or fucking nonces. Depending on where they are in the age range

Le sigh. Grad school

Fuck, right as I got back into manga and anime...

But it's mostly rock climbing really.

BDSM. I have integrated pretty quickly into the local community, and I'm a regular at munches and play parties.

Wait, BDSM is a group event?
I thought it was more like a partner tennis, not community soccer.
- Think of it as more of a space where people can meet up and get freaky. 90 percent of the time is people standing around and chatting in fetish gear.

I fell into running...hard. I went from almost no physical exercise to running marathons over the space of 2 years. Did my first 100km ultra in December.

I see I've found another Type 2 connoisseur.
I’m on track to do the same right now. Was virtually sedentary until January of this year and now I’m doing 25 miles a week and get grumpy when I can’t run.

I'm only 33, a bit young for midlife crisis, but I've gotten into ham radio. I think it's probably the most I've spent on a hobby. Even budget radios that can communicate over the horizon are pretty pricey.

Edit: The most I've spent on a hobby to get started on a hobby, that is. I've definitely sank much more money into video games and when I played it Magic the Gathering.

You're never too young to have a midlife crisis. Have two or three.
Ham radios are awesome though and that's less of a midlife crisis hobby, and more of a crisis hobby.

I feel like I'm doing the midlife crisis thing wrong. I'm factionless atm. I'm also too tired to have a crisis. My time is spent going to work and trying to survive in a field that is increasingly difficult to survive in.

I'm jealous some people have time and energy to have a full on crisis on the side. You lucky, lucky bastards.

Are you a software engineer
- I friggin wish xD
- I’m a software engineer and I’m doing pretty well with my ongoing quarter life crisis

Where is the drinking and BBQing one?

Homeassistant/homelab, Nintendo Switch with the kids, getting back into playing bass, and Walking

These are just hobbies.
- Aren't all of these things?

What's with the popularity of pickleball these day? What happened to badminton?

People won’t stop laughing when you refer to the shuttle-cock.
So now we say “Slap that pickle, Chet!” And no one giggles.

Fucking math.

Yes give me sudden urge to self-study linear algebra for shits and giggles. Ima go look at math memes now.

I nearly failed math my entire life wdym it will suddenly become interesting for no reason.

Try self-teaching yourself programming If you like math, you'll greatly enjoy being able to apply it.
Hey... Wanna go down the geometry rabbithole?
https://archive.org/details/introductiontono031680mbp/page/n76/mode/1up
It has points at infinity, area as a function of angle defect, a triangle whose angles sum to 0...

As a gen-x, I feel attacked that millennials are already having midlife crises.

You are young! Save it for your fifties, kids, I haven’t had mine yet!

Millenials ain’t making it to our 50s, the water/climate wars will solve that for us.
- I'm full of micro plastics.
As a fellow gen-x, I had one in my early forties and again at fifty-seven!

Grad school but I can't afford it. Or running but my knees hurt so I got way too into bicycles

If your pedals have power meters, you've gone too far.
- Jokes on you, my power meter is in the crank arm.

I have done all of these. None of them were a midlife crisis - that was straight fucking.

Go on…

I have ADHD. All of the above.

Probably quite decent in all of them too
Running isn't even a hobby, it's my default speed.

My closest one would be running. I started doing 5 minutes a day on an old exercise bike where the computer and thus the resistance motor didn't work in september, gradually adding more time as I got into better shape.

It was when I got a new one that actually works in mid January that I REALLY got going, though, and I've put in 90 hours for a total of 3813 km (2369 miles) since then.

For context, that's more than the straight line distance between Washington DC and Los Angeles or almost the distance between London, England and Gao, Mali.

As far as mid life crises go, that along with eating a lot better ain't so bad 😁

Less like a crisis, more like a solution
- True 😁

Which AI generated slop are you?

these are all horrible. where is cosplay at 48?

I started collecting Lego again.

... and running.

Thrifting should be an option.

I can tell I’m the target demo because the Goodwills all play music I like.

I know it’s a thing, I see kindred souls with the same millennial dork vibes all of the time.

My local Goodwill sucks so I go to a thrift shop run by a church and listen to their horrible Christian rock.
Man are those dudes horny for Jesus.
- The closer the music is to this, the more likely you are to find something that goodwill would have auctioned off for $300+ going at like $5. Some Alpha MTG booster pack, a forgotten Nirvana cassette demo, all of these things lay buried in the bottom floor of some church basement. The place will only accept cash though.

What about the stereotype of buying a flashy car? Arguably that’s the one I fell into: spending far more on a car than I ever have to get something flashy and different, and purely thinking of me for what felt like the first time in my life.

I bought a roadster ... which turned out to be probably the best financial decision of my life. $11K (used, obviously) and I drove it for nine years and then resold it for $5K. The thing about roadsters is that they're thoroughly impractical, so dudes buy them and then keep them in a garage for a decade or two and then sell them for next to nothing. I have no friends so I don't even need the one passenger seat let alone a back seat.
- I came really close to doing that as a younger adult. At one point it was almost a club, so many co-workers had an older mg. Unfortunately they are no longer as plentiful or cheap.
  Now I’m tempted from time to time but would never spend the time to care for it myself, which is one of the reasons to get an older vehicle.
  At the moment I have the practical needs that both my kids are driving but sharing one car and can’t yet afford their own. This is the first summer that coordination will be a challenge. I took a Quick Look into long term rentals and short term leases and they’re just too expensive. I don’t want to buy them a car that will just sit and rot for 10 months they’re in college. I am so tempted to get myself another fun car. Maybe a project or classic. For the summer I’d have one more vehicle to share for the family. If there was an issue with my main car, I’d have an option. And if it’s a fun car for me I don’t mind having it the ten months of the year they’re in school
  That Slate is so promising, but obviously more expensive than an older used car. I’d be tempted to get the open air configuration despite living in the northeast where it’s not practical most of the year

Motorcycles!🏍️🏍️💨💨

Maybe I should get one again. Not driven in over a decade.
That was my quarter life crisis, I fear my midlife crisis

Fuck. Running.

Synthesizer and gym habit. The former for fun, and the latter out of necessity.

What do you do if running hurts your knees? Just do it anyway?

I have tried changing footwear but generally if I walk a lot my knee will hurt. Doctor said thats just how I’m built I guess.

I would like to get into it. I guess I could just do NSAIDs?

have you thought about trying cycling?
- I do love cycling and sometimes use the bike in the gym. Running would be cheap and convenient tho
Maybe do strength training and stretching exercise first that target the leg muscles. A lot of knee pain comes from imbalanced leg muscles. Like when one side of the leg is too stiff or too weak.
Running is in most cases good for knee health in the long term. It could be that you just need to take it slower to build up the knee strength.
Important: If you feel pain, stop and wait for it to recover.
I used to always run for fun. I was a go run a "real quick" 10k to hatch a pokemon egg kind of guy. I can't run anymore because of my knees, my doc said I need surgery, but I'm waiting until I feel that I need it.
Btw if I were you and my doctor said something dumb like that, I'd find another doctor.
My advice is to use an elliptical to test the waters. They are when used correctly low impact on the knees.
- Thanks yeah that seems like a reasonable choice
https://youtube.com/@thekneesovertoesguy
Check out this guy. Now full transparency I've never checked his stuff out, but people who know far more than I do say he is legit and I know a few people who have used his videos to work through injuries and improve their range of motion and it worked.
Theres also some "Performance enhancing compounds" that can supposedly improve longevity and recovery that can help with joint issues but thats a whole rabbit hole and the research just isnt definitive, I've dabbled and I feel like they worked and know stuff but I'm not trying to advertise for that sort of thing.
It depends. Do they hurt because the cartilage is gone? Then I'm pretty sure you are boned and have to pick one of the other three midlife crisis. Otherwise try physiotherapy. Lots of things cause knee pain: imbalance of muscle strength, muscle tightness, poor running style, bad shoes. Don't power through on pain killers - you don't want to also be in pain when you aren't running. Oh, and bad shoes is the last thing to look at out of those four. People can generally run in anything. A shoe that compensates for one of the other three problems is not a good shoe.
Have you tried insoles? Mine started to hurt and it was from my knees turning in because of bad arch support in my shoes
- I have, although I suppose it’s been a while since I tried running with the new shoes and insoles
I get pain in my shins when I run outside. I exclusive run on the treadmill now and that works for me.
- You've got a muscle there.
  The pain could be from a lot of things:
  Shoes too tight, the way you roll your foot as you run, schin splints (very doubtful), even not being hydrated could be a cause for your issue.
  The right running shoes are also very important.
Don't use drugs to solve a problem like this. You'll just build a tolerance and solve nothing.
Look into strength training as others suggested. Start with bodyweight exercises before moving on to weights. It'll take a while though as you'll need to experiment to find what works, and ofc exercise isn't an overnight thing.
Maybe also consult a physical therapist.
And if all of that is too much, running isn't the only effective cardio exercise. Cycling, swimming and less obvious/weird ones like slideboard mountain climbers, which should all be easier on the knees

none, just neutrally observing my fastly declining physical recovery rates and wondering if it will be in the negatives 20 years later

Pretty much. I've got frozen shoulders going on, a sore neck for about a year, and I have to head straight to the bathroom when I get out of bed.
- Lol wait til you're peeing five times a night.

The workshop life has found me. Currently obsessed with 3d printing

I did this as a hobby anyway, but I just can't find the time.

Japan?? Ummm, wut? Damnit... I'm still going.

As a elder millennial, I am slotted heavily into the running category. Everyday!

Music 🎼🎵🎶

More specifically: playing the instruments: drum, piano/keyboard, clarinet, guitar, whatever else 🥁🎹🎸🎷🎺🎻🪗🪘🎛️

Bonus points for "getting back to", as in: something you got a start as a young fella but then life happens and you stopped doing it, and now that your bone aches when it is cold your mind went to old times when life felt brighter.

Well I'm forty now and about 6 months ago I decided that after nearly 30 years of listening to metal music I was going to finally learn how to do harsh vocals/metal screaming. Still an enormous amateur, and I have a lot to learn, but basically just this week I finally got to the point where I don't hate listening to my own screams.

So uh, whatever you wanna call that midlife crisis, that's mine.

Running

I’m not quite there yet but i would probably just keep on cycling. It’s a great sport and even better for a midlife crisis. There’s even a word for it: MAMIL (Middle-Aged Men in Lycra)

I'm a middle-aged cyclist (though I got into it around 20) who eschews lycra. I hate the look, the fit, and the feel. I bike in vans slip-ons, running shorts, and t-shirts. At most I'll wear chamois under the shorts. No clips for me either, flats with the peg screws forever. 90% road cyclist btw, very little mountain biking. Oh and no fitness tracker / GPS as of a few years ago. I just need as little friction as possible between being not on the bike and being on the bike. For me it translates to more fun and many more miles. These days some would call my style "xbiking".
There are many different sorts of cycling though. Mountain biking and road cycling seem to be the two that can involve spending a lot of money on high end gear that is well suited to a mid life crisis.
I just go on bike rides to the beach on my bike that only cost mid 3 figures.

I don't know, running for a lot of us is just having our bodies start breaking down and want to avert that.

Biking fills a similar crisis role, as long as you paid $15K for the bike. Bonus points for removing three of the six chainring screws when you're 50 pounds overweight.
- I didn't pay $15K but I got a new one. And then the gears were two low because it was a mountain bike and I had to install a custom touring drive train. (I'm having the same problem with my current e-bike, in that I run out of gears and e- at about 20mph.)

None, more modelmaking, hiking and reading.

The two that don't involve me having to do any physical exercise ofcourse

3/4 for me.

Just finished my second 1/2 marathon, got a masters last year and trying to go to Japan this fall

What’s your pickleball team gonna be called?
- The Relish

Um, a deep dive into moral philosophy? No academic institutions were attached to it. I just read a lot.

Where do I go to make friends like you?
- I'd suggest a BDSM munch or a LUG at a cafe. Also writing groups.

Did I speedrun a midlife crisis in my 20s? 🤔 Never did pickleball, but that's pretty synonymous with retirees over 60 in my corner of the world.

Me who just went back for their PhD

Oh god, I feel called out. Except that mine has been a long and painful trajectory with various episodes since high school.

Okay I'll bite

What is pickle ball? Is it like Calvin ball? Also, whoever finishes reading this comment will forget they were ever gay.

I will come back to this post in 20-25 years time.

Miniatures wargaming and lifting over here. Also got divorced, which was good.