A single shoot for everything like the cloaca sounds terrible though

Reminds me of a game we learned from some south Asian students at my school called odd even.

It’s a 2 player game. First the players choose odd or even. They bump fists with one hsnd, and show a number at the same time. 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5. Their numbers are added up and the result is checked if it’s odd or even. Whoever called it right wins. But wait that’s not the actual game it’s just the deciding round. Like the coin toss before the soccer game

Whoever won the deciding round picks “bowling” or 'breaking". Whichever one they pick the other player is the other.

Both players bump fists and show a number(1-6 with only thumb being raised meaning 6) at the same time. The bowling player’s goal is to show the same number as the breaking player. If the numbers are different the value of the breaking player’s hand is added to their score(starts at 0) and players bump fist again and again until the bowling player calls it right. When they do the breaking player’s score is saved and players swap positions. They play one more game the same way with the new breaking player’s goal being to exceed the score of the original breaking player. If they do they win. If they’re stopped before that they lose.

Sure. It’s better with 4 or more players.

At first every player is assigned a number. Then one person starts.

They say “I went to the market with (another player’s number)”. That player has to quickly respond “Why with (their number)?”. The first player says “Then with what?”, they say “With (any other player’s number)”.

For example: 1 says “I went to the market with 2”. 2 has to say “Why with 2?”. 1 has to say “Then with what?”, 2 says “With 4”. 4 has to respond “Why with 4?” and so on so it’s a call and response game.

Repeat until someone gets confused, makes any mistakes or takes too long to respond. When they do, the person that flustered them gets to assign them a new name. This replaces their number, they have to answer to it and everyone has to use it now. Generally these are insults as this is a rowdy game between friends but of course they can choose whatever they want.

If someone makes more mistakes after being assigned a nickname you add adjectives to it. Eventually you’ll get things like:

“I went to the market with fat smelly pig”

“Why with fat smelly pig?”

“Then with what?”

“With arrogant ass”

And so on.

After 3 adjectives you’re eliminated and everyone continues until 1 person is left.

It’s confusing because you gotta keep track of everyone’s names and your own and answer quickly.

That’s pretty cool for big groups.

We had a verbal game that was similarly confusing called “I went to the market”

We had 2 games we used to play that I haven’t been able to find online. One I think is common but I just can’t find it, the other is nonsensical and probably super local.

Nice try, pickpocket

What about all the lions vs all the lionfish?

Can’t get rid of it if I tried

Is it a vet?

Can’t seem to login. Getting “[200] Error while sending: Failed to send direct message”

Get ready for the next battle

I watched my life go by

That’s perfectly fine. Don’t worry about forgetting words. You will forget them, look them up again, forget them look them up again, eventually they’ll stick. Focus on the reading. Don’t treat it like a vocabulary lesson. Every day you’re here to read, as long as you reach the end you’re good, over months you’ll realize you learned a lot of vocabs.

At first because the text will be so dense with new words yes it will take a long time to read, that’s why I typically only read a short maybe half a page per day. Then gradually increase that as your vocabulary grows over months. The goal should be to encounter say 50-100 new words a day. Notice I said encounter not learn.

Those websites where you look up words are really useful. Make sure they have text to speech and read out loud in the language not in English even if you see the translation in English that’s fine.

Also do a lot of listening along with the reading. I usually get myself an audio book and its corresponding text, chop it up into 1 minute and half a page segments, for each segment listen once, then read looking new words up, then listen while reading at the same time a few times, trying to follow a long, looking up any words I forgot, then listen without reading a dozen or so times until I can follow along. Then movd on to the next segment.

Do a lot of reading and listening to material you find interesting. The learning happens in the background.

Reminds me of space force dollars

Nope

Might wanna write them down as soon as you wake up.

Dreams can sometimes inspire creative work so to me I like remembering them.

I heard smell is particularly good at bringing back memories, sometimes even in Alzheimer’s patients.

To me it’s hearing that seems the strongest, especially music.

You can probably check that out in the performance section of your browser dev tools

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