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I have a sticky frog named Speedy which I squeeze like a stress ball when I'm feeling stressed out. It's so cool, you all should get one. Maybe I'll drop a picture off, my sticky frog is my best non-living friend.

Stress relief, for me, is writing or the Everlast bag hanging in my basement. Or flaming people in threads. Either/or.

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Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people - and kill them.

~Pacifist Badge, 1978

My biggest stress relievers are poetry (laugh, if you must.) guitar playing and sad as it is, watching movies. Well, mainly movies that make you think or make you go "what the F***??!?". Sometimes reading works too, but I tend to read books all at once, so that I've finished them in two or three nights.

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Okay, but there was a goat!

For me, sometimes just lying on the bed helps a lot, and other times, song writing can be therapuetic, too.

Probably why most of my music is extremely furious sociopolitical venom... >.>;

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~Status Report~

* Completed... Dragon's Head
* Completed... Soldiers of the Empire: Disciples (release pending)
* In Progress/Undecided... Of Love and Betrayal
* Planning/Assembly... Where it all Began

meditation, tai chi, contemplation, random thought, study, gaming, exercise, work, family, and sleep.

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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

Whenever I'm stressed I take a shower. Ripping that shower outta someone's wall and lugging it around for a few hours helps, really. Oh, how I love taking showers...

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Words of Wisdom:

If something can go wrong, it will.

If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. - Murphy’s Law

Boing! Zoom! - Mr. Saturn

Talking to myself about the problems while going on a long walk or a drive.

Practicing with my various weapons combined with meditation.

Writing/drawing can help, but only if I'm in the mood.

Listening to alternative rock music that has an easily-established "fight scene" feel to it, and sorta "dancing" to it. Well, not dancing, so much as crappily mimicking the fighting going on in my mind. Anyway, after listening to the same handful of songs a few times in a row, the stress is pretty much vented out.

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And behold, I saw a Pale Gaming System, and the name of he who rode it was Squaresoft, and Enix followed him.

when something stresses me out or pisses me off, i write a short (maybe 4 or 5 lines) rap(go ahead, laugh) about how much i hate it. after that, i feel tons better.

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moé in the streets, senpai in the sheets

Tch, I just play games, that is it for me. That is what I do when I am stressed.

Drawing, chess, video games, general disscution and philosophy disscution (but sometimes philosophy can just cause more stress.). In other words, just whatever I would be doing if I wasn't stressed. If it can keep me happy, it relives my stress. Also, it helps to be a laid back person, many things don't bug you as much.

This post has been edited by Tonepoet on 13th December 2004 19:39

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Role reversal at its finest.

An hour's kung fu training session is a good way to unwind. That or a nice nap. Though if I'm really that stressed out, I tend not to have enough time to participate in either of these activities.

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"I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking."
~Dorothy L. Sayers

"The truly remarkable thing about television is that it allows several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely."
~T.S. Eliot

"Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as reality - in your own mind!"
~ Bruce Lee

I don't get to vent my stress. Im sort of stuck on the compromising step as it is. I usually just convince myself it isn't that bad and pack it down into an ever growing ball of blech. Eh. I don't worry about it. I'm usually pretty laid back about most things anyways, so not alot gets to me.

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If you've been mod-o-fied,
It's an illusion, and you're in-between.
Don't you be tarot-fied,
It's just alot of nothing, so what can it mean?
~Frank Zappa

Sins exist only for people who are on the Way or approaching the Way

I draw or play whatever videogame I'm on at the moment. Usually Ico or Call of Duty. Ico's the most common stress reliever. I like CoD and I love drawing, but they're a bit of a gamble. I'm as likely to get even more worked up going those routes.

Worse comes to worse, I pillow scream. If nothing else, it tuckers me out but I risk getting a headache.

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Arts

Farts

Twarts

Sleep is also good for clearing out a bad mood. Hence the term, "lets sleep on it and bother with it in the morning." I find that saying has a lot of merit, actually.

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And behold, I saw a Pale Gaming System, and the name of he who rode it was Squaresoft, and Enix followed him.

I play a video game whenever I need to relieve my stress... blowing something up or conquering somebody makes me feel much better and less stressed.

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Music is a mysterious thing... Sometimes, it makes people remember things that they do not expect. Many thoughts, feelings, memories... things almost forgotten... Regardless of whether the listener desires to remember them or not...

- Shitan, Xenogears

Writing poems or stories.

When I am stressed, I like to breath deeply, read a book, wash my face or take a shower, an if the stress cause isn't a game, I play one

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x_X

It depends on what is stressing me out, but generally any of the following: Writing stories, jogging/cycling, watching anime, video games, Tae Kwon Do,
Gum Do, working out

I don't get stressed; I just go insane. At least that's the way it's been recently with finals.

Basketball, basketball, and more basketball. No matter what's on my mind when I got the gym, I feel 100% better once I've ran a few games.

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Hip-Hop QOTW:

"Yeah, where I'ma start it at, look I'ma part of that
Downtown Philly where it's realer than a heart attack
It wasn't really that ill until the start of crack
Now it's a body caught every night on the Almanac"

"Game Theory"
The Roots

OMG, Sylphid returns!!!11 :o:o

*ahem* anyways, reading up good jokes like SF's there () or writing some stories are also other good ways for me to unwind, I just realized, after seeing some more entries here. I always forget how much I love my writing until I stop for a while because I can't think of anything.

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~Status Report~

* Completed... Dragon's Head
* Completed... Soldiers of the Empire: Disciples (release pending)
* In Progress/Undecided... Of Love and Betrayal
* Planning/Assembly... Where it all Began

Programming. Nothing saps the drive to do anything out of you faster than programming. Programming will reduce you to a bland grey existance of no feeling.

Also, listening/singing to music in the car is a very good stress reliever. Alison Krauss and the Goo Goo Dolls are good candidates.

P.S. Ahoy Sylph, Gears, Zeph.

Quote (Hamedo @ 10th December 2004 11:51)

Stress relief, for me, is the Everlast bag hanging in my basement.

Hear hear to that!



Also yelling is nice.

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The clouds ran away, opened up the sky
And one by one I watched every constellation die
And there I was frozen, standing in my backyard
Face to face, eye to eye, staring at the last star
I should've known, walked all the way home
To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone

-Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You"

When I get stressed I like to do the cow level in Diablo II. KIlling hordes of axe wielding demon cows in very therupeutic.

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<Nealio> Seymour sounds like evil Winnie the Pooh

I just either walk away and do something else, or I just close my eyes and imagine absolutely annihilating the problem by burning it or smashing it with a hammer!!! (unless the stress is a game, 'cause I loves my PS2/GC/DS/any other system )
Or if all else fails, I work. I clean. I do whatever I hate to get it done and that satisfies me!

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Dang. And here I was hoping the next big thing in hip hop would be, y'know, silence. ~Djibriel

Twilight Paladin.com We are now twilightpaladin.co.nr! It's not .com, but, oh well.

The Twilight Forums!

I either play basketball or walk my dog. If I'm at home and stuff is really getting to me, sometimes she'll get three or four walks in one day.

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this is a blog mostly about comics and videogames
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Washing dishes is a panacea for any degree of stress.

Video games and writing. I can write about a character who does everything I wish I do could when all the stress builds up.

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This is my world: (Got my second chapter up, 3rd Chapter about 80% complete)
http://www3.sympatico.ca/daniel876/homepage.html

Umm... i cast magic until my MP runs out. Just kidding! Yeah, nothing better than videogames, allright.

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"Flush your problems with the rest of your crap!" ------ Palmer, FF7

"It's.... a very long story..." ------ Everybody, everywhere.
Isn't there anything better they can say?

No one has mentioned drugs yet?

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Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people - and kill them.

~Pacifist Badge, 1978