DaemonSky

Thank you. It's all so strange and like "planned admission" is not great. I've worked public health for so long, maybe I'm just like broken in how I put off the reaction? 🤷‍♀️

But dear God, too much at once seems like dissociation may not be wrong for a bit.

Oh I don't. And I won't. I could only wish. Thank you though. I really appreciate my internet friends!

Thanks. I will go to work tomorrow and pretend I'm people while not telling anyone. This is all I guess how we do this in the US? It seems weird.

I need to spend a lot more time doing ascii fireworks around my "this sucks" posts. I would like everything more I think!

Oooh kay so. Umm. Please never, ever tell your friends that experiencing all the bad things means good things will happen. Yes, even if you have California brain poisoning. Do NOT say the thing. Actually, bad things just happen and are not followed by a reward.

Luther and Calvin are liars?

I would like to note that everyone I have known for 10+ years made the same joke. You're stuck with me now. They've adopted you as the only internet friend that did.

I have not!! This will be my Saturday

I love the combo civ/leader mechanic in 7 oddly. The legacy paths??! I'm so down.

I just need it to stop crashing every 30 minutes. Their help files are like "your hardware sucks" and mine is in their "high" range but crashes on the low settings 😭

Thank you!! I will try them.

I think I am supposed to express a lot of things as my dad is dying and I don't really want to. I like my emotions a solid distance over there and I don't really like the idea of feeling these feelings?

This seems fine, if a bit delayed in coping. But people are very upset with me. Why??

Good point! Recs? I'm very up to date on Girl Genius obviously

6 weeks (4 from now) and then more xrays

DUDE. Civ VII crashes like every 10 seconds on a system so over powered it should have no issues. I'm so upset. It's like my one game.

Lol, no one needs to listen to me! I should feed good stories to someone who is better at PR?

So. Small books, yes. But I read all of those and I'm down to my big ass hardcovers. Audiobooks from the library are feeding me right now.

I mean. Yes and. Even that gets boring and I sadly have not been selected by the distribution machine.

Look, I'm a little losing my mind with one hand. What can I do that isn't drink or watch TV while this stupid thing heals? Please help - I'm very frustrated. I can't cook or make stickers or knit or crochet or all the things I do. I SUCK at drawing.

What else only needs one hand?

Lol that's right.

I find it endlessly funny that I keep looking at this when people like it and going "oh also this bad thing" while this guy is still talking 30 minutes later.

Oh right. And a broken hand. Why am I still listening to this man whine?

Also I'm not just talking about women - DUDES the message is exactly the same.

No one can make nerd community for us. We just legit need like 1-3 people and one of them has to extrovert sometimes. (I'm the sometimes, resentfully extrovert connector friend)

A grey striped cate and a black cat (tuxedo, but you can't see the white parts) sitting next to each other. (They are never this close)

So all I've got is long distance hugs and a wish to also escape to a less shitty world. How about a pic of mom's lovely cats getting along for maybe the only time it'll ever happen?

Am I supposed to sympathize or like introduce the idea of privilege? What is this person? (He's still talking. Straight white dude obvs.)

Also obvs like *waves at the shitshow of coming from immigrant communities right now* - you know, that.

I just had someone tell me they're having a bad day because of one bad meeting and I'm like "well my dad is dying, parts of my family live in a war zone, I am struggling at work, and I have an endless stalker" & etc. But sure. Yes, I sympathize.

Humans are so strange in our adaptation to stress?

OK this also means Lego club or D&D or car fixing or knitting or whatever you're into (I got DMs - can you tell?)

Just find one other person who likes a thing and then put out on whatever (paper, event bright, local discord) and see who comes to hang out.

3 people is a community. So it's 20. Our survival sets are the size we can handle, but like if one person in each of those 3s can handle bigger community, then the network is bigger. We don't ALL have to be social - we just have to have a single extrovert friend.

I feel like I say "So we build the thing we wish we had" way too often to too many people. Don't wait for someone else. You want community? Grab one friend (or willing rando) and start the book club - people will come eventually.

Community comes from building it ourselves.

Lol yes. I have an autoimmune disease that is slowly fusing my spine. The irony stated above is that I always have an invisible disability and this is the first time I've heard the comment in awhile while I have a *very visible and bright blue* temporary disability.