Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻

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Image of the anonymous question: "Thoughts on Hazbin Hotel?" - Answered on Navyfragen.app

I've never seen it!

Image of the anonymous question: "Can I ask, how many people did you date before settling down?" - Answered on Navyfragen.app

Well - I suppose it depends on how you define "date", so it's somewhere between a dozen and [I was a busy bear] number of people.

Started and finished Dispatch this weekend. I think it's terrific.

Selfie. I'm a bear man with dark brown mustache and salt and pepper beard.

I did some mustache maintenance. Thoughts?

Also: learn the difference between what is compromisable, what isn't, and be ready to confront how those might change. A "no way" can turn into a "hmm - maybe" to a "I'm open to this" over time. You will change. You will learn things. That's okay.

C'mon: GenAI is a tool of the oppressor. You don't need it to make a point.

So: my advice is purely based on what I experienced through my very specific lens - too jealous, insecure, and overtly affectionate.

1) Communicate your needs.
2) Don't confuse intensity for love.
3) Have all the sex you want, but...
4) Nurture non-sexual togetherness.

Image of the anonymous question: "I've recently come out. How did you find dating? Any red flags to watch out for? Any mistakes you learned from?" - Answered on Navyfragen.app

I found dating - complicated. I never had the chance when I was coping with mental illness, which coincided with my early out years. Afterwards, the first man I dated turned to a partner of 5 years. When I was first truly dating, I learned a few things about myself. (1/2)

Apparently "earnesty" is obsolete and I should have written "earnestness" but I really like the poetry of "earnesty" so I say we shoul dbring it back.

It was skeeted with a message that it was what games "can and should be", which gives me pause.

Lumines Arise Is The Living Memory Of PlayStation Cool Like an old friend you haven't seen in a decade, Lumines is back to melt your cynicism away.

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I appreciate the ode to Lumines, which is excellent, but I don't think we've a shortage of unfussy artistic earnesty.

I like Aftermath very much, but I don't agree that games "should" be any given thing - and the assertion that "art these days feels self-aware and too clever by half" is not my general experience with recent art.

There was a superhero RPG some years back that I bounced off very quickly because of that self-conscious zippy snark. With Dispatch, I'm only drawn in. The team deserves kudos for that, even if I wish we could universally tone down the Dreamworks smirk by like 20, 25% across all animation.

I realise I am late to this party but Dispatch is excellent so far, and I appreciate the dialogue a lot. It's banter-y without being exhaustingly self-conscious a la MCU. I think this is a tough tone to nail - and they did it.

The peanut flips actually taste like they *should* be American - cheese puffs, but peanut butter flavour instead.

Italo disco was never big on USA airwaves so I missed out on the first go-arounds <3

The three biggest were all italo disco indeed.

YouTube video by AvrilLavigneVEVO Avril Lavigne - Breakaway (Official Lyric Video)

There's also a psuedo-cover sort of thing where an artist writes a song for someone else, then performs it themselves later. Big fan of that. Like, Avril Lavigne wrote Breakaway, which was a huge hit for Kelly Clarkson - then recorded it years later.

YouTube video by RHINO Laura Branigan - Gloria (Official Music Video)

One of my top choices. I didn't know it was a cover of an Italian hit until a few years back!

YouTube video by Rare80s Robert Hazard - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Saw a 'favorite cover song' post and I think folks don't know just how many songs are covers of recordings they've never heard.

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Never but I appreciate your intrepid spirit.

Feeling this, plus I have a terrible pattern of sequestering myself, getting lonely, reaching out, getting overwhelmed, retreating, the endless cycle. I'm trying; if I get quiet, it's always because I'm in repair mode. That's a long cycle.

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Today's music: Shostakovich's perfect 5th symphony, which premiered this day in 1937. The audience was on its feet for over an hour.

Sadly, I've never seen that in Belgium.

A jar of Biscoff speculoos spread.

Nutella is still the sweet spread of choice - along with the best thing ever invented:

I'd add that Europeans do have a different relationship to peanut butter, depending on where you are. In Belgium where I am, it's getting a little more popular, but the Dutch are far more into it - though not on American levels!

Yup, that's what they're called in Belgium too! Ranch dressing isn't really a thing here, so I get the renaming. What's more American than Ranch?!

It tends to be less smooth and sugary, more like what you might think of as "natural", with an oil layer on top. I think it's great, but it's different from the classic sandwich PB like Skippy and Jif.