Jacob Burgess

the kind of wisdom one would hope to find in anxient tomes 🩸

Two simultaneous truths:

1. No matter how badly someone hurt you, once you part ways you don’t get to decide if they grow and become better. It’s their life and their choice.

2. You are never under any obligation to give them access to you, no matter how much they do that.

A photograph, in burnt-orange colour tones, of a maple leaf with a heart-shaped hole forms the background of a rectangular image. 19 book covers are arranged in two rows across the bottom. White text at the top reads "Hidden Gems! 19 books by Canadian authors you may never have heard of (but will totally wonder how your bookshelves lived without!) It also provides the date of the promo: March 1st to 15th, only on Itchi.io. The books involved are as follows: The Lion The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle The Dragon Next Door River of Crows Hope is the Thing with Feathers The Clockwork Empire Flesh and Bone Goblin Girl Moonshadow's Guardian Your Blood and Bones Winner Takes All The Flaws of Gravity Scrap Metal Angel Destined to be Normal Clipped Bloody Spade Baker Thief Path of the Warrior Prince Ewald the Brave

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Usually when I get stressed out or overwhelmed, my body craves spicy food and Korean horror movies to breakthrough and feel something, but recently, the crave has been creative.

I just finished Subnautica: Below Zero. Played the whole thing. Scariest fucking game I have ever experienced.

The only thing it feels worthwhile for me to say right now is pay attention to whether your feelings & the information you’re absorbing are paralyzing you or prompting you to meaningful action, whatever that is. Paralysis helps no one but the enemy.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

ONE. THIRD.
and countless lives destroyed because of it.

Nice work!

Please pay attention.

This is a horrible situation and it's going to do tremendous damage.

Any fighting back, any help you can give, NOW IS THE FUCKING TIME TO DO IT.

WOOF, that's Brutal! May the strength of Thor course through your veins for the trials before you.

"The Corporations don't intrinsically have souls, but they've got rights. The only corpo that contained a soul was Costco - the only one born with a soul. The Chamber of Commerce was empty, you see. These things are just vessels. That's why I'm going to destroy them. Because I hate them."

Metacritic has sent a reminder email to all games site editors/publishers which is pretty strong, and great:

I get that.

Doctor Doom returns a toddler Valeria Richards to her parents. His word bubble reads "Here in Latveria, Richards, Doom demands that children always get a good night's sleep." Valeria's word bubble reads "Hi, Mom."

One World Under Doom has been one of the greatest story archs I have ever read in comics.

It will have a special place in my heart up there with Infinity Gauntlet and Blackest Night / Brightest Day.

I am indeed

Tapping the sign

Hell yeah! I am leaving in March and should be settled by June, I am hoping.

As Feb comes to a close and I get closer to my move date, I wanted to re-up this for folks who may have missed the announcement on New Years Day. (I have also pinned it.)

This. This precisely.

Mostly I just wanted to kvetch about the soreness.

In preparation for the move to Japan I have been doing a whoooooole mess of medical appointments and record collecting.

I have been tested and poked and prodded and I am so sore!

Aside from ongoing chronic issues and the normal disabilities I manage, I am doing pretty good!

This about where I'm at too

Oh that looks like it hates tailbones

... I really hate that you're right.

What... what does that mean Adam? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

Sure, if you wanna look on the POSITIVE SIDE! Uuuuuuuuuugh! 😁

(Absolutely in jest and you are very correct)

Harrison Faulkner: Hockey programs should be more heavily subsidized across the country. The cost for Canadian kids to become goalies is far too high. Rink fees are outrageous and ice time needs to be seriously reconsidered. Pricing kids and Canadian families out of the game while bulldozing historic hockey rinks is insane. Ripping the heart of hockey culture and demonizing Hockey Canada to score political points has a detrimental impact on the country. It should be a right for Canadian kids to play hockey, not a privilege.

Canada's Olympic hockey defeat is driving right-wing influencers into the arms of socialism

Tried Pilates for the first time today. Shook more than a paint mixer.

A purple button badge on squidwards shirt that says "I'm not ignoring you I'm just really busy and if I don't use my few free hours for myself instead of responding to everyone I will straight up lose my sanity"

Nice doesn’t make waves. Nice plays well with others.

Kind is ready to start some shit for someone’s benefit, and then will help pick up the pieces.

Kind has intention and a goal.