I’ll play with you.

Seriously.

I haven’t before but I’d love to. Last dnd I played was 3.5. I won’t touch anything else, except pathfinder and other non-dnd games.

No silly that’s brawndo! Gatorade just isn’t there yet you see.

In total honesty this is exactly why I hoard that shit.

When I was a teen, many many moons ago, I played ff8. It was my first ff game. I used items whenever I needed them but never bothered stocking up because well… meh.

And then I saved my game right before the end boss, in a location you can’t go back from.

My inventory had a handful of items; 2 phoenix downs, a handful of potions, and that’s about it.

I then proceeded to spend 172 hours trying the end boss over and over and over (roughly 3 weeks of all my free time), different strategies, different patterns, different starting lineups, the works.

And you know what? I beat that bitch. It would have been faster and easier to replay the entire game, but I’m not that smart so.

Ever since then I hoard as much as I can. Do I have 500,000,000 gold? Good, but I still won’t spend it if I don’t have to, other than to have full stacks of every consumable which I probably won’t use. There are games that I don’t use consumables at all, or only for the first couple of character levels…

I’m with you on this. I have very few notifications enabled, and read receipts are off on my end (except signal, where like you I only have 2 contacts, and I don’t mind them knowing that I flaked to hell on replying, because they are also neurospicy or intimate partners, and we just have a sort of understanding that as long as we are still close, it’s fine to leave stuff until you can handle it.)

It’s really liberating. I can read texts and then set them back to unread so I know I need to follow up, but nobody else knows I’ve even seen it.

I genuinely wouldn’t be able to turn off notifications tho, not entirely… I absolutely do not look at my phone enough to see the badges. Even with notifications on and set to re-alert 3x, I miss a ton of shit because I try not to use my phone much anymore (I doom scroll too much and video games are better for my health even if they are full of war crimes and sort of fucked morals like rimworld.

Haha this reminds me of a sale sign I saw recently on a visit. It didn’t say garage sale, or yard sale, or rummage sale, nor estate sale.

No, it said EMIR SALE with an arrow, and zero other information.

What the fuck does that mean??? I asked my friend who lived there and she also didn’t know. I figured someone was selling something specific, called emir. Whatever that might be; I’m pretty out of the loop.

Turns out it’s a street name. I guess they are selling the whole street?

My highschool used the same blueprints as the local prison, so… yep that all tracks and they don’t even try to hide it.

All cats.

If it was my old boy, omg I’d love to have 100 versions of him, but the test would be if I sat down, the cat immediately on my lap is probably him, but to be sure I’d bring in some random stranger and sit them down and see if the same cat goes to them immediately. He was the absolute friendliest cat on the face of the earth, even thought the mailman was there for him!

As for the girl I had at the same time, I’d put down wet food aplenty, and then put a pizza box in the very middle of the table with ham in it and see which one could, and wanted to, get it open. She fucking loved pork for whatever reason, and she was smart enough to understand that knocking a food box off the table would get it open very nicely. I lost a lot of leftovers to that bitch.

My current cats… they would yell at me and disappear. So no idea. I’d probably put my quail cage in the room and see which ones don’t give a shit about the birds. That’s probably a good clue. Tho the fact that they would be fighting everyone would also be a good clue, that would not be a happy time. They can’t even stand small wildlife by the door…

I prefer the sound of silence.

I don’t mean the song but I’m also fine with the song (it gives me Frission every time I hear it, so it gets a pass.)

True, but I kept two and got another 6 adopted out (two litters, I have one cat from each, and there were some losses, as these were barn cats)

And all of them turned out happy and friendly expect the ones I kept : /

As did several half siblings (there’s like 3 baby daddies in the group and 4 mamas, so the kittens were consistent across about a dozen litters - melanistic tabbies (voids with stripes) gray tabbies (gray with stripes) and regular tabbies)

Since nobody else seems inclined to share the deep darks of their life, I will.

Due to a childhood of neglect, I tend to ruin baby animals left in my care. Not because I want to, but because I’m not nurturing at all. Not even a slight tiny bit. I keep them alive and unharmed just fine, that I can do. But that’s about all I’ve got.

I’ve had a few cats that I’ve acquired as kittens and by the time they hit adulthood they hate everything. The first time I didn’t realize it was me, and I had a cranky bitch who hated everyone and everything but me… for 16 years… after the last time I know it must be me. Because cats from the same litter went to my partner and theirs are super nice and friendly, and mine… one gets so upset seeing other strange cats that she misplaces her aggression and goes after her sister until her sister pees herself running away. It fucking sucks, and I wish I was better for them.

The dog I got as a puppy was poorly socialized, as well, but I wasn’t able to keep her past the first year (pitbull in an apartment, but she was just friendly as hell, not mean or aggressive)

My quail were about ready to see me as mama, same with the chickens, even nestling in my hands to fall asleep, and now they don’t like me… (that one is probably a reach-down problem, they like me a lot better when I reach in at them instead of down from above, but still)

So except where necessary, like farm animals, I avoid getting babies. I’m sterile for this reason as well. I don’t want to pass on my fucked up neglected childhood, even to animals.

https://getchipdrop.com/

Totally completely unrelated to anything you said. Just a hookup between arborists and people who need an entire dump truck load of free wood chips unceremoniously unloaded in their driveway at a random future time.

So just an absolute rage of hormones and oxytocin? Sounds miserable to me, but I’m ace-aro so what do I know?

You can get an oxytocin nasal spray, right now, to enhance your bonding if you so choose.

Thanks!

I’m genuinely both surprised and excited that this ended up being two women.

Could someone with better search skills or knowledge of their discography link to their music for me? I’ve heard it’s good but I legitimately can’t find anything but news videos when I go looking (I don’t use any music handler platforms)

Depends how you make it. I use medium for my French press.

This came up as a plot point in some other animated show, and for the life of me I can’t figure out what it was…

Like the realization that they were hurting so many people so they could survive and save the world or whatever it was… and it just killed them inside…

(And I’m fairly certain I’m not thinking of Rick and Morty, although that does sort of happen as well… and I don’t think it was bojack horseman either…)

Space news really makes up for a lot of the other news floating around these days…

This is really neat! I guess I didn’t realize JWST was doing planet hunting.

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