Sims 2 actually! Although the UI is very similar to Sims 1, which is still definitely my fav for nostalgia reasons. That whole makin’ magic aesthetic still holds a special place in my 8th-grade witchy-emo heart. 🖤

Thank you!(!!)

I’ve been using mods in earnest lately and the “anti-jealousy” potion I found is pretty neat.

Forget love triangles, we goin full-on love octagon

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That gravel, so comfy!

Bouillon Rennet Artichoke Toes

Hoooogarfield curve.

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a beaut. Definitely not ashamed to enjoy that one.

Only a tad ashamed that Nic and Pedro rank pretty highly on my list of stupidly adorable on-screen bromances.

mcchickens

Gouache paint pigments. Cadmium red, cobalt blue… I want all the colors inside me!

^hehe

But have they seen The Lion King 3???

Jk, I’m always reminded of the Mandela effect when I hear about LK2, even being well aware of LK 1 1/2 lol. Where did LK3 go?!?!

Do I dare ask? I have this sinking feeling it’s racism related…

I feel like deeper conversations are still to be had with the people who understand you most, even if you’re not the closest with them IRL or online. That said, it doesn’t happen for me as much as I’d like it to for a number of circumstances.

That said, is it just me, or is everyone we see in daily life looking like they aged 10 years in the last few? People in the grocery store checkout, office workplace, manufacturing floor, next door, whatever human interaction capacity. Are we all aging like crazy from sheer lack of certainty in anything anymore?

Or like, is our planet’s 420ppm carbon dioxide level (which if I’m doing my mental math correctly is a 30% increase in atmospheric CO2 from just 1980ish) actually really fucking terrible for humans and we are dying as a species in real time, right before our eyes???

Fuck me.

I mean we’re fersure getting dumber.

Also this might actually be a decent deep conversation starter. (I guess we should keep trying to compensate for the CO2 dumbness somehow.)

I took a career aptitude test and it told me I should have been a software engineer and idk if that has anything to do with this, but…

Tl;dr: I got high and there’s got to be a way to do it in this here vote-time continuum!

On a superficial level, couldn’t you get creative with lemmy community settings (using a new sister community) and create only pinned posts/threads (may be subject to mod approval) which are then autosorted by new comments using some scripty pinned post reordering logic? That probably could only apply to a single community though…

The extent of my web design knowledge is limited to fuckin around with myspace html buuut, with more lemmy UI settings, could users elect that certain posts are “forum” worthy? As in, “this is a meme teehee” or “this is a topic worthy of revisiting over a greater period of time” kind of thing. And barring any weird astroturfing, these posts get “pinned” to be revived at the top of the community whenever some reply or top level comment threshold is passed. Inversely, pinned posts could fall away into an archived state after a certain period of no activity, much like the rest of lemmy that’s over a week old (whether it’s actually no longer active or not).

Getting pinned (hehe) would probably require meeting various straightforward thresholds (like relative or absolute vote value and/or the ratio of upvotes to “pins”). That could determine a sep for how long a post/thread remains subject to revival by reply.

If this configuration were applied to lemmy in general, I think to encourage participation, I’d say it should be an opt-out situation when visiting a specific community (do you want to see community-pinned posts?) and an opt-in situation when choosing to include “active archives” content in a homepage feed.

Not really sure about implementation, but to me it just becomes a secondary voting system as a means to value longevity of a topic, and various ways of incorporating those data into user sorts, community pages, and news feeds that might want to utilize.

Simple as that, right?

^heh

I have never read the Harry Potter series.

I plowed through all sorts books as a kid in the 2000s but never picked them up.

Yeah I think I’m cool with that.

The other day, I cracked open a tote of some high school papers and keepsakes that I haven’t laid eyes on in 15 years. Found a notebook inside where I wrote these yearly journal entries of big takeaways and thoughts I had each NYE starting as a freshman.

What I wrote as a freshman at 14, right down to my exact handwriting, I could have written yesterday. What really hit me was how well I had summarized my entire psyche in wide-ass crayola marker. Like shit, I couldn’t have said it more succinctly myself, self.

Are we indeed the same people we were in those “Stand by Me” years and the added baggage of aging and externally changing has only served to complicate us, to easily confuse ourselves with what we do? Is continually adding to the sum total of our lived experiences even helpful if some of us have already lost ourselves to a heap of internalized hardship?

But who am I now if I am not also what I have lived?

…

Yeah im all good here just another civilian casualty of shock and awe ruminating the night away 👈😎👉

Apologies in advance, for I am kind of dumb, but what does this mean?

What if we work backwards on this?

1. Introduce community boxes at junction points where USPS already delivers, and/or next to a parks so you can say hi to your neighbors and stuff. Ensure any box is within a tolerable walking distance for the average community member served. (Best figure five minutes here folks.)

2. Allow residents with mail being delivered to their physical addresses to opt in to delivery at their associated neighborhood box.

3. Market the boxes as happy medium between visiting a staffed post office at the center of a city and risky doorstep delivery. Locked boxes large enough to accommodate everyday parcels basically nix those pesky pilfering porch pirates.

4. Continue regularly scheduled deliveries to individual addresses because the route will continue to exist at some level of specificity anyway no matter how many or how few community boxes materialize. Carriers essentially keep the same routes but get to drop mad loads of male mail into a bunch of ready and willing local slots near you, driving efficiency up and logistics strategists wild.

5. Promote additional box patronage by offering a slight discount whenever postage/shipping is purchased for a specific physical address utilizing delivery to a community box. Immediate and total coverage of community boxes across America is neither expected nor necessary, but hell, reward those who lighten that load for others.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk!

sincerely, louise dajoy

Edit: got high while writing and it took a turn for the weird

My brother in Christ you have described almost the exact same specs I visualized. The only difference is in the level of resolution of my “scene.” And by that, I mean essentially I did a few more render passes in my head to anchor everything you’ve written within a sort of Impressionistic, highly softened, out-of-focus backdrop. I saw hints of shadowy cabinets, the concept of a darkened kitchen out of sight. The shape and finger placement of my slightly more textured, clothed yet featureless male. The gray-brown feeling of a floor below, a dark white ceiling above, and the faded glow of sunlight through an unseen dining room window grazing one end of that oaken table.

But the basics … They’re the same, and before being asked to recall them. Damn.