heads up, this starts immediately with loud gunshots lmao

who am i kidding, no one is gonna see this…

you right, i fell for it

why would they give a fuck, they’re getting fucked by the social contract, they get paid twice as much to inherit a burning planet and absolutely no prospects to have a home or even ever leave their childhood home, for the shit thankless work that customer service always has been

all for the “privilege” of making billionaires richer and furthering the destruction of the planet they’re inheriting

tbf, things were going downhill in 2008, but things are fully off the rails now, we at least had delusions of hope back then

fell for it award edit: from limited experience, i’ve found it can be helpful to talk to young folks about the power of organizing and collective action. they’re perpetually burned out from having nothing they can do to improve their circumstances, but this is a powerful avenue that, if communicated properly, can motivate them to become more invested both in their own situations, and that of others

quick check on your basics. sleep, hydration, food, hygiene. make sure they’re square

if you’re good on that front, get a good exercise session in (or work up to it, do a little bit of exercise over the next few days and build up your tolerance)

do something nice for yourself, something that preferably has a sensory component. have a nice meal with good smells and textures, or a warm bubble bath, or wash your blankets and curl up in them, or throw some ASMR on, or… you know, whatever does it for ya

go for a walk when the weather isn’t too hot

good easy ways to pull yourself out of a slight dip. kinda been there myself, this the type of shit i been doing, too

i’m not wild about the implicit comparison to a literal alien, but it’s also… fine. it feels a bit othering in the kind of way like, the owner wishes political dialogue wasn’t constantly about trans people (… which i agree with!) i think they’re probably not transphobic, but i would also hazard a guess they don’t really Get It, either

drawing is a wonderful skill that allows you to express ideas in a way that words simply cannot

it really helped me a lot to express the sort of things i was going through when i was depressed. it helped because i could express the feelings without explaining the situation or having to put it in words

do you have friends that would be supportive of your drawings? if you don’t, you could even post them online or here. but i think having a place to show your art and get feedback helps a lot (ofc, if you want to keep your art to yourself, that’s perfectly okay too)

https://drawabox.com/ if you want to give it a try

need to keep this image on deck lmao

speaking of yaoi, is there any yaoi out there which doesn’t feature / almost exclusively depict non-consentual / unwanted sex? it’s, quite frankly, a horrible fucking turn off, and i feel like i’ve run into it every time i’ve read any yaoi (not boy’s love)

check out monster hunter (world/rise/wilds) and hop on bow, light bowgun, or heavy bowgun. expect a steep learning curve, but it shouldn’t be bad if you’re used to soulslikes, monhun is just precious with iframes, so it’s a lot tighter to iframes through moves than it is in a typical souls/like

if you pick it up and end up needing a hand, hit me up! always happy to teach people how to hunt

shoutout to demon’s souls for its cracked out magic system, it goes hard lmao

what does that distinction mean to you, aside from the literal wording being different?

oh you mean they’re not diagnosed with depression, they are only reporting higher scores of anxiety and depression, i see

i don’t understand what the implication is here. is more likely to report depression symptoms meaningfully distinct from having them? do we think that men born in the summer are just more honest about their mental health struggles?

Rule

i also miss cohost…

yoooo nice, yeah finding the collectibles in khazan has been kinda tough… i just wrapped my piss (friend group name for lies of p lmao) ng run and now i’m gonna do ng+ with plc… it took me like a year to finish piss LOL, i was really slow on it but i’m cooking now because of my friend group

anyone here on khazan aka HOT GUY SOULS?? great blend of fast paced combat, broken combos, and a varied and expressive defense game. and the protag is a hot guy. really really enjoying it, including the over-the-top korean revenge plot

thanks, i’ll do my best!

i’d like to see more than “i don’t know if it holds water”, especially since you don’t couch it nearly as well in your previous post bringing it up

a thesis is on the onus of who brings it up to substantiate it; if you can’t defend it, i would question the wisdom of bringing it up in an already contentious conversation

yeah i’m interested (also i’m transmasc), i’m around pretty often on this account now, it’s the main one i use for browsing lemmy nowadays

it would really be better for me if moderation stuff works on the boost client, idk if you know if it does or not (have never moderated before)

that’s what happens when you start to push your skills to see as far as they’ll go

although it seems like you may not have realized that skill is just a function of your natural ability, the people around you who might have taught you (or not) and… time invested

i think it’s harder to view your skill as a part of your identity, once you realize that. like, i am very good at soulslikes / monster hunter, which is cool and flashy, but also… i’ve been playing them for almost ten years now, and games as a whole my entire life: of course i’m good at them

on the other hand, you might struggle to learn something despite your time invested… then it sucks, because you’re probably missing something, or just not very naturally inclined towards what you’re trying to learn. but you there’s nothing you can do about that but seek out teachers and continue to try

at the end of the day, all you can really count as a merit for or against yourself is the time you’ve invested

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all that said, we all recognize we each have inherent worth on the basis that we exist and we’re alive… right? :)