MelodiousFunk

Hard relate to 1. But I actually have some relevant info for 3:

https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs

You'll still get coup'd, but at least you'll have a better understanding of why.

We also hit the mobile tour last year. By the time we got to the trailer, there was very little left in the way of exclusives (at least those that I didn't already have >_>). So we walked away with two retail kits and the cardboard souvenirs.

I also miss the days where I bought physical media. These days, it's hard to find something new that interests me, is actually available for purchase, and/or isn't a super limited collectors set with steelbook etc that needlessly inflates the price. Good thing I have decades of physical media to, um... sit on a shelf unwatched, mostly. >_>

To be fair, about 8 LA remakes would fit inside the original LA cartridge.

headphones with music (at a reasonable volume!) to dampen other sounds in the case of sound sensitivity, sunglasses in case of light sensitivity, etc.

Any suggestions for smell (that don't involve holding one's nose permanently and sounding like a muppet)? Because I spent over half my life in an environment teeming with cigarettes stale and fresh, and ever since I got out of that environment the faintest of fragrances are irritating and the strongest are repulsive. I've spent the past 15 years being incredulous that I'm either the only one that smells Whatever That Smell Is, or convinced I'm having olfactory hallucinations.

I think sticky tack makes up a non-trivial portion of the total mass of my old Wing HG kits.

It's still a struggle and it's also cost me a significant amount of my ability to enjoy my free time (have to severely limit my investment in anything not work related so I don't accidentally get consumed by it and lapse at work)

This path leads to burnout. I have no practical advice since we are kind of required to put work first in order to survive. But the fact that it's socially acceptable to call this "living" makes me sick to my stomach.

the existence of evil, which is not a thing per se, but the absence of good

...what? The absence of good is indifference. Evil takes effort, you have to work at it. It's the difference between trying to help the homeless, ignoring the homeless, and burning down tent cities.

And then proceed to use two data points to extrapolate your entire history in their heads, and conclude that the issue is really [something irrelevant].

As a meta note, the .world Gundam/gunpla communities have been pretty dead for awhile. Mods are long gone. There was a more active Gundam comm on an instance that got shut down earlier in the year. A lot of us (relatively speaking, active users etc.) moved to !gundam@ani.social. Which isn't much livelier but at the very least it's actively modded.

Anyone can post wherever they like, just wanted to put the FYI out there.

if you're in academia you should be able to produce a five paragraph essay.

So, K-12 is "academia" now?

Being able to produce a narrative is an essential life skill.

Lots of essential life skills are difficult for lots of people. Something we get reminded about every time it comes up by people who have no clue what they're talking about yet see fit to tell others what they should and shouldn't do, and how to feel about it.

The world isn't going to cater to you

No fucking shit.

your self diagnosed executive dysfunction

I'm sorry Dr. Jackson, I'll have to let my old neurologist, psychologist, neuropsychologist, and psychiatrist know that The Internet told me that the assessments I had done at ages 23 and 44 are all in my head.

learning to adapt is probably a useful habit.

You're right! I'm just going to do that instead of being in constant psychological agony. Where were you all of my life? ❤️ If only I had someone talking down to me saying Just Do The Thing over and over again, from childhood onwards, life would have been so much easier.

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