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We scraped by this month but that just means we need to scramble for next month's rent as well, and I've drained a lot of what I had saved from previous contributions. if people can chip in, it'll help feed me and keep a roof over my head, and I'd be incredibly grateful.

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(´・ω・`)

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Comedians in the '70s and cartoons in the '90s: weird how your kids can watch violence and murder on TV but the FCC wants us dead if we say the word nipple.

Internet users in 2025: you didn't warn me that there would be erotic themes in the game you just mentioned which is fucked up because I thought it was going to be a normal "morally struggle with killing people" game but now it's gone too far :-/

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remember when larian put all the data together from the most popular character creator picks in bg3. and they thought there was a mistake, so they ran the numbers again, and no - the result was just authentically, in a world where you can be pink, and have glowing eyes, and horns, and a tail, the result was the most generic looking human white guy with brown hair

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Going to see children and adolescents dance badly, play ball badly, sing badly, play recorder badly because they are young: YES! YOU ARE LEARNING! INCREDIBLE!

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Nothing in the world feels as unjust as the fate of the Disco Elysium developers.

Imagine you build this in-depth fictional setting over the course of decades with your friends, and then decide to turn it into a game for fun. You end up creating one of the most celebrated and well-written RPGs of all time and become celebrated for reviving a dying genre.

A few months later, you're fired from the company you founded for criticizing the new direction its taking. The company has the copyright not only to the game you made, but literally everything in the world of the game, which spans decades of lore you built for no profit with your group of friends.

Like, this is a nightmare that I didn't even know existed before I ran into it. To have, what is essentially a passion project that branched off from a TTRPG campaign, be pulled from your hands by a corporate entity that only yearns to abuse your creation for maximum profit. I couldn't imagine myself going on creating anything after that.

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i cannot keep quiet about this anymore.

if you're in the US or Canada and interested in learning a language using a free app please get a library card and download MANGO. it's very good and extremely free with a library card (there are many public libraries and universities using the service, so make an account and use the search feature here to find out if there's one near you).

mango currently has 72 available languages and dialects (that's right! different courses for french or canadian french! spanish or latam spanish!). it's set up basically like an audiobook with text. the idea is that the narrator explains the words while you read, and you repeat after them or say the translation out loud when prompted. there's a daily review where you go through flashcards. you can also use the flashcards at your leisure and create your own. at the end of each chapter there's a listening comprehension quiz and a reading comprehension quiz. i cannot emphasize how effective this all is. and it's free with a card.

if you're not in the US or Canada and/or looking for something more like duolingo (don't use duolingo btw tldr they fired translators and replaced them with "ai"), then try BUSUU! it only has 14 languages atm but the lessons are really descriptive and effective. it also has a feature where you can correct other people's open-ended speaking/typing exercises. you set your fluent languages, and exercises by people learning those languages will appear in your feed for you to correct. you can even add others as friends! and, much like duolingo, it has a streak and leaderboard system for you to strive for, minus the guilt-tripping owl.

busuu is free (you watch ads to unlock lessons and they're all skippable after like five seconds), although it also has paid premium/plus versions (i don't use the paid version—the language courses are available for free, and the ad system is Really unobtrusive).

so that's my wisdom for the day. mango and busuu. please check them out :)

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In need of rescue

the link itself explains most of it but my roommate's car broke down and our primary source of income right now is gig work using said car. we're all looking for jobs but honestly even if we all luck into $20/hr remote work somehow we'd still need time with bills paid to actually start getting paychecks. I've been burning through savings and donations to help keep us afloat but there's no way I can keep that up if it's the only thing we've got. please contribute whatever you can. I've been bounced from home to home for over a decade now and I just want to be secure somewhere.

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On Friendship.

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Did you know that you can waste your free time by not knowing which activity to do so you do none of them

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In need of rescue

the link itself explains most of it but my roommate's car broke down and our primary source of income right now is gig work using said car. we're all looking for jobs but honestly even if we all luck into $20/hr remote work somehow we'd still need time with bills paid to actually start getting paychecks. I've been burning through savings and donations to help keep us afloat but there's no way I can keep that up if it's the only thing we've got. please contribute whatever you can. I've been bounced from home to home for over a decade now and I just want to be secure somewhere.

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it/its pronouns are the coolest thing ever btw and you should give anybody who uses them $1,700 immediately

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my thesis on people is that if we were crabs in a bucket there would be bad actors for sure but someone would be bolstered to the top and turn around to offer their claw to pull up everyone else. and someone would stay at the bottom until the end bolstering other people up even if there would be no one left for them. not everyone but someone

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