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Inner Rage Because we can't always let it out, so it just grows and grows until it consumes us.

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what farming items in mmorpgs has taught me: i used to think using ice trays to make ice cubes was free but after thinking about it i have to pay the electric bill to power the freezer so every moment that i’m not freezing new trays of ice cubes is a moment that i’m underutilizing the freezer and increasing the cost of ice cubes. i have to constantly swap out ice trays for new ice cubes on an hourly rotation on a 24 hour basis or else i won’t produce the maximum amount of ice cubes possible and will underutilize the full potential of my electric bill. i need to stop using all other appliances and utilities in my home to make more ice cubes

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ANHEDONIA REMEDIES!

GET YOUR ANHEDONIA REMEDIES HERE!

if you are lost in the rut, i am begging you to read this essay by Sasha Chapin suggesting what, essentially, my take, are potential jump-starts back into living life in real time. like actually experiencing experiences

do it now! don’t lose months, years, or decades! there is a life beyond doomscrolling, and it’s finite (sorry. sorry. i know okay)

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kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they’re also using chat gpt to do it

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I'm sad I missed seeing this poll by almost two full months, but I suppose the upside is that the poll is less biased than it would be if I had shared it while it was still running!

Have you played GALATEA ?

By S. Kaiya J.

Galatea is a solo journaling RPG about an artistic masterpiece that has newly come to life within its creator's workshop. Like the game's namesake from Greek mythology, the awakened masterpiece is adored by its creator—at first. Faced with an incomprehensible outer world, encounters with strangers with unknown motivations, and above all, the driving pressure to remain perfect in its creator's eyes, how quickly can the sentient masterpiece learn to survive—or fall from grace?

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The problem with repeating "could a depressed person do this?" as a memey rhetorical question is that, too often, the accurate response is "yes but at what cost"

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i say this in all seriousness, a great way to resist the broad cultural shift of devaluing curiosity and critical thinking is to play my favorite game, Hey What Is That Thing

you play it while walking around with friends and if you see something and don't know what it is or wonder why its there, you stop and point and say Hey What Is That Thing. and everyone speculates about it. googling it is allowed but preferably after spending several minutes guessing or asking a passerby about it

weird structures, ambiguous signs, unfamiliar car modifications, anything that you can't immediately understand its function. eight times out of ten, someone in the group actually knows, and now you know!

a few examples from me and my friends the past few weeks: "why is there a piece of plywood sticking out of that pond in a way that looks intentional?" (its a ramp so squirrels that fall in to the pond can climb out) • "my boss keeps insisting i take a vacation of nine days or more, thats so specific" (you work at a bank, banks make employees take vacation in long chunks so if youre stealing or committing fraud, itll be more obvious) • "why does this brick wall have random wooden blocks in it" (theres actually several reasons why this could be but we asked and it was so you could nail stuff to the wall) • "most of these old factories we drive past have tinted windows, was that just for style?" (fun fact the factory owners realized that blue light keeps people awake, much like screen light does now, so they tinted the windows blue to keep workers alert and make them work longer hours)

been playing this game for a long time and ive learned (and taught) a fuckton about zoning laws, local history, utilities (did you know you can just go to your local water treatment plant and ask for a tour and if they have a spare intern theyll just give you a tour!!!) and a whole lot of fun trivia. and now suddenly you're paying more attention when youre walking around, thinking about the reasons behind every design choice in the place you live that used to just be background noise. and it fuckin rules.

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they say love endures even when life does not but what also endure are the scars that still decades-later make me grimace when my lips move to pronounce love,

and I have taken my time to practice how I might forgive you never once suspecting the monstrous injustice of the deadline you were dragging in

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How I painted Space Void with moon eyes~ I have a huge backlog of painting videos to share, but they take so long to edit down from hours to a minute 😭I wish I had discovered the timelapse hack for Paint Tool SAI sooner, sigh...

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I'm putting a leather cover on my thread book to make it more durable, and debating a layer of board between the paper and leather for extra rigidity.

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"how are you doing?" I'm thinking the world needs a cute little itch.io browser game where you're stuck in start-and-stop traffic and every five minutes your girlfriend tweets increasingly bizarre and borderline suicidal posts and every time you try to sneak your phone out to start typing a reply the traffic starts flowing again and the car behind you honks angrily at you, thanks for asking

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Fairytale

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Wahhoooo my print shop is all updated, for those who were interested c: I'm happy there's much love for Fantasy Cozy (tm)…

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