One Of The Most Soul-crushing Experiences Is When Youve Been Told Throughout Your Life That You Meed

One of the most soul-crushing experiences is when you’ve been told throughout your life that you meed mental help and when you go to get it, you’re told that it isn’t just a you problem.

If it’s a you problem, then you can be medicated. Go to therapy. Help yourself. Improve.

But when it’s a problem with the people around you, what can you do? They might not want to go to therapy. They might not want to get better. And you can’t make them.

It’s this eternal cycle of wanting to get better and struggling alone because the people around you refuse to get better, living out the same cycles of terrible behaviour over and over and over.

This is good advice before any storm! Insurance will probably be a pain anyway, but at least you'll have something documented.

Oh look, it seems like there's a Republican-led movement to purge voter rolls in the lead-up to the election! It's almost as if your vote matters and they don't want you to vote! Anyway, I whipped up a quick map (based on this) that shows when the voter registration deadline is in each state. There are a few deadlines coming up in the next week or so.

If you live in a state that regularly purges voter rolls for infrequent voters (the orange ones in the first map), or if you moved recently, it's good to check if you're still registered to vote.

Vote.org makes it super easy to check your registration: https://www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/

Just put in your address and DOB and they'll tell you whether you're registered. (And they give you a quick link to register online if it turns out that you're not! Only the 9 states in white on my map don't have online registration, and for those they provide instructions on how to do it via mail or in person.)

So yeah, give yourself peace of mind -- do a quick check. :)

I’m done with these pathetic borrowers who can only rely on handmade weapons. (/lh) Give these bitches claws, sharp teeth, something to defend themselves with if they’re ever unarmed. A human picks them up? A bunch of tiny, but bloody scratches. Make those bites hurt. Give the humans another reason to fear their borrowers. Make them the true ankle biters

what if. I make the point and click game gt. Just mix my various special interests together.

Just... what kind of gt thing? What story, what goals?

Borrowers, perhaps? Borrowers would certainly fit right in with the Weird Solutions vibe of most p&c games

Gullivered? the various goals could be doing random convoluted favors for Lilliputians. And it already comes with a pre-existing Smaller Starting Puzzle: get them to let you wander loose. Maybe you play as a Lilliputian sometimes?

Or perhaps a game where you're a scientist working on a shrink ray, only for it to explode, shrinking you and scattering pieces all over your lab. You have to retrieve them and rebuild the device to return to normal size. (maybe after you fix it there are more puzzles which require sizeshifting)

One thing I find really cool about space research is that the way some articles are written, you can definitely see which authors believe in aliens. The way they’ll describe Earth as if it’s just one of many planets with life on it. It’s really cool!