don’t see any nebraska university / cornhusker logos that look like that. good luck! my bet is a local sports team, like someone else suggested

It’s generally implemented in a way that takes away fun. If a game had fun fights that were always intended to be strategic, it’d be ok, but when you have to kill identical mob after identical mob to progress in the plot, i don’t see the point.

i remember getting bored and annoyed near the end of oblivion.

I see what you’re saying. It’s referenced because it’s from a webpage that’s about lgbtq stuff. It was on its good news page that seems to highlight cool stuff lgbt people have done, cool people who are out, etc. i liked it more than the other articles because it highlighted the extensive effort he specifically made.

I didn’t like the headline not mentioning the law, but I appreciated it highlighting the guy’s repeated attempts, ending in (hopefully) success.

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nyc-broker-fee-legislation-becomes-law/

Another article on the subject.

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Good luck!

Etsy isn’t great these days, yeah. I’ve been looking for better alternatives (for buying xmas gifts ), and there are some, but I haven’t given them a shot yet.

Woodworking does seem tougher for selling online than, say, wirewrapping (have a relative trying to figure out selling those). I see facebook pages and personal websites for those sorts of local businesses, instead of etsy. A local blacksmith has an instagram. If you looked to build a website with pictures of old pieces, that’d give you a link to put on a card where anyone can see what you’re capable of. Eventually with a contact form for whatever you want to sell (custom orders? small batches of a similar item?) when you’re at that point.

The gallery here is nice: https://ridderworks.com/

My father talks about starting a business in a new town. He sent out a thousand mailers in the late 70’s and got one customer who reccomended him around to her friends. That first customer or store buyer is tough. My business had a slow period and we advertised in a local mailer. It was expensive and we got one call out of it, lol. We’re also temperature limited (house painting) and winters can get slow.

Thinking about working locally, i get some good business out of local paint and hardware stores. If you want to do custom work, they often keep business cards for recomendations when customers ask. For singular, prebuilt pieces, I also see small furniture pieces for sale from local sellers at gift shops.

Any local farmer’s market? https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking/comments/34qfhi/thoughts_after_my_first_farmers_market If you get some small stock and sell here, you can give out cards at the same time.

Getting started is tough, but unfortunately I enjoy spitballing this sort of thing. Feel free to ignore any and all ideas that sound useless, and especially ignore any that are irrelevant to your situation, lol.

Is it lack of time keeping you from opening that etsy? You could say ‘on may 1st, i’ll take those first steps’ or whenever you think you’ll have time. I’ve written tons, but never tried to publish out of fear, so if it’s a psychological block, i get it, but I can’t help, lol.

i do have an llc, so if it’s anxiety about that end, i can say that part’s manageable. I got a book about it for my state at the library when I started, so I wouldn’t miss any legal steps.

Mario looks so depressed in that first screenshot for some reason

I went to the original instance and could see it there. It’s not federating, I guess??

Playing some coral island, and i’m kind of wanting to start over since they seem to have fixed the two big issues i had.

Apparently they made the progression from the end of B to A less of a drag, and they made it so you’re informed when a character cutscene is available (and when and where to go to see it). I hate looking that stuff up on wikis, since inevitably i find out some spoiler that makes the cut scene less interesting.

Plus when I try to stumble on them randomly it’ll be year 6 and the character’s cutscene is like “i hope you’re settling in well!” Dude, I married your friend and have two children now. I almost singlehandedly dredged the oil out of the ocean. What’s wrong with you?

Anyway.

I used to think, ‘oh, people against sex ed just don’t understand the good things it does! Later first pregnancies, protection from abuse, std prevention…if they understood, of course they’d be on board!’ Haha, oh younger me.

I still do think there are lots of people who come around, if some source they trust reaches them, but I was mistaken to think certain other people were actually against child abuse and teenage pregnancy.

Definitely change the medication. There are still a ton left to try. I’d also recommended picking up a non doomscrolling hobby. It doesn’t need to be social. Something that moves your hands. Sewing, painting, writing, music (playing it or listening to it), clay crafting, knitting, learning dances, playing videogames - the goal isn’t to fix everything. It’s to figure out a calming ritual that also give you a sense of accomplishment.

Learn tricks like concentrating on your breathing to reduce panic. Breathe in for ten, hold for ten, release for ten. It can trick your body into thinking fear time is over. If your parents are unhelpful, there are books about managing anxiety and depression at the library. Learning methods from those can be a stopgap until meds help or you can see a shrink. I read some when I didn’t have health insurance. Doing meditation with youtube guides can help, but there are some mental illnesses where it makes things worse. Give it a shot in the morning a few times, see if you get anything out of it. I used to do like 3 min sessions.

Try to find things that you want to be around for more of. An album, the next book in a series - positive things are best, but “i refuse to go before (hated elderly celebrity or whoever)” is fine, in the way that nicotine is awful for you but if it keeps you going until you find useful meds, it serves a purpose.

I’m not sure how to help with social anxiety. I still suffer from it, but it went from life devestating to occassionally a problem. It’s tough because fears get better with careful, slow exposure, and most humans aren’t predictable enough to do the “look at a picture of a bee until you feel nothing then move on” type thing without guidance. If it’s any comfort, many people leave high school with drastically different levels of social skill. I’ve heard lots of LGBT people, ace people, people with overprotective parents, disability, mental illness, homeschooled kids - they’ve all spoken about how they felt like they didn’t learn how to interact and be an adult until they were older. Lots of them figured it out in their 20s and up and ended up happy and around people they care about.

Just, take your time with things.

I keep thinking about getting into whittling, but I’m pretty sure I just want an excuse to get a cool knife. Hm, maybe that’s okay. What knife do you use?

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. The genres I like keep getting new games, but if most games now were precision platformers or MMORPGs, I’d read more lol.

Just try to hold back the good ol days mentality, try new stuff if it catches your interest, and let yourself enjoy your 10000th replay of your favorites? You aren’t against new things entirely, after all. You just don’t make yourself play games you don’t like. Somewhere out there is an indie developer with similar taste, also frustrated they can’t find a game they want to play, and I hope you find them and add a new game to your list.

Probably too new for the sub, but baldur’s gate 3 since it was.on sale and my birthday’s coming up

It says she was surprised by how much excess milk she produced for her first kid. Looking at the numbers, “surprise” might’ve been an understatement.

You know what? Good for her. And all the babies she’s helped feed.

Nope! It’s what I’d hope. I guess I was a bit confused why there was an article, since I thought erasing hate speech was normal practice. When I was half awake this morning reading it, I wondered if I missed something.

The impression i got from the article is you can say “this game is the worst zero stars” and you’re fine but “this game is for degenerate f******” is a no.