I’m glad!! It’s a quiet place here, so every voice really counts, and posting when you can is really the best thing you can do for a small community like this :)

Yeah. When you write you end up having to prove to yourself that you’re a good writer. It’s sort of an ego thing, and when you make something bad you sorta worry that it will reflect poorly on you.

I don’t expect anything to ever fully cut through that anxiety. But providing a space to be “bad” in is something valuable.

Genuinely. If you’re not comfortable posting your writing, I’d still be more than delighted to send some activities, fuck it, I’ll post one now that I stole from Zoe Bee. It’s where you take the meaning of a sentence and try to write it’s inverse. So, like, “The dog was sleeping on the ground” becomes “The cat was awake in the roof” or what have you. Ofc it works better with more complex sentences but yeah.

Sorry, got taken away there. Prone to tangents. But yes. You don’t have to post something complete if you can’t manage it. And you sure as hell don’t have to post something good. This is, after all, a silly little forum post.

Do whatever you please, it can be bad or good. But being bad is also, yes, the point. Your shitty writing is not only welcome, it’s also the guest of honour and I’m kissing it on its lips.

I’m a very flitty sort of person, and can be pushed off balance decently easily. My job is pretty fast paced, so I can’t just go for a walk or meditate for 10 minutes. So my rule is to not focus on everything coming up, but just focus on what’s directly in front of me. Which, yeah, I know sounds dumb but it honestly does work.

Instead of thinking “Oh, that line of customers is long” -> “Oh god I’m not going to be able to serve the customers fast enough” -> “oh my god they’re going to leave and I’m going to get in trouble for not being fast enough.”

I don’t even acknowledge the length of the line. Look directly ahead, and focus on what you’re doing right now. Shit will always be coming in from every direction, but quick steps make for shorter journeys.

Outside of work, hobbies, crochet, gardening. Getting in touch with nature is a big one for me.

cries in Australian don’t think I’ll get any here…

STOP BULLYING MEEEEEE.

Jkjk, it’s meant to be a midweek treat for my workplace. Thursday is the middle of the week for us. But yes. I know fruity Friday works so much better, so I just act Extra Gay those days.

Fun fact, pineapple was originally on this one. But the pineapple I bought, when cut open, was genuinely the most disappointed I’ve ever been in a pineapple in my life. Poor thing was so pale I’d have thought it had seen a ghost (if it had the eyes or mind to be spooked by one that is).

But coconut! Ohh you’re right, if I manage to find one I aught to try it.

Yeah, I think reddit is going to die (if only due to the process of enshittification and the consequences of going public) but the idea of a mass exodus is a bit of a dream. Anyone who has had a conversation going on in one channel, and then have a mod tell them to move it to a more appropriate channel should know this. The conversation doesn’t move, it just stops 9/10 times.

But we shouldn’t be preoccupied with reddit as a community. Give what you can to Lemmy and enjoy it for what it is, not wishing it to be reddit.

Same. Replacing doom scrolling on Reddit with posting on beehaw.

My fingerprints lost

In the dishwashers water

My phone stays locked.

Hell, even if people move back to reddit, I’ve made the choice to stay on Lemmy, and give a small community everything I’ve got.

Oh trust me, I’ll be spamming the instance with my pictures like a proud parent with a child. I was inspired by finding this website that documents the different dyes different eucalyptus trees can make. Gorgeous browns and greens galore. I absolutely want to post my adventures into spinning and yarn for each step.

Beware. Drum carders come PRICY. They last for life though. I’m going to get into it, but I’m looking into dying (and making my own plant based dyes from my own garden!!)

Edit: not the only way to process wool though. Processing raw fleece is a lot of work from what I’ve read up on it. World of wool is probably your best bet.

I got this specific wool from here. I’m lucky to live in Australia where Merino are just about everywhere, so I get some wool from here too. But that one is quite local.

World of wool is by far the biggest and the cheapest option for finding wool though. Even with the shipping included. Plus, it’s the only place I could find Angora at a price that didn’t make me want to die.

Weirdly enough, there’s a LOT of fleece on the Facebook marketplace, just more unprocessed. That might be an option with a lot more work involved if you’re up to it.

Also, a good place to look is wool and sheep shows. Iirc, there was one in Maryland not too long ago. They generally pop up all around the place though.

A weekly or even fortnightly writing group thread would be HUGELY good. Not only on an individual level, but also on a community level.

I’ll echo the idea of “bad writing” being the goal. It’s easy for everyone to get caught up in the big issue of “Is this good enough?” Vs “Am I having fun?”

I might actually make this my own weekly thing. Give me a bit and I’ll make my own post on this.

Ha! Tell me about it. I got into spinning and I can hardly stop myself. I’m looking down the barrel of dying my own wool now with local trees and 3d printing myself a rigid heddle loom. Fibre arts truly desire your entire soul once you get into it.

Oh I’m broke and got a needle, thread, and a complete unwillingness to throw out my pants. Good to know about new singer machines though, I’ve been thinking about learning how to sew.

Reminding myself that the person posting the worst opinions I’ve seen in my life is likely a 14 year-old with unrestricted access to the internet from birth is the only thing keeping me sane.

Yeah, you do end up having to do this. I have the exact same problem as OP, in that my crotch desires to rip and tear any pants I wear. Stitching the tear up will only work for so long, get some extra material under there to hold it for a bit longer.

Honestly, this might be a bit of a hot take coming in. But I don’t think the lengthy tutorial is the actual issue when it comes to modern Pokemon games. Plenty of games have very slow openings, monster hunter is the first that comes to mind.

I think the issue is that the game doesn’t actually have any depth behind the initial tutorial. Once you know how to battle, catch, and level up, what more is there? Barring competitive play, the basic mechanics are the entire game.

Legends was a breath of fresh air, because you did have to explore and learn about the world and Pokemon in order to succeed. Even if it was incredibly minimal.

If anyone is still reading this, my recommendation for a game that scratches the deep mechanical and monster collecting itch would be Monster Sanctuary. The story is thin on the ground, and the designs themselves can lean on the simpler side. But my god, I haven’t seen an equal when it comes to team building or strategy. Genuinely fantastic.