Yeah, but in an explosion. He didn’t just vanish on her. There’s closure in that.

He returned to the same day he left, and all those times they showed the past (like in this episode, Game of Tones, and like Luck of the Fryrish) she was still alive so… yes.

I quoted this one in the other thread! A mother who never saw her son again is rough.

Of course, Lars fixed that, but still!

“I’ve dreamed about you a lot since you disappeared.”

Absolutely brutal. A mother whose son has vanished.

I know Lars undid all these things, but we didn’t know that was going to be the case at the time.

When I tell people Lemmy is like the old internet, I’m going to use this specific comment chain to demonstrate it.

The zipper in th3 back also helps if you have a big chest and don’t want it bifurcated by a zipper.

And you can’t put that same zipper (if it goes all the way up the back) on the side… if you have wide hips.

So at least that still has reason to exist.

Source: my own body and never wearing a front-faced zipper after seeing why we don’t do that.

I’ve actually said, “interesting if true,” to stories I’ve gotten second-hand, and it works great because the person repeating the story will then hypothesize on the trustworthiness of the original storyteller.

My favorite reaction was, “Well, I heard it from (name), who we both know is a liar, but it was too funny not to share.”

My medicine gives me anxiety as it wears off and makes it difficult for me to sleep. It also makes me very not hungry.

Congratulations on getting here!

Please keep in mind that medication does have negative side effects you’ll need to manage. It’s not a golden bullet. But it’s very, very, very helpful to those of us it helps (I’m one)! I hope you get the results you’re looking for!

What are you talking about.

Treatment for ADHD is (not always, but often) stimulant medication. There’s no herb you can grow at home to treat that, and that’s a good thing, because the stuff we use to treat ADHD apparently turns neurotypicals into addicts.

Weird. I thought replying to a comment to mug to the audience for their agreement with your assessment was reddit’s bread and butter.

Instead of contributing anything of value to a conversation, I mean.

I’m from an entire instance that’s friendly to generative AI. I’m going to explain it like I always do; I used to sell my art for a living. I’m fair at it. But anyone with any computer knowledge can find and use an AI, now, this very minute, for free, and get results that are better than what I’ve ever been capable of producing. And why on Earth should I fight that? Why wouldn’t I embrace it?

There are millions of people in this world and each and every one of them deserves to have a visual representation of whatever they want. There’s some kid on in the internet right now with their weird Sonic OC who deserves to be able to use art of that character as their avatar on Discord, and they shouldn’t have to get a job or try their hand at drawing if they don’t want to, in order to share that image.

Ultimately, this is what made me leave the field entirely. The kind of people I wanted to help with my art were almost universally people with very limited income, who had a weird little song in their heart and no way of sharing it with the world. And that was my passion, as someone who grew up poor- being able to help someone who had no way of coughing up the money required to keep an artist from starving, to be able to see what they were dreaming in their head. Balancing giving art gifts to people with no means, and taking commissions from entitled assholes who were going to send me 8 revisions because they didn’t understand basic color theory no matter how fucking hard I tried to explain it to them, just so I could survive, was a nightmare!

So yes! I support AI art! I will support it til I die! The starvation of artists is a disgusting symptom of the system as a whole, but pretending that the solution is to turn our back on a useful bit of technology is treating the symptom, not the disease. Let SonicFan_2016 or xXxScEnEgUrLxXx or whoever have anything they need to express themselves. Maybe what we should be doing instead of posting pictures or words bitching about how the computers are stealing jobs, is find a way to fund the arts, and those who want to make them, so people like me can go back to making art without having to sell our souls every fifth image to some prick with a fistful of dollars!

I agree with literally every point you’ve made (especially the ‘had to be there’ notes, it’s so hard trying to explain that) but one.

Here comes a billion words on how I love Sun and Moon. Feel free to skip them, I’m just trying to add to the conversation.

Sun and Moon is on my list of faves because of the slow island vibes, the sun and moon motif… Oh. Let me take a moment and say, as a grass type trainer, I have gotten absolutely effed with starter choices. I love plants, I love flowers, and… It’s insane how often the grass-type starter is the weakest in design. So let me say when Rowlet hit the scene, I fell in love. This precious little floof who turns his head all the way around to look at me in battle, and then turns into a moody teenager when he becomes Datrix (if you’re petting him after battle, and you touch the feather in front of his face he gets so MAD!), finally turning into the extremely badass Decidueye? Grass/Ghost? Hell. Yes. After watching water and fire get bangers of starters for ages, only occasionally getting a starter that felt like it was “good enough” rarely, finally getting my owl was like a sword-in-the-stone moment.

I hear you on Z-Moves but I do really love the idea of doing a little Hawaiian-style dance with your Pokemon to power them up. It feels more like I’m contributing than pointing a rock at something. I actually enjoy that some of the dances look really stupid because you have to ask yourself, “Do I want to look cool right now, or do I want to look a little silly and absolutely destroy my enemies?” There’s also something excellent in facing a friend in battle, and watching them choose to do a dumb pose with mounting horror. “Hahaha, Chris is doing a dance and the background is pink and oh god no he’s chosen to destroy me.”

This’ll only work if they also buy everyone else who sells the solution, and shut them down.

There’s also this thing that happens where, as a whole, we’ll just act capriciously.

I don’t know if it’s true of younger gamers but my generation seems to really choose at random whether we like your product or want you to die in a fire. Any fishy behavior can tip that scale pretty quickly, and if we already recognize a brand, and it’s not one of our arbitrarily Chosen Few, then we might not even give you a chance. Just because we know the name, and that’s already a strike against you.

I got that beat mercilessly as a little girl masking version of ADHD where my sink is never not empty but even if I didn’t, I understand it and I understand depression which is so often comorbid with untreated ADHD and we deserve to celebrate every success like this.

Now if I could go home after work today and sweep and mop my damn downstairs, that would be the kind of success that I can only dream of. We need ADHD collectives where I’ll come do your dishes (as long as you have gloves and a fresh sponge that doesn’t stink) and you can come do my stupid floor.

I bet it’s playing a song from Sonic the Hedgehog.

We know who runs the internet.

Yessss! So glad I could help!

Ask and ye shall receive!

Uh, assuming this link works for you- https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37483954

Phone anxiety is an anxiety, it can’t really be logicked away. But you can sometimes practice it away, desensitize yourself to it.