Is it not common to refer to your friends as a boy or girl? I think it could definitely be infatilization in some contexts, like the one cited in the paper(professional work setting). This context however is 2 friends going on an unexpectedly long hike in the woods and finding a giant mushroom

Wait, I thought I changed it to reishi. Is it not displaying for everyone else?

Wait, I thought I changed it to reishi. Did it not change for everyone else?

It’s too early in the morning for me to come up with a good RPG/ Dungeon synth joke, but

https://youtu.be/moosgt3Bclc?si=YfhGQ5Awt7THWfgf

It had broken off of that log before we found it. It was all dried out and was surprisingly light. I would not normally disturb something this extraordinary, but it seemed harmless given the circumstances.

Fixed, thanks

Also I’m in my late 20s, I feel like I can still be a boy quite often. It felt like we were kids looking at a massive mushroom in the woods.

A friend of mine says it helps with her epilepsy, but in general I don’t buy into the “health” claims

A picture of its underside

Rural Oregon is very red. There’s a behind the bastards episode on just how many racists there are in Oregon.

I think you can just be grateful to have or experience something. Like you can’t be grateful to anyone for a full moon, but you can be grateful that you saw it.

Yeah at first I was like “yeah those kids are so young” then I realized I was born in 96

Comfort can be about how you look. I have some clothes that are super comfortable, but if I wore them out in public I would be arrested because I look like a drug dealer. Find something comfy in the way that it reflects how you want to be seen

I’m not particularly active, but I still left for OSRS a long time ago

I use Plex and jellyfin, honestly, plex only stays around because of plexamp. It’s just too good. I don’t like using streaming apps like Spotify or whatever because they’re not as good

Showing off is an important part of social MMOs. If anyone can have the really cool looking thing for some cash then what’s the point of grinding? For a hardcore player, what do they have to show off their prestige?

It’s pretty important for an MMO to respect its most active players. Not to mention, what do new players have to look up to? To think, what do I have to get that? If the answer is “oh I just have to fork out some dough”. That’s kinda disappointing

I mean, looking like you know what you’re doing, looking confident doesn’t mean you have to dress plain.

Also I am sure gym bros will complement you on your body. Kind of like how as a straight man I only get compliments on my facial hair from other men. Look for validation from your friends not randos

You’re probably in a better place than most severely depressed people because you think that you can get better! Probably the best thing to do is keep a growth mindset and try to learn as much as you can about depression. Getting over depression is a journey.

Lots of other people have said running & friends, those things help me. But recently/now I am depressed and running 40 miles a week and seeing my friends regularly.

What’s a really cheap solution? Pirate some bibliotherapy books! Feeling good by David D. Burns is older, but I’m reading it right now and it seems like a really solid CBT book. I would also recommend “Adult children of emotionally immature parents”. It helped me understand why I am the way I am

The hardest part for me is noticing when my thoughts are turning situations from good or neutral into bad situations. Paying attention to your thoughts in an objective way is hard! But some sort of mindfulness practice can help.

Journaling can be useful! You can train your brain to look for good things by writing out 3 good things that happened or you did every night.

I think I’d like to count the age of strife, the great crusade, and the hours heresy as all being different apocalypse. One ended the age of human technology, the next ended human diversity, and the last ended their hope?/legacy?

In a way, 40k is a post apocalypse story(there’s arguably a couple of cosmically apocalyptic events). The good guys already lost. This is what’s left still struggling, not to build anew, but to survive a little longer.

That only makes it cooler