Mine really seemed taken with Prehistoric Planet, but only the ocean parts. We had to pause it to verify she was watching and I'm still confused, because she's never interested when I show her animal videos. Guess she doesn't care about birds, she likes dinosaurs.
The series is alright, if anyone's wondering. It's really pretty, but it favors variety instead of really going very far in-depth on any one dino, which disappointed me.
I'm really glad it helped. It's a fairly big coin toss, to choose such a needy animal, and it's the biggest reason I refuse to own one. I'm a lot better around them now than I was as a kid and it would force me outside, but I don't think I could handle that kind of energy every day, multiple times a day, and no dog deserves the level of neglect it might turn into.
In the sense of expecting a dog to make you less bipolar somehow, I think that would be laughable.
Speaking from an angle of chronic, usually severe depression along with transient psychosis, etc., I'm willing to back up that having a pet helps me greatly. If I don't get out of bed, the cat won't eat. She refuses.
So I have to get up, and I have to continue looking after her because no matter how sick of this shit I ever get, she's never done anything to deserve my abandonment. She's a bright point where I'd otherwise have no real argument for this.
Can also confirm her constant bullshit is a calming distraction when something knocks me off balance, which does do a little bit to keep me from spiraling into what could turn into stressed-induced psychosis if I let it develop into a feedback loop. On the rare occasions it does still degrade, she's still there in the same way nobody else is.
Honestly, it's a testament to her breed, and I'm probably stuck only adopting Maine coons forever now just because they're known to be so compassionate and needy that I don't have a quiet moment left to sit and make myself worse.
It likely doesn't help with some, but even the term "severe" is sufficiently diverse enough and the research pool small and ill-documented enough that I think they're overstating their findings here before they've sufficiently finished the work.
• Sample size of 170, which even the researchers admitted was low
• First study done during the lockdowns, which they posited may have had a negative affect as people tried to cope with financial stress, sudden social isolation, and caring for a pet without ever leaving the house. It did, they found.
• Second study taken post-lockdown, unable to compare depression and anxiety as they did not bother measuring those the first time (why not?)
• Trained animals do provide a benefit, actually; friendly obedience and a relaxed personality found in support animals suggested to be a factor but they never measured that either I guess.
• 95% report greater life consistency and a sense of love, so maybe pets are helpful for someone in vital need of emotional support, we don't know.
Overall, I think if they tried really, really hard, and I mean really put their minds to it, they could write a worse headline for such an ambiguous and unhelpful article.
2 definitely covers more learning than 3 does, I think. Talent doesn't make up for practice, but recall feels like 90% of what practice is supposed to be doing. And it would make me a beast at my job, just never having to reference anything ever (quite literally over half of it is just referencing different passages of the same sources over and over).
And yes, telekinesis too. It's the biggest excuse I would have to start working out and never stop. From doing crimes to being able to play with the cat in a more convincing way without having to get up for the fourth time.
Somehow, your post has made me really see them as a predator for the first time in my life, and picturing myself on the wrong end of a buffalo-sized mantis has left me terrified.
They're always such cute little buggers, and I love finding them. Easily among my top 3 favorite insects.
I should have guessed it would be Hades, but I'm really surprised to see Octopath up there instead of Slime Rancher, which somehow is way down there even though it feels way more fun. Since when has fun made something seem longer?
In general, without question:
• The Sims (played semi-religiously for almost a decade til the file became too big for my crappy laptop to risk adding any more GB to)
• Skyrim again (starting over just isn't the same once you've hit lvl 81, and I am grieving)
• Disgaea (bought 3 separate times because my sibling kept selling it to buy other things, and then a fourth when I got out on my own. Conservatively, I have beaten that game a minimum of 9 times. Would play again.)
This would be way more common if I could find adequate discussion of any game I've played that wasn't either a single question on Steam or a forum post from 2005. Don't care how old or obscure, I've never gotten tired of something yet.
Just doesn't tend to be a lot of it, with the exception of Hades (whose community I think is still straddling both sites) and slime rancher (whose update spoilers I am avoiding for at least the next entire year).
Oh god, I forgot about the spork thing. The sporks seemed a natural part of the foundation. Where did the sporks go? This would have been perfectly at home on the very first forum my child ass ever joined, and I can feel everything I ever loved evaporating.
This is the third time I've seen one of The Ancient Memes used incorrectly, and a lot of me wonders if it's because those users were too young to have seen them all properly back when they were in circulation, so they're left guessing at the context. If so, I'm less annoyed and more proud to pass the philosoraptor down
Yeah, it seems they're beginning to head that way, with the nitro first and then the super emotes or whatever they're called. I suppose I can see, if it's server cost, but the unnecessary bells and whistles are beginning to bug me and it's only going to continue.
Fair point. I keep forgetting that's a thing, because I've genuinely never seen anyone ever use it aside from one single time just to see what it did/harass another user. And then immediately everyone went, "Huh. Neat," and lost interest.
That, and the conversations move far faster there. Any remark about anything moves the subject further up, and you're essentially subjected to reading the comments section of the entire sub all at once when you just came for the memes.
Holding a conversation in such a large place would be near impossible from experience, no matter how many channels there are. It's just not going to be pleasant because it's not made for what they want to do.
Yyyyep. We've never been prepared for our normal weather here for whatever reason, and I simply can't wait for winters to worsen too, now that it's very visibly tipped over the edge. /s
I'd rather die in heat than cold, which insinuates it's definitely going to be the latter.
This sounds like something someone might say as a non-native speaker, especially if their first language really would word it in a way that english finds unnatural. I'm desperately curious now to know whether they're actually stupid or if they're really just ESL.
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Mine really seemed taken with Prehistoric Planet, but only the ocean parts. We had to pause it to verify she was watching and I'm still confused, because she's never interested when I show her animal videos. Guess she doesn't care about birds, she likes dinosaurs.
The series is alright, if anyone's wondering. It's really pretty, but it favors variety instead of really going very far in-depth on any one dino, which disappointed me.