Barely. However I got promoted at work and I train people now so I have that going for me. Taking my life feels like a waste since I did so much to save myself, but I still regret not dying since I now need to live permanently stunted :/
The only things a family's mother cared about was grocery shopping and watching people die on TV. Anything that got in the way of that was a problem.
One of her daughters can drive, and every Saturday and Sunday, she'd drive the whole family to Stop & Shop, Walmart, Target, Costco, another Costco, another Target, an international market, another international market, a Chinese market, an Indian market, Aldi, Lidl, BJ's Wholesale, and Sam's Club. These grueling journeys would last 15 hours.
Bringing in the groceries and trying to fill an already overfilled refrigerator with duct tape from last week's journey took several hours. On Sundays we had to take out trash, which included old meat and produce that family's mother over-overbought for herself and let rot while blaming the same people she vilified for eating some of. Taking out trash was always a five hour slog, but on Sunday it was a longer slog.
By the time the trash is out and that family's mother's groceries are in the fridge and freezer, everyone would need to rush to get ready to go to school or work. I always had to skip a shower on Mondays as me washing myself was seen as a waste of resources and time by everyone in that family as I don't count as a real human being.
And yes, Monday NIGHT. Not afternoon, night. There were dogs that family's mother brought home and neglected and skimped out on everything for so she could buy more groceries and watch more rich people pretend to die. We would need to walk them, not in the afternoon, but at night, and we were not allowed to sleep before walking them. She found it funny and would come up with some other excuse for why we needed to wait to sleep.
Same thing happened on Wednesdays but without the grocery shopping. Can't sleep before walking the dogs or taking out the trash, the latter being started at 1AM and taken out at 6AM.
Childhood is prison. Literally it's being raised to be clean and healthy, then being bullied and humiliated for doing the right things, then being punished and reprimanded for not doing the thing you were literally bullied and humiliated for doing. Fuck childhood.
I should add that my life was sitting on a short bus for 2 hours, then sitting in the same desk for 7 hours straight, then sitting on the short bus for 2.5 hours to go isolate myself from my original bullies and their mother.
Just about every store that sells groceries in person. It was traumatic being a kid trapped in those places for at least 10 hours on both Saturday and Sunday and having to wait until Monday night to sleep. I absolutely love amazon subscribe & save and just never running out of necessities or needing to do any chores on my work days. Adulthood is so much better than glorified prison.
The first step to him taking over America and misusing the military to take over other countries until he has world domination and requires everyone to use 𝕏 accounts as government ID, banking, and the only source for news, communication, media, education, and entertainment.
Yet those stolen art print-on-demand shirt and mug scam networks go completely unscathed.
You sure you want to go back there where 90% of content is a scam, subtle advertising, straight up advertising, karma farming to eventually advertise, ragebait to farm engagement for advertising, all with actual ads in between?
Reddit is not fun, it's addictive. It's addictive because it allows you to feel something other than emptiness, and often has you angry or sad. The good thing about lemmy being small is that you can now do something other than mindless scrolling.
You're free. Do a hobby. Learn something new. Enjoy the extra hours in the day. You're free.
However I've 100%'d Yoshi's Island... twice. Three times if you count Yoshi's Island DS. And now I make romhacks of Yoshi's Island and Super Mario World today. I might have a problem!
What even was the point of lounge? I've been gifted gold and platinum several times and never really cared about posting there.
Also unrelated but this reminds me of one time somebody faked dying of cancer to get gold. Like "I only have a month to live and I've never got gold" lmao
Everyone's weird on there to the point that bullying is pointless. I think it's a good thing so these people can get their weirdness out of their systems as kids/teens and not be attention seeking tiktok zombies as adults. I've seen fanart of Learn & Discover Home when I was looking for copies of the game for sale (listen I collect bad games and I think that's the absolute worst) and wondered how anyone would make fanfiction of characters whose personalities are as deep as a dent.
Barely. However I got promoted at work and I train people now so I have that going for me. Taking my life feels like a waste since I did so much to save myself, but I still regret not dying since I now need to live permanently stunted :/