@quephird@mastodon.social this ain't anything more than an excuse to get yourself out of the hard work of self-improvement, my friend.
if you go around sobbing radiohead's creep into the mic at every karaoke night, why are you surprised when nobody wants to buy you a beer?
if you believe being a creep is immutable and therefore you're trash and you say this to folks... why are you surprised when nobody is knocking down your door to come be friends?
fortunately, being a creep ISN'T immutable.
@quephird@mastodon.social knowing and doing are two different things. /shrug
it's going to take some work to pull yourself up out of the spiral. but once you're done going "nobody likes me, everybody hates me, guess i'll go eat worms!", well... you can do something about it.
you have trauma? great! find a counselor to work through it with. try DBT self-help.
you keep coming off as a creep? good news. the world is FULL of reformed creeps. time to get to work.
@quephird@mastodon.social honestly? you ain't special.
this may sting but it's actually quite freeing. if you stop viewing yourself as a uniquely hideous creature who will never be loved, well, you can accept that you are a person. and just like any other person, you can work on this shit. because you ain't the most very special doomed forever martyr. you're just a person.
so you can get to work, just like a person does.
@quephird@mastodon.social to be honest, it starts with "first step is going to be climbing down off that cross you've put yourself on there." second step is "after taking off the martyrdom blinders, realize that you are thinking of relationships as doomed hierarchies because you are making them so. if you believe winning these hierarchies is the only way to have friends, people are not going to be interested in being your friend because you believe friendship is winning and not, well, friendship."
@knifethievingcrow yeah! i'm sure that people have been hashing out that kinda thing and debating it endlessly. so no need for you to post yourself when you can just google something like "overwatch high graphics requirements" and probably pull up five billion results of nerds having slap-fights about it L M A O, then you can just skim those and go "hm, it seems like most people agree that you really want x and y to do this. i'll look for x and y!"
@knifethievingcrow honestly that's a completely valid way to look at it!
and if you have a laptop that plays overwatch really nicely, you'll *still* have something with enough beef and brawn to play a lot of other games too.
there ain't no shame at all in knowing what you want and buying what you want instead of like... over-buying, yknow? it's like you're looking at a sensible sedan for your daily commute in suburbia instead of a four wheel drive behemoth LOL
@knifethievingcrow honestly that's a good way to do it!
fortunately blizzard is pretty good at making games that you can run on, like, a toaster. and overwatch is also a game a whole lot of people play, so you'll be able to google and find where people on forums are like "i know these are the MINIMUM requirements, but what should i look for to ACTUALLY run the game and have it look nice?" and people taco bout that very thing and give input on it
@knifethievingcrow honestly it can be intimidating as fuq trying to figure this shit out because it's jargon, like, all the way down LOL, so i can totally explain some of what i actually mean when i say stuff like "you want a dedicated gpu" if you'd like! you can also poke around people's reviews and usually at least one will talk about stuff like "i can run x game on y settings" to kinda give you an idea of where it's at tbh
@knifethievingcrow ok to be fair to you i am Oan The Nyquil and words are Complicated LOL
i can explain a bit instead of tossing just endless got dam jargon at your head if you'd like lol!
i am super super excited that the bb cream i got seems like it hasn't made my face hate me, AND ACTUALLY MATCHES MY SKIN TONE which is near-impossible because my skin thinks the color yellow is fake news
a few pimples this morning but honestly given that they're only on like the tip of my nose... i do keep blowing gunk out of my nose constantly into kleenex and that'd probably be enough irritation for my super sensitive skin lol
@knockout i think it's something other people do, but i think multiple accounts are mostly for the organizational type of thing. so it's probably doable as long as you have a system to easily communicate to people which post is in which category ^0^
@soft OH THAT IS SO PRETTY!!! can i ask where you got it? (my dad both is a fountain pen snob and *notoriously hard to shop for* so i may be squirreling ideas away for later, and/or want that pen for myself because omg it's just so pretty and elegant....)
@troubleMoney HONESTLY
i think they were forgetting that balance can also mean a bit like. balancing the books.
IF YOU ZERO THINGS OUT, SHIT'S BALANCED...
@nyah@octodon.social > with it. and since i'm trying a type with no THC, it means that it's not getting me high, and i won't pop hot on any drug testing. i've had a lot of success with it! you can get it in gel caps for easy dosing and measurement (also so you don't have to like chug oil), and there's also topical applications which i haven't tried yet.
that's about all i got so far - but feel free to poke me with more questions! i'm sure there's stuff i'm forgetting but i'm happy to help as i can 💖
@nyah@octodon.social
5. if it's more of a diffuse everywhere chronic pain, that gets harder to deal with. there are many supplements people try with this sort of nerve-ey pain, but i'll attempt to cut through the bullshit and give you 2 recs. first up: vitamins, especially B vitamins. b vitamins are surprisingly easy to miss out on, and really important for nerves to regenerate and maintain themselves with.
6. ...cbd oil. ok yes i know this is perilously close to 'just weed', but i've had a lot of success >
30 y/o - token cishet - tumblr refugee. spoonie/15 chronic conditions in a trenchcoat/actual cyborg. just hangin' in there 