Nicklybear [she/her]

I suck at tech and have never had to do this. What the hell are you doing to Mint?

Akavir has dragons (including a tiger dragon, Tosh Raka), snow demons (Kamal), tiger-like cat folk (Ka Po' Tun), monkey people (Tang Mo), snake people (Tsaesci), and then there are unconfirmed rumors of rat people and dog people.

transitioning to GIMP from Photoshop has been harder for me than switching to Linux.

Same, but Affinity Photo instead of Photoshop.

I've often dabbled in Linux, mostly dual-booting, but now I'm fully committing. I mostly kept with Windows because Affinity Designer and Photo don't work on Linux, and having quality graphic design software is important to what I do. It just got to the point with Microsoft endlessly advertising to me, changing my defaults, trying to force me to use Edge, and forcing updates that I had enough and even having access to quality graphic design software wasn't enough for me to stay.

Glad to be part of the trend. Literally just yesterday, I got rid of Windows and installed Pop OS instead.

As someone who has been homeless, I would MUCH rather live my entire life in a "cinderblock gulag" then spend even a second homeless. So, yes, if we ever were to get such buildings provided to us from the government, I would greatly enjoy them.

This is a bit, right? There's no way you ACTUALLY believe this, right? RIGHT?

Yeah, when I was homeless, I was already beginning to turn left and knew that America didn't have much of a safety net. Once I was homeless for a bit, that's when I realized that we don't have a safety net at all, and ended up having to return to the place I was running away from. That experience radicalized me. Yet, I get people, including my own family, telling me about how good homeless people have it, knowing full well that I was homeless and me telling them otherwise. Just angering.

I can't believe I'm actually becoming thankful that my parents banned me from reading and watching Harry Potter growing up. Glad I never had positive feelings towards her.

What kind of gaming and nerd shit? Are there particular consoles or specific types of nerd shit you're into? That kind of information could help me possibly give you recommendations if we have any similar tastes.

Pretty much all the good political and news ones have been mentioned, but I don't think I've seen American Prestige or Know Your Enemy listed yet.

Nerf Arena Blast. That was my jam as a kid.

I mean, the joke is among us hockey fans that we went to a boxing match and a hockey game broke out. It's not really all that true anymore, to be completely honest, but it used to be. It's still a very physical game, and you will see a lot of pushing and shoving, and maybe someone takes a quick swing here and there, but fights are rare these days. All out brawls even rarer. A few decades ago, though, fighting and bench clearing brawls were quite common. I mean, “Fight Night at the Joe” (or “Brawl in Hockeytown”) is considered one of the sport's greatest moments for a reason. Quite a few documentaries have been made about that night, and the anniversary of it is celebrated every year. But, if something like that were to happen today, it would be SHOCKING.

Technically, you're not supposed to fight and will get penalized at professional levels (or thrown out of the game and suspended at amateur levels), but that doesn't mean people are going to stop. It's too valuable as a tool to police the game when refs are doing a bad job, or fire up your teammates when not doing well. Fighting has reduced a LOT, like, it does not happen anywhere close to as much as it used to, but it's probably never going to go away completely.

I'm tired. Been grinding 9-13 hour days since Friday or Saturday (can't remember exactly) setting up a new site for my personal blog that I have been running for years. Setting up a newsletter for my science fiction blog, wrote several articles, recorded and edited read-along audio for both articles, writing a new article, still got stuff to work on for my new site, etc. I got so much I still need to do in addition to learning new skills so I can hopefully finally find a job for my chronically unemployed self. It's tiring, but honestly, it also feels kind of good because I haven't done much since being forced to leave my last job in October 2020. Was restless. This really helps me feel less restless.

Reading through the Wheel of Time books. In a few days, I will be reading “A Prayer for the Crown-Shy” by Becky Chambers when that is finally released, and it downloads onto my Nook. Pre-ordered it as soon as it was available to pre-order. The first book was so good.

The Jefferson's and The Carol Burnett Show. Yes, I am a Zoomer. I do not care that they're old shows.

Yes.

The worst part about this (for her) is that she's made videos talking about why she will never get bottom surgery despite being a transmed. So... yeah. Wouldn't make a post trying to dunk on other trans people when your criticism applies to you as well.

I'm going to be honest, if that game wasn't primed to give me a seizure, I'd be buying that day one. That game looks awesome to me.

Yeah, I know what you're talking about. It only analyzed GIFs to see if they were potentially triggering and everything I've heard is that it was never that great even when it worked.