Smog - The Well

or some Brad Sucks

You are sharing very deep observations about yourself.

About your mother and her impact on you wanting to start a family, take a look at raisedbynarcicissts communities or speak to a therapist.

For friends connection, try joining a board game club in your area. They really don’t care about autistic traits.

I’d recommend minimising the amount of commercial media you are viewing, and switch to mostly consuming open-licenced media for a while.

Audio books: librivox.org

Movies: vole.wtf/voleflix

Nursing, and care professions like teaching or ambulance drivers, can often be squeezed to rely on the compassion of the individuals in them. Do you have balance within your position. Is it time to retrain for something else at night-school? Or time to go to 3 or 4 days a week.

Take some pride, every single day nurses help people to stay alive.

The Stoic Reading app on FDroid may help you find some philosophy that motivates or solidifies a purpose.

Travel to a different town and meet random people, introduce yourself using your middle name. Invest nothing in making long term friends, just chat.

You actually sound quite aware of many things around you, finding opportunities for hobbies or artistic endeavours, where you do not overthink things, would help.

Remember that everyone is doing their best with what they know, and to let some things go.

All the best for your future.

Walking through a cemetry at night, with 8 friends.

A tree ahead starts violently shaking its top branch then stops.

We all continue walking past the tree, which is around 6m high. All examine the top of it to see no person or animal up there.

Agree it was weird.

It was shaking too much to be a cat or bird. No wind at the time.

I tried for a day or 2 to get strafe-running, could not do it.

Would love to play Xonotic though, it has lots of old-school FPS flavour.

Yes, I also tried the original Pixel Dungeon one time. Crazy hard mode.

For tips, hide behind doors for as many strikes as possible.

Try to enhance a Glaive with speed, from the Stone of Augmentation(stay with staff for mage). Then upgrade and add a glyph. Plate armour up to +4-6.

Looks so good. I haven’t tried city-sims in 30yrs.

I just watched this drokkin excellent overview of what is possible in OpenTTD. Very polished.

I am sure it can be played as a serious endeavor too.

Sure is! It’s had so much work done since the early days.

The single player campaign is huge and hilarious. Very satisfying to complete.

FLOSS games that are solid:

Shattered Pixel Dungeon

Luanti (aka Minetest)

sgt-puzzles

Trisquel GNU/Linux

https://trisquel.info/en

Because it is a fully free distro, which is important to me.

I use Trisquel because it is the most user friendly I’ve found in the free distros.

Some hardware drivers are unavailable, but that’s fine, just transferred away from non-free hardware.

For compatibility, usually export to PDF.

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Also GrapheneOS on phones and tablet. Has less nags and bloat. Privacy centric mobile OS.

PosteRazor is excellent, make huge wall posters.

Nice.

Great choice for an easy party game.

Just One

Mid-80s, these were the only sour treats available.

Salty dried Chinese plum

Build it in a fire-brick tunnel enclosure, with slow release CO2 , or IR light attractant.

Yes, it is worth getting into video games. Mental quickness, friends, and less Alzheimers are some benefits.

People in this post are making excellent recommendations for quality commercial games.

I can recommend starting out in videogames, by getting into Free Software (Libre) games.

Libre Games cost nothing, have no spyware, and usually have positive, helpful, DIY focused communities.

Here is a post I made that lists a few of my favourite free games on desktop and mobile.

https://lemmy.world/post/20786563

If any on this list are too difficult or hard to set up, just skip.

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Historical note

The Fool’s Errand game, from 1987, sold very well with women gamers. Over 50% IIRC.

It is a tricky puzzle game with Tarot Card theming and an excellent sense of humour.

Fool’s Errand is not Free Software though, and way out of print. It could probably be emulated on a device that you have, PC or phone.

Game detail at Wikipedia

Play original Mac version online

PC version online

Netbook - EeePC et al

WAP ( Wireless Application Protocol ) - Internet on mobile phones, before http was available.

Rapid Application Development

Agile Software Development

That’s interesting, why do you suppose <S> ?

Tell me more about rubber duck…

Zing! Love it. <3

Highlander :P

We invited another friends’ family over to sit at a table in our driveway. Had dinner, chatted, handed out lollies to about 40 kids, gave them compliments on their costumes. The 10 who were without costume got the same lollies and “Happy Halloween”. I remember what it is to be a kid.

The parents chaperoning kids around are usually not in costume.

As for our decorations and costumes, we had fake spider and snake out, I dressed up family members in a sugar-skull shirt, and I wore a NIN Ghosts shirt.

Before heading out front, my dad-joke got a groan, when I said, “I am dressed as ghosts!”