I sometimes forget it used to be bad. It just works with steam

Very high given you were spanked by short women as a kid

Oh yeah, a lot of old Catholics are terrified of nuns for that reason. It was always fun to shock them by saying how my school’s nun was nice. The nuns especially targeted the sin of left handedness

Oh cool I’d been considering bluesky for lurking

I’ll care when they’re Dvorak phones /s

I didn’t like the man, he was a self important, pompous ass obsessed with how smart he was that fought to bring my country to its current state. But he did make the world far weirder for his being in it. Rest in something you goddamn freak, may you be remembered for the dilburrito

Edit, forgot to acknowledge the racism. I’d already been mocking him for so long when he went full bore on it so it slipped my mind. Absolute piece of shit he was. Unintentionally funny sometimes though

I think both are huge factors. If I had the money, I probably wouldn’t pick it up, but if I had the money to blow and there were a bunch of games yeah I might. I picked up the switch 1 and botw after a Saturday of overtime, and it was a great decision since a year later there was a pandemic, but the splurge money ain’t coming and there’s no games I’d drop several hundred dollars to play

Oh jeez, I’d heard it would probably take until around EOL

That whole thing was weird. Like, even if it was a perfect simulation, it still wouldn’t keep me dry and warm like real real estate, nor could I keep my stuff there.

It annoys me to no end that they can’t be updated on linux

For your last bit, yeah we do. Old friends catch up from time to time, you meet people through shared interests and going out to find people with them, or you go to a bar and chat with strangers over drinks because it feels good to do that. At least I do all three as an extrovert in her 30s. I had to learn to do all of these things when I was younger. I spent months alone not talking to people early in college and it was psychosocially awful. Internet forums weren’t an acceptable substitute.

I have, and yes this is the answer. Meds are great, they’re why I don’t have panic attacks anymore, but exposure therapy is the gold standard for irrational fears (as in not dangerous) for a reason. CBT is also awesome, and it’s what helped me the most. But the biggest thing I had to learn was that it’s ok to be scared, but I still had to do what I needed to do.

That awkwardness is the discomfort you should be aiming to feel. It’s just like how when you’re losing weight you should try to be spending a lot of your time kinda hungry or how when you’re building muscle you should be aiming to be sore the morning after a workout. Awkwardness is like that for socializing. Low levels of fear are also totally fine.

If you’re looking to meet people your age and learn to interact with them look up meet ups for things you’re interested in, like board game groups, art in the park, etc. If you can’t think of anything go for improv. Improv is basically a targeted exercise in learning to feel comfortable in an awkward situation, though it’s definitely jumping into the deep end to learn to swim.

And as for public transit. Do it scared. Look up a route (and back) then take the train or the bus to a part of town you’ve aways heard of, but haven’t been to, or to a medium niceness part of town. Take a walk around a few blocks there.

Ah that sucks, I really lucked out there, though I still mostly wear tshirts

Go for walks around your area and slowly expand as you increase in comfort. I did something similar as a trans woman in the American Midwest. I’m still not super comfortable walking around places I don’t know alone, but that’s normal and healthy. You want to be developing a counter to the sense of fear in a love of exploration and an excitement at doing something new

Also, if you’re actually worried, pepper spray is a deterrent that may feel comfortable to carry around. In the off chance you’re attacked you take note of the direction the wind is going, and if it isn’t back at you you aim for the eyes and run.

They’re necessary but not sufficient. I need to maintain good habits like exercise, rest, and socialization, and it still takes a fair bit of effort, but all things considered they’re the difference between me starting something and continuing it or related tasks to an acceptable condition and me throwing something on the stove, starting cleaning, getting distracted from that by an idea I wanted to look up, and being distracted from that by the smoke alarm

What even would an AI doorbell even do?

Idk lately I’ve been finding it easier to find pants in my size as someone 5’11". And I’m leggy enough my shirts are just a women’s medium.

That said, I’m just awkward and usually by most of my clothes from thrift stores

And bring a separate video camera

Exactly, treasure hunters go for the golden objects, and while archeologists absolutely want such things, they relate to what is valued, adornment styles, and often religion, but archeologists are often just as excited, if not moreso, to find the trash pit