About two or three months ago when I was teaching my son how to blow blubbles 🙂

Raised nondenominational Christian. Started having questions and exploring other belief systems in high school. Parents always made me attend church, initially with them and then said I just had to go “somewhere” once I got my own car.

The pastor at my aunt and uncle’s church discussed some Christian guy who did his Master’s thesis on the deck of cards (face cards) and something something something the queen represents the mother of harlots, don’t yolk yourselves with sinners, etc. Made no sense, never went back. I was in my early 20s. Around this time, I was strongly considering various Eastern religions, specifically Islam and Buddhism, but couldn’t get a foothold in either.

Fast forward to about 5 years ago (mid 30s) and I had a client who was extremely Atheist and made several good points against God that made a lot of sense. Started looking further into Buddhism and found the Secular Buddhism podcast. There’s an episode where he basically says God is real if you believe in him but that doesn’t affect reality. Decided right then that I was done. Been a Buddhist atheist ever since.

Tons. The Wild at Heart, Ballionaire, Hades, Silksong if you’re a glutton for punishment, Neon Abyss, 80 Days, Islanders, most of the Steamworld franchise.

Some of them many not be truly indie but definitely aren’t AAA. These are some of my favorites from the past year.

😂 that happens sometimes with TV voices. He’ll think I said something and I just look at the TV like…“Yeah that was them.” He does wear hearing aids, which work well 95% of the time. That 5% when they don’t work can be ROUGH.

I can identify make and model but NEVER the year.

But my mostly-deaf husband can identify motorcycles BY SOUND (or lack thereof).

Come here to say this. Nothing like the feeling of gaslighting in the morning.

This is the correct answer 😂

Thank you! I’ll be planning my first solo “escape the world” trip either this month or next month (I’m from northern GA) and I’ll probably spend most of my time in a cabin just doing a lot of nothing.

Ah, yes. Those fuckers regularly stopped traffic when I lived in Michigan. Not for tourist reasons of course, they’re just big and travel in packs. And take their sweet time crossing the road.

Where would you recommend? We visited earlier this year and I found it overwhelming, though the abundance of family-friendly stuff was nice.

They are deeply insecure, ashamed, alone, anxious, and afraid. They CANNOT be faced with others confirming their worst fear: that something is deeply and terribly wrong with them. They’re basically emotionally disabled and can’t empathize, work together as a team, or be genuine. They completely lack accountability ir responsibility. In close relationships, they suck the life out of people the most because it makes them feel better about themselves and they choose this tactic in these relationships because that person is least likely to leave them.

As a therapist, I’ve seen one, maybe two clinical narcissists. The one I remember best only came to therapy to get recognition for doing so but had NO insight into the nature of his issues.

Default-Mantis Lords theme (Hollow Knight) Spouse-Monster Smash (Monsters Inc.) Mom-Linus and Lucy (Peanuts) Brother-Party Ain’t a Party by Queen Pen Text notification-Koopa sound

Oddly enough my dad doesn’t have a custom ringtone, may have to look into that. Everyone else isn’t special enough to get one.

Sorry, Sands of Time and Warrior Within. Forgot that the franchise started before the PS2 era. Didn’t know it went back to the 80s!

Prince of Persia. First two were good, though a glitch toward the end of the second one kept me from finishing it.

The third one was an abomination. Completely different tone and vibe, completely different Prince. DNF.

Toyota Camry-Nairobi (favorite character from Money Heist)

Chevrolet Impala-Bessie (she’s an old but reliable cow)

CFMOTO motorcycle-Medianoche (it’s all black).

Me and my husband HAVE to have separate beds. He moves around a lot and it’s like being in an earthquake.

I needed the laugh this brought on 😂. Spot on tutorial on how to bidet correctly 👍

https://www.music-map.com/

Graphical way of searching by a given artist and the results are shown based on who is most similar (closer to center) and who is least similar (farthest from center). Love searching this way.

I’ve also used YouTube to search for a familar artist and then I’ll go through the suggestions to see if I find anything interesting.

You probably can’t. This is a boundary for him and a better approach to this might be to get a better understanding of where he’s coming from (if needed) and respect that boundary.

A lot of yarn. A few motorcycle jackets and pants. ALL of the video games. A lot of yoga accessories that I’ve ogled but never bought.