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At night I'm walking up the street with a friend towards her bus home. I've forgotten to pay attention to mine. Frantically I start reciting my directions hoping she'll correct me. I have to get to the underground train station, and it's very confusing. If I get lost, I won't get home.

We're competing as a large group, like a marching band. Some of us have powerful magic and have to be utilized at exactly the right time. The train compartments can be split into smaller and smaller sections to maximize utility and we all decide yes, we can split our bedrooms to make room for the competition.

I get expelled for walking on the street during a performance with judges. Thought I did ok; jumped down into a ditch to hide. The teacher who hated me led me around to get my stuff out of her classroom, and I cried while I apologized to her. I flew like peter pan out the doors.

Years later I'm looking for a place to live, I hop cities a lot, trying to be friendly and generous with a guy who only wants my drugs.

Credits: I stole this without permission from the original artist

For LGBTQ+ folks who want to blend in, what tips or advice can you give?

I was disappointed, honestly, it felt like one long dragonball z fight. People constantly getting punched into walls, nobody ever gets a lasting injury

When Maria gets angry and kills her father she should have died. Her dragon is a manifestation of rage and hatred, something that she couldn't control. It should have consumed her. That would have been perfectly fitting for the universe of Castlevania. I love her character but they missed a great opportunity there.

if I page someone (@user@instance) from my instance to a different one, the user often does not get any notification. what's the standard way of paging another instance's users?

(these questions are from a self help book by Lindsay C Gibson)

I wish other people were more _________

Why is it so hard for people to _________

For a change, I would love for someone to treat me _________

Maybe one of these days I'll find someone who will _________

I'm in year 2, have 13 bars, a couple of purple sprinklers. I'm thinking of saving up for the desert totem. is there a better use? should I upgrade my pick

@[email protected] appears to think so.

In the above thread, I suggest that artifacts of evolutionary development are purposeless and that suggestions to the contrary are intelligent design. I'm met with the common hostility.

But what interests me is the justification for it:

Claiming I was suggesting intelligent design when I obviously wasn't is a pretty dickish thing to say, so...

FlyingSquid feels entitled to hurt other people when certain conditions are met. Eye for an Eye has been a staple of justice systems of less developed cultures and despite the advancements of modern technology and modern thought, some apologists still exist today.

I find it interesting that people who have been hurt (by something as innocuous as a perceived slight to the ego, no less!) are willing to pass that pain on to other people rather than allow it to end.

I'm open to using GIMP or a web-based online tool

I'd like to take a source image and posterize it, but instead of letting the application pick the resulting colors, I'd like to pick them manually. So for every pixel, the app would change the color to one of my chosen colors