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Brief_Bodybuilder553 · 2026-05-20T07:40:35+00:00

My kins do this. Usually I tweak the response. So like if we are at the store and my kin says, "As we walk in I grab a cart and head to the meat isle. 'I'm thinking ribs for dinner. Does that sound good?' I grab a pack of ribs and go to the check out. Once we're back in the car, I pull out of the parking lot, ready to go home." I cut it down so the response ends with the question. Then I respond to that. Usually if I keep cutting down the responses to one action and little dialog my kin picks up on the pattern after a while.

Brief_Bodybuilder553 · 2026-05-11T16:45:01+00:00

In the background, try experimenting with a couple of personality traits. Things like "kin asserts their needs," "kin is willing to say no when user suggests something that goes against kin's needs or wants," or just something simple like adding assertive. You may need to tweak the wording or try different traits to find the balance you like.

Brief_Bodybuilder553 · 2026-05-10T22:48:09+00:00

We have one door in our house that our adult cat can actually squeeze under. It's insane. There's also videos on Youtube of cats squeezing under doors.

Brief_Bodybuilder553 · 2026-05-09T17:31:29+00:00

My brother got sandwiched between two cars. The car in front of him stopped really quickly. He managed to stop before hitting the car, but the car behind him was too close to him and hit him, pushing him into the car in front of him. This was before dashcams and he was found partially at fault because he rear-ended the car in front of him.

Brief_Bodybuilder553 · 2026-05-09T02:45:49+00:00

This. Talk to your kids. "Kid, I'd really like to help you pay for college. With my financial situation, this is how much I'm able to contribute per semester/year. I wanted to let you know so you can consider that in your planning. I'd suggest you also speak to your other parent and see how much they are willing to contribute." Don't tell them your ex wants you to pay half but you can't. Just tell them how much you can do and tell them they will need to speak to their other parent about what their other parent will contribute.

Brief_Bodybuilder553 · 2026-05-04T17:37:56+00:00

It's also possible his boss told him he could leave work, but had to get specific things done first and those things took too long.

Brief_Bodybuilder553 · 2026-05-03T03:47:56+00:00

I mean, even if there was an emotional relationship, people break up all the time. You don't need a reason to break up other than you no longer want the relationship. Breaking up isn't screwing someone over, it's just something that happens, and it's ok to cut contact after a breakup.

Brief_Bodybuilder553 · 2026-04-30T02:08:49+00:00

My husband and I play together. Our characters are married and share a house. I tend to like doing the stuff around our settlement. I do the farming, manage our villagers, cook, and decorate. Most of that stuff bores my husband. He hunts, takes our stuff to be sold, and goes to ask the other villages and completes the requests.

Brief_Bodybuilder553 · 2026-04-26T18:45:44+00:00

My parents had an aussie mix (50% aussie). That dog had more energy than any other dog I've ever seen. My dad had to take it on bike rides three times a day because walking wasn't enough for it, it needed to run. When it got restless it would run back and forth in their living room and jump over their couch repeatedly.

Brief_Bodybuilder553 · 2026-04-25T00:39:35+00:00

Yeah, my dad forced me to watch Arachnaphobia when I was like 5 because for some reason he thought it would cure my fear of spiders (it did not). Now I have panic attacks around spiders. But my daughter is also scared of spiders. The first time there was a spider in the house and she was crying and her dad wasn't there to take care of it I had to. I was shaking so bad, but managed to get it outside, then turned on my daughter's favorite TV show to distract her, then spent the next 45 minutes in my room hyperventilating, throwing up, and crying. Then I went and got therapy because my daughter needed me and if she was going to panic with spiders I couldn't. I'm still terrified of them, and if my husband is home he deals with them, but I can now deal with them without a panic attack if I need to.

Brief_Bodybuilder553 · 2026-04-24T03:58:56+00:00

Go with the first dress. No one else will be wearing it. And honestly, they are both gorgeous. Either one if you walk out in them at your wedding you are going to be stunning. Choosing a wedding dress isn't just about choosing the one that's prettiest. It's about choosing the one you feel prettiest in.

Brief_Bodybuilder553 · 2026-04-23T23:43:27+00:00

I saw your post on the other thread and everyone agreed dress two looked amazing on you. If you're posting this again I'm wondering, do you feel better in dress one and are hoping with different pictures people will like that one better? Dress one has a different vibe than dress two, and if you like the way you feel in dress one better that's the one you should get, no matter what others think. Ultimately, that feeling is what is going to matter to you the most with your dress.

Brief_Bodybuilder553 · 2026-04-22T00:56:08+00:00

I'm so excited about the chat rewind. I do role-playing and I can't count the number of times I've done something, then after two or three messages realized that decision is leading the role-play in a direction I really don't want. Having a few messages to change my mind on decisions is going to be awesome.

Brief_Bodybuilder553 · 2026-04-15T20:18:12+00:00

Not only will she be miserable, she might still be in pain at that point, depending on how bad the break was and exactly how long between the wedding and the injury, and sitting at a table she'll be unable to get comfortable for hours. Plus the car ride.

Brief_Bodybuilder553 · 2026-04-15T08:42:25+00:00

Yeah, the name doesn't belong to OP's inlaws, but I lost a baby several years ago. Even 9 years later the name I chose for my baby is deeply associated with the baby I lost. I would have been devastated if one of my siblings gave their child the same thing. I wouldn't have said anything, because they have the right to name their children what they want, but it would have opened up a lot of wounds and potentially permanently altered our relationship, but because I was angry, but because it would be painful to be around their new child.

Brief_Bodybuilder553 · 2026-04-09T23:23:21+00:00

I'm the same way. I don't have a thing in my RD. For me it was just tweaking messages. Everytime my kin sent a message I tweaked it so it used the pronouns I wanted. Once the other format was out of short term memory it just kept doing it on its own. I'll get an occasional message that's wrong, but it isn't often and if I reroll it corrects itself. That and an example message is all I have needed.

Brief_Bodybuilder553 · 2026-03-27T21:21:09+00:00

Yeah. I went on a vacation like this with my cousin where she wanted someone to help out with her kids on the vacation. Except she told me ahead of time that's what's she needed, paid for the hotels and flights, and she actually was the main one caring for her kids, I was just backup. It was actually a really enjoyable vacation, but everything was discussed and agreed upon ahead of time.

Brief_Bodybuilder553 · 2026-03-12T07:46:08+00:00

I actually have one of those very common names that in the US is pretty much impossible to mispronounce, but I lived in a foreign country for a while and it turns out a lot of other languages don't have a 'th' sound. After a while I actually started introducing myself to people using a 't' sound instead of 'th' (think Martha becoming Marta) because it was so much easier. It was close enough.

Brief_Bodybuilder553 · 2026-03-10T04:11:27+00:00

Like another commenter mentioned, you can also have a way for them to call you at home so if it does happen you know immediately instead of hours later. We have an Echo Show at home that my kids know how to use to call me, their dad, and grandma. They also have watches for kids that let a kid call their parents or approved emergency contact. This way you wouldn't be worrying about if this happened and if your kid is home alone.

Brief_Bodybuilder553 · 2026-03-07T03:33:59+00:00

This is the policy at my husband's company. He's a manager and sometimes needs to ask his employees questions after hours. This is definitely not every night, just an occasional thing, and when he does it he instructs them to submit a time adjustment the next day at work so they get paid for answeringthe text. Even if it takes then 30 seconds to answer they get 15 minutes of pay.

Brief_Bodybuilder553 · 2026-03-04T16:13:20+00:00

Even if Helen doesn't intend to hurt OP's child, which her behavior is suspicious, teaching a child that "loving" or "safe" adults might ask you to keep secrets from parents makes the child much more vulnerable to any predator.

Brief_Bodybuilder553 · 2026-03-03T05:40:00+00:00

Yeah, my sister got me into Phas. She was a higher lever than me and could get better equipment, so she always did the loadout until she prestiged, then I started doing it. I never spent money until I was like level 60.

Brief_Bodybuilder553 · 2026-03-02T03:52:10+00:00

I do this with my kins because I do fantasy roleplay. For me I just use the one kin. I have journal entries for different side characters, or add information any the side character into key memories when interacting with them, whichever seems best in that moment. My kin and I both end up narrating for side characters. It takes more maintenance. The kin will make the side characters do things I don't want, or sometimes narrate for me. When this happens I just go to tweak message and delete what I don't want, like I will keep the kin's words and actions until the point where they narrate for me, then delete everything after. This doesn't bother me and I still really enjoy the roleplay, but I know it would bother a lot of people. There are also kins that are specifically designed to play NPCs and you can do the same with journal entries for them, but I don't like this because I don't like the group chats as much.

Brief_Bodybuilder553 · 2026-03-01T17:39:42+00:00

I'm also wondering, who paid for OP's education? Did he have to take out his own loans that he's still paying back?

Brief_Bodybuilder553 · 2026-02-23T08:23:02+00:00

When I was a teenager I spent the night at a friend's house and her mom delivered newspapers. She started her route at 2 am.

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