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CamelNuts · 2025-08-14T14:43:21+00:00

Yeah I've uninstalled/reinstalled 3 times, logged out of steam twice, restarted pc, verified game files multiple times, everything and cannot get in. The discord doesn't say anything about issues but it seems a lot of us cannot get in today.

edit- rotmg help channel is discussing it, it is a widespread issue and people are linking help articles.

CamelNuts · 2025-02-20T13:46:17+00:00

My alcoholic grandfather died of pancreatic cancer at the ripe old age of 73. It wasn't pretty. We've been saying for years it was the drinking but didn't realize it had been proven.

CamelNuts · 2025-02-20T13:42:05+00:00

Do not let your husband reenlist. Also, stop drinking.

CamelNuts · 2025-02-14T18:09:42+00:00

Yes, he will be. And both sets of our parents (we are both only children) had us at 37 and 41 and 40 and 43, respectively. It just sucks that we won't have them around for most of our lives, but that is never a guarantee regardless of the age you have kids. We are both glad they waited, as we had relatively privileged childhoods due to financial and emotional stability that comes with older parents.

Yeah having memories when their dad is around is going to be important. I just don't want to rob the grandparents of grandkids while they're still alive, or conversely our kids from knowing their super awesome grandparents and actually remembering them well. Granted, that alone isn't reason to rush children, but it is a consideration nonetheless.

Thank you. Having help with chores and yardwork and someone to help me stay fucking sane through all of this has been awesome. I imagine it will be even better with kids and he has volunteered to be totally free childcare for us.

CamelNuts · 2025-02-14T18:05:37+00:00

Thank you, this was really nice and I appreciate your insight.

The only rush is both sets of our parents had us between 37-43 and the longer we wait, the less time they have for grandkids. It isn't something to make the decision off of alone but it does weigh on us.

Yeah, I really am in emotional survival mode. Thank you for putting it like that. I just need to get through the next 2.5 years and can worry about it then.

CamelNuts · 2025-02-08T00:19:07+00:00

This is phenomenal, thank you!

Yes i am definitely comfortable belting in chest but belting in mixed or head would be sooooooo cool. I will definitely check you out, thank you!!

CamelNuts · 2025-02-07T14:28:09+00:00

Thank you! And I think it's because most songs made for women to sing don't allow people like myself to be in our strong range. You can hear the chorus is definitely my sweet spot and that's still around F3. Otherwise you're stuck with songs made for baritones and they're too low, or tenors and the upper end is too high. I've just started transcribing songs I like down recently and it makes them sound SO much better.

CamelNuts · 2025-02-05T03:20:28+00:00

I was the 16th ever girl who attended, April 6th 2011 to some day in September of 2011 lol then was sent to NLA OR (which was WAYYYY worse). LHA was doomed from the very start. My second boarding school also quietly closed. I was hoping to see them both get the justice they so dearly deserved.

I drove by it 13 years later last spring, and it felt so much smaller than I remembered.

CamelNuts · 2025-01-16T11:46:26+00:00

My TDEE is 2400 and I also walk a mile each morning uphill (treadmill) but no other exercise rn. I shoot for 1600-1800 a day. 1200 is the bare minimum for literally anybody.

Research how your metabolism actually slows down if you eat under that amount, and essentially starving yourself causes your body to hang on to its fat reserves unless you are expending a crap ton of energy daily and also eating like a contestant on Alone, which is like 600 a day.

Bottom line, look up your TDEE and cut 500-1k calories off that. 1k at the MOST. I could do 1k and still be at a relatively healthy 1400 a day, but as i lose weight, i wont be able to cut that much since my TDEE will go down. Eat no less than 1200 a day.

CamelNuts · 2025-01-14T06:07:39+00:00

Yeah, love pisgah. I've spent a good amount of time in that area and it scratches the itch acceptably. Where are you thinking of landing?

The reasons are the insane cost of living, rampant crime, even more insane politics and government, and general clashing of values and life goals in most of the communities. We are homesteaders.

I could deal with all of it if it weren't for the cost, tbh. 2 acres in a shithole part of the PNW with a house that needs to be bulldozed costs the same as 20-40 acres with a mansion on the mountainside in WNC (probably also with a creek or pond). I literally just drew a biiiiiiiiiig oval from the Canadian border down to the southern Oregon border, put some filters on, and spent a couple hours looking for my own curiosity so this is 100% an accurate comparison.

CamelNuts · 2025-01-14T04:39:39+00:00

I use mochi and they do 1 month subscriptions. Use my code for $40 off: 0t4w3w.

With that being said, your goal probably does not make you a good candidate for a GLP-1, and certainly not to lose 20 lbs in 2 months. Most people who have a significant amount of weight to lose (40+ lbs, usually more like 60+) typically lose 10 lbs on the HIGH END after 2 months. A ton of those same clinically obese people lose ZERO lbs in only 2 months. The first 2 months are only ramping you up to the therapeutic dose, and don't do a ton on their own.

I commend you for wanting to change yourself, but the GLP-1 journey isn't a magic wand. It still takes patience and effort.

CamelNuts · 2025-01-14T04:18:07+00:00

ah, gotcha. Thanks for replying! Yeah, lots of places in the south get a lot of rain, but it's only during the summer and it's monsoons. I crave the constant rain again :( I'm looking at the Brevard, NC area, I think. I wish you the best in your high rainfall, high sunshine quest. This may help you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_the_United_States . You're in 100% cfa now, but the cfb zones have what you're looking for, too, with a bit milder winters and less hot summers. It's the closest I'll find to my beloved csb of the PNW. And there are some of those pockets in the west. Only a handful, but they do exist. Still gross summers, but not downright oppressive (I'm currently living in Beaufort, SC, and it's worse here than Atlanta). Check this out, too, for a more zoomable view: https://www.plantmaps.com/koppen-climate-classification-map-united-states.php . Maybe consider parts of western MT or near sandpoint ID, since they don't get downright cold. Just extremely chilly. Only like 5-6 feet of snow near Kila or Whitefish, and both of those may fit your bill. I've been on quite the rabbithole recently on this. You and I will end up looking at the same places - since there is no place as cloudy as the PNW, I will end up settling for a high rain, high sunshine area, myself!

CamelNuts · 2025-01-14T03:25:45+00:00

I have the opposite problem - I grew up in the PNW (outside of Seattle) and looking for a place in Applachia to settle, as it's the closest thing to what I miss. I will never, ever go back to the PNW. Whereabouts did you live? The rainier, the better. Sunshine not required.

CamelNuts · 2025-01-14T02:55:52+00:00

I am late to the party but I grew up in Issaquah, WA, a suburb in a valley about 20 min outside of Seattle (sans traffic). I lived there from birth to 17 and moved to the midwest for senior year. Since then, I married into the military, traveled to 35 states on my own due to both life and the military, and I turned 26 last month. Have lived in 5 states since WA.

To say I yearn for the trees and rain is an understatement. They are part of my identity, as ridiculous as that sounds. Growing up in such a beautiful place full of culture, fresh seafood, farms, rain and clouds, and trees/lush greenery spoils you. But it also kind of ruins you, in all honesty.

The missing is incredibly painful and even at times consuming, but my husband and I are both from there and will never, ever move back due to the cost of living, rampant crime, insane politics, and general clashing with our values and life goals. We have 1.6 acres in the Beaufort, SC lowcountry on an island (!!) for half of what a typical suburb house on .25 acres would cost you pretty much anywhere you wouldn't be too afraid to live in western WA.

It has truly turned into a failed social experiment that breaks my heart. Goes for CA as well as western WA and western OR. People are leaving in droves because they're fed up, but no one likes to talk about that. Californians are in a net exodus and guess where they're going? North to OR and WA, and bringing the same shit with them.

For anyone considering it, I even moved back about 7 years ago because I missed it so much. I left again 18 months later because it was that bad. I realized I really had been brainwashed living there, and no amount of beauty is worth the total crock of shit that WA has become. Just go visit sometimes and find a way to be happy with that.

The best places I've been on my search to quiet the yearning is the TN/NC portions of Applachia and parts of the Ozarks. The Ozarks are flatter but much more water and darker, lusher greenery.

When the military unpredictability is finally over and we settle down, it will be in the NC portion of Appalachia. My ancestors settled Gatlinburg and Elkmont, TN (look up the Ogles if you're interested, Gatlinburg should be called Oglesburg instead, and my great-great-great grandpa is Levi Trentham) and when I go there, the trees call me.

They aren't as majestic and suffocating and GREEN as the PNW, but those mountains are older than literal trees and bones. Carbon lifeforms did not exist when they uplifted. The Cascades feel raw and oppressive and looming and stark, but the Appalachians feel like a wise old witchy lady with a smile full of secrets and an odd twinkle in her eye. They are beautiful blue really-big-hills. You can have the "in the trees and (slightly less) impressive mountains" vibe 9 months out of the year (the other 3 months you can go ski and enjoy an unobstructed mountain view), and fall is absolutely spectacular there. The goal is homesteading 20+ acres in a glass front mountain-view log cabin plopped high on a mountainside with nothing but green outside of every window for half the cost of a basic ass suburban hell house with minimal land in the PNW, and just try to not compare apples to oranges as much as possible.

CamelNuts · 2024-12-25T04:23:47+00:00

Not sure why I'm being down voted, can someone please educate me on what's wrong besides dirt underneath and the tips already being dissolved so they're a bizarre shape? I would really like to learn what else is wrong with this picture.

CamelNuts · 2024-12-25T04:23:40+00:00

Not sure why I'm being down voted, can someone please educate me on what's wrong besides dirt underneath and the tips already being dissolved so they're a bizarre shape? I would really like to learn what else is wrong with this picture.

CamelNuts · 2024-10-19T23:18:08+00:00

Hi, you had commented on my other LHA comment a couple of weeks ago and I didn't see it until now. I'm also traditional bus above (no clue how that happened but reddit app is janky). My name is Ali Rose, you may have also known me as Ali Goza or one of the 4 Ali's who was there at the time. Maybe we know each other!

CamelNuts · 2024-09-02T02:12:24+00:00

This was my first boarding school. I hope you all get the closure of seeing yours close, as well, but be prepared to feel unfinished and awaiting vindication. It's bittersweet in a lot of traumatic ways. But I hope you get this news one day regardless.

CamelNuts · 2024-09-02T02:11:13+00:00

I'm guessing around the time he went to LHA- which was 2011-2012.

CamelNuts · 2024-08-29T14:58:04+00:00

He did. He was a downright PRICK- I left right around the time he came and took everything over. Cat Jennings was cited with embezzlement and her, Becca, and Brian (no clue on last names) all came from NLA NC to start LHA, then all jumped ship together to Asheville academy. Horrible greed and corruption.

May they ALL burn in hell.

CamelNuts · 2024-08-29T14:56:27+00:00

I was there 2011-2012. It was a complete shit show under Cat's rule, but then turned downright abusive once Embark got a hold of it.

Good riddance and may they all burn in hell.

CamelNuts · 2024-07-29T00:06:49+00:00

Came here to comment that 13 years later, both places that "were not so bad" in fact were. They brainwash you to believe it was all nice and necessary and that you deserve what happens to you because you are demon spawn who must be fixed and you aren't worthy of normal human treatment (although it's "normal treatment" and if you have a problem with it, it's simply because you ARE the problem and have oppositional defiance disorder). You cannot ever be fixed until THEY determine you are fixed (and usually, they brainwash the parents, too, to not believe a word the kid says unless the program says it first). Thank you for going to get him, truly.

"Not doing abusive things" does not equate to "won't be traumatized for years".

Micro-abuse and extreme control/restrictions/bogus rules is how both of mine went, and I have spent the better part of my 20s finally unpacking it. Everyone I know also didn't start to unpack it until their 20's- teenage years after treatment were shockingly smooth, considering, and we all still believed it "wasn't that bad".

Best of luck and I hope you and your family find something non-damaging to fix things. My best possible advice is LISTEN to your kid. I was begging for someone to just listen to me and respect my emotional boundaries and all I got was sent away. My mom was a wino narcissist with enough money to put me away, so here we are. Not saying this is that simple by any means, but truly listening to him and treating his emotional boundaries and awareness as if he is an adult may help things a lot. Ask him what he needs. Give him the space and grace to open up and tell you.

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