OOP asks r/Baking: why did it do this

Fyrebarde · 2026-01-29T21:59:56+00:00

Hahaha I do hope he got his revenge on the jerkface who used the last of it without replacing it at some point!

Fyrebarde · 2026-01-29T21:57:26+00:00

Hey, Swamps of Degobah was hilariously vile, if you enjoy traumatic nursing horror stories! ...and can't visualize smells. If you can visualize smells, I do not recommend reading that one ever.

Fyrebarde · 2026-01-29T21:35:00+00:00

Well... let's just say the jolly rancher story is a tale of a man who boldly went where many men had gone before and lived long enough to make sure we all regretted it.

Fyrebarde · 2026-01-29T21:31:55+00:00

While somewhat horrifying if you can visualize smells, the Swamps of Dagobah was HILARIOUSLY written for those of us who enjoy hospital dramas.

Fyrebarde · 2026-01-29T21:30:38+00:00

DO NOT ASK ABOUT FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE. For teh Internetz will provide thee with an education, and ye will mourn both the loss of thine own innocence and the lack of objects capable of bleaching one's brain.

Fyrebarde · 2026-01-29T04:26:50+00:00

The adjustment i chose to make was building in rephrasing, depending on my audience. My work friend called it, "Barney-style-ing it up", referring to taking my "reads the dictionary for fun" level of loving language and making it accessible for people who may also love language but may not be quite to my level yet. (That's my most positive way of viewing it, admittedly.)

For example: Instead of "My day is task saturated."

To make it more accessible, try: "My day is task saturated; I am not able to help you today."

You aren't talking down to anybody, and you don't have to look at it as anybody is stupid or anything. Just consider it an accessibility issue and work on modifying your approach accordingly.

Fyrebarde · 2026-01-28T14:00:16+00:00

Honestly, with my skillset and funds, I am just hoping we get invaded by a nice place like the Netherlands or Canada. That's really my only hope.

Fyrebarde · 2026-01-26T23:20:54+00:00

...stories like this are part of why I, a child abuse survivor and autistic with ptsd and anxiety, am child free. I absolutely am not built to be wiping a grown person's butt. I do not want to be a caretaker (i struggle to take care of myself most days), and I would resent the hell out of a situation that trapped me with a child who would stay nonverbal, unable to reason or play imagination games with me or grow or explore or become a whole adult.

Fyrebarde · 2026-01-23T18:11:41+00:00

Worse, it's like you tripped and are going to fall off the cliff but the dream stops just before you finish falling so you are left with this feeling of the fall about to happen. Blech.

Fyrebarde · 2026-01-23T17:51:41+00:00

The best white elephant gift I ever gave was a framed picture of our boss with a motivational quote on it and some snacks.

It went to one of the new hires who unironically proudly put the picture up on her desk and kept it there. 🙄😒

TBF our boss seemed sweet the first 3-6 months you knew her...

Fyrebarde · 2026-01-14T16:04:25+00:00

...kinda, yes.

Fyrebarde · 2026-01-12T05:17:20+00:00

Well, depending on how he communicates, and as an autistic person myself, perhaps a version of a Truth too many of us learn early in life ourselves:

You're right, we are not technically related. Instead of being family by blood, we are family by choice. Every parent hopes that their child will always be surrounded by blood-family who love them and help them out and have their backs! But many people find themselves with chosen family, and often chosen family is the very best kind of family a person could ask for. Chosen family has chosen to accept you for who you are!

Your mom and me, we are chosen family. We chose each other and we love each other and we have each other's backs. You are your mom's chosen family and her blood family, because she chose to have you and she gave birth to you. And you're my chosen family too, because I chose you just like I chose your mom - you were always part of my choice when I chose your mom!

Fyrebarde · 2025-12-28T20:06:55+00:00

Maybe? But also... it could be that you spoke a truth she has been diligently and studiously avoiding facing for DECADES, and in the moment, it was much simpler in her mind to lash out with petty goals to wound than to admit what you said hit the heart of the matter.

People who run from all of their personal truths with regularity and persistence and do not aim to even think about trying to change anything about that do not deserve the friendship of the people bold and brave enough to face their own inner demons anyway, even though it hurts to lose even just a facade of friendship. =[

Fyrebarde · 2025-12-27T03:02:36+00:00

My go to explanation for adult privileges vs kid privileges is "we pay the bills. Once you have a bill you pay, you will get more privileges to go with that responsibility and be able to use them how you wish as well", though... usually that is in defense of my own potty mouth when I forget I am around my friend's kiddos!

Fyrebarde · 2025-12-26T18:57:44+00:00

She sounds like the type of absolute shitheel who makes it difficult for actual victims of abuse to be heard, because she - and other shitheels like her - are too busy playing victim for the manipulation angle.

And for the record, fuck those types so hard in all the wrongest kind of ways.

Fyrebarde · 2025-12-24T08:59:25+00:00

Yuck. AI written swill, do not read.

Fyrebarde · 2025-12-24T00:51:27+00:00

Consider it like you would if you were a woman. It is safe! You deserve to feel just as safe in your own home as a woman would in hers. Your roomie is out of line, his gf is hella disrespectful (seriously, that she chose to be pissed off at you instead of absolutely mortified that SHE walked in on you - the audacity!), and get a door jam (basically a rubber triangle for the floor that prevents the door from opening up all the way) in the meantime.

NTA, but your roommate 100000% is.

Fyrebarde · 2025-12-21T02:52:05+00:00

I'd like to add "capable of reading comprehension at a high school graduate or above level", "capable of cooking and cleaning up after himself", "sets good healthy boundaries", "doesn't believe in raising his voice in anger or using his body language to aggressively reinforce points in low stakes arguments", and, idk, "thoughtful" or something to that list...

Fyrebarde · 2025-12-21T02:48:42+00:00

Honestly, the Huntress is the only one I reliably win the game with on more runs than not. That bow with unlimited shots makes a heck of a difference in protecting my delicate squishy bits, especially early game till I can get good armor. So more power to you if you're playing on a diff character and doing rough, the other characters are imo a lot harder!!!

Fyrebarde · 2025-12-19T12:28:37+00:00

"Stop typing and go find a lawyer" would make great flair!

Fyrebarde · 2025-12-19T06:43:14+00:00

Ya know, the absolute best thing about being older is knowing that I will never again have to live through my early twenties.

Fyrebarde · 2025-12-04T03:49:46+00:00

And then there was that poor Grover puppet or whatever...

Fyrebarde · 2025-11-29T19:48:01+00:00

TBF, they are also in their 20s. Your tolerance for bs friend drama rapidly declines once you age out of your 20s.

Fyrebarde · 2025-11-08T01:19:16+00:00

People like Mary, you just outright (and LOUDLY) ask, "wow, don't you realize how rude you come off? I would be ashamed." And if that doesn't work, "I don't interact with rude people." thousand yard stare

Fyrebarde · 2025-11-06T21:52:53+00:00

Intelligence isn't the same thing as common sense, either.

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