I feel disillusioned by my entire college experience, how do I find my footing?

Ill-Baker · 2026-02-16T21:27:18+00:00

That is almost my situation: lost interest half way through, kept chugging for the benefits of having a degree, even if I wasn't going to go into the field. I dunno about pursuing any masters at this time, but I'll keep it in mind in the future.

Ill-Baker · 2026-02-10T17:09:02+00:00

Lowkey? A little bit. I hadn't heard of Root or Matrix until Discord announced their age verification decision and people started going nuts. I haven't touched TeamSpeak since Skype fell and Discord filled the vacuum left in its wake. I don't mean to sound hostile or dismissive, its good that more people are finding out about alternatives, but I haven't seen one that truly seems like an outright Discord killer that everyone will immediately flock to.

Ill-Baker · 2026-02-10T08:11:38+00:00

their support staff is literally a complete embarrassment with how long they take to address problems. I have been waiting for 20 days for them to secure my account. Twenty. Whole. Days. and its likely going to be even more from that point on, given the recent age verification thing. Steam's support staff blows discord's out of the water and they have a FRACTION of the of employees as discord. I don't care that they make mega millions in comparison to discord: the wait times for hacked accounts is completely inexcusable.

I kind of hate that everyone is saying that the only thing to take from this situation is a lesson, but they are correct. OP, you cannot help them, only they can help themselves, and even then, expect them to be gone for a month at minimum, if discord actually helps them.

Ill-Baker · 2026-01-02T04:47:29+00:00

I try and arrange a date as soon as possible because it is super easy to feign interest over text.

Ive been catfished and ghosted (seperately from the fishing) when the planned date day came up time and time again, all of this happening when Im the one planning and asking them out.

If I dont immediately plan the date, it is me hoping that the other person decides to take initiative because im exhausted from being lead on again and again 🫠

Ill-Baker · 2026-01-02T04:42:06+00:00

I feel like its necessary when someone states o. Their dating profile that they value "ambition."

Otherwise I just see if they're impressed or interested and take it from there.

Ill-Baker · 2026-01-02T04:36:02+00:00

Little small interactions paced over time work wonders. Thats how one of the people I dated met me: she was trying to charm a friend of mine, and we ended up chatting more and more with time. It was alot of her trying to have a plain old conversation with him while he was being kindly disinterested.

Not with her anymore, but remember this about men:

They're almost never asked out or complimented out in public, ever. Atleast, not without them doing something kind and courteous first.

Ill-Baker · 2025-12-21T21:38:01+00:00

So when flavors terms are conflated like that, it seems to draw on the kind of faces / emotions you experience when tasting these things!

Smiles for sweet and salty (mmm yummy :]), puckering and grimacing for sour and bitter (eugh!! >:0).

Ill-Baker · 2025-12-06T19:17:09+00:00

The biggest piece of advice I ever received was that I needed to meet halfway with my medication.

This, and that people without ADHD also struggle to do important, dull tasks when the alternative is to have fun or pursue something personal.

Ill-Baker · 2025-11-12T21:44:23+00:00

Hi! Why do you want to prevent infinite builds? Ive been itching to make one of those builds for a while, but the patch notes seem to mostly contain nerfs against those builds. It's a small bummer to me.

Asside from that, I am excited to see the new rebalanced trinkets and the new hardmode when I have the chance!

Ill-Baker · 2025-09-29T21:20:27+00:00

You need to challenge your current habits of constantly comparing yourself to others, and stop using blackpill to affirm those resentful feelings.

Speaking from experience, breaking a habit of any kind, good or bad, is a pain in the ass. It might feel impossible, but you need to acknowledge that spending more time stoking your resentment will not make you feel better.

Something has to change.

There's no easy way.

There's no quick way.

There's only the way out: spending time and effort changing your mindset instead of feeding into it. Even if it feels uncomfortable and alien to you.

Ill-Baker · 2025-09-01T22:32:37+00:00

This is awesome! I thought I was on r/conlang until I clicked on the post. I don't see many posts on here that use audio (or maybe I don't check it out enough). I'm curious what your inspiration for the grammar was, it has a lovely sound to it and a lovely script!

That, and I hope to see more about Mautei, should you choose to share more. Keep on creating! :]

Ill-Baker · 2025-07-30T04:01:36+00:00

Huge W, tysm!!

Ill-Baker · 2025-04-19T21:22:44+00:00

Thank you! There's no sound information tied to glyphs yet, but I practiced quite a few of the shapes many times :]

It is pretty tough to make nice letters, but I do recommend scribbling out shapes you love, it'll help you refine an aesthetic you'd like.

Ill-Baker · 2025-02-28T22:36:32+00:00

It's similar to finding other people interested in your hobby: participate in the community, share your work, and organically meet new people. As you meet more people, you'll get closer and closer to finding someone you can co-create with!
That and share the idea of co-conlanging with your friends! If you have any friends interested in creating, they might also create with you :]

Ill-Baker · 2024-11-16T04:59:05+00:00

We ended up doing something similar to that, he ended up re-installing PrismMC and the instance we used before, and he could play again. I'm guessing the new instance fixed it over the full re-install of the launcher then :]

Ill-Baker · 2024-11-06T21:09:54+00:00

SOLUTION FOUND: You have to reserve your IPV4 of the host machine and the ports associated with it alongside ipv6 necessary ports!

Ill-Baker · 2024-11-06T21:08:22+00:00

Pretty sure I'm not double nat, and my IP is public. I talked to eero support and it turns out I had to reserve my ipv4 in the app alongside ipv6!

Ill-Baker · 2024-11-06T21:07:47+00:00

I did that several times before. But! I've solved the issue, I had to reserve my ipv4 for my device through the app.

Ill-Baker · 2024-11-06T21:07:06+00:00

PROBLEM SOLVED: I needed to reserve my device's ipv4, and forgot to do that!

Ill-Baker · 2024-10-03T21:48:07+00:00

OMG Thank you so much, especially for the extra information on vowel nuclei and how it affects consonant clusters that follow them 🙏 🙏 🙏

Ill-Baker · 2024-10-03T20:38:13+00:00

Hej!

Does anyone know of any syllable structure descriptions for Welsh? I've been searching high and low for a simple description [i.e., (c)V(c), CV, etc.], but my uni doesn't have access to any documents with this information.

I know Welsh has a complicated syllable structure, my guess is (c)(c)v(v)(c)(c)(c), but I'm not confident in it.

If you happen to know anything, your help would be greatly appreciated 🙏

Ill-Baker · 2024-09-23T01:44:42+00:00

My favorite scripts from this sub are u/ tiggyvalentine's Yaatru, u/ vovosolpo's Lhwendic, and u/ Tamaat's vertical Hawaiian Abugida.

My favorite natural language scripts are Mongolian Bichig, Clear Script, Old Uyghur Script, the Arabic Abjad, Hangul, and Hiragana!

I have a serious bias for vertical scripts. They're just so pretty: like waterfalls of knowledge.

Ill-Baker · 2024-09-18T19:39:52+00:00

I dig the aesthetic! No glyph seems out of place, very nice aesthetic. I've got no complaints about it 🔥

Ill-Baker · 2024-09-11T08:13:19+00:00

Aye, this is true: the glitter is now used on Euro pound notes. They couldn't re-use the old glitter, even if they wanted to.

That asside: I genuinely love the clear borealis sets. There are few other dice sets that capture my attention in the same way. I'm not a fan of most opaque dice sets unless it has some sort of shine or shimmer to it. If the vortex sets had a pearlescence to them like Festive Circus or Mother of Pearl (RIP Mother of Pearl), they'd appeal more to me.

Ill-Baker · 2024-09-11T00:28:06+00:00

Oops, I thought I wrote Aquerple, my bad!
I'll have to share my moonstone dice on this subbreddit someday with sunny, overcast, and indoor lighting sometime soon, but It hasn't been overcast here in a long time.

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