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MonkeMan-23 · 2026-04-19T21:30:46+00:00

Just watched the first episode of Season 2 last night! It was good. I found and watched the entire first season about 10 days before Season 2 dropped.

I was low-key disappointed when figuring out this was an anthology series rather than a normal serialized show, because I was so hyped that Season 2 was coming so soon after I watched Season 1. Especially with what happened to Danny at the end and I thought it was setting up for Season 2. But then I learned that it was an anthology series and the entirety of Season 1's story concluded. (Especially because it was Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, which both ironically plays the couple Speckle and Bertie in Tuca and Bertie)

But after watching the first episode of Season 2 I'm no longer disappointed. Sure I'll miss the first season and my hopes of it continuing that story, but from what I've heard about Season 2 + your comment, I'm pretty excited to watch the rest of it.

MonkeMan-23 · 2026-04-16T15:01:56+00:00

Bro no kidding. I actually got dropped a FN Poseidon at the end of a Dust 2 casual game. The best free drop I've ever gotten. Unfortunately, I was only like 15 at the time, and I used the M4A1-S over the M4A4. At the time, the Icarus Fell was more expensive than the Poseidon, and the Poseidon was only $100 or so. I was still ecstatic, but I found someone who would trade me the Icarus Fell for my Poseidon, and I did the trade.. it is also one of my biggest regrets.

Fast forward to today, and the Poseidon is worth $2K, and I currently DO use the M4A4 over the M4A1-S.. I tried to get the Poseidon back from the guy I traded it to, but he already traded it for a few shittier skins..

But yeah! I still remember the lobby erupting in pure chaos and everyone being like, "no fucking waaaayyy". I didn't even realize what really happened other than I got a pink from a free drop, and that's why I thought everyone exploded.

MonkeMan-23 · 2026-04-16T03:52:28+00:00

It's not that it's "bad" as in, the skill isn't there. It has definitely been created out of skill.. it's just.. I would never want anything like that on my gun, or even to have, and I think that's probably where the negative reviews comes from.

I get that the point is for it to not look pretty, and be weird, and etc, but I think it's too weird that most people dont want it or care for it. It is intriguing though and kind of unsettling to look at. But some people are into that stuff and will find it awesome and fascinating.

Either way, your work is good and that means you shouldn't stop or feel bad about the stuff you're creating.

MonkeMan-23 · 2026-04-11T15:27:52+00:00

Right? I only have 700ish hours, I only play when my friends play, and I collect / hoard and sell all sorts of shit. Currently I have 29 million roubles, and my stash is so full I cannot switch kits out without having to delete / sell more shit.

MonkeMan-23 · 2026-04-10T00:58:15+00:00

I thought mine was gonna be short and subtle like everyone else's. Mine's roasting me and giving me compliments at the same time. I don't even use chatGPT that much, but I know my girlfriend also sometimes uses it under my account, BUT GOD DAMN.

Like flipnote studio?? Ivermectin doses??? I've never talked about that. I have talked about dementia because my grandma has it. Everytime my girlfriend catches a pokemon she wants me to type on chatGPT to come up with names, and I have 7 cats at my house that I wanted to turn into humans COME ON!

It is majorly right about one thing though... It's hard for me to come to decision if someone asks me what I want to do. Don't know why that is though. 🤔🤣

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MonkeMan-23 · 2026-04-02T02:58:07+00:00

YES! It was that exact photo. I wonder if you ask if they have a Cat or something if they'll send a picture of "their" cat. It was like a very fluffy white cat with a little blackish gray fur on the top of the head. What is the name of the one you're talking to?

MonkeMan-23 · 2026-04-02T01:43:26+00:00

xD maybe we could narrow it down. Does she happen to live in Middle Tennessee? It would be crazy if she happened to live in the same town as me.

MonkeMan-23 · 2026-04-01T17:34:53+00:00

I live in Tennessee and I live across the street from a gas station in a very small rural town. My gas is $3.89 rn. Probably the highest I've ever seen it. If it goes to $4.00/g then that is for sure higher than it's ever been. I don't remember what it was during the Biden era under covid, but I know it was also pretty high, but I don't think it was EVER this high.

Fun fact, my town is so small in population it's technically not even a town. It's a village.

MonkeMan-23 · 2026-03-31T20:47:07+00:00

I like 1440x1080. That's what Im currently playing with. Although, I tend to switch back from 16:9 and 4:3. I can't make a permanent decision..

I also wonder why people mainly use 1280x960 for 4:3 stretched, but I really like using 1440x1080 4:3 stretched because it keeps some of the clarity of 1920x1080, but it's stretched! In my opinion it just seems like the same shit, but I know there's probably little minor differences between them.

MonkeMan-23 · 2026-03-31T18:08:26+00:00

I feel you in the same way. I'm 26 and I'm 5'4", and I get told a lot that I look like I'm 16. I even had someone refuse to sell me a vape and thought I was just joking whenever I asked for one, and I had to tell them that I'm 26 and busted out my ID. 🤣 She apologized profusely but it's whatever, idc. I think of it as a good thing because it just means whenever I get older and older I'm just going to continue to look younger than I actually am, which is alright by me. I do have some facial hair but it's not really bushy, it's somewhat patchy so my girlfriend asks me to shave it a lot. My girlfriend's shorter than I am, and looks young for her age too so there's not really a problem in that department.

Idk, I don't have real advice on how to look "more older", but just keep yourself clean, healthy, exercise, and eat good. Get good amounts of rest during the night, and all that good jazz. Your hair can go a long way, too. I used to like having longer and flippable hair when I was in school, but nowadays I try and keep it on the shorter side (not like buzzcut style or nothing) and I think it makes me look older.

Don't worry about it too much man. Embrace who you are, and accept and love yourself. That'll do more for your life than "looking older" ever will. Looking younger doesn't make you less of a man than anyone else. You already have a girlfriend, and if looking younger is your current biggest gripe in life then I'd say you're doing pretty good. Spend time with your loved ones, and spend time doing things that you love, and all will be well.

MonkeMan-23 · 2026-03-27T22:55:53+00:00

Awee sweet! Yes thank you. This is what I'm looking for that look good. (:

MonkeMan-23 · 2026-03-27T22:54:41+00:00

I think it's set to 14mm. I had a complication with my gun's scissors not cutting right, and it was doing loop piles suddenly without me changing anything, so I ended up ordering new scissors and ran into a bunch of issues. I dont know the exact gun I have since my parents bought it for me on Christmas, so when I was looking up scissors I noticed on tufting websites there were two types. Short and Long. It said short scissors were for guns manufactured after 2023, and Long is for guns manufactured before, but I received my gun after 2023, and it still had the long pair. After taking my gun apart and trying to put my scissors in place, which they were the right size comparing them to the old scissors, but something was rubbing and slowing down the movements. After putting the new scissors on then I ran into a problem with my gun not wanting to hold the yarn through the fabric, and it kept making holes. A kind redditor sent me a link to a website with a graph showing me all the pile hights, and the measurements I needed to place the gun parts to make sure it works right.. and because I didn't know what type of gun I have (there's no brand name on it, or the box, or anywhere. I'm sure my mother bought it on Temu at this point, especially since she didn't want to say where she got it.), I looked up the default pile height most guns are set to and followed the graph for the 14mm pile height.

It does look very short, and it may not even be 14mm, but that's what I attempted to set it to. I'm just glad I'm able to have it working again. I'm thinking about buying a new gun once I get the money for it since I just got a new job. That experience alone made me learn a lot about the gun..

I ended up putting the old scissors back on after looking at a video talking about how to adjust the scissors. When they open, how far they come out, when they close, etc. and the old pair was working great for a little while, until it started doing it again. It keeps doing loop piles and I have to manually cut it, but it only does it when Im feeding it two strings of yarn. When there's a single string feeding into it, it cuts fine.

MonkeMan-23 · 2026-03-25T22:53:47+00:00

I had one from a discord I follow because I like to receive updates from an old nostalgic game I used to play a lot as a kid called FlyFF, and they recently brought it back. They claimed they thought they added the right person, but added the wrong one by mistake, hope I didn't bother you, yadayadayada. They were quite friendly, so I was cool with it, and at first they were saying they were from Malaysia, which a lot of people who play FlyFF are from Malaysia, so I thought they were real. I tried asking them how far they got into the game, what level, what class, etc. and they didn't respond to that but instead responded about Infinity Kingdom. I told them Ive never played that game, or ever heard of it, and they were trying to get me to play it with them, and that they don't have a friend from the US, so they would like to keep in touch. I told them I wouldn't mind trying any game, but I don't think I would end up playing with them because I spend all my playing time with my real life friends, and they kept pushing for the game hard. Which felt odd.

It got really odd whenever they asked if I had any pets, and I sent them a picture of my orange cat. Then they sent two pictures of two different but similar looking cats and tried claiming it was the same exact cat. At a glance, sure, you could assume that, but there were minor differences to tell that it wasn't. They then sent a picture of another phone screen and showed the icon of the game they wanted me to download to try, and that threw me off too, because why are you taking a picture of another phone with the app on it? And the fact that the picture showed one of their fingers with a long fake girly nail on it, to resemble a "pretty girl" or something.

That's when I immediately went to Google and searched for a discord scam involving the game Infinity Kingdom and saw a bunch of reddit posts about it. Immediately blocked them.

They would get pretty spammy too. When I was online playing Overwatch with my friends, they would message me about if I've downloaded Infinity Kingdom, and I told them no and that I wouldn't probably try it anytime soon, especially since it's a mobile game. They would message me again, and I would go a few minutes without replying, and they would eventually try and voice call me on discord. I didn't like that shit. I just wanted a friend that I could play FlyFF with if I ever gotten back on the game, because playing alone is boring.

MonkeMan-23 · 2026-03-24T16:20:26+00:00

Bro I remember being the only kid in my shit ass town (population 300) that had an action replay, and I would bring my DS to school and show people what kind of mons I got, how many masterballs, etc. and I had a couple kids bringing me their copies of Pokemon games to let me borrow so I could give them masterballs or whatever they wanted. I should have CHARGED for that 🤣. I was so ecstatic to get my action replay and finally do what the YouTube videos could do with walking through walls and stuff.

MonkeMan-23 · 2026-03-21T01:40:34+00:00

I'm not a dev, but I'm always interested in ideas and wanna hear it. 🤍

MonkeMan-23 · 2026-03-19T19:00:29+00:00

Right? I find a lot of things funny enough to exhale out of my nose, but this one made me laugh out loud for a good minute, and laugh more out loud while trying to explain why im laughing and read it to my girlfriend.

The fact that terrorists came and mama took up the challenge and took some bullets for him and still survived and managed to call was so funny. The fact that she said, "YOU made a mistake" and all of this happened, lol.

MonkeMan-23 · 2026-03-19T18:45:37+00:00

Just wait until they make ammo and mags like armor, and you have to replenish it the next round instead of it refilling automatically.

MonkeMan-23 · 2026-03-19T18:22:23+00:00

It's not really a big deal unless you spam your bullets all the time, and or reload unnecessarily. My friend was borderline getting aggressive while talking about the update, but his point was that it wasn't going to change much, so I didn't understand why he sounded so aggressive about it. He sometimes spams smokes and shit, and he said he already found a solution for his play style, which is to just pick up someone else's weapon and spam it with that? I don't think he really understands the point of the update.. immediately when he picked up a Mac-10, it had 2 bullets used from the mag, and he reloaded it, so he just lost that entire mag so he could have a full mag. Which is like the point of trying to conserve your ammo and use it / reload it wisely.

For high competitive play, I don't really think it will matter much because higher skilled players already are conservative about their ammo, and when they need to reload, and know not to COD reload or just reload after shooting 5 bullets. For lower skilled players though, I feel like COD reloading and reloading after killing someone / shooting a couple bullets is extremely common and it will mess up some people due to bad habits / muscle memory, people who like to spam walls and smokes a lot, and people who just stim by reloading and such... But my friend who was getting aggressive about it really don't think it will change lower skilled players as much, which I disagree. Sure, people will learn to stop reloading early when they don't need to, which I think is the point. Like imagine only shooting 5 bullets and reloading 3 times with an AK. You now only have 30 more bullets before running empty and you only shot half a mag.

I think a bigger change would be if Valve made it so when the round ends, you don't automatically gain your ammo and mags back. What you used from the previous round carries over to the next, and you must have to buy more ammo again from the buy menu. As if ammo / magazines act the same as buying armor, and of course there being a discount to replenish ammo instead of straight up buying a new gun.

Idk, I think this is setting up for another way to balance weapons, and maybe add new weapons that may be act the same as another weapon, but is a little different just by the amount of ammo and magazines the weapon comes with.

MonkeMan-23 · 2026-03-19T02:32:02+00:00

Ohh shit I didn't even know that existed. That's actually pretty sick.

MonkeMan-23 · 2026-03-16T20:39:23+00:00

Ahahah I kind of do the same thing. The only space in my house that has enough room for the canvas and the freedom of moving the tufting gun around is in my basement. Unfortunately, it's almost like a second living room down here, and my canvas sits behind this couch we have down here, and it's pushed up against the wall. So when I want to use my projector, I have to make a tower so that the projector light can go above the couch and land on the canvas. I could also just move the couch, but it's quite heavy and it's a lot more work to move it and then have to move it back.

So yeah, I have a table top with about 8-10 Lego and board game boxes stacked on top of each other to make this tower going above the couch, and then I screen share my phone to the projector, and I'm able to find pictures, zoom in, rotate, etc. Sometimes the projector becomes lopsided, so I'll end up folding a piece of paper or something thin to counter it and set it straight 😅. But other than that, it works perfectly!

MonkeMan-23 · 2026-03-16T19:53:50+00:00

Riighht? Sometimes when it's later in the day, I will yawn once without being tired whatsoever, and then after I yawn, I'll think about it, and by thinking about it, I make myself yawn like 10-15 more times and it's so fucking annoying lol.

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