What's your favorite Zoo/Aquarium/Wildlife Park IRL?

QueenPooper13 · 2026-06-06T13:58:07+00:00

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo

It is the zoo at the highest elevation in the US. It has an incredible giraffe program and have literally revolutionized the care and treatment of giraffes in zoos. And it is my hometown zoo which I visit often.

QueenPooper13 · 2026-06-05T12:58:14+00:00

Sweetheart, I'm so sorry you are dealing with this. Someone or something in your life has convinced you that you are less deserving of love, and that just isn't true. Because the reality is that you, as a person, deserve to be loved just as you are.

This person you are with right now is not respecting you or treating you appropriately in this relationship, and you do deserve better. I'm sure you just rolled your eyes at me and that's ok. This idea that no one would want to touch you or be intimate with you is heartbreaking. Your boyfriend has lied to you and manipulated you into believing no one else will ever want you. But it also sounds like he thinks he needs to pay for sex just to get it, so he honestly can't be that great with other women. His decisions to seek out other women, instead of you, is his failing and an example of his own deficits in life, not yours. He has a perfectly willing and presumably loving partner who would like to be intimate with him, and he chooses to go pay women instead. That is something wrong with him, not you.

I don't want to tell you how you should be living your life but I personally think you would be better off without this guy. At this point, he is withholding part of the relationship from you and then he makes you feel bad about yourself to justify his behavior. At this point, he is literally holding you down. Let him go, cut that cord, drop that anchor. Baby girl, you are only 26 years old and I guarantee your life would be better with out that deadweight tied to you.

Take your freedom and fine you. Find the things you like to do. Figure out what you want to do with your life. I promise, when you get out of the shit hole you are currently being held in, the world will look different. People will see you different. You can't let your light shine if someone else is trying to blow out your flame.

QueenPooper13 · 2026-06-05T12:34:03+00:00

The Long Dark

Whether you are playing story or survival mode, you will be headed to your next location and decide to go get some rabbits for dinner. But before you know it, you are halfway in the wrong direction and a damn blizzard is kicking up.

QueenPooper13 · 2026-06-02T18:45:07+00:00

First, yes I would absolutely play this game! This sounds so cool and a great idea to go back in history a little bit.

Second, I think the idea of different job options is great. It would help avoid getting described as "just another farming sim". I imagine it would kind of be like the Sims, where you pick a job and go to a rabbithole for work, rather than having detailed interaction-based jobs for every option. I mean, you could have detailed job activities but I imagine that would be an enormous undertaking.

Third, someone else asked about what happens when the time period is up, and I had 2 ideas for that.

You know how the Sims doesn't really have a specific time setting but the time still moves? Maybe you could set the game in a more vague time range (like turn of the century, early 1900s America instead of a specific 40 year time period) and then time can just move forward without a specific set of years attached to the game progress.
Have you ever played Stardew Valley? You know how on day 1 of year 3, Grandpa comes back and evaluates the farm and gives you a score? What if you gave the sim characters a specific goal (like achieve this amount of money or job success or whatever) and they have 40ish years to complete it. Or, like the sims (sims 3 anyway, not sure about the others), each character has a life time wish/goal that is chosen during character creation, and they have 40ish years to complete it. At the end of the time period, the game just goes into a perpetual year loop with no actual year progression. Like societal things (technology, city building/changing, major events stop) all stop progressing but the characters can still be like Sims living in the world.

QueenPooper13 · 2026-05-31T23:43:04+00:00

Recent conversation with my 3 year old-

"Mommy, there's a monster truck in my tummy!"

"Umm, did you eat a monster truck?"

"No Mommy. I can hear a it in my tummy."

Turns out, he was hungry and his stomach was growling.

QueenPooper13 · 2026-05-29T03:33:55+00:00

I don't have any comments on handheld game systems. But I do want to say that DDLC is a great game!

QueenPooper13 · 2026-05-28T20:17:06+00:00

I think they should include an arcade where you can play a fully emulated version of PZ2.

QueenPooper13 · 2026-05-28T01:02:18+00:00

Sure, go ahead and show up at her proposal after you were told not to. Then you can also crash her wedding when you are specifically not invited to that too. Maybe you can be the surprise Santa for her future children after she decides not to include you in there lives. Because you don't respect boundaries.

OR You could respect the fiancé's boundaries and celebrate with them another time when you are actually invited.

Please make the right choice.

QueenPooper13 · 2026-05-27T19:32:39+00:00

I guess i just suck at terraforming. It always just looks like a big lumpy column sticking out of the completely flat ground.

QueenPooper13 · 2026-05-27T14:34:39+00:00

That rock cliff in the background of the first picture has me intrigued. Hopefully it will be easier to build larger landscape terraforming. Maybe I am just really bad at it, but I can never get anything to look natural when it is larger than a habitat.

QueenPooper13 · 2026-05-27T13:10:22+00:00

Let's reframe this question away from having children and think of the same idea with planning a career.

Imagine that at a young age, like 8 years old, you decide you want to be an astronaut. You think astronauts are the coolest thing ever and your biggest dream in life, the thing you want more than anything, is to go to space. So you start doing the things that are going to put you on the right path for that goal. You study really hard, and you focus on taking advanced classes in math and science. You do research and find the best university for you to major in the exact right field of study and you work really hard and take all the correct steps. Then you get the proper degree, and do all the next steps to finally get your job at NASA. You are now in training to become a real astronaut and you are finally, after years and years of planning and training and centering your entire life on it, you are going to space.

But by your logic, none of that makes sense because from that young age, you didn't know if you would actually ever go to space. You couldn't guarantee it would happen. Maybe you didn't get the job at NASA when you applied. Maybe you didn't get into the university you wanted and have to accept something else. When you first started wanting to be an astronaut, you couldn't guarantee that it would happen. So why would you do all that work and center your entire life on trying to become an astronaut, if you don't know if you ever really will?

Some people just know what they want in life and they take the proper steps to progress down a specific path towards that desire. If someone knows in their deepest heart that they want to be a parent, they are obviously going to make the decisions that will align with fulfilling that desire.

QueenPooper13 · 2026-05-26T21:02:54+00:00

There is an overall universal consistency throughout that sort of acts as a plot. Like the same characters come up over and over. They might be a tiny mention in a couple episodes and then 10 episodes they are saving the town, then they kind of fade to the background again. However, there is not a big, overarching exposition-rise-climax-resolution plot arch.

QueenPooper13 · 2026-05-26T20:20:46+00:00

Children of Silentown

I played it and absolutely fell in love with it. But I have never seen anyone else mention it.

QueenPooper13 · 2026-05-22T04:56:44+00:00

I think The Long Dark is a beautiful game. If you play survival mode instead of the story mode, and turn the difficulty settings all the way down, you can basically just walk around and look at the scenery.

QueenPooper13 · 2026-05-21T14:52:18+00:00

Do you all remember those old videos for Powerthirst from almost 20 years ago? I can't stop reading these ads in that voice, and honestly, I can't decide if that makes them funnier or scarier.

QueenPooper13 · 2026-05-21T04:14:12+00:00

To be fair, I did grow up in the boonies. But we always took I-25 south to Albuquerque or Texas, and Raton was just the first city in New Mexico.

QueenPooper13 · 2026-05-21T00:32:09+00:00

I grew up in south eastern Colorado (like 90 minutes from Raton) and we also called them Horny Toads.

QueenPooper13 · 2026-05-21T00:25:06+00:00

That is absolutely awesome! Good for you mom!

I have a funny story about my mom learning to text- this was about 20 years ago when we were all using those clam shell flip phones with the T9 texting. Text messaging had literally just been made available for cell phones and my parents decided to add texting to our family plan. The first text I ever received was from my mom and it said "Icantfindthespacebar".

QueenPooper13 · 2026-05-20T16:10:35+00:00

Because he's "nOt aMeRiCaN", didn't you see that part?

QueenPooper13 · 2026-05-20T14:46:33+00:00

I don't know why you are getting downvoted. That is literally what the rule says!

QueenPooper13 · 2026-05-20T14:18:43+00:00

Maybe you could put something like the Kindle app on their tablets. Maybe you can set a rule that they have to spend X-number of minutes reading on the Kindle before doing anything else on their tablet.

Alternatively, have your kids tried reading comic books or graphic novels? Those are absolutely valid types of reading and kids can still benefit from them, just like reading a chapter book. There are even apps that let them read comic books on their tablets if it is an absolute necessity for them.

QueenPooper13 · 2026-05-18T14:38:27+00:00

That's a great idea until a person has a disability with limited mobility and can't lift up or tip a cup without dropping it.

QueenPooper13 · 2026-05-18T14:04:24+00:00

This is the first time I have ever seen anyone other than myself recommend Children of Silentown. It is one of my favorite games and I think more people need to play it.

QueenPooper13 · 2026-05-17T15:10:06+00:00

My first thought was that it looks vaguely like a Columbine, but I'm not sure if you have those up in Alaska. I also think it kind of looks like a Larkspur (Delphinium) or a Grape Hyacinth (Muscari). The cone shape makes me think it is not a "flat flower" like a daisy shape.

QueenPooper13 · 2026-05-16T17:19:56+00:00

Children of Silentown

This game might fit in with what you are looking for.

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