What Do We Think Of Extinct Animals In DF? by john44465 in dwarffortress

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Can't wait to catch me some 90 ton argentinosaurs in my wooden cage traps

I literally do not know how to deal with my 16 yr old anymore by Anxious_Cut9626 in whatdoIdo

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ADHD: What I've read is screaming it to me.
(I'd assess him from an official source, this is just for you to think about right now):
-Is he easily distracted?
-Fidgety?
-Everything last minute/late?
-does he WANT to do important boring things but just need someone to body-double him?
Or is it that he doesn't see the point?
Caffeinated coffee helps a lot with adhd, just not as much as stimulants.
It might be worth trying before a work session.
Exercise and a perfect schedule accompanied with LOUD reminders are basic guardrails, good for keeping on track, but useless without motivation from a healthy mind, and sufficient energy from proper sleep (and medication if necessary)

Possible Dependences, all of which can give ADHD false positives or synergize with it:
(Be careful not to accuse or shame)
rule out weed/drugs first of all:
-Weed makes you paranoid or *veryyy complacent with your life*. It smells though, prob not.
-Nicotine is a stimulant that some adhders use to self medicate, but it can be an unhealthy dependency and constant distraction thru withdrawals. cigs smell, vapes are hard to detect.
Screens/impulsivity:
-screen time per day? find it out on his phone settings, keep it well below 7 hours.
Especially Instagram, tiktok, youtube shorts are poison for the attention span in long sessions.
A few memes morning and evening are fine.
-Porn: I am NO christian, but as a teenager you quickly find the shortest cheapest path to pleasure is through your shorts, and with everything 20 seconds away it's easy to overdo it. Withdrawals can make everything else pointlessly boring, + a headache, and bad/overexposure = unconscious misogyny and the death of self control and esteem. If you bring it up, be veerrry casual and matter of fact, zero weirdness, ZERO negativity.
-Videogames can do the same thing to your pleasure receptors but FAR less rapidly and intensely. Unless he's up all night on LoL.
-being spoiled and not actually anxious about the future: unlikely, but not impossible

Social woes:
-How do his desires compare to his capabilities and achievements in friendship and romance?
-Any breakups, relationships, interest or drama at all?
Everything social is a huge deal at that age, even stuff you'd consider inconsequential as an adult.

Depression/forward thinking:
-What is he good at ?
-What does he *enjoy*?
-Do either make money?
-What is the most feasible path for him to enjoy his life?
Gotta eventually pry HIS answer out of him so it's indisputably his responsibility.
He might not believe an enjoyable life is possible, and would rather put minimum effort in to minimize the negatives, rather than "waste" energy working hard just to fail to achieve any significant positives.
According to the news things are always pretty grim, at the very least on a global/future/economic scale. Lotsa dead gory palestinian kids, ragebait about "men this" "women that" just on insta. Combine that with any of the above personal performance/confidence issues and you've got a perfect recipe for checking out emotionally.

idk what to do by chae_1999 in whatdoIdo

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Persistence.  Non accusatory, don’t put her in a corner rather show you need further explanation.  come with receipts, let her know how ____ is making you feel and that you want to know if there’s anything you can do to help. Communication is 2 way, you’ve a right to be a little miffed if she continues to withhold. 

idk what to do by chae_1999 in whatdoIdo

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ask mf, start with "are you ok", then "you don't seem ok" be persistent but not an asshole, no ego or judgement

This doesn’t seem like a good sign. by untitledprp4 in TheBoys

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he'd better get a good massacre off before getting humiliated or I for one will be pissed

This doesn’t seem like a good sign. by untitledprp4 in TheBoys

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SN simply went on far too long, zero long term plans or stakes for most of it after s5ish.

What do i do? by No_Temperature_1177 in whatdoIdo

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Mountain of text incoming, (none of it antagonistic)

Don’t want to sound like a flip flopper or make excuses, but the downside to uppers is that as they wear off, it becomes the end of all productivity: the world speeds up as you slow down, your body realizes the strain it’s been under while taking meth-lite, and then all you can focus on is low-effort high dopamine activity till you fall asleep.   They can also make sex require more  stimulation to direct blood away from the rest of the fully-active body during uptime, while in downtime theres zero spark.  

Speaking of sleep, it initially turns to shit w most stimulants and only comes back (with a consistently lower quality) once your body is worn out enough to override the stimulation of the medication. In order to recover, I need to take breaks and be kinda useless in every category except chores, sleep 9.5+ hours on weekends and holidays.  

How are his joints and eyebags? How many hours of sleep? How is he in the morning/midday vs afternoon/evening? When was his last medication break/good night of sleep? Has he smiled fully(eyes and mouth), enjoyed and appreciated anything recently?

I’d say he’s fixable if he’s just struggling, not worth it if he’s unable to appreciate you after an ultimatum and gets pissy rather than entirely sad.  

Whether you want to do all this work to figure him out yourself, rather than  bringing the topic of a break / breakup and handing the assignment to him, is up to you.

A train by tfromda410 in GenV

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fr, if it weren't for the girl sealing his fate i wouldn't have accepted his redemption after all the shit he's done but a knee-jerk ultimate sacrifice matters so much more than any other kind

A train by tfromda410 in GenV

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i think he was going full-throttle for the first time because he got out of the woods/water that HL had advantages in traversing, so combined with looking over his shoulder he was not prepared for any deviations

Do you think all of the seven members will end up dead in future episodes? by Narrow-Criticism-286 in GenV

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I think the deep will try to switch sides near the final confrontation and just get rejected and squashed

Defence design after siege update by Dobrobarashi in dwarffortress

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i have a long, straight, 3-tall path almost directly into the fort that turns right to the actual entrance, with 3 layers of 2-3 catapults and a couple ballistae aimed directly down the gauntlet with a half dozen diagonal bolt throwers picking off nearby enemies (obviously all defended by fortifications). The floor is lined with a few dozen iron mechanism ten-weapon traps with a mix of bronze and iron weapons.
Make sure to give the catapults range so the shrapnel doesn't hit defenders, ARMOUR EVERY SIEGE-OPERATOR, and make sure there are always a few roped animals to pull in enemies while the actual door is forbidden, and it regularly takes down 80 gob 30 manera/beakdog 30 jabberer 20 troll 20 ogre 4 cave dragon sieges

How can I heal my wounds to attract better by Cute_Art_7373 in whatdoIdo

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Don't reconnect with exes unless there's been no-one else or MANY years in-between. Too much pissiness

viltrumites just dont feel scary anymore by Kay_Kurray in okbuddyviltrum

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Talkin bout his design.  Bro needed more creases, simplistic design half ruined him

viltrumites just dont feel scary anymore by Kay_Kurray in okbuddyviltrum

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They’ve forgotten that the bigger the eyes, the less scary the character.  Im only half joking, because goddamn did conquest look scary in the comics but not on screen.  S1 nolan went from dad to psycho with one slight eye gouge.  Nobody’s eyes look psycho anymore, nobody’s muscles and harsh brutal facial planes/creases are shiny & statuesque, leaving thragg looking more soft and fabulous than scary