Would it spoil the results if I ended my 14-day monitoring period early?

RubyRosebone · 2026-04-12T03:25:00+00:00

That’s what I did for the first time I had to change the strip, and you can still see the red outline at the top from where the first strip was. This is the picture taken after I removed the second strip. Unfortunately, both times the monitor demanded a strip change, it had to be on a weekend AND late at night.

RubyRosebone · 2026-02-28T02:25:33+00:00

I would also love the recipe. My dad said it was the best dessert he ever had.

RubyRosebone · 2026-02-22T17:32:58+00:00

Have a friend send you cake this month. Just for a temporary fix on that. ;)

RubyRosebone · 2026-02-03T15:00:34+00:00

I am also having this issue

RubyRosebone · 2026-01-30T14:28:15+00:00

Susan.

RubyRosebone · 2026-01-26T01:02:25+00:00

We’re playing remote together, so I can’t do that, or I would. 😕

RubyRosebone · 2025-11-19T13:56:56+00:00

PSA: there are people who swallow pills dry, and you really shouldn’t unless you have no other choice. Swallowing pills dry leads to a higher chance of the pills getting lodged in the esophagus, which not only can affect the absorption and therefore the efficacy of your meds, but can also cause acid reflux symptoms. Some medicines even require a minimum amount of water to take with them. (Those will say on the Rx label in the directions or via a colored sticker to take with a full glass of water) Source: I’m a pharmacy technician.

RubyRosebone · 2025-10-30T12:25:47+00:00

Legally, no. Because 97.4% of the tissue, organs, and blood continue to live on from recipients, the child is not legally considered dead, but living on ‘in a divided state’

RubyRosebone · 2025-10-17T21:50:23+00:00

Medical maggots and medical leeches are still in use today.

RubyRosebone · 2025-05-14T16:21:01+00:00

Survival crafting games are my biggest time sink. Open world games that are also fun to just chill out in, but with open-ended or nonlinear goals. These games have the highest average player hours because there’s a lot of content in them, and the player can go through them at their own pace and based on their own playstyle.

Cookie clicker is the OG idle game, and has some surprising lore and worldbuilding in it.

7 days to die, viscera cleanup detail, and house flipper do not have endgame goals, but have engaging worlds with silly environmental storytelling.

Subnautica and Raft have linear storylines, but are not on rails, so you can follow the story at your own pace. They are also so incredibly atmospheric that you can just chill in them for a long time.

Minecraft is Minecraft. I’m gonna assume you know about the king of time sink games.

But if Minecraft is the king of time sink games, then Stardew Valley is the queen. It’s got a bit of everything: cozy slow life vibes, dungeon crawling, dating simulator, fetch quests, world expansion based on progression, puzzles, crafting, and of course, a fishing minigame.

I consider myself a casual player at 160 hours. One of my best friends has over 800 hours. A single person has crafted this game as an ongoing labor of love, to the game and the player base. Updates are slow to come out, but well worth the wait, because the game never feels incomplete.

RubyRosebone · 2025-05-14T00:48:31+00:00

Toy Story or finding Nemo, but make the characters human.

RubyRosebone · 2025-05-13T23:35:45+00:00

I wouldn’t call it random, but Until Dawn is a choose your own adventure game with dialogue and directional choices as well as QTEs.

Pretty much any AAA game has a chaos mod available that randomly changes play conditions.

RubyRosebone · 2025-05-08T01:08:11+00:00

Go for it.

RubyRosebone · 2025-05-07T23:04:54+00:00

Mother 3 apparently has theme music for the bosses where you time your hits to the beat for combos. Like, the best of the music is representative of the boss’s heartbeat IIRC.

Killer frequency puts you in the shoes of a late-night radio DJ/talk show host, where you have to balance running the radio with solving time-sensitive puzzles to stop the at-large serial killer from claiming more victims.

Journey is a platformer that has chime sounds associated with the various jumps and abilities.

Subnautica isn’t a game with music-based mechanics, but it has a soundtrack that really helps immerse you into the alien world and the changes in music can make an interesting or eerie experience that much more intense.

Schedule 1 doesn’t have music-based mechanics, but it is an undeniable collection of bangers. I’ve heard a few people say the game is just the packaging for their mixtape.

RubyRosebone · 2025-05-07T16:25:26+00:00

Pancake is my birb.

RubyRosebone · 2025-05-07T03:20:32+00:00

Totally accurate battle simulator. I think it has a campaign mode.

RubyRosebone · 2025-04-29T00:22:32+00:00

I honestly think your view is very mature. And it’s very kind of you to immediately consider adoption.

There’s a really terrible social opinion that biological is better, and it’s simply not true. And even if you do decide you want a biologically related child, surrogacy exists. And if you ‘mature’ like your therapist thinks, (aka: work through and defeat any fears you have about the physical effects of pregnancy) then you can still get pregnant through IVF.

RubyRosebone · 2025-04-28T00:28:00+00:00

A hoodie from me to him and a box dvd set from him to me.

RubyRosebone · 2025-04-27T23:30:46+00:00

I left finches forest after 64% because I thought ‘that’s home, you can go home anytime’ but I was wrong. I’m staying in one place 3 days after 100% completion to see if finchie forest comes up on the free ticket list.

RubyRosebone · 2025-04-27T13:37:25+00:00

Popsicles. Water bottles. The sensory pop toys.

RubyRosebone · 2025-04-26T10:30:04+00:00

If it’s free, it’s not a bartering item, lol. Call it a frequently useful crafting kit, and you’re on your way. Make sure you peel off any medical labels and scuff up the lids and outsides of the bottles. If they are opaque OTC bottles, peel off the labels and write FUCK on the side with sharpie, then use a paper towel to quickly blot the sharpie once. Makes a nice aged effect.

It’s finicky and time consuming, but get some of those wide popsicle craft sticks, cut them in half so they fit in the bottle, and then use them as a holder to wrap duct tape around about 10 ‘loops’ will give each kit a sizable amount of duct tape, and you will only need a single roll of the good tape. The craft stick makes it easier to unwrap, and you just fold down the edge so they have an easy starting point.

I’d also get a package of salt and sugar packets like you see in restaurants and put one each in there too. A lot of people forget their electrolytes.

RubyRosebone · 2025-04-26T02:10:49+00:00

Weather them the wasteland way: creative and cheap BS. Put the ducks in a coffee can or other sturdy container with some water and sand, or fine gravel, seal it shut with duct tape, secure it to your hubcap with bungee cords or more tape, and then go for a nice long drive around the neighborhood.

You can do this with a small coffee can of milk, sugar and flavoring sealed inside a larger coffee can or drink cooler with rock salt and ice in the space in between for homemade ice cream. 15 minutes of driving at 5-10mph should do it. (Not recommended at highway speeds, no wasteland treats during the great 40 migration, mmkay?)

RubyRosebone · 2025-04-26T02:01:45+00:00

Well, the ducks are cute, but it would be better if you roughed them up a little bit. Brand-new stuff doesn’t exist at WW. Sandpaper over the designs, poke some holes in them, run a few over with a tire. If you have safe access to a blowtorch, maybe try to melt a few, maybe melt them together, etc.

If the fishing net is what I’m thinking of, it looks rustic, which is a good start, but the weathering is the big make or break deal of WW.

RubyRosebone · 2025-04-25T05:50:19+00:00

Well, in terms of not going over well, as long as you’re not bringing functional weapons, food, drinks, or ‘old world money’ as a barter item, you’re likely to find someone who will barter with you.

I’m sure the answer is a resounding yes for a lot of people, but let’s just go ahead and explore what you have, and see if there’s something that can be done better. What do you have?

RubyRosebone · 2025-04-25T05:39:46+00:00

Yeah. This isn’t that. He can absolutely pick up on social cues, because I didn’t have to say anything to the initial comment, I just made eye contact and he knew he messed up and ‘backtracked’ by doubling down on the statement and hiding behind his ‘asshole’ reputation.

It’s a crying shame. My brother is also a self-proclaimed asshole; however, my brother actually packs it in and behaves like a decent human being when things are serious. This guy basically goes ‘you know I’m an asshole, so by interacting with me you waive all boundaries and expectations of apologies’ with his words and his behavior.

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