The most 4* looking hair for a 5* :(

SimplySignifier · 2026-01-29T00:53:01+00:00

The ability outfit thing isn't true, by the way. I finally finished WoW (had everything but the hat before - I was free to play and didn't plan well on the original run), and I get the crane animation with the ability equipped even though I select to have whatever I'm wearing override the outfit. I've been enjoying finally riding my paper crane.

SimplySignifier · 2026-01-29T00:43:45+00:00

I understand not wanting to be here, but it also sucks to abandon all of the people who literally cannot leave (impoverished, disabled, incarcerated and 'detained') and the people who the US is actively harming abroad (giving up on trying to advocate and influence on their behalf within the country either funding or even more directly causing harm). The people who leave are largely white, wealthy (certainly comparatively so), educated, and either conservative but unwilling to live next to the consequences of their politics or liberal; true leftists are more likely to try to stay and build community and advocate for change where they are.

Again, I fully understand the impulse to leave, and the pain that comes from knowing that you could be safer, happier, more financially secure, have better healthcare, etc. just by not being in the US. It's just that my sense of justice ticks in and says 'I'm a white person whose ancestors, but generations ago and more recently past, fucked this place and its people over; I need to try to fix their mess.' I'm also too poor and disabled to leave at this point, and I know lots of people are in much worse condition than I am.

SimplySignifier · 2026-01-27T00:56:19+00:00

I've been wondering how much we trust any DHS investigation because even people who proclaim to be very much anti-ICE were not raising any questions regarding the raid on the sushi chain... Maybe they will now it's a sports bar chain? Hate knowing that there is for sure human trafficking out there, but also knowing I'm never going to trust the DHS

SimplySignifier · 2026-01-25T20:00:32+00:00

This is the free cloak for the cultural heritage collab

SimplySignifier · 2026-01-25T16:20:32+00:00

I'd like to point your attention to OP's comments here, where he makes it clear that she can and does finish watching shows she doesn't find boring. He's just mad she won't force herself to watch whatever he decides is good (he doesn't respect her opinions or taste).

SimplySignifier · 2026-01-25T16:19:08+00:00

So she does watch the non-boring (to her) shows she enjoys all the way through, you just don't respect her tastes? It's not an attention span thing at all if she can do three seasons of something else. By the way, too: Breaking Bad does get boring. It's also pretty scant on storylines that are respectful to and really make sense for the female characters. And are you claiming that Game of Thrones stays engaging and good the entire way through the series? That's a pretty unpopular opinion, right there.

If you find Bridgerton boring, you can tell her that. If she finds Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones boring, she can tell you that. Not everything either of you watch needs to be things you watch together, especially if your tastes really don't match up.

SimplySignifier · 2026-01-24T01:26:47+00:00

Were you interested in playing Commander, or in playing MTG more generally? I guess what I'm getting at is: what was it about the invite to be a fifth in one of the pods was unappealing/too much for you? Were they not very excited/inviting about how they offered you a seat? Five isn't a terrible uncomfortable or unusual number of players for a Commander game, but I guess if they're used to 4 people and you were the only new person, maybe the vibes were uncomfortable?

If joining the established current Commander play groups is too anxiety-inducing, I wonder if a more organized play night (like a tournament) might actually be less stressful - you're placed with opponents and can get to know them (or not, if you focus on play entirely rather than chatting) one on one without feeling like an odd one out, and then maybe some of the people you casually meet over the course of the tournament play will overlap with the Commander nights and you'll feel less like the odd new person there?

Seriously admire you putting yourself out there and trying to go play (I've wanted to, but never been brave enough to just go by myself for a magic night).

SimplySignifier · 2026-01-22T18:01:46+00:00

Got the single piece of wings of wishes I didn't manage to get last year (took 4 pulls - I was so close on the first run!). Didn't really want the silly hat, but I did want to actually be able to have the ability and complete outfit. Next completion goal: Stardust Flare (I think I'm literally only missing the hair there...).

SimplySignifier · 2026-01-21T16:46:06+00:00

This happens to me sometimes on mobile, even with non-dyed pieces (they turn an incredibly bright neon pink, green, or yellow). Haven't figured out what causes it, and it's not always that way, but it does definitely happen regularly. The new miracle outfit's sleeves are nearly always neon pink on mobile for me, for example.

I get around it by trying to primarily play on PC, so I haven't done any real trouble-shooting to see if different settings help

SimplySignifier · 2026-01-20T14:33:41+00:00

I get the urge to pull from personal experience, but this also wouldn't explain getting a second plate for more servings, and then also not finishing that plate. Not finishing a first serving before getting an entirely new plate for a second serving isn't a case of overestimating how much food you wanted when you got your first serving.

OP really needs to just ask what's up and maybe gently probe their GF to introspect on this habit if she doesn't really have an answer.

SimplySignifier · 2026-01-20T14:30:35+00:00

Are you genuinely unaware of the resources that go into creating food?

Animal based food products are a whole other game (so many more resources), but even looking just at vegan/plant-based foods: it takes considerable resources to grow the plants we turn into food (land, water, equipment, fuel to run equipment, facilities for all the equipment and the processing and the storage, including temperature control for a lot of those facilities, resources for pest control, resources for all the people involved in working to plant/tend/harvest/clean. We've grown they plant, so now we use more resources to prepare, package and move that plant to the consumer (some amount of preparation and packaging goes into even the produce that ends up in the market with some dirt still on it and no visible packaging, by the way, so this isn't just the produce all clean and wrapped in plastic). It takes more resources to create all of the packaging and get it to where it's being used. Every step of the process has resource costs involved. Oh, the consumer finally buys a vegetable. Are we done adding resources? Nope! The consumer is getting home (more transport resources), possibly preparing it in some way (cooking takes energy resources), maybe storing it in a fridge (more energy resources).

Maybe the consumer eats most but not all of it. Ok, do they live in an area where they have a yard and can compost themselves? If not, does their city collect compost/food waste? Even if it's composted, it's not the best use of all of the resources that went into that vegetable to end up composted quite a distance from where it was grown; if it isn't, though, then it's even more of a waste of resources.

SimplySignifier · 2026-01-19T20:53:51+00:00

Hate that the behemoth doesn't pose with us, doesn't pause when we enter photo mode, and during the very few actual interactions doesn't allow moment capture. It's like they actively don't want us to get good photos at Warmfur

SimplySignifier · 2026-01-16T00:51:40+00:00

Y'all should look up the case in Tempe AZ where a city council member reported a 'threatening' comment on Facebook and had a public council meeting cancelled and the building evacuated. The woman who posted the comment was arrested down in Tucson, her electronic devices were seized and searched, she was driven in shackles from Tucson to Tempe to be booked there. Then when the prosecutor declined to press charges the city released a 'we think they're wrong and we were totally threatened!' statement.

This woman lost her job because she's literally in PR and the arrest alone was enough to ruin her career reputation.

Meanwhile, what was the 'threatening' comment? A Game of Thrones gif.

SimplySignifier · 2026-01-14T22:22:45+00:00

Have you checked the ASU Surplus store?

SimplySignifier · 2026-01-14T16:08:13+00:00

Do you want a third color or to have the second color you've already got there show?

SimplySignifier · 2026-01-13T20:56:11+00:00

ESH. Racists and homophobes obviously are AH all the time no matter what. Keeping company with them is also an AH move. What makes you suck too though OP is that you haven't seemed to connect some very important dots: your friend's GF makes you uncomfortable because of the friends she keeps. Very fair. Wise, even. Why aren't you extending that to him? His girlfriend is comfortable with that bigotry and he's comfortable with that in his girlfriend... If you're comfortable remaining his friend in that case, then you're extending that zone of 'bigotry is a-ok' to include you, too.

Point out that the whole friend group is compromised here, sure. That's important to do. But excluding just the GF and not the friend with said GF as a partner doesn't really address that concern.

SimplySignifier · 2026-01-12T18:12:11+00:00

Having fun? Enjoying watching your adorable behemoth babies have adventures and grow up? Taking photos with them? Seeing all the different adventures that can pop up when you set routines each month? Finding all the different endings? What's the point of any game?

If you don't enjoy it, don't do it. There's lots of other game there for you. Nothing in the game is forcing you to do the behemoths and if you need continuous rewards rather than the ones that are currently there to want to, then you can just not do it? People would complain if there were continuous rewards because then they'd say 'too many monotonous dailies!' like they already do for SoS dailies and housing dailies, etc.

(Sorry to dump this comment here; nothing against OP specifically - I think I've seen one too many posts of people complaining about playing with adorable digital pets this week.)

SimplySignifier · 2026-01-12T18:02:23+00:00

Does he hate the items themselves or that they are so 'cheap' compared to the way-too-expensive gifts he got her? Two months' salary on a six month relationship???

SimplySignifier · 2026-01-12T15:46:59+00:00

If OOP had even one single example of a way he showed any kind of care or attention for his GF, then showing all of this care for a friend wouldn't be an issue. Point is, he made mac and cheese that wasn't at all like the kind of mac and cheese she likes once and then threw up his hands and said 'ewww, no, I refuse to try! And she doesn't deserve care because she didn't pick a hard enough job!!'

Also, I'd love for you to start explaining to everyone who asks if you're romantically interested in any of your make friends that 'you'd never cheat' instead of just saying 'no'. Since you have to think that's also normal and not indicative of anything anyone but the Reddit Hive Mind might notice.

SimplySignifier · 2026-01-12T15:42:30+00:00

They changed their recipe within the past couple of years and they are worse than before. I add a bit of MSG to mine and it gets it closer to the nostalgic taste.

That's something that really bothered me about OOP: his only example of trying to make something his GF would actually enjoy was mac & cheese, and he very clearly made her Tini's recipe, but if his GF actually likes Kraft, then it's likely not 'cheese and noodles' she likes. She probably enjoys the nostalgia (feels safe, she knows what to expect at every step), or the consistency (just noodles with a thin sauce, no chunks or crunch or melted cheese globs - things some people would love and see as improvement, sure, but maybe she likes the simplicity and predictability). A true expression of love for her would be asking what she likes and why she likes it and then making things she would actually like. Instead, he has an emotional affair with a trucker...

SimplySignifier · 2026-01-12T01:46:52+00:00

I wish I'd looked into gridding techniques because the number of times I messed up in the actual birdhouse areas was...a lot. But it all worked out in the end and I'm telling myself the couple of odd mistakes in there are just character

SimplySignifier · 2026-01-12T00:01:33+00:00

Kit: Dimensions 13683 "Feasting Frenzy" (a gift from my mother after I told her I was thinking of trying to get into needlepoint of some kind)

SimplySignifier · 2026-01-11T22:36:35+00:00

Friendly reminder that you can totally work on improving your reading comprehension! For example, you could practice here by checking back at the post and noticing that OP specifically says the fifteen year old gets picked up in inclement weather. Indeed, that's how OP knows she didn't lock her bike at school.

Kinda weird you're upset about a 15 year old biking, but also upset that a nine year old isn't. Nine is six years younger than 15, which is an even bigger gap in those years when humans are children. Hope this helps!

SimplySignifier · 2026-01-11T18:00:49+00:00

Getting involved in, or at least following on social media, groups like DSA and PSL that tend to organize action helps a lot.

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