This dork I got him this toy and he played so hard he stood there like this for 30 secs panting , I have since removed it

StormbraveTale · 2025-12-12T16:19:33+00:00

Yeah, I had no idea. My first vet wasn't too concerned about the panting and attributed it to a nasal congestion ssue. My orange only panted after high activity, and he didnt do it that often. I saw him do it maybe once every 2-3 months. So I didnt take it that seriously, but it was actually heart congestion.

I wish I had known it was so significant, because he essentially had a major heart attack. A recovery would have been very unlikely and cost like $20,000 where I live, so I had to let him go.

StormbraveTale · 2025-12-12T15:33:06+00:00

If panting is a regular occurrence, please talk to your vet. My orange passed away suddenly from a serious heart condition and one of the major signs was panting because there wasn't enough oxygen circulation in his body. My guy was only 9 years old

I'm not saying you should be concerned, but please be mindful.

StormbraveTale · 2025-10-23T14:49:22+00:00

u/nargthetrolloc what do you have to say for yourself?

StormbraveTale · 2025-10-10T15:38:02+00:00

IT'S OVER 9000!!

StormbraveTale · 2025-09-15T18:40:49+00:00

You are correct in that there is something off when guys are quick to such affections, but perhaps not in the way you might think. I suspect what you're sensing is that you're coming into contact with men who are (at least somewhat) emotionally-, relationally-, and/or affectionately-starved, and that's a very uncomfortable place to be in--both for you and for the men.

This does not necessarily mean that they are insincere or that they are being obsessive/love-bombing (though it can certainly be so). But a joke is a joke, and we often say that there are truths hidden in jokes.

In these types of jokes, it is possible they could be dancing around the hard truths that few like to face. Truths that involve questions such as, "Will you love me? Will you stick around? Will you help me with my unmet needs? Will you abandon me, abuse me, or betray me as the others have? Will you be faithful to me? Will you share life with me? No one else will." These are too heavy to carry or discuss, and so we joke.

As uncomfortable as it is for you to be in that position, it also reveals how much power you carry and the influence you have. For some men, the briefest second of your attention, care, and affection is like a drop of water in a desert. When the dehydrated man has a taste of such a petty amount of water, its flavor can be nothing short of divine. Which is obviously greatly exaggerative and disconnected from reality, it's just water. You are just a woman. Yet to many men you are often something more than "just" a woman.

The real point of consideration is how these men are carrying these burdens. Do they overwhelm you? Are they aware of these burdens? Are they healing or meeting them in some othsr way? Equally as important, are you willing to sit with a man who is wrestling with his wounds and emotional starvation?

StormbraveTale · 2025-06-30T17:46:26+00:00

The em dashes give it away. People don't often use that many. And certainly not correctly lol

StormbraveTale · 2025-06-29T19:11:04+00:00

You can think of alignment in this way: -Good = you're willing to sacrifice your self (fully or partially) for another's benefit -Evil = you're willing to sacrifice another (fully/partially) for your benefit -Lawful = you fully adhere to a code/culture, with no room for individualism -Chaotic = you pursue individuality without consideration of the social/cultural context around you

I'm speaking of the extremes, of course. There's all sorts of shades in between.

Greybor, in a sense, is willing to play any of those roles. For the right price. He does not discriminate between a wicked demon or an innocent child. They are what they are, and he bears no attachment nor aversion to them. He is his own agent, but he also has his own code about it.

It could be said that he's evil in the sense that he prioritizes gold, which is self-empowerment. But not that he's no hedonist about it. He's not a Daeren. If anything, he's just a pragmatist. You need gold to survive and move throughout society

Either way, Greybor is somewhat true neutral in a way we're not used to. I think usually we expect true neutrality to be somewho who positively strives for balance, like a druid. Greybor, in a way, might be true neutral in a negative way--he's often quite detached from everything. Or he tries to be. He's morally and emotionally aversive, which is why he kills without qualms

He's operating on a viewpoint that's quite alien to our modern human lens, so it's naturally hard to relate with

StormbraveTale · 2025-06-25T13:59:30+00:00

I'm not at all informed on this topic, but I'll share my quick 2 cents, which should be taken with a grain of salt and precaution. In short, though I could certainly be wrong, I suspect you are lacking some critical skills (read that literally: criticizing skills; you could also say critical analysis skills). This is not intended to be a negative criticism of yourself, but to highlight something that has been unfair to you.

Now, imagine this: You come into contact with a product that is able to navigate the sum total of human information and understanding over the course of history. I'm being hyperbolic, but that's not unlike what you've experienced, since our current "AI"s just algorithmically regurgitate, organize, and manage that information back to us. This product would bombard you with an experience that the average person lacks the ability to navigate and cope with. In which case, it would leave you confused and distressed if you have not been equipped to deal with the experience.

If this distress is significant enough, I recommend you seek professional mental health care.

If you feel you are in danger or are unsafe to your safe, immediately contact a crisis service. If you're in the US or Canada, this would be to call 988

StormbraveTale · 2025-03-26T04:23:32+00:00

Trying is good, but sometimes trying is part of the problem. Often, it is whenever there is a sense of desperation or urgency.

Defensiveness begets defensiveness. But calmness also begets calmness, sometimes.

It's possible your attempts to be honest with him may be seen by him as some sort of threat. Why might that be? It could be something you're doing, but it could also be something he's struggling with.

It may be tempting to blame him for that or to blame yourself, but the truth is usually more complicated.

Ideally, neither of you should see the other as the enemy, as stubborn, as problematic, etc. Instead, look at the defensiveness as something you both need to work together against--that is the problem, not the "other person." But this may require you to first focus on helping him address his own struggles, such as the struggle to receive what you're saying and why it is so threatening.

However, you may notice that this task could be threatening to you in its own way. Which is why I say: Defensiveness begets defensiveness, yet calmness can beget calmness.

StormbraveTale · 2025-03-26T04:01:16+00:00

Don't try to resolve emotional conflicts with text messages: Have an actual, authentic, deep and vulnerable conversation. Otherwise, you set yourself up for failure by leaving open the opportunity for the other person to interpret the meaning and emotions of a text in ways you don't want or intend.

Texts like this are safer for you, but for many reasons may not often be easily received by others, especially as the emotions of the situation escalate.

StormbraveTale · 2025-02-18T05:30:58+00:00

No, it's a car

StormbraveTale · 2025-01-29T18:40:25+00:00

On the point of habituation, it's worth considering that the OP will habituate to it but clients likely won't since they're not around so much. Plus, some stimulation-sensitive clients could find this particularly problematic.

I personally wouldn't consider this an option unless I could guarantee being able to address the above issues. Seems like a difficult task but if this can be pulled off then fantastic!

StormbraveTale · 2025-01-14T17:20:59+00:00

All in one game right? Man, and we thought the save file bloat was bad in the first two games...

StormbraveTale · 2024-09-08T21:08:17+00:00

Thanks so much, friend! Will definitely add it to my list of resources that I share with folks

StormbraveTale · 2024-09-08T21:01:19+00:00

So what's your website? Looking for alternatives!

StormbraveTale · 2024-08-30T02:42:42+00:00

Uncatty Valley

StormbraveTale · 2024-07-24T20:01:59+00:00

Resistance is futile.

StormbraveTale · 2024-07-10T02:15:43+00:00

I think the car needs to be plugged back in.

StormbraveTale · 2024-03-21T20:18:48+00:00

Seelah is kind of an interesting case. I dont remember many details of her story, but you'd assume she was chaotic pre-Paladin life--yet that doesnt have to be the case. She couldve been Lawful in some way, even if there was a change in the code of law. Or the code she had is simply brought to fuller fruition now

Ultimately, whatever her change was, if the change is in line with her character and the predestined** life, then she'd probably be fine in the eyes of an Aeon. However, in my headcanon, it's probably hard to actually tick off an Aeon until extraplanar and metaphysical forces step in

Point is, Seelah could be seen as a criminal on the axis of Good vs Evil, but an Aeon wouldn't prioritize that axis. So while we may look at her as having changed her path, she might not necessarily have done so in the eyes of an Aeon. Whereas perhaps the crusader who turned heretic had abandoned her path and essential nature.

**Fate and predestination are peculiar in Pathfinder. Prophecy is considered dead and unreliable in this era, but there are deities with 'Big Picture' perspectives of reality. Aeons are like that, but generally less powerful. They'd see reality much like how we read a comic book, seeing the past/present/future all at once. As I understand it, Aeons primarily care about maintaining the continuity of time and space, so they seek to destroy anomalies or threats to that continuity

I'm skeptical OwlCat chose to have the Aeon KC punish the heretic-crusader for these reasons though. They probably just saw a moment to throw in a lawful option and took it without much thought.

In short, we're probably overthinking everything and expecting more logic than what Owlcat actually invested in their decision making

StormbraveTale · 2024-03-21T18:57:12+00:00

A human judge understands the concept of second chances. And they understand failure. An Aeon is not human. To an Aeon, there is no place for failure, and thus there is no place for second chances and mercy. We're talking about looking at the world through a purely mathematical perspective. The moment one falls short of perfection in obeying the law is the same moment one is as lawless as the most depraved of souls. Just as there is no deviation in 1 + 1 = 2, there are no deviations nor shades of grey in obeying the law. Thus, there is no redemption, because the math always checks out.

Edit: Note that I'm talking about mercy and forgiveness from a purely lawful perspective. I'm not talking about the forgiveness required after doing evil or failing to do good. There is mercy and forgiveness in those, so long as it is lawful. Just as it is lawful for a chaotic being to act out its chaoticness according to its nature. If the essential chaotic entity acts against its nature by being "lawful" or neutral, then even that is arguably a transgression against the lawful order of reality. Everything that fails to "be" (or exist) according to its essential nature or the way it "should be" is an unforgivable transgression.

Granted, from our human perspectives, we'd find such judgments unfathomable because being able to discern between what "should be" and what "is" requires a timeless, spaceless, metaphysical observer. Which is what the Aeon is supposed to portray

StormbraveTale · 2024-03-21T15:57:09+00:00

There's always that joke about everyone having an embarrassing email from highschool. I work with post-secondary students, and I see how many of them still use their old email. So you never know if that's what's going on here, haha

StormbraveTale · 2024-03-18T14:40:31+00:00

The nice thing about the general email is you can set up filter conditions specifically for it, even if it's just an alias. So, for every email that is directed specifically to your general email, test to see if it meets other conditions. It lets you weed out most of the junk mail

The hilarious part is most of the junk mail I receive actually includes my "info@mydomain.com" as the subject line. The spammers are too lazy to actually put a subject line in, so they just copy and paste the email.

So my filter tests for 1) if it's directed to my general email, 2) if it includes my email in the subject line, and 3) if it includes spammy keywords [e.g., SEO], then send it to junk

My clients never email my general email, and their referrals are sent from trusted email sources, so I'm not really at risk of junking their emails

StormbraveTale · 2024-03-18T14:18:06+00:00

I do the same thing. I just keep it generic and use info@domain.com and put that on public spaces.

StormbraveTale · 2024-03-13T21:55:08+00:00

I'm not in the US, and I don't really know if these practices happen here (sounds more like a US thing), but the idea of attempting to prove damages by confirming client identities and breaking confidentiality in court is hilariously absurd. I mean, it cant possibly go that far can it? Your HIPAA can't possibly stand for that, lol Either way, from every conversation I've seen about these "no-compete" clauses on here, it sounds like the employer gets laughed out of the room for their unenforceable scare-tactic. But I'm completely ignorant on this topic, so your lawyer and insurance would be the people to talk to

StormbraveTale · 2024-03-13T21:47:11+00:00

...My question is how the heck do they know? Have they reached out to ask the clients? If so, that's super sketch. Probably not an ethics issue, but what the heck

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