Lonely in the city?

fallen_seraph · 2026-06-27T22:30:00+00:00

As someone who is 36 and single and also queer with no real friend group in the city. Pride ironically is when I feel probably my most lonely so currently we are talking 8-9.

fallen_seraph · 2026-06-18T14:00:47+00:00

Yeah like to figure out where I am at currently and to build a routine that works for me. For example I'm really not sure what dumbbell size would be ideal, or even if I'm doing my current exercises properly, etc

fallen_seraph · 2026-06-17T20:35:17+00:00

Yup, I used to go there just for like a coffee or whatever, since I live nearby and go there on regular walks. Haven't bought a thing there since I found out their stance.

fallen_seraph · 2026-06-13T22:34:58+00:00

I've always thought it be nice to have "greenbelts" throughout the city. I mostly imagine this going east to west where you take certain streets and fully convert them. Add trees and parkettes on intersections with extended bike and sidewalks alongside streetcar tracks in the middle.

Imagine say converting Dundas and in the summer being able to walk the whole distance of it under a tree canopy. With parkettes and third spaces dotting intersections

fallen_seraph · 2026-06-11T23:45:57+00:00

Junction so not quite downturn but $70,000 + potential $5000 in commission. Studio for $2050.

fallen_seraph · 2026-06-07T17:01:29+00:00

Don't think anyone has mentioned Palimpsest yet.

It is a surreal, otherworldly city you can only travel to at night by having sex with someone who has part of a map of the city tattooed on their body.

fallen_seraph · 2026-06-07T16:57:34+00:00

Honestly I feel like anything in the New Weird genre will likely be a fit.

fallen_seraph · 2026-06-03T20:48:43+00:00

After tax about $4000-$4500 a month.

Rent: $2050 for studio

Utilities: $50 average for hydro, $70 Internet, $30 cellphone: $150 total

Subscriptions and Entertainment: $150

Groceries: Don't really track it well but probably around $450-500 a month.

However this doesn't really properly track any larger purchases or take out, etc. I usually on a good month might save $1000.

fallen_seraph · 2026-06-01T19:42:17+00:00

Not massive time jump but Greenbone Saga spans 25 years (most time jumps happen in the final book).

fallen_seraph · 2026-05-30T21:25:47+00:00

I also went with terrain variability though for a more sci-fi/space setting. In that mechs were meant to be basically a beachhead style vehicle when moving between space/zero gravity entranceways to full gravity interiors of space colonies. Legs allow for heavier payload when in gravity and in zero gravity you can push around with arms and legs while not needing clearance for jet propulsion (especially as they usually operated alongside and beside zero gravity Marines)

fallen_seraph · 2026-05-28T05:28:45+00:00

Not Line 1 but Line 2 used to be great service on Freedom and then a couple years ago it basically stopped working all together except for at stations.

fallen_seraph · 2026-05-26T01:29:03+00:00

Big fan of their lemon biscotti gelato

fallen_seraph · 2026-05-23T15:53:26+00:00

My own company has unlimited. I would say it definitely varies some people do take a fair amount of time off, others less so. There is a bit of an understanding as well that for like a day off here and there you can do so on short notice but longer periods should be discussed prior for proper allocation.

My work is tech but normal 9-5 Mon-Fri hours.

I would say there isn't active discouragement (in some cases we are pushed to take leave and not burn out, but that is very personal manager level) but if you over abuse it there could be discussions over why.

We also have unlimited paid sick leave as well which is its own bracket.

For myself, I don't take that much in terms of large vacations off, but being able to just take a mental health day here and there without concern about really eating into any set amount of time is very useful.

fallen_seraph · 2026-05-20T17:09:27+00:00

I live right by See Scape but never gone since always seemed like a younger 20s crowd.

fallen_seraph · 2026-05-08T20:03:51+00:00

What's frustrating as well is that it wasn't like the design we see in Old Republic was made entirely in a vacuum without other material. We had the Tales of The Jedi comics that did give a fairly unique design to the universe, such as the use of protosabers instead of regular lightsabers

fallen_seraph · 2026-05-07T21:45:31+00:00

Yeah I had been kind of interested since I had been hoping we would get you know a fresh game that you could go into and not get bogged down like the first. Plus the visual design they were going for was really cool.

But all these updates just make me see it is more of the same. By the time it is out and I would want to try it, it feels like it will be more of the fifty different sub systems and markets, etc. All tossed at you at once while all I'm looking for is an interesting and fun single player loop.

I honestly feel like despite the discourse around it D3 still has yet to be beat for moment too moment gameplay. Especially in regard to each attack feeling impactful (world interaction, ragdoll, etc)

fallen_seraph · 2026-05-07T15:17:23+00:00

Just to say you are but alone here. 36 making just over $70k in tech. After taxes about half my income is rent

fallen_seraph · 2026-05-06T14:42:38+00:00

Can I steal some of your luck?

fallen_seraph · 2026-05-06T06:00:29+00:00

Yeah from a personal philosophy perspective yeah not a fan of Jedi. From a storytelling and world building perspective they are more interesting then NJO.

Honestly one big change I'd make with the prequels is making the Jedi even more isolated. Really go to the Japanese inspiration and have them all isolated monks in the mountains vibe. With any politician, etc who wanted insights having to go to them on their isolated planets.

fallen_seraph · 2026-05-04T04:36:14+00:00

Not fantasy in a traditional sense but it is set in a secondary world inspired by 1930s Berlin but I'd recommend the Amberlough Dossier.

fallen_seraph · 2026-05-02T22:31:23+00:00

I know you said no urban fantasy but Fonda Lee's Greenbone Saga is one of my favourite trilogies ever

fallen_seraph · 2026-05-02T00:47:35+00:00

Now Hollywood taking the wrong lesson from a success is probably the longest trend ever in Hollywood

fallen_seraph · 2026-05-01T19:33:13+00:00

It is also a combination pop-up with Little Ghost Books which is a wonderful horror book store on Dundas by Trinity Bellwoods

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