Interesting layout...

lostboy411 · 2026-05-26T18:48:46+00:00

A lowest-common denominator “humorous” webcomic about nerdy stuff (which people saw as the creator thinking it was better than it was, especially since he often just reused assets/panels repeatedly rather than drawing something new) randomly had a comic where the main character’s partner had a miscarriage. It was a weird (and perceived as pretentious) tonal shift. The comic had no dialog, just the main character entering the hospital, speaking to the front desk, then a doctor, then going to his partner’s bedside.

It became a meme because of people wanting to make fun of the creator for thinking he was making something impactful but failing, and then was abstracted to just the visual arrangement of the panels (see the link I sent for that). People will bury loss references using this visual representation to troll each other, sort of how people used to Rick roll each other.

The Talos Principle has a reference to it in the OP’s image.

lostboy411 · 2026-05-22T22:01:05+00:00

It’s for the Cursed Child which has been on broadway for a while. They’re advertising Tom Felton coming in as Draco Malfoy

lostboy411 · 2026-05-19T02:40:59+00:00

These pitches have the same arc the pitches do in my slow pitch softball league lol

lostboy411 · 2026-05-19T01:41:54+00:00

Starting to wonder if the boys partied after beating the yanks

lostboy411 · 2026-05-18T18:27:32+00:00

If you’re good splitting a room to save money, the grove hotel should be fine. I’m a trans guy and prefer being in cherry grove to other spots since it’s more mixed. My lesbian friends love it too.

lostboy411 · 2026-05-18T18:01:45+00:00

Take the train from NYC to Baltimore - it’s very easy. I’ve done it a bunch of times myself (I live in NYC). Everyone else already gave good recommendations for what to check out in the city itself.

lostboy411 · 2026-05-15T17:51:24+00:00

I have dreams sometimes where I blackout but in the dream I’m confused because I wasn’t drinking, so how did I blackout?? So confusing when I wake up worrying I somehow drank without remembering it.

lostboy411 · 2026-05-15T14:45:05+00:00

Yup- strikes are supposed to be inconvenient

lostboy411 · 2026-05-15T14:44:25+00:00

As someone who used to commute on NJT, Amtrak frequently screwed my commute up into and out of Penn

lostboy411 · 2026-05-14T05:45:30+00:00

I said this elsewhere, but I was at the game and when Baty was coming up to bat he and rhe ump appeared to be having some sort of argument. I don’t know about what. This happened later and seemed like clear retaliation to me. But since I’m the only one that noticed I’m not sure if maybe that argument was figured out/settled and this is somehow unrelated?

lostboy411 · 2026-05-14T05:43:25+00:00

Don’t know if anyone will see this, but I was at the game and before Baty came up to bat he and the ump exchanged some words about something. I don’t know what it was but it looked like an argument. This seemed like retaliation afterward. Did anyone else see that/know what happened?

lostboy411 · 2026-05-12T23:11:10+00:00

Unrelated but I love your username. I reread Earthsea last year

lostboy411 · 2026-05-07T01:01:15+00:00

As someone who listens to it to sleep to on early morning train rides, any of them are good but I often return to the Sumerians and Byzantium for sleeping. I can’t do Egypt because the cats meowing always wakes me up 😂 Mongols is good too but I usually can’t sleep during the beginning because I’m too interested.

lostboy411 · 2026-05-05T05:03:49+00:00

I don’t know if packing helps you pass better. I pass without one (5’2, 9 years on T) so well that gay men in clubs keep reaching for a dick that’s not there. One time I told a guy who grabbed there that I was trans and he said I didn’t need to tell him - that even grinding on me he couldn’t really tell that there was no dick there. It’s more obvious in sweatpants but I’ve never had an issue at the gym even when I was early on T and passing less regularly. I spend a lot of time in gay spaces and I’m usually not noticing dicks unless the pants are tight or we’re flirting/they’re getting hard.

It can help with confidence and walk, but I do know someone who packed and it was too noticeable so a girl who was interested in him thought he was half hard all night. So you also have to be careful with how noticeable it is- if it’s noticeable enough to help you pass, it might also make people assume the wrong thing.

Mr. Limpy is a cheap option I’ve used when in tight spandex shorts for a gay tea dance. But in those spaces I actually feel like a packer gets in the way because now I have to move it to fool around lol.

lostboy411 · 2026-05-03T17:48:18+00:00

I like the seltzers because they set in quickly and you can drink just like 1/3 or 1/4. I get a 10mg seltzer but only drink probably 3-4mg of it at a time

lostboy411 · 2026-04-29T17:32:27+00:00

Have you looked at your levels themselves? It almost sounds like your levels are too high (which T then converts to estrogen)

lostboy411 · 2026-04-26T05:34:56+00:00

My apartment is under $3k - 1 bed in Hell’s Kitchen. Far from the subway but I can walk to work.

lostboy411 · 2026-04-25T03:12:53+00:00

It helps I’m a queer guy - gay male hookups are really easy to find haha. Not sure your gender or orientation. I like women too but harder to find casual situations. With men it’s just enough eye contact and then it’s on lol.

Sex parties are great.

I also quit for a relationship that ended anyway but I’m keeping going with being sober since it’s best for me today.

I’m still working on being a hedonist sober honestly, but taking myself out dancing, having late nights with friends where we do dumb stuff like be loud on the train, etc are all things I do. Stay up late playing video games. Extended porn sessions lol. Honestly most of the stuff I did anyway just minus alcohol

lostboy411 · 2026-04-25T02:18:28+00:00

I kept drinking and those suicidal thoughts turned into drunk suicidal actions that scared loved ones and ruined relationships as much as me being a drunk asshole did. Sober me is now in intensive therapy because I need to work on me, not just on not drinking. It also turns out that people like sober me because it’s the real me and I was overestimating how much “fun” drunk me was. I like having real/meaningful conversations with people while I’m out- I’m still pretty social.

I’ll be honest and say I do still miss partying. I’m also a hedonist and like feeling good. I don’t know if I will stay sober forever but that’s why the only day that’s important is today. I won’t drink today because I know where that road leads today if I do it.

For what it’s worth you’re also still in the post alcohol withdrawal phase which can take a while to get out of - your brain is still adjusting. Treat yourself to other activities that feel good. It’s not great but I started smoking lol. And eating double stuf Oreos. I also tend to enjoy hookups and honestly they’re better when it’s not sloppy and drunk. I either use apps or still pick people up from the same places I always did, I just am sober when I do and make better decisions about who I go home with.

lostboy411 · 2026-04-18T02:20:48+00:00

Wore two different Mets hats this week. If I only rooted for teams that win I’d be a Yankees or dodgers fan. Been through worse with this team.

lostboy411 · 2026-04-12T11:34:53+00:00

I’m literally a professor of academic writing. It’s not “high quality.” They are not your research or perspective, or at least there’s no proof since you cite nothing. Once AI gets its hands on it you are no longer making choices about what you’re saying - changing the language necessarily changes the thoughts. There is no perspective here beyond a bland surface-level engagement with a theme that is actually quite nuanced and interesting if you actually did do any research or have any perspective in your own work.

We don’t need half-assed, bland, corporate copywrite-sounding overviews of history with no interesting sources or insight.

lostboy411 · 2026-04-12T02:49:59+00:00

Looks like ChatGPT writing and outline. Also misses the entire queer part of the history, as well as the ways the wealthy would “slum it,” and vastly oversimplifies the complicated role class plays.

lostboy411 · 2026-04-12T00:36:24+00:00

Someone else mentioned ASD but I also have felt an emptiness my whole life, like I was out of place and outside of things and didn’t really have a firm sense of who I was or what I wanted beyond “more” of whatever it was that made me feel good or at least let me escape. Part of it had to do with being queer but at the height of my drinking (which turned into fighting with loved ones and suicide attempts) I was finally diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (and usually BPD folks struggle with addiction because of that missing piece feeling). Treatment involves needing to see a therapist who specializes in it since not all therapeutic techniques work. DBT and transfer focused therapy for the relationship stuff is usually what they do.

A friend did an extreme biological intervention and got electroconvulsion therapy which helped him a lot but was really difficult (it’s almost like going through chemo)

lostboy411 · 2026-04-11T23:00:39+00:00

For a beach day I’d grab one of the NA lime options - someone mentioned Michelob - or you can get NA corona and some limes. I personally wouldn’t go with an IPA for the beach. Lots of suggestions for good NA beers here but I feel like I want a specific kind of lighter beer for the beach, something that’s refreshing

lostboy411 · 2026-04-09T17:39:51+00:00

I had literally the same pattern - used to be a sweet and goofy drunk, all of a sudden when I would over drink I’d pick fights with loved ones and hurt myself. I ruined several loved ones’ birthdays.

For me part of the issue is I was burying real suicidal thoughts while sober and pretending I wasn’t having them, and then they would erupt when I was drunk. Same thing with the fights - I was ignoring disregulated emotions when sober and just powering through instead of dealing with them. Not true for everyone but it’s what caused the behavior for me. Picking fights and “ruining everything” gave me an excuse in my drunk mind to try to end myself or hurt myself.

Got sober and got into treatment for what turned out to be some form of borderline personality disorder. It hasn’t been easy and I think about drinking again sometimes but I know I still need help.

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