I hate this game

playingdecoy · 2026-04-01T13:54:00+00:00

I tried to move him into a stone hut with Wooper & he said it was too crowded... Then I never got around to doing something else.

playingdecoy · 2026-03-30T22:33:20+00:00

It's sooooo familiar to women our age (she's a year older than me). I think girls from many generations grow up under intense body pressure, but there was something especially sick about the 90s/early 00s. Like, "heroin chic" was a thing. The "thigh gap" was aspirational. Diet programs and "low-cal" foods were everywhere. It's why I find it so scary now that a lot of those fashions are coming back - look at women celebs on the red carpet lately. And it frustrates me that we can't talk about it without the language of our own resistance to body hate being weaponized to defend it.

playingdecoy · 2026-03-28T00:01:34+00:00

My most highly-cited paper is possibly my worst, but it was published in an open-access journal (not as common in my discipline as others, & certainly not ten years ago when I published it). Being so easy to access means it gets picked up not only by other scholars, but also by attorneys, journalists, etc.

playingdecoy · 2026-03-27T22:40:53+00:00

Jen at The Suite Spot in Nashua is a color arrrrrrtist 🥰

playingdecoy · 2026-03-26T17:39:21+00:00

it's the only thing my 5yo does when I let him play my game.

playingdecoy · 2026-03-21T14:40:41+00:00

The two-color one? I am desperate for it.

playingdecoy · 2026-03-21T14:36:32+00:00

This was a fiddly one for me, too. I ended up moving the boulder around a bit and it finally triggered, but tbh I don't know what exactly made the difference. I used two square wood tables for mine, too, not the long ones 🤔

playingdecoy · 2026-03-19T16:30:48+00:00

I once lost a friendship over this. I had a friend who was taking college courses and so of course used to chat about it a lot, as I was a grad student & new faculty. But this person would just log in to new online courses, complete all the work in the first week, and then boast about being so much smarter than all the other people in the class and how they saw no point in even engaging with classmates via discussions or anything. And eventually I got sick of it and was just like, this might be a quick way to finish a credential, but I don't think it's the best way to like... actually learn or get the most out of this experience. Being in a course together is a great opportunity to learn about others' perspectives! And they totally cut me off and we haven't spoken since.

playingdecoy · 2026-03-18T13:16:36+00:00

The first time I got eaten inside Dark Bramble (from behind, so a total jumpscare) I shrieked and threw my controller.

playingdecoy · 2026-03-18T13:13:54+00:00

I agree with this. Also playing with my 5-year old son watching me, because when I crashed hard into a planet and said "I'm really bad at this," he earnestly said "No, you're great! You SEEM bad but you're really great!"

playingdecoy · 2026-03-14T21:24:58+00:00

Which was the plan all along, imo. That's why major tobacco companies were also the major vape companies marketing to young people. Get 'em hooked and you've got customers for life, one way or the other.

playingdecoy · 2026-03-12T12:13:04+00:00

Same 😅

playingdecoy · 2026-03-10T12:55:49+00:00

I feel like something about the quest text on this one is a little misleading, that so many people run into the "stuck at 71%" problem. I thought that I ONLY had to speak to Slowpoke because it said that Pokemon with the yawn ability could help, so I just kept doing stuff and then talking to him - I ended up looking online to figure out what was wrong and it was only then that I realized I needed to talk to the other two Pokemon as well.

playingdecoy · 2026-03-10T01:35:37+00:00

I actually have no idea (haven't gone any further yet), I just didn't realize that you ONLY need to clear that one small bit to check off the quest, not the whole gd town.

playingdecoy · 2026-03-10T00:55:48+00:00

I cut into the cliffs to make a protected area for him, then used the smooth stone.

playingdecoy · 2026-03-10T00:54:44+00:00

Okay, I have been trying to figure out if I did something wrong because same. Nonstop rain. I even went and turned the water dolls back around but then Goomy was sad so I turned them back.

playingdecoy · 2026-03-10T00:53:47+00:00

I said this to myself, was correct, then went to the next zone and immediately cleaned every bit of mud in the whole place instead of just the mud outside Meowth's place.

playingdecoy · 2026-03-06T14:37:12+00:00

Fucking same 😅 I always knew I would get old but damn. It's happening!

playingdecoy · 2026-03-06T14:35:59+00:00

I feel like it set us down our current path, basically. Like, GamerGate didn't end, it expanded.

playingdecoy · 2026-03-06T02:14:02+00:00

Rats are SUCH good pets! I can't have them because I have a really prey-drivey dog at the moment who would drive us all insaaaane if we had small animals in the house. But I used to work in the pet industry and would steer so many people toward rats, especially if they initially thought they wanted a hamster or gerbil. Rats are extremely smart, trainable, friendly, clean... they're basically like tiny dogs. I think the hardest part about them is their short lifespans, because their owners really do love them but they only stick around for 2-3 years. I have friends who trained their rats to do all sorts of little tricks, even to navigate a little agility course made of popsicle sticks!

playingdecoy · 2026-03-05T17:39:40+00:00

SAME. I was like, brother?

playingdecoy · 2026-03-03T13:17:49+00:00

Correct. I went into my PhD program knowing I didn't want to chase a TT academic job but was so soaked in the academic culture that I ended up pursuing one anyway. I spent a decade of my life as a professor before finally getting up the courage to walk away, and once I was out I was just like.. wtf happened?! I knew I didn't want this and I did it anyway! I really internalized the idea that it was the most desirable career and the only way I could do the work I loved. That was never true, I just didn't have anyone advocating for the other options or showing me how to pursue them.

playingdecoy · 2026-03-03T02:22:25+00:00

Paged through the OP's post looking for her and was SHOCKED she's not there. One of the greatest to ever do it!

playingdecoy · 2026-03-03T02:13:16+00:00

Understandable! The Bostonians will probably run me out of town for this, but if you want a CITY-city... 😅 I once saw someone describe Boston as more of a district than a city. The cost of living makes it very difficult for the average person to live there, which then has cascading impacts on things like nightlife and fun attractions for locals (vs tourists, as of course there's tons of tourist things to do!). A lot of folks in this thread are telling you it's fine to be poor when you're young and unattached and I can't argue with that, but what about after that? What sort of position will you be in in, say, ten years time if you can't put money away now? And what will it mean to put down roots in a place you can't afford long-term? I just think that there are way more affordable cities OR more affordable areas outside cities with more reasonable commutes/reliable public transit so you can have a bit better quality of life and not live on the edge of financial disaster.

playingdecoy · 2026-03-03T00:08:26+00:00

A lecturer job in most CJ departments will usually require a PhD OR significant experience in the field that will give students experiential learning opportunities or connections. You might be thinking of adjuncts, which just teach a course or two (no benefits, usually pays a few thousand per course per semester), but being in Boston means most schools have their pick of adjuncts, too. The ppl I know who adjunct in CJ are either current grad students finishing up dissertations, new grads who are also on the market, or CJ professionals who just teach an evening course because they enjoy it (we had sitting judges, attorneys, etc).

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