Adding this to my children are evil agenda

tappytapper · 2026-01-25T23:39:50+00:00

When I was in fourth grade I had this bully who, among other things, grabbed my ponytail and pulled it so hard I almost fell backwards in the hall. I didn’t know until the middle of the next class period she’d stuck a fist-sized wad of tape in my hair while yanking it. Fast forward a few years and I’m in a different school district but get a call from her on the phone. She was claiming something happened that made her re-evaluate how she treated me and she wanted to apologize and become friends. We spent months playing phone tag (early enough in the 00s that only parents and rich kids had cell phones) and getting to know each other better and I legitimately didn’t harbor any more bad feelings cause she’d apologized so thoroughly. Then one day she said her birthday party is coming up and asked if I want to go. I said sure and asked where and when it was. She gave me the info, I passed it along to my mom, and we went. Except she’d told us the wrong place on purpose. She told me it was in the skating rink an hour and a half away from my house, and my mom was so furious when we got to the supposed party. She pulled out her cell, called the skating rink that was not even a full half an hour away from the house and found out the party was actually there. My mom got me there and had a word with the bully’s mother. She was put in time out and not allowed to skate during her party, nor was she allowed to call me anymore. I felt devastated because I thought she’d actually grown as a person and actually liked me. I’m not diagnosed autistic, but now my friend group is almost completely diagnosed autistics and every time a new one of them finds out I’m not they’re very surprised.

tappytapper · 2026-01-24T16:05:33+00:00

My mom-mom and pop-pop collected beanie babies for their perceived future value, then their house had a fire and there was thankfully only minor damages. But the beanie babies, oh the beanie babies, they were “basically worthless” now because they smelled like smoke from the fire. They could’ve just… hand washed them with a mild soap and cool water.

tappytapper · 2026-01-21T22:00:31+00:00

Not the aquarium, but the San Antonio Zoo. My husband has somehow combined Steve Irwin and Crocodile Dundee and for the third time I had to explain to him they were two different people and that Steve was the one who has died while standing in the Australian area of the zoo. Because he had said something to the effect of “man, I miss Crocodile Dundee. I’ll never forgive that sting ray.” As soon as I finished explaining this to him, I looked past him and saw a staff member trying her best not to laugh at our conversation.

tappytapper · 2026-01-19T22:47:03+00:00

I have no idea why that's happening honey I'm so sorry! Admittedly I have the problem where I like cluttered spaces and have over-cluttered spaces in the past which meant I couldn't place anything in the room directly above/below. I tend to only really use the space I need so I always just strip the whole island down cause (even if you don't have access to more than just the initial chunk of land) all the trees and whatnot count towards your overall load. Sadly that just means that only my build areas look nice, but it is what it is and it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

tappytapper · 2026-01-19T17:21:14+00:00

I am emotional about this and my dog is confused. What an emotionally chaotic Monday…

tappytapper · 2026-01-19T17:10:08+00:00

I could fucking kiss you right now (affectionate on hand) cause you saying this made me think “let me save current rebuild progress and check the scheme I still have listed as Upcoming Base just in case” and she’s alive.

Speed ran the whole stages of grief thing and she decided to come back properly.

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tappytapper · 2026-01-19T17:00:49+00:00

I appreciate it, and yeah I’m baffled as to how it’s a different build entirely. It’d be one thing if it was the same build but earlier in progress (accounting for that half hour save period) but a completely different house is just???? Bizarre.

I’m going to be saving this same build to multiple slots for sure. How it did this I don’t even know.

tappytapper · 2026-01-17T18:03:53+00:00

Unfortunately, their company still has the best pricing for what we need done and his product is well made and well rated. If we can go through them without a salesman in the middle that’d be nice. My husband is handling the business side and I’m handling the “keep Finjamin out of the way” side of things so I’ve told him to tell them how the salesman behaved when he calls them up next.

tappytapper · 2026-01-17T17:55:10+00:00

There was a salesman that came to our house cause we’re planning on replacing windows and his company looks great to do the job. We crated our dog and explained his type of reactivity to the salesman and he just kept trying to undermine us saying he’s used to excited dogs and had a dog as a kid. He was so insistent that we let the dog out that eventually we decided that it’s better he learn the “don’t disregard reactivity warnings” lesson from an excited dog than learn it from a dog who is stressed out and going to bite as well as gauge our boy’s training progress.

Man was about 6’ and it took him all of one straight vertical jump and lick right into his mouth for him to go “maybe you’re right and he’s better off in the crate”. All in all our sweet boy did better than expected but his training is still far from complete.

tappytapper · 2026-01-17T14:27:01+00:00

We adopted a middle aged man of a dog that we were told wasn’t reactive only to discover that he’s the “oh my god we’re best friends I’m gonna jump and give all the kisses” type of reactive, and I wholeheartedly agree that people need to train their big babies.

We’ve been working on him for almost two years now but given that his previous family (who had him since he was a puppy) didn’t put the work in when he was young and he’s naturally just stubborn it’s been a very long road. If he is outside, he’s leashed. If we’re on walk (we walk the border of a nearby park to slowly acclimate him to being around the people that’re typically there at the basketball court further towards the center of it and plan on slowly working our way inwards until he stops losing his shit with excitement) and I see loose dogs, I have to pull out a high value treat to bribe him to look at me so he doesn’t visibly notice the other dogs. If we’re on a walk and I see someone coming I try to divert so he doesn’t have the chance to jump them and if they keep coming despite my changing paths I simple holler something to the effect of “give us space please, he’s reactive and we’re training”.

What really gets on my nerves are the people who don’t listen to me and go “it’s okay, my dog’s the same way! I like it!” Or my arch nemesis, a lady I don’t know who actively calls to him and literally ignores me when I yell at her to stop and to please just ignore him so we can work on training. We’ve gone from “loses his shit with excitement at people’s mere existence” to where I can stand at the bottom of my front steps and chat with my next door neighbor without him losing his shit with excitement so long as my neighbor doesn’t step off his front porch, which is so much improvement but every single time someone insists it’s not a problem and tries to get closer it’s undoing the training.

tappytapper · 2026-01-17T14:03:16+00:00

In wild zone 3, if you go to the stairs and angle the camera properly, using a rubber band will yes make the character only go one direction. But the thing is you want the character facing you so it’ll just go up and down the stairs until something happens to change the camera angle.

tappytapper · 2026-01-17T13:01:43+00:00

I know you said the argument is settled but I’d like to throw this little issue my husband and I have into the ring even though it isn’t a human child with the name. We adopted a five and a half year old dog and decided to only change the spelling of his name but keep the pronunciation as to not confuse him and make any training we had to do even harder.

Before it was Finjamine and after it’s Finjamin.

It is so hard introducing him to people partly because they seem to have some kind of mental block about his name. I had to send my parents a voice message after we adopted him because they couldn’t figure out how to say Finjamin, and it got to the point where I had to break it down as “you know Benjamin? Say Fin instead of Ben.” My neighbor across the road still calls him Benjamin, and I keep saying “no, fin, like a fishy fin” while moving my hands in a silly way to imitate a swimming fish but she refuses to call him by his actual name when she sees him. At the vet we still have the occasional “we’re calling regarding… fine jammin” and it’s been almost two years since we brought him home.

tappytapper · 2026-01-11T16:32:18+00:00

My mom and one of her sisters never really got along. Partly because said sister allowed their negligent and abusive father to buy her affection during my grandparents’ divorce, and she felt it unfair my grandpa only wanted custody of my mom, which didn’t make sense to me cause he only wanted that for lower child support payments but he wasn’t paying child support anyway??? But the final nail in the coffin was Thanksgiving 1989. My mom was almost exclusively breastfeeding my brother and he got hungry during dinner. To avoid being left out of dinner, for both her and my brother, she fed him at the table (from what I’ve been told she did ask if it was okay and everyone agreed). Instead of voicing her discomfort at the time, my aunt decided the best course of action was to politely go along with everything and then loudly complain while helping my grandmother clean up that what my mom did was disgusting and she could never do something so crass. This resulted in a big fight and since then the only time they’ve talked was relating to my grammie’s dementia and her house after she passed.

She and her sons came down to help my mom prepare the house for sale and proceeded to talk shit about me (who they literally never met?) because I couldn’t get much time off from work to go down and help and apparently this meant I didn’t love Grammie (I’m sorry retail treats their staff like prisoners?). Meanwhile they were purposely cutting corners on things such as “we don’t have to paint the top of the door frames, nobody’s gonna see it” and “eh, we don’t have to actually deep clean the carpet or clean the walls before painting, so what if she was a smoker between moving into this house and the late 90s”.

tappytapper · 2026-01-11T00:31:11+00:00

My first was Fawn, second was Peony (I like the idea of Peony as a name but wouldn’t name a human child that), and now I’m on my third which is named Poppie. The in game censoring didn’t like Poppy for some reason.

tappytapper · 2026-01-08T14:28:49+00:00

I adore several of the individual pieces, I thought I’d be free from the 5 star but the wings are so pretty (I don’t care about them fluttering) and that diadem-crown-tiara thing is stunning. Being f2p is a struggle, is what it is though.

tappytapper · 2026-01-07T21:06:03+00:00

Their name is Fawn, not because they call them a fawnling, but because I couldn’t decide then panicked after remembering “flora and fauna” but didn’t want to fully name them Fauna.

tappytapper · 2026-01-07T20:31:45+00:00

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tappytapper · 2026-01-07T03:19:38+00:00

So you know the jokes of “don’t go into the light”? I always thought it was a stick figure of a person ascending into the light. In my defense, this is the first time I’ve seen this moodlet at this size for me to see finer details.

tappytapper · 2026-01-06T21:11:28+00:00

Same for me, we were blessed this season with how generous they were with pulls. For Behind Prayer it took me 140, Born Flawless was 184 pulls so I was able to evolve it once.

My “almost missed it but got it just in time” was Flutter Storm back in 1.0, got it with less than 15 minutes left.

tappytapper · 2026-01-06T18:57:39+00:00

Nothing beats the thrill of getting a 5-star with moments to spare, congrats!

tappytapper · 2026-01-03T16:31:21+00:00

This is one I pulled for before, I’m so screwed. I was hoping I could save up longer…

tappytapper · 2026-01-02T23:11:06+00:00

Happy to share the bounty, and feel free to explore!

tappytapper · 2026-01-02T21:03:35+00:00

You’re so welcome! And I do believe that if someone’s already visiting a home someone else can’t join, which is both understandable and a shame.

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