When I went to Tuscany there were places I visited with half day work hours and Sunday everything was closed. People just enjoyed life, not needing to shop, but just living. I crave a society like this.
Baldur's Gate sounds like it's based on Australia tbf
Yesterday I went to this "fancy" Italian restaurant for my birthday with family and our waitress upon finding out it was my birthday said "oh, it's your birthday? Well, why don't you look happy about it?"
I was like... uh..... I am? Then shrugged it off because maybe I didn't understand the question, like maybe I misheard her. Then I brought it up to my wife at night and she was like "yeahhh.. I'm not sure why she said that". But like, if you say that to someone... that makes them feel more uncomfortable.. even if it's a joke. Like we were only sitting there for 5 minutes and hadn't even ordered yet and I hadn't eaten since 10 o'clock in the morning, so of course I'm going to be mildly irritated, but unhappy? Fuckin bitch...
Having worked 7 different jobs that all were in the same field made me have some backbone of standards that nobody else could have built without going through that, though. It's a blessing and a curse, so be warned. The things I picked up on that I never realized I would care so much about in the healthcare field is good office administration and Director of Care leadership. The morale is just as important as the pay rate.
I'm not gonna pretend like he's doing great things and all but I also have a strong suspicion he's got a reputation reversal PR team that controls every aspect of his social life and that's why he's always hanging out with the mega church pastors that wear their swimming trunks down to their ankles in public to show off their pelvic tans and have only positive news clips where he's praying for Africa and throwing wads of cash into subway station crowds. He's becoming the new Ellen.
I'm very accustomed to trying to do this because I remember everyone I've wronged and think about things in my past a lot.
I've realized however that apologizing doesn't mean that the person you've wronged because of an instance they've wronged you before will ever change how they treat you. Even if you two were best friends. I had a very toxic friend in highschool who never owned up to something he did to me and I never really got over it. Instead of moving on I fought back, but looking back I can at least acknowledge he is a narcissist and never wanted me to be happy in the first place. I wronged him by letting my emotions take over, but he was oblivious to the pain he put me or anybody else through. It's that mantra that keeps me from wanting to fight him again even if it's been years and years. I want to get over it and I think I can with enough change in my life but God damn I never thought I'd feel that kind of rage.
Everyone suddenly gets diagnosed with ADHD and gets prescribed stimulants.
Well.. this is the fediverse after all.
While we're on this topic can we also please not have to walk to people in camp to talk to them? I just want to replace my party member quickly.
You act like they have to pull it up with a number ID and don't already have every xkcd alphabetically, pneumonically and categorically sorted in their bookmarks.
"Ah ok, thanks! That helped so much." Reply made by deleted user. Fml.
It's my birthday today and I've already eaten 2 apple fritters and it's only 11am. I'm in this picture and I hate it.