Riku in the first Kingdom Hearts took me so so long. Halfway because of that fucking unskippable cutscene.

Similarly, I was never able to defeat Maleficent, so I never beat the first game at all.

Also, Lion King for the SNES. Technically it wasn’t a boss that I couldn’t beat, but the goddamn lava level. I had that game my entire childhood and was never able to beat it. When I was 22, I had a bunch of 12 hour overnight shifts with a work buddy who said he could beat it. So we passed it back and forth. It took us a few days and probably a hundred lives. But finally. Finalllllly, we did it.

Hard to choose just one.

Kim Petras was an absolute blast. Excellent use of the screens and her backup dancers. But pretty raunchy for sure. The people in the crowd here hardly dressed, which was super fun for the energy of the whole thing.

Black Tiger Sex Machine was I think the first show I went to that had egregious use of lasers. What a blast. So many people were dancing like no one was watching - absolutely infectious. The crowd crush got to be wayyyy too much for me though and I had to leave my super great spot.

Shawn James might have been my favorite though. Teeny tiny venue where I was standing on a balcony overlooking the crowd. The first band to play turned up the energy and then Shawn James came out and it was practically spiritual. If you’ve seen Sinners where the camera is going through the barn and the different dancers are all there and everyone and everything is kinda blending together? It was like that. Watching the crowd move as one to the beat and being surrounded by that energy and the music where we were all so crammed in together? Probably the only time I’d use the term psychedelic to describe a real experience.

Yeppers, me too. Lots.

I was gifted a beautiful painted rock from a nurse who had been helping me for the few months I was in hospital. She gave it to me as a present for leaving. Wonderful lady

Counterpoint to your military argument - sometimes kids have nowhere else to go. I grew up in a poor, broken household full of trauma. No one in my family knew how to apply for college, nevertheless was going to help pay for any single part of it, nor did they give me any foundation to have a life that wasn’t horrible.

So I joined the military straight out of high school. I did my contractual time and left, going straight to college with that sweet GI Bill and a bunch of life experience.

Sometimes these kids don’t really have a choice. It’s survival.

Ohh yeah, I’m using Löve Solitaire and it has a tonne of games as well. I’ve played probably about 20 or so new varieties I’d never seen before. But I’ll check out that one too

I’ll check it out!

:O

Genius

Ooh that was fun. I usually avoid Klondike because there’s no guarantee of being able to win. But I’ll keep this one around

That sort of smell of decay when the fallen leaves from autumn get a little soggy from early winter rains. Gosh I could just shove it all up my nose

The bark of certain pine trees smell like butterscotch, and pine needles themselves have what I find to be somewhat floral smell.

It’s a wonderful forest smell up in there. So fresh.

Yeah same. Time to grab the ole trusty Moody Blues

Um

It’s pretty
But
I’m so annoyed the purple moon isn’t in the center of the spiral. It looks so wrong

Don’t Stop Believing by Journey. I can’t stand that song at all. Please play anything else.

Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana. Not even close to their best music, but the radio loves it.

Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. I held on for so long but finally I can’t listen to it any more. I just can’t.

Not OP, but I used Xbox controllers for a long time. I kept breaking them (I have gorilla grip problem), so I got an Xbox pro because I didn’t like how the ps3 or ps4 controllers were laid out. I broke the pro controller.

I’ve switched to a ps5 controller and aside from getting re-used to the button names, it’s been really nice. Super comfy and is holding up really well. I miss some things on my pro controller, but so far this is great.

In all of that,I did use the OG steam controller for a while too and I loved that one, but my hands were too small for some functions, so I couldn’t keep using it.

An 8bitdo controller is next on my list after the ps5 maybe breaks, as I’ve heard very good things.

Love a 50/50 green yellow banana. When they have a good snap and that green taste? Yummm

That’s really cool! What a neat project!

Certainly not to this degree at all, but I do love having a satellite or aerial view to just look around my area. I recently found there’s sprint boat races on a small man made course nearby and I’m excited to go check it out!

Good luck on your future endeavors and I hope you find some more neat stuff :)

For another 2¢ from me, there are a lot of paid DMs out there if you can swing the bill.

After turning in my own DM cloak, I decided to jump into a beginner friendly PF2e game and met a ton of friends. Also became good friends with the GM there and they don’t have our group pay any longer. It’s just friends playing for fun now.

Not to say that will surely happen, but it’s a great way to at least expand the social circle if you want to work your way toward free games some day ahha

I started skiing when I was very young and I was always bad at it. Never really improved, but golly I was really good at super pie-ing my way down difficult stuff.

I switched to snowboarding and it just clicked for me. It felt so much better and made way more sense.

Not to say it’s easy, but give it a try. You might really enjoy yourself.

On a side note, I’ve since learned that I just suck at motion that has me with my feet facing forward. I can’t roller skate or ice skate to save my life, but long boarding or skate boarding are find. I’m a little shaky on scopters, but it’s not as bad as skates