my beautiful children!

it would be a shame if they were actually another species that evolved to look like my children in order to avoid predation!

Thanks for the transparent image of the bulborbs. I edited in my Avali character about to be murdered.

Wild seeing Soulsborne the Soulsborne PvP crowd complaining about gank squads. Someone with an underleveled but overpowered (called a twink build) can show up and one-shot you with a late- game spell and it is "just part of the game." But if you happen to have a buddy with you and refuse an honorable duel with the person that broke into your world with violent intentions and suddenly your the villain of the story. Buddy, you invaded me. I make the rules. Haha.

Everyone has their own way of playing. If I am playing the game as all-of-the-way-through as permitted with one or even two friends it is something like a 5th playthrough. Sometimes we will just mess with invaders but if we are on a time limit or just not in the mood for honor, you cannot expect us to play nice. You cannot force your way into someone's home and then realistically as them to play by your rules.

That being said my favorite invasion was in Elden Ring. Buddy and I were poison mist cheesing the Draconic Tree Sentinel just because, so of course doing something so slow and careful we got invaded a fair few times. And the last invader just hung out and emoted the whole 17 minutes it took us to do that. Haha

Wild seeing Soulsborne the Soulsborne PvP crowd complaining about gank squads. Someone with an underleveled but overpowered (called a twink build) can show up and one-shot you with a late- game spell and it is "just part of the game." But if you happen to have a buddy with you and refuse an honorable duel with the person that broke into your world with violent intentions and suddenly your the villain of the story. Buddy, you invaded me. I make the rules. Haha.

You appear to have misunderstood what a gank squad means. A coop is just your average "playing through the game with my phantoms" type of guys, nobody's complaining about those. Gank squads are griefers who dedicate their playtime to stack advantages against an invader, oftentimes in a cleared out area, with the purpose of farming them infinitely. These guys aren't playing through the game, they wait for invaders on purpose.

The reason why people complain about them is because they are practically impossible to defeat unless they're like, really stupid. The amount of advantages they are able to stack is so overwhelming it makes it impossible for newer players to overcome, which turns into a very one-sided encounter. The only thing you can really do against them is leave their world and block their profile.

I hope I cleared that up, if you have any questions feel free to ask, I've been invading in fromsoft games for a while so I have met all sorts of folks

I had someone send me a message on PlayStation accusing me of ganking in DS2 simply because there were three of us. But it was just some friends and I screwing around, not waiting to be invaded and therefore not a gank squad at all.

Obviously there are people online who just wait to be invade but not every group of people is a gank squad, and even those that have nothing better to do than be a gank squad are just doing their thing unless a red soapstone is in play. In which case I can understand being salty about that.

Actually

I am aroace but not a fan of the flag. Too many warm colors. I just use the Ace flag because I have been using it longer than the aroace flag has existed, and I really like the color purple.

@justqueeractually

This looks super cool. Kind of makes me want a top made made like this with a skeletal design. Rib cage and maybe a bit of spine out of small, tarnished-silver beads or something.

Leona's post is here.

Her YT video is here.

Please spread Leona's story, and her evidence, as much as you can. She has a mountain of evidence proving Bethesda/Zenimax a hostile work environment for trans women, and she deserves to be heard and to receive justice for being forced out of her job.

the upside of ADHD is that it makes you a fucking genius

the downside is that you don't get to decide when and for how long you're a genius.

Or what you are going to be a genius about.

You have a big work project?

Nah. You're now a genius at making boardgames. For 7 hours.

You'd think I would be smarter than I am simply because my brain works so fast. But that is often not the case. I am thinking six million thoughts a second, and more often than not every single one of them is stupid. Haha

Also reblog if you vote pls like why do y'all never reblog anything

You wouldn't make a steak out of human meat. You would make a pork chop. And I don't like sweet meats so I wouldn't try it, no.

To other autistic people, do you have an "odd sleeping schedule"?

It’s called my psychiatrist texts me at 10 and reminds me that sleep is a thing that should occur well before 2 am.

Otherwise I’d be up to wee hours of the morning and sleep till noon.

Actually a lot of folks with autism/ADHD have a sleep phase disorder - either delayed, advanced, non-24hr, or irregular sleep-wake. It's super common but gets brushed off as either insomnia, hyperfixation, or a conscious choice. In my experience, most neurodivergent people who have difficulty with sleep regulation have one of these. Treatment usually includes a combination of melatonin supplements, lightbox therapy, and limiting bright lights at night.

Delayed sleep phase disorder means that if you go to sleep when you're sleepy and get up when you're done sleeping then you're going to bed and getting up at least 2 hours later than neurotypical people with "normal" circadian rhythm.

It's literally defined as a disorder because if you sleep the way your body and brain wants to sleep then that will be in conflict with the opening hours of things like schools, and banks, and your job.

If it wasn't for those things, sleeping when you're sleepy and getting up when you're done sleeping wouldn't cause any issue.

In fact, by forcing your body out of it's natural rhythm, even when doing all the treatment things of light control and melatonin supplementation, you are liable to develop symptoms of sleep deprivation. These symptoms won't be severe to begin with but will get progressively worse over time.

These symptoms are things like: - reduced attention span - slowed reaction times - difficulty focusing - memory issues - headaches - light sensitivity - difficulty with thermoregulation of body (constantly feeling cold/hot and body temperature fluctuations) - reduced awareness of surroundings - weakened immune symptoms etc, etc, etc...

If enough sleep deprivation builds up a person may even develop full blown psychosis.

If any of these symptoms already exist for you (f.ex. if you have chronic pain issues, ADHD, or any number of neurodivergencies) the slowly building sleep deprivation of forcing yourself to get up 2+ hours earlier than your body and brain naturally wakes up at will make those symptoms much worse.

If you have ADHD, you're Extremely Likely to have delayed sleep phase disorder.

And it's only a "disorder" because our social environment won't let us rest when we need it resulting in literally making us sick.

Why do you think we burn out so hard?

I have ADHD and find I get the best sleep during the day. When I can block out the sun effectively that is. I can maintain a semi-diurnal sleep schedule when absolutely necessary but will never be as well rested as when sleeping between noon and 20:00-ish. Mind you it is 13:52 now, almost two hours past when I would like to be asleep but I am awake despite being exhausted. So who knows!

daily fucking reminder that you are allowed to want attention and that does not make you a bad person.

in case no one’s told you in a while. you are valid.

I am comfortable begging for attention. Shameless plug my YouTube channel sometimes. beat the rush. Subscribe while I am still reveling on obscurity! Get in on the ground floor! Haha