AmeliaHealYa

Some people insist on eating an apple and then complaining about the lack of citrus flavor.

Do unto others before they do unto you.

I don't need to know you to know why this is a great theme song for any hero! 🤘

Character: The Crazy Hex-Ghoulfiend Song: Halsey - "The Lighthouse" Lyrics: https://genius.com/Halsey-the-lighthouse-lyrics

You're getting thumbs-down reacts because whether or not you intended it, this comes across as callous scolding and an utter failure to read the room. When someone vents about their misfortune, you should generally either offer sympathy and commiseration, or remain silent. Unsolicited advice is hit-or-miss; maybe they'll appreciate it, maybe they won't. But the tone of that unsolicited advice makes a huge difference in their reaction. A condescending, flippant, callous tone is virtually guaranteed to just make them think you're a heartless jerk. You definitely shouldn't mock them, unless they implicitly invite you to by deploying self-deprecating humor. But the OP's tone was dead serious. To use your own words, this is, like, Social Interaction 101 stuff.

Well thanks for at least meeting me halfway. Sorry to hear that you've been treated so poorly. I'd be on a hair trigger too.

I feel like this is needlessly reductive. I recommend that you spend less time dismissing what others are saying out of hand and more time actually listening and trying to understand what they're trying to communicate. Regardless of whether or not it exists here, toxic positivity is a very real thing. The environment in which I have most often encountered it is work. A former manager loaned some of us a copy of a horrible book he championed called something like The Energy Bus. The central premise of the book, and of the culture at that company, was that anyone who complained at all about anything was the problem, and the Real Problem was never the issue that they had raised. As far as they were concerned, the only thing that ever needed fixing was an individual employee's attitude. (It was darkly satisfying after I left that company to read about my former coworker who'd been promoted getting hauled into both civil and criminal court, and to watch the CEO get skewered in Congressional hearings. I'm so glad I'm out of that industry entirely.)

This is 100% true, and while it sounds bad, really, it's just humans being human. We're wired to never be satisfied. We adjust to any circumstances, no matter how luxurious or deprived, but we always see what about those circumstances could change for the better. It's not a bad quality, even though it's often an annoying one. Good luck finding the clip, but Paul Ballard (Tahmoh Penikett from Battlestar Galactica) summed it up perfectly in the pilot of DollHouse: "No one has everything they want. It's human nature. When you get what you want, then you start wanting something else." (That's right, DollHouse references in 2025. I have my finger right on the pulse of popular culture.)

My 3rd level 50 on live was a Warshade. It was a ton of fun. It's like every Darkness character rolled into one.

"oh no not that" obligatory:

I've always thought that a player refusing or requesting any specific archetype of teammate is a huge bright red flag. Imagine, in this of all games, getting hung up on party composition... 🤦‍♀️

Yeesh. 😬 🫂 I wish there was a hug emoji post react.

Hahaha 👵 yes I do have @12thPower's High Visibility Mouse Cursor mod installed, specifically Set C because it's shiny.

😆 To quote a common saying about my religion: There are only 2 rules: 1) Don't tell me what to do. 2) You're doing it wrong.

The Crazy Hex-Ghoulfiend and The Goth Ghoulfiend have now been joined by The GhulfiendHexperience and The Ghoul Next Gore (all different builds of the same character). I can't stop...

I've found @Lithobraker's "Loud Glowie" mod (among others) to be invaluable. I felt like the other glowy sound mods I tried made the game unpleasant, but those 5 extra decibels really do make a huge difference and make it so much easier for me to find them. It's available through @Michiyo's City Modder tool (among many, many other useful mods). A newbie mistake that I made on the auction house more than once was putting an item up for sale without paying attention to those numbers on the left that tell you if anyone is actually bidding at all. The numbers on the right showing the price that the last few sold for can distract and tempt one into wasting money on a fee to put up something for sale that no one wants to buy in the first place. These days, TBH, I just post 99% of auction house items for 10 bucks, since that's the highest amount that still gets the absolute minimum $5 fee. I'm not greedy and I'm not patient. I'd rather get the $50K minimum bid right away than the $500K that someone might put down 3 days from now. Obviously, if I start seeing a bunch of people bidding 10 bucks on everything no matter how rare, I'll change that policy. But for now, I just can't be bothered. If I'm just looking to get selling badges and clear out the vendor trash, then I'll put stuff up for a buck.

Yay! Got my money back! I misremembered, was closer to 90 million! Thank you all so much! 🥰 😭

I submitted my own ticket for the same.

I think it was Danse Macabre where Stephen King talked about a story he'd been pitching for years that no publisher wanted to touch with a 10-foot pole. The premise is that a guy survives a shipwreck, gets stranded on a desert island, and winds up (o_O)

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Aw thanks @Snarky Saw that after i posted this 🤦‍♀️

I feel your pain. I deleted a character the other day who had $80 million on her. Every cent I had. c'est la vie amirite 🤦‍♀️ 😭

I promise I'll re-name Number 47 tonight.

Good old Pliny. That guy loved to just, like, say stuff.