Gotta love a Sunday!

  • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
    14·
    9 months ago

    Apparently I’m a monster because I closed the bedroom door while I re-strung my guitar. Strings are very pointy at the ends, and would easily hurt a cats body or in particular, their eyes.

    You would think I was actively torturing a rather small cat if you heard the wails. So dramatic.

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      I’ve tried to play that game so many times, but the deep sea scares me in ways I find difficult to verbalise.

      Sometimes, I just skate across the top to the islands and scream because I don’t know what’s below me, and what if they’re all chasing me just under the surface.

      What’s your favourite bits of the game? :)

        • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
          2·
          9 months ago

          I’m ok with sailing, have gone on many long ferry rides and done yacht sailing and I’m ok with the ocean . I suppose I’m on the border between the water and the dry world, I’m in floating world, which is a different place

          • Duenan@aussie.zone
            2·
            9 months ago

            It’s more the fact that you get attacked and it feels scary under the sea and when you go looking for materials in caverns.

            I know there are bigger monsters and fishies later in the game and if the start of the game terrifies me I don’t think I’m going to make it anywhere near the later stages of the game.

      • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone
        3·
        9 months ago

        Ha yes! It’s wild because I am an experienced diver IRL professional and recreational.

        Thalassophobia has only stricken me on those rare occasions where you have really good visibility in daytime and floating over a coral shelf that drops off into the abyss. Into nothingness.

        This game does an astonishing job of replicating that feeling. It’s uncanny. (The large screaming monster noises probably don’t help either lol)

        • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
          3·
          9 months ago

          Thalassophobia has only stricken me on those rare occasions where you have really good visibility in daytime and floating over a coral shelf that drops off into the abyss. Into nothingness.

          yup, I found looking into the abyss terrifying

          so why isn’t it terrifying to look up into sky? Why don’t I get the same terror when I’m flying? It’s odd

          maybe the abyss is a different world and that’s why it’s scary

      • Nath@aussie.zone
        3·
        9 months ago

        Have you gotten as far as getting a PRAWN suit? They aren’t quite invincible, but they can take a hit from anything in the game. One PRAWN suit and a repair tool, and you can face anything in the ocean. You can kill just about anything in the ocean, for that matter. Though the game does nothing to encourage or reward that.

        • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
          3·
          9 months ago

          I have, even made a cyclops and went down to the lava area? It’s been a while since I played, before Sub Zero came out. But I just hate large organic masses looming out of the dark, watery depths. Lights up a primal fear where climbing a tree seems like a great idea hahah

          I tend to watch other people play instead, same with horror games. The only horror games I’ve been able to play through are the short indie ones by David Szymanski 😅

  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
    10·
    9 months ago

    Family visiting this weekend and I whipped up a proper lunch for everyone around my table. Realised it’s the first time I have cooked for a group in this new place. And it worked well. It’s a small apartment but everyone fit and chilled and it was really nice. I needed that. 💛

  • wscholermann@aussie.zone
    9·
    9 months ago

    The longer I’m alive the more I see most people in relationships aren’t all that happy and quite frequently resent their partners for one thing or another.

    I am honestly starting to think that besides the lucky few, relationships for most end up being a disaster. It’s all a bit of a scam.

    • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
      7·
      9 months ago

      My experiences have been truly terrible. I got together with the wrong sort of person, and have paid the price for that repeatedly. That said, and regardless of my experience, I do believe there are healthy relationships out there to be had.

      I think one must be more selective which is interesting, because I’ve found that the longer I’m single, the more prone I am to making a catastrophic mistake in who I let into my life.

    • Catfish@aussie.zone
      7·
      9 months ago

      I try to post good bits, but it feels weird/boasty/not ok. Complaining is more broadly accepted ☠️

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
        5·
        9 months ago

        people do love to gossip about other people’s bad relationships

        most media does feed that

        me, I’m fairly private but I want to say I’m the luckiest person in the world to have Mr Seagoon,

    • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
      6·
      9 months ago

      This is a topic I’m very interested in. Investing in a relationship is hard work sometimes. Taking the rough with the smooth, communication about issues, that sort of thing. If you grew up with shit examples of relationships and parenting then it can become a default program for yourself as well, and it sometimes takes hard work and guts to break the mould. People don’t know how to do it, therapy can be costly and time consuming, and people tend to believe that if a good relationship doesn’t come easily then it’s not worth it.

      Also it must be said: some relationships do not survive long after the early passionate heat of sexual discovery makes way for the place where companionship grows.

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    9·
    9 months ago

    Here’s a weird one.

    Neighbour dropped off some chocolate yesterday out of the blue.

    This guy complains about my leaves on the nature strip… cuts his lawn with hand shears. I’ve only spoken to him maybe 3 times.

    He’s an odd dude… but…

    then he said which uni degree which I did well over a decade ago… How the fuck would he know that.

    Major stalking vibes.

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    9·
    9 months ago

    The sun is getting very tardy about rising these days, most disappointing. Mr Woof insisted I get up at 6am this morning and now he’s gone back to bed and I’m sitting on the couch looking out at darkness.

    • Nath@aussie.zone
      2·
      9 months ago

      You’ll get your dawn back for a little bit in a couple of weeks. But yeah, brace yourself.

      [Insert Sean Bean meme here]

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
    7·
    9 months ago

    I am made of regrets,
    Of atoms and silhouettes,
    A life repaying the debt
    Of a misspent youth.
    Trashy and uncouth,
    Nothing to show for
    For the years on show for
    A man who didn’t know what he had to lose,
    While he lost, now I’m a loser too.

  • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
    6·
    9 months ago

    Took Minipeelers to an optometry appointment, which I cleverly scheduled when the Brunswick Music Festival started. I love local festivals! I just had the nicest salt and pepper calamari I’ve had in years, and the fish and chips swoons. It’s a great vibe down here and it’s only going to get better! I encourage anyone who can to get down here and enjoy the day, there’s going to be so much free music and street performers, plus I’ve already bought something from a couple of street vendors, there’s heaps of stalls. Don’t mind me I just love this kind of thing!