Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space

@theoutrider ..Okay, that's a pretty good line yeah

@Moot@snouts.online As a Gunlance main I am terrified/awed at how anyone faces Nergi without "block allday everyday" as an option

@hokaze@queer.af I feel like on Twitter especially there's a pressure to perform

Mastodon carries that by copying the same structure. It does reduce it a lot, at least (to me), but it's still there.

I suspect I should poke around the local-only TL more and engage with things people are saying off my Home timeline. I kinda forget the third column is there because I never use it for anything but focusing in on conversations.

@theoutrider spraypaint the whole thing black and you could market it to the Tacticool Dad demographic

I wanna talk on here more

but I dunno what to say

I've lost the knack of social media? Uhh..
Pretend I'm saying something fascinating!

I wanna re-engage with stuff socially. Mostly online.. Partially here; I'm fabulously awkward at it, and have been very withdrawn the past few (months, years).

Irl is more.. Complicated. Being around people is exhausting unless it's 1:1 and they're people I know well. And even then, it can vary. Groups are exhausting, and tend to be in crowded, noisy, generally me-hostile spaces.

(They're also mostly people I don't have anything in common with..)

This was okay when I had a few close friends nearby, but that's dwindled as people move about or drift apart, and I haven't been able to create new friendships like that.

I'm mostly fine being on my own irl? But not entirely/exclusively.

Scheduling stuff is going well.

Have adjusted it to be relative to waking time rather than local timezone, so sleep going skewy doesn't throw everything out of whack.

@theoutrider genius always goes unappreciated

A diverse pantheon, united by the glowing weak spots in their armour and a tendency to drop useful artifacts

*wakes up after 2hrs sleep*

*points an accusing finger at a blank bit o' wall*

you don't GET that what you call 'morning' is just a social construct, PAL

*collapses back in bed*

ffnfnnhgh..

@theoutrider TIL gigs have an equivalent to playing a Support class on a server full of strangers

@Brainship is this the gnu social everyone talks about

@Brainship Ahh, cool!

I find I tend to default a lot to my 'comfort build' in that game (a bird-person techie who spends a lot of time in mid-air with lots of ranged weapons), I need to branch out more~

The nice thing is that I think (fingers crossed) the new silicone rim-covers aren't gonna fall off all the time like the old ones did

(The downside is this backup set are green, and so they unbalance my carefully-planned purple & green aesthetic too far in that direction. I must rectify this with more purple)

Which reminds me that ughhhhh I need to do a maintenance rundown on my chair, that's way overdue

Nnnnnot today! *flops facedown on bed*

(I'll probably do it on Saturday, it'll give me a chance to teach one of my PAs how to do it/help out)

istg if you've ever tried to hand-brake with just a metal-rimmed wheelchair, on a slope, in the rain

Forget powerballs or grip trainers or whatever; doing that takes the grip strength of a silverback gorilla

That dawning realisation that many other wheelchair users could probably crush my skull with their bare hands