pinterest is getting out of hand. all of these are adverts.
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I must complain about the flare-up. One of the obvious signs is that my joints start to feel weird, like there’s fine grit in them. It hurts, and doing anything becomes difficult.
But one of the most visibly obvious signs of a flare-up for me is just my mouth getting bloody. Lips cracking, sores in my mouth, etc. It’s awful, and I hate it. I am way too familiar with what my blood tastes like.
I will say it’s generally been better, more under control, but this still reliably happens every few months.
This weirdly segues into something that I’m actually a bit worried about. You know, with the idea of getting back into dating/something. With the whole gen AI thing, it must be really easy to fake an STI test. I know I wouldn’t do that, but other people have little reason to trust me. Us occasionally just having bloody sores in our mouth would be a lot more freaky in that scenario. Or the monthly or so needles. Because how would they know it’s actually what we say it is? Any medical paperwork can be faked. Ugh.
Then again, I’m thinking of this because we are terrified of getting any new health problems. I’m not sure the average person is even thinking about it. They probably should be, but eh. They probably never almost died from someone sneezing in their face. I have ample reasons to be freaked out by bodily fluids.
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I don’t want to go to college. I want to go home.I want to eat the food cooked by my mother.I want to eat vegetables. I don’t want chicken. I’m not a weasel.
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I just wanna go home & watch One Piece Live Action Season Two ™ but instead I gotta be at work with a bunch of needless gossipping 🥱
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Google gives in to users’ complaints over AI-powered ‘Ask Photos’ search feature
In a slight capitulation to those who don’t want AI infused into their everyday apps, Google said it’s now offering a toggle that will allow users of its Google Photos app to return to the previous and often faster “classic” search experience instead of the newer AI-powered option known as “Ask Photos.”
The Ask Photos feature, launched in the U.S. in 2024, lets users search their photos using…
Google gives in to users’ complaints over AI-powered 'Ask Photos’ search feature
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I’d really like my brain to stop associating Aurora’s “A Dangerous Thing” with unreciprocated Destiel. Okay, please and thank you.
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Some things I’d like to see change in Dandy’s World since I’m quite frustrated at the game right now
For the titles: Add rewards for them based on the difficulty of each achievement & add more floor based ones (just having 10, 25, 50 & 100 is far too wide of a gap, most people don’t even make it to floor 20, let alone floor 25)
Remove most of the toons. I know everyone loves one toon one way or another, but there is just far too many of them & yet more keep being added to the game anyways, even though their addition doesn’t make much of a difference. The majority of the new toons don’t get used a lot beyond a select few like yatta, looey, gourdy, bassie, bobette, eclipse, etc. The rest of them just fade into obscurity because their stat aren’t fun to play as & their ability isn’t super helpful, making it harder & harder for new players to get all of the toons & just adding clutter to the menu.
Change the majority of the trinkets. Same with the toons, majority of the trinkets are just pretty meh or downright terrible (looking at you coal), 3 of them are solely dedicated to their event even though they only last a month & even then aren’t even that helpful during it! So everyone just ends up using the same trinkets as a result!
Add a tutorial! This game is over a year old, they literally added the show time skins to commemorate the anniversary & yet still no tutorial! We cannot expect players to not be annoyed at starters, when the starters have to start the game downright clueless on where they are, who they are & how to play the game unless they research guides on youtube or elsewhere intensely, which as a result just hurts starters which hurts the player base, discouraging them from even wanting to play again
Add another objective to the game! Filling machines can be totally fun if you’re with a good team, but otherwise it’s just filling the same damn machine (albeit 3 types now but still the same objective) over & over for ages. Dyle’s floor can be fun, but that normally doesn’t appear until floor 9 at the earliest & even then, most times it appears, my teammates always avoid it because almost every time it’s picked, at least half the team if not everyone dies because someone failed a skill check.
Add more relevant stickers! So many stickers which I would think would be important to include just straight up don’t exist, even though we got so many in the sticker update. Stickers like “Okay”, “Gtg”, “Brb”, “AFK”, “You’re welcome!”, “Help!”, “Sorry!”, “ [Insert twisted name] here!” (Especially Rodger), “Watch out!”, or even just ones to react to teammates dying or leaving like “Oh no!” or just a sad face sticker that isn’t the “Oopsy Daisy!” one.
Increase ichor earnings! Each run no matter how high I get, whether it’s with a team or solo, I always get barely any amount of ichor, even as an extractor. It doesn’t feel rewarding at all spending hours playing the game, yet only earning a puny amount like 500.
Actually add a matchmaking feature! The few times I do actually find someone hosting a run in the lobby, we normally get pretty far like floor 15 or above! Yet majority of the time when I try to use matchmaking, 1-3 people have left once I can see my team, half of my team is gone by the end of floor one & everyone else quickly keeps leaving or dying, so the run normally ends before we even get to floor 10. & it doesn’t seem dependent on the toon I chose or my team either, I can go with someone like astro, yet everyone dies early. Same thing if I play literally anyone else, Boxten, Brusha, Sprout, Gigi, Brightney, only difference tends to be the toons & trinkets, yet same result anyways somehow.
Also, add more time between floors during runs! There’s barely any time given to sort out who’s going to distract or anything else before the elevator opens, you can’t even use your stickers in the loading screen! & between floors, you barely get enough time to decide whether to buy from Dandy & if so what & to talk with your teammates about what happened last floor, plans for future floors, literally anything.
I know most of these are the typical complaints when it comes to Dandy’s World, but they’re all frankly true. This game deeply needs a gameplay update, it’s been needing one for ages now. The last time we got one that actually changed the game was the Dyle + Brusha update, which from what I recall happened last August. That was 7 months ago at this point. & this game has been playable since June 2024. That’s nearly 2 years now
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a fun fact is that nobody actually wants to smell your scented hand sanitizer/lotion/etc in a crowded place. like can you wait five minutes or step outside.
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Tunnel of Love
If you saw me hugging a strange man on the Route I95 shoulder, I can explain. It’s either the next step in making peace with traffic problems or the next step in madness. Maybe there is no difference.
Before, if you had told me I would speak with nostalgia about commuting through Baltimore’s Fort McHenry Tunnel in relative safety at the speed limit, I would have stared the way a rabbit stares at…
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When the test result is so bizarrely bad, your GP pulls out (in professional language): “I think someone fucked up. We’ll retest you at our lab.”
Okay.
Maybe the liver is fine? I guess we’ll just keep repeatedly dissociating until we know more. Cool. That’s fine.
(Again, why am I on perma-front for this?)
Anyway, uh, feel free to also complain about what’s going wrong in your lives? I can commiserate. We can be miserable on the internet together.
Also, my priorities are funny. “Ugh, how can I write in these conditions? Guess I need to give the characters more medical trauma? Hmm.” I guess that’s one option for coping.
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Our other tests were better overall, so I started to get optimistic. Now we have our liver tests back, and Bull is cursing like a sailor.
Twice as bad? For no explainable reason??
Yeah, okay, we can just shout “motherfucker” for the next five minutes. That’s fine. Understandable.
But, seriously, what the fuck?
No drinking, no smoking, no drugs. Eating like the dietician suggested: I’m even avoiding frozen treats because it upsets the liver. Trying to exercise frequently, despite the chronic pain.
I am running circles around the average USAmerican on liver-healthy practices, okay? We are laps ahead of our parents and their (somehow) healthy, happy livers. Our doctors were pleased.
AND YET. YET! The liver says, “My cells are dying, help me, save me.” What is killing you? There is nothing around to hurt you. You are in a padded room, my friend. How are you managing a locked room murder mystery??
But whatever, fine. Sure. I will get rid of even more carbs/sugar until I am living like a gym rat. That’s hateful, but sure. We can’t just die because we put oat milk and sugar in our coffees. Aaaaah. I’ll just swap over to caffeine pills for the migraines, I guess. Or, I don’t know, we’ll do stevia and tea. It’s fine. I can adapt.
(I deserve to crash out. I mustn’t, but I deserve it. Ugh. Why am I perma-fronting for this?
Perhaps I will finally spend money at a rage room.)
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who the hell replaced our tag following with 4 porn tags and just ian bruh please stop stroking your shit to TUMBLR oh yall lost your fucking mind
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He had a body full of ailment, a list of complaints.
Brandon Taylor, from The Late Americans