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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • My body forces me to wake up at 6am and I hate it. The only classes I could take to fill out my degree mean I get home at 9, barely enough time to make dinner / clean the house / have free time AND get 8 hours of sleep. Doesn’t matter if I go to sleep at 2am, I’ll still wake up at 6 and feel like crap. Everyone I know acts like I’m a weirdo for hopping off a group chat to wind down at 9. The times I’ve been lucky enough to have a schedule that works for me it becomes clear that I’m the only alert person in the room at noon.

    Y’all complain that you can’t do anything in the morning without sacrificing your health. I wish I could take that instead of losing my evenings. Grass is always greener.



  • The part where he talks about video games definitely feels like my experience, at least when it comes to meeting people outside of the context of a specific game and its community.

    When I’ve gotten into convos in these situations, usually it’ll be evident they mostly only play some set of the following games:

    • Overwatch
    • Rainbow Six
    • Genshin Impact
    • Stardew Valley
    • Helldivers 2
    • Last of us
    • God of War
    • GTA
    • Red Dead 2

    That’s not a complete list, but for the most part it will be a bunch of games like that with a sizeable, committed, “normie” following that I don’t play. I can’t bond with these people over games even though on a surface level we’re both “gamers”, because the only game we’ll have in common is Minecraft.

    I think the gap here is that for someone like me or anon, we have interests and want to find people who are also interested in that thing, but from the sounds of your post you’re finding people and getting your interests from them. In the latter case, of course there’s no trouble connecting with people, because you’re more willing to mold yourself to do so.


  • Is that not a relevant thing to say?

    Not OP, so I don’t necessarily feel this way about skong, but have you ever had your feed filled with discussion of something that you just don’t care about? And then you go talk to your friends and they’re also talking about it? Then you talk to a relative and they’re asking you what all the fuss is about? All while you give 0 shits about it?

    I’ve been there, and it’s easy to just get plain annoyed at the subject coming up, even if innocuously. It’s the real life equivalent of squidward tuning into boxing because it’s not about cardboard boxes, only to be greeted with 2 cardboard boxes going at it.

    And if you’re somehow in doubt that skong has satuarated discussion everywhere