Yeah, like… I think I agree with most of that, but I really want any of that to represent me.

Knotty

Yeah, that really frustrated me because they’ve killed literally dozens of people in the last year. That said, it got people moving, which is at least something.

I love Zoe Baker! I’m still working through Means and Ends, but I can imagine every line in her voice.

I feel like a lot of Superorganism is jellyfish-y, but in a psychedelic way.

Been playing Blue Prince and loving it. Also working on Mega Man Legends 2 since I’ve never played it despite playing the first one like 5 times.

Conspiracy Circus Sideshow at the Learned Lemur is cool. Not sure if it’s art, but it’s definitely performance!

I recently just recruited my first trader. No more pawnbrokers for me!

CrossCode was this for me. An unexpected gem

Wand of Fireball: has a medium chance of shooting a stream of cinnamon whiskey.

Always the intro rhythm of Postcards from Italy by Beirut

Dark Cloud 2 is a super unique dungeon crawler RPG. I absolutely love that game.

Seconding Burnout 3!

I think the nuance here is that lacking a house doesn’t mean you’re lacking a home. A home is a much more complicated idea that involves family or community for many people, whereas a house is just a thing by contrast.

That said, my understanding is that most people find the terms roughly equivalent, and I’ve never been either, so I might be misunderstand it.

Mostly, I’ve been fed up with music streaming platforms recently, and found that Jellyfin also supports my other media cases. I started with Navidrome, but had a computer running Mint already, so I just ran both side-by-side and find I liked Jellyfin better. They both took like 15 minutes to set up; getting my local VPN running and convincing people to use it was by far the hardest part of the setup.

That all said, I’m a software engineer in my day job, so I had a pretty good idea about how to navigate everything.

All individual logins. It just requires making an account through the UI, which is pretty quick.

In addition to the UI others have mentioned, I host mine behind a VPN so all my friends can use it over the Internet, too. It gets a decent amount of traffic every week.

I’m super curious with what you roughly came up with! I never would have thought to look it up.

This is my experience as well. I was talking about it with some of my partners recently, and we all agreed we’d never go back to being mono, even if we were only with one person.

Also, the official poly flag

For sure! I think in a lot of ways, my first partner and I got lucky on the compatibility front. We’ve just always vibed super well, and usually come to the same conclusions about stuff, even if it’s by different means. I think we were also both pretty inclined towards multiple relationships, even though we didn’t really realize it until we’d been together for a long time.

Communication is definitely key, though. There are a lot of things that are kinda implicit in a monogamous relationship that you need to talk about more explicitly when it’s open. I think we’re also lucky in that we’re both friends with each other’s partners.

Honestly, the biggest hurdle was at first was insecurity, both about the relationship and myself (and herself as well). Getting over the idea that your partner may ditch you for another person they have NRE with is hard, despite assurances. Obviously, that never happened. These days, I’m so far from that version of myself these days that it’s kinda funny to look back on, at least.