distractedcactus

Thelma was great! I loved the atmosphere and trying to figure out the character's emotions throughout the movie.

I just recently found her Substack and devoured most of the public posts. I haven't gotten any of her books yet, but she's on my list the next time I go into a bookstore. Are there any of her other works that you'd recommend?

I do this semi-regularly, partly because I have issues with eye strain after years of staring at computer/phone text 18 hours a day. I've also enjoyed sleeping in complete darkness since I was a child and don't like sudden brightness, so I got used to getting around my personal spaces without needing to see much. I don't believe that what I practice doing is anything like what a blind person actually has to deal with and I don't have any desire to be blind myself, but it's an interesting thing to do sometimes.

Tropical Tidbits and the NOAA National Hurricane Center are my go-to resources. I have also followed various local government and emergency management organization Twitter accounts in past hurricane seasons, but I'm not sure how well that's going to work this year.

Several things are regularly in my "ponder and wonder" list, the most recent being:

• Chaos theory
• Higher dimensions (>4)
• The actual scale of space versus our normal human scale
• The idea of social/societal evolution (how can we be better together as a species)

I can get lost for a while in any of these topics.

I beat my head against Hollow Knight when it was released and set it aside after a while. I recently went back and somehow was able to get through it (I'm convinced they made it easier vs me getting better).

Make sure to explore and find all the story and world building tidbits. It's definitely worth digging into, and I love some of the little side stories and character interactions as you go deeper into Hollownest.

I finished a playthrough of the legendary edition of the trilogy earlier this year. Still great and after all the time that's passed since the original ME3 release I can almost accept the ending(s).

Grinding through nightmare dungeons in Diablo 4, and because I fell down a YouTube tutorial hole I'm retrying Frostpunk. Hopefully I can stave off the guilt from slapping makeshift prosthetics on orphans long enough to finish it this time.

I feel that way about planters. I keep finding good ones, and what's a planter without a new plant to go in it (sad, that's what).

That looks amazing! I loved Firewatch, and the replica looks great.

Apologies for not being as clear as I could have been. My thinking behind that sentence was not about negative responses to other people's negative behavior, but more about how adults in western societies are (most of the time) expected to be able to fully exercise their legal and social rights and have control over their response to actions in today's society. Taking the US as an example, most rights for those under 18 are mediated through their parents, while other things that people might expect those over 18 to be able to do are not actually fully available until 21 or later - like trying to get a rental car before 25.

A (grossly simplified) way to look at this idea is that people who are legally and socially acknowledged to be "adults" can remove themselves from situations that they young cannot. Whatever the social or practical constraints, an adult can cut off or leave a relationship, move to another city or state, get or leave a job, engage medical or social services, etc. for themselves and without mediation through another controlling person. And to your point, legally drink/smoke/have sex/whatever with whoever will (consensually) engage with them.

All of the above is meant to clarify my thoughts behind the previous comment, and may be wrong (or very wrong) depending on any specific person or situation.

I can't really give a good answer to your question, mostly because I'm a neurodivergent misanthrope and my typical solution to most conflict is to go away and not deal with it again (no I am not popular at parties, not that I get invited to them anymore). As someone who came to the knowledge of who I really am as an adult, I don't know what it's like to specifically need resources that I can't get without asking a parent or guardian. I do know how much it sucks to be in a situation where the only realistic solution is "wait and suffer because the other options are worse".

Sorry for not being able to end on a happy note there (see previous paragraph re: misanthropy).

P.S. There is also an argument that most of the above also practically applies for the very old, but that's a whole different wrinkle that I don't really want to get into.

As much as they are a bloodsucking crapping-on-the-world-to-make-a-dollar corporation, Amazon's Kindle Unlimited and Comixology Unlimited subscription options have a lot of manga available for not much money a month.