@eniko it is ok to ease out of work instead of going cold turkey. Just make sure you step away sometimes and do other things, and if you find yourself coming back to doing work, don’t punish yourself.
If the work you are doing right now is relaxing you a bit, that’s still relaxing. You’re still taking a break from being stressed out.
(My husband is like this. I often make him go sit in the garden and read for a bit and absorb some sun, even if he ends up doing a bit of work later, it’s ok)
@eniko ‘nothing’ is also a completely legit thing to do when you have time off.
If you want ‘nothing’ to feel like ‘something’, pack a picnic, go for a walk, find somewhere with no people there and eat the picnic. You get to stretch your legs, make vitamin D, and eat a picnic - but also give your brain some downtime. It’s what I do on weekends to get hubs away from the computer, because if I didn’t, he would spend his entire time there, and his mental health takes a nosedive.
sitting here wondering if i've ever actually fully completed any final fantasy game and uhh
... i dont think i've finished literally a single one despite having played 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, crisis core, tactics, and tactics advance
i've gotten to the end in 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10 but something always happened that stopped me from beating the final boss. my save corrupted in 5, idk wtf happened in 6, i recall getting frustrated in 7 and 8, and in 10 i decided to get all the ultimate weapons and quit playing in disgust after finally beating the stupid chocobo race
@eniko I think I finished 10 and 10-2, which is weird because they are the two I enjoyed the least.
I got to the Opera House in 6, the final battle in 7, disk 3 (before it broke) in 8, Memoria in 9 (god damn I was so sick of grinding), 12 my game got taken over by a friend, 13 I hated all the way through, 14 my subscription ran out, 15 my husband played it and we hated it equally. I think no more final fantasy for me.
@eniko it used to be Final Fantasy, but I haven’t played any JRPG in years, because I just do not have the time to sit and grind levels, and also I realised I actually really like pixel or RPGs with prerendered backgrounds, because I really struggle with 3D movement and battles on consoles (I’m fine with a keyboard and mouse)
@Teaceratops@eniko oh wait! I’d like to change my answer! Golden Sun! I just keep forgetting about it, as I’ve not played it in so long (hubs lost my cart almost 20 years ago now). Golden Sun, and Breath of Fire 2 (damn good music) are probably my 2 favourites - it’s just Final Fantasy is the one everyone knows, so it feels like someone is always talking about them.
For my birthday, I'd really like it if my beloved fedi could spread word far and wide of Kitsune Tails. It's a platformer with a heartwarming story featuring queer main characters and personal discoveries in classic SMB3 style. You can find trailer, screenshots, and wishlist links here: https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails
It's coming out this year and the team and I have been working hard on it for several years now. Most of the team is queer in some form so by boosting you'd not only be making me happy on my birthday, but supporting a bunch of queer creators making queer art as well
@Cassandra I have recently taken to only wearing them outside the house. Upon entering the house, I immediately remove the torture device and fling it as far away from myself as I can.
Wonderbra do a non-wired, wide strapped one which is the only bra I can tolerate for a full day. I’m not a fan of how it looks, but usually I am dressed when wearing one, so it gets a pass.
I went to buy more soil for my plants and came back with more plants, and I don’t actually have enough pots for them, so I guess tomorrow I go out and buy more plant pots, but actually I will come home with more plants and oh no this is my millennial midlife crisis isn’t it?
@CatherineFlick ohhhh the bike is 100% hub’s midlife-crisis want, but I’ve told him only if he gets one that I can sit on the back of, or he gets a sidecar.
Just broke another hairbrush with my hair :meowoh:
Curly hair is not arthritis friendly. The greyer it gets, the more difficult it is to get a hair brush through it, and the worse my arthritis gets, the harder it is to hold a hair brush. So, I guess now I just go around with a permanent birds nest.
(Please don’t suggest braids; I do not have the dexterity in my fingers anymore...)
@Teaceratops I do really miss my old dreadlocks at this point, because it is far easier to palm roll dreads than it is to do anything else when you have fingers that don’t work well anymore.
Short hair is no good, because it still requires the use of a brush, and mine requires a lot of work when it’s short, or it makes me look like Ronald McDonald. I can’t say I am ever going to be ready for that.
@Craigp it’s the Tangle Teezer palm brush I broke this morning 😅
I still can’t grip it enough, so when it got snagged on my hair, I lost the grip, and my hair catapulted it across the room and it smashed against the wall and shattered. Amazingly, it’s the only time I’ve broken a hair brush and it wasn’t the bristles I broke 😬
My hair is just getting wilder and wilder as I age!