Gotta love being comfy in bed and hearing a loud crash of breaking glass that was your whole ass Christmas tree you just decorated tumbling over somehow
Getting dressed to clean up broken ornaments is just the best
Gonna finish Dispatch on stream today. Here’s hoping all my panic choices didn’t lead to a bad ending…
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Have you DNF’d a game?
If so, what game and why?
I streamed a new to me game tonight and I don’t think I want to finish it. Much like the show, the walking dead game is filled with unlikable people making awful choices. And I feel a distinct lack of agency as far as combat/survival.
Thoughts?
Getting ready to stream tonight.
The big decision right now is if I should wash my hair or just wear a hat.
And if I wash my hair do I take the time to dry it or just show up with wet hair again.
Choices.
Come find out what I do tonight 5-7 pm pacific
Playing the walking dead!
Twitch.tv/sheahurley
Does anyone deal with streaming anxiety? So far I’ve mostly played bg3, a game I’m deeply familiar with.
Today I played The Wolf Among Us, something completely new to me. I am feeling residual anxiety about my choices and feeling stupid on stream.
Any advice or words of encouragement?
Ok. I think I went too hard trying to work on streaming stuff today. I’m exhausted.
Must remember not to try to be perfect immediately. It’s impossible.
I’m going to take a nap now.
Finished my HM run. Now we start an Astarion origin run.
I’m playing bg3 over on twitch 2-4pm pacific!
Gonna work through all the origin stories eventually.
Twitch.tv/sheahurley if you wanna hang out.
I keep forgetting this account exists!
I spent all afternoon getting a twitch channel set up to start streaming and was adding links to all my relevant socials including this one. Guess I should check this more!
Raise your hand if you went under anesthesia for a medical procedure and the nurses tell you when you came out of it that you spent the whole time talking about Baldur’s Gate 3.
Just me? Cool.
I think my midlife crisis is going to be getting really into cosplay.
Could be worse.
Might not be cheaper than a sports car in the long run.
That’s legit.
The other difference for me and my brother is he and our dad had a large final blowout fight that ended things, and I just decided I was tired of the stress of dealing with him.
It’s only been since late January, so that helpful to hear. I called my mom and we talked about some of the hurt caused and how we (me, her and my bro) have been conditioned over the years to feel guilt. My brother went NC in 2020 and he is handling it way better than me.
It was my dad’s birthday on Friday. For the first time ever I didn’t call or text him. I feel guilty, but I just don’t want to even crack that door back open.
Anyone else have to cut contact with a parent? Did you also experience guilt?
Being kind to yourself is such a sexy trait to have.
Well the motivation to make things hasn’t fully returned
Spring cleaning however is in full swing
I have cleared out work materials and tools I’m not using or don’t wish to continue with as well as books that will find a new home
Making space so the creative has room to return
When one has been struggling with something like depression or burnout for a long time it takes just as long or more to get out of that hole
Chipping away at the mountain of things that stacked up is going to take a while and that’s ok
Eventually we’ll get caught up and
stressing about it won’t help
I and my husband are in a third play through each.
We are constantly comparing notes on how things are different from each other and between the different runs.
I love it. It’s been getting me through some pretty tough times lately as well. Perfect distraction to fall into.
I have now gotten my husband and several friends to play. People that don’t usually play turn based rpg games included. (I’d also never played one before)
Everyone loves it.
The story is amazing, it’s beautiful, and the combat is actually fun in my opinion. I’d say it’s worth a shot.
Oh ya know just late night searching on YouTube for both versions of the bg3 Halsin romance scene to send to a friend who didn’t get all your jokes during dnd earlier when you battled a bear in game…
I’m gonna try and give it a couple more. But this may end in my reading a wiki.
Sucks to hear you know how it feels. Wouldn’t wish this shit on anyone. 🫂
Yeah, unfortunately I can’t smoke right now so that won’t work. I also have a high state of stress and have had to cut a lot of things out. Trauma is a bitch. I might have to skip this one no matter how good people say it is.
Like, I had to crochet through the third episode and then had to do a bunch of regulating and watch a couple episodes of Make Some Noise to get out of that state. I’m as yet unconvinced that a tv show is worth this.
At least when horror movies do this, it’s over in 2 hours or less.
Any tips for processing through a highly activated nervous system? Because I don’t think I can do this without some serious tools.
Tried to watch Severance. 3 episodes in and I am living in an utter state of internal panic and stress. Anyone else utterly unable to watch this show or is it just me?
Sometimes I think things that are really funny but shouldn’t be said out loud. Like there’s gotta be 1 or 2 people out there that would be cool with the body horror comedy in my head at the moment.
Trauma and grief do weird things to your sense of humor when it was already dark and loud before.
Ok cw menstrual talk
Due to some medical stuff I have to use pads rather than cups.
When the fuck did we start using perfume in pads?!?! I just bought and threw away a whole pack because I’m not putting something perfumed in my crotch all day. That’s just insane. Didn’t even know to look for that
The one time I go outside and try to socialize like a normal person in over a week and I spend way too long info dumping about cryptids, my opinions on ghost hunting tech and which spooky/weird investigative shows are worth the watch.
I’m going to go back to my video game hole now.
Gonna start answering the question “how are you?” with
“A sassy attractive video game vampire is one of very few things holding my mental health together. How are you?”
But from what I’ve seen, you haven’t had an easy time of late either. Not that anyone I know is doing particularly awesome right now given the state of things.
