What’s bringing you joy?

  • @[email protected]
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    103 months ago

    Its summer here and I hate summers!! But I feel so greateful and happy that I am in a safe and comfortable enough environment to be able to be naked whenever it is too hot.

    This is such a privilege considering I am a girl.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      193 months ago

      Gotta love the kids, I made this post after getting my youngest to bed and having my heart feel so full of love

      • Maeve
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        43 months ago

        Thank you for this thread. I’m a little misty-eyed and feeling so wonderfully blessed. Pumpkin Tikka masala and coffee for breakfast (I know, right?!), mixed greens, tomatoes, blueberries, strawberries, mozzarella with good balsamic vinegar for lunch, for the time in months, I made a half-gallon of iced tea, sweetened with local raw honey, fur baby sleeping next to me as I enjoy the sound of the storm, outside. So many have no meal, no roof, no companion. It’s nice reading the simple pleasures here. No one mentioned their private jet, Bugatti, haute coture. It’s nice when we recognize the real riches life grants us.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          23 months ago

          My pleasure, it’s been a treat hearing about all of the different ways people are soaking up life right now, including all th wonderful things you listed here 🙂

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    3 months ago

    I made a shit tonne of brownies and ive had 2 cups of sugar in one day alongside 5 cups of coffee. WHAT A DAY TO BE ALIVE

    PS. Folks add pomegranate molasses to your pantry and your brownies. One of my favourite ingredients to give a dish complex depth in flavour, works with sweet and savory.

  • Gloomy
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    153 months ago

    Love my kids, love my wife. Feel useful at work. Getting rdy for the final stretch of my undergrad. Life is a grind atm and I don’t have a lot of free time, but I wouldn’t swap it for anything else.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      63 months ago

      I’m in the same boat, I feel like I’ve never been busier or more stressed at times, but it all feels so worth it for all the good things going on simultaneously

  • @[email protected]
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    3 months ago

    I’m aware that it makes people cringe, but it’s so true that I’ve never been more happy; more bottoms than a top could ever ask for… Enough to over come the negativety from all the judgemental or bitter queens.

    • Elaine Cortez
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      93 months ago

      Super happy for you and wishing you lots more happy years ahead! ❤️

    • @[email protected]
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      33 months ago

      I’m not a top, but I know that feeling, and it’s amazing. That was my entire year last year. It was so freeing and empowering. Don’t do things that harm the sustainability of that like meth or smoking. Keep your health up and keep drinking water and hygiene. Take care of yourself and you’ll just continue to get more and more powerful :)

      • @[email protected]
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        123 months ago

        Not more stoked than I; I’ve never had a busier social life and my asocially autistic ass is still surprised by it each time I get another invite.

  • NONE
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    213 months ago

    I was able to revive my old PlayStation 2 thanks to Hacks and Homebrew and I’m replaying several games from my childhood apart from playing several others that I couldn’t at the time, and I’m having a wonderful time.

      • NONE
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        143 months ago

        Oh the list of all the games is veeeeery looooong, like 70 games, but my current favorite that I couldn’t play in the day are:

        • Psychonauts
        • Zone of The Enders
        • Yakuza
        • The Simpsons Hit & Run
        • Downhill Domination (this game is Rad as hell!!)

        While some that I’m replaying because they are really REALLY good are:

        • Devil May Cry 3
        • Soul Calibur 3
        • Lego Batman
        • Sonic Megacollection plus
        • @[email protected]
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          43 months ago

          Have you played Raw Danger? It’s one of the best PS2 games. It’s so… PS2 era. I love it so much.

          • NONE
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            43 months ago

            Its in my play-list! I may play it next after I finish Psychonauts.

            • @[email protected]
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              33 months ago

              Yusssss! I’m going through Psychonauts right now as well, LOVE the game! I don’t have a place for my CRT TV right now, so I’m on a computer for that one.

              I REALLY wanna bust out my CRT and PS2 and Afterhurner and play some DDR Extreme sooooo badly

              • @[email protected]
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                23 months ago

                Ahh. I wish I had a crt and a place to put it. I want the one I had as a kid and a second really big nice one.

                • @[email protected]
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                  23 months ago

                  Ooo I’d love a bigger one. I think mine is 21” or so. I miss the 27” I had growing up! But this one is a flat CRT, had component and S-Video cables, and has a DVD player built in so I can watch my DVD of Not4Sale: TV Sheriff and the Trailbuddies. So I’m not complaining.

      • NONE
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        33 months ago

        Pcsx2 is the best it can be nowadays. I remember using it years ago and how difficult it was to configure it, but now it runs like silk even on outdated hardware like my PC, I don’t know what black magic the team behind it did. After the original hardware, pcsx2 it’s the best option to play the Ps2 gems.

        • @[email protected]
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          13 months ago

          To me it seems like it’s THE best option to play ps2 games. Can run them at a bigger resolution and saving states can be used as a little cheat

          • NONE
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            13 months ago

            You can do the same in the original console with Homebrew apps.

            • Refurbished Refurbisher
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              3 months ago

              I don’t think GSM changes the render resolution of the game, but only the output resolution.

              At least that was my experience when I tried it last over a decade ago.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      63 months ago

      Hell ya, got deep into the wii / wii u homebrew stuff for a while. I completely missed the PS2 and really that whole generation of gaming growing up. What are you playing?

  • Elaine Cortez
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    103 months ago

    I don’t wanna reveal too much personal info but things have been going so well for me for a while now! So I’d say this current one 😃 I’d say the past two years have been the happiest ones of my entire life

    • @[email protected]
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      33 months ago

      Had a friend like that in 09 who went for a motorcycle ride and died. Left a wife and newborn behind.

      Ride the happiness, not motorcycles. And if you do, don’t crash. #1 rule: don’t crash.

      • Elaine Cortez
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        33 months ago

        My condolences to your friend and those affected. Motorcycles (along with helicopters) honestly freak me out which is why I’d avoid riding on either

  • southsamurai
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    213 months ago

    Right this very second, my chicken preening herself next to me, occasionally pausing to make sure I see her preening herself so that I continue to sweetly praise her

  • gon [he]
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    123 months ago

    My family. I feel really good that I can trust and rely on my parents, that I can talk to my brother, that I have my grandma close and still healthy. It’s a privilege to be related to these people, to be honest.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      83 months ago

      Can’t choose who you’re related to, so ya, it is a great privilege when you’re surrounded by good people and you have that network of folks you love and can rely on

  • @[email protected]
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    93 months ago

    Most days my husband. Some days my kids. Some moments my job. Every night i love how comfortable my bed is.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      83 months ago

      Love this, I am like 3/4 of the way there, I just need a bed like yours to crash out on 😂 mine is killing me!

      • @[email protected]
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        53 months ago

        We ordered it from Costco. They have a great return policy and will pick up things they delivered if you want to return them. Plan was to buy a mid price memory foam mattress and then, if needed, keep exchanging it for the next one up until we hit our budget limit. The first one was perfect! It’s been 9 years. I don’t know how long beds are supposed to last. We rotate it periodically and it’s still crazy comfortable.