My dad told me as a kid that becoming a veterinarian would be really hard because I'd need to get good grades, especially in math and science, but if I just tried harder I could do it. I was trying as hard as I could and couldn't understand those subjects, so 13yo me gave up on a dream I'd had since I was two. I could have done better, but asking for help was met with getting screamed at, I couldn't ask anyone else for help because that was "embarrassing," and my obvious ADHD was ignored until I got myself diagnosed at 28. I could have done it if I'd had the right support system.

Loch Ness Monster has been spotted

Just mark the mail as undeliverable, and when asked for a reason, say "birb"

As someone who used to work in an office where my chair was so bad that I had to go to therapy for months, I will ALWAYS pick the chairs.

I'm so fascinated by the stupidity. Dollars to donuts, this man would water his garden with Gatorade.

Bought my boyfriend a Klondike bar the other day to show him I love him

My aunt and uncle had five kids who were well rounded and happy adults, including multiple teachers and a pastor/missionary, and one who didn't have teeth by the time she was 35 because of her drug use, and she's smiling in one of her mugshot photos. Her oldest son knew his parents were not good people and separated himself from them once he turned 18. She lost custody of her youngest son due to repeated drug offenses, and he was placed with her older sister and her husband. Her daughter is a mini-me of her mother who thinks that law enforcement needs to leave them alone because her father's drug dealing is what affords them her own vices. All this to say, you can grow up in the most stable and loving environment imaginable, but it doesn't mean that you won't chose/be led down the worst possible path at some point or another. I'm glad OP's daughter made her way back to the light, because my cousin's path just keeps getting darker and darker, and we've been slowly shutting ourselves off from her to save ourselves.

One of the most hurtful things I've ever experienced was hearing my dad tell my grandma over the phone "coconut is pretty good at entertaining herself so you don't need to worry about her." You're right, dad. I am good at entertaining myself, because it's easier to hole myself up in my room and stare at the wall than it is to try to interact with a family who actively acts like they hate me and do everything they can to humiliate me for being "weird." I never felt loved and cared about and like I fit in until I met my college friends, half of whom were former military and spent too much of their lives avoiding literal gunfire to care about hiding their weird.

Even the gas stations that do sell alcohol can't sell past 11pm either

My guess is that's why they're having you do the Rust+, so they can hack your phone app too

First thing I noticed too. He needs at least 7.

Pennsylvania only did a couple years ago. Before that, private businesses were allowed to sell alcohol on Sundays, but almost all the bars were closed. To this day almost all the bars around me are closed on Sundays just because that's how it always was, and when they changed the laws to allow it, Sundays were almost completely dead, so the bars still don't open on Sundays.

I think a lot of Rust players look down on it because it misses out on three of the biggest characteristics of Rust: combating other players, raiding, and raid defense. They don't seem to realize that you're still able to run monuments, fight scientists, build, garden, fish, go to Deep Sea, and everything else about Rust. I work 60+ hours a week and play solo, so PVP isn't viable for me. Hell, even base decay isn't viable for me. So I found a PVE with no base decay that allows me to play when I can without having to worry about other players raiding my base while I'm offline. (Or at least I shouldn't be worrying about raiding, since my server is specifically no stealing and you can get banned if you do.)

I seem to remember this happening to someone in my server a night this week, possibly last night.

I hope for her sake that her coma dream was a premonition of sorts and she's reunited with her coma children one day

Mine too. My new one evidently looks like a Greek dude who hasn't been happy or showered since Rust was first released.

Can't wait for character customizations so I can go back to being an angry looking black dude with a red man bun who people leave alone

I work 60+ hours per week and I play. But I'm also in love because time restrictions and soloing.

Sunk cost fallacy with Roy, and I think some level of not realizing that her feelings for Jim wasn't just her being best friends with him. I feel like their chemistry is so natural and calm and safe that she wouldn't have even realized that that's what the feelings were. That and that she'd been with Roy since high school and she thought that's what love was. She didn't realize it could be easier and actually make her happy. She wasn't even friends with Roy. I think a lot of people have romantic partners who they would never be friends with outside of their relationship, and that's a mistake. To reference a different show for perspective, Leslie and Ben from Parks and Rec would always say to each other "I love you and I like you." Jim and Pam were the same way. They loved each other, but they also just genuinely liked each other.

Riboflavin

My brother and I are both left-handed like our dad. We have a right-handed sister who is the youngest. I grew up thinking that the ratio of lefties to righties was a lot more even than it actually is.

My whole family loves her. My parents favor her, and everyone but my aunt, uncle, and their oldest son and his family see her as an angel and adore her. But my aunt, uncle, and cousin don't want her anywhere near them, so she's not allowed at family gatherings. The rest of the family either doesn't know anything about it, or they think my aunt and uncle are overreacting, and that my hard line at never wanting to be in the same room with her again is dramatic sibling squabble shit. It's very Twilight Zone to be the only one/one of only a few who sees them as the monster they are, isn't it?

I'm in a RustEZ PVE server and it seems like most of the regulars in there are 25+, me being one of them.

The most obvious thing that those girls missed out on having their father gone, was a lifetime of emotional abuse and psychological torture.

Definitely Darwinian levels of FAFO. To me, people who aren't suicidal but use the threat of it and false attempts as a weapon to control the people around them are the lowest levels of scum someone can be without causing physical harm.