So the things that help me the best. Making sure I do my self-care. For me that looks like meditation, exercise, seeing a therapist, and going to mental health support groups (NAMI it’s an excellent resource for this).

Here’s a meditation that will help you to be more aware of your thoughts and some techniques to help you ground.

This is more of a practice and less of something to do when you’re having a ton of racing thoughts.

https://youtu.be/PnzVzfQXq_s?feature=shared

And this is a body scan, you can use this to help your body relax and your mind to be aware of your body instead of your thoughts. It would be helpful to try to fall asleep to it. And if you can’t fall asleep at least to relax and get more rest.

https://youtu.be/MKClq7FHExc?feature=shared

They’re talking about time dilation.

Objects with no mass traveling at light speed in a vacuum don’t experience time.

A photon, traveling through a vacuum for forty years, from its perspective, leaves the instant it arrives.

Likewise, if you can travel at the speed of light for forty years and came back to earth, your twin would age forty years and you wouldn’t age at all.

At a much smaller scale we have to use time dilation to keep clocks in space running at the same time as clocks on Earth. Because in geosynchronous orbit they are traveling faster than objects on the ground.

As is birth. Both sides of the dichotomy are dropped in Buddhism. Focusing on death is letting go with one hand, and clinging with the other.

That’s a way to look at it. As a person with C-PTSD it’s not something easily dealt with or healed from because society isn’t that skilled at helping with it, and my brain was shaped by constant bullying and abuse for the first 12 years of my life. Saying I need to ‘heal’ is like telling someone with ADHD they need to ‘heal’. PTSD, for me, is a form of ND. I can learn better coping mechanisms and my symptoms can be more manageable, especially with better self awareness. But there was never a baseline of not having PTSD to heal back too.

In other words, hypervigilance around toxic masculinity is wired deep into my amygdala, and that’s very difficult to change in a society that doesn’t have adequate tools or resources to help even typical PTSD. Maybe when MDMA treatment becomes available and affordable. I don’t really know the outcomes with it for child abuse.

Anyway, bringing it up out of context when someone mentions having a good relationship with their (in my case) father, isn’t a trauma response. It would be petty jealousy. And while I have plenty of jealousy of NT people, I agree that bringing up jealousy when other people are having a good time, especially in such a petty unhealthy way, is a dick move.

Because people aren’t used to seeing a politician in a hoodie.

I’ve taken a mg. Was a lot lol

Or a massive dose of psilocybin

Buddhism also explains animism. Things aren’t separate from the mind that perceives them. The mind is alive. Thus, all perceived things are alive. This also explains non-violence and dana (selfless acts of giving). Being aggressive towards anything in our field of perception is to be aggressive to ourselves. To be giving to anything in our field of perception is to give to ourselves.

Took Buddhism plus DMT to actually grok that, though.

And good online services but… never mind, I’ll settle for backwards compatible.

I finished Rogue Heroes this last week so not really sure yet.

Picked up grindstone and undertale on sale, haven’t played either before and enjoying both so far.

Tuesday I’ll play Super Mario Wonder with my son. But I’m trying to save that for father son time so it’s been a slow burn.

I’ll check it out for sure. Maybe have my kid help me finish if I get stuck!

I’ve never finished an open world Zelda. I get bored after about twenty hours.

I would prefer an old school style top down Zelda and will pick up Tunic when it’s on sale again. Playing rogue heroes which is a multiplayer Zelda rogue like rn and will probably put more hours into it then I did tears

I think it took me awhile to figure out the first act, so I think I spent more than 12 with it

Really loved the atmosphere of that act though! Probably why I spent so long on it.

I barely played it but now I’m playing Wonder with my son (and exclusively with my son), I’m thinking a single player mario could scratch the itch between wonder sessions

Inscription is fun but there’s multiple levels lol i thought it was short too but lost interest before finishing it on the third act i think

Bravery and Greed was on sale for $10 so I took a chance on it. It looked like it would scratch the rogue like itch for me and I have not been disappointed.

Multiplayer side scrolling rogue like. Four classes. Four different character paths for each picked from three random perks found at shrines. Four gear slots counting the wand with fun unique abilities (boots of flying for example).

Also playing Mario Wonder with my son. I expect both games will be on rotation all winter and spring.

Get new friends that play on Switch.

Problem solved!

It’s more like saying.

The only thing better than a hammer and nail is having wood that magically joins together all by itself.

So, Wargroove 2 has a few modes I've played in the last 24 hours that greatly increases the depth and replayability for me.

Played multiplayer with my kid and that's good fun. Also there's a whole rogue like subgame with character unlocks that are right up my alley.

So yeah, I'm sure I'll get my $20 out of it. It does lock up, but infrequently. And I imagine they'll fix it as soon as they can. Overall it runs really well though. Quick load times etc.

I just finished the first campaign. And aside from what I mentioned about their not feeling like there's any sense of character progress or customization (this is what I would tie to three starring missions) it's really good.

Looking forward to Unicorn Overlord. Hopefully it hits all the right notes for me and not just 80%