I have some experience with this. Being sent away/“rehomed” is profoundly traumatizing, even when it’s in a divorce situation, with the child in question moving from parent to parent. It doesn’t matter how nurturing the parents are. The child internalizes it as a problem with them, and the sibs question whether it can…

Oh my god, “gotcha day”? My brother and I were adopted as infants, and it was VERY clear to us from the get-go - even though it was never actually said in so many words - that the days we were born were the days that we were born into our family, regardless of how many days it took for us to be officially placed in…

On #3. Besides from the fact that the kids could go ‘oh heck, they could get rid of ME’ and how fucked up that is, it could also go ‘well, if I don’t like something/someone that is different than me, I can just get rid of it/them’. Really messing up future relationships, both familial, social, and professional.

This ‘family as performance’ shit is angering in ways I cannot reasonably put into words using my mushy quarantine brain.

A few things to add color to the discussion:

So an insane person is someone who doesn’t have family support?

From what I’ve read, there was an episode that aired in March where another cast member ruined a custom wrestling outfit of hers and then was dismissive while she was upset. Unbeknownst to her, the other cast member had just bombed at a comedy show and was feeling down. The show fans took his side and sent her tons of…

Must have stolen a sweetroll to get a sentence like that.

A few omissions...

I’m not a huge gamer, but I started Portal and Portal 2 during the lockdown and I find the endings to both games so immensely satisfying in so many ways. I’ve had to play through both several times now, in part just to get back to those endings.

Don’t forget Want You Gone and You Wouldn’t Know.

he’s been drawing Ultraman and Godzilla and a whole load of other stuff as well:

I don’t disagree. To reiterate my earlier point, those that are in no position to be crying that cry anyways for petty reasons usually are loudest about it; temper tantrums in other words, or crocodile tears.

Can’t say Valorant appeals to me as someone who played OW for a year as the similarities to it do bother me.…

Without evidence for an explosive claim like this, it’s pure misinformation and conspiracy mongering, with a nasty xenophobic edge.

If you spent money on a game and got banned for cheating, that’s completely on you

Usually the loudest criers have something to hide.

Once in third grade, my father off-handedly mentioned that under the Constitution, we didn’t actually have to stand up and do the Pledge of Allegiance. So me being the third grade dink that I was, the next day I stayed seated for the Pledge at my local private school, and was promptly sent to the pastor and the…

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