#Instead of buying a new one with money

[milkiedimitrescu]

Literally made myself a DIY stylus because I lost mine and it turned out pretty great! 👍👍👍

Used a broken colored pencil, tape, and aluminum foil

#big brain #i made something #so proud of me #Even works #I'm using this to draw now #Instead of buying a new one with money #I'm straight up making my own #Ain't wasting nothing #We doing arts and crafts bishesss 💅 #I'M THE NEW ALBERT EINSTEIN #LOOK AT MY CREATION #tell me it's not good #I dare you #diy #moto g stylus 5g 2022 #Stylus

[tiredstressedemotionalmess]

tumblr would it be morally wrong of me to intentionally save the money my grandma gifted me to use when i go abroad so i can spend it on a tattoo when i get home instead

#this grandma fucking HATES tattoos btw but like... $250 is $250 and like.. what the fuck am i supposed to buy instead #im not a souvenirs person im a pictures person. and she said to spend it on something i really like and save it if theres nothing i want #and like. A New Tattoo Is Absolutely Something Id Really Like...... #idk one of my friends thinks this would be wrong of me and is strongly against it but like #its my money now???? i feel like it doesnt matter what i spend it on so long as its something i actually want

[takami-takami]

I NEED YOU GUYS TO LOOK AT THIS SHIRT I JUST ORDERED

#its from an online thrift store called thred up. i snagged it. #i am literally staring at it. #LOOK HOW CUTE IT IS #i spent 40 dollars on one shirt instead of buying four shirts that cost 10 dollars but its worth it #its from some french brand called manoush? its like 200 something dollars new on the website but i got it for 40 bucks #usually i do not spend this much money on one article when i go thrifting but i could not leave this behind #i had a 40 dollar gift card for referring a friend anyway so i used it on this #like u know what. its good to treat yourseld. #🐇 rambles

[nerosdayinanime]

fun little experience from my tags in idiots play gta

put way too much effort into copying the background to not show it try n guess which office its at<3

#sabito #kny sabito #makomo #foxsquad posting #fratboy sabito posting #neros art tag #this shit killed me. im still laughing at it #gta was so fun. i should play w my friend again #wonder if i can make a new account on the ps4 so i can get another first time playing bonus so i can buy an office instead of a fucking #bike club. dont start off buying a bike club its nigh fucking impossible to make money off it. #bunker nightclub or office get one of those. the missions you can do there get u money way faster #bike club you gotta buy the money making places- do missions to get them supplies- WAIT FOR THEM TO TURN IT INTO MONEY- and THEN you #have to successfully pull off sell missions and they dont even break 100k at max. #not fucking worth it. dont make my mistake #p sure you have to pay for the alcohol in the bike club too. fucking fun sponge. it has a bong tho #office has a bong plus every alcohol there is so its not even a competition. and the Green Drink #anyways from the 'list things that make u happy' asks this is why i love drawing #funny thing happen i can make it into blorbos<3

[katabay]

let’s make some friday night plans

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#yakuza #龍が如く #Goro Majima #Taiga Saejima #someday when i have money to spend on fun things i'll have to actually buy these games instead of borrowing them off #of friends so that i can really get the gears in my head turning. i want to draw fight sequences smdfhsdhhrhedsh #its hard to visualize how i would go about tackling rgg type violence with my art process when im not the one smashing buttons 😔 #but on the other hand doing these kinds of illustrations is fun too bc i always figure out something new when i do them #but i also want to be Drawing Comics #maybe later this year if the series goes on sale on steam!

[medicinemane]

I get very tired of dealing with people who are so busy being "practical" that they're just totally prescriptive

I tend to be, I think, a fairly pragmatic person. Like most years I spend about... maybe $50 on myself for the whole year (this year is going to be a bit higher, but there's also specific utility to what I'm spending it on). I tend to not bother buying myself snacks, cause I know I'm mostly hungry, and if I'm hungry real food is a better deal (I sadly tend to fail to get ahold of the real food either)

My point is that I tend to be very goal oriented (not in a ladder climbing way, in a I set goals and then work towards them kinda way), I tend to be very focused on what will push my situations into being sustainable, I tend to look for high efficiency, low cost, long term solutions

I was... I was talking to that friend I'll say is Dr Jekyll and Mr Dumbass (I was more trying to talk to my dad, but they were both there). It was definitely Mr Dumbass today

For one thing, he was already saying a bunch of really fucking dumb shit where... it's so stupid I'm not even going to repeat it, where it's like the answer for why we don't do that is because it's obviously a moronically stupid idea on top of being immoral, and also totally ineffective you dipshit

So I already wasn't in the mood for him

Then, while talking about visiting my grandma, I mention how in order to start cooking I need sharp knives, none of my knives are sharp (cause my mom's a fool and dulls them all), and how it would really help if I could just take a knife from my grandma since she doesn't cook anymore and just... keep it as my personal knife that I keep sharp

(I can't do this, cause my grandma is... bug fuck crazy, and legit believes that if you gift someone a knife they'll kill people with it which like... where do you even get that idea, like she has literally said before that she'd give money to buy a knife but wouldn't give one as a gift... what?)

Anyway, Mr Dumbass starts going on about how I can just buy a new knife, and it's like no... in your quest for objective practicality you've lost all pragmatism

I don't need to buy a new knife, I need to learn to sharpen knives which... which I just have a bit of a block on cause I've had trouble figuring out how to sharpen stuff so far (I've come to suspect that which of the hard and soft stones you use first and second isn't intuitive and I've been trying to hone with the sharpening stone and sharpen with the honing stone)

Like... to get mean for just a slight moment, shut your fool mouth, you've got more money than I've ever even touched, and while you were poor at one point when you were younger you've clearly forgot, and not everyone can just buy stuff

Also you're saying a bunch of dumb shit tonight with such confidence and it's pissed me off

He's capable of being a very very smart and compassionate person, and then other times he's a damn fool, and far too often he... he talks about practicality without actually understanding how to be practical

Being practical requires working in the confines of reality

...I don't know, I don't think I have all the words I need to explain what I'm saying, but the point is he's annoyed me and people who act like him annoy me where it's like... nothing matters in the end other than if you actually solve something

You can talk all day about what someone "should do", but what matters is what they will do

So it gets frustrating talking with my family with him cause he has all this ideas where it's like... that functionally won't work, and like some of his great ideas are how I can just wait for my grandma to die and get the knife then and it's like... yeah... but I need a knife now dummy, and I have knives, and which is more useful?

Dropping a pretty penny on a new knife, or finishing learning a skill I really fucking need badly and that makes it so I can sharpen things for next to free forever?

...I'm just tired of having to do everything myself and getting no help, that's all. How about you shut your fucking mouth, stop trying to offer advice that's worse than my plans I'm already slowly turning the gears on making happen, and just let me bitch about my idiot relatives?

Laughing at this fool antics when he chooses to do that, legitimately is more helpful than any attempts to help

#last two paragraphs are things that sadly a lot of people could learn #sometimes you need to shut your mouth and just listen #and this is why I have my no advice without action policy #if the rolls were reversed; I'm not willing to suggest someone buy a knife unless I'm willing to pay for it #most I'll ever do is something like say 'Just wondering if this is something you've already tried' #like know someone who go hacked here; and I just asked if they're running two factor authentication now cause if not it might help #like that's the outside amount of advice I'm willing to offer without action #because it acknowledges that they may have already thought of it; and it more just tries to float an option than it does suggest shit #honestly... I think I'd be less annoyed if it was like 'what about buying a new knife?; rather than 'you should buy a new knife' #advice in the form of a question makes for a dialogue rather than dictation #lets the other person just explain why something won't work if they've already considered it #like in this case... money; way rather just sharpen shit and get to spend money on food instead of a knife #like... this is the crux of what I complain about with my grandma; that groceries are my number one desire with money #are you my grandma? suggesting that I just flippantly spend money once it becomes something you'd want to spend it on? #...and the answer honestly is that yeah that's usually how people are #they can laugh off wasting money on shitty over priced clothes; but when it's what they like spending on that's what everyone should do #...maybe I fail at it; but I try not to do that #try to just be a back up to people and support them in whatever matters to them #and once again; only offer advice when I'm actually willing to do something like drop the money on getting them the thing I think they need #eh... I don't want to share the other dumb shit he was saying cause... dear god #edgy stoned dipshit talk; you know? #framed as actionable policy #good guy; helped me move shit up (I mostly needed a driver) but... utter fucking ass too much of the time #there's reasons we're not closer

[dullahandyke]

coming to the realisation that i can buy whatever i want to look however i want. insane

#but my cd bags havent come yet n i cant buy another thing until they come in the post bcos i prommied myself #n after that i need to get new over-ear headphones #also update the reward points system for making me do things is Not Working so i might ditch it #but also i. dont have a job. so i gotta ration my money. n if i wing it i feel like ill fuck it up #but also like. sigh ok so the plan was that for every task i do i get a euro of spending money. to motivate me to do tasks so i can buy thi #but ive racked up a debt already. oops! so theoretically i need to work that off before i can start saving for someghing new to buy #the thing is tho that my headphones broke n i have earbuds but i NEEEED to have on-ear headphones or ill explode #n im thinking of biting the bullet and buying some proper nice ones #but thats spencey itd take so long to save up for those #n i could theoretically add that to my debt n buy them now but that would render the debt functionally meaningless #bcos if i gotta do 100+ tasks to work off the debt to START saving for shit like a binder #then we're gonna have a problem #this could be mitigated by me getting less expensive headphones n stuff but like w a warranty so that when they inevitably break #i dont gotta vimes boots it and instead i can just get the same headphones again #but thats a lot of electrical waste :( #sigh i COULD ask my mom to get me the nicey headphones as a pre-emptive leaving cert thing #but id say shed rather get me something AFTER the leaving which is like. 20 days. n can i survive that long without overear headphones? #tbh probably. but also my perception is skewed bcos im currently in If I Have Headphones On I Will DIE mode #so shrug ill have to think it thru some other time #aughghghghgh!!!!!1 what if i killed and bit #<- still hasnt started studying for the leaving. at this point i dont think its gonna happen

[simonghostrileys]

nividia has really fucked it up for us geforce now free users. i know membership users get priority bc well they paid for it but they really didn't have to fuck us up so hard like we can spend 6+ hours in queue only to get stuck at a random number and for the queue to not move further and to top it all off you can get remove from the queue for 'inactivity' like wtf?? as if waiting 6+ hours to play wasn't enough you can just get kicked out bc nvidia feels like it

#liliana talks #i know they do this to force ppl to pay in order to play #but like a few months back this wasn't the case #like even if you had 300+ ppl in front of you in the queue you could still get squeezed in and play in just 30 mins #now is simply unplayable #just as an example i finally played cult of the lamb the other day after trying FOR WEEKS bc the queue kept getting stuck at 39 or 46 #i think if i get to play one new game this year is going to be a miracle #also instead of paying to play just idk save that money to buy/build a gaming pc #like idk my dude but having a membership is really screwing us free users #fucking capitalism i hate it so much

[scarletrosii]

Sunday was a full work day for me, I worked in the morning and night, both jobs, which happens occasionally on Sundays, not often but occasionally. But last Sunday, the 8th, I came home to find things moved in the living room. Mainly, my bookshelves. The ones I drove like 6 hours to the nearest ikea in a downpour for.

I was annoyed, but I had told roomate she could move things in shared area bc she had a better sense of decor than I did. So I looked to the only place she'd put them, which was around the corner.

There were shelves up.

Now you might be thinking, Scarlet, bookshelves are supposed to have shelves lol. You're not far off, but the thing is, I made it very very clear nobody is to go in my room. Ever. Unless death is actively happening. EVER. Very clear. What does this have to do with my shelves?

The pegs are in my room. In a cup, on a dresser I have almost immediately inside the room. I never took them out bc I wanted to fix one of the shelves first, it got damaged during the move.

Again, why does this matter.

What matters is HOW she put the shelves up. She put screws. In my bookshelves. The ones I spent over 100 dollars on. The ones I had been dreaming of for over two years before finally getting. The ones that the trip almost cost my van.

This was over two days ago. I thought I had given myself enough time, to calm down, so I'd be able to have a discussion rationally.

Another full day today, I get home and take another look at my shelves and nope. I'm hardly calm. Rage tastes like raw blood, and my teeth are dripping with it.

#everybody ive told this to is on my side #one coworker joked that i was close to kicking her door down. #i want to now that i jave the idea in my head #i want to scream at her #i cant believe it #AND SHE NEVER EVEN MESAGAED ME #if she had messgaed me idve given her permission to enter my room for the pegs!! #instead she DAMAGES MY BOOKSHELVES #i am incensed #void vent #im thinking of demanding money to buy new bookshelves and the travel to get them bc that puts each bookshelf at like 200 dollars

[oldmanyaoi-jpeg]

man. i'd really like a new art tablet but. $300.

#morrisounds #mine works fine and i can work without a screen so i'm struggling to justify buying a new one #like yeah it'd help my workflow a lot but also i'd have to spend money #maybe i buy a new tablet instead of braces since my doctor won't fucking get back to me

[my-current-obsession]

My second playthrough of Engage is going well (just finished chapter 17) and I’m still enjoying the gameplay and have definitely had a better time getting supports with my knowledge of how to game the arena as well as having access to the new support-gaining options from the start. However I’m starting to worry about the game’s long-term replayability.

In most FE games, even if the gameplay is only so-so, I can power through several runs basically because of shipping - I’d play the game multiple times to get different paired ends. I’ve already complained about that a lot in other posts, so I won’t rehash it here beyond saying obviously that’s not possible in this case. Sure, you can get different paired endings for Alear, but honestly most of the pact ring scenes and ESPECIALLY the endings are weak. Even for the people who care more about the self-inserting and picking who they want to be with as opposed to matchmaking, I doubt this would be satisfying enough on its own to merit multiple runs of the game.

So if that aspect and reason to replay the game is gone, what’s left? Gameplay, obviously. And yes, the gameplay is good - great, even! This is the most fun I’ve ever had in an FE game when it comes to actually playing the maps. However I can already feel myself falling into complacent gaming - I KNOW from a previous run which characters are better (unless they get super RNG screwed) and which combinations of emblems/units works best, and I find myself defaulting to those rather than experimenting.

It doesn’t help that this game makes it kind of difficult/punishing to do so. There are A LOT of resources to track and use in this game, and they’re all somewhat limited. Up until chapter 17 you’re limited on how many master/second seals you can get, and even once you have unlimited access... they’re expensive! And more than ANY other FE game, this one makes it hard to get money. Even knowing NOT to spend as much money donating to the countries on a second run, you’ll probably run out of cash FAST between buying seals, weapons/staves, and forging the weapons.

There are certain units that basically NEED to be reclassed in order to perform well - in particular, Anna, Etie, Lapis, and maybe Clanne would be better in classes they can’t promote to naturally. But it’s hard to justify using them and wasting TWO seals (a master AND second seal) when the rest of your army only needs one seal to do well or comes as a VERY good pre-promote. That’s not even getting into how due to the relative lack of seals and their cost, I’m less inclined to reclass units just for fun or to see how they fare in radically different roles.

3 Houses had a lot of flaws and overall the gameplay is NOT as good as Engage, but I DID appreciate being able to build my starting class however I pleased. It was a tedious process, but it was rewarding to play the same route multiple times and use most of the same units, but with VERY different classes/roles. In particular, the more balanced, well-rounded units were SO fun to teach since they could perform well in almost any class!

Meanwhile in Engage, I spend a lot of time LOOKING at the classes available to everyone and thinking it might be nice/fun to reclass some people, but ultimately, they’re doing “well enough” in their default class and I can’t justify wasting the seal(s) just for an experiment that might not pan out. If I use that seal, either one more person doesn’t get to promote/reclass or I’m wasting 2500+ gold.

That’s not even getting into the scarcity of the forging resources or how quickly you can blow through your bond fragments (and in ways that aren’t ideal) if you’re not careful. With so many resources to manage, all of which you CAN technically gain more of but only through playing extra battles (which are at best boring or difficult, and at worst DEADLY on classic), it really feels like you’re discouraged from experimenting. You want to hold onto as many resources as possible for as long as you can, so you can’t throw them around for fun to see what works.

What this game needs (as several people have pointed out already) is some kind of new game plus. There NEEDS to be a version of this game where you carry over at least SOME of the things you gained/accomplished into a new game. Personally I’d like to see it carrying over your donation levels, emblem bond levels, and MAYBE bond rings and the weapons you had/forged (though obviously removing any engravings. Also probably still erasing all the special S rank weapons).

I don’t see HOW people are expected to “complete” the game without that, honestly. Donating to the countries is too much of a money sink for one contained run, but if you had multiple playthroughs to do it, it wouldn’t be an issue. Especially since you’d get a bunch of money at specific chapters each run, and if you retain weapons too, you’d spend less of it on forging. If you don’t retain weapons... well, at least the higher donation level means you’re getting more iron/steel/silver from every map from the start, so you don’t HAVE to do skirmishes just to get resources.

Retaining bond levels means you don’t have to waste fragments getting the SAME bonds and skills and conversations with the same units. Instead you can chip away at the CBA bond level for every Emblem/unit pair. As for bond rings, I’d mainly want to see them retained so you don’t have to deal with as much gatcha hell in getting all the rings.

And of course on a new game plus, with all the extra resources at your disposal and less ways you NEED to spend it, you’d be free to experiment more with reclassing units!

I’m just disappointed because I genuinely LOVE this game but there are so many ways it could be better and give me a reason to keep playing it. A lot of the characters are great and I honestly see a ton of shipping potential in the supports... but they all go nowhere without paired endings. The gameplay is the best it’s ever been for FE, and I’d love to experiment and come at it with different units and builds... but I’m so scared of wasting valuable resources that I’m mostly unwilling to experiment and instead stick to the units that are reliable as-is.

#fire emblem #fire emblem engage #fe17 #we should be getting one more free update to go along with the 4th dlc #so there's a slim chance we'll get new game plus or paired endings then. but i wouldn't bet on it #it's just depressing because honestly EITHER ONE of those by itself would mostly save the game for me #either i could focus on shipping and replay for different paired endings #or with new game plus i'd be able to relax and actually use my resources. so the gameplay would get a shake-up #and every run being more unique i'd be able to get by more on gameplay alone. right now it's getting a bit stale #for the record i haven't bought the dlc so i don't know how much it impacts the whole resources issue #i know you get a bunch of free money which would be nice but... the story AND gameplay are SO tightly designed #around having specifically 12 emblems (plus the lategame spoiler) #HOW am i supposed to get into chapter 11 or 22 when I have an army of dlc emblems? #or 17 which is explicitly a 6-on-6 emblem war? but uh with dlc that's very much not the case #hell the final battle specifically wants you to have and use all 12 emblems. but if you have dlc you probably used some of them instead #i like the added CONTENT of the dlc - more maps and more characters that the units bond with #but i don't like how they break the story and probably also the game. so i've abstained. #i know i COULD buy the dlc just for the story. but it would feel ridiculous to HAVE these characters and powers and NOT use them

[a0x0annie]

i am so fucking unlucky lately i'm genuinely crying lmao

#first they robbed my bank account #now i have to wait literal weeks to make a new one because i had to request a new id as well and it's still not done #yesterday i've lost one of the lenses in my glasses outside so i'm literally blind until i get enough money to buy a new one #and now my bus ticket turned out to be 3 minutes off and i have to pay so much fucking money for the fine lmao #what's next #a car will hit me on a crosswalk or something #personal #guess i'll have to go to work instead of enjoying the holidays #at least i passed the exams ig

[aahsoka]

its getting stressed about money time

#still havent found a job and im runnin out of my student loan money! #and the school year is gonna end soon #and also subbing doesnt pay super well lmfao #:| #jordan talks #also i have a ton of shit to finish for school and still a month of classes left #rip #SCREAM #considering making one of those donate to my ko-fi posts or whatever ….. #id open commissions but . im shit at marketing #i keep noticing that i need new things and i cannot buy them #stupid allergy spray is $25 for two now instead of 4

[syssyadmin]

i hate you legalization efforts that position the newly-official drug market as being divided strictly between “medical use”, which still involves needing a doctor to sign a note saying you’re allowed to self-medicate with it, and “recreational use” in which a doctor has not signed a note and therefore you must be taking a drug purely for enjoyment and as such should be treated by the law as the least charitable interpretation of said person, therefore being subject to extremely high taxes and regulatory restrictions. like. i don’t think i’ve ever met a single self-identified stoner who didn’t openly talk about how they are in essence self-medicating but sure this dichotomy totally makes sense (or at least, $$$)

#the moment weed stores actually started to open up (and before that even!) every dealer I knew shriveled up and stopped selling. #the only people I even know of now that still sell are ppl who are actually growing several plants and - on account of new regulations #are now doing something explicitly illegal instead of just grey-market decrim'd - don't actually like it when people buy from them #and mostly do it as favors. like. i hate this i hate this. the price of weed in the past couple years has literally doubled for non-medical #our state had been decriminalized for fucking ages. legalization was a huge mistake imo. #i think the only case I would even entertain in favor is really like. 'well that tax money can now be put to use for Black communities' but #literally despite writing that into the law it has not happened. at all. i think in reality the implementation is that #'businesses owned by ethnic minorities will get priority on receiving dispensary licenses'. which. ok great. #does about as much as the anti-discriminatory work laws do for trans people here - i.e. fuckall #particularly since 'priority on licenses' was literally only relevant in the first year when nobody had a license yet. #ANYWAY. HATE IT not angry at all. or anything. #'angry cos ur sober aren't you' yes. i am. i like being able to eat more than a bit of bread in one day.

[shiningstages]

Me lookin' at my lil content: d'aaaaaaaw it's so cute~

I wanted to do stuff before work, but I like blanked out since I'm sleepy (went to bed around 1? 2?? then woke up at 7:11; not terrible but not like Great) then did my required stretchies / looked up stuff for things~ Tomorrow I have my last PT session and follow-up, and then I plan on cleaning my room / generally just chilling out since it has been Forever, but now...I will try and schedule in time for OC thoughts today and tomorrow (still have to decide if Atlas would be primal or astral...and maybe compare some story stuff to make sure it's not stepping on any Canon toes...but maybe we also don't care about that second bit ghffjghfgvcccgkhf).

#;big bubble blowing baby! ( ooc ) #( i think...i'm gonna try and schedule my hair cut too. either saturday or next thursday #i love my long flowy hair but i've getting that feeling of just...can't take it anymore ghfjcghfcgkhgcjgv #BUT it's also supposed to get colder so i may wimp out because this hair Protects Me #i also have to talk with my workman's comp doc about specific restriction papers my store director gave me tomorrow (fear) #i don't really like feeling less useful at work; but i also have just accepted that i need to take care of myself #i'm hoping nothing Too Big happens with that because i still wanna bank a lot of money before going back to school #but also a tiny bit less hours a week (since i work around 37-39 rn) would be nice...maybe even an extra day off...more me time #in other news i've also had many vtuber thoughts GFDHGFHGFHJFGHF #the only important one is...accepting that i should just kind of Do It. instead of actively thinking of where i wanna be; if that makes #any sense #and wars gave me Big Incentive to clean my room in like a non-vtuber way; but also just like...the motivation!!! the hype!!! #i have a lot of steps in my mind to do my creative stuff; but my room Must be clean #not that all my stuff isn't on my dad's very nice desk but...i don't want any potential pc i buy to be there #it would be so much better environment-wise (aka not being in my kitchen where my dad always is and near the living room #where my bro always streams) plus it's a two-way street of i don't want to disturb them either #i thought about cleaning my mom's office but she literally told me no because she wants to clean it all herself #which her being like “i have to be the one to go through everything when cleaning” is just...i see where i get my attitude #BUT ANYWAYS #i need to get ready for work gfhgjfjgfhgkjgfcghfg being the closer so much is so tiring;; #hopefully tonight is good and i don't have to have Drama and anyone who freaks out )