When Its Hard To Love, Love Harder!

FABRICCCCCC?!??!?!?

there are lots of skills you can learn

some people will try to convince you skills are un-learnable. those are cognitive distortions that they have to deal with on their own. don't let them pass those on to you.

as beings (human or otherwise) we all possess a capacity for growth, change, and skill acquisition. there are of course situations that might make this more challenging and—as is often the case with children—people in our lives who might not want that for us. but it can be done.

i guess what i'm saying is that after a while 'being bad at everything' stops being a viable path. it leaves you with almost no options. not just in a career, but in terms of being alive. what is there for you when you can only do what you know, and what you know is only what you currently do?

honestly I hate “can you pet the dog?!?” not for any of the common reasons but because it was initially interesting as a proposition of “can you interact with the world in a way that is not within the primary mechanical loop” and that very quickly fell away to being “well now any indie developer making a game has to have a pet the dog button or they’re going to get letters”

One of my dream projects has an NPC with a dog, and if you try to pet it, the owner tells you not to do that. If you try again, it bites you and you take damage. I want to do this entirely because I genuinely believe that this would make me feel way more grounded in the world than any “click button to see cute animation” would ever do, and also it would be really funny to have a game where people lose their runs because they tried to pet a dog they were told not to pet

ITS EVOCATIVE! LIKE GREAT BIG HUGE BANANAS EXCEPT SHARP!

In early versions of The Lord of the Rings, Saruman was especially unwise to betray and destroy the forests, as all his wealth was held in Ent Credit Unions.