I wasn't planning on going back to Reddit, but I don't think I'll be able to resist watching the dumpster fire 🔥

I'm so glad to have found a reddit alternative that I actually want to use. I just joined yesterday, but I'm really liking it so far. And I love the general air of friendliness y'all seem to have cultivated here!

I'm working on painting up some things for Oathsworn (boardgame). I'm painting a huge monster, and I just finished painting some terrain pieces that my partner 3d printed, like a ruined building and some walls overgrown with moss. Haven't had much time for painting lately so I'm happy to make some progress again. (now I just gotta figure out how to add pictures to a post!)

Edit: I think this should work?

Yesss a place to talk about the little poop noodles! I've had a bin going for about 2 years. I use a stacking bin with 5 trays. After starting it, I realised that the whole CFT idea doesn't work as well as I was expecting, so essentially I treat them as independent bins that the wormies are able to move between freely.

I've found that a pretty laid back approach to feeding them works the best for me. Whenever I have kitchen scraps, I toss them on top. I add a small part of our coffee grounds (we drink a good amount), the rest goes straight into the garden. And whenever I feed I toss in a similar amount of dry shredded cardboard. When a tray is full, I move another one to the top and start feeding that.

For bedding, I just use the cardboard I toss in continuously, and lots of small bits of browns that are too big to be composted by the worms. Like small sticks, some corn cobs that went in whole (the worms love to chill inside them), a load of pistachio shells that have been in there for a year that the baby worms always sit in, etc. Whenever I sift out a tray all that stuff just goes right back into the new one I'm filling, the worms seem to love it.

Seems to work well for me! Only problem I ran into recently was we had a lot of rain, and apparently so much moisture got in through the air holes that parts of the bin turned anaerobic. Which apparently attracted a whole lot of ants. Fortunately I managed to dry out the bin a bit, and got rid of most of the ants. So all's well in noodle town again.

That's a really lovely post you wrote. Being able to recognise the good moments is so important.

I feel this.

Over the past couple of years I've made a conscious effort, when someone just doesn't get it, instead of being annoyed, to feel happy for them. Why? Because apparently they have no experience with their body or brain limiting them. With experiencing something that they can't just change or push through. With struggling to do something that comes easy to others. So, they're lucky, and I try to think "good for you".

Of course that isn't fool proof, I do still get frustrated at times, but it really surprised me how trying to create this perception shift in myself actually helped me.

I am totally with you! Mostly in conversation I try to use the Latin names. Works fine, because the person I'm talking to generally either 1) doesn't know anything about plants and wouldn't know the common name either, or 2) does know about plants and most likely does recognise the Latin.

Common names are really impractical IMO. For example, a while back I was giving away some cuttings, and someone offered me a cutting from her "umbrella plant" (translated) in exchange. So I said sure, fully expecting a schefflera. But she showed up with a cyperus alternifolius, which (at least in my language) has exactly the same common name. How is this useful? 🙄

I mostly play big campaign games with my partner, for example currently we're playing Frosthaven and Oathsworn (and have Aeon Trespass lined up). Other favourites are Aeon's End, Spirit Island, Terraforming Mars. Me and my friends have a strong preference for cooperative games!

Some more low key games that we tend to bring out with friends who don't game a lot are Isle of Cats, Thunderbirds, Namiji, and The Crew.

Awesome that you made your way over here, I've always found your posts super useful. I hope you stick around.

I see a few of my favorites have been mentioned already (Aeon's End, Spirit Island, The Crew, Pandemic Legacy) but here's a few more:

• Gloomhaven: There's a reason this game was at the Boardgamegeek #1 spot for years. Absolutely an epic game, with so much strategy and variety involved. For those who are intimidated by the complexity, size or price of the game, there is also Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion, which is essentially a light version of the game. An excellent starting point, and not any less fun than it's big sibling.

• Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood: Another big campaign game with very interesting mechanics. The game is quite hard and punishing, but you have lots of difficulty levels you can play on. The story is set in a land overrun by the Deepwood, a forest filled with huge monsters. You play a band of mercenaries who defend people from those monsters.

• Sprawlopolis: A game consisting of 18 cards, that contain city blocks and roads, and each player places a card down to add to the city. Each card has a different scoring system on its back, and you draw a few for each game, so every game feels entirely different. Quick to play, and fits in your pocket so you can bring it anywhere.

These look awesome! They're really cute, the honey comb theme is great, and all the icons are so clear. I'd love to have an easy visual theme like this. And with instances communities not being created willy nilly like I'm noticing on some other instances I think(?), it's easy to keep up and make more of too.

Interesting question. I actually had a conversation about this with friends recently, one of the group had just gotten an ASD diagnosis and we realised we were all neurodivergent--except, did I count? We quickly concluded that that didn't really matter, but now I'm curious what y'all think.

Due to a medical event years ago, I suffered brain damage. It didn't really "break" functions, but since then I've had trouble with concentration, energy, mental planning, and perhaps most importantly I get overstimulated really easily. I can't handle a conversation while the radio is on, I wear ear plugs when I need to go into a shop, I can't watch busy/flashy tv shows, if someone is fiddling with something in their hands I get an urge to run away, etc. It might not sound like much to some, but it's left me unable to work (there's more than I described).

I realise that neurodivergence is mostly used for differently developed brains. But mine also don't function "typically". What do you think?

(And just to reiterate, it really doesn't matter, I know how I am and how my brain works now and a label isn't important to me, I'm just wondering if the general public would find it strange if I said I'm neurodivergent).

I really enjoy big campaign games, so my cult of the new games are Frosthaven and Oathsworn. I think both are fantastic games and I'm enjoying them a whole lot. I think Aeon Trespass is also going to go on that list, but that's currently sitting on a shelf unplayed--only because I'm too busy with the other two mentions, though!

It um, kind of can! It took a bit of effort, but I got it to come up with a character and roleplay it, and then Lyra Moonshadow and I went on an adventure together!

That looks super cute!

One thing you might want to know, it costs venus fly traps a lot of energy to create flowers. It can be a risk to let it flower, since it might take so much energy that it dies off afterwards. Of course you know your own plant best, just in case you see it starting a flower stalk when it's not doing too well, you can (literally) nip that in the bud!

I'm excited. I don't think I'll ever play the RPG (I just don't know who I'd ever play it with), I don't need all those minis (except maybe the summons would be nice to have), but I'm really really looking forward to playing through Gloomhaven 2.

That sounds and looks adorable! I really like the theme.

That sounds really cool! Are you designing it all from scratch?

This is adorable! What kind of foam do you use for them?

Those are gorgeous! It sounds like a super fun hobby.

As someone who's had that "I should try making my own dice!" thought way too many times, but being super intimidated by it, is there an easy way to try it without buying all the extra gear? Any tips?