Reading more books during breaks at work! It's easier to focus on reading books when I don't have reddit on my phone. I like Lemmy, but I mostly use it for 15min at a time. Since I joined Lemmy/stopped using reddit mobile, I've read 5 books! :)

I'm not a heavy lemmy user yet (been busy playing Baldur's Gate 3, woo!) but I've had Sync for Lemmy since the day it released, it's up to date, and I have not seen a single ad yet. I'm using a Oneplus Nord N20, and I don't have any adblockers installed, except the add-on in my Firefox app. Is it just me?

Hello! I'm also from Reddit, for like 11yrs. I usually don't post anything online ever, but I am going to try to contribute here sometimes. :) My hobbies/interests are anything Pokémon, arts and crafts, reading, TV, gaming, cats, cooking, plants, Critical Role and paranormal/true crime podcasts. I have 2 doofy cats, Loki and Xandis. Currently, I am super duper excited for Baldur's Gate 3! Also excited to make hopefully the best potato salad I've ever made tomorrow.

Yup. At my last job, I did my best to produce quality work, I got an award for making zero errors in a year, and I was one of the go-to people for new employees to ask for advice. I trained new team members, even while I was still a temp myself. Eventually got told that I was joining the team that dealt with all the escalation emails. I only knew how to work on 2 of the many types of products that went into that folder, but it was mandatory to work every single email that went into that box, 2 hour shift, every email had to be answered by the end of the 2hrs. I also only had a single 30min super quick "training" on how to even answer the emails (really complicated template system, which I still did not understand by the end of it)

I told my manager I wasn't comfortable working in that box, considering they never trained me to work on most of the other products, but she ignored me and said I'd figure it out. Luckily, I only had to do it once, then they delayed my actual start date for that task, until I got laid off (along with most of the rest of my team) 3 months later. YAAAAAAY. :|

Canceled Netflix because they finally kicked my friends off, might get it again for 1 month at a time, here and there. I get Disney for a few months for my brother's bday, we catch up on whatever came out in the past year. My mom shares her Peacock with me. I got a year sub to Dropout, and share it with 2-3 friends. We stay subbed to Hulu and HBO pretty much all the time, and we get Paramount a couple months a year. We have Prime, but I'm probably going to cancel it soon.

I am using Connect for Lemmy, so far, I like it, but it's the first app I've tried, haha. I used RIF for at least 10 years. Geez, didn't realize it had been that long...

Edit: ok, I'm using Liftoff now, I love it so far!

My husband has been the alchemist of our party! I just chuck all my ingredients at him before a long rest, and then I hear an "Ooooh, I think you'll like this one!" and he sends me whatever he's just brewed up. He uses potions on his characters all the time, I forget about them a lot, haha.

I still use reddit for specific communities, but only on desktop. I wasn't intending to 100% quit reddit anyway though, just to primarily use Lemmy (or whatever alternative I liked best, which is Lemmy so far)

Thrift stores, basically. I worked in various thrift stores for 5 years and mostly furnished my home that way. Just be thorough when you're inspecting it before you buy it! Check for bugs, broken/missing pieces, wiggly legs, cosmetic damage. We've gotten some really cool stuff in great condition for actually reasonable prices. My favorite is an ancient La-Z-Boy for $12, in decent shape.

If there's a Re-Store near you, they're great too! We got an adorable coffee hutch for $65, a decent couch for $80, a couple nightstands for $10-20 each, a solid, heavy duty coffee table for $30. It requires patience to find what you might be looking for, and it helps if you already know which thrift stores tend to get better quality items. Antique stores are worth a shot too, if you're ok with spending on the upper end of cheap? You can get some really well built, old, beautiful furniture. Or see if there's a furniture consignment store around you!

I think things like IKEA or Target are fine too, as long as you take care of your furniture. I've never had any problems with anything from IKEA, even when I buy used, but it probably helps I don't have kids, lol.

I use both! Mostly tap, but I use swipe enough that I would miss it if the feature was suddenly missing.

Assassin's Apprentice :( It was a recommendation from one of my managers at work. I loved the other series he recommended (Nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling, and Kristen Britain's Green Ranger books) so I was super excited to start. I have never read such a depressing book... I think I made it to the beginning of the third book, but I wasn't enjoying them, and I realized they were putting me in a weird mood, so I stopped.

My husband got us a Zojirushi rice cooker for my birthday one year, and I love it so much! We had an old $15 Oster one previously, which was also pretty nice to have, but oh boy. I'm spoiled by Zojirushi now. We could make a cake in it! I haven't yet.... But I could! Lol.

Those are extremely adorable! I'm inspired :) Haven't done nail art in a while due to a job that is rough on regular polish :( only gel holds up, and I'm lazy, haha. But now I'm motivated!

I'm playing a barbarian tiefling, trying to decide if I want to multiclass a couple levels into druid as well. I went for the tiger heart, it's been decent so far. Managed to kill the commander on the nautiloid, I've been using his sword for the whole game so far. I also have Astarion, kept him an arcane trickster. My husband is playing a dragonborn sorcerer, and he made Shadowheart into a war cleric, which has been very helpful!

I mostly just upvote, usually posts I find really entertaining, helpful, or that I agree with strongly. If I downvote, it's because I found a post needlessly aggressive, rude, like it didn't contribute to the conversation, like the poster was trying to start drama, or spreading misinformation, stuff like that.

Reading Stalking Darkness, by Lynn Flewelling. 2nd book of the Nightrunner series. Up next is the rest of the series! :P This is my 2nd read through. After that, I'm planning to re-reading a few Mercedes Lackey books before finally reading the newest one. Might just hop into the newest one if I get impatient though.

They got rid of my whole team to get rid of me? Lol, I don't think so. The job was mortgage related, and the work volume tanked in 2022, after blowing up in 2020. I was just a barely above minimum wage minion, with no team members under me. I honestly think that along with there not being enough work for all of us, they wanted to eliminate WFH teams.

Pokémon Gold, when I was 8, got it for Christmas. Technically my first game was Battleship, which I opened first, but I probably spent thousands of hours playing Pokémon Gold. :) I've played almost every Pokémon game since, up until Scarlet/Violet, which I haven't gotten yet, but maybe I will eventually.

I'm thinking either a warlock or a barbarian. I had so much fun being a barbarian, jumping around and smashing stuff! But I love spelllsssss. Super intrigued by the wild magic barbarian... Definitely going to try it at least once, probably not on my first playthrough though.

Yess! :) Astonishing Legends is what really got me into paranormal podcasts! They have good host chemistry, it's fun to listen to them. They go on tangents a lot. Highly recommend the Mothman, Black Eyed Kids and Vertical Plane episodes! And That's Why We Drink is fun, it's a couple of friends, one tells a paranormal story, one tells a true crime story. This Paranormal Life is sillier, they take turns telling each other paranormal stories, then they vote on whether they think it's real or not. Haunted Road - host tells a story about a place, then speaks to someone who works there and they discuss what they've experienced there, or what guests have experienced. Scared To Death - a couple tell each other scary stories, and try to scare each other. Spooked - different people telling their paranormal stories every episode. This one is usually really well made, the stories are really interesting! Used to be mostly a premium subscription podcast, but is now free!