The I’m stuck mentality. The thought that it can’t be helped. It’s the biggest thing stopping people from rising above their situation. But you don’t know what you don’t know. It can be easier to move and start over somewhere else than you might think. But if you haven’t been taught how, you would never know it. Personally speaking, it’s doing things I’ve never done and don’t know about. That’s the single biggest driver of my anxiety. Sometimes to the point of it being crippling. So I understand the feeling of moving to escape your situation feeling overwhelming or impossible. I can’t tell you how many times I was struggling with anxiety over something I needed to do and wished someone would help me get past this one thing. But other people aren’t going to do it for you. If you’re willing to reach and climb up yourself, people will more often give you a hand. But they can’t and won’t carry you… Don’t let appearance fool you, they’re all struggling themselves.

Yesterday developers at my work were showing demos of their AI experimentation and a senior developer was showing off how he was messing around with Claude AI plugin for Excel. It was a data spreadsheet of a game in development. He gave a few prompts. It spit out a literal PowerPoint presentation summarizing the data with charts, bars and graphs. He gave it a few more prompts. It ran an actual simulated game in command prompt. Then he had it create an instruction guide on everything it did. My mouth was agape. https://wp-media.patheos.com/blogs/sites/971/2017/11/gypst.jpg

I miss going to conventions. So imma make it a point to go to ACEN this year. I WAS thinking about C2E2 buut it's short notice and I don't really have the time to get to it this year. But yeah on Acen! If you're gonna be there as well, let me know! Meet ya boi Halo and we'll hang out, take pictures it'll be a blast.

Look, I know a lot of people had it rough with the surge in grocery prices, but grocery stores are STRUGGLING with their "dynamic pricing". Kroger stock is only up 22% this year! Can't you people just think about the poor shareholders???

Okay round 2 happened today. After 4 days of rest, I ran another 5k and I managed to do the whole thing without slowing to a walk or cramping side. 35 minutes. My best was 32. I'm still at a beginner level but I really want see under 30 minutes.

Great discussion! I like seeing different viewpoints from other anime fans. Edit by https://ultimate-tictactoe.io a day ago

I took my concepts into another AI art engine and made some improvements to the codex for some more dramatic pictures to get some inspiration from. This is as probably as good as my design is going to get without actually hiring an artist. Next up, I'm going to try and get a character promo video done with some lines voiced. I have the voice clip, just gotta lip sync it to a video and hope that it works the first time because of the huge credit cost.

I imagine I look a bit awkward listening to music sometimes. I'm a maladaptive daydreamer, so it's easy to get lost in the scenarios I make up inside my head.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuEOymnT8TU Kizuite. I'm here waiting for you. Ima to wa chigau mirai ga attemo. I'm here waiting for you. Sakebi tsuzukete. Kitto kokoro wa tsunagu ito wo tagutteru. Ano koro no watashi me wo samasu you ni. No need to cry.