Truly, this is the worst timeline

No ridicule here, only empathy. It’s a rough hand you’ve been dealt. I wish I had some magic advice to give you but I don’t have any relevant knowledge of Cambodia or how to better secure a life for yourself. What I can say is that being in your 20’s you still have plenty of time to figure your life out.

You’re educated and in tech so it’s possible some remote work could come your way, or that you could try your hand at creating something of your own to try and market. Contributing to GitHub projects might help you make some connections and networking for jobs. If all else fails, there’s no shame in doing some retail, sales, or labour work while you wait for the tech market to improve (I’m in IT myself, it’s rough out there right now with all these layoffs.).

Either way, please don’t make any rash choices you can’t take back. It may seem pretty hopeless right now but time has a way of changing that perspective. The world is better with you in it.

Much love from your Canadian brother :)

If the emperor had a text to speech device was my gateway drug, it’s such a good series on YouTube. Shame it got ended by lawyers.

If you want a much more affordable approach to the tabletop game, try battlesector 40k, it’s pretty good and accessible

Fuck clapping back in a country with that high a level of access to guns and that little mental health access. Anyone could have a gun and I’m not playing that game. I’m not usually too confrontation adverse but I’d change my name to Mat (First name Floor) before arguing with a weirdly aggressive American.

I just wanted something to show for my time at the end of lockdown. The first month of lockdown was a lovely staycation, but by month two I was ready to do something. People were picking up hobbies and getting I to exercise and whatnow, but I wanted a significant accomplishment, I wanted to get my life together. I was still living at home (24 but couldn’t afford my own place) with my mother, I’d struggled with school before, never being much of an academic success.

But it wasn’t lost on me that for the first and basically only time in my life I could go to school, get paid while doing so (Say what you will, CERB was huge for peace of mind), and I could be utterly ironclad I wasn’t missing out on anything while working on my classes. I felt I couldn’t waste the opportunity. I guess something about the change in circumstances worked because i did better than ever before grades wise.

I always think about this when people say Universal Basic Income wouldn’t work, because people are naturally driven to do things and want better for themselves. We had only a glimmer of it, but it was enough to transform my life forever.

Anyways, ramble over. I’m glad my story could help brighten your day :)

Another good thing that came out of covid: yours truly got laid off from retail/sales/customer service after ten years, giving him the first time off in ages to reflect on how long he’d been doing it and that he was still getting paid minimum wage. His time, experience and work was worthless. So he went back to college, worked hard on an IT degree and now a little under a year after graduation he’s got a great job in cybersecurity for municipal government.

It might not mean anything to you it its a big silver lining to having basically completely missed 3 years of my life thanks to covid. But yeah, fuck covid.

Hi, great write up with good info. I’d recommend some formatting though as without breaks it’s just a massive wall of text. Thanks for contributing to the discussion with such valuable insights!

I love these kinds of articles almost more for the weird art choices than the news

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Hey, random internet commenter here. This is the way to positive character growth and I want to give you kudos. It’s hard to admit flaws but you owned up to it and took constructive feedback with grace. Keep it up :)

When you get evicted due to no fault of your own because the landlord intends to renovate the property. It’s often done so they can slap in a new carpet, some tiles and a new bathtub and then jack the price up 1200$ and call it a luxury property.

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.

But actually nowadays I just have like 47 different systems sitting around so i’m prepared for when I want to run a giant mecha Monster Hunter/Iron Chef galactic cooking show RPG

You don’t have to, but it sure helps

Kissed a dude. I’m a dude. He tried to use tongue, I’m a straight guy so that was a nope

Try to remember that next time you’re afraid to try something new because you think you’ll be bad at it and screw it up.

I’d like to propose a micro-genre: Bromance films

Definition: Two or three characters (who need not actually be men) just getting up to mad shit and being great friends either before or as a result of the journey. Not entirely unlike a buddy cop movie but no need for cops.

Examples: Princess Bride, Road to El Dorado, Emperor’s New Groove, Three Musketeers

This micro-genre is absolutely predicated on the quality of it’s dialogue but it’s some of the best out there.

Still a very generous post, no faulting you there

Excellent recommendations, but I have to say those artUK links are absolutely infuriating on mobile, you can’t actually zoom in on the (quite small) painting for some reason.

I’d recommend just making a new Microsoft account for them, then leaving the username/password with the staff, ideally someone in their IT crew.

Welcome back old timer! Here’s a link to pretty much exactly the apps you’re looking for: https://wiki.servarr.com/ Happy sailing!