Not sarcasm just a poor choice of words haha. You're right in that the internet wasn't safer, what I was trying to get across was that at least when there were sites for children they had a curated space where they wouldn't be exposed to anything inappropriate, whereas now they're on sites that don't cater to children (and nor should they!) where they're exposed to lots of things they shouldn't be exposed to
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You're right, the word safe there was a poor choice lol. But I still do think the internet was at least better for children when there were designated sites/communities for them with appropriate moderation, instead of children being on social media. Though of course the ideal would be for them to be playing outside but that's a whole different discussion
Issues with Flash and the actual quality of those games aside, what I really miss from that period of the internet was that children could use it safely. There's no spaces for children on the internet anymore and I think that's really sad, nine year old should be playing Hannah Montana dress-up not get eating disorders from TikTok influencers
Edit for clarity: I didn't mean to come off as though I think the internet was ever safe for unsupervised children because that's not what I believe. What I was trying to say is that the loss of spaces made for children, with adequate content curation and moderation, pushed children on social media which is awful for them
Good post op!! My first Pokemon game was FireRed and bulbasaur was my first choice too - one day I want to restart my save and soft reset for a shiny one!
I keep two windows side by side: the left one has my email, youtube and sometimes a comic I'm reading or audiobook; the right one has a browser virtual pet game I check every few hours and is where I open new tabs to check lemmy, imgur, etc. Pretty clean! But then the moment I work on either art or coding I open a third window that usually gets to 10+ tabs oops
Ooo they're adorable!! Kind of reminds me of the koroks from the Legend of Zelda, I love how you're rendering the crystals too!
Hehe thanks!! Happy to be here, it's a sweet little site so far! And I do!! My main site is Buzzly, but I also post on sheezy.art under the same name when I remember to lol
Mostly my own original characters which are either humans or anthros lol, with the odd quadruped animal as well! All the commissions I've done have been for people's characters/fursonas too. And alas no insta haha I never posted to any mainstream social media (except I guess DeviantArt but I left back in 2013 lmao)
Every time I hear a new piece of news about the Switch 2 it's disappointing. Bummer
I'm finally getting back into drawing! Ended up getting really burnt out last month due to commission work (my clients are lovely for the record! I just find commissions very stressful lol) but finally felt like picking up my tablet again (•̀ᴗ•́)و ̑̑
I've also been playing a lot of Golden Sun lately! Finished the first game and started The Lost Age and man they're just incredible games, can't believe it took me this long to finally play them!!
Happened to me once when two of my friends started dating and then had a nasty breakup. Thankfully they didn't involve me in it, worst that happened was one of them did complain about the other to me but it didn't devolve into full on shittalking thankfully, and I just told them point blank I'm still friends with their ex and while their frustrations are valid, I'm not comfortable with them venting to me. We're all adults so that's where it ended and I'm still friends with both! I don't think they ever made up but I also don't feel it's my place to ask lol it's been years at this point so it's just water under the bridge
If this keeps happening to you I'm afraid you need better friends. Unless the reason they're fighting is due to something serious (assault, robbery, discrimination, etc.) there's no reason they should involve you. I know it can be hard to be harsh with people you care about, but sometimes the best thing you can do for someone is to tell them to grow up lol, sometimes people need to watch all their bridges burn before they realise they're the one that needs to change
Omg it turns out I was following you there already?? Small world haha!