Salads, sandwiches, wraps, ramen (using an electric kettle to boil water).

If OP has a fear of fire, a rice cooker, or crock pot, or instapot, or air fryer, or panini press can do so much without ever having to see flames.

Early 30s /F / North America

I’m close to the right demographic, but for the missing appendage.

For a short while when I was having trouble waking up, I used a goat scream (the goat scream) for my alarm. It’s close enough to a woman’s scream and I gotta say, yes it woke me up, but god, do not do that to yourself.

Is it possible to have them share their screen instead of using a phone camera? Unless it’s hardware stuff, I guess

But I know for sure on Teams you can use your own pointer on their screen during screen share to point at what you mean and to motion towards stuff.

I don’t know how much they are, but there’s a bunch of classic games on the switch. Jeopardy is pretty good. Wheel of fortune. I think there’s a trivial pursuit.

For other Jackbox trivia games, fibbage is great, and you don’t know jack is too.

Ngl, I didn’t read OPs post, but Cync has given me so much trouble.

Similarly, instant coffee can really take a dish up a notch. Looking at you, jambalaya.

I only post or reply on Lemmy, but I do have Stealth for Reddit still for those really bad doom scrolling days.

Are you a field mouse?

What are some of your favorites? I adore folk and am always looking for more recommendations

I would recommend The Arcadian Wild

It’s hard to pick a favorite, but right now I’m really into Funk. Funk as a whole, definitely, but the subsect that is Bubblegum Funk is just so relaxing and chill, I’ve been listening to it while working lately.

Built a new computer last year and didn’t want anything to do with win11, so I switched to Linux Mint. I really like it, and there’s a lot of help all around online. Thankfully because of Proton, I haven’t had any trouble playing any game yet. It’s been great!

I do miss ClipStudio for painting and OneNote for ttrpg notes, but I’ve been making due with Krita and Notion.

My dog does the same thing! I didn’t know that was a semi-common thing

I’m not super convinced it’s to eat around us with my boy, because he’ll do it in the middle of the night too. But he has to do it where there’s carpet. He’ll only eat if there’s carpet he can spit his food onto. Rugs under his food bowl don’t count lol

Honestly, just where I’m at in life. I’ve been pulling myself up by my bootstraps for all my life.

Grew up in bumfuck poorsville with abusive parents, joined the military, did some cool stuff, left and went to college, bought a house, graduated, sold the house, moved across country, got a job with my degree, and found a solid friendship group who encourage and care for me and vice versa.

This is all while suffering from an unseen disease that I was finally diagnosed with while in college and have been fighting against ever since.

I am proud of my achievements and I can really say to myself that I made it, despite everything, I made it.

I’ve seen this one recommended a bunch, but I always thought it was a documentary. Interesting. I’ll give it a watch.

I am too lazy to change the formatting, but those are my notes on the movies I’ve seen this summer… some of them I remember better than others, and I’ve definitely forgotten to include quite a few on here.

[V] Late night with the devil - 7/10 Fun, unique

[V] Barbarian 5/10 - Ew, asshole characters

[V] Talk to me 7/10 - unique, uncomfortable

[V] Hell House LLC 7/10 - fun, scary

[V] Smile 7/10 - didn’t need the ending, excited for the sequel

[V] The menu 9/10 - dread, uncomfortable

[V] Anna and the apocalypse 7/10 - fun! Sad!

[V] The descent 6/10 - strong people, ew

[V] Event horizon 0/10 - ew, ew

[V] Train to busan 10/10 - terrifying, great characters

[V] Underwater 7.5/10 - claustrophobic, unique

[V] The cleansing hour 7/10 - unique, funny

[V] Sputnik 5/10 - ((can’t remember))

[V] Freaky 6.5/10 - funny

[V] Longlegs - undecided. But maybe 8/10? Dreadful

• The Exorcist (The Version You’ve Never Seen)

I’ve never seen this version? But I have read the book and eugh. It’s horrible in a sort of losing bodily autonomy way.

• Hereditary (a masterpiece in my opinion. Free upvote literally every time I see someone recommend it)

This one sat with me for a long time and I swore immediately after watching it that I would never watch it again. And now I absolutely love it. There are a few bright moments that really freak me out, but the tension and build up is so good. Chef’s kiss to this one.

• Blair Witch Project

Haven’t seen!

• Paranormal Activity

One of my favorites! I know this one gets dragged for being campy(??), but I think the original did an excellent job of building suspense and dread.

• Ouija: Origin of Evil

Mike Flanagan is one of my favorites and this one is a lot of fun. Not as high in my list as others, but still a good time.

• It (miniseries got me as a kid but Chapter 1 is good too)

I need to rewatch the miniseries, but I wasn’t a huge fan of the more recent movies. I think the actors were all great (especially for Pennywise), but it felt like it was trying too hard? Pt 2 seemed to realize they’d never match the book and it ended up being more funny than anything.

• Lights Out (not the entire movie but it has its moments and overall a good style)
• Candyman (original)
• Poltergeist (original)
• Autopsy of Jane Doe (another poster reminded me of this one!)
• The Taking of Deborah Logan (for like one scene but IYKYK)
• The Dark and the Wicked
• The Orphanage
• Terrified and When Evil Lurks were both solidly unsettling at least

These are all being added to my list!

• Event Horizon (though I know you didn’t like this one)

Bleh. Lol

• Conjuring 1-2 and Sinister too, all at least solid spookies.

Love these movies. I would add the first half of Insidious as well.

As for my list - I’ll throw that in a separate comment soon enough :D

Oh I agree that they’re not the only good horror movies, there are so many out there that are good in other ways and many of which I absolutely love. But I’m really just looking for that something to keep the lights on at night, lol.

Thanks for the list! There are a few I haven’t seen in there, I’ll give them a try :)

Adding to my list, thanks :)

Added to the list!