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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Put yourself ‘out there’ more. Friends are very unlikely to fall into your lap. Don’t shy away from get togethers that you usually would and you’ll likely find people that you gel with. Work is a good place to make friends and you can branch out from there. Pre-established friend groups are also nice to get in on. Other than that, regular activities are good (gym, classes, volunteering etc) there are nice people everywhere (just avoid the dicks)




  • Your post is the catalyst of me leaving this community. I haven’t really paid all that much attention to the workings of the community but after having a scroll through, echo chamber seems pretty accurate and I’m not going to be a part of it.

    I get that everyone is angry with LMG but honestly, a lot of people need to chill out about the whole thing. I’m not often in the practice of comparative advocating, but seriously… Regarding the the work environment, it is pretty common in this space, the errors are relatively small. Madison’s claims are extremely serious and should be treated as such but it seems like as soon as anything came out, everyone was so quick to brigade against something they enjoyed not 5 minutes before? People are running this business and they are going to make mistakes but that is okay.

    Above all else, LMG, LTT and Linus himself do not owe you anything. I know people don’t like hearing it because they want to feel like they’re getting more from their ‘relationship’ with these YouTube based organisations, but they really don’t. Many people I’ve seen are saying things like ‘we deserve better’ and I’m conscious that actually, you deserve nothing. What they choose to put out is up to them, not you. If you don’t like it, don’t partake.






  • I’ve not thought about this for a few years but yes. When I was a boy, I used to have a recurring dream of myself climbing this surreal-y tall climbing frame type thing. It was in an empty field. It had four repeating sections like a rope swing, rotating bridge, thick net, monkey bars, climbing wall etc. Stuff you’d typically find on an assault course or game show. It was even padded with the foam and vinyl you find in kids’ play areas. I’d have that dream most nights and would always fall out of the thing after 2-10 sections had been climbed. Well, I had resigned myself to continually climbing this thing each night and being awoken once a night as I hit the floor after falling. I’d always start at the height I fell from the previous night but progress felt minimal. Then, I finally reached the top. I remember looking around this field atop this ridiculously tall structure and feeling this great accomplishment. I genuinely couldn’t, and still can’t, believe that I got to the top. There was a massive slide from the top. I don’t think I could properly express just how long this was from the height. I rode it down and that was the last time I dreamed of it. I kind of miss that dream.