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I know this is an out of the blue request, and likely not many people will see it, but... if any of you are going through a rough time, or if you've got a rough time ahead in your future, do all you can to fight for victory through the harshness of it, okay? I know many problems in life are incredibly difficult to overcome, or can make you feel totally powerless against them, or maybe they're even incurable and life long; it's hard to keep up the fight against problems like them, and I get there's not always a guaranteed happy ending after the journey. I don't think it's weak-willed of someone to give up, and it's nothing to be ashamed about. But, while there are many potential problems on different scales in life, there will always also be people out there that would love to help, that might have another approach to your problems that you may never have thought about which can at the very least make things more bearable, and has for them.
The modern world is pretty great about finding approaches to these sort of things. We've got forums and websites where people going through struggles in life similar to yours get together, share their advice with each other and can understand what you're dealing with. Heck, even on this forum, there's a lot of advice to be found and to ask for if you feel comfortable doing so here. Researching more about what you're dealing with is pretty easy with the internet, and every day or so, more information (some which could possibly even help) is learnt and added. Professionals can even do the research for you if you have a doctor/GP or such that you trust. Friends, irl or online can even just listen to you if information provides nothing, and support you through what you're going through, even just by trying to keep your mind off it. This paragraph just doesn't even begin to cover how many places there are to look to nowadays.
I get that with some things in life, all the advice in the world, all the fun distractions, may not really resolve the whole problem... but, for while you have the gift of life, for while you live in a world where there's always more to learn and more ways building up for fighting back against many problems, do what you can to give your problems as hard a time as possible, okay? Take care of yourselves to the best of your ability, even with how slow progress may feel at times... the time you have on this earth is precious, and no pesky problems should be allowed to ruin this time for you.
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Ahhhhhhh I wish it could notify me when something I'm replying to gets deleted, I had a comment I spent too long on since I'm a slowpoke ready but now I can't copy it over to here whoops x.x;; I wanted to link these subreddits to you since they've really helped me realize how even when horrible events occur, there's always also good, amazing people that do their best to bring back some hope for humanity
https://www.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews/
https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/
https://www.reddit.com/r/randomactsofkindness/
As for what humans did in the past, I know what you mean, don't worry... hearing about the kinds of barbarity that occured so frequently back then really makes me grateful I live in somewhat less bloodthirsty times ^^;
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You're very welcome! I hope they help you feel even a bit more optimistic about humanity; there's a ton of horrendous people out there for sure, but there's also countless people that really do make life even a bit better I feel, or at the very least want to if they only knew how. If you end up becoming misanthropic, I still think that's a respectable and understandable position, I just hope you don't get into the kind of state it led me to in the past ^^
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I feel like it's worse...
How so, may I ask? :c
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Heya, I didn't hear from you yesterday so I'm wondering how you are, how things went if they went anywhere ^^
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Not too sure why I'm putting time into Pokemon MMOs when I'm neither social enough to interact with anyone or have any friends that would play them :l
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It's fascinating to consider how much a person can shape things around them just by doing little, little things, things they might not even realize have such an impact.
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Feel like sharing this since it's a really great resource to keep in mind, hope it's helpful to somebody. https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualConversation/wiki/support
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So I'm in the middle of doing a Water-type challenge in Pokemon Y (which basically means I act like a Water-type gym leader), and for the heck of it, I caught a Luvdisc and use it in my team every so often... somehow this thing has had amazing luck with causing confusion from Water Pulse so far, landed most of its hits after being assaulted with enough Smokescreens for most other Pokemon I've trained to keep missing until forced to switch out, and its only faint so far was down to a nonsense critical (those seem to be plaguing me a lot this run x.x;; ) that otherwise it would have handled pretty well...
I get its usefulness will probably have evaporated almost entirely by the end, but geez, this is really redeeming Luvdisc in my eyes o.o
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You can say that again; even having caught the majority of water types I can get so far (and there are a lot available), I still haven't really found anyone in particular that has been/seems like it'll eventually be disappointing, possibly Luvdisc aside. The fact that a 90 power STAB move in Surf is given away as early as after the third gym definitely helps matters too.
As for Barbacle, I'm very glad to hear that; my Binacle's a few levels away from evolving (first time I've ever used one) and has done lovely so far, can't wait to see how they fare afterwards
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If you go to 'Unread Content' near the top of a page, apply these filters-
and save as a stream then click the green tick, you basically get the 'View All Updates' link from before the update, except accessible from any page. Or you can change the 'Following' filter to 'Content posted by members I follow' if you only want to see status updates by friends. Another stream you could make that might be convenient is with these filters, which could serve as the equivalent to the 'threads I've replied to' list near the top of the main page before the update. There's probably a few other kinds of streams you could make that would work better for you, it might be worth a check to see if there's something which could be convenient for you.
I've seen a few members saying they weren't sure how to get around the site after the update, so I'm sharing this just in case it helps anyone navigate around, at least until/if the regular way to see all status updates and topics you've replied to returns
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Unless I haven't noticed it before, it looks like a new stream has been added by default, 'New Status Updates', so I guess you wouldn't really need to make it now! I've also just noticed the default 'Content I Posted In' stream, but it looks like it will also show status updates, and probably blogs you've posted in too, so it's not quite the same as a recent topics I posted in stream.
Not sure why I'm talking about streams so much, I like them a little too much
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