Watch it, we’re people too

The cheap tickets could be better than close seats anyway. It's easier to hide a joint when you're sitting amongst a chaotic sea of blankets in the lawn section. Oh yeah, and you get to lie down on a blanket.

I can't imagine close seats could match the experience of either dancing freely without seats getting in the way, or lying back on a soft blanket, stoned with your friends, as one of your favorite artists performs live music nearby. Why would I spend more money to throw those perks away?

We have a local place a couple cities over (013 in Tilburg) tickets usually are like €32 and large beer is €6 (i usually do well on 2) so that makes it €44 for a live performance from a band i actually enjoy (some pretty big names show up here).

Now of only i could still function for the two remaining workdays after a concert there, i would still go there.

But i'm probably getting old because it completely cripples me until after the weekend. Which is too high of a price as it puts my job at risk.

Nah, ticket sales & venues are largely a monopoly in the US and we're seeing the impact of that on our live event costs.

I realized recently that like 90% of my things that my mom considers "junk" are art supplies of some sort. (The other 10% are various stim toys.) Yarn, sewing patterns, possibly a million bottles of paint, brushes that are broken on the handle but still have the best bristles for certain effects, a tub of beads, reams of drawing paper (because I always forget about the packs I already have), I could go on and on.

The problem is, I'm shit at organizing. My ADHD brain gets overwhelmed and I never end up succeeding. Besides, I cycle through hobbies but there's no clear cut-off for when some interests change. I may keep out a crochet project because I had the steam to get halfway through, and I want it nearby so I can pick it up and add a few stitches when I feel like it. But then I decide I want to paint something, so I take out my paint supplies. Before that interest cycles completely out, I start wanting to mold something from clay...

And yeah. It gets out of hand sometimes, especially when I re-buy things I already had because I forgot I already had them. The chaos breeds more chaos. However, having to put away everything just to take it back out a few hours later sounds equally absurd. I know that's the habit we're all supposed to do, but for me if something is out of sight for too long, I could forget what I was even trying to make. I only complete projects that I keep coming back to, and any hinderance to that is like stepping on a banana peel on a stairwell, as far as my executive functioning is concerned. It makes it so much harder to arrive to the point where I'm actually done.

something that's true of most hobbies I've looked into: always start with the cheap shit tools/materials because you won't really understand why the expensive shit is good until you've had some experience.

At my level of experience (essentially none) I'd get similar results if I was using copic or crayola.

Start with a basic HB pencil. Costs under 1 dollar/euro.

If you want to add colour, get some basic coloured pencils or soft pastels. Pastels will need, in general, better paper.

Want to ink them? Go for some cheap black fine lighter pens at different widths.

This progression alone can take years and is enough to get decent at drawing, learn the fundamentals, etc. Good materials and tools are useless if you don't know how to use them properly, so don't spend too much on them too early.

There are a bunch of No Hidden Informationn / Perfect Information games. The next well known one probably being Go

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information

I think suburbs is really only for people who have no soul and no creativity in the first place which could get smashed by the blandness of it all. I grew up in a very rural area and i hated it so much, it's difficult to put into words. I'll never leave the city again.

No, bus drivers don't own the buses they drive kids around in. Those buses are owned or leased by the district or company they work for. The bus I own I converted into a motorhome, so I couldn't drive kids in it even if I wanted to (no more than two, anyway, since I do have one passenger seat in my bus).

seldomly flooring it and doing the regular maintenance can sometimes feel like this nowadays.

i kind of hate it. trying to get into chess feels the same to me as casually playing the hot new battle royale shooter and getting crushed by 14 year olds who play 8 hours daily.