WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW?

You can go all out and end up spending thousands of dollars on a pond with a filtration system, but why would you?

Buy a ten dollar kiddie pool, fill it with pebbles, like for an aquarium, include some larger decorative rocks, buy a cheap filter, and make sure he has stuff he can climb out of the water on and bask. He'll enjoy canned salmon and tuna plus fruits and veggies. Make sure he can get into the sun each day. It's not that hard or very expensive to take care of him. There's no need for an expensive set up.

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You can go all out and end up spending thousands of dollars on a pond with a filtration system, but why would you?

Buy a ten dollar kiddie pool, fill it with pebbles, like for an aquarium, include some larger decorative rocks, buy a cheap filter, and make sure he has stuff he can climb out of the water on and bask. He'll enjoy canned salmon and tuna plus fruits and veggies. Make sure he can get into the sun each day. It's not that hard or very expensive to take care of him. There's no need for an expensive set up.

We ended up getting a 20-gallon tank, a thermostat to check water temperature and a UV bulb for this particular one tonight, and so far, the prices over at my local Petco weren't that bad. The next step tomorrow is buying a filter and platform for him to bask on.


I might as well introduce him, too. This is Max, a 5-inch slider turtle who originally belonged to my sister's boyfriend. He shared his tank with a larger, healthier male, named Chubby Jarvis... and hormones and a desire for territorial dominance kicked in, to put it lightly...

The above image is that of the scar Max has on his nose. Back when I was pet-sitting these guys, Chubby would constantly harass, bite, and push Max away when feeding. He's developed a very timid personality as a result, and tends to shy away from ever picking up any food, on the account that he'd risk getting beat up for taking "Chubby's" meal, which raised a real concern with me. The final straw was when Chubby opened the scar on Max's nose, and I had to treat his bleeding wound. I brought it up with my sis and we agreed to give Max a trial period at my house in efforts to separate the two turtles.

I hope it all works out. Part of the reason for adopting this guy is to see it have a better life outside of a bully's shadow.

Sorry to interrupt your conversation about pets, everyone.

I have a short site-related question which I think is too silly to make its own topic for, so I'll just ask it here: Is it possible to send a PM to multiple people at once? And if so, how would I do that? Do I just separate their names with a comma or something like that?

Thanks, kentona!

Continue talking about pets, everyone.

That means Arcade wants to have the thread removed. Even though RMN doesn't do that.

I've seen plenty of threads like those come and go. I'm not sure what prompted me to post in that one in particular.

Also: Drinkable water from human poo.

It's weird because as a kid I was never popular at school or on any sort of team or anything. So, people wanting to team up with me makes me feel like I've died and gone to some sort of GAM MAK heaven ;_;

Because we're on the internet, we have no social obligation to lie to others to maintain face. There is no frontstage facade we have to put up, no behavioral adaptations we have to make to seem, "normal" in society, and no fear of immediate consequences if an unspoken social rule is broken, as we can just simply log off and dismiss the situation.

Especially on a site like this that revolves around creativity. Art is an extension of the artist, after all. In a community like RMN, us developers are putting our hearts and souls out there for the public to judge.

That's why any kind of rejection online can get under your skin far faster than anything said to your face. This isn't some persona that's being rejected that you can just dismiss later. This is YOU. People are rejecting YOU.

I think that's why online interactions, good or bad, can and will continue to be much more personal to us instead of, well, personal interactions. Over time, we learned to deal with the personal rejection in various ways. Not so when we're here.

EDIT:

Case and freakin point: I started writing this post about two minutes after I saw Max McGee's post. I finished writing it about thirty minutes ago. I've been on here for a year and I still teeter on whether to make the post or not. Long enough to get ninja'd by at least two others.

Red_Nova, in all honesty, I don't think what you're saying is entirely true. Even (or, in some cases, especially) on the internet we are also only showing certain parts of ourselves. Proof: Avatars and nicknames, for instance. But even moreso, we can more or less choose when to say something and when not. Online interactions only get as personal as we allow them to become - real life interactions always become personal, simply because you are there.

And if you are "rejected" on the internet, that is not YOU as an entire person being rejected. It's those parts of you being rejected that others have been able to see based on what you decided to show - and as we all know, even that can be faked.

And you know what, I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with things being like that (except in situations where someone tries to trick another). We can never show the entire spectrum of our personality the whole time, simply because it's not always appropriate. People often complain about having to "wear masks" and not being themselves, and if it means they have to suppress their personality and pretend to be something they are not, that's certainly a bad thing. But up to a certain degree, it's good that we can switch between different "modes", if you will. It's what makes us capable of social interaction at all.

In short: If I were rejecting Red_Nova (which I'm not, just to be clear!), I wouldn't be able to reject "the person who sits behind the computer and uses the nickname Red_Nova on RMN", because I don't really know that person. I would be rejecting "the image of Red_Nova that I have formed in my head, based on what I've found out about Red_Nova so far".


Edit: By the way, it always takes me an eternity to post anything longer because I usually proofread everything I write at least once.

It's been years, but I still have anxiety dreams about high school and my crazy parents. I don't know if I'll ever stop having them.

You guys worry about taking too long to post? Try writing in a language that is not your own, knowing that for every mistake you fix you'll probably introduce another one; not to mention the ones you didn't even notice to begin with... Sometimes I go over, and over, revising if what I'm typing makes sense, looking up entire phrases on google, or checking the spelling/definition of words on the dictionary -- that I even get page-snipped! And then I'm like "why bother anymore" and go cry myself to sleep. T_T