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another minor update is gbro's next hearing is next wednesday and gmom/partner set-up a defense lawyer to meet with him sunday (who knows still if gbro will accept), and well psychologist is sick for this week so there's no appointment to fight over anyways

so for the next few days things are pretty well set and there shouldn't be updates and the family can decompress for a bit... dunno what to expect from gdad, he really just obsesses and doesn't understand/accept anything so a period of not hearing anything can just make him more deranged and keep trying to blame others trying to sabotage him for some stupid reason whatever and now he has nothing in his life to do

honestly wish there was an appointment and gdad could take it because fuck he needs to get some sense and he won't listen to anyone

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current Frieza is a gag character who wants the dragon balls to become taller

had another update with gsis, gdad sent her a big ranting text this morning but whatever just gonna cliffnotes one actually important detail embedded into it - which is that it sounds like duty council contacted him and said that gdad likely wouldn't be allowed surety (which it sounds like WANTED to do because he's completely mind-wiped all the reasons that's a stupid idea)

gmom then got contacted (it sounds like referred to by gdad), they asked if we want surety, we said no and tried to put for the case of a mental health facility

so okay then as it sounds that gdad won't be allowed surety and gmom has specifically denied it, that should be the end of this chapter and he should remain confined for the time being

p much

it's really sad for me because like... I'm your child too, and he's really throwing me away (and gsis) for this delusion about the 3rd child who's been making us all live in fear

you would THINK if he's this protective over his child he would also want me safe, even if that means me going away. but he doesn't see it that way and instead he's upset that I left to protect my safety

but the two parts in his mind is a) the protective delusion over gbro that he isn't a threat (even though gdad is clearly terrified himself), but also b) he wants to blame gmom as the enemy, so me staying here puts me on her "side", ignoring entirely the reason I'm here

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5 or 6?

Yoshimaster (Anime North a few times), GTM (my place and his a few times), TRE (AN twice), also Nio (Japan & Malaysia), and SantaRPG (stayed with him a few weeks after coming back from Japan)

the "or 6" is that I've been in the same room as ff6man at AN, StreetPassed him even, but we didn't actually meet

Fiop posted...

Also, I heard that 17 Mii suits were confirmed to be coming too, based on some of the ones in Tour.

can we have Miis without helmets???? because that would make them finally useable again

gmom is kinda exploding over the stress now trying to wrap our brains around an update and it's certainly making her irate and giving me a headache

no specifics or anything coming from the courthouse, gdad is treating everybody as an enemy and his paranoia is keeping him from cooperation, we've been trying to get a hold of the psychologist's receptionist but no answer (apparently gdad's been blowing up her phone all day yesterday), we've done the best we've can to grasp the situation and the best we got for now is asking gsis to ask gdad for an update

ultimately, amidst all gdad's passive aggressive garbage, the new news we got is that gdad has given up and isn't getting involved anymore. part of this is because he's absolutely incapable of anything, he can't process information whether it's written or spoken to him, and he has too much anxiety to call anyone to find out himself. so all he's really been doing is sitting by his phone waiting for the arresting officer to tell him everything even though it's now all out of their hands. gmom was in communications with that officer the night before and she just directed gmom to the courthouse phone number who is actually in charge now

so whatever, the fear of gdad getting gbro out on bail appears to be out the window now because of gdad's pure incompetence so it doesn't even matter if he wants to or not. annoying as fuck because he's making up insane conspiracy theories that gmom is telling the cop not to talk to gdad when the entire reality is we're trying to ask him to figure out what the fuck is going on because we don't know and the last thing he said was about releasing gbro and then he went silent.

like with gbro, gdad can't accept his own fault. because that's all this is. he's too incompetent to do any of this so he's just gonna blame everyone else hiding it from him when he's literally putting in zero work to do anything himself. his own incompetence is making him estrange his relationships further and further which just makes it more and more impossible to try to help him. we WANT to share info, I WANT to be able to help my dad, but his delusions are pushing the opposite and it's entirely his own fault.

yeah I never restarted the level, instead used up like 40 lives going off of checkpoints (I was 99 before starting, finished with in the 60s of lives and who knows how many I gained from coins)

like I said though first time I did at least still have one stored power-up to spend on the spring segment, but not my second attempt to get the 10-coin I missed

literally but like from the year 2023 instead of 3000

also interesting difference is that last time his fail to comply release order was because he got caught for something else and the realized had a surety, as opposed to this time where his surety (gdad) is the one who outright reported him and supplied that text message of his specific intent to be non-compliant

I was googling and lolling

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he's got 2 failure to comply undertakings (july/august) and this now would be his 2nd failure to comply release order (the previous was the 2nd week of this month, for breaking the late september conditions). also this time gdad already submitted the text of gbro telling him to shut up and let him break compliance, making it clear that he still doesn't intend to comply. police/courts have that and there's no taking it back.

if they ever looked further back in his texts he'd be screwed, last week during keysgate he was threatening to leave the country lol (that was when he had my switch hostage =/)

but yeah there's plenty of reason for the judge tomorrow to just say no you don't get another chance and the sane part of the family is really hoping on that while gdad's brain seems to be entirely fried

lmao

on the phone with gsis, she's been trying to talk to gdad, apparently he thinks my texts were from gmom using my phone to get at him

fucking paranoid delusions

welppppppppppppp

so in these days gsis has been trying to reassure me that okay yeah gdad's been convinced now that yeah gbro can't be out. he's still heavily afraid of gbro in prison so he insists strongly to make sure he is in a hospital instead (as if that's our choice) and he doesn't go to a toronto prison. fucking whatever, so long as gdad's accepted the base fact that gbro has to be in custody the rest isn't in our hands anyways.

yesterday tho like I've been saying gdad has been in a complete fantasy world about gbro being such a good good sweet little boy, a victim of the system, emailing pictures of him as a baby oh no my boy my precious precious boy who wouldn't hurt a fly T_T

and yep, exactly as I suspected, gdad has flipped again. less than 48 hours ago gdad specifically told me to tell gmom to handle it so gbro goes to a hospital, and today i text him to say she's doing exactly that, and gdad is talking about him speaking with the arresting officer about getting him RELEASED today

important to note though this is very much his own fantasy land, here in the world of reality gmom has been engaged with the actual court system in charge and they specifically said he's being taken to court about his options TOMORROW, not today. there isn't even an appointment today, the idea of getting released simply does not exist, the words gdad are saying are pure fiction.

last question I asked is "what do you mean being released, are you going to sign up has his surety again?" and I got no reply. the really depressing part of this for me is how gdad is completely willing to cast me aside as an evil enemy all to protect this violent psychopath who's been terrorizing the family, putting GDAD HIMSELF into a pure panic of fear, but clearly now I'm the bad seed for not following his protective fantasy. I said last night we're all incredibly fortunate that police intervened at the train station instead of the apartment, avoiding a very probably altercation... turns out that really gdad NEEDED that fight to knock some fucking sense and remember what the situation was. like I said the hour leading into the arrest gdad was TERRIFIED of what would happen, but because police intercepted he gets to easily slip back into his fantasy world

now we just have to sit back and pray on the court system to just say no, don't allow another fucking conditional release after he's broken it so many times in this one month and that he shows ZERO interest in complying with it. but if they offer it's looking like gdad is fully prepared to bring hell back to his apartment

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I'm thankful that the jet run & spin boost segments were pretty fun and easy so it wasn't tooooo frustrating to redo the last section. vine was whatever, a couple times the pull would pull me into a spike but it's not too bad

middle section as well a lot of repeats because of the spring stage, but wall-jump was probably the most fun for me. crouch jump could be frustrating with accidental ground-pounds but it's pretty simple and you don't even really need to hold anything but crouch & press jump as needed

first section parachute-float-dolphin was kinda unremarkable, parachute you're really just waiting for the screen although sometimes it's very tight fitting between obstacles taking your power-up. the other two just not any issue but sad I didn't catch the 10-coin in the dolphin zone

VintageGin posted...

Also the crouching high jump section was the one that finally broke me and made me swap my controls because up until that point I was using down in midair to do a ground pound. That killed me a lot.

definitely got me a lot and oh man my eyes rolls so far outside my skull every time just augh

ground pounding just outside the edge of the platform fff

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gbro's on his way back, should be about 40 minutes (of course meaning he'll be late for curfew again)

nerves up high for the next hour

well I do know I can trust the owner of that lfaqs or whatever site

alright i'mma go in a few more details I avoided since tbh I do consider the possibility of gbro remembering this place exists. yeah I've already said a lot in the first place like for literally years that hasn't been noticed - but last night's update is really a massive deal that if gbro found out he would absolutely go nuts beyond anything we've seen yet

so last night's update is: gdad actually reported to the police that gbro broke his release conditions. that's why he was extra terrified last night because if gbro finds that part out there's really no telling how far he would take out his vengeance on gdad for, well, being a "traitor rat" as gbro has been muttering about for weeks now

last night he even swung by here because cops were asking for pictures of the text he sent as well as the pages of the bail conditions and gdad doesn't know how to take phone screenshots so he needed my help

so that part is all submitted and it cannot be taken back which feels pretty cemented..... however, gdad is still gradually doing that signature mind reset I've been talking about. even while screenshotting the texts gdad was very straight with me to only screenshot the text from that night where gbro told dad he's going to break bail (and telling dad to shut his mouth about it). gdad still wants to protect gbro from the fullest lengths of his actions, telling me that if the police saw the full texts that would all be too much (same thing with mom tbqh, but gdad's a MUCH HIGHER level of protective still)

but whatever like I said that bail can't be taken back, unfortunately the cop who's on the case works night shifts so not gonna hear more until the evening, and in the meantime gdad is stewing over that trademark brain reset - he's emailing me & gsis pictures of gbro as a baby to say oh what a good bye he was, and he's on the phone with gsis just an incredibly painful level of denial repeating my boy my sweet baby boy he doesn't deserve this, he was bullied as a kid, he went through a divorce, he's a good boy who would never do anything to women, he helps women, those teenage girls were hitting on him, he was drunk and vulnerable!! going on about googling supreme court of canada if gbro is really liable if he was drunk and arguing he shouldn't be - meanwhile gsis on the other end of the line, an assault victim herself and it's absolutely eating up at her to hear this shit from her father

also trying to gain sympathy for gbro be inexplicably comparing her high school troubles as "you had your problems too just like he does" which is so fucking insane to compare. yeah she had a rough teen life (because we had a shit upbringing) but she's done NOTHING AT ALL comparable to gbro's violent assaults and horrific abuse against the family that it's such a disgusting insult to compare them and to have her past - AS A TEENAGER, NOT A NEARLY 40 YEAR OLD ADULT - thrown in her face like that when she has actually made an effort to grow up and become the best person she can (keeping in mind she was always very independent, with jobs she paid for her mistakes largely on her own in her own housing)

so yeahhhh gdad's really breaking down, absurd reality breaking denial - but I mean it can't be taken back now that he reported gbro's broken conditions so that's fully up to the police now - of course, there's no guarantee that police take any of this as a particularly high priority especially now if they're on the phone with gdad who's in this mode of oh my poor boy my beautiful baby boyyyy

gdad even text gbro his delusions, telling him he's such a good boy who wouldn't do anything and from gbro's perspective rn he just thinks he's the king of the world thinking that gdad just caved and is letting him do what he wants.... but uh once he finds out police know all hell's about to break loose (again)

MariaTaylor posted...

isn't the psychologist legally obligated to report when a patient poses a clear threat to themselves or others? it feels like we are seeing one of those 'he repeatedly threatened to kill every member of his family for years, and authorities did nothing about it' news stories unfolding in real time.

two issues with this

a) both parents still don't want to share the FULL details of what's going on in fear of tacking on further charges (gmom will say further than gdad but even still)
b) more of an assumption on my part but I feel they have to get that impression from the patient themselves, and at least so far gbro's capable of hiding the well of his hatred when he goes in. typically talks very vague about details, "maybe I went too far" without explaining how far which gives the psychologist the impression that oh hey he's reflecting on his actions! when of course I know better

extending on b a bit there's also the fact our appointment explaining the further details was after gbro & gdad's appointment so the psychologist couldn't press on the fuller details as easily, they'd be more equipped next session I would hope but also we really didn't have enough time to fully get our side out either, like I said, I didn't even get an opportunity to talk much

welp, release conditions officially broken which is what gdad's been terrified of happening since signing on for the $5k bail

gdad's terrified to the point he's getting a hotel for himself to protect his own safety now

tomorrow should be a big aftermath day

mnk posted...

If I don't know one of the characters, then I usually only abstain when I'm mostly indifferent to the other character. Mostly it's just if I think there's a good chance I might like the unknown character more than the other.

^

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of course what I'm faced with

wild almost the same tie

but yay locke

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safest part for me is that gdad isn't telling gbro why we fought, so in gbro's incredible mind I left because of gdad (partially true, but uh it's because of gdad delusions over gbro, denying the inhospitable environment created)

but yeah yesterday psychologist - gdad took gbro, then after their appointment was actually another one for me gmom and gmoms partner

... unfortunately it didn't really do much, I really struggled to get a word in and when I did I'd quickly be interrupted without finishing, so I never even got to finish the story of how I ultimately left or really much of my experience actually in the apartment with gbro for these days we've had despite trying and getting interrupted about 1 story 4 or 5 times. since gdad/gbro's appointment also went long we unfortunately couldn't get much more extension

kind of crucial input but tbf gmom had a lot of threatening messages to go over even if there was a lot of hypertalk looping around. big shock to the psychologist to see all that stuff even just after just having an hour+ with him so I guess he's managed to hide his power level enough, apparently being very vague of his actions.

got to the kind of rewind ending where gmom comes out of it back to being hopeful for a bit but not actually addressing the severity of what's going on and what to do about it, but hey another day passes and she's already back to getting more threatening messages so we're back to square one

can't keep booking this many separate appointments as a family so next week is just gbro/gdad only, at least that means the psychologist is more armed with examples of what gbro is specifically doing - although like I said I haven't really been able to state much of my perspective living there. like I said though right now I'm not an enemy, it's known that both gdad & gbro still WANT to have me back contrasted to the focus gmom has as a pure vendetta target. I would honestly LIKE to attend an appointment with them both so I could get a safe opportunity to speak but it's something that would have to be planned out where I'm only in their presence with the doctor around and I can leave the way I came. obviously not in the cards while gbro is still deranged enough to be texting gmom threats though.

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episode beated, yo what the fuck

I haven't been high on Loki, while I think this season's better it's had its stumbles too, but hot damn this episode had me on the edge of me seat. was excited to see Minutes & Renslayer get fucked over but then welp guess it can't all go over easy. Strange though how both this ep and the premier with the same scene put so much slow-mo attention on the phone-call just to make a quick up-beat answer with O.B.

also lol if this gets another season we gotta keep the tradition of watching Loki get pruned episode 4

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The amount of vermin rhetoric I'm fed on socials is just plain depressing. Especially with what's going on in my life and seeing how hatred can radicalize a family member, I'm astounded to see so many people do the exact same thing over this conflict. Overloading themselves in a disgust that dehumanizes entire peoples and even with it pointed out they accuse you of terrorism.

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... it's a chain of I guess fast-food restaurant here. I don't know how wide-spread it is but it was my sister's favourite place to grab lunch through high school and I just passed by it today and commented on that nostalgic fact

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my niece has an oogie boogie squishmallow

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posting from my pc at gmoms

okay what can i catch-up... let's start from last night recap: gbro was blasting music from 11 to midnight during which I kept going between my room and gdad's room because I'm honestly concerned for him, I already know he struggles to sleep and this is just pure hell with it especially blasting in the spare room where gdad stays. eventually it gets to the point gdad says if I don't like it I can go to gmom's - and I say yeah it's kind of hitting that point for me that I cannot take this situation and I may have to

next day dialogues with gsis, he's mad and blaming her for "convincing" me to go to my moms as if it's not y'know, the entire mess ass situation that I don't feel safe and am too afraid to even move in. more dialogue now with gmom who's meeting up with gdad and planning out a way for me to safely get out and move my things which gdad isn't happy with. comes home screaming about all the stress he's under, gbro then says he's going to toronto again to get his wallet, gdad is panicked again and begs him not to break his 11pm curfew and cost gdad $5000 - which gbro interprets as a threat and queue massive screaming match I mentioned above, but actually including some shocking truths from gdad about all of gbro's problems are entirely self-inflicted, which gbro screamingly denies. gets to the point where gdad's even yelling at him to get out which is amazing but as the fight continues he backs down to mediating mode just trying to stop the fight and that's when you can tell gdad's resetting his delusion back to "that didn't happen" mode.

gdad takes gbro to train station at which point gmom encourages me to take this opportunity and leave but I say no I need to at least talk to dad and communicate my need to leave... but he comes back already primed with anger and starts the conversation off blaming everything on gmom and gmom's partner for being evil in not supporting gbro and I just have to sit through this ranting for a while. I ask him to let me speak where I try to explain that this isn't a living environment I can handle but he just keeps interrupting me. I get him to focus on my words for one second as I try to explain that I desperately do not WANT to leave but I just don't feel saf- oh he just cuts me off again sarcastically telling me to just go then except he's clearly gaslighting me because he's not fine with it at all. as he rambles into how he wants to sell the place and move to italy.

at this point I give up. he isn't listening to what I want to communicate, he doesn't WANT to hear what I have to say, literally to the point where he's actually doing the cliche'd childish "LALALA I DON'T WANNA HEAR IT" shit which always feels really good when you're trying to pour your heart out. so whatever that's it all I can do is finish packing and go as he keeps interjecting every few minutes to berate me and gmom and gmompartner and say how he's done with everyone. I literally scream begging him to quit the abuse, quote, that the's breaking my very soul as he continues these ramblings but he just won't stop until his comments get to saying he should leave right now and I just agree - please do, goodbye.

so yeah that's definitely the emotional low point for me this week. I'm very good at understanding my dad's unreasonable behaviour which helps me deal with it, but it's not an excuse for his behaviour. I fully understand that yeah there's a whole massive heap of shit he's under with gbro - and while it is also self-inflicted because of the way he insists on protecting gbro who's clearly beyond off the deep end, that emotional turmoil is still going to have gdad on the complete edge of his rope. I get that, 100%, but also the fact that it's still incredibly abusive to me and I don't deserve that.

I also understand that a lot of the shit he says about leaving us all is a complete load of bullshit. like I've mentioned with the way gdad always resets back into denial accepting whatever heinous shit gbro does, I know that it does also apply to the rest of us. he does have these horrible outbursts when he's overwhelmed, that he eventually cools off from and does turn back on. in the moment gdad is impossible to stop ranting no matter how much you plead, unless he's faced with someone like gbro who is the exact same except without any limit.. unlike gbro however, these things always eat at him for the next few hours or days and he does have a history of reflecting and apologizing... that's something gbro is absolutely not capable of ever doing.

on the plus side gdad is trying to book an appointment with our psychologist which is something he's resisted doing for years, but after his recent experience last week he actually enjoyed it and now he's taking it seriously. I do hope that works out for him and he doesn't turn dismissive when the psychologist points out his own failings in these situations.

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he's back

and he broke my left joycon which is a special edition splatoon oled switch joycon

rage

everyone's favourite XIV character

Hirotaro "Indy Jones" "Daddy of Light" Inaba (RIP Ren Osugi)

after a while gbro texted dad to be able to pick him up - as mentioned, gdad's completely absolved gbro, so really he's focused in his vengeance to gmom who's responded to gbro's threats by asserting she'll call the cops on him

soooo bright side I think there's still a shot at getting my switch back tonight

downside gbro's gonna be back here and his dangerous threat level has skyrocketed

also of course like I was just telling gsis - this isn't even a closed chapter yet. gbro still needs his stuff, he's gonna demand his keys first thing tomorrow. I predict that gdad's gonna take him in tomorrow with the keys, gbro's gonna see his apartment's been cleaned and explode again and that's where my ability to hypothesize ends up. in gdad's favour it might be that gbro can perceive that gdad is a complete and utter doormat so he should know that he's his only lifeline now.... but I mean something's gotta happen

and also like I was telling gsis even once this chapter closes there's still gonna be 50 more after it

if you wanna know how you raise a child to be this way - gdad's already back to stockholm syndrome mode taking every single bit of blame off of gbro and going on about how HE'S the victim here and he hopes he doesn't go to jail

sigh, another update

so when gmom did get in earlier today, before she skedaddled, she did get to see the state of gbro's toronto apartment and it's completely destroyed. windows, appliances, all beaten in, holes in the walls, drugs all over the place, meth, whatever

with gmom's thinking at the time she assumed best to clean up the place. logically, sure, all of that shit could get in incredible amounts of trouble with the police and even his damn ass landlord.

knowing gbro however, logic is always last place. this is just another ticking timebomb when gbro gets into the apartment and discovers the place cleaned and his drugs gone. and if somebody's there with him they're gonna be facing his violent reaction to that discovery. which both gmom and gdad still insist gbro can't go in (which obviously gbro wouldn't accept because of the aforementioned tornado drug den condition it's in, he would want to do it solo or with one of his fellow shitlord friends)

while trying to type this there's been a number of updates it's all kind of a blur but tldr gmom tried to organize with gbro, gbro threatened her with murder, gmom turned off her phone, gbro demands gdad organize with gmom through gmompartner's phone # but the lines are getting busy here as we're all trying to communicate to each other what's going on

final status now gmom's phone back on but nobody's hearing from gbro and his last message was a goodbye then to gdad.

gmom really fucked this up for everybody

she insisted that gdad get gbro's apartment keys so he can't go in to the place he's legally not allowed to go into, saying that she can go in and get his stuff

days go by she doesn't go in so finally now she does but that same day is now gbro pulling this stunt of trying to go in himself to get, we're also on the line with gmom who hears nobody knows where gbro is so she just skidaddles out of there

but now gbro arrived, realized he doesn't have his keys, and has been text & phoning threats to gdad to bring him his keys, calling him every name in the book, rat, thief, you're dead to me, give me the keys or i'm leaving the country and you're out $5000

all could've been avoided if gmom didn't insist on this sneaky behind the back shit, she could've just said she'd go in and get it but she wants to control that he can't go in and break his bail (nice job that did now that he's threatening to do exactly that). if gbro wants to break his bail and go back to prison our parents just need to accept to LET HIM. LET HIM FUCK HIMSELF UP. you can't stop that without putting the whole family in danger!

ugh, on the phone with gmom and she's trying to high tail out of it there saying she'll go in tomorrow meanwhile gbro's demanding gdad drive in now or he's making us suffer. I told her how completely unfair it is for her to protect herself from a situation she created and letting the rest of us take the brunt of it. she relented that okay she'll talk to gbro about it but I really don't know what to expect because definitely wants to protect herself (tho she does have her partner with her)

I mentioned if they meet up to PLEASE get me my switch but I really don't know what to expect now that gbro's in his manic vengeance mode

welp looks like gbro bolted it down to toronto so now family's stressed again. he's not allowed in his apartment, and he's mandated to be at this residence between the hours of 11pm to 6am (unless accompanied by our dad)

oh and he stole my switch going there

stayed away today, here's first blender progress clip

https://streamable.com/m3ju1g

... realizing how big i draw boobas when i use my refs for 3d modelling

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nuts

i think my brain just defaulted deeznutz

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