First of all, I agree with the other commenters about getting assessed for a learning disability and/or ADHD. Your post is more coherent and well-written than a lot of stuff by people with degrees, and you were able to do the math to figure out if you were going to pass. If you aren’t doing well in school, then it seems like there’s something else going on there.

Second, you might want to check if there’s a career center or something near you. If it turns out you do have a disability and you live in the US, there’s a program called Vocational Rehabilitation (voc rehab for short) that can help with career assessments and such. If you’re not US-based, other countries might have similar stuff; try searching for voc rehab or occupational therapy.

Third…you school only gives you seven hours to register for classes? That seems insane to me. Is that standard anywhere? Maybe your schools just suck, lol.

Myopia/nearsightedness is one of the most common reasons for needing glasses or contacts. The happy people you’re seeing online are most likely ones who only needed their distance vision corrected anyway (assuming the reviews were written by actual humans). I have farsightedness/hyperopia and astigmatism, and I’ve never really considered Lasik for similar reasons to you.

Haven’t seen anyone mention Slay the Spire yet. The original is under 600MB and the sequel (early-access) is 2GB. They’re both good! The first one is maybe a little easier, if you’ve never played them.

There’s a ton of different variations on Pixel Dungeon. Shattered PD is probably the most fully-developed.

Any random authority figure who might care about such a thing (undergrad admissions, jobs, grad school, etc)

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Damn you, Spiders Georg!

I have deliberately taken a break from painting, because we adopted a kitten and I am waiting for him to become less of a feline tornado before I break the acrylics out again

Didn’t see anyone mention the original Attack On Titan theme, which is surprising given how popular it was at the time

To nominate a show I actually watched beyond the first season: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Obligatory Achewood link

If you have a Nebula subscription, Lindsay Ellis has a fascinating video about Blazing Saddles and why it really couldn’t be made today, but not for the reasons you’d think; it has more to do with the history of the Western genre and the state of race relations in the US than “political correctness.” I wish she’d put it on Youtube.

So I guess that’s my roundabout answer: any movie that “couldn’t be made today” is probably because of larger social forces than just “too much swearing/violence/nudity/etc.”

As someone who’s used both, I think men’s and women’s restrooms are equally gross overall. Humans is humans, bodies is bodies, grossness doesn’t discriminate, etc.

I find regular oat milk and/or almond milk too watery, same as you. Oat milk or almond milk-based creamers are where it’s at for me. Califia Farms also makes a “barista blend” oat milk specifically for coffee drinks if you can find it.

TV bumpers/“vanity plates.” The Viacom and 20th Century Fox ones were particularly bad when I was a kid. I don’t watch much TV…

I grew up in Florida but I haven’t lived there in a long time and I had a visceral fear reaction to just reading the words “palmetto bugs.” AUGH.

Glass shark! Glass shark!

Was expecting this link to be a Rickroll tbh

David Bowie is overrated.

Tell me you never interact with trans people without telling me you never interact with trans people

I dunno if it counts as “controversial” when at least one of the Beatles would have agreed with you