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  1. Markness

    How can I have a more positive year for 2026?

    One where I interact socially more and have better results than the previous year. So far, some things have been positive. Expanding my wardrobe has also gotten me more positive comments than before.
  2. Markness

    How can I have a more positive year for 2026?

    I want to go to this place more: The Blackbird Books & Spirits - Bookstore and Speakeasy Bar
  3. Markness

    Tried to give up but I just can’t

    But what can I really change, though? My struggles aren’t exactly the easiest to manage and without a script, I really don’t know what to do. I’ve actually had someone get hostile at me for being an adult but not knowing what to do. This person also got hostile for showing empathy to them...
  4. Markness

    Tried to give up but I just can’t

    I’ve sometimes been asked if I want a relationship to appease my parents or to give them grandchildren. The reality is that my parents didn’t even want to be parents themselves but has children anyway and they actually discouraged my siblings and I from ever giving them grandchildren. Well, they...
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    Tried to give up but I just can’t

    If I could summarize my struggles in establishing a romantic relationship, the biggest factors would be: 1) I am socially isolated and an outsider in the culture I live in. The fact I was bullied by others and still have to deal with a control freak mother does not help at all. 2) Even when I...
  6. Markness

    Tried to give up but I just can’t

    Thank you for your kind words. I really hope one day that all the time will have been worth it. I definitely know that not doing anything will certainly lead to nothing. I’ve just made attempts and sometimes things look promising but then what I hope for doesn’t happen.
  7. Markness

    Jim Butcher discussion

    You should definitely read them. It has a unique take on fantasy with the ‘Lost Roman Legion’ angle and I found the main protagonist’s struggles analogous with autism. I like Lovecraft’s fiction so I would most likely enjoy the Laundry Files.
  8. Markness

    There’s a Brazilian restaurant in Austin but I still haven’t eaten there. Their cheapest meal is...

    There’s a Brazilian restaurant in Austin but I still haven’t eaten there. Their cheapest meal is $50 something.
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  9. Markness

    Jim Butcher discussion

    S. Andrew Swann and Patricia Briggs make good urban fantasy as well. I have not read those. I am open to reading them, though. I would play a Dresden Files video game if one was made. It would need to be made by the right people, of course.
  10. Markness

    Jim Butcher discussion

    Anyone here besides me a fan of Jim Butcher’s novels? I became a fan of his works after reading the first Dresden Files volume, Storm Front, a few years ago and have currently read up to the fourteenth entry in the series. In addition, I’ve read some of the comics of said series, the first short...
  11. Markness

    Tried to give up but I just can’t

    What should I tell myself when I see my siblings with their spouses and their friends who have spouses?
  12. Markness

    How can I have a more positive year for 2026?

    I gave my mother a hug yesterday when she cried from a depression spell about my grandmother.
  13. Markness

    Answer a QUESTION with a QUESTION

    Do you like the Berenstain Bears?
  14. Markness

    Bought some books by Peter F. Hamilton

    I bought three books by Peter F. Hamilton recently. Two were from eBay, The Reality Dysfunction and The Neuronium Alchemist (Both are UK editions.), and the other, Mindstar Rising, was from a Half-Price Books store in Bryan, Texas. I've been wanting to read his books for a long while now. One of...
  15. Markness

    Any song lyrics that stick in your mind and speak deeply to you?

    What I want my life to be like. I can at least say the chorus fits my thoughts: "Oh, why can't I live a life for me? Why should I take the abuse that's served? Why can't they see they're just like me? It's the same, it's the same in the whole wide world!"
  16. Markness

    What video game are you currently playing?

    I played both 2XKO and Guilty Gear Strive. I actually did some online matches with the former and I won a handful of times. I am booting up the trial version of FF XIV.
  17. Markness

    Tried to give up but I just can’t

    I just don’t know how to accept things without hearing those who told me to give up in my head saying they were right.
  18. Markness

    Tried to give up but I just can’t

    I thought I hadn’t mentioned how I have tried giving up.
  19. Markness

    Tried to give up but I just can’t

    I’ve actually have tried to give up on ever having a relationship and just accepting that I will go through the rest of my life without a partner. But whenever I see my siblings and their families as well as their friends who have the same things interacting positively, it brings back the same...
  20. Markness

    Past determining my future

    I got suggested to use Facebook Dating once again. I’d rather not go down that route again. I tried it for a whole summer and didn’t get a single date using it.
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