EverleighRaven: forum

Hi, I would like to be your friend.  I tried to write a lot about myself and my life, but my post got deleted on accident 2 times, and it didn't even save.  I give up.  Okay, some of the things I like to do are writing songs, raps, stories (mostly action-driven, realistic-fiction stories about kids/teens doing cool things and going on adventures.)  I also like to dance (contemporary, lyrical, hip-hip, some acro, pole), and also I like going to dance parties, if I could.  I miss my childhood a lot and I used to have more friends when I was a kid, but people grew up, their lives got busier, and we grew apart.  but that's just life tho.  I also enjoy being in nature, foraging, climbing trees, swimming, and bodyboarding on the waves with my friends that I don't get to see very often.  Like once, I think we were going to Yosemite with my friends, and it was really fun to jump off of rocks, and to swim in the river, and just goof around, and "mine for bitcoin" on the riverbank, or also just to hang out at camp and look at the gorgeous scenery of trees, and the iconic mountains, and talk into the night, as we roast some marshmallows (I tried to smoke some watermelon-didn't turn out too well) and cook some corn on the campfire.  There was also one person back at camp who could play the guitar, and everyone else was singing along to the songs with them, and i thought man, I wish I could play the guitar like that.Also, there were a lot of raspberry bushes where we were at, so my friends and I went to go get some and there were red and black ones, but they were much smaller than the ones you usually buy in the store.  Also, I guess, we weren't the only one to have this idea, because a deer mom and her kid also decided to come here and eat some raspberries, and I didn't see them, but I saw the pictures that my friend took, and they are both sooo cuuuute! Like mother, like child, I guess.  Some things that I like to forage are cherry plums, blackberries, figs, acorns, pine nuts, and seaweed on the beach, and also I remember when I was a kid, my dad would sometimes drive us to the sand dunes, and I had so much fun climbing to the top, and then running and jumping off of them.  Also, when it rains, I like to run and dance in the rain, splash into puddles, or even play soccer in the rain and the mud (I haven't gotten to do that yet, but it looks like fun.)  Also, I like eating snow, except i don't get too do it a lot, because it doesn't snow where I live.  When I was a kid, my dad tried to get the whole family into skiing, and we went down a lot of trails, even some "easy" black diamonds, but skiing has never really been my thing, and eventually we just stopped going, after skiing down most of the trails already except the hard ones-it got repetitive, I guess. I have always liked a moderate amount of heights, even as a kid, where I would jump off of the playstructure, and also the swings onto the soft woodchips below, and I would often get in trouble for it at school. When I was a kid, I enjoyed playing tag variants (my favorites being grounders, bridge tag, and capture the flag) and also some other PE and afterschool sports games, such as muggle quidditch, flag football, pac-man tag, chaos tag, sharks and minnows, all the horses run, dodgeball, ga-ga ball (one of my favorite games, even though I only got to play it like 2 times), rob the nest, and the titanic game (so basically where each side has to stay inside the "ship" and guard our 4 bowling pins, while trying to throw balls to knock other people's bowling pins down, and there is a "swimmer" on each team that gets to collect the balls) and I like these games better than traditional sports, because it is less-structured, and there is less focus on teamwork, and I get to do my own thing, while still getting to contribute to my team, or to the objective of the game.  I also like going a bit crazy, running around, chasing each other, throwing harmless stuff at each other, screaming, or just roughhousing and playfighting with my friends (this is more of a young kid thing, most of my friends have stopped playing like this, and I still miss the high-energy and excitement of these games.  I don't really get to do this often at all anymore, but I still like wrestling with my friends, playfighting with sticks, pool noodles, throwing dodgeballs or stuffed animals, pool noodles, uno cards from the uno attack machine that we have, nerf gun fights, water fights, or even fighting with pretend superpowers is also a lot of fun. I also enjoy roleplaying and LARPing with people (or more realistically-by myself.)  Some of the more-memorable LARPs that I did with people include the Warrior Cats roleplay, where I was a medicine cat, and I had to scout around the campus to find sourgrass to help heal the injured clan members, a Minecraft roleplay I did with my friend, and also played Treasure Hunt, a game my friend taught me, that I continued by myself for a while, so basically during the daytime, you can go on quests to get treasure, use that to upgrade and fortify your base, and at nighttime, you would have to defend your base from hordes of robbers.  One of the most memorable solo LARPs I've done is when I turned the simple nursery rhyme  one, two, buckle my shoe, into a boss-summoning ritual, and I had to fight a giant chicken in the arena.  I love roleplaying, because you can have crazy, and immersive experiences that you can't have in real life, that all feels so real, and you can see, and react to the things that are happening and have conversations with people, as if it was actually happening right in front of you.  But of course, not everybody understands this, and some people would thing you are actually seeing things, or going crazy.  Also, yes I still have imaginary friends as an adult, because at least they would stay with me when my real friends cannot be there.  Solo roleplaying was one of the most fun and most memorable things I did in high school, other than often, dancing alone at lunchtime when they sometimes would blast music through the speakers.  This is not like in elementary school, where there would be a large group of people all dancing together, but in middle school and high school, a lot of the times, I would be one only one dancing.  I don't really understand people-like why would pay money to go to dance parties at my school, but not dance for free, when it is lunch time and the music is playing.  I don't know, I've never went to any of their dances anyways, could never justify the cost.  Also, once, I was supposed to go see the new Puss in Boots movie with my family and friends, except I got banned from a movie theater for 1 day, for dancing in their lobby because they were playing really good music, because they said I would run into somebody, even though I had spatial awareness, and I wasn't dancing near other people. But at least I wasn't banned for life, like that other person was, after they were yelling that they didn't steal the condiments and was throwing ketchup packets at the staff members, and they had to call the cops on them to get them out of the building!  It was crazy to watch, probably better than Puss in Boots /s.  Also, I like dancing because I knew that even as a young kid during music class, music can easily transport you to another world, to another person or character's story, and I love it, to be able to take on the role of another character and act out and experience everything that is happening.  I think dancing can also be a form of roleplaying.  I also like slow, long-distance running (like 12+ minutes each mile) and I can run for a long time, and can probably do a half-marathon no problem, and this first started when my mom signed me up for Girls on the Run, which was honestly a lot of fun, because I got to have snacks with my friends, play fun games together (my favorite was the human knot game, and also the visualization exercise about you being a bright star and getting  blocked by the clouds, and thenn shining brighter, which made me cry as a kid), and run together, and I was among the few that was actually running-most of the girls were sorta walking and chatting, and it was motivating running laps and getting words written on my arm in different colors.  It is also pretty ironic, because they would always say "it's not a race, run at your own pace"  except for the actual 5k event in the end, we all had to run together, very very slowly (like it took us almost 2 hours!!!!!) which was kinda disappointing, but at least I got to wear the colorful tu-tu that we made and also try to dye my hair purple, except it is black, so it did not work at all.  also another thing is that at my school, every year, we would have a walkathon to raise money for the school, and I loved going to those, and having them punch my card for every lap that I do, to try to earn all the prizes, and sometimes they would put on certain songs, which would count for double the amount of points, and then later, we would have an assembly, celebrating all the highlights of the walkathon and how much money we raised, and then we would find that some first grader ran over 100 laps on track during that event, which is just insane.  Also, as a kid, I had more endurance than I do now (like I have more strength now, so it's a bit of a trade-off I think, I can do 5 pull-ups now, 0 as a kid), probably because of all the tag that I played with my friends, and them teaming up against me specifically, but now I don't really get to do that, but I still try to do my cardio by running, and also dancing, but not as often, and yea, it is not ideal.  I hope that even as an adult, I can still find a group of people to play tag and stuff, and all the other games I like, and maybe I will start a group and make it happen one day, but I am not good at groupwork at all-always been one of my weaknesses, and being in a leadership position honestly terrifies me.  Also, when I was in elementary school, I desperately wanted to be on the relay team, because all the popular and athletic girls were on it, and I wanted to be part of their group, and racing together and breaking school records, while the rest of the school cheered us on.  Except there was one problem: no matter how hard I tried to sprint, I wasn't fast enough.  In high school much later, I tried to time myself on the 100 meter dash on the football field, and no matter how hard I tried  I could not get past , but I could not get past 21 seconds, which is a joke.  My brother, who is half my weight and plays a lot of soccer can run much faster than I can, and his best mile time is 6:30-something iirc, while my best is 7:01, and he actually made the relay team at his school, and I was kinda jealous.  Also, my brother and I used to do this roleplay that is inspired and crosses different fandoms, and is basically my brother and my OC's and our allies are trying to stop the Hacker Virus from taking over all of the games, which kept us entertained, but annoyed my dad a lot during the long, boring car drives, because he would always complain that we were being too loud. Also, my brother and I used to be quite close, and we used to play video games like fireboy and watergirl (he's always fireboy, and I'm always watergirl), trying to figure out the puzzles, and Terraria together, and also when we were much younger, we would pretend to me mom and dad to our many stuffed animals, and throw them around, take them literally everywhere with us to go on adventures, and homeschool them with the stuff we were learning at school, tuck them into bed, and also we would bingewatch netflix kid shows together, such as Boss Baby, The Garfield Show, Captain Underpants, How to Train Your Dragon, Trollhunters, Ninjago, and when we were very young, we used to be quite into watching Doreamon, and we would make our own white pouches and fill them with paper gadgets.  But we grew up and our interests diverged, and we don't really have much in common or hang out anymore, and we only really talk and joke together when my dad makes us go on those long family roadtrips, and he doesn't have access to discord anymore.  So we would usually just talk, or play minigames on his phone, or on the iPad, or grind levels, race each other on Geometry Dash (I'm winning so far, but not by very much).  Also, did I mention that he is literally the king of trash talk, and when he loses, his comments are so hilarious and creative (such as "I'm afk-grinding geometry dash", "I need to put on my gaming glasses", "these gaming glasses are fake", "what in the garbanzo beans?"  I don't really remember all of it, though. My dad is a huge gamer, and I've started playing games from a really young age, with some of my first games being Angry Birds, Classic Labyrinth, Cut the Rope, and Where's my Water?, and now, my some of my favorite video game genres includes shooters, RPG's, jRPG's sandbox games, drawing, music/rhythm, social dedication, and story-based and text based games.  I do not really like playing horror games (I would watch it, tho), RTS, manager games, some cozy games that I find boring, CCG, or games that are very bloody/violent, or sexualized, I'm not really saying that these are bad games, they're just not really my thing right now.  My favorite game is Roblox, even though I got banned when I was 13, because I clicked on a sketchy link to a free robux generator scam, which i knew was a scam, but since everyone was saying how they got robux, I was also pressured into saying it as well.  It really hurt a lot to get banned off of my favorite game, and I cried a lot, and it took me 4-5 years to finally get over it and move on.  I think, if I didn't get banned from Roblox, I wouldn't have felt so lonely during my middle school and high school years during the pandemic, because some of my friends also play the game, and also if I never got banned from Roblox, I don't think I wouldn't have joined Torn either, tbh.  Well, I didn't really make many new friends in middle school and high school, and I was sorta a loner because I didn't want to accept that I had to leave that lifestyle, where I had a lot of friends (especially the friends who were younger than me), and got to play my favorite games with them, behind, and adapt to this new system and social scene that I didn't really, so instead I retreated into nostalgia and fantasy, being stuck in the past.  It helped, but only temporarily, and that loneliness definitely took a toll on my mental health.  And now, most of my friends are online, so I am less lonely, but I still miss being able to be with my friends irl, and play games together.  When I was a kid, I used to go to soccer practice.  It was not my favorite activity, but I did love playing boys vs girls, because of the old gender rivalry, and coaches vs kids game at the end of the season was also a lot of fun, where we would all swarm them, and a bunch of kids would just be standing in front of our small goal, so they could not score a single shot in there.  It was not fair at all, but we were still happen when we beat the coaches.  Also, when I was a kid, I used to be a part of this dance class for many years, and I honestly loved it there, the teacher really knew how to make the lessons into fun games (like follow the leader), and also letting us express our creativity through movement, and also I loved choosing the colors of our costumes (I loved wearing the pretty dance costumes and dresses), and coming up with, and voting on the name of our dance (like when we were younger, the teacher had no problem letting us name the dance "the dance of the pink sparkly magical fairies", if that is what we voted for, and also our ritual of playing duck, duck, goose in the warm-up rooms before the performance, and the afterparty, where we would all get to sit around, eat good food, and chat and hang out afterwards.  Of course things gradually got more serious as we got older, and we stopped playing a lot of these games and focused more on warming up properly, cooling down, stretching (which was boring), and practicing the choreography, and before a performance, I would still see the younger girls sitting in a circle, playing duck, duck, goose before their performances.  Also once in class, this really funny thing happened.  So basically, one of my classmates has the same type of shoes that I have, so one day after class ends, they accidentally wore my shoes, so I had to go the store with my mom and go home barefoot.  So next class, that student realized their mistake, brought my shoes back in a paper bag in a paper bag and apologized, and during the warmups, the ac blew the bag into the air, and we were all laughing seeing a bag flying around labelled [my name]'s shoes. I looked forward to these classes, and the friends that I made, even though they were more "work" now, and less "fun and games", and I actually quit for 1 year to do basketball instead when they was happening, but basketball turned out not to be as fun as dance class, and after I watched the movie Leap!, it made me want to go back and start dancing again, so I stayed with that group until I eventually had to leave, to focus more on school, but I still like to dance and perform, and now choreograph stuff, even though I do it on my own now.  Also, as I grew up, I also eventually learned about the political messages of the songs that were played during the warm-ups, that I wasn't really paying attention to when I was younger, and also for one of the dances, we had to do an anti-war war, dance, which i refused to participate in, because I wasn't really anti-war as a kid (not really pro-war either, just that I didn't really know enough about it, but I am definitely much-more anti-war now), so I had to make my poor teacher re-choreograph everything.  I have to say that that dance and choreography class I took in high school, to get out of having to do another year of PE and burpee workouts, paid off, and really challenged me to begin choreographing, and working with people (I'm still really bad at that part) and that, as well as watching Youtube videos, allowed me to develop my own style.  Like before that, I never really knew how to choreograph, because I would just do what the teacher told me to do, and when I am dancing, I would stick to "safe" move instead of improvising too much, because I was afraid that I would accidentally do something that would sexualize myself, and this biased view of dance probably comes from what I've seen of how people dance in the mainstream music video that I've watched. but this class really pushed me out of my comfort zone, to branch out, and experiment with different movements, and helped me see dance as what it actually was, rather than the narrow slice of it that I have been exposed to before this point, as a beautiful way to express a lot of different things and emotions. I learned how to really dance, and to be free from these limitations that I've set for myself for years, which was quite liberating, and also additionally, through my own research and mostly watching youtube videos, I also learned how to express myself through dance, and how to not sexualize myself. We also got to perform on stage, which reminded me of how much fun it is, and how much I missed performing.  Like for the performance, I got to do a solo dance, about getting voted out in Among Us, and now it's kinda cringe, thinking back to it, and I could've made a much-better routine, even to the same song, with all the knowledge and experience that I have now.  I also was really interested in aerial arts, and I watched a lot of videos on youtube, and I wanted to take classes on it, but I also had doubts, and I did not want to spend money on my hobby, but eventually I decided that I wanted to try pole dancing. Also, I think the reason, or at least part of the reason that I am reluctant to spend money, is because when I was a very young kid, I accidentally broke my dad's phone screen so he made me "pay" back $100 by doing chores around the house, like washing the dishes, or cleaning up the kitchen, or even by reading books (like $5 each time, or something.)  So I had this big chart on the wall, showing how much "debt" I still had, and my dad was trying to teach me the value of money, but it totally backfired, and instead just made me not want to spend money.  I though I could just do it on any pole, but I found out I was wrong, because I realized that some poles are easier to hold onto than other poles, which are quite slippery, and I found a pole at my school that was really good quality (probably because it was shielded from all the dirt and grime on the road), so I decided to start practicing on my own after school.  I actually was quite naturally good at it because before that I used to climb trees a lot, it was honestly addictive-the the adrenaline and endorphin's, or the thrill and danger of climbing so high up, and the relief when my feet finally (hopefully safely) touched the ground again, the mental puzzle to figure out how to safely climb up-it definitely gets me out of my head, and helped me build a lot of strength in my arms.  I only fell once, which is because I grabbed onto a dead branch, fell in front of this woman who happened to be walking by, landed in and bounced off the bushes filled with the spiky fruit of the gum tree, and landed in the water next to me.  I had to scramble back up, and walk back home in pain, not answer my mom when she asked me why I was wet, and then open up incognito mode, and search up "i fell off a tree and injured my back", hoping to get some medical advice, but instead only getting results for "how to fell a tree".  But at least this was during summer, where I didn't have to go to school, so I could just stay home and play games all day, and this injury, and the mental block, did keep mw from climbing trees for a long while, but eventually I got back into it.  Also, once a lady called the cops on me for climbing a tree.  Also, people have called the cops on me repeatedly, for laying in the grass at nighttime in my own neighborhood, probably because they think I was on drugs or something, to make sure that I was okay, and my dad doesn't really like having to come out and explain everything, and thinks I am disturbing people, but still I like it there.  After I run home from school, I like to lay on the grass and relax there-it's pretty chill and peaceful there, in contrast with the busy and stressful life I have back at home.   Also, so back to pole dancing.  I was able to ayesha the first time I tried on one side, and I was also able to shoulder mount the first time I tried, which was surprising, but not that surprising, and also I learned that I need to apply some water to my skin  (but not too much) to get it to actually stick to the pole, and I was actually able to progress quite quickly, getting cupid, ayesha on both sides, iron x, vertical splits, marley, outside leg hang (it hurt initially, and I had to condition my legs to deal with the pain by holding onto 1 leg and hanging upside down on some sorta-thick bars, before doing it on the pole, and then cross ankle and cross knee layback, inside leg hang (which was trickier to get into, because my hands were in the way) and finally the jade split, which was a move that  I didn't think I would ever be able to do at first.  Before, I thought that pole dancing was something that is sexual, but that really depends on how you dance, and what style you choose, and I chose lyrical, because I wasn't strong enough to do sport, and I think it fits quite well with my existing lyrical dance experience.  I think it is a great introduction for me into the world of aerial dance, and now, I kinda wanna try aerial silks or aerial rope, but I haven't done that yet.   I want to get better at (if I could) game development, flipping (I want to get back handspring and do a proper side aerial, and also land my front tuck on my feet), playing violin, guitar, keyboard, flexibility (contortion), and drawing.   Like  when I was a kid, my parents sorta made me play musical instruments, especially the violin, and I really didn't like it,, but as I grew older, and I was writing songs (I actually made pretty terrible music when I was really young on the tablet, until it broke, and I don't have it saved anymore), attempting to make beats, and getting into the singer-songwriter stuff, and especially after finding songs like In this Shirt, and Cami-Cat's cover of Woe to the People of Order, I thought like wow, I also really want to play like that, and how the violin can really add to the emotional richness and intensity of a piece, and it made me also want to learn the violin again (even though I still suck at it, especially on the fast parts.  Also a lot of my friends can play the piano really well, and I didn't really want to be left out, and I also really wanted to play the piano, like I don't need to be able to play the super hard and technical, and beautiful pieces that they learned, but I want to be able to play the piano and sing my own songs, just like my huge inspiration at that time: Tate McRae, and especially her earlier videos.  Also, the first song I was able to )sorta ) play on the guitar was Castle on the Hill by Ed Sheeran, which I find to be very emotional, and relatable to my life, and the chords progression was simple enough I guess, and I want to get good enough at switching chords to be able to play more complex songs also.  I also like making comics sometimes (like how I vandalized the AP macro/microeconomics good that my friend gave me, and instead of studying from it, I decided to draw on the graphs and the info-boxes, and turn it into a whole stick figure comedy-action cinematic universe, which was honestly a lot of fun for me to make, especially when my parents would turn off the wifi.  I also like making memes and watching meme videos, watching youtube, reading blogs and articles online, and I also like writing about interesting things that happen in my life and also my dreams, which some of them are really interesting, and could be inspiration for my future projects.  I also like chatting with people, and participating in forums, and getting into political debates online. Also, when I was younger, during the summer break, my family would take us on a plane to visit our extended family, and some friends in China.   I liked watching the tv shows there (since we didn't have a tv at home), and also going to the fun summer classes that taught things like dance, drawing (the teacher said that I am pretty creative, and that my drawing and ideas are different from the other kids) singing (I learned some beautiful traditional Chinese songs, as well as some patriotic/propaganda-type songs that praise Mao as a leader, I don't really know how to feel about that now...), not so much violin, and also once, in one of the Chinese reading and writing classes, it literally took me and my grandma 14 hours to complete the assignment, and that is with her literally Baidu-ing all the answers for me to copy down (this has to be cheating, right?, but I still did better than the 2 boys who just sat in the back, played video games the whole time, and refused to do any of the work), because Google is banned.  These classes were not really allowed anymore, to ease the burden of the Chinese students, which I respect, but why ban the video games tho?  Anyways, my favorite part of going to China is that we get to go to these giant dinner parties with all of our relatives, like 20-something people all sitting around a round table with a spinning plate in the center, and I would eat soooo much good food, as I tried to do math in my head, to divide the servings of food between everybody.  Also, after my brother and I, and the other kids were done eating (we were always done eating first) we would run around the table, crawl under the tablecloth playing tag, or hide-and-seek, or the floor is lava, jumping from chair to chair in the guest sitting area, throw, and hit each other with the cushions, or just chill and watch the tv together.  Also, I really liked eating the noodles in China, like the mushroom ones are really good, and also the lotus seeds (don't eat the middle part that looks like a small plant-it tastes really bitter), and the yangmei, which I only get to eat in China.  Also, once for school, we were going on this field trip for a week, to this camp in the wilderness, except they saw me scratching my head so they thought I had nits in my hair, so I had to be quarantined and stay in the cabins, and my dad had to drive 4 hours both ways in order to pick me up, and I had to get the lice comb, and the really-smelly shampoo that I didn't need, because I didn't actually have any lice in my hair.  Also, it happened again in high school, and I got sent home from school, because the principal insisted that they saw bugs in my hair and also claimed to have a biology degree, but again, I didn't have it.  Also, they say that because I am dirty, that I am more likely to have lice, but really, the lice don't really care, but the humans do.  Also, when I was a kid, I spent a lot of time in the playground afterschool or my mom would take me and my brother to the park, or we would run around the neighborhood playing with the neighborhood kids or play in the driveways, watching out for cars, and climbing trees together and eating the cherry plums, going swimming and playing Marco Polo on hot days and making and eating watermelon popsicles together, playing with and petting my neighbor's cats (one has since died, unfortunately), but now I don't really have friends anymore, so I just spend my days alone and on my computer, at least I had sort of a good childhood.  So now I'm an adult.  I've graduated high school through summer school after failing almost all of my classes in senior year, due to burnout, low motivation, and spending wayyy too much time on Torn and on Youtube and not doing my work.  So it's weird now, during this summer, because my parents are supporting me, and for the first time in a long time, I have nobody telling me what I need to do anymore, which is freeing, but also sorta disorienting, because what do I do with my life now?  I just feel like I'm wasting my time, not putting my skills to good use or doing anything productive, really, and I'm just leeching off of my parents, while my brother still has to work hard, because he's going to high school now, and my dad's pushing him pretty hard (much more than me.) (At least it saved this time, thanks goodness.  But this is not done yet.)

These pictures look like vandalism to me, not terrorism.

Project 2025 honestly scares me, as a person who lives in the United States, and I'm basing this  off of what I've read on Wikipedia (you can read it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025.) Edit: I had to delete some stuff from my response because after reading through The Leadership Mandate, I realized that Wikipedia did misrepresent some of their goals.  I'm not done reading through it, though, so I might have to change some more things later.

I think it makes sense that the seats in congress, and in the electoral college should be based on all people who live in each state, rather than  all citizens, because the people who are not US citizens should have equal representation because they lost their lives in the United States. 

I do not want the United States to be a Christian nation because I am not Christian, and I do not want the rules and restrictions of Christianity to affect my way of life, whether socially, or from the government..  And I think that climate change is a real, serious problem, and I do not want the government to undo the progress that we've made to reduce the impact of it, we need to protect our planet and the environment, because we live here (as well as other reasons, of course) and do not get rid of the EPA, and also people working in science should have qualifications in science so they would be able to do their jobs properly.  Also, we need more renewable energy, rather than more oil and fossil fuels, and do not drill in the arctic for more oil or coal.  I think that natural gas is better and cleaner than other fossil fuels, but it still has its drawbacks, such as releasing more methane into the athmosphere.

I support the economic changes of the plan, to employ more people, and the tax rates sound pretty reasonable.  I do not support them getting rid of the EDA because they could really help struggling communities to get jobs, and I think that they should help the rural communities as well.  And I agree that we should get paid more on Sundays because I hate the idea of working on the weekends, and it would be better if I got paid more for it (I have never had a job, tho.) I think that tariffs are fair and reasonable, as long as they are not too high, and start hurting trade, and our relations with other countries.  Also, I agree that we should invest more in nuclear energy. 

I do not know how I feel about the standards for education being different in different states, like it might not be fair for the students in one state if their education leaves them less-prepared for the real world than for another state, but again, if the federal government is keeping them from learning about certain controversial, but important topics, then the ability for states to opt out of that could be a good thing, so it could be good or bad, depending on how things play out.  I agree that the right to school choice, and parents' rights are important rights that need to be upheld, along with the rights of students and their civil rights need to be protected.  Also, I think that students who break the rules and get in trouble at school, and get punished for it, should try to remove the race bias from it as much as humanly possible, and only consider what they did or said, their reasons for it, and their life circumstances.  Also, if this plan goes through, the DOJ can only enforce civil rights in schools by suing people or schools. I'm not sure how that's gonna work, or if it is gonna work and be enough to deter people. I agree that the government should give money to help the poor students, and I agree that  it should also include feeding them in the free school lunch program (I enjoyed a lot of good food from my school's free lunch program, so I'm probably biased here, even though my family isn't poor, so we didn't actually need it), and these sorts of protections should apply nationwide, rather than be better or worse only in specific states. 

I do not agree that the president should be able to have more power and control that is not balanced by the other 2 branches of government, because giving too much power to just one person can be dangerous if they start making bad decisions, and the other people in government cannot stop them.  I guess the US probably has good reasons for considering China as a threat to them, because well they are also a very rich and powerful nation, and I just hope it does not negatively-affect my family, like I have extended family living in China, who sometimes comes to visit, and we sometimes go visit them in China, as well as my Chinese-American friends, and other people. 

I don't really know about selling weapons to other countries, such as they might have a good reason for it, such as self defense or protection, or all the other good reasons that the Americans want to be armed, but they also might use it to start wars and kill people, maybe even against us, which is really bad, so the US needs to be careful who they sell their weapons to.  Also, I really hope that we don't end up in a second cold war, the first one was bad enough already, and I hope that we would never end up in nuclear war, and that the threat to destroy everything would be enough to keep everybody in line.  Also, the USAID should not be defunded, and getting rid of all mentions of gender from that organization is silly and unnecessary, and the US should help other nations who need it, but only if we can afford it, and it won't negatively impact our own nation and people, and we should use that money to help other nations deal with the effects of climate change, rather than spending that money on fossil fuels to actively make things worse. 

I think that everyone deserves healthcare, whether you work or not (I do not know if this could be done, but this should be a goal that we are striving for.)  I think that transgender people deserve to be able to access treatment, that the morning-after pill should be available to people who need it-it is soooo much cheaper than having to raise a baby, and I want to be able to afford my medicine drugs, and not have to pay super high prices for them, especially life-saving drugs. 

I do not think that we should go after illegal immigrants like this, especially ones who are just trying to live their lives and are not causing problems, and put them in internment camps, and I also do not want the government but to take homeless people from blue states (like my own state) and put them in camps-their lives suck enough already, and this is just  violation of their rights and freedom.  Also, I think it is a violation of state's rights to use the national guard from red states to enforce Trump's policies on immigration in blue states, who might not want that for their people.  Also, I think it is very unethical for the government to charge more people who are desperately trying to escape their very bad situations through asylum in order for the government to profit off of these people-the right to asylum should be affordable! 

I do not support them only recognizing heterosexual cisgender people, because I am cisgender and queer, and I do not want to be discriminated against for being not straight.  I don't really know if they should be colorblind and not look at your race, sex, and stuff while hiring, or they should try to make it easier for under-represented minorities to get into certain jobs that they are still qualified for, and can do a good job at by having quotas and stuff, but hopefully them not considering stuff like race in hiring means that they cannot discriminate people based on their race, gender, or ethnicity.  I think that both approaches could work, if done right. 

Also, I agree that some people do not trust law enforcement, and for good reason as well.  Also, I do not think that governments, universities, and companies should be prosecuted for DEI or for affirmative action.  I think the consent decrees could be useful in some situations, so it should not be removed entirely.  I do not support capital punishment,  because it kills people, which is bad enough, and sometimes innocent people, which is even worse. 

DEI programs should not be banned from the US military because it can help people, as long as it does not compromise the effectiveness of our armed forces.  Also, climate change, and the effects of it, sometimes can be a threat to national security, such as natural disasters caused or made worse by climate change, so keeping the military from being able to consider that as a factor doesn't really make sense to me. 

Also, I am an adult now, and I should have the freedom to watch porn made by other consenting adults, and even though I agree that the industry can exploit people, that means we need to reform the industry, not ban it entirely.  Also, I agree that pornography can be harmful and addictive, and it might not be a good idea for everyone to watch it, but the responsibility to watch it in moderation and not have it control your life falls on the viewer, and not the government to ban it entirely.  Also, porn made by consenting adults should be considered free speech. 

Also, the ability for presidents to fire any government worker they don't like at any time they want, could definitely be abused, in order to strengthen their own power in the government, and do things that they want to do with much less opposition, even if those decisions would hurt some people.  Also, this would mean that those people working in government would face a lot of pressure to cave into the president's demands or face losing their job, so there would be less opposition, and checks and balances to the president's power.  Also, having to have most of the government employees be citizens of the United States, I don't think is a necessary requirement, they would just have to do their job properly, and be loyal to the United States, not just to the current sitting president, and not sabotage or undermine the United States from the inside, basically.  Also, I believe that abortion should not be banned. 

Also, the fertility-awareness method isn't that effective, and I cannot be bothered to track my period (and for some people, their periods might be unpredictable-so it wouldn't work for them), it is a hassle, and using other forms of birth control, like an implant or condoms , for example, is much easier, and also more effective than the fertility-awareness method. 

Also, Plan B is not an abortion pill, because it stops a pregnancy before it happens, but I don't know how I feel about religions and moral exemptions for healthcare coverage.. If they say that the progesterone might cause an abortion, then by that logic, regular birth control pills can also potentially cause abortions, which is not true..  Like there are some jobs that I would simply refuse to take because of my moral values, but that means I would just work in another industry, and I personally, would not be comfortable performing abortions for people (or any other medical procedure, really), and if I was a doctor, hypothetically, I shouldn't have to, as long as there are plenty of other people they can go to to get an abortion done.  Also, the people who need to get an abortion which is not legally allowed in their state would move to another state to get it done, so I do not support that if a person crosses state lines, they could get criminally investigated for having an abortion.  Also, people should be able to send and receive abortion stuff through the mail, as long as it is regulated, safe, and effective, and would not cause harm to the person using/taking it. 

Also, I do not support defunding planned parenthood-like they already cannot use the government money for abortions, and doing so would only not let them provide other non-abortion-related healthcare services to people who need them. 

Also, I agree that the schools should not be promoting underage sex to their students, but getting rid of sex ed, which doesn't do that, would only lead to more teenage pregnancies, not less, if they are less aware of the risks of having sex as teenagers.  Also, we need better public transportation here that does not pollute the environment. Our current transportation system sucks, and forces us to use cars, which damage the environment, in order to get around.

Edit: Instead of disliking my post, does anyone want to discuss Project 2025 with me?  What things in it do you support and not support?

Some nostalgic video games from my childhood are the first video games that I have ever played as a kid, including Angry Birds, where's my water?, cut the rope, slice it!, and Classic Labyrinth, followed by games like .io games, flash games, Clash Royale, Clash of Clans, Minecraft, Prodigy, Roblox (which I am banned from now), and Fortnite, which I didn't play, but I still loved to watch.  I still miss the days before the pandemic, where my friends would just come over to my house with their computers and we would just all play Roblox games together, or go questing together in Prodigy.  Once, my dad commented that we were like a train, because we would all sit in a column behind one another.  One of the games that I loved playing with my brother and my mom and dad when I was a kid was Uno, because it had strategy, bluffing, quick-time events, and shifting alliances where we would all team up against the player who is about to win, to keep them from winning.  And when my brother or I did win, we liked to run around, or dance around the living room where our parents are still sitting, yelling and celebrating our win, which was my favorite part of the game.  I don't really play with them anymore, and I still sorta miss those days sometimes.  Also, m y mom, me, and my brother(and sometimes my grandma) would also use to play quite a bit of monopoly as a kid, which was fun, except, as a kid, I never bought any of those properties, because they all seemed too expensive, and I hated spending money as a kid, but at least I wouldn't have to pay a lot of money to fix all of my houses when they do break down, instead choosing to pass go to collect my 200 dollars, and get lucky with the chance and treasure cards to earn some extra cash.  In my whole life, I have never finished a game of monopoly ever, or even gotten close to, so luckily I didn't have to deal with any of the toxicity in the endgame and stuff.  I liked the video game version of monopoly better because it had all these fun minigames in it, instead of the chance cards, and you earn money if you win.  Also me and my brother, instead of playing pool correctly, i.e. using the sticks, we decided to make our own version of the game, where we each stand on opposite sides of the table, and we would roll balls at high speeds across the table, to try to score in our opponent's "goals'', which are the 2 holes on the corners of the table, while trying to defend our our own goals by holding the balls and rolling them.  This is a very chaotic game, and sometimes the balls would even get launched off the table and crash onto the floor, but it was a lot of fun. Also, we did play some "regular" pool, focusing more on the strategy of the game, but we never figured out how to use the sticks properly, so we just rolled the balls by hand.  We only really used the sticks for play-fighting until my parents told us to stop.  Also, when my brother and I were really young, we liked to play with blocks, and we made our own version of jenga, where we would stagger the wooden blocks in a triangle shape that is 1 layer thick, and try to remove pieces and then add them to become new parts of the triangle.  Also, my dad showed me how to use proper balancing and weight distribution to hold down blocks, and build very tall trees, and I was amazed, because I was struggling with building even the smaller ones, and trying desperately to hold the bricks together with one hand, while trying to add more with the other.  Also, I remember, when we were younger, my brother and I would use the computer and play games together, and  sometimes we would wrestle with each other for the controls if we could not agree on what we wanted to do.  We played almost every fireboy and watergirl level together, with my brother always being fireboy, and me always being watergirl, and we made some good memories that way.  Also, I remember, when we were in China in the summer, my grandparents gave my brother an orange mini-basketball, and me a mini pink volleyball (they were just bouncy balls with designs on them) and we would go to the local basketball court to run around and shoot some shots.  It was cool, because there were a lot of people there who were older and bigger than us, which meant that we had to constantly dodge the many full-sized basketballs that were constantly raining down above our heads.  It was fun, until I got hit in the head with one of them, and those things hurt.  Also, funny story, so once we were at the market trying to buy some watermelons, because it was summertime, my mom wanted to buy this one, that was half-hidden on the bottom row, but they take a closer look, and my mom's like: that is not a watermelon at all, but a green and black colored basketball!  Also, for basketball, my brother would prefer playing knockout, while I liked playing horse better, and trying to make trickshots, such as the closed eyes shot, the backwards shot, or the behind the board shot, and once my brother made a trickshot from the top of the playground, and actually made it in, and my mom recorded it on her phone, and put in on her moments for her friends to see.  Also, back when bottle-flipping craze was getting really popular, my brother and I have spent so much time flipping water bottles, trying to get how many in a row and the rare cap flips, in the car in the mini bottles when we were bored, on the ground, wherever, and it was a lot of fun.  Another game we liked to play in the car, as well as at home, was spot on!, which I still don't know how it works, but it was really exciting to try to shout out the match before anyone else does, and sometimes, people would get crazy combos where it would always be the same thing and win a ton of points, and once, I threw one of these cards across the room like a frisbee, and accidentally did a trickshot where I turned off the lights, but I have not been able to replicate it since.  Also, I used to do dance class as a kid, and we would have this tradition that before a performance, when we were still in the rooms to get ready, my whole class would all play duck, duck, goose together, and it was fun, but as we gotten older, and got to more advanced stuff, we had less fun and games, and more dance (such as the free-for-all scarf dance at the end (as a kid, I could only choose the green ones) of the class being replaced by a boring cooldown and stretching, and no more voting for the dance names or the colors for our costumes), we also aged out of playing duck, duck, goose, but the tradition was being carried on by a new, younger generation of dances.    And some other games we liked to play in the car are games we can play with just our hands, such as double up 7, coconut crack, chopsticks (he was so much better than me at this game), as well as what's the time, mr. fox, which is adapted to playing in the car by me using my hand to "walk" a certain amount of steps, and when the person says "It's fox time!'' Then I take my hand back as fast as possible, while the other person tries to tag my hand. Also, I used to race raindrops when it was raining outside, and see them rolling down my car window at an angle, which was interesting, and also play the game where I pretend that there is a person doing parkour trying to keep up with our car.   Also, I invented a game where I could turn any room into an escape room, but it works best in a bathroom.  So basically, your hand is your player character, and it has to go around and climb on things only within its reach (it can jump a little bit) until it is able to somehow reach the doorknob and open the door.  Some maps are pretty impossible.  Also once, my mom got me and my brother these 2 double-sided flip cars, which can flip over when they crash into a wall, and my brother and I decide to make this game where we would sit in a straddle position, and try to ram the cars to try to make it go over our ankles (mostly his ankles, because they were skinnier.)  Also, once, I was home alone, and I was bored, so I tried to play pool in the kitchen with oranges wrapped in duct tape to mark the stripe ones, with a hollow metal tube (the bathroom one) also wrapped in duct tape, and it turned out to be a mistake, because I had poked some holes in them, which led to a bunch of moldy oranges later (like my mom always buys way too many oranges at once, and before we were able to finish all of them, they always go bad, but this damage was on another level.) Also, like in grade school, I would play this game called eraser high jump, where I would try to fling my pink pearl eraser by pressing on the edges to make it jump over a pencil that I hold at a certain height with my other hand.  And also we cannot forget about the magic eraser game, where we write yes on one side, and no on the other side, maybe on the skinnier sides, ask a question, throw the eraser in the air, and when it lands, you would get your answer.  This is a lot of times used for comedic effect, such as brother: "is my sister dumb?" throws, gets yes "oh look it says yes'' me: "my turn.  Am i smarter than my brother" throws, gets no.  "Let me try this again.  Are you sure" throws, gets yes. "were you lying for the last 2 questions?" throws, gets no. "Oh, come on!!"  Also, I tried once to recreate a pool table with some long magnets and metal balls and colored pencils with my brother.  It was small, but fun, and didn't cause a bunch of oranges to rot, which is always good.  Also, once we played some red light green light after squid game, and so my friend decided to throw a little foam football at eliminate people, and once we were at a place with a lot of chunks of trees, so we had some fun jumping across them trying to play tag, which was pretty unique, as well as some other forms of tag, like rock-paper-scissors chain tag, which is basically irl slither.io, chaos tag, which is like fencing but without the sabers, and my brother likes this game, noodle tag, and star wars tag, where they fight with "lightsabers'' for a while, and then get released to tag the rest of us, and pacman tag, which I learned in basketball practice, where we have to stay on the lines, and dribble the ball, and the ghosts would try to steal the ball from us.  This is similar to some games I played in soccer practice, such as this game where I Have to dribbling my ball and try to keep it out of reach of the other kids while trying to take their ball, and dinosaur game, where the balls are eggs and you are trying to dribble them to your nest while the other teams are trying to steal the balls to their nest, and also boys vs girls, which was always fun, as well as kids vs coaches.  I was also part of Girls on the Run when I was younger, and some of the very nostalgic games that i remember playing with the girls are telephone, (supposed to show how gossip is bad) the know (where we all hold hands randomly with other people in the circle, and try to separate us from the knot without letting go, the group hug coil where we hold hands in a line, coil up together, and then use teamwork to try to unravel us from the coil without breaking the chain.  And once we did this visualization thing and it moved me to tears (it was about you being a shining star in the sky, the dark clouds covering your brightness, and then it getting removed and you shining even brighter.)  Also, for some of the games in dance class is sorta like a conga line with2  leaders, and you have to dance and snake around the floor while avoiding crashing into each other, and some of the other fun games is following the teacher's directions, go left or go right, and when to leap, and also when we got to be creative and make up our own stories following a general format of happy, sad, happy, sad, happy for instance, and acting it out through dance.  I was also in a speech and debate class, and we did some fun stuff, such as make some skits, like one of them is about a person getting trapped in a video game, like Minecraft, and another person getting to control them, and one of the most fun games we've ever played is a game called why are you late? which is basically one person  is the late person, and leaves the room and the other people are supposed to come up with a story as to why they are late for work, so they come in, the boss person asks "why are you late?" The rest of us sitting in our seats are supposed to act out our story, which the late person has to try to guess what it means, and if they don't guess it in the time period, they get fired.  I love that game, it was really funny.  Also, during rainy day recesses, instead of playing our usual games, we would get to stay inside and play some special indoor games, like sometimes we would just watch a movie, but sometimes we would play games like heads up, 7 up, or four corners, which is we would have to run to a corner while the person in the middle has their eyes closed and spins in circle, and when the time is up, they would have to say a corner, and whoever is in that corner, they would get eliminated.  I really like that game, because it was exciting and suspenseful.  Also, I got to play Gaga-ball only 2 times in my life, and my first time was in PE class where they had 2 makeshift arenas using a bunch of folding tables put together, one arena for the boys, and one arena for the girls, and I had so much fun playing, jumping as much as possible, standing on my knees like some other players did, boosting myself using the tables, and then afterwards, we had a big arena with everybody in the class as our last game, and that was also really exciting and fun.  Too bad we don't actually have a proper arena at our school, and I don't have 6 unused tables just lying around in my house, so I don't usually get to play this game, unfortunately.  Also once, when we had some free time in  elementary school, I was playing some pick-up sticks with some girls in the class, and it was a lot of fun and also challenging to carefully use my sticks to fling the other sticks from the pile, and one person even tried to use them as chopsticks to pick them up-it was interesting to watch.  Also, once in history class, we were learning about the games that the children played in the past, and one of the games was stick and hoop, which is supposed to simulate hunting, and I was actually quite good at it.  Also, there were some other kids who liked doing yo-yos and kendamas, but I wasn't good at those, and cubing and speedcubing was sorta popular at my school, as well as geometry dash, and I wasn't very good at those either, though I did convince my mom to buy me a cube and I used the solver to solve it, and as a kid, for the longest of time, I would play on the Scratch version, and not even be able to beat the first level.  I also remember playing on the same computer as my friend, and we would try to beat Stereo Madness and try to jump at the same time, but somebody would mess up and we would die.  Also, once in Chinese class, we were able to try the chinese yoyo-I sucked at that also.  Also, when I was a kid, I would sometimes play Rock Band, and the songs weren't really my favorites at that time such as Eye of the Tiger, but it was a fun game.  Also, I played a lot of ping pong as a kid, and I even took lessons for it in China to get better at it, because my whole family plays ping-pong, especially my family in China, and it's okay, was sorta fun, and through training, I was able to get 100 paddle bounces in 1 go, which was pretty cool.  Also, I liked playing badminton with my family, even though I sucked, and also my mom has been taking up pickleball, which I think is sorta boring.  Also, my dad likes playing foosball, and has participated in tournaments before, and he has tried to teach my brother and I how to play, and we even have a small one at home (that is sorta broken now), and he tried to teach me and my brother how to play, it was fun, but I wasn't too into it, but I did see some cool things, such as the snake shot (that is so fast you can't even see it), the volleyball, and even just the basics of how to hold them in the correct catching position and angle, and how to stagger them to block the goal and it was sorta fun playing with the whole family together, but my favorite move is probably still the illegal move of spinning the rods as fast as humanly possible, like that one time when we were at Costco with some of our friends and some other kids at the foosball table, and we were just spinning them like crazy, and it was fun.  Also, one of the most disappointing things that have ever happened in my childhood is when my dad first tried to introduce me and get me excited for the sport of skiing by saying it is like a super long slide, and I love slides as a kid, so it sounds cool, until I actually hit the slopes and find that it is nothing like this.  For one thing, you need to stand up and actually put in effort to ski, rather than sit down and enjoy the ride.  We still went skiing for years afterwards, but we eventually stopped, because it was too much of a hassle to drive for hours when it was still dark outside to get there, and slowly watch the sunrise, and after a while, we went down all the trails that we could, and it started getting too hard and repetitive, and we eventually just stopped going.  But we did make some good memories, and the last time we went skiing with some other families, we all went to stay at this cabin in the woods together. It was a lot of fun, even with the altitude differences (I tried to do some burpees just to see what would happen, and I found that I can't really dance as long or as hard as I could do back at home), but we still had so much fun in the cabin, playing games like real life among us (and I tried to communicate with the scrabble bricks when we weren't supposed to talk), we sang some Christmas songs together, played Charades, and also had a cushion fight based loosely off of  CS:GO where one team is attacking, and trying to enter the site, while the other team is trying to keep them out.  They also had a big golden retriever, and we tried to get the dog to pull a sled for us.  One morning, I was watching Pink Panther with them for the first time with my friends, and it was actually pretty funny. I can't believe that I haven't seen it before.  It was pretty nice to not be distracted by technology or wifi for a few days, and just have fun with my friends, just like old times.  Also, the skiing was okay, I guess, even though I did lose a lot of my skills, and now my brother wants to learn snowboarding now after seeing a friend do it, and I really hope this doesn't mean that I would have to go back to the slopes to accompany him.  Also, snow, aka crunchy water, and icicles (some of them have cool designs on them) are beautiful, and also delicious, but I don't get to have them often, so I try to enjoy it when I can.  This was also the basis of my inspiration to write one of my stories about what if the trip didn't end there, and we stayed for a while longer through the winter, about all the things that I wanted to do, and all the adventures that I wanted to have with my friends, and the main character from that fic was called Everleigh Raven aka the name behind this account.   It sure beats regular old tap water, just like how the waterfall water also beats it-it has some sand, which we found out much too late, but it is still refreshing, and has no flavor in it.  Also, some other games I like to play with my friends include nerf fights, where we run around the house or the driveway trying to shoot each other and pick up bullets with no real objective or point system, laser gun fights, or just playing pretend together when we were younger, such as playing superpowers, such as slow motion, turn invisible, the sneaky ninja vs the deliberately-stupid guard, or roleplaying and making up our own worlds and exploring them and battling monsters with magic and energy.  We also played some really cool games like treasure hunt and survival, which are related, but different games.  So treasure hunt is a game introduced by my friend that is similar to Fortnite: Save the World, where the playground is your base, and you go on quests during the daytime, a lot of times into different worlds, deep into enemy territory to accomplish objectives, such as to rescue a hostage, or perform a heist, or to fight against hordes of zombies in the underworld, to earn treasures and resources, and use those resources to fortify your base, white at night you would have to defend your base against waves of robbers trying to break in and steal your resources.  Survival is a game set in the real world, where you have to craft stuff using real world materials found in nature, (such as I made a bow and arrows using a bendy stick, a vine, and some other straight sticks for the arrows, and my brother tried to make a spear by sharpening a stick he found-somewhat, and trying to hot glue rocks to it), and we use these resources to battle enemies and monsters and build a base and stuff.  Both of these games would only really work in a person's imagination, and they were really fun to play as a kid.  And also some other games I liked playing as a kid include the xbox kinect raft game, which I remember we played at a family friend's house when i met them the first time..  We have now been friends for many years now, and went on many adventures together with a bunch of new people joining our party as their siblings are born, and grow up alongside us, and eventually even a new family joining us, and this game will forever be nostalgic to me because it is basically how we met in the first place.  Also, we liked playing other games as well, such as mario party or mario kart, as well as super smash bros, so we can all game together, but i suck at these games, and they usually always beat me, even though I would still prefer the physical games with an imagination component over these board and card games, as well as party video games, which are more limited in what you can do and how they work, such as games like bang!, catan, and uno all wild! (like why is that even a thing?)  Also, I liked play-fighting as a kid, and also play-wrestling, but I haven't really had a chance to play this anymore, and I kinda miss this rough and tumble style of play, and partly, I think this is due what culture is teaching us about people's boundaries and stuff, and how we are supposed to act and interact with people, and I know that this is supposed to keep people safe and acting civil in our society, but I still really miss being able to throw harmless stuff at people, yell, scream, run around, playfight with toy weapons, wrestle, and just have a good time with my friends, and be free like when we were kids.  Also, we have a vr headset at home, that hasn't really been used, and some of the more nostalgic games that I've played on the vr headset are rec room, climbey (the tutorial/demo level took me so long to beat), beat saber, (my favorites) and Vacate the Room, Knockout League (that game was very tiring to play) disc golf, and the lab, and it was fun,  but eventually we stopped playing.  Also, on the xbox, I love playing the many sports game on the kinetic at my friend's house, and I liked the long jump game, and the volleyball 2 player game the best, because the jump animation and the way it syncs with your movement  make you feel like you are jumping so high in real life.  Also, when I was a kid, my mom would play flying chess with us, which was fun, and there is some strategy involved (unlike candy land, which doesn't have any strategy in it, but it still looked cool) on which pieces to move, and it was satisfying to knock someone's plane back to the start, but it's the worst if your plane gets knocked back all the way to the start, and also we payed this fun game called jungle, which is basically animals chess, where they eat each other, except the mouse can kill the elephant by crawling into its nose.  Also, we did play some Chinese chess on this very expensive set, and the most satisfying one is when you get to roll the pieces cut from jade stone across the back of the storage area, and it would roll like a ball.  Also, there was supposed to be river in the middle of the map that the elephant (who can jump in this game, for some reason) could not cross, so my brother and I came up with this: to move the elephant to the edge of the river and  emote, and taunt the other side by splashing them with water.  Also, once we put real water on the river, for some reason, probably for realism.  Also, I suck at Chinese chess, just like how I such at regular chess.  Also, when we go to our grandparnet's house in China, we would spend so much time watching and switching between the 2 children's channels on TV to try to avoid the ads, because we didn't have a tv at home, and we didn't have Youtube in China, so.  One of the films that we watched was called makiling, which is an anime about powerful dueling tops, so naturally, my brother also wanted to buy those toy tops in real life, so we did, and I got one as well, as well as the finger thing that allowed you to control where they go using a magnet, so you can suspend them in the air, if you wanted to, so they can spin for a long time, and I did battle with them and we did play with them for some time, spinning them using the small rubber tire on the side of it and putting it on the ground.  Also, apparently, if you dip some tops in paint, and then spin them, apparently you can make some cool patterns, and I did that in art class before-cool, and you can also spin certain tops upside-down, which was also surprising and cool. Anyways, those were not the only tops we got, because my grandparents also got us some beyblades, which were also kinda fun to play with, for a bit.  Also, when we were really young, my brother and I loved playing house, and also school, where we would pretend to be the mom and dad of our many stuffed animals, well this whole things started when I Was trying to create an educational game to help my brother tell the lion and the tiger apart from each other, and it grew into so much more, adding to our group, a amorphized dog plushie that we somehow won at the claw machine(?) as well as a promotional pouch for a chocolate candy in the shape of a koala (which we called biscuit) and also a realistic-looking coyote to our group, and we would do stuff like take them on all our trips outside, throw them and catch them, line them up and tuck them into bed at night, with their own blankets, teach them stuff and make them doo worksheets, dangle them on strings and swing them around-it was a lot of fun as a kid, even after the tiger lost part of it's nose, so now it is still pointy, the lion lost a lot of its mane, and we even sewed a pocket on the tiger, and also repaired its eye when the stitching was coming apart, because we were fans of doraemon as kids, and we made our own once out of paper and filled with paper inventions from the show, and also that we came up with, when we were at this hotel in China, but sadly, the cleaning staff swept them away, thinking that they were just scraps of paper.  Also, I'm glad these stuffed animals survived when we were on a trip to florida, and my dad left the car unlocked in the parking lot when we went inside to go eat dinner at a restaurant, and a florida man stole all of our luggage except mine and my brother's, which means our stuffed animals were safe, much to our relief, And then in the car, we started giggling, and getting excited, and let our imagination run wild, coming up with as many crazy stories as we could think of, for what could have possibly happened here, while my parents called the cops, which made a report, but didn't do much else.  Also, for the magnetic Chinese chess set that we have at home, i figured out that if you arranged the pieces in a certain way in a line slowly getting narrower, with one side being positive face up, and the other side being negative face up, I was able to put one on its side, and have the magnets would pull it forward. which was a pretty cool discovery.   Magnets felt basically like levitation to me as a kid (still do.)  Also, there was this fun game I liked to play in the bathtub, which is basically I fill the bathtub with water, and inside it, there is this smaller portable plastic bathtub, which would float on top of the water, and I would sit in it and make some waves, and pretend that I am in a ship at sea.  Also, Simon Says was also fun to play as a kid (even though originally I thought the game was called salmon says, and also I find games like connect 4 to be very nostalgic (even though I suck at it), and also since sometimes my family would go on a plane to travel to places, during the plane trip, we would play all the games available on the screens, and my favorite game was probably battleship, with me dueling my brother with a blanket that we rigged up between our seats so we could not see each other's screens.  I loved that game, as well as some of the other games I liked to play when my parents would turn the wifi in our house off, games like Solitaire Minesweeper, and Majoing, and Purble Place.  Also, a game I liked to play was sea land air, where you start standing on a line, and if the person says sea, you jump behind the line, land you jump in front of the line, and air, you jump in the air, and you get eliminated if you make a mistake.  Also, Roblox was nostalgic to me, because I used to play my favorite game and first game I've ever played, Flee the Facility with my friends, before I got banned from the game, and after that, my brother had a friend who's a Roblox streamer, so I would go on some of his streams and go talk to people, and he was good at, and  interacting with the audience and getting us involved, and it helped me feel less lonely during the pandemic, and also helped me cope with getting banned on Roblox.  Also, we were kids, my mom would take me and my brother to these massive playdates with so many other kids, where we would play games like grounders, tag, hide and seek, hide and seek tag, but my favorite was when we went to this place with a stream, and everyone would work together to carry branches and float big logs down the river to build bridges and dams over the rivers, and some very skilled kids even managed to build shelters out of these branches-i still don't' know how they managed to do that.  And once, some kids made us walk the plank. We also had a lot of fun, wearing rain boots to wade through the stream and explore together. Also once, when we had a playdate at someone's house some people were building a bank using blocks. Why? So they can rob their own bank!  I guess that's one way to do it.  Also, when you have 3 people with the same first name who are playing against each other, the callouts can get a bit confusing.  Like I'll use John as an example here: "Please help me John B, I'm trying to keep John A from getting John C's toy!"  I looked to go on the playgrounds as a kid, and I could do cool stuff on the monkey bars, such as skip bars, try to jump to and catch a certain bar (that was scary, even though I logically know that nothing bad would happen if I miss), move both hands at the same time as I release and recatch, and also, I was able to do a huge swing and catch the other side of the circular monkey bars, which my friend called the superman.  Also, once, in elementary school, we had a competition during lunch or something about how many times a person could swing around a pole in one time, and I was able to get like 6-7 swings at once, and later, I told my teacher than I would want to be a pole dancer when I grow up, and teacher didn't really believe me, hut much later, I was able to actually accomplish that goal.  Like one of my friends who was very athletic back then could do a human flag, but I cpudln't and now I can do ayesha and iron x, which is not bad, but I still can't do a human flag. Also, on the swings, some students like to play this sorta-dangerous game called crossy road, where you have to time it correctly, and go in between the swings when a person is swinging, and it was a sorta dangerous game, but nobody actually got hurt. I love playing in the sand pit as a kid, and digging up pieces of sand that as been compacted into solid pieces that I can pick up, by first digging a handle and then pulling back on it with all my strength (good thing it didn't rain too much, or these sand rocks would not be that sturdy, and then I would carve them into different shapes, and I got pretty good at the art of carving sand rocks, that I could work slowly and carefully, and make little thin rings that I can wear on my fingers-until they broke anyways, which is pretty much inevitable. Also, when I was really young, I liked to play this game where I would bury my sand toys in the sand and then dig them back up.  Needless to say, I lost a lot of sand toys that way.  Also, I liked jumping off the swings at school, even though I kept getting in trouble for it.because it feels like for a moment, I am flying, and I both like to jump form as high as possible, or get flung as low and as far as possible, onto the wood chips below.  I also liked to jump off of high places on the play structures, sometimes with an umbrella, and pretend that I am skydiving, or in Mary poppins.  and once a kid pushed me down from when I was sitting on top of a slide when I was eating bread, and I wasn't ready for it so it kinda hurt when I landed, and the first thing i said was "Where's my bread?" but usually things go smoothly, and stuff like this doesn't happen, and we are all friends.  I like playing tetherball with other people, I like jumping as high as possible to catch the ball, and I rode on it multiple times before, and once it broke.  Another ball game that my neighbor back in my old neighborhood taught me how to play was the stairs game, where you stand at the bottom of the stairs and throw the ball up, and every time it came down again, I would punch it back up again.  Also, we would throw the ball as high as possible, and he showed me how to hit it like a volleyball to make it fly even higher, as I watched it against the vine-covered walls, and it always inevitably gets into the neighbor's yard, in which my brave friend would go knock on their door, and ask for them to retrieve the ball.  I wanted to imitate him, because I thought that he was cool, like for example, I had a green ball, and he had a bigger one, and he also had a zigzag ride, which I also thought was really cool, and I called him older brother so long because I didn't even know his name for a long time, and when I finally asked him for his name after knowing him for literal months by then, he got a bit upset with me, but it turned out okay..  And also, in that same neighborhood, my brother was friends with this girl, and I didn't really like her, I saw her as a frenemy.  She would always taunt me and call me big butt, and try to get me to chase her as she ran  to her house, and when I get there, her mom would make me wash my feet using pretty cold water, and also I would also always tell on her to her mom, and this would continue for a long time.  Also, they had this karaoke tv setup in their house, which would play Chinese nursery rhymes which you could sing along to, and I thought that was pretty cool.  Also, like in that neighborhood, I learned how to ride a bike for the first time, first getting quite frustrated and upset that I couldn't do it, but with the help of my dad, I was able to eventually ride on my own, and that was summer on wheels, so basically I played in the driveway with the neighborhood kids on roller skates (I was so slow on those as well) and also on my bike, and it was honestly pretty fun.  This was before my family had to move away from that place, and I had to go to a new school, which was kinda sad, but if we ddin't move, I would never have found out my favorite game of all time, which is Grounders, or made a lot of new friends in my new neighborhood.  Also once, when one of my friends was sick, my mom  took me and my brother to his house, and we played a game of mouse traps to cheer him up, and I still remember that name-it was really cool because they incorporated a rube goldberg into it, and I would always remember that game we played.  I ahven't seen him in years, but my mom says he's in very hard classes now.  Also, I also played Hive- (not Love-, you stupid autocorrect) with another one of my friends In china when we were in this restaurant waiting room area, and it was a pretty unique game.  Also when we go to China during the summer, we would go to have a lot of feasts wit people in our own private rooms in restaurants, seated around a very big round table and a turning dish  After we were done eating, me and the other kids would run around the table playing games like tag, hide and seek, going under the tablecloth, or playing cushion fights or the floor is lava with the cushions in the waiting area, or we would just sit around watching the tv if anything good is on.  Also, we would turn the chopsticks, plates, bowls, and glasses into our personal drumset, much to the adults' annoyment.  And yea, I know that this is a rich person thing, but it was still a lot of fun when our whole extended family gets to get together like this and chat and eat and celebrate us being reunited in China.  Also to me, bridge tag is based on the story of the three billy goats gruff, where we are the goats , and the tagger is the bridge troll, who can hide, and come at us on either side, throw wood chips at us which is anyone's guess, as we quickly scamper, and run and jump across the unstable, bouncy bridge.  Also, one of our friends had this punching bag with a stand, so we played this game where we stood around it and punched that thing at each other, while trying to dodge it as well.  Also, whenI was a kid, my mom played this game with me called the space alien domino game, which is pretty nostalgic for me, and I also think the graphics are pretty cute.  We also played a lot of air hockey, both at a real air hockey table, but also me and my brother also liked to play the virtual version on phone or tablet, we played the neon version where ever time the ball would bounce, it would light the table p, and sometimes the ball goes so incredibly fast.  Also, trying to beat the air harder is basically impossible.  Also, on the ipad, that we recently got, my brother downloaded the games 2 player games, 4 player games, and stickman party on it, which are  simple, but fun multiplayer games that don't require wifi, and with not much else to play or do to pass the time, we would play them on long car rides together, and for us now, it is the only real time we spend together hanging out a siblings, and also as friends, because when we are at home ,, all we do is go on the computer and we are all doing our own thing, watching videos, hangout out with our own separate friend groups, playing video games, it is actually kinda sad now that the only time we really get to talk and to have fun together is when our parents make us go on roadtrips, where all these tempting directions are removed from us for a few hours, so we can actually hang out.  Also, after seeing it on Youtube, I also wanted to learn card throwing, and I learned from Youtube how to build cards to make basic card structures, and then I try to use the technique to destroy them with my throwing cards (it isn't as easy as throwing round cards, that's for sure) but I didn't get very good at it, but it was still a way to pass the time after my parents turned off the wifi.My mom showed us how to make a special type of paper airplane,  and every time I made one of those, some paper would be leftover, so I decided to use that paper to make paper airplane-ception, and made it so that one paper airplane can launch so many other paper airplanes at once, that progressively get smaller and smaller, and I still like flying paper airplanes on a windy day, and aus using paper plates to do trickshots (like once, I was able to get it to weave in an S-shape between 2 poles that were in a line-I don't know how I did that.  Balloons are another story, though  Even if I put weights on them, and I throw them, they can still fly off, and never be seen again, if the wind is strong enough.  But once we were flying kites at the park, and my dad showed us this trick where we could write messages, put them on the string, and it would go up, which I thought was really cool.  And because our kite looked like a bat, I wrote "Hi bat, do you like playing bat-minton?"  The most boring game that I do not miss, is when a bunch of people stand around talking and passing a ball around, or when we stand around, waiting one at a time to do a free throw (which was the staff's idea, I think, because I was lied to (I was told that I had really good empathy, and that I can help other students, like I told them that they got the wrong person) and forced to go to this group to help me improve my social skills during lunch time, and I really didn't like it) which is so boring, as well as walking and talking, and I guess it's a way for them to socialize and talk, but it's boring, with a lot of waiting, and not much action going on, and I, honestly don't get it.  Also, this is not exactly a game, but in middle school, I was failing this math class, and this teacher told me that I would be able to retake a test if I joined the track and field team and did the long jump (probably because that I was the only one who was tryharding in PE class in my classes), so desperate, I agreed and signed up.  So during practice, I didn't listen to the teacher's advice and I overtrained, because  only had 1 event, and I was bored and I was limited to a certain amount of jumps per day.  And also, there was a lot of waiting around in line for my turn to jump.  Only a bit later did she tell me that I didn't actually have to do the long jump to be able to do the retakes, but I had already signed up, so it was too late.  I only ended up going to 1 meet-the last one during the season, because my mom mad me go, and my first jump was 11 feet, and I told my distance to the lady who was recording everything, and my second and third jumps got progressively worse (probably because of underrecovery/muscle overuse) and then I was done for the day.  So I look at my results, and apparently, the lady misheard me and recorded 7 feet on the scoresheet rather than 11 feet, and then she went home for the day, so there is nothing I could do.  I was very frustrated, and I wanted to talk to the manager.  Anyways. despite my best efforts, I still ended up failing my math class. :/  But one game I did like was playing modded zip zap zop with an actual ball, and it was a pretty hard game, because you have to pay attention, catch the ball, say the right word, or you are out.  Also, another very nostalgic game for me was the lost lunchbox by Mr. Nussbaum, were there was a giveaway where they were offering an ipad or something for the first one to complete the game, and I was trying to beat it to find the missing lunch box, and without spoiling the game, I can tell you there: there is an exploit that allow you to very tediously- get an infinite amount of magic pencils if you go to the cafeteria, wash your hands so they will give you 1 magic pencil for cleanliness, leave, and repeat the process.  Also some other nostalgic games are the original fnaf game, which I played and had no idea what I was doing, so I kept on dying, as well as the Baldi's basics game, which I played the scratch version and not the original version, where the door was not even locked, so you can just leave anytime you want, and win the game. Also, the World's Hardest Game, where I played the coolmath games version, which is slightly-different and much easier because it had a level select and also checkpoints, and me playing that version and grinding it a lot in high school, I was able to complete all the levels at least once, except for the last 2m which I still haven't figured out yet.  Also, the impossible quiz was also very nostalgic, and I was able to beat the easyest game, and of course for nostalgia, I need to mention Starfall, which I loved, and I played a lot as a kid, and I loved the math adventure one so much, that I actually made drawings based off of each of the scenes.  Also, like the other person also said, I loved playing Raft Wars, and another nostalgic game that I played is probably Zork, which I never actually completed, because I couldn't figure it out, and probably also Dungeons and Dragons, which i played once by myself, after my brother got the starter set as a birthday present, and now it's all torn up and missing pages and information, I never really got to play it, but I liked watching Youtube content on it (also, seriously, why give a character stonecunning when their base history bonus is 0? 0 x 2 is still 0).  Also, once we were younger, we had this huge water gun, and so my brother and I liked to fill it up with term, and take turns shooting it into the air from the second story, so we can make it rain on the person on the first story.  So once I accidentally hit my brother in the eye with it or something ,and my mom got so mad that she broke the whole thing in hand over her knee, as the music crescendoed in the background.  I will never forget that moment.  Also, badminton is fun, but a very not nostalgic game for me is badminton from heck.  Apparently, when my brother was very young, he thought it would be a good idea to hit the spiky balls from the sweet gum tree (don't be fooled by this innocently-sounding name) at me with the racquet, and it hit me straight on the cheek!  He had good aim, even as a kid.  I tried to hide it at first so he wouldn't get in trouble, but eventually, my mom did notice it, and don't worry we were both okay, and my brother never did this again.  I have also tried to use these things to defend my base in survival roleplay.  Also, I like to throw food in the air, and catch it with my mouth, and my dad says this is dangerous, and I should stop doing it, because I might choke, but if you do it in a certain way, you won't choke.  Also as a kid, I liked playing with balloons, and trying to hit them across the room and keep them from falling on the table or the floor, and it was a fun game I played with my brother with our own separate balloons (the water balloons filled with the air was the hardest to keep afloat, and we also had balloons that you are supposed to let them go, and they would either shoot straight up into the sky, or go in circles and make this really funny noise, and those were fun as well to play with.  I have also tried to keep a thread in the air before.  Also, I liked playing water balloon volleyball as a kid with pillowcases, and also just throwing water balloons at people to have a water fight with water guns.  And once, in China my parents bought 2 transparent blue water guns with a scope (it has no lens, but you could look through it to aim,, and also a mini umbrella around the gun to use as a shield, and we stopped at a hotel for the night, that has a swimming pool, so me and my brother jumped into the pool, and had a water gun fight with infinite ammo cheats on, aiming for each other, and going under the water to take cover.  It was a lot of fun.  We also ran around the streets shooting at each other.  Also, I once had a water fight with my friends, where we used actual water bottles to splash people, and also apparently, if you bite a hole into the bottom of a water bottle, and squeeze it, it can shoot pretty far (and also leak slowly), and once they had some apple juice, so they were running after me trying to spray me with apple juice, so I ran, and hid by the dumpsters for the next 2 hour (it only felt like 1 hour to me) as my parents got worried and started looking for us.  My friends got in a little trouble for it from their parents, but not much. Another very nostalgic place, is pump-it-up, where I went for a lot of birthday parties when I was a kid, and it was pretty fun, to be able to jump,, acne eventually do my first front flip,  and as a kid, those slides were so tall, and you go so fast sliding down them, especially if you jump down them, and I loved going down with my friends together.  Also other games, like rolling sky and dancing line, were very nostalgic because I used to go to my friend's house for playdates, and the first time was because my brother and that kid were in the same chess club, and my mom arranged for them to play a practice game together, and I also wanted to go with them, except they said that when my brother and him were playing chess, I could play with his little sister.  I was kinda disappointed at first, but I enjoyed hanging out with them, and we quickly became good friends, going to each other's houses for playdates regularly.  My brother mostly played games with him on his ipad, and I mostly hung out with his sister in her room full of stuffed animals and girly stuff, and he introduced my brother and I to these cool rhythm games that he plays a lot, and is much better at them than us.  He was also a skilled game developer, and makes complicated games on Scratch, which was also a very nostalgic site for games, because I've also tried to make games on Scratch before, and it's hard.  Also, once my friend and I were using Scratch jr to make programs, and she turned the scratch cat green, and wanted to make him puke (which I didn't know what that meant, so I said wanted to make him poop), and it was kinda funny, as she recorded some voice lines, such as some singing, and then saying "you are stinky!" (directed at me.)  Also, she showed me first that you can leash and ride on pigs in minecraft, which I didn't know about before.  I also liked playing with bubbles as a kid, chasing after them, and trying to make the biggest ones possible, and once, I tried to build a bubble tower-that was fun.  Also, Talking Ben and Talking Tom are pretty nostalgic games, and my friend showed it to me first, along with other games like piano tiles which she was very good at.  We also played Secret Hitler together at their house, with her family and my family, and I like to troll in games, such as by only voting yes or only voting no.  Also, it is sometimes fun to act like a dog and pretend to chase my own tail, or pretend to eat my friend's homework, and a friend of mine also liked to pretend to be a dog.  Also, once my friend chased me around trying to get me to eat some durg after I called it fake chocolate, and I was scared, and I felt like I was running for my life.  Some more nostalgic video games I remember playing are cody, cody sky, as well as Hearthstone, which we played against the AI-and won, and I remember playing these games on my dad's phone, as well as watching the shrek movie as I ate my bowl of corn from KFC, and waited for our next transfer flight to arrive at the airport.  Snowball fights are pretty fun, as well as making a giant leaf pile against the lunch tables at lunch time, and then jumping into it.  Also, another nostalgic game is Human Resource Manager and Human resource machine, which is a really cute and atmospheric game with a lot of social commentary about the world, as well as also being a very hard coding puzzle game with different loops and logic that I could not figure out.  Also, when I was very young, I had a baby doll that can close its eyes when laid down, and also a bottle that can go from full to empty back to full, depending on how you tip it, and and as a kid, I could not figure out how that works. I don't have that doll anymore, but I still have the 2 barbies that I had when I was a kid, and one of them is missing an arm now, and some hair that got too tangled up to fix.  I liked poisoning them in interesting acrobatic positions and taking photos of them as my models, when I was a kid. Also, when my friends come over to my house, we have this tradition of playing eye found it! Journey through time, and we have to find the different objects around the whole map against the timer, which is fun, especially if you have that bit of leeway, such as by counting this bunch of flowers as 4 separate objects, instead of as just 1 object, and also trying to use logic to figure out where these objects would be in the course of history (which is sometimes counterintuitive.),  Also, when we first got outburst junior, it was a very fun game to play together in the car, and I at first,could  not figure out how the red filter works, until I realized that the answers were written in very light red ink, and the blue flower pattern on it was just to distract us to not see it, and after that, I could just real out all the answers from the card, but it is still fun to try to come up with stuff and play the game legit, but no matter how hard I try, even with no time limit, I can almost never get all 10 things on the list, unless it is something very obvious. such as naming shapes or something. Also, I played those games before, where you have to name a thing in a category that starts with each letter, and also after my mom bought us a lot of Mind Benders, I would always try to do the hardest, most complicated deductive thinking ones, to try to find out who's who through these massive charts and spreadsheets, and they are very hard, and I keep messing up and getting impossible paradoxes, and i guess this also shows how people, if they want to, can gather data on you, by taking a bunch if incomplete, seemingly unrelated data that cannot by themselves, identify you, but if you put them together (using computers not humans) you can get a pretty good profile of who that person is.  I know this is a  very simplified version, but still.  We also played this game once, where one person writes a sentence, the next person draws, the next person describes, and so on and so on, sorta like drawception, but using pen and paper.  We played that once together as a family, and the outcomes from misunderstandings were quite funny, such as red rose --> i see a red flower --> this flower-it looks very interesting to me -->i am in love with this flower (well, that escalated quickly), also from my brother playing knockout league in vr --> my brother is playing knockout in basketball.  Also, as a kid, I loved doing easter egg hunts, whether it is  free-for-all with a bunch of eggs with stuff in them for us together, ranging from stickers, to chocolate and candies, to actual money, or ones  that are hidden in plain sight, and you would have to be observant to find them (those are less fun because I barely get any) and my favorite eggs was the golden eggs, and the mini, aesthetic, pastel-colored ones.  Also, once, I ended some dominos for a rube goldberg project, so my mom went to the store to buy me some, which i could use to build domino snakes, interesting structure, or stacking them together (which I tried so many time and the most I could do is a pyramid of 4-3-2-1, 1 domino thick on long side up, because of for different dominos, their center of mass and stability is all different which makes them very hard to stack. I've tried so long trying to figure this out, but I just don't get a 5 layer of this.  Also, I liked playing real jenga as a kid and using them as building blocks and also having a lot of lego sets, all mixed together, as well as some of the very nostalgic pay places for little kids-like some of them in China have these ball pits with little animal drawings on the ceiling, that make a spark if you hit them with the ball like it is running electricity through it, and also a lot of hallways, climbing, slides, and building blocks, and a giant auto hamster wheel and swinging balls on ropes, all very nostalgic to me.  Also, I once got banned from the Ikea playground, and they announced on the loudspeaker for my parents to come pick me up, because i was breaking rules or something-like throwing balls out of the ball pit or something, I don't really know, and I remember trying to bury myself deep into the ball pit so my parents or the staff couldn't find me, and them eventually coming out of there, because I didn't want to stay here forever.  And then after school I cried about it, even though the Ikea playground didn't even appeal to me to begin with, it was actually kinda boring there, but I guess I just didn't like the fact that I got kicked out and had to have my parents come get me earlier. And I still remember the sweet and food smell of those places in the malls in China.  Also, it was fun going to the malls and the arcades in China, and trying to leap from one tile to another without touching the whole floor.  Also as a kid, when I first learned long division, it reminded me of an rpg battle system trying to get rid of all of the enemy's health.  Also, plants vs zombies is very nostalgic to me and is a pretty unique base defense game that I actually liked playing, because the premise is ridiculous, and it is one of the only base defense type games that happens in multiple lanes, rather than only 1 lane.  Also at school, my brotehr was participating in the buddies program in our elementary school, when they pair an upper-grade student with a lower-grade student (I remember having a buddy who is much older than me when I was younger and thinking that they are very cool, and it was cool for me to be a leader and a role model for them when I was the older one, and also think about all of the fun I've had when I was in the lower grades), and they were doing a get-to-know -you activity, and for that activity, thy would need to find similarities between each other, and for one of them, my brother wrote down xbox, but when I saw it, I was confused, because we didn't own an xbox.  Turns out it is because they both dont have an xbox, but they both want one.  I guess that is one way to do it...

Wow, this is amazing!!  How is Trump able to do this??  I was thinking about the ceasfire sorta happened after Trump is going to be president again, but I wasn't sure if those 2 things were related or not (because I haven't been keeping up with the news and what's happening. in the world.)

I am not a Christian, because I do not want to benefit directly in this major way from the killing of an innocent person.  It does not sit right with me, and I feel guilty thinking that i can get away from being punished for the bad things that I have done in my life, because this other innocent person, who did nothing wrong, had to be killed in this very painful way.  This does not feel fair at all, to me, and under any other circumstances, and it feels like an injustice-kill the innocent person and let the guilty people go.  Also, if I am misunderstanding something here, please let me know.  Also, I do not know if I would even want to live forever, like would that even be a good thing, or would I eventually get bored, and tired of living？

LESSGOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Finally some good news!!  (Hopefully this peace can last.)

I prefer the tableflip (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

What… did I just watch???  (This feels like satire...)

I like grabbing an umbrella and jumping off of stuff.  It is a lot of fun.

I would give every single player of Torn a small, but equal share of the game, and also equal control over how the game is run and being played, and oin what direction people would want to take it.  I would add an active vommunity modding scene where the people can add their own items, funny or clever descriptions, missions, new crimes, lore, new areas to explore (like maybe expanding the world map, perhaps), and new npc's to talk to, or even new gamemodes, and people would vote for if they like the idea or not, and if most people do, it would be implemented.  I want to make Torn into more of a collaberative-fiction sandbox project, while still sticking to their roots as a crime game, but if everything is always the same, then it is quite boring.  I also want to make sure that the chats work better, and also add group chats to the game.  I do not know how to make it all work, but I'm thinking maybe having seperate servers or areas, one for the original, stable and unaltered version, and other more-experimental servers, to first test new features out, to make sure that (like the combat systems, for example) are balanced properly or at least not gamebreaking before releasing it to be used anywhere (especially more inconsequential, flavor-text items), or even limiting some stuff to certain areas, sorta like an in-universe opt-in system.   And if something ends up being a total disaster or doesnt work the first time, we cnan always roll it back, and try something else.  I just wanna leverage the talents and creativity of the community to create more good-quality content for everyone to enjooy, instead of just leaving the responsibility all on the devs, in order to create new content.  I want torn to be a more-interactive, creative experierience, with more roleplaying oppertunities in this rpg, and I want it to be chaos and mob-rule, like a real unstable, unpredictable torn-apart town that's overrun by thugs and gangsters.  And if this game were to go to shambles, at least I'm not the one responsible for this dumpster fire.

Israel is like any other country: there are good parts about it, but also quite-mesed-up bad parts.  However, the good parts about Israel should not be used as a distraction away from the bad things, and violence and discrimination that is also happening in that country and in that region.

Cultural appropriation is not always a bad thing, and sometimes gatekeeping can be worse than cultural appropriation.

Hypothetically, if I get drafted, and there is no easy or legal way for me to get out of it, I would probably try to flee the country, or hide out in the wilderness with my friends (fellow draft dodgers.)

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I am glad to hear that you are able to change your lifestyle and become more healthier.

And why is that?

Why are friendships meant to be between peers?  They don't have to be.

What do you mean?  I don't understand this...

I am not voting.

I am specifically talking about friendships here, not just any type of relationship.

Board game: Secret Hitler, where my family used to take me to my friend's house, and we would all sit in a circle and play this game together, I suck at social deduction (I still do) but I still loved trolling my friends in that game, by saying all yes or saying all no  Avalon (modded with theme: Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, becvause my bro and I were obsessed with that show when we were younger) abnd it was so much more fun than playing Werewolf/Mafia, because at least I have actions to take and evidence to go off of, instead of just randomly killing, saving, or voting off people because I didn;t reeally have much evidence to go off of, Journey Through Time Eye Found It!, I used to play this game every time certain friends came over, it has become a bit of a tradition at this point, rto play this game, and I like setting the timer and crawling around on the length of the floor to try to look for certain items Oh Snap!, we first played this at a firend's house, and had a lotta fun that we even bought our own copy later.  this feels like Jenga, but on a 2d scale, and also as we played, we lost a lotta pieces, so the gameboard is like half the size of the original?, Flying Chess (which is mostly because of nostalgia, since when we were much younger, my mom would play simple game with us for hours, and I have made some good memories.  Also, sending someone to the start when they are about to win is either the most satisfying, or the most-painful thing ever.  Also, Hive- is on the list, but I've only really played it once, but it will always remind me of playing it for the first time at that resteraunt, and all the fun we had toghether over the years in China, going to eat at fancy resteraunts, and then playing tag or sneaky statues way into the night, pretending to do parkour as we hopped from tile to tile in the mall, trying to stay on the same color, or just chattin together, and having some watermelon as we watch tv at my great grandma's house.  Also, I tried to play Dungeons and Dragions when my bro got the starter set as a birthday present, like I tried to do singleplayer we with a bunch of bot characters that I can summon like pokemon, and the combat was complicated, so I tried to simplify it while not even bothering to keep track of the points, because that is a real hassle.  Also chess.  I suck at chess, we both took classes as ut my brother was much better than me and went to tourmanents, and man, was I jealous!  I could never make it into the tournaments, because I honestly suck at playing chess (I can'yt even ebat him, which is the case for most games, except for maybe like rhythm games?), but I am a fan of anarchy chess, and how a game can turn into a chaotic collaberatoive storytelling project between so many strangers online.

Card game: Uno (mods: after you draw you can still play) when we were young, I would play this a lot with my family in the living room.  It was a fun game, and the best part is after we win, my brother and I like to throw our cards in the air and do the victory dance around the players who are still playing to celebrate the win, Spot it! I remember playing this game in the house or on long car rides with my bro and my mom, and it was a tense, and fast-paced game, and I really liked it.  Sometimes getting the same thing all of the time does feel kinda unfair, tho.  Outburst! Junior was a fun game we got, abnd a great way to pass the time, because no matter how hard I tried, I could not get all 10 things on the card.  Also, I like how there;s an adults verision, and a kids versuoin to the game, but honestly,some of the answers feel kinda dated now.

Role playing: LARPing with friends.  Some of my favorite roleplays I did include: Warrior Cats (I was a medicine cat running across my school campus trying to heal the sick clan with sourgrass, which was supposed to be the healing herbs, but they keep running out), Minecraft, flying jets, Magical Girl, Dragons, Treasure Hunt (a game where during the daytime you have to go on quests to get materials and upgrades to fortify your base and at night time, you have to defend your base from increasing hoards of robbers, sorta like Fortnite: Save the World), and also Survival, a game set outside in our neighborhood where we had to gather stuff and craft stuff ourselves in order to use them for our adventures, like my brother had a wooden spear with stones hot-glued onto it, and I had a makeshift bow with a few "arrows", which are just sticks, in order to fight monsters, "collect" resources (pretend to hit trees and stuff), expore our big suburb neighborhood, build a shelter, stuff like that (I remembnber setting a fake "trap" using the spiky fruit from the sweetgum tree to "protect" my base.  When my brother and I were younger, I used to play house with my brother, where we would pretend to be mom and dad to our stuffed animals and homeschool them and take them on all of our trips, and our multi-year campaign where we made our oc's with elemental powers, magic swords, and dragons and collected and assembled our team of allies from many of our favorite fandoms, from  that we were into, such as from Terraria, Proodigy Math Game, Ninjago, Captain Underpants, How to Train your Dragon,in our battle against the Hacker Virus, who was trying to destroy all of gaming.  I was mostly GMing, and that was fun until we ran outta ideas when our interests started to diverge.  I miss those days, man.  Also, I learned from an early age, during elementary school music class, that music can take us on journeys to other worlds, and I loved roleplaying through music, singing songs together, and feeling the whole world that the artist has created for us, knowing what's next and how it would end, and just having this experience together.  And also how when I first discovered rap music, it was through gaming, and I remember listening to the Fortnite Rap Battle and singing and dancing along to it, trying to act everything out, and it feels like you are actually there, in the game, doing those actions.  And that, abnd the Minecraft vs Terraria Rap Battle, is what got me into rap, and I still like gaming rap to this day, though I do listen to and enjoy other stuff as well.  Also, when i first found out about lyrical dance, i ended up loving it, it was so beautiful and emotional, and I like, through dance, acting out the scenes and events in the songs.  I am not the best at it, but I still think it is very fun, and counts as a type of roleplaying.  Like I liked dancing all my life, but in high school, learning how to actually choreograph stuff through a class I took to get out of PE, and then finding contemporary and lyrical dance on Youtube, and watching a lot of performances to learn, definitely helped me take this to the next level.  I just wish I had some other people to dance with, like I used to be in dance class throughout my childhood, but not anymore, sadly.  I also like writing stories, like we actually had to write fictional stories in Englsih class in elementary school, and I sorta miss that, whicgh started my passion for this.  I like taking on another character, and through my writing, do stuff that I cannot do in real life.  Like most of my writing is action-adventure realistic fiction, and a lot of it is is just from me wishing I had friends to do stuff with and go on adventures with, and also to escape my own lame and boring life, and go explore new and unfamiliar places, and sometimes get into confrontations or fights and stuff, with the excitement of the fight, but with no real deaths or casualties, and just having a bunch of people who would actually listen to me as their leader, because in real life, group work is tough for me, I'd rather work alone, even if it meant I had to do more work, and it's hard for me to compromise, and people don't usually listen to be, but in fiction, that is not a thing, I can easily gather a group of my imaginary friends to play games with, or to hang out together, and they would actually like my ideas.  The downside of that is that you do have to run everything, which can get get pretty tiring after a while, but I guess, that what happens when you try to run the actions of a whole group of people by yourself (sometimes not even in real time, because I would have to stop to think through everything.)  I also liked those choose-your-own-adevnture books, where you turn to a certain page to make your choice, and it felt more active than simply reading a story, and I liked going through the whole book to see where everything would lead to.  Some other roleplays I've done include island survival (where a bunch of people have to  gather food together and survive for a week on an island for prize money, and then we got a ride in the helicopter), monster in the bedroom (a game where everyone goes into the bedroom,. turns off the light and pretends to sleep, but then the monster awakens and chases everyone around as we run from and try to fight from the monster), the chicken boss fight (this is if the nursery rhymke 1-2 buckle my shoe was a list of instructions on how the summon the giant hen which you then have to defeat in an epic boss battle) a custom nerf capture-the-flag battle set in a custom arena built from gymnastics gym equitpment, real life valorant 1v1 (I kepy getting knifed by my brother), real life among us, as well as playfighting with toy guns and imaginary weapons and superpowers-that was also a lot of fun.  Also, sometiemsd I would pretend to be in video games, and perform actions, and act like certain video game characters, like in Minecraft for Instance, or in Fortnite, or Valorant, where I can feel decently competebnt in pvp skills, give myself ;plot armor and actually get some decent kills with decent aim, because irl, my gaming skills suck, and I always get destroyed by my opponents, but skill issue, I guess.  Also, I would play this game which could turn any room into your house into an escape room.  So basically, your hand is your player character, the door is closed, and you will have to figure out a way to climb up to the door to unlock it, only climbing up things that your hand can directly reach and grab, without lifting your arm from the surface.  And if you figured that ne out (or maybe that is impossible), look around the room, and try to get from point a to point b, using the objects around the house.  Also just one more thing: roleplaying, larping, or talking to yourself, or running and jumping, rolling on the ground, yelling orders and pretending to shoot at imaginary enemies with your imaginary gun, can and does attract attention from other people, or may cause them to think you are a crazy person (like in elementary school, some staff person told my mom that this kid might not be okay, because they saw me dancing with some imaginary friends, and even my own school therapist in high school told me that if she sees a person talking to themselves, she might think that they have a mental health issue), but I don't care what they think!  I just wanna roleplay, have some fun, hopefully with some other people, but people tend to not want to do this type of stuff anymore as they grow older, which I think is such a shame, because I had so much fun, and made so many good memories doing this stuff when my friends when we were kids, but people, even my own firends whoi we used to play like this all the time on playdates when we were younger, they have also grown out of it in favor of video, board games, and card games (not that ther eis anything wrong with playing these games, but I just find it to be more-boring, with much-less creativity and gives you muc-less freedom, since we are going my the rules of the game, as well as less phsycial, since we are sitting down together, rather than running around trying trying to larp and act out scenerios, which I find to be more exciting and interesting, and I really miss those days of my childhood.  I try to carry this on alone, or with music, but it's just not the same, you know, than roleplaying with other people.  I am not sure what to do, it feels like as people grow older, play has become more structured, complicated, and serious, which I find to be less fun than being able to run around and basicaly do your own thing, while still contributing to the overall world and the story (I am not very good at teamwork, and you already know that), and it's not like I can just go back and relive those days of my childhood all over again-that time will never come back.  I just wish I have some friends in real life who still haven't "grown up", and still have these sorts of hobbies, and we can roleplay together, like we did when we were kids, but I only really have online friends now, since most of my friends left me as we all went in different directions as we grew up, so I don't get to do that anymois also hard for me to make new friends.

Like under normal situations, now I wold be sketched out if someone invites me to their house, like in their private property, and in most cases, I could probably not go, and especially not go do illegal things like do drugs or have sex with minors, like I wouldn't do that with my friends.  I am talking more about meeting in public spaces to play games and do activites or other hobbies together and there would be groups, and everyone is allowed to go, including adults, parents, kids, for some activities at least.  And hopefully these events are free, or at least not super expensive to attend.  Also, I do have friends im gaming like on here, that are both older, as well as younger than me, and I am really glad to have these friends, or else I would be really lonely and miserable.  We are quite good friends, and we talk about quite a bit of irl stuff and about what's going on in our lives, as well as about the games,but I try to steer clear of talking about inappropriate stuff (like actually sexting, rather than simply talking about certain more-sensitive topics) with people I know to be minors.  Like friendship is supposed to be about having fun and doing cool things together, and also having a support system, and not about breaking the law and stuff.

I guess that is true, people can disagree with me.  My controversial opinion: I did not derail this thread.