u/RancidMilkMan

Dear Younger Rancid-Milk-Man,
You’re going to spend a lot of years believing that if you could just find the right system, the right routine, the right medication, the right project, or the right version of yourself, everything would finally click into place.
It won’t.
And that’s okay.
I know you feel different from everyone else. You notice things other people don’t. Your brain doesn’t move in straight lines—it leaps. It connects ideas across years, industries, technologies, and people. One day you’ll be discussing architecture permits, the next you’ll be building software, then designing artwork, then repairing electronics, then launching a business. You’ll spend years wondering why you can’t just pick one thing and stick with it.
The truth is, you were never built to be one thing.
You’re a builder.
Not just of houses, businesses, websites, games, or artwork.
You build possibilities.
There will be times when this feels like a gift.
There will be times when it feels like a curse.
The hard part is learning that your value isn’t measured by how many of your ideas become successful. It’s measured by your willingness to keep creating despite setbacks.
And there will be setbacks.
Some of them will nearly break you.
You’ll find yourself in hospital rooms wondering how life changed so quickly. You’ll experience fear you can’t explain to other people. Your own body will betray your expectations. You’ll discover that strength isn’t always about how much weight you can lift or how many hours you can work. Sometimes strength is simply getting out of bed when every part of you wants to stay there.
You won’t always win those battles.
That’s okay too.
Stop beating yourself up for being human.
You spend so much time judging yourself for what you haven’t accomplished that you rarely stop to appreciate what you’ve survived.
You’ve survived loneliness.
You’ve survived disappointment.
You’ve survived watching plans collapse.
You’ve survived days when your own mind felt like it was working against you.
You’re still here.
That matters more than you know.
Another thing:
The people you admire most aren’t special because they never failed.
They’re special because they kept moving after failure.
You’ll waste years thinking you’re behind.
Behind on money.
Behind on business.
Behind on relationships.
Behind on life.
One day you’ll realize there is no schedule.
No cosmic checklist.
No finish line where someone hands out trophies for suffering efficiently.
Life is happening while you’re waiting to feel ready.
Start sooner.
Share your work before it’s perfect.
Tell people what you’re building.
Take more photos.
Call your friends.
Spend less time worrying about how things will end and more time experiencing them while they’re happening.
And please, for the love of God, stop assuming everyone else has it figured out.
They don’t.
The older you get, the more you’ll discover that nearly everyone is improvising.
Even the confident ones.
Especially the confident ones.
You’ll eventually learn something important:
Your sensitivity isn’t weakness.
Your tendency to care deeply isn’t weakness.
The fact that things affect you more than they seem to affect others isn’t weakness.
It’s part of why you create.
It’s part of why people trust you.
It’s part of why you notice details that others miss.
Don’t lose that.
The world will try to convince you that becoming harder is the same thing as becoming stronger.
It isn’t.
Stay kind.
Stay curious.
Stay weird.
Keep making things.
Keep learning things nobody asked you to learn.
Keep chasing rabbit holes.
Keep believing that a random idea at 2 a.m. might become something meaningful.
Because sometimes it will.
And one last thing.
You spend so much time worrying that you’re broken.
You’re not.
You’re wounded in places.
You’re exhausted sometimes.
You’re carrying more than most people realize.
But you’re not broken.
The evidence is simple:
Broken things don’t keep trying.
And you’ve never stopped trying.
I’m proud of you for that.
See you down the road.
— Joe

Been solo queuing the first part of the day on perimeter. My runs had the full timer and all of the exfils up the whole match but now when I queue it’s back to how it was on night marsh. Load in at 17 minutes and only have final exfil?

I built WebAIM — a fully browser-based recreation of AOL Instant Messenger, the chat app that defined the internet for a whole generation.

Sign in with a screen name, build your buddy list, blast someone with a "lol brb," set a cryptic away message quoting your favorite band, pick a buddy icon, join a chat room, and actually talk to real people in real time — all with the authentic Windows 98 look, classic door-knock sounds, and every bit of the nostalgia.

What's under the hood:
- Real-time messaging powered by Firebase
- Buddy lists, groups & online presence
- Away messages with auto-reply (and the classic %n, %d, %t variables)
- Buddy icons & editable profiles
- Group chat rooms
- The actual AIM sounds
- Full Windows 98 desktop UI — taskbar, desktop icons, start menu, the works