u/electric_goudacheese

I have been treating one of my ducks bumble foot for Couple days now. Today I did 2 foot soaks with her and finally managed to bandaged her foot with some ointment. I thought I could let her run free, but then she made a beeline for the pond. I know you’re not supposed to let them be in deep water when you’re treating bumble foot, but I was already so exhausted from catching her the first time and bandaging her that I just let her go

But once she got in the deep water, she was struggling to swim and was sinking. So I jumped in the pond to grab her, put her in a pen and cut off the soggy bandage. I left her alone in the dry pen for a bit so she wouldn’t ruin the ointment. But I can tell the whole process was terrifying and traumatizing for her.

I feel so guilty. I feel like I’ve damaged her trust beyond repair. I was so terrified she was going to drown so I jumped in to get her. But by doing that I was essentially chasing her in the water… which must have been really menacing and scary for her.

I don’t know what to do. I’m just trying to treat her bumblefoot but in doing so I feel like a monster every single day.

I'm currently in the bumblefoot trenches. One of them is in the very early stages and she had her first soak today. Her mom's bumblefoot is more severe and needs ointment and bandaging. Sadly, I have to grab them to do this for them, and It breaks my heart when I release them after soaking time and they run away crying in fear.. I hate how terrified they sound when I pick them up. I try my best to not chase them in a way that could be menacing to them. I try to make the process as least-scary as I can, but unless I get lucky and snatch a duck without a chase, there is usually a bit of a chase which upsets THE WHOLE FLOCK and terrifies them. It's not just scaring the duck getting treated, all 6 of them get terrified. I hate it. I wish they could understand it's for their health and all I want them to do is soak in a betadine and epsom salt bath for 20 minutes.

I would set alarms for 4-5 in the morning just so I would have extra time to draw before my classes. I used to hold myself accountable to drill basic shapes and anatomy almost every day. I had a daily journal where I would record proof that I drew that day. I would set timers to work on specific art work and then give myself a break. I gave myself deadlines to finish drawings. I did all kinds of anatomy, texture and master studies. But now I just draw when I feel like it (which isn’t very often)

It feels really weird. I invested so much time and effort into art. It used to be my main ambition. But I realized after some time I wasn’t really going to profit from it. Now I’m in paralegal school and also saving money to get a pilots license. It’s just hard to bring myself to put that same kind of effort into drawing like I used to when I could put that energy into studying the law, or doing my ground school, or maintaining my foreign language skills.

But even if Phoebe reran, I don’t know if I want to spend my Mornye and Lynae rerun savings on her..

Im sorry to the peebs lovers. She’s a cute girl and all. As a character Phoebe is fine, I just think she’s meh in terms of design. I don’t think her design is ugly, it just doesn’t blow me away.

I’m a very low spender and don’t have a lot of time to grind video games, so if I pull a character it’s a really big deal and I have to be totally blown away and in love with the whole characters look, outfit, etc to grind astrites or take out my wallet.

I hate it when a character I find very gorgeous like Zani needs a character who I feel “meh” about like Phoebe.

I play as male Rove so I’ll use male pronouns.
PLEASE DONT YELL AT ME😭

I understand he doesn’t have a canon partner. Keeping things ambiguous lets fans have more fun. Kuro is executing things in a way so every ship gets to be “canon” for the player.

I can see why the devs would want to include interactions with multiple characters that could hint at romance. Each player has their own preferences. By having multiple characters be interested in rover, there’s a little something for everyone

However, my enjoyment of the story gets a bit tainted when there’s not much you can do to control if Rover reciprocates or has “boundaries” with other women.

He doesn’t have an official partner, so he can’t truly cheat on any specific character. But he also doesn’t really turn anyone down. I feel like this makes him feel really self-inserty and less compelling to me.

I understand why this isn’t a thing thought l. Not just for the reasons I already listed, but because it would require so much extra work, it would become its own game. At the end of the day it’s not a dating sim, so my gripes are just drivel that will go into the void.

Just Imagine if Shorekeeper saw how Rover would interact with Iuno or Qingxiao in the new quest. I know she’s an artificial digital human, but she seems to have SOME feelings. I think she would be somewhat jealous, if not hurt.

I wish there was a romancing mechanic where you could choose to be loyal to a particular resonator so that even as Rover progressed in the story, he doesn’t have to get caught up in these cheating-but- technically not-cheating scenarios