Cracks_InTheWalls

That's awesome! I'm going as a dude in his 30s - which was reason to have some pause about this event, until I went to an info session about it and discovered I was on the younger side of the group, lol.

Nothing like using your vacation days to recapture a little youthful irresponsibility (coupled with adult sensibilities, like bringing enough food and water. Have erred on that on camping trips with the homies in my younger days :p )

Lol, your last paragraph resonates. I'll probably have more to say about it once I've actually done it, but that's basically the risk - either you'll go, get out of your shell a bit, and have a good time, or you'll be kinda bored and anxious.

Will say that based on your skill set, you'd probably do well with the crew that goes out and does initial setup or a bigger, more involved camp. In doing the grunt work, you'd likely make a connection with those folks which will help bolster the social experience of it all.

I think you should give something like this a shot - worst you could say is you tried it out, and had a meh time. But it could be awesome - I've yet to see someone talk about a festival like this and say "Yeah, I went - I was bored and lonely as shit".

I've heard that from folks closer to Burning Man before - what's different from your perspective?

Nice! Glad you had a good time!

Yep, I'm trying to keep the participatory aspect of it as front of mind as possible. Goal is to talk to as many people as possible, and say yes to as much stuff as I can (within reason/limits of personal safety). Was hoping to have some particularly cool thing/wandering experience at the ready, but for lack of planning gonna try and compensate by bolstering cool shit other folks are doing where the opportunity arises :).

me trying to find an article about 2005 specifically, only finding comments on forums and inferior social media platforms saying "Oh yeah, that's just the Sunday at Reading, flaming tents and explosions are the norm, happens every year"

That's a hell of an experience!

Hey, when this came out a lot of people really liked them.

Don't look back in anger.

Re: the old folks home - sometimes people do volunteer singing groups for entertainment. If you like singing and are halfway OK at it (or at least sound good in a group), I recommend it if you find the opportunity, and like the kind of music old people may enjoy (I dig the Kingston Trio hard now, which was a wildly unexpected turn of events).

To this day, one of my favourite memories was doing one of these shows with an audience member going off about banging dudes under the boardwalk after we sang "Under the Boardwalk", smoking banana peels, and all sorts of things that made her my favourite person over 70 (sorry Grandma).

The day it got legalized in Canada, all of a sudden 95% of the paranoia I could get from weed magically disappeared.

The remaining 5% was the "I'm relatively sure that, in spite of this never happening, I am going to die of a heart attack today because I smoked a strong sativa**")

*Maybe it actually has happened, idk.
*inb4 "Actually pretty much all weed these days is hybridized to the point that sativa and indica aren't really useful categories that you can map onto acute effects". I know, I really just mean the racier stuff that is commonly, if problematically, called sativa.

I really need to try it again with a guide, I want to see the wild shit after that first damn level.

Pro soda/beer can pipe tip for those reading a local backup of Lemmy during the apocalypse: if your knife is stuck in a dead raider and you need a toke, you can snap part of the can's pull tab off to make a puncture tool.

Don't forget to get that knife back though, fr. Actually maybe go do that first, but still do this rather than use a bloody knife. Hygiene, man.