RealityGlitch said:

BeefExtreme said:

I lost shroomery today though.  😕

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No, you haven't. The Shroomery wouldn't be Shroomery without the people who keep it alive, and you've not lost one of them yet.

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BeefExtreme said:

Eh.  Its just the internet.  Theres bigger fish to fry. 

I should carve some pumpkins this week 🤔

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You’ve got like 3 days until Samhain

But better later than never and always worth it for the seeds.

GymnCarrey said:

As disappointed as I am to see this thread moved, there's a part of me that's excited to participate in the storied journal culture that older members were talking about a while ago.

I confess, I have a very hard time feeling like I belong anywhere, even here. It takes a great deal for me to overcome that anxiety. But everyone has been exceptionally cool and welcoming here. I should probably participate more and challenge that voice that tells me I've got nothing of value to contribute.

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GymnCarrey said:

Planning to try to finish processing our black walnut harvest tomorrow. I've finally got a system that makes that particular act of masochism just a bit more bearable. And when I'm eating the delicious fruits of my labor this winter I'll be happy I did it.

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eilauver said:

Might catch some flak for it, but I am a bit sad that it isn’t that related to cultivation anymore. At least it sometimes seems to me like that.

Otherwise I’d feel more comfortable posting here that I prepared my sab, sterilized agar and fell a sleep on a couch while it was cooling. Of course it had cooled solid when I woke up.

But sometimes it seems that this might be a bit too lighweight for this thread with everything else going on. But to me it’s a fun cultivation related mishap I don’t have anyone else to share with.

Edit. Though arguing against myself. Things change and maybe so has this thread. I still have space for things like this in various “pic of the day” threads. And this thread is just an our own of topic section, which is okay by me.

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Eh, valid for sure. I do feel this way now and again. Though it also feels kinda good to have one of those and be able to roll in and slap it on the table. Like what are people gonna say... no cult confessions?

Funny how sometimes one of the most subversive moves you can make in this thread is a post that's exclusively on topic with the OP

Rasmodius said:

You got good vibes. That's the contribution. Just existing together without a bunch of mean or transactional fuckery.

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Rasmodius said:

Like the wood or the actual walnuts? Such an unbelievably beautiful wood. I'm cutting and staining hundreds of birch ply slats rn bc i'm a pinterest basic at heart, but if money were no object, it'd be walnut.

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Thanks. That means a lot actually.

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They are a lot more trouble than their European compatriots.

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Rasmodius said:

Yeah isn't the sap like... corrosive and will eat car paint and burn your skin or something crazy? Walnut defenses are OP.

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Rasmodius said:

This is a fucking wild move.



Like this is my exact IRL reaction. There's a small part of me that really enjoys the sensation, it's not every day that I'm honest-to-god bewildered.

This is an almost unilaterally foolish idea, and... I'm so tempted not to explain it. My absolute favorite response to this category of decision is popcorn and silence. Like hell yeah buddy, you dig that hole!

But I'm here because of this thread, and so is a significant portion of the NOTM roster, and so too are the unregistered noobs of the future.

Mushcult is a very specific vibe. It is filled increasingly, and perhaps to the dismay of some, with a particular flavor of character, and there seems to be a bit of a self-selecting loop. That is nice. It is the reason I come back to mushcult at all.

I can grow shrooms fucking anywhere. I can read and talk about growing shrooms fucking anywhere, and I can also go back to doing those things nowhere. You think I'm lurking QQQA and answering flyby threads at the cadence I do without confessional 50 pixels away? You are out of your fucking mind.

Confessional is top-of-funnel for much of the current and future population of mushcult, particularly the people who are active and high-output posters. Yes, it is a tiny fraction of total visitors. Because most people are coming here to read (and be confused by) a massive long tail of teks that continue to generate traffic and therefore revenue. But those teks are rotting. They need to be kept fresh.

Confessional is the garden for the weeders. It's the little pocket in the back of the building where the groundskeeper smokes a cigarette and makes it nice. Not the kind of nice the city inspector mandates with the ramps and the cameras and the safety railing. Actual nice. The kind that takes 3 years to start blooming.

But sure. Go steamroll that shit on a technicality. Piss on that guy.

Asinine.

To be clear, I fully understand why this decision is coherent, consistent, and fair from a technical, letter-of-the-law perspective.

It's legible, judicially. It just doesn't seem wise. Confessional gang maintains both the posting velocity and the vibe equivalent of surface conditions for noobs on the forum that generates all the traffic and that everyone comes to this website and spends money at. OTD maintains.. what, a legally mandated 300 yards from all schools and playgrounds?

I expect a meaningful dip to morale, and probably to mushcult post activity and noob retention. In exchange for... consistency? To appease... whom, exactly?

This seems like the dumbest kind of expensive.

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Anyway, let's silver lining this shit. What better way to bring back journal culture?

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Succinct as fuck ras, I don’t think anyone could say it better



Edit now that I’ve actually caught up: YES me and my partner went to a Halloween rave as bowser and peach, was fucking magnificent and I’m drunk