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Good evening, I hope everyone is having a good day. I would like to ask Cyberpunk 2077. I fully understand that this is not a small amount and the fact that someone will fulfill my request is quite a long shot. If your willing to contribute towards it, I would be immensely grateful and happy. Your generosity would provide me with countless hours of enjoyment and fun
Why I want the game you may ask?
I'm the guy who plays game to relaxes and escapes from reality for a while. Well I love FPS, open world and survival games a lot, because it gives you the freedom to be anyone, do anything and explore to your heart content. I always wanted to play it for certain reason like CD PROJEKT RED is known for there storytelling and now with the 2.1 UPDATE a lot of bugs and glitches should have been fixed and I would like to be able to play and experience the iconic Night city with Johnny SilverHand. I'm interested in the characters, the dystopian metropolis city that hosts some incredible backdrops, lore and body modifications. The Nomad lifestyle seems like it will be fun roaming about and using you wits to survival. From the few stream and YouTube video's I've seen it look enjoyable.
Why I can't afford it?
I'm in University and don't really have money to spend on any online stuff. whatever pocket change I have goes to education and food stuff. So I currently don't really have extra money to spend on games or anything online at the moment.
I'll be very happy if anyone can fulfil my wish by helping out, I would be happy with the standalone Cyberpunk (without Phantom Liberty DLC). Because it will be enough to keep me occupy in my free time.
Cyberpunk 2077: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1091500/Cyberpunk_2077/
My Steam Link: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198974015021/
PS: Feel free to add me on steam my friend code is 1013749293.

Any gender is fine. Prefer someone atleast 16.
Turning 18 in September A little about me- im into online gaming; shooters like valorant, overwatch, Fortnite. I play casually or competitively. Other games like dead by daylight, Minecraft, Roblox, also down to play discord games. I also play magic the gathering. I’m into anime like jujutsu kaisen, chainsawman, attack titan, lots of popular ones really. I like drawing but I’m not super talented or anything. I have a terrible sleep schedule. I feel I’m making this too long y’all can just talk to me. Reddit chat sucks and I don’t get all notifications so we could move to discord.

I’m graduating this semester and I’m doing well in all of my classes except one. I figured I’d reach out and write a very nice and professional email asking the professor if there was any way I could bring up my grade as I’m just a few points off from passing, but understood if it’s a hard no, but wanted to reach out and give it a shot anyway (as any student would) Well, as expected, it was a no (no biggie, professor said it wouldn’t be fair to the other students/would make a “joke” of the class and that I should’ve dropped it in the beginning which I completely understood but also sort of insinuated that they don’t believe I deserve to pass anyway? I did all of the assignments and quizzes, I just barely showed up to class as it was just the prof reading off of PowerPoints and all materials were posted online anyway). I then sent another nice email saying that I understood, and that it was okay since from my understanding, if I got at least a 70 on the paper and a 70 on the final, I’d pass, and I asked for clarification that this information is correct. I then got a super passive aggressive email back from the professor in which they basically questioned my intelligence lol, I didn’t respond. The professor was really nice up until I sent that first email, and now I worry that they’d purposefully give me a lower than 70 grade on both the final and paper, causing me to not pass as they sort of insinuated in their first response that they don’t think I deserved to pass. It won’t be the end of the world if I fail cause I don’t need this class to graduate, but it will affect my gpa and boy will that suck.

I want to point out a very real perspective in all of this. experienced artists and creative people, like the ones that created FF7, are not that attached to their creations as the fans are. that is why they are willing to change many things in the story, designs and settings.
The og FF7 was amazing but that was in part because the presentation left a lot to the imagination of the player, the player's mind filled in many gaps in the story and design. the whole game feels like you are playing with toys in a diorama which is great and lovely and works in favor of the game and story but the moment you translate that setting into a realistic one, like in the remake, many moments will end up feeling goofy.
Some vocal fans might not realize or remember how many goofy moments happened in the original game, Heidegger for example slaps soldiers when Rufus disrespects him at Junon. and who would have thought that the creators's version of Biggs, Jesse and Wedge in the remake were so corny right? but those characters were also kind of goofy in the og game but the new versions are quite unremarkable.
Also the story in FF7 advent children was very over the top so I don't get the fans that hate those bombastic moments in the remake, FF in general became very over the top when doing High fidelity projects.
On a side note, design wise, the character designs are gorgeous and they did an outstanding job in modernizing those designs, they did wonders with the clothing, fabrics and the materials while maintaining the og silhouette of the characters very much intact which I thought was masterfully done.
The problem that I see with the disparity and mixed opinions from the fans is that the reimagining of a media product like ff7 is difficult to satisfy for both the creators of the game and the fans alike, the creators have their own vision and want to fulfill their creative ambitions while the fans want "the same thing but better" and they are going to be disapointed when they are playing a reimagining, a re-make of the game.
Having said this I also agree with the hating vocal fans, I would have prefered a straightforward HD version of the OG game but my optimistic self thinks it will happen after the whole reimagining is done.
But I don't think the remake is a selfish/self-serving project solely for the makers of the game, for starters this is a businees for them and I genuinly believe this platinum treatment of the FF7 brand was done for the fans that had made the brand so succesful. I think they are trying to fullfil creative ambitions that makes the team excited to create a modern product that satisfies them and the fans alike, while getting new ones on board.
I came to play the remake with the idea that I'm getting a different experience from the original game, and that mentality has helped me appreciate the game for what it is. The remake is quite fun and I'm having a blast, the system is totally different from the og game but the gameplay of the remake is dynamic and exciting. And the overworld in rebirth is so well done, it definitely required so much work from the developers of the game to design the landscape of a very blank overworld that existed in the og game. In the og game the overworld is just a simplification of the map, for a realistic look in the new games it is a NECESITY to fill ALL that empty space with plenty of detail.
While the gameplay in the remake is super satisfying, tight and exciting, it is not the same for the characters and the story in general, there is a lot of dialogue that feel so unecesary and out of place. The developers are moving mountains in making all that inmense cast of characters interact with each other, like seriously they went above and beyond with trying to come up with ways to make all of these characters interact with each other, that is no easy task. but some of those interactions felt not genuine at all, many reactions and responses are cringe, lame or not human, there were moments I was like, no person speak like this.
Gameplay wise they are even trying their best to make you control different characters throughout the game so you don't stick with the same ones for the whole game, they are constantly switching up the combination so you try out different ones.
A lot of thought and care are being put in the remakes and that should be acknowledged by the fans that were disappointed, but they did dropped the ball with the dialogues and some story changes, straight up trash.
There are valid things to hate and to be disappointed by but I'm just here to point out the things that impressed me and delighted me.
not really a tldr: there is a lot to love and a lot to hate (and cringe) in the remakes, but despite all of this I'm loving these games so much. I'm having a blast playing them. hope they make a straightorward HD version of the og game in the future.

Please understand that I'm not trying to be a party pooper. This is a genuine request.
This killer has a super cool power and a really neat esthetic. But the more I heard from the developers the more I felt that dungeons and dragons doesn't fit the game. Especially with the guy from WotC saying that they were "experimenting" with horror. I get that D&D has horror-inspired modules (like I assume the one Vecna is from) but to me that doesn’t make it fit a game like DBD.
I guess I just see DBD as like a horror hall of fame. Or like a horror smash bros. And seeing D&D in it gives me the same vibes I would get if, say, Spongebob was added to smash. Like, sure he has video games, but he isn't a video game character. That's how I feel about D&D. It has horror elements, but it isn't horror. Just having monsters doesn't make it horror (if it did, Minecraft, The Legend of Zelda, Undertale, ect. would be horror). And having a few horror modules doesn't make it a horror franchise.
The past "non-horror" stuff in the game was easy enough to pass over. I can get the Nicholas Cage perks without needing to have the character since all survivors are just skins of each other. And the Rainbow Six character skin I can just as easily not buy. But Vecna has a whole entire power that I can't just get on any other killer. Which makes me sad because I genuinely want to feel like Vecna belongs.
As I said earlier, I'm not against D&D in DBD because it's fantasy or whatever. I just don't see it fitting because I don't see it as horror. Maybe part of this is that I'm autistic, so sometimes I have certain "rules" in my head that I don't like breaking that make no sense to other people. Maybe I'm just the odd one out for not seeing how this fits.
The thing is, I'm not super strict about this "horror rule." Like, Castlevania isn't a horror game, but it's so baked in horror atmosphere that it doesn't feel out of place for me. The game has tons of horror classics and it basically pays homage to the era of gothic horror and monster movies. I'm hyped to play as Dracula and (I assume) one of the Belmonts! So why can't I feel the same way about Vecna?

Hi everyone! I lack friends in life right now so would like to change that. I have a very large amount of free time so it'd be cool if you did too. I'd honestly like someone I can talk to a lot.
Stuff I like in list form because I like lists:

• My main interest is probably gaming. I've been playing Sea of Thieves the most lately, though I think I'm getting pretty close to tired of it. I'm also into single player stuff. Not sure what game I'm going to play next, but open to recommendations!
• I'm also huge into retro gaming (NES, SNES, PS1, etc.) and some of my favorite games are retro. I also have a collection of games. I tend not to play them as much as modern games, but if there's any retro fans out there that's awesome.
• I started reading last year. Fantasy is my genre of preference so any recommendations in this genre would be cool. I'd also like to give sci-fi a try. Maybe I'd like other genres too? Mistborn is probably the favorite I've read so far, I absolutely loved it (especially the first 3).
• I like metal music, especially power and prog. Those are usually my go to genres, though I also do like 80s thrash and bands like Iron Maiden.
• Been trying to learn how to properly play a guitar for over 10 years now! One day I'll motivate myself for a period longer than a week and actually get good at it. One day. If you're trying to learn guitar or want to pick it up we should totally learn and practice together!
• I listen to music in what I think is a weird way. I tend to fixate on one artist for weeks to months and just listen to albums of theirs repeatedly. My current band I'm listening to is Dream Theater. I just finished a 6 month obsession over Kamelot which is probably by far the longest I've ever had.
• I have other interests that I'm a lot more casual about. I watch (American) football, though much less than I used to. I like technology in general and like keeping up with what's new. I think cars are cool and like to sometimes dream about owning an expensive Porsche. One day I hope that I can get into astrophotography because I think it'd be super fun.
• I have a lotttt of free time. Outside of work, I have no commitments, and even during work I'm highly available for chatting. Single, no family really that I talk to, no friends. So people who also have lots of free time to talk and do stuff would be cool. I'm based in the US but have a habit of staying up late especially on weekends.

Okay the list is long enough. DM me if you'd like to talk and maybe be friends! Please say more than just "hi". At least your age/gender and a comment about something in my post would be nice :)

Hi at everyone. I have a fun task here but somehow I am currently a bit blocked to solve it myself. I am sure there is some kind of design pattern or best practice to handle a state that can be changed from multiple other objects.
For instance. I have a StopController and there is an function for stop and one for start. This is some universal singleton that can be accessed from many different objects. Which is fine because some want to stop the state of the game and then restart it again. Well. Unfortunately it gets problematic if a switch for instance stops and then would start again if the switch is not pressed anymore. But another instance (the player) does something that results in invoking start. Now the switch is pressed but the StopController.start has been triggered which results in a pressed switch but a running state.
I hope I could explain that quiet well.

Mr. Stevens Bojeevens, you are not the one who signs my father’s fat checks. That privilege belongs to a droopy acid cloud, who visits my father every fortnight (coincidentally the night my mother has her bi-monthly retro gaming club) to personally hand him his check. I see it enter stealthily through my parents window. When they are together, I can hear storm clouds over Kadath. I can smell the lightning scent- Sulfur’s betrayal to the Caesar’s of our nostrils.
Mother tells me with a block of wood in her throat that my father is not in a sexual and possibly emotional affair with the droopy acid cloud.
I think she’s in denial.
In those mornings when the acid cloud visits his room to give him the check, my father floats down the stairs, his hair electric eels, the swirly blood in the sides of his eyeballs are rainbow colored. He carries a magnetic field. He is both here and as far away from ‘here’ as anyone can be. He eats one Apple Jack and dissolves into vapor.
Yeah.. she’s in denial.

Not sure if I’m just over Metroidvania-style games, but I can’t get into Ori at all. Prior to the spider caves area, it feels like every screen is a big ‘fuck you, you can’t go there yet’, you need more energy, double jump, wall jump, double jump+dash, bash, whatever else.
The flow of the game is constant backtracking, looking stuff up online to hear “oh, that’s end game, you shouldn’t be there yet (green walls)”.
Does this game get much better in terms of flow, or do you spend the remainder of the game in this basic ‘can’t get there yet’ loop?
Metroid games in general have this as a core part of the gameplay, but generally feel better in terms of flow - there is generally a part you can’t get into, and then the rest of the level / area to explore, solve puzzles and unlock the next area. Ori just feels kinda punishing with the constant backtracking so far.

TLDR: My partner had a very sudden manic episode turned into a psychotic break over the past week, and I'm not handling him being in a psych ward for the time being very well. It's honestly killing me, I'm so worried for him - I'm looking for advice and support on how to cope with this event.
My boyfriend (21M) and I (20F) have been together for nearly 3 years. For 2 years, we were long distance. In August 2023 is when we closed the distance and began living with each other in real life. Last week, the week of May 5th, is when this situation begun.
We frequently took edibles (weed) as part of our routine. Last Tuesday, he did just that - and while he was high, he started to get curious about his parents' finances. He began to text both his mother and father, asking questions about what they've saved up for their retirement. His mom seemed to be dodging his questions a lot, but eventually she told him that she estimated that both she and his father would have around 10-13 million after retirement. Not only this, but she also both implied and outright confirmed that my boyfriend would be inheriting this large amount of money after they pass away. This quickly unlocked a hyperfixation for him, and we began to talk about it together. It's all we talked about for that week, because we thought, why is this something that his mother would lie about? There's absolutely no understandable reason that she would have to lie about this. I should mention that, after Tuesday, he did not take any more edibles or substances, though regardless I feel that weed may have partially played a role in why this happened.
Throughout the week, as he was delving into this hyperfixation, his behavior began to change. I didn't truly notice it at the time, and just thought he was very reasonably acting a bit odd and excited because, this was a life changing thing that was presumably happening for the both of us. I didn't think to question his mother's statement. Me being passive to his behavior and not suspicious of his mother's statement and behavior is something I feel I am to blame for, because it turned out to be a slowly building manic episode. On Friday, May 10th, is when we found out that the 10-13 million inheritance was a lie. He was distraught - absolutely broken. Something snapped in him after that day.
On Saturday, he woke me up at 6-7 am. I suspect that he may not have slept Friday night into Saturday morning. He reassured me that he would be okay, we would both be okay after this, that we would get over it and be able to focus on something else. But very quickly throughout Saturday his behavior shifted drastically, and it turned into a full blown manic episode. For the entire first half of the day, he paced around our apartment, glued to his phone, spamming everyone in his life about the thoughts he had been having. It's normal for him to be on his phone a lot, so I didn't question this. I regret it so much, I should have noticed the signs. It's difficult for me to convey what exactly his thoughts were or what his hyperfixation was, because most of it didn't truly make sense, but the short version of it is that since the inheritance wasn't real, he began to hyperfixate on starting a business from the ground up with both me and his friends. It spiraled from there.
In the evening is when his behavior began to become violent and increasingly more erratic. He began to direct his frustration and anger towards me, starting to hyperfixate on me and our relationship, blaming me for the entire situation. We've had a difficult relationship, but we've always managed to come back full circle either way. He became paranoid of me, believed that I could hurt him, and so much more. It broke my heart. It's more than I can convey into words. Saturday evening into Sunday morning I stayed up all night with him, trying to handle the situation as best as I could, but it only got worse. Eventually, his parents arrived at our apartment. He's always had apprehensions about introducing me to his parents for multiple reasons, especially including the fact that we met online. He believed that they wouldn't understand it, and he didn't have a close relationship with his parents to begin with at all. It sucks that I could only meet them as this situation was going down.
Sunday, May 12th, is when his parents took him to the emergency room. It is only just yesterday that he was admitted into a psychiatric hospital. I'm heartbroken. I'm keeping in contact with his mother, but I haven't gotten many updates from her besides the fact that he's in a hospital and that they're waiting to hear from the doctor. Based on what I've seen with his behavior and researched, it seems that his manic episode eventually turned into a psychotic break. I also suspect that he may have bipolar 1 disorder. I'm not a doctor, but it matches up with everything that I've seen, and I'm devastated. It was horrible. His mother has bipolar disorder, though im not sure what type - though my partner did mention that his mother would have occasional manic episodes.
It's been two days since he's been gone. All I've been doing is grieving. I've eaten very little, all I've been doing is crying, and everything in our apartment reminds me of him. It's incredibly painful to be here without him because we spent all of our time together. I'm also worried about him being in the hospital itself - I don't want him to be mistreated by others or misdiagnosed. Psych hospitals can be very hit or miss, and it terrifies me. It's possible that he could be there for several weeks at the very least given how severe his mental state was. I just don't know what to do, or what this means for us in the future. He hasn't even gotten a diagnosis yet, from what I know. I just feel like I'm being kept in the dark. I don't know anything about what's happening at all. I just want him to be okay. How can I get through this? I don't think I can get through this. What happens when he gets back? Is he gonna be okay? Have any of you experienced what it's like to be kept in a psych hospital? I don't know what to do with myself when he comes back, I don't know how to support myself in the mean time, and I don't know what this means for us or for our relationship. I'm so, so scared. I'm terrified. I love him so much, I just want him to be okay.
I don't have many people around me to support me, so posting here has been my last resort. I feel awful, I feel horrible, I feel like this is all my fault. I feel like if I saw the signs earlier, I could've prevented this, I could've grounded him, I could've brought him down from where he was headed. I don't know what exact mental illness he has yet, I can only assume based on what I've seen. But, has anyone ever been in a similar situation like this? What do I do with myself? I know he's getting the help that he needs, but I can't help but worry for him. I feel super isolated and alone and anxious in our apartment. It's empty here without him, incredibly empty.
If you've read this far, thank you so much for taking the time to read this. It means more to me than you know. So, once more, TLDR: My partner had a very sudden manic episode turned into a psychotic break over the past week, and I'm not handling him being in a psych ward for the time being very well. It's honestly killing me, I'm so worried for him - I'm looking for advice and support on how to cope with this event.

I'm from Brazil, and while teaching at a local school, something happened that left me surprised. We all know that when learning a foreign language, we should study all skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking. The most common way of learning is focusing first on the input skills (listening and reading), and when those abilities are strong enough, we start to study the output skills (writing and speaking). However, it's common sense that if we want to learn how to speak, we should speak, and if we want to read better, we should read, and so on. However, I taught a class of students aged between 7 to 8 years old, and among them, there was a girl who had never spoken in her entire life, let's call her Marie. The reason for that is because Marie was raised by people with speaking disabilities, and she never had someone to talk to at home. Her house was isolated from other houses, so she didn't have friends growing up. One day, I was playing a guessing drawing game, where one student drew something on the whiteboard, and the other students had to guess the drawing. Whoever guessed first won points and was the next to draw. When one student started drawing a cone, Marie shouted: "ICE CREAM!" Everyone stopped to look at her since no one had ever heard her voice. This was the first time she spoke, and from that day forward, she started talking more and more, with a super natural Portuguese.She also didn't write at 8 years old; she only wrote some letters but not much, and from that day forward, both speaking and writing were unlocked, and she started progressing quickly.
So, is it possible to be fluent in a foreign language, developing the output skills only by reading and listening?"

So for some context I'm in freshman year of highschool right now, of my 6-12 grade school. I never really had too many friends overall, but now I actually have real friends, for pretty much the first time in my life. We've known each other for about a year or two now, and I like them, I like talking to them, playing games with them, sports, we've even been to a water park together. but everytime the topic of religion or anything lgbtq related comes up they become pretty worrying to me. My friends literally openly detest anything lgbtq, and think that Christianity is the "only truth", and how I should just convert. Which, considering I am both not religious and (maybe?) bi is kind of concerning for me. And I just don't really know what to do. I like my Friends and a lot about them, but this kind of talk always makes me super uncomfortable. Any advice would be appreciated.

Body:
​​Standing at 6’3 and 190 pounds, Sheppard will lack any positional size advantage and his athletic ability will likely be average or below the rest of NBA guards in terms of overall quickness, burst, and speed. For months Sheppard has been labeled as, “unathletic”, and “unexplosive” but I’m hoping his combine drills will dispel these labels, Sheppard is a much better athlete than people give him credit for, especially vertically. However, criticism of his lateral speed is valid.
Defense:
He makes up for his lack of burst/speed by being a pest on defense utilizing his high motor and anticipation to get in the passing lane, strip ball handlers and even protect the rim, showcased in his 2.5 steals and 0.7 blocks a game. Nearly tying Rajon Rondo's Kentucky record for single-season steals. Sheppard's lack of speed and size can lead to quicker guards creating separation in the midrange and beating him to the basket. Although he is undersized, Sheppard can be a solid defender in the NBA, because of his strong off-ball defense, high motor, and I.Q, although it will certainly not be his calling card
Offense:
Outside of his elite shooting, Sheppard can struggle to “turn the corner” on his drives and his overall rim pressure is weak. Highlighting one of his biggest areas of development, if Sheppard wants to make a name for himself outside of strictly being a “shooter” he must build out his offensive game. As statistically impressive as Sheppard was, he had a low usage rate (19%) and with him taking 54% of his shots from beyond the arc, we really haven’t seen a consistent dose of Sheppard’s midrange and paint scoring. Still, when he did diversify his shot selection he was efficient, showing flashes of being a crafty finisher who has great touch around the rim. Sheppard relies on his elite vertical to elevate in the midrang making up for any size disadvantages. Still, I would have liked to see him be a greater three-level scoring threat given his top-five pick buzz.
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Playmaking:
Sheppard is a strong playmaker, consistently getting downhill and making cross-court reads. Sheppard really shined in transition, constantly playing with his head up and generating easy points, one aspect NBA teams will fall in love with. I don’t project him to be the lead ball handler in the NBA, if tasked with initiating the offense he should be comfortable but I envision him being a combination of a point guard and shooting guard. A a secondary ball handler, connective passer and off-ball shooter at least in the beginning of his career. Although he certainly has the instincts necessary to become a ball-dominant facilitator at the next level, if that is what teams ask of him but he would need a stronger handle and improved agility.
Bust Potential:
For Sheppard to be a bust his shooting efficiency would need to drop significantly, shooting 52% in the NBA is a lot different than in college, so a drop in efficiency is expected but any major movement would make it difficult to keep him on the floor. If his shooting isn’t superb, flaws in his game become magnified. Specifically, his on-ball defense, where he may struggle against the size, length, and burst of NBA players, it wasn’t uncommon to see him get beat off the dribble this season. There is a reality where Sheppard can’t hold his own as an on-ball defender, his offensive game relies too heavily on his 3-point shooting and he ends up as an undersized role player who struggles to get on the court. If Sheppard can’t prove he can be an average defender and shoots around league-average from three it is hard to imagine he will have an impactful career.
All-Star Potential:
Sheppard's NBA ceiling is a high-end role player, because he doesn’t project to be an elite scorer, it’s hard to see him being an All-Star. Yet, I still think the potential is there but an All-Star bid would have come from him putting up impressive numbers both offensively and defensively because the massive scoring numbers won’t be there, a state line of 20ppg, 8rebs, 2stl, and 1 block would certainly put him in All-Star conversations.
Prediction:
Sheppards pace, I.Q., and high feel for the game mitigate my fears that he is to undersized and it is those traits that will keep him in rotations even when his on-ball defense is lacking. He will provide teams with an on/off ball three-point threat and will hopefully couple his elite three-point shooting with a strong midrange game. Sheppard knows how to play with other talented offensive players, he doesn’t demand the ball, takes good shots, and is a very willing passer often prioritizing getting his teammates involved. Sheppard should be taken with a top 6 pick and will be in the NBA for 10+ years.

Seriously.
There's not many of you. I've probably counted a dozen or so. You see the "(deleted) [unavailable]", the telltale sign of someone that's blocked you over...something.
I don't know what they could have blocked me over. Was a simple downvote just not enough? Was a DM not enough? Were your fee-fees hurt so badly over someone on the internet that WAS NOT EVEN TALKING TO YOU that you just had to block them?
Yesterday, I had someone DM me and tell me that they had me RES-tagged as "report on sight".
First of all, that's against site rules to abuse the report function. I reported you for that. Secondly, where the fuck do you get off? On your high horse because you are trying to make it out like you're better than me? Thirdly, thanks for reminding me to close my DM's!
Seriously. I hit the "disable inbox replies" for every post I make. I post. I say what I want to say. And I don't have to deal with anyone's reply back to me. I don't care if you disagree with me. And I'm certainly not going to block you on the internet because someone said something that I don't like :(
So to all of those people out there who have randomly blocked me because of my sports team affiliation, my comments about freaking Pokemon games, my city, or just because you had a bad Tuesday. Kindly F off and remember that blocking people is completely useless. But whatever makes you feel better! BTW, I can still see your comments while logged out/incognito mode :) have a good one!
(and I've made sure to hit the "disable inbox replies" to this one too)

New to the game here and im just finishing up the training they have on YT and im trying to open ChamSys by the icon and im getting nothing.
Im using a chromebook with OS and i looked online and what i found says it is compatible but im not seeing any results.

Super long post so grab your tea and settle in.
I, (50f) have two kids; daughter (19) and son (18). My daughter has always been difficult. She would blame her brother for things she did, fight with him endlessly, lied continuously to me, stole from family and stores and was a hard teen to raise. She began seeing a boy (21m) 3 years ago and honestly I didn’t care for him from the start. He was rude, intitled, zero respect and already had quite the legal record.
My daughter ended up pregnant by him about 1 month into their relationship she was 16 he was 18. They lied to me and told me he was 16. They also lied about the pregnancy. She really didn’t get a pregnant belly and anytime I mentioned she was gaining some weight and could she possibly be pregnant she would accuse me of fat shaming her and being rude just for asking. Fast forward a few months and she said she was staying at her best friends for the weekend. Her friends mom even backed this story and lied to me saying, yes she is with us. When in fact she was at boyfriends recently acquired apartment ( I had no idea about and was told he lived with his grandparents). She went into labor that weekend, I still had no idea she was pregnant. When she finally called to say she was at the hospital and had a baby she insisted she had no idea she was pregnant and it was a suprise to all of them. I didn’t really buy that but didn’t argue, none of it mattered. She had a new baby and baby needed taken care of. With her story of not knowing I immediately went shopping. Bought everything you would need for a new baby. She let me know she was moving in with BF and would be raising the baby with him. When I dropped off the baby gear (literally an F250 truck load) to the apartment I notice quite a few items were already in place for a new baby, and realized they knew and had already gotten some stuff. None of that really mattered to me, I was a grandmother now and the how’s and why’s weren’t changeable so I just moved on. I tried really hard to accept her BF and invited him into our little family. He was always rude making snide comments about my son and their father. Father took his life a month before baby was born, whole other story. He would say how much better he was and would never leave his family, just a little turd. He wouldn’t let her visit without him. I couldn’t even talk to her on the phone without him listening and answering for her. He seemed extremely controlling and jealous of any relationship she had, even with her brother and I.
This kid could never hold a job for more than a month, sat around playing video games, didn’t help with baby, didn’t clean or cook. Just a waste of space, smoking weed and doing nothing. I tried not to say anything but the look on my face was telling whenever she would talk about him to me. They eventually got behind and lost their apartment and refused to move in with me because I wouldn’t allow him to stay, just her and the baby.
They were living in their cars and couch surfing. She had very little contact with me durning this time. At one point a friend of theirs called me to tell me BF was being abusive and I drove to where they were living to see if she would come home with me and leave an abusive relationship. She refused, actually became very angry I would even butt in to their relationship like that. I honestly just wanted my babygirl, my first born safe and not hurt. A little time goes by and eventually she reached out and I help her get into an apartment, he wasn’t on the lease. A couple months go by she tells me she is 5 months with number two. I am less than thrilled but it is what it is and I am just happy she is in an apartment.
Then, I get a phone call. She was just taken to the hospital because BF hit her in her pregnant belly and baby wasn’t moving. (Baby is fine).
Cops were called he is taken to jail. There was apparently an incident before this where he gave her a black eye. The police were called then but he ran and they didn’t find him but there was still a report filed. I was never told of the black eye story till later.
The time he is in jail (3 months), she is at my house daily. I am helping her with the baby and her pregnancy. I go to doctors appointments was even in her labor room. Things were actually good between us and her and her brother were getting along great. Brother is an amazing uncle and loves his niece to death. Buys her anything she wants and they are so close. She tells me she is done with BF, has a restraining order. Is moving forward and sees how in 3 short months her life is actually improving.
But sure enough as soon as he is released (2 felony charges) she takes him right back. She lies to me saying she won’t and isn’t but I don’t believe her at all. So I drive to her place and he is there. She screams at me to mind my own business and if she wants him it’s not up to me. Again I have been there everyday with both baby’s. Helping her and getting a chance to know my grandkids. At this point am very attached to my little angels and extremely frightened for her safety . She tells me, If I can’t get over the fact she will be with BF, then she never wants to see me again. I’m crushed but at the same time I am done. Done with all the lies, done with being told I can’t see the kids. With baby number one I have gotten to see her just a handful of times until the three months BF was in jail. Done with being treated like crap from my daughter. I feel like she was just using me while he was in jail. So I say fine.
That was in march. I haven’t spoken to her since. She hasn’t reached out at all and even changed her number. I feel guilt because I didn’t really fight the no contact. I mean I miss the babies something horrible but I am so done with lies. But I also feel guilty because what if he is still hurting her. A couple of her friends let me know how she and the kids are doing. And now that she isn’t pregnant I know she could kick his butt in a fight. I feel like I have abandoned her but she is the one who said no contact.
I’m I wrong for wanting no contact as a parent?

Need to preface this saying if you do a deep dive into my post history, this is my reddit account I post all of my most mentally ill shit in, I realize I am a bit of a mess right now, I am in therapy 🙃
My boyfriend is a huge nerd. And he's super into video games. And he's really good at them. I on the other hand, am not.
I was playing one of his favourite games last night and I guess how bad I am at it, and my funny commentary, made him say how he wishes he was recording it. That we could make a whole YouTube channel of just us playing video games because it's entertaining.
Then he said it would have to be just the audio, with the visual just being the game. I asked why and he said "so people can project what they want onto us. Everyone wants to see the hot girlfriend and nerdy boyfriend" and then he kind of trailed off a bit before saying I don't fit that bill, and it's easier to just leave it at that.
I know I'm of probably just average (maybe a bit below) attractiveness, i have some weirder features, and my body dysmporphia has been out of control lately. It's been really really messing with me, and comments like this make me spiral for weeks. I know I'm not some Instagram model, but damn. I was having fun playing the game until that. And now I'll spend the next month not wanting anyone to look at me because I hate how I look.

Pokémon TCG has a game app that 100% tracks the Standard format to the day. Magic has an app, though I’m not sure how up to date it is. Yugioh’s Master Duel is months behind current release but slowly inching there. All that to say that the top games consider a digital version of the game something worth investing in. How far away is Lorcana from achieving the same thing?
I ask because the digital version of card games is my favorite way to play. I follow the Pokemon TCG closely and did the in-person play thing for a while, both prereleases and tournaments. I enjoyed it but ultimately stopped going because it was just a tad too inconvenient, location and time-wise. The digital game, by contrast, lets me play whenever I want and however I want. In person I would never bring a meme deck or rogue deck because I knew I would get thrashed; online I can have my meme deck fun in small doses without much commitment.
I understand that physical card store play is the lifeblood of the game. But there’s others, like myself, who would gladly fork over real money for real packs if it meant I got a code insert that I could redeem for digital cards as well, a la Pokemon. Does anyone else feel similarly?

Looking to dumb down from an iPhone SE 2... I bought a Nokia 2780 to dumb down but the texting with T9 and the image quality in the texts was a deal breaker for me. Otherwise, it is a decent phone. Note: It works on Fizz mobile too (VoLTE). I'll be selling it.
I bought a Jelly Star after reading some good comments in this sub. It works on Fizz mobile as well - just plugged in the SIM and away I went. First impressions in the first week of use: faster than that my SE - couldn't believe it - switching between apps and the home screen is super quick, I switched to Before Launcher and love the dumbed down menus / blocking of apps, texting and messaging is on the small on screen keyboard is perfectly fine - better that I would have thought, stock Google apps are annoying but mostly intuitive, flashlight button is activated easily by holding down a separate button on the side of the phone, has face recognition and fingerprint recognition - I never thought I would care about face recognition but it work very well- even with glasses - impressed, no visual voicemail that I can find.
More on Before Launcher: I bought the pro version which allows you to hide apps and change the fonts on the screen - wow - the screen is so simple and clean - I have no desire to poke around and find browse, etc., you swipe right on the main scree that shows your notifications - this is brilliant - it basically captures all of your notifications in one screen and you can look at them when you want - or not - plus, if you want to go to a message in an app, it sends you right to the spot. A click on the home button and you are back at the simple menu screen. Simple, useful, no doom scrolling.
I'm only a week in but I really like it so far. My iPhone already feels like a bulky relic and overkill. I will still keep it around to use other apps from time to time, watch movies , etc. but I really like the dumbed down Jelly Star - it really feels more like a tool than dopamine factory. I never thought I would switch to an Android but I can see the allure now.
My one worry is that there might be some hidden apps on the phone with a backdoor to PRC servers. I am doing research now to find out which apps I may remove with a debater tool. If anyone has a list of apps to remove, please let me know.

I just had things ended because a guy I was talking to finally told me today that he didn't want me and that I wasn't for him, but it ended up going way worse than I wanted.
Everything started with me reconnecting with him in Walmart. I knew him prior to this because we used to go to the same high school together but never really talked. I gave him my instagram and we were talking about our exes cause that is how we even knew each other. While I was texting him, he asked me for my number then we started texting on imessages. He would text me, send me pigeon games, and call me every now and then.
There was one day where he called me and he wanted to ask me sexual questions, I was cool with it cause we had been friends for 2 weeks and plus I don't really have anything to hide. I didn't think much about it while telling him and asking him stuff cause we were friends, he had started talking about how he wanted someone to be friends with benefits with that it wouldn't end up ruining the friendship and I told him I could never do that stuff cause I want to be in a relationship with those that I am sexual with, plus I get clingy with them cause I tend to actually like them.
At some point of talking, he even asked for me to send and I told him that I wanted to do all of that stuff when I get married because my last ex (the ex he knew about) had taken my virginity to get his ex (the guy i was talking to's ex) jealous. I don't know exactly what he said but he said something like "Well it would suck to wait for someone during the relationship just to realize that they aren't good at sex", which made me feel like I was waiting for no reason because after that ex, I never was sexually active with anyone (about 2-3 years counting). I ended up sending some old nudes because I thought it wouldn't matter anymore and that he was kind of cute. After that, the more we talked the more the sexual tension got heavy, he was talking about how he liked my body and how he wanted to fuck me, and I was eating it up cause he was making me feel pretty and wanted. He ended up jerking off to my picture when I let him take the time to (cause I really didn't want to do e-sex cause I've always felt unfulfilled doing it) and when he came back everything was fine.
After some days, we had gotten into this habit of me sending him nudes, taking them how he wanted them to look, with him complimenting me and jerking off to them, there was only one time where we did e-sex, everything else was sending. The sending nudes ended up making me feel how I did in my previous relationship which was like a whore, not an actual person, and like a porn magazine, so I talked to him about it and he told me to just tell him to stop when he does ask. Time passed some more and he would still asked so I talked to him again about it because everytime we would have a sweet moment he would ask me for nudes or say something sexual, but this time he was still entertaining the idea, I assume he was thinking I was playing hard to get, I really don't know, but this time I told him, "I don't think you'll get to the point of actually liking me" because during this time he made it seem like we were leaning into a relationship while I always said that I wanted a relationship, he had backed off when I said that but he replied saying "(my name) don't be like that". After that, the only time that we would be sexual was whenever I initiated it, which would be about once every 2-3 weeks.
During that I would treat him like a boyfriend, but he was still being plain towards me, (he even told me that he liked the way I treated him) the only time he would compliment me was when I dressed up, so I asked him about how he was rarely lovey dovey towards me and he told me that he needed more time to get to like me even more than he did cause he wanted to take things slow, I got salty and told him that sexting me and wanting me to send nudes wasn't take it slow, he didn't say anything about that but smirked and change the topic. Every now and then, I'd make slick comments about stuff that didn't make sense. We had gotten to a point where he told me that he wasn't going to be texting and calling as much because he wants to start his business up, which I had no problem with that, I told him that I would always be there for him and when needed me, if there was anything I could do to just let me know, and I even told him if he felt like he needed to not pursue a relationship right now that we could stop or cut ties for now. He agreed with him not pursuing a relationship, again stating that he wants to put all of his focus in the business, and that there was nothing wrong with me, just that he wanted to focus on himself. I told him that I didn't know if I was cool being just friends because I was actually trying to pursue a relationship with him and that if I figured out how I felt about it I would let him know so that things didn't get toxic between us.
6 days later (5/10/2024),
At night, I told him the way everything is right now is making me confused and overwhelmed because I didn't really understand what our status was, and it wasn't somewhere I wanted to be especially after sending him pictures of my body using a voice message. I also told him that I was regretting showing him my body cause of how I felt I was being used but didn't want to assume and was hoping that he just needed time, he replied the next day during the afternoon telling me that I was a good person just that he couldn't see a future with me, that he thought he made his want of being only friends clear, that we would go different directions if we did get together. I got confused about that part because everytime I would try and talk to him about us meeting up and how we would maintain the relationship, he would tell me that it was too soon to talk about it, so i got a bit mad and asked him how he came to that conclusion knowing that we didn't talk about it at all, how he knew my boundaries but didn't straight up tell me that he didn't want me so I could save my time, and how he didn't make anything clear cause I thought we were on pause for now and going to attempt to try again once the business started up. He then told me that I was trying to guilt him, to not be mad at him because he didn't want a relationship, that he didn't want me, that I wasn't for him, and to not get mad at him for something he couldn't control.
I told him that I wasn't meaning to guilt him (cause I wasn't, I was just being transparent and honest on how I felt) and that I wanted to call instead of texting cause i didn't like it, I felt more miscommunication was happening, he told me he didn't want to call because he didn't want me to call him an asshole and how my problems are his fault, I told him i never said it was his fault but he corrected me by reminding me i said it in the voice message i sent last night (I was really high when I made it, so i didn't remember much when I woke up), so i listened to it and I literally told him that it was half of his fault that I'm confused about our status and how I needed more stability from him, so I told him that just adding that I was also at fault to for not knocking him down when he first came at me. After that, I started screenshotting the messages for my notion journal to dissect more on how I feel about it to try to understand more on how i felt and to help me move on, but he gets PISSED, he texted me on imessage.
him: "yeah no, fuck your screenshots"
me: "why you don't even know what i'm going to do with them?"
him: "1 screenshot. Sure. 3??? Nahhh. You trynna catch me up. I one you and screenshots and I don't fuck with it. That drew the line for me. You right. We shouldn't talk."
THEN HE FUCKING BLOCKS ME ON EVERYTHING EVEN GETTING A MUTUAL FRIEND OF OURS TO BLOCK ME. So i start racing to talk to him because I didn't think it was a big ass deal, so i text him on discord and he's telling me to fuck off and blocks me. I kept finding ways to contact him trying to explain to him and apologizing that I'm keeping it to myself and that its nothing more but he tells me to fuck off even more to the point where he even threatens to report me. I gave up and I sent my last message to him telling him that he basically sucks, doesn't reciprocate any mercy I've given to him or treat me as if I mattered to him, how it was unfair how stubborn he was to not even try to understand how i felt, how i still, despite, the entirety of the situation, love him, and hopes his life goes well.
I do want to add that I understand constantly texting him and calling him about it was a bad move, I truly was just acting on my emotions instead of calming down then making a choice.