I want my capicorn man back

Building a PC for strictly sim racing.
My desktop build I have a Gigabyte 650 aorus elite ax 1.2 with Vengeance 64gb CL30 C36-36-76 Did AMD Expo to 6000mhz and ran into issues. I've reset back to default 4800mhz
My goal is to be able to utilize 6000mhz I'm choosing to go G.skill for the sim build. With the same 650 aorus lineup just the ICE version. Will I run into the same issue ? Do I need 64gb to game and possibly stream ? Over all what is the opinion on the build. I plan to stream one day so i want to make sure the CPU can handle it so I need to upgrade to Ryzen 9 7950x3d? With more cores ?
Here is whay I currently have planned out: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/vBnB34

We are in the process of selling our house. It has been on the market for a while and we have now exited the option period. The buyer originally asked that we remove the hottub, which I accepted and asked my regular contractor to give me a quote. I told him to hold off in scheduling anything before I talk with my agent and that'd I'd call him back. The hot has wooden stairs and a deck around it. The buyer then changed their mind and wanted to keep the hottub. This was all Saturday night.
Today, he called me telling me they were in the process of removing the deck around the hot tub. I told him to stop immediately and he told me they would have it all put back together by Friday.
Tonight, he just called me and asked me what we are going to do about this mess. He proceeds to tell me he's about to eat a huge cost for paying his guys and purchasing the wood. He's asked me to pay the original quote yo remove the hottub so that he doesn't eat the entire cost.
He has done many jobs for me and has always done me right. He's never made a mistake on any job before and now we are in a tough spot.
I'm worried about telling him I don't want to pay for his mistake because then he could just not fix it. Aside from that, ive come to consider this man a friend and dont want him to end up struggling. Even if I have to take him to court (which I really hope it wouldn't come to that), I would end up either losing the buyer or having to REALLY eat some shit.
What do I do here?

Hi reddit stars! I am in a strange situation with a friend of mine. We have been friends for 15 years. I was in a business trip and one of my tenants called saying he will not be in town for 2 months and he wanted to pay the rent cash before leaving so I didn’t had later any rent delays. Overseas transfers are very costly and it takes days if not weeks. I called by best friend if he could pick up the check for me. My friend said yes, picked up the check and said he deposited in my account. I came back checked the bank and nothing. In the meantime, my friend said I have the money home and I had no time to deposit the check. So I offered to go at his house to pick up the check. That day his father died, and for few weeks I didn’t mention anything because I know the pain of losing a parent. As I mentioned we have been friends for over 15 years. Now I just need to make some repairs in my home. I am trying to connect but his texts are short, when I mentioned the money he said I will call you later, he didn’t. Today I called but he didn’t answer. I am hurt to lose my friend but I need my money. What do you think about this friendship… destroyed over money! I am so disappointed. I lost a friend over this. Maybe you will say you haven’t lost a good one, I am hurt because I believed in our friendship. I didn’t lend the money, I only asked for a favor. I am so disappointed.

Context: I’ve had my husky since 2019. I had a partner back then who helped me care for her, so she didn’t spend much time alone. I’ve always worked remote, and she often had accidents peeing on the floor, howling, and getting into my trash when I was at my desk… despite frequent pee breaks, kongs filled with peanut butter, and runs at night. Despite our best efforts, we unfortunately never really found a groove in keeping her fully content.
I got laid off at the same time that I left my partner (a shit show moment for sure) and spent a lot of time with my dog. The behavior issues that she had really disappeared. She would sit next to me while I gamed, sat on my porch, laid in bed, etc. For a moment, I was pretty convinced I finally somehow got the rhythm down of caring for her all by myself, and even questioned if my ex just did a poor job at helping care for her.
But now that I’m getting back into the swing of working a job remote at my desk, her issues came back. Running into my office to howl, ripping through the trash, and peeing in my living room. I feel like I’m going insane. I have a porch connected to my office that allows for her to run around, sniff my plants, play with toys, chase her Kong, etc and it’s just not enough. Crating her while I’m home leads to nonstop howling. She wants all my attention and hates when I’m at my desk.
Advice?

I wish to acknowledge the receipt of your email in response to my proposal, I would like you to understand that I’m a Man of social status therefore I will not involve myself in a transaction of this nature and magnitude if I haven’t done my assignment thoroughly. I have been working in the banking institution for a very long time and I do understand the modalities associated with banking ethics. In the banking sector, those that occupy key positions always enjoy some benefits which people outside the banking world cannot imagine. Under the oath of employment, information of this nature which I have made available to you are meant to remain within the shores of the banking institution. An opportunity such as this does not come all the time but when it does, it is with all pleasure that it is being embraced by whoever the opportunity is opened to, therefore one thing that is paramount in transactions like this is “TRUST and “TRANSPARENCY”
I would like to assure you that there will be no risk involved as my position in the bank guarantees this, thus, anything I say concerning the transaction in line with the laws/banking policies will be followed by the bank Executives. Before we can proceed further I will like you to understand that this transaction can be successful only if we work together and as such you are to adhere strictly to my instructions as all instructions that I will be giving to you subsequently will be in accordance/compliance with the laws/laid down rules to apply for the deceased's fund as the Next of Kin, In proceeding further, I want you to assure me that you will be honest during the transaction and as soon as the funds are transferred to you by the bank, we would share the money EQUALLY and PEACEFULLY either by meeting in person or through bank to bank transfers. My personal instinct directed me to contact you and I sincerely hope it was not a wrong thing to do.
I shall direct you on the process of having the funds released; we shall start by sending a formal application to my Bank for the release of the said fund as the Next of Kin to the deceased. I will send you the text i.e the format for which you are to construct the application. Thereafter the bank will request from you the relevant back up documents to your claim according to the demand of our probate law for transfer of funds. Once you have provided the Bank with the required documents, they would be under legal obligation to transfer the funds to a designated account which will be provided by you. Upon this laid-down structure, there will be no form of Risk or illegality in carrying out this proposal.
It is important we have a mutual understanding because I know we will surely enjoy the benefits of this in no distant time.Kindly find below my full contact details in case of necessity:

1. Name: Mr. Mark Edward Tucker.
2. Occupation: CEO and Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc
3. Date of Birth: 29 December 1957 (age 66)
4. Religion: Christian
5. Marital Status: Married

Sequel to the above content I really do hope you are someone I can trust to help achieve this. I will want you to immediately provide me with the following details.
SECTION II

1. Your Complete Names:
2. Your Address:
3. Present Occupation and position:
4. Marital Status:
5. Age:
6. Religion:

SECTION II
Please provide me with accurate answers to the following below:
Have you handled transactions of this tune before?
Have you had an international transaction(s) before?
Specifically, have you had any business transaction with an individual or company that resides in Italy?
As soon as I hear from you with the required data above as well as receiving your reassurance that I can put my trust in you most especially when the funds has been released to you by the bank thus enabling us share the money in the ratio(50/50)as agreed, I will send you the Text of Application for you to contact my bank for the release of the funds in the account of (Late Mr. Fabian Alexander) to your account as his Next of Kin.
Endeavor to have all the requirements in (SECTION I and II) above sent to me immediately as I will have to key them into the deceased's account file so that it will be an easy go through with the bank's executives with respect to verification when they receive your application.
I await your swift response.
Sincerely, Mr. Mark E Tucker. CEO & Group Chairman of the Executive Board Of HSBC Bank.

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These all interest me, but I wanted the communities thoughts on what sounds most fun to them, help fleshing the character out, and what would be easy to roleplay. (Sometimes I have an interesting idea, but actually roleplaying it and showing the personality is harder). I’m still newish to actually playing. I’m playing with 6 total players (oof) and i dont know them well. I haven't really received any info about the campaign yet. If your first session starts in 3 days, don’t read this!!
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Character 1: Stitch
Class: Moon Druid
Race: Changeling
The character is pretty much Stitch. The idea is to have another character already have a relationship with mine, having just picked me up and thinking im a dog. And he’ll only say a few words at first, but will progressively get better at speaking. This characters bites his toes and rolls around to move around, will be chewing on his own hand, and gain a strong sense of family. He also will be able to change into other characters like, a butler he saw once, who will use vocab like stitch, but talk formally. His moon druid shapes will have the same blue aberration coloring as him.
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Character 2: Fire Girl
Class: Wildfire druid
Race: Idk
This character is inspired by Megumin from Konosuba (She shouts “explosion!” and constantly wants to fireball everything, and then falls asleep). I see her holding hands with her pet fire spirit. Wanting to burn everything. Maybe the fire spirit can be like calcifer and talks. And maybe has a “before creation there must be destruction” them going on.
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Character 3A: Prodigy Chronurgist girl
Class: Chronurgist Wizard
Race: Harengon
A 12 year old sassy prodigy girl who is shaping the fields of chronurgy magic. Uses Gen Z language. Thinks shes smartebetter than everyone, besides some of the people she looks up to at the academy. “Ugh whatever”. Shes adventuring because she needs field experience for her internship.
Hides her bunny ears under a red hood (like red riding hood, shes kind of fairy tale coded (like alice and the white rabbit too)) because harengons are not a respected race for magic and shes embarrassed.
Her parents are literally two rabbits.
Alternative personality is that shes super hyper and brimming with energy, goes crazy if she gets any sugar.
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Character 3B: Old Grandma Chronurgist Wizard
Class: Chronurgist Wizard
Race: Harengon
Or, as opposed to the prodigy girl, this character is an old grandma harengon who’s still got it. She has kids that are rabbits. Jumps around. “When you get to be this old you understand time differently”. Maybe she accidentally ventured into the fey wild as a kid. Dated a fairy prince once. Has a lot of wild stories your grandma sometimes drops on you.
I love this idea, but idk i might get tired of roleplaying an old person at some point
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Character 4: Demon forced to be good
Class: Creation Bard
Race: Tiefling? Fallen Aasamir? Undecided
This character is some powerful old demon lord who is being punished for some reason, and that punishment is stripping him of his powers and forcing him to do good on earth. Maybe he just has to do more good than evil. But he hates that and wants to be evil so bad, but this is the reason he wont… usually. (Im aware of the problems of playing an evil character, or being antagonistic, so this reason should keep him in check i think!) Being good slowly brings his powers back, and he might just learn to not be so evil.
The creation ability is (like gilgamesh from fate) that he obtained so many things over the years, that he can just summon those items from his vault in hell.
He has a purr in his voice.
Bardic inspiration could be flavored as “i suppose i’ll lend you a fraction of my power” snaps
Or “here ill help you” *snaps* “there! Good deed done”
Dramatic character.
Thanks for reading!

26 Yr old man - kinda feminine (sometimes) Proud dog dad and rather introverted (i prefer to chill indoors and watch tv or movies but can also enjoy a night out too)
Brit 🇬🇧 now living in Canada🇨🇦
My dog will love you, you WILL get covered in fur and have him jumping all over you - he may knock you over trying to lick your face
I work a lot and i am career driven and am only really free weekends - i will carve out time for people i care about or can see a future with Because of work it can mean there are times when im slow to reply (as in 3-5 business days 😂)
I love horror movies
don’t judge me but I dont drive I can be super shy as a heads up but i am outgoing when comfortable
Im 5’10 and a fat guy - a fact not a personal attack on myself!
I am open to LTR but need to build up to that first and i can do/have done before a LDR but just be aware when im working i cant be at my phone otherwise i reply hella fast!
If youve reached this far why not message me and let me know which country is on your bucket list to visit ☺️
I am a side/bottom for compatibility, i don’t want hookups and dont send nudes.
I also do love to videochat and voice chat over endless messages once we are both comfortable that is 😃

I used to be a criminal I sold pot in very large volumes and was very successful. I was also living within Buddhist precepts. One most important and rare as a dealer would be to never steal and to practice generosity. I strayed and entered a dark period of my life, I decided to rob someone for $20,000. This was about 6 years ago. I have always been extremely creative and always had new ideas seem to magically come to me to help me make money or just a creative idea. Since the day I robbed that man, I feel that flow of ideas and some type of connection to creative energy was shut off like a water valve turned to closed. Am at the point I feel this is directly correlated and want to pay my debt to this man. What does the Buddha or in your own life experiences say about how being a thief affects you ?

I have been married for 5, living together with this man for 10 yrs.
When I was in high school and university, after losing my father, I lied to him cheated on him. We separated.
Years later we find our ways back to each other. He never forgives me truly and it comes to physical violence and other forms of abuse through our relationship. I took it as punishment and thought since I made bad choices, I deserve this.
We move to another country together after our marriage. Many fights and not him being able to trust me breaks us.
He keeps the house and throws me out after trying 1 yr therapy. Then after 3 months he reaches and wants to start over.
2 months of heaven and then he goes through my devices and finds out I wasn’t full on transparent about our time separated. He says I am a liar and have always been.
I am traumatized in this relationship and need safety to be able to open up.
He full on blows up everything and wants to leave. And says he dated someone when we were separated. He lied by saying he didn’t. I was loyal to him. I saw my mistakes in life and I was never going to repeat them ever again.
Well - apparently, he cheated on me in our 10 yr relationship at least three times. Never told.
I was shocked, I am speechless. He is leaving.

Hi there I'm currently an Au Pair with a family. I've been with them for over 9 months now and pretty much can't rematch because of personal timing reasons so I promised myself to suck it up and stay there (and also because I love the kids)
Over the last couple of months especially my host mom changed for the worse. And I've had it more and more that they let out really hurtful things without a second thought. (Examples at the end)
I have a pretty unique situation. I take care of two older boys which means I have to be flexible which I'm fine with. When matching with them I was under the impression that I wouldn't have to work weekends and now it happened twice already that I had to work all week + weekend especially on the weekend it was Friday-Sunday 24hrs a day basically without any time off during the week.
They also EXPECT me to care for the dogs. I feed them, walk them, take them to the vet etc.
I also pretty much do all the grocery shopping and cooking for the entire family being responsible 24/7 that there're certain things in the house. Host kids eat the last bananas in the evening? Doesn't matter drive out and grab them for the next day. I'm on my way back from a weekend trip and apparently we're out of eggs? Go grab them and get a lecture on how it's my responsibility to have food in the house.
Overall I am aware that this isn't normal but I want others opinions and I'm curious if people had similar experiences.
Examples of things they've said to me:
YOU are gonna cook Asian food for US? Bold. -No no I guess you can make it, I'm just saying it's brave of you to offer to make that I mean we're Asian after all...
All the things you're doing right now I could be doing just fine with a few alterations in my schedule so consider yourself lucky.
Hmm I mean all the other Au Pairs we've had didn't need THAT much help but I guess there's always a first...
Well you already know the last Au Pair was perfect in any way so I guess we were just surprised when we got to know you more.
comments on my eating habits when I am already underweight and they know that:
Dessert for breakfast? Interesting... (it was greek yogurt with granola and maple syrup because we didn't have honey anymore)
WOW! What you're eating right now is usually what you have in a week! (taking seconds during dinner)
She might not eat a lot of food but she eats dessert like crazy. (Taking a second pice of a birthday cake)

Hey guys! I’m very much new to this subreddit but i’m not entirely new to roleplaying ^. I have been roleplaying since i was 13 i am now 18 and want to start back up roleplaying, (i’ve been dormant for two years). I don’t care the genre i really wanna get back into roleplaying.

• I use female characters as i am female.
  
• i prefer realistic faceclaims, it helps me visualize much more.
  
• back then i use to be semi-lit now with a little bit of work i can probably go lit to novella!
  
• i am prone to disappear but only for a few hours because im very busy outside of the rp! I’ll make sure to text before i go poof
  

-i do prefer ooc friendships, world building together, and coming up with plots ^.

• i have oc’s from my amino days! there’s maybe one new oc on there from last year from me messing around.

I know this is not the best place to ask for these kinds of things but i need someone ANYONE to help here
Basically me and the guy (we'll call him lex) have known each other since i moved to our street back 2017-2018 and we've been neighbors for a while, we have a 2 year gap (grade wise) and a little under it age wise, we didn't start talking until i was in 6th grade (him in 8th)and we slowly got super close and eventually texted each other everyday for hours consecutively until we started to date. It didn't work out (due to communication and external problems) but our parents never and still haven't figured that out. When we broke up i was in 8th grade and he was in 10th (sophomore year) and we were still really close friends like REALLY close. Even after i dated my (current) girlfriend we still stayed super close, hanging out everyday and still texting.
Time skip to no me in 10th grade and he's in 12th a couple months ago (around February) he did something unimaginable that i still kind of deny to myself but he basically $A'd me, he rubbed his very hard dick into my back while i was occupied with something and at first i brought it up with another guy friend because i truly didn't want to believe what happened, happened... What made this hurt more is because Lex knows about my previous problems and my past experienced with being $A'd by someone else super close. This friend opened to my eyes to the possibility that Lex has groomed me int not noticing his previous red flags and as i was thinking about it the more and more i saw these things that stuck out to me like how he would lay onto my chest and rub his face into my boobs, or how he would comment on thing he shouldn't have. The more and more i noticed the more i slowly put distance between me and Lex and i totally blame myself for the lack of communication on my end.
About a month ago i finally texted him a long and i mean LONG message explaining what's been going on and how and why ive been distant with him hoping we could communicate it thoroughly and i could hope to see his side because i truly considered Lex like my brother and one of if not my CLOSEST friend and i still wanted to be friends with him no matter if it was a bad idea or not but his message he came back with didn't exactly meet any requirements of a serious conversation at all, he didn't even bother spell checking his own message and it really upset me so i did send a second message the same day telling him my frustrations and calling him out on the fact that he didnt even apologize for making me uncomfortable when i apologized for my lack of communication and so i pulled away.
Ever since then he has since blocked me on every social media platform and has promptly ignored me completely and at first i told myself it didnt matter but as of the last month i haven't been able to let anyone get close to me and i dont know if its my brains subconsciously trying to protect myself but even if im with people i truly love and know im safe with my brain restricts the ability to be able to get as close or feel the same amount of happiness that i felt with Lex, ive been absolutely devastated the last month since im someone whos love language is physical touch and not being able to receive the same amount of dopamine i was able to before. I have just been contemplating going to his house and ringing on his doorbell to apologize just so i cant be friends with Lex again because it hurts my heart to its core not being able to hug someone and feel happy.
He has graduated and is leaving for college soon so its really now or never, my friends have told me that im in the right but i cant help that maybe i should've explained something better or heard his side out or just something...
(genuinely give me advice because im at my breaking point here....)

Background:
Final stages of divorce. I have lived in IN for 1.5 yr - Jurisdiction at the moment is KY, where we all are from. Son is 9 y/o. Bio mom is 31.
She has not been present in sons life basically entirety of his life. We married shortly after his birth and have been going through this divorce for about 3 yr. Son wants nothing to do with her due to PTSD and trauma. I wish to remarry who he feels his mother is whom is pregnant with his brother to be born in July. I have had sole custody the entirety.
Currently, we are at final stages of divorce. We had review today. She didn't show. Her lawyer and her split.
What do I file to end this? The Judge said she would sign it. Motion for final decree?
Also, how the HELL do I go about having my then would be wife adopt my son? I'd have all the parental rights and in a perfect situation, she'd be next if I died. That is my plan to secure stability for my son against a drug addict abusive narcissist.
Thank you so much for any help. It is much appreciated to get our life back.

These all interest me, but I wanted the communities thoughts on what sounds most fun to them, help fleshing the character out, and what would be easy to roleplay. (Sometimes I have an interesting idea, but actually roleplaying it and showing the personality is harder). I’m still newish to actually playing. I’m playing with 6 total players (oof) and i dont know them well. I haven't really received any info about the campaign yet. If your first session starts in 3 days, don’t read this!!
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Character 1: Stitch
Class: Moon Druid
Race: Changeling
The character is pretty much Stitch. The idea is to have another character already have a relationship with mine, having just picked me up and thinking im a dog. And he’ll only say a few words at first, but will progressively get better at speaking. This characters bites his toes and rolls around to move around, will be chewing on his own hand, and gain a strong sense of family. He also will be able to change into other characters like, a butler he saw once, who will use vocab like stitch, but talk formally. His moon druid shapes will have the same blue aberration coloring as him.
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Character 2: Fire Girl
Class: Wildfire druid
Race: Idk
This character is inspired by Megumin from Konosuba (She shouts “explosion!” and constantly wants to fireball everything, and then falls asleep). I see her holding hands with her pet fire spirit. Wanting to burn everything. Maybe the fire spirit can be like calcifer and talks. And maybe has a “before creation there must be destruction” them going on.
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Character 3A: Prodigy Chronurgist girl
Class: Chronurgist Wizard
Race: Harengon
A 12 year old sassy prodigy girl who is shaping the fields of chronurgy magic. Uses Gen Z language. Thinks shes smartebetter than everyone, besides some of the people she looks up to at the academy. “Ugh whatever”. Shes adventuring because she needs field experience for her internship.
Hides her bunny ears under a red hood (like red riding hood, shes kind of fairy tale coded (like alice and the white rabbit too)) because harengons are not a respected race for magic and shes embarrassed.
Her parents are literally two rabbits.
Alternative personality is that shes super hyper and brimming with energy, goes crazy if she gets any sugar.
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Character 3B: Old Grandma Chronurgist Wizard
Class: Chronurgist Wizard
Race: Harengon
Or, as opposed to the prodigy girl, this character is an old grandma harengon who’s still got it. She has kids that are rabbits. Jumps around. “When you get to be this old you understand time differently”. Maybe she accidentally ventured into the fey wild as a kid. Dated a fairy prince once. Has a lot of wild stories your grandma sometimes drops on you.
I love this idea, but idk i might get tired of roleplaying an old person at some point
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Character 4: Demon forced to be good
Class: Creation Bard
Race: Tiefling? Fallen Aasamir? Undecided
This character is some powerful old demon lord who is being punished for some reason, and that punishment is stripping him of his powers and forcing him to do good on earth. Maybe he just has to do more good than evil. But he hates that and wants to be evil so bad, but this is the reason he wont… usually. (Im aware of the problems of playing an evil character, or being antagonistic, so this reason should keep him in check i think!) Being good slowly brings his powers back, and he might just learn to not be so evil.
The creation ability is (like gilgamesh from fate) that he obtained so many things over the years, that he can just summon those items from his vault in hell.
He has a purr in his voice.
Bardic inspiration could be flavored as “i suppose i’ll lend you a fraction of my power” snaps
Or “here ill help you” *snaps* “there! Good deed done”
Dramatic character.
Thanks for reading!

In my youth, a few decades ago, I met an only boy a few years older than me, in his early twenties named Tyler at a coffee shop. He drove a blue wrangler and was smoking cigarettes in the village with a friend at the only coffee shop in the early foggy morning. I think I may have bummed a cigarette on my way out the door with my americano and began to make conversation. Tyler had just drove from Seattle and boasted of his time back to get his friend home to Carmel Valley. We started talking about music, my favorite band was Modest Mouse. His was some one I’ve never heard of. He was very cool. Plump but cool. He’s seen modest mouse on the Lonesome Crouded West tour. Brock drank whiskey out of a plastic water bottle. Rebel. Then he told me another story.
Tyler had gotten busted for something illegal which I’ve forgotten now, but had gone before a judge and sentenced to a lot of community service. More than 100 hours. I don’t remember what it was but it wasn’t anything serious. More like what a normal adolescent who was unlucky enough to get caught was issued. At the time he lived just north of San Francisco and was given options to what his services would be. Tyler chose trail maintenance. Tyler worked for weeks. It was summer and was home with his parents waking up at dawn, grabbing breakfast and lunch at the local Safeway before heading to the hills to clear trails for 10 hours. Going home exhausted.
One morning Tyler saw an old man outside the grocery store, looking very tired. It was close to 5am. He approached the old man and offered to buy him a sandwich. The old man said he would very much like a sandwich. Returning with the food the old man asked what Tyler was doing that morning and Tyler explained that he was maintaining a broken trail that was high in the mountains close by. The old man seemed interested in this answer and offered to help for another sandwich and some beer to which Tyler obliged even though alcohol was a violation of parole. But Tyler was a rebel and wasn’t directly supervised once on the trail he was working, so he got another sandwich and a few tall cans and rode away with the old man to the hills.
Tyler told me the old man took direction well and ran off with a few tools and worked all day. He made sure the man had done what he asked throughout the day and was pleasantly surprised to see he was a good worker. They took lunch, drank their beers, worked for a few more hours and at the end of the day, the two hiked back to the blue Jeep Wrangler and headed back.
Tyler asked the old man direction to where this seeming homeless man wanted to be dropped off. Expecting a bridge or over pass. The old man didn’t give an address but immediate signals, left here, right here, straight here. The house style was passing slowly got bigger. Gates more decorative. The cars that passed were nicer.
“This guy must have a nice camping spot” Tyler told me. His suspicion never alerting.
The old man pulled up to a gate with a touch pad. Pretty fancy in 2000. The old man pressed the code. The gate opened.
A long driveway. A big house in trees. The mad shows Tyler into his house. Tyler is astonished. It beautiful. The old man leads Tyler into a library, there are gold records on the wall. He studies a few and the old man gets settled, fiddling with things. Bits and bops.
All the records say: Tom Waits
Tyler looks at the man. The man stairs back with a smile as he opens a floor to ceiling cabinet full of liquor bottles.
“I hope you like whiskey” he says with a smile.
Tyler expresses that before this day he had listened to Tom waits but hadn’t seen or noticed a picture or the man. His recollection of the night that fallowed was also hazy. Or he didn’t think my reaction was merit enough to continue the story. He slept on the couch in the study and woke up at dawn to go work trails.
I never saw Tyler again.
Are there more stories like this out there?

I’m a 30 yr old single dad and I was going to marry my girlfriend. I had been shopping for rings, working on the location and talked to my son about it — so when it ended abruptly I mourned like I lost a wife and my son mourned like he had lost a mom.
Fuck I haven’t cried that much since I put down my dog of 18 years.
Anyway…. I stopped praying much some time ago, but I’ve always wished her well and prayed for her happiness, and I feel I’ve accepted that her life won’t be shared with me anymore and I won’t get to do the things for her that made me love her in the first place. I won’t be a source of that happiness anymore, and it was wonderful getting to love her. My life is better for it, regardless of the hurt its end caused… I’m a better man for it…
I say all that I guess to preface that it’s been unexpectedly nice dating again, it’s been nice to be wanted again and to want someone else, and there’s been some really lovely women that I’ve met and I’ve actually been enjoying these last few dates.
I wanted to share outside my friend group because I want to tell the world that things are okay and good right now, but it’s something good that I don’t want gossip to ruin…

thiss might be rly weird. 😅
so about a year and a half ago my friend who i had been talking to a lot wanted to get into a qpr (queer platonic relationship) with me since they said they felt like an emotional attachment to me in a platonic way. i had no idea what that was when they first asked me out, so i agreed based on their explanation of what it was like. i also was pretty sure i was in the aromatic asexual spectrum, so i thought it would be nice.
the weird thing was even though i claimed to be acearo, i was still messing around on dating apps. and shortly after the qpr started, i was visiting my friend group in my hometown for a bit. we were discussing dating app stuff with our other friend, and i shared some of my own stories as we talked. i mentioned after my stories that i wasn't using dating apps anymore and i only had one friend making app/quote unquote "dating app" left on my phone. my partnefriend got concerned and asked me what it was. i explained to them it was an app i told them about before. but the way they got defensive about it made me realize that they probably considered me being on dating apps of any sort as cheating.
so, i guess i just didn't know what i was getting into? i thought it was like just a stronger friendship or like best friends plus or something lol,, but my friend/partner seemed to want to do more romantic stuff like use pet names and go on dates and stuff. i said i was okay with that, but i didn't really want to do cuddling with them which i told them when we were establishing rules or boundaries or whatever. they were fine with it, but idk the pet names felt unnatural to me and "dates" felt like just hanging out with a good friend. they send couple memes to me saying it's us, but half the time i don't really agree. sometimes it feels like they think of me as their idea of their 'perfect version' of me or something, and not actually me. i do care about this person, but i cannot see myself doing anything remotely romantic with them, the more i inch towards it. after a few months of trying this, i decided i didn't like this, but i didn't know how to bring it up and now we're nearing one and a half years..
i think i went along with it because i cared about this person. and when we hung out together, it felt like just being with a friend and someone i really cared about. i do care about them a lot, and i very much enjoy their company. we've known each other for forever, and our friendship has gone through quite a lot of ups and downs. and recently i keep thinking of the downs and how we'd get into fights and annoy the shit out of each other. we were celebrating our anniversary with them coming up to where i live, and we had a disagreement at a restaurant that reminded me of those times when we were younger teens. and more recently i just feel hurt with some of the stuff they do/say. maybe remembering our past is making me more sensitive to the negatives, idk atp.
i think i am a person who will easy go along with something, and my friend/partner claimed a few things about me that i never even thought of for myself. i believed when they explained why they thought it. they told me i was autistic and deserved to be on disability because i was "disabled". i am able bodied,, just have some mental illness. when i told my dad, he got super mad because before i started this relationship, i was really good about school and making good grades. i dropped out my classes for a bit after the relationship started. my friend/partner has never showed much interest in school beyond high school and they didn't want a job until more recently when they realized yt and their small business weren't getting much money. i stopped school for a couple semesters just to work, but i plan to go back in next semester– when i told them, they said they were worried it would go bad for me again... and i guess i feel like the relationship is stopping me from doing better in school.
i don't want to say they're a bad influence, i think i am more just easily influenced or tend to mimic people around me... my partnefriend should live their life they want, but i think i also might be mimicking what they do kinda and that might be why my family does think they're a bad influence. and i feel more disconnected to my family when i started talking to my friend/partner more. they told me my dad is a manipulative person, but i don't even want to think that... sometimes i wonder if they said it because they consider their own parents (especially dad) manipulative. and i have met their family, they do seem p shitty even to me, but i don't see my own parents like that... my dad is doing his best i think, and he's good enough at least,, my friend/partner also claimed stuff like gender, gender preference, political views of mine when i never really told them that? most was similar to their own identity, and i honestly don't know what my gendegender preference/political views are specifically, ive never firmly said i was a specific label of any of those, but it still felt weird that they were putting me in this box when i felt uncertain about those things.
i also don't know if i'm really aroace. like i see happy romantic couples, and still want something like that. and i don't know if i can go and find someone like that if im platonically partnered with someone. and at this point i feel like "i didn't know what i was getting into" doesn't work if i try to just end things now,, i also am afraid it'll just go down terribly, and i'll never even get to be acquaintances with this person again. and i feel like our mutual friends will all side with them and i will just lose those friends forever as well. i'll feel even shittier if i try romance and see that i really am aroace and then id just be forever alone with no friends.
my partnefriend also bought tickets to go to a convention in a few months and id feel even shittier to end things poorly before that since they really wanted to go there and cosplay with me. the convention famously doesn't give any refunds too so they can't even get their money back for the tickets.
we're even planning to move out together in 2025, but i don't know if it's still something i want. we've been planning since like 2022 to move out together (it started out as just friends before they asked to be partners) but we keep having to push it further down with financial issues and such, so i don't even know if 2025 is a good year either. i am going through the process of switching my college major, and i feel like that's all ill really have time for soon especially when i start working alongside studying too. (im quite literally switching from an arts related major to something stem related lol.) i want to get my bachelor's and establish a good paying job before moving out. (and probably also work towards my master's) i don't even know if my friend/partner has anything going on in their future career and stuff, and i do not want to have to be financially responsible for them at all. i barely like when they ask me for money. they usually pay me back or pay for some of my stuff in return so it probably balances out, id just rather we each pay for our own things i guess,, or maybe im just being a prick abt it lol.
i just feel like an asshole, and im probably wasting their time by pretending to want to be more than just a standard friend and like everything is going ok on my side. i just don't know what to do. this is kinda my first relationship tbh, and definitely a first for qpr so i don't really have experience on how to end things lol, and i don't know what a good method to do so is.
sorry if this makes no sense, im rambling... but i am in need of advice... mainly, i am just looking for a way to end the relationship. but any other advice is fine, i need it. if im a piece of shit or you want to say something else 'negative' you can tell me that too, i just need honesty on my situation.
tldr; i am in a queer platonic relationship with someone who i saw as a friend. they wanted to be romantic. i did not. we are getting into disagreements. We seem to have different lifestyle choices, and it's getting to the point where i just want to end it. how do i break up with them that won't make things terrible between the two of us?

These all interest me, but I wanted the communities thoughts on what sounds most fun to them, help fleshing the character out, and what would be easy to roleplay. (Sometimes I have an interesting idea, but actually roleplaying it and showing the personality is harder). I’m still newish to actually playing. I’m playing with 6 total players (oof) and i dont know them well. I haven't really received any info about the campaign yet. If your first session starts in 3 days, don’t read this!!
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Character 1: Stitch
Class: Moon Druid
Race: Changeling
The character is pretty much Stitch. The idea is to have another character already have a relationship with mine, having just picked me up and thinking im a dog. And he’ll only say a few words at first, but will progressively get better at speaking. This characters bites his toes and rolls around to move around, will be chewing on his own hand, and gain a strong sense of family. He also will be able to change into other characters like, a butler he saw once, who will use vocab like stitch, but talk formally. His moon druid shapes will have the same blue aberration coloring as him.
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Character 2: Fire Girl
Class: Wildfire druid
Race: Idk
This character is inspired by Megumin from Konosuba (She shouts “explosion!” and constantly wants to fireball everything, and then falls asleep). I see her holding hands with her pet fire spirit. Wanting to burn everything. Maybe the fire spirit can be like calcifer and talks. And maybe has a “before creation there must be destruction” them going on.
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Character 3A: Prodigy Chronurgist girl
Class: Chronurgist Wizard
Race: Harengon
A 12 year old sassy prodigy girl who is shaping the fields of chronurgy magic. Uses Gen Z language. Thinks shes smartebetter than everyone, besides some of the people she looks up to at the academy. “Ugh whatever”. Shes adventuring because she needs field experience for her internship.
Hides her bunny ears under a red hood (like red riding hood, shes kind of fairy tale coded (like alice and the white rabbit too)) because harengons are not a respected race for magic and shes embarrassed.
Her parents are literally two rabbits.
Alternative personality is that shes super hyper and brimming with energy, goes crazy if she gets any sugar.
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Character 3B: Old Grandma Chronurgist Wizard
Class: Chronurgist Wizard
Race: Harengon
Or, as opposed to the prodigy girl, this character is an old grandma harengon who’s still got it. She has kids that are rabbits. Jumps around. “When you get to be this old you understand time differently”. Maybe she accidentally ventured into the fey wild as a kid. Dated a fairy prince once. Has a lot of wild stories your grandma sometimes drops on you.
I love this idea, but idk i might get tired of roleplaying an old person at some point
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Character 4: Demon forced to be good
Class: Creation Bard
Race: Tiefling? Fallen Aasamir? Undecided
This character is some powerful old demon lord who is being punished for some reason, and that punishment is stripping him of his powers and forcing him to do good on earth. Maybe he just has to do more good than evil. But he hates that and wants to be evil so bad, but this is the reason he wont… usually. (Im aware of the problems of playing an evil character, or being antagonistic, so this reason should keep him in check i think!) Being good slowly brings his powers back, and he might just learn to not be so evil.
The creation ability is (like gilgamesh from fate) that he obtained so many things over the years, that he can just summon those items from his vault in hell.
He has a purr in his voice.
Bardic inspiration could be flavored as “i suppose i’ll lend you a fraction of my power” snaps
Or “here ill help you” *snaps* “there! Good deed done”
Dramatic character.
Thanks for reading!

For context she's around 65 and a long term sub. We can call her Mrs. D. I'm 13F. I haven't been shaving for 3 reasons. 1. I haven't felt like it 2. I've become used to, even liking my body hair, and 3. I don't want my parents to keep spending money on razors. We already don't have enough money as it is. I was wearing a tank top and shorts. We have clubs everyday, so I chose yoga club today, so I was talking to my friends and stretching. She walks over to me and said "When you get home, I want you to shave." And i felt so self conscious. I just old her OK and continued stretching. Why does it even matter to her if I shave or not? I'm not even sure what to do right now. I just don't want to go back if she'll make comments about my body.

I have struggled with low self-esteem since middle school. It started when I was about 11. I went through something that made me close myself up and stop talking to basically everyone. Like that I became the weird quiet kid in my class and was made fun of for pretty much everything. When I was 13-14, I felt "ready" to try make friends among my classmates but everytime I talked I was met with comments like "you can talk?" or "I don't think I've ever heard you talk before". I know now that this really isn't that deep but at the time it felt like they were only making fun of me. So I gave up on being friends with them and resorted back to being the quiet kid again. I've never been friends with those people or ever had a proper conversation with them but yet after 5 years, I still have moments when I ask myself "what would they think of me?".
I know that most of them thought low of me. Like that I'm stupid and what not. But for some reason I want them to think highly of me. I want them to look at me and think that I'm smart, good looking and that my life is going well. Actually, I want them to think that I'm better than them. I know this is messed up and I wish I didn't care about them at all but I guess that after years of them looking down at me, I want to feel... validated by them? At the same time, I also wanna know how their lives are going. I don't know why I can't just let go.
Note: I'm sorry for the sloppy writing - it's currently 4am and my brain decided that this would be what keeps me up tonight.