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The title might be a bit misleading, but here's my question: Do we, as a people with aphantasia, find ourselves more "shielded" to manipulation compared to other persons? it's like politicians, liars, cheaters, narcissists and the like will always try to sway our opinions through carefully crafted messages, we are bombarded with information, news, images, proposals, deals, etc, yet aphantasia kinda makes it easier to spot inconsistencies and foul play at hand? Do you think this increased and constant awareness of things, makes us less likely to blindly follow the crowds who could be blind due to an idea or ideology? Are we critical thinkers? Or do we simply subscribe to a different consensus?

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Player: "Hey I wanna pvp in D&D"
Dev: "Do you have any ranged attacks"
Player: "No"
Dev: "then no you can't"
Player: "why not"
Dev: "only ranged pvp in my game, anything else and you lose. rangers will run till youre full of arrows, fighters will run till youve been shot at least once in the body with their crossbow, wizards will chuck spells and run, warlock will just spam hydra in a doorway, bards are the same as rangers but because they can buff, you cant outrun when they decide to start a melee fight, rogues will just run and annoy you..... Oh and barbarians, they are melee only... oh except for they fransica axes that they will achilles strike you with..... oh but they still beat EVERY class in a melee fight so unless you have range wellll..."
Player: "....This sounds like an awful pvp system"
Dev: "oh we know but we have a few hundred diehard fans who will agree with what we do no matter what so its fine."

hi i’m nat! working from home full-time has made me pretty isolated so I’m looking for some people to talk to throughout the day (:
I live in the UK and i'm currently in the middle of a phd in computational biology, when i'm not working (aka procrastinating) i'm usually playing games, right now i'm really into BG3 so it would be great to find someone to play or talk about it with! (i genuinely can't shut up about it)
i looove animals and will demand pictures of yours if you have any, i myself have a very goofy labrador called murphy who i like taking unflattering pics of, i also spent a lot of my life around horses
lastly, to be completely transparent, my mental health isn't great and so i find it hard to socialise, if we don't have a lot in common and share the same views (i'm queer and very left-leaning), i will find it very hard to carry conversation with you, sorry!

I'm new to the 90 day world, currently on season 7 ep 6 of just regular 90 day fiance. Theres a lot of people throughout this show that get under my skin but for some reason Tania annoys the absolute hell out of me.
How do you have your fiancé come to America under the impression, tHAT YOU GAVE HIM, that where you guys will be staying is done - then isn't, and you still put off an attitude about him being a little taken back. Along with then leaving for a month in the 90 days....I'm shoooccked. I know this is probably such old news to everyone here but had to get that out.

I’d love but hate to have niffty as a roommate.
Pros: •All the chores are sorted •Have a cute guard cyclops
Cons: •Will most likely stalk any guys you bring home •She’s literally insane •She will stab whether that’s you or someone else it’s kinda a roll of the dice🤷‍♀️
I do love her though

Presentation Hello, my name is Mathieu. I have a background in programming but it's a bit far. I'm currently a physical education and computer science teacher at an high school. I see all the young people on their cellphone and it bothers me. What bothers me is that they game non-stop and they don't really do anything usefull with their cellphones. When I watch an exam the other day, I got an idea about an mobile app that would combine fitness/good habits/running with gaming.
Partner i'm looking for. I'm looking for someone who is good at designing applications or who would like to embark on a project knowing how to design an app but without having previously done it. For now the project would consists of an Lo-fi prototype to show some people to grow the team (dev, artist, other).
The app For now, I would test the solo aspect of the app with ideas for growing it for a multiplayer side. It would combine good habits with an RPG style of game. I know that a few applications already exist, but mine will be different because of a very specific fonctionality that I will keep to myself for now, but I'll share to someone who is interested in the idea. I know it's frustrating, but I believe it's a good enough idea to not share it for everyone to know. I really wouldn't want to see someone else do it knowing that I could do it with people who believe in the idea.
Futur The person who joins me for this project will have the opportunity to continue and become a member of the team afterward. Otherwise, this person will be given a special title in the game and a life-time free subscription if the game comes out someday.
TL:DR Looking for a designer to create a prototype of a app that combine fitness and gaming.
Thank you for your time and have a good day!

I’m 17 going into a trade program which will help me learn all I need about numerous trades and then help me get into some apprenticeships; ultimate goal is electrician so any things I should know before getting into the trades ?

In less than two weeks I will get my breast augmentation and I am SO excited for it. It’s been a very long time coming and I am finally in a place financially where I can afford this. I’m very slim and tall, and completely flat on the chest, so I am going from an AA, to a full B (250cc). I am suprisingly more anxious about how people will react than about the surgery itself. I have slight social anxiety so I am always thinking about what the next negative thing people will say about me. I have a few followers on social media and I am thinking about making some sort of…announcement? Like a hint in a caption or something? I would never ever want people to think I am acting like these are my natural breasts. I want to be fully open about it because it’s 2024 and little girls shouldn’t be told that these bodies are always natural. I don’t want to be posting bikini photos this summer with people knowing I got a boob job and thinking I’m trying to be slick about it. So I’d love to hear what people who have gone through this have to say! Should I say something, if so, what?

Since I started talking online, I no longer feel safe at all. I tried to leave, but it's too late, I won't make it. I need to talk, I'll never leave internet now. The problem is that I use the internet very badly. I put myself in danger like I never have before. My life will never be the same again because of my unconsciousness. I know I talk too much, and it annoys me deeply. I feel like eyes are watching me, they know who I am, they know everything I said. The Internet knows everything about me. EVERYTHING. It terrifies me. I'm also terrified that my data will ever be leaked. It sometimes reassures me to think that everyone is being observed too. I've spread myself too thin, I'm afraid of making a mistake and getting hacked. I'm afraid my identity will be found. I'm afraid things I said will be found. I would like to feel safe like before, but it's impossible. I should never have had access to social media. Everything I criticized for years, I fell into in such a stupid way. Why did I walk with my eyes closed without paying attention to anything? I need the internet to express myself, but I can't, because it's impossible. I can't talk about certain things because if they ever get my data back, they'll know who I am. I feel judged, I feel observed. It makes me sad. I would like to stop my brain from talking so much.

Hi!
I go to my RE next Monday to see if we can start the process for my first transfer. I had two hysteroscopies in the summer of 2023 (and had my 4th pregnancy/loss in the first cycle after my second hysteroscopy).
Would it be weird to ask my doctor if it’s possible to do a hysteroscopy before we do the transfer, so my uterus can be as ‘cleaned out’ as possible to help give the embryo as a good of a chance to be successful.
Or will my doctor be just like ‘ummmm no’ if I were to even ask? Lol

I'm a virgin at 24, with zero romantic experience and I want to die on a daily basis because of it. I'm completely paralyzed by fear whenever I am around women, and when I get online and read people opinions on reddit and what not they say I am justified in feeling this way, and that it's cope to think otherwise.
I'm not allowed to feel excited about dating anymore because it's embarassing and shameful at my age, and won't be as special as teen love or early 20s love.
I'm not allowed to talk to women because I am a loser and will embarass myself.
I'm not allowed to social with high achieving well adjusted men because I can't relate to their life experiences, and that makes me inferior.
Having sex for the first time at my age is shameful disgusting, and will mark me as inferior for the rest of my life because I never learned proper socialization while my brain was developing.
Nothing is as exciting or meaningful after 25 because your dopamine production significantly declines because of brain reaching full development.
I'm not allowed to speak to women at college because I'm too old and they'll gossip and start rumors about me.
I'm too old to join a fraternity or anything else on college.
Any refutations to these ideas are met are rightly criticized as being cope and platitudes and honestly I agree with them.
I don't want to try anymore because it just won't be as good enough as someone who did it at the right ages.
I just want permission to feel good enough but it's too late.
It's too late, it's too late, it's just too late now. I want to cry

So I (20F) have known this girl, let's call her Em (fake name, 20F), for a whole bunch of years.
To be precise, we actually first met when we were little, but neither of us remembers it.
My mom has been friends with my "aunt" (not biological) since they were in high-school. As they grew older, of course, their families expanded. My aunt had three kids, who would be my cousins. Her mom's side of the family is from a another country that shares borders with ours. Her brother, who lives in said country, had 5 kids, four girls and one boy. We're unrelated. They're my "cousins" actual cousins.
Most of my family (this aunt and cousins included) live in another part of my country, so when I was a kid I used to go over the summer and stay most of it there to see everyone. It seems that when we were kids, we all hung out once, there's even a picture to prove it, but again, no one bellow age 25 remembers that.
Well one of those summers, when I was 14, I went to visit and went over to my aunt's for dinner. That's when Em and I kind of really met, and boy do I remember that.
We all said our hellos, and we sat down at the table, she was sitting across me. All night we made small that, and I really liked her.
I was always openly gay, never really had a "coming out of the closet", since no one in my family cares. They've always been supportive of me. Her family, though, it's a different story.
Her siblings are great, and they're also cool about that, but her parents (specially her mom) are catholics (if I remember correctly, her dad or one of their uncles is a preist) soooo yeah we weren't really openly flirting at the dinner table.
But then, us young ones went away to play cards. She was playing against me, 3 vs 3, only this time she was sitting almost beside me.
The stolen glances, the grazing of hands, the little smirks. I remember the way she looked at me, like she didn't understand what or why she was feeling something, but she knew she was. She found me attractive, but with the not-really-but-just-met situation and her parents, we just stuck with that. I only saw her once again that summer, same thing, only for a whole day. And then back in my hometown as they were passing through to go back to their country
We exchanged numbers, and when we talked she confessed she liked me, a lot, but didn't know what to do in that moment. It was new to her, though that didn't really bother her much. I remember she said something along the lines of "It’s like I was so mesmerized by you and at the same time so confused that I just froze, but I would've kissed you if we had seen each other again, and if it happens I will".
Well, six years passed.
Not being actually related and living in two different countries kind of made it impossible and of course, naturally, contact faded and every once in a while we'd talk again as if no time had passed.
Eventually she got a boyfriend, I had a few relationships two. Long term and serious on both accounts, but we never not talked at least a couple times a year (respectfully, of course).
I guess I never really stopped liking her, bjt it was more of a distant thing than anything else. Every time we talked tho it was great. We woukd catch up, open up about things we would otherwise keep quiet, etc. It's like we always gravitated back to each other, both in thought and in speaking terms (on both accounts).
Eventually, when she finished high-school, she followed her older siblings footsteps and moved to a city near mine to attend college, that was around a year or two ago.
She broke up with her boyfriend a few months back, I did so too.
And three days ago, I replied to a story she has uploaded on her insta and, well, here comes the best part.
We started talking, catching up, and I can't really remember why but the conversation eventually led to me saying I found her pretty. She replied it was mutual. I'll try to recall the conversation below.
"Wait, do you still like me after all these years?"
"Well, yeah, why wouldn't I?"
"I mean, we didn't see each other again, grew older and you even had a boyfriend, I thought maybe the feeling had passed for you"
"Yeah I mean I isolated myself a lot in that relationship, it sucked, but I never not liked you, nor forgot about you, it was just impossible"
"Well, it's not anymore. I still like you too, and I've been wanting this for years"
"So have I, I want to go see you"
I remember I told her that when I saw she had a boyfriend I didn't really wanna force or ruin anything cuz she seemed happy and I liked that, and she told me she would've left him in a heartbeat for me the second she'd known I still liked her.
We also talked about her family. She told me her mom actually found out about our little chat back in 2018 and got kind of mad, but Em told her to screw off and not go through her phone again, and that's the end of it. One of her sisters noticed then too, but just told her good for her and also never mentioned it again.
Then the same day I replied to her story, she had told her older sister and a friend of hers about me, since they were reminiscing about summers, told them she was still into me.
The rest of the conversation was one I'd never had with her. She told me she liked me, and what things. She thinks I'm pretty, she thinks I'm funny. Smart, talented, good. I honestly don't know if all l of it is true but to hear her so starstruck, just like when we were 14, made my heart skip a beat. It was adorable. And then, well, it derailed into a more... uhm... mature conversation about plans we had for each other? If you get what I mean lol.
And that's where we are now. We're both having exams right now so we're planning to meet up next week when we're done.
IM SO EXCITED!
We miss each other, and we've wanted to hang out for ages. Not only that, but her now openness to be with me and enjoy it is so both refreshing and adorable. She calls me names, compliments me, tells me she wants me.
I never would've thought it would actually happen, not at least for a few more years. I also wouldn't have thought that shy girl I met would be so openly flirty with me, even on voice messages.
She's told me about a hundred times already how much she's wanted this, that's she's so glad it's gonnaa finally happen, that she's wondered what it's like to kiss me ever since she met me.
It's mutual, it's all mutual.
I feel giddy, excited, and I definitely feel wanted, and it's amazing.
Just wanted to rant about it and her, she's honestly amazing and beautiful. Kind, smart. Her accent drives me crazy and when she speaks her native language I literally feel weak.
Six years. Six years always thinking about each other (and many of those times it's like we mind-called each other beacuse we'd end up talking again). The girl I've had a crush on for the longest and never got, and we finally have the space, place and time to do it. This is it, it's our moment. And I definitely plan to enjoy every minute of it. She's worth it. So, so worth it.
Have a nice day everyone, Imma go talk to her lol bye

Been having uti symptoms, probably just a flairup but worried it is an actual uti so went to doctors for urine sample to be sent off, but have bairly been able to pee (a symptom) so drank half a bottle of water an hour before the appointment and my bladder was so full when i did the urine sample and urine was completely clear coloured so worried it has been diluted and the test will come back negative for uti even if it is a uti because of how much water i drunk

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Been drinking alot for too long, try to make pauses, and I do. But, PTSD, severe abuse, severe bullying and loosing three kids makes the nightmares return, and the numbing of the pain, and the stopping of the nightmares, only thing that really helps is the deep end of a bottle, or, getting stoned out of my head.
I was severely bullied throughout the school years, damned with a photographic memory, so I can replay all those years in my head like a video when I need to go to sleep, answer, alcohol or sedatives.
I have lost three kids, had a severely abusive wife, answer, alcohol or weed.
My mostly daily issues are, I can remember most moments of pain like a video, and too often, as I try to sleep, the brain goes "Yeah, remember THAT moment??".
To sleep, I have been in therapy, got Theralen, but, don't want to ask for it. I had antidepressants, but they also have a side effect, it killed my sex drive, which ended up with me in more depression. SSRI's, can't remember the brand/type though.
So, with my wife, who'm with I lost three kids (she also had multiple affairs after, and before), now I needed Viagra or Cialis. Yay.
The last 20 years have been pretty decent, but I am stuck in the past, stuck blaming my wife, and I drink way to much. Way, too much.
I do not like SSRI's, as I still like to have a sex drive. I like weed, as it really super duperly helps me sleep, without the nightmares. But, weed is illegal here, and I can't get a hold of it too often, maybe twice a year, but then I sleep like a prince. Instead, alcohol is readily available.
Which I try my best to self medicate with. I also have researched how to as in the longest not to ruin your liver, cats claw, magnesium, vitamin supplements and turmeric with black pepper (turmeric really works well, makes your lymphatic system step in, turmeric + black pepper, you will not get hung over).
Where should I start, to get help? I live in Sweden, but every time I have asked for help, all I get is Theralen.
Always I am active, 1 hour of hard exercise every day, I do not eat breakfast or lunch, but have cat claw tea, or Hibiscus tea, with vitamine pills, fish oil, nattokinase, and passion flower, alongside turmeric with black pepper.
Anyone got any suggestions as to, how do I get off the damn juice. I have so many things I want to do, but, I sleep half the day away, and spend the rest, drinking and being upset.
51 years old, so probably also living on borrowed time with the liver. I just as you can probably read, tried alot of things, but the damn nightmares, I can't get them to stop. Where should I look for allevation?
Treatments, medications, life affirmations, anyone göts any suggestions? The lack of sleep is just driving me nuts, and, I know the drinking is going to put me in a early grave.
Sorry for the long post. Someone recently told me that victims of severe abuse have a problem with asking for help, and never do. I realized, wtf, that might be me. I don't trust anyone.
But, there it is, where the heck, should I start? Apologize for the long rant.

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Long story short, my Son's mom and family are moving to Japan. Her husband has/had dual citizenship in Japan but he is coming over to work for the Department of Defense on the base in Yokosuka so they are getting visas through the DoD. Pending the outcome of our court case there is a chance my son will be allowed to move which will force me to attempt to move also if I want to maintain regular visitation with my son.
I'm interested in getting some feedback on the possibility of longterm visas. I'm 30M and a mechanical engineer in a niche field designing industrial food processing equipment. I currently own my own company and do contract design work. I would say I'm highly skilled, especially in my niche field. I've done a lot of project management, managing/training engineers, estimating, etc.
It seems like the most reasonable path would be to get a Japanese language school visa for 2 years, and then after that hope I can find full time employment that would sponsor me for a work visa? What are the odds of that being possible? After two years of language school would it be reasonable to assume that my language skills would be good enough to make employment possible in an engineering or similar role?
The other option would be to come over on a 6 month digital nomad visa or two separate 3 month tourist visas, but that's really not ideal from a visitation standpoint or just lifestyle in general. I assume on a real visa I would be able to get "real" housing but on a short term visa like one of these, will I be able to rent a 2 bedroom apartment at reasonable rates or will I be stuck with hotel/airbnb only or much higher rates for short term?
I ride motorcycles a lot so would ideally like to have one in Japan also, which I assume with a working visa wouldn't be a problem, but what about with a short term visa? Would it be possible to own a motorcycle and leave it in storage when I'm not in the country or am I stuck renting if I want one?
At a glance the area around Yokosuka seems very military oriented, should I be looking to live somewhere farther away from the base and commute over for visitation if I didn't want to be in a military town vibe?
I have never been to Japan before, but have traveled a decent bit. I appreciate any feedback!