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2015.02.25 07:08 1TrueScotsman Post a Picture, get a Dungeon

Post a picture and the community will build a story which you can then base an adventure on for your campaign.
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2016.05.26 07:15 WeHateSand Hindsight In 2020

Welcome to Hindsight in 2020! We're here to fix the Republican party. This sub has seven interests whose definitions can viewed in our sidebar. They are: Liberty; Balanced Federal Budget; Accountability in Government; Protection from Monopolies; Compromise in Government; Religious Freedom; Campaign Funding Please see the following post for what that means: https://www.reddit.com/hindsightIn2020/s/AVmraogQho
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2024.05.14 00:52 throaway_account_22 [M4F] Finding Ms. Right

ALL CHARACTERS ARE 18+
"Healing comes in waves, and I'm allowed to feel every rise and fall of my tide." -Alex Elle
'After a long and stressful day, I yearn to be held. To be cherished. To be lovingly tucked into bed by someone nearly old enough to be my mother. Well, maybe not THAT far but enough of an age difference to give us a certain motherly dynamic.
You've always been there for me. I love the way you smell as you hold me close in bed at the end of every night. I love the way your silky, sexy robes hug your curves as you climb into bed.'
Hi! I have an idea for a gentle, wholesome, cuddly, DETAILED RP between a younger man and a much older woman. Something about an older woman taking control without being too cold or mean about it just sends shivers down my spine in the best way possible.
I'd love for this to mainly be a slice of life kinda deal, heart to heart talks, all that stuff. Maybe we could include snippets of their day-to-day lives in it i.e. doctor's appointments, therapy appointments (for him), clothes shopping, etc.
I'd put his age around 19/20/21. She's MUCH older. We can go over her exact age in chat. But the age gap is a VERY essential detail in regards to their dynamic, how she treats him, and how she approaches him. I also have backstories in mind for both of our characters. I will have to warn you, his backstory is quite dark. If that's an issue for you then I'll try to be as flexible as I can but I feel like it's essential for his character.
I would love to discuss the details further in detail with all you fine people ❤️.
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2024.05.14 00:51 Mother-Exercise8340 Page with task-templates and page-tasks to calendar

Hi all.
I'm a basic user on Notion. My experience using it is creating pages, todo lists and those simple things. Now I intend two things that I can't figure out even with online tutorials. I'm super overwhelmed with so many confusing info...
1 - Page with task-templates. Is it possible? I have a page where I want to sort a bank of ideas. Each idea would be like a task, but when I open it I would like to always get the same blank-form template ready to be filled. Once I fill all the info or are done with it, I would like to move it somewhere (like arquive it).
2 - Tasks to a main calendar. I know it is possible I just can't figure it out how. Those tasks made on those templates would appear on this main calendar if I chose to add a date value. My idea is also to be able to select a view where I can only see some of the tasks.
If anyone knows a simple guide for this I would be super grateful. (Notion tutorial about "linking to database" on youtube didn't help configuring views nor how to make them appear on the calendar, once when I select the database where the page is, nothing happens besides showing the name of the database. I can't select the page inside it).
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2024.05.14 00:51 n1cutesmile Please Be Kind to Reactive Rescue Dogs

Let’s talk about rescue dogs!!
A really common issue we find when people take on a rescue dog is that they feel incredibly sorry for them - most often without having much information about their past we tend to imagine the worst case scenario and then use that to explain all of the dog’s unwanted behaviour!!
Don’t get me wrong some rescues are in a very sorry state and have had a traumatic time but in the everyday rehoming of dogs- the majority have just not been a good “fit” with their owners!
We then make allowances for every single thing they do by imagining the cause..
“he doesn’t like men as a man hit him”
“She doesn’t like mops so someone must have hit her with a mop”
“he doesn’t like people wearing hats as someone wearing a hat was horrible to him” when actually we have no idea what has caused it and to be honest the normal main cause is lack of socialising at an early age where they were not exposed to multiple situations and people wearing hats 🤷‍♀️
But even so we take them in and give them everything a dog could dream of without asking anything in return because they’ve had such an (imagined) terrible life!
So if you took in a foster child - with an unknown past, showing bad behaviour - would you make allowances for their bad behaviour and let them do what they please?
Let them go to bed when they choose?
Eat when and whatever they like?
Run around the house jumping on Furniture?
Shout and scream at you!?
And whenever questioned on their terrible anti-social behaviour explain that they had a bad life before you stepped in!?
No of course you wouldn’t because not only would you be allowing them to continue the behaviour you’re setting them and yourself up to fail in the future!!!
So you would impose simple kind boundaries like a bedtime, feeding routine, rules and boundaries and the child would begin to feel secure and safe! That would be the kindest thing to do - let them know what is expected and let them acclimatise and understand how to act!
But with dogs…. We bring them in and let them absolutely do whatever they want with no questions 🤣🤣 they rampage through our houses and lives and we say oh well - it’s because they had such a bad upbringing before we got them - well no actually it’s because they have no boundaries or discipline in your home because you feel so bad for them!! 🤷‍♀️
And yes some dogs have had a horrendous time but you know what?? Same applies we can’t feel desperately sorry for them forever we need to rebuild them and give them support and a cheerleading squad to show them there’s a brighter better life for them and that you, their owner is totally in control and you’ve got this!!! Give them trust and belief in your skills to move forward rather them see you as someone who is unable to make decisions and rules!!
It makes a massive difference!!
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2024.05.14 00:50 drakk0n Ongoing saga of a house with ever recurring clogs

We purchased a home in 2022 and at that time an inspection showed no issues. There are 2 full bathrooms upstairs, 1 half bath downstairs. There was some minor 0 degree grade in some areas but other than some buildup in the line from grease it looked to be running fine from the home to the sewer.
Come 2-3 months of living in this house our nightmare began. Its only my wife and I living here. The upstairs toilets stopped flushing and would get backed up. After a while they would drain down, but we would get a plumber out and they would snake it and all fine for another week or so until bam another backup. Finally brought in a camera and saw a clog of enormous length (20 ft) and ended up hydrojetting it out.
This process has continued on throughout the past year. 4 companies, 2 gave up completely, 1 started to get crazy with their charges, the latest is stumped and said let us replace the line. That didn't work. This weekend sewage sept up from a floor drain from an ice maker. The cause? a clog in the same damn line.
With changes made under the house and in various ways to see what can be done:
Unfortunately I don't have much video/pictures of much help as there have been so many changes that anything I do have is out of date. Here are some images showing the crawlspace and the best diagram I've been able to get so far: https://imgur.com/a/K5BNH3s
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2024.05.14 00:49 Mr0range Hilly area, worth it to change gearing or get in better shape?

I have a 2007 Trek 1500 SLR. Front is 53/39 and back is 12-26. I'm 185lb and am fairly active but don't cycle a ton. I'm mainly asking this because on my commute the short way has two hills that kick my ass, one is .2 miles with a 16% grade and the other is .4 at 9%. The long way is all flat but a bit longer.
I'm fairly new to road cycling so I don't know much about equipment or replacing stuff. Is it advisable and easy to modify my bike to get a lower gear ratio or should I just get in better shape? I've ridden up both hills but it's pretty brutal for me.
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2024.05.14 00:46 brunocar Get back into it now or wait for the expansion?

I havent played in a while, early 2022 to be exact, i rolled a new character to give a different playstyle a shot but once again, i beat the main game and the 2 existing expansions and was done there.
After this last big patch i was itching to get back into it and trying to take up my old characters (a pet build, a dual pistol build and a 2h elemental melee build) or start a new build to make a caster since i've never done that.
BUT, it might just be a better idea to wait for the expansion due to how its likely gonna require beating the main story anyways... but maybe doing a new character now to freshen up on it to then use it to play the new expansion could work... or maybe i'd really like to use the new mastery since the 2h elemental build was in part cause i wanted to do a melee druid but i couldnt quite make it work and this sounds more like that.
To be clear, im gonna eventually pick this up until i have all the achievements regardless, but I just cant decide whether i should drop other games and focus on getting into endgame finally.
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2024.05.14 00:46 TooZeroLeft A Halo What-If I just thought about: What if Halo 4 and Infinite were one and the same story?

Another topic of mine inspired me to think this What-If. In an alternate timeline, I think this idea would be very interesting, even though I love the Didact and a lot of 343 Forerunner lore additions (+ I think the Forerunner Trilogy is very well written), I still feel stuff got too convoluted to a point where I sometimes wonder what if the games ignored all that stuff.
This is just a What-If, I don't think the Forerunner books or Halo 4's story are bad, this is just a thought I had after seeing the similarities between 4 and Infinite.
Now for the question, What If Halo 4 and Infinite were one and the same?
Chief and Cortana still fall to Requiem, but the Banished are the main threats. Now, in this What-If, imagining 343 decided to stick to the original idea of leaving Forerunners as Humans or at the very least keep the mystery, the Harbinger, Endless and Skimmers are still the new threat, and 343 would build them in the game and future stories/lore, still giving us this new threat/new species, while at the same time keeping the Forerunners and the Flood as mysterious. The Prometheans would still be kept, here as the Forerunner machines that contain the Endless in Requiem, but in this alternate scenario their design would be much more reminescent of Bungie's Forerunner sleek design (looking similarly to the concept art of the Prometheans in the fan project SPV3.3).
Now the story could pretty much play almost the same to Halo 4, but with Infinite additions, such as Chief and Cortana (instead of the Weapon) being against the Banished, the Endless, the Skimmers and the Prometheans, helping the UNSC forces, crew of the Infinity and SPARTAN-IVs taken by the Banished. We still keep the core human characters such as Del Rio, Esparza, Lasky, Palmer, whereas Escharum would still lead the Banished forces on Requiem, with Atriox as the ominous leader in the shadows we see via videos and lore. We still keep the storyline simple by removing the Forerunner lore but still make the future interesting with the Harbinger and Endless (though we could remove them as being "worse than the Flood", but their immunity against the Array is interesting and could be kept). The emotional core of the story would still be the same with Cortana dying, Chief having to come at terms with his humanity, and his more close connection with Esparza through the history and then Lasky at the end could play very well.
Spartan Ops would then also naturally also work with a more open sandbox environment like Infinite, but in this What If, the environments wouldn't be exclusively Infinite-like since Requiem is a much more diverse biome.
I'm not a good writer at all and I could combine/put these ideas much better together, but these are just quick thoughts about an alternate story where these two games would be one and the same.
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2024.05.14 00:46 moviegoer1234 Logged out from IG account since recent outage

So, as many people here (that I've seen) I have been logged out of my main account for quite some time now (probably a good month or two).
I have tried recovering my password with email and all that, and nothing. And Instagram's Help Centre articles are literally of no help at all (under the point asking "if Instagram emails don't reach you" all the blame is put on the user -for not checking spam folder- or the email provider -for not allowing instagram emails to come through, which isn't happening, I checked-).
I searched other answers and some linked a few videos to reset the password but none seem to work (as no email reaches my inbox) and other say to log in to facebook with the same email (don't have facebook, deleted that a while ago and whenever I try to make a new one, same name and all, it gets disabled shortly after).
So, no emails from instagram reach my inbox (but I do have access to it, it's my regular email), the saved password I had doesn't work, can't receive email reset links, and no connected facebook account. I also had two-factor authentification on so I know it's not hacked or disabled (I can look for it and it's still there, no new posts or anything, and my family keeps sending me reels there).
Anyone had a similar issue or has any suggestions?? I'm running out of ideas here and I really wouldn't want to lose that account :(
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2024.05.14 00:46 mistressmagick13 Laundry room vs. bed room home value

I currently have a 5 bed/3.5 bath three story house.
The third story is half unfinished attic, half bedroom with detached full bath. A sort of small pseudo-suite. My spouse works from home and currently uses it as a home office and work suite.
The second floor has the mastemain bedroom and mastemain full bath, two reasonably sized bedrooms with a Jack and Jill full bath, and a small bedroom not attached to anything. It’s got a tiny closet that’s barely usable. It was staged as a nursery when we bought it, because it’s mostly just big enough for a crib and rocking chair. I’m currently using it as an exercise room with my bike and a yoga mat.
The first floor has the kitchen with a small attached walk through laundry-ish room. It opens on to our back porch, but it’s barely a room. It’s basically a hallway with closet doors that are too small for the washer and dryer to fit in properly, so they just kind of stick out awkwardly as you walk past to get to the porch and back yard.
The kitchen was last updated in the 1990s. I would like to remodel it. I would like to take down the adjoining wall to the laundry space to open it up and have the kitchen open out to the back porch. It would let in more light and give us more kitchen space. But then my options for laundry would be to have it in the kitchen behind closet doors with no good place to actually store laundry… or to turn that tiny bedroom into a second floor laundry room.
From a value perspective would it make more sense to
1) Call the house a 4 bed/3.5 bath with a second floor laundry room 2) Keep the 5th bedroom, leave the laundry where it’s at / maybe make that hall a bit more functional, and renovate the kitchen at the size it is or 3. Keep the 5th bedroom, tear out the laundry/kitchen wall and incorporate a pantry/closet type area to hide the laundry in the kitchen
From a structural perspective, tearing out that wall is feasible. We had a structural engineer evaluate, and it’s non-load bearing with the major structural beam running perpendicular. Additionally, that small bedroom shares a wall with the master bath, and the third floor hot water heater is directly above it. So running the plumbing lines wouldn’t be too terribly difficult. It’s also got an exterior wall that could easily vent the dryer.
So all the above options are possibilities. I just need to decide what I want. I fear losing the laundry space all together (option 3) is the worst of them, because a non-dedicated laundry space that’s shared with the kitchen feels not ideal.
I don’t ever plan on having more than two kids… so I don’t feel like I personally need a 5th bedroom, and a laundry room would be more useful to me there. But my spouse raises the very valid concern that with two kids, if we continue to keep one bedroom as an office, we really have no good guest bedrooms.
In terms of value when we go to sell (some day, not soon), what would generally be considered better - a larger kitchen with a dedicated second floor laundry room and 4 bedrooms? Or a smaller kitchen with a somewhat awkward first floor laundry hall, and 5 bedrooms?
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2024.05.14 00:46 cute_physics_guy The only good thing of X-Men 97 was it got me interested in X-Men again.

Begin rant:
I read X-Men in the 90s, I got a ton of backissues back then, and I ended up having hundreds of comics that I still have today. I got out of it a couple of times, when Age of Apocalypse came along, I thought they really cancelled all of the main series, and I was pretty upset. A few years later, I found out that was only temporary, so I started collecting again until around the time of "The New X-Men" which had poor art, bad storylines, and they killed some of my favorite characters like Colossus and Psylocke.
I was really excited for X-Men 97, until I saw the first trailer...... where it had Gambit riding Wolverine like a lawn mower and charging his claws.
That was one of the dumbest scenes I had ever seen, something that a 10 year old would come up with, and they actually animated it. In that retcon they gave Wolverine super strength so a 6'5'' man could stand on top of him and it didn't phase his running, and they gave him invincibility so his claws exploding didn't hurt him at all.
From what I can tell the whole series is like that, power retcon after power retcon, story retcon after story retcon, fanboy after fanboy going "nO thAt's bAdaSS." One of the reasons the X-Men was interesting is that they didn't just keep on giving them new powers back in the 70s-90s, sure it happened occasionally, but most of the time it was finding new ways to use their powers. Like when Colossus fought Juggernaught, Juggernaught gets him into a hold, and to escape Colossus reverts to his smaller human form to slip out and then changes again. They didn't do this stand on a running Wolverine b/s.
I had a discussion in another form of I thought of one of the stupidest things they could do and I said "next, since Cyclops can now push himself back with backblast, they will have him flying around like Banshee", and a user responded "that sounds pretty badass". I didn't even know how to respond to someone liking the stupid idea I proposed.
BACK IN MY DAY.... there would have been a bunch of letters to Marvel appearing in X-Mail saying "STOP DOING THIS STUPID STUFF", but now days there's a mindless cult following eating every stupid retcon up like it's the most brilliant thing ever.
The only good thing I can see that came from that series was it actually got me interested in X-Men again. Now with all the digital comics, I can actually go back and read stories that I couldn't buy back in the day.
End rant.
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2024.05.14 00:45 Last-Ad-6105 My 1st build

My 1st build
I’ve been lurking around for a couple of months now, mainly on pcmr, buildapc and sffpc and fell in love with the idea of cramming tight cases with whatever fits inside. I know that the da6 you either love or hate, but unlimited airflow is cool and seeing your computer’s guts has an appeal of its own. This is my first ever build and I admit the cable management is below average however in my defence the stock psu cables are quite rigid and long. Also I might have overdone it with the cooler. I will at some point upgrade to aftermarket braided cables but I’m still learning what psu goes with which cables and all and it’s a never ending rabbit hole. Maybe chip in if you’ve got this case, tell me what lengths worked for you. What you think of this mess?
CPU [AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor] CPU Cooler [Noctua NH-D15 chromax.black 82.52 CFM CPU Cooler] Motherboard [ASRock B650I Lightning Wifi Mini ITX AM5 Motherboard] Memory [Corsair Vengeance 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory] Storage [Samsung 990 Pro 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive] Video Card [Asus ProArt OC GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER 16 GB Video Card] Case [Streacom DA6 Mini ITX Test Bench Case] Power Supply [Corsair SF850L 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular SFX Power Supply] Monitor [LG 27GP850-B 27.0" 2560 x 1440 165 Hz Monitor] Keyboard [Razer Huntsman V2 RGB Wired Gaming Keyboard] Mouse [Logitech G305 LIGHTSPEED Wireless/Wired Optical Mouse]
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2024.05.14 00:44 LawnLizard_ Kilby Block Party 2024 Review

Now that the festival is over I just wanted to give a good rundown of what I saw throughout the weekend for anyone who was thinking about going this year or is considering going next year. I’ve gone to tons of festivals so I had a good idea of what to expect but there were numerous surprises.
Starting out with the positives, the lineup was incredible and there were some really fantastic performances to be seen. The food was very reasonably priced for the most part compared to most other festivals of this size and no one in my group had a bad meal. The city of salt lake is gorgeous and the mountain views are an incredible backdrop for the sets.
For the negatives, I’ll start out with the fest being significantly oversold. I believe this was the first year of the fest being a “national” fest instead of a “local” fest and I’m not sure they really planned for there to be that many people this year. There was only one tiny water station for the whole crowd to fill up at which lead to us having to buy tons of $4 waters if we weren’t close to the one station. With the fest being so overpacked, the massive VIP sections on Lake/Kilby stages really made seeing/hearing sets very difficult for almost every set. With the way the fest was laid out, you had to show up 30 mins early to most sets if you wanted to see or hear enough. The sound on the stages was rough for the most part all weekend aside from main stage being turned up halfway through the weekend. I heard a rumor that 4 different production companies did audio for the 4 stages so if that’s true it would make sense why the sound was so inconsistent and bad.
The crowd was probably the worst I’ve experienced at a festival before which is shocking to me because I didn’t think a crowd could talk through/ruin sets as much as this but it was unrelenting all weekend. With how full the crowd was, most of the weekend you had to show up 20-30 mins early to sets (which caused us to have to leave a lot of sets early) just to get a spot where your likelihood of having yappers talk through the whole set was lower and you could get a view that wasn’t completely ruined by a soundbooth/beer stand.
We had multiple pretty horrific experiences with numerous attendees at the fest but the one that stuck out the most was last night at LCD during Losing My Edge where my girlfriend waited from 11:30 all day for rail and right before the set, some kid kept pushing her and holding onto the rail behind her rubbing up against her aggressively. When the crowd started getting more intense he started to actively tried to hurt her so she’d move and he could get rail. She started crying and screaming “CAN YOU PLEASE STOP YOU’RE HURTING ME” and he told her “fuck you I’m not moving” and then kept doing it worse in spite. The rest of the set he and his other friends kept yapping about how my girlfriend is a “stupid crazy bitch” the whole rest of the show while not letting go of the barricade. I’ve been to over 650 concerts I’ve never experienced anything that horrible in a crowd, genuinely thought there was going to be a fight because of how shitty they were treating us. After a pretty rough weekend with the crowd, this incident really cemented our feelings about how the men in the area view women and how we felt about the fest in general.
I think it’s clear the fest is having growing pains as it continues to book more enticing lineups for a national audience, but it has a ton of work to do if they want to catch up to the other multigenres. The problems aren’t impossible to solve but the location is really not large enough for the fest, hopefully they can move it to a better location with all the money they made overselling the fest.
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2024.05.14 00:43 Tomhur My thoughts on Daughter of the Deep and the big hang-up I have with it. (Spoilers)

Okay, so I'm a huge fan of Rick Riordan. I love the Percy Jackson books and the expanded universe they take place in. So I decided to give his other novel Daughter of the Deep a shot.
So I read it on my own a few months ago and I'm currently revisiting it in Audiobook form.
Honestly... I kinda have mixed feelings if I'm being honest.
I can't in good conscience call it a bad book because I do think it's a good book. It's well written, has a really cool premise, really fascinating ideas and it does a good job making you emphasize with the main character Ana Dakkar.
But there's one big hang up I had that just puts a shadow over the entire book that makes it difficult for me to get past. And I really really just need to talk about it.
Okay, so spoilers past this point,
So for those who haven't read it, the premise of the novel involves the main character Ana Dakkar who's attending this school for Marine Biology called Harding-Pencroft, which has a rivalry with another school Land Institute.
To make a long story short, it turns out both schools were founded by the protagonists of the novels "The Mysterious Island" and "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" respectively which as it turns out were secretly works of nonfiction. Captain Nemo is real and Ana is his descendant. The two schools' rivalry is all about what the legacy of Captain Nemo should be. Either sharing his technological advancements with the world (Land Institute.) or keeping them hidden to make sure no one misuses them (Harding Pencroft).
That's all well and good but what bothers me and what kinda wrecks the novel for me is the inciting incident that kicks off the story.
Namely, Land Institute using a high-tech submarine destroyed Harding Pencroft potentially killing hundreds of innocent high schoolers and faculty.
I mean...what!? You're gonna open with that Rick? You're gonna open with potentially over a hundred people getting their lives snuffed out!?
It was just such a dark moment that it invoked "Too Bleak Stopped Caring" for me.
And it just continues. The novel just keeps going on about this. It keeps coming back to that point. How the characters mourn the family and friends they lost.
It also made me really hard to just...buy Land Institute doing this. Like... no one had reservations over killing one hundred people? NO ONE!? I understand LI is supposed to be like this "Hardcore military academy" but I still... I just don't buy that no one had reservations about killing a bunch of people like that.
Honestly, I was tempted to stop reading/listening in disgust when it got to a point where the characters look at a news broadcast and it showed some parents weeping.
Rick. Buddy. If you're reading this (I doubt you are) I know what you're trying to do. You're trying to make me hate LI as villains so I want to see them get taken down, but this doesn't make me hate LI, it makes me hate the story for forcing me to experience this!
They only hint that maybe some people survived towards the end but Rick really really should have implied that earlier (Or better yet just revealed most everyone got out at the end), because otherwise it just made an already pretty depressing book even more depressing than it had to be.
And there's another twist in the book that frankly makes it worse and adds to the "No one had reservations about this?" issue I stated earlier but I'm not gonna spoil it. If you've read the book you know what I'm talking about.
No joke this is probably the most depressing book I've read from Rick. Yes even more than the Burning Maze. Especially because aside from some references to Finding Nemo here and there, his trademark humor isn't really present in it. The whole thing is just soul-draining at points.
No one wonder one of his next books was Chalice of the Gods. He probably needed something easy and lighthearted after writing this.
You know though? Maybe it's just a me thing. Maybe I'm just too much of a softie for this book. Every other review I've read is just people gushing over how good it is; so there's a decent chance, that this is just a me problem.
Look if you like this book, more power to you. I totally see why. Like I said, I don't think it's bad. I think it is really good.
It's just that one part I really have a hard time getting past...
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2024.05.14 00:43 Southmane 95 gsr help plz

Just recently purchased a 95 gsr, 5 speed, 80k miles. Car has a few mods such as and obnoxiously loud exhaust but the main issue is the insanely rough idle and jerking when going into gear, goes away completely though after getting past 15-20mph. I also got code 15 for “Ignition output signal” if that is even related to the jerking. Any ideas on what the main issue may be?
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2024.05.14 00:39 Strong_Dependent5066 AITAH for saying happy birthday to my bsfs ex ?

I (F) have a best friend (F), basically wayyyy before me and my female girl best friend met I had a guy best friend.
When I met my gbsf (we’re gonna call her Lana and we’re gonna call her ex Alex) when I met Lana I was already best friends with Alex eventually Lana and Alex liked each other and ofc they told me they liked the other.
Lana told me she liked Alex and Alex told me he liked Lana so without selling the other out to them I got them together everything was perfect for 8 months until they started arguing, they would ask for my opinion and I opted to stay out of it. (Cause they’re both my bsfs tf I supposed to help you w?)
When they broke up it was so messy, tears, fighting,screaming, petty remarks , rumors, Lana threw milk on Alex at one point (just acting like children)
Anyways, recently it was Alex’s birthday I posted on my Snapchat “Happy birthday ”Alex” you’re a good friend and I’m grateful for you “ I said happy birthday because for my birthday he got me presents and said happy birthday to me I’m obviously gonna have fucking manners and be cordial?
Whatever whatever said happy birthday he said thank you, later in the day Lana swipes up Saying “crazy.” I said “I’m sorry, are you upset ?” She said “Ian even mad ts js weird you told me he was flirting with you and now you’re writing paragraphs about him?”
FIRSTLY, after they broke up he would try to flirt with me but I told him to shut it down and it makes me uncomfortable and he stopped and ofc I told her (that’s my bsf fuck?) but I’m sorry paragraphs about him? Baby I wrote 3 SENTENCE WORTH I WROTE 12 WORDS. And one of those words was tagging him.
Anyways she called me weird and said she wasn’t mad she was js finding it weird, but then Lana’s little sister texted me saying “why are you fucking writing paragraphs about him when yk how badly he hurt Lana” first of all it was 12 fucking words..I told her “it was a couple words he got me stuff and said happy birthday on my birthday all I said was happy birthday I don’t get the issue with this ?”
Lana’s little sister proceeded to ridicule me (she’s in 5th grade I’m not finna argue w a child 😂😂😂) and I js said okay, when this all started and Lana texted me she told me I sajd “I love you “ to him but I never did that was another girl so, what? Anyways our texts went like this
Me - “ Then I don’t remember saying I love you to him but on some real shit I’m sorry if I upset you n shit I would be mad too ik you deserve better n I rlly don’t wanna fight w you abt smth like this n I get where you’re coming from 100% you’re absolutely right n shi n honestly I’m sorry about making you feel like that I’m glad you told me and I’ll work to fix it At the end of the day you’re my bsf n I consider you a sister to me n you have every right to be mad I’ll give you space n shit to js think n be alone “
Lana - “okay well that’s still fucking weird”
Now here’s we’re I’m upset about, Lana is BEST FRIENDS WITH MY FUCKING EX.
My ex cheated on me, abused me, played w my feelings, barely committed to me, spread rumors about me etc. but Everytime he tries talking to her or play fighting her she play fights back or gets all giggly and laughs.
You’re mad at me for saying happy birthday but you wanna be friendly to someone who genuinely hurt me, I’m not saying he didn’t hurt her but I know everything that happened and I’m not finna put my homegirls business out there cause she still my day 1 idgaf but the beef was miscommunication over him play fighting girls.
I get you could be going through it but you not finna sit in my face and say I’m fucked up when you over here having Kumbaya moments.
Anyways sorry this js long but I genuinely love this girl I’ll take any advice or opinions you guys can give me I don’t wanna loose this girl I just can’t loose her she was with me when a loved one committed suicide she was with me when my dog died she’s been through it all with me
AITAH?
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2024.05.14 00:39 TooZeroLeft A Halo What-If I just thought about: What if Halo 4 and Infinite were one and the same story?

Another topic of mine inspired me to think this What-If. In an alternate timeline, I think this idea would be very interesting, even though I love the Didact and a lot of 343 Forerunner lore additions (+ I think the Forerunner Trilogy is very well written), I still feel stuff got too convoluted to a point where I sometimes wonder what if the games ignored all that stuff.
This is just a What-If, I don't think the Forerunner books or Halo 4's story are bad, this is just a thought I had after seeing the similarities between 4 and Infinite.
Now for the question, What If Halo 4 and Infinite were one and the same?
Chief and Cortana still fall to Requiem, but the Banished are the main threats. Now, in this What-If, imagining 343 decided to stick to the original idea of leaving Forerunners as Humans or at the very least keep the mystery, the Harbinger, Endless and Skimmers are still the new threat, and 343 would build them in the game and future stories/lore, still giving us this new threat/new species, while at the same time keeping the Forerunners and the Flood as mysterious. The Prometheans would still be kept, here as the Forerunner machines that contain the Endless in Requiem, but in this alternate scenario their design would be much more reminescent of Bungie's Forerunner sleek design (looking similarly to the concept art of the Prometheans in the fan project SPV3.3).
Now the story could pretty much play almost the same to Halo 4, but with Infinite additions, such as Chief and Cortana (instead of the Weapon) being against the Banished, the Endless, the Skimmers and the Prometheans, helping the UNSC forces, crew of the Infinity and SPARTAN-IVs taken by the Banished. We still keep the core human characters such as Del Rio, Esparza, Lasky, Palmer, whereas Escharum would still lead the Banished forces on Requiem, with Atriox as the ominous leader in the shadows we see via videos and lore. We still keep the storyline simple by removing the Forerunner lore but still make the future interesting with the Harbinger and Endless (though we could remove them as being "worse than the Flood", but their immunity against the Array is interesting and could be kept). The emotional core of the story would still be the same with Cortana dying, Chief having to come at terms with his humanity, and his more close connection with Esparza through the history and then Lasky at the end could play very well.
Spartan Ops would then also naturally also work with a more open sandbox environment like Infinite, but in this What If, the environments wouldn't be exclusively Infinite-like since Requiem is a much more diverse biome.
I'm not a good writer at all and I could combine/put these ideas much better together, but these are just quick thoughts about an alternate story where these two games would be one and the same.
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2024.05.14 00:34 ActuarialActuary Is it common practice to start the next FAP module while the last one is still being graded?

I want to fly through the FAP modules, but I don't know if it's a good idea to start a new EOM assessment while the first one is undergoing grading. I figure it could be a huge time sink to wait weeks / months for the EOM assessment to get graded before moving on to the next. However, I don't want to waste my company's money by having to redo EOM assessments because I didn't know what the graders were expecting.
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2024.05.14 00:34 Switcheroo1474 Touhou Cast Discussion: Perfect Cherry Blossom Cast (+IaMP)

Touhou Cast Discussion: Perfect Cherry Blossom Cast (+IaMP)
Perfect Cherry Blossom. This game is where Touhou starts feeling like, well, Touhou. While EoSD introduced the new setting of Gensokyo to the Touhou series, PCB is where the series starts defining it's world and it's lore. Having said that, how do the characters in this game stack up? Well that's what we're going to discuss today.
Just a quick note. We'll also include Suika in this discussion. Even though Immaterial and Missing Power canonically takes place after Imperishable Night, the former is labeled as the 7.5th game in the series, as in, it's supposed to be a follow up to PCB. So I think it's fair game.
So without further ado...
Perfect Cherry Blossom Cast (from left to right): Lunasa Prismriver, Merlin Prismriver, Lyrica Prismriver, Yuyuko Saigyouji, Youmu Konpaku, Lily White, Suika Ibuki, Chen, Yukari Yakumo, Ran Yakumo, Letty Whiterock, Alice Margatroid (Art by Dairi)
Letty Whiterock (What Winter Left Behind)
A Yuki-onna who serves as this game's first boss. Letty is only seen during the winter; as spring arrives, Letty goes into hibernation. She's very cold towards humans, and is known to freeze any she comes across.
My Thoughts: There isn't really much for me to say about my feelings towards Letty. She's a Yuki-onna who hangs out during the winter, and leaves during the following seasons. She's commonly depicted to be a guardian towards Cirno, despite canonically not liking being grouped with the ice fairy. Of course, I like to imagine that Letty is fine with Cirno and fine with being with her; It's just that she doesn't like being compared to Cirno, considering how weak fairies usually are in Touhou. Other than that, there's not much for me to say about Letty. You'll only get the chance to run into her at the beginning and end of each year, and that's about it.
Fun Fact: Letty's name is actually a reference to Lettie Blacklock, a character from one of Agatha Christie's book: A Murder is Announced.
Chen (Black Cat of Bad Omens)
Chen is a nekomata youkai and the shikigami of Ran Yakumo. As Ran is also Yukari's shikigami, that means Chen is also subservient to Yukari as well. Chen is also very close friends with Rin Kaenbyou. The two are known to play often, and Chen even picked up the habit to offering corpses to Ran from Orin, much to the former's chagrin
My Thoughts: I don't take as much of an interest in her as I do Ran or Yukari, but I still think Chen is an alright character. Thinking about it, I think Chen's song has the shortest loop of any stage boss theme in the series. It probably doesn't even take a minute to loop... Of course, having said that, while I am fine with Chen, I want to say that I really can't stand that one Chen joke. Y'know the one. The one where someone (usually Ran) yells Chen's name often accompanied by a nosebleed. It just get's very irritating, y'know? But putting that aside, like I said, Chen is an alright character to me.
Alice Margatroid (Seven-Colored Puppeteer)
A doll-controlling-magician who lives in the Forest of Magic. While aloof and self-confident, she's not above showing kindness towards others, as she's willing to let lost humans lodge at home for the night, and is willing (albeit reluctant) to help her neighbor and rival, Marisa Kirisame.
My Thoughts: You might have noticed that I've been holding off on talking about her and Yuuka in the PC-98 discusion post. That's because I wanted to save them for each of their respective Windows debuts. Having said that, here's my view on Alice.
As you may know, I'm not too crazy about Marisa or Patchouli. But out of the witch trio, I'd say I like Alice the most. Mostly for her personality. She's aloof, self-confident, and not afraid to speak her mind or battle someone if the challenge presents itself. But she's also timid, choosing to hold back out fear of what could happen if she were to lose while going all out. Above all, she's kind, and not afraid to helps others, especially if they're human. Don't get me wrong, she's no saint, but still, she's probably one of the kindest people you'll run into Gensokyo. Like with her fellow stage 3 boss, Meiling, it's honestly a crying shame that people misinterpret her in fan works, by either making her a Tsundere or even a Yandere for Marisa when Alice is so much more complex than that. Plus, some of Alice's more unpleasant traits usually surface when she's interacting with Marisa anyway. I'm not saying that they don't have some level of respect for each other. Canon has shown plenty of instances where they do. But still, you can't deny that Marisa usually brings out the worst in Alice.
Lily White (Fairy Herald of Spring)
The Mid Boss of Stage 4. Lily White is a fairy who heralds the coming of Spring. She's know to spray danmaku as she announces Spring's arrival, but it's more out of excitement than aggression. Lily is one of the friendliest characters in the Touhou series as well as one of the youkai who is the least hostile towards humans.
My Thoughts: I got nothing. Her sole purpose is announcing the arrival of the vernal equinox and that's it. Also, Spring is somehow the best and worst season at the same time. The scenery in Springtime is absolutely gorgeous, especially in certain regions of the world. Plus the temperature in Spring usually just right. Not too hot like in the Summer, and not too cold like in the Winter. Now why is it also the worst? One word. Allergies. Having to deal with pollen in the air is the WORST. But now I'm just rambling on about Spring instead of Lily.
Bottom of the line? Lily's not so noteworthy in my opinion. Also Lily Black is literally just Lily White but she's cosplaying as the Yama. Sooooo, yeah. Next.
The Prismriver Sisters (Three Poltergeist Sisters)
This trio of poltergeist sisters are skilled musicians who are popular among youkai. These poltergeist were created by Layla Prismriver, who based them off her late older sisters after their father, Count Prismriver, died in an accident. Even after the 4 sisters died, the poltergeists take refuge in their ancestral home to this day as they continue to hone their music skills.
The sister in black is Lunasa. She's the oldest of the sisters and plays the violin. She's very calm and reserved, but also quite melancholic and pessimistic, due to her honest personality being taken advantage of in the past. The sister in white is Merlin. She's the middle sister and plays the trumpet. Merlin is very upbeat; she's never seen depressed. However, she does have a habit of becoming obsessed with anything she's interested in, to the point where it becomes a mania for her. The sister in red is Lyrica. She's the youngest of the sisters and plays the keyboard. Lyrica is very clever, but also very lazy. She prefers to try and get her to fight for her while she sits on the sidelines and snarks.
My Thoughts: As a whole, I kinda like the idea of the Prismrivers. Three siblings who perform music together. Plus, personality-wise, they're pretty distinct from each other. I have heard some theories that in-universe, they're responsible for most of the songs you hear in Touhou Project. It's honestly quite an interesting explanation. The three are pretty close in my opinion, but if you were to ask how I'd rank them... I think I would say Lunasa, Lyrica, and finally Merlin. They're still all pretty good, even if none of them are one of my all time favorites of this game.
Youmu Konpaku (Half-Human Half-Phantom Gardener)
Youmu lives at Hakugyokurou, the shrine that oversees the Netherworld, and serves as Yuyuko's right-hand-woman, being a gardener, and swordplay instructor. Her two blades, Roukanken and Hakuroken, are said to be able to cut through almost anything as well as confusion, respectively. Youmu is straightforward, diligent, and loyal to her mistress, but said straightforwardness makes her easy to be manipulated by those around her, especially Yuyuko.
My Thoughts: For a while, Youmu was my favorite character from PCB. If you don't count Reisen, then she's certainly my favorite out of the main human protagonists. And I still do like Youmu a lot! She's cute, she's cool, and she's also a bit of a dork who ironically is afraid of ghosts. The whole "cool" factor for Youmu might be played up a bit in fanon, but I personally don't find it a big deal. Plus it's usually not at the expense of any other particular characters in the series (*cough cough* Sakuya). Also, there is this one Touhou fan game (Koumajou Densetsu II: Stranger's Requiem) where she's voiced by Ryō Hirohashi, who, as you may know, is the current Japanese voice actress for Sonic the Hedgehog's Miles "Tails" Prower. What does this sorta minor fact about one fangame have to do with me liking Youmu? I don't know, but being a Sonic fan who also likes the fluffy little two-tailed furball, that fact just kind of appeals to me.
Bottom-Line? I like Youmu. She's one of my favorite characters in the series, and for a while, I actually preferred her over her mistress, Yuyuko.
Yuyuko Saigyouji (Ghost Girl in the Netherworld Tower)
Yuyuko is the Ghost Princess of the Netherworld and an old friend of Yukari Yakumo. During her lifetime, Yuyuko possessed the power to control the spirits of the dead, however it eventually grew into the power to kill others with just a thought. Yuyuko was so terrified by this that she committed suicide. Despite her tragic past, Yuyuko is very cheerful, playful, and friendly, for a ghost. She's also a notorious glutton, and likes messing with her servant, Youmu. Though it's clearly all just in good fun. Despite her gluttonous and seemingly airheaded nature, however, Yuyuko is also capable of being extremely knowledgable and cunning. Possibly even more so than Yukari herself...
My Thoughts: As I said, for a while, I did prefer Youmu over Yuyuko. But after a while, I think I actually prefer Yuyuko over Youmu now. They're both in my Top 10, don't get wrong. It's just that I think Yuyuko actually has more going for her in my opinion. Let me put it in this way.
Yuyuko is the Epitome of Beauty. She has a beautiful design, a beautiful personality, beautifully graceful fighting style (see fighting game sprites), her song, Border of Life, is beautiful, and Yuyuko has one of the most beautifully tragic backstories in the series.
I didn't really think too much of her before, but after thinking about it some more, I feel like Yuyuko could actually be one of my favorites in the series. Right up their with the likes of Meiling, Utsuho, and Reisen (more on the latter two later). It's just a shame that like with many of the characters in the series, Yuyuko suffers with the problem of flanderization. In her case it's focusing on her gluttonous trait. It can be funny at times, but still, there's more to Yuyuko than just eating anything and everything.
Ran Yakumo (Shikigami of the Gap Youkai)
Master of Chen and the Shikigami and Righthand Woman of Yukari Yakumo. Ran is a former resident of the Animal Realm and an associate of the notorious Yuuma Toutetsu before the latter become the leader of the Gouyoku Alliance. However, Ran started to become disgusted with the realm's beastly ideology and left for Gensokyo. Eventually Yukari found her, and the gap youkai made Ran her shikigami. Being a kitsune (or a shikigami possessing the body of a kitsune) that possesses a full set of nine tails, Ran is a very wise, old, and powerful youkai. She's powerful enough to have a shikigami of her own, Chen.
My Thoughts: I didn't think too much about Ran before. I liked her design, but that was mostly due to me liking the aforementioned Tails from the Sonic Series who, as you may or may not know, is actually based off of the legendary kitsune. (I still like to joke about Ran being Tails' long lost ancestomother. Lol.) However, some time after UDoALG came out and expanded on her backstory, I think I've grown to like Ran much more. I think her history is Yuuma is interesting because of the possible scenarios you can make with them. What kind of scenarios? One word. ANGST. That might be a bit of an exaggeration, and I am sure that the two are still pretty close friends (at least I've read that Yuuma still treats her as such), but still whether you view them as former friends or even exes, the fact that they've gone in drastically different directions in life coupled with the fact that Yuuma is unrepentantly evil and (along with her rivals, Yachie and Saki) intends to conquer Gensokyo for herself which Yukari and Ran would not approve of, I can imagine it could cause a rift in the two's friendship. I just think it's interesting to explore the concept of how their circumstances could impact their relationship.
As for Ran's theme, Necrofantasy. It pretty good, even if I prefer the theme most associate her with Charming Domination ~ Who Done It? (I personally associate with the Yakumo family as a whole), as well as Yukari's theme Necrofantasia (which is a remix of Necrofantasy). In the former's case, It has this sort of climatic feel to it; As if you're in the final stretch before facing off against Yukari, with just both of her shikigami's (or at least Ran) standing in your way. It's one of if not one of my favorite stage themes in all of Touhou, especially the PCB Version.
Overall, Ran might be one my favorite characters from PCB, besides Yuyuko and Youmu.
Yukari Yakumo (Youkai of Boundaries)
A legendary youkai sage who serves as Ran and Chen's master and is able to manipulate boundaries. Her gaps allow her to travel almost anywhere, including the Outside World! Yukari is rather whimsical and lazy; She spends most of her time asleep, and in her waking hours, she likes to mess around with those around her. Despite this, Yukari is an extremely powerful youkai and is also very cunning. Because of how well informed she is, Yukari is a master planner, and is able to manipulate events and the people around her to get what she wants. Because of her unpredictable personality, many humans and youkai alike tend to avoid Yukari. Nobody knows what she will do next...
My Thoughts: Yukari. Yukari, Yukari, Yukari... My feelings toward Yukari are... mixed to say the least. What do I mean by that? She somehow manages to be incredible (in terms of power), attractive, annoying, insufferable, and scary all at the same time. I'm not going to bother explaining that second thing, so let's talk everything else.
I say she's incredible because she just goes to how powerful Touhou characters can get. Yukari isn't the MOST POWERFUL character ever to exist in fiction, or even the most powerful Touhou character, but she still comes very close to it. She's able to manipulate boundaries and borders. Do you know what that means? In a nutshell, it basically mean she can practically do whatever to heck she feels like. She's more or less a reality-warper. In a series where two vampire kids can manipulate fate and destroy absolutely anything, respectively, a ghost princess who can control death itself, a fairy tale princess who can manipulate eternity and the instantaneous, and a pet hell raven who make miniature stars, Yukari's ability is still pretty terrifying. I'm not saying all of Touhou's characters are nigh-unstoppable gods who can destroy anyone in a fight to the death, but still, and I say this as someone who watches Death Battle and has seen what kind of crazy stuff that characters it's featured can do, Yukari is the epitome of a cast whose more powerful characters are even capable of destroying most of Marvel, Dragon Ball, and even DC Comics casts, when they're at their fullest potential. Now how they'd fare against toons is another story entirely, but my point still stands.
Why do I say Yukari is annoying and insufferable? Well, let's just say she's not exactly the best person to be around... She's lazy, she's a prankster, and when she isn't one of those two things, she most likely has an ulterior motive in mind for taking an interest in you; like you being a part of her plan or something. She's unpredictable, but I'd say that's the whole point of her character. She can easily alternate being the ultimate good in a situation and the ultimate evil in another. Of course, I will give her credit. Everything she does is for the good of Gensokyo and for maintaining it's balance. So... yeah. As reiterate my ultimate good and evil point, she's not this justice-upholding hero, but she's not some cold and heartless villain either. She's could afford to treat Ran better though... And to stop being so sensitive about her age, at least in fanon.
Above all though, when you think about it Yukari is actually pretty... terrifying. As I said, she's one of the most powerful characters in Touhou, and maybe even all of fiction. And even if she isn't the latter, she's smart and cunning enough to outwit beings who are stronger than her... she's also aware of everything that goes on in Gensokyo, and while I imagine it's not easy to do because of how carefree she usually is, crossing her is basically a death sentence, so you have to watch yourself if you happen to cross paths with her even if she starts to get on your nerves. As if that wasn't scary enough, thanks to her gaps, Yukari can go almost anywhere, including the Outside World. Of course, she's just a fictional character, so there's no way she could actually show up in the real world, but still, the idea that Yukari could very well show up where you live at literally anytime, is terrifying. Especially if you take one of ZUN's comments about her separating Gensokyo from the real world at face value.
So what does all of THIS say about how I feel about Yukari? She's kinda weird. Her boss theme is pretty cool though.
Suika Ibuki (Tiny Night Parade a Hundred Demons)
Another old friend of Yukari's who has the ability to manipulate density. Suika is your typical oni. She has a love for drinking, partying, and fighting. She also possess the strength of an oni, being able to single handedly throw large boulders, and hates cowardice and dishonesty, even though she's slightly less honest than most oni. Suika herself is a happy-go-lucky fellow and can act as childish as she looks at times. However she's also very observant and can be rather critical of others at times.
My Thoughts: I'll make this shorter. Between her, Yuugi, and Kasen, I say I prefer Suika the least. She's not a character I dislike, she's just not one I hold much interest in. I do like her theme from SWR, Broken Moon though. It's pretty groovy.
Overall: I think PCB's cast is a step up from EoSD's. I don't really care too much for Letty or Lily, and Chen and IaMP debut, Suika, are just alright to me, but everyone else is a pretty interesting in their own right. Alice, The Prismrivers, Youmu, Yuyuko, Ran, and yes, even Yukari, have at least something about them that makes them pretty interesting to me, even if they're not a favorite of mine. I think overall, the PCB cast has this "je ne sais quoi" about them that I find very interesting. This game is where setting-wise, Touhou starts becoming more like "Touhou" as we know it, and I think these characters (at least most of them) really drive home that point.
  1. Yuyuko Saigyouji
  2. Ran Yakumo
  3. Youmu Konpaku
  4. Yukari Yakumo
  5. Prismriver Sisters
  6. Chen
  7. Suika Ibuki
  8. Letty Whiterock
  9. Lily White
So those are my thoughts on the Perfect Cherry Blossom cast. Let me know what your thoughts are.
Up next will be the cast for Imperishable Night.
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2024.05.14 00:32 Skelibutt With what I intend to do with my life once I'm 18, would I eventually be fucked?

For context, im almost done with my first year of College (I'm UK) and only have one more left. After that year, I plan to get a Warehouse job as I don't know what else to really do and it sounds like a job that I'd be able to manage fairly well, even if the pay isnt too great.
From what my Mother has told me, because of the grades/qualifications I have from passing my GSCEs (mainly grade 4s and 5s, so I assume that would equate to B and/or Cs), I could potentially work my way up in that department to get a higher pay without doing as much..? I can't remember too well, but she definitely said something like that.
I'm not genuinely concerned about my own future with asking if this would fuck me over in the long run due to the economy and shit, all it is would be the curiosity I have for if its a safe option. I don't plan on moving out of my parents' house until I'm certain I've earned enough to have my own house, but even then, that would probably be the main goal. I don't see myself being intent for anything else that would seem important for life like that.
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2024.05.14 00:32 GrumpyGrampa7 3 days old account calls me a smurf! Let's talk about smurfs

I feel the majority of players have alt accounts. Or at least, the totality of streamers/pro gamers/YouTubers do. I like playing at my best, but I also like jumping on a team game with friends, trying absurd strategies, weird stuff, and even nonsense, especially with a few beers in my body. I clearly lose many more games than in my main account, and my elo is naturally lower.
Follow me for one second, I'm about to come to the point.
I've encountered countless smurfs who resign 80% of their games, then play absolutely serious all-ins in feudal. 2 great examples are these 2 accounts called Ghoti and Voyager3
https://aoe4world.com/players/1419817-Ghoti
https://aoe4world.com/players/474877-Voyager3
These 2 are literal psychopaths, you might've encountered them as well cause they're constantly online, any time of the day. They resign 80% of their games, but I'm unfortunately bad enough so they always decide to play me and my friend. It doesn't matter what strategy we do, even if we know exactly what they're going to all-in us in feudal with English longbows and JD, we lose every game with them. They're simply stronger, my guess is easily Conqueror 1/2+. I have no idea how you could have playing like this, but not all of us play for the fun.
Yesterday I was playing with this stupid strategy: winning by fighting only with villagers and monks curing them. Opponents get extra mad for whatever reason, calling us smurfs. So I checked both of their accounts: one is literally 3 days old, and the other one had 1 game 8 days ago, and all the others also within 3 days.
https://aoe4world.com/players/19695669-Baby-Nut
https://aoe4world.com/players/19696817-dlulu
Regardless of what you might think, this is clearly absurd: a clear smurf mad at me for being a smurf, while I'm here, playing completely dumb stuff and usually just lose.
I personally find sad people using smurf accounts to stomp on noobs playing serious builds just for easy wins, so I don't like when people accuse me of doing so while making only villagers and monks, quite drunk.
Let me know what you think, and if you disagree please give an argument!
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2024.05.14 00:31 Allovertheplace11 Not only did my Family refuse to help me when I needed them, they also tried to get my mom to cut me off. But she threw down an uno reversed instead!

I wrote this party as a form of therapy and partly to have it read on okop. Love you guys!!!! You are all awesome! Especially Sofia! She made the podcast whole!!!
About 2 years ago I couldn’t find a place to live and ran out of money paying to live in air bnbs after moving back to the East cost. I was taken advantage by my cousins, I paid the equivalent of $1800 in work a month for a tiny room to live in while also expected to cook and clean 2 hours a day but I refused to do that part.
I had managed to get out of that situation and get my own 1 bedroom apartment and it cost only $1350 a month. A year later I needed help again. My mom who lives 3000 miles away asked my aunt to help me out. My mom had taken off work to help care for my grandpa so she was strapped for cash. My mom told me that my aunt had her old home still with a friend living there and that she would let me live there. But when I talked to her I was told that “you burnt every bridge when you claimed squatters rights and trashed their home.” I was appalled! And heart broken that people were just believing these lies. I had no idea anyone was even taking about me. I was taken advantage of? That’s how I burnt every bridge?????? So I posted this on Facebook
My cousin and her husband took advantage of me when I needed help. They OFFERED. They were my family. I worked my ass off to be treated like a servant (someone has a birthday in the home? I got him a present then They went out to eat without inviting me because I wasn’t considered family to them) I didn’t say anything. I just did what I was told until it became too much. It’s so sad that his fragile ego couldn’t take my criticism when he ADMITTED without me asking that he was testing me. Apparently a test from a book on war. The test is to see how much someone will sacrifice themselves for you with nothing in return. So I was treated like something to sacrifice not like family. And because I refused to sacrifice everything of myself and when I found out I condemned him for his actions He Literally tried to throw me out on the street. I Worked over 30 hours a week for him for a tiny room, while putting 3,000 miles on my car a month. While paying for my own food. I tried so hard because I thought his intentions were pure. In the end I didn’t complain to anyone about this but my mom and sister. Because I’m not that type of person. It was over. I didn’t want to ever think about it again. But recently I was told that I burned every bridge when I claimed squatters rights. Which didn’t happen. I claimed living rights. I didn’t want to be there but I HAD NO WHERE ELSE TO GO and I was working 30 hours a week for him! I was there for 1 day when I wasn’t working for him before I left. 1 DAY! So I was completely taken advantage and this is how I burned every bridge?? The only thing I did wrong was trusting them. I thought they loved me, I helped raise their children and loved them like my own. He WAS MY ONLY FATHER FIGURE GROWING UP. He knew how I felt about him and he completely took advantage of that. So I’m putting my side out there. Because I didn’t even know that any of them were talking shit to people.
Also important note my mom let her and her husband and 3 young kids live in our house for FREE FOR 4 YESRS!!! 20 years ago.
My mom was able to get my asshole father to pay for a down payment on a car for me to live in by taking the cash without permission lol and telling him the money was for her.
I do instacart for work so I really needed that car. I was going to just try to save enough for a room to rent but decided I was done working paycheck to paycheck. I currently am living in my car while saving every cent I would have spent on rent and utilities.
My mom called me yesterday 2 months after the post on Facebook to tell me how upset she was. She told me that after the Facebook post the whole family started talking about me and how I should be able to take care of myself by now. Even though they have no idea what I’ve been through.
(Necessary context) For years my chronic illness, EDS short for Elhers Danlos syndrome, was really bad. At one point I was completely Bed ridden. My boyfriend of 6 years was amazing and became my full time caregiver while working part time to pay for my pain medication. This went on for about a year. I then found a new doctor that put me on a new medication that changed my life. I was able to brush my hair again! I was able to walk again! I was able to work again! Before this new doctor I was looking into getting a wheel chair and filing for disability! Everything was perfect for a few months. Then my bf developed schizophrenia. We were living with my mom for all of this. With in a few months I went from being taken care of by my bf to being his full time caregiver. It took him about 1.5 years to stabilize. Though all this we were working doordash and instacart because neither of us could keep a full time job. When we moved out of my moms place back to the East cost we thought we could just keep working gig jobs but after the pandemic people wanted to go out to eat and shop for themselves. We tried to get real jobs but with out any recent regular work history or references it was really hard. On top of that any job I could get was either part time or lied to me about being full time!! That is the gist of our problems with paying for a place to live.
So back to the main story. My mom told me that her 6 siblings were contacting her one by one to tell her to cut me off. (She had been helping me financially as much as she could for years now) There was a reason my mom lives 3000 miles away and it was to get away from these assholes. The only reason she had contact with them was to coordinate care for my grandfather. Until recently I thought at least some of them were good people. They told her that I was almost 30 years and should be able to care for myself. I had never received help from any of these people! And only ever asked for help from one of them once! I didn’t understand why any of them even cared. Did I make them feel some type of way with my post that talked shit about none of them? (Unless calling out someone for talking shit is talking shit) it’s not like she had been giving me money instead of any of them. The 2nd Best part of the story is the hypocrisy. 3 my cousins, all from different parents, still live with their parents! And they’re all older then me! But no one has a problem with that? My mom asked her brother why it was ok that his daughter was still living with him? My uncle said it was because she has 3 children. My mom then asked him why she should abandon me for not having children I couldn’t afford? Great burn mom! Now this is the best part!! After telling me all of this she says that she wants to pay off my car for me. I was going to wind up paying 20 grand for a 10 grand car because of my lack of credit. So I guess thank you to everyone that told her to cut me off! Because it has only seem to inspire her to help me more!!!
Ps: my mom is writing a book that already has 3 publishers trying to sign her! Exposing all the reasons she moved across the county to get away from all of them. Go her!!!
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2024.05.14 00:31 Expert_Scar_4129 possibly a success but still scared ? will update

hi guys, i (16F) have been a emetophobe since 5th grade. today i went to my last class of the day and my teacher told us how he had food poisoning all last night and didn’t feel great today. obviously food poisoning is not contagious, but it still made me feel nervous. anyways i got home and made frozen edamame with ponzu sauce which i have all the time (safe food) but i couldn’t help but notice on like 5 beans as i ate that there were some pale brown or darker brown spots. i wasn’t sure if it was the sauce or not but i immediately got nervous and nauseated. i pulled myself together after 10 minutes and managed to eat 3/4 of it. i’m really proud of myself for that, but at the same time maybe i was right??? either way i’m proud that i was brave enough to do that even though it kinda sounds like a dumb win. i’ll update in 6 hours from when i started eating which would be midnight EST to see if i got anything any words would still be appreciated (crossposting)
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