This is a network of community servers called Focal Choice. We host various modded servers with a combined cross-servers chat.
We have 3 expert style packs: TerraFirmaGreg, Divine Journey 2, and Stacia 2: Expert.
And we have 1 Create train-oriented world running in the Life in the Village 3 modpack. However, Life in the Village 3 has proven to not hold any interest, so we will be migrating this world to a new modpack soon.
We have various events in the works. Fun minigame-type-things.
Below you will find all the information you need to know about our servers. To join simply comment here, or DM me, or DM me on discord. My discord name is inferius.
PS: This network is community driven. Administration handles the backend, while players like you "host" the servers. We have limited server slots. So btw, if you are looking for a community and you have previous hosting experience, ask for details!

-----TerraFirmaGreg-----

• Difficulty: Normal
• PackVersion: 0.7.8
• Teleport commands: None. The pack doesnt include them.

This server just opened a couple days ago. It is a realistic and challenging modpack. You can play on your own, or more ideally join the main group team. We appear to be the only English host for this pack!

-----Stacia 2: Expert-----

• Difficulty: Normal
• PackVersion: Beta 0.9.10 Hotfix
• Teleport commands: /home & /spawn have a 6 hour cooldown. No /back. No /tpa. No /rtp.
• Waystones and Sharestones do not generate and are not craftable.

This is a new expert pack! It receives updates frequently, and therefore we will update frequently too.
In place of /tpa, everyone will be offered a free Sharestone, color-coded to Spawn. It will be placed by an Admin. You will be able to use this to meet people and visit their bases. (You do not have to accept the Sharestone.)

-----Life in the Village 3 (Subject to change)-----

• Difficulty: Hard
• PackVersion: 2.8
• No Traverse worldgen. Terralith worldgen is used here.
• Teleport commands: /home & /spawn have a 30 mins cooldown. No /back. No /tpa. No /rtp.
• Waystones are not sold by Quest menu / NPCs. They spawn naturally and cannot be broken.

This server is being reworked. We are figuring out what modpack to migrate the world to. The world has a lot of player-built train infrastructure in it from Create, and we want to expand on that some more with whatever pack it changes to.
You are welcome to play in the mean time!

-----Divine Journey 2-----

• Difficulty: Normal
• PackVersion: 2.21.0
• Explosions in claims are ENABLED, ignoring player settings.
• Teleport commands: /home & /spawn have a 6 hour cooldown. /rtp has a 10 min cooldown. No /back. No /tpa. Teammates joining together will have temporary access to /tpa while you find a home.

If you are looking for a place to play DJ2, I'd recommend here. You could try a fresh server since there might be more players there, but based on my experience the retention rate for DJ2 is very low. It's a hard pack and people get bored.
I suggest playing here because this world has history and bases you can visit to see how people do things.
In place of TP commands, you may choose to opt-in to the complementary hub-connected portal system. You may choose to allow an admin to place a Mekanism portal near your base (a few chunks away). It will lead to spawn, where there is a collection of portals that connect to others' bases.
Pic of Hub: https://imgur.com/OPlrdCx

-----General Info-----

• Server Location: US East
• Server Hardware: i7-10700k. 100+GB RAM. Backup generator. Fiber networking.
• Player Timezones: US ET(-5:00), US MT(-7:00), US West(-8:00), UTC+1.
• View Distance: 15 (changes depending on lag)
• PVP: On
• World Resets: Will never happen
• Chunk claiming: Very generous claim/forceload allocations compared to other servers.

-----Griefing / age-range / maturity level:

You are expected to know the difference between light-hearted immature play/joking versus having a consistently immature personality.
Server rules: All rules are in the discord. You'll read them before joining.
To join, simply comment here, or DM me, or DM me on discord. My discord name is watermelwin. You can also message inferius or roses01 on discord.

This is a network of community servers called Focal Choice. We host various modded servers with a combined cross-servers chat.
We have 3 expert style packs: TerraFirmaGreg, Divine Journey 2, and Stacia 2: Expert.
And we have 1 Create train-oriented world running in the Life in the Village 3 modpack. However, Life in the Village 3 has proven to not hold any interest, so we will be migrating this world to a new modpack soon.
We have various events in the works. Fun minigame-type-things.
Below you will find all the information you need to know about our servers. To join simply comment here, or DM me, or DM me on discord. My discord name is inferius.
PS: This network is community driven. Administration handles the backend, while players like you "host" the servers. We have limited server slots. So btw, if you are looking for a community and you have previous hosting experience, ask for details!

-----TerraFirmaGreg-----

• Difficulty: Normal
• PackVersion: 0.7.8
• Teleport commands: None. The pack doesnt include them.

This server just opened a couple days ago. It is a realistic and challenging modpack. You can play on your own, or more ideally join the main group team. We appear to be the only English host for this pack!

-----Stacia 2: Expert-----

• Difficulty: Normal
• PackVersion: Beta 0.9.10 Hotfix
• Teleport commands: /home & /spawn have a 6 hour cooldown. No /back. No /tpa. No /rtp.
• Waystones and Sharestones do not generate and are not craftable.

This is a new expert pack! It receives updates frequently, and therefore we will update frequently too.
In place of /tpa, everyone will be offered a free Sharestone, color-coded to Spawn. It will be placed by an Admin. You will be able to use this to meet people and visit their bases. (You do not have to accept the Sharestone.)

-----Life in the Village 3 (Subject to change)-----

• Difficulty: Hard
• PackVersion: 2.8
• No Traverse worldgen. Terralith worldgen is used here.
• Teleport commands: /home & /spawn have a 30 mins cooldown. No /back. No /tpa. No /rtp.
• Waystones are not sold by Quest menu / NPCs. They spawn naturally and cannot be broken.

This server is being reworked. We are figuring out what modpack to migrate the world to. The world has a lot of player-built train infrastructure in it from Create, and we want to expand on that some more with whatever pack it changes to.
You are welcome to play in the mean time!

-----Divine Journey 2-----

• Difficulty: Normal
• PackVersion: 2.21.0
• Explosions in claims are ENABLED, ignoring player settings.
• Teleport commands: /home & /spawn have a 6 hour cooldown. /rtp has a 10 min cooldown. No /back. No /tpa. Teammates joining together will have temporary access to /tpa while you find a home.

If you are looking for a place to play DJ2, I'd recommend here. You could try a fresh server since there might be more players there, but based on my experience the retention rate for DJ2 is very low. It's a hard pack and people get bored.
I suggest playing here because this world has history and bases you can visit to see how people do things.
In place of TP commands, you may choose to opt-in to the complementary hub-connected portal system. You may choose to allow an admin to place a Mekanism portal near your base (a few chunks away). It will lead to spawn, where there is a collection of portals that connect to others' bases.
Pic of Hub: https://imgur.com/OPlrdCx

-----General Info-----

• Server Location: US East
• Server Hardware: i7-10700k. 100+GB RAM. Backup generator. Fiber networking.
• Player Timezones: US ET(-5:00), US MT(-7:00), US West(-8:00), UTC+1.
• View Distance: 15 (changes depending on lag)
• PVP: On
• World Resets: Will never happen
• Chunk claiming: Very generous claim/forceload allocations compared to other servers.

-----Griefing / age-range / maturity level:

You are expected to know the difference between light-hearted immature play/joking versus having a consistently immature personality.
Server rules: All rules are in the discord. You'll read them before joining.
To join, simply comment here, or DM me, or DM me on discord. My discord name is watermelwin. You can also message inferius or roses01 on discord.

Hello. I'm looking for people to connect with and maybe play games with too. I am looking for wholesome conversation. I'm not the best at talking to people and can be quirky, soo it would be great if you were similar haha. I have no energy for toxicity or people who judge others a lot. Please be progressive and lgbt+ because we probably won't get along if you aren't :). I'm looking for friends only. I play a lot of overwatch and dead by daylight in my free time these days. I'm from America, and am going to school right now so I would prefer if you were available in the afternoons. That's all please do reach out if you think we might get along!

Use this thread for networking, collaboration, job posts, asking for a job, and getting feedback on your resume and work. Please keep all conversations professional.
This thread will be posted daily. And yes, feel free to promote yourself here every day.
Note: You can also try posting in onlineservicesph. it's a slowly growing sub for pinoys to promote their online-only services and find remote work opportunities.

hello! i literally just purchased a gamecube online and am looking forward to its delivery. i'm wanting to buy the japanese version of animal crossing, either どうぶつの森＋ or e+, but as i was about to buy the game the seller mentioned i would have to make sure my console is "region free". im total noob when it comes to any sort of modding, but what should i do to make sure I can play a japanese game on my new gamecube? sorry if this is a dumb question!!

Hello. I'm looking for people to connect with and maybe play games with too. I am looking for wholesome conversation. I'm not the best at talking to people and can be quirky, soo it would be great if you were similar haha. I have no energy for toxicity or people who judge others a lot. Please be progressive and lgbt+ because we probably won't get along if you aren't :). I'm looking for friends only. I play a lot of overwatch and dead by daylight in my free time these days. I'm from America, and am going to school right now so I would prefer if you were available in the afternoons. That's all please do reach out if you think we might get along!

This was about the 2021 Free-Response Questions Handwriting prompt. Just looking for # values of my thesis, evidence, and sophistication.
Although some argue that handwriting instruction is beneficial in helping students develop certain skills, to a greater extent, handwriting instruction is not needed in today’s schools because the aforementioned skills aren’t directly proportional to handwriting and the world is evolving into a society that lacks the need for such writing skills.
Handwriting instruction has no place in this globally changing society that is geared more and more towards technology. Technology has no doubt pervaded into our school systems on a global level. Kids in elementary schools are receiving chromebooks, ipads, and even laptops. This is even the case for my own situation, in which I was given a chromebook for assignments in fifth grade. However, schools have continued to implement handwriting practice into daily routines, and for what reason? The opinions are starting to sway against teaching handwriting skills, however. Teachers themselves are stating that they believe we need to do away with the practice and “move on”(Source A). It is not only an individual basis level, however, as even forty one states have implemented courses that omit cursive from their curriculum as a whole(Source A). The fact that not only individuals are rebelling against this “archaic [...] communication” but also a majority of states on a national level are doing so highlights how change is what the nation wants. Specifically, technology is making the teachings of handwriting obsolete. The keyboard allows students to be “quicker on the keyboard” and can help them be “better writers as handwriting takes up less of their education”(Source C). Others agree with this sentiment that doing away with handwriting can give more time for education in other subjects too. For example, some articles are saying that handwriting is taking away time that could be better prioritized for “essential life-skills” like finance and programming(Source E). The sentiment of teachers, editors, states, and more, is that handwriting has no place in a society that is evolving.
The supposed skills that come with teaching handwriting at our schools are lacking in direct benefits. For example, some argue that handwriting activates cognitive and fine motor skills because it requires knowing what to write and how to use motion to write as such(Source D). However, this assertion could be applied to any scenario. Say painting: it requires a vision of what to make and the skills to create the work. However, why is painting not a required curriculum in many schools? This basic line of reasoning has been pointed out by others too, with one pointing out how “playing the original Super Mario Bros helps develop fine motor skills”(Source E). Knowing where to jump or which pipe to take is the equivalent to using your cognitive skills while inputting such decisions into your controller is using motor skills. However, schools are not requiring 15 minutes a day to gaming. This comparison between handwriting and Super Mario Bros underscores how the perceived benefits of handwriting are, in reality, not inherently needed. Another point of view to highlight is that while handwriting instruction may have benefits, they are highly constrained to when one is in school. In Source F, for example, it is shown that the use of paper over technology is heavily prevalent but in K-5. In Source D, it is said that elementary-age students were found to write more during their time. However, these assertions do not take into account the realities of our society. Children are not in the growing technology-focused workforce. Children will not have the time to take such liberties when having to take quick notes in high school or college. Children will be losing out on time that could be used to develop other more important skills.
Overall, the practice of handwriting instruction is not needed in today’s schools because the overall consensus agrees with such and the supposed benefits of handwriting do not outweigh the loss.

Like an actual, physical newspaper. I haven't done that in years. I had forgotten that newspapers had a smell and feel that's pretty unique to them. It was nice! Does anyone still read the papers anymore? I get all of my news online or from television because it is easier to get my hands on (and free) but it was great to read an actual physical newspaper for a change.

I have a question for the community. I received a PS5 for Christmas and attempted to play GTA5 online a few weeks later. To my surprise, instead of transferring my PS4 account, GTA prompted me to create a new character and start from scratch. If I create a new character, will I lose everything I've paid for and unlocked on my PS4 profile? Additionally, will starting anew with a new character prevent me from accessing my PS4 character?

To start things off, I was always aware of our age gap and problems it may cause in our relationship.
My husband and I didn't meet until I was well into being eighteen, and he was twenty-eight. It didn't bother me much, as he doesn't act much older than me and I'd always felt older than I was due to having a ton of younger siblings, step siblings, and foster kids in and out of my mother's house growing up.
We got engaged when I was nineteen at a yungblood concert, and we originally planned to wait to marry until I was at least twenty. Plans changed when I decided to go into the air force, and we had to push up the wedding in order for him to eventually stay with me on base after basic training.
Fast forward a few months after we were married and I had left for Texas for training, I was injured during PT training and sent home. It was during the craziest parts of covid, so everything was on lockdown and they had strict rules about not keeping anyone on base for a long period of time if injured. I was medically discharged and sent home to heal and have potential surgery.
At the time, my husband was staying with his friend in the city we planned to move to. We already put down a deposit on an apartment when we found out I was going home, but due to Covid restrictions and eviction restrictions, it was returned to us and we were told we could no longer move in.
The first issue I was seeing when I got home was his disattention to me. I was gone for over a month and missed celebrating my twentieth birthday with anyone but the girls in medhold with me, so I was looking forward to spending quality time with my husband.
We went out to eat with his friend, his friend's girlfriend, and one of her friends. I felt like a fifth wheel during the meal, as I was sat at the end of the table instead of being at my husband's side where her friend was sitting. Most of the conversations didn't include me, and I ended up going back to his friend's place feeling let down.
The rest of the time we were staying with his friend, they wanted all of us to go mountain climbing, cliff jumping, and trekking through the woods as they lived in a nature-centered part of the area. (Keep in mind, I was just sent home for being injured, and I had both a knee and ankle brace on my right leg that prevented much movement other than some hobbled walking that was slower than a normal pace).
When I expressed that I wasn't comfortable doing those things and that I wouldn't be jumping thirty feet into a freezing lake when I could barely walk as it is, my husband got upset with me and eventually just left me there alone while they all went to hang out together.
Flash forward four years, it is now 2024 and we have a two-year-old toddler. I didn't end up getting surgery, and I spent nine months being sicker than I'd ever been in my life.
It was a really rough pregnancy for me, and I'd ended up in the hospital multiple times because I couldn't even smell food or step foot into our kitchen without throwing up.
That all went on until the beginning of my third trimester. We decided to travel back to his friend's place, and I was somehow roped into climbing cliffs, wading through treacherous water to climb another cliff on an island out in the middle of a lake, and sleep at the top of sand dunes in a tent on the ground a couple weeks before my due date.
I was then on antibiotics during birth, because my water broke and the hospital sent me home instead of keeping me. My son was born sick, and transferred to a children's hospital to be treated and receive a spinal tap. I ended up sleeping a week in a hard hospital chair in a leaking basement of the hospital because they didn't have enough space for us.
After we were home and everything was settled, my husband would brag about how difficult the whole situation was for him. He had to sleep on a futon during my labour, and he had to have food doordashed to the hospital because, due to covid restrictions, noone else was allowed in with us and he wasn't allowed to leave to get anything.
He ended up having steak, potatoes, and these other elaborate meals delivered to eat in front of me while I wasn't allowed to eat anything until the baby came out. He even thought about bringing his playstation into the hospital room, but I shut that down quickly.
The first year of my son's life, I went back and forth between staying home with him and working in the factory my husband currently works at while my grandma watched our son.
I won't get into too much detail, but at one point when my grandma moved back out of state (she lives in her camper and was only there for the summer), I had to switch to the afternoon shift.
There is a factory supervisor on that shift that is a male and close to my husband's age. Other than the other person in my same position and two maintenance workers, they only had migrant workers that didn't speak english. This limited the people I could talk to while working my twelve hour shifts (husband worked 3:30 am to 3:30 pm and I would work 3:30 pm to 3:30 am).
My husband got very jealous and territorial at this time. He would expect me to return nearly thirty minutes late from all my breaks, threaten to go up there if anyone told me I couldn't do that, and even punched a hole in the wall when I told him I had to get back to work.
Up until that point, my husband had shown no signs of aggression toward me.
Somehow, a rumour started to spread around the factory that I was sleeping with the production lead. This definitely wasn't true as a) how and where would I have done that? and b) I loved my husband and would have never done something like that.
My husband heard about it, and came home to confront me. He got in my face, screaming and calling me a cheater. He threatened to take our son and move back in with his mom without even letting me offer an explanation or defend myself.
To this day, it still bothers me that he is still so convinced that I cheated on him and that he has no trust in me whatsoever to not do something like that.
I ended up leaving that job and working at mcdonalds for a little while. I had worked there in high school, so it wasn't a big adjustment.
I only ended up staying there a few months to help us catch up on bills before we agreed it would be better for me to stay home with our son for a while.
Our son is two now, and it seems like our relationship has only become more strained. We used to be able to communicate most of our smaller issues and come up with ways to maneuver whatever issues we had. However, in June of last year, my husband's friend that we were staying with in the beginning moved across the state to be near us.
It was all fine and good in the beginning. He had proposed to his girlfriend, and they even asked the both of us to be in their wedding that has yet to happen.
However, once they got engaged, he'd began acting very sexist. Even though both he and his fiance work full time (he works down the road at the factory with my fiance, and she works forty minutes away at a hardware store and has to drive a long way at three in the morning to get there), he expects her to come home and clean up after him, also cook his meals before she goes to bed early to get up really early in the morning for work the next day.
My husband, now hanging out with him more often, started having some of these things wearing off on him.
At first, it wasn't a big deal and I brushed it off. However, I'd gotten a job as a property manager for an apartment complex and also work now. Instead of things changing to adapt our new lifestyle, my husband expects me to continue keeping up with all the chores and cooking.
He'd made a comment that, because he feeds our dogs, he expects me just to do everything that involves our toddler from feeding him, to changing his butt, to putting him to bed at night. It's like pulling teeth sometimes to get him to change his butt or even get pants on him.
We'd gotten into an argument over this, and I told him that it wasn't fair that he expected me to do everything. His response was that he made more money and worked more hours, so it was only fair that I covered everything else.
Sure, I don't work as much or make as much money, and my paychecks mainly cover our son's daycare and our car payments, but I feel like working doesn't excuse him from helping with the son we both decided to have.
It's gotten to the point where I told my husband that if any sexist remark is made, like I should be in the kitchen helping get dinner ready whenever we're at his friend's house, I will be leaving and going back home, and I won't be going back until it is resolved.
The friend's fiance and I have had private conversations about this, and we both agree that it has gotten out of hand, and we both believe they are feeding off each other as they'd never been that bad before.
Everything has only seemed to get worse from there.
We decided to go as a group, along with my brother and his girlfriend, to the draft in Detroit this year.
The whole point was to see players get drafted in person, and we'd managed to get into the crowd in front of the stage before the area was shut down and they weren't allowing anyone else in.
My brother is an avid football fan. He played in high school, and was even offered multiple scholarships to play in college. This was a once in a lifetime experience for the both of us.
At one point, my husband and his friend decided that they would rather stand at one of the screens out of the crowd and watch it instead of trying to get into the sea of people to see it live.
I was frustrated, and expressed that if we wanted to watch it on television that we should have just stayed home. After a heated argument, I thought we'd come to the agreement that we'd go back to the stage and watch it there.
My brother lead us through the crowd, and at the beginning my husband and his friend were following us. Somehow, we'd gotten separated and when I looked back once we found a spot to stand, they were gone.
My phone rang in my pocket, and when I picked it up it was my husband calling. As soon as I picked it up, he proceeded to scream at me for disappearing and called me a "stupid bitch" when I tried to explain that I thought they were following us.
He hung up, and I told my brother I was going to go look for them alone. I spent a good twenty minutes wandering the area that was barricaded, but they were nowhere to be found. I no longer had signal to get ahold of him, so I ended up just going back and watching the beginning of the draft with my brother.
By the eighth pick, texts started to come in from my husband. He had informed me that they all left, leaving the three of us alone. Luckily, I'd driven separate as I left work early to get there.
By that point, I was done with him. I felt disrespected and that hanging out with his friend was more important than making sure his wife was okay or even with him. After all, I was wandering downtown Detroit alone when it was starting to get dark out.
When the three of us inevitably got back to the car, I got ahold of my husband just to let him know we were on our way home. He tried to apologise and ask how everything was, but I was too exhausted and mad at him to try and hold a conversation. He was asleep by the time I got home, and I ended up sleeping in our spare bedroom on a futon.
The next day, my husband tried to act like nothing happened. When I expressed that I felt ignored and pretty much useless to him, he tried to play it off like his anger was warranted and completely ignored the fact that he was calling me names.
I told him that I was no longer going to any big events with him and his friend, and he just rolled his eyes like he didn't believe me.
A day later, I saw a message pop up on his phone from his friend. I guess he had told him what I said about not going anywhere anymore, and his friend said "women" with an eyeroll emoji and "she'll get over it eventually". I screenshotted these messages and sent them to myself, filing them away in a folder in my phone to keep for later.
I slept in our spare bedroom for a week after that.
After the draft, I've also kept notes in my phone with time and date stamps of all the times he went off on me since then. Whenever we get into arguments, my mind goes blank and I forget exact things like this so he likes to say it never happened if I can't remember it.
April 27th, we were sitting watching videos together on tiktok. When someone popular came on that he had been watching a lot recently, I exclaimed that I didn't understand how he got popular all of a sudden. He proceeded to get really agitated and yell at me for not understanding how the internet works. When I stood up to walk away because I was upset, this angered him more. He then expressed that my emotions were overrated and that he was sick of them.
May 2nd, I had gotten home from work and tried to show my husband an outdoor jungle gym on amazon that I thought would be cool to get our son. He claimed it was a waste of money and that we should just take him to the park. When I tried to explain that it was a better idea to get something like this, as realistically we wouldn't take him to the park every day, he freaked out and asked what was wrong with me. He then said "oh my god" when I tried to explain that it would be easier to watch him outside while getting stuff done around the house and decided to just go to bed without dinner and end the conversation completely.
May 5th, we went with his friend and fiance to a cinco de may party in the city. He was drinking most of the day, and on the way home he wanted us to stop some place and get ice cream. When he got out of the car, he hit it against the car next to us. When I told him he'd hit the car, he proceeded to yell at me in the crowd that I was crazy and acting like my mother. He then kept trying to go to the woman in the car and ask if he had, in fact, hit her car. After, he said he was done with me and I was on my own, that I would have to start paying my own bills from now on.
There's been many other entries in my notes similar to this, and I feel like I'm at the end of what I can handle. Divorce has crossed my mind, but I had divorced parents growing up and know how hard it would be on my son. I also don't think I'm in a well off financial position to go out on my own with our son and still provide the things he needs.
I also worry that, if we were to separate, he would push to take our son from me as he'd threatened in the past to do so.
Any advice would be helpful, as I don't know what else to do. Even getting this all off my chest online makes me feel a little better, but there's still the lingering thought in the back of my mind that I'm unhappy and don't know how much longer I can put up with this.
Thank you.

This is a really strange one. Also feeling super fucking hopeless. This is like half "help me!" and half vent. I'm a lonely person. I've been alone my whole life save for a couple friends I would make here and there. Some online, some offline. Last year I started trying to be more "active" in my friends' lives after coming out as transfem and moving back to my hometown. I had about six friends in total, a guy I've known since middle school and talked to on-and-off, two guys who were friends with me in high school and also knew that guy, an online friend from the Netherlands who I used to talk to literally every day, and an online friend from Chicago that I have met many times in person, known him for like ten years now.
Last September I made a Discord server and introduced all my friends to each other. It was really great at first, we all played video games together, we spent time on the call all the time, it was nice. Then after New Years one of the guys I knew from high school started being really, really mean to me. Out of like nowhere, just mean, dismissive, hateful. I try and be very kind, unassuming, maybe a little passive. I am not an aggressive person IRL at all, I am outgoing and I am not ever, EVER mean to anyone. Following this guy's lead everyone just started piling onto me, saying that like, I am useless, or I am stupid, or I have "bad takes." Illinoisian friend suggested they make a server without me, which they did. Then everyone started disengaging from me, leaving me on read, etcetera. Again, I have not been hostile or aggressive towards any of these people, in fact, I actively try and appease them 100% of the time because I am afraid of abandonment, so this is like the worst thing ever!
Anyway, found out from my middle-school-friend (who is the only one who seems to actively want to talk to me still) that they sit in this group chat all day and play fucking World of Warcraft and talk shit about me from time to time, I guess. I tried to be proactive and went to breakfast with Mr. Meanie Pie and talked to him a bit one-on-one and asked him, hey, why is everyone being so mean, can you please be a little nicer to me? I don't really know what I've done wrong, and he said some half-assed stuff about something mean I said once on Twitter like over a month ago(had already stopped going on Twitter because it's shitty for my mental health and does indeed empower me to say sarcastic things occasionally) and said that he would "talk to me however he wants" because I "deserve it" and that he's not going to put effort into maintaining our relationship because I am a shitty person. This man is like 6ft tall, was in the military, big dude. I am literally a 5'7" skinny autistic trans girl. So even just starting that conversation was fucking nerve-wracking. What does someone like that get out of bullying a little person like me? Jesus Christ.
I thought this sort of behavior was reserved for like, high school girls. I cannot understand it for the life of me. I introduced all my friends to each other and then they KICKED ME OUT!! How the fuck does that even work!? Has this happened to anyone else?! What the hell do I do now? It's upended my entire social life, which I didn't have much of to begin with! No idea what to do now, I don't have any other non-familial connections besides them. This has happened twice before to me when I was a teenager, but not so far as an adult. If the problem is me, I need to know how to fix it.

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I used to play this online game when I was younger where you could dress up a character(s) from a book. I am 99% sure it was the girls from the Babysitters Club and if I remember right, you could dress up multiple of the girls at once. For some reason I’m picturing a grassy green background but I may be mixing that up with another game. It wasn’t overtly cartoonish but it definitely wasn’t like real stock photos of people. I am going crazy trying to find it, any input would be so appreciated!! Thanks in advance!

Oi! I’m Gobs / Darius (they/them) and I’ve been running online ttrpgs for over a year now. I have experience in 5e and Call of Cthulhu 7e, and PF2e.

• Currently looking for 1 more friend to round out our group and be the 4th party member! We're new-er to the system, so this is technically beginner friendly but there is a bit of a skill ceiling as this AP is a megadungeon.
• We play bi weekly (potentially instead of bi weekly, may look at doing a 2 on 1 off schedule) every Friday at 5pm PST and sessions last ~3 hours roughly, we also use discord for voice and will be using Foundry VTT to play.
• 21+ (We are all in our mid-late 20s)
• POC / LGBTQ+ is ideal, as we are all queer players.
• My games tend to be a decent balance of RP and combat.
• RP is highly encouraged; as are fleshed out characters you care for and love!
• I’m not the most seasoned GM but you know what they say about practice making perfect, so.
• It’s not expected for everyone to do long deep dives on the system unless they want to; however, it’s expected that players will know their class features and the basics related to said class.
• The application form is pasted below! Hope to hear from y'all~
• https://forms.gle/ixTRjNtdfcAMELmd6

Hello, not native speaker so sorry for the english. I wanna try a new modpack but i don't know which one.
I already played a modded server with Create/Sophisticated Storage / Tom Simple Storage and more mods.
If another modpack is better feel free to recomend me one.

My friend just got a nintendo switch over the weekend, and I already have tons of online games on my account. So I linked my account to their switch. This means that they can download all the games that I have bought. So that got me thinking. Are there Nintendo accounts on the internet shared by everyone that have games on it for free?

I will start off saying dating apps are definitely something to be grateful for considering how many matches I’ve had over the years compared to traditional methods, and by playing the sheer numbers game I’ve won the jackpot a few times, reassuring me it’s a daily effort and in some cases worth paying for the features probably.
I wanted to figure out a way to batch swipe for 10-20 mins a day on 4 different apps. It really isn’t that big of a deal. I have a reasonable opener that works and I use a keyboard to my phone so it’s lightning fast.
It’s hard to be consistent and I get burnt out but I know it’s not worth it to sulk in sadness. This is kind of my big push to get off my ass and do this again. It’s been a lazy few years.
Some things I’d like your advice on:
Online dating texting paradox

• in online dating it seems I have to respond within 12-24 hours or they ghost or misinterpret interest
  
• i cannot ask to get coffee immediately, so texting is the basis and beginning of everything to some extent (10 messages)
  
• these two things make it so you’re already posturing yourself as a competent “texter”. It sucks because I wanna leave more in the tank for the date anyways but a lot of girls are adamant about forcing the early convos and progressing into text
  
• I have been able to reduce it gradually. Sometimes it’s misinterpreted but it’s definitely for the best and seems to still work with CW methods. Set the date and you don’t have a big reason to text etc
  

Burnout

• do you find yourself getting numb to falling in love and due to the numbers game?
  
• how do you keep things… sincere… when between the two people dating there’s like 8 people each person is dating. It’s SO hard for me to not imagine it once I start thinking about it. I know it’s better left ignored but man once that spider hits the brain it’s just depressing as fuck
  

I just took advantage of BetRivers and their 500$ risk free signup bonus which basically means you deposit 500$ and in the casino if your net losses are 500$ in 24 hours you get bonus bets of 500$ back, which I just played on that flyX game to get back into real money due to the 1X wagering requirement. Trying to find other sports books or online casinos that offer the same bonus?

Im an civil Engineer with day time full time work (Can free up 1-2 hrs of my time between 9-5 when working efficiently) makes about $120K. Looking to start studying for the RE License in Humber. I have read that doing the test and licensing in BC and transferring to ON with the interprovincial test is much cheaper and faster. Did any one do this? If yes, perhabs share your journey.
Also considering my situation, Im a Structural Engineer so that would be benefit when selling houses since I can provide comments on the house structurally as well. Do you guys think this is worth a shot? Know anyone that started as a side gig and how did it played out for them? Any tips would be appreciated.