I have 3 cats: a 21 year old male, a 16 year old female, and a 2 year old male. They are all neutered and spayed. I recognize I probably shouldn't have adopted a kitten when I have 2 other cats that are so old, but I did. I work 40 hours a week and am the only person who lives in the house.
I've had the 2 year old since he was 4 weeks old, but it's in the last 6 months that he's gotten to be more than a handful. He craves constant attention and if he's not getting it he gets destructive. I have fishing toys (3, he keeps breaking the plastic wand on the one he likes best) I use to play with him multiple times every day, I've got a very tall Scratching post/cat tree, a smaller Scratching post/perch, a lot of mice toys and balls for him to bat around, the fling-a-ma-thing, a cat tunnel, and a beaver plushie (he's on his second, he destroyed the first one) but it seems like it's never enough.
When I'm sleeping he starts clawing at my guitar to wake me up. If I don't get out of bed right away he keeps doing it or he goes into another room and roughs up one of the other cats until they yowl in pain or hiss. He carries around the fishing toys everywhere and I'll play with him for about 20 minutes and take a break. We do this 3 times a day. When I stop he goes for another cat or scratches on the TV screen or scratches at the back of my ps5 until I play with him again. If I try to give another cat quality time he jumps in between us or just goes after the cat. Anything I set on a table he has to Knock over. He's broken 2 lamps.
I sometimes have to put him in time out for 5, 10, sometimes 15 minutes. He's usually much more docile when I let him out for about 15 minutes but a lot of time he gets back on his bullshit pretty quick and sometimes he has to have another time out within an hour. He's gotten really bad about always wanting to bite, Claw, and bunny kick at hands. When he was a kitten he'd go straight to licking or I'd say ow and if it kept up Id get up and leave. Now it doesn't matter, unless he's In a cuddling mood he thinks hands are for fighting with (or wielding a fishing toy) and he does this with everyone. I give him treats when he behaves well but the poor behavior has not let up.
He follows me around everywhere and doesn't even go or stay outside without me. He is always right next to me when I wash dishes or go to the bathroom and wants rides around on my shoulder multiple times a day. If I go downstairs he's right there with me, if I'm in the shower he's on the edge of the tub. I only take short (3 full days max) vacations a few times a year and I always get the cats a sitter but the last 2 times I've been away the sitters don't see him at all and when I come back I see a small piece of furniture destroyed.
There have been no major changes in the household over the last 6 months. I don't know why he seems to have more energy, need more attention, and is more destructive than he was for the first 1.5 years. Can I get any advice? Is there a hallelujah of a toy or a certain regimen or treat that can improve his behavior? Any methods I can use? Any changes I should make to the household? Do I need to keep him contained and reintroduce him to the other cats and the house?
Please help!

I have been struggling with my passion as of late and I thought maybe someone here has been in the same boat.
I went through cage stage years ago and became more gracious and charitable. However, over the last year I’ve had a fire lit inside me and because I know the truth of Jeremiah 17:9, I don’t want to let a deceitful heart sow division.
The reason I titled the post as I did was because of this fire. Our God is an all consuming fire and I want the thesis of my life work to say “He lived to see God consume everything, let it all burn to His glory.” I feel like my heart is broken every time I speak to someone who speaks about God but uses Pelagian or Arminian ideas. When I hear someone say the Bible is not sufficient for our lives, we need “x” or “y” as well. That the atonement of Christ was insufficient by their addition of works or “free-will”. These people don’t know the Gospel when they believe Christ death did actually save a sinners soul, yet they label themselves as Christians and lead others astray. I think back to the epistle to Galatians every time I have these convos, these people preach a false gospel.
Yet, I am guilty in part by standing by and calling Catholics, or any other false gospel denomination, “brothers in Christ”. I have been weak and let these false gospels permeate in my circles. I was afraid to draw a line in the sand.
I feel like by not going on the offensive against all who adulterate the Gospel, I fail the very people the Gospel is for.
Am I alone in this passion? Is this the wickedness of a prideful heart? I want nothing more than to honor God. Yet our God is a jealous God, a God that consumes everything, and in my coward and “compassion” to build bridges, I’m implying He doesn’t get to consume everything.
If you feel rebuke is what I need than provide it please.

We as a family don't often go out to eat primarily because of costs and that there's five of us. But for Mother's Day, Mom was already angry after work Friday and then Dad forgot to get her anything on Sunday and kind of grasped at straws to say his gift was dinner at a seafood place she really likes. So I do get that she was upset before everything.
I'm allergic to shellfish and eggs so we usually go to a certain place that takes especial care for allergens, even though it's slightly more expensive than a normal place, if we go as a family.
Mom and Dad had already been snippy with each other the days leading up but when he suggested that restaurant she kind of blew up on me that if not for me, that place would be fine, but because of my allergies we have to go to this one restaurant or nothing else or else we make the entire restaurant have to change everything just for me, and she doesn't want to make some poor worker have to deep scrub the place just so she can have the dinner she wants. She and Dad ended up going together that night but they were clearly still not 100% when they came back and still aren't. My older brother and sister both tried reassuring me that Mom is just stressed and I don't actually make things that much harder for everyone, but I still feel so sick and guilty that I haven't eaten more than toast since Mother's Day. This isn't the first time mom or dad have made comments like this. Dad once got really excited on a trip about having unlimited room service but he couldn't get the dish he wanted because of how small the room was and how he'd have to brush his teeth and wash his hands and clean up almost immediately, just to enjoy one dish. He sighed and said "I guess I'll go without because I love you" kind of joking but I never forgot it, or other times.
I just really - really - struggle with not feeling like I'm this gigantic, unwanted imposition on my family and the world around me. I feel like my friends resent the different cake or desserts at my birthday, or having to double check before I come over about what to serve, or like my family can't just pack up and go out to dinner or even vacation without care like other families can. We only have a few vacations a year and it's usually to a beach town with lots of seafood places, and because of my allergies we either don't go out to eat and cook the entire vacation (which mom hates because then she doesn't get a vacation) or we eat to go and I order a lot of salads because the fries could be done in the same oil as the clams for example.
I know I'm looking for reassurance but I'm open to the truth that I am causing more work for those around me.

I’ve used Norton Anti Virus for bit now and i recently just uninstalled it after multiple recommendations saying that its useless and expensive. Was this the correct thing to do? And what should I do about Antivirus protection? Any other application I could use? Thank you.

I had some more weird shit happen last night.
I took my two dogs for walks, I normally walk Fin (large, all black German Shepherd) toward the park where I have had these experiences, and I walk Booger (chi terrier mix) the other direction toward downtown.
On my walk with Fin, about a block away in the direction I was headed, I saw 3 or 4 deer calmly walking toward the park. Most nights where something "weird" happens to me start like this. The deer seemed completely unbothered by me as I approached. They kept walking toward the park but stopped every few steps to look back at me, as if they wanted me to follow them. Then, as Fin and I reached where the deer were, I notice about 10 or more other deer waiting as well. They all start walking together, calm, but still looking back at me every few feet. On my way toward the park i smell the stench of rotting meat, I know the smell very well as I used to be a butcher. It was strong. Like someone plugged my nostrils with rotting ground meat or something. At the same time I smell this stench, I get the chills. Fin's hair stands up and he gets more nervous. I can feel the air around me get colder.
As we continue walking I look down an alleyway that cuts the block in half and, if you would walk down the dark alley, would spot you out where I eventually walk back home. I was two blocks away from the park, when you reach the park you can either turn around and walk down the same road, you can continue into the park, or you can continue on the road which turns left. Looking down that alleyway you are looking at the part of the road that continues left, which is the way I take every night on my way back home.
What I saw I tried to convince myself wasn't real or maybe I just saw something else and my brain tried to convince me it was this.
A large, muscular, pale, hairless, creature (?) that was moving fast. So fast I could barely see it, I saw the motion down the alley about two blocks away. The exit of the alley on that side has a street light directly above it, it wasn't standing still, it was moving and it was moving fast. The only reason I'm positive what I saw wasn't deer or something normal is because of something I saw later that night that I will write about when I talk about my walk with Booger. It solidified that what I saw was something I wasn't supposed to see.
In the meantime I convinced myself I was making stuff up and being a pussy. As we approach the treeline of the park, the large group of deer move to the side of the street where the neighborhood is, while I'm on the side with the treeline. I noticed something in the clearing. A lone deer, separate from the large group across the street, staring directly at me.
I have my flashlight pointed at him, and I even hung up my call with my wife to use my phone to take video of this moment.
This lone deer doesn't even have micro movements from breathing. The other deer across the street were constantly readjusting.
You might be thinking to yourself "oh yeah, deer do that with bright lights shining at them. Deer in headlights always act like that." Just wait.
Fin starts to pull very hard and acts anxious, nearly knocking me over, I turn to look across the street towards the large group of deer for at most 3 seconds before quickly turning around to face the lone deer again.
In those 3 seconds, that lone deer is easily 30 feet closer to me, still not moving, staring directly at me. I have this on video, I have pictures. I felt weird, I felt unsafe. I've lived in rural Iowa my whole life, I am and have always lived outdoors. This didn't feel normal. I was scared.
I back away while shining my light at the deer, once I get a block or so away, he finally turns around and calmly walks into the tree line.
The whole way home I feel like I'm being stalked, not just watched, but like something is following me.
Here is a link to that video of the deer getting closer to me:
https://youtube.com/shorts/S1l2FRxKO58?si=Dv8362ajs7DR8UWw
Now, I went home and sat for a bit and tried to talk myself into believing it was all coincidence. After nearly 20 minutes, I started to walk Booger, my smaller chi mix.
The entire walk was nice and very enjoyable actually, I had my earbuds in and was talking to my wife about what I saw in a joking way.
"Man I'm such a pussy, I really scared myself for no reason" I said.
At the end of the walk I turn to go down our alleyway, as I leave from the garage on our walks.
I stop speaking from what I saw on the opposite end of the alley. My wife heard me stop.
I want to preface this with I did not have any substances, including alcohol, for weeks up to that point. The most I ever do in that department is a few beers or I'll use some weed to ease anxiety if life is getting hard. I have no mental conditions that will cause me to hallucinate, the most I have is a personality disorder resulting from trauma that I've been overcoming quickly this last year.
I saw two, large, muscular, pale, hairless creatures walking like apes at the end of the alley. The same thing I thought I saw with fin, this time not going fast, much closer, and it felt intentional. I saw them walk across the street very slowly, staring directly at me. These were not deer.
They didn't have long faces like deer, they didn't have fur or tails, they didn't walk like deer. They weren't slender like a deer. My first thought was honestly that I was looking at two hairless male lions. In the middle of Iowa.
I stood there, paralyzed with fear, well after they had left my sight. 15 seconds later, I finally get the courage to walk the few feet into the garage, when I take my first step, I see a third one. Slowly meandering across the street. Staring at me. Booger noticed him too, and started growling.
I ran to the door and watched the garage shut all the way.
The entire night, Fin guarded the bedroom door. He never does that. He sat staring at the door all night. Booger stared at the windows all night. He never does that either.
This happened to me yesterday night, Monday, May 13, 2024.
I don't know what to think.

So basically long story short my best friend is once again in the “talking stage” with someone I hooked up with. I wasn’t in love with the dude but I definitely did have feelings for him, I shared personal things with him that I had gone through in my life, anyway so she was basically dating/ hooking up with him for a whole year and did not tell me, although she would send me screenshots of their text messages but of course scribble out the name, telling me she really likes the person she’s talking to but didn’t wanna tell me who it was because she didn’t know how serious it’d be or it was too soon, yet she brought him around her whole family and would spend mostly every night with him (while living with her now baby daddy) and there I was being supportive saying well idk who this person is but all I want is for you to be happy. When she told me I put together all the signs and told her that deep down I knew but didn’t believe it because in my head there’s no way she’d ever do that me, I mean I would never do that to her I thought it was so weird how she was okay being with somebody I had relations with, when I confronted him about it he downplayed the whole thing. there she is telling me “if I wasn’t living with my ex we’d probably still be together” and there he is telling me that she was just there for him during a bad time and that he ended it all because he thought her living situation was weird and he didn’t want to be in the middle of it. He blocked me after that convo and I didn’t express how betrayed I felt because I didn’t like him basically embarrassing my best friend or disrespecting her to so I left it at that, she since then has reached out to him multiple times and he finally responded about a week ago, apparently things are going well and it just triggered these past feelings I had that I never expressed to her, I just feel like any person I have ever trusted has done something shady to me, I don’t like how she made me look dumb for a year and I was going through a lot at that time, what hurt the most was him telling me that when he asked her if I was or would be okay with them she told him “we don’t talk much these days” again I was going through a lot and besides that her title or how much she means to me has never decreased because of how much we communicated, I just feel like she was willing to give up our friendship for him and I don’t know how to express that to her now that they are speaking again because the last thing I was is for her to think I’m hating or jealous or anything of that sort because how I feel has nothing to do with him, he didn’t owe me nothing she did, if she would’ve approached me from the start and said I know you guys had something but I really like him I would’ve had way more respect for her and how could I be mad at her being honest with me. I’m currently in a relationship and him willing to accept her with a child is what I’ll give him respect for, I’m not going to be apposed to someone treating her right I truly want her to be happy but again it’s still kinda just weird to me, talking about him or them possibly getting together again, anyway I’ll take any a d v i c e

Who doesn't love having a reason to see if they have a new notification or message from someone? That hit of dopamine when the person you've been clicking with finally replies and brings that smile to your face when the day is getting shitty. I'd love to find that. I'm not looking for a quick fix/hit, I'm looking for something long term lasting. If you ghost or disappear please move on because I've had enough of that pain for multiple lifetimes. I really want someone who I can message throughout the day and give me something to look forward to. I'll be upfront, I'm usually sad or depressed or struggling to find the positivity in the day and don't really have any friends or people to talk to. If you're looking for someone long term and willing to build a genuine connection please message me. I am a bit introverted so sometimes my messages can be short and to the point but that doesn't I'm uninterested or don't care in what you have to say

I had some more weird shit happen last night.
I took my two dogs for walks, I normally walk Fin (large, all black German Shepherd) toward the park where I have had these experiences, and I walk Booger (chi terrier mix) the other direction toward downtown.
On my walk with Fin, about a block away in the direction I was headed, I saw 3 or 4 deer calmly walking toward the park. Most nights where something "weird" happens to me start like this. The deer seemed completely unbothered by me as I approached. They kept walking toward the park but stopped every few steps to look back at me, as if they wanted me to follow them. Then, as Fin and I reached where the deer were, I notice about 10 or more other deer waiting as well. They all start walking together, calm, but still looking back at me every few feet. On my way toward the park i smell the stench of rotting meat, I know the smell very well as I used to be a butcher. It was strong. Like someone plugged my nostrils with rotting ground meat or something. At the same time I smell this stench, I get the chills. Fin's hair stands up and he gets more nervous. I can feel the air around me get colder.
As we continue walking I look down an alleyway that cuts the block in half and, if you would walk down the dark alley, would spot you out where I eventually walk back home. I was two blocks away from the park, when you reach the park you can either turn around and walk down the same road, you can continue into the park, or you can continue on the road which turns left. Looking down that alleyway you are looking at the part of the road that continues left, which is the way I take every night on my way back home.
What I saw I tried to convince myself wasn't real or maybe I just saw something else and my brain tried to convince me it was this.
A large, muscular, pale, hairless, creature (?) that was moving fast. So fast I could barely see it, I saw the motion down the alley about two blocks away. The exit of the alley on that side has a street light directly above it, it wasn't standing still, it was moving and it was moving fast. The only reason I'm positive what I saw wasn't deer or something normal is because of something I saw later that night that I will write about when I talk about my walk with Booger. It solidified that what I saw was something I wasn't supposed to see.
In the meantime I convinced myself I was making stuff up and being a pussy. As we approach the treeline of the park, the large group of deer move to the side of the street where the neighborhood is, while I'm on the side with the treeline. I noticed something in the clearing. A lone deer, separate from the large group across the street, staring directly at me.
I have my flashlight pointed at him, and I even hung up my call with my wife to use my phone to take video of this moment.
This lone deer doesn't even have micro movements from breathing. The other deer across the street were constantly readjusting.
You might be thinking to yourself "oh yeah, deer do that with bright lights shining at them. Deer in headlights always act like that." Just wait.
Fin starts to pull very hard and acts anxious, nearly knocking me over, I turn to look across the street towards the large group of deer for at most 3 seconds before quickly turning around to face the lone deer again.
In those 3 seconds, that lone deer is easily 30 feet closer to me, still not moving, staring directly at me. I have this on video, I have pictures. I felt weird, I felt unsafe. I've lived in rural Iowa my whole life, I am and have always lived outdoors. This didn't feel normal. I was scared.
I back away while shining my light at the deer, once I get a block or so away, he finally turns around and calmly walks into the tree line.
The whole way home I feel like I'm being stalked, not just watched, but like something is following me.
Here is a link to that video of the deer getting closer to me:
https://youtube.com/shorts/S1l2FRxKO58?si=Dv8362ajs7DR8UWw
Now, I went home and sat for a bit and tried to talk myself into believing it was all coincidence. After nearly 20 minutes, I started to walk Booger, my smaller chi mix.
The entire walk was nice and very enjoyable actually, I had my earbuds in and was talking to my wife about what I saw in a joking way.
"Man I'm such a pussy, I really scared myself for no reason" I said.
At the end of the walk I turn to go down our alleyway, as I leave from the garage on our walks.
I stop speaking from what I saw on the opposite end of the alley. My wife heard me stop.
I want to preface this with I did not have any substances, including alcohol, for weeks up to that point. The most I ever do in that department is a few beers or I'll use some weed to ease anxiety if life is getting hard. I have no mental conditions that will cause me to hallucinate, the most I have is a personality disorder resulting from trauma that I've been overcoming quickly this last year.
I saw two, large, muscular, pale, hairless creatures walking like apes at the end of the alley. The same thing I thought I saw with fin, this time not going fast, much closer, and it felt intentional. I saw them walk across the street very slowly, staring directly at me. These were not deer.
They didn't have long faces like deer, they didn't have fur or tails, they didn't walk like deer. They weren't slender like a deer. My first thought was honestly that I was looking at two hairless male lions. In the middle of Iowa.
I stood there, paralyzed with fear, well after they had left my sight. 15 seconds later, I finally get the courage to walk the few feet into the garage, when I take my first step, I see a third one. Slowly meandering across the street. Staring at me. Booger noticed him too, and started growling.
I ran to the door and watched the garage shut all the way.
The entire night, Fin guarded the bedroom door. He never does that. He sat staring at the door all night. Booger stared at the windows all night. He never does that either.
This happened to me yesterday night, Monday, May 13, 2024.
I don't know what to think.

After a little bit of creeping around this subreddit I’ve decided I should contribute my feelings abt Tara and associates, tarayummysnarkpage and other surrounding topics. To preface: I’ve been rewatching some old (2020-2023) videos of Taras and comparing them to new ones, I’ve seen some posts here saying she lost her geniality and I 100% agree so here’s some thoughts and opinions I have.
1- reality check! As someone who is a few years younger than Tara and living independently as of late I’ve THE BIGGEST ICK caused by her spewing and spewing about finding a new place and a new car and all these insanely expensive purchases.
1a- new apartment. I’m assuming Tara spends thousands of dollars each month on doordash, clothes and drugs&alc. I think moving out is going to be a HUGE reality check because rent in LA is not cheap, bro is gonna have to budget big time 2a- BASIC TASKS. Cooking, cleaning, laundry oh my! She doesn’t know how to cook. Per my last point she’s gonna learn real fast that cooking will save money big time. Her whole house gets cleaned weekly (personally I think this is a huge privilege but it’s so unnecessary and if she relies on housekeepers I just KNOW her shower will be so effing gross lmao)
2- setting an example For a while I thought the quirky party girl lifestyle was lowkey kinda fun, but now when I check Instagram EVERYDAY and she’s at the club I’m just like oh my GOD chill out for a second. She’s obv borderline alcoholic and the drug jokes are getting annoying.
2a- impressionable audience Tara has and KNOWS she has a Young teenage audience and personally it feels like she is not spreading a good message to these kids. It seems like all she does is put people down who don’t benefit her.
3a- tmi Especially as of late it feels like Tara is sharing wayyy too much online. Or saying stuff like “I want to share this with you soooo bad” okayy so don’t even bring it up? It’s just gonna spread rumors (maybe she wants the rumors to talk abt on dropouts lmao?)
Overall I’m very iffy about the infamous tarayummy, I think the fame is getting to her and I think her parents kinda failed raising her for the real world but also, I don’t know her personally and I don’t know the first thing about her life.
Idk if this made any sense I CANNOT put words on paper. Just some things have been irking me recently about Tara. Don’t even get me started on the whole ex boyf thing lol.

TLDR Don't want to lowball myself if I get an offer. I have about 4 years helpdesk experience and 4 years sysadmin experience. Current salary is 69K. The job I interviewed for is 100% remote which is worth a pretty penny of itself so being somewhat underpaid is not that big of a deal.
Just did an interview that I think went pretty well. Problem is it's for a MSP and I have like 0 experience working at a MSP. I've been working in government IT for close to 8 years. We don't even call job titles the same things in government. We apparently call IT roles what they were called 10-15 years ago. My department is still officially "data processing" in city documentation for god's sake.
I don't want to get too specific on the off chance some company person looks at this subreddit, but it's a fairly generalist sysadmin position in terms of knowledge expectation (Hyper-V, Azure, Veeam, Active Directory, ext.) and you both provide support and help build holistic systems for clients.
There is some salary range listed on Glassdoor for this company and this position where they are guessing 55k-85K per year, but I don't know how accurate that is or what my experience level translates to in that scale. My current salary is 69K and I've basically decided I refuse to move for less than 75K because I really haven't had trouble getting interviews and I like my current job alright. I've had 3 interviews in the last couple of weeks. (Applied for maybe 8-10 jobs in that same period). I actually canceled one because I did more research and decided that employer would probably just be a really bad fit for me. One interview I didn't get an offer, but I asked for feedback and they said they were impressed with me but ultimately went with someone with more experience with their specific systems. I did the third interview today and got really good vibes from it. (People even saying stuff like "It seems you would fit right in here.") I just want to be prepared in case I do get an offer.

Since the nerf, my raiding has plummeted and is at an all-time low. It's like 2017-2019 again. When remote passes were affordable, I could raid every day with online players and raid with locals during events and even more at home for stuff I really wanted. Now, I have to wait until raid hour.
How about you, fine folks? How often do you participate in local 5 star raids with your community? I'm lucky if I can do 4 a week now. Needless to say, things have gotten really bad for me in the raiding department.

I wanted to update everyone on where I’m at with all of the methods I’ve tried. To recap what I’ve done so far,
Daily Cialis - Restorex - Supplements - H100 cream - Exosurge (with verapamil)
I did not have any luck with anything worth noting. I will say that the H100 cream definitely promoted lots of blood flow so if you have a small plaque or catch things early then I would give it a try. It’s expensive though.
I told myself that I would try everything before going nuclear with Xiaflex. So I’ve scheduled an appointment with Dr Trost. I will update once I get treated.
Material Osterich, I completely understand your advice on not messing with treatment if you are functional but I think that depends on several factors as there are severity differences. If someone just has a slight curve, basically an aesthetic issue, then I would not recommend messing with it. In my case I have a large plaque that is halfway up my shaft that is cutting off blood flow to the remaining portion of the tunica. I don’t have much of a curve from it but it has weakened that portion of my piece. It’s also made that portion much thinner. Fortunately I was fairly blessed at birth so it’s not a size issue that I’m concerned about. It’s the fact that the opposite side is taking a lot of the load (no pun intended) and force during intercourse and I’m afraid that it could eventually cause issues on the healthy side. My goal is to weaken the plaque enough to allow more blood flow through that section so that it can share the load . A bonus will be the curve being corrected as well, although that is not my primary reason for pursuing the treatment. Maybe that’s only one or two shots. I’ll have to see.

Who doesn't love having a reason to see if they have a new notification or message from someone? That hit of dopamine when the person you've been clicking with finally replies and brings that smile to your face when the day is getting shitty. I'd love to find that. I'm not looking for a quick fix/hit, I'm looking for something long term lasting. If you ghost or disappear please move on because I've had enough of that pain for multiple lifetimes. I really want someone who I can message throughout the day and give me something to look forward to. I'll be upfront, I'm usually sad or depressed or struggling to find the positivity in the day and don't really have any friends or people to talk to. If you're looking for someone long term and willing to build a genuine connection please message me. I am a bit introverted so sometimes my messages can be short and to the point but that doesn't I'm uninterested or don't care in what you have to say

Alright Magneto I'll tell you now my powers work. First when I hear you speak to me in English, I can tell you've never picked up a Spanish book. The fact that you're family thought they should create someone from two points of time not aligned with their birth is fine for a looper death as no one likes your British government trying to over throw a Spanish bloodline for investing in broken down whore houses. But that's not where all my power comes from. Mother says your mother's greatest source of power began when she got her first nigger dick up her ass while her mother chilled out at West World.
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Can someone please please tell me what store bought ranch is the best?!?!?!? I love ranch I put it on so many things but I’ve only ever liked restaurant ranch. But I want a container in my house and do not know which one to buy. Please help!!?

I have posted this story here multiple times and the moderation team has locked my thread multiple times. This is ridiculous. They are doing what they have always done: Suppress or ban anyone who they don't like. They are role-playing the super earth secret police, yet again.
The obvious reason is so that they can protect themselves from the truth. By locking my posts repeatedly, they are proving my point and making me more and more frustrated: They are one of the worst CM teams I have seen. I hope you will help me and fellow helldivers out by posting this where it can be seen if the moderators continue to try to protect themselves by locking my thread that tries to fully explain the PSN fiasco yet again.
Super Earth France Reporter here. The PSN fiasco has been one of the biggest events this year in all of gaming. Yet something very strange has been going on the entire time since the 3rd.
In the past three days, Arrowhead's CM (community manager) team has not only been contradictory with itself, but contradictory with their CEO's statements. At one point - a CM tells us that we should review bomb the game even harder.
From telling players to review bomb the game, once to tell players to piss off, the second time seriously, to conveniently leaving facts out, the CM have dragged AH from the 'F incident' through the PSN fiasco. If you have ever been confused by what is going on, here is the full story I have tried to put together (with difficulty).
It feels like at every step, every single person is saying something totally contradictory with what a different person is saying if we actually compare people's statements closely.
The CM team have only continued to damage their credibility, yet again, by misleading people and trying to cover up their mistakes during the PSN fiasco instead of trying to be honest. I need to ask everyone: What value do they even provide if this is the result?
This summary of events has been put together with insight from friends who discussed the recent AH issues at length with me, probably because I am the only one crazy enough to write this much. I hope you will enjoy reading this very long piece.

The PSN fiasco

The PSN fiasco all began on the 3rd: https://www.reddit.com/Helldivers/comments/1cjvw1s/arrowhead_community_manager_misty_admits_that_the/
This conversation followed an announcement signed by Playstation announcing PSN login integration. Most likely, the review bombing had not seriously started yet. Why would the CM change their Twitter and lock the post? It is probably in response to them discovering how angry people got about PSN integration.
At this point in time, everyone began trashing Sony, and many, myself included, said that this was a money-grabbing move for Sony to raise their stock value and Sony was clearly forcing this on AH.
But this CM said that Arrowhead wanted PSN linking and not Sony. Yet there's another post that was live JUST a day afterward that showed 'Spitz' saying what sounds like the frigging opposite. This is confusing at the least and the extent of how much this was AH's idea is still unclear. The first post likely happened before people started getting angry. The second post by Spitz likely occurred with the perspective of damage control.
Something is fishy.
One person says PSN allows them to ban people better. Later, Spitz said that the PSN change, steam announcement, and FAQ all come from Sony. I found this suspect. It seems to check out at first glance. The announcement from Sony on the 3rd can be seen here. Sure enough, it is signed by Sony. But this statement likely would have gone through both AH and Sony teams before being pushed out to Steam. It is unlikely that AH had no ability to coordinate with Sony on this statement. AH knew this was going to happen at some point 3 months ago, but maybe not exactly when.

Spitz roleplaying Super Earth propaganda ministry

Spitz' discord statements on discord are just damage control. But what's more, they are deliberately meant to mislead because they are so incredibly contradictory and leave out critical information.
This is the gist of what Spitz says: He tells us that internal discussions are ongoing about PSN linking and AH is trying to find alternative solutions. If AH can't find a better way, AH won't force players to link PSN. The steam announcement, FAQ, and PSN link is from Sony and not AH, (That's some bullshit. AH KNEW this was coming and AH had some say in it. You're leaving information out.) Spitz then apologizes for telling people to either make a PSN account or review bomb the game and piss off. (Not that it means anything, Spitz will probably just do it again in the future with that attitude) Spitz finally says we should continue to review bomb the game and gives them more pull in discussions with Sony. This is crazy. Developers asking players to review bomb the game further?
Let's take a look.
On the 3rd, Pilestedt is clearly aware and sad about the reviews. But Spitz tells us to keep the bombs coming, thanks for your help. We can make a better game this way. What?
At this point time, anger is aimed at Sony and Spitz does not reveal what they almost certainly always knew provides no clarity nor honesty to us, because the CEO revealed on the 5th that they knew for 6 months (9 months now) that they were going to do PSN integration.
Spitz simply leaves out this part and keeps on saying Sony Sony Sony. But Misty PROVES that they knew about EVERYTHING with the initial tweet on the 3rd that the CMs panicked and tried to hide. There is NO mention of this by Spitz!! Unless you are telling me something absolutely INSANE - that the CM team is SO disorganized that SOMEHOW, Misty has never talked to Spitz between the 3rd and 5th during a major crisis, there is CLEARLY something suspicious going on. Spitz says we are on the player's side. (Even though the CEO later reveals that through likely internal+PS discussions, they settled on PSN integration, probably to ban people better as Misty claims) Spitz says Sony did the announcement. (AH knew this was coming months ago) Oh, by the way, Sony, not us, made the FAQ, the Steam announcement and change. (Even though there's no way the AH team did not coordinate and talk to the Sony team)

In no way is Spitz helping us. On the 3rd, Misty had said the overwhelming number of people trying to link accounts for the first half hour of launch was what caused them to disable linking. You didn't know Asian helldivers couldn't do this...? You looked at attempted PSN links on launch day and didn't notice the problem in certain areas? Nothing is 'wrong', but this sounds very strange...
Spitz claims he didn't know some countries didn't have the ability to make the PSN account which screwed over our Asia Helldivers. This sounds strange. You are telling me that 6+ months ago, AH knew about PSN linkage but no person in AH or Sony knew that PSN accounts were not possible in many areas and NO ONE brought this up? This is not Sony's first time publishing a game. The CEO also claims this, and while yes it is plausible, it is just... suspicious. And the CEO says they were 'forced' to comply with PS and they KNEW there was going to be backlash. I am just going to stop speculating here and say three people are saying three different things. I feel like I am doing law school exam problems that are like: "Bob lied, but Nancy blames Ernest. John said Ernest tells the truth all the time."

And to address the craziest statement you will probably never see a developer call for ever again: You should review bomb the game. This is what really got me interested. I don't know what to make of this remark, but here is the best I can do:
If this game trained Helldivers to do something well, it's to collaborate on a major order.
At this point in time - people are absolutely just destroying the game on steam.
AH is watching their playerbase plummet, but there is a silver lining while this is going on - everyone is angry at Sony! And almost not at AH at all. Given how deceptive Spitz has been in leaving out just the right details, Spitz - is roleplaying the Super Earth Propaganda Minister (SEPM) by pushing all the blame onto Sony and keeping AH friendly with players. In conflict with this, Misty's statement on the 3rd would have made it seem like AH was the origin of the reason for PSN integration, which to this day, I'm still not certain how much of this was desired by AH.
If the players were all angry at AH, the game would be dead or have a far harder time recovering. We would no longer trust the developers. If the players directed their anger at Sony, players aren't really angry at the game and just want Sony to back down. AH can recover much more of its reputation and playerbase more easily. This is what AH would prefer if it had the choice between one or the other.
Why am I ultimately this suspicious of their CM team?

This is because this is a story about the Helldivers CMs who are roleplaying Super Earth Secret Police just a little bit too hard.

Every time they have only worsened AH's headaches with deceptive and rude treatment of their own community.
Going back, there is a trail of mess coming out of the discord and these community team that perfectly explains how they like to operate. Here is one of the most notable examples.

The F incident

If you haven't heard of the "F" incident, it began with people spamming the word "F" in their official server chat because the game went down. People were clearly just having fun bantering. To keep control, the moderation team actually PINGED the 100,000 members in the server, telling them to stop spamming "F" and threatening bans over spamming "F".
OBVIOUSLY THIS BACKFIRED. 100,000 people were pinged for the stupidest reason ever heard of, IMMEDIATELY more people started typing "F" in chat.
WELL regarding the bans, they weren't kidding. Summary here. So real quick, putting "F" in chat got you permabanned from the server. They don't even give a reason. You'll just find out that the server is gone from your server list. And no, you can't come back.
I think the moderator who did this and not the CM was kicked out for this. (might not be true) Well. Regardless this is just a case of idiots pulling in yet more idiots.
Frankly, I've never seen a server run more poorly and the way that their official discord is managed (not very well) only exposes how rude the people in their community team is toward the community. They would be deceptive when honesty is better. At one point we all loved this game and maybe we can continue doing so. But if we come back from this their community team needs to change.

In the official discord, I mean, let's just look at just a couple reasons I've seen people get banned for.

• "banned because someone linked my comment pinging a mod, instead of the actual person talking shit, and they banned me lmao", the mod "Didn’t even bother to check why they got pinged."
• Telling a mod they missed 90% of warhammer talk
• Talking about warhammer
• Having only numbers in your username. Who even cares, and why are you permabanning people for this? Not even a kick, just permaban?
• Mistyping a word, having automod catch it, being permabanned without warning or notification. You're not kicked. You're permanently banned.
• "I'm not on the official for whatever reason. I've been banned and I don't know why. All I can think of is because I called people who kick with no warning cucks." (probably talking about helldivers gameplay)
• Being banned for asking when some bugs would be fixed

What happens if people try to appeal the bans with an alt? They can get permabanned too.
It's just a mess how AH community team sees hundreds of thousands of players and thinks it won't make a dent in their numbers if they just treat people like garbage. What is the point of this community team? Well, the problem with having these types of people on your team is shown very well in how they have handled recent events.
In the end, what seems fair to say is that PSN integration was going to roll out at launch. It was delayed. Months after launch, it was re-implemented, but this was perceived as Sony's decision, and players were suspicious that Sony was trying to inflate their user count for the shareholders. However, it appears to be more complicated over exactly who wanted how much PSN integration. But again, the lack of consistency from either the CEO or the CMs and hostility from the Super Earth Secret Police who are supposed to be community managers has been the only constant.
Thanks for reading.
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Since I do not use reddit I am just using my friend's account here to share this piece with you all. I just picked a category, hopefully that works.

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