Does anyone have any insight on Sunny’s bulletin board of Tess?

I have been playing a [[glissa, the traitor]] deck that I enjoy playing. I love artifacts, I love recursion, and I love playing black. My established playgroup does not enjoy it as much.
The gameplan for Glissa requires me to be removing a lot of pieces from my opponents board. This usually leads to mass removal spells, sacrifice stax pieces like [[grave pact]], and generally controlling the board. We have been having more open conversations about our decks and trying to build in a way that allows for all four of us to feel like our decks are at least accomplishing their intended goal most of the time. I have always been a more controlling player so this has been a tough change for me.
My future with this deck is one of three choices:
1) power it down. I believe this is not really an option because the commander leads to a play pattern that will still cause animosity. That could be rectified by
2) changing the commander. There are not many choices for a Golgari artifacts deck. I have considered shifting it into a mono black [[imotekh the stormlord]] deck. It would allow me to use the majority of my pieces, and I could have a more go-wide deck with less removal. I’m sure there are other options for it, but I haven’t looked very hard yet. My other choice is
3) lean into the archenemy. Terrorize the table. Give them someone to root against. It could allow for some neat games, but my deck isn’t much stronger than other decks, just more controlling. I would get wiped every game and I’m sure it wouldn’t be fun.
This is what I am faced with, and I’m looking for advice outside of my table, whether it be commander suggestions or navigating this issue.
Here is the Glissa deck for reference:
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/kWQLnCQEC0GUGpnTtpYYcQ

I came to this sub hoping to find solutions but instead finding a lot of gloomy posts. Most recommend surgery which is not reasonable for the vast majority. This sub should have non-surgical intervention information as well. Theres lots of talk online about doomscrolling and how bad it can be for mental health, I view this sub as a form of doomscrolling for OSD. Well, i'm here to change that.
I'm 33m and had OSD when i was 14-17 ish, but it resolved itself. I took up powerlifting when i was 23/24, and have trained with heavy weights off and on for the last 10 years or so. I do have some lingering injuries from when I was younger (ankles and hip). Recently my knee decided it would flare up and the pain has made it impossible to train the way I like to. Squatting or lunging would give me sharp pain, 6-8/10 scale. Taking time off from training didn't help either. I was thinking to go surgery, but speaking with various Dr's here made it clear that was a poor option. All suggested pysio and stretching. I'm not a huge fan of physio and now that I have a newborn I don't have that kind of time.
I started digging a bit more and the physiotherapy route became more appealing, but I would do it myself in place of my old workouts. Better to be a bit weaker and pain free than train through the pain and end up broken. The more reading I did, the more I realized that OSD is effectively a tendonitis or tendinopathy, with the added bonus of having a painful protrusion on the tibia. But given that it's a tendinopathy, that can be treated. Typical treatment for tendinopathy is load reduction, static stretching, dynamic stretching (mobility), and physiotherapy. I also did some searching and found This Post on a running subreddit about how a slantboard helped someone with OSD.
Searching for slantboards and exercises with them, I came across Knees over Toes Guy, specifically this video. Its a bit long-winded, but the main takeaway are to do the following exercises:

1. Backwards walking (preferably on a treadmill with the power off, but can be done outside in a safe place on a flat surface)
2. Tib raises (leaning your back on a wall, try to have your toes touch your shins)
3. Calf Raises
4. Single leg split squat, but with heel and/or foot elevated, can use a pole or stick to balance. Add weight as appropriate
5. 'Patrick' Squat (single leg step down squat)

I do 4 sets of 15 or 20 for each exercise. it should take you about half hour. You may not be able to train as much or as hard if you're taking this on.
The goal for all these is to engage your knee and patellar tendon in a targeted manner, in movement patterns that are safe and aligned with the function of the knee. So far these are working great for me. I have gone from a baseline pain of 3-4/10 to a 0-1/10, and during exercise my pain is now 1-3/10 instead of the 6-8/10. Of course I havent resumed heavy lifting, but even doing simple exercises would hurt and now I don't have as much pain.
In terms of mobility, This video shows you what dynamic stretches you can do to help with the knee. To simplify, the exercises are:
Big toe stretch. slant board calves stretch calves raises 3 sets of 20 hamstring stretch on slant board J-Curl on slant-board 90 90 position . ISO hold harder version butterfly stretch . Hands or dumbbell couch stretch 10-15 sec ATG KOT split squat ( start elevated and assisted.
Try this for a couple weeks, if you're here you're probably fed up with your situation and want some help. Not much downside to giving it a go.

I am an OG player since 2014 and I have been doing fine until around 2019 (iirc) when suddenly my world is ruined. My stuffs in backpack is still there including Dls and items. I don't give any access to anyone. My password and GrowID is still the same. I saw bulletin board and there is someone posted "I had fun with your world XD".
I know this is from before the 2 step verification era but you still need to guess my password or hack my email to access my account. I didn't change my password until recently (with additional protection provided of course) and it has been fine. I'm so confused whether my account is safe or not.
Note : I don't post this to ask for help. I'm just confused and scared, that's all.

Are these a thing still? Does anyone know where I might find bulletin boards that I’m able to use to pin up ads in public places?

Basically a 2 part plan ---- Turn 1 hey diddle diddle with plasma and las weapons and recons taking out an HSS augury, then turn 2 hope to hit the deepstrike of Praetor and friends (companions + warmonger), librarian and friends (assaults), and 2x Excindio in drop pods.
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Centurion [140Pts]: Firewing, Librarian, Psychic Discipline: Telepathy . Librarian: Artificer Armour, Warhawk Jump Pack . . Bolt Pistol, Force Axe
Centurion [135Pts]: Firewing, Warmonger . Warmonger: Artificer Armour, Boarding Shield, Thunder Hammer
Elites: Castra Ferrum Dreadnought Talon [340Pts]: Ironwing . 2x Castra Ferrum Dreadnought: Gravis Lascannon, Gravis Lascannon, Searchlights
Rapier Battery [195Pts]: Dreadwing, Laser Destroyer . 3x Rapier Battery
Techmarine Covenant [70Pts] Techmarine: Bolt Pistol, Cognis-Signum, Firewing, Power Axe
Troops: Assault Squad [170Pts]: Dreadwing . Legion Assault Sergeant: Power Armour, Power Fist . 7x Legionaries (collective): 7x Bolt Pistol, 7x Chainsword . 2x Legionary w/ Options: Bolt Pistol, Power Axe
Dreadwing Interemptor Squad [415Pts]: Interemptor Praefectus, Artificer Armour, 6x Interemptors . Land Raider Proteus Carrier: Multi-Melta, Twin-linked Heavy Bolter
Reconnaissance Squad [159Pts]: Dreadwing . Legion Recon Sergeant: Bolt Pistol, Nemesis Bolter . 3x Recon Legionary: Bolt Pistol, Nemesis Bolter . Recon Legionary: Bolt Pistol, Nemesis Bolter, Nuncio-Vox . Recon Legionary: Bolt Pistol, Bolter, Chain Bayonet
Tactical Support Squad [251Pts]: Dreadwing, Plasma Repeater . Legion Tactical Support Sergeant: Artificer Armour, Bolt Pistol . 7x Legionaries (collective): 7x Bolt Pistol
Heavy Support: + . Excindio Battle-automata [490Pts]: 2x Plasma Repeaters, Tyrhenius pattern nerve induction shredder - Dreadnought Drop Pod: Ironwing
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I’ve been re-watching episodes where Dr Bailey started out as a mousey intern, full of shyness, and severely lacking confidence, and became the powerhouse that she evolved into when she initially taught each of the original five.
Bailey loved each of the original five as her own children, that’s why she gets so frustrated when Meredith puts herself in these kind of situations. It’s a mother’s frustration, a mother’s love.
Lets examine Bailey over the entire series run.
She loved each of original five as if they were her own children, and thats why she gets so frustrated when Meredith does something to put herself in these kinds of situations. Its a mothers love…is it not?
I mentioned Meredith’s trial as an example yesterday, and i re-watched it closely and revised my opinion.
She knew as far back as season 3 that Meredith was a pain in her side. Remember the panties on the bulletin board?
Remember her being protective of Meredith and laying into McDreamy when he caught them in a parked car?
She also knew that Meredith had the makings of an excellent surgeon. She knew that Meredith had to go through the refiners fire.
Heres a transcript of her speech.
Dr. Bailey: 'Ever since I first met Meredith Grey I knew she was going to be a thorn in my side. You're worried about her breaking rules? Well, that's not gonna stop. She's been doing that since day one.
And, yes, she broke a law to save a life. So she deserved to lose her job. She deserves to pick up trash. No one should be questioning her license.
She's too good at what she does. And she's worked too hard to get to where she is. And with all that she has survived, it hasn't made her hard. It hasn't made her mean or cold. It hasn't made her not care.
It's made her better. It's made her better than anyone in this room. Well, except me. I'm Dr. Miranda Bailey, chief of surgery at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, and I approve this message.'
—————— my reasoning of Dr. Bailey at the hearing————
Bailey doesn’t try to lessen what Meredith has done. She doesn’t try to get her off the hook. She explains why Meredith is such a good surgeon and states that everything she’s been through has made her an even better doctor.
Meredith may make some interesting choices, and some of them may drive Dr. Bailey up the walls, just like children often do. But given their relationship, Dr. Bailey hated Meredith’s actions, but not Meredith herself.
Have you ever been in a situation where someone you loved and cared about did something you you hated and didnt approve of? Did you hate them for it or did you hate *what they did* but not themselves?
You can hate what someone does without hating the person themselves. That is what I believe Bailey has done. In the beginning of the series, she was billed as a not-see (not typing it out)
This was Dr Bailey’s first speech to the interns in S1E1
"I have five rules, memorize them,” she told the interns. “Rule number don't bother sucking up, I already hate you, that's not gonna change, trauma protocol…nurses will page you, you will answer every page at a run. A run, that’s rule number two.”
“Your first shift starts now and lasts 48 hours. You’re interns, grunts, nobodies, bottom of the surgical food chain,” she continued.
“You run labs, write orders, work every second until you drop and don’t complain. On-call rooms, Attendings hog them, sleep when you can where you can, which brings me to rule number three if I’m sleeping, don’t wake me unless your patient is actually dying."
“Rule number four, the dying patient better not be dead when I get there, then not only would you have killed someone, you would have woke me for no good reason, we clear?”
She was responsible for turning out excellent surgeons.
You dont go easy on them and expect them to thrive and survive. You go hard on them. But you want them to succeed.
Otherwise you are just wasting your time, your resources, and the lives of the patients that they lost.
In the current season, Dr Bailey is back, doing what she did in the beginning, but this time she has 20 years experience.
We’ve seen Miranda go soft on people during the series and we’ve seen that doesn't turn out very well. Remember what BCB is an acronym for? What surgeons need is tough love. What surgeons need is someone to inspire them.
Bailey may be straightforward, tough, and full of wit and wisdom. Without a doubt, she is a really good physician and an independent one at that. However that independence has cost her personal relationships such as Ben.
She hated that Ben became a firefighter and is how in a very perilous environment day after day, but she doesn’t hate the guy.
If anything, Miranda has become more compassionate and more open hearted…not hateful
Not too long ago, Miranda started a women’s clinic at the hospital and as a result of her hard work in the face of adversity from the pro-lifers, she wins the esteemed Catherine Fox Award.
How can you do something like that while spreading hate throughout the hospital? You cant.

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When I was in my early 20’s, I worked at a dog boarding facility.
It wasn’t a bad gig by any means. A lot of menial work, sure, but it paid the bills, and most of the time I was stationed at the front desk, which meant I avoided a lot of direct interaction with most of the dogs. Instead, I dealt with the owners (or “pet parents,” as we called them), which, while more my forte, was oftentimes arguably worse. At least with a dog, you can justify it being stupid.
Looking back on that night now, I would have much rather dealt with a person than the dog that I had encountered.
One of my duties when working the front desk in the evenings was cleaning the lobby and locking the front doors for the night. The opening shift would then come in the morning, unlock the doors, and the cycle would repeat. This is what I had been doing when I realized I had locked myself out of the building.
For a little additional context, the building itself had three front doors. Two led into a sort of breezeway before you got to the actual front door, which led into the actual building. The first two doors had to be locked and unlocked manually, but the main door locked and unlocked itself automatically on a timer. Normally, this was no issue. Every employee had a fob that, when pressed on a sensor near the door, would unlock it briefly to allow entry. But my fob was attached to my keys, which were tucked away in my locker within the building.
Usually, again, this would have been a minor inconvenience at worst. I could simply go around to the back door, bang on it for a minute or two, and wait for one of my coworkers to open the door. But, I had to stay behind that evening and finish cleaning the lobby, having been delayed by a few last-minute pickups and a particularly chatty client on the phone. We had been working with a skeleton crew, as new hires had been few and far between, and the girl I had been working with was tired and eager to go home. I let her go and told her I would lock up on my own.
I wish I had told her to stay.
Standing there in the breezeway, with nothing but the singular key to the two front doors, I was kicking myself. I’d fucked myself over this time, and now I was going to have to make the humiliating call for someone to come to the building and let me in. I could feel the weight of my phone in my pocket, and I slipped my hand into it, only to freeze in place.
It was not my phone, but my wallet.
Shit. It only then occurred to me that my phone was also still within the building. During the slower parts of the day, I had it out and had been texting my boyfriend at the time. Now it sat at the front desk, so close but so far at the same time. Not only had I locked myself out of the building, I had locked myself out of the building by myself, with no way to get help. In my overdramatic mind, suicide was starting to sound like a very good option.
There was a gas station about a mile or so away that I knew would be open and that, I guessed, was where I was going to have to go. There, I could presumably use a phone and get a hold of my roommate to come pick me up. In the morning, I could drop off the key and get my stuff.
I unlocked one of the two doors and stepped out, locking it once again behind me. I slipped the key into my pocket and started walking. It was already dark out and I was cold and eager to get this over with.
That’s when I heard the clicking of nails against the pavement, just barely audible.
My first instinct was that somehow, a dog had escaped. Sure, stray dogs weren’t uncommon, especially in the city that I lived in, but given the proximity to the building, I had feared that somehow, some way, a dog had managed to slip out under our noses and get out of the building. This would have taken either some incredible negligence on our end or some incredible intelligence on the dog’s, but it technically was possible.
I turned around and scanned the area, trying to locate the source of the sound. The parking lot was illuminated by a singular streetlight and the outside lights from the nearby buildings, and the dark of night was creeping in, thick and inky black. The noise came from further back, near the employee parking, which only fueled my suspicion that a dog had escaped. I really didn’t want to go back there in the dark, but I also wasn’t too keen on getting in trouble for letting a dog get out. I slowly crept over, keeping my ears and eyes open, trying to find the dog.
Finally, it stepped out from the shadows, standing near my car. It was a large, filthy Great Pyrenees, and we briefly had a staring match as I tried to figure out who it was. We had a few Pyrenees dogs come in, but it was mostly for daycare, and we didn’t have any in the building that night. I didn’t recognize this specific dog, either, but I hoped that it had a collar with a name and number on it, so that I could at least call the owner and let them know where I had found their animal whenever I got a chance. I knelt and extended my hand, making a kissy noise in the hopes of drawing it over.
“Hi, baby,” I said, using my “dog voice,” making it as soft and non-threatening as I could. “C’mere.” The dog took a few steps forward, eyes still focused on me.
That’s when I noticed the smell. Rotting meat and blood, strong enough that I could smell it from where I stood. The dog was reeking of decay. In my mind, I rationalized it. We were next to a highway, after all. No telling what kinds of roadkill it could have been getting into. I just did my best to push through it in favor of making sure the dog was alright.
I continued my beckoning for a few minutes, doing as much baby talk as I possibly could. I didn’t want to approach the dog myself, just in case it was nervous, but if I could just get a look at that collar…
After about five minutes of this, I stood up, watching it for another moment. It wasn’t a dog I recognized and I couldn’t get it to come over to me on its own terms, so my tired and still-panicked brain decided that it wasn’t my problem. I’d just let my manager know in the morning that I had seen a dog sniffing around and that I was fairly certain it wasn’t one that we’d ever had to stay with us. Then, maybe we could find it again, clean it up, and see if it belonged to anybody. The animal control in my city isn’t particularly well-regarded, so I figured it would be better to wait and see than to get them involved.
I turned around and started to walk away, back down to the road, when I heard the clicking of nails against the pavement once again. I turned around to see the dog moving closer once again. Its movements were jerky and uncoordinated, and that combined with its condition made me think it was injured, so I stopped.
The dog never stopped moving towards me, but when it noticed that I had stopped to look at it, it stopped as well. Then, staring straight at me again, it broke out into a sprint. Its legs flailed and its head lolled as it headed straight towards me, and my stomach dropped.
Have you ever been prey? Have you ever looked something in the eyes and just known, in some deep, primal portion of your brain, that it was going to kill you? It’s a funny feeling— all the cold, heavy dread that seeps into you, like liquid into cloth.
At that moment, my mind screamed at me to run. Panicked, I broke out into a sprint, heading straight for the door to the building. I had precious seconds before it would reach me, and I fumbled with the key as I hurriedly unlocked the door and swung it open, grabbing it and slamming it closed just before the dog made it. Breathing hard, I locked the door and stepped back, my eyes still on the dog.
All that separated us now was some metal and about half an inch of glass.
I could see the dog much clearer then. Its fur was filthy with dust and dirt, and its chest was caked with something dark that I could only hope wasn’t blood. Its eyes were bloodshot and glazed over, and from its mouth dripped saliva, thick and red.
The smell was even stronger at this point, nauseatingly strong.
Whatever was going on with this dog, it was bad. I wasn’t sure of what else to do. Even if I went through the opposite door, there was no way I’d be able to outrun it. I couldn’t make a break for my car because I didn’t have my keys, which were locked in the building alongside my fob and my phone.
No way out, no way to call for help. All I could do was sit and wait in the breezeway. I figured that eventually it would give up on me. It would have to, after all. And I figured once it moved on and was gone, I could haul ass to the highway and hitchhike over to the gas station. Shakily, I sat down, my gaze never leaving the dog. It stood there, watching me, and then it whined.
I say “whined,” but it was more like a long, drawn-out wheeze, like something trying to imitate the whine of a dog instead of doing it. It punctuated the noise with a sickening gurgle, and then it held its head down to hack up a mixture of blood, saliva, and phlegm, spitting it out onto the window before it. It oozed down the glass, leaving a slimy trail behind it, and I had to look away before the sight made me vomit.
I turned my head away from it entirely, trying to steady my breathing. Despite my best efforts, the fear and nausea were about to get the best of me anyway, and I curled in on myself, doing my best to keep everything down. I inched away from the door in favor of the one opposite, trying to put as much distance between myself and the dog as I could. I have no idea how long I stayed like that, curled up into a ball. But when I looked up, the dog was still there, watching me.
I was half-convinced that I was dreaming, or that the situation wasn’t real somehow. How would I even begin to try to convince somebody of what was happening right now? What would I tell my boyfriend? “Sorry, babe, I couldn’t get to the phone last night. Zombie dog and whatnot.” What started as simply a shitty end to the night had managed to turn into the car scene of Cujo, of all things. But the churning in my stomach and the cold biting into my skin was enough to reassure me that this was all very much real. There would be no waking up, no suddenly being pulled back into reality.
I dipped my head back down, trying to convince myself that I would be okay, when I heard its nails scrape against the glass. I jerked my head back up and looked over, inhaling sharply as the dog stood on its hind legs and rested its front ones against the glass. It started to scratch at the glass, trying to claw its way in, and I flinched at the sudden movement, scooting further back. I was all but pressed against the opposite door by this point, unable to keep my eyes off of the dog.
It scratched at the door for a minute longer, stopped, then started to scratch again. Scratch, stop, scratch, stop. This pattern repeated for at least fifteen minutes, and I had almost gotten used to it. The glass was thick enough that I was fairly certain it would withstand the dog’s scratching, and if it didn’t, I figured I wouldn’t have to worry about anything anymore after that.
When the noise had become a somewhat tolerable pattern, I curled back up into a ball, hoping to ride out this nightmare of a situation. The noise stopped altogether and I raised my head back up to see what had happened. The dog had turned around and was walking away.
The relief was like a two-ton weight being lifted off of my chest, and I stood up to watch the dog leave. My relief was short-lived, though, when it stopped and turned around. We were once again locked into a staring match.
A pretty common rule with animals is to never look them in the eye. I had been actively avoiding doing just that this entire time, but finally, my gaze slipped down and locked into the dog’s.
There was nothing there. It was empty, like someone had removed the dog’s original eyes and replaced them with glass.
The dog broke out into a sprint again, making me flinch and jump back. As it ran, it staggered and swerved as if it were drunk, but the distance between us was short. Within seconds, it had thrown itself against the glass of the window, slamming its head against it.
I screamed. I’m not ashamed to admit it. I screamed and huddled back in the corner and watched with terror as the dog backed up, ran, and threw itself at the door, over and over again. The door was, fortunately, holding steady. Despite the dog’s repeated attempts, it was standing strong, the only thing that entire night that had done me any good.
The dog was becoming agitated. It gargled and whined as it scratched at the door once again, seeming to give up on throwing itself against the door. I noticed it had injured itself in the process, the skin just above its eye having broken open and its mouth a bloody mess. Blood oozed out of the injuries and dripped onto the ground. Then, it backed up and tried one more time.
The world went silent for the briefest moment, and then there was a sickening crunch.
With its swerving, it must have made a head-on collision with the hinge, or maybe the brick beside the door, because the moment it landed, the dog’s skull busted open from the impact, splattering gore across the window. I screamed again, and this time, the urge to vomit was too strong. I threw up then and there in the corner as the sights and smells became too much for me. I don’t know how long I spent there, on all fours, coughing and gagging as I threw up the contents of my stomach, and when I had nothing left to expel, I dry-heaved.
I collapsed on the ground after that, gasping for air between sobs. I didn’t know if the dog was still alive and at that moment I didn’t really care. I didn’t even realize I had passed out until I heard voices echoing.
When I woke up, I was aware of three things: I was on the floor of the breezeway, there was a horrible taste in my mouth, and that people were talking.
As soon as I woke up, I remembered what had happened. Locking myself out. The dog. My whole body felt like dead weight. Even when my coworkers opened the door and came over to see what was going on, I couldn’t bring myself to stand. I was still afraid if I got up, it’d still be there with its busted skull and rotten stench, pawing and scraping and gurgling.
The smell must have hit my coworkers as well because the moment they stepped in, I could hear the “oh my god”s and “what happened”s. Then, I assume, one of them noticed the gore on the window. That’s when the voices became more frantic, and the more I became aware, the more I could pick out whose voice belonged to whom.
The voice of my coworker Holly was the closest to me. I could feel her hand reach down and shake me. She was calling my name, trying to rouse me, and I did my best to focus solely on her throughout the commotion.
“What is that?!” I recognized the voice of Mertle, who worked in the back and must have spotted the dog.
“Is that a dog? Oh my god, is it dead?” There was Carlos, who had worked the front desk the previous morning and had no doubt come in to do the same today.
Holly was shaking me harder now, and I moved in response just to let her know I was alive. “Eddie, are you okay?” I could hear her asking. I didn’t want to get up, or even respond, but I had no other choice.
I got up, slowly but surely, dragging myself into a sitting position as I opened my bleary eyes. Sure enough, there was Holly, looking back and forth from the window door to me. There was Mertle, hand over her mouth, and Carlos, staring dumbfounded out the window at the dog outside. Everyone was talking all at once, and to me, it was just a massive block of noise. The dog was dead, though. The dog was dead and that, at that moment, was all that mattered to me.
“What the fuck happened?” Carlos suddenly turned around, looking down at me.
The only thing I managed to croak out was “Sorry.”
The rest of that day was a haze to me. I remember going through the motions, but not really being “there”, if that makes any sense. I can remember little details- tossing my shirt in the washing machine in the back because it was covered in vomit, sitting with my manager as he argued with the local animal control to come to collect the dog's body, watching the camera footage of me sprinting across the parking lot with the dog in tow over and over again, like a broken record.
I never did find out what was wrong with that dog. My manager suspected some kind of rabies, but I don’t know.
I quit that job not too long after. The paranoia got too much for me. Any time I would go into the back of the building, where the dogs were, I would get that feeling again. That cold, sinking dread in my stomach that would make me want to hurl. I had to have someone sit up at the front desk with me as I locked the door, as I’d be too scared to go out into the breezeway by myself when it got dark.
It came to a head when a dog got off of its lead and tried to make a bolt for the door, as it usually would. Unfortunately, I had just so happened to be between the dog and the door, and the sight of it running at me sent me into such a panic I collapsed to the ground and shook. After that, I was gone. I don’t think anybody blamed me.
I’ve put it all away in my mind, both the place and the incident. I try not to think about it too much.
I’m always mindful of my keys now, though, just in case.
Prey never stops being prey.

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This budget does not include cloth or patterns (just tools). I would like to include tailoring/measurement/cutting tools, key reference/learning books (I can check some of these from the library), and beginner tools for simple hand-sewn embroideries, stamping clothes with stencils and paint, and applying wool applique. I'd love to figure out how to make custom cloth-covered buttons as well to match dresses and coats.
Here is what I have on hand already, thanks to hand-me-downs from family and what I had already:

• a Singer XL-400 Futura sewing machine (no embroidery attachment, but I have a pedal).
• a Brother CS-6000i sewing and embroidery machine (with all attachments).
• Multi-color starter kits of thread sets and bobbin sets, plus white, black, and gray thread.
• a dedicated table and chair for sewing and cutting material.
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I heard good things about loaded bases and was excited to play it today but I'm running into issues, I go grab the flyer from the bulletin board, follow the quest marker and try and talk to the chief but both him and buggy don't say anything, not even like a response line, just stare, I tried using "Player.setstage 00LBDialogController 30" which skips the conversation with the chief and allows me to talk to him but doesn't give me a follow up quest, I have The Bleachers 2 mod installed but I have the FSD patch as well. Any advice
Modlist: https://pastebin.com/fipC8EvJ#google_vignette
Load order: https://pastebin.com/m72H3yYS

I have a bulletin board that I purchased in 2002 to provide word problem practice. You would post a story situation and each day of the week would have a different question about that same story.
It’s so old that the stories were on transparencies - I have EVERYTHING ELSE but I can’t find the transparencies for the 2002 6th grade edition.
I know chances are slim, but is there anyone who has the story problems - especially in digital format? All of the questions are useless without the stories and I’m panicking a bit. I’ve reached out to the company and they have nothing they can send me prior to 2016. I’ve googled and come up empty. You’re my last hope!

(I immediately apologize for my poor English;) A long time ago, so long ago that I remember only a few moments, I watched an episode of some cartoon. I really ask you to help me find any mentions, hints or suggestions about what kind of cartoon it was. That's all I remember.: 1. The plot of the series was that one of the main characters wrote something on paper about the villagers (I don't remember exactly what kind of place it was, maybe it wasn't a village) and attached it to a tree (or to a bulletin board). After that, he becomes ashamed of what he wrote, and he denies that he wrote it. Most likely, the moral was that you can't lie, or something like that. 2. There was a biologist character (as if it was a woman). That's all. I hope for help in the search

(I immediately apologize for my poor English;) A long time ago, so long ago that I remember only a few moments, I watched an episode of some cartoon. I really ask you to help me find any mentions, hints or suggestions about what kind of cartoon it was. That's all I remember.: 1. The plot of the series was that one of the main characters wrote something on paper about the villagers (I don't remember exactly what kind of place it was, maybe it wasn't a village) and attached it to a tree (or to a bulletin board). After that, he becomes ashamed of what he wrote, and he denies that he wrote it. Most likely, the moral was that you can't lie, or something like that. 2. There was a biologist character (as if it was a woman). That's all. I hope for help in the search

The source for all this information is the most recent calendar and the most recent content update.
Google Docs Version
 
All events begin at the daily reset unless otherwise noted.
 

Tuesday 14th May

Arena Weekly Reset [1 streak orb]

•   Bonus Heroes: L!Chrom, F!Lumera, F!Veyle, F!Ursula, F!Nergal, F!Lloyd, S!Mia, Deirdre, Emmeryn, Ver 3.0 Heroes
•   Elements: Water / Wind

Aether Raids Weekly Reset

•   Bonus Heroes: Heiðr, Mirabilis, A!Azura, Yukimura, Mozu, Hayato, Candace, Astram, L!Eirika, Sharena
•   Elements: Astra / Anima

Resonant Battles Weekly Reset

•   Bonus games: Thracia & Heroes

Allegiance Battles this week
Arena Assault+ this week
Limited Hero Battle: GHB: Perne

•   Restrictions: Jugdral, no dancer
•   Rewards: 1000 Hero Feathers and 40 Divine Codes: Part 5
•   Runs through 19th May

 

Wednesday 15th May

Seer's Snare

•   Bonus titles: Sacred Stones and Valentia
•   Daily play rewards: 6 orbs, 80 Dragonflowers
•   Clear rewards: 12 orbs, 120 Divine Codes: Ephemera 5, 12000 Feathers, 60 Dragonflowers, etc.
•   Runs through 24th May

Limited Hero Battle: LHB: Sigurd

•   Restrictions: Valentia, up to 1 dancer
•   Rewards: 1000 Hero Feathers and 80 Divine Codes: Part 5
•   Runs through 19th May

 

Thursday 16th May

Heroes with Push skills summoning banner

•   Focus Heroes currently unknown
•   Runs through 27th May

Limited Hero Battle: BHB: Lucina & Robin

•   Restrictions: Heroes, no dancer
•   Rewards: 1000 Hero Feathers and 40 Divine Codes: Part 5
•   Runs through 19th May

 

Friday 17th May

Kaze & Midori's Battle summoning banner

•   Focus Heroes: Kaze, Midori, unknown third hero
•   Runs through 22nd May

Bound Hero Battle: Kaze & Midori

•   Rewards: 9 orbs
•   Runs through 22nd May

Limited Hero Battle: LHB: Camilla

•   Restrictions: Fates, up to 1 dancer
•   Rewards: 1000 Hero Feathers and 80 Divine Codes: Part 5
•   Runs through 19th May

 

Four hours before Saturday reset

New Special Heroes Silhouettes added to notification board
 

Saturday 18th May

Rival Domains Weekly Reset [1 orb]
 

Four hours before Sunday reset

New Special Heroes Trailer added to notification board
 

Sunday 19th May

Tempest Trials+ summoning banner

•   Focus Heroes currently unknown
•   Runs through 29th May

Weekly Revival banners

•   Focus Heroes (1): Ingrid, Dedue, B!Marianne
•   Focus Heroes (2): Gatrie, Jill, Shinon
•   Focus Heroes (3): B!Alm, F!Berkut, F!Tiki
•   Runs for one week

 

4-0 hours before Monday reset

New Special Heroes Content Update / Datamine
 

Monday 20th May

New Special Heroes summoning banner

•   Focus Heroes currently unknown
•   End date currently unknown

Tempest Trials+

•   Bonus Heroes currently unknown
•   Rewards: 42 orbs, 50 Divine Codes Ephemera 5, Two Sacred Seals (currently unknown)
•   Reward Unit currently unknown
•   End date currently unknown

New Paralogue Story

•   Rewards: 9 orbs plus 3 orbs from Quests

 

This week's F2P orbs courtesy of Someweirdo237 & Unexpected_Miso

Tue May 14: 5 orbs

• 1 - New Heroes Log-In Bonus (7/10)
• 2 - Forging Bonds (7/7)
• 1 - Arena Streak
• 1 - RB / AB Quests

Wed May 15: 15 orbs

• 1 - New Heroes Log-In Bonus (8/10)
• 2 - Seer's Snare (1/3)
• 12 - Seer's Snare Timeless Rifts

Thu May 16: 1 orb

• 1 - New Heroes Log-In Bonus (9/10)

Fri May 17: 14 orbs

• 3 - New Heroes Log-In Bonus (10/10)
• 2 - Seer's Snare (2/3)
• 9 - Bound Hero Battle: Kaze & Midori

Sat May 18: 2 orbs

• 1 - Daily Quests on Saturday
• 1 - Rival Domains

Sun May 19: 5 orbs

• 1 - Tempest Trials+ Log-In Bonus (1/10)
• 2 - Seer's Snare (3/3)
• 1 - Daily Login on Sunday
• 1 - Daily Quests on Sunday

Mon May 20: 68 orbs

• 1 - Tempest Trials+ Log-In Bonus (2/10)
• 1 - Special Heroes Log-In Bonus (1/10)
• 42 - Tempest Trials+ Score
• 9 - Paralogue 98
• 3 - Paralogue 98 Lunatic Quests
• 8 - Chain Challenge Paralogues 97 & 98
• 4 - Arena Tier

Weekly Total: 110 orbs
 

Useful Links:

• Datamine information by MrGengar123
• F2P Orb Counts by Someweirdo237
• A compilation of FEH Infographs by u/Mina_7756
• Divine Codes Ephemera Pattern & Predictions by Dabottle
• Weekly Revival calendar - text
• Weekly Revival calendar - graphic
• Upcoming Seasons by Kodeplay10
• Incomplete Sacred Seal families by dualbloodlines
• List of units with upcoming refines by Julysse5
• Book 1, 2, and 3 units without refines by RafaSceptile
• List of units available in weekly Arena Summons, separated by colour by u/gravemakercynus
• F2P Arena scoring options by TiniestManatee
• Limited Hero Battle schedule by me
• Most recent official calendar

I've worked on a lot of projects at this point. I've been in the industry for years and this year I've begun a solo chapter in my journey since health issues began and I'm a stay-at-home husband now.
A year or so ago I began a Metroidavnia with a good friend of mine, he did all the programming as I am an artist and writer. We had a ton of fun working on it, got really good feedback on initial marketing and still would like to finish it one day. However the scope was too large, my friend and I both had day jobs at other studios and we were just too busy to finish at the time. "Solo" Failure 1.
I took a break from development for a while and just did my job at the studio because the halt on that project broke my heart a bit. Then it was time for round two. I started working on an 2D ARPG by myself. I used Godot (an engine I never used) and started learning GDScript (I had never programed outside of blueprints with UE4). I got 4 months into that project and the code got to be such a tangled mess it was impossible to move forward. Solo Failure 2.
I took another small break and then when my health issues began and I was home I began working on my 3D open-world RPG. Most of my professional career I've been a 3D generalist so I thought this would be a piece of cake asset wise. I used UE5 and got about a month and a half into that before I lost steam and realized the scope was ridiculous. Solo Failure 3
At this point I had noticed the pattern with scope and I decided my next project would be smaller. I began working on a top-down shooter in Godot. It would be a blend of a farming sim and rouge like. Think Moonlighter but instead of a shop you have a farm and instead of a dungeon it's various locations in an overgrown post-apocolyptic world. It was a little ambitious but I was more comfortable with programming, it was 2D pixel art (which is easier for me scale-wise) and the scope was far smaller than anything I'd done before. 3 months into development all major systems were pretty much finished and I had a playable mini-demo with some half-assed art for testing. Unfortunately I got burnt out and my eyes began to wander once more. I'm not sure if this game is dead, might scrap it for parts, but we'll call this Solo Failure 4 to be safe.
Most recently I had an idea come to me for not a game but piece of software. I've been writing and world building a setting for 7-8 years now and I've always wanted to make family trees for the characters and noble houses in my setting. There are no good programs for family trees for fantasy settings so in a little over a week I conceptualized and completed the software. I made it in Godot and I actually released the thing. It's niche and not super popular but it was correct. The scope was manageable, I made a trello board to plot the whole thing out, my programming skills are leagues better than they were in any of my other attempts and in the end I could just visualize the finished product before I began making it. Despite its popularity it's finished and I'm actually really proud of myself for it and the way it came out. It looks nice, decent sound design, and it does exactly what I set out for it to do (and then some!). Solo Success 1.
TL;DR Listen to other developers. People aren't saying your scope sucks to be mean, they're saying it because they want you to finish. I had years of experience working in the industry before starting any of these projects and nothing could've prepared me for solo dev. Start small, you can always grow later. Also, I know it's enticing to work 12 hrs a day on everyday off and pour all your soul into a project, but take a break. You need it. Best of luck!

I left a 2.5 year train wreck of a relationship back in January and have been slowly putting my life back together. Haven't really had anyone to talk to about the specifics of what happened so I wanna get this out here.
This started when I was 20 and dating my then girlfriend who I'll call E. E and I had a pretty great relationship. It was long distance at the time but we had just been living together for a month over the summer which was a lot of fun. We had arguments here and there but nothing major, and they were always more just snapping over stress than real arguing.
And then after a year of dating everything slowly went completely wrong.
I started my second year at university. I made it my goal to overcome my social anxiety this year because I hated feeling like it was holding me back from experiencing much of anything outside of my room. When I arrived I forced myself to awkwardly chat with my flatmates instead of hiding, and eventually I relaxed a little and arranged to grab drinks with them downstairs in our building later that evening.
Up until that evening I genuinely fully believed that me becoming more social would be good for my relationship. I thought, who wouldn't want their partner to become more fun, outgoing and charismatic? Who wouldn't want their partner to become confident and have a vibrant social life with lots of friends? I thought it would be so much fun having new stories to tell E about my time with people because I barely had much to talk about when I was a shut in and I felt like it was starting to make the conversation between us a little stale. I was excited to grow as a person and to see my GF be proud of me, since she always said she wanted me to go out and make more friends.
E was not happy at all. Over the course of the evening she went from neutral about the plans to tense, then to obviously annoyed, and eventually she snapped at me over text and started a full argument. I'd never had her snap at me like that and it was a totally unusual interaction between us. She said she didn't like that I was hanging out with people that she didn't know and that she didn't want me being with them in the evening or drinking with them. I was already a little drunk at this point and did a sloppy job of diffusing the situation, but I made up some excuses, left the social situation and spent the rest of the night calming E down.
I didn't realise it at the time, but that first argument was going to be our new normal. As I tried to meet new people and introduce myself to friends of friends E kept snapping at me. I was lost, because if I backed off from everyone and talked to her properly she'd calm down and eventually be on board with me meeting new people, but as soon as any actual social time was approaching she'd be so obviously uncomfortable. Freshers week started fully for my university and everyone was going out clubbing. I was joining my friends on these nights out and doing my best to keep E constantly updated with texts and pictures of me with my friends.
It was on one of these nights out that it finally became clear why E was so upset. They seemed to fully believe that I was going to meet another girl and cheat on her. I was a little shocked when she first expressed this to me. She'd been cheated on in past relationships and had told me that she worried about me doing it in the past, but we'd been together almost a year without any violations of trust on my end and it hadn't come up for some time, so I really hadn't thought about it.
If she hadn't been so upset I would have laughed it all off. I've always been awful with women and was a terminally online self-identified incel for most of my teenage years. I socialised exclusively through a small group of male friends that were very supportive of me, and while I had female friends here and there I was absolutely not skilled with women. I have what is possibly the least sexy personality a person can have, a fun personality but one that would kill any romantic or sexual tension a person might feel for me instantly. I can't stress enough that anyone that knows me really should know that me hooking up with someone at a club or any social event would be massively out of character and weird for me, and E definitely should have realised this. It didn't seem to matter because every argument was a rush of raw panic, insecurity and jealousy on their end, which I could always diffuse but only after being a verbal punching bag for the night.
The entire year went by with no real improvement, and I was pissed. E was ruining social events constantly for me and nothing seemed to make her happy. I'd never let a social event take full priority over E and it felt like she abused that fact. I'd spend most nights out with people on my phone the entire time calming E down and usually left early to go call E. I didn't mind, because as far as I was concerned she was more important than any given night out, but as this became a regular pattern I realised it was killing the social life I had tried to build. Friends started noticing that I was visibly on edge constantly and asking what was wrong, and I explained that I was having trouble communicating with E and explained some of her insecurities. My friends were sympathetic and made an effort to be extra cautious with girls around me, going out of their way to never let me get left alone with a girl even briefly and making it clear that I was taken every time they introduced me to someone.
E had slowly grown to hate every specific person I was friends with in my university city, seeing all of them as bad influences that did nothing but take my time away from her. She hated my lifestyle, telling me that I got drunk too much and was constantly hanging out with people that couldn't be trusted. I was on board with cutting back on drinking, since like most students getting into partying for the first time I could definitely drink a little too much and end up feeling gross. Beyond this, however, it felt like E was using genuine concern as a facade to shut down my social life. She would make up hyper specific problems with every person I told her about, especially girls, to the point where I could no longer actually trust any of her judgements on people as she expressed them to me.
The next summer passed. We didn't manage to arrange to see each other in person that year because of money and that probably did put a strain on E. I worked in retail over the summer and was constantly being shouted at by E for interacting with female coworkers and customers or helping her through breakdowns because she would convince herself that I was going to leave her for someone else I met at work. It hurt because the entire reason I got the job was to get money to visit E, but I pushed through the summer and got to the next year.
This year I barely even try. I go to a few social events but after encountering arguments with E again I just give up and cut back on them massively. This is somehow still not enough to entirely stop arguments over the matter since even very small amounts of social time seem like too much for E. She clearly didn't want me around anyone ever and any amount of time I spent with friends was always going to be seen as a big compromise on her end. It became clear to me that, in her eyes, the default should be me spending 100% of my free time with her and any time taken away from her needed to be justified. She saw me going out with friends just for fun as taking time away from her for no good reason, and she was fundamentally never going to be okay with that.
Throughout the term E becomes much more involved with online social groups and starts spending a lot of time with them. This should have been a good thing for us but I hated it. E was a massive hypocrite when she was with people, completely ignoring me and seemingly forgetting about my existence until whatever she was doing was over. She was always at home and I knew that if I could find time to text here and there while out with people then she could find time to acknowledge my existence while playing Minecraft with someone. She was still not happy with me going out with people and the double standard started to make me resent her a lot.
At some point I just got sick of it and started pushing E away entirely. Between the horrific arguments, isolation from my friends and poor mental health for other reasons I was really struggling and I stopped going to classes pretty early in the term. I would lie to E and tell her that I was still going but I would just sit in bed most of the time because there was nothing I felt like doing. I ended up finding online groups of my own to escape mentally from my situation, and that's where the cheating comes in.
At some point the growing numbness and resentment I felt towards E made me lose all respect for the relationship entirely. Our relationship felt dead and I was only in it because I didn't know how to handle a breakup with someone as emotionally volatile as E, and I was very much addicted to the feeling of winning her affection back after an argument. I had become so pathetic constantly begging for me own girlfriend to actually like me. Any kind of fliritng or sexual talk between us had vanished and at that point I wasn't even convinced that E was being faithful to me, but I didn't need that to justify how I felt. I decided that I was just going to go flirt with other people, half out of spite and half because I was starving for someone to be remotely interested in me as a person.
Nothing actually happened for a few weeks beyond me deciding that I wasn't gonna make an effort to shut people flirting with me down anymore. I barely had a social life anyway. Nothing happened until I ran into another girl in an online group who I'll call M. In spite of how I felt I was still very much not a flirty person, and when I started talking to M it seemed like just a friendly interaction that I wasn't expecting anything from. She played a game that I used to play with my friends and E a lot and we talked about playing together some time. The conversation was chill but pretty thin, and we seemed to just be casual friends.
At some point M and I were talking about music, and shortly after that she sent me a playlist she had made saying I should give it a listen some time. I did and she was clearly very happy about it and getting excited when I liked certain songs she liked. I don't really know at what point after that she started to go from friendly to flirty, but after that interaction we'd been talking a lot more and she eventually started to drop some pretty blunt hints that she was interested. She'd gently push the topic of conversation towards relationships, intimacy, sex and such, making a lot of jokes about how we should cuddle and reminding me that she was single. To be clear I hid my relationship from E with her entirely so she did not do anything wrong here. As I'd decided, I didn't stop the flirting and let played along with her, returning a lot of her flirty jokes. This got more and more blunt until we were directly talking about sex a lot, and she was making an effort to make any pictures she of herself she sent to me more and more revealing until we both took the bait and started outright sexting.
Honestly, it felt great talking to M. I didn't feel guilty at all and would have almost wanted E to find out if I thought it would actually end the relationship rather than causing them to become infinitely more unstable towards me. Sadly after spending more time texting and calling over the course of a few weeks M was clearly starting to get a little attached and wanted to come visit me, which was way too easy to do for me to find any real excuse not to. I knew I didn't want to deal with that so I quickly blocked her on everything before that could escalate. I flirted with a few more people here and there but it never got particularly explicit again, and I never engaged with anyone in person in that way at all.
Towards the Christmas break I was feeling broken. The cheating just showed me how much I craved affection from other people, and I realised that I was never going to have it. I'm not attractive or charismatic enough to easily find find other relationships or hookups, and I felt like E was the biggest bit of luck I would ever get. That was ruined and I felt lonely, unwanted and disgusted by how pathetic and desperate my actions had become. I just powered through the Christmas break with E and acted normal while I prepared how I was going to break up with her. I wanted to do it after my exams because I didn't want any potential fallout to impact my grades more than this relationship already had, but E ended up forcing things.
The night before I was due to return to university E blew up at me, this time because she found it suspicious that I hadn't been talking about a particular new female flatmate much (I just didn't get along with this person that well) and didn't trust her. I explained that it was nothing, and the response I got was something to the effect of "when you inevitably cheat on me with her just know I won't even be surprised." I just said "cool okay then" and we sat in silence for a few minutes before she said she was going to sleep and immediately hung up. I knew she wasn't but I didn't care.
I caught the train back to university and my first exam was the next day. I told E over text that I needed to focus on the exams and didn't want back and forth arguing while I was preparing to sit them. She sent me a lengthy response saying that she loved me and wanted the relationship to work, but that I'd triggered a huge breakdown by not attempting to calm her down when we last argued and that we needed to have a talk about handling out communication in future, and that she could not speak to me at all until we had talked about what happened. I agreed to have a serious talk as soon as I could.
After a couple of days, however, E sent another long message saying she couldn't cope with the no contact and that she needed the talk to happen now. I ignored the message for a day and she deleted it. I was emotionally finished and realised I didn't actually care about giving E a real breakup conversation anymore. Early the next moring I sent her a long message explaining that our relationship was over and blocked her on everything before she woke up.
That was 4 months ago and I haven't heard from E or seen anything related to her since. The long distance and resultant separation of our lives means there'd be no natural contact even in online spaces, so I do not have a single bit of information about what happened on her end after the breakup. I'm doing a lot better personally now which everyone in my life points out constantly. I'm rebuilding my social life and fixing my education, even though that's now a little uncertain because of how bad the beginning of the year went. I feel great outside of just being very frustrated over the situation and how I handled it. I do genuinely hope E is doing okay too, and suspect that her mental health has probably drastically improved since we broke up as I know her insecurity and paranoia in the relationship was unhealthy.
I don't think I will ever consider dating again, at least not without a lot of therapy first. I left a lot of detail out in this post but the relationship became dangerously unhealthy for me. I'm shocked and disgusted by how pathetic and easily manipulated I was throughout the entire 2.5 years, and angry that I wasted such a big part of my life (I'm 22 now) on something that I should have known much earlier was going nowhere. Life is good now, but relationships seem to bring out the absolute worst in me and I'd rather those parts of me stay buried forever.
If I learned anything from this situation it's that lifestyle compatibility is hugely important in a relationship. I was naive to think that I could live however I wanted when I was involved so deeply with another person. I also realise now that you can't have a relationship where one person is always the villain in arguments. It leaves you with a very toxic one-sided dynamic where you become your partner's verbal punching bag and emotional safety blanket at the same time.
Thanks for reading if you made it this far. This was very long and I'm not expecting much response, but it feels amazing to have it typed out.