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2024.05.15 06:47 FurryUwU1256 Headgasket
So, I have a 1994 mercury sable GS, to give some background, since I bought the car for 500 a year ago, its always had a leak from the exhaust into the coolent system. Nothing too bad, since their was no oil inside the combustion chambers or white smoke coming out of the tail pipe. But a few days ago my car suddenly got really hot (I obviously stopped it before it go way too hot) I let it sit for a moment, I checked the hoses and they where hard from the pressure and coolent, so I drove it home and it worked fine. I checked the oil two days ago and you guess it. The forbidden chocky milk, the ford milkshake. So, my question is, what would you quote to do the headgasket plus the rest of the gaskets along the way (Injectors, intake, valve covers, manifold) for the 3.0 Vulcan. I watched a video about it, you dont have to mess with timing because its a rocker engine, its an older engine and such. In considering putting sealer into the engine, then if that doesn't work/next time it blows again I'll either A- take it to a shop, or B- do it myself. Ive done every single repair so far on my car, so I'm not unfamiliar with tools or my car (ive done water pump, vacuum lines, suspension, bushings, coolent flushes, bleeds, oil changes etc) so how much would you quote? Or would I be better doing it myself?
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2024.05.15 06:46 Nodistractions_gal Medical gaslighting experience
May I get outsiders perspective on this. Just seeking a space to vent & see what I did wrong.
So long story short, I am on my period. I inserted a tampon during the day. And later when removing it, I noticed only the bottom half came out.
I checked the toilet. Nothing there. You can see the way the tampon was shaped, it looked broken off. Y’all….I tried to see if I could remove anything. Nothing came out. My parents advised to seek medical help.
I went to the urgent care & arrived 45 mins before they closed for the day. Immediately, the patient care coordinator (PCC) that took my vitals, it felt standoffish. My gut felt something was off & she didn’t care about my plight. She left & soon after a Nurse practitioner & his nurse came in. He used a speculum to inspect & he said he saw nothing. He wanted to check my cervix, but I am a wimp & was in a lot of pain & yelped out. He stopped the exam, & said from what he saw, he didn’t see anything & I could seek a second opinion if I was still concerned. I thanked him & they left.
But my Mom said to call her before leaving. She is a Nurse & she said to ask for a X-Ray is possible. So I asked the PCC if I can get a X-ray to be sure, y’all SHE LIED & verbally said their facility didn’t have x-rays. She was impatient with me, huffing & visibly annoyed, I had called my mother by this point, & on the phone with my Mom, just to feel safe. I don’t trust the PCC at this point either.
I relayed what the PCC said to my mom, she said ok, go ahead & leave, I then hung up the phone, which was when the PCC, she asks if I am done & ready to go, in an aggravated rushed tone. As if I was a huge nuisance for her asking all these questions.
Later, after changing, I went back to the front to ask for the names of people that saw me. They only gave me the 1st name of the PCC. I asked the Nurse practitioner if they had x-rays, & he confirmed that yes they do! But I will not get an x-ray b/c it wasn’t appropriate & he said my mom was wrong & she doesn’t know what she’s talking about. Again he relayed this in a very condescending tone. I asked if he’ll provide a reason why it was inappropriate, he said no. I asked if he’ll document refusing this medical service for me, he said no.
At that point, it was 7 mins past their closing period. I understand they had a long day & wanted to leave. People in the office looked visibly uncomfortable. I was talking in firm, leveled tone, but the vibe made me feel like a major nuisance or annoyance. According to some reddit forums, asking to document refusal of service is considered dumb. Is this true? Did I take it too far? Over imagining things? My parents said I wasn’t and to seek a 2nd opinion to be sure. I was doing my best to advocate for myself while maintaining a calm demeanor to express my concerns.
But damn, tonight was my 1st time experience of this. What should I have done differently? Was I dumb asking those questions & taking up so much time? One thing for sure, this experience, it’s motivated me to truly think of ways to help Black patients in healthcare settings.
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So long story short, I am on my period. I inserted a tampon during the day. And later when removing it, I noticed only the bottom half came out.
I checked the toilet. Nothing there. You can see the way the tampon was shaped, it looked broken off. Y’all….I tried to see if I could remove anything. Nothing came out. My parents advised to seek medical help.
I went to the urgent care & arrived 45 mins before they closed for the day. Immediately, the patient care coordinator (PCC) that took my vitals, it felt standoffish. My gut felt something was off & she didn’t care about my plight. She left & soon after a Nurse practitioner & his nurse came in. He used a speculum to inspect & he said he saw nothing. He wanted to check my cervix, but I am a wimp & was in a lot of pain & yelped out. He stopped the exam, & said from what he saw, he didn’t see anything & I could seek a second opinion if I was still concerned. I thanked him & they left.
But my Mom said to call her before leaving. She is a Nurse & she said to ask for a X-Ray is possible. So I asked the PCC if I can get a X-ray to be sure, y’all SHE LIED & verbally said their facility didn’t have x-rays. She was impatient with me, huffing & visibly annoyed, I had called my mother by this point, & on the phone with my Mom, just to feel safe. I don’t trust the PCC at this point either.
I relayed what the PCC said to my mom, she said ok, go ahead & leave, I then hung up the phone, which was when the PCC, she asks if I am done & ready to go, in an aggravated rushed tone. As if I was a huge nuisance for her asking all these questions.
Later, after changing, I went back to the front to ask for the names of people that saw me. They only gave me the 1st name of the PCC. I asked the Nurse practitioner if they had x-rays, & he confirmed that yes they do! But I will not get an x-ray b/c it wasn’t appropriate & he said my mom was wrong & she doesn’t know what she’s talking about. Again he relayed this in a very condescending tone. I asked if he’ll provide a reason why it was inappropriate, he said no. I asked if he’ll document refusing this medical service for me, he said no.
At that point, it was 7 mins past their closing period. I understand they had a long day & wanted to leave. People in the office looked visibly uncomfortable. I was talking in firm, leveled tone, but the vibe made me feel like a major nuisance or annoyance. According to some reddit forums, asking to document refusal of service is considered dumb. Is this true? Did I take it too far? Over imagining things? My parents said I wasn’t and to seek a 2nd opinion to be sure. I was doing my best to advocate for myself while maintaining a calm demeanor to express my concerns.
But damn, tonight was my 1st time experience of this. What should I have done differently? Was I dumb asking those questions & taking up so much time? One thing for sure, this experience, it’s motivated me to truly think of ways to help Black patients in healthcare settings.
2024.05.15 06:45 AdEastern6645 WIBTAH for getting upset with my sister about her use of my car?
I (M18) am graduating high school on May 25th. I currently share an old car with my younger sister (F16) and we split our time using it fairly well. When I need the car I get it, when she needs it she gets it, and any conflicts in our schedule are generally worked out pretty easily. On a daily basis, I drive her to school and pick her up, since I have fewer classes than her (being a senior) so our schedules don’t line up.
Over the last several weeks, she has gotten much more insistent and rude about the car. She calls me at weird times asking for rides, takes the car without letting me know, and talks down to me anytime I drive her someplace, as if I’m her taxi service or something.
Additionally, the car is in pretty bad condition (it’s a 2007 Volkswagen with 300,000+ miles) and has been steadily declining the past several months. I drive extremely carefully because of this (I pay for all the repairs on the car), but I have my suspicions that she doesn’t take very good care of it when she’s out. Finally, I should note that I pay for all of the gas.
She is now insisting on taking the car every day next week, which is my last week of high school as a senior and involves all kinds of fun events and activities that I won’t be able to attend without the use of my car. She isnt asking for the car, she’s taking it outright.
Would I be the asshole if I fought her (verbally) over this? I’m a pretty nonconfrontational guy and I’m not sure who my parents would side with, but I’m really getting tired of her treatment of me.
Thanks to anyone who takes the time to reply.
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Over the last several weeks, she has gotten much more insistent and rude about the car. She calls me at weird times asking for rides, takes the car without letting me know, and talks down to me anytime I drive her someplace, as if I’m her taxi service or something.
Additionally, the car is in pretty bad condition (it’s a 2007 Volkswagen with 300,000+ miles) and has been steadily declining the past several months. I drive extremely carefully because of this (I pay for all the repairs on the car), but I have my suspicions that she doesn’t take very good care of it when she’s out. Finally, I should note that I pay for all of the gas.
She is now insisting on taking the car every day next week, which is my last week of high school as a senior and involves all kinds of fun events and activities that I won’t be able to attend without the use of my car. She isnt asking for the car, she’s taking it outright.
Would I be the asshole if I fought her (verbally) over this? I’m a pretty nonconfrontational guy and I’m not sure who my parents would side with, but I’m really getting tired of her treatment of me.
Thanks to anyone who takes the time to reply.
2024.05.15 06:44 Grumpy_Doggo64 A problem I encountered while Coding Conway's game if life
Naturally I would need to print out a matrix over and over. The problem is that the only way I found to do it is: Print->sleep->clear->repeat
There are 2 problems with it. The matrix takes some time to print so I can't have small delays between prints and clears.
The clears are visible.
It's not that it doesn't work. It's just aesthetically displeasing
Is there any way to 1) prin the matrices out faster? To boost the speed I have made the whole matrix a 1d string and print that out instead. It's faster but not as fast as I'd like
2)perhaps overwrite written data on the console. Can't find any data on it and \r only works on a single line. Or generally fix the refresh rate being so ugly
I thought of trying to make the program use the GPU for more processing power but I don't know if the solution to my problems is more power
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There are 2 problems with it. The matrix takes some time to print so I can't have small delays between prints and clears.
The clears are visible.
It's not that it doesn't work. It's just aesthetically displeasing
Is there any way to 1) prin the matrices out faster? To boost the speed I have made the whole matrix a 1d string and print that out instead. It's faster but not as fast as I'd like
2)perhaps overwrite written data on the console. Can't find any data on it and \r only works on a single line. Or generally fix the refresh rate being so ugly
I thought of trying to make the program use the GPU for more processing power but I don't know if the solution to my problems is more power
2024.05.15 06:44 nanopaladin [Discord][Duo/1x1][5e] Looking for collaborative player!
Hello, hello everyone!
I am looking to find a one on one PBP partner! Someone that is collaborative, social and passionate is ideal! I have a ton of campaign ideas in this noodle of mine and a few worlds in varied states of completion - however, none of them are fully complete (not without you of course! ;D )! So collaboration on some world building is quite welcome and might be needed. Below are a few campaign options that I have outside of the standard fantasy world campaigns (I have those too). Feel free to browse and see if you like any of them, if not thats cool too we can certainly discuss more fantasy bound worlds and games I have ideas for too! Ideally each of these will include some form of base building and faction management by the player so the stakes at higher levels just do not fall solely on the character if they live or die but those they have fostered relationships with and the goals they have achieved.
(Lastly do note that ERP is optional if you are into that kind of thing.)
https://forms.gle/bh9pe61uk7Pi9rqH7
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I am looking to find a one on one PBP partner! Someone that is collaborative, social and passionate is ideal! I have a ton of campaign ideas in this noodle of mine and a few worlds in varied states of completion - however, none of them are fully complete (not without you of course! ;D )! So collaboration on some world building is quite welcome and might be needed. Below are a few campaign options that I have outside of the standard fantasy world campaigns (I have those too). Feel free to browse and see if you like any of them, if not thats cool too we can certainly discuss more fantasy bound worlds and games I have ideas for too! Ideally each of these will include some form of base building and faction management by the player so the stakes at higher levels just do not fall solely on the character if they live or die but those they have fostered relationships with and the goals they have achieved.
- Not so Solo Levelling Taking place in the modern day world people gain powers and abilities after portals to dungeons start appearing all over the place. So now these 'Knights' are the only line of defense against monsters that are getting increasingly harder. What will happen if and when these portals are dealt with? How will the world change and react to the new status quo? Lets find out together! (Note these powers can make people look like normal fantasy races.)
- After the Solo Levelling Well if fighting the invasions of dungeon portal monsters and dealing with guild politics doesn't interest you lets explore what happens after these threats are dealt with. The world now safe from these monsters still has all of these super powered humans running about with nothing to do. That is until the Knight Battle League is announced! Now like the gladiators of old these powered individuals fight for the sport and amusement of all, without the whole death and dismemberment thing... normally.
- Alien Invasion A little bit different than the prior options this one still takes place in the near future - aliens have claimed the world and have run things for the last 30 years. Its up to the human resistance to fight against these other worldly invaders and reclaim earth. Interestingly though with the arrival of the aliens and their experimentations on humanity new types of humans have been made as well as unusual psionic powers (Magic not completely just 5e psionics) are being wielded by humans all over. Just the tools for the resistance to use and push the invaders off Earth for good!
(Lastly do note that ERP is optional if you are into that kind of thing.)
https://forms.gle/bh9pe61uk7Pi9rqH7
2024.05.15 06:43 Trendaddy445 Honest question
I’ve been seeing this girl I met online and everything seemed fine in the beginning. However I have an intuition that something is off about her. She never asks how I’m doing and I sense a feeling of coldness from her let me explain. One night she came over to my house for the first time we started making out then she stops me and tells me “I don’t want to waste your time” I ask her what do you mean she tells me I like you and I want to take things slow. I say I respect that then stop kissing her then talk for a little bit then drop her home (My friends told me she could have worded it any other way 😭). Another time we are discussing cooking recipes she sends me on instagram then I mention hey we could probably try this in my kitchen. She then says “yeah by two months you should learn how to cook atleast two things. In my head I think she’s implying after two months she’s not going to know me anymore. All I say is wdym by that she says nvm and laughs. Fast foward two weeks we end up sleeping with each other and the following week is my birthday so we agree on going out for dinner she makes a surprise reservation for me with her email and says “don’t spam my email you fan”. Which completely threw me off because I never showed fan/ simp behavior. I tell her I’ve never spammed anyone in my life she me “That would be your final option of contacting me” then quickly transitions to another topic. Which was so out of line for no reason and off tempo to a light conversation. Reason why I’m asking you guys is because I’m a 24 year old with my life together who busts his ass working hard and I genuinely don’t want to waste my time with the wrong person and don’t know how to go about this. I have a feeling she is breadcrumbing me. I don’t mind dropping a person out of my life if I have to just wanted more experienced answers before making a decision.
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2024.05.15 06:41 Tyo_Atrosa The Golden Hall of Memories (Shards of Atrosa Lorepost)
 | Jean had left the Maid café in a dissociative depression, seemingly brought on by a painful memory. one moment she was laughing with her friends, experimenting with new types of runic scripts for enchanting, and the next she had just left with naught but an unenthusiastic "cya". She said she was going back to her lab to do some thinking. submitted by Tyo_Atrosa to wizardposting [link] [comments] The doors to Jean's lab lay open, and a secret passage behind a bookcase leading down into some hidden facilities of Zeroth was left ajar as well. It wasn't like her to leave things out of order like this, especially not something as important as making sure her facilities were secured. Deeper into the facility, the tunnels would begin to change from the usual industrial and purely functional look of most of Zeroths systems to something a bit cleaner, more refined, sometimes even somewhat aesthetic. Eventually, it would come to a doorway, lined with Gold and Lazurite, with a plaque at the top of it in a forgotten language from long before this universe existed, that translates itself in ones mind upon reading it: Hall of Golden Memories. Inside, Jean could be seen on the floor, crying her eyes out, holding on to herself to keep from falling apart. the walls of this room are lined with hundreds of golden plates, each one engraved with thousands of names glowing a soft blue light, with probably millions of names total in this room. at the far end is a computer with a psychic interface, the purpose of which only Jean knows. https://preview.redd.it/sxh0a6qsri0d1.jpg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=66da9bce981344d66a3c99c0bed81c41f5a997f0 This is the place where she holds the memories of all the friends she has, and all those that she has lost. one plaque in here has several names, those of her current friends in the crimson paragons, illuminated in a warm yellow color instead of the soft blue of the millions of others. /uw this takes place on Zeroth, and thus is not meant to be interacted with in character unless you are one of the peoplethat can access Zeroth. |
2024.05.15 06:35 balmofgilead 11.8k Practice MBE Questions: Scam or Real?
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2024.05.15 06:35 _kaleb_ Me 32M, wife 28F, with child 7 together 11 years married 5. Years of hardship/bad luck, recent affair. LONG story. Advice?
So the last few years have been rough.
*note* if you're a "cheaters will always be cheaters type" tldr is don't bother reading or commenting
BACKSTORY 2019-2023 child nearly annual broken bones, lots of stress and specialist visits.
2018-2024 my wife got her associates as a medical assistant and is almost done with her bachelor's and final quarter internship while working full time and that has been hard for me. The lack of time for me and my son has really made an impact.
2019 I was injured at work and 2020 had my first surgery to try and preserve an ankle joint. That surgery ended up failing and while recovering I ended up mangling 2 fingertips in a wood jointer. 2020 I had to make the transition to a sahd on workers comp and have been since then. My lifestyle of hiking and fishing was upended because I could barely be on my feet 3 hours a day and uneven ground killed me not to mention the whole covid thing was pretty isolating.
All of 2021 was supporting her being a surrogate for a couple in City X (their egg/sperm). So, lots of trips checks and giving her injections. It was kind of proving myself to her because I was terrified when our son was born in 2017 and didn't help as much as I should have. Especially the first 3 months. Really, I didn't find out until later. We had conversations and fights at the time and id step up to do more and she would agree and tell me it was all okay. Then another fight saying I wasn't doing enough/anything and asking more and me being upset and confused. I guess at the time she was afraid to ask more, or tell me what she wanted, or her feelings, and the postpartum depression and initial feelings of abandonment didn't help.
Anyways the surrogacy went okay. I was there and supportive. Rubbing her feet and back. taking on extra load when she was tired etc. And hey I didn't pass out at delivery this time XD The end was a bit hard with 2 inductions needed and a massive 9.5lb baby and a stuck shoulder.
Then a few weeks after birth in November 2021 the nightmare began.
Out of nowhere she started hemorrhaging. She had to have an emergency D&C to stop the bleeding and scans showed a mass. Turned out the surrogate baby's placenta had some cells turn cancerous and attach to her uterus (Choriocarcinoma). 3 months later and the first 3 agent chemo failed, and her numbers were skyrocketing because it turned treatment resistant. They had to hit it with 5 types of chemo (EMACO) leaving future fertility a coin toss but more than a hysterectomy. By May 2022 the tumor marker was gone, but it was 6 months of intense monitoring and 6 months of monthly monitoring. The whole time she was in an intense spiraling depression questioning life. The meaning of all it, and how all her childhood trauma was fair. That no god would let a child live that. And questioning every decision in her life and wondering what things could have been like if she went a different direction. Feeling like she missed out on opportunities early in life. If this might be all there is (we have been together since she was 17). She said she felt like reality wasn't real and this was make believe at times.
Summer 2022 she made a new mom friend. She was pretty toxic and selfish. She used my wife for personal benefit and to go places. Yelled at her kids and treated the oldest from a prior marriage as less than (girl doesn't know her dad and when she mentioned she was part Mexican she freaked out and denied it because of how conservative and anti Mexican her new dad and his family is). Like never offered a dime, but expected food, gas, tickets, and gifts. She drove my wife nuts with that behavior. but she was desperate for a friend and loved her kids. Her friend would just talk shit about her partner pretty constantly and say my wife should be unhappy in her relationship too. Shit talking husbands behind their backs became like a mutual thing and I def hated it
Sometime 2023 she jumped into fantasy romance and fantasy smut /erotica. This progressed to an AI chat smut generator.
May 2023 monitoring was over and she was officially cancer free and had been on a health/mental health quest..
The mental health part started early in the year and she was seeing a therapist for depression and anxiety alone as well as her long list of childhood trauma. Off hand her therapist told her a few times she didn't know maybe just divorce me or something. I was super uncomfortable with this as it was completely outside her practicing scope and I didn't feel she should be providing relationship guidance, especially without me or the rest of the story. I felt a bit attacked and didn't even get the chance to give my perspective or account and felt that is pretty important after being here for a decade. A lot of negative points get omitted by her.
Summer 2023 she had some tough diagnosis for other chronic issues. Narcolepsy Dissociative Identity disorder Depression And a sleep disorder
I initially rejected this as I didn't want to accept these chronic and incurable conditions and insisted it has to be something else, that she's okay. It was taken as rejection of her.
Fall 2023 she reached out to a childhood ex bf a few states away and started an emotional affair. They kept in infrequent contact over the years and nothing ever came of it before. He has been unable to move past her or have meaningful relationships in 13 years. At first he pushed her away and rejected it, but after a month by Nov it was a thing. Texting saying I shouldn't worried because they dated before, but he ended up coming out as gay, calls in private, staying later after work. I gave it the benefit of the doubt but got burned. I found out in December the second time she wanted a private call in the car, and I checked her phone.
We started marriage counseling in Jan and I started my own therapy search as well as a condition of hers. She agreed to no longer contact the boy showed me the sent message ending it and blocked him. By Feb I found him listed in her phone as Saraa and found deleted texts and calls. In therapy she wanted to keep him as a friend and only friend and I tried this. She asked if a PO box would be okay for a birthday present, and I said no. That it crossed a line. It was also super close to Valentine's day. Next therapy I couldn't handle the anxiety and feeling physically ill when she used her phone, and we went through Jan again break off block etc.
In Feb the therapist recommended a separate space for conflict as we work on things. That too much conflict triggered her dissociative identity disorder. It was either a hotel as needed or a rv/camper. My wife was set on a camper and the only way to get a newer one was to add my credit/income to hers for a loan and I was uncomfortable on a $20k purchase. She assured me the intent of the camper was working on us and not separating/divorcing. She brought up me not having chores completely done all the time and I poured myself into it if that was making her unhappy over the years.
During this time in March I found out she got the secret PO box and had yet again resumed texting entirely deleting her logs. She had valentines gifts. birthday gifts, long distance electronic bracelets, and had an easter basket coming. Everything was put together into a box to be gotten rid of. That effort I had for chores and making everything spotless kind of died. Like there was that recognition that that obviously wasn't the problem. We lived completely separately for a few weeks until she could make a choice. We split our son and had almost zero interaction. Eventually she chose and I saw a notebook she used once in December. Basically she has started outlining a story envisioning herself as the lead character in once of her romantic fantasies and cast me and the other man as competing love interests
April and early may there was nothing. We did therapy and tackled our issues slowly. Together. Our future plans: college vs baby and the ticking clock of fertility and ifs after chemo. Etc
Last week she was going out for lilac picking and didn't text me for 2 hours and said she was at the beach. Later she showed me something in her email and I saw discord emails about a pw change and login. One bad gut feeling later and the next morning I see she deleted the discord emails and check our phone plan and her phone and see missing texts. I put in a phone record request for recent texts and text/call logs. She woke up and I said it did it and she said I was disgusting. Then admitted I was right.
She says after breaking it off she was worried he would hurt himself and just wanted to be sure he was okay and admitted to 3 texts and the discord call which i verified. Said that he was in therapy for his issues. She said she didn't want to bring it up to me because I would make it a fight and she thought she could just get away with a few texts to make sure. That she felt responsible for how much he had been hurt too.
So I did what I do with extreme anxiety and checked her work bag. I found an old journal they shared Jan to mid-march. Kind of confirmed again what was going on. Also revealed she lied to me about the trailer, or him? She couldn't get it without me and told him it was to work on separating from me easier. Yeah I kept pics in case this goes downhill because yeah, I'll gun for EVERYTHING. I'm sure that being tricked into signing a $20k contract under false pretenses for her personal benefit, secret po boxes, lying to our therapist repeatedly, secret texts, expecting gifts from the other man, career over spending time with family and a serious personality disorder on top of narcolepsy making a job hard to keep down wont do her favors at divorce/custody hearings.
So its all fresh for me again. I already have extreme anxiety and the autism doesn't help with reading/understanding people the best, although my gut intuition and pattern recognition are catching stuff fine.
WHERE I THINK I AM
Looking back, I can see that the personality disorder and narcolepsy are apparent. Dream delusion and memory issues from the narcolepsy make separating dream from reality hard as well as just recalling what happened. So whether not the "not feeling like reality is real" was a dream delusion or a full-blown dissociative episode... I can also see that messaging him was a "new" personality state. Maybe it's a manifestation of the trauma of nearly dying from cancer, maybe it's a fragment of her young identity that was created to survive her traumatic childhood resurfacing after nearly dying. But her interests and perspective massively shifted at that time and there was a clear separation between her with me and her with him. It was like this regression back to 15. Like she was molding an identity to fit his desires and interests. She took up tarot and witchy books, different music, painting, rockhounding (my interest), dried bouquets, dyed her hair and got multiple piercings. Even getting caught there was that click in her whole demeanor.
I can see how her friend may have jaded her towards me by all the shit she talked about HER husband. I can see that throwing herself into fantasy smut to cope flooded her with portrayals of unrealistic romance. That she progressed that by using an AI smut bot to hold those conversations with. Then she directly tried to process her own reality through the lens of those novels in that journal.
This "relationship" was "I love you, we can be together in 10 years". He wasn't going to leave his cushy job. Or his state. He didn't want to be a stepdad. He didn't want to support her career or have any involvement in it. She couldn't leave my state. Never saw illicit photos. No discussion of sex. It was like exactly what you think some lovestruck preteens would come up with. Like just a fantasy. No talk of bills or finances. Of moving. Of any substantial tangible entanglement.
Somehow that's easier to handle
I love her and don't want to leave her. But i desperately think she needs serious help and have told her I want her to do therapy 2x a month (on top of marriage therapy 2x).
I also think if a secret or deleted text happens again, I've got to take off the kid gloves and fight for it all. Cause well showing up at the dude's door would end in prison.
I'm sure this happening right as I fully got over last time and took a trust leap of faith on a "gay" friend that burned me will make it harder. I get the last few years have been garbage luck and I get almost dying can have profound affects though. She had been utterly loyal for 5 years (believe me I checked as we agreed to ie open book). Tying to see this with an open mind.
I get my exact expectations are muddy and part of this is just putting it into words to process for me, but I value if someone has any good input
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*note* if you're a "cheaters will always be cheaters type" tldr is don't bother reading or commenting
BACKSTORY 2019-2023 child nearly annual broken bones, lots of stress and specialist visits.
2018-2024 my wife got her associates as a medical assistant and is almost done with her bachelor's and final quarter internship while working full time and that has been hard for me. The lack of time for me and my son has really made an impact.
2019 I was injured at work and 2020 had my first surgery to try and preserve an ankle joint. That surgery ended up failing and while recovering I ended up mangling 2 fingertips in a wood jointer. 2020 I had to make the transition to a sahd on workers comp and have been since then. My lifestyle of hiking and fishing was upended because I could barely be on my feet 3 hours a day and uneven ground killed me not to mention the whole covid thing was pretty isolating.
All of 2021 was supporting her being a surrogate for a couple in City X (their egg/sperm). So, lots of trips checks and giving her injections. It was kind of proving myself to her because I was terrified when our son was born in 2017 and didn't help as much as I should have. Especially the first 3 months. Really, I didn't find out until later. We had conversations and fights at the time and id step up to do more and she would agree and tell me it was all okay. Then another fight saying I wasn't doing enough/anything and asking more and me being upset and confused. I guess at the time she was afraid to ask more, or tell me what she wanted, or her feelings, and the postpartum depression and initial feelings of abandonment didn't help.
Anyways the surrogacy went okay. I was there and supportive. Rubbing her feet and back. taking on extra load when she was tired etc. And hey I didn't pass out at delivery this time XD The end was a bit hard with 2 inductions needed and a massive 9.5lb baby and a stuck shoulder.
Then a few weeks after birth in November 2021 the nightmare began.
Out of nowhere she started hemorrhaging. She had to have an emergency D&C to stop the bleeding and scans showed a mass. Turned out the surrogate baby's placenta had some cells turn cancerous and attach to her uterus (Choriocarcinoma). 3 months later and the first 3 agent chemo failed, and her numbers were skyrocketing because it turned treatment resistant. They had to hit it with 5 types of chemo (EMACO) leaving future fertility a coin toss but more than a hysterectomy. By May 2022 the tumor marker was gone, but it was 6 months of intense monitoring and 6 months of monthly monitoring. The whole time she was in an intense spiraling depression questioning life. The meaning of all it, and how all her childhood trauma was fair. That no god would let a child live that. And questioning every decision in her life and wondering what things could have been like if she went a different direction. Feeling like she missed out on opportunities early in life. If this might be all there is (we have been together since she was 17). She said she felt like reality wasn't real and this was make believe at times.
Summer 2022 she made a new mom friend. She was pretty toxic and selfish. She used my wife for personal benefit and to go places. Yelled at her kids and treated the oldest from a prior marriage as less than (girl doesn't know her dad and when she mentioned she was part Mexican she freaked out and denied it because of how conservative and anti Mexican her new dad and his family is). Like never offered a dime, but expected food, gas, tickets, and gifts. She drove my wife nuts with that behavior. but she was desperate for a friend and loved her kids. Her friend would just talk shit about her partner pretty constantly and say my wife should be unhappy in her relationship too. Shit talking husbands behind their backs became like a mutual thing and I def hated it
Sometime 2023 she jumped into fantasy romance and fantasy smut /erotica. This progressed to an AI chat smut generator.
May 2023 monitoring was over and she was officially cancer free and had been on a health/mental health quest..
The mental health part started early in the year and she was seeing a therapist for depression and anxiety alone as well as her long list of childhood trauma. Off hand her therapist told her a few times she didn't know maybe just divorce me or something. I was super uncomfortable with this as it was completely outside her practicing scope and I didn't feel she should be providing relationship guidance, especially without me or the rest of the story. I felt a bit attacked and didn't even get the chance to give my perspective or account and felt that is pretty important after being here for a decade. A lot of negative points get omitted by her.
Summer 2023 she had some tough diagnosis for other chronic issues. Narcolepsy Dissociative Identity disorder Depression And a sleep disorder
I initially rejected this as I didn't want to accept these chronic and incurable conditions and insisted it has to be something else, that she's okay. It was taken as rejection of her.
Fall 2023 she reached out to a childhood ex bf a few states away and started an emotional affair. They kept in infrequent contact over the years and nothing ever came of it before. He has been unable to move past her or have meaningful relationships in 13 years. At first he pushed her away and rejected it, but after a month by Nov it was a thing. Texting saying I shouldn't worried because they dated before, but he ended up coming out as gay, calls in private, staying later after work. I gave it the benefit of the doubt but got burned. I found out in December the second time she wanted a private call in the car, and I checked her phone.
We started marriage counseling in Jan and I started my own therapy search as well as a condition of hers. She agreed to no longer contact the boy showed me the sent message ending it and blocked him. By Feb I found him listed in her phone as Saraa and found deleted texts and calls. In therapy she wanted to keep him as a friend and only friend and I tried this. She asked if a PO box would be okay for a birthday present, and I said no. That it crossed a line. It was also super close to Valentine's day. Next therapy I couldn't handle the anxiety and feeling physically ill when she used her phone, and we went through Jan again break off block etc.
In Feb the therapist recommended a separate space for conflict as we work on things. That too much conflict triggered her dissociative identity disorder. It was either a hotel as needed or a rv/camper. My wife was set on a camper and the only way to get a newer one was to add my credit/income to hers for a loan and I was uncomfortable on a $20k purchase. She assured me the intent of the camper was working on us and not separating/divorcing. She brought up me not having chores completely done all the time and I poured myself into it if that was making her unhappy over the years.
During this time in March I found out she got the secret PO box and had yet again resumed texting entirely deleting her logs. She had valentines gifts. birthday gifts, long distance electronic bracelets, and had an easter basket coming. Everything was put together into a box to be gotten rid of. That effort I had for chores and making everything spotless kind of died. Like there was that recognition that that obviously wasn't the problem. We lived completely separately for a few weeks until she could make a choice. We split our son and had almost zero interaction. Eventually she chose and I saw a notebook she used once in December. Basically she has started outlining a story envisioning herself as the lead character in once of her romantic fantasies and cast me and the other man as competing love interests
April and early may there was nothing. We did therapy and tackled our issues slowly. Together. Our future plans: college vs baby and the ticking clock of fertility and ifs after chemo. Etc
Last week she was going out for lilac picking and didn't text me for 2 hours and said she was at the beach. Later she showed me something in her email and I saw discord emails about a pw change and login. One bad gut feeling later and the next morning I see she deleted the discord emails and check our phone plan and her phone and see missing texts. I put in a phone record request for recent texts and text/call logs. She woke up and I said it did it and she said I was disgusting. Then admitted I was right.
She says after breaking it off she was worried he would hurt himself and just wanted to be sure he was okay and admitted to 3 texts and the discord call which i verified. Said that he was in therapy for his issues. She said she didn't want to bring it up to me because I would make it a fight and she thought she could just get away with a few texts to make sure. That she felt responsible for how much he had been hurt too.
So I did what I do with extreme anxiety and checked her work bag. I found an old journal they shared Jan to mid-march. Kind of confirmed again what was going on. Also revealed she lied to me about the trailer, or him? She couldn't get it without me and told him it was to work on separating from me easier. Yeah I kept pics in case this goes downhill because yeah, I'll gun for EVERYTHING. I'm sure that being tricked into signing a $20k contract under false pretenses for her personal benefit, secret po boxes, lying to our therapist repeatedly, secret texts, expecting gifts from the other man, career over spending time with family and a serious personality disorder on top of narcolepsy making a job hard to keep down wont do her favors at divorce/custody hearings.
So its all fresh for me again. I already have extreme anxiety and the autism doesn't help with reading/understanding people the best, although my gut intuition and pattern recognition are catching stuff fine.
WHERE I THINK I AM
Looking back, I can see that the personality disorder and narcolepsy are apparent. Dream delusion and memory issues from the narcolepsy make separating dream from reality hard as well as just recalling what happened. So whether not the "not feeling like reality is real" was a dream delusion or a full-blown dissociative episode... I can also see that messaging him was a "new" personality state. Maybe it's a manifestation of the trauma of nearly dying from cancer, maybe it's a fragment of her young identity that was created to survive her traumatic childhood resurfacing after nearly dying. But her interests and perspective massively shifted at that time and there was a clear separation between her with me and her with him. It was like this regression back to 15. Like she was molding an identity to fit his desires and interests. She took up tarot and witchy books, different music, painting, rockhounding (my interest), dried bouquets, dyed her hair and got multiple piercings. Even getting caught there was that click in her whole demeanor.
I can see how her friend may have jaded her towards me by all the shit she talked about HER husband. I can see that throwing herself into fantasy smut to cope flooded her with portrayals of unrealistic romance. That she progressed that by using an AI smut bot to hold those conversations with. Then she directly tried to process her own reality through the lens of those novels in that journal.
This "relationship" was "I love you, we can be together in 10 years". He wasn't going to leave his cushy job. Or his state. He didn't want to be a stepdad. He didn't want to support her career or have any involvement in it. She couldn't leave my state. Never saw illicit photos. No discussion of sex. It was like exactly what you think some lovestruck preteens would come up with. Like just a fantasy. No talk of bills or finances. Of moving. Of any substantial tangible entanglement.
Somehow that's easier to handle
I love her and don't want to leave her. But i desperately think she needs serious help and have told her I want her to do therapy 2x a month (on top of marriage therapy 2x).
I also think if a secret or deleted text happens again, I've got to take off the kid gloves and fight for it all. Cause well showing up at the dude's door would end in prison.
I'm sure this happening right as I fully got over last time and took a trust leap of faith on a "gay" friend that burned me will make it harder. I get the last few years have been garbage luck and I get almost dying can have profound affects though. She had been utterly loyal for 5 years (believe me I checked as we agreed to ie open book). Tying to see this with an open mind.
I get my exact expectations are muddy and part of this is just putting it into words to process for me, but I value if someone has any good input
2024.05.15 06:34 melte_dicecream I hate school and feel like it has taken everything from me, yet here i am pursuing a phd
i dont really know how to describe the horrible relationship i have with school and how much i regret pouring in so much of my heart to it to recieve nothing in return. school has always been so incredibly draining for me and competitive and i fucking hate how it just consumes my whole life. i dont regret getting my degree, i just immensely regret how much of my life i felt like i put on hold because of it- and i have been doing it since middle school.
i was placed in a advanced program that was taking classes two years ahead of grade level and it was such a massive turning point for me because i started basing my whole worth and personality on it. which i know is entirely my fault, but i feel as though it was just sort of engraved into my head. i feel like i always had to be the best and top of the class and it just made me incredibly depressed. i was super suicidal (which maybe everyone was back then), but i still continued doing it because i felt so unworthy without it. i grew up with a twin who was vastly different and didn’t grow up with the same pressure, and i notice it ALL the fucking time and how it sort of crafted the people we became and just how betrayed i feel by everybody who kind of fed into this for me and pushed me to continue doing it.
flash forward a little bit, carried the habits on to high school and barely gave myself a moment to breathe because now i had a reputation to keep up with- except this time i needed to pack on more. it wasn’t just school now, it was music, arts, sports…
my grandma started doing poorly and im so fucking upset with myself that toward the end of her life, when she was in the hospital, i was doing fucking homework instead of talking to her and being with her.
flash forward to the fucking HELL my undergrad was, i fucking hated myself and on top of it kept pushing. nothing was sort of enough to fill what i would say was instilled in me, and again had no time to really develop myself as a person- i was so career oriented and just idk an absolute mess because of how much i feel like i put on hold to focus on school.
my dad started doing poorly… i often just ignored his calls because i was so overwhelmed with school to even step out of the black hole i was in and i didnt want any distractions- i remember he called once while i was studying (i had no idea he wasn’t doing well) and we talked about calculus and he was just trying so hard to relate to me and find something to talk about and i just wrote it off and remember wanting to hurry up the conversation so i could get back to preparing for an exam and that KILLS me and i hope he didnt notice or that he at least understood. about a week later, he called again and i didnt respond because i was so busy with everything going on and he left a voicemail. i listened to the voicemail later that night and it wasnt really any words, kind of like he forgot to hang up the phone. my dad had a bit of a drinking problem and i hate that UGH idk i never said anything about it or like talked to him more. anyway, a couple days go by and im at the library studying for a really important exam and my mom calls- i dont answer- she texts me that it’s important and i have the BIGGEST pit in my stomach at this point. i finally answer and she tells me that my dad is in the hospital and they dont think hes going to make it. i remember literally every detail of who was around me and their reaction to me just bursting into tears and rushing out of the library. like it fucking absolutely broke me and i never got to speak to him again and have this voicemail with no words.
i just feel like school has been such a negative experience for me and i hate who i was and who i am with it. i hate pieces of my life it took away from me and inspired me not to have. i took a WEEK off of school and one of my professors still made me submit homework- and i did it. WHY DID I JUST WASTE SO MUCH TIME DOING THINGS THAT DONT FUCKING MATTER. idk im just so upset with how i balanced my life and i really didnt know any other way- it was how i grew up and how the pressure was distributed.
anyway, here i am in a graduate program because i dont know how the fuck to stop and am at a point where im waiting for this all to be worth it- maybe i land a really good job that makes me feel like the sacrifice was worth it, maybe i could buy my mom a house or shoot for financial freedom. i am so unbelievably tired and still so goddamn unhappy, but dont do anything about it and feel so stuck and caught up in the current. have been and will be and i honestly feel like im never going to be happy or just forgive myself. i feel like i fucked up so terribly and theres so much more to it and all of it is meaningless to me.
anyway, i just really needed to vent and am just really hurt
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i was placed in a advanced program that was taking classes two years ahead of grade level and it was such a massive turning point for me because i started basing my whole worth and personality on it. which i know is entirely my fault, but i feel as though it was just sort of engraved into my head. i feel like i always had to be the best and top of the class and it just made me incredibly depressed. i was super suicidal (which maybe everyone was back then), but i still continued doing it because i felt so unworthy without it. i grew up with a twin who was vastly different and didn’t grow up with the same pressure, and i notice it ALL the fucking time and how it sort of crafted the people we became and just how betrayed i feel by everybody who kind of fed into this for me and pushed me to continue doing it.
flash forward a little bit, carried the habits on to high school and barely gave myself a moment to breathe because now i had a reputation to keep up with- except this time i needed to pack on more. it wasn’t just school now, it was music, arts, sports…
my grandma started doing poorly and im so fucking upset with myself that toward the end of her life, when she was in the hospital, i was doing fucking homework instead of talking to her and being with her.
flash forward to the fucking HELL my undergrad was, i fucking hated myself and on top of it kept pushing. nothing was sort of enough to fill what i would say was instilled in me, and again had no time to really develop myself as a person- i was so career oriented and just idk an absolute mess because of how much i feel like i put on hold to focus on school.
my dad started doing poorly… i often just ignored his calls because i was so overwhelmed with school to even step out of the black hole i was in and i didnt want any distractions- i remember he called once while i was studying (i had no idea he wasn’t doing well) and we talked about calculus and he was just trying so hard to relate to me and find something to talk about and i just wrote it off and remember wanting to hurry up the conversation so i could get back to preparing for an exam and that KILLS me and i hope he didnt notice or that he at least understood. about a week later, he called again and i didnt respond because i was so busy with everything going on and he left a voicemail. i listened to the voicemail later that night and it wasnt really any words, kind of like he forgot to hang up the phone. my dad had a bit of a drinking problem and i hate that UGH idk i never said anything about it or like talked to him more. anyway, a couple days go by and im at the library studying for a really important exam and my mom calls- i dont answer- she texts me that it’s important and i have the BIGGEST pit in my stomach at this point. i finally answer and she tells me that my dad is in the hospital and they dont think hes going to make it. i remember literally every detail of who was around me and their reaction to me just bursting into tears and rushing out of the library. like it fucking absolutely broke me and i never got to speak to him again and have this voicemail with no words.
i just feel like school has been such a negative experience for me and i hate who i was and who i am with it. i hate pieces of my life it took away from me and inspired me not to have. i took a WEEK off of school and one of my professors still made me submit homework- and i did it. WHY DID I JUST WASTE SO MUCH TIME DOING THINGS THAT DONT FUCKING MATTER. idk im just so upset with how i balanced my life and i really didnt know any other way- it was how i grew up and how the pressure was distributed.
anyway, here i am in a graduate program because i dont know how the fuck to stop and am at a point where im waiting for this all to be worth it- maybe i land a really good job that makes me feel like the sacrifice was worth it, maybe i could buy my mom a house or shoot for financial freedom. i am so unbelievably tired and still so goddamn unhappy, but dont do anything about it and feel so stuck and caught up in the current. have been and will be and i honestly feel like im never going to be happy or just forgive myself. i feel like i fucked up so terribly and theres so much more to it and all of it is meaningless to me.
anyway, i just really needed to vent and am just really hurt
2024.05.15 06:34 PainlessDeath09 Hypermiling a 7th Gen Accord!
 | Hypermiling a 7th Gen Accord in Bangalore Traffic submitted by PainlessDeath09 to carsfromthepast [link] [comments] Ever wanted a D segment long ass old school sedan as a daily but been putting it off because of its horrendous fuel economy? Well. While it’s no Maruti Suzuki, this 2003 7th Gen Accord really did surprise me quite a bit in this regard. Back when I got this as my new daily, I never really cared or still care for fuel economy. But with a bit of curiosity (and necessity as for some reason, the car did not come with an economy gauge), I decided to take 3 days to conduct an experiment on how much I can squeeze out of this 2.4L motor. Distance:My office commute is about 16.6 kms one way. 33.2 kms two ways multiplied by three would be about 99.6 kms covered. The tank to tank method was used ofc but I also wanted a way to figure out instantaneous fuel economy so that it will help me optimise the fuel consumption on the go. One way to do this was to get an OBD scanner and directly talk to the car. However, I was not gonna splurge on a new Autel scanner(some models which would almost cost as much as my car’s value) just to measure fuel economy as they are incredibly expensive.The scanner that surprised me:Scouring through online products, I came across this thing. It’s an OBD scanner that uses your phone to connect and show you info and since it uses the OBD ELM 327 protocol, there are a host of apps on the AppStore that you can use to connect to it. And it was quite inexpensive at ₹300 ish, so I thought why not. Would double up as a review of accuracy for this thing as well.K24A4:The 7th gen Accord came with the K series K24A4 2.4L engine mated to a 5 speed torque converter. Enthusiasts would like you to believe that this is the same legendary K series K24 that’s capable of producing almost 500bhp without any forced induction and is the same thing that’s found on the later Accord’s and Acura’s. However, that couldn’t be more false.Apart from sharing the same block, there’s very little that’s common between this and the K24Z2 or the K24Z3 that’s found in the 8th gen 2008-2013 Accord. The K24A4 uses an economy trim of VTEC and also produces less power and torque than the 2008 one. While both the engines have the same bore and stroke and hence the same displacement, the K24A4 has a lower compression ratio and is tuned differently hence produces almost 25hp lesser than the 2008 Accord. It also has a lower redline at 6700rpm. A notable characteristic of the K24A4 is that unlike the Gen8 K24Z’s VTEC that has 3 lobed VTEC only on the intake side, the K24A4 has a staggered VTEC 4 lobed setup with lobed cams on both the intake and the exhaust valves. While this reduces it’s power efficacy, it also significantly decreases the hit on fuel economy when VTEC is engaged and as a bonus(or not, as I personally don’t like it), you get a distinct whine when VTEC crossover happens, something that’s unique and not present in other Honda’s. The end result is a motor that’s down on power compared to the newer Accord but with significantly higher fuel economy. Experiment begins:Started off with a full tank, 3 days of office commute, I ended it at the petrol station with exactly 100.9 kms on the trip meter. The scanner read an average fuel economy of 9.33km/L. The fuel up was around 11.06 liters to the full tank.Comparing this to the real values, 100.9/11.05 = 9.13kmpl. I was plenty surprised, not just by the car but also how accurate this ₹300 scanner was. Definitely a well worth purchase. I should add this as a disclaimer, this was tested under rigorous hypermiling conditions with no bumper to bumper traffic and all the commutes on odd hours. With ample steady acceleration and maximum engine braking used with a whole lot of coasting and zero pedal to the floor acceleration. It was also the result of being very calculative when I had to slow down abusing the deceleration fuel cut-off everytime I had to shed speed and I’ve never used the brakes this less in my commute. Needless to say, it was torture for me to drive the car this way, with no flooring it or hitting the rev limiter and with me fighting the urges to open it up and send it or going anywhere as fast as I wanted to. So while I probably will never get this economy figure as a regular number, it was good to know what it’s capable of. Interesting findings:This leads me to also mention, while this is an economy trim of the K24, it is also, at the end of the day, a 2.4L engine. Something I’ve noticed is that, this car is incredibly sensitive to how it’s being driven, much more so than any other car I’ve driven. Despite the 9.13kmpl economy, driving it normally(not even fast, just slightly faster than me hypermiling it) results in a steep drop to 7.9kmpl on the scanner. Driving pedal to the metal, I have seen it drop to 6.3kmpl. Never have I seen fuel economy numbers drop that fast with just a slight change(not even a big difference) in driving style.Something even more interesting is that this car basically makes zero difference if you leave the AC on or turn it off. I have seen cars whose economy increase by even 3-4kmpl with the AC turned on. Not sure if ya something specific to this car or it’s how it is with all Accord but yeah, found that quite interesting. So all things considered, I get around 7.5kmpl in my regular driving around the city. K24A4, useless for performance. Or is it?For the enthusiasts out there, I know your thinking and no this motor isn’t completely useless compared to the 2008 8th gen Accord. Well, depends on what you’re looking terms of mods.Yes it produces less power. Yes it’s the economy trim of Vtec. However, there is a silver lining. With purely bolt on mods, the K24Z on the 8th gen Accord will produce more power as expected. But if you have enough money to spend, the 7th gen Accord has significantly more potential than the 8th gen. The K24Z on the 8th gen has its exhaust manifold cast on to the head which means no aftermarket headers. It also has a plastic intake manifold so you can’t port and polish or extrude hone it like you can with the aluminium intake manifold on the older K series motors. Not to mention the compression ratio is higher than the older 7th gen so it won’t be as boost friendly. The 7th gen has multiple companies like Hondata offering bespoke and retrofit custom ECUs however there is no such support for the 8th Gen K24Z motors. Here’s a 702bhp 7th gen Accord made by RaceConcepts in Bangalore reviewed by The Drivers Hub. The aftermarket for the K24Z on the 2008 8th is really weak compared to the civic and the earlier Accord. So if you’re looking for an old D segment car that you can daily without breaking the bank on fuel costs or if you’re a hardcore enthusiast looking to build the fastest car that eats drag strips for breakfast, consider the 7th gen Accord! PSA: Just stay away from the V6 of this generation. Not only does it return horrendous fuel economy, it’s also notorious for transmission failures to the point that there was a class action lawsuit filed against Honda back in 2004. Cheers and happy motoring! |
2024.05.15 06:33 biblibopbop Too hard to believe… too scared to not?
I’m trying to make this as short as possible so people wont give up reading lol.
I’m confused my family’s catholic and I don’t really know what I am. It’s too hard for me to believe but at the same time I’m afraid of hell.
REASONS WHY ITS HARD TO BELIEVE:
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I’m confused my family’s catholic and I don’t really know what I am. It’s too hard for me to believe but at the same time I’m afraid of hell.
REASONS WHY ITS HARD TO BELIEVE:
- People. I know I shouldn’t let people get in the way of my faith but it really stresses me out and I wonder how people can put so much trust into something they cant see. I know another one who donated the church 100 dollars just because she passed her 6th drivers exam “thanks to god”. I just think it’s crazy because it’s literally their 6th.. couldnt have done 1st? Also some ppl r too confident. Ik someone who wont go to confession claiming they havent sinned Lastly, my opinions about social issues don’t align with the priests’/church’s? Beliefs.
- another reason: Sounds like a fairytale fantasy. I’m sorry if that was disrespectful in anyway but I just can’t believe it. Resurrected? God? It’s just hard for me to believe. I also read somewhere that you shouldn’t look for proof and that you don’t need proof to have faith. To me that sounds like someone stoping people for finding proof that it’s a made up story.
- i was born in a catholic family. Growing up everyone surrounding me was catholic we need to go to church every sunday and pray the rosary when my mom tells us to.
- Im scared of hell. Adults around me always told me about hell. “Its real” “be a good girl or else they will take you” Yk when your laying down at night and u hear your heart thumping? I thought that was the sound of demons digging up to get me.
- miracles. Many have happened to people around me. My teacher (church club at school idk) said her daughter heard jesus talking to hear and started crying. When will I have my chance? My relative was recently in a tough situation and prayed “show me a cat if it will be okay” Guess what. A stray cat randomly went on his lap one day.
2024.05.15 06:33 Nodistractions_gal Medical: Urgent care experience - I felt very gaslit.
May I get outsiders perspective on this. Just seeking a space to vent & see what I did wrong.
So long story short, I am on my period. I inserted a tampon during the day. And later when removing it, I noticed only the bottom half came out.
I checked the toilet. Nothing there. You can see the way the tampon was shaped, it looked broken off. Y’all….I tried to see if I could remove anything. Nothing came out. My parents advised to seek medical help.
I went to the urgent care & arrived 45 mins before they closed for the day. Immediately, the patient care coordinator (PCC) that took my vitals, it felt standoffish. My gut felt something was off & she didn’t care about my plight. She left & soon after a Nurse practitioner & his nurse came in. He used a speculum to inspect & he said he saw nothing. He wanted to check my cervix, but I am a wimp & was in a lot of pain & yelped out. He stopped the exam, & said from what he saw, he didn’t see anything & I could seek a second opinion if I was still concerned. I thanked him & they left.
But my Mom said to call her before leaving. She is a Nurse & she said to ask for a X-Ray is possible. So I asked the PCC if I can get a X-ray to be sure, y’all SHE LIED & verbally said their facility didn’t have x-rays. She was impatient with me, huffing & visibly annoyed, I had called my mother by this point, & on the phone with my Mom, just to feel safe. I don’t trust the PCC at this point either.
I relayed what the PCC said to my mom, she said ok, go ahead & leave, I then hung up the phone, which was when the PCC, she asks if I am done & ready to go, in an aggravated rushed tone. As if I was a huge nuisance for her asking all these questions.
Later, after changing, I went back to the front to ask for the names of people that saw me. They only gave me the 1st name of the PCC. I asked the Nurse practitioner if they had x-rays, & he confirmed that yes they do! But I will not get an x-ray b/c it wasn’t appropriate & he said my mom was wrong & she doesn’t know what she’s talking about. Again he relayed this in a very condescending tone. I asked if he’ll provide a reason why it was inappropriate, he said no. I asked if he’ll document refusing this medical service for me, he said no.
At that point, it was 7 mins past their closing period. I understand they had a long day & wanted to leave. People in the office looked visibly uncomfortable. I was talking in firm, leveled tone, but the vibe made me feel like a major nuisance or annoyance. According to some reddit forums, asking to document refusal of service is considered dumb. Is this true? Did I take it too far? Over imagining things? My parents said I wasn’t and to seek a 2nd opinion to be sure. I was doing my best to advocate for myself while maintaining a calm demeanor to express my concerns.
But damn, tonight was my 1st time experience of this. What should I have done differently? Was I dumb asking those questions & taking up so much time? One thing for sure, this experience, it’s motivated me to truly think of ways to help Black patients in healthcare settings.
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So long story short, I am on my period. I inserted a tampon during the day. And later when removing it, I noticed only the bottom half came out.
I checked the toilet. Nothing there. You can see the way the tampon was shaped, it looked broken off. Y’all….I tried to see if I could remove anything. Nothing came out. My parents advised to seek medical help.
I went to the urgent care & arrived 45 mins before they closed for the day. Immediately, the patient care coordinator (PCC) that took my vitals, it felt standoffish. My gut felt something was off & she didn’t care about my plight. She left & soon after a Nurse practitioner & his nurse came in. He used a speculum to inspect & he said he saw nothing. He wanted to check my cervix, but I am a wimp & was in a lot of pain & yelped out. He stopped the exam, & said from what he saw, he didn’t see anything & I could seek a second opinion if I was still concerned. I thanked him & they left.
But my Mom said to call her before leaving. She is a Nurse & she said to ask for a X-Ray is possible. So I asked the PCC if I can get a X-ray to be sure, y’all SHE LIED & verbally said their facility didn’t have x-rays. She was impatient with me, huffing & visibly annoyed, I had called my mother by this point, & on the phone with my Mom, just to feel safe. I don’t trust the PCC at this point either.
I relayed what the PCC said to my mom, she said ok, go ahead & leave, I then hung up the phone, which was when the PCC, she asks if I am done & ready to go, in an aggravated rushed tone. As if I was a huge nuisance for her asking all these questions.
Later, after changing, I went back to the front to ask for the names of people that saw me. They only gave me the 1st name of the PCC. I asked the Nurse practitioner if they had x-rays, & he confirmed that yes they do! But I will not get an x-ray b/c it wasn’t appropriate & he said my mom was wrong & she doesn’t know what she’s talking about. Again he relayed this in a very condescending tone. I asked if he’ll provide a reason why it was inappropriate, he said no. I asked if he’ll document refusing this medical service for me, he said no.
At that point, it was 7 mins past their closing period. I understand they had a long day & wanted to leave. People in the office looked visibly uncomfortable. I was talking in firm, leveled tone, but the vibe made me feel like a major nuisance or annoyance. According to some reddit forums, asking to document refusal of service is considered dumb. Is this true? Did I take it too far? Over imagining things? My parents said I wasn’t and to seek a 2nd opinion to be sure. I was doing my best to advocate for myself while maintaining a calm demeanor to express my concerns.
But damn, tonight was my 1st time experience of this. What should I have done differently? Was I dumb asking those questions & taking up so much time? One thing for sure, this experience, it’s motivated me to truly think of ways to help Black patients in healthcare settings.
2024.05.15 06:32 DrNomblecronch Only just now getting into CKII, I have had my first Fantastic Scheme pay off.
So the way I have learned to learn Paradox games is to completely ignore the tutorial, and cheat hideously during the early days to actively learn what kinds of risks I will take by doing the sorts of things I plan to do, and roll past them. I am pretty proud of myself here, because by the time of the first generation after my Han Chinese pirate queen turned Rector of the Republic of Ragusa and head of a Mazdaki cult, I had used that initial boost to stabilize and stopped needing to cheat away my errors. So I think from there it is fair to say I have been playing as close to a fair game as the ludicrous situation allows.
So; generation 4, the original Jiang Xiuye my great grandmother. I am politically married to someone I beat during the counterattack of a jihad on Italy, apparently somewhere in the line of descent for a Mongol horde. And he's mad at me because when I was still playing my dad, I had a couple bastard children I legitimized. And, like everyone since my grandmother, I wanna be the ruler of Serbia.
So, there's the setup. And the kickoff; it took me a while to notice, but as he's still Muslim, he has a couple other wives. Excuse the fuck me? You have tried to get an assassin past my spymaster for adultery, you bastard!
The execution, though. Intermarrying has put me in good with several claimants to the throne of Serbia. One of them is an absolute lunatic, cruel, and dumber than a box of hammers. So I 'suggest' my husband marry her. Then I press her claim.
And the recent raids from the Horselords have done a number on Serbia, so I easily kick King Did-Nothing-Wrong the 1000th of his name, a 2 year old, off the throne, with a paltry few mercenaries. Now the raving sadist is queen, and immediately gets the title The Usurper. My husband, predictably, attends to his little needs, and three years later there are three children of their union. As I am technically his liege, it is easy to get the kids sent to my court to be educated under him, then take that education role for myself once they're here.
The next part was just a gift from Ahura Mazda, though; she has a manic fit, becomes possessed, and kills my husband. Not only is that a loose end tied up, but if I was counting on people to support her assassination before, now I basically had to race to be the one to propose it first.
So she was blown up by an enormous amount of pigshit, for which I really appreciate my fellow conspirators' sense of style. Now the King of Serbia is my personal ward, and still here while his regent rules, and his regent is in my secret cult. By the time he goes home and takes over, he will already be married matrilineally to my youngest daughter, because she's one of the bastards and has no blood relation to him. So I will not be queen of Serbia, but for some reason my bloodline is fiending for it, so I have left a little gift for a grandchild.
And it just.... oh, it felt so good. Everything went so smoothly, it was so easy to plan and orchestrate, and the journey from "hey this could work" to Puppetmaster was delightful.
I was interested in trying CK when I am already quite content with Stellaris because I have heard people talk about these moments. They were right, and I am glad I did. This is bliss.
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So; generation 4, the original Jiang Xiuye my great grandmother. I am politically married to someone I beat during the counterattack of a jihad on Italy, apparently somewhere in the line of descent for a Mongol horde. And he's mad at me because when I was still playing my dad, I had a couple bastard children I legitimized. And, like everyone since my grandmother, I wanna be the ruler of Serbia.
So, there's the setup. And the kickoff; it took me a while to notice, but as he's still Muslim, he has a couple other wives. Excuse the fuck me? You have tried to get an assassin past my spymaster for adultery, you bastard!
The execution, though. Intermarrying has put me in good with several claimants to the throne of Serbia. One of them is an absolute lunatic, cruel, and dumber than a box of hammers. So I 'suggest' my husband marry her. Then I press her claim.
And the recent raids from the Horselords have done a number on Serbia, so I easily kick King Did-Nothing-Wrong the 1000th of his name, a 2 year old, off the throne, with a paltry few mercenaries. Now the raving sadist is queen, and immediately gets the title The Usurper. My husband, predictably, attends to his little needs, and three years later there are three children of their union. As I am technically his liege, it is easy to get the kids sent to my court to be educated under him, then take that education role for myself once they're here.
The next part was just a gift from Ahura Mazda, though; she has a manic fit, becomes possessed, and kills my husband. Not only is that a loose end tied up, but if I was counting on people to support her assassination before, now I basically had to race to be the one to propose it first.
So she was blown up by an enormous amount of pigshit, for which I really appreciate my fellow conspirators' sense of style. Now the King of Serbia is my personal ward, and still here while his regent rules, and his regent is in my secret cult. By the time he goes home and takes over, he will already be married matrilineally to my youngest daughter, because she's one of the bastards and has no blood relation to him. So I will not be queen of Serbia, but for some reason my bloodline is fiending for it, so I have left a little gift for a grandchild.
And it just.... oh, it felt so good. Everything went so smoothly, it was so easy to plan and orchestrate, and the journey from "hey this could work" to Puppetmaster was delightful.
I was interested in trying CK when I am already quite content with Stellaris because I have heard people talk about these moments. They were right, and I am glad I did. This is bliss.
2024.05.15 06:27 Upset_Rice7021 I(29F) and partner(33m) and fighting due to my parents religion
Okay. I need some serious advice. My partner and I have been together for over 10yrs. We have 2 beautiful children together, 8yrs and a 1yr old.
For reference….I was raised in an very religious Roman Catholic family(I am the 2nd oldest of 7 kids). I went to a Catholic elementary and high school, went to church every week, and got all the sacraments that a kid would go through. It wasn’t until the end of high school that my mind really changed about my religion. There was QUITE a few things that I just didn’t agree with and I started to distance myself from the church. I no longer consider myself catholic and no longer go to church or have raised my children Catholic. Although there are soooo many things I find absolutely absurd and appalling about the Catholic Church, I do recognize that my parents are still Catholic and just as they don’t question my choice to leave the church-I don’t question them staying within the church. I should mention-pretty much all of my siblings(except for the 2 youngest) have left the church as well. Regardless of those differences I love my family and we are all outrageously close, and my mom and dad along with my 6 other siblings are considered my closes friends and we spend most weekends hanging out. They are amazing grandparents to my kids and some of the most supportive and kind people I know.
Now. Here’s where things getting sticky. My partner has very….VERY, strong feelings about the Catholic Church. He considers it a cult filled with horrible child abuse. I don’t disagree that their is some seriously fucked up things happening within the church-and as I’ve said, there’s a reason why I left the church…but I just don’t talk about religion with my parents and I choose to just not let that effect my relationship with them. My partner is not so much that way.
So here’s what happened..My youngest brother is in grade 11(very big age gap between us). He is the sweetest kid you’ll ever meet and is very mature and overall a very kind kid. My oldest son and him have always been very close, less of a uncle-nephew relationship and more of a brother relationship. One day the 2 of them were playing at the park and not sure how the topic got brought up, but suddenly they were talking about heaven and hell. My son is a very inquisitive 8 year old and then started asking questions to my brother about heaven. I wasn’t there….so it’s hard to gather how the conversation went, but my son ended up saying to me and my partner “I want to get baptized so I can go to heaven, because that’s the only way I can go to heaven.”
I was quite upset about this, but truthfully I didn’t think for a second my brother said it to him exactly like that-or meant any harm by it-he was just a 16yr old who didn’t know how to answer a very deep question, and probably did a poor job of handling the situation…(he’s a kid after all) I explained to my son that that was not true and that his uncle was religious and that’s just what HE believed.
Now to say my partner was upset is an understatement….he was livid and started saying some extremely harsh things about people within the Catholic Church(in front of our son). Saying things like “you have to watch out for priest”, “they’re a cult”. I got mad at my partner and told him to cool off, and said that we should have an open conversation with our son about our differences with the Catholic Church-but that I didn’t feel the way he was handling it was appropriate, and came off extremely hateful and not at all a good way to have a conversation with an 8yr old. Not to mention our son knows some of my family is Catholic and I felt he was almost telling our son that his grandparents were bad people.
I ended up talking to my brother about the situation, he felt so bad and was so mature about it and apologized profusely for not handling the situation well and for putting certain ideologies in his head. He explained the whole situation to me and honestly, it was just a stupid mistake on his part and now he knows to just tell my son to talk to me if he brings up something to do with heaven or hell or religion. End of story, right?
NOPE. I should quickly mention that my partner and my youngest brother are actually extremely close. He’s known my brother since he was 5 yrs old and truly looks at him as a little brother. I’ve always loved how close they are. So, after I told my partner that I talked to my brother about the situation and how he maturely handled it-my partner says, “I’m not even mad at him….I’m mad at your parents because they’re Catholic and they’re the ones who have put all these ideas in your brothers head”. So now my partner is beyond pissed at my parents…treats them poorly and doesn’t come to family gatherings….
This is all extremely hard for me…my family has always treated my partner so well, and loved him like their own. I’m mad at my partner for being so hateful, but I’m trying to always be understanding of his frustration. I don’t like choosing between the two-but truthfully I think my partner is 100% out of line and needs to take a step back. The way he talks is so cruel and hateful and regardless if I don’t like the Catholic Church all that much-I don’t believe that speaking about someone else’s religion the way he does is kind.
I’m honestly so thrown off by his behaviour and feel like we won’t ever get past this.
Sorry for the long story…Any advice would be amazing.
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For reference….I was raised in an very religious Roman Catholic family(I am the 2nd oldest of 7 kids). I went to a Catholic elementary and high school, went to church every week, and got all the sacraments that a kid would go through. It wasn’t until the end of high school that my mind really changed about my religion. There was QUITE a few things that I just didn’t agree with and I started to distance myself from the church. I no longer consider myself catholic and no longer go to church or have raised my children Catholic. Although there are soooo many things I find absolutely absurd and appalling about the Catholic Church, I do recognize that my parents are still Catholic and just as they don’t question my choice to leave the church-I don’t question them staying within the church. I should mention-pretty much all of my siblings(except for the 2 youngest) have left the church as well. Regardless of those differences I love my family and we are all outrageously close, and my mom and dad along with my 6 other siblings are considered my closes friends and we spend most weekends hanging out. They are amazing grandparents to my kids and some of the most supportive and kind people I know.
Now. Here’s where things getting sticky. My partner has very….VERY, strong feelings about the Catholic Church. He considers it a cult filled with horrible child abuse. I don’t disagree that their is some seriously fucked up things happening within the church-and as I’ve said, there’s a reason why I left the church…but I just don’t talk about religion with my parents and I choose to just not let that effect my relationship with them. My partner is not so much that way.
So here’s what happened..My youngest brother is in grade 11(very big age gap between us). He is the sweetest kid you’ll ever meet and is very mature and overall a very kind kid. My oldest son and him have always been very close, less of a uncle-nephew relationship and more of a brother relationship. One day the 2 of them were playing at the park and not sure how the topic got brought up, but suddenly they were talking about heaven and hell. My son is a very inquisitive 8 year old and then started asking questions to my brother about heaven. I wasn’t there….so it’s hard to gather how the conversation went, but my son ended up saying to me and my partner “I want to get baptized so I can go to heaven, because that’s the only way I can go to heaven.”
I was quite upset about this, but truthfully I didn’t think for a second my brother said it to him exactly like that-or meant any harm by it-he was just a 16yr old who didn’t know how to answer a very deep question, and probably did a poor job of handling the situation…(he’s a kid after all) I explained to my son that that was not true and that his uncle was religious and that’s just what HE believed.
Now to say my partner was upset is an understatement….he was livid and started saying some extremely harsh things about people within the Catholic Church(in front of our son). Saying things like “you have to watch out for priest”, “they’re a cult”. I got mad at my partner and told him to cool off, and said that we should have an open conversation with our son about our differences with the Catholic Church-but that I didn’t feel the way he was handling it was appropriate, and came off extremely hateful and not at all a good way to have a conversation with an 8yr old. Not to mention our son knows some of my family is Catholic and I felt he was almost telling our son that his grandparents were bad people.
I ended up talking to my brother about the situation, he felt so bad and was so mature about it and apologized profusely for not handling the situation well and for putting certain ideologies in his head. He explained the whole situation to me and honestly, it was just a stupid mistake on his part and now he knows to just tell my son to talk to me if he brings up something to do with heaven or hell or religion. End of story, right?
NOPE. I should quickly mention that my partner and my youngest brother are actually extremely close. He’s known my brother since he was 5 yrs old and truly looks at him as a little brother. I’ve always loved how close they are. So, after I told my partner that I talked to my brother about the situation and how he maturely handled it-my partner says, “I’m not even mad at him….I’m mad at your parents because they’re Catholic and they’re the ones who have put all these ideas in your brothers head”. So now my partner is beyond pissed at my parents…treats them poorly and doesn’t come to family gatherings….
This is all extremely hard for me…my family has always treated my partner so well, and loved him like their own. I’m mad at my partner for being so hateful, but I’m trying to always be understanding of his frustration. I don’t like choosing between the two-but truthfully I think my partner is 100% out of line and needs to take a step back. The way he talks is so cruel and hateful and regardless if I don’t like the Catholic Church all that much-I don’t believe that speaking about someone else’s religion the way he does is kind.
I’m honestly so thrown off by his behaviour and feel like we won’t ever get past this.
Sorry for the long story…Any advice would be amazing.
2024.05.15 06:25 Stanley232323 Daily Community Tiering Post Day 28: A whole lotta Geng' sh*t. It's Gengar/Mega Gengar/Dynamax Gengar!
Hello again everybody!
Before we get started on today's post the current voting for Toxtricity/Dynamax Toxtricity had a surge of votes for A tier come in that has almost caught up to the number of Abstaining votes, so there is still a chance we end up Tiering the Punk Rock poison lizard off of the vote but at the moment it's most likely that it will go back on to the radar list for a future vote. There is still plenty of voting time however so if you haven't voted on that one yet click the link below and scroll down to the comments to find a link to the post or sort the SubReddit by the "Tiering/Voting" tag to find it and cast your vote!
Like with all previous votes I'll continue to check the numbers and if anything changes I'll update it on tomorrow's post.
(Please note that this voting/tiering is centered around Classic as after a certain point in Endless only about 5 Pokemon and 2 abilities are truly viable.)
So current tiers are:
S tier - Garganacl, Cloyster, Skeledirge, Gholdengo, Tinkaton
A tier - Gyarados/Mega, VenusauMega/Dyna, Aegislash, Corviknight/Dyna, Excadrill, GardevoiMega, Toxapex, ScizoMega
B tier - Kanto-Persian/Dynamax Kanto-Meowth, Weavile, Starmie, Rhyperior, Quagsire, Mamoswine
C tier - Linoone
F tier - Dustox
With that being said let's get to today's vote!
Today is day 28 of tier voting and today we will be talking about the OG Ghost Pokemon from all the way back in the first generation that has long been a fan-favorite and competitive staple. Gengar has a typing that was unique to its evolutionary line all the way until the generation 9 DLC added the mythical Pecharunt with the same type combination. On top of that its base form has a really good Special Attack stat and a very good Speed stat to go with it despite being pretty frail defensively. Its Mega form boosts that Special Attack and Speed to ridiculous heights and even gives it a little more bulk to work with as well. On the flip side, this game gives its Dynamax form a little different stat spread which trades off some of its Speed to give it some surprisingly solid bulk on a Pokemon which hasn't been known for its survivability historically. Gengar has a good movepool with good coverage even before this game gives it even more options to choose from in the form of egg moves. Although its Passive Ability isn't the greatest (mostly since it doesn't work on Boss Pokemon, however it does synergize with Mega Gengar's ability well) with those stats and movepool it really doesn't need its Passive to still be strong.
(Please note that Pokemon with Mega/Dynamax evolutions will be tiered as one Pokemon and not tiered separately for their Mega/Dynamax form. Different variants such as Alolan Persian vs. Kanto Persian will be tiered separately however.)
(Also here is the post with rules for voting/tiering posts and a little more explanation about them in general: https://www.reddit.com/pokerogue/s/0LNZhPPzR9 Links to past votes can all be found here as well in comments added to the OP with each new vote)
And here is a quick reminder of what each tier generally means:
S tier: Top tier, can make or break your entire run, essentially the cream of the crop
A tier: really strong but not quite top tier, maybe slightly outclassed or has a slight weakness holding it back
B tier: solid choices that can make it to your endgame team, might be reliant on team composition to truly function well or might just be outclassed as well
C tier: usually early-mid game Mons, ones you don't really want to take to end game if you can avoid it, usually pretty decently glaring weakness but something redeeming enough to keep from F tier
F tier: no reason to use in end game unless you're doing it for a meme/joke
Abstain/No Opinion: this will be a voting option mostly just in case someone accidentally votes and then can't remove their vote (I've noticed that happens on Reddit sometimes) or for Pokemon people haven't unlocked/used to their full potential yet. If Abstaining votes outvote each individual tier then the Pokemon will be tabled for the time being and another vote will open up for it later (can mostly see this happening with Legendaries).
(Data in parentheses is for the Mega form) [Data in brackets is for the Dynamax form)
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Gengar (Mega) [Dynamax]
Type: Ghost/Poison
Mega: Yes
Dynamax: Yes
Starter cost {Gastly}: 3
Possible Egg moves: Aura Sphere, Nasty Plot, Frost Breath, Malignant Chain
Abilities: Cursed Body (Shadow Tag) [Cursed Body]
Hidden Ability: N/A
Passive Ability: Perish Body - when this Pokemon is hit with a contact attack it applies Perish Song to both it and the attacker (Perish Song causes both Pokemon to faint in 3 turns unless they switch out)
Evolution: Gastly evolves into Haunter at level 25. Haunter evolves into Gengar with a Linking Cord. Gengar can Mega Evolve with Mega Bracelet and Gengarite. Gengar can also Dynamax with Dynamax Bracelet and Max Mushrooms.
Base stats:
HP - 60 (60) [75]
Attack - 65 (65) [95]
Defense - 60 (80) [85]
Sp. Attack - 130 (170) [160]
Sp. Defense - 75 (95) [95]
Speed - 110 (130) [90]
Learnset by level up: Confuse Ray, Hypnosis, Lick, Mean Look, Perish Song, Reflect Type, Shadow Punch, Payback, Spite, Curse, Hex, Night Shade, Sucker Punch, Dark Pulse, Shadow Ball, Destiny Bond, Dream Eater
Notable TMs: Protect, Clear Smog, Toxic, Haze, Disable, Acid Spray, Thief, Icy Wind, Venoshock, Sunny Day, Rain Dance, Fire Punch, Ice Punch, Thunder Punch, Shadow Claw, Foul Play, Body Slam, Drain Punch, Rest, Sleep Talk, Dazzling Gleam, Thunder Wave, Poison Jab, Toxic Spikes, Gunk Shot, Will-O-Wisp, Giga Drain, Energy Ball, Psychic, Thunderbolt, Nasty Plot, Sludge Bomb, Focus Blast, Phantom Force, Thunder, Poltergeist, Encore, Sludge Wave
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Tomorrow's vote: Whimsicott!
Pokemon on the radar for voting very soon: Aggron/Mega, Comfey, Crobat, Ferrothorn, Gliscor, Delphox, Roserade, Vileplume, Minior, Hitmonchan, Bibarel, Chandelure, Archaludon/Dynamax Duraludon, Alakazam/Mega, Infernape, Flamigo, Volcarona, Alolan-Decidueye, Barbaracle, Butterfree/Dyna, Beedrill/Mega, Mawile/Mega, Drednaw/Dyna, Annihilape, Cramorant, Aerodactyl/Mega, Glimmora, Heatran, Tapu Koko, Dialga/Primal, Galarian-Zapdos, Regieleki, Regidrago, Zacian, Zamazenta, Rayquaza/Mega, Latias/Mega, Latios/Mega, Ho-Oh, Volcanion, Carbink, Porygon-Z, Cinccino, Snorlax/Dyna, Wishiwashi
(Other requests will be added to this list and this list is not necessarily in order)
Happy voting!
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Before we get started on today's post the current voting for Toxtricity/Dynamax Toxtricity had a surge of votes for A tier come in that has almost caught up to the number of Abstaining votes, so there is still a chance we end up Tiering the Punk Rock poison lizard off of the vote but at the moment it's most likely that it will go back on to the radar list for a future vote. There is still plenty of voting time however so if you haven't voted on that one yet click the link below and scroll down to the comments to find a link to the post or sort the SubReddit by the "Tiering/Voting" tag to find it and cast your vote!
Like with all previous votes I'll continue to check the numbers and if anything changes I'll update it on tomorrow's post.
(Please note that this voting/tiering is centered around Classic as after a certain point in Endless only about 5 Pokemon and 2 abilities are truly viable.)
So current tiers are:
S tier - Garganacl, Cloyster, Skeledirge, Gholdengo, Tinkaton
A tier - Gyarados/Mega, VenusauMega/Dyna, Aegislash, Corviknight/Dyna, Excadrill, GardevoiMega, Toxapex, ScizoMega
B tier - Kanto-Persian/Dynamax Kanto-Meowth, Weavile, Starmie, Rhyperior, Quagsire, Mamoswine
C tier - Linoone
F tier - Dustox
With that being said let's get to today's vote!
Today is day 28 of tier voting and today we will be talking about the OG Ghost Pokemon from all the way back in the first generation that has long been a fan-favorite and competitive staple. Gengar has a typing that was unique to its evolutionary line all the way until the generation 9 DLC added the mythical Pecharunt with the same type combination. On top of that its base form has a really good Special Attack stat and a very good Speed stat to go with it despite being pretty frail defensively. Its Mega form boosts that Special Attack and Speed to ridiculous heights and even gives it a little more bulk to work with as well. On the flip side, this game gives its Dynamax form a little different stat spread which trades off some of its Speed to give it some surprisingly solid bulk on a Pokemon which hasn't been known for its survivability historically. Gengar has a good movepool with good coverage even before this game gives it even more options to choose from in the form of egg moves. Although its Passive Ability isn't the greatest (mostly since it doesn't work on Boss Pokemon, however it does synergize with Mega Gengar's ability well) with those stats and movepool it really doesn't need its Passive to still be strong.
(Please note that Pokemon with Mega/Dynamax evolutions will be tiered as one Pokemon and not tiered separately for their Mega/Dynamax form. Different variants such as Alolan Persian vs. Kanto Persian will be tiered separately however.)
(Also here is the post with rules for voting/tiering posts and a little more explanation about them in general: https://www.reddit.com/pokerogue/s/0LNZhPPzR9 Links to past votes can all be found here as well in comments added to the OP with each new vote)
And here is a quick reminder of what each tier generally means:
S tier: Top tier, can make or break your entire run, essentially the cream of the crop
A tier: really strong but not quite top tier, maybe slightly outclassed or has a slight weakness holding it back
B tier: solid choices that can make it to your endgame team, might be reliant on team composition to truly function well or might just be outclassed as well
C tier: usually early-mid game Mons, ones you don't really want to take to end game if you can avoid it, usually pretty decently glaring weakness but something redeeming enough to keep from F tier
F tier: no reason to use in end game unless you're doing it for a meme/joke
Abstain/No Opinion: this will be a voting option mostly just in case someone accidentally votes and then can't remove their vote (I've noticed that happens on Reddit sometimes) or for Pokemon people haven't unlocked/used to their full potential yet. If Abstaining votes outvote each individual tier then the Pokemon will be tabled for the time being and another vote will open up for it later (can mostly see this happening with Legendaries).
(Data in parentheses is for the Mega form) [Data in brackets is for the Dynamax form)
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Gengar (Mega) [Dynamax]
Type: Ghost/Poison
Mega: Yes
Dynamax: Yes
Starter cost {Gastly}: 3
Possible Egg moves: Aura Sphere, Nasty Plot, Frost Breath, Malignant Chain
Abilities: Cursed Body (Shadow Tag) [Cursed Body]
Hidden Ability: N/A
Passive Ability: Perish Body - when this Pokemon is hit with a contact attack it applies Perish Song to both it and the attacker (Perish Song causes both Pokemon to faint in 3 turns unless they switch out)
Evolution: Gastly evolves into Haunter at level 25. Haunter evolves into Gengar with a Linking Cord. Gengar can Mega Evolve with Mega Bracelet and Gengarite. Gengar can also Dynamax with Dynamax Bracelet and Max Mushrooms.
Base stats:
HP - 60 (60) [75]
Attack - 65 (65) [95]
Defense - 60 (80) [85]
Sp. Attack - 130 (170) [160]
Sp. Defense - 75 (95) [95]
Speed - 110 (130) [90]
Learnset by level up: Confuse Ray, Hypnosis, Lick, Mean Look, Perish Song, Reflect Type, Shadow Punch, Payback, Spite, Curse, Hex, Night Shade, Sucker Punch, Dark Pulse, Shadow Ball, Destiny Bond, Dream Eater
Notable TMs: Protect, Clear Smog, Toxic, Haze, Disable, Acid Spray, Thief, Icy Wind, Venoshock, Sunny Day, Rain Dance, Fire Punch, Ice Punch, Thunder Punch, Shadow Claw, Foul Play, Body Slam, Drain Punch, Rest, Sleep Talk, Dazzling Gleam, Thunder Wave, Poison Jab, Toxic Spikes, Gunk Shot, Will-O-Wisp, Giga Drain, Energy Ball, Psychic, Thunderbolt, Nasty Plot, Sludge Bomb, Focus Blast, Phantom Force, Thunder, Poltergeist, Encore, Sludge Wave
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Tomorrow's vote: Whimsicott!
Pokemon on the radar for voting very soon: Aggron/Mega, Comfey, Crobat, Ferrothorn, Gliscor, Delphox, Roserade, Vileplume, Minior, Hitmonchan, Bibarel, Chandelure, Archaludon/Dynamax Duraludon, Alakazam/Mega, Infernape, Flamigo, Volcarona, Alolan-Decidueye, Barbaracle, Butterfree/Dyna, Beedrill/Mega, Mawile/Mega, Drednaw/Dyna, Annihilape, Cramorant, Aerodactyl/Mega, Glimmora, Heatran, Tapu Koko, Dialga/Primal, Galarian-Zapdos, Regieleki, Regidrago, Zacian, Zamazenta, Rayquaza/Mega, Latias/Mega, Latios/Mega, Ho-Oh, Volcanion, Carbink, Porygon-Z, Cinccino, Snorlax/Dyna, Wishiwashi
(Other requests will be added to this list and this list is not necessarily in order)
Happy voting!
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2024.05.15 06:24 jennithomas321 How to Check if Your Website is SEO Optimized (5 Easy Ways)
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2024.05.15 06:23 Informal-Leg3026 Guys I’m begging PLEASE help me find this tmnt fanfic im begging on my knees
Okay, I’ve been trying to look for this fanfic I read a long while ago on ao3, and I can’t find it anywhere. So well written, and about how the four turtles got turned into humans and got separated. They all have different “undercover” lives now, as now they’re humans, but they’re trying to find their way back to each other.
Here are some key points I remember. I read this fic a long time ago but please bear with me I’m begging.
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Here are some key points I remember. I read this fic a long time ago but please bear with me I’m begging.
- Mikey got taken in by a human family? I’m pretty sure. They were named the Robinsons (this could be wrong, I’m bad with names)
- There was one very specific tag that went on the lines of “I wrote 6 chapters for a broom joke” or something like that
- Leo lost his memories for some reason. Forgot why. Bros always going through something
- The thing that turned them human is slowly killing the turtles / humans
- Mikey goes to school
- This is a TMNT 2012 fanfic
- April is in this fic.
- I think Raph is homeless? Not sure on this one so take this with a grain of salt.
- Donnie works in a lab thing to try and turn them back to turtles
- Mikey gets kidnapped as a human… bros going through something in every fic istg
- The villain breaks Mikey’s arm in front of Don and Raph. Again, injuries
- 16 chapters and completed, I don’t know if it’s marked completed but it’s 16 chapters or near that number.
2024.05.15 06:21 FocLifeLetsDraw69 Existential Crisis at the age of 18
I am 18 (F) and I'll be in first year college this coming school year. I've been facing some heavy existential crisis a lot lately. I kept asking myself what is the purpose of life? Where is my life headed? Who am I? And why am I even here in the first place. I just realized that all the things that I chose to define myself are just an act because I thought that if I hadn't answer or held a communication with someone else, no one would be able to hold a conversation with me. How can I start understanding myself? I even thought of the purpose on why we're really here is because we're just an asset to evolution and peak evolution will become the divine being. This time, I am trying very hard not to get influenced by external factors when it comes to my preferences since it's always been influenced by my peers, especially my family and relatives.
Note: This started to spiral when I learned that I failed a pre-med entrance exam because I didn't take it seriously. My parents made me chose med related course because they told me there's "money" in it. I simply followed their decision and it sparked a thought in me, resulting in my existential crisis. I don't really know where my life is headed anymore, my head feels dizzy at this point.
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Note: This started to spiral when I learned that I failed a pre-med entrance exam because I didn't take it seriously. My parents made me chose med related course because they told me there's "money" in it. I simply followed their decision and it sparked a thought in me, resulting in my existential crisis. I don't really know where my life is headed anymore, my head feels dizzy at this point.
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2024.05.15 06:18 cynthiamonster Geneva to Paris long-ish weekend trip
Hi all, my 2 friends and I are planning to ride from Geneva to Paris is July.
Current plan is to start at end of rail line in La Cure at top of Juras then ride to Boissy Saint Leger (suburb on the RER train line into Paris). We live in Geneva and are all moderately fit (ride to/from work, some periodic day rides) but do not typically ride for multi-day trips. In the end we will stay in Paris for the night then take the train back to Geneva with the bikes.
The ultimate goal (other than enjoying the ride itself) is to make it to a concert on Monday night. We estimate the La Cure->Boissy Saint Leger route would take 4 days of riding ~130km/day, although we originally were hoping to do a 3 day trip (leave on Saturday instead of Friday) so am looking at options ending somewhere further outside of Paris where we could take a train into the city.
We all have bikes but are skeptical of their robustness for a multi-day ride. To be sure we have bikes in good working order we are thinking about renting hybrid/touring bikes that we can return to Geneva (by train with us). But based on many comments in this sub, I am considering buying a new, low end bike from Decathlon which is about the same price as renting.
Any advice on renting vs buying new, cheap bike? Any tips for this route/plan/places to stop or not?
Thanks in advance! Happy to find this forum - excited to get into bike touring around Europe!
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Current plan is to start at end of rail line in La Cure at top of Juras then ride to Boissy Saint Leger (suburb on the RER train line into Paris). We live in Geneva and are all moderately fit (ride to/from work, some periodic day rides) but do not typically ride for multi-day trips. In the end we will stay in Paris for the night then take the train back to Geneva with the bikes.
The ultimate goal (other than enjoying the ride itself) is to make it to a concert on Monday night. We estimate the La Cure->Boissy Saint Leger route would take 4 days of riding ~130km/day, although we originally were hoping to do a 3 day trip (leave on Saturday instead of Friday) so am looking at options ending somewhere further outside of Paris where we could take a train into the city.
We all have bikes but are skeptical of their robustness for a multi-day ride. To be sure we have bikes in good working order we are thinking about renting hybrid/touring bikes that we can return to Geneva (by train with us). But based on many comments in this sub, I am considering buying a new, low end bike from Decathlon which is about the same price as renting.
Any advice on renting vs buying new, cheap bike? Any tips for this route/plan/places to stop or not?
Thanks in advance! Happy to find this forum - excited to get into bike touring around Europe!
2024.05.15 06:15 -nobodys-home- I'm worried I housing will never be available to me.
Hello. I am a very young adult man with no family (lost to drugs unfortunately) and a badly paying job. I live in Kansas and I am trying to move to Washington, in a specific city, so I can be near someone I know. This part is not gonna change, I know what's best for me, and moving in this specific city is what I am going to do. This is also due to me needing their availability for rides and such, as I do not have a car.
That said, I need to move ASAP. Due to severe issues and my current living situation putting me in physical danger, I need to be out of here by the end of the month, before these changes take place. I'm planning on moving June 1st, arriving the 2nd. I have been endlessly searching for the last few months to no avail. Either the apartments are way too expensive, like, 1,500+ dollars a month, or, they're not available until months out. I found a perfect apartment suited for me, within my budget, etc. But the woman I was talking to told me she'd send me an application, and after calling every couple days to follow up on her empty promise, she finally answered my call today and said something along the lines of,
"I'm so sorry! I know we planned on you being sent the application about a week ago now, it's been in my drafts. But unfortunately the units you were looking at are now taken. I can send you the applications now, and we can get you in here as soon as September!!"
Obviously that isn't going to work for me, and I was highly saddened to find out that the one apartment that would work for me was out of the question for such a silly reason, like her saying she forgot to send me the application, despite me calling every other day checking in to see when she'd send it.
I have poor credit due to my illogical decision when I was 18, letting my druggy mother use my credit card, and I haven't been able to pay it off in it's entirety yet.
Most apartments require you to be making at least 3x rent per month, which isn't in the cards for me, as I am moving states.
I would prefer to find something that pays a utility or two, but that seems to be non-existent. There aren't even any options without utilities paid.
I've been searching and searching, lowering and lowering my preferences, to the point where now, all I require is a roof and a water source. Yet, I can't even find that.
I 'spose I am just posting this here to see if anyone with more knowledge than me has any advice on how to find low income/affordable apartments.
TLDR: I am poor and no apartments are cheap enough for me. I NEED to move from Kansas to Washington due to a dangerous situation and emergency, by June 1st. I have 0 time to push it out. Very stressed and feeling defeated.
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That said, I need to move ASAP. Due to severe issues and my current living situation putting me in physical danger, I need to be out of here by the end of the month, before these changes take place. I'm planning on moving June 1st, arriving the 2nd. I have been endlessly searching for the last few months to no avail. Either the apartments are way too expensive, like, 1,500+ dollars a month, or, they're not available until months out. I found a perfect apartment suited for me, within my budget, etc. But the woman I was talking to told me she'd send me an application, and after calling every couple days to follow up on her empty promise, she finally answered my call today and said something along the lines of,
"I'm so sorry! I know we planned on you being sent the application about a week ago now, it's been in my drafts. But unfortunately the units you were looking at are now taken. I can send you the applications now, and we can get you in here as soon as September!!"
Obviously that isn't going to work for me, and I was highly saddened to find out that the one apartment that would work for me was out of the question for such a silly reason, like her saying she forgot to send me the application, despite me calling every other day checking in to see when she'd send it.
I have poor credit due to my illogical decision when I was 18, letting my druggy mother use my credit card, and I haven't been able to pay it off in it's entirety yet.
Most apartments require you to be making at least 3x rent per month, which isn't in the cards for me, as I am moving states.
I would prefer to find something that pays a utility or two, but that seems to be non-existent. There aren't even any options without utilities paid.
I've been searching and searching, lowering and lowering my preferences, to the point where now, all I require is a roof and a water source. Yet, I can't even find that.
I 'spose I am just posting this here to see if anyone with more knowledge than me has any advice on how to find low income/affordable apartments.
TLDR: I am poor and no apartments are cheap enough for me. I NEED to move from Kansas to Washington due to a dangerous situation and emergency, by June 1st. I have 0 time to push it out. Very stressed and feeling defeated.