Soy una mujer de 32 años. Soy una mujer gorda de 32 años. Hago hincapié en gorda porque es básicamente todo lo que ha regido mi vida. Toda mi vida he escuchado frases como "si bajarás de peso fueras más bonita" "a las niñas gordas nadie las quiere" "si fueras delgada etc..." Eso lo tengo entendido, tengo entendido que por ser como soy no podré hacer muchas cosas con la que la mayoría de las chicas sueñan, ya descarte casarme, tener hijos, incluso enamorarme. Se que mientras siga siendo como soy nunca habrá alguien que me quiera porque admitámoslo la apariencia si importa, y aunque creo que movimiento como el body positivity o la gordofobia pueden ayudar a muchísimas chicas, yo no entraría en esos planes porque estoy 110% convencida de que nunca habrá nadie que me quiera.
Convencida de eso a principios de este año descargue Bumble y Tinder para encontrar alguien que quisiera algún encuentro casual, se que no puedo buscar amor pero pensé que al menos algo casual si podría ofrecer, al primero que contacte fue en BB, si terminamos en el acto pero llego a un punto donde yo sentí que lo estaba obligando, porque me quiso cancelar a último minuto y cuando terminamos simplemente se fue sin decir nada. Me sentí como una mierda. Los siguientes fueron de Tinder, con uno habíamos quedado en algo pero nunca se concreto y por una serie de circunstancias me termino llamando inmadura, egoísta y desconsiderada. Es más que evidente que no terminamos en nada, me hablo un par de veces pero no terminaba de adecuarme a su carácter así que lo deje.
Con el segundo tuve buena plática, habíamos hablado un par de días y creí que habíamos llegado a algo concreto pero el día que nos íbamos a ver, estando ya en el lugar me dejo plantada, después me bloqueo, entendí que me vio y que simplemente no le atraje lo suficiente. Solo para aclarar en todo momento les dije que yo no era delgada y ellos muy seguros me dijeron que no les gustaban así. Con el cuarto, quinto y sexto la historio fue casi la misma, un par de plática, un par de fotos, después el ghosteo. El sexto incluso quedo de vernos y a la mera hora ni siquiera estaba en la ciudad. Me continuo hablando pero ya ni siquiera le respondí.
Con el tercero la historia fue un poco diferente, hable con él por pura suerte. Ese día me sentía dolida por lo que me hizo el segundo y de alguna forma le terminé contando todo, hablamos, lloré e incluso estuvo confortándome un rato. Seguimos hablando y empezamos a tontear, el se ofreció e incluso quedamos en algo, pero el día que íbamos a quedar tuvo que trabajar hasta tarde, después de eso fueron una cantidad innumerable de veces que intentábamos quedar pero ninguno de los dos tenia tiempo o él tendía a desaparecer por varios días. La última vez que hablamos me dijo que me había extraño mucho, que había empezado a sentir cosas por mí y después de eso desapareció. Nunca había experimentado un curving.
El séptimo ni siquiera empezó como algo casual, solo quería un amigo. Yo le pregunte desde el principio que buscaba y él aclaro que solo amistad, pero tenía actitudes muy contradictorias para solo querer amistad. Llamarme linda, guapa, pequeña. Decirme que nunca le molesto o interrumpía cuando le hablaba, preguntarme sobre mis anteriores parejas, quedarse hasta las tantas de la madrugada hablando solo conmigo, o decirme que él me confortara y escuchara a la semana de hablar. No buscaba nada con él, solo amistad pero un día creí que me había bloqueado y me puse a llorar, pensé otra vez la volví a cagar, pero no fue así no me bloqueo, al final le pedí vernos en persona, hablamos y tal, pero desde ese momento sentí que la relación cambio, ya no me llama con apelativos cariñosos, ya no pasa incontables horas hablando conmigo, sus conversaciones se han vuelto más escuetas e incluso he sentido que se siente con la obligación de hablar conmigo. Además hace unos días descubrí cual es su gusto en chicas y obviamente es totalmente lo opuesto a mí, delgada, fit, pelo corto. Se que él quiere salvarme pero no saben como me duele la manera en que lo intenta. ¡No quiero que me salves! ¡Quiero que te vayas si me vas a estar ignorando! Creí haber encontrado a alguien pero no fue así y ahora estoy haciendo todo lo posible para que esa persona se vaya ¡pero no se va! No se va pero su indiferencia me duele. Me duele saber que esta intentando salvarme, me duele la forma en que está intentando salvarme. ¡Quiero llorar ahora! ¡Quiero que me abandone ahora! Se que eventualmente se irá, no quiero retrasar lo inevitable pero parece que él no lo comprende.
He estado teniendo pensamientos bastante oscuros estos últimos días, todos pensando en como lograr bajar de peso para que la gente me quiera. He escuchado de algunas sustancias que ayudan a eso, medicinas sin recetas, dietas insostenibles, ejercicios extremos. No quiero volver a vomitar en la regadera de mi casa. Ya me saltó suficientes comidas, ya fumó demasiado. Pero los pensamientos no se ven. Y es difícil porque no tengo a quien contárselos. Todos tienen problemas muchísimo más graves y no quiero llegar con los míos. No quiero ser el pecador que carga al padre con sus pecados.
Y por eso terminé aquí, en reddit con un texto increíblemente largo que no he llegado incluso a contar a mis amigos más cercanos. ¿Qué les voy a decir? Que me siento triste porque nadie se quiere coger una gorda, dude hasta yo lo entiendo. Pero cada día se me hace cada vez más difícil aparentar estar bien.

I recently found an old blackberry curve 9330 and I was wondering what all I could do with it. I know I can’t do much due to BB shutting down, but is there anything at all that can be done with this thing? Any help is appreciated.

I work as a woodwind teacher and we had an open house tonight and the kids could try the instruments.
Here are some statistics over what instruments they chose first. Many of them tried several instruments and hopefully some of them will sign up to learn.
Bassoon: 2 Soprano saxophone (curved): 6 Alto saxophone: 4 Tenor saxophone: 2 Baritone saxophone: 3 Clarinet Eb: 7 Clarinet Bb: 4 Bass clarinet: 8
This is the first time that the bass clarinet has so much success, and there is no special reason to explain it. Just some cool info to share!

Seeking some advice as I'm not sure what the best course of action is from my current position.
Background: maths degree from top UK target, joined a European BB in London straight after graduating. I do macro structuring (kind of between Sales & Trading) and approaching 4 years in this role. I think it's not for me long-term for various reasons (too Sales-y, stopped learning, mediocre pay)
I've applied for roles like new grad QT/HF trading on and off over the years and got pretty far in some instances (e.g. Optiver final round twice - think no culture fit), but didn't manage to convert. I feel it's getting harder given QT firms prefer to hire fresh grads and perhaps if I don't make a move now it'd definitely be too late next year (5 years in!)
I want to move into something more active/quantitative (not quite QR since my coding background isn't that strong), and it seems to me the main options from here (alongside pros/cons) are:
1. Pivot into sell-side trading

• Pros: Might be the most realistic option, smoothest transition in terms of skillset/comfort zone. Might be able to maintain experience/title (i.e. not starting as new grad). Relatively good stability/security
• Cons: Work will be most similar to current role, arguably least interesting & seemingly worse pay compared to other options long-term

2. Pivot into buy-side trading

• Pros: Some skillsets transition well, steep learning curve, comp upside. Have found better success in these pipelines (lots of headhunters calling and getting to some later rounds) recently although not sure if this will last as I become more senior
• Cons: Not sure if I can acclimate to intensity/WLB. High pressure, job security

3. Quantitative Masters e.g. Stats
I'm not too sure about this one as while it certainly opens up lots of quant opportunities in general, I don't know if it really improves my chances at landing a QT role

• Pros: Pivot attempt, good preparation for quant roles in general, might get another look from previously rejected firms (? unsure of this, I think it's very important)
• Cons: Risk wasting time & money, upheaving current life, not worth the investment

I will of course continue applying to roles where possible but basically wondering if I should make a real attempt/investment at switching roles/pivoting. It might be the case that QT is not that realistic at this point given not many firms are willing to hire non-fresh grads in London
Curious to hear others' perspectives and any thoughts would be much appreciated. Thank you!

Sorry in advance for the wall of text
I have never touched a saxophone in my life, as I play the Bb Clarinet. My band director has recruited me to play the Tenor Sax in his Jazz Band next year, and I have a few months to get to a level in which I will need to be able to play Jazz competently at a high school level. I already play the Clarinet at a rather advanced level, so while it will still be a bit of a curve, tone, articulation, embouchure and air support won’t be the biggest issue at play.
I won’t have my Tenor for a bit, so advice beforehand will be very helpful. Any reed/mouthpeice suggestions to look at would also be great, just keep in mind this is a relatively good group and I have to sound as such. Give me your best advice, and tricks, cause I’m gonna need it

Abstract
Memory note, on rules of dialogue engagement, about not wasting limited space-time existence with mentally backwards-walking🚶‍♀️➡️🧠 puerile hecklers from the audience.
Sheikh Mahmoud
Mental note
The following (12 May A69) is a mental 💭 wake-up note 📝 to self:

“If someone from the linguistics community, i.e. those lost in PIEland 🥧🏝️ beliefs or ShemLand pandering, e.g. as post-amassing monthly now in linguisticshumor (100K+ members), or Egyptology community, being confused by learned incorrect CartoPhonetics foundations, or whatever 20+ EAN-impacted communities, using the Sheikh Mahmoud technique, calls you ”schizo-typic” 💊, e.g. here, here (N[7]R, 2-4 May A69), this 18+ user (aka puerile) even deleting their entire reddit account, a few days later (a commonly seen anti-EAN phenomenon), after given a 7-day ban for fouling on red flag 🚩 DebateLinguistics (DL) discussion rules, a “schizo” babbler, e.g. here (V[8]V, 11 May A69), or “schizo-phrenic” here (J[13]R, 31 Mar A69) AND posts, repeatedly, that I am “crazy” 🤪 here, here (J[13]R, 24 Apr A69), etc., these being the two main anti-EAN derogation mud 💩 slinging terms employed, in growing weekly or monthly derogations; all because I have begun (11 Feb A67/2022), since the Pandemic, to work on EAN theory (Swift, A17), evidenced by the LeidenI350 stanzas, which proves that all ABGD-based languages — the English, Latin, Greek, Sanskrit based languages most importantly, as explaining this combined group solves the famous Jones common “source language” problem:

Jones on the common source hypothesis:

“Sanskrit (संस्कृत), Greek (Έλληνε), Latin, Gothic, Celtic, and possibly old Persian, must have sprung from some 🗣️ common source?”
— William Jones (169A/1786), Asiatick Society of Bengal, Third Anniversary Discourse, Presidential address, Feb 2

The 🆕 common source being Abydos, Egypt (5700A/-3745), e.g. here, here, etc., the center of the new EgyptoIndoEuropean (EIE language family).

— words, Etymo, phonetics, and AlphabetOrigin, and alphabet “order”, derive directly from the 28 symbol LunarScript; which formed in the 500-year Sesostris (ΣΕΣΟΣΤΡΙΣ) [1285] empire, e.g. here, here, etc., world language domination window, between 3300A and 2800A, wherein the Egyptians impressed their language system on people, similar to how the Romans, during the Roman empire era, impressed Latin on people; which, in short, was imprinted, similar to a language coding computer program, onto the minds 🧠 of people, in the form of the 28 number-letter Osiris-themed ”Egyptian alphabet”, the first 14-letters: A to N, arranged in so-called: hoe 𓁃, 𓌹, 𓍁 [A], sow 𓁅, 𓂺 𓏥 (𐤄, E), reap 🌱𓌳 [M], and 150-day flood 💦 [N], yearly agricultural cycle, aka ”farming order” (Horner, A67); wherein a four layered social structure was encoded: farming, priests, warriors, government, gods, defined by laws, was encoded; spoken about, in geometric and cosmology terms, by Plato, Plutarch, Young, Swift, Gadalla, and Rehab; all derived from so-called “reduced” Egyptian GodGeometry and EgyptoLinguistics; a new number-coded language, formulated by Egyptian mathematicians, engineers, e.g. here, and cosmologists:

Psychoyos on engineered language invention hypothesis:

“It is strange how everybody wonders 💭 if it was possible❓for humble workers, Semite prisoners of war in fact [Gardiner, 39A], to have invented 💡alphabetic 🔠 writing ✍️? But no one should discuss the possibility of the invention alphabetic writing to have been the work of ⚙️ engineers, even though the myths seem to point in this direction? Maybe alpha, beta, gamma, delta ... represent 1, 2, 3, 4 ... in some 🗣️ language?”
— Dimitris Psychoyos (A50/2005), “The Forgotten Art of Isopsephy“ (pg. #)

[continued]

originally described by the seven main Egyptian numerals, dating to the 5300A TombUJ number tags 🏷️, which attest letter-number H (8), as 𓐁 [Z15G], i.e. two palms 𓂪, and letter-number R (100), as the solar 🌞 ram head 𓍢 [Z1], and the 5700A Naqada I period black-rimed vase, which attest the proto letter-number I (10), as type: ∩, the Horus 𓅃 solar 🌞 falcon in the Hathor 𓁥 Milky Way 🌌 cow 🐮 yoke home 𓉡, aka letter omega Ω [800] presently; a 6K+ year old Egyptian cosmology star 🌟 story, recorded by 1,050+ HieroTypes; the oldest of which being letter-number H [8] or 𓐁 [Z15G], in the attested form: 𓏽 (𓂪) / 𓏽 (𓂪), found extant on the 20,000A Ishango math 🧮 bone 🦴, Congo, Africa; all of which predicates a steep 4-year or more learning curve, in order to understand what is going on:

New EAN member who has previously enjoyed read Fideler (A38):

“There’s a steep barrier to entry on this material in terms of time commitment and information processing ability.”
— O[19]0 (A69), “comment”, Hebrew Numerals, May 9

[continued]

Subsequently, as I only have so many days of space-time existence left on this planet 🌍, the 3rd rock 🪨 from the sun 🌞, who the Egyptians referred to by the hiero-name: 𓀭 𓃀 𓅬 [A40-D58-G38] (here), to use to finish the scheduled 6-volume EAN book 📚 set, so I can get back to the HumanChemThermo (HCT) derivation and final scheduled target 🎯 HCT publication; it thus behooves me 🚧 not to engage in dialogue with those who drop either the S-bomb 💣, the C-bomb 💣, or other DL red flag 🚩 terms, as these types of people already have their mind “made up”, being pre-disposed to backwards non-open-mined thinking 🤔, their brain 🧠 anchored ⚓️ in accepted “standard” status quo, but logically incongruent, ideology and dogma; and no amount of arguing or discussion will convince them otherwise, as has been evidenced in the 1.5-year open window🪟of free-going discussion, in the early period of Reddit EAN; or to reply to people whose refutation is “LOL, you are not a scientist, and do not know peer review!”, a comment made while I was making this mental note.
It is better, as Planck said, to let the old generation die off, so that the new generation will allowed sunlight so to grow to the new view.”
— Libb Thims (A69), “mental note”, wake-up state, 9:35 PM CST, May 12

Mental note Follow-up #1
The following is the “reduced“ version of the former:

“Do not 🚧 engage [DNE] with puerile minds.”
— Libb Thims (A69), ”mental note”, wake up state (sleep: 11-hours); thoughts on previous day wake up mental note, combined with V[4]S, in this post, who dropped the S-bomb 💣, to which I replied with pro-tip rule, at the Russian (language) sub, about the following letter L type switch from: Λ → Л, between my name in print as: Λибб Тимс, below my photo, versus this the Google translate name Либб Тимс (Libb Thims) or say Леонард Эйлер (Leonard Euler) also shown in the article, below his photo, spelled as Λеонард ЭйΛер in this A52 (2007) Russian article. It still boggles my mind how someone throw the S-bomb at someone for asking the simple question: “how: Λ → Л?”, 3:30PM CST May 13

Mental note Follow-up #2

”You are wasting my space-time.”
— Libb Thims (A69), truncated summary of previous, 2:23AM May 14

Pro tip!
A good rule of thumb to shut-down the conversation with the do-not-engage-with (DNEW) types of users, is just to paste the following, which links to this mental note page:
Reply.
In other words, it should not be that difficult to have a coherent ABC conversation about the origin of ABC, or the new theory of the Egyptian origin of language 🗣️ , without recourse to a trip down the sewer 🕳️ drain, the city trash 🚮 dump, or to the happy default land of ad-hominem-ville?

Any recommendations on rubber straps with curved ends? I've only found the Rubber B and I'm not paying $300 for a rubber strap.
I know there's cheaper options for the BB58, but my concern is that it won't look great since the BB Pro is a thicker case width.

So I've been away for around 2 weeks, and i expected you guys to hold down the fort while i was gone, and i come back to a 3-9 record?? I'm disappointed, but alas, while away i was doing some brainstorming and came up with a fun idea where i essentially look at the next series and break down the starters, who's hot etc. Seems like it could help for people that don't watch around baseball much, so I'm gonna give it a try and see how you guys like it.

Twins Probable Starters:

Joe Ryan (3.54ERA/2.45xERA/3.01FIP/3.10xFIP)
Ryan is a really good starter and a data darling, and was off to a fantastic start last year before being injured and never being the same post injury. He's had a solid year this year, and his peripherals point to being even better then he's been so far. Ryan is elite at getting strikeouts as well as limiting walks, and his 93 mph fastball with around average movement and spin from a lower release point is somehow one of the best fastballs in baseball, being one of the best pitches since 2022 by run value. Couldn't tell you exactly why. HIs arsenal Consists of mainly a 4 seamer and Split fingers to lefties with more sweepers to righties and the occasional harder slider and sinker to round up the pitches.
Notable Stats: 81st percentile K rate, 93rd percentile walk rate, 90th percentile xERA, 6th percentile breaking run value in 2023, 13th off-speed run value in 2023
TLDR: Ryan has an elite level fastball, and is fantastic at limiting walks and generating Ks, but he has really bad secondary offerings with a newer split finger leading the way. He's a great starter that is always a tough matchup.
Simeon Woods-Richardson (1.74ERA/3.72xERA/1.85FIP/3.68xFIP)
A former Jays prospect acquired in the Marcus Stroman trade then sent away in the Jose Berrios deal, its been a weird path to the big leagues for SWR. After a few inconsistent years in the minors, it seemed like he figured it our in 2022 with a sub 3 ERA as a 21 year old in AAA and AA and then one solid MLB start, but 2023 was rough. He had a FIP above 5 in AAA with his K rate dropping and his BB rate rising. 2024 wasn't going so well either for him, but since making the majors he's been fantastic. However, it doesn't look so sustainable, but a 1.74 ERA is elite, and he'll be an interesting watch. His pitch mix consists of mainly a four seamer, slider and change with the occasional curveball.
Notable Stats: 172 BA 207 SLG vs his slider (elite level slider thus far), 11th percentile whiff rate, 17th percentile hard hit rate, 54th percentile xERA
TLDR: SWR does a good job at limiting walks and getting strikeouts while allowing a relatively high amount of hard contact. He's has had some fantastic results in his small sample size this year, but his peripherals make them seem unsustainable,
Bailey Ober (4.42ERA/3.56xERA/3.76FIP/4.01xFIP)
Ober is a giant at 6'9 and makes the most of it with a 96th percentile extension, but has a weird arsenal. He's far from a hard thrower, with an average fastball velocity in the 22nd percentile, but he has had it play up in years past likely due to his big frame and extension. This year the fastball is getting crushed however, to the tune of a 372 BA with a 701 SLG. He's elite at limiting walks like most of this staff with a 80th percentile walk rate this year and a 93rd last year. He has 5 pitches in his arsenal with s four seamer, cutter, slider, and changeup leading the way and an occasional curve to round it out.
Notable Stats: -6 run value on his fastball, 96th percentile extension, 85th percentile chase rate, 13th percentile barrel rate
TLDR: Ober is a massive human and gives a weird look for hitters with his extension and 3/4 release point. He limits walks well but is homer prone and has a poor fastball. He's realistically a pretty average mid rotation innings eater type of starter.
Hitters to note: Ryan Jeffers (177 wRC+, 8 homers) Max Kepler (158 wRC+) total of 7 players with a wRC+ above 119 wRC+
SERIES TLDR: Were going to see one elite starter, one starter with god results but iffy peripherals, and a funky solid starter. The twins are the hottest team in baseball, winners of 15 of their last 17, and have some very good pitching and a good balanced offense, however their league wide stats don't point to them as one of the best teams in baseball, and the teams they've faced on the win streak have been the White sox twice, Angels, Red Sox and Mariners, The hope is to slow them down this series and regress some of their stats to the mean

I am working on a custom gravel/light trail/bikepacking bike. After lots of searching for bikes I'd like the emulate the look, feel or geo of, I found this Curve GMX+ and want to match most of the geo numbers. Both the frame and fork will be fully custom. I'd like to give myself the option of trying out a 100mm travel suspension fork at some point down the road, which will have closer to a 520mm axle to crown, as opposed to the 430mm atc on the Curve's fork. I know that if I just copy all of the Curve's geo numbers and then stick a longer atc fork on I will be messing up the geometry but I'm certain there is a way I can design with this in mind and keep relatively the same bb height, hta and sta. i just don't know what that change(s) is. Thanks for reading and helping with this project. I can't wait to show reddit the build when it's all said and done!

I have a fully built out BAR10 gspec and I just seem to have strange bb flight patterns. It flies straight for around 150 feet then curves right around 200 maybe a foot? The only thing I can think of is maybe bb weight? I'm currently using 40s. I have been debating switching to a 60° Mr hop as I love Rhop but hate doing it. I have perfect air seal and all the various things like that.
Parts list M150 with around 2 coils cutoff Maple leaf crazy jet 6.01 370mm Maple leaf 70° autobot bucking Foam filled suppressor hiding the extended barrel (I checked bbs are not hitting the foam) Tridos TDC hopup pro with stock TM hopup chamber
I know airsoft isn’t laser beams to 300yds I just feel like there has to be something I can fix

Hey all, I've been a pvp goblin for a few years on the game, however I tend to play for a few months, burn out, come back after another few months and repeat.
Anyway. I've recently began the hourglass grind and I love it, naval is so incredibly fun and the complexity added with breakable masts/wheel/anchor. However, when using BB or EoR as a controller player they feel.. wildly inconsistent and clunky like. There's an awkward delay between sprint/ADS/shoot with the BB, and if I double tap RT I can get off a BB shot straight from sprint.
Against mainly PC players i've noticed they can utilize BB and EoR a lot faster than I can. Is this a skill issue, is there a new meta i'm unaware of? By the time I ADS with BB i'm dead to their BB. It's by far the most frustrating aspect of HG for me at this moment. I understand fundamentals, positioning, but mechanically I feel very slow.
(also any pvp controller players have any solid response curve/sens settings?)

Hey! Looks like I won't be the first one building in a Terra. Like other people here, I think this is my first PC build in the last 20 years or so, feedback would be very much appreciated. I went through what feels like hundreds of builds, guides, videos and posts. But I mostly used laptops previously, so there's a bunch of questions.
My goal is to have a compact, good-looking, powerful, reliable and relatively quiet (gaming laptops didn't spoil me with fans being quiet) system which would last me a few years. It should be more or less easy to build and maintain. That's why I tried to choose components which are as popular as possible: there is more info on them in terms of building and troubleshooting. Don't plan any overclocking or other tinkering besides undervolting, turning on EXPO profile for memory (do I even say that right? guess that's what it's called for AMD) and adjusting fan curves. The main use is gaming on a 3440x1440 monitor - Battlefield, Destiny 2, TLoU, Ghost of Tsushima.
PCPartPicker Part List

• Case Fractal Design Terra Mini ITX Desktop Case
• Motherboard Asus ROG STRIX B650E-I GAMING WIFI Mini ITX AM5 Motherboard
• CPU AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor
• CPU Cooler ID-COOLING IS-55 Black 54.6 CFM CPU Cooler
• GPU Asus ProArt OC GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER 16 GB Video Card
• Memory G.Skill Flare X5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory
• Storage Western Digital Black SN850X 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
• Power Supply Corsair SF750 750 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular SFX Power Supply
• Case Fan Noctua A12x15 PWM 55.44 CFM 120 mm Fan
• Custom Thermal Grizzly Contact Frame (AMD Ryzen 7000 Contact Sealing Frame)
• Custom 12+4pin PCIe Gen 5 12VHPWR 600W Cable Type 5 Gen 5
• Custom NA-FG1-12 Fan Guard

What do you think about the components? Should I change anything to better achieve goals mentioned above? I only ordered the Terra so far.
MB: looks like there is no good AM5 ITX MB. I saw reports of some pretty nasty issues for all of them - MSI, Gigabyte, ASRock. Some say that Asus B650E-I can have posting issues with 4080. For some its BIOS is awful, for others it's brilliant. And it can have coil whine. But it seems to be popular.
RAM: Crucial Pro vs G.Skill - price is roughly the same, seems to be safer to go with G.Skill. But Crucial one seems to have those EXPO/XMP profiles both for Intel and AMD, while with G.Skill I need Flare ones for AMD, right? Also would rather go with low profile RAM in case I need to change the cooler, bigger RAM modules don't seem to provide any benefits.
PSU: once again, plan to go with Corsair because it's Platinum rated, extremely popular, that 12VHPWR cable can be bought directly from Corsair. Did I even pick a correct cable? Asus Loki seems to be nice as well though.
CPU cooler: IS55 seems to be the way to go. Plan to swap it's fan for a Noctua one and use the original one from IS55 as a case fan. Looks like it can be done.
Also I saw someone use Noctua A12x15 PWM chromax.black.swap as a case fan - what's the difference compared to a usual Noctua A12x15 PWM 55.44 CFM 120 mm Fan?
CPU contact frame: not sure but seems like it can do some good. At least it can help with thermal paste. Is there any risks to using it?
Lastly, did anyone use Cryosheets, PTM7950 Thermal Pads or something like that? I'm worried that Cryosheets are conductive: in case a piece rips off, it probably can short something. I guess. But the system stays cleaner with it. PTM7950 seem to be interesting too

so i have a little list of my favorite (mostly) funny episodes of breaking bad and better call saul that i watch for comfort. i thought i would share the BB ones with context for the hell of it, since i have them written for when i cant remember why they’re funny lmfao. also wanna know what y’alls favorite funnies are. one and two are probably tied for me.

1. a no rough stuff type of deal: walt and jesse stealing the barrel of methylmine with the pompom hats. ”this is all they had!” “if this is all they had you’re in the wrong place!” ; skyler pretending to go into labor in a dank storage room! when she returns the stolen tiara. ; barrel of methylmine rolling down the stairs. ”what part of slow it down don’t you understand?!” “it got away from me!!!” ; walt and jesse cook in jesse’s basement during the open house, “yo, you not seeing the basement, bitch!!! got it?!” ; walt peering thru the crack of the basement when the little girl sees him. 😨😐👨🏻‍🦲🤫🚪; jesse calls walt lex luther at the meet with tuco ; classic ”TIGHTIGHTIGHTCHEA!!! BLUE, YELLOW, PINK, WHATEVER MAN. JUS KEEP BRINGIN ME THAT!!!”
   
2. four days out: fucking classic walt/jesse episode. ”you brought a *meth lab** to an airport?”* ; walt opens jesse’s bag full of funyuns. “…how are you even alive?” ; when jesse leaves keys in the ignition and puts out fire with the last of their water. “is it a congenital thing with you? did your mother drop you on your head as a *baby?!”* ; of course, “ahhh, wireee!! :)” “… copper.” ; “…a robot?” “a *BATTERY.”*
   
3. better call saul: no explanation necessary. every moment, comedic gold lmfao.
   
4. green light: ”suit myself? I’ll suit myself to his face!!!!” “walt! what are you doing…?” “…i’m talking with ted :)” * hurls plant. * ; mike throwing walt in the cahim and saul listening to walt’s convo with skyler ; walt and saul wrestling ; “i caught my second wife screwing my stepdad, its a cruel world walt.” ; “‘OH BOOHOO I DONT WANNA COOK METH ANYMORE’ YOU’RE A CRYBABY, WHO NEEDS YOU?!” ; walt tries to come onto carmen and she curves his shit ; jesse drives off with walt’s box for his “indefinite sabbatical” on his car and walt chases it… as it proceeds to fall off. ; “EAT ME!” *“ANYTIME, LOSER!” ; saul spazzing out to jesse and saying walt has gone mass maniac on them. “i try to show you two your potential and what do i get?! *A BONE CONTUSION!*”
   
5. un caballo sin nombre: the entire fucking opening scene. “HELLFIRE RAINED UPON MY HOUSE, WHERE MY CHILDREN SLEEP, AND YOU WANNA GIVE ME A TICKET?! do you have the remotest INKLING 🤌🏻🤌🏻 of what that means?!” proceeds to get pepper sprayed. ; hanks awkward jokes at dinner ; walt jr calls skyler a bitch (love skyler but that shit is so funny). ; THE FUCKING ROOF PIZZA ; “I GOT YOUR RESTRAINING ORDER RIGHT HERE. RESTRAIN THIS!!!” grabs crotch. ; saul helps jesse buy his house back from his parents and they are appalled.
   

also, the fact that there are literally no funny episodes after season 3 is wild lmfao gus was such a buzzkill. shit just immediately got real dark real fast. love him tho.
edit: almost forgot about fly! walt falling off the fucking stairs had me wheezing ; “i thought there was an ebola leak or something!!!” ”what would a west african virus be doing in our lab…?” ; “you can’t order shit, alright adolf?” ; walt and jesse whacking each other with the metal makeshift swatter. ; “… this is a raisin.” ; the 71633763 tape traps they put up. “i hope we got enough…” ”i’m gonna go out on a limb and say, yeah.”

Chapter One: Oh great, now I'm a dungeon.
I always loved flying. It was actually what killed me. But I digress. Let me tell you how this all started.
I was flying home at 17,000 feet in my brand new 2024 Cessna Turbo Skylane just enjoying the scenery with the auto-pilot flying the plane for me, when something big, metal, and fast, ripped through my Cessna. That's the last and only impression I got before everything went black and time stopped for me. I can only assume another aircraft slammed into my plane somehow, but my TCAS never alerted me to anything even remotely close to me.
So there I was. Dead. When this bright white light flashed into being all around me, and a woman's voice whispered in my ear "You have departed the mortal realm before your time. I will send you into another world to correct this error. You will become more than you ever thought you could".
I was about to ask what the voice meant, when darkness closed around me again. Darkness, except for a faint pinkish purple glow. I focused my attention on the glow and suddenly zoomed through the blackness until I was looking down on a small round stone about the size of a BB, glowing from an internal light. I had no idea what it was or why it would glow. Without warning, my 'body?' dove into the stone and my awareness expanded to take in the shallow cave I was in.
Wait? What? How... I... The cave was my body? WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What the... How... I... ahhh shit. Have I been isikaid into being a what? A Dungeon? I could only think that perhaps some of those hfy dungeon core stories I loved so much, had influenced whatevewhoever decided to turn me into a fucking dungeon. I was not at all happy. Not in the least.
It took me a long time to stop cussing, but once I got that out of my system, I accepted I was fucked and would just have to muddle through as best I could. Now that I was thinking as rationally as I could considering my unusual circumstances, I took stock of my situation and surroundings. Yep.. I was in a shallow cave about 12 feet deep from the entrance. An entrance I suddenly took great interest in. If I was now a dungeon, that entrance was way too close to my what.... Core? Heart? Lets just go with core. It was too close. Wait.. did I have any minions? If so, where are they?
I look around and notice a couple jumping spiders, and what looks decidedly like cave crickets that instead of normal cricket mouth parts, had assassin bug mouth parts... were those my minions? One of the jumping spiders suddenly launched itself at a fly, grabbing it right off the wall, and I felt something trickle inside me. [Mana Obtained!] Mana? Yeah ok that makes sense. The spider killed the fly and I got something from it. Then I noticed a small beetle. Maybe twice the size of the fly, and before I could really think about it, a Cave Cricket launched itself off the wall and with that assassin bug mouth, speared the beetle and started eating it by sucking it's insides out. [Mana Obtained!] I got a tiny bit of mana for that as well. Hmmm.
Looking around I notice what looks like a spider egg sack hanging off of a root near the back wall up near the ceiling of my cave. I concentrate on it. I feel like I can make more spiders, make the spawner better, or make a spider that is stronger. I have enough mana to do 2 of those things, so I make the spawner better and in the corner of my eye I see words form. [SPIDER SPAWNER UPGRADED TO LEVEL TWO]. I stare at it for a moment, and then go ahead and choose to make a stronger spider. My eye immediately notices the new text [DESIGNATE SCION Y/N?] huh, that's new... ok fine.. I choose yes by mentally clicking it. As soon as I do I see a countdown timer appear above the spawner for 1 hour. Ok, that makes sense too. More powerful spider and a scion to boot, takes a bit more time, right, got it. Next I search for my Assassin Cricket spawner and locate it in a small pile of what looks like twigs and half rotted leaves. Hmmm not enough mana to do an upgrade and a scion... so I'll just do an upgrade first.
While I wait for my new spider scion to show up I watch as the first of the upgraded Assassin Crickets spawns, and it is truly a thing of nightmares. Imagine a cave cricket the size of your hand, with the mouth parts of an Assassin bug, that is covered in needle sharp spikes everywhere... yeah... I saw that and was glad I didn't have a human body because I'd have shit myself from fear. UGLY and SCARY doesn't even begin to describe that walking nightmare. However... it was death hopping. A mouse had wondered into my cave and made a dash for my core and that... thing... hopped across the floor and killed it before the mouse even knew it was dead. That mouse had zero chance against my nightmare bugzilla.
[Mana Obtained!]
At this point I realized that my core was just sitting there for anyone to grab, so I decided to try and command bugzilla to kind of push my core closer to the back wall. I concentrated on it and mentally described what I wanted it to do. I felt a small bit of mana leave me, and my bugzilla hopped over to my core, and... unfolded that Assassin bug mouth, and somehow grabbed my core and carried it to the back wall of the cave. Ok... scary, but doable. I will admit I shuddered some internally after it set me down. Oddly, it stood there facing towards the entrance of the cave, almost like it was guarding me. I felt a little bad about being afraid of it.
[Mana Obtained!] [Mana Obtained!] [Mana Obtained!] [Mana Obtained!] [Mana Obtained!] [Mana Obtained!] [Mana Obtained!] [Mana Obtained!] [Mana Obtained!] [Mana Obtained!] [Mana Obtained!] [Mana Obtained!] [Mana Obtained!] [Mana Obtained!] [Mana Obtained!]
WTF? Holy hell! I just got invaded by a group of what I can only call ants, but they only had 4 legs instead of 6, and their mandibles were like the mandibles you would see on warrior ants. My spiders and assassin crickets killed them quickly, but I was starting to realize my core, on the ground, easily gotten to, was not ideal. But the mana I got was nice. I now had enough to spawn an Assassin Cricket scion! So I spent the mana and watched as a countdown timer appeared. Yep. One hour. Ok cool I can deal with that. Glancing to my spider spawner I still had 16 minutes left. Hmm what to do?
I know I have something that can at the very least be considered a notification HUD, so I wonder if I have an actual HUD I can use. So with that thought, I reach over mentally to the area the notifications showed up in, and a massive drop down menu suddenly appeared in my vision. Right. Great. My learning curve just turned into a cliff, and I have been tossed off it. Fuck My Life! With a sigh, I start clicking through it. None of it makes any real sense yet, but I do find a section on spawners, so clicking that, I look to see what it says...
SPAWNERS:
SPIDER (LVL 2) CRICKET (LVL 2) FLY (LVL 0) BEETLE (LVL 0) MOUSE (LVL 0) DEVIL ANT (LVL 0)
Hmmm... I mentally highlight the word cricket and see if I can change the name of my crickets to Assassin Crickets and to my surprise, after the briefest of moments, the change takes hold and it now reads:
ASSASSIN CRICKET (LVL 2)
I'm happy with that little change, and by being able to change the names of creatures to something I am more comfortable with it lets me know the HUD is also malleable, at least in this small way anyway. It has also let me know that any creature that dies within my area of influence, can become a creature I can make a spawner for. THAT is different from what I remember from the stories... wait.. stories? I... Why can't I remember any of them? Why does even the concept of them feel faded...oh no... my memories of my life.. they are like fading dreams... dread fills my soul as I realize that ALL of my previous life is fading from my memory. This really sucks rancid dog ass.
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Hi everyone, doing my very first sffpc build and I'm super excited! I fell in the love with the CH160 as it's practical and cheap. I do plan on using this to take to my girlfriend's house who also games and as well as lan parties with friends.
Just wanted some feedback on the build and make sure it all looks good. I am planning on replacing the terrible Mediatek WiFi card with the Intel AX210.
I do have a few questions, in regards to the Arctic P12 fans I am purchasing.

1. The rear fan on this case, am I able to daisy chain it to the CPU cooler so they can run in tandem based on a fan curve?
   
2. If I cannot daisy chain them, then I would just connect the rear fan to the CPU Fan 2 header and set the fan speed to the CPU fan?
   
3. Lastly, this board comes with 1 chassis fan header and two RGB headers. I plan to take the remaining two Arctic fans and daisy chain them together to the chassis fan, but my question is can all 3 RGB connectors be daisy chained so they follow the same lighting pattern, or do I need the rear fan on it's own RGB header?
   

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Thought I would do a little bit of a write up on the starting pitching prospects in the system. Was planning on doing one on the hitters as well but most of the standout performances have come from BargeMartinez who everyone is aware of by now and there have been a lot of slow starts throughout the system. Relievers will be excluded as most have only had like 5 IP of a sample size at this point.
This will also be a lot shorter than it would normally be cause the Jays have had some terrible fortune in the health of their pitching prospects...Between MLB Pipeline, Baseball America & Fangraphs the Blue Jays have 10 SP Prospects to start the year that make at least one of those lists...6 of them are currently on the IL.
Injured List:

1. LHP Ricky Tiedemann (21) AAA: 8.0 IP: Elbow Nerve Inflammation (7-Day IL)
2. LHP Brandon Barriera (20) A: 1.1 IP: Elbow Surgery (Out-For-Season: 60-Day IL)
3. LHP Kendry Rojas (21) A+: 5.2 IP: Unknown Throwing Arm Injury (7-Day IL)
4. RHP Landen Maroudis (19) A: 10.2 IP: Unknown Throwing Arm Injury (7-Day IL)
5. RHP Dahian Santos (21) A+: 0.0 IP: Forearm/Elbow Injury (60-Day IL)
6. RHP Nolan Perry (20) A: 0.0 IP: Elbow Injury (60-Day IL)

Bonus Injury: RHP Lazaro Estrada (24) A: 4.2 IP: Unknown Injury (7-Day IL)

• Barriera, Santos & Perry have now missed massive amount of time of their development. Do not be surprised to see some of the lower names vault past them on rankings and projections. The small bright side is they are all fairly young so have the time to put it all behind them. Rojas was the breakout starting pitcher prospect last season and this was his chance to back that season up but will now out for the foreseeable future. Estrada is a bit of an overage sleeper prospect who had a sub 3 ERA and excellent strikeout numbers last season but also hit the IL.
• Not all is known about the injury to Maroudis but seems to have avoided a surgery. He was turning heads in camp and was exceptional in his 10.2 IP. He was a prospect scouts were talking could sneak into Top 100 lists by midseason. Absolute steal in the 4th round last season. His stuff is nasty and I am disappointed he isn't out there to follow.
• Everyone is aware of Tiedemann by now and he avoided a severe injury but it is becoming a concern as he really needs to get some innings under his belt. He still has some control issues to work on as well but that would be hard to do if he doesn't stay healthy long enough. The Jays as expected will be very careful with him. With the White/Parsons gone and injuries to Francis/Rodriguez, his path to the Majors isn't as clouded as it once was.

Now to more positive things...The remaining ranked and healthy pitching prospects include from the start of season Top 10:

• LHP Adam Macko (23) AA: 4 GS, 3.15 ERA/3.28 FIP, 20.0 IP, .194 OBA, 1.10 WHIP & 22 SO / 8 BB
  • The Blue Jays current "healthy" top pitching prospect. He has been a model of consistency in his first taste of AA. He has for the most part been able to carry his numbers from A+. He has gone 4.0 IP in every start and has not allowed more than 3 ER in any. He has been extra dominant against lefties so if it does't work out as a starter, he has the fallback option of being a lefty bullpen arm. Macko has struggled with confidence and health in previous years so it is good to see him start strong. His rainbow curve is still very beautiful to watch. His ceiling is really high. I would safely consider him the Jays #2 pitching prospect.
• RHP Chad Dallas (23) in AAA: 5 GS, 7.04 ERA/6.66 FIP, 23.0 IP, .323 OBA, 1.91 WHIP & 16 SO / 13 BB
  • Has really struggled since his promotion to the highest level of the minors. Allowing a lot of BB and a lot of hanging pitches which has lead to a lot of contract against. He is still rather young for the level so expect him in AAA all season as he learns his craft. Nothing to overly panic especially with the International League being so hitter friendly. Buffalo Bisons (cough Martinez cough) have not helped him out much at all.
• RHP Juaron Watts-Brown (22) in A: 4 GS, 5.50 ERA/4.55 FIP, 18.0 IP, .265 OBA, 1.61 WHIP & 21 SO / 11 BB
  • A Blue Jays 3rd RP just last season but did not pitch last year so this is his first time pitching professionally. Overall solid first 4 career starts. Has struggled with his control though with 11 BB & 6 WP in just 18.0 IP. Much too early to make any real comments yet. He is a solid arm to follow but this will be more of a see what happens year. Definitely needs to reign in the control. Has the natural tools to succeed*.*
• RHP Fernando Perez (20) in A: 4 GS, 4.12 ERA/2.76 FIP, 19.2 IP, .237 OBA, 1.17 WHIP & 24 SO / 5 BB
  • Spent the last two seasons in ROK and has taken him some starts to get adjusted. Excellent strikeout stuff and arguably even better control. Insanely promising start his last time up as he struck out 9 while walking 0 allowing just 3 H, 1 ER in 6 IP. Scouts love him and a few more performances like that watch him rocket up rankings. He and Maroudis are the highly projectable arms to follow in the system. Could finish in the Jays Top 10 prospects if they stay healthy.

Other Interesting Pitching Prospects To Watch:

• RHP Grant Rogers (22) in A: 3 GS, 2.57 ERA/2.67 FIP, 14.0 IP, .184 OBA, 1.14 WHIP & 17 SO / 7 BB
• LHP Connor O'Halloran (21) in A: 4 GS, 2.91 ERA/3.19 FIP, 21.2 IP, .182 OBA, 0.97 WHIP & 23 SO / 7 BB
  • Both have been exceptional in A-Ball. Both probably should be in A+ as they are rather advanced but the Dunedin Blue Jays pitching staff has been decimated with injuries so they might be sticking around for a bit. Both lack the elite stuff and tools to gain scouts attention just yet but their performances can only be seen as a good thing. Not all the best arms in baseball today were top prospects, so don't count these guys out. Rogers lacks a big out-pitch which leads to long counts and O'Halloran lacks major league velocity. Their big test will come in how they handle A+/AA.
• RHP Ryan Jennings (24) in A+: 4 GS, 0.56 ERA/4.17 FIP, 16.0 IP, .132 OBA, 1.00 WHIP & 17 SO / 9 BB
  • Was drafted with the intention of being and having all the tools to be an exceptional reliever. Having a fastball that touches 99 mph and a great slider to go with it but concern with no 3rd pitch and stamina bringing his value down. However, he has simply just kept performing as a starter despite the control issues. Hitters just cannot make contact with his pitches. This season in A+ he has allowed just 1 total ER in 4 starts and has allowed only 1 hit in 3/4 starts. He has allowed only 1 extra-base hit this season. Seems like the Jays will just role with him until it stops working at which point he might become one of the best reliever arms in the system.
• LHP Trent Wallace (25) in AA: 4 GS, 2.16 ERA/3.47 FIP, 16.2 IP, .217 OBA, 1.26 WHIP & 23 SO / 8 BB
  • Is the only other arm in New Hampshire that has looked good alongside Macko. Despite never being a highly ranked prospect he is now having his 3rd straight season of putting up strong numbers in the minors. His professional career ERA now sits at a sparkly 2.54 and he has performed at every level he has pitched out without any real bumps in the road. He might make a push for AAA very soon if he puts together a few more starts and he is already 25 now. Currently on 8 straight scoreless innings as he is dialled in. He has the tools to make it as a starter and is looking like a steal after being an 11th RP in 2021. His under the radar performance has started to catch the attention of scouts.

Others to Pay Attention To:

• RHP CJ Van Eyk (25) in AA allowed 9 ER in 0.1 IP in his last outing and is rocking a 16.39 ERA / 4.89 FIP. There is a good chance he eventually gets converted to a reliever to see what he can do maxing out. This is his first healthy season in ages and keeping it that way is a priority.
• RHP Devereaux Harrison (23) in AA was crushed in his first two outings but has since bounced back in his last 3 pitching 5.0 innings in each and allowing less than 2 ER in each. Interesting to see how he continues at the level. His walks are up and strikeouts are down even with the improvement and he needs to see improvement in both. He was a good story last season transitioning to an SP from the bullpen and running away with it the rest of the season.
• RHP Michael Dominguez (23) in AA has always been an interesting arm. He is very erratic and HR prone but when he is on he is on. His numbers on the season are not amazing but most of the damage came in 1 start where he was blasted for 7 ER. In his last 3 starts he has gone 5 IP in each and allowed a total of 7 H & 2 ER. His 6 HR allowed in 23 starts is not great though as he allowed 17 HR in 102.1 IP last season.
• RHP Rafael Sánchez (25) A+, RHP Trent Palmer (25) AA, RHP Chris McElvain (23) A+, RHP Pat Gallagher (23) A+, RHP Rafael Sanchez (24) A+, RHP Kevin Miranda (25) A+, RHP Geison Urbaez (23) A+, etc are a few others names you might see mentioned here or there but none really stand out. Most are like bulk inning eaters who can go like 3 IP. Most would probably be in the bullpen if it hasn't been for the wave of starting SP injuries.

RHP Grant Rogers pitches today for Dunedin and RHP Chad Dallas pitches today for Buffalo so hopefully I didn't jinx either of them.