Many folks may not realize that a multi-year process to remove protections for wetlands in St. John's is set to be voted on for final approval this Tuesday, June 9, at 3:00pm at City Hall.
This is the most aggressive reversal of environmental protections in the City in memory, and it's being done in a rather brilliant way.
Council is presenting this as a way to "ensure protections" when in fact, the existing regulations already protect all categories of wetlands in the City.
Worse, the language of the new legislation is incredibly subversive in three primary ways:
First, it replaces the existing default protections with a "formula-based" approach, so that future reclassification of any wetland to "unprotected" status need not require public engagement.
Second, it claims to be based on the "WESP-AC" standard, which it IS NOT. Yes, they did hire an environmental engineering firm to conduct a WESP-AC assessment for several wetlands, however, the City then instructed the engineers to use a Scoring System entirely constructed by the City, and not based on WESP-AC at all. Their claim that the process is based on WESP-AC is misleading, and equivalent to claiming that vodka is nutritious because it is based on potatoes. They take a valid means to assess a wetland and then bake it into a biased recipe that purposefully under weighs environmental factors. Most importantly, under the City-imposed weighting scheme, nearly all wetlands in the city will receive a final score between 2.0 and 3.5 in the city (out if 10). Which brings us to the next nefarious part.
The proposed amendment also codifies a "cut-off" value of "6" out of 10, that any wetland must score equal or above to keep its "protected" status. This extra term, within the same proposal, is the final nail in the coffin, as almost no wetlands can attain that high score. However, debate on Council has degenerated into this complete distraction, debating about whether the cut-off should be "5" or "6". But because the dice are already loaded with the adoption of the underlying biased scoring system, a choice between "5" or "6" has practically zero affect on what wetlands survive the cut-off - nearly all scores are vastly lower than both numbers.
If this proposal passes, wetlands can systematically have their current protected status removed as each new field survey is completed. (Look at the map available at the link below - these wetlands are practically ALL of the green space still in the city - being a wetland is why they are not already clear-cut.)
The citizens of St. John's are being outplayed by the use of a very technical rule system, and are also being mislead by claims by the City to be basing their process on "standards" such as the WESP-AC. This is spin. They use the WESP-AC in an attempt to validate their reasoning, but then superimpose a custom weighting scheme of their design on top.
Also, they claim that they are following similar processes followed in Alberta, with only a "slight" change in their weighting scheme, that weighs "water storage" (a land development concern) even higher than Alberta did. I cannot remember the last time that Alberta was the preferred comparison for environmental protection policy, nor should it be a good thing to adopt a weighting scheme "even less environmentally aligned than Alberta".
You can learn more about this, read the questions and comments and answers at https://www.engagestjohns.ca/text-and-map-amendment-wetlands
Also, here is Tuesday's agenda for the Council meeting: https://pub-stjohns.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?Id=7157bbbc-2b75-4b4e-9bf7-e6dcaa7c18db&Agenda=Agenda&lang=English
The wetlands item is Agenda Item 14.2.
This amendment is set to be voted on during the City Council Meeting at 3pm, Tuesday, June 11. I am taking the afternoon off from my day job to attend in person. If you or those you think would care are able to join me, I hope to see you there at around 2:30pm to ensure we can attend the public gallery.
It's all over Tuesday at 3pm - unless somehow the "silent majority" with day jobs actually raises its voice above the "paid during the day to get things through Council" land developers.
Sorry for the long text, but we are all getting played in a very sophisticated manner here, because the proponents of this proposal are relying on several layers of technical process, rules, formula, and misrepresented history and purpose, to get this sweeping change across the line.

my boyfriend (18m) and i (17f) dated for a little over 5 months and we’ve been have the same constant issues over and over again. he believes that a girl with no past is the best woman to date, however i have my own past (i never had bodies) that happened along the way. he has never dated in his life btw
he lets his obsession take over the fact that i had ex boyfriends or talking stages. i had a couple guy friends that i’ve known for a long time before him i met him but he didn’t like them so i blocked them. i cleaned my contacts list so there wouldn’t be any guy issues anymore. but there was one problem from my side: i tend to hide or sugarcoat too much stuff where it became a lie. so whenever he asked about, i didn’t want to hurt his feelings because he would get very sad over it and i hid things from him. i lied thinking about the short term relief when i knew for a fact that it was going to get found out. he kept looking through my phone (im not saying that it’s wrong for him to do so), and i don’t cheat. i never cheated on my man, but just my past really gets in between us. he says that he was saving himself up for me because he just knew that i was going to appear in his life (..?) but i would’ve also done that if i knew that he was going to too.
we got in a extremely large fight a couple days ago and it was really bad. especially because he asked for my social passwords, he dug up everything about my past that he could find. he called me names, said how i ruined him and i didn’t know what to do but be overly devastated, starve, and sob on the floor until i passed out with numerous panic attacks. i knew that he didn’t mean those things and i did something that was wrong by lying so we decided to apologize and avoid any problems. but today, he asked for my socials password (i changed it from before) but i couldn’t reject so i gave it to him. but he found two screenshots with a “friend” that liked me (it’s in quotations because he was a stalker). back then i was very friendly with everyone and i just accepted it until i found out that he liked me and was stalking me. i did sometimes laugh about the texts that we give and took because they were nice, but i didn’t have feelings for him whatsoever. but what he would’ve been most upset about was the fact that it was around two weeks before he texted me first and started talking.
he always emphasized on me that he never believes anything that i said about my past (which i understand) and that he’ll never trust me completely after we both leaves for college (long distance). however after finding that out, he blocked me on everything you can imagine without letting me able to explain (insta, tiktok, messages) i downloaded snap jst for him yesterday but he blocked me on that too. i don’t know what to do, or how i should do things. i know im being selfish for wanting this relationship to work but i have a feeling that it’s really going to end and im scared. i really want him to not leave me because of a stalker i didn’t like back. i was in the process of holding down my ego and telling him the truth on everything about my past because i couldn’t do it overnight. i really wanted to change just for him and our relationship but i don’t even know how to contact him.
its his birthday today and i was supposed to go over.. he said not to come but i feel like we should be talking this out face to face. i really don’t know what to do

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One thing that I'm not getting here is why Vanessa is even a part of Vanny or Glitchtrap's situation since Double-V is true. I originally thought up Double-V, I was originally thinking that Vanessa and Vanny were sharing the role of "Vanny".
It's just one of them was more willing than the other to be a part of Glitcthtrap's machinations than the other. I didn't put too much thought into it, but it was something I wanted to look for until that Security Team revelation came about.
But now I'm left with this puzzle piece called Vanessa that I'm not quite sure what to do with now that I know that Vanny is an entirely separate person from her.
She has to be involved with Vanny and Gltichtrap somehow. Maybe the therapy tapes will help.

• CD 1-Therapist: — but a routine check of your online history has revealed that you spend quite a bit of time with someone in an encrypted conversation. We have transcripts, and I’ve read them, but it’s not clear what you’re talking about in these conversations. I can’t make sense of it. You must be getting something from these that I’m not getting. Right? Who are you talking to in these?

These are all things that would've pointed toward Glitchtrap if I didn't know better. So it's someone else doing this? Why and why her?

• CD 5-Therapist: — Apparently, the IT department has put together a pretty lengthy report chronicling non-job-related communications that have been coming to your computer. — what bothers me about what I read is that the messages you're getting seem very manipulative in nature. —You know who I'm talking about. What you might not know is that this person who's been sending you messages has been hacking into your personal files too.
• CD 5-Vanessa: Lots of people know more than I do. Sometimes I need to listen.

So Vanessa knows who's doing this to her. But she's been refusing to listen to them before and is now being worn down by the spamming messages sent to her. But the fact that she doesn't react to the news that they are digging into her personal life is very concerning!
Also, after going through Vanny's secret dialogue in Help Wanted, Vanessa's overall demeanor in both Security Breach and the Retro Cds clashes hard with Vanny's in both games. Where Vanny sounds and reads eager and nervous, Vanessa is defiant and reluctant with depressed undertones.
Is Vanessa really infected with Glitchtrap?
Yet now that I'm thinking about it, Glitchtrap has no need to do this as him sitting through Vanessa's therapy session with her would give him this info if she was infected. Who's ever doing this doesn't much about her, but would very much like to. Is it Vanny or Gregory...
Wait, hold on. Vanessa's first therapist mentioned that messages were encrypted and couldn't make out what the conversation was about. But the second therapist can understand these messages to know that they're manipulative in nature. Are these two different messengers?!
" I’ve read them, but it’s not clear what you’re talking about in these conversations**.** I can’t make sense of it. You must be getting something from these that I’m not getting." - The first Therapist
"but what bothers me about what I read is that the messages you're getting seem very manipulative in nature." - The second Therapist
What changed? Hmm... What exactly is an encrypted conversation? Maybe explaining that will help.
Encrypted text messaging is a method of secure communication that converts your messages into code. This means that only the recipient with the correct decryption key can read it. - Google
That sounds like what the first Therapist is referring to, but she mentions that they got the transcripts for it. Does that mean that got the code or the decryption key to read it? No, she says transcripts, which means the code itself.
But whatever the first Therapist saw in that transcript was legible enough to read and comprehend. This means the conversation wasn't in computer coding that would require someone in the tech field to decipher it, but just ordinary talk that's hard to understand what it's about.
Okay, that clears things up, they're still the same messenger.

• CD 11-Therapist: So, on your breaks, it looks like you were shopping for a costume. you purchased some fake fur material.
• CD 11- Vanessa: I can't talk about this. He said he would always be watching. He could be here or there or anywhere in between.
• CD 11-Therapist: No, that's not what I mean. You can't just ignore an issue. You have to face your memory of the experiences and process them so you can let it go. So you don't get triggered anymore. you can use this sort of self-dialogue to release these things
• CD 11-Vanessa: I don't like doing that.

This one conversation right here throws everything about Double-V out of whack. Why is Vanessa buying fake fur material? And for the very first time, we know the gender of who's messaging her along that he said that he would always be watching her.
Again the "he" here, and the "he will always be watching" part allude to Glitchtrap at first glance. And again, it can't be him because he should be within Vanessa since they merged in Help Wanted! Even if you dismissed the ending I proposed for Vanny and went with the ending where she gets locked up by Glitchtrap, it still wouldn't be him messaging her about watching here because he would be in her body!
And like I already said before, Vanessa has shown no memory problems or bodily control problems, which would've suggested Glitchtrap's control. No, this means that Gregory is doing all of this.
But why is he going after Vanessa? Geez, It's been a while since I even thought about his past before Security Breach. I forgot how much of a black hole of questions he is, regarding the lore. I'll give my updated thoughts about him after the Double-V revelation later.
For now, after going through all of Gregory's dialogue in Security Breach. It looks like he's not quite aware of the ongoings within the Pizzaplex and is shocked by the level of security can employ later in the night. There may actually be a hint of his hacker background in his dialogue if you squint. And Gregory has absolutely no idea what the rabbit laddy's name is until he gets to Fazerblast.
As for Gregory's involvement with Vanessa... Huh, that's weird. Gregory doesn't say Vanessa's name even once in Security Breach. Matter of fact, after the beginning sequence where Vanessa confronts Freddy about him, Gregory just stops talking about or even mentioning her for the rest of the game. This includes the confrontation that leads to her locking him up in Lost and Found and after it...
No matter how you slice it, Gregory's silence about her is super loud with alarm bells. Sure, he dismisses her as working with Vanny in the beginning, but it shouldn't mean that she should be an afterthought to him! Like, Gregory only talks about or mentions "the rabbit lady" after the beginning of the game.
In fact, if we were to rank every important character that Gregory talks about or mentions in his dialogue for Security Breach from most to least, it would look like this.

1. Freddy - 33 times
2. Vanny - 6 times
3. Chica - 6 times
4. Roxy - 4 times
5. Monty - 3 times
6. Moon - 3 times
7. Vanessa - 3 times
8. Burntrap - 1 time

That's absurd! Especially since she's the only other human worker in the Pizzaplex, besides Vanny, who encounters and confronts him. Like, he doesn't even try to communicate with her at all during the entire game!
Even when discovering Vanny's hideout in Fazerblast and Freddy suggests that Vanny is Vanessa due to deduceing Vanny's name being a combination of Vanessa + Bunny, Gregory remains silent about it! No, "Oh maybe you're right." or "That sounds too simple to be right", but instead there's no response to what might be the identity of your pursuer!
It's like he doesn't want to talk about her...
He knows her, he has to know Vanessa! Yet, he said, "I don't know who she is, but she's trying to get me!" to Freddy. Is he lying? No, he just knows about her.

• CD 14-Therapist: —They report that they've caught you on camera, or at least it appears to be you. — Well the techs are convinced that you've hacked into their system many times. — the electronics you like? I saw in your file that you have developed software programs that talk to you and repeat phrases, right? The program asks you questions and prompts you for responses. It's kind of like your own self therapy, isn't it? Another way of talking to yourself to work things out, right? When I saw some of your recent encrypted conversation logs, that's what I thought I was looking at. It felt like I was watching someone go back and forth in their own head, but the text found something that's different than that. When I read what they found, at first I thought I was looking at more examples of you just talking with yourself. Then I realized it was different. When I study this, it sounds like there is someone else responding to you. Who is it?

This is either hinting towards Gregory talking directly to Vanessa or Glitchtrap. But something that confuses me is why the therapist has or even be able to see Gregory's encrypted conversation logs?
I'll admit that I'm ignorant about therapy, but should your therapist have access to stuff you created outside of therapy? Unless Gregory created the program on a computer in therapy. It could explain how he's gotten access to Vanessa's files. But I'll drop that talk for now.
Something that's being made clear to me now is that Vanessa is not as connected to the villains as Gregory is, as she's more surprised by the changing of therapist than he is. In fact, Gregory knows why the therapists are disappearing, knows exactly when the therapists do something that would cause them to disappear, and doesn't seem upset when they show up mangled and dead.
But more than anything, Gregory knew Vanny long before Security Breach started. There's no reason why Gregory would know Vanny has enough control over the Pizzaplex to cut off Freddy from the network, in just one encounter. If anything, he should have assumed she was some weirdo stranger in the Pizzaplex that the security and the police needed to take care of.
But he already knew that Vanny had power in the Pizzaplex, maybe not the full scope, but enough to know that if she and he ever came into conflict with one another that ended with her wanting to hurt him then he needed to get out of the Pizzaplex.
Funnily enough, this actually lines up with the first-ever trailer for Security Breach, where Vanny says: "Gregory, I may have lost my temper earlier. But it was just a glitch!" Which implies they talking neutrally before whatever made Vanny lose her temper." Again, I'm not using this as evidence as it's been cut, instead, I'm suggesting that the idea might have merit.

• CD-Therapist: — I have this still shot the techs pulled from the security footage that recorded you in the pizzaplex. That's you, isn't it? I know this image is distorted but I think it looks like you. And you're not alone here. You're talking to someone, or something. it's hard to tell. What are those things? They almost look like rabbit ears. What? You find that amusing? Well I guess it is.

I had always flipped-flopped between the mysterious person being either Glamrock Bonnie or Vanny. Both are connected to Glitchtrap, so either would fit here as Glitchtrap wouldn't be captured by a camera. But with the new evidence I've discovered, Vanny fits as Gregory's mysterious rabbit correspondent in the Pizzaplex.
But what about Vanessa? Is Gregory hacking into her files or is it Vanny and Glitchtrap? Or perhaps Gregory is hacking into her files on behalf of Glitchtrap and Vanny. Either way, Vanessa is getting dragged into Gregory and the Villian's group chat.
Speaking of the therapy, if we take into account the Retro-CD's numbering system the first two numbers are the patient ID number, and the last two numbers are the number of times both Gregory and Vanessa have been to therapy, then we can uncover some invaluable information.
Gregory has been in therapy longer than Vanessa and he was also in therapy before her too. But combining this CD's numbering system with a theory from the Talesbook story, GGY, that Gregory only goes to therapy on Sunday. Then Gregory has been going to therapy for a year and a half.
And if Vanessa is following the weekly therapy session pattern, then she's only been going to it for a little more than half a year. This means she started her therapy just about after Gregory hit his half-year mark for therapy. In addition to all that, Vanessa stopped going to therapy once she was transferred to a new location and never met the fourth and final therapist of the CDs.
Just something you all should keep in mind.
But Gregory definitely knows about her at the very least. That knowledge, I guess, is the reason why he's so shocked to see her face under Vanny's mask in the "To The Rooftop" ending. He knows that Vanessa and Vanny are two different people, but doesn't know that they look alike because he never encountered Vanny before Security Breach without her mask or costume.
On the subject of costumes, I still got no answer for Vanessa's purchase of fake animal fur or what's even happening with her now.
To be honest, this would be so simple and easy if Vanessa was just Vanny. But like as I have shown many times before in both this series and the previous one, simple and easy answers are not always the correct ones.
So, instead of looking for signs of the villain's goal with Vanessa in the lore. Let's look at the similarities and differences between the double Vs.
Vanessa's characteristics are.

• Depressed
• Has anxiety issues
• Tired (It's something that has been mentioned by the first and third therapists in CD-1 and CD-10. But seems to have more to do with the messages she's getting than how she usually is.)
• Likes the blue sky
• Likes to sit outside and read
• Watchful about her calorie intake
• Likes flowers or at least the sweet smell of them
• Doesn't like dark basements
• Oh, and hates kids

Vanny's characteristics are.

• Loves Pizza, especially pepperoni (Huh, no wonder she likes Chica)
• Absolutely, does not care about her calorie intake or a healthy diet (Seriously, Girl has gone full gamer mode with the amount of Fizzy Faz, straw drinks, and pizza boxes in areas with her presence in them)
• Hobbies in painting or graffiti
• Likes or used to like Glitchtrap or maybe William Afton (I talk about this in the secret ending)
• Loves Fazbear Entertainment (Vanny uses red spray paint in Ruin and has drawn two hearts on the FAZ ENT. Logo in the main Lobby)
• Likes Toy Chica
• Likes the Daycare Attendant (She seems to be fond of Moon more)
• Likes to read, or at least, read about the World History of Fazbear Entertainment
• Likes Flowers, a specific species of them(that I can't determine right now)
• Likes summer
• Is a mechanic or roboticist or both (She making something in Ruin Fazerblast and has turned Ruin Monty into her lapdog among other things)
• Super lazy (This one may or may not be true, but unless there's a good reason why she refuses to clean up her room in Fazer Blast, this is staying right here as far as I'm concerned)

Wow, I did not realize we already knew this much about Vanny just from the environment storytelling of the games until I listed them!
Anyway, as you can see, there are some very similar likes between the two and very stark differences in traits as well. I'm not about to list them to save word space, but instead, I want to answer a question. Could Vanessa still be Vanny despite their differences? This isn't so much for me, but for the people who believe Vanny = Vanessa despite my Double-V evidence.
At first, I thought there might've been a chance for that as they both like flowers, to read, and enjoy the outside, or at least the summer in Vanny's case. But now, after listing everything out they're just too different to say they're the same.
Even if we say that Vanny's love of pizza, general bad diet, and trashy room is the result of Vanessa coping with her depression and her situation with Glitchtrap and that her graffiti is the by-product of therapy, along with her interest in growing flowers. That doesn't negate the fact that in Ruin when given the chance to express her anxiety, Vanny doesn't take it.
If you don't know, on the wall where Vanny drew her face next to a slice of pizza in the main lobby near the Superstar Daycare entrance, there is a painted graph. The artist who made the graph also wrote on the right side of it; "TAG YOURSELF".
On all four sides of the graph, the artist made the furthest sides of them represent something. The top Y-axis is Wizard, the bottom Y-axis is Cedar the left X-axis is Filled with a word that ends in a y, and the right X-axis is Filled with anxiety.
What this graph is showing, or what the artist trying to convey with it, is that each of the four points represents not quite the opposite thing but the furthest thing from each other. Of which, Vanny decided to tag herself on the furthest left X-axis, not the right.
This tells us that Vanny feels the furthest thing from anxiety. Something Vanessa, no matter if she's under Glitchtrap's control or not, would be constantly feeling as she suffers from it.
As for what she's feeling, I don't know, the word on the left graph is unreadable and covered by Vanny's face to make it almost impossible to decipher. But what I do know without a doubt, is that Vanny and Vanessa are indeed, two different people with some common likes and polar opposite traits.
So after everything I've talked about in the last three? four? However many parts I've been going over Double-V, what is the best possible answer for the "To The Rooftop" ending stinger. Why do Vanny and Vanessa look alike?
I tried, I really did. I looked for as much possible evidence for anything that doesn't just make me give up and say "She's a Fazgoo clone!" or "She's a robot!"
If Vanny was a stranger who mimicked Vanessa's face, then that's cool and horrifying, but only where it concerns Vanessa herself. (The horrifying part, not the cool part.) It doesn't give us reasons why she would do it in the first place or a way to connect it to the greater lore and Glitchtrap, besides she's a human Mimic. Basically, it lacks motivation from everyone in the Villian party.
So it leaves me with no other conclusion except for one.
Back when the marketing for Security Breach was building up to its release. Steel Wool released four old Freddy cartoon episodes on their YouTube channel. Each episode hides a teaser image for the lore, including a character from the games with words, along with a character stinger at the end.
The last carton, which is the most distorted one, just so happened to include Vanessa as the hidden teaser, and Vanny as the character stinger at the end. And before you all jump the gun, previous episodes have already established that the hidden character teasers have no correlation to the ending Character stinger.
Now, the words in the Vanessa teaser image are quite interesting. It includes "Test and Rat" in the upper right corner, "Pool" in the bottom left corner, and "Bleak Reactant".
Test and Rat could be Test rat or Laboratory rat (Lab rat) as in the species of rat that are bred and kept for scientific research. Lab rat here can also be referring to Vanessa being a lab rat for the villain's experiment for something.
Using that explanation, "Pool" would then mean group or pool of people, which means number of people available for an organization or group to use. So Pool would mean that Vanessa was chosen out of all the Fazbear employees or people in general to be used for the experiment.
This leaves us with Bleak Reactant, which the definition of reactant is a substance that takes part in and experiences change during a reaction, while the definition of bleak could mean lacking vegetation (an area of land), dreary (a room), miserable(the weather), or unfavorable (outcome.)
All of this together means that Vanessa was chosen by the villains out of a group of people to be used for an experiment. An experiment of a change in Vanessa that predicted an unfavorable outcome for the villains.
Vanessa was going to be the next Vanny or maybe something else.
That gives a reason why the villains were so interested in her, why she would be shopping for a costume, why she would be at the Pizzaplex, and why she would be still connected to the villains when someone else is Vanny.
But the reason she was chosen in the first place, why her out of a group of people that might've included Gregory in it too, is because the one who chose her was her own twin sister.
If anyone remembers my only Ruin theory then you would remember my mentioning of Glitchtrap's and Vanny's conversation from Scott's website from a Security Breach poster.
Glitchtrap: "Stay the course."
Vanny: "I will."
Glitchtrap: "Focus on my voice."
Vanny: "I will."
Glitchtrap: "Don't let anyone lead you astray."
Vanny: “I won't.”
Glitchtrap: "Have you selected one?"
Vanny: "I have."
In my theory, I proposed that Gregory was the one that Vanny mentioned selecting here. But now, with all the revelations and new information gained, I believe Vanessa works better here. Vanny would've chosen someone for an experiment that she personally knew of or gotten to know, and who better than her own sibling that she grew up with.
Remember, Vanny is just starting out in her following of Glitchtrap. So would be new to the whole evil thing. And most of the time, the people close to you are the ones that would most likely commit a crime against you.
As for the twin sister thing, it actually didn't come from the "To The Rooftop" ending, but a discussion from the GTlive stream where Mat hosted a little get-together with some of the FNAF YouTuber theorists after Security Breach. There, John Fuhnaff suggested the idea for it from the VR Sisters boss from the Security Breach game Scott made when Security Breach got delayed again.
It's something that I saw some merit in after I discovered the Vanny ≠ Vanessa and after disproving in my head that Vanny wasn't Tape Girl either. The best part of the twin sister thing is that there's no need to throw out all that we know from Vanessa's therapy sessions as they both share the divorced parent's backstory.
As for which is the order twin between the two, I believe Vanessa is the oldest since it makes sense that her father would use the oldest to testify against their mother as she would better understand his instructions. Plus it provides a potential grudge from Vanny to Vanessa for what happened to their mother and a misguided parental affection for Glitchtrap. Unless Vanny's just a fangirl of William Afton, which could be the case.
Also, this means that the reason Vanessa looks the way she does in "To The Rooftop" end credits is because she looking at her dead sister. Oof, I realized that this also means she would've been the one who finds what's left of her in the "Disassemble Vanny" ending too. No wonder Faz Ent. is temporarily closed if they find that one employee is disassembled and the other one is having a mental breakdown from it in the morning.
But what about the "Redemption" ending? We know that by beating PQ3 both Glitchtrap and Vanny are defeated in it. What happens to her then? Where did she go? Hmm... I'm not sure.
What happens when someone is unmerged after being merged for a long time? Unlike Vanessa, we know that Vanny lives in the Pizzaplex. Even by Ruin and Help Wanted 2, she's still living in the building despite its condition so she probably needs time to think and process what happened to her and what's she done. Oh, and therapy. And a house.
But I think that just about wraps everything up for— Wait, HW2's Candy Cadet story! I forgot all about it! I know some people mentioned that the second story had to do with Vanessa, Gregory, and Gltichtrap. Let me skim through that real quick for clues.
Oh. Oh, that's really interesting... But it along with the Jeremy and the Memory dolls can wait until after next time. Sorry for the little to no pictures, I needed space to fit everything in one post and wanted to get everything about Double-V out of the way before I go on hiatus.
Don't worry it has nothing to do with burnout. It won't be too long either, though knowing my track record when saying that, you probably don't believe me.
Truth is, I've been severely neglecting my YouTube channel, and should really start catching up the YouTube version of my series with the online version. Plus, I've got more "Prove it!" to work on.
But most important of all, my birthday is coming up, and I don't want to work, think, or have anything to do with my FNAF stuff on that day. So! Feel free to read and become full with these last Parts until I come back with more.

my boyfriend (18m) and i (17f) dated for a little over 5 months and we’ve been have the same constant issues over and over again. he believes that a girl with no past is the best woman to date, however i have my own past (i never had bodies) that happened along the way. he has never dated in his life btw
he lets his obsession take over the fact that i had ex boyfriends or talking stages. i had a couple guy friends that i’ve known for a long time before him i met him but he didn’t like them so i blocked them. i cleaned my contacts list so there wouldn’t be any guy issues anymore. but there was one problem from my side: i tend to hide or sugarcoat too much stuff where it became a lie. so whenever he asked about, i didn’t want to hurt his feelings because he would get very sad over it and i hid things from him. i lied thinking about the short term relief when i knew for a fact that it was going to get found out. he kept looking through my phone (im not saying that it’s wrong for him to do so), and i don’t cheat. i never cheated on my man, but just my past really gets in between us. he says that he was saving himself up for me because he just knew that i was going to appear in his life (..?) but i would’ve also done that if i knew that he was going to too.
we got in a extremely large fight a couple days ago and it was really bad. especially because he asked for my social passwords, he dug up everything about my past that he could find. he called me names, said how i ruined him and i didn’t know what to do but be overly devastated, starve, and sob on the floor until i passed out with numerous panic attacks. i knew that he didn’t mean those things and i did something that was wrong by lying so we decided to apologize and avoid any problems. but today, he asked for my socials password (i changed it from before) but i couldn’t reject so i gave it to him. but he found two screenshots with a “friend” that liked me (it’s in quotations because he was a stalker). back then i was very friendly with everyone and i just accepted it until i found out that he liked me and was stalking me. i did sometimes laugh about the texts that we give and took because they were nice, but i didn’t have feelings for him whatsoever. but what he would’ve been most upset about was the fact that it was around two weeks before he texted me first and started talking.
he always emphasized on me that he never believes anything that i said about my past (which i understand) and that he’ll never trust me completely after we both leaves for college (long distance). however after finding that out, he blocked me on everything you can imagine without letting me able to explain (insta, tiktok, messages) i downloaded snap jst for him yesterday but he blocked me on that too. i don’t know what to do, or how i should do things. i know im being selfish for wanting this relationship to work but i have a feeling that it’s really going to end and im scared. i really want him to not leave me because of a stalker i didn’t like back. i was in the process of holding down my ego and telling him the truth on everything about my past because i couldn’t do it overnight. i really wanted to change just for him and our relationship but i don’t even know how to contact him.
its his birthday today and i was supposed to go over.. he said not to come but i feel like we should be talking this out face to face. i really don’t know what to do

And before anyone tries to twist what I've said in the title, I don't mean children, I don't mean disabled people, I don't mean people who have problems, and I sure as heck don't mean people who have trouble seeing.
I am specifically talking about people are perfectly sane and capable of critical thinking, but are simply too lazy to use their brain to understand the text in front of them. I swear, lots of people online (especially on this site) will act like they know how to type but can't read. Like, I'm sorry, did you download the information on how to type from Elon Musk or something? Why do so many people have trouble understanding what you're saying no matter how simple you make it?
Obviously, you can't please everybody, but my freaking goodness--it is extremely vexing having to constantly over-explain myself ALL. THE FREAKING. TIME. Literally, the first paragraph in this post proves that point because I know that someone was gonna try to highlight SOMETHING.
For example, I'll say: Hmm, I really don't like chocolate cake.
And some idiot will be like: You're obviously lying because you commented on post about chocolate cookies saying you liked those.
You do realize two truths can exist at once, right?
Just because I said that I don't like chocolate cake, that doesn't mean I don't like chocolate in general. All it means is that I just don't like chocolate cake specifically. Even if I was being a hypothetical hypocrite, why are these people so obsessed with proving other people wrong?
It's fine if you come across a post that has a mountain of text and you DON'T wanna read it, but if you do choose to read it, USE YOUR FREAKING BRAIN. No one's forcing you to read it.
The internet gives people way too much confidence and it's not a good look.

So I am in the process of writing a fantasy epic and a major part of my story is a civil war spanning across a commonwealth. Minor spoilers but one side creates hundreds of “evil dragons” to counter the surge of “good dragons” and griffins being born to riders they are bonded to (there is lore behind this but since the lore is irrelevant to the question at hand, I am leaving it out. If you are curious, feel free to dm me so I don’t ruin it for anyone else.)
Needless to say this spills over into a blitzkrieg on multiple fronts. Generally speaking I have a handful of “good dragons” whose riders (and the dragons themselves) are central characters that have their own stories that tie into a larger picture. However, the griffins and “evil dragons” all have names, descriptions, and riders with many getting motivations and goals. So over the course of my story, how can I space these characters out and flesh them out without pulling a GRRM and find myself writing too big a story? Do I simply refer to the mounts in question via descriptions in text and expand upon it in a companion book down the line, or should I format my epic so it is a collections of volumes containing short stories?
Thanks in advance for the input.

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Wall of text + massive spoilers here. Don't read on unless you've completed Returnal.
--
Have you ever scrolled reddit in an attempt to understand Returnal's lore?
Have you ever watched a YouTuber break down their interpretation of the nuances? Maybe you crawled the scout logs, audio files, xenoglyphs and Helios logs looking for your own answers to understand Selene's experience?
In your search, did you ever find concrete story fragments - or read them in the comments - that directly contradicted what you thought was an otherwise sound, logical and thoughtful interpretation of the game?
You're not alone my friend!
Returnal is a game full of paradoxes. How are you ever going to make sense of a single one of them when the paradoxical nature of Returnal is the whole point?
--
Within Returnal lies a series of paradoxes, contradictions and oxymorons within a larger paradox.
Spend a few minutes digging into the narrative breadcrumbs and you're bound to find something that doesn't add up, or is just proper-unsatisfying.
I'll start with smaller examples; these feel more poetic than outright contradictory in any way that would harm the story's cohesion, yet they set the stage for something larger to be built on top of them -

• "My end is waiting at the beginning..." (AST-AL-002)
• "...on the edge of my sight I see a black sunrise beneath the ocean, when will it break through the surface?" (AST-AL-046)
• "Myriad eyes beholding in the longing dark sunlight as it rains like pitch... (AST-AX-002)
• "I've had... visions? And headaches that fracture into future events I've already experienced..." (AST-AL-044)
• The CreatoDestroyer
  • The simple presence in the Sentient lore of a CreatoDestroyer creates a contradiction due to the opposing natures of both descriptors. Is this person a protagonist or an antagonist? How can they be both at the same time?

These are contradictory, but maybe not outright paradoxical if you want to be really particular. Let's go a little deeper then, because it isn't just text and collectibles that conflict with themselves, it's much larger strokes of the game's story.
We also see that...

• Selene is alive, yet finds her own dead corpses throughout the game
• Selene must first ascend the mountain in the desert in order to descend into the depths. Her descent into the depths is what's required for her to mentally ascend beyond her trauma.
• Theia is the Astronaut. Selene is the Astronaut.
• The more Selene descends into madness & insanity during her time on Atropos, the more she truly unravels the truth of what's happening to her and gains an understanding of why she is there
• Selene is at the heart of Sentient culture despite her arriving on Atropos long, long after Sentient civilization collapsed
  • She is the CreatoDestroyer and is depicted in their Xeno-Archives

What does all this contradiction do to those of us trying to piece together the game's narrative?
--
It makes it impossible to do.
If you've delved into the lore, I bet you came out with a great interpretation of Returnal... that almost worked. It almost clicked, almost tied up all all loose ends, and was almost good enough to warrant a Reddit post, if not for that one indisputable thing.
Maybe it was...

• Are there two car crashes in Selene's life, or one?
• Is Helios Selene's brother, or son? Or both?
• In the cutscene at the end of Act I, do we seen Selene driving Helios, or Theia driving Selene?
• Is Atropos real? Or does it only exist in Selene's head?
• Is the Astronaut Theia or Selene?
• Was Theia pregnant? Did Selene have a brother? Was Helios abused? Did Selene have an abortion? Did Selene kill her mother?

Pick one of the above to fit your interpretation of Returnal and you're bound to find another that contradicts it. You'll always find one logical leap you have to take or one plot point you have to omit to make the story make sense.
If Atropos is real, then you're going to have a hard time explaining how Selene is at the center of the Sentient's culture or why Selene shot down her own spaceship. If Atropos is in Selene's head, those things can now make sense, but instead you have to contend with her escape from the planet after defeating Nemesis or the suggestions the game gives that Selene was found mentally unstable and not permitted to join Astra.
If Theia is driving the car and Selene is in the backseat, then why is Selene wearing the same wristwatch that Helios wears in House segment 5? If Selene is driving the car and Helios is in the backseat, then why does the news broadcast in House segment 3 name Theia as the driver and mention her spinal injuries (which are corroborated by the hospital visions)?
And so on, and so forth.
Returnal's story is a puzzle that no matter how hard you work to assemble it, there's always going to be one piece that doesn't fit. Explain Returnal one way, and you're bound to hit a roadblock that sends you derailing into a lake.
--
Don't misunderstand me, though! The building blocks that make up Returnal's narrative are beautifully layered and intricately weaved throughout our experience with the game; they ebb and flow with Selene's own confusion, they crescendo as Selene's madness does - it's all so expertly done.
But they're also just a series of impossible paradoxes that should serve to snap the story's cohesiveness in half.
And yet they don't. But why's that?
--
If you aren't aware, Returnal's developers have outright stated that there never was an agreed upon narrative for the game.
Big shoutout to u/RepulsiveWeather4592, whose countless copy/pasted comments I encountered on various threads while diving into this sub's lore posts (you have a vendetta, dude, and I respect it).
Here's Game Director Harry Krueger on the topic in this video:

Harry Krueger: I would often get asked, so you know what's really the mystery of Atropos? Is this all in Selene's head? Is she really there? Did this happen? And I'm like, those are exactly the kind of questions we want players to be asking. Mikael Haveri: So the answer would be yes. Harry Krueger: So the answer would be all of the above, yes.

And here's Senior Narrative Designer, Eevi Korhonen admitting there was no agreed upon version of the story - even internally.

One thing Harry was adamant about was there would be no agreed upon story even internally... When I talk with my team sometimes internally we still find [that we all have different understandings of Selene's actions and the story as a whole]. We are still internally at-odds sometimes about what the story means.

Remember the bullet points from above? All the paradoxes, contradictions and contrasts we outlined earlier? They're all impossible to be true at the same time.
And yet, from the mouths of the game's very creators, they are all true at the same time.
--
I think one reasonably valid reaction to the above would be frustration in the direction of the developers for just mindlessly throwing some paint splatters at the wall and calling it art.
One could read those statements and apply them to Returnal and see it as a careless, unfinished and pointless mess with no ability to teach, show, or tell us anything due to its creators offhanded attitude towards crafting a connected narrative.
While I believe one can react in that manner, I worry it would be fairly reductive.
You see, Returnal leaves its narrative disconnected and bewilders its player with paradox on purpose. The game makes use of its vague and ambiguous storytelling and world to create an effect on the player and it is this very effect that ratchets up the experience of playing Returnal at all.
I’d argue that you can reconcile Returnal’s incoherent story fragments and paradoxes by squaring your own experience as a player with that of Selene’s. Let’s look.
This game’s narrative and its paradoxes are a mindfuck. Players must face all of the above discussed paradoxes as well as plenty more confounding, impossible situations, drip-fed to them slowly over time incoherently, erratically and seemingly randomly. Returnal’s story is in part difficult to consume and understand because of the nature of its diffusion to the player; flashbacks are short and lacking context, clues are presented outside of chronological order (consider the audio logs) and discoveries that would link everything together are not made until deep into the game. When the player does receive story bits, they come in the form of paradoxes, or as the musings of a madwoman.
As our Selene speaks more and more worried nonsense in the game’s second act, so too does our confusion compound based on what we are finding around us. Returnal’s worldbuilding and setting enhance the experience of confusion and uncertainty by creating paradoxical and impossible situations — What is this music and why is Selene obsessed with it? The Crimson Wastes have somehow become frozen? Atropos’ moon is repaired? How can the Sentients know about The Astronaut?
From the get-go, our experience playing Returnal is much like Selene’s living in it — a constant state of disarray, of confusion, of uncertainty. What’s happening to us? What is real and what is not?
Returnal layers paradox on top of ambiguity in its worldbuilding and narrative diffusion to simulate a mirrored experience between the player and Selene in which both are stuck in a cycle of constantly questioning reality.
This, in a sense, syncs the player and Selene. Both are confused. Both want answers. Both feel a need to plunge themselves deeper into the endless, unknown abyss.
The player, now more connected and able to easily identify with their avatar in this manner, must at the game’s conclusion take part in a form of moral gymnastics upon discovering that their avatar — someone they grew to understand, trust and relate to — was likely an abusive, selfish killer.
When the player understands this, the experience of engaging with Returnal shifts powerfully. Players now have additional context with which to grapple with Atropos, its inhabitants, Selene’s past and her mental or physical fate.
We can see now how the paradoxical nature of Returnal brought us here and how it was the point all along.
With a new lens to peer through, Returnal takes on new shapes and forms. It almost begs for a second playthrough to view the game’s previous experiences through this newly earned understanding.
Good thing Act III exists.
--
So, Returnal’s narrative isn’t concrete on purpose.
It’s completely against my usual nature to say this, but I love that about this game. The blurriness of the story dovetails brilliantly with the ambiguity of Selene’s mental health and the confusion of the player.
The story does not need a concreteness to it because the narrative and worldbuilding themselves have have used paradox and impossibility to establish a confusion & uncertainty, even hinting that it is a confusion and uncertainty that is unsolvable.
Somehow, understanding that — for me — ended up solving it.
Huh. What a paradox.
--
You can't answer Returnal's narrative non-continuities because the game's story creates a paradox. It's disparate cues, incidents and plot points are all true at the same time, even though they cannot be.
In the swirling, disorienting whirlpool of Returnal's lore, the fates of The Severed, The CreatoDestroyer and The Astronaut disconnect, unravel and spiral into one tapestry..." (AST-AX-017)
And it's beautiful.

Wall of text + massive spoilers here. Don't read on unless you've completed Returnal.
--
Have you ever scrolled reddit in an attempt to understand Returnal's lore?
Have you ever watched a YouTuber break down their interpretation of the nuances? Maybe you crawled the scout logs, audio files, xenoglyphs and Helios logs looking for your own answers to understand Selene's experience?
In your search, did you ever find concrete story fragments - or read them in the comments - that directly contradicted what you thought was an otherwise sound, logical and thoughtful interpretation of the game?
You're not alone my friend!
Returnal is a game full of paradoxes. How are you ever going to make sense of a single one of them when the paradoxical nature of Returnal is the whole point?
--
Within Returnal lies a series of paradoxes, contradictions and oxymorons within a larger paradox.
Spend a few minutes digging into the narrative breadcrumbs and you're bound to find something that doesn't add up, or is just proper-unsatisfying.
I'll start with smaller examples; these feel more poetic than outright contradictory in any way that would harm the story's cohesion, yet they set the stage for something larger to be built on top of them -

• "My end is waiting at the beginning..." (AST-AL-002)
• "...on the edge of my sight I see a black sunrise beneath the ocean, when will it break through the surface?" (AST-AL-046)
• "Myriad eyes beholding in the longing dark sunlight as it rains like pitch... (AST-AX-002)
• "I've had... visions? And headaches that fracture into future events I've already experienced..." (AST-AL-044)
• The CreatoDestroyer
  • The simple presence in the Sentient lore of a CreatoDestroyer creates a contradiction due to the opposing natures of both descriptors. Is this person a protagonist or an antagonist? How can they be both at the same time?

These are contradictory, but maybe not outright paradoxical if you want to be really particular. Let's go a little deeper then, because it isn't just text and collectibles that conflict with themselves, it's much larger strokes of the game's story.
We also see that...

• Selene is alive, yet finds her own dead corpses throughout the game
• Selene must first ascend the mountain in the desert in order to descend into the depths. Her descent into the depths is what's required for her to mentally ascend beyond her trauma.
• Theia is the Astronaut. Selene is the Astronaut.
• The more Selene descends into madness & insanity during her time on Atropos, the more she truly unravels the truth of what's happening to her and gains an understanding of why she is there
• Selene is at the heart of Sentient culture despite her arriving on Atropos long, long after Sentient civilization collapsed
  • She is the CreatoDestroyer and is depicted in their Xeno-Archives

What does all this contradiction do to those of us trying to piece together the game's narrative?
--
It makes it impossible to do.
If you've delved into the lore, I bet you came out with a great interpretation of Returnal... that almost worked. It almost clicked, almost tied up all all loose ends, and was almost good enough to warrant a Reddit post, if not for that one indisputable thing.
Maybe it was...

• Are there two car crashes in Selene's life, or one?
• Is Helios Selene's brother, or son? Or both?
• In the cutscene at the end of Act I, do we seen Selene driving Helios, or Theia driving Selene?
• Is Atropos real? Or does it only exist in Selene's head?
• Is the Astronaut Theia or Selene?
• Was Theia pregnant? Did Selene have a brother? Was Helios abused? Did Selene have an abortion? Did Selene kill her mother?

Pick one of the above to fit your interpretation of Returnal and you're bound to find another that contradicts it. You'll always find one logical leap you have to take or one plot point you have to omit to make the story make sense.
If Atropos is real, then you're going to have a hard time explaining how Selene is at the center of the Sentient's culture or why Selene shot down her own spaceship. If Atropos is in Selene's head, those things can now make sense, but instead you have to contend with her escape from the planet after defeating Nemesis or the suggestions the game gives that Selene was found mentally unstable and not permitted to join Astra.
If Theia is driving the car and Selene is in the backseat, then why is Selene wearing the same wristwatch that Helios wears in House segment 5? If Selene is driving the car and Helios is in the backseat, then why does the news broadcast in House segment 3 name Theia as the driver and mention her spinal injuries (which are corroborated by the hospital visions)?
And so on, and so forth.
Returnal's story is a puzzle that no matter how hard you work to assemble it, there's always going to be one piece that doesn't fit. Explain Returnal one way, and you're bound to hit a roadblock that sends you derailing into a lake.
--
Don't misunderstand me, though! The building blocks that make up Returnal's narrative are beautifully layered and intricately weaved throughout our experience with the game; they ebb and flow with Selene's own confusion, they crescendo as Selene's madness does - it's all so expertly done.
But they're also just a series of impossible paradoxes that should serve to snap the story's cohesiveness in half.
And yet they don't. But why's that?
--
If you aren't aware, Returnal's developers have outright stated that there never was an agreed upon narrative for the game.
Big shoutout to u/RepulsiveWeather4592, whose countless copy/pasted comments I encountered on various threads while diving into this sub's lore posts (you have a vendetta, dude, and I respect it).
Here's Game Director Harry Krueger on the topic in this video:

Harry Krueger: I would often get asked, so you know what's really the mystery of Atropos? Is this all in Selene's head? Is she really there? Did this happen? And I'm like, those are exactly the kind of questions we want players to be asking. Mikael Haveri: So the answer would be yes. Harry Krueger: So the answer would be all of the above, yes.

And here's Senior Narrative Designer, Eevi Korhonen admitting there was no agreed upon version of the story - even internally.

One thing Harry was adamant about was there would be no agreed upon story even internally... When I talk with my team sometimes internally we still find [that we all have different understandings of Selene's actions and the story as a whole]. We are still internally at-odds sometimes about what the story means.

Remember the bullet points from above? All the paradoxes, contradictions and contrasts we outlined earlier? They're all impossible to be true at the same time.
And yet, from the mouths of the game's very creators, they are all true at the same time.
--
I think one reasonably valid reaction to the above would be frustration in the direction of the developers for just mindlessly throwing some paint splatters at the wall and calling it art.
One could read those statements and apply them to Returnal and see it as a careless, unfinished and pointless mess with no ability to teach, show, or tell us anything due to its creators offhanded attitude towards crafting a connected narrative.
While I believe one can react in that manner, I worry it would be fairly reductive.
You see, Returnal leaves its narrative disconnected and bewilders its player with paradox on purpose. The game makes use of its vague and ambiguous storytelling and world to create an effect on the player and it is this very effect that ratchets up the experience of playing Returnal at all.
I’d argue that you can reconcile Returnal’s incoherent story fragments and paradoxes by squaring your own experience as a player with that of Selene’s. Let’s look.
This game’s narrative and its paradoxes are a mindfuck. Players must face all of the above discussed paradoxes as well as plenty more confounding, impossible situations, drip-fed to them slowly over time incoherently, erratically and seemingly randomly. Returnal’s story is in part difficult to consume and understand because of the nature of its diffusion to the player; flashbacks are short and lacking context, clues are presented outside of chronological order (consider the audio logs) and discoveries that would link everything together are not made until deep into the game. When the player does receive story bits, they come in the form of paradoxes, or as the musings of a madwoman.
As our Selene speaks more and more worried nonsense in the game’s second act, so too does our confusion compound based on what we are finding around us. Returnal’s worldbuilding and setting enhance the experience of confusion and uncertainty by creating paradoxical and impossible situations — What is this music and why is Selene obsessed with it? The Crimson Wastes have somehow become frozen? Atropos’ moon is repaired? How can the Sentients know about The Astronaut?
From the get-go, our experience playing Returnal is much like Selene’s living in it — a constant state of disarray, of confusion, of uncertainty. What’s happening to us? What is real and what is not?
Returnal layers paradox on top of ambiguity in its worldbuilding and narrative diffusion to simulate a mirrored experience between the player and Selene in which both are stuck in a cycle of constantly questioning reality.
This, in a sense, syncs the player and Selene. Both are confused. Both want answers. Both feel a need to plunge themselves deeper into the endless, unknown abyss.
The player, now more connected and able to easily identify with their avatar in this manner, must at the game’s conclusion take part in a form of moral gymnastics upon discovering that their avatar — someone they grew to understand, trust and relate to — was likely an abusive, selfish killer.
When the player understands this, the experience of engaging with Returnal shifts powerfully. Players now have additional context with which to grapple with Atropos, its inhabitants, Selene’s past and her mental or physical fate.
We can see now how the paradoxical nature of Returnal brought us here and how it was the point all along.
With a new lens to peer through, Returnal takes on new shapes and forms. It almost begs for a second playthrough to view the game’s previous experiences through this newly earned understanding.
Good thing Act III exists.
--
So, Returnal’s narrative isn’t concrete on purpose.
It’s completely against my usual nature to say this, but I love that about this game. The blurriness of the story dovetails brilliantly with the ambiguity of Selene’s mental health and the confusion of the player.
The story does not need a concreteness to it because the narrative and worldbuilding themselves have have used paradox and impossibility to establish a confusion & uncertainty, even hinting that it is a confusion and uncertainty that is unsolvable.
Somehow, understanding that — for me — ended up solving it.
Huh. What a paradox.
--
You can't answer Returnal's narrative non-continuities because the game's story creates a paradox. It's disparate cues, incidents and plot points are all true at the same time, even though they cannot be.
In the swirling, disorienting whirlpool of Returnal's lore, the fates of The Severed, The CreatoDestroyer and The Astronaut disconnect, unravel and spiral into one tapestry..." (AST-AX-017)
And it's beautiful.

Me and my friend have very strange relationship. We meet years ago in Poland and later we emigrated to UK. He and his girlfriend are couple of really starnge people. She's living in her strange empty word, without friend, only with him. We are not going along aech other at all, she hates me. Since we are here in UK for 10 years now, we meet occasionally and mostly we just keep relationship over the text. We have same hobbies and that's what is holding this together. That's practicaly all the background.
About months ago he brought it in text that's his getting married to his girlfriend this Summer. It was very enigmatic and my answer was "aaaaaaa ok". Because I was shocked and couldn't find a emotion to express.
I'm not a person whose going out or kin to parties anymore, but I wasn't invited to anything, no stag party, just nothing.
I can understand she doesn't want me to be there but, he never unroll the plot of anything.
So now when he text something I'm just bit petty and mostly ignoring the whole thing. I didn't ask any question about the wedding.
It's pretty clear situation, but even if not that close, he could act differently.
I'm not sad but I think there is something not right.
There are strange people but still. It could be sorted more mature way than this.
Don't know, if he will try to pop in for a weekend I'll find excuse and ghost him probably.
Thank you

I just need a place to share our story to where someone will hear it, rather than just shouting it inside my head all day long. I have almost no friends or family I can be this vulnerable with, so I thought I’d give the entire internet a go, anonymously. Here goes.
My husband and I have been married for about 10 years. We have 4 little kids, all under 6. A little over 5 years ago, my husband confessed to me that he had a serious 🌽 addiction he had been hiding for me for our entire relationship. His confession felt like a trap door opened, and I fell through it as he explained each and every lie he had been telling all this time. It was an uphill battle to rescue our marriage after all of that deceit and betrayal. He went to a twelve step and truly turned things around, and has been sober ever since a few months into his journey. We really did recover from that time and our trust has been repaired. We set fresh boundaries with opposite sx relationships and really put up hedges of protection around our marriage.
Fast forward to about 8 months ago.
He confessed that during his addiction, he also sought out and frequently returned to old 🌽 pictures of his close female friend (they are no longer friends, as I mentioned earlier we changed that up). When this came up, I asked to see his old messages with her and as it would appear to me, they had a full on emotional affair, in addition him viewing these pictures. Whether or not she knew he was looking at them isn’t known because they never talked about that, but hints were dropped.
They’d have longggg text conversations and hang out all the time. She worked at his office. They had lunch together every day just about. She was VERY openly flirty with him and rude toward me. They talked about all sorts of things and clearly had a close emotional bond as well as some flirty moments as well, and then the pictures he intentionally searched for and found from a previous 🌽 shoot she did years before that he was viewing all throughout this inappropriate friendship. Of course, that part is one sided. But still.
Of course when he told me this I was devastated by this and instantly went to a place of comparison. Keep in mind that this woman is an ex 🌽 worker and I am just a freshly postpartum stay at home mom of 4. I asked my husband, in a desperate pursuit of something that may make me feel better, if he liked me better than her.
Side note (sorry in advance for all the side notes haha) my husband has diagnosed OCD and bipolar II. Brutal and compulsive honesty is a huge symptom and though we have been working on this problem for much of our marriage, it still rears its head once in a while. My husbands mental health problems are a massive burden on him and of course I support him in his healing however, his untreated mental health problems have also wrecked havoc over our relationship and made it really difficult for me, as well.
Back to the question I asked him that caused the downfall of the last 8 months of my life:
He told me no. He told me he liked her better. He told me she was thinner. He told me she didn’t have stretch marks (she’s never had a baby) he told me she gets ready every day and does her make up. I don’t.
This hurt terribly, so I asked more questions, yet again seeking more reassurance. I know you’ll think that’s dumb, and in hindsight, so do I. But this was all so shocking. Never in our marriage has he spoken about my body this brutally. He’s never made a single negative comment about my appearance whatsoever. This came as a complete shock and I was hoping I just misunderstood. I wasn’t expecting what came next.
He had an absolute meltdown, confessing to me every mean and dark thought he had ever had about me and our marriage. He told me he regrets marrying me, he thinks about leaving, he thinks I’m less attractive than most women, he’s not proud to be with me, liked me better before I had children, thinks he can do better and he settled, he compares me to every woman he sees and routinely finds that the other woman is better, and so much more.
From this space, I’m sure it sounds like he said this all out of spite with some harsh tone of voice, just trying to hurt me any way he can. In reality, he was weeping and drowning in shame. He thought confessing these things to me would help, and claims he had no idea I’d be as destroyed as I am. This confuses me to this day, but two therapists have explained that this can happen with bipolar as sometimes the internal world can be so extremely painful that the external world feels out of touch at times, and that’s what my husband described this as.
I don’t know how relevant this information is, but I think it’s worth saying, I don’t think he was wrong when he was saying all of that. I was overweight by a significant amount, and drowning in child rearing, breastfeeding, housework, and postpartum depression. When he spoke this to me, I had already been on a somewhat new weight loss journey and had already lost 20lbs. Since then, I’ve lost 50 more (70 total) and I am now at a healthy weight and body fat percentage is within the athletic range as I’ve picked up running to cope with all this stress. I’ve also made a lot of changes to my appearances just by doing my hair and makeup every day, showering daily, and dressing cute for the day. I have been feeling more confident and more able to love myself in these ways as I watch my hard work pay off. This has led to me receiving a lot of male attention for my appearances more recently, sometimes when my husband is with me even.
It has been over eight months since that horrific day. It has been a STRUGGLE. We are both in individual counseling and marriage counseling weekly, spending a fortune and hours upon hours of our time on healing. We’re both taking meds at this point for mental health. We’re both reading endless self help books, talking with mentors, absolutely drenching our lives with healing because our marriage is that important to both of us. My husband has been on a mission to learn more about why he had this previously mentioned emotional affair. He is uncovering some unhealed childhood wounds and unmet needs. In addition to seeing a psych and a therapist, he’s in a men’s support group, and has weekly calls with a mentor just to try to work through some of this mess. He’s doing a lot of work on these issues.
In the past eight months, my husband has gone from claiming he’s not proud to be with me because I’m not very attractive to now claiming I’m the most beautiful woman and he married way up. He sees the male attention and can be somewhat protective in the moment and give a glare or whatever, but then when we get home later he tells me he knows how pretty I am and isn’t too bothered by others telling me so because he knows I’m his. He showers me in constant compliments these days, brings me home flowers here or there, random iced coffees on his lunch break, shows up to marriage counseling with pen and pad and reviews his notes throughout the week, takes me for date night weekly, sends me off for a surprise afternoon shopping break from the kids randomly from time to time, texts and calls me throughout the day, and just pours effort into our marriage. When we fight or I get triggered, he just listens and apologizes and tries to comfort me, even when I say the most ridiculous and mean stuff. Of course sometimes he messes up and says things that offend me and he quickly takes responsibility. He’s made a LOT of changes since 5 years ago and many changes since 8 months ago as well.
But then there’s me. I have been a disaster ever since that day. I am so hot and cold. I toggle between being certain I’m hideous and unlovable and being certain I’m loved and safe. I find myself frantic with anxiety, always waiting on the other shoe to drop. I will randomly just feel like he’s cheating on me or feel like he’s hiding something, and it will eat me up until I talk with him about it and he hands me all his devices and I look through them all. I’m constantly mirror checking, certainly have body dysmorphia, and although I’ve lost the vast majority of the weight in a healthy way, I’ve teetered at times on the edge of an eating disorder. I am struggling to believe a positive word he says and feeling so sure he’s going to flip any second now and break me down with his words.
We just had such a close marriage and to find out that not only did he have this inappropriate relationship with this woman, but he also willingly let himself resent me so much for just struggling on my hardest days. I completely get needing to express to your partner that you want them to take better care of themselves and I’m certain that conversation has to be difficult no matter how well it’s handled, but I feel like I was really beaten down in a way I did not deserve. And now I’m really struggling to trust that we’re ok now and we can leave it in the past. How do I stop comparing myself to every other woman we walk by? How can I trust that he’s not still just resenting me for my appearances? How do I believe a single kind word he says? How do I forgive him for that disaster, knowing we both walked away with so much that we needed in the end anyway? And how do I stop believing I am married to someone who doesn’t love me?

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Pre-Disclaimer: I have mainly been learning Japanese via Dictionary Diving, Anime and Manga "Diving", and Native Material "Diving", so if some or all of these issues are already addressed via Textbooks, it may not be applicable there (although Textbooks have their own "quirks", from the reading I've done)

For a Summary (Tl;dr): Jump to Section 8

Disclaimer 1: I would like to preface this by saying that I have only been studying Japanese for less than 6 months, so I am not claiming to be an expert who has unlocked the "true secrets" of the Language, but this has been an issue that has been on my mind for a while, and I haven't seen anyone else addressing it
Disclaimer 2: This is not an attack on Dictionaries, Formal Japanese Textbooks, or any of the individuals involved in creating them. Even with the concerns that I am about to address, Dictionary Diving has been my main means of learning Japanese, and the fact that so much work was put into these resources for the sake of providing us with all of these example sentences, is nothing short of awe-inspiring. If you are--or have been a contributor to bringing these Dictionaries and Resources to life, you have my genuine and heartfelt appreciation. My intentions are completely and exclusively designed to be constructive in nature
Disclaimer 3: Although this applies--in varying degrees to all Japanese Learners, the main demographic that I am deeply concerned for, are the entry-level to intermediate-level learners who are still figuring things out. With the proper time investment and erudition, it may start to become easier to understand exactly what is being said, but understanding a Translation of your Target Language should not have to be a separate "skill" that requires cultivation

• Section 1: Introduction

Typically, when you go on to a Dictionary to discover the meaning of a word, you will usually find example sentences that are worded like this:

風が柔らかく木立に触れた。
The wind gently kissed the trees.

or

私のフランスケーキ好きは小学校の時からです。
I've loved French cakes since elementary school.

These Translations certainly look pretty at first glance, but if you are an absolute beginner in learning Japanese and you encounter one of these sentences, you will have left them learning little about how the Japanese Language or its syntax actually works. They are well written and pleasant to look at, but are so heavily processed as to have lost any semblance of nutritional (i.e. educational) value

• Section 2: Disambiguation

Let's try going through these Example Sentences:
In this example, let's say that you searched for the word "柔らかい" in the Dictionary. For now, you have no idea what "木立" or "触れる" mean, but you are willing to learn.

風が柔らかく木立に触れた。
The wind gently kissed the trees.

This is probably the best one of the three (I have one that I'm saving for later)
Since I am no longer a complete beginner, I unfortunately cannot tell you how I would have tried to interpret this Sentence during my first month learning, but being a few months in, I could at least make a few inferences

風が

is establishing the Wind for the rest of the sentence. It is going to be important moving forward

柔らかく

conjugated form of an い-Adjective, going by the Translation. 柔らかい must mean "Gentle", and "く" allows it to modify other actions (therefore: "Gently")
I know that this sounds incredibly boring and redundant, but bear with me, this is going somewhere

木立に触れた
(Kissed the Trees)

This is where I'd say the first problem appears. Remember that for this exercise, you still have no idea what any of these words mean, and are just starting to learn "柔らかい", and, indirectly, "木立".
From what I could find, this figurative usage of the word "kiss" does not seem to exist in Japanese like it does it English. Perhaps 触れる is a literary term, which is why the word "Kiss" is being used in this translation, however the problem with trying to "embellish" these words without any context as to why they're being translated this way, is that in this case, the figurative and literal use of "Kiss" are both embodied in the same word. Imagine hearing this sentence in the wild, being given this translation, then--following the logic that they've established, saying to your Love Interest beneath the Moonlit Sky "触れてもいい？"...
Let's try another one:

私のフランスケーキ好きは小学校の時からです。
I've loved French cakes since elementary school.

This one's probably one of the simpler examples, and while I will admit that it becomes easier to understand the "logic" of the Translation with time, it almost feels like I'm reading two sentences that vaguely related, but aren't quite the same. The English version, in this case, feels like the long-lost Twin Brother of the original Japanese, and while it's certainly a good Translation, it looks like the type of thing you'd see in the English Captions of a Japanese Show, not like a resource that actually helps one to better understand the inner workings of the Language, itself. It is concerning, not for what it does do, but what it doesn't
The Translation is "correct", yes, but in prioritizing flavor over substance, the result is a fun confection that melts on the tongue, but provides nearly no nutritional value
For those particularly avid readers out there, you might recall that I mentioned the presence of three sentences. Yes, that's right, there was one card in my sleeve that I was saving 'til the end, and it is by far the most egregious of the three:

ママはその事については触れなかった。
Mom didn't mention it.

え？
How did that massive wall of Japanese Text produce this? I am not joking when I say that I have studied all of those words (to varying degrees), and still have virtually no idea what this sentence is saying.

• Section 3: The Problem

With all three of the aforementioned sentences being assessed, I would like to address the greatest fundamental issue that permeates, not only through these sentences, but nearly all of the example sentences in the common Dictionaries:

Who are these (Translations) even for?

I highly doubt that the your average casual English-Speaking Japanese Media watcher is diligently combing through the Dictionary on a daily basis, let alone your average English-Speaker in general (the same would also apply if Dictionaries that translate Japanese into other Languages follow these same patterns)
I will readily confess that all of these Translations are certainly poetic--beautiful, even, however, while they may explain what the Japanese is "saying", they do not explain what is actually happening, how it is, or why. They are certainly informational, but they are not educational, thus causing them to feel more like Anime Subtitles, than a means of actually coming to understand the Language.

• Section 4: Potential Solutions

I will take this opportunity to restate the thread that has been running through this entire thesis: I am not claiming to be an expert in Japanese. As someone who has only been studying for a few months, I am not claiming that my opinions are absolute, or that my interpretations are correct.
With that aside, here's how I would attempt to rework some of these Translations to better assist those trying to improve their Japanese:
Sentence 1

風が柔らかく木立に触れた。

Original

The wind gently kissed the trees.

Revision

Wind: Gently: (Cluster of) Trees, to: Touched (upon)
The wind gently kissed the trees.
Explanation: 触れる generally refers to a lighter, gentler touch compared to 触る, and can also be used figuratively, thus, in this context, it can be interpreted to be similar to the figurative usage of "to kiss"

Sentence 2

私のフランスケーキ好きは小学校の時からです。

Original

I've loved French cakes since elementary school.

Revision

My French Cake Love: Elementary School - Time: From
My love for French Cakes: Since Elementary School (i.e. I've loved French cakes since elementary school.) / My love for French Cakes goes back to Elementary School / I've loved French cakes since elementary school.
Explanation: In this sentence, the speaker's love for French Cakes is the subject. "の" subjugates B to A (Imagine Noun + の as a transparent Box, and what follows, being a related set of contents inside the Box), and 時 allows non-Time related words to be changed into moments or spans of time. In this example, "から" indicates progenitorship, thus "小学校の時から" means "From the Time of Elementary School".

^{you may have noticed that "My love for French Cakes: Since Elementary School" is not how English speakers typically talk (unless they are imitating a machine}) ^{, however this is not an Anime; Having a "natural translation"--either in the forefront or the background, is definitely a good idea, however, unlike with Subtitles, the English should serve the Japanese, not the other way around}
Sentence 3

ママはその事については触れなかった。

Original

Mom didn't mention it.

Revised

Mom...: That Matter (Concerning)...: Did not touch (upon)
Mom did not touch upon that matter (Mom didn't mention it.)
Explanation: "ママは" sets the scene for the topic, while "その事" is subsumed into the first subject (So keep "ママ" in your mind as you continue to learn about what is going on with "その事"). "について" in this case, means "concerning" or "regarding", and is transformed into a secondary topic through the use of another "は". "触れる" means "to touch" with the nuance of the touch being light, passing or brief, and can be used both literally and figuratively (in this case, meaning, "to touch upon" the matter).

With just those simple changes (i.e. including a "Fundamental Translation", and an Explanation segment to supplement the "standard" Translation), the Translations have now been modified to interact with the original Sentences, rather than overriding them.
Yes, translating "あらゆる犬、しゅきだよ！" as

"(Implicit Pronoun + は): All/Every Dog (+ Unspoken Particle): Liked (Slang, with よ added for emphasis in a manner that directly engages the interlocutor)"
All Dogs, liked
I wuw all Dogs!

doesn't sound as mellifluous as

"I wuw ALL dogs, yo!"

by itself*
But we are not using Japanese Dictionaries to have our eyes and ears tickled, we are using them to Learn Japanese
Not only do the revisions preserve either exact copies, or moderate revisions to the "anglicized" translations, but they also manage to solve the big three aforementioned questions of "What", "How", and "Why".

• Section 5: Pieces on the Board

Going back to Sentence 2 for a moment:

私のフランスケーキ好きは小学校の時からです。
I've loved French cakes since elementary school.

If you're an entry-level Japanese Learner with only a few trusty words in your quiver, and you see this daunting wall of Japanese Text, juxtaposed against an equally ambiguous English Translation that's your sole, dim light in this expansive labyrinth of darkness: Depending on the word that you searched up to get you there, it could take you months before you're able to actually begin to understand sentences like these.
Meanwhile, if all of the components are already laid out before you, you're immediately able to begin "playing" with the pieces, and accelerate the process of acquisition.
For instance, if I purchased a French Cake for a Party, and someone asked me:

"フランスケーキ（が）好きですか。"

could I then, with my new knowledge, reply:

"(実は)小学校の時から好き(です)！"

???
Perhaps I could trim even more and simply respond:

"小学校の時からです！"

since the "フランスケーキ", and "好き" "pieces" have already been laid out on the "board"??? ^{(In this case, I'm genuinely asking; I could very well be wrong})

• Section 6: Benefits to the Fundamental Translation Method

I will take this moment to iterate that the ideal solution would be to have both the Fundamental Translations, and "Traditional" Translations, as they are both complimentary to each other. On its own, a "Fundamental" Translation may be too abstract, while the Traditional ones tend to be processed beyond the point of recognizability. Blending them together allows for one to absorb as much Japanese as possible, while also having being able to see a tangible Translation as a safety net
With that said, there are various benefits to adding these Fundamental Translations

• Dissolves the walls of Japanese Text into smaller, comprehensible pieces
  
• Explains not only what the Japanese is saying, but how they are saying it. For example, one could theoretically translate "日本語喋れますか" as "Do you speak Japanese?", but doing so removes the nuance that what is actually being asked, which is "If you can speak Japanese". The conclusions are similar, but the method of getting there is slightly different.
  
• Rendering the Japanese into English at all, helps the Second Language to become comprehensible, however the utilization of these formulaic and unnatural syntax could potentially force one to draw new conclusions regarding the information that were not present in their Native Language, helping the aspiring learner to begin viewing Japanese on its own terms, and hopefully, acquiring it.
  

In addition to those aforementioned points: dissolving the Sentences gives one a starting point to begin building their own sentences.
For instance, with the principles established from dissolving Sentence 1
For a refresher:

風が柔らかく木立に触れた。
Wind: Gently: (Cluster of) Trees, to: Touched (upon)
The wind gently kissed the trees.

I am now able to begin switching the pieces around and experimenting with "new" sentences, such as
Experiment 1

波が激しく船に衝突した
なみが、はげしく、ふねに、しょうとつした
Waves: Violently: to Ship: Crashed
The Waves violently crashed against the Ship

Experment 2

できるだけ速くまゆちゃん家へと走始めた
できるだけ、はやく、まゆちゃん、いえ、へと、はしはじめた
(Implicit Personal Pronoun + Particle): [To be able + To the extent of] (Collectively: To the extent to which I am able): [Quickly]: [Mayu-Chan (implicit の) House]; [toward] (with へ for directionality, and と added to emphasize what precedes the Particle): [Run + Started]
To the extent that (I) am able, quickly, toward Mayu-Chan's House, I started to run
I started running to Mayu-Chan's House as fast as I could

Disclaimer: I am not claiming that these sentences are grammatically natural or even "correct". Please let me know what errors are present, so I can improve them. The point is to illustrate how a beginner could start to experiment, once they understand the mechanics of a sentence, not to make a statement on my own particular Japanese level
It is still your prototypical "Subject + Adverb + Object + Action" (or SOV) sentence, but now that the actual alignment of the sentence's components have been made clear, the writing process goes from being an insurmountable hurdle that takes months to even attempt, to being immediately accessible.

• Section 7: Using Fundamental Translations to compose Japanese

For reference, this is one of the first sentences that I tried composing during my first Month of learning Japanese

日本語を大好きけど漢字が楽しい無いと思う

Aside from the fact that there are blatant grammatical errors that even a beginner such as myself can now see: As one of the individuals who critiqued my sentence acutely stated, I was simply "Speaking Japanese with English Syntax" What I had intended to say: "Although I love Japanese, Kanji is not fun" would probably make for a nifty example Translation, however when you try working backwards (as a beginner), and rendering it into Japanese, the result is an incomprehensible mess
If I were to impersonate my Month 1 self for a moment, and attempt to render the Translation for Sentence 1 back into Japanese without seeing the original text, I probably would have come up with something along the lines of:

風が木達を柔らかいキスした
(Please forgive me for this abomination!)

Granted, some of the simulated mistakes simply come down to my own terrible Japanese, however I would honestly not blame someone who was only armed with years of Anime, and a few Videos, for making a similar set of miscalculations during their initial periods of study.
Going back to my aforementioned sentence: At my current level, I would likely attempt to render it as:

日本語が大好きだけど漢字は。。。(ちょっと難しいな？)
Japanese (Subject); Liked (However); Kanji... (with the unspoken implication that Kanji is not regarded with the same warmth)
I like Japanese, but Kanji...

If the unspoken part was rendered aloud, I would likely interpret it as

日本語が大好きだけど漢字はちょっと難しいな？
Japanese (Subject); Liked (However); Kanji: Somewhat + Difficult (with な being used to make to turn the statement in a matter of rumination that engages the Listener, in such a manner as to suggest that Kanji is an aspect of the Language that is disliked)
I like Japanese, but Kanji is pretty difficult, eh?

For my final sentence (and another Month 1 excerpt), I incorrectly wrote:

実は人間に変身前に余は天使だった

in an attempt to say:

In truth, before being changed into a Human, I used to be an Angel

Thankfully, someone was kind enough to try salvaging my terrible Japanese, and produced:

実は人間に変身する前に余は天使だった
In truth, before transforming into a Human, I was an Angel

Even still, though there's a discrepancy between what was initially intended, and what could be salvaged by combing through my clutter
If we were to assume that someone knew all of the requisite Vocabulary, however, and was given the Fundamental Translation as a guide for what was intended for the Japanese, perhaps one could turn:

[Truth (Subject)]: [Mortal (into)] + [Transform (Passive Present Verb)] + [Before (with に to subjugate the following portion of the sentence to the concept of "Before")]: [Pronoun suggesting one's status as a supernatural being of a higher order (Subject)]: Angel (Literary Past Tense form of "だ", used to fix something's place in a sentence as "being")

One could hopefully begin to "insert" the Japanese into the English spaces--like a Puzzle, and create something along the lines of:

実は人間に変身される前に我は天使であった
Truth: Human/Mortal, before I was changed/transformed into: Angel, was.
In truth, before I was transformed into a Human, I used to be an Angel

Disclaimer: I am not claiming that this sentence is necessarily correct, however, hopefully, I was able to demonstrate how synthesizing Natural Japanese with a Fundamental-Based Interpretation System can at least help one to construct something better than what I was writing on Month 1

• Section 8: Conclusion

One of the most prevalent issues that can be seen across many Learners of all levels in Japanese, is that, even if one's Vocabulary manages to reach astronomical levels, they may still have difficulty actually producing anything in Japanese. There have even been many cases of rather high-level learners who could tear through a Manga or translate something into English rather quickly, but still openly confess to struggling with their output into Japanese, and I believe that the current manner that Dictionaries and Textbooks are formatted, is responsible for this
The current state of English Translations are optimized to be convenient, however convenience is a privilege.
Perhaps if one is studying a Target Language that resides in a similar Language Family, one can afford to adapt the Translations to the Learner's "ear", however, one cannot afford to take these same liberties when the Languages are as distant as English and Japanese

• Since English and Japanese are irretrievably difference on a fundamental level, a good educational Translation should not prioritize appearing "natural"
  
• Yes, "English is a SVO Language, and Japanese is SOV", however it is not enough to just say it, then go on producing Translations as though it is not true. Not only are Japanese Sentences constructed differently, but the terminology, conjugations, expressions, cultural nuances, and implications are all distinct from those of the Anglosphere
  
• Rather than trying to interpret Japanese through the lens of one's Native Language, the Native Language should merely be used as a visual aid to help us understand the Japanese
  
• This means that the first priority with an Educational Translation should be to state what is literally happening, and why, and only after this, should it use an adapted English-centric Sentence to help solidify the enumerated concepts into the Learner's mind.
  
• Since English and Japanese have no "natural" connection, the "proper" manner of creating an Educational Translation should be [Natural Japanese -> Unnatural English], because [Unnatural English] (i.e. when handled correctly) = [Natural Japanese]
  
• If you attempt to translate [Natural Japanese -> Natural English] you usually end up with "Anime Subtitles" that communicate the "point", but are so heavily processed, as to be completely stripped of their educational substance or nuance.
  
• Likewise, if your only input is [Natural Japanese -> Natural English], this is how many learners end up with an output of [Natural English -> Unnatural Japanese]. My experience is comparatively limited on this one, but from what I have observed, this seems to be the cause of the infamous "Textbook" Japanese, which overuses Pronouns, Particles, "です", specifically, and leads to one producing sentences like "このリンゴは赤いだ" (日本語上手ですね！)
  
• I do not think that Fundamental English Translations should replace the adapted ones, but they should be included alongside them to help one better understand the Japanese
  
• To see how the Fundamental Approach works on one's own Native Language: Take this sentence
  

"The Weather is humid today".

You could also dissolve this English Sentence following the same principles

[The Weather (Establishes the subject; Since "The" is used, "Weather" is being referred to in a general sense, with no emphasis toward the particular Weather--as would be signified by "this")]: [is (indicates that the condition still applies) + Humid (the condition, itself)] + [Today (indicating the position that this sentence is occurring, which happen to be in a temporal one, namely, the current Day)]

and shuffle the pieces to create:

Today, the Weather is humid
[Today (establishes the position, which shapes the rest of the sentence)]: [The Weather (Subject, being referred to generally, rather than particularly)]: [is (indicates that the condition still applies) Humid (the condition, itself)]

Which, at least to my ears, carries a more literary flair
or you could substitute some pieces to say

The Weather was humid Yesterday

Which follows the same (Subject) + (Condition) + (Position) Pattern

• Following this logic, one could argue that Fundamental Translations for Japanese are merely Fundamental Japanese being expressed through the medium of one's Native Language, as it makes the otherwise unknown Target Language easier to visualize and experiment with.
  
• In this way, even without fully understanding the Source Code of one's Target Language, they are nonetheless able to "hack" it, by using their Native Language as a remote controller.
  

As far as implementation goes, unless there are legal prohibitions that prevent Dictionaries from modifying their example sentences, the best method (at least for Online Dictionaries) would be to introduce an expandable "Tab" next to some of the given Sentences that provides the Fundamental Translation, and the logic behind it (or some variant of this)
Because, once again "Informational" does not mean "Educational", and unlike Subtitles, the purpose of these Translations is not Entertain, but to Educate.

Disclaimer: Please note that, as I am only a few months into studying Japanese, one or more of the arguments, explanations, or assertions that I have proposed could be inaccurate or incomplete.
Since I am also learning, and desire to learn: If there are any genuine mistakes, either in my arguments, or in my Japanese, please feel free to provide me with any corrections, so that we can all continue to grow our Language skills, together.
This Write-Up took over 15 Hours to compose, and I tried my hardest to make it as thorough and informative as possible for the benefit of the Japanese Learning Community, so please be kind.
May we all eat heartily, rest well, and Learn Japanese.

I'm new to reddit and english is not my first nor my second language so please excuse me if i make mistakes.
I've enjoyed listenning to reddit stories on those YouTube video's for a while now and was always amazed by the amount of input the community always gives. Now with my situation and not really knowing what else to do to cope I thought I'll give it a try.
So here is my story. I 30F met my girlfriend 27F in augustus of last year on a dating app. I remember finding her absolutly beautiful. We started taking and very soon we were calling each other everyday for hours . I communicated that I wasn't looking for a relationship as i was starting a bachelor degree combined with full time work. I was happy just being friends as I enjoyed her vibe. We were both talking to other people and she would confide in me how the others were. We met up at my place the first time as I felt like I already knew her from so much talking. She got drunk. Looking back she definetly tried to initiate something but I was carefull and she was minutes later throwing up in my toilet so i put her to sleep.
The following days she opened up about her past trauma's. She was adopted in a white family, she was born in Asia, as a baby. But she never really gotten the proper guidance to deal with it. Besides her brothers were way older so she didn't have a real connection with them. She was also SA'd by one of the brothers and the family wasn't dealing with it. Like not adressing it, giving her proper therapy and so on. Beside that there were some other problems in the familly that eventually when we got together and she introduced me to the familly, one of them asked me what i was studying. I study something that translates like familly sciences. When i told that brother he joked that his familly would be a good case for my studies.
Basically to state that she has a difficult past and she was upfront with it. I have also my trauma's like SA from family members, not feeling connected to the country we live in or my birth country. I wasn't adopted but I immigrated to here when I was 10. I've been abused in every way by my family. That plus the distance makes that I'm astranged from them in a country where I also expirienced rasism, always the outsider. So basically when i heard all that I felt like we could relate on that and was hoping we could be there for each other. Either way I never hinted towards a relationship. I just wanted to be there for her. I have had been in therapy since i was 21 years and was finishing it. I was finally in a good place.
We met up a few more times. One of the times was to help her clean her appartement. She was moving back to her father as she had had a deppressive episode and neglected the place and payments and was in debt. She didn't know who to ask from her friends. I offered. I came took over, cleaned the place. In the evening she even left me alone to finish up as she had a familydate she couldn't mis. I honestly didn't mind i finished up. she went to her familly and later she came back. We went out and when we came back in the early morning I just fell a sleep. Later once we were together she told me she wanted to thank me with sex. She did introduce me to a friend that did tell me that everyone dumps her in every relationship. He thought that i was her date and i didn't want to emberass her so I didn't ask much more questions and decided to ask her instead at an orher time. But this is one of the reddlags i missed.
After that we met up one more time to go out. She knew that in the morning I would go see that other girl i was talking to. I hadn't met that one in real life but had also a good connection with her. But that evening she confessed having feelings for me. I couldn't denie that i was attracted by her and wanted to give her all the love we both never expirienced. We kissed and ended up at my place in the morning. I just cancelled on the other girl.
The first months were good. I noticed that she was imature on some levels but could explain it due to her past, the lack of therapy, and her overbearing father that doesn't let her grow up.
She introduced me to all her friends and they all liked me. They explain that she has a past of dating people who aren't good for her. They all approved of me and I liked them too. I didn't have a lot of friends. I had learned to prefer my own company over friends after being burned a few times and deciding not to befriend just anyone for my own mental health. I was rather alone after all the betrayal i've been throught. people are just unpredictable and when i care I go fully. So to protect myself and because all the friendships before therapy were somewhat toxic I just prefered to stay alone. I did miss belonging to a group tho so I was exatatic to gain a girlfriend I felt could understand me to a deeper level and a friendgroup welcoming me and simular to me. She seemed to intagrate me in the group well and they were really nice. I felt i was finally having that chosen familly a lot of people who go no contact with their familly talk about. I was taking drugs so i can study, work and manage this new relationship and friendship circle. I was determinated to make it work.
The first issue i noticed was that we would be videocalling and she wouldn't pay attention. She would be texting her friends and checking Insta or Facebook while she expected me to stay connected till she fell a sleep. She would even call me when she would wake up in the middle of the night. I did night shifts so i didn't mind about her wanting me around to sleep. I did complain about the lack of attention when she was still awake. She didn't adjust her behaviour just yet. I had to complain and make a big deal out of it before she did some efforts. Just the bare minimum.
But i knew she needed therapy and thought to understand where this behaviour was coming from. I just encouraged her that she can talk to me to about eveyrthing. But mostly I stayed patient, thinking she hadn't been in a healthy relationship. I believed with time, working on communication and showing her she coyld trust me, that all would be fine
There were some other issues i ignored as redflags about this relationship and still wanted to live together with her. I first proposed in moving in my appartement with no strings attached. If it didn't work out she just could go back to her dad and I am okay too. None of us looses anything. But she was nit sure how her father who hadn't met me yet wpuld react. He is a more sober person and has disapproved all her partners before.
So eventually she found the balls to tell me that she wasn't in that idea. She wanted her father to approve abd so on. She had lived before with a partner her father didn't approve of cuz they both felt she was taking advantage of my girlfriend to get her papers. By the way they are still friends and i like the ex too. She doesn't seem capable of manipulate someone to get het papers. But that is an other story.
After I met her father she was okay in moving in together in the kapital, a fresh start for me and her too. I was excited to start forever happlly after. I had never loved someone like I've loved her. She was so vulnerable from the start that i just wanted to care for her. Lika stated before i wanted to give her the love we both missed.
We moved end mei in our appartement. I was stressing as i had to find something on time so that i don't end up homeless. I needed to find a new job and so on. I was also the one who made all the appointments and took on the stress to find us something. All she had to do is like the place. I did everthing
We moved in in the last weekend of april. On the 18th of mai was pride in our city. I had to work even tho i wanted to go. She was stating to stay home as we gad spend a lot of money to move. We were almost broke both of us. i could see she wanted to go as all her friends wefe going and texting her. She does have been irresponsible when goung out, too much drinking, losing her stuff and iver spending. So i proposed guidelines to follow so she could go hve a good time abd not stay alone at home and still not regret the fay after. We agreed thay she would take her old phone just in case, eat enough as she would be drinking and retrieve the money she wasn't supposed to excied in cash. That way she can't spend more than her budget.
She who is always texting me didn't say a word. When i did call to check up on her she just passed me a friend to talk to them. I was pissed but happy she was unharmed in our appartement. In the morning i came home. M9st of the people were still sleeping and she was acting annoyingly wierd. I couldn't make a scene as her friends were there. I just entertained them and went to sleep. I was mad. Next day she tried to make up and after some talk Mostly explaining why I wad mad. She had done nothing of the steps we had taken for her to go out safly. But when i calmed down anyway she dropped the nom that she also kissed someone there. One of the people she was talking to around the time we met. Someone she eventually deemed not a match.
I was broken by that. I just couldn't believe it. Okay our sex and love life had been less since the stress of the move, finding a new job in a new city, exams and a tighy wallet. but i thought she understood as i voiced my stress.
I was miserabel when she told me just broken, not eating physically ill and all my issues re-triggered. I felt so stupid and trapped as we had just signed for 3 years in a 1 bed appartement. I just slipped back in depression while she seemed remorsefull as if she made a mistake trying to care for me and fix things. One week later i was still not okay completely broken by the betrayal still the the huge mistake i made to cosign for 3 years with no other options to move out or kick her out. She touched me at some point and I felt better with her in my arms. I decided to give her an other chance even tho. It was discussed that cheating the only non negotiable action to break us up.
Well same week, few dats later she told me a friend of her cuz she is friends with a lot of people she flirted or hooked up with, well that they confessed their feelings towards her. I had met this person so and she had explained me not wanting to persui my girlfriend in the past. Now that are just friends. I was okay with that. Iwas glad she told me and we composed a message together for that girl stating that she had told me, that I' not mad but she will stay true to me.
Now thursday she kept talking about said friend and the things my girlfriend was saying weren't adding up. It didn't seem like something said friend would say or do withouy context so when she got home I asked her to read the lessages with said friend to try to understand. When j read the messages i was floored. Most of them were deleted and it was ly girlfriend always asking about the feelings that friend would have for my girlfriend. The reason said friend was freaking out is thay my girlfriend told her I took her phone and texted the girl. She was shocked understandubly. My gf was creating drama and i still haven't understood why. Like if she wanted to actually cheat why make me aware?
Its been 4 dats now and I just don't know how to advance from this. I'm still very aware of her past and the lack of therapy. I still care for her in a sence but I'l so hurt and I feel so stupid. She now is again remorsefull and relize now I'm the furst one to show her true love. I've broken up with her as i just need to respect myself but i still have a soft spot for her besides everything. She now wants to fix everything, she'll go in therapy and so on. I sometimes find myself being the one to confort her even after it all. I'm so lost and don't know what to do. I want to keep it healing for her, u want to protect myself and love her again at the same time.
This is just a little of the quesionable behaviour she had done, basically the most recent one. I'm just too hurt and blindsided to deal this on my own but i finished therapy like 6 months ago. I can't go back to my therapist. I plan on looking for a new one in the new city but i need advice and guidance since we live together. How should i handle this?

hi guys. i'm 26 and i have a 41 friend. in recent years we've lost touch a bit and in the meantime he's gotten worse with his depression, weeks ago we started writing to each other again on ig and he writes to me every day venting to me. i listen to him and i try to help him as i can, but i'm starting to have difficulties
he still lives with his parents who don't help him and actually make him burden his problems, he lives in a small town where everyone knows each other and to reach a big city it takes a long time even by car. he hasn't worked for years and he can't (or want to i think) find one
he's not motivated to do anything, he has many passions such as music, cinema and videogames but he says that he can no longer distract himself even with that, in fact he spends his days on social medias, thinking, having panic attacks, he almost doesn't go out with anyone. he is always alone and i live far from him so i can't go to see him
not to mention that he's in love with a girl who is clearly not interested in him, he writes to her, she maybe says "i'll reply as soon as i have time" and in the end she doesn't write back for weeks. he asks me a thousand questions "why is she doing this? what do you think it is?". even if i tell him that she's clearly not interested and that she should let it go he doesn't
he continues to obsess over things and overthink when there is absolutely no need to, sometimes i come to moments where i reply "i don't know" or "sorry if i can't help you" because i feel backed into a corner
after years with various therapists he has decided not to go there anymore (besides the fact that he has no money) because he thinks it's useless. he says i'm helping him more than a doctor but at the same time nothing changes. he feels the weight of his years and has perpetual feelings of guilt
he wants help but he's the first to not help himself and i don't know what to do anymore and i don't want to abandon him. he always thanks me for being there and being so patient and i don't want to turn my back on him because i tried to commit suicide myself years ago so i know the feeling. but i feel like i'm at a dead end
i would like to help him but i can't. some days it seems like something is better but then he tells me that he had yet another panic attack and violent episode at home
i don't really know what to do... i just wish he was better but is it possible that it's so complicated? why hasn't he been able to get better for so many years? why can't i help him?
what would you do in this situation?
sorry guys for the long text but i also needed to vent. sometimes i feel like i'm bursting but i don't want to give up. he's my friend and i want him to be good
thank you so much
(sorry for my bad english)

Days Gone: A 2024 Retrospective Review
If someone was asked to describe Days Gone they would generally say that at its core it is a zombie survival horror game mixing elements of Sons of Anarchy with The Walking Dead. However, scratch away that basic description and you will find a much deeper game. Taking control of Deacon St. John, a former soldier, now biker with just his bike and his friend Boozer to keep him company in a post apocalyptic world. At the beginning of the game we see that he puts his injured wife on a Nero helicopter to get medical aid, only to still two years later not be able to find her, but despite the general consensus that she is dead, Deacon refuses to believe this. On a chance encounter with O’Brien, the Nero agent who helped his wife escape two years prior, Deacon finds the hope and clue he needs to possibly find his wife.
The post-apocalyptic world is crawling with what are described as ‘Freakers’, not Zombies, more akin to the vampire-like creatures from I Am Legend. These creatures roam in swarms or Hordes as you later find them to be described numbering a few dozen to a few hundred later in the game. If you encounter any of these, you only have two options: Run or Kill. As the game progresses you find more advanced versions of the Freaks such as Screamers who (as you can imagine) scream in a Donald Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers way to alert all Freaks in the areas and Breakers who are Freaks literally on steroids. Deacon must travel around the map, visiting camps to carry out jobs, destroy the nests where the Freaks live and generally stay alive.
Released in 2019, it sits unfairly between the releases of The Last of Us Parts 1 (2013) and 2 (2020) and so comparisons to these games can be unfair, though understandable. In 2019, the game sold fairly well, hitting sales of six million units, but was savaged by critics for its stale and repetitive gameplay and buggy aesthetics garnering middling reviews throughout. Due to this, the game has been denied a sequel by Sony and fans of the game (myself included) have spent the good part of nearly five years trying to figure out why.
So let’s look at the game with fresh, critical eyes, the way a game would be looked at if it was re-released.
Story
The game’s story has been pulled apart as male chauvinism or egotism and this could not be further from what the game is. The game is about loss, about recovery, trusting people, fear, mental health, staying alive and not giving up hope. Through the sixty hours of gameplay you encounter a number of brilliantly crafted characters from the Truth-Nut Conspiracy theorist Copeland, complete with scary (and unexplained) scarred face, the utterly despicable Tucker and the father-like Iron Mike. Deacon St. John interacts with all the characters with a level of sarcasm, stoicism and also warmth that it is hard to read him, but when you discover his back story, you can understand why. The whole world is falling apart following the outbreak of the virus and it truly is kill or be killed. Deacon will wander around muttering to himself like a madman, but you can truly understand why he would be like this. His relationship with other characters such as Boozer and Rikki is just perfect and you will be forgiven for watching these cutscenes as if they were parts of a real TV show or Movie. It is true that a lot of the scenes are essentially the same one over and over, but it is presented in such a way that I can’t deny that I do love it. My one gripe is that cutscenes can be overlong and so you may find you are watching itching for the point where the ‘Skip’ log will appear.
9/10
Graphics.
On the surface, Days Gone is a beautiful looking game. It is understandable why companies have optioned the story for a theatrical or television adaptation. The environments look and feel real. The character models for many of the main characters look life-like without crossing into uncanny valley territory. Though the number of palette-swap faces for Ambush Camp members or Freaks feels a little lazy. Despite how amazing the game looks it is also, even now, a buggy mess with too many instances of the game just crashing. We have moments Deacon would enter a building only for the building to have lost its texture and you have to figure out how to move around or leave, cars outside that look like they haven’t been finished and Freaks just caught in mid motion or have disappeared. Deacon himself when he crashes his bike is launched with his body being more akin to Woody from Toy Story. Now, this doesn’t happen all the time and a quick restart generally solves it, but for a Triple A game this is not acceptable at all.
7/10
Sound
This game has possibly one of the best soundscapes of any I have ever heard. If you have not played this game with headphones I would recommend it as the overall audio quality of the game from the bikes, guns, Freaks and general background is beautiful. The score by Nathan Whitehead is atmospheric to the point where it makes every time I hear it mean something. His music for The Hordes is as tense and gripping as any horror or suspense film ever created and ranks up there with the Theme from Jaws. The songs used throughout, including a camp singer who will play a song at certain points is again excellent and well worth searching out.
Vocal work by everyone is just amazing and Sam Witwer as Deacon and Jim Pirri as Boozer are perfect in the roles as you would expect. The voice acting is such that I could (if there was an option, more on that later) sit and watch all the cutscenes, if I could.
10/10
Gameplay
The gameplay in Days Gone could be described as shallow, but that would be an insult to shallow things. If you had to list the things you do in the game it’s not much. You drive around, killing Freaks, destroying their nests and later the Hordes of Freaks that are dotted around the map. Some camps give you jobs which are either search missions or search and kill missions, rinse and repeat. At times you have to stealth listen to one of the people from Nero which is essentially just a stealth and don’t get caught mission. The rest of the game is just rinse and repeat of all of this. That’s it. Now, that’s not to say the gameplay isn’t fun and once you get used to playing you will find much to enjoy, but in regard to variety there really isn’t any. There are also far too many ‘escort missions’ that could simply be a cutscene and are so boring to the point where all the fun is drained out of the game. By the end of the game you have also gained so much XP or advantage from Nero injectors which increase you health and stamina or new more powerful weapons that the game becomes too easy and thus no fun anymore.
6/10
Online
There is no online gameplay. There is a Challenge Mode which has a ‘World Rankings’, but this is the only online gaming element that the game offers. This is a shame as there are times when the game would be ideal for a group campaign to take on a Horde or a Camp, but not to be.
0/10
Longevity
This all really depends on how much you love this game. At around sixty hours of gameplay it is hard to say that there isn’t a lengthy game on offer here. But once the game finishes there is very little to actually do. Even an option to watch the cutscenes again would be nice, though they at least let you listen to some of the crazy Copeland Radio Free Oregon rants which is something, I suppose. There are a number of additional options such as New Game+ to play the game again with all your existing XP, Weapons and so on. This is really only for those who want to finish all the additional Hordes with the overpowered weapons to make the game easier. This can backfire by making it too easy. Once you have gone through the difficulty modes, you can also go on to the Challenge Mode which is a number of additional Challenges which you will either love or (like me) be incredibly bad at and not bother with. One of the benefits of this is that you can play these challenges as a number of characters from the game, so if you have grown attached to Boozer, Rikki you can do this. However, by doing this Bend shot themselves in the foot, by making all these characters fully playable it does call into question why more is not done with them? Even if the option was just to be able to play some of the camp missions with these characters it would at least extend the longevity somewhat. As it is, with no daily/weekly/monthly challenges like a lot of games, there really is no reason to come back to this game and maybe with just a few of these it would mean you would come back to the world of Days Gone even more.
4/10
Overall
Days Gone is a game that fans (like myself) love. I have played a full run of this game on every difficulty level, given myself my own restrictions to try and make the game harder or increase the challenge, but overall I can’t help but admit that there is very little reason to play this game more than once. It cannot be defended on a longevity, online and to some extent in regards to the gameplay or graphics and really it is only the sound and story that is keeping the game from being declared awful. It’s not. It’s really not. Those who have played it are begging for a sequel and though Bend could have gauged the popularity of the game with a DLC with more camps and missions, it feels as though the game has been completely abandoned which is a shame. Days Gone is not a game that will be in everyone’s Top Ten, but it is definitely a game that I recommend everyone playing.
7/10
I want to give it more, I truly do, but I just cannot justify it.

I’m 18 and I’ll be voting for the first time during the general election this year but I feel as though no matter which party you vote for or which party wins the election we will all be left disappointed. Let’s face it politicians aren’t trustworthy people, they never answer questions, unless it’s by asking another question and diverting, they don’t really help us out only themselves and their rich friends. Politicians who are running the country, who are meant to serve and represent the British people do nothing of the sort, they serve themselves and their best interests. Can you name even 1 honest politician? One who answers the questions they’re asked directly? Can you actually trust a person who actively lies to the public? The answer is no.
I find it complete and utter rubbish that our current prime minister is a literal millionaire yet claims to “understand the financial struggles” of the common working class families. Absolute rubbish! And Kier for all his talk of working class family upbringing is no better either, he goes on and on about his plans but never does he actually explain them he rather just insults the current pm and shames them without offering any solution himself. And then the Lib Dem’s, greens and reform will never get into power will they because let’s face it we’ve practically got a two party system between the tories and labour. People just vote these two parties because they’re the “safe” options and then end up complaining later down the line when they do something they didn’t agree with.
I just wish that our representatives and the leader of this government were actually truthful for once and stuck to what they say to get the votes rather than telling lie after lie after lie. I feel like if you just let each county do its own thing it’d be better off sometimes rather than having out of touch old people leading us and deciding everything for same as we should have the right to vote on policies as a whole population rather than letting 650 people decide the fates of over 65 million.