Colorado Rockies 6 @ San Diego Padres 3

Line Score

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Rockies	0	0	0	1	0	4	1	0	0	6	10	0
Padres	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	3	11	1

Box Score

Rockies Batters	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	LOB	AVG	OPS		Padres Batters	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	LOB	AVG	OPS
1 Blackmon DH	5	0	0	0	0	1	4	.238	.664		1 Arraez 2B	5	0	2	1	0	0	1	.303	.722
2 Tovar SS	5	2	2	1	0	1	1	.275	.758		2 Tatis Jr. RF	4	0	2	0	1	0	0	.257	.778
3 McMahon 3B	3	1	2	1	0	0	0	.308	.870		3 Cronenworth 1B	4	0	0	0	0	2	5	.272	.824
4 Díaz, E C	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	.299	.765		4 Machado, M 3B	4	0	1	0	0	0	3	.228	.636
Stallings C	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	.304	.867		5 Profar, J LF	1	1	1	0	3	0	0	.324	.936
5 Rodgers 2B	4	1	1	1	0	2	0	.267	.661		6 Bogaerts DH	4	0	1	0	0	1	3	.213	.579
6 Doyle, B CF	4	1	1	0	0	2	0	.282	.785		7 Merrill CF	4	1	1	0	0	2	4	.290	.739
7 Cave RF	4	1	1	1	0	2	0	.222	.583		8 Campusano C	4	1	2	1	0	0	2	.275	.741
8 Montero, E 1B	3	0	2	1	1	1	0	.224	.576		9 Kim, H SS	4	0	1	0	0	1	4	.208	.681
9 Beck LF	4	0	1	1	0	3	2	.191	.404
Totals	36	6	10	6	1	13	10				Totals	34	3	11	2	4	6	22

BATTING		BATTING
2B: Tovar (11, Cease).		TB: Arraez 2; Bogaerts; Campusano 2; Kim, H; Machado, M; Merrill; Profar, J; Tatis Jr. 2.
HR: McMahon (6, 4th inning off Cease, 0 on, 0 out); Tovar (5, 7th inning off Kolek, 0 on, 0 out).		RBI: Arraez (9); Campusano (24).
TB: Beck; Cave; Doyle, B; McMahon 5; Montero, E 2; Rodgers; Tovar 6.		2-out RBI: Arraez.
RBI: Beck (1); Cave (4); McMahon (22); Montero, E (15); Rodgers (9); Tovar (17).		Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Cronenworth 2; Campusano 2; Kim, H; Merrill.
2-out RBI: Rodgers; Beck; Montero, E; Cave.		GIDP: Arraez; Machado, M 2.
Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Blackmon.		Team RISP: 3-for-12.
GIDP: Stallings.		Team LOB: 8.
Team RISP: 4-for-6.
Team LOB: 5.		FIELDING
		E: Campusano (2, catcher interference).
		DP: (Kim, H-Arraez-Cronenworth).
FIELDING
Outfield assists: Cave (Profar, J at 2nd base).
DP: 3 (2 McMahon-Rodgers-Montero, E; Montero, E-Tovar-Rodgers).

Rockies Pitchers	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	ERA		Padres Pitchers	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	ERA
Quantrill (W, 3-3)	6.0	6	1	1	3	5	0	3.66		Cease (L, 5-3)	5.2	5	3	3	1	8	1	2.45
Vodnik	1.0	4	2	2	0	1	0	2.59		Kolek	1.1	5	3	3	0	1	1	4.29
Mears (H, 4)	1.0	1	0	0	1	0	0	4.86		De Los Santos, E	1.1	0	0	0	0	3	0	3.24
Kinley (S, 1)	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8.44		Peralta, Wa	0.2	0	0	0	0	1	0	3.44
Totals	9.0	11	3	3	4	6	0			Totals	9.0	10	6	6	1	13	2

Scoring Plays

Team	Inning	Play	COL	SD
COL	▲ 4	Ryan McMahon homers (6) on a fly ball to right center field.	1	0
COL	▲ 6	Brendan Rodgers singles on a ground ball to center fielder Jackson Merrill. Ezequiel Tovar scores.	2	0
COL	▲ 6	Jake Cave singles on a ground ball to right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. Brendan Rodgers scores. Brenton Doyle to 3rd. Jake Cave to 2nd.	3	0
COL	▲ 6	Elehuris Montero singles on a soft ground ball to pitcher Stephen Kolek. Brenton Doyle scores. Jake Cave to 3rd.	4	0
COL	▲ 6	Jordan Beck singles on a line drive to right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. Jake Cave scores. Elehuris Montero to 2nd.	5	0
COL	▲ 7	Ezequiel Tovar homers (5) on a fly ball to left field.	6	0
SD	▼ 7	Luis Campusano singles on a ground ball to center fielder Brenton Doyle. Jurickson Profar scores. Jackson Merrill to 3rd.	6	1
SD	▼ 7	Luis Arraez singles on a ground ball to right fielder Jake Cave. Jackson Merrill scores. Luis Campusano to 2nd.	6	2
SD	▼ 7	Jake Cronenworth lines out to right fielder Jake Cave.	6	3

Highlights

Highlight	Duration
Ryan McMahon's solo home run (6)	00:29
Ezequiel Tovar's solo home run (5)	00:28
Dylan Cease eight strikeout outing	01:34
Padres score on a wild pitch	00:30
Rockies score four runs in the top of the 6th	01:23
Cal Quantrill's solid outing	00:59

Postgame Thread 5/15/2024

Final Score: Rockies 6, Padres 3

Line Score - Game Over

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E	LOB
COL	0	0	0	1	0	4	1	0	0	6	10	0	5
SD	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	3	11	1	8

Box Score

SD		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	BA
2B	Arraez	5	0	2	1	0	0	.303
RF	Tatis Jr.	4	0	2	0	1	0	.257
1B	Cronenworth	4	0	0	0	0	2	.272
3B	Machado, M	4	0	1	0	0	0	.228
LF	Profar, J	1	1	1	0	3	0	.324
DH	Bogaerts	4	0	1	0	0	1	.213
CF	Merrill	4	1	1	0	0	2	.290
C	Campusano	4	1	2	1	0	0	.275
SS	Kim, H	4	0	1	0	0	1	.208

SD	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	P-S	ERA
Cease	5.2	5	3	3	1	8	98-64	2.45
Kolek	1.1	5	3	3	0	1	23-18	4.29
De Los Santos, E	1.1	0	0	0	0	3	19-14	3.24
Peralta, Wa	0.2	0	0	0	0	1	10-6	3.44

COL		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	BA
DH	Blackmon	5	0	0	0	0	1	.238
SS	Tovar	5	2	2	1	0	1	.275
3B	McMahon	3	1	2	1	0	0	.308
C	Díaz, E	1	0	0	0	0	1	.299
C	Stallings	3	0	0	0	0	0	.304
2B	Rodgers	4	1	1	1	0	2	.267
CF	Doyle, B	4	1	1	0	0	2	.282
RF	Cave	4	1	1	1	0	2	.222
1B	Montero, E	3	0	2	1	1	1	.224
LF	Beck	4	0	1	1	0	3	.191

COL	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	P-S	ERA
Quantrill	6.0	6	1	1	3	5	91-55	3.66
Vodnik	1.0	4	2	2	0	1	21-15	2.59
Mears	1.0	1	0	0	1	0	18-9	4.86
Kinley	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	15-9	8.44

Scoring Plays

Inning	Event	Score
T4	Ryan McMahon homers (6) on a fly ball to right center field.	0-1
T6	Brendan Rodgers singles on a ground ball to center fielder Jackson Merrill. Ezequiel Tovar scores.	0-2
T6	Jake Cave singles on a ground ball to right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. Brendan Rodgers scores. Brenton Doyle to 3rd. Jake Cave to 2nd.	0-3
T6	Elehuris Montero singles on a soft ground ball to pitcher Stephen Kolek. Brenton Doyle scores. Jake Cave to 3rd.	0-4
T6	Jordan Beck singles on a line drive to right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. Jake Cave scores. Elehuris Montero to 2nd.	0-5
T7	Ezequiel Tovar homers (5) on a fly ball to left field.	0-6
B7	Luis Campusano singles on a ground ball to center fielder Brenton Doyle. Jurickson Profar scores. Jackson Merrill to 3rd.	1-6
B7	Luis Arraez singles on a ground ball to right fielder Jake Cave. Jackson Merrill scores. Luis Campusano to 2nd.	2-6
B7	Jake Cronenworth lines out to right fielder Jake Cave.	3-6

Highlights

Description	Length
Dylan Cease against the Rockies	0:07
Bullpen availability for San Diego, May 14 vs Rockies	0:07
Bullpen availability for Colorado, May 14 vs Padres	0:07
Bench availability for Colorado, May 14 vs Padres	0:07
Fielding alignment for Colorado, May 14 vs Padres	0:11
Ryan McMahon: Home Run Statcast Analysis	0:12
An animated look at Ryan McMahon's home run	0:11
Breaking down Dylan Cease's pitches	0:04
Dylan Cease's outing against the Rockies	0:22
The distance behind Ezequiel Tovar's home run	0:13
Visualizing Ezequiel Tovar's swing using bat tracking technology	0:11
Cal Quantrill's outing against the Padres	0:23
Fernando Tatis Jr. singles in the 1st	0:13
Cal Quantrill escapes the 1st inning jam	0:12
Ryan McMahon's solo home run (6)	0:29
Jake Cave throws out Jurickson Profar at 2nd	0:30
Cal Quantrill strikes out Jackson Merrill	0:08
Brendan Rodgers' RBI single	0:15
Jake Cave's RBI single pads Rockies lead	0:16
Elehuris Montero's RBI single	0:30
Jordan Beck drops in an RBI single	0:14
Dylan Cease strikes out Jordan Beck	0:08
Ezequiel Tovar's solo home run (5)	0:28
Dylan Cease eight strikeout outing	1:34
Luis Campusano's RBI single	0:15
Luis Arraez's RBI single	0:14
Padres score on a wild pitch	0:30
Rockies score four runs in the top of the 6th	1:23
Cal Quantrill's solid outing	0:59

Decisions

Winning Pitcher	Losing Pitcher	Save
Quantrill (3-3, 3.66 ERA)	Cease (5-3, 2.45 ERA)	Kinley (1 SV, 8.44 ERA)

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I don’t think this post will last long.
One thing I’ve learned over these past few years is that life isn’t like the movies. In the movies, the widower learns to love again and they walk hand-in-hand into a sunset as the credits role. The trouble is, they never show the scenes in between.
I need to dump an old fashioned rant – it won’t make sense, I just need to say it… because I’m in one of those scenes tonight.
I don’t know what’s happening to me right now. Dotty saw it all over my face earlier and she asked me where I was. She’s so good to me and so kind. She wanted to know if I was okay. I was looking at her as she spoke but I had to look down and stop myself. Because I damn nearly told her that I didn’t know who she was.
It’s a simple relapse, nothing more. It’s just that it’s been a lot this week. And I loved her so much.
I have a rule with Dotty, and I would impose it tonight. It’s a good rule, really, and it works either way. All we have to do is say, “I need to be irrational for a little while,” and off we go - no questions. Though I know she hates not asking questions, but I always let her after.
I think PJ brought his mother closer when we had our rowdy discussion because that’s what he needed to do. Part of the deal we brokered was that he could remember her out loud, any time the moment struck him, and he has. We all talk about his mother every day and have from the moment she left – it’s not that. It’s just different with PeeJ. It’s more personal.
He said things that only he would – because PJ sees the world as only he does. Well, maybe not only. He sees the world like I do. And that’s the hitch.
Nobody tells you that the things you’ll miss the most are the little ones. He misses the little things. And for a while, he told me what they were. He misses, for example, how she always asked, “What am I?” before adding whatever fit the moment.
“Mommy, how do geese know when it’s time to fly south?”
“What am I, and ornithologist?”
He misses the way her ankle clicked when she walked, but only in the morning. He misses how she loved to sing, but never got the lyrics right. He misses how she would lead him down wild paths of fantastic stories just to get him to do things, and then blow it all up in the end.
“And it was because of that one book report that a young Hemmingway would change the world.”
“Wow, really?”
“No. But my point is…”
Suzie’s memory is alive in this house and will be for the rest of our lives. It’s just that, recently, it’s been less of a cliché. And I wonder if how I feel tonight is the way he’s felt all along. I don’t know if that makes sense. He’s just a boy; his view is different from mine; his world is smaller. But he sees it just like I do.
I come here to be honest because it helps. The things I can’t say out loud, and all that. The trouble is that honesty is a moving target where things don’t always stay true. In the moment, for example, I wish I had let Dotty go, because I want to be alone. I don’t want to have married again, it was a mistake. Tomorrow will be different.
It’s hard to love Dot and not feel as though I’ve betrayed another promise; it’s always in the back of my mind. And it’s hard to have these thoughts and not see Danny’s face that night, when he lost his temper and yelled, “She’s dead, Mack.”
It wasn’t supposed to be this way and I wonder if I've just been playing along.
I’m also conscious that something more is missing. I watched the boys playing basketball earlier and I watched Zach. He’s perfect. I’m fairly convinced that, had Zach not been hurt, I would have simply stopped living that night, in any real sense of the word. I hate me for that thought, but I’ve had it before. And I wonder if I would have been the same father. While Zach needed me, I had a reason – I will always see to the boys. I feel selfish seeing to me.
The moment in the car with PJ yesterday was substantial – I think I called it one of the most significant moments that I’ve ever shared. There’s a void now, where once there was guilt. People dream of being relieved of such a burden, and here I am wondering what to do without it. Typing that now, I think my epiphany is that if the boys are alright, then I have nothing left but to look at myself. I’ve known this, I’ve said this before. I guess it’s just different when the time actually comes.
I never had a moment to say goodbye – I never saw her again, not even after because they wouldn’t let me. I had no time to process it all and maybe that’s why I came here. If it’s true that in some weird way the idea that I didn’t have time to process it all saved me then, it’s killing me now. I think it’s hitting me at last, for as insane as that may seem and for all that’s happened since.
I’ve always been a simple man, astonished by my own fortune and eternally grateful for it. I came from nothing, but I had it all. I want to type “I still do” but losing Suzie breaks the math. And it feels like nobody will ever understand why. She was my life.
I’ve moved on, I’ve held the hands of my son as they moved on and I still do. I’ve found love again and I’ve motored through the transition with sincerity and a dose of frank honesty. I’ll never lie to Dot. And I do love her – more each day in fact. And I am astonished that the world would offer me something as wonderful, twice in a lifetime. But I hope you see that there remain some things that I still can’t say out loud.
Maybe I just need to feel bad tonight.

I’m not too sure if this is the right place to post this. Hell, I don’t know if anyone’s even gonna see it. I want to start this off by saying that this story isn’t to be taken lightly. I don’t want you to read this and try to copy what is done, instead take it as a warning. A warning to never play this game, a warning I wish I had gotten before I made that mistake.
I lived almost my entire life in the middle of Delaware, if you forgot that was a state I wouldn’t blame you. In my neighborhood there were 3 kids I always played with everyday. Kyle, Jimmy, and Seth. Our houses were close enough to each other that we played together whenever we had the chance.
We did all the typical things a couple 13 year old boys would do. Swimming in the local pool, going to the Walmart and buying nothing, or just hang in one of our basements and being jack-asses. It was almost a Disney-like childhood. Sleepovers were nothing new for us, I think we had one almost every weekend. What was new was not having any parents there to watch us.
Seth offered to host the next one and included that his parents were gonna be gone for the night. They were staying down at the beach and told Seth it would be fine for him to invite us over. Fine for him, not so much for the rest of us. I think me and the other guys pleaded and begged our parent’s multiple times to let us go.
Our parents knew each other and trusted us but the idea of 4 pre-pubescent boys being alone in a house was any parents worse nightmare. Somehow, by the grace of god, they agreed the night before. After all this time, I still wish they had denied us. Maybe things would have ended differently.
I wanna tell you about the events that happened that night that changed me into who I am. It changed my life and every families that was involved in it. This is the night I played Hide and Seek with my friends.
“Hide and Seek? Won’t that get boring with just 4 of us?” I asked suspiciously as I took a handful of Doritos from the bowl on the table. It was about 10:30pm when Kyle suggested we play a game so we could try and stay up later.
“Yeah man and besides, we have an Xbox.” Jimmy pointed out. Seth came walking down the basement with some sodas in hand, almost dropping the cans
“What are you guys talking about? You better not be thinking of touching my controller with your greasy hands Jimmy, not after last time.”
“It was an accident! I got you a new one.” Jimmy responded before chuckling a bit.
“No guys, I saw this on the internet a few nights ago. We have to try it.” Kyle said. He almost sounded like he was pleading with us.
Kyle was always the kind of kid to believe in spooky things. Ghost, werewolves, demons. You name it, Kyle probably believed it. I remember one time he somehow got us all to go in the woods with him during the winter to look for dog people that a YouTuber said was out near us. We all got the flu after that.
“Oh god, another one of these? Is it gonna be like that dog thing again?” Seth chimed in.
“It’s not like that, this one is real. I promise dude.” Kyle seemed genuine about it. I almost felt bad as the other guys called him stupid for it.
“Alright man, we try your game for a bit. Then if it’s a bust, we play Xbox.” I suggested. Kyles face lite up as he got some paper out of his bag.
“Who said you were in charge of deciding when to play my Xbox?” Seth questioned. I just shushed him as Kyle got some more stuff out of his bag. Candles, lighters, a knife. I would have hated to see what would happen if we said no to his idea.
“Alright, first. We gotta turn all the lights off. Not a single one can be on during the game.” We looked at each other before we went off to get the house started. I had been in Seth’s house almost as much as mine but there’s strangeness to it when the lights were all off. We got back to the basement where we found Kyle lighting the candles and placing them on the ground around the paper. As we sat around him I could see some words on the paper. “Ready or Not, here it comes”
“What’s that for?” I pointed as Kyle placed the last candle down.
“That’s to start the game. I saw these Indian guys play it and they said you have to start the game just like this or it doesn’t work.” Kyle answered as he slowly pulled the knife up and turned to face us.
“Now, we have to cut ourselves.”
“Like Sarah from home room?” Jimmy chuckled
“I thought that was a rumor?” Seth remarked as he leaned towards Jimmy
“Guys! Focus! Just a small prick on your finger. Then you put it on the paper.” Kyle demanded as he slowly pressed the knife tip into his finger
“This feels very, extreme. Is this safe to play?” I asked, seeing Kyle whence as blood slowly pooled on the top of his finger
“I think so, the guys seemed like they were having fun when they did it.” He held the knife towards me next, the guys watched as I reluctantly took the knife and plucked my finger. I did encourage us to play this for Kyle sake, I couldn’t chicken out now. The other two did the same, Jimmy had more tears then the rest of us but when he finished he handed the knife back to Kyle.
“Now?” Seth asked, rubbing his finger on his Pokémon pajama bottoms.
“Now, repeat after me.” We all listened to Kyle and repeated
“ 1, 2, 3. Ready or not, come find me.” We stared at each other. Silence filled the basement as our eyes kept darting to see if anything happened.
“Do you hear that?” Seth whispered We listened as the most quiet fart escaped him. He fell on his back and laughed. Jimmy joined him and so did I. We laughed and laughed, I looked to see if Kyle found it as amusing but was met with sadness. He looked almost heart broken, I knew he lived for these kinda things and for it to not work most have broken him. I moved to him and smiled
“Hey, at least we didn’t have to sit out in negative degrees to get results this time huh?” He smiled slight back
“Yeah I guess you’re right. I don’t know how those guys made it look so convincing.”
“CGI probably, my dad says that’s how most things are done like that.” Seth said as he got up to go turn the light back on. Before he hit the switch, a loud thud filled the room. I’ll never forget the look on his face as he rushed back to the floor where we were all sitting.
“W-what was that?” Jimmy whispered to me. I didn’t know what to say until Kyle reluctantly chimed in.
“It’s him, the seeker.” We sat still as another thud could be heard. Like it was right above us.
“What the fuck dude? S-Seth? Did you invite someone else over? Duncan or Josh maybe?” Jimmy was frantic with his questions as his eyes filled with tears.
“No, it’s him.” Kyle answered before Seth could respond.
“Who?” I asked
“The seeker. The person who plays the game with us.”
“Well tell him we don’t wanna play anymore.” Seth demanded, making sure to keep his voice down.
“We can’t, they said he plays until everyone is found.”
“What do you mean until we’re found?” I asked, I kept looking at the stairs. My brain was trying to wrap around what was happening while also trying to keep reason in it.
“It’s like hide and seek. We play until we’re all found or he can’t find us.” Kyle answered
“Ok, let’s go get found so the game can be over.” Seth tried to stand before Kyle pulled him down.
“No, we don’t wanna be found. Bad things happen if we’re found.” Kyle looked at the carpet as he said it. The thud got louder, almost like it was searching the house.
“Ok, ok. Then we should just stay down here right? If we hide down here it won’t find us….h-how long do we have to hide man?” I stuttered as I waited for Kyle to answer.
“I…I don’t know.”
We sat there in silence, thuds and crashes from upstairs made the silence somehow louder. I had wished it was all a prank. Seth and Jimmy loved pulling those and Kyle was usually the target for them. But I knew it wasn’t that, I knew this was real. I don’t know how it was but at that moment there was something upstairs, tearing the house apart trying to find us.
We stayed like that until Seth finally spoke “Let’s run.”
“What?” Kyle mumbled out, his face covered by his hands. Tears were rolling down his cheeks.
“Let’s run, the doors not to far from the basement entrance. We unlock it and run to a neighbors.” Seth looked for nods or any sign of agreement. Jimmy nodded and I slowly shook yes. I looked at Kyle, grabbing his leg and squeezing it.
“Come on man, we’re definitely faster than it. We’ll be out before it even sees us.” I smiled at him.
He looked up and slowly smiled, nodding. We all slowly moved to the base of the basement stairs. Looking down into a dark basement is scary, but looking up into a dark house is another whole kind of fear. I don’t know how long we took going up those steps but it felt like ages, we were slowly ascending into what could be our end. Seth held the doorknob and just stared at it. I knew he didn’t wanna be the one to open it, to potentially be the one to see what ever it was that was on the other side. I scooted around Jimmy and slowly turned to knob.
The door silently opened, the house was almost pitch dark. The only light we had was from the moon herself, shining into the windows and illuminating the destroyed house. He quietly but quickly moved towards the front door. I peered into the living room to see the chairs and couches turned upside down, some side table doors ripped off they hinges.
“Hurry up man.” Jimmy urged Seth on as he fumbled slightly with the deadbolt. I looked to see Kyle slight behind, close to the basement door. I moved over to get him ready to run
“Let’s go Kyle, we gotta get-“ I almost finished my words as I watched his face turn from scared to horrified. I turned slightly to see Jimmy on the floor crawling away from the door.
I’m not sure even after all this time how to describe what we saw that night. I had wished it was just a man. Some man that was in the house with us but it sadly wasn’t. The best I can try and give a description is to think of a Picasso painting. It had a crookedness to it. Its arm jagged and legs crumbled as it towered over Seth. Seth didn’t move, he didn’t try and fight. All he could do was stand there and look up to see its eyes peering down at him. It picked Seth up and like a rag doll threw him into the living room. A mean and disgusting noise came from his body as he hit the wall of the fireplace. I quickly got Jimmy to his feet and Kyle to snap out of his gaze. Me and Kyle ran to the bathroom as Jimmy made his to the kitchen. I locked the door as I tried to catch my own heart from jumping out my chest. “J-Jimmy? Where-“
My question was shortly answered as I heard Jimmy whimpering and crying outside the room. I unlocked the door and peaked out the crack. I watched “it” linger its way towards him and all I could hear was wet sounds. I quickly shut the door and relocked it. My mind didn’t really process what had just happened in what couldn’t have been more than 3 minutes. My two friends I had been with almost my entire life were gone, just like that. I sat on the cold tile floor as I listened to the thudding from outside. My breathing was dull as I looked to see Kyle shaking by the toilet. I slowly moved my self over and gave him a hug. I knew what he was thinking, I knew the horrible things he was saying to himself in his mind. I didn’t know how to tell him that what was happening wasn’t his fault. I’m not sure that even now I could find the words to tell him that.
“We’ll be fine, we just gotta stay here. It won’t find us.” I tried to reassure him.
“No, it will find us. We can’t stay here.”
“Kyle, Seth and Jimmy are dead. We can’t go back out there and run. I don’t know why we thought it would work.”
“No we…we…I need to get to the basement.” Kyle said, he looked up at me.
“Why? It’s a dead end there. It will-“
“Maybe, I can try and end the game. Rip the paper up…something, I don’t know.” I didn’t know what to say.
On one hand it was the only idea we had besides hiding and waiting to be found. On the other, I couldn’t bring myself to put that hope in his mind. To encourage him just to watch as it fails, He knew this as he came to his own conclusion.
“I’ll go down there, and you head for the coat closet. If it doesn’t work I’ll run back up and I’ll head there to hide with you. Ok?” He nodded to himself. I just stared at him as I nodded back slight. We stood up and slowly unlocked the door. It wasn’t anywhere we could see, which made it all more frightening. We slowly made our way to the basement door
“Good Luck” I whispered to him. He smiled and went our separate ways in the house. I quickly got in the coat closet that was almost directly in front of the basement door, and Kyle made his way down stairs.
That was the last I saw of Kyle, it wasn’t long after I heard loud thudding outside the closet door that quickly went down the stairs. All I could do was sit there, and listen as I heard the silent screams and the pounding of flesh over and over and over again. Soon the hits became more wet, and the screams became more silent.
I sat in the closet and accepted my fate. I slight covered myself with a fallen coat as I heard the thudding move around the house. It was only a matter of time before it got me, before it ripped the door open and I would be met with its horrifying figure. I looked out the slits of the closet door and saw the moon light shining through the windows.
I’m not sure when I fell asleep or even how I did. My body must have been so exhausted that it decided sleep was more important than survival. My eyes slowly opened to see daylight peering though the house. The night was gone and the day had come to save me. Although I was relieved I still forced my eyes shut. The small amount of what I saw was enough to make me do it. I saw the closet door was open, I didn’t wanna have them open as it might slowly peer from the corner and look at me. I didn’t want my last image to be that. I just kept them closed and covered my ears. And then I felt it. Thuds.
I could feel the thudding get closer, closer, closer. Two hands grabbed me, this was it. My flight or fight kicked in and I started to fight. Kicking, hitting, screaming. Anything I could think of I was doing.
“Calm down son, calm down. You’re safe.” Those words hit me like a wall, a calmness I hadn’t felt since the day before came over me. My eyes slowly opened to see the face of a young man kneeling in front of me, his hands holding my arms. He was a police officer.
“It’s gonna be alright.” He reassured me again as he slowly brought me to my feet. He walked me out of the closet and faintly said “Keep your eyes down kid, I’ll lead you out.” I think he said it more for himself, cause I knew what he didn’t want me to see.
Seth was laying in the living room, he’s body bruised from the impact with the wall and his bones broken.Jimmy was on the kitchen counter, multiple wounds and slashes were found on him. Kyle…I’m not sure what really happened to him. The reports on his body never came out. I just know I’ll never forget those sounds from when I hid in the closet.
Seth’s parents moved away almost immediately after the incident. Just left, didn’t take a single thing from that house. It was later taken down, I guess no one wanted to live in a house where something like that could happen.
I saw Jimmy and Kyles parents every once and awhile when I walked around the neighborhood. They would give me small smiles and waves and I would return them back. No more, no less. After high school I moved away for college, my parents knew why and never argued that I should stay closer.
That was a little more than 15 years ago. Few weeks back my dad called to tell me mom had passed away. He offered if I wanted to stay at home for the funeral, stay in my old room. I hesitated. I thought of that night every day for the past 15 years, never really bringing myself to wanna be back in that neighborhood. I refused and opted for a hotel a few miles away in town.
And that’s where I am now, in my bed writing my tale. I want you to take it as a warning, cause as I write this I know I’m not alone. It’s here, it’s in the closet of the hotel room. I can just make out its outline. It’s crooked legs crouching to fit inside, its arms slight poking out from some clothes, and its eyes staring at me. It knows I see it, and it knows I’m writing about that night. I’m not sure why now it decided to finish the game from all those years ago but here we are. Once I finish and close my laptop, it will kill me. My father will have to bury his son just moments after burying my mother.
I say this again, this tale is a warning. If I could I would go back and tell myself to never play that game. I would tell my parents to never let us have that sleep over. I would do everything in my power to stop that night from happening, to be able to save my friends. So please, I beg and plead to you, don’t play this game. Cause if you do, whether your ready or not…
He’s coming to find you

There's a saying in the horror genre, they always say it's all in your head or it's all a dream, but my recent experience was neither of those, it was very real, and almost cost me my life, I used to be a night person, staying up from 12am to 3am, and I would take walks on occasion, but never again after what happened a couple weeks ago.
So one night, I decided to go for a walk during 12am to clear my mind over a fight I had with one of my ex friends, I walked down the small suburb near my town, I knew the town like the back of my hand, once I got to the park, I saw something that wasn't there before, a tall 18ft statue with red hair, big pupils and barely visible irises, a wide grin, and the statue had it's hand raised, like it's welcoming the guests of the park, I walked past the statue and I swear, in the corner of my eye, I could see it staring directly at me, but when I turned to look, it looked back ahead, I was getting weirded out already, so I decided to head back home.
I decided to take the long way home, near the grocery store and up the hillside road, once I reached the top of the hill, I started hearing some sort of footsteps, booming footsteps, like a giant or big creature, I shrugged it off to be my mind playing tricks on me, but oh boy... It wasn't my mind, once the footsteps got closer, I groaned in annoyance and turned around, expecting to see nothing or a crazy person, but it was neither of those, it was the statue, slumped down to my level, staring directly at me, I slowly backed away, scared shitless, then what happened next made my skin completely pale, it's mouth opened, still maintaining that smile, and I saw teeth... Razor sharp teeth, at least 3 rows of it, this thing wasn't a living statue... It was a legit monster, it suddenly screeched at me and I knew I had to start running, so that's what I did.
I could hear the booming footsteps of the creature growing closer and closer, I was scared for my entire life, running as fast as my legs could take me, suddenly I was pushed by the creature, which led to my arm getting scraped against the pavement, I groaned in pain and held my arm tightly, I looked up at the towering monster, as it planned to eat me alive, but before it could, my arm hit a rock that was beside me, with no time to lose, I grabbed the rock and yelled at the monster. "Asta La Vesta bitch!" I threw the rock at the monster, hitting it square in the face, it roared in pain and fell back, now's my chance, I ran back to my house with all the energy in my body remaining, once I entered my house, I locked every entrance of the house so the monster wouldn't break in.
I slumped onto the couch, out of breath, tired, and thirsty, I had time to think to myself. "What the hell was that thing, why did it attack me?!" I said to myself, I looked at my now bleeding arm from the pavement scraping, I sighed, got up, and headed to the bathroom, quickly though because I heard the creature's booming footsteps, once I got done patching myself up, I went to the kitchen to get a can of diet coke, once I did, I heard thumping on the window, I was scared to look, but a sudden bang made me, trembling, I turned to the window, and of course, the monster was there, still maintaining that sinister smile, it simply waved at me, then walked off into the woods, I quickly closed the curtains and hid in my bedroom, not coming out till daytime.
Once the sun beamed through my certain, I felt a little relieved, then took a 30 minute nap, once I woke up, I had a news report notification, my instinct was to ignore it, but the contents of the news report made me stop myself, the image was the monster, laying on it's belly, blood on it's skin, the article headline read "Statue Of Park Found Bleeding And Laying Behind The Grocery Store." After I read the whole article, I heard a knock on the door, hesitant, I went to check it out, I noticed a piece of paper near the door, I assumed it slid it underneath the door, still hesitant, I picked it up and read what was on it, it only said 4 words... "Bow To The Silencer..."
I will never be a night person ever again...

WAIT THIS IS THE STORMY WEATHER SONG DEV PLAYED DURING THE SMALL POND SESSION IM FREAKIGN OUT I LOVE THAT ONE 😭
edit: after listening a few more times, this song and the new direction the boys are taking everything is something im very excited about since they talked about it on audiotree session 2.

Line Score - Game Over

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E	LOB
CIN	0	0	0	2	2	2	0	0	0	6	13	0	8
AZ	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	0	5

Scoring Plays

Inning	Event	Score
B3	Blaze Alexander singles on a ground ball to right fielder Jake Fraley. Jake McCarthy scores. Kevin Newman scores.	2-0
T4	Jake Fraley out on a sacrifice fly to center fielder Corbin Carroll. Mike Ford scores.	2-1
T4	Jeimer Candelario singles on a line drive to center fielder Corbin Carroll. Tyler Stephenson scores. Jeimer Candelario to 2nd.	2-2
T5	Will Benson homers (5) on a fly ball to right center field. Conner Capel scores.	2-4
T6	Santiago Espinal singles on a line drive to left fielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr. Tyler Stephenson scores. Jake Fraley to 3rd.	2-5
T6	Stuart Fairchild singles on a sharp line drive to center fielder Corbin Carroll. Jake Fraley scores. Santiago Espinal to 2nd.	2-6

Highlights

Description	Length
Slade Cecconi against the Reds	0:07
Hunter Greene against the Diamondbacks	0:07
Jeimer Candelario singles after review	0:29
Bullpen availability for Arizona, May 14 vs Reds	0:07
Bullpen availability for Cincinnati, May 14 vs D-backs	0:07
Bench availability for Arizona, May 14 vs Reds	0:07
Fielding alignment for Arizona, May 14 vs Reds	0:11
Bench availability for Cincinnati, May 14 vs D-backs	0:07
Fielding alignment for Cincinnati, May 14 vs D-backs	0:11
Starting lineups for Reds at D-backs - May 14, 2024	0:09
Breaking down Slade Cecconi's pitches	0:04
Slade Cecconi's outing against the Reds	0:23
The distance behind Will Benson's home run	0:13
Analyzing Will Benson's home run through bat tracking	0:11
Breaking down Hunter Greene's pitches	0:04
Hunter Greene's outing against the D-backs	0:22
Christian Walker makes a nifty grab	0:12
Blaze Alexander's two-run single	0:27
Jonathan India's leaping grab	0:16
Jake Fraley's sacrifice fly	0:23
Jeimer Candelario's RBI single	0:30
Will Benson's two-run home run (5)	0:28
Santiago Espinal's RBI single	0:30
Stuart Fairchild's RBI single	0:20
Jonathan India hits a foul ball after review	0:29
Slade Cecconi strikes out Elly De La Cruz	0:07
Hunter Greene strikes out Joc Pederson	0:13
Hunter Greene strikes out five across seven innings	1:17
Buck Farmer In play, out(s) to Jake McCarthy	0:14

Decisions

Winning Pitcher	Losing Pitcher	Save
Greene, H (2-2, 3.27 ERA)	Cecconi (1-3, 5.27 ERA)

Reds @ D-backs - Tue, May 14

Game Status: Final - Score: 6-2 Reds

Links & Info

• MLB Gameday
• Game Graphs
• Savant Gamefeed

	Reds Batters	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	LOB	AVG	OBP	SLG
1	Benson - LF	4	1	1	2	0	0	1	.193	.288	.393
2	De La Cruz, E - SS	5	0	1	0	0	1	3	.260	.362	.500
3	Ford, M - 1B	5	1	1	0	0	1	1	.208	.240	.417
4	Stephenson, T - C	5	2	3	0	0	0	0	.235	.321	.418
5	Fraley - RF	4	1	2	1	0	0	2	.314	.375	.395
6	Candelario - 3B	4	0	2	1	0	0	2	.229	.297	.405
7	India - 2B	3	0	0	0	1	2	5	.228	.338	.309
8	Capel - DH	2	1	1	0	0	1	1	.333	.333	.333
	a-Espinal - DH	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	.196	.250	.250
9	Hurtubise - LF	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000
	b-Fairchild - CF	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	.197	.282	.289
	Totals	38	6	13	6	1	5	17

Reds
a-Singled for Capel in the 6th. b-Singled for Hurtubise in the 6th.
BATTING: 2B: Stephenson, T (6, Cecconi); Candelario (9, Allen, L.S.). HR: Benson (5, 5th inning off Cecconi, 1 on, 1 out). TB: Benson 4; Candelario 3; Capel; De La Cruz, E; Espinal; Fairchild; Ford, M; Fraley 2; Stephenson, T 4. RBI: Benson 2 (13); Candelario (17); Espinal (13); Fairchild (9); Fraley (7). 2-out RBI: Espinal; Fairchild; Candelario. Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: De La Cruz, E 2; India 3. SF: Fraley. GIDP: Fraley. Team RISP: 4-for-11. Team LOB: 8.

	D-backs Batters	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	LOB	AVG	OBP	SLG
1	Carroll - CF	4	0	0	0	0	0	3	.193	.284	.255
2	Alexander - 2B	4	0	1	2	0	1	0	.262	.347	.429
3	Pederson - DH	4	0	1	0	0	2	1	.296	.408	.541
4	Walker, C - 1B	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	.258	.369	.426
5	Gurriel Jr. - LF	4	0	0	0	0	2	1	.229	.277	.367
6	Suárez, E - 3B	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	.224	.295	.340
7	McCarthy - RF	4	1	1	0	0	1	1	.291	.367	.407
8	Newman - SS	2	1	2	0	1	0	0	.272	.306	.457
9	Barnhart - C	2	0	0	0	0	1	2	.195	.340	.244
	Totals	32	2	6	2	1	7	9

D-backs
BATTING: 2B: McCarthy (5, Greene, H); Pederson (9, Greene, H); Newman (7, Greene, H). TB: Alexander; McCarthy 2; Newman 3; Pederson 2; Suárez, E. RBI: Alexander 2 (15). 2-out RBI: Alexander 2. Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Gurriel Jr.; Barnhart; McCarthy. SAC: Barnhart. Team RISP: 1-for-6. Team LOB: 5.
FIELDING: DP: (Alexander-Newman-Walker, C).

Reds Pitchers	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P-S	ERA
Greene, H (W, 2-2)	7.0	5	2	2	1	5	0	101-72	3.27
Suter	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	16-9	3.86
Farmer, B	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	13-9	2.42
Totals	9.0	6	2	2	1	7	0

D-backs Pitchers	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P-S	ERA
Cecconi (L, 1-3)	5.2	7	6	6	1	3	1	89-58	5.27
Allen, L.S.	2.2	5	0	0	0	2	0	49-29	3.86
Jarvis	0.2	1	0	0	0	0	0	6-3	4.76
Totals	9.0	13	6	6	1	5	1

Game Info
HBP: Benson (by Allen, L.S.).
Pitch timer violations: Cecconi (pitcher).
Pitches-strikes: Greene, H 101-72; Suter 16-9; Farmer, B 13-9; Cecconi 89-58; Allen, L.S. 49-29; Jarvis 6-3.
Groundouts-flyouts: Greene, H 8-4; Suter 0-0; Farmer, B 1-2; Cecconi 3-8; Allen, L.S. 3-1; Jarvis 1-0.
Batters faced: Greene, H 27; Suter 3; Farmer, B 4; Cecconi 25; Allen, L.S. 14; Jarvis 2.
Inherited runners-scored: Allen, L.S. 2-2; Jarvis 1-0.
Umpires: HP: Stu Scheurwater. 1B: Jordan Baker. 2B: Dan Merzel. 3B: Mark Carlson.
Weather: 78 degrees, Roof Closed.
Wind: 0 mph, None.
First pitch: 6:40 PM.
T: 2:30.
Att: 20,068.
Venue: Chase Field.
May 14, 2024

Inning	Scoring Play	Score
Bottom 3	Blaze Alexander singles on a ground ball to right fielder Jake Fraley. Jake McCarthy scores. Kevin Newman scores.	2-0 AZ
Top 4	Jake Fraley out on a sacrifice fly to center fielder Corbin Carroll. Mike Ford scores.	2-1 AZ
Top 4	Jeimer Candelario singles on a line drive to center fielder Corbin Carroll. Tyler Stephenson scores. Jeimer Candelario to 2nd.	2-2
Top 5	Will Benson homers (5) on a fly ball to right center field. Conner Capel scores.	4-2 CIN
Top 6	Santiago Espinal singles on a line drive to left fielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr. Tyler Stephenson scores. Jake Fraley to 3rd.	5-2 CIN
Top 6	Stuart Fairchild singles on a sharp line drive to center fielder Corbin Carroll. Jake Fraley scores. Santiago Espinal to 2nd.	6-2 CIN

Team	Highlight
AZ	Christian Walker makes a nifty grab (00:00:12)
AZ	Blaze Alexander's two-run single (00:00:27)
CIN	Jonathan India's leaping grab (00:00:16)
CIN	Jake Fraley's sacrifice fly (00:00:23)
CIN	Jeimer Candelario's RBI single (00:00:30)
CIN	Will Benson's two-run home run (5) (00:00:28)
CIN	Santiago Espinal's RBI single (00:00:30)
CIN	Stuart Fairchild's RBI single (00:00:20)
CIN	Hunter Greene strikes out five across seven innings (00:01:17)
CIN	Buck Farmer seals the Reds' 6-2 win (00:00:14)

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E	LOB
Reds	0	0	0	2	2	2	0	0	0		6	13	0	8
D-backs	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0		2	6	0	5

Decisions

• Winner: Hunter Greene (2-2, 3.27)
• Loser: Slade Cecconi (1-3, 5.27)

Division Scoreboard

CHC 0 @ ATL 7 - Final
PIT 3 @ MIL 4 - Final
STL 7 @ LAA 6 - Bottom 9, 2 Outs
Next Reds Game: Wed, May 15, 03:40 PM EDT @ D-backs
^{Last Updated: 05/15/2024 12:31:13 AM EDT}

What’s your longest play with a no star player?
I think mine was 19 yards, just had nowhere to go and tossed a prayer to old boy and the ball miraculously bounced to him off a DB’s helmet.

when victor requested jade to play, he sat on top of his mother’s car (green station wagon). afterwards, victor directed jade to christopher’s car, which was a very faded red (s2 e5). oddly enough in s2 e8, the drawings by victor and eloise were stashed away in the trunk of christopher’s car. these 2 cars closely match those depicted in one of victor’s drawings (see above). this would mean that victor was in fact involved in the crash, as was christopher. it would also confirm the parallels shared by several characters (victor+ethan were both kids “chosen” by boy in white, miranda+tabitha both saw children and figured out saving the children and finding the exit, jade and christopher were both present in opposite vehicle and ended up seeing the symbol). if you look at the drawing, a pair of hands can be seen in front of the orange car. the hands have dark skin, which maybe means christopher also came with someone? kind of like how jade came with tobey? pay close attention to the car graveyard scene in s2 e5, the car victor sits on top of, and the one he points out as christopher’s. they look like the ones in this drawing

Hey I played Trackmania Nations Forever in 2010 When I twas just a boy, I even found the old email with my account and password (back when they did that). I also seem to have a mother account in 2019 tied to the same email. and I was trying to see if that will show on Trackmania 2020 or do I need to make another account... all this is from the same email luckily steam, the two purchases or whatever. But if I want nations forever there seems to be a steam paywall and im not sure where I would go if I wanted to get TMNF? Probably want to keep my oldest account for bragging rights but idk? they all are from the same email address?

“He lives rent free in your head.” Yeah, the sight of mustache boy melting into flesh soup from the rapid fire of Billy B’s mini gun plays in my mind daily. Lmao

[I play Elden Ring in Japanese, as From Soft is a Japanese developer, so is Miyazaki.]
The most striking difference is within how they address the main protagonist (you as the player), as in Japanese he or she is referred to as 褪せ人 (lit: "persona sbiadita") from the NPC dialog and cutscenes, however in the official Italian version it is: "Senzaluce". In regards to the Japanese original, the kanji used is 褪 + 人 but 褪せ is from the ichidan verb:

褪せる

lit. trad: scolorire / sbiadire
Example sentence: 日光で看板の文字が褪せた。
(Le lettere dell'insegna si sono sbiadite al sole.)

人 (Persone)

Combine from 褪せる which is now merged as 褪せ人 [あせびと]
How would you really translate it into Italian from Japanese?

I have a rough list of the stuff that is named in Elden Ring, between the Japanese and Italian version of the game (Though I won't list everything, as it'll be too much):
Locations:

日本語	Traduzione dal giapponese	Versione ufficiale in italiano
リムグレイブ	Limgrave	Sepolcride
啜り泣きの半島	Penisola dell'Imbrattamento	Penisola del pianto
ストームヴィル城	Castello di Stormveil	Castello di Grantempesta
湖のリエーニエ	Lago Liurnia	Liurnia Lacustre
深き根の底	Fondo delle radici profonde	Abisso tra le Radici
ケイリッド	-	Caelid
アルター高原	-	Altopiano di Altus
忌み捨ての地下	Aborrimenti sotterranei	Abissi Dimenticati
ゲルミア火山	Vulcano Gelmir	Monte Gelmir
崩れゆくファルムアズラ	Il Farum Azula in disfacimento	Farum Azula in Frantumi
禁域	Area interdetta	Terre Proibite
永遠の都ノクローン	-	Nokron, Città Eterna
王都ローデイル	-	Leyndell, La Capitale Reale
シーフラ河	-	Fiume Siofra
巨人たちの山嶺	La cresta dei giganti	Montagne dei Giganti Ovest
ミケラの聖樹	L'albero sacro di Miquella	Sacro Albero di Miquella
聖樹の支えエブレフェール	Sostegno dell'Albero Sacro Elphael	Elphael, sostegno del Sacro Albero
モーグウィン王朝	La dinastia Mohgwyn	Palazzo di Mohgwyn
腐れ湖	Lago marcio	Lago Putrescente
聖別雪原	-	Campi di Neve Consacrati
魔術学院レアルカリア	Accademia di Magia e Stregoneria Reya Lucaria	Accademia de Reya Lucaria
月光の祭壇	Altare della Luna	Altare del chiaro de luna
漂着墓地	Cimitero abbandonato	Caverna della conoscenza

Bosses:

日本語	Traduzione dal giapponese	Versione ufficiale in italiano
ゴドリックの軍兵	Soldati dell'Esercito di Godrick	Soldato di Godrick
神肌のふたり	-	Duo Sacriderma
接ぎ木のゴドリック	-	Godrick l'Innestato
忌み鬼、マルギット	Un abominio malvagio, Margit	Margit il Presagio Implacabile
忌み王、モーゴッド	Re degli Abomini, Morgott	Morgott, Re Presagio
満月の女王レナラ	Renalla, regina della luna piena	Rennala, Regina del plenilunio
暗黒の落とし子、アステール	Astel, Bastardo dell'Oscurità	Astel, Progenie del Vuoto
最初の王、ゴッドフレイ	Il primo re Godfrey	Godfrey, il Primo Lord
火の巨人	-	Gigante di Fuoco
百智卿ギデオン	Il Signore Gideon il Cento Saggio	Gideon l'Onniscente
竜王プラキドサクス	Re Drago Placidusax	Placidusax, Signore dei Draghi
星砕きのラダーン	Radahn il frantuma-stelle	Radhan il Flagello celeste
獣の司祭 （黒き剣のマリケス）	Sacerdote della Bestia (Maliketh della Spada Nera)	Belva eccelsiastica (Maliketh la Lama Nera)
ミケラの刃マレニア （腐敗の女神、マレニア）	Lama di Miquella, Malenia (Malenia, dea della corruzione)	Malenia, spada di Miquella (Malenia, Dea della marcescenza)
黄金律、ラダゴン	La regola d'oro, Radagon	Radagon dell'Ordine Aureo
冒涜の君主、ライカード	Rykard, monarca della blasfemia	Rykard, Signore della Blasfemia

In hindsight:

• From the literal translations between JP = IT (in italic) found on second column of the table, and the official translation in Italian, which one actually stays faithful to the source language?
• Have you played the game in Italian? If so, how accurate is the translation? (I mean, did they localize it from the source language or English, still resulting in mistranslations?)

Long story short and as much as it sucks to say, I haven't really experienced much of anything. I'm going to intentionally beat around the bush as to what category that "experience" falls under but I think most people should be able to figure it out lol. In other words (and if you play games), I'm a complete noob when it comes to all things girls. As for why those things haven't happened and why I want that to change.. There's a few reasons, but the main reason why I'm putting such an emphasis on this is because I'm a huge homebody and I don't go out much at all which makes it difficult to meet people. That's where Reddit comes in! The message I'm essentially trying to send is becoming physically and emotionally close with a girl is what I want the most. I want to experience it all; the laughs, excitement, curiosity, intimacy, hanging out, fun. Blame all the Disney movies I watched as a kid for that lol.
Finding someone would be a dream come true, but I'd love to find friends too if that's all you're looking for! Local or international, just let me know if that's what you want instead :) We could end up being really close friends and you'll introduce me to a friend who I end up being with? That may or may not be the plot from a romcom 🤔 So that means I definitely wouldn't be opposed to a relationship! I've obviously never been in one so I'm not exactly sure how to transition to that, haha. I totally wouldn't mind finding out, though :) Also someone to say good morning and night to, too. That would be the best even if it's incredibly cheesy.
Anyway, it could be someone with a lot of experience or someone with no experience like me, or introverted or not introverted, etc. I don't have a preference either way :) But if I were to be reaaally picky: they'd be sweet and down to earth because just cuddling on its own would be all kinds of cool. A bit about me: I'm shy, caring, kind, sweet and am normal in the weight and height categories. I want to say I'm cute in the looks department? 🙈 I'll let you decide that though lol. I think it's super fun learning about people through conversation so I'll leave the following hobbies section blank. Then again, I suppose it wouldn't hurt to give a small hint to something I love.. My username should provide clues to that! I Siriusly need to re-watch the movies again. Maybe with someone I meet through r4r?
Alright, I can't hold it in anymore. I pretty much like a little bit of everything. For example, when it comes to music, I go through Backstreet Boys phases to Disney song phases (Moana is awesome and I haven't even seen the movie 🙊) to something like Linkin Park, Paramore or 50 Cent. What I'm trying to say is I like a little bit of everything! So there's a good chance I'll like whatever you like when it comes to hobbies and interests and that means connecting with each other should be relatively natural/seamless. Or maybe that's wishful thinking on my part, haha.
I'm not the best with openers and if you're also in the same boat, then how about this: If you could have any superpower what would it be and how would you use it? Being out of this world smart like Tony Stark is an acceptable super poweanswer, by the way.
Hopefully my first impression is a good one! If anyone is even remotely interested, then just let me know and I'll get back to you asap!

The rift between them has caused a lot of tension in my family and now my mom wants to be in the life of her newborn grandson but refuses to address or try to mend things with my wife.
Little history: I probably introduced them too quickly. My grandmother was in town in south Florida about to move here from Illinois for a retirement community. My wife, girlfriend at the time, came with cookies or some form of baked goods like she usually does when visiting someone as a sign of affection and respect. Where it went wrong from here I have no idea. I suppose the initial crack was when wife scheduled a skitrip for her and I to have as a 1 year of dating anniversary present. We are not rich, this is a huge gift that made sense to her since I refused to let her pay rent. Our combines salaries are barely over 120k. So wife calls mom 6 months in advance because she is a planner for the sole purpose of asking my mom to watch one of our four dogs. Wife has already paid in full for the trip. Yet Mom decides it is a great idea to instead use the opportunity to hop on and take a family trip because it is the last time the family will have for a family vacation - I am the oldest of two boys and two stepsisters, my mom married the guy she left my father for who has twin girls of his own that were in the womb during the infidelity. Anyway mom completely takes over and decides to make our one year gift a family vacation, so she books tickets for a hotel nearby. Wife is bold but at the time not bold enough to stop my mom in her tracks for overstepping a boundary. At this time she still respected my mother and kind of let herself get steamrolled.
Probably skippable Family history: Now I have always had issues with my mother, resentment for leaving my father for my stepdad behind my own fathers back and constantly trying to keep brother and I from seeing “Disneyland dad who doesn’t do any of the work but gets all the fun.” my mother was very strict growing up, always bringing us to church and making my father feel guilty for not bringing brother and I on his weekend. So mom marries stepdad age 11, divorces him around 13 after asking me advice for her relationship and i encourage her to move out. Then remarries him and moves us back into his house age 15. Here I begin rebellion and normal teeenager stuff but stepdad won’t butt in because he isn’t my “biological father” so would have my mom intervene brother and i from behind the scenes. For example, I am young and messing around on the piano because music is important and I never had any formal training and mom comes in to tell me stepdad “wants to know when the concert is going to end because it is a little annoying.” Anyway, they have me prescribed adderall at 16 and in the parking lot holding my first prescription I am told that they would like me to move out and in with my father, who had chased us every time mom and stepdad moved several miles away (5 moves from age 5-15 all in one county). Anyway, brother and I are recovering alcoholics with (my) slipups triggered from interactions or visiting my mom, which mom claims is genetics from my father alone and has nothing to do with her. Maternal grandfather, mother, and I have some nasty temper problems which certainly are exacerbated by drinking (at least mine and moms).
Skitrip revelations: Wife and I are on the way to brothers graduation in Chicago, and wife has yet to reveal to me that my mother has taken over her massive investment of a couples ski vacation and it will now be a family vacation for mom, stepdad, brother, two stepsisters who are all getting out of gradschool. On the way to the airport I am told the news by future wife of my one year surprise. So I get upset and call my mom to call it off. She obliges my request and now holds resentment against me and now wife for “ruining her last family vacation.” Fine, whatever. Mother never says a word about it for months until we are out for a distant family members birthday dinner and at a table of about 8-10 people that are having a group conversation and gets real close to my wife’s ear and tells her privately along the lines of “you deprived our family of our last family vacation.” During this time my wife is frantically tapping my leg under the table because my mom can get a little aggressive. My mom saw this and later (privately to me) mocked her for doing it to my leg under the table.
Christmas blessings: Closer to Christmas maybe 2/3 weeks later we went to go see my mom and my mom had a couple drinks in her (not an alcoholic like brother and I just very sensitive to a couple glasses of wine and occasionally some hidden sips of wine or something) and invites my wife to Christmas church and out to dinner after because the family needs photos for a Christmas card and future wife “will be the photographer for it.” Now this can easily be a nothing comment but given the way my mom had been making future wife feel, it was taken as an insult. So wife declined church and showed up to family dinner just in time for photography session to be over.
The distance: Then mom moves to a fancy house up the coast and invites us up to visit. At first it is ok to bring the 4 dogs then the day before she says they will not have dogs at the house and we can easily find a sitter. 2 Dogs don’t get along, they need to be separated always as there has been two attacks on one from the other, so we can’t trust someone to come to the house and keep them separate and we won’t board 4 dogs it’s too expensive for us. Anyway we go back and forth being invited with the dogs then they retract the offer and say pick one dog to bring and leave the others and it’s just annoying, so we say forget it and don’t go. But my brother becomes engaged and decides to throw his engagement party at my mom’s new place near the beach. Great. First all the dogs are welcome, then day before they say it is too chaotic and she will pay for a small hotel room for one night for future wife and her dogs and my one (the attack dog) can stay in a crate at the house with me but I may not leave the dog to stay with her. And no reasonable cheap hotel in the area is going to accommodate 4 dogs. Anyway wife is stressed but feels obligated to come because I am the best man and I stay at the house while she checks her dogs into the hotel. Wife had made a cheesecake and brought it up in a separate car from me, 4 hour drive by the way, and night of.. my mom says no desserts for engagement party dinner, the dessert is themed or some crazy stuff. Wife shows up to dinner a little later and very flustered because of the situation plus I had relapsed on a bottle of whiskey a couple days prior to seeing my mom. Related, I don’t know. Anyway. Mom has had a couple drinks and future wife and I are talking about having children and religion comes up. Mom asks what we were thinking of doing about baptism or not and I jokingly said (guiltily to get on my moms nerves a bit) that he would have a bris and would love it if she would come to the bar mitzvah. now my wife’s mom was forced to convert from Catholicism to Judaism for her own mother in laws acceptance for a failed marriage so wife is not religious, but it hurt my wife and reasonably so when my mom replied “oh, son, I raised you better than that.” Still no acknowlegement of fault from that comment and mom thinks wife is “overly sensitive, dramatic, and childish” for wanting an apology for it.
Weddings: Future wife becomes current wife. We had gotten engaged on our next anniversary trip she planned for us. I proposed on our bike and barge through tulip season in holland with our feet in the water of the North Sea after a picnic in the dunes. her family business manufactures photo albums for professional photographers, so aside from our families all being divorced, estranged, difficult, and us trying to save money, we did not have a wedding, we just did the paperwork within a month of the proposal. I had already decided to have a baby with her before the trip so we were trying. 2 weeks before brothers wedding in Tennessee we become pregnant, so we break news immediately as to not steal limelight from brothers expensive wedding. Mom says she will cover cost of rental car so we can save money. Ok great. She books the tiny car and we pack it and head up the Smokey mountains to the cabins we are staying at. Two cabins for grooms family, one for his mother and one for his father, ten paces from each other: they havnt spoken but twice im since divorce in 1995 but through lawyers. Grandmother, mother, stepdad, 2 stepsisters and one boyfriend stayed in mom’s side. Wife and I stay at father’s side cabin with just his wife. His Wife’s 3 daughters and family’s stayed a town away down the mountain among extended family. Anyway, beautiful wedding takes place. My wife is sent into town to collect flowers and run errands for my mom which she happily obliged to since she is a solitary person and did not want wedding day drama. Day after, we are loading our rental sedan with our bags. Mom and grandma need a ride to the airport and our flight is before theirs so they will drop off the car for us 4 hours or so after we go to the airport 5 hours from current time. We’re loading the car. Stepcousin passed out in mother’s cabin night before and needed a ride. Disorganized brunch for 20 people is trying to be made. Father’s wife’s daughter books a reservation for 10 people which include her family, her sisters, me, my wife, dad, and their mom. My stepdad had left for home at this point as he had taken his own suv instead of flying with my mom and 90 year old grandma. So mom is trying to pack grandma in the car with bags and my wife and stepcousin. At this point mother asks stepmother if she and grandma are on reservation for the brunch. Stepmom says no they are not, she wasn’t sure of their plans. Mom says under her breath “fucking assholes, so typical,” and she goes into a bit of a rage to which my stepmom says here “it’s ok I will call and add you two it’s no big deal.” So we continue packing the car and realize we won’t all fit. So my wife tells my stepcousin to go ride with my father to the restaurant 10 minutes away we will meet you there. Mom says to wife, “no you go with the father.” Wife says “no I am going to ride with my husband” mom gets close to her face with her finger and says “this is my car, you can fucking Uber!” Wife is 6 weeks pregnant at this point and it all escalated from here. wife and mother start yelling at each other swearing at each other and we get into the car, mom behind wife who was in shotgun. 2 occasions on the trip I had to stop the car because mom had taken off her seatbelt to stand over the seat and scream in my wife’s face with so much vigor that spit came on to her face multiple times. I’m trying to tell them both to behave and mom sit down shut the f up. Mom is telling wife to get the f out of the car and find a ride, she has no right to speak because she’s “new here” (dating and living together for 3 years at this point). The following brunch she apologized in a crowd with a hushed voice at a table of 20 people trying to have a group conversation again privately to my wife “I’m sorry you get so upset” and my wife told her “that is not an apology.” The following several hours in the car with grandma and stepcousin and wife were some of the most uncomfortable moments of my life. At a gas station I pulled my mom aside and said I need ther to give a huge apology, that it was so nasty and inappropriate, my brother and I are used to abusive language and aggressive behavior but to my pregnant wife and any other human being it is disgusting and unacceptable. Sitting in the car was quiet for many hours until we got to the airport. No speaking about what happened just mom happy go lucky about Tennessee and Dollywood and wife and I in shock, cousin still half in the bag from a fun wedding, grandma 90 years old probably confused about what happened.
The family groupchat: Im waiting on an apology from my mother to my wife who is extremely hurt and expressed to my mom loads of time she needs to reach out and apologize. We’re not talking until she will do so. It is bugging me and keeping me up at night. My appendix flares up and I am admitted to the hospital with emergency appendectomy. Still pregnant Wife suggests I reach out to mom to let her know what’s going on. So I text mom I’m at the hospital and will have surgery. I send a pic or something that on my end says hasn’t gone through. Mom group texts our family group with stepdad, his daughters, brother and his wife, and grandma that I am in the hospital and attaches the pic I sent of me in there. Then she continues to rave about the success of her startup company and how they got FDA approved clinical trials finally completed or some pivotal moment that made the text about her. Wife and I are in a hospital so the picture comes up on moms end as unable to have been sent. Mom assumes that my wife has blocked her phone, so mom removes my wife from the chat. Wife is rushing home to take care of the dogs at this point and is not alerted on her phone, but on everyone else’s phone it clearly reads “(mom) has removed (wife) from the chat.” Immediately I text my mom and basically say how dare you do that to her she is the one who insisted I let you know out of respect and mom responds with blah blah she did this she did that I will not have it. So I go back to the family chat and remove mother. At this point I let everyone in the chat know what my mother has done and how she refuses to take responsibility for how she made my wife feel, address her feelings, apologize or do anything at all to reach out about the wedding incident or even inquire about the wellbeing of the pregnancy for her first grandchild. Stepdad finally steps in and tells me “enough.” Grandma says “shame on you.” I am dumbfounded. This is a hush hush family that hates to have anything out in the open and likes to maintain a picture perfect image. For examples; 1) I and wife were on the family Christmas card of a photo taken at the wedding that the whole world received except for wife and I. 2)brothers alcoholism was to remain hidden from the family as was his rehab treatment and how it affected his career. Now understand that they like to keep things quiet but that is not how I want to handle my problems, these things trigger alcohol use and violent outbursts on my part that I no longer wish to live through. Now appendectomy’s are pretty simple so I recovered quickly (it don’t rupture we just took it out). But during the time I was scheduled to be under anesthesia, stepdad reaches out to wife to have a chat and clear the air. Wife waits until I come to so i can be there and I hear the conversation. He claims to be here as a middleman like a business meeting to fix things once and for all. Wife and I are like wow great. He then proceeds to double down on my moms behalf that they will not be apologizing or meet any of her demands as she had already apologized as confirmed by 90yo grandma who was in the car and my mother herself. The term he used was stalemate to describe the situation. Wife and I are shocked but she has me keep quiet to show me what he will say. He proceeds to yell at her and they were screaming at each other, again steamrolling the conversation assuring us that he was down the middle yet maintains that mom has made a sufficient apology that needs to be accepted and wife needs to grow up and move on, then wishing her luck with the baby and a nice life. Next day I call stepdad to see how it went. He reassures me that he has done all he can and everything is back to normal. At this point I call him out and tell him I was conscious and explain to him what an apology is. But there is no dialogue with this guy like there is no dialogue with my mother. He proceeds to talk loudly over me like she does and basically call me a piece of shit for the amount he and mother have done for me. I speak to him first time like I never have before by calling him a hands off father and a pussy of a man who finally reaches out while he thinks I am under anesthesia to yell at my wife then pretend it’s cool, and I basically tell him he has never done a single thing for me to try and develop me into a man or nurture me as a child into an adult, but he thinks taking me on fishing trips and ski vacations are equivalent to love and nurturing growth and development just like my mom does. I reassure him that he has no right to talk about family being that he ruined his own as well as mine and couldn’t even tell my dad to his face that it was him who was sleeping with my mom behind his back when my dad came to him very upset as a friend when he got an anonymous phone tip at work one day. Then him and my mom laughed about it in court when my dad brought it up during the divorce. We ended with swearing and I felt very happy for finally giving my true feelings to him.
The birth: Months go by and nobody has said a thing. I can’t sleep at night seeing how much love I am getting from my father and his side for the baby, and my wife’s family, then thinking about how my own mother hasn’t reached out a single time. I’m dreaming about beating up my stepdad and it’s driving me mad. So weeks before the due date I reach out to my mom begging her to clear things up and apologize to my wife. Nothing. A week later i tell her how disappointed and abandoned I feel and want her in the family. Nothing. Baby comes a couple days early. Everyone is excited. Mom texts me begging for photos and to let everyone know. I tell her my brother and two stepsisters have received photos. I ask her to please reach out to wife she still needs to make amends for what’s happened between them and all she needs to do is reach out. Mom’s responses have been defensive, derisive, projecting, playing victim and referring to herself as a kicked puppy. Telling me my wife needs to apologize to her and making the conversation about mother son instead. She is beating around the bush. And she is sending me photos of my own baby that I did not send her. Her friends are congratulating me that I did not tell. Again she is pretending that everything is ok and it is not. She asked me to apologize to her husband for what I said on the phone that day. I said ok, watch this. So I sent the guy a message that was very apologetic and not passive aggressive or backhanded comments in any way. Still my mom won’t say anything.
Now: Baby is 6 days old. He is the best thing in my life and I wish my family were involved but it seems like I am living in a fantasy world where everyone can be happy together. I can be a jerk and have a terrible relationship with my mom, but I want more than anything to just feel loved enough where she can swallow her pride and make amends with my wife. Thats it. And she asked the other day to put a family group chat so everyone can be involved… for real? I know she is stressed with a high pressure job, but it seems heartless to me. She asks what big items she can get for the baby. Mom, baby is here we have everything for a couple months already. I said the biggest thing you can do is reach out and have a heart to heart with my wife so this rift can end and we can at least be cordial if you two can’t get along. I don’t think it will happen.
How do I mend this relationship between my wife and my mother?

Hi I’m a 26 years old, 1m85, average boy, English is not my first language so I will try my best not to do mistake but it wont be perfect
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I might have forgot stuff but this little presentation should do the first part, I can send photo if we click well, if your interested you can send me a dm