Left side top head ache and chest pain

I'm on mobile, writing this brought back a lot of emotions. So if it's sloppy,I apologize.....
I've debated about posting this, but it's been a year now. So I should be ok. I've posted on Reddit before, asking about situations at the company but changed some things. So here we are, and here's a full run down of my time there
I started in May, 2019. Part time and straight out of highschool. By November, I was full time and had store keys, training to be a closing manager (RSS)
In 2020, we had a coworker stalk a new hire, as he really wanted to date her, she felt uncomfortable but since he was a manager, she felt inclined to do as he wanted. She came to me as we were close in age. I helped her talk with our boss. He was soon let go.
Then we hired another girl, and she was.... Something.
She decided that she was going to get the boss to fall for her, and be the favorite. Boss was annoyed by her, and she found it funny to walk up behind me when I was on a phone call, reach around and grab my chest. She did this in front of customers as well. Our store had no cameras.
Even after I told her to knock it off, she kept on. Soon the customers were trying to treat me the same. Trying to touch me, asking if they can "Rent me" and other gross things.
I'd told my boss, SM. But at the time, we had a very.... Slow to act DM. So nothing was done.
One day, I was training a new hire. I was on the phone with a customer, and he was beside me at the counter with a customer. She walked up behind me, reached around, but this time, one hand went up, one went down and she was telling our new hire "it's ok to do this cause there's no cameras" and slowly started undoing the buttons on my shirt.
I'd gotten permission from my boss at the time to react in anyway I had to to get her off me, as our DM didn't want to get involved but wouldn't allow him to fire her.
so I kicked her as hard as I could. She fell, and started laughing. After she left, I explained to him what's been going on. He understood but was upset and uncomfortable, not that I blame him. She'd been written up for this before.
The next day, DM was there. New hire had called tips, and told them if they didn't do anything about this he would go public, forcing the DM to do something. Well, we found out this day, that we had a new DM. As the company "had decided due to so many complaints under this DM, that they needed to take him from DM, and make him a SM again for awhile"
This one took swift action. She was canned. After this, the new hires we got were so much better. But unfortunately, the system we used, showed our phone numbers and addresses. So this, now ex coworker, started stalking me. Sending me threatening messages and following me home, company said just block and ignore. Police wouldn't help til she did something threatening my life. I'd come outside to my tires all flat, my car scratched, I'd be followed home, it was a mess. A few times I'd be followed, run off the road, one morning on the way to work, I called the store and told them I was being followed. Everyone knew by now what was happening, and they watched as I pulled in, my SM went outside to tell the girl to leave, as she tried to slam her car into mine. I'd Changed everything by then, moved, new number, new route to abd from work. Hadn't seen her in awhile.
I left that store in Feb of 2021, and went to a bigger store to be trained as a ASM and as a safety precaution, to create more space in case the chic came back. (As she still circled the store time to time) Once there, I helped run the store. I was there til August of that same year, I was "loaned" out to help a different store, but still was expected to run my second store. As the SM was out due to family issues.
So now I'm running two stores, one store where no one respects the store manager, and one store where there is no store manager. So I'm training people at one location while running this other store as the store manager is sleeping off a hangover In the office.
During this, I was training some guys from the second store, and on October 19th, 2021. I had been at store #3 getting stuff ready for the upcoming inventory, so I got home around 12AM. My phone was dead, I was tired and I had a husky needing to go outside. When two of the guys I was training pull up. They had gotten my address off of the computer and were here because "they were sick of the management and needed me back there" they knew what apartment number I was so they ran up the stairs and beat me to the door. I was tired and not in the mood to get into it that night, so they passed out on the couch and next morning, I'm being called due to them not coming in. So I answer and told them that they are currently passed out on my couch, I got in trouble for them not coming into work.
It went smoothly for awhile, then December 13th, 2021 comes along. At this time, my relationship with my mother was rocky. I had gone low contact with her. I also never told anyone my business, as I figured it wasn't anyones need to know. My personal life stays personal. Well, two store managers take it upon themselves to integrate me. It's their day off, so I'm running the store, only have one delivery driver that day, short staffed, they pull up and have me go into the back of the store, which has no walls. So everyone can hear what's being said.
And they lay into me. For 3hrs til I'm in tears and have told them everything that went on with my mother and why we're low contact. The store manager decides she's going to be my hero and go confront my mother, have her husband beat my mother up and have this show down. They told me to not worry, return to work and they'll handle it. And left. Leaving me crying, shaking and still trying to run a store, get people to lunch and my teams now more focused on me, what they heard in the conversation and some are calling the DM to report what just happened. This made a very awkward month, as now DM is involved, the SM's got a talking to and I had to relive this twice more. Once with the DM, then HR. Tho HR labeled this a "in house issue" and weren't willing to help.
After this, it calmed down. The SM's were now out to get me for "getting them in trouble" but otherwise, it seemed fine. Tho I was working with the store managers daughter, so she kept her mom updated, and made sure to mention my mothers abuse towards me and tell others about it as well. She liked the gossip of it.
Then on March 5th, 2022. The store managers daughter had been slacking. Big time. On her phone in the office, taking "favors" for reduced product, or just ignoring her job and making others pick up the slack. I was spread thin, mentally and physically. Trying to help with training a new store manager, training staff at my second store, and keeping this third one up. So when I was catching up on freight, and found she was off in the back on her phone watching TikTok, I got on her about it. She got upset, and said "you've been really moody lately. I think you're pregnant" to which I told her I'm stressed trying to get stuff going, I haven't had a break in awhile, and you aren't helping at all.( She also has this mindset that I slept with my first store manager. And that I was still with him and pregnant by him. )
She rolled her eyes, and on her break, she went out and bought a pregnancy test. When she returns, she hides my clipboard and paperwork, and had blocked my car in. Then, in front of the few staff I had that day, announces that I'm to take this pregnancy test, or she'll destroy the paperwork, and tell the SM that I wasn't actually in store, didn't do my paperwork and have been flaky. She had the DM and SM's wrapped around her finger. So I told her this isn't appropriate and that I'd rather not. This went back and forth, to the point of her getting in the way of me answering phones and helping customers, she'd physically take the phone from my hand and hang up, or tell the customer that I couldn't help them at this time.
So I told her, if I do, I'm going home for the rest of the day. I had 2 hours left of my shift. She said fine. But she needed to be in the bathroom as I took it, so I don't "cheat".
After that, she moved her car and I left. For the day. Went home, called HR. They told me it's an in store issue, and unfortunately they rather not get involved with it. So I told the DM. He had already received reports from the other staff, telling him what happened. She was talked to, but that's it. For the rest of the week, she talked about how cute it would be if I had a baby with my first SM, asked about what he was like in bed and if we did it in the store - this SM and I were close, he was a father figure/role model to me. If I couldn't figure something out, he was my first call. She ruined the friendship I had with him, as we both felt awkward when we worked together due to her. As she told her mom and the gossip spread like wildfire.
March 15th, 2022. I requested a week off. I needed a break, my car needed maintenance and I figured I would head to the ocean with my husky for a couple days. So the first day off, the 12th, I drop my car off at the dealership so they can replace a recall. They say it'll be 5 hours so I walk around town, just relaxing. Then they tell me that unfortunately, they found a new issue and are going to keep my car for a month, and have no way of giving me a loaner. I try to figure out why and it's the runaround, my buddy comes to my aid and helps me get my stuff from my car as they wouldn't let me back there to get my stuff. Then we go to my mother's house to try and get the spare car I have. But the rack and pinion blew on it the same day. So next day I spend trying to tear it apart. I get halfway through when work calls, and let's me know my vacation request ends early as the SM's daughter had an emergency and I need to cover for her. I tell them I'm without a car, in a city an hour away, and the SM says "not my problem. Figure it out. I need you in. If you aren't in, I'm writing you up and firing you"
So I rush to get the car going, and on the 14th, Im stressed, tired, sore and anxious. I push a tool a bit to hard and it slips on grease, comes flying out of the wheel well and hits me in the head, hard. My mother comes back an hour later to find me knocked out. My first concussion. (By this time, we'd had a better relationship/understanding and were working towards building it)
So that night, she drops me off at my apartment. No rental places had any cars, so that morning, I grab my scooter, my husky, and walk the 4hrs to the store. Two hours in, I start to have an asthma attack. My body's shaking, my heads killing me, but we get there. Almost falling in the parking lot. We get in, I sit by the door catching my breath. A driver who used to volunteer at the fire station, comes over and checks my pulse, gets worried and recommends I go to the ER. I tell him I'm okay, the SM has already left for the day. So I need to be here to close. I get cleaned up, and the DM calls. Saying the SM called to tell him I hadn't shown up, and to ask where I was. I told him I just walked there, im wheezing and he's concerned too. I tell him she threatened to fire me if I didn't get here. He said he'd talk to her. Nothing ever came of it.
July 6th, 2022. The DM decided to move me permanently back to my 2nd store, as the store manager was going through personal stuff and I was needed there. So I went. It had been a couple weeks before this, but on the 6th, my shifts were 7am to 7pm. Or til 9:30 if the closer didn't come in. So I come in on time, start working, and go into the back of the store to get hose for a customer. I'm still feeling the symptoms of the concussion from March, but power through. I'm not sure how, but I managed to slip on a piece of paper, fall back and hit the base of my skull on the shelf, then when I was getting up, hit my forehead on it too. A coworker came looking for me. And found me, in his words "in a puddle of blood". He gets me up and takes care of the customer, and gets me to the bathroom and cleaned up. Then we go to the SM and let her know.
She says "You're standing up. You can work. Clean yourself up and get on the counter" I had a two week vacation scheduled, starting the next day. So she thought I was trying to get off work early. Something I had never done. So I go the front after cleaning myself up, the nasty gash on my head swelling up and getting attention. The store is hot, it's 90 outside, and I'm in my jacket shivering cause I'm cold. This happened at about 9AM. I went to her at 12PM and requested a break so I could go out to my car, grab some pain pills and come back. She said no, as I might not return. So I worked through it. I tried calling a couple people to see if they could cover me, as I was feeling worse and worse. But nothing. By 3, a coworker comes in and sees me. His shift didn't start for another two hours, but he immediately told me to go home.
By how, the SM has sent two others home early as we were " slow" and didn't need them. She also wanted to leave, which would mean I'd be the only manager there. He was a manager in training. But he counted my til down and the SM said as I left "since you don't feel good, maybe you shouldn't go to your sister's and just relax. But if I see any pictures of you on vacation after this, I'll know you lied to get out of it."
I went out to my car, which was a 2019 base model Sentra, I left at 4pm. I didn't get home til 8:30/9pm. A drive, with traffic takes an hour. My car had no lane deparcher or blindspot monitoring. When I pulled into my spot at my boyfriend's apartment, as I had moved in with him after coworkers kept finding out where I lived, or gave my address out to random people. My car was scratched up, the rims had curb rash, the passenger side had scratches. I don't know where I went or why it took so long to get home. I remember getting into my car, turning it on, turning on the A/C and that's it.
I went inside and passed out on the bed, my boyfriend couldn't wake me up for dinner, next morning my mother came and got me, taking me to the ER. I had yet another concussion. The doctor told me to stay away from screens, loud noises, drink water and just relax. Refrain from hitting my head again.
After my vacation, I returned with a letter of resignation. As I did some thinking. I couldn't stand the job anymore, the gossip, the crap... The random guys who would get my number and say "someone gave me your number at the store." And I'd have to change my number again. I have a folder of some of the weirdest ones.
I gave my resignation to the SM I currently was under. She denied it. Said no, she needed me to run her store while she took care of stuff, but this was the same SM who believed that I slept with my first SM, denied my raise and SM training as "according to the 3rd store I was sent to. I didn't do anything of what I was supposed to do, got the SM and her friend and the daughter in trouble, I took my vacations without thinking of anyone else"
I went to my first SM, he faxed the paperwork in. My last day was scheduled for August 18th, 2022. Clearly stated on my resignation letter. I gave my two weeks notice on Aug. 4th. 2022.
Everyone started freaking out in management. My DM tried getting me to stay, as it was a shock to him. But I couldn't. On my last day, she scheduled me for a closing shift. With nothing on the following days. She put me on for that Saturday. She calls me, asking where I am. I tell her my last day was Thursday. She tells me no. That she decides when my last day is, and I'm needed there right now. She thought we had talked it out, and that I would "come to my senses" and see reasoning. I told her I was firm on no longer working there, and I had already turned in all my keys. She blew up. Calling me every name in the book, degrading me, she called other stores and a lot of my friends there, turned on me. As she told them straight lies.
I blocked everyone as I started getting hate messages, people commenting on my social media, saying awful stuff. It was hell. I blocked everyone, and for awhile. I had to block accounts or deactivate my stuff. Finally, it all stopped.
I thought I was going to be with that company forever. I missed friends events for it. Family stuff, and events I wanted to go to, cuz of the job..,.. but in the end, those who were assholes to me, got placed in higher positions. Praised for "dealing with everything" and took credit for everything I did. I still get messages asking how to do something, but those go unanswered.
I miss the challenges, the interactions with customers and cars. But I don't miss how HR worked. How tight some are, that they can easily sway things to benefit them just cuz they know each other outside of the company.
It was fun. But I'm glad I got out, and it's burned me... I miss certain people there. But I can't ever be positive about that company again

So, I (28M) worked in a bookies. In my current shop, I get along reasonably well with all my colleagues, except for one person, the deputy manager (43F). For privacy's sake, let's call her Linda.
Linda is constantly late for work, usually half an hour, sometimes even an hour. She also has a habit of going in and out of the shop numerous times, either to smoke, talk on the phone, or do food shopping. To top it all up, she has anger issues. If a colleague makes a mistake, even a minor one like forgetting to top up the football coupons or some pens dispenser at the end of the night, she makes a show of chewing them out in the presence of other colleagues and customers too, saying they're not concentrating on the job and need to wake up.
Other colleagues are wary of working with her, worried they might say or do something to offend her. I have on previous occasions spoken my concerns about Linda to our shop manager (39M), who has known and worked with her the longest. Our shop manager insists we need to cut her some slack as she's not always the way she is now and is going through a divorce. Nonetheless, he said he had spoken to her but then she's still behaving the same way she did even after their talks.
Last night, I had the unfortunate luck of doing the closing shift together with Linda. About two hours before we closed the shop, however, I went to use the bathroom. There was only one customer in the shop at that time, playing slots on the machine. I've noticed before this man was pretty frustrated losing his money but he wasn't behaving aggressively like hitting the machines. As I was in the middle of doing my business, I heard Linda and this customer shouting suddenly, so I quickly cleaned up and ran back out. Basically, the guy was asking "What's wrong with these machines? Did you guys fix them?" and Linda responded "Don't be an idiot." which caused this huge argument in the first place. I had to intervene since this shouting was going nowhere. I managed to have a calm conversation with the customer, gave him some water, and convinced him to leave the shop.
After the customer left, Linda was like "Yeah, why don't you offer him grapes too." and I was shaking my head in response. Next, she asked me "What's your problem? You got something you want to say?" so then I asked her "You sure you want to hear this? You won't like it.". Once she said "Yes", I decided to tell her plainly of all her problems (her lateness and anger issues). I only shared my thoughts, not what other colleagues said about her. I didn't mention anything about her divorce either. She didn't take this well, however, got emotional, took her stuff, and left me alone to close up the shop on my own.
The next day, I found out she had taken an emergency leave and wished to file a complaint against me. My shop manager asked me what the hell happened and I told him. Even after hearing my story, he said I shouldn't have said these things to Linda.
So, AITA?

Let me preface this post by saying this; we’re all spending time reading a subreddit about a show that’s two most reoccurring topics are farts and boobs. We take it far more seriously than we should. I am now going to proceed to continue doing just that, but at least we acknowledged it. My goal of this is to compartmentalize any common ongoing concerns with The Yak, and bring forth any helpful analysis or suggestions. It will become immediately clear that I have perhaps watched far too much of this show, for far too long now. It’s not an obsession, it just takes up a very large portion of my brain. So, let me dust off my keyboard, in order to psychoanalyze and deeply critique the people on this show, who consistently bring me great joy completely free of charge.
Mook
We might as well get the most frequently posted about subject out of the way first. In order to be an everyday personality on a successful daily talk show, you ordinarily are required to possess at least three of the following six qualities.
Confident
Charismatic
Creative
Funny
Intelligent
Interesting
Alternatively, you can also just be physically attractive.
Mook is none of these things. Zero. This is the simple and true reason why he is receiving flack for being on the show every day. Every other member that sits in The Yak studio checks off their respective boxes.
If you go back and watch some of the earliest shows that took place in the old Chicago office, Mook was an integral part of them. The crew was still figuring things out, and with a smaller cast for various reasons, he sort of naturally filled in. The thing is, he wasn’t a bad fit at all. In fact he was a good one, but unfortunately this didn’t last long. He went from a quality NBA sixth man, to benchwarmer, to over the past few weeks, if not months, playing like he belongs in the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (Puerto Rican basketball league). People have said he has become a scapegoat, just as Owen and a young Sas were as well. In reality, none of them have been scapegoats, they all at one point or another have just been the weakest link on the show, and received hate for it, that’s as complicated as it is. Owen was nothing more than overwhelmingly negative most of the time, providing good one liners in between vape hits. In the end, he left of his own volition, and the show improved. Sas was almost a decade younger than Mook is now, and had a lot of room to grow. With time, he did. Retrospectively, Sas also always had the talent, he just needed to get his shit kicked in a bit by the world to harness it. Mook isn’t negative, he’s in fact quite a positive guy, and has already gotten his shit kicked in plenty. What I’m saying is his problems are not the same problems as anyone else previously on the show, he is in a boat of his own.
These are not just the thoughts of the obviously autistic and schizophrenic man typing this though, but of the general Yak fanbase. The comment sections of those aforementioned early shows loved Mook, almost unanimously; they were overwhelmingly positive. Going back and reading them is quite a shock, only having read the comment sections of late. Commenters back then were calling for him to be a regular in droves, and so he became one; now these same people are calling for his head. I am somewhat guilty of never giving Mook his flowers so to speak back then, so I will do so now for anyone who might not remember his best moments: Rap video cameo, Perth trip, gay hands, Mintzy prank calls, the Fella Friday debacle, and he had more as well in just a short time. It has just dawned on me that it is 3AM, and I am writing a manifesto in which gay hands is a point of emphasis. Anyways, Mook by all accounts had a good run, albeit a bit brief. So, what changed?
Allow me to fully don my parasocial glasses, and introduce the primary theory I have. Two things: he’s always been an avid comment reader, in addition to nothing more than him simply running out of shit to talk about. Mook has brought up the comment section himself on a number of occasions, and he’s probably always read them since he’s been on the show. They built him up, and then tore him back down. Any confidence the comments gave him, has been torn to shreds by the same device. The other reason he probably felt comfortable early on is because he had these key moments on the show that were genuinely funny, the only problem is that they were entirely built around stories about himself. He really struggles to make jokes about others, which is a massive portion of what makes The Yak great; everyone can rag on everyone. And when it comes to self-deprecation, the concept is a fine line between recalling embarrassing or out of place situations, and refraining from saying shit that should only rattle around inside one’s brain. He’s resorted to the latter as of late now that he’s run out of the former material, and with him not being a particularly good conversationalist, there’s really nothing he can fall back on. I can’t speak on his stand-up comedy as I have not seen it, but if it’s any good it just hasn’t been translated to The Yak. While he’s not immune to having funny comments, his success rate with jokes is incredibly low.
This is absolutely no slight on him though, as almost all of us would be in the same position, given we are also not qualified to be on the show. We’d run out of shit to talk about in a week, if we had anything original or interesting to say at all. In a way this makes a lot of sense; Mook is not all that different from most of us, about a year ago he was a full time accountant. I don’t know how many accountants out there could successfully fill a spot on this show, but there can’t be many of them. We’ve devolved to his only highlights in the past few months being him essentially bullied about his relationship with a woman, and him injuring himself on a bicycle.
There is one final test I can offer up as a means of understanding this predicament if you don’t already. Truly imagine each member of the show performing in an improv comedy group; if you’ve done this, they should’ve, all in their own unique ways, provided for a good laugh, except one of them. Mook would plainly, be downright painful to watch. More than likely he'd freeze up, and if he delivered anything that wasn’t a bit about cum, it’d be an anomaly. That’s not good.
This is all to say, I think Mook has a place on The Yak. As does Danny Conrad, White Sox Dave, Max, or whomever the flavor of the month is that fans are heaping praise on. These guys are all great in doses, when they have something to talk about, and can also adequately fill in, when necessary, but when it comes to hosting a daily show, you have to be a special sort of talent to make that work. The only reoccurring guests on the show who come close to being on this level, are Feits, Guilio, and Bader. I’m not even going to get into the weeds regarding Mintzy, only time will tell how that develops, or doesn’t. I trust the crew to decide who belongs in a permanent fashion, but I just hope they really evaluate Mook’s role and give him the break that it frankly seems he needs, even if it’s a tough decision. Whatever they decide to do, I’m sure it will work out in the long run as it always does; have some faith folks. For the record, as an avid listener of ANUS as well, I think he fits his role as a producer just fine on there (he’d be a horrendous producer on any respectable podcast).
Kate
People have been coming at Kate’s neck for a while, so I’d like to address that. That is, right after I talk about the kind of person she is, being sure to mention the fact that she has a broken back, just went through a miserable pregnancy, and still showed up for more workdays in the last year than plenty of her co-workers. Never mind the fact that she’s an absolute badass and true patriot, but nobody tell her that. If you don’t find Kate funny, you’re an idiot, but that’s fine, humor is subjective. And yes, she needs to spend at least half as much time on TikTok as she does, but if you’ve read to this point, you need to at least double the amount of time you spend outside. She’s clearly beloved by everyone on the show, as she should be. Kyle would take a bullet for her; Nick wouldn’t, but that’s only because the gunman wouldn’t be able to hit his rickets riddled legs. It should be entirely obvious to any regular viewer of the show at this point, that Kate doesn’t help just host the show, but she also doubles as a producer. Not in the typical podcast producer sense, but more in the spirit of a TV producer. A lot of the great premeditated ideas and bits on the show are of her creation, and even those that aren’t, she leads the coordination behind the scenes. Nobody puts more effort and love into the show than her, except for the first 120 seconds of it, given her forgetfulness to be there for those. She would be sorely missed if she wasn’t a member of the show, and I just hope people who don’t already think this can learn to appreciate her, despite her quest to have a seemingly never-ending list of flaws; that’s a hobby if you ask me, Cate. In all seriousness, she had a bit of a funk throughout the past three seasons of the show we’re calling one season, for as many reasons as one could have, but she’s fully back in her groove now.
T.J.
People have also been whining about T.J. for one reason or another. If you don’t realize how important he is to the show, you have not been watching long enough. The Yak was not nearly the same prior to his arrival, despite the cast not changing in any significant way. He’s got the fastest sticks in the (Mid)west, and while we might not all appreciate his humor, he absolutely knows how to get the most out of the show. He’s the perfect cameraman and real-time editor for the job, and he’s proven this many times over. E.g. Francis big head, Rone green face, any patented Brandon mid-bite zoom in. Given the complete technological ineptitude of most Barstool producers, it’s frankly a minor miracle we have been stuck with him. Ultimately, he knows what the guys find funny, and what the audience does as well. Has his ego inflated since dropping more than a hundred pounds in weight? No shit it has, that’s how that works, good for him. And yes, he is chronically online. He averages three sentences per stream, I can take him saying something mildly annoying every now and then; any other expectation would be absurd for a behind the camera personality, or anyone for that matter.
Big Cat
Get off your damn phone. Him constantly being on his phone and ruining the flow of conversation was long a pet peeve of mine before he brought it up himself a couple of weeks ago. His solution of giving his phone to Cheah (which worked, by the way) lasting all of one show, is hilarious. It only rubs salt in the wound when he pretends to not just be scrolling Twitter and reading the YouTube chat, saying he’s promoting the show instead. Even if that is the reason a small percentage of the time, I could not think of a less trivial task for him to do whilst on air; truly, any of the many, many employees working under him, who are otherwise not doing anything, could do it for him. Nevertheless, him constantly being on it does indeed derail discussions when he tunes back in, and they have to be rehashed because he wasn’t listening. It’s overall just rude behavior, and inconsiderate to his actual friends sitting right beside him, as well as the audience. I’m sure this in particular irks me more than most, but it really is just such an easy thing to get better at that would improve the show.
Nick, Kyle, Brandon, and Titus are all our perfect little angels and will certainly steer clear of any criticism or malice brought forth by anyone, for any reason whatsoever, for the foreseeable future.
Additionally, I petition for The Yak to host a weekly Ronesh Hashana and Sash Wednesday session, naturally observed every Wednesday. Again, there is a reason why you and I could not be on the show, what the fuck was that. Just have them Zoom in for the second half of a show once a week, it would be great to have those boys on and just yakking it up far more often. I would even be willing to compromise, by tapping into Sas’s Xbox Live party while he’s in a COD lobby, if that is what we must do to accommodate his busy work schedule. And I’m sure Brandon would be relieved to move down to at least second in RSMPE (Racial Slurs Muttered Per Episode). The King of New York simply can’t grace the Chicago plebeians with his presence and just go up and leave; we must have our fix. Of course, we must also have Rone involved to stir the pot, or as the Yiddish say, טאָפּ.
Though it may not seem it, I am truly not here to judge the character of anyone on The Yak. It is just an internet show after all, and I don’t dislike any of them, far from it. In all my years of watching, I have never posted on here before, nor commented on a Yak video, nor in the chat. I’m only writing this now because I am overly passionate about the show, and the people on it. The show seems to be going through a period of growth right now, or at least it is reaching a new audience, and during this time I want to see it at its best. Does anything about the show truly need to change? No, it doesn’t. We watch it every day for good reasons. Though it is inevitable that we will always find something to whine about; there are too many moving parts and people involved with it on a daily basis for us not to. And in fairness, it does have its issues like anything else, so if some minor ones could be addressed, everyone might be a little happier. And yet, if it remains exactly the same, that's actually a pretty desirable outcome; I already fucking love this show.
If they want to keep Mook on, then fine, let it be. At the very least, we can try and not drown the dude in hate, maybe he’ll somehow get his mojo back. Hell, while we’re at it, let Kate start her stories about something that nobody saw, that turned out to be about something that wasn’t true, that somehow ends with her being made fun of for having sexual relations with a high school mascot. Let them continue to rib T.J. and diabetic Brandon for their massive collective weight loss of going from two diabetic Brandon’s to two diabetic Brandon’s. Let Big Cat continue to cosplay as a hometown Chicagoan from Massachusetts who went to school in Wisconsin. Let Cheah continue to grill Sas on hypotheticals about his mother’s brassiere. Let Nick speak only about the opening paragraphs of Wikipedia pages. Let Rone manspread the width of four Zah’s. Let Kyle harp on Ecuadorian thickies. Let them continue to bring up Titus’s massive monster of a cock; we’re not happy about it, but we’ll allow it. Let’s just enjoy The Yak.

Good afternoon anybody, somebody, nobody, & everybody
all evidence DM ME
My name is Jain Kunwar
I am a retail trader for 3.5 years.
I am not an ape, I am not an institutional investor, I am not a hedge fund.
Nor do I have any clients.
I do not provide personalised investment advice for fees or commissions or tax purposes.
I'm just an individual investor who did my own research like Detective Columbo/Pikachu.
I come from a broken family, I have been to prison, I have been homeless even at 15 for many years.
I am not a good person, but I am seeking salvation from God.
I been doing Heroin since the age of 13, sober 8 years since the day I pleaded out to God in Merton station London at 1 am asking God to save me.
Which I believe in myself he did because shortly…….
Soon after, I went prison by confessing all my crimes and the judge let me run it concurrently for being honest that I need help and I had no foundation and healed a bit moving forwards in life.
I was born on May 10th, 1994, in Nepal Butwal. Home of the Gurkhas
I came to England 2002 November & have lived here since.
I class my self as Asian British A9
I have been repenting for my sins happily, paying off my debts and learning to be a good human being for I was a sinner till I met Jesus in Church of England.
My one and only father Jesus.
I have been following and invested in Game stop for a long time.
I started educating myself about the stock market since then.
I have been buying shares of GameStop Since 2021 But since 2021 June been incurring losses through market manipulation techniques I.E.
I had been denied withdrawals/ buying or selling options, leveraging options from Capital.NLY

Which incurred me 6 Grand losses on June 2021 and God knows how much/many other investors BIG or small in all exchanges that this effected.
I also have evidence of numerous times the trading app has halted its trade for more then 30 minutes to an hour in a single day! But for these I have videos more then images
I am happy to hand it over if you tell me where to send it.
They kept ignoring me until a month ago in May the 10^th 2024 will touch base here later(miracle)
I have what’s app records of me trying to make complaints throughout the years with no redemption or straight answers.
I once spoke to an employee male & female one said, “We are experiencing some technical difficulties” this was about 1-2 years ago.
The Craziest thing was the ticker was moving in other exchanges just not in the one I was trading from.
Once it didn’t even open for 1.5 hours when it was open everywhere else
It finally opened at 10:49 how I know? I experienced this.
Under the FCA regulations all registered Trading Companies have a duty to protect investors from glitches and “technical difficulties”
Which They failed to do so for me I speak for myself and only what I have experienced.
The company even has glitched my leveraging system of 5-1 which was the setting since joining the company.
where, even if you pick 5-1 you only receive 2-1.
I have evidence of this as well & it’s not the first time either.
I know this has been done 100x of times if you take a Deeper Dive in the company’s own trading platform.
You won’t be able to find in other exchanges as other exchanges are working well so you cannot see the reason as its all “inter- linked”.
“Inter-linked “exchanges one falls apart whilst others are moving causing direct market manipulation.
Quoting blade runner “inter-linked”


Since then, I have been sent death threats anonymously.
Which also I can prove It was sent by him by connecting some dots with you
I met the owner in Wembley stadium in Corporate Box I was invited by Mr Stephen O
He contacted me and invited me to his corporate box on 8/6/24 I went there to find clarity as hackers have been going through my phones and social media with death threats.
Currently he is getting his hackers to find out where my siblings are and such as those are the type of questions I am getting in my social media platforms.
I call it phsing, smishing and vhising all 3 were used on my network.
Using carefully relaying questions in segment to build a definitive answer by narrowing down the wrong answers.
Like how it asks me what horoscope I am, Questions like use your initials to create a Japanese name.
Narrowing down an answer what every analytical mind would do.
I have been going through this since May 10^th after he contacted me.
I have said my name is J to every one of these questions should be in my social media history.
Notice how it says JJ DEAD MAN COVER
i.e
Notice how I met the Owner at 8/6/24 1 pm corporate box …there are plenty cameras there.
I like to be clear here I do not know this person or have his number for him to be coming to my social media as people “whom I know”.
I believe it was the vhising technique of his goons on hire you can see my history for the past month in call history I been getting scam calls left right and centre.
I will also give a copy of screen recording on request.
Then I went home and put a video of his trading app chart not moving like other exchanges for example having a 1-minute ticker symbol does not move for 30 minutes in graph line on my social media suddenly,
I see a people “whom you might know” soon after I posted the video.
I only went to the corporate box because he told me he has over 300 people retail traders coming which I was the only retail there apart from 5 millionaires 4 of which I believe they own the company only speculation whom others are currently.
But I felt an eerily vibe So I did not eat their food or take their hospitality which was probably funded by investors like me getting robbed blind because he thought no one would notice.
I also met a man there I spoke to him he told me His trading account was transferred to their platform.
The clue is there which accounts have been moved without consent or choice?
He will plan to bring all in one to have more control and doing this also erases all traces of manipulation in the trading platform it moved from a very sly way to delete history.
Should not affect me though I joined capital.com ticker symbol. NLY as my first and only trading app.
I have lost all history of my trade’s funds and even portfolios deleted without notice of consent why is he observing my account and why is he deleting everything without my consent? He knows he did me wrong that’s why because he uses capital.com to manipulate the market into his interest.
I can identify all 4 of them even though I only spoke to Mr S.O over the phone and only know their name.
I ended up being the only retail trader there, A poor man in a Billionaires Club
So out of place
I just can’t figure out why, Can you?
The ticker symbol has to be moving according to the time even if the price does not fluctuate the time has to keep moving like kinetic energy.
It has to be moving unless halted which can be only 35 minutes per day but I have counted over 1 hour gone in some days


I have been through mental trauma with hackers trying to hypnotize me with flashing lights and other spiral colour techniques mind you.
I am an epileptic which I grew out of when I was 15 which is highly reactive to epileptic people.
Miracle indeed, as many don't, certainly not after adult hood.

Also, they have tried to ask me questions to figure out whom I am on my social media,
I got closer to their crimes and my truth and they wanted to know what I know or make me join them as per the invitation I believe bribing me to survive another few years maybe?
Hope you Enjoyed the Corporate box Kenny it was from the money you stole from me!
Steal from the poor how dare you?
pushing pornographic and other Hypno/flashing light techniques to my social media platforms
also using racial harassment by calling me Paki Psycho
At least get the country right! Originally from Nepal BITCH Gurkhas Salute!
We both know whom we are now S.O
Which over the past 3 years have also caused me to lose everything…..
money, love, joy, sanity & dreams.
I have been Robbed constantly from these techniques they use also the withdrawal rejection from 10000 to even 100 this was very recently too. Have some images to reference this too.
I log almost everything I do.
That’s just how I found healing/clarity by writing it down.
I spoke to a person named Emma who told me to withdraw,
I have to show all my cards even the bank card “HSBC” which was bankrupt and stopped without consent.
Jokes on them I still had it Q.Q ahahaaha even after I showed them it didn’t work.
Until 3 days later after I lost 65% of my investment.
I like to point out, I mentioned to HSBC many times I am currently struggling and am willing to pay in an instalment plan.
What I can because I did not want my account to close ever as it would effect my credit score most indefinitely.
Also, the weirdest request was they asked me to show them a picture of the different Barclays Cards I have with the same account number.
saying it must be the same card but it’s the same account number same card basically so why?
I replied, I put the money from my apple pay send it back to my apple pay card he said please send us an email of all your cards indirectly refusing to let me withdraw whilst I am in profit.

So, I sent them by email which I should have on my email “for reference”.
He also mentioned he will be my account manager and watch my account after the first time he called me because I am a “premium” account.
I still am a premium account with minimum 5-1 leveraging glitched to 2-1 with only 400 pounds left in my account and still watches where and when as my judgement has been good when to buy.
Buy low sell high! Or just hold but I couldn’t do any of these.
I believe it took him this long for many years the issue was my real name and my social media are not the same people.
As I do not have a social media account anywhere with my real name.

He started taking control of my account and portfolios since the day he contacted me on 2024 May 5-15 around the same time I started losing again drastically.
Unfortunately, I cannot provide you how much money I had made in profits or losses because “My account manager of a premium account less then 50 grand had deleted all my portfolios and trade history to clear his name”.
My account portfolio was called Bullish-CFD
Glory CFD and 3 gbps cfds I ended up with one named GBP usd
How the name changed I do not know
I suspect he closed my shared and opened it in a different portfolio causing 8888 amc share sale in my account 1112 GME shares.
As these most of these shares were bought months ago which I believe he has to pay for borrowing he doesn’t have to pay if it was new trades, I suspect this happened here.
Why else would I not the Portfolio I had designated names on.
This can also explain why my trade history has been wiped.
I did not do this I did not consent this nor was I notified.
Let me make this clear I do not have any controls or jurisdiction to wipe my history of trades if you could compare with other users to see if they have been wiped out and why it has been wiped out as its detrimental for Securities Agency to have correct data of everything that is going on with trading exchanges.
Which makes me believe more in the investment of AMC & GME.
I also believe Mr S.O prior to 2 years ago before all these new rules started coming, he was using his trading account to artificially increase profits by making a profit/gain.
I.E you open a position in a stock that is about to split in the market or going through one.
Let’s say its 2 5-1 reverse split now its 10 he made 8 decimal gains instead of changing the shares according to the split.
This crime trick he used to manipulate the market ended when sundial went for a share split reverse.
I came to realise this when I ventured in a demo account, and it worked but I didn’t do it with real money as that is not the right way.
I am trying to be good doing it the right way.

I have worked physically demanding jobs for many years working 6 days -7 days per week doing 55-65 hours per week, killed my joy in life and even went without food to invest in this company as I believe in the Company board, company outlook and company fundamentals all 3 checks out as a great investment to my eyes a hat trick to a quad trick now.
Putting money in it almost every month in the past 3-4 years.
My journey ends here with my Losses from market manipulation but I will reveal the truth!!!
They have robbed us again and again even the government has been robbed.
just for their benefit ruined many people’s lives all over the world.
Especially now that the company managed to be stable and grow profits.
But the issue here is not my losses it’s the market manipulation.
the company is doing all they can to not close their losing trade which is the
THE BOX everyone is talking about, but no one is knowing about somebody may know though.
Maybe investigate their wives’ accounts and you might find it on a marginal line red line in this account.
The blonde lady. Wearing navy blue jeans. Bingo!
Mr Stephen O has tried bribing me in social media sending women over my home to seduce me but my dog did her job right! And sensed the intentions I know this because I had a media pushed through my social media saying do you want me to send you two women to seduce me in hiding his criminal behaviours but this is not about me
He has robbed millions of people .

I have evidence of this as well to turn it in his favour as I believe he is short on GameStop which is a direct Conflict of interest “the reasons why I am been having these trading technical issues “
Trying to turn you into a gambler not investor! By taking away the withdraw, buy or sell!!!
You see,
The universe spoke to me, and I am becoming the voice for everybody who are being robbed by this man.
Call it a sign, a cohencidence or just dumb luck!
I am not a messiah though I just uncovered the truth!
2 weeks before my birthday on May 10^th,, a stray kitten gave birth to 4 kittens and left only one behind. The squeeze began on my Birthday no fucking way!!!!!!!!
I/we have since, been taking care of her.
Meet My Newborn Kitten.

At 2 weeks old.

I also have a conspiracy theory on this as an attempt to harm my kitten.
To destroy me and make me stop trading.
I have frozen the medication Dr Elliot not a regular vet from that practice.
Well not the ones we see anyways 2 out 3 times.
My kitten was very ill shortly after taking the medication was also recommended to euthanised my kitten.
If you see her now you won’t believe why they would ever recommend this.
Of course, I argued and took control of the situation and saved her.
When I am back on my feet, I am going to a professional to check it out completely.
I like to remind you I already have a dog in this house for that cat to dare to come in my yard and give birth its like it was meant to be here cats? get it?
She is about 2.2 times her size now! Growing strong !!! just like GAMESTOP
CANT STOP WONT STOP GAME STOP
In Jesus name can I get AMEN!
b4 I continue...
I currently work as a civil engineer and am on the quest to turn my life around in my Pursuit of Happiness.
Thank heavens as I do not even hold a GCSE another miracle!
That I have this job.
I am a troubled child, but I still have dreams... of making it in life.
Which is providing my future wife and kids with everything I did not receive,
love, attention, guidance and more importantly a home they can sleep comfortably knowing they will have a place to sleep again tomorrow.
But I do not blame anyone as it was a first time for everyone being a father... a mother...even me a son just as guilty.
But I want you to keep reading this story… as it is very important if you have lost in the stock market as there are many other stocks that are missing in chart it was probably getting diluted for someone’s benefit to maybe stabilise their losing trading account.
I get the desperation that’s how I felt scrounging, borrowing money when I felt like I was about to be margin called totally human reaction.
The way he gained the money to stabilise it was totally criminal though.
I feel like he is digging himself a bigger and bigger hole and that hole is up some skunks arse hole by now.
I also like to point out Mr S.O has notified me that capital is a British company, but I have seen it being registered in the state of
This is the Final frontier.

My judgement was clouded by addiction made me do bad things...
I apologise to everyone I caused harm/inconvenience in the past and now.
I really am.
From the bottom of my heart.
my actions were clouded by addiction it took me more than a decade to defeat my heroin addiction.
At this sober state, now If you ask me anything; I’ll tell you even if it gets me in trouble
without a second thought.
I like to point out through out my columbo detective move I came across various information some even I should not know.
All I’m seeking is justice and peace right now and I hope someone can help me get this as I have proof for most of these speculations.
But I believe Mr S.O has been sending his hackers to feed numbers into my head by keep pushing it into my feed.
Because of this I purposely lost all my trades as I will not participate in insider trading sent by Mr S.O to convict me to silence.
Realising I was being watched by numerous people.
I went into a state of hallucinations, insanity.
It was hard but I crawled back out of the hackers infiltrating my device to corrupt my mind and decisions.
I suffer with anxiety and depression already too and have been suffering further since Mr S.O has called me.
I just didn’t know this before he called me, and all the pieces started to connect.

As this type of speculations and claims are only for the wealthy and privileged.
I know I am neither.
I am a very poor man with no land no inheritance no support.
Everything I earn is from these hands that push tools and this mind that tries to learn investing.
At my day job I give my 110% physically
at home
I work my mind 110% to try being an experienced smart investotrader as I know once I have knowledge and skill, I can make money easily after.
Currently, I am sharpening my day trading skills to further increase my knowledge from investor to a trader.
I earning ends meet living pay-check to pay-check and I will continue doing so to save earn invest and one day have a place, which my future family can call our home proudly safely.
But I still see the deep value in a growing company as the more room for growth the more gains the investment will make.
I learnt this from reading and following great investors of this decade I.E DFV videos of GameStop 3 years ago.
I especially like the one where we roll the 8 ball and just find a random ticker and analyse it you never know what dumb luck can bring you.
A school dropout like me to GameStop and I have learnt more things than I did in my lifetime.
You can learn anything in YouTube now amazing really we should use technology to assist us not work for us I strongly believe not use it for our own personal gain just because you have coders.
If you look through their trading app they chart doesn’t even revert the history into split prices SUPER MANIPULATION.

1 I love the stock/I believe in the stock.
2 the company has board members who doesn’t even get salary.
For this they have my trust of my investment and that they will do everything in their knowledge and power to make this company successful as toys brings “JOY” even to adults.

I kept putting more and more invested in this company, but the stock is being manipulated so it doesn’t work everyone will lose as how the conflict-of-interest person wants it he has survived until now because of this but there were no major leads of this I believe.
[Again, I am here to speak about GameStop and the TRUTH]()
I still see GameStop as a great investment.
The company survived Covid 19, also is profitable and stable currently.
With all the current market price fluctuations
Also the price has not dropped below 40! pre split price.
which further strengthens my speculation,
I currently own only 18 shares of GameStop I did have over a thousand.
But the company owners of; Capital.com ticker symbol NLY.
Have done everything they can to make me lose a winning investment.
They took my buy button my sell button and even stopped trading for more than 30 mins and hid it from none trading eyes in the bigger picture.
He also took my shares and diluted it I have incurred about 61 grand losses from my history of trading because of these market manipulation techniques over the past 3-4 years.
I as an investor a client of capital trading app was not treated fairly.
1 Even when I have raised complaints numerous time over the past 3-4 years was shrugged off because I am just well a NOBODY.
I call it a poor man's privileges.
2 Under FCA regulations Glitches or technical failures that cause financial harm to customers is a breach of this rule.
3 I am formally writing a complaint here and raising awareness with evidence of market manipulation!
would like support regarding the Law side of things and what i can recover from being ridiculed and robbed.
Using my food & leisure money to invest in this company.
I sacrificed my Joy for this investment with my hard earned money by working 50-60 hours a week labour 52 weeks per year non stop you can check my work rota records sometimes even 70 per week in physically demanding jobs.
1He has sent me Death threats today of what I am revealing now since meeting him in Wembley Stadium 8/6/26 (have a image of sending me death threats after meeting him today using paid hackers)
1 3/half weeks ago he called me to say I am in a premium account there are 300 of you and I would like to invite you to meet him today
which was really weird why is he putting my account on premium and saying He is going to look after it I am retail trader I have barely any money in account!
and deleted all my portfolio and trade history everything wiped clean!
+I suspect this was getting rid of evidence as I am right at the heart of the Griffin
I know why he took ownership from me without my consent and sold it without me knowing by derivatives and decreased the market value for his personal benefits.
Because he is already manipulating using this trading platform to control the prices elsewhere.
I have evidence of this you can only see it just DM me
if you look at the charts in their trading platform you can see it yourself to say it’s not photo shop.
no one else can notice it if you are not using the same app!!
+
2 Mr Stephen and his goons have been manipulating the stock since gamestop! 2021
+prior to 2 years ago his app would increase profits even from a split share!
I came across this information on 2022 You should recheck all files that are linked to him and splitting shares tickers as he has robbed them blind too.
I was the only retail investor, there alongside his corporate buddies which I am happy to identify and stand as witness.
I felt safe though as I don't even Fear the Darkest Night as I always walked by faith and believed in God has a purpose for me too..
A nobody like me maybe could be somebody one day!

(all hail great DFV) got to pay your respects !
I learnt trading since 2021
“Once there was a farmer who sold a pound of butter to a baker every week.
After several weeks of purchasing butter from the farmer the baker decided to weigh it. To insure it was indeed a full pound.
When he weighed it, he discovered the butter felt short of a pound which enraged him and made him feel cheated and decided to take the farmer to court.
The judge asked the farmer what his method is of weighing the butter.
the farmer replied “your honour, I am poor I do not own any exact measuring tool.
How ever I do have a Scale.
The judge then inquired if the farmer uses the scale to measure the butter the farmer explained.
“Your honour I have been buying a 1 pound of loaf from the baker Long before he began purchasing butter from me,
When ever he brings the bread, I place it on the scale and measure out the same weight to give him in return.
So, if the baker is not receiving a pound of butter he is also not delivering a pound of bread as promised.
The moral you get what you give if you try to cheat others of what they promised them.
You will be cheated in return.

KARMA IS REAL AND KARMA WILL PUNISH ALL OF YOU WILL GO PRISON

I told myself I will stop talking about this, but I am so miserable. I started therapy, it doesn't help yet. He kept texting me, sometimes nice, sometimes mean, sometimes telling me I will end up with a fat truck driver. After a few good days without contact, he texted me a very painful message, that made me cry for hours. He said my life is boring, that I never travel anywhere because I got no money, that all women want to date someone in his profession and of course I chickened out because his career made my life even sadder and empty. I ignored. Then, after 10 minutes, wrote me that he has a layover for one night in the city and he can fck my brains out and that will make up for everything.
I didn't answer, I spent my night crying because I do feel my life is more boring than his and just sad in general because I have so many emotional and a bit of financial issues. And finally yesterday he texted me a very long message in which he said he apologise for everything he said and done. He said we don't have to meet, or talk, or anything, just he wants me to know he is sorry.
Of course I will not forgive him but I think I have some feelings for him, otherwise he would have been blocked. I do feel lesser than him due to his social status (although a friend told me a lot of his great status is in my head, that if I wanted to learn how to fly a plane, with hard work and determination, I would). It just that I am a total mess
My original post:
I am 26 and work in a airport coffee shop. I started sleeping with a guy who is an airline pilot. He is 32. I also found the job so cool since I was a kid. He is good looking too, so many reasons to give it a try, although I am not into hook up culture. We did it once, then it happened again after like 3 weeks later. At that point he asked me for my number, so we could be in touch. I was happy. It's been already 4 months that we see each other when he can. Usually when he is off it is for a few days.
I am sure I am not a side chick, because last time we met, he also put a photo of us on social media. He made me feel good. He is funny and intelligent too. Lately though he has been different. At first he made me feel bad for working in an airport coffee shop, like it's a not a good enough job. Then, he also raised his voice at me for waking him up by accident. I went to bathroom and the door woke him up.
And 2 days ago he slapped me. Very bad. I fell to the floor. We had a fight about the way he treats me and how he looks down on me for not having a better job, not being ambitious enough. I am not the kind of person to tolerate such things and I called him an arrogant a$$hole. He hit me, walked out of my apartment and after 3 hours he texted me to apologise. He said he was tired, he had a long flight, stressed. I told him I cannot forgive him and I will stop seeing him. He said fine, that he understands this but he wants to talk to me tomorrow, after I am done with my shift.
NO, I did not go with him, we didn't meet at all since that slap (that was just the post)

Max had recently returned from his fight with the rogue Gundalians and most notably their army of Mechtogan. Max thought that the battle beetwen Alpha turned Leviathan Hydranoid and Infinity Helios was tense, but fighting a near endless ending hoard of Mechtogan absolutely blew that out of the water. Partnered with Dawn getting corrupted by some kind of dark energy, and the recent incursion at the hands of the Neathian zealot that rigged a battlefield and challenged Mike to a battle. So to say Max, who hasn't known true combat until now, was distraught was an understatement. To take out his anger he went to Interspace to let of some steam.
He was currently locked in a brawl with a man around his age. A brawler called Ren Suzuki. He had brown hair, red eyes and dark skin. He wore casual clothes which were mostly red. His partner was a digital Pyrus Iron Dragonoid.
The two bakugan had just landed on the field for a second time, this time on Max's gate card. Ren's life gauge was at 20 percent while Max's was untouched at 100 percent. The battle slightly reminded Hydranoid of the time he and Masquerade faced off against Dan Kuso and his Ultimate Dragonoid all those years ago.
Leviathan Hydranoid: 1200 Gs Iron Dragonoid: 900 Gs
“Ability Activate!” The Pyrus brawler called out. “Iron Dragonoid!”
Iron Dragonoid roared ferociously as a fire ball charged up in his jaws. A few seconds later he unleashed the attack, which hit Hydranoid head on.
Leviathan Hydranoid: 1200 Gs Iron Dragonoid: 900+400= 1300 Gs
Hydranoid didn't even try to dodge. When the smoke cleared Hydranoid stood still, like the attack didn't land at all.
“Is that it?” Hydranoid deadpanned. “I expected more. Max?”
Max nodded. “We'll crush them Hydranoid! Ability Activate! Eraser Trident!” Hydranoid's six heads roared as they instantly charged up six balls of Darkus energy. Moments later Hydranoid unleashed them. Mid air each ball split into six, as the total of 36 energy balls which flew towards Iron Dragonoid.
Leviathan Hydranoid: 1200 Gs Iron Dragonoid: 1300-600= 700 Gs
Max chuckled. “All too easy.” He said with uncharacteristic glee at stomping down on his opponent. “I guess you and your little Dragonoid aren't up to snuff-”
“Max!” Hydranoid called out.
“What Hydranoid?!” Max shouted back at his partner. “What's so important that you had to interrupt me- oh.”
When Max actually turned his attention to the battle he could see his opponent had activated two abilities which were currently glowing on his BakuMeter. “Double Ability Activate! Pyrus Reflector plus Blazing Dragon!”
Before Max could load in a counter, the Pyrus Reflector ability threw Hydranoid's own attack back at him. On top of that, the attack was boosted by the power of Blazing Dragon. Hydranoid got hit head by the attack and was sent flying to the edge of the arena.
Leviathan Hydranoid: 1200-600-300= 300 Gs Iron Dragonoid: 900+600+300= 1600 Gs
“What's the matter with you Hydranoid?! Get up!” Max yelled at his partner.
“What's the matter with me?! You could have nullified that easily with Double Dimension if you actually paid attention instead of wasting breath with gloating.” Hydranoid snapped back at his partner.
For a split second actual anger toward his partner flashed through Max’s eyes. Reaper’s ball form was glowing purple in Max's pocket, but no one could see that.
Thankfully Max managed to calm his anger. “You're absolutely right Hydranoid. I am sorry, I am just a little… tense after everything.”
“Hey, no need to get so upset you know. It's just a game after all.” Ren said casually to try and lighten Max’s mood, but it only seemed to reignite it instead.
“Just a game? Yeah right. Though I guess you would think that. But guess what? We don't plan on losing to you and your clone. So get ready, because we're about to crush you. Right Hydranoid?”
Hydranoid got up and flexed his eight wings. He was worried about Max’s aggressiveness but he didn't disagree with the sentiment.
“Uhh huh.” Ren said. “Listen if you're done venting, can we continue with the battle? No hard feelings right?”
That only fueled Max's reignited rage. “Oh sure. No hard feelings. Fusion Ability Activate! Dread Decimator!”
Hydranoid's fourteen heads all charged up with Darkus energy. Soon after he unleashed 14 beams of energy which bombarded the Pyrus bakugan. The dragonoid hit the edge of the arena, almost hurting Ren in the process.
Leviathan Hydranoid: 300+1800= 2100 Gs Iron Dragonoid: 1600-600= 1000 Gs
“How's that for no hard feelings?” Max shamelessly mocked his opponent.
“Hang in there Dragonoid! Ability Activate! Iron Valiant! This is Iron Dragonoid's ultimate ability! It brings his power level to the highest point it's been in the battle and it adds the opponent's current G Power to Iron Dragonoid. And it can only be nullified by another Pyrus Dragonoid.”
Leviathan Hydranoid: 2100 Gs Iron Dragonoid: 1000+600+2100= 3700 Gs
Even though Ren’s tone was nothing but friendly, if a little competitive, Max couldn't help but take it as an insult. “I don't need to nullify your pathetic little ability. In fact. Gate Card Open! Pyrus Reactor!”
The gate card opened as a storm of fire surrounded Iron Dragonoid for a few seconds before disappearing. Iron Dragonoid's G Power was now at 4200.
“You raised my G Power?” Ren asked. “But I am double over your power level now.”
“It doesn't matter. It won't be enough. Come on. Give us your best shot.” Max challenged his opponent.
Ren raised his eyebrow. But if Max wasn't going to attack, he had to take the lead. “All right then! Iron Dragonoid, triple ability Activate! Olan Terror plus Garran Demura plus Fusion Ability, Ultimate Dragonoid!”
Iron Dragonoid was then surrounded in a giant twister of Pyrus fire and pretty much roared down the arena.
Leviathan Hydranoid: 2100-800-500-1000=0Gs Iron Dragonoid: 4200+500+700= 5400 Gs
Iron Dragonoid then unleashed the twister or pure unadulterated Pyrus fire directly towards his opponent. Ren felt bad about widening the power gap beetwen Hydranoid and Dragonoid so much, but he just did what Max told him to. Max however held no such feelings.
“Double Ability Activate. Darkus Equalizer, plus Grand Down!” Max said coldly with a cruel grin on his face. He already had a plan formed. Once the dark hydra was hit by the attack, he didn't even budge. Like the first attack of this round, it had no effect on Hydranoid.
Leviathan Hydranoid: 0+5400= 5400 Gs Iron Dragonoid: 5400-500= 4900 Gs
“Sorry. I used Darkus Equalizer to bring Hydranoid's power level up to your own, and then used Grand Down to shut down my gate card which was giving you 500 Gs.” Max said mockingly.
Ren just whistled in response. “Not bad, not bad! You're pretty good Max. Honestly this is the most fun I’ve had in a brawl yet!” Ren exclaimed excitedly.
Max’s eye actually twitched at that. Reaper’s ball form glew even brighter, but no one could see it still.
“Sorry to ruin your fun, but Hydranoid and I will be winning this match now. You might as well give up.”
Ren chuckled at the remark. “Sorry. Never heard of a “give up”. Not in my vocabulary. Let's go Dragonoid! Ability Activate! Ultimate Boost Striker!”
Leviathan Hydranoid: 5400 Gs Iron Dragonoid: 4900+800= 5700 Gs
Iron Dragonoid flew up into the air and roared. All around him flaming meteors appeared, ready to descend upon Hydranoid at any second.
“Tsk tsk tsk. They never learn.” Max said as he lifted his arm up to show off the ability he was activating. “Merge Shield~” he sing songed mockingly.
Hydranoid was surrounded by a twister of Darkus power, some of which was drained from his opponent. When the meteors were launched at Hydranoid, they were all torn apart to pebbles the instant they collided with the aura of Darkus power that surrounded Hydranoid.
“What the- what is that ability?” Ren asked as he looked at his BakuMeter only to be met with a horrifying sight.
Leviathan Hydranoid: 5400+400+600+300+600+2100+500+500+700+800= 11 900 Gs
Iron Dragonoid: 5700 Gs
“No way…” Ren awed at the power level. “How did you… wait I get it. You tok all of my power increases from the fight and gave it to your Hydranoid! Makes sense why you would set down a Pyrus Reactor card, you knew that power boost would go to Hydranoid eventually. But wait! I can still nullify it-”
“Too late! Triple Ability Activate! Fusion Ability Hydra Cannon plus Spice Balista plus Fusion Ability Final Demolition!”
Leviathan Hydranoid: 11900+600+500+1000= 14 000 Gs Iron Dragonoid: 5700-500= 5200 Gs
Max grinned as he saw the power gap widen even further. Really all he needed was Hydra Cannon to prevent Merge Shield or his offense from being nullified. But he decided to go the extra mile, just to see his opponent squirm a little. “Now Hydranoid!” He said before raising his hand and then snapping his fingers. “Dispose of him!”
Hydranoid roared and unleashed the hurricane of Darkus power towards his opponent.
“Dragonoid get out of there!” Ren called fruitlessly. Iron Dragonoid did try to fly out of the way, but was forcefully pulled in by the force of the tornado. He screeched and squirmed helplessly for several seconds, enduring the pain of being hurt by the Darkus power and almost torn apart by the tornado. It looked like Iron Dragonoid was three seconds away from being literally torn apart by Hydranoid's attack.
Fortunately for him luck was on his side in that moment. He reverted back to ball form and shot off next to Ren's feet.
Max just laughed as Ren's life gauge instantly depleted to zero. A moment later he victoriusly caught Hydranoid in his hand.
“Good game. No hard feelings right?” Max said mockingly before turning around and walking away from the arena. “Next time try to provide an actual challenge, okay?” is the last thing Max said before leaving the arena.
Hydranoid in stark contrast to his partner's glee, was worried. Max had been acting a little off ever since the battle with the Mechtogan army, but now he was acting completely out of character. Taking joy in brutalizing bakugan and demoralizing his opponent, even if their bakugan was a digital clone was complete opposite of who Max is.
While this battle had started with Iron Dragonoid reminding Hydranoid of his final battle with Drago, it ended with Max reminding Hydranoid more and more of his original partner…
Battle Log: Max Howlet vs Ren Suzuki
R1: Darkus Leviathan Hydranoid vs Pyrus Iron Dragonoid. Winner: Darkus Leviathan Hydranoid. Winner: Max Howlet.
R2: Darkus Leviathan Hydranoid vs Pyrus Iron Dragonoid.
Turn 1:
Leviathan Hydranoid: 1200 Gs Iron Dragonoid: 900+400-600= 700 Gs
Abilities used: Iron Dragonoid and Erasure Trident.
Turn 2: Leviathan Hydranoid: 1200-600-300= 300+1800= 2100 Gs Iron Dragonoid: 900+600+300= 1600-600= 1000 Gs
Abilities used: Pyrus Reflector, Blazing Dragon and Fusion Ability Dread Decimator.
Turn 3: Leviathan Hydranoid: 2100 Gs Iron Dragonoid: 1000+600+2100= 3700+500= 4200 Gs
Abilities used: Iron Valiant.
Gate card opened: Pyrus Reactor
Turn 4: Leviathan Hydranoid: 2100-800-500-1000= 0+5400= 5400 Gs Iron Dragonoid: 4200+500+700= 5400-500= 4900 Gs
Abilities used: Olan Terror, Garran Demura, Fusion Ability Ultimate Dragonoid, Darkus Equalizer and Grand Down
Turn 5:
Leviathan Hydranoid: 5400+6500= 11900 Gs Iron Dragonoid: 4900+800= 5700 Gs
Abilities used: Ultimate Boost Striker and Merge Shield.
Turn 6:
Leviathan Hydranoid: 11900+600+500+1000= 14 000 Gs Iron Dragonoid: 5700-500= 5200 Gs
Abilities used: Fusion Ability Hydra Cannon, Spice Balista and Fusion Ability Final Demolition.
Winner: Max Howlet

Hi! Im 3 years post op and for about 6 months or so, I get this pain in my stomach (left side) that feels like a knot or “Charlie horse,” worsens when I bend over, after eating, etc.
I have been waiting for an appt and I’m finally being seen next week.
Did anyone else have something like this? I’ve never had a hernia so I’m not sure what that feels like, but I’m ready to be back to normal! 😅

Everytime I eat anything, as soon as it gets to my intestines (From 4 hours after - 24 hours when it exits) I get constant gurgling sounds, plus a lot of pain. It hurts on it's own and also to press on my abdomen by my belly button and underneath, as well as both sides.
I've had every test under the sun. CT scans, Colonoscopies & Endoscopies, Ultrasounds, Celiac Blood Tests and Biopsies so what the hell could this be. You can call it IBS but there is no reason that I should be in this much pain or my intestines should make this much noise/vibrations.
I've been to 3 Gastroenterologists and none of them can explain why this happens or any solution as it's not Crohns/Colitis and all of my other organs are functioning normally. I've tried diets, probiotics so there is nothing left to try yet people surely don't live like this in pain every day and constant upset bowels. It's a nagging pain when I'mnot pressing on the area and exacerbated when I do.
Please, if there's anyone that also goes through this, even if it's not just dairy and gluten, let's get together and talk and build a support group because people shouldn't have to live like this with no answers. I struggle to believe it's IBS as normally that can be managed with low FODMAP or anti spasmodics or SSRI's yet none of that is helping this.
Hope to hear from some of you as this happens when it's also not gluten/dairy and can be something as simple as chicken and rice.

So we often talk about CFS symptoms being dismissed as mental health anxiety and depression symptoms. I've had pretty bad depression and anxiety problems since my teenage years, over a decade before CFS symptoms came. I know, first hand, how much fatigue bad depression and anxiety can cause, but I knew when my CFS symptoms started after a bad virus in 2018 that the fatigue and my whole health was different.
I was not on any mental health treatment then, so when I went in for help for "never really recovering after a bad virus" nothing was done. Not even a test for what the virus could be (this was pre-covid). They said it was too late, that the virus was probably undetectable (about three days after fever breaking).
Anyhoo, I never got better and my mental health declined (shocker /s) and they put me on mental health meds. It took three years to get on a med that actually helped my mental health symptoms and didn't give me intolerable side effects.
Long story short my mental health is just now really under control. I am really satisfied with it now, but psych keeps pushing for higher doses because my fatigue is still a problem (shocker /s). She's 100% convinced it's due to mental health and I am scared of higher doses due to my seriously traumatic experiences with med side effects, even needed to go to the hospital. She knows this, but is 100% convinced it's mental health and wants me to go up to 90mg of Cymbalta when there is a consensus there is not much pain and fatigue benefit above 60mg.
But the point I was actually trying to make is that now that my depression is finally weaning, I am started to have interest in things again and want to hang out, go places, and do things. I have literally been in PEM all week because there is so much I want to do. Sometimes I think it may be better to have a little depression just so I don't feel so left behind and imprisoned now. Before I was too miserable to even want to leave the house. Also the Cymbalta is helping my fibro pain so I am moving better, until I crash.
Anyone had this problem??

Age: 26 Height: 5ft 6ins Weight: 11stone something (unsure of exact weight) Gender: Female Medications: none Duration: 3 months
I’ve been having finger numbness and hand numbness on and off for the past 3 months. It gets worse when I lie on my right side but can happen regardless of which way I lie. When my hand or fingers are coming back around they are extremely sore and feel heavy and hard to move. I’ve recently noticed some episodes where my left hand is now starting to do it, where previously it was only my right hand. Some pain does shoot from my neck down my right arm. It is important to note that-

I have been to a doctor- he checked for carpal tunnel, agreed it wasn’t carpal tunnel, and referred to a physio. Physio saw me, did a strength test and noted that my reflexes were quite poor on my right side compared to my left (no reaction when hitting elbow etc). He checked my spine by feeling and I let him know when it hurt and he advised that he thought it might be something related to nerves in the areas that hurt on my spine/back of neck. He then processed a referral to ICATS orthopaedic. I had a car accident in September 2023- most of the pain seems to be in the area where I had whiplash but doesn’t really seem consistent with whiplash. Car accident was a rear end collision. Diagnosed with neck strain at hospital, no scans done. unsure if relevant, but my fingers used to swell in response to cold or heat. Often ended up not being able to use them for a while until the swelling subsided.

My question is this- what does all of this seem indicative of? And are there any symptoms I should keep an eye out for to keep note of in advance of my appointment? Let me know if you need any more information. Edited to add- I am awaiting ICATs orthopaedic appointment and no diagnosis or idea as of yet as to what the issue is.

W4D2 for me today. Temp was ~80F. Terrain is somewhat hilly with some short, steep hills throughout.
W4D1 was much harder than anything previously, and felt I was at ~90% effort after that run. Today was harder. 193 BPM, panting, unable to speak. Muscles I didn't know would get burn while running were burning - specifically my delts. I made it, but felt I hit 100% effort.
"Way Too Hard" was my selection today. Even at a slow-jog pace, I was struggling. I don't think I can physically run slower. So, next run is "optimized" and will dial it back a few notches before heading into W5.
It is alarming to see a heart rate that high for a sustained period. Despite the soaring number, I felt okay. No headache, nausea, chest pains, etc.
One thing I've noticed while attempting C210k in the past and now C25k is a tingling/numbness in my right foot. My soleus is typically ON FIRE during my runs. Not sure if that's a form issue or just getting used to the movement. I have to stretch my soleus and swing my leg around immediately after the run is over to get the pins-and-needles to go away.

Does anyone else have this?
Everytime I eat gluten/dairy, as soon as it gets to my intestines (From 4 hours after - 24 hours when it exits) I get constant gurgling sounds, plus a lot of pain. It hurts on it's own and also to press on my abdomen by my belly button and underneath, as well as both sides.
I've had every test under the sun. CT scans, Colonoscopies & Endoscopies, Ultrasounds, Celiac Blood Tests and Biopsies so what the hell could this be. You can call it IBS but there is no reason that I should be in this much pain or my intestines should make this much noise/vibrations.
I've been to 3 Gastroenterologists and none of them can explain why this happens or any solution as it's not Crohns/Colitis and all of my other organs are functioning normally. I've tried diets, probiotics so there is nothing left to try yet people surely don't live like this in pain every day and constant upset bowels. It's a nagging pain when I'mnot pressing on the area and exacerbated when I do.
Please, if there's anyone that also goes through this, even if it's not just dairy and gluten, let's get together and talk and build a support group because people shouldn't have to live like this with no answers. I struggle to believe it's IBS as normally that can be managed with low FODMAP or anti spasmodics or SSRI's yet none of that is helping this.
Hope to hear from some of you as this happens when it's also not gluten/dairy and can be something as simple as chicken and rice.

I never attempted a pre-Hooktail run on the original game, but I figured I'd go for it in the remake since I'm fresh off the 100p, and I beat Bonetail (with an asterisk)!
I, unfortunately, had to use the "Try Again" feature twice, so no, it is not an official run (but I will absolutely be trying again for a legitimate run soon now that I know more about what I need), but it was still super fun, and I wanted to share how it went and where I went wrong.
Okay, my loadout:

• I was Level 3 when I started. I believe it's possible to go in at Level 2, but I did a couple optional battles. I'm sure there were some ramifications on healing that I could've calculated, but I was flying by the seat of my pants a bit. Didn't seem to have a big effect (by the later floors, I was leveling up every 2-3 fights most of the time)
• Decided to upgrade Koops over Goombella. I knew going in it was the worse choice (Goombella does 4 damage output vs. Koops 3 + Multibonk with Mega Rush P is nasty), but my rationalization was that I valued Powershell to take out multiple enemies while in Peril more, and I genuinely did not think I would have a chance against Bonetail without Shell Shield (this will become ironic later)
• From Dazzle, I chose to get Item Hog, Flower Finder and Pretty Lucky. I liked this a lot--Power Plus or Power Plus P would have been nice, yeah, but Item Hog was so critical. I would've had multiple more deaths without some really nice healing drops (including a Shooting Star that saved my butt in the 90s Floors). I think Quick Change is viable and would be interested to try it, but the BP allotment is heavy, and I would've dearly missed Flower Finder or Item Hog.
• Got all badges possible including the shop as expected (the Petalburg shop has about a million Sleepy Sheep in its inventory now, if you need any :) )
• I brought a handful of healing items, the Hooktail’s Castle Life Shroom, maybe 3 or 4 Fire Flowers, two POW blocks (next time, I'm bringing more of these haha), and the Thunder Rage + Shooting Star + Life Shroom from the shop points. Didn't buy any Fright Masks (couldn't maybe? I think after activating the Zess T. quest I lost the shop slot for them), but I would have if I knew how handy they would be after getting a couple from item drops.

Alright, the run:
Floors 1-49: Really nothing particularly noteworthy here. I got my feet wet with the low damage output, but there were no serious scares. Lakitus and Shady Koopas were a little annoying, but a little patience and it was no problem. I heavily prioritized BP upgrades here--probably the first five level-ups, and then an FP, and then two or three more BP. I think this strategy was helpful. All Clefts tended to be annoying as well, but the Superguards on them are very simple. Notably, Piercing Blow, Sleep Stomp, Fire Drive and Zap Tap were all used heavily in this run, which was refreshing as I’ve never really used any of these in normal play! But in a run like this, you have to get creative. I skipped multiple Movers here. I just wanted to take on the full challenge.
Floors 51-59: Here was my first death, this one coming from simply poor play. Played it a bit too risky and missed a Superguard on a Dark Boo. So, that’s where the run technically ended, but I wanted to keep going to learn more about what the lower floors have to offer, so I hit “Try Again” and kept plugging along. I used a Fright Mask at least once on this section (I believe it was four Ice Puffs?). Also, this is where I started to learn how annoying it can be to get/keep your partners in Peril. Badge Bandits were a real pain without having one or both partners in Peril, but as I’m sure you all know, they changed how healing works on a level up. In the original game, only the partner that was out in battle during a level up was healed fully. Now, the whole party heals. For casual players, this is great! For runs like this, it is a bit annoying. Ultimately, it just means you have to do a lot more tattling (or Googling, I suppose) for damage outputs and math to get back to Peril. The saving grace is that if you allow a partner to fall in battle, they are revived to 1 HP after the battle. Only issue is if a heart drops in the field and you happen to be standing over top of it, you’re very unhelpfully back to 2 or 3 HP (another very avoidable issue in the original game, as I would imagine you would typically NEVER have your Peril partner in the end of the battle anyway). But outside of that, Fire Drive was the Mario move of choice here.
Floors 61-69: Peril Koops was big time here, but Peril Goombella was also massive for the Dark Lakitus. And shoutout to Piercing Blow for help with the Spiky bois. The Craws have a lot of HP, but it was more patience than anything else, as the Superguard timing is pretty straightforward and they have no defense.
Floors 71-79: Swoopulas, Chain-Chomps, Wizzerds, and Dark Koopatrols. This is where a couple extra POW blocks would have been useful (and later for Dark Bristles). Phantom Embers were largely easy (although, no Fire Drive on them of course, so Koops and Power Smash to the rescue). Sleep Stomp was a key tactic for larger groups on the Swoopulas and Wizzerds, although the success rate on the Wizzerds was low. Used up a Thunder Rage and a couple Fire Flowers here to get out of jail.
Floors 81-89: Spunias and Piranha Plants were nothing exciting, but here was death number two of the run. This one was a math mistake. In an attempt to get Koops into Peril from an Arantula shot, I THOUGHT that any regular guard would get him there, and if I misread the throw and it was actually headed toward Mario, he would survive with a regular guard as well. Well, my math was wrong, I hit the regular guard, the attack hit Mario and good night haha. At this point, of course I continued as the run was already illegitimate anyway. Outside of that, the most strategy I employed was waiting for the Arantulas to go into low position and then (try to) put them to sleep before employing Koops in Peril. No major issues, no major item use.
Floors 91-99: Well, this section was wild in a couple of ways. Floor 91 gave me 5 Elite Wizzerds. These dudes are brutal. I am AWFUL at Superguarding their attacks. I had gotten an extra Shooting Star from an Item Hog drop earlier, and I used two on the first turn to get rid of them. This is what I saved them for anyway! At this point, the Star Points were accumulating so fast that Peril strats were incredibly challenging to get into. I’d let the partners die if the math didn’t work out, but that would only work for one battle at a time, as the next level up came so quickly. I wonder if starting at a higher level would have helped prevent this, but at the expense of some healing. Anyway, I dealt with Poison Puffs almost identically to the Arantulas: wait until they get low and then try to put them to sleep/get them with Peril Goombella. Floor 93 I got bailed out with 4 Bob-ulks. Easy peasy. But, I think we all know the most dangerous enemies to face: Amayzee Dayzees. And oh buddy, on Floor 94, I got the 2 Amayzee Dayzee combo. Yikes. No way to take them out in the first turn (yeah, I wish I had Multibonk right about now). So, I had to take my chances. I tried putting one to sleep, and it did not take. Fate was with the Gods, and lo and behold, they both ran. Phew. Unfortunately, this had a bit of an adverse effect. I got far fewer star points from that battle with fewer enemies, and I did not level up. Then, on Floor 95, I got a Mover. Okay, I had options. I had Goombella in Peril, but not Koops. I also had only 15 FP after all healing items, and about 20 HP. I decided to go straight to Bonetail. I’m not sure if the official rules outlaw Movers, but ya know, I had already died twice, and I wanted to see how hard Bonetail was, so I went in. Looking back, maybe just taking two floors down and doing the last couple battles to increase HP and FP some more with a couple levels + a potential heal would’ve been smarter. Happy Heart and Happy Flower were going to be necessary, but I neglected to take off Item Hog/Flower Finder for Pity Flower which would have been much more useful. Very silly oversight. But, here we go.
Bonetail: I opened with Goombella in front, tattled, then switched into Koops, hoping I could get him into Peril as well and ultimately lay down a Shell Shield. Here’s a problem I easily could have seen ahead of time but didn’t: Bonetail does 8 damage (and piercing) on the breath attack. Koops has 15 HP, so the attack bypasses Last Stand P for him. What I SHOULD have done is use regular guards on two straight attacks with a Shell Shield up for Mario and I would have been in Peril. I instead tried to Superguard and missed, and then I was in trouble. I still could have gotten out of this, and I tried to. I put Koops in front, defended, and hoped I got the stomp attack. But alas, another breath, and then Koops went down. Peril Goombella was a menu click away, but I decided to rock with Mario alone for a bit, and I realized something. When you Sweet Treat with a partner, you can get about 8 or 9 HP per person + FP. But, with Mario alone, I noticed I was getting about 11 HP per Sweet Treat. So, I stayed Mario only instead of bringing Goombella in. The strategy was pretty simple: Fire Drive as much as possible, Sweet Treat, get two moves out (and hit the Stylish to fill back up the Star Power), Superguard a million times, and hope I don’t get bit. I didn’t hit them all, and I got bailed out by a Shine Sprite bingo after missing a breath Superguard that left me asleep. I would’ve surely been in major trouble, but between some Lucky misses, some steadfast Superguarding, and multiple heals from Bonetail, I drove him all the way to 0 without bringing Goombella back out. The math on getting enough FP back/having enough Star Powetaking too much damage was delicate. Basically, I could afford about 8 damage every three turns. I got very fortunate with the small amount of bite attacks (assuming those are still not Superguardable? If they are, I never hit one haha), and was able to stave off the rest of the attacks. However, my crowd continued to dwindle for whatever reason, so that 8 damage every three turns turned into every four turns before I could get enough Star Power to Sweet Treat again. It was an absolute GRIND, and I was insanely nervous by the end, but I managed to do just enough and lay the last Fire Drive in the end.
So, even though I didn’t technically complete an official run, I had a blast with the challenge that I will gladly be attempting again soon. I didn’t save and kept the file before I upgraded my partnetraded the star pieces/whatnot so I can try some other strategies quickly. In any case, it was super fun and refreshing, and I highly recommend that anybody who has played this game to completion to give it a go! It’s hard, but I’m sure it will be truly rewarding when I eventually complete it.

I need to get this off my chest I'm feeling very fcked, shitty, emotional and just very irritated mentally emotionally and spiritually. It's like a fcking cockroach stuck inside me just a gut wrenching feeling.
So I'm traveling in Khatmandu for past 2 weeks and a taxi driver asked me if I am intersted in a girl. I'm like fck it why not it's just sex I personally don't make a big deal out of it. Got over a long break up and single for a few months I'm going thru my own shit so I just didn't give a fck for doing this in the moment.
Long story short driver arranged hotel and girl (thankfully no scams) and a very young cute girl came she was like 20 years old but looked 16. I'm an alright looking guy Im young as well so girls get a bit of natural interest in me. Anyways we got into talking, she was sweet a bit shy very feminine a bit silly, naive still has her goodness to her still openly trusting and bit reserved at the same time (that phase when your teenager years are done in your 20s a bit confused about life, personality and identity). We were talking about all sorts of stuff and got comfortable enough to ask about her life, situation why she's doing this so she tells me her dad left her mother to chase other girls and the father wanted a boy instead. Has no clue where he is and hasn't spoken in years, just pretended to not give a fck about him but you can tell and just feel the inner child of her screaming for a father to love provide and protect and spoil her.
And her mother got married to some other guy and she reminds her of her first failed marriage and she was sort of left alone she still talks to her mother at times her mother asks her if she ate anything etc but doesn't really do shit just a half assed mother.
She said she tried to do regular jobs but salary is absolute shit. Rent is about 10-15k per month and the jobs she's getting only pay 10-12k month so obviously she couldnt survive on that so a group of girls introduced her to this line of work.
She didn't seem like the person to do this at all, but she said she really had no choice and has decided she will do this for rest of her life screw marriage and stuff she was trying to be tough but you can tell she's completely broken from inside. (When your hurt but still have to keep a brave tough face on). Just giggling trying to be silly laugh to hide her pain It's hard to describe the full situation, emotions and details in writing here the situation was a bit tense for me I felt helpless and a piece of shit for doing this. She then started to get naked and start.
My stomach was tied up into knots last thing on my mind was sex at this point. I was just going through a massive crisis inside. As my situation and life was very similar to hers but somehow I ended up in a very different situation. (Quickly, my family left india at 9 to Canada, my dad was a piece of abusive shit, had to break away from him. Look after my mom. I went through over 30 jobs and worked tirelessly to be where I am right now, I'm doing alright for my age at 28 and retired my mom) the only blessing for me was I got to escape to Canada and worked like a dog. When you look at me you would think I come from a rich good family but complete opposite but I just go along with what ppl think as it's to tiring to tell your bullshit childhood story to everyone and I don't like a pity party.
She was standing infront of me naked. I just had a blank deep stare into the abyss as my head was filling intense thoughts and emotions. I told her I drank and smoked to much give me a second.
My head was screaming as to why someone's situation can be so shit. She was completely fcking cornered in life. Like a fcking puppy with no training fighting a lion. I knew this feeling way to well it's my life story as well but I fcking climbed out. I'm in no way a better person than her in any which way. Then why the fck did life do this to her. How can God put his kids in these situation. What's even the fcking point of her life at this point just to get fcked by piece of shit scum bags like me who got some money now. I was going through a massive moral crisis.
Looking after my mom for a very long time I know what it's like to give someone the feeling of protection security emotional connection and support and I could just tell this girl has not recieved any and my fcking heart cried out. I wanted to give these things to her which every human fcking deserves. But I know I'm just a client in her eyes and I just felt really helpless and a piece of shit at the same time I don't know why.
I couldn't do it I told her to dress up, she obviously asked why, I just told her I drank way to much I can't do anything right now and to keep the money (which by the way this thing costed 12k Nepali rupees, she told me she gets like 3k-5k and rest is distributed to her pimp and taxi driver, but still makes 1-2 lahks a month at times so she's obvious not going to do a regular salary job. In my head I was like God dam that's a lot of scum bags like me out there).
she was taken back by the situation as well and felt funny as she's obviously expecting to get fcked. But instead I'm like let's order food. She was happy like a kid and child going through the menu picking what she wants to eat etc. I fed her talked to her more about life and stuff shared a bit of my personal situation what I went through to see if she finds comfort or can relate but it was getting to emotional and these topics were fcking my head more than it already was as the reason for my travel in Nepal was to get out of my head in the first place. So just spoke about fun stuff I gave her more money (5k Nepali extra) she said why I just said deposit for next time she probably thought I was wierd for this she even said no but obviously I just wanted to help her more. We exchanged numbers she said I can call her directly next time and it will be better for her as she will get all the money instead of distributing it to her pimp I said for sure and we parted ways.
Now I'm in my room sitting alone hearing the music of Thamel completely fcking shattered like a little bitch inside and swore to never cry about my situation, ready to fly back home tomorrow and just amazed at the brutal never ending relentless harshness of this bitch of a life at times.

Everyone I come in contact with gets hurt.
I fucking lie, I fucking steal, I fucking manipulate,
I’m just the scum of the earth.
In my life I live as if I’m the main character, im the leader of everyone around me in some capacity.
My brother- im his source of motivation and someone I’m constantly trying to fix
My mom- I give her hope that she can accomplish anything that she puts her mind to.
My Dad- I give him hope that I can revive his dead business, and maybe he won’t die a failure.
My-Ex- she lives with me and I give her hope that she can win in life if she puts her mind to something.
But really, im a fucking mess.
I lost all of my money, due to failed business decisions, and degenerate behavior.
I use my charm/intelligence to manipulate women and fuck them.
I’m talking to 7 different girls at the same time. Telling them “we aren’t serious” but then charming them to fall in love with me, and then I gaslight them when they get mad for me not showing them any attention.
My mind is a rocking fucking boat, one tip, one fucking tip and I’m sinking.
Trying to maintain this fucking image, that I manipulated everyone to believe.
Even when I’m honest there’s an angle.
I tell myself I want to be better so bad.
I literally copy my text messages into AI chat bots to make sure I’m being moral. I’m trying a million different ways to make money. I’m lifting weights till my muscles tear. I’m eating the CLEANEST I ever have measuring every morsel of food that enters my mouth. I’m trying to be open and honest to every sexual partner. I’m trying to be present and forthcoming with every person I interact with. I try to motivate and inspire everyone to follow their dreams.
But…
Im still a piece of shit, every positive turns into a negative.
It’s 3:53 pm right now, last night I drove to this girls house I’ve been talking to for a couple months and telling her sweet nothings on her bday, she was there with her friend. This girl turned out to be very overweight, but her friend was very attractive. I flirted with her attractive friend all night, attractive friend flirted back but rejected me because her friend liked me, so I just fucked the initial fat friend, and was so repulsed at myself. I ruined her birthday, because she knew she was just the second option. She told me off today, saying although she wanted it, I’m a piece of shit for ignoring her all night, and then fucking her after I couldn’t fuck her friend.
So what did I do?
I lied. I tell her she’s crazy and I wasn’t flirting.
I tell her, she was the one being quiet all night and her attractive friend was just the fun one, that’s why I spoke to her more.
I tell her, I didn’t initially want to cuddle with her because I didn’t want to rush anything.
In reality? I really wasn’t attracted to her and tried to get with her friend.
And guess what? After I left her house at 8am (didn’t sleep), I went to another girls house right after to kiss her and be sweet.
That’s why I say all of this “self improvement” fumes I’m huffing and puffing, is just cope.
Im still sick in the head, and if everyone saw what was beneath the cover they’d fucking run.
What if this idea of deciding to be better is just cope?
I just feel like a fucking fraud and that there’s a massive weight on my chest.

Due to a traumatic childhood of being raised by a Borderline Personality Disorder, I was diagnosed as hyper-vigilant years ago. I've come a long way in managing the fallout of my experience, but some things are hard wired into me. My (54F) main trigger at this point is whenever I perceive someone else as treating me (or someone I care about) as Less Than... or trying to take away my agency.
Some years ago I attended a stop smoking talk where I was successfully and peacefully hypnotized, so I know that I am able to be hypnotized.
Yesterday, after a period of thoughtful preparation, I decided to try a highly recommended past life regression video on YouTube.
During the initial relaxation/grounding phase I was calm, floaty, and felt myself smiling... amazed at how well I was going under. When I came to the fork in the road I chose the left path, as I sensed it would be the more difficult one, as in, "Let's get this side over with first."
Once on the left path, visualization became very difficult - intensely so. I was incredibly frustrated at my inability to let go of reality... or let go of control. I knew I was impeding myself, that the obscuring veil was of my own making. I tried refocusing, deep breathing, but nothing calmed that panic choke hold I had on not letting go. Deeply frustrating.
I did have experiences within the hypnotic state. A beautiful sun that represented absolute love/the afterlife, and one life that was perfectly charmed but without details. I also experienced an agonizing whole body cringe/crushing, and another very dark istance of being buried alive. Also an experience of deep struggle.
It's A day later and I still have chest and muscle aches from the panic and from physical reactions to what I felt and saw... for the duration I was scratching, clawing, climbing, reaching... exhausting. Dark.
At one point while under, I remember thinking "Nobody knows what I'm doing... I didn't tell anyone I was doing this!" As if I spontaneously got in my car and took a road trip without informing anyone. As if, what if I don't come back and no one knows what happened to me. I didn't leave a note!
Has anyone experienced A similar reaction, and are there any specific things I can do to promote feeling safe in letting go?
I'm absolutely going to try PLR again. It was fascinating although highly uncomfortable. I'd just like to feel safer and more confident in my journey next time.
Thank you to this community in advance.

Hello all. I am 36 years old male from the Netherlands. I have been drinking energy drinks almost everyday starting in my teenage years. For the last 2 years I started to drink more energy drinks almost 3 to 4 a day. I also took a multi vitamine pill everyday in those last 2 years for my overal health and I thought it cant do harm. These multi vitamine pills have a high dose of everything and even more than what you need on average day. Plus the energy drinks have aa high dose of vitamines b6 added.
My story starts in last december when I started to get sick. I had all sorts of symptoms. Panic attacks. Heart palpitations. Tingling feelings in my hands, feets, etc. Body aches. Backpain. Pain in my stomach and guts. The acid from my stomach would get up to my throat. Visual problems like visual snow. Its normal to see slight static noise in the dark. But I started to see it outside especially in the blue sky and in the night sky like visible white fast moving dots. Its very mild though. When I looked up in the sky I also saw fast moving light shining dots. During the night the lights outside on the streets looked like stardust light. I started to see floaters. I started to get tinnitus a screaming beep sound in my head which could not get masked with any sound.
I started to think what is wrong with me. Why I suddenly get so sick. I started to get crazy, depressive, etc. I went first to an eye doctor to get my eyes checked. He told me my eyes looked perfectly fine. He did blood test which came back good. The doctor could not do anything else for me anymore. He could not find anything wrong with me.
I checked on the internet. To find more information about the symptoms which I was having. Then I came upon a post on reddit about vitamine b6 toxicity. I thought in myself thats it! Everything fell in place. I dont take drugs and I dont take any medications. I stopped taking multi vitamines right away and I also stopped drinking energy drinks which was difficult. I went on a mostly vegetarian diet to avoid vitamine b6 and others. This all happened last january.
Most of my symptoms improved through out the months after stopping multi vitamines and energy drinks in the begining of januari: - no more panic attacks which went away very fast - heart palpitations decreased through out the months and it disappeared this month. - tingling feelings in feets and hands attacks has decreased since May - pain in my stomach and guts went away in a few weeks after quitting - acid from my stomach to my throat went away fast - body aches mostly went away through out the months but I still have some backpain - visual snow has decreased for some amount since last month - the floaters has decreased a lot, almost completely vanished - stardust of lights decreased a little. - fast moving light dots in the sky has gone away - tinnitus has decreased very much. I almost dont hear it anymore. Only when its silent. Its slightly static now and sometimes the sound changes.

29 year old Female. Height 5'4". Weight 125. Medicine: Spironolactone 50 MG per day for hormonal acne. Issue Duration: 6 months In January I started not feeling well. I was on 100 MG of Sprio but reduced to 50 due to dizziness, brain fog, and feeling faint. Since then, more and more symptoms have been added on. Today I've had black coffee grounds stool twice with a bloated painful stomach. I keep sleeping. I've had one period lasting 16 days and then another period two weeks after that and another period two weeks later that I'm on now. Any guesses on what could be going on? I don't know if I should see a OBGYN or a GI doctor or a primary first.
Other symptoms: Chest pain radiating into my left breast, Light headed/confused, exhausted, nauseous all the time, hurts to eat, uterus pain to point of puking, headaches every day, stomach pain, bloated stomach. Lost 20 pounds.

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I (F34) love my job for the most part. I work at a mid-sized company with several offices across the US. My office is somewhat small, with around 30 employees. We all get along well and are a pretty tight-knit group for the most part. Our office is pretty laid-back and social. I have worked there for about 7 years.
For some time, myself and some others at the office have suspected that two of my coworkers, Ted (M42) and Amy (F46), are having an affair. Both are married and have been for more than 20 years. They have both worked here for 10-15 years and are well-liked by everyone. Amy is extremely outgoing, while Ted is a bit more reserved. Both are good-looking, especially Amy.
It seems to be kind of an “open secret” that these two have some sort of relationship, but no one is sure to what extent. They eat lunch together every day and always sit next to each other when the whole company goes out to lunch as a group. Most of us work some days at home and some in the office. They always work in the office on the same days and leave at same time. Ted is in Amy’s office 90% of the time anytime I walk by. Ted is constantly complimenting Amy, telling her how young she looks and how much fun she is. They often make flirty comments to each other with underlying sexual undertones (again, all of us are close and people like to joke around so this may not be as weird as it would be in other offices). They take vacations at the same time. When interviewing potential candidates at colleges, they will roadtrip to colleges in the state and interview them together. We often will all go out to bars after work on Thursdays or Fridays. I will use an event a few weeks ago as an example. We went to a bar and they spent almost the whole time talking (not unusual). I often glanced over and saw them squeezing each other’s hands or Ted with his arm around the back of Amy’s chair. At one point, I saw her quickly squeeze his waist. I saw Amy hug him several times, but I also saw her hug several of both our male and female coworkers, as she tends to be touchy-feely when she’s been drinking. At one point, I witnessed Ted ask her what the writing on her shirt said while touching the words on her chest. Towards the end of the night, they went across the street to get food and were gone for almost an hour. They left at the same time that night (in different Ubers).
Regarding their spouses- both have been married for 20+ years. I have worked at the company for almost 7 years and have never met Ted’s wife. He does not wear a wedding ring. He talks about his kids all the time, but never talks about his wife. Some of our coworkers that have worked here for 10 years or more have met her, and no one seems to have good things to say about her. They say she is incredibly stuck up and boring, and almost painful to be around. When Ted’s wife is brought up, people often say they feel bad for him or make jokes- “no wonder he has a crush on Amy, his wife is the worst.” Regarding Amy’s husband, I probably see him once or twice a year. He seems like a nice guy. She also talks way more about her kids, but will occasionally talk about her husband. I don’t know much about their relationship, but she’s made a few comments to me like “we’ve been together since high school, you know how that is” or jokingly said “he married way out of his league” (personally, I think he is handsome and don’t think this is necessarily true).
This has been going on for years, but the reason I’ve thinking about it more is because last week, a young employee we hired less than a month ago privately asked me what was going on between them. (I am in charge of the new hires and helping them feel comfortable in our office.) I wasn’t sure what to say so I told her the truth: they have a very close relationship, but we don’t know to what extent or if it is sexual. I told her that no one really asks a lot of questions. She was shocked to learn Ted was married. She told me she enjoyed working with them both but picked up on “certain vibes”. The fact that someone working here for 3 weeks picked up on those vibes so quickly made me realize how obvious it really is.
I guess I am wondering what I should do, if anything, in this situation? I really don’t love the fact that a new hire already is asking questions like this. I also think most people get pretty uncomfortable when they witness them being really touchy and flirty. I feel bad for their spouses, as they obviously don’t know the extent of Ted and Amy’s relationship. It is undisputed among my coworkers that Ted is infatuated with Amy, but many of them are not convinced this feeling is reciprocated by Amy. I think it’s likely that they are having an affair, but I also wonder- if they were truly having a sexual relationship, would they really be THIS obvious? Do they even know how obvious they are being? To my knowledge, no one has brought up their relationship to them directly and it is only discussed when they are not around.
Also- not sure if this is something that HR would get involved with without a complaint, but we don’t have an HR department in our office, only at the headquarters, which is located in another city. I don’t think HR is aware of what’s going on, but employees in other offices have even made comments regarding their relationship to people at our office (we have work events where people from different offices all meet up). We are encouraged to speak with HR at any time. However, I’m not sure what that would really accomplish. I also want to emphasize that they are both hard workers and I like them both a lot individually.
Any advice or opinions would be much appreciated!

Throw back to 2020. My husband at the time 22M and I 21F had just gotten engaged, graduated college, and began searching for houses. At the time, we were living with my parents. A little back story, back in college 2017 we had just bought a dog and were living in an apartment when we found it had mold. I was sick from it. My parents told me that my dog would die from it if we didn't leave and insisted we move in with them and commute 30 minutes to college. To which I agreed. I am their only child btw. I had a rough upbringing. I thought I was just rebellious but am realizing now they are control freaks. My dad told me when I was 16 that he put a gun to his head outside and almost pulled the trigger and it would have been my fault. My mom called me fat multiple times, forced me into pageants i didn't want to do. she saw my bf kissing me once and wouldn't talk to me for 3 months, couldn't even be in the same room as me or look at me without crying. Oh and she kept saying it's just my first wedding every chance she got. They both told me that being a labor and delivery RN is gay and that I would be a terrible nurse, but I have proved them wrong. There is much more in between all of this but here's some.
My husband and I were searching for houses, we were going to buy one when we told my parents we'd be moving out. They begged us to stay, said we could transform the garage into a living space and they would move out there. They said they would sign the house over to us. My husband was fond of the idea since he didn't want to live in a neighborhood and my parents have 10 acres. I was not fond of it, but knew we would save money in the long run. So we got a contractor and cashed out my husbands inheritance from his deceased father (he died when my husband was 18). I used all of my savings to help pay. It amounted to about 100k after everything.
As soon as we paid, my parents demeanor changed. They became rude and insensitive, saying all sorts of horrendous things. They began heavy drinking mid 2020 because my Grandma died and their life was over. Come to find out, they wouldn't have been able to afford living here if we hadn't taken over. My dad has health problems, but my mom has been perfectly healthy just refuses to work and has had excuses why she hasn't worked for years.
The drinking got worse, my dad called me a bitch for not wanting to pay $7k for painters. I told them we would paint it ourselves. It wasn't good enough for them. They have caused fights about us throwing out a paint can, screaming "one hundred dollars isn't a lot to you but it is to us" and proceeded to say they "don't know how its going to work here" and that they might just take us off everything.
Flash forward to today I'm currently pregnant with our first two children, we are here and they haven't signed the house over. They claim they are trying to merge the property from my Grandma to their house then they will sign it over. We put an additional 50k into much needed upkeep that they fell short on for 30 years. Everyone of my dad's sisters hates him because they feel they were treated unfairly when his mother died. All of my mom's siblings hate her because she convinced my grandma to write her brother out of the property inheritance so he only got his father's side of it. So everyone in the family hates them, but they still sit there and act like saints because they helped take care of both of my grandma's in their end of life.
We have had many fights over the dumbest shit. I could go into so many details but we would run out of space. They have made claims that we're taking advantage of them, how they've sacrificed so much and we haven't done anything for them. They blew their top over a paint can saying "100 dollars isn't much to you but it is to us!" They have threatened to not add us on the house and have said multiple times this isn't going to work. Even better my dad and mom refused to stop smoking and drinking around my babies because "it doesn't affect them". I used to visit every day before I got pregnant and was super sick. But now I visit once a week. But that seems to not be good enough.
It was my baby shower today. Keep in mind, my mom didn't throw me a bridal shower and claimed she was too busy with the renovation even though my husband and I were handling everything. She didn't offer to throw me a baby shower either. My husbands Grandma and my friend did.
Last night I texted my Mom saying that we would be leaving at 9. I figured we would be riding together since we live together and she is going to be a Grandma. Well, my mom ignored me and had my father text me. He told me that she won't be riding with me and she will be riding with a cousin. I told him I think that looks poor given she is the Grandma and shouldn't be arriving with other guests. He texted me saying my husband told him that we can't give my mom a ride. I know this is not true.
What happened was that my husband took the dogs out and at the time had a lot on his mind from work. My dad said my Mom will need a ride to the shower. My Mom insisted she didn't and would drive herself (their car is old and breaking which they have also insinuated that we should be buying them a car). My husband said that either way works and just let us know. Continuing, my father told me that he doesn't want to leave anything to us because of this. And I left it at that.
In the morning, my Mom texted saying she wants to ride with us which we agreed. She never apologized for the behavior or anything, just pretended like nothing was wrong.
My shower was less than ok. My entire family breezed past me, barely asked about my pregnancy or the babies and talked to my Mom. I sat in the corner with my friend and husbands Grandma while my Mom entertained all of them. She excluded my husbands Grandma from the main dining table and spent an hour talking about how hard her life is with my Dad and his health problems. "Nobody knows what I go through" she says.
The shower basically felt like a show for her. My cousin said "I heard you and (my Dad) built a tiny house. That must have been expensive." My mom says "yeah we did!" I walked over and said that MY husband and I paid for it. it was asked why my husband and I aren't living in a one bedroom house or if we will build a new one. I told them it wasn't our idea and we spent our entire savings on it so we have no money left to build a house.
My mom didn't sit by me or take one picture with me prior to this or after.
After the shower, everyone left and I said to my mom that I wasn't aware everyone was under the impression that they paid for everything. She screamed to of her lungs "YOU can't KEEP DOING THIS TO ME!" My husbands Grandpa definitely heard. So do you think she's in the right and has scarified more than I have?
I am getting tired of the threats and becoming more concerned that they will try to evict us even though we pay the gas, electric, wifi, and television bills. With these babies coming soon, I don't know what to do. It would bankrupt us leaving without our money back and buying a new house. Do I have a case?