Loved the IPA clue in today’s NYT Mini Crossword Puzzle! Anyone else have a good chuckle whenever there are speech references in NYT games?

Hope there are still players online after all the helldiver's drama. It's sad to see a small developer sell out there own game for a price tag. I know Sony are arseholes but it's a good game that seems super fun. Sucks to see everyone unite and boycott a video game when there are real world issues that can use some of that stubbornness

Hey guys, this is my first time building a pc, I asked around my friends and people I knew for suggestions on parts and such. I ended up with the MSI PRO B650M-P Micro ATX AM5 motherboard, but after I finished building it, I realize there is no space to put the WiFi card since the PCIe ports are all blocked after installing the graphics card. I am using this pc mainly for gaming and school work. I have no ethernet cables nearby and I've heard that USB Dongles are really slow when it comes to online gaming. Any and all suggestions and advices are welcome!

Just so I can bring everyone to the same page of context before actually starting the story.
World of Darkness: A setting of TTRPG’s that take place in a darker grittier version of our reality, where supernatural creatures such as werewolves, vampires, wraiths, mages and so on, exist and hide from the public eye creating their own means of protection, politics and secret societies to protect themselves against humans.
Werewolf the apocalypse/Werewolf 5th edition/Werewolf 20th edition: Is the setting/system where you play as werewolves and fight the enemies of the spirit of earth Gaia. Werewolf 5th edition is the newer system and werewolf 20th edition is an older system.
Vampire the masquerade/ Vampire 5th edition/ Vampire 20th edition/VTM: It’s the World of darkness system where you play as a vampire sneaking through the shadows of cities and feeding on humans. Vampire 5th edition is the newer system, Vampire 20th edition is the older system.
Storyteller: It's the World of Darkness way of saying “Dungeon Master”, the one that runs the campaign/Chronicle.
Flaws, Merits and Backgrounds: I can explain them as essentially D&D feats but with levels to it that determine how mechanically strong the “feat” you picked up is, I can mention one where you can make bullets bounce off surfaces to hit targets and it decreases the difficulty for hitting a target behind cover or being so shockingly beautiful that you gain extra dice when you are trying to seduce someone. Backgrounds are like feats but that need to be explained by your backstory, like magical pacts, riches or even spirit pacts. And flaws are mechanical and role-play disadvantages that you need to pick on character creation, like having an enemy or being illiterate.
Actual story:
So, I’ve been a forever Storyteller ever since I got to know World of Darkness and I was aching to drop the whole responsibilities as a Storyteller and for once enjoy this rich urban fantasy setting as a player thrown into the night as any of the multiple splats. So, I saw that someone just posted a werewolf 5th edition chronicle and applied, Werewolf 5th ed is not my cup of tea, but I’m the type that is desperate enough and open minded enough to just go ahead and try any system that I can get my hands on, so when the Storyteller of that chronicle dmed me the link to join his discord server I was just overjoyed.
I started interacting with other players, they all seemed pretty nice and I even started to plan a shared backstory with one of the girl players that was pretty nice to me (I’ll call her Avery, as she is part of the horror story too). So as me and Avery were planning the shared backstory we started to wonder what some of the merits and backgrounds mechanically did within the setting as I wanted spend all of my 7 merit points (everyone gets 7) into a specific advantage called spirit pact where I essentially made a pact with a powerful spirit to make them my companion and give me a minor supernatural ability/edge, however, how fantastical these edges and how the spirits behave varies from storyteller to storyteller as some like something more fantastical while others prefer something more realistic, so I reached out to him to get some more context on how crazy I could make the pact.
Several days passed and he didn’t replied my question at all, nor any other ones I made as I wanted to know if my knowledge about werewolf 20th edition lore would help at all (Werewolf 5th edition and Werewolf 20th edition have big lore differences despite being set in the same universe, so I needed to know to not metagame and/or ruin continuity) but well, I thought that he was just a busy guy, I mean, he was also running a Vampire the masquerade game in the same server, so I was just planning on tackling these doubts I had on Tuesday when the session started. But, then I saw one of the players in the server asking for help on how to set their character sheet as apparently they were lost on what to do, so I went ahead and offered to join VC with him and run him through the character creation, I’ll call this player OZ and he is the star of this cheating story.
So as I joined VC he just asked me how the Gifts, rites and renown system works, with Gifts and Rites being the akin to werewolf magic and renown being what you use to cast magic per say. After that he said he didn’t had no other doubts and so we started a conversation in world of darkness as a whole, there he showed me that he had pretty extensive knowledge on how Vampire the Masquerade functioned, telling me old lore related to Vampire 20th edition such as a specific bloodline of the Tzimisce vampire clan (that instead of their trademark flesh crafting ability had an extremely powerful blood magical superpower) and he even told me that he participated on several vampire chronicles before in the past and well, since he seemed to know what he was doing and there was a big, pretty simplified how to make your character summary right on the first page on the “how to make your character” section, I thought that he’d not have any other issue, as character creation (at least in the 5th editions of World of Darkness books, in my opinion.), got pretty simplified and are the types where if you understand how to create one character you can created all. So after some more talking and a friendly remind that I’m also a regular storyteller that loves to help newbies and so my dms are always open, I left the call.
Oz posted his character sheet on the server for the Storyteller to review and approve and well, he did within a literal minute of him posting it (something that at the time I didn’t noticed as I doing something else and well an experienced Storyteller could’ve noticed if he did anything wrong within a minute, so I really thought he didn’t do anything wrong and simply attended to my business). However, on Sunday Avery decided stop procrastinating and finished her character sheet, finally the whole crew had their character sheets done and since they were publically available I decided to take a peak and see what we as a pack would have as our arsenal and so on. However, when I looked into Oz’s sheet things got a bit rocky.
So, to start to addressing the problems I’ll say that Oz didn’t use a regular werewolf 5th edition sheet, no, he used an abomination (aka a vampire werewolf) sheet to actually make his character to begin with and not only that, he was way, way too op for a werewolf that just had their first change. And how OP you might ask? Well, I started to question him about it and he said that he picked a skill distribution called “Specialist” a skill distribution type that offers the following: One skill at four points, Three skills at Three points, Three skills at Two points and Three skills at one point, a skill distribution that makes your character very good at something, good at some other areas but lacking in several others, however, Oz in this particular moment has the following distribution: One skill at four points, five skills at three points, six skills at two and three skills at one and aside from that, instead of having spent 7 merit points he had spent 10 and for some reason he had also 4 specialities allocated all on his physical skills, something that is just not possible at character creation as the book specifically say that you can only add new specialities on these specific skills Academics, Craft, Performance, and Science IF you actually bought them upon character creation something that he totally didn’t do.

I know this must be hard to imagine how much stronger he was than the rest of the party, so to bring it down to a more digestible context, the amount of xp you’d need to get to get that strong is Storytellers in werewolf 5th edition are recommended to give out the following amount of XP per session:

Participation = gives you 1 XP
Perform something remarkable during the session = Gives you 1 XP
Use a Skill, Gift, or other Trait in a clever or critical way =Gives you 1 XP
“Tell me something important your character learned this session.”= Gives you 1 XP

Conclude a story within the greater chronicle = Gives you 2–3 XP

This means that if he concluded all of the requirements above he’d get a minimal of 6xp and a max of 7 xp. However, not all session you can use a gift in a creative way, not all session you can perform something remarkable and not all session you conclude an important story within the chronicle, this means that great majority of the time we’d be getting 2-3 XP per session, yep, no World of Darkness game is the type that you go from zero to hero and with that in mind, he’d need (if my calculation are correct) 114 XP to actually level up his PC to be that strong, something that it would take 35-40 sessions to normally get.
When I started to question him how he exactly got so many skill points and merits he said that the storyteller approved of his character and that he just filled stuff up. I proceeded to just inform him the right skill spread for specialist and what he did wrong on his sheet and he said that he’d fix it despite the fact that the storyteller approved of his character. After that 40 minutes passed and there was silence of both the storyteller and the player just so he’d post a new character sheet, this time containing the spread of One skill at 4 points, Three skills at 3 points, Six skills at two points and three skills at 1 point, with his merits still being 10 points and still keeping the 4 specialities. At this point I started to think that he was trying to sneak some extra skill points, specialities and merits through me, because there is no way he didn’t understood what needed to be fixed when my message has attached to it literally a print from the core rule book with the details on the specialist skill spread and what he needed to change was literally:
“You have 10 merit points instead of 7, you have one extra HP that you shouldn’t have, (Hp is calculated by adding Stamina + 3 and his stamina was 3, he has 7 hp there when he should actually have 6), you still have 6 skills at two points instead of what specialist gives (3 skills at 2 points). You have 4 specialities even though you didn’t pick Academics, Craft, Performance, or Science that are the only skill trees that actually give you free specialities, otherwise you’d just start with 1.”
At this point I started to reach out to Avery and ask for her opinion on that, so she pinged Oz and the Storyteller on chat only to ask thing like “have you guys read the book” specially because he was trying passively aggressively shift the blame on his google search that apparently “mixed up werewolf 20th edition character creation rules” that he had just “skimmed through the book due to a lack of time, that he had “no help at all creating the character and had no idea on what he was doing”. I just want to emphasize that me and Avery were not trying to intimidate him at all, nor try to get a confession out of him or anything, our questions were just about if they (OZ and Storyteller) read the book or not and about what fonts Oz used to generate that character. I was really trying to give him the benefit of the doubt and believe that he was just very misguided by some crazy algorithm and coincidence, but it was a very hard pill to swallow when you consider his previous knowledge about world of darkness system, the fact that I found a full fleshed out character creation guide on Youtube by simply typing “Werewolf 5th edition character creation guide” on Youtube at the fact that he used “I thought you didn’t want to stay on VC with me by your tone of voice” when me and him the other day were having such a lovely chat and I told him multiple times that my DM’s were open in case he needed any help and if he didn’t want to bother me he could’ve just asked help on our discord server instead of making his super Saiyan werewolf. Now, at this point of the story you’d think the Storyteller would’ve at least said something, right? But hah, no, look at the tittle again, he was just DEAD SILENT.
Oz then proceeded, while we were talking, to post his last character sheet update for us, reducing his merit points to 8, and his skill points to the following: 1 skill at four points, 3 skills at three points, four skills at 2 points and three skills at one point. At this point he was either fucking with us or straight up ignorant of the rules completely, so me and Avery wanted to talk to him over VC and explain the rules to him in case he was actually just a newbie completely lost on how it all worked and if he was actually a cheater, talk to him to stop doing that and offer him new solutions for his character in case he wanted a better skill distribution, he refused to join VC with us because he was “working” until late despite his discord saying that he was playing League of legends. So instead me and Avery decide to join early before session (that was supposed to be the day after all of this happened), settle what happened and properly help him make a character, and well he agreed to it.
So fast forward to the following day, the Storyteller remained completely silent through out the whole night, morning and afternoon and two hours before the session I simply pinged Avery and Oz to see if they could join VC so we could talk it out in about 1 hour, OZ simply left the server without saying anything and I stared at my computer screen for 2 minutes before I went out to do something else. After that me and Avery joined VC a bit before session started and hang out and talk about the situation… Almost a whole hour passed and the Storyteller or any of the other players didn’t even hop on VC, it got to the point where the Avery sent a message to the Storyteller and just then he hopped on, the first thing he said? “Sorry guys, I was on another session that I joined this week and I didn’t thought it’d take this long”.
I never got so mad in my entire life, I’ve been a forever Storyteller for the past years and I was so excited to actually be the PLAYER, but despite that I needed to keep civil. Me and Avery informed him of the situation that Oz was most likely cheating, and the Storyteller said that “He was going to talk to him” not even knowing that Oz had left the server almost 3 hours ago, me and Avery just proceeded to ask him what he was going to do next and he said that he was going to call out the whole chronicle, so me and Avery just proceeded to tell him how disappointing the whole thing was and give him a few words of advice on how to improve before we left VC. Later the same night he announced that he wanted to retire from world of darkness as a whole and tried to pass the responsibility on running his vampire chronicle for someone else, after that I just left that server and friended Avery.
Now, I guess it’s time for me to go back hunting for chronicles. Wish me luck everyone and hope you enjoyed my little story.

I don't have anybody. My friend (let's call him Isaac) of a decade who I met online is married now and slowly over the years he's grown more distant to me. We used to be attached at the hip, basically living our lives online every single day just talking to each other. I understand why we aren't as close anymore. I'm no longer his +1. But over time, it's like he didn't even care to try and hang out or talk with me anymore, like he really didn't care about me at all. I've noticed this getting worse as time went on, so when I finally got my first job in 2022 (at 24 years old, because like always, I'm so behind in life) I tried to find connection with people there.
To preface, I am a gay man, and I ended up finding someone there that had a lot of the same interests as me and seemed to want to be friends with me (We'll call him Jake). He's straight and he knows I'm not, and that's never been an issue for him, but he definitely treated me differently, and in the first year I knew him he completely destroyed me mentally and I don't think he even realized it.
Jake would make sexual jokes about women in a "trio" we had at work and all 3 of us thought it was funny, but when I tried to make the same jokes from my perspective he would get a bit bothered by it, even though it didn't bother the other guy. Things like that kept reoccurring and it really made me feel like the odd-man out.
Jake also would constantly give me such mixed signals, one minute he'd be telling me how much he valued my friendship and he's glad he met me, and that I was the first person he'd ever really kept around as a friend considering he was a military kid that had to move to different countries growing up. One minute he would build me up to be one of his closest friends, and the next he'd make it a point to let me know that in the end, I was absolutely nothing to him and he wouldn't think twice if he never saw me again.
I've always had crippling social anxiety, and in my entire life, I've never been able to make friends easily. It's almost impossible for me to connect to people, and when I do it's so random, and always means a lot to me. After I met Isaac, I never thought I'd be able to do it again, but fortunately I did, but it didn't last long. I'd get sick of Jake treating me the way he would and I'd speak up about it, and eventually he cut me off. But over time he came back to me, but it just doesn't feel the same. I don't feel comfortable around him the way I used to.
After all of that, I feel so jaded and trust people even less than I did before. I decided to stop talking to people altogether outside of work, outside of a rare occasion where I might play a game online with Jake. I want friends, but I don't feel safe getting close to anyone anymore. Isaac barely talks to me these days, Jake was constantly putting my mind through a roller coaster of confusion/second-guessing and emotions.
I'm alone every day. I can barely get myself to do anything I used to enjoy. I've struggled with severe depression and anxiety my entire life with nothing that has ever helped make it better. Every single day I think about how I don't want to be alive anymore, and I don't know why I keep going when nothing changes, it never gets better. I don't even cry anymore. I've totally accepted that my life is wasting away, and it's just a matter of time before I decide I've had enough of it. There's no point in fighting it anymore.
This was all just word vomit and didn't have any structure but I just had to post this. Not sure why.

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Hydra 1.2.1 is out

• Specific improvement in CPU, RAM and disk usage
• Added short tutorials for DODI and OnlineFix
• Added support for downloads using RealDebrid
• Fixed white screen bug
• Correction of freezes
• Fixed bug where Hydra would not load games in countries where Steam is blocked (such as Russia)
• Confirmation of download directory when choosing a download option
• Added trailers and screenshots to the game details page
• Support for new languages ​​(list too long to put here)
• Possibility to enable Hydra to start with Windows
• Possibility to enable Hydra to be closed by clicking on “X”
• Fixed bug where duplicate games appeared in the “Surprise Me” button
• Bug fixed where HowLongToBeat no longer loads- Specific improvement in CPU, RAM and disk usage
• Added short tutorials for DODI and OnlineFix
• Added support for downloads using RealDebrid
• Fixed white screen bug
• Correction of freezes
• Fixed bug where Hydra would not load games in countries where Steam is blocked (such as Russia)
• Confirmation of download directory when choosing a download option
• Added trailers and screenshots to the game details page
• Support for new languages ​​(list too long to put here)
• Possibility to enable Hydra to start with Windows
• Possibility to enable Hydra to be closed by clicking on “X”
• Fixed bug where duplicate games appeared in the “Surprise Me” button
• Bug fixed where HowLongToBeat no longer loads

https://github.com/hydralaunchehydra/releases/tag/v1.2.1

The guy recently joined and decided to be AFK at the last boss. The tank asked if he was coming, no reply. So we went in without him. We failed the first time but no big deal. Then, the tank asked if we wanted to try again. Now, this very guy had the audacity to bad mouth him by saying that he’s not that smart. Most confusing reply yet since we weren’t trying to be smart... He reasoned that he didn’t want to go in and die. I don’t think most people even care about someone dying in a raid, that’s bound to happen but they do care if someone participate in a content where they should. The guy kept on bad mouthing. I didn’t catch those exact words because of profanity filter.
We decided to just go in and try agin with six people. He still stood there doing nothing. Someone voted the guy out of the raid (the vote was warranted apparently).
What I don’t get is why some people join a raid and be afk and then decide to be toxic. Reluctance to participate in because he doesn’t want to die is not a very sound excuse. And being toxic to other people is also not a cool thing to do. The tank was polite and most of us were as well. We didn’t even kick him the first time he was AFK. Sometimes I find it hard to be polite with this kind of player but I respect those who can keep it cool regardless of the situation.
I’m saddened that the toxicity of this game is as true as they say. Even the chat is so boasted with players arguing over meaningless things, throwing slurs, hatred everywhere. No moderation whatsoever. I get that there is little to no consequences online. But you’re not playing with mindless drones, you’re playing with human beings who have feelings. Civility and self control can go along way and create a positive environment to everyone.

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I'm an engineering graduate student at a very famous university. She's a different kind of STEM grad student at the same university (mid-twenties). She has only been in America for a few years. Before everyone jumps and says "Chinese girls are just like American girls" the reason that I'm making this post is because i'm afraid that i'm missing some cultural norm or context, causing me to screw up the situation. Dating in America is fairly toxic, in my opinion. It seems as though it's often a contest of who can appear to be the least interested. My Chinese colleagues tell me that Chinese girls need to be chased a bit harder. That they're more pragmatic, so a guy who shows little interest would not be a good long term investment for a Chinese girl. Also, I realize that I'm anxious and insecure so there's no need to over-emphasize this in your response. Ultimately, I'm really sad for how this has turned out, but friends of mine tell me things are probably going as well as they could be. With that out of the way, I hope to hear your thoughts on my story.
Back up to a few months ago. I see this girl at the gym quite frequently. One day she asked how many sets I have on a machine. There are very few machines at the school gym so I get this question from girls quite frequently. Anyway, in between sets, I chatted her up, made little jokes "where did you do undergrad? ... well, no one's perfect" ... "I'm going to ask you five questions, and to win, you need to give me incorrect answers only"... she seemed to enjoy this, was smiling a lot, and when I'd see her from across the gym, she would smile and wave. Anyway, some weeks passed and I would see her at the gym occasionally. I would try to get her to play along with fantasies about robbing a bank together, but she didn't seem to follow, and would ask what I meant, perhaps because of the language barrier, perhaps because she's a STEM girl. I noticed that she actually cheated at the "wrong answers" game by changing one of her answers, so I called her out on it the next time I saw her. "how do I know I can trust you?" :)
I probably went too far the next time that I saw her. I was nervous but planning to get her number "has anyone ever told you that you're super cute, but super annoying?" She gave me a big embarrassed/confused smile and said "WHAT?!". I asked how we might continue the conversation, she suggested instagram, but I presented my phone number keypad. She looked around a bit embarrassed and reluctantly typed her number in. I didn't call her. I figured that was already too intense. I texted her and told her to save my name as "(My name) - such and such clever hot fantasy thing". She laughed let me know she saved it (!).
I saw her around campus a few days later, she smiled and waved to me. I figured that I hadn't screwed up too badly yet. A couple of days later I saw her at the gym, tried to make the joke about robbing a bank, again, but she asked what I meant. I guess that didn't go over well and I don't remember exactly how the conversation ended. I called her later that night and she didn't respond. I texted her and told her that I just had a quick question and she could call back if she would like, but that there was no pressure to do so. She responded with laughing emojis and asked if I wouldn't mind texting. I texted her an invite for coffee, but told her to hold the flowers and chocolates since we just met. She laughed, said thank you but she's too busy lately, and let me know that she would see me "at the gym sometime!". Fairly disappointed, I said "cool, shoot me a text or call sometime". She hearted the message (ouch). I thought this was a death knell, but friends of mine encouraged me to keep trying. "She's probably attracted to you, but not comfortable enough yet."
So the next time I saw her at the gym, I said "Hey!" gave her a Hi-five and kept going. She looked embarrassed, so I didn't want to stick around in case she needed space. A couple of days later, we were at the gym together, but I didn't want to come off as upset or needy, so I kept my head in my phone. I figured that maybe she had had enough. Anyway, this time, she actually said hello to me as she walked by. So of course, I smiled and said hi back. We would see each other about once per week, making small talk. I told her that she had a pretty voice. Rather than leaving the complement there (too much tension), I asked if she could sing, found out that we both like Karaoke, and told her we should start a rock band. This was a joke of course, it seems that the two of us have little time for a life outside of our research.
I texted her the next day, told her that I am curious about her thoughts on American vs. Chinese culture, and about why she was considering saying in the US after graduation. Told her that I enjoy our chats together, and was hoping that she would consider joining my American rock band (Laughing emoji). Try-outs to be held at the Karaoke lounge nearby. She didn't respond and I was quite disappointed again.
I happened to be walking on campus last week and we ran into each other (very unusual) so I asked if she had a minute to talk. She was on her way to a meeting, so I suggested that we meet up after that. She told me to text her. So naturally, I texted her, and this time she agreed to meet! (Last Tuesday) I was more excited that day than any time I can remember, at least for the past few years.
So we met up that afternoon and she suggested that we sit on the grass together. She smiled and asked me why we couldn't just continue talking at the gym together. I can't believe that she doesn't know why I was asking her out for a second time. She must have been looking for emotional reassurance or something like this. I told her it's hard to get to know someone if you only ever see them at the gym, smiled, and playfully said, "but maybe this is a one-sided relationship, don't worry, I'll just be crying myself to sleep, no big deal". I tried to say this in a light-hearted way so that it wasn't too intense. She was wearing large sunglasses this day (relevant later), I asked her to take them off but she refused, "OK, no problem". I then did a cold read routine on her, as an ice-breaker. She corrected me when I was wrong, and it sounded like she's a workaholic (not uncommon for our university) and that she had trouble not thinking about work. I thought it was a nice time, as we got to learn a bit more about each other. She told me that she would be away on an internship for the summer, but she would be back. I made a joke about how my heart broke for a second but was quickly mended. Our "date" didn't last very long, less than a half our, and she went back into her office building. She said goodbye to me, but only said the first syllable of my name (very cute). If she had been an American girl, I would have made an effort to at least touch her shoulder or hug goodbye, but my understanding is that this would be too much for a Chinese girl. My Chinese friend (Call him Tadashii, introduced again later) said that this was the right thing to do. I had previously dated a Chinese girl who wouldn't even hub me until I told her I wanted to date exclusively, several months into the relationship.
I was stoked for the rest of the day, so excited that I had finally been able to make plans to be with her alone, however short it was. I wanted to send a follow-up text, but held myself back and waited for about 42 hours (Thursday). I told her that I really enjoyed seeing her, I was happy that we had the opportunity to learn something about each other, and complimented her suggestion of sitting out on the grass together.
When she didn't respond, I was once again, fairly anxious and upset. I tried very much to keep it to myself.
The next day, I saw her at the gym again (Friday). This time, she seemed to be in a bad mood. She wasn't resting between sets and I got the feeling that she was avoiding me. Before I left, I approached her anyway (mistake?). I asked if we could exchange socials that are popular in her country, and she said "No, I don't add people on that". According to my Chinese friends, this was BS because everyone uses this app. She quickly shut down my attempts at conversation. I tried to go into a story about the school newspaper and she said "no, I don't want to hear about it" while perhaps forcing a smile. I realized that she was either in a bad mood, or really did not want to speak with, or both. So I said "ok, have a good night" and went home feeling very bad once again. Backing up a few steps, I noticed that she had a large pimple near her eye this day, which would explain why she hadn't wanted to take off her sunglasses while we were hanging out together on the grass. It could also suggest that she was too embarrassed for me to see her. She is an incredibly beautiful girl and clearly puts a lot of effort into her appearance so this could have easily been what caused her mood to shift so dramatically last week. I know what acne does to someone's self confidence, as i struggled with it frequently when I was younger. It must be ten times worse for women.
I guess this is a stressful time for the girl, and my advances haven't been making things easier on her. It would be quite tragic if I gave up simply because I had misread the circumstances. Of course, I don't know what she's thinking and I'm really worried about trying too hard. I'm used to girls responding to my follow-up text after a date with either enthusiasm, or by letting me know that a second date wasn't going to happen.
My Chinese colleague Tadashii, who seems to have good intuition on relationships with Chinese women gave me his input. He told me that Chinese women may very between chaos and order rapidly, like the Dao, in order to "test" men. They want to see that a man is actually dedicated. Further, a Chinese girl may have a stereotypical view of American men as "players" who only want to hook up. She is probably scared that I'm like this. He emphasized that this was only one data point in a series of mostly positive interactions. The 180-degree shift in demeanor could indicate a bad day or stressful period, but if a girl is truly disinterested, she would probably let me know at some point. His suggestion is to wait a month, until the girl is settled into her internship life. At that time, she would probably appreciate someone friendly reaching out to her to check in. In this way, we might have a text correspondence. This is something that I would never usually do, but he said it's typical for Chinese people to chat over apps or text while maintaining a long-distance friendship. He also mentioned that he's made girlfriends this way.
She will likely be away for two to three months. I haven't even found out where she was going. I usually try not to get girls thinking about work on dates, asking basic questions like "what do you do..." (no fun) but in this case, it was actually logistically relevant. oops. My plan is to follow Tadashii's advice. Maybe I'll see the girl at the gym again on Friday this week (38 hours from now). My American friends say that I should let her approach me this time. They also say that I should try to catch her again in the Fall when she returns. Tadashii says that waiting until the Fall is too long. This would send her the message that I was intimidated by her emotional response last week, or that I really was just an American player, and. not very serious about her.
So am I blown out, or should I hold on to the anxious pain of hope? Thanks in advance for your input.

When loading up certain games like mechanic simulator 2021, Car x drifting online, and Vr chat they won’t load when I launch them they black screen me all the time I’ve tried searching up fixes and haven’t found one looked everywhere and found nothing tried everything that I could possibly do and nothing worked please help me

While it's all a little fresh (~1 month?), and I still obviously haven't completely gotten over it yet, I felt like coming online and asking for other opinions to either validate/justify my own or give me other ideas.
I am a fulltime engineer with an established career and that is definitely something I'm looking for in a partner, especially as costs continue to rise and I'm interested in having kids and providing them freedoms in the future as well. After moving to NYC for my job w. no local friends, and as a more introverted engineer, connections online are where I'll end up meeting most of my people. I'm not particularly interested in the dating apps (TindeBumble/Hinge) as it's bot/catfish ridden, you can never get a full idea of intentions in an easy manner when you're 1 of 1000 on there, they hide half the people you'd be interested in unless you pay premium, etc. So connection isn't something that comes easy to me, and I definitely will try to hold onto it when I have it and ride or die for my squad.
I had already "experienced" a long distance relationship in college when I was 21 and moved to Seattle for 3 months. Long story short there, I kind of ghosted my ex-girlfriend of that time as clearly I wasn't that interested in her and couldn't see her. Hoped that we could rekindle things when I came back but that relationship wasn't for me. So, I already kind of know that long distance relationships "don't work" for me -- I distance myself and don't get any "physical touch" or "in person quality time," but I willingly continued with this one (with OP girl) because I have nothing else going on for me and we were having a good time.
I met this girl by chance online in a video game that I play with my friends every night. We happened to enjoy playing the game together so we continued to talk for a week or 2, playing probably 6 or 7 days each week. We proceeded to exchange information and communicate off the game. She lives 5 states (10-12hr drive) away from me, has a car, lives with her parents (potential issue -- I'm likely not going to go there), and at the time was dropped out of college with no degree/career, but working a regular retail job -- so no real income either.
We continued communication and after 2 months or so, I decided fuck it, I'd like to try and meet in real life and either legitimatize what we have or figure out that it's not going to work out. I booked an airbnb in the city near her fully paid for and flew out to meet her. Sparing the details, we had a great time over the 4-5 days. I did not ask her to be my girlfriend at that time but was definitely interested in meeting her again. We continued to talk and I flew her out one more time to me in NYC where we spent a week and put a label on our relationship.
As time continued, there was no next plan to see each other despite obvious interest on both ends. Long story short, she was encouraged to go back to school -- and will later tell me that it was "for me" and not for herself, which I'm hoping she'll look back at in the future and see how silly that statement is ... but she "did it for me" so that I could be happy with her or w/e you want to call it. So she was going to school and working retail, and we would spend the rest of our hours late at night together on the video game. She was an amazing girlfriend, completely about me 110%. I never had any mistrust in her, she treated me as well as you could from 11 hours away, and we talked every single day. I don't have many things I'd complain about with her other than simply not being able to see her.
Again I found myself distancing, it really no longer felt special as the relationship continued strictly online. I cannot see my girlfriend and I can get the "same satisfaction" from playing with any person on the internet. I believe that I'm seeking companionship and this was quickly turning into more of a "friendship." So ~1 month ago (1 year since we started talking), after a week or 2 of thinking about it -- not talking to her about it, but asking other people -- I was pretty set on just ending the relationship. I was advised to potentially wait until the end of the semester, but I wasn't going to sit there and pretend like I didn't know what was going to come 30 days later. So that's what I did. I called her and basically ended the relationship. She let me have it as she was blindsided and was in love with me ... "you were my future ... I went back to school for you ..." etc.
The reason I'm having such a hard time getting over it (albeit, a short period of time has passed here) despite it being my decision is because she never wronged me in any way and we had a great connection/chemistry. So again, as mentioned above, as someone who doesn't connect well with others, doesn't trust others, and is rather analytical/negative -- it feels bad to throw away something that was good and still could have been. It's not like I have a betteother option here locally. I totally could have "played" her and tried to date locally until I found someone else that was better. But I felt like I made a "selfless" decision and "let her go."
I've had some other things happen during this time period, my parents got divorced 8 months ago randomly (I was blindsided), I'm looking for a new job, etc. I have since enrolled in therapy, I had my first session last week and we didn't get to discuss or go into this specific topic. Clearly I need to work on myself, and am committing to that as the next chapter of my life, but could I have worked on it with her?
I was at the point where I would have been willing to pay to fly her to me 1x each month just to see her ... again, since she can't afford it. While it was never really discussed further and her schedule isn't going to change as she needs to work to pay for school which she can't afford, I just don't see how I could legitimately see her enough times in person within the next 1000 days. That would put me at 30 years old. And while people will tell me that's not old, or whatever, for me I just don't see how I can wait until 30 just to see if it's going to work out. If she was local/closer to me and the situation was the same (no career, lived with parents, etc.) -- we'd still be dating or I'd have never jumped to breaking up with her. Wouldn't have considered it.
So maybe you'll read this and think -- "You're an idiot, you made the right decision, get over it." Or maybe you'll tell me "I threw away something good and could have communicated better, been more patient, ." Maybe I could have just told her: "I'm losing romantic interest (or w/e verbiage), can we change something up" whether that be a 1x a week "date night" where we eat on camera together and watch a show. I have no idea. Again, that doesn't solve being together in person, but throwing her away for nothing is eating me up a bit. Was there more for me to learn with this person and grow? Should we have continued to grow together and hope then if/when we do come together in person it's that much better?
As an engineer, it's tough to not know if the action you made was the right one, I'm having a hard time facing reality right now and looking for random unbiased opinions. So all in all, I want someone else to tell me if I made the right decision. Thanks.

Is SPT fun? No I mean do you feel FOMO (fear of missing out for any boomers).. in terms of not being on tarky online, in the real rat race, playing real people, etc.?
Like on osrs, Ironman mode rocks. Gets same updates as everyone else just solo mode. But playing a priv server is a diff feeling.. like you’re missing the real game and playing a knock off kinda. Idk. I play priv servers a lot still.
FOMO is one of the things keeping me from trying spt. But the idea of no cheaters ruining my day/week, and having a more pure experience on my accord but still enjoy this game sounds great

I (18m) met this girl (29f) online about 2 months ago and we've talked every single day, we talk a lot through the day and sometimes we'll play a game together on PlayStation
She's alot older than me and she is a mom of one kid
It never really occurred to me what kind of parent she is, but that's probably my first red flag for myself is that I didn't even acknowledge that she's actually a mom like I have ben so focused on how awesome her personality is and how beautiful she looks
I've kinda expected her to be like me..to respond fast and to talk to me all the time.. which is my next red flag for myself
She has made me so happy and I'm always smiling and laughing with her and i get sad when we haven't talked for hours although I see her online...
She is always online by the way and you can see her activity like if shes on a game or just browsing websites or whatnot..and to me it doesn't ever look like she's actually busy so sometimes I think she's ignoring me..
She recently told me she wanted to take a break from "online things" which i believe that means me and gaming..
I asked her why and she said "because of real life" I don't know if she's being weird or I'm just not getting it because of our age difference
I literally go to school and come home and game and just usually talk to her or wait for her to text me I find myself sometimes staring at the wall because she's not talking to me..
I kinda have been expecting her to do the same ? I forget that she probably has a different life than me ? Especially being a mom right ?
I don't know why I've been so stupid about this
I told her did I do something wrong and she just replied "no I just need to step back from online connections and get my life together" and I said so you don't wanna talk to me anymore and I said her life is probably fine and she said "I need to find a balance" I don't know what the hell that means
I was talking to my friend about this and they were telling me I was probably taking her away from time with her kid and that she wants to probably just get back on track..my friend is 24 so he's more around her age so I'm sure he's probably right but then he told me to quit being a sissy..
Now I feel like shit I could actually take someone away from there kid or that she thinks that's my intention no I'm just not aware that idk she has stuff going on idk what to do

Has anyone ever tried putting the minigames and gameplay from the games together to see if their timelines make sense given the context? I just put FNAF gameplay and minigame clips into a YouTube playlist and sort them in order based on my theories and watch and see if my timeline makes any sense. I feel like it’s a good way to theory craft nonetheless.

HELLO!
I'm currently on a 8GB capped $40 endless data plan with Skinny. It runs on endless reduced speeds after using up 8GB of max speeds. The reduced speeds for me are around 1.3MB download which doesn't support very much beyond web searching. I can't really watch videos on youtube, stream movies, or scroll through social media once I'm on reduced speeds because any video content takes ages to buffer. I can buy data binge packs for max speeds again if I know I'm going to need it but it doesn't support hotspotting and only lasts 12 hours max for $5. Not sure if thats entirely worth paying seeing as I'd probably need to use max speeds everyday. I ripped through the 8GB in about a week and that was without gaming for the first 4 days? I've had my hotspot on during the night this week because my parents have a new curfew on our broadband at about 10pm, not much I can do about that lol.
I realized 8GB isn't enough to last me a months worth of usage and was thinking about changing to another service provider that had unlimited uncapped data plans instead. Skinny's most expensive endless data plan still has a cap on it with $70/m for max speeds up to 80GB. Then it will reduce back to 1.3MB~ download. I'm not sure if thats enough to last me a month with extensive use like gaming and watching movies, I don't use data often so I actually have zero understanding of how much value you can get out of 80GB. Is that a lot? Would I need more? I don't know...
I'm almost looking for an unlimited uncapped data plan that gives out the same value as a broadband plan, not sure if thats silly. I paid for my family's fibre broadband at our old house for 2 years which was between $80-70/m switching between the two fastest plans skinny offered, so I can afford a more expensive data pack, I just need it to last as long as the month I'm paying for lol. I don't need huge download speeds like fibre broadband can provide. I can play online games smoothly with the max speeds skinny provides, I think I get like max 14MB on my phone, same on my laptop, and then 5MB on my playstation when hotspotting. I'm not worried about getting more than those speeds.
You might suggest I just get a separate broadband plan in the house, but we've moved to a rural area and our house isn't offered the same broadband plans as our old one. We don't have fibre or wireless broadband available in our area, just plain adsl/vdsl which didn't even work when we tried installing our modem (don't know why), so my parents and all my siblings pitch in for starlink now. It's just my parents choice to turn it off during the night and they say if we want we can buy our own data to use during the night.
Anyway, I've been looking at some other providers like Spark and One NZ that offer unlimited uncapped data plans. My main question is does anybody have any reviews on either of the plans these providers have? Whats it like for you if you use them? Is it worth it for you and why? I've read a couple reviews on One NZ's service that are reeeeally bad with people complaining about how fast they rip through their data plans and are reduced to super slow speeds within minutes of using their data, which is very suspicous. So I'm reluctant about switching to them. There aren't any specific reviews on either of the providers' UNcapped plans though, reviews I've seen are on capped plans only so I'm reaching out on this in hopes to find someone who already uses any of the plans im looking at and get their review and maybe advice.
The options I've been looking at are:
Skinny Endless Data Plan $70 ^{(Their most expensive plan}) - 80GB Data at max speeds incl. hotspotting - Endless Data at reduced speeds ^(1.3MB\)) incl. hotspotting - Unlimited Minutes and Texts
Spark Endless Plan $90/m ^{(Their most expensive plan}) - Unlimited data* (Fair use policy applies) - Unlimited NZ/AUS SMS* ^{(I don't care that much about this}) - Unlimited mins to any NZ/AUS mobiles and landlines ^{(don't care again}) - Free spotify premium ^{(This is nice cause I use spotify a lot, I'm already on a student discount though but still nice}) - Team Up eligible* ^{(don't know what this means tbh}) - Endless Hotspot* ^{(this is a MUST for me but there might be some secret terms that apply}) - Spark Voicemail App ^{(I think voice mail access is free, better than skinny, but I don't get a lot of voicemail so its not neccessary.})
Spark Endless Plan $70/m ^{(Second most expensive plan}) - 18GB data at max speed. Endless data at reduced speed. ^{(This is capped, is waaaay less than what skinny provides for $70 and I would probably rip though is within two weeks.}) - Unlimited SMS ^{blah blah} - Unlimited mins - Save $7 on spotify premium ^{(I'm already on student discount, don't need.}) - Team Up eligible* - Endless Hotspot* - Spark Voicemail
One NZ Plan Unlimited Max speed data $85/m ^{(Their most expensive plan}) - Unlimited max speed data - Endless calls and text - Add up to 3 Companion plans for $40/m per plan - 250mins & 50 TXTs ^(what?) - Hotspot included ^(yay) - Wifi Calling included ^(what?) - One NZ Rewards ^(ok) - 5G ready - Open term plan
And those are the options I've gravitated towards. Skinny, Spark and One NZ (used to be vodafone I think). It sounds like One NZ is the best price for uncapped data but again I'm suspicious from all the negative reviews about One NZ especially about customers not getting what they paid for. Even NZ herald and Stuff has made articles about them being the worst rated mobile service provider. Only way I can get over the suspicion is hearing from other people here and reddit is pretty honest and helpful when it comes to niche problems.
If anybody has experience with either of these providers and especially with the data plans listed, please let me know what its like for you so I can make an informed decision on what I should buy. Maybe you know of other plans that might be better, or are someone who has similar data usage (excessive gaming and streaming) and has worked out the best data plan for that kind of consumption.
Any reviews, advice or opinons welcome ❤
THANKS!

Am I wrong for asking my friends to remove eachother? TW: mention of miscarriage and abortion
I (18F) met a guy (20/21M) on tinder and got really close but for weird reasons didn’t work out. He thought I was using him for sex because he thought I only started to like him back after the first time we hooked up which wasn’t true I just told him I needed to make sure I was definitely ready first and needed to meet him properly first (he spent everyday for a couple weeks almost begging to meet me) but the first time we met we hooked up we didn’t use the Condom as we were both clean and I had an IUD. A couple other times we hooked up he did put on a Condom but kept taking it off. Anywyas he came up with many reason why he randomly out of nowhere “lost feelings” even tho we hooked up a couple times after that (we are no longer hooking up or anything like that). The reasons were weird. Anywyas we had also found out I was pregnant which was rocky because we kept arguing about what we should do I even had to tell his family. He hated the idea of me aborting and said I was definitely not to do adoption. He also kept on mentioning taking it back to his country as he’s not from here he’s just living here for a bit. Kept on making everything about him and the kid but I felt he didn’t care how I felt during it all. During my pregnancy I won’t lie I was a total bi*ch to him I kept on telling him he wouldn’t be a good father and just really rude to him I think it was because I was so upset and also hormonal but now I totally regret saying all those mean things. Then out of nowhere he was adding my friends on Snapchat and on Fortnite (video game) which I found weird. About a week after that I had unfortunately miscarried at 13 weeks which was hard on me emotionally and physically he said he was sad and distraught as well. He also said something he would’ve named the kid and I asked if he still wanted to name it because I wanted to but he didn’t like that thought. He also mentioned how I could still come up and see him and drink for my birthday with him (which now he doesn’t want to do anymore at all?) because the day after my miscarriage I was meant to go see him and stay at his for a bit and maybe talk things out and maybe early birthday celebration. Anyways couple days later he’s half ignoring me so I ask him what’s going on and he said he wasn’t which he kinda was. He told me to move on from the situation we had just been through and also apparently deleted the ultrasound photo. After that convo I found out he was still talking to all my friends whilst ignoring me (all girls). I think he may also possibly be attracted to one of them. I was furious as I was/am going through all this alone he even told me he couldn’t be there for me even tho originally he said he would be there for me no matter what even tho he lived 4 hrs away. Everything is and was a mess. He acted like he cared for me before and during the pregnancy being nice offering me things and even just talking to me but after losing my baby he’s been ignoring me and almost like he hates me and not supporting me at all. Talking to my friends who also somewhat knew what is going on also hurt me. I asked them to remove him at least while we get through what we needed to get through and they refused and so did he. I felt bad but angry at the same time. Our friendship was always weird we were close for a very long while even when he said he didn’t like me anymore he also kept changing his mind on that back then too. So am I an asshole for asking them to remove eachother? They’ve never even met him don’t even know him and have never spoken him till now. He’s not even supporting me but instead talking to my friends and ignoring me. I will sit there obviously upset them knowing that while totally ignoring me to play a game online together. At one point I ended up blocking him during a breakdown but then we sort of talked it out and were joking and laughing again until the next day he was pretty blunt but now again he’s barely talking to me but my friends instead.

Am I wrong for asking my friends to remove eachother? TW: mention of miscarriage and abortion
I (18F) met a guy (20/21M) on tinder and got really close but for weird reasons didn’t work out. He thought I was using him for sex because he thought I only started to like him back after the first time we hooked up which wasn’t true I just told him I needed to make sure I was definitely ready first and needed to meet him properly first (he spent everyday for a couple weeks almost begging to meet me) but the first time we met we hooked up we didn’t use the Condom as we were both clean and I had an IUD. A couple other times we hooked up he did put on a Condom but kept taking it off. Anywyas he came up with many reason why he randomly out of nowhere “lost feelings” even tho we hooked up a couple times after that (we are no longer hooking up or anything like that). The reasons were weird. Anywyas we had also found out I was pregnant which was rocky because we kept arguing about what we should do I even had to tell his family. He hated the idea of me aborting and said I was definitely not to do adoption. He also kept on mentioning taking it back to his country as he’s not from here he’s just living here for a bit. Kept on making everything about him and the kid but I felt he didn’t care how I felt during it all. During my pregnancy I won’t lie I was a total bi*ch to him I kept on telling him he wouldn’t be a good father and just really rude to him I think it was because I was so upset and also hormonal but now I totally regret saying all those mean things. Then out of nowhere he was adding my friends on Snapchat and on Fortnite (video game) which I found weird. About a week after that I had unfortunately miscarried at 13 weeks which was hard on me emotionally and physically he said he was sad and distraught as well. He also said something he would’ve named the kid and I asked if he still wanted to name it because I wanted to but he didn’t like that thought. He also mentioned how I could still come up and see him and drink for my birthday with him (which now he doesn’t want to do anymore at all?) because the day after my miscarriage I was meant to go see him and stay at his for a bit and maybe talk things out and maybe early birthday celebration. Anyways couple days later he’s half ignoring me so I ask him what’s going on and he said he wasn’t which he kinda was. He told me to move on from the situation we had just been through and also apparently deleted the ultrasound photo. After that convo I found out he was still talking to all my friends whilst ignoring me (all girls). I think he may also possibly be attracted to one of them. I was furious as I was/am going through all this alone he even told me he couldn’t be there for me even tho originally he said he would be there for me no matter what even tho he lived 4 hrs away. Everything is and was a mess. He acted like he cared for me before and during the pregnancy being nice offering me things and even just talking to me but after losing my baby he’s been ignoring me and almost like he hates me and not supporting me at all. Talking to my friends who also somewhat knew what is going on also hurt me. I asked them to remove him at least while we get through what we needed to get through and they refused and so did he. I felt bad but angry at the same time. Our friendship was always weird we were close for a very long while even when he said he didn’t like me anymore he also kept changing his mind on that back then too. So am I an asshole for asking them to remove eachother? They’ve never even met him don’t even know him and have never spoken him till now. He’s not even supporting me but instead talking to my friends and ignoring me. I will sit there obviously upset them knowing that while totally ignoring me to play a game online together. At one point I ended up blocking him during a breakdown but then we sort of talked it out and were joking and laughing again until the next day he was pretty blunt but now again he’s barely talking to me but my friends instead.

I don’t understand how people accept the mess that is this games net code and latency. I have never played a game as unresponsive and sluggish as 2k. It is actually mind boggling how few people ever bring up the delay you feel playing this game. Maybe you get used to it over time but it is actually unacceptable. I haven’t played in about 2 weeks and I can say without a shadow of a doubt, this game has the worst latency I’ve ever experienced in my 22 years of life and thousands of hours on videos games. It is not even close. I am personally insulted for all the people who play this game and the people who spend absurd amounts of money on this game because this experience is absolutely abysmal. It’s unacceptable and frankly, it’s embarrassing that no one bats an eye at the disaster that is the online experience on this game. No other community would stand for this, none. If cod felt this bad to play and control your player, the community would decimate the developers and it would be fixed within a week. The fact that this is the base experience and hasn’t been addressed, is insane. These people make billions off us and there is no care for the quality of the product. Embarrassing.

So im a very new player, just played all of the base roster and decided on i-no. I want to play her and even got some very basic RC stuff in and went into online today. Ive one one time in 3 hours. I literally have no clue what to do because i really liked the game until now and i dont wanna drop it.

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Di SINGALIGA, kami memahami betapa pentingnya kemudahan dan keamanan dalam bertransaksi. Kami menyediakan metode deposit dan withdraw yang cepat serta terjamin keamanannya. Anda dapat melakukan transaksi melalui QRIS, e-wallet favorit Anda, atau melalui transfer bank dengan proses yang mudah dan tanpa ribet.
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Kami mengerti bahwa setiap pemain memiliki preferensi berbeda dalam melakukan deposit via qris. Oleh karena itu, SINGALIGA menawarkan beragam pilihan deposit yang praktis dan fleksibel. Apakah Anda lebih suka menggunakan QRIS, e-wallet seperti OVO, Dana, GoPay, atau transfer bank langsung, semuanya tersedia di sini.
Pengalaman Bermain yang Menghibur
Selain kemudahan transaksi, SINGALIGA juga menawarkan pengalaman bermain yang menghibur dan menarik. Nikmati berbagai jenis permainan tanpa harus khawatir tentang proses transaksi yang rumit. Mainkan game-game favorit Anda seperti slot online, poker, sportsbook, dan masih banyak lagi.
Bonus Menarik dan Promo Spesial
Kami selalu memberikan bonus menarik dan promo spesial kepada para pemain setia SINGALIGA. Dapatkan keuntungan lebih dengan bonus deposit, cashback, atau hadiah-hadiah menarik lainnya yang kami tawarkan secara rutin.
Bergabunglah Sekarang!
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Tunggu apa lagi? Bergabunglah sekarang di SINGALIGA dan rasakan pengalaman bermain yang seru dan transaksi yang mudah. Jadi bagian dari komunitas kami yang ramah dan nikmati berbagai keuntungan yang telah kami siapkan untuk Anda.
Salam sukses dan selamat bermain!