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I feel a sense of accomplishment and other emotions today, thinking back on the bad and good choices I've made to get to this point, and how this will change future behaviors and habits. I ran up a lot of debt on credit cards via cash advances gambling, and brushed it all aside since I was getting raises/bonuses at work pretty regularly, but it was never enough to keep up with my problem there. Getting divorced (surprisingly not related to this situation) really got me to the point I needed to file though, as I was essentially paying for two households at that point, and couldn't keep up with even min payments on all the debt.
But I wised up, found a good ch 13 lawyer who knew the local system/trustees/etc, and followed the lawyer's advice, word for word.
Now the waiting game to get the discharge complete paperwork. 60 months later, it started off slow but flew by the last couple years. Once you adjust you get used to it and keep looking at the light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak.
Lessons learned...
You really re-learn how to deal with money, it forces you to. Not sure if 5 years is necessary, I probably could have "figured it out" in 6-12 months, but I get they want to get as much of their $ back as they can. But re-framing how you see money is the real goal here, right? I get some people will get discharged and go right back to doing whatever they did before, but I think this is the main lesson learned.
It's been an interesting 5 years, especially since I've gotten numerous raises and bonuses (most of which never saw my bank account) - that's been the hardest part for me. I would have liked to have taken the family on some nicer vacations or upgraded some things at home, but, I get the way this works.
My lawyer set me up with the TFS auto-payment system, instead of getting a wage order at work, so as not to potentially draw attention to the bankruptcy, and it was very easy. Just like an auto-payment coming out of my checking account the same day every month, plus a few bucks tacked on for convenience factor. If you work in a job where reputation is important, you may want to consider this and ask your lawyer if it is possible to use TFS instead of garnishing wages. I know the lawyer had to make the motion/request/whatever it's called and get that approved early on in the payment plan after I had been making direct/manual payments through the trustee's website up til that point.
Overall it was the best choice given my circumstances - which I will hopefully never need to deal with again.
Now on to buying a house...

This is probably a longer story than it really is, but I am just trying to give as much context as I can.
In grade 11, me (F16-17) and my ex-friend (F16-17) were best friends. For some context, we both became friends fairly early in high school. In my country high school is from grade 8-grade 12. I joined the high school in grade 8 from out of city, the high school is just closer to me than the one in my city, so I was a new kid. I made some friends in grade 8 as a new kid but those friendships did end in grade 9. Grade 9 is when my best friend, we'll call her Emily, transferred to the school. And we formed a friendship. Through grade 9 we had formed our own little friend group with 2 other girls, we'll name them Clara and Sabrina. It was the 4 of us through majority of high school. We would always text each other, always hang out after school, spend any break we had at school together and had as much fun as any girls in high school could have (minus the partying because my school is not a partying school).
Emily and I were the closet in the friend group, afterall we were pretty similar and come from similar backgrounds (We're both a type of asian). We both would be described as the smart kids. We both would end up getting high grades in all of our classes. In grade 9, when we met, she told the friend group her dream was to become a doctor like her parents were, so she studied extra hard in high school to keep her grades high. I, on the other hand, did not really have any specific dreams. I wanted to become a writer or even a lawyer (but was worried because I'm not the best speaker). Due to that, I never tried that hard at school. Like i care about grades, my parents cared a lot about me getting high grades, but I wasn't studying for anything. And with that I never really studied either, I would do my homework and pay attention in class and take pretty notes but I was not spending any real time after class to do work Which is something that Emily would do. She would spend hours and hours a day just studying. If she wasn't studying she would be doing some volunterring or some club stuff.
Fast forward to grade 11. Right from the beginning of the year something just felt odd about our relationship. She seemed distant. Which I chalked up to it being we were now considered seniors at our high school so she was starting to stress about universities already, but it was still whatever. My school worked in semesters, so for half of the year we would have 4 specific classes which would then switch to different classes in second semester. During first semester I didn't have any classes with any of my friends. I was just chilling in all of my classess and getting adopted into different group friends in those classes. I was always well-liked in high school, I was not a popular kid. But compared to all the smart kids in the school, I was deemed the nicest so because of that everyone would be nice to me and friendly (even though I know for some of them it was so they could get hw answers out of me, but they were still very nice to me).
During this time, my friends and I would make up plans to hang out. We always made it a point to hang out at least once a week outside of school. It was always after school, we would usually study, walk around or go to the mall. In our gc on insta we would always double check with one another on which days to do it. Clara, Sabrina and I would always talk in the gc and were always the ones initiating the plans. Emily was also in the gc but would rarely reply to anything. Any times we would make plans to hang out, Emily would either not reply (which would then lead us to asking her during lunch the next day if she was free, where she would barely talk) or she would just say no to all plans. The few times she would say yes, she would always cancel the day of. Which would be annoying, and Clara, Sabrina and I would talk amongst ourselves that we found it odd she would always cancel and never want to hang out outside of school, but we were like it's not that big of a deal. She could just be busy.
We then just ahead to my birthday. Now i have an early birthday and it falls around the time that we come back to school after the winter break. Now during the winter break, Clara, Sabrina and I formed a seperate gc as it would just be the three of us talking and making plans. We also always took so many pictures and felt bad about sending it into the gc with the four of us in it as we didnt want Emily to feel bad about not coming. So we figured it was better if we kept it seperate. But in the main gc, I just ask when is everyone free to do something small. I'm not really a birthday person. Since high school, all my birthdays include going to some cozy restauraunt with my 4 closest friends and just having a casual dinner. So I ask and everyone leaves their responses, including Emily. We decide on a day, it would be after school just a day or two after my actual birthday and we would be going to a restuarunt and an arcade nearby (I have strict parents so I really wasn't allowed to go out late or really go out anywhere far). The plan is made and everything is set. When the day comes for the dinnearcade, we all meet up by our lockers to go take the bus together.
The 3 of us are there waiting for Emily to come and she does just a few minutes late. That is when she tells us she can't come because she has a club meeting today, and she told us it was mandatory for us to attend. Now of course my friends and I tried to convince her to blow it off just this one time, but she was adamant about going. So, whatever. We say bye to her and start walking to the bus. While walking there we bump into a mutual friend, also waiting for the bus. She is also in the same club, so we confused why she was here. We do ask her, saying "hey isn't there something happening with the club today?" That is when she tells us there was just this small meeting recapping what had happened in last weeks meeting for the people who missed it. Meaning the meeting was not madatory at all, especially when Emily had cancelled our plans last week to go to this said meeting. Meaning she did sort of lie to get out of going to my birthday party. I of course was hurt by this. When she told us she had to go to the meeting, I didn't think much of it as I knew how much school mattered to her and how much doing this club stuff mattered. But she had the choice to come, and she decided to just blow me off. We went out and had fun and didn't bring the matter up with her. We figured it was just her caring a bit too much about school.
Anyways this whole cancelling plans last minute, ghosting the main gc thing happened more and more. It also got to the point where if I wanted to talk to her, whether that was through text or in real life I would always have to approach her first. As this carried on for a while, i of course was getting a bit annoyed about where this friendship was going.
We now get to Emily's birthday a month later. Now Emily decided to plan her birthday, very last minute. I am just pointing this out as i am not a person who can do spontaneous plans, one because i have this need to plan properly and two because I do have strict parents. So i can't just spring a plan on them the day of and expect to go. Which is something Emily knows. Anyways she makes the plan and i tell my mom about it to ask if i can go and she says yes. The day before, Emily then decides to change the plan entirely. We were going to go into downtown city (for context, it's roughly 2 hours transit from our neighborhood). I obviously had to ask permission as she wanted to stay out late which is not something my parents would like, so when Emily told us at lunch the change in plans, Clara, Sabrina I told her we had to double check if we can still go as we all have strict parents, but our extended friend group were all down to go.
After school, the four of us head into the bathroom, which is a toally normal thing for high school girls to do before we headed out. While there Emily then decides to start a fight with me about not going to her birthday, which hasn't happened yet. She starts yelling at me about how Im mad that she didn't go to my birthday and am not going to hers as revenge (I'll be honest, I kinda forgot she didn't go). And starts yelling at me about how I'm being a bad friend and frankly a b*tch. And when I say she is screaming at me, I mean there is the largest echo circling our bathroom as she yells at me. Now I'm just standing there, trying to reason with her. I'm just trying to explain to her that i didn't say i wasn't coming, i just needed to get permission to go, which is something that Clara and Sarbina said as well but Emily wasn't saying anything about them. She proceeded to just yell at me for a solid 5 minutes. Another girl did walk into the bathroom, saw Emily yelling and just left, which I feel bad about. I do not do well with someone yelling at me, so I just tell her that I'm leaving now and we can talk later. I practically run out of the bathroom and out of school. Clara runs up to me and says i can't go home feeling like this. I felt horrible, i felt like throwing up. So Clara makes it her job to cheer me up as Sabrina is trying to calm Emily down. Clara takes me to Mcdonalds, where we split a meal as that became a tradition of ours and she bought me ice-cream to make me feel better. We end up spending roughly and hour and half there before starting to walk back to our houses. I did feel a lot better and I was smiling. Clara didn't really say much about what happened as she knew it would upset me. She just said that Emily was being mean and left it at that. At some point during our walk, Emily calls Clara and starts screaming at Clara over the phone about choosing "my side". I only know it was Emily because I can hear her screaming through the phone and Clara is trying to be nice to her and say she was comforting her friend like a good one would do. Emily continues screaming and Clara just hangs up on her.
We don't talk about it. Now the next day, at school, is Emily's birthday. I feel so awkward. Because i'm still upset about what happened. When I see her, I'm not sure if I should wish her a happy birthday. I feel like I am owed an apology first. so i don't really say anything to her. and we don't really talk. Now we are in the same Chemistry honours class together and are lab partners. So we have to talk. I ask her, if we're going to talk about what happened. And she just says, no, it's my birthday. I just say really but she doesn't say anything after. So Im just like, fine, whatever. We spend the entire class in awkward silence, and I do not see her again the entire day. Even at lunch because she has a club meeting or something. Clara, Sabrina and I all agree that we don't want to talk about it. Clara got an apology text last night but she was still mad about being yelled at over the phone. Sabrina asked us if we wanted to know what her and Emily talked about yesterday but i said no. I was frankly too mad and knew if anything was said, I would be upset. Emily did not end up having a birthday party. and there is now an awkward silence between the 4 of us. it's like a horror movie, where the music is playing and you just know something bad is coming and you have to wait for it.
A few days later, I know i have to say something. I can feel that our friendship is hanging by a thread and I want my best friend back. So at lunch, while we're all sitting by our lockers I bring up the topic. I do not remember the conversation that took place. All I know was that Emily was practically screaming in my face, in front of all our friends (Clara, Sabrina and 5 of our other friends). Everyone is trying to get her to stop, but she keeps yelling at me. At some point I just start crying. Now this is the first time, that someone outside of my family, has ever made me cry. Its the first time I have ever cried at school too. The tears are flowing down my face as I just say "i'm sorry i cant do this" to the rest of our friends as i had off to the bathroom to calm down. Clara and one of our other friends rush off with me to try to calm me down and stop the tears. But they keep coming. I can't stop them and am now in the bathroom splashing my face with water and doing my best to wipe them all away. Clara, this other friend and i all have the same class next. So they have to literally drag me to class as I'm sort of paralyzed about whats happening. When we get to the classroom, everyone there, which was half of the class is looking at me and seeing my red, teared-up face. Our seats are at the very back corner of the classroom, on the very opposite side from the door. So i have to walk past the entire face as they all stare at me and wonder whats happening. the entire time im not really paying any attention. during little work periods in the class, my fellow classmates would walk up to me and ask if im okay. which i would say yes, i was even though i wasnt because what else could i say. I ended up powering through the rest of the day before going home and wonderign what to do.
In the secret gc, I text with Clara and Sabrina about what my next steps should be. They suggest we have an actual therapy session as a friend group to discuss if we even want to be friends at this point. I agree to this. I even start writing up my own speech I am going to tell Emily when i see her.
So I'm just going to jump ahead to whenever this happens. It's during lunch, outside on the grass field. I am calm, I know what to say and everything. I'm sitting there with Clara and Sabrina has to literally drag Emily out of school to come and talk. I kid you not. We have like an hour for lunch. It takes 20 minutes for Emily to finally show up. And she shows up like, "ugh what are we even doing here? im kinda busy" and just acts like there is nothing at all wrong. I start to calmly explain to her how ive been feeling the entire year. I do not remmeber the conversation. But what I remember talking about is how i feel like she's distant, she's always cancelling plans, im always the one texting her first, about how she gets mad at me for small little things, how she yells at me, etc. My whole speech was about how "i don't want to feel like sh*t for trying to continue this friendship". Because even after the first time she yelled at me, I just wanted an apology and we could move on and that didn't happen. And now Im just like I don't want to cry again and don't want my tears to come from someone who's supposed to be my best friend. She does argue her case in this. Her whole thing is how "i'm being clingy and annoying and controlling".
Now for her arguement, I think it should be known more about my persoanlity type. I am not the best people person. I have social anxiety and how that manifests in me is that i can't really talk to people that well. I don't know how to converse and get incredibly nervous to talk to anyone new. So when I do become friends with someone, I do latch on to them. I talk to them all the time, when i can, and they become my person. I think that is where the clingy party comes from. For the controlling/annoying thing, I can only chalk it up to me always texting her. Like i said, i would always have to be the one initating our conversations and plans. So our chats always look like 5 bubbles of text from me (because i am the person that types in multiple bubbles rather than one large text bubble) and her short responses. When it comes to plans, as I said i do not do spontaenous plans. I need to have them properly organized for both my parents sakes and my sake. I'm not someone who plans everything out minute by minute, I just need to know times and places. And if you are actually free.
Thankfully this time, Emily isn't yelling at me however she is talkimg a bit loudly. Now at this point we have spent 25ish minutes talking about this when she suddently gets up and says "i have to go otherwise i'll be late for my class and get in trouble". Which there is still 15 minutes before lunch ends. And her classroom is across the hallway from my next class with Clara. The walk from the grass field was literally 2 minutes. Our coversation wasn;t done. There was no convlusion and no real understanding on either part. So all of us get up as Emily starts speed walking and we all chase her. We're all telling her there is still so much time left, but she doesn't listen and still carries on. So then I say, "i don't want to be friends anymore if this is what it's going to be like". and she says "fine." and walks away. and that was the end of our friendship.
It was almost spring break and our friends were doing their best to navigate the situation. I think they believed we both needed time to cool down and we can all be friends again. However that didn;t happen. Emily and i agreed to be civil as we still had the same friend group but she never really hung out with us in the next couple days, or talked during lunch and that was it.
The two of us did not talk at all. The only times we did was in our Chemistry class, where she did the most un-civil thing ever. As I said we were lab partners. Anytime we had any lab, involing the microscope, I would always be the person doing the microscope work as Emily writes down the results of what I found. I would then get the numbers or obersations from her and add them to my worksheet as our teacher wanted us to work in partners but submit our own work. This one lab went off for too long and the bell rung. So as we are packing up quickly, I ask Emily for the numbers she wrote down. She said she's late for something and will send me the numbers later today. And I'm like fine. She never did. It was also a Friday so we went into the weekend and she never sent me anything. I did text her once on Saturday and another time on Sunday if she could send it. but she never replied and i just asked another classmate if they could send me their answers. If our teacher asked why did we as partners have different answers, I was going to tell him Emily wouldn't give them to me. He never did ask and that was the last time we really talked.
We then headed into spring break which ended up turning into the pandemic lockdown. Now I feel so bad when saying this, as i know this was a difficult time for so many people. But me as a 17-year-old high school studnet, loved the first few weeks of lockdown. I saw it as a mental health break as all the stuff that went down with Emily did in fact put me into a depression phase (I actually do have depression and i do end up in mini-phases where its really bad). The lockdown gave me time to breathe as it felt like i was holding my breath for so long and i could relax. Now in the fall, our school did a hybrid for our last year. Which was fine, it was weird but managable. Emily did not talk to me, Clara or Sabrina at all during our seniour year. We graduated and my friends and I had the best time we could under pandemic restrictions.
Current day, I (21) am now in university. Clara and Sabrina and I are as close as ever and have managed to keep our friendship alive and strong even 3-4 years outside of high school and while all attending different universities. We still hang out regularly (once every week or so) and text all the time. And would you believe it, Emily goes to my university. Remember, how I said she wanted to become a doctor. Yeah so her plan was to go to university in Toronto for some medicine thing. I don't really know. She didn't do that. Instead she stayed in our city and decided to do business instead. What am I doing, you ask? Also business. Now I know I can't claim a school, or a major or anything like that. But i can't lie, im a little annoyed that she decided to swtich her career path to the same as mine. Thankfully Ive only had one class with her and it was one of those big lecture halls so i didn't have to talk with her. Just seeing her tho reminds me of high school and i can feel my blood pressure rising and me sweating as all the nerves and stress come back.
Anyways Clara and Sabrina's birthdays are coming up. Their birthdays are within the same week so since high school, they've always just done one big combined party. The two of them are both really chill people, they are friends with everyone and anyone. So as their coming up with their birthday plans, they are thinking of their guest list and Emily is on it. Now, Clara and Sabrina did ask me beforehand if they could invite her. They do want to make sure I am comfortable. They both tell me that they don't really talk to her anymore, maybe once every 3 months or something. They also haven't hung out since high school. But for their 21st birthday they are thinking of inviting everyone from our high school friend group to have sort of a mini-reuinion. I am down for it, I do think i have moved on, in the sense that I know I do not want Emily in my life. I do tell them I will probably feel awkwad but I can manage for one night for their birthday.
As I'm telling my sister (F16) about Clara and Sabrina's party and who's coming, she asks me about Emily. She basically says if Clara and Sabrina are fine with inviting her, that means they have forgiven her for high school stuff, so am I not being a bit mean for holding on to my feelings? I am a person who believes there is no expirational date on any pain caused by a person. I should not have to "forgive and forget" a person, who has not asked for it and who caused me so much pain just because that is how the world has worked. But it go me thinking, am i being a bit rude?
So, two questions: AITA for what happened in high-school? (am i in the wrong for the friendship breakup) and AITA for not wanting to forgive her?
A FEW NOTES: (i'll add more when i think of it)
I have not spoken to Emily since grade 12. Not in person, not through people, not through text. We have had no contact with one another and i am fine with that. I do not want any relationship with her.
Clara and Sabrina are two of the sweetest people in my life. It does not hurt me at all they have the odd interaction with Emily at all. Afterall they do say its very minimal contact and the few times they have made plans with Emily included, they let me know well in advance, ask if its okay to invite her and all that. Each time I say its fine because I know Im in a good place to not feel bad.
I have never yelled at Emily. Nor have I ever spoken badly about her. With our mutual friends I might complain about the situation, but I never say anything bad about her. I should also say, Emily i don't think was well-liked. As I said the two of are good students, the smart kids, whatever else you want to say. However Emily is what would be described as a "teacher's pet" and does give off an arrogant vibe at times towards others. Some of my other friends/classmates would sometimes make comments about this to me, but i would always sort of downplay it. Like, oh that's not how she really is, she just cares a lot about school. A few times I would say the comments are harsh to some of the classmates. Her, on the other hand, has called me a controlling b*tch to several people. who have all told me about it. She did bad-mouth to quite a few people.
At some point in grade 11 (not really relevant to the main story, but might be part of the reason Emily's always made at me), but I was blamed for a rumour going around that Emily had a crush on this guy in our grade. Emily and I had to go to this one teacher's class for some notes or something. And in the class was this girl who I didn;t really like. So before we walk in I whisper to her, no one can hear, that "hey there's that girl i don't like". Emily then makes it so obvious that she is looking at this girl. And next to her is one of the popular boys in our class. Emily makes it so obvious that shes looking in his direction and does it a few times, that the rumour she likes this guy becomes a huge joke in our grade. She does not like this guy, never has liked this guy, but it is a joke that him and his friends carry on. This continues for the entire year, and Emily in our therapy session does mention this fact. She says its my fault that this joke has gone around. I don't see how.

Hello, I'm working on a problem and wanted to check if my outline of a solution was correct; FYI this is coming from MIT's free online theory of computation course, see problem 5 (https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-404j-theory-of-computation-fall-2020/11bbf83d05fe6b80ef69e40e223ea78f\_MIT18\_404f20\_hw2.pdf)
"A uselss state in a pushdown automaton is never entered on any input string. Consider the problem of determining whether a pushdown automaton has any useless states. Formulate this problem as a language and show that it is decidable"
The language would be a string representation of the PDA, e.g.:
L = { w w= "(Q, S, G, d, q_0, F)" and (its a valid rep. of PDA) and (it has a uselss state) }
where Q is a state tuple, S an input alphabet, G the stack alphabet, d the transition function, q the start state, and F the set of accept states
What I'm thinking is that first, you check if the string rep. is a valid rep of a PDA by checking if it fits the definition. If so, continue, if not reject. checking Q, q, and F seems straightforward ; S and G also seems straight forward, since its just confirming its in a alphabet set format. The transition function can be checked by just confirming all its rules take on the form Q x {S, ''} x { G, ''} P(Q x {G, ''}). these all involve checking finite sets/ functions on finite sets to finite sets, so this part should be decidable
If that all passes, we've got a valid state function, and the state function for the pushdown automata basically just describes a bi-directional graph ; take a representation of the states/state function, & build a string representation of the corresponding bi-directional graph < V, E(a,b) >. where V is the vertices and E(a,b) is the directed edge from vertex a to b.
then, for each starting state, see which states are reachable by just checking all the paths, and maintaining some representation for the set of vertexs we've already reached. After checking all paths from all starting nodes, we can check if anythings missing thats in the full vertex set V. If so a useless node exists.
Since there's a finite number of states, you can put a bound on the number of steps it would take to check all paths, something like (# of states), if at each step you add whatever new states were reachable from the previous step . So the algorithm terminates in a finite number of steps, and so its finding out if you have a useless state or not happens in a bounded number of steps, so its decidable.
as a loose outline does that work, and if not could i get a hint for what I'm missing?

Just to make it clear, i am cheap and i wanted to profit off of doing my own tires on my project bike. Its a teeny 125cc honda CBR 125R that i fixed up. Learnt the whole maintenance thing on it before i did the tasks on my big bike. Oil, air filter, brake lights, brakes, valves, ... and now tires.
Bought tire spoons for 18€ and putting on the tires would take 20€ each. Doing one set and suffering would yield unlimited returns forever!
Cue removing the front tire and suffering the consequences of not thinking ahead leading to me waggling the cbr to its storage space on its rear wheel almost pulling something in my back trying to keep it upright. Did not buy a front paddock so its resting on its forks on some boxes like the ratty project it is.
Got the tire off easily enough, in about half an hour with 3 tire spoons and some good force i managed to get the tire on BUT I WARPED THE DAMN THREAD TO THE FOURTH DIMENSION. I'm not the strongest but i got some muscle and boy did i use it. Must've messed up the 'put your knees down on the other side' cause i muscled that spoon over the rim with the intensity of an action movie shot just before the problem gets solved. Tire obviously wouldn't hold air.
Contemplated life for a while, ordered a new one and figured id put on the old tire (15yo) as a form of practice. If that went well id give the rear tire a shot, if not ill eat the costs and lament. Got me a bucket of soapy water and focused on putting my weight on one side while spooning the other side AND THE THING NEAR FLEW ONTO THAT RIM!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did not have to apply all that much power, just some leverages, steadily bit by bit and making sure i sat my stupid ass on the other side of the damn rubber.
Had some issues getting it to inflate, got a tip from the local subreddit discord to bounce the tire and lo and behold after my 20yo compressor got up to pressure for the third time i got a pop and a second or 3 later a second pop. Tire beaded and inflated. As it laid on the 60€ tire that i destroyed literally within half the hour of being delivered i couldnt even be happy. Spending 60€ to put on a tire almost old enough to ride the bike its put on.
Mind you i was doing the whole process in my bathroom due to the soapy water and at this point it was a mess.
As that one went well i went ahead and took the rear off the bike in the garage downstairs. Somehow i put the stand that held up the bike by its axle nuts far enough away that by the time i got the rear wheel loose i stood there, supporting the bike's tail on my shoulder, hunched over without anything to put under the bike. Managed to get it leaning against the wall for long enough to put the stand under and up i went, back to my bathroom.
Suffered a good while to get the bead to break as the bead breaking machine i'd borrowed and wanted to use for the tougher rear tire HAD A SUPPORTING ROD TOO THICK FOR THE DAMN WHEEL. So back to using spoons to pop that bead and getting off the tire and putting it back on. Double and triple checked whether i put it on right, spent 15 soapy minutes to get the rear on TO FIND OUT ID STILL PUT IT ON BACKWARDS. Getting the beads to pop went well though before i noticed. Improvement!
At this point id spent a good 4 hours struggling with these tires, the mental meltdown of breaking a tire and the struggle of breaking the bead and i took a breather. Figured id take this as a lesson learnt and just pay for the damn tire installation + balancing.
Having regained my calm i took off the tire, being mindful to not tear it off the rim like the frustrated mini-hulk i felt i was ONLY TO PUT ON THE DAMN REAR tire in 5 MAGNIFICENTLY SWIFT MINUTES and figuring out how to bounce the tire well enough that the double pop came near the same instant i put the pressured air compressor to the valve. What a beautiful sound.
Now i have 3-5 days to clean up the bike and wait for the front wheel and probably forget the tricks of how to put the damn rubber on and i'm oddly enthusiastic about putting it on so swiftly making my brain think we're still saving money in the future. Not sure whether i want to put on the tires on my big bike but we'll see...
And here i am, typing it as a form of free therapy, hope someone enjoyed the read.
TLDR: stupid monkey puts on motorcycle tires only to spend 4h+ on getting it 'right' and breaking one of them. Soapy water is magic and putting the tire to warm on a radiator makes the thing malleable like clay almost. Combine that with correctly utilizing the technique of pressing down the other side of the tire with your bodyweight or something else and the whole process went smoother than my brains are.

^{you always were special
always special to me
all of you
every
last
one
of
you}
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Sacajawea leaned back, staring at the hologram in the middle of the table.
"I fled the Glassing. I asked Luke to rebirth my people, help me get the colony ships working, then ran for it," she said. "Twelve ships lifted off, escorted by light attack and defense craft," she closed her eyes. "Only four made it. The Mantid boarded two of the ships," she swallowed thickly. "I could hear them scream as the Mantid killed them."
Legion squeezed her hand gently.
N'Skrek could see the pain in her features.
For her, it may be thousands of years ago, but it still brings pain, he thought to himself. For me, for all of us at this table, this is an event tens of thousands of years ago. Barely remembered history.
"We stayed in jumpspace for months, years, pushing at the upper bands," she shook her head. "We eventually hit the point where the ships were pushed back down by the pressure."
N'Skrek nodded. The upper jumpspace bands required specialized engines and jumpcores.
"We used cryogenics to make the trips," she said. "We would exit jumpspace, refuel at a far orbit gas giant that was not frozen, then jump again," she shook her head. "All I could think of was to run as far and as fast as I could, and bring my people with me."
She began drawing lines.
"Hundreds of years passed while we slept, a dreamless sleep," Sacajawea said. "We ran until the ships could run no more. Two of them failed exiting jumpspace, but we were lucky. By that time I understood that each jump could be our last, so I ensured that we headed toward stellar systems that had a high probability of a planet we could survive on."
She shook her head.
"I never entered cryo-sleep. I stayed awake, guiding our path," she inhaled sharply and exhaled slowly. "I could feel our path. I knew which way to go."
Luke held up one finger, getting everyone's attention.
"The Digital Omnimessiah, he changed us with his touch. Each of us with our own part to play to save humanity," he said. He glanced at Sacajawea. "She can see, feel probabilities and adjust to a shifting situation with nearly precognizant accuracy."
Sacajawea rolled her eyes and sniffed, pursing her lips. "You make it sound so pedestrian."
Luke just smiled.
"For hundreds of years I stood on the bridge of a damaged colony ship, my pointing finger our only guide," she said.
N'Skrek noted that her voice had fallen into a sing-song cadence.
"Finally I saw the six suns, arranged in the shape of an eagle," she said. "I knew, at that moment, that this would be as far as we could go. Our ships were failing, but they could make this last leg of our journey. I chose the best one for my people. It was nearly paradise, just needing a little bit of tweaking. No life higher than plant life and simple insects, perfect to live away from hatred, war, and slaughter."
She looked down.
"I led them to their doom," she said softly. "We had to rely on high technology at first. Terraformers, the gene banks that Luke had acquired, orbital lift capacity."
She shook her head. "Little did we know that the technology would attract what you call the Mar-gite."
N'Skrek shook his head. "No. You were just in the way," he said.
She looked startled.
"If the planet had carbon based life or an oxygen heavy atmosphere, they would have devoured it," N'Skrek said. He shrugged. "It's what they do. Before recently, we thought they were some kind of locust that just denuded planets and moved on."
"Now we know that they're a weapon, being driven in front of another species," Admiral Breakheader said.
She blinked several times, then turned to Luke.
"True story," Luke shrugged.
Sacajawea was silent for a long moment, then she shivered and touched the hologram again.
"I guided my people along the True Path, the one that promised the most happiness and most reward," she said. She glanced at Luke. "Those who wished to embrace more technology had their own spaces, although I did not dwell with them."
She looked down at where Luke was still holding her hand.
"For thousands of years, six thousand of our years," she said. "Then the Outsiders came."
"How long Confederate Standard?" Admiral Breakheader asked, rubbing his chin.
N'Skrek could hear the rustle of bristles from the Vice-Admiral's five-o-clock shadow.
Sacajawea closed her eyes. "Almost six thousand to the day."
Breakheader nodded, making a note.
"At first, they just appeared in out of the way locations. Someone would see them and they'd flee, move away, and eventually they started to show up more and more near the technological enclaves," Sacajawea shook her head. "It was the technology that they were attracted to."
N'Skrek just nodded.
"Then came the attacks. Our superluminal communication links went first, but not before we learned that we were being attacked on all six worlds simultaneously. We held them off for years, protecting ourselves. No matter what path I looked at, I could see no path that had a statistically viable path to victory, I could only minimize their victories," she closed her eyes. "They began capturing my people, abducting whole villages."
"Then came the Devouring Ones," she said. "Two years later, and we were gone."
Breakheader nodded.
"Initial scouting, followed by an assault, then research, then finished with an extermination attack," he said. He looked up. "Standard xenocide tactics."
Sacajawea looked way.
"He's right," Luke said. She looked at him, surprised. "You put up too stiff of a fight so they brought in their heavy hitters after getting a good look at how we worked."
There was silence for a moment, then Commander Hentrill looked up from her datapad. "How did you die?" she asked.
"What difference does it make?" Sacajawea asked.
Hentrill looked unfazed by the glare that Sacajawea aimed down her nose at her. "It makes a lot of difference, Ma'am," she said cooly.
N'Skrek could feel that Hentrill had developed a dislike for the Immortal over the course of the conversation.
"When they came for me, when I was the last, I stepped from the cliff and fell to the rocks below, where the waves washed against the shore. By the time they reached me, I had died from my injuries," Sacajawea said. "I sang as I fell so that..."
"Suicide. They gathered your lifeless corpse," Hentrill said. She narrowed her eyes. "You have a standard datalink for the Glassing Era. Did you have one when you fell?"
Sacajawea nodded. "It was on piece of technology that I felt was necessary to embrace," she said.
"So, you killed yourself and the enemy obtained your datalink and your brain," Hentrill said. "What about your leaders? You did have military leaders, yes?"
Sacajawea glanced at Luke, who nodded. "Yes. I convinced Luke to bring back great leaders of my people and I nurtured their spirits as I raised them during the trip."
"Did they have datalinks?" Hentrill asked.
Sacajawea nodded. "Yes. I had been told, repeatedly, that effective communication was vital to winning a war."
"Daxin," Luke interjected.
Sacajawea sniffed. "Yes."
Hentrill made a note. "Were your leaders targeted early in the conflict?" she asked.
"Of course," Sacajawea said. "Many were killed, but the technology we had allowed them to return within days, only missing a few days of their previous life. Luke had convinced Peter to ensure we had a version of the SUDS, which we only used for critically important people."
N'Skrek saw a muscle twitch next to Luke's eye, but he stayed smiling.
"But it was destroyed before the Devourers came," Sacajawea said. "It could not be helped. There was almost no path I could take that would prevent it from being destroyed, so I chose the path that would result in the least casualties for my people."
N'Skrek was not that familiar with Terrans, but he could tell that Commander Hentrill was rubbed the wrong way by that statement.
"I think we should take a break," N'Skrek said. He nodded toward Luke. "I am sure both of you are fatigued from being brought back from the dead."
"Yes," Sacajawea said before Luke could do much more than open his mouth. "I would prefer to have privacy to rest and perform necessary rites."
N'Skrek just nodded. "I'll be sure you get privacy."
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Legion stood next to the tank, one hand on the heavily armored skirt, staring at the black metal the tank was made from.
"Warsteel Mark-IV," he whispered to himself. He shook his head. "We are old friends, you and I," he said softly, running one hand across the metal. "Later superseded by arcanochromium for the Mark-V."
He didn't care if anyone heard him talking to the tank. There was just a single Telkan in the vehicle bay, running diagnostic checks on one of the big Telkan armored transports used for power armor troops.
^{your name is luke}
He shook his head, reaching up to pinch the bridge of his nose. He kept hearing slight buzzing whispers.
He felt her before he could see her. Felt her leave the lift, the warsteel doors pulling open and letting her presence roll out to fill the vehicle bay.
He heard her shoes clicking and closed his eyes, sighing.
It's not her. Not the one you knew. It's Tiffany, not Sacajawea, he thought to himself.
^{your name is luke}
He looked up just in time to see a green mantid wave shyly at him.
He smiled at it and waved back just as Sacajawea stopped next to him.
"A green mantid?" she said, her voice slightly fearful.
"Engineer caste," Luke said. "They like me."
"They are Mantid," Sacajawea said, her voice cold and hard.
"The war was thousands of years ago, and even if it wasn't, he is blameless in it," Luke said.
"But it is a Mantid," Sacajawea said. She watched coldly as the little green mantid waved and rushed away.
"I have more in common with him than I do with the majority of humanity," Luke said softly.
Sacajawea scoffed. "Surely not."
Luke nodded. "His kind was trapped inside their own minds. Capable of thought, artistic expression, fear, love, affection, all of it," he ran one finger along the armored track skirt of the tank, a fat purple spark jumping from between his finger and the black armor. "The whole war, until the Mechakrautlanders killed that Overqueen, they were inside their own little heads, screaming endlessly."
He ran his finger again, watching another spark jump out.
"When green mantids cluster up, their intelligence increases. Not by leaps and bounds, just slightly, but the bigger part is, they could feel the ones around them screaming but were unable to reach out and touch them," he said. He was silent a moment. "I understand them, they understand me. Both of us, bred and created to merely serve, without any thought as to our souls."
He turned arounds, looking at Sacajawea.
"They are among the Digital Omnimessiah's most fervent believers, and one of humanity's staunchest allies," he said. He motioned at the tanks around them. "You have been gone a long time, little sister."
"And you, did you live through the forty-thousand years? What did you do?" Sacajawea asked.
Luke shook his head. "I retreated. After the War in Heaven and in Hell, after the Flashbang, I retreated," he said. "I spent most of my time at Atlantis, which led to me being more or less imprisoned, away from the galaxy."
He flashed a smile.
"At least I had the Detainee for company. She's an interesting conversationalist."
Sacajawea just sniffed, looking around. "What is that?" she asked, pointing at the lone Telkan, who had just straightened up from the tracks and was wiping his hands off with a rag.
"A Telkan. An full member species of the Confederacy, an ally to humanity, who took part in the War in Heaven," Luke said. He waved at the Telkan, who waved back, and went back to inspecting the vehicle.
"It looks like a fox," Sacajawea said.
Luke cut her off with a motion of his hand. "I swear to God, you start talking to me about how they obviously embody the trickster spirit of the fox and thus are untrustworthy I'll put you right back where I found you," he said sharply.
Sacajawea pursed her lips in irritation.
"You have to let go. Let go of your preconceived notions. Let go of all the old hurts. It's been eight-thousand years for you and forty-thousand for the universe," Luke said softly, turning back to running his hand over the armor on the tank. "Even Daxin could see that."
Sacajawea snorted. "Like Daxin ever saw anything that wasn't in the sights of his guns."
Luke turned around, his jaw clenched. "You don't speak bad about him in my presence again," he snapped, drawing himself up to full height. "Not now, not ever again," he leaned forward slightly. "You weren't here. You left us, the Digital Omnimessiah was dead, and we were all bereft," sparks jumped out from under his boots and under the palm that rested on the tank's armor. "True, I spent over a thousand years running from him, but he was still my brother. It hurt more than anything not to be at his side when he died."
Sacajawea looked around at the tanks and armored vehicles. "He fell on some battlefield," she said. It was less a question and more a statement.
Luke shook his head. "No. He died, in his sleep, surrounded by his family. His children, grand-children, and great-grand children. He was finally at peace," he sighed. "When he arrived in Afterlife, he waited patiently for his wife and even though I wanted to spend time with him," he sighed again. "It was time to let the Walking War Crime rest."
Luke turned and faced Sacajawea. "In your mind, we are still the same as we were," he said gently. He reached out and took her hand in his. "But that is no longer true. We grew, we set aside old differences, we set aside old hatreds, and we moved forward rather than holding tight to the past."
She sniffed, looking away, but not pulling her hand away. "I have seen the history. A history of lies that glosses over the crimes and bloodshed."
"Temporal warfare counter-measures," Luke said. "After The Glassing, history and culture was lost. It was rebuilt from oral tales and fragmented records."
"Lies," she said again.
"Weaponized," Luke said. He pulled his hand free, jamming both hands into his pockets. "It's protected Terra, protected everyone, even your people, more than once. When the Atrekna came, that was probably the only thing that saved our people," he stared at her. "Saved humanity."
"So they don't care about the truth?" she asked.
"What truth? That thousands of years ago an aggressive Mantid hive wrecked up Earth? Nobody cares any more," he said. "That's the thing about them. They aren't like us. We can easily remember the Glassing. For them, it's a few paragraphs in a history book they read in school. Maybe some scholars look at that era," he looked up at the lights. "For the majority of humanity, the Glassing is as far and remote as the light of the stars in the sky," he looked back down. "And that's a good thing."
"I do not understand you," Sacajawea said.
^{she never did
not like i do
luke}
"You never did," Luke said. "You never did. She eventually understood me."
^{that's right
i understand you}
"You cloned me without my consent," she accused. She crossed her arms. "I await your justifications."
Luke just smiled. "I did. I cloned you without your consent. I told your clone that it was a clone," he looked up. "Then the Imperium caught us, turned us into the Immortals. Used her as a seer to determine how to reach victory, but she held information back and Daxin, at the head of the Martial Orders of Terra, broke the Imperium over his knee."
He looked back down. "Afterwards, she worked tirelessly on the Terra Restoration Project. While I was busy running, she returned to Terra, sought out the survivors of her people, and helped them restore their lands and way of life."
Sacajawea looked away. "As did I."
Luke chuckled. "She used temporal lensing to look back into the past, see the reality of the old ways, watch the rituals and daily life of the ancestors, and restored them."
"Yet, the history books are full of lies," Sacajawea sniffed.
"After the Second Temporal War, she understood and embraced the counter-warfare protocols. She helped interweave your people into the tales," Luke said. "Was it all lies? Partly. Like the best ones, it had good heaping helping of truth hidden inside the metaphors and personifications of events."
"And where is she now?" Sacajawea asked, watching the Telkan inspect the running gears of the armored vehicle.
"She led the Sky Nebula Alignment fleet. She led our peoples, all our peoples, to someplace where our enemies would not find us," Luke said. He turned and ran his hand over the armor again. "I stayed behind. I never lost faith that the Digital Omnimessiah would return."
He lifted his palm and made small figure eights on the armor with his fingertips.
"I loved her, so I let her go," he said softly. "She had seen it was the only way our people would survive a coming darkness."
He looked at Sacajawea. "She was right."
Sacajawea looked at where Luke was making small figure eights with his fingers on the armor. "There is no good path for me to take. All of them are risky, most of them I will perish," she said. She reached out and took his hand. "My best chances for survival is to flee," she lifted his hand and grasped it with both of hers.
"Come with me. Let us leave. You can take us elsewhere, where we have a chance of survival," she tilted her head to encompass the vehicle bay. "Too many of these paths lead to both our deaths. There are too few that lead to a place where we both survive."
Luke delicately removed his hand from hers, using one hand to lift her fingers from her grip on his hand one by one.
"No."
Sacajawea frowned. "No? Together, we can go somewhere else where we have a better chance to stand up to whatever comes and have a possibility of triumphing at a later date," she waved at the armored vehicles. "This way, the way that Treana'ad commander is taking us, is rife with nothing but death and destruction."
Luke stared at her for a long moment.
"You never understood," he said softly. "Your desire, your drive, to save your people, and yourself, blind you to the things that must be done," he put one hand on the tank again. "That sometimes the only path forward to success is the one fraught with the most danger, hardship, and suffering."
He turned away and started walking deeper into the vehicle bay.
"She understood," he said softly.
"I am not her," Sacajawea said.
"Obviously."
Sacajawea just sniffed and turned away, leaving the bay.
^{your name is luke}
By the tank, Jaskel wondered why the hell they'd chosen that particular bay for their little spat.
He looked at 8814, who was still practially hopping from foot to foot with happiness.
"I'm glad you got to meet him," Jaskel said honestly.
--yes ┏(＾0＾)┛┗(＾0＾) ┓ yes--
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Dhruv sat in the shadowy room, wearing a pair of exercise shorts, waiting.
Finally, he could smell cigarette smoke and a presence filled the room.
"What?" a voice asked from the shadows. The end of a cigarette brightened as a drag was taken off of it, briefly illuminating gun-metal gray eyes and severe cheekbones.
"I want a favor," Dhruv said.
He could feel the smile even if he couldn't see it.
"People in my care want ice water," the woman's voice commanded.
"I want you to look up SUDS records for me. I need you to process some of them so I can either talk to them or see their last moments," Luke said. He looked away from the glow of the cigarette. "Records from a long time ago."
"If I decide to do this, I'll need specifics," the woman said, exhaling smoke that curled into the figure of a man on his knees, face in his hand, sobbing.
"I'll provide them. They should be easy to find via their x, y, z, q coordinates," Luke said.
"Now for the big question," the woman said, chuckling.
"What?" Luke asked.
"Why should I help you?" the woman asked.
"Because I'm willing to make a deal with the Devil," Legion said.
This time he could see the glint of teeth in the smile.
^{your name is legion}
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F31, So I had a friend for 8 years with a m34 and we were very platonic, we met randomly while I was visiting a city outside of my province. He was also from out of the province, but we stayed in touch for 7 years. I watched his nieces and nephews grow up through Snapchat, we saw each other go through relationships, we kept up with each other daily, we built a solid friendship.
He visited me pre pandemic & it was the first time we’d actually hang out again since we met 7 years prior, we had so much fun, I introduced him to my friends, he’d visit 2 more times before he left the country(he had also gone through a breakup pre pandemic)
I opened up to him about a severely physically abusive relationship I endured and how it potentially disrupted my life, i needed him to write me a reference letter to submit with an important application that would determine my future, he wrote the letter, but upon asking him to sign, he started making excuses and i felt ignored, I still wished him well, I never bothered after many many attempts to reach him, irrespective of not signing the letter, I still tried checking in on him, so I let go after not hearing back. He was constantly posting on social media of his travels & friends, night outs etc. after months of silence, randomly he tags me on an instagram story of him in a country that was sentimental to me, even though we hadn’t been talking for a while. I didn’t know how to feels
Almost 2 years later he reached out saying he was going through things etc, I didn’t respond because so much time had gone by & I didn’t know if I could trust him anymore.
He followed up with a call a year later & wants to connect. I’m a bit iffy and not sure if he is being sincere or reaching out for a reason. Although I feel like things will never be the same even if we reconnect.
Would you allow someone like this back in your life? I have been burnt so many times because I am kind to a fault & often to my own detriment, I’ve set boundaries and I’m overcoming my people pleasing ways and I am currently isolating myself cos I’ve been through so much in relationships that I don’t know who has my best interest anymore.

For those of you who would like another show (/movie) featuring a restaurant/kitchen setting, trying to stay afloat day-to-day and an ensemble cast of entertaining characters then do I have the piece of media for you guys!
It’s called Boiling Point but there is something I have to clarify that’s a bit confusing.
If you search up Boiling Point, 3 results will come up because they all feature the same actor (Stephen Graham) and were all created by the same guy (Phil Barantini).
This is the chronological order that they came out: Boiling Point (2019, short film) Boiling Point (2021, hour and a half movie) Boiling Point (2023, 4 episode mini-series)
This is the correct viewing order: 2021 movie, then the mini-series and then if you liked both and want MORE, then check out the 2019 short film.
The 2021 movie is an excellently directed and acted movie that uses a one take (ooooh) to follow all the different waiters, chefs, managers and bartenders and perfectly build tension on a hectic night until the ending hits and everything finally stops. The mini-series is a direct continuation of the ending of the film and follows the cast of the movie as they continue their endeavours. As for the short film, that’s not connected to the plot of the other two but it is a fun watch as it’s also all in one take.
Two more things, it’s all British so if you aren’t British you might have to…y’know…yar har 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️. Last thing is that throughout the movie and especially the mini-series, their is a character that deals with a lot of mental health troubles and self-harm. So just be aware that that IS something mentioned/shown explicitly.
Quick edit: ALSO also, full disclosure, no it’s not as good as The Bear. It’s a still a fun watch though.

(Mods - I'm not trying to advertise a product or solicit research participants or anything, please take down of this is not appropriate!)
Hi all! long time lurker, first time poster. :) A little bit of background about myself - I got diagnosed with ADHD in my late 20s after a lifetime of white knuckling it through life. I've struggled with intense anxiety and depression as co-morbidities. I now go to therapy regularly and take medication and it took an immense amount of effort (re: I have major executive dysfunction issues lol) to even get where I am today.
What I'm finding the most overwhelming is that ... beyond semi-regular therapist check-ins and ADHD medication, I haven't found any structured tooling to help me navigate the day to day challenges of ADHD. Yes, there are some resources (books, coaches) and forums for tips and some tools out there, but even getting STARTED on researching those things and then figuring out the best implementation of them is overwhelming.
Recently, I've been mulling over why there isn't better tooling to help someone's ADHD management in day to day life. I can think of so many examples of things that I need help with but one major one is time blindness. It creates a ton of stress for me and impacts my relationships and even though I try to use timers and organize on calendars, in the moment, I'm still time blind.
Does anyone have recommendations of tools they use that help with time blindness? If not, would something like this be of use to you? I got laid off a few months ago and have been thinking about making something simple to help with this issue in my free time.

• I'm imagining something like a virtual "shadow buddy" time management coach. Say you need to leave the house in an hour, but you need to do your make up and put the laundry in the dryer first. You could set the session to 50 minutes and put in your headphones. Maybe it could then allow you to connect to external audio like Spotify or Netflix or Youtube if you're someone who needs some auditory stimulation while doing another task (I am lol). The session starts with someone saying "ok - remind yourself now of what you need to get done by the end of this session! I'm going to check in again every 10 minutes to let you know how much time you have left!". The tool then auto-jumps back to say, the audiobook you're listening too, and then 10 minutes later it pauses the audio and the virtual coach comes back with "hey! i'm checking back in, it's been 10 minutes and you have 40 minutes left. are you still on task? did you get distracted doing something else, or get overwhelmed and started scrolling? get back on track! i'll check back again in 10 minutes"... and so forth.

Thoughts?! Any existing tools that do this? (Again mods, if this is not allowed, totally understand, sorry if this is breaking any rules)

[EDIT: another question -- any idea how these things get flagged? Was this some sort of internal thing they picked up on with access to our bank accounts or whatever, or were we more likely reported by someone? I have an unfortunate feeling about a particular person who might be attempting to screw over my family right about now...]
Hey, I'm posting here cause I'm not really sure what to do. An investigator showed up at my house this morning when no one was home and spoke to my neighbor, asking questions about my family. I guess the investigator got ahold of my mom's phone number after, and through call/text, set up an "appointment" with her next week at our county social services center (San Diego County, CA). We've been on CalFresh for years and never had this happen, so I called to make sure it wasn't a scam or anything, and the person on the phone told me to go to the county office to double check with them. The county office was able to verify it was a real request, and advised us to do as he said and show up at our scheduled time. We asked what the appointment was in regard to, and they said there was an "ongoing investigation" but "couldn't provide us any details." After a quick google search, we learned that we are likely being investigated for fraud.
I don't think we've done anything wrong, but it does seem like there are a lot of families this has happened to who have very similar stories to ours. For context, I live with my mom and sister, and my parents are separated. My dad lives locally, but my sister and I only live with our mom. The county has always been aware of our situation ever since our very first eligibility interview years ago, and know that my dad kicks down money every month for our house's mortgage since it's in both of my parents' names, among a few other basic living expenses for my sister and I. This isn't a legally bound alimony/child support thing, as they are not officially divorced for financial reasons and we are both 18+. He did recently enroll in MediCal, so maybe that has something to do with it, now that he's in their system or something they've flagged him? I'm really not sure.
Before I go in next week, I just really would like to know what to prepare for. I am an authorized representative on our account, and I will be attending this "appointment" with my mom (Do we even legally have to attend this? I don't know). I'm prepared for them to accuse us of something and to try and get us to sign documents unknowingly as it sounds like they often do. Is there anything else I need to know in regards to what rights I have, or does anyone know of any legal support services that might be able to help with this? I am determined not to go into this and admit guilt to something we didn't do or let them bully us and revoke our benefits if at all possible. My mom is freaking out thinking they're going to send her to jail or something and I just want to make sure I can handle as much of this as possible for her. Any help at all would be incrediby appreciated. Thanks!!

Me: Wouldn't it be fun to wait to post this in the summer so you can say happy Christmas in July for once? Also me: that's a terrible joke. Just publish the thing.
Apologies for publishing in 2 parts. I'm not trying to drag it out I'm just aware this is the length of 2 episodes, reddit will only allow me 20 pics per post, and there's just too much going on for our beloved idiot in this one, so. I'm pacing myself.
It's not Christmas in July, it's Christmas 1919 at Downton and I spent an embarrassing amount of time wondering if Mr Fellowes really wants me to believe that the Crawleys decorated the Goliath of Christmas trees themselves (they didn't, but I like that Mary was sipping her tea and offering her view on things. Queen👑 ).
Plus, the setup for this episode intro had an actual checklist:
Tree? Check
Family arriving? Check
Violet judging this year's Christmas cards and looking for the contenders for worst cards of the year (they judge them on both content, and actual card)? Check
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Anna gets a gold heart brooch from Mary and Mrs Hughes is as excited about it as she is. Also, I can see the inspo for the entire Anna/Mary tag on AO3 right here. And Mrs Hughes ships it.
Just kidding, Bates is in prison, and we're all very sad.
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Carlisle is wondering why the Crawleys are being kind to their servants by letting them have some time off at lunchtime on Christmas Day, and I'm wondering if anyone (namely, us, the viewers) is supposed to be surprised by his behaviour.
I mean, blackmailing Lavinia just because? Blackmailing Mary into an engagement with him? Trying to manipulate Anna and Carson? Being physically abusive to Mary, and trying to control her life and behaviour? Bringing Lavinia back to "sacrifice" her to a lifetime as Matthew's nurse, so Mary won't spend that much time with Matthew (not because there was something off about that, just that Carlisle didn't want her to)?
He is an asshole. He was an asshole. He will always be an asshole. Glad we're finally all on the same page.
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Matthew and Mary are exchanging presents behind Robert's head in one scene and I'm very upset by it. Please, if anyone has any ideas, submit what you think they got each other for Christmas.
If you need any inspiration, here's what people would buy each other as presents in the 1920s according to the British Newspaper Archives:
Lots of cigarette paraphernalia Cocktails Banjos PENCILS Dance Frocks Shaving Kits Vacuum Cleaners
Keep that list in mind if you're disappointed with your presents next year.
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Matthew got a telephone call telling him that Mr Swire is very ill, and he will got to London to visit him. Mary gives him some condolences and he says "I'm sorry if I'm casting a gloom". I have a feeling the poor man had been pretty depressed for quite long, probably perked up a bit for Christmas and thought he was bringing the mood down again, but Mary responds with compassion. Oh Matthew.
Carlisle saw Mary go after Matthew in the hall, to ask about Mr Swire, and literally took his newspaper with him and followed her out there because that's completely normal behaviour. Just picture the ridiculousness of it: Mary and Matthew talking about Mr Swire and Bates' trial, romantic themes that they are, and Carlisle is so annoyed by it he's standing there in the background. Reading a newspaper, just to make sure they know he's still around (who could forget, mate).
Also, Mary saying she'll attend Bates' trial to support Anna, and Matthew immediately going "Would you like me to go with you?". Because of course he wants to support Mary in all things.
And this is Matthew's first villainous act for the episode: He asks Carlisle "or will YOU do that?" as in, since you're here, will you be supporting Mary in this endeavour.
Of course he isn't. Carlisle could never understand the concept of being there as emotional support for a Servant. He can't even understand why one would give a servant a few hours off on Christmas Day.
And just like that, Matthew scores one point in showcasing that Carlisle is a waste of space.
Matthew's Villainy points so far: 1
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Btw, Matthew has a few sets of looks reserved for Carlisle: Derision, derision, and more derision.
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They're playing charades (aka The Game), Mary is mimicking falling down, Matthew has a front row seat to it, and they're not playing on the same team so she can't rely on him to guess. Which means he can sit back and have the time of his life.
Carlisle complains about not liking the game and I'm left to wonder why he wanted that life so much since he could find nothing to enjoy in it.
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Mary IS still trying with him, however. He complains again on New Years Eve about the servants having some time off, and she reasons that it only happens twice a year, and he complains again that she doesn't understand because she didn't have to work for what she has.
Fellowes finally does the work on these two. I was having a conversation with another user recently, who was wondering why Mary picked Carlisle when she could have picked someone like Evelyn Napier.
Let's forget the Pamuk Scandal for a moment. Mary clearly wanted something more other than a traditional marriage. When we meet her, she's 21. She already has a husband in her pocket, if all she wanted was a position in society and a title, she'd have already been married to Patrick in 1912. But clearly, she wanted more out of life than to be someone's wife.
She wanted love, and she wanted to have something to do, whatever that was. She would have found both in Matthew, if things hadn't gone to complete shit, so why not consider Carlisle (back when he seemed normal)?
He was a working, self-made man, so he was interesting to her. He wasn't the run-of-the-mill rich boy she'd been exposed to her entire life, and if she married him she'd have a job in establishing him in London society and helping him build his empire. She'd Work, in short. She'd be allowed to use her brain.
But they don't match. At all. He offered her a marriage of convenience, and then was upset that she loved someone else, when Carlisle never offered her love in the first place. She wanted to be able to go about her life, he wanted her under his thumb to do his bidding. She was raised to have a certain respect for other people (e.g. the servants in the house), he thought that because he had money he could do whatever the fuck he wanted.
In short, they don't work together. Not even taking into account he was blackmailing her with a scandal, and Matthew was off stage left being Villainous (according to Carlisle. Villain, Perseus, it's all a matter of perspective.)
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I love how they contrast Carlisle's ruthlessness with Matthew's compassion (and look how she looks up to him). Because Matthew is also a working man, but he's kind. And even though he didn't have any connection to mr Swire anymore, he stood by him in his hour of need, to the bitter end.
Speaking of contrasting Carlisle's assholery to Matthew:
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Rosamund's WhatsHisFace of a suitor points out there's only three women following the shoot, and they should divide their time between the men taking part in said shoot (God forbid women are not around to entertain these assholes gents). Carlisle immediately rebuffs him before Mary can get a word in, saying "Lady Mary will stand by ME". Mary is about to, very politely, put him in his place, when Matthew comes in for his second act of Villainy so far, saying "I thought you said you'd stand by me for the first shoot, isn't that what you said?"
He doesn't push her to go with him, he's just giving her an exit plan. So that Mary doesn't have to bring herself in an awkward position in front of all those people, to defend her right to an opinion. And Mary takes it. Of course she does. She can show Carlisle he doesn't get to dictate what she does, and do so in a way that doesn't create gossip.
Matthew's Villainy points so far: 2
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Look how he looks at her. He's so happy she took him up on it. Whatever else happened beyond this, they were friends. He cared for her, and she cared for him. And he has her back here, and she accepted it, so easily. And that made him happy (and so, so smug. A true Villain).
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She loves how un-selfconscious he is. She's always loved it, all those years ago at the flower show when he'd mock himself for her benefit, to make her laugh. He does it here still but now she's not surprised by it, just endlessly fond. Dozens of men spent years showing off their (probably mediocre) skills, to win her favour, and of course she'd fall for the guy who was just being honest. Mary likes honesty, she never got much of it. Her world is a show of mirrors where nothing is what it seems, and it must have been so refreshing to be with someone who was exactly what he showed the world. It's only sad that it took her so long to realise that just as she loved him for who he was, he'd do the same. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
"He does rather beg to be teased" - this asshole has been deliberately messing with Carlisle for ages, hasn't he. I've only counted 2 Villainy points, but I bet he earned himself dozens before. Whenever he'd get pissed off at something Carlisle said he'd just whisk Mary away, just to show him that he could, even if Carlisle was the fiance, Matthew was still an important person in her life, and he'd always be, and he made sure Carlisle knew that (and took great, great enjoyment in it).
Mary: The awful truth is, he’s starting to get on my nerves. Still, you’re not the person to burden with that.
Matthew: You’re still going to marry him, though.
Mary: Of course. Why wouldn’t I.
Matthew is not happy about this. He appears to not understand it, and I wish I could give him a a nice shake. Regardless of the information he doesn't have, Matthew, mate, it's not like she hasn't met other men. Like it or not, most of your lot back in the day belonged in the bin.
And Mary, as a high-society woman, didn't have a lot of options. She had to get married. And at least Carlisle wanted to buy Haxby, she'd be near her family, spend time in London. Before she'd have hoped to actually get some work done, within the capacity her marriage would allow her, but with things being as they are with Carlisle I think she's now hoping he'd be busy with his work and she could get on with her days and maybe not see much of him, as most couples of their class did. And that's not taking into account the actual reason why Mary thinks she absolutely Must marry Carlisle.
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Also, Matthew, let's not pretend you'd like any man she brought home. So either take a deep breath and confess some things, or get on with it.
Carlisle asks Mary why she and Matthew were laughing together. He asks "Am I never to be free of him?" and her answer is, of course not. Because, of course not. First of all, sorry to say Richard, but, they're a package deal.
I can't see either one of them giving up the other willingly, not after all this. But of course, the main thing is the aristocracy thing. He's the head of the family, you'll see A Lot of Matthew, if you and Mary get married. And Matthew has spent almost every minute of the episode so far making sure Richard knows this. One would say, he's trying to push him out (like a villain), through his sheer presence in Mary's life.
"I might understand if you let me think for a solitary minute that you preferred my company to his."
Here's another problem: He should know, this wasn't part of their terms. Of course, he's not an aristocrat, so he's not aware of how loveless marriages of convenience work, but since it WAS a loveless marriage of convenience he was offering, I wonder why THE FUCK, he demands her attention now.
Mary would perform her duty to him. She'd be the best hostess London ever saw. She'd be the pretty wife on his arm, and she'd charm his contacts, and she'd be the stepping stone for him to be accepted in aristocratic circles, and she'd give him children and hold his house. And yes, she'd love spending time with her family, and that included Matthew.
Richard is just being a petty, controlling, fuck. Because he wants more than she's willing to offer, and he wants more than what he'd originally asked. So he, can shove it.
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Richard: I’ve done everything I can to please you.
Mary: Do you mean you bought a large and rather vulgar house?
Richard: You cannot talk to me like that! What have I done to deserve it? What?!
Would you like a list of your crimes, Richard? I've posted it a bit further above.
Also, Mary. She was hoping he'd offer her an interesting life (before he turned out to be an asshole). But all he's offered so far is the same old bullshit she's been offered all her life: A big empty (emotionless) house.
A demanding husband. A life full of constraints and limitations, set to her by a husband who expects to dictate everything she does.
It's at this point that Matthew, clearly the villain of the story, shows up because he hears Richard yelling at Mary and that just won't do.
My beloved idiot covers for Richard here. And she does it because of something she said to Matthew before "He's starting to get on my nerves, but you're not the person to burden with that."
She doesn't want Matthew to feel like he has to come to her rescue. She heard him, when he told her they can't be together (many times) in the previous episodes. And she loves him, so she's let him be. She knows he's got his own troubles, that he's been through a lot, and that shows with how she watches him walk away with a fair bit of worry in her eyes. Plus, she doesn't want him to do anything for her out of obligation. She just wants them to be friends, and friends don't solve your marital (or, in this case, pre-marital) problems. They can provide comedic relief, and support, but that's about it.
And as we said, Matthew is clearly the villain of this story.
Speaking of which, Matthew interrupted Richard's yelling at Mary so, I guess that means - Matthew's Villainy points so far: 3
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Speaking of friends: Matthew will be there, for Mary (and Anna) at Bates' trial, and Mary asks to be there when he brings back Mr Swire's ashes, since the man wanted to be buried next to his daughter (who had to be buried at Downton, and not near her home in London, for maximum guilt-trip points I guess).
I love how those two care, and support each other in difficult times. It IS what friends do. Of course, Carlisle is not happy about that either. And listen, if he was in love with Mary, I'd be very understanding. I'd be telling him to cut his losses and run. I'd be empathising. But I'm like, you've been an absolute tool for years now mate, how am I supposed to see your POV, when you're basically worrying that if those two, at some point, get their heads out of their asses and realise they make a great couple, you'll lose your trophy wife you've trapped in a marriage, through sheer luck (on your end).
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Carlisle, after that entire day of watching Mary and Matthew having a nice time out with the family, pressures Mary to set a wedding date. Mary wants to wait, I guess she hopes for some godly intervention because she definitely doesn't see any other way out of her current situation, and he goes so far as to literally grab her, and in front of her family too.
I'm finally not the only one who wants to shoot him dead. Of course, Robert won't do anything about it because when has Robert ever done anything for Mary (so far), but Matthew looks tempted.
(I had to cut out poor Carson because there's too many people on this frame as it is, but shout out to him for also worriedly watching in the background).
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Matthew: Mary. Can I help?
Mary: After today, I won’t insult you by asking what you mean.
Matthew: You don’t have to marry him, you know. You don’t have to marry anyone. You’ll always have a home here as long as I’m alive.
First of all, I LOVE, that his reaction was to ignore Carlisle, run after Mary, and ask her if he can help. He's not offering to be a saviour. Mary doesn't need one of those (she does need to find that steel in her spine though). But he's offering to support her, and he says it in a way that implies he'd do pretty much anything she asked (Do you want to poison him? I'll help carry him to the pigs pen).
Second of all, Matthew, you absolute Idiot.
Mary supporting you in your grief, you supporting her with Bates' trial, that's normal friend behaviour.
You telling her she can LIVE with you forever, and so she doesn't have to Marry Any Man, is so, so dumb.
What is she going to live with you as, Matthew? Your cousin again? Where is the cousinl-y behaviour line drawn? Private dinners? Maybe with some candles and soft music? Holidays in Europe together?
Also, where is that imaginary limit you've put to your happiness with her for the sake of Lavinia's (very real, according to canon) ghost, mate?
You clearly seem happy enough to spend time with Mary, support her, laugh with her. Is it just the romance that's killing your mood?
Is it that that's the harshest punishment Matthew could imagine, spending his life next to Mary without actually spending his life WITH her, or is it that in spite of how much he wanted to suffer for his mistake, he just couldn't bring himself to cut ties entirely? Or is it that her happiness was more important than his self-imposed martyrdom, so he couldn't keep himself away and let her throw away her life for God knows what (her own mistake, is the answer, because they both like making themselves suffer for past sins. They've got A LOT in common).
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Mary: Didn’t the war teach you never to make promises? And anyway, you’re wrong. I do have to marry him.
Matthew: But why? Not to prove you’ve broken with me, surely? We know where we stand. We’ve no need for...gestures.
Mary: If I told you the reason, you’d despise me, and that I really couldn’t bear.
She makes me so sad. She's so certain she'll be ruined and kicked out of her house if the scandal ever came out.
And I get it. It was how she'd been raised. And all she's heard so far is how she's "a slut" and "damaged goods" and Mary's self-image is in tatters. She doesn't view herself as anyone worth fighting for, she doesn't want anyone else to fight for her, and she won't even fight for herself, and to me that's the saddest part of all.
She's entirely defeated, has been for a long time. This entire season. She's taken every blow and hasn't dodged them at all. Welcoming Lavinia, accepting Matthew as a friend and nothing more. Being by his side when he got injured, taking care of him and accepting his rejection without a peep. Listening to him announce his wedding and helping Lavinia plan it. Baring herself to Carlisle, giving him "the tools to destroy her", willingly, to salvage the family name, and to help Bates. And later letting Matthew call her, and himself "cursed", and walking away from it, somehow. Probably because she believes it.
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She told Carson, after Pamuk died, that "she knows what it means to be happy, but she knows she herself will never be happy" and she has proved to have embraced that sentiment, fully. Her despair back then is reflected here. Mary is not looking for happiness. She's just looking for cover. Some place where she can be sure she won't be hurt anymore.
She didn't believe that would be in a marriage with Matthew, and Matthew's strict morals so far, and his own self-hatred, have only further proven to her that she had been correct. She thinks that if Matthew can't excuse himself a kiss with a woman he loved, he won't ever excuse her having sex with a man she didn't love. And for all the unhappiness, all the cold comfort she sees in her future, she at least has his friendship. And how could she ever risk losing that? What would she be left with? Who else is there in the world, that supports her like he has? Her mother, who brought back Lavinia to push her away from Matthew? Her father? Who values the family above all else? Nothing. And no one. Just Matthew.
So she can bear Carlisle's cruelty, his moods and his demands. And she can bear the thought of living life on his arm to be paraded around London society for his benefit. But she can't bear the thought of Matthew thinking ill of her. Can't bear having him look at her the way her mother, or her sister did. And she's so honest here in her pain. She hasn't shown any of it, of the backloads of it, to anyone other than Anna, all season. But she can't keep it in now, after all that, in front of Matthew.
My poor broken child 💔
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She hears Cora yell her name and there's despair in her eyes. Even now she has family obligations to fulfil, so whatever emotional breakthrough she could have made, gets interrupted because heaven forbid she's not there for the Crawleys to play card games with.
Before I forget, Matthew goes after Mary, hoping to help her in her hour of need therefore, Matthew's Villainy points so far: 4
Matthew directs that accusatory look to Cora and I'm so proud of him for that. Cora's involvement in Mary's life has been nothing short of catastrophic. With her only saving grace being the fact that she wasn't actually willing to throw her daughter out of her house. I don't know how she gets to be so worried about the situation now, considering it's, largely, of her own making.
This whole season has been about pain and loss, in its various forms. And Mary's has been largely contained, because that's who she is, she keeps everything close to her heart, especially the things that hurt her. But it's all spilling out in this episode. There's so many things she can't contain, like Carlisle's jealousy, her own grief, at this point, after so many years. And for all those who look, it's the most obvious thing in the world, that Mary is suffering.
Well. Almost all.
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Robert calls Carlisle grabbing Mary in front of her family "an awkward moment", and calls Mary "tired" of Carlisle.
Yes, Robert. Of all the things Mary is feeling at the moment, tiredness is one of them. Not sure if it's the most obvious one, but with you I've learned to bring a small basket.
He also, unlike Matthew, doesn't respect Mary enough to go up to her and ask her if she needs anything from, idk, her father. Some help, some advice. He asks his wife to tell him if he's overlooked anything, and how is the answer to that not "Pretty much everything that's ever happened in this house".
And at this point, I will leave you, because we're half way through and I've already hit both my word, and my image limit. The first one is self-imposed, for the second one, send your grievances @ reddit.

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[16.05 20:55:25] [Multicraft] Loaded config for "Default" [16.05 20:55:26] [Multicraft] Updating eula.txt file [16.05 20:55:26] [Server] latestPulling from venturenodellc/multicraftjava [16.05 20:55:26] [Server] Digestsha256:75fd9b1308c1a7cdf4a970d7ccd98665035883519764d7755838bec6ccf3b38c [16.05 20:55:26] [Server] StatusImage is up to date for venturenodellc/multicraftjava:latest [16.05 20:55:28] [Server] [Log4jPatch] [INFO] Patching org/apache/logging/log4j/core/pattern/MessagePatternConverter [16.05 20:55:28] [Server] [Log4jPatch] [WARN] Unable to find noLookups:Z field in org/apache/logging/log4j/core/pattern/MessagePatternConverter [16.05 20:55:28] [Server] [Log4jPatch] [INFO] Patching org/apache/logging/log4j/core/lookup/JndiLookup [16.05 20:55:28] [Server] 2024-05-22:55:28,376 main WARN Advanced terminal features are not available in this environment [16.05 20:55:28] [Server] [main/INFO] [cp.mo.mo.LauncheMODLAUNCHER]: ModLauncher running: args [--launchTarget, forgeserver, --fml.forgeVersion, 40.2.0, --fml.mcVersion, 1.18.2, --fml.forgeGroup, net.minecraftforge, --fml.mcpVersion, 20220404.173914, nogui] [16.05 20:55:28] [Server] [main/INFO] [cp.mo.mo.LauncheMODLAUNCHER]: ModLauncher 9.1.3+9.1.3+main.9b69c82a starting: java version 17.0.8 by Oracle Corporation [16.05 20:55:28] [Server] [main/INFO] [mixin/]: SpongePowered MIXIN Subsystem Version=0.8.5 Source=union:/libraries/org/spongepowered/mixin/0.8.5/mixin-0.8.5.jar%2314!/ Service=ModLauncher Env=SERVER [16.05 20:55:28] [Server] [main/INFO] [io.do.se.co.SerializationIsBad/]: Initializing SerializationIsBad, implementation type: modlauncher [16.05 20:55:28] [Server] [main/INFO] [io.do.se.co.SerializationIsBad/]: Using remote config file [16.05 20:55:28] [Server] [main/INFO] [io.do.se.co.SerializationIsBad/]: Loaded config file [16.05 20:55:28] [Server] [main/INFO] [io.do.se.co.SerializationIsBad/]: Blocking Enabled: true [16.05 20:55:28] [Server] [main/INFO] [io.do.se.co.SerializationIsBad/]: Loaded Patch Modules: 39 [16.05 20:55:29] [Server] [main/WARN] [ne.mi.fm.lo.mo.ModFileParseLOADING]: Mod file /libraries/net/minecraftforge/fmlcore/1.18.2-40.2.0/fmlcore-1.18.2-40.2.0.jar is missing mods.toml file [16.05 20:55:29] [Server] [main/WARN] [ne.mi.fm.lo.mo.ModFileParseLOADING]: Mod file /libraries/net/minecraftforge/javafmllanguage/1.18.2-40.2.0/javafmllanguage-1.18.2-40.2.0.jar is missing mods.toml file [16.05 20:55:29] [Server] [main/WARN] [ne.mi.fm.lo.mo.ModFileParseLOADING]: Mod file /libraries/net/minecraftforge/lowcodelanguage/1.18.2-40.2.0/lowcodelanguage-1.18.2-40.2.0.jar is missing mods.toml file [16.05 20:55:29] [Server] [main/WARN] [ne.mi.fm.lo.mo.ModFileParseLOADING]: Mod file /libraries/net/minecraftforge/mclanguage/1.18.2-40.2.0/mclanguage-1.18.2-40.2.0.jar is missing mods.toml file [16.05 20:55:30] [Server] [main/INFO] [ne.mi.fm.lo.mo.JarInJarDependencyLocato]: Found 31 dependencies adding them to mods collection [16.05 20:55:30] [Server] [main/ERROR] [ne.mi.fm.lo.ModSorteLOADING]: Missing or unsupported mandatory dependencies: [16.05 20:55:30] [Server] Mod ID'placebo', Requested by: 'ender_bags', Expected range: '[6.0.1,)', Actual version: '[MISSING]' [16.05 20:55:30] [Server] Mod ID'placebo', Requested by: 'clickmachine', Expected range: '[6.2.0,)', Actual version: '[MISSING]' [16.05 20:55:30] [Server] Mod ID'placebo', Requested by: 'gateways', Expected range: '[6.6.2,)', Actual version: '[MISSING]' [16.05 20:55:30] [Server] Mod ID'placebo', Requested by: 'apotheosis', Expected range: '[6.6.6,)', Actual version: '[MISSING]' [16.05 20:55:36] [Server] [main/INFO] [mixin/]: Compatibility level set to JAVA_17 [16.05 20:55:36] [Server] [main/ERROR] [mixin/]: Mixin config tklib.mixin.json does not specify "minVersion" property [16.05 20:55:36] [Server] [main/ERROR] [mixin/]: Mixin config betterhurttimer.mixins.json does not specify "minVersion" property [16.05 20:55:36] [Server] [main/ERROR] [mixin/]: Mixin config vc.mixins.json does not specify "minVersion" property [16.05 20:55:36] [Server] [main/ERROR] [mixin/]: Mixin config supercircuitmaker.mixin.json does not specify "minVersion" property [16.05 20:55:36] [Server] [main/ERROR] [mixin/]: Mixin config vs_takeoff.mixins.json does not specify "minVersion" property [16.05 20:55:36] [Server] [main/ERROR] [mixin/]: Mixin config kubejsadditions.mixins.json does not specify "minVersion" property [16.05 20:55:36] [Server] [main/ERROR] [mixin/]: Mixin config kubejsadditions-common.mixins.json does not specify "minVersion" property [16.05 20:55:36] [Server] [main/ERROR] [mixin/]: Mixin config goodall-common.mixins.json does not specify "minVersion" property [16.05 20:55:36] [Server] [main/ERROR] [mixin/]: Mixin config goodall.mixins.json does not specify "minVersion" property [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/ERROR] [mixin/]: Mixin config rottencreatures-common.mixins.json does not specify "minVersion" property [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/ERROR] [mixin/]: Mixin config rottencreatures.mixins.json does not specify "minVersion" property [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/INFO] [mixin/]: Successfully loaded Mixin Connector [com.sonicether.soundphysics.MixinConnector] [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/INFO] [mixin/]: Successfully loaded Mixin Connector [shetiphian.core.mixins.MixinConnector] [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/INFO] [mixin/]: Successfully loaded Mixin Connector [de.erdbeerbaerlp.dcintegration.forge.DCMixinConnector] [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/INFO] [mixin/]: Successfully loaded Mixin Connector [ca.spottedleaf.starlight.mixin.MixinConnector] [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/INFO] [mixin/]: Successfully loaded Mixin Connector [shetiphian.endertanks.mixins.MixinConnector] [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/INFO] [cp.mo.mo.LaunchServiceHandleMODLAUNCHER]: Launching target 'forgeserver' with arguments [nogui] [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Reference map 'createdeco.refmap.json' for createdeco.mixins.json could not be read. If this is a development environment you can ignore this message [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Reference map 'tournament-forge-refmap.json' for vs_tournament.mixins.json could not be read. If this is a development environment you can ignore this message [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Reference map 'yungsextras.refmap.json' for yungsextras.mixins.json could not be read. If this is a development environment you can ignore this message [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Reference map 'yungsextras.refmap.json' for yungsextras_forge.mixins.json could not be read. If this is a development environment you can ignore this message [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Reference map 'miniutilities.refmap.json' for miniutilities.mixins.json could not be read. If this is a development environment you can ignore this message [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Reference map 'lemonlib.refmap.json' for lemonlib.mixins.json could not be read. If this is a development environment you can ignore this message [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Reference map 'compactmachines.refmap.json' for compactmachines.mixin.json could not be read. If this is a development environment you can ignore this message [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Reference map 'vc-forge-refmap.json' for vc.mixins.json could not be read. If this is a development environment you can ignore this message [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Reference map 'farmersrespite.refmap.json' for farmersrespite.mixins.json could not be read. If this is a development environment you can ignore this message [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/INFO] [Canary/]: Loaded configuration file for Canary: 106 options available, 0 override(s) found [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Reference map 'grapplemod.refmap.json' for grapplemod.mixins.json could not be read. If this is a development environment you can ignore this message [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Reference map 'supercircuitmaker.refmap.json' for supercircuitmaker.mixin.json could not be read. If this is a development environment you can ignore this message [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Reference map 'takeoff-forge-refmap.json' for vs_takeoff.mixins.json could not be read. If this is a development environment you can ignore this message [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Reference map 'kubejsadditions-forge-refmap.json' for kubejsadditions.mixins.json could not be read. If this is a development environment you can ignore this message [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Reference map 'art_of_forging.refmap.json' for art_of_forging.mixins.json could not be read. If this is a development environment you can ignore this message [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Reference map 'xlpackets.refmap.json' for xlpackets.mixins.json could not be read. If this is a development environment you can ignore this message [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Reference map 'goodall-forge-refmap.json' for goodall.mixins.json could not be read. If this is a development environment you can ignore this message [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Reference map 'everycomp.refmap.json' for everycomp.mixins.json could not be read. If this is a development environment you can ignore this message [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Reference map 'bloodmagic.refmap.json' for bloodmagic.mixins.json could not be read. If this is a development environment you can ignore this message [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Reference map 'simplyswords-common-refmap.json' for simplyswords-common.mixins.json could not be read. If this is a development environment you can ignore this message [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Reference map 'simplyswords-forge-refmap.json' for simplyswords.mixins.json could not be read. If this is a development environment you can ignore this message [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Reference map 'rottencreatures-forge-refmap.json' for rottencreatures.mixins.json could not be read. If this is a development environment you can ignore this message [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Reference map 'immersive_paintings-common-refmap.json' for immersive_paintings.mixin.json could not be read. If this is a development environment you can ignore this message [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Reference map 'ars_instrumentum.refmap.json' for ars_instrumentum.mixins.json could not be read. If this is a development environment you can ignore this message [16.05 20:55:37] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Reference map 'bloodsmeltery.refmap.json' for bloodsmeltery.mixin.json could not be read. If this is a development environment you can ignore this message [16.05 20:55:38] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Error loading class: de/maxhenkel/gravestone/events/DeathEvents (java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: de.maxhenkel.gravestone.events.DeathEvents) [16.05 20:55:38] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Error loading class: de/maxhenkel/corpse/events/DeathEvents (java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: de.maxhenkel.corpse.events.DeathEvents) [16.05 20:55:38] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Error loading class: dev/ftb/mods/ftbchunks/data/ClaimedChunkManager (java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: dev.ftb.mods.ftbchunks.data.ClaimedChunkManager) [16.05 20:55:38] [Server] [main/FATAL] [ne.mi.fm.lo.RuntimeDistCleaneDISTXFORM]: Attempted to load class net/minecraft/client/rendereItemInHandRenderer for invalid dist DEDICATED_SERVER [16.05 20:55:38] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Error loading class: net/minecraft/client/rendereItemInHandRenderer (java.lang.RuntimeException: Attempted to load class net/minecraft/client/rendereItemInHandRenderer for invalid dist DEDICATED_SERVER) [16.05 20:55:38] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: u/Mixin target net.minecraft.client.renderer.ItemInHandRenderer was not found tetra.mixins.json:ItemInHandRendererMixin [16.05 20:55:38] [Server] [main/FATAL] [ne.mi.fm.lo.RuntimeDistCleaneDISTXFORM]: Attempted to load class net/minecraft/client/rendereentity/playePlayerRenderer for invalid dist DEDICATED_SERVER [16.05 20:55:38] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Error loading class: net/minecraft/client/rendereentity/playePlayerRenderer (java.lang.RuntimeException: Attempted to load class net/minecraft/client/rendereentity/playePlayerRenderer for invalid dist DEDICATED_SERVER) [16.05 20:55:38] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: u/Mixin target net.minecraft.client.renderer.entity.player.PlayerRenderer was not found tetra.mixins.json:MixinPlayerRenderer [16.05 20:55:38] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Error loading class: lykrast/gunswithoutroses/entity/BulletEntity (java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: lykrast.gunswithoutroses.entity.BulletEntity) [16.05 20:55:38] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: u/Mixin target lykrast.gunswithoutroses.entity.BulletEntity was not found ars_industria.mixin.json:GWRBulletEntityMixin [16.05 20:55:38] [Server] [main/FATAL] [ne.mi.fm.lo.RuntimeDistCleaneDISTXFORM]: Attempted to load class net/minecraft/client/gui/screens/inventory/AbstractContainerScreen for invalid dist DEDICATED_SERVER [16.05 20:55:38] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Error loading class: net/minecraft/client/gui/screens/inventory/AbstractContainerScreen (java.lang.RuntimeException: Attempted to load class net/minecraft/client/gui/screens/inventory/AbstractContainerScreen for invalid dist DEDICATED_SERVER) [16.05 20:55:38] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: u/Mixin target net.minecraft.client.gui.screens.inventory.AbstractContainerScreen was not found mixins.tinyinv.json:MixinAbstractContainerScreen [16.05 20:55:38] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Error loading class: edivad/dimstorage/manageDimStorageManager (java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: edivad.dimstorage.manager.DimStorageManager) [16.05 20:55:38] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: u/Mixin target edivad.dimstorage.manager.DimStorageManager was not found moremountedstorages.mixins.json:dimstorage.DimStorageManagerMixin [16.05 20:55:38] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Error loading class: codechicken/enderstorage/manageEnderStorageManager (java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: codechicken.enderstorage.manager.EnderStorageManager) [16.05 20:55:38] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: u/Mixin target codechicken.enderstorage.manager.EnderStorageManager was not found moremountedstorages.mixins.json:enderstorage.EnderStorageManagerMixin [16.05 20:55:38] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Error loading class: ninjaphenix/expandedstorage/block/AbstractChestBlock (java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: ninjaphenix.expandedstorage.block.AbstractChestBlock) [16.05 20:55:38] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: u/Mixin target ninjaphenix.expandedstorage.block.AbstractChestBlock was not found moremountedstorages.mixins.json:expandedstorage.AbstractChestBlockMixin [16.05 20:55:38] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Error loading class: com/jaquadro/minecraft/storagedrawers/capabilities/BasicDrawerAttributes (java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.jaquadro.minecraft.storagedrawers.capabilities.BasicDrawerAttributes) [16.05 20:55:38] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: u/Mixin target com.jaquadro.minecraft.storagedrawers.capabilities.BasicDrawerAttributes was not found moremountedstorages.mixins.json:storagedrawers.BasicDrawerAttributesMixin [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] [main/WARN] [mixin/]: Error loading class: shadows/placebo/json/DynamicRegistryObject (java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: shadows.placebo.json.DynamicRegistryObject) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeExceptionjava.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at MC-BOOTSTRAP/cpw.mods.modlauncher@9.1.3/cpw.mods.modlauncher.LaunchServiceHandlerDecorator.launch(LaunchServiceHandlerDecorator.java:39) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at MC-BOOTSTRAP/cpw.mods.modlauncher@9.1.3/cpw.mods.modlauncher.LaunchServiceHandler.launch(LaunchServiceHandler.java:53) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at MC-BOOTSTRAP/cpw.mods.modlauncher@9.1.3/cpw.mods.modlauncher.LaunchServiceHandler.launch(LaunchServiceHandler.java:71) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at MC-BOOTSTRAP/cpw.mods.modlauncher@9.1.3/cpw.mods.modlauncher.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:106) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at MC-BOOTSTRAP/cpw.mods.modlauncher@9.1.3/cpw.mods.modlauncher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:77) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at MC-BOOTSTRAP/cpw.mods.modlauncher@9.1.3/cpw.mods.modlauncher.BootstrapLaunchConsumer.accept(BootstrapLaunchConsumer.java:26) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at MC-BOOTSTRAP/cpw.mods.modlauncher@9.1.3/cpw.mods.modlauncher.BootstrapLaunchConsumer.accept(BootstrapLaunchConsumer.java:23) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at cpw.mods.bootstraplauncher@1.0.0/cpw.mods.bootstraplauncher.BootstrapLauncher.main(BootstrapLauncher.java:149) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] Caused byjava.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:77) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:568) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at MC-BOOTSTRAP/fmlloader@1.18.2-40.2.0/net.minecraftforge.fml.loading.targets.CommonServerLaunchHandler.lambda$launchService$0(CommonServerLaunchHandler.java:32) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at MC-BOOTSTRAP/cpw.mods.modlauncher@9.1.3/cpw.mods.modlauncher.LaunchServiceHandlerDecorator.launch(LaunchServiceHandlerDecorator.java:37) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] ... more [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] Caused byorg.spongepowered.asm.mixin.transformer.throwables.MixinTransformerError: An unexpected critical error was encountered [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at MC-BOOTSTRAP/org.spongepowered.mixin/org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.transformer.MixinProcessor.applyMixins(MixinProcessor.java:392) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at MC-BOOTSTRAP/org.spongepowered.mixin/org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.transformer.MixinTransformer.transformClass(MixinTransformer.java:250) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at MC-BOOTSTRAP/org.spongepowered.mixin/org.spongepowered.asm.service.modlauncher.MixinTransformationHandler.processClass(MixinTransformationHandler.java:131) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at MC-BOOTSTRAP/org.spongepowered.mixin/org.spongepowered.asm.launch.MixinLaunchPluginLegacy.processClass(MixinLaunchPluginLegacy.java:131) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at MC-BOOTSTRAP/cpw.mods.modlauncher@9.1.3/cpw.mods.modlauncher.serviceapi.ILaunchPluginService.processClassWithFlags(ILaunchPluginService.java:156) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at MC-BOOTSTRAP/cpw.mods.modlauncher@9.1.3/cpw.mods.modlauncher.LaunchPluginHandler.offerClassNodeToPlugins(LaunchPluginHandler.java:88) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at MC-BOOTSTRAP/cpw.mods.modlauncher@9.1.3/cpw.mods.modlauncher.ClassTransformer.transform(ClassTransformer.java:120) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at MC-BOOTSTRAP/cpw.mods.modlauncher@9.1.3/cpw.mods.modlauncher.TransformingClassLoader.maybeTransformClassBytes(TransformingClassLoader.java:50) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at cpw.mods.securejarhandler@1.0.3/cpw.mods.cl.ModuleClassLoader.readerToClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:110) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at cpw.mods.securejarhandler@1.0.3/cpw.mods.cl.ModuleClassLoader.lambda$findClass$16(ModuleClassLoader.java:216) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at cpw.mods.securejarhandler@1.0.3/cpw.mods.cl.ModuleClassLoader.loadFromModule(ModuleClassLoader.java:226) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at cpw.mods.securejarhandler@1.0.3/cpw.mods.cl.ModuleClassLoader.findClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:216) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at cpw.mods.securejarhandler@1.0.3/cpw.mods.cl.ModuleClassLoader.loadClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:132) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:520) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at TRANSFORMEforge@40.2.0/net.minecraftforge.registries.GameData.init(GameData.java:123) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at TRANSFORMEforge@40.2.0/net.minecraftforge.registries.GameData.(GameData.java:108) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at TRANSFORMEminecraft@1.18.2/net.minecraft.core.Registry.forge(Registry.java:407) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at TRANSFORMEminecraft@1.18.2/net.minecraft.core.Registry.forge(Registry.java:391) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at TRANSFORMEminecraft@1.18.2/net.minecraft.core.Registry.(Registry.java:170) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at TRANSFORMEminecraft@1.18.2/net.minecraft.server.Bootstrap.m_135870_(Bootstrap.java:44) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at TRANSFORMEminecraft@1.18.2/net.minecraft.server.Main.main(Main.java:109) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] ... more [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] Caused byorg.spongepowered.asm.mixin.throwables.ClassMetadataNotFoundException: shadows.placebo.json.DynamicRegistryObject [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at MC-BOOTSTRAP/org.spongepowered.mixin/org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.transformer.MixinPreProcessorStandard.transformMethod(MixinPreProcessorStandard.java:754) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at MC-BOOTSTRAP/org.spongepowered.mixin/org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.transformer.MixinPreProcessorStandard.transform(MixinPreProcessorStandard.java:739) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at MC-BOOTSTRAP/org.spongepowered.mixin/org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.transformer.MixinPreProcessorStandard.attach(MixinPreProcessorStandard.java:310) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at MC-BOOTSTRAP/org.spongepowered.mixin/org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.transformer.MixinPreProcessorStandard.createContextFor(MixinPreProcessorStandard.java:280) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at MC-BOOTSTRAP/org.spongepowered.mixin/org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.transformer.MixinInfo.createContextFor(MixinInfo.java:1288) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at MC-BOOTSTRAP/org.spongepowered.mixin/org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.transformer.MixinApplicatorStandard.apply(MixinApplicatorStandard.java:292) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at MC-BOOTSTRAP/org.spongepowered.mixin/org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.transformer.TargetClassContext.apply(TargetClassContext.java:383) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at MC-BOOTSTRAP/org.spongepowered.mixin/org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.transformer.TargetClassContext.applyMixins(TargetClassContext.java:365) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] at MC-BOOTSTRAP/org.spongepowered.mixin/org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.transformer.MixinProcessor.applyMixins(MixinProcessor.java:363) [16.05 20:55:39] [Server] ... more [16.05 20:55:40] [Multicraft] Server shut down (starting) [16.05 20:55:40] [Multicraft] Maximum number of automatic restarts reached (3 within 600 seconds). Not restarting crashed server [16.05 20:55:40] [Multicraft] Looks like a crash, check the server console. Return value: 1 [16.05 20:55:40] [Multicraft] Server stopped

I (32F) am not a paying tawkify client, however I am in Tawkify’s database in NYC, and I get contacted regularly for dates. As of today I’ve asked them to delete my profile and never contact me again. Here’s why…
I’ve spoken with 5 different matchmakers via zoom. It’s basically a half hour interview where they try to see if you’re a match for their paying Tawkify client. After investing my time in those calls, 2 matchmakers just completely ghosted me and never spoke to me again. The other 3 set up dates.
Date 1: The man was not who the matchmaker had described at all. She had misrepresented his job, his height, his political affiliation, everything. We didn’t align on major life goals and values. Also this man spent 2 hours talking about himself and only asked me one question the entire time. He wanted to see me again, and I declined. We didn’t have a single thing in common (he would’ve realized that if he hadn’t monologued at me the entire time).
Date 2: This date was actually fine, aside from the fact that the matchmaker had messed up and there wasn’t a reservation. It took my date and I a very long time to find each other, which was frustrating and awkward. Ultimately there was no chemistry and we didn’t see each other again. But we did exchange numbers and texted a bit.
Date 3: This one was the worst. A matchmaker convinced me to go above my preferred age range to meet with her client in his 40s, and he wound up being an extremely entitled, condescending and abrasive guy. At one point he told me I should be grateful for the opportunity to meet him. The matchmaker had described him as funny and witty. I know humor is subjective, but man, this guy had so sense of humor and no banter. It also seemed like he didn’t have any social skills in general. I won’t see him again.
Those are my experiences as a woman in the Tawkify database. I’ve talked to friends who’ve also said they had awful dates, and they’d prefer to just use dating apps and vet matches themselves. Check out the better business bureau reviews of Tawkify as well. Sounds like the company is a nightmare to deal with if you pay. People are simply a commodity to them, and as long as a matchmaker sets up a date, they’ve fulfilled their end of the deal. I’d rate it 1/10, and I wouldn’t recommend it to a friend.

AITA for not wanting to go to school tomorrow?
So my class is on a trip this week. I (17m) didn’t go bc I didn’t want to ask my parents for over 200€, or pay it myself. I was told to just go to the secretary office on Monday, they’d tell me where to go. I was sick on Monday, didn’t go to school, but I went on Tuesday.
The secretary wasn’t able to tell me where to go, so I had to go to the principal, who only told me what teacher to go to. Like “You have to go to room… to Miss… today.” That’s it. No more info. So I went there and spent the first two lessons there, where I had to entertain myself (I decided to learn some Spanish). Then it was break and I didn’t know where to go after and didn’t want to go back up to the secretary, who’s never able to tell me anything. So I went and skipped the rest of the school day (mom doesn’t know & school obviously doesn’t know).
I told my mom that going to school was useless and we made a deal that I’d stay home Wednesday, but I’d have to learn 4 hours of driving theory. I assumed that I’d stay home the rest of the week in exchange for learning, because it makes more sense than to sit in school and do nothing. I also told my moms cousin, while walking the dogs, that I wouldn’t go to school for the rest of the week and my mom was there and heard that, but she didn’t say anything. Well today mom woke me up (I didn’t set my alarm, totally thinking I didn’t have to go) and told me to go school. I was confused. I didn’t go and she was pissed.
Now she wants me to go tomorrow and it just doesn’t make any sense to me, because they don’t check if I’m present or not, the teachers aren’t even notified that I should be present and it’s not like I have stuff to do there. For gods sake, am I supposed to go to the secretary every break, in hopes they can tell me where to go for once? My mother says that if I wouldn’t miss school so often she probably wouldn’t force me to go now, which seems petty instead of reasonable to me.
I mean I’d get where she’s coming from if the school would actually check my attendance, but they don’t and the only other person from my class, that didn’t go to the trip, is also not coming to school this week.
My girl says I’m in the right, but I don’t know. I just wish I could have a calm convo with my mom, but that’s always hard.
Btw English isn’t my first language, sorry for any mistakes and the long text.

**TRADE RESPONSIBLY! DON'T SPEND MORE THEN YOU CAN AFFORD TO LOSE!**

1. Don't sell at market open! (if other people choose to sell, be READY to buy the opening dip. The opening dip is an EASY 10-15% profit)
2. When the market HALTS, have a manual purchase order refreshed and ready to buy the second the halt is lifted. Halts are intended to calm the market and they are hoping you will not buy more. I've been seeing halts drop the price by about 5-10% on average, yes please!
3. Keep 10-15% of your money in CASH ready. When you see crazy 30-50% dips there is no worse feeling then when you realize you can't buy more. These flash sales are more important than hoping for a moon-shot to $100.
4. Make buys in TRANCHES. Don't yolo in. It may sound exciting to yolo, but you are limiting yourself severely. When the price drops, you will be handcuffed while I buy another 500 shares.
5. Be patient. We are ALL at casino FFIE and we all want lambos, by now you should know that this stock has the power to gain and lose in radical swings (even with halts). CHECK yourself, find your calm. Either buy more or set a stop-loss.
6. Tomorrow is PAYDAY for many people. Money will be rampant and this stock is going to be extra volatile. Keep your wits about you.
7. Tomorrow is the trading end of week. We WILL print a huge weekly high candle, the stock will go parabolic so that the internet is flooded with stories of how much money people are making on FFIE. This is the needed hype to continue the movement into next Monday.

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Hey everyone,
I've had to do this whole post again (absolutely gutted) as the draft function let me down so sorry if I skip through a bit quicker...
Another day, another set of memes to look through. As always, you can catch my previous day round ups below:
13th May
14th May
15th May
To reiterate, the description of each tweet is to the best of my knowledge the references made to allow you to make your own view in context and the speculation is pure speculation on my part. If you just want to look at the descriptions and not the speculation then just ignore the speculation part.
This is just for fun and shouldn't be taken as any financial advice, make your own decisions, I just like the stock.
If you have anything to add feel free to in the comments.
Let's begin:
10am - https://x.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1791106334517010680
Description: First we have Jigsaw from Saw, "Hello, Do you want to play a game?", it then cuts to The Prestige with the quote "are you watching closely?" and then it cuts to Lucky Number Slevin talking about the Kansas city shuffle and finally it's Nas with Made you look.
Speculation: Jigsaw used to capture people who were not looking to live their life and play games with them to show them that they actually do care about their lives in the end. Maybe DFV is referring to shorts desperately trying to get out of their position and showing they will do whatever it takes to do it. The Prestige quote comes from the scene here and shows a magic trick of money appearing. The Kansas City Shuffle is "In order for a confidence game to be a "Kansas City Shuffle", the mark must be aware, or at least suspect that he is involved in a con, but also be wrong about how the con artist is planning to deceive him. The con artist will attempt to misdirect the mark in a way that leaves him with the impression that he has figured out the game and has the knowledge necessary to outsmart the con artist, but by attempting to retaliate, the mark unwittingly performs an action that helps the con artist to further the scheme" and the Made you Look songs full line is "They shootin', Aw made you look" maybe referring to what is happening to the stock right now.
10.15am - https://x.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1791110102797172804
Description: Here we have a scene from Kill Bill where the bride is about to take on the crazy 88 gang and the music Nobody but Me by The Human Beinz.
Speculation: On the theme of ultimate revenge, The Bride in Kill Bill was on a mission to well.. kill bill. Lots of to go through in order to get to the final boss and the song is maybe making a point that Nobody but DFV could have seen this coming or maybe he is saying RCEO can do it
10.30am - https://x.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1791113879684325383
Description: This is taken from Inside Man, i think it's the opening scene and has the music Chaiyya Chaiyya, also taken from the original clip. DFV has imposed a cat looking over and listening to the monologue which reads "Pay strict attention to what I say because I choose my words carefully and I never repeat myself".
Speculation: Inside man is about an elaborate heist turned hostage movie on Wall Street. Don't think there is much more to say about that other than GME is most likely the hostage in this situation.
10.45am - https://x.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1791117652276195516
Description: The first part of this meme is taken from The Office and Michael pulls up in a car with Lady Gaga - Let's Dance playing and states "it's Britney Bitch". We then cut to Britney Spears in her music video Hit Me Baby One More Time and the part "give me a sign" has the movie logo for Signs on it (much more of that to come)
Speculation: First part is a joke from DFV keeping the just dance theme going but then we go to hit me baby one more time and most importantly a reference to a "Just give me a sign". There are signs coming that something big is going to happen.
11am - https://x.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1791121430836584789
Description: This is the intro to Goosebumps and follows a lot of the original clips theme, you can watch that here. Some key changes that have been made though, R.K Gill is on the briefcase, something has definitely been edited with the man's head holding the briefcase, the billboard shows a morph to Ryan Cohen, Ryan's dog is brought in and then it's "Bear Beware" and "Goosebumps, based on the memes by R.K Gill"
Speculation: This is a really fun meme, we see some more of RC and Roaring Kitty Gill all over this. Is there a partnership or does DFV just know that RCEO is about to do something big that will send goosebumps down the bears necks.
11.15am - https://x.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1791125203147428066
Description: Next we have Broad City and the song Best Friend by Sofi Tukker. The meme basically just has lots of scenes around new york with friends just doing a lot of dancing. Just a fun meme of dancing really and a lot of it centers around the two best friends the sitcom is about.
Speculation: DFV and RCEO are best pals and with everything that is going on with the stock they are just dancing and having a great time. Essentially owning New York which of course is where the finance bros hang out.
11.30am - https://x.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1791128976632459643
Description: The first scene is taken from Devil Wears Prada with the models hanging out in New York for a shoot and the song Crazy by Seal plays with the lyrics "we're never gonna survive, unless we get a little crazy" it cuts to the official music video then back to Devil wears Prada where they say "oh i get it, the piece is called urban jungle right?", "yes the modern investor unleashes the animal within to take on the big city" Roarrr
Speculation: Another meme from New York with predominantly girls hanging out. DFV maybe noting that we all unleash a little roaring kitty by taking on his thesis with Gamestop, dunno about you but I just like the stock. Things might get a little crazy, at least to people on the outside when they are asking you why you aren't selling.
11.45am - https://x.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1791132751976120778
Description: This scene is taken from the movie Signs and the Rev Graham here is woken and staring at something on the roof that spooks him.
Speculation: There will be many more references to this movie, in this case the Rev Graham (who weirdly looks like Ken G) is getting spooked at something he thought he saw. Scary stuff if you are short on GME.
12.00pm - https://x.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1791136527801807077
Description: This is also taken from the movie Signs and it's a quote, "See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, that sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky? Or, look at the question this way: Is it possible that there are no coincidences?"
Speculation: Something big is coming, what kind of person are you? Is it possible there are no Cohencidences?
12.15pm - https://x.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1791140301895352325
Description: Again from Signs, this shows the scene where the kid takes out his baby monitor and claims he can hear the aliens talking to each other. There's two of them talking he states and again we see the sign logo flash up. We then see an overlay of alien writing that isn't in the original clip so that's been dubbed on purposely.
Speculation: Things starting to get real interesting now. This looks to be a sign that something is happening behind the scenes. A baby monitor, what's RCEO got stored up? Maybe he is pregnant? Maybe GME is pregnant? Is there a merger happening? A split of some sort?
12.30pm - https://x.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1791144075963298165
Description: This is the scene in Signs where they go to the crop fields and there are alien crop circles everywhere, only in this meme DFV has replaced those circles with GME logos. Many GME logos some with long running lines.
Speculation: Really looking like something big is on the horizon and DFV thinks he has seen the signs. This meme would suggest maybe its a merger with multiple gamestop logos but that's just my opinion. One thing for sure is that Gamestop has something on the horizon.
12.45pm - https://x.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1791147851466047673
Description: This is the scene in Signs where the news start reporting sightings of aliens and they show a load of kids in a different country looking down an alley way only for an alien bearing Roaring Kitty as a face to walk by, scary stuff!
Speculation: This was actually the first scene from this film that made me realize i had seen the film before and a younger me was pretty freaked out by that scene. It could imply that they have landed, they are here and or DFV is at least. Certainly a they are coming sort of message.
1.00pm - https://x.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1791151631259574559
Description: This is taken from the animated film Luca, where one kid says "what does it mean, the thing you just said?" and the other kid goes "Come on Ill show you more stuff"
Speculation: I think this is aimed at me writing this right now and whoever is reading this right now. Ultimately i have no idea what DFV is saying i can only speculate and DFV knows that, he can't outright say what he thinks but he can show us more and more cool memes.
1.15pm - https://x.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1791155401091596494
Description: This is taken from 500 days of summer and DFV has changed a lot of the words here but essentially he is asked what he does and he says he makes Gamestop memes, the woman says he could be a really great investor if he wanted to be, he is asked why he went from being a great investor to making gamestop memes and he says "why make something disposable, like an investment thesis, when you can make something that lasts forever like a Gamestop meme"
Speculation: DFV having more meme lols here but really why would he need to do anymore investing, he already has his favourite company shares and the thesis is done, he knows what's going on and he is happy to stick with what he has. That doens't mean his thesis on Gamestop doesn't evolve, I just think he is done looking for other deep value plays.
1.30pm - https://x.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1791159177785770273
Description: This is taken from The Shining and the song dubbed on is Matter of Time by Vandelux. The main protagonist and author in the movie, Jack is sat writing and it seems it is DFV and he is writing memes.
Speculation: Anyone that has seen The Shining knows that Jack goes to a secluded house with no distractions to write his book. Turns out it actually just makes him go completely mental and he ends up killing his family. I think DFV is just having some fun showcasing the time he has spent focusing on making Gamestop memes.
1.45pm - https://x.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1791162950373527857
Description: We have Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See by Busta Rhymes and his music video. The lyrics he has chosen for this clip are emphasized and they are:
Flipmode Busta Bus (Uh, what?) Nine-seven (Come on, what?) Hot shit (Ha-hah) Check it out
Hit you with no delayin' so what you sayin', yo? (Uhh) Silly with my nine milli, what the deally, yo? (What?)
Do you really wanna party with me? Let me see (Uh) just what you got for me (Come on) Put all your hands where my eyes can see (Put 'em up, yo) Straight buckwildin' in the place to be (Wildin', nice, ha)
It then ends with If you really wanna party with Roaring Kitty
Speculation: More fun and dancing. Some interesting lyrics, Flipmode (reverse uno card anyone), Silly with my nine milli (could relate to shares, does RCEO have that much?) Could just be a fun meme without much else to it.
2:00pm - https://x.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1791166726891061749
Description: This is taken from Sicario and it starts with the quote "so you wanna be a Sicario" and then shows the blonde reddit icon from the other sub tied up and then a guy looking pretty pissed off.
Speculation: The Sicarios were hitmen, that's basically what it means when it asks if you want to be a Sicario, do you want to be a hitman or assassin. The blonde icon from other sub tied up is in the place of a kid who was tied up in the film and certainly WAS NOT a friend of the Sicarios. Take from that what you will but I can't comment to much as it's about another sub.
2.15pm - https://x.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1791170783277949042
Description: First we have a scene from No Country for Old Men with the quote "you can't stop what's comin" then we cut to a train tearing it up in Chicago and also taking out a double deck chair with a Chicago Bears logo on it then finally we go to a WWE smackdown with Stone Cold Steve Austin.
Speculation: No Country for Old Men has cropped up a few times before but it's about a killer who is pretty much unstoppable mowing these people down. The train wrecking Chicago and the Chicago Bears (as a Packers fan i liked that), well option contract writers are in Chicago I believe but also it's the original home of Citadel. The chair maybe is an answer to a Cramer tweet and the smackdown i'm not sure other than it being just a fun thing to watch.
2.30pm - https://x.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1791174276604699013
Description: This is the music video for Punkrocker by Teddybears. It basically follows a man who is being chased by the police, the cops are coming but the guy seems pretty chill about it. He listens to the music with no fear and you can too. The words are in Gamestop white and red.
Speculation: I think that this could indicate that Gamestop isn't doing anything wrong with what's going to happen, they have warned again and again in their financial postings that the stock is being manipulated and is subject to squeezes. It could also indicate a GME investor has nothing to worry about legally either, just like the stock.
2.45pm - https://x.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1791178049939182048
Description: This is taken from The School of Rock where Jack Black is trying to ask what it takes to rock out. If you wanna rock its not about scoring chicks, it's not about getting wasted, its about sticking it to the man, and you can't just say it man you gotta FEEL it it in your blood and guts.
Speculation: Only you can decide what sticking it to man means yourself in relation to having GME stock during a big squeeze event but for me personally it's been a long 3 and a half years of having crap tossed at me just for owning this stock and i certainly pissed with the amount of corruption and cheating that has and continues to go on. If shorts never closed and still have that position, that's their mess not mine.
3.00pm - https://x.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1791181824754106742
Description: The main scene in this meme is taken from the film Stand By Me. You have two cars on both sides of the road. The good guy in this is driving on the wrong side of the road and the other gang are on the right side, it's a game of chicken with a truck coming towards the good guy as they both drive side by side. It then cuts to Bojack Horseman trying to do some comedy and being asked to get off stage, he states "I'm not done hold on" - it cuts back to the scene and the truck bails last second. The good guy just keeps on driving and goes in front of the other car having a victory sip.
Speculation: If you take DFV to be the good guy in this car scene then he just carries on with what he believes which is in GME regardless of trying to be chickened out of it in the face of adversity. You could also say he is Bojack and wanting to continue with his memes, he ain't done telling his memeroirs yet.
3.15pm - https://x.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1791185600453783688
Description: This is taken from Everything Everywhere All At Once and shows a woman showcasing her awards, DFV has imposed some cat photos on her desk and also 3 awards that read

• DeepFuckingValue, Degen of the Month
  
• Roaring Kitty, 1st Cat in Congress
  
• Keith Gill, Best Ethics from the CFA institute (lol)
  

"The quote is Do you see these? You don't get one of these unless you've seen a lot of bullshit. Excuse my French. Now you may only see a pile of boring forms and numbers, but I see a story."
Speculation: DFV is a fucking dude, the guy has a meme trophy cabinet. To us or others we just don't quite see it like he does. If DFV thinks something big is going to happen you have the choice to believe it too or not, that's completely up to you. The awards are lol.
3.30pm - https://x.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1791189376195854606
Description: The first scene is taken from Garden State, he asks her "what are you listening to", she goes "you gotta hear this one song" and you then hear Dont Fear the Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult and the opening lyric "all our times have come"
Speculation: Don't fear the reaper, if you hold GME you don't have to as it's not going bust. The company is not going to die. There are certainly some shorts that should be fearing the reaper though.
3.45pm - https://x.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1791193149408223306
Description: This is a hilarious meme and i'm not sure where this is taken from but i'll try my best to describe it (really you should just watch it though). Two men are in a rich guys house, the host writes a note and then has to leave tearing the note off and taking it with him, the other sneaks up to the notepad, labelled Cohen, and tries to sketch the next page to work out what he wrote. What is revealed is a cartoon man with a huge dick.
Speculation: RCEO has a big slong, what else is there to say? Ok I think that he is going to do something big and it's an exciting thing to think about. Does make you think of the tweet of Steve Smith he posted with the erect penis too.
4.00pm - https://x.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1791196925619789864
Description: A more recently made meme shows Jay Clayton talking about Roaring Kitty showing his first meme and saying "is this something that we should be tolerating in our markets, whether it's legal lalallull" then it goes to a clip of a guy saying "i mean what did he say fuck me for"
Speculation: DFV basically saying as we would say in the UK, "whatever mate". The guy is talking a load of bullshit and to bring up legality after all the stuff he has let slide as former SEC chairman, i mean bitch please!
Hope you enjoyed, still pissed i had to write this twice, my original had a lot more links to original clips and each Superstonk post as well! I'm off to bed, i'll update with the 8pm tweet tomorrow.
Love ya DFV x

I (32F) like to sleep in on weekends if I don’t have anything going on. (I’m talking usually 9:30, rarely 10. very, very rarely would it be any later than 10.) I wake up at 7AM for work on weekdays. My boyfriend (34M) moved in with me in January, we’ve been together almost 2 years. He can’t sleep in, ever and is up at 7AM every day. This was a bit of a point of contention early in our relationship but more in a “oh one of us is a morning person and one of us isn’t” way.
To be clear, if he says like oh let’s grab breakfast tomorrow say 9, I will say yes and be up at 8 to go, same with any other plans. I’m only sleeping in if I have no plans. And it’s honestly rare that there are no plans. Maybe 2-3 times a month.
The issue has become that on those days, he’ll come wake me up at whatever time he deems appropriate for me to get up for the reason he’s waking me up. Examples: “We’d better get going, we’ve got to meet our friends at 11.” I check the clock and it’s 8:50. Yes, we have plans to meet them at a place 15 mins away… “Hey can you get up and help me unload the groceries?” It’s 9AM. What groceries? I got groceries 2 days ago.. he went to the store and got 12 items and wants me to get up to help put them away. “It’s time to get moving, babe, we should take the dogs to the dog park” it’s 9:15. Why can you not wait 15 minutes until I am up?
I will clearly state the night before my intention. I don’t have anything going on tomorrow morning, I’m going to sleep in. Or if there are plans I will state what time I’m setting my alarm for. “Im getting up at 830 so we can do XYZ” Even then, without fail, he will wake me up 15-30 mins before my alarm is set. I get irritated every time and ask why he can’t trust me to determine what time I wake up. I’ve asked him if I’m running late and stressing him out or something and he always says no. When I ask why he can’t let me sleep in he will just give the reason for why he woke me up that particular day. It’s starting to feel intentional and sort of manipulative?
This really came to a head on Sunday. I’d spent most of Saturday cleaning the house and prepping food for a Mother’s Day lunch we were having for both our Moms. Going to bed that night I said I’m glad that’s all out of the way, we just have to pop the food in the oven half an hour before they get here, I’m so excited I can sleep in until 10, it’s gonna be so nice! He replied “totally!” Sunday morning he wakes me up by gently flicking my nose and saying time to get going, we have people coming today” I look at the clock and it’s 9. I absolutely lost it, I started crying and went to the bathroom. When I came down an hour later he said you can’t act like that because you didn’t get an hour of extra sleep that’s childish. I asked why the hell he couldn’t let me have the extra hour of sleep? It’s not gonna take me 3 hours to shower and put food in the oven? Why can’t he just let me sleep until an alarm I set goes off? And don’t ever fucking flick me on the nose to wake me up again that’s so incredibly rude. He made a comment about how I’m obviously grumpy because I didn’t get enough sleep and I told him that I need him to really think about why he does this and come talk to me when he’s ready. We had a fine enough Mother’s Day and then he has avoided really speaking to me since.
I sat him down last night and asked if he thought about what I said and he told me he thinks I overreacted and that he’s trying to be helpful when he wakes me up. I said I’ve asked him to stop doing this so why would he think it was helpful? He just shrugged and I was getting irritated and didn’t want to push it. I feel like I’m going insane.
TL;DR because it needs one, clearly. BF won’t let me sleep in past whatever time he deems appropriate. I snapped and he says I overreacted.

Environment: If it looks suspicious, it probably is suspicious. Go check it out
Almost everywhere in the kinglor Forest can be climbed and is accessible without an ikran ( With the exception being the boundless range)
Sätare beads Can sometimes be found in material Baskets throughout the world
Na'vi leave behind little camps with materials and food in them, look for tipped over containers and small non gatherable trees, they are a good land marker
Listen to the NPC'S, Oftentimes, they have useful information about the surrounding area that you are in (I found my first thanator because I listen to the Aranahe near spool island)
Cooking: Use. Cooking. Buffs. Please for the love of God use cooking buffs. Don't be like me and ignore them then get angry when you keep dieing.
Buy herbs and milk from the cooks of each clan, the buffs are worth it
Read the hunter's guide entries. Some entries on certain foods will have a tidbit of information on how to make a specialty recipes
Weapons and gear: Make sure you check the perks of the crafting materials. You are about to use. Some perks are greater than others and can cause you're gear.Or weapon To be more powerful.
If you're looking for sulfer pods, Large clusters can be found on clouded pines, Blood leaf trees and stairfoot trees.
Those weathetime bonuses count more than you would think
Raylunes fish stew Can give you the weathetime bonuses
Use the pale crafting materials each time, they're worth it.
Your armor is greater than your weapons. The harder you are to kill the More time you have to either escape or kill everyone. That's attacking you.
Gameplay: Check the difficulty of your quests before you go into it. You can do this by looking at the number on your characters armor screen, Make sure that number matches the quest before you go into it for ease of operation
Stealth is greater than accuracy. If you can defeat the rda without alerting anyone, it's more effective than just going in guns blazing.
If you're bored of the main quest, take a while to just explore around you, you can find many cool little things around and entertain yourself more than the game could ( I always find Myself very bored After entering the clouded forest for the first time in my save files. I do all the side quests before i continue on with the main quest)
Severed bonds quests are the quickest way to get skill points getting two points per quest. ( For newer players, severed bonds quests can be found given out by npcs in Na'vi camps and resistance field labs)
Power up the field labs, they have boxes full of spare parts, food, ammo, and sometimes audio notes and logs.
Longbow - ease
Shortbow - speed
Heavy bow - Accuracy
Spear thrower - damage
Mark the caves that you come across! You'll never know when you need them again! Some very useful things can be found within caves, From Navi camps to resources that are more rare.
Just keep constantly using your Na'vi sense on everything, it will save you from running into wildlife/rda
Wildlife: If something is roaring or screaming at you before it takes you, you have a chance to back out still. take it.
Don't be scared of the storm gliders. You can fly faster than them. Feed your ikran one of their preferred foods and run
In every single senator den, there is a small little nook that you can hide in that they can't hit you in hide in it, Wait, then hit the weak spot.
When hunting things that will charge you/ try and attack, you stay out of sight of the pack. If you kill something with your heavy bow from far enough aqay, and then get to it after the other's run away, you won't have to run from the others.
If you ride a direhorse into battle, it will help you fight by trampling small rda soldiers
For comfort: You can turn off the Tinnitus effect that Certain plants gives appon exploding in the audio settings menu
If you don't like the sid puzzles, there is a setting to have them auto complete, you have to turn the setting on in gameplay options
Turn down the volume before you go into any big battle. Turn up the volume when you're in. Nature sound is very important on Pandora, not so much in an rda Institution.

When I was growing up we had to deal with memory card corruption over the years using official memory cards. I recently set up my GameCube again after a long time, and all three of our official 1024 memory cards are completely corrupted. Deleting all the files on them doesn't help, games can save just fine but the moment any game loads data on console restart, it says it's corrupted. Even the memory card we last used in 2016 and it was working then now says corrupted on any games we launch with it.
I don't care about the old save data, is there any way I can use these memory cards ever again? I see so many people saying "don't use unofficial memory cards" but if even the official ones are this ephemeral then I don't see the point in spending the money buying a new one when for all I know it could fail tomorrow
I have tried it on a refurbished GameCube as well and there's no difference in behavior. I've checked to make sure the memory cards are clean, and they are. They've been in air conditioned storage for a few years, so no heat or weather damage.
Also worth noting games can save just fine on all of them. For games that let you load saves mid-game even those seem to work great. But saves won't load once the console is reset
For the time being I guess I'm just waiting for MemCard PRO GC to come back in stock. But considering the last restock got eaten up in a single day, I have concerns I'll even be able to get one any time soon...