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Hi, this my first post here, but I’m a pretty new fan. Full disclosure, I’ve only read the first four books cover to cover, though I have skimmed through the later books, so I apologize if the information I’m looking for is in one of them.
In Storm Front, Harry says basically anything made after the 40s doesn’t like him and has a tendency not to work around him. Okay, that makes sense. But when we see his apartment, we see that he doesn’t use lights as he claims they foul up around him.
Okay, but incandescent light bulbs have been around more than a century, honestly even longer. One of the examples of incandescent light was in 1802, it just was very inefficient, not being bright enough or lasting long enough to be practical. Edison’s design that we’re all familiar with only came out in 1879. Tungsten filaments, which are used in lightbulbs were invented in 1904.
Granted, the lightbulbs we have today are very different from those of 1879 or even 1904. But the underlying design has mostly remained the same.
That’s not the only example though. Later, he mentions he doesn’t use a water heater, but the first automatic, storage tank-type gas water heater was invented in 1899. Water heaters now are very different, but older style water heaters still exist, it’s just a matter of finding one and hooking it up.
There are other examples I could mention are he uses an icebox, but there were refrigerators in the 40s. He could probably find an old fridge, he would need to find one and be careful to make sure it didn’t use any harmful materials or chemicals.
I’m not trying to poke holes in the story, I just think Harry doesn’t have to live so spartan a lifestyle where he can’t even enjoy hot showers. I mean yeah, you’d probably have to worry if say the water heater broke down, but I think it’d be useful enough to warrant having someone to fix it.
Like as a general rule of thumb, I would think anything electronic utilizing vacuum tubes as opposed to transistors would be safe for Harry to use.
In-universe, I have to wonder if this is because either Harry didn’t know all this, I admit I had to look online to find this info, or either he’s too set in his ways/stubborn to move on, or more realistically he doesn’t have the money to buy this antique stuff.
What do y’all think?

i honestly feel lost and i’m not sure what to do my friend (20f) and i (22f) have been friends for about 8 years if not more we will call her kenzie to keep it anonymous. we used to hang out all the time she is basically my day one when kenzie was 14 she met 19 year old sam and have been together since then. me and sam dont get along. we have have both said hurtful things to each other and he never apologizes to me one time he texted me off her her phone calling me a bad friend and all she did was say “hey im sorry i was sleeping sam was going through my phone.” she didn’t even apologize or ask him to apologize. i was so mad i couldn’t hold it in and i blew up on him she texted me and said “hey don’t ever talk to sam like that again and you need to apologize” i apologized to both of them he treats her like crap we go out and he’s always blowing up her phone and just being an ass for our graduation present my mom took us both to the beach he made her cry the whole time we were there and she’s said it countless times she isn’t leaving him which i understand they also have a 3 year old she got pregnant at 16 i helped her decorate the room bc sam wanted to play video games she can’t do anything but stay at home and take care of her baby. He won’t even watch her when we have plans to go out and if he does, he’s angry the whole entire time. It’s honestly frustrating and I feel like maybe she’s holding me back and I understand that she has responsibilities to care for her child, but it is very frustrating. A couple nights ago we were drinking. I did not get drunk. She invited another friend over and we both vape and she swapped out my pod I didn’t say anything because she was drunk and then I tried to say that mine tasted burnt and she said it tasted fine. The next morning she called me was blowing up my phone, asking me if I took her pod because hers was almost empty. I have never took anything from her and I never would. She’s always saying she doesn’t have enough money, so I try to take her out when I have a little money left over from savings and other bills when where eating out. She always gets her boyfriend food after she said she didn’t have enough money when we’re buying drinks. She’s always saying she doesn’t have money for drinks so I pay for them she always get him something I feel like she honestly gave up on life and that’s why I’m scared to just leave her because I feel like that makes me a bad friend, but he doesn’t let her do anything and we’re both young. He always expects me to take her out and do all this stuff with her and when I do, he’s blowing us up the whole entire time. She’s not a bad friend and I’m sure I haven’t been the best, but it does feel one-sided.

Disillusioned with the current job market? I get it, I really do. As if sifting through thousands of opportunities, writing a cover letters, going through 3 rounds of interviews, and all of the “homework assignments” isn’t enough? But we CAN’T forget to add a deep dive search into your potential employer’s background to the list because the amount of pyramid scheme/predatory companies out there is only increasing and they’re getting more and more sophisticated.
I’m have one intention; to prevent others from falling prey to the same predatory and morally corrupt situation that I found myself in. Thank god (or whomevewhatever is pulling the strings out there) for good friends with a knack for uncovering company's secrets or I would be working for a MLM right now. The company is called Silver Lining Marketing Inc. and they’re office is located in Gretna, LA (but operates in the greater New Orleans Area). They have an actual office, with employees and everything. They even make their employees wear business professional clothing so as to appear more legitimate. They have a functioning website, which once I actually read everything on their website, I realized that they aren’t really marketing the non-profits they fundraise for, but rather they are marketing job opportunities and personal growth within their company.
I applied to a job listing on indeed for an executive management position with Silver Lining Marketing Inc. with $75-100K compensation, which sounds great, right? You go through 3 rounds of interviews which end with an in-person interview with one of the “Team Leaders” and then their CEO. Everyone is SO nice and they do a great job of making the office feel “fun and supportive”. They don’t give you the job on the spot but rather wait at least a day or two to contact you after your final interview, so it appears as though this is a competitive and desirable position. Once you’re hired the switch flips and you’re finally made aware that you will not reach the executive manager position for about a year and this is how they get you!
First you will start out in an entry level “training” position for about a month where the pay is a measly $12/hr, but you get 20% of one-time donations and 1X monthly donations…which I don’t know how anyone sees any of that “bonus” money because they are still training and not “out in the field”. It was at this point that I asked what “out in the field” meant. I wrongfully assumed that in this position I would be doing event planning for galas, dinners, and any other kind of fundraising event…but man was I wrong! “Out in the field” actually translated to going to Walmart, CVS, various grocery stores, ect for 8 hours with a clipboard and harassing strangers for donations to various non-profits. Thats how they make their “bonuses” and I HIGHLY DOUBT that the people they coerced into donating their hard-earned money would still want to donate if they knew that approximately 40% of that donation would be going in to the pocket of a for-profit marketing firm. They have you wear clothing with the non-profit’s logo on it so that people think you work for the non-profit and they also tell you to never tell the donors that you take a (hefty) percentage of the money that they think is being donated in its entirety to the non-profit.
After about a month you move up to a leadership role. The leadership level is split in to 3 tiers; Jr. leader, Core leader, and Sr. leader. You’re still making $12/hr by the way, BUT WAIT, now you’ll get 20% of any one-time donations you 1.5X any monthly donations you receive. When you move to the Core leadership level you get a “growth bonus” which I was told is $200, hooray?? Upon reaching the Sr. leadership role you’re still at $12/hr but now you get 20% of one-time donations and 2X monthly donations. According to the employee I spoke to, new employees typically spend around 16-20 weeks in this role. At this point you are responsible for set up and break down of “events” in “the field”, your team of $12/hr cronies, and the money collected at the “events”. To move to the next tier, which is assistant manager, one must first indoctrinate 4 other people and at least 1 of those 4 people has to make it to a Sr. leadership role. This means you have to get at least 4 more suckers to work for 12/hr before you can be promoted, is this starting to sound familiar? In addition to your recruitment goals, you must also get at least 10K in one-time donations and 1K in monthly donations for 2 weeks in a row.
When you get to the third level you become assistant manager and you are STILL MAKING $12/hr, but don’t get your panties in a bunch because WOAH now you’re make 20% on one-time donations and 3X monthly donations. The assistant manager role typically last about 8-12 weeks and it is in this role that you learn the scripts and necessary brain-washing tools to start your very own MLM! The fourth and final level is executive manager and in this role you’re supposed to be making 75k-100k and be in charge of your own entire office of brainwashed underpaid employees and you get to rinse and repeat with all of the new hires.
These companies brainwash people in numerous ways. Every morning there is a meeting for an hour and half in which you stand up, yell mantras, clap, and get hyped up for a long day of skimming donations from various non-profit charities. They make sure everyone looks professional and has a “good attitude” to prevent people from getting spooked or god forbid thinking for themselves long enough to realize that they’re part of a pyramid scheme. How is this legal, you say!? Well, unfortunately it is legal but it absolutely should not be. See this particular company isn’t making you buy a product and then sell said product to make money, no no no, instead this company hides behind the good names of the charities that it “represents” while skimming money off the top of each donation. The Charities are getting donations they otherwise wouldn’t have so they're not motivated to do the necessary research in to the practices of the company that is paying them. I would also like to note that I don’t think that all of the people that currently work for or have worked for Silver Lining Marketing Inc. are terrible, morally corrupt, individuals because they at their core victims of this heinous system that judicial system has allowed to persist. This company targets kind-hearted individuals that want to help charities, individuals who typically don’t take a job just for the money. This allows them to guilt you in to working for an unlivable wage because, hey, you're making a difference and if you just work hard enough for a while then you’ll make lots of money and get to start your very own business!
I watched a youtube video on pyramid/MLM schemes called “The Slave Circle (Direct Marketing Devil Corp. Documentary)” and this video gave me the confidence I needed to tell the company that I would not work for them and why. I highly recommend watching the video if you think you might be falling prey to a company like Silver Lining Marketing Inc. Here’s the link; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyCRzBt7GuY
Additionally, the Lula rich docuseries on amazon prime is worth a watch.
Lastly, I would like to say that if you or someone you know has been a victim of a fucked MLM like this, don’t turn to anger or vengeance. Don’t let this discourage you, these companies are so sophisticated and have scripted responses for every possible situation. They prey on good people and you are not a bad person if you fall for it, just don’t make that mistake again, learn from your errors, and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE post about your experience on reddit, glassdoor, and anywhere else you feel comfortable so that you can prevent others from falling victim to the same situation!!
I really hope this helps others and if anyone has any specific questions, let me know in the comments and I’ll try to check in every so often and answer them.

My girl and I have been together for 3 years now. We’ve been on dates and vacations together. Met each others family. The whole 9. My parents are terrible with money so I’ve been paying bills since I could work. Which means I wasn’t able to just leave when I turned 18. Then my mom had an accident yada yada yada fast forward 4/5 years my girl lives with me and my parents.Here’s my thing, yeah there are problems that come from not having our own house but we handle. The thing is she won’t cook for me. She cleans so much less than me. She doesn’t have any hobbies or interests that she dedicates her time to. It’s just me and work for her. I pay for everything. Our rent, car insurance, I helped buy her car. Everything but her phone bill. I’ve told her that this bothers me. I’ve told her that to be my partner, the mother of my children, she has to develop into a more functional capable adult. It falls on deaf ears. Her childhood trauma makes it so difficult to communicate about anything serious because she freezes up or cries and can barely form a sentence over the simplest adult conversations.
Now to the meat and potatoes
Months ago my best friend told me that one of my partners friends that he talks to was concerned because my girl has been chilling and smoking with some dude named JB when I’m not around.
I thought NOTHING of it because she has a female friend with those same initials. I told him there was nothing to worry about and i forgot about it. At some point later on I tell her what my friend told me. I told her that I brushed it off cause I knew it was her female friend. She proceeds to tell me that it is indeed not a female. It’s a guy she met from work. Obviously I wasn’t happy. We spoke. I told her we need to communicate better and that I don’t have female friends because of her so I expect that to be reciprocated.
A few months pass. She fell asleep on her phone. I woke up and noticed her snap was open and I saw she had a 2/3 week streak with a different guy she had notifications turned off for. It didn’t take much for me to get that the notifications were off so I didn’t see when he texted her. I confronted her about it. I told her that I’m not okay with her snapping guys especially without telling me. She agreed that if I did it she would be bothered so I told her to quit. A few days ago I woke up with her asleep on the phone again. She’s snapping the guy and the message she had been typing but fell asleep before she could send said something like “it’s okay boo you’re good etc” I confront her again. She tells me they’re just friends. I’m over it at this point. I already feel like I’m raising a child and now I feel like she’s playing with me. What should my next steps be here. I want to cut my losses but don’t know if I’m overthinking. I feel like a part of her family at this point and vice versa.
TLDR. My overdependent girlfriend is texting guys behind my back. What should I do

In 1985, my parents bought me my first personal computer. It was an Apple IIe. Apple IIe because that was what the school uses. But I can't help to wonder which computer I would buy if I can go back to 1985.
Macintosh was too expensive and not really useful until the Mac Plus was introduced in 1986. Plus, it had no games which was important for kids at that time. Amiga 1000 was cool but it was expensive and need to boot from kickstart rom disk every time. It became a viable choice with Amiga 500, but that was in 1987. Commodore 64 was all the rage but its keyboard was really tough for typing and the floppy disk drive was too slow and unreliable. IBM PC had CGA graphics and no sound cards.
I ponder about the option myself and maybe I will get an Atari ST instead. It was affordable and had a graphical interface. I loved composing music and the MIDI port was godsend.
How about you? Which computer would you have chosen given the second chance again?

Get comfy, this will a long ride. I (41f) am the middle of three daughters, ‘Shannon’ (43) and ‘Carrie’ (27) and well mom, we’ll call her ‘Brenda’.
I consider myself the quintessential “middle child”, constantly forgotten, not taken seriously and outright ignored. I got my sister’s hand-me-downs growing up, and don’t dare I ask for anything and actually get it, meanwhile, Carrie was given everything. In high school, Shannon got a tailored dress for prom, I got one off the rack. Shannon got a brand new Focus, I got a 1990 Cougar. Years later, Shannon wanted a newer car, so mom upgraded her to an Explorer. When my car fell apart at the seams, I went out and purchased an Accord. I will admit, mom did co-sign for me because I was only 19, but I was given hell for her doing so.
Shannon dropped out of college after an earthquake hit the area, then she moved in with her boyfriend at the time. I was living at home with mom, working and going to college. My paychecks every two weeks were going to mom to take care of my car note and insurance, all the while mom was paying Shannon’s car note, insurance, giving her money for bills AND Shannon had one of mom’s credit cards “for emergencies”.
While I was working and in college, I was expected to help with Carrie, who was in elementary. I would drop whatever I was doing to pick her up from school, take her to tutoring, cook dinner and help with homework. Mom was an administrative assistant for a private firm, she worked 7am-7pm. One night leaving college, I was involved in a serious accident on the way home, my car was totaled. I eventually was able to get another car from my settlement money, this time I didn’t need a co-signer. Around this same time, I was dropped from college because my grades suffered being spread so thin. I continued working full time, still giving mom money for our bills.
I eventually made the decision to enlist in the Air Force, this decision caught my entire family off guard. Most of the comments I received didn’t surprise me, most thought I wouldn’t succeed. The ones that were supportive, congratulated my decision. I prepared myself to leave home; I made an agreement with mom I would send money for my car note, with the understanding that when the time comes, I will come back for it. Well, that time came and I was met with hostility. Mom decided she wasn’t going to give my car back, it was hers, she “was making the payments”. By this time, mom had moved to Vegas with Carrie, unfortunately developed a gambling problem and I felt helpless since I was so far away.
We’ll fast forward a bit, Shannon is now living in Tennessee. I was medically discharged from the Air Force and after talks with Shannon, I went to live with her. We both worked and shared the bills, I got to reconnect with our older sister from our father’s side (we’ll call her Veronica), everything seemed great. Until… Mom called saying that my car is about to get repossessed, that helpless feeling came back. I ask mom for the information for the finance company, reach out to them, made a payment to stop the repossession, then called her back to let her know she’s caught up. Months go by, Shannon comes home early from work, only to say she was fired for a physical altercation with a coworker. Shannon goes on to say, this is the perfect time to work on her music career. I began working double shifts to cover the bills, all while Shannon is going to the studio. Mom calls one night frantic and furious, the car was repossessed and she was on the bus going to work. This causes a huge blow up between the three of us, because mom and Shannon believe I called and had the car voluntarily repossessed (I did not). Shannon bursts into my room cursing/screaming over how I wronged mom, she grabs me by a leg and drags me out of our apartment and outside into the cold. Veronica picks me up, and I go to stay with her until I got my own place. Things begin to level out, forgive and forget and I start communicating with mom again.
After some time, I found out I was pregnant with my first child and make the decision to move to Vegas with mom. During this time I get to see first hand how badly her gambling habit truly is. I would watch her cash her checks, then immediately push money in a machine and loses it in minutes, this goes on for some time. I eventually have my son and months later start working. I save up to buy myself a car, as well as save up for his first birthday party. I was so excited, planning to go all out! That is until one day I get a call at work from my aunt who lived in our building, she’s noticed my mom coming and going frantically. I didn’t have a bank account at the time, and was keeping my money in a safe hidden in my room… well she found it! When I got home, my room was disheveled and money was gone, all but a few hundred. I took what was left, found a one bed one bath for my son and I and left mom’s apartment.
Enough back story! I’ll bring you to the present! We’re now living in Vegas; I purchased a home in 2015, Carrie moved to Arizona for college, mom, Shannon, Shannon’s 3rd baby daddy (Paul) and 4 kids had a rental home across town. Last summer, they all get evicted. Yes, it was for nonpayment, yes they ALL were gamblers. I allow everyone but Paul to come stay with me, this was not well received. Shannon eventually leaves with her kids, to stay with our cousin Candace, who allowed Paul to be there too. Mom eventually is sent to live with Carrie, because we kept bumping heads. I’ll save you the guess work, Candace gets tired of them being there (rent free) and tells them to leave. Shannon blames ME for Candace putting them out, and gives me an ear full on Mother’s Day. Shannon tells me I’m a heartless b***h, she wishes we weren’t related and karma will eat me alive. I called mom to tell her what has transpired, her reaction was “why can’t we all just get along”. I lose it! She was so flippant and dismissive! No comment about Shannon living rent free in someone else’s home, or the uncalled for and hurtful words to me. So I told mom I needed some space and time, I won’t reach out to her and please don’t reach out to me, then I ended the call.
AITAH?

I Googled and searched this and couldn't find how to revert my personal worlds to before I participated in Alpha.
I made my back-ups before starting the Alpha and now I want to put that old progress back, re-sail down there and ultimately experience everything as if I didn't participate in Alpha at all. I tried restoring the files and logged in and all my exploration is still there. Is this because I only tried to revert the world and not the character?
Also, I'm not being asked to pay the $10 to buy the xpac when I go to the Steam shop like before. Did I get the xpac for free b/c I did the Alpha?
Old man here and I'm just trying to make sure I can play without losing progress later with updates/patches b/c I've trapped myself in Alpha and not actually playing the full retail version of the game.
Thank you all for your help.

Since it's all but confirmed that Godzilla 3 is going to be coming out, probably the biggest question swirling around the community is who Godzilla's next opponent will be. The MV has fanned out in many different directions, getting away from the mythical aspect of the titans displayed in KOTM and leaning more into hard sci-fi with the Wingard installments. I think because of this, Hedorah meets the requirements of every box needed to be checked to fulfill the role as next MV villain. Here's why.
1) Getting away from the Hollow-Earth
The first thing we need to have is an understanding of the MV villains of the past. There is a common denominator among a lot of them.
MUTOs (ancient threat from Hollow Earth)
Skullcrawlers (hidden threat from SI)
Ghidorah (ancient threat from space but was on Earth already)
MechaGodzilla (man-made)
Skar King (ancient threat from Hollow Earth)
Shimo (ancient threat from Hollow Earth)
The Hollow Earth, as a concept, lends itself to an infinite amount of "ancient" or "undiscovered" titans to be used for upcoming villains. Especially with the line regarding "we've only explored 5% of the hollow earth" from GxK. Even Ghidorah, who did originate from space, was yet another "ancient threat" found in cave paintings as they were on the Earth previously. It's very clear that due to the abundance of this trope in the MV, we need to move away from ancient and buried threats and introduce a villain that Godzilla has never seen before. This will give Godzilla a chance to undergo character development, as being ridiculously old and the alpha titan, we haven't really seen him fight anything he doesn't already know almost everything about. He knew about the MUTOs, he knew about Ghidorah, he sealed away Skar and the ancient apes, fought a whole war against Kongs, and there are cave paintings of him fighting Shimo already. We NEED an alien threat to not only get away from the Hollow Earth, but to also show the possibility of more growth and adaptation for this Godzilla, from both a character and power standpoint as well.
Plus, it's pretty clear that the Hollow Earth is going to be Kong's domain moving forward, so having Godzlla fight ANOTHER "undiscovered" threat from there makes no sense with the universe they're setting up.
2) But why Hedorah?
Now that we've established the need for our villain to be alien in origin, most people would probably rather see SpaceGodzilla or Gigan if given the option. I'm going to get to why they shouldn't be in contention later, but let's talk about what Hedorah is and what he represents as a perfect antithesis of Legendary Godzilla.
Hedorah is a being of pure pollution, of toxic gas and sulfur. It's questionable as to whether he even contains the capacity for pure malice, as all of his fights in his own movie are technically self-defense. The issue is that his very existence, what he breathes out and what he thrives on, is a danger to all life on this planet. He's not an evil figure in the Destoroyah/SpaceGodzilla sense, he is just fighting to survive like any stray organism would. It's just that his survival is a death sentence for everyone else. This is the first point in his favor as to why he makes sense to me. He is a very "grounded" creature for a walking pollution monster. Gigan and SpaceGodzilla have distinct designs, origins, and personalities which, even after the bombastic personality shown by Skar King (who is still an ape very closely tied to humans) would be a very hard sell to modern western audiences. A giant chicken cyborg assassin from space? A flying space-faring version of Godzilla? Even King Ghidorah, who was represented as a highly intelligent alien seeking to dominate and destroy, is a far easier sell than either of those two. Especially with Wingard supposedly wanting to make the series gritty again, I think Hedorah just works because he is an invasive organism and nothing more. He just happens to be VERY dangerous
The other big reason he works is a narrative one: he is the absolute antithesis and foil to Godzilla and every other titan. The titans in the monsterverse are regarded as the guardians of nature, who heal habitats with their very presence and radiation and some who fight with their lives to preserve the balance of nature and their ecosystems. Hedorah is the worst possible thing these titans could encounter. A pure destroyer, not just of cities and towns, but of the very environment itself which they cherish so much. A death sentence for the reason for being for every titan. This would also help center Godzilla back into his role as the adjudicator of the will of nature. The last 2 films have shown Godzilla exclusively in "alpha titan" mode, slaying and fighting titans nonstop to retain his throne and even causing small debates among the fandom as to whether or not he's the good guy anymore. Hedorah as a foil would firmly center Godzilla's character back to where we started him as in the MonsterVerse, with him being a deity-like protector of ecosystems and nature itself, which can indeed also include humans. I'm sorry, but, back to our other aliens, I don't think that him defending earth from a Gigan or SpaceG invasion as earth's "alpha" again really hits these hard narrative beats to fix the parts of Godzilla's character that Wingard has discarded.
It's also no secret that Yoshimitsu Banno, the creator of Hedorah and his biggest fan, is almost the sole reason that the Godzilla trademark was brought back to America and why the MonsterVerse even exists. You can look it up if you're unfamiliar, but I think it would be necessary and emotional tribute to the late, great, Banno to see his feature monster, literally the reason the trademark is even here, to be brought to life by the MonsterVerse
3) The cool factor
Hedorah is also just cool as fuck. Multiple forms, nigh-unkillable, some truly insane abilities, all of this being even especially able to be brought to life vividly with new CGI technology. We could see some truly insane, even eldritch-looking forms for Hedorah with some good creativity behind it. It would also make for gnarly moments and good fights, as seeing Godzilla get his skin burned down to bone (like he did in the Showa era) would be rad as fuck for Legendary Goji, and knowing that pure brute force just doesn't work against Hedorah opens up so many avenues for human cooperation, and more development for Godzilla as we finally see how he reacts and analyzes a situation that he can't just beat or breath his why out of.
4) The negatives
Probably the two biggest negatives for this happening are a) having to buy the rights from Toho and b) Hedorah has low name recognition outside of Kaiju fans.
While I can't argue with the first one really, I will say that they still decided to pay up for Mothra at the last minute, meaning it might not be too much of an issue for them. I also don't think that the low name recog would be too bad. Godzilla is a VERY HOT IP at the moment, with Minus One and New Empire being smash hits financially, I think that the next solo Godzilla movie would put tons of butts in seats no matter what. But that's an opinion and not based on too much fact, so you're free to disagree. It's not like SpaceGodzilla and Gigan are that much more well-known to "casuals" than Hedorah. I would say that they managed to fill seats with entirely new monsters in Shimo and Skar, but Kong also played a role.
5) That's it
I mainly had this on my mind at work and saved my thoughts for later. Let me know if you agree or disagree. I am "biased" as a big fan of Hedorah, true.
But I think it all lines up. Being from space, being anti-nature by definition, being an incredibly powerful threat, and its status as a tribute to Banno, I think it just works!

Here's my story.
I'm like most kids: I didn't have any money growing up so video games were rare for me. So it is what it is.. you send back your games to gamestop for 2$
Today well.. I'm an adult(25) with real money and real "power" and well.. I'm stuck.
Now I can buy "everything" I want, but I'll end up doing the same thing again and again.I'm not in any big problem right now, I won't lose my house or anything,but I'm scared of the future. Am I going to ruin myself ? How can I help myself and my family for the future ? Am I overreating and this is just my anxiety kicking ?
Thank you

Hi, I’ve had a relationship where things have been pretty futile. I come from a dv relationship where I was strangled. Not this relationship.
We started dating and I got pregnant early on. He did not want to be a father and I gave him an option to leave and he didn’t.
He then told me he had thoughts of pushing me down the stairs while I was pregnant and I took this hard. He loves our son, very much and he is 4 now.
One night I had my friend and her boyfriend over and we came home and they wanted to meet our son. So I took them upstairs to see him. My partner at the time was asleep and his friend woke him up saying that “she brought a random dude upstairs to hold your son.” He came upstairs ready to fight and argue, I stepped in and asked him to stop. Now I remember him getting in my face buffing up his chest, and he said it got in his face. Either way face to face happened. I went fight or flight mode from my dv relationship and hit him and he kicked me back in self defense.
We talked about this and I thought it was over and done with. This was about 3 years ago.
Over time, I was a stay at home mom, while pregnant and taking care of my other son. He didn’t have a job that paid his bills. (We live at his dad’s for free) all we needed to buy was food and stuff for the kids. I took out student loans to pay for all of this, and I had a conversation with him where I felt like he was financially abusing me. He got really upset and I said just kidding, because I saw that. I wasn’t sure how to take it. Even though, I still buy everything in this house. He’ll pick up things only if I ask. He has a lot of debt and I offered to help pay and stuff to so we can save. I have a lot more money saved up than he does from my job, and he makes more than me now.
I’m sure I have said things with a harsh tone of voice, but I felt like he never listened. Which he now says, I never comforted him, was there for him when he needed it and I abuse him, manipulated him and gaslight him.
Three weeks ago I asked him why he doesn’t touch me or look at me. His response was I love you no matter what. He tried for a day or two to be affectionate. A couple days after is when he started calling me all these names. He stopped hugging, kissing anything and asked for space. I gave it to him. He told me if I hug him he’ll throw me off of him, he loves me but isn’t in love with me. That he has nothing to fix, and I am all at fault here. I have assumed responsibility and apologized. I cook him dinner every night and I have always taken care of both kids, taking them to and from school, homework and putting them to bed. He said that’s the bare minimum.
I thought maybe we can do couples therapy. He sat down for the 15 minute consultation with me, and said he would do it.
Now he’s saying it is his choice and if he so chooses to go to therapy and if I even say one thing wrong he’ll hang up and help me pack a bag.
Am I the manipulative abusive asshole? Do I stay and see if he goes through with couples therapy.

Hello, I am looking for a portable, ideally wireless, easy to use and easy to set-up system for my 9-10 yr old kids. Budget is about 100. Can go for more if its an easy to use (can be setup by kids) and has good sound. I do not think they can handle separate speakers/mixers etc
How do you feel about this product https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CH8PZRR1/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVL6NP7PL8QJ&psc=1 (comes with a portable speaker and 2 wireless mics)
vs buying two mics with the integrated speaker- https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Bluetooth-Microphone-Portable-Recording/dp/B0B8HZK281?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1&psc=1Price
I do need two mics and not sure which would be better buy, specially sound quality/connectivity and overall karaoke experience wise.
There are many other products in the market and I am a total noob without any experience to karaoke.
Other products that I have looked at:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08Z7J84TJ/ref=ewc_pr_img_1?smid=A3LLMZ9K72U9P2&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09X9D4ZD7/ref=twister_B0CJ51V9T2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
And get one wireless mic with these.
Thoughts?

When Carrie first met Petrovsky at the gallery, she tells Charlotte that a man in staring at her. From what we have seen in the rest of the show, if Carrie was interested she would have phrased it differently, like “a cute guy is looking at me “ or whatever. From the way she talks about Petrovsky you can tell she finds it weird that he is looking at her and not attractive. Later, when Charlotte freaks out and tell Petrovsky how important he is, Carrie begins to be more interested, shown by the face she makes as she repeats what Petrovsky told her “you are comic”. However, we know Carrie and we can tell she still wasnt attracted or interested. However, when she asks her friends about him, bc her interest was sparked by Charlottes fan behavior, Samantha says that he was the hottest guy at studio 58. This seals the deal for Carrie. However, even though it was Samanthas final comment that “sealed the deal”, we know that if Samantha would have been the one to be impressed by him at the gallery, Carrie wouldn’t have cared. Throughout the show it is evident that Carrie sees Charlotte as being better than her, and she often tried to diminish Charlottes accomplishments to feel better about herself. Coincidentally, there seems to be an ongoing juxtaposition between Charlotte’s and Carrie’s lives. Exhibit A: At one point Charlotte breaks up with Harry and Carrie is in a break with Berger. One day, Charlotte comes to announce how Harry proposed to her and they are back together. On the other hand, Carrie announces that she was broken up with on a post it. Although Charlotte and Harry were broken up, since they got back together we are gonna consider it a “break”. So in this moment, Charlotte and Carrie were going through the same thing, a break, and Charlotte got the best possible outcome while Carrie got literally the worst possible outcome. You can tell Carrie was not very happy about Charlotte’s news and since she didnt win at life, she was to win the attention of the group, making everything about her, to the point where she literally places her break-up-post-it on Charlotte’s ring and says “paper wins over rock”. This shows Carries insecurity and competitiveness with Charlotte and how she has to make sure to lessen Charlottes success so her failure is not as depressing. Exhibit B: In the episode where Carrie breaks up with Aidan for the second time, she is left without a place to live because Aidan had bought her apartment and she didnt have the money to buy it back, and all apartments for rent were too expensive. A little but before this, Charlotte had divorced Trey (that hadnt legally divorced yet at this point). Once again, Carrie and Charlotte were going through the same thing, breaking up a serious relationship (with rings involved) where they lived with their partner. However of course, Charlotte is left with a gorgeous and huge 5th avenue apartment with free time and no need to work. On the other hand of course, Carrie is left homeless and looking for a second job. This leads to another memorable Carrie douche move where she gets mad at Charlotte for not offering her the money for her deposit. She goes to Charlottes apartment and starts screaming at her. She admits her jealousy when she says “and what kills me is you dont even have to work, you are volunteering.” In conclusion, I think all these moments throughout their “friendship” led to Carrie persueing Petrovsky because Charlotte loved him. It was the literal ONE thing she could have that Charlotte couldnt. However we all know Charlotte would never have dated him, but Carrie is delulu.

Hey there! I'm a beginner - intermediate photographer and I've been wanting to upgrade my gear for while. I currently have a Canon Rebel T7 with a two lens (a 50mm f1.8 and a 200mm f4). I do mostly landscape and street photography (sometimes portraits here and there), so I'm looking for something that can shoot in low light and is relatively light, so that I can easily shoot without a tripod. I'd also like to stay under 1500-2000$ for the body and a lens. I've done some research and decided that I was probably going to get either a sony because of the vast lens choice and the low light capabilities or a fujifilm because I've always loved how photos from fuji's turn out. I was thinking either something like a sony a7iii or fuji xt3 or xt30ii. I do still enjoy the editing process afterwards so I'm not sure if buying a fuji would be worth it because of that. Thank you all for your help!!

I (29F) have been married to my husband (31M) for 5 years and we have no kids. I just need advice?
My husband has had a female friend since we started dating and it has never bothered me. Like live your life, who am I to say anything.
This female friend however is a pole instructor and the photos are a lot. Anyway, her studio she worked at went up for sale and she reached out to my husband for money to buy it from the current owner. My husband mentioned this to me and that it would be $7000. I told him it wasn’t a good idea and he didn’t say anything else. The following night it got brought up again and I held my position on it.
Fast forward a month and this female asks me what a good name for her new studio would be. I immediately ask my husband if he sent $7k and he says, “No, I sent $20k from the joint bank account” that I never check. He says “he wanted to do it right and it’s a tax write off.
Obviously I’m angry and I ask her if he’s on the business license which she tells me, no and that she never intended to put him on the license. So, not a tax write off. She noticed I was upset and said she’s sending $15k back.
I can’t understand why my husband is sending $20k to another female without ever mentioning it to me and I’ve been furious ever since.
Now, I have trust issues. I’ve never checked his phone but I did tonight. The girl messaged that she “wishes I had never found out” and “she filed for the LLC” and “she thought she’d have that extra $15k cushion and she’s upset now” and all this with the undertone of I’ve ruined her plan. He provided no defense on my part (did I really need to include that if you’ve made it this far?)
What am I suppose to do with this situation?

I find it hard to find reasons that I contribute to society or that I deserve to live. I continue living bc I love my dogs so much and they love me and I find strays and I love them forever. I also don’t know how to comment on peoples post that I want to respond to. I’m not very smart even though some say I am. I know I’m not. I don’t know how to make money I’m 40z . And I bring nothing to the table. Actually I have several tables cause I’m a hoarder kinda. It’s odd I feel like I want to die but then go thrifting and buy stuff. I buy stuff with my ex husbands money which he is my current bf. I yell alot. I’m mean to him. I just am not a nice person to humans. I don’t relate much. I mean I do t identify as anything except female. I was born soo . Yeaha just wondering why strangers care if I live. You’d never know. Also I’d probably do it wrong. So there’s that. Once I took all the pills but they were ibuprofen soo . Just want to restart from birth go to school meet friends or don’t and just get knowledge and own pet farm . America is not nice for jobs that pay well. I’m scared to die but I want to . I love sleeping bc my dreams feel real! I tell my friends that I annoy my dreams but it doesn’t matter to them they just think it’s great I can remember them so well. I dream a lot of going home. And the people that died are very alive in my dreams its lovely and when my dogs are there I’m so overwhelmed and happy I just wanna get right back to dreaming if I wake. I have gotten fat a double chin 120-200 lbs bc of thyroid. It happened in 2020 after the shot go figure. My body my joints hurt so much my limbs feel like they are being poked with knives needles and torn apart. Why don’t I just excercise? It hurts and I used to have a 12pk abs I worked out intensely soo it’s not a good pain and then I can’t move for weeks later I just want it to be over and everytime my dogs get old a stray dog comes and cycle starts over this happens every 4 yrs or so

For my campaign to successfully continue, I must move online, at least partially. I already use Dungeon Alchemist on a flat screen for in person sessions, but now I must use a VTT. From my research, I'm heavily leaning towards Foundry, but I have a Mac, and have a few concerns I can't find answers to online. Specifically:
Are Mac and PC modules separate? As in will I have a smaller pool to choose from because I'm coming from Mac? Are things unavailable to me as a Mac/will work more poorly?
Are there any issues I can expect from hosting on a Mac and being the only Mac person with 3 players?
I know the last one is vague, but I'd really like to know about any potential snafus before I buy and spend oodles of time trying to learn the ins and outs of a program that has Mac issues. Thank you!

There is great benefit, these days, in having a name unlike any other: you float to the top of Google searches. Bolerium Books, in San Francisco, knows this well, although it wasn’t a consideration when it first opened, in 1981. Bolerium’s co-owner, John Durham, runs through any number of explanations for the name, depending on whose leg he wants to pull and how hard. “It was an ancient road in Roman times,” he intoned recently, “large, funny, and sluggish,” while another co-owner, Alexander Akin, roundly mouthed, “Not true.” (The word is a Roman one for Land’s End, in Cornwall, England. The bookstore was once a bit closer to the ocean.) Fittingly, there is no other place like Bolerium, not on the Internet nor in the province of the real. Similes come steadily, none of which really seem to fit. Perhaps Durham’s is best. “We’re like a platypus,” he told me recently, “ugly as fuck and all sorts of parts.”.
This moment of serious American protest against Trump has led to one of Bolerium Books’ best sales years ever.Photograph by Thor Swift / NYT / Redux.
At last count, the store contained 67,385 single titles in stock. Estimates of the time that has elapsed since the last deep cleaning ranged from a jokey “twenty years ago” to a hemming “define ‘clean.’ ” “Nature abhors a vacuum,” Durham quickly noted. A store map gestures at the sheer amount of stuff, with sections labelled as “Reef of Flotsam” or “Onset of Confusion” (right by the entrance), or, in one cramped corner, “Hell.”
The semi-barbed humor protects something serious and deeply essential. Few people walk in (“the door is locked to keep out the unworthy,” Durham wrote in response to a negative Yelp review, though he made sure to mention the password, “swordfish”). Those who do manage to enter find, three floors above one of the Mission District’s busiest intersections, a vast and quiet space populated by seven staff members, thousands of books about and from social movements, densely packed rows of pamphlets and ephemera, and, in the adjacent storage room, great snowbanks of paper. These snowbanks, or “midden heaps,” as Durham calls them, are from attics, basements, personal archives, and libraries across the country. They have all been sold or donated to Bolerium. In them, evidence of the past is to be found, possibly reckoned with, and then, hopefully, sold.
From Bolerium’s snowbanks have come copies of On Our Backs (a lesbian erotic magazine put out in response to the anti-pornography publication Off Our Backs), century-old postcards of pacifist Doukhobors protesting in the nude, intricate Black Panther posters and handbills, an issue of Lumberjack (“with appendix on musical saw”), and the famous inter-commune Kaliflower newsletters from early-nineteen-seventies San Francisco. But with a staff so expert that they can translate a Mongolian treatise on traditional Oirat law using a handmade cheat sheet, classifications like “famous” and “obscure” begin to blur. So do “past” and “present.” Rather than a platypus, maybe the store is more like an estuary: the disparate holdings mingle, rolling in and out according to murky tides. (If you visit the Web site and browse the digital catalog by date, the tides begin to feel more explicable; one week, for example, carries a huge wave of Alan Watts-related material. The next week brings a crush of gay romance novels.) At Bolerium, for better and worse, you can wade around in what Durham calls “the primary source material for history.”
Here is an 1838 publication by the American Anti-Slavery Society and a brochure arguing for the Equal Rights Amendment. A pamphlet from a 1928 speech by Marcus Garvey sits not far from a publication on “incidents in the Life of Eugene V. Debs” written by his brother, Theodore (once, before an important speech, a piece of barbed wire tore “a great rent in [Debs’s] trousers . . . the flap of which hung down like the ear of a Missouri houn’ pup”). Among many other small, sheeny pins is a button from the 1990 AIDS Walk in San Francisco. Here are fliers that passed from hand to hand at protests, meant to convince, assuage, and inflame, and here’s a lump of coal from a miners’ strike in Alabama with tiny chicken-scratch wording: “never forget.” Notably, this year of serious American protest has been the store’s best sales year ever.
Not marked on the map is that other part of American history that has, this year and every other, raged—a section that Durham loosely calls “the White Problem” and keeps behind the locked door of a different room altogether. Accessible to scholars and those who know to ask, the spindly bookcases contain titles like “Gun Control Means People Control” and “Fluoridation & Truth Decay,” as well as several publications by the John Birch Society. “You can’t understand American history without understanding the far right,” Durham told me. “What it’s done, its justifications, its tropes and idiocies.”
It was to the deepest corner of the storeroom that the archivist Lisbet Tellefsen was drawn one afternoon. (Tellefsen visits Bolerium as a “treasure hunter,” and has amassed the largest collection of Angela Davis-related material in the world.) One time, she idly tugged out an issue of The Bayviewer, a magazine that once served the historic black neighborhood that James Baldwin characterized as “the San Francisco America pretends does not exist.”
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The magazine fell open to a page bearing the face of Tellefsen’s father, whom she had not seen since she was two, in an advertisement for his Oldsmobile dealership. That led to an ongoing saga of tracking down half-siblings and cousins found on Ancestry.com. “There is so much history there,” Tellefsen told me. She visits Bolerium once a month, wary of buying back her own consigned material. “It’s so rich with connections. We have an understanding of history, but places like that hold so much.” Bolerium’s official motto, “Fighting Commodity Fetishism with Commodity Fetishism since 1981,” does not quite distill the feeling of holding some of these discoveries between your fingers, or explain the way that ephemera can work to vivify history, very often through its ordinariness. A bit of light browsing recently unearthed a flier from a class reunion of Florida’s first accredited African-American high school, as well as an Electrolux manual from 1933 listing Pope Pius XI as a famous customer.
But history is ongoing, and the present moment needs its collectors. During the Occupy Movement, the store paid a dollar for each flyer or poster that people brought in, then put together a sweeping collection for the British Library. Holdings from contemporary social movements are fairly small, since so much planning, discussing, and arguing takes place on Facebook and Twitter. “Occupy was the last one to have lots of leaflets,” Akin told me, somewhat sadly. Currently, he is collecting material from what he calls the “shock-and-disbelief period” following the 2016 Presidential election. Only from “marinating in the sauce of time” do these things begin to accrue both value and interest.
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Recently, in one snowbank, Akin found a sketch done in creamy pastel of a basalt mountain and drifting clouds. Tiny guard towers dotted the background. It was a drawing of the view from Tule Lake Segregation Center, the largest of the incarceration camps that held Japanese-Americans during the Second World War, and the one which held those people deemed by the government to be “disloyal.” The artist was a man named Tomokazu, surname unknown, who resided for over thirty-five years in Plumas County, California, before being imprisoned at Tule Lake. The piece of paper sat among countless others all bearing dispatches of one kind or another from the past, which is not a foreign country, really, but a place hovering just under our present, and made of paper and ink, buttons, and voices.
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Hi all,
I am trying to lower the amount of booster packs and cards I am buying. Are there any good apps where you can buy booster packs with in game currency (preferably earned without paying irl money) and add it to a collection?
I am not really looking for a game where you can play the actual game (I.E Magic or hearthstone, I already play Magic), just looking for the act of opening booster packs without actually buying booster packs, but adds the cards to a collection.
Maybe a game where you can sell duplicates to make more in game currency, and earn in game currency.

All names have been changed to protect everyone’s info. When this happened I was 21.
Long one so buckle up! So I (21f at the time) met this girl we’ll call Amy. I met Amy volunteering at a library where she just ordered people on what to do, despite only being a volunteer herself, not a librarian. Anyway… only after 7 months of knowing her she dates this guy, (we’ll call him Ben) and gets engaged within two months because she was pregnant. I kid you not, she married this guy 3 months after meeting him. I thought that was a questionable choice, but was not confrontational.
When my then fiancé and I went on a double date with Amy and Ben, Ben was nice. My fiancé loved hanging out with him due to similarities in hobbies. After dinner in bed, my fiancé is on his computer and trying to add Ben on Facebook. After searching his name up and trying nicknames and full names, we find a FRICKIN ARTICLE about how this dude slly a*ted women. I was shocked and sent the link to my Amy, worried for her. She replies with “Don’t worry, I know! He’s a changed man!! I can’t have my baby with no daddy!” Literally that, with some other stuff. Keep in mind he was only charged 2 years ago with barely any punishment. (It didn’t say exactly on the article) I, decided to leave it at that but told Amy that if she needs me, she can text or call anytime and I can help.
Fast forward to when Amy becomes a bridezilla…
Amy asks me to be her MOH! Not a BM, (not baby mamas auntie charlotte 🤭) a MOH!! And my fiancé was asked to be a best man. I accepted because Amy and I were pretty close. As soon as I accept, Amy clicks a switch. She informed me as a MOH I should be paying for the catering, BM dresses, and HER dress. As well as the Air BNB for a resort area in Hawaii! I told her that I would be willing to pay for catering and the BM dress, as well as mine (my fiancé and I were pretty well off, he said it would fine to do so.) just the total of those things would have been almost 3,000 dollars. (1,500 for dresses and 1,500 for food) she tells me that she needs help because she’s pregnant and can’t work. Amy was 2 months pregnant and worked part time at a desk. I tell her I’m sorry, but 10k quite a bit. She huffs and puffs but gets over it.
ONE DAY before the wedding we are rehearsing. It’s going well, until Amy tells me I need to change the menu for food and the BM dresses. I was shocked and asked why to which she said the menu we had now was not trendy enough and she liked a new color for the dresses. I inform her that I can’t make that happen with adjustments with the dresses and we already had the food in a freezer. Amy gets LIVID. Saying how she’s done soo much for me by being my friend and she can’t afford to change the menu. Like okay then don’t do it girl. Her fiancé took her home. I got a text from her saying how she sooo pregnant (as in 2-3 months) and she just gets cranky sometimes. More like delusional (not even delulu).
Day of the wedding comes and I see the cream white BM dresses an olive/baby poop green.I was shocked and asked Amy what happened. She said she dyed them the color she wanted them! I was surprised but didn’t bother her about it because it was her wedding. 20 minutes later, she asks if I can do her and her BMs makeup. I asked where the makeup artist was and she said she cancelled them to save herself some money. I told her I don’t do very good make up and I only do simple make up and she’s like oh OK sure do it good though. So I do 5 full faces of makeup including mine. By the time that’s done I’m exhausted mentally and we have 2 hours until the ceremony. I go to find Amy’s dress and can’t so I ask her where it is. This MF tells me I was to buy it!! I tell her I bought mine and the BMs dresses. Amy starts freaking out and lashing out on me. I tell her to calm down and I can get a white party dress if mine (looks like it could be for a wedding) and it will still look great in her. She goes “Ooh nice I don’t have to charge anyone for me renting a dress” and I’m like gurl.
Ceremony comes without too much trouble… until.
I have this teenage cousin (15-16f) of Amy who tells me Ben has been trying to get him and her alone. This poor girl we’ll call Carla was having a panic attack so my fiancé (he’s a psychologist) calms her down quickly and has her explain the situation to Amy hoping Amy will know what to do. What does Amy decide to do? To tell Carla she is a liar and Ben is too perfect to want a DISGUSTING LITTLE GIRL LIKE HER. This is when I had enough and tell Amy that that was horrible of her and I will be leaving with Carla and her accompanying people. Amy scoffs at me and just goes back to the crowd to look like the perfect wife and person in front of everyone.
I eventually was able to completely cut off ties with Amy and her family. Ben is now in jail or was and Amy now has a drug addiction (probably from the help of Ben) with her parents raising her kid to keep him safe.
That is my tea. (Sorry it’s so long and if there are spelling mistakes)