ABYG If I go out with a straight guy friend while being in a situationship
I have a guy friend (26M) whom I met 1 year ago and we always hang out together going for drinks and eating dinner if our schedule allows. However, recently got into a situationship who I really like the guy (28M), but the problem is we don't define the relationship yet cause he wants to take things slow. We didn't really define yet if we were exclusive and I'm still not really sure if he really was into me in the same level as I am cause he goes on and off. Recently, he goes off the radar and ghosted me. I learned that he left me cause I always go out with my guy friend and got really jealous when he learned we went on a day trip to a city (just a spontaneous drunk trip). He never opened it up to me and the trip happened when we were still in early stage of talking (probably a month or less). Now, everyone was blaming me cause it was my fault and I shouldn't have went on a trip with my friend.
P.S. I just wanna know your opinions regarding this and to learn as well. Hopefully, if I went back to dating and put in this kind of situation again I'll know what to do and not be ignorant anymore. Also the guy (28M) ghosted me completely and ignored me even if I tried to share my side. (I honestly really likes him and he is a really really nice person)
Ako Ba Ang Gago If I go out with my other straight guy friend while being in situationship? Honestly for me hindi kasi he knows the guy din naman and mutual namin kaya akala ko they were both cool to each other. Also, I know sa sarili ko na I know my boundaries and genuine feelings ko sa situationship ko. However lahat kasi ng tao sa paligid ko tingin na gago ako for doing that like “very gago move”.
Thank you!

Hi guys! So there’s a video I really like of high schoolers playing AC/DC Back in Black and at minute 0:25 (before the actual song starts, this is like an intro they made) you can hear a pretty cool effect that I would like to know how is it called and what pedal does he uses for that. I’m a newbie so I’m not familiarized with pedals yet, so I wanted to ask :)

I (29F) started a new job about a month ago. There’s a guy (30ish-M) who works in another department, who I find very attractive. We haven’t officially met yet and we don’t see each other around very often, as we work in different departments. We’ve had two brief interactions:

1. I held the door open for him when he was coming in behind me one morning. He said thank you; I said you’re welcome.
   
2. I offered him the rest of my French fries at lunch one day. He accepted, said thank you, and I said you’re welcome. Note: I didn’t just seek him out for this; I initially offered the fries to the two other ladies in my department who were in there at the time. One of them suggested I offer them to him or another guy in his department.
   

I sent him a friend request on Facebook over the weekend, and he accepted. Would it be weird to message him? If so, should I approach him at work instead? As mentioned before, we don’t cross paths often, so this might be difficult. If not weird, what should I say? He is single by the way, according to his Facebook.
TLDR: Should I message my attractive coworker on Facebook whom I’ve only had minimal interactions with?

Hi guys,
Since i decided to start my gaming youtube channel, my macbook pro 2014 wont do the job, so i was thinking about buying a mac studio M2 Max but when you want to add Ram or storage you have to pay 999999$ extra for small things.
So im just gonna switch to pc and build a better beast at the same price.
My needs in term of the pc build are :

• Very good for video editing (my ps5 gameplay), using Davinci Resolve as software and it requires powerful CPU & GPU, also a lot of storage.
  
• Very good for Gaming (Even if i don't game a lot on computer but since im spending money, its good to have a pc that could game and edit.
  
• Choose wisely fans so the pc will be quite (so it will be easy to record voiceover and to not disturb my family since my desk is on the living room).
  
• I have 2800 CAD (Canadian dollars) As a budget.
  
• I already have mouse, keyboard, monitor...etc so the budget will be allocated to the tower only.
  

Do you have advices for the build that suits those requirements ?
Thank you guys !

Hi guys,
Since i decided to start my gaming youtube channel, my macbook pro 2014 wont do the job, so i was thinking about buying a mac studio M2 Max but when you want to add Ram or storage you have to pay 999999$ extra for small things.
So im just gonna switch to pc and build a better beast at the same price.
My needs in term of the pc build are :

• Very good for video editing (my ps5 gameplay), using Davinci Resolve as software and it requires powerful CPU & GPU, also a lot of storage.
  
• Very good for Gaming (Even if i don't game a lot on computer but since im spending money, its good to have a pc that could game and edit.
  
• Choose wisely fans so the pc will be quite (so it will be easy to record voiceover and to not disturb my family since my desk is on the living room).
  
• I have 2800 CAD (Canadian dollars) As a budget.
  
• I already have mouse, keyboard, monitor...etc so the budget will be allocated to the tower only.
  

Do you have advices for the build that suits those requirements ?
Thank you guys !

Lets take a moment to appreciate Steve’s work here. I see this man commenting every single day in this subreddit, helping people out, explaining, reassure people etc etc. If it wasn’t for Steve i would have gone completely mad… Costo ruined 1,5 year of my life, going crazy thinking i had heart problems even though the tests all came back normal. Every pinch in my chest gave me a panic attack.
Then i found this subreddit, the backpod, Steve’s videos and him explaining and helping people out every single day without making a dime off of it here on the sub. It all makes sense since then, it eased my mind and im sure the ones reading this too. We know what causes the problem now, how to fix it and if we need any help or reassurance we post it here on reddit and id it’s challenging enough Steve always pulls up to help. This man truly saved my life, it was that bad.
I’m gonna be honest, if i would have had costo for 7 years and healed myself, even though i knew everything about it since then, i would’ve forgotten about it after a few months and went on with my life. Steve didn’t. He is still here helping every single day.
Steve your an amazing individual, your changing/saving lives and you deserve all the best for all the work you’ve put into the research of this crazy and scary ‘condition’ and helping the people out! Thank you so much!

Finally got a diagnosis. After a year of thinking I was slowly dying and getting loads of tests done I finally got diagnosed with POTS from the tilt table test. I’m a 29M and believe this was cause by covid. Thank you to everyone in this reddit community because I may have never even got tested. My brain fog is my worst complaint as it has been steady for 1 year now. Any info on fixing or alleviating this fog would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys 🙏🏼

I DO NOT HAVE SHARING ON EXCEPT FOR 7 WHICH IS JUST MY JOB SWITCH DISPLAYS. I switch between Arcanist and Reaper and the hotbar does not switch between them. For example, I move Hotbar 1 into the corner, save, and then switch to Reaper and Hotbar 1 for Arcanist is in the corner when it's not supposed to be there. I can't find a Youtube video that explains how to switch hotbars between classes.

I have been in and out of SSRIs for a year almost due to mental health problems, I have now on Setraline after using it for 1.5months noticed something weird.
I have these uncontrollable moodswings, I can be incredibly happy for a couple of hours or a day or so, and I mean I have a confidence boost by 1000%, strength boost 1000% what it feels like. I aldo tend to see much clearer and the colours are much more clear, music to my ears is much more nice and I generally speak and laugh more.
But then it goes back, Im myself but a little down, I dont enjoy anything, im constantly tired, never sleep enough. And then theres another phase.
Now this phase can come out of nowhere, it can last for an hour up to days, in this phase it feels like a huge tsunami of dread and darkness just came washing up on me like literally. In this phase i’m so derealized I start microhallucinating like stars. Everything is so much more blurry and it feels like I see the world through a shitty camera lens. I get much more upset and how angry I become over the dumbest things is really strange like I miss a bus and I run in the middle of the road to stop it, it doesnt stop and I destroy a stop sign while screaming, I overthink a lot, like a lot lot, I convince myself that my girlfriend cheats in the most dumbest ways and I believe them, anything she or anyone else does just gets me so upset.
I also have physical pains but thats just due to anxiety, I lose much more hair, part of that is that I have alopecia areata, but I havent lost so much hair in a long time, the stress is building up on me and it feels like im slowly touching grip of reality.
I also had a drug related psychosis around 2-3months ago that scarred me, that shit was the worst thing in my life like litteraly.
I just want some saying from you guys if you have experienced the same, is this hypomania or what you call it, is this normal should I check this out?

Background : I've been playing for about 2.5 years (38 years old now), shooting in the low to mid 80s. Decent knowledge about clubs. I've had about 6 different sets of clubs from different fittings done at club champion, PGA superstore, Golf Galaxy, Local course, and original sets bought on facebook marketplace and finessed by my first coach/teacher. (Northern California)
I've also spent over 10k on lessons from pretty much all the coaches from local golf course. Local coaches I've found online, coaching from golf shops, you name it. I wanted to improve fast.
So this is my rant, I feel like as a player, everyone here is to exploit and make their living from a game we love. A breakdown of each topic below.
Coaching:

• Korean academies ( subscription based) - It was $500 a month for unlimited range and the instructor would walk around and give you a pointer here and there, practically useless, like 3 mins of actual coaching.
• American style coaching - There is an inherit conflict of interest with golf coaching that doesn't make too much sense to me. Local coaches from golf courses typically only offer bandaid fixes to what you are struggling with and very much assume you are a beginner. It is fairly hard for them to gauge and access how much you know about the swing within the one hour period. Typically people go see them for a 1 hour lesson here and there and they don't really have a strong client-tell. There are coaches that I work with more frequently and they are always booked, but if you are a coach and you need clients, do you AT HEART really want to help you get better. Wouldn't you always want to just find a goldilocks zone where you are always booked.

Fitting:

• Retail stores - Trust me, a lot of these guys are utter garbage at big retail stores like golf galaxy and pga superstore, unless it's like a fitting van studio. There are the knowledgable ones but they are seasoned and just want to sell you shit. It's like going to a car dealership but for clubs. A free putter fitting means having a college student looking at your swing for 3-4 shots then when you make a putt, he goes wow.... that's a great fit. He doesn't care if you know about lie angle, loft, toe hang, length, stroke type. Doesn't know how to probably set up a SAMs Puttlab. Then when it comes to actual club fitting, I don't even know where and how to start, but it's probably some generic corporate training of recommending the latest clubs from different manufactures.
• Club Champion - Fittings are decent, but something about them. They know more generic numbers on trackman forsure. They are constantly trying too hard to upsell you into exclusive shafts, and their build prices are just way to expensive, but if they know you just want the fitting only, they won't spend much time with you. The $300 dollar fitting fee is realistically not worth it for them. They forsure care more about you buying their SST puring services and breaking each component down and charge you separately. A awkward moment is when I went in and just wanted to test out all the shafts, but already had one in mind. When the build came out, I played dumb and showed the guy the same build for $1200 cheaper. They broke down the head, shaft and grip down as individual components. Their rebuttal was they were the ones building it, and their tolerances are much better than stock manufacturer. As if it's really hard to get the loft, lie, length, swing weight checked anywhere else. Anyway, I just did the math infront of him and paid him $175 for the fitting.
• Golf shops - Don't be confused, the point of having a shop is to make revenue, you will get recommended to different brands that they have the most association with, and with the highest margin. They will try to sway you in a certain direction, especially when you are a newer player and don't really know exactly what you want.

We know you’re reading this and that’s a good thing. You took our advice to avoid using campground water for drinking and eating. Good Job 👍🏻
I almost puked watching you using your bare hands to hook up the septic. That’s disgusting 🤮. Go to Walmart and get some disposable gloves 🧤.
And don’t put your water hose on the ground when the end isn’t attached: I can guarantee you there’s pee and poop everywhere!
Remember that bug you couldn’t identify? How about snap a pic then have Kelbee search on the internet 🛜 Another missed opportunity to really learn things.
Again stop staging the videos, it’s obvious and crappy to watch. You tell K to use that sentence marker under the sentence which is wrong. That’s the whole point of it. Then you realize that, right? That tells the viewers you never used it.
Poor Batman, did you leave the AC on while in the Museum for an hour? Bet you didn’t. Please teach that child how to pronounce “R”. You need to work on that now so she doesn’t grow up talking like a baby.
I suggest you go back to basics with Math. She doesn’t know what 9 + 1 is 🙄.
Go get gloves Mary! I want to see them in your next video.
Paris❤️

My current phn RealMe GT Master edition. Due to persistent Green line issue and may be some water gets inside ..it got damaged So I want to buy a new phone
I thought if I buy a 38-40k range phn ,it'll last for may be 5-6 year. But one of my brother suggested just go with 20-25k range phn .. anyhow you'll change phones in every 2.5-3 year . So money-time wise it's better.Cz two 20k phn lasting 3 year each with new upgrades modifications little better than 40k phn with old upgrades( It could be a very dumb analogy of him😅, but I'm considering it)
So without getting much into the reason. I want you guys to suggest me Phones under 40k & 25k range Criteria: camera quality can be average I don't mind. But It shouldn't lag .a decent processor cz I play BGMI, COD (max 1-1.5 hour a day) and fast charging.( And please no greenline shit so avoid RealMe and OnePlus)
I'm also researching and end up considering some options...
I .40k rupees range , 1. Nothing 2 ( personal favourite, but no android 17 upgrade so what's the point giving 40k and getting till A16 upgrade...as I want to use it for long time)

1. OnePlus 12r (Greenline issue.. everything else fine ... Still it's a big no due to that line thing.. open to hear other perspective)
   
2. Samsung S23 fe ( Great phn but lagging issue , heating issue, charging didn't long last{not sure} )
   

If you've any other phn suggestions within this price range or may be out of these 3 .. please suggest
Also Suggest me Phn under 25k price range
Some of my picks
.1 nothing 2A ( but very new , any suggestions?)

1. Motorola Edge 50 fusion (16th May will release, not sure how it ends up to be .. so no matter how good it is, but at first go I'm not gonna take the risk to buy)

Any other suggestions or out of these 2 would be appreciated
***** suggest me one phone each from both category. With a good processor, no lagg, fast charging and may be some other criteria I should consider!!!! Any suggestions would be helpful (Camera could be average, doesn't matter much)

I am trying to record a live performance of me playing acoustic and singing for video (recorded independently) and everything I record comes out extremely quiet.
I've recorded just my voice with the microphone right in front of my face to see if it was a distance thing but it still sounds very quiet. I turned the input all the way up on my interface and its a little better on volume but still quiet but not it also sounds terrible.
I am pretty new to this so I am not sure where to begin with trouble shooting the issue.
I am using an AT2020 plugged into input 1 of a Steinberg UR22mkII that connects to my laptop through USB 2.0. I am using cakewalk as the DAW.
Edit: I forgot to mention the +48v switch is on

Last summer I spent 2 1/2 months paddling the Mackenzie River system. I saw wolves and musk oxen and more. Here's a highlight video. Please check it out!

TL;DR (18m) I was planning on going to college for game development but I don't think I want a career in that. I just want to do my own thing and hopefully get big. Biology seems cool.
I want to be an independent game developer. I have my own game idea and I'm really passionate about it. I’d make it even if I couldn’t make money off of it. It has a bunch of creatures based on real life biology, it's called speculative evolution. Kinda like Subnautica or James Cameron’s Avatar. Like alien animals and aren’t just monsters. I animate all the characters and creatures and want the game to have a hand drawn style like Hollow Knight.
Due to my interest in video games and digital arts / animation, I applied to an art school with a game design major, within walking distance from my high school. I visited it during my art classes and found the environment inviting. There were nice studio spaces and the students there looked really fun to be around. The Game Design professor was really nice to listen to during the Open House. All these together, alongside transportation issues led me to tunnel vision into this school. When I got the financial aid package, I started rethinking the idea of going. I assumed it would cover most of the cost since my family is low income and I have a lot of siblings. The school seems really nice but I don’t want to have 100K in student loans.
I didn’t apply anywhere else until recently. This year's FAFSA was delayed by a lot which made applying to other schools a bit tricky. I got accepted into a state school which offers more stuff too.
All the game developer layoffs and crunch time stuff, I don’t really think I want to do that. I of course want to make my own game. Like alone, in an apartment or my own little studio space or something. Being able to be a concept artist would be awesome, but it’s like super competitive and there’s also AI image generation. (eww I hate that) It’s scary good now, imagine how good it’ll be in 4 years when I graduate. Working on other people’s games would be cool, I guess. That’s not why I want to learn this stuff. I just want to do my own thing
Also looking at the art college’s class lineup, they don’t have anything not related to art. I like biology, paleontology and other earth sciences because I do lots of worldbuilding. I don’t get bored in stem classes like I imagine a lot of art school students do.
I’ve been thinking about a lot of other careers.
Dental Hygienists seem to make a lot of dollars without flexible hours, but I’ve also heard they have wrist pain which would make it really hard to draw.
Software Engineering is alright. Like I can tolerate it, but without the lens of video games, I don’t really care for it. The coding part of video games is not my spark, it’s more the artistic creative side. Also I hear that’s like the most overcrowded major everywhere. I know people who love coding like how I love paleontology, just researching it for fun.
Being a TV show animator seems really similar to being in a game developer studio. I also think I’d have to move to California or something. I don’t really want to move that far away.
Architecture seems kinda cool. I just heard you have to love it because you work overtime a lot and would get paid more for your effort in other fields.
Having some sort of biology job would be really cool. I’m not sure exactly what they do though. Again I saw you have to love it because it’s hard to find a job without a masters degree.
My art teacher is really proud of my work so far and it makes me happy. I will say though, considering something else as a career has made thinking about it so much less stressful. It can just be something cool I do and if it gets big, I don’t have to work anymore. Yahoo. I could also put hobbyist instead of professional in my bio, which looks cooler to me.
Extra:
Working a trade sounds sucky because I’ve helped my friend at his family business at a warehouse once. It was okay but I don’t want to do that for a living. Lifting heavy stuff and getting kinda hurt. No thanks.
Also I’m aware I simplify a bit when talking about competition and stuff. The idea is that entry level jobs would be hard to get and those don’t really pay that well and I don’t want to feel like I wasted a college degree. I could be being dumb about AI image generation but any professional art people can let me know.
You can read about my student loan worries here here
And I can link to my itch.io for my 1 minute game prototypes if anyone is interested. My 2D Platformers with Krita Animations
Anyway what I’m asking for is your thoughts because I’m not knowledgeable here. Anyone with a biology degree, experience in the jobs I listed or whatever else (I don’t know, it’s why I am asking)

Might be a bit long but I want to explain all the details so people can understand and answer better
Currently on about month 7 of a flair of mild-moderate pancolitis. This is my first diagnosed flair as I had UC symptoms in 2022 but they weren’t bad enough to effect my quality of life and I just ignored it and everything cleared up on its own in a few months. Fast forward to this year, another flair started in November, colonoscopy in February, started mesalamine which maybe helped 25% but didn’t provide further relief after a few weeks and was prescribed a 20 day prednisone taper starting at 20mg. I felt great during this time, about 75% back to normal, but as I tapered off symptoms returned. This led to me switching to Humira. I just finished my second “loading” dose last week and start the 40mg maintenance doses a week from today. So in total have been on Humira about 3 weeks and was told by GI to discontinue mesalamine once I started 40mg Humira. I seem to feel a little better the days after the injections which could just be placebo but still suffering from bad urgency, occasional blood, loose stool, and going about 10x/day
In all honesty I am miserable. This disease has destroyed my quality of life. I know Humira takes time, but I lost my patience and asked my GI for another taper of Prednisone. The same 20mg/20 day taper to take in the mean time while waiting for Humira to kick in. I have yet to start the taper, but this brings me to the main point of this post…
I leave for a week long trip to Costa Rica in about 3 1/2 weeks. Car rides, plane rides, traveling, etc. Everything this disease goes against. I don’t want to rely on Imodium during the trip and I don’t want to feel miserable. My question is… do I hold onto this prednisone taper and wait until around the trip to take it if I’m still flaring?? I hate the drug but it’s the only thing that noticeably helped. Or do I take it now and hope it kicks me into remission and Humira kicks in to keep me there? I am just miserable right now and start a new job next week which I know will lead to more problems, but the last thing I want is for this trip to be ruined by this disease and having to take Imodium daily to feel somewhat normal. Also, what are your guys experience with Humira? How long does it take to really kick in?
In summary, do I tough it out now and save my prednisone for the trip in case I’m still flaring, or start it now and hope I’m in remission the week of the trip with fingers crossed that Humira kicks in by then???
Thank you all.

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CW/TW: Canon-typical substance use- laudanum (but NO dub con); Rated Explicit (later chapters)
Summary Edinburgh, 1827 (end of “The Resurrectionists” minisode)
When Hell fails to notice Crowley’s Very Good Deed, he is left in an Edinburgh graveyard trying to navigate a world tilted by laudanum. Fortunately for him, Aziraphale has no intention of leaving him to fend for himself. And Crowley's compromised brain-to-mouth filter leads to a far more enjoyable evening than they expect.
Excerpt (you guys get a longer excerpt than tumblr, congrats lol) Crowley’s attention zeroed in on some words Aziraphale had just said that Crowley particularly liked, which were “come here”. He sauntered the long distance to Aziraphale, with an exaggerated sway to his hips, until he slammed into something, probably a tree. Blinking several times, he looked for the tree but only saw Aziraphale.
“Oh! Hellooooo”, he said while holding onto Aziraphale's shoulders to steady himself.
“Sorry ‘bout that, thought you were a tree.”
Aziraphale tutted. “Your depth perception is off, dear boy, and you can hardly keep upright. We must get you a place to rest until you've regained full use of your faculties. Allow me to help you.”
Crowley stared at Aziraphale through a long, drunken pause during which his brain's temporal lobe made an admirable effort to process words. It was mostly unsuccessful, but it could hardly be blamed for the visual cortex hogging all of Crowley's attention.
“You're so lovely!” He loudly blurted out with a toothy grin, before continuing. “You're like…glowy. Twinkly? No, 'bright’, probably. Oh I know the word- beautiful! You're beautiful. Beautiful Angel. Oh! And when you smile like that it's even better!”
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Artwork was done for this fic by Lex Arturo! Isn't it awesome!?
Thanks to my many betas! Main beta team: Olfactory Ventriloquism, u/happynachohologram u/Outrageous_Ring_5655
Astrophysics beta: u/Nosferatini
Chapter 1: u/fishey_me, u/SouthernFriedAmy, u/KotiasCamorra, u/likeafuckingninja, u/Yes-its-unholy, u/millship, u/Grouchy-Spare8611, u/ghst_signal
Also thanks to u/Bea-N-Art for the inspiring Laudaddy portrait I've been obsessed with since she made it

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