Face framing and choppy hair pictures

1. Arthur C. Clarke: Prompt: Imagine an alien puzzle—explore how mysterious cosmic architects might shape human evolution in a universe that's like a gigantic, mind-bending video game.
   
2. William Gibson: Prompt: Picture yourself as a cyber-sleuth navigating a virtual world filled with secret codes and digital mysteries, where bits and atoms collide in a high-tech adventure.
   
3. Stanisław Lem: Prompt: Journey to an alien planet and discover the cool, weird stuff happening in a giant, thinking ocean—think about how it blurs the line between reality and what's happening in your wildest dreams.
   
4. Isaac Asimov: Prompt: Fast forward to a future where robots are super smart—think about the tricky questions and big decisions people might face when robots and real life get all tangled up.
   
5. Greg Egan: Prompt: Step into a world where you can play with digital versions of yourself—explore how it feels to live in a computer, creating cool and crazy new adventures every day.
   
6. Neal Stephenson: Prompt: Picture a future where hackers are like superheroes—imagine going on a wild ride through a computer world, where things get a bit crazy and you need to save the day!
   
7. H.P. Lovecraft: Prompt: Travel to a super spooky place where reality gets all mixed up—think about how it might feel to discover that everything you thought was real is actually part of a super mysterious and scary plan.
   
8. Douglas Adams: Prompt: Imagine a galaxy where everything is a bit silly—think about how a guidebook might have the secret to figuring out what life is really about, leading to some hilarious and surprising discoveries.
   
9. Greg Bear: Prompt: Take a trip to a future where scientists are like brain explorers—imagine what it would be like to create totally new worlds inside your head, and how it might change the way you think about everything.
   
10. Rudy Rucker: Prompt: Dive into a world where computers and brains become best friends—imagine what it would be like to live in a place where your thoughts can do math and create amazing adventures together!
    

10.5 y/o neutered male Briard, BCS 5. History of oral mast cell cancer, removed November 2022. Had chemo & radiation Jan-April 2023 and I believe is currently considered immunocompromised as he has been taking 5mg pred daily since surgery, and Palladia 2x/wk since June 2023 (although due to what is described here he has no had either in approximately 5 weeks).
About 6.5 weeks ago he developed two areas of what looked like freckles/moles flush with the skin, which eventually flaked off. No pustules, no itchiness, no redness, no scaliness, no scabbiness/weeping, no open areas... just the freckle looking spots that seemed to just get extra dry and flake away. No other skin irritation. We saw the vet, who dx'd staph based on appearance. We didn't do a skin scraping or anything so no test results. He was prescribed a 14 day course of Simplicef.
We discussed medicated chlorhexidine baths and decided to take that route first to try and avoid oral antibiotics.
I started the medicated baths but 5 weeks ago, after 2 baths, he developed aspiration pneumonia out of nowhere and spent 2.5 days clinging to life in the ICU. He received Clavamox and Amikacin while in the hospital and for a stretch after - 7 days of Amikacin and I believe 10 days of Clavamox. He took 20mg of pred for a few days and was tapered off.
He has not restarted the mast cell cancer related 5mg pred or Palladia yet as we wanted to let his system try and recover a bit.
A little less than 2 weeks ago I noticed the spots coming back in a few areas. Same as before - flat, no open sores/pustules/scabs, no obvious irritation, no itchiness. The only difference is a few of the spots are/were a little more diffuse and looked like smudges of dirt on his skin than freckles.
I started him on the Simplicef, so he has four days left of that. He's has a total of three chlorhexidine 4% medicated baths in the last 12 days and has been dried extremely thoroughly each time.
I think in general the spots on his body are resolving, but his RF leg has something peculiar happening.
His RF and LH were shaved while he was in the hospital. The LH is regrowing hair normally, but the clipped area on his RF has developed gradually worsening hyperpigmentation and has lost most of its hair. There is also one small spot that looks like the other areas of staph that has either faded slightly or maybe appears lighter because the surrounding skin is darker?
The hyperpigmentated area is very smooth and there are no signs of irritation in that he not itching and nothing is thickened/red/scaly/open (which has remain consistent throughout this entire process). The skin is just darkened and bald. No other areas of his body are affected, just the area on the LF leg in the area that was clipped.
Photos - https://imgur.com/a/Mfr9QXa
I called our vet two days ago and left a message with the front desk, as well as emailed pictures. I followed up yesterday but still have not heard back.
In my googling it looks like hyperpigmentation can be a sign of healing, but I'm not finding anything about alopecia in hyperpigmented areas. Google isn't a vet and I'm concerned this is a large area of staph not responding to treatment, or maybe something else entirely.
Ideas? Is this potentially a normal progression of healing and I just need to wait for the layers of skin cells to finish turning over? Maybe weird post-clip alopecia?
Or should I potentially be concerned/trying to get him back into the vet soon for a skin scraping or biopsy, or maybe different meds or testing for Cushings/hyperadrenocorticism/thyroid problems?

I'm encountering a persistent issue while fine-tuning a Llama3 model using a Hugging Face dataset in a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Ubuntu 22.04 environment on Windows 11. Despite having ample GPU memory available (detailed specs provided below), I repeatedly face the error: "torch.cuda.OutOfMemoryError: CUDA out of memory. Tried to allocate 224.00 MiB. GPU". This occurs despite having two GPUs with sufficient memory.
System Specifications:

• Processor: AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX 16-Cores @ 4.00 GHz
  
• Installed RAM: 128 GB (128 GB usable)
  
• Operating System: Windows 11 Pro Version 23H2, OS build 22631.3296
  
• CUDA Version: 11.8
  
• Available GPU devices: 2
  
  • GPU 0: NVIDIA RTX A4000
  • GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A4000
  • CUDA Version: 11.8

Software Versions:

• PyTorch version: 2.3.0+cu118
  
• Transformers version: 4.40.1
  
• scikit-learn version: 1.4.2
  
• Pandas version: 2.2.2
  
• CUDA Version in WSL: CUDA compilation tools, release 11.8
  

Steps Taken:

• Cleared GPU cache.
  
• Checked CUDA version, GPU memory, and availability.
  
• Ensured GPU 1 is utilized.
  
• Loaded and preprocessed dataset.
  
• Loaded model and tokenizer with authentication token.
  
• Handled special tokens.
  
• Setup mixed precision.
  
• Defined training setup.
  
• Initialized trainer.
  
• Defined training function with autocast and scaler.
  
• Initiated training.
  

Despite these efforts, the "CUDA out of memory" error persists.
Full Code:

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer, Trainer, TrainingArguments from datasets import load_dataset, Dataset import pandas as pd from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split import os import torch import transformers from torch.cuda.amp import autocast, GradScaler import GPUtil from numba import cuda import torch print(f'PyTorch version: {torch.__version__}') print('*'*10) print(f'_CUDA version: ') print('*'*10) print(f'CUDNN version: {torch.backends.cudnn.version()}') print(f'Available GPU devices: {torch.cuda.device_count()}') print(f'Device Name: {torch.cuda.get_device_name()}') # Free GPU cache def free_gpu_cache(): print("Initial GPU Usage:") GPUtil.showUtilization() torch.cuda.empty_cache() # Clear PyTorch's cache cuda.select_device(1) cuda.close() # Clear Numba cache cuda.select_device(1) print("GPU Usage after clearing cache:") GPUtil.showUtilization() # Clear memory and show initial status free_gpu_cache() # Check CUDA version and GPU memory print("CUDA Version:", torch.version.cuda) print(f"PyTorch version: {torch.__version__}") print(f"Transformers version: {transformers.__version__}") print(f"CUDA Available: {torch.cuda.is_available()}") # Ensure GPU 1 is used os.environ["CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES"] = "1" os.environ['TF_FORCE_GPU_ALLOW_GROWTH'] = 'true' # Check current GPU memory print(torch.cuda.memory_summary()) # Load dataset print("Loading dataset...") dataset = load_dataset("naklecha/minecraft-question-answer-700k", token="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") print("Dataset loaded successfully.") # Convert to pandas DataFrame data_df = pd.DataFrame(dataset['train']) # Split the dataset into training and test sets train_df, test_df = train_test_split(data_df, test_size=0.1) # Convert back to Hugging Face datasets train_dataset = Dataset.from_pandas(train_df) test_dataset = Dataset.from_pandas(test_df) print(f"Train set length: {len(train_dataset)}") print(f"Test set length: {len(test_dataset)}") # Load model and tokenizer with an authentication token model_id = "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct" auth_token = "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" print("Loading the tokenizer and model...") tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id, token=auth_token) model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_id, token=auth_token) print("Tokenizer and model loaded successfully.") # Handle special tokens potentially added to the tokenizer special_tokens_dict = {'additional_special_tokens': ['[USR]', '[SYS]']} num_added_toks = tokenizer.add_special_tokens(special_tokens_dict) model.resize_token_embeddings(len(tokenizer)) print(f"Added {num_added_toks} special tokens.") # Mixed Precision setup scaler = GradScaler() # Training setup training_args = TrainingArguments( output_dir='./results', num_train_epochs=3, per_device_train_batch_size=1, # Decrease batch size per_device_eval_batch_size=1, # Reduce eval batch size gradient_accumulation_steps=8, # Increase accumulation steps warmup_steps=500, weight_decay=0.01, logging_dir='./logs', logging_steps=10, report_to="none", load_best_model_at_end=True, metric_for_best_model='loss', greater_is_better=False, evaluation_strategy="steps", save_strategy="steps" ) # Initialize trainer trainer = Trainer( model=model, args=training_args, train_dataset=train_dataset, eval_dataset=test_dataset ) # Define training function with autocast and scaler def training_step(trainer, model, criterion, optimizer, data_loader): for i, data in enumerate(data_loader, 1): with autocast(): optimizer.zero_grad() output = model(data) loss = criterion(output, target) scaler.scale(loss).backward() # Accumulate gradients or step optimizer if i % training_args.gradient_accumulation_steps == 0: scaler.step(optimizer) scaler.update() # Start training print("Starting training...") training_step(trainer, model, criterion, optimizer, train_loader) print("Training completed.") # Save model and tokenizer model.save_pretrained('./fine_tuned_model') tokenizer.save_pretrained('./fine_tuned_model') print("Model and tokenizer saved successfully.") 

I was walking our dog Charlie when I saw the graveyard for the first time. A little white fence, not even knee high, ran in a circle around maybe a dozen small headstones. There was space for a small gate along the fence but it was empty now, like a missing tooth. Whether the gate was removed or never existed, I couldn’t tell, but the rest of the fence was in good shape. It even looked freshly painted.
“What do you think, Charlie?” I asked, pulling up my hood.
The sky had been threatening rain all week and it was finally making good. The Weimaraner tilted his head at me and then looked off toward nothing. The fact that nothing happened to be in the same direction of the graveyard, well, I figured it was a coincidence. But dogs always know, don’t they? When something is bad and dangerous and hungry and close. Charlie knew, even warned me in his own way. A shame I didn’t notice until after most everybody was…after it was too late to do anything about it.
Nicole was hanging up pictures when we got back from our walk. I started unpacking one of the billion boxes scattered around the living room. It appeared to contain roughly four thousand dish towels and a single chipped coffee mug. Charlie watched us, patiently, filled with the usual, unshakeable belief that if he sat long enough and looked adorable enough, sooner or later, one of his owners would produce a treat. He was correct and it was my wife who folded first, tossing him a dried sweet potato thing which Charlie gratefully caught mid-air.
“Like the neighborhood?” Nicole asked.
“It’s kinda perfect. Lots of folks out and about, saw a few other families moving in, oh, and there’s even a graveyard in the middle of the development. You know, like how we always dreamed.”
Nicole made an “ick” sound but overall seemed happy.
I heard Bryan and Anna thumping around upstairs, most likely still arguing about who got the room with the attached bath. If they hadn’t sorted it out by dinner, I resolved to think up a weird game they could play where the winner got first bedroom dibs. It was still early in the afternoon, so I caught Nicole up on what I’d seen in our new neighborhood while we unpacked. We were far from the only new occupants of Stone Brooke; at least four other houses had SOLD signs driven into their front yards like stakes through freshly vanquished vampires.
The development was less than a year old and I doubted it would make it more than another six months before being filled to the brim. That was fine with me. It meant our property value would keep going up, up, up and away.
“Do you think we’ll make any friends with our neighbors?” Nicole asked, opening a new box to unpack.
“We’ll be having joint ski vacations and holiday parties in no time,” I guessed. “I’ll try to chat some up next time Charlie and I make our rounds. I’ll even knock on some graves, if you’d like.”
Nicole scowled and shook her head. A thousand teasing jokes about the living dead limping up to our house ran through my mind but each evaporated before escaping my mouth. Eight years of marriage had left me with a finely-honed sense of when to be a clown and when not to push it. And, the truth was, I felt a small twinge of discomfort myself whenever I thought about the little cemetery. It was a family plot, old; would the bodies even be embalmed? Or would you find something rotted down to tar and marrow if you dug up one of the plots?
I shivered.
Nicole smiled. “Looks like maybe somebody just walked over your grave.”
“Not possible. I’m not leaving a body behind when I go, remember? Viking funeral? Have my brother launch fire arrows at a gasoline-soaked canoe with me in it. And then scatter the ashes somewhere meaningful,” I added. “Like the Grand Canyon or the ocean or the last Blockbuster on Earth.
Nicole called for Anna and Bryan and we sat down to a family dinner of move-in-day sandwiches and popcorn and whatever other road-trip snacks we still had from the drive. It was a good night. Bryan was distracted by his phone, a new friend or a girl maybe. Anna was joking with Nicole about something…something to do with school. I can’t remember what, exactly. I really wish I could.
That was the last time we all sat down together as a family for dinner.
I woke up in the middle of our first night in the new house. Some outside sound had entered my dreams. What was it? A whispering or a knocking or rasping. No, not rasping–rustling. Like the sound of many things moving at once but moving quietly, carefully, deliberately. I sat up in bed, blinking against the total darkness of the room.
There it was again; the rustling. Faint and far away, I guessed, but it was so eerie that I could hear it at all.
“Hey, Nicole,” I whispered. “Hey, are you awake?”
Nothing in response other than that rustle again in the dark. It sounded like it was coming from somewhere below me. I got up and stumbled through the room without turning on a light. I don’t know why I didn’t wake Nicole up to listen; I wish I had. I guess I didn’t want her to think I was crazy if I was the only one who heard the sound.
The rustling was actually fainter when I finally made it downstairs. There was only a little light in the house spilling in from outside through half-curtained windows. I paused on the second to last step down and listened. The noise was moving away, growing softer and less frequent. By the time I stepped on the living room rug, the night was silent.
I waited, listened for almost a full minute, then started padding back up the stairs. There was something unsettling about the rustling that made me glad it had stopped. I’d watched a Civil War documentary a few years back and they demonstrated how a battlefield surgeon would operate by sawing through a half a pig carcass then sewing up the wound. They’d pushed in real close during the last part of the demo so you got a great look and even a great listen..
The rustling I’d heard outside the house that night reminded me of the sound of the needle and thread slithering through the pig’s flesh as the surgeon closed the cut.
Wind, I thought. Dream. HVAC system. The first signs of a brain tumor. But probably just the wind traveling through the branches of the maple trees that line our street.
There’s a landing at the top of the stairs with a big window that looks out over the front yard. A silver-gray column of moonlight fell in through the glass, giving enough light to make out a shadow standing on my lawn but not enough to see it clearly. It was a man, tall but a little bent. I remember thinking maybe he was hurt so I moved closer to the window for a cleaner look.
The guy was right at the edge of my yard, nearly in the road. He was facing my house but I couldn’t pick out any details about him. Too many clouds and moonshadows for a good look at his face. We both stared at the other for a minute then the stranger turned and began to walk away. Or, ‘walking’ isn’t entirely the right word. He moved like a man who had just learned to walk and he almost, almost had it figured out.
His knees threatened to collide more than once and he was moving with a limp, favoring his right side. I watched him fall over twice, each time dragging his body along the road for a dozen yards or so before shakily standing up and continuing on like a shell-shocked soldier wandering out of a trench. Each time the man got near a streetlight he would veer away from the glow, stumbling back into darkness and always moving toward the treeline that marked the edge of the woods around our neighborhood.
I stood, frozen in the moonlight, as the night visitor slipped into the forest, movements jerking like a puppet with stiff strings. Then the figure was gone and I was left blinking, wondering if I was dreaming or maybe this was what sleepwalking felt like. It didn’t seem real, any of it; not the rustling, not the man in the yard.
Once I was back in our bedroom, I considered waking up Nicole. But what was I going to tell her? Hey dear, sorry to startle you, I think there was a zombie outside our house. Or maybe just a creepy neighbor. Or maybe your husband is just going slowly, gently, completely crazy. Before getting back into bed, I went and lifted the corner of the curtain on the window, peeking out at the last spot in the treeline where I’d seen the weird guy slip away.
I’m not sure what I was expecting; some trail of destruction, maybe, like Godzilla’s wake on his way to Tokyo. But there was nothing, no sign, no proof there was ever anything at all. Just the sleeping neighborhood, tucked away in the middle of silent woods. The trees were slick with the day’s rain but that would all freeze overnight if it hadn’t already. Streetlights stood out like nails driven into the night, these little bright scars in the dark. I followed the line of them from where it ended at the road back to where it started at the center of the house development.
The graveyard sat high on a hill there at the heart of the neighborhood where the lights started. Or ended, I guess.
I tried to put the bizarre experience out of my mind and laid back in bed next to Nicole.
Charlie and I were on another walk first thing the next morning when we saw another moving truck. This time, however, it looked like the family was on their way out. We stood under a tree watching the movers buzzing back and forth, big, quiet men with thick black belts around their stomachs. The departing family was helping, a man and woman with three three little boys. There was something about the way the parents were behaving that made me stop and observe everybody for a little longer than I usually would, especially with Charlie trying to pull on his leash to go after a Canadian goose.
The adults were zipping boxes from the house to the moving van at warpspeed, almost like they had a deadline. At the same time, both the man and the woman looked so exhausted I was surprised they were standing, much less zipping around like hummingbirds that learned how to drink coffee. They eventually noticed me and Charlie standing across the street, so I waved and walked over.
“Howdy neighbors,” I said, unleashing the most cheerful grin I could drag out.
The couple stopped moving boxes. They stood together, between me and their kids, and I got the unexpected but absolutely unshakable idea they were scared of me. Or, at least, awfully interested in me keeping my distance from their children.
I tried to smile even more disarmingly but it probably went in the other direction.
“We just moved in,” I said, pointing down the street. “How are you all liking Stone Brooke?”
The pair shared a look. They were both around my age, maybe mid-30s, and made an interesting pair. The woman was very tall, her face soaking in shadows cast by a gardening hat. The man was short and balding but muscled like a powerlifter. He took a step toward me and I instinctively tensed up.
“You should leave,” the man said, barely above a whisper.
“Okay,” I said, backing up, “I didn’t mean to-”
“No, I don’t mean here,” he said. “I mean this neighborhood. It’s not a good place.”
His–I assumed wife–was looking around the nearby houses while we talked. Something must have spooked her, because she took two steps forward and leaned in.
“Walter, we don’t know him,” she whispered. “He might be-”
“Okay, June,” Walter said, “okay, you’re right, you’re right. Buddy, I’m sorry, we don’t have anything to talk about. We’re out of here, hopefully before dinner.”
The couple turned away and walked back to their kids. Walter hesitated in his driveway, giving me one last glance.
“Listen, I’m sorry, you seem normal enough,” he said, ignoring the glare from his wife. “But you really should get out of Stone Brooke as soon as you can. We’ve only been here a week but there’s already so much…shit, if you are normal, you wouldn’t believe me. And if you’re not, well, we’ll be gone by tonight either way.”
Walter’s wife returned to his side, one delicate hand on his bowling ball of a shoulder trying to steer him away. She must have noticed my absolute confusion; the little bit of her face I could see from under the hat softened.
“If anyone knocks on your door after dark, you shouldn’t answer. Don’t go out after sundown, either. And if anyone you know starts acting…” She looked back at her kids. Two of the three were moving boxes from the house to the truck in a mini-conga line but the third, a little boy, was standing on the porch staring at us. “If anyone you know starts acting strange, just don’t be alone with them or let anyone else be alone with them. Do you understand?”
“Not at all,” I admitted but the pair were already gone, joining their kids next to the U-Haul.
The one boy was still separate from the others, still watching me and Charlie while we stood on the sidewalk at the edge of their yard. Feeling uncomfortable and confused, I gave the kid a friendly wave. He just stared until we left.
I tried to shake off the creepy encounter. Ten minutes of walking in the sunshine had me feeling fine in no time. Charlie and I took a loop around the rest of Stone Brooke then started heading home. I wasn’t planning on walking by the cemetery but that’s the way our route ended up winding. It was even smaller upclose; not the dozen or so gravestones I’d guessed the day before but maybe only seven or eight. The stones themselves were small and weathered. They were carved of something that was white once but had been sun-stained to a dirty gray. I couldn’t make out any names or dates from where I was standing just outside of the short fence. It didn’t feel right stepping into the cemetery to get a better look. I told myself it was respect holding me back from getting any closer.
Well, that and the fact that Charlie was not a fan of the area at all. He began whining as we approached the hill; by the time we were at the fence, Charlie was tugging at his leash, trying to drag me back toward our house down the street. And, weighing in at nearly ninety pounds of muscle and anxiety, he nearly succeeded.
“Easy, Charlie, easy,” I said. “We’re not going near the dead people.” He tilted his head at me. “Okay, we’re not going any nearer than we already are. I just want to look for a second, alright?”
It wasn’t alright. Not by Charlie’s measure. After about two minutes of trying to stand without getting wrapped up like an AT-AT walker by my dog’s leash, I surrendered. I took one last look at the graveyard before I allowed Charlie to lead us away. There were a few trees scattered among the stones. They were bare of leaves, which was normal for the time of year, but they were also stunted and sickly. The trunk of the tree closest to the cemetery gate appeared to be dry-rotted, its bark flakey and brown-orange in spots.
The last thought I spared the cemetery before leaving was that I didn’t like the faint smell I detected. Nothing crazy, it didn’t smell like death or anything dramatic; it was an earthy scent, like a field after a rainstorm but with the hint of something spoiled under all of it.
I let Charlie lead us home, walking quickly but not rushing. Nicole was up unpacking again when we walked in. The kids were still asleep. My wife had on gray sweat pants and my faded Red Hot Chili Peppers t-shirt. Her hair was tied up in a scarf. I remember thinking how pretty she looked, brown eyes jumping from box-to-box, looking for her next target, and smiling as she worked.
We spent the rest of the day just settling in, checking out the house, unpacking and playing games with the kids. Then we DoorDashed Chinese for an early dinner. I remember it being early enough that the sun was still out when it was delivered and just setting when Nicole took Charlie out for his evening walk.
Charlie returned alone half an hour later, dragging his leash and looking stressed beyond anything I’d ever seen from him.
“Hey, hey, buddy,” I said, opening the door he was scratching at. “Where’s your mom, Charlie?”
I stepped out onto the front porch, expecting to see Nicole running down the street after Charlie gave her the slip. But it was starting to rain and no one was moving anywhere I could see.
“Nicole,” I said loudly. “Hey, Nicoollle.”
She didn’t call back or come jogging down the road. My throat was feeling weird, so I swallowed then yelled her name, much louder this time. I tried to keep any tinge of panic out of my voice.
“Nicole!”
Charlie was sitting on the floor, still on his leash, looking up at me. He was whining so quietly I didn’t notice at first. I pulled my phone from my pocket and called Nicole. It rang for what felt like a few years before going to her voicemail. I tried again with the same result, then yelled out again, and then another call.
I felt it crawling up and over me, that panic, the anxious madness that you feel when a normal day teeters on the beam before falling into an awful damn day. That happened to me once before when I was in college and my uncle died suddenly in a car crash. I remember the phone call, the confusion, the resistance to the growing, unavoidable certainty that your life just changed in a terrible way.
My pulse was up and my stomach was cramped. I took a deep breath and called my wife for the fourth time in about two minutes. Maybe her phone was on silent. Maybe she was still out searching for Charlie?
In the rain? I asked myself.
Sure. She loves Charlie. She would look for him in the rain or a blizzard or a volcanic eruption.
“Okay,” I said out loud, “but after she couldn’t find Charlie, she would call me so we could all look. She would call.”
What if she was hurt?
The thought went off like a molotov in my mind, spreading until it was the only idea I could focus on. I pictured Nicole laying in some ditch or hollow with a broken leg, black sky pouring down on her. She’d call if she could, if that was the scenario, but if she couldn’t reach her phone for some reason, then she’d be counting on me going to find her.
I took Charlie off his leash and hustled upstairs. Bryan was in his room unpacking and Anna was sitting in a window nook reading. She looked up at me when I left the stairs and asked where mom was since she’d heard me calling outside for her. I told both of the kids that their mom was probably meeting some new neighbors and I was just going to pop out for a second to see if she needed anything. Anna was ten and accepted my excuse with a smile before going back to her book. Bryan, however, was thirteen and had a much better ear for lies. He gave me an odd glance but I smiled and promised I’d be back in two shakes.
Two shakes turned into nearly thirty minutes of me scouring Stone Brooke. It wasn’t a big development, maybe fifty or sixty houses spreading out in rings with the old cemetery in the middle. That was where the original farmhouse was when all of the land was owned by one family. I remember the real estate agent telling us that the day we toured the house.
It’s strange the places your mind will go for a distracting memory when your agitation is slouching slowly toward hysteria. I peppered my foot search for Nicole with frequent phone calls, which only resulted in stacking voicemails over voicemails. I scoured all three main streets, hood trickling with rainwater, my flashlight sweeping between houses and under trees. After an hour, I’d checked the neighborhood twice over, all except for the little graveyard. I wasn’t even trying to consciously avoid it but I realized I had.
The waist-high gate was unlocked and swung open when I lifted the latch, which was just starting to go to rust. I got the sense that the cemetery was once well-cared for and only recently had been more or less forgotten. There were a few weeds among the tombstones and a glass vase filled with nearly mummified flowers in front of one grave in particular but there wasn’t any sign of Nicole. The ground was soft from the rain but it was too dark to see much of anything. I did note that the entire hill was messy, more dirt than grass and quickly turning into pure mud.
“I hope none of the coffins float out,” I muttered, drawing my flashlight across the eroded markers.
There were lots of shadows and sunken places on the ground but nothing deep enough to hide a person. I walked home quickly, trying to stay a few steps ahead of the cold fear that kept flashing every imaginable horror that might have happened to my wife through my mind.
If I knew then what I know now about what actually happened to Nicole…the worst, darkest, most vile things I came up with, they weren’t even close.
I made my way home after the graveyard to tell my kids their mom was missing. Just the thought of starting the conversation was filling me with dread and a terrible guilt. They were children; how were they going to process this new, ugly thing? I’d do my best to summarize the situation for them and then I would call the police. That was the plan. Needing to wait twenty-four hours to file a missing persons report is a myth, I knew that. But the sheer surreal misery of the night was blanking my mind on what I would tell everyone.
Nicole went out to walk the dog right around sunset, so about 5pm or 5:30pm. Charlie came back holding his leash at 6:41pm. I remember the exact time because I checked my phone to see if there were any missed calls from Nicole as soon as Charlie appeared.
While I was walking up our driveway, I kept mentally rehearsing how I was going to break the news to the kids. Was there any good way to tell children their mom was missing? Should I inject optimism, sugar-coat, make promises? Or just be frank and completely honest and tell them I didn’t know if…
Not a thought I wanted to finish, even in my own mind, and I opened our front door still undecided how I was going to handle the next part. Then I saw Nicole sitting at the kitchen table playing cards with the kids and I froze. I stood there in the doorway staring until Anna noticed me and told me, look, mom’s home! I managed a limp smile and a nod.
My wife was facing away from me and when she turned in her chair, for an instant, I thought I was looking at a stranger. Then she smiled, really smiled, and it was just Nicole there, the same girl I’d met at a friend’s Halloween party fifteen years ago but now even more lovely. I grinned, still confused but nearly shaking with relief.
“Where were you?” I asked, attempting to sound calmer than I felt. “When Charlie came back, I went looking for you. I was worried that…well, I was worried.”
Nicole took a second to reply. Several seconds, actually. An odd look passed over her face, eyes closing, her jaw tight. Then she snapped out of it, whatever it was, and smiled wider.
“The dog had slipped away to chase a squirrel,” Nicole said. “I’m fine. We’re fine. We’re all fine. We just lost track of time. Sorry to worry you.”
“Okay but you could have called,” I pointed out. “And I called you.”
Another pause before she had an answer.
“I lost my phone chasing the dog,” Nicole finally replied. “And then we got all turned around and mixed up. New neighborhood, you know? Are you hungry?”
In our years together, we’d both gotten good at knowing when the other one was lying. That night, I genuinely could not tell. What she was telling me was plausible if not at all how I expected her to react to Charlie running. For that matter, it was already unusual that our dog would take off after a squirrel. And why would Nicole lie to me about all of it anyway?
But I pressed all of those concerns down into my chest and locked them there. It was a good night, I told myself, an eventful night, a terrifying night for a bit there, but now, everything was okay. We had all sat and played cards, then ate dinner, and then unpacked the last of our boxes before bed.
Nicole kept watching me all throughout the night. I acted like I didn’t notice. She was acting normal enough other than these brief pauses now and again, like she was stopping to think about what she was saying carefully. Her nose also began bleeding, which she stuffed with tissue, blaming the bleed on allergies. My biggest fear that night was she’d had a medical event or something and needed to go to the hospital. A fall turned into a concussion, maybe.
Or, God, a stroke?
Ultimately, Nicole wasn’t showing any signs of an emergency, so I tried to relax.
Still, I found myself watching Nicole for the rest of the night. She caught me looking while she was brushing her teeth. All she did was stop and smile at me. We laid down in bed and I immediately clicked off the light, telling Nicole that I was worn out. After a minute of silence in the dark, I felt my wife’s fingers on my shoulder. She pressed a fingertip to my neck and lightly brushed the space between my jawline and collarbone. It made me shiver; not in a pleasant way.
“Hey, that tickles,” I said, turning away.
Nothing for a moment and then her fingers were pushing against the back of my neck, not hard enough to be painful but not exactly comfortable either.
“What, uh, what are you doing?” I asked.
In response, Nicole kissed my shoulder. Or, it was half a kiss and half almost a bite. She didn’t break the skin but it was awfully close. I slipped away, putting space between us by rolling off of the bed.
“What the Hell?” I snapped.
Nicole didn’t say anything back. There was no light in the room, not even moonlight. In the blackness, I heard my wife shifting in bed.
“Nicole?”
Still nothing from my wife and now she wasn’t moving at all. Seconds stretched out and all I could think to do was stand dully waiting for things to feel normal.
“I just remembered I need to send some emails back to the office,” I told the darkness. “I shouldn’t be too long. I’ll just be downstairs. Are you heading to sleep?” No answer. “Okay, love you, Nicole. Good night.”
I heard her shifting again as I was leaving the bedroom. It was louder than before, a rustling that reminded me of something I couldn’t place. Whatever it was, I wasn’t a fan.
I ended up sleeping on the couch. I had a dream that people were standing outside of our house trying to look in the windows. There was the rustling sound from earlier, like running water or wind through a forest. I woke up to find Nicole standing halfway down the stairs, silhouetted by the light from my open laptop. She froze when I looked at her, stared at me, then softly walked back up the stairs.
There was no more sleep for me that night. I stayed on the couch watching TV with the lights on until dawn.

Okay so maybe the title is a bit dramatic but I need some advice.
My husband and I got married a few months ago. Two months after getting married we adopted this sweet 5-year old cat. She loves to be held, petted, and be around us constantly. She’s super social and outgoing. She usually sits on our laps at night and sleeps between us.
But she has many issues…
Firstly she meows constantly. During the day she meows probably 50% of the time and at night she would wake us up at 3am just screaming. I’ve had 6 cats in my life growing up and none of them ever did this. I love cats soooo much and every cat I’ve ever had was just super chill and would sleep most of the day and would get some zoomies at night, but not like this. She attacks our feet in the middle of the night and meows nonstop. We started locking her out of our room just so we can get some sleep but she meows outside our door all night. We got some earplugs and play rain sounds which helps but now we are nervous to have any overnight guests.
We had to get this plastic carpet protector to put under the door because she would claw the carpet to get in our room (we are renting so this is unacceptable).
While she is super sweet, she does bite a lot. I don’t know how to explain it other than love biting or over stimulation? When we first got her, she would just calmly sit on our laps. Now, she will be sitting on our lap then she will randomly bite our knees or something. Not super hard, she’s not trying to hurt us, but it does kinda hurt. She also stretches her claws on us to scratch and it digs into our skin. When we try to get her to stop by moving her or petting her, she goes into aggressive play mode and just attacks our hands.
She loves to cuddle but she’s an aggressive cuddler (another reason we don’t let her in our bed at night anymore). She would come up to us as we are laying down and would rub against our faces then randomly bite us and bite our hair and stuff like that. It makes cuddling with her very anxiety inducing because at any moment she may bite.
She is also just so hyper. I thought getting a 5 year old cat would be calm but instead she acts like a crazy kitten going through the terror phase!! The first month we got her, she would sit on our laps while we work (we work from home) and she would chill mostly. Now she never sits still. She just wanders around meowing and trying to play. She sits still maybe 30% of the day. All my other cats I ever owned would just sleep all day, but not her!
She is super clingy to the point my husband and I can’t have alone time without locking her out of the room and having her scream on the other side.
My husband and I used to be able to do romantic things like have a picnic in the living room or a cute dinner at home, but she kinda ruins all of that. She just meows nonstop making nothing peaceful. She destroys blankets (she likes to eat them). She eats any food that is unmonitored. We talk about her constantly because she’s a big stressor in our life. We are unsure what to do. Returning her has been thrown around but I don’t think I could forgive myself if I gave her back, but shouldn’t my marriage be more important? Maybe we just need time to adjust??
We are going to try fostering to see if a friend helps calm her down and maybe teaches her some manners, but I just don’t want any of this to affect the most formidable years of marriage. What should we do? Has anyone ever gone through something similar and have tips?

About three years ago, I saw there was a new mailman on my block and right away I was crushing on him. After a while, I decided to introduce myself and eventually, we decided to swap numbers. This led to us texting which eventually led to him inviting me over to his place for "adult play." Unknowingly, he recorded me, and fast forward two years my ex sent me the video. How my ex came across it, I have no idea. He wouldn't tell me anything. Just showed it to me and went on to tell me how I am a disgraceful mother. In the video, half my face is shown and his face isn't there at all. I had only been with this mailman since my ex so I knew it was him, and after playing the video a few dozen times, the memory of that night came back to me. Again, I didn't know I was being recorded. During that two-year time frame, we stopped our phone communication but if he was en route and I had an empty house, we would indulge in "adult play." After seeing the video, I didn't want to see him so I reported our non-official relationship. I knew because it was consensual nothing could really be done so I was hoping they would at the very least put him on another route. I told them everything about why I couldn't see him there anymore. They asked if I had any recordings of him coming or leaving my house and asked if I would send the latest one. They told me there would be an investigation so I could provide the other videos I had later. When they contacted me again, they told me as long as we weren't in the vehicle, and he was on his break that they couldn't do anything. They didn't do any investigation, they simply told me they checked and he was on break. I brought up how there were multiple times over the past two years, and they are telling me he was on break. I mean, how would they even know if they didn't look into anything else? They then proceeded to tell me how it would not be fair to him to take him off the route because then he would not be able to complete his hours. The only way he would be able to leave is if he decided to leave the route himself. The only thing they could do was "have a strict talk with him." From there, they recommended I move my mailbox outside the gate so he won't have to get close to my door and I won't see him on my camera and also for me to avoid my house during the time I know he will be delivering the mail.
Soooo... did I go about this the wrong way? Because after talking to USPS, I am wondering if I messed up by turning to them. Should I have done something different? AITA for reporting the consensual relationship?

I was just returning back from another interview. It has been the third one this month.
I failed to make the cut yet again.
Life hasn’t been easy for an ex-soldier with the economic downturn currently underway.
The COVID pandemic had also wiped out all my savings.
So I was open to securing any job that would help me pay my bills.
I hadn’t eaten all day and just passed by a McDonalds. It was crowded and I thought to myself, ‘Let me just order a takeout’.
I could see a few vehicles waiting in front of me.
There was a guy in his motorcycle honking incessantly demanding the customer in front to keep it moving.
He was a tall man with long hair and clearly looked edgy and irritable. Both his arms were heavily tattooed. He stepped down from his bike and started to walk towards the car in front of him.
I couldn’t make out what he way saying but I could see the conversation was getting heated.
I got down from my car and walked towards the biker guy.
As I got closer, the biker banged on the hood of the car and was pointing his finger at the man threateningly.
The guy in the car was looking a little alarmed. He had a young boy seated next to him.
The woman working at the driveway counter appealed to the biker to maintain his cool. He would hear none of it.
She then proceeded to call the police and this made the biker more irate. He snatched the receiver from her and hit her face with it. She fell backwards and started bleeding from the nose.
The biker then proceeded to turn his gaze towards the man in the car. He opened the door and dragged the guy outside.
He drew his hand back to throw a punch at him.
I caught his arm from behind and kicked him hard in the shins. He yelped in pain and let go of the other man.
He then turned back angrily to take a look at me. He was wearing a black jacket with the name Kenny embossed in front.
I said, “Listen Kenny. I have had a really bad day. So you either stop this madness or I am going to break your bones.”
He snarled and threw a punch at me with all his might. I swerved to the right and ducked just in time, causing him to miss completely.
Next, he whipped out a switch blade from his pocket and lunged towards me with it. I side stepped him and counterattacked with a punch to his plexus. He went down on one knee.
I caught hold of his knife arm and ordered him to drop it.
“Drop the knife kenny!! This is your last warning”, I repeated.
He started to fidget with his other arm around his shoe. I realized he had another weapon hidden in his sock.
So before he could attempt anything else, I twisted his forearm and landed a crushing blow to his elbow. It snapped into two and he lay on the floor yelping in pain.
By this point, other people came forward to intervene and help with the situation.
As Kenny was being led away by the police, he kept staring at me with madness in his eyes.
“I am coming back for you. This is going to be the biggest regret of your life”, he yelled.
I didn’t care and started going back to my car.
Then the man who was threatened by Kenny came forward and shook my hand.
“Hi. I am Rupert. That is my son Henry”, he said.
I waved my hand at the boy and he waved back.
“I would like to thank you for what you did for me back there”, he said.
“You not only helped me maintain my dignity but also helped me save face in front of my son”, he continued.
“This means a lot to me as a dad” he said.
I nodded in acknowledgement not sure what I was to add to the conversation.
He then reluctantly asked,” Is there anything I can do to repay the favour? Please feel free to ask . Anything. I would be most grateful.”
I thought for a moment. I could see the man was wealthy.
“If it’s not too much of an ask, I would appreciate a job if available. If you feel that is difficult, no problem. Forget I asked. No worries.” I said.
He smiled back at me warmly. He reached into his pocket and handed me a card.
“Please come to my office tomorrow. We can talk” he signed off.
From that moment on, I became the personal bodyguard and chaperone of his 8 year old son Henry. We immediately hit it off and became pals. I looked after all his son’s travelling arrangements.
We would also go to McDonalds every week for his favourite Burger and fries. I later learnt that his father was a very wealthy man who made most of his money during the dot com bubble.
I also became friends with the female employee at the driveway counter who had earlier been attacked by that biker punk Kenny.
Her name was Stella and it didn’t take very long for the two of us to start dating.
With a fulfilling job and a loving girlfriend by my side, my life was finally back on track. I couldn’t be happier.
And then one day - it all came crashing.
Henry and I as usual visited the McDonalds joint and I was surprised to see Stella missing at the counter.
I asked the staff about her and they said she hadn’t turned up today.
I thought that was weird. She had stayed over at my place and I saw her leave for work in the morning.
I tried calling her number but it was unreachable.
I dropped Henry at home and headed towards Stella’s apartment.
She had given me a spare key and I opened the door with it. Everything was in its place.
I tried her number again. It remained not reachable.
I decided to go back to my apartment to check if she might be there.
When I reached the door, I could see the lock had been smashed. The door was left slightly open.
I took out my side arm and slowly entered the apartment.
I could see a life size figure of Ronald McDonald the clown sitting on my sofa.
The famous mascot was sitting cross legged with one arm resting on the backrest. Just like how he likes to sit on benches outside McDonald outlets all across the world.
I was a little taken aback, but quickly switched on the lights to take a closer look.
As I moved closer, my knees buckled under my own weight.
It was Stella. She was the one who was dressed as the clown.
There were injury marks around her neck. She had been strangled to death.
I managed to call the cops while still reeling from the shock.
I also noticed her right hand which was resting on her thigh, was close fisted. When I pried it open, there was a crumpled piece of paper inside.
It read -
“She was really begging me for mercy.
Where was soldier boy when she needed him huh?
Boo Hoo….I’m Lovin It!!
I’m Lovin it!!
Signed Yours Kenny”
I could feel a surge of anger envelop me. And yet I lay there helpless.
Had it not been for the surveillance cameras at the entrance of my home, I would have been in jail by now.
The police could clearly see Kenny carrying Stella’s body and breaking into my apartment.
They put out a nationwide notice for Kenny and he’s been on the run ever since.
Even after 2 months following Stella’s death, the police were not any closer to catching the culprit.
But I did apprise Henry’s dad of the situation. His life was also at risk after considering what happened to my girlfriend.
But our collective worry was for Henry. We didn’t want to see him suffer for no fault of his.
So I started training Henry to take his own safety seriously. I devised multiple safeguards to keep him protected while being outdoors. Always ensured that I was personally there to drop and pick him up from school.
My boss appreciated all that I was doing for his son. He knew I had taken Stella’s death hard.
He was a generous and compassionate man and I liked working for him.
Although he did notice I wasn’t my usual cheery self anymore.
One day when I was waiting at the office, he tossed the keys of his new car at me.
“This should perk you up. Take her for a spin” he said.
“And also go pick Henry up from school”, he finished as he left for a meeting.
I got down to the parking lot, and there she was … waiting. The new Bugatti Chiron.
I opened the door and took the driver’s seat. The fresh smell of the leather upholstery was already lifting my spirits.
‘Boss was right! I am perking up’, I thought to myself.
I drove around the block and stopped by McDonalds to pick up the usual order for me and Henry.
I felt a tinge of sadness when I could no longer see Stella at the counter.
Anyways, I picked the order and started my way towards school.
As I went past the restaurant, I saw an old jeep parked by the side of the road. I didn’t think much of it at that moment.
When I reached Henry’s school, I parked the car a few feet away from the entrance. A couple of minutes later, I noticed the same jeep I saw at McDonalds go past me and park 20 mts in front.
I would have never given it a second glance had I not spotted it at the restaurant.
The jeep had 3 passengers. They looked like bikers with tattoos, beard and long hair.
And then there was Kenny standing behind a tree to avoid detection. But I spotted him.
He was gesturing towards them to get ready. I could see his Harley parked just a few feet away.
They were planning some kind of ambush.
The school bell rang and the children were already out on the streets.
I could see Henry at a distance in the courtyard. He was slowly making his way towards the gate.
I immediately called him on the phone and told him to go to the Principals office and stay there. I made it clear under no circumstances was he to venture out until I gave him the all clear. He understood.
He was safe as long as he was within the school’s premises.
The next thing to do was move to another location. The children were already pouring onto the streets, and the last thing I wanted was to see a child getting hurt.
I started the car and went past the jeep before taking the next turn. I kept driving.
Few moments later, the jeep caught up with me and the driver violently swerved towards the left causing me to go off course. My car came to halt.
The guys quickly alighted from the jeep and they were all armed to the teeth.
Kenny came in his motorcycle and stopped his bike a few feet ahead of me. He took out his shotgun and had it aimed straight at my chest.
The firing started before I even had the time to react.
I instinctively ducked for cover with my eyes closed.
But in my heart, I knew my time was up!!
As the seconds went by, even with all those bullets being sent my way - my body felt strangely light.
‘Am I in heaven already?’ I thought to myself.
I slowly opened my eyes and tilted my head upwards to take a peak.
And I realized I was sitting in an armoured bullet proof car.
The entire biker gang were mad with rage, doing everything possible to penetrate that thick armour plate.
Kenny was barking orders at his gang to continue the onslaught. He then pointed his finger at me and yelled, “I am coming for you.”
I looked down at the seat next to mine and saw the takeout I had ordered.
Just to piss him off even further, I took out my Big Mac and slowly took a big bite.
I sat there in gastronomic bliss savouring my burger, while being under a continuous hail of bullets.
The firing suddenly stopped. Kenny the psycho was livid as hell - to see me have a good time.
I looked him in the eye while I took a sip of my favourite milkshake.
And then, continued to chomp on my burger.
He looked a little crestfallen at how his plan was misfiring and then frantically gestured his troops to keep at it. The firing started again.
But it didn’t last long. They eventually all ran out of ammo and his buddies began to flee the scene, as we could hear sirens at a distance.
The attack had taken a toll on the car. But it managed to withstand all that damage. All that firing.
A life saver!
I looked at Kenny again. Only one thought was running through my head now.
‘My Turn’.
I switched on the ignition and rammed the car straight into Kenny. He hit the bonnet hard while the car continued to race forward.
He was clinging on to dear life with his outstretched hands desperately clutching at the sides of the car.
Next in the demolition line, was his prized Harley Davidson.
I hit it full steam and watched it smash to smithereens - with parts scattering all across the road.
Then, I hit the brakes and Kenny was sent flying 10 feet forward.
After impact, he slowly staggered to his feet - all bloody and bruised.
His face was swollen like an apple.
He was pleading towards me with folded hands to show him mercy.
‘This is for Stella. And She’s lovin it’, I said out loud.
I hit the accelerator again.

I can’t really tell if this was a “nightmare” but it was werid enough to wake me up at 4am. Here it is:
“ I was at a gas station, when some guy came running out of the store at me. He was yelling something and appeared like he wanted to fight. Some how he was grabbing large rocks out of his pocket and started throwing them at me. He missed but I still started to look for cover.
I ran behind a white Tacoma truck, but found out the truck actually belongs to the attacker.
He kept throwing rocks at me, but now was hitting his own truck instead. We ran around the truck like a cartoon.
He just kept getting angrier and angrier. He pulled a machete out and started swinging at me every time I got somewhat close.
I remember mocking him for damaging his own truck and for two contradicting vinyl stickers.
I finally stopped running and decided to confront him.
I finally got a good look at him. He was caucasian with shoulder length dirty blonde hair, bright red eyes, blue jeans, blue jean jacket, and a dark blue button hat. Does not look like someone I recognize.
The last thing I remember was him laughing and saying “time to die”
I punched him right in the face and work up”

I appealed my 1st DUI case and had court two days ago with circuit court, thirty minutes before the hearing, my lawyer informed me of a plea bargain that would reduce my charges. Despite having a witness to support my innocence, I felt pressured and opted for the plea bargain to avoid the risk of facing jail time if I couldn't prove my innocence. Which now I greatly regret taking the bargain as I am going through police report and finding errors for example report states (She denied wrecking her vehicle but had damage consistent with what I observed and she also had injury (abrasion) to her left cheekbone area consistent with a motor vehicle crash.) When I have pictures of abrasion on the right side of my face not left . And other misleading information in the police report.
Is it too late since I took the plea bargain??

im 20, and a bi trans girl. im gonna vent because im really frustrated but its also my own doing. I should’ve known so much better.
i matched with a guy off of tinder and we hit it off really well. he was really sweet, and he had said he liked trans women in his bio (I know please don’t judge me 😭🙏).
we talked for hours about our hobbies, our life, and this morning we planned on getting breakfast and going back to his place. he was going to pick me up at 7. we kept talking and he was the sweetest guy i had ever met. he told me he thought i was so pretty. he was going to pay for my breakfast. he was going to drive an HOUR to come pick me up and refused to let me pay him for gas. he said he liked how tall I was. i was kinda smitten.
so last night, I spent three hours shaving, exfoliating, dermaplaning, moisturizing, and basically cleaning my self raw. I also douched for the first time and BLED?? it was bloody?? anyways
i wake up at 5 am this morning and douche again, (still bloody), and proceed to take another shower. i lotion and oil myself up, put on vanilla perfume oils and my baccarat rouge i paid far too much for, and did my makeup.
time comes around to 6:45. I check my phone, he’s online and still matching me. I go to the bathroom and come back at 6:50 after putting my shoes on.
He unmatched and blocked me. He stood me up.
im just so angry. I genuinely don’t understand. I go on Grindr, and nobody matches me except old guys and chasers who harass me if I don’t respond fast enough. I look like a queer woman, since my face is feminine and I have boobs and hips, but my hair is short. this guy was the first to actually compliment me and treat me like a gentleman instead of a pornhub category.
He did mention wanting me to come over last night, but I turned him down. He was probably just horny and wanted me as a quick hook up, and then probably found another trans woman.

I (27f) have been married my husband(28M) for 2 years and gave birth to our daughter 5 weeks ago. I'll try to keep this short so I don't waste your time with any irrelevant details. What happened was that our daughter came out with blonde hair and pale blue eyes, while my husband and I have brown hair and brown eyes.
My husband freaked out at this and refused to listen to my explanation that, sometimes, babies are born with lighter hair and eyes that get darker over time. He demanded a paternity test and threatened to divorce me if I didn't comply, so I did
After my daughter and I got home from the hospital, my husband went to stay at his parents' house for the first three weeks to get some space from me, while I recovered and he told them what was happening. My MIL called and informed me that if the paternity test revealed that the child wasn't his, she would do anything within her power to make sure that I was " taken to the cleaners" during the divorce. I had my sister to lean on and help me take care of the baby during this.
We got the results back yesterday, and my husband came home to view them with me. I was on the couch in the living room, so he sat next to me and we started to read the results. They showed that he was the father and my husband had this shocked, kinda mortified look on his face with his eyes wide as he stared at it.
I couldn't help but say, " I told you so." and started laughing at the way he looked. My husband snapped out of his shock, and got mad at me for laughing at him. We argued for a bit, which was mainly him yelling at me, before my sister came downstairs and my husband shut up.
After that, my husband went back to his parents' house to "clear his head", and two-three hours later, my MIL called to scold me about laughing in my husband's face, because apparently it was kicking him while he was down.
She's also left a couple nasty texts essentially saying the same thing this morning. I don't think I'm an AH, but I'd like outsider perspective on this.

My wife had an old laptop from college where the hard drive had crashed. Her and I were talking about a trip she took when she graduated and she had lost all the pictures on this computer. With my IT background, I told her that I could probably recover some or most of the pictures.
After running a file recovery program I was able to successfully recover most of these pictures. However, it also recovered multiple pictures of her taking sexy selfie shots. Some just with a kissing face, but others of her lifting up her shirt showing off her breasts wearing a bra, and touching herself over her underwear.
I know my wife had multiple partners before me and none of that bothers me that she would take or send pictures like this. However, I’m not sure what to do. I wasn’t intentionally snooping around for this. Should I just delete them and forget it happened? Should I ask her about them?

I need technical assistance with a CUDA out-of-memory error while fine-tuning a LLaMA-3 model using a Hugging Face dataset on WSL Ubuntu 22.04 (Windows 11).
Specs:

• NVIDIA GPUs: 2 x RTX A4000 (CUDA 11.8)
• RAM: 128 GB
• CPU: AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX, 16 Cores @ 4.00 GHz
• System: Windows 11 Pro (64-bit, v23H2)
• Software: PyTorch v2.3.0+cu118, Transformers v4.40.1, CUDNN v8700, Scikit-learn v1.4.2, Pandas v2.2.2

Error:
"torch.cuda.OutOfMemoryError: CUDA out of memory. Tried to allocate 224.00 MiB. GPU" despite available memory:

• GPU 0: 16 MiB used / 16376 MiB total
• GPU 1: 633 MiB used / 16376 MiB total

I've verified CUDA and Python setups, but can't resolve this memory issue. Any advice or steps to fix this?

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer, Trainer, TrainingArguments from datasets import load_dataset, Dataset import pandas as pd from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split import os import torch import transformers from torch.cuda.amp import autocast, GradScaler import GPUtil from numba import cuda import torch print(f'PyTorch version: {torch.__version__}') print('*'*10) print(f'_CUDA version: ') print('*'*10) print(f'CUDNN version: {torch.backends.cudnn.version()}') print(f'Available GPU devices: {torch.cuda.device_count()}') print(f'Device Name: {torch.cuda.get_device_name()}') # Free GPU cache def free_gpu_cache(): print("Initial GPU Usage:") GPUtil.showUtilization() torch.cuda.empty_cache() # Clear PyTorch's cache cuda.select_device(1) cuda.close() # Clear Numba cache cuda.select_device(1) print("GPU Usage after clearing cache:") GPUtil.showUtilization() # Clear memory and show initial status free_gpu_cache() # Check CUDA version and GPU memory print("CUDA Version:", torch.version.cuda) print(f"PyTorch version: {torch.__version__}") print(f"Transformers version: {transformers.__version__}") print(f"CUDA Available: {torch.cuda.is_available()}") # Ensure GPU 1 is used os.environ["CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES"] = "1" os.environ['TF_FORCE_GPU_ALLOW_GROWTH'] = 'true' # Check current GPU memory print(torch.cuda.memory_summary()) # Load dataset print("Loading dataset...") dataset = load_dataset("naklecha/minecraft-question-answer-700k", token="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") print("Dataset loaded successfully.") # Convert to pandas DataFrame data_df = pd.DataFrame(dataset['train']) # Split the dataset into training and test sets train_df, test_df = train_test_split(data_df, test_size=0.1) # Convert back to Hugging Face datasets train_dataset = Dataset.from_pandas(train_df) test_dataset = Dataset.from_pandas(test_df) print(f"Train set length: {len(train_dataset)}") print(f"Test set length: {len(test_dataset)}") # Load model and tokenizer with an authentication token model_id = "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct" auth_token = "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" print("Loading the tokenizer and model...") tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id, token=auth_token) model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_id, token=auth_token) print("Tokenizer and model loaded successfully.") # Handle special tokens potentially added to the tokenizer special_tokens_dict = {'additional_special_tokens': ['[USR]', '[SYS]']} num_added_toks = tokenizer.add_special_tokens(special_tokens_dict) model.resize_token_embeddings(len(tokenizer)) print(f"Added {num_added_toks} special tokens.") # Mixed Precision setup scaler = GradScaler() # Training setup training_args = TrainingArguments( output_dir='./results', num_train_epochs=3, per_device_train_batch_size=1, # Decrease batch size per_device_eval_batch_size=1, # Reduce eval batch size gradient_accumulation_steps=8, # Increase accumulation steps warmup_steps=500, weight_decay=0.01, logging_dir='./logs', logging_steps=10, report_to="none", load_best_model_at_end=True, metric_for_best_model='loss', greater_is_better=False, evaluation_strategy="steps", save_strategy="steps" ) # Initialize trainer trainer = Trainer( model=model, args=training_args, train_dataset=train_dataset, eval_dataset=test_dataset ) # Define training function with autocast and scaler def training_step(trainer, model, criterion, optimizer, data_loader): for i, data in enumerate(data_loader, 1): with autocast(): optimizer.zero_grad() output = model(data) loss = criterion(output, target) scaler.scale(loss).backward() # Accumulate gradients or step optimizer if i % training_args.gradient_accumulation_steps == 0: scaler.step(optimizer) scaler.update() # Start training print("Starting training...") training_step(trainer, model, criterion, optimizer, train_loader) print("Training completed.") # Save model and tokenizer model.save_pretrained('./fine_tuned_model') tokenizer.save_pretrained('./fine_tuned_model') print("Model and tokenizer saved successfully.") 

Preface I am transmasculine, and have no interest in being seen or referred to as feminine. For what it's worth I go by he/they, and in public I go by he/him.
Yesterday I went outside to apply for a job and on the bus ride there somebody called me miss. I got really sullen after that, and when I got to the place I was applying to, this random person behind the counter kept calling me she over and over again. I was immediately irritated but I didn't say anything because I am not used to speaking up for myself.
I almost became furious when this happened, I felt like whipping out my ID and shoving it in this person's face (since I do have everything updated). Internally I was almost daring them to look at my application and see my utterly masculine name.
I know logically that this interaction is insignificant, but emotionally I feel rather invalidated, discouraged and unseen.
I internalize a lot of things, and I do feel like it's a personal failing of mine that for whatever reason I was misgendered. I've been dressing exclusively masculine for at least 3 years, I've been taking T on and off since 2022, and I just don't get what I'm doing wrong. Recently I cover my head (to be modest and also because my hair looks messy in the back) so maybe it's my style of headcovering that is “giving me away”. Maybe it's my height, my voice, my age, the way I stand, my vibe. Who even knows. It can't be healthy to want to change every idiosyncracy of my existence just for the chance I'm never misgendered again, and I know it would just wear me out, but sometimes I'm tempted. Other times it feels futile to even try, especially when I'm unsure if I'm changing myself for me, or to avoid conflict with other people.
In my life experience, being ignored meant I was doing something right and being seen meant I was screwing up somehow, and I think this is definitely affecting how I view my transition, specifically “passing” as some sort of personal success.
Let me be clear: you the reader, or anyone else for that matter, are not obligated to pass if you don't want to or can't. I believe I feel pressured to bc of how I grew up, and that's on me and me alone. It's gonna take many years before I can completely unpack that (among other things), and as much as I would like to become a shut in until I pass perfectly and/or I'm “cured” from my past, I do have work and appointments and things I actually need to go outside for.
As of this moment I want to work on not responding to words like miss or ma'am. I am so used to “respond within milliseconds or get in trouble” and this hypervigilance towards people addressing me makes it really easy to respond to anybody, even if they're wrong.
Instinct says “solve the problem”, by voice training, ignoring people, death glares, changing my headcovering, or whatever else I need to do to get people to leave me alone. Logic says radical acceptance is in order, since I can't change other people or their actions. Still, emotions say that I feel feeble and small, and that it may be useless to even bother with solutions.
If anyone has any encouraging words that would be greatly appreciated. I have doctor and dentist appointments soon, and I'm hoping not feel so conspicuous when I go outside, at the very least.

My whole life, I have been most proud of one thing. My marriage. I tell everyone I get a Chance to my story book love affair with my wife of 26 years.
We became good friends as Seniors in HS to start the year. Her locker was next to mine so we talked 3 minutes 6 times a day and then as luck would have it she sat in front of me for assigned seating in 2 classes plus she was on the Tennis Team with me.
We became so good friends we started to go out to eat and the movies that fall. I was a super shy guy back then. At this point, I have fallen in love with this beautiful 18 year old angel! But I don't have the guts to tell her how I feel so we go on the first semester this way.
As the winter break came (2weeks off) I called her on a Saturday afternoon. I said we had to have a more serious talk. She said ok. I told her we could not be friends anymore. She said why? I said because I am in love with you and I want more and I can't stand being around you as just a Friend and watch you go gaga over this boy and that boy. It breaks my heart to see that so I have to part ways unless in your heart you feel more from me than just friendship, maybe there is a chance for us as a couple?
She said I just want to be your friend. I'm sorry. I always just thought of you as a friend.
Devistated, half crying, I tell her that in that case I have to end our friendship and relationship now because it is too painful. I have met your mom and your older sister. I like your family. It's just something I can't torture myself over anymore, I'm sorry Beth. I have to let you go now. Also, I will be requesting a locker change so we don't have to see each other. She said really? I said yes, it has to be this way if you don't want to be my girl friend. She said ok. I said ok. We hung up.
Winter break comes and I hardly come out of my room for a week. Just devastated. The love of my young life, the only girl I have every truly loved rejected me.
My mom noticed. After about 5 days of this she knocks on my door and comes in and says Toby, I know something is wrong. You don't act like this normally. What is it?
My mom new I liked Beth. I brought her home to meet my family. I mean, we lived 3 minutes apart. Anyway, I explained to my mom the whole story down to the recent let down on the phone ending everything.
She could see her boy was devastated. She also liked Beth with her son. So she leaves the room for a few minutes and comes back with a tiny box with a bow on it. Inside was a mini gold alarm clock. It was so golden and cute and beautiful at the same time. She told me to get in my dad's truck and drive over there and just wish her a Merry Christmas and hand her this. Then walk away and come home. No card. Just this.
Reluctantly, I did. And when I got there 2 other boys had just come and gone giving her gifts. She was popular and beautiful so the boys were after her.
I walk the long slow walk to the door and her mom answers and says Toby, great to see you! Where have you been? I said, you will have to talk to Beth about that. Could you get her for a second? She said sure.
Beth comes to the door and I say hi. She says hi. I say, I know what I said a week ago. But I can't stop thinking about you and us and the amazing life we can have together. I handed her the pretty little box with a bow on it. She opens it immediately and sees the clock. I had set it to the exact time we called it quits on the phone. She noticed. I said, well I guess I need to get going. If you ever change your mind my heart will always have a place for you. And I walked away.
Christmas comes and goes. We still have a week before school is back. Then I get a call. It's Beth. I said hi, I'm shocked your calling me what is up? She said in a real sweet voice that the clock is the best gift she has ever received. And everytime she looks at it she thinks of all the great times we had together. Then she realizes she does love me and professes it on the phone. Tells me how sorry she was to hurt me. It just took me being away for a week and that clock to really trigger her emotions.
I said this is the single greatest news I have ever heard! Can I come over right now and give you a big hug? She said, why don't we go on our first official date as BF and GF that night. I said deal. Your choice, just tell me when to pick you up. So we go out to eat and just talk for hours. I take her home and before she gets out to go to her front door I lean over and she leans over and we kiss for the first time. My first ever kiss! Sparks flew. She then went inside.
From there we were hand and hand from the start of the 2nd semester. I took her to Homecomming as friends, but I took her to Senior Prom as my GF!
We go on to stay together from me being 17 and her 18 all through college until we got married at 21 and 22.
Fast forward 26 years of marriage and 2 boys and 30 years of a loving relationship. She tells me last Friday night that she can't believe she Dated Chris Romack as a sophomore. I said what? He was a senior when I was a freshman. On the tennis team with us. So I knew him well. And he was a creepy guy when it came to girls. All he would talk about amongst us guys was how hot the 14 and 15 year-olds were on the team and there is nothing better than fucking a Virgin. Another senior friend of mine looks over to him in disgust and says, man, you are going to go to Jail soon if you don't stay in your own lane. See he was 18. He was openly talking about statutory rape with 14 and 15 year-olds. So that's the Chris I know.
So I ask, but you told me in HS you went on a couple of dates with him as a Freshman and he kissed you and smelled and tasted like smoke. She said it was yuky, and she got out and went inside and never went on a date with him again. So my whole 30 years with her I have been proudly saying that I have been with my wife since senior year in HS when I was 17. Nobody thought we would last and I am proud to say that we were both each other's first ever boyfriend and girlfriend and every Romantic and relationship milestones we hit together. 2 virgins. How pure is that? It like one in a million or more.
But she casually says, well I did more than a few dates. I became his GF as a sophomore and he was a Freshman at the local college. They were BF and GF for 6 months.
It's like a sledge hammer hit me over the head. I have told anyone who would listen the last 26 years our love story and how I was her first BF and she was my first GF. First Kiss was with her. First everything was with her. We are like a fairytale story that just does not happen anymore. And people always loved hearing me tell the story. Something so Pure like that is just so rare to find and happen these days or even back in 1993-94.
So I tell her that's not what you told me when I was 17. I specifically asked if you had ever had a BF and you said no. Just went on some group dates with guys I knew and then A couple of dates with Chris Romack who I really knew as a slime ball. But as I knew it, they kissed once and it was yuk city and that was that. She said no, for 6 months this College Freshman was with my 15 year old sophomore wife. My head just starts spinning. All I can think is how dirty minded he was and how he was eying girls like her as a senior the year before. NOW YOU WERE HIS ACTUAL GF FOR 6 MONTHS? I spent the whole Fri through Monday in a haze. My mind just went to the darkest places. I just knew he got in her pants because that's all he was about. And she was an immature 15 year old. Easy pray. So I began to imagine them having sex. Then she broke it off after 6 months and had no sex again until me.
Then I remember back to Aug 20 1994 at 11pm at night. She snuck over my parents house after I had been gone all day at Lalapalooza in Dallas.
This was the night I assumed we both lost our virginity because that's what she always maybe me believe. But then I REMEBER she did not bleed after sex. Which I thought was common for virgins due to the breakage of their hymen. So then my mind goes haywire. I assume she had sex with him. And I was not her first BF or first sexual partner like I always proudly professed to anyone that would listen. And she would sit right there and let me say that for 26 years and never once correct me.
Until Friday.
I talked to my Mentor who has been married twice and is 67 years old. And I talked to my dad who is 76 years old. Their advice was mixed. My dad said it was no big deal. She was a kid at the time. Your mom was wild as a 15 year old sleeping around. She even cheated on me when we were married. So this seems like nothing to me. Forget about it.
That was absolutely no help.
My mentor on the other hand understood perfectly. He had heard our story many times and had even told it to others about his best friend and how rare of a marriage he has.
He advised me to sit her down and not be angry because technically she and I did not really know each other at 15. But the fact she let you believe for 30 years now you were her only BF is a bit of a problem. He said to go to her Facebook page and look at her friends. See if that guy was one of her friends. Sure enough he was one of her friends and yet not friends with me. Very strange and uncomfortable. And she was friends with the 3 other boys she went on group dates with, so she said. I tell that to my mentor and best friend. He says, look, this is a small problem but a problem. And with someone with your disease news like this is probably 10xs as impact full for you because of your disease. And I totally get that. So you have to sit jmher down and explain what all this has meant and done to you and see if she will come clean about the worrisome sex at 15 aspect.
So now the talk. I do it with no anger at all. Only with heartfelt sadness. And she could see the emotion, fear, tears in my face when I asked her "You have to be 100% honest with me here, that's all I ask. I explain our storybook life to her as I have told it 1000's of times in the past. I then said I have been telling and living under false pretenses. Not only was I not your first BF but I have to ask because I knew Chris well, did you and him have any type of sexual relationship at 15 that you are just to scared to tell me about because you know how much that would hurt me and how our storybook life has changed.
She grabs my hand and says: "Toby, I don't know why I told you that at 18. I don't even remember it fully, but you are describing it like it was yesterday so I know it's true what I said. Listen, I was probably embarrassed to have been a GF to a Freshman in College when I was only 15. That's all I can think to tell you as to why I did not make it clear you were not my first BF. But listen, we kissed a few times and yes it was yuky because he smoked. But nothing sexual ever happened. I promise. I really don't consider him my first True Love. I did not love him at all. I was just giddy that a popular senior from the year before was now a college boy who liked little old me. So please stop worrying. You were my first true love, my first sexual partner and only sexual partner my entire life. So get those horrible memories and thoughts out of your head."
I said, ok but you did not bleed after we had sex on Aug 20 1994. And she was shocked I knew the exact date. She said it was dark, and she went home after and never noticed any blood but there could have been on my dark panties I just could not see or tell in the dark. But I was a virgin I promise. Our marriage is still fairytale.
So I am 90% past it and at ease because she told me in a way that I could see in her face and eyes she was telling the truth.
But 10% is devistated because one fact I have spouted all these years is not true. I was not her first BF and she kept that from me for 30 years.
It really depresses me still and I don't talk to my doc for a few months.
I'm on meds for severe major depression, PTSD, and Anxiety Disorder. And Adderall to get me going in the AM because the dosages of my night meds are heavy sedating. So I am on 4 meds. It's controlled with the meds and the quarterly doc visits. But this triggered something I can't shake.
I was lied to for 30 years. And I a fool to have been spouting out about how perfect and pure our life together has been. I have to now start the story as we started going out in HS senior year, I took her to Honecomming as a friend and Prom as her BF. And it just goes from there.
My question to the group is this:

1. Am I wrong to feel this depressed after finding all this out 30 years later?
   
2. Am I right that she should have told me the truth when I asked her when I was 17 and she was 18? Or even when we were 20 or 21 before marriage?
   

I feel a little bit like a moron and a bit betrayed.
Please give me your thoughts. I am going nuts here still.
I would post the picture of the little gold clock. It sits next to her bed on her night stand.
Thanks,
Toby

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Rocket Knight Adventures	Loose cartridge, Label Damage
Spider-Man	Loose cartridge, Label Damage

 

Sega Saturn	Condition
NiGHTS Into Dreams	Complete in Box, Not for Resale Edition
Night Warriors Darkstalkers' Revenge	Loose

 

Sega Dreamcast	Condition
Project Justice	Complete in Box, page 2 detached from manual.
Power Stone 2	Loose

 

PSP	Condition
Daxter	Loose, Greatest Hits, Not For Resale
Power Stone Collection	Loose
Silent Hill Origins	Game and Case

 

PS1	Condition
Castlevania Chronicles	Complete in Box
Chocobo Racing	Loose
Chocobo no Fushigi na Dungeon	Complete in Box, Japanese Import
Chocobo's Dungeon 2	Complete in Box, Manual is badly water damaged
Dark Stalkers	Loose slim case version
Dark Stalkers 3	Disc and Manual, no back art
Rival Schools	Complete in Box
Silent Hill	Loose disc, Greatest Hits
Valkyrie Profile	Discs and Case, no manual
World of Dragon Warrior Torneko The Last Hope	Loose
Xenogears	Complete in Box

 

PS2	Condition
Avatar The Last Airbender	Disc and Case
Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance	Complete in Box; Greatest Hits
Bully	Greatest Hits, game & artwork
Burnout 3 Takedown	Complete, Water Damage on back cover art
Burnout Dominator	Case and Disc, Disc has superficial scratches but still boots
Castlevania Curse of Darkness	Loose, Disc has light scratching
Crash Bandicoot The Wrath of Cortex	Greatest Hits, Used, Disc and Case
Dragon Ball Z Budokai	Complete in Box
Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi	Complete in Box; Greatest Hits
Final Fantasy X	Greatest Hits, Used, Disc and Case
Final Fantasy X-2	Complete; Greatest Hits
Haunting Ground	Complete in Box, Water Damage on art and manual
Killzone	Complete in Box
Grand Theft Auto Vice City	Disc, Case, Poster, No Manual
.Hack Infection	Complete in Box, Includes Anime DVD
.Hack Mutation	Complete in Box, Includes Anime DVD
.Hack Outbreak	Complete in Box, Includes Anime DVD
.Hack Quaratine	Discs and Case, no manual
Marvel vs Capcom 2	Cracked Disc, won't boot for me. Comes with case, no manual
Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty	Greatest Hits, Used, Disc and Case
Naruto Ultimate Ninja 2	Disc and Case
Need for Speed Underground	Greatest Hits, Used, Disc and Case
Need for Speed Underground 2	Complete in Box
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2	Greatest Hits, Used, Disc and Case
Resident Evil Dead Aim	Game and Case, No manual
Scarface	Complete; Greatest Hits
Simpsons Road Rage	Loose, Greatest Hits
Valkyrie Profile 2	Complete In Box, some wear on the artwork and manual
Tekken Tag Tournament	Disc and Case, Greatest Hits, Full side Movie Gallery sticker on DVD face

 

PS3	Condition
Sports Champions	Complete in Box

 

PS4	Condition
APEX Construct	Sealed
Gravity Rush Remastered	Loose
J-Stars Victory VS+	Loose
SteamWorld Dig 2	Sealed

 

PS5	Condition
Battlefield 2042	Complete in Box
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Deluxe Eiditon	Sealed

 

XBOX One	Condition
Watchdogs	Sealed

 

Consoles	Condition
Monster Hunter Rise Edition Switch	New in Box (No game code)
Oculus Quest 1	Complete in Box
Playstation 2 w/FreeMcBoot	Original PS2 "Fat" system. Won't read PS1 or blue PS2 discs. Laser could be ready to go bad, or just need re-alignment. Comes with a Yellow PS2 Memory Card that has FreeMcBoot on it. Free McBoot will allow you to to play games off of a hard drive if desired. No cords/controllers included.
Pokemon Scarlet/Violet Edition OLED Switch	New In Box
SNES Jr.	Includes Deck, RF Coax Cable, Third Party AC Adapter, and Third Party Controller. Small crack on the corner.
Splatoon 3 Edition OLED Switch	New In Box

 

Controllers	Condition
FortniteWildcat Joy-Con Set	Comes from the Fortnite Edition Console, never used
Joy-Con Grip	Bagged/Unused - Came with console
Oculus Quest 1/Rift S Left Controller	Used but very good condition. Comes with silicon case
Oculus Quest 1/Rift S Right Controller	Used but very good condition. Comes with silicon case
Platinum Gamecube Controller	Third Party, no nintendo logo, wired, good condition
Joy-Con (Left/Gray)	Good, no drift
Joy-Con (Right/Neon Red)	Good, no drift, Factory refurbished
SNES Controller	Third Party, no nintendo logo
SPIN Z WiiU Pro Controller	Black, Near Mint

 

Misc.	Condition
Chocobo White Mage Plush	Good
Chocobo Mystery Dungeon Everybuddy Pin	Thief costume
Chocobo's Dungeon Card Game Monsters Expansion Pack	Sealed
Black MagicGate 8MB PS2 Memory Card	Has Free McBoot loaded onto the card
Yellow Nyko MagicGate 8MB PS2 Memory Card	Has Free McBoot loaded onto the card
The Art of Splatoon 2	Sealed
Mario Kart 8 Target Pre-Order Keychain	Sealed. Cut in the film.
Nintendo Switch AC Adapter	Gently used
Nintendo 64 Memory Jumper Pack	OEM/Authentic Regular Pack, not to be confused with the expansion
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Pre-Order Coin	Sealed
Breath of the Wild Sheikah Coin	From BotW Special Edition, Good condition
Pokken Art Cel Pre-Order Bonus	Sealed
Blastoise New 3DS Plates	Plates are mint and unused
Nintendo 3DS Stand	OEM, Came with Kid Icarus Uprising
Kid Icarus Uprising Players Guide (Imported from Japan, no AR cards)	Shows a little wear
Kid Icarus AR Card Set (205/404)	Contains 249/402 different North American (AKDE) cards, no duplicates. An itemized list can be provided upon request.
Kid Icarus AR - Pit Rally Cry Sealed Pack	Sealed pack of cards that contains AKDE-403,014,086
Shantae Risky's Revenge 2 LP Soundtrack Vinyl	Sealed
Super Mario Wonder Framed Art Print	Comes from Best Buy, Sealed
Tears of the Kingdom Pin Set (The Legend of Zelda)	From the TotK Collector's Edition. Mint
Tears of the Kingdom Art Book (The Legend of Zelda)	From the TotK Collector's Edition. Mint
Tears of the Kingdom Poster (The Legend of Zelda)	From the TotK Collector's Edition. Mint
Portal 2 Wheatley LED Flashlight	Sealed

 

Cases/Boxes/Inserts	Condition
Chrono Trigger Manual	SNES, Slight Wear
Chrono Trigger Orange Border Map	Slight Water Damage, 2 Pin holes in the folds, frame optional
Chrono Trigger Green Border Map	Slight Water Damage
Disgaea 1 Rosen Queen Edition	Everything but the game
Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi	Greatest Hits Artwork
Shantae Slip Cover	Limited Run Nintendo Switch 5 Game Slip cover with protector
Burnout Revenge	PS2 case and manual
Doom Eternal Steelbook	PS4 Sealed, no game
Dot Hack (.HACK) Infection	PS2 case and manual
Dot Hack (.HACK) Mutation	Empty Case only
Dot Hack (.HACK) Outbreak	PS2 case and manual
Dragonball Z Budokai Tenkaichi	PS2 Greatest Hits Case Only, damaged clips but artwork is in good shape
The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Collector's Edition	Includes everything but the game
Metroid Dread Special Edition	Box only, damaged from shipping
God of War Chains of Olympus	Case and Manual Only
Gran Turismo 3 A-spec	PS2 case only, 'Not For Sale' version
Super Smash Bros Ultimate Nintendo Switch ConsoleBox Only	Empty Box, good condition
Animal Crossing Nintendo Switch Console Box Only	Empty Box, good condition
Pokemon Dialga & Palkia Switch Lite Box Only	Empty Box, good condition
Rival Schools Front Artwork	Just the front artwork
Fortnite Nintendo Switch Console Box Only	Empty Box, good condition
The Witcher III Wild Hunt	Empty Case, good condition
Tears of the Kingdom Steelbook (The Legend of Zelda)	From the TotK Collector's Edition. Empty Case, Mint
Witch's Wish Box	Empty Box, good condition

 

Freebies	Condition
Playstation 2 IDE Connector	Upgraded my HD Adapter to SATA, these are the old/leftover connectors.
Nintendo Switch Cart Caddy	3D Printed. Holds 16 carts. Can connect to an OEM dock.
Yoshi Mario Kart Keychain	Good
Small Jotaro Kujo Figure	3D Printed. From Jojo's Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle-R
Large Jotaro Kujo Figure	3D Printed. From Jojo's Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle-R
2 Cartridge DS Travel Case	2 Cartridge DS Travel Case
4 Cartridge DS Travel Case	4 Cartridge DS Travel Case
Wonderswan Display Stand	3D Printed. Does not fit Wonderswan Crystal
Lavos Figure	3D printed in PLA Wood Filament. Not my model, found on thingiverse.

 

Wants	Console
Kid Icarus Uprising AR Cards: AKDE-025 AKDE-039 (Will consider others)	None
Asheron's Call Memorabilia	PC
Game & Watch Devices (Excluding 35th Mario & Zelda editions)	G&W
Trip World	GB
Classic NES Series: Excitebike	GBA
Classic NES Series: Dr. Mario	GBA
Classic NES Series: Pac-Man	GBA
Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble	GBA
Pokemon Puzzle Challenge	GBC
R.O.B. Accessories	NES
Yo Noid	NES
Pirates Of Dark Water	SNES
Chrono Trigger Box/Inserts	SNES
Marvel Super Heroes War of the Gems	SNES
Ribbit King	NGC
Mario Wonder Cards/Pins Pre-Order Bonuses	None
Metal Gear Acid	PSP
Racing Lagoon	PS1
Parasite Eve 2	PS1
Red Ninja (Art/Manual)	PS2
Night Warriors Darkstalkers Revenge (Case & Manual Only)	Saturn
Wonderswan Games	Wonderswan
DS Download Station 1-8,10-20	DS
Oni	PS2
Sega Master System Games	Master System
ROG Ally Extreme	PC

Prices are subjective, negotiable, and do not include shipping.   If you would like to trade, check out my thread on /gameswap.   Also accepting Cashapp and Venmo.   One Freebie per order.   Photos upon request.
 

Storage Solutions	Price	Condition
Thin Jewel Case for CD/DVD/Blu-Ray	1/per	New. Clear front, black back
Standard Jewel Case for CD/DVD/Blu-Ray	1/per	New. Clear front and back
Genesis/Famicom Retro Protection	1/per	New, PET acid-free plastic cartridge protector
Super Famicom Cartridge Retro Protection	1/per	New, PET acid-free plastic cartridge protector
SNES Cartridge Retro Protection	1/per	New, PET acid-free plastic cartridge protector
NES Cartridge Retro Protection	1/per	New, PET acid-free plastic cartridge protector

 

amiibo	Price	Condition
Tears of the Kingdom Link	25	Loose
Ocarina of Time Link	25	Loose
Majora's Mask Link	30	Loose
Smash Bros. Link	20	Loose
Skyward Sword Link	20	Loose
Zelda & Loftwing	15	Loose
Wind Waker Link	20	Loose
Wind Waker Zelda	20	Loose
Twilight Princess Link	50	Loose
Wolf Link and Midna	25	Loose
Callie	20	Loose
Marie	20	Loose
Inkling Boy [Neon Green]	15	Loose
Inkling Girl [Neon Pink]	25	Loose
Inkling Squid [Neon Purple]	17	Loose
Splatoon 2 Pearl	20	Loose
Splatoon 2 Marina	20	Loose
Splatoon 3 Inkling [Yellow]	22	Loose
Splatoon 3 Octoling [Blue]	20	Loose
Splatoon 3 Small Fry	20	Loose
Zelda Loftwing	30	New In Box
Sanrio amiibo cards	12	Sealed Pack
Mario Cereal Box	15	Cereal Removed/Flattened
Isabelle Summer Outfit	40	Open Box
Cyrus/K.K./Reese	18	New In Box/Damaged box
Tom Nook	12	New In Box
Mabel	9	New In Box

 

Digital Codes	Price	Condition
SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD-STANDARD EDITION-US	10	Switch Digital Code

 

Figures	Price	Condition
Chrono Trigger Chrono (Crono)/Robo/Eira (Ayla) Formation Arts Figure	100	Loose figure, most limbs are detachable by design, no missing parts
Pit Figma Figure	90	First Edition, Open Box, Contains everything but AR cards
Lillie (Pokemon) Nendoroid	300	Sealed. US edition from the Pokemon Center
Pixel Pal Mega Man	30	Sealed, damaged box
Pixel Pal SMB3 Mario	30	Sealed
Pixel Pal SMB3 Luigi	30	Sealed
Tracer Nendoroid (730)	30	Sealed
Tracer (Blizzard Entertainment Cute But Deadly Series 2 Vinyl)	8	Loose figure

 

Switch	Price	Condition
Adventure Acedamia	30	Sealed
Atelier Ryza 3	90	Complete in Box
Azure Striker Gunvolt Striker Pack	40	Sealed
Bendy and the Ink Machine	30	Complete in Box
Cruel King and the Great Hero Storybook Edition	60	Complete in Box
Ender Lilies	55	Sealed, Japan Import
Grim Fandango Remastered	45	Complete in Box, no slip cover
Labyrinth of Refrain	65	Loose
Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom	60	Sealed
Metroid Dread Collector's Edition	110	Sealed, a few dings associated with shipping
Monster Hunter Stories 2 Collector's Edition	160	Sealed
The Mummy Demastered	55	Complete in Box
River City Girls	120	Complete in Box, US Copy, Best Buy Variant
Shadowverse Champion's Battle	15	Loose
Shantae	50	Sealed
Shantae Risky's Revenge	50	Sealed
Shantae Collector's Edition	150	Sealed
Shantae Risky's Revenge Collector's Edition	150	Sealed
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cowabunga Collection	30	Sealed
Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap	40	Complete in Box
Yu-Gi-Oh Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution	18	Loose

 

Wii	Price	Condition
Batallion Wars 2	11	Game and Case
Castle of Shikigami III	75	Complete in Box
Okami	10	Game and Case

 

WiiU Games	Price	Condition
Batman Arkham City Armored Edition	40	Sealed
Disney Infinity 2.0	15	Sealed
Nintendoland	10	Complete in Box
Star Fox Guard	10	Complete in Box
Turbo Super Stunt Squad	200	Complete in Box, Art/Manual damage

 

DS	Price	Condition
Animal Crossing Wild World	35	Game, Case, and inserts. No Manual
Final Fantasy Fables Chocobo's Dungeon DS+	25	Complete in Box, Japanese Import
Izuna 2 The Unemployed Ninja Returns	70	Loose
Kingdom Hearts Re:coded	25	Complete in Box
Super Scribblenauts	5	Loose
Witch's Wish	120	Complete in Box
A Witch's Tale	90	Complete in Box

 

3DS	Price	Condition
Kid Icarus Uprising (Japanese)	40	Game, Manual, and Case (No Big Box)
Kid Icarus Uprising	120	Complete in Box, Includes Big Box, Stand and AR cards
Senran Kagura Deep Crimson Double D Edition	75	Sealed

 

GBA	Price	Condition
Car Battler Joe	180	Loose. Label imperfections
Lady Sia	30	Loose, EU import
Lady Sia	50	Loose. Label imperfections
Super Mario Advance	13	No label

 

GB	Price	Condition
Alleyway	5	Loose
Kid Dracula	240	Loose

 

NES	Price	Condition
Adventure Island II	25	Loose
Faria	200	Game and Box. Box has some wear
Kid Icarus	180	Game, Box, and Manual; Box shows wear; Protective case for box and manual included
Rainbow Islands	35	Loose
Super Mario Bros & Duck Hunt	10	Loose

 

SNES	Price	Condition
Secret of Mana	55	Loose
Super Punch-Out	25	Loose
Super Scope 6	22	Loose
Wild Guns	270	Loose, Bad Label Damage

 

Gamecube	Price	Condition
Cubivore	350	Loose disc
Pikmin	50	Player's Choice, Complete In Box
Star Fox Assault	30	Loose disc
Resident Evil 0	15	Player's Choice, Case and Discs, no manual
Resident Evil	25	Player's Choice, Complete In Box
Resident Evil	27	Complete In Box
Resident Evil 4	30	Complete In Box, Disc 2 has label wrinkles
Super Mario Sunshine	40	Game and case, no manual

 

Sega Genesis	Price	Condition
Jurrassic Park	10	Loose cartridge, Sharpie on Label
Phantasy Star IV	70	Loose cartridge, Label Damage
Quackshot	40	Complete In Box
Rocket Knight Adventures	37	Loose cartridge, Label Damage
Spider-Man	12	Loose cartridge, Label Damage

 

Sega Saturn	Price	Condition
NiGHTS Into Dreams	40	Complete in Box, Not for Resale Edition
Night Warriors Darkstalkers' Revenge	50	Loose

 

Sega Dreamcast	Price	Condition
Project Justice	225	Complete in Box, page 2 detached from manual.
Power Stone 2	90	Loose

 

PSP	Price	Condition
Daxter	10	Loose, Greatest Hits, Not For Resale
Power Stone Collection	30	Loose
Silent Hill Origins	50	Game and Case

 

PS1	Price	Condition
Castlevania Chronicles	165	Complete in Box
Chocobo Racing	55	Loose
Chocobo no Fushigi na Dungeon	20	Complete in Box, Japanese Import
Chocobo's Dungeon 2	70	Complete in Box, Manual is badly water damaged
Dark Stalkers	70	Loose slim case version
Dark Stalkers 3	50	Disc and Manual, no back art
Rival Schools	130	Complete in Box
Silent Hill	105	Loose disc, Greatest Hits
Valkyrie Profile	325	Discs and Case, no manual
World of Dragon Warrior Torneko The Last Hope	90	Loose
Xenogears	150	Complete in Box

 

PS2	Price	Condition
Avatar The Last Airbender	10	Disc and Case
Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance	17	Complete in Box; Greatest Hits
Bully	15	Greatest Hits, game & artwork
Burnout 3 Takedown	11	Complete, Water Damage on back cover art
Burnout Dominator	9	Case and Disc, Disc has superficial scratches but still boots
Castlevania Curse of Darkness	60	Loose, Disc has light scratching
Crash Bandicoot The Wrath of Cortex	10	Greatest Hits, Used, Disc and Case
Dragon Ball Z Budokai	11	Complete in Box
Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi	15	Complete in Box; Greatest Hits
Final Fantasy X	6	Greatest Hits, Used, Disc and Case
Final Fantasy X-2	6	Complete; Greatest Hits
Haunting Ground	300	Complete in Box, Water Damage on art and manual
Killzone	15	Complete in Box
Grand Theft Auto Vice City	10	Disc, Case, Poster, No Manual
.Hack Infection	20	Complete in Box, Includes Anime DVD
.Hack Mutation	45	Complete in Box, Includes Anime DVD
.Hack Outbreak	65	Complete in Box, Includes Anime DVD
.Hack Quaratine	300	Discs and Case, no manual
Marvel vs Capcom 2	60	Cracked Disc, won't boot for me. Comes with case, no manual
Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty	10	Greatest Hits, Used, Disc and Case
Naruto Ultimate Ninja 2	10	Disc and Case
Need for Speed Underground	10	Greatest Hits, Used, Disc and Case
Need for Speed Underground 2	24	Complete in Box
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2	10	Greatest Hits, Used, Disc and Case
Resident Evil Dead Aim	50	Game and Case, No manual
Scarface	40	Complete; Greatest Hits
Simpsons Road Rage	15	Loose, Greatest Hits
Valkyrie Profile 2	40	Complete In Box, some wear on the artwork and manual
Tekken Tag Tournament	10	Disc and Case, Greatest Hits, Full side Movie Gallery sticker on DVD face

 

PS3	Price	Condition
Sports Champions	10	Complete in Box

 

PS4	Price	Condition
APEX Construct	15	Sealed
Gravity Rush Remastered	60	Loose
J-Stars Victory VS+	30	Loose
SteamWorld Dig 2	20	Sealed

 

PS5	Price	Condition
Battlefield 2042	20	Complete in Box
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Deluxe Eiditon	150	Sealed

 

XBOX One	Price	Condition
Watchdogs	15	Sealed

 

Consoles	Price	Condition
Monster Hunter Rise Edition Switch	420	New in Box (No game code)
Oculus Quest 1	180	Complete in Box
Playstation 2 w/FreeMcBoot	80	Original PS2 "Fat" system. Won't read PS1 or blue PS2 discs. Laser could be ready to go bad, or just need re-alignment. Comes with a Yellow PS2 Memory Card that has FreeMcBoot on it. Free McBoot will allow you to to play games off of a hard drive if desired. No cords/controllers included.
Pokemon Scarlet/Violet Edition OLED Switch	400	New In Box
SNES Jr.	120	Includes Deck, RF Coax Cable, Third Party AC Adapter, and Third Party Controller. Small crack on the corner.
Splatoon 3 Edition OLED Switch	400	New In Box

 

Controllers	Price	Condition
FortniteWildcat Joy-Con Set	120	Comes from the Fortnite Edition Console, never used
Joy-Con Grip	8	Bagged/Unused - Came with console
Oculus Quest 1/Rift S Left Controller	115	Used but very good condition. Comes with silicon case
Oculus Quest 1/Rift S Right Controller	115	Used but very good condition. Comes with silicon case
Platinum Gamecube Controller	20	Third Party, no nintendo logo, wired, good condition
Joy-Con (Left/Gray)	35	Good, no drift
Joy-Con (Right/Neon Red)	35	Good, no drift, Factory refurbished
SNES Controller	10	Third Party, no nintendo logo
SPIN Z WiiU Pro Controller	25	Black, Near Mint

 

Misc.	Price	Condition
Chocobo White Mage Plush	20	Good
Chocobo Mystery Dungeon Everybuddy Pin	5	Thief costume
Chocobo's Dungeon Card Game Monsters Expansion Pack	25	Sealed
Black MagicGate 8MB PS2 Memory Card	20	Has Free McBoot loaded onto the card
Yellow Nyko MagicGate 8MB PS2 Memory Card	20	Has Free McBoot loaded onto the card
The Art of Splatoon 2	300	Sealed
Mario Kart 8 Target Pre-Order Keychain	10	Sealed. Cut in the film.
Nintendo Switch AC Adapter	20	Gently used
Nintendo 64 Memory Jumper Pack	20	OEM/Authentic Regular Pack, not to be confused with the expansion
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Pre-Order Coin	15	Sealed
Breath of the Wild Sheikah Coin	25	From BotW Special Edition, Good condition
Pokken Art Cel Pre-Order Bonus	7	Sealed
Blastoise New 3DS Plates	200	Plates are mint and unused
Nintendo 3DS Stand	30	OEM, Came with Kid Icarus Uprising
Kid Icarus Uprising Players Guide (Imported from Japan, no AR cards)	30	Shows a little wear
Kid Icarus AR Card Set (205/404)	600	Contains 249/402 different North American (AKDE) cards, no duplicates. An itemized list can be provided upon request.
Kid Icarus AR - Pit Rally Cry Sealed Pack	20	Sealed pack of cards that contains AKDE-403,014,086
Shantae Risky's Revenge 2 LP Soundtrack Vinyl	55	Sealed
Super Mario Wonder Framed Art Print	25	Comes from Best Buy, Sealed
Tears of the Kingdom Pin Set (The Legend of Zelda)	20	From the TotK Collector's Edition. Mint
Tears of the Kingdom Art Book (The Legend of Zelda)	65	From the TotK Collector's Edition. Mint
Tears of the Kingdom Poster (The Legend of Zelda)	20	From the TotK Collector's Edition. Mint
Portal 2 Wheatley LED Flashlight	120	Sealed

 

Cases/Boxes/Inserts	Price	Condition
Chrono Trigger Manual	100	SNES, Slight Wear
Chrono Trigger Orange Border Map	80	Slight Water Damage, 2 Pin holes in the folds, frame optional
Chrono Trigger Green Border Map	80	Slight Water Damage
Disgaea 1 Rosen Queen Edition	150	Everything but the game
Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi	5	Greatest Hits Artwork
Shantae Slip Cover	100	Limited Run Nintendo Switch 5 Game Slip cover with protector
Burnout Revenge	5	PS2 case and manual
Doom Eternal Steelbook	15	PS4 Sealed, no game
Dot Hack (.HACK) Infection	20	PS2 case and manual
Dot Hack (.HACK) Mutation	20	Empty Case only
Dot Hack (.HACK) Outbreak	30	PS2 case and manual
Dragonball Z Budokai Tenkaichi	10	PS2 Greatest Hits Case Only, damaged clips but artwork is in good shape
The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom Collector's Edition	100	Includes everything but the game
Metroid Dread Special Edition	5	Box only, damaged from shipping
God of War Chains of Olympus	15	Case and Manual Only
Gran Turismo 3 A-spec	5	PS2 case only, 'Not For Sale' version
Super Smash Bros Ultimate Nintendo Switch ConsoleBox Only	90	Empty Box, good condition
Animal Crossing Nintendo Switch Console Box Only	20	Empty Box, good condition
Pokemon Dialga & Palkia Switch Lite Box Only	30	Empty Box, good condition
Rival Schools Front Artwork	25	Just the front artwork
Fortnite Nintendo Switch Console Box Only	20	Empty Box, good condition
The Witcher III Wild Hunt	20	Empty Case, good condition
Tears of the Kingdom Steelbook (The Legend of Zelda)	30	From the TotK Collector's Edition. Empty Case, Mint
Witch's Wish Box	50	Empty Box, good condition

 

Freebies	Price	Condition
Playstation 2 IDE Connector	Free with purchase	Upgraded my HD Adapter to SATA, these are the old/leftover connectors.
Nintendo Switch Cart Caddy	Free with purchase	3D Printed. Holds 16 carts. Can connect to an OEM dock.
Yoshi Mario Kart Keychain	Free with purchase	Good
Small Jotaro Kujo Figure	Free with purchase	3D Printed. From Jojo's Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle-R
Large Jotaro Kujo Figure	Free with purchase	3D Printed. From Jojo's Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle-R
2 Cartridge DS Travel Case	Free with purchase	2 Cartridge DS Travel Case
4 Cartridge DS Travel Case	Free with purchase	4 Cartridge DS Travel Case
Wonderswan Display Stand	Free with purchase	3D Printed. Does not fit Wonderswan Crystal
Lavos Figure	Free with purchase	3D printed in PLA Wood Filament. Not my model, found on thingiverse.

 

Hey everybody, just wanted to check in here on something that happened recently.
A week or so ago I got a Whatsapp from an unknown number. They thought my number was someone else's and when i told them they had the wrong number and kindly let them know it's alright and wished them a good day, they thanked me for being so nice and we ended up having a conversation. One thing led to another and they tell me this is their business number and to add their personal number on Whatsapp so I did. Turns out, she's a fashion designer living halfway across the UK from me and roughly my age range (I'm from the London she says she's in N.Ireland).
Fast forward to now and we've been checking in on each other every now and then. She has often engaged the conversation and recently we've sent each other pictures of our food and our faces. She wants to have a video call chat with me soon, too now. I agreed that I'll let her know when I have time for a call. We have had some flirtatious comments with each other at this point, but I haven't given any details about myself beyond that I'm going to see my friends for the weekend, I work in education, and having sent a picture of my face. For her part she seems bubbly and lovely, very into her job as a fashion designer. She has also provided me with some information about her too, like hobbies, how her day is going, and that she has a cat. Her photo also showed a cat bed so I'm likely to believe her.
Considering this whole relationship started as a random wrong number call, and how this kind of feels a bit too good to be true, I do have some suspicions. She seems to be a very friendly person and I am being cautious. I have not encountered something like this before. None of my usual alarm bells are triggering for noticing a scam. While her grammar isn't perfect it doesn't seem to be too far out from the way my friends and family might text, so I doubt she's from a country that speaks a different language. Does this sound like a possible romance scam and if it's not clear, what should I be mindful of going forward?
EDIT: To add, We don't know last names and I haven't been able to find her by typing her name, her job position, and location on Linkedin. I also reverse image searched the picture she provided and didn't find a duplicate elsewhere on the internet so it seems legit?