Hey guys, I want to build this thing here where I believe if I can make it take off it will disrupt an industry and at the same time create a new industry. Tell me what you guys think of it pls, it would be helpful, it is mostly if not 100% B2B2C so at the end it is you guys that this product will reach to.
There’s a thing called telepresent robots, they are used to work remotely in office where you control the robot to move around from far and can talk + see things, this existed before.
My innovation is, I want to create this kind of robot but it must be more sophisticated in its capability to move around, it must be able to move over complex terrains like stairs and hills, etc. Will have to include AI in at some point to deal w arising issues but not for MVP and first sellable version ( i won’t talk into this in details why cuz its alr a long post ).
Now given this robot, it will have the ability to stream its vision back to a mobile app in the form of VR footages.
Here comes the idea, i will sell these robots to tourist attractions such as Zoos, famous cities, famous destinations, you name it anywhere people travel just to see and experience.
This is virtual tourism, literally, what ppl can now do is gather with friends and family on a warm Saturday, use the cheap $20 bucks VR glasses from Temu, put their phone in and wear the glasses. One person will take control of the robot, and lets travel, the robot will be controlled remotely and move around however you want and you can travel virtually, to anywhere literally, Egypt, Norway, Antartica you name it as long as there’s a robot provider there ( we sell robots to these providers ). So now with the significantly less amount of money this will bring the world to everyone, most ppl never get out of their country and live their life without ever getting to see the beauty this planet has to offer.
The business model will be making money by selling robots and charging percentage out of transactions used to connect between robots and people.
I have successfully created a hardtech before and built many things ( technically not business-wise) so i am really not saying delusional idea that i will never actually do

A bit of context. My (22f) boyfriend (22m) and I got together at the end of 2022, and admittedly it wasn't a great start. This was two years ago and I have learned a lot since then so please don't judge me. He had just joined the hospitality job that I was working at at the time, and we became fast friends. It didn't take long for us to get quite close when I realised that he wasn't bringing his girlfriend up much in conversation. I would try to ask questions about her and he would just give short answers and quickly move on. Eventually, I confronted him about it and he told me that he had fallen out of love with her months ago, but because he had moved across the country for her he didn't have anywhere else to stay if they broke up. I offered my couch, mainly because I had just recently been in a situation where I couldn't leave an abusive relationship for months because of housing issues so I empathised a lot. After he decided that he was going to break up with her, our friendship took a bit of a turn and things became a bit flirty. Please don't hate me for this, I regret it a lot and I feel so horrible for his girlfriend at the time. Anyway, it was all very subtle flirting and at one point I set boundaries about what we were saying because he was still in a relationship and I was uncomfortable with where it was going. He would occasionally push those boundaries, and at one point he said that he hated how much of a 'good person' I was because he wanted to say so much more.
Anyway, we kept those boundaries up until one day he messaged me and asked if I was able to help him move his stuff that night because he was going to break up with his girlfriend. From what I know, he spent all day packing and she came home to boxes and him sitting on the bed waiting for her. They've talked about it since and he regrets how callous this breakup was. Anyway, I swung by, he loaded his stuff into my car, and we left.
He stayed at mine for a bit and spent about two weeks crashing at other people's places before I just offered my place up indefinitely. By that point, he was not sleeping on the couch. We weren't officially together until about two months later but we definitely moved very quickly all things considered.
Anyway, it's been about two years since then. We've lived together the entire time and have both learned a lot about relationships - though we definitely still have room to grow. Overall, we are both very happy and we're in a pretty good spot.
Now some other context, my partner has always had mostly female friends. In most pictures that I've seen of him as a kid he is in a group of girls, and he himself is not extremely masculine by his own admission. However, also by his own admission, he has a flirty personality, and he makes flirty jokes to both men and women. He also struggles to make friends a little bit, so he tends to cling to the ones that he has. Keep these things in mind moving forward.
My feelings of insecurity or jealousy started around mid-last year when he showed me that he had swiped up on a female friend's risky Instagram story of her in lingerie with some sort of flirty joke. It made me feel super icky but I didn't know what to do so I just smiled and said nothing. Then, in October at a Halloween party, we were pairing off for beer pong and he immediately turned to and partnered with that same girl when I was sitting right next to him and turned straight to him. That broke my heart a bit. He went out one-on-one with a female coworker to a cocktail bar after work for drinks, where they both got drunk but she got absolutely wasted so he walked her home. He was also mostly MIA on messages through this event. He's also told me some flirty jokes that he's made to his female coworkers that just give me the ick a bit. All of these situations we've had conversations about and mostly resolved, but I think it's informing the way that I feel now.
Here is my problem. We have a really great relationship and I can see myself spending the rest of my life with him, but I can't shake this feeling of insecurity and jealousy which I can't help but feel like is because of the way that we got together. I can also admit that I am a fairly insecure person and I have pretty low self-confidence which I'm sure is absolutely having an impact on this. It's to a point now where every time he goes out for coffee with a female friend or even just to work I get a twisting feeling in my tummy, and I've had a strong urge to go through his messages. To be completely clear, though, I have not touched his phone or messages, and I have not given him any indication that I am feeling insecure about him just going to work or anything like that. This isn't the kind of person that I am and I feel horrific that I am becoming so jealous.
He has always had female friends, so it is absolutely off the cards for that to just be a boundary, and we've talked about his flirty personality before but it's a hard thing to define and set boundaries around. I genuinely don't think that he is cheating as I don't really think he would have the time, plus our relationship is going well. I'm hoping for genuine advice about either how to approach this or how to check myself. I'd rather not hear "just break up with him".
Thank you for reading!

She’s showing signs a lot she’s seeing someone else, her “late spontaneous meetings” are happening more often than not, she starts hurrying and closing apps or turning off screen when I’m around and especially on late meeting days she gets distant like she has someone else on her mind. And if I ask if there’s a issue she doesn’t answer and just goes to a new room It’s low key driving me insane smoking doesn’t help as much anymore and sometimes makes me more anxious thinking about rather she’s cheating. The dreams of her cheating went from 1-3x a month to almost every day I have a dream. Sex has almost been nonexistent, even barely wanting me to touch her. I’ve tried asking if she’s seeing someone else a couple times recently, she just ignored the question, I started to find that as her saying yes because she said that she would never tell on herself and she used to say no when I asked to give at least some reassurance, catch my drift? It’s like instead of telling a lie she says nothing, same thing happened when I asked if she was in love with me once(got very awkwardly silent) I’m trying to become a better person, lover, friend and not revert back to my younger self, who would get you before you get me and if you got me my get back is worse or it turns into a cat and mouse game of who cheats the worse, we have a beautiful daughter who’s 1 going on 2 and I have a son who’s 2 going on 3 I rarely get to see(no fault of my own), so I have sacrificed a lot to be here to be an active and present father that i don’t know if she realizes or appreciate the effort I put in or sacrifices I’ve made, I am becoming mentally, emotionally, spiritually and physically depressed. Barely enough energy to workout or do anything else to relieve stress. AM I OVERREACTING/THINKING

Hello community,
I come to ask for your help. Yesterday I finally replaced the stock Mediatek WiFi module (performance issue, trouble connecting to school WiFi, etc.) for an Intel one. Everything was fine up until I realized the dGPU was not showing up (this happened before). I tried the typical troubleshooting, GHelper mode changing, driver reinstall, device manager check and installing Armoury Crate back to check the toggle there but to no avail. As a last resort I held the power button for long enough time to reset the machine, but still nothing.
After that I tried reinstalling Windows. First time I did it clean with just windows updates downloading necessary drivers. After that didn't work I tried clean install but with drivers downloaded from the Asus site. As a last resort, I restored whole disk from my backup and used the built in Asus factory restore util that came with the laptop, but nothing worked.
The last thing I tried was rolling back BIOS to an earlier version (I was running 415) but that didn't change a thing. I also swapped out the Intel module for the original one with the aforementioned steps, but nothing changed.
Is there anything else I can do? I called the support but there was nothing of value said apart from telling me to send it to them for diagnostic and possible motherboard replacement.
I would greatly appreciate your help with this, I really don't have the money for a new laptop or motherboard at the moment, so I want to exhaust my options before sending truckload of money again . Thank you everyone.

I (34F) am getting married next year to a wonderful man. I'm an American living abroad, and we are getting married in his home country where we both reside. Our guests are very dispersed globally, so we've given over a year's notice to our guest list, some of whom are coming from as far as Thailand or the West Coast of the US to celebrate with us. My own family lives about 6,000 miles away, and I need to make decisions fairly soon about invitations to give them enough time to arrange and budget for travel.
I have been estranged from my parents for a very long time, after a childhood where I was violently, emotionally, and psychologically abused by my mother, and my father was largely absent due to his work schedule (he was away from home in excess of 40 weeks per year for the majority of my childhood). My mother was never particularly kind to me, but the worst of the abuse was when my father was away and so he never saw or likely knew the full extent of it at the time. I think it's important to note that the abuse I'm talking about is not "borderline" or covered by "we tried our best" - it likely rose to the level of criminal abuse and should have been reported to CPS. The physical abuse stopped only when I threatened to hit her back as a teenager, but of course she remained narcissistic and emotionally cruel for years.
We had a tumultuous relationship through my early adulthood until I finally cut contact with her about 10 years ago. I tried to explain to my father that our conflict goes beyond normal mothedaughter friction and over several conversations was finally explicit with him about how abusive and violent she was. He has consistently pleaded with me to reconcile, forgive, move on, and told me how much he believes she loves me. He has apologised and passed along her apologies in fairly vague terms - "I'm sorry for how hurt you are" "I'm sorry I was not there for you and your mother when you needed me", etc., but never a real acknowledgment of how bad it was and that it was wrong, full stop. He has generally adopted a view that he believes I am holding on to anger in an unhealthy way.
I have tried several times over the intervening decade to reconcile with my dad, setting a condition of our contact that he not ask me to have a relationship with my mom. Without fail, every time we have been in touch, he eventually brings it up. Finally, almost two years ago I broke contact for the last time and said that I could not have a relationship with him until he gets professional help to understand why it hurts me when he consistently does this. He has not - and as far as I am aware, he has never even discussed the abuse with my mother (I have asked).
As a consequence of this, I lost touch with all of my other family as well - my father's siblings, my aunts and uncles, and their kids - many of whom I was very close with as a child. I didn't know how to explain the rupture with my parents and didn't want to "air dirty laundry" by explaining, especially as I hoped for a very long time my parents would seek professional help and try to repair our relationship. I was ashamed, thought that I was a bad person, and felt incredible guilt for being a poor member of the family. I missed weddings, holidays, and most shamefully ignored attempts from some of them to reach out to me because I dreaded explaining why I was not in touch with my parents.
After a lot of therapy, I've slowly gotten back in touch with some of my family and it is incredible how much I missed them. I have explained the gruesome details behind the estrangement only to one aunt and uncle, but have expressed remorse to the others for not being in touch. I have a lot more family members I'd like to get back in touch with and would love to see at the wedding.
I want to send all my cousins and aunts and uncles invitations and a note that says more or less "sorry for dropping off the face of the earth for a decade, I had some issues with my parents I didn't know how to handle, but I miss you and would love to see you if you'd like to come celebrate."
The problem is this feels...selfish of me. I haven't spoken to many of them in so long, and now I will invite all of them but not my parents - my dad will surely find out, and I know how much this will devastate him to miss his only daughter's wedding. But I cannot stand the thought of reaching out to him again only to be implored to reconcile with my mother, or hear more admonishments from him about the importance of forgiveness for family. The thought of not having him there is incredibly painful for me - missing him walk me down the aisle, or a father daughter dance...many of the things I've wanted since I was young and important parts of a wedding. The whole family will now also know to some extent that something has happened with my parents, and I am sure that it will come out (or I will tell people) exactly what has happened. I feel like I will be rubbing it in my parents' faces that they were not invited if the rest of my entire family is.
Am I the asshole for inviting my whole family who will see my parents are not in attendance? Am I the asshole for being unwilling to try again with my father? Or should I just invite none of them and let sleeping dogs lie?

M29, with 6 cm wide adrenal adenoma found a week ago. They found it by a CT scan with "small areas of internal calcification". Before the scans, I did a X-ray of my chest, which was clear.
I did another CT scan after the first one, with and without contrast, I don't have any result. They also did several blood tests (cortisol, metanephrines) which came back normal. Now they ask for a PET-CT scan of the whole body. I understand they're looking for either benign or malignant tumor. The thing is, that they do not tell me ANYTHING, I have no idea what my scans showed, nor why they want to do a PET scan now.
I'd like to know, in which circumstances would you do a PET-CT scan of the full body following a normal CT scan focused on my adrenal glands? Is it because you found that the tumor was malignant and you're looking for potential metastasis? Or that you want more accuracy because the CT scan is difficult to interpret?

This comes after the MSI Series today which i will not spoil for anyone so go ahead and watch the series if you want to know what happened.
As to this post i just wanted to discuss a few opinions i had about the western regions vs the eastern region as it seems the west is just years behind the east which is crazy especially after the east dominating the game for 13 years since they joined the competitive scene in season 2.
I feel like there are some key issues and differences between the western teams and the eastern teams.
The first issue i see is that regions like NA and EU seem to only have one competitive team which absolutely hurts them because they go to international tournaments and get smashed by eastern teams that play in a competitive region where they are consistently under pressure and always playing vs top players.
NA and EU have really weak teams when you look at 2nd seeds down which comes down to organisations that play in the leagues. It feels like the pro players in the lower seed teams don't improve at all and they are happy just being along for the ride. They only know how to play 2/3 champs max and they don't expand. The orgs need to change their process and start becoming more competitive. Could this be due to the fact that there is nothing for them to lose if they finish last ? like they just come back next split and take the 10th seed again without any improvement.
While i understand that riot put in place rules to make sure that orgs in the LCS/LEC can financially support their player etc i feel like the older system where bottom two/three teams should be demoted to the academy leagues and let academy teams promote to the main tournament. This will give the teams a kick to actually push for wins and practice harder rather than just spamming games for no reason.
Another issue is that the player champion mechanics and champion pools are years behind the east. If you look at the eastern players they can pull out almost any champion and play it to the best of it's ability where are the west player can't do the same. When you watch pros play on streams they just spam games and don't really consider improvement at all.
I feel like the pros should be given champions by the coach that they need to play and learn how to become great players on multiple champs rather than just 2/3. Each team should have a few analysts that help players review individual game play in solo queue as well as team games and help them improve champion mechanics. This would help the players actually improve as it seems they always lose out on the smallest of things that turn the tide of the games.
Another issue is that western teams only team fight and win those fights when it's set up perfectly for them which is almost never the case as the perfect opportunities are rare in this type of game. The eastern teams are always willing to take a fight and they trust their individual skills and the skills of their team mates to win a fight from behind. Western teams stand no chance when from behind and they slowly beed out. I feel like working on team play and practicing team play, position etc needs a lot more work from the western teams.
Player pool for each role again makes it hard to the top teams to perform internationally. For example take the likes of APA or Caps who are strong midlane players. They have no real competition that would let them consistently play vs players at their level or the level of fakechovy etc while they perform on the internationall stage individually the rest of the team doesn't because their roles are not as competitive in EU the bot, jungle and toplane roles have next to no competition as they are dominated by 1 player.
Maybe EU/NA need to import better coaches from the LCK and the LPL and let them structure how the team trains and plays to be more like the east ?
for 13 years the western style of play has not work and it's still not working. You cant tell me that what the western teams are doing is correct otherwise they'd win international tournaments or at least they'd always get to the top 4 slots. NA especially has soo much money pumped into it but they can't compete ?

You’re my happiest dream and my worst nightmare.
My happiest dream is us. Me and you, all the firsts we will share together and spending my life with you. I dream of us going on dates and traveling together, eventually moving closer so we can be together every day. I dream of spending my nights with you and waking up with you beside me every morning. I dream of the day I get to officially make you mine and you truly make me the happiest man alive. Finally after living long lives together one day we will both be old and sitting on the porch together reminiscing about all the amazing memories. I know I’m getting way way ahead of myself and this is all just hypotheticals but that’s ok it’s just a dream.
My worst nightmare is us. Me and you, falling apart before we get to be together. I have nightmares that one day I will message you and you just won’t respond, that you’ll get annoyed or tired of me and just ghost me. I have nightmares that you will tell me it was all a joke and none of the feelings were real, that there is no way you would ever actually love someone like me. I have nightmares that you will find someone more convenient, someone that can be with you every day and isn’t always so far away, someone that will fill my spot better than I can. My worst nightmare is being left in the same place I was in before you found me. I know these things won’t happen, they are just stupid hypotheticals and you would never do that to me but I still have the nightmares.
You’re my happiest dream and my worst nightmare.

For context: i got supended back in April (i think) and Twitter didn't specify why. As you could probably tell, this is the type of suspension where it's permanent, though they didn't tell me i'm PERMANENTLY suspended, they just said that i'm suspended and that my account is on read mode only. Not sure if that's the same thing (it probably is and i'm just really, really stupid), but whatever. Like-at least with the phone number code suspension, they actually tell you what you did wrong. Is it complicated for Elongated Muskmelon to tell me why i was indefinitely suspended other than "you broke the rules''? What rule did i break, Mr X????
Yes, i submitted an appeal, no, i'm not calling it X.

You’re my happiest dream and my worst nightmare.
My happiest dream is us. Me and you, all the firsts we will share together and spending my life with you. I dream of us going on dates and traveling together, eventually moving closer so we can be together every day. I dream of spending my nights with you and waking up with you beside me every morning. I dream of the day I get to officially make you mine and you truly make me the happiest man alive. Finally after living long lives together one day we will both be old and sitting on the porch together reminiscing about all the amazing memories. I know I’m getting way way ahead of myself and this is all just hypotheticals but that’s ok it’s just a dream.
My worst nightmare is us. Me and you, falling apart before we get to be together. I have nightmares that one day I will message you and you just won’t respond, that you’ll get annoyed or tired of me and just ghost me. I have nightmares that you will tell me it was all a joke and none of the feelings were real, that there is no way you would ever actually love someone like me. I have nightmares that you will find someone more convenient, someone that can be with you every day and isn’t always so far away, someone that will fill my spot better than I can. My worst nightmare is being left in the same place I was in before you found me. I know these things won’t happen, they are just stupid hypotheticals and you would never do that to me but I still have the nightmares.
You’re my happiest dream and my worst nightmare.

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Am I the Asshole?
I'm gonna keep this brief as there is a lot of details.
When me and my youngest father broke up, he wanted to have contact with his son, AND my son from a previous marriage. And how he had requested to spend more time with his son, but not my own own son, who I have full custody of, which he requested at first?
When the youngest dad and I first broke up, he wanted to see the kids every evening. He used to have them, make them dinner and I would go out. He would used to go through my drawers, bins and house when I wasn't there. One time I actually watched him going through my bins, and then denied he ever did that. Sometimes when I got back home, he would ask what I was doing, even though it was none of his fucking business. So he started making excuses to why he couldn't come and see the kids. He didn't like the fact I have 2 hours of freedom per day. Then we agreed he came 4 nights a week. Which he did for a little bit then again, started making up excuses why he couldn't see the kids. On a Sunday afternoon I used to go and have a nap. He said there should be no reason why I am napping on Sunday afternoons. I said if I want a nap, I'm gonna have a fucking nap. So one afternoon when I took a nap, he waited till I was asleep, then texted me he was taking his own son out, and not my other kid. I didn't respond because A) I was napping B) I'd thought I'd put my kids with someone who was trusted. When I woke up and realised what he did, left a 6 year old autistic kid home alone, I threw him out. He said it wasn't his fault, my kid isn't his kid and never said he wanted to see him (untrue I have messages to say he wanted to see both children) So I lost my shit and told him he is only allowed to see the kids on a Sunday afternoon, supervised. I actually told my landlord's Mrs and she bollocked him for it. He was still denying fault and saying everyone he spoke to saying it was my fault. Just to make me seem like an asshole. He couldn't be bothered to even wish my own son birthday or got him anything. Said wasn't his child and not his fault. Spoken to my landlord again about this, and he even saidhe was a dickhead. (This is relevant later) He wasn't brought up like this as his younger brother's father still sends my youngest son's dad birthday and Christmas money and card. So anyway Sundays were going well, but then I found out when he had the kids, he spent most of his time on his phone, huffed and puffed because the children didn't fit his idealism. Then he started getting excuses to why he couldn't come and some of them were bullshit. (This was the part when I realised he was seeing someone and getting sex was more important than seeing his own child) He then started complaining that he was missing out on seeing them and worried they won't know who he is. I basically told him to grow up, it's his own fault for not showing up. The kids started to much rather be with me and got bored of him within 10 minutes of him visiting. He's complained it's my fault because I wasn't allowing him to see the kids (like wtf)
Anyway, recently he has requested to see his son every other weekend. It hasn't even been 2 years, he's requested change of visitation 4/5/6 times (I've lost count) and still couldn't be bothered to show up, whether it's sickness ( and yes, we live in the same town, and even declared this still saw him working).
My youngest son is a safe guarding risk, (very highly likely of special needs, recent theory is ADHD with low Autism). If his dad can't cope with 3 and a half hours, which he chooses to when to visit, how can he cope with a weekend?
Like I said, there is more to the story, but to help you all visualise it, the path we are going down is coming to these conclusions, either the dad fucks off, or the child to tell him to fuck off, or the contact as it is, and in 5 years time my youngest son, I have put into therapy because he isn't the child that his dad has visualised in his head, and has issues.
So AITA for not letting extra visitation.
Questions are welcome when I get round to answering.

Me S (f22) and my best friend K (f21) have been friends since 9th grade. we became fast friends and since then we have stuck together. So the problem started when we went to college despite the fact that we were in the same college huge coincidence and had classes in the same building we hardly meet During COVID she broke up with her then boyfriend and had started dating a new guy. I think she cheated but she swore she never did even though she posted about the new guy barely a week after she broke up with her boyfriend of two years. The problem started then. after covid we met up for the first time and when I went her boyfriend was there. I have never meet this guy and she didn't tell me he is coming but was like okay no problem. I can't emphasises how much I don't like this guy first of he was not vaccinated which is fine but the reason he is not vaccinated is not because it could be bad or health reason but because his religion said so. next he has a younger sister and asked him about her he was like she is not allowed to date because she is a girl she needs to come straight home after school she was in class 11 that time. She can't go to friends parties even in restaurants and is not allowed to leave without any male. It would have made sense if we lived in an unsafe place but we don't. When it came to paying the bill I though we will split in three ways because obviously three of us were eating but no we only split it half as she didn't want her boyfriend to pay so I had to pay for his food too. Fastforward three weeks I was at my internship and I got a call from my friend in Singapore to check my bf's snapchat story and I was like it must be funny that she is calling me from Singapore no it was not funny it was rather a video of him pleasuring her. he put that on snapchat my friends was trying to call her but she was not picking up and it had been up for twenty minutes so I called her and she finally picked up after informing she thankfully took it down but I thought she would surely dump him. I mean it takes a lot of steps to post on snapchat she said he was just sending it to himself. I left it there because what more can I say. that is when the real problem started anytime I wanted to hang out he was always their and it was getting really annoying I tried telling her that I just want us to hang out as I wanted to talk about stuff. Her other friends tried making plans but she cancelled everything saying she is busy or sick even when she was posting that she is out with her boyfriend. FFORr 2 years I this was going on I meet with her alone once that was on my birthday but she ditched me early to hang out with and told me to lie to her mom if she called. we were 21 then I said I am not going to lie where you are in school it was fine as we are young and stupid but as adults we need to realise about our own security. she was like fine and left with him.

CONTEXT:
My boyfriend and I (F) have been dating for almost 9 months. When we first started dating, I started spending more time with him rather than with my friend group (lets call it friend group A), which is a bad move on my part to be honest but I have strict parents and not enough time in the day to hang out with both of them. It's not like I completely ditched them, I tried to split my time half half but it was really difficult to. None of them really had a problem with this except my best friend (Also F). Now, again back then we just started dating, and I was blinded to see that I was ditching my best friend. SO again. That's my fault.
A few months after we started dating, my boyfriend and I hung out with some more people as well, and soon we became something close to a friend group (friend group B). (btw: I hadn't ditched friend group A, I still spent time with both of them.) Friend group B consisted of most of my bgs friends, though I'm pretty much friends with his friends so it was fine for me. One day, I invited my best friend to join friend group B because she was closer to 2 of the friends in friend group B than A anyways. Everything was going pretty good with friend group B until my parents thought they were bad influences and told me to stop hanging out with them. Of course, I listened because well, they're my parents and I didn't want to make them mad. I ended up going back to friend group A, sometimes visiting friend group B mainly to see my bf, but here's the funny part. My best friend didn't come with me.
Now, I get that she was closer with some of the people in friend group B than A, and I wanted to be happy for her, because she seemed happy, but I was already really unhappy getting forced to leave friend group B, and it just sucks she didn't seem to care. We barely talked because we never saw each other anymore, and when we did see each other it seemed awkward or forced, nothing like how "best friends" are supposed to act. I always tried to muster up the courage to speak to her about it, but I was always scared it would ruin our friendship, even if it was dangling by a thread. As I couldn't do anything about it, I decided to just leave it alone, and perhaps things will just fall into place one day. Oh how wrong I was.
So I left it alone. I just hung out with friend group A and minded my own business, and I was completely out of the loop of friend group B, beside the occasional visits. When these visits happened, I noticed my boyfriend and my "best friend" starting to get kinda close. They knew a lot about each other and each others weird 'eras' (eg. my "best friends" old anime phase) and had a lot of inside jokes. I, being the one who introduced them to each other, of course tried to ignore it and be happy for them since I HAD originally wanted them to be friends, but now I was really regretting it. Soon enough, I noticed them texting constantly (snap number one best friend for 2months+ goes crazy), playing video games together (even with my "best friends" little sister like what!?!?!), and hanging out and going to lunch together (okay this was usually with friend group B as well but I thought it was weird my "best friend" was able to go out so much since she had strict parents like I did (even stricter actually) and we went out like once a month, but suddenly she was able to go out with friend group B so often?) Also, whenever I went to go visit my boyfriend and friend group B, I would see them interacting and felt like I was being left out. (Honestly I felt left out of friend group B entirely but that's another story) To be fair, these activities were pretty "friendly" but I just felt like there were some weird areas (I wont get into it since this is getting way too long). Or maybe I'm just a really really jealous person (actually that might be it).
I thought about two solutions. 1. I tell my boyfriend how uncomfortable I feel around the two of them, and make him cut her off, but this could risk my best friend getting mad at me idk. (Okay I'm making this whole thing out to be like my best friends an evil villain and im sure shes not (or she wasn't I'm not sure anymore) but I'm just really uncomfortable with what could be going on behind my back. I do trust my boyfriend, I'm just worried about how much my "best friend" has changed and if she'll backstab me). Also I'd feel really controlling even though I know he would 100% understand, it just feels weird to me if that makes sense? Like he has told me to cut contact with people and I've had no problem with that but I've never told anyone to do that before and I'm scared he'll get offended I don't trust him. And they're so close I feel like I'd be ruining their friendship? I DONT KNOW OKAY I have no idea what to do. 2. I tell my best friend everything she's done and how it really hurt me and try to make her understand. Yeah that seems like a better solution so I did just that. I told her everything that pissed me off and how I felt uncomfortable around them. She seemed to have understood (key word: "seemed to") and apologised and felt the same way as I did about our friendship drifting. She also emphasized how she and my boyfriend were "not that close anymore", but I definitely disagree with that (also agreed by another close friend in friend group B). And though she "seemed to" understand and said she would change, I do see changes in our friendship and out dynamic, even if its not a big one, but I don't think she understood JUST HOW uncomfortable I was with her and my boyfriend, because I didn't see a change there.
So the conclusion is, my boyfriend is really close friends with my best friend (now ex best friend ig) even if they don't admit it but its fairly obvious. I'm trying to be okay with it since I introduced them to eachother because I wanted them to get to know eachother, but I'm really struggling to not break into tears everytime I see them talking or sitting together or honestly everything they do together... I have no idea what to do to stop feeling like this. Am I making it sound really serious when its not? What do you guys think? What should I do?!
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PS: sorry this is so long, I haven't talked to anyone about the true depth of this but its seriously unhealthy. this is my first reddit post so if i should make any changes let me know! also let me know if you guys have any questions! thank you !!!!

My boyfriend died this week. On Sunday. He was only 23, he committed suicide. He was my best friend, spending and talking every day since we’d been together for the past 2 years, our son will be turning 1 in a few weeks. Im so broken, I have a gaping whole in my heart, while also feeling guilt and shame like it was my fault. He attempted twice before we were together, but since we were together on the successful attempt I look back at all the ways I didn’t listen enough, or told him we’d talk about it in a little while. He stayed with me and my son all weekend and then went to stay at his house Sunday. We video chatted around 10:30, he was upset about a few things, I could tell he’d been drinking, when he drank he was always emotional, so I had no idea it would lead to this. But I let him talk and told him I was there for him, I then had to go put our son in bed. Why didn’t I stay longer? I would’ve talked to him all night. After we video chatted we didn’t talk ever again, his parents said he spoke with them sometime after midnight asking for forgiveness and then he went and done the act. I just don’t understand, and none of us ever will. I loved him so much, I viewed his body yesterday, I was shaking and terrified to go. When I think of suicide I had an extremely gory image in my head. He didn’t look like that image, he finally looked like he was at peace. I hugged him and kissed him and told him to wait for me. This life just isn’t fair. I’ll never forgive myself for not doing more. But we had a great weekend together 💔

You’re my happiest dream and my worst nightmare.
My happiest dream is us. Me and you, all the firsts we will share together and spending my life with you. I dream of us going on dates and traveling together, eventually moving closer so we can be together every day. I dream of spending my nights with you and waking up with you beside me every morning. I dream of the day I get to officially make you mine and you truly make me the happiest man alive. Finally after living long lives together one day we will both be old and sitting on the porch together reminiscing about all the amazing memories. I know I’m getting way way ahead of myself and this is all just hypotheticals but that’s ok it’s just a dream.
My worst nightmare is us. Me and you, falling apart before we get to be together. I have nightmares that one day I will message you and you just won’t respond, that you’ll get annoyed or tired of me and just ghost me. I have nightmares that you will tell me it was all a joke and none of the feelings were real, that there is no way you would ever actually love someone like me. I have nightmares that you will find someone more convenient, someone that can be with you every day and isn’t always so far away, someone that will fill my spot better than I can. My worst nightmare is being left in the same place I was in before you found me. I know these things won’t happen, they are just stupid hypotheticals and you would never do that to me but I still have the nightmares.
You’re my happiest dream and my worst nightmare.

I got engaged to the love of my life two weeks ago and it was absolutely beautiful. He went above and beyond to make the day special and invite all of my friends and family to celebrate afterwards. It’s like he knew what would make me happy. Now I’m living in engagement bliss, but I’m starting to get a little stressed out. I currently have a lot going on with finding a new job and moving and now I feel this pressure to plan a wedding. We both have decided we wanted it to be very low-key because we are lazy beach people and don’t want any stress.
That being said, I’m starting to stress out and it’s irrational. We’re not even to the planning stage, but I have this hang up surrounding family. My fiancé is a lot closer to his family than I am to mine and it’s not a huge deal but it’s very clear. For example, he wants eight people up on his side, and I want three. We’ve talked about putting some of his sisters on my side to even it out, but I just want my people with me up there. All of this is leading towards me kind of feeling bad his whole family will turn out and I’m actively avoiding trying to not invite some of mine (a great example would be when I told one of my sisters I was engaged her first reaction was “you should really start having kids now because I breed dogs and I have seen the older you are the more likely you are to have girls” 😳🙄😬 implying that that would be a bad thing…. Not to mention my other sister that keeps pushing to be my MOH but I hardly ever see her or talk to her) We’ve talked a lot about how it doesn’t need to be traditional or have any rules, it can be exactly what we want, but I’m still feeling weird about it.
I know I’m probably not the only one, but has anyone else been really stressed out when starting to plan the wedding? Even if it’s going to be low-key in the backyard? Did your partner have more people coming and how did you feel about it?

Know what I would do? I'd want people to stop using exploits, and how would I do it?
Subtly release a supposed list of people who have already been caught ready for the next ban wave? 100%
Release information about all the exploits having a virus to stop people using them? Deffinately
Be in this community making these posts and giving people alot of doubts? Obviously
What I'm saying is that you can't just believe every single post that comes on here telling you that 'people are being caught' and 'this is a virus avoid it'.
Im not saying that all of them are wrong but we don't need to mass spam these posts with no proof. I didn't see a single post on here about the 'krampus virus' that actually explained what it was, what version it came with, how to remove it etc. Just alot of people making the same post, clearly just copying the little information they had heard and possibly drowning out any post that actually explained these things. (There may have been a post doing this but I never saw one).
Don't just believe when someone says something is happening, don't copy paste the post 20 times repeating what someone has already said, please, it's making it very hard to even tell what's real and what's just fake.

Hey guys, I was wondering about some thoughts and would appreciate any advice on the following:
I was offered a position STARTING my first job in Korea for 2.8 million won a month plus provided housing or 400,000 won stipend if I choose a different housing aside from provided.
The job itself is has very reasonable working hours and all the benefits that I’d assume comes with most teaching jobs that come in Korea.
Most of the benefits included seem very reasonable and well, and I’m sure if I renewed the contract I could negotiate for a 3.2 mil salary next year.
However, I’d like to know a few things before I say yes to the offer:
Taxes: as an American what would be the tax on a salary like that?
Area: Yeongtong, seems like it’s sort of outskirts Seoul, which I don’t mind. But what’s housing like price wise that anybody who’s familiar with housing apps can tell me?
Salary: Is it reasonable? Should I wait an negotiate for more?
Future: I have a degree in business management, and 6 technical degrees, all in business. I speak four languages, and I currently work in Japan as a manager for a hotel (Let me mention that I had a Japanese stepmother , and I came to Japan to settle down.
I know both countries have infamous toxic work culture, but I would say at least Korea has more western influence and acceptance than Japan. At least that’s what many friends of mine who live over there tell me.
I’d like to avoid also going down the rabbit hole of personal opinions of work culture. I’m just providing a little backstory so people understand.
With the provided housing and the salary, I feel like I could save more money monthly there than I do now in Japan.
Currently even with a strict budget I can only manage to save about 30,000 yen a month.
(The housing is killer)
So I’d like to know how much you guys spend in food, gym (I’m a gym rat) and any extra tips would be much appreciated.

Here I am again. After getting moms house cleaned up and getting her SSA finally applied for and headed her way, dads business almost closed, and a LITTANY of other things done, (the list is a months long feat I did in 5 weeks), and also caring for mom with dementia. I had signed a POA for mom so I could investigate her bank accounts. I found lots of financial abuse by methadone sister. Haven’t turned her in yet.
On May 2 I was served with a restraining order and notice to vacate my mother’s house by my older billionaire sister. Little sister convinced her I was the bad guy and that I was causing harm, stealing, blah blah. Older sisters emergency guardianship was overturned in court yesterday by a very stern judge who quickly saw through the BS. (Plus I provided the court text messages that both of their entire affidavits were based on lies).
Judge granted me guardianship of the person and granted older sister guardianship of her estate. This is common practice as they do not want people stealing elderly and moving them out of state, stealing their assets. However I can move my mother to Florida now, as she has begged the court and begged me since right after my father passed in February. After 90 days if all is well, the estate is turned back over to us.
I throughout all of it I kept having this vision of sitting with my mom on the boardwalk of the beach by my house and watching the sun come up. In my vision I see myself turning to her and saying “well, mom, we did it.” I kept telling her throughout all of this that it’s going to be okay, we are going to win this. Her attorney ad litem kept telling me the judge is NEVER going to let her go to Florida.
Thats not the way things work apparently. The court was held yesterday in the 200 year old courtroom in a small Texas town square courthouse (no metal detectors, judge wore a cowboy hat) it was RAGING storming, judge just wanted for mom to be happy and be safe and keep her assets safe. After a trial period her estate will be released back to me. LOL judge said, “Everyone will get along and treat each other with respect. EVERYONE. Or we will have another hearing and it will not be fun for you.” Basically, the judge told my abusive older sister that she’s not allowed to abuse me anymore or else.
I so very much appreciate the laws associated with this whole process. Without them people like my younger sister could just strong arm everyone away from the scene, keep mom’s assets and keep neglecting her. Adversely, if I were a person of the quality of my younger sister and lived out of state, I could “steal” my mother with dementia and her assets and take her across state lines making it a very large, very expensive task to recover it all. I appreciate the laws for that reason as well, that could have been a possibility for younger sister if she was feeling flighty. So all in all it was a win. More work involved with of course certificates and bonds required, but mom gets what she wants.
In a few weeks she will be watching sunrises over the Atlantic and petting chihuahuas and gardening with me, making bread. Thank God for that judge. She was to the point she was refusing help from anyone but me. I can’t imagine how things would be for her if the outcome had been any different. Probably assisted living/borderline nursing care. God is good!!!