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Another Saturday brings another batch of slings!
Banditocam new colors comparison
Steel HK snaps in black and coyote $3.50 each ($7 a set). These are not Amazon pot metal junk.
Soft loop webbing sling attachments $4 each ($8 a set). Similar to Frank Proctor sling loops.
Slings in stock, 2024-05-18 @ 7:15 AM EST:

Pattern	Price	Quantity
Banditocam	$39.00	5
Desert Night Camo	$35.00	5
Multicam	$35.00	3
Rhodesian Brushstroke	$35.00	2

If you want one, dibs it in the thread and shoot me a message. Please don't use Reddit chat.
THE SALES PITCH:
I sew these slings up myself. Some are berry compliant webbing, some aren't... depends on the pattern. Everything is sewed up with Berry compliant hardware and bonded nylon V69 thread. The front half of the sling is 3ft long and the rear is 4ft long; max length is about 66" when the slack adjusters are backed all the way off.
These have quick adjust slider on the front with an elastic loop (unpadded only) behind it for keeping the slack when storing your musket. The ends are left open with a triglide so you can attach any kind of 1" QD/snap hook/paracord loop/etc or just fasten them to the built in sling loops on your stock, FSP, etc.
The padded slings are 1/4" cross-linked polyethelyene (XLPE) 4lb foam in a 1.5" wide sleeve, sewn to the back of the sling. The only functional difference between the regular and padded slings is the lack of an elastic slack retainer loop on the front. It can vary with different colors or patterns but generally the sleeve is 500d cordura with waterproof backing.
If you purchase more than one I'll throw in a 10% discount on each additional item.

• 17337: Slick, thinner webbing. Breaking strength 1,200 lbs. Thickness 0.038-0.050 inches
• 55301: Slick, slightly thicker webbing: Breaking strength 1,000 lbs. Thickness 0.039-0.050 inches
• 55301 solution dyed: Softer, slightly thicker webbing: Breaking strength 1,000 lbs. Thickness 0.039-0.050 inches

17337 slings tend to be very smooth to adjust out of the box. 55301 tends to need to be broken in a little bit but becomes just as slick once it has a chance to pass through the adjuster a few times. Jacquard slings are even stiffer on adjustment side and need a break in period due to the webbing thickness. They will break in, but don't be afraid to muscle them around until they do.
FAQs:

• Payment: Venmo, Cashapp, Zelle, Paypal F&F... no transaction notes.
• If you pay by Paypal G&S, I will refund your payment and ask for F&F instead.
• Shipment: USPS, usually shipped the next day.
• I do ship internationally. I charge the exact calculated amount with no extra markup; PM me to discuss.
• These are, unless otherwise stated, 1" wide webbing. Most similar to a Naked Slingster, Edgar Sherman Design, or other minimalist slings.
• More slings: I only have the pictured slings for sale right now, but I'll be making plenty more. If you want something, feel free to message me.
• Berry compliant: All solid colors, Multicam Tropic, Multicam Black, M81 Woodland, Multicam jacquard
• Not Berry compliant: Banditocam, Tigerstripe, Brushstroke, DNC, splatter paint, black topo map

So I just found out about the drama that’s going on currently, and I have 1 thing to say: you guys are TOTALLY overreacting. I mean, she messes up one time, and now people are pretty much treating her like the scum of the earth. I know my opinion isn’t going to mean jack shit, but I still wanted to share my thoughts. Hopefully I can at least create a ripple in this ocean that is the tally hall subreddit. Think of it like this: what if Joe WAS actually handing out stuff he wasn’t supposed to? You don’t think she should at least say something? I fully support Joe and his recovery and I don’t believe he would do something like this, thank god he didn’t, but you have to see things from other points of views. Thank you for listening to my TED talk. Be good people.

I (19F) have been with my boyfriend (18M) for almost 2 years now. We met when we were both in high school and a friend introduced us together and eventually it became something more intimate. In some point of my life, I was kick out of my parents house and now living with him at his parents’ house, but that’s a different story. Don’t worry guys, his parents are very supportive and offered me to stay with them until me and my boyfriend find a place on our own.
Our relationship right now has been a little rocky here and there, only because I believe the honeymoon phase is over and part of that reason is because we’re living together now. I’m not saying it’s bad or toxic or whatever, we just have some disagreements and argue from time to time but nothing really major. My boyfriend is a great and mature man for his age, he’s been working hard and raising money for the both of us so he hasn’t been treating me bad at all.
But here’s the problem.. So I actually don’t have many friends anymore after high school because we eventually just drift apart, but my boyfriend on the other hand has a group of friends that he still hangs out with. And yes, I have met most of his friends and they’re really nice, most of them say hi to me when we see each other out in public. But there is this one friend who just kind of seems like they have a problem with me. Let’s call this friend, John. I met John when my boyfriend, myself, and his friend group were at the park skipping class and just playing card games together. We talked for a little bit and he seemed nice and cool so I just thought he was just simply some nice dude. But I was wrong. After i graduated, I had to look for a warehouse job because I wasn’t on my parents’ insurance anymore and I ended up working for some warehouse bakery factory. During that time I work there, I had bumped into John. We saw each other and just said “oh my god, you work here too??!” Blah, blah. So from there, I figured every time I see him, I might as well just be nice and say hi to him. John works 3rd shift while I work 2nd shift. So when leaving to go to my car, I always see him on the way and just simply wave or say hi. John only greeted me once and then never said anything back. I figured he was just grumpy because he didn’t want to go to work. But soon, he just totally ignored me in total.
Have I talked to my partner about this? Yes, yes I have. And you know what he said? He said “John doesn’t want to speak to you because he’s doing it out of respect” Respect of what exactly? It’s not like I’m trying to flirt with him or anything, I am simply trying to say hi to him. So this actually made me angry because John is an 18 year old man who can’t simply say hi to me? Sounds like someone who’s just ignorant and rude. I explain to my boyfriend and even said “baby, I bet you’re like that too. If someone comes up to you right now and asks if you have a girlfriend, you would ignore them too right?” I know, I know. Some of you girls want your man to do that. But you have to look at their perspective, they don’t know your man isn’t single, it’s better for them to say “I have a girlfriend” and most of the time they apologize and move along. And if they don’t, then your man can ignore, insult, or do whatever you want to them. But I digress, I called out my boyfriend for that and he just only said “I’ll say that next time” and he’ll talk to John about it. So I just left it like that.
Until today, I was going through my stuff while he was laying down on the bed looking for houses for us. He came across a house with 5 bedroom and jokingly said “omg baby we should have roommates” and then I said “yeah but all our roommates is gonna be boys” which he mentions “oh yeah, John, he can stay with us because he can afford it.” I look at him with the ‘are you fucking serious look?’ And mention I didn’t like John after he just straight up ignored me. My boyfriend then proceeded to tell “baby, he has money.” And that’s where he fucked up. I took that as ‘who cares about your feelings, money matters.’ So from there, I started spitting out the meanest things, like to the point where i suggested for my ex to come stay with us because he also has money too. My boyfriend is good guy and told me he didn’t mean it like that and he actually said “I’m not on John’s side at all. I think what he did was wrong and yes, he should apologize for it, I’m just trying to understand why you’re holding this grudge on him for so long?” I explain to him because it hurts me that I’m just doing something so simple and now being ignored just because I’m labeled as “the girlfriend we don’t mess with.” The reason why I want to be comfortable with his friends so that way it wouldn’t be so awkward and I have some help like figuring out my boyfriend’s birthday present. Especially John. Since he is the closest friend to my boyfriend. I’m not trying to be friends, I’m not trying to flirt with them, I just simply want the awkwardness to go away. But part of the reason, why I was arguing with my boyfriend because deep inside I told myself ‘my boyfriend is on John’s side because they’re exactly alike.’ My boyfriend eventually gave up and said “whatever, hate him all you want.” Because I just kept saying nonsense.
We made up after a little bit of silence. But for some reason, I’m still a little upset about this and is crying while typing this as we speak. But what do you guys think? Am I over exaggerating about this and should let go of my hate for John? Or should I talk to my boyfriend more about it?

Hi guys,
Around April 2023, I noticed a small patch in my beard that was hairless. I thought I maybe plucked it, or trimmed it a bit too much and didn't notice. Eventually, this grew to slightly larger than my thumb and that's when I got alarmed. I googled, and found out it was AA. Subsequently over the following months, I developed another patch in my beard the same size as my thumb near the nape of my neck (Both patches were near my neckline).
I noticed significant vellus hairs by June 2023, and now they're black and the initial patch is gone.
NOTE: From October 2022 to March 2023 this was probably one of the most stressful times of my life due to relationship issues.
I subsequently began Minoxidil, but that was for my Male Pattern Baldness and took natural DHT inhibitors and other supplements and multivitamins for months. I positive results to treating the MPB with Minoxodil 5mg foam.
Recently however, almost 13-14 months after my AA began. I've noticed a very small patch forming in my beard, and I'm light skinned with black hair and super hairy so I can tell if I'm losing hair. I feel like my left eyebrow is thinning, and my beard is developing a patch or two also. There is also a huge patch of missing hair from my back, roughly the size of my palm.
So with all this context, I have the following questions:

1. Yes AA is unpredictable. But if you had a bout with AA and had regrowth. Is it normal to then have a second episode a year out?
   
2. I have a patch on my back that isn't growing, and maybe a patch on my leg but I'm not too sure. If it is patches that are distributed across the body - does that mean it's AU? Or is the location of the patch irrelevant as long as it is is patch that denotes it as AA.
   
3. Is having regrowth without any extensive treatment a good sign that you won't develop AU/AT? Can AU/AT develop randomly at any point, or is there usually a pathology it follows? I know the chances are very low but what are the warning signs?
   

Thank you guys, and I hope this journey becomes easier for you all too.

Pick 4 and lane with a tank. You can't nuke or do a lot of dmg and both are mele. Best snipe curriers and spam 2. Usually happy to draw lane. Pos 5 not an option. Pos 3 would work but can horribly go wrong if team doesn't draft around you not being a tank at all or even a iniator.
Basically be a lame soft support in the laning phase. After level 6 you are fully in and useful.
I do have a positive win rate and just realized I won 6/8 in the last 3 months with bh. He's also one of my top 10 most played. And I got a nice skin for him. Been getting tired spamming clock and shaman. Bh is a win hero for me so not griefing my climb. But if I play Sky ES or even SB for fun I lose mmr and regret it. Actually I'm sort of 50/50 with SB. I just hate playing invisible with items so I sort of am not good with SB. I play him as a tank. Khanda build backfired on me a lot with SB. Does SB S&Y Threads AC work ? But that's no mana there. I just hate using glimmer or silver edge. I literaly never buy it. It's not within my skill to use it. Simply cause I don't. If I'm gonna Play tanky might as well go PB.
Bh lane can be good. But 1/3 1/2 of the time your 3 is gonna hate you. But that's the only option. Pos 2 3 is swag play and probably better left for higher ranks.

In My(20M) friend group in my college, where we are pretty much all the time together I don't feel like I belong there any more. Our group has been together since day 1 of college and we spend all the time together outside lectures as well. I love all my friends in this group and always felt that I've made lifelong friends. But last week something happened that I just don't know how I feel anymore. So I have a reputation of class clown in my college as I am always joking and just fooling around. And I am aware of this and don't have problem with it. But I expected things differently in my friend group where my friends would take me seriously and would consider me more than just a funny guy. But last Wednesday some of the friends said something like - I am of no use to them other that cracking some jokes. And although we were just having fun, I thought what he said was true. And I kept thinking about that for the rest of the day, and I decided I will not crack jokes for the next couple of days. It was really hard, almost like that new year episode in friends where Chandler bets he can go on without making fun of anyone, but I did it. I didn't spoke to anyone for two days, didn't crack any jokes, only spoke when it was needed. And no one noticed this. I am that guy who's always always talking and for 2 days I was silent. No one came to me and asked why I was not saying anything. And don't know what to make of it, they just don't care about me to notice this or they wanted this from the first place and now just relieved I'm not talking. I just don't feel like hanging out with them anymore.

It's been a while since a post about positions has been made on the sub, and I thought that after Samidare's release I might make one since Fuma, EJ and Taki now have a good amount of lines in the title track :)
Apart from official positions which will be noted by (*), these are all my own perceptions of &TEAM's positions, minus dancing positions because I cannot accurately analyze that, beside Main Dancer. So in order, from oldest to youngest:
K: Performance Leader*, Main Vocalist, Main Dancer, FOTG, Oldest
While oldest isn't a position per se, it is a role that K has to take on, so I've listed it here. K's Performance Leader position has been confirmed by himself on that one interview (forgot the name), which indicates that he is also Main Dancer. Now for Main Vocalist - it's long been debated whether K should be Main or Lead vocal, but after Samidare I do believe that he is a Main Vocalist. He consistently sings chorus, and is always in the top 4 for line distribution. He also does adlibs which a Main Vocalist would usually do. And for FOTG, it's mainly because he was already popular on I-LAND and made it all the way to the end, but didn't debut.
Fuma: Sub-leader*, Vocalist.
Fuma is officially the sub-leader, supporting EJ who is the leader. I believe that Fuma will take over the leader position completely while EJ serves his military duties, whenever that will be. Up until recently, Fuma didn't get a lot of lines in songs but with Samidare, he is ranked 6th which is an improvement from the bottom three, though not by far. I hope that next comeback he will be in the top 4.
Nicholas: Main Rapper, Lead Vocalist
And as everybody knows, Nicholas is the Main Rapper. If only one person raps in a song, it will be Nicholas. However, I feel like that his positions as Main Rapper and Lead Vocalist sort of clash, if you get what I mean. Basically Nicholas will rap as much as he can in a song, if he has a good amount of lines then he won't get too many more singing lines, or sometimes none at all. But in a song where there is no rap, Nicholas will get a good amount of singing lines. But what I'm saying is that he doesn't both rap a lot and sing a lot in the same song.
EJ: Leader*, Lead Rapper, Vocalist
EJ is leader, that's official, no doubt. He and Nicholas are the only two who rap, and even EJ doesn't come in too often. I've written Lead Rapper here but that's only because EJ does actually come in to rap multiple times, whereas other members make the odd appearance and never rap again. And believe it or not, EJ was actually number 2 in line distribution for Samidare! (the song, not the whole album). I haven't given him a Lead Vocal part yet because this could just be a one time thing, however by the end of the seasons series (or whatever it's called), we will definitely be able to confirm whether EJ is a lead or sub vocalist.
Yuma: Main Vocalist, Main Dancer
Yuma is either number 1 or 2 in terms of vocal ability, and by the number of lines he consistently gets, he is definitely another Main Vocalist. He and Maki also support Jo's killing parts often since Jo is a weaker vocalist than them, we'll get back to that later. Yuma is also a great dancer, I believe he's danced for the longest out of &TEAM? But I do believe that he would hold the Main Dancer position if officially assigned. Also on the Kpop wiki on fandom, they list Yuma as having a rapper position. But I can't recall the last time Yuma ever rapped in a song, somebody please tell me if that's ever happened.
Jo: Center, Vocalist, Visual*
Ok so let's continue off what I said about Jo being a weaker vocalist than K, Yuma and Maki. That is definitely true, but HLJ still gives Jo killing parts and a really good amount of lines. Why? Because they're pushing him as Center.
Now with &TEAM, the center is a bit weird since &TEAM has so many members, but bear with me. A commenter on another post (here) suggests that &TEAM could have three centers - those being K, Jo and Harua. K would be the performance center, (similar to Yeonjun of TXT) and is the face for their concept (Dark Moon) and Harua is the most promoted both within Japan/Korea and overseas since his popularity is pretty balanced globally, but I believe that the traditional K-pop center would be Jo. He's pushed mainly on visuals (Jo introduced himself as Visual once, so that's confirmed) and is given lines despite being a weaker vocalist, and he's popular, so people want to see more of him in songs.
Harua: Vocalist, Visual
That whole section above also applies to Harua I guess, he gets a good amount of lines, not too many and not too few, and is mainly pushed as a visual. Not trying to hate or anything but there's not much to say.
Taki: Vocalist
Honestly not too much to say about Taki either apart from the fact that he finally got a good amount of lines in Samidare! The first thing I thought of when I listened to Samidare was 'hey, Taki's getting so many lines! I'm so happy!' Afterwards I realised that EJ and Fuma had gotten lots of lines too. Hopefully he will be pushed on vocals more in the future, his vocals have improved so much since we first met him on I-LAND and he needs to showcase them.
Maki: Main Vocalist, Maknae*
K, Yuma and Maki are the three main vocalists of &TEAM. Some may think that it's too many, which is a fair point, but having three strong vocalists and not using them would be a waste. They often exchange parts, especially in the chorus, and Maki often sings the first part of the last chorus, which is quite an impactful part. This is also when K does adlibs.
So that's it I guess, &TEAM's positions as of Samidare. I think I will revisit this when the seasons series ends, hopefully by then the positions will become clearer and we get fairer line distributions.

Hey all! This is a bit weird for me being almost 40 and looking for friends. But here I am anyways lol. Mainly looking for someone to message throughout the day and get to know. Maybe game with if we have that in common. I do work from home so there’s no one to really talk to during the day.
I’m married and have 2 kids, a 6 month old son and a 9 year old daughter. I’m into basic nerdy things. Gaming, star wars, super heroes, DnD, etc. Also trading card games like Disney Lorcana and Star Wars Unlimited.
I watch a ton of Critical Role stuff especially Campaign 3! Currently on episode 74, so if you watch too, let me know! Also like to watch Battle of the Brands on YouTube.
I’m also into movies and tv, some sports, pro wrestling. Collecting action figures and retro games is one of hobbies as well. Anything 80s/90s nostalgia i absolutely love so if you want to talk childhood and growing up back then, i’m down! I miss the good old days where we went to arcades and italian sunday dinners at the grandparents and where the world just wasn’t as nutso as it is today lol.
My kids are everything to me and I do love talking about them. Love being silly with them and spending time with them (when they aren’t driving me crazy 🤪 lol)..I would prefer you be around my age and have kids as well just so we have that stuff in common off the bat! I’m socially awkward most times but very easy to get along with. I’m definitely considered an introvert. But once you get to know me I break out of that awkward shell. I do like to use sarcasm, and mostly like to try and make people laugh because a world without laughter would just be horrible.
Alright i’ll shut up now but I’d like to think i’m an awesome person to get to know and hopefully there’s more you’d like to know so feel free to DM me! (I looove using GIFs so if you message me, open up with a funny one! Especially since then i’ll know you actually read this 😂)

37M married with one kid (3 year old). Been working in US for 14 years. Started at 65K back in 2010. Now at 350-400K package saving ~150K every year. Net worth doubled in last 1 year with US market returns and is now 850K (7Cr rupees). All liquid, no property anywhere. Expect to be around 10Cr in next 2 years but I don't want to stay in US longer than 2 years (kid is growing and parents are ageing)
Hope is to retire in Goa and start a hobby project - a podcast or a side business that might not make any money. Not sure how much more to save before I return to India. Not able to get a pulse on expenses like education and housing. I read that 10Cr is minimum just for living expenses (house, child education/marriage extra) but then I see people retiring at 5 Cr.
Has anyone actually RE'd in India? What was your corpus? How much did you budget for kids education and marriage?

That’s all it was. A game.
Something my friends and I used to play during the summer when we had nothing better to do. I never expected that it would get so out of hand.
I never expected it to come back long after recovery.
To anyone reading, please don’t do what I did.
I’m putting this out there to warn people.
On that warm summer evening, we played the role of Pandora.
Except, the monsters we released were far worse than what’s told in stories.
Because stories end.
And this doesn’t.
I still remember the date. July 16, 2013. I was an upcoming senior in high school while the others were getting prepared for their freshman year of college, raving on about their majors, life plans, dorms, you get the point. The summer had been bittersweet as those months would be the last I’d see them for a while. Because of this, Anthony, Lola, Eliza, and I would spend the bulk of our time together going to festivals and various camping trips, trying to make the most out of the summer while we could. On that day, the day I wish I could forget, Eliza had run late to one of our hangouts at my place. This was odd since as an Ivy league student, she was usually early or right on time to these kind of things. Half past three, we heard her knocking on my door rapidly, which was also out of character considering that she was usually the calm one in our group. A bit worried, I hurried down the stairs with Anthony and Lola following close behind, expecting Eliza to be in hysterics due to her frantic behavior. When I opened the door, however, there she was with a bright smile on her face, her red hair getting in the way of her eyes, which were a dark green shade. She pushed her hair out of her face with one hand and held a brown box in the other, and she was bouncing up and down as she usually does when she’s about to talk about something exciting.
“You’ll never believe what I found.” Eliza’s voice could barely hold her impatience as she stepped inside and kicked her shoes off once she crossed over my threshold.
“What’s up with you today?” Anthony questioned, looking more confused than concerned now.
“I’ll show you guys in a minute. Can we go up to your room, Felix?” Eliza looked over at me with her trademark smile, knowing damn well we were all too curious to just leave that box unopened. Without a word, I led the group up to my room and shut the door after everyone had walked in. Anthony took his usual spot on my beanbag and unzipped his hoodie, which had the MSM logo sprawled across the front in big red letters. He adjusted his dark rimmed glasses and took on his usual stoic expression. Lola wore a dark blue FIT shirt, which she revealed more of when she moved her locs over her shoulder as she sat on my desk chair and wheeled over to us. As she did, the various necklaces she wore clinked against each other. Eliza herself was the smartest out of the group, and probably in the whole school as well. She had gotten accepted into multiple prestigious schools, but ultimately settled for Harvard to pursue a degree in some obscure philanthropic career. Unlike Anthony and Lola, Eliza wore her regular outfit –usually a white tank top and jeans– and sat on my bed with the box in her lap. I took a seat next to her to get a closer look.
“So what’d you find?” The others moved closer.
“Something we probably haven’t thought about for a really long time. Do you guys remember that one game we used to play in middle school? The one we made after Felix joined our class?” Eliza looked at our puzzled faces to see if we had connected the dots, but her clue didn’t seem to strike any of us with familiarity.
“After Felix joined? Didn’t we just hang out or something that weekend?” Anthony questioned.
“We did, but there was something else,” Eliza raised an eyebrow, “you guys seriously don’t remember?”
At that moment, I saw Lola’s eyes light up and a thin smile grew on her lips, something she always did whenever she was able to figure something out.
“You mean that little map game we played? Where we would go out to the woods and explore?”
Both Anthony and I seemed to have remembered as well with the mention of a ‘map game.’ I chimed in, “ yeah I remember! Every once in a while when we were all bored, we’d pick a random spot on a map to go to and explore there for a bit, right? When did we stop doing that anyways? I remember really enjoying it.”
“Well life happens,” Eliza responded to me, “but I was thinking of things to do for the rest of the summer when I suddenly remembered that game! That’s why I was so late for our meetup today, I was looking through my attic for this.” Eliza shook the box slightly and a couple things clattered around inside.
“There’s no way.” Anthony sounded like he was in disbelief.
“You mean…?” Lola sat forward in the chair. Eliza smirked, her adventurous nature creeping out as realization swept over us like a wave.
“Mhm! I found the map we used to use as well as the things we collected from our little escapades.” With that, Eliza opened the box, revealing a folded piece of paper and various trinkets scattered over the bottom of the capsule. Lola squealed with excitement and immediately snatched the box from Eliza, who simply chuckled and leaned back on the bed.
“No way! Everything’s still in here!” Lola digged through the box and placed whatever objects she found across the blanket. Anthony got up and sat at the foot of my bed, to observe our findings more closely. There was a piece of some clay pottery, some rusty springs and scraps of metal, an old digital camera, and some other random stuff I can’t recall to memory right now. Anthony picked up a spring and turned it in his palm.
“Shit man, this is from that abandoned junkyard we found in 8th grade…that feels like such a long time ago now.”
I examined the piece of pottery with Eliza looking over my shoulder. Lola picked up the digital camera.
“Do you remember where this came from?” I turned to Eliza and held up my discovery.
“No clue,” she shrugged. It must have been a while ago if even she didn’t remember. I turned the piece over and grew curious when I saw weird symbols inscribed on the inside of it. I squinted a bit, trying to discern some sort of pattern within the scribbles.
I turned to Eliza again, “hey, what do you think-”
“OH MY GOD GUYS IT STILL WORKS!” Lola’s voice went up a whole octave as she motioned to us.
The rest of us looked up as she turned the camera to face us. There were various photos we went through. All of us at lakes, museums, exploring the woods; everything we did from 7th grade until my freshman year seemed to be documented. The last photo was arguable the best and msot bittersweet. It was a picture of the whole group from a while ago. We were sitting at Eliza’s dinner table with a giant chocolate cake on the middle of it adorned with two candles shaped like the numbers one and five. Eliza was talking to me in the photo. Her hair was even more red at the time and she wore it in a braid. I looked about the same in the photo as I did then, with light brown hair, blue eyes, and freckles scattered all over my body and face. I was smiling sheepishly at Eliza. I now knew why Anthony said it was obvious I had a crush on her in 8th grade. Lola went through the most changes out of all of us. At the time in the photo, she had her hair straightened and side-swept, with a bright pink streak in her bangs. She wore clunky jewlery and a frilly skirt underneath a long tank top, leaning over the table to cut another slice of cake. All of us had birthday hats on except for Anthony, who kept his sitting on the table. He held up a peace sign staring straight into the camera with a stoic expression. He looked like a statue compared to the rest of us, who were laughing and smiling. You could tell he was having fun, though.
“Well don’t you look like a ray of sunshine,” Lola snickered as Anthony shot her a dirty look.
“At least I didn’t go through some weird scene phase in freshman year,” He smiled and watched Lola’s face, knowing she was blushing despite her dark skin which made it practically invisible. I let a laugh slip out, but quickly stifled it knowing that if I kept going it would mean death. Lola side-eyed me and continued, “I was using my creative liberty to experiment with my options as an artist,” she said with an overly-posh accent that made Eliza laugh.
“Yeah Anthony, don’t be such a downer,” Eliza teased. Anthony simply rolled his eyes and suppressed a smile to pretend like he was mad at all of us. He looked into the box and picked up the paper we left, unfolding it with a hint of excitement and curiosity. When he looked at it, only two words came out of his mouth.
“Holy shit.”
“What, what is it?” Lola tried to look at the other side of the paper, but Anthony quickly held it out of her view.
“What if I didn’t want to show you?” A smile crept onto his face. This was one of those rare moments where he’d be in the moos to joke around with us.
“Don’t be a dick bro,” I said, laughing as I went to grab for the paper. Anthony just held it up in the air and pushed me off of him and I landed on my floor. While he was distracted, though, Eliza took her chance and snatched the paper right out of his hand.
“You boys need to learn to be nice,” she warned in her jokingly stern voice as she unfolded the paper and spread it out onto my bed. We all leaned over to look.
It was a map of a couple towns including ours. There were around ten small star stickers placed on different areas on the map near the streets the four of us lived in. On the top of the map, a couple words were scrawled in black sharpie; “Pick a Place!” I could see everyone’s faces light up.
“Oh my god it’s our map!” Lola shouted and pointed to one of the stars near her street, “this was where we found that old junkyard right?”
Eliza smiled, “I remember that. It feels like such a long time ago now.” She pointed to another star, “and this is where we found that lake we made a hideout of. I still remember swimming in there in 8th grade…”
The four of us reminisced for a while, talking about where we had gone and what we did there, and how impressive it was that we didn’t get tetanus from that junkyard. After nearly an hour of conversation, Eliza asked something that made all of us stop.
“So how about it guys? Do you want to do one last round before the summer ends?”
The rest of us looked around at each other. It was clear we all wanted to do it. Eliza seemed to catch on and she nodded.
“Who wants to pick where we go?”
“How about you do the honors?” Lola suggested, motioning towards the map. “You’re the one that brought this stuff in anyways.”
Eliza raised her eyebrow but didn’t object. Without a word, she examined the map for a few minutes, then placed her finger on one spot a bit far from my house.
“How about here?”
“You think we can make it that far?” Anthony asked.
“Well, we can drive now so why not?”
“You sure there’s some type of trail we can drive on? That spot looks pretty deep in the woods”
“We can find a path to drive on for a bit then walk the rest of the way. C’mon guys, this is probably our last chance to do something like this! Felix, you can drive right?”
Eliza and the rest turned to me with a hopeful expression. I had to comply.
“Sure. No big deal, right?”
All three of them cheered and high fived each other, looking pretty excited to go on one last adventure.
“So when do we leave?” I questioned.
Eliza flashed that smile again, “right now.”
“Right now?!”
“Hell yeah,” Lola chimed in. “It shouldn’t take that long, right?”
“I guess…” Even then I felt uneasy about the whole thing. I didn’t feel prepared enough to go on some random trip into the woods. I needed to pack food, water, flashlights, I had no idea how long this was going to take. Little did I know that those things would be the least of my worries a couple hours from then. I wish I could go back and convince my 17-year-old self that it wasn’t worth it, that I should just convince my friends to stay and talk for the rest of the day. I wish Eliza had never remembered that stupid game. In a way, I’m almost mad at her for what happened, but I know it wasn’t anyones fault. We just wanted to have fun. I wish we could’ve just had fun. But God had a different plan for us. One that made me think Satan himself devised it instead. On July 16, 2013, Anthony He, Lola Smith, Eliza Landserson, and Felix Johanson went on an adventure that none of them were ready for.
Author's Note:
If you just read all of that then thank you so so so much for doing so! I'm a rookie writer, so feel free to comment any constructive criticism you might have if you have actual writing experience! This is the first silly little story I'm posting here, so I hope you enjoyed :)

I've been looking for an apartment recently, and most are pretty high for a one bed and bath. Even studios are going for $2,000. I stumbled across houses and saw that there were quite a few in the same price range as the apartments I was seeing (mind you, I had it sorted to only show the cheap apartments). Most of those apartments stated they did not include utilities in the rent, and the renter was responsible for them, which is the same for the houses.
A lot of reviews complained about the maintenance not fixing stuff or not knowing how to fix it. In houses, you're responsible for your own repairs, and that’s basically what most of those people in apartments were doing anyway. I've heard that the utilities are more expensive, but if you're frugal, using a lot of battery-operated motion lights and other gadgets that help lower costs, like washing clothes at non-peak hours and unplugging stuff, is that really a problem, especially if it’s just two people?
What am I missing here? Why are so many people getting these expensive apartments over houses? I’m a country kind of person, so I’m used to space, privacy, grass, and yards. A house would be ideal, but if there’s something I’m missing, I’d like to know before I get myself into something I can’t get out of.
And most of the apartments gyms are small rooms with dumb bells lol the ones that actually counted as gyms are 1.8-2k a month. And the pools were apparently closed most of the time or dirty by the current renter reviews i don’t have a pet so a dog park isn’t important to me.

Hey alll! I’m mainly looking to find new gaming friends that share the same gaming interests if possible. I have all consoles and pc and i play alot of games. Ranging from retro to new!
Current games i’m playing are WWE 2k24 and Fortnite too (zero build). But i’ll olay mist anything!
I’m married and have 2 kids, a 6 month old son and a 9 year old daughter. I’m into basic nerdy things. Gaming, star wars, super heroes, DnD, etc. Also trading card games like Disney Lorcana and Star Wars Unlimited.
I watch a ton of Critical Role stuff especially Campaign 3! Currently on episode 74, so if you watch too, let me know! Also like to watch Battle of the Brands on YouTube.
I’m also into movies and tv, some sports, pro wrestling. Collecting action figures and retro games is one of hobbies as well. Anything 80s/90s nostalgia i absolutely love so if you want to talk childhood and growing up back then, i’m down! I miss the good old days where we went to arcades and italian sunday dinners at the grandparents and where the world just wasn’t as nutso as it is today lol.
My kids are everything to me and I do love talking about them. Love being silly with them and spending time with them (when they aren’t driving me crazy lol)..I would prefer you be around my age and have kids as well just so we have that stuff in common off the bat! I’m socially awkward most times but very easy to get along with. I’m definitely considered an introvert. But once you get to know me I break out of that awkward shell. I do like to use sarcasm, and mostly like to try and make people laugh because a world without laughter would just be horrible.
Alright i’ll shut up now but I’d like to think i’m an awesome person to get to know and hopefully there’s more you’d like to know so feel free to DM me! (I looove using GIFs so if you message me, open up with a funny one! Especially since then i’ll know you actually read this 😂)

Starting Grey Knights as a 2nd Army, I have purchased one Combat Patrol. I’ve heard the 3 of these is actually a decent way to do a 2000pt army. Is this true or should I do 2 and then build the last 600 points from individual units?

Starting Grey Knights as a 2nd Army, I have purchased one Combat Patrol. I’ve heard the 3 of these is actually a decent way to do a 2000pt army. Is this true or should I do 2 and then build the last 600 points from individual units?

Last week I posted in how to prevent speed wobbles while still being able to go fast.
My bearings were lubed up by the skate shop guy with sewing machine oil before i posted in here. I was a little skeptical but he demos the ‘wheel spin time’ lubed vs unlubed and had me sold.
When I finally had the time to skate the board was so uncontrollable. Each time i put my feet out to swing it would get sketchy. Even from dead stop of i pushed off, my weight is projecting forwards but as soon as my pushing leg flys back while im pushing my board doesnt seem to want to move and wants to lunge me forward and fly behind me.
Ive learnt to combat this with small pushes but it still feels weird to push while riding. Even when im on the board adjusting my feet the boards inertia moves about too easy.
So which one do you guys prefer: 1) Lubed up bearings 2) Simply get faster bearings

[Xbox/PC Only]
LF1 to fill a team for day 1, looking for:
Starting at reset
Full 24/48 hour commit
goodvibes players who can still crack a joke at hour 12
Have flawless raids
Solo flawless dungeons
Trio's / Day 1 clears / exp
EST / UK timezone
Xbox / PC
On our side, we are 5 guys (UK/EST based), ages 20's / 30's, all triple digit raid clears / trio's / raid titles / flawless runs / solo flawless dungeons. Asking for day 1 clears /experience, all of us have Crota challenge and day 1 ron. 2 of us have multiple other day 1 clears.
We are looking for teammates in a similar situation / skill bracket so there is no hard carrying and we can all get the emblem.
We are a chill group but we are serious about getting the clear so I'm hoping there is 1 more out there just like us.
If you are interested and meet the above DM me, please send raid report link.
Our raid reports:
https://raid.report/xb/4611686018463902779
https://raid.report/xb/4611686018432827098
https://raid.report/xb/4611686018431193593
https://raid.report/pc/4611686018471789032
https://raid.report/xb/4611686018431053901

Hi reddit, this is once again a post written while crying over a fight I got into with my mom again. So today it was just mainly me, 15F at home for a bit while everyone was busy and out of the house. I woke up late and had a cold breakfast waiting for me and an empty house. Later my dad called me asking if I wanted food from one of my favorite fast food places. I said yes, but he told me I would only get it if I did something for him, which was eating a cold breakfast which had been out for 2 or 3 hours already. I had to eat it, and even then he still told me I wasn't allowed to complain about them eating it in the car and I had to wait until they got home or else I wouldn't get any. I was a bit annoyed at this already since it isn't the first time they have held something over my head. They do it to get what they want from me, which ranges from grades, or just chores. I can't have something nice without them using it to guilt trip me or hold it over my head. In the end I got it, but it still was a bit frustrating since they are now holding my favorite foods over my head, as I later find out as a "joke".
The second incident and the title happened just now actually, my mom called me and said she got a cup of rolled icecream from this place I really liked, but told me she only had one cup and I was for my dad. I was upset at that and threatened to toss her ice cream in the freezer, which now looking back was wrong of me and I know that now, but I was upset again. Then she told me to chill out and that she actually got 2 cups and it was a joke. I absolutely snapped at that point, in the moment I felt like a dog who only got treats when I listened. I yelled and said some mean things and hung up. When she got home she told me that I was a spoiled and ungrateful brat and that I know she would never do that to me. When in actuallity she and my dad have gotten ice cream for themselves but none for me when they went out knowing that I would be happy with anything, I don't ask for much, a cookies and cream would be fine.
Idk if im being a spoiled brat or not, help.

Hey guys my pond sprung a huge leak and by the time I woke up there was only a few inches of water left. All my kois died but two common pleco survived they are very big one foot and half and the other may be close to 2 feet. Not sure on the size but they are big. I live in central Florida and was wondering if anyone would like to have them.

Was scrolling through this community and found nothing as incredibly specific as the title I've written today, so I guess I've decided to ask about this considering I'm still processing up to now my experience working for a startup which I resigned from a couple of months ago.
But yeah, just like the title said: anyone here have any particularly terrifying/traumatic/frustrating experiences working for a startup? I'll start:
Some time back, I entered a company in a junior position for a startup whose posting enticed me. What got me was that a) they were near me, and b) the potential for growth seemed promising given the product this startup was peddling around. (Writer's note: I'm not gonna mention the company, the field, or the position here but I might be comfortable sharing some in PM) Signed up and eventually came to have a very mixed relationship with this company. Here are some things that I did appreciate:

1. In the training period that was given to me as I entered the position, it was great to learn a hefty amount of knowledge from the learning modules the company had prepared for training employees in that position. I would say that coupled with some very welcoming and pleasant interactions with the rest of the team that I was a part of, I had fun too.
2. Personal growth was quite significant, especially since I had a hand at ensuring certain matters and tasks assigned to me were delivered as requested. We could also work anywhere as the company head said in their interview with me!

But... what's the problem? Well...

1. Remember that "work anywhere" mantra I mentioned? Well, I felt annoyed because on some mornings whenever the company had a meeting, there would be shortcomings in the delivered output based on who was responsible for it and what would sometimes end up happening is the company head going on an unnecessary tirade that sometimes included about how they think about making people work in the office more because of this. (Okay, probably debatable, but I did not enjoy dealing with this)
2. Actually, more on the boss: apart from turning what is an initially promised 1 hour meeting into a 2/3/4-hr / whole morning one, really really likes to stress work-life balance... but will have the gall to get frustrated when an employee is sick to the point na they'll even try to get someone to contact them while the other person is recuperating. Nakakabastos.
3. Breaking point for me really was this week that we had a bunch of holidays clumped together in the same week, but the impression I got from that morning's meeting was that we didn't deserve to have a break because we weren't meeting goals (and even made it a point to emphasize na if may balak magtrabaho on the holidays to finish deliverables hindi yun counted as special holidays w/c should mean na may multiplier sa pay). This was what prompted me to just eventually resign and search elsewhere.

It's pretty clear that my horror story revolves around how much the company boss ruined any of the good or promising things I saw in this company. Though I'd say it also gave me a hard lesson about being very, very judicious and informed about the startup I'm getting into. I did my research later on and saw that the head really likes to make a lot of these companies/organizations/initiatives in the name of social entrepreneurship. A couple of duplicate companies here and there, di man lang makakuha ng market dito because the competent sales people all left for similar reasons. "Do this because you're making a difference to a lot of people," well the low pay, abusive upper management, and the lack of self-accountability doesn't help justify the lack of sleep and the anxiety I've developed dealing with this type of stuff. (Or the fact that... well, they've been a startup for so long pero mas marami nang nakaangat na companies in the same field established after theirs.)
How about you? Might be useful to hear your thoughts for future readers who are looking to get into the same world soon.

Discovered this on good ol rin ru.
http://pixeldrain-bypass.cybar.xyz
it’s made by the dude over a gamesdrive, which is a pretty good site btw
You put the links you want on it, and it automatically converts them into ones without any limits
I used it for ghost of tsushima, worked pretty well and finished quickly.
the guy that made it on the cs rin ru thread said that the downloads speeds may get locked to a very low speed but it will go back to being fast quickly. (you can find the thread yourself pretty easily btw, by searching up pixeldrain on cs rin ru)
for me, the download on Jdownloader 2 got locked to 1mibs,after 5gb on the download has been reached
to fix it, i just disabled the download and reenabled it, which made it to back to a 40 - 50 mibs download.
once it happened again, i did the same thing and yup, it went back to being fast.
this is way less of hassle then having to use proxies, i pretty much recommend it.
i wonder if something like this could be made for 1fichier…