Dr. K's guide's main selling point is that it gives you already-available information in a very well structured guide / path. When you pay for the guide, you're paying for an effective condensed map of a lot of topics with a guiding path on how to approach it all. This is incredibly useful, but I think it's wrong to be giving away this very valuable helpful tool as prizes in events/contests and advertising temporary season-deals on this (it makes mental health feel so commercialized). So here are some ideas for additional features that could be added to the guide and give a slightly different incentive to buy Dr. K's guide, and could even make the base guide free for everyone, to increase the amount of AOE healing. Here's how I envision the "new Dr. K guide":
Interactive courses
Dr. K often talks about how even just understanding your thoughts and the way your brain works can be essential to improvement in many cases. But what's even more important is using this knowledge in a personalized way and acting on it. Dr. K's guide includes interactive meditation videos, but meditation is not a one-size-fits-all thing that works in all situations. What I believe does universally work, however, is reflecting on the things you learn and writing down how it applies to you and your life. People who pay for the new Dr. K guide could get access to interactive nodes where you are guided to note down how the previous few nodes that you've been through applies to your life and how it has motivated you to see things differently, or try something new, or simply see things in a different way. These notes can be revisited to remind yourself how you applied the knowledge to your life and what positive changes came from those nodes.
Interactive courses with parents
Again, knowledge is key, but practice and reflection after gaining the knowledge is even more important. Parents play an important role in their children's lives, but they don't always know how to communicate and help them. No video or guide can fully teach how a parent should raise their teenager, but it can give the necessary tools that can be applied with the help of feedback and communication between the parents and the child. A shared path in the Dr. K guide that requires a collaborative effort from both the parents and the child could be added for a joint-effort path which could even create a nice bonding experience for them. For example first the child has to go through 3 nodes, and the parents 2 nodes, then a a shared interactive reflection node gets unlocked.
Multiplayer features
Imagine having 2-3 "secret friends" - anonymous users of the Dr. K guide that you could interact with. No, I'm not talking about chat, that would be too personal and difficult to moderate, but what about a feature that allows you to star or highlight 3 courses/nodes that you find extra useful or good. These would show up to your "friends" and you will also see their recommendations. It adds an element of interactivity and allows users to share their experience with what helped them the most. Notes and any user-inputs should not be shared, and your "secret friends" could be swapped out if they go inactive for a few days. I don't think the shared path like in the interactive courses with parents section would work here.
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The goal of the guide, and any help resource, should be to give you the tools and knowledge to incorporate helpful changes to your daily life to the point where you no longer need the guide or help resources. This requires a lot of experimenting and actively noticing what works for you specifically. Tracking your own improvement can therefore be a very useful statistic to see you're progressing towards that goal. Mood and mental health is extremely hard to quantify though, but ideally it should help you see if you're on the right track or not.
With all these additions to the guide, I think the base guide with all the paths and videos (but without progress tracking and completed-status on courses/nodes) could be made public, free of charge, and these new features would make it worth paying for. What do you think?
Some additional notes:
Questions for the reflection nodes could in essence be something like "What is one thing you have learned about yourself?" or "Can you think of a specific situation that happened where what you have just learned might be relevant? What actions can you connect to maintaining those happy situations, or avoid those negative situations?". Also, these reflection notes (and shared reflection nodes for parents+children) should be skippable and re-visitable. It shouldn't break the flow of users who enjoy the guide as it is now.
Ideally, all these extra features should be toggleable. You should be able to turn off the things you don't want and get back to the basic familiar guide if you would like - I don't want to make any ruining changes to something that works well for someone already.

hi! i feel like i’ve gotten opinions from everyone else in my life on this situation, so i’ve resorted to this lol.
for some context, i (19F) am an american born indian daughter, whose parents were born and raised in india. about a month ago, i met this guy (19M, white) in college (this was the weekend before finals) through mutual friends. we went to go get dinner together that night with said friends, both felt a connection, and started to hang out. we’ve gone rock climbing together and got boba/went to the library together as hangouts, then officially went on our first date about 2/2.5 weeks ago. we went on a little picnic at a pond, where we read the books we got from the library and ate snacks together. it was really adorable, and i had decided a couple days before this date that i wanted to kiss him on this date. we had been talking everyday until this point, facetimed when we could, etc. i am relatively new to dating, as i didnt in high school, however, i’ve gone on many dates during the year (downloaded some dating apps to experiment), and normally am pretty quick to realize if someone is worth my time or not. from what i learned about this guy, he and i are very similar in terms of morals, work ethic, and ambition. i was fully okay with kissing him, and we did. fast forward, my parents ended up crashing because i did not tell them i was on a date, and they were not happy with learning that i was “physical” with him. they said that in our indian culture, such physical acts should wait until the two people start dating and are 100% sure about each other. they also said that it’s a slippery slope, and kissing can lead to pre marital sex, which is also not something a part of our culture. i told them that i am waiting until marriage for sex, as that is both something from our culture and also something i’ve decided on my own. however, i had decided days beforehand that i would be okay with kissing him if it happened. i said that if i wasn’t comfortable, i wouldn’t have gone, which is mostly true.
my parents are allowing me to continue seeing him, however, they said i was not allowed to “get physical” again. we went to the zoo a couple days ago, where we were somewhat touchy, and i did kiss him on the cheek, but not much more happened. afterwards, we went to my house to play some card games, and we did get touchy and intimate, but again, no kissing. at this point, it’s been a month of knowing him. i understand my parents concern of not wanting to rush physical intimacy and ensuring that this person is right for me, but i feel like i have a pretty good grasp on who he is now. sure, maybe kissing him at 2.5 weeks of knowing him was fast. but now it’s been a month. we’ve talked about my waiting for marriage and my parents/my own boundaries of no kissing on the date, which he was incredibly respectful of, and he said he is also waiting until marriage for sex. we are both very family oriented, to the point where we both agreed family and friends are the number one priority, even over romantic relationships. we both work hard in school to get good grades, he’s incredibly intelligent, and every day i find myself falling more and more for him. i’m not doing the best job describing just how well we fit together, but genuinely, we do.
here is where i need advice. on the last date, i was okay with not kissing him, and he respected that boundary, although when asked, he said he wished he could but wouldn’t in order to respect my parents wishes. hes worked very hard to ensure my parents like him, which they do, but they are so scared of me getting my heart broken by him. this is their whole reasoning behind “no kissing, you can’t get emotionally attached too early just for him to hurt you.” but like i said before, i feel like out of all the guys i’ve gone on dates with before, i’ve never felt more secure in a person and their values than him. i have virtually 0 doubts about him. he’s kind, he takes care of me, he truly cares about me and doesn’t let me overthink anything. he’s someone that understands me more than i thought possible. our next date is coming up soon, and i really do want to lower this kissing boundary. however, i’m nervous to talk to my parents about it. it’s only been about a week or two since they crashed our date and had this very long lecture with me, so i feel like they won’t take me seriously because i’m young and i have no experience and blah blah blah. but at the same time, i’m my own person and i can make my own decisions? but i don’t want to disrespect my culture and their wishes. i’ve told them multiple times that our morals line up for 90%, and the remaining 10% are virtually the same, but just a little different because of how i decided i want to follow them, and not to the exact T that they want me to. i feel like a bad daughter and that i made a mistake kissing him the first time by rushing into it, but now, i’m so certain i want to kiss him this time. i just don’t want to disrespect my parents. they mean the world to me, and have done so much for me. it would kill me if i hurt them the same way i did when i kissed him the first time.
to end this all of, what is ur advice for how i should go about this? am i in the right at all for wanting to kiss him during our next date? should i wait longer like my parents want me to? to what point do i have autonomy and to what point should i listen to what my parents have to say? (please keep in mind that my parents are born and raised in india while i was born and raised in america, and so our culture is not quite the same as american culture. i also live at home during the school year, so i am living under their roof all year around)
tl;dr: i want to have the autonomy to kiss the guy i like, but my parents are adamant that it’s against our culture and that i shouldn’t do it until i start dating him. however, i am certain that i want to. should i wait? or should i have a conversation with them about it?

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In my world Pulcherri, everyone is born with powers based around one random word related to one of their parents' Word. For example, if a parent's Word is Space, their child's Word could be related to spatial concepts, like the word Time (spacetime) OR related to outer space, like Star. As for the powers, what the person can do has to make sense with their Word, and it always starts as just one thing the person can and at a very weak level. As a different example, Emotion, would start as just willingly changing one's own emotions. It would then grow to change and sense others' emotions. And since the story for the webcomic will have a shounen anime angle, I'll throw in stuff like turning emotions into energy for attacks or manifest them as weapons like big ass swords (because anime). If you guys don't understand, I'll throw in more examples. I based all of these off Epithet Erased's magic system.
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my college has 3 teachers in the physics department
i have 2, but the one who is not my teacher would run extra sessions that helped me loads, so i am considering getting him something too!!
i want to get something they can use daily, a friend that has one of the same teachers as me, gifted a stamp with S.I base units on, and he uses it for students who mess up their answers by giving the incorrect units, and that's such a cute idea!! i don't want to copy that obviously, but its a great example of cute and useful gift! any ideas?
mini description of them (sorry in advance but i suddenly cannot describe them?)
teacher 1: stern, can be nice, cracks dry jokes that i find hysterical, sarcastic but again dry so most students do not get it, kind of insults you when you don't get it
teacher 2: goofy, funny, often explains things or says things that make us all go"hahah... " and then blankly stare at the person next to us because he said a whole lot of nothing -> rarely insults you
i don't know the other teacher well but, he's basically teacher 1 minus the jokes (because i'm not in his classes and would only see him in the extra sessions once a fortnight, cannot be sure)
please do not recommend some insanely expensive gadget :) thanks <3

While playing I got these ideas that might really improve gameplays (specially when playing as westeros' king) that at the same time could be pretty easy to implement:

1. Game Rule that prevents vassals' bordergore and bad inheritance:

Specially for westeros, this gamerule would really improve gameplays by, if the player wishes to turn it on before starting a game, preventing Kingdom and duchy tiers vassals from owning lands outside their de jure area; IE this would prevent a-historical borders of the lord paramountcies and them inhereting somehow lands outside westeros, as in my games it often happened they inherited lands outside the wall, or province sin the middle of other lord paramountcies; the borders between the lord paramountcies were pretty well established After AC, as after that event they really didn't changed, this could be done by having a trigger happen anytime someone owns something outside their de-jure areas and said trigger should apply the previous status quo

1. Automatic filling up for all court positions

Adding a decision that allows for automatic filling up for all court positions would be a great idea; Afterall, positions should as the wardens of [region] or Captain of the household guard are always occupied in the books by someone, they're relevant positions that are needed in a court to work properly; More over maybe once a warden spot is empty there should be an event to fire that either lets you chose the current lord paramount of that area as it or you can pick someone else, which will give a heavy negative opinion factor to that lord paramount, maybe named "Rejected traditional warden title"

1. Remove the negative Opinion modifier that Lord Paramouts during mega wars have against their liege if some of their duchy tier vassals join the crown's faction (this opinion modifier I think is called "desires de jure lands) as this could modify vassals' natural to chose a side if they chose to do so mid-war
   
2. Warrant against deposed rulers and their descendants
   

If a claimant to the throne is in a court of any vassal of any tier in a Realm, and said claimant either already pressed his claim (in a lost war he somehow managed to escape), is a descendant of someone who pressed their claim, or wishes to press his/her claim and/or is hostile to you, or used to be a ruling house that got violently deposed and in the usurpation's aftermath was rejected the chance to hold any land as a vassal of the new ruling house (for example the targs) their host upon their arrival should immadiatly get an event about how they're hosting someone of that league, with four choices: hand him over to the crown, kick him out without killing him (if discovered becomes a criminal for not handing him and his relatives to the crown), killing him in the name of the crown, or rising up in a rebellion to support his claim (this would give a huge gratitude boost to this charater and his family (If you need, I can help writing the text of these events)

1. While playing as a king I noticed how, despite siding with me (the crown) in a civil war, later a lord paramount could easily join another revolt; I think instead if a major revolt happens (a major revolt should mean when the rebel and crown forces are almost equal in force) a lord paramount who choses to side with the throne may at the end of the revolt either from him or the king get an event of "crown gratidude" for having helped the "crown in such a dire time" that basically makes that lord paramount a loyal supporter of the crown, and when this lord paramount dies, his successor should get an event acount either reconfirming this loyalty or turning it upside down (just like how borros baratheon in the dace of dragons, despite his father being a supporter of rhaenyra, using the logic of "house targaryen gave my house support for granted" at the end basically revolted against the "rightful" queen) I think this would be a great mechanic that would make lord paramounts act more realistically and dynamically in who they support and at the same time keep space for changes of loyalties
   
2. A few suggestions: If a ruler sentences an entire family house to be executed, if some members of that house survive for whatever reason, upon entering (or if they already are) the seven kingdoms they should get a wanted status so that they may be imprisoned and executed as it was meant to be; it happened a few times that some hosue members for whatever reason surived despite ordering their killing, and there was no way i could fix this without gaining tyranny, a second suggestion would be that if a banished-to-essos person for whatever reason returns the seven kindoms, anyone hosting them should get an event about their wanted status and that they're supposed to turn such person to the crown, in both of these suggestions the AI of exiled/condemned to death characters should aim to not return to the seven kingdoms by any means to avoid death (they should only if they have a valid reason like, idk, fomenting a rebellion
   

Aaand that's all! I hope any of these might be considered, to anyone, feel free to tell me what you think of these down below!

Hello everyone, I'm Gennady and one day I asked my question, how to create addons on minecraft java edition, of course I've already done this on mcreator creating only mods and I wanted to try to create more addons, but I didn't find any information on YouTube and the whole Internet (I could be blind if I scrolled through this) I want to ask you how to create these dons, for example, on the blood magic mod, because it is famous for its kind of uniqueness, you can give me a link at least to a website or video where it will be described in detail, well, or something like this is written how to do it, I will wait for the Gene.

I (32F) have been dating this guy (41M) for over two years. We lived together with my two teenage kids, who are not his kids. For the past several months, I have been feeling like I’m starting to see the real person that my boyfriend is. Every time, we have conversations about me or he asked how much my day goes, he doesn’t actually listen to listen. It seems like he only listens to respond then only about something going on about him. For example, I was talking to him about something going on at my work then he cuts me off and starts talking about something that’s going on with his work since what I was talking about remind him of something about his work. I don’t think he does it intentionally but it is a quite frustrating because we never have deep conversations about things going on in my life. He has zero to no relationship with the kids and barely ask how their days are. His day to day consists of going to work for 10 hours, picks up the kids from school, then works out for the rest of the day. Even with him picking up the kids, he tells me that I should be thankful that he does that because not a lot of ppl would do that for me. Every time we have an argument about something I feel frustrated about, he always flip the script and talks about something he is frustrated with me then cuts me deep with previous things I have regretfully done. The thing that brought me to the point of posting on here was what he said to me when we were on vacation. We had got into a argument because I didn’t want to stay out all night so he thought I didn’t want to spend time with him then he said that I need to tell him if I didn’t want to be with him so he can ride off into the sunset. What that tells me is that he is not happy where is he at and would be happier away from us. HELP!
Maybe I am just need to vent too, idk.

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So I was inspired by the recent post of all the cleaning games out there to dig this one up and reinstall it. I had played it a couple years ago, before “Cozy Gaming” was “a thing,” and I bounced off it quickly. Maybe I should try it again now that I have more of a taste for it.
No, the game is still slow, choppy, frustrating, and not fun, at least in single player. I heard it’s better with other players but I prefer solo gaming.
The game puts you in the world of a First-Person Shooter, with levels based around research facilities, sewers, and other mainstays of the genre. But you’re there after the mayhem, with a mop and bucket to clean everything up and make it whole again.
It’s probably worth noting that VCD is almost ten years old. No doubt a lot of games have learned lessons from it and other cleaning games since then. But nonetheless, the game is riddled with decisions I don’t enjoy, and a lot of them feel deliberate. The game pokes fun at workplace safety, unions, and similar things. They make it clear your parent company hates you and doesn’t care at all about your safety and comfort. This comes across in text documents and mission briefings, but also in the gameplay.
For example, the layout of equipment. To aid in your job, you have dispensers for mop buckets, portable waste bins, lights and health kits, and each site also has a furnace for the disposal of trash and dirty mop water (I know). It would be nice if these were all in a central location, easily accessible from all the weird nooks and crannies. Or failing that, at least all bunched together so they’re close at hand.
But the sewer level I was working on had the furnace tucked away in a remote corner, and the bin dispenser across a bridge. It made trekking around a real pain, to say nothing of the bloody footprints I was leaving. And that all seems deliberate, as a joke about how faceless corporations care so little for their workers. But it’s a joke I have to live every time I fill up a bin and make the same long path. There are other ones, like how the scissor lift will occasionally catapult you or sometimes the mop bucket dispenser will instead dispense a bloody leg. Funny jokes maybe, but less so when you’re the butt of every one.
There’s a few other inconveniences. Like how you have to one-at-time every item you pick up, no matter how small. Five shotgun shells left in one location means picking one up, dropping it in the bin, then repeating four more times.
Meanwhile games have come so far since then. Hardspace Shipbreaker is my go-to for “blue collar work sim,” and while it also has a lot of “the company hates you” jokes, they’re mostly in the story and descriptions and seldom get involved in the gameplay. And it’s way more intuitive and less fiddly to play.
So I’ll leave it at that. If you are looking for a cleaning game, I’d start with some of the more recent titles that have more quality of life improvements and aren’t quite so pointedly making fun of you.

This is pretty much just a vent post.
I’m someone who really likes my weight loss journey to be private. When I restarted trying to lose weight this year, I was in college. I was doing everything by myself and no one commented on anything. My parents occasionally made comments about how I’d lost weight, but I probably only saw them twice or thrice in that period and though it kind of bothered me, I didn’t care that much because it was only a few times. It was a very personal thing and no one said anything other than those few times, and I liked it that way.
Now I’m back at my parent’s place for the summer. It’s only been 2 weeks, but they’ve been making so many unnecessary comments and asking so many annoying questions MULTIPLE TIMES A DAY. For example, my mom kept hounding one why there were measuring cups in the sink after I measured my food, or when I eat something in a smaller portion and eat something else later it’s commented on. Or if I try to have a lower calorie version of something I’m told “why eat xyz at all, either eat the real thing or don’t eat the food.” It is SO ANNOYING and I don’t know if I can take it anymore. I’ve told them I don’t like it yet they won’t stop, even had a few rude outbursts because I hate it so much. I’m not usually one to lose my temper that way. I don’t even know what I can do at this point. I just want to be back at my apartment and have everything be private and not commented on again lol. Like I don’t need to be told that I’m eating unhealthy snacks. I already know that and have been working on it. But as of right now, my #1 priority is to be eating within my calorie budget. I’ll slowly work on mostly eating nutritious foods.
Another thing is that both of my parents are overweight/obese. They’ve been commenting on my weight and have been fat shaming me forever so I’m used to comments on my body. They also used to make a few comments about junk food when I would have it, but they’d let me have it anyway. But what so absolutely hate is the NEW kinds of comments they’ve been making about the changes I’ve implemented to my diet. What I’ve been doing HAS been working, I just wish everything I did was not commented on. I’ve been near tears so many times because it’s so frustrating. I didn’t even tell them I was actively trying to lose weight again, that’s a conclusion they figured out on their own. I just hate that it can’t be a private thing. I don’t need them to tell me things that I am already aware of, or things that they say that are blatantly false. I just wish I could be back at my apartment again where they would not know a thing about how I changed my diet.

There is an essence that exists wherever there once was life. This essence, called the veil of echoes, is comprised of the memories of those who have passed on. In particular, when a soul does not cleanse itself in the river of spirits, they will remain here, rotting in their putrid sins and vile memories, instead of being purified and reincarnating. As a soul rots, it will slowly release its memories into the ether and form the veil of echoes. This veil contains emotions, desires, thoughts, dreams, fears, and other such things. Mages can take advantage of this veil to use it for their own desires.
There are certain aspects of the veil that manifest in different ways that many call hauntings.
Shadows are the most common example of the veil interacting with the physical world. While the veil is responsible for the black outlines we see on the ground, that's not all they are. Shadows are the impression of a things and if the veil is properly manipulated, these shadows can be contorted, and the physical counterpart will be too. Depending on how powerful the shadow mage, or black mage, is, this could be forcing the victim to slow as if fighting their own body, to full on reshaping of the body in violent and deadly ways.
Scars are the remnants of emotional memories that still linger in the veil. These come to be when a particular event is extremely emotional, especially if it is so for multiple people. Scars manifest as translucent to opaque renderings of the past. It could be as simple as a person's steps down a hallway or the violent sting of a sword as a violent memory of a soldier strikes out in fury. Red mages train to go into berserk trances to create scars as they storm the battlefield. This allows them to create temporary revenants to fight alongside them, though there is no guarantee that they will remain so loyal.
Visions are the intentions and understandings that make up the landscape of the veil of echoes. It is a land of illusion and misinterpretation, making it hard to traverse, but to learn its intricacies allows you to travel to distant places in a flash and see into the intentions of others. A purple mage may call upon vision magic to predict the movements of their foes, travel unseen, even move without moving.

I just want to be able to do things like a normal person. Get out of bed and look forward to the day. Do chores around the house. Do anything besides sit around and stare into nothing. Today is one of those days where I want to do things but that feeling creeps up inside and I just... can't. It's a day where I just want to break down crying, even though literally nothing is wrong; yet everything makes my throat tight and I can feel the tears welling up behind my eyes. I don't know quite how to describe the feeling. That feeling of wanting to do things but not being able to. It's like dull weighted feeling radiating from your gut. It hangs over you like a giant wet blanket. Heavy and uncomfortable. Difficult to move because it's so cumbersome. I try to lift it. I want to lift if. But it's too heavy. I struggle a bit to resist the feeling. The wetness seeps through so even when I finally get the blanket off, I'm still damp and feel wet and heavy. Not as difficult to move. Not quite the same sort of weight. But it's there just the same, making it hard to shake off the cold, uncomfortable dampness that set in.

I started with therapy about 2 and a half years ago. My therapist has been a god-send and has genuinely changed the trajectory of my life. My childhood was abusive and neglectful, my teenage years were full of my own addiction and risky behaviors, and now in my young adulthood I am lost and behind and hate myself a whole lot. At the beginning of our therapy work I was being actively abused and was incredibly resistant and hopeless for myself. I could sometimes feel frustration/impatience coming off my therapist which made me feel more insecure and want to push her away. She never gave up on me but I could feel her human side come out sometimes because I wasn’t ready to do deep work yet, I just needed some comfort and hope. Eventually I got partly out of the abusive situation, it was like the smoke cleared and she finally realized how deep my trauma runs. I haven’t felt frustration or impatience from her in a long time. For the last year and a half, we’ve done incredible work. We’ve built a beautiful, secure, relationship, we get along well and laugh and I feel safer than I ever have with anyone else. She’s the first person I’ve ever been emotional open to(and thus emotionally close with).
At this point, we have confronted most of my trauma. I have grown into a completely different person as it’s taken a giant weight off my chest. I am kinder, much more stable, more open and more willing to try new things. But my core beliefs remain the same so I still hate myself as much as I have my whole life. The last few sessions we’ve had I’ve felt frustrated with my therapist and misunderstood. I couldn’t figure out the reason. I became fed up with feeling this way and abruptly decided I wanted everyone to stay far away and I wanted to stop going to therapy. I emailed my therapist that I’d like to quit and she was taken aback because like I said we have such a good relationship and I hadn’t expressed my frustration to her.
I realized this frustration comes in when I am expressing a negative core belief that is deeply ingrained in me, and her immediate reaction is to challenge that belief. It makes me feel like she doesn’t understand the depth of what I’m feeling. My SA past for example, I logically know that it wasn’t my fault, because she told me it wasn’t immediately after I said it was. But I still feel deep down like it was my fault completely. And I still believe I could’ve done something to stop it. So when she immediately reacts by saying “it wasn’t your fault.” I feel somewhat invalidated. I can tell myself that it wasn’t my fault over and over, but I don’t truly believe it. So then I just feel shut down and dismissed and like my feelings are stupid. This feeling makes me want to push her away like I used to want to. It hurts because she is the one person in my life who I feel like sees me and hears me but yet I’m starting to feel misunderstood by her.
And part of it is, she won’t let me push her away either. Any time I subconsciously try to deceive her or test her or shut her out, she sees right through it. I feel like she can read my mind which frustrates me even further because that means this relationship has a lot of power and I will grieve it deeply when it’s over. She is consistently kind and understanding and warm and supportive no matter how hard I push, and honestly it hurts a lot because I feel so safe and loved and supported and accepted by her. It makes me grieve the fact that I’ve never felt these things before and that our relationship is only temporary. And now that I’ve realized this pattern I have of becoming frustrated with her but not telling her, and then trying to push her away, I feel guilty. I feel guilt for putting her through so much and making her do so much work. She genuinely cares for me and I worry I’m hurting her with how complex and intense my issues are. I’m having such convoluted feelings and I’m intensely overwhelmed and I don’t know where to go from here. I don’t know whether to step back from this relationship or dive in. Anything helps

I’m (24M) a natural born arguer, litigating everything since I could remember from personal to work related matters. Well this is a trait I leverage at work, it’s presented its challenges in my personal life.
Every time I encounter conflict, like a snide remark or a perceived negative comment, I spiral into argument and perpetuate the conflict instead of letting it slide. It feels so hard to resist the urge.
An example of this played out yesterday, as I encountered a neighborhood nosy in the park (a Karen) who stopped me to make a comment about my dog not going on any grass. Should I have let it slide and not looked her way? Yes. But what did I do? I spiraled into argument with her and ended it with a “you are a Karen” as if I could actually change her mind (or want to for that matter).
Does anyone have any tactics to stop yourself from responding and let more things slide? I feel as though this is a terrible trait of mine and I need to learn to shake it off and not participate in petty argument despite my urge to.

I just want to be able to do things like a normal person. Get out of bed and look forward to the day. Do chores around the house. Do anything besides sit around and stare into nothing. Today is one of those days where I want to do things but that feeling creeps up inside and I just... can't. It's a day where I just want to break down crying, even though literally nothing is wrong; yet everything makes my throat tight and I can feel the tears welling up behind my eyes. I don't know quite how to describe the feeling. That feeling of wanting to do things but not being able to. It's like dull weighted feeling radiating from your gut. It hangs over you like a giant wet blanket. Heavy and uncomfortable. Difficult to move because it's so cumbersome. I try to lift it. I want to lift if. But it's too heavy. I struggle a bit to resist the feeling. The wetness seeps through so even when I finally get the blanket off, I'm still damp and feel wet and heavy. Not as difficult to move. Not quite the same sort of weight. But it's there just the same, making it hard to shake off the cold, uncomfortable dampness that set in.

Docs are linked below, skip to those if you don't want to read my musings. The martial/magic doc cuts out what I'm talking about specifically, but I also threw in the full CombatDoc for those that want to chew on it or just see how different things work. Keep in mind this is a development doc.
Its only meant to be playable enough to people who are being taught to play in person or who already know the game. Its more so I can consolidate my notes and things ive forgotten into a more workable document.
https://www.enworld.org/attachments/martial-magicrules-pdf.363871/
https://www.enworld.org/attachments/combatrev7-pdf.363872/

Anyway, the interesting I think about what I've created here is how I ended up making it. The Battle Combo system was the genesis idea for it, coming from long before I ever started working on the game when I theorycrafted how one might actually deliver on the "complex Fighter" but without crossing into the "weaboo fightan magic" memes.
Back then it was mostly just a rough idea of it, but once the time came, my initial idea was to dedicate the whole thing to just being the shtick to my take on the Warrior.
Over time, though, particularly as I honed in what I wanted combat to look like, it eventually became prudent to open the system up to two more class concepts, the Battlemage (a Summoner focused on summoning magically created weapons and armor), and the Paladin.
And that was the running thought for a while, but as more of the system came to life and we started ad hoc testing of these ideas, it became clear that the system should just open up to everybody. Which does limit some of what I had planned to do, but as I note in the docs, I still have some decent ideas for how to make the OG 3 still specialized in this system.
Another peculiar thing is that I ended up combining this with my take on the Mighty Deed, which was something I was deeply unsure of whether I wanted to do or not. But, as I started to acclimate to the idea of deliberately combining improvisation with mechanical depth, it became pretty obvious.
And as a bonus, doing that actually does a lot to deliver on the specific gamefeel I've been working towards. And I think the best way to explain that is by showing what I'm going for:
https://youtu.be/RK6bEOylkYE?si=qz9ajUEZPdq-Xkgk
While that scene isn't the only inspiration (there's actually quite a lot), its probably the best example of the exact rhythm I was looking for, and in picking what Techniques I wanted to put in, the tamoenage Hulga does to that last guy was an easy pick. (And if one is skeptical about how this system does that kind of fighting, one should grab some dice and try engaging the full system. It isn't going to be that apparent until you actually do it)
But what the embrace of improv also lead to was my take on Magic, which I've talked about previously, which it occurred to me is practically a soft magic system, but tactical, which is a fascinating idea.
While Magic has a singular rule to it, in that it can only ever destroy, no matter what it does, through that single rule we elaborate into a system that has a pretty unlimited possibility space, as even the specific, bespoke Runes and Wards aren't rigidly defined, and while Elemental Welds follow specific rules, there's nothing saying you couldn't do entirely new combinations.
Whats also apparent, if somewhat unintentional (I came at Magic from a completely separate vision), I actually ended mechanically embedding the same dynamic the Mighty Deed, or at least my version of it, which is what I think leads to the soft magic feel of it. And then of course, we have my take on Corruption, which embeds quite a few narrative threads, personal and otherwise, which pairs well with the soft magic bent.
And of course, as the system is meant to interact with a tactical combat system, it has the mechanical depth to do so, without sacrificing much of anything about it.
So, long story short, its kinda neat how these came together. As of now, its definitely going to bear further testing and iteration. While I'm pretty married to having individual effects for each Technique, I think they can be quite overtuned, even for the extreme power fantasy meets combat-as-war design I'm going for.
Its entirely plausible we might move to just skipping the base level effects; eg, you just improvise an effect using the Technique as a prompt, and then the 4x is going to be specifically defined. That seems to make the most sense, but as with my initial goes at this kind of Magic, I want to see it in action.
I know testing it out solo that it gives the dynamics I'm looking for either way, but I don't want to assume anything based on that. But that'll have to wait as we aren't doing another session until mid summer. Poo lol.

Tissue
Polysemous title- Tissue • Tissue- paper + skin (human life is fragile [criticises arrogance, encourages us to protect]) • Also paper (not alive) + skin (alive)- criticises monotony of life, not really living • Tissue paper- found in bibles and holy texts, but fragile (overinflated importance of identity causing wars and discrimination, really it’s very fragile and identity isn’t real, we’re all just people (tissue as in skin)) • Tissue- used to wipe away tears, togetherness can reduce suffering • Tissue- medical term for deep skin- poem shows deeper nature of humans and our potential for goodness, can be wounded and damaged by outside influences but can always heal
"Paper that lets the light shine through, this is what could alter things" - reference to religious texts paper, light as Jesus and Allah (power of religion) - or coexistence with nature (Dharker is a Muslim Calvinist)
Enjambment- freedom, lack of control of humans, rejecting constraints
Free verse- same thing
"Let the daylight break through capitals and monoliths" - power of nature, criticism of authority, weakness of humans- “break” violent personification, destroying authority, daylight + break = sunrise + hope
"The sun shines through their borderlines" - nature overcomes human segregation identity, criticism of war, power of nature) sibilance shows power, “their” still shows separation, criticise that
"fly our lives like paper kites" - childish metaphor, mocking control of money over life (criticism of authority)
"the back of the Koran" - “the” repetition shows importance, “back” shows it is hidden/shunned by society, still holding onto identity
"Transparent" - repetition, criticism of dishonesty of authority
Exposure
"Merciless iced east winds that knive us" - personification of wind shanking people (first line not about war but nature- more significant) (power of nature)- subtle sibilance (just as dangerous as bullets but most people don’t realise)- Germans were in the east, but the only thing from there is wind
ABBAC rhyme, structure is built only to be taken down (tension of soldiers expecting fight but let down)
Pararhyme- unsatisfying for reader, reflects how the soldiers are always nervous but never get to chill
“What are we doing here?” Rhetorical question to criticise authority, or actual question to show PTSD confusion, can be asking what they are DOING or why they are HERE
"For love of God seems dying" ok 1. The soldier's love of God is dying 2. God's love for the soldiers is dying 3. To show love of God, you should die
"forgotten dreams" - juxtaposition, loss of hope, forgotten dreams on purpose to be less sad? war made them forget? “forgotten” disassociated from PTSD, “dreams” as happiness from the past that seems unreal
“a dull rumour of some other war" reference to the Bible and Armageddon, metaphorical end of the world for the soldiers be suffering "sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence" - sibilance represents sound of bullets, jolting reader out of relative lack of noises, feel like soldiers
Epistrophe "but nothing happens" cyclical structure, stuck in suffering
“we” “us” “our” collective pronouns, shared experience, comradeship, loss of identity, relatable to all soldiers
Kamikaze
Title- single word, only military rank- only seen as a kamikaze pilot by others
Structure- 6 lines per stanza but free verse and lots of enjambment- conflict between control and freedom (military/social expectations/duty vs love for family/nature/memories/life)
Constant shifts between first person and third person- disconnect from family due to shame
“Her father embarked at sunrise” -sunrise as power of nature + Japan’s military flag- conflict
“a shaven head full of powerful incantations” -incantations are deliberately vague- orders from military? prayers? inner conscience against it? It’s “powerful” tho and influences him, and it’s “full” showing his distress, shaved head like most kamikaze pilots
“green-blue translucent sea” beautiful imagery, “translucent” shows how things are unclear but getting clearer- nature helps him decide what to do
Describes fishes “like a huge flag”- patriotic semantic field shows brainwashing, but reduces as the poem goes on, simile shows how he is starting to disconnect and change his mind,
also as “a figure of eight”- shows thoughts of pride and prosperity-
“The dark shoals of fishes/flashing silver as their bellies/swivelled towards the sun” - • sibilance shows ocean noises and beauty, “dark” -> “flashing silver” things get brighter and easier to see- knows what to do thanks to nature • “Silver”- medals he would have gotten for being a kamikaze pilot, but true reward is in nature • “Sun”- represents beauty of nature and also Japanese flag- conflict but now there’s also nature in the mix • Belly up- death on his mind
“bringing their father’s home safe/-yes, grandfather’s boat- safe” repetition of “safe” shows reason to come back- wants to return to family, memories
“a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous.” • first mention of danger = power in the whole poem, danger to the mission as it causes the pilot to have doubts, true power is in nature and memory • First full stop in the poem and lots of commas- makes us stop and think like the pilot about what he’s abt to do
“laughed” “loved” at the end of the poem- all in past tense- nothing left for the soldier
“we too learned to be silent”- “learned” should be positive but contrasts with what they learnt- criticises how they were taught shame by the older generations- but it’s said in first person, the daughter is criticising this and teaching her children not to think that way
Poppies
Title- honours and grieves dead soldiers, short single word title shows full intent of the poem and how the mother’s life is consumed by grief
Dramatic monologue- emphasis on the domestic impact and how the soldier isn’t present in the poem
Free verse, enjambment- chaotic, lack of control over the son, distressed
Domestic + military semantic fields- life has been ruined by war
“Spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade of yellow bias”- mix between war + domestic • “spasms” and “red” is injury and pain- mother is worried or is hurt by letting go (spasms is involuntary muscle action- involuntary letting go), • “paper” is the fragility of the son • “blockade” is military language showing her worry abt the conflict, how she wants to “block” her son from going into the military • “disrupting” the fabric - the son becoming a soldier disrupts the peace or she is trying to disrupt him from going to war
“The dove pulled freely against the sky, / an ornamental stitch”- dove represents peace and grief- she and her son is at peace with death, “pulled freely” is an oxymoron- inner conflict with grief or letting her son go, the comma shows a pause to reflect on the grief, the “ornamental stitch” metaphor for the mother (pretends to hold it together)
“I was brave”- takes down ideas of just the soldier’s bravery but also the mother’s, but past tense shows current weakness from grief
“Sellotape bandaged around my hand” • Bandage shows wounds • Sticks them together one last time- cat hairs are removed, no more reason to stay • Claustrophobic feeling- stuck in the domestic role, can’t go and protect the son
“Blackthorns of your hair”- religious connotations of Jesus on the cross, sacrificed for the country- metaphor for the son
History Boys
"Enemy of education" war metaphor and alliteration, opposition between true understanding of literature and grades only used shallowly “Cheat’s Visa”
"a fact of life" indisputable and unchangable, in opposition with Irwin's views on history (truth does not matter to him until now?)
Drummer Hodge: Intertextuality, Tom Hardy (the poet) represents Hector, sympathising with the ordeal of the youth, Drummer Hodge represents the Boys, thrown into the chaos of life without proper guidance
"She's my western front" war metaphor objectifies Fiona, personal pronoun further expresses how women were seen as objects to be owned
“... all the other shrunken violets you people line up" [you people] segregates gay people, [shrunken violets] derogatory language
"Some of the literature says it will pass" looking to literature for solace and comfort during a sexuality crisis
"All literature is consolation" Dakin changes his mind on literature symbolising him changing to Irwin's side. No need to look for solace in literature when he can pursue Irwin
Parallels with "all knowledge is precious" from Hector - A.E. Housman, one of the first intertextualities and used in the intro to establish his character
“cunt-struck” “a cunt”- Mrs Lintott repeats the colloquialism “cunt” twice, to describe Dakin as “cunt-struck” and Headmaster as “a cunt”. This is the hardest swear in the play and is used show that it wasn’t a slip of the tongue, and to break down stereotypes of women being gentle and passive
“history is women following behind with the bucket” - her big scene about women in history at the end of the play (which is typical for Alan Benett’s plays such as “Kafka’s Dick”) so it would be recent and stay in the audience’s mind when the show ended
Irwin intro as politician in the future "etc., etc." while talking abt freedom- that man gives no fucks about freedom really, just waffling on (first impression for the audience too!!)
Parallel with Holocaust debate- Lockwood uses the SAME EXACT PHRASE while talking abt how the holocaust was bad, (dismissiveness of mass genocide? in this education system? it’s more likely than you think) then goes on to argue that they should be unique with their arguments- Irwin passed on thr mindset even on such an important subject
Hector is set up to be looking cool and all (motorcycle scene dramaticness, greek name connotations, fav teacher) but is absolutely uncool when we get to know him- purposeful? "studied eccentricity" and all. clinging onto youth?
Posner is actually rather helpful as the "dictionary person" bc i doubt the audiences know what "otiose" means
SCRIPPS IS THE MOST RELIGIOUS ONE AND CLOSEST TO POSNER it can dismantle the idea that religion is against queerness
Irwin didnt know how nietzche was pronounced bc from what we know of him he would call Dakin out on that

Tho I saw the link posted here because of the Aasimar reveal I thought we might discuss the two articles from game informer about "one DnD":
https://gameinformer.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=821673
tldr of the article posted by u/Juls7243 over at /onednd

TLDR (pages 11-17)
Intro:

• DnD developers are preparing a revision that is "fully compatible" with 5e.

Changing Times:

• Tumultous period - licensing issues, challenges to get enough print copies, departure of division president Cynthia William.
• These were juxtaposed against the success of Baldur's Gate 3, success of the 2023 movie release, and an evergrowing landscape of podcasts
• New books are "far more than a window dressing" and do represent the team addressing all the lessons they've learned and heard from fan's over the last 10 years

New Approaches

• First time that the lead designers of the new edition, were the lead designers of the previous one.
  • This enables the designers to flesh things out in a way that has never been done before
  • Designers know the detailed nuances of what they did/why a decade ago; they know what to preserve and what to change
• Value Proposition: Better Organized, New Content, reworks of classes/backgrounds, addition of bastions, weapon masteries, and more

A Picture's Worth

• A new intent to "help players contextualize and understand the content they're reading..."
• The PHB includes 12 pictures (1 of each class) and 48 pictures of each subclass hoping to inspire players to pick one that inspires them

For the Players

• Unlike previous edition that jumped right into character creation, the opening chapter is about playing the game and is filled with footnotes
• The new version contains a RULES GLOSSARY (YES!!)
• Bulk of book focuses on character creation
  • 75 feats (including origin creation ones)
  • 16 backgrounds (Hermit, Merchant, Noble... etc)
  • Species now replaces Race - (design team had to explain many time that race was not referring to human races, thus changed term for clarity). Aasimar, Goliath, and Orcs are present.
• Equipment now contains weapons with weapon mastieries (Vex, Nick, etc).
• Expanded tool list, and more details on crafting things like potions and scrolls
• Spell list comes from 2014 PHB AND spells from other books.
  • Tasha's Bubbling Caldron will be in the PHB
• Book is not written around the pretense of being in the Forgotten Realms, and is more realm agnostic and embraces Planescape, Spelljammer, Greyhawk etc.

Behind The Screen

• Goal for DMG - make it an "indispensable resource in and out of play". The new DMG will "show not tell"
  • Will contain half page first draft adventure design for DMs to springboard off of
• Book is a "tool box for ideas" and not only has magic items in it, but sample maps, and guidelines on encounter design
• Bastion System will be an optional set of rules in the DMG - it has the goal of "give the players something at home they care about"
• Full LORE GLOSSARY explaining key players across DnDs history
• Details the world of Greyhawk (OG gameworld by Garry Gygax) as a template world for DMs to utilize

Monstrous Option

• Biggest ever - 500 monsters - 75 brand new ones
• Every single stat block has been changed
• Monsters have the same CR as 5e - for backwards compatibility
• Monster have "expanded families" to help the building out of ecosystems
• Added a high CR vampire called "the Nightbringer" so that vampires can be used in higher level campaigns allowing for "clearer narratives"
• Addition of "epic titan level" monsters that are on-par with the tarrasque
  • New monster: "Blob of annihilation" - a gelatinous cube that can eat an entire town (SO cool)
• Large addition of NPCs of given themes - Bandits, Pirates, Mage etc that can be dropped in with no prep-work and a large spread of power levels.

The Monster Manual looks especially juicy. 500 Monsters compared to the 300 in 5th edition is amazing. The new ones look fun especially the giant Gelatinous cube. Wonder what all the 75 are going to be. I guess they will throw a lot of the monsters from previous publications in there like for example the gem dragons?
The other Article posted by Game Informer was about the Art of "One DnD"
https://www.gameinformer.com/2024/05/14/the-art-of-the-new-dungeons-dragons
Somethin thats also very exciting to me personally is again the talk about the new Monster Manual.
The 10 original Chromatic and Metallic Dragons were redesigned to better portray their biome and character. The designs for the Red and imo especially the Bronze Dragon look phenomenal in my opinion.

The art in the new core books has a chief goal of helping to further an understanding of the game. Spells are often shown being cast. Art for character backgrounds shows a possible place your hero could have come from. It even extends to the visuals of creatures in the Monster Manual. “There's a lot of mindfulness about the mixture; to pick the monster design accurately to the stat block,” says art director Emi Tanji. “If it's a creature that does slashing damage or something like you want to make sure we see claws. And you want to make sure if the art has shows something that's like a stinger, but there's nothing in the stat block – that would be weird, right?”

I wonder if that means that they made new art for all 500 monsters.
What are your thoughts. I actually think most of this stuff sounds quite exciting for a change tbh.

Docs are linked below. The martial/magic doc cuts out what I'm talking about, but I also threw in the full CombatDoc for those that want to chew on it or just see how different things work. Keep in mind this is a development doc.
Its only meant to be playable enough to people who are being taught to play in person or who already know the game. Its more so I can consolidate my notes and things ive forgotten into a more workable document.
https://www.enworld.org/attachments/martial-magicrules-pdf.363871/
https://www.enworld.org/attachments/combatrev7-pdf.363872/

Anyway, the interesting I think about what I've created here is how I ended up making it. The Battle Combo system was the genesis idea for it, coming from long before I ever started working on the game when I theorycrafted how one might actually deliver on the "complex Fighter" but without crossing into the "weaboo fightan magic" memes.
Back then it was mostly just a rough idea of it, but once the time came, my initial idea was to dedicate the whole thing to just being the shtick to my take on the Warrior.
Over time, though, particularly as I honed in what I wanted combat to look like, it eventually became prudent to open the system up to two more class concepts, the Battlemage (a Summoner focused on summoning magically created weapons and armor), and the Paladin.
And that was the running thought for a while, but as more of the system came to life and we started ad hoc testing of these ideas, it became clear that the system should just open up to everybody. Which does limit some of what I had planned to do, but as I note in the docs, I still have some decent ideas for how to make the OG 3 still specialized in this system.
Another peculiar thing is that I ended up combining this with my take on the Mighty Deed, which was something I was deeply unsure of whether I wanted to do or not. But, as I started to acclimate to the idea of deliberately combining improvisation with mechanical depth, it became pretty obvious.
And as a bonus, doing that actually does a lot to deliver on the specific gamefeel I've been working towards. And I think the best way to explain that is by showing what I'm going for:
https://youtu.be/RK6bEOylkYE?si=qz9ajUEZPdq-Xkgk
While that scene isn't the only inspiration (there's actually quite a lot), its probably the best example of the exact rhythm I was looking for, and in picking what Techniques I wanted to put in, the tamoenage Hulga does to that last guy was an easy pick. (And if one is skeptical about how this system does that kind of fighting, one should grab some dice and try engaging the full system. It isn't going to be that apparent until you actually do it)
But what the embrace of improv also lead to was my take on Magic, which I've talked about previously, which it occurred to me is practically a soft magic system, but tactical, which is a fascinating idea.
While Magic has a singular rule to it, in that it can only ever destroy, no matter what it does, through that single rule we elaborate into a system that has a pretty unlimited possibility space, as even the specific, bespoke Runes and Wards aren't rigidly defined, and while Elemental Welds follow specific rules, there's nothing saying you couldn't do entirely new combinations.
Whats also apparent, if somewhat unintentional (I came at Magic from a completely separate vision), I actually ended mechanically embedding the same dynamic the Mighty Deed, or at least my version of it, which is what I think leads to the soft magic feel of it. And then of course, we have my take on Corruption, which embeds quite a few narrative threads, personal and otherwise, which pairs well with the soft magic bent.
And of course, as the system is meant to interact with a tactical combat system, it has the mechanical depth to do so, without sacrificing much of anything about it.
So, long story short, its kinda neat how these came together. As of now, its definitely going to bear further testing and iteration. While I'm pretty married to having individual effects for each Technique, I think they can be quite overtuned, even for the extreme power fantasy meets combat-as-war design I'm going for.
Its entirely plausible we might move to just skipping the base level effects; eg, you just improvise an effect using the Technique as a prompt, and then the 4x is going to be specifically defined. That seems to make the most sense, but as with my initial goes at this kind of Magic, I want to see it in action.
I know testing it out solo that it gives the dynamics I'm looking for either way, but I don't want to assume anything based on that. But that'll have to wait as we aren't doing another session until mid summer. Poo lol.