Got bored and wrote a poem when I was bored on the bus pls help me make it better
Who knows where life goes To young to have fun but to old to have hope The cruel world took all your desires But still in your mind is that deep fire The deep fire that pushed you through And gave you hope when everything seemed gruel had that fire been extinguished by the hands of the world Its evil hands ripping everything you once owned The always mighty fall and flowers must die Our flower was crushed right under our eyes

Re-post/Attempt 2. No winners on https://www.reddit.com/tipofmytongue/comments/1cowei2/comment/l3h586h/
Figured I would try again.
Audio Sample: https://flat.io/score/663e742bda2ce852eeff15b7-mystery-indietronica-song-help-me-reddit-006-copy?sharingKey=a32eb8f4145529c4aafdd4b79f03afe08b13485d9bc8b0517f252c1e65d39a284f017e4e1143e5c81703397e211eda09208cf0d82e442b62fb9ca19464a62849
This is a song that I know I've listened to many times, and I think I even had mp3s of (or made note of) several other of this band's songs, and it amazes me that I forgot it. I have had this earworm plaguing me for at least six years. I am sure the song was already kinda old in 2018 when I went on my first search for this. I'd place estimated year of release as somewhere around 2002-2015 (despite the title).
The genre is certainly indietronica post-punk or dance-punk or indie-emo-dance-punk or I-don't-know. So I guess, it's a little obscure. Though it wouldn't shock me if I found it through a video game circa 2004.
Alot of these sound 'in the ballpark'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dance-punk_artists
.. especially

• Passion Pit (...slightly. In particular on Sleepyhead, Michael Angelakos' upper register and the vocal filters they put him through are SO FREAKIN CLOSE/almost spot on. But I think I knew of PP when I found this mystery song, and I don't think it's them. As you'll hear... it's quite upbeat and dancy.)
• Modest Mouse - in the song... Dashboard ... Sort of in the ballpark, good example of what I mean by dancy in this case. Not Technotronic or Pointer Sisters or anything)
• The Naked And Famous (but more fun, less serious, and I'm pretty sure it's a male vocalist)
• Mindless Self Indulgence (Very much this wavelength as far as overall style. Don't think I've heard of them before this search)
• Head Automatica (vocals kinda similar)

... but the vocals are VERY close to Johnny Whitney of Jaguar Love and Blood Brothers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Whitney
I am 100% certain I found him and his bands in the search for this band and song. His style (both song composition and his singing style) is a little too zany to be them. Pretty cool tho.
About that Sound File/Link
This isn't exactly the song. Figuring this out/producing this was like childbirth... so.... like many parents, eventually I said "the hell with it". I think I got the pitches down pretty good though, especially considering it's been at least a decade. So to be the actual song, some of these parts would have to repeat more (then again, it is good to isolate sections for listening more closely) . Especially the opening riff, which I reflect with bass. That is pretty constant sound through the verses. My tempo in the first half is definitely slower and more choppy than the actual song. Second half sounds as much like the song as anyone can make with these instruments, I think.
The use of cats meows combined Soprano Vocals is meant to reflect whatever vocal filter is done in the aforementioned Passion Pit - Sleepyhead. They really boost it on the last high note of the chorus, and I reflect this with high pitched brass. Best I could do, free account.
The electric guitar goes through more of the chorus than I put it for, but not all of it. I think it quits before the big high note. I got the cascading progression just right. It's the standout part of the song, like the opening keyboards of Take On Me.
The bass and the drums are considerably more active than is reflected here. That would be super painstaking. If this isn't solved in a week, I'll probably add it in time, and post again in about 8 days. It's a high energy song. Drums are about the tempo of Bonnie Tyler's "I need a hero".
I hesitate to post lyrics I misremember, because if I was solid on my knowledge of them, I think I woulda found it already. Plenty of "ooohs (ooze?)", "boys", and "what you're doing to me-ee-ee" (to end a verse). Somewhere in this chorus I thought there was something like "more than any other guy". The song lyrics are vaguely "suggestive" 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨... like Erasure or Boy George's vibe. Mika is also another artist that has a little of that vibe, although when I listened back to Grace Kelly, I didn't hear as much of that vocal filter as I remember.
I was pretty sure part of the chorus was something like "more than any other guy" or "from any other guy" or something. I have no idea what the word is that comprises the high note.
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Hi New Members, Thanks You So Much For For Having Interest In Joining My Community
Here Is What You Need To Know:
HISTORY: A User in a Japanese forum posted the well know story about Fly Away:
"About a few years ago I was walking in the famous Akihabara neighborhood in Tokyo. I am a big fan of J-Pop and most of the times when I went to Akihabara I took the opportunity to buy a few cassettes and then come home and listen to them quietly. On one occasion, however, I came across a strange cassette without a label or anything and just in case I took it.
At home I reproduced it. It was about 20 minutes long and only this song was heard. The rest was silence. I went back to the store with the cassette to see if they had information about it but to no avail. Please help me identify this song."
LYRICS:
Where are you going, chasing after the wind? The dead leaves are the color of the sunset There’s no noise when I knock on the door I sleep in a chair that’s just about to break Light shines outside the window I dream of an unfamiliar town
Goodbye, there’s no say from you You wish me farewell with a sad smile Fly away to a faraway land In the departing sky, ah A star hangs down
Before you set the bluebird free Gently place your fingers on its wings As it flees the sky, it has stopped crying
Goodbye, you go away Your gentle eyes say farewell Fly away to a faraway land In the departing night, ah Fly away to a faraway land…
TIP:
Good Luck On The Search And Have Fun. If You Have Any Question, Don't Forget To Ask!

Something I was thinking about when I watched the final moments of the most recent EFAP was Mauler’s observation that the internet content creator landscape used to be different when AVGN clones ruled Youtube and his question of how that shifted into video essayists and commentary channels. I thought about that for a while and I thought of some reasons why the landscape changed that I would like to share.
Managers
Something that people might not be aware of is how many Youtubers have people managing their content in the form of things like setting up brand deals and other services that I am not familiar with. Some of them are very public about what they do, some of them are more private. The important thing is how managers worked in the past.
One thing that I liked about Machinima, ScrewAttack, and Channel Awesome that the creators probably didn’t like is that they forced the older creators to stick to a set schedule of uploads and some of them forced creators to follow a set formula. This meant that the manager would make sure that if a creator uploaded a video every Friday at 2pm, they would have an upload every single Friday at 2pm.
How would this work if the creator wanted to take a week off? Well, the creator would have to have a video to upload in advance. What if the creator wanted to spend 3 weeks on a super-duper big video? Well, they could absolutely do that, but it would be a passion project and they’d still have to follow the set schedule for regular uploads.
This created a content landscape that I actually enjoyed a lot as a consumer because it’s probably the way it should be for reviewers. Every week, or every day in rare cases, a movie reviewer would need to review a different movie, which meant that a reviewer might have to force themselves to sit through a movie they don’t want to see like Fifty Shades Of Grey to give it a chance to subvert their expectations and earn a glowing review, or dig deep to find a new indie movie to review to fill that quota if they really didn’t want to sit through Fifty Shades Of Grey.
The promise of Patreon and creators becoming more independent was that creators would exclusively make videos on topics they wanted to do, but I personally think that was the wrong way to go. I’ve maintained a position that I prefer it when content creators are encouraged, or even forced, to talk about things that they don’t want to talk about because oftentimes that’s when reviewers are most interesting. Some of my favorite Roger Ebert reviews were when he reviewed a children’s movie like Space Jam or Pokemon: The First Movie, and some of my favorite Zero Punctuation reviews are when he has to pick out a random indie game and commit to reviewing it regardless of what the indie game turned out to be, like when he reviewed Hell Pie.
What I think has happened is that the lack of managers has encouraged content creators to upload whatever they want, whenever they want, which has usually translated to videos about ‘easy’ topics, like videos about Disney movies, being uploaded weeks, or even months, apart, which has made the content creation landscape, at least for reviewers, a lot less interesting, and a lot less engaging.
It’s actually one of the reasons why EFAP has been losing my interest lately, because although they upload a stream every week the topics they choose are generally ‘easy’ topics because I genuinely think the hosts don’t have the ability to make an EFAP on something more obscure, or even just ‘difficult’ like Baby Reindeer, very interesting, or they just won’t do streams on those topics because, as Rags said: “This is our show, and we can do whatever the fuck we want.”
Honestly, my hot take is that I liked you better when you couldn’t do whatever the fuck you wanted all of the time. In fact, one of my favorite Rags moments on EFAP was when he clearly didn’t want to be involved with the debate with Twin Perfect.
Sponsors
I remember the Adpocalypse and how Youtubers transitioned to sponsors over relying heavily on ad-revenue. What that event transpired into is that audiences were far more accepting of basically any form of making money that Youtubers would use. Patreon became a very dominant part of Youtube, but sponsors also became extremely common and audiences would even cheer in the comment sections when creators would have their first Raid: Shadow Legends sponsorship.
Sponsors are what I want to talk about because I have seen Youtubers show that they have a bunch of videos on their computer that they simply aren’t releasing to the public because they don’t want to upload a single video without a sponsor on their main channel, as well as Youtubers having a second channel where they upload ‘slop’ content without sponsors that most of their audience is usually unaware of or isn’t interested in.
The problem is that the appeal for pretty much all content on Youtube is the personalities of the people creating the content, which is less about the actual personalities and more like “That’s an actual person doing what they actually want to do, that’s so cool,” but that is usually undercut by the presence of sponsors. The fact that Youtubers will sit on a video they made and not upload it unless they can get a sponsor to pay for it always seemed strange to me, especially for Youtubers where the image they present is “I’m just a normal, chill guy who makes Youtube videos for fun,” which needs the caveat of “Uhhhh, I’m actually really poor and if I don’t take this BetterHelp sponsor I can’t afford my rent this month. Please understand, I’m barely making any money on Youtube,” when a sponsor is included in the video.
As weird as this sounds, there are communities of creatives online that don’t expect to ever make any money putting hours, days, weeks, months, and years of work into a project. There are modding communities, bloggers, game developers, fanfiction writers, and artists that only want comments saying “You did a good job,” and Youtubers used to be that way, or they used to present themselves that way before sponsors became as common as they are now.
I don’t say this often enough, but I remember when Youtubers would make videos about not just random pictures on Deviantart, but on fanfictions and pornographic videos. They’d do those videos for things like clout, which is something that I don’t see too often on Youtube.
People might say that there are a bunch of Youtubers that talk about obscure media and Youtubers that make things without any expectation of earning money, which I say “Well, yeah, but that’s not what I’m talking about,” and then I’d point to things like AVGN’s Atari Porn video, and old videos where commentary Youtubers would branch out from their niche to say “Hey, just for fun, we’re going to check out this weird fanfiction story,” or how Yahtzee would include fun projects he created at the end of his Zero Punctuation videos, like how he’d dub over scenes in video games like Half-Life and Painkiller, or how he made a slideshow with Garry’s Mod that depicted a love story between Heavy and Medic.
What I’m saying is that a large part of what made Youtube fun was that not every video from an established creator with 100k subscribers needed to be monetized, or even created with the expectation of being successful or well-received by the community. There was a time when the expectations people had for, say, Jim Sterling was for a high-quality Jimquisition video to be produced and uploaded to the main channel once a week, and for the other days to feature a minimally-edited video where he showed himself trying out a game or reacting to a trailer on his main channel.
In the past I said that I would like it if EFAP would talk about comments and read fanfictions on-stream and I was mocked for it, but I stand by that statement because, although EFAP clearly doesn’t want to do it regularly, when they do read comments on-stream it tends to result in some of the best content because it showcases a side to them that I like. Instead of being totally normal dudes talking to each other about a movie they saw or reacting to a video, they have to use text-to-speech or read the comment using a silly voice or, well, use just a little bit of creativity when reading those comments out-loud.
What I’m kinda saying is that, yes, I think we all like professionally-produced content, and we all accept that sponsors for videos are necessary. But, like, I don’t like how for most successful Youtubers only the monetizable content, often with sponsors, is presented on the main channel, while the other content doesn’t exist, is uploaded to a secondary channel, or is locked behind some kind of paywall.
It just feels strange that these normal, chill, relatable people have gotten themselves into a position where they can earn real money, in some cases a lot of money, to stand in front of a webcam for 10 minutes talking about their favorite movies, chat with a group of friends, or even just play their favorite video game, and in quite a few cases they won’t do any of those things unless there’s a way to monetize it. Imagine how it looks to say “Well, I can’t talk about this cool fanfiction story I read on my main channel to my audience that enjoys my content about that franchise because I can’t get a sponsor for it.”
I wonder if Rags, a regular host of EFAP, appreciates the irony of him criticizing Chris Stuckmann for advocating that filmmakers “Get as much time and money as possible to make their films in the ideal circumstances and for the process to be easy,” when he’s in the position that he’s in where, on EFAP, he has as much freedom as he wants in the ideal circumstances to make money with EFAP, and it’s easy, yet he still will complain if he’s asked to step out of his comfort zone, even a little bit, on stream.
Insecurity
A while ago I had a theory about Cancel Culture which was that usually Cancel Culture is incredibly exaggerated by the audience of the people being canceled, and that most of the people being canceled are perfectly fine. The go-to example is the poor lady who made a joke about AIDS before going to Africa that got off the flight and got fired from her job due to her joke going viral. What people often don’t mention is that she got fired because it’s a terrible look for the company’s PR person to be involved with such a massive PR disaster, and that she got hired at another company a very short time later. Plus, like, she made a racist joke and people were calling her a racist, it wasn’t like she was targeted for absolutely no reason.
My theory is that people think that Cancel Culture absolutely ruins the lives of celebrities and influencers online because of their intense reactions to being canceled. An early example being Seth Macfarlane, who was mocked for his poorly-received hosting of the Oscars and who seemed incredibly bitter about it, making Cancel Culture a plot point in multiple episodes of Family Guy, talking about how bitter he was about it in interviews for years, and even apparently getting emotional support from his friends and family after the ordeal, even going as far as to ask celebrities to say “I liked what he did and I thought he was hilarious, and very handsome.”
What I’m saying is that I think that in the early days of content creation on Youtube the people making videos were more willing to appear on camera and embarrass themselves, like with Spoony screaming at a big gaming event on camera, because even though they were aware of Cancel Culture being a thing they weren’t going to be reduced to tears by someone saying “You’re totally cringe and annoying,” and even went as far as to incorporate those kinds of comments into their video because it was extremely easy content to create. You probably know what I’m talking about, where a creator would read out “This content creator is SOOOOOOO CRINGE,” in a video in a silly voice which you can’t really do as easily with “OMG, I love your content,” and make it entertaining.
That’s changed a lot today with content creators seeming to project an extreme amount of insecurity in every video they’re a part of, which gets even worse in formats like podcasts. It feels like every commentary creator is a chill dude that isn’t offended by anything and only wants to have a good time talking about things they like because, well, that’s what they need to be to avoid being criticized too severely, but they constantly allude to being a very immature and thin-skinned person that is mainly concerned about earning money, to the point where they’ll say “I’m not even having fun producing content at all.”
In college I remember one of my professors saying: “When you were high school kids you were insecure and weren’t confident in your abilities enough to volunteer when you were asked. You’re adults now, and when you graduate you can’t do that at a real job. Part of growing up is being confident in yourself, and if you don’t want to do that, you can always work in fast food where you never need to grow up, while the other adults in your friend group are becoming doctors and construction workers.”
It’s something that I realized with Youtubers which is that a decent amount of them started their careers young and never had to ‘grow up’ the way that my professor said that we needed to. Even with millions of subscribers you still see a lot of Youtubers struggle to commit to any statement they make, and I hear “I’m just a dumb Youtuber who doesn’t know anything and is stupid and socially-awkward and is fat and smells bad,” too many times from rich and successful people.
The thing is, when you’re a teenager, or you’re in your 20s, that insecurity is charming and relatable because you're trying to find a place in the world and discovering the role that you will fill in society. But, when you’re 30 and your role is “I tell people about the latest internet drama and make references to Spongebob,” or “I talk about Star Wars for hours at a time,” even if you make $2 million every day there’s likely a part of you that says: “I don’t like who I am. I don’t like what I do for a living. Yes, I’m rich, but I don’t like why I’m rich, and I don’t like my audience.”
I think that this insecurity leads to people trying to make their content more ‘mature’, but the way they do it isn’t by presenting themselves as a more confident person, or by making a clear separation between the personality in their content and their actual personality so that they can have a good work/life balance, it’s by creating the same content with very superficially mature elements. So, you end up with the video essayists of the past that gained fame by describing the events of a movie and then giving their opinion on whether they liked or disliked it doing the same thing but with quotes from smart people, like Socrates, and making conclusions like “Some people are gonna like this movie, some people are going to hate it. The important thing is that everyone involved with this movie tried really hard and had fun.”
The thing is, teenagers and 20-year-olds get value from a relatable person that comes across as an insecure loser who is too afraid to take a proper stance on anything to commit to a statement. When someone is actually mature they find more value in someone who is willing to do a good job and defend the job that they did, even if they’re like Neil Breen who thinks they did a good job but clearly did a terrible job. A 20-year-old might declare that Twin Perfect’s debate with EFAP wasn’t embarrassing because he was just being himself or something, but a 40-year-old might not tell Twin Perfect that the debate was embarrassing, but they would no longer respect him, and I imagine a lot of 40-year-olds don’t respect a lot of Youtube video essayists because of how eager they seem to be to engage in self-deprecation.
Conclusion
Despite everything that I’ve said, I do think that the content landscape on Youtube is generally ‘better’ than it was in, say, 2010. We weren’t getting a 4+ hour video by The Little Platoon about Rebel Moon, for instance, in 2010.
What I would compare modern Youtube and classic Youtube to is the 1970s movie scene vs. the 1980s movie scene, which Quentin Tarantino has labeled as “The worst period in movie history,” which the EFAP crew have pushed back on.
The thing is, in the early 80s we got Blade Runner, in the same way that nowadays we got the 4+ hour Little Platoon video, but the theatrical release of that film was famously sabotaged by the company that wanted Harrison Ford to provide voiceovers for the film that ‘ruined’ it, or at least, ruined the ending of the movie.
Throughout the 80s films were made which satisfied audiences more than films from the 70s did because Spielberg was producing hugely successful films that are still highly regarded, but there was also a bunch of shady practices going on and a bunch of notoriously poor studio decisions made in order to appeal to a wide demographic, such as the fiasco with Supergirl and Masters Of The Universe, or changing the ending of Brazil.
In the 1970s we not only got more challenging films, but there was also a thriving independent cinema scene that gave us Death Race 2000, Eraserhead, THX-1138, and Duel. There was also Jaws, Star Wars, and A Clockwork Orange, which were big-budget movies that took serious creative risks that paid off immensely which just wouldn’t happen in the 1980s, or would happen very rarely.
I think that I do prefer Youtube back in, say, 2015-2017 when it seemed like we generally got the best of both worlds, challenging content about a diverse range of subjects with production values comparable to what we have now.
To close this, I would like to include a paraphrased interaction I saw on a podcast featuring a pretty big Youtuber that I think illustrates why Youtube has changed in the way that it has.
Youtuber: Look, I don’t need to work as hard on my videos now because not every video needs to be an event. I just want to take it easy now, pump out a video whenever I feel like it, get paid by the sponsors, and then spend time with my family, is that so wrong?
Host: It kind of is. I know your audience of teenagers will be like “He just wants to spend time with his family, dude, have a heart,” but a lot of Youtubers, especially younger Youtubers look up to you for inspiration. If you’re in that position and your attitude is “I’m going to half-ass every video that I make from now on and if anyone calls my content lazy I’ll use my 8-year-old daughter as a shield against criticism,” that’s the attitude that a lot of young Youtubers are going to have. They’re going to half-ass their content and when criticized, they’re going to find their own excuse, like “I have a kid now,” or “I have to eat,” or something.
Youtuber: That’s not my fault, though. I never asked to be a role model.
Host: That’s not how that works. You don’t get to decide whether or not people look up to you, have expectations of you, and emulate your approach to content creation. You only release 2-3 videos a year, and with your status every video should be a major event, but instead every video is half-assed, as you admitted, and then you use your daughter as an excuse for why you don’t put as much effort into your content as you used to. I think you need to have someone in your life, like a friend, that actually makes you feel some shame for your content and encourages you to do better, rather than your social circle being composed of supportive people like your family and the people who pay you through Patreon.
Host 2: He did have that. He fired him two years ago, remember?
Host: Oh, yeah, you fired your friend, or made him quit, whatever the story was. Did that not make you feel bad at all?
Youtuber: Friendships end, that’s just life.
Host: That’s the attitude that I hate that comes across in your content. You can’t just brush aside everything and bumble through life, except if you’re an internet personality, apparently.
Host 2: It worked for the MCU.
Host: It’s not working for the MCU anymore, though, and it isn’t working as well for this Youtuber. It’s probably going to get worse and when he decides to do more work and make better videos, like he used to do, it’s probably going to be too late, or he’ll need to make really good videos to get the views he once did.
Youtuber: My videos are really good, though.
Host: You admitted to half-assing them.

Part 1 about voter constituencies read here: https://www.reddit.com/unitedstatesofindia/s/wYsPUkrwok
So Part 2 - Here are VIP seats: 1. Varanasi - Modi is winning. No point discussing this further. The whole Shyam Rangeela thing was sad. Modi wins anyway. 2. Mathura - Hema Malini as a politician is a clown. People will still vote for her. Because she is famous, she is 'dream girl'. Vote for her is BJP vote, it's a vote for Modi. 3. Gorakhpur - Ravi Kishan will win. Bhojpuri ka SRK. He seems like a decent person in public life. But also is apparently proper RW in personal life. BJP seat hai, jeetenge hi. 4. Meerut - Arun Govil. Kya aap Ram Rajya mai Shri Ram ko vote nahi denge. He is the actor who played Ram in the Doordarshan Ramayan. Recently played Modi-look-alike character in Article 370. Is an absolute clowns. Actually gave interviews saying that I don't know what the issues of Meerut are. Said - "I will work to find out issues after I win election." Most likely will still win, people will vote Ram ke Naam. 5. Ghaziabad - Atul Garg. Son of the first mayor of Ghaziabad. Currently a minister in Yogi sarkar. Will ride the Modi-Yogi wave and win. 6. Pilibhit - Nitin Prasada. Was a congress MP from Shahjahanpur way back in 2004 and Daurahara in 2009. Made MoS in UPA2. Joined BJP in 2021. Will win due to Modi wave mostly. But voter may have resentment coz BJP did not give ticket to Varun Gandhi. 7. Saharanpur - Imran Masood, son of 9-time MP Rashid Masood. Congress candidate. Hoping that father's base plus undercurrent will help. Muslims have decent share in constituency. Shayad jeet jayega. 8. Mainpuri - Dimple Yadav. Wife of Akhilesh Yadav. Bhabhi ji jeet jayegi. UP government tourism minister standing against her. Double engine sarkar influence. But she seems to be too big to lose in this seat bcoz Mainpuri is Mulayam Singh Yadav's bastion. 9. Firozabad - Akshaya Yadav, related to the SP yadav family. Seat is SP bastion won by them everytime since 1999 to 2014. Lost in 2019. SP looking to get it back. 10. Budaun - Aditya Yadav, related to the SP yadav family. Seat is SP bastion won by them everytime since 1996 to 2014. Lost in 2019. SP looking to get it back. 11. Agra - SP Baghel, Union Minister will fight this SC reserved seat. BJP has been winning this seat since 2009. Will win again this year. 12. Hathras - SC reserved seat. BJP union minister fighting here mainly against SP candidate. Toss up seat as Hathras rape case is very big issue among other issues affecting backward castes. 13. Etah - Rajveer Singh, son of former UP CM Kalyan Singh. Seat is family bastion plus he is BJP candidate. Will definitely win. 14. Kannauj - Akhilesh Yadav. Bhaiya toh jeetenge. He has won from here before. 15. Unnao - Sakshi Maharaj. Controversial person but will win Ram ke Naam. Important seat placed right between Lucknow and Kanpur. 16. Amethi - Smriti Irani vs KL Sharma is gonna be a fun toss up to watch. Irani has BJP + Modi/Yogi/Ram in her favour but people are annoyed by her lies about cylinder and 13Rs sugar. Local village Pradhans are annoyed at how she has allegedly micro-managed and also disrespected them in the last 5yrs. KL Sharma is not a big name but he has been there for 40+yrs as poll manager. Generations of people in Amethi know him personally. And Priyanka Gandhi has also done a great job campaigning for him. Toss up seat, fun to watch. 17. Raebareli - Rahul Gandhi. He is running from here coz it's going to be a safe seat. Family bastion hai. Priyanka has campaigned really well and after the "Mai aapko apna beta saup rahi hu" speech by Sonia Gandhi, it seems like a sealed deal. 18. Lucknow - Rajnath Singh. BJP stronghold since 1991. Atal Bihari Vajpayee's seat. Rajnath Singh running from here for the 3rd time. He'll win for sure. 19. Kaiserganj - Karan Bhushan Singh, son of Brij Bhushan Singh. Dab dabba toh hai. Betaji jeet hi jayenga. Father's sexual harassment scandal not a voter issue at all unfortunately. 20. Sultanpur - Maneka Gandhi. Will win. Loved by voters. Did a lot of work at village level outside of her MP duties as well. 21. Azamgarh - Nirahua (Bhojpuri superstar) vs Dharmendra Yadav (SP yadav family). SP bastion but Nirahua wrestled the seat in 2022 by-poll. Toss up seat worth watching. 22. Ambedkarnagar - No famous players but seat to look for. Strong fight between BSP and BJP. Mayawati won from here two times. Birthplace of social leader Ram Manohar Lohia. Large vote share of Dalits, Kurmis and Muslims. 23. Shravasti - Saket Mishra. Son of Modi's ex-principal secretary (the guy who is now chairman of ram mandir construction committee). He will win ofcourse. Modi/Yogi + Ram is enough. 24. Ghazipur - Afzal Ansari, elder brother of Mukhtar Ansari running on SP ticket. Let's see how much his death's sympathy factor works with largely Muslim voter base. 25. Mirzapur - Anupriya Patel, chief of Apna Dal and Union Minister in current central government. 2 time incumbent, trying luck third time, might win. 26. Ballia - Neeraj Shekhar, son of former PM Chandra Shekhar. Running on BJP ticket, will win.
Ho gaya ji. 26 out 80 seats. Baaki seats ka zyada knowledge nahi hai. Aur Maine find out karne ki mehnat nahi ki hai. Udti udti khabar Sunni hai that unexpected seats like Faizabad (ayodhya) and Lucknow might see a turn around. But mujhe abhi toh believe nahi ho raha.
What I think are confirm wins: 15 NDA alliance (14 BJP + 1 Apna Dal) 6 INDIA alliance (2 Congress + 4 SP)
Toss up seats with battles to watch for: Hathras Amethi Azamgarh Ambedkarnagar Ghazipur
Thanks friends. Byeeeee

I've personally never wanted to be famous (I'd happily be rich, if anyone wants to hook me up) so this doesn't apply to me... But is there anyone in this sub who would be willing to date one of the Toms or Jax? I'm sure there are a few actual stans left in here but I'm more talking about if you think you could stomach it for the exposure, the increase in Instagram followers, you'd make connections, the fact that it probably would be a fun ride for a little while etc.
No judgement at all if you would- people have to make a living (and honestly I love seeing those hacks get exploited).
So - would you? Which one of the three? And how long do you think you could take it?

Vecna: Eve of Ruin🎲

The evil lich-god Vecna has unearthed secrets he can use to unravel and remake the multiverse. Stopping Vecna will require working with three of the multiverse's most famous archmages, traveling to far-flung locales, and rebuilding the legendary Rod of Seven Parts.
Vecna: Eve of Ruin is a high-stakes adventure in which the fate of the multiverse hangs in the balance. The heroes begin in the Forgotten Realms and travel to Planescape, Spelljammer, Eberron, Ravenloft, Dragonlance, and Greyhawk as they race to save existence from obliteration.
A level 10 to 20 adventure.

• 📕 Game system: DnD5e
• 🕛 Game start time: 2,00pm EST/8,00 pm GMT+2
• 🎮 Game Link - Tuesday - 3/6
• 🎮 Game Link - Wednesday - 3/6

🤓 About me

• I played RPG's for over 10 years, almost exclusively as a DM. Conventions, local game centers and community interactions are all things I did and enjoyed. Decided to go online to continue what is, to put it the simplest, my passion.
• Several ongoing campaigns: players are engaged, looking forward toward next sessions, actively engaging in their own discord communities
• I would picture myself as a rules as fun DM rather then rules as written. I do homebrew materials, constantly rewriting and improving. I reward roleplay and creative thinking. My players make the story - I just flesh it out.

👉 What am I paying for?

• The work I put into my campaigns: Even though I run established adventures I do not run them straight out of the box - I always make sure to purchase additional maps, resources and outright change the story if need be just so my players have a memorable time
• Dedicated players with a certain level of maturity, a fee eliminates player no-shows and creates a full experience where we look to finish the module, not just start it.
• Scripts and modules that automate the combat and provide players with a smooth gameplay experience
• Full access to Heroforge
• Maps from talented patreon creators: Domille's Wondrous Works, Czepeku, Mad Cartographer and more.
• VTT dice from Q-workshop and Rollsmith.

📖 Content details

• Any official WotC/Paizo product
• Unearthed Arcana/Playtest materials
• Homebrew (open for discussion)

🐲 Rules

• Be respectful to other players - everyone wants to have a fun game.
• Everyone is welcome, regardless of sex, gender, sexual orientation, minority status, language skill or game skill. 💕

📞 How can I contact you?

• I am active on discord each day. A private message here or a discord small talk is all it takes: dmthetulio
• If you would like to play another campaign, in the same time period in any of the systems I do paid sessions in (pathfinder, starfinder, dnd5e) be sure to contact me! I am more than willing to change the campaign for something else if we are still waiting for players.
• Reviews

Vecna: Eve of Ruin🎲

The evil lich-god Vecna has unearthed secrets he can use to unravel and remake the multiverse. Stopping Vecna will require working with three of the multiverse's most famous archmages, traveling to far-flung locales, and rebuilding the legendary Rod of Seven Parts.
Vecna: Eve of Ruin is a high-stakes adventure in which the fate of the multiverse hangs in the balance. The heroes begin in the Forgotten Realms and travel to Planescape, Spelljammer, Eberron, Ravenloft, Dragonlance, and Greyhawk as they race to save existence from obliteration.
A level 10 to 20 adventure.

• 📕 Game system: DnD5e
• 🕛 Game start time: 2,00pm EST/8,00 pm GMT+2
• 🎮 Game Link - Tuesday - 3/6
• 🎮 Game Link - Wednesday - 3/6

🤓 About me

• I played RPG's for over 10 years, almost exclusively as a DM. Conventions, local game centers and community interactions are all things I did and enjoyed. Decided to go online to continue what is, to put it the simplest, my passion.
• Several ongoing campaigns: players are engaged, looking forward toward next sessions, actively engaging in their own discord communities
• I would picture myself as a rules as fun DM rather then rules as written. I do homebrew materials, constantly rewriting and improving. I reward roleplay and creative thinking. My players make the story - I just flesh it out.

👉 What am I paying for?

• The work I put into my campaigns: Even though I run established adventures I do not run them straight out of the box - I always make sure to purchase additional maps, resources and outright change the story if need be just so my players have a memorable time
• Dedicated players with a certain level of maturity, a fee eliminates player no-shows and creates a full experience where we look to finish the module, not just start it.
• Scripts and modules that automate the combat and provide players with a smooth gameplay experience
• Full access to Heroforge
• Maps from talented patreon creators: Domille's Wondrous Works, Czepeku, Mad Cartographer and more.
• VTT dice from Q-workshop and Rollsmith.

📖 Content details

• Any official WotC/Paizo product
• Unearthed Arcana/Playtest materials
• Homebrew (open for discussion)

🐲 Rules

• Be respectful to other players - everyone wants to have a fun game.
• Everyone is welcome, regardless of sex, gender, sexual orientation, minority status, language skill or game skill. 💕

📞 How can I contact you?

• I am active on discord each day. A private message here or a discord small talk is all it takes: dmthetulio
• If you would like to play another campaign, in the same time period in any of the systems I do paid sessions in (pathfinder, starfinder, dnd5e) be sure to contact me! I am more than willing to change the campaign for something else if we are still waiting for players.
• Reviews

Vecna: Eve of Ruin🎲

The evil lich-god Vecna has unearthed secrets he can use to unravel and remake the multiverse. Stopping Vecna will require working with three of the multiverse's most famous archmages, traveling to far-flung locales, and rebuilding the legendary Rod of Seven Parts.
Vecna: Eve of Ruin is a high-stakes adventure in which the fate of the multiverse hangs in the balance. The heroes begin in the Forgotten Realms and travel to Planescape, Spelljammer, Eberron, Ravenloft, Dragonlance, and Greyhawk as they race to save existence from obliteration.
A level 10 to 20 adventure.

• 📕 Game system: DnD5e
• 🕛 Game start time: 2,00pm EST/8,00 pm GMT+2
• 🎮 Game Link - Tuesday - 3/6
• 🎮 Game Link - Wednesday - 3/6

🤓 About me

• I played RPG's for over 10 years, almost exclusively as a DM. Conventions, local game centers and community interactions are all things I did and enjoyed. Decided to go online to continue what is, to put it the simplest, my passion.
• Several ongoing campaigns: players are engaged, looking forward toward next sessions, actively engaging in their own discord communities
• I would picture myself as a rules as fun DM rather then rules as written. I do homebrew materials, constantly rewriting and improving. I reward roleplay and creative thinking. My players make the story - I just flesh it out.

👉 What am I paying for?

• The work I put into my campaigns: Even though I run established adventures I do not run them straight out of the box - I always make sure to purchase additional maps, resources and outright change the story if need be just so my players have a memorable time
• Dedicated players with a certain level of maturity, a fee eliminates player no-shows and creates a full experience where we look to finish the module, not just start it.
• Scripts and modules that automate the combat and provide players with a smooth gameplay experience
• Full access to Heroforge
• Maps from talented patreon creators: Domille's Wondrous Works, Czepeku, Mad Cartographer and more.
• VTT dice from Q-workshop and Rollsmith.

📖 Content details

• Any official WotC/Paizo product
• Unearthed Arcana/Playtest materials
• Homebrew (open for discussion)

🐲 Rules

• Be respectful to other players - everyone wants to have a fun game.
• Everyone is welcome, regardless of sex, gender, sexual orientation, minority status, language skill or game skill. 💕

📞 How can I contact you?

• I am active on discord each day. A private message here or a discord small talk is all it takes: dmthetulio
• If you would like to play another campaign, in the same time period in any of the systems I do paid sessions in (pathfinder, starfinder, dnd5e) be sure to contact me! I am more than willing to change the campaign for something else if we are still waiting for players.
• Reviews

Lol, I thought this would be funny to write about as a first silly little post as it is the most interesting thing in my life. (Don’t mind any typos)
First of all, to anyone who wants to tell me to stop or get over it or give me any valid reasonable and rational advice,I will not listen so don’t bother.
As these stories go, I 15(f) in love with English teacher 26(f). I’m obsessed with her, and have been for almost msot 2 years, it would have been longer if she had come into my life sooner.
I’m not a love at first sight person, so it took a while for it to come about. And iv always had problems with getting violently obsessed with things, I believe it’s some kind of coping mechanism, you know? If I don’t have something to live for then I fall in love with something, subconsciously of course. First it was cartoon characters then celebrity’s and the for the first time a real person who I know in real life! (Except she’s my teacher and she’s 26) but also the first woman iv ever fallen for (iv always known Im pan so it wasn’t a shock really). I think another HUGE reason I love her is because I don’t have a mother, she was abusive, druggy, alcoholic yadi-yadi-yada, and so I don’t live with her and I don’t like her and she isn’t there for me, and so I meet a kind female adult who I look up to? Obviously I get attached and I see her as a mother figure. I really do, I want to be just like her, I want to make her proud, I seek her validation, i want to fuck her. You know, regular motherly things!
The first day I met her, first day of year 10. From the second she walked into the class I felt her energy and her vibes and I had that feeling where you instantly like someone and want to be friends with them and think they are super cool. Now, she is not hot, like Obviously to me me right now in this moment she’s the most beautiful and pretty person iv ever seen she’s so cute and hot and all that, but Obviously that’s because I’m obsessed with her everything about her is great, but she’s the kind of ugly that when she first walked into the class people snickered.
She has a rash on her chin, a noticeable moustache, she looks at least 30 despite being much younger, her eyes are creepy looking and small, her skin is really red and dry and way too textured, she does weird ugly facial expressions, she has a big nose, her hair is never brushed and always greasy, she has really small eyelashes blah blah blah.. (she obviously has some really nice features as well, but I’m trying to prove i don’t like her for her looks)
Now In her defence I think they were laughing because she has the hugest ass iv seen in my entire life, not cuz of her face. (She wears really tight leggings everyday) But, she is overweight and a lot of people bring her down cuz of it but that has nothing to do with any of it for me obviously, and I obviously didn’t laugh when she walked in.
The point is, I instantly liked her and her personality, she has that school mum vibe, she’s witty she’s confident she’s loud, she’s funny, she’s so weird (like she does and says the weirdest stuff, she’ll start dancing out of no where with no warning, she shortens words all the time and then says them three times like: “fab fab fab” she has just the weirdest tendencies and mannerisms it’s insane), shes always so exited and jolly, she’s like a ball of sunshine yet at the same time she’s so sassy and passive aggressive, when I’m older I wanna be just like her you know!
And that’s how I felt for a long time, I would just enjoy her lessons because of the energy and vibes she’d bring! She makes everything so much fun just by being there, she’s also a drama teacher so she’s great at getting a crowd going and stuff. But it seemed no one else liked her, they either fat shamed her, or said she was a bitch, or found her annoying.
They aren’t wrong she is all of those things, but she’s only a bitch to you if you don’t respect her and then she’s passive aggressive and makes your time in her class hell, and as her favourite student who kissed her ass everyday it was fun for me to watch people get roasted by her and never have to worry about it. She is annoying to a lot of people because she hypes everyone up, and she’s loud and obnoxious and confident, she laughs at her own jokes and she’s giggly and she does stupid accents, she’s the walking talking definition of “QUIRKY” and so 15 year olds find her incredibly cringey and jarring. But as an immature individual my self I found her energy like something I have never seen anyone have so i from the first day thought she was my favourite teacher ever!
I often take the role of like comic relief when it comes to my friends so I often make the joke myself, and once I felt this admiration for my English teacher, and this giddy happy feeling in me when I saw her, I thought it would be a great idea to pretend/ hint to having a crush on her to my friends as a joke so they can make fun of me. It was small things like “oh my english teacher! … oh.. I liiiiikkkee herrrrrrrr~!” Id day when people mention her, no one caught onto the joke for a couple months until one day, after a holiday I had dyed my hair and she walked past me and she complimented it, I thanked her and INSTANTLY MY HEART WAS POUNDING AND I GOT ALL GIGGLING, my friend was next to me and found it funny obviously. And then the more I went to her lessons I couldn’t stop getting all sweaty and nervous around her, and every time she’d do something cute, like squeal when she’s frustrated and make weird noises or do a fake accent, or tell a joke I’d feel so unbelievably happy, and I couldn’t stop talking and thinking about her, but Eveytime I’d think about her or look at her id get a huge ick of like.. but ewww she’s so not hot! I can NOT be in love with THAT.
By summer I was still feeling this Same way, one day she wore a dress and like the dopey idiot she is, she lifted her leg and from where I sat I saw her panties. I WAS DISGUSTED, and looked away. And then looked back.. but then looked away.. and then looked back.. and then looked away.. (and did it a couple more times) but I felt sick in my stomach the whole time! It was not a hot thing at the time.
Then the year ends and it’s the summer holiday, (now up until this point I was quite caught up with my David walliams obsession. yes the 56 year old.. and so I didn’t really care about her all that much. On the first day back, before school started I went to a birthday party and I saw her walking outside of the school, when I saw her my heat was beating so fast, i hadn’t seen her in 6 weeks and I was not expecting to see her then, I said hi to her and i couldn’t stop thinking about that moment so intensely, and every thought I had about her being ugly didn’t matter to me, it’s not like I forgot about it, I know what she looks like, but I just think everything about her is so beautiful, it’s part of her and so its perfect.
That feeling got worse and worse as the year went by, every time i see her I shake, i sweat, I have panic attack like symptoms, but I feel so happy, like manic, I am overwhelmed, I want to punch things, I want to scream.
Then we get to the part where to silence this obsession I did regrettable and wierd things that she will never know about, some of the despicable things iv done in “the name of love” for her include:
Eating her hair Licking her spit of the table Kissing her chair when she leaves the room Following her around school Drawing her Writing poems about her Writing songs about her Making edits of her Taking photos of her Recording her voice when she talks to me Stealing her trash Licking her pens Making AI chat bots with her personality Making a bingo game about her (that one is just funny, and all my friends played it too, during her lessons lol)
And many other things I won’t mention. Obviously I’m not proud of any of this, and I didn’t really need to do it, some of it I did “as a joke” for my friends, some of them I did just because I could.. but the recording her voice one is essential! Anytime we’d have a heart felt convo I’d record it so I can listen to it if I ever loose the will to live (surprisingly frequently).
Now our relationship as student and teacher was/is very good.
We’ve had some lovely moments, she told me she cared about me outside of the classroom.
A personal favourite of mine: One time she was marking my work and it was just us in the classroom and I rested my head on her shoulder as she was going through it with me, and she looked down at me and she smiled and then we stayed like that for ages while she marked my work.
All my friends said I was delusional and that she probably hates me, but she has a huge ego and i believe she likes to keep me around to give it a boost every now and then.
I wore a matching outfit with her once (on accident) and she was very happy about it
Anytime I’d ask her what I can do to improve my grade she’s say to me “oh no! But you’re doing really well! I thought you did great!”
She’d never get mad at me or shout at me for anything, if we are doing a one between two activity she’d give me the only extra sheet in the class
I asked her to sit at the front to her because I “concentrate better at the front” (i only asked cuz i wanted to sit closer to her) she gave me a sly smirk and then the next lesson she moved me to the back of the class, and also moved her self to the back of the class.
We took a selfie together and the whole time she was giggling, I gave her a Christmas card, she lets me follow her around the school, she gave my friends dirty looks when they were being mean to me
I sent her stupid emails of pictures of capybaras (it was an inside joke between us) and she responded with a way to enthusiastic response for such a simple image lol!
I sand “you belong with me” by TS and she stood in the crown and when it got to the “you belong with me” bit I pointed at her and she pointed back! Singing the words back to me
Oh, and let us not forget the amount of eye contact. I never look people in the eye, one of my first exes I barely ever looked into their eyes all the time I knew them, I just suck at eye contact. Until I met her, since I’m so insecure about her forgetting me or loosing me or something I often stare at her when she’s teaching to make sure that she doesn’t forget me. And some how in the last couple of months she stares at me as well.
Anytime she tells a joke she looks straight at me to see how I respond (always with giggles even when it’s the lamest thing iv ever heard. It’s often not funny at all.) and the entire time shes teaching the lessons I will stare at her. IN HER EYES. Like, I’ll often smile calmly, but if she hasn’t looked at me in like 4 minutes then I’ll stare deeper, but she usually looks into my eyes and hold it for a while sometimes she’ll even smile at me and then stutter and forget what she’s saying before looking away and continuing. She’ll stare deeply into my eyes, throughout the lesson, and I also always catch her looking at me first.
Once she was helping me with my work, she got really close to me, and she stared into my eyes and then I see her getting small glances at my lips (with this one I may be a little delusional) she leaned in and she kept getting confused. Like, she yaps a lot, and a lot very loudly. So it was odd for her to be standing there her arm touching mine talking to me and being like “…. Um-.. heh-.. where was i..” and she flicks through my paper and then looks back at me and goes silent and then swallows and then looks down and then flips through it again and then says something small and short followed by more silence.
I also have a theory shes on drugs, for many reasons but one time I needed her to take a photo of my book, and she was acting so weird, tired but like really like dizzy and loopy and breathless. And she went to take a photo of my book, and got behind me and she leaned into my book, and I felt her heavy loud breath on my neck as her stray hairs were tickling the side of my face and her shoulder was touching my back, she she just stood there and stared at my book for ages until i was like “um so.. you can.. take a photo or something..” and then she slowly did it hahahaha!
Obviously it’s now exam time and so school is basically over and I have no more lessons, so I didn’t go into depth about how much she means to me as a person but to sum it up into one sentence; I would want to seriously kill my self with out her in my life.
And so the thing I had been fearing for so long, the last English lesson, the last time seeing my dear beloved. Well obviously it’s life or death so I have to tell her how I feel and get her to stay in contact with me.
The last lesson ends I go up to her after a morning of: pissing my self, shitting my self, throwing up in my mouth, constantly putting on perfume, checking my hair and chewing the mintiest of gums. And I start my speech, I won’t go into it but I told her how I felt about her (minus the being in love bit I played it off as platonic duh, im not fully stupid).
I told her that she means so much to me, and she’s (one of) my favourite people in the world (that’s a white lie she’s my only favourite) I can’t go on with out her, I need her, iv felt this way since the first lesson, your so fun, you mean so much to me! I cant loose you, I don’t know what I would do with out you!!!!
I cried in her arms as she hugged me! And i didnt even need to ask she suggested we could stay in contact, in-fact all i had said was “I’ll miss you so much :(“ and she already suggested we stay in contact, but Obviosuly I still did the whole speech cuz at some point she needed to know. Her response was basically that she already knew, but she was very pleased to hear it, and everything is going to be perfectly okay.
She said we can stay in contact (through email, cuz apparently there is a “legal thing unfortunately” stopping her from giving me her number (yes I did ask for her number, but in a total no homo way.)
She said I can talk to her anytime about anything as much as I like, and that’s good enough for me!
I also gave her a drawing I did of her and me together which was cute, her response to that was “oh very cool! she walks over. she takes it in her hands, very excited to see it. This really throws her confidence off, she’s really not expecting this. OH THIS IS AMAIZING! her voice cracks THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH! this is lovely! thank you, this is soo good! oh-muh-gud it’s SO good! oww I love it! thank you.. I’m wearing the same top as well, how fun~.. HOW FUN!!!! how fun!! … she takes it and puts it in her bag i will prop this up, on my desk! wicked wicked awesome!” (I recorded her reaction so that’s how you know it’s word for word)
In conclusion, im creepily obsessed and its a problem, but I don’t really regret anything cuz it’s all gotten me to this point where I can talk to her when ever I want and that’s all I could ever ask her. Yes I want to fuck her, but that’s not important to me I just need her in my life, she’s my world she’s my reason of living, and I’m so happy things are this way! I’m doing my exams now so I get to see her everyday when I come into school (by see her I mean wait outside the staff room so I can catch a glimpse of her knee). I’m also glad I’m not in her lessons anymore cuz I’d always get so twitchy around her, anytime she’d be near me and I’d be trying my best not to lunge at her, when I see her my mouth waters I just wanna grab her and kiss her all over! Eeek! She’s adorableeeee!
I love herrrrr ❤️❤️❤️

Hey everyone. I’m someone who recently got back in wrestling less than two years ago after a twenty year hiatus of watching WWE. I am heading to Vegas with my old lady on memorial day weekend and staying at the MGM Grand and when looking for activities to do to my pleasant surprise AEW is having their pay-per-view on Sunday at the hotel’s arena.
I checked tickets and they are as low as 55 bucks for the lower level decent seats in the in the lower area so I had to grab them and my excitement level for the weekend has jumped even higher than it already was. $55+fees is a relatively inexpensive show in Vegas and I’ve never been to the somewhat historical famous MGM Grand Arena but have been fortunate enough to go to three WWE shows in the last two years. I have watched one event which was All In last year and I was very impressed with everything AEW did.
So what I’m really asking y’all for is help knowing what’s going on and what I should know ahead of time. The card looks kinda stacked from what I know and read. I love Edge, Christian, and Jericho so seeing all of them will be fun. What are other big storylines or matches I should be looking out for? I know that Sasha Banks is debuting over there but she was after my time. I’m going to try to watch what I can of the AEW shows this week but with life and everything else it’s hard to catch up all at once. Thanks to everyone in advance!

Im from Utah County and non-Mormon, so you can see the obvious fun I have dating /S. I'm not making this a sob story; the real reason I'm posting here is that it feels a bit more personal than most dating apps. I'm a pretty cheerful, confident guy. I can be a massive smartass and yap a lot, but I can have serious conversations and value communication. So, if you need an ear, I'm game, but do expect the same in return. I tend to be out and about a lot, usually doing stupid stuff and trying not to get hurt or in trouble while doing it. Most of the time, I'm a pro, but there are quite a few stories where I fumbled, lol.
I like to work out. I mostly do calisthenics. I'm admittedly fairly skinny but decently toned. I've also taken up running, but I'm not Usain Bolt, lol. I also play video games, mostly military simulation games like Arma and OHD. I also play platformers like Mario and Sonic, with Sonic being my go-to for my neurodivergent self. I'm big into history, mostly WW2 and the Cold War, and some WW1. I'm actually working on making a Cold War-themed board game.
On top of being a nerd, I do have a sensitive side. I know some of you have probably rolled your eyes, but hey, I like to write poems, and I'm a huge flirt when I warm up to someone. I'm looking for a sweet, caring person around my age and preferably living in the USA. I'm not picky, it's more important that we click, you know?
As for my values, I'm very liberal and an atheist. You don't have to share my views exactly, but I'm being upfront now to avoid causing issues later. I drink sometimes and don't use drugs. I don't care if you use pot, but anything harder is a no-go zone for me, as my family has some history with addiction. If you want to talk, I'm down to give you my Snap or Discord in DM

Granted, it was a reflection on the window so that one was me, but still. Such a fun song! It just makes me want to dance. I hate that it's so much more infamous than famous because I personally love it.
I'm a SatelliteDeservedtoWin truther and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

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Hi there I will spare you with all the gruesome details about myself and give you a comprehensive but shortened list of my interests that you can gloss over, since we can further discuss them while chatting yay
As you have read I am from Germany and thus my timezone is whatever timezone Germany has yes!
My interests include but are not limited to: - Guitar playing - Reading/ writing (usually short stories and poems yes) - Physics and math (I self teach myself a lot of concepts) - Travelling by train because thats very fun - Romance movies in particular - Just talking to people - Chess
My music taste is - Beatles - RHCP - Queen - Nirvana
If you like any of this, feel free to talk to me!

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Hear me out.
If you search 'gay' on this subreddit there's a litany of posts from the past decade with guys describing how when they're on streaks they start feeling a little attracted towards other men, and many other men chiming in to say that it's normal and it's just your body trying to get you to get back to the porn, or some other cope.
See this post for a typical example: https://www.reddit.com/NoFap/comments/qruzsg/homosexual_thoughts/
So here's the thing. I'm a gay man - or comfortable identifying as a gay man. Honestly, I'm a little bisexual. If I haven't gotten off in awhile I do feel a little attracted to women. And I'd be comfortable sleeping with a female friend whether or not the attraction is there, just because I think sex is a fun way to connect with friends (gay culture is a wild ride, gentlemen). But I don't expect that to ever come up. Women rarely pursue and I'm not interested in them enough to do that on my own when men are so much easier and I'm more into them in the first place. So, I usually just call myself a gay man.
In the same sense - there's a lot (and I mean probably most) of straight men who are similarly inclined. We know a couple of things from infamous sexuality research in the twentieth century:
(1) In single sex boarding schools and universities, phenomenally high rates of men reported that they had had homosexual experiences by the time they graduated. We're talking more than half. This included mutual masturbation, oral, sometimes even all the way.
(2) The famous book Tearoom Trade was an investigation into cruising culture in the 70s, where a sociologist tracked down men he saw hooking up in public bathrooms, locker rooms, etc. and gathered demographic info from them after knocking on their front door posing as a health department worker doing a community survey. It turns out that vast majority of the men doing this sort of hooking up were typically masculine straight identifying guys who had wives and children - mechanics, construction workers, lawyers, office workers, and so on.
(3) Not the twentieth century, but we know that many cultures, like ancient Greece, had societally normalized homosexuality between men - as in, most men could be assumed to have or have had a casual sexual relationship with some other guy (usually older or younger) in addition to their otherwise monogamous marriage.
Cruising culture mostly fades away with the advent of digital pornography - or moves onto apps like Grindr. So does most of this sexual experimentation between high school and college age men. We still have remnants of it in our cultural mythology, like jokes about circle jerks or how everyone in the Navy is gay while they're at sea for months at a time.
It doesn't actually happen all that often anymore, though. Today, men don't need to get sexually pent up and frustrated, they just grab their phones and lock their bedroom door for a few minutes. Like when was the last time you heard of a straight guy participating in a bona fide circle jerk with a bunch of other guys?
In the few single sex environments where men don't have access to porn that remain - I'm thinking prison, here - there is still a large theme about straight men becoming 'prison gay' and picking up same sex lovers for the duration of their sentence, and then going back to being straight once they get out.
There's a large variety of bisexual behavior among men that used to occur but no longer does because those feelings of attraction causing that only occur in most men once your libido and sexual frustration reaches a certain point.
I don't think if this happens to you that you're a hypocrite if you don't start calling yourself a bisexual man and coming out to your friends and family. But I do think there's no need for insecurity or justifications about how actually you're still 100% straight. We live in a sexually liberated age - take advantage of it if you feel the inclination, grindr doesn't require a profile picture. If you have friends who do nofap, they're probably feeling the same things as you, so explore that if you want. And if you're open to doing anything with other men, sex is much easier to obtain, and a lot of the skills and bedroom confidence and charisma you pick up there translate to being with women. Just be safe and STD conscious.
Tl;Dr there used to be a lot more bisexual shenanigans happening between men. Men today aren't any less bisexual. Pornography has just altered the sociosexual dynamics so that it doesn't come up.

Hello!
We are a couple going to a 6 days trip in LA next month and i am starting to get stressed with everything I read on reddit. What worries me is the safety of the city and that many things are underwhelming so the trip may not be as fun as we though.... With everything that i read i am not sure what to expect anymore from this city. Here's what we were thinking about maybe doing so if you could tell me if it's safe or if there are more interesting things to do. Thanks!
Day 1 we were thinking Santa Monica /Venice beach. We have our first hotel 4 metrorail stations away from Santa Monica. So the Santa Monica Promenade, the Pier, the beaches, and maybe the Venice canals are on our list to-do.
Then the next day we move to an hotel on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood for the rest of our stays. On day 3 we planned to go to spend the day to Universal Studios. We are not sure we need more than one day there.
So for 3-4 days left here is the options we noted:
-Hollywood Blvd with the Walk of Fame but we don't plan to spend to much time there.

• The studios tours. Warners being the most interesting, then Paramount and maybe Sony.

-Academy Musuem of Motion Pictures, maybe LACMA, Petersen Automotive Museum, maybe the La Brea Tar Pits. From there walk to the Original Market and The Grove.
-The Griffith Observatory (not sure if we should go during day or at night), maybe a bit of hiking there or at the Runyon Canyon Park. The LA zoo.
-Rodeo Drive Walk Of Style but not sure if there much to do around. Maybe a bus tour to see the famous street in Beverly Hills.
-If we go to Downtown LA I read to only go during the day. Grand Central Market, Angels Flight Railway, Bradbury Building, The Last Bookstore and The Broad.
So that's what we have for now. We won't rent a car so we will be using the public transport mostly. Except from the airport to our hotel, between the hotels and back to the airport we plan to use Uber. Are there any areas in what I just listed that become more dangerous when it's dark? Are there any ride you would not do with the public transportation? We are big movies lover so do you think something is missing from our to-do list or that we should absolutely remove something?
Thank you very much!

This sub underrates the importance of lay prestige and overall name recognition. There may be a few niche industries where employers are "in the know" that Booth, Kellogg, Darden, and maybe Ross are amazing excellent schools. These include management consulting, investment banking, private equity, hedge funds, some tech etc., MAYBE VC. Geographical proximity to a school also boots its regional prestige.
But outside of that, the vast majority of Americans and workers in companies will "rank" based off of lay prestige. Harvard and Stanford are good in this regard, as they have strong lay prestige and actual prestige. But Yale is right up there alongside Harvard and Stanford in lay prestige, even though SOM is not an M7 school. The parent university reputation matters a lot more than people think, because you can also tap into the broader school network.
Wharton isn't something everyone's heard of, despite its high ranking. UPenn might as well be a state school to some people and not an Ivy League. Some people may confuse it with Penn State.
No one in real life associates Kellogg with an MBA program or Northwestern, they think it's a cereal. Lots of people also don't know University of Chicago is a good school and may view it as a state school.
Outside of the Southwest, University of Virginia has low name recognition and lay prestige. UMich is primarily seen as a football and sports school.
Meanwhile, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Columbia, MIT, Dartmouth, etc., are nationally renowned brands. Georgetown is a T25 MBA, but its viewed by the lay population to be extremely prestigious and punches above its weight. Even U Texas at Austin is well known nationally.
NYU isn't perceived as having a very top tier MBA program by most Americans, they primarily view it as a fun undergrad school because you're living in NYC. Having a famous name brand MBA like Harvard also gives you geographical flexibility for your career and personal life anywhere in the US and even globally, since everyone's heard of and reveres Harvard.
This matters because outside of a few prestige industries, the less your MBA's actual prestige matters and the more your lay prestige does. Most people won't be in MBB forever, they'll pivot out to a tech company or F500 in a strategy role. Same with investment bankers going into industry for corporate finance. It's better there to go to Columbia than Booth or Kellogg as people will "know" what those schools are. If you go to a well known top school like Stanford, it'll help you get promoted into leadership versus Booth or Kellogg.
Internationally, lay prestige and brand recognition matter even more! International audiences don't know what Darden or UVA is, they've never heard of it. But Yale resonates. Harvard resonates. MIT resonates.
In personal life, for social reasons, people will regard you much better if you went to Harvard or Columbia or even UC Berkeley for your MBA than Booth or Darden. It'll help a lot more with dating on the dating apps, and also people being impressed in general during social conversations. This matters more than you think - people are attracted to heuristics of success, and a top MBA is one of them. But you won't benefit if no one's heard of your MBA even if it's great! Some ethnicities also place more of a premium on prestige and having recognizable brands your resume matter.
This is also why I chose to work at Google over a tech startup that offered me higher comp and pay. The social benefits of telling people you work at Google are huge. I can go on international trips and meet strangers who are wowed that I work at Google and look impressed. That matters more than you think. There's a thing called the barbecue test, which is if you share your company at a barbecue, how will others react? Will they even know your company?
Google passes the barbecue test. Harvard passes the barbecue test. Citadel LLC does not pass the barbecue test, neither does Kellogg MBA. Google will award way more exit opps than the startup choice I had, which is why I took that and the famous name brand MBA over an obscure esoteric M7.