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Everything is in the title, i had hope when they kept escalating the ticket multiple times. But no.
It's a long post , but if your are actually having problem with ubi support or had , or are just curious 😅
Hi , I'm random from Ubisoft support Blablablablablblabla
Your already changed the linked account once so there is nothing we can do (Even if I told them 1 second later after the psn account change there was a major issue and that wasn't my psn account + there UI had a small bug (free of charge , i'm a nice guy) , and the support responded instatly (so it's not like i was abusing anything) + my acc has is 15yo (from the start lf uplay) thousand of dollars of merch all their pop rip off + most ac , far cry , south park , watch dogs figurines + Games ( Most Collector edition) at lauch pricel
1st ticket :
Idian just copy and pasting answers for 2 months.
2e ticket (They understood (somehow) that was serious so they escalated it many time.
Random excuse Blablablablablablabla We are sorry we were not able to help you.
Blablablablablabla More excuse.
Blablablablablabla We are sorry we can't help you but if you have any suggestions , we would be happy to hear them and share them with the team for the future. blablablablablabla
Me: You know it's breaking my country law , the us one , the European one? I have acces to personal data, ubi and psn acc ? (Not that i want to)
We are sorry there is nothing we can do and were not able to help you. But if you have any suggestions , we would be happy to hear them and share them with the team for the future. blablablablablabla
(So they don't give a fuck)
Ubisoft - xxxxx Random ubisoft title
I think we all have a company in our country we think is the worst support we could have thought existing in the entire world , but somehow Ubisoft manage to have the worst support than any game company , and any not a scam company listed in an exchange in any developed country in the world.
It's insane that my insurance is able to send me thousand of euros (and without having to give less answer) faster than Ubisoft support actually answering me and doing there job.
But I admit it's Ubisoft fault and policy , and there choice to understaff the support , not the support itself, they are just working how we told and let them do.
Thanks for reading, and GL with the support.

Howdy there! The name's PK and I'm in the market for a Bleach roleplay.
Usually, I'm more open to allowing people to play whatever character they'd like - OCs in particular - but I'm in the mood for something a bit different this time; I'm looking for someone who's willing to play Momo Hinamori.
I do intend on playing an OC myself and I apologize for the hypocrisy. My character is male, a fellow Lieutenant, and he has already has a crush on her from the start. I like the idea that everyone but Hinamori herself knows, there's just something funny about the idea of her being oblivious to something so obvious. As you might expect, I'm leaning towards an eventual romantic angle between our two characters - something slow, natural and built up over time - that happens between all the action and adventure.
I've constructed a more singular and short-term plot that differs from some of my other ideas that are based in the Bleach universe and I'll give you very a brief plot synopsis:

A group of assailants calling themselves the Remnants of Aizen have appeared and are declaring war against the Soul Society. Their goal is simple: to free Sōsuke Aizen from his prison and reinstate him and the one, true ruler of this world.

I'm interested in someone who really knows, understands and respects her character. I'd like to explore her as someone who's worked through the trauma of what happened to her, but still has the physical and mental scars from the ordeal, and how it effected her... and how this plot will continue to effect her. So long as you don't boil her down to "still an Aizen simp years later", I'm probably not going to complain about the way you play her.
The setting is supposed to be post-series but the events of Thousand Year Blood War arc are mostly inconsequential to this plot, so anime-only fans don't have to worry! There will be a couple of canon characters who are missing from the Gotei 13 roster but don't worry - you can consider that the result of this being an AU rather than anything to do with canon. There are no spoilers here, I promise!
That being said - the more knowledge you have of the series and supplementary materials, the better! I have ideas to incorporate that based on CFYOW as well as other light novels and short stories, but they will not be exactly the same.
Anyways, if this sounds at all up your alley go ahead and shoot me a message - preferably of the envelope variety! These are my guidelines:

• I'm an adult. Therefore I am not interested in roleplaying with anyone under the age of 18. Nothing personal to any of you kids out there, I'm just not comfortable with doing one-on-one roleplays with anybody who's not an adult for what I hope are obvious reasons.
• I'm looking for paragraph-style, third-person responses. If you can't do that, I'm sorry, but I'm probably not interested in doing roleplaying with you.
• Length and descriptions can fluctuate. I'm not expecting you to summon your inner Stephen King and crank out a novel every time you write to me, and honestly I probably won't be able to do the same for you. As long as you put some degree of effort into your posts, I'm okay with that.
• If you're really interested in this, I'd suggest sending me more than just a generic "hey, I saw your post and I'm interested!" message. I honestly tend to ignore those kinds of messages. Tell me a little bit about yourself and your interests, like how much you enjoyed the series! Or other series that you've enjoyed over the years! Or your roleplaying experiences! You don't have to tell me your entire life story or write your entire manifesto, but anything besides just a one-sentence "hello, I'm interested" is much appreciated and will most likely go a lot further. Yes, even if it's just two sentences :b You're free to include any contact information within your introduction too because I'll probably be sending mine with the response.
• If you've actually read all of this, please put "Dilly Dally" as your message subject. It'll help me sort out the people who read this from the people who didn't!
• I'm not looking for just a roleplay partner, I would like to be friends too! I think a roleplay is much more interesting when you interact with and befriend the person(s) you're playing with. It especially helps when it comes to activity and world building. If you want to keep our relationship professional though, that's fine too.
• I absolutely do not expect multiple responses a day, or even a single response a day, because I can't even promise that myself. Sometimes you hit weird moods or life gets in the way and that's fine! Nor do I care how long these moods last - I get it, finding the mojo to reply can take time. I'm no stranger to going weeks without replying myself. However, I would prefer that we let each other know if we aren't going to reply for a while or if we're having a hard time coming up with a response.
• I'm an old-school forum roleplayer so that's the platform I'm used to i'm so old rip. That being said, Discord is obviously the most convenient way to roleplay these days and my posts often break the character limit and require multiple messages as a result. I'm also open to roleplaying through e-mail, on forums (if those are still a thing lmao) or even on here in the DMs! I may be open to GoogleDocs, if you're willing to be patient with me and help me learn how to do it.

Howdy there! The name's PK and I'm in the market for a Bleach roleplay.
Usually, I'm more open to allowing people to play whatever character they'd like - OCs in particular - but I'm in the mood for something a bit different this time; I'm looking for someone who's willing to play Momo Hinamori.
I do intend on playing an OC myself and I apologize for the hypocrisy. My character is male, a fellow Lieutenant, and he has already has a crush on her from the start. I like the idea that everyone but Hinamori herself knows, there's just something funny about the idea of her being oblivious to something so obvious. As you might expect, I'm leaning towards an eventual romantic angle between our two characters - something slow, natural and built up over time - that happens between all the action and adventure.
I've constructed a more singular and short-term plot that differs from some of my other ideas that are based in the Bleach universe and I'll give you very a brief plot synopsis:

A group of assailants calling themselves the Remnants of Aizen have appeared and are declaring war against the Soul Society. Their goal is simple: to free Sōsuke Aizen from his prison and reinstate him and the one, true ruler of this world.

I'm interested in someone who really knows, understands and respects her character. I'd like to explore her as someone who's worked through the trauma of what happened to her, but still has the physical and mental scars from the ordeal, and how it effected her... and how this plot will continue to effect her. So long as you don't boil her down to "still an Aizen simp years later", I'm probably not going to complain about the way you play her.
The setting is supposed to be post-series but the events of Thousand Year Blood War arc are mostly inconsequential to this plot, so anime-only fans don't have to worry! There will be a couple of canon characters who are missing from the Gotei 13 roster but don't worry - you can consider that the result of this being an AU rather than anything to do with canon. There are no spoilers here, I promise!
That being said - the more knowledge you have of the series and supplementary materials, the better! I have ideas to incorporate that based on CFYOW as well as other light novels and short stories, but they will not be exactly the same.
Anyways, if this sounds at all up your alley go ahead and shoot me a message - preferably of the envelope variety! These are my guidelines:

• I'm an adult. Therefore I am not interested in roleplaying with anyone under the age of 18. Nothing personal to any of you kids out there, I'm just not comfortable with doing one-on-one roleplays with anybody who's not an adult for what I hope are obvious reasons.
• I'm looking for paragraph-style, third-person responses. If you can't do that, I'm sorry, but I'm probably not interested in doing roleplaying with you.
• Length and descriptions can fluctuate. I'm not expecting you to summon your inner Stephen King and crank out a novel every time you write to me, and honestly I probably won't be able to do the same for you. As long as you put some degree of effort into your posts, I'm okay with that.
• If you're really interested in this, I'd suggest sending me more than just a generic "hey, I saw your post and I'm interested!" message. I honestly tend to ignore those kinds of messages. Tell me a little bit about yourself and your interests, like how much you enjoyed the series! Or other series that you've enjoyed over the years! Or your roleplaying experiences! You don't have to tell me your entire life story or write your entire manifesto, but anything besides just a one-sentence "hello, I'm interested" is much appreciated and will most likely go a lot further. Yes, even if it's just two sentences :b You're free to include any contact information within your introduction too because I'll probably be sending mine with the response.
• If you've actually read all of this, please put "Dilly Dally" as your message subject. It'll help me sort out the people who read this from the people who didn't!
• I'm not looking for just a roleplay partner, I would like to be friends too! I think a roleplay is much more interesting when you interact with and befriend the person(s) you're playing with. It especially helps when it comes to activity and world building. If you want to keep our relationship professional though, that's fine too.
• I absolutely do not expect multiple responses a day, or even a single response a day, because I can't even promise that myself. Sometimes you hit weird moods or life gets in the way and that's fine! Nor do I care how long these moods last - I get it, finding the mojo to reply can take time. I'm no stranger to going weeks without replying myself. However, I would prefer that we let each other know if we aren't going to reply for a while or if we're having a hard time coming up with a response.
• I'm an old-school forum roleplayer so that's the platform I'm used to i'm so old rip. That being said, Discord is obviously the most convenient way to roleplay these days and my posts often break the character limit and require multiple messages as a result. I'm also open to roleplaying through e-mail, on forums (if those are still a thing lmao) or even on here in the DMs! I may be open to GoogleDocs, if you're willing to be patient with me and help me learn how to do it.

I think out of all my cousins, I'm the only quiet introvert type person. I feel so much hate like why am I so different. How come I'm not fast smart witty intelligent and great communicator. Being anxiety free opens so much doors for better opportunities from work and relationships. I hate anxiety like it seems as if it has ruined my life and me.
I'm currently looking for jobs but I can't even put my mind together to even call places if they're hiring. I have still hard time going in person and actually talking with manager. I still feel nervous anxious ordering food like this is just utter shame. How can I be struggling over little things that are so essential in life. My cousins live life so happily and having fun at same time. They have tons of friends and overall good quality life. Not only that but making good income. I don't even know how to dress well and carry myself. I feel like such a bumb person because I'm not even living my life to true potential.

I wanted to know if I am able to walk into a Macy's store with just the credit card and add a payment to the bill. I was interested in helping someone out pay down a balance, but I wanted to see if I need a statement to do that on my own (the person has paperless settings, so that adds a complication). It is ambiguous to me from a search as to the answer, and the owner of the card simply doesn't know, as usually it is paid online. Thanks...

I think out of all my cousins, I'm the only quiet introvert type person. I feel so much hate like why am I so different. How come I'm not fast smart witty intelligent and great communicator. Being anxiety free opens so much doors for better opportunities from work and relationships. I hate anxiety like it seems as if it has ruined my life and me.
I'm currently looking for jobs but I can't even put my mind together to even call places if they're hiring. I have still hard time going in person and actually talking with manager. I still feel nervous anxious ordering food like this is just utter shame. How can I be struggling over little things that are so essential in life. My cousins live life so happily and having fun at same time. They have tons of friends and overall good quality life. Not only that but making good income. I don't even know how to dress well and carry myself. I feel like such a bumb person because I'm not even living my life to true potential.

I read the books years ago and like them, though admittedly because it was so long ago I don't remember a lot of details. I decided to watch the series and I'm up to the beginning of season 3. IMO Shadow is the dumbest character in the entire series so far.
Wednesday hasn't done anything for Shadow. The entire time he avoids answering questions, constantly manipulates him and everyone else, and frankly ruined his entire life and the lives of many others, including his own son Thor, in pursuit of his narcissistic goals. Even when Shadow knows all of this and does his "fuck you Wednesday" routine, he always ends up nonetheless listening to him and ultimately getting sucked back in. Really so many of the characters in this series are just fucking awful. The only one I remotely like is Mad Sweeney. Even Laura, who I personally dislike, at least is understandable and somewhat learns and grows over time but Shadow is just perpetually a fucktard. I think the reason it's so infuriating is that he's aware of the situation, that he is constantly manipulated, that Wednesday is terrible, that he puts on this show of rebellion and resistance to Wednesday, but ultimately ALWAYS ends up following along and doing what Wednesday wants anyway.
Maybe others feel differently, and that's okay. We can all interpret it in our own way. There isn't really a point to this post other than I was annoyed and wanted to vent but feel free to give your thoughts.

I'm looking for something that has a shareable link for a small group of friends, but can't seem to find anything reliable. I can see Dailymotion used for videos that could be found free somewhere else, but what about something less copyright-friendly? I've looked at Dailymotion Google Drive, and nicovideo, but they all have talk of copyright catchers. Although I'm not sure if, since it's a Japanese dub, it has a harder time being caught? Apparently Dropbox sucks, so I'm not sure.
If I use Google Drive and create a .zip file with a password, can that still be unzipped and opened without downloading?

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Hey, my name is Elian. I’m 20 years old, I’m in the CDT time zone, and I’m looking for a RolePlay partner! My rules are few but somewhat specific:

1. Be 18+, no exceptions.
2. Be at least semi-literate.
3. Write in 3rd person.

I’m in a few fandoms, but I enjoy OC roleplays just as much! I also prefer MxM for characters. Here are some fandoms I’m in and the characters I play for each!
• My Hero Academia: Toshinori Yagi (All Might), Hizashi Yamada (Present Mic), Shouta Aizawa (Eraser Head)
• Detroit: Become Human: Hank Anderson
• Naruto/Naruto/Shippuden: Kakashi Hatake, Iruka Umino, Jiraiya
My fandom list isn’t very extensive, but I have PLENTY of OCs! If you would like a list of those, I can send that with basic descriptions, and if any catch your eye I can send a more detailed bio! I also draw my characters, so I have art for each one :)
I have plots as well. Mainly themes like Romance, Slice of Life, Drama, Angst, and Fantasy.
If this interests you, feel free to DM me and we can talk more!!

The only spectrum that should matter to us is the autocratic versus democratic spectrum. Traditional political parties, such as every political party organized in the United States, is organized as a faction with autocracy at heart. They are competing within a democratic system to impose their rules onto others.
This is the very behavior we sought to rid ourselves of. We had been under the rule of autocrats for generations. Is this what we are going to do with our opportunity at freedom? Use our freedom to be the autocrats?
A conservative position is seeking to conserve power where it already is. A liberal position is moving part of that power from its place of concentration to another. This is not political power we speak of - it is economic or social powers.
This is no way on which to organize. It’s irrational and unjust. Not all powers should be distributed, and not all powers should remain concentrated. Unjust actors are on both sides of this argument. Some unjust actors want the power to be concentrated in their hands so they can be oppressors. Some oppressors want the power to remain concentrated in their hands because well, they like it.
What doesn’t factor into this spectrum is justice. This spectrum happens to assume that individuals must be either liberal or conservative on every issue. This cannot be the case.
Any free, reasonable, and just person will assume a myriad of both liberal and conservative positions. Why do we adopt what is in use and perpetuate its practice, even when all our senses reject it?
View the world in terms of liberal and conservative to see through arguments and get to the root of the reasoning behind them, but don’t use it to organize people and factions. We inevitably force ourselves to associate with positions we otherwise wouldn’t, and we cede our power to think for ourselves. We fight someone else’s fight, and for all the wrong reasons.
We only need to organize and rally around our democracy. Any other banner will eventually lead us back toward the authoritarian control we so proudly escaped.

When people say they are Christian, most mean they follow the "Institution of Christianity" as it developed in the hundreds of years after Jesus' death.
Jesus had never met Paul.
Jesus didn't even claim to be God.
And when Paul wrote his letters, he didn't think they were going to be canonized into a thing called a "New Testament" and that Christians would hold dogmatically to his every word, including letters he wrote off-handedly, full of grammatical and syntactical errors, to various congregations around the world.
The decision of which books were included and which was controversial and arbitrary. Many of the Church Fathers considered The Shepherd of Hermas to be canonical and not Revelation. Yet Revelation is now considered the indisputable word of God, and The Shepherd of Hermas is virtually unknown.
Then you had, in the 4th and 5th century, a bunch of Bishops starting to invent doctrines that weren't directly in the Bible. (See: the councils of Chalcedon and Nicaea). Even the "Sola Scriptura" protestants adhere to these doctrines.
In other words, over the centuries there has been a grime of superstition that has accrued on the religion of Jesus and his apostles.
I would bet, personally, that the only sect they would be remotely fond of would be some Quakers, who are the only ones that are free from all the ridiculous ideas about justification by faith, the trinity, the immaculate conception, or a magical wafer.
Yet most people would think Quakers aren't remotely Christian, and only some devote Catholic or Protestant (depending on your prejudice), who take for granted creeds that came centuries after Jesus and that he had no idea about, could actually be considered true Christians.

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Grayson kept his promise and came over to talk with me. He arrived after classes for both of us were done for the day. It also meant that Cassie was home and this time, she didn’t vanish into her bedroom to give us privacy. She waited until we were both seated in the living room and Titanosaur was settled in Grayson’s lap, thereby preventing him from escaping.
Please don’t read too much into that, as I’ve said before Titanosaur has like three brain cells and will sit in literally anyone’s lap. Our landlady sent her husband over to fix the leaking faucet in the bathroom and Titan was trying to climb in his lap while the poor guy was sitting there with half his body inside of a cabinet.
Then Cassie came over, carrying a chair from the kitchen, and also seated herself with us. I glanced at Grayson. He looked dismayed, but was hiding it well in an effort to be polite. I decided to lean into my non-confrontational side and not ask her to leave.
“You’ve been acting a bit out of character lately,” I began delicately. “As a friend, I’m worried about you.”
“And I’m worried too,” Cassie added. “Maybe you don’t think of me as a friend, but you’ve been hanging out around Ashley enough that I consider you one of mine.”
Huh. I wasn’t expecting that, to be honest. I thought Cassie didn’t like him. I don’t think she was lying, either.
“Have you considered getting grief counseling?” she continued.
Straight to the point. I was glad Cassie was there. My plan was to tiptoe delicately around the subject for what probably would have been another 500 words worth of dialogue here in this post I’m writing up. Fortunately, Cassie’s willingness to address a problem directly saved me the typing and you the tedium.
“Even if I wanted to, I couldn’t,” Grayson said. “The university doesn’t know he’s gone yet.”
“Who is running this place?” Cassie asked in amazement.
I know. We’ve all been thinking it. Turns out the answer is ‘there’s a board’ and they make all the real decisions. The president is just a figurehead. Which is pretty obvious if you stop and think about it. I wanted to ask if the flickering man reported to the board but I also didn’t want to derail the conversation with things that really didn’t matter anymore. It’s safer to just assume the board is the administration I’ve been wondering about this whole time. Heck, it’s safer to assume everyone except for the students and professors are responsible in some part for the whole monster situation.
Sorry for not finding out for certain, but Grayson was working through some important stuff and I didn’t dare interrupt.
“I don’t want counseling, either,” he continued. “Please don’t take this the wrong way, but I never cared for him. Not in a familial sense. My presence was more to fill a role.”
Things were starting to connect in my head. This conversation reminded me of some things the flickering man had said. Roles to be filled. A cycle, ushering in new students to fill them. They’d been filling the president’s role with a corpse - a very old one, judging by the date on the photo Cassie took of the headstone - so perhaps that wasn’t the only role being filled.
“Were you adopted?” I asked. “By the president?”
“I was.”
Beside me, Cassie took a deep breath. It wasn’t from shock. It sounded more like… annoyance. If I’m being generous with the term.
“The flickering man said something to me,” I said slowly. “That I wasn’t the first person he’d seen like this and I wouldn’t be the last. Are you… not the only child that the president has adopted?”
“...I’m not.”
This is the point where Cassie just lost it. Stood up, yelled ‘why the fuck didn’t you tell us any of this?!’ and stormed out of the room. She slammed the door to her bedroom shut behind her. Grayson and I sat there in the living room for a good minute, stunned, listening to what I’m 99% certain was Cassie screaming into her pillow. Then the door opened and she returned to calmly sit down on the sofa again.
“I’m good,” she said. “All better. Please continue.”
The details of the conversation get a little fuzzy at this point, as it seems that even though the forgetter is gone I’m still having memory issues. Unfortunately Grayson was right - it wasn’t the forgetter that was responsible for my particular variety of memory loss. There’s something else trying to protect Grayson.
I suspect the tree in the graveyard. Its roots have spread all over campus, after all.
Sorry to be so blase about this but it’s not actually that upsetting anymore. It’s just this thing we’re dealing with.
It’s a good thing Cassie was present for the rest of the conversation. She filled me in on the details later, after we’d confirmed that I had some significant gaps. Grayson explained a bit more about the whole adoption thing. He didn’t know who his birth parents were. He’d never been outside of this town and basically grew up on campus. This is all kind of recapping what we already knew or guessed at, but the adoption angle was new at least. I’d assumed that his dad had died and been replaced, which he had, except it wasn’t his dad at all and Grayson’s role as the son was being replaced over and over also.
Which is all kinds of fucked up.
It also means that this has been going on for generations and I think we all know why that’s rather alarming.
“What happened to the previous adopted kids?” I asked once we’d gotten through this rather confusing summary.
“They died.”
There was a heavy silence in the room.
“How?” I asked.
“Well… one drowned. Another suffocated.” He hesitated. “This is kind of why I’m reluctant to tell people I’m the president’s son.”
“Grayson, are you worried someone will try to kill you?” Cassie asked flatly.
“...yeah. I am, actually.”
Screaming into a pillow myself was starting to look pretty tempting.
Now I’m sure you’re all thinking what I was thinking at this point. If the university was just recycling the president’s corpse and finding new children to play the role of their child for… reasons??? then perhaps that was why the flickering man was interested in me. Perhaps I was Grayson’s replacement, as many of you have theorized.
I mean, it seems pretty suspicious. Grayson’s dad is getting his soul replaced on the regular - or at least, he was. Grayson himself is a replacement for prior Graysons but I guess since they don’t need an adult, they’re just grabbing any ol’ kid to fill the role for a while. But the former Graysons keep dying because the inhumans get him? Grayson has a lot of protection on campus but he’s not immune - I’ve watched him get attacked by the steam ghost in particular.
Which leads me to my own theory. If I am a replacement, I don’t fit the mold. Perhaps that’s why the flickering man hated me so much. I’m too old (legal adult yay) and… I’m not a son.
But I wanted to confirm some things.
We wrapped up the conversation with Grayson because we were running out of mental capacity to ask more questions. He was clearly uncomfortable and there was a lot to process. He did promise to not be so difficult about this in the future. He wasn’t really grieving. He was just… uncertain. He didn’t know what to do anymore. Which is fair. When you’re raised to fill a role and suddenly that role is gone it’s hard to adjust.
I know what that feels like.
After Grayson left I messaged Maria asking if she knew anyone that was good with a camera. Like, really good. And also good in high stress situations. She got back to me pretty quickly. Maria is starting to become one of those people who knows everyone. She’s heading firmly down the road of becoming the subject of one of those unhinged tumblr posts where someone magically summons an army of people to fulfill a task, while she stays on the sidelines quietly directing the ever-increasing chaos.
Fortunately, she’s not there quite yet, but she is freakishly well-connected for a campus of this size. Within an hour she had me in a group chat with someone from the Folklore Society who fit all my requirements, even the unspoken ones. Someone that was good with a camera in “hostile circumstances” (her words, very accurate) and wouldn’t cut and run the moment things got a little weird. I think you all see where I was going with this.
Yeah, we were going to get photos of something inhuman.
DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME.
For starters, it’s not safe just getting close to an inhuman to photograph it. And once you do, that opens a whole new set of hazards. If the inhuman takes offense to being photographed, then they’re going to do anything they have to to get the photo destroyed and all rules are off the table when it comes to disguising their existence. Think of it like this - an inhuman might not be able to enter a house due to hospitality rules keeping them out, but this is weighed against their need to keep their presence obscured. The latter wins. Hospitality rules are no longer enough protection.
That’s my understanding, at least.
And sure, there are inhumans that don’t seem to care if a photo or two are leaked to the internet, but you have no way of knowing in advance. Let’s say you get lucky and nothing comes after you to destroy the phone/camera, computer, your social media accounts, and you. You’re not quite off the hook. That photo is a connection to the inhuman and if the creature captured in it doesn’t use it as an access point, something else might.
Photos are just a bad idea all around.
So we agreed that if we were going to go ahead with this stupid plan, we’d do so with as many safety measures as we could. First, the person taking the photo would be fully informed on the potential consequences. I was hoping that they could just teach Maria or I how to use a camera, but considering they were in the inner circle Folklore Society (what I’m calling the folks that know the monsters aren’t just stories) they wanted to come in person. I tried to talk them out of it, they finally made a snarky comment about if I wanted them to sign a waiver, and I dropped the topic.
Secondly, we were going to destroy both the photo and the camera afterwards. I got online and ordered the cheapest digital camera I could find. It was a camera designed for young children so it was pastel pink with teddy bears on it, but whatever, it was digital and didn’t cost over $30. The money from my job at the dining hall has helped with the finances but I didn’t particularly feel like lighting it on fire.
Especially since we planned to literally light the camera on fire when we were done. I wasn’t looking forward to the smell of burning plastic but fire is both a thorough and symbolically traditional way to dispose of things. Like I said, we were trying to do this as safely as we could.
The camera arrived the next day so we decided to go ahead with our plan that evening. Cassie would stay home because we felt having too many people might be a hindrance if we had to bail out. Also, she had “digital date night” with her girlfriend and I didn’t want to interfere.
Then we found a discreet entrance to the steam tunnels.
I wanted a photograph of the steam ghost. It had a face. I wanted to see what that face looked like.
I’d scouted out the steam tunnel entrances beforehand, while waiting for the burner (lol) camera to arrive. Last time I’d looked inside, they were clogged with roots. However, if the roots were originating from the graveyard, then perhaps the parts of campus that were farthest away would be clear enough to traverse. I got lucky and found an entrance inside of one of the dorms that’s out by the parking lot. The lobby is open and from there it’s easy enough to just coast into the stairwell behind someone with a keycard and then down into the basement. There were roots, but they hung from the ceiling as slender tendrils that brushed the top of my head like the faint touch of a moth. I didn’t go far inside. Just enough to confirm it didn’t get any worse and we had a long corridor free of obstruction.
When I came back, I had Maria and the photographer with me.
His name is Jacob and he’s a sophomore. He joined the Folklore Society because he realized he wasn’t making any attempts to be social, at college of all places, and picked a club that seemed like it would be small so he didn’t have to deal with crowds. Large groups of people intimidated him. I can certainly relate to that.
I feel bad for him. Imagine getting caught up in all this bullshit just because you had trouble making friends.
It also occurred to me that this photography excursion was also part of his attempt to make friends, because that’s what landed him in the group that had to hide from the thing in the hallway. Whatever. Maria can deal with that. She’s the extrovert.
“Let’s not forget the plan,” I said nervously as we gathered outside the door. “We get in. We get the photo. We run like hell back out the door.”
I’m happy to say that the plan worked. Every step. Swear to god.
We were about halfway to where the tunnel turned when the steam started to rise out of the ground around us. It seeped through the walls, filling our lungs and making it hard to breathe. The usual. We turned back at that point, as we wanted to be close to the exit so we could snap the photo and run once the steam ghost showed up.
The nice thing about inhumans is that they can be predictable. They have set rules they follow and so long as you follow the prescribed pattern of behavior, you know what to expect. This allows you to plan, as I’d done. So when we loitered within sprinting distance of the door, the steam ghost obliged to show up and chase us off.
Just as expected. And Jacob was ready with our pastel pink camera, so that when its face materialized out of the steam, mouth open in a silent scream and its misty hands stretched towards us, he was able to snap a photo.
Then we ran and reached the door before it caught up.
See? Exactly as planned.
There’s one more rule we learned about though. One that I’d forgotten to factor in for this crucial moment.
The doors in the steam tunnels don’t always open to the same place.
We tumbled through without thinking. I, pulling up the rear, had a moment of hesitation when I saw nothing but darkness ahead of me, but it was too late, I was in a full sprint and besides, Maria had already stumbled through the doorway. I slammed into Jacob’s back, propelling him the few steps he needed to be past the doorway, and then we were all through and the door slammed shut behind us.
The air was warm and damp. The steam tunnels, while warm, aren’t damp unless the steam ghost is present. This felt like being inside of a sauna. I could feel water beads forming on my arms, clinging to the hairs that were currently standing on end in alarm. There was a faint breeze coming from ahead of us, a slowly rhythmic flow to it like a fan. It did nothing to alleviate the heat. If anything, it was even warmer.
Maria turned her phone’s flashlight on.
We were in a corridor, much the same size as the tunnel we’d just escaped. The walls glistened with moisture, shining with the gray-pink color of rotting beef. There were no sharp angles, just a round passageway that vanished into darkness at the edge of Maria’s flashlight beam. The floor beneath our feet was slightly squishy.
And it was full of teeth.
Honestly I think I would have preferred sharp teeth, like an animal’s fangs or something out of science fiction. Instead, we got human incisors, circling the entirety of the tunnel in regular intervals.
The tunnel rippled. There was a faint gurgling sound, like the rumbling of a stomach twisting in hunger. And those rows of teeth began to tighten as the tunnel constricted around us.
“STEAM GHOST,” Maria yelled. “I CHOOSE THE STEAM GHOST.”
And she threw the door behind us open and dove back into the tunnel. Jacob grabbed my arm and dragged me along with him, as I was frozen in fear, staring at all those glistening ivory teeth. I stumbled over the doorframe and fell forwards, hitting the cement floor hard on all fours. I heard the door slam shut behind me. Frantically, I looked up at the tunnel.
No ghost. But the steam was still there, hanging heavy in the air and filling my lungs. The ghost would be back. I was certain of that.
“What now?!” Jacob asked, his earlier calm quickly giving way to panic.
“Try the door again!” I said, scrambling to my feet. “It changes!”
Maria spun around and opened the door a sliver for the second time, just enough to peer through the crack and confirm what was on the other side.
“FUCK.”
Then she slammed it shut. Opened it. Another burst of profanity, slightly more panicked than the last explicative. Meanwhile, Jacob and I cowered at her back, staring at the steam that hung thick in the air all around us, waiting to see if it was going to reform into a malevolent spirit while Maria played Russian roulette with the door.
She did this five times before she finally got the dorm we’d entered through.
Flushed and panting, we stumbled through and Jacob kicked the door to the steam tunnels shut with a determined flourish. There. We’d done it. As I’d said, our plan went perfectly. We got the photo and ran like hell to the door.
Didn’t plan on what happened after we went through the door. This is my lack of attention to detail coming into play, which is probably what also made me a shitty barista.
We crowded around Jacob to see the photo he got. This is why we recruited someone with actual photography skills. He was able to use a truly shitty camera intended for toddlers to somehow focus on a literal ghost’s face in the handful of seconds we had before it reached us, all while not panicking.
Staring at us from the tiny screen was a person’s face. Not a face made of steam. An actual flesh and blood human face. The rest of the shot was obscured by steam, framing it so that all we could see was this disembodied human face staring out at us from the camera’s digital screen. The expression was placid, the eyes hollow and devoid of emotion.
I’d seen this look before, on the library ghost. This distant stare of something that wasn’t wholly here.
“That is… really creepy,” Jacob said.
“We just escaped a hallway full of teeth and this is what you find creepy?” I said.
“No, that was creepy too. I can be terrified by multiple things at once.”
We all stared at the photo for a good few minutes, trying to commit the face to memory because we were not going to retain any copies of it. Then Jacob deleted the photo, handed me the camera, and we awkwardly went our separate ways.
I got out my phone as soon as we’d all walked off. My theory was looking plausible, but there was one more thing I could do to confirm I was on the right track.
I texted Grayson. I asked him if the children before him, the ones the president adopted, were all male.
They were.
The library ghost. The stabbed student. And now… the steam ghost.
All former students. All male. All trapped on campus after their deaths.
And for at least two of them, they seemed to have something against Grayson.
They don’t like Grayson because he replaced them.

URL: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/articles/parents-ultimate-guide-to-discord-2024
Title: “Parents' Ultimate Guide to Discord (2024)”
Author: Common Sense Media
Date Published: February 8, 2024
In today's digital age, Discord has emerged as a popular communication platform among children. It offers a place for children where they can connect and share interests. The app uses various forms of communication, including text, voice, and video. However, as with any social media, it is essential for parents to understand the potential benefits and risks that can come with it. The article, "Parents' Ultimate Guide to Discord," published by Common Sense Media on February 8th, 2024, provides a thorough look through of Discord's features and its impact on children.
First Media Key: Balance
In the book Infinite Bandwidth, the first media key emphasizes the importance of balance. When using media, It is important to have the virtue of temperance in order to maintain healthy media habits as “it ensures the will’s mastery over instincts and keeps desires within the limits of what is honorable.” (Gan, pg. 31). The article states that Discord can be a valuable tool for children to communicate and build a community with their peers as it “is a free app for mobile and PC that lets people chat via text, voice, or video in real time." (Common Sense Media, 2024). But, it is essential for children to balance their time on the app with other activities as Discord's features, such as chatting in servers, can lead to excessive use and detract from real-world interactions and responsibilities. With the ever growing use social media today, parents cannot stop their children from using apps for communication. Parents must be their children’s guide and example in learning to have a healthy balance of online and offline communication. So, parents must encourage their children to have temperance when using Discord so that they can still enjoy the app's benefits without it dominating or harming their lives.
Second Media Key: Attitude Awareness
When applying the second key of attitude awareness, prudence must be used as it “is the virtue that disposes practical reason to discern our true good in every circumstance and to choose the right means of achieving it.” (Gan, pg. 47). The article highlights the necessity of attitude awareness regarding the content and interactions on Discord. Children should be discerning about the communities they join and the conversations they engage in because “it's all user-generated, there's the potential for plenty of inappropriate content, like swearing and graphic language and images". (Common Sense Media, 2024). The article does a good job pointing out that while Discord has privacy settings and safety features, the open chat environment can expose children to inappropriate content and interactions with strangers. Parents must be their children's guardians, bringing awareness to the dangers of messages that could be sent to them. Parents should discuss with their children the importance of prudence, and help them learn to make good, wise decisions about who they communicate with and what they share.
Third Media Key: Dignity of the Human Person
The third media key centers on the dignity of the human person, which involves using the virtue of justice. Justice is an important virtue to have when using any form of social media as it “disposes one to respect the rights of each,” as well as, “promotes equity with regard to persons and to the common good.” (Gan, pg 62-63). Respecting the dignity of the human person means engaging in respectful, positive communication and avoiding harmful, negative behaviors. The article talks about the presence of both supportive and harmful interactions and that "Discord has privacy and safety settings that allow users to control who has the ability to send them direct messages or add them as a friend." (Common Sense Media, 2024). If not for these, children could receive harmful, or even dangerous messages. These features allow parents to protect their children and their dignity.
Fourth Media Key: Truth-filled
The fourth media key highlights the importance of truth. The virtue of fortitude is necessary for children to seek and uphold truth as it “strengthens the resolve to resist temptations and to overcome obstacles in the moral life” (Gan, pg. 79). The article explains that while Discord can be a good platform for talking to others by sharing knowledge and engaging in discussions,"There are several educational servers and as well as Student Hubs" (Common Sense Media, 2024). Discord can also be used to possibly spread misinformation and falsehoods as "Each server on Discord has both text and voice channels," and "You can share images, video, and GIFs on Discord" (Common Sense Media, 2024). Parents should encourage their children to lean on the virtue of fortitude to help them verify information and be cautious when using Discord.
Fifth Media Key: Inspiring
The fifth media key focuses on the inspiring potential of media, it “encourges us to expect the best from media” (Gan, pg. 94). Discord's communities and collaborative features can inspire children to learn, create, and connect with others who share their interests and help spread goodness and positivity. As previously mentioned in the article, Discord has educational servers and Student Hubs which “connects them with their classmates in a private server where they can create study groups and interest clubs." (Common Sense Media, 2024).
Sixth Media Key: Skillfully Developed
The sixth media key centers on the quality and creation of media. Discord's user-generated content varies widely in quality and appropriateness because “in this day and age, we all can be media-makers” (Gan, pg. 110). The article highlights the importance of properly managing children’s online environment in Discord. Children should be encouraged to join well-moderated servers that promote meaningful, positive interactions. This can easily be achieved with Discord as "Server owners can also set their own rules for what is or isn't allowed (for example, swearing or hate speech) and block from chat any users who break the rules." (Common Sense Media, 2024). Discord has also created many privacy settings and features "Family Center is a Discord feature that allows parents and caregivers to monitor their kids' activity on the app." (Common Sense Media, 2024), allowing Parents to help guide their children to use Discord thoughtfully and carefully. Discord has skillfully made it parents to monitor what their children are up to and who they are talking to, ensuring their safety online.
Seventh Media Key: Motivated by and Relevant to Experience
The seventh and final media key emphasizes the importance of creating an experience through media that appeals to children's thoughts and emotions. It inspires their actions and calls them to have the virtue of charity, which “is friendship and communion” (Gan, pg. 128). Discord follows this key through its features, where children can create meaningful interactions that resonate with each other. "Users also create private servers to chat with friends while they play together. For example, a team on Fortnite could create a private server on Discord to chat and strategize together" (Common Sense Media, 2024). Children can also form communities with each other around shared interests; "just about any topic is represented on Discord" (Common Sense Media, 2024). Discord is a great platform that motivates and is relevant to children. It enhances their real-world relationships and interests through communication and collaboration.

Okay so I met this guy online two years ago. I was going through a rough time in my life and felt like I needed someone. Made a post on here about what my type is and he messaged me. He lives on the other side of the world. He showed pictures and he was quite literally my exact type. A chubby, nerdy guy who is lonely. Weirdly adorable looking. Just days prior to him messaging me he made a post saying he felt like giving up because no woman would love him or find him attractive, and saying how he had two abusive exes.
When he first messaged me he lovebombed me. If I was afk for a few minutes he'd say, oh no... I scared you off didn't I? Stuff like that. He'd post selfies of himself carrying an invisble person over his shoulder or hugging, and told me to imagine myself there. Everytime I posted a selfie he'd comment and compliment it. For context, yes I did have feelings for him and still do. He even copied the way I speak, specifically a goofier way of saying yup that I made up.
Then after that, I'd say after about two months, things settled down. He didn't post selfies as much, and the lustful comments stopped. We just seemed like friends, and we laughed over voice chat. Gradually he started talking to me less and less, sometimes going days without talking. When he did talk it was like I had to carry the entire conversation. He stopped asking me questions, or even acknowledging that I posted a selfie. The other day, I asked him if he was awake since it was early in the morning my time and he said, yup. I asked him how he was, and he said, tired, actually I'm going to have a nap now see you in a bit. But he didn't.
I later learned through his post history that his therapist thought he was an abuser trying to play the victim, referring to his past two relationships. He told me one of his exes shot a gun at him and the bullet grazed his head or shoulder. Early on he told me about how his bio dad is an asshole and other personal things. Now he doesn't say anything like that. It's like he's a completely different person to the one I met two years ago. I checked his fb and he barely has any friends, or even an online presence in general. As the years went by he posts like every few weeks on his Reddit account compared to before when he'd post daily.
He always says it's because he's tired from work, but even on his free days or days where he had an entire week off, he doesn't talk much, he says he's sorry for not responding, and when he does the replies seem lazy, for lack of a better word. It feels cold. He doesn't smile in his selfies anymore. He doesn't post them often now but early on he posted a lot of selfies and he was smiling in most of them.
I asked him a few weeks ago if he'd be interested in meeting up, he said he thinks we're fine as we are since he doesn't like travelling, and meeting me in the future is not all that likely. I told him I find him attractive and if it wasn't for the distance I'd totally ask him out. He just said, Thanks. I can't fly due to a medical issue.
I was planning on drawing him a big picture of one of his favourite characters for his birthday but I'm thinking of just voiding it since I feel like he doesn't care about me anymore. Wibtah?

Hey, my name is Elian. I’m 20 years old, I’m in the CDT time zone. I’m currently in college, though I graduate this week, I’m a major in Business Administration. I also currently work part-time. Since I am about to graduate, I will be having a lot of free time this summer, so I wanted to reach out and get some new roleplay partners! My rules are few but somewhat specific, so here are those!

1. Be 18+, no exceptions.
2. Be at least semi-literate.
3. Write in 3rd person.

I’m in a few fandoms, but I enjoy OC roleplays just as much! I also prefer MxM for ships and OC roleplays. Here are some fandoms I’m in and the characters I play for each!
• My Hero Academia: Toshinori Yagi (All Might), Hizashi Yamada (Present Mic), Shouta Aizawa (Eraser Head)
• Detroit: Become Human: Hank Anderson
• Naruto/Naruto/Shippuden: Kakashi Hatake, Iruka Umino, Jiraiya
My fandom list isn’t very extensive, but I have PLENTY of OCs! If you would like a list of those, I can send that with basic descriptions, and if any catch your eye I can send a more detailed bio! I also draw my characters, so I have art for each one :)
I have plots as well. Mainly themes like Romance, Slice of Life, Drama, Angst, and Fantasy. I have a rather long list, some a mix of those things, and I also love sharing ideas and plot/world building, so feel free to tell me any ideas at any time!!
If this interests you, feel free to DM me and we can talk more!!

Hi! This is going to be a long one/rant and story because I really don’t know who to talk to about this in real life because I’m not in therapy and I’m so embarrassed to be feeling this way knowing I made all the choices to be here and people are already flying in from out of state to come to our wedding. Also I’m diagnosed adhd incase any of yall are wondering what’s wrong with me once I tell you all the decisions I made to get here. I am getting married in three months and have a son who is 15 months old. My now fiance 28m and I 27f met whenever we were thirteen years old in middle school and started a tumultuous up and down / on and off again relationship. We were together all the way up until junior year in high school and we broke up. I come from a broken home and he does not. Looking back I realize how much of me staying with him and trying to keep his attention stemmed from my abandonment issues that I must have had from my own parents. After we broke up he joined a gang in my local hometown and I was still in love with him so I decided to still be involved with him even though I was not in a relationship with him. I ended up losing my virginity to him while we were not together just because I wanted to be with him and we said we were friends with benefits but really I was just in love with him and thought by doing that maybe he would want to be with me again but he didn’t and continued to sleep with other girls and do drugs. I also started doing drugs like Xanax and smoking to fit in with him and be cool. I ended up getting a horrible tattoo because one of the other girls he was also seeing had a bunch of tattoos. I dropped out of my high school college courses and ended up going to jail for marijuana in high school and got kicked out of cheer and softball. I ended up on probation and having to be drug tested for a year. Within that year after being heart broken and realizing nothing I did would make him change into who he was before he got involved in our local gang or make him want to be with me… I ended up enrolling in college and getting accepted to a university where I would move about two hours away from our home town to live on campus and study to be a nurse. While on probation, so I couldn’t really party or anything in college which was good (even though I was never really addicted to anything and it wouldn’t be that hard for me) I wanted to save money for a car so I ended up getting a job at the hooters next to my college and was in college full time and working at hooters. My sister happened to go to that same college before I did and live in that town with her ex bf and they would give me rides to and from work back to campus. Low and behold after about two semesters of me being in college and finally feeling like I was moving on from him, he came back messaging me and telling me he missed me and wanted to be with me again. I was stupid and so excited that I agreed and asked him to come see me at college where he would stay for the weekend and we would have an amazing time. I felt so good about myself doing what I was doing and being able to show my growth. Despite all that he was still able to convince me to leave school and come back to be with him and live with him and go to the college near our hometown and work at the hooters near our hometown. I had already felt like I didn’t want to be a nurse at the time because my sister who was a nurse told me you could never leave the state as a nurse if you get your license there (which she didn’t know at the time that you could) and I knew I didn’t want to stay where I was from and wanted to eventually travel. So I decided to leave and move back with him in his bedroom at his parents house where I would work at the hooters close to our home town and never enroll in the college. He would eventually break up with me while I was at work one day even though I was living with him and since I didn’t have a car he continued to take me back in forth from work and I continued to live with him and continued to be in love with him while he committed to the fact that he didn’t want to be in a relationship but wanted to marry me one day and just wasn’t ready for anything right now and still wanted to have sex with me which I did. From working at hooters I had auditioned for the calendar and ended up being really liked by the photographer and started doing some modeling from that which was super exciting for me because I always was interested in that and the pictures we took would blow up and I started getting well known in my area for modeling even though they were just pictures and I wasn’t making any money off of it. Eventually a guy came into hooters telling me about working as an exotic dancer and how much they could make and I still needed a car really badly and was desperate to get out of my ex’s (now fiance) house. So I told him I would be waitressing and that I heard the waitresses make good money there and asked him to give me a ride there one day and so he started giving me a ride everyday. The money was so good to me and the most money I had ever seen. I ended up staying in a hotel closer to the club I worked at and sometimes he would come stay with me and I would just uber to work. Eventually I had gotten a car which I was so happy about. A couple of weeks after I got a car I ended up getting sucked into human trafficking with a friend where I would live in a house with multiple girls for 6 months and go to work at the club every day of the week except Saturday and Sundays. I wasn’t doing anything extra just dancing but the money was going to some random guy. It’s crazy I know. I was stupid and young and my family were not concerned for me at all or involved in my life. unfortunately my friend is just now leaving that situation. I got out without anything no car or nothing and had nowhere to go so back to my exes I went where I decided I was going to buy a cash car again and I worked everyday like I was used to saved money and got a car. Moved to my sisters and stayed with her for a little where i decided I didn’t want to dance anymore and I got a job as a bottle service girl and then waitressing at another waitress. I continued modeling because it made me happy and I never told anyone the truth about the deep things that were happening in my life except for my now fiance. So nobody had no idea about me dancing or the human trafficking or anything. Everyone just knew I modeled. I ended up getting an apartment with some friends and One day I got the urge to go to California randomly and at my waitressing job I was handed $800 and I took it as a sign and booked a flight the next day. Where I went by myself my first time ever on a flight with no plans at all. The day I got there I got asked to be in a commercial two days later. My roommate and her friends flew out there to get me and she ended up being able to be in the commercial with me which ended up on tbs but I had to go back home to my apartment and responsibilities and couldn’t leave my roommate stranded. Even though months later we would end up getting in an argument and I’d move out and move back with my ex (now fiance) where I would continue to work and model (for free) and went back to the club to dance and then my sister ended up going to California for a travel nursing assignment and her and her bf broke up and she asked me to move with her. I had nothing else here, my ex was still saying he didn’t want to be in a relationship, he was consistently sleeping with other girls while we lived together and expected relationship things from me. I was paying for everything for him. I paid for him while he was in school for audio engineer, his gas, lunch, school clothes, shopping, I helped him open his own studio and bought his equipment and Mac for it, even though his parents were very involved in his life. I got all his family bday gifts and Christmas gifts every year. He was honestly just using me but I was so in love and blind. He encouraged me to go to California too so I had nothing else there for me, if he had told me to stay and he wanted to be with me I would’ve. I flew out on my 21st birthday and met my sister and Vegas where we would have such a great time and my ex spent that day hanging out with a girl that tried to fight me and didn’t even tell me happy birthday, I was crying in the bathroom in Vegas until my sister shook me and told me to get it together we’re in Vegas. I was so heart broken to be leaving him but he didn’t care. I got to LA and I instantly started modeling on day one I booked a photo shoot where I met a guy that reminded me of my ex (I know) but we instantly clicked and he was 7 years older than me. We ended up talking for a little bit and pursuing something even though I wasn’t ready emotionally but he didn’t really care and I was kind of star struck a little because he was a music producer for a very famous musician and he was very persistent but that’s another story. I ended up booking a music video as a main girl for my ex’s (now fiance) favorite artist. When it came out it was crazy because I felt like the universe and God was just blessing me for leaving that situation and I knew he would see it because he was so obsessed with that artist and it shook up the whole small town I was from. After that I booked a lot of cool jobs like Sephora and worked with a lot of companies, and did some music videos for other super famous artists, and walked in fashion shows and modeled for clothing brands etc. I was working all the time as an extra to pay my bills and I was meeting cool people. I was always getting invited to celebrities parties and just having such a fun time. I decided to start getting into acting instead and started going to acting school where a lot of well known celebrities also went to and I started having meetings with very popular directors and I was being mentored by famous directors and another person that created an tv entertainment channel that I won’t say here also mentored me a lot and got me a lot of meetings with these people and would go to dinners and stuff etc with a list celebrities. I truly was living the life. And coming from where I can it was almost a dream. I had gotten in a relationship my first year there with that other guy I mentioned who ended up being super possessive of me but he treated me like a queen in the sense of paying for everything, giving me a safe space to tell my feelings, open up, the sex was amazing, he would take me on trips, took me out of the country for the first time. We ended up not working out due to lifestyle differences and just being at two different places and wanting different things. He wanted to move out of the country and have a farm and I wasn’t ready to do that as I wanted to focus on my career. (But I would die to move out of the country on a farm now ironically and he is doing just that now like he said he would haha) anyway, I ended up having my own studio apartment by myself that I loved so much and was so proud of. My sister had moved to Montana and it took a lot for me to get my apartment like staying in a house with other girls for a little to sleeping in my car and at a spa for a couple days. When I would fly home or drive home to see my family I would always see my ex, everytime. We kept a friendship and sometimes I would still help him out if needed, he was interning at a church through his school for audio engineering and recording people at his studio in our hometown. By this time I was going to New York and Miami also sometimes and doing work there. I wasn’t as stressed about bills anymore. I was seeing guys every now and then but not at all interested in a relationship, my heart was still healing from the past and both my exes but mainly my first (now fiance). I was super focused on my career and optimistic, I was used to the grind and in no way ever thinking of quitting. It just wasn’t an option because I knew I would make it wherever that would be because to me that is all I had for me and all I ever knew I wanted and the only thing that saved me. Skip to around October 2019 I had found out about a girl my ex was seeing and it crushed me. He was doing with her just like he was with me though. Just “friends with benefits” I was living in my apartment in LA still and my uncle that helped raise me was getting really sick back home and put on hospice so I decided to take a trip back to see him. I would go to restaurants in my state and near my home town and people would ask to take pictures with me, and at the little ceasars drive through someone asked if I was me and stuff it was crazy because I hadn’t been home in awhile and I felt like what I was doing was finally paying off and people were recognizing me. It was surreal. I ended up going to see my ex. I had such a fear of losing him to this other girl for some reason. I was so scared he would get her pregnant or get in a serious relationship since I was gone so far away and I would never be with him, I would end up sleeping with him again and the girl found out and drove by his house mad and cussing me out and throwing stuff at me. We ended up getting in a fight which is so embarrassing and beneath me. I ended up crying to him that I wanted to be with him and don’t know why he never wanted to be with me which at this time he honestly was not even in my playing field anymore. He told me if I wanted to be with him I had to move back to my hometown.. my heart dropped to my stomach and I knew it wasn’t what I was supposed to do but I said okay… all because this is what I had wanted all those years. I decided to stay where the next two years all I would think about everyday was I was making the wrong decision and needed to go back to my life. My hometown had nothing for me.. COVID hit a couple months after me being there and we were terrified. We ended up getting everything out of my apartment and moving into a house around the corner from his parents. I had to tell him how I liked to communicate now without yelling and stuff which I learned from the boyfriend I had in LA and that I wasn’t going to put up with that disrespect but he never listened. Eventually everything went back to normal. I ended up going back to the club again dancing because I didn’t want to go backward and model here. He never wanted me to go back to LA even for a little bit even though that’s where my career and heart was so I had no idea what to do with my life. I started waitressing as well and getting back on my adhd meds. People started pressuring us to get pregnant and we tried for a year and 6 months. The month I found out I was pregnant before I knew, I quit my job and decided I was going to move back and get my life back. Two days later I found out I was pregnant…. Finally after trying for over a year. Our relationship was toxic just like the past he always yelled, I could never talk to him about my feelings without him saying I was trying to fight, he spit in my face once, threatened me, put his hands on me, he would tell me he was going to take my baby away from me as soon as I had it. I started asking him about getting married while I was pregnant and the proposal wasn’t even that. He got mad at me for asking one day and walked in the room and handed me the ring. It didn’t fit because I was pregnant & it was $27 (not that that matters but the proposal sucked).. he drained both my bank accounts and they closed it, charged my credit card up and put me in debt, he has not let me do anything I want to do like school or anything. He is so bad with money. He has an action figure addiction and at one point was spending 3k on action figures every month and turned one of the rooms in our house into a collection room so I had to take everything out of my closet and put my sons crib in there for the first year of his life. we have good times and I feel comfortable with him. He knows everything about me but he doesn’t respect me and sometimes I feel like he is intimidated by me. The sex isn’t good at all we always just ask “do you want to have sex” he never gives oral or foreplay, I never get pleasure. He’s an amazing dad though and loves his son. We have the most sweet and beautiful little boy now who I love so much and he loves him also. He’s very attentive to his son. But I still feel unheard. I can’t talk about my feelings. If I do it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t change anything. He is so defensive and we never communicate for a solution it’s always just pointing fingers. I have started yelling again because I’m so used to it now and I hate it because I grew up like that and I finally grew out of it until I got back with him and recently started again and now he throws it in my face and knows I begged him not to do it forever but he never stopped and now I am too. I’ve asked him to take me to the movies and he hasn’t still. I just ask for more romance and stuff but it just feels like I have a roommate. I have nothing now. I had my car and we traded it in for a new car that he wanted. I always dreamed of the next car I’d get once I paid it off but he got it & it’s in his name now so I paid it off for nothing. I’m driving around his dream car. I’ve been planning our wedding since I birthed our son and everything is going good. Money is tight. He works at the church now full time and makes about 45k a year or so, my son has been waiting to start daycare for awhile so I have been home with him. I’ve tried starting jobs multiple times but he is against it unless it’s super fast money like going to the club which I am so repulsed by and absolutely hate it now. I tried going back to college but my old college won’t release my transcripts for fasfa because I owe them money. I started cosmetology school a few months ago which he was all for but two months in freaked out and him and his mom guilt tripped me that we can’t handle this right now and he was having a hard time doing the night time routine for the baby while I was at school so I had to leave and now owe that’s school for my kit unless I enroll again in 128 days. I also miss modeling so much and sometimes think I can start again but it’s been five years. My body is so different too after a baby. Everything I want is a no go. Especially moving out of our hometown. He says he wants to but I don’t think he does. We are constantly at his moms and dads and they tell us all the time we aren’t moving anywhere which is really hard for me as this place is super toxic for my soul. Anytime I get money he spends it. Anytime I save money he spends it. Even if it does go towards our bills. His action figure habit is almost nonexistent now and he has grown a lot in the past few months from that since I demanded my son have his own bedroom after his first bday and all his figures are in boxes now and told him he could turn the shed into his man cave. He says we can’t save because we have nothing to save after bills but I believe in saving anything even $5 a paycheck. It’s doable. I grew up poor so this is nothing to me but after living the lifestyle I lived in LA and going out with guys that respected me and cherished me it’s hard. I know nobody is perfect but we are about to get married and I’m scared… I have nothing though anymore. I’ve threatened to leave a couple times and he says he will take me to court and take my baby. I’m scared he might. I don’t want my son to be angry like him or not respect women how he does. In public he’s a saint. He also has a very supportive family that it’s almost toxic. They all blame me for his anger issues and say I make him that way. But he’s been punching walls since I met him in 8th grade. I know it’s not because of me. But I have nobody else and nowhere else to go. No money. No car. I’m at the bottom again where I was before. Only difference is now I have a son. And we are getting married in three months and I can’t call it off. I am older now and looking back on my life I realize he maybe truly never loved me and I was just so desperate for love. I got myself here nobody else. I accepted everything, even when my gut told me not to. ( he is not just horrible, he’s a great person just with some bad qualities like everyone but I’m tired of feeling stuck with someone that never truly wanted me and doesn’t care to grow in some ways or show me )
Please help.. what do I do?

My siblings and I inherited a house when our father passed away. We pay the taxes on it but our widowed (and estranged) stepmother lives there rent-free and without a lease (she pays the utilities etc).
There are some growing family contentions causing me to worry that we are in a fairly exposed and risky position if our stepmother should become injured while working on "her" home, or just angry and vindictive and decide to sue us for... whatever.
Does anyone have advice to offer for this situation? Forming an S-Corp vs LLC? Any other protections we can put in place to limit our personal exposure and guard ourselves financially?
There's obviously a whole lot of backstory and the details are not important. We are not looking to evict or anything like that but we do want to make sure we are safe in this new situation.

So, here’s the incident.
Me heading one direction, 2 lanes (straight and left turn) I’m going straight, vehicle in front of me is in the straight lane but is trying to turn left. Light turns green, vehicle ahead continues out into the intersection, still trying to turn left while blocking me. I overtake to the right, maintaining myself within the straight lane and continue straight, car opposite lane turning left goes and ends up hitting my front. Vehicle that was trying to turn in the wrong lane takes off. Me and person who crashed exchange info etc. icbc gets back to me saying I’m 100% at fault for the accident. Saying how because I overtook the vehicle in front of me I am at fault. Now I looked up the motor vehicle act and found this, keep in mind the vehicle who was in front of me was indeed trying to turn left with his signalling lights on. Both statements from each involved in the crash (me and opposite) confirmed same story. It was safe for me to overtake to the right while staying in my lane. Here’s from the act :
Section 158 — Passing on right
158 (1) The driver of a vehicle must not cause or permit the vehicle to overtake and pass on the right of another vehicle, except
(a) when the vehicle overtaken is making a left turn or its driver has signalled his or her intention to make a left turn,
(b) when on a laned roadway there is one or more than one unobstructed lane on the side of the roadway on which the driver is permitted to drive, or
(c) on a one way street or a highway on which traffic is restricted to one direction of movement, where the roadway is free from obstructions and is of sufficient width for 2 or more lanes of moving vehicles.
(2) Despite subsection (1), a driver of a vehicle must not cause the vehicle to overtake and pass another vehicle on the right
(a) when the movement cannot be made safely, or
(b) by driving the vehicle off the roadway.
I’ve disputed this decision, what’s your guys input ?

Hear me out first. A lot of Pinays who are 18 and above are offering video call sex (VCS) and selling nudes (pussy and boob pics) for 100 pesos per 2-3 pictures. Madami sa Telegram at kahit dito sa reddit. Now, imagine if the average daily customers per girl is around 15-20 men, the total earnings would be around 1500-2000 pesos per day. That doesn't even constitute an 8 hour workshift. Pagpalagay na natin na sa loob lang ng 4 na oras, ilang tigang ang gusto makakita ng nudes and are willing to pay wholeheartedly even if pwede naman magsearch for free. Let's assume that a content seller gets around 50 men within 8 hours per day, if she sells her pics for 100 pesos, that would mean earning around 5000 pesos. Take note that according to PSA, the male population in the country is higher (Of the 108.67 million household population in 2020, 55.02 million (50.6%) were males while 53.65 million (49.4%) were females), inshort madaming customer segment.
Definition of terms: 1. Escort (sex in exchange of money; mas sosyal pakinggan ang escort para hindi naman degrading) 2. Pops (number of orgasm; example: 1 pop = one orgasm)
Let's now move on to the escorts. Since not everyone who sells their pics and vids are open for meetups, the escorts are the ones who are willing to do the deed aside from selling contents. Now, an average escort offers sex services with the following rates: 3k- 1 pop 5k -2 pops to unli pops (depends on who you're dealing with) *Pano pag nag avail ka ng 3 hours for 1 pop pero nilabasan ka na after 20 minutes? Answer: E di tapos na ang session.
Now, some model body type escorts/foreign escorts working in Ph has the following rates: 25k pesos- 3 hours unli pops 30k pesos- unli pops overnight And some professionals or high calibre university students who are hiding their identities para hindi madiskubre at sumikat even reaches 50k pesos for 3 hours.
With that information, let's compute: If the average escort has 2 clients per day. If the rate is 3k pesos, that person can earn 6k pesos per day or 30k pesos per week if she agrees to meet up 2 clients daily. Okay, lets reduce it to 1 client per day, that would mean earning 3k pesos per day or 15k pesos a week. Mind you, the average wage in Metro Manila is 570 pesos per day or 2850 pesos per week and you need to render a total of 40 hours to earn that amount whereas pag pekpek ang puhunan mo, you only need to lay down for an hour or two cause let's face it, a typical guy doesn't even last for an hour. Pag yan nag-cum, tapos na ang service kahit pa nakaka-10 minutes of a 3 hour session ka pa lang.
Let us now compute further. Let's say you're that university student with reputation and you classify yourself as the ultimate prize, if your rate for 3 hours is around 30-50k pesos with unlimited pops, say you have a total of 8 clients for the month, that will generate you an income of mininum 240k pesos for the month (30k per customer) or max of 400k pesos (50k per customer) in a month. Magpapakantot ka lang, ang laki ng take home mo. An average lawyer can easily make 5-10k per day pero ang daming pagdadaanan somehow.
Let's see the bigger picture, sabihin na nating there are around 2,000,000 pinays who are offering 3k pesos per 1 pop, if they do it for 5 days weekly, the total income would be the following: A. 2,000,000 pinays for 3k unli pops per day generates 6,000,000 pesos. B. 2,000,000 pinays for 3k unli pops per 5 days a week generates 30,000,000 pesos C. 2,000,000 pinays for 3k unli pops per 5 days a week for a month (20 working days) generates 120,000,000 pesos.
Excluding weekends, we have a total of 260 working days per year. If 2,000,000 pinays would use pekpek once a day for a year, that would generate a total of 1,440,000,000 billion pesos, tax free. The annual GDP of the National Capital Region in the year 2023 is 7,572,347.073 billion pesos. The pekpek income of 1,440,000,000 billion pesos alone constitutes around 19% of the annual GDP of NCR.
Hindi kaya pekpek ang solusyon sa kahirapan ng Pilipinas?

Our daughter is about to turn 15 tomorrow and she has no friends. She’s always been extremely artistic and creative but has also been extremely political and prides herself as a type of social justice activist. She’s always concerned about injustices, racism, and the repressed. It’s to the point that she’s obsessed and it’s cost her numerous relationships. She doesn’t understand that her personality may be too much for other kids to take. She’s beyond her years socially which seems to be her biggest crutch. I’ve explained to her several times in the past that she needs to pick her battles and that many children could be put off by the way she is so aggressive and passionate about defending those that she feels have been slighted by the system. She cries racism at the smallest comments by anyone and flies off the handle if anyone has a differing opinion about things like LGBTQ rights. We as parents have tried to instill a respect for mutual opinion and allowing others to have free thoughts and to not immediately judge people because everyone has been raised differently and with different social upbringings. So here we sit on the eve of her 15th birthday and she’s having a full on emotional breakdown, full of tears, as she cries that she has no friends. She’s the only kid in her school that wears a mask still, which has also ousted her as a social pariah by kids that think it’s weird. She has respiratory issues and is still freaked out to get COVID. We tried to explain to her that a lot of kids may not get it and might feel like she’s the odd duck out. I just don’t know what to do.

Hello, I have gone through the entire Avatar store on the UK Xbox 360 store and made a list of every free avatar item.
I will note that this is male avatar only as when I tried to update the store with a female avatar it just didn't work and may have taken hours of waiting to do.
Also if done on the console avatar store (what I did) the pages will break at weird points (for me page 73, 149, 185, 225, 261, 301 consistently broke). If you see the scrolling white wheels of death, just back out and back into the section then scroll back to where you were.
Final note: there are Xbox codes still out there for free items but I didn't put in any effort personally to find them (I've heard of a free black Bing t-shirt).
[] represent page number
() represent block (going vertically)
Avatar Items
In order from "All" on the Avatar Store
Tops
Joe Bang Avatar T-shirt Male Free [page 12] (block 4)
Hydration Pack [page 28] (block 2)
Marines T-shirt [page 28] (block 5)
Pop-Tarts T-Shirt [page 32] (block 8)
Blacks Spades Shuffle Hoodie [page 36] (block 3)
Black Spades Wildcard Shirt [page 36] (block 4)
Black Spades Tee [page 36] (block 7)
BOOMco Blast Better Tee [page 84] (block 6)
Certified MCP – Black [page 126] (block 1)
Certified MCP – White [page 126] (block 5)
Xbox One Avatar t-shirt [page 229] (block 5)
Chicago Game Jersey [page 251] (block 2)
Buffalo Jersey [page 275] (block 6)
Cell Thermal [page 377] (block 2)
Agency Tower Shirt [page 377] (block 3)
Ruffian Shirt [page 377] (block 4)
Agency Fist Shirt [page 377] (block 5)
Crackdown 2 Tee [page 377] (block 6)
Running Agent Shirt [page 377] (block 7)
Headwear
Season Eight hat [page 2] (block 6)
Simple Mobile Avatar Hat [page 5] (block 8)
Marine Smokey [page 6] (block 1)
Marine Boonie Hat [page 18] (block 3)
Communications Helmet [page 18] (block 6)
Snap Hat [page 20] (block 7)
Pop-Tarts Helmet [page 20] (block 8)
Toucan Sam Mascot Head [page 21] (block 1)
Pop Hat [page 21] (block 2)
Crackle Hat [page 21] (block 5)
Black Spades Bucket Hat [page 23] (block 4)
Porsche 918 Spyder Hat [page 23] (block 8)
Black Spades Snapback [page 24] (block 2)
Vintage Helmet [page 24] (block 3)
Welcome to Porsche Helmet [page 24] (block 4)
Crackdown 2 Hat [page 248] (block 4)
Freak Head [page 248] (block 8)
Accessories
There are no free Glasses, Wristwear, Gloves or Earrings.
Rings
Black Spades Championship Ring [page1] (block 1)
Props
Osprey [page 41] (block 8)
Marine Parachute [page 42] (block 1)
Venom [page 42] (block 5)
Tony the Tiger Shirt [page 44] (block 3)
Tony the Tiger Mascot Head [page 44] (block 6)
Porsche 918 Spyder [page 45] (block 8)
Windows 10 Ninjacat Skis [page 60] (block 1)
Yarny Avatar [page 70] (block 2)
Windows 10 Ninjacat [page 76] (block 8)
Windows 10 Ninjacat [page 77] (block 1)
BOOMco Rapid Madness Blaster [page 77] (block 8)
Gold Medal Ceremony [page 124] (block 2)
Renegade Orbs [page 246] (block 4)
Agency SUV [page 246] (block 8)
Bottoms
There are no free bottoms.
Shoes
Combat Boots [page 1] (block 7)
Agency Supercar Slippers [page 39] (block 2)
Dress Up
Ghillie Suit [page 16] (block 2)
Xbox One Onesie – Black [page 20] (block 4)
Xbox One Onesie – White [page 20] (block 8)
Origin Race Suit [page 23] (block 4)
Growing Excellence Race Suit [page 23] (block 8)
Evolution Race Suit [page 24] (block 1)
Cell Soldier [page 309] (block 2)
Peacekeeper Outfit [page 309] (block 3)
Level 5 Agent Suit [page 309] (block 6)
This is part 4 of 4
I hope this helps.