What happened to jae squatter guy

26M about a month ago I went for a haircut and nearly passed out in the chair (I was hungover). All of a sudden my stomach blew up, my fingers and feet got numb and nearly passed out. Ever since then I never felt the same, I can barely sit straight up to do anything because I start to get the same scary feeling again. I’m not sure I can chalk this up to anxiety because I’ve always been a care free happy go lucky guy.
I eventually went to the ER where they told me to take Pepcid and to buzz off. Here are my symptoms:
Short ness of breath (not all the time)
Low appetite / full feeling
Bloating
A weird pressure on my sternum right below my ribs, even if I’m not bloated it feels like hard
Major lightheadedness where I can barely move and feel I’m going to faint only walking a few steps sometimes.
Sometimes my fingers and feet feel like pins and needles
Visions issues kinda
Constant impending doom anxiety, makes it hard to sit still
Lots of diarrhea
Don’t know what happened but seriously my life has totally flopped since this incident. I barely want to leave the house, don’t ever want to eat and idk kinda ruining my life. Do these symptoms sound familiar to anyone? Like I could be anemic or something????? I’d hate to go back to the ER at all but I want to feel normal again!

For context me and my ex had a long distance relationship. We dated for 6 months before he said hey Im having suicidal thoughts (this was actual not true come to learn about it yesterday the truth. He just didnt want to tell me he didnt want to be in a relationship not just with me but with ANYONE!) and another thing he had Problems and I mean MAJOR problems. He got hella jealous (I have an online group of just 4 guys and me and another girl - he HATED this group), he is insecure, Had trust Issues, is violent, and a mental abuser. I should also say that he had trust issues cause he got cheated on MULTIPLE times with his ex gfs. Anyway back to what happened this month :)! Its juicy 🥰💖
This was told to me a month ago against my will: My ex just made me HELLA sick to my stomach, He got fired from his job cause he cussed out a co worker, he got arrested for breaking a dudes car window WITH HIS HANDS?!? He was in jail for 24 hours. And the worst thing: He got a girl pregnant last month (cause apparently being 25 makes you stupid LMAO) Poor girl and her body :( But when he said that info my heart just sank. Just a fucking dumbass omg we did it raw!! WONDER WHERE THAT WOULD GET YOU A UNPLANNED BABY DUDE. OH also he made death jokes (he was being serious tho) about ghetting a motercyle and wanting to get hity by a truck or go 150 mph and die LIKE HELLO DROP ALL THAT ON ME AND MORE WHY DONT CHAT.
This happened and was said yesterday:
My ex just went off on me for like 10 mins saying how annoying I was to him and everyone in the server and how I was the cause of getting attacked cause of it. The funny thing is that he added me back a month ago to catch up, apologize, and to be friends Imao. He ended up blocking me on everything?? LMAOOOO. He kept saying how annoying I was, to kms, no one cares about me, and on and on. Then proceeded to ban me from his server and then starting saying rude stuff in DMs to "hurt" my feelings. He also said he only dated me cause of my personality, not my looks and how ugly I was like wtf??? OKAY???

Born and bought up in a Gujju household, I hadn't heard a single conversation around Dowry (/dahej) among my friends and family. And I am social guy with a fairly large number of people in my circle.
Sometime ago, I was talking about long term relationships & arranged marriages in my office circle, I was shocked to discover that dowry system is common in most states. Most of my colleagues deeply disagreed with the system but it still exists in their families.
Once I started going down the rabit hole, I found that it is common in most states across India except Gujarat. I checked with multiple people from each state - Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, UP, Uttarakhand, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Delhi, Karnataka and the list goes on.
To double check, I called friends from different cities, ethnic communities and generations across Gujarat. Zero dowry transactions. At worst, it might be an edge case in some niche community. Gender ratio of Gujarat is not great but it is similar to most states and not on extreme end. I was also surprised that during my entire existence none of my friends from other states told me about dowry system.
And I am not talking about giving expensive gifts to the other side. For eg. in Gujarat 'both' families give gifts like jewellery, car, clothes, etc. to bride (not groom). Bride receives exponentially more gifts than groom. Yes, there is lot of show off. But the cost of these gifts is not even tracked let alone be predetermined.
I am talking about business deal type of transactions, where the groom's family has decided the minimum amount (price?) beforehand and decision to marry or not depends on bride's family agreeing to giving this amount. As if they are paying fees for a daycare for their daughter or they are buying the groom. And marriages are broken, people are hurt, terrible things happen if the bride's family is not able to fulfill their promised amount.
I had seen news reports around these events but I assumed them to be edge cases. Why is this still a majority case across the country? What am I missing?
The irony that Gujarat's 'business' minded people are out of this game!

Hello everyone
I messed up and started taking FF again after I had quit for the first time. I originally started taking FF soon after I quit drinking as a means to replace that social lubrication function of alcohol, so of course it snowballed from there. I had no idea what I was getting myself into and very quickly fell into drinking 3-5 a day for a few months until I got a litany of health issues and an insane amount of credit card debt. I ended up quitting because it was destroying my relationships (moody, acting insane), my eyes looked so sunken in, my skin looked awful, and I was getting near constant UTIs and horrible urinary retention which I attributed to the kratom. It nearly destroyed my relationship in another way because my boyfriend had his own stint with kratom before I knew him and warned me about it, so something I felt like I had a handle on soon got out of control and I was hiding it from him and so reasonably he was very upset with me. I fucked around and found out. He forgave me, and I spent a week being dope sick and feeling like death and afterwards I never felt better.
Fast forward to now...
I was going through a major episode and felt like my relationship was over and I decided fuck it, I'd rather drink one of these guys instead of having a drink. I just wanted to feel better and I felt so so guilty about it. Obviously I couldn't have just one, it's so habitual, and I'm back in the thick of it. I haven't had the pee problems this time, but I have been hanging out at a kava bar almost every day and got a bad bout of kava dermopathy (crocodile skin) and have had to slow down on that but obviously can't stop FF cold turkey and still be able to go to work, do daily tasks, etc. I need 3-4 days blocked off in order to overcome this and away from my boyfriend to be able to handle the withdrawals on my own without raising any red flags. I feel so guilty.
I mention the dermopathy because my newest condition that I suspect is related to these little shits is styes, which I suspect is kava related this time rather than kratom related based on the limited research I've done. Something about the kavalactones. I've never had a stye in my life, and now all of the sudden after my dermopathy had begun to clear up, I got like 5 styes stacked on top of each other on my left eyelid. My boyfriend popped them despite my pleas to let them be and sort themselves out but I am glad he did, because the relief was unimaginable. My eyelashes were getting caught in it too, making me wonder if it was even an ingrown eyelash, but I dunno anymore... because just as I thought this awful week and a half of having a painful, swollen eyelid was over, I began to get them in my other eye, and another one is cropping up on my under eye of the original eyelid. I feel so depressed and ugly and frustrated and in pain.
I really suspect that it's these fucking FFs, but wondering about y'all's experience and if this has happened to anyone else. Thanks for letting me vent. I know what to do, I just have to find the right timing. Looking for support and others' experiences. Thank you <3

Clearly many out there in Reds county are done with David Bell. I'm not here to defend him necessarily but to put things into perspective. I'll link a great podcast that isn't too long that has a great segment on this. If you don't listen to this already definitely check it out.
David Bell is not the problem. He is the face of the problem. If the Reds fired Bell today what do you think would happen? They'd hire another David Bell only this one would not be beloved by the players. The Cincinnati Reds handle their team in a way where honestly, the manager is really only the guy that implements the decision made above his pay grade. This team, starting from top down, plays the numbers. Bell is given a certain amount of tools that he can use and other than when they make a mound visit or something like that, Bell isn't deciding anything. The anylictics department is.
Do you think Bell is making the lineups? No. He's not. What about who's on the MLB team and who's in AAA? No. Who stays and who gets traded? No. He's definitely not deciding who gets hurt. He's definitely not deciding how the FO wants the coaches to handle the players. This just isn't an old school team where the manager makes decisions based on the feel of the game and David Bell is just a cog in that machine.
The Reds aren't going to fire him so he's here whether we like it or not. If they fired Bell today nothing would be different tomorrow. Idk who they'd even hire. They definitely aren't bringing in anyone that wants to ignore the FO and numbers guys and Krall etc etc and play the game the way we want them them to. This organization just isn't run that way.
Anyway. Don't listen to me. These guys explain this much better than me. They have a show everyday and talk about the games and what's on everyone's minds. I highly suggest it and I think they hit the nail on the head with this David Bell situation. So before I'm attacked in the comments at least take 30 min to listen to this. Then you can argue with me lol.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4NWHfaS6u6imzljc4jFzrm?si=72CSZt-zQDSxZBCWg71AAQ

We met 3 months ago. He was very attentive and kind, always took me out and got me gifts even tho we had just met. We slept together first month of knowing each other. We saw each other almost every day. He was always there for me if I needed him and he always picked me up from places if I was out late and drank or just wanted to spend some time.
Couple days ago I was out and didn’t attend a few of his calls he texted me that it was messed up and that I must’ve been busy. I told him my phone was in my purse it was crowded and loud, I apologized. Next day I was home couldn’t attend a couple of his calls, he said if I was seeing others to let him know he won’t bother. We met up shortly after and he was affectionate as always but I asked him what was up. He said I had never not picked up his calls like that I told him it was honestly just bad timing. He said he’s noticed another guy calling me and not answering and that he thought I was doing the same to him. I told him what happened with the other guy and why I no longer answer that guy. I asked him though … that if he doesn’t want me to see others and I don’t want him to see others why are we not in a serious relationship
He said he used to be the type to ask after a few dates but not anymore. He said he takes time to observe and learn first, I told him no issue with that but it’s been 3 months he should at least know how he feels and if we’re serious. I wasn’t asking him to marry me tomorrow , just to at least have some clarity about us. We both come from a culture of arrange marriage so I told him I will be married with or without him, I just wanted to marry someone I do know and like. My parents and I want marriage in the next couple years and he said that just because I’m on a timeline doesn’t mean he needs to hurry. I told him I don’t mean to rush him but by now he should know if he’s going to make me his. That men know early on, they don’t leave the woman they want walking around single. He told me all his friends are arrange married and it’s not that scary, told me a failed love marriage story. I told him I understand but if he’s not serious about me then he’s wasting my time. That if there’s anything about me that’s holding him back to tell me, he said there’s things he can’t say out of not wanting to hurt my feelings. He said we’ll talk about this but I felt he was bsing me, I got upset and left . He asked me to let him know when I get home I did, he said good night then next day nothing. I texted him saying that idk what to say after last night but I was pretty clear and I’ve been solid since day one and my conscious is clear. He never replied … I removed him off my socials a few hours later.
What could have happened here. What did I do wrong. Any advice please to help a broken heart
TL;DR: I wanted marriage he wanted marriage but when I asked he to be bf/gf he said he’ll think about it

Topical 5% min since March 7. Oral min for the last 3 weeks at 1.25mg. Oral fin at 1mg for the last 3 weeks. Stopped birth control about 3 weeks ago (yes, it happened to coincide with the start of the oral meds).
Just about 3 weeks ago my shedding from the topical min was subsiding. My hair has gotten so bad just from that. The last 2 days shedding has come back in a rampage, likely from the introduction of fin and/or stopping bc. I just rinsed my hair this morning and it looked like a shampoo day.
Guys, I don't know if I want to commit to all this. I'm losing precious hair here.
I was taking kratom and a bc for like 11 years, both anecdotally cause hair loss. I got a biopsy and the results said: "mild miniaturization, all healthy follicles". That mild miniaturization labeled it as "consistent with AGA". It also declared TE, which wasn't surprising. Well I'm 37 and have effectively had TE events for 11 years. That's bound to present as "mild miniaturization". People start thinning in their 70s in my family so maybe I aged my scalp a little, or maybe that "mild" miniaturization is just consistent with my age. But the derm just doesn't know what to do with me with the kratom angle, so because there's miniaturization, she prescribed the fin.
I'm just torn rn. I've got off the kratom, off the bc. I feel like I just ruined my chance for seeing if my hair just bounced back after a few months. Now I have horribly visible scalp, and an embarrassing lack of density. It's far, far worse than when I started.
I jumped the gun maybe.
Why am I continuing these medications that keep making my hair fall out? It'll take like 3 years to grow that hair back, prob more.
I don't even see a speck of new growth.
I'm seeing a lot of posts lately of women who've been on meds like I am for years and not seeing any net change.
But then if I stop now, I for sure lose all that hair for nothing.
Really torn rn.
Ps... bloodwork all normal. Weight normal. Eating habits good. Stress levels could be better.

So today I went for a haircut at a new salon. Pls read the whole thing before judging me.
Full disclosure : I have had a few bad/creepy incidents with men growing up (getting chased by a man at 16, getting my hips grabbed by a stranger as a child) which make me uncomfortable of touch in general, but more so against the touch of a man. I don't even like other women hugging me.
The barber guy was very polite, courteous etc. but , While cutting the sides of my hair , which barely goes past my jaw, his hand holding the scissor came way below and rested on my chest for a split second( above my boobs , more on the pecs area before the boobs begin, but below my collar bone)
Usually I am extremely aware of people touching me anywhere and immediately flinch away if am uncomfortable, but his hand was gone before I could even move away from it. I was expecting something might happen and I was ready to move away, but idk if I had a freeze response or if his touch was so brief I couldn't move before he did.
The first thought in my head " it's ok it's ok, he didn't exactly rest his hand on your boobs, his hands were closed around the scissor, don't over react", don't cause a scene".
Like at one point he tried to remove a piece of hair from my lips and I stopped her him and did it myself. I also prefer to brush the cut hair away from my neck and chest by myself too, so I had asked for the brush too, which he let me. He was extremely polite and courteous otherwise.
I just keep thinking of how will I ever be able to function as a normal adult in the world if I can't even aget a haircut without getting a small panick attack. I can't even handle the thought of a marrying a man , even though I am attracted to them.
I put on an extremely calm face and didn't react there, till I came home and I cried over this.
I have heard soooo many bad stories of Indian men (and just men) being so creepy , that I feel I have lost all my trust in them, even If my brain says it's irrational. I have developed a sort of paranoia of it.
I keep thing "what if the touch was intentional ? What if he enjoyed it ?" "Am I over reacting like a crazy bi*ch ?'"
How do I go back to normal settings and actually be able to tell a an intentional creepy touch apart from a accidental one ?

Looking for advice.
I (22M) have been in a relationship with my bf (23M) of almost 3 years. One year out of college and still together - it's truly been great, but of course, not perfect.
Important context - I am slim, Asian, and my bf is athletic, muscular, and white. Before me, he was very active on Grindr and is more sexually experienced than me. He would only h/u with guys who looked like him or had a very athletic build. This part of our relationship always made me feel a little self-conscious, since I am most definitely not that at all, but he's reassured me many times he loves me for all of me. I've also struggled my whole life with body image and self-esteem, which he knows. Took me a while to get over it, but I ended up believing him. Until I found out that he watches porn. A lot.
It's not the fact that he watches porn, but that it's interfering with our intimacy. He watches it while I'm at work, so by the time I get home and I want to have sex, he's not in the mood since he already got off earlier, which has happened multiple times. I've brought this up with him, and he reassured me that he will make more of an effort of placing more attention on me and only me. We talked about this last week. I felt better about us!
Then, a week later, as he was in the shower before our 3-year anniversary dinner, I found out that he has been using AI on his phone to generate naked images of men that don't look at all like me to get off. "25 year old hairy blond man with muscular build" is one of the images, and the others are very similar. I didn't say anything, nor have I yet about the AI images, but I feel very bad about myself. My boyfriend would rather look at AI images of men who don't look like me at all, than have sex or even watch some of the videos we've made together. He also still has not stopped watching regular porn - and you guessed it, the men look nothing like me.
I'm tired, I'm depressed, and I don't know what to do without seeming like I'm asking too much as a boyfriend.
Any advice?

Hi guys,
This is a pretty sore topic for me right now... here's what's happened.
5 months ago I purchased a 2015 Nissan Qashqai (petrol) for £10k from Big Motoring World. It has done 55,000 miles. It had a half service in December before I bought it.
I've had the car 5 months and done 3,000 miles in that time, and it had been running fine, no engine fault lights etc.
The car went into limp mode Sunday night while I was driving. I pulled over. When I did the ignition again the engine sounded weak.
I got roadside recovery, towed it to the garage Monday morning. I've been told by the garage that the engine has no oil in it, a valve has blown and the compression has gone in the cylinders. I understand this is severe. But it also seems odd, as I only topped it up with oil in April. There is no apparent oil leak etc. The garage have said to scrap the car.
The Big Motoring World warranty lasts 3 months, so does not cover the car.
I am not really sure where to go from here. Is this just a bad experience and I need to write off the money I've spent on the car and buy a new one?
Or is it possible I've been sold a car which was always going to have issues from Big Motoring World?
Is it likely they paying for a new engine to be fitted would be a potential solution? The vehicle has been the best car I've driven and had.
Thanks in advance.

I want to elaborate since yesterday. Thanks to everyone who commented it helped a lot. First off yeah I did let my doctors know put gender dysphoria on my charts. Nearly cried -- relief or just feeling like I was trying to avoid a diagnosis to get what I wanted- top surgery. Nothing's happened in 2-3 years since I told them that. My therapist keeps avoiding the topic. That makes me feel something's "wrong" with me because she's a woman & may not understand my situation. Example: It was hot one day I complained to her on the phone about it & she says go out and put on a sundress I'd feel better. I'm like put the guys in sundresses, too, see how they like it. Like why is the answer always to put on something revealing?
When I tried to like body and show it off it's not like I think I'm ugly, or trying to make my breasts look better--- I hate them. I don't hate anything as much as I hate these. As a former like online model they've done me favors but for me it's being in drag, it's a character. And then I worry if I do OF or model more as an ftm will less people follow? Is that internalized sexism or transphobia at least against myself. Therapist seems to think it's past trauma/ I feel my thoughts are blamed on childhood because I've been protesting wanting to take my shirt off since 3, 4, 5 years old. Had 1 older brother by 2 years. He'd tell mom on me that I took my shirt off & I'd scream at him "but I look just like you!!!" because I was flat. The explanation was it's not that I'm flat it's my nipples & it's the law & I can get arrested. That traumatized me. Sure, I was jealous of him, and feel therapist and doctors blame old fashioned Freudian nonsense. I know a lot of girls with older bros who never think this way. I've been in psych wards over this after giving up communicating and just feeling helpless and alone. But those groups just wanna talk feelings & not specifics. So leave there and go back to my own personal hell. Last year gained 50 lbs because stopped going outside, used to ride bike, hike.
Now all I think about is people can "see" my chest and it's like literally right f'ing there. Then I want to cry. Used to go into woods every summer just to find a spot to take off my shirt where no one can see me. Makes me feel like a criminal. Like it's unfair, EVEN if I could legally take off my shirt in the front yard I'd still have these things that just look so wrong to me being there. Feels like a deformity. Every time I tell them all this I think maybe I'm saying too much I should just say "I'm a man, I'm trans, and I want top surgery" but if it's just that easy then why doesn't anyone care like my therapist what's going on in my head? I've come out as trans, many times, but seems like nothing gets better coming out. I still look like this.

Hey guys, just happened what is on the title. The mac is new and I don’t know what to do.

I(18M) my father is physically challenged and we are not financially stable. We are facing some threats and problems, so; What happened today: 2 guys came today to our shop(in our house only)and started shouting and all ki "lao humare paise varna ye wo" after all this, my mom got really frustrated on a false point one of them said and started “tu-tadak” then that guy started shouting “mai bhaut badtameez kisam ka insaan hu” bla bla and it was like he'll attack, but then at last before leaving those guys gave threat “ki ab Jo hoga wo dekhlena” I recorded a video and said “ye Marne ki dhamki dere hai hume”. This is getting intense by each time, they've came here like 3 times.
Please can I get some advice or help regarding this matter, my parents don't want me or my brother(outside city, studying) to get involved in this but I fear. They said you go prepare for your advanced, we'll deal with this.
Context: So we've sold our old house in which the dealers were 2 partners my father and his 2siblings(1 being the friend of dealer) did this deal in 2020(October) for 75 lakh on the basis that the dealers will sell the house by plotting and will give us the money in 6months ig and they paid the money really very slow to my father and his brothers individually. And completed the final payment(to us) this February. So we kept the extra no.1 ka payment which we got after registry of the last plot we got some extra money transferred which is no.1 ka Paisa as they say because my father insisted on a deed last year(no deed was made while dealing in 2020). And why shouldn't we keep the 1,63,000(as he say itne rupay aapne mare hain). Also, my father was not supported by his brothers’ when he asked to make a deed(of no use anyways) at the starting of deal. He also contacted lawyers but all decisions ended in vain as we were not supported by our own family. Now that guy is only after us because he thinks we're weak(because of my father's condition).

Where Destiny uses this in the Triggernometry debate I understand that whilst it seems to work at times such as saying oh what did Trump do and pushes back against associations that Trump had to fight against so much to get through what he wanted as well as being able to use it to fight against things such as the Doha accords heck even covid-19 more easily and with an easily associable example.
It also fails because of associations which people hold going into the debates on things the president can affect such as gas and energy prices or inflation. This of course is a weak reason for it to not be considered but is a reason as all this ground would have to be retread in a debate with a new audience even if it doesn't have to be tread within your own audience.
The second reason that I believe it fails is because of the fact that yes this stuff could get you fired however if it does get you fired and they actually where purposefully trying to get you to be fired or acting in this way opposed to your attempts to fix it people absolutely would be sympathetic to the position that yeah maybe this guy isn't actually at fault once this is revealed. Which many conservatives absolutely believe and even to a degree even if the Liberals/communists don't believe in some deep state they may believe that yes Democrats were acting against him just because he was the Republican nominee and even more because he was Trump and they have deep political beef with him.
Further you even used the above style of argument to defend Biden in this debate when you bring up how Republicans stopped the border bill from going up to the next level and then place that on the Republicans rather than placing it on Biden and the Democrats even though Biden is the president. So I really don't think it actually feels as effective as it actually should be even if it does work in many scenarios.
The third reason that I don't think it's good for you to use is because many moderators will use it against you such as happened within the triggernometry debate. Your response on this might not necessarily weaken the point being made because of it especially when you can so easily tie it into the example being made which happened in this case. However if one of the reasons you bring up to set up this argument is brought in to shift blame away from your preferred candidate it absolutely does weaken the floor that your argument stands on which the previous paragraph talked about. (I can't think of a way to make it work in a business sense).
The fourth reason that I don't think it's good for you to use is because being unknowledgeable about how things are supposed to be run in a completely new business and having people attempting to backstabe you even those who should be your actual advisors, as the guy in question was trying to insinuate would be a really good reason as to why Trump failed thus it is moderately to greatly unsatisfying to hear it as a retort to this kind of argument being made (Though this is latter on in the debate in this case).
In conclusion whilst I don't particularly enjoy the usage of that analogy in the debate I'm also not entirely sure what could be used to replace it and still get the idea across in a similar way primarily because I don't know any position where you can have more people on your "team" actively against you and you can't attempt in some meaningful way to get them out of your way so that you can actually do your supervising job properly and run things. Which I think is the main fundamental flaw with the analogy (and why I don't think Trump's business credentials are in any way a good argument).

Hey ya'll, it's Devil, your friendly neighborhood mod man again... though I won't be called that for much longer here.
Thank you
First of all, from the bottom of my heart, I want to thank each and every one of you. The past few months have been incredibly troubling for us all, but you guys have made it easier to find my way through it. The community and the podcast will always hold a special place in my heart. For three and a half years I have worked as a mod of FUCKFACEPOD to build a thriving community of comment leavers. In that time we have done incredible things together.
We left our mark on Place in 2022, we held meetups at RTX, the mod team even tried streaming for Extra Life one year. And when the company was closing down around us, and we moved to a new subreddit, we quickly built a brand new space full of the same joy and humor that defined the old subreddit. However... this will unfortunately be my last stop.
It is with deep sorrow that I tell you all that I have been removed from the moderation team of this subreddit. After three and a half years, I will no longer be a moderator here for subreddit. I am so incredibly proud of this community and how far we have come. I will be forever grateful to the podcast, and to all of you for the memories and the laughter you guys gave to me.
But this isn't goodbye forever. I'll still be hanging around the subreddit as a regular ol comment leaver. I also will continue to moderate for SoAlrightPod so go check out that place. I will also continue modding for roosterteeth at least for now, though I do plan on leaving that one soon.
Goodbye
To ANEGGG I say thank you. I cannot overstate the impact Rooster Teeth has had in my life. From my very first Achievement Hunter video in 8th grade, to the final episode of the Rooster Teeth Podcast. You guys are what ignited my passion for creating things, and you're what pushed me to pursue a degree in Film. Seeing you guys pop up in the subreddit has always been a joy (Eric's comments are always fucking hilarious) and I was overjoyed when I got to meet some of you at RTX 22/23. Thank you.
To the OG mods of FUCKFACEPOD I say thank you. Some of you have only been mods for a months before we had to switch subreddits and you all adapted to the change wonderfully. The rest of you have been in the game almost as long as I have. I couldn't have asked for a better group of people to have worked with, nor better friends to accompany me. Thank you.
And finally, to the community I say thank you. I've had some pretty dark moments over the past few years, but being able to come to this subreddit and laugh at whatever random bullshit was happening has always managed to pull back into the light. I say this of not just the F**k Face/Regulation Pod community but for the wider Rooster Teeth community as well. Thank you.
I leave you now with this Spotify playlist I made.
Reminiscing
Now if you'll forgive me, I'd like to do some reminiscing about my time here:

• January 2021: u/Johnathan_Wickerino, creator of FUCKFACEPOD invites myself and three other mods to help him run the expanding subreddit.
• November 12th 2021: Myself, another mod, and a couple community members host F**kers & Flagons, a DND Extra Life stream. We raise $500.
• April 1st 2022: Place opens it's doors once more. While the Discord server is playing an April Fools prank by rebranding to a Face Jam server, the subreddit is working to build the F**k Face logo on the canvas.
• April 2022: A few weeks after Place, we celebrate the 100th episode of F**k Face.
• June 2022: FUCKFACEPOD Crosses 10,000 members. We celebrate by inviting people to play Halo Infinite. This was originally supposed to be a tournament, but due to lack of participation we just screwed around in custom games for a few hours. Thank you to Andrew Panton for joining us for the occasion.
• July 1st 2022: RTX opens it's doors in Austin for the first time since COVID. Through masks and face shields, we come together as a community once again. One of the other mods Trix hosts a community meetup outside the convention center which Geoff shows up to.
• January 2023: The first draft of many is released. We all gather round to listen to the Falls Draft.
• April 2023: The very first live Sloppy Joes Bingo takes place late at night on RTTV
• July 7th 2023: Nobody knows it yet, but this will be the final RTX. This year is my first and only year as a Guardian. While walking on the convention floor, Eric calls me over and asks me for a pen. As I hand him the pen I tell him who I am. When he's done signing autographs and taking pictures, he hands me a huge stack of baseball cards with his face on them and tells me to do as I will with them. I spend the whole weekend passing them out to people. When I get home I mail the leftovers out to 43 people.
• July 9th 2023: As Trix hosted the meetup last year, I host it this year. This year was thankfully indoors and out of the Texas sun. Two community members come to the meetup with bootleg golden gurplers and start passing them out to people. Another member brings a F**k Face Summer of 98 Yearbook which all of us happily sign.
• December 25th 2023: It is Christmas morning. Christmas has never really meant anything to me since I'm Jewish, but as I look at my phone and see a notification announcing we have hit 20,000 members, I definitely start feeling the Christmas Spirit.
• January 24th 2024: Myself and a few other members of the community play a game of Quiplash 3 using a custom F**k Face themed prompt pack. The video features a special introduction by Andrew Panton, as well as a recorded message by Eric.
• March 6th 2024: If this were to happen one week later I'd be able to make a "Beware The Ides Of March" joke. It is on this day that we learn that Rooster Teeth is being shut down.
• May 11th 2024: After two months of housekeeping and negotiations, Rooster Teeth is finally dead. Many of it's podcasts are now going independent, while others are forced to rebrand.
• Today: Who the fuck knows...

Goodbye

Stayed at a hotel early this month. I booked through an app called Hopper. Upon arriving they told me they hadn’t received payment so I didn’t have a room until I did pay. I ended up paying twice as I couldn’t get support from Hopper as they use an American number and I don’t have calls outside the UK. I was told it would be fine as I would get my refund when they receive the second payment. I didn’t expect to be able to get one through hopper.
It’s nearly been a month since and I’ve been chasing this refund and getting nowhere.
I returned a week after my first stay to stay again. The same guy on the desk told me he was going to help with the refund by calling up OYO and seeing what he can do. I didn’t hear anything beyond that. He also gave me his managers number but she has been on leave so I haven’t been getting through. She was supposed to be back today but I still can’t get through to her. I’ve been calling the hotel desk but until this Sunday I haven’t been getting through.
On Sunday though I spoke to a different person on the desk. He told me it was my fault for booking through hopper and that I’d need to get my refund through them. I was obviously outraged, how is it possibly my fault for booking through an app they have been listed on? Eventually the guy came around and said he was going to try to help but have since heard nothing.
I needed this money back the first time I visited and it’s been a month and I’m still not even sure if my refund is being processed. Is there anything I can do to make them pull their fingers out and do what they should’ve done weeks ago? I’m pretty appalled at OYO for this whole situation and now can’t afford to eat because a hotel can’t process a refund?
Edit: So I just called the hotel again and spoke to the same person on the desk that took my payment on the first visit. He now says that the hotel has never been able to take payments through Hopper. I told him how ridiculous that was. If that was the case then why was the hotel still listed on there? Obviously he doesn’t have the answers because he only works th desk but apparently that came from OYO management. The last thing I want to do at this point is go through hopper. Even if I could, I shouldn’t have to whatever has happened should be settled between them and the hotel.

I have a case open for some credit card fraud that happened last year. They found and arrested the person responsible(a Minor) and I was kinda in the dark after that...I was contacted at one point by a person claiming to be the Prosecutor that wanted more information from me, what charges I wanted to aim for, etc.
A month later I received several letters this morning that show the court date came and went for the case, and the Covering attorney listed for the defendant appears to be the guy that contacted me saying he was the Prosecutor for the case.
Does this sound shady or am I just not understanding the process?

Me and my wife are both in our mid 30's and have been married 4 years with 2 children under the ages of 7. I love my family but my wife's drinking and narcissistic behavior has driven me to my breaking point. A few weeks ago she went to run some errands and came back like 5 hours later completely drunk and her car was wrecked. Now, this is the 3rd time this same thing has happened. Except on this day we had a school function to attend and our kids were being dropped off with grandparents to be watched for the night. When I told her she was to drunk to drive the kids to where they needed to go, she went ballistic. The typical screaming, throwing stuff, and literally pulling her hair out, so as I usually do when this happens, I start to record for my own safety. She saw I had been recording and at that moment she attacked me. She was genuinely trying to hurt me, I could see the hatred in her eyes. (This is the 4th physical assault Ive dealt with by now with her). Mind you, the children are watching her do all of this and they are screaming at me to stop defending myself but I can't just leave because I'm afraid she might try to drive them drunk as she had already put them in the car once and I had to remove them. The whole time she's screaming this is what your daddy does to US because he doesn't care about US and all sorts of other absolutely ridiculous, shameful things that are just lies to manipulate the children into thinking somehow daddy is the bad guy. I finally get the kids to where they need to go and I go to my office to gather my thoughts. During that time she called my phone 140 times just to yell at me and then hang up. At about 10 pm she says she's leaving to stay at her dad's so I come home. I'm asleep when she comes back in the middle of the night. So she wakes me up slamming doors and screaming profanities at 4 a.m. and begins the ordeal once again. I have video evidence of everything that happened, including video evidence from 2 other events where I was assaulted in front of the kids. I have been contemplating leaving for a little while now but I hate the thought of losing my family because I know how hard that can be on kids and I also don't want to miss those special moments.. but I can't keep letting them go though this at the same time. I've tried to talk on my wife about counseling, she is vehemently against that because she is diagnosed bipolar but refuses to take medication because she can't drink if she's on her meds.. She has also told me multiple times that she would kill herself if we broke up and it sort of make me feels like a captive in this relationship. Anytime I bring up the fact that I'm incredibly unhappy and want talk about our most recent incident, she just says, I don't want a fight, I just want a good night. But these conversations that aren't taking place aren't allowing me personally to move on or feel better about the future. She would typically be drinking about 2 bottles of Jameson a week and since the last fight she hasn't brought any home, although I know she's stopped at the bar. But the issue now is that she's treating me with such disdain and disrespect simply because I have told her and tried to show how mean she gets when she's drunk. Like I took something away from her and now she passive aggressively takes it out on me at any point. I never thought I'd be here asking reddit for advice but here I am. What kind of lawyer do I need to show these videos to? How do I make the breakaway when our lives are intricately linked? I am afraid of what would happen if I told her face to face that I want a divorce. I make good money and I pay almost all of the bills, I pay rent, I pay for groceries and any fun stuff we do on the weekends or vacation and she keeps one of my credit cards to use and i just pay it off every month. If I leave she can't afford to live on her own so it's not like I can just find a different apartment and move all the utilities and just tell her good luck. I don't know, it's all a whirlwind and any help would be greatly appreciated!