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Eight thieves take hostages and lock themselves in the Royal Mint of Spain as a criminal mastermind manipulates the police to carry out his plan. All parts of La Casa De Papel (Money Heist) are now streaming on Netflix. Rated TV-MA in the US.
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2024.05.21 19:31 Valha28 EWW: The Bros
| Hello and welcome to episode 98 in a series inspired by u/kamikazeb0y and CinemaSins, where I'll be sinning each and every episode of Gumball. Quick Disclaimer: I know this is just a children's cartoon and isn't meant to be taken seriously. This, like the show itself, is not at all meant to be taken seriously or considered an actual critique of the show. It is all in good fun. With that out of the way I present you, Everything Wrong With: The Burden! Gumball: Cossack dance, but there's a problem with it. Darwin: What? [Gumball gets off of his seat, and dances. He repeatedly kicks himself in the face as he does so] I'm...surprised Gumball actually knows the name of this dance. Seems unlike him to care enough to have actually researched the actual name of it. Would have been way more like him to just call it something like "the dance where you fold your arms and kick your legs" or something. But kudos to him for actually going out of his way to learn about something for once, I guess! -1 [Darwin makes an old man face. They laugh again. The bus stops, and Penny gets off] Penny: Thanks! [Gumball sees Penny, and they stare at each other affectionately] Darwin: [Off-screen] And what's your best party trick? [Gumball sticks his finger into a nostril and it comes out through his ear. He wiggles it around, flapping his ear in the process. Penny giggles and walks off] Awwwww, i love that they re-used a snippet of the soundtrack from the iconic scene in The Shell here. I guess that makes that track the official theme of Gumball and Penny's relationship? Hell yeah! -5 Gumball: So, who would you invite? Darwin: Never you mind! Gumball: Oh, come on! Tell me! Darwin: [Blushes] No, you first! Gumball: Oh, fine. [Sing-song voice] But you gotta say yours at the same time. On three. One. Two. Three. Gumball: Penny! Darwin: You! That...was nowhere near the same time +1 [They are both surprised. Darwin is angry and Gumball is shocked] Gumball and Darwin: What?! [The bus stops, and the brothers get off] Darwin: I AM NOT MAKING A SCENE! Gumball: Okay. Darwin: AND I'M NOT JEALOUS OF PENNY! Gumball: Dude, don't freak out. There's enough space in my life for the both of you. [Many Darwins appear around Gumball, crowding him] Darwin: She's crowding us! Darwin: She's suffocating us! Darwin: She's oppressing us! Darwin: She's smothering us! [They all speak at once, disappearing as Gumball interjects] Gumball: Okay, enough! I wanted your opinion on something important, but if it's gonna be like this, then just go home! I need to go to the store anyway. [Walks off] [Darwin's anger turns into sadness, and he begins to sob. Suddenly, he becomes angry again] Darwin: BACK OFF, PENNY FITZGERALD! HE'S MY BROTHER FROM ANOTHER MOTHER! Alright...firstly, was Darwin seriously expecting Gumball to say anyone else than Penny? I mean, he made it extremely obvious that he was imagining this as a romantic get-together, so of course he was gonna pick her +1 Also, what happened to Darwin talking to 'Chris Morris' and working out his issues with Gumball and Penny last episode? Like, he realized he was just overeacting and projecting his own insecurities onto Gumball and that he had nothing to be concerned about. Yet now he's discarded all of that and has gone back to being not only acting like he was before, but even worse. Which begs the question...why include that scene in the last ep if you were just gonna completely ignore it the very next episode? +10 [Darwin stretches his eyes and navigates them around Penny. They watch her from above. Penny soon notices them] Penny: Oh hi, Darwin. Hahahahaha, I love how totally unphased Penny is by this -1 [Later, Penny and Carmen enter the cheerleaders' dressing room, talking] Penny: ...made these funny faces at me through the window of the bus andā Oh, hi Darwin. [All the girls except Penny and Carmen gasp at Darwin, who is up in the ceiling, holding onto two beams. He falls down, runs to an open locker, and applies makeup on his face in an attempt to disguise himself as a girl. Certain that it is not working, he grabs a bottle of powder from Carrie and throws it to the ground, where it explodes into a cloud. As the girls cough, he escapes] Penny: [Coughing] Bye, Darwin. [Even later, Sussie and Penny are sitting on a bench in the schoolyard. From behind a dumpster, Darwin uses a listening device to eavesdrop on Penny] Penny: Here, Sussie. I know how much you love chicken skin, so I saved some from last night's dinner. Sussie: SUSSIE LOVES CHICKEN SKIN! [She grabs some and rubs it all over her head, screaming and laughing loudly. The noise makes Darwin shatter to pieces. Penny and Sussie notice him and walk over] Penny: Hi, Darwin. [The pieces of Darwin scream, sprout legs, and flee] Penny: Aaaand... bye, Darwin. Sussie: CHICKEN! [Penny yelps, startled] [The bell rings. In class, Penny writes on a piece of paper while humming. She grabs her bag to put a book in it. Opening it, she gets startled to find Darwin inside, reading her diary] Darwin: Hi, Penny. Nice, um... diary. Penny: Hey, how about you come to lunch with me and Gumball, seems like maybe you wanna talk, right? [Closes bag with him still inside] Right. [Walks off] Okay, trying to peak into her locker was one thing, but now Darwin is just outright stalking the poor guy. Even with abandonment issues, this is not a normal reaction or response. At all. Darwin needs professional help/therapy now, because he clearly has a lot of pent up emotions and fears he needs to talk to someone about. +20 [In the cafeteria, Gumball has arranged a table for Penny and himself. He takes out a small box, which inside holds a ring. He plans to propose to Penny, but is still deciding on how] How on earth did he affort this ring? It must have cost at least a hundred dollars or more! +1 Penny: So, uh, Darwin, I hope you don't feel... threatened by me, do you? Darwin: [Laughs loudly and sarcastically] No. Penny: Okay, good. Enjoy your food. [They all begin eating. Gumball and Penny share a plate of spaghetti and begin eating the same strand. Romantic music is playing, and a kiss is imminent. The moment is cut short when it is revealed Darwin has started eating the middle of the strand, preventing the couple from kissing. They tug on the spaghetti strand trying to shake Darwin off, but it only causes all three of them to headbutt eachother. They all fall to the floor] Gumball: [Shouting] Dude, what is wrong with you?! Darwin is clearly emotionally distressed at the moment, yet neither Gumball or Penny really do much about it except ask if he's okay or in Gumball's case yell at him. I get that Gumball is excited and happy with Penny at the moment and so his focus would be on her, but it feels out of character for him to disregard his brother so clearly having, essentially, a breakdown right in front of him +5 [In the gym, Coach tries and fails to whistle with her fingers] Coach Russo: Okay, now pick your teams! [Gumball and Tobias start picking, with Gumball choosing first] Wait, wait, wait...Gumball has a pair of gym shoes? He's had a pair of shoes that he could have worn this entire time, but he still chooses to go barefoot? Why!? +1 [Darwin tries to get Gumball to pick him by blowing a vuvuzela and waving around two lit flares, all while jumping up and down] How the fuck was Darwin allowed to bring lit flares into the gym!? Not only is that a safety hazard, but I'm pretty sure it's illegal for him to even be in possession of them. +1 Also, how did he even get the flares in the first place? Again, pretty sure it's illegal for him to buy or own them +1 Gumball: DARWIN, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! Darwin: [Throws the ball at Gumball] Playing ball! Gumball: She's on our team, man! You're out! Seriously, Gumball responding to Darwin's actions by shouting and berating him, and constantly taking Penny's side, is only pushing Darwin more and more. Whewre's the kind, caring, understanding Gumball we know and love? The one that would be worried and concerned seeing his brother act this way? +1 [In the library, Gumball once again tries to propose to Penny. He emerges from behind a bookcase and walks up to her] Gumball: Penny, there's something I need to ask you. Penny: Actually, there's something I wanted to say as well. Gumball: I know. I totally feel what you feel. Let's say it at the same time. One. Two- Penny: We need some space. [Gumball gasps and makes a shocked face] Penny: It's just... until you guys work it out, I kinda feel bad ruining your relationship. You two have something special, you know. The fact Penny is willing to do this really shows just how caring and understanding she really is. She finally has the one thing shw's wanted for who knows how longer, and couldn't bne happier, but upon seeing that it's damaging Gumball and Darwin's relationship is willing to put it on hold until they sort things out. She's willing to put her own happiness aside for her boyfriend and his brother, and that level of sacrifice just goes to show what a great friend and girlfriend she really is. No wonder Gumball loves her so much -10 Gumball: Ugh. What are you doing? Darwin: Whatever it takes for you to still love me. Is it working? Gumball: If by working, you mean making me nauseous then- [Gags, then cries] But it doesn't matter anyway. Penny's left me! She didn't want to come between us, and it's all your fault! [Faceplants and sobs] No, 'we need space' and 'we're over' and two very different things. She didn't leave you she's just...taking a short vacation from you whilst you sort things out with Darwin +1 Darwin: Uh...I didn't mean to come between you two. I-I-I just wanted to spend more time with you. I'm so sorry. Come here- I mean, you kindaaaaa did. Maybe not consciously, sure, but deep down this is exactly what you wanted and you know it +1 Gumball: Is it weird that I bought a ring and I want to ask her to marry me? Darwin: Well, yeah. That's-that's completely weird. ...no it isn't? It's just Gumball wanting to express his love and desire to be with Penny in the biggest way he can think of. If anything it's adorable +1 Darwin: No, it's not. What if I could give you the perfect setting, the perfect moment? Gumball: What do you mean? [Darwin begins dancing and imitating R&B music] Gumball: Stop it. That...that's weird. Darwin: Mm mm. Come on. Gumball: [Snickers] All right. [Joins in dancing with him] How are you gonna get a log cabin though? Or a lake? Or a chocolate fountain? And how are you gonna get her to come over? Aww, the fact Gumball forgives Darwin so easily for almost ending his and Penny's relationship really shows just how forgiving and caring he is. Like, the fact he isn't even remotely mad anymore in just beyond insane. I don't know anyone else in the world except maybe Alan who is this forgiving -5 [Penny leans down in front of a puddle of antifreeze in front of the shed, sniffing it] Penny: Are your parents aware there's a lake of antifreeze in their backyard? This stuff's really flammable, you know Obvious foreshadowing is obvious +1 Gumball: "Romantic deep male voice. [Speaks in the voice] Welcome to the best night of your life." [Squeaks] [Penny suppresses her laughter] Awwwwww -1 Gumball: [Whispering] Okay. [Inhales] Will you mmmmm... will you mmmm... [Punches himself in the face, frustrated] Urgh! Will you mmm... Darwin: [Outside] Come on man, just say it! Dude, he's nervous as fuck at the moment. You would be too if it were you asking this to Carrie. Give him a fucking chance +1 [Penny drinks her soda and chokes on the ring, changing forms as she coughs] Penny somehow didn't notice Gumball very obviously dropping the ring into her drink earlier +1 [Gumball now has his eyes closed, and so is unaware that she is choking.] I get that he can't see her choking, but how can her not hear it? She's right next to him and pretty loudly choking right. And he's a cat with super sensitive hearing. The only way he wouldn't be able to hear her at the moment is if he was completely deaf +1 [Darwin barges into the shed only to be greeted by Penny in her Gorgon form. He quickly closes the door] Dude, she's fucking choking why on earth would you just leave!? HELP HER. +1 Penny: [Coughing] What did you say back there? Gumball: [Picks up the ring and beams, with flowers surrounding his face] Marry me! And suddenly Gumball now has the confidence to ask her this despite being entirely unable to do so before +1 Gumball: [Teary-eyed] Age doesn't matter when it comes to love. https://i.redd.it/epm6oyymet1d1.gif +1 Penny: ...and Gumball. Do you, in the name of the bro-code, bromise to always love and take care of your bro in sickness and in health, brosperity and broverty? Gumball: I do. [Puts ring on Darwin's fin] Penny: You may now high-five the bro. Gumball and Darwin: [High five] Yeah! Okay, this is cute and all and definetely helps reassure and caslm down Darwin, but...your still gonna sit down and talk to him about his issues right? Maybe get him a therapist, that isn't Harold, to talk to about his issues? ...right? ...no? You're...just gonna never speak of this again and leave him to continue suffering silently with these severe abandonment issues all on his own? Okay then. +50 Total Sins: 79 Most Sinned Episode So Far: The Hero (1,490,894) Least Sinned Episode: The Shell (-999, 958) Previous Episode: https://www.reddit.com/gumball/comments/1co8fu7/eww_the_burden/ submitted by Valha28 to gumball [link] [comments] |
2024.05.21 19:30 CheburashkaUspensky Having people around you and yet being lonely is a rock bottom I wouldnāt wish on anyone.
I just resort to Reddit these days when I feel like I just want to talk to someone about how Iām feeling or when Iām crying and just need some comfort.
I canāt believe how all my 20ās life was just about survival and nothing else.
Iāve come to a point where I again have cancer, same ordeal of earning money just to pay off medical bills and I donāt know why it feels so shitty with absolutely no motivation to go through it all over again.
I go alone to my appointments, I go do my tests by myself and my family just couldnāt care less about it.
My friends call. Theyāre all in very different places and itās physically impossible for them to come be with me. And Iām extremely grateful for all this, but really I just wish I had that physical comfort of having someone around me.
I canāt believe of all the things going wrong, all I genuinely crave is just human company and companionship.
I am surrounded by so many people physically, but I am just so lonely.
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2024.05.21 19:30 sartgr Iām trying to play a server on minecraft [java] and but this error pops up. Help?
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2024.05.21 19:29 TigerQueef Reduced Episode Run Time in Season 3
I havenāt see this brought up as an overall thing yet, but itās not sitting well with me.
Not just are they sticking to 8 episodes, but they have cut down the run time in Season 3 to 52-58 minutes. As opposed to the up to 72 minutes for some of the episodes that we got in Seasons 1 and 2.
We have lost the equivalent of at least TWO episodes this season, likely a little more, with all the world building, storytelling and richness that would have provided. 25% of this story that could have been shared, gone.
I sincerely donāt understand why more people arenāt losing their shit over this.
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2024.05.21 19:29 CroweGhost AITA? I pretended to be a girl's friend for an entire year and then wrote a hate letter to her
Alright, soā¦ I (18F) kinda made this reddit account just to get some feedback about this situation, since Iām too ashamed to ask my parents. The girl in question is 16, and is probably one of the most annoying people Iāve ever metā¦
(TLDR: This girl I was pretending to be friends with in High School obsessively fantasized about murdering someone for an entire semester, is overbearing as a person, interrogates people on a daily basis and is nosy, injects herself into drama that isnāt her own, throws temper tantrums when she doesnāt get her way, constantly touches people and makes unwarranted comments about girlās bodies, asked me to draw CP for her, and MADE FUN OF HER SUICIDAL BROTHER. And I wrote a hate-letter telling her that all of this stuff is a problem, but now I feel bad about it because I think she might actually have mental issues. Itās a really wild ride and a long story, so if you choose to read it, you should expect to be here for a while. And itās High School drama, so Iāll try to discard the boring details.)
At the beginning of this year, I ended up in a small Sports Medicine class with literally 8 students total in it. That made things quiet, which gave us some room to start talking and getting to know each other after the teacher was done with the lesson and we had our small hands-on tests and assignments out of the way. (The classes took about 20 minutes every day. Really quick and easy. Laid back. It met curriculum requirements actually, because there wasnāt constant bullshit from other students making the lesson longer.). Thereās this girl, whoā¦ Iāll call her Storm. Youāll find out why. Storm quickly became the most annoying person in the class. Any time she talked, she didnāt have anything interesting to say, but just kept going on and on and on endlessly. It was annoying, but we just kinda played along to be nice. Wellā¦ Around a month into school, Storme started opening up and became comfortable talking about personal topics. She told us this story about how one of her other friends (Iāll call her Katie) ābetrayedā her the previous year, and then went on to talk about how much she hated Katie and didnāt care if she lived or died. (Honestly, Katieās offense was miniscule. At most, she replaced Storm with someone else as her best friend. You knowā¦ Regular High School drama that wasnāt that deep. I honestly forgot all of what Katie did because it was just so miniscule.) Then Storme started saying ludicrous stuff like āI hope she falls into a volcanoā, or āI hope she gets eaten by sharks falling from the sky. Like Sharknado.ā. But likeā¦ She kept saying it constantly, out loud in class. She ranted about how she wanted Katie to get kidnapped by the Mafia, be flown up to the moon, and be dropped into a black hole to become āKatie-spaghettiā. It was honestly really funny at first, so me and a few other people in the class joined in a little bit and added our own stupid, childlike scenarios. (Katie has a reputation for beingā¦ A slut. Thatās why it was funny at first.) But then after this schtick got old, Storm just kept going and going and goingā¦ She ranted about Katie until it physically hurt to hear her talk anymore. She was back to being annoying and boring again, but it was worse this time because it was obvious that she was trying to re-kindle our intrigue without realizing that she should move on to something else. Instead of assessing herself, she just kept yapping until everyone rolled their eyes every time she opened her mouth, because we knew she would just keep going on and on about all of the stupid ways she wanted Katie to d
e. Even the damn teacher told her to stop doing that, but she never listened and the teacher eventually just gave up telling her off (And honestly, I think the teacher started zoning her out.). Katie then gradually started to get more morbid with the things she was saying, to the point where I genuinely considered calling the cops and getting this girl some grippy socks. She talked until she became red-faced, started tweaking, and laughed in a neurotic, nervous angry way while she started wringing out her trembling hands. She genuinely looked and sounded unhinged, and what didnāt help was that she started saying stuff like āThere arenāt metal detectors in this school, right?ā, and āI wish I wasnāt such a good person, because if I wasnāt, Iād be acting on my impulse to cave her skull in the next time I see her. One of these days Iām going to snap and then just do it..ā ā¦Yeah, so I was genuinely considering getting the police involved in this because of those two sentences. Thankfully Katie is safe and sound to this day and Storm never acted on these āimpulsesā. Iām so glad it worked out that I didnāt have to call the cops, but I was seriously worried for a minuteā¦ One of my other friends in that class, (Iāll call him Mark), eventually kinda snapped and called her out for being the annoying piece of crap she is. Quickly, Storm and Mark started getting into arguments just about every day and started throwing things like wads of wrapping-tape at each other, and I was becoming worried that they were going to start actually full-on fighting. It doesnāt sound logical in hindsight, but I ended up taking it upon myself to step in and start acting friendly toward her and listening to her (or pretending to listen to her) just to draw her attention away from him. Pretty soon she started talking mostly to me, and this was intentionally done on my part so that the other people in the class could relax a little bit and start doing whatever on their phones and zone her out instead of having to pretend to listen in agony. Ultimately, it was an exchange that benefited everyone, because after Storme got that angry energy out of her, she shut up for the day. She continued to talk about Katie, but mostly to me. She talked about this topic endlessly, her words getting increasingly violent until Christmas break. Yeahā¦ 5 months. She ranted about the ways she wanted Katie to die for 5 whole months. Months. But then when she was done ranting, she finally shut up. ā¦Oh God, the silence sounded like angels singing. I didnāt even really retain any of the information she spewed onto me, but holy crap, when it was over it was like heaven on Earth. So thatās what I did ā I acted like the ālightning rodā for this Storm of a person until it passed (kinda). She wrote a note to Katie explaining āYou hurt me really badly, but Iām a Christian so I forgive you and I hope you the bestā... As if she didnāt rant about her for 5 months straight. Make it make sense. But enough about that. Hereās where my fck ups began. I gave Storm my number and we quickly started saying that we were friends, though I didnāt actually like her at all and just wanted to keep the peace. We had a few things in common, but I still didnāt like her whatsoever. She continued to rant to me nonstop about Katie, even over text, and I was burnt out listening after a while. Soā¦ To dampen the impact of this girlās obsessive ramblings, I started sending her pictures of my drawings. (Iām an artist). I had characters that I liked to draw that are ocs of an anime fandom (all of which are underage), and she seemed to calm down a bit and hyper-focus on them. She even has a folder in her phoneās gallery completely dedicated to storing my artwork. Thatās great and all, butā¦ One day, the topic of Wattpad came up in one of our conversations. I, myself, was one of those cringy Wattpad 12 year olds who made the most illiterate fanfictions ever to be conceived by a human being (Theyāve long since been deleted. Thank God, those were awful.) Thenā¦ The topic of āWattpad smutā came up, because I admitted that I used to read those because of the awful grammar and I thought it was funny. I still do sometimes, actually. The way people on Wattpad canāt write to save their lives is just hilarious. Like the stupid āShrek x Donald Trumpā ones are the ones that make me wheeze. I donāt take them seriously, and I love it when the author doesnāt take it seriously either. Itās hilarious. ā¦But then this asshole said: āI donāt like to read bad grammar, it makes me mad. But I do like to read that type of contentā¦ For a different reasonā. So uhhā¦ Thatāsā¦ Weird. But then she asked: āHave you found anyā¦ Good ones? Do you have any recommendations? Asking for a friend.ā ā¦F
CK NO. No thank you. Nope, Iām done. No jerkoff material for you, maāam. Nope. Youāre done. Seriously, I put down my phone for a little bit and went outside to go stare at some birds at the bird feeder until my sickness went away. I fell nauseous because of that (though in hindsight, that seems like an overreaction). When I came back, I didnāt answer that question and kinda skated past it, and that seemed to be the end of it. ā¦But there is NEVER an end with Storm. She DID forget about the resolution to that conversation, but since we talked about smut to begin with, she started asking me some questions about my art. She asked if I had ever drawn p0rn in my life. Of course, I didnāt really admit to anything. I skated past it too, but then she said: āI think (character 1) and (character 2) are really cute togetherā¦ Likeā¦ Really, really cute together.ā. Thatās great, she likes my charactersā¦ Cool, cool. And then my worst nightmare: āHave you ever drawn p0rn of them?ā ā¦Of course I didnāt, because that would be CPā¦ Plus Iāve never thought of those characters as being āsxualā... Theyāre literally 14 and 15 years old. Then basically, she made an indirect āsuggestionā for me to draw them together. I said f
ck no. Hell fcking no. She tried to convince me to draw them āaged upā, but again I refused. She eventually dropped it, but since then, she passively talked about things of that natureā¦ Like if she saw a guy she thought was cute, sheād tell me she thought heās cute or hot or gorgeous or whatever and allude to -other- awkward desires that I didnāt want to know about. She put me off from drawing those characters ever again. I havenāt drawn them since and I donāt take my sketchbook to school anymore because I donāt want her to see my drawings and be reminded of that BS.
But enough about thatā¦ Storm is a church-going girl, and so she has a few church-going friends. (This also makes everything Iāve said before all the more ironic.). One day when I was transitioning from my 5th to 6th period, I saw her talking angrily to one of her church friends (Iāll call her Isabelle) outside the school building. Storm was accusing Isabelle of lying about smoking weed/vaping and drinking, and she seemed to be so interested in it that youād think it had an impact on her personally. Isabelle denied doing that, and they eventually parted ways to go to class. I walked with Storm to 6th period (the Sports Medicine period), and I asked her why she was so damn interested in Isabelleās habits. Know what she said? Storm said āI just donāt like liars.ā... So let me get this straight: She thought she had the right to interrogate someone half to death because she just ādoesnāt like liarsā? Make that make sense. Iāve heard many stories about how Storm interrogates other people, too. If she sees a guy/girlās name pop up on the screen of someone she knows, sheāll pester them until they give her one of two answers: either āIāll tell you laterā, or the actual answer. Sheās done that to me too, in front of everyone in class. The thing that upsets me about this is that she claims to be ānosyā, but thinks itās a positive attribute rather than an annoying one. She brags about being ānosyā sometimes.
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xual assaultā¦ Since we were in a sports medicine class, our projects involved a lot of hands-on things. That didnāt bother me by itself, but with Storm, it was a nightmare. This girl, in the process of strapping an ice bag to my thigh, called my thighs āsmallā, and said that I have a ābeautiful bodyā. We also did shoulder stretching stuff the next week, and I happened to fall under her care while she stared into my eyes and made weird faces at me, all the while she made sound effects and made the process much more uncomfortable than it needed to be. One week, we ended up as partners again and she ended up wrapping my shoulder. This shoulder-wrap wasnāt an issue for me, but having her as a partner made it an issue. As expected, she made sound effects, but this time she stated the obvious as if it was new information that nobody would have ever suspected: āWow, this is squishing your boobies huh?ā... Emphasis on the word āboobiesā. Jesus Fcking Christ, it was already awkward as hell before she even brought that up, why would she say something like that?? I didnāt even realize that until she brought it up. In fear of being subjected to her uncomfortable BS again and feeling violated, I texted her and told her that sheās been making me feel uncomfortable, and to please stop being soā¦. Weird. I get itās an awkward thing to wrap up your classmateās thigh, but thatās a moment to keep comments to yourself. Her response? āIāM SORRY IāM SORRY IāM SORRY IāM SORRY IāM SORRY IāM SORRY IāM SORRY IāM SORRY IāM SORRY-ā Justā¦ Stop it. I didnāt introduce the topic as a big deal and told her not to worry about it, but she kept apologizing for it nonstop. Just endlessly, like everything else. Even when I tried to change the subject to something else, she just kept apologizing for it practically until she went to bed. (She has a bedtime at 9:30ā¦ At 16 years old.) All of this stuff contributed to my overall hatred toward her. I donāt like her at all, and itās a wonder I didnāt explode and insult her entire personality and deplorable behavior to her face (Meg Griffin style). Things are just so awkward and awful whenever she opens her mouth, and it just doesn't ever stop. But because of all of this, when it came time for my Senior prom, I decided to secretly invite one of my friends from that class as a plus one, and NOT Storm. I was worried that if I told her that to her face, I would all of a sudden be the new āKatieā in her conversations, because the infraction Katie did was so miniscule that it seemed to be less like a ābetrayalā than what I did. (In hindsight, it was probably the other way around.) Soā¦ I just kept the whole thing to myself and so did the friend I took to prom (Iāll call her Beyonce. Becauseā¦ She loves Beyonce.).
If this wasnāt bad enough, strap in because not even three weeks ago, Beyonce was doing her usual schtick of making fun of random things. She once made fun of cool whip and the entire state of Texas at the same time and somehow made it make perfect sense. She should really have a comedy show, I swear. But this time, Beyonce was making fun of the name āGageā, saying āWhy would anyone name their kid after a 12-gage shotgun?ā and āPeople named Gage seem untrustworthy. I wouldnāt want to be near one in a zombie apocalypse, because heād just feed me to those f*ckers.ā. Funny stuff. Storm then said āMy brotherās name is Gageā, and in order to preserve the flow of the conversation (and also to tick her off a little, Iām ngl), Beyonce asked her: āIs your brother untrustworthy?ā And then without a single millisecond wasted, she said, in a Disney Channel comedy fashion: āWelllā¦ We canāt trust him with his own life, soooā¦ā.. And then she laughed as if it was funny. Like.. Rib-stitches type of laughing. ā¦.So then the others (understandably) went quiet, which left only me and her talking for a moment after her laughter quieted down. She complained about how confused she is that nobody finds her joke funny, and said that her joke had the āperfect timing and everythingā... So then my idiot ass decided to say what I was thinking at that moment: āYou donāt seem to be taking it seriously. Thatās your brother, but you donāt sound sympathetic at all.ā She tried to ādefendā herself, but Mark interjected into the conversation and changed the course of it entirely, which just left her to sit there in silence, pouting. I felt bad for that statement, so I apologized for it over text when I got home from school. Quickly, we erupted into an argument, (with me holding back), and she ended up saying āWhat does it matter to you? Heās not your brother. If Beyonce said that about her brother, youād laugh. But when I do, itās bad.ā. Beyonceās brother is 8 years oldā¦. So no, that would be even worse. ā¦So then I had to explain to her how human decency works, and how making fun of your s*icidal siblings isnāt funny whatsoever and how that joke could be considered to be in very poor taste, even for people who like dark humor. When me, Beyonce or Mark made ās*icideā jokes, it was about OURSELVES and it was usually in a statement like āI donāt want to take a test next period, Iām gonna kms.ā... ā¦Storm ended up getting so mad that we werenāt having a conversation anymore; we were just throwing sh*t around. I told her that if she was being livestreamed at that moment, sheād be bashed on the whole internet for a week or so and be called āevilā for that joke. In hindsight I shouldnāt have said that, but my goal was just to tell her how insensitive others might perceive her comment to be. She said that it wasnāt my business to tell her how to feel about her own brother, but I wasnāt doing that at all, that wasnāt my angle whatsoever ā I was just explaining what people find funny. I even said repeatedly that I wasnāt trying to tell her how to feel, and that I know comedy can help lighten situations, but somehow she forgot about that part. And then she went on this whole thing about ending every massive text block with āNot that itās YOUR business, or anythingā to snap at me, despite me being in the room at the time of the joke... So I ended the conversation right then and there because it was pointless to keep going and I really didnāt want to spend any more energy on her. The next day, I apologized to her again. I retracted my statements and told her that I was sorry for talking out of line. She accepted the apology, and things went back to ānormalā. She forgot about it, but I didnāt. ā¦So here are the reasons why I feel bad, before I delve into the contents of the āhate letterā I wrote to her. Hereās a list of my crimes:
I pretended to be her friend for an entire school year. I hid the fact that I was going to prom with Beyonce from her, and then lied to her face repeatedly whenever she asked if I went to prom or not. I got into business that wasnāt my own and criticized her. I wrote a hate-letter to her that I directed her to read at home on the last day of school.
ā¦Hereās why I feel bad: Storm doesnāt seem to be emotionally intelligent and is unable to control her mouth whenever she feels strong emotions. She talks nonstop about her second cousinās friendās pet hamsterās wifeās sisterās drama, hoping weāll find something funny or interesting or impressive, while seeming unable to understand that she needs to change her tune. All she wants is to be listened to and understood, but nobody can and nobody truly wants to. She feigns confidence and goes overboard with compliments in the hopes of catching the attention of people who want to be friends with her. Sheās not used to change and is very naive, to the point where (just yesterday) she quit her job at a fast food restaurant after only the first day of working there. For the longest time she didnāt have access to the internet, so she doesnāt really have a means to connect with other people through sharing videos or memes or whatever. ā¦I feel like a bad person because I knowingly, intentionally played into all of this just for the pathetic reason of making her shut up in class. Itās despicable what I did, and Iām beating myself up for it every day. I was just originally going to leave the school, block her and never talk to her ever again in my life, but when she made that joke about her brother, I decided (stupidly) to take it upon myself to be the bearer of bad news. I gave her a letter. Within the āhate letterā, it isnāt actually hate, per se. Itās more likeā¦ A report on the behavior she needs to fix, as well as an admission to my lies over the course of this whole year. I told her the awful truth. I told her about everything I mentioned in this post and tried to keep it āprofessionalā, though I did end up going as far as to say āyou have all of the attributes of an obnoxious piece of stale breadā........... And whatās worse isā¦ I told her to read it on the last day of school, and my reasoning is pathetic at best. I told her to read it on the last day of school because I didnāt want her to burden the class with her nonstop ranting about me, since she, Mark and Beyonce are sophomores and Iām the only senior in the āfriend groupā, which means that I left the school an entire week earlier than them. Iāve been intentionally delaying her pain and still talking to her over text acting like things are ānormalā so that she doesnāt read it early, knowing damn well that on that last day of school, my words are going to hurt her so badly that she might not be able to recover for a while. In the letter, I told her that by the time she reads it, I would have already blocked her because I donāt want any more conversation with her due to me feeling so bad and having nothing more to say. If the plan goes right, sheāll read it on May 23rd, and on that day I will block her.
I feel awful for all of this. I feel like a monster for this. Itās painful knowing that Iām going to cause her pain and that I planned when itās going to happen, but at the same time I feel like she deserves it. But at the same time, I know damn well that it wasnāt my place to do that. I should have left everything alone. Nobody I can talk to irl would even hear me out; theyād just stop at the words āhate letterā, which means my only option is to seek advice from people on Reddit. Do my motives for doing things make sense? Am I actually a bad person for this? Am I the asshole? Does she deserve what sheās getting?
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2024.05.21 19:29 Nelo92 Considering dumping GF to prioritize savingā¦
I thought I was doing okay financially. 32M making about $80k-90k, 30k in savings, 70k in 401k, paid off car no debt, still live at home.
But Iām looking at the homes in my area, 900k for a little shack !! And with a 7% interest rate you will need to make close to $200k just to qualify. Whoās making that kinda money? My main focus is to save a big enough down payment to buy a home then hopefully start a family.
Iāve been seeing this girl going on 4 months now. She has a 1 year old daughter and is currently not working. She does plan to get a job soon though but even if she gets a job making $60k that still wonāt be enough.
We go out once a week. Usually Chick-fil-A. Once in a while weāll go to a restaurant, concert or Dodger game. Iāll buy her flowers here and there. I would say Iām spending $100-200 a week being in this relationship. Iām considering calling it quits to save that money and just be honest with her. Thoughts ?
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2024.05.21 19:29 JLSmoove626 CMV: Saying that Texas has higher taxes than California is disingenuous and incorrect
Lets get into it, off the bat:
Property Tax: California 1%ā¦ Texas 1.7%
Average home price: California $786,000ā¦. Texas: $307,000
Property tax for average home: California $7,860 annuallyā¦. Texas $5,219 annually
Homes in Texas are MUCH cheaper than California, in fact good luck finding a house in any nice area if any major city in CA for less than $1 million. Anyway, that greatly offsets how much property tax you will be paying. Off the bat it costs more to own a house in California, by a strong margin.
Next lets look at income tax, assuming $100K income (which again is low for CA and high for TX)
California: ~ 6.4% income tax plus 1.1% state disability insurance. Yields around $7.5K on 100M
Texas: ZERO state income tax, and zero disability.
Alright, so Californiaās state income tax burden is about 7.5% higher than TX.
Combined between property tax and income tax youāre looking at about $16.3K for California and only $5,219 for TX.
Now sales tax: California 7.25% - 10.75%ā¦. Texas 6.25% - 8.25%
Againā¦. Higher
Vehicle taxes: California YESā¦. Texas NO
Gas taxes: California: $.51/gallonā¦ Texas: $.21/gallon
Some other considerations: Literally everything is cheaper in Texas. Food, groceries, beverages, alcohol, utility water, cost of labor, Etc.
As someone who is from NY and has lived in: NY, CT, CA, TX and FL. I can say, without a single doubt that TX was by far the overall cheapest to live in, where my money went the furthest. Living in NYC and in CA was so absurdly expensive, and the taxes were fucking AWFUL.
Food is California is basically 2x the cost for 1/2 the amount of food compared to TX.
Also - I am fully aware I am comparing different home values (average state values). Comparing comparably based on sq footage, bedrooms and bathrooms, and comparable areas will only work against California. But Iām happy to compare a 4 bedroom 3 bathroom 3,000 sq foot home in Los Angeles or SF to one in Houston or Dallas.
Anyway, CMV
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2024.05.21 19:29 butthecookies which bait is best?
just wondering which bait is more worth it long term? 1.6 added ādeluxe baitā which ācauses fish to bite even faster and increases size of fishing barā money-wise is it better to use wild bait or deluxe bait?
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2024.05.21 19:29 chupacabra314 Mini Reviews: small passive bookshelf under $300 for nearfield - Polk ES10 vs Micca RB42 vs Micca MB42XG2 vs Kanto YU5.25
The TLDConclusions - If you need a small passive bookshelf for under $300 and/or can't run a sub, I still think the RB42s are very hard to beat. They are certainly not perfect but nothing in this price range and size is. They are beautifully made and have a very versatile sound that can be improved even further with some minor EQ.
- If you're really low on space, the MB42X G2s have a smaller footprint than the RB42, with a very similar, but not as refined sound.
- If you have the space and the extra $70, the Kanto YU5.25 are absolutely worth it over the RB42. Their balanced frequency response and low distortion make them great for both nearfield and small/medium room listening across all music genres. My only advice is to pair them with a sub.
About my setup The way my desk is positioned I can't have my speakers on stands next to it or mounted on the wall. They have to be on the desk, and I only have space for maximum 8" deep cabinets, so that rules out other popular options, such as the KEF Q150. All speakers were positioned about 42" center to center, toed in at 45deg and angled on 15deg Monoprice wedges. Distance from my ears was roughly 30" and from the wall - about 12". They did not resonate with my desk but did with the wall behind them so after stuffing the ports with socks didn't work, I had to resort to applying a -8dB @ Q=10 EQ at 135Hz to eliminate it. Also, probably due to their interaction with the environment, all of them showed a slight broad dip around 90-100Hz, which probably caused me to miss the resonances in this area that ASR measured on some of these models. All speakers were driven by a Loxjie A30 connected via toslink to my PC, and for music were paired with an SVS SB-1000 sub with its volume and crossover matched to each speaker pair.
About the tests As I mostly use these for nearfield (I aimed for 60dB at my ears, measured with my phone), the Loxjie rarely went beyond 1/3 of what it was capable of, and the speakers weren't pushed even close to their limits. I typically run multiple slow sine sweeps to figure out where the peaks, valleys, and any other weirdness are. As for the more subjective part, I went through various music genres including EDM, hiphop, classical, jazz, reggae, various heavy metal subgenres, rock, as well as some audiophile albums.
About me I'm by no means a hardcore audiophile and I'm usually a value shopper - meaning I like to pay for quality but right up to the point where diminishing returns really kick in. I do believe in a lot of the objective features high-end audio offers, but I also think there is a lot of snake oil selling involved, and very often you're paying for quality you can't actually hear. I don't do anything professionally-related to audio but am a geek when it comes to specs and objective measurements.
I'm in my late 30s and I'd like to think my hearing is still pretty good - typically what my ears hear matches measurement graphs to a large extent, but I can't hear anything beyond ~15kHz for example. My preference for frequency response is somewhere between studio flat and the Harman curve, but that depends also on the music genre. Probably goes without saying, but don't take anything I claim here for gospel - listening experience is highly subjective.
THE MINI REVIEWS Polk ES10 (black, $249 new) I'll admit these were my first choice to try since they were hands down my favorite visually with the contrasting gold cone and tweeter. They looked good even with the grills on, but of course I opted to leave them off. They would've won best fit and finish too if it weren't for a tiny dab of glue visible on one of the woofers. They were the second smallest of the bunch, with their design contributing to making them look even smaller.
Alas, with regards to sound, I'll place these last out of the four even if they were to cost the same as the Miccas. Overall, they sounded somewhat boring and dry, particularly with female vocals. Noticeable bass rolloff happens all the way up to 100Hz, so you definitely need to pair them with a sub. I set my sub's crossover to 120Hz to blend them in well. I noticed only one resonance at 3kHz but multiple dips - at 280Hz, 1.4, 3.3, 6.6, and 8.3kHz, the latter 3 probably contributing to the boring-sounding female vocals and sparkleless highs. Speaking of the highs, they did extend quite well, and were not fatiguing or laid back. Male vocals also sounded great.
Micca RB42 (very dark brown, $149 new) Love them or hate them, you can't deny these have a lot going for them. Visually, what struck me was how deep they were - as deep as some medium-sized speakers, like the Kanto YU5.25. On the other hand they are very narrow, so the overall impression is of a much smaller speaker. I love how they look, and they are the only ones that I like better with the grill on - it's a very light mesh, so everything behind it is still clearly visible. Fit and finish was good but not great on mine - everything was well assembled but there were some imperfections on the edges where the front veneer meets the sides. They also come with some foam isolator wedges, so the budget conscious can save some money on buying those separately.
Sound-wise I'd give these runner up out of the four and gold in the 4" category. Like most reviewers, the first time you hear them, they have a wow factor, particularly because of their low-end frequency response - I could hear a decent thump all the way down to 50Hz. If you don't listen to a lot of EDM or hiphop, they are the only ones out of the 4 you can run without a sub. In contrast to ASR's measurements, I didn't catch the midbass overemphasis (see my setup notes), and, actually, I only noticed one resonance at 3.4Hz and one dip at 1160Hz. Out of the 4-inchers the RB42s had the smoothest treble - smooth all the way to the limits of my hearing, with a slight overemphasis around 9.5kHz. The highs, however, were a tad too fatiguing - I had to resort to lowering the volume or adding -1 or -2dB on the Loxjie's treble EQ when listening to heavy metal because my ears would start ringning after an hour of listening.
Still, as a total package, I wasn't able to find anything that can touch these at $150 - they are gorgeous and have a very versatile sound that can make any genre (except maybe heavy metal without EQ) sound great.
Micca MB42X G2 (black, $99 new) I'll admit I bought these after I already had the RB42 and after watching Zeos' review that claimed they did some things better than the RB42.
Visually, they don't have much going for them besides their small size. I dare say, with the wide front and small cone, they look a bit ugly, especially sitting next to the RB42s. Putting the grills on didn't make things much better or worse. But you can't expect much for $99, can you?
Sound-wise, my hearing disagrees with Mr. Zeos'. I would place their sound somewhere between the ES10 and the RB42. Yes, their bass extension is almost as good as the RB42s, and yes, you could run them without a sub depending on the genres you prefer. They also had a similar resonance around 2.9kHz. However, I did notice some weird inconsistencies in the 3.2-4kHz range - depending on slight variations of the position of my head, I'd hear parts of that range suddenly dip. After that the highs sounded very similar to the RB42's - maybe slightly more uneven, but still as fatiguing.
So my verdict on these is they are fantastic for the money, but I'd skip another Doordash meal and save another $50 to get the RB42s, even if it's just for the looks.
Kanto YU5.25 (black, $229 new) Yeah yeah, I know these are not the YU4s, which would be a fairer comparison. There are three reasons for this - 1) after looking at ASR's measurements I decided the YU4 wouldn't be good enough to dethrone the RB42; 2) I randomly found these used less than a month for $190 so I couldn't pass them up. And boy am I glad I didn't; 3) They are only 8" deep so they still fit on my small desk.
Visually, the simple minimalist aesthetic works very well. I didn't expect to like them as much as I do. What contributes to this visual impact to a large extent is the great fit and finish - every edge and seam is flawless all the way to the felt-lined port. They certainly lack the cheap feel that the MB42X have.
Sound is where they really shine. It's not a coincidence ASR recommended their powered version. However what I hear slightly differs from their measurements. In the low end, they do roll off fairly early - I can hear noticeable rolloff under 100Hz. You could run them without a sub, but the low end won't be as good as with the RB42s. I did hear the slight midbass dip ASR measured but for me it's only between 200 and 300Hz, not all the way to 900kHz. I also didn't experience the 900Hz resonance they did. Moving up in the frequency range, I did notice the minor resonance at 2.6kHz ASR did but it wasn't bothersome enough to EQ out. After that it's all smooth sailing - the highs are smooth and extend into the limits of my hearing. They have the detail and sparkle of the RB42 but without the fatigue. As a result I can (and do) listen to the Kantos all day long (don't worry I take breaks :) without getting exhausted. I thoroughly enjoy them with every music genre I've tried.
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2024.05.21 19:29 Jhonjournalist Compared to Other Pro-Cyclical Currencies Canadian Dollar has Underperformed
| https://preview.redd.it/lx7dtqkdet1d1.jpg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1461dc38b6d373c93a62623e58cbfc36bd7da984 - The nearness of expansion to the objective has been an essential contention supporting the potential rate cut in June.
- Notwithstanding, a flood in work creation in Canada in April has tested the timid standpoint.
- The market is underrating the probability of a rate cut in June, with just an 11-premise point change evaluated.
The Canadian dollar has failed to meet expectations contrasted with other favorable to recurrent monetary standards starting from the start of May, impacted by its association with US financial information and Central Bank rate assumptions. Market experts have anticipated a 25-premise point rate cut by the Bank of Canada in June, a position that has been kept up with for a considerable length of time. This expected strategy activity is supposed to reduce the Canadian dollarās allure compared with other item-connected monetary forms. The Canadian Dollar has Underperformed The present arrival of Aprilās Purchaser Value File (CPI) information in Canada is significant, as it might influence market expectations concerning the June loan cost choice. Examiners are especially intrigued by whether the center CPI ātrimā measure will line up with the other Bank of Canadaās favored center expansion pointer, the āmiddle,ā falling underneath 3%. If all the key expansion measurements, both center and title, are inside the 1ā3% objective reach, it could muddle the Bank of Canadaās reasoning for keeping a prohibitive financial strategy. There is an additional hypothesis that the Canadian dollar could debilitate further as the potential rate cut turns out to be all the more completely expected by the market, prompting expanded tentative situations on the Canadian loan cost bend. Should expansion decline true to form with the present information, the USD/computer-aided design pair could move toward the 1.3700 level again in the close term. Money coordinates like computer-aided design/NOK and NZD/computer-aided design could likewise mirror the arrangement uniqueness all the more obviously. Learn More: https://worldmagzine.com/canada/compared-to-other-pro-cyclical-currencies-canadian-dollar-has-underperformed/ submitted by Jhonjournalist to u/Jhonjournalist [link] [comments] |
2024.05.21 19:29 throwraemeraldskies emotional abuse from my (30m) insensitive dad 60m, why?
I'm an INFP guy in my 30's, and am currently living with my parents temporarily while i get a new place... my dad is an ISTJ.
My dad has never been emotionally available, encouraging, supportive.. we never have had meaningful conversations literally ever... he has mellowed out *a little* since retiring, but still overall seems insensitive a lot.
A little backstory, the past few years have easily been the toughest of my life, some very traumatic and painful things I've been going through... my dad involuntarily and unjustly sent me to a psych ward because he was concerned that i was depressed... he spent tons of money to convince a judge that he had good intentions and as a grown adult, police forced me away for 5 days, which ruined trust issues with my parents and caused lots of mental problems for me in the seven years since...
my parents apologized after the incident and admitted they misjudged me and made a mistake in thinking i was depressed. stupid fucking move if you ask me.
Anyways, this past year has been incredibly painful, dififcult for many reasons... I'm just trying to move forward in life and turn things around... and it was just easier for me to move back in with my family during this time, which they allowed...
Most recently, my dad has been wanting me to move out very soon and he is very aware that this is the toughest, most pivotal, delicate, painful time of my life by far... i've told him to just be patient and not force me to move out...
Two days ago he calmly asked me if we could meet at the park to talk about my living situation, how he came up with a time frame on me moving out and that he wants to discuss it... which couldn't have been worse timing, as i just recently began working a new job and aside from this stressful job, i have a ton of very difficult things going on,
and instantly when i began talking about how i have a lot going on, he cuts me off and doesn't even allow me to talk... i ask him to stop cutting me off, and soon after as i'm calmly talking, he gets angry..
i then calmly asked him to stop being insensitive, and to be understanding that i don't know when we'll meet... and he said it has to be less than two weeks, and during the toughest time of my life, and with work and the countless other very painful and difficult things i'm working through, i just couldn't agree to a time,
and i said to please be patient, and starts threatening me saying "if we don't meet, i'm just going to make a decision and you won't like it", meaning he'll kick me out,
and i begin asking him to be gentle and sensitive, how i've been asking him this for years, how he's always been insensitive since forever, and he begins turning up his TV volume loud to drown me out, and i get more hurt and begin crying a bit, and he is just cold and insensitive,
and gets angry and/or shuts me out by turning up the tv volume...
the confusing part is, he has a four year old grandson, a sweet boy that is my sisters son... i'm the uncle.. and my as the grandfather, my dad is always gentle and kind towards him,
and here's me, a child at heart who always stayed true to himself and the little boy within him.. .i remained a gentle childlike soul who still loves the same things i did as a boy... climbing trees and playing outside, art and music... i'm true to the boy i was...
and then i began saying how i'm a child at heart and how he's kind to his grandson and so why not me? and he began turning up the tv volume again and not responding..
i then asked him to just be gentle, and i was very hurt and talking a bit loud and as a petty defense mechanism my dad goes "oh, you're being gentle?", because i was emotional and expressing my feelings a bit loudly.
i walked away into a different room in heavy tears, about 30 minutes later wrote a note about how i'm going through the most painful time of my life, to please stop adding pressure into my life, and how i'm a gentle child at heart...
and soon after i heard a very loud bang noise from the kitchen, and i walked in and saw my piece of paper i poured my heart into, and it was taken off the counter i placed it on with tape, and placed to the side on this desk in the kitchen...
so he got mad and banged the fridge or something, and took the paper and cast it aside, like me and my feelings...
i don't understand why he would be so harsh and cold towards me his son, who he says he loves, but gentle and kind towards his grandson.
tl;dr yep
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2024.05.21 19:28 rafiafoxx How am I gonna beat someone 7-1 in the 60th minute, they leave and I don't get the win???
I don't play fifa often, probably like 50 hours total in my entire life, mostly at party's, but since it was on sale, I got it, and ive been climbing through the divisons in seasons, legit my best game ever, when the opponent was real madrid, and I'm beating him 7-1, it's 60 minutes in, and he leaves, I'm kinda sad cuz I wanted to see how far it can go, but not big deal.
Then the opponent leaves, and not only do I not get a record of the game, it doesn't even count as a win???? Literally the best I've ever played and it was for nothing.
I'm actually sad now.
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2024.05.21 19:28 TheWanderingTree86 A new way to visualize Goals in the Budget page
I recently got in touch with Monarch support
(shout out to Johsua and Jamar!) about my confusion with the current
Goals feature. I had some ideas on how to improve the feature as it interacts with the
Budget plan, which I wanted to share here on the subreddit to get other users thoughts and feedback.
A Problem with Goals
As others have pointed out, the
Left to Budget section shows your contributions are also being deducted from your
Income when their
Expense counterpart has already deducted as well. For example, let's assume I have a Mortgage expense and a Mortgage paydown goal. If my monthly income is $5000 and my mortgage is $4000, my "Left to Budget" amount is shown as -$3000, when it should be $1000.
Many people have suggested a workaround by categorizing the expense as a
Transfer so it is only counted once, but doing this would also remove the expense from your
Cash Flow and
Reports which is not good.
You would not be able to track your spending in these categories. The user should be able to use all features in Monarch while categorizing their expenses properly. They shouldn't have to remember to do weird tricks/hacks to make things work. They shouldn't have to mark anything as
Transfer that isn't a transfer, or hide recurring transactions as a matter of course.
A Possible Solution?
In my mind,
Goals are just a subset, or view, of
Expenses the user
already has in their budget. The user can already track their monthly "goal progress" by budgeting using the system categories for "Credit Card Payments," "Mortgage" and "Loan Repayment" -- and watching as payments contribute to those categories throughout the month. But it seems the purpose of goals is to present these expenses to the user in a different light, to help them feel like some of their expenses are not "money spent" but "money saved."
For me, what would make more sense is an "Expenses & Goals" progress bar on the
Budget Summary panel, underneath the "Income" progress bar. This number in reality would just be a total of the user's budgeted Expenses
(not including Contributions). Beneath this "Expenses & Goals" progress bar, you could show two more progress bars as children:
- Expenses: a subset of expenses that are not contributions to a goal (non-goal expenses)
- Goals: just the goal contribution expenses
For example, if a user makes a credit card payment, they would categorize it properly as "Credit Card Payment" (to be able to have useful and accurate data in Budget, Cash Flow and Reports). Without linking the transaction to a Goal, it would be shown as spending in the "Expenses" progress bar (also rolled up in the "Expenses & Goals" progress bar). If the user has a credit card that isn't set up in Goals (or maybe they have technical issues and can't link their credit card account with Monarch) but they still want to track this payment in the budget, this would be the correct visualization. But let's continue with the assumption that this credit card is also being tracked in Goals...
Then, the user would link the
debit transaction to the matching Goal (this is not currently possible as users can only assign
credit transactions from linked goal accounts). This would shift the spending from being shown on the "Expenses" progress bar to being shown as savings/contributions on the "Goals" progress bar (still rolled up in the total "Expenses & Goals" progress bar).
Either way, the expense would only be
deducted once from Income in calculating the "Left to Budget" amount. It is either a non-goal expense, or a goal expense.
The "Expenses & Goals" progress bar could even have two different colors, or a vertical notch, to indicate how much of the user's total expenses are contributions towards their goals. This could be incredibly motivating to see a large percentage of spending is actually savings.
The only thing the user would need to do differently here is linking
both the debit and credit transactions to each goal. This could be automated with Rules.
Or perhaps this could remove the need to link the credit transactions altogether. From my experience, my mortgage and loan accounts don't support pulling in transaction data like my primary cash and credit card accounts do. Maybe because they are smaller institutions? I have to manually add the credit transactions to link to my goals, which is kind of a pain. I have also seen other users online who are completely unable to link their goal accounts/institutions to Monarch.
Anyway, I really love a lot of the thinking that's going into the Goals feature (and Monarch as a whole), so I hope this criticism and suggestion is met with open-mindedness and curiosity. This seems like a point of confusion for other users as well:
Would this solution make sense to anyone else? Anything else I'm not considering here?
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2024.05.21 19:28 Negative_Dot7834 Thereās a New EV Scam in Town: FFIE (Research report from 2021)
2024.05.21 19:28 WhatchooGonnaDo Tara .... Girl
| Stay true to you on your social media. We see the real you girl. Stop with the effn filters..... embrace all your curves and imperfections...... What are you trying to show us??? Why didn't you wear that beautiful dress š„» on Tamara.....the others were dressed a bit above you, and for you you of all people going on a talk show I'm really really shocked you chose the outfit of the day that you chose like letting you ruin your cute little dresses like the one that's in this post.....yeah, right .......okay ......exactly...... Stop asking us if we're okay...... LMAO š¤£ š¤£ š¤£ girl we are all more than ok.....you, however, we are unsure and therefore checking on you because you're not ...... You're absolutely NOT true to you at all you contradict yourself every time you open your mouth and every video you post and until you start being true to yourself your numbers are going to continue to go down down down down in which they are. I'm proud of you for the surgery that you've had congratulations I'm glad you had the money to have it. However, the surgery you had, didn't fix everything, it sure didn't fix your attitude..., if anything it made your attitude much much worse ......and for that I will never have surgery....... because if I have to risk becoming ugly on the inside..... nope .....no..,..girl ..let me stay ugly on the outside..... thank you..... you've taught us all something valuable....... Now everyone can look at the pictures and come to their own conclusion..... And all these pictures were on public platforms , nothing marked private..,all public.....also everything posted here is just my personal opinion and for entertainment only......and possibly educational depending who you are....have a great day š PS DO NOT HOLD ME TO THE SAME STANDARD YOU FEEL WENT AND SHOULD BE HELD TO BECAUSE I DISAGREE WITH THAT STATEMENT YOUR STANDARD IS ACTUALLY MUCH LOWER THAN MINE SORRY JUST MY OPINION JUST LIKE YOU HAVE OPINIONS THAT YOU LIKE TO SHARE WITH THE PUBLIC. YOU KNOW IT'S SUNNY THOUGH WE SURE ARE OPINIONS OVER HERE WITHOUT GETTING PAID WE JUST LIKE SHARING OUR OPINIONS AND THAT FUNNY YOU LIKE TO SHARE YOUR OPINION AND GET PAID MAYBE YOU THINK YOU'RE SMARTER THAN WE ARE I DON'T KNOW BUT NAH I DON'T FEEL THAT EITHER SO HAVE A GOOD DAY....CATCH THAT PIGEON š¦š¦š¦š¦ I MEAN PLANE..... submitted by WhatchooGonnaDo to Im_an_InFlUeNcEr [link] [comments] |
2024.05.21 19:27 Negative_Dot7834 Caution on FFIE: This is not another Short Squeeze gem like GME
I am writing this in your best interest, as the MAJORITY of retail investors back in the GME days have lost money. You may be biased by the 10% who earned tens (hundreds) of thousands of dollars by jumping on the boat very early, but forget about the remaining 90% of retail investors. Be diligent with your own research and don't get caught up in the hype without solid evidence to back it up.
Many retail investors, particularly those new to the market, might not fully grasp these risks. To begin with, the days-to-cover ratio for FFIE is alarmingly low (0.05 vs 6.5 during GME peak), indicating that a short squeeze is unlikely. Additionally, the short interest data doesn't paint the full picture: 98% of float is outdated (data is only published bi-monthly by FINRA), while the Fintel estimate only gives you an estimate of 1 single prime brokers compared to hundreds of security lending brokers existing in the market. The only 2 leading short interest data provider are S3 Partners and S&P Global, both which are geared towards institutional investors and require a subscription (S3 estimates short interest to be at 50%, implying HFs already covered a large junk of their short positions). Remember, high short interest alone isn't enough to trigger a squeeze ā days-to-cover is a far more critical metric (the average traded daily volume over the past week was 1.1 - 1.5bn daily, if you compared this to the (low) short interest as of 30 April of 38mn by HFs, it will give you a DTC of 0.05, which means they could cover their shorts in less than an hour).
Lastly, the company's fundamentals are extraordinarily weak if you take a look at their balance sheet, plagued by financial instability, ongoing law suits (founder Jia Yueting committing fraud and filing personal bankruptcy in 2019) and significant operational challenges (cash reserves of $2mn without any signs of further financing rounds, only 10 sold cars since 2014 of which the majority were sold to their employees). This company is poised to file bankruptcy in the coming months. A significant event to monitor is the situation on their headquarters, as they face eviction for their LA headquarters for failing to pay rent, a bill that is now nearly $1 million.
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2024.05.21 19:27 margwa_ New ship confirms why Cayde is in the Pale Heart
After completing the season finale, you get a ship called Unforeseen Consequences. The description of it is "Be careful what you wish for".
In it, Crow is at Mara's throne when Mara enters. It's implied Riven disguised herself as Mara. Mara-Riven tells Crow that she regrets manipulating him, and that none of it went the way she intended. She then asks Crow if he would change anything in his past, to which he responds "Cayde".
Crow describes how he could have changed his path before he killed him. "Everything else, I can set right. But not that. I just wish I could tell him I shouldn't have done it".
Mara's eyes "shine in the starlight" and after Crow leaves, says "See you soon, O brother mine".
We know the Ahamkara have at least some influences in the Pale Heart, given that we know the Strike for TFS involves Ahamkara. It seems as though because Crow wished to be able to talk to Cayde again, she made it so.
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2024.05.21 19:27 Parallel_Thread Should I leave my current organisation and try for faang companies?
I work in a company whose product is solid and we cater pan India. Our system is what is generally asked in the hld design questions of other companies. I work in the payments system and have contributed quite a lot - developed new services and contributed in solutioning with full ownership. We have good traffic like 2M per day.
Base Pay is decent.
1)I want to know why I should try to faang? Will I get good work?
2)Is it just basic integration and small low impact work in big system?
3) should I continue with my current role and gain more knowledge.
I am SSE, 6+yoe, backend, tier1 college
Ps- I know the money is good in faang but other companies have also caught up with the base pay.
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2024.05.21 19:26 virgx_xo Am I overreacting? bf is emotionally cheating on me
This is really hard for me to talk about because I struggle to understand & accept it and I donāt talk to anyone irl about it which sometimes sucks & makes me feel alone. So Iām gonna try this & see if anyone has anything useful to tell me bc I could really use any advice or support right now that I can get. This might be a long story so Iām sorry in advance.
Iām 22f and Iāve lived with my bf (24) for 3 years. We do everything together and in my opinion weāre very close and alike but in his opinion the love that we have/the love he gets from me is not enough bc about a year & a half into living together, we went thru some money struggles & his loss of a close family member which really affected him and he hasnāt really been completely the same since. But even before that loss, about a year & a half into our relationship, he decided to tell me that heās decided heās poly. Which I donāt agree with and Iāve made it clear. And I know the normal thing to do in that situation is go okay, well you need to leave him because you both arenāt on the same page with what you want in your relationship. I just want him to choose me and put me first like i do to him, he means everything to me. He is actually the only family i really have which is why itās extremely hard for me to leave him. but i can feel him slowly slipping away from me. And i have tried to end things before kind of a lot of times, but we never end up following thru with it bc he apologizes, lies & says heāll choose me over ābeing polyā , delete all the dating apps, stop liking naked pictures, or whatever the case may be at the time. Or he has said in the past he would go crazy & they would have to put him in a mental hospital if we broke up, bc he canāt handle another loss after his close family member passed. So obviously i feel guilty. I always just hoped in the back of my mind that one day he would wake up from this bullshit and stop with the āpolyā phase and be loyal. But itās not happening. & he always gets back on the dating apps or whatever else he does and acts like iām in the wrong for not letting him ābe who he isā which is āpolyā.
In my opinion itās one thing if he had made this great revelation BEFORE we started dating but it just makes me feel tricked that he didnāt mention it ever once UNTIL we had been living together for like a year already. Bc if he told me that when I met him I never wouldāve dated him and I never wouldāve fallen in love with him and moved in with him.
I look at his phone about once every 3-6 months & every time i do i find something new & bad. He always turns it on me saying iām in the wrong for going thru it but I really wish I didnāt have to do that but if i didnāt i would never find out anything. Bc he claims he doesnāt want to waste my time with telling me about someone whoās just playing with him (like something thatās not serious) bc he hasnāt found any girl willing to go fuck off and be poly with him (i donāt think any girl like that actually exists.) despite his ongoing search for a new girlfriend (or āconnectionā). but yet i feel lied to bc when i look at his instagram he acts single & he dms so many random girls LUSTFULLY. And itās so embarrassing. On top of that girls rarely reply to him bc no one wants a random man lusting in their dms. I had no idea this was the type of person he was or i wouldnāt be with him. And when i ask him about it he lies or covers it up saying heās not like that and he isnāt lustful & that being poly isnāt about sex itās about forming a connection with multiple people. Well if it wasnāt about sex then he wouldnāt be lusting after random girls in their dms. And btw instagram has been an issue in the past due to me finding out he hearted a pic of a girl he knew, basically a nude or a bikini pic. And the way that situation went was that he said omg iāll delete my whole instagram and iām done with it since this is a problem. But i told him no stop saying that shit you know you donāt mean it and youāll be back on it in 3 days. Heās like no i mean it and yeah then in three days he was back on it. This happened a few times with other apps like tinder and every time iām like please just save it bc we both know you saying youāre permanently off these apps isnāt true.
I donāt even have instagram anymore ever since i saw the bikini pic bc i just didnāt want to spend my energy anymore feeling like i wasnāt as pretty as the girls he follows or interacts with, so i actually followed thru and deactivated my whole account & havenāt been on it since. (at least a year) other than that i donāt use SM other than reddit & lurking on twitter sometimes & watching tiktoks. Iām not a SM girlie it not that Iām not pretty ( not trying to sound narcissistic) but iām not an ugly girl i just really prefer privacy and donāt like posting myself online. But seemingly my bfs type is SM wh-res and iām truly not judging the girls, Iām judging my bf.
This morning i looked at his instagram and found some extremely NSFW dms from him to a few random girls & found message conversations with a girl thatās poly thatās out of our state that he talks to often & opens up to her about things he doesnāt open up to me about, and gives her the nicest compliments that he never gives me, says sheās the prettiest girl heās seen, sympathies w her over her personal struggles w life & relationships, calls the girl his soulmate & says they share a brain, complains about me not accepting him being poly & going thru his phone and being āthreatenedā by her & has shared some personal details about my life that i donāt share with people even my close friends. and much more. however he still spins it on me being in the wrong for not accepting him and going thru his phone. he never takes accountability for what he does & always lies about it not being as bad as it is and that iām reading into things. the problem is i donāt believe what he does is poly i believe it to be CHEATING. I believe it is possible to have an honest poly relationship (not that i want one) but what he does is not honest. he has betrayed me, even tho he has never slept with anyone else while we have been in our relationship, and he has only gone on one date in person with someone else throughout our entire relationship (that date ended up going nowhere). (not that he even takes ME out on dates & if he does make a plan to go to the movies or a basketball game he always ends up inviting our friends along everytime.)
He still treats me with love and care & does a lot of things for me , he supported us when we went through our financial struggles after i got in a car accident & couldnāt work, he is always here for me but doesnāt really let me be there for him. I owe him a lot of rent money from the time that i couldnāt work & he paid rent by himself. He doesnāt hold my debt over my head but he mentioned it to the girl on instagram . which made me feel betrayed.
I told him off about what i found in his phone & took pics of the evidence which ive never done before & sent it to him and i want to know if iām overreacting to his betrayal or if iām in the wrong for expecting loyalty from my 3 yr relationship. /:
TL;DR my bf is emotionally cheating on me with instagram girls and out of state poly girl.
thanks for reading
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