F26, inexperienced, dating advice
Hi! I’m a 26 year old woman. I have been in 2 relationships in my whole Life, my first ex of 6mo, and my 2nd ex of 2 years who I just broke up with. My 2nd ex is actually my ex fiancé, who I lost my virginity to. Even so, we only did so a handful of times. He taught/told me a lot about how men think. I have a few questions for any men who would be willing to answer

1. Would most men prefer a woman have more than 1 body? Obviously not a ton like 20+ but more than 1? I’ve heard men dont like feeling “compared” to someone else so directly.
   
2. Same concept, but with the fact that I was engaged. Especially since I was the one who called off the engagement. Would this be intimidating for most men?
   
3. My 1st ex cheated on me, and my 2nd ex told me that if I tell other men I was treated poorly in the past, they would be more likely to treat me poorly. Is that true?
   
4. Although I have a very high sex drive, I try not to have sex mostly due to my religion (but also my ex didn’t seem very good at it), I have no idea how to navigate dating now. Do people typically have sex on the first date? How do I let a guy know that I’m not really interested in sex until we are at least engaged? Would most guys be okay waiting even though I’m not a virgin?
   

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Me ‘M19’ and my Girlfriend of a year and a half ‘F21’. So we have had a very rocky start of our relationship couple of breaks but throughout them i had come to realize i was asexual(just a bit of background) during one break yes i was petty and i started liking random girls instagram posts and that was a big issue to her(keep in mind she slept with another dude during one of our breaks when she promised me not to lied to me for months about it during the same week and break got mad that i followed back a girl but doesn’t consider it cheating fyi)but anywayssss yeah it was an issue skip about 4-5 months that girl follows me i didn’t even notice.she removed her from my following today now i don’t care she asked me to do it i was scrolling youtube and i was going to .but my question is 2 weeks back some musician about 1-2k followers was dming her being weird saying things like oh i’ll wait for u and ur bf to break up(she didn’t see the messages i saw them in her request) i blocked him and i got in trouble because she is a musician and i should have let him follower her to promote her music? also she has this one internet friend who has been an issue with me for years b4 me she planned to meet and sleep with him in california a month before dating me she was still sending him nudes and she won’t unfollow him for me either. she still follows one more dude she has slept for a month and lived with him because of AA but i think that’s kinda lame but i just don’t understand thanks and let me know your thoughts.(don’t tell me to break up with her every issue in a relationship can be solved)

So me and my bf stopped talking like 2-3 days ago we weren't fully dating but we basically were (we told everyone we were dating) also we're online btw anyway we got into a argument the day we stopped talking I said multiple times that I'm done he said he would miss me and he would give me space I said ok later that day he told me to delete pictures of him and basically remove anything I have of him I was confused but said Ok because it was late and I didn't really wanna get into it we didn't talk for a day or two maybe and then I went on widget able because I was bored and wanted to take care of our pet in the app you can send notes to each other and basically text and I noticed he sent a request to end co-parenting I am unfamiliar with the app so I asked him if there is a way I can get ownership of the pet while ending coparenting I figured he would know and after I asked he said I could keep it and he would just delete the app which was fine I said ok and moved on then after he said he still thinks keeping it is a bad idea I asked why and he said he just doesn't want it around I told him if he deletes the app it won't be "around" he still went back and forth with me and ending the conversation with "k" I never replied at this point I'm still confused to why he's being distant since not even a day before all of this everything was fine (I ask for space often and he never acts likes this) then later on I notice he unfollowed me on Instagram and I see I'm still following him I confront him not in the best way but not in the worst way either I say "remove my follow weirdo" which is not out of the ordinary anytime someone unfollows me and keeps my follow I find it weird and confront them about it or silently unfollow them which tbh is what I should've done this time but I didn't because I was angry and confused and also had a bad day and he replied "I did" we went back and forth on how he didn't I said whatever and left it alone he said "stop contacting me I have a girl" this is where I kinda got pissed off because #1 I said whatever the conversation was DONE #2 I never asked if you had a girl or not #3 HE KEPT REPLYING TO ME JUST STOP REPLYING I said Awesome "I have a bf" this may or may not be true just know I am extremely petty and he knows I regret almost everything I said in this conversation after I said that he replied with k and I said "stop replying 🍆" (I said d*ckhead) then he said something else and deleted it which literally made my blood boil I hate deleting messages especially in a non joking setting I said "what are you deleting messages for 😺" (wasn't actually the cat emoji and I said p*ssy) and he left me on seen which made my blood boil EVEN MORE I often leave him on seen when he's just yapping because it's a lot to reply to also I SAID I REGRET THE WAY I WENT ABOUT THIS CONVERSATION THERE ARE WAYYYY BETTER WAYS I COULD'VE REPLIED OR NOT REPLIED AND I KNOW THAT anyway everything I said he saw and uh here's where it gets really bad and I am going to get a lot of hate for this but you have to realize he has been pushing my buttons and not everything he said here was mentioned he also did other things that he knew would make me mad I said "since we're done fr fr I cheated on you a majority of our relationship" NOW HEAR ME OUT IF SOMEONE SAID THIS TO ME I WOULD LEAVE THEM ON SEEN TOO AND THIS WAS A LIE I HAVE NEVER AND NEVER WILL CHEAT ON ANYONE IT'S GROSS AND JUST SO UNESSARY I said this because we made a contract or deal that we wouldn't talk to anyone else until we get back together officially we both agreed and if we did it is considered being unfaithful and for it to take 2 days actually more like a day and a half for you to find a girlfriend there is no way you stayed loyal also idc about him having a girlfriend I just find it odd and think he is lying he also has a history of lying he lied about have a girlfriend before and cheating on her so yeah that's all I just want to get other people's thoughts on this situation btw from what I know we never broke up or I was done with the relationship I just needed space and I feel like he took it the wrong way but what do you guys think ALSO he has reddit and he's pretty active in this subreddit so if you see this then erm Hi.? OH AND I think I should add this I am not a jealous person like at all I used to encourage him to become friends with girls and he would tell me about girls flirting with him at school to make me jealous or just to get a reaction out of me which never happened because I trusted him and if someone does leave me for someone else then like what am I supposed to do even when I was cheated on in the past it didn't really hurt and I really didn't care

My (30M) partner (35M) is not out to his parents who are christian and arab have lived in the Middle East for their whole lives. He has lived here in the US for enough time to become a citizen and fall in love and get a permanent job and house.
We've been together for 4 years now and have a pretty strong relationship but I'm sort of his only strong support strucutre. He has a best friend that lives in another region of the country and maybe some good friends he made throughout life that have gone off and done their own things.
He works a ton since he's in the medical field and barely has time to feed himself or do anything around the house so I usually take care of all of that including work my 40 hours in the office.
His parents have moved to the US however due to current events and this has caused some pressure on our relationship. The parents wanted to come visit and obviously that wasn't possible since we live together. He's gonna go visit them from time to time and probably over the holidays which ofcourse doesn't bode well for me having to always spend separately.
He expresses to me all the time that he wants to be with me forever / for a long time. Our relationship feels like it's been climbing constantly even with the occasional valleys. But he's very afraid of losing his family if they were to ever find out that he's gay and dating a man. So afraid that he wakes up in the middle of the night screaming and in a panic and I have to calm him down.
I know I can't force him to come out and I would never think that's a fair choice to make between me and his family, but with them moving into the states, it makes me lose a little hope for our relationship. (But also, supposedly it's a choice because he doesn't actually know if 1) they know already 2) they won't accept him 3) maybe they don't like it but things won't even change and he doesn't have to stress about them finding out.)
He's always said that marriage is dumb and he would never do it and I've always been of the opinion that i would do it if it made sense. For us its made sense. We used to argue about it but i sort of gave up. Recently as we've been getting closer, he gets drunk and vulnerable and expresses his desire to marry me. I keep lingering on to these moments sometimes to feel happier but then it gets sour in my mouth when I remember that these things might be mutually exclusive. How can we be married but his family not even know? He would be pictured with a ring on his social media and possibly someone would notice. And if he says he can't wear a ring, that would hurt me a lot. And then what if he gets sick? Ofcourse I have to let his parents know who love him but then they're like, who even is this guy?
I haven't been in the closet since I was maybe 14 and even then my parents for the most part more so cared if I got an A+ vs an A- so it's hard for me to at the age of 30 live my life for someone else and even worse to watch him at his age consider living this life. So I got him a therapist that he talks to weekly and that's been for a month but lately my mental has been circling this idea that this will never get better and I'll have to sacrifice some of my long-term happiness so that he has his family still.
My question is, is there anyone that is either someone in my position or someone in his position that can relate to this situation and help me not feel so alone? Please.

I have met someone who is a drawer and works in a studio. His current project is the Splinter Cell anime movie. It is a Collab between Ubisoft and Netflix. I don’t know exactly the release date, he wouldn’t tell because of privacy agreements. What has been divulged to me is that the game is going to be released the same day the movie is on Netflix.

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if someone cancels their purchase from my wishlist, can i see it?

so tonight someone bought a thing off my wishlist and sent the screenshot to me ( with info such as order placed, total, dispatch to {my name}, expected by {date} all that stuff)
this is the first time someone bought something from my wishlist so i have few questions that i really need answers to.
1.) can i see the tracking of the item? can i see process of shipment? 2.) can i see if they eventually cancel the order? and if so, will the still be in the 'purchased' section in my wishlist or no?
pls someone clarify it for me, thank you

So me and my bf stopped talking like 2-3 days ago we weren't fully dating but we basically were (we told everyone we were dating) also we're online btw anyway we got into a argument the day we stopped talking I said multiple times that I'm done he said he would miss me and he would give me space I said ok later that day he told me to delete pictures of him and basically remove anything I have of him I was confused but said Ok because it was late and I didn't really wanna get into it we didn't talk for a day or two maybe and then I went on widget able because I was bored and wanted to take care of our pet in the app you can send notes to each other and basically text and I noticed he sent a request to end co-parenting I am unfamiliar with the app so I asked him if there is a way I can get ownership of the pet while ending coparenting I figured he would know and after I asked he said I could keep it and he would just delete the app which was fine I said ok and moved on then after he said he still thinks keeping it is a bad idea I asked why and he said he just doesn't want it around I told him if he deletes the app it won't be "around" he still went back and forth with me and ending the conversation with "k" I never replied at this point I'm still confused to why he's being distant since not even a day before all of this everything was fine (I ask for space often and he never acts likes this) then later on I notice he unfollowed me on Instagram and I see I'm still following him I confront him not in the best way but not in the worst way either I say "remove my follow weirdo" which is not out of the ordinary anytime someone unfollows me and keeps my follow I find it weird and confront them about it or silently unfollow them which tbh is what I should've done this time but I didn't because I was angry and confused and also had a bad day and he replied "I did" we went back and forth on how he didn't I said whatever and left it alone he said "stop contacting me I have a girl" this is where I kinda got pissed off because #1 I said whatever the conversation was DONE #2 I never asked if you had a girl or not #3 HE KEPT REPLYING TO ME JUST STOP REPLYING I said Awesome "I have a bf" this may or may not be true just know I am extremely petty and he knows I regret almost everything I said in this conversation after I said that he replied with k and I said "stop replying 🍆" (I said d*ckhead) then he said something else and deleted it which literally made my blood boil I hate deleting messages especially in a non joking setting I said "what are you deleting messages for 😺" (wasn't actually the cat emoji and I said p*ssy) and he left me on seen which made my blood boil EVEN MORE I often leave him on seen when he's just yapping because it's a lot to reply to also I SAID I REGRET THE WAY I WENT ABOUT THIS CONVERSATION THERE ARE WAYYYY BETTER WAYS I COULD'VE REPLIED OR NOT REPLIED AND I KNOW THAT anyway everything I said he saw and uh here's where it gets really bad and I am going to get a lot of hate for this but you have to realize he has been pushing my buttons and not everything he said here was mentioned he also did other things that he knew would make me mad I said "since we're done fr fr I cheated on you a majority of our relationship" NOW HEAR ME OUT IF SOMEONE SAID THIS TO ME I WOULD LEAVE THEM ON SEEN TOO AND THIS WAS A LIE I HAVE NEVER AND NEVER WILL CHEAT ON ANYONE IT'S GROSS AND JUST SO UNESSARY I said this because we made a contract or deal that we wouldn't talk to anyone else until we get back together officially we both agreed and if we did it is considered being unfaithful and for it to take 2 days actually more like a day and a half for you to find a girlfriend there is no way you stayed loyal also idc about him having a girlfriend I just find it odd and think he is lying he also has a history of lying he lied about have a girlfriend before and cheating on her so yeah that's all I just want to get other people's thoughts on this situation btw from what I know we never broke up or I was done with the relationship I just needed space and I feel like he took it the wrong way but what do you guys think ALSO he has reddit and he's pretty active in this subreddit so if you see this then erm Hi.? OH AND I think I should add this I am not a jealous person like at all I used to encourage him to become friends with girls and he would tell me about girls flirting with him at school to make me jealous or just to get a reaction out of me which never happened because I trusted him and if someone does leave me for someone else then like what am I supposed to do even when I was cheated on in the past it didn't really hurt and I really didn't care
TLDR: Me and my ex broke up 2 days ago and yesterday he said he has a new girlfriend he also has a history of lying about his dating history to seem cooler or make people jealous

Hello everyone,
Maybe I (23M) just have the nerves and am looking for some words of advice/encouragement with this post. I don't really have anyone who I can consult with on this in my real life so maybe that's just what I was looking for on here.
I have recently been trying to put myself out there more to be more social and have more interesting hobbies/interests. I speak Japanese, so as part of this, I joined a weekly group for Japanese speakers to practice conversation skills and meet others who also speak the language. Joining this has been a really fun experience and I've been very fortunate to make a lot of friends so far.
We have a group of about 6 or 7 of us from the club who have all become mutual friends. We have hung out outside of the club, and have attended volunteer activities and social events together.
There is a girl(24 F) from this group, who I thought was cute since I met everyone at the club. I hadn't said anything in that sense to her, but we would talk occasionally at the club. A few weeks go we learned that we both did volleyball as a hobby. After the club, I messaged her and asked for some tips on volleyball. We ended up having a pretty long discussion about it and at the end she suggested we attend a pick-up game sometime. I agreed and we continued to talk 1-on-1 in messages.
We have done a few other group things, like go to a concert with our friends and have a board game night. That was fun. We eventually ended up going to volleyball and then went out to dinner afterwards. I thought it was a really nice time. We got along well alone, and she told me she thought my interest in trains was "cute." At the end we agreed we should do this again.
A few days later I asked if she was free soon, and if she would like to go to a museum with me and get dinner again afterwards. I intentionally wanted to do something not volleyball, to see if she would still be down to go out. She said she was free this weekend and we will be going this Saturday. I've been thinking about it a lot and I really want to tell her I like her at the end of Saturday, and ask if she would be interested in making the next one of these a date.
I guess I'm just nervous for a number of reasons. I don't have any experience that wasn't through OLD, where it is abundantly clear what you are both on there for. Secondly, we are part of a larger friend group, and I really hope to not make anything weird about this if I get rejected. I fully intend to take that with grace and immediately accept it and move on, I just hope it doesn't sour anything.
But, the voice in my head is telling me I should really do it. We are part of a larger group of mutual friends, and I feel like if this was strictly platonic, she would have suggested we invite them to come along with us as well, but she hasn't at all. She always responds to me within a day of messaging her, and if she doesn't she'll apologize for the late response. She wanted to sit next to me at the concert we went to with our friends, and when she was dropping us off afterwards I told her she could just drop me with our other friend and I'd walk the rest of the way, but she insisted on driving me home. I have very little experience with IRL dating/meeting people romantically and I think I feel like I am seeing signs of interest but just also feel like I might just be overanalyzing this situation.

Hi, do you guys know which dates for each month are the monthly payments issued for? The amount for April, which was posted yesterday, doesn't match the numbers I'm seeing for 1 Apr to 30 Apr or for 21 Mar to 20 Apr or 16 Mar to 15 Apr, which are the reporting period dates that made most sense to me.

So the intro is from J Cole obviously.
Couple of side notes.
Im not a native English speaker so bare with me on the grammer and stuff.
I will try to be as clear as i can be but that probably gonna be hard
Not sure what i wanna get out of this post but here it goes...
Im a 34 year old dude who probably has everything in life to be happy. Got loving parents and family, got a couple of good friends, pretty sportive and tall, nice job, no debts other than student loans which isnt that much.
So last year my EX gf broke up with me, but to put things into perspective i will start in january 2022. In january 2022 i had some issues(cardiac arrhythmia) with my heart, nothing that could kill me but still unpleasent. I made me introvert and not a very lovely person to be around. Not that i would get mad just always low on energy. 2 weeks prior to this we bought our first house and moved to the city my ex gf grew up in. It was cool with me, i liked her family and it was only 30k from where we lived the past 6 years.
So we moved in, on april 2022. Everything was going well i just couldnt handle everything since the cardiac arrhythmia wasnt fixed. My boss knew of the issues and the company was pretty helpfull. But on may 2022 my colleague announced she was gonna quit and leave the company. That made me responsible for everyting on the department. I had a hard time with this.
In june 2022 they finally fixed my heart and it felt like i could move forward again. It would take a little time to get back in shape and stuff but that shouldnt be a big deal because i like sports.
Then my ex gf and i had a discussion about a puppy. I wasnt the biggest fan but since she really wanted one i could put my personal opinion aside and just go with it. BIG MISTAKE. A puppy is pretty hard word, we were prepared but i guess that wasnt enough.
When the puppy came in august i just totally couldnt handle everthing. New city, just got back from the heart stuff, lots of stress on the job and a cute but ffing crazy puppy running around. So at the end of august i called in sick at work, i was facing a burn out and couldnt get out of this.
On the other side my ex gf was happy because she made a promotion, moved closer to her family and got her puppy. From august 2022 to december 2022 we lived together but werent really a couple anymore. It hurt me but is was pretty much waiting for me to feel better and start life again. At the end of december i was getting better bit by bit.
We went to the christmas market in Cologne and i hoped this was the turning point. We were gonna be there for 2 nights. Couple days before we left my ex gf asked if it was okay to just go one night because the was an event at here work on the second day. I was like, sure if you really wanna go.
So she went to the event and i went home. She didnt came home that night, at the time i didnt think anything about it. The next day i picked he up and she looked sooo hungover, this was december 23rd. We went to her family the 24th and the plan was to go to mine the 25th. The puppy had some stressfull days so we decided it was best for the puppy to not come to my family. My ex ''voluntered'' to watch him. I wasnt to pleased but with that but i was a little mad at how she acted the last couple of days so i just went alone.
The following weeks thing werent going very smooth. We didnt talk much and when one was taking care of the puppy the other was going to friends or going to the gym or something. Again, no red flags for me, boy was i wrong. In the middle of january she dropped the bomb and said she needed some time alone. After one week we got back together and she said she needed another week. After two weeks she said the same thing. But i wasnt having that, so i didnt go along. Thats when she broke up with me. At that time i saw it coming a little because if you wanna live apart for 3 weeks after living together for 7 years that says enought.
2 minutes after she broke up with me i asked what had happend that night when she didnt came home. She admitted she cheater with a colleague. So i was thinking all these crazy thing like how she had been cheating for months and stuff(a couple months later i believe that was the only cheating thing she did)
The aftermath. I left the house and went back to the city we lived in for 10+ years. She got to keep the house with a crazy good mortgage. I lost some money, couple of 1000 euro. We had to deal with the paperwork. I was going to play it cool untill i found out she slept with that colleague again 2 weeks after breaking up but still living in the same house. Thats when something snapped in my mental. From february 2023 till june 2023 i was really struggling mentally. In june i started dating again just to have some hookups and boost my confidence.
In september 2023 i had this date with an awesome girl. I really liked he and thing went great from the start. She is my current girlfriend who i really like and i know she really loves me too. The hard part is that i ran away from my ex gf and never got a decent closure. I wasnt thinking much about it untill yesterday when i had sort of an argument with my gf. It wasnt about anything important but it hit me emotionally.
When we got home she asked if i still saw the future like how i saw it with my ex. That i hold on to too many thing from that relationship. I mean sure, i like some things i did with my ex. We played the same sport and i like to introduce my current girlfriend to the sport and visit a pro game every once in a while. But my gf said she had the feeling she had to act like my ex and also had to like the game.
Also i kind of hate my ex, she cheated, she dumped me when i wasnt doint to well and she got the benefit of the house. The last year i thought alot about it but i wasnt seeing how much it still affected my day to day mental. I think my gf just started my process that i should have started last february when my ex broke up with me. I didnt give myself any time to grief over it.
SO basically this post is the start to get over my ex of maybe to see that life is awesome and that all the shit went down just led me to this awesome girl who can read my like a book and want to help me get back on the saddle and have an awesome life with here.
Also, this maybe sound crazy to you guys. But i shouldnt be mad anymore. It sounds so simple but the last year and a bit i was just a bitter dude who got dumped. Its time to look forward and to live again.
I you read this far. You are awesome, if not, you can also read the TL;DR below.
TL;DR My ex dumped me after i got a hard time with heart problems, a burn out and moving to the city she grew up in. After we broke up she got to keep the house which is benicifial and i lost a couple grand. Now i have a new girlfriend and she feels like im not over that situation yet because i still spreak bad about my ex and i feel like she betrayed me. But i realised, maybe 1 year to late i should just let it go and enjoy life right here and right now.

Hi, do you guys know which dates for each month are the monthly payments issued for? The amount for April, which was posted yesterday, doesn't match the numbers I'm seeing for 1 Apr to 30 Apr or for 21 Mar to 20 Apr or 16 Mar to 15 Apr, which are the reporting period dates that made most sense to me.

I received the DCMWSP650Y2 yesterday and as I alluded to in a comment on a post over the weekend, my lawn was very ready to be mowed. Bonus -- it was wet, though not soaking wet. I'll update this post after a few mows with it, however here are my first thoughts after a mow and a half. Keep in mind, this is my first ever self propelled mower, and I'm upgrading from the Gen 2 push, so it's a few steps for me here.
Highlights Performance:
Overall I think this mower is a winner. Is it an EGO? No. Do I even know how an EGO mows. Also no. But what I can say is that this mower had oodles of power. I tested this in a few ways. I did part of the lawn mulching, most of it bagging, and part of it side-discharging. I want to stress here that I did most of the lawn bagging. I never would have even been able to do this with the Gen 2, it just didn't have the lift potential. I'd have to empty the bag after every stripe, and this is a marked improvement over the Gen2. It consistently filled the discharge bag with slightly wet grass, as can be seen below. (I can confirm however that with soaking wet grass, the rear discharge chute does still clog, but I would never mow the grass with it as wet as it was when I did this short test this morning. I was just curious.) Mulching was overall pretty good, I don't have any pictures of the mulching performance, however it did reasonably well for wet, about 7 inch tall grass. Not too shabby. My overall thoughts on the performance is that this mower is stupid powerful. Probably too much so to be honest, more on that later.
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Power Drain: This was my biggest concern, though it's hard to tell. I didn't realize because I misread the level settings on the height adjust that I was mowing lower than I normally do, that plus the fact that it poured like cats and dogs like 5 hours earlier meant that my battery drain was quite high. I went through 1 heavily used DCB609, two lightly used DCB609s, and one full brand new, fully charged DCB612. So overall I burned through probably went through probably 36ah worth of batteries. (I'm rounding some capacity down for age of batteries.) That's actually not _too_ bad given that I usually use all four of my DCB210s when I mow with my gen2 so it's roughly the same, I was just hoping for a bit better. That being said, I'll trade that battery consumption for the time saved mowing. Doing this mow with the Gen 2 would have likely meant I had to go over the rear lawn twice, which would have taken me 2.5 hours with this level of grass wetness using the Gen2, and mowing at this height. (Which was lower than I normally mow). So all of that to be said, the battery life is good enough but probably not industry leading. The reason I went the FV route was because I already have 5 DCB609s, so I felt like i had enough flexvolt batteries that it was worth it for me. I have no grave concerns here, and I'm not disappointed in the battery life, I'm just not impressed.
Raw mmph - This mower mulched all the way through the section behind my fence in the small ravine, which was about 9 inches, and had a ton of extra clippings from the last time I mowed, which was kinda intentional because I knew I was going to be getting this mower and wanted to send it through the gauntlet. It did not bog down, save for when I bottomed the mower out hitting a mound I couldn't see. This mower doesn't bog down, if you've used DeWalt's FV circular saw -- not the FV Advantage / Power Detect saws, the full 60v one, you know what this feels like. It. goes. I'm super impressed and this is why I wanted this mower. My lawn is very thick, probably because it hasn't been dethatched in like 8 years, but that's a conversation for another day.
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Random other thoughts:

• I'm not sure if this thing will actually fit the DCB615, there isn't that much clearance, and I"m not sure how much bigger the DCB615 is than the DCB612 is, I'm happy to measure things though if anyone has the dimensions. I'm actually mostly worried about the tip of the port to the rear of the battery, which I don't think I can find the specs for online.
• The thumb paddles aren't great but they're not bad and I"m sure I'll get used to them. I don't think they're quite as bad as Projects For All thought they were, I'm sure I'll get used to them.
• The start button on mine has a cracked clip apparently which I found out this morning. I might reach out to DW about this, I don't have a photo of this, but it works it just sometimes doesn't reset correctly after I push it. A thing I'll probably just fix with a 3d printed part. Not because I don't trust DW warranty, I just don't like the idea of getting a whole new mower over a button that has a cracked plastic latch. Seems excessive.
• Unlike previous gen mowers when this thing cuts out due to a dead battery it's done, I suspect if it detects a voltage that's too low it'll just quit. I don't blame it, this mower is asking a lot from batteries. But it does mean it'll probably cut out before theh battery is actually dead. I took it out, put it in my string trimmer, and used the trimmer to tidy some stuff up, but the mower didn't like the battery anymore. I did this with two separate DCB609s so it wasn't just a one off.
• Like the Projects For All review, I too did experience the motor not disengaging when trying to pull the mower back however I quickly adjusted to it and stopped noticing it. After a few mows I'm sure that releasing it slightly early will just be second nature. I did also just take to pushing it manually. Again this is my first Self Propelled mower so I have no benchmark. x

TL;DR This mower has oodles and oodles of power, it'll go through basically anything. I don't know how it compares to gas, I refuse to buy a gas mower and therefore don't have a benchmark, but it's plenty powerful, even if the battery is just "ok". I was primarily using older DCB609s though so YMMV. If you have FV batteries, I recommend this mower, based off my initial thoughts. My main takeaway here having not used a gas mower in the last 20 years, and having never used a self propelled mower in my life, my initial impressions can be summed up with three words. This is sweet.
Take from that what you will.

Date	Stage	Route	Length	Type	Time
Wed. May 22	17	Selva di Val Gardena>Passo Brocon	159 km	Hard	ca. 17:15 CET

Climbs

Name	Cat	Km	Length	Avg
Passo Sella	2	km 8.9	5.5 km	6.8 %
Passo Rolle	1	km 67.6	19.8 km	4.8 %
Passo Gobbera	3	km 100.4	5.7 km	6.0 %
Passo Brocon (1st ascent)	2	km 127.2	15.4 km	5.6 %
Passo Brocon (2nd ascent)	1	km 159.0	11.9 km	6.6 %

Sprints

Name	Km
Predazzo	km 46.7
Canal S. Bovo (Intergiro)	km 112.0
Pieve Tesino	km 147.2

Weather

Between 10°C and 15°C. Rainy all day, but not as miserable as yesterday.

Stage breakdown

Most of tomorrow’s stage will take place in Trentino, an autonomous province of northern Italy. It’s one of the host provinces of the Tour of the Alps and indeed tomorrow’s stage feels like it belongs there as it’s relatively short but relentless. Interestingly, for whatever reason, the Giro always seems to visit Trentino on stage 17- it’s always been the case since 2017- and this is the 5th consecutive year we’re having an uphill finish there. While the area features several well-known climbs, in recent years the race has often ventured into uncharted (or almost uncharted) territory, and this will be the case in 2024 as well.
The stage will begin in South Tyrol, not far from where today’s stage ended, and it’s not going to be a gentle start: the first 10 kms take place on the upper slopes of Passo Sella, one of the most scenic roads through the Dolomites, with a cat 2 KOM at the top. A long descent through the beautiful Fassa and Fiemme valleys will follow, and the peloton will reach Predazzo, where the first intermediate sprint is located; this small town will host the ski jumping events at the upcoming 2026 Winter Olympics, and it will undoubtedly give commentators the chance to bring up an obscure fact about the Giro’s defending champion.
Said intermediate sprint marks the beginning of the second categorized climb of the day: cat 1 Passo Rolle, a long slog with mellow gradients and a plateau-ish section in the middle. A very long descent- nearly 30 kms, all on a highway- will bring the riders into the final section of the race. After the brief cat 3 Passo Gobbera and the Intergiro sprint in Canal S. Bovo, the riders will start ascending towards Passo Brocon, a small and rather remote ski station, much more modest than the resorts that we’ve been visiting in the past two stages. There are three roads converging at the pass, and the stage will visit all three of them! First off, the peloton will reach the pass from the northeast- a long but regular climb, labelled as a cat 2; then, they will descend via the southeastern side, reaching the last intermediate sprint of the day in Pieve Tesino- a tiny mountain hamlet which was also the birthplace of Alcide Degasperi, one of the most influential politicians in Italy’s history and a founding father of the European Union.
Right after that, the peloton will head back towards Passo Brocon via the remaining way up: a narrow secondary road approaching the pass from the southwest. While its length and average gradients are comparable to the first ascent, its gradients are much more irregular, with a tougher second half often averaging above 10% before easing out with 1.5 kms to go. Unlike the first ascent, this one is marked as a cat 1. This is the first Giro appearance of Passo Brocon since 1956, when it was tackled halfway along the legendary Mt. Bondone stage which Charly Gaul won in a snowstorm.
With all this in mind, here are our predictions for tomorrow's stage:
★★★ Pogačar
★★ Breakaway (Conci, Costiou, the Paret-Peintres, Pellizzari, Quintana, Sanchez, Scaroni, Steinhauser)
★ Arensman, Martínez, Storer, Tiberi

Rider discussion

On paper, tomorrow's stage looks like another good one for the breakaway. It's tough, short and relentless... so if a large group goes early it won't be easy to bring them back! We put together some names we appreciated over the past few days; we especially expect Nicola Conci to be at the forefront tomorrow as he's been very lively this Giro and stage 17 goes through his native area, he'll have plenty of fans on the roadside.
However... a lot will depend on how the peloton will ride, and if today is a good indicator, the attackers won't get that much of a leeway. We don't expect Tadej Pogačar to go thermonuclear tomorrow, but if the break doesn't get a large advantage it's hard to picture someone else outplaying him on a hard climb like tomorrow's finale. Granted, his lead is so large that if even his closest rivals attack, he could afford to let them go... but as the rest of the GC is somewhat close together, if someone attacks everyone else will go, and at this point Pogačar will probably tag along. In the end, we believe that the pink jersey has a slight edge and is our overall favourite. Out of the rest of the GC guys, Thymen Arensman, Daniel Felipe Martínez, Michael Storer and Antonio Tiberi looked the sharpest today. Geraint Thomas was struggling a bit but tomorrow's climb should suit him a little better compared to today's finale.
That's it from us, what are your thoughts/predictions?

Created this because a player wanted a Dragon's Wrath Weapon. I will be using an alternative method of empowering it involving surviving a breath weapon from increasingly powerful dragons, but theirs will start at Slumbering White if they manage to kill its current wielder. They can gain up to 3 other types of dragons to increas the weapon's versatility, if they manage to find Young, Adult, and Ancient dragons and survive the breath attack, while intentionally failing the save, with their reaction available.
My party are 6 Level 6 Gestalt characters.
Zealot/Wild Magic Barbarian
Zealot Barbarian/Samurai Fighter
Astral Self/Serpent Monk
Gloomstalker RangeArcane Trickster Rogue
Aberant Mind SorceroGrave Cleric
Celestial/Cosmic Warlock
They tend to deal with most encounters rather well so I've been increasing numbers and upgrading some monsters to the next block up. Mostly not an issue but they completely dismantled the creature in the Black Ivory despite me adding 40 extra HP and 2 Gibbering Mouthers. I want this fight to be tough, but not a TPK. It is replacing the Haze Hulks at the Scar and will be alone at the start, but the 3rd of 4 encounters that will appear that night, followed by the Ratlings.
Feldron:
A renouned Dragonslayer and Hero of Drakkenheim before the meteor fell. He is now a ruthless contaminated abomination prowling the area around the crater.
HP: 166(14d10+42) Boon of Health+40
STR- 18
DEX- 15
CON- 16
INT- 13
WIS- 14
CHA- 15
AC- 17(Half Plate)
Damage Resistances: All(Permanent Potion of Invulnerability due to Haze interference)
Saves:
STR- +9
DEX- +7
CON- +8
Legendary Resistance ×3
Skills:
Dragon Lore- +11
Perception- +7
Persuasion- +7
Stealth- +7
Awakened Dragon's Wrath Glaive-
+12, 1d10+7, 10', 3 Attacks
Special: 5 Damage to the target and all adjacent enemies on a critical hit.
Special: 3d6 Bonus Damage to the primary target per hit. Special Damage Types: Cold, Fire, Lightning, Poison.
Special: Creatures provoke Opportunity Attacks by entering Feldron's Reach. Creatures struck by an Opportunity Attack have their speed reduced to 0' until the start of their next turn.
Dragon's Breath: 1/day
Release a destructive wave of Cold, Fire, Lightning, or Poison in a 60' cone. 12d6 damage of the type chosen, DC 18 Dexterity Save for half.
Legendary Actions: 3
1- Attack
2- Move Feldron's Speed
3- Invoke- 1d4 Rounds later, one of the Tower Dragons decends into the mist attacking everything in sight. This action can only be taken if a Dragon is not currently provoked. This Dragon is not an ally of Feldron.

Dear fans and followers, we’re sad to inform you all that we’ve reached the end of the line - Solution .45 is no more‼️

We’ve dug deep trying to find that motivating and inspiring spark again, but unfortunately it’s just not there anymore. When we decided to get this ball rolling again back in early 2023 we thought we still had it in us and God knows we’ve tried to get on the right track these last 1,5 years, but no matter what direction we’ve steered, it has just felt forced, joyless and all for the wrong reasons. So after several new attempts, different starting points and countless meetings, we’ve mutually agreed on that’s it’s for the best putting this giant to rest, for good (which we actually did already back in December last year). There’s simply a time and place for everything and clearly, in hindsight, the time and place for S.45 is in the past. Our hearts and wills are evidently elsewhere these days and without those two ingredients in the mix, no matter how hard you try, the outcome will not be satisfactory or worthwhile to anyone. As sad as it might seem, calling it quits has actually been a relief for us, since trying to get this beast on its feet again has been more of an angst-ridden burden, rather than something inspiring and fun. All’s well that ends well! Then again, living in the age of comebacks and reunions, who knows what the future holds⁉️
Thanks to each and everyone of you who have supported and backed Solution .45 in any way, since the start! Your dedication and devotion have made all the difference! ❤️ With that being said, we will wrap things up by re-releasing our debut album “For Aeons Past” as a limited 2LP splatter vinyl, through AFM Records. 🔥 More news on this soon! /Jani, Christian, Patrik, Rolf & Henric
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