Way flying united the other night and my husband and I got separated, each sitting in the middle seat about 7 rows apart from each other
Between us there were two empty rows(exit rows) so I asked the flight attendant prior to taking off if we could both sit in one row together. She said no because those seats were an upcharge and we'd have to pay for them
So we were cramped between other passengers while rows were EMPTY. She said it was a booked flight; wouldn't united have already gotten money for those seats since those passengers did not show up?
And is it a safety hazard to have no one sitting in the exit row? What if there was an emergency?
Also, am I crazy or should it really not be a big deal if we would've been allowed to sit there without paying for the seats?

I’ve been feeling like a really bad person the last couple of days.
Basically, this is regarding my TikTok foryoupage. I usually go on TikTok when I’m like waiting for my food in the microwave or when I’m just bored or 30 minutes before I’m going to sleep. And then I just want like funny quick videos to just be entertained. Like funny cat videos, funny baby videos or just other things. But my foryoupage is now only filled with videos that are like ”please don’t scroll! use this sound or effect to help the people of __”. The thing is, it’s not that I don’t wanna help. I do, and I have indeed used the sound and effect many times. But now my entire foryoupage is basically these types of videos and I do skip many of them. I just don’t feel like using an effect or sound on every TikTok I watch… Is that unreasonable?
Does it make me a bad person for skipping many of these TikToks? When I skip these videos, it makes me feel responsible for what is happening in that country, that I could help but I am not. I just don’t know what to do right now. This post probably sounds so like a ”first world problem” but I really feel guilty. I even click ”not interested” on some videos so these videos don’t show up on every scroll.

[Let me know if a chapter a week is okay; I'm thinking it might be a bit too often. Run Zero: https://redd.it/1csb71x Run One: https://redd.it/1cwxbsg]
The mining foreman refused to go to sleep, and watched intently as Tightniks finally reached over and set it home with one hand. Its last nervous little sigh was the only thing he remembered-
The ship is without power, and Tightniks can't run the radar much without draining the batteries...
32s: First trap.
He built it big this time, and there are six trimps in there. They look familiar somehow, the light one with dark hair and an unusually short and broad tail compared to the rest, a big-eared green one, a grey one, a yellow one, and a red one with big paws and "XIII" on its rump, and a brown one with pink ears that takes the lead and cheers, "Kakka!" Once he lets them out, they all follow him intently around like just-hatched birds do their mother. He shows them the busted off cockpit and forward cabin of the ship he just crashed and they get inside and start da- ...nope, sticking with "dancing". He busies himself looking for the survival pad.
Until he hears the squeak of a baby trimp. They're feeding it- ...rocks. Carefully selected, aluminate rocks. What the heck are they doing? Whatever, I've got to get some conventional food for- What's that? He's got the survival pad already, but this was outside the ship, it must have materialized when he descended through that glowing grey mist getting out. He gets it flipped over and turned on.
"Manual portal activation 2 successful:" it displays, "rare shield equipped 54%Stg 14%Atk MT 0 Nu loaded / 399 He loaded / Metal challenge active / Total portal activation 956"
Metal challenge? The human selects it.
"You have the Metal challenge active. Tweak the portal to bring you to an alternate reality, where the concept of Miners does not exist, to force yourself to become frugal with equipment crafting strategies. If you complete The Dimension Of Anger without disabling the challenge, miners will re-unlock."
He's so confused, What the Loy is a Dimension of Anger? I think I have a headache from this high gravity. Sits down for a moment.
Notices that one of the trimps is sleeping in a small deep hole just at the edge of the garden, apparently to have a nap in standing upright.
I don't believe you, "portal". I'm training that one first chance I get!
56s: Pop full.
There are ten of them already?? I'm still working this derpy little potato patch to get enough food to bulk up just ONE of the- He looks at the portal pad and blurts out loud, "Fifty-six SECONDS??" He postulates that he's in a time-dilated environment, and that the portal is measuring time somewhere "out there", this "map frame" environment. It's like those Star Trek episodes he can't remember "Wink of an Eye" and "Blink of an Eye" that he can't quite remember. [One of them is Star Trek TOS, and one of them is Star Trek: Voyager and I forget which one came from where.]
1m57s: Arable in Z1c13.
The human walks along and one of the trimps viciously fights the various hostiles that try to come at him, staying ahead. Just behind, he finds that hole-digger busted into a cave big enough for 9 of them, and they start raising babies to fill it up.
3m37s: Miners in Z1c30.
It's broken! he notices of the data card he just picked up. It's one of the ones that flew out of the ship when he undogged the ship's side hatch, but it didn't survive. What was on it? He's got a vague memory of a big tanuki-tailed trimp, much bigger than the- Wait! This memory is of hole-digger all grown up. So this is- he looks at the smashed data card in his hand, ...this is the Miners card. At least there's some lying about so we're not totally deprived of metal.
That's odd. I'm sure I spent longer training this little guy than "one second map frame." The human looks at the black trimp with the grey head fur and silvery eyes, "So, can you say something yet?"
"Shijou." [Takane and Takanya are not black, it is their favorite clothing color.]
"Okay, can you say something else?"
9m12s: Zone 1, 40 pop, 3.5s RC with Z0/1, 13m19s turkimp. 12m55s: First scientist.
"Tai," his first scientist waves at him.
"Hmm," the human tries to think of a better test, "What color is the sky?"
"Shijou." The exasperated human is about to sigh in despair when he notices a card in its hands, with one word on it, "Blue."
"What?" he takes it, "You can't speak but you can write, huh?"
"Shijou," it twirls its paw off the end of the card in his hand. The human turns it over, and in small writing, it has "Technically, the sky isn't blue, it's a foible of Rayleigh scattering in an oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere. And you have 'TIGHTNIKS' embroidered on the left side of your uniform."
A look of astonishment sweeps over the human. I never taught it about Rayleigh scattering. Apparently, the scientist training has unlocked its brain to access the collected knowledge of a previous life! Then he looks at his uniform and groans, spanking his eyebrows in realization. The trimp had apparently noticed him wandering around the camp wracking his brain and talking to himself trying to remember his own name, and it's right there the whole time! He spanks his eyebrows again.
The very well fed grey-headed trimp starts doing experiments, leaving him to take the turkimp back to his farmers. Too bad it's only a quarter as fast at it as he is.
32m25s: Zone 3, 79 pop, 4.5s RC with Z1/2; c16, 79 pop, 6.8s RC with Z2/3.
"Nano! Nano, nano, nano." The D&B (that's dodge and block) foreman has an impressive yellow mane, light face, green body, and brown hind limbs, and moves like a blur when it decides to. When asleep, it's as unarousable as an exhumed fossil, except with the food article Yellow the scientist calls an "owny geary". [Puchim@s Afuu]
Helping it out is a brown-maned white trenching expert Tightniks finds oddly familiar. It has no problem mining, but couldn't start a fire if its life depended on it, so smelting is out of the question.
I guess that's how the Metal challenge really works. Too bad I suck at it. Tightniks is spending all his smelting time smacking out nails and joist hangers for the houses, and has nothing left for fighting gear.
1h53m25s: Zone 9, 306 pop, 7.9s RC with Z8/15, no turkimp.
The white trimp with the brown head fur- ...whichever one it is because it, or one that looks just like it, sometimes (apparently) burns itself up or blows itself up trying to build a metallurgical furnace. This one is digging a hole right now, into the concrete of some ruined building's foundation. It hits some strapping and rebar, makes a happy sound, follows it along and gets it sorta clear of the concrete bonded to it, and rips it out of the ground to throw on the metal pile. It now seems content to do that instead of trying to smelt ores.
"Red?" Tightniks glances at one of his scientists, "Do you think we could take it to- What's that place you said you visited five hundred years after some misty fight or-"
"Cloudy strife," it says, "Yeah, Midgimp is like that, we could probably map a route through there. Lots of metal. Especially the part that had an avalanche happen and fell down. Broke all that stuff out of the ground already." [Final Fantasy VII and Advent Children cinematic and Sector 7 collapse.]
"Okay," Tightniks says, "Let's do that."
5h32m02s: Zone 21, 2042 pop, 14.9s RC with Z20/232, no turkimp.
"Ooooookay," Tightniks growls, "There is something off about this thing."
"Shijou?" the grey one looks at the yellow one with concern about their human starship pilot friend.
The human stoops, picks up the little green gem on the ridge between Zone 20 and 21, looks at it, huffs, and asks, "Any idea where this comes from?"
"Err..." the red one seems hesitant to say, "I think you made it."
"Really?" the human huffs, "How could that be?" Then he tosses it at Red, "See if anything reacts to it. It might be radioactive, so we should take turns to minimize exposure."
"Really?" Red's holding it now, "What makes you say that?"
"Because I'm pissed off for no reason I can figure out," the human says, "I think it's coming from-" he gasps, "Waitamint!" He starts searching for the portal pad.
"Frags," the red one says quickly, "I think it's arranging a route. You're good with maps," it tosses the gem to the grey scientist.
The human has his portal pad up and reads aloud, "You have the Metal challenge active. Tweak the portal to- yada yada yada. Tiss tiss t- complete The Dimension Of Anger without disabling- miners will re-unlock."
\BOOM\** They turn to see (another of) the white brown-haired trimp'/s' attempts at a metallurgical furnace explode, and it seems both very frustrated and has really hurt its toe.
He snaps his fingers, "That's gotta be it. Although, does it mean 'miners' or 'furnaces'?" He re-reads the portal pad while the scientists shrug.
"Shijou," the grey one has just finished tracing the route map the gem was showing.
"Are we going any faster than on previous cycles, you think?" he asks Red.
"What's a cycle?" Red asks.
"We're stuck in time loop, you realize?" the human says.
"Well," the yellow one jumps off a little rock spire it was using to see farther ahead, directly into a seated position on the ground with an impressive thump the human can both hear with his ears and feel through the ground of the more-than-Earth gravity planet, "that explains a few things." The little scientist trimp seems quite morose at the news.
"This thing says the fastest we've ever got this 'anger' map done is ten hours, thirty-five, but the clock right now is at five hours, thirty-four." Tightniks tilts his head, frowns one eyebrow, and taps, "Getting it done faster increases attack damage somehow, and oh-"
"What now?" the yellow one asks, still seated beside the spire.
"It says we already got a 2.5%-er for having a million traps," the human says, "I don't remember doing that. Maybe..." he sighs, "Maybe that's a good thing, 'cus I'd probably go insane building them all. Still though, it says we're going faster, but it doesn't feel like it."
"How'd you know how it feels," Red asks, "if you don't remember it?"
"'Day jaw voo' I think is the term," the human says, "or something. The sense that all this has happened before, but I'm not quite remembering and there's no physical evidence of it."
"Shijooooooooooo..." the grey one moans, waving a card at him. On it:
"In order, but we don't know if that means chronological order or frequency/proportion of memories:
"- The ship crashes (pretty sure that happens every time) "- The human builds huts "- The human teaches some trimps to speak and do science "- The human builds houses "- The human makes maps "- The human builds mansions "- The human blows up and gets himself killed somewhere around Z17 to Z21, often on a dragimp "- The human only recently/occasionally builds hotels "- The human only recently/rarely tamed a dragimp "- The human only recently/rarely mapped the Dimension of Anger"
Tightniks sits down and offers it back.
"Tai," it flatly refuses to take it back, paws up and eyes closed.
"It's kind of a relief," Tightniks rubs his temples, then looks at it again, "knowing it ain't just me."
6h17m43s: Portal PB, 1% AP for sub-8h, 45 He, 7.149 He/hr, 2209 pop, 13.6s RC.
The last head of the map's boss monster goes limp as one of the fighting trimps' dagger points goes into it, and the huge thing settles on its tail, resting on the package that seems to be the prize of this map. And there's a popping sound, and then something mechanical.
Is that a scroll compressor? Tightniks looks at the package. The deflating monster's lifting envelope material drapes over everything underneath it. "Yellow, Shijou!" he snaps and points, "roll up that side of it. Keep this part from sucking down on the extractor nozzle!"
All ten of the scientists jump in, literally, pushing the gas in the bag towards the compressor. Tightniks as well, rolling up the front.
Until he kicks, and nearly trips over, a smaller package that might be the explanation for the reason why the center of the monster's defense seemed to be a little away from the big package he could see. It's in the right place, he realizes. He gets it uncovered and reads stenciled-and-sprayed block letters on it:
"DT TIME PORTAL / THIS SIDE DOWN"
Perhaps the Dimension of Anger is so named because of the rage suddenly rising up in Tightniks' throat. It isn't so much as the free-floating aggression suddenly has an answer, there is definitely a fresh batch of rage and anger as he grips the nearest Dagger V, Mark 2 with both hands-
Refocusing on surviving the next few seconds, the pilot turns on the radar for the final approach and takes a last look around, then straight ahead at his forward camera and primary flight display...
He crouches, sets the dagger down gently, then starts clearing the debris from the box's grab iron. He tries to lift it- Damn, this is heavy! As he gets it turned over, gravity finishes the job, and it shakes the ground with an impressive thud as it falls right side up.
"DT TIME PORTAL / THIS SIDE UP" There's a square cutout in the middle of one side of it, with a sliding cover at the bottom of it.
"Get the pad!" he screams, seeing that his scientists are almost done rolling up the megablimp.
The grey one already has the survival data pad and offers it to him.
"The big one," Tightniks clarifies, "The big one." he picks up wide flat rainbow cable and its edge socket in one hand, "It goes here," he points at it with the other. "It must have come with me-" He had taken the small survival data pad and notices something, "Oh?" He starts looking around, "Hey!"
The white trimp with the brown hair is napping in a hole next to the smouldering remains of its latest attempt at a smelting furnace.
"Hey, mining buddy!" he whistles at it, "Mining buddy!"
It wakes with a start and rushes over, but doesn't seem to be in a good mood. But as soon as Tightnik shows it the survival pad, with all of the mining data installed just as if all those broken data cards and scorched scrolls were intact when he found them, fireworks goes off in the little trimp's eyes and it rushes off with the pad. Within minutes, the first furnace that works is chugging away at some ore and it returns to give the survival data pad back to Tightniks.
7h24m49s: Fresh turkimp; 7h25m30s: Labor reallocated.
The big-eared green lumber foreman's mood fell much further than the mining foreman's mood was before Tightniks packed up the turkimp roaster and moved just about everyone over to the smeltery.
The brown-haired, big-tailed white mining foreman was surprised at the change, and very happy. It had climbed up onto the helium compressor cart to check something on the pad a couple cells into the zone.
"Are you upset with me?" the red one asks the human.
"No, not at all," Tightniks says, "Are you getting the feeling that we had an upset at this point last cycle?"
"How would you know it was only the last?" Yellow asks, "Your memory's no better than ours."
"Right," the human sews another patch into his uniform, "However, I've only actually hit the switch on the portal twice, the first one on a challenge called Discipline, and the second on a challenge called Metal, which we just finished. It's easy to sort out from the statistics. I'm nervous it'll get harder to sort out when we're up to, oh," done fixing his uniform, he pops a bit of turkimp into his mouth and chews a couple times, "a few dozen or hundred manual cycles."
"Friggin' solve this faster than that, please," Red grumbles, "I know the emergency counter got to nearly a thousand, but..." he kinda trails off. Finally, he says, "I think we're remembering more cycle to cycle as we get more helium into it. I mean, I'm glad that isn't the only mechanic."
"Can't miss the supernova if it is," the human ponders.
"What?" Yellow chuckles.
"I'm remembering something from before all this, I think it was called a video game, where you'd go forward real-world in the simulation of a time loop, and your real-life head remembering what you did on previous cycles was the only mechanic," the human takes another bite, then dons his uniform shirt while chewing it. After his head pops out of the not-so-crisp-and-fresh uniform neck hole, buttons still done up, he finishes, "one of them had a supernova." [That would be Outer Wilds among the bunch of games with this mechanic, er, Minnit (I know it's spelled differently than "minute"), 12 Minutes, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, and- ...I'm sure there are more.]
11h19m28s: Starting void 1 (L30).
With the thermal gloves on, Tightniks gets the void map into the portal device slot. It dematerializes and his fingers close where it used to be in his hands, then he yelps, stands up and starts dancing, "Oh crap, it's cold!" He quickly starts looking for stuff to bundle up. Once not too uncomfortable, he notices something, "You're having trouble, too?"
"No," Yellow and Red look at each other, "Well, not with the cold; this route has a poisonous atmosphere, slows down our young assimilating aluminum at the proper rate."
"Manning the traps will work at full speed, right?" Tightniks says.
"Should if your fingers can handle it," Red confirms.
11h33m57s: Void 1c100.
"You are one ugly muthaf[garble]!" he says when he sees the void boss, "Stay here, I'll be back." Runs some traps, grabs a couple helmets for the fresh volunteers, "Put these on."
"Shijou?" the grey one looks at the red one, really rather perplexed.
"I agree, that's not his usual accent," Red tilts his head, "Tightniks, what has gotten in to you?"
"Stop cheering me up," the human grumbles, "You think this is the real Quaid?"
"I think the cold is affecting him more than he realizes," Yellow offers.
"Phased plasma rifle in the forty watt range," but what the dizzy pilot actually throws at the zone boss is a Mace V-4, "and then I was thinking of breaking your neck."
[Felt like some- "Arnie? Well, the union is pulling out all the big guns today, huh?" (Tom Hanks as Sully) ...no, brain, Arnold Schwarzenegger, not Arnie Gentile (it was really funny to background Sully and listen to that line instead of "That's definitely you" in Terminator 2 while he's posing with the Minigun.) Arnie lines from Predator, Terminator 2, True Lies, Total Recall and The Terminator.]
"Tweak the portal," reads Tightniks from the portal controller aloud, but quietly, "to bring you to an alternate reality, where Trimps are bigger and stronger, to force yourself to figure out a way to build larger housing. Your Trimps will gather 50% more resources, but your housing will fit 50% fewer Trimps. If you complete The Dimension of Anger without disabling the challenge, your stats will return to normal."
"You will also open a new memory coolant unit," Yellow reads, "You think that'll cause a housing bonus?"
"Shijou," the grey one hands him a card saying "We have enough for another gateway."
"Oh, good," Tightniks hands it back after signing it, "Yes, build it."
"We're doing that next?" Yellow asks.
Tightniks sees the little fellow sitting on top of a mound that the human thought was a bowel movement pile from Draglimp, but it must be something more geological if trimps can climb it, let alone want to. "Yeah, I guess," the human answers, "It kinda scares me, I mean I'm going back, but what happens to you guys?"
"We have too much day javo or whatever you called it," Red says. He's usually on all fours, shakes his left hind leg as though something got stuck to his foot, "This isn't incrementing, I'm sure. 13 is less than 956."
"According to this, you'll be twice as big," Tightniks sets down the portal controller pad and stands up from the cart, "It's hard to imagine, especially for Shijou and Diggy. We'll clear thirty-six, that's it."
14h04m37s: Z33c95, IC.
"Are you sure we can make Zone 37 start?" the red one asks.
The yellow one is standing on Red's shoulders.
"It said we did last time," Tightniks taps on the crude leather bag strapped to his back, the portal pad inside it, "though maybe..." he tilts his head, rolls whatever he was sucking on in his mouth for a moment, "it just happened while I was building those traps. No, I'm sticking with that plan."
"If it's going to take that long," Red grinds its jaws sideways for a moment and lets its eyelids get lazy, frustration clear in its tone, "why do it again?"
"Because I've got a bad feeling about this 'Size' thing," Tightniks says, "it drops our resourcing by 75% assuming we build the same amount of housing as before, which we won't because of the reduced resourcing. We needed 65 capacity in the cabin and huts before we could do run the gypsum/paper wall machine we found. I have a funny feeling that never changes."
"We don't need 65 trimps to run it," Yellow says, "just three."
"Yeah," Tightniks says, "but a particular three that know what they're doing, and my day javoo is telling me the last of those is always the sixty-fifth."
"Shijou," the grey one moans from the other side of Tightniks. Didn't have a note this time, just kicking a little rock along as it walks.
"It thinks you're right," the red one growls forlornly, "Hating to say it, but I do too."
14h16m06s: Skel in c1, 50 bones purchased whipimp.
There's a thump at the cart, and then some commotion around it that's noticable enough for Tightniks to come over and take a look. The bone box is empty, all forty-nine titanium bones in it are gone. Tightiks brings his right hand up in front of him, and it's just a balled fist, the bone he was holding a moment ago is gone. As he starts looking for where he must have dropped it, he realizes maybe it's all related. Looking in the bottom of the empty bone box, he finds a note.
"I got you the whipimp. This new Bad Guy will begin spawning in your next zone at an average of 3 spawns per 100 enemies. I hope it helps, but I can't tell yet."
The note is in Tightniks' own handwriting, although lazy but with more consistent kerning. Is this from an older version of myself? Friggin' time travel.
14h18m48s: This L34 moun 160/27/79 calls itself "Magical Mountain" - I can't remember whether the Disney trademark is that or "Magic Mountain" ...I've seen a "Black Mesa" before, that's a Half-Life thing, and somebody on Reddit made pretend that "Dank Hill" was a King of the Hill thing (which is actually *Hank Hill, I think - it's hard to remember, it wasn't very good and I haven't watched it since the 1990s.)
19h32m00s: Doom/AT, 12816 pop, 80N, 37.7s RC with Z34/5298.
"Okay, we got that friggin' thing chocked," Yellow wipes its brow and almost bonks itself with the Mace VI-2 that it's holding, puts it down and makes sure the wedges are secure.
Grey, Red, and Green are packing more stuff around the huge boulder that chased them down a tunnel to make sure it doesn't do that again.
"Getting any day javoo?" Tightniks pants, hands on his knees, but apparently uninjured, or nearly so.
"Not at all," Yellow vehemently responds, slashing the air with its paw, "You?"
"Oh," Tightniks gets his breathing under control, "I think it was a human movie."
"Like a video on that pad?" it gestures at the human's pocket with the small one.
"No, a bigger screen," the human says.
"Fifty-five inches?" the trimp scientist chuckles.
"More like fifty-five feet," the human rubs the sweat out of his eyes, "Lots of people watching. It was called a sin."
"Ah," the trimp ponders, "Like a crime, vice, psychopathy or bad habit?"
"Er..." the human taps his forehead trying to remember, "Sorry, a cinema."
[The whole thing is obviously an homage to something I remember only slightly better than Tightniks, I think it was Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. As I'm posting this, I sadly realize that Nick Rekieta's arrest was between when I wrote this and now.]
19h58m55s: Zone 37, 473 He, 23.67 He/hr, 13088 pop, 81N, 32.1s RC with Z34/5298, 2806 pop short, no turkimp.
The ship is without power, and Tightniks can't run the radar much without draining the batteries...

Hey, I'm just after a cuddle buddy, not necessarily sex I'm cool to just chill. I can host as I live alone. I'm 420 friendly and I have a cool home studio we can hang out in and watch a movie. If a wholesome night of battling the cold with snuggles sounds like you, giz a message.

I'm not familiar with PCs in general, so I was extremely overwhelmed when I looked into it and found that theres AMD, intel, etc. I don't want to buy the wrong thing and just "destroy" my current setup by accident.
**If I were to try and look for a budget prebuilt PC what site would you recommend? (Canada)
Thanks for all the help!
I will follow the instructions
>Is this a brand new build, or an upgrade to an existing build?
Upgrade to an existing build
>Please list any existing parts or monitor(s) you have that you would like to re-use with this build. For upgrades, a PCPartPicker list of your full build is extremely helpful. Be as specific as you can be here, including links or exact model numbers of each component whenever possible.
PC Part Picker Link: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Tvpqz6
I also have a TB seagate HDD, couldn't add it to part picker for some reason
My PSU is a Seasonic 600 watt if I recall correctly
>What will this PC be used for? Examples include things like gaming, general/multimedia use, photo/video editing, coding, AI/ML, etc. Include specific games and applications you intend to run, and any particular performance goals you have, as each may have different specific hardware needs.
I'm upgrading primarily for Valorant. The game has gotten progressively harder to run through the years. It's gotten to the point where it takes me 5 mins to load into the main screen and I crash half the time.
It'd be a bonus if I could also run some more recent Steam games like Baldurs Gate
>What country will you be purchasing in? If you are in the US, do you live near a Micro Center? For other countries, please check if your country is supported by PCPartPicker by using the country selector dropdown on the top right - if not, please provide some links to reliable local vendors you are comfortable ordering from.
Canada
>Do you need one or more monitors included in the budget? Please list how many and any size/resolution/refresh rate preferences if needed.
No
>What is your preferred and maximum budget range for this build, in local currency? Parts lists may sometimes have additional shipping costs. Please note whether prices in your country include sales tax or not, and adjust your budget accordingly. Typically VAT countries will have it included in the part list prices, whereas regular sales tax countries like the US and Canada will not.
Around $400 CAD
>Do you need WiFi, or do you have a wired ethernet connection available?
wired ethernet
>Do you have any specific size or noise requirements for the build?
My current case is BitFenix Pandora (Micro-Atx iirc)
>Do you have any aesthetic preferences for color or lighting? Describe what you're looking for, or feel free to provide some links to examples that may help. Some people prefer an inobtrusive stealth build, while others may prefer a case full of rainbow RGB.
no
>Any other specific requests or requirements? Examples might include a specific minimum amount of storage, or a particular CPU socket for a future upgrade path, etc.
no

I bought a PC for $400 CAD off of a friend one year ago and this is what came with it:
Cpu: i5-10600k processor Cooling: Cooler master hyper 212 evo Power Supply: Corsair RM850x Video card: Asus geforce gtx 1660 super OC dual-fan evo Ram: Corsair vengeance lpx 16gb ddr4 2x8gb Motherboard: Asus prime b550 plus Storage: Kingston 480gb A400 sata 3 2.5” SSD Case: NZXT H510
At the time, the build cost him ~$1500 CAD when he built it and currently these individual parts total to $1200 CAD on Amazon. I’m thinking it’s safe to assume I got a good deal considering there have been zero problems with the PC and it runs any game I want to play at great performance and quality. I also did a little bit of research on my parts before writing this so I may have some good or bad assumptions here.
First, I looked up my motherboard (prime b550 plus) and noticed that it is made for AMD ryzen processors but I have an intel processor. Could this be affecting my system and performance? Currently, I am assuming this would be my first point of improvement to the PC.
Second, I have two external 2tb HDDs for my media and games so is increasing my internal storage something I should consider a priority at the moment? Does running games off of a SSD instead of a HDD impact gaming performance outside of loading times?
Lastly for gaming, I currently cycle through a lot of single player games (elden ring, lies of p, ghost of tsushima) and will occasionally play fortnite/forza/fifa. I have a 1080p monitor with a 165hz refresh rate. I noticed with most games, my default graphics settings are always high and they run well after a couple minor tweaks. Will my graphics card be obsolete soon and is 6gb still good enough?
I apologize if I have omitted some useful information or if I have included some useless information. All suggestions are helpful, and thanks in advance for all helpful replies.

Air. Water. Earth. Fire. My house's maester used to tell me stories about the old days, about the Dawn Age, the Age of Heroes, the Coming of the Andals, the Age of Valyria and about The Seven Divided Kingdoms, a time of war when the Starks Kings of the North, the Arryn Kings of the Vale and the Mountain, the Hoares Kings of the Islands and the Rivers, the Lannisters Kings of the Rock, the Gardeners Kings of the Reach, and the Nymeros-Martells of Dorne fought each other for lands and pride. But that all changed when House Targaryen attacked. Only Aegon the Conqueror with his sister-wives unified Westeros under one banner. Only they, and their dragons could stop the ruthless wars. But when the world was finally at peace, their descendents have gone mad. Three hundred years have passed and the most powerful Dinastía of Westeros no longer exists. Eighteen years ago, Lord Robert Baratheon and the Houses of Stark, Arryn and Tully rose in rebellion against Aerys II the Mad King, ending the kingship of House Targaryen over the Seven Kingdoms. Some people believe that the blood of the dragon run dried when the rubies from Prince Rhaegar's chestplate fell into the Trident after the mighty crush of Lord Robert's warhammer, and that their bloodline was over. But I haven't lost hope. I still believe that somehow, the House of the Dragon will return from the ashes of dragonfire, but until then, this is the story of the last sons of Valyria.
So, this is a fanfic about the History of Westeros if they had the bending system of Avatar: The Last Airbender, but I'm struggling with Dorne and I need some help.
Northerners, Riverlanders and Ironborns are Waterbenders, the North being more like the Southern Water Tribe, with less resources, the Riverlands being the Northern Water Tribe and the Iron Islands being more like the "Fifth Nation".
The Valesmen and Stormlanders are Airbenders, also Robert moving his warhammer as nimble as Aang using his staff would be great.
The Reachmen and the Westerlanders are Earthbenders, Tywin may not sh¡t gold, but it would be amazing to watching him bend gold.
The problem is Dorne, after the marriage with the Targaryen House Martell will become firebenders, but before? And the commonfolk? That is the problem... Dorne have more influence of the Roynars, and would make sense for them to be waterbender rather than just firebenders, but letting them be Earthbenders would be great, because of the sandbender and their guerrilla warfare, and I also wanted to keep firebending for only House Targaryen.
For the crownlands I was divided, after all, they were both part of the Stormlands and Riverlands, perhaps I should do them Airbenders to equal the elements, the upper left of Westeros would be Waterbenders (North, Riverlands and Iron Islands), the right middle would be Aribenders (Vale, Crownlands and Stormlands), letting the remaining kingdoms as Earthbenders (Westerlands, Reach and Dorne), but considering I'm struggling with Dorne I'm not sure, and perhaps I should stay with an Aribending Crownlands, after all, they were part of the Stormlands before Harren the Black took land away from Argilac.
This is the fanfic that served of inspiration, it is short, but I love it, you should try it: - Title: Water, Earth, Fire, Air - Author: Rolling Mist 13 - Rating: M - Language: English - Length: +13k words / 5 chapters - Status: Unfinished, Last Updated on Nov 8, 2020 - Link: https://m.fanfiction.net/s/13504217/1/Water-Earth-Fire-Air

Me and My girlfriend broke up recently. This has been my first really serious relationship, and lasted 9 months (I know that doesn’t mean a lot). At first it didn’t hurt all that much. Most of the day I don’t feel much, and if someone pressed me on it I wouldn’t say much. Sometimes though I just get hit so hard by the loneliness. She was one of the one people who I saw or talked to consistently. Now most of my day I’m alone all by myself, I feel like I’m rotting. I know most of the people in my life are not going to be there for me. It particularly hurts when I do something that we used to do together. The other day I got ice cream after picking my stuff up from her house. I looked like such a weirdo sitting outside of this ice cream place crying by myself. It had been so long since I had to do that alone, we used to do it together all the time. I can fill my void some of the time by just playing video games, lifting, doom scrolling. But I won’t be able to keep this up for much longer. I don’t know what I’ll do at this point.
It’s been really hard to sleep recently. I keep thinking about it. At least during the day I can try and occupy my mind, but at night nothing helps. I feel angry thinking back to the things she did that upset me. I’ll be the first to say I wasn’t perfect, but she’d always do this thing where when she was upset or annoyed with me she’d either stop talking to me or be really cold to me. I hated it, and she knew that. In the end it was one of our reason (I feel) we broke up. She knew I would do almost anything if she just asked. She’d always go to her friends before me on our issues. Even when she was feeling like she wanted break up she told a friend before me. It felt like I was the only one who didn’t know what was happening in my relationship. I may not have been perfect as a boyfriend and I definitely made mistakes, but how was I supposed to be better if she didn’t communicate what she wants.
It’s hard for me to move on when so much reminds me of her. I can’t watch fucking cat videos without thinking about her. I still see everything she posts on social media. It hurt a lot seeing her change her profile picture, or make her instagram note “we are never getting back together” while saying “thriving rn”. Like that’s not passive aggressive. It might not be targeted at me, but I know her and I know she puts meaning behind her notes. It feels like she’s doing just fine without me. That doesn’t do anything to help me. I feel like I mean nothing. To most people I know I’m nothing, just another step for them to walk over, but I thought she was different. It feels like nobody loves me.
I hate life.

A brief summary of my life over the last year and a half. Last year I moved into a new place and things, for the first time in a long time were looking up! The new place was beautiful and a decent step up from my last place, my new job was very comfortable, and my community was strong. I was able to be the person people could ask things of and not say no which is what i’ve always wanted.
Fast forward to November, I had just gotten back from my trip to Utah/Vegas for the first time. I felt great, little broke but hey when in Vegas no? but then i got sick and thought well no big deal I have yet to use sick days.
Within 2 days I had a fever of 102, within 3 I was laid off (Half my team was at the same time, completely blindsided, I was having conversations with the Chief Marketing Officer and VP of Marketing about a potential promotion and being the face of our team not a week prior)
I was crushed but still strong of mind. I had gone through a firing before and this wasn’t as bad as it was a lay off and my manager and director let me know they are more than happy to give a glowing recommendation. I tried my best to take it in stride, I still had a month and half of severance and was being paid out through the week. (Was making around 130K at the time and paying roughly $2000 a month total for bills) I knew i’d be comfortable for awhile with savings and severance so I took the rest of the week to get better and immediately started applying after.
Then four months passed, within the first (December) my roommate moved out so, Januarys rent and the choice to resign the lease (meaning the security deposit again) was on me. I decided to stay because at the time (I thought) surely i’d get back into work soon as I have good recommendations and a great resume for my 5 years (From entry level recruiter, to senior, to lead and project manager)
The second month coming to an end did start to worry me a little, At this point my severance was fully paid out and I wasn’t feeling super optimistic as my rent had increased and without a roommate it was now $2900 a month, so now my savings were taking quick hits over the month. Still i was optimistic, I doubled down and applied more and even started recruitment consulting for a friend in the middle of the month so I was making around $700 a week which was at least something while I looked for a more permanent job.
By the end of February, the third month, I was scared, thankfully i have a good support network so my friend did help out with rent but I felt so awful for NEEDING that, I felt so much guilt and started looking for work just for works sake. Towards the end of the month my friends company moved in a different direction for recruiting and he cut me off as it wasn’t working.
In March, things started getting really dark. I was pretty much unable to go out, my debt was starting to pile and things were getting hard just to eat. Still i woke up and tried being positive, cooking more, going to the gym more, filling in tons of applications, etc. I was roughly 300 applications in at this time though and it was for sure getting to me. I finally had a roommate moving in and it seemed almost divine as when they were originally told the price they couldn’t do it but something compelled me to reach out anyway to them and though it would cost me more, they seemed really cool so i was trying to stay positive moving forward and it felt like this was the first positive change. Needed help again with rent but at least this was my last month paying alone.
April came and went, My roommate moved in and it was awesome, we got along super well, sometimes too well I thought but i just wanted to keep it comfortable for them so I paid it no mind. I was given a job offer and had it rescinded as they offered it to someone who had everything done for the job faster than me. I was crushed and angry and It showed, my mental at this point was feeling like it was burning everyday. I started to feel like I was drowning, every night was a nightmare, but my roommate really helped with this. We were hanging everyday and I felt so much lighter around them, I didn’t notice and at every mention from friends I was very clear we were just roommates. Days went on and at this point I had started working for a family friend unloading items for a warehouse. I became their digital marketing manager as they needed someone to take over, Ebay, Youtube, etc.
May rolled around and at this point i had a second round interview for a good position and was trying my hardest with my new gig. My roommate and I had argued a few times and I was trying to figure out what was this new feeling I was starting to have for them. I felt compelled(again) to make sure they were having a good day and attributing to less really messed with me. The interview came and went and they choose someone else. I was crushed and just at this time my roommate had gotten a partner out of nowhere and I now knew what the feeling was and it hurt like hell. We had already talked and with everything swirling in my head I didn’t have an answer at the time and ended saying what I know now to not be true.
Too little too late seemed to be defining my life and my positive mental is gone. Certain Ideations are creeping in and it’s burning my mind even more. I feel like I can’t wrestle my thoughts to focus for more than 2 minutes. It’s now May 29th. It’s 12:30pm and I’ve had two mental breakdowns this week. If you read this far 1. I’m sorry there’s not a happy ending and

1. I don’t know if there’s a purpose for writing this, I just started and it all just came out on the page. I just needed to get it out to hopefully sleep tonight at a good time.
   
2. Idk what to do, i’m by far the lowest i’ve ever felt and I feel guilty about everything, i feel like every decision I make is the wrong one and i’ve tried my best to do everything with the purest and best intentions this whole time but i’m truly drowning. I’ve still been doing all the good things you’re supposed to but even with the gym, getting more spiritual and everything I feel so so empty. I miss the friend I was making but there’s no space for me in their life anymore and we’ve gone from hanging everyday to barely talking. With everything going on I’m finding it incredibly hard to keep going but I don’t want to give up…
   

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So I go to college in CO but am from MN which is where my boyfriend and I met in senior year of highschool. Everything was great, I even moved to CO so that I could go to school near him because he was moving there. Once college started insecurities started to show, after being SA'd by a guy at college he demanded that if I am hanging out with people I have to tell him the names of everyone one there. He also to this day says that I technically cheated on him when I was SA'd because I didn't tell him the name of the guy right away. I've been r*ped for three months in a past relationship so it was an honest trauma reaction when I didn't tell him the name and I told him that. The controlling got worse and worse to the point tha I would be anxious to the point of being nauseous if I hung out with even friends that he knew. If I was asked to go to the club I would have to ask permission which would 100% of the time lead him saying no. I should add that after the SA incident we broke up for three months, I expected to never talk to him again and was really happy being single and free but he wiggled his way back into my life leading to us getting back together. This last winter break I was so done with it, I gathered the courage to have a serious talk about his controlling behavior specifically about him saying I can't go to the club, not because I wanted to go party but because of the fact that he thought he could tell me yes or no. In my mind I was ready to end things based on how he reacted to the talk, but he reacted well and so we stayed together and now I am allowed to go to clubs etc. I also must add that when we are in person hanging out everything is fine, we don't fight, we just chill and have fun. We just don't know how to communicate until things start to boil over because it makes both of us very uncomfortable to talk about issues in our relationship in person (I know that is not good and have been working on it) I do feel that things aren't the same as they used to be, there is a feeling of walking on egg shells around him a good amount of the time, things have been better recently. If one little thing happens he will be crabby and just shut down the rest of the day, even losing a game. When my older sister F(23) came to visit a few weeks ago he said that he would take us to the aquarium, we were getting food at the dining hall at my school and so I went out to his car to invite him to sit with us until we are ready to leave. He was in one of his "moods" and was angry, he just said no and that he will wait for us in his car and then hit the gas and loudly sped away when I was three feet away from him car. Later that night we were all drinking and he admitted with a laugh and smile on his face that he acted like that because he was listening to logics new album or something and "just needed to grind" whatever the fuck that means. My sister was driving in his car alone with him for maybe 15 minutes max. and said that even she felt like she was walking on egg shells and that she understood me now because he would get upset at the smallest things. It honestly just embarrassed me that he couldn't try to be nice around my sister, that just shows me that he doesn't care.
So now to get to the actual story, sorry that I rambled, I am currently visiting my family in MN for two weeks, he is still in CO. A week ago I went to visit one of my only friends from highschool for a sleepover, we went down to eat dinner and when we came back upstairs I saw that I had a missed call from him, I then saw this exact text: "Hey J***a! I miss you a lot right now. I know you're having a fun time out in Minnesota with your friends and your family. I love and care about you very much, I know you know that. It's time to move on from each other. This hurts a lot and I'm shaking while typing this. But I need to fly solo for a while and figure some shit out on my end. " My honest reaction was "I think blank just broke up with me?" My friend was so nice and then asked me how I felt, I honestly didn't feel sad, I was mainly just confused because of how random it was, he was acting completely normal up until then. I tried calling him back but it went straight to voicemail sp I texted him this: "I wish we could've had this talk on the phone. I was eating dinner downstairs when you called. I tried calling but you aren't answering so.
I agree, I feel like we haven't been in love like we used to for a long time, and I think moving on is the best thing for both of us." He never replied the rest of the night. The rest of the night I didn't cry or feel sad, I called my girl friends that I'm living with in CO, after them asking me how I felt and stuff we just started making fun plans for our single girl summer. Every single one of my friends does not like my boyfriend including my sister. They have been telling me to break up with him for months but I am honestly too scared and uncomfortable to, plus things are good when we are hanging out in person so I figured to just not worry about it. The next day my ex snapchatted me asking if we could have a phone call later if that is okay with me, I said sure expecting him to just tell me why he wanted to break up. But instead he said that the night before he saw some old screenshots (from the old SA incident) that made him go into a downward spiral. I will say I said some awful stuff behind his back which was the screenshots he was looking at. He then convinced himself that I had cheated on him and that I didn't actually get assaulted and that all of the times that I studied with my guy friends or hungout with them that we were fucking. So he just sent that text and powered off his phone. I will also say that I have never cheated on him. The next day he woke up and regretted it, he admitted that he also felt nauseous and scared which is think means he was just scared to be alone because we've been together for so long and he doesn't have any IRL friends in CO, so he would've basically been alone. So anyways on the phone the day after breaking up with me he told me why he sent the text and then started talking about how he was sad because he wasn't thinking lastnight, that he was only thinking about the bad things but then started thinking about all of the good times we have had and that that was what made him so sad the next morning. He said he truly loved me and wanted to at least say that he tried to get me back. I was again just very confused and shocked at this information, I tend to feel really bad for people even when they don't deserve it and so when he said he would've regretted this for the rest of his life and that he really loved me I caved and agreed to see if we can work things out. That being said I made sure to let him know that what he did was really shitty and not normal, and that it of course hurt me the way he went about it all. I have been telling him that he needs to go back to therapy for a year and he kept saying no, so on the phone I told him that if I'm even going to consider getting back with him he is going to get therapy. I know that may be shitty and I don't like telling people what to do but that is honestly what I think he needs if we even have a chance at getting better as a couple. At this time we are also planning to see eachother when I get back to CO to have an in-person talk about a lot of stuff. I told him that we can "stay together" but that I need time to think and I don't want to be official until I see major amount of change from him. Which historically has never really happened or the changes he made he eventually let slip and went back to his old ways which were toxic.
So now I am here, not sure what to think. I have been trying to really think about what I want and how I feel without thinking about his feelings but it's been really hard. We agreed to reconvene and see if things are better at the end of the summer, allowing him time to work on himself. But I don't know if I want to do that. I feel like things won't change, only because they haven't in the past when he said that they would. I also don't know how to end things if I were to.
If you were me what would you honestly do? It's hard to end such a long relationship.

Just wanted to share an odd delivery:
I use DD all the time with no problems. I have deliveries set to just drop off and even wrote "Just set it on the porch please :)". One reason I do that is because I'm a woman living alone, and I don't like to open the door to strangers, especially later at night.
The other night while waiting for an order at 9pm, I heard my front door knob jiggle, then jiggle more. After five full seconds, I locked myself in my bathroom and listened to see if anyone came in. A minute later I got a delivery notification, and the driver had made the baffling decision to hang my order on my door knob. It was an oversized bag, and they clearly struggled to get it to stay on the knob, thus the prolonged jiggling.
How was that the choice? I did message them in the app to recommend they not do that again because I think even people who are less anxious than I am would find it jarring

I(19m, 180 cm) was at about 73 kg in December 2023 but accidentally started bulking and gained weight and muscle. I am now at 83 kg and want to get back down to 73 kg by end of September, ideally with minimal muscle loss but am willing to sacrifice a bit for the sake of losing fat. This is my first time planning a weight loss diet/meal plan that focuses on more than only calories+protein lol. I used mostly rough estimates, but I would appreciate all advice.
Breakfast: 100g avocados, 3 boiled eggs
Avocados: 160 calories, 14.66g fat, 8.53g carbs, 6.6g fiber, 2g protein.
Eggs: 231 calories, 15.84g fat, 1.68g carbs, 0g fiber, 18.78g protein
Total: 391 calories, 30.5g fat, 10.21g carbs, 20.78g protein, 6.6g fiber
Lunch: salad with 2 chicken breasts
Salad: 525 calories, 38.5g fats, 38.5g carbs, 7g fibers, 10.5g protein.
Chicken: 396 calories, 8.6 g fats, 0g carbs, 0g fibers, 62g protein
Total: 921 calories, 47.1g fats, 38.5g carbs, 72.5g protein, 7g fibers
Dinner: smoothie (Dates, banana, apple, ground almond, 2 scoops protein powder)
Max 300 calories, 62.5g protein
Snack throughout the day: Watermelon(2-3 cups a day, depending on how snacky I feel)
90-140 calories
Overall estimated daily key macros: Roughly 1750 calories, 77.6g fat, 155.78g protein
Cardio/Strength: Supplementing this with around 2 hours of moderate-high intensity cardio(Muay Thai) 3 times a week, 3-6 hour low-intensity hikes once a week, and occasional moderate-high intensity basketball maybe once every two weeks. For strength training, mainly just going to do kettlebells, 50 swings every other morning.
I tried my best to follow one of Jeff Nippard's videos(linked below) whose guidelines set my target daily macros at <1800 calories, 155g of protein, >50g fat, and the rest into carbs. I have been eating healthy for a few years now so I am not too worried about falling off the wagon from this plan since I have practice employing healthy habits as a lifestyle rather than diet.
In particular, I am unsure if the total daily fats are too much, even if it does come from healthy sources.
Thank you all so much!
Jeff Nippard vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn-XvYG9x7w

last night i noticed my bookshelf was tilted. it’s one of those piece-by-piece bookshelves that is held together with a million clamps… it’s not the sturdiest. i looked at it for a solid ten minutes and in the end feigned ignorance, telling myself it’ll survive
unfortunately, i was wrong.
i left for work and it was still standing and i foolishly put all my faith into this tilted bookshelf while i’m at work. there was a five hour window i thought it would stay standing and i was very wrong.
i got home around 12am and walk into my room to see it had collapsed. the poor bookshelf lost and structure it had, my poor books were covered glass, my stuffy collection was sprawled all over the floor, and a couple glass cups had shattered.
i was not meant to build anything apparently but i do have two bookshelves that have lasted me about 3 or 4 years now (one is tilted but i used a small box to straighten it out).
TL;DR: i was lazy to fix my bookshelf and it collapsed. my books, cd’s, stuffies, and the bookshelf itself gave up and made a mess.

What should I do with my eagerness to be wanted? With some background I am Maeya ‘20MTF’ and I never new my bio dad ’40M’ he and my mom ‘40F’ were young and he was a coward and left. My mom met my first stepdad ‘41M’ (aka stepdad 1) when I was 5 yo. He is mostly traditional he understands what being gay is but other than that hates all of it. Where I was the black sheep of the family. And where my brother who is 5 years younger was the masculine son he wanted. At school I was the floater in social groups who could be anywhere. But that didn’t mean I could fit in anywhere. I am too awkward of a conversationalist and social situations aren’t my strong suit. The group I stayed with through high school had 4-5 people all male and we were all “pairs” in the group where I was the third part of a trio that would hangout after school. Because my gendesexuality I really had too decode whether I had a crush on a girl or I just wanted to be them thankfully most of the time it was the ladder but I knew I was mostly into women. But because I did grow up in a semi traditionalistic setting and my messed up social awkwardness I didn’t ask anyone out ever. Because I was male presenting but flamboyant I was either expected to ask them out or I was too feminine too be into women. Which resulted in a couple of times being pranked on by both guys and girls saying that some girl would be into me just to be fake. One was a high school dance and another was just a Sophomore joke. Sophomore year my Nana passed away from a stomach/intestinal cancer. And because of my paternal upbringing she was the consistent secondary guardian that was there from the beginning. Then Junior year my mom and stepdad dad 1 got a divorce and then the pandemic happened. Senior year began and I knew I needed too prepare too say goodbye too my old life and prepare to start a new one and my friends will find there own paths in life too. But I did expect us too have a way of communicating. My mom ended up meeting someone and remarried in January of 2021. October of 2020 one my friends passed away from an OD. The rest of us graduated class of 2021. One friend ended up becoming a hermit I tried reaching out but he didn’t come out of his house. I ended up going to the Navy in September of 2021 but had a leg injury in bootcamp and didn’t make it. While in bootcamp my family moved across the country Northwest to the South. So I ended up going with them once I was out of bootcamp. I ended up feeling alone and restless I just found a job and was in a rut. Then in July of 2022 another one of my friends died in a car crash. This made me determined too try something new like college but that ended up not working out mentally. But things at work were looking brighter. I did come as trans at this time. And seeing a dynamic duo of Hope ‘21F’ and Sophia ‘22F’. For this story you need to know has been in a relationship for 3 years. I knew Sophia since I started working their and seeing her and Hope more at work and hearing about there night outs during the summer of 2023 when both turned 21 was something I wanted to be a part of as a friendship. It was difficult for me too articulate it especially when I am an outsider in so many ways but they said they’ll take me in. This was January of 2024. Due to the weather there wasn’t much communication but I did make plans to go out to a club as a first time being full femme and it was a time to tackle my gender anxieties but not my social anxieties so I wasn’t as social as I would’ve liked. Then after that Hope has had a lot of new adulting things this year from insurance, dental, a new car, and ending a three year relationship because of online betrayal.
When she broke up with her boyfriend I knew she was physically the most beautiful person inside and out I’ve ever seen but because of how well oiled her relationship seemed too be I never truly paid attention to this feeling. She is the center of the group and has constantly people wanting to hangout with her. But she was ranting how she is so bad at responding to people because there seems too be so much responsibility. With that every time I reach out she does respond in reasonable measure. But the only time I’ve been messaged by Hope or Sophia it’s too see if I can come in too cover someone else at work who called out. I know it’s not intentional. I didn’t tell Hope about the lack of communication. But I did explain my feelings and I knew she experimented once or twice and she doesn’t float that way but I have feelings for her and don’t know if they’ll go away but I’ve already accepted the facts and she means more too me than my own feelings and I’m willing too stay friends but just wanted too be honest with her and not do something stupid. She was completely understanding and as expected she viewed me as more of a sister and I completely understood and accepted. But now there is this growing communication issue where so many people want to be a part of Hope and Sophia’s click that I am having no communication in general because of my social anxieties, lack of experience in the South, am for and can hangout around recreational use but don’t partake myself, and my fear of being “the single trans/gay person of the group”. Because of those things I see people who do want to be a part of their click being shown more effort because they fit their vibe/vibe of their hangout and I don’t know what to do. From confessing my feelings to Hope and these communication issues I just realize I’ve had a few number 1 friends but I was nobody’s number 1. But I’m not looking to be number 1 I just want to not be last thought to feel wanted. I just need to know how to communicate this without feeling like I am forcing them too because the last thing I want is too be a friend out of pity.

Haven't played Destiny in a long time, but watch lore videos every now and then. Saw the recent trailer and what happened to the residents of the last city, and Earth itself.
I've heard the term 'finalized' thrown about, but what exactly is happening to them? I can guess this is the final shape (The Witness's goal), but what actually is happening to these people.

Before I start off this review I just want to let you know that I’m sorry if my grammar sucks in this review because I am typing on a phone but if you want any questions on what I mean by it just lmk.
First off I wanted to say I loved the way they protrayed the characters of the show and it is really nice to learn about their past, their role of the school and the hidden struggles they’ve been through throughout their school life. Which is pretty cool. I think the dynamic relationship between Eun Oh and Tae Woon are amazing. I love how they acted throughout the show and an amazing duo main characters.
(The Story) With the storyline I thought the idea was interesting. A hidden prankster exposing the corruption of the school and how they favor rich kids than students. Taking bribes, making kids eat expire food and rigging competitions just so the rich kids can go to college easier. It was just plain scummy. In my opinion (sounds like a hot take) I thought it was fairly obvious that X was Tae Woon because judging about his background and how he changed ever since the death of his best friend affected him so much. Originally I did think it was Dae Hwi but the more I learned about Tae Woon’s character and the fight that he had with Dae Hwi calling him a murder I thought it was obvious. But overall the way they structured the story and all is very entertaining and it does leave you to continue more of the episodes the more you watch
(Complaints)
The one thing that I had a gripe with Eun Ho’s character. Seems to me that throughout the entire show she would willingly take the fall several times throughout the show especially with Tae Woon. But the one thing that really didn’t sit right with me is that she tried to take the fall and claim that shes X and willingly to risk ruining her future just to save her boyfriend which made Tae Woon mad. In which I agree that he had the right to feel upset about. The one thing that didn’t sit right with me is that she threatened to quit school to Tae Woon if he ever turned himself in and I’m like what the fuck? Why are you willingly guilt trip your boyfriend to not do anything when he was the one who did the most damage. I get that she didn’t want Tae Woon to move away if he ever got exposed but willingly to throw away your future and not recognize that was the reason why he became the reason he became X in the first place because his dad covered up his best friends death and its quite dumb for her to cover it up for him when that hurted him a lot on how much his dad keep covering up things he won’t take responsibility for
The one thing that also that didn’t sit right with me is that there was no action against the parents who bribed their kids to be successful. I don’t know if I missed something but I wanted karma so badly for these rich kids and their parents who think that they were all that. Especially with Min Joo. He was such a fucking asshole and I wanted him to get huge karma especially when he went and beat his ex girlfriend because he was fucking freaking out that his mom finding out smh.
Another thing that I wish they showed in the show is the relationship between Nam Joo and her father. I wish we gotten more background about her past and how she went on with that lie. I get that we got bits of information but it would’ve been nice to see a small background about her past on why her dad went bankrupt but to me it felt that the story of her relationship with Dae Hwi felt rushed to make it a happy ending for them
Despite the 3 criticisms I had with the show. I think the show is good and very interesting. I just wish we gotten some more context with some of the characters that deserved to have more screentime (Like Nam Joo for an example) I think the show is amazing. I did had a bits of ups and downs with the storyline but overall its not bad and I think its worth recommending to some people.
(8/10) Lmk your thoughts?

I tried to fix it myself because it’s driving me crazy. Every single video is in like 480 or whatever the worst quality is and I’m completely unable to change it.
I googled and it said if you have premium turn off Smart Downloads. Done. Has been done actually I disabled that immediately on getting premium.
Try restarting the app. No dice. This has been going on for months and months.
Wait for the video to finish processing. These videos are anywhere from days old to years old. It’s not an issue of processing.
And that’s it. That’s all I found. Besides a post on here from 2 years ago where no one had any other tips. Just it might be a bug (seems unlikely two years later) or that they might have gotten rid of the feature completely. But if so, why can I still see the option in the video settings? When I click the gear, I get all the normal options with video quality at the top, it’s just grayed out and says it’s unavailable.
Anyone have anything to help me? It’s annoying for most videos as is but I crochet and trying to watch tutorials makes me want to claw my eyes out. I can’t see shit 🫠

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I was watching a video and the person said "sleep in until 9.30am on the weekend". I didn't think much of it. for me, waking up at 9.30am is considered sleeping in (at least that is how I was raised lolll). but I looked in the comments and people said that 9.30 was still pretty early for them/their usual wake-up time on the weekend. what do you think?? I'm definitely not a morning person but I can't imagine waking up later than 9.30 (no hate!!!)