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2024.05.19 12:17 Der_Heide13 boycott?
So I dont know exactly how you guys feel but the overall opinion on gangplank seems to be that he is very weak right now and since riot is doing nothing to save the crit heavy, snowballing playstile they more or less forced on to them I feel like we should go a step further in our protest.
Others have boycottet their champs simply because they thought that their champs is to weak, though they were always still viable to play. gangplank, at least at the moment is by far to weak to carry most games because you need 3 and 1/3 items to get your build started, instead of the 2 and1/2 that were needed before, his best items got drastically nerfed aswell as his most valuable keystone being changed and one of his best runes being removed. His winrate has rarely been over 50% or even at 50% but barely being over 46% multiple days after the changes released is unacceptable. Not just that but riot is treating this like a joke, saying the people who have invested hundreds if not thousands of hours into playing gangplank are just "building wrong" and buffing his base gp and armor groth ad if that is the problem. In my opinion there is no reason for us to still play gp until riot finally does something about his dismal state, espacially since I dont think it would need a lot of changes to fix this issue. Just give navori a bit of ad back in exchange for a bit of as and give us a cheap sheen item that scales with bonus ad instead of base or has crit on it at least.
Ofc i dont known if that would fix it, but thats essentially why im posting. Im at wits end and want to know how the gp community feels about boycotting their champ and, if we do not want to do it, what ideas we have to either salvage the current situation or get riot to fix it.
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Others have boycottet their champs simply because they thought that their champs is to weak, though they were always still viable to play. gangplank, at least at the moment is by far to weak to carry most games because you need 3 and 1/3 items to get your build started, instead of the 2 and1/2 that were needed before, his best items got drastically nerfed aswell as his most valuable keystone being changed and one of his best runes being removed. His winrate has rarely been over 50% or even at 50% but barely being over 46% multiple days after the changes released is unacceptable. Not just that but riot is treating this like a joke, saying the people who have invested hundreds if not thousands of hours into playing gangplank are just "building wrong" and buffing his base gp and armor groth ad if that is the problem. In my opinion there is no reason for us to still play gp until riot finally does something about his dismal state, espacially since I dont think it would need a lot of changes to fix this issue. Just give navori a bit of ad back in exchange for a bit of as and give us a cheap sheen item that scales with bonus ad instead of base or has crit on it at least.
Ofc i dont known if that would fix it, but thats essentially why im posting. Im at wits end and want to know how the gp community feels about boycotting their champ and, if we do not want to do it, what ideas we have to either salvage the current situation or get riot to fix it.
2024.05.19 12:10 SharkEva AITAH for wanting to leave my volunteer position because they gave the paid job to their best friends child
I am not the OOP. The OOP is u/Illustrious_Young430 posting in AITAH
Concluded as per OOP
1 update - Short
Original - 13th May 2024
Update - 17th May 2024
AITAH for wanting to leave my volunteer position because they gave the paid job to their best friends child
I’ve been volunteering in a charity shop since about August last year, I initially started to get myself back into a routine and work ready for being out of work for so long. I really enjoyed it and it’s given me so much confidence. Unfortunately the manager had to take sick leave because she needs an operation, the assistant manager handed in her keys and quit because no one from the other stores would come in and help or cover a day for her, so she was basically doing everything.
The shop had to close for awhile till they found someone else. When they did I came straight back because I had started to fall backwards in myself and needed the routine again. The new (floating manager) let’s call Mary, is 19 and had no idea how to run the shop, her mum is the companies customs manager for this area, she is also best friends with another lady who runs one of the other shops (she has two daughters) one is running another shop. This is not a family run business.
At first it was very unwelcoming and they changed how we worked, I gave it time because obviously she’s new to this and doesn’t really talk to anyone, eventually over time we became friendly, work well together and have a laugh. A new assistant manager had been hired who is absolutely amazing and we get on very well, he has recently gone to another one of the stores to run it as manager.
His job became available so I asked about applying, Mary got really excited and wanted me to apply, she helped me with interview questions, gave me the opportunity to run the shop for a few days completely on my own, which went very well. At first she wasn’t doing the interviews, it was her mum and someone else.
When it came closer I got informed that her and her mum was interviewing me, I got excited because I thought I was a shoo in as Mary had expressed if she could pick then it would be me. A day before, I found out that the ladies other daughter was applying too, I knew from then on it didn’t matter what I said or did I wouldn’t be getting it because they are all very close.
Mary’s mum rang me to say I didn’t get it the other girl did, making out it was some random women, even though I know it’s the daughter, but that I did very well and they wanted to make me lead volunteer, I have been there for months, run it on my own, cashed up, opened up, everything, I know how to run it better than mary does.
I want to leave because I feel like I’ve been screwed over, I’m going to complain to the higher up because i feel it’s unfair to basically say I have the job, but then give it to your best friends daughter.
Comments
Rare-Selection2348
Don't bother complaining. Don't bother going in again. NTA
Old_Web8071
Complaining probably won't do any good. Best bet is to walk away & find a job that pays. Or some other charity until you do.
And don't give a notice. At the end of a day, just say, "I'm not coming back to work here" & leave. Preferably when you know they will be short-handed because other people are already taking off.
It's up to you if you want to give them a notice or reason you're leaving. Me? I'd just say I'm not coming back.
Foolish-Pleasure99
Yes, don't complain, leave. Any notice up to you. They will quickly learn nepotism is not a management strategy, will suffer, and will cover that all up or chalk it up to "learning on the job".
I do not see anyone reaching out to admit they made a mistake and if you stay you're just a doormat and will have to run the place without pay or recognition.
**Judgement - NTA*\*
Update - 4 days later
Thank you for all your messages I didn’t expect anyone to reply. I left, I went in and it was really awkward, so when I finished for the day I told Mary this is my last day, she was shocked and didn’t really know what to say. I walked out knowing that most of the other volunteers will probably leave soon too.
Either for paying jobs or because they are getting annoyed with how it’s run. I’m also going to tell the higher ups about it because I don’t want them to get away with it, it’s not the first time and someone in the comments pointed out that corporate might not know what is going on and it’s not fair to anyone.
Comments
kobresia9
Mary must be really dense if she's shocked
ankle-biter-42
You’d be surprised at how stupid people like this can be. Either that or she thinks she’s manipulating OP
Stephenallen1977
Honesty this was the best course of action for you.
If you are in the UK it does not sound like there was a fair recruitment process given that there was favouritism to someone who did not have experience.
UtahCyan
Nepo hires. Happens everywhere. They usually end up in disaster, but you have to wait for the disaster for anything you change.
I am not the OOP. Please do not harass the OOP.
Please remember the No Brigading Rule and to be civil in the comments
submitted by SharkEva to BORUpdates [link] [comments]
Concluded as per OOP
1 update - Short
Original - 13th May 2024
Update - 17th May 2024
AITAH for wanting to leave my volunteer position because they gave the paid job to their best friends child
I’ve been volunteering in a charity shop since about August last year, I initially started to get myself back into a routine and work ready for being out of work for so long. I really enjoyed it and it’s given me so much confidence. Unfortunately the manager had to take sick leave because she needs an operation, the assistant manager handed in her keys and quit because no one from the other stores would come in and help or cover a day for her, so she was basically doing everything.
The shop had to close for awhile till they found someone else. When they did I came straight back because I had started to fall backwards in myself and needed the routine again. The new (floating manager) let’s call Mary, is 19 and had no idea how to run the shop, her mum is the companies customs manager for this area, she is also best friends with another lady who runs one of the other shops (she has two daughters) one is running another shop. This is not a family run business.
At first it was very unwelcoming and they changed how we worked, I gave it time because obviously she’s new to this and doesn’t really talk to anyone, eventually over time we became friendly, work well together and have a laugh. A new assistant manager had been hired who is absolutely amazing and we get on very well, he has recently gone to another one of the stores to run it as manager.
His job became available so I asked about applying, Mary got really excited and wanted me to apply, she helped me with interview questions, gave me the opportunity to run the shop for a few days completely on my own, which went very well. At first she wasn’t doing the interviews, it was her mum and someone else.
When it came closer I got informed that her and her mum was interviewing me, I got excited because I thought I was a shoo in as Mary had expressed if she could pick then it would be me. A day before, I found out that the ladies other daughter was applying too, I knew from then on it didn’t matter what I said or did I wouldn’t be getting it because they are all very close.
Mary’s mum rang me to say I didn’t get it the other girl did, making out it was some random women, even though I know it’s the daughter, but that I did very well and they wanted to make me lead volunteer, I have been there for months, run it on my own, cashed up, opened up, everything, I know how to run it better than mary does.
I want to leave because I feel like I’ve been screwed over, I’m going to complain to the higher up because i feel it’s unfair to basically say I have the job, but then give it to your best friends daughter.
Comments
Rare-Selection2348
Don't bother complaining. Don't bother going in again. NTA
Old_Web8071
Complaining probably won't do any good. Best bet is to walk away & find a job that pays. Or some other charity until you do.
And don't give a notice. At the end of a day, just say, "I'm not coming back to work here" & leave. Preferably when you know they will be short-handed because other people are already taking off.
It's up to you if you want to give them a notice or reason you're leaving. Me? I'd just say I'm not coming back.
Foolish-Pleasure99
Yes, don't complain, leave. Any notice up to you. They will quickly learn nepotism is not a management strategy, will suffer, and will cover that all up or chalk it up to "learning on the job".
I do not see anyone reaching out to admit they made a mistake and if you stay you're just a doormat and will have to run the place without pay or recognition.
**Judgement - NTA*\*
Update - 4 days later
Thank you for all your messages I didn’t expect anyone to reply. I left, I went in and it was really awkward, so when I finished for the day I told Mary this is my last day, she was shocked and didn’t really know what to say. I walked out knowing that most of the other volunteers will probably leave soon too.
Either for paying jobs or because they are getting annoyed with how it’s run. I’m also going to tell the higher ups about it because I don’t want them to get away with it, it’s not the first time and someone in the comments pointed out that corporate might not know what is going on and it’s not fair to anyone.
Comments
kobresia9
Mary must be really dense if she's shocked
ankle-biter-42
You’d be surprised at how stupid people like this can be. Either that or she thinks she’s manipulating OP
Stephenallen1977
Honesty this was the best course of action for you.
If you are in the UK it does not sound like there was a fair recruitment process given that there was favouritism to someone who did not have experience.
UtahCyan
Nepo hires. Happens everywhere. They usually end up in disaster, but you have to wait for the disaster for anything you change.
I am not the OOP. Please do not harass the OOP.
Please remember the No Brigading Rule and to be civil in the comments
2024.05.19 12:07 GuardianBug Low level travel encounter: Don't hurt my Fleecemane Lion Cub!
 | https://preview.redd.it/hvxuwkq4hc1d1.png?width=400&format=png&auto=webp&s=cbad4913c8ec593935b30cefb13b483ddaf7e2de submitted by GuardianBug to TherosDMs [link] [comments] The Encounter:Two children wearing fine clothes are playing in the forest (or landscape PC's are travelling in). If the party contains a leonin, the children will beg that PC to showcase their terrifying roar. If there's no leonin, make up any other reason to ask the PC's to make a loud, animalistic sound (remember: these kids are very impressed with the PC's). Once a roar or loud sound is made, it will attract the wrath of a Fleecemane Lion, though this one is only a cub.The cub will attempt to stealthily sneak up to the PC who made the sound and attack them. The cub is approximately the size of a large dog. I wanted to provide my PC's with the feeling of battling a mythical creature, but the adult Fleecemane is a bit above their current level, so I homebrewed this Fleecemane Lion Cub. It is my first EVER homebrew monster stat block, so I am pretty nervous about posting it! I roughly halved the adult's stats (HP, stats bonuses, ST and attack bonuses, attack dmg), but the written CR of 1 is a total guess so please ignore that. My party only has 2 level 2 PC's, but for larger parties I imagine two or even three cubs would create a more interesting challenge. 1 round after combat starts, the cub’s “owner”, a goblin named Lysnark, joins the conflict by taking one of the children hostage (knife to throat style). The other child runs away. Edit: Lysnark's opening statement is that the PC's cannot hurt the cub, or he will slit the kid's throat. The cub could continue fighting the PCs, however! Encourage players to grapple (hope mine will learn), animal handle, talk, or find other non-violent ways to manage this conflict. If the players lean towards lethal violence, emphasize that the cub looks stressed out and terrified while fighting, and that Lysnark behaves a bit like a child throwing a tantrum, and looks to be early teen-aged. Fragile ego: Lysnark talks a big talk but is not very sharp nor impressive. The PC’s could appease Lysnark by building up his fragile ego. His brothers Phaedrizzle and Theronbog bully him for being the smallest, and so Lysnark can be manipulated easily with any statements that lessen his insecurity (DC12 man). Trade: the PC’s can trade with Lysnark by offering anything that would increase Lysnark’s esteem in the eyes of his brother goblins (jewelry, weaponry, armor, gold). Lion hostility: the cub is hostile to leonin (or if no leonin in the party, hostile to any "monstrous" PCs), giving them disadvantage on any checks attempting to calm the cub down (DC16 animal handling, DC12 if Lysnark has called off the lion cub. It is trained but not perfectly so). ~Developments~:
The goal of this encounter is to make my PC's think about empathy, innocence of creatures that harm you, neutralizing violent threats without using violence, or with non-lethal combat strategies. Would love to hear what you guys think. Please be kind in the comments! Happy DMing ;) |
2024.05.19 12:05 PhilosophyMountain24 Anyone is worried about the ongoing bank account frozen scam due to fake cyber complaints
I heard many cases where bank is freezing bank accounts of the users who are involved with the crypto transactions as some fraudster has filed cyber compliant against them which resulted in getting their bank account frozen.
But, What I'm really worried about is that this scam does not seem to be limited to the crypto anymore and can be exploited by some bad actors. Let's say some random dude deposit some cursed money (as small as 1k-5k) to your bank account [Now, you may ask how could random dude know my bank account...ahh well, all thanks to all UPI apps he just need to know your mobile number!!] And after that he files a cyber complaint against you citing fraud has been taken place in his bank account (something like Jamatara style) and money has been taken away. so cyber department may issue a account freeze order against your bank account. [Now you may say what's the issue as this is fake case and can be resolved quickly but let me tell you there were some horror stories which people had shared that they were not able to unfreeze their account even after 1-2 yrs. ]
Now a days, mostly everyone has their mobile linked to their bank account which makes their bank account accessible by knowing just the mobile number. Which I think pose a risk as I don't want some random dude depositing some cursed money to my account. Using the Alias UPI id instead of mobile number as a UPI number would be good idea.
Does anyone hear about such instances and can share more on that ? and is it really a big concern to worried about ??
submitted by PhilosophyMountain24 to personalfinanceindia [link] [comments]
But, What I'm really worried about is that this scam does not seem to be limited to the crypto anymore and can be exploited by some bad actors. Let's say some random dude deposit some cursed money (as small as 1k-5k) to your bank account [Now, you may ask how could random dude know my bank account...ahh well, all thanks to all UPI apps he just need to know your mobile number!!] And after that he files a cyber complaint against you citing fraud has been taken place in his bank account (something like Jamatara style) and money has been taken away. so cyber department may issue a account freeze order against your bank account. [Now you may say what's the issue as this is fake case and can be resolved quickly but let me tell you there were some horror stories which people had shared that they were not able to unfreeze their account even after 1-2 yrs. ]
Now a days, mostly everyone has their mobile linked to their bank account which makes their bank account accessible by knowing just the mobile number. Which I think pose a risk as I don't want some random dude depositing some cursed money to my account. Using the Alias UPI id instead of mobile number as a UPI number would be good idea.
Does anyone hear about such instances and can share more on that ? and is it really a big concern to worried about ??
2024.05.19 12:03 -justsomeone- Confused on US PhD
Hi, I'm planning on applying to PhD program's in the US for fall 2025 intake. I know that in USA, the first couple of years is coursework based, only after that do you do your research component, right? But what I'm confused about is that, do I need to reach out to potential supervisors to accept me even though I won't be working on their projects for a few years? The uni's I've been checking don't explicitly syate whether finding a supervisor before applying is recommended or not, could someone provide some input, thanks.
Also, the masters of science I'm doing right now is fully reaearch, that's how it is in south east asia, so there's no CGPA, therefore; would I still be considered eligible for admission into PhD as some uni's, like NYU, require a 3.5 cgpa for master's.
Lastly, I know I should apply to a mix of schools... but there are so many to choose from, the top ones are easy because well they're the top of the list (i.e. UCLA, Cal tech, berkely, MIT, etc.) but how do I determine the lower tier institutions to apply to, do I look for those ranked around 300-500or is it 1000, I know it's arbitrary, but any tips would be helpful. Also, isn't it going to be wildly expensive to apply to so many, how many do people usually apply to. I really really need to get accepted to at least 1.
Also 1 more thing, sorry for the absurdly long query, but is it worth it for me to even apply to those top institutions if I come from a not so well known unicersity (QS ranking around 300-350), my undergrad cgpa was 3.74/4.00 and I'm planning on having 2 first author publications by the time I apply. So I don't know if it's still worth giving it a shot or not since the application fees are so much.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for any help!
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Also, the masters of science I'm doing right now is fully reaearch, that's how it is in south east asia, so there's no CGPA, therefore; would I still be considered eligible for admission into PhD as some uni's, like NYU, require a 3.5 cgpa for master's.
Lastly, I know I should apply to a mix of schools... but there are so many to choose from, the top ones are easy because well they're the top of the list (i.e. UCLA, Cal tech, berkely, MIT, etc.) but how do I determine the lower tier institutions to apply to, do I look for those ranked around 300-500or is it 1000, I know it's arbitrary, but any tips would be helpful. Also, isn't it going to be wildly expensive to apply to so many, how many do people usually apply to. I really really need to get accepted to at least 1.
Also 1 more thing, sorry for the absurdly long query, but is it worth it for me to even apply to those top institutions if I come from a not so well known unicersity (QS ranking around 300-350), my undergrad cgpa was 3.74/4.00 and I'm planning on having 2 first author publications by the time I apply. So I don't know if it's still worth giving it a shot or not since the application fees are so much.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for any help!
2024.05.19 12:02 Soggy-Pin-1936 Some Questions about LMU Munich Physics bachelors
I am gonna start my studies this 2024 winter for BSc Physics program.
I have some questions if anyone of you studying at LMU or even TUM Can answer based on their experience
(1) How hard is coursework at LMU for Physics bachelors? do you get any free time
(2) my Maths and Physics from high school is good enough (got 2A* in Physics and Maths A level). but I know that uni physics degree is something else. what should i do beforehand to make sure I don't fall behind and score good grades
(3) how are the professors like, do they teach their course well or not?
(4) Are there any classes in English or not (I am at C1 level, but still would want to improve)
(5) how tough are the exams and what sort of prep u need to do. i am sure the exams don't come from. profs. script. it most likely comes from a whole big books only. what do you do to get top grades
(6) will it be hard to complete the bachelors in 6 semesters or if we plan good and study more. can we complete in 6 sems (or highly unlikely I know, even less than 6 sems)
(7) do you get student research jobs or not ( i believe they look good on CV and you get good letter of recommendation from your profs for master)
(8) do students who complete their Bachelors and then masters have chances for any good jobs or not?
(9) although my last question can make u think otherwise, i am mostly interested to go into Research field. so if any of you know, how good is the Masters of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (TMP) program by TUM and LMU jointly for further PhD prospects or I would want to go to Cambridge's Part III masters or Oxford MMathPhys masters course (1 year). any suggestions for both if you can ( I can't afford the bachelors even if i got into Oxford or Cambridge)
(10) is it easy find friends as international (I am from India), so that we can make study groups with them (which is obviously good to have)
(11) I also have offer from TUM as well btw, so if anyone of studied at TUM, you can answer the questions based on that as well. also what would you recommend more? TUM or LMU (only bachelors for physics). state some reasons too
(12) How would you compare the bachelors here in LMU or TUM compared to other great places like Cambridge, Oxford, ETH, EPFL and Imperial College London. is the course here in Germany more or less rigorous than these other great institutions
if anyone of you want to/can share, then pls tell the books your profs use or u yourself use for studies for Physics bachelors. I can use those in free time to have a easy time when i eventually start my uni
submitted by Soggy-Pin-1936 to Munich [link] [comments]
I have some questions if anyone of you studying at LMU or even TUM Can answer based on their experience
(1) How hard is coursework at LMU for Physics bachelors? do you get any free time
(2) my Maths and Physics from high school is good enough (got 2A* in Physics and Maths A level). but I know that uni physics degree is something else. what should i do beforehand to make sure I don't fall behind and score good grades
(3) how are the professors like, do they teach their course well or not?
(4) Are there any classes in English or not (I am at C1 level, but still would want to improve)
(5) how tough are the exams and what sort of prep u need to do. i am sure the exams don't come from. profs. script. it most likely comes from a whole big books only. what do you do to get top grades
(6) will it be hard to complete the bachelors in 6 semesters or if we plan good and study more. can we complete in 6 sems (or highly unlikely I know, even less than 6 sems)
(7) do you get student research jobs or not ( i believe they look good on CV and you get good letter of recommendation from your profs for master)
(8) do students who complete their Bachelors and then masters have chances for any good jobs or not?
(9) although my last question can make u think otherwise, i am mostly interested to go into Research field. so if any of you know, how good is the Masters of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (TMP) program by TUM and LMU jointly for further PhD prospects or I would want to go to Cambridge's Part III masters or Oxford MMathPhys masters course (1 year). any suggestions for both if you can ( I can't afford the bachelors even if i got into Oxford or Cambridge)
(10) is it easy find friends as international (I am from India), so that we can make study groups with them (which is obviously good to have)
(11) I also have offer from TUM as well btw, so if anyone of studied at TUM, you can answer the questions based on that as well. also what would you recommend more? TUM or LMU (only bachelors for physics). state some reasons too
(12) How would you compare the bachelors here in LMU or TUM compared to other great places like Cambridge, Oxford, ETH, EPFL and Imperial College London. is the course here in Germany more or less rigorous than these other great institutions
if anyone of you want to/can share, then pls tell the books your profs use or u yourself use for studies for Physics bachelors. I can use those in free time to have a easy time when i eventually start my uni
2024.05.19 12:01 Lmillsthaleo Hey... Question for anyone attracted to non-binary
Legegitate question of ignorance: what attracted you to non-binary? What does it mean to be attracted to non-binary? Are you still on some level attracted to whatever physical presentation they mostly look like or is it because they look androgynous?
I'm really curious about understanding what makes non-binary an attraction.
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I'm really curious about understanding what makes non-binary an attraction.
2024.05.19 11:52 Academic-Painter1999 How I'm beating Colosseum without a single A+ or above character: A very long and comprehensive guide
Hey everyone! I've been seeing a few posts here and there about Colosseum and just an overall interest in S/S+ characters. I myself am among the unlucky few who has not yet pulled a single S character, but I've managed to 3-star every stage in the first story mode as well as complete every single mode aside from the Superstar Challenge and the Beach one (I'm putting these off until I get an S Wing Spiker since Superstar seems impossible to 3-star without a Spiker that can more frequently boom/no-touch ace, and Beach is just boring to me imo).
In addition, I've been able to beat Colosseum with only a team consisting of an A-rank WS, B+ MB, and B+ Setter. Of course, this took me a few tries but the main thing that I've learned is that the final boss is much easier to get through than the boss stages. I'm playing with Beginner and Auto mode turned off, while Run-Up is turned ON. I'm not sure if different settings will help.
I'll expand on this now and give more detail, but I'd just like to say first that this is NOT a guide for a guaranteed win. Some RNG will still matter and therefore you may not be able to win the Colosseum run on your first try. This will be a VERY long guide, but I'll try my best to give a summary at the end for those who don't have the patience or want an easy flowchart to look at while playing.
So let's start off with your roster and playing style.
Stats of your team:
Firstly, you definitely want every member to be at least B+ so you can possibly max out 2 stats and get some additional points in to others. Do NOT attempt Colosseum if you can't max out your players' stats; you'd just be frustrating youself.
For the Setter, I maxed out Jump and Defense and spent the extra points on Speed. My Setter came with 85 Attack so I simply didn't bother increasing it since it's costly and she seems to be able to get serve aces anyway even with a low attack stat.
For my MB, I maxed out Defense and Speed while spending the rest of the points on Attack. IMO you can probably tweak with this as you like, the MB really isn't that important anyway.
My reasoning for this is that you'll be doing pretty much all of the work on getting points anyway, so might as well increase your teammates' chances of blocking out spikes or receiving without getting their defenses broken through if you make mistakes.
Stats of your WS and how your playing style will vary:
As for the stats, obviously you want a maxed out Attack and Jump, while I keep Speed at least at 100 and spend the rest of my points in Defense. The low Speed is due to the fact that you'll be spending pretty much all your time in your team's zone anyway, and having a high speed MB can make up for any threats of a Touch Out.
Your playing style will be one of two things which are purely dependent on your Wing Spiker's height. Note that these playstyles only really matter with the non-boss teams and are all about defense. We'll be employing team-specific strategies when it comes to attack/defense against bosses and attacks against the non-bosses.
Currently my two best WSs are 179cm (A-rank) and 212cm (A-minus rank). The 179cm WS is my main WS that I use right now purely because of additional stats, and he's the shortest player on my team.
The tall playstyle (probably good for at least 190cm WS) will involve blocking a lot because some of the players on the regular teams generally have weak attacks but can spike higher than shorter characters, so having a tall WS with good defense stats is often enough to block out the strongest spikes from these teams. This also matters more at the start because most of the ability cards at the first round will decrease your jump points, so if your player's tall enough to still be able to block shots from the enemy team with decreased jump, then you can definitely go with this style.
The short playstyle (good for below 190cm) involves going for dives on every shot that the enemy takes. It conserves team stamina and gives you more chances to get attacks in and whittle the enemy's defenses down.
Obviously, if you've been playing for a while, you already know the advantages of blocking and diving. But, the key difference between the two when it comes to Colosseum is that the tall playstyle is generally easier and more aggressive and can let you win games faster through good blocks, but is more prone to RNG with your block sometimes leading to an unsalvageable touch out and therefore making you lose points.
Meanwhile, the short playstyle is harder but a safer style. It's harder because you need to be good at reacting to quicks and positioning yourself in general. But if you can consistently dive enemy spikes, then you'll never get a touch out and you save your team stamina for the few times that you make a mistake and your team has to cover, which they'll often do by simple receives and not dives.
Once you've determined your playstyle, let's take a look at your general tournament strategy and then your attack strategy for each opponent.
General Strategy:
When starting a run, the rule of thumb is to take a look at the path and see which one you can take with at least ONE rest while having the least amount of boss fights. If you get lucky, you can have a path with 1-2 rests without a single boss fight to take. If you're low on health/score (3 or below), I suggest avoiding boss fights completely even if taking the boss fight can lead you to a rest. Ideally you'll have at least 7-8 score/health remaining by the time you reach the final boss.
When it comes to resting, I haven't tried the full heal yet since I don't really need the full 10 HP to win. I only take the 5 HP restoration if I'm below 6 HP and take the -5 Attack -2 Jump debuffs which won't really have noticeable effects unless you weren't able to balance out your buffs and debuffs.
As for ability cards, I suggest choosing the -10%/20% jump reductions at the start if you can find them. You can choose to reroll if you really want to/can afford it, but in any case, the guideline for stats ability cards is this:
Non-boss team strategies:
Let's start with Blue Lancia, which imo is the most predictable non-boss team in the mode (I've gotten multipel 12-0s against them). Their blocking is somehow near-perfect yet their receives are ass. So, to keep this short, the flowchart is just around 2 conditions, based on the enemy blocker:
For Yellow Spear, most of the strategy involves around defense. They're the only non-boss team that likes doing quicks/surprise attacks from what I observed, and their attacks CAN get through high defense at times. For attacking against them, you can play normally but you might want to go for feints if their tall blocker jumps (I forgot his name) since he can sometimes block you out, but not as much as Blue Lancia.
Boss teams:
There are certain teams that you want to avoid completely. Although you can try your luck with some of them if you think you're skilled enough to do so. I suggest avoiding boss fights completely if you're only on 3 health or lower unless you're willing to use the quitting/retry cheese strat.
My ranking of the boss teams from easiest to hardest to beat is as follows (note once again that this is from the perspective of playing with NO S characters, I'm sure that this will be completely different for those with S characters especially a WS):
Another disclaimer coming here... I haven't fought Robert's team yet at the time of this writing so I can't really give my insights on how to beat them. But considering how surprisingly forgiving BYE (NN's team) and BELL (Isabel's team) are, I doubt that Robert would be any different.
I find BELL to be the easiest team to play against. You can play pretty much normally since they don't have strong blocks and receives, while defending would just be doing the usual dive strat which I've already mentioned is the safest.
BYE is harder but only in a general sense. I don't find NN's set to be that much of a threat (tbh it makes their attack much easier to time), and Jaehyun's spike is consistently blockable although not worth testing the RNG for possible Touch Outs if your score is low already.
Summary:
Take jump debuffs (I almost never take the Easy ability cards since I want to greed for Blue Flames) at the start and just slide/dive or block against weak attack teams. I recommend diving for pretty much every team and don't bother blocking if you wanna conserve health as much as possible, but this can make your runs longer.
Play normally against Red Scudo. Play more defensively against Yellow Spear. Feint as much as possible against Blue Lancia and only spike when the enemy blocker doesn't jump with you.
Go for boss fights if you have enough health and they aren't Valentia/Solar. Make sure to get a good ability card such as Nishikawa's Topspin Feint, Overpower or Heesung's Absolute Block (if you can mitigate your original jump debuffs) if you can afford rerolling for them; otherwise just take whatever good ability card you can get and prioritize Attack/the stats most affected by previous debuffs.
I highly suggest avoiding Valentia Spike and Solar unless you're determined to figuring them out. IMO it's a waste of time to attempt them without an S-rank but of course, it's your choice.
Against BYE, keep an eye out for NN's set and change your receive timing when he's setting. That's the only difficult part.
Against BELL, just receive well and be persistent with your spikes. By the time that you've reached them, you'd ideally have a high enough attack stat that you can easily break through their defenses.
And that's pretty much it! I'll update this post or just post a comment about Robert once I've played against his team. Apologies for the length of this post, but hopefully this helps some of you :)
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In addition, I've been able to beat Colosseum with only a team consisting of an A-rank WS, B+ MB, and B+ Setter. Of course, this took me a few tries but the main thing that I've learned is that the final boss is much easier to get through than the boss stages. I'm playing with Beginner and Auto mode turned off, while Run-Up is turned ON. I'm not sure if different settings will help.
I'll expand on this now and give more detail, but I'd just like to say first that this is NOT a guide for a guaranteed win. Some RNG will still matter and therefore you may not be able to win the Colosseum run on your first try. This will be a VERY long guide, but I'll try my best to give a summary at the end for those who don't have the patience or want an easy flowchart to look at while playing.
So let's start off with your roster and playing style.
Stats of your team:
Firstly, you definitely want every member to be at least B+ so you can possibly max out 2 stats and get some additional points in to others. Do NOT attempt Colosseum if you can't max out your players' stats; you'd just be frustrating youself.
For the Setter, I maxed out Jump and Defense and spent the extra points on Speed. My Setter came with 85 Attack so I simply didn't bother increasing it since it's costly and she seems to be able to get serve aces anyway even with a low attack stat.
For my MB, I maxed out Defense and Speed while spending the rest of the points on Attack. IMO you can probably tweak with this as you like, the MB really isn't that important anyway.
My reasoning for this is that you'll be doing pretty much all of the work on getting points anyway, so might as well increase your teammates' chances of blocking out spikes or receiving without getting their defenses broken through if you make mistakes.
Stats of your WS and how your playing style will vary:
As for the stats, obviously you want a maxed out Attack and Jump, while I keep Speed at least at 100 and spend the rest of my points in Defense. The low Speed is due to the fact that you'll be spending pretty much all your time in your team's zone anyway, and having a high speed MB can make up for any threats of a Touch Out.
Your playing style will be one of two things which are purely dependent on your Wing Spiker's height. Note that these playstyles only really matter with the non-boss teams and are all about defense. We'll be employing team-specific strategies when it comes to attack/defense against bosses and attacks against the non-bosses.
Currently my two best WSs are 179cm (A-rank) and 212cm (A-minus rank). The 179cm WS is my main WS that I use right now purely because of additional stats, and he's the shortest player on my team.
The tall playstyle (probably good for at least 190cm WS) will involve blocking a lot because some of the players on the regular teams generally have weak attacks but can spike higher than shorter characters, so having a tall WS with good defense stats is often enough to block out the strongest spikes from these teams. This also matters more at the start because most of the ability cards at the first round will decrease your jump points, so if your player's tall enough to still be able to block shots from the enemy team with decreased jump, then you can definitely go with this style.
The short playstyle (good for below 190cm) involves going for dives on every shot that the enemy takes. It conserves team stamina and gives you more chances to get attacks in and whittle the enemy's defenses down.
Obviously, if you've been playing for a while, you already know the advantages of blocking and diving. But, the key difference between the two when it comes to Colosseum is that the tall playstyle is generally easier and more aggressive and can let you win games faster through good blocks, but is more prone to RNG with your block sometimes leading to an unsalvageable touch out and therefore making you lose points.
Meanwhile, the short playstyle is harder but a safer style. It's harder because you need to be good at reacting to quicks and positioning yourself in general. But if you can consistently dive enemy spikes, then you'll never get a touch out and you save your team stamina for the few times that you make a mistake and your team has to cover, which they'll often do by simple receives and not dives.
Once you've determined your playstyle, let's take a look at your general tournament strategy and then your attack strategy for each opponent.
General Strategy:
When starting a run, the rule of thumb is to take a look at the path and see which one you can take with at least ONE rest while having the least amount of boss fights. If you get lucky, you can have a path with 1-2 rests without a single boss fight to take. If you're low on health/score (3 or below), I suggest avoiding boss fights completely even if taking the boss fight can lead you to a rest. Ideally you'll have at least 7-8 score/health remaining by the time you reach the final boss.
When it comes to resting, I haven't tried the full heal yet since I don't really need the full 10 HP to win. I only take the 5 HP restoration if I'm below 6 HP and take the -5 Attack -2 Jump debuffs which won't really have noticeable effects unless you weren't able to balance out your buffs and debuffs.
As for ability cards, I suggest choosing the -10%/20% jump reductions at the start if you can find them. You can choose to reroll if you really want to/can afford it, but in any case, the guideline for stats ability cards is this:
- Avoid going below 150 for Attack; preferably you keep it at least at the max 155. This means that the more attack buffs you get from some ability cards, the more you can afford having it reduced by others.
- Avoid reducing your speed (assuming your WS is like mine with only 100 Speed). Since you're the one mainly going for dives/blocks, you want to be able to move around at normal speed and most of the cards that increase speed aren't really worth it.
- Unless you've been able to mitigate the initial 10/20% reduction, do NOT take any cards that reduce jump. Obviously since you're already taking huge hits to your jump stat, reducing it further without mitigating thru buffs will make it so much harder to spike/block.
- Let your Defense stats take the most hits; if your defense goes low enough (around 120 and below), switch to diving style if you're not using it already.
Non-boss team strategies:
Let's start with Blue Lancia, which imo is the most predictable non-boss team in the mode (I've gotten multipel 12-0s against them). Their blocking is somehow near-perfect yet their receives are ass. So, to keep this short, the flowchart is just around 2 conditions, based on the enemy blocker:
- Whoever's blocking you at the net jumps at the same time as you do - Just feint. Even at max attack, my WS rarely ever gets through the blocker and causes me to lose points when spiking, so just feint over him, and if you do it for long enough, Blue Lancia's receiving is so bad that their receive will break even from just a simple feint.
- They don't jump at the same time - Spike. The max attack stats will break stamina faster. You'll rarely win points from spiking because even when their defenses are broken, they can keep the ball in the air when receiving spikes but can't when it's a feint So ultimately you'll still be going back to condition #1 to actually win the point.
For Yellow Spear, most of the strategy involves around defense. They're the only non-boss team that likes doing quicks/surprise attacks from what I observed, and their attacks CAN get through high defense at times. For attacking against them, you can play normally but you might want to go for feints if their tall blocker jumps (I forgot his name) since he can sometimes block you out, but not as much as Blue Lancia.
Boss teams:
There are certain teams that you want to avoid completely. Although you can try your luck with some of them if you think you're skilled enough to do so. I suggest avoiding boss fights completely if you're only on 3 health or lower unless you're willing to use the quitting/retry cheese strat.
My ranking of the boss teams from easiest to hardest to beat is as follows (note once again that this is from the perspective of playing with NO S characters, I'm sure that this will be completely different for those with S characters especially a WS):
- ZeroN - Strong stats and fast spikes by Youngsub which can make it tough to dive, but once you're on the attack, there's nothing special you need to really do to get points.
- Art High - Mid stats and extremely annoying to play against because of how consistently they can receive, but their attack's pretty predictable and even consistently blockable except if it's Sanghyeon spiking. You only really need to look out for Sanghyeon and that's about it.
- SolaOasis's team (forgot the full name) - Very difficult to beat, I suggest avoiding them. Surprisingly, AI Oasis isn't all that hard to play against, but the real challenge when it comes to this team is their serves. Both Oasis and ESPECIALLY Lisia have difficult serves. Lisia's underhand seems to always target you, though, so as long as you get the timing right, it's possible to receive it with a dive. But I suggest eating the serve with a normal receive if you can't get the timing or if you're confident that your defense/stamina can handle it.
- Valentia Spikes - Just avoid them. The Nishikawa in the Colosseum mode is the one that does the delayed spike the most which your team can't really defend against. Other Nishikawa spikes are blockable and actually quite predictable based on his positioning, but the delayed spike and his serves will eat up your points. I think with enough practice and the right ability cards, you can definitely learn to beat this team but it doesn't really seem worth it without an S-rank WS.
Another disclaimer coming here... I haven't fought Robert's team yet at the time of this writing so I can't really give my insights on how to beat them. But considering how surprisingly forgiving BYE (NN's team) and BELL (Isabel's team) are, I doubt that Robert would be any different.
I find BELL to be the easiest team to play against. You can play pretty much normally since they don't have strong blocks and receives, while defending would just be doing the usual dive strat which I've already mentioned is the safest.
BYE is harder but only in a general sense. I don't find NN's set to be that much of a threat (tbh it makes their attack much easier to time), and Jaehyun's spike is consistently blockable although not worth testing the RNG for possible Touch Outs if your score is low already.
Summary:
Take jump debuffs (I almost never take the Easy ability cards since I want to greed for Blue Flames) at the start and just slide/dive or block against weak attack teams. I recommend diving for pretty much every team and don't bother blocking if you wanna conserve health as much as possible, but this can make your runs longer.
Play normally against Red Scudo. Play more defensively against Yellow Spear. Feint as much as possible against Blue Lancia and only spike when the enemy blocker doesn't jump with you.
Go for boss fights if you have enough health and they aren't Valentia/Solar. Make sure to get a good ability card such as Nishikawa's Topspin Feint, Overpower or Heesung's Absolute Block (if you can mitigate your original jump debuffs) if you can afford rerolling for them; otherwise just take whatever good ability card you can get and prioritize Attack/the stats most affected by previous debuffs.
I highly suggest avoiding Valentia Spike and Solar unless you're determined to figuring them out. IMO it's a waste of time to attempt them without an S-rank but of course, it's your choice.
Against BYE, keep an eye out for NN's set and change your receive timing when he's setting. That's the only difficult part.
Against BELL, just receive well and be persistent with your spikes. By the time that you've reached them, you'd ideally have a high enough attack stat that you can easily break through their defenses.
And that's pretty much it! I'll update this post or just post a comment about Robert once I've played against his team. Apologies for the length of this post, but hopefully this helps some of you :)
2024.05.19 11:52 easypixels 27M Blurred vision and photophobia
Hi, six months ago I noticed my vision was getting blurry at the end of the day (I work on computer). Six months later after seeing two eyes specialists I'm waiting for my glasses to be ready but the blurring is now almost permanent (one week ago it completely left for a week though I don't know why) and I can't stand in sunlight, so I can't drive or work, I don't know what to do. I'm using artifical tears that work on a random basis, yesterday I was seeing almost crystal clear after I put them, but now I just put them and it does nothing. Everytime I use them though I have the same symptom as when I look at light - my eardrum sticks and unsticks (it's hard to explain because I've heard it's not common and even doctors look at me like a mad man when I tell them) - but exacerbated for like 5 minutes, which is painful.
I don't know what to do I can't live normally anymore it became dangerous to practice my passion (hiking) but it's driving me crazy that I can't have a normal life anymore.
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I don't know what to do I can't live normally anymore it became dangerous to practice my passion (hiking) but it's driving me crazy that I can't have a normal life anymore.
2024.05.19 11:49 feral_day Sony F170 90s Amp
Clear, Strong and Open. That is how i describe the sound coming out of it trough my JBL Control One speaker set. I can not complain one bit. For a somwhat lower to midrange amp i am blown away.
What kind of music it does well with: Pretty much anything. Im not liying. Acoustic, Orchestra, Rock, etc it does make it feel alive and the louder you go the more it shines. Using the direct source mode it only amplifies and coming from my AE-9 without any EQ. Listening to Lofi Hip-Hop it goes surprisingly deep and without making it muddy. Mids and highs are clear but not sparkling making for an easy and comfortable listening experience (for me).
I have gone rather high up with the volume and i cannot notice any degredation or hear any distortion. Listening to my favourites i did sometimes think it was distorting but that was actually the music itself. Additionally i only hear a little white noise when nothing is playing which is nice. (at highest volume)
For around 100€ (similar in dollar) It is a perfect budget amp that can bring a lot of joy. it is rated 2x50 at 4ohm and 2x35 at 8ohm both dynamic Source: https://www.hifi-wiki.de 2 × 42 watts, channel 1 + 2 at 8 Ohm and 2 × 63 watts, channel 1 + 2 at 4 Ohm at up to 1% distortion. Source: https://amp-performance.de
Id like to hear your experience with it and the other amps from that series as there is relatively little to be found online.
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What kind of music it does well with: Pretty much anything. Im not liying. Acoustic, Orchestra, Rock, etc it does make it feel alive and the louder you go the more it shines. Using the direct source mode it only amplifies and coming from my AE-9 without any EQ. Listening to Lofi Hip-Hop it goes surprisingly deep and without making it muddy. Mids and highs are clear but not sparkling making for an easy and comfortable listening experience (for me).
I have gone rather high up with the volume and i cannot notice any degredation or hear any distortion. Listening to my favourites i did sometimes think it was distorting but that was actually the music itself. Additionally i only hear a little white noise when nothing is playing which is nice. (at highest volume)
For around 100€ (similar in dollar) It is a perfect budget amp that can bring a lot of joy. it is rated 2x50 at 4ohm and 2x35 at 8ohm both dynamic Source: https://www.hifi-wiki.de 2 × 42 watts, channel 1 + 2 at 8 Ohm and 2 × 63 watts, channel 1 + 2 at 4 Ohm at up to 1% distortion. Source: https://amp-performance.de
Id like to hear your experience with it and the other amps from that series as there is relatively little to be found online.
2024.05.19 11:42 MunchkinMooCow Advice needed please to help build emotional attachment through more loving, intimate sex.
NSFW I 45F have been seeing 46M for a year. He currently views us as a bit more than exclusive FWB whereas I see us as a taking it slowly relationship given that we talk24/7 & do as much stuff out of bed as we do in bed. We have been exclusive since the beginning at his request and I believe he wants a proper, committed relationship but admits that he is scared.
We have always had a rather full on sex life. Nothing too out there but there’s definitely been some kink stuff and it’s been physically rather intense. Out of bed we have fun together. We go for long walks, strolls on the beach, talk for hours, car drives, motorbike trips, cuddle up watching tv etc. Always with lots of hand holding, affectionate touches and kisses. He’s even just joined the gym I go to and I’m looking at getting a PS5 so we can game together too. Financial restrictions mean we don’t dine out etc regularly but we will occasionally get a takeaway together.
He has emotional unavailability issues due to his narcissistic ex but has suddenly started asking if we can start doing things in bed to build his emotional connection to me and have more intimate sex rather than full on, naughty sex with me. I’m certain he’s asking for this because he wants to move the relationship into something more serious and needs to feel more intimately connected with me beyond lust. It’s like he wants to allow himself to love me properly and clearly what we do in bed together makes us different from what he does with his female friends who he doesn’t have sex with. I’m well aware that intimacy starts outside the bedroom, but I would say we already have a good foundation for that to build on & more loving physical intimacy rather than wild kinky sex will definitely help.
I was in a very abusive marriage for 14 years and my current partner is my first proper partner since my husband so I have kind of lost my way on how to achieve what he is asking for because I’m not sure it’s something I ever really had in my marriage. I really need ideas to help me with this beyond lots of eye contact, kissing and slow foreplay. I have massage oils and want to do things like give him a massage before sex. What else can I do to help grow the connection?
TL/DR partner of 12 months wants to build on “loving intimacy” in bed. I’d really appreciate ideas on how to achieve this beyond lots of eye contact and foreplay.
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We have always had a rather full on sex life. Nothing too out there but there’s definitely been some kink stuff and it’s been physically rather intense. Out of bed we have fun together. We go for long walks, strolls on the beach, talk for hours, car drives, motorbike trips, cuddle up watching tv etc. Always with lots of hand holding, affectionate touches and kisses. He’s even just joined the gym I go to and I’m looking at getting a PS5 so we can game together too. Financial restrictions mean we don’t dine out etc regularly but we will occasionally get a takeaway together.
He has emotional unavailability issues due to his narcissistic ex but has suddenly started asking if we can start doing things in bed to build his emotional connection to me and have more intimate sex rather than full on, naughty sex with me. I’m certain he’s asking for this because he wants to move the relationship into something more serious and needs to feel more intimately connected with me beyond lust. It’s like he wants to allow himself to love me properly and clearly what we do in bed together makes us different from what he does with his female friends who he doesn’t have sex with. I’m well aware that intimacy starts outside the bedroom, but I would say we already have a good foundation for that to build on & more loving physical intimacy rather than wild kinky sex will definitely help.
I was in a very abusive marriage for 14 years and my current partner is my first proper partner since my husband so I have kind of lost my way on how to achieve what he is asking for because I’m not sure it’s something I ever really had in my marriage. I really need ideas to help me with this beyond lots of eye contact, kissing and slow foreplay. I have massage oils and want to do things like give him a massage before sex. What else can I do to help grow the connection?
TL/DR partner of 12 months wants to build on “loving intimacy” in bed. I’d really appreciate ideas on how to achieve this beyond lots of eye contact and foreplay.
2024.05.19 11:40 BoomBoxMechanical Reinstall and backup Windows 10 – Help needed
TLDR:
- I want to nuke the existing Windows 10 installation
- Install a fresh copy of Windows 10
- Configure it the way I like it (settings and basic programs)
- Create a bootable backup in case I ever need to re-nuke it – without having to reconfigure settings / reinstall programs
Context / Preface:
I'm certain this question has been previously asked / answered – however; with the plethora of information / solutions / sources (Reddit/Forums/Youtube) I find myself thorougly confused and knowing less than I did before.The computer in question is primarily used by family members and kids, and as you can imagine – reinstallation is often required for various reasons. The in-built recovery/reinstallation option has been my go-to choice so far, but I don't always have the time to reconfigure and reinstall everything on it, hence I want to create a fully backed up, bootable, preconfigured USB to speed up the process.
As I've mentioned above – previous answers / solutions are plentiful but overwhelming, so I'll describe my understanding of the process with questions below.
Plan of attack:
Getting the new WIN10 installation- Go to Microsoft webpage and follow the steps for downloading WIN10 .iso file using the media creation tool
- Download RUFUS and create a bootable USB drive from it:
b. Boot selection – locate and select the previously downloaded ISO file
· Q1 – What partition scheme do I use?
¨ I presume I should use GPT since the laptop is cca. 6 years old at this point.
· Q2 – What format option do I choose?
¨ I presume I should use NTFS
c. Click start to create the bootable USB drive
Installing the new WIN10
- Boot into BIOS/UEFI (for this particular laptop Fn+F1) and select the USB as the boot drive
- Follow the initial instalation procedure and skip the product key entering
- Where do you want to install Windows
- Let Windows do it's thing and install – then go through the instalation process with a local account only.
- Afterwards connect to the Internet and download all the available updates and configure the system to my liking
- Install and configure basic programs – Firefox, WinRaR, VLC etc…
Backing up the freshly installed and configured WIN10
- Reinstall RUFUS and restore the previously used USB to it's „normal“ non-bootable state (for use in later steps)
¨ I presume I should reformat to NTFS ?
- Go to Control panel and find „Backup and Restore Windows 7“
- Create a system image – choose the previously reformated USB drive and let it create the system image on it.
· Q6 - Does this back up all the settings/programs or does it only create another „clean“ Windows installation?
- RUFUS (again) – recreate a bootable USB drive – this time with the newly created „backed up“ .iso image
Final question(s).
· Q7 – Will this function like a „normal“ WIN10 instalation – in other words; if I ever need to re-nuke Windows – can I boot into BIOS/UEFI; rewipe everything and will the instalation process continue as normal or do I need to select the repair option or similar?· Q8 – Will everything be configured how I left it (settings and programs) or will it just reinstall Windows like it would from a new .iso image?
I hope I've written everything as clearly as possible, and also hope to get clear answers from someone far more knowledgeable than me.
Thank you in advance and looking forward to you answers. Cheers!
2024.05.19 11:35 AutomaticLocation689 I need prayers
I have been in a constant state of stagnation the last couple months and even though I have been receiving answers here and there I have been struggling with obeying God. I have also fallen into a state of addiction to corn hardcore.
This is what has been bothering me recently:
I am currently attending a college I never wanted to attend ( everyone looks down on it because it’s a commuter school and I always wanted to attend a prestigious institution that looks like Hogwarts but God closed those doors). Whenever I visit my other friends who did get into those colleges I wanted to attend, I just feel envious and bitter towards God.
Everyone at my church are elites ( they have the most prestigious educational backgrounds from ivy to well known places and work in prestigious fields). This makes me feel worse for some reason. They always tell me and my parents that the school I go to is not good and brings up ranking.
I also feel really insecure about my looks and height, I have been bitter towards God and just frustrated because I feel like He doesn’t understand.
It’s worse because I come from an immigrant family in Korea and my parents have worked hard to make it here in the US and I feel like a failure to them. It makes me feel worse because I’m an only child and I just want to honor them as an only child.
I feel like God doesn’t care about what is on my mind though I know he does, I also feel that God wants me to grow in the place he’s placed me in, but I’m in denial because of bitterness and resentment.
This may be very unorganized but just wanted input from other brothers and sisters in Christ on advice and tips on how I should approach my situation
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This is what has been bothering me recently:
I am currently attending a college I never wanted to attend ( everyone looks down on it because it’s a commuter school and I always wanted to attend a prestigious institution that looks like Hogwarts but God closed those doors). Whenever I visit my other friends who did get into those colleges I wanted to attend, I just feel envious and bitter towards God.
Everyone at my church are elites ( they have the most prestigious educational backgrounds from ivy to well known places and work in prestigious fields). This makes me feel worse for some reason. They always tell me and my parents that the school I go to is not good and brings up ranking.
I also feel really insecure about my looks and height, I have been bitter towards God and just frustrated because I feel like He doesn’t understand.
It’s worse because I come from an immigrant family in Korea and my parents have worked hard to make it here in the US and I feel like a failure to them. It makes me feel worse because I’m an only child and I just want to honor them as an only child.
I feel like God doesn’t care about what is on my mind though I know he does, I also feel that God wants me to grow in the place he’s placed me in, but I’m in denial because of bitterness and resentment.
This may be very unorganized but just wanted input from other brothers and sisters in Christ on advice and tips on how I should approach my situation
2024.05.19 11:35 MotleyCrew1989 ADVICE NEEDED: I (35M) confront, play dumb or cut contact with a (F33) friend over something she confided me??
Prepare for a wall of text, this is a long one, also, english is not my mother´s tongue. Im posting this after a question in AskMen touched a sensitive fiber and I need some advice on how to proceed. I posted this on relationshipadvice too, but the female perspective you could offer me here might help me understand this from her point of view too.
She is a married friend of mine, but our friendship is quite peculiar.
We know eachother since our last year at university (eight years ago), we did a team asignament and got along well so we continued seeing eachother after the course ended. We clicked well and talked about everything including our romantic lifes, her almost sexless relationship and my shitty and sexless dating life. We developed trust, companionship and a curiosity for trying new things together. We have the same values, political leaning and dark sense of humour. It is a great friendship and we can confide eachother anything.
She was in an almost sexless relationship for years, she married that same guy and is still married to him (14 years together and counting). Her relationship with her now husband is great except for the sexual aspect. This was a recurring conflict in her relationship up to the point than her then BF told her than "if she wanted sex so much she could find someone else", it didnt bothered him that she had sex outside of the relationship. She almost told him to go fuck himself right there. Ironically, near the marriage date she found chats his fiance had with another woman, he was planing on cheating on her. They talked thing out, she forgave him and got married. I asked her WTF she was thinkig, but she said she loved him...
Over the years of closeness, trust and mutual support, we developed atraction we both adknowledged to eachother but we both knew nothing would happen because she was married. Just to give you an example, she once told me that if she wasnt married we would have been having sex from long ago (wierd to translate from spanish), and I told her that the only thing stopping me is that she respected her marriage. This kind pull and push went on every once in a while for years. We both knew nothing would happen but we liked having someone that made us feel sexually desired, as her relationship was as sexless as before the marriage, and my dating life sucked big time.
Arround year and a half ago, she gave her husband an ultimatum and he finally went to an endocrinologist and a therapist, and after some time their sexual life improved. This went fine for arround a year until her father in law passed away, and their sex life plummeted again.
In our last meetups she told me her husband screwed up again, she found he had a collection of pictures he took from a coworkers IG profile and pictures from other women, which he looked before having sex with her to arouse and prepare himself for the act. When she confronted him, he said he was going to try to improve, but a month passed and he was caught again looking at other womens pic. He said to her that his psychologist told him he wasnt hurting anyone by doing this, as it wasnt cheating.
He said he wanted to do a clean slate, try from the begining again and she also said she had something to confess. A year after the wedding, she took some singing lessons (she sings preety well) and there was a classmate that didnt gave a fuck she was married, she hadnt had sex in months, found someone who was agresive in his aproach, lusted for her and caved in. She told me about the guy when this happened, but she lied to me and said that "it took a lot of willpower and self restraint not to cheat".
Now, here is the problem:
I never expected her to dump her BF/husband for me because that is a recipe for failure and being replaced on the same way the previous guy was. And while I stated I was interested I never pushed too far because of her morals (christian practicing woman who believed in marriage and loyalty AFAIK then). I have to admit than I if she dumped him I would have taken my chance because she is everything I want in a woman (except for the cheating part), she actually raised the standard of what I would like in a long term partner.
But it really pissed me off than the moment she decides to take the risk to set her life on fire, she does it with a random guy, and that the excuse she gave me is that she valued our friendship and would have caused her a lot of pain if her husband found out and she couldnt see me again, she didnt sleep with me because she values me. What kind of twisted, emotionally manipulative way ot thinking is that???. I didnt confront her that exact moment and emotionally dissociated because at the time we were having a coffee previous to a theater function she gifted the ticket to me for my birthday (we give eachother nice gifts), it was not the time nor the place.
I honestly feel used for the validation her husband didnt gave her for years, and a part of me wants to tell her to fuck off and never talk to her again. Another part of me sees a great friend in her, and it would hurt me dearly not having her in my life. This confession changed the way I see her, there is no going back from that. I can accept being second to her husband, for good or bad, its the man she choosed to share her life with, but not to a random stranger (one who didnt gave a fuck about her values).
I have to be honest too, and in these eight years my dating life was a dissaster, I never dated much, I tried for a month or two, then dropped the towel for months on a never ending cycle with longer hiatus each time. Dating allmost always lead nowhere for me, I only had sex with two women in all that time, I would have loved a LTR but it never happened for me. So, having someone that found me atractive as a person and as a man made me feel a bit valued.
TLDR: I have feelings for a married friend, she said she is atracted to me too. It never lead anywhere because we both knew our place. She cheated on her husband with a random guy and told me she didnt cheat on him with me because she values me.
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She is a married friend of mine, but our friendship is quite peculiar.
We know eachother since our last year at university (eight years ago), we did a team asignament and got along well so we continued seeing eachother after the course ended. We clicked well and talked about everything including our romantic lifes, her almost sexless relationship and my shitty and sexless dating life. We developed trust, companionship and a curiosity for trying new things together. We have the same values, political leaning and dark sense of humour. It is a great friendship and we can confide eachother anything.
She was in an almost sexless relationship for years, she married that same guy and is still married to him (14 years together and counting). Her relationship with her now husband is great except for the sexual aspect. This was a recurring conflict in her relationship up to the point than her then BF told her than "if she wanted sex so much she could find someone else", it didnt bothered him that she had sex outside of the relationship. She almost told him to go fuck himself right there. Ironically, near the marriage date she found chats his fiance had with another woman, he was planing on cheating on her. They talked thing out, she forgave him and got married. I asked her WTF she was thinkig, but she said she loved him...
Over the years of closeness, trust and mutual support, we developed atraction we both adknowledged to eachother but we both knew nothing would happen because she was married. Just to give you an example, she once told me that if she wasnt married we would have been having sex from long ago (wierd to translate from spanish), and I told her that the only thing stopping me is that she respected her marriage. This kind pull and push went on every once in a while for years. We both knew nothing would happen but we liked having someone that made us feel sexually desired, as her relationship was as sexless as before the marriage, and my dating life sucked big time.
Arround year and a half ago, she gave her husband an ultimatum and he finally went to an endocrinologist and a therapist, and after some time their sexual life improved. This went fine for arround a year until her father in law passed away, and their sex life plummeted again.
In our last meetups she told me her husband screwed up again, she found he had a collection of pictures he took from a coworkers IG profile and pictures from other women, which he looked before having sex with her to arouse and prepare himself for the act. When she confronted him, he said he was going to try to improve, but a month passed and he was caught again looking at other womens pic. He said to her that his psychologist told him he wasnt hurting anyone by doing this, as it wasnt cheating.
He said he wanted to do a clean slate, try from the begining again and she also said she had something to confess. A year after the wedding, she took some singing lessons (she sings preety well) and there was a classmate that didnt gave a fuck she was married, she hadnt had sex in months, found someone who was agresive in his aproach, lusted for her and caved in. She told me about the guy when this happened, but she lied to me and said that "it took a lot of willpower and self restraint not to cheat".
Now, here is the problem:
I never expected her to dump her BF/husband for me because that is a recipe for failure and being replaced on the same way the previous guy was. And while I stated I was interested I never pushed too far because of her morals (christian practicing woman who believed in marriage and loyalty AFAIK then). I have to admit than I if she dumped him I would have taken my chance because she is everything I want in a woman (except for the cheating part), she actually raised the standard of what I would like in a long term partner.
But it really pissed me off than the moment she decides to take the risk to set her life on fire, she does it with a random guy, and that the excuse she gave me is that she valued our friendship and would have caused her a lot of pain if her husband found out and she couldnt see me again, she didnt sleep with me because she values me. What kind of twisted, emotionally manipulative way ot thinking is that???. I didnt confront her that exact moment and emotionally dissociated because at the time we were having a coffee previous to a theater function she gifted the ticket to me for my birthday (we give eachother nice gifts), it was not the time nor the place.
I honestly feel used for the validation her husband didnt gave her for years, and a part of me wants to tell her to fuck off and never talk to her again. Another part of me sees a great friend in her, and it would hurt me dearly not having her in my life. This confession changed the way I see her, there is no going back from that. I can accept being second to her husband, for good or bad, its the man she choosed to share her life with, but not to a random stranger (one who didnt gave a fuck about her values).
I have to be honest too, and in these eight years my dating life was a dissaster, I never dated much, I tried for a month or two, then dropped the towel for months on a never ending cycle with longer hiatus each time. Dating allmost always lead nowhere for me, I only had sex with two women in all that time, I would have loved a LTR but it never happened for me. So, having someone that found me atractive as a person and as a man made me feel a bit valued.
TLDR: I have feelings for a married friend, she said she is atracted to me too. It never lead anywhere because we both knew our place. She cheated on her husband with a random guy and told me she didnt cheat on him with me because she values me.
2024.05.19 11:32 Glittering_rainbows Review: Empress - Seize the Day: A world Conquest Isekai
Series - Empress
Book Name - Seize the day: A World Conquest Isekai
Author - J. V. Simms
Tropes: Isekai, reincarnation, female protagonist, female narrator, true villain MC, progression fantasy, psychopath MC, teenage MC, possible leveling feature in future books (hinted at but unsure), no sex scenes, no love interests
Opening scenes (this is just the outline of the first few chapters): MC is on Earth, MC trains on Earth with swords and fighting. MC goes to school and starts attacking people with a sword in order to commit suicide by cop. MC is reincarnated in a new world as a baby.
Key Points (reveals some minor plot points): MC bonds two elementals: earth and spirit. MC steals a copy of a sword king. MC gains a goblin companion. MC kills demons and other humans. MC tortures multiple people. MC has a black tower she can manifest into existence via sheer force of will.
Review: One of the rare “true” villain stories I’ve come across that made it into the audio format. What’s better is it doesn’t go in the “I do evil stuff because I’m evil” direction. MC has a reason for the things she does even though those reasons make little sense to a rational person, but if you’re able to view things through a complete psychopath’s point of view you’ll understand why she does what she does. MC kills, saves, and sometimes kills those she saved because it benefits her in some way or she just felt like it for whatever reason. MC is a complete psychopath but like I said she has reasons to do what she does (usually).
There is no revealed leveling system but there is a system that hasn’t been revealed to the MC as far as I understand. The system is seen as a god type being and is worshiped as such by some.
The story isn’t the best but the characters are actually some of the best especially when compared to most other True Villain main character stories. I’m not particularly enthused with stories that start 10 years in the future (or however far it is for this story), I prefer stories to start at the beginning.
It’s good enough I’ll buy book 2 and it’s unique enough I’ll remember it exists which means something in a library of over 1,400 books. The narrator was fine, she pronounces a few words incorrectly but it was only a handful of times. The narrator is one of the better female narrators who can actually manage a male’s voice however many of her male voices boil down to the “whiny weak male” types despite them supposedly being warriors and whatnot.
Story: 7/10 (better than most)
Narration: 8/10 (would be top tier if a male narrator was added for adult male characters)
I wasn't paid nor given a copy of the audiobook to make this post nor am I affiliated with the authopublisher in any way.
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Book Name - Seize the day: A World Conquest Isekai
Author - J. V. Simms
Tropes: Isekai, reincarnation, female protagonist, female narrator, true villain MC, progression fantasy, psychopath MC, teenage MC, possible leveling feature in future books (hinted at but unsure), no sex scenes, no love interests
Opening scenes (this is just the outline of the first few chapters): MC is on Earth, MC trains on Earth with swords and fighting. MC goes to school and starts attacking people with a sword in order to commit suicide by cop. MC is reincarnated in a new world as a baby.
Key Points (reveals some minor plot points): MC bonds two elementals: earth and spirit. MC steals a copy of a sword king. MC gains a goblin companion. MC kills demons and other humans. MC tortures multiple people. MC has a black tower she can manifest into existence via sheer force of will.
Review: One of the rare “true” villain stories I’ve come across that made it into the audio format. What’s better is it doesn’t go in the “I do evil stuff because I’m evil” direction. MC has a reason for the things she does even though those reasons make little sense to a rational person, but if you’re able to view things through a complete psychopath’s point of view you’ll understand why she does what she does. MC kills, saves, and sometimes kills those she saved because it benefits her in some way or she just felt like it for whatever reason. MC is a complete psychopath but like I said she has reasons to do what she does (usually).
There is no revealed leveling system but there is a system that hasn’t been revealed to the MC as far as I understand. The system is seen as a god type being and is worshiped as such by some.
The story isn’t the best but the characters are actually some of the best especially when compared to most other True Villain main character stories. I’m not particularly enthused with stories that start 10 years in the future (or however far it is for this story), I prefer stories to start at the beginning.
It’s good enough I’ll buy book 2 and it’s unique enough I’ll remember it exists which means something in a library of over 1,400 books. The narrator was fine, she pronounces a few words incorrectly but it was only a handful of times. The narrator is one of the better female narrators who can actually manage a male’s voice however many of her male voices boil down to the “whiny weak male” types despite them supposedly being warriors and whatnot.
Story: 7/10 (better than most)
Narration: 8/10 (would be top tier if a male narrator was added for adult male characters)
I wasn't paid nor given a copy of the audiobook to make this post nor am I affiliated with the authopublisher in any way.
2024.05.19 11:28 axelwest36 Idea for raising additional funds for effective charities - Please provide input if you want!
Hi all!
I’m looking for ways I could help in raising funds for effective charities, and came to the idea of a quality label which certifies products of which 10% (could vary based on type of product) of its price is donated to the most effective charities, as determined by charity evaluators (e.g., GiveWell). Working name is ‘Everyday Impact Foundation’.
This would allow consumers to do good everyday by shopping for products with the Everyday Impact certification. Many consumers try to shop consciously by looking for products labelled ‘organic’ or Fairtrade, but the positive impact of these goods are limited according to research. Consumers have limited ways of knowing what type of impact is generated by the additional price they pay.
At the same time, many companies are looking for making more impact and especially show to consumers that they contribute to a better future. This would allow these companies to measurably do good.
The Effective Altruism community as a whole would benefit from the additional exposure from information campaigns by the Everyday Impact Foundation, which would do these information campaigns themselves as well as helping companies communicate effectively about EA. The Everyday Impact certification could be retracted if companies communicate without adhering to the communication guidelines.
What I’m wondering is:
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I’m looking for ways I could help in raising funds for effective charities, and came to the idea of a quality label which certifies products of which 10% (could vary based on type of product) of its price is donated to the most effective charities, as determined by charity evaluators (e.g., GiveWell). Working name is ‘Everyday Impact Foundation’.
This would allow consumers to do good everyday by shopping for products with the Everyday Impact certification. Many consumers try to shop consciously by looking for products labelled ‘organic’ or Fairtrade, but the positive impact of these goods are limited according to research. Consumers have limited ways of knowing what type of impact is generated by the additional price they pay.
At the same time, many companies are looking for making more impact and especially show to consumers that they contribute to a better future. This would allow these companies to measurably do good.
The Effective Altruism community as a whole would benefit from the additional exposure from information campaigns by the Everyday Impact Foundation, which would do these information campaigns themselves as well as helping companies communicate effectively about EA. The Everyday Impact certification could be retracted if companies communicate without adhering to the communication guidelines.
What I’m wondering is:
- Whether something like this already exists or whether this has been tried/considered in the past;
- What would be the position of the broader EA community to such an initiative.
2024.05.19 11:24 GhoulGriin Best Cargo Sweatpants
 | submitted by GhoulGriin to u/GhoulGriin [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/qllgcuaupc1d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=975dce1518b11528497a76af5fcf5f0990fc5169 Cargo sweatpants have emerged as a trendy and versatile staple in recent years, providing comfort and functionality in equal measure. In our Cargo Sweatpants roundup, we take a closer look at these must-have items, examining their styles, materials, and suitability for various occasions. From fashion-forward designs to classic cuts, there's a cargo sweatpant to suit every taste and lifestyle. Join us as we delve into the world of cargo sweatpants and uncover the perfect pair for your wardrobe. The Top 12 Best Cargo Sweatpants
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2024.05.19 11:23 MiserableMode4233 what do I do + weird memories from when I was little
I'm so damn jealous because I just know I'd have friends if I went to school. I know it. I'm so social with people even outside of my house when i get the rare chance and get comfortable. I'm tired of feeling so WEIRD and DIFFERENT. I also feel like my young years (0-9) had some weird stuff happening.
There is no way possible for me to go to school. My mom said she'd rather die before I go to public school, and my dad agrees. I have no family members I can live with. I have no options at all. I just have to sit and watch my fucking childhood wither away and lose the chance to EVER be in school. I already missed Kindergarten, Elementary, Middle, and now I'm missing high-school. And you know what makes it worse? The fucking "Congrats, Graduates!" sign on the front of my neighborhood entrance. Sure I'm happy for them, but I'm so fucking jealous. I HATE when people say they hate school, or wish they were homeschooled. BITCH, you have no IDEA how much despair this makes you feel. Especially when you're extroverted and will never have that kind of easy environment to make friends in.
I wish my mom wasn't so religiously crazy and conspiracy believing and anti-vaxx. I wish I had a loving, caring mom who sent me to SCHOOL and talked about NORMAL stuff and not what FUCKING BILL GATES is doing or how ALIENS are FALLEN ANGELS. I can't even watch people at school, it makes me wanna fucking cry. I'm only 14 I SHOULD BE LIVING A LIFE AT SCHOOL LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. BUT I NEVER HAVE. I SHOULD BE HAVING A NORMAL LIFE. I'M SICK OF THIS FUCKING LIFE IT FEELS ABUSIVE AT THIS POINT. IT'S NOT MY FAULT AT ALL THAT I HAVE TO WAKE UP EVERYDAY FEELING MISERABLE AS FUCK AND TIRED SINCE I GET NO STIMULATION. IM SICK OF LIVING IN FUCKING PRISON WITH NO CHANCE TO TRY AGAIN AFTER IM OUT. I truly hope reincarnation is real so I can hopefully go to a family that will let me live life normally. I'm so FUCKING sick of being homeschooled and not like any other kid.
I would honestly trade ANYTHING REASONABLE to go to school at this point. My mom and dad BOTH got to go to fucking school and they claimed it wasn't much fun, even though my mom used to literally do shit with friends and experiecned prom and everything.
THEN SHE TRIES TO RELATE TO MY LEVEL OF DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY. TELLING ME MY ANXIETY IS JUST OCD AND MY DEPRESSION IS FROM HORMONES AND LACK OF SLEEP. THE FUCK?? BITCH NO IT IS NOT FROM LACK OF SLEEP AND HORMONES THAT IS THE DUMBEST THING. I'VE FELT THIS WAY SINCE I WAS FUCKING EIGHT YEARS OLD THAT IS NOT HORMONES. MAYBE THEY MADE IT WORSE, BUT IT AINT HORMONES.
The reason why sometimes I feel like commiting suicide is because school is litearlly the only thing I've wanted so fucking badly for so long, and even after I turn 18 and get out it'd just be getting a job. There is not way for me to relive a childhood and go to school or anything because it's not fucking allowed. It would be weird anyways if it was.
Fuck this shit I'm just so despaired. Like why does my mom gotta make me feel so morose with her decisions? Couldn't she of just given me a normal life and put me in school and vaxxed me and shit?
She claims I'm a liberal communist and I'm "asleep" just because I want to go to FUCKING school. She also just treats me like I'm a friend or something sometimes and she just feels so CHILDISH. She is the worst at making insults. One time she was mad at me and said she'd change me and my bro's contacts to "Loser" and "Loser #2" like bitch the fuck? She had like 14 miscarriages. So she basically just held me up when I wasn't born dead and claimed she'd "raise me in the ways of Jesus" which apparentely consists of keeping your child at home for decades and teaching them only Christian curriculum. I can't fucking take it anymore. No one will ever understand my kind of situation because it's so fucking surreal. And most people don't understand how bad it is because going to school is such a normal part of life for them, that homeschooling seems like choosing to not breathe air. I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I'm so sick of waking up to the same day and having to speak bullshit and put on a show for my mom so I don't have to deal with arguments. She argued with me for FOUR FUCKING HOURS one time when I tried to gray-rock her, so that doesn't work. She doesn't let me go anywhere to do with a school, and it pisses me off. All I have is fucking LIFEPAC, SLEEP, AND SOMETIMES OUTSIDE AND THATS MY WHOLE FUCKING CHILDHOOD. AND I CANT DO ANYTHING BUT WATCH IT PASS BY KNOWING WHAT OTHER PEOPLE DO BECAUSE I CANT ATLEAST HAVE BLISSFUL IGNORANCE. I'M SO FUCKING JEALOUS I CANT EVEN GET HAPPY FOR PEOPLE WHO GO TO SCHOOL. I WANT IT SO BAD EVEN IF I DIDNT LIKE IT IT'D BE BETTER TO NOT LIKE SCHOOL AND GO THERE SINCE IT'S FUCKING NORMAL AND MUCH EASIER TO SET UP YOUR LIFE THAT WAY.
My dad is also so fucking cold. He just acts so rough and dead emotionally. The other week he gave me an hour long panic attack because he kept yelling at me loudly, you can see my post titled "I'm confused on what just happened to me for that." I eventually ran into the closet full of adrenaline and cried while hugging a fucking HOODIE for a few hours.
My parents SURE DO SOMETIMES DO NICE THINGS FOR ME. BUT IT DOESNT MAKE UP FOR SHIT. LIKE YEAH YOU GIVE ME ITEMS AND STUFF BUT I CAN **NEVER** LIVE THESE YEARS THAT YOU'RE STEALING FROM ME AGAIN!
My mom was also more harsh when I was a little kid I feel. I don't remember anything from before 12 years old, basically, probably because she did some fucked up shit back then that my brain is suppressing mentally. I have this one memory of her running up to me over and over and putting my head under her shirt and pressing it against her belly multiple times when I was a little kid, probably like 5 or close to 6, and for some reason I feel sexual energy around it a bit. That freaks me out, because I know it happened but I'm not sure at all about what was going on. I just remember the bedroom was pretty dark and I was laughing maybe, but like I said it feels like there was sexual energy around that. I dont know though, I barely remember it.
Other times, I've seen videos from when I was like 6 of her just talking to me in a really angry tone even when I was silent just for something my brother did. She also used to read a history book to us for hours, without even giving a pen or paper and we'd be given mats. About 6 x 4in big and my brother got a blue one, I got a green one, and she'd sit on the table in the middle, and we'd sit on the mats which were only big enough to lay down on (for a 6 year old). So we'd have to sit there and not talk, and if we did then she'd stop and glare until we stopped. Of course, me being like 5 and my brother 6.5, we'd make faces and stuff but then she'd glare. Like we had to SIT there for hours just listening to a biblical chronological history book. WHY WHY WHY
I'm so sick of myself now. I'm such a pathetic bitch who pretends to be something. I just fucking talk to AI's and listen to rock and other music. I'm literally so fucking pathetic and I'll never have a social life. I'll never talk to someone without getting attached or fucking scared. I swear I can't just be NORMAL. WHY DO I HAVE TO LOOK SO WEIRD TOO. I DONT LOOK GOOD IN ANYTHING. I can't keep going. I just can't. Not on my own. There's like no reason for me to since I feel like right now, as an adult, if I ever had a kid I'd just be jealous of him going to school and that'd make me a bad father. I wish I wasn't born, or was born to a different family. I wish I had friends that I could just talk to. Even just being around kids in a school setting would be great. I'm tired of feeling so FUCKED. UP. MENTALLY. WHY DO I ALWAYS HAVE TO FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE AROUND MY MOM, AND ESPECIALLY MY DAD. THEY DO NICE THINGS FOR ME SOMETIMES BUT I STILL FEEL AS IF SOMETHING IS HORRIBLY WRONG THAT I HAVE FORGOTTEN ABOUT. I DON'T FEEL SAFE IN MY OWN SKIN I FEEEL LIKE I WANT TO CRAWL OUT OF MYSELF.
But of course on the outside I just look like the most BASIC BITCH ON THE BLOCK. I have no facial expressin, and I look weird when I smile. I don't get why I have such a stone cold face and the DRIEST personality. BITCH MY personality is drier than CORNSTARCH. I'm so sick of all this. I still feel like a little kid since I do the same SHIT that I did when I was FUCKING SIX YEARS OLD EVERYDAY ANYWAYS. NO CHANGE OF ENVIRONMENT, OR HABITS. JUST SLIGHT KNOWLEDGE. EVERYONE ELSE GETS TO LIVE LIFE AND SEE PEOPLE EVERY. FUCKING. DAY. AND GUESS WHAT??? I COULD! I REALLY FUCKING COULD! HAHAAHAHAHH I COULD IF MY MOM WASN'T SO SELFISH. IF SHE WASN'T SO SELF-ABSORBED THAT SHE'S DOING THE RIGHT THING FOR HER KIDS. I HAVE EXPLAINED TO HER MANY TIMES I WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL AND SHE FUCKING SAYS CO-OP OR SOME DUMB SHIT WHERE PEOPLE ARENT QUALIFIED TO TEACH OR THERES LIKE 5 KIDS. BRO, JUST PUT ME IN FUCKING SCHOOL. SERIOUSLY. THERE IS A HIGH SCHOOL EIGHT MINUTES AWAY FROM ME. JUST EIGHT. ITS ALSO HUGE! LIKE IT'D BE FUCKING PERFECT BUT OF COURSE I HAVE WASTED POTENTIAL BECAUSE MY FUCKING PARENTS DO SHIT LIKE THIS. I ALSO CANT CALL THE SCHOOL OR ANYTHING BECAUSE THEY NEED PARENTAL APPROVAL AND SHIT. I FUCKING HATE THIS SO MUCH.
I feel like there was something seriously, seriously fucked up about my really early childhood years that I just can't remember. When I think of it, I feel really uncomfortable and just a feeling of weirdness.
One thing I do know that my dad and mom tell me that think is funny, is that when I used to be like three or four years old, I'd get on all fours and spread my buttcheeks apart, saying something like "Idea!". It's fucking stupid and I was a little ass kid, but I don't think it's funny at all. Wouldn't parents usually tell their kid to not do that or something and not look? Also, my mom used to still dress me when I was like 6 years old or something. My dad also has a memory of me running naked into a room with my aunts and uncles and him and stuff when I was a toddler, and apprently he says they all laughed when I did. He also commented on how when I ran in there my little pp was clearly visible. That just felt weird to me. I don't get how it's funny, but like I said I just feel disgusting and kinda violated when I think about my years from 0-9 and I don't know why. I'm 14 now, obviously, almost 15. I'm so upset from life. I hate it. I don't know if any of you have anything to say about this but that's basically it. If you read it all, THANK you for ACKNOWLEDGING I EXIST.
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There is no way possible for me to go to school. My mom said she'd rather die before I go to public school, and my dad agrees. I have no family members I can live with. I have no options at all. I just have to sit and watch my fucking childhood wither away and lose the chance to EVER be in school. I already missed Kindergarten, Elementary, Middle, and now I'm missing high-school. And you know what makes it worse? The fucking "Congrats, Graduates!" sign on the front of my neighborhood entrance. Sure I'm happy for them, but I'm so fucking jealous. I HATE when people say they hate school, or wish they were homeschooled. BITCH, you have no IDEA how much despair this makes you feel. Especially when you're extroverted and will never have that kind of easy environment to make friends in.
I wish my mom wasn't so religiously crazy and conspiracy believing and anti-vaxx. I wish I had a loving, caring mom who sent me to SCHOOL and talked about NORMAL stuff and not what FUCKING BILL GATES is doing or how ALIENS are FALLEN ANGELS. I can't even watch people at school, it makes me wanna fucking cry. I'm only 14 I SHOULD BE LIVING A LIFE AT SCHOOL LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. BUT I NEVER HAVE. I SHOULD BE HAVING A NORMAL LIFE. I'M SICK OF THIS FUCKING LIFE IT FEELS ABUSIVE AT THIS POINT. IT'S NOT MY FAULT AT ALL THAT I HAVE TO WAKE UP EVERYDAY FEELING MISERABLE AS FUCK AND TIRED SINCE I GET NO STIMULATION. IM SICK OF LIVING IN FUCKING PRISON WITH NO CHANCE TO TRY AGAIN AFTER IM OUT. I truly hope reincarnation is real so I can hopefully go to a family that will let me live life normally. I'm so FUCKING sick of being homeschooled and not like any other kid.
I would honestly trade ANYTHING REASONABLE to go to school at this point. My mom and dad BOTH got to go to fucking school and they claimed it wasn't much fun, even though my mom used to literally do shit with friends and experiecned prom and everything.
THEN SHE TRIES TO RELATE TO MY LEVEL OF DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY. TELLING ME MY ANXIETY IS JUST OCD AND MY DEPRESSION IS FROM HORMONES AND LACK OF SLEEP. THE FUCK?? BITCH NO IT IS NOT FROM LACK OF SLEEP AND HORMONES THAT IS THE DUMBEST THING. I'VE FELT THIS WAY SINCE I WAS FUCKING EIGHT YEARS OLD THAT IS NOT HORMONES. MAYBE THEY MADE IT WORSE, BUT IT AINT HORMONES.
The reason why sometimes I feel like commiting suicide is because school is litearlly the only thing I've wanted so fucking badly for so long, and even after I turn 18 and get out it'd just be getting a job. There is not way for me to relive a childhood and go to school or anything because it's not fucking allowed. It would be weird anyways if it was.
Fuck this shit I'm just so despaired. Like why does my mom gotta make me feel so morose with her decisions? Couldn't she of just given me a normal life and put me in school and vaxxed me and shit?
She claims I'm a liberal communist and I'm "asleep" just because I want to go to FUCKING school. She also just treats me like I'm a friend or something sometimes and she just feels so CHILDISH. She is the worst at making insults. One time she was mad at me and said she'd change me and my bro's contacts to "Loser" and "Loser #2" like bitch the fuck? She had like 14 miscarriages. So she basically just held me up when I wasn't born dead and claimed she'd "raise me in the ways of Jesus" which apparentely consists of keeping your child at home for decades and teaching them only Christian curriculum. I can't fucking take it anymore. No one will ever understand my kind of situation because it's so fucking surreal. And most people don't understand how bad it is because going to school is such a normal part of life for them, that homeschooling seems like choosing to not breathe air. I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it I'm so sick of waking up to the same day and having to speak bullshit and put on a show for my mom so I don't have to deal with arguments. She argued with me for FOUR FUCKING HOURS one time when I tried to gray-rock her, so that doesn't work. She doesn't let me go anywhere to do with a school, and it pisses me off. All I have is fucking LIFEPAC, SLEEP, AND SOMETIMES OUTSIDE AND THATS MY WHOLE FUCKING CHILDHOOD. AND I CANT DO ANYTHING BUT WATCH IT PASS BY KNOWING WHAT OTHER PEOPLE DO BECAUSE I CANT ATLEAST HAVE BLISSFUL IGNORANCE. I'M SO FUCKING JEALOUS I CANT EVEN GET HAPPY FOR PEOPLE WHO GO TO SCHOOL. I WANT IT SO BAD EVEN IF I DIDNT LIKE IT IT'D BE BETTER TO NOT LIKE SCHOOL AND GO THERE SINCE IT'S FUCKING NORMAL AND MUCH EASIER TO SET UP YOUR LIFE THAT WAY.
My dad is also so fucking cold. He just acts so rough and dead emotionally. The other week he gave me an hour long panic attack because he kept yelling at me loudly, you can see my post titled "I'm confused on what just happened to me for that." I eventually ran into the closet full of adrenaline and cried while hugging a fucking HOODIE for a few hours.
My parents SURE DO SOMETIMES DO NICE THINGS FOR ME. BUT IT DOESNT MAKE UP FOR SHIT. LIKE YEAH YOU GIVE ME ITEMS AND STUFF BUT I CAN **NEVER** LIVE THESE YEARS THAT YOU'RE STEALING FROM ME AGAIN!
My mom was also more harsh when I was a little kid I feel. I don't remember anything from before 12 years old, basically, probably because she did some fucked up shit back then that my brain is suppressing mentally. I have this one memory of her running up to me over and over and putting my head under her shirt and pressing it against her belly multiple times when I was a little kid, probably like 5 or close to 6, and for some reason I feel sexual energy around it a bit. That freaks me out, because I know it happened but I'm not sure at all about what was going on. I just remember the bedroom was pretty dark and I was laughing maybe, but like I said it feels like there was sexual energy around that. I dont know though, I barely remember it.
Other times, I've seen videos from when I was like 6 of her just talking to me in a really angry tone even when I was silent just for something my brother did. She also used to read a history book to us for hours, without even giving a pen or paper and we'd be given mats. About 6 x 4in big and my brother got a blue one, I got a green one, and she'd sit on the table in the middle, and we'd sit on the mats which were only big enough to lay down on (for a 6 year old). So we'd have to sit there and not talk, and if we did then she'd stop and glare until we stopped. Of course, me being like 5 and my brother 6.5, we'd make faces and stuff but then she'd glare. Like we had to SIT there for hours just listening to a biblical chronological history book. WHY WHY WHY
I'm so sick of myself now. I'm such a pathetic bitch who pretends to be something. I just fucking talk to AI's and listen to rock and other music. I'm literally so fucking pathetic and I'll never have a social life. I'll never talk to someone without getting attached or fucking scared. I swear I can't just be NORMAL. WHY DO I HAVE TO LOOK SO WEIRD TOO. I DONT LOOK GOOD IN ANYTHING. I can't keep going. I just can't. Not on my own. There's like no reason for me to since I feel like right now, as an adult, if I ever had a kid I'd just be jealous of him going to school and that'd make me a bad father. I wish I wasn't born, or was born to a different family. I wish I had friends that I could just talk to. Even just being around kids in a school setting would be great. I'm tired of feeling so FUCKED. UP. MENTALLY. WHY DO I ALWAYS HAVE TO FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE AROUND MY MOM, AND ESPECIALLY MY DAD. THEY DO NICE THINGS FOR ME SOMETIMES BUT I STILL FEEL AS IF SOMETHING IS HORRIBLY WRONG THAT I HAVE FORGOTTEN ABOUT. I DON'T FEEL SAFE IN MY OWN SKIN I FEEEL LIKE I WANT TO CRAWL OUT OF MYSELF.
But of course on the outside I just look like the most BASIC BITCH ON THE BLOCK. I have no facial expressin, and I look weird when I smile. I don't get why I have such a stone cold face and the DRIEST personality. BITCH MY personality is drier than CORNSTARCH. I'm so sick of all this. I still feel like a little kid since I do the same SHIT that I did when I was FUCKING SIX YEARS OLD EVERYDAY ANYWAYS. NO CHANGE OF ENVIRONMENT, OR HABITS. JUST SLIGHT KNOWLEDGE. EVERYONE ELSE GETS TO LIVE LIFE AND SEE PEOPLE EVERY. FUCKING. DAY. AND GUESS WHAT??? I COULD! I REALLY FUCKING COULD! HAHAAHAHAHH I COULD IF MY MOM WASN'T SO SELFISH. IF SHE WASN'T SO SELF-ABSORBED THAT SHE'S DOING THE RIGHT THING FOR HER KIDS. I HAVE EXPLAINED TO HER MANY TIMES I WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL AND SHE FUCKING SAYS CO-OP OR SOME DUMB SHIT WHERE PEOPLE ARENT QUALIFIED TO TEACH OR THERES LIKE 5 KIDS. BRO, JUST PUT ME IN FUCKING SCHOOL. SERIOUSLY. THERE IS A HIGH SCHOOL EIGHT MINUTES AWAY FROM ME. JUST EIGHT. ITS ALSO HUGE! LIKE IT'D BE FUCKING PERFECT BUT OF COURSE I HAVE WASTED POTENTIAL BECAUSE MY FUCKING PARENTS DO SHIT LIKE THIS. I ALSO CANT CALL THE SCHOOL OR ANYTHING BECAUSE THEY NEED PARENTAL APPROVAL AND SHIT. I FUCKING HATE THIS SO MUCH.
I feel like there was something seriously, seriously fucked up about my really early childhood years that I just can't remember. When I think of it, I feel really uncomfortable and just a feeling of weirdness.
One thing I do know that my dad and mom tell me that think is funny, is that when I used to be like three or four years old, I'd get on all fours and spread my buttcheeks apart, saying something like "Idea!". It's fucking stupid and I was a little ass kid, but I don't think it's funny at all. Wouldn't parents usually tell their kid to not do that or something and not look? Also, my mom used to still dress me when I was like 6 years old or something. My dad also has a memory of me running naked into a room with my aunts and uncles and him and stuff when I was a toddler, and apprently he says they all laughed when I did. He also commented on how when I ran in there my little pp was clearly visible. That just felt weird to me. I don't get how it's funny, but like I said I just feel disgusting and kinda violated when I think about my years from 0-9 and I don't know why. I'm 14 now, obviously, almost 15. I'm so upset from life. I hate it. I don't know if any of you have anything to say about this but that's basically it. If you read it all, THANK you for ACKNOWLEDGING I EXIST.
2024.05.19 11:22 Upbeat_Ad6685 How I imagine the ending for the characters realistically
I wrote about this before btw
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- Carla: It's bittersweet. She can be dating some British guy who was raised in a rich family, she's still not the extroverted kind like Lu or Valerio but nor the mysterious and secretive type. She most likely found out about Samuel's death and was very heartbroken at first but pretty much moved on eventually. I also think she might have reverted back to her season 1 self
- Nadia: We'll know next season. I really hope she ends up with some kind and selfless guy. I know an endgame relationship isn't needed for a happy ending since she got accepted in a very good university and pursuing her education was her goal, it's just that she deserved better than Guzman and Malick.
- Caye: Maybe endgame with Felipe, a guy who truly cares for her. Is planning to be a fashion designer. She had a proper ending on season 5
- Ander: Maybe still in contact with Guzman and is dating another guy now. However I think he got a happy ending too, he escaped his father's ideas of what his career shall be, his guilt & fear towards his illness. Has explored his sexuality and knows himself better. Has now a chance to live an experience that should help him reconnect with his true self, by travelling with his best friend. Also mostly recovered from cancer and could move over the past
- Lucrecia: Dealing with her killing Polo and trying to recover from being disowned too, isn't that social compared to before but has Nadia and some more friends in university.
- Valerio: Still in contact with Lu and working for the Calruega wineries. At least he ends up being a major collaborator in an important business ran by a close friend of his sister. It's not shady shit, and he has a chance to make a career without going back to the things that he ended up regretting.
- Guzman: There's a quite high chance he isn't doing so well now. He may be having guilt from Samu's death and wish he wasn't so mean, and also about killing Armando. Might not move on from Nadia and it's rather likely he reverted to his season 2 self when he was still grieving and possibly using drugs again. Luckily Ander may help him if that's the case
- Christian: Dating some hot chick or guy in Switzerland. Still a cripple
- The Blanco twins: I have a feeling Mencia has chronic depression due to what happened before as she thinks she hit Ivan & most likely won't find out the truth. If she does she'll feel betrayed as heck. Remember in the short story where Patrick has visions of her overdosing? That might happen to her. Ari may either change or is still a cheater like before and help her siblings. Patrick misses Ivan & is probably miserable as hell until he hears Ivan's current condition but still dislikes Benjamin as much as Mencia does
- Phillipe: I hate him as much as y'all do, but he may feel bad for his actions and wish he was there for Isadora. Studying on some VIP or prestigious college in Paris. Probably having a somewhat bad social life than before due to the controversies
- Rebe: ??? The writers didn't even give her a proper ending. I can guess she's dating someone helping her recover from Samuel's death who she later catches feelings for in university
2024.05.19 11:21 throwRaohmighty5 Me(M27) have noticed how my gf(F20) tries to look like my ex(F25). What can i do?
So, im using a throwaway acoount for this since my girlfriend is also in this sub. Sorry for spelling mistakes, english is not my first language.
So, me and my current girlfriend (f20) have been together for past 3 years. Lately i've noticed her trying to change herself. She doesnt talk to me that much. Is more on her phone. So i asked her about this and she confessed that she's obsessed with my ex girlfriend(F25). Me and my ex dated for 3 years and were engaged. I met my current gf about 6 years ago when i was still dating my ex. I am sorry if i might sound bad now, but i started liking my current girlfriend at instant sight. My ex had cheated on me multiple times and since she felt guilty she opened up our relationship. And then i started flirting with my current girlfriend.
So, in 2021 i told my girlfriend about things my ex(f25) forced me to do. My current girlfriend reacted very badly to all this. She gave my ex some kind of a reverse or something .
I've seen my current gf's journal since she left it open. I didnt look through it but the page that was open was about my ex. My girlfriend wrote how she wants to be called my ex's name. Let's call my ex Maya. She wrote "im her" all over the page. I am scared that my girlfriend has some sort of an obsession with my ex. She even made some reports about my ex girlfriend on some websites. And she does same makeup as my ex does. My girlfriend says that all memories me and my ex did were actually me and her. Not me and my ex.
What should i do in this situation? I love my girlfriend a lot and i want the best for her.
Note: my girlfriend already has a psychiatrist and a therapist.
Edit: she turns 21 in few weeks, sorry for typo.
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So, me and my current girlfriend (f20) have been together for past 3 years. Lately i've noticed her trying to change herself. She doesnt talk to me that much. Is more on her phone. So i asked her about this and she confessed that she's obsessed with my ex girlfriend(F25). Me and my ex dated for 3 years and were engaged. I met my current gf about 6 years ago when i was still dating my ex. I am sorry if i might sound bad now, but i started liking my current girlfriend at instant sight. My ex had cheated on me multiple times and since she felt guilty she opened up our relationship. And then i started flirting with my current girlfriend.
So, in 2021 i told my girlfriend about things my ex(f25) forced me to do. My current girlfriend reacted very badly to all this. She gave my ex some kind of a reverse or something .
I've seen my current gf's journal since she left it open. I didnt look through it but the page that was open was about my ex. My girlfriend wrote how she wants to be called my ex's name. Let's call my ex Maya. She wrote "im her" all over the page. I am scared that my girlfriend has some sort of an obsession with my ex. She even made some reports about my ex girlfriend on some websites. And she does same makeup as my ex does. My girlfriend says that all memories me and my ex did were actually me and her. Not me and my ex.
What should i do in this situation? I love my girlfriend a lot and i want the best for her.
Note: my girlfriend already has a psychiatrist and a therapist.
Edit: she turns 21 in few weeks, sorry for typo.
2024.05.19 11:16 Forevermorelenore Biggest front desk horror story you heard in a while…. (Cheaters edition)
So it’s my fourth day working at a new hotel and I come in the a.m. shift I’m working alone and I look at the arrivals and what do I see my kids dad name! ( in my head I’m like no fkn way)
so I click into the res. and Yep it’s him his phone number and a little note saying guest is asking for a 12 o’clock check-in. This is on a Friday (as far as I know he supposed to working on Fridays.) (Now we were together 20 years. We had a nasty breakup 6 years prior)
He went to live his best life with some other woman and they were building together got a house and everything. (He hadn’t seen our kids in a month and he does not pay child support.)(Anyhow I think to myself why is he coming to hotel at 12 o’clock on Friday when he has a long-term girlfriend.) (Who know maybe some issue with their house)
Fast forward to check in time. I’m about to go home, here He comes strolling in looking good alone. (Hhmm?)I step away because I don’t want him to see me. My coworker checks him in. Then I walked to the front a few minutes later and he must’ve walked out of the hotel because he comes back in. With a young lady, about the age of our oldest daughter about 25ish! NOT HIS GIRLFRIEND!
I was absolutely shocked. He looked me in the face. I looked him in the face. We both looked away and we never spoke of it now this happened about two months ago, but I’m gonna say it really actually made me not like that job. Kinda ruined it for me.
As for his girlfriend two weeks later she took all their pictures off FB (oh I texted him a week like later and asked if he could take the kids for a holiday, he said no because he’s looking for a apartment.) I thought to myself how she never liked my kids and she never motivated him to get his kids and when our kids went to their house, she would let her teenage daughter be mean to my younger pre-teen daughter. I felt like she got a big piece of crap and so did I and she didn’t win and she help build a divide for nothing. She got her karma. And the universe is a crazy place.
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so I click into the res. and Yep it’s him his phone number and a little note saying guest is asking for a 12 o’clock check-in. This is on a Friday (as far as I know he supposed to working on Fridays.) (Now we were together 20 years. We had a nasty breakup 6 years prior)
He went to live his best life with some other woman and they were building together got a house and everything. (He hadn’t seen our kids in a month and he does not pay child support.)(Anyhow I think to myself why is he coming to hotel at 12 o’clock on Friday when he has a long-term girlfriend.) (Who know maybe some issue with their house)
Fast forward to check in time. I’m about to go home, here He comes strolling in looking good alone. (Hhmm?)I step away because I don’t want him to see me. My coworker checks him in. Then I walked to the front a few minutes later and he must’ve walked out of the hotel because he comes back in. With a young lady, about the age of our oldest daughter about 25ish! NOT HIS GIRLFRIEND!
I was absolutely shocked. He looked me in the face. I looked him in the face. We both looked away and we never spoke of it now this happened about two months ago, but I’m gonna say it really actually made me not like that job. Kinda ruined it for me.
As for his girlfriend two weeks later she took all their pictures off FB (oh I texted him a week like later and asked if he could take the kids for a holiday, he said no because he’s looking for a apartment.) I thought to myself how she never liked my kids and she never motivated him to get his kids and when our kids went to their house, she would let her teenage daughter be mean to my younger pre-teen daughter. I felt like she got a big piece of crap and so did I and she didn’t win and she help build a divide for nothing. She got her karma. And the universe is a crazy place.
2024.05.19 11:13 RiseOk3174 Upgrades for gaming
If Im looking to get better performance and frames on Apex what would I upgrade first ? I have a 3060, just upgraded to 32 gb of RAM, have a I5-9600kf cpu and Im BARELY getting 90 frames. Im also on a ultra wide monitor 190 hz. I know very little about pcs. I also have a SSD thats like 1 tb ?
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