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Battlingdragon

I was the guy who aced every single test, always knew the answers in class, and actually cared about his school work. Until it was time to leave for the day. Once I left school, learning time was over. I did homework maybe once a week, if that. I had 95% or more on all the classwork, and a C average most of the time. My first semester at college, I was determined to fix that. I studied my ass off, did every single homework assignment, and pulled a 4.0 GPA. I was told I was being inducted into the National Technical Honor Society. As soon as I found out, I called my father to tell him. His completely deadpan response was one of the most soulcrushing things I've ever heard. "Good. Should've happened sooner." Tl;dr: I went from a 2.0 GPA to a 4.0, dad plays honey badger.

I was the guy who aced every single test, always knew the answers in class, and actually cared about his school work. Until it was time to leave for the day. Once I left school, learning time was over. I did homework maybe once a week, if that. I had 95% or more on all the classwork, and a C average most of the time. My first semester at college, I was determined to fix that. I studied my ass off, did every single homework assignment, and pulled a 4.0 GPA. I was told I was being inducted into the National Technical Honor Society. As soon as I found out, I called my father to tell him. His completely deadpan response was one of the most soulcrushing things I've ever heard. "Good. Should've happened sooner." Tl;dr: I went from a 2.0 GPA to a 4.0, dad plays honey badger.

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I was the guy who aced every single test, always knew the answers in class, and actually cared about his school work. Until it was time to leave for the day. Once I left school, learning time was over. I did homework maybe once a week, if that. I had 95% or more on all the classwork, and a C average most of the time. My first semester at college, I was determined to fix that. I studied my ass off, did every single homework assignment, and pulled a 4.0 GPA. I was told I was being inducted into the National Technical Honor Society. As soon as I found out, I called my father to tell him. His completely deadpan response was one of the most soulcrushing things I've ever heard. "Good. Should've happened sooner."

I went from a 2.0 GPA to a 4.0, dad plays honey badger.

anononreddit

It's Greenpeace FUD like this that convinces governments that GM crops are 'poison'. This leaves their people to die in their thousands. Millions of people die, due to ignorant hipsters. As the great P&A said: Unless you are starving; unless you have watched a family member slowly die of starvation, shut the fuck up. TL;DR: Ugly person tells starving people what to eat.

It's Greenpeace FUD like this that convinces governments that GM crops are 'poison'. This leaves their people to die in their thousands. Millions of people die, due to ignorant hipsters. As the great P&A said: Unless you are starving; unless you have watched a family member slowly die of starvation, shut the fuck up. TL;DR: Ugly person tells starving people what to eat.

environment

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It's Greenpeace FUD like this that convinces governments that GM crops are 'poison'. This leaves their people to die in their thousands. Millions of people die, due to ignorant hipsters. As the great P&A said: Unless you are starving; unless you have watched a family member slowly die of starvation, shut the fuck up.

Ugly person tells starving people what to eat.

LeSpatula

Thank you for the question, good Sir, you seem like a gentleman and a scholar. Best thing would be to buy a maymay t-shirt to complement your fedora. The text could be something like [this]( tl;dr Give bitches some maymays. Bitches love maymays.

Thank you for the question, good Sir, you seem like a gentleman and a scholar. Best thing would be to buy a maymay t-shirt to complement your fedora. The text could be something like [this]( tl;dr Give bitches some maymays. Bitches love maymays.

shittyadvice

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Thank you for the question, good Sir, you seem like a gentleman and a scholar. Best thing would be to buy a maymay t-shirt to complement your fedora. The text could be something like [this](

Give bitches some maymays. Bitches love maymays.

SrrBrrGrr

Hello I'm sorry if this is not the correct place to post this but I have no idea what to do. I've had problems with the PlayStation network before for repeat charges on items even after clicking no I don't want to renew. It first started with PlayStation now I had to call multiple times just to get through to a person they didn't even want to resolve it. Now I bought PlayStation + for 1 month this January and have so far have been charged for last month plus this month even after clicking do not renew. so what are my options I keep calling Sony but their customer service is terrible and keep hanging up on me. I think I will never purchase a PlayStation product again, I've had too many problems they don't have the quality they once used to and I don't trust the company with my information. To top it off they keep charging me $10 every month so if I never noticed they would have got like $120 from me even though it's like $50 for plus for a year Tl:dr Please help me this company doesn't want to work with me should I just file a chargeback?

Hello I'm sorry if this is not the correct place to post this but I have no idea what to do. I've had problems with the PlayStation network before for repeat charges on items even after clicking no I don't want to renew. It first started with PlayStation now I had to call multiple times just to get through to a person they didn't even want to resolve it. Now I bought PlayStation + for 1 month this January and have so far have been charged for last month plus this month even after clicking do not renew. so what are my options I keep calling Sony but their customer service is terrible and keep hanging up on me. I think I will never purchase a PlayStation product again, I've had too many problems they don't have the quality they once used to and I don't trust the company with my information. To top it off they keep charging me $10 every month so if I never noticed they would have got like $120 from me even though it's like $50 for plus for a year Tl:dr Please help me this company doesn't want to work with me should I just file a chargeback?

playstation

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Hello I'm sorry if this is not the correct place to post this but I have no idea what to do. I've had problems with the PlayStation network before for repeat charges on items even after clicking no I don't want to renew. It first started with PlayStation now I had to call multiple times just to get through to a person they didn't even want to resolve it. Now I bought PlayStation + for 1 month this January and have so far have been charged for last month plus this month even after clicking do not renew. so what are my options I keep calling Sony but their customer service is terrible and keep hanging up on me. I think I will never purchase a PlayStation product again, I've had too many problems they don't have the quality they once used to and I don't trust the company with my information. To top it off they keep charging me $10 every month so if I never noticed they would have got like $120 from me even though it's like $50 for plus for a year

Please help me this company doesn't want to work with me should I just file a chargeback?

untranslatable_pun

I swallowed an entire bottle of pills in which the active ingredient was "nux vomica", a [poisonous nut]( that contains **strychnine** and **brucine**. I did this in front of running cameras, along with a bunch of other people doing the same thing (with different poisons) as an effort of the local skeptic's society to raise public awareness that **homeopathy is bullshit**. The "active ingredient" in these pills is diluted so much that we can be quite sure that there wasn't even a single molecule of whatever poison was stated to be the active ingredient. This is why homeopathy cannot, and does not, work. TL;DR: I'm alive because [I trusted my life to science.](

I swallowed an entire bottle of pills in which the active ingredient was "nux vomica", a [poisonous nut]( that contains strychnine and brucine . I did this in front of running cameras, along with a bunch of other people doing the same thing (with different poisons) as an effort of the local skeptic's society to raise public awareness that homeopathy is bullshit . The "active ingredient" in these pills is diluted so much that we can be quite sure that there wasn't even a single molecule of whatever poison was stated to be the active ingredient. This is why homeopathy cannot, and does not, work. TL;DR: I'm alive because [I trusted my life to science.](

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I swallowed an entire bottle of pills in which the active ingredient was "nux vomica", a [poisonous nut]( that contains strychnine and brucine . I did this in front of running cameras, along with a bunch of other people doing the same thing (with different poisons) as an effort of the local skeptic's society to raise public awareness that homeopathy is bullshit . The "active ingredient" in these pills is diluted so much that we can be quite sure that there wasn't even a single molecule of whatever poison was stated to be the active ingredient. This is why homeopathy cannot, and does not, work.

I'm alive because [I trusted my life to science.](

biterankle

Some bullshit about how in some cases this could be consensual and a valid expression of love from father to child. TL;DR pedophile trying to justify rape

Some bullshit about how in some cases this could be consensual and a valid expression of love from father to child. TL;DR pedophile trying to justify rape

MorbidReality

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Some bullshit about how in some cases this could be consensual and a valid expression of love from father to child.

pedophile trying to justify rape

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I'd like to know about other people's experiences with their physicians, acquiring hormones and such. I'm currently 5 months on T-blockers and my doctor refuses to prescribe the estrogen part of my HRT yet. Originally my doctor and i went back and forth examining my mental & physical states through questionnaires, checkups and tests for about 6 months before prescribing my T-Blockers. She said that I didnt need a therapist because I had wanted this for SO long and also because i had a counsellor/trans mentor who was able to offer me help and support. Well 5 months ago, the plan was to start me on Spiro and then add Estrogen 1-2 months in. On my 2nd month, I showed a little bit of hesitation to start Estrogen and I requested the doctor to push it by two weeks before I started estrogen because it was a big step and i felt the need to prep myself mentally and emotionally abit more. Two weeks later, I called my doctor, set up an appt to tell her that I was ready to start E. But she refused to prescribe the E when I saw her and asked me to wait another month to "really make sure" I was ready. Well it's been nearly 3 months since then and I still have not started Estrogen, and even joined a support group (my doctor refused to prescribe estrogen without me joining this group). I have another appt next week and I'm really hoping i can start estradiol. She seems to give me a new excuse every month on why I should wait another month. Last month, she asked me to do another general blood test (like my third time doing it in the past 11 mo.) to "make sure" my body was okay for estrogen. I understand that my new doctor is inexperienced with trans-care and wants to be more cautious since there is a note of hesitation from a few months ago. But my decision to be careful of my body from 3 months ago has been a regret because i'm still not able to get the meds i want. The doctor keeps saying that in the long run, a few months delay won't matter but I'm almost 24 already and every day matters a lot to me in transitioning smoothly TL;DR / I'm starting to find it difficult to be completely honest with my doctor. a small hesitation (while trying to be careful with my body) slowed my transition by 3 months (by refusing me to start estrogen) Have other people had similar experiences? Do other people just put on a fake smile & "say the right answers" to get the meds ASAP? Or am i just being a baby and should wait it out because i actually need it.

I'd like to know about other people's experiences with their physicians, acquiring hormones and such. I'm currently 5 months on T-blockers and my doctor refuses to prescribe the estrogen part of my HRT yet. Originally my doctor and i went back and forth examining my mental & physical states through questionnaires, checkups and tests for about 6 months before prescribing my T-Blockers. She said that I didnt need a therapist because I had wanted this for SO long and also because i had a counsellor/trans mentor who was able to offer me help and support. Well 5 months ago, the plan was to start me on Spiro and then add Estrogen 1-2 months in. On my 2nd month, I showed a little bit of hesitation to start Estrogen and I requested the doctor to push it by two weeks before I started estrogen because it was a big step and i felt the need to prep myself mentally and emotionally abit more. Two weeks later, I called my doctor, set up an appt to tell her that I was ready to start E. But she refused to prescribe the E when I saw her and asked me to wait another month to "really make sure" I was ready. Well it's been nearly 3 months since then and I still have not started Estrogen, and even joined a support group (my doctor refused to prescribe estrogen without me joining this group). I have another appt next week and I'm really hoping i can start estradiol. She seems to give me a new excuse every month on why I should wait another month. Last month, she asked me to do another general blood test (like my third time doing it in the past 11 mo.) to "make sure" my body was okay for estrogen. I understand that my new doctor is inexperienced with trans-care and wants to be more cautious since there is a note of hesitation from a few months ago. But my decision to be careful of my body from 3 months ago has been a regret because i'm still not able to get the meds i want. The doctor keeps saying that in the long run, a few months delay won't matter but I'm almost 24 already and every day matters a lot to me in transitioning smoothly TL;DR / I'm starting to find it difficult to be completely honest with my doctor. a small hesitation (while trying to be careful with my body) slowed my transition by 3 months (by refusing me to start estrogen) Have other people had similar experiences? Do other people just put on a fake smile & "say the right answers" to get the meds ASAP? Or am i just being a baby and should wait it out because i actually need it.

asktransgender

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t3_40j7ai

I'd like to know about other people's experiences with their physicians, acquiring hormones and such. I'm currently 5 months on T-blockers and my doctor refuses to prescribe the estrogen part of my HRT yet. Originally my doctor and i went back and forth examining my mental & physical states through questionnaires, checkups and tests for about 6 months before prescribing my T-Blockers. She said that I didnt need a therapist because I had wanted this for SO long and also because i had a counsellor/trans mentor who was able to offer me help and support. Well 5 months ago, the plan was to start me on Spiro and then add Estrogen 1-2 months in. On my 2nd month, I showed a little bit of hesitation to start Estrogen and I requested the doctor to push it by two weeks before I started estrogen because it was a big step and i felt the need to prep myself mentally and emotionally abit more. Two weeks later, I called my doctor, set up an appt to tell her that I was ready to start E. But she refused to prescribe the E when I saw her and asked me to wait another month to "really make sure" I was ready. Well it's been nearly 3 months since then and I still have not started Estrogen, and even joined a support group (my doctor refused to prescribe estrogen without me joining this group). I have another appt next week and I'm really hoping i can start estradiol. She seems to give me a new excuse every month on why I should wait another month. Last month, she asked me to do another general blood test (like my third time doing it in the past 11 mo.) to "make sure" my body was okay for estrogen. I understand that my new doctor is inexperienced with trans-care and wants to be more cautious since there is a note of hesitation from a few months ago. But my decision to be careful of my body from 3 months ago has been a regret because i'm still not able to get the meds i want. The doctor keeps saying that in the long run, a few months delay won't matter but I'm almost 24 already and every day matters a lot to me in transitioning smoothly

I'm starting to find it difficult to be completely honest with my doctor. a small hesitation (while trying to be careful with my body) slowed my transition by 3 months (by refusing me to start estrogen) Have other people had similar experiences? Do other people just put on a fake smile & "say the right answers" to get the meds ASAP? Or am i just being a baby and should wait it out because i actually need it.

Shaper_pmp

> Everyday I see dozens of big breakthroughs in drug research. You hear about anything and everything that sounds like it might be viable or workable. Every study that shows a slight anti-cancer effect is trumpeted as the next "cure for cancer!!!!1!!1", and every discovery about HIV is trumpeted as "CURE FOR AIDS!!!1!1!". You *don't* hear when each of them stumbles over one of the many, many obstacles between first hints there might be something useful there and a viable, mass-market drug of proven effectiveness... because that's not news, people don't want to read about it and it doesn't sell newspapers or boost ratings for TV adverts. For example, you'll hear in the media when a single study indicates a particular chemical maybe has an anticancer effect, but *not* when it's discovered to be the placebo effect, or a statistical fluke, or is experimentally unreproducible for any number of other reasons, or that the drug has so many side effects that existing drugs or treatments (or combinations thereof) are actually safer and more effective than it would be, or that the chemical is discovered to be so hideously toxic to some people that it's impossible to make it into a viable mass-treatment for the average person. Frankly I've seen precious little evidence that we as a society are sitting on hundreds or thousands of cures for diseases that are ravaging our communities, and we're only not bringing them to market because we don't have enough scientists to test them all. In fact, when you put it simply like that it sounds completely baseless and pretty retarded. Also, this is just as dumb as a sack of hammers: > If it takes upwards of 100 million dollars and 10-15 years for approval to bring a drug to market... Isn't it all just a waste of time? [No, it's fucking not]( **TL;DR:** Ultimately, the entire response to your comment can be summed up as: > 100's if not 1,000's of cures in the pipeline but not enough funding or ability to bring them to market **[citation needed]**

> Everyday I see dozens of big breakthroughs in drug research. You hear about anything and everything that sounds like it might be viable or workable. Every study that shows a slight anti-cancer effect is trumpeted as the next "cure for cancer!!!!1!!1", and every discovery about HIV is trumpeted as "CURE FOR AIDS!!!1!1!". You don't hear when each of them stumbles over one of the many, many obstacles between first hints there might be something useful there and a viable, mass-market drug of proven effectiveness... because that's not news, people don't want to read about it and it doesn't sell newspapers or boost ratings for TV adverts. For example, you'll hear in the media when a single study indicates a particular chemical maybe has an anticancer effect, but not when it's discovered to be the placebo effect, or a statistical fluke, or is experimentally unreproducible for any number of other reasons, or that the drug has so many side effects that existing drugs or treatments (or combinations thereof) are actually safer and more effective than it would be, or that the chemical is discovered to be so hideously toxic to some people that it's impossible to make it into a viable mass-treatment for the average person. Frankly I've seen precious little evidence that we as a society are sitting on hundreds or thousands of cures for diseases that are ravaging our communities, and we're only not bringing them to market because we don't have enough scientists to test them all. In fact, when you put it simply like that it sounds completely baseless and pretty retarded. Also, this is just as dumb as a sack of hammers: > If it takes upwards of 100 million dollars and 10-15 years for approval to bring a drug to market... Isn't it all just a waste of time? [No, it's fucking not]( TL;DR: Ultimately, the entire response to your comment can be summed up as: > 100's if not 1,000's of cures in the pipeline but not enough funding or ability to bring them to market [citation needed]

Futurology

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c8d63ks

Everyday I see dozens of big breakthroughs in drug research. You hear about anything and everything that sounds like it might be viable or workable. Every study that shows a slight anti-cancer effect is trumpeted as the next "cure for cancer!!!!1!!1", and every discovery about HIV is trumpeted as "CURE FOR AIDS!!!1!1!". You don't hear when each of them stumbles over one of the many, many obstacles between first hints there might be something useful there and a viable, mass-market drug of proven effectiveness... because that's not news, people don't want to read about it and it doesn't sell newspapers or boost ratings for TV adverts. For example, you'll hear in the media when a single study indicates a particular chemical maybe has an anticancer effect, but not when it's discovered to be the placebo effect, or a statistical fluke, or is experimentally unreproducible for any number of other reasons, or that the drug has so many side effects that existing drugs or treatments (or combinations thereof) are actually safer and more effective than it would be, or that the chemical is discovered to be so hideously toxic to some people that it's impossible to make it into a viable mass-treatment for the average person. Frankly I've seen precious little evidence that we as a society are sitting on hundreds or thousands of cures for diseases that are ravaging our communities, and we're only not bringing them to market because we don't have enough scientists to test them all. In fact, when you put it simply like that it sounds completely baseless and pretty retarded. Also, this is just as dumb as a sack of hammers: > If it takes upwards of 100 million dollars and 10-15 years for approval to bring a drug to market... Isn't it all just a waste of time? [No, it's fucking not](

Ultimately, the entire response to your comment can be summed up as: > 100's if not 1,000's of cures in the pipeline but not enough funding or ability to bring them to market [citation needed]

minusxero

And Hal Jordan isn't Superman. And The Watchmen has nothing to do with any of them. **TL;DR** [THAT'S THE JOKE](

And Hal Jordan isn't Superman. And The Watchmen has nothing to do with any of them. TL;DR [THAT'S THE JOKE](

Minecraft

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c2orilb

And Hal Jordan isn't Superman. And The Watchmen has nothing to do with any of them.

THAT'S THE JOKE](

rrrthrower

There are things that I just cannot stand about my GF. If I have to put it in one word, it's her `irresponsibility`. She has asked me a few times about our future (marriage) and I have told her that I am okay with it but I need someone who will be my partner and have my back when things get tough. I need someone who has things under control. I don't see her as this person. Just to give you an example of what I mean by irresponsible: - In our social group, she is the one person who always comes late to any type of social gathering. I am not talking about 10-15 minutes late but 1-2 hour late. - She likes to wait until the last minute to do things. Paying parking ticket, fixing cars, paying credit card. It's not like she does not have the money. She does! she just always postpone things to the last minute. - She forgets! A LOT. This includes bringing her ID card, going to doctor's appointment, going to court for citation. A couple days ago, she parked her car at a parking garage and forgot to get it out before the garage closed. It was locked inside and she had to pay extra $$$ to get her car out the next day. - I am pretty responsible financially. I max out my 401k, have saving goals and saves 30-40% of my take home. She, on the other hand, likes to spend on expensive things. I don't mind this at all, but what I find very frustrating is that she prioritizes spending over saving. It looks to me like she has no savings plan whatsoever. - To make it even worse, she is not very open to advice. Whenever I try to give her advice, I see myself as a parent trying to lecture a little kid. My heart sinks a little whenever she tells me about all the (financial/non-finacnial) expenses that she has to incur because of her clumsiness. I don't really mind it for now because we are not married yet but I am not sure if I will be able to put up with this when we end up together. **The Unrelated Tipping Point** Last week we had the stupidest incident ever that got her to start this i-wont-talk-to-you-until-you-say-sorry game. Let me start by saying that she is not a very good driver and that when she's driving, I get somewhat anxious. We were heading home from after eating dinner. She was driving and I was on the passenger's seat (tired), when, all of a sudden, she made an abrupt slight turn (on a freeway) that got me super worried that she might be losing it. I was semi-scared at this point. Shortly after, she tried to reach out to me (to hold my hand or something) with her right hand. After experiencing what just happeend, I led her hand back to the sterring wheel and told her to drive carefully. This is where it got ugly. She took offense and thought that I `pushed` her hand away. I tried to clarify to her that she should focus on the road but she just stayed silent. The next day, she went back to her place and she has not talked to me since. Normally, I would say sorry and admit that it was my fault for doing something like this. However, after much thinking, I don't know what I should be sorry for. I really think that's it's ridiculous that she gets upset over this. I feel like this is the culmination of what has happened over time. I usually closed one eyes and let things go by. I don't know if I can do it anymore at this time. I am running out of patience and may be a break up is in order. TL;DR My GF is an irresponsible drama queen who is not open to advice. I am thinking of breaking up with her. EDIT: I am still with her because I do actually care about her. We get a long most of the time but there were cases where I just felt like this relationship would never work out. I should also mention that there were instances where I felt like her actions made me feel like she was also unsure of this relationship. To name a few: - I was using her computer when I found out one of her google searches was something along the line of: "Is it hard to fall in love after a bad breakup". - I caught her texting and sending pictures to her ex when she was travelling with me. I was really upset about this and told her not do this again. I haven't caught her doing it again but I am not sure if she has really stopped completely.

There are things that I just cannot stand about my GF. If I have to put it in one word, it's her irresponsibility . She has asked me a few times about our future (marriage) and I have told her that I am okay with it but I need someone who will be my partner and have my back when things get tough. I need someone who has things under control. I don't see her as this person. Just to give you an example of what I mean by irresponsible: In our social group, she is the one person who always comes late to any type of social gathering. I am not talking about 10-15 minutes late but 1-2 hour late. She likes to wait until the last minute to do things. Paying parking ticket, fixing cars, paying credit card. It's not like she does not have the money. She does! she just always postpone things to the last minute. She forgets! A LOT. This includes bringing her ID card, going to doctor's appointment, going to court for citation. A couple days ago, she parked her car at a parking garage and forgot to get it out before the garage closed. It was locked inside and she had to pay extra $$$ to get her car out the next day. I am pretty responsible financially. I max out my 401k, have saving goals and saves 30-40% of my take home. She, on the other hand, likes to spend on expensive things. I don't mind this at all, but what I find very frustrating is that she prioritizes spending over saving. It looks to me like she has no savings plan whatsoever. To make it even worse, she is not very open to advice. Whenever I try to give her advice, I see myself as a parent trying to lecture a little kid. My heart sinks a little whenever she tells me about all the (financial/non-finacnial) expenses that she has to incur because of her clumsiness. I don't really mind it for now because we are not married yet but I am not sure if I will be able to put up with this when we end up together. The Unrelated Tipping Point Last week we had the stupidest incident ever that got her to start this i-wont-talk-to-you-until-you-say-sorry game. Let me start by saying that she is not a very good driver and that when she's driving, I get somewhat anxious. We were heading home from after eating dinner. She was driving and I was on the passenger's seat (tired), when, all of a sudden, she made an abrupt slight turn (on a freeway) that got me super worried that she might be losing it. I was semi-scared at this point. Shortly after, she tried to reach out to me (to hold my hand or something) with her right hand. After experiencing what just happeend, I led her hand back to the sterring wheel and told her to drive carefully. This is where it got ugly. She took offense and thought that I pushed her hand away. I tried to clarify to her that she should focus on the road but she just stayed silent. The next day, she went back to her place and she has not talked to me since. Normally, I would say sorry and admit that it was my fault for doing something like this. However, after much thinking, I don't know what I should be sorry for. I really think that's it's ridiculous that she gets upset over this. I feel like this is the culmination of what has happened over time. I usually closed one eyes and let things go by. I don't know if I can do it anymore at this time. I am running out of patience and may be a break up is in order. TL;DR My GF is an irresponsible drama queen who is not open to advice. I am thinking of breaking up with her. EDIT: I am still with her because I do actually care about her. We get a long most of the time but there were cases where I just felt like this relationship would never work out. I should also mention that there were instances where I felt like her actions made me feel like she was also unsure of this relationship. To name a few: I was using her computer when I found out one of her google searches was something along the line of: "Is it hard to fall in love after a bad breakup". I caught her texting and sending pictures to her ex when she was travelling with me. I was really upset about this and told her not do this again. I haven't caught her doing it again but I am not sure if she has really stopped completely.

relationships

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There are things that I just cannot stand about my GF. If I have to put it in one word, it's her irresponsibility . She has asked me a few times about our future (marriage) and I have told her that I am okay with it but I need someone who will be my partner and have my back when things get tough. I need someone who has things under control. I don't see her as this person. Just to give you an example of what I mean by irresponsible: In our social group, she is the one person who always comes late to any type of social gathering. I am not talking about 10-15 minutes late but 1-2 hour late. She likes to wait until the last minute to do things. Paying parking ticket, fixing cars, paying credit card. It's not like she does not have the money. She does! she just always postpone things to the last minute. She forgets! A LOT. This includes bringing her ID card, going to doctor's appointment, going to court for citation. A couple days ago, she parked her car at a parking garage and forgot to get it out before the garage closed. It was locked inside and she had to pay extra $$$ to get her car out the next day. I am pretty responsible financially. I max out my 401k, have saving goals and saves 30-40% of my take home. She, on the other hand, likes to spend on expensive things. I don't mind this at all, but what I find very frustrating is that she prioritizes spending over saving. It looks to me like she has no savings plan whatsoever. To make it even worse, she is not very open to advice. Whenever I try to give her advice, I see myself as a parent trying to lecture a little kid. My heart sinks a little whenever she tells me about all the (financial/non-finacnial) expenses that she has to incur because of her clumsiness. I don't really mind it for now because we are not married yet but I am not sure if I will be able to put up with this when we end up together. The Unrelated Tipping Point Last week we had the stupidest incident ever that got her to start this i-wont-talk-to-you-until-you-say-sorry game. Let me start by saying that she is not a very good driver and that when she's driving, I get somewhat anxious. We were heading home from after eating dinner. She was driving and I was on the passenger's seat (tired), when, all of a sudden, she made an abrupt slight turn (on a freeway) that got me super worried that she might be losing it. I was semi-scared at this point. Shortly after, she tried to reach out to me (to hold my hand or something) with her right hand. After experiencing what just happeend, I led her hand back to the sterring wheel and told her to drive carefully. This is where it got ugly. She took offense and thought that I pushed her hand away. I tried to clarify to her that she should focus on the road but she just stayed silent. The next day, she went back to her place and she has not talked to me since. Normally, I would say sorry and admit that it was my fault for doing something like this. However, after much thinking, I don't know what I should be sorry for. I really think that's it's ridiculous that she gets upset over this. I feel like this is the culmination of what has happened over time. I usually closed one eyes and let things go by. I don't know if I can do it anymore at this time. I am running out of patience and may be a break up is in order.

My GF is an irresponsible drama queen who is not open to advice. I am thinking of breaking up with her. EDIT: I am still with her because I do actually care about her. We get a long most of the time but there were cases where I just felt like this relationship would never work out. I should also mention that there were instances where I felt like her actions made me feel like she was also unsure of this relationship. To name a few: I was using her computer when I found out one of her google searches was something along the line of: "Is it hard to fall in love after a bad breakup". I caught her texting and sending pictures to her ex when she was travelling with me. I was really upset about this and told her not do this again. I haven't caught her doing it again but I am not sure if she has really stopped completely.

KriIIin

Alright so we can all agree that there is a big problem now and days to how much security is available to our precious accounts. There are many great ideas out there that redditors have provided but none have really caught anyone's attention. I decided to make this thread in the hope of giving Riot Games a few ideas of what they can do to enhance our account security. A lot of these ideas were adopted from many different games. **Account's Guardian Angel:** The Riot Games Account Guardian Angel provides enhanced account security, which blocks unknown devices from accessing your account. - You choose the devices that can access your account (IP Addresses). Unknown devices need to pass email and security checks before access is permitted. - If you play from different locations you can add and remove devices at any time after passing an email check. - Vacation? Certain devices of your choosing can be given temporary or permanent access, you choose the duration. - You can only add or remove devices after a verification email that will be sent to your Security Email Address (I'll go into depth on this later in the thread) **Registered Security Email Address:** This email will be the same email Riot Games will use to contact you on any changes or problems with your account (Time Bans/Permanent Bans/Mutes, etc.) Your registered security email is set upon creating an account, or the one you currently have. Registered Security Emails are only changeable after you request Riot Games to let you change it. Upon doing so an email will be sent to your current Registered Security Email Address with steps and instructions on how to change to a new Security Email Address. **Logging in from an Unregistered Device:** Upon doing so you will have to answer three questions at random. These three questions are three of the six that you chose and answered upon registration of a Security Email Address/Account. When registering you can choose from 20 different questions. Remember it is much easier to add/remove devices beforehand, instead of having to pass Security Questions EVERY time you log in from an unregistered device. Moving on, these questions consist of... 1. Where was your first Vacation? - In what city/town did your mother and father meet? - As a child, what was your favorite place to visit? - What is/was the last name of your favorite teacher? - Who was your first best friend? - first name - Who is your favorite sports team? - What is the first book you remember reading? - What was the first video game you every bought? - What was the name of your first pet? - When did you create this account? - month/year These are just a few of the optional questions **Its time for some security, Riot Plz.** TLDR: An email address that cant be easily changed where you can set up ip's that can access your account.

Alright so we can all agree that there is a big problem now and days to how much security is available to our precious accounts. There are many great ideas out there that redditors have provided but none have really caught anyone's attention. I decided to make this thread in the hope of giving Riot Games a few ideas of what they can do to enhance our account security. A lot of these ideas were adopted from many different games. Account's Guardian Angel: The Riot Games Account Guardian Angel provides enhanced account security, which blocks unknown devices from accessing your account. You choose the devices that can access your account (IP Addresses). Unknown devices need to pass email and security checks before access is permitted. If you play from different locations you can add and remove devices at any time after passing an email check. Vacation? Certain devices of your choosing can be given temporary or permanent access, you choose the duration. You can only add or remove devices after a verification email that will be sent to your Security Email Address (I'll go into depth on this later in the thread) Registered Security Email Address: This email will be the same email Riot Games will use to contact you on any changes or problems with your account (Time Bans/Permanent Bans/Mutes, etc.) Your registered security email is set upon creating an account, or the one you currently have. Registered Security Emails are only changeable after you request Riot Games to let you change it. Upon doing so an email will be sent to your current Registered Security Email Address with steps and instructions on how to change to a new Security Email Address. Logging in from an Unregistered Device: Upon doing so you will have to answer three questions at random. These three questions are three of the six that you chose and answered upon registration of a Security Email Address/Account. When registering you can choose from 20 different questions. Remember it is much easier to add/remove devices beforehand, instead of having to pass Security Questions EVERY time you log in from an unregistered device. Moving on, these questions consist of... Where was your first Vacation? In what city/town did your mother and father meet? As a child, what was your favorite place to visit? What is/was the last name of your favorite teacher? Who was your first best friend? - first name Who is your favorite sports team? What is the first book you remember reading? What was the first video game you every bought? What was the name of your first pet? When did you create this account? - month/year These are just a few of the optional questions Its time for some security, Riot Plz. TLDR: An email address that cant be easily changed where you can set up ip's that can access your account.

leagueoflegends

t5_2rfxx

t3_1eenim

Alright so we can all agree that there is a big problem now and days to how much security is available to our precious accounts. There are many great ideas out there that redditors have provided but none have really caught anyone's attention. I decided to make this thread in the hope of giving Riot Games a few ideas of what they can do to enhance our account security. A lot of these ideas were adopted from many different games. Account's Guardian Angel: The Riot Games Account Guardian Angel provides enhanced account security, which blocks unknown devices from accessing your account. You choose the devices that can access your account (IP Addresses). Unknown devices need to pass email and security checks before access is permitted. If you play from different locations you can add and remove devices at any time after passing an email check. Vacation? Certain devices of your choosing can be given temporary or permanent access, you choose the duration. You can only add or remove devices after a verification email that will be sent to your Security Email Address (I'll go into depth on this later in the thread) Registered Security Email Address: This email will be the same email Riot Games will use to contact you on any changes or problems with your account (Time Bans/Permanent Bans/Mutes, etc.) Your registered security email is set upon creating an account, or the one you currently have. Registered Security Emails are only changeable after you request Riot Games to let you change it. Upon doing so an email will be sent to your current Registered Security Email Address with steps and instructions on how to change to a new Security Email Address. Logging in from an Unregistered Device: Upon doing so you will have to answer three questions at random. These three questions are three of the six that you chose and answered upon registration of a Security Email Address/Account. When registering you can choose from 20 different questions. Remember it is much easier to add/remove devices beforehand, instead of having to pass Security Questions EVERY time you log in from an unregistered device. Moving on, these questions consist of... Where was your first Vacation? In what city/town did your mother and father meet? As a child, what was your favorite place to visit? What is/was the last name of your favorite teacher? Who was your first best friend? - first name Who is your favorite sports team? What is the first book you remember reading? What was the first video game you every bought? What was the name of your first pet? When did you create this account? - month/year These are just a few of the optional questions Its time for some security, Riot Plz.

An email address that cant be easily changed where you can set up ip's that can access your account.

[deleted]

I have been with him for 4 years. This may seem completely and totally absurd. I am growing a little bit vain. For the majority of my life I have been told I am ugly and when I got together with him he spent 5 and a half years never making even one comment about my physical appearance. So, for the majority of my life, I have believed that I was fat/ugly/whatever. When we got together and I realized he was NEVER complimenting me (I think I averaged 2 short compliments a year when he wanted something, usually not even directly about my appearance) I made the excuse that it was just his personality, and that he wasn't naturally gushy. This was all fine and well, until I found out he was literally falling over himself to compliment random women on the internet. Women that he had never met and had no intention of meeting, as well as a woman he had a long-distance relationship with before we started dating (I will get back to her shortly, let's call her Sara.) Literally every woman in his life, besides me, he had showered with genuine, charming, gushy compliments. And even women that weren't in his life. Wtf. I came to terms with this and (stupidly?) forgave him. I also worked on my self esteem a little bit. He improved in the compliments area but it never sounds genuine so tbh I cannot care less to hear them, it's always the same shit. I've given up in that department. I don't want to hear pre-rehearsed bullshit, all I wanted was the occasional "you look nice" or god forbid "you look beautiful." Bleh. With my new-found self esteem comes the desire to post pictures of myself on the internet and bask in the glory of notes/likes/tweets/whatever. Two things happened out of this: 1. I started taking selfies. Not a lot. Not the amount that any of my friends take. Just a few. I came to this conclusion because I realized that I was 23 and owned LITERALLY **zero** pictures of myself. None. Whatsoever. I was asked to submit a photo for a group and had to take one because I had nothing. **His reaction?** The usual eye roll. Thinks it's unimportant. Thinks it's silly. Don't waste time on it. Thinks it's stupid, vain, etc etc. 2. I started taking more pictures of my body, sometimes clothed, usually not. Not posting them anywhere. His reaction was the same, except more ambivalent. Doesn't care. At all. 3. Since I wasn't getting a reaction from him (at all) I kind of wanted to post them for other people. Not on gone wild or something, but in more female-dominated spaces. His reaction? Doesn't want me to. Doesn't think it's respectful. Now all of this would be fine and dandy if it was your boyfriend, or some random joe off the street. Completely reasonable reactions and nothing puzzling at all. The problem is my fiance's personality. This would all make sense if he just genuinely didn't like the idea of social media or the idea selfies or the idea of nude pictures. But he LOVES them. Not just likes them in the way your average guy does, but LOVES them. The amount of time he has spent in the past both maintaining social media accounts, posting his own content, as well as going through other women's social media accounts/selfies/nudes is UNFATHOMABLE. Like. I can't describe it. The way he talks about other women who do post pictures of themselves online - especially ones that are nude - is so personable, respectful, unbelievable. I can't even describe it to you guys. It makes me feel embarrassed and horrible tbh. How he spends long lengths of time liking pictures of other people's faces on twitter, or reblogging other people's nudes on tumblr, but for me he actively discourages and shames me for doing the same. It feels like such a horrible double standard. The same goes for any sort of kinks. I figured this is long enough so I'll leave it as is. Only vanilla sex and missionary position here, despite him liking other things. It's not like I hide my interest in them. It honestly makes me suspect that he's cheating, but I snooped through his entire PC (I know, bad, but honestly, reading all this, you wouldn't think he was?) and there was NOTHING incriminating on it. And he doesn't hide anything because we don't share passwords to each others phones/PCs but I got his, and there's nothing even remotely to suggest he's cheating. Watching fucked up porn? Yes. Messaging with people that are kind of promiscuous? Yes. Complimenting random women? But not cheating, not having emotional affairs, nothing. Everything (to me) is in the realms of 'acceptable.' So wtf. --- **tl;dr**: Fiance actively encourages, motivates and befriends women who post sexually provocative pictures but doesn't want me doing the same, he's respectful to other people's selfies, but has called mine stupid and vain. He has his own kinks which very closely overlap with mine, but doesn't actually want to carry them out with me... but isn't cheating on me. Wtf

I have been with him for 4 years. This may seem completely and totally absurd. I am growing a little bit vain. For the majority of my life I have been told I am ugly and when I got together with him he spent 5 and a half years never making even one comment about my physical appearance. So, for the majority of my life, I have believed that I was fat/ugly/whatever. When we got together and I realized he was NEVER complimenting me (I think I averaged 2 short compliments a year when he wanted something, usually not even directly about my appearance) I made the excuse that it was just his personality, and that he wasn't naturally gushy. This was all fine and well, until I found out he was literally falling over himself to compliment random women on the internet. Women that he had never met and had no intention of meeting, as well as a woman he had a long-distance relationship with before we started dating (I will get back to her shortly, let's call her Sara.) Literally every woman in his life, besides me, he had showered with genuine, charming, gushy compliments. And even women that weren't in his life. Wtf. I came to terms with this and (stupidly?) forgave him. I also worked on my self esteem a little bit. He improved in the compliments area but it never sounds genuine so tbh I cannot care less to hear them, it's always the same shit. I've given up in that department. I don't want to hear pre-rehearsed bullshit, all I wanted was the occasional "you look nice" or god forbid "you look beautiful." Bleh. With my new-found self esteem comes the desire to post pictures of myself on the internet and bask in the glory of notes/likes/tweets/whatever. Two things happened out of this: I started taking selfies. Not a lot. Not the amount that any of my friends take. Just a few. I came to this conclusion because I realized that I was 23 and owned LITERALLY zero pictures of myself. None. Whatsoever. I was asked to submit a photo for a group and had to take one because I had nothing. His reaction? The usual eye roll. Thinks it's unimportant. Thinks it's silly. Don't waste time on it. Thinks it's stupid, vain, etc etc. I started taking more pictures of my body, sometimes clothed, usually not. Not posting them anywhere. His reaction was the same, except more ambivalent. Doesn't care. At all. Since I wasn't getting a reaction from him (at all) I kind of wanted to post them for other people. Not on gone wild or something, but in more female-dominated spaces. His reaction? Doesn't want me to. Doesn't think it's respectful. Now all of this would be fine and dandy if it was your boyfriend, or some random joe off the street. Completely reasonable reactions and nothing puzzling at all. The problem is my fiance's personality. This would all make sense if he just genuinely didn't like the idea of social media or the idea selfies or the idea of nude pictures. But he LOVES them. Not just likes them in the way your average guy does, but LOVES them. The amount of time he has spent in the past both maintaining social media accounts, posting his own content, as well as going through other women's social media accounts/selfies/nudes is UNFATHOMABLE. Like. I can't describe it. The way he talks about other women who do post pictures of themselves online - especially ones that are nude - is so personable, respectful, unbelievable. I can't even describe it to you guys. It makes me feel embarrassed and horrible tbh. How he spends long lengths of time liking pictures of other people's faces on twitter, or reblogging other people's nudes on tumblr, but for me he actively discourages and shames me for doing the same. It feels like such a horrible double standard. The same goes for any sort of kinks. I figured this is long enough so I'll leave it as is. Only vanilla sex and missionary position here, despite him liking other things. It's not like I hide my interest in them. It honestly makes me suspect that he's cheating, but I snooped through his entire PC (I know, bad, but honestly, reading all this, you wouldn't think he was?) and there was NOTHING incriminating on it. And he doesn't hide anything because we don't share passwords to each others phones/PCs but I got his, and there's nothing even remotely to suggest he's cheating. Watching fucked up porn? Yes. Messaging with people that are kind of promiscuous? Yes. Complimenting random women? But not cheating, not having emotional affairs, nothing. Everything (to me) is in the realms of 'acceptable.' So wtf. tl;dr : Fiance actively encourages, motivates and befriends women who post sexually provocative pictures but doesn't want me doing the same, he's respectful to other people's selfies, but has called mine stupid and vain. He has his own kinks which very closely overlap with mine, but doesn't actually want to carry them out with me... but isn't cheating on me. Wtf

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t3_2frlzi

I have been with him for 4 years. This may seem completely and totally absurd. I am growing a little bit vain. For the majority of my life I have been told I am ugly and when I got together with him he spent 5 and a half years never making even one comment about my physical appearance. So, for the majority of my life, I have believed that I was fat/ugly/whatever. When we got together and I realized he was NEVER complimenting me (I think I averaged 2 short compliments a year when he wanted something, usually not even directly about my appearance) I made the excuse that it was just his personality, and that he wasn't naturally gushy. This was all fine and well, until I found out he was literally falling over himself to compliment random women on the internet. Women that he had never met and had no intention of meeting, as well as a woman he had a long-distance relationship with before we started dating (I will get back to her shortly, let's call her Sara.) Literally every woman in his life, besides me, he had showered with genuine, charming, gushy compliments. And even women that weren't in his life. Wtf. I came to terms with this and (stupidly?) forgave him. I also worked on my self esteem a little bit. He improved in the compliments area but it never sounds genuine so tbh I cannot care less to hear them, it's always the same shit. I've given up in that department. I don't want to hear pre-rehearsed bullshit, all I wanted was the occasional "you look nice" or god forbid "you look beautiful." Bleh. With my new-found self esteem comes the desire to post pictures of myself on the internet and bask in the glory of notes/likes/tweets/whatever. Two things happened out of this: I started taking selfies. Not a lot. Not the amount that any of my friends take. Just a few. I came to this conclusion because I realized that I was 23 and owned LITERALLY zero pictures of myself. None. Whatsoever. I was asked to submit a photo for a group and had to take one because I had nothing. His reaction? The usual eye roll. Thinks it's unimportant. Thinks it's silly. Don't waste time on it. Thinks it's stupid, vain, etc etc. I started taking more pictures of my body, sometimes clothed, usually not. Not posting them anywhere. His reaction was the same, except more ambivalent. Doesn't care. At all. Since I wasn't getting a reaction from him (at all) I kind of wanted to post them for other people. Not on gone wild or something, but in more female-dominated spaces. His reaction? Doesn't want me to. Doesn't think it's respectful. Now all of this would be fine and dandy if it was your boyfriend, or some random joe off the street. Completely reasonable reactions and nothing puzzling at all. The problem is my fiance's personality. This would all make sense if he just genuinely didn't like the idea of social media or the idea selfies or the idea of nude pictures. But he LOVES them. Not just likes them in the way your average guy does, but LOVES them. The amount of time he has spent in the past both maintaining social media accounts, posting his own content, as well as going through other women's social media accounts/selfies/nudes is UNFATHOMABLE. Like. I can't describe it. The way he talks about other women who do post pictures of themselves online - especially ones that are nude - is so personable, respectful, unbelievable. I can't even describe it to you guys. It makes me feel embarrassed and horrible tbh. How he spends long lengths of time liking pictures of other people's faces on twitter, or reblogging other people's nudes on tumblr, but for me he actively discourages and shames me for doing the same. It feels like such a horrible double standard. The same goes for any sort of kinks. I figured this is long enough so I'll leave it as is. Only vanilla sex and missionary position here, despite him liking other things. It's not like I hide my interest in them. It honestly makes me suspect that he's cheating, but I snooped through his entire PC (I know, bad, but honestly, reading all this, you wouldn't think he was?) and there was NOTHING incriminating on it. And he doesn't hide anything because we don't share passwords to each others phones/PCs but I got his, and there's nothing even remotely to suggest he's cheating. Watching fucked up porn? Yes. Messaging with people that are kind of promiscuous? Yes. Complimenting random women? But not cheating, not having emotional affairs, nothing. Everything (to me) is in the realms of 'acceptable.' So wtf.

Fiance actively encourages, motivates and befriends women who post sexually provocative pictures but doesn't want me doing the same, he's respectful to other people's selfies, but has called mine stupid and vain. He has his own kinks which very closely overlap with mine, but doesn't actually want to carry them out with me... but isn't cheating on me. Wtf

Mcginnis

Well lets face it. Most of the videos of trigger happy cops and those who scream "stop resisting" and taser an old grandma, those ate from America. So my initial thought of this being in the USA is valid. Tl:dr ಠ_ಠ you mad bro?

Well lets face it. Most of the videos of trigger happy cops and those who scream "stop resisting" and taser an old grandma, those ate from America. So my initial thought of this being in the USA is valid. Tl:dr ಠ_ಠ you mad bro?

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c98wa3g

Well lets face it. Most of the videos of trigger happy cops and those who scream "stop resisting" and taser an old grandma, those ate from America. So my initial thought of this being in the USA is valid.

ಠ_ಠ you mad bro?

metans

Same story for me at the petrol station I manage. Large sealife-based multinational, to avoid using proper names. The margin on fuel is almost non-existent so my boss (who makes her money based on sales) basically gets her money out of things in the shop. If the shop makes £30000 in a day through fuel sales and nothing in the shop, she will see jack shit of that money (not *none* but it probably may as well be) It's the up selling of products in the shop that basically give her more chance to actually turn a profit on the business (rare.) I can't speak for other industries but I believe this is pretty much the norm in the fuel game. Basically the big brand fuel producer sells the fuel and any of their own-branded products to the retailer (at not a lot less than retail price) so maybe my boss will make pennies on something like this. Anything "third-party" I.e. Coke, Mars bars, crisps, are bought wholesale by the owner and sold for their profit. TL;DR - when sales assistants try to sell you a chocolate orange or mars bar, it's might be that's the best chance the actual franchise holder has to make some money.

Same story for me at the petrol station I manage. Large sealife-based multinational, to avoid using proper names. The margin on fuel is almost non-existent so my boss (who makes her money based on sales) basically gets her money out of things in the shop. If the shop makes £30000 in a day through fuel sales and nothing in the shop, she will see jack shit of that money (not none but it probably may as well be) It's the up selling of products in the shop that basically give her more chance to actually turn a profit on the business (rare.) I can't speak for other industries but I believe this is pretty much the norm in the fuel game. Basically the big brand fuel producer sells the fuel and any of their own-branded products to the retailer (at not a lot less than retail price) so maybe my boss will make pennies on something like this. Anything "third-party" I.e. Coke, Mars bars, crisps, are bought wholesale by the owner and sold for their profit. TL;DR - when sales assistants try to sell you a chocolate orange or mars bar, it's might be that's the best chance the actual franchise holder has to make some money.

TalesFromRetail

t5_2t2zt

cgjb3es

Same story for me at the petrol station I manage. Large sealife-based multinational, to avoid using proper names. The margin on fuel is almost non-existent so my boss (who makes her money based on sales) basically gets her money out of things in the shop. If the shop makes £30000 in a day through fuel sales and nothing in the shop, she will see jack shit of that money (not none but it probably may as well be) It's the up selling of products in the shop that basically give her more chance to actually turn a profit on the business (rare.) I can't speak for other industries but I believe this is pretty much the norm in the fuel game. Basically the big brand fuel producer sells the fuel and any of their own-branded products to the retailer (at not a lot less than retail price) so maybe my boss will make pennies on something like this. Anything "third-party" I.e. Coke, Mars bars, crisps, are bought wholesale by the owner and sold for their profit.

when sales assistants try to sell you a chocolate orange or mars bar, it's might be that's the best chance the actual franchise holder has to make some money.

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I love my boyfriend and I believe all his good qualities outweigh his bad and I will not break up with him. That being said, my boyfriend's grandfather passed away about 3 weeks ago. He has always had depressive tendencies from the day I met him, but now I know it must be full blown depression even if he refuses to get any diagnoses or treatment. He was very close to his grandfather and it crushed him, and while he will talk about it to me, he won't talk about it with a counselor. I spend Monday to Wednesday with him about 7 or 8 hours a day as our classes run late into the night. Sometimes on a Thursday I will go to his house and spend time with him there. On weekends we are constantly chatting or on the phone. Despite this, he still experiences extreme depression when we are not together and it is even worse when I tell him I will be hanging out with an old girlfriend for the afternoon. After his grandfather passed away I think it's gotten even worse. I feel sad when we are apart as well since it gets lonely and dull on weekends, but I feel so guilty and crushed whenever I have to tell him a girlfriend down the hall invited me for netflix and snacks. We have had endless conflicts about this problem as I feel like I can't have friends anymore, and he is too controlling. His latest argument is that he knows he is irrational and that he tries his best not to show it but he really can't help it. Now he says that he is a good boyfriend and how he acts is not life ruining. My friends won't be there to grow old with me or pay for a mortgage together with me. He goes on to say I should really just ignore when he is upset about this as he cannot change and me bringing it up exacerbates the situation. I find it so difficult to ignore for two reasons: 1) He shouldn't be upset in the first place 2) I can't bear to see him upset and I want to try and work it out. Whenever we try to work it out it usually leads to an argument. Just typing this is upsetting as it makes no sense to the objective part of me and he is really out of line to get upset with me being with my friends (I have 3 of them and all of them I've known for more than 7 years and are girls). However, I know he also has depression and despite me pleading and begging he will not go see the university counselor nor tell his parents. He is convinced he has to live life like this. My two questions are: How do I get my depressed boyfriend to go to a counselor? Should I just ignore when my boyfriend is depressed when I hang out with my friends. TL;DR: Boyfriend has depression, separation anxiety and jealousy issues when I hang out with my old friends. Edit: Thanks everyone for all the support and good advice. I have managed convinced him to go to our university counselor. We've had a long conversation and I managed to just do away with the argument happening with my friends since that isn't the real problem. The problem here is his depression and how he's handling his grandfather's passing. He promised that if this counselor doesn't work he's willing to see two more, and by then I'm sure we can figure something out on what works, and what doesn't.

I love my boyfriend and I believe all his good qualities outweigh his bad and I will not break up with him. That being said, my boyfriend's grandfather passed away about 3 weeks ago. He has always had depressive tendencies from the day I met him, but now I know it must be full blown depression even if he refuses to get any diagnoses or treatment. He was very close to his grandfather and it crushed him, and while he will talk about it to me, he won't talk about it with a counselor. I spend Monday to Wednesday with him about 7 or 8 hours a day as our classes run late into the night. Sometimes on a Thursday I will go to his house and spend time with him there. On weekends we are constantly chatting or on the phone. Despite this, he still experiences extreme depression when we are not together and it is even worse when I tell him I will be hanging out with an old girlfriend for the afternoon. After his grandfather passed away I think it's gotten even worse. I feel sad when we are apart as well since it gets lonely and dull on weekends, but I feel so guilty and crushed whenever I have to tell him a girlfriend down the hall invited me for netflix and snacks. We have had endless conflicts about this problem as I feel like I can't have friends anymore, and he is too controlling. His latest argument is that he knows he is irrational and that he tries his best not to show it but he really can't help it. Now he says that he is a good boyfriend and how he acts is not life ruining. My friends won't be there to grow old with me or pay for a mortgage together with me. He goes on to say I should really just ignore when he is upset about this as he cannot change and me bringing it up exacerbates the situation. I find it so difficult to ignore for two reasons: 1) He shouldn't be upset in the first place 2) I can't bear to see him upset and I want to try and work it out. Whenever we try to work it out it usually leads to an argument. Just typing this is upsetting as it makes no sense to the objective part of me and he is really out of line to get upset with me being with my friends (I have 3 of them and all of them I've known for more than 7 years and are girls). However, I know he also has depression and despite me pleading and begging he will not go see the university counselor nor tell his parents. He is convinced he has to live life like this. My two questions are: How do I get my depressed boyfriend to go to a counselor? Should I just ignore when my boyfriend is depressed when I hang out with my friends. TL;DR: Boyfriend has depression, separation anxiety and jealousy issues when I hang out with my old friends. Edit: Thanks everyone for all the support and good advice. I have managed convinced him to go to our university counselor. We've had a long conversation and I managed to just do away with the argument happening with my friends since that isn't the real problem. The problem here is his depression and how he's handling his grandfather's passing. He promised that if this counselor doesn't work he's willing to see two more, and by then I'm sure we can figure something out on what works, and what doesn't.

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I love my boyfriend and I believe all his good qualities outweigh his bad and I will not break up with him. That being said, my boyfriend's grandfather passed away about 3 weeks ago. He has always had depressive tendencies from the day I met him, but now I know it must be full blown depression even if he refuses to get any diagnoses or treatment. He was very close to his grandfather and it crushed him, and while he will talk about it to me, he won't talk about it with a counselor. I spend Monday to Wednesday with him about 7 or 8 hours a day as our classes run late into the night. Sometimes on a Thursday I will go to his house and spend time with him there. On weekends we are constantly chatting or on the phone. Despite this, he still experiences extreme depression when we are not together and it is even worse when I tell him I will be hanging out with an old girlfriend for the afternoon. After his grandfather passed away I think it's gotten even worse. I feel sad when we are apart as well since it gets lonely and dull on weekends, but I feel so guilty and crushed whenever I have to tell him a girlfriend down the hall invited me for netflix and snacks. We have had endless conflicts about this problem as I feel like I can't have friends anymore, and he is too controlling. His latest argument is that he knows he is irrational and that he tries his best not to show it but he really can't help it. Now he says that he is a good boyfriend and how he acts is not life ruining. My friends won't be there to grow old with me or pay for a mortgage together with me. He goes on to say I should really just ignore when he is upset about this as he cannot change and me bringing it up exacerbates the situation. I find it so difficult to ignore for two reasons: 1) He shouldn't be upset in the first place 2) I can't bear to see him upset and I want to try and work it out. Whenever we try to work it out it usually leads to an argument. Just typing this is upsetting as it makes no sense to the objective part of me and he is really out of line to get upset with me being with my friends (I have 3 of them and all of them I've known for more than 7 years and are girls). However, I know he also has depression and despite me pleading and begging he will not go see the university counselor nor tell his parents. He is convinced he has to live life like this. My two questions are: How do I get my depressed boyfriend to go to a counselor? Should I just ignore when my boyfriend is depressed when I hang out with my friends.

Boyfriend has depression, separation anxiety and jealousy issues when I hang out with my old friends. Edit: Thanks everyone for all the support and good advice. I have managed convinced him to go to our university counselor. We've had a long conversation and I managed to just do away with the argument happening with my friends since that isn't the real problem. The problem here is his depression and how he's handling his grandfather's passing. He promised that if this counselor doesn't work he's willing to see two more, and by then I'm sure we can figure something out on what works, and what doesn't.

ZimLanfire

Tuxedo rental business... Guy wore his tux for a wedding, got wasted at the reception and tried to take a drunken photo atop a fence... made of barbed wire. It didn't go well... Returns his tuxedo ripped to shreds, because who knew that drunk plus barbed wire equals "malicious damage". He not only demanded a full refund for his tux because of the "poor quality of the product..." but also demanded compensation for his injuries (some cuts and bruises) because the tuxedo was "too restricting..." to climb a fence... He was very not happy when I laughed in his face, then told him that he was going to have to pay for the tux he destroyed. When he screamed about the insurance he had purchased, I showed him his signed rental agreement that clearly stated the damage waiver, and how it did NOT include malicious damages etc. and that it was jot "insurance". He insisted nobody reads that stuff, yelled a bit more when I wouldn't pay him squat, and left. 3 weeks and a collections agent later, he owned a shiny new $1200 tuxedo and I got to see the look on his face when he realized that, in fact, the customer ISN'T always right. TLDR: Customer ripped apart a rented tux, refused to pay, and ended up buying it anyway. JUSTICE!

Tuxedo rental business... Guy wore his tux for a wedding, got wasted at the reception and tried to take a drunken photo atop a fence... made of barbed wire. It didn't go well... Returns his tuxedo ripped to shreds, because who knew that drunk plus barbed wire equals "malicious damage". He not only demanded a full refund for his tux because of the "poor quality of the product..." but also demanded compensation for his injuries (some cuts and bruises) because the tuxedo was "too restricting..." to climb a fence... He was very not happy when I laughed in his face, then told him that he was going to have to pay for the tux he destroyed. When he screamed about the insurance he had purchased, I showed him his signed rental agreement that clearly stated the damage waiver, and how it did NOT include malicious damages etc. and that it was jot "insurance". He insisted nobody reads that stuff, yelled a bit more when I wouldn't pay him squat, and left. 3 weeks and a collections agent later, he owned a shiny new $1200 tuxedo and I got to see the look on his face when he realized that, in fact, the customer ISN'T always right. TLDR: Customer ripped apart a rented tux, refused to pay, and ended up buying it anyway. JUSTICE!

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Tuxedo rental business... Guy wore his tux for a wedding, got wasted at the reception and tried to take a drunken photo atop a fence... made of barbed wire. It didn't go well... Returns his tuxedo ripped to shreds, because who knew that drunk plus barbed wire equals "malicious damage". He not only demanded a full refund for his tux because of the "poor quality of the product..." but also demanded compensation for his injuries (some cuts and bruises) because the tuxedo was "too restricting..." to climb a fence... He was very not happy when I laughed in his face, then told him that he was going to have to pay for the tux he destroyed. When he screamed about the insurance he had purchased, I showed him his signed rental agreement that clearly stated the damage waiver, and how it did NOT include malicious damages etc. and that it was jot "insurance". He insisted nobody reads that stuff, yelled a bit more when I wouldn't pay him squat, and left. 3 weeks and a collections agent later, he owned a shiny new $1200 tuxedo and I got to see the look on his face when he realized that, in fact, the customer ISN'T always right.

Customer ripped apart a rented tux, refused to pay, and ended up buying it anyway. JUSTICE!

hopingalways

Nothing wrong with elaborating for those of us who appreciate detail. :) It's good to have an explanation as well as a "tl;dr" version of something.

Nothing wrong with elaborating for those of us who appreciate detail. :) It's good to have an explanation as well as a "tl;dr" version of something.

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Nothing wrong with elaborating for those of us who appreciate detail. :) It's good to have an explanation as well as a "

version of something.

DrAliDark

This study found that among Cannabis users, the left nucleus accumbens had increased grey matter density. This coincides with previous animal studies that show increase dendritic arborization among THC-treated in this area. It was also found that in the left N.Acc. of the MJ group was slightly larger in volume compared to controls. Their analyses also revealed statistically significant changes in surface topology of the right amygdala that was not accompanied by a volumetric change. It was also found that these changes appear to be correlated with cannabis use behaviors i.e. frequency and amount - but interestingly, they were not correlated with age of onset of use. There are a few things to note: First, changes in grey matter density or volume do not necessarily equate to negative outcomes. All we can say here is that there was observed differences among MJ users - and to this end, I believe their findings are real and I am not at all surprised to see a difference. In fact, I would be more surprised if no difference was found. CB1 receptors are highly expressed in the N.Acc. and Amygdala, suggesting that cannabis exerts its effects most potently in such CB1-rich areas. Cannabis and THC are psychoactive, meaning they alter neurotransmission. Any substance that can modulate neurotransmitter activity more than likely results in larger scale cellular changes, which in turn give rise to structural and functional changes. Some of you may find this surprising, but it's not really at all. The human brain is not static and fixed, it's dynamic and capable of change. Many things we do can change the structure of the brain. For example: it's well known that regular exercise (which is generally believed to be good for you) causes structural alterations in the brain, including areas that play important roles in learning and memory. And as I mentioned previously, numerous FDA-approved drugs, especially opiates, narcotics, anxiolytics, anti-depressants and other neurological drugs are known to cause structural and functional alteration of the brain, yet with this knowledge, we still consider them safe for use and prescribe them daily across the world. Furthermore, other legal substances including alcohol and cigarettes are both known to have significant neurological effects, yet their legality is not questioned based on those grounds and many millions of people across the globe still choose to partake, knowing the risks. Finally, to reiterate what I mentioned earlier: It's not sufficient just to say that part of the brain changes, we must analyze how these changes affect the circuitry and communication with the rest of the brain and body. Further studies are required to establish that information. tldr; Basically, as a neuroscientist I'm not shocked to see that cannabis alters the human brain; of course it does, it's psychoactive.

This study found that among Cannabis users, the left nucleus accumbens had increased grey matter density. This coincides with previous animal studies that show increase dendritic arborization among THC-treated in this area. It was also found that in the left N.Acc. of the MJ group was slightly larger in volume compared to controls. Their analyses also revealed statistically significant changes in surface topology of the right amygdala that was not accompanied by a volumetric change. It was also found that these changes appear to be correlated with cannabis use behaviors i.e. frequency and amount - but interestingly, they were not correlated with age of onset of use. There are a few things to note: First, changes in grey matter density or volume do not necessarily equate to negative outcomes. All we can say here is that there was observed differences among MJ users - and to this end, I believe their findings are real and I am not at all surprised to see a difference. In fact, I would be more surprised if no difference was found. CB1 receptors are highly expressed in the N.Acc. and Amygdala, suggesting that cannabis exerts its effects most potently in such CB1-rich areas. Cannabis and THC are psychoactive, meaning they alter neurotransmission. Any substance that can modulate neurotransmitter activity more than likely results in larger scale cellular changes, which in turn give rise to structural and functional changes. Some of you may find this surprising, but it's not really at all. The human brain is not static and fixed, it's dynamic and capable of change. Many things we do can change the structure of the brain. For example: it's well known that regular exercise (which is generally believed to be good for you) causes structural alterations in the brain, including areas that play important roles in learning and memory. And as I mentioned previously, numerous FDA-approved drugs, especially opiates, narcotics, anxiolytics, anti-depressants and other neurological drugs are known to cause structural and functional alteration of the brain, yet with this knowledge, we still consider them safe for use and prescribe them daily across the world. Furthermore, other legal substances including alcohol and cigarettes are both known to have significant neurological effects, yet their legality is not questioned based on those grounds and many millions of people across the globe still choose to partake, knowing the risks. Finally, to reiterate what I mentioned earlier: It's not sufficient just to say that part of the brain changes, we must analyze how these changes affect the circuitry and communication with the rest of the brain and body. Further studies are required to establish that information. tldr; Basically, as a neuroscientist I'm not shocked to see that cannabis alters the human brain; of course it does, it's psychoactive.

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This study found that among Cannabis users, the left nucleus accumbens had increased grey matter density. This coincides with previous animal studies that show increase dendritic arborization among THC-treated in this area. It was also found that in the left N.Acc. of the MJ group was slightly larger in volume compared to controls. Their analyses also revealed statistically significant changes in surface topology of the right amygdala that was not accompanied by a volumetric change. It was also found that these changes appear to be correlated with cannabis use behaviors i.e. frequency and amount - but interestingly, they were not correlated with age of onset of use. There are a few things to note: First, changes in grey matter density or volume do not necessarily equate to negative outcomes. All we can say here is that there was observed differences among MJ users - and to this end, I believe their findings are real and I am not at all surprised to see a difference. In fact, I would be more surprised if no difference was found. CB1 receptors are highly expressed in the N.Acc. and Amygdala, suggesting that cannabis exerts its effects most potently in such CB1-rich areas. Cannabis and THC are psychoactive, meaning they alter neurotransmission. Any substance that can modulate neurotransmitter activity more than likely results in larger scale cellular changes, which in turn give rise to structural and functional changes. Some of you may find this surprising, but it's not really at all. The human brain is not static and fixed, it's dynamic and capable of change. Many things we do can change the structure of the brain. For example: it's well known that regular exercise (which is generally believed to be good for you) causes structural alterations in the brain, including areas that play important roles in learning and memory. And as I mentioned previously, numerous FDA-approved drugs, especially opiates, narcotics, anxiolytics, anti-depressants and other neurological drugs are known to cause structural and functional alteration of the brain, yet with this knowledge, we still consider them safe for use and prescribe them daily across the world. Furthermore, other legal substances including alcohol and cigarettes are both known to have significant neurological effects, yet their legality is not questioned based on those grounds and many millions of people across the globe still choose to partake, knowing the risks. Finally, to reiterate what I mentioned earlier: It's not sufficient just to say that part of the brain changes, we must analyze how these changes affect the circuitry and communication with the rest of the brain and body. Further studies are required to establish that information.

Basically, as a neuroscientist I'm not shocked to see that cannabis alters the human brain; of course it does, it's psychoactive.

Love_Bludgeon

Russia won WWII the same way the US won the Revolutionary War: with a friendly ally providing the necessary materials they could not. They might have survived WWII without our help, but they couldn't have won it. Take a look at the Lend-Lease act. The logistical numbers are as staggering as the Russian casualty statistics. From the boots in their feet to the bullets in their guns to the locomotives that delivered them to the front lines, every one of the countless millions of Soviet soldiers was rife with American made supplies. TLDR; *Everyone* did their part in WWII. Which is good, because fuck the Nazis.

Russia won WWII the same way the US won the Revolutionary War: with a friendly ally providing the necessary materials they could not. They might have survived WWII without our help, but they couldn't have won it. Take a look at the Lend-Lease act. The logistical numbers are as staggering as the Russian casualty statistics. From the boots in their feet to the bullets in their guns to the locomotives that delivered them to the front lines, every one of the countless millions of Soviet soldiers was rife with American made supplies. TLDR; Everyone did their part in WWII. Which is good, because fuck the Nazis.

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Russia won WWII the same way the US won the Revolutionary War: with a friendly ally providing the necessary materials they could not. They might have survived WWII without our help, but they couldn't have won it. Take a look at the Lend-Lease act. The logistical numbers are as staggering as the Russian casualty statistics. From the boots in their feet to the bullets in their guns to the locomotives that delivered them to the front lines, every one of the countless millions of Soviet soldiers was rife with American made supplies.

Everyone did their part in WWII. Which is good, because fuck the Nazis.

zxcvbnmsdfghj

To begin I want to explain that my boyfriend's relationship with his family is... weird. When we first started dating he was living with his aunt, and she loved to talk trash about his mom and make him do stuff around the house when we were about to go out. His parents call him every day and know about every aspect of his life. Not only that, but they feel the need to insert themselves into every situation. We've had many dates interrupted by his dad calling to lecture him about work, or his mom calling and asking why he hasn't started packing yet, why do you spend so much money going out to eat, etc. Basically a very critical and codependent group of people. This has led to some big fights between my boyfriend and I because while he would rather just appease them because it's easier, I see it as disrespectful and controlling. One night we were out to dinner with his parents, and I wanted to stay out after his parents went home because the town was having a big celebration. My boyfriend agreed until his mom decided to interrogate him about why we would do that. Why did she even care? He caved, and we got in a huge fight because I was tired of watching him get stressed out for no reason other than his parents' interference, and tired of having our agreements disregarded because he doesn't know how to stand up to them. Apparently his mom has had some mental breakdowns in the past so it really is best to just say OK to her a lot of the time, but I told him it's still not a healthy way of solving problems, and I don't want to get dragged into it. He was very apologetic and said he understood where I was coming from. He gets mad when I don't do things his way, even when those things have nothing to do with him or he has done nothing to communicate what he wants. He's told me: -to quit my deli job for one that pays better -to go back to school even though I don't know what I want to major in -that I can't travel (because in his mind the only way to travel is to work an office job for 20 years first) -I should want to cook for him because I'm a girl -I'm not as smart as him -he doesn't want to date me unless it's easy -I won't be able to get a job if I move to another city -to just "get over it" when I was depressed To be fair he's apologized for some of these and he's right about some things, but I hate having to explain myself to him just because I don't want to do things a certain way. Also, when it comes to telling me to move or get a different job it's easy for him to say because he has his parents' wealth to fall back on every time he makes a life change. For me, there is a very real opportunity cost if I decide to go back to school vs. work more or buy a car vs. rent an apartment and so on. So here is where it turns into kind of a dramafest. My boyfriend's job didn't have enough work for him in our state, so they were talking about having him move out of state. Around the same time my family had a traumatic experience (don't want to give out details but it was a violent attack within the family). He flew back to stay at the hospital with me and told me he was definitely moving out of state, and that I could move in with him. I love the city he was going to move to and I have not been getting the support I need here, so I was happy to do that. We found an awesome apartment complex. I told him I wanted to go ASAP so I could find a counselor there and he said he wanted to go out there by himself first, stay with his brother and get his job settled and then get an apartment. I offered to pay for the first month. He said he didn't want to be on the lease with me if his job didn't work out. Then he said he wouldn't sign a lease with me at all; I could stay with him in his place for a while and then find my own place. I said, "why would I pay twice as much to not live with you if you are the reason I'm going out there?" He didn't want to move in with me because his parents wouldn't approve. Thing is this happened over probably 3 weeks because he kept changing his mind and we couldn't talk about it without it turning into an argument. And I was a wreck with everything else going on and ended up snapping at him for stupid things a lot. He ended up venting to his dad but wouldn't tell me what his dad said. I asked him not to tell his dad personal stuff about me, and to stop going behind my back. That's something he does a lot, talks to his whole family about something that affects us, makes a decision himself, and then talks to me about it. He won't cooperate with me. I told him it seemed like he wasn't ready for a relationship if he was just going to be dismissive of my needs and he said we'd talk about it over the weekend. So that weekend we went up to his parents' house (second house, they weren't there). We were going to go to a music festival but right as we were going to leave his dad called him and he disappeared for an hour. When he came back he didn't want to tell me what had happened but it turns out his parents didn't want me up there and were yelling at him about it. This led to an argument about all the stuff I brought up at the beginning of this post plus my boyfriend telling me I didn't try hard enough to get along with his family and that he had wanted to break up with me when he found out he was going to move out of state. We eventually agreed that we should both focus on our own things and trust each other to take care of ourselves for a while. We were going to go on a hike or something the next day, but that morning he told me to pack my stuff up and took me home. He barely talked to me on the drive back, and when we got there, he said he wanted to break up. We were having a great time until his parents called and stressed him out. I know I have not said many positive things about him here, but I really don't want to lose him. He can be very sweet and funny and he has pushed me to become a better person. We used to be good at figuring things out together. I called him the next night and asked if we could just be on a break and not "break up" and he said okay. He got a job here so he won't be moving out of state after all. He texts me that he loves me but isn't ready for a serious relationship right now and thinks we should both do our own things. We've met up once since then and had a really good time but he still won't talk to me about anything. He just says vague things like "you need to do you" and when I ask if we can try again after I figure my stuff out or what he wants from me he doesn't answer. Also, none of his family knows that he's seen me since we broke up. I feel like he's given up on me and it's the worst feeling. Especially since he did it in the middle of me dealing with a very traumatic experience. It's like he broke up with me for not dealing with it in a way that was convenient for him. I'm going to talk to him this weekend because I feel like a lot of things are unresolved. What should I ask him? How do I convince him to give me another chance? or do I just accept the loss? tl;dr boyfriend wanted to move in with me, his family got in our business and now he doesn't, and now doesn't want to solve any problems with me or talk about anything

To begin I want to explain that my boyfriend's relationship with his family is... weird. When we first started dating he was living with his aunt, and she loved to talk trash about his mom and make him do stuff around the house when we were about to go out. His parents call him every day and know about every aspect of his life. Not only that, but they feel the need to insert themselves into every situation. We've had many dates interrupted by his dad calling to lecture him about work, or his mom calling and asking why he hasn't started packing yet, why do you spend so much money going out to eat, etc. Basically a very critical and codependent group of people. This has led to some big fights between my boyfriend and I because while he would rather just appease them because it's easier, I see it as disrespectful and controlling. One night we were out to dinner with his parents, and I wanted to stay out after his parents went home because the town was having a big celebration. My boyfriend agreed until his mom decided to interrogate him about why we would do that. Why did she even care? He caved, and we got in a huge fight because I was tired of watching him get stressed out for no reason other than his parents' interference, and tired of having our agreements disregarded because he doesn't know how to stand up to them. Apparently his mom has had some mental breakdowns in the past so it really is best to just say OK to her a lot of the time, but I told him it's still not a healthy way of solving problems, and I don't want to get dragged into it. He was very apologetic and said he understood where I was coming from. He gets mad when I don't do things his way, even when those things have nothing to do with him or he has done nothing to communicate what he wants. He's told me: -to quit my deli job for one that pays better -to go back to school even though I don't know what I want to major in -that I can't travel (because in his mind the only way to travel is to work an office job for 20 years first) -I should want to cook for him because I'm a girl -I'm not as smart as him -he doesn't want to date me unless it's easy -I won't be able to get a job if I move to another city -to just "get over it" when I was depressed To be fair he's apologized for some of these and he's right about some things, but I hate having to explain myself to him just because I don't want to do things a certain way. Also, when it comes to telling me to move or get a different job it's easy for him to say because he has his parents' wealth to fall back on every time he makes a life change. For me, there is a very real opportunity cost if I decide to go back to school vs. work more or buy a car vs. rent an apartment and so on. So here is where it turns into kind of a dramafest. My boyfriend's job didn't have enough work for him in our state, so they were talking about having him move out of state. Around the same time my family had a traumatic experience (don't want to give out details but it was a violent attack within the family). He flew back to stay at the hospital with me and told me he was definitely moving out of state, and that I could move in with him. I love the city he was going to move to and I have not been getting the support I need here, so I was happy to do that. We found an awesome apartment complex. I told him I wanted to go ASAP so I could find a counselor there and he said he wanted to go out there by himself first, stay with his brother and get his job settled and then get an apartment. I offered to pay for the first month. He said he didn't want to be on the lease with me if his job didn't work out. Then he said he wouldn't sign a lease with me at all; I could stay with him in his place for a while and then find my own place. I said, "why would I pay twice as much to not live with you if you are the reason I'm going out there?" He didn't want to move in with me because his parents wouldn't approve. Thing is this happened over probably 3 weeks because he kept changing his mind and we couldn't talk about it without it turning into an argument. And I was a wreck with everything else going on and ended up snapping at him for stupid things a lot. He ended up venting to his dad but wouldn't tell me what his dad said. I asked him not to tell his dad personal stuff about me, and to stop going behind my back. That's something he does a lot, talks to his whole family about something that affects us, makes a decision himself, and then talks to me about it. He won't cooperate with me. I told him it seemed like he wasn't ready for a relationship if he was just going to be dismissive of my needs and he said we'd talk about it over the weekend. So that weekend we went up to his parents' house (second house, they weren't there). We were going to go to a music festival but right as we were going to leave his dad called him and he disappeared for an hour. When he came back he didn't want to tell me what had happened but it turns out his parents didn't want me up there and were yelling at him about it. This led to an argument about all the stuff I brought up at the beginning of this post plus my boyfriend telling me I didn't try hard enough to get along with his family and that he had wanted to break up with me when he found out he was going to move out of state. We eventually agreed that we should both focus on our own things and trust each other to take care of ourselves for a while. We were going to go on a hike or something the next day, but that morning he told me to pack my stuff up and took me home. He barely talked to me on the drive back, and when we got there, he said he wanted to break up. We were having a great time until his parents called and stressed him out. I know I have not said many positive things about him here, but I really don't want to lose him. He can be very sweet and funny and he has pushed me to become a better person. We used to be good at figuring things out together. I called him the next night and asked if we could just be on a break and not "break up" and he said okay. He got a job here so he won't be moving out of state after all. He texts me that he loves me but isn't ready for a serious relationship right now and thinks we should both do our own things. We've met up once since then and had a really good time but he still won't talk to me about anything. He just says vague things like "you need to do you" and when I ask if we can try again after I figure my stuff out or what he wants from me he doesn't answer. Also, none of his family knows that he's seen me since we broke up. I feel like he's given up on me and it's the worst feeling. Especially since he did it in the middle of me dealing with a very traumatic experience. It's like he broke up with me for not dealing with it in a way that was convenient for him. I'm going to talk to him this weekend because I feel like a lot of things are unresolved. What should I ask him? How do I convince him to give me another chance? or do I just accept the loss? tl;dr boyfriend wanted to move in with me, his family got in our business and now he doesn't, and now doesn't want to solve any problems with me or talk about anything

relationships

t5_2qjvn

t3_3cuzdy

To begin I want to explain that my boyfriend's relationship with his family is... weird. When we first started dating he was living with his aunt, and she loved to talk trash about his mom and make him do stuff around the house when we were about to go out. His parents call him every day and know about every aspect of his life. Not only that, but they feel the need to insert themselves into every situation. We've had many dates interrupted by his dad calling to lecture him about work, or his mom calling and asking why he hasn't started packing yet, why do you spend so much money going out to eat, etc. Basically a very critical and codependent group of people. This has led to some big fights between my boyfriend and I because while he would rather just appease them because it's easier, I see it as disrespectful and controlling. One night we were out to dinner with his parents, and I wanted to stay out after his parents went home because the town was having a big celebration. My boyfriend agreed until his mom decided to interrogate him about why we would do that. Why did she even care? He caved, and we got in a huge fight because I was tired of watching him get stressed out for no reason other than his parents' interference, and tired of having our agreements disregarded because he doesn't know how to stand up to them. Apparently his mom has had some mental breakdowns in the past so it really is best to just say OK to her a lot of the time, but I told him it's still not a healthy way of solving problems, and I don't want to get dragged into it. He was very apologetic and said he understood where I was coming from. He gets mad when I don't do things his way, even when those things have nothing to do with him or he has done nothing to communicate what he wants. He's told me: -to quit my deli job for one that pays better -to go back to school even though I don't know what I want to major in -that I can't travel (because in his mind the only way to travel is to work an office job for 20 years first) -I should want to cook for him because I'm a girl -I'm not as smart as him -he doesn't want to date me unless it's easy -I won't be able to get a job if I move to another city -to just "get over it" when I was depressed To be fair he's apologized for some of these and he's right about some things, but I hate having to explain myself to him just because I don't want to do things a certain way. Also, when it comes to telling me to move or get a different job it's easy for him to say because he has his parents' wealth to fall back on every time he makes a life change. For me, there is a very real opportunity cost if I decide to go back to school vs. work more or buy a car vs. rent an apartment and so on. So here is where it turns into kind of a dramafest. My boyfriend's job didn't have enough work for him in our state, so they were talking about having him move out of state. Around the same time my family had a traumatic experience (don't want to give out details but it was a violent attack within the family). He flew back to stay at the hospital with me and told me he was definitely moving out of state, and that I could move in with him. I love the city he was going to move to and I have not been getting the support I need here, so I was happy to do that. We found an awesome apartment complex. I told him I wanted to go ASAP so I could find a counselor there and he said he wanted to go out there by himself first, stay with his brother and get his job settled and then get an apartment. I offered to pay for the first month. He said he didn't want to be on the lease with me if his job didn't work out. Then he said he wouldn't sign a lease with me at all; I could stay with him in his place for a while and then find my own place. I said, "why would I pay twice as much to not live with you if you are the reason I'm going out there?" He didn't want to move in with me because his parents wouldn't approve. Thing is this happened over probably 3 weeks because he kept changing his mind and we couldn't talk about it without it turning into an argument. And I was a wreck with everything else going on and ended up snapping at him for stupid things a lot. He ended up venting to his dad but wouldn't tell me what his dad said. I asked him not to tell his dad personal stuff about me, and to stop going behind my back. That's something he does a lot, talks to his whole family about something that affects us, makes a decision himself, and then talks to me about it. He won't cooperate with me. I told him it seemed like he wasn't ready for a relationship if he was just going to be dismissive of my needs and he said we'd talk about it over the weekend. So that weekend we went up to his parents' house (second house, they weren't there). We were going to go to a music festival but right as we were going to leave his dad called him and he disappeared for an hour. When he came back he didn't want to tell me what had happened but it turns out his parents didn't want me up there and were yelling at him about it. This led to an argument about all the stuff I brought up at the beginning of this post plus my boyfriend telling me I didn't try hard enough to get along with his family and that he had wanted to break up with me when he found out he was going to move out of state. We eventually agreed that we should both focus on our own things and trust each other to take care of ourselves for a while. We were going to go on a hike or something the next day, but that morning he told me to pack my stuff up and took me home. He barely talked to me on the drive back, and when we got there, he said he wanted to break up. We were having a great time until his parents called and stressed him out. I know I have not said many positive things about him here, but I really don't want to lose him. He can be very sweet and funny and he has pushed me to become a better person. We used to be good at figuring things out together. I called him the next night and asked if we could just be on a break and not "break up" and he said okay. He got a job here so he won't be moving out of state after all. He texts me that he loves me but isn't ready for a serious relationship right now and thinks we should both do our own things. We've met up once since then and had a really good time but he still won't talk to me about anything. He just says vague things like "you need to do you" and when I ask if we can try again after I figure my stuff out or what he wants from me he doesn't answer. Also, none of his family knows that he's seen me since we broke up. I feel like he's given up on me and it's the worst feeling. Especially since he did it in the middle of me dealing with a very traumatic experience. It's like he broke up with me for not dealing with it in a way that was convenient for him. I'm going to talk to him this weekend because I feel like a lot of things are unresolved. What should I ask him? How do I convince him to give me another chance? or do I just accept the loss?

boyfriend wanted to move in with me, his family got in our business and now he doesn't, and now doesn't want to solve any problems with me or talk about anything

MAC777

He's definitely a little narrow for such a fast format, but we're finding that in pretty much ANY cloudpost deck he's just the perfect finisher. He's working wonders for the consistency of decks like MUD. You get a board wipe, you can ghostfire them to death, and his ultimate out of a Legacy MUD deck is truly just something to behold. Kevin (the guy who started running all four) has said he'd run five if he could and has genuinely considered the new Ugin land as a means to recur them. Ugin is that good, and our legacy crowd has been a bit amused that what we consider to be just about the best planeswalker of the last few years is costed at 8. Tl;dr = I wouldn't rush to buy Eugenes but I definitely wouldn't sell any I pulled. It's not too likely he'll become a huge fad, and our format is kind of small compared to yours, but he will certainly have big lasting value.

He's definitely a little narrow for such a fast format, but we're finding that in pretty much ANY cloudpost deck he's just the perfect finisher. He's working wonders for the consistency of decks like MUD. You get a board wipe, you can ghostfire them to death, and his ultimate out of a Legacy MUD deck is truly just something to behold. Kevin (the guy who started running all four) has said he'd run five if he could and has genuinely considered the new Ugin land as a means to recur them. Ugin is that good, and our legacy crowd has been a bit amused that what we consider to be just about the best planeswalker of the last few years is costed at 8. Tl;dr = I wouldn't rush to buy Eugenes but I definitely wouldn't sell any I pulled. It's not too likely he'll become a huge fad, and our format is kind of small compared to yours, but he will certainly have big lasting value.

magicTCG

t5_2qn5f

cpgl2kr

He's definitely a little narrow for such a fast format, but we're finding that in pretty much ANY cloudpost deck he's just the perfect finisher. He's working wonders for the consistency of decks like MUD. You get a board wipe, you can ghostfire them to death, and his ultimate out of a Legacy MUD deck is truly just something to behold. Kevin (the guy who started running all four) has said he'd run five if he could and has genuinely considered the new Ugin land as a means to recur them. Ugin is that good, and our legacy crowd has been a bit amused that what we consider to be just about the best planeswalker of the last few years is costed at 8.

I wouldn't rush to buy Eugenes but I definitely wouldn't sell any I pulled. It's not too likely he'll become a huge fad, and our format is kind of small compared to yours, but he will certainly have big lasting value.

chewingofthecud

When person A is killed, if the cause turns out to be person B, then this person might be liable. If B simply didn't give A the water they need to live, outside of a contractual obligation B is not responsible because non-contractual positive obligations don't exist, or are at least always reducible to negative obligations. B didn't cause A's death, A's inability to get water for themselves did. Most of the time we think that transmitting a disease to someone is the result of *not* doing something, but this isn't true; it's the result of doing something--that is, getting too close to them while you're contagious. Absolute knowledge isn't really possible for synthetic statements such as "I will/won't contract a disease if I don't get vaccinated", but we can reasonably assume that if you don't get vaccinated for the flu, you know that you're taking a risk of contracting the flu, and that this risk is substantially higher than if you got vaccinated. If you take this risk and then interact with others, you're forcing this risk on to them without telling them. It's not really all that different from having sex with someone after you've been sharing needles with HIV positive drug addicts. You're significantly increasing their risk of contracting a disease, so you're obligated to tell them or face the legal consequences if they suffer any significant damage to their life. You should be free to expose yourself to risk, but if you expose others to risk you should be prepared to accept liability. Of course this principle can't be interpreted in an absolute manner because we're all exposed to low levels of risk all the time, but the question should be asked "did this person take *reasonable* steps to mitigate the risk that led to the occurrence?" and the answer ought to be considered in libertarian terms; "did person B violate any negative rights of person A?" In the case of taking a substantial risk of contracting a disease and not telling people with whom you're in contact about that risk, the answer is yes, since persons A and B interact with the implied understanding that this interaction will not force a significant risk on to either party unless otherwise stated. If person B gives A the flu, then they ought to face the consequences, which is probably nothing that any court would grant damages for. So you got sick for a week, get over it. But if the consequences turn out to be lethal, well, sorry person B, but you decided to take a risk by your own free will, person A died, and you ought to be liable for it. **TL;DR Vaccination shouldn't be mandatory, but a view of negative rights does allow for liability in some cases of death by contagion.**

When person A is killed, if the cause turns out to be person B, then this person might be liable. If B simply didn't give A the water they need to live, outside of a contractual obligation B is not responsible because non-contractual positive obligations don't exist, or are at least always reducible to negative obligations. B didn't cause A's death, A's inability to get water for themselves did. Most of the time we think that transmitting a disease to someone is the result of not doing something, but this isn't true; it's the result of doing something--that is, getting too close to them while you're contagious. Absolute knowledge isn't really possible for synthetic statements such as "I will/won't contract a disease if I don't get vaccinated", but we can reasonably assume that if you don't get vaccinated for the flu, you know that you're taking a risk of contracting the flu, and that this risk is substantially higher than if you got vaccinated. If you take this risk and then interact with others, you're forcing this risk on to them without telling them. It's not really all that different from having sex with someone after you've been sharing needles with HIV positive drug addicts. You're significantly increasing their risk of contracting a disease, so you're obligated to tell them or face the legal consequences if they suffer any significant damage to their life. You should be free to expose yourself to risk, but if you expose others to risk you should be prepared to accept liability. Of course this principle can't be interpreted in an absolute manner because we're all exposed to low levels of risk all the time, but the question should be asked "did this person take reasonable steps to mitigate the risk that led to the occurrence?" and the answer ought to be considered in libertarian terms; "did person B violate any negative rights of person A?" In the case of taking a substantial risk of contracting a disease and not telling people with whom you're in contact about that risk, the answer is yes, since persons A and B interact with the implied understanding that this interaction will not force a significant risk on to either party unless otherwise stated. If person B gives A the flu, then they ought to face the consequences, which is probably nothing that any court would grant damages for. So you got sick for a week, get over it. But if the consequences turn out to be lethal, well, sorry person B, but you decided to take a risk by your own free will, person A died, and you ought to be liable for it. TL;DR Vaccination shouldn't be mandatory, but a view of negative rights does allow for liability in some cases of death by contagion.

LibertarianDebates

t5_2tvku

cod1k5x

When person A is killed, if the cause turns out to be person B, then this person might be liable. If B simply didn't give A the water they need to live, outside of a contractual obligation B is not responsible because non-contractual positive obligations don't exist, or are at least always reducible to negative obligations. B didn't cause A's death, A's inability to get water for themselves did. Most of the time we think that transmitting a disease to someone is the result of not doing something, but this isn't true; it's the result of doing something--that is, getting too close to them while you're contagious. Absolute knowledge isn't really possible for synthetic statements such as "I will/won't contract a disease if I don't get vaccinated", but we can reasonably assume that if you don't get vaccinated for the flu, you know that you're taking a risk of contracting the flu, and that this risk is substantially higher than if you got vaccinated. If you take this risk and then interact with others, you're forcing this risk on to them without telling them. It's not really all that different from having sex with someone after you've been sharing needles with HIV positive drug addicts. You're significantly increasing their risk of contracting a disease, so you're obligated to tell them or face the legal consequences if they suffer any significant damage to their life. You should be free to expose yourself to risk, but if you expose others to risk you should be prepared to accept liability. Of course this principle can't be interpreted in an absolute manner because we're all exposed to low levels of risk all the time, but the question should be asked "did this person take reasonable steps to mitigate the risk that led to the occurrence?" and the answer ought to be considered in libertarian terms; "did person B violate any negative rights of person A?" In the case of taking a substantial risk of contracting a disease and not telling people with whom you're in contact about that risk, the answer is yes, since persons A and B interact with the implied understanding that this interaction will not force a significant risk on to either party unless otherwise stated. If person B gives A the flu, then they ought to face the consequences, which is probably nothing that any court would grant damages for. So you got sick for a week, get over it. But if the consequences turn out to be lethal, well, sorry person B, but you decided to take a risk by your own free will, person A died, and you ought to be liable for it.

Vaccination shouldn't be mandatory, but a view of negative rights does allow for liability in some cases of death by contagion.

Jobeanie123

As for the outer space thing - believe that beyond the reaches of the expanding universe is just nothing. The same way a vacuum in deep space is nothing. Nothing exists there. Not a speck, not an atom (err well sort of). So, assuming we were able to go beyond the limit of where there are things, we would just essentially expand it all the more. There is infinite space with not enough to fill it. Not nearly enough. **TL;DR: Universe is infinite, but mostly made of nothing. It has no limit, the "limit" we impose is just that of it filled with stuff**

As for the outer space thing - believe that beyond the reaches of the expanding universe is just nothing. The same way a vacuum in deep space is nothing. Nothing exists there. Not a speck, not an atom (err well sort of). So, assuming we were able to go beyond the limit of where there are things, we would just essentially expand it all the more. There is infinite space with not enough to fill it. Not nearly enough. TL;DR: Universe is infinite, but mostly made of nothing. It has no limit, the "limit" we impose is just that of it filled with stuff

AskReddit

t5_2qh1i

cbo3i50

As for the outer space thing - believe that beyond the reaches of the expanding universe is just nothing. The same way a vacuum in deep space is nothing. Nothing exists there. Not a speck, not an atom (err well sort of). So, assuming we were able to go beyond the limit of where there are things, we would just essentially expand it all the more. There is infinite space with not enough to fill it. Not nearly enough.

Universe is infinite, but mostly made of nothing. It has no limit, the "limit" we impose is just that of it filled with stuff

gaminz

I know this post isn't really like something that's normally posted in this subreddit but I'm sad and really just want to write about it and hope that some other gamers can relate or gain something from it. I started gaming from a very young age, my parents bought my brother and I an Atari when it first came out and from there we were hooked, we had a privileged childhood and our parents were able to get us nearly every system. Gaming was mostly just a hobby to have fun with after school or football/basketball practice, nothing too serious. Around the time I started high school (he was finishing high school) we started playing Counter-Strike seriously, played in a couple local LAN tournaments in our area. We never won anything or have anything to show for it except the memories we shared. However that time set me up for a complete shift in my life. Our clan in Counter-Strike started talking about a new game that was coming out at the time (World of Warcraft). One of the guys got into the beta for the game and we all would go over to his house to watch him play. Eventually when the came we all started playing, except for my brother who had just moved into the dorms in college and had no interest in the game. Our clan eventually stopped talking to one another but the I continued on playing WoW. After playing alone for some time I decided to join a guild in WoW, little did I know this would probably be the most life changing decision I have ever made. Shortly after joining, a hunter in the guild and I became good friends. We'd run around zones with them playing bait and when someone would try and jump him I'd pop out of stealth and we'd ambush the group or person that tried to attack. Over time we developed a really strong friendship, in a time really where voice chat wasn't common place we bonded over text and would talk all night long. Eventually one night we decided to attend the guild's raid to one of the earliest raid zones, upon joining the raid (and subsequently voice chat) I made the discovery that this hunter that I had grown so close to was actually a woman. Things progressed a bit faster after that point, probably due to certain uhh... factors. We started talking on the phone every night, I learned she lived 6 hours away from me, we were both willing to meet each other, we so we eventually setup a meeting together. I drove the 6 hours and we spent one of the greatest weekends I've ever had together, we became closer than ever! The minute I got home after our weekend I know I wanted to go back and I couldn't possibly stand to be away from this woman. There were some complications though, her father lived on the other side of the country and really wanted her to come live with him, she didn't want to go but had no real other choice. So I sucked it up and told her that I would move down to her state and we could get an apartment together. She wouldn't have to leave her other family where she is now and more importantly she wouldn't have to leave me. The beginning of our life together started in an overpriced apartment that was 150 years old, had no insulation from the cold winters, the furnace was in the attic, there was no washer/dryer, there was no dish washer, the hot water heater broke in the winter and the landlord didn't fix it, we were impossibly broke eating Ramen and rice nearly every day for dinner and I barely was able to pay for the gas in my car to get to work. Through it all though we had what brought us together, gaming! We still PVPd in WoW together, we played games like Guitar Hero, Dynasty Warriors, Warhammer online, Maple Story, and basically any free to play game together! As time went on our lives became better, I got a better job and was able to afford living expenses, we found a better cheaper apartment, and eventually we found better guild to move to in WoW since we were still playing. We joined a once-world-class guild and spent the remainder of WoW days there where we met some of the best people in the world and are still friends with many of those people today. Shortly after joining that guild she decided that WoW and gaming in general really wasn't doing it for her anymore and we eventually stopped gaming together. Our lives continued to get better, I was earning a nice salary from my job, she was working on her art and progressing to a point where she was really happy with what she was doing, but she eventually found that something was lacking from her life. So after 9 years together we sat down one night and came to the realization that maybe our time together is at an end. The next 6 months or so were really tough on my as I still felt the same way I always have towards her, but she needed to try more in her life, see what's out there and find what really makes her happy. I know that's probably not the happiest ending to this situation, but I can say that thanks to gaming I met one of the greatest people in the world. When I met her I was a spoiled, elitist, entitled, child who would rage constantly and get angry at nearly everything. My relationship with her and the other people that I've met through gaming have helped shape me into not only a contributing member of society but all together a much better person. Her and I are still very good friends, in-fact what prompted me into sitting down and writing this is just yesterday I drove her to the airport because she's going to visit some friends in a different continent for a couple months. I'm moving back to where I originally came from and I don't think she'll be coming. tldr: Thanks gaming for making my life better and keeping me always hopeful for the future. Oasis said it best "All the roads we have to walk are winding and all the lights along the way are blinding."

I know this post isn't really like something that's normally posted in this subreddit but I'm sad and really just want to write about it and hope that some other gamers can relate or gain something from it. I started gaming from a very young age, my parents bought my brother and I an Atari when it first came out and from there we were hooked, we had a privileged childhood and our parents were able to get us nearly every system. Gaming was mostly just a hobby to have fun with after school or football/basketball practice, nothing too serious. Around the time I started high school (he was finishing high school) we started playing Counter-Strike seriously, played in a couple local LAN tournaments in our area. We never won anything or have anything to show for it except the memories we shared. However that time set me up for a complete shift in my life. Our clan in Counter-Strike started talking about a new game that was coming out at the time (World of Warcraft). One of the guys got into the beta for the game and we all would go over to his house to watch him play. Eventually when the came we all started playing, except for my brother who had just moved into the dorms in college and had no interest in the game. Our clan eventually stopped talking to one another but the I continued on playing WoW. After playing alone for some time I decided to join a guild in WoW, little did I know this would probably be the most life changing decision I have ever made. Shortly after joining, a hunter in the guild and I became good friends. We'd run around zones with them playing bait and when someone would try and jump him I'd pop out of stealth and we'd ambush the group or person that tried to attack. Over time we developed a really strong friendship, in a time really where voice chat wasn't common place we bonded over text and would talk all night long. Eventually one night we decided to attend the guild's raid to one of the earliest raid zones, upon joining the raid (and subsequently voice chat) I made the discovery that this hunter that I had grown so close to was actually a woman. Things progressed a bit faster after that point, probably due to certain uhh... factors. We started talking on the phone every night, I learned she lived 6 hours away from me, we were both willing to meet each other, we so we eventually setup a meeting together. I drove the 6 hours and we spent one of the greatest weekends I've ever had together, we became closer than ever! The minute I got home after our weekend I know I wanted to go back and I couldn't possibly stand to be away from this woman. There were some complications though, her father lived on the other side of the country and really wanted her to come live with him, she didn't want to go but had no real other choice. So I sucked it up and told her that I would move down to her state and we could get an apartment together. She wouldn't have to leave her other family where she is now and more importantly she wouldn't have to leave me. The beginning of our life together started in an overpriced apartment that was 150 years old, had no insulation from the cold winters, the furnace was in the attic, there was no washer/dryer, there was no dish washer, the hot water heater broke in the winter and the landlord didn't fix it, we were impossibly broke eating Ramen and rice nearly every day for dinner and I barely was able to pay for the gas in my car to get to work. Through it all though we had what brought us together, gaming! We still PVPd in WoW together, we played games like Guitar Hero, Dynasty Warriors, Warhammer online, Maple Story, and basically any free to play game together! As time went on our lives became better, I got a better job and was able to afford living expenses, we found a better cheaper apartment, and eventually we found better guild to move to in WoW since we were still playing. We joined a once-world-class guild and spent the remainder of WoW days there where we met some of the best people in the world and are still friends with many of those people today. Shortly after joining that guild she decided that WoW and gaming in general really wasn't doing it for her anymore and we eventually stopped gaming together. Our lives continued to get better, I was earning a nice salary from my job, she was working on her art and progressing to a point where she was really happy with what she was doing, but she eventually found that something was lacking from her life. So after 9 years together we sat down one night and came to the realization that maybe our time together is at an end. The next 6 months or so were really tough on my as I still felt the same way I always have towards her, but she needed to try more in her life, see what's out there and find what really makes her happy. I know that's probably not the happiest ending to this situation, but I can say that thanks to gaming I met one of the greatest people in the world. When I met her I was a spoiled, elitist, entitled, child who would rage constantly and get angry at nearly everything. My relationship with her and the other people that I've met through gaming have helped shape me into not only a contributing member of society but all together a much better person. Her and I are still very good friends, in-fact what prompted me into sitting down and writing this is just yesterday I drove her to the airport because she's going to visit some friends in a different continent for a couple months. I'm moving back to where I originally came from and I don't think she'll be coming. tldr: Thanks gaming for making my life better and keeping me always hopeful for the future. Oasis said it best "All the roads we have to walk are winding and all the lights along the way are blinding."

gaming

t5_2qh03

t3_2g0gdj

I know this post isn't really like something that's normally posted in this subreddit but I'm sad and really just want to write about it and hope that some other gamers can relate or gain something from it. I started gaming from a very young age, my parents bought my brother and I an Atari when it first came out and from there we were hooked, we had a privileged childhood and our parents were able to get us nearly every system. Gaming was mostly just a hobby to have fun with after school or football/basketball practice, nothing too serious. Around the time I started high school (he was finishing high school) we started playing Counter-Strike seriously, played in a couple local LAN tournaments in our area. We never won anything or have anything to show for it except the memories we shared. However that time set me up for a complete shift in my life. Our clan in Counter-Strike started talking about a new game that was coming out at the time (World of Warcraft). One of the guys got into the beta for the game and we all would go over to his house to watch him play. Eventually when the came we all started playing, except for my brother who had just moved into the dorms in college and had no interest in the game. Our clan eventually stopped talking to one another but the I continued on playing WoW. After playing alone for some time I decided to join a guild in WoW, little did I know this would probably be the most life changing decision I have ever made. Shortly after joining, a hunter in the guild and I became good friends. We'd run around zones with them playing bait and when someone would try and jump him I'd pop out of stealth and we'd ambush the group or person that tried to attack. Over time we developed a really strong friendship, in a time really where voice chat wasn't common place we bonded over text and would talk all night long. Eventually one night we decided to attend the guild's raid to one of the earliest raid zones, upon joining the raid (and subsequently voice chat) I made the discovery that this hunter that I had grown so close to was actually a woman. Things progressed a bit faster after that point, probably due to certain uhh... factors. We started talking on the phone every night, I learned she lived 6 hours away from me, we were both willing to meet each other, we so we eventually setup a meeting together. I drove the 6 hours and we spent one of the greatest weekends I've ever had together, we became closer than ever! The minute I got home after our weekend I know I wanted to go back and I couldn't possibly stand to be away from this woman. There were some complications though, her father lived on the other side of the country and really wanted her to come live with him, she didn't want to go but had no real other choice. So I sucked it up and told her that I would move down to her state and we could get an apartment together. She wouldn't have to leave her other family where she is now and more importantly she wouldn't have to leave me. The beginning of our life together started in an overpriced apartment that was 150 years old, had no insulation from the cold winters, the furnace was in the attic, there was no washer/dryer, there was no dish washer, the hot water heater broke in the winter and the landlord didn't fix it, we were impossibly broke eating Ramen and rice nearly every day for dinner and I barely was able to pay for the gas in my car to get to work. Through it all though we had what brought us together, gaming! We still PVPd in WoW together, we played games like Guitar Hero, Dynasty Warriors, Warhammer online, Maple Story, and basically any free to play game together! As time went on our lives became better, I got a better job and was able to afford living expenses, we found a better cheaper apartment, and eventually we found better guild to move to in WoW since we were still playing. We joined a once-world-class guild and spent the remainder of WoW days there where we met some of the best people in the world and are still friends with many of those people today. Shortly after joining that guild she decided that WoW and gaming in general really wasn't doing it for her anymore and we eventually stopped gaming together. Our lives continued to get better, I was earning a nice salary from my job, she was working on her art and progressing to a point where she was really happy with what she was doing, but she eventually found that something was lacking from her life. So after 9 years together we sat down one night and came to the realization that maybe our time together is at an end. The next 6 months or so were really tough on my as I still felt the same way I always have towards her, but she needed to try more in her life, see what's out there and find what really makes her happy. I know that's probably not the happiest ending to this situation, but I can say that thanks to gaming I met one of the greatest people in the world. When I met her I was a spoiled, elitist, entitled, child who would rage constantly and get angry at nearly everything. My relationship with her and the other people that I've met through gaming have helped shape me into not only a contributing member of society but all together a much better person. Her and I are still very good friends, in-fact what prompted me into sitting down and writing this is just yesterday I drove her to the airport because she's going to visit some friends in a different continent for a couple months. I'm moving back to where I originally came from and I don't think she'll be coming.

Thanks gaming for making my life better and keeping me always hopeful for the future. Oasis said it best "All the roads we have to walk are winding and all the lights along the way are blinding."

twinkle122

Hi everyone. So a bit of background info: My husband and I have been married for 3 happy years, are "young" parents to two wonderful boys (I'm 22, he's 23) and neither of us have really had to deal with the loss of a loved one before (the last deaths in both our families happened when we were both infants/toddlers)... Long story short, his Grandfather is the first death that we've both experienced as adults. We attended the cremation and funeral today and it's really hitting home now. I have no idea how I can help him through his grief, and also have no idea how to handle this grief myself either... Does anyone here have any advice that might help us get through this? **TL;DR** **First death in the family we've experienced as competent adults, need help knowing how to deal with this loss.**

Hi everyone. So a bit of background info: My husband and I have been married for 3 happy years, are "young" parents to two wonderful boys (I'm 22, he's 23) and neither of us have really had to deal with the loss of a loved one before (the last deaths in both our families happened when we were both infants/toddlers)... Long story short, his Grandfather is the first death that we've both experienced as adults. We attended the cremation and funeral today and it's really hitting home now. I have no idea how I can help him through his grief, and also have no idea how to handle this grief myself either... Does anyone here have any advice that might help us get through this? TL;DR First death in the family we've experienced as competent adults, need help knowing how to deal with this loss.

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Hi everyone. So a bit of background info: My husband and I have been married for 3 happy years, are "young" parents to two wonderful boys (I'm 22, he's 23) and neither of us have really had to deal with the loss of a loved one before (the last deaths in both our families happened when we were both infants/toddlers)... Long story short, his Grandfather is the first death that we've both experienced as adults. We attended the cremation and funeral today and it's really hitting home now. I have no idea how I can help him through his grief, and also have no idea how to handle this grief myself either... Does anyone here have any advice that might help us get through this?

First death in the family we've experienced as competent adults, need help knowing how to deal with this loss.

BesomeGames

What was his tirade about? I'd like to know but I don't care enough to hunt down what your talking about. TLDR IF YA HEAR ME!

What was his tirade about? I'd like to know but I don't care enough to hunt down what your talking about. TLDR IF YA HEAR ME!

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What was his tirade about? I'd like to know but I don't care enough to hunt down what your talking about.

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Brian Greene is great at explaining advanced physics like Feynman Carl Sagan gives beautiful, poetic descriptions of the universe and reflections on our relationship with the cosmos Neil DeGrasse Tyson gives great tl;drs for astrophysics an a funny, engaging way Bill Bye the Science Guy rocks the shit out of his bow ties.

Brian Greene is great at explaining advanced physics like Feynman Carl Sagan gives beautiful, poetic descriptions of the universe and reflections on our relationship with the cosmos Neil DeGrasse Tyson gives great tl;drs for astrophysics an a funny, engaging way Bill Bye the Science Guy rocks the shit out of his bow ties.

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Brian Greene is great at explaining advanced physics like Feynman Carl Sagan gives beautiful, poetic descriptions of the universe and reflections on our relationship with the cosmos Neil DeGrasse Tyson gives great

s for astrophysics an a funny, engaging way Bill Bye the Science Guy rocks the shit out of his bow ties.

KBAREY

OK, here goes. I am autistic (actual, not self-diagnosis)-specifically, I have Asperger's Syndrome. This means that forming friendships with people and interacting is challenging for me, though it has become easier in recent years as I've had more practice with it. For a variety of personal reasons (selfish with my personal time, don't want kids, don't want to commit to someone, etc) I've concluded that being in a relationship is beyond the pale of what I'm capable of as a person, and that close friendship is my upper limit for human interaction. Unfortunately, I'm not asexual, and I develop crushes on people and experience sexual attraction. Because I'm incapable of acting on these feelings in any meaningful way, I've grown to despise them. My life would be so much simpler and less stressful if I never was attracted to anyone, and it's gotten to the point where, if I had one wish that a genie could grant me, it would be to make me incapable of being romantically or sexually attracted to someone. Every time I masturbate, I get mad at myself, because I know that means I still feel sexual attraction and force myself to act on it. I don't have any personal moral or religious beliefs explaining this; I'm an atheist and generally favor more liberal sexual norms on a societal level. But on a personal level, sexuality is something that confuses me, frustrates me, and that I wish I did not feel. Why do I feel this way? Is there any healthy way to ignore my sexuality, or any medical/psychological way to get rid of it? Why do I feel like this? --- **tl;dr**: For personal reasons I'm incapable of being in a relationship or having sex, yet I still feel sexual attraction. I despise my sexuality because of this.

OK, here goes. I am autistic (actual, not self-diagnosis)-specifically, I have Asperger's Syndrome. This means that forming friendships with people and interacting is challenging for me, though it has become easier in recent years as I've had more practice with it. For a variety of personal reasons (selfish with my personal time, don't want kids, don't want to commit to someone, etc) I've concluded that being in a relationship is beyond the pale of what I'm capable of as a person, and that close friendship is my upper limit for human interaction. Unfortunately, I'm not asexual, and I develop crushes on people and experience sexual attraction. Because I'm incapable of acting on these feelings in any meaningful way, I've grown to despise them. My life would be so much simpler and less stressful if I never was attracted to anyone, and it's gotten to the point where, if I had one wish that a genie could grant me, it would be to make me incapable of being romantically or sexually attracted to someone. Every time I masturbate, I get mad at myself, because I know that means I still feel sexual attraction and force myself to act on it. I don't have any personal moral or religious beliefs explaining this; I'm an atheist and generally favor more liberal sexual norms on a societal level. But on a personal level, sexuality is something that confuses me, frustrates me, and that I wish I did not feel. Why do I feel this way? Is there any healthy way to ignore my sexuality, or any medical/psychological way to get rid of it? Why do I feel like this? tl;dr : For personal reasons I'm incapable of being in a relationship or having sex, yet I still feel sexual attraction. I despise my sexuality because of this.

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OK, here goes. I am autistic (actual, not self-diagnosis)-specifically, I have Asperger's Syndrome. This means that forming friendships with people and interacting is challenging for me, though it has become easier in recent years as I've had more practice with it. For a variety of personal reasons (selfish with my personal time, don't want kids, don't want to commit to someone, etc) I've concluded that being in a relationship is beyond the pale of what I'm capable of as a person, and that close friendship is my upper limit for human interaction. Unfortunately, I'm not asexual, and I develop crushes on people and experience sexual attraction. Because I'm incapable of acting on these feelings in any meaningful way, I've grown to despise them. My life would be so much simpler and less stressful if I never was attracted to anyone, and it's gotten to the point where, if I had one wish that a genie could grant me, it would be to make me incapable of being romantically or sexually attracted to someone. Every time I masturbate, I get mad at myself, because I know that means I still feel sexual attraction and force myself to act on it. I don't have any personal moral or religious beliefs explaining this; I'm an atheist and generally favor more liberal sexual norms on a societal level. But on a personal level, sexuality is something that confuses me, frustrates me, and that I wish I did not feel. Why do I feel this way? Is there any healthy way to ignore my sexuality, or any medical/psychological way to get rid of it? Why do I feel like this?

For personal reasons I'm incapable of being in a relationship or having sex, yet I still feel sexual attraction. I despise my sexuality because of this.

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Sedditors! I know that the typical eye contact IOI is the reverse: good eye contact=interested. However, let me explain my situation and get your take. So, I have a weakness for conservative christian girls even though I'm not really religious. This one in particular has shown solid IOIs in the past. However, she is a shy girl and really resistant to kino (not just from me but from just about everyone). Recently, we started hanging out more on the weekend--not just the two of us, but together with a few more people. At the same time, I've noticed her breaking eye contact after a few words. It seems to me like a nervous thing rather than an IODisinterest. I thought about it some more, and given that she is a conservative girl, maybe I make her nervous because she has strong feelings toward me causing her to break eye contact. I know this is an optimistic way of thinking about it so I wanted to see what the pros on seddit had to say. Anyway, as any good sedditor would, I am going to continue to assume she's interested and see where it goes. Thoughts appreciated! **TLDR: Good conservative girl breaks eye contact after showing IOIs in the past. Maybe she is just nervous because she feels strongly about me (and is thus an IOI afterall)?** PS: The real challenge going forward is to initiate/escalate kino with this girl. Any tips for kino escalation with a shy girl?

Sedditors! I know that the typical eye contact IOI is the reverse: good eye contact=interested. However, let me explain my situation and get your take. So, I have a weakness for conservative christian girls even though I'm not really religious. This one in particular has shown solid IOIs in the past. However, she is a shy girl and really resistant to kino (not just from me but from just about everyone). Recently, we started hanging out more on the weekend--not just the two of us, but together with a few more people. At the same time, I've noticed her breaking eye contact after a few words. It seems to me like a nervous thing rather than an IODisinterest. I thought about it some more, and given that she is a conservative girl, maybe I make her nervous because she has strong feelings toward me causing her to break eye contact. I know this is an optimistic way of thinking about it so I wanted to see what the pros on seddit had to say. Anyway, as any good sedditor would, I am going to continue to assume she's interested and see where it goes. Thoughts appreciated! TLDR: Good conservative girl breaks eye contact after showing IOIs in the past. Maybe she is just nervous because she feels strongly about me (and is thus an IOI afterall)? PS: The real challenge going forward is to initiate/escalate kino with this girl. Any tips for kino escalation with a shy girl?

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Sedditors! I know that the typical eye contact IOI is the reverse: good eye contact=interested. However, let me explain my situation and get your take. So, I have a weakness for conservative christian girls even though I'm not really religious. This one in particular has shown solid IOIs in the past. However, she is a shy girl and really resistant to kino (not just from me but from just about everyone). Recently, we started hanging out more on the weekend--not just the two of us, but together with a few more people. At the same time, I've noticed her breaking eye contact after a few words. It seems to me like a nervous thing rather than an IODisinterest. I thought about it some more, and given that she is a conservative girl, maybe I make her nervous because she has strong feelings toward me causing her to break eye contact. I know this is an optimistic way of thinking about it so I wanted to see what the pros on seddit had to say. Anyway, as any good sedditor would, I am going to continue to assume she's interested and see where it goes. Thoughts appreciated!

Good conservative girl breaks eye contact after showing IOIs in the past. Maybe she is just nervous because she feels strongly about me (and is thus an IOI afterall)? PS: The real challenge going forward is to initiate/escalate kino with this girl. Any tips for kino escalation with a shy girl?

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please note that this is might be based on outdated information and that I am not looking for popularity here, i am just going to share a little story that happened in the "short" time I played EVE about 2-3 years ago It occured midway in the second month (some would still view as new) when I finally managed to get a placement on a corporation, shortly before joining the alliance FORCEFUL ENTRY, there I embarked in various mining operations. But everything changed when they managed to get a region in the Tribute sector in which they moved their center of operations, in which I needed to move everything I had, at the time I managed to get a Raven battleship in which I did more or less everything non-mining, when I managed to kill a few pirate ships, I decided to salvage the wreckage and then sell it. To sell it, I needed to move to a higher-seurity system (which at the time was Piekura, sorry if misspelled),I decided to make sure there weren't any gatecampers (in which i had been victim of MULTIPLE times), I asked FORCEFUL ENTRY about it and I was assured that there weren't any, I proceeded to move, unfortunately there WAS one, a Minmitar battlecruiser, he destroyed my battleship, I enquired to FORCEFUL ENTRY as to why no-one assisted me or escorted and asked for compensation (since my subscription was close to expiration and I needed a new battleship-size ship) despite this, FORCEFUL ENTRY refused without doubt...and went as far as BOOTING me from the alliance and the corporation (maybe viewing me as a whiner and a burden) seeing as how the situation was completely hopeless, since I also lost my Retriever...twice, had far too little ISK to buy a new ship, let alone a PLEX, I gave it all away, ISK, assets, everything to the only one left to trust, who led the corp, invited me TO the corp and gave advice by then, I swore never ever to play EVE again unless they did something that would convince me otherwise (as of yet...nothing) as of right now, there are still problems with EVE right now that is about as significant then as right now 1.**Group reliance** I always prefer going stuff alone, but in EVE's current state, it appears that they are trying to encourage players to decicate their whole actions to people who aren't likely to return the favour....and if you don't, you won't get progress and you will never stop paying for it, as such, EVE is far too lonewolf-unfriendly 2.**Subscriptions** Honestly, I can no longer understand by any means why this even exists anymore, it is extremely off-putting towards new users, even if you don't need to pay after the next 3, you could easily pay for many other games in which you don't have evil corporations betraying your ass, in fact, newer MMO's like Planetside 2 can be successful and you don't need to pay whatsoever! 3.**Learning curve** I am just going to cut to the chase here, it is WAY too high, in other multiplayer games, like Team Fortress 2, Call of Duty or LoL, you could most likely unlock everything over maybe 3 months, if you're lucky, 2, but in EVE, unlocking everything takes YEARS...and you need almost 2 months just to get to a battleship, including the means to buy one, and even so, battleships apparently are not superior to frigates so thats 2 months DOWN THE DRAIN 4.**Moneymaking** When I finally got my raven, it took me 2 mining operations that took 2 hours long EACH to obtain and even so, it took me longer to get more stuff like planetary command centers and the stuff to make it useful. My point here is that it is every method of obataining ISK is extremely ineffective, and not just with ships, but with skills and more or less everything, even rubbish ones, even Incrusions earned me very little 5.**Gatecampers** This annoyed me so much i need to make another point specifically aimed at them, it is an absolutely cruel thing that players can do, since it can vurtually ruin the experience of new players and as such, I have seen absolutely NO action against them, and because the only serious way of making ISK is at low-or no security systems, it is impossible to avoid them As I mentioned beforehand, I am not looking for Karma in this post, it may be based on outdated info, I am just sharing my story and exactly WHY I choose never to play EVE again, only constructive and well-structured criticism is welcome thank you for reading this, sorry for no TL;DR :P

please note that this is might be based on outdated information and that I am not looking for popularity here, i am just going to share a little story that happened in the "short" time I played EVE about 2-3 years ago It occured midway in the second month (some would still view as new) when I finally managed to get a placement on a corporation, shortly before joining the alliance FORCEFUL ENTRY, there I embarked in various mining operations. But everything changed when they managed to get a region in the Tribute sector in which they moved their center of operations, in which I needed to move everything I had, at the time I managed to get a Raven battleship in which I did more or less everything non-mining, when I managed to kill a few pirate ships, I decided to salvage the wreckage and then sell it. To sell it, I needed to move to a higher-seurity system (which at the time was Piekura, sorry if misspelled),I decided to make sure there weren't any gatecampers (in which i had been victim of MULTIPLE times), I asked FORCEFUL ENTRY about it and I was assured that there weren't any, I proceeded to move, unfortunately there WAS one, a Minmitar battlecruiser, he destroyed my battleship, I enquired to FORCEFUL ENTRY as to why no-one assisted me or escorted and asked for compensation (since my subscription was close to expiration and I needed a new battleship-size ship) despite this, FORCEFUL ENTRY refused without doubt...and went as far as BOOTING me from the alliance and the corporation (maybe viewing me as a whiner and a burden) seeing as how the situation was completely hopeless, since I also lost my Retriever...twice, had far too little ISK to buy a new ship, let alone a PLEX, I gave it all away, ISK, assets, everything to the only one left to trust, who led the corp, invited me TO the corp and gave advice by then, I swore never ever to play EVE again unless they did something that would convince me otherwise (as of yet...nothing) as of right now, there are still problems with EVE right now that is about as significant then as right now 1. Group reliance I always prefer going stuff alone, but in EVE's current state, it appears that they are trying to encourage players to decicate their whole actions to people who aren't likely to return the favour....and if you don't, you won't get progress and you will never stop paying for it, as such, EVE is far too lonewolf-unfriendly 2. Subscriptions Honestly, I can no longer understand by any means why this even exists anymore, it is extremely off-putting towards new users, even if you don't need to pay after the next 3, you could easily pay for many other games in which you don't have evil corporations betraying your ass, in fact, newer MMO's like Planetside 2 can be successful and you don't need to pay whatsoever! 3. Learning curve I am just going to cut to the chase here, it is WAY too high, in other multiplayer games, like Team Fortress 2, Call of Duty or LoL, you could most likely unlock everything over maybe 3 months, if you're lucky, 2, but in EVE, unlocking everything takes YEARS...and you need almost 2 months just to get to a battleship, including the means to buy one, and even so, battleships apparently are not superior to frigates so thats 2 months DOWN THE DRAIN 4. Moneymaking When I finally got my raven, it took me 2 mining operations that took 2 hours long EACH to obtain and even so, it took me longer to get more stuff like planetary command centers and the stuff to make it useful. My point here is that it is every method of obataining ISK is extremely ineffective, and not just with ships, but with skills and more or less everything, even rubbish ones, even Incrusions earned me very little 5. Gatecampers This annoyed me so much i need to make another point specifically aimed at them, it is an absolutely cruel thing that players can do, since it can vurtually ruin the experience of new players and as such, I have seen absolutely NO action against them, and because the only serious way of making ISK is at low-or no security systems, it is impossible to avoid them As I mentioned beforehand, I am not looking for Karma in this post, it may be based on outdated info, I am just sharing my story and exactly WHY I choose never to play EVE again, only constructive and well-structured criticism is welcome thank you for reading this, sorry for no TL;DR :P

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please note that this is might be based on outdated information and that I am not looking for popularity here, i am just going to share a little story that happened in the "short" time I played EVE about 2-3 years ago It occured midway in the second month (some would still view as new) when I finally managed to get a placement on a corporation, shortly before joining the alliance FORCEFUL ENTRY, there I embarked in various mining operations. But everything changed when they managed to get a region in the Tribute sector in which they moved their center of operations, in which I needed to move everything I had, at the time I managed to get a Raven battleship in which I did more or less everything non-mining, when I managed to kill a few pirate ships, I decided to salvage the wreckage and then sell it. To sell it, I needed to move to a higher-seurity system (which at the time was Piekura, sorry if misspelled),I decided to make sure there weren't any gatecampers (in which i had been victim of MULTIPLE times), I asked FORCEFUL ENTRY about it and I was assured that there weren't any, I proceeded to move, unfortunately there WAS one, a Minmitar battlecruiser, he destroyed my battleship, I enquired to FORCEFUL ENTRY as to why no-one assisted me or escorted and asked for compensation (since my subscription was close to expiration and I needed a new battleship-size ship) despite this, FORCEFUL ENTRY refused without doubt...and went as far as BOOTING me from the alliance and the corporation (maybe viewing me as a whiner and a burden) seeing as how the situation was completely hopeless, since I also lost my Retriever...twice, had far too little ISK to buy a new ship, let alone a PLEX, I gave it all away, ISK, assets, everything to the only one left to trust, who led the corp, invited me TO the corp and gave advice by then, I swore never ever to play EVE again unless they did something that would convince me otherwise (as of yet...nothing) as of right now, there are still problems with EVE right now that is about as significant then as right now 1. Group reliance I always prefer going stuff alone, but in EVE's current state, it appears that they are trying to encourage players to decicate their whole actions to people who aren't likely to return the favour....and if you don't, you won't get progress and you will never stop paying for it, as such, EVE is far too lonewolf-unfriendly 2. Subscriptions Honestly, I can no longer understand by any means why this even exists anymore, it is extremely off-putting towards new users, even if you don't need to pay after the next 3, you could easily pay for many other games in which you don't have evil corporations betraying your ass, in fact, newer MMO's like Planetside 2 can be successful and you don't need to pay whatsoever! 3. Learning curve I am just going to cut to the chase here, it is WAY too high, in other multiplayer games, like Team Fortress 2, Call of Duty or LoL, you could most likely unlock everything over maybe 3 months, if you're lucky, 2, but in EVE, unlocking everything takes YEARS...and you need almost 2 months just to get to a battleship, including the means to buy one, and even so, battleships apparently are not superior to frigates so thats 2 months DOWN THE DRAIN 4. Moneymaking When I finally got my raven, it took me 2 mining operations that took 2 hours long EACH to obtain and even so, it took me longer to get more stuff like planetary command centers and the stuff to make it useful. My point here is that it is every method of obataining ISK is extremely ineffective, and not just with ships, but with skills and more or less everything, even rubbish ones, even Incrusions earned me very little 5. Gatecampers This annoyed me so much i need to make another point specifically aimed at them, it is an absolutely cruel thing that players can do, since it can vurtually ruin the experience of new players and as such, I have seen absolutely NO action against them, and because the only serious way of making ISK is at low-or no security systems, it is impossible to avoid them As I mentioned beforehand, I am not looking for Karma in this post, it may be based on outdated info, I am just sharing my story and exactly WHY I choose never to play EVE again, only constructive and well-structured criticism is welcome thank you for reading this, sorry for no

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It actually looks like it could be useful. As the authors note "Further studies in this unique environment may enhance our understanding of collective motion in riots, protests, and panicked crowds, leading to new architectural safety design principles that limit the risk of injury at extreme social gatherings. Moreover, these concerts have the further advantage of exhibiting a rich variety of states such as the wall of death (moshers split into two groups separated by an open space and, when signaled, simultaneously run at the opposing group), collective jumping (locally correlated, globally decorrelated), and soft modes [22] in jammed attendees. Thus, the extreme conditions at heavy metal concerts offer new opportunities for studying a wide range of collective behaviors that arise in extreme social gatherings of large human groups." TL:DR - they're doing it anyway, so we may as well get some crowd control info out of this.

It actually looks like it could be useful. As the authors note "Further studies in this unique environment may enhance our understanding of collective motion in riots, protests, and panicked crowds, leading to new architectural safety design principles that limit the risk of injury at extreme social gatherings. Moreover, these concerts have the further advantage of exhibiting a rich variety of states such as the wall of death (moshers split into two groups separated by an open space and, when signaled, simultaneously run at the opposing group), collective jumping (locally correlated, globally decorrelated), and soft modes [22] in jammed attendees. Thus, the extreme conditions at heavy metal concerts offer new opportunities for studying a wide range of collective behaviors that arise in extreme social gatherings of large human groups." TL:DR - they're doing it anyway, so we may as well get some crowd control info out of this.

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It actually looks like it could be useful. As the authors note "Further studies in this unique environment may enhance our understanding of collective motion in riots, protests, and panicked crowds, leading to new architectural safety design principles that limit the risk of injury at extreme social gatherings. Moreover, these concerts have the further advantage of exhibiting a rich variety of states such as the wall of death (moshers split into two groups separated by an open space and, when signaled, simultaneously run at the opposing group), collective jumping (locally correlated, globally decorrelated), and soft modes [22] in jammed attendees. Thus, the extreme conditions at heavy metal concerts offer new opportunities for studying a wide range of collective behaviors that arise in extreme social gatherings of large human groups."

they're doing it anyway, so we may as well get some crowd control info out of this.

Let_Me_Be

**I'm reposting 1:1 to avoid any confusion, or misrepresentation. I only changed formating and removed the headers/footers of the emails.** >>>> **From: Me** >>>>Today I read a reposted answer from a support representative on Reddit. >>>> quote: "Basically, anything that touches the game client in any fashion, including but not limited to visuals, overlays, controls, inputs, outputs, automation, sounds, or play experience is going to be referred to as a mod. The Guild Wars 2 software package is meant to be delivered and used AS-IS, with zero flexibility for the end user. If your script changes anything about the game itself, how it's displayed, or how it's played, then it's forbidden 3rd-party software." >>>> Now, I'm really horrified by this, because this covers a lot of software that I'm using. >>>> In particular this covers: >>>> - any gaming grade equipment (mouses, keyboards, headsets, special equipment) >>>> - any recording or streaming tools like Fraps or Xsplit >>>> - any reasonable graphic card drivers (nvidia in particular) >>>> - any overlay tools (Steam, Enjin, TeamSpeak) >>>> I could go on. >>>> So was this response meant seriously? Are really all these tools forbidden? >>>> I'm actually using a dedicated Windows installation for games, just to avoid issues of this type, but it's really impossible not to violate such broadly defined rules. >>>> So please could I get a clarification? >>> **From: Gaile** >>> This is a very interesting question, and I appreciate hearing your thoughts. >>> As you are aware, we cannot approve or review or "vet" any third-party program; that is a given. However, our position is somewhat different than the one expressed in the GM response, so I've already contacted the team to be sure that everyone is on the same page. >>> Our general statement is that anything that gives _advantage_ is forbidden. There are many utilities that help the player without taking a hit on others, without, for instance, being a detriment to the other players in a match. TexMod is one example of a program that doesn't really give anyone an _advantage_ over someone else. I've heard about certain programs that help disabled players, and those seem just fine, too. And of course there are others. We can't say "Sure, use this and that and that other thing" because that's tantamount to "approval," but we do recognize the distinction between advantage-giving programs and those that simply make it easier to play the game under specific circumstances. >>> Thanks for pointing out that response. We'll get things clarified so that future responses are consistent with our policies. >> **From: Me** >> Could I get your permission to share this answer? Because I really believe that people would like to have this information. > **From: Gaile** > I think it's ok to share this. I just want to be very clear that: > (1) we don't review or approve programs, and > (2) programs can sometimes contain components that a legitimate player doesn't realize is a cheat element > In the end, it's good to go VERY cautiously with the use of any third-party program, but we appreciate that there are definitely situations when a helpful, non-advantage-giving program is extremely beneficial to players. EDIT: Removed TL;DR to avoid confusion.

I'm reposting 1:1 to avoid any confusion, or misrepresentation. I only changed formating and removed the headers/footers of the emails. >>>> From: Me >>>>Today I read a reposted answer from a support representative on Reddit. >>>> quote: "Basically, anything that touches the game client in any fashion, including but not limited to visuals, overlays, controls, inputs, outputs, automation, sounds, or play experience is going to be referred to as a mod. The Guild Wars 2 software package is meant to be delivered and used AS-IS, with zero flexibility for the end user. If your script changes anything about the game itself, how it's displayed, or how it's played, then it's forbidden 3rd-party software." >>>> Now, I'm really horrified by this, because this covers a lot of software that I'm using. >>>> In particular this covers: >>>> - any gaming grade equipment (mouses, keyboards, headsets, special equipment) >>>> - any recording or streaming tools like Fraps or Xsplit >>>> - any reasonable graphic card drivers (nvidia in particular) >>>> - any overlay tools (Steam, Enjin, TeamSpeak) >>>> I could go on. >>>> So was this response meant seriously? Are really all these tools forbidden? >>>> I'm actually using a dedicated Windows installation for games, just to avoid issues of this type, but it's really impossible not to violate such broadly defined rules. >>>> So please could I get a clarification? >>> From: Gaile >>> This is a very interesting question, and I appreciate hearing your thoughts. >>> As you are aware, we cannot approve or review or "vet" any third-party program; that is a given. However, our position is somewhat different than the one expressed in the GM response, so I've already contacted the team to be sure that everyone is on the same page. >>> Our general statement is that anything that gives advantage is forbidden. There are many utilities that help the player without taking a hit on others, without, for instance, being a detriment to the other players in a match. TexMod is one example of a program that doesn't really give anyone an advantage over someone else. I've heard about certain programs that help disabled players, and those seem just fine, too. And of course there are others. We can't say "Sure, use this and that and that other thing" because that's tantamount to "approval," but we do recognize the distinction between advantage-giving programs and those that simply make it easier to play the game under specific circumstances. >>> Thanks for pointing out that response. We'll get things clarified so that future responses are consistent with our policies. >> From: Me >> Could I get your permission to share this answer? Because I really believe that people would like to have this information. > From: Gaile > I think it's ok to share this. I just want to be very clear that: > (1) we don't review or approve programs, and > (2) programs can sometimes contain components that a legitimate player doesn't realize is a cheat element > In the end, it's good to go VERY cautiously with the use of any third-party program, but we appreciate that there are definitely situations when a helpful, non-advantage-giving program is extremely beneficial to players. EDIT: Removed TL;DR to avoid confusion.

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I'm reposting 1:1 to avoid any confusion, or misrepresentation. I only changed formating and removed the headers/footers of the emails. >>>> From: Me >>>>Today I read a reposted answer from a support representative on Reddit. >>>> quote: "Basically, anything that touches the game client in any fashion, including but not limited to visuals, overlays, controls, inputs, outputs, automation, sounds, or play experience is going to be referred to as a mod. The Guild Wars 2 software package is meant to be delivered and used AS-IS, with zero flexibility for the end user. If your script changes anything about the game itself, how it's displayed, or how it's played, then it's forbidden 3rd-party software." >>>> Now, I'm really horrified by this, because this covers a lot of software that I'm using. >>>> In particular this covers: >>>> - any gaming grade equipment (mouses, keyboards, headsets, special equipment) >>>> - any recording or streaming tools like Fraps or Xsplit >>>> - any reasonable graphic card drivers (nvidia in particular) >>>> - any overlay tools (Steam, Enjin, TeamSpeak) >>>> I could go on. >>>> So was this response meant seriously? Are really all these tools forbidden? >>>> I'm actually using a dedicated Windows installation for games, just to avoid issues of this type, but it's really impossible not to violate such broadly defined rules. >>>> So please could I get a clarification? >>> From: Gaile >>> This is a very interesting question, and I appreciate hearing your thoughts. >>> As you are aware, we cannot approve or review or "vet" any third-party program; that is a given. However, our position is somewhat different than the one expressed in the GM response, so I've already contacted the team to be sure that everyone is on the same page. >>> Our general statement is that anything that gives advantage is forbidden. There are many utilities that help the player without taking a hit on others, without, for instance, being a detriment to the other players in a match. TexMod is one example of a program that doesn't really give anyone an advantage over someone else. I've heard about certain programs that help disabled players, and those seem just fine, too. And of course there are others. We can't say "Sure, use this and that and that other thing" because that's tantamount to "approval," but we do recognize the distinction between advantage-giving programs and those that simply make it easier to play the game under specific circumstances. >>> Thanks for pointing out that response. We'll get things clarified so that future responses are consistent with our policies. >> From: Me >> Could I get your permission to share this answer? Because I really believe that people would like to have this information. > From: Gaile > I think it's ok to share this. I just want to be very clear that: > (1) we don't review or approve programs, and > (2) programs can sometimes contain components that a legitimate player doesn't realize is a cheat element > In the end, it's good to go VERY cautiously with the use of any third-party program, but we appreciate that there are definitely situations when a helpful, non-advantage-giving program is extremely beneficial to players. EDIT: Removed

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PoisonIvy_

Growing up, we always had dogs but I was never allowed have a cat because my mother hates them. I desperately wanted a kitten for years. One night, there was a litter of wild kittens hanging around outside my house. I waited around for hours to see would they hang around. Eventually I plucked up the courage to grab one. This kitten was the cutest animal I had ever seen. It was a fluffy white ball of love in my 12 year old eyes. I desperately snook it into the house, passed the sitting room where both my parents resided and quietly crept upstairs. I didn't want to keep the cat in my room so I put it in the guest bedroom. The guest bedroom is basically a room where my parents keep the most luxury items in the house. All of which happen to be white. I decided to let my sister in on my little secret and we both agreed that we would sleep in the guest room that night with the little creature. We fell asleep with the kitten in between us. During the night, I woke up to a sharp wetness at my feet. I quickly flicked on the light to find that the fluffy white ball of lurve had not just pissed on the white sheets, but actually diarrheaed all over them and the white carpet too. It was everywhere. Now, anyone who's had the pleasure of smelling cat shit knows the pungence of it. The diarrora had seeped through the sheets and onto my legs and the mattress. I actually dragged my younger sister out of the room. I braced myself as I went back in to look for Fluffyshitty. He was no where to be seen. I inspected the room to find ways of escape and realised that he must have escaped when I opened the door. I ran out of the room and down the stairs following a trail of shit into the sitting room where the cat had proudly placed himself on the coffee table. My mother and father stood there, mouths open, ironically, nearly shitting themselves too. The whole house was destroyed in stray cat shit. I was literally about 5 months scrubbing poo out of the carpet. My mother always threatens to tell this story at my wedding. TL;DR: STRAY CAT SHAT ALL OVER THE PLACE, IRONICALLY MAKING MY PARENTS NEARLY SHIT THEMSELVES TOO.

Growing up, we always had dogs but I was never allowed have a cat because my mother hates them. I desperately wanted a kitten for years. One night, there was a litter of wild kittens hanging around outside my house. I waited around for hours to see would they hang around. Eventually I plucked up the courage to grab one. This kitten was the cutest animal I had ever seen. It was a fluffy white ball of love in my 12 year old eyes. I desperately snook it into the house, passed the sitting room where both my parents resided and quietly crept upstairs. I didn't want to keep the cat in my room so I put it in the guest bedroom. The guest bedroom is basically a room where my parents keep the most luxury items in the house. All of which happen to be white. I decided to let my sister in on my little secret and we both agreed that we would sleep in the guest room that night with the little creature. We fell asleep with the kitten in between us. During the night, I woke up to a sharp wetness at my feet. I quickly flicked on the light to find that the fluffy white ball of lurve had not just pissed on the white sheets, but actually diarrheaed all over them and the white carpet too. It was everywhere. Now, anyone who's had the pleasure of smelling cat shit knows the pungence of it. The diarrora had seeped through the sheets and onto my legs and the mattress. I actually dragged my younger sister out of the room. I braced myself as I went back in to look for Fluffyshitty. He was no where to be seen. I inspected the room to find ways of escape and realised that he must have escaped when I opened the door. I ran out of the room and down the stairs following a trail of shit into the sitting room where the cat had proudly placed himself on the coffee table. My mother and father stood there, mouths open, ironically, nearly shitting themselves too. The whole house was destroyed in stray cat shit. I was literally about 5 months scrubbing poo out of the carpet. My mother always threatens to tell this story at my wedding. TL;DR: STRAY CAT SHAT ALL OVER THE PLACE, IRONICALLY MAKING MY PARENTS NEARLY SHIT THEMSELVES TOO.

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Growing up, we always had dogs but I was never allowed have a cat because my mother hates them. I desperately wanted a kitten for years. One night, there was a litter of wild kittens hanging around outside my house. I waited around for hours to see would they hang around. Eventually I plucked up the courage to grab one. This kitten was the cutest animal I had ever seen. It was a fluffy white ball of love in my 12 year old eyes. I desperately snook it into the house, passed the sitting room where both my parents resided and quietly crept upstairs. I didn't want to keep the cat in my room so I put it in the guest bedroom. The guest bedroom is basically a room where my parents keep the most luxury items in the house. All of which happen to be white. I decided to let my sister in on my little secret and we both agreed that we would sleep in the guest room that night with the little creature. We fell asleep with the kitten in between us. During the night, I woke up to a sharp wetness at my feet. I quickly flicked on the light to find that the fluffy white ball of lurve had not just pissed on the white sheets, but actually diarrheaed all over them and the white carpet too. It was everywhere. Now, anyone who's had the pleasure of smelling cat shit knows the pungence of it. The diarrora had seeped through the sheets and onto my legs and the mattress. I actually dragged my younger sister out of the room. I braced myself as I went back in to look for Fluffyshitty. He was no where to be seen. I inspected the room to find ways of escape and realised that he must have escaped when I opened the door. I ran out of the room and down the stairs following a trail of shit into the sitting room where the cat had proudly placed himself on the coffee table. My mother and father stood there, mouths open, ironically, nearly shitting themselves too. The whole house was destroyed in stray cat shit. I was literally about 5 months scrubbing poo out of the carpet. My mother always threatens to tell this story at my wedding.

STRAY CAT SHAT ALL OVER THE PLACE, IRONICALLY MAKING MY PARENTS NEARLY SHIT THEMSELVES TOO.

Whanhee

Well they're computers in the sense that your cell phone is a computer. Being a computers more have to do with the ability to "compute" something than anything else. There is the theoretical idea of a [Turing machine]( which basically defines the limit of what can be computed. Any device which is equivalent to it can be called a computer. Many years ago, most devices were incredibly specialized and defined by hardware. For example, radios could only ever be used as radios. However, with computer pricing becoming cheaper and cheaper, it's more economical for manufacturers to make, for example, a computer with a radio antenna, than a custom piece of hardware. Because most of these devices don't have a standard keyboard and monitor, it's hard to think of them as computers. However it's not input/output that defines a computer, but what it can compute with the input, to produce output. If we attached a touch screen to a desktop computer and ran an emulator, we would have an exact replica of a tablet (sans portability). Of course there are differences in speed, power usage, etc. in different computers, but we still call a fast car a car. tl;dr The guy asked a question, don't downvote ignorance. Explain and we'll all be better off.

Well they're computers in the sense that your cell phone is a computer. Being a computers more have to do with the ability to "compute" something than anything else. There is the theoretical idea of a [Turing machine]( which basically defines the limit of what can be computed. Any device which is equivalent to it can be called a computer. Many years ago, most devices were incredibly specialized and defined by hardware. For example, radios could only ever be used as radios. However, with computer pricing becoming cheaper and cheaper, it's more economical for manufacturers to make, for example, a computer with a radio antenna, than a custom piece of hardware. Because most of these devices don't have a standard keyboard and monitor, it's hard to think of them as computers. However it's not input/output that defines a computer, but what it can compute with the input, to produce output. If we attached a touch screen to a desktop computer and ran an emulator, we would have an exact replica of a tablet (sans portability). Of course there are differences in speed, power usage, etc. in different computers, but we still call a fast car a car. tl;dr The guy asked a question, don't downvote ignorance. Explain and we'll all be better off.

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Well they're computers in the sense that your cell phone is a computer. Being a computers more have to do with the ability to "compute" something than anything else. There is the theoretical idea of a [Turing machine]( which basically defines the limit of what can be computed. Any device which is equivalent to it can be called a computer. Many years ago, most devices were incredibly specialized and defined by hardware. For example, radios could only ever be used as radios. However, with computer pricing becoming cheaper and cheaper, it's more economical for manufacturers to make, for example, a computer with a radio antenna, than a custom piece of hardware. Because most of these devices don't have a standard keyboard and monitor, it's hard to think of them as computers. However it's not input/output that defines a computer, but what it can compute with the input, to produce output. If we attached a touch screen to a desktop computer and ran an emulator, we would have an exact replica of a tablet (sans portability). Of course there are differences in speed, power usage, etc. in different computers, but we still call a fast car a car.

The guy asked a question, don't downvote ignorance. Explain and we'll all be better off.

Jinzha

Guy purchased piano, spent all night painting it in nationalist colours (because he had a job during the day). Told movers to put it on the Independence Square, police somehow let the truck through, so people started to play the piano with -15 degrees celsius outside. This man then proceeded to play Chopin. Police and protesters both enjoyed. Tldr: Piano and good athmosphere to motivate demonstrations

Guy purchased piano, spent all night painting it in nationalist colours (because he had a job during the day). Told movers to put it on the Independence Square, police somehow let the truck through, so people started to play the piano with -15 degrees celsius outside. This man then proceeded to play Chopin. Police and protesters both enjoyed. Tldr: Piano and good athmosphere to motivate demonstrations

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Guy purchased piano, spent all night painting it in nationalist colours (because he had a job during the day). Told movers to put it on the Independence Square, police somehow let the truck through, so people started to play the piano with -15 degrees celsius outside. This man then proceeded to play Chopin. Police and protesters both enjoyed.

Piano and good athmosphere to motivate demonstrations

ElZanco

Changes don't "just happen" though. Changes and technological advances occur when there is a demand for them. What the climate alarmists have accomplished is an increase in our awareness of this necessity. Every time they shout "Fossil fuels will run out!" or "Coal can't continue!" what they're indirectly saying is "There is heightened market demand for a revolutionary technology advancement in energy production!" Laws and policies accomplish the same thing. *TL;DR Necessity is the Mother of Invention and alarmists create Necessity *

Changes don't "just happen" though. Changes and technological advances occur when there is a demand for them. What the climate alarmists have accomplished is an increase in our awareness of this necessity. Every time they shout "Fossil fuels will run out!" or "Coal can't continue!" what they're indirectly saying is "There is heightened market demand for a revolutionary technology advancement in energy production!" Laws and policies accomplish the same thing. TL;DR Necessity is the Mother of Invention and alarmists create Necessity

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Changes don't "just happen" though. Changes and technological advances occur when there is a demand for them. What the climate alarmists have accomplished is an increase in our awareness of this necessity. Every time they shout "Fossil fuels will run out!" or "Coal can't continue!" what they're indirectly saying is "There is heightened market demand for a revolutionary technology advancement in energy production!" Laws and policies accomplish the same thing.

Necessity is the Mother of Invention and alarmists create Necessity

Meayow

It sounds like she is traumatized. Most likely she didn't expect this to happen and is processing difficult emotions. But why does she HAVE to write it out and not talk to you abou something that is really emotional?! She is going through something and instead of talking her through emotions like death, hurting others, and regret, instead you are alienating her. **IF** this is the way that you always parent, then I would say there is a reason to believe that she is acting out (tried to hurt the chipmunk). Which I think should be a wake up call for how you interact with her. Try being less distant. Less pre-rehearsed. And make sure you get down to her eye-level and talk to her honestly. It's okay to show shock and say things like: oh my god, what did you do?!? This gives her a real response to react to. But it's really really bad to tell her she can't speak unless spoken to because of a punishment for something else when she probably needs some hugs and to talk about it. I think it sounds like you and your wife have conversations about what to say to get through to her and then say it to her in a calm voice. Show her some genuine emotions and then allow her to have some too. Have a funeral and let her understand, but focus on feeling regret and not shaming her into having the feelings that are "right". TL;DR based on this and your whole she can't talk because she lied punishment thing (but mostly the latter), enroll in parenting classes immediately. You are *causing* emotional trauma by alienating your daughter and punishing her for responding by acting out will only increase get problems. Start being more positive and less punishment oriented. All kids want to be good and loved, acting out is often a symptom of lack of emotional support and love.

It sounds like she is traumatized. Most likely she didn't expect this to happen and is processing difficult emotions. But why does she HAVE to write it out and not talk to you abou something that is really emotional?! She is going through something and instead of talking her through emotions like death, hurting others, and regret, instead you are alienating her. IF this is the way that you always parent, then I would say there is a reason to believe that she is acting out (tried to hurt the chipmunk). Which I think should be a wake up call for how you interact with her. Try being less distant. Less pre-rehearsed. And make sure you get down to her eye-level and talk to her honestly. It's okay to show shock and say things like: oh my god, what did you do?!? This gives her a real response to react to. But it's really really bad to tell her she can't speak unless spoken to because of a punishment for something else when she probably needs some hugs and to talk about it. I think it sounds like you and your wife have conversations about what to say to get through to her and then say it to her in a calm voice. Show her some genuine emotions and then allow her to have some too. Have a funeral and let her understand, but focus on feeling regret and not shaming her into having the feelings that are "right". TL;DR based on this and your whole she can't talk because she lied punishment thing (but mostly the latter), enroll in parenting classes immediately. You are causing emotional trauma by alienating your daughter and punishing her for responding by acting out will only increase get problems. Start being more positive and less punishment oriented. All kids want to be good and loved, acting out is often a symptom of lack of emotional support and love.

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It sounds like she is traumatized. Most likely she didn't expect this to happen and is processing difficult emotions. But why does she HAVE to write it out and not talk to you abou something that is really emotional?! She is going through something and instead of talking her through emotions like death, hurting others, and regret, instead you are alienating her. IF this is the way that you always parent, then I would say there is a reason to believe that she is acting out (tried to hurt the chipmunk). Which I think should be a wake up call for how you interact with her. Try being less distant. Less pre-rehearsed. And make sure you get down to her eye-level and talk to her honestly. It's okay to show shock and say things like: oh my god, what did you do?!? This gives her a real response to react to. But it's really really bad to tell her she can't speak unless spoken to because of a punishment for something else when she probably needs some hugs and to talk about it. I think it sounds like you and your wife have conversations about what to say to get through to her and then say it to her in a calm voice. Show her some genuine emotions and then allow her to have some too. Have a funeral and let her understand, but focus on feeling regret and not shaming her into having the feelings that are "right".

based on this and your whole she can't talk because she lied punishment thing (but mostly the latter), enroll in parenting classes immediately. You are causing emotional trauma by alienating your daughter and punishing her for responding by acting out will only increase get problems. Start being more positive and less punishment oriented. All kids want to be good and loved, acting out is often a symptom of lack of emotional support and love.

ShadowDoctorFM

Similar story for me. A few friends and I went to movie at the local budget theater. One of my friends and I smoked a little bit to make the movie more entertaining (I think we saw 50/50, not really sure anymore). During the movie, we ate a bunch of food and drank a lot of drinks we snuck in. Like several caffeinated drinks each. We held our bladders until the end of the movie, still a little high. We walked into the bathroom behind a guy we did not know. Of the 3 urinals, only 2 were functional, and of course they were right next to each other. I ended up next to the random stranger while my friend went into the stall. We all started at about the same time and I kid you not, all 3 of us peed for at least a minute and a half (I could hear my friends piss hitting the water and the other guys hitting the urinal). It was absolutely incredible. Still being a bit high, once I realized how long we had all been peeing, I started to giggle. Then I realized how stupid I must have looked to the random guy, just pissing and laughing, and I started to laugh harder. And harder. And harder. It was, for some reason, the funniest and strangest piss of my life. Today, we even refer to it as "The Piss". TL;DR got high, pissed forever

Similar story for me. A few friends and I went to movie at the local budget theater. One of my friends and I smoked a little bit to make the movie more entertaining (I think we saw 50/50, not really sure anymore). During the movie, we ate a bunch of food and drank a lot of drinks we snuck in. Like several caffeinated drinks each. We held our bladders until the end of the movie, still a little high. We walked into the bathroom behind a guy we did not know. Of the 3 urinals, only 2 were functional, and of course they were right next to each other. I ended up next to the random stranger while my friend went into the stall. We all started at about the same time and I kid you not, all 3 of us peed for at least a minute and a half (I could hear my friends piss hitting the water and the other guys hitting the urinal). It was absolutely incredible. Still being a bit high, once I realized how long we had all been peeing, I started to giggle. Then I realized how stupid I must have looked to the random guy, just pissing and laughing, and I started to laugh harder. And harder. And harder. It was, for some reason, the funniest and strangest piss of my life. Today, we even refer to it as "The Piss". TL;DR got high, pissed forever

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Similar story for me. A few friends and I went to movie at the local budget theater. One of my friends and I smoked a little bit to make the movie more entertaining (I think we saw 50/50, not really sure anymore). During the movie, we ate a bunch of food and drank a lot of drinks we snuck in. Like several caffeinated drinks each. We held our bladders until the end of the movie, still a little high. We walked into the bathroom behind a guy we did not know. Of the 3 urinals, only 2 were functional, and of course they were right next to each other. I ended up next to the random stranger while my friend went into the stall. We all started at about the same time and I kid you not, all 3 of us peed for at least a minute and a half (I could hear my friends piss hitting the water and the other guys hitting the urinal). It was absolutely incredible. Still being a bit high, once I realized how long we had all been peeing, I started to giggle. Then I realized how stupid I must have looked to the random guy, just pissing and laughing, and I started to laugh harder. And harder. And harder. It was, for some reason, the funniest and strangest piss of my life. Today, we even refer to it as "The Piss".

got high, pissed forever

Lunaedge

Good day, fellow Redditors :3 I just completed Scientific Victory with the Roman Empire and I expected to get an achievement due to the fact it's the first time I win as Augustus, but got nothing instead :( is it because I used mods this game? (it was the first time I used mods too :P only some UI-related things) TL;DR does the use of mods prevent achievement to be achieved?

Good day, fellow Redditors :3 I just completed Scientific Victory with the Roman Empire and I expected to get an achievement due to the fact it's the first time I win as Augustus, but got nothing instead :( is it because I used mods this game? (it was the first time I used mods too :P only some UI-related things) TL;DR does the use of mods prevent achievement to be achieved?

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Good day, fellow Redditors :3 I just completed Scientific Victory with the Roman Empire and I expected to get an achievement due to the fact it's the first time I win as Augustus, but got nothing instead :( is it because I used mods this game? (it was the first time I used mods too :P only some UI-related things)

does the use of mods prevent achievement to be achieved?

Vaethin

* His Q deals more damage (better scaling) than MFs Q and is like a small Ezreal Ult * His Passive gives more Attackspeed than MFs W (more than lvl 1 when he kills a minion, more than lvl 5, when he kills a champion. * His E slows more than MFs E while giving AoE Heal Reduce * The Skill-Procs on W slow to. * Awesome Teamfight ult, that dictates the reaction of the enemy team (just think of traditional carry/teams like Ashe/Janna, with Janna always standing close to her Carry. Forces them to run from each other and thus opens a hole for your Bruiser to have a bite at the enemy carry). And even just for one target : A 2 seconds snare is strong on any carry, regardless how hard it may be to hit. * His Range is pretty damn big, inferior only to Trist/Kog (with their respective modifiers) and Caitlyn/ashe --> Easier Laning, stronger teamfighting etc... I think he's fucking strong and will be firstpick/-ban until the next patch. Maybe not in low ELO (where Carries with Escapes, like Corki or Trist are simply better, because players do a lot of mistakes and its easier to get away with mistakes on those champions) but definetly in Ranked Team and High Elo . I agree with Zizhou on this point: Supporters who facilitate an escape will be helpful with him **TL;DR : Strong laning(Poke+Heal Reduce+High Range)+Strong teamfights (CC Ult + High Range) = Real fucking stronk.**

His Q deals more damage (better scaling) than MFs Q and is like a small Ezreal Ult His Passive gives more Attackspeed than MFs W (more than lvl 1 when he kills a minion, more than lvl 5, when he kills a champion. His E slows more than MFs E while giving AoE Heal Reduce The Skill-Procs on W slow to. Awesome Teamfight ult, that dictates the reaction of the enemy team (just think of traditional carry/teams like Ashe/Janna, with Janna always standing close to her Carry. Forces them to run from each other and thus opens a hole for your Bruiser to have a bite at the enemy carry). And even just for one target : A 2 seconds snare is strong on any carry, regardless how hard it may be to hit. His Range is pretty damn big, inferior only to Trist/Kog (with their respective modifiers) and Caitlyn/ashe --> Easier Laning, stronger teamfighting etc... I think he's fucking strong and will be firstpick/-ban until the next patch. Maybe not in low ELO (where Carries with Escapes, like Corki or Trist are simply better, because players do a lot of mistakes and its easier to get away with mistakes on those champions) but definetly in Ranked Team and High Elo . I agree with Zizhou on this point: Supporters who facilitate an escape will be helpful with him TL;DR : Strong laning(Poke+Heal Reduce+High Range)+Strong teamfights (CC Ult + High Range) = Real fucking stronk.

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His Q deals more damage (better scaling) than MFs Q and is like a small Ezreal Ult His Passive gives more Attackspeed than MFs W (more than lvl 1 when he kills a minion, more than lvl 5, when he kills a champion. His E slows more than MFs E while giving AoE Heal Reduce The Skill-Procs on W slow to. Awesome Teamfight ult, that dictates the reaction of the enemy team (just think of traditional carry/teams like Ashe/Janna, with Janna always standing close to her Carry. Forces them to run from each other and thus opens a hole for your Bruiser to have a bite at the enemy carry). And even just for one target : A 2 seconds snare is strong on any carry, regardless how hard it may be to hit. His Range is pretty damn big, inferior only to Trist/Kog (with their respective modifiers) and Caitlyn/ashe --> Easier Laning, stronger teamfighting etc... I think he's fucking strong and will be firstpick/-ban until the next patch. Maybe not in low ELO (where Carries with Escapes, like Corki or Trist are simply better, because players do a lot of mistakes and its easier to get away with mistakes on those champions) but definetly in Ranked Team and High Elo . I agree with Zizhou on this point: Supporters who facilitate an escape will be helpful with him

Strong laning(Poke+Heal Reduce+High Range)+Strong teamfights (CC Ult + High Range) = Real fucking stronk.

Dymarob

A store across the street from where I live. I went there once, grabbed a case of coke, and went to the register. The cashier said "is that everything", to which I replied "yes". and then he did nothing. Absolutely nothing! We just stood there. I pulled out my debit card to show him I was ready to pay, but he just stood there. I have Social Anxiety, so this was just hard on me. After a bit, another customer walked up behind me waiting. HE STILL DID NOTHING! after that I couldn't handle it anymore, so I left the coke there and walked out. My dad went there later and the cashier said he didn't know what I was doing.......He didn't know what I was doing with a case of coke and a debit card RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM! What a load of bullshit! even if he didn't know, what didn't he say anything? he could have asked if I was ready to purchase it, but no, he didn't do or say a damn thing. I've had previous bad encounters there before, but those weren't really the stores fault, but either way, me going to that store just ends in problems. I don't go there anymore unless I'm with someone else to take over if I start getting anxious, which has been quite awhile, actually. **TL;DR:** cashier across the street is a dick!

A store across the street from where I live. I went there once, grabbed a case of coke, and went to the register. The cashier said "is that everything", to which I replied "yes". and then he did nothing. Absolutely nothing! We just stood there. I pulled out my debit card to show him I was ready to pay, but he just stood there. I have Social Anxiety, so this was just hard on me. After a bit, another customer walked up behind me waiting. HE STILL DID NOTHING! after that I couldn't handle it anymore, so I left the coke there and walked out. My dad went there later and the cashier said he didn't know what I was doing.......He didn't know what I was doing with a case of coke and a debit card RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM! What a load of bullshit! even if he didn't know, what didn't he say anything? he could have asked if I was ready to purchase it, but no, he didn't do or say a damn thing. I've had previous bad encounters there before, but those weren't really the stores fault, but either way, me going to that store just ends in problems. I don't go there anymore unless I'm with someone else to take over if I start getting anxious, which has been quite awhile, actually. TL;DR: cashier across the street is a dick!

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A store across the street from where I live. I went there once, grabbed a case of coke, and went to the register. The cashier said "is that everything", to which I replied "yes". and then he did nothing. Absolutely nothing! We just stood there. I pulled out my debit card to show him I was ready to pay, but he just stood there. I have Social Anxiety, so this was just hard on me. After a bit, another customer walked up behind me waiting. HE STILL DID NOTHING! after that I couldn't handle it anymore, so I left the coke there and walked out. My dad went there later and the cashier said he didn't know what I was doing.......He didn't know what I was doing with a case of coke and a debit card RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM! What a load of bullshit! even if he didn't know, what didn't he say anything? he could have asked if I was ready to purchase it, but no, he didn't do or say a damn thing. I've had previous bad encounters there before, but those weren't really the stores fault, but either way, me going to that store just ends in problems. I don't go there anymore unless I'm with someone else to take over if I start getting anxious, which has been quite awhile, actually.

cashier across the street is a dick!

kwiss

My friend and I skipped the second half of second hour to get some snacks, and when coming back to school, we noticed a K9 unit stationed a few blocks away. As we were entering the building, I heard a few guys talking about dropping five on a blunt, and I tipped them off that there was a K9 unit that would be visiting school today. I felt good about saving three ents, and told another frient in third hour about the dogs. He said he was good, so we went on with class. About halfway through, a security guard came in and pulled him out of class. He tried to give me something before he left (I'm assuming some bud), but the security guard was watching him and he couldn't. I haven't seen or heard from him since, and everyone's assuming the worst. To make matters worse, he's on probation for a previous incident, and he was done on November 11th. TL;DR My buddy got caught with some herb at school and is most likely facing charges. Toke one up for him.

My friend and I skipped the second half of second hour to get some snacks, and when coming back to school, we noticed a K9 unit stationed a few blocks away. As we were entering the building, I heard a few guys talking about dropping five on a blunt, and I tipped them off that there was a K9 unit that would be visiting school today. I felt good about saving three ents, and told another frient in third hour about the dogs. He said he was good, so we went on with class. About halfway through, a security guard came in and pulled him out of class. He tried to give me something before he left (I'm assuming some bud), but the security guard was watching him and he couldn't. I haven't seen or heard from him since, and everyone's assuming the worst. To make matters worse, he's on probation for a previous incident, and he was done on November 11th. TL;DR My buddy got caught with some herb at school and is most likely facing charges. Toke one up for him.

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My friend and I skipped the second half of second hour to get some snacks, and when coming back to school, we noticed a K9 unit stationed a few blocks away. As we were entering the building, I heard a few guys talking about dropping five on a blunt, and I tipped them off that there was a K9 unit that would be visiting school today. I felt good about saving three ents, and told another frient in third hour about the dogs. He said he was good, so we went on with class. About halfway through, a security guard came in and pulled him out of class. He tried to give me something before he left (I'm assuming some bud), but the security guard was watching him and he couldn't. I haven't seen or heard from him since, and everyone's assuming the worst. To make matters worse, he's on probation for a previous incident, and he was done on November 11th.

My buddy got caught with some herb at school and is most likely facing charges. Toke one up for him.

erock82

I guess I don't see this as particularly threatening if you manage to upload things without a face or other identifying features. Presumably if you link to a picture on say imgur then only that image is linked to (e.g. you have a face picture on that account somewhere it's not visible). TLDR enjoy posting pics of your dick and ass / possibly body but avoid posting your face in anything. If this is wrong please correct me.

I guess I don't see this as particularly threatening if you manage to upload things without a face or other identifying features. Presumably if you link to a picture on say imgur then only that image is linked to (e.g. you have a face picture on that account somewhere it's not visible). TLDR enjoy posting pics of your dick and ass / possibly body but avoid posting your face in anything. If this is wrong please correct me.

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I guess I don't see this as particularly threatening if you manage to upload things without a face or other identifying features. Presumably if you link to a picture on say imgur then only that image is linked to (e.g. you have a face picture on that account somewhere it's not visible).

enjoy posting pics of your dick and ass / possibly body but avoid posting your face in anything. If this is wrong please correct me.

foozledaa

0:22, he plants the trap. He then waypoints back and pulls off some other shit that looks like Luck and Knowledge had a freakishly beautiful baby called Skill. At 1:25 he uses [this thing]( That takes him from where he's standing right into the ele's ring of fire to engage Bridgette. Shadow Trap really isn't a skill that's used... ever, anywhere. It has a handful of efficient uses. Whereas a mesmer can portal anywhere, standard shadowstep rules apply to Shadow Trap, which really limits where you can apply it. But this thief probably teleported across a third of the map (see: Their position at 1:22 relative to the WP and fellow pt members) by using the waypoint followed very quickly by destroying and activating Shadow Trap. Also bear in mind that to be able to waypoint in the first place, there were numerous factors going on, like making sure no one was in combat at that moment. In fact, you see the rest of the party suicide at around the :56 mark to skip those elites and ensure that all five of them make it to Bridgette at roughly the same time. I could spend a while analysing what they did and why, but the tl;dr is that they're operating with an *insane* level of coordination that seems to revolve around and depend upon the success of the thief's solo escapades for the first sixty or seventy seconds... ...and that is why that thief is da real MVP.

0:22, he plants the trap. He then waypoints back and pulls off some other shit that looks like Luck and Knowledge had a freakishly beautiful baby called Skill. At 1:25 he uses [this thing]( That takes him from where he's standing right into the ele's ring of fire to engage Bridgette. Shadow Trap really isn't a skill that's used... ever, anywhere. It has a handful of efficient uses. Whereas a mesmer can portal anywhere, standard shadowstep rules apply to Shadow Trap, which really limits where you can apply it. But this thief probably teleported across a third of the map (see: Their position at 1:22 relative to the WP and fellow pt members) by using the waypoint followed very quickly by destroying and activating Shadow Trap. Also bear in mind that to be able to waypoint in the first place, there were numerous factors going on, like making sure no one was in combat at that moment. In fact, you see the rest of the party suicide at around the :56 mark to skip those elites and ensure that all five of them make it to Bridgette at roughly the same time. I could spend a while analysing what they did and why, but the tl;dr is that they're operating with an insane level of coordination that seems to revolve around and depend upon the success of the thief's solo escapades for the first sixty or seventy seconds... ...and that is why that thief is da real MVP.

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0:22, he plants the trap. He then waypoints back and pulls off some other shit that looks like Luck and Knowledge had a freakishly beautiful baby called Skill. At 1:25 he uses [this thing]( That takes him from where he's standing right into the ele's ring of fire to engage Bridgette. Shadow Trap really isn't a skill that's used... ever, anywhere. It has a handful of efficient uses. Whereas a mesmer can portal anywhere, standard shadowstep rules apply to Shadow Trap, which really limits where you can apply it. But this thief probably teleported across a third of the map (see: Their position at 1:22 relative to the WP and fellow pt members) by using the waypoint followed very quickly by destroying and activating Shadow Trap. Also bear in mind that to be able to waypoint in the first place, there were numerous factors going on, like making sure no one was in combat at that moment. In fact, you see the rest of the party suicide at around the :56 mark to skip those elites and ensure that all five of them make it to Bridgette at roughly the same time. I could spend a while analysing what they did and why, but the

is that they're operating with an insane level of coordination that seems to revolve around and depend upon the success of the thief's solo escapades for the first sixty or seventy seconds... ...and that is why that thief is da real MVP.

GrayImpact

It's basically a guy called leeroy jenkins who runs into a room that requires organized strategy, his team is discussing said strategy while he is gone for a moment, and then he comes back, shouts his name and rushes into the room, completely ruining everything. The room he runs into is filled with dragon eggs, and when you get near one of them It hatches, releasing a dragon whelp for you to fight. When one of these whelps gets close to another egg, that hatches too and causes a chain reaction. Leeroy ran through the entire thing, hatching everything, chaos ensued and everyone died. But at least he had chicken. TLDR: Shouts name, rushes in, has no plan, ruins plan, but does have chicken

It's basically a guy called leeroy jenkins who runs into a room that requires organized strategy, his team is discussing said strategy while he is gone for a moment, and then he comes back, shouts his name and rushes into the room, completely ruining everything. The room he runs into is filled with dragon eggs, and when you get near one of them It hatches, releasing a dragon whelp for you to fight. When one of these whelps gets close to another egg, that hatches too and causes a chain reaction. Leeroy ran through the entire thing, hatching everything, chaos ensued and everyone died. But at least he had chicken. TLDR: Shouts name, rushes in, has no plan, ruins plan, but does have chicken

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It's basically a guy called leeroy jenkins who runs into a room that requires organized strategy, his team is discussing said strategy while he is gone for a moment, and then he comes back, shouts his name and rushes into the room, completely ruining everything. The room he runs into is filled with dragon eggs, and when you get near one of them It hatches, releasing a dragon whelp for you to fight. When one of these whelps gets close to another egg, that hatches too and causes a chain reaction. Leeroy ran through the entire thing, hatching everything, chaos ensued and everyone died. But at least he had chicken.

Shouts name, rushes in, has no plan, ruins plan, but does have chicken

pwnchalet

I am disappointed. Bill Moyers is a personal hero, but it seems that he, along with Bernie Sanders, has consumed the 28th Amendment Kool-Aid. The doctrine of "corporate personhood" and the Santa Clara decision that supposedly brought corporations under the umbrella of Equal Protection played *no part whatsoever* in the Citizens United ruling. Look at the [decision]( hit ctl-f, and search for "corporate personhood" or "Santa Clara." Those terms do not appear. Under the First Amendment, courts do not decide who gets free speech rights and who does not. Instead, courts validate or invalidate laws based on the burden they put on speech. This is because the text of the First Amendment begins, "Congress shall make no law . . . ."--it is written as a negative limit on government, not an affirmative grant of rights to select groups. The McCain-Fiengold campaign finance law that was the subject of Citizens United was struck down because it put a heavy burden on campaign advertising, which is heavily protected core political speech, without (in the view of 5 Justices), sufficient justification. There are certain categories of *speech* that get virtually no protection. These include obscenity, fighting words, incitement, and true threats. But there are no categories of *speakers*, like corporations, who go unprotected. This is a crucial distinction that Moyers, Sanders, etc. have missed. It has nothing to do with corporate personhood, and everything to do with the text of the First Amendment and the way it has been interpreted over 200+ years. TL;DR: When a plaintiff like Citizens United challenges a law like McCain-Fiengold on First Amendment grounds, a court analyzes the law to see if the law burdens protected speech without sufficient justification. The court never pauses to consider whether the plaintiff is a natural person or a corporation. The reason has nothing to do with "corporate personhood" and everything to do with the text and the nature of the First Amendment. Thus, amending the Constitution to eliminate corporate personhood will not overturn Citizens United or help get money out of politics.

I am disappointed. Bill Moyers is a personal hero, but it seems that he, along with Bernie Sanders, has consumed the 28th Amendment Kool-Aid. The doctrine of "corporate personhood" and the Santa Clara decision that supposedly brought corporations under the umbrella of Equal Protection played no part whatsoever in the Citizens United ruling. Look at the [decision]( hit ctl-f, and search for "corporate personhood" or "Santa Clara." Those terms do not appear. Under the First Amendment, courts do not decide who gets free speech rights and who does not. Instead, courts validate or invalidate laws based on the burden they put on speech. This is because the text of the First Amendment begins, "Congress shall make no law . . . ."--it is written as a negative limit on government, not an affirmative grant of rights to select groups. The McCain-Fiengold campaign finance law that was the subject of Citizens United was struck down because it put a heavy burden on campaign advertising, which is heavily protected core political speech, without (in the view of 5 Justices), sufficient justification. There are certain categories of speech that get virtually no protection. These include obscenity, fighting words, incitement, and true threats. But there are no categories of speakers , like corporations, who go unprotected. This is a crucial distinction that Moyers, Sanders, etc. have missed. It has nothing to do with corporate personhood, and everything to do with the text of the First Amendment and the way it has been interpreted over 200+ years. TL;DR: When a plaintiff like Citizens United challenges a law like McCain-Fiengold on First Amendment grounds, a court analyzes the law to see if the law burdens protected speech without sufficient justification. The court never pauses to consider whether the plaintiff is a natural person or a corporation. The reason has nothing to do with "corporate personhood" and everything to do with the text and the nature of the First Amendment. Thus, amending the Constitution to eliminate corporate personhood will not overturn Citizens United or help get money out of politics.

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I am disappointed. Bill Moyers is a personal hero, but it seems that he, along with Bernie Sanders, has consumed the 28th Amendment Kool-Aid. The doctrine of "corporate personhood" and the Santa Clara decision that supposedly brought corporations under the umbrella of Equal Protection played no part whatsoever in the Citizens United ruling. Look at the [decision]( hit ctl-f, and search for "corporate personhood" or "Santa Clara." Those terms do not appear. Under the First Amendment, courts do not decide who gets free speech rights and who does not. Instead, courts validate or invalidate laws based on the burden they put on speech. This is because the text of the First Amendment begins, "Congress shall make no law . . . ."--it is written as a negative limit on government, not an affirmative grant of rights to select groups. The McCain-Fiengold campaign finance law that was the subject of Citizens United was struck down because it put a heavy burden on campaign advertising, which is heavily protected core political speech, without (in the view of 5 Justices), sufficient justification. There are certain categories of speech that get virtually no protection. These include obscenity, fighting words, incitement, and true threats. But there are no categories of speakers , like corporations, who go unprotected. This is a crucial distinction that Moyers, Sanders, etc. have missed. It has nothing to do with corporate personhood, and everything to do with the text of the First Amendment and the way it has been interpreted over 200+ years.

When a plaintiff like Citizens United challenges a law like McCain-Fiengold on First Amendment grounds, a court analyzes the law to see if the law burdens protected speech without sufficient justification. The court never pauses to consider whether the plaintiff is a natural person or a corporation. The reason has nothing to do with "corporate personhood" and everything to do with the text and the nature of the First Amendment. Thus, amending the Constitution to eliminate corporate personhood will not overturn Citizens United or help get money out of politics.

indiety

My parents are from... out of state. More specifically, they're not from the States. They moved into the states a little over 22 years ago. Then, eventually, they gave birth to me. I was (and still am) their "treasure," their "world," their "universe." I am an adult now (young adult, to be exact), and they still tell me this because I am still their "baby." Well, my mom's "baby" and my dad's "grown-up son." I grew up with parents that value my happiness over everything, and they endeavored to raise me to be an understanding person - someone who can understand other people's history, pains, emotions, lives, personalities, etc without prejudging them. I have to say, I am that kind of person, so I guess my parents achieved their goal there. However, growing up, they were so worried about my future, so they raised me to be a hard worker. Funny story: I'm not. See, my parents came into the states with nothing. My family was literally DIRT POOR. I remember a couple years back, when I sat down with my mom and talked with her after I had a huge fight with my dad, a quarrel that was instigated by my ignorance to the fact that my dad worked hard and still works harder than anyone I know, that our family, when I was just a little kid, made a little over 10k a year. My mom had a small job and my dad was jobless. When I was a kid, he would always leave home late at night (around 10PM-ish), telling me that he had to go to "work" and that he'd be back in 2 hours. As a kid, I was REALLY stuck to my parents - I didn't want to be separated from them, so those 2 hours my dad was away every day of the week felt like eternity. Little did I know, he wasn't going to work. He was looking for a job. Yes, he was job-searching everyday from 10PM-12AM and sometimes even longer (I slept at 9PM all the time as a kid, but our place was so small that I could hear him opening the door and coming into the house from my bedroom). I never really appreciated my parents until after that moment of realization - that my parents worked really and I mean REALLY freakin' hard to get to where we are now. Despite that, I would always fight with them whenever they wanted to hire a tutor or send me to cram school or even help me with anything, whether it be homework, making friends... anything. At one point, whenever the words "homework," "study," or "test" came out of their mouths, I would SNAP at them. I would scream at them without even giving them a chance to say anything, I would run to my room, and lock the door. Then, I would proceed to give them an attitude during dinner. This went on for years and years and years until the end of high school - until I hit college, which is where I am now. Now that I am an adult, I understand and appreciate them much more than I used to. I understand that they're hard-working, but the funny thing is, their jobs that they've been doing for so many years now... they're not jobs they enjoy. They even told me that. But then... "why?" I asked. Why would they work jobs that they don't enjoy? They've been doing this for YEARS; shouldn't they be burned out? Obviously, it was because of me. Their motivation to go through life every day is... me. I am the source of their happiness, the source of their reason for living - their raison d'etre (according to them). I know now how much they've worked for me. I know now how hard they've been fighting against their own demons... for me. They would always buy me the best clothes and shoes as a kid. Not to mention, a lot of toys, drawing kits, books, games, etc, and they would wear the same clothes for years until they were rendered into nothing more than rags. They would wear their shoes until they had holes in them. My parents would always joke about their tattered clothes and shoes full of holes, so, as a kid, I thought it was funny. But now... I understand everything. But I'm nothing like them. I'm not hard-working. I'm not motivated. I'm not necessarily the nicest person. I'm selfish. I'm... not the kind of son they wanted me to be. But, I'm trying to change. I'm trying to work hard now in college, but even then, I tend to get lazy a lot... recently, I've been thinking, "have I failed my parents?" I can't help but convince myself that I have - that I am a failure and although I know that they will always be happy for me and love me for who I am... I can't seem to love myself... Reddit, have I failed my parents? Have I failed my role as a son? Is there even time to atone for my lack of reciprocation of my parents' love for me? **TL;DR** My parents have worked really hard their entire lives for me, but I have yet to properly reciprocate their dedication and love. I am lazy, but I want to change, and yet, my unforgivable past against them makes me believe that I have failed as a son. Is it true?

My parents are from... out of state. More specifically, they're not from the States. They moved into the states a little over 22 years ago. Then, eventually, they gave birth to me. I was (and still am) their "treasure," their "world," their "universe." I am an adult now (young adult, to be exact), and they still tell me this because I am still their "baby." Well, my mom's "baby" and my dad's "grown-up son." I grew up with parents that value my happiness over everything, and they endeavored to raise me to be an understanding person - someone who can understand other people's history, pains, emotions, lives, personalities, etc without prejudging them. I have to say, I am that kind of person, so I guess my parents achieved their goal there. However, growing up, they were so worried about my future, so they raised me to be a hard worker. Funny story: I'm not. See, my parents came into the states with nothing. My family was literally DIRT POOR. I remember a couple years back, when I sat down with my mom and talked with her after I had a huge fight with my dad, a quarrel that was instigated by my ignorance to the fact that my dad worked hard and still works harder than anyone I know, that our family, when I was just a little kid, made a little over 10k a year. My mom had a small job and my dad was jobless. When I was a kid, he would always leave home late at night (around 10PM-ish), telling me that he had to go to "work" and that he'd be back in 2 hours. As a kid, I was REALLY stuck to my parents - I didn't want to be separated from them, so those 2 hours my dad was away every day of the week felt like eternity. Little did I know, he wasn't going to work. He was looking for a job. Yes, he was job-searching everyday from 10PM-12AM and sometimes even longer (I slept at 9PM all the time as a kid, but our place was so small that I could hear him opening the door and coming into the house from my bedroom). I never really appreciated my parents until after that moment of realization - that my parents worked really and I mean REALLY freakin' hard to get to where we are now. Despite that, I would always fight with them whenever they wanted to hire a tutor or send me to cram school or even help me with anything, whether it be homework, making friends... anything. At one point, whenever the words "homework," "study," or "test" came out of their mouths, I would SNAP at them. I would scream at them without even giving them a chance to say anything, I would run to my room, and lock the door. Then, I would proceed to give them an attitude during dinner. This went on for years and years and years until the end of high school - until I hit college, which is where I am now. Now that I am an adult, I understand and appreciate them much more than I used to. I understand that they're hard-working, but the funny thing is, their jobs that they've been doing for so many years now... they're not jobs they enjoy. They even told me that. But then... "why?" I asked. Why would they work jobs that they don't enjoy? They've been doing this for YEARS; shouldn't they be burned out? Obviously, it was because of me. Their motivation to go through life every day is... me. I am the source of their happiness, the source of their reason for living - their raison d'etre (according to them). I know now how much they've worked for me. I know now how hard they've been fighting against their own demons... for me. They would always buy me the best clothes and shoes as a kid. Not to mention, a lot of toys, drawing kits, books, games, etc, and they would wear the same clothes for years until they were rendered into nothing more than rags. They would wear their shoes until they had holes in them. My parents would always joke about their tattered clothes and shoes full of holes, so, as a kid, I thought it was funny. But now... I understand everything. But I'm nothing like them. I'm not hard-working. I'm not motivated. I'm not necessarily the nicest person. I'm selfish. I'm... not the kind of son they wanted me to be. But, I'm trying to change. I'm trying to work hard now in college, but even then, I tend to get lazy a lot... recently, I've been thinking, "have I failed my parents?" I can't help but convince myself that I have - that I am a failure and although I know that they will always be happy for me and love me for who I am... I can't seem to love myself... Reddit, have I failed my parents? Have I failed my role as a son? Is there even time to atone for my lack of reciprocation of my parents' love for me? TL;DR My parents have worked really hard their entire lives for me, but I have yet to properly reciprocate their dedication and love. I am lazy, but I want to change, and yet, my unforgivable past against them makes me believe that I have failed as a son. Is it true?

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My parents are from... out of state. More specifically, they're not from the States. They moved into the states a little over 22 years ago. Then, eventually, they gave birth to me. I was (and still am) their "treasure," their "world," their "universe." I am an adult now (young adult, to be exact), and they still tell me this because I am still their "baby." Well, my mom's "baby" and my dad's "grown-up son." I grew up with parents that value my happiness over everything, and they endeavored to raise me to be an understanding person - someone who can understand other people's history, pains, emotions, lives, personalities, etc without prejudging them. I have to say, I am that kind of person, so I guess my parents achieved their goal there. However, growing up, they were so worried about my future, so they raised me to be a hard worker. Funny story: I'm not. See, my parents came into the states with nothing. My family was literally DIRT POOR. I remember a couple years back, when I sat down with my mom and talked with her after I had a huge fight with my dad, a quarrel that was instigated by my ignorance to the fact that my dad worked hard and still works harder than anyone I know, that our family, when I was just a little kid, made a little over 10k a year. My mom had a small job and my dad was jobless. When I was a kid, he would always leave home late at night (around 10PM-ish), telling me that he had to go to "work" and that he'd be back in 2 hours. As a kid, I was REALLY stuck to my parents - I didn't want to be separated from them, so those 2 hours my dad was away every day of the week felt like eternity. Little did I know, he wasn't going to work. He was looking for a job. Yes, he was job-searching everyday from 10PM-12AM and sometimes even longer (I slept at 9PM all the time as a kid, but our place was so small that I could hear him opening the door and coming into the house from my bedroom). I never really appreciated my parents until after that moment of realization - that my parents worked really and I mean REALLY freakin' hard to get to where we are now. Despite that, I would always fight with them whenever they wanted to hire a tutor or send me to cram school or even help me with anything, whether it be homework, making friends... anything. At one point, whenever the words "homework," "study," or "test" came out of their mouths, I would SNAP at them. I would scream at them without even giving them a chance to say anything, I would run to my room, and lock the door. Then, I would proceed to give them an attitude during dinner. This went on for years and years and years until the end of high school - until I hit college, which is where I am now. Now that I am an adult, I understand and appreciate them much more than I used to. I understand that they're hard-working, but the funny thing is, their jobs that they've been doing for so many years now... they're not jobs they enjoy. They even told me that. But then... "why?" I asked. Why would they work jobs that they don't enjoy? They've been doing this for YEARS; shouldn't they be burned out? Obviously, it was because of me. Their motivation to go through life every day is... me. I am the source of their happiness, the source of their reason for living - their raison d'etre (according to them). I know now how much they've worked for me. I know now how hard they've been fighting against their own demons... for me. They would always buy me the best clothes and shoes as a kid. Not to mention, a lot of toys, drawing kits, books, games, etc, and they would wear the same clothes for years until they were rendered into nothing more than rags. They would wear their shoes until they had holes in them. My parents would always joke about their tattered clothes and shoes full of holes, so, as a kid, I thought it was funny. But now... I understand everything. But I'm nothing like them. I'm not hard-working. I'm not motivated. I'm not necessarily the nicest person. I'm selfish. I'm... not the kind of son they wanted me to be. But, I'm trying to change. I'm trying to work hard now in college, but even then, I tend to get lazy a lot... recently, I've been thinking, "have I failed my parents?" I can't help but convince myself that I have - that I am a failure and although I know that they will always be happy for me and love me for who I am... I can't seem to love myself... Reddit, have I failed my parents? Have I failed my role as a son? Is there even time to atone for my lack of reciprocation of my parents' love for me?

My parents have worked really hard their entire lives for me, but I have yet to properly reciprocate their dedication and love. I am lazy, but I want to change, and yet, my unforgivable past against them makes me believe that I have failed as a son. Is it true?

AbareKiller

As a user. Physically, she's superior to Tohno yes. However, her eye's cut concept **that she perceives as living things**. Tohno's eye let him destroy anything that exist physically. In theory, Ryougi has the better eyes, but in the context of their ability, Tohno's eye let him destroy more things. TL;DR: Ryougi > Nanaya > Tohno > SHIKI (Roa), but in terms of eyes Tohno = Nanaya > Ryougi > SHIKI And of course, as in all TM powerlevel discussion, no Void Shiki. Void Shiki > anything in the Nasu verse

As a user. Physically, she's superior to Tohno yes. However, her eye's cut concept that she perceives as living things . Tohno's eye let him destroy anything that exist physically. In theory, Ryougi has the better eyes, but in the context of their ability, Tohno's eye let him destroy more things. TL;DR: Ryougi > Nanaya > Tohno > SHIKI (Roa), but in terms of eyes Tohno = Nanaya > Ryougi > SHIKI And of course, as in all TM powerlevel discussion, no Void Shiki. Void Shiki > anything in the Nasu verse

anime

t5_2qh22

ckz76rs

As a user. Physically, she's superior to Tohno yes. However, her eye's cut concept that she perceives as living things . Tohno's eye let him destroy anything that exist physically. In theory, Ryougi has the better eyes, but in the context of their ability, Tohno's eye let him destroy more things.

Ryougi > Nanaya > Tohno > SHIKI (Roa), but in terms of eyes Tohno = Nanaya > Ryougi > SHIKI And of course, as in all TM powerlevel discussion, no Void Shiki. Void Shiki > anything in the Nasu verse

xpensivewino

Have been seeing Dude for about a month now. It's been going well so far and we have good chemistry, he's introduced me to his friends, and it's generally progressing as I would hope. We have not had any defining relationship talks (we are sleeping together), but I'd say beyond any reasonable doubt that he isn't seeing anyone else (same here) and he's pretty into me. I know he hasn't been single too long, a few months, and that his previous relationship was pretty rocky (they've broken up more than once), but were together on/off at least a couple years. Since they've been broken up now, she has moved away and it seemed pretty permanent, so I've proceeded with seeing him. This weekend he went away to visit family and brought his dog (which he had got as a puppy w his Ex). The dog was injured over the wknd (somehow escaped his harness and jumped out of the back of a moving truck on the highway). The dog is hurt quite badly, but will recover fully and right now, basically needs constant care and supervision (and will for the next 2 weeks). Dude was understandably quite shaken by the accident, I'd be too. Now, Dude informed Ex of the situation, and they have decided that she will come to our city, to look after the dog while Dude has to work. Dude filled me in on this earlier today, and now I'm just questioning everything. He says he needs someone to look after dog, plain and simple. He's not in a job where he can take the time off himself, and he just needs her help right now, to make sure dog gets better. I totally understand he's in a tough spot. I just don't know how to feel about her staying in his 1-bedroom place, for 2 weeks, looking after their puppy together. I told him I'm obviously uneasy about it, but I understand his priority right now is getting his dog better, and so he should do what he needs to. In the end, this is all about the dog recovering and not me or us dating, I get that.. But I am not sure if I'm handling this well. Should I stand up for myself more? Ask him more about their relationship and if he still has feelings for her? Or just wait it out and see what happens? I know we've only been seeing each other a month or so, but I do like him a lot and up until now, everything was going well and I saw things developing quite well for us. **tl;dr**: New guy I'm dating's dog got injured and needs to be babysat 24/7 for next 2 weeks. His ex is coming to stay with him to help out. Am I an idiot for thinking we still have a chance? UPDATE: We've talked since I posted this.. I told him I can give him space while the dog's getting better and she's there, and I also asked him if he wants to continue seeing me after things are settled, or if there's still stuff between him and her. He said he doesn't know what's going to happen, but they don't intend to get back together, but that the situation could get messy. He said I'm best to move on as to not get hurt. So there, I have my answer.

Have been seeing Dude for about a month now. It's been going well so far and we have good chemistry, he's introduced me to his friends, and it's generally progressing as I would hope. We have not had any defining relationship talks (we are sleeping together), but I'd say beyond any reasonable doubt that he isn't seeing anyone else (same here) and he's pretty into me. I know he hasn't been single too long, a few months, and that his previous relationship was pretty rocky (they've broken up more than once), but were together on/off at least a couple years. Since they've been broken up now, she has moved away and it seemed pretty permanent, so I've proceeded with seeing him. This weekend he went away to visit family and brought his dog (which he had got as a puppy w his Ex). The dog was injured over the wknd (somehow escaped his harness and jumped out of the back of a moving truck on the highway). The dog is hurt quite badly, but will recover fully and right now, basically needs constant care and supervision (and will for the next 2 weeks). Dude was understandably quite shaken by the accident, I'd be too. Now, Dude informed Ex of the situation, and they have decided that she will come to our city, to look after the dog while Dude has to work. Dude filled me in on this earlier today, and now I'm just questioning everything. He says he needs someone to look after dog, plain and simple. He's not in a job where he can take the time off himself, and he just needs her help right now, to make sure dog gets better. I totally understand he's in a tough spot. I just don't know how to feel about her staying in his 1-bedroom place, for 2 weeks, looking after their puppy together. I told him I'm obviously uneasy about it, but I understand his priority right now is getting his dog better, and so he should do what he needs to. In the end, this is all about the dog recovering and not me or us dating, I get that.. But I am not sure if I'm handling this well. Should I stand up for myself more? Ask him more about their relationship and if he still has feelings for her? Or just wait it out and see what happens? I know we've only been seeing each other a month or so, but I do like him a lot and up until now, everything was going well and I saw things developing quite well for us. tl;dr : New guy I'm dating's dog got injured and needs to be babysat 24/7 for next 2 weeks. His ex is coming to stay with him to help out. Am I an idiot for thinking we still have a chance? UPDATE: We've talked since I posted this.. I told him I can give him space while the dog's getting better and she's there, and I also asked him if he wants to continue seeing me after things are settled, or if there's still stuff between him and her. He said he doesn't know what's going to happen, but they don't intend to get back together, but that the situation could get messy. He said I'm best to move on as to not get hurt. So there, I have my answer.

relationships

t5_2qjvn

t3_36l7k9

Have been seeing Dude for about a month now. It's been going well so far and we have good chemistry, he's introduced me to his friends, and it's generally progressing as I would hope. We have not had any defining relationship talks (we are sleeping together), but I'd say beyond any reasonable doubt that he isn't seeing anyone else (same here) and he's pretty into me. I know he hasn't been single too long, a few months, and that his previous relationship was pretty rocky (they've broken up more than once), but were together on/off at least a couple years. Since they've been broken up now, she has moved away and it seemed pretty permanent, so I've proceeded with seeing him. This weekend he went away to visit family and brought his dog (which he had got as a puppy w his Ex). The dog was injured over the wknd (somehow escaped his harness and jumped out of the back of a moving truck on the highway). The dog is hurt quite badly, but will recover fully and right now, basically needs constant care and supervision (and will for the next 2 weeks). Dude was understandably quite shaken by the accident, I'd be too. Now, Dude informed Ex of the situation, and they have decided that she will come to our city, to look after the dog while Dude has to work. Dude filled me in on this earlier today, and now I'm just questioning everything. He says he needs someone to look after dog, plain and simple. He's not in a job where he can take the time off himself, and he just needs her help right now, to make sure dog gets better. I totally understand he's in a tough spot. I just don't know how to feel about her staying in his 1-bedroom place, for 2 weeks, looking after their puppy together. I told him I'm obviously uneasy about it, but I understand his priority right now is getting his dog better, and so he should do what he needs to. In the end, this is all about the dog recovering and not me or us dating, I get that.. But I am not sure if I'm handling this well. Should I stand up for myself more? Ask him more about their relationship and if he still has feelings for her? Or just wait it out and see what happens? I know we've only been seeing each other a month or so, but I do like him a lot and up until now, everything was going well and I saw things developing quite well for us.

New guy I'm dating's dog got injured and needs to be babysat 24/7 for next 2 weeks. His ex is coming to stay with him to help out. Am I an idiot for thinking we still have a chance? UPDATE: We've talked since I posted this.. I told him I can give him space while the dog's getting better and she's there, and I also asked him if he wants to continue seeing me after things are settled, or if there's still stuff between him and her. He said he doesn't know what's going to happen, but they don't intend to get back together, but that the situation could get messy. He said I'm best to move on as to not get hurt. So there, I have my answer.

camelFace

It's about good customers. The dealer interested in profit would elect for a stable clientele: one chasing a high, but with the money and personal stability conducive to repeat business. Would you want to deal with aggressive, unpredictable addicts who never have enough money? For an example from the real world, take a look at crack -- viciously addictive, great for destabilizing communities. Now imagine some Raiders on Psycho withdrawal are knocking on your door with SMGs and no caps, anxious for their next hit. Not a desirable scenario. Best avoid it by maintaining good relations with civil working folk anxious to forget they live in the Wasteland for a couple hours a week. So it really makes perfect sense that a dealer in the FO universe would carry fixer. tl;dr - A product can only be sold when its customers can pay for it. The more disruptive a substance is, the less productive its users can be and their ability to produce the proper currency (rather than car stereos and DVRs) is severely inhibited.

It's about good customers. The dealer interested in profit would elect for a stable clientele: one chasing a high, but with the money and personal stability conducive to repeat business. Would you want to deal with aggressive, unpredictable addicts who never have enough money? For an example from the real world, take a look at crack -- viciously addictive, great for destabilizing communities. Now imagine some Raiders on Psycho withdrawal are knocking on your door with SMGs and no caps, anxious for their next hit. Not a desirable scenario. Best avoid it by maintaining good relations with civil working folk anxious to forget they live in the Wasteland for a couple hours a week. So it really makes perfect sense that a dealer in the FO universe would carry fixer. tl;dr - A product can only be sold when its customers can pay for it. The more disruptive a substance is, the less productive its users can be and their ability to produce the proper currency (rather than car stereos and DVRs) is severely inhibited.

gaming

t5_2qh03

c60cwks

It's about good customers. The dealer interested in profit would elect for a stable clientele: one chasing a high, but with the money and personal stability conducive to repeat business. Would you want to deal with aggressive, unpredictable addicts who never have enough money? For an example from the real world, take a look at crack -- viciously addictive, great for destabilizing communities. Now imagine some Raiders on Psycho withdrawal are knocking on your door with SMGs and no caps, anxious for their next hit. Not a desirable scenario. Best avoid it by maintaining good relations with civil working folk anxious to forget they live in the Wasteland for a couple hours a week. So it really makes perfect sense that a dealer in the FO universe would carry fixer.

A product can only be sold when its customers can pay for it. The more disruptive a substance is, the less productive its users can be and their ability to produce the proper currency (rather than car stereos and DVRs) is severely inhibited.

magicaltrevor953

I believe the analogues to the figures ARE out there, but are more well known in their relevant spheres. There are a few points to remember though: * You are looking at those geniuses post-mortem, most academics of the past 30-40 years are still alive and working. * Those people you are thinking of a long time ago discovered a lot of things, the people who came after had the foundations laid out for them, and so on throughout the centuries. Now we are here we have so much that has to be taught rather than discover, there is so much choice about what to study. Specialisation is also a factor in that, with people being pressured into making themselves more employable in an area. For example, if you needed to hire a children's nurse, would you go for the one with a degree in Nursing, or the one with Children's Nursing? As has been shown by the take up of more niche degree programs, having undergraduate degrees that are closed off to other fields means that future research may be focused on one area making smaller (but still important) discoveries and advances, also as Noxzer says they are a lot more frequent. To stress this, see the Nobel Prize winner for chemistry for the past few years: * ["for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors"]( * ["for the discovery of quasicrystals"]( * ["for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis"]( Now go back to the beginning of the prize: * "[for] the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds" * "[for his] discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air, and his determination of their place in the periodic system" * "[for] his work on sugar and purine syntheses" All of that being said, like I mentioned at the beginning, they are there. See [Noam Chomsky]( for one, [Isaac Asimov]( [Carl Sagan]( [Nathan Myhrvold]( tl;dr - The geniuses of today are busy working on tiny sections of the overall web of science, fueled by specialisation of degrees and careers, and there is also a lot more science to build on now.

I believe the analogues to the figures ARE out there, but are more well known in their relevant spheres. There are a few points to remember though: You are looking at those geniuses post-mortem, most academics of the past 30-40 years are still alive and working. Those people you are thinking of a long time ago discovered a lot of things, the people who came after had the foundations laid out for them, and so on throughout the centuries. Now we are here we have so much that has to be taught rather than discover, there is so much choice about what to study. Specialisation is also a factor in that, with people being pressured into making themselves more employable in an area. For example, if you needed to hire a children's nurse, would you go for the one with a degree in Nursing, or the one with Children's Nursing? As has been shown by the take up of more niche degree programs, having undergraduate degrees that are closed off to other fields means that future research may be focused on one area making smaller (but still important) discoveries and advances, also as Noxzer says they are a lot more frequent. To stress this, see the Nobel Prize winner for chemistry for the past few years: ["for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors"]( ["for the discovery of quasicrystals"]( ["for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis"]( Now go back to the beginning of the prize: "[for] the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds" "[for his] discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air, and his determination of their place in the periodic system" "[for] his work on sugar and purine syntheses" All of that being said, like I mentioned at the beginning, they are there. See [Noam Chomsky]( for one, [Isaac Asimov]( [Carl Sagan]( [Nathan Myhrvold]( tl;dr - The geniuses of today are busy working on tiny sections of the overall web of science, fueled by specialisation of degrees and careers, and there is also a lot more science to build on now.

AskSocialScience

t5_2sml9

c7dx5om

I believe the analogues to the figures ARE out there, but are more well known in their relevant spheres. There are a few points to remember though: You are looking at those geniuses post-mortem, most academics of the past 30-40 years are still alive and working. Those people you are thinking of a long time ago discovered a lot of things, the people who came after had the foundations laid out for them, and so on throughout the centuries. Now we are here we have so much that has to be taught rather than discover, there is so much choice about what to study. Specialisation is also a factor in that, with people being pressured into making themselves more employable in an area. For example, if you needed to hire a children's nurse, would you go for the one with a degree in Nursing, or the one with Children's Nursing? As has been shown by the take up of more niche degree programs, having undergraduate degrees that are closed off to other fields means that future research may be focused on one area making smaller (but still important) discoveries and advances, also as Noxzer says they are a lot more frequent. To stress this, see the Nobel Prize winner for chemistry for the past few years: ["for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors"]( ["for the discovery of quasicrystals"]( ["for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis"]( Now go back to the beginning of the prize: "[for] the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds" "[for his] discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air, and his determination of their place in the periodic system" "[for] his work on sugar and purine syntheses" All of that being said, like I mentioned at the beginning, they are there. See [Noam Chomsky]( for one, [Isaac Asimov]( [Carl Sagan]( [Nathan Myhrvold](

The geniuses of today are busy working on tiny sections of the overall web of science, fueled by specialisation of degrees and careers, and there is also a lot more science to build on now.

Lillith003

Hey r/loseit! You guys have been awesome helping me with my journey, not quite there yet but I would probably have quit without the support and encouragement here. I have been still working to lose weight and get healthier but the scale was stressing me out so I stopped checking for a while. Three weeks ago to be exact, and this is a lot for me, someone who used to check every single day. Today I decided to step on the scale, I am officially 40 pounds lighter than I was when I started, just under 8 months ago. I know this isn't some incredible number compared to what is on here normally, and congratulations to all of those people. I know I could have lost faster, but when I started I had 54 pounds to lose, so now I am 14 pounds away from reaching my target. There is also a NSV for me that is actually very important to me. When I started this I was pre-diabetic, out of shape, overweight and sitting in the obese category of the BMI chart. I am now much healthier in all of these aspects but the big one for me is my relationship with food. I have had an eating disorder most of my life and finally through help, support, the right medications, and yes weight loss, I feel like I'm actually in better control of it. I don't feel guilty for eating anymore, I don't endlessly stress and count every single calorie. I am doing a lot better. So thanks everyone. **TL;DR** **SV: down 40 pounds, now 14 pounds away from my target.** **NSV: Better control over my EDNOS, and no longer pre-diabetic, out of shape, overweight or sitting in the obese category of the BMI chart.**

Hey r/loseit! You guys have been awesome helping me with my journey, not quite there yet but I would probably have quit without the support and encouragement here. I have been still working to lose weight and get healthier but the scale was stressing me out so I stopped checking for a while. Three weeks ago to be exact, and this is a lot for me, someone who used to check every single day. Today I decided to step on the scale, I am officially 40 pounds lighter than I was when I started, just under 8 months ago. I know this isn't some incredible number compared to what is on here normally, and congratulations to all of those people. I know I could have lost faster, but when I started I had 54 pounds to lose, so now I am 14 pounds away from reaching my target. There is also a NSV for me that is actually very important to me. When I started this I was pre-diabetic, out of shape, overweight and sitting in the obese category of the BMI chart. I am now much healthier in all of these aspects but the big one for me is my relationship with food. I have had an eating disorder most of my life and finally through help, support, the right medications, and yes weight loss, I feel like I'm actually in better control of it. I don't feel guilty for eating anymore, I don't endlessly stress and count every single calorie. I am doing a lot better. So thanks everyone. TL;DR SV: down 40 pounds, now 14 pounds away from my target. NSV: Better control over my EDNOS, and no longer pre-diabetic, out of shape, overweight or sitting in the obese category of the BMI chart.

loseit

t5_2rz8w

t3_2uzw9e

Hey r/loseit! You guys have been awesome helping me with my journey, not quite there yet but I would probably have quit without the support and encouragement here. I have been still working to lose weight and get healthier but the scale was stressing me out so I stopped checking for a while. Three weeks ago to be exact, and this is a lot for me, someone who used to check every single day. Today I decided to step on the scale, I am officially 40 pounds lighter than I was when I started, just under 8 months ago. I know this isn't some incredible number compared to what is on here normally, and congratulations to all of those people. I know I could have lost faster, but when I started I had 54 pounds to lose, so now I am 14 pounds away from reaching my target. There is also a NSV for me that is actually very important to me. When I started this I was pre-diabetic, out of shape, overweight and sitting in the obese category of the BMI chart. I am now much healthier in all of these aspects but the big one for me is my relationship with food. I have had an eating disorder most of my life and finally through help, support, the right medications, and yes weight loss, I feel like I'm actually in better control of it. I don't feel guilty for eating anymore, I don't endlessly stress and count every single calorie. I am doing a lot better. So thanks everyone.

SV: down 40 pounds, now 14 pounds away from my target. NSV: Better control over my EDNOS, and no longer pre-diabetic, out of shape, overweight or sitting in the obese category of the BMI chart.

Dr_Adequate

This letter appeared in the local newspaper Thursday, and the writer asserts that health care reform will tax him at 40% for his employer-provided plan, resulting in (per his math) a net loss of about $270 take home every two weeks. [Link to original letter]( Where did the letter writer get these numbers? I have seen nothing in the plan stating numbers or tax rates for employer-provided plans, but then again there are approximately eleventy-billion "How Health Care Reform Will (help you / screw you)" websites out there now. Bigger picture: After reading the [Noam Chomsky thread]( I think this is a good example of one of the differences between the left and the right. Assuming the author of the anti-health-care-reform letter above is a conservative, he illustrates the "I'm getting the shaft" mentality and backs it up with specific examples which may or may not be correct but which are detailed enough to sound plausible at first. And how then would a progressive engage and discuss this? *If the letter author is wrong, then one need only point out the truth. *If the letter author is right, and the health-care reform bill will increase his taxes, then it's far more difficult. Without knowing where the letter author got his facts, checking it is difficult. The truth may even be somewhere in the middle, like, there is a tax increase but it's offset by cost savings, tax credits, or so on. Which is a nuanced answer that's not so easy to defend against the "I'm getting the shaft (and here's the specific amount!)" outrage in the letter. tl;dr: Will health care reform tax medical premiums at 40%? What would you say to someone who asserts that health care reform will do that?

This letter appeared in the local newspaper Thursday, and the writer asserts that health care reform will tax him at 40% for his employer-provided plan, resulting in (per his math) a net loss of about $270 take home every two weeks. [Link to original letter]( Where did the letter writer get these numbers? I have seen nothing in the plan stating numbers or tax rates for employer-provided plans, but then again there are approximately eleventy-billion "How Health Care Reform Will (help you / screw you)" websites out there now. Bigger picture: After reading the [Noam Chomsky thread]( I think this is a good example of one of the differences between the left and the right. Assuming the author of the anti-health-care-reform letter above is a conservative, he illustrates the "I'm getting the shaft" mentality and backs it up with specific examples which may or may not be correct but which are detailed enough to sound plausible at first. And how then would a progressive engage and discuss this? *If the letter author is wrong, then one need only point out the truth. *If the letter author is right, and the health-care reform bill will increase his taxes, then it's far more difficult. Without knowing where the letter author got his facts, checking it is difficult. The truth may even be somewhere in the middle, like, there is a tax increase but it's offset by cost savings, tax credits, or so on. Which is a nuanced answer that's not so easy to defend against the "I'm getting the shaft (and here's the specific amount!)" outrage in the letter. tl;dr: Will health care reform tax medical premiums at 40%? What would you say to someone who asserts that health care reform will do that?

politics

t5_2cneq

t3_admrg

This letter appeared in the local newspaper Thursday, and the writer asserts that health care reform will tax him at 40% for his employer-provided plan, resulting in (per his math) a net loss of about $270 take home every two weeks. [Link to original letter]( Where did the letter writer get these numbers? I have seen nothing in the plan stating numbers or tax rates for employer-provided plans, but then again there are approximately eleventy-billion "How Health Care Reform Will (help you / screw you)" websites out there now. Bigger picture: After reading the [Noam Chomsky thread]( I think this is a good example of one of the differences between the left and the right. Assuming the author of the anti-health-care-reform letter above is a conservative, he illustrates the "I'm getting the shaft" mentality and backs it up with specific examples which may or may not be correct but which are detailed enough to sound plausible at first. And how then would a progressive engage and discuss this? *If the letter author is wrong, then one need only point out the truth. *If the letter author is right, and the health-care reform bill will increase his taxes, then it's far more difficult. Without knowing where the letter author got his facts, checking it is difficult. The truth may even be somewhere in the middle, like, there is a tax increase but it's offset by cost savings, tax credits, or so on. Which is a nuanced answer that's not so easy to defend against the "I'm getting the shaft (and here's the specific amount!)" outrage in the letter.

Will health care reform tax medical premiums at 40%? What would you say to someone who asserts that health care reform will do that?

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EDIT: Mine isn't good, but it still counts for something I was in 5th grade and I had just moved to a different school. I was one of those socially awkward kids who was desperate. It was the start of the second semester when I met her, the 10 out of 10, let's name her Annie, because that was her name. Anyways she had just moved in so I thought I would try to swoop in and get the prize. I did nothing for the first couple weeks besides make small talk with her. Then I got a little bracelet (I can't remember how) and I knew it was time. I made a note for her and put the bracelet in the note and put it in her desk. This continued for a while until she asked if she could talk to me at recess (I was desperate so I had my hopes up high). At recess she told me how sweet it was for me to give her these gifts and notes, but she said she just wanted to be friends. My heart dropped when she told me this, but I though it would be ok, because how hard would it be to get out of the friend zone? Now we are strangers again. TL;DR: Kids do desperate things only to get friend-zoned

EDIT: Mine isn't good, but it still counts for something I was in 5th grade and I had just moved to a different school. I was one of those socially awkward kids who was desperate. It was the start of the second semester when I met her, the 10 out of 10, let's name her Annie, because that was her name. Anyways she had just moved in so I thought I would try to swoop in and get the prize. I did nothing for the first couple weeks besides make small talk with her. Then I got a little bracelet (I can't remember how) and I knew it was time. I made a note for her and put the bracelet in the note and put it in her desk. This continued for a while until she asked if she could talk to me at recess (I was desperate so I had my hopes up high). At recess she told me how sweet it was for me to give her these gifts and notes, but she said she just wanted to be friends. My heart dropped when she told me this, but I though it would be ok, because how hard would it be to get out of the friend zone? Now we are strangers again. TL;DR: Kids do desperate things only to get friend-zoned

AskReddit

t5_2qh1i

t3_xhp0a

EDIT: Mine isn't good, but it still counts for something I was in 5th grade and I had just moved to a different school. I was one of those socially awkward kids who was desperate. It was the start of the second semester when I met her, the 10 out of 10, let's name her Annie, because that was her name. Anyways she had just moved in so I thought I would try to swoop in and get the prize. I did nothing for the first couple weeks besides make small talk with her. Then I got a little bracelet (I can't remember how) and I knew it was time. I made a note for her and put the bracelet in the note and put it in her desk. This continued for a while until she asked if she could talk to me at recess (I was desperate so I had my hopes up high). At recess she told me how sweet it was for me to give her these gifts and notes, but she said she just wanted to be friends. My heart dropped when she told me this, but I though it would be ok, because how hard would it be to get out of the friend zone? Now we are strangers again.

Kids do desperate things only to get friend-zoned

hazzman14

This is a list of my tribunal record (people i have pardoned or punished) and i think that people are too harsh because if you look at where i pardoned someone others rarely do so too Punish Majority Warning 1229714 Pardon Very Few Warning 1229709 Pardon Minority Warning 1229549 Pardon Majority Pardon 1229187 Pardon Minority Time Ban 1227781 Punish Overwhelming Majority Time Ban 1228158 Punish Strong Majority Warning 1229006 Punish Strong Majority Warning 1229185 Punish Strong Majority Warning 1228790 Punish Majority Time Ban 1228038 Pardon Very Few Warning 1228898 Pardon Very Few Warning 1227772 Punish Overwhelming Majority Warning 1228669 Punish Strong Majority Time Ban 1227290 Punish Strong Majority Warning 1227195 Pardon Minority Time Ban 1228272 Punish Majority Warning 1227634 Punish Strong Majority Warning 1226923 Punish Minority Pardon 1226255 Pardon Minority Warning 753531 Punish Majority Time Ban 752562 Punish Majority Warning 752168 Punish Majority Warning 752491 Pardon Minority Time Ban 752513 Punish Majority Time Ban tl;dr i think some people are too harsh on people in the tribunal

This is a list of my tribunal record (people i have pardoned or punished) and i think that people are too harsh because if you look at where i pardoned someone others rarely do so too Punish Majority Warning 1229714 Pardon Very Few Warning 1229709 Pardon Minority Warning 1229549 Pardon Majority Pardon 1229187 Pardon Minority Time Ban 1227781 Punish Overwhelming Majority Time Ban 1228158 Punish Strong Majority Warning 1229006 Punish Strong Majority Warning 1229185 Punish Strong Majority Warning 1228790 Punish Majority Time Ban 1228038 Pardon Very Few Warning 1228898 Pardon Very Few Warning 1227772 Punish Overwhelming Majority Warning 1228669 Punish Strong Majority Time Ban 1227290 Punish Strong Majority Warning 1227195 Pardon Minority Time Ban 1228272 Punish Majority Warning 1227634 Punish Strong Majority Warning 1226923 Punish Minority Pardon 1226255 Pardon Minority Warning 753531 Punish Majority Time Ban 752562 Punish Majority Warning 752168 Punish Majority Warning 752491 Pardon Minority Time Ban 752513 Punish Majority Time Ban tl;dr i think some people are too harsh on people in the tribunal

leagueoflegends

t5_2rfxx

t3_1xdlsb

This is a list of my tribunal record (people i have pardoned or punished) and i think that people are too harsh because if you look at where i pardoned someone others rarely do so too Punish Majority Warning 1229714 Pardon Very Few Warning 1229709 Pardon Minority Warning 1229549 Pardon Majority Pardon 1229187 Pardon Minority Time Ban 1227781 Punish Overwhelming Majority Time Ban 1228158 Punish Strong Majority Warning 1229006 Punish Strong Majority Warning 1229185 Punish Strong Majority Warning 1228790 Punish Majority Time Ban 1228038 Pardon Very Few Warning 1228898 Pardon Very Few Warning 1227772 Punish Overwhelming Majority Warning 1228669 Punish Strong Majority Time Ban 1227290 Punish Strong Majority Warning 1227195 Pardon Minority Time Ban 1228272 Punish Majority Warning 1227634 Punish Strong Majority Warning 1226923 Punish Minority Pardon 1226255 Pardon Minority Warning 753531 Punish Majority Time Ban 752562 Punish Majority Warning 752168 Punish Majority Warning 752491 Pardon Minority Time Ban 752513 Punish Majority Time Ban

i think some people are too harsh on people in the tribunal

bigdogneversleeps

GDP is an overrated statistic that is abused by current politicians. Stop looking at the big picture. but the real issues. The mean is far higher than the median, and there are a ton of different statistics that should be looked at to show what really needs to be done for the US to get a healthier economy that we see in small bits every know and then as a shock statistic instead of what is should be. TL;DR Fuck GDP, it's useless to running your countries economy

GDP is an overrated statistic that is abused by current politicians. Stop looking at the big picture. but the real issues. The mean is far higher than the median, and there are a ton of different statistics that should be looked at to show what really needs to be done for the US to get a healthier economy that we see in small bits every know and then as a shock statistic instead of what is should be. TL;DR Fuck GDP, it's useless to running your countries economy

news

t5_2qh3l

cjcc3v3

GDP is an overrated statistic that is abused by current politicians. Stop looking at the big picture. but the real issues. The mean is far higher than the median, and there are a ton of different statistics that should be looked at to show what really needs to be done for the US to get a healthier economy that we see in small bits every know and then as a shock statistic instead of what is should be.

Fuck GDP, it's useless to running your countries economy

Spartan448

No, I'd rather not be clubbing inferior planes, actually. To expand on what I said, I *do* in fact enjoy playing against the top-tiered German props. They are exciting dogfights and it makes it all the more rewarding and the adrenaline rush is so much sweeter when I go 3 and 0 against the last three enemies when it's me and a Tempest against the last three... and the three are all on the Tempest. That being said, fighting the likes of the A-5 in the Griffon Spitfires would be the aerial equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel if the fish could sorta kinda shoot back maybe if they get lucky with getting their guns on target, and if there's one thing I like more than exciting dogfights, it's bludgeoning helpless, defenseless little whelps to death, which is why I love Hokkaido so much. So yes, while I would love to see a match with A-5s, it's not something I'd want to do regularly or even semi-regularly. Like expensive wines, it is something to be enjoyed on rare occasions when one simply wants to relax and chuckle to themselves about how much better than everyone else they are. tl;dr: I may complain a bit about it, but at the end of the day I like fighting the top-tier German props. Somehow getting into a match with mostly A-5 190s and G-2 109s would be a nice break from the intensity of normal matches, but it's not something I'd want to do regularly - it's not sporting and it's not really fun, a

No, I'd rather not be clubbing inferior planes, actually. To expand on what I said, I do in fact enjoy playing against the top-tiered German props. They are exciting dogfights and it makes it all the more rewarding and the adrenaline rush is so much sweeter when I go 3 and 0 against the last three enemies when it's me and a Tempest against the last three... and the three are all on the Tempest. That being said, fighting the likes of the A-5 in the Griffon Spitfires would be the aerial equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel if the fish could sorta kinda shoot back maybe if they get lucky with getting their guns on target, and if there's one thing I like more than exciting dogfights, it's bludgeoning helpless, defenseless little whelps to death, which is why I love Hokkaido so much. So yes, while I would love to see a match with A-5s, it's not something I'd want to do regularly or even semi-regularly. Like expensive wines, it is something to be enjoyed on rare occasions when one simply wants to relax and chuckle to themselves about how much better than everyone else they are. tl;dr: I may complain a bit about it, but at the end of the day I like fighting the top-tier German props. Somehow getting into a match with mostly A-5 190s and G-2 109s would be a nice break from the intensity of normal matches, but it's not something I'd want to do regularly - it's not sporting and it's not really fun, a

Warthunder

t5_2uc6j

cokrxa8

No, I'd rather not be clubbing inferior planes, actually. To expand on what I said, I do in fact enjoy playing against the top-tiered German props. They are exciting dogfights and it makes it all the more rewarding and the adrenaline rush is so much sweeter when I go 3 and 0 against the last three enemies when it's me and a Tempest against the last three... and the three are all on the Tempest. That being said, fighting the likes of the A-5 in the Griffon Spitfires would be the aerial equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel if the fish could sorta kinda shoot back maybe if they get lucky with getting their guns on target, and if there's one thing I like more than exciting dogfights, it's bludgeoning helpless, defenseless little whelps to death, which is why I love Hokkaido so much. So yes, while I would love to see a match with A-5s, it's not something I'd want to do regularly or even semi-regularly. Like expensive wines, it is something to be enjoyed on rare occasions when one simply wants to relax and chuckle to themselves about how much better than everyone else they are.

I may complain a bit about it, but at the end of the day I like fighting the top-tier German props. Somehow getting into a match with mostly A-5 190s and G-2 109s would be a nice break from the intensity of normal matches, but it's not something I'd want to do regularly - it's not sporting and it's not really fun, a

_Ravi_

from one of my previous comments: >About 2 months ago, I was talking to my friends about how weird the internet is, and someone mentioned furries. I already knew about furries, but this somehow made me come here, just to laugh at how sick you were. The first post I clicked on was by Ringgar, and was a "hey, what's up" post. As I read through the comments something happened inide me: I no longer thought you were sick and weird. >A couple weeks of lurking later I knew for sure I was a furry, so I made this account, and here we are :D >TLDR: I came, I saw, I became a furry.

from one of my previous comments: >About 2 months ago, I was talking to my friends about how weird the internet is, and someone mentioned furries. I already knew about furries, but this somehow made me come here, just to laugh at how sick you were. The first post I clicked on was by Ringgar, and was a "hey, what's up" post. As I read through the comments something happened inide me: I no longer thought you were sick and weird. >A couple weeks of lurking later I knew for sure I was a furry, so I made this account, and here we are :D >TLDR: I came, I saw, I became a furry.

furry

t5_2qi2h

crns7ro

from one of my previous comments: >About 2 months ago, I was talking to my friends about how weird the internet is, and someone mentioned furries. I already knew about furries, but this somehow made me come here, just to laugh at how sick you were. The first post I clicked on was by Ringgar, and was a "hey, what's up" post. As I read through the comments something happened inide me: I no longer thought you were sick and weird. >A couple weeks of lurking later I knew for sure I was a furry, so I made this account, and here we are :D >

I came, I saw, I became a furry.

matttjonez

>Because everyone who's high is a high functioning and productive member of society. I see your sarcasm, but it's very misplaced. If you're lazy when you're sober, you're lazy when you're high. The same goes with motivated people. I fall somewhere in the middle, and I'm only in college so I lack professional anecdotes to share, but I know when I'm high, my rote exercises for my language and linguistics classes become much more enjoyable. I just get in a rhythm and bang them out, still doing just as well if not better than if I were sober. Also, my paper writing is much better. Say what you want, but I write most of mine stoned and I get A's. They're mostly literature analyses done in English and Spanish, and an altered state of mind might be more conducive to writing these kinds of papers, but the fact still remains: my writer's block is mitigated and creativity is increased when I write high, and I still receive good grades. And then there are my very motivated friends who are all on the Neuroscience/Medicine track. They smoke as much as me and take ridiculously hard classes, yet I don't think any of them has less than a 3.7. There may come a time when someone has to give up smoking for his career, but really if he is a responsible and motivated person, smoking won't affect his productivity or success. TL;DR Generalizing like you are doing is wrong. Face it, you're just plain wrong. The only person full of crap is you.

>Because everyone who's high is a high functioning and productive member of society. I see your sarcasm, but it's very misplaced. If you're lazy when you're sober, you're lazy when you're high. The same goes with motivated people. I fall somewhere in the middle, and I'm only in college so I lack professional anecdotes to share, but I know when I'm high, my rote exercises for my language and linguistics classes become much more enjoyable. I just get in a rhythm and bang them out, still doing just as well if not better than if I were sober. Also, my paper writing is much better. Say what you want, but I write most of mine stoned and I get A's. They're mostly literature analyses done in English and Spanish, and an altered state of mind might be more conducive to writing these kinds of papers, but the fact still remains: my writer's block is mitigated and creativity is increased when I write high, and I still receive good grades. And then there are my very motivated friends who are all on the Neuroscience/Medicine track. They smoke as much as me and take ridiculously hard classes, yet I don't think any of them has less than a 3.7. There may come a time when someone has to give up smoking for his career, but really if he is a responsible and motivated person, smoking won't affect his productivity or success. TL;DR Generalizing like you are doing is wrong. Face it, you're just plain wrong. The only person full of crap is you.

politics

t5_2cneq

c4y5uyc

Because everyone who's high is a high functioning and productive member of society. I see your sarcasm, but it's very misplaced. If you're lazy when you're sober, you're lazy when you're high. The same goes with motivated people. I fall somewhere in the middle, and I'm only in college so I lack professional anecdotes to share, but I know when I'm high, my rote exercises for my language and linguistics classes become much more enjoyable. I just get in a rhythm and bang them out, still doing just as well if not better than if I were sober. Also, my paper writing is much better. Say what you want, but I write most of mine stoned and I get A's. They're mostly literature analyses done in English and Spanish, and an altered state of mind might be more conducive to writing these kinds of papers, but the fact still remains: my writer's block is mitigated and creativity is increased when I write high, and I still receive good grades. And then there are my very motivated friends who are all on the Neuroscience/Medicine track. They smoke as much as me and take ridiculously hard classes, yet I don't think any of them has less than a 3.7. There may come a time when someone has to give up smoking for his career, but really if he is a responsible and motivated person, smoking won't affect his productivity or success.

Generalizing like you are doing is wrong. Face it, you're just plain wrong. The only person full of crap is you.

akmark

If I can tweak the art I make up a custom name, otherwise I leave it default. There's no point of changing the name if you are already shoehorned into a finalized character. It's like changing the name of Mario or something, it's pointless because the character was designed to be Mario, and it will always be that way. In Mass Effect the character's art was able to be tweaked, so using a different name wasn't so bad. tl;dr: It depends on intent of the character's design to get me to make up a special name.

If I can tweak the art I make up a custom name, otherwise I leave it default. There's no point of changing the name if you are already shoehorned into a finalized character. It's like changing the name of Mario or something, it's pointless because the character was designed to be Mario, and it will always be that way. In Mass Effect the character's art was able to be tweaked, so using a different name wasn't so bad. tl;dr: It depends on intent of the character's design to get me to make up a special name.

gaming

t5_2qh03

c0efx6l

If I can tweak the art I make up a custom name, otherwise I leave it default. There's no point of changing the name if you are already shoehorned into a finalized character. It's like changing the name of Mario or something, it's pointless because the character was designed to be Mario, and it will always be that way. In Mass Effect the character's art was able to be tweaked, so using a different name wasn't so bad.

It depends on intent of the character's design to get me to make up a special name.

luck12manning18

I feel this could happen without any injuries to a few key players like Bradshaw or any cornerbacks. The way the rest of the schedule plays out, they seem to have a GREAT shot at the #1 seed in the AFC and that great home field advantage throughout the entire playoffs! The rest of the schedule is pretty favorable. #**8.)** **@PIT** ***-W*** #**9.)** **@ NYG** ***-W*** *This is a tough road stretch, but then it's a BYE week* **BYE** #**11.)** **NE** ***-L*** *Having 2 weeks to prepare and having this game at home will be big. I see us winning this tough game. BUT I can see counting this as a loss as well (to be safe with the numbers).* #**12.)** **JAX** ***-W*** *Put down your Bortles.* #**13.)** **WAS** ***-W*** *Will RG3 get hurt again this game?* #**14.)** **@CLE** ***-W*** *We could be sacking JFF by then.* #**15.)** **HOU** ***-W*** *They don't win at our house.* #**16.)** **@DAL** ***-L*** *This looks like our only real tough game and could be counted as a loss, to be safe with the numbers.* #**17.)** **@TEN** ***-W*** *Win.* # So we are at 5-2 right now. I am not saying we will lose to New England or Dallas, I am just counting those as our only maybe losses. We may beat the Pats, but lose to the Redskins. I just think we will lose two more games all season. Giving us two more losses (NE & DAL) that puts us at 12-4. New England has a rough schedule left, I can easily see 4 losses for them, putting them at 10-5 or 9-6. Still winning their division easily and not a team you want to face in the playoffs. Broncos have a few rough games left, they are our real competition for #1. The Ravens are also 5-2 right now, and they are a hard division. I think they will still win the division, but will have a 11 or 10 win record. I know the NFL is full of surprises. A team that is bad today, may be playing better at the end of the season. And *almost* any team can beat any team on any given Sunday. But I feel really good about getting that #1 seed and home field! **I think if they get home field they could win every game against any team and actually make the Super Bowl!** ***TL;DR We have ^maybe two foreseeable losses the rest of the season and have a legit shot at #1 seed in AFC.***

I feel this could happen without any injuries to a few key players like Bradshaw or any cornerbacks. The way the rest of the schedule plays out, they seem to have a GREAT shot at the #1 seed in the AFC and that great home field advantage throughout the entire playoffs! The rest of the schedule is pretty favorable. 8.) @PIT -W 9.) @ NYG -W This is a tough road stretch, but then it's a BYE week BYE 11.) NE -L Having 2 weeks to prepare and having this game at home will be big. I see us winning this tough game. BUT I can see counting this as a loss as well (to be safe with the numbers). 12.) JAX -W Put down your Bortles. 13.) WAS -W Will RG3 get hurt again this game? 14.) @CLE -W We could be sacking JFF by then. 15.) HOU -W They don't win at our house. 16.) @DAL -L This looks like our only real tough game and could be counted as a loss, to be safe with the numbers. 17.) @TEN -W Win. So we are at 5-2 right now. I am not saying we will lose to New England or Dallas, I am just counting those as our only maybe losses. We may beat the Pats, but lose to the Redskins. I just think we will lose two more games all season. Giving us two more losses (NE & DAL) that puts us at 12-4. New England has a rough schedule left, I can easily see 4 losses for them, putting them at 10-5 or 9-6. Still winning their division easily and not a team you want to face in the playoffs. Broncos have a few rough games left, they are our real competition for #1. The Ravens are also 5-2 right now, and they are a hard division. I think they will still win the division, but will have a 11 or 10 win record. I know the NFL is full of surprises. A team that is bad today, may be playing better at the end of the season. And almost any team can beat any team on any given Sunday. But I feel really good about getting that #1 seed and home field! I think if they get home field they could win every game against any team and actually make the Super Bowl! TL;DR We have ^maybe two foreseeable losses the rest of the season and have a legit shot at #1 seed in AFC.

Colts

t5_2r6es

t3_2k5oan

I feel this could happen without any injuries to a few key players like Bradshaw or any cornerbacks. The way the rest of the schedule plays out, they seem to have a GREAT shot at the #1 seed in the AFC and that great home field advantage throughout the entire playoffs! The rest of the schedule is pretty favorable. 8.) @PIT -W 9.) @ NYG -W This is a tough road stretch, but then it's a BYE week BYE 11.) NE -L Having 2 weeks to prepare and having this game at home will be big. I see us winning this tough game. BUT I can see counting this as a loss as well (to be safe with the numbers). 12.) JAX -W Put down your Bortles. 13.) WAS -W Will RG3 get hurt again this game? 14.) @CLE -W We could be sacking JFF by then. 15.) HOU -W They don't win at our house. 16.) @DAL -L This looks like our only real tough game and could be counted as a loss, to be safe with the numbers. 17.) @TEN -W Win. So we are at 5-2 right now. I am not saying we will lose to New England or Dallas, I am just counting those as our only maybe losses. We may beat the Pats, but lose to the Redskins. I just think we will lose two more games all season. Giving us two more losses (NE & DAL) that puts us at 12-4. New England has a rough schedule left, I can easily see 4 losses for them, putting them at 10-5 or 9-6. Still winning their division easily and not a team you want to face in the playoffs. Broncos have a few rough games left, they are our real competition for #1. The Ravens are also 5-2 right now, and they are a hard division. I think they will still win the division, but will have a 11 or 10 win record. I know the NFL is full of surprises. A team that is bad today, may be playing better at the end of the season. And almost any team can beat any team on any given Sunday. But I feel really good about getting that #1 seed and home field! I think if they get home field they could win every game against any team and actually make the Super Bowl!

We have ^maybe two foreseeable losses the rest of the season and have a legit shot at #1 seed in AFC.

FlawlessZapdos

I've seen several threads here on /r/leagueoflegends subreddit and honestly with the new items and monsters, it's starting to look a bit different how you want to control the pace of the game and place your different laners. Hear me out: AD junglers are really weak right now, and same goes for AP. Both Runeglaive and Warriors were quite nerfed. You gain more ad but that's about it - for an entire item slot. With the new junglers upgrades and camps you can't really kite the monsters as easily since they have gotten buffed range. Your first jungle item is also quite weaker. Also, in the offensive tree there's not a single keystone mastery to help out in the jungle. This might lead to more CC heavy tanks, as their clear is already slow and they can still sustain jungle with the new masteries. They also have a larger health points pool to contest multiple objectives. The new Hunters potion give so much sustain. It's easier to snowball when playing top lane because most top laners now run with ignite and then takes the rift scuttler together with the jungler. Renekton and Irelia are probably gonna be really popular picks now with the adc's running amok. Due to towers going down very easy and waves auto-pushing, this might if not will lead into poke-mages with good waveclear. Here comes the Ziggs. Mages right now just need to farm it seems, since they get so many items so quickly with the new gold gain etc. What I'm really looking forward to try in 5v5 ranked is to put my support and ad carry in the mid lane. The support can now faster roam the map to ward both dragon and scuttler, but if a fight is to break out and the opponent adc dies, it basically means a free turret/scuttler or dragon. Since the Rift Herald buffs massively increases stats and pushing, this works well with ad champions. Especially when they already have a support to make them stronger. This leads to an almost guaranteed snowballing, really quick. TL;DR What the new META might be: AD Bruiser top/bot, Jungle TANK to ward the map, AP top/bot (lane swap? they both wanna be close to blue buff), Marksman & Support mid lane to push and contest objectives as fast as possible. EDIT: Rift Herald, not Scuttler. LOL EDIT 2: As I commented down below, I don't think "kills" is something you should put too much focus on into this META. Getting kills is counterplayable - Even more so with the latest changes. You get shut down and you feed the entire enemy team. Getting towers is not counterplayable. The map opens up. Same for CS. It does not have a counter play and gives even more gold now. In this META game there is just so much to punish the enemy team for, a bit too much in my opinion. Do we take tower, kill, drake, rift herald or deep ward? Just going for kills as old mid laners used to do won't be as effective, especially not when towers go down so much faster. There is a lot to put focus on and I think that adc + support needs to be close in moments like these. Marksman have their strong mid-game now and no longer needs to farm passively with a support babysitter for 25 minutes to become strong. Therefore they will be even stronger in skirmishes.

I've seen several threads here on /r/leagueoflegends subreddit and honestly with the new items and monsters, it's starting to look a bit different how you want to control the pace of the game and place your different laners. Hear me out: AD junglers are really weak right now, and same goes for AP. Both Runeglaive and Warriors were quite nerfed. You gain more ad but that's about it - for an entire item slot. With the new junglers upgrades and camps you can't really kite the monsters as easily since they have gotten buffed range. Your first jungle item is also quite weaker. Also, in the offensive tree there's not a single keystone mastery to help out in the jungle. This might lead to more CC heavy tanks, as their clear is already slow and they can still sustain jungle with the new masteries. They also have a larger health points pool to contest multiple objectives. The new Hunters potion give so much sustain. It's easier to snowball when playing top lane because most top laners now run with ignite and then takes the rift scuttler together with the jungler. Renekton and Irelia are probably gonna be really popular picks now with the adc's running amok. Due to towers going down very easy and waves auto-pushing, this might if not will lead into poke-mages with good waveclear. Here comes the Ziggs. Mages right now just need to farm it seems, since they get so many items so quickly with the new gold gain etc. What I'm really looking forward to try in 5v5 ranked is to put my support and ad carry in the mid lane. The support can now faster roam the map to ward both dragon and scuttler, but if a fight is to break out and the opponent adc dies, it basically means a free turret/scuttler or dragon. Since the Rift Herald buffs massively increases stats and pushing, this works well with ad champions. Especially when they already have a support to make them stronger. This leads to an almost guaranteed snowballing, really quick. TL;DR What the new META might be: AD Bruiser top/bot, Jungle TANK to ward the map, AP top/bot (lane swap? they both wanna be close to blue buff), Marksman & Support mid lane to push and contest objectives as fast as possible. EDIT: Rift Herald, not Scuttler. LOL EDIT 2: As I commented down below, I don't think "kills" is something you should put too much focus on into this META. Getting kills is counterplayable - Even more so with the latest changes. You get shut down and you feed the entire enemy team. Getting towers is not counterplayable. The map opens up. Same for CS. It does not have a counter play and gives even more gold now. In this META game there is just so much to punish the enemy team for, a bit too much in my opinion. Do we take tower, kill, drake, rift herald or deep ward? Just going for kills as old mid laners used to do won't be as effective, especially not when towers go down so much faster. There is a lot to put focus on and I think that adc + support needs to be close in moments like these. Marksman have their strong mid-game now and no longer needs to farm passively with a support babysitter for 25 minutes to become strong. Therefore they will be even stronger in skirmishes.

leagueoflegends

t5_2rfxx

t3_3sjekr

I've seen several threads here on /r/leagueoflegends subreddit and honestly with the new items and monsters, it's starting to look a bit different how you want to control the pace of the game and place your different laners. Hear me out: AD junglers are really weak right now, and same goes for AP. Both Runeglaive and Warriors were quite nerfed. You gain more ad but that's about it - for an entire item slot. With the new junglers upgrades and camps you can't really kite the monsters as easily since they have gotten buffed range. Your first jungle item is also quite weaker. Also, in the offensive tree there's not a single keystone mastery to help out in the jungle. This might lead to more CC heavy tanks, as their clear is already slow and they can still sustain jungle with the new masteries. They also have a larger health points pool to contest multiple objectives. The new Hunters potion give so much sustain. It's easier to snowball when playing top lane because most top laners now run with ignite and then takes the rift scuttler together with the jungler. Renekton and Irelia are probably gonna be really popular picks now with the adc's running amok. Due to towers going down very easy and waves auto-pushing, this might if not will lead into poke-mages with good waveclear. Here comes the Ziggs. Mages right now just need to farm it seems, since they get so many items so quickly with the new gold gain etc. What I'm really looking forward to try in 5v5 ranked is to put my support and ad carry in the mid lane. The support can now faster roam the map to ward both dragon and scuttler, but if a fight is to break out and the opponent adc dies, it basically means a free turret/scuttler or dragon. Since the Rift Herald buffs massively increases stats and pushing, this works well with ad champions. Especially when they already have a support to make them stronger. This leads to an almost guaranteed snowballing, really quick.

What the new META might be: AD Bruiser top/bot, Jungle TANK to ward the map, AP top/bot (lane swap? they both wanna be close to blue buff), Marksman & Support mid lane to push and contest objectives as fast as possible. EDIT: Rift Herald, not Scuttler. LOL EDIT 2: As I commented down below, I don't think "kills" is something you should put too much focus on into this META. Getting kills is counterplayable - Even more so with the latest changes. You get shut down and you feed the entire enemy team. Getting towers is not counterplayable. The map opens up. Same for CS. It does not have a counter play and gives even more gold now. In this META game there is just so much to punish the enemy team for, a bit too much in my opinion. Do we take tower, kill, drake, rift herald or deep ward? Just going for kills as old mid laners used to do won't be as effective, especially not when towers go down so much faster. There is a lot to put focus on and I think that adc + support needs to be close in moments like these. Marksman have their strong mid-game now and no longer needs to farm passively with a support babysitter for 25 minutes to become strong. Therefore they will be even stronger in skirmishes.

PraxisLD

You may as well ask "Why were there no cars or airplanes or computers in the middle ages?" Today, these things seem totally normal and obvious. But back then, they were simply beyond their comprehension. And such possibilities built up over time, with a few forward thinkers positing ideas, and others taking those ideas and trying to turn them into reality with varying degrees of success. Karl Benz is widely credited with developing the first modern automobile, but others had been working on similar ideas more than a century earlier. And the Wright Brothers had the first successful powered flight, but they weren't the only ones working on such things. Similarly, the iPod wasn't the first portable digital music player, nor was the iPhone the first "smart" phone. But these devices made this technology easy to use and understand, thus opening it up to a much wider audience. Back to art, Da Vinci is the first "modern" artists to truly understand perspective, light, and shading, giving his paintings an almost photo-realistic quality that amazed his peers. He wasn't the first painter to use such techniques, but he was arguably the first to truly get it right. And part of that was his use of unconventional paints and pigments, some of which gave amazing results, but started to fade out even within his own lifetime. TL;DR: Human knowledge builds on everything that's gone before, and sometimes it's only in hindsight where we can see "sudden" leaps in understanding, ability or practical applications.

You may as well ask "Why were there no cars or airplanes or computers in the middle ages?" Today, these things seem totally normal and obvious. But back then, they were simply beyond their comprehension. And such possibilities built up over time, with a few forward thinkers positing ideas, and others taking those ideas and trying to turn them into reality with varying degrees of success. Karl Benz is widely credited with developing the first modern automobile, but others had been working on similar ideas more than a century earlier. And the Wright Brothers had the first successful powered flight, but they weren't the only ones working on such things. Similarly, the iPod wasn't the first portable digital music player, nor was the iPhone the first "smart" phone. But these devices made this technology easy to use and understand, thus opening it up to a much wider audience. Back to art, Da Vinci is the first "modern" artists to truly understand perspective, light, and shading, giving his paintings an almost photo-realistic quality that amazed his peers. He wasn't the first painter to use such techniques, but he was arguably the first to truly get it right. And part of that was his use of unconventional paints and pigments, some of which gave amazing results, but started to fade out even within his own lifetime. TL;DR: Human knowledge builds on everything that's gone before, and sometimes it's only in hindsight where we can see "sudden" leaps in understanding, ability or practical applications.

NoStupidQuestions

t5_2w844

ck4ne21

You may as well ask "Why were there no cars or airplanes or computers in the middle ages?" Today, these things seem totally normal and obvious. But back then, they were simply beyond their comprehension. And such possibilities built up over time, with a few forward thinkers positing ideas, and others taking those ideas and trying to turn them into reality with varying degrees of success. Karl Benz is widely credited with developing the first modern automobile, but others had been working on similar ideas more than a century earlier. And the Wright Brothers had the first successful powered flight, but they weren't the only ones working on such things. Similarly, the iPod wasn't the first portable digital music player, nor was the iPhone the first "smart" phone. But these devices made this technology easy to use and understand, thus opening it up to a much wider audience. Back to art, Da Vinci is the first "modern" artists to truly understand perspective, light, and shading, giving his paintings an almost photo-realistic quality that amazed his peers. He wasn't the first painter to use such techniques, but he was arguably the first to truly get it right. And part of that was his use of unconventional paints and pigments, some of which gave amazing results, but started to fade out even within his own lifetime.

Human knowledge builds on everything that's gone before, and sometimes it's only in hindsight where we can see "sudden" leaps in understanding, ability or practical applications.

Sheri-B

Yeah, I know. It sucks. It would have scaled properly if I'd blown them up to an even number (like, 500%)-- which I did originally-- but after I made the little pod sections I realized the big labels were too big to sit against the pods. So I had to scale them down to an awkward size (like, 437% or some such) and that's why the pixels are wonky. I figured I'd rather have wonky pixels on the big labels than have to redesign/resize all the information. TL,DR; I'm an idiot and should have designed around the properly scaled big labels rather than vice versa

Yeah, I know. It sucks. It would have scaled properly if I'd blown them up to an even number (like, 500%)-- which I did originally-- but after I made the little pod sections I realized the big labels were too big to sit against the pods. So I had to scale them down to an awkward size (like, 437% or some such) and that's why the pixels are wonky. I figured I'd rather have wonky pixels on the big labels than have to redesign/resize all the information. TL,DR; I'm an idiot and should have designed around the properly scaled big labels rather than vice versa

pokemon

t5_2qmeb

ccul0ov

Yeah, I know. It sucks. It would have scaled properly if I'd blown them up to an even number (like, 500%)-- which I did originally-- but after I made the little pod sections I realized the big labels were too big to sit against the pods. So I had to scale them down to an awkward size (like, 437% or some such) and that's why the pixels are wonky. I figured I'd rather have wonky pixels on the big labels than have to redesign/resize all the information.

I'm an idiot and should have designed around the properly scaled big labels rather than vice versa

falicor

They likely will set up a stage for you at a later date, if they have time and also know you came prepared they may have time for you and let you do it that day. Don't push the issue if they say not today though, I usually only have 30m for an interview in my days so I don't always plan for a stage on the spot, I don't have time to supervise you unless I plan on it. Tldr; Let them know you came prepared, be ready to be told not today.

They likely will set up a stage for you at a later date, if they have time and also know you came prepared they may have time for you and let you do it that day. Don't push the issue if they say not today though, I usually only have 30m for an interview in my days so I don't always plan for a stage on the spot, I don't have time to supervise you unless I plan on it. Tldr; Let them know you came prepared, be ready to be told not today.

Chefit

t5_2s1da

cmynv07

They likely will set up a stage for you at a later date, if they have time and also know you came prepared they may have time for you and let you do it that day. Don't push the issue if they say not today though, I usually only have 30m for an interview in my days so I don't always plan for a stage on the spot, I don't have time to supervise you unless I plan on it.

Let them know you came prepared, be ready to be told not today.

haris011

Lol what. You described every single major city of India. Kolkata is no exception. In fact, there is probably more law and order in the city than Delhi and Bombay. The bengalis are quite possibly the most civil of all North Indians; these incidents aren't common in this part of the country. And Kolkata was left the way it is by the britishers anyway. It was the colonial capital city. Almost everything about it is still the same, given the country still struggles with corruption and lack of proper infrastructure planning. I don't get it. Why were you in Kolkata if you didn't like the place. I don't live in Kolkata, or India for that matter, but the city definitely isn't as poor an experience as you make it out to be. It's polluted, has too many people and has a few infrastructure issues, but try comparing it with other Indian cities and you'll notice the difference. Tl;Dr: Kolkata is the same as every other Indian city. Probably even better.

Lol what. You described every single major city of India. Kolkata is no exception. In fact, there is probably more law and order in the city than Delhi and Bombay. The bengalis are quite possibly the most civil of all North Indians; these incidents aren't common in this part of the country. And Kolkata was left the way it is by the britishers anyway. It was the colonial capital city. Almost everything about it is still the same, given the country still struggles with corruption and lack of proper infrastructure planning. I don't get it. Why were you in Kolkata if you didn't like the place. I don't live in Kolkata, or India for that matter, but the city definitely isn't as poor an experience as you make it out to be. It's polluted, has too many people and has a few infrastructure issues, but try comparing it with other Indian cities and you'll notice the difference. Tl;Dr: Kolkata is the same as every other Indian city. Probably even better.

worldnews

t5_2qh13

cefcrvp

Lol what. You described every single major city of India. Kolkata is no exception. In fact, there is probably more law and order in the city than Delhi and Bombay. The bengalis are quite possibly the most civil of all North Indians; these incidents aren't common in this part of the country. And Kolkata was left the way it is by the britishers anyway. It was the colonial capital city. Almost everything about it is still the same, given the country still struggles with corruption and lack of proper infrastructure planning. I don't get it. Why were you in Kolkata if you didn't like the place. I don't live in Kolkata, or India for that matter, but the city definitely isn't as poor an experience as you make it out to be. It's polluted, has too many people and has a few infrastructure issues, but try comparing it with other Indian cities and you'll notice the difference.

Kolkata is the same as every other Indian city. Probably even better.

BalmyPalms

As a newcomer to the city (1 month in), the biggest factor into considering DT as a home has been St. Louis' abject pessimism for the place. I've found that folks my age (30s) who are originally from the STL area see no redeeming qualities to DT or any reason to live there. It honestly leaves me speechless and scratching my head. "But there's so much potential!?!" I think to myself. Eventually, I've come to question if there's something I'm not getting about the area. Is it crime? But it can't be... Tower Grove, Benton Park, UCity, Debalivere, West End—all have the same, maybe even more frequency of crime. I've gone through plenty of scenarios in my head (green space? civil services? retail?). My only conclusion is there is a subconscious negative perception of DT thanks to a lack of visible, tangible goals put forth by the city in regards to DT's future. I'm originally from Austin, where city council is front and center, on the news, in the community, making sure the area is informed about the course the city is taking, where improvements are being focused, etc. In effect, making everyone feel like participants in its future. Instead, the news here is of aimless developers, betting on a stunted housing stock, overseen by no one, and with no urban plan to follow. Is a gamble a sign of progress for downtown? It shouldn't be. Where are the non-bets? The for-sures? Like city-backed tax incentives for locally owned businesses willing to open DT? Branded strategies for wooing national retailers? Accessible urban improvement programs, like planting sidewalk trees, cleaning up garbage and lighting street corners? Oh, you say they do exist? "You can read about them by clicking 'Downtown CID' then 'services and initiatives' then 'economic and housing development' at downtownstl.org" Yeah.. I shouldn't have to do that. Who's telling the story, where's the outreach? The truth is the majority of the STL community and more importantly, those with money, don't believe in the area. Folks need to know that someone cares. They need to be moved and mentored into caring, on a civic scale. That's the gist of it, and the city of STL is doing a bad job of it right now. tl;dr: STLers are masochists and hate their own DT.

As a newcomer to the city (1 month in), the biggest factor into considering DT as a home has been St. Louis' abject pessimism for the place. I've found that folks my age (30s) who are originally from the STL area see no redeeming qualities to DT or any reason to live there. It honestly leaves me speechless and scratching my head. "But there's so much potential!?!" I think to myself. Eventually, I've come to question if there's something I'm not getting about the area. Is it crime? But it can't be... Tower Grove, Benton Park, UCity, Debalivere, West End—all have the same, maybe even more frequency of crime. I've gone through plenty of scenarios in my head (green space? civil services? retail?). My only conclusion is there is a subconscious negative perception of DT thanks to a lack of visible, tangible goals put forth by the city in regards to DT's future. I'm originally from Austin, where city council is front and center, on the news, in the community, making sure the area is informed about the course the city is taking, where improvements are being focused, etc. In effect, making everyone feel like participants in its future. Instead, the news here is of aimless developers, betting on a stunted housing stock, overseen by no one, and with no urban plan to follow. Is a gamble a sign of progress for downtown? It shouldn't be. Where are the non-bets? The for-sures? Like city-backed tax incentives for locally owned businesses willing to open DT? Branded strategies for wooing national retailers? Accessible urban improvement programs, like planting sidewalk trees, cleaning up garbage and lighting street corners? Oh, you say they do exist? "You can read about them by clicking 'Downtown CID' then 'services and initiatives' then 'economic and housing development' at downtownstl.org" Yeah.. I shouldn't have to do that. Who's telling the story, where's the outreach? The truth is the majority of the STL community and more importantly, those with money, don't believe in the area. Folks need to know that someone cares. They need to be moved and mentored into caring, on a civic scale. That's the gist of it, and the city of STL is doing a bad job of it right now. tl;dr: STLers are masochists and hate their own DT.

StLouis

t5_2qpnm

cbjsufj

As a newcomer to the city (1 month in), the biggest factor into considering DT as a home has been St. Louis' abject pessimism for the place. I've found that folks my age (30s) who are originally from the STL area see no redeeming qualities to DT or any reason to live there. It honestly leaves me speechless and scratching my head. "But there's so much potential!?!" I think to myself. Eventually, I've come to question if there's something I'm not getting about the area. Is it crime? But it can't be... Tower Grove, Benton Park, UCity, Debalivere, West End—all have the same, maybe even more frequency of crime. I've gone through plenty of scenarios in my head (green space? civil services? retail?). My only conclusion is there is a subconscious negative perception of DT thanks to a lack of visible, tangible goals put forth by the city in regards to DT's future. I'm originally from Austin, where city council is front and center, on the news, in the community, making sure the area is informed about the course the city is taking, where improvements are being focused, etc. In effect, making everyone feel like participants in its future. Instead, the news here is of aimless developers, betting on a stunted housing stock, overseen by no one, and with no urban plan to follow. Is a gamble a sign of progress for downtown? It shouldn't be. Where are the non-bets? The for-sures? Like city-backed tax incentives for locally owned businesses willing to open DT? Branded strategies for wooing national retailers? Accessible urban improvement programs, like planting sidewalk trees, cleaning up garbage and lighting street corners? Oh, you say they do exist? "You can read about them by clicking 'Downtown CID' then 'services and initiatives' then 'economic and housing development' at downtownstl.org" Yeah.. I shouldn't have to do that. Who's telling the story, where's the outreach? The truth is the majority of the STL community and more importantly, those with money, don't believe in the area. Folks need to know that someone cares. They need to be moved and mentored into caring, on a civic scale. That's the gist of it, and the city of STL is doing a bad job of it right now.

STLers are masochists and hate their own DT.

[deleted]

I was with my girlfriend for roughly 3 years, everything was perfect and wonderful until about 3 months before the end of the relationship. Essentially I was having some cringey and typically adolescent problems about school, falling out with friends, and generally being pretty unhappy. My genius way of dealing with this was to end my relationship. I then realised my stupidity and have communicated to her that I am hoping to rebuild our relationship. The problem is that she is now (more than understandably) not overly keen to commit to me any more. We've been going steady for a good couple of weeks so that she can have time to make up her mind. I'm giving her as much space as she needs etc., and I appreciate the fact that (as much as she says she wants to) she cannot just flick the 'on' switch again. Unfortunately we are both getting our A level results in the morning and are going to universities on opposite sides of the country if our grades turn out alright. Safe to say, I feel pretty shitty right now. --- **tl;dr**: Do I carry on going steady with my ex in hope of patching up our relationship even though university looms?

I was with my girlfriend for roughly 3 years, everything was perfect and wonderful until about 3 months before the end of the relationship. Essentially I was having some cringey and typically adolescent problems about school, falling out with friends, and generally being pretty unhappy. My genius way of dealing with this was to end my relationship. I then realised my stupidity and have communicated to her that I am hoping to rebuild our relationship. The problem is that she is now (more than understandably) not overly keen to commit to me any more. We've been going steady for a good couple of weeks so that she can have time to make up her mind. I'm giving her as much space as she needs etc., and I appreciate the fact that (as much as she says she wants to) she cannot just flick the 'on' switch again. Unfortunately we are both getting our A level results in the morning and are going to universities on opposite sides of the country if our grades turn out alright. Safe to say, I feel pretty shitty right now. tl;dr : Do I carry on going steady with my ex in hope of patching up our relationship even though university looms?

relationships

t5_2qjvn

t3_2dhcut

I was with my girlfriend for roughly 3 years, everything was perfect and wonderful until about 3 months before the end of the relationship. Essentially I was having some cringey and typically adolescent problems about school, falling out with friends, and generally being pretty unhappy. My genius way of dealing with this was to end my relationship. I then realised my stupidity and have communicated to her that I am hoping to rebuild our relationship. The problem is that she is now (more than understandably) not overly keen to commit to me any more. We've been going steady for a good couple of weeks so that she can have time to make up her mind. I'm giving her as much space as she needs etc., and I appreciate the fact that (as much as she says she wants to) she cannot just flick the 'on' switch again. Unfortunately we are both getting our A level results in the morning and are going to universities on opposite sides of the country if our grades turn out alright. Safe to say, I feel pretty shitty right now.

Do I carry on going steady with my ex in hope of patching up our relationship even though university looms?

Sachyriel

I'm going to quote some paragraphs from an article about Saints Row IV and how a city designed around a GTA-like sandbox can be given a new lease on life with super-powers. [Why I Like Saints Row IV]( >I imagine there will be people who complain that Saints Row IV doesn’t take place in a new city — that it’s just Steelport with a new coat of paint, and that this is inherently a bad thing. I disagree, because it doesn’t take into account just how much of a goddamn game-changer the superpowers are. I’m sure this will sound hyperbolic, but after fucking around with the super-jump and freeze and stomp powers for a couple dozen hours, I find it hard to remember what Saints Row was like without that stuff. The superpowers fit so well into the Saints Row theme — stupidly overpowered, and stupidly fun — that Saints Row IV feels like an entirely different beast despite taking place in the same basic sandbox. “But wait,” this hypothetical group of naysayers protests, “if they added superpowers, why didn’t they build a new city designed specifically around using those superpowers?” On paper, this seems like a pretty decent point. >In practice, however, think back on Crackdown. In Crackdown, the sandbox was specifically designed for an overpowered, high-jumping, fast-sprinting player. They put stuff you wanted in hard-to-reach places. They hid orbs atop massive, easily fuck-up-able jumping puzzles throughout the city. When you saw a big building, you couldn’t just climb it — you had to look around and find the exact sequence of tall shit that you could jump up to get where you wanted to go. The environment was specifically designed as a series of difficult challenges or platforming puzzles. On paper, this sounds like “good gameplay.” >In practice, it frustrated the living fuck out of me. I was a guy with superpowers, but the game raised the difficulty of getting around and beating up bad guys to the point where I didn’t feel powerful — I couldn’t leap tall buildings in a single bound, because the buildings were designed to be leapt over in a shitload of smaller bounds. I couldn’t ever run into a group of dudes and obliterate them with my super-strength, because the enemies were specifically designed to disallow that kind of mindless, reckless power fantasy behavior. In Crackdown, and to some extent Prototype, the dev’s efforts to create a “balanced” game clashed with the basic superhero fantasy they were selling. >Saints Row IV isn’t like that. Because Steelport was originally designed around vehicular and pedestrian travel, your superpowers feel that much more insane. Entire sections of the map that were once designed to provide fun or difficult vehicular gameplay are now completely trivialized by your powers. Oh, I need to get across the entire city to reach my objective? That’s cute — I’ll just super-sprint there in thirty seconds. There’s an upgrade cluster hidden atop that enormous skyscraper? No problem — I’ll just sprint up the goddamn building and get there. No puzzles. No arbitrary challenges to get between me and my desire to feel like goddamned Superman. Because Steelport wasn’t designed around your superpowers, you feel that much more godlike when traversing its streets (or skies, or skyscrapers). If you didn't read that the **tl;dr** is: City designed to be in a parody of realistic games is really-really fun for parody of super-power games. Because it feels like a real city instead of one designed around making superpowers challenging to use. `But the city design does depend on the game; A dysfunctional city like Steelport might not be a good thing to emulate in SimCity.`

I'm going to quote some paragraphs from an article about Saints Row IV and how a city designed around a GTA-like sandbox can be given a new lease on life with super-powers. [Why I Like Saints Row IV]( >I imagine there will be people who complain that Saints Row IV doesn’t take place in a new city — that it’s just Steelport with a new coat of paint, and that this is inherently a bad thing. I disagree, because it doesn’t take into account just how much of a goddamn game-changer the superpowers are. I’m sure this will sound hyperbolic, but after fucking around with the super-jump and freeze and stomp powers for a couple dozen hours, I find it hard to remember what Saints Row was like without that stuff. The superpowers fit so well into the Saints Row theme — stupidly overpowered, and stupidly fun — that Saints Row IV feels like an entirely different beast despite taking place in the same basic sandbox. “But wait,” this hypothetical group of naysayers protests, “if they added superpowers, why didn’t they build a new city designed specifically around using those superpowers?” On paper, this seems like a pretty decent point. >In practice, however, think back on Crackdown. In Crackdown, the sandbox was specifically designed for an overpowered, high-jumping, fast-sprinting player. They put stuff you wanted in hard-to-reach places. They hid orbs atop massive, easily fuck-up-able jumping puzzles throughout the city. When you saw a big building, you couldn’t just climb it — you had to look around and find the exact sequence of tall shit that you could jump up to get where you wanted to go. The environment was specifically designed as a series of difficult challenges or platforming puzzles. On paper, this sounds like “good gameplay.” >In practice, it frustrated the living fuck out of me. I was a guy with superpowers, but the game raised the difficulty of getting around and beating up bad guys to the point where I didn’t feel powerful — I couldn’t leap tall buildings in a single bound, because the buildings were designed to be leapt over in a shitload of smaller bounds. I couldn’t ever run into a group of dudes and obliterate them with my super-strength, because the enemies were specifically designed to disallow that kind of mindless, reckless power fantasy behavior. In Crackdown, and to some extent Prototype, the dev’s efforts to create a “balanced” game clashed with the basic superhero fantasy they were selling. >Saints Row IV isn’t like that. Because Steelport was originally designed around vehicular and pedestrian travel, your superpowers feel that much more insane. Entire sections of the map that were once designed to provide fun or difficult vehicular gameplay are now completely trivialized by your powers. Oh, I need to get across the entire city to reach my objective? That’s cute — I’ll just super-sprint there in thirty seconds. There’s an upgrade cluster hidden atop that enormous skyscraper? No problem — I’ll just sprint up the goddamn building and get there. No puzzles. No arbitrary challenges to get between me and my desire to feel like goddamned Superman. Because Steelport wasn’t designed around your superpowers, you feel that much more godlike when traversing its streets (or skies, or skyscrapers). If you didn't read that the tl;dr is: City designed to be in a parody of realistic games is really-really fun for parody of super-power games. Because it feels like a real city instead of one designed around making superpowers challenging to use. But the city design does depend on the game; A dysfunctional city like Steelport might not be a good thing to emulate in SimCity.

truegaming

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ce9xprq

I'm going to quote some paragraphs from an article about Saints Row IV and how a city designed around a GTA-like sandbox can be given a new lease on life with super-powers. [Why I Like Saints Row IV]( >I imagine there will be people who complain that Saints Row IV doesn’t take place in a new city — that it’s just Steelport with a new coat of paint, and that this is inherently a bad thing. I disagree, because it doesn’t take into account just how much of a goddamn game-changer the superpowers are. I’m sure this will sound hyperbolic, but after fucking around with the super-jump and freeze and stomp powers for a couple dozen hours, I find it hard to remember what Saints Row was like without that stuff. The superpowers fit so well into the Saints Row theme — stupidly overpowered, and stupidly fun — that Saints Row IV feels like an entirely different beast despite taking place in the same basic sandbox. “But wait,” this hypothetical group of naysayers protests, “if they added superpowers, why didn’t they build a new city designed specifically around using those superpowers?” On paper, this seems like a pretty decent point. >In practice, however, think back on Crackdown. In Crackdown, the sandbox was specifically designed for an overpowered, high-jumping, fast-sprinting player. They put stuff you wanted in hard-to-reach places. They hid orbs atop massive, easily fuck-up-able jumping puzzles throughout the city. When you saw a big building, you couldn’t just climb it — you had to look around and find the exact sequence of tall shit that you could jump up to get where you wanted to go. The environment was specifically designed as a series of difficult challenges or platforming puzzles. On paper, this sounds like “good gameplay.” >In practice, it frustrated the living fuck out of me. I was a guy with superpowers, but the game raised the difficulty of getting around and beating up bad guys to the point where I didn’t feel powerful — I couldn’t leap tall buildings in a single bound, because the buildings were designed to be leapt over in a shitload of smaller bounds. I couldn’t ever run into a group of dudes and obliterate them with my super-strength, because the enemies were specifically designed to disallow that kind of mindless, reckless power fantasy behavior. In Crackdown, and to some extent Prototype, the dev’s efforts to create a “balanced” game clashed with the basic superhero fantasy they were selling. >Saints Row IV isn’t like that. Because Steelport was originally designed around vehicular and pedestrian travel, your superpowers feel that much more insane. Entire sections of the map that were once designed to provide fun or difficult vehicular gameplay are now completely trivialized by your powers. Oh, I need to get across the entire city to reach my objective? That’s cute — I’ll just super-sprint there in thirty seconds. There’s an upgrade cluster hidden atop that enormous skyscraper? No problem — I’ll just sprint up the goddamn building and get there. No puzzles. No arbitrary challenges to get between me and my desire to feel like goddamned Superman. Because Steelport wasn’t designed around your superpowers, you feel that much more godlike when traversing its streets (or skies, or skyscrapers). If you didn't read that the

is: City designed to be in a parody of realistic games is really-really fun for parody of super-power games. Because it feels like a real city instead of one designed around making superpowers challenging to use. But the city design does depend on the game; A dysfunctional city like Steelport might not be a good thing to emulate in SimCity.

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Hey everyone! I thought I'd write a quick "review" since people seem to ask with regularity for advice on which tablet to use for note taking. I'm an engineering student, so I often take notes that require diagrams, lots of writing or are presented in power point in class (with the notes uploaded as PDF online). I once owned a Motion Computing M1400 and an Asus EP 121 for note taking, but for various reasons they never stuck (I actually killed the M1400 doing hardware upgrades, and the EP 121 didn't have a particularly good battery life and was too overpowered for the purposes I had bought it). I have a Samsung Note 3 phone, so I am familiar with the Note line up. I have always been super impressed with the stylus. I came across the Note 10.1 a while back, but unfortunately I could not find a price point for this tablet that made me want to experiment with it. However, I did not know about the Note 8. I came across it and realized it was basically just a bigger version of my phone. Then I looked up sellers on eBay and found one going for 175$ CAD. I decided to give it a try, since that was an amount I was okay with spending. I've only had it for a few days but already it's been quite different from my previous tablet experiences! The first thing I did upon receiving it was download Papyrus and uploaded all my notes for the week. I did quick research, and Papyrus came up a few times as being a good app for note taking and annotating PDFs. There are a couple of in-App purchases for extra features, but you can trial them and buy them if you like them (such as being able to backup your notes onto DropBox). I know OneNote is an option as well (and is free), although the Android version doesn't appear to be capable of importing PDFs (correct me if I am wrong). What I really like: - For me the Note 8 is actually the perfect size. I still need my laptop to do a lot of other school work that is just more convenient on an actual laptop, so having a small tablet is ideal. It also fits very conveniently in my purse, and I was able to bring it with me yesterday and do some course work/studying while at a friends. - The stylus is great for taking notes. Accurate, and has pressure sensitivity so it's very pen-like. - Papyrus so far has also been great for organizing my notebooks, annotating PDFs and being very portable. - So far, I have taken notes in a math class, annotated PDFs in an engineering class and solved homework problems directly on the PDFs I downloaded from my course websites. - Good battery life. I know I've only had it a few days but it has lasted throughout the school day with heavy use (3-4 hours of note taking + 3-4 hours of homework and then a bunch of random browsing). - I am super familiar with the Android operating system so I was very easily and quickly able to customize it and make it look nice. I'm not doing anything super fancy like custom ROMS, rooting or anything. Just, downloading launchers and apps with specific features. On the homepage I have a calendar and a to-do list to help me stay on top of things. Also custom icons. The potential downsides I could see for someone thinking about this purchase is that: - It is relatively small compared to a lot of other main stream tablets being used to take notes in class; I'm a small person so this has not been an issue for me at all since my hands aren't that big - It's not particularly powerful but all I am doing is taking notes with it (I still carry my laptop with me because there are still programs I need that aren't suitable/available for use on a tablet) Overall, it was a fairly inexpensive purchase that has been serving its intended purpose very well. If you're looking for a tablet to take notes with and the Note 8 is on your radar, I definitely recommend it. I am very pleased with it. Hopefully someone finds this helpful! [Some pics.]( TL;DR: Note 8 is relatively affordable, portable, has a good battery life, and great if size and power aren't an issue. Papyrus has been working very well for annotating PDFs and taking notes although there are some in-App purchases for extra features.

Hey everyone! I thought I'd write a quick "review" since people seem to ask with regularity for advice on which tablet to use for note taking. I'm an engineering student, so I often take notes that require diagrams, lots of writing or are presented in power point in class (with the notes uploaded as PDF online). I once owned a Motion Computing M1400 and an Asus EP 121 for note taking, but for various reasons they never stuck (I actually killed the M1400 doing hardware upgrades, and the EP 121 didn't have a particularly good battery life and was too overpowered for the purposes I had bought it). I have a Samsung Note 3 phone, so I am familiar with the Note line up. I have always been super impressed with the stylus. I came across the Note 10.1 a while back, but unfortunately I could not find a price point for this tablet that made me want to experiment with it. However, I did not know about the Note 8. I came across it and realized it was basically just a bigger version of my phone. Then I looked up sellers on eBay and found one going for 175$ CAD. I decided to give it a try, since that was an amount I was okay with spending. I've only had it for a few days but already it's been quite different from my previous tablet experiences! The first thing I did upon receiving it was download Papyrus and uploaded all my notes for the week. I did quick research, and Papyrus came up a few times as being a good app for note taking and annotating PDFs. There are a couple of in-App purchases for extra features, but you can trial them and buy them if you like them (such as being able to backup your notes onto DropBox). I know OneNote is an option as well (and is free), although the Android version doesn't appear to be capable of importing PDFs (correct me if I am wrong). What I really like: For me the Note 8 is actually the perfect size. I still need my laptop to do a lot of other school work that is just more convenient on an actual laptop, so having a small tablet is ideal. It also fits very conveniently in my purse, and I was able to bring it with me yesterday and do some course work/studying while at a friends. The stylus is great for taking notes. Accurate, and has pressure sensitivity so it's very pen-like. Papyrus so far has also been great for organizing my notebooks, annotating PDFs and being very portable. So far, I have taken notes in a math class, annotated PDFs in an engineering class and solved homework problems directly on the PDFs I downloaded from my course websites. Good battery life. I know I've only had it a few days but it has lasted throughout the school day with heavy use (3-4 hours of note taking + 3-4 hours of homework and then a bunch of random browsing). I am super familiar with the Android operating system so I was very easily and quickly able to customize it and make it look nice. I'm not doing anything super fancy like custom ROMS, rooting or anything. Just, downloading launchers and apps with specific features. On the homepage I have a calendar and a to-do list to help me stay on top of things. Also custom icons. The potential downsides I could see for someone thinking about this purchase is that: It is relatively small compared to a lot of other main stream tablets being used to take notes in class; I'm a small person so this has not been an issue for me at all since my hands aren't that big It's not particularly powerful but all I am doing is taking notes with it (I still carry my laptop with me because there are still programs I need that aren't suitable/available for use on a tablet) Overall, it was a fairly inexpensive purchase that has been serving its intended purpose very well. If you're looking for a tablet to take notes with and the Note 8 is on your radar, I definitely recommend it. I am very pleased with it. Hopefully someone finds this helpful! [Some pics.]( TL;DR: Note 8 is relatively affordable, portable, has a good battery life, and great if size and power aren't an issue. Papyrus has been working very well for annotating PDFs and taking notes although there are some in-App purchases for extra features.

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Hey everyone! I thought I'd write a quick "review" since people seem to ask with regularity for advice on which tablet to use for note taking. I'm an engineering student, so I often take notes that require diagrams, lots of writing or are presented in power point in class (with the notes uploaded as PDF online). I once owned a Motion Computing M1400 and an Asus EP 121 for note taking, but for various reasons they never stuck (I actually killed the M1400 doing hardware upgrades, and the EP 121 didn't have a particularly good battery life and was too overpowered for the purposes I had bought it). I have a Samsung Note 3 phone, so I am familiar with the Note line up. I have always been super impressed with the stylus. I came across the Note 10.1 a while back, but unfortunately I could not find a price point for this tablet that made me want to experiment with it. However, I did not know about the Note 8. I came across it and realized it was basically just a bigger version of my phone. Then I looked up sellers on eBay and found one going for 175$ CAD. I decided to give it a try, since that was an amount I was okay with spending. I've only had it for a few days but already it's been quite different from my previous tablet experiences! The first thing I did upon receiving it was download Papyrus and uploaded all my notes for the week. I did quick research, and Papyrus came up a few times as being a good app for note taking and annotating PDFs. There are a couple of in-App purchases for extra features, but you can trial them and buy them if you like them (such as being able to backup your notes onto DropBox). I know OneNote is an option as well (and is free), although the Android version doesn't appear to be capable of importing PDFs (correct me if I am wrong). What I really like: For me the Note 8 is actually the perfect size. I still need my laptop to do a lot of other school work that is just more convenient on an actual laptop, so having a small tablet is ideal. It also fits very conveniently in my purse, and I was able to bring it with me yesterday and do some course work/studying while at a friends. The stylus is great for taking notes. Accurate, and has pressure sensitivity so it's very pen-like. Papyrus so far has also been great for organizing my notebooks, annotating PDFs and being very portable. So far, I have taken notes in a math class, annotated PDFs in an engineering class and solved homework problems directly on the PDFs I downloaded from my course websites. Good battery life. I know I've only had it a few days but it has lasted throughout the school day with heavy use (3-4 hours of note taking + 3-4 hours of homework and then a bunch of random browsing). I am super familiar with the Android operating system so I was very easily and quickly able to customize it and make it look nice. I'm not doing anything super fancy like custom ROMS, rooting or anything. Just, downloading launchers and apps with specific features. On the homepage I have a calendar and a to-do list to help me stay on top of things. Also custom icons. The potential downsides I could see for someone thinking about this purchase is that: It is relatively small compared to a lot of other main stream tablets being used to take notes in class; I'm a small person so this has not been an issue for me at all since my hands aren't that big It's not particularly powerful but all I am doing is taking notes with it (I still carry my laptop with me because there are still programs I need that aren't suitable/available for use on a tablet) Overall, it was a fairly inexpensive purchase that has been serving its intended purpose very well. If you're looking for a tablet to take notes with and the Note 8 is on your radar, I definitely recommend it. I am very pleased with it. Hopefully someone finds this helpful! [Some pics.](

Note 8 is relatively affordable, portable, has a good battery life, and great if size and power aren't an issue. Papyrus has been working very well for annotating PDFs and taking notes although there are some in-App purchases for extra features.

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Hello. I pre-ordered the steam version of the game a few weeks ago, and I had it pre-loaded on the 2nd. I went to go play it when my college classes were done today since it was released, and the game starts up fine, but that is when I encounter my problem. I am now sitting at the main menu, with the game prompting me to "Click any button" which I do, and then in the top right corner it shows "checking save data" and almost instantly simultaneously, an in game message states "returning to main menu." I am unable to get further into the game. I tried clearing local game content then re-downloading it, but that hasnt done anything to help me solve this. I also when to the application location, and ran it as administrator, in which case nothing changed, and still had that problem. Anyone have these same problems/know how to fix? TL;DR - Game starts -> press any button to start -> checking save data -> returning to menu prompt -> redownloaded and ran as admin -> still have problem

Hello. I pre-ordered the steam version of the game a few weeks ago, and I had it pre-loaded on the 2nd. I went to go play it when my college classes were done today since it was released, and the game starts up fine, but that is when I encounter my problem. I am now sitting at the main menu, with the game prompting me to "Click any button" which I do, and then in the top right corner it shows "checking save data" and almost instantly simultaneously, an in game message states "returning to main menu." I am unable to get further into the game. I tried clearing local game content then re-downloading it, but that hasnt done anything to help me solve this. I also when to the application location, and ran it as administrator, in which case nothing changed, and still had that problem. Anyone have these same problems/know how to fix? TL;DR - Game starts -> press any button to start -> checking save data -> returning to menu prompt -> redownloaded and ran as admin -> still have problem

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Hello. I pre-ordered the steam version of the game a few weeks ago, and I had it pre-loaded on the 2nd. I went to go play it when my college classes were done today since it was released, and the game starts up fine, but that is when I encounter my problem. I am now sitting at the main menu, with the game prompting me to "Click any button" which I do, and then in the top right corner it shows "checking save data" and almost instantly simultaneously, an in game message states "returning to main menu." I am unable to get further into the game. I tried clearing local game content then re-downloading it, but that hasnt done anything to help me solve this. I also when to the application location, and ran it as administrator, in which case nothing changed, and still had that problem. Anyone have these same problems/know how to fix?

Game starts -> press any button to start -> checking save data -> returning to menu prompt -> redownloaded and ran as admin -> still have problem

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Personally I do not subscribe to any religious beliefs, but I am from the UK so that is pretty much the norm here. One of my close friends (he is 23) is what I would class as a vulnerable* person, however he refuses to seek any help and his life is just getting worse and worse (He has been know to react about being asked to see a doctor by running away down the street screaming "I AM NORMAL! I AM NORMAL! I AM NORMAL!"). He has no social skills, constant anxiety attacks triggered by what seems to be nothing and is unemployable. He has also been bullied his entire life. My closer circle of friends are all he has and he always cancels plans with us at the last moment so he spends most of his time alone, he has also fallen out with many of us for no reason. I can not stress enough how much of a lost cause he is becoming. I have real concerns that he will end his life one day or just become homeless once his mum dies (his mum spends all day in bed and seems to have very little interaction with him). I had the idea that if we could get him to go to church, the people there would not judge him like everyone else. They would make him feel welcome to their community and give him a sense of belonging. I also feel that if he believed in a God he might not feel as lonely and maybe even feel a sense of having a higher purpose. At the same time I don't want to loose him as a friend, this isn't a case of dropping a puppy off at someone else door so it is no longer my problem. It is really hard to see him like this. I also feel like there are slight moral implications 'tricking' someone into this. *By vulnerable, we believe he is on the autistic spectrum **TLDR: One of my close (probably autistic) friends is that much of a lost cause/nervous wreck and he has refused all help to the point we feel religion is the only thing left to try to integrate him into some sort of community.**

Personally I do not subscribe to any religious beliefs, but I am from the UK so that is pretty much the norm here. One of my close friends (he is 23) is what I would class as a vulnerable* person, however he refuses to seek any help and his life is just getting worse and worse (He has been know to react about being asked to see a doctor by running away down the street screaming "I AM NORMAL! I AM NORMAL! I AM NORMAL!"). He has no social skills, constant anxiety attacks triggered by what seems to be nothing and is unemployable. He has also been bullied his entire life. My closer circle of friends are all he has and he always cancels plans with us at the last moment so he spends most of his time alone, he has also fallen out with many of us for no reason. I can not stress enough how much of a lost cause he is becoming. I have real concerns that he will end his life one day or just become homeless once his mum dies (his mum spends all day in bed and seems to have very little interaction with him). I had the idea that if we could get him to go to church, the people there would not judge him like everyone else. They would make him feel welcome to their community and give him a sense of belonging. I also feel that if he believed in a God he might not feel as lonely and maybe even feel a sense of having a higher purpose. At the same time I don't want to loose him as a friend, this isn't a case of dropping a puppy off at someone else door so it is no longer my problem. It is really hard to see him like this. I also feel like there are slight moral implications 'tricking' someone into this. *By vulnerable, we believe he is on the autistic spectrum TLDR: One of my close (probably autistic) friends is that much of a lost cause/nervous wreck and he has refused all help to the point we feel religion is the only thing left to try to integrate him into some sort of community.

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Personally I do not subscribe to any religious beliefs, but I am from the UK so that is pretty much the norm here. One of my close friends (he is 23) is what I would class as a vulnerable* person, however he refuses to seek any help and his life is just getting worse and worse (He has been know to react about being asked to see a doctor by running away down the street screaming "I AM NORMAL! I AM NORMAL! I AM NORMAL!"). He has no social skills, constant anxiety attacks triggered by what seems to be nothing and is unemployable. He has also been bullied his entire life. My closer circle of friends are all he has and he always cancels plans with us at the last moment so he spends most of his time alone, he has also fallen out with many of us for no reason. I can not stress enough how much of a lost cause he is becoming. I have real concerns that he will end his life one day or just become homeless once his mum dies (his mum spends all day in bed and seems to have very little interaction with him). I had the idea that if we could get him to go to church, the people there would not judge him like everyone else. They would make him feel welcome to their community and give him a sense of belonging. I also feel that if he believed in a God he might not feel as lonely and maybe even feel a sense of having a higher purpose. At the same time I don't want to loose him as a friend, this isn't a case of dropping a puppy off at someone else door so it is no longer my problem. It is really hard to see him like this. I also feel like there are slight moral implications 'tricking' someone into this. *By vulnerable, we believe he is on the autistic spectrum

One of my close (probably autistic) friends is that much of a lost cause/nervous wreck and he has refused all help to the point we feel religion is the only thing left to try to integrate him into some sort of community.

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Throwaway for obvious reasons... 23/m I wish I could give you some advice, but I have never experimented. However, I have always really wanted to. I'm definitely heterosexual - love women - but I do occasionally fantasize about experimenting. I am in your position and would like to try something like this out. How on earth could I go about doing this though? I am way too scared of going to Craigslist, and I am no longer in a social scene conducive to something like this. And this could never ever ever get into my social circle. I had a friend who recently came out and I actually thought about asking him for awhile, but I thought he would probably think I was kidding. tl;dr How does someone go about doing what OP is talking about?

Throwaway for obvious reasons... 23/m I wish I could give you some advice, but I have never experimented. However, I have always really wanted to. I'm definitely heterosexual - love women - but I do occasionally fantasize about experimenting. I am in your position and would like to try something like this out. How on earth could I go about doing this though? I am way too scared of going to Craigslist, and I am no longer in a social scene conducive to something like this. And this could never ever ever get into my social circle. I had a friend who recently came out and I actually thought about asking him for awhile, but I thought he would probably think I was kidding. tl;dr How does someone go about doing what OP is talking about?

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Throwaway for obvious reasons... 23/m I wish I could give you some advice, but I have never experimented. However, I have always really wanted to. I'm definitely heterosexual - love women - but I do occasionally fantasize about experimenting. I am in your position and would like to try something like this out. How on earth could I go about doing this though? I am way too scared of going to Craigslist, and I am no longer in a social scene conducive to something like this. And this could never ever ever get into my social circle. I had a friend who recently came out and I actually thought about asking him for awhile, but I thought he would probably think I was kidding.

How does someone go about doing what OP is talking about?

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I recently started dating a girl who I met online 2 months ago. We get along well. She spends the night over at my place often. We have great sex. We do date things - movies, etc. Basically normal start of a relationship kind of things. We have even discussed going on a minivacation together next month. Background: She has many different groups of friends (school, hobbies, etc.) From day one she has told me about her close guy friends (Ed, Joe) who sometimes crash at her small studio apartment - they live in the suburbs and she doesn't want them to drive drunk. I met them (in their group of friends), they were cool with me, told me how they think of her as their sister. Joked about how they crash at her place and the security guard is probably confused with all the guys going to her place and they overall treated me well. We all discussed the different girls Ed and Joe have hit on. They told me not to hurt her, they felt very brother like. I bought them drinks. At the end of the night, she came to my place and gave the guys her keys to crash at her place. Whenever she spends time with them, she mentions them by name. For example, "Ed wanted me to make him coffee." etc. Problem: She has a school friend, Andrew, (not in the previously mentioned group) that she has talked about. Before we really started dating she mentioned how he was her lab partner and they were friends. Around that same time (after our 3rd date) I asked her how her weekend was and she told me that she visited Andrew and his roommate and they hung out, made dinner, watched movies and she spent the night there (they live a mile away from her.) I wasn't a fan of it but I had no authority to say anything (we had just met.) Personally, if I start to like a girl I wouldn't really stay over another female friends place when my place is so close. I understand thats just me and people have different relationships. Everything was fine, until one day we mentioned how children of interracial couples are often very attractive. I said how my little cousins are super cute. She says her friend Andrew is hot. I get a little quiet, but once again I don't really have anything justification for getting upset, so I get over it. She asks me what's wrong, I basically change the subject and move on. Ever since then, she never mentions Andrew. She specifically just says "her friend." Two weeks ago, we started watching house of cards. I said, "hey you haven't seen it yet, so I'll watch it from the beginning with you - it'll be our show. We'll watch it together." Last weekend, I was out of town. I asked her how her weekend was. She said, "oh it was fun. I hung out with my friend. My friend came over and we watched 5 episodes of house of cards." I half jokingly said, hey I thought that was our show and we were going to watch it together. She apologized, said she forgot. Promised we will watch it from the beginning. I thought it was too petty to bring it up. (Never once did she mention her 'friend' by gender or name.) She stayed over my place yesterday. Today after work, I stopped by her place to drop something off, said hi and hung out for 20 minutes. I had to run home for dinner plans. She said she had plans to go to her friends place. (once again no name - she mentions all her other friends by name.) My dinner was near her apartment. I texted her at 7PM, saying "we are probably going to dinner near you. I don't have to go in till late tomorrow. I can come over and stay with you at your place after dinner?" (She is constantly complaining that she always comes over to my place cause I work early.) I don't get a response till 9 PM saying "Hey I just saw your message! I am crashing at my friends place tonight.." I respond by saying "Don't end up watching more of house of cards with your friend!" She says, " Lol, I promise I won't! Watching frozen again! Blah" I respond, "It's unfortunate, I literally had dinner right by your apartment, next time!" She doesn't respond. This girl is usually glued to her phone. She checks her phone every time it goes off when we hang out. My concerns: 1) She doesn't mention Andrew by his name anymore(it could be because of how i reacted when she said he was hot.) 2) She stays over his place when she lives close. Do they share a bed? Is that ever normal? How do I bring it up? 3) Am I being paranoid and insecure or would this bother you guys? How would you approach it. 4) My text message gets answered after two hours and then no further responses? Thank you in advance. --- tl;dr: Started dating a new girl. I have a bad feeling about this. I don't know if I am being paranoid and insecure or rightfully concerned.

I recently started dating a girl who I met online 2 months ago. We get along well. She spends the night over at my place often. We have great sex. We do date things - movies, etc. Basically normal start of a relationship kind of things. We have even discussed going on a minivacation together next month. Background: She has many different groups of friends (school, hobbies, etc.) From day one she has told me about her close guy friends (Ed, Joe) who sometimes crash at her small studio apartment - they live in the suburbs and she doesn't want them to drive drunk. I met them (in their group of friends), they were cool with me, told me how they think of her as their sister. Joked about how they crash at her place and the security guard is probably confused with all the guys going to her place and they overall treated me well. We all discussed the different girls Ed and Joe have hit on. They told me not to hurt her, they felt very brother like. I bought them drinks. At the end of the night, she came to my place and gave the guys her keys to crash at her place. Whenever she spends time with them, she mentions them by name. For example, "Ed wanted me to make him coffee." etc. Problem: She has a school friend, Andrew, (not in the previously mentioned group) that she has talked about. Before we really started dating she mentioned how he was her lab partner and they were friends. Around that same time (after our 3rd date) I asked her how her weekend was and she told me that she visited Andrew and his roommate and they hung out, made dinner, watched movies and she spent the night there (they live a mile away from her.) I wasn't a fan of it but I had no authority to say anything (we had just met.) Personally, if I start to like a girl I wouldn't really stay over another female friends place when my place is so close. I understand thats just me and people have different relationships. Everything was fine, until one day we mentioned how children of interracial couples are often very attractive. I said how my little cousins are super cute. She says her friend Andrew is hot. I get a little quiet, but once again I don't really have anything justification for getting upset, so I get over it. She asks me what's wrong, I basically change the subject and move on. Ever since then, she never mentions Andrew. She specifically just says "her friend." Two weeks ago, we started watching house of cards. I said, "hey you haven't seen it yet, so I'll watch it from the beginning with you - it'll be our show. We'll watch it together." Last weekend, I was out of town. I asked her how her weekend was. She said, "oh it was fun. I hung out with my friend. My friend came over and we watched 5 episodes of house of cards." I half jokingly said, hey I thought that was our show and we were going to watch it together. She apologized, said she forgot. Promised we will watch it from the beginning. I thought it was too petty to bring it up. (Never once did she mention her 'friend' by gender or name.) She stayed over my place yesterday. Today after work, I stopped by her place to drop something off, said hi and hung out for 20 minutes. I had to run home for dinner plans. She said she had plans to go to her friends place. (once again no name - she mentions all her other friends by name.) My dinner was near her apartment. I texted her at 7PM, saying "we are probably going to dinner near you. I don't have to go in till late tomorrow. I can come over and stay with you at your place after dinner?" (She is constantly complaining that she always comes over to my place cause I work early.) I don't get a response till 9 PM saying "Hey I just saw your message! I am crashing at my friends place tonight.." I respond by saying "Don't end up watching more of house of cards with your friend!" She says, " Lol, I promise I won't! Watching frozen again! Blah" I respond, "It's unfortunate, I literally had dinner right by your apartment, next time!" She doesn't respond. This girl is usually glued to her phone. She checks her phone every time it goes off when we hang out. My concerns: 1) She doesn't mention Andrew by his name anymore(it could be because of how i reacted when she said he was hot.) 2) She stays over his place when she lives close. Do they share a bed? Is that ever normal? How do I bring it up? 3) Am I being paranoid and insecure or would this bother you guys? How would you approach it. 4) My text message gets answered after two hours and then no further responses? Thank you in advance. tl;dr: Started dating a new girl. I have a bad feeling about this. I don't know if I am being paranoid and insecure or rightfully concerned.

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I recently started dating a girl who I met online 2 months ago. We get along well. She spends the night over at my place often. We have great sex. We do date things - movies, etc. Basically normal start of a relationship kind of things. We have even discussed going on a minivacation together next month. Background: She has many different groups of friends (school, hobbies, etc.) From day one she has told me about her close guy friends (Ed, Joe) who sometimes crash at her small studio apartment - they live in the suburbs and she doesn't want them to drive drunk. I met them (in their group of friends), they were cool with me, told me how they think of her as their sister. Joked about how they crash at her place and the security guard is probably confused with all the guys going to her place and they overall treated me well. We all discussed the different girls Ed and Joe have hit on. They told me not to hurt her, they felt very brother like. I bought them drinks. At the end of the night, she came to my place and gave the guys her keys to crash at her place. Whenever she spends time with them, she mentions them by name. For example, "Ed wanted me to make him coffee." etc. Problem: She has a school friend, Andrew, (not in the previously mentioned group) that she has talked about. Before we really started dating she mentioned how he was her lab partner and they were friends. Around that same time (after our 3rd date) I asked her how her weekend was and she told me that she visited Andrew and his roommate and they hung out, made dinner, watched movies and she spent the night there (they live a mile away from her.) I wasn't a fan of it but I had no authority to say anything (we had just met.) Personally, if I start to like a girl I wouldn't really stay over another female friends place when my place is so close. I understand thats just me and people have different relationships. Everything was fine, until one day we mentioned how children of interracial couples are often very attractive. I said how my little cousins are super cute. She says her friend Andrew is hot. I get a little quiet, but once again I don't really have anything justification for getting upset, so I get over it. She asks me what's wrong, I basically change the subject and move on. Ever since then, she never mentions Andrew. She specifically just says "her friend." Two weeks ago, we started watching house of cards. I said, "hey you haven't seen it yet, so I'll watch it from the beginning with you - it'll be our show. We'll watch it together." Last weekend, I was out of town. I asked her how her weekend was. She said, "oh it was fun. I hung out with my friend. My friend came over and we watched 5 episodes of house of cards." I half jokingly said, hey I thought that was our show and we were going to watch it together. She apologized, said she forgot. Promised we will watch it from the beginning. I thought it was too petty to bring it up. (Never once did she mention her 'friend' by gender or name.) She stayed over my place yesterday. Today after work, I stopped by her place to drop something off, said hi and hung out for 20 minutes. I had to run home for dinner plans. She said she had plans to go to her friends place. (once again no name - she mentions all her other friends by name.) My dinner was near her apartment. I texted her at 7PM, saying "we are probably going to dinner near you. I don't have to go in till late tomorrow. I can come over and stay with you at your place after dinner?" (She is constantly complaining that she always comes over to my place cause I work early.) I don't get a response till 9 PM saying "Hey I just saw your message! I am crashing at my friends place tonight.." I respond by saying "Don't end up watching more of house of cards with your friend!" She says, " Lol, I promise I won't! Watching frozen again! Blah" I respond, "It's unfortunate, I literally had dinner right by your apartment, next time!" She doesn't respond. This girl is usually glued to her phone. She checks her phone every time it goes off when we hang out. My concerns: 1) She doesn't mention Andrew by his name anymore(it could be because of how i reacted when she said he was hot.) 2) She stays over his place when she lives close. Do they share a bed? Is that ever normal? How do I bring it up? 3) Am I being paranoid and insecure or would this bother you guys? How would you approach it. 4) My text message gets answered after two hours and then no further responses? Thank you in advance.

Started dating a new girl. I have a bad feeling about this. I don't know if I am being paranoid and insecure or rightfully concerned.

AH5dg34hghYhhgHYg

Recently I've found myself winding up at parties where I only know the person or couple that brought me. Here's what usually ends up happening. My host does their duty and introduces me to one person. For the first half hour I bounce between my new friend and my host. Then I find myself in a weird fisheye lens world where everyone I know is mid conversation, Everyone I don't know is in mid conversation and there is no one on their own. So... What the hell am I supposed to do? What's the socially acceptable behavior here? I know I'm supposed to meet people at parties but is it really OK to walk up to two strangers mid conversation and hover? I know it's kind of weird but I'm completely at a loss. Maybe 15 years ago I would have shoved sparklers in my ass and lit them for attention or something but I'm in my thirties and things are pretty civil. I usually just excuse myself from the party after I've grabbed popcorn, finished my beer, hit the bathroom and checked my email. I'm not going to just stand there looking like loser... I don't want to look like I'm clinging to the people that brought me... I dunno. You'd think I'd have learned this shit by now... **TL;DR What do you do at a party where you know very few people and you find yourself to be the odd man out of every conversation?**

Recently I've found myself winding up at parties where I only know the person or couple that brought me. Here's what usually ends up happening. My host does their duty and introduces me to one person. For the first half hour I bounce between my new friend and my host. Then I find myself in a weird fisheye lens world where everyone I know is mid conversation, Everyone I don't know is in mid conversation and there is no one on their own. So... What the hell am I supposed to do? What's the socially acceptable behavior here? I know I'm supposed to meet people at parties but is it really OK to walk up to two strangers mid conversation and hover? I know it's kind of weird but I'm completely at a loss. Maybe 15 years ago I would have shoved sparklers in my ass and lit them for attention or something but I'm in my thirties and things are pretty civil. I usually just excuse myself from the party after I've grabbed popcorn, finished my beer, hit the bathroom and checked my email. I'm not going to just stand there looking like loser... I don't want to look like I'm clinging to the people that brought me... I dunno. You'd think I'd have learned this shit by now... TL;DR What do you do at a party where you know very few people and you find yourself to be the odd man out of every conversation?

Advice

t5_2qjdm

t3_14ndu2

Recently I've found myself winding up at parties where I only know the person or couple that brought me. Here's what usually ends up happening. My host does their duty and introduces me to one person. For the first half hour I bounce between my new friend and my host. Then I find myself in a weird fisheye lens world where everyone I know is mid conversation, Everyone I don't know is in mid conversation and there is no one on their own. So... What the hell am I supposed to do? What's the socially acceptable behavior here? I know I'm supposed to meet people at parties but is it really OK to walk up to two strangers mid conversation and hover? I know it's kind of weird but I'm completely at a loss. Maybe 15 years ago I would have shoved sparklers in my ass and lit them for attention or something but I'm in my thirties and things are pretty civil. I usually just excuse myself from the party after I've grabbed popcorn, finished my beer, hit the bathroom and checked my email. I'm not going to just stand there looking like loser... I don't want to look like I'm clinging to the people that brought me... I dunno. You'd think I'd have learned this shit by now...

What do you do at a party where you know very few people and you find yourself to be the odd man out of every conversation?

throwawayaway5678

Hey Reddit, I'm so heartbroken right now. Basically, I just graduated college in spring and moved to a different country. Because my boyfriend (together for about a year) was still in college, we decided we would just hold each other back if we stayed together, so we broke up. The thing is, we stayed in contact. We decided to Skype once a month and go no contact other than that. I knew it wasn't smart, but it was so hard to let each other go when we still loved each other. Of course "once a month" turned out to be every few weeks, but I really thought it was working. So I guess a few weeks ago it hit a critical point. I think I was just tired of holding myself back, and when I talked to him, it felt so good. I guess I thought I was moving on, but really, I was just forcing back my feelings. So when I talked to him and he was so open and caring, I felt like I still could be too. The thing is, I think I *had* started the process of moving on. Before talking to him, I had decided to tell him that I didn't think he should visit anymore. But when I told him, he was so upset and then I got upset at the idea of not seeing him, so I decided to take time to decide what was right and that we could talk about it next time. So during that time I started thinking about how much I really did want to see him and how it wasn't a horrible idea for him to visit. I started getting really excited to talk to him again. Then, last Sunday, we did talk again. I had stayed up all night partying (not the best idea I know) and so I really really tired (I always get emotional when I'm tired) and hungover when we talked. It was fine, and then we brought up the idea of him visiting. He said he thought it wasn't the best idea if he did. I know I was the one that brought it up and that it is the right decision but it still really hurt none the less. So we talked about a lot and it got really emotional. At one point, I asked "why are we doing this? what do you want?" and he answered with "well I don't want a relationship." I don't know why, but that hurt me so bad. I wasn't even asking for one, I don't want that either! It felt like he was rejecting a question I didn't even ask. I meant it more like, why are we hurting each other like this? I was really tired through the whole conversation and even fell asleep in the middle of talking sometimes. So we decided to table it until I got more sleep and move the conversation to today. Of course, I've been too anxious the past couple of nights to sleep, so I still don't know if I'm thinking rationally (part of the reason I'm posting here). What I feel though, is that he's finally realized how stupid it is for us to keep talking. Something I've known all along, but didn't want to face. What I've also realized is how much I love him. I don't think I noticed the extent before, maybe because our breakup before almost didn't feel real. But now it does and it hurts. I don't want to end it tonight, but I also think there's no other way. I know we weren't dating too long, so it might not seem like a big deal, but we went through a lot together and our relationship felt like it just kept getting stronger and stronger when I left. So I guess I'd just like some advice. Has anyone been in a similar situation? *Should* I cut off contact? Is there even a time that we could try to keep talking? I'd love some advice on how to deal with a breakup and how to move on too. Sorry this turned in to such an essay and thank you so much. TLDR; broke up with my boyfriend because of distance, but never really cut contact. About to and not sure if it's the right decision.

Hey Reddit, I'm so heartbroken right now. Basically, I just graduated college in spring and moved to a different country. Because my boyfriend (together for about a year) was still in college, we decided we would just hold each other back if we stayed together, so we broke up. The thing is, we stayed in contact. We decided to Skype once a month and go no contact other than that. I knew it wasn't smart, but it was so hard to let each other go when we still loved each other. Of course "once a month" turned out to be every few weeks, but I really thought it was working. So I guess a few weeks ago it hit a critical point. I think I was just tired of holding myself back, and when I talked to him, it felt so good. I guess I thought I was moving on, but really, I was just forcing back my feelings. So when I talked to him and he was so open and caring, I felt like I still could be too. The thing is, I think I had started the process of moving on. Before talking to him, I had decided to tell him that I didn't think he should visit anymore. But when I told him, he was so upset and then I got upset at the idea of not seeing him, so I decided to take time to decide what was right and that we could talk about it next time. So during that time I started thinking about how much I really did want to see him and how it wasn't a horrible idea for him to visit. I started getting really excited to talk to him again. Then, last Sunday, we did talk again. I had stayed up all night partying (not the best idea I know) and so I really really tired (I always get emotional when I'm tired) and hungover when we talked. It was fine, and then we brought up the idea of him visiting. He said he thought it wasn't the best idea if he did. I know I was the one that brought it up and that it is the right decision but it still really hurt none the less. So we talked about a lot and it got really emotional. At one point, I asked "why are we doing this? what do you want?" and he answered with "well I don't want a relationship." I don't know why, but that hurt me so bad. I wasn't even asking for one, I don't want that either! It felt like he was rejecting a question I didn't even ask. I meant it more like, why are we hurting each other like this? I was really tired through the whole conversation and even fell asleep in the middle of talking sometimes. So we decided to table it until I got more sleep and move the conversation to today. Of course, I've been too anxious the past couple of nights to sleep, so I still don't know if I'm thinking rationally (part of the reason I'm posting here). What I feel though, is that he's finally realized how stupid it is for us to keep talking. Something I've known all along, but didn't want to face. What I've also realized is how much I love him. I don't think I noticed the extent before, maybe because our breakup before almost didn't feel real. But now it does and it hurts. I don't want to end it tonight, but I also think there's no other way. I know we weren't dating too long, so it might not seem like a big deal, but we went through a lot together and our relationship felt like it just kept getting stronger and stronger when I left. So I guess I'd just like some advice. Has anyone been in a similar situation? Should I cut off contact? Is there even a time that we could try to keep talking? I'd love some advice on how to deal with a breakup and how to move on too. Sorry this turned in to such an essay and thank you so much. TLDR; broke up with my boyfriend because of distance, but never really cut contact. About to and not sure if it's the right decision.

relationships

t5_2qjvn

t3_54o5d1

Hey Reddit, I'm so heartbroken right now. Basically, I just graduated college in spring and moved to a different country. Because my boyfriend (together for about a year) was still in college, we decided we would just hold each other back if we stayed together, so we broke up. The thing is, we stayed in contact. We decided to Skype once a month and go no contact other than that. I knew it wasn't smart, but it was so hard to let each other go when we still loved each other. Of course "once a month" turned out to be every few weeks, but I really thought it was working. So I guess a few weeks ago it hit a critical point. I think I was just tired of holding myself back, and when I talked to him, it felt so good. I guess I thought I was moving on, but really, I was just forcing back my feelings. So when I talked to him and he was so open and caring, I felt like I still could be too. The thing is, I think I had started the process of moving on. Before talking to him, I had decided to tell him that I didn't think he should visit anymore. But when I told him, he was so upset and then I got upset at the idea of not seeing him, so I decided to take time to decide what was right and that we could talk about it next time. So during that time I started thinking about how much I really did want to see him and how it wasn't a horrible idea for him to visit. I started getting really excited to talk to him again. Then, last Sunday, we did talk again. I had stayed up all night partying (not the best idea I know) and so I really really tired (I always get emotional when I'm tired) and hungover when we talked. It was fine, and then we brought up the idea of him visiting. He said he thought it wasn't the best idea if he did. I know I was the one that brought it up and that it is the right decision but it still really hurt none the less. So we talked about a lot and it got really emotional. At one point, I asked "why are we doing this? what do you want?" and he answered with "well I don't want a relationship." I don't know why, but that hurt me so bad. I wasn't even asking for one, I don't want that either! It felt like he was rejecting a question I didn't even ask. I meant it more like, why are we hurting each other like this? I was really tired through the whole conversation and even fell asleep in the middle of talking sometimes. So we decided to table it until I got more sleep and move the conversation to today. Of course, I've been too anxious the past couple of nights to sleep, so I still don't know if I'm thinking rationally (part of the reason I'm posting here). What I feel though, is that he's finally realized how stupid it is for us to keep talking. Something I've known all along, but didn't want to face. What I've also realized is how much I love him. I don't think I noticed the extent before, maybe because our breakup before almost didn't feel real. But now it does and it hurts. I don't want to end it tonight, but I also think there's no other way. I know we weren't dating too long, so it might not seem like a big deal, but we went through a lot together and our relationship felt like it just kept getting stronger and stronger when I left. So I guess I'd just like some advice. Has anyone been in a similar situation? Should I cut off contact? Is there even a time that we could try to keep talking? I'd love some advice on how to deal with a breakup and how to move on too. Sorry this turned in to such an essay and thank you so much.

broke up with my boyfriend because of distance, but never really cut contact. About to and not sure if it's the right decision.

ibahamut

Well, this is going to be long, full of grammatical errors, and I probably won't win anything anyways. The grammatical errors are because I am writing this from my phone, after 4-5 weeks of only speaking, typing, and reading in Spanish. Aside from my once weekly blogs, and slip-ups before coffee. Allow me to explain. I am currently in Spain (valencia) on an immersion trip in order to try to beter my Spanish.Basically, it's a six week trip wherein I must attend university level courses from 9:30-4:30 (lunch at 1:30 for an hour). I'm living with a host family as well, whom i adore. It's fun, exciting (can't have alcohol though), and well worth giving up six weeks of summer. For the most part. What really sucks is not having the ability to purchase games during the sales this year. My steam library is rather small, and i haven't logged that much time in it (I'm a chronic league of legends addict), but since I'm heading off to college in the fall, and wamted to expand my options for when i have free time. However, my stay here has rendered this impossible. Every attempt i have made at using my debit card to purchase something here over the internet(spotify premium, books for kindle, steam sale) has been rejected. I think it's because the card cannot directly convert euros to dollars, but i honestly don't know. All I know is that the money i'd set aside for the steam sale is now...well it's still money, but it won't buy me as much. No, this wasn't one of the things i realized i would miss while i was gone. There are a lot of things i wanted to buy during his year's sale. I wanted to buy this year, mostly, games i had for my xbox (which i am leaving at home for my brothers) such as Portal 2, left 4 dead 2, the assasin's creeds, darksiders, and probably others that i'm forgetting. I was also going to invest in some indie titles (limbo, binding of isaac were the main 2). , as well as finally purchasing those Half-Life games i keep hearing about. However, if i had to pick one game (and i do) i'd pick witcher 2. I know it's a long, GOOD ( looking at you kingdoms of amalur) RPG, and was planning on nabbing it if/when it went on sale. I suppose after, basically, whining about my first world problems for a while, the least I could do is share an amusing story. And no, it is not of drunken post-Eurocup antics, I'm sorry to say. During school days we eat lunch in a café across the street from the school. We are given a selection of 6 menu items, and can order any two of those items. There is also bread and water, which i think are staples of every meal here. Anyways, during the second week, an option for "hamburger" appeared as an option. Like any self-respecting American, I ordered a hamburger. I was excited. More than excited. I was pumped. After a week of trying strange but delicious food, I was ready for a little taste of home. So, lunch rolls around and I'm salivating with anticipation. I'm starving, because I still have not adjusted to smaller breakfasts and later lunches. I'm picturing a hamburger with lettuce, onion, tomato, maybe some mustard I can use. I enter the café, sit down, and anxiously await the arrival of my feast. Several of the people I around me have ordered the same thing, and are in a similar state of mind. We must first wait through the first dish (which I had some sort of pasta) before the true reward can be had. The waitress begins to shout "hamburger" (in spanish) , and i thrust my hand into the air, anxously waiting. After what felt like hours, a plate was placed in front of me. On the plate was a hamburger. JUST the hamburger. No onion, tomato, not even a bun. I felt betrayal, anger, confusion, and sadness in the space of 4 seconds. I briefly considered using my knife to force the cook into preparing me a REAL hamburger. Looking around, i see what expressions ranging from confusion to tears. My mind, melting from cognitive dissonance, eventually decided that sadness in with a hint of anger was the appropriate range of emotions. I picked up my fork and knife, and sadly began to cut apart and eat my patty. It was bland, lukewarm, and had an odd flavor. I turned to the french fries, hoping to find a bit of solace. Cold. In a well of my own depression, i finally accepted the fact that i was now in a totally different culture. Up until then, i'd been holding out for similar. TL;DR. Can you please give me Witcher 2 to alleviate the trauma induced by consuming a hamburger with no fixins and cold fries?

Well, this is going to be long, full of grammatical errors, and I probably won't win anything anyways. The grammatical errors are because I am writing this from my phone, after 4-5 weeks of only speaking, typing, and reading in Spanish. Aside from my once weekly blogs, and slip-ups before coffee. Allow me to explain. I am currently in Spain (valencia) on an immersion trip in order to try to beter my Spanish.Basically, it's a six week trip wherein I must attend university level courses from 9:30-4:30 (lunch at 1:30 for an hour). I'm living with a host family as well, whom i adore. It's fun, exciting (can't have alcohol though), and well worth giving up six weeks of summer. For the most part. What really sucks is not having the ability to purchase games during the sales this year. My steam library is rather small, and i haven't logged that much time in it (I'm a chronic league of legends addict), but since I'm heading off to college in the fall, and wamted to expand my options for when i have free time. However, my stay here has rendered this impossible. Every attempt i have made at using my debit card to purchase something here over the internet(spotify premium, books for kindle, steam sale) has been rejected. I think it's because the card cannot directly convert euros to dollars, but i honestly don't know. All I know is that the money i'd set aside for the steam sale is now...well it's still money, but it won't buy me as much. No, this wasn't one of the things i realized i would miss while i was gone. There are a lot of things i wanted to buy during his year's sale. I wanted to buy this year, mostly, games i had for my xbox (which i am leaving at home for my brothers) such as Portal 2, left 4 dead 2, the assasin's creeds, darksiders, and probably others that i'm forgetting. I was also going to invest in some indie titles (limbo, binding of isaac were the main 2). , as well as finally purchasing those Half-Life games i keep hearing about. However, if i had to pick one game (and i do) i'd pick witcher 2. I know it's a long, GOOD ( looking at you kingdoms of amalur) RPG, and was planning on nabbing it if/when it went on sale. I suppose after, basically, whining about my first world problems for a while, the least I could do is share an amusing story. And no, it is not of drunken post-Eurocup antics, I'm sorry to say. During school days we eat lunch in a café across the street from the school. We are given a selection of 6 menu items, and can order any two of those items. There is also bread and water, which i think are staples of every meal here. Anyways, during the second week, an option for "hamburger" appeared as an option. Like any self-respecting American, I ordered a hamburger. I was excited. More than excited. I was pumped. After a week of trying strange but delicious food, I was ready for a little taste of home. So, lunch rolls around and I'm salivating with anticipation. I'm starving, because I still have not adjusted to smaller breakfasts and later lunches. I'm picturing a hamburger with lettuce, onion, tomato, maybe some mustard I can use. I enter the café, sit down, and anxiously await the arrival of my feast. Several of the people I around me have ordered the same thing, and are in a similar state of mind. We must first wait through the first dish (which I had some sort of pasta) before the true reward can be had. The waitress begins to shout "hamburger" (in spanish) , and i thrust my hand into the air, anxously waiting. After what felt like hours, a plate was placed in front of me. On the plate was a hamburger. JUST the hamburger. No onion, tomato, not even a bun. I felt betrayal, anger, confusion, and sadness in the space of 4 seconds. I briefly considered using my knife to force the cook into preparing me a REAL hamburger. Looking around, i see what expressions ranging from confusion to tears. My mind, melting from cognitive dissonance, eventually decided that sadness in with a hint of anger was the appropriate range of emotions. I picked up my fork and knife, and sadly began to cut apart and eat my patty. It was bland, lukewarm, and had an odd flavor. I turned to the french fries, hoping to find a bit of solace. Cold. In a well of my own depression, i finally accepted the fact that i was now in a totally different culture. Up until then, i'd been holding out for similar. TL;DR. Can you please give me Witcher 2 to alleviate the trauma induced by consuming a hamburger with no fixins and cold fries?

gaming

t5_2qh03

c5fwami

Well, this is going to be long, full of grammatical errors, and I probably won't win anything anyways. The grammatical errors are because I am writing this from my phone, after 4-5 weeks of only speaking, typing, and reading in Spanish. Aside from my once weekly blogs, and slip-ups before coffee. Allow me to explain. I am currently in Spain (valencia) on an immersion trip in order to try to beter my Spanish.Basically, it's a six week trip wherein I must attend university level courses from 9:30-4:30 (lunch at 1:30 for an hour). I'm living with a host family as well, whom i adore. It's fun, exciting (can't have alcohol though), and well worth giving up six weeks of summer. For the most part. What really sucks is not having the ability to purchase games during the sales this year. My steam library is rather small, and i haven't logged that much time in it (I'm a chronic league of legends addict), but since I'm heading off to college in the fall, and wamted to expand my options for when i have free time. However, my stay here has rendered this impossible. Every attempt i have made at using my debit card to purchase something here over the internet(spotify premium, books for kindle, steam sale) has been rejected. I think it's because the card cannot directly convert euros to dollars, but i honestly don't know. All I know is that the money i'd set aside for the steam sale is now...well it's still money, but it won't buy me as much. No, this wasn't one of the things i realized i would miss while i was gone. There are a lot of things i wanted to buy during his year's sale. I wanted to buy this year, mostly, games i had for my xbox (which i am leaving at home for my brothers) such as Portal 2, left 4 dead 2, the assasin's creeds, darksiders, and probably others that i'm forgetting. I was also going to invest in some indie titles (limbo, binding of isaac were the main 2). , as well as finally purchasing those Half-Life games i keep hearing about. However, if i had to pick one game (and i do) i'd pick witcher 2. I know it's a long, GOOD ( looking at you kingdoms of amalur) RPG, and was planning on nabbing it if/when it went on sale. I suppose after, basically, whining about my first world problems for a while, the least I could do is share an amusing story. And no, it is not of drunken post-Eurocup antics, I'm sorry to say. During school days we eat lunch in a café across the street from the school. We are given a selection of 6 menu items, and can order any two of those items. There is also bread and water, which i think are staples of every meal here. Anyways, during the second week, an option for "hamburger" appeared as an option. Like any self-respecting American, I ordered a hamburger. I was excited. More than excited. I was pumped. After a week of trying strange but delicious food, I was ready for a little taste of home. So, lunch rolls around and I'm salivating with anticipation. I'm starving, because I still have not adjusted to smaller breakfasts and later lunches. I'm picturing a hamburger with lettuce, onion, tomato, maybe some mustard I can use. I enter the café, sit down, and anxiously await the arrival of my feast. Several of the people I around me have ordered the same thing, and are in a similar state of mind. We must first wait through the first dish (which I had some sort of pasta) before the true reward can be had. The waitress begins to shout "hamburger" (in spanish) , and i thrust my hand into the air, anxously waiting. After what felt like hours, a plate was placed in front of me. On the plate was a hamburger. JUST the hamburger. No onion, tomato, not even a bun. I felt betrayal, anger, confusion, and sadness in the space of 4 seconds. I briefly considered using my knife to force the cook into preparing me a REAL hamburger. Looking around, i see what expressions ranging from confusion to tears. My mind, melting from cognitive dissonance, eventually decided that sadness in with a hint of anger was the appropriate range of emotions. I picked up my fork and knife, and sadly began to cut apart and eat my patty. It was bland, lukewarm, and had an odd flavor. I turned to the french fries, hoping to find a bit of solace. Cold. In a well of my own depression, i finally accepted the fact that i was now in a totally different culture. Up until then, i'd been holding out for similar.

Can you please give me Witcher 2 to alleviate the trauma induced by consuming a hamburger with no fixins and cold fries?

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Hey everybody, Wherever you are, good morning or good afternoon. I hope you're all having a kick ass day. Thanks for reading my post. My name is Jacob and I want to give you a little background on me. Not really looking for attention just trying to explain where I'm coming from. When I was 12 years old I would temporarily lose the ability to eat. It would come and go in periods where I just couldn't make myself swallow. My parents thought I was crazy and it took them a while to take me to the doctor. Well I went, and they had no idea what it was. I went to many doctors. I was put on liquid diets for months and months. Eventually they decided I would need an endoscopy. Which is where they put you to sleep and put a camera down your throat and look into your esophagus. I didn't much understand the results then but they concluded that my esophagus happened to be a third of the width of the average person. So even when I could eat, a lot of the time the food would get stuck in my chest. Guys I've done some crazy shit in my time and gotten pretty hurt doing some stuff. But when the food gets stuck it hurts so fucking bad that I can't do anything. I start to drool, breathing gets hard, and it's incredible incredible pain. So I continued to go to the doctor for years. It took them a long time to get a diagnosis. Lots and lots of endoscopies. I missed school all the time because I was in the hospital so much. They told me it was EE.(eosinophilic esophagitis) Basically allergies affect my eosinphil count causing the muscle in my esophagus to contract and get smaller. I'm allergic to quite a bit of stuff. And still now, 8 years later. I don't have an exact cause. They've tried to diagnose me with other conditions and lots of doctors have gone back and forth on what I really have. I started having to get these risky procedures done where they would essentially put a balloon in my esophagus and fill it up with air every couple weeks to try and expand it to normal. **One time** when I was about 16 the balloon got a little too big. **It** *tore my esophagus*. From what they told me I started bleeding pretty bad and I had to get somebody else's blood pumped in me to fight it off. I stopped getting the procedures after that. It got to the point when I was younger that I couldn't even finish a meal because food would get stuck and I'd have to make myself throw up to get it out. Every single meal. I lost a lot of weight. I was crazy skinny. I got made of for being skinny all the time. Bullied real bad in middle school and I know in high school I pushed a lot of people I cared about away just from all the stress. **Fast Forward 5 years** - I'm 17. I'm taking my first gravity bong hits in my parents garage with my best friends. I like it a lot. I start smoking regularly. Bud helped with other stuff. But I woke up one morning and realized food wasn't getting stuck anymore. I wasn't spending a couple hours every day in the bathroom. It just wasn't happening. EE just doesn't go away guys. They haven't found a cure. And I'm not 100% cannabis is the cure but I'm really positive that food stopped getting stuck in my chest 95% of the time and it's been the only real change in my life. **Fast forward 2 1/2 years.** - I'm 20 now. I live on my own. I work a job for the railroad I could easily make a career. I make good money and I have a good living. But I can't smoke anymore. My company drug tests. And the problems are coming back. Food is starting to get stuck again. I don't even want to go out with friends or girls because how can I make an excuse to sit in the bathroom for 30 minutes during a lunch/dinner date? The pain is coming back. Today I'm doing a little better. The symptoms aren't fully back. I've gained a bunch of weight back, I'm living a healthy life. But I can't live with getting my condition all the back. I can't go back to how things were. My eyes are watering and I'm trying not to scream. It feels like somebody shot me in the chest every single time and my only saving grace is illegal in my state for medical or recreational reasons. I really want to get better, but this is gonna require a move. My condition is rare. I can't find any studies or anybody talking about bud helping them. Will a doctor believe me in another state? I'm only 20 so I guess I can't do it recreationaly. But I swear to you guys, this is chronic pain if chronic pain ever existed. Anyway, I'm just looking for help/advice about how I can make this happen. I can't talk to my parents about it because I got treated like a criminal when they found out I smoked. My mom threatened to call the cops all the time. My dad practically disowned me at one point. So I came to the best, chillest place for bud info. Thanks everybody. **TL;DR** - Developed an awful rare condition when I was younger that stopped me from eating. Lived a shit painful childhood. Started smoking bud at 17 and life got way better. 95% sure it's what got me better but I can't be sure because there hasn't been any research. Had to stop smoking for a really good job. Now my condition is coming back hard and I need to know if what I've got will qualify me for medical cannabis or who I can talk to that will know.

Hey everybody, Wherever you are, good morning or good afternoon. I hope you're all having a kick ass day. Thanks for reading my post. My name is Jacob and I want to give you a little background on me. Not really looking for attention just trying to explain where I'm coming from. When I was 12 years old I would temporarily lose the ability to eat. It would come and go in periods where I just couldn't make myself swallow. My parents thought I was crazy and it took them a while to take me to the doctor. Well I went, and they had no idea what it was. I went to many doctors. I was put on liquid diets for months and months. Eventually they decided I would need an endoscopy. Which is where they put you to sleep and put a camera down your throat and look into your esophagus. I didn't much understand the results then but they concluded that my esophagus happened to be a third of the width of the average person. So even when I could eat, a lot of the time the food would get stuck in my chest. Guys I've done some crazy shit in my time and gotten pretty hurt doing some stuff. But when the food gets stuck it hurts so fucking bad that I can't do anything. I start to drool, breathing gets hard, and it's incredible incredible pain. So I continued to go to the doctor for years. It took them a long time to get a diagnosis. Lots and lots of endoscopies. I missed school all the time because I was in the hospital so much. They told me it was EE.(eosinophilic esophagitis) Basically allergies affect my eosinphil count causing the muscle in my esophagus to contract and get smaller. I'm allergic to quite a bit of stuff. And still now, 8 years later. I don't have an exact cause. They've tried to diagnose me with other conditions and lots of doctors have gone back and forth on what I really have. I started having to get these risky procedures done where they would essentially put a balloon in my esophagus and fill it up with air every couple weeks to try and expand it to normal. One time when I was about 16 the balloon got a little too big. It tore my esophagus . From what they told me I started bleeding pretty bad and I had to get somebody else's blood pumped in me to fight it off. I stopped getting the procedures after that. It got to the point when I was younger that I couldn't even finish a meal because food would get stuck and I'd have to make myself throw up to get it out. Every single meal. I lost a lot of weight. I was crazy skinny. I got made of for being skinny all the time. Bullied real bad in middle school and I know in high school I pushed a lot of people I cared about away just from all the stress. Fast Forward 5 years - I'm 17. I'm taking my first gravity bong hits in my parents garage with my best friends. I like it a lot. I start smoking regularly. Bud helped with other stuff. But I woke up one morning and realized food wasn't getting stuck anymore. I wasn't spending a couple hours every day in the bathroom. It just wasn't happening. EE just doesn't go away guys. They haven't found a cure. And I'm not 100% cannabis is the cure but I'm really positive that food stopped getting stuck in my chest 95% of the time and it's been the only real change in my life. Fast forward 2 1/2 years. - I'm 20 now. I live on my own. I work a job for the railroad I could easily make a career. I make good money and I have a good living. But I can't smoke anymore. My company drug tests. And the problems are coming back. Food is starting to get stuck again. I don't even want to go out with friends or girls because how can I make an excuse to sit in the bathroom for 30 minutes during a lunch/dinner date? The pain is coming back. Today I'm doing a little better. The symptoms aren't fully back. I've gained a bunch of weight back, I'm living a healthy life. But I can't live with getting my condition all the back. I can't go back to how things were. My eyes are watering and I'm trying not to scream. It feels like somebody shot me in the chest every single time and my only saving grace is illegal in my state for medical or recreational reasons. I really want to get better, but this is gonna require a move. My condition is rare. I can't find any studies or anybody talking about bud helping them. Will a doctor believe me in another state? I'm only 20 so I guess I can't do it recreationaly. But I swear to you guys, this is chronic pain if chronic pain ever existed. Anyway, I'm just looking for help/advice about how I can make this happen. I can't talk to my parents about it because I got treated like a criminal when they found out I smoked. My mom threatened to call the cops all the time. My dad practically disowned me at one point. So I came to the best, chillest place for bud info. Thanks everybody. TL;DR - Developed an awful rare condition when I was younger that stopped me from eating. Lived a shit painful childhood. Started smoking bud at 17 and life got way better. 95% sure it's what got me better but I can't be sure because there hasn't been any research. Had to stop smoking for a really good job. Now my condition is coming back hard and I need to know if what I've got will qualify me for medical cannabis or who I can talk to that will know.

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t3_35l0a1

Hey everybody, Wherever you are, good morning or good afternoon. I hope you're all having a kick ass day. Thanks for reading my post. My name is Jacob and I want to give you a little background on me. Not really looking for attention just trying to explain where I'm coming from. When I was 12 years old I would temporarily lose the ability to eat. It would come and go in periods where I just couldn't make myself swallow. My parents thought I was crazy and it took them a while to take me to the doctor. Well I went, and they had no idea what it was. I went to many doctors. I was put on liquid diets for months and months. Eventually they decided I would need an endoscopy. Which is where they put you to sleep and put a camera down your throat and look into your esophagus. I didn't much understand the results then but they concluded that my esophagus happened to be a third of the width of the average person. So even when I could eat, a lot of the time the food would get stuck in my chest. Guys I've done some crazy shit in my time and gotten pretty hurt doing some stuff. But when the food gets stuck it hurts so fucking bad that I can't do anything. I start to drool, breathing gets hard, and it's incredible incredible pain. So I continued to go to the doctor for years. It took them a long time to get a diagnosis. Lots and lots of endoscopies. I missed school all the time because I was in the hospital so much. They told me it was EE.(eosinophilic esophagitis) Basically allergies affect my eosinphil count causing the muscle in my esophagus to contract and get smaller. I'm allergic to quite a bit of stuff. And still now, 8 years later. I don't have an exact cause. They've tried to diagnose me with other conditions and lots of doctors have gone back and forth on what I really have. I started having to get these risky procedures done where they would essentially put a balloon in my esophagus and fill it up with air every couple weeks to try and expand it to normal. One time when I was about 16 the balloon got a little too big. It tore my esophagus . From what they told me I started bleeding pretty bad and I had to get somebody else's blood pumped in me to fight it off. I stopped getting the procedures after that. It got to the point when I was younger that I couldn't even finish a meal because food would get stuck and I'd have to make myself throw up to get it out. Every single meal. I lost a lot of weight. I was crazy skinny. I got made of for being skinny all the time. Bullied real bad in middle school and I know in high school I pushed a lot of people I cared about away just from all the stress. Fast Forward 5 years - I'm 17. I'm taking my first gravity bong hits in my parents garage with my best friends. I like it a lot. I start smoking regularly. Bud helped with other stuff. But I woke up one morning and realized food wasn't getting stuck anymore. I wasn't spending a couple hours every day in the bathroom. It just wasn't happening. EE just doesn't go away guys. They haven't found a cure. And I'm not 100% cannabis is the cure but I'm really positive that food stopped getting stuck in my chest 95% of the time and it's been the only real change in my life. Fast forward 2 1/2 years. - I'm 20 now. I live on my own. I work a job for the railroad I could easily make a career. I make good money and I have a good living. But I can't smoke anymore. My company drug tests. And the problems are coming back. Food is starting to get stuck again. I don't even want to go out with friends or girls because how can I make an excuse to sit in the bathroom for 30 minutes during a lunch/dinner date? The pain is coming back. Today I'm doing a little better. The symptoms aren't fully back. I've gained a bunch of weight back, I'm living a healthy life. But I can't live with getting my condition all the back. I can't go back to how things were. My eyes are watering and I'm trying not to scream. It feels like somebody shot me in the chest every single time and my only saving grace is illegal in my state for medical or recreational reasons. I really want to get better, but this is gonna require a move. My condition is rare. I can't find any studies or anybody talking about bud helping them. Will a doctor believe me in another state? I'm only 20 so I guess I can't do it recreationaly. But I swear to you guys, this is chronic pain if chronic pain ever existed. Anyway, I'm just looking for help/advice about how I can make this happen. I can't talk to my parents about it because I got treated like a criminal when they found out I smoked. My mom threatened to call the cops all the time. My dad practically disowned me at one point. So I came to the best, chillest place for bud info. Thanks everybody.

Developed an awful rare condition when I was younger that stopped me from eating. Lived a shit painful childhood. Started smoking bud at 17 and life got way better. 95% sure it's what got me better but I can't be sure because there hasn't been any research. Had to stop smoking for a really good job. Now my condition is coming back hard and I need to know if what I've got will qualify me for medical cannabis or who I can talk to that will know.

SonOfObed89

I have noticed that people are getting more lazy by the day. **TL;DR** *Life's short*

I have noticed that people are getting more lazy by the day. TL;DR Life's short

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I have noticed that people are getting more lazy by the day.

Life's short

wdwthrowaway

Hey r/relationships. I'm not one to make posts like this, but I need some people to talk to. So here's the deal. I go to school in the midwest and am a 4th year undergrad. I'm finishing school in December but coming back to walk in June. I've been offered my dream internship with my dream company in Florida (maybe my throwaway username can give you a hint). This is probably one of the most exciting things to happen to me, but I'm having some serious issues. First of all, I didn't go away for college. I go to school about 20 minutes away from my house. I've always had the idea instilled in me that family is most important and it's important to be close to them. I love my parents and sister and never even wanted to move away, so getting into my top school in my hometown was pretty great. I'm really worried about not having my family, my support system, close to me. They've always been there for me when I have rough times at school or with my boyfriend, and no I won't have them near me. Next, I have only been in 2 long relationships in my life. I definitely get too emotional and attached and am not one to like being single and want to date or sleep with many people or things like that. Attachment and love are really important to me and I like being in a relationship and caring for someone and being cared for as well. My current boyfriend and I started dating during February of my first year of school, so we've been together almost 3 years. Things have not been easy, we're pretty incompatible (especially when considering our long term goals), but we have grown so much together and have gotten along incredibly well, especially recently. I love him so much (what I often feel is too much, compared to how I feel he feels about me). One problem of mine is that I become entirely too dependent on my SO when I'm in a relationship. I've never really gotten along with/enjoyed hanging out with girls that much, so I don't have many friends to talk to about this, which makes everything even harder. My bf and I talked about this a few nights ago and decided mutually that once I leave, we should end things. Our long term plans aren't compatible and we want different things. I'll be in Florida and he wants to go to grad school in California. Besides that, he told me that he never pictured himself entering grad school with a girlfriend anyway. So I guess I was never part of his long-term picture (which absolutely sucks to hear when you love someone so much), even though he keeps telling me he still loves me very much and that this will be very difficult for him too. I guess I just don't really know how to cope. Not only will I be away from my family for the first time, starting a job in a brand new city, I'll be losing my best friend and the person I love most. I always sort of knew this would happen, but now that it is, I am having a lot of trouble. I guess I've always had this fantasy that we'd end up happily ever after despite our differences. Honestly, he's difficult to deal with sometimes and I've handled him well. Part of me is worried that he'll be alone and won't end up happy because I don't think many girls will have as much patience with him as I have. I just can't imagine not texting him good morning or talking to him about my day. I don't know who I'll be able to talk to or who will be there to make me feel loved. Anyway, I don't really know what sort of help or advice I'm actually looking for, I just want someone to help me process this or let me talk at them. P.S. One positive thing is that I'll be bringing my dog with me to Florida, so I won't be completely alone. If I didn't have her, I'm pretty sure I'd go crazy. ---- TL;DR: Moving away from family for first time and also mutually breaking up with boyfriend. Worried about feeling alone and sad and just need general advice.

Hey r/relationships. I'm not one to make posts like this, but I need some people to talk to. So here's the deal. I go to school in the midwest and am a 4th year undergrad. I'm finishing school in December but coming back to walk in June. I've been offered my dream internship with my dream company in Florida (maybe my throwaway username can give you a hint). This is probably one of the most exciting things to happen to me, but I'm having some serious issues. First of all, I didn't go away for college. I go to school about 20 minutes away from my house. I've always had the idea instilled in me that family is most important and it's important to be close to them. I love my parents and sister and never even wanted to move away, so getting into my top school in my hometown was pretty great. I'm really worried about not having my family, my support system, close to me. They've always been there for me when I have rough times at school or with my boyfriend, and no I won't have them near me. Next, I have only been in 2 long relationships in my life. I definitely get too emotional and attached and am not one to like being single and want to date or sleep with many people or things like that. Attachment and love are really important to me and I like being in a relationship and caring for someone and being cared for as well. My current boyfriend and I started dating during February of my first year of school, so we've been together almost 3 years. Things have not been easy, we're pretty incompatible (especially when considering our long term goals), but we have grown so much together and have gotten along incredibly well, especially recently. I love him so much (what I often feel is too much, compared to how I feel he feels about me). One problem of mine is that I become entirely too dependent on my SO when I'm in a relationship. I've never really gotten along with/enjoyed hanging out with girls that much, so I don't have many friends to talk to about this, which makes everything even harder. My bf and I talked about this a few nights ago and decided mutually that once I leave, we should end things. Our long term plans aren't compatible and we want different things. I'll be in Florida and he wants to go to grad school in California. Besides that, he told me that he never pictured himself entering grad school with a girlfriend anyway. So I guess I was never part of his long-term picture (which absolutely sucks to hear when you love someone so much), even though he keeps telling me he still loves me very much and that this will be very difficult for him too. I guess I just don't really know how to cope. Not only will I be away from my family for the first time, starting a job in a brand new city, I'll be losing my best friend and the person I love most. I always sort of knew this would happen, but now that it is, I am having a lot of trouble. I guess I've always had this fantasy that we'd end up happily ever after despite our differences. Honestly, he's difficult to deal with sometimes and I've handled him well. Part of me is worried that he'll be alone and won't end up happy because I don't think many girls will have as much patience with him as I have. I just can't imagine not texting him good morning or talking to him about my day. I don't know who I'll be able to talk to or who will be there to make me feel loved. Anyway, I don't really know what sort of help or advice I'm actually looking for, I just want someone to help me process this or let me talk at them. P.S. One positive thing is that I'll be bringing my dog with me to Florida, so I won't be completely alone. If I didn't have her, I'm pretty sure I'd go crazy. TL;DR: Moving away from family for first time and also mutually breaking up with boyfriend. Worried about feeling alone and sad and just need general advice.

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Hey r/relationships. I'm not one to make posts like this, but I need some people to talk to. So here's the deal. I go to school in the midwest and am a 4th year undergrad. I'm finishing school in December but coming back to walk in June. I've been offered my dream internship with my dream company in Florida (maybe my throwaway username can give you a hint). This is probably one of the most exciting things to happen to me, but I'm having some serious issues. First of all, I didn't go away for college. I go to school about 20 minutes away from my house. I've always had the idea instilled in me that family is most important and it's important to be close to them. I love my parents and sister and never even wanted to move away, so getting into my top school in my hometown was pretty great. I'm really worried about not having my family, my support system, close to me. They've always been there for me when I have rough times at school or with my boyfriend, and no I won't have them near me. Next, I have only been in 2 long relationships in my life. I definitely get too emotional and attached and am not one to like being single and want to date or sleep with many people or things like that. Attachment and love are really important to me and I like being in a relationship and caring for someone and being cared for as well. My current boyfriend and I started dating during February of my first year of school, so we've been together almost 3 years. Things have not been easy, we're pretty incompatible (especially when considering our long term goals), but we have grown so much together and have gotten along incredibly well, especially recently. I love him so much (what I often feel is too much, compared to how I feel he feels about me). One problem of mine is that I become entirely too dependent on my SO when I'm in a relationship. I've never really gotten along with/enjoyed hanging out with girls that much, so I don't have many friends to talk to about this, which makes everything even harder. My bf and I talked about this a few nights ago and decided mutually that once I leave, we should end things. Our long term plans aren't compatible and we want different things. I'll be in Florida and he wants to go to grad school in California. Besides that, he told me that he never pictured himself entering grad school with a girlfriend anyway. So I guess I was never part of his long-term picture (which absolutely sucks to hear when you love someone so much), even though he keeps telling me he still loves me very much and that this will be very difficult for him too. I guess I just don't really know how to cope. Not only will I be away from my family for the first time, starting a job in a brand new city, I'll be losing my best friend and the person I love most. I always sort of knew this would happen, but now that it is, I am having a lot of trouble. I guess I've always had this fantasy that we'd end up happily ever after despite our differences. Honestly, he's difficult to deal with sometimes and I've handled him well. Part of me is worried that he'll be alone and won't end up happy because I don't think many girls will have as much patience with him as I have. I just can't imagine not texting him good morning or talking to him about my day. I don't know who I'll be able to talk to or who will be there to make me feel loved. Anyway, I don't really know what sort of help or advice I'm actually looking for, I just want someone to help me process this or let me talk at them. P.S. One positive thing is that I'll be bringing my dog with me to Florida, so I won't be completely alone. If I didn't have her, I'm pretty sure I'd go crazy.

Moving away from family for first time and also mutually breaking up with boyfriend. Worried about feeling alone and sad and just need general advice.

megawhiz

Both are good comments. Analogies are an excellent way to bring out the differences/similarities between 2 things. And the poster really nailed it. Think about it - didn't it become absolutely clear to you upon reading his comment why this is such a BS question? > You don't see a question like this and go "I totally need to make an analogy about John Woo movies to explain this stupid question." There are many different ways to argue a given point. Maybe, you would not have thought of John Woo which is fine, but the original poster appears to be very articulate/movie buff and did a great job in putting his stand forward. The main point is that people totally understood the basis of his argument and John Woo's reference helped push the point through (since he is a popular director and people knows what the commenter was talking about). People will not argue the way you want them to, some are different in a good way and the commenter needs to be respected. You could be cynical and stubborn in thinking that he did this for upvotes but I do not think most people will agree with you. You can continue to maintain your stand; however, I will not argue this further considering how futile and irrelevant this is. tl;dr: Some guy thinks that this excellent comment was posted for upvotes as he cannot understand how the commenter could come up with it naturally (since he himself cannot). Yes, this is as weird and illogical as it sounds.

Both are good comments. Analogies are an excellent way to bring out the differences/similarities between 2 things. And the poster really nailed it. Think about it - didn't it become absolutely clear to you upon reading his comment why this is such a BS question? > You don't see a question like this and go "I totally need to make an analogy about John Woo movies to explain this stupid question." There are many different ways to argue a given point. Maybe, you would not have thought of John Woo which is fine, but the original poster appears to be very articulate/movie buff and did a great job in putting his stand forward. The main point is that people totally understood the basis of his argument and John Woo's reference helped push the point through (since he is a popular director and people knows what the commenter was talking about). People will not argue the way you want them to, some are different in a good way and the commenter needs to be respected. You could be cynical and stubborn in thinking that he did this for upvotes but I do not think most people will agree with you. You can continue to maintain your stand; however, I will not argue this further considering how futile and irrelevant this is. tl;dr: Some guy thinks that this excellent comment was posted for upvotes as he cannot understand how the commenter could come up with it naturally (since he himself cannot). Yes, this is as weird and illogical as it sounds.

AskReddit

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Both are good comments. Analogies are an excellent way to bring out the differences/similarities between 2 things. And the poster really nailed it. Think about it - didn't it become absolutely clear to you upon reading his comment why this is such a BS question? > You don't see a question like this and go "I totally need to make an analogy about John Woo movies to explain this stupid question." There are many different ways to argue a given point. Maybe, you would not have thought of John Woo which is fine, but the original poster appears to be very articulate/movie buff and did a great job in putting his stand forward. The main point is that people totally understood the basis of his argument and John Woo's reference helped push the point through (since he is a popular director and people knows what the commenter was talking about). People will not argue the way you want them to, some are different in a good way and the commenter needs to be respected. You could be cynical and stubborn in thinking that he did this for upvotes but I do not think most people will agree with you. You can continue to maintain your stand; however, I will not argue this further considering how futile and irrelevant this is.

Some guy thinks that this excellent comment was posted for upvotes as he cannot understand how the commenter could come up with it naturally (since he himself cannot). Yes, this is as weird and illogical as it sounds.

DankasaurusRX

I'm an idiot, I was trying to redeem it in the wrong area. You have to press the xbox guide button, then go to marketplace, then down to redeem. You Cannot do it in game from the "store" tab (like I was trying to do. The only thing you can redeem there if the VIP code.) tldr: I'm dumb, my code works.

I'm an idiot, I was trying to redeem it in the wrong area. You have to press the xbox guide button, then go to marketplace, then down to redeem. You Cannot do it in game from the "store" tab (like I was trying to do. The only thing you can redeem there if the VIP code.) tldr: I'm dumb, my code works.

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I'm an idiot, I was trying to redeem it in the wrong area. You have to press the xbox guide button, then go to marketplace, then down to redeem. You Cannot do it in game from the "store" tab (like I was trying to do. The only thing you can redeem there if the VIP code.)

I'm dumb, my code works.

azrhei

Thank you. I think the big thing that concerned me was they were/are promising a game of such scale that (in my mind) it would rival a AAA title, but $7.5Mil doesn't hire the staff for 2+ years to deliver AAA. The piece I was missing is that the donation campaign was just to prove market demand to more conventional investors. The more I read about the Bengal, I think it is going to be either the most amazing experience in 25 years of gaming - like better than killing The Sleeper in EQ1* - or it will be an overwhelming disappointment. I sincerely hope it is the former. *For those not familiar with the Sleeper kill in EQ: *On November 15, 2003, on the Rallos Zek PvP server, the three top guilds (Ascending Dawn, Wudan, and Magus Imperialis Magicus) assembled over 180 players with the intent to wake and kill The Sleeper. This was in response to an attempt to wake The Sleeper by an Iksar monk named Stynkfyst, who partnered with the largest random-pk guild of the time. Having been a former member of uber-guild Ascending Dawn, he had the knowledge the random pk guild needed to wake The Sleeper. The top guilds did not assemble their forces until word of Stynkfyst’s intentions had spread, and it became clear that he intended to wake The Sleeper, forever preventing future guilds from farming the old loot table. Until this point, waking The Sleeper had not been seriously considered by any guilds, as it was believed that waking The Sleeper would make the offending guild’s players kill-on-sight to the other guilds of the server. After 3 hours and 15 minutes, at 26% health, Kerafyrm disappeared (despawned). The players talked with the EverQuest Game Masters, and there was a general consensus that a bug had caused the problem, although some suggested (backed by statements from one GM) that higher-ups at SOE had purposely despawned Kerafyrm, because it was not intended to be part of the story. The following day, the players logged in to find that Kerafyrm was back in his “sleeping” state, ready to be triggered again. There was also an apology on the official EverQuest forums from SOE, explaining that they had stopped the encounter because they feared the players were engaging the boss in an unintended manner. Although annoyed (the players pointed out that the reasons SOE gave could not have occurred, and felt lied to), they attempted to battle Kerafyrm once again. On November 17, 2003, after a nearly 3-hour battle, Kerafyrm was defeated. He had between 100 million and 400 million hit points, likely around 250 million (most EverQuest bosses have 2 million at most), was immune to all spells except wizard’s manaburn spell and Shadow Knight’s Harm Touch, possessed two death touch abilities (abilities that automatically killed players), and attacked players for 6999 damage per swing. By using the cleric’s epic weapon and other resurrection spells, the players were able to bring their dead characters back into the battle faster than Kerafyrm could kill them all.* TL;DR: 180 people worked in concert for 3 hours straight to kill something that was supposed to be unkillable and ended up having over 100 times the hitpoints of the strongest (2Mil Hps) bosses in the game.

Thank you. I think the big thing that concerned me was they were/are promising a game of such scale that (in my mind) it would rival a AAA title, but $7.5Mil doesn't hire the staff for 2+ years to deliver AAA. The piece I was missing is that the donation campaign was just to prove market demand to more conventional investors. The more I read about the Bengal, I think it is going to be either the most amazing experience in 25 years of gaming - like better than killing The Sleeper in EQ1* - or it will be an overwhelming disappointment. I sincerely hope it is the former. *For those not familiar with the Sleeper kill in EQ: On November 15, 2003, on the Rallos Zek PvP server, the three top guilds (Ascending Dawn, Wudan, and Magus Imperialis Magicus) assembled over 180 players with the intent to wake and kill The Sleeper. This was in response to an attempt to wake The Sleeper by an Iksar monk named Stynkfyst, who partnered with the largest random-pk guild of the time. Having been a former member of uber-guild Ascending Dawn, he had the knowledge the random pk guild needed to wake The Sleeper. The top guilds did not assemble their forces until word of Stynkfyst’s intentions had spread, and it became clear that he intended to wake The Sleeper, forever preventing future guilds from farming the old loot table. Until this point, waking The Sleeper had not been seriously considered by any guilds, as it was believed that waking The Sleeper would make the offending guild’s players kill-on-sight to the other guilds of the server. After 3 hours and 15 minutes, at 26% health, Kerafyrm disappeared (despawned). The players talked with the EverQuest Game Masters, and there was a general consensus that a bug had caused the problem, although some suggested (backed by statements from one GM) that higher-ups at SOE had purposely despawned Kerafyrm, because it was not intended to be part of the story. The following day, the players logged in to find that Kerafyrm was back in his “sleeping” state, ready to be triggered again. There was also an apology on the official EverQuest forums from SOE, explaining that they had stopped the encounter because they feared the players were engaging the boss in an unintended manner. Although annoyed (the players pointed out that the reasons SOE gave could not have occurred, and felt lied to), they attempted to battle Kerafyrm once again. On November 17, 2003, after a nearly 3-hour battle, Kerafyrm was defeated. He had between 100 million and 400 million hit points, likely around 250 million (most EverQuest bosses have 2 million at most), was immune to all spells except wizard’s manaburn spell and Shadow Knight’s Harm Touch, possessed two death touch abilities (abilities that automatically killed players), and attacked players for 6999 damage per swing. By using the cleric’s epic weapon and other resurrection spells, the players were able to bring their dead characters back into the battle faster than Kerafyrm could kill them all. TL;DR: 180 people worked in concert for 3 hours straight to kill something that was supposed to be unkillable and ended up having over 100 times the hitpoints of the strongest (2Mil Hps) bosses in the game.

starcitizen

t5_2v94d

c85fg69

Thank you. I think the big thing that concerned me was they were/are promising a game of such scale that (in my mind) it would rival a AAA title, but $7.5Mil doesn't hire the staff for 2+ years to deliver AAA. The piece I was missing is that the donation campaign was just to prove market demand to more conventional investors. The more I read about the Bengal, I think it is going to be either the most amazing experience in 25 years of gaming - like better than killing The Sleeper in EQ1* - or it will be an overwhelming disappointment. I sincerely hope it is the former. *For those not familiar with the Sleeper kill in EQ: On November 15, 2003, on the Rallos Zek PvP server, the three top guilds (Ascending Dawn, Wudan, and Magus Imperialis Magicus) assembled over 180 players with the intent to wake and kill The Sleeper. This was in response to an attempt to wake The Sleeper by an Iksar monk named Stynkfyst, who partnered with the largest random-pk guild of the time. Having been a former member of uber-guild Ascending Dawn, he had the knowledge the random pk guild needed to wake The Sleeper. The top guilds did not assemble their forces until word of Stynkfyst’s intentions had spread, and it became clear that he intended to wake The Sleeper, forever preventing future guilds from farming the old loot table. Until this point, waking The Sleeper had not been seriously considered by any guilds, as it was believed that waking The Sleeper would make the offending guild’s players kill-on-sight to the other guilds of the server. After 3 hours and 15 minutes, at 26% health, Kerafyrm disappeared (despawned). The players talked with the EverQuest Game Masters, and there was a general consensus that a bug had caused the problem, although some suggested (backed by statements from one GM) that higher-ups at SOE had purposely despawned Kerafyrm, because it was not intended to be part of the story. The following day, the players logged in to find that Kerafyrm was back in his “sleeping” state, ready to be triggered again. There was also an apology on the official EverQuest forums from SOE, explaining that they had stopped the encounter because they feared the players were engaging the boss in an unintended manner. Although annoyed (the players pointed out that the reasons SOE gave could not have occurred, and felt lied to), they attempted to battle Kerafyrm once again. On November 17, 2003, after a nearly 3-hour battle, Kerafyrm was defeated. He had between 100 million and 400 million hit points, likely around 250 million (most EverQuest bosses have 2 million at most), was immune to all spells except wizard’s manaburn spell and Shadow Knight’s Harm Touch, possessed two death touch abilities (abilities that automatically killed players), and attacked players for 6999 damage per swing. By using the cleric’s epic weapon and other resurrection spells, the players were able to bring their dead characters back into the battle faster than Kerafyrm could kill them all.

180 people worked in concert for 3 hours straight to kill something that was supposed to be unkillable and ended up having over 100 times the hitpoints of the strongest (2Mil Hps) bosses in the game.

nkorner77

In statistics, there is a rule that voluntary response surveys, such as calling into a radio station or going to a website to vote on something, are completely illegitimate means of sampling the population. The reason for this is that the only people that will respond are people that feel strongly about the subject (i.e. Nobody calls in about gun control saying "I think it's okay as is." Most often they will call with a strong stance one way or the other). In this new patch, you can review the quality of your match connection with a survey in the upper right hand corner on a 1 to 5 star scale and write a brief review of the game connection. Where I see a problem with this method of surveying is people may only use the feedback system if they suffer laggy or disconnecting games, at which point they will rate 1/5 and "Oh my god unplayable, gg servers, more like low-rez lulz." Not nearly as many people will use the feedback system to say 4/5 "Ping fluctuated slightly throughout the match, and one teammate experienced isolated lag spikes, overall very playable, but not perfect." The responsibility to make this feedback system helpful for Hi-Rez falls to the community. Be sure to comment on the state of the servers in most of your matches, or at least give a star rating of the connection. In doing so, Hi-Rez gets better feedback and can make improvements more efficiently, AND they won't have to shuffle through report after report of "Ermahgerd ur survers r trash gg" TL;DR - Use the connection feedback system more often, it gives Hi-Rez a better idea of how their servers are doing and makes the survey more legitimate.

In statistics, there is a rule that voluntary response surveys, such as calling into a radio station or going to a website to vote on something, are completely illegitimate means of sampling the population. The reason for this is that the only people that will respond are people that feel strongly about the subject (i.e. Nobody calls in about gun control saying "I think it's okay as is." Most often they will call with a strong stance one way or the other). In this new patch, you can review the quality of your match connection with a survey in the upper right hand corner on a 1 to 5 star scale and write a brief review of the game connection. Where I see a problem with this method of surveying is people may only use the feedback system if they suffer laggy or disconnecting games, at which point they will rate 1/5 and "Oh my god unplayable, gg servers, more like low-rez lulz." Not nearly as many people will use the feedback system to say 4/5 "Ping fluctuated slightly throughout the match, and one teammate experienced isolated lag spikes, overall very playable, but not perfect." The responsibility to make this feedback system helpful for Hi-Rez falls to the community. Be sure to comment on the state of the servers in most of your matches, or at least give a star rating of the connection. In doing so, Hi-Rez gets better feedback and can make improvements more efficiently, AND they won't have to shuffle through report after report of "Ermahgerd ur survers r trash gg" TL;DR - Use the connection feedback system more often, it gives Hi-Rez a better idea of how their servers are doing and makes the survey more legitimate.

Smite

t5_2stl8

t3_2muf9e

In statistics, there is a rule that voluntary response surveys, such as calling into a radio station or going to a website to vote on something, are completely illegitimate means of sampling the population. The reason for this is that the only people that will respond are people that feel strongly about the subject (i.e. Nobody calls in about gun control saying "I think it's okay as is." Most often they will call with a strong stance one way or the other). In this new patch, you can review the quality of your match connection with a survey in the upper right hand corner on a 1 to 5 star scale and write a brief review of the game connection. Where I see a problem with this method of surveying is people may only use the feedback system if they suffer laggy or disconnecting games, at which point they will rate 1/5 and "Oh my god unplayable, gg servers, more like low-rez lulz." Not nearly as many people will use the feedback system to say 4/5 "Ping fluctuated slightly throughout the match, and one teammate experienced isolated lag spikes, overall very playable, but not perfect." The responsibility to make this feedback system helpful for Hi-Rez falls to the community. Be sure to comment on the state of the servers in most of your matches, or at least give a star rating of the connection. In doing so, Hi-Rez gets better feedback and can make improvements more efficiently, AND they won't have to shuffle through report after report of "Ermahgerd ur survers r trash gg"

Use the connection feedback system more often, it gives Hi-Rez a better idea of how their servers are doing and makes the survey more legitimate.

chriswu

In Amish country, police will arrest people who just pass out in their buggy and let their horses take them home. Apparently it's unsafe to just let a buggy roll around uncontrolled through the streets. Makes sense. TLDR: Being arrested for drunk horse and buggy driving is a thing.

In Amish country, police will arrest people who just pass out in their buggy and let their horses take them home. Apparently it's unsafe to just let a buggy roll around uncontrolled through the streets. Makes sense. TLDR: Being arrested for drunk horse and buggy driving is a thing.

AskReddit

t5_2qh1i

c1jkhwa

In Amish country, police will arrest people who just pass out in their buggy and let their horses take them home. Apparently it's unsafe to just let a buggy roll around uncontrolled through the streets. Makes sense.

Being arrested for drunk horse and buggy driving is a thing.

[deleted]

I'm not sure where to post this so I'll just start here. So I've been on the pill for about a year due to irregular periods and decided to stop to see if it has changed anything. Right after getting my period for the last time on the pill , I had protected sex twice (the day after my period ended). If I were to have a 28 day cycle, like I was on the pill, I should have gotten my period on Tuesday. It is now Friday and still nothing. Also, for the past few days I've had a large amount of sticky and very stretchy vaginal discharge. What is all this? TLDR: No period yet and sticky/stretchy discharge. What is this?

I'm not sure where to post this so I'll just start here. So I've been on the pill for about a year due to irregular periods and decided to stop to see if it has changed anything. Right after getting my period for the last time on the pill , I had protected sex twice (the day after my period ended). If I were to have a 28 day cycle, like I was on the pill, I should have gotten my period on Tuesday. It is now Friday and still nothing. Also, for the past few days I've had a large amount of sticky and very stretchy vaginal discharge. What is all this? TLDR: No period yet and sticky/stretchy discharge. What is this?

Health

t5_2qh9z

t3_1invxv

I'm not sure where to post this so I'll just start here. So I've been on the pill for about a year due to irregular periods and decided to stop to see if it has changed anything. Right after getting my period for the last time on the pill , I had protected sex twice (the day after my period ended). If I were to have a 28 day cycle, like I was on the pill, I should have gotten my period on Tuesday. It is now Friday and still nothing. Also, for the past few days I've had a large amount of sticky and very stretchy vaginal discharge. What is all this?

No period yet and sticky/stretchy discharge. What is this?

DNMWeedReviewer

___________ General Information| Details ---|--- `Vendor requires FE?`| No `Price before shipping:`| $50 `Shipping cost`:| Free `Vendor Name:` | NotThePoppa `Marketplace:` | Nucleus `Products reviewed:` | Sample Pack `International Shipping?` | No `Pictures:` | | | Customer Service|Description ---|--- `[X]+5`|Superb - Polite, prompt, ensures satisfaction `[ ]+4`|Good - Professional, exhibits customer care `[ ]+3`|Satisfactory - Adequate responses, resolved issue `[ ]+2`|Marginal - Subpar communication, partial resolution `[ ]+1`|Bad - Poor communication, no resolution `[ ]+0`|Awful - Abusive responses, no resolution | | Product Quality|Description ---|--- `[X]+5`|Highest purity - highly potent `[ ]+4`|Mostly pure - potent `[ ]+3`|Minor cut or impurity - strong `[ ]+2`|Cut and/or impure - medium to weak `[ ]+1`|Almost entirely cut - very weak `[ ]+0`|Possibly bunk - no effect | | Processing:|Description ---|--- `[X]+5`|Processed & marked shipped in 24hrs `[ ]+4`|Processed & marked shipped in 48 hrs `[ ]+3`|Processed & marked shipped in 72 hrs `[ ]+2`|Package is late `[ ]+1`|Package is very late `[ ]+0`|Never received package | | Price Value|Description ---|--- `[X]+5`|Excellent - great value & low cost `[ ]+4`|Moderate - worthy value & fair cost `[ ]+3`|At-market - neither good nor bad `[ ]+2`|Below-market - so-so value, high cost `[ ]+1`|Exorbitant - low value, excessive cost `[ ]+0`|Rip-off - little-to-no value, unjustified cost | | OPSEC/Logistics | Description ---|--- `[X]+1`|Single (but effecive) Vacuum-Seal `[ ]+2`|Multiple Layer Vacuum-Seal `[X]+1`|Mylar and Visual Barrier `[ ]+1`|Decoy Utilized `[ ]+1`|Proper NETSEC/PGP | **TOTAL:** `92%`/ `100%` ------------ | __________ **Summary/Narrative:** This vendor was really nice to deal with, and hooked me up fat. He sent me about 7g's of assorted strains, lollipops, and some wax. _______ **tl;dr** - Just Hit This Man Up. Good God.

General Information Details Vendor requires FE? No Price before shipping: $50 Shipping cost : Free Vendor Name: NotThePoppa Marketplace: Nucleus Products reviewed: Sample Pack International Shipping? No Pictures: | | Customer Service Description [X]+5 Superb - Polite, prompt, ensures satisfaction [ ]+4 Good - Professional, exhibits customer care [ ]+3 Satisfactory - Adequate responses, resolved issue [ ]+2 Marginal - Subpar communication, partial resolution [ ]+1 Bad - Poor communication, no resolution [ ]+0 Awful - Abusive responses, no resolution | | Product Quality Description [X]+5 Highest purity - highly potent [ ]+4 Mostly pure - potent [ ]+3 Minor cut or impurity - strong [ ]+2 Cut and/or impure - medium to weak [ ]+1 Almost entirely cut - very weak [ ]+0 Possibly bunk - no effect | | Processing: Description [X]+5 Processed & marked shipped in 24hrs [ ]+4 Processed & marked shipped in 48 hrs [ ]+3 Processed & marked shipped in 72 hrs [ ]+2 Package is late [ ]+1 Package is very late [ ]+0 Never received package | | Price Value Description [X]+5 Excellent - great value & low cost [ ]+4 Moderate - worthy value & fair cost [ ]+3 At-market - neither good nor bad [ ]+2 Below-market - so-so value, high cost [ ]+1 Exorbitant - low value, excessive cost [ ]+0 Rip-off - little-to-no value, unjustified cost | | OPSEC/Logistics Description [X]+1 Single (but effecive) Vacuum-Seal [ ]+2 Multiple Layer Vacuum-Seal [X]+1 Mylar and Visual Barrier [ ]+1 Decoy Utilized [ ]+1 Proper NETSEC/PGP | TOTAL: 92% / 100% | Summary/Narrative: This vendor was really nice to deal with, and hooked me up fat. He sent me about 7g's of assorted strains, lollipops, and some wax. tl;dr - Just Hit This Man Up. Good God.

DankNation

t5_39mmb

t3_490n58

General Information Details Vendor requires FE? No Price before shipping: $50 Shipping cost : Free Vendor Name: NotThePoppa Marketplace: Nucleus Products reviewed: Sample Pack International Shipping? No Pictures: | | Customer Service Description [X]+5 Superb - Polite, prompt, ensures satisfaction [ ]+4 Good - Professional, exhibits customer care [ ]+3 Satisfactory - Adequate responses, resolved issue [ ]+2 Marginal - Subpar communication, partial resolution [ ]+1 Bad - Poor communication, no resolution [ ]+0 Awful - Abusive responses, no resolution | | Product Quality Description [X]+5 Highest purity - highly potent [ ]+4 Mostly pure - potent [ ]+3 Minor cut or impurity - strong [ ]+2 Cut and/or impure - medium to weak [ ]+1 Almost entirely cut - very weak [ ]+0 Possibly bunk - no effect | | Processing: Description [X]+5 Processed & marked shipped in 24hrs [ ]+4 Processed & marked shipped in 48 hrs [ ]+3 Processed & marked shipped in 72 hrs [ ]+2 Package is late [ ]+1 Package is very late [ ]+0 Never received package | | Price Value Description [X]+5 Excellent - great value & low cost [ ]+4 Moderate - worthy value & fair cost [ ]+3 At-market - neither good nor bad [ ]+2 Below-market - so-so value, high cost [ ]+1 Exorbitant - low value, excessive cost [ ]+0 Rip-off - little-to-no value, unjustified cost | | OPSEC/Logistics Description [X]+1 Single (but effecive) Vacuum-Seal [ ]+2 Multiple Layer Vacuum-Seal [X]+1 Mylar and Visual Barrier [ ]+1 Decoy Utilized [ ]+1 Proper NETSEC/PGP | TOTAL: 92% / 100% | Summary/Narrative: This vendor was really nice to deal with, and hooked me up fat. He sent me about 7g's of assorted strains, lollipops, and some wax.

Just Hit This Man Up. Good God.

BaconMasherz

Too lazy, TL;DR please.

Too lazy, TL;DR please.

AdviceAnimals

t5_2s7tt

c7oj5r6

Too lazy,

please.

[deleted]

20/F here. The guy is 26; not sure about his girlfriend (she's probably like 23). This guy and I had gotten pretty close for a few months. It was to the point where we would see each other every day, I would sleepover, etc. He mentioned us being an official couple a few times, but I had just gotten out of a long relationship, so he said he wanted to give me some time. I thought things were hitting off well. I decided to tell him how much I liked him. A few days later, he told me that we probably shouldn't date because "*if we dated, something bad is bound to happen between us... and I wouldn't want to lose a good friend*". To me, that sounded like bullshit. But whatever. I was friend-zoned. moved on. It was probably about a couple weeks after he friend-zoned me that he got a girlfriend. We all worked together, so I would see them hold hands, kiss, and whatnot. I was internally bitter for a while, but then realized "*hey, I guess it wasn't meant to be*". Since he got a girlfriend, he and I stopped hanging out. No more late nights of DnD, guitar sessions, or movie outings. One day at work, he told me that he told his girlfriend about how we used to be close. I guess that was when this all started. She said since then, she hated when we talked. He also told me that she was jealous of me because he and I were perfect for each other. I didn't think much of it, seeing as how we rarely saw one another. I told him to assure her I had no plans of perusing him. I quit the job and started doing my own thing. Not working together meant that I literally never saw him. We text casually, but that's about it (we've been preparing for a convention coming up soon, so we talk about costume ideas and whatnot). This morning, I woke up to a text that said, "My girlfriend just asked me not to be your friend anymore, so I'm probably about to be single". It seemed so sudden to me. I have maybe said 3 words to the girl. She's cute and I have no grudges against her. He asked me if I had confronted her or said anything rude. I told him the truth, which was I didn't talk to her. I don't even have her on Facebook. I'm not a vengeful person. Right now, my gut tells me to try and distance myself from this situation to prevent any more conflict. But that would mean losing a friend, which I don't think is fair. I'm a nerd; I have guy friends. Am I doing the right thing by staying out of this? Or should I try to intervene? Do I just need to let them sort this out on their own? **TL;DR** - This guy and I used to be really close, but weren't officially dating. He friendzoned me. I moved on. He then got a girlfriend. She told him to stop being friends with me. Apparently they're fighting over this. wat do **EDIT** - I thank everyone for you input! It has really helped out. Back when we would hang out, he told me that he loved drama... so this could be amusing to him. I'm just standing back. He removed me from Facebook and said he would re-add me once he talked to his girl some more. I wish I could tell her I'm not interested in him at all, but again... I really don't want to interfere. Also, to clarify a bit, I was ready for a relationship. I was completely and utterly detached from my ex. I had made sure to distance myself from him slowly while we were still together. This guy was just being courteous and wanted to give me some time. I suppose when that time came, he was no longer interested.

20/F here. The guy is 26; not sure about his girlfriend (she's probably like 23). This guy and I had gotten pretty close for a few months. It was to the point where we would see each other every day, I would sleepover, etc. He mentioned us being an official couple a few times, but I had just gotten out of a long relationship, so he said he wanted to give me some time. I thought things were hitting off well. I decided to tell him how much I liked him. A few days later, he told me that we probably shouldn't date because " if we dated, something bad is bound to happen between us... and I wouldn't want to lose a good friend ". To me, that sounded like bullshit. But whatever. I was friend-zoned. moved on. It was probably about a couple weeks after he friend-zoned me that he got a girlfriend. We all worked together, so I would see them hold hands, kiss, and whatnot. I was internally bitter for a while, but then realized " hey, I guess it wasn't meant to be ". Since he got a girlfriend, he and I stopped hanging out. No more late nights of DnD, guitar sessions, or movie outings. One day at work, he told me that he told his girlfriend about how we used to be close. I guess that was when this all started. She said since then, she hated when we talked. He also told me that she was jealous of me because he and I were perfect for each other. I didn't think much of it, seeing as how we rarely saw one another. I told him to assure her I had no plans of perusing him. I quit the job and started doing my own thing. Not working together meant that I literally never saw him. We text casually, but that's about it (we've been preparing for a convention coming up soon, so we talk about costume ideas and whatnot). This morning, I woke up to a text that said, "My girlfriend just asked me not to be your friend anymore, so I'm probably about to be single". It seemed so sudden to me. I have maybe said 3 words to the girl. She's cute and I have no grudges against her. He asked me if I had confronted her or said anything rude. I told him the truth, which was I didn't talk to her. I don't even have her on Facebook. I'm not a vengeful person. Right now, my gut tells me to try and distance myself from this situation to prevent any more conflict. But that would mean losing a friend, which I don't think is fair. I'm a nerd; I have guy friends. Am I doing the right thing by staying out of this? Or should I try to intervene? Do I just need to let them sort this out on their own? TL;DR - This guy and I used to be really close, but weren't officially dating. He friendzoned me. I moved on. He then got a girlfriend. She told him to stop being friends with me. Apparently they're fighting over this. wat do EDIT - I thank everyone for you input! It has really helped out. Back when we would hang out, he told me that he loved drama... so this could be amusing to him. I'm just standing back. He removed me from Facebook and said he would re-add me once he talked to his girl some more. I wish I could tell her I'm not interested in him at all, but again... I really don't want to interfere. Also, to clarify a bit, I was ready for a relationship. I was completely and utterly detached from my ex. I had made sure to distance myself from him slowly while we were still together. This guy was just being courteous and wanted to give me some time. I suppose when that time came, he was no longer interested.

relationships

t5_2qjvn

t3_mjmrl

20/F here. The guy is 26; not sure about his girlfriend (she's probably like 23). This guy and I had gotten pretty close for a few months. It was to the point where we would see each other every day, I would sleepover, etc. He mentioned us being an official couple a few times, but I had just gotten out of a long relationship, so he said he wanted to give me some time. I thought things were hitting off well. I decided to tell him how much I liked him. A few days later, he told me that we probably shouldn't date because " if we dated, something bad is bound to happen between us... and I wouldn't want to lose a good friend ". To me, that sounded like bullshit. But whatever. I was friend-zoned. moved on. It was probably about a couple weeks after he friend-zoned me that he got a girlfriend. We all worked together, so I would see them hold hands, kiss, and whatnot. I was internally bitter for a while, but then realized " hey, I guess it wasn't meant to be ". Since he got a girlfriend, he and I stopped hanging out. No more late nights of DnD, guitar sessions, or movie outings. One day at work, he told me that he told his girlfriend about how we used to be close. I guess that was when this all started. She said since then, she hated when we talked. He also told me that she was jealous of me because he and I were perfect for each other. I didn't think much of it, seeing as how we rarely saw one another. I told him to assure her I had no plans of perusing him. I quit the job and started doing my own thing. Not working together meant that I literally never saw him. We text casually, but that's about it (we've been preparing for a convention coming up soon, so we talk about costume ideas and whatnot). This morning, I woke up to a text that said, "My girlfriend just asked me not to be your friend anymore, so I'm probably about to be single". It seemed so sudden to me. I have maybe said 3 words to the girl. She's cute and I have no grudges against her. He asked me if I had confronted her or said anything rude. I told him the truth, which was I didn't talk to her. I don't even have her on Facebook. I'm not a vengeful person. Right now, my gut tells me to try and distance myself from this situation to prevent any more conflict. But that would mean losing a friend, which I don't think is fair. I'm a nerd; I have guy friends. Am I doing the right thing by staying out of this? Or should I try to intervene? Do I just need to let them sort this out on their own?

This guy and I used to be really close, but weren't officially dating. He friendzoned me. I moved on. He then got a girlfriend. She told him to stop being friends with me. Apparently they're fighting over this. wat do EDIT - I thank everyone for you input! It has really helped out. Back when we would hang out, he told me that he loved drama... so this could be amusing to him. I'm just standing back. He removed me from Facebook and said he would re-add me once he talked to his girl some more. I wish I could tell her I'm not interested in him at all, but again... I really don't want to interfere. Also, to clarify a bit, I was ready for a relationship. I was completely and utterly detached from my ex. I had made sure to distance myself from him slowly while we were still together. This guy was just being courteous and wanted to give me some time. I suppose when that time came, he was no longer interested.

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**I do not need advice on how to get over him, I am doing fine in that department. THIS IS WHAT I NEED HELP WITH: How do I get over how I was a crazy ex?** I never thought I would be one, but here's the batshit crazy things I've done in the past two months: * (first month after break up) probably called and texted 500+ times fighting with him, crying and begging for him to come back to me * (first month) logged onto his facebook, found out he slept with girl, freaked the fuck out * (second month) called and texted probably another 500+ times * (second month) I started taking an antidepressant, and it made me feel suicidal as anything, I called him and left him messages and posted on /r/suicidewatch (this was like only a few days ago) and I've been an emotional mess. so, now i'm not just a stalker, i'm suicidal. * (second month) logged onto his reddit, which had the same password as his facebook, saw all the fucking porn (there was a whole lot) and left him messages freaking the fuck out * (second month) drove around his town when I was drunk because I was at a party that was conveniently located there. left him messages. he freaked the fuck out. * (second month) ordered him a shirt with my paypal when I was wasted I'm done with being so ridiculously crazy, and hurting myself, and making him feel like i'm crazy, and making myself feel like i'm crazy. I literally can't seem more crazy. what the hell can I do to like get back on track, forget about this, deal with knowing he feels i'm crazy as hell, and all of his friends thinking i'm crazy as hell, and to make sure I never do this shit again? I feel like I literally did some irreparable damage to my reputation here. Has anyone else done this and lived to feel okay about themselves? I do not feel okay about this at all. I never saw myself doing anything like this, and can't believe I seriously did anything like this. **TL;DR I have been an Overly Attatched (Ex) Girlfriend and feel really FML about it.** **Edit:** and (thank god) he has changed his passwords. I hope he blocks me on reddit and twitter, and I pray he blocks my number. I know it's ridiculous that it has to be that way, but seriously, that's probably the best bet for both he and I at this moment in time. This was my first real relationship, he took my virginity, we went out for 13 months, we were both 18, and are both now 19. **Edit II:** I'm really done. Not talking to him anymore, and not dwelling on it as much. I am finally starting to have fun and seriously get so excited about the future. I'm also starting to really get myself comfortable with the idea of finding someone new. (there have already been a few guys who have asked me out!) but I really want to wait until I have gotten rid of all of my baggage, my anxiety, and my insecurities. **Edit III:** I go to an anxiety/ocd treatment center and am on antidepressants, I kind of do want to see a therapist on the side. but once again, I am on the upswing and know what to do. Please stop giving me advice on getting over him, that's not what I'm asking. Thank you, though.

I do not need advice on how to get over him, I am doing fine in that department. THIS IS WHAT I NEED HELP WITH: How do I get over how I was a crazy ex? I never thought I would be one, but here's the batshit crazy things I've done in the past two months: (first month after break up) probably called and texted 500+ times fighting with him, crying and begging for him to come back to me (first month) logged onto his facebook, found out he slept with girl, freaked the fuck out (second month) called and texted probably another 500+ times (second month) I started taking an antidepressant, and it made me feel suicidal as anything, I called him and left him messages and posted on /r/suicidewatch (this was like only a few days ago) and I've been an emotional mess. so, now i'm not just a stalker, i'm suicidal. (second month) logged onto his reddit, which had the same password as his facebook, saw all the fucking porn (there was a whole lot) and left him messages freaking the fuck out (second month) drove around his town when I was drunk because I was at a party that was conveniently located there. left him messages. he freaked the fuck out. (second month) ordered him a shirt with my paypal when I was wasted I'm done with being so ridiculously crazy, and hurting myself, and making him feel like i'm crazy, and making myself feel like i'm crazy. I literally can't seem more crazy. what the hell can I do to like get back on track, forget about this, deal with knowing he feels i'm crazy as hell, and all of his friends thinking i'm crazy as hell, and to make sure I never do this shit again? I feel like I literally did some irreparable damage to my reputation here. Has anyone else done this and lived to feel okay about themselves? I do not feel okay about this at all. I never saw myself doing anything like this, and can't believe I seriously did anything like this. TL;DR I have been an Overly Attatched (Ex) Girlfriend and feel really FML about it. Edit: and (thank god) he has changed his passwords. I hope he blocks me on reddit and twitter, and I pray he blocks my number. I know it's ridiculous that it has to be that way, but seriously, that's probably the best bet for both he and I at this moment in time. This was my first real relationship, he took my virginity, we went out for 13 months, we were both 18, and are both now 19. Edit II: I'm really done. Not talking to him anymore, and not dwelling on it as much. I am finally starting to have fun and seriously get so excited about the future. I'm also starting to really get myself comfortable with the idea of finding someone new. (there have already been a few guys who have asked me out!) but I really want to wait until I have gotten rid of all of my baggage, my anxiety, and my insecurities. Edit III: I go to an anxiety/ocd treatment center and am on antidepressants, I kind of do want to see a therapist on the side. but once again, I am on the upswing and know what to do. Please stop giving me advice on getting over him, that's not what I'm asking. Thank you, though.

ihaveissues

t5_2s90u

t3_yifwz

I do not need advice on how to get over him, I am doing fine in that department. THIS IS WHAT I NEED HELP WITH: How do I get over how I was a crazy ex? I never thought I would be one, but here's the batshit crazy things I've done in the past two months: (first month after break up) probably called and texted 500+ times fighting with him, crying and begging for him to come back to me (first month) logged onto his facebook, found out he slept with girl, freaked the fuck out (second month) called and texted probably another 500+ times (second month) I started taking an antidepressant, and it made me feel suicidal as anything, I called him and left him messages and posted on /r/suicidewatch (this was like only a few days ago) and I've been an emotional mess. so, now i'm not just a stalker, i'm suicidal. (second month) logged onto his reddit, which had the same password as his facebook, saw all the fucking porn (there was a whole lot) and left him messages freaking the fuck out (second month) drove around his town when I was drunk because I was at a party that was conveniently located there. left him messages. he freaked the fuck out. (second month) ordered him a shirt with my paypal when I was wasted I'm done with being so ridiculously crazy, and hurting myself, and making him feel like i'm crazy, and making myself feel like i'm crazy. I literally can't seem more crazy. what the hell can I do to like get back on track, forget about this, deal with knowing he feels i'm crazy as hell, and all of his friends thinking i'm crazy as hell, and to make sure I never do this shit again? I feel like I literally did some irreparable damage to my reputation here. Has anyone else done this and lived to feel okay about themselves? I do not feel okay about this at all. I never saw myself doing anything like this, and can't believe I seriously did anything like this.

I have been an Overly Attatched (Ex) Girlfriend and feel really FML about it. Edit: and (thank god) he has changed his passwords. I hope he blocks me on reddit and twitter, and I pray he blocks my number. I know it's ridiculous that it has to be that way, but seriously, that's probably the best bet for both he and I at this moment in time. This was my first real relationship, he took my virginity, we went out for 13 months, we were both 18, and are both now 19. Edit II: I'm really done. Not talking to him anymore, and not dwelling on it as much. I am finally starting to have fun and seriously get so excited about the future. I'm also starting to really get myself comfortable with the idea of finding someone new. (there have already been a few guys who have asked me out!) but I really want to wait until I have gotten rid of all of my baggage, my anxiety, and my insecurities. Edit III: I go to an anxiety/ocd treatment center and am on antidepressants, I kind of do want to see a therapist on the side. but once again, I am on the upswing and know what to do. Please stop giving me advice on getting over him, that's not what I'm asking. Thank you, though.

amicocinghiale

Questo è innegabile su certi argomenti, per altri no: anche se venisse uno da Timbuctù a dirmi "la pontina fa cagare a spruzzo", io direi "eh sì". È un fatto oggettivo e inopinabile, non ci piove. Il fatto che il foresto non può dirmi niente però, ripeto, è un'attitudine esistente sì, ma siamo seri, *in ognuno di noi*. Quello che mi ha urtato di /u/impiegato_statale è stato il "per voi romani" la vostra città ecc. ecc. è intoccabile. Sei stata molto più onesta e obiettiva tu a presentare il fenomeno come universale. Espandendo poi la mia precedente risposta a /u/impiegato_statale, il fatto che noi ci lamentiamo tanto deriva dal fatto che Roma è una città dimensionalmente grande, che attira tanta gente, e che in media ha fisiologicamente più magagne di altri centri urbani. D'altro canto noi romani vogliamo molto bene alla nostra città, anzi un difetto che riconosco stavolto specificatamente in noi è il nostro eccessivo orgoglio, "Roma Caput Mundi" and all that jazz. La mia ragazza (non romana) una volta ci definì fanatici, e lì per lì quasi mi offesi, ma a distanza di tempo, osservando me e miei amici, per certi aspetti riconosco che aveva ragione. Ma nonostante tutto siamo anche [consapevoli]( dei nostri problemi, e se pare che siamo lamentosi, un po' e perché ci teniamo molto alla nostra città, un po' è perché con tanti abitanti si hanno proporzionalmente tanti cazzi. **TL:DR** permalosi lo siamo tutti, lamentosi anche, ma in proporzione ai problemi presenti.

Questo è innegabile su certi argomenti, per altri no: anche se venisse uno da Timbuctù a dirmi "la pontina fa cagare a spruzzo", io direi "eh sì". È un fatto oggettivo e inopinabile, non ci piove. Il fatto che il foresto non può dirmi niente però, ripeto, è un'attitudine esistente sì, ma siamo seri, in ognuno di noi . Quello che mi ha urtato di /u/impiegato_statale è stato il "per voi romani" la vostra città ecc. ecc. è intoccabile. Sei stata molto più onesta e obiettiva tu a presentare il fenomeno come universale. Espandendo poi la mia precedente risposta a /u/impiegato_statale, il fatto che noi ci lamentiamo tanto deriva dal fatto che Roma è una città dimensionalmente grande, che attira tanta gente, e che in media ha fisiologicamente più magagne di altri centri urbani. D'altro canto noi romani vogliamo molto bene alla nostra città, anzi un difetto che riconosco stavolto specificatamente in noi è il nostro eccessivo orgoglio, "Roma Caput Mundi" and all that jazz. La mia ragazza (non romana) una volta ci definì fanatici, e lì per lì quasi mi offesi, ma a distanza di tempo, osservando me e miei amici, per certi aspetti riconosco che aveva ragione. Ma nonostante tutto siamo anche [consapevoli]( dei nostri problemi, e se pare che siamo lamentosi, un po' e perché ci teniamo molto alla nostra città, un po' è perché con tanti abitanti si hanno proporzionalmente tanti cazzi. TL:DR permalosi lo siamo tutti, lamentosi anche, ma in proporzione ai problemi presenti.

italy

t5_2qkhk

citrsyt

Questo è innegabile su certi argomenti, per altri no: anche se venisse uno da Timbuctù a dirmi "la pontina fa cagare a spruzzo", io direi "eh sì". È un fatto oggettivo e inopinabile, non ci piove. Il fatto che il foresto non può dirmi niente però, ripeto, è un'attitudine esistente sì, ma siamo seri, in ognuno di noi . Quello che mi ha urtato di /u/impiegato_statale è stato il "per voi romani" la vostra città ecc. ecc. è intoccabile. Sei stata molto più onesta e obiettiva tu a presentare il fenomeno come universale. Espandendo poi la mia precedente risposta a /u/impiegato_statale, il fatto che noi ci lamentiamo tanto deriva dal fatto che Roma è una città dimensionalmente grande, che attira tanta gente, e che in media ha fisiologicamente più magagne di altri centri urbani. D'altro canto noi romani vogliamo molto bene alla nostra città, anzi un difetto che riconosco stavolto specificatamente in noi è il nostro eccessivo orgoglio, "Roma Caput Mundi" and all that jazz. La mia ragazza (non romana) una volta ci definì fanatici, e lì per lì quasi mi offesi, ma a distanza di tempo, osservando me e miei amici, per certi aspetti riconosco che aveva ragione. Ma nonostante tutto siamo anche [consapevoli]( dei nostri problemi, e se pare che siamo lamentosi, un po' e perché ci teniamo molto alla nostra città, un po' è perché con tanti abitanti si hanno proporzionalmente tanti cazzi.

permalosi lo siamo tutti, lamentosi anche, ma in proporzione ai problemi presenti.

RoseofThorns

I got a MM box for $140, and i'm debating on whether I should open it for value or eBay it for around $250. I've never sold anything on eBay before so i'm not sure how much they'll take out for processing, etc. I can't get any more boxes for this price (the shop owner only let us order a single box per person), and I don't necessarily NEED any of the cards in the box; I have a Modern (Kiki-Pod) and Legacy (37 Lands) deck, so everything I open would go to the binders. I'm a pretty good value trader, so I could probably turn the value of the cards I open into more than what they're worth over a few FNMs. I'm sort of afraid that if I open it, i'll just get 3/5 of the Kamigawa Dragons as mythics, more bulk than not, and i'll just lose money. I've never really been a fan of opening boxes, but I continue to hear quite the winning stories about how almost every box opened so far has yielded a lot of good stuff. TL;DR: Not sure if I should open my MM box that I got for $140 for trade fodder, or do a quick eBay flip. Thanks for any insight!

I got a MM box for $140, and i'm debating on whether I should open it for value or eBay it for around $250. I've never sold anything on eBay before so i'm not sure how much they'll take out for processing, etc. I can't get any more boxes for this price (the shop owner only let us order a single box per person), and I don't necessarily NEED any of the cards in the box; I have a Modern (Kiki-Pod) and Legacy (37 Lands) deck, so everything I open would go to the binders. I'm a pretty good value trader, so I could probably turn the value of the cards I open into more than what they're worth over a few FNMs. I'm sort of afraid that if I open it, i'll just get 3/5 of the Kamigawa Dragons as mythics, more bulk than not, and i'll just lose money. I've never really been a fan of opening boxes, but I continue to hear quite the winning stories about how almost every box opened so far has yielded a lot of good stuff. TL;DR: Not sure if I should open my MM box that I got for $140 for trade fodder, or do a quick eBay flip. Thanks for any insight!

mtgfinance

t5_2vv1m

t3_1fv35v

I got a MM box for $140, and i'm debating on whether I should open it for value or eBay it for around $250. I've never sold anything on eBay before so i'm not sure how much they'll take out for processing, etc. I can't get any more boxes for this price (the shop owner only let us order a single box per person), and I don't necessarily NEED any of the cards in the box; I have a Modern (Kiki-Pod) and Legacy (37 Lands) deck, so everything I open would go to the binders. I'm a pretty good value trader, so I could probably turn the value of the cards I open into more than what they're worth over a few FNMs. I'm sort of afraid that if I open it, i'll just get 3/5 of the Kamigawa Dragons as mythics, more bulk than not, and i'll just lose money. I've never really been a fan of opening boxes, but I continue to hear quite the winning stories about how almost every box opened so far has yielded a lot of good stuff.

Not sure if I should open my MM box that I got for $140 for trade fodder, or do a quick eBay flip. Thanks for any insight!

UroAheri

Wall o' text. I apologize, but I never thought it would come from my own family. I've been trying to change my unhealthy ways. My mom has dropped a ton of weight from decreased appetite. My dad has always been a fitness nut, but lately hasn't been as into it. My brother and I have been really bad at managing our weight, but I feel like we'll over come it, one day. Today, though... My sister had moved out a couple of years ago and is living with her boyfriend. She had always weighed less than me and was always noted for her kickass backside. Recently, she's gained a large amount of weight. She's been looking for everything under the sun to lose weight. She's tried eating nothing but fish and steamed vegetables, cabbage soup cleanse, etc. Ever since I've joined this subreddit, I've started noticing little things she's been doing to sabotage herself. She will come over to our family's house and eat chips with salsa, leftover rice and beans... Basically anything she can get her hands on. It's been like this for a year or two. Today, she mentioned going to the gym and how nothing she is doing is helping her lose weight. So I asked her what did she think the problem was? She immediately said "My thyroid is causing me to gain all of this weight. People gain hundreds of pounds from hypothyroidism and my metabolism is slow." I'm pretty sure my face went "O____O". I recently had a run in with my best friend, who said the exact same thing. I mentioned to her that her thyroid shouldn't have caused about 90lbs of weight gain. I said it was probably her grazing habits. She flipped out on me. "You don't know! I'm on websites that tell me this is how it is!" So I told her that I was, too. She responded, "with real people or scientists?" I am floored. "There is an American Thyroid Association website." At this point, I'm pretty much gritting my teeth and cringing. "Scientists don't know anything, because they don't have it." She, from there, went into a tirade about how "No one who doesn't know what I'm going through could understand" and "You don't have it so how could you understand", "I don't tell you how your problems work, because I don't have them", but this is the kicker: she used to try to police my diabetes when I was younger. Pretty convenient thing to leave out, right? I sat here, speechless, as she tried to change the subject. When she realized I probably wouldn't get over it, she flipped out again and walked to the back room. I'm running out of synnonyms for "SO SHOCKED MY EYEBROWS RIPPED OFF MY FOREHEAD AND HAVE TAKEN RESIDENCE ON TOP OF MY SCALP". I guess this is my first FPS? **TL;DR- My sister has the fatlogic and "cundishunz" that make her defy the laws of physics.**

Wall o' text. I apologize, but I never thought it would come from my own family. I've been trying to change my unhealthy ways. My mom has dropped a ton of weight from decreased appetite. My dad has always been a fitness nut, but lately hasn't been as into it. My brother and I have been really bad at managing our weight, but I feel like we'll over come it, one day. Today, though... My sister had moved out a couple of years ago and is living with her boyfriend. She had always weighed less than me and was always noted for her kickass backside. Recently, she's gained a large amount of weight. She's been looking for everything under the sun to lose weight. She's tried eating nothing but fish and steamed vegetables, cabbage soup cleanse, etc. Ever since I've joined this subreddit, I've started noticing little things she's been doing to sabotage herself. She will come over to our family's house and eat chips with salsa, leftover rice and beans... Basically anything she can get her hands on. It's been like this for a year or two. Today, she mentioned going to the gym and how nothing she is doing is helping her lose weight. So I asked her what did she think the problem was? She immediately said "My thyroid is causing me to gain all of this weight. People gain hundreds of pounds from hypothyroidism and my metabolism is slow." I'm pretty sure my face went "O____O". I recently had a run in with my best friend, who said the exact same thing. I mentioned to her that her thyroid shouldn't have caused about 90lbs of weight gain. I said it was probably her grazing habits. She flipped out on me. "You don't know! I'm on websites that tell me this is how it is!" So I told her that I was, too. She responded, "with real people or scientists?" I am floored. "There is an American Thyroid Association website." At this point, I'm pretty much gritting my teeth and cringing. "Scientists don't know anything, because they don't have it." She, from there, went into a tirade about how "No one who doesn't know what I'm going through could understand" and "You don't have it so how could you understand", "I don't tell you how your problems work, because I don't have them", but this is the kicker: she used to try to police my diabetes when I was younger. Pretty convenient thing to leave out, right? I sat here, speechless, as she tried to change the subject. When she realized I probably wouldn't get over it, she flipped out again and walked to the back room. I'm running out of synnonyms for "SO SHOCKED MY EYEBROWS RIPPED OFF MY FOREHEAD AND HAVE TAKEN RESIDENCE ON TOP OF MY SCALP". I guess this is my first FPS? TL;DR- My sister has the fatlogic and "cundishunz" that make her defy the laws of physics.

fatpeoplestories

t5_2vzax

t3_2371e1

Wall o' text. I apologize, but I never thought it would come from my own family. I've been trying to change my unhealthy ways. My mom has dropped a ton of weight from decreased appetite. My dad has always been a fitness nut, but lately hasn't been as into it. My brother and I have been really bad at managing our weight, but I feel like we'll over come it, one day. Today, though... My sister had moved out a couple of years ago and is living with her boyfriend. She had always weighed less than me and was always noted for her kickass backside. Recently, she's gained a large amount of weight. She's been looking for everything under the sun to lose weight. She's tried eating nothing but fish and steamed vegetables, cabbage soup cleanse, etc. Ever since I've joined this subreddit, I've started noticing little things she's been doing to sabotage herself. She will come over to our family's house and eat chips with salsa, leftover rice and beans... Basically anything she can get her hands on. It's been like this for a year or two. Today, she mentioned going to the gym and how nothing she is doing is helping her lose weight. So I asked her what did she think the problem was? She immediately said "My thyroid is causing me to gain all of this weight. People gain hundreds of pounds from hypothyroidism and my metabolism is slow." I'm pretty sure my face went "O____O". I recently had a run in with my best friend, who said the exact same thing. I mentioned to her that her thyroid shouldn't have caused about 90lbs of weight gain. I said it was probably her grazing habits. She flipped out on me. "You don't know! I'm on websites that tell me this is how it is!" So I told her that I was, too. She responded, "with real people or scientists?" I am floored. "There is an American Thyroid Association website." At this point, I'm pretty much gritting my teeth and cringing. "Scientists don't know anything, because they don't have it." She, from there, went into a tirade about how "No one who doesn't know what I'm going through could understand" and "You don't have it so how could you understand", "I don't tell you how your problems work, because I don't have them", but this is the kicker: she used to try to police my diabetes when I was younger. Pretty convenient thing to leave out, right? I sat here, speechless, as she tried to change the subject. When she realized I probably wouldn't get over it, she flipped out again and walked to the back room. I'm running out of synnonyms for "SO SHOCKED MY EYEBROWS RIPPED OFF MY FOREHEAD AND HAVE TAKEN RESIDENCE ON TOP OF MY SCALP". I guess this is my first FPS?

My sister has the fatlogic and "cundishunz" that make her defy the laws of physics.

-googs

Whuddup reddit, I think it'd be interesting and beneficial to have a thread with stuff you can do when cops try and fuck with you or just with cops in general. My Canadian politics prof at university once told our class you don't even need to give the cops your name if you're 'not doing anything wrong, I've also heard tons of different 'myths' of how to handle cops when you get caught drinking,trespassing..etc. What are the exact legal rights we have? TL;DR What's the best way to handle cops in different situations such as noise complaints, under-age drinking or being to drunk, etc.

Whuddup reddit, I think it'd be interesting and beneficial to have a thread with stuff you can do when cops try and fuck with you or just with cops in general. My Canadian politics prof at university once told our class you don't even need to give the cops your name if you're 'not doing anything wrong, I've also heard tons of different 'myths' of how to handle cops when you get caught drinking,trespassing..etc. What are the exact legal rights we have? TL;DR What's the best way to handle cops in different situations such as noise complaints, under-age drinking or being to drunk, etc.

AskReddit

t5_2qh1i

t3_q4xmg

Whuddup reddit, I think it'd be interesting and beneficial to have a thread with stuff you can do when cops try and fuck with you or just with cops in general. My Canadian politics prof at university once told our class you don't even need to give the cops your name if you're 'not doing anything wrong, I've also heard tons of different 'myths' of how to handle cops when you get caught drinking,trespassing..etc. What are the exact legal rights we have?

What's the best way to handle cops in different situations such as noise complaints, under-age drinking or being to drunk, etc.

Nathan8tr

I was hungry so as a human being I thought "ya i could go for some pizza", so i call place my order and hang up. After waiting about 5 seconds naturally i was getting bored so I decided to que up in team builder. After my average 20 minute que time we got in and started the game, as soon as the game started the pizza arrives, i open the door and he says "Thats 15 dollars" I hand him a twenty and a ten (all i can think about is me standing AFK in lane) He ask how much i want back and I panic and say "$5" he then is super happy and calls me the nicest person, then i slam the door in his face and run back to my computer and realize, i just gave that man a $10 tip... Be Careful about when you decide to start a game of league. TL;DR was in a rush to get back to league match so i gave the pizza guy a $10 tip without realizing.

I was hungry so as a human being I thought "ya i could go for some pizza", so i call place my order and hang up. After waiting about 5 seconds naturally i was getting bored so I decided to que up in team builder. After my average 20 minute que time we got in and started the game, as soon as the game started the pizza arrives, i open the door and he says "Thats 15 dollars" I hand him a twenty and a ten (all i can think about is me standing AFK in lane) He ask how much i want back and I panic and say "$5" he then is super happy and calls me the nicest person, then i slam the door in his face and run back to my computer and realize, i just gave that man a $10 tip... Be Careful about when you decide to start a game of league. TL;DR was in a rush to get back to league match so i gave the pizza guy a $10 tip without realizing.

leagueoflegends

t5_2rfxx

t3_2zuuwx

I was hungry so as a human being I thought "ya i could go for some pizza", so i call place my order and hang up. After waiting about 5 seconds naturally i was getting bored so I decided to que up in team builder. After my average 20 minute que time we got in and started the game, as soon as the game started the pizza arrives, i open the door and he says "Thats 15 dollars" I hand him a twenty and a ten (all i can think about is me standing AFK in lane) He ask how much i want back and I panic and say "$5" he then is super happy and calls me the nicest person, then i slam the door in his face and run back to my computer and realize, i just gave that man a $10 tip... Be Careful about when you decide to start a game of league.

was in a rush to get back to league match so i gave the pizza guy a $10 tip without realizing.

AtmosphereSC

so i play a reasonable amount of sniper and outside of tf2 am very intrested in all things military. last night i really thought about the snipers creed. "one shot, one kill." and carefully placed everysingle shot i took. i ended up getting a 5 feed and then dominating a bunch of heavys. just take your time. tl;dr: you win the game with one well placed shot. not randome shitty ones.

so i play a reasonable amount of sniper and outside of tf2 am very intrested in all things military. last night i really thought about the snipers creed. "one shot, one kill." and carefully placed everysingle shot i took. i ended up getting a 5 feed and then dominating a bunch of heavys. just take your time. tl;dr: you win the game with one well placed shot. not randome shitty ones.

tf2

t5_2qka0

t3_kfoia

so i play a reasonable amount of sniper and outside of tf2 am very intrested in all things military. last night i really thought about the snipers creed. "one shot, one kill." and carefully placed everysingle shot i took. i ended up getting a 5 feed and then dominating a bunch of heavys. just take your time.

you win the game with one well placed shot. not randome shitty ones.

vonbonbon

This reminds me of my first week of college. Our dorms were suite-style, so I had a bathroom off of the room—we shared with the room next door. I had come to school early because I was running cross country—about a week and a half before the rest of the student body. I was running a lot, so I was eating a lot, and the bowel adjustment to mass-produced dining hall food wasn’t going so swell. I took a crap one day, I think my second day on campus, and clogged the toilet. Now, this is nothing new to me. I’m a tenacious clogger of toilets; I’m more surprised when I don’t have to plunge than when I do. The problem? I didn’t have a plunger. I didn’t have a car to go get a plunger. I didn’t know anyone to borrow a car from. I was still new to the college and new to the team, and I didn’t want to start out as the kid who shat bricks. I was also constantly practicing and/or with the team for different events, so it was hard to track down my RA to access the hall plunger, which apparently exists. Plus, same problem—not really the foot I wanted to start out on. I spent the entire week with a clogged toilet. Every time I shat, I would go in one of the public bathrooms on campus, or off of the dorm lobby. My roommates hadn’t moved in yet, and it’s a guy’s dorm, so it kind of smells in there anyway. I just avoided it as long as I could. Eventually, before my roommates moved in, I broke down and asked my teammates what to do. I got a plunger, but had no luck. Whatever I did in there, it had solidified over the week and wasn’t going anywhere. (And yes, I have good plunging technique. Lots of practice.) I had to put in a maintenance work order and have someone come out and clear the pipes. After that, I realized it’s easier just to call a professional when things go really bad. It’s not worth enduring a week of smelling your own shit every time you shower and not be able to use your own bathroom. I guess what I’m really saying is that when life gives you lemons, don’t panic if you don’t have the tools for lemonade. Call one of the guys with the fair stands, and enjoy a professionally made lemon shakeup. tl;dr: I clogged my toilet really bad in college. It took a professional to dislodge.

This reminds me of my first week of college. Our dorms were suite-style, so I had a bathroom off of the room—we shared with the room next door. I had come to school early because I was running cross country—about a week and a half before the rest of the student body. I was running a lot, so I was eating a lot, and the bowel adjustment to mass-produced dining hall food wasn’t going so swell. I took a crap one day, I think my second day on campus, and clogged the toilet. Now, this is nothing new to me. I’m a tenacious clogger of toilets; I’m more surprised when I don’t have to plunge than when I do. The problem? I didn’t have a plunger. I didn’t have a car to go get a plunger. I didn’t know anyone to borrow a car from. I was still new to the college and new to the team, and I didn’t want to start out as the kid who shat bricks. I was also constantly practicing and/or with the team for different events, so it was hard to track down my RA to access the hall plunger, which apparently exists. Plus, same problem—not really the foot I wanted to start out on. I spent the entire week with a clogged toilet. Every time I shat, I would go in one of the public bathrooms on campus, or off of the dorm lobby. My roommates hadn’t moved in yet, and it’s a guy’s dorm, so it kind of smells in there anyway. I just avoided it as long as I could. Eventually, before my roommates moved in, I broke down and asked my teammates what to do. I got a plunger, but had no luck. Whatever I did in there, it had solidified over the week and wasn’t going anywhere. (And yes, I have good plunging technique. Lots of practice.) I had to put in a maintenance work order and have someone come out and clear the pipes. After that, I realized it’s easier just to call a professional when things go really bad. It’s not worth enduring a week of smelling your own shit every time you shower and not be able to use your own bathroom. I guess what I’m really saying is that when life gives you lemons, don’t panic if you don’t have the tools for lemonade. Call one of the guys with the fair stands, and enjoy a professionally made lemon shakeup. tl;dr: I clogged my toilet really bad in college. It took a professional to dislodge.

AskReddit

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c17ppc2

This reminds me of my first week of college. Our dorms were suite-style, so I had a bathroom off of the room—we shared with the room next door. I had come to school early because I was running cross country—about a week and a half before the rest of the student body. I was running a lot, so I was eating a lot, and the bowel adjustment to mass-produced dining hall food wasn’t going so swell. I took a crap one day, I think my second day on campus, and clogged the toilet. Now, this is nothing new to me. I’m a tenacious clogger of toilets; I’m more surprised when I don’t have to plunge than when I do. The problem? I didn’t have a plunger. I didn’t have a car to go get a plunger. I didn’t know anyone to borrow a car from. I was still new to the college and new to the team, and I didn’t want to start out as the kid who shat bricks. I was also constantly practicing and/or with the team for different events, so it was hard to track down my RA to access the hall plunger, which apparently exists. Plus, same problem—not really the foot I wanted to start out on. I spent the entire week with a clogged toilet. Every time I shat, I would go in one of the public bathrooms on campus, or off of the dorm lobby. My roommates hadn’t moved in yet, and it’s a guy’s dorm, so it kind of smells in there anyway. I just avoided it as long as I could. Eventually, before my roommates moved in, I broke down and asked my teammates what to do. I got a plunger, but had no luck. Whatever I did in there, it had solidified over the week and wasn’t going anywhere. (And yes, I have good plunging technique. Lots of practice.) I had to put in a maintenance work order and have someone come out and clear the pipes. After that, I realized it’s easier just to call a professional when things go really bad. It’s not worth enduring a week of smelling your own shit every time you shower and not be able to use your own bathroom. I guess what I’m really saying is that when life gives you lemons, don’t panic if you don’t have the tools for lemonade. Call one of the guys with the fair stands, and enjoy a professionally made lemon shakeup.

I clogged my toilet really bad in college. It took a professional to dislodge.

superamazingcomment

I found Blaze Black 2/ Volt White 2 to be generally better than BB/VW 1, mostly due to interactable legendaries, Hoenn gym leader battles throughout the game, and challenge mode being available. Personally, however, I found Sacred Gold/Storm Silver (made by the same guy that made BB/VV) to be better than both of them in terms of polish and completeness, and is a sort of bridge between gen IV and V, with a lean toward IV. Many pokemon have their dream world abilities available, moves have gen V power (bullet seed is 25 base power instead of like 18 or whatever) etc. However, the inherent slow-ness of gen IV compared to gen V sort of annoyed me. Legendary interactions are actually very convincing in SG/SS and if I didn't know better I would think they were made by Gamefreak. For example, to battle Darkrai, you have to sleep in your bed with a lunar wing and battle it upon waking up. Makes sense. The legendary encounters in BB/VW2 are just sort of "there" and not very well done, but still better than just going through shaking grass for hours like in the original BB/VW. There are some surprise end-game battles you can have that are quite a lot of fun in SG/SS. AI seems better too, with trainers actually switching pokemon from time to time if the situation calls for it. All the games I mentioned can have all the pokemon introduced in that generation caught in some way, so it comes down to personal game preference in that aspect. TL;DR: Blaze Black or Volt White is alright, and BB/VW2 is better, but you should really give Sacred Gold or Storm Silver a go, as that Gen IV hack is probably the best.

I found Blaze Black 2/ Volt White 2 to be generally better than BB/VW 1, mostly due to interactable legendaries, Hoenn gym leader battles throughout the game, and challenge mode being available. Personally, however, I found Sacred Gold/Storm Silver (made by the same guy that made BB/VV) to be better than both of them in terms of polish and completeness, and is a sort of bridge between gen IV and V, with a lean toward IV. Many pokemon have their dream world abilities available, moves have gen V power (bullet seed is 25 base power instead of like 18 or whatever) etc. However, the inherent slow-ness of gen IV compared to gen V sort of annoyed me. Legendary interactions are actually very convincing in SG/SS and if I didn't know better I would think they were made by Gamefreak. For example, to battle Darkrai, you have to sleep in your bed with a lunar wing and battle it upon waking up. Makes sense. The legendary encounters in BB/VW2 are just sort of "there" and not very well done, but still better than just going through shaking grass for hours like in the original BB/VW. There are some surprise end-game battles you can have that are quite a lot of fun in SG/SS. AI seems better too, with trainers actually switching pokemon from time to time if the situation calls for it. All the games I mentioned can have all the pokemon introduced in that generation caught in some way, so it comes down to personal game preference in that aspect. TL;DR: Blaze Black or Volt White is alright, and BB/VW2 is better, but you should really give Sacred Gold or Storm Silver a go, as that Gen IV hack is probably the best.

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t5_2qmeb

c9xk5i1

I found Blaze Black 2/ Volt White 2 to be generally better than BB/VW 1, mostly due to interactable legendaries, Hoenn gym leader battles throughout the game, and challenge mode being available. Personally, however, I found Sacred Gold/Storm Silver (made by the same guy that made BB/VV) to be better than both of them in terms of polish and completeness, and is a sort of bridge between gen IV and V, with a lean toward IV. Many pokemon have their dream world abilities available, moves have gen V power (bullet seed is 25 base power instead of like 18 or whatever) etc. However, the inherent slow-ness of gen IV compared to gen V sort of annoyed me. Legendary interactions are actually very convincing in SG/SS and if I didn't know better I would think they were made by Gamefreak. For example, to battle Darkrai, you have to sleep in your bed with a lunar wing and battle it upon waking up. Makes sense. The legendary encounters in BB/VW2 are just sort of "there" and not very well done, but still better than just going through shaking grass for hours like in the original BB/VW. There are some surprise end-game battles you can have that are quite a lot of fun in SG/SS. AI seems better too, with trainers actually switching pokemon from time to time if the situation calls for it. All the games I mentioned can have all the pokemon introduced in that generation caught in some way, so it comes down to personal game preference in that aspect.

Blaze Black or Volt White is alright, and BB/VW2 is better, but you should really give Sacred Gold or Storm Silver a go, as that Gen IV hack is probably the best.

realqmaster

I'm not sure... while survival IS something even damage dealers should look after especially in late game (a great support and cc can be table turning, but if main damage sources of your team are 2-hit it's virtually impossible to heal/shield/protect them enough anyway) there are carries which lose a major part of their potential if they actually "go tanky". I'm thinking of a champ like Ziggs in example. Hp are very rewarding early, but fall off in lategame imho. Why RK and LT aren't cutting it for you? Also, there are a good set of champs with abilities dealing damage based on health %, be it max, current or missing. Vayne is probably the most evident, dealing true damage based on hp (that is, armor and mres are useless against her 3rd attack). Those items can be countered it's true, but in most cases you need to build up defensive stats alongside with hps. That translates in massive expense not related to your damage increase: I don't need to point out the roles that can't afford that. If a carry has got tank-like resistance and meltface damage, he's 99% fed like a goose and that is the main ingredient for defeat, we all know that. TL,DR; There are several counters to simple hp stacking, and if someone achieves tank resistance AND competitive damage it's probably because of heavy gold income he earned by kills. I don't think I can agree with your analysis.

I'm not sure... while survival IS something even damage dealers should look after especially in late game (a great support and cc can be table turning, but if main damage sources of your team are 2-hit it's virtually impossible to heal/shield/protect them enough anyway) there are carries which lose a major part of their potential if they actually "go tanky". I'm thinking of a champ like Ziggs in example. Hp are very rewarding early, but fall off in lategame imho. Why RK and LT aren't cutting it for you? Also, there are a good set of champs with abilities dealing damage based on health %, be it max, current or missing. Vayne is probably the most evident, dealing true damage based on hp (that is, armor and mres are useless against her 3rd attack). Those items can be countered it's true, but in most cases you need to build up defensive stats alongside with hps. That translates in massive expense not related to your damage increase: I don't need to point out the roles that can't afford that. If a carry has got tank-like resistance and meltface damage, he's 99% fed like a goose and that is the main ingredient for defeat, we all know that. TL,DR; There are several counters to simple hp stacking, and if someone achieves tank resistance AND competitive damage it's probably because of heavy gold income he earned by kills. I don't think I can agree with your analysis.

leagueoflegends

t5_2rfxx

c8avy3z

I'm not sure... while survival IS something even damage dealers should look after especially in late game (a great support and cc can be table turning, but if main damage sources of your team are 2-hit it's virtually impossible to heal/shield/protect them enough anyway) there are carries which lose a major part of their potential if they actually "go tanky". I'm thinking of a champ like Ziggs in example. Hp are very rewarding early, but fall off in lategame imho. Why RK and LT aren't cutting it for you? Also, there are a good set of champs with abilities dealing damage based on health %, be it max, current or missing. Vayne is probably the most evident, dealing true damage based on hp (that is, armor and mres are useless against her 3rd attack). Those items can be countered it's true, but in most cases you need to build up defensive stats alongside with hps. That translates in massive expense not related to your damage increase: I don't need to point out the roles that can't afford that. If a carry has got tank-like resistance and meltface damage, he's 99% fed like a goose and that is the main ingredient for defeat, we all know that.

There are several counters to simple hp stacking, and if someone achieves tank resistance AND competitive damage it's probably because of heavy gold income he earned by kills. I don't think I can agree with your analysis.

TruRedditor89

I play teemo top mostly and i have found that ap is his strongest build. With the typical tops (darius,riven,ect) they need to get on top of you to win so... i start boots+3 so i can kite. Then i rush my sorc boots for the same reason. Poke poke poke and get some early kills, now lets assume im getting fed cause thats what usually happens. Next is a needlessly large rod and then a bow for the attack speed after that. Then rush my death cap. After that ill get my malady which is so damn good on teemo. Followed by my hurricane. Then from there its up in the air. I honestly dont like liandrys all that much. If it burnt with your E then it would be a no brainer but your not really spamming your spells all that much so the burn on the blind and shrooms dont really get procs that often. TLDR : Sorc boots, Malady, Deathcap, hurricane. CORE Then rylas scepter or frozen mallet for tankiness/slow and finish with Abysal,void staff, hourglass EDIT: items

I play teemo top mostly and i have found that ap is his strongest build. With the typical tops (darius,riven,ect) they need to get on top of you to win so... i start boots+3 so i can kite. Then i rush my sorc boots for the same reason. Poke poke poke and get some early kills, now lets assume im getting fed cause thats what usually happens. Next is a needlessly large rod and then a bow for the attack speed after that. Then rush my death cap. After that ill get my malady which is so damn good on teemo. Followed by my hurricane. Then from there its up in the air. I honestly dont like liandrys all that much. If it burnt with your E then it would be a no brainer but your not really spamming your spells all that much so the burn on the blind and shrooms dont really get procs that often. TLDR : Sorc boots, Malady, Deathcap, hurricane. CORE Then rylas scepter or frozen mallet for tankiness/slow and finish with Abysal,void staff, hourglass EDIT: items

LeagueofLegendsMeta

t5_2smhl

c7rvrt7

I play teemo top mostly and i have found that ap is his strongest build. With the typical tops (darius,riven,ect) they need to get on top of you to win so... i start boots+3 so i can kite. Then i rush my sorc boots for the same reason. Poke poke poke and get some early kills, now lets assume im getting fed cause thats what usually happens. Next is a needlessly large rod and then a bow for the attack speed after that. Then rush my death cap. After that ill get my malady which is so damn good on teemo. Followed by my hurricane. Then from there its up in the air. I honestly dont like liandrys all that much. If it burnt with your E then it would be a no brainer but your not really spamming your spells all that much so the burn on the blind and shrooms dont really get procs that often.

Sorc boots, Malady, Deathcap, hurricane. CORE Then rylas scepter or frozen mallet for tankiness/slow and finish with Abysal,void staff, hourglass EDIT: items