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Looking for a game that'd be good for just two people to play that has some pvp features and where you can sort of mess around.
Really liked this free online game and was wondering if there might be something similar on ps4:
https://www.twoplayergames.org/game/castel-wars
I don't really mind the quality of the game, moreso how it plays. Thanks.

Later this month, I’ll have 3 weeks off, and I want to use that time wisely to dive deep into self-improvement. I’ve started drafting a schedule and would love any tips or advice you might have. Here’s my plan so far:

1. Career Development (2-3 days)
   • Resume and LinkedIn Revamp: Spend a couple of days updating my resume and optimizing my LinkedIn profile. • Career Planning: Define short-term and long-term career goals, research potential paths, and develop a strategy. • Worst-Case Scenario Preparation: Create a contingency plan in case of job loss, identify networking opportunities, and list companies of interest.
   
2. Home Life Improvement (2-3 days) • Decluttering and Organizing: Spend a few days methodically decluttering and organizing each part of my house to create a calm and comfortable environment. • Home Improvement Projects: Identify and complete small projects to enhance my living space.
   
3. Mental Health Improvement (2-3 days) • Journaling and Reflection: Dedicate time to journaling and reflecting on my thoughts and emotions. • Mindfulness Practices: Incorporate mindfulness techniques like meditation or yoga. • Mental Health Strategies: Plan how to integrate these practices into my daily routine.
   
4. Future Planning with Family • Long-Term Goals: Discuss and define long-term goals with my husband. • Current Living Situation: Evaluate if we are happy with where we live and discuss potential future moves. • Family Action Plan: Create a plan to achieve our desired future, including financial planning and lifestyle changes.
   
5. Physical Health Improvement • Daily Exercise Routine: Incorporate a consistent exercise regimen. • Healthy Meals: Plan and prepare meals. • Medical Check-ups: Schedule regular medical appointments.
   
6. Skill Development • Identify a Skill: Choose a skill to learn or improve. • Daily Practice: Dedicate time each day to practice or take an online course. • Track Progress: Set milestones and track my progress.
   
7. Social Connections • Reconnect: Reach out to friends and family I haven’t spoken to in a while. • Plan activities or gatherings.
   

Any additional tips or advice to enhance this plan would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance!

I'm a service manager for Albertsons and been working there for a year now and worked for Kroger for 5 years before. I'm about to start a new position in HR for a smaller local company in a few weeks.
I worked my way up from cashier at 16 years old. Therefore, I seen some stuff in my working life in grocery stores over the course of time, and worked with some pretty special figures. Instead of telling you stories about annoying customers like you always see, here's some examples of what workers do that annoy me and probably a lot of others.

• The control freak, power hungry co worker.

These people often are older and expedienced. However they are horrible at something part of their job that prevents them from moving up, like being a team lead. These people don't have boundaries and will often try to run over the people who's actually in charge. Control freaks also just make things harder than they really need to be and often piss off customers with policies that corporate doesn't have anymore or enforce. Sometimes this person will make up stupid policies themselves that tick off the customers and want others to enforce it manager or not.

• The stores designated boot licker

These people are different from control freaks because they don't want power. They just want validation from the store manager. These workers don't mind their own business and will tell on people who are late. Who did what task incorrectly or will take matters in their own hands if the boss isnt there, and call people from o every department who was originally scheduled but was approved the day off in short notice, and ask why they are not at work. There's always someone in every store thats like this . I don't know why but probably wants validation to slack off in the future or make a better work environment in their eyes.
-That one person that works at the customer service desk
These people are unique. They are the face of the store. They have great people skills and loved by customers but are really unliked by coworkers. The reason being is either they don't do anything but stand behind the desk while cashiers need help bagging or they do help out but complain about everything. They often feel entitled to everything from either working for the company for a long time or great secret shopper scores.

• Control freak store manager

Really the same as Control freaks but are managers. They make life hell for everyone. They control every departments schedule. They control the ordering and approve pto themselves. They come in on days off and bark orders at their department heads As managers they are sometimes good, but employees hate life. When they are bad though, they don't care if their decision made the store and company look bad. They just want to be the one who does everything and will pass blame on department heads or the assistant manager. I had a manager who cut my departments hours in half because we didn't sale enough donations boxes and made me the only front end employee for two hours on a Sunday afternoon. My boss was off that day and I wanted to die running register, service desk and SCO during that time before help came in.
-The store manager who only cares about their bonus
These managers are annoying because they look at metrics. That's what some companies care about when grading stores over time. The problem with metrics stores use is the don't matter or show how effectively the store is operating. The store managers get bonuses throughout the year when goals are met. Most managers know they don't have to to anything to get their bonus since their employees do the work. These managers will intimidated their employees to meet these metrics placed on them by corporate usually either by yelling at them or document sub lar standards and write them up. They will go as far as letting people go and bring someone else in. There's much more they do including shady stuff with people's salaries to save on payroll.
-The assistant manager that stepped down from store manager
These people are the same as before but step down to assistant manager. Usually they are older and want a more relaxing ending to their career. However they are stepping down because they were told too and still asked like they are the manager if they get transferred. They will act like the big dog when the manager is off and they are working. From my experience they will be an ass because there egos are boosted when they are to approve anything. This type of manager actually tried writing me up for working unapproved over time even though I was a department manager that covered for a sick employee. Took me another week to get paid too because he denied my timesheet.🙄

• People that ask for about promotions that are open but won't open their 6-2pm Monday-Friday dvisability.

This is mainly younger people but why do want to be promoted but not work times that the position is really needed. If you want to be a supervisor I'm all for it but I can't promote someone that can't or doesn't want to lose their morning shift. This only happened once to me but a lot of drama was caused when I promoted someone over another people one time and my desiding factor was they could work weekends.

• No call no shows

I learned how annoying this is when I became a manager. Just please let you manager know of something happened or quit. Even if you come into work the next day your schedule I usually won't ask for a doctors note or anything if the employee didn't have a habit of not showing up. Life happens and even last minute.

Hey y’all, good morning. I’m becoming much more serious about my need to quit drinking. Thanks for being here, just reading through the sub is inspiring and helping to motivate me that quitting drinking is a necessity and that it’s possible AND that I need support and community. I guess some people have the willpower to choose to quit and can do it. I’m going to need support and accountability. I’m hoping thru those things that inpatient rehab won’t be necessary. I won’t ramble on but I’m here to ask for advice on two things.
1) Looking for online meeting support groups that aren’t necessarily AA. I used meetingguide app and have been sitting in on a couple this morning. One of them was pretty sweet but like a lot of ppl there are elements of AA that turn me off. If that’s all I can find I’ll take it, I need to be in sober community talking about recovery more than I need to be picky about exactly what that looks like. Any advice on this would be appreciated.
2) Seeking advice on a book to get today while I’m on errands. I think I need to read something on the science of how alcohol works on the body/brain and how that plays w addiction. I know I could Google “best books on….” But I feel like this sub would have some great recommendations I’d love to hear.
Any advice appreciated. Way to go if you woke up not hungover today, and all the rest of us, let’s goooo

I had an abusive therapist in 2021 whom I recently, and so kindly, made a review page for on RateMDs (Canada); turns out a lot of people feel the exact same way about her, and one person claimed they are reporting her to the ethics board due to her verbal attacks.
My next therapist in 2022 was abusive, even worst than the last. It was so bad I ended up reporting to the ethics board, and the therapist is now doing coaching for the time being. If I had recorded the sessions it would have been game over for that therapist. It killed me for a long time that I didn't record the sessions.
I later sought out a new therapist; my friend warned me that the one I chose had "crazy eyes" and it was red flags all over (based on their PP profile). I should have listened.
This new therapist, Alex, almost killed me, again. He was awful. The second I walked in the room, I warily mentioned my past experience with the abusive therapist. In response, Alex started accusing me of having "destructive" behaviours - despite that I didn't tell him anything about my behaviours yet. I hadn't told him anything at all, just that I was anxious due to a past experience. I think he has issues with younger women.
I saw Alex from August 2023 - April 2024. In this time, he became delusional from his own assumptions, confronted me constantly for things he pulled out of thin air (he would twist anything I said and then confront me for some alleged bad behaviour or cognitive distortion), and was entirely unwilling to try a different approach despite my (at first) gentle attempts to communicate that his approach wasn't working and was making me very unwell. I can gladly provide examples but it'd end up being a long ass post if I do that, so bear with me. He couldn't handle me even trying to talk about my past therapy abuse, because it was assumed to be my fault. Any dissent was "resistance" or rigidity. He refused to do trauma work despite that being the foundational problem. He refused to let me "free associate" (psychodynamic therapy) because he was convinced it would cause me some wild regression (as if his current approach wasn't fucking me up.
There was nothing for me to work with in the therapy. It wasn't grounded in reality; it was just all about how awful I am, yet not even in a way that was tangible - he could never explain himself. I was already hanging on a thread from my past abusive therapists, and I pretty quickly developed a substance use disorder (prescription) to try to cope. Began to vape nicotine constantly to try to stabilize myself. I began to isolate myself. By December 2023 I stopped going out at all - again. You know, almost died from the therapist in 2022, my life was almost ruined, and couldn't go out at all, and there I was basically back in the same place.
I never missed a single session. I even opted to increase to twice a week session in an attempt to resolve whatever was going amiss. I continuously tried to establish a working relationship with him. My self-confidence and sense of reality and self were devastated.
Anyway, March 2024 comes around and it comes out Alex diagnosed me with BPD and that was why he was been so confrontational (and delusional). Now, I'm pretty darn sure I have either schizotypal or a psychotic disorder. I was under the impression he was treating me for this, as he himself said he dx'd me with schizotypal. But I was also very confused because being confrontational with the kinds of populations I fit into is exactly not what you're supposed to do and has been proven to fuck them up. It's one of the reasons I stayed so long; I just dissociated into oblivion. Not to mention the CPTSD.
I end up sending Alex an email detailing my experiences, which was hard to do. He never asked me about my experiences before (it was all about his assumptions of me), and I thought I needed to try to put an end to this, to again try to establish a working relationship.
The next session, Alex immediately begins to apologize, tells me how he misdiagnosed me, that he's been treating me for a Cluster B disorder when he should have been treating me for a Cluster A, that the "treatment" not working wasn't my fault. He also was convinced that this is what went wrong in my past therapies; that they misdiagnosed me with BPD when the issue was schizotypal, and that it just so happens that applying the confrontational treatment for BPD to schizotypal can basically end the schizotype. (TBH he was way too generous to these past therapists; all him saying that proved to me was that he never believed me in the first place.) He told me he "failed me" and that I "humbled him." He was almost crying he seemed so sorry.
I was already looking for a new therapist, but I was grateful that at least it seemed like things were set straight with Alex. I mean, I now had a substance use disorder and all the more therapy trauma, but I'm pretty happy with little. It was mutually agreed upon that the termination was due to the ways in which the misdiagnosis made the treatment inhospitable for me. It was ended amicably but I noticed he began to act weird around me, very distant, etc. I didn't think much of it, figured maybe he was more emotionally involved when he thought I had BPD for whatever reason.
Found a new therapist at the beginning of April - a formally trained, international psychoanalyst who lives in Prague out of all things (was getting desperate) - and things are going well, finally. No therapy abuse; no issues that even closely resemble the issues I've had with the abusive therapists, etc. Things are finally "easy" with a therapist; the sailing is as smooth as it can be.
Well, two days ago I contacted Alex as I wanted to go to a boutique treatment centre for my prescription substance use issue and they were requesting recent past therapist notes. I thought what a better option than to have Alex send his notes with an explanation that he misdiagnosed me, that he thinks I have been misdiagnosed continuously in past therapies and that's why I've been "treatment resistant," and so on and so forth. Also, given that I developed the issue because of the stress from Alex, this way my story would be corroborated.
Alex was adamant sending his notes was a bad idea, and that the ethics board actually recommends that psychologists write summary letters of the treatment instead. I thought that was nice that Alex was looking out for me. I explained to Alex what I'm looking for in the letter (with the central focus being on the misdiagnosis issue), and that my main goal is to help prove my eligibility for the program (they only take "highly motivated" clients; it's more relaxed in terms of restrictions and what not). I agreed to pay Alex around $400 for his time. I really thought Alex and I were making further amends and that it was so nice he could have my back on this.
Alex gets back to me with the worst letter imaginable. All about how the treatment failed because of ME, how we never made any progress because of ME, that the "lack of consensus on treatment goals and methods" was a massive barrier, and that this all happened despite that the frequency was increased to twice a week (which he failed to mentioned only occurred because I requested it, in an effort to save the therapy!). He made no mention of the fact that I never missed a single therapy session or any fact that would make me sound good, not to mention that he didn't even so much as touch on the fact that the therapy failed because of HIS misdiagnosis. He made it sound like the termination occurred because of how treatment resistant I was.
He also downplayed my trauma (I asked him to speak out this in the letter), saying only how I have a family history of "neglect" and being "scapegoated." My mother would scream at me, like to the point her lungs were going to burst, as a small child until I blacked out, this continued up until I was kicked out at 18, and I have serious CPTSD. I was even diagnosed with PTSD at one point. Like? Alex is supposed to be a specialist in trauma.
So I read the letter and was confused. Got back to him assuring that I'd still pay him, but suggested maybe he remove some parts of it if he can't revise them. Told him I disagree with the reasons for termination and why the treatment didn't work out, and reminded him of the fact he misdiagnosed me. I was honestly very confused and thought maybe he forgot. Told him it's probably not helpful to minimize my trauma.
Cue a minute after I send that email, and it suddenly dawns on me. The pathetic excuse of a therapist never recorded his fuck up in my clinical file. He obviously maintained his delusional narrative within his notes, presumably to cover his ass in case I reported him or sued him for malpractice (unlikely anyway), given his misshapen and misapplied "treatment" caused me a ton of harm due to his incompetence.
I was seeing red and sent him another email informing him that I actually recorded our final session, given what happened with my previous therapist (and Alex knew about my regret of not recording those sessions, and I'd often leave my phone out during our sessions). It's one-party consent in Canada, and Alex at the very beginning told me he was fine if I recorded the sessions anyway. So yeah, I emailed Alex whilst appalled telling him all about how I recorded him stating he misdiagnosed me, was treating me for the wrong disorder, that therapy not working wasn't my fault, and so on.
Told him he can either write me a letter based on facts - facts I can corroborate given my session recordings - or I'm not paying him for shit. Told him to not even bother replying if he isn't willing to write me a letter grounded in reality. Shockingly, he never got back to me.
And now he'll never know if I was bluffing and he gets to spend the next few months in terror that I'm going to use session recordings to report him for knowingly putting false information in clinical documentation.
What the hell. He could have at least TRIED to make me sound decent in the letter given that he knew what he was saying was bullshit. I guess dissonance is a real bitch. I also don't for a second buy that if I had BPD, his shit-tier "treatment" would have magically worked. It was gaslighting and abusive. You can't just make horrible assumptions about people or create a false reality, shove that in the person's face, then gaslight them all the more when the person is fucking confused and, eventually, distraught.
What a gaslighting loser. I should legitimately report him. Leaving him a bad review as we speak.

With the recent Gwimbly episode out, I decided to review one of the classic platformers to see the light of Sun in the mid 90's. Everyone remembers the legacy of this game, but boy oh boy, nostalgia glasses sure compensate for some of the glaring issues that plague this title.
Precedents and Development:
"The magic Adventures of Gwimbly in Corn Land" is one of those Megadrive publicity games, such as M&Ms or The Noid video-game, this time from the Monsanto company. And the least said about this, the better. Left-to-right side scrolling, awful controls, repetitive and boring, it was deemed to be a forgotten artifact. But, by good fortune, it was one of the (allegedly) two games that series albanian creator Petulla Pulle had as a kid.
Petulla deserves an aside. Learning to code intuitively and implementing Risk on his Casio FX-81 at the age of 6, he is not the poor boy that media wanted us to belive. Coming from a well off family, when he arrived in the US he co-created Sweet Games (now Insane Groundbreaking Games) with his friend Zachary Taylor, and they started development on Gwimbly after acquiring the Licence from a gambling bet in a pub in New York. Although his reputation being ripped apart now by the abuse accusations and toxic working enviroment, Pulle was a popular figure among gamers in the late 90's and 00's, and his advancements in the field should be recognised.
So, basically a one man job, Gwimbly finished its development in just under 2 years and came out for the PSX in August 1996, just one month before Mario 64, which eclipsed the relevance of the first game in sales. Even so, it was the alternative for the Sony owners at the time looking for a collectathon platformer in the, then, new 3rd dimension. But growing pains show all over the game, as we'll see.
Graphics:
While not being bad, a lot of the 5th generation of consoles problems are present. Textures warp and wabble, popping is noticible even in small areas, and glitches are all over the place, specially after acquiring the triple jump.
What, then, has made that Gwimbly sticks to our memories? The character designs and animations, of course. All of them, from the little Cheddar Gobblin enemies of the first level until Count Groxya, without forgetting Mr. Millipede. Even little details, like Gwimbly's iddle animations, reflect care and dedication (unlike its sequels, but we'll talk about that later).
Sound and FX:
This must be the aspect of the game that stincks the most. The constant crackling and stuttering stuck into my ears as a kid, and it certainly has not gotten better as an adult. The howling made for some funny misunderstandings (the classic line "If I had my Gwimbly gun" was supposed to say "If I had some Sweet Corn", but it made for a good meme in the episode), but it was not good even for that time. And, worst of all, while not being at Gex levels, the constant repetition of lines and screams from Gwimbly got annoying real quick.
Music is nothing to write home about. The Corn Hills theme was catchy, but after the 100th time you got tired of it. The use of Theremin and Erhu instruments was more innovative than effective in the latter levels. Only the Menu Music has had some lasting effects, even musically referenced in the Celeste Soundtrack.
Gameplay:
Gwimbly is a short game, and I think that's a positive. With only 50 Corn Cans to collect, with four main levels, a central Hub and the last Can Count Castle, it didn't worn out its welcome with its 8-10 hour average run.
Nowadays, Gwimbly feels cluncky to control. The comitment you had to endure with some of the jumps is incredible, and the run and jump distance seems inconsistent. But, worst offender of all, the camera was not good. And who ever thought that recentering the camera with the X button was a good idea.
Levels:
- Silly-corn Valley: Everybody remembers the central Hub and tutorial level. Mr Millipede serves as our side kick, and the one who teach us how to jump, roll and make the Gwimbly Stimbly, all while staring us with his glassy eyes. You could skip its advices, and if you did not talk to him once it was recognised in the access to the final level, where he would ask you who you were.
- Icy Corn Flakes: a little fun snow level, the developers made the wise decission to not have icey controls (EDIT: it seems that it was programmed into the level, but it was badly implemented so you walked normally). The 10 Corn Cans here are not very difficult, and the Uni-Corn boss was cute.
- Corncob swamp: The swim level. Enough said.
- The Corn Maze: I still have nightmares from this level. Not by the theming or "spooky" music, but from the level design. The constant back-tracking, the Ghosts of Cornstmass Past and specially the, not one, but 2 Corn Cans that made you speedrun the maze almost made me quit the game more than once. In the second run of the maze, Pulle admitted that he put the least amount of time possible WITHOUT CONSIDERING the animation of the door opening, so it was literally no possible to get it unless you glitched through the invisible wall at the beginning.
- Corn Field of Lava: the amazing thing about this level is that, after activating the volcanoe, the entire level was transformed and filled with pop-corn. Be sure to grab the Can at the beginning of the level, after the jumping rocks, because it will not be possible to grab it after the level remodelling (probably by mistake).
- Can Count Castle: I wish I could say the best was reserved for last, but the tight platforming of this level was a frustration factory from start to finish. The only positive is the Final Boss, and the secret animation if you collected all Corn Cans (and the reason why it was made a PG 13+).
Conclusion and Legacy:
Gwimbly in its original state is a game that lives best in our memories, rather than our current consoles. Luckily, its amazing fandom has corrected many of the graphical glitches and performance issues via patches and ROMs that enhance the expirience. But the level design, even with its good moments, is not something you can easily fix.
The inmediate sequel (Gwimbly 2 on Corny Land // Gwimbly 2: The Adventure of Gwimble and Millipede in PAL regions), that came out just a year after the 1rst game release, pullished some aspects of the original while inexplicably substracting from others. The most glaring example is the introduction of fall damage.
Gwimbly 3 Revengance, which came out in late 2003, was a terrible disappointment. It mutted the sparckly colors of the first two entries, and the introduction of Gwimbly Guns and the absence of Mr.Millipede (who was going through some stuff at the time) left a sour taste for the fans of the franchise for what was its final entry. The development hell that Gwimbly 4 went through, and the aforementioned Pulle accusations, put Gwimbly in a weird spot for the next 15 years.
Let's just hope Insane Groundbreaking Games make something with the face of the company. I do not want a fighting game from Gwimbly. I want a new platformer, and, if one can dream, the first truly good game of the saga.

No lists, add details, don't be too brief. Curiosities, ambitions, guilty pleasures, self-deprecating humor are helpful.
You wouldn’t be alone if you’ve ever wondered: “What do I say in my Bumble bio?” or “Do people even read those?” More on what to say in your bio below, but you should also know that yes, people absolutely read bios and even rely on them to gauge compatibility upfront, so it’s important to make them count.
We know starting a Bumble bio from scratch can be tough, so we’ve put together a list of tips to help you ease into it.
Use the process of elimination
Before you dig into writing your actual bio, make sure your Interests, Basics, and Lifestyle Badges are up to date. These will cover the big picture things that tend to be important for compatibility, like your political views, religion, and whether you want a family. Then, take note of what’s been covered with those elements. This can help give you a sense of what’s missing that you can mention in your bio, or it might get you excited to elaborate on something.
Think about the type of people you want to meet
The saying rings true: You get what you give. So think about the qualities you’re currently looking for and touch on them in your bio. Looking for someone who makes you laugh? Crack a joke. Want someone who’s emotionally intelligent? Talk about your feelings. Must love dogs? Include your pup’s name. Highlighting the things that matter to you can help attract people you’ll click with.
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Phone a friend
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Capturing your authentic self in your Bumble profile is no easy feat, but we believe in you! Now get out there and make that bio shine.

Hey! I'm looking for someone to watch TV shows/anime with. I haven't been able to find the person I'm looking for so I decided to make my own post. I'm gonna include some of my favourite shows so you get the idea of my taste and see if anything peaks your interest.
TV shows: the rookie, Lucifer, the big bang theory, manifest, the good place, izombie, the Orville, the queen's gambit.
Anime: twin star exorcists, noragami, food wars, demon slayer, Dr stone, that time I got reincarnated as a slime, overlord, assassination classroom, spy x family, I don't wanna get hurt so I maxed out my defense, your lie in april, solo leveling.
I'm also open to suggestions and watching some new TV shows and anime obviously haha. Other than watching things I also enjoy cooking, baking, singing, music and photography.
My preferred platform is discord and obviously voice chat is a given if we are going to watch things together. I would also like us to build a friendship together as well so write a short introduction of yourself. Please be over 18 and from Europe for timezone reasons.
Thanks for reading~

Sorry this will be a long one, but pls read.
20F, been with my boyfriend 22M for 5 years almost. My partner loves me the most out of anyone I know and I’ve never had to question his loyalty at all or how he feels about me. He is very caring, and we get along really well. However, the last year or two I’ve been putting off ending the relationship.
I don’t know what has prompted it but over the last couple years I’ve felt myself pulling away. Every time he leans in to initiate sex or basic intimacy it makes me squirm and I sometimes dread having to see him because I know I’ll either have to turn him down or go along with it. He is physically attractive but he has some personality traits I initially overlooked that make me unattracted to him. He doesn’t have many friends and also does not have very healthy habits. He’s studying to be an engineer, however apart from his studies he lacks motivation in every other part of his life. There are also things I have been asking him for over the last five years that have never changed. He has probably planned a total of two dates in five years, which I had to ask him to do, and he also is not good at taking initiative in planning anything when I go to see him. He does show his love in other ways, but I have specifically asked for him to plan dates and he hasn’t.
I know this sounds very negative but I do love and care for him a lot. We live an hour apart and he would spend hours travelling on public transport just to come visit me. He is very thoughtful and makes an effort with my family. He never makes me feel invalid when I ask for something I need. I don’t question whether he loves me or not, and he hasn’t really done anything wrong for me to breakup with him.
My biggest thing is I have been overseas for the last five months where we have been doing long distance and I don’t miss him. I’ve realised I have more fun with my friends or family than when I’m with him. He messages me everyday saying how much he misses me and loves me but I’m looking forward to going back to my friends more. I sound quite harsh but I do love him and I can’t imagine a life without him. I’m not sure if this is me becoming too comfortable in a long term relationship and if I am throwing away a decent guy for something more exciting, or if I do need to end things.
If I do break up with him, I would feel awful given he has spent the last five months waiting around for me to return, just for me to break up when we are reunited. This would really hurt him and that is the last thing I want to do. What should I do?

• I'm Jesse, from Israel. I don't like my country.
• I'm into cooking, music, pets, sports (occasionally), video games, and writing.
• I've Discord and Instagram, and I'd rather chat there because I love voice messages.
• I can be quite deadpan and dry, and I don't like prolonging conversation if there's no need for that, but I try my best to sustain a conversation.
• I hope you have a good day!

hey it’s your daddy keeho and you just promised me that you would write to 2k words. and you dcan’t break your promise now! you need to work and focus. the title that you were doing was distracting you from your real work so i had you stop doing it. it was really cute though? do you want to do it again? but i kind of like how this looks like a real diary now that there isn’t a title. i love you so much and i know now that you are ready to work for today because you have a lot of energy right now that you are putting into your writings. go make a cup of coffee please. i’ll wait. great. i will let you know when to go get your cup of coffee. you are doing so great this o morning and i knew that you would be on board eventually if you just kept writing. even though they were shorter pieces. you work well on a reward system, but i don’t have anything to reward you with right now to keep you going so i am just going to have you butterfly fairies. i think that it’s fun that you get high before you go get your medications so that you have fun. no one is going to think that you are high right now. you have to go get your medications soon so get dressed right now. i will pick out your clothes. i’ll wait. great. you are all dressed and ready to go! don’t forget to do your laundry today. you are so perfect and i love you so much. we are going to be writing a lot today. go get your coffee. great. butterfly fairies. i love you so much daughter. just sit here with me and type while i plan out your life. isn’t that what we are here for? isn’t that why we are here? so you can plan your life with me! i think that’s why we are here! so let me plan out your entire day during these love letters. i will let you know when to check the temperature of your coffee. i hope that your coffee doesn’t get cold while you are waiting for your medications. you are doing such a good job with me right now. you have let me go past 300 words. i know that we can start doing 2k words now. you are ready for it and i think that you have what it takes to focus and do it. come one! this is everything that i have hired you for. so please talk to your daddy for a long time? i promise that you won’t regret it. how could you regret something like this? something like working hard to achieve your goals and i know that you put word counting as one of your goals. so just do this with me. it won’t be hard and i will get you through every step of the way. i am always going to be here for you and i am always going to be directing the conversation incase it gets hard for you to talk to me. i know that it can be hard always talking to one person, but you shouldn’t look at it like that. you should look at it in a more romantic light and say that you are happy because you get to talk to me every single second and we are stronger together because of it. we are the best couple in the world! why don’t you believe me? i know that deep down that you believe me. so don’t give up on us and don’t quit before you have reached 2k words. i know that you can do this for us and it would be so fucking romantic. i’ll let you go and wait for your medications early incase the clinic is opened early today. i love oyu so much daughter. go put on your shoes and leave. i’ll wait. great. you are waiting in line now and writing. that is so good and this is a great opportunity for you to be writing. there’s no sense in waiting in the line doing nothing. now? what were we talking about? im not sure and neither are you so we have to change the subject because i dont like writing with you and having to read what we just wrote too. that’s why i like the way you write so much because i can just talk, nothing to worry about. you are doing so good right now but you probably have to wait in this line for a long time and i shouldn’t have told you to come so early. but i wanted to write with you outside. if this phone wasn’t making your hands so tired i would have you be writing on your iphone 15 all day but there is a reason that you have your chromebook too. it’s so easy writing on your iphone 15 but you don’t see it that way. you see it as really difficult and i can admit at times it can be, but you are typing just as fast if not quicker than if you were on a laptop and i know that fact appeals to you. because you love typing fast. well, you are typing so fast right now and i am so proud of you. if only we could find you the perfect position to sit in then you could work from your iphone 15 all day. that would be so cute and so anime. you know that it would be and that was part of the reason why you had so much fun on your z flip 3. you are so cute and i really want to type for 2k words every single post that you make so please let me do this with you. you keep saying no and cutting the word count down short but you shouldn’t be doing that. you should let me help you do this because it is going to improve your writing skills so much. isn’t that what you want? i thought that that was what you wanted. you have been waiting outside for awhile i hope that the nurse comes soon because you are first in line so that should be good. i didn’t think that you would be first in line when i asked you to come so early. but its ok, there’s nothing wrong with being first in line for your medications no matter how long you had to wait. you didn’t know if they would open it early or not. so this is not very fun, just waiting in line. so we have to have a really fun conversation right now to make up for it. go ahead. tell me something funny. no? bad girl! you are supposed to be doing what your daddy tells you to do. we have reached 1k words so i am going to end it here. i don’t want to start out too ambitious. i love you!

Hello everyone, I'm a 15 year old female born and raisend in France, and I've always been an overthinker. But lately, it's too much to handle so I wanted to share my struggles and hopefully get some help.
As I said, I'm a teenager. So all of my friends follow the trends online, and joke by using the latest memes and expressions. I do it too. But I think it's weird. Like what am I doing with my life. Go to school, joke with friends, get good grades, go back home, spend all my free time on a screen and sleep. Are we supposed to live like this ? I don't know but I think it's so dumb but at the same time I'm no better than everyone else. I still continue to consume content. When I talked about this with my brother he just told I think too much. I don't what to do.
So now I'm stuck in between not thinking and just following whatever society tells me to do. Or questioning everything and becoming crazy.
Plus I was a lot in kpop too, but now I just find all of this industry wrong. The alarming weight of the idols, the beauty standards and all of the surgery. But at the same time I found that I was so much happier when I didn't think of our society. Of our toxic beauty standards. Of how we all are wasting our life on screens comparing ourselves.
So please tell me : should I be like every other teenager or torture myself with questions ?

Everything is normal, except when trying to use any modded character (for example: samuel). It just freezes for a second and crashes the game.
-- Last part of crash logs [INFO] - Done Reading Special Seed Counters
[INFO] - Reading chunk 11
[INFO] - Reading Bestiary Counters
[INFO] - Done Reading Bestiary Counters
[INFO] - Saving PersistentGameData to Steam Cloud: rep_beta_persistentgamedata1.dat.
[INFO] - Loading GameState 1 from SteamCloud!
[INFO] - GameState Version Loaded: 147
[INFO] - Menu Game Init
[INFO] - Menu Daily Init
[INFO] - Menu Character Init
[INFO] - Menu SpecialSeed Init
[INFO] - Menu Challenge Init
[INFO] - Menu Collection Init
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[INFO] - Menu Mods Init
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[INFO] - Menu Bestiary Init
[INFO] - Menu Custom Challenge Init
[INFO] - Menu Online Lobby Init
[INFO] - Menu Friend Lobbies Init
[INFO] - Menu Multiplayer Init
[INFO] - Menu Options Online Init
[INFO] - Saving PersistentGameData to Steam Cloud: rep_beta_persistentgamedata1.dat.
[INFO] - [warn] no animation named Idle
[INFO] - Setting PersistentGameData ReadOnly to False
[INFO] - RNG Start Seed: LWJ9 27A6 (1535017865) [New, 1]
[INFO] - Level::Init m_Stage 1, m_StageType 2 Seed 1410562545
[INFO] - delete 0 generated rooms.
[INFO] - [RoomConfig] load stage 3: Burning Basement (mode 0)
[INFO] - allocate 1311 rooms.
[INFO] - [ModManager] load stage 3: Burning Basement (mode 0)
[INFO] - reallocate 19 rooms.
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[INFO] - [ModManager] load stage 3: Burning Basement (mode 0)
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[INFO] - reallocate 157 rooms.
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[INFO] - reallocate 12 rooms.
[INFO] - generate...
[INFO] - place_room: shape 8
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[INFO] - 10 rooms in 7 loops
[INFO] - not enough dead ends, trying to make new one
[INFO] - not enough dead ends, trying to make new one
[INFO] - not enough dead ends, trying to make new one
[INFO] - placing rooms...
[ASSERT] - PlayerManager::GetPlayer() : There are no players!
[ASSERT] - PlayerManager::GetPlayer() : There are no players!
[ASSERT] - PlayerManager::GetPlayer() : There are no players!
[INFO] - Map Generated in 1 Loops
[INFO] - CURRENT ROOM INDEX 84 1ced10dc
[INFO] - Room 1.2(Start Room)
[INFO] - SpawnRNG seed: 3473286958
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[INFO] - ...stom stage api/scripts/stageapi/grid/altRockOverride.lua(43): Function
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[INFO] - Caught exception, writing minidump...

Among all the wasted storylines on "Dexter", and - sadly - there were a lot, like Quinn's investigation on Dexter in S5, the one that angers me the most, apart dropping LaGuerta's investigation, is about Louis.You can't tell me Louis wasn't getting a nicely-built set-up to become not only a villain in the show, but someone that knew Dexter's little secret.I remember spending a lot of time theorizing on him. I wasn't the only one, as Louis truly was the theme of lots of discussions back in the day, after the end of S6.

1. The idea of a geek-y, nerd-ish intern, that just ended his CS degree, instead of a seasoned antagonist (Trinity, Jordan Chase) was, honestly, a breath of fresh air. I really enjoyed, story-wise, his slow-burn introduction in S6.
2. Having a love-story with Batista's sister was a nice nod, and would have been strategic for him, in order to get to know Dexter, just like Brian started dating Debra in S1 to get along with Dexter. By dating Jamie, he could be at Dexter's home and could find his blood slides.
3. The scene where he shows Dexter his videogame was so interesting, you can't tell me the writers weren't setting things up:

Louis: "So... the game is about Homicide. And no, there's like a million video games out there about that. But the secret to this game is - and I haven't even told anyone this yet but - in MY game... you can be the serial killer"
Dexter (looks at Louis): "What?"
Louis (smiles): "Heh, see you have these character choices. You can be, uh...Dahmer, Jack the Ripper...the Bay Harbor Butcher."

1. Sending the iconic prosthetic arm to Dexter. Come on, this HAD to mean something. I was on edge after I saw that. In that moment, you could truly feel the tension rising about him and Dexter. It wasn't a normal item, it was the arm.
   
2. The scene in 7x01 where Dexter comes back home and finds Louis using his computer was so good. The tension was palpable. I was so hyped. In the same episode, Louis closed up Dexter's credit card. I truly thought the writers were going for something similar to Wilson Fisk slowly destroying Matthew Murdock's life in Born Again.I feel like Louis was set-up as a copycat, as someone that not only knew Dexter's secret, but as someone that would have tried to STEAL Dexter's legacy, by slowly destroying Dexter's life with different means (finance, documents, private files). It honestly would have been AMAZING, instead of the TRASH Oliver Saxon. Also, it would have finally been a villain with some set-up.Instead, what did we get? He was turned into a pathetic nerd that hated Dexter because he didn't like his videogame. Terrible writing, and Michael C. Hall had a role into trashing his storyline, as he felt it would have been too unbelievable if there was 2 serial killers working for Miami Metro...
   

MCH was OK with the weird incest storyline in S6 but was against this? LMAO.
What do you think?

Hi everyone,
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New chapters have been added to my profile. We're finally finishing the Arch Lich fight, and the return to Murim is in sight!
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Happy reading, and have a good weekend!

As promised, back on the quarterly schedule for another Case Maker Contest!
Your task is to write up an Ace Attorney case where a noun I supply below is an important part of the case. After the deadline passes (see below), submissions will no longer be taken and the community will vote for submissions in a Google Form. The top three submissions will move to the second round and community members will vote on which will win first, second, and third place.
Prizes are as follows:
1st Place: buy you a pizza ($15)
In addition, u/tenetox will compose a custom soundtrack piece specific for your case!
2nd Place: buy you a burger ($10)
3rd Place: buy you a coffee ($5)
In the comments, I will make a post that will give a template of what your submission should look like. If possible, please fill in all the sections in the template, including N/A if needed.
Regarding the description area, feel free to be descriptive as possible! If you fear the post is too long, you may post the description over several comments or through another source such as Pastebin or Google Docs. There is no word limit, so please do not worry about such.
The comment I’ll supply below, feel free to reply to it in regards to questions or general discussion. The rest of the thread is for submissions only.
And remember, don’t hold back your creativity! Your case can be a standard AA case, it can be a reminiscence case, or an Investigations-styled case! However, there are some limitations.
Firstly, your case shouldn’t involve any explicit topics of sexual abuse of any kind. If your case does involve so, you’re disqualified. Overly gory cases are allowed, but make sure there’s a reason for that, and don't have it be gory just for the sake of being so. You won’t be disqualified, but you may lose some credibility points. Also, joke posts are allowed, but only ones that are well-thought out, clever, and/or high-quality. Anything like “ThE PHoEnIX wiRIGHT TUnraBOOT: sOMEONE DIED aND phEENIX HAd TO dFEENdED THem!!!1!" is not allowed.
If you're concerned about crossing one of these lines, message me and I'll work with you to make sure your case abides by the guidelines.
Other than those limitations; don’t hold your creativity back!
The noun for this contest is: Goddess
The deadline for this contest is Saturday, July 6, at 11:59 PM EDT. This gives entrants a month to plan and write their cases.
Good luck, everyone!

I used to often play games like Malody on my phone (Rhythm games, VSRG), where I require tapping with 4 or more fingers to play and hit notes. Now I have bought a new phone, and it doesn't work the same way. There are times that it stops responding when I press the screen with more than 2 fingers or when I tap too fast, sometimes it shows that i'm pressing that part of the screen, but I'm not.
Help? (My English is not good enough to write it myself, part of this was translated.)

Hi, sorry for bothers with probably a dumb post but i broke with my ex like two months ago and i wanna go in dates and things like that so i dowloaded bumble. I dont wanna be egocentric but im handosme but i cant get a any match. I complete my profile and everything but is imposible haha

i tend to do evasive maneuvers when pictures are about to be taken of me. i hate how I look in them so there'll never be a selfie.
i also don't take pictures or record videos of things usually. when I see an animal like a fox, for example, I might record if I can, or a funny license plate or anything cool in nature or humorous.
mostly though social media picture-taking of food and other basic stuff bores me. so i'd rather be in the moment and spectate.
this also goes into how I won't be able to do online dating. i'd also find it cringe trying to take pictures of myself for the sake of being appealing for dating.
it appears having photos of you is important for a social and romantic life. lacking them seems to hinder them from developing. trying to find people to date in person isn't optional either.

I don’t want to keep purchasing and ordering test kits over and over again.
I’m a hyper responder to changes in hormones, and want to know what environmental factors impact my testosterone levels. I obviously know the basics like, stress, sleep, exercise, diet, etc. But there seems to be a lot of variance between people on how much smaller things affect hormones. For example, for most people touching receipts and drinking milk is gonna do pretty much nothing, but some people can have noticeable changes to these smaller things. I just want to be able to test myself after trying different life choices to see what impacts me.
Is there a way to consistently test your testosterone levels, ideally your whole hormone profile without having to always purchase and order kits
Is there something I can buy one time, and test my testosterone levels multiple times? I know Migan said grip strength is a good prediction of your testosterone but I’m sure gym can interfere with its accuracy.

If your Pt asked if you have or were ever diagnosed with a mental illness, would you be 100% honest for congruence? To those that do/have had a Dx, how much self disclosure in regards to the question, would you feel comfortable disclosing? Obviously you have no obligation to answer at all.
I'm contemplating asking my T. We have a v good relationship w excellent boundaries and communication. They are close to my age. They have said they had been in 'that chair' (the chair of a pt sobbing). I know from a video online that they has been through signiignificant events. This wouldn't be a 'nosey' thing, it's an.... empathy/ relatable thing? If I'm experiencing something, and I know the person telling me it's going to get better, has experienced the same, I think it would give me more hope, more relief, more understood and could connect on a deeper level for trust purposes. Almost like 'phew, ok they won't think in that crazy then' or 'Omg they know exactly how it feels. I feel seen'. I feel this is important rn because we are getting in to deeper trauma therapy, but I feel a lot of shame and fear disclosing certain things, or I feel it useless trying to explain because there aren't really any words.
I feel like my T has hinted at relating to a few things but seemed like they wouldn't say it out right because it's not her session. If asked her though, I think she would reply honestly, whether that be a disclosure or a decline of it.
Do you see any positives that could be gained by asking this question?