I am a founder that has experienced most of the good, the ugly and the bad of raising capital for my startup from private investors and Venture Capitals. I have experienced co-founder break-ups, key employees leaving, secondary rounds, successful funding rounds, bridge rounds, flat metrics, growth metrics, massive partnerships with FAANG companies, hundreds of investors rejections and so on.
I've decided to post interesting tips and content that can be useful for founders that are right now fundraising to help them avoid certain mistakes or take some weight off of their shoulders.
This one is about investors telling you "You're too early", something that you've probably experienced if you are fundraising for your startup.
Having gone through 100+ pitch meetings, I can tell you that they will NEVER say the real reasons. When they throw a random metric, an expected traction, or whatever feedback, take it with a very fine grain of salt.
The true reasons normally are these:

1. They're Afraid to Say No: Investors want to keep their options open.
2. No Sense of Urgency: They think, "Why invest now? I can wait 6 months and see if the founder solves X."
3. Lack of Understanding/Belief: They don’t get what you’re doing but don't want to miss out if a big name like Sequoia/a16z decides to land a Term Sheet.

So, when you're fundraising, instead of focusing on changing your roadmap and do what they tell you, focus more on why the above didn't work out. All of them can be summarized to FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out). So, what can you do to generate FOMO among investors?

1. Be extremely optimistic about the fundraise. Investors don’t want to feel they are “helping” with their money, charities fill that gap better. They want to feel that they are going to have an extreme return. They want to feel they are betting on the 1% companies. They have to feel a sense of urgency.
2. Casually throw details about the progress of the fundraise with confidence. Don’t worry, those small details will become stronger facts as you make progress in conversations, and your confidence will grow and their sense of urgency too.
3. Obsess with the tough questions. Everyone is good at the easy ones. Construct short, simple and objective arguments for each tough question. As Pascal said, “if I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter”. Deliver the message through.
4. Be passionate and straightforward about what you want to build. Don't try to sound as something you think you should, or something you’ve seen around. VCs are tired of fabricated pitches, they speak with 10 different founders a day, all of them feeling they are the most special founder that will become the next Elon Musk. Don't let the air in the room eat you and act nervous. Be authentic and special.

These things may seem irrelevant, but investors are not rational animals. What pushes them to dive into a company and invest in it, is not the data. It's the feeling of closing a deal that potentially will return their entire fund several times. Those things happen once every 100 companies and there's no empirical analysis in the world that can give you such insight.
Therefore, the story you build around you and your company can have a greater weight in your investor interactions than having a good CAC.

I know everything that happened behind the scenes is what really killed it too but I feel like ever since they restarted that was the beginning of an end as well. It was a very stupid decision. I get what they were trying to do but it proved to be a wrong decision. Even introducing the Koreans felt.. boring? There was nothing to show them - nothing to be introduce them too. It was just a plain server with nothing on it. Everything restarted and I can't help but feel like that must make them feel even more left out? Like they missed a big original server and now it restarted? I think it'd be more fun for them to get introduced to OG island and see all the builds and personalities put into it. Much more fun to engage and be part of the server with everyone else.
Everyone also stopped playing - even before all the drama and allegations came. It wasn't fun anymore when everything they've worked on has gone away and they have to restart all over again. I get they thought people would find more reason to play cause now they are at square 1 but people don't work like that. You don't buy a new house cause you miss your childhood home expecting them to feel the same thing as they did growing up in their OG house. It's not the same.
Instead imo i think they should have implemented more on the OG island, have more events and maybe add more dungeons or "restart" dungeons - make already looted dungeons looted again. More minigames and just stuff like that they already did cause it seemed to work! But they took everything away and I think it was a mistake. The soul is gone and now with everything that's happened.. it doesn't look good. And I think it started with that new island. :/

I'm beyond stressed for the assessment. I will also have an iq test at the same time so it deeeefinitely add up to my stress. But anyway I'm stressed for the assessment for so many reasons : - What if I'm not autistic ? I finally thought I understood myself, what if I'm wrong and I'm not autistic, I'll be so lost. - What if I am indeed autistic ? What if I just manipulated ppl and the test ? Like some confirmation biais... I think I may be autistic so I see the symptoms even if I'm not, so the test end up being a false positive. Maybe I'm just unconsciously persuading myself I am autistic, but in reality I'm unhinged or idk ? - What if I indeed also have adhd and the asd symptoms are balanced out by the possible adhd ? So I'll not be diag even if I do have it. - I watch up some of the questions, and HOW I am supposed to answer them ? I don't understand most of them ! "Did you miss social clues ?" How do I know I missed them if I, indeed, missed them ? "Do you have trouble with eye contact ?" I have no idea, yes, no, am I supposed to noticed if I do ? I do have struggle when I think about having eye contact, but sometimes I don't notice, but what if I don't because I'm not in a situation where I need to have eye contact ? But I'm confortable having eye contact with my very very very closed one (which mean one person) ? So no, but sometimes yes ? Or there's also questions about for exemple "Do you have a hard time with change ?" My automatic answer will be "only a little/sometimes". Because I just think my problem with dealing with change is the normal amount, like it's normal. But apparently when I ask people around me they say I have a terrible hard time with change, like veeery hard yes. Everyone around me agrees on this fact, although I thought I went well with the change. What if I don't realize my symptoms, like here but with other questions too ? Or worst and what if I'm pretending to have a hard time with change ?
Can you tell I'm panicking aha ? So yeah, that's why I'm here : I don't know with who to talk to about it, and I need to know that I'm not alone, did you also had these thoughts ? Do someone have advices or I don't know, something ? I'm terribly scared, I hope some of you can help aha
(PS : sorry for any mistakes english is not native language.)

I'm beyond stressed for the assessment. I will also have an iq test at the same time so it deeeefinitely add up to my stress. But anyway I'm stressed for the assessment for so many reasons : - What if I'm not autistic ? I finally thought I understood myself, what if I'm wrong and I'm not autistic, I'll be so lost. - What if I am indeed autistic ? What if I just manipulated ppl and the test ? Like some confirmation biais... I think I may be autistic so I see the symptoms even if I'm not, so the test end up being a false positive. Maybe I'm just unconsciously persuading myself I am autistic, but in reality I'm unhinged or idk ? - What if I indeed also have adhd and the asd symptoms are balanced out by the possible adhd ? So I'll not be diag even if I do have it. - I watch up some of the questions, and HOW I am supposed to answer them ? I don't understand most of them ! "Did you miss social clues ?" How do I know I missed them if I, indeed, missed them ? "Do you have trouble with eye contact ?" I have no idea, yes, no, am I supposed to noticed if I do ? I do have struggle when I think about having eye contact, but sometimes I don't notice, but what if I don't because I'm not in a situation where I need to have eye contact ? But I'm confortable having eye contact with my very very very closed one (which mean one person) ? So no, but sometimes yes ? Or there's also questions about for exemple "Do you have a hard time with change ?" My automatic answer will be "only a little/sometimes". Because I just think my problem with dealing with change is the normal amount, like it's normal. But apparently when I ask people around me they say I have a terrible hard time with change, like veeery hard yes. Everyone around me agrees on this fact, although I thought I went well with the change. What if I don't realize my symptoms, like here but with other questions too ? Or worst and what if I'm pretending to have a hard time with change ?
Can you tell I'm panicking aha ? So yeah, that's why I'm here : I don't know with who to talk to about it, and I need to know that I'm not alone, did you also had these thoughts ? Do someone have advices or I don't know, something ? I'm terribly scared, I hope some of you can help aha
(PS : sorry for any mistakes english is not native language.)

Only we don't know it at first. Suddenly we are relying on whatever survival skills we have and whatever we managed to bring with us (friends, family, finances). The realization comes on slowly, as it seems that help and salvation is just beyond the next wave. But it never comes, and time rolls on. Life continues as normal all around us, oblivious and uncaring of the life and death struggle we endure.
Battered by the world and our survival. We can only hold onto the things most dear to us or necessary for survival. We are stripped of the many protections we have in the process, including things that protect our self identity. Giving many of us us a glimpse into our true selves, both good and bad. Everyone has a limit for pain and suffering. In this fragile state, clinging on desperately, hurting, confused. How long can we hold on?
After a few years (if we are lucky) or decades (if we are not) its like missing an arm, not ideal, not easy, but you learn to live with it. Its that or die.

Assalamolaikum, I (female) missed my Rawdah appointment. We left Makkah late (4 hours later than we were supposed to), and reached Madinah obviously later than expected. I booked my Rawdah slot for last night 11:30pm-12:00am. Because of the late arrival, I missed my time. For my mother, we hadn’t booked yet so inshallah I will try to book her a time and make sure she gets to visit the Rawdah inshallah. Although for myself what should I do? I heard the guards are very strict, and since my brother and I both missed our times, when my brother went today (after Dhuhr) they didn’t let him in since he missed it, the guards supposedly turned away around 30+ men in the same line as my brother. I feel it’s more important to let my mom visit the Rawdah, but I would also like to inshallah and pray there. I came from Canada and am not sure when my next time will be inshallah What are my options? I was thinking about deleting my account and trying to make a new one, although unlikely would it work? Please any advice would be appreciated! Thank you

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I've recently gained some weight, I'm now almost 200lbs which is crazy and I'm 6'2 so BMI is in over-weight area rather than obese. So coming to the point, I wanted to lose weight and keep track of what I eat so search for an app for that. Here are the issues I found with most of them.
Not every simple to use, barcode scanning is always a premium feature, asks for my health data, needs account signup.
I actually liked an app called Fitbee but it was only for iOS, I love my samsung so being a developer myself I made a cross-platform app that works on both iOS and android.
Here they are live on both appstores try em out.
AppStore => https://apple.co/4bjMFeh
PlayStore => https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.aravi.calfox
Finally, the challenge
And I also wanted to have myself a little challenge, You can comment down a missing feature and get a minimum of 5 upvotes and I'll add that feature to the app in 2 days and release a version to you all. You can get that quickly signing up to beta here https://tally.so/m6dE8B

I have been watching "creepy" YouTube for many years now (missing person cases, creepy websites, unexplained phenomena etc) and recently saw this video on the YouTube commentator picsmics4: https://youtu.be/PDVOaAKaMfg?si=HukZXo3LZICi7NuZ and it made me once again look for a similar mystery on YouTube, which I searched for several times over the last few years:
It was about a commentator in a YouTube comment-section of a music video (what the topic of the video actually was I am not certain, I am only 50% sure it actually was a music video) who posted thousands of confusing and unconnected comments. They sometimes read like it was one half of a chat-log (for example writing something like: "Yes, I remember that." without apparently replying to anyone) but way more disjointed and wordy than a real chat-log of a normal person would be.
I remember the mystery was presented in a kind of compilation video of YouTube/Internet mysteries and it stuck with me. especially now that I can't find it anymore and nobody ever seemed to discuss it anywhere else.
I am searching for either a/the video discussing this YouTube mystery, a forum-post discussing this or the original YouTube comment section where this occurred.
Again it's NOT about the picsmics4-case, it's just very similar. But picsmics4 turned out to be kinda wholesome in a way, while the one I am searching for was way more eerie.
Thanks!

95% of the people who eventually reach this boss on a first playthrough or blind playthrough are over leveled and end the fight in under a minute. I did not make up this statistic out of my ass, i've seen friends play the game but mostly tons of playthroughs on youtube, and it always ends too fast. They don't get to truly appreciate the banger of a soundtrack (my favorite in the game), the jaw-dropping environment and one of the best move set from a dragon. I'm not asking for an unnecessary/superfluous HP pool like Midir from DS3, but Fortissax should've been as challenging as Placidusax if not more considering how obscure it is to get to him. Fia's questline has so many steps that you can easily miss, that in itself should be a challenging boss for the people who really want to find it. That in my opinion is a better game design for an optional boss, rather than other optional boss like Mogh, Malenia and Placidusax who are quite easy to stumble into and yet very challenging.
It's even more of a shame because by the end of the game you experience serious dragon fatigue, most of them have the same moveset. Fortissax is the exception and yet he's not as hard as the boring random dragon you first meet in Farum Azula.

I used to play DnD in a shop, which was great for meeting new people, but also leads to a bunch of RPG horror stories.
In one campaign, there was a new couple to the store, recently moved in the area. A bit of an age gap between them. They ended up in separate games, with the husband joining our table as our GM made a space so they can join in.
It was a set up where the world is being Corrupted, and our efforts were slowing down the efforts or trying to create setbacks before the final battle against evil. So the DM repeatedly had dangerous situations, and even NPCs we grown attached too, getting killed by the darkness.
So this player joins, and picked a Hunter. He joined when the campaign was first scouting the possible location of the enemies base in the enemies territory. Imagine a party essentially approaching the gates of Mordor from LotR, escorting our wise and powerful mentor who we might as well call Gandalf. The DM was setting up a moment we learn of how terrifying the enemy is, and a “You shalt not pass” moment where our Galdalf sacrifices himself to save us. So when exploring, the Hunter pretty much wants to not want to be involved with fighting the darkness at all (bad fit for party/theme) specifying he stays away at maximum range at all times, and during a troll attack, he was firing at disadvantage whilst my rogue was getting mullered. He was quickly earning some bad rep as a player with the party with his antics, which leads to the horror moment and final straw.
We ended up at a cabin in the woods with a family there. There was something going on and there is a secret, and we needed to learn it from this family. As a party, we were trying to earn some good will with them, and gain their trust. There was a lot of cageyness but it was proceeding like a difficult social encounter could be. Hunter again, was not wanting to the party spirit, stuck to the edges.
There was a DM statement about the little girl in the family knowing something of it whilst she was skirt peeking from behind her mother. The Hunter decided this might be a good way to get the information. He started using some honeycakes to lure out this little girl out in the woods Man in White Van with Free Candy here on the side style. He was giving such details of how he is going to lure her out, going quite remote with this little girl, etc. It was very surreal and spoken as if given this some real thought, far beyond what you would expect for such a play. The DM had the little girl share her information, but he seemed to continue with interacting with her.Player (Cleric) next to me spoke up and said “Calm down now, Jimmy Saville”. Which kind of broke the atmosphere, we laughed and made jokes to defuse it and allowed to snap back from what they were watching. Hunter didnt look too amused.
The DM had the mother realise her daughter was missing, get hysterical and we as party helped her out. We get to girl and Hunter, and Mother goes “What are you doing with my child?”. We expected some kind of apology or excuse from Hunter, we take the rep hit, and he shares his information gathered with us. Except, he doesn't do any of that. Hunter just goes deathly quiet, and just walks away from the party, not even replying to mother or any of us asking questions. 'Right to Remain Silent' style. His actions were coming off weird in character and with his IRL body language. We obviously asked him and prompted him to do some actions, whilst Cleric expressed his own discomfort with jokes referencing Hunter’s character acting like a nonce.
Shortly Hunter’s girlfriend came to the table, saying she had a headache and he left with her. Given he was on his phone, we guessed he got uncomfortable with the situation and used her to bail out. We did feel some guilt about chasing the player away, but we were collectively ‘wtf’ about the experience.
Hunter never turned up at the shop again, which wasnt a big loss for us, as he was a very poor team player and we continued. His wife did return to her table. She left after a month or so.
It was a month after this when the DM was chatting with the other DM, about both the players. And in our Facebook group, he sent a link suggesting we check out it.
Click the link and it was Hunter in a newspaper online from a city from other side of the country. Turned out, he was on sex offender for diddling kids in his role of a church youth pastor. He clearly located across the country to escape his past. As you can imagine with age difference, his wife was one of the those he met within his role and married when she grew older.
Obviously the Cleric was like “I called it! I knew! It just wasnt right with what he was doing”, and yeah, it makes sense in hindsight. We were all very uncomfortable with his play.
And it is the very sickening realisation afterwards that he knew what to do about luring the little girl npc in the woods and his actions around that, because he most likely had very real practical experience of doing that stuff.
Sick.

I wasn't sure where to post this to be honest so apologies if this is against the rules.
My friend Sam has invited me to his birthday party this weekend, however he's also invited my ex girlfriend. If you'd like further context you can read the posts on my profile but TLDR is she made my life hell for months and was abusive.
We had many mutual friends, many of whom I have not seen in a long time and I do miss them. However, I told Sam I wouldn't be attending as he had invited my ex. Sam saw the abuse first hand, and part of me wonders why he invited her. I think it's due to 'keeping the peace'.
A few of them have messaged me asking why I'm not coming, and saying I should appreciate that Sam is friends with both of us and I should go and just avoid my ex.
I don't really know how to respond to this. I told one of them, who knew about the abuse, I wasn't comfortable being around my ex. They just said I should come anyway but they wouldn't try and change my mind. It felt a bit dismissive.
The underlying feeling here is I've felt very misunderstood, and alone in my feelings. Despite many of our mutual friends seeing the abuse from her, they don't seem to care nor appreciate why I feel uncomfortable.
I feel as though I have now lost a whole group of friends, and they are going to think I'm selfish for not attending.
How would you respond?

I know we come here to vent and share our sadness, I just wanted to share something that made me smile today. I lost my kitten recently a day before his first birthday, and I'm still reeling.
But every single cat I've met since then has come up to say hello to me, cats I've known for years who don't like strokes, cats on the streets, my neighbours cats. It's like they know. And I'm so grateful to them.
I miss you Dandelion, and I scratch them all on the side of their chin just the way you liked it. They don't lean in and close their eyes like you used to but they seem to like it.

Hey all!
Okay, so I discovered ASMR about three/four months ago and... wow! So much content and it has been quite a nice thing for me to get into when life gets a bit tricky. After reading/listening to a lot of people's work, I decided to write a script. I do not intend to record this myself - nobody needs to hear my voice lol!!
I'm not expecting anyone to read, or comment - I wrote this for fun and curious to see what people think! However, if you do, thankyou!! Please feel free to leave a comment, and constructive feedback. Still learning the ropes, so to speak.
I'm definitely not expecting any voice artists to want to pick this up, but again, if you do, thankyou so much!! Feel free to post on Youtube, Patreon etc and I'm fine with monetization. Just please provide full credit to me and a link to the script :)
Also, I know I include a lot of directions on background noise, but I leave that entirely up to the artist! It's mainly to break up big blocks of exposition, but from the stuff I've listened to, I do prefer background noises. I just find it much more immersive.
As put in the title, I've deliberately kept both Yandere and listener gender neutral. Both Yandere and listener can be any gender! I wrote this for everyone! My personal preference would be Yandere girl, listener boy, but again, I'm not fussed if that's not your thing!
Finally, and I hope she doesn't mind me doing this, but I wanted to do a little plug to HuskyWolfGirl's YT channel. She was one of the first ASMR channels I found and really helped influence me in seeking out other content, both on Reddit and YouTube, and wanting to write my own stuff. Her work is really good and she deserves a much bigger following. Link here https://www.youtube.com/@huskywolfgirlasmr
So, the premise is you've been dating someone for a couple of weeks and you're starting to really like them. You've even been thinking that things could get pretty serious. That said, they are a bit odd, only ever meeting up with you at night, not eating a huge amount, and always being cold. One night, you finally get intimate with each other and something happens. They change into a strange creature right in front of you, with wings, big fangs and red eyes. The last thing you see is them coming at you, and everything goes dark...
Muffled noises. Fire crackling in a grate. Maybe some distant wind through the window.
A chair creaking. The sound of straining rope, which starts soft and then increases in volume. Someone has been restrained and is trying to free themselves.
Footsteps, loud and clunky as someone approaches.

Yandere
Thank God! You’re awake. Finally! You’ve been asleep ages.

More staining rope noises, increasing in intensity.

Yandere
(sounding worried)
Please don’t struggle. You’re only going to hurt yourself. I’ve been around a while. I know my way around a knot. Please. I said STOP.

The word ‘stop’ is echoey. It has power in it. The noises stop.

Yandere
Okay. Thankyou.

Noise of a chair being pulled across the room.

Yandere
Look, I’m sorry, okay. This was not the plan. I just want you to know that. I’m not going to hurt you, or do anything bad. I mean yeah, okay, tying you up isn’t great, I admit. But I just want to sit and talk with you for a little bit. If that’s okay.

Sound of Yandere sitting down. A slight rope strain.


Yandere
Ah, you don’t think it’s okay. I get that. Honest, I’m sorry for having to restrain you like this. I tried not to make it too tight. Are you in pain? You are? Damn. I’ll try to keep this quick. I really am not going to hurt you. I promise.
(sighs)
I only had to tie you up because I need you to listen to me. And after what happened last night, I figured you’d only run if you saw me again. I wouldn’t blame you. But if you did try to get away before we’ve spoken, and I had to stop you, I could hurt you. Not intentionally or anything, but… ah, now you look even more confused.
(sighs again)
You want to say something to me. I’ll take the gag out in a minute, I promise. I know you probably hate me right now. This is all just typical me. Diving in head first, not thinking things through! And now we’re…I… I’m in trouble.
Don’t look at me like that!

The rope straining sounds start again. The listener really wants to get free.

Yandere
Trust me when I say you’re not going anywhere. I’m hundreds of years old and you’re not the first person I’ve had to tie up in my time. Oh Jesus, that sounds so wrong.

At that, the straining stops. The listener is probably trying to get their head around what was just said.

Yandere
Ahh yeah, urm, so that was a slip. I guess I just better get to it. Fact is, I know we’ve only been on a few dates, but things have been so good so far. You’re just so cool to hang out with. I really loved spending time with you, and I think you felt the same.
(beat, Yandere is studying the listener for an answer, but they are keeping still for now)
Honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone like you before. You make me feel something I haven’t felt in years. Decades. I’ve been alone a while, you know? I was kind of happy to be, until I saw you. I remember seeing you with your friends in the restaurant. Remember, the one I work at? You looked so happy, so full of life. You remember the first night we met? How you spilt a drink on me? Well, that wasn’t actually your fault. I just wanted an excuse to talk to you, so I tripped up near you. I’m pretty clumsy at the best of times, but I didn’t exactly put on an Oscar winning performance.
(yandere chuckles)
I kinda got the impression you figured that out to be honest. But you didn’t seem to care. I don’t think anyone has ever looked at me the way you did. I felt like the most special person in the room. In the whole universe. Are you cold? I’ll put more wood on the fire.

Sound of wood being added to the fire, and flames. Yandere sits down, hissing.

Yandere
Shit, burned my hand! Typical. Is that better though? Don’t worry. I heal quickly, trust me. See? Ah damn, you look so pale. Please believe me. I won’t do anything to you. You’re everything to me. I know it’s fast. I know it’s odd! But you’re wonderful, and amazing, and beautiful and… I’m in love with you.
Remember what you kept saying to me? That you wanted to wait before we spent a night together until it was the right time? That we should get to know each other properly first? Well last night was just… wow. Being with you made it feel like my heart was beating again. It’s probably why… well, what happened last night happened.
What you saw was my true form. It happens sometimes when we lose control of our emotions. I’m usually so good at keeping myself in check. Lots of practice, you know? But I couldn’t help it. And once things got, urm, good last night…
(beat)
I’m such an idiot. I shouldn’t have let it happen. But I was just enjoying it so much.
Oh my, you’re crying. Please stop.
(echoey)
Stop!
Thankyou. Oh, now you look confused. When I want to, I can compel people to do things. Well, kind of. It doesn’t always work. Never really something I mastered, you know? I don’t like doing it anyway. I just don’t want you to be scared. I need you calm. I can hear your heart beating and it’s… distracting.
(beat)
I can see you really want that gag out. I suppose I can do. Just don’t scream. Nobody is going to hear you.

Sounds of material as the gag is removed.

Yandere
There we go. Oh, no, honey, please don’t… I said there’s no point screaming. Oh, go on then. May as well get it out your system, I guess.

Sounds of strained rope, a creaking chair and footsteps as the listener struggles and Yandere walks to the other end of the room. We hear water being poured into a glass and more footsteps as Yandere comes back.

Yandere
Would you like some water? I can hold it up to… there you go. Not too fast! You’ve spilt it all down yourself now! I know it’s kind of cold in here for you. I can’t really feel it, you know? The cold, I mean. Well, my body is always cold. Kind of comes with the territory of… What? Let you go? I promise, I will do, okay? But there’s just a few things I need to discuss with you first.
(beat)
I won’t hurt you! I would never… why don’t you believe… okay, yeah, I know it looks bad I tied you up like this.
(beat)
Okay, no need to be rude. I know you’re upset and…
(echoey)
That’s enough!
(beat)
Now, I took your gag out because you asked me to, but you will listen to me. Neither of us have a choice in that now. I was gonna wait to tell you this, you know? I mean, I don’t even know when I was gonna tell you. I hadn’t made my mind up. It’s kind of a hard thing to bring up, believe me. Like when do you do it? Third date? Just before I meet your parents? Wedding night? Honeymoon? Kinda hard to jump on a plane to the sunny Amalfi Coast if you run the risk of bursting into flame. But…
Ah, I’m rambling. Okay, I’m just gonna say it. Thing is, well the truth is, I… I’m a Vampire.
(beat)
Okay, so now you think I’m crazy, wonderful. What? That ship had already… okay, you’re being rude again.

Sound of strained ropes again.

Yandere
If you keep struggling like that you’re going to start bleeding. Not a very good idea, you think, given what I’ve just told you? Oh, there’s no such thing huh? Well then. Ask yourself if you can explain what you saw last night. My wings, my hair… my fangs. Like my entire body changed in front of you. I know you saw it.
(beat)
Wait… no, you weren’t drunk.
(beat)
And I certainly did not put anything in your drink! I mean, I did have to knock you out but that was just a small bump on the head! I didn’t plan this, you know! This isn’t some Baby Reindeer rip-off.
(beat)
What? You hated that show? Me too, to be honest. Kind of creeped me out. I mean, how pathetic is that? I’m a 700 year old Vampire who kidnaps and ties up the person I’m in love with, and a crazy Scottish gal is too much for me. I mean, what the actual hell. You probably think I’m the worst Vampire ever.
(beat)
I’m not lying to you. I promise. I wouldn’t lie to you about something like this. Here, feel my skin! It’s room temp, it’s always room temp! You always used to comment on how cold I was. Didn’t you ever wonder why we only ever met up at night? Why I never really ate that much when we went out to dinner? What, you think I live for Caesar Salad without dressing? Why do you think my face is always white?
(beat)
Yeah, I knew you thought it was weird. But I knew you never wanted to say anything. I think I loved you for that even more. Despite everything, you still wanted to know me. Do you know how rare it is to find someone you really click with? Someone who sparkles for you like the brightest star, and the way they look at you means they might, just might, feel the same way? I mean, I thought you did.
(hopeful)
Do you?
(beat)
If you say yes, will I let you go? I don’t want you to say yes because you’re scared of me!
(beat)
If I loved you, I’d untie your hands? Are they hurting? I… look, okay, I’ll untie you if it’ll make you feel better. But please don’t try anything. Please don’t. Thing is, the main thing I need to tell you is that you’re in danger. We both are, now you know what I am. Stay still.

Sound of rope being untangled.

Yandere
Okay, there you go. Oh, your wrists look sore. I told you not to struggle too much! I can give you something for that. Okay, sorry, I know you’re still a bit nervous. I won’t try to touch you again unless I have to, so please stay in the chair. The ropes can go back on if they need to.
(beat)
Why are we in danger? Well, it’s a bit complicated. Trying to condense two thousand years of Vampire lore into one conversation is a little hard, you know? I mean, there’s so much crap out there about Vampires. Half the stuff paints us as some sort of wild animal, whilst the other half… I swear I wanted to bite Stephanie Myer. But through all the literal shit they do get some things right. We exist. We live in secret in the human world. We used to be human, until another of our kind turned us, and we became what we are. We drink blood to survive.
(beat)
Okay, I’ll ignore your sarcastic tone. How many are there of us? I’m really not sure, you know? Less than there was when I was first turned, I think. We spend a lot of time in hiding. We really don’t want the human world knowing about us. That part is true as well.
(beat)
Because we are better off! When I was first turned, humans did know about us, and they hunted us. We Vampires, we are stronger than the average human. We also have faster instincts, and we’re very good at hiding. I don’t know for sure, but I think we kind of evolved to be really good at hunting, well… humans. No, please don’t move! I don’t do that anymore! I haven’t fed… I mean, I don’t drink human blood. That’s not what this is about! No…

Sound of running, and a whooshing sound like material flying through the air. Then creaks as the listener is sat in the chair, followed by the sound of rope.

Yandere
I told you not to try anything! I’m going to have to tie you up again now! How am I so fast? Have you not been listening? What? You think I want to keep you tied up? You promise you won’t try that again? Fine, I won't put the ropes back on, but please don’t.
(beat)
I know this sounds crazy, but trust me, it’s real. I’m real. Vampires are real! I’m standing right in front of you! Can you not see me?
(beat)
Where are we all? Well that’s the thing. Most of us tend to keep to ourselves. A while back now, I’m not sure when exactly, a decision was kind of made that we would avoid contact with humans. For every human we hunted, ten would spring up to hunt us back and it looked like it was to be all out war. So, we hid. Got the blood we need from animals. Only some of the bad ones still feed on humans, and even then they do it stealthily. They’re very smart. They use human laws and influence to hide themselves. It’s easy to get very rich when you’ve been around for hundreds of years. They’re the really bad ones.
(beat)
Yeah, quite a few famous people are Vampires. But not all of us are like that. I don’t want to hurt anyone. Most of us try to live with humans. We get our blood from butchers, or hunting wild animals, and we just get by.
(beat)
No. I haven’t seen any of my kind for a long time. Not directly anyway. I’m alone.
(beat)
That’s a very long story. I will tell you, but I first need you to decide something. The thing is, the decision to keep away from humans and to hide, well, it was more than a decision. It was a general order. The accepted nature of a Vampire is that we do not reveal ourselves to humans unless… well unless we plan to make them one of us.
(beat)
Please don’t move. I need to explain… don’t even think about it.
(echoey)
STOP!
(beat)
Don’t you understand? I can’t let you go because you know about us now! And you shouldn’t do. Sit down, please, or I will have to make you.

A chair creaks as the listener sits back down.

Yandere
If we come into contact with humans, we take a lot of steps to avoid revealing who we really are. What we are. Most of us don’t risk getting close to anyone in case they figure it out. We can blend in, but the closer someone gets, the more they see us. Like you were starting to. And in moments of heightened emotion… well, you saw what happened.
(beat)
Why am I telling you now? Because you saw me. You may not have known what I was, but you saw enough. And if you told someone, and they told someone… before you know it someone hears who we don’t want to hear. And then, they’d come for you. They’d come for both of us.
(beat)
Remember I mentioned there are some powerful famous ones amongst us? Well, they like their lives. Exposing Vampires to the world could jeopardize that. And that is something that they won’t… believe me, you don’t want to piss them off.
(beat)
I’m sorry, it’s not that I didn’t trust you, but I couldn’t take that chance. As long as you knew about me, you’d be in danger. Anyone you told would be in danger. Anyone who you might have told. Leaving you free, knowing about me… I just couldn’t do it. It’s why I had to kidnap you. I didn’t really have a lot of time to think.
(emotionally, like Yandere is holding back tears)
And now we’re done, aren’t we? I can see it in the way you’re looking at me. Please believe me. I would never have done this to you. I had no choice. I really didn’t. I swear. Being with you has been the best time in my life. And I’ve lived forever. It’s a long time to be alone.
(beat)
Please say something.
(beat)
What happens now? Well, this is where it gets a bit, urm, complicated.
(beat)
I get it, you won’t tell anyone. And I believe you, I do. But it goes beyond that now. You know about us, and that knowledge is a curse. I know you, I know how conscientious you are. You’ll see Vampires in everything now. What if someone goes missing and you think a Vampire did it? What if you tell the wrong person? You’ll be dooming yourself, and you wouldn’t even know it.
(beat)
Yeah, I said I’ll let you go, and I will do. Well, that’s kind of up to you. You’ve seen that I have the power of compulsion. Vampires can use this to alter memories. It’s hard, and we avoid doing it unless we absolutely have to, but we can. If you want to leave, right now, then you can. But I would need to remove from your mind any memory of me. All the times we spent together would need to go.
(beat)
I could just try to remove what happened last night, yeah. But if I just disappear, you’ll look for me. Better you never met me. Better that I never existed for you.
(Yandere sniffs)
That is the price for your freedom, and for your safety. I will let you go, but you will go forever. We will never see each other again.
(beat)
The process won’t harm you! I have done it before. You would simply go to sleep, and wake up at home. You could get on with your life.
(beat)
Yes, I did mention you have a choice. The other option is that you don’t leave. You stay here with me.
(beat)
No, not as my prisoner. Haven’t I told you I don’t want to hurt you? I have no interest in holding you against your will. If you were to stay, it would be your own choice. But the only way to guarantee your safety would be, well, the thing is, I would need to… you would need to become like me. A Vampire.
(beat)
I’m afraid there isn’t another way. If you were to become a Vampire, you would be safe. Nobody would come after you. It would be in your best interests to not tell others about us. About what you were. But it’s more than that.
When I first entered into a relationship with you, I knew that if we were going to get serious, I would need to have this conversation eventually. I hoped we would be much further along than this, but there we go. It’s a lot to put on you, especially from someone you’ve not known that long.
If you were to become a Vampire, you could stay with me. Forever if you wanted. We could share eternity. Watch as this world grows and changes. There’s a lot of bad in it, but a lot of good as well. I could show it to you. We could see it together. For hundreds and hundreds of years.
There’s props to being a Vampire too. As I said, you have increased strength, and agility. You never get sick. Your body never changes, or ages. As long as you consume the blood you need, you don’t need any other form of sustenance. We don’t even need toilets! If nobody harms you, you can go on forever.
(beat)
Yes. I’m serious. I’m offering you the world, if you want to take it.
(Yandere’s voice quivers. This next bit is hard for them to say)
Of course, you wouldn’t have to stay with me forever. Once fully turned, if you wanted to, you could leave. Make your own way in the world. But this couldn’t happen straight away. Becoming a Vampire is an intense experience that I can’t even begin to describe to you. Everything is turned up like 1,000 percent. It’s a lot, and it can be very hard to get used to. If I were to change you, you would need to stay with me and learn how to control this power. And it could take a while. You would not be able to even think about returning to your old life for months, possibly years. If you went back too soon, you would run the risk of hurting those you loved.
(beat)
Yes. You would need to disappear. You would not be able to speak to your family, your friends, or anyone, for a long time.
(beat)
Yeah, I already said you can stay with me. I would help you, and bring you anything you needed. In time, there’s no reason why you could not reconnect with your old life. But you would have to be so careful. No matter how well you manage to integrate, or how well you hide who you really are, you would be a Vampire. Always.

The fire crackles in the grate as the listener takes all of this in.

Yandere
I know this is a lot, so I have one more thing I want to offer you. Stay with me, here in my home. Let me show you my world over the next few days. What it really means to be like me. You would not be allowed to leave here without me, and if you tried I would need to tie you up again, but if you promised me not to, then you can stay as long as you like. Or at least, until you make your final decision. Become a Vampire and accept a whole new life, or let me take your memories and return home. You can decide whenever you like, but just know that once you do, whenever that is, there is no going back.
(beat)
So. My love. What would you like to do?

And that's it! I leave the ending open really. Either it can end here, or I write more!
If you made it this far, thanks for reading, and have a good day!!

Just like the title says, I've been following this game for sometime. Like many of you I learned of immuntible through the GME saga, at the time there were some successful crypto games out and people were making a decent amount of money. This project seemed to have a lot of potential compared to those. I just recently downloaded the game and linked my immuntible account and I don't see any mention of crypto or markets or anything. I'm sure I've missed big updates and course changes in the project but it just seems so different then the web3 crypto focused idea it used to be. What happened?

I'm new to Power BI and haven't received any training, and it is not close to the area I'm qualified in, please forgive me for really not knowing the correct terminology, and I kinda need help in a 'explain like I'm 5' way (I'm trying to learn from YouTube, as our Business Intelligence unit doesn't have the capacity to help with my request, so I need to handle this myself).
I've created a cloud-based app with simple data entry, the data is stored on a cloud based server. The SQL setup includes a main table with data and three tables that holds data for the main table e.g., the main table has a column that populates a, b, c, and another table converts a = apples, b = bananas, c = carrots). This app tracks items that are ordered , arrived, and ready. there is some additional bits like delivery name, time etc hence the need for additional tables due to not all being 1:1. Hopefully you are with me so far.
I created a Power BI report/dashboard using DirectQuery to show the status of each item (ordered, arrived, ready) and linked the tables so fields a, b, c display the corresponding names from the other tables. There are 4 other tables that link into the main table. The aim is that the front end user scans items into the app, and the end user can see the updates on a real time dashboard (but not manipulate) and they can filter it by their department only. However when i publish it to teams I get an error message saying the data source is unreachable because there's no gateway.
What am I doing wrong? What should I search for to learn what I'm missing? Is it possible to provide real-time data to my end users via SQL, Power BI, and Teams? If so, what is the best set up for this? I want the dashboard to update automatically each time new data is entered?
Thank you for reading this far, and I appreciate any help you can offer.

(Originally posted to selfhosted)
Over the past few months, I've tested several self-hosted reverse proxy solutions for my local network and I decided to share my experience for anyone else in the market. Full disclosure: I'm not an advanced user, nor am I an authority on this subject whatsoever. I mainly use reverse proxies for accessing simple local services with SSL behind memorable URLs and haven't dipped my toes into anything more complex than integrating Authentik for SSO. I prefer file-based configuration, avoid complexity, and don't need advanced features; so this list certainly won't be valuable for everyone. Feel free to share your opinions; I'd love to hear what everyone else is using.
Here's my opinionated review of the reverse proxy solutions I've tried, ranked from most likely to recommend to newcomers to least likely:

1. Caddy: By far the most painless reverse proxy I've used. Extremely lightweight, performant, and modular with plenty of extensions. Great documentation and descriptive error messages. I currently have most of my services behind a single instance of Caddy running on a Debian LXC on Proxmox and I love it. Combined with the ACME Cloudflare DNS provider addon and VS Code Server for easy configuration from a web browser, I couldn't recommend a more painless solution for beginners who just want to access their local services behind a TLD without browser warnings. Having my entire home network's reverse proxy solution contained within a single, elegantly formatted Caddyfile is a godsend. Though, if your setup is complex enough to require using the JSON config or you rely heavily on Docker, you might also consider Traefik.
2. Traefik: Probably the most powerful and versatile option I've tried, with the necessary complexity and learning curve that entails. The Docker label configuration is fantastic, and I still use it on systems I haven't migrated away from Docker. I find the multiple approaches to configuration and the corresponding documentation hard to wrap my head around sometimes, but it always seems to pay off.
3. Zoraxy: Despite being relatively new, it's the best GUI-based reverse proxy solution I'm familiar with. I grew out of it quickly as it was missing very basic features like SSL via DNS challenges when I last tried it, but I'm still placing it high on the list solely for providing the only viable option for people with a phobia of config files that I currently know of. It also has a really sleek interface, although looks can be deceiving. YMMV.
4. NGINX: Old reliable. It's only this far down the list because I prefer Traefik over vanilla NGINX for more complex use cases these days and haven't used it for proxy purposes in recent memory. I have absolutely nothing bad to say about NGINX (besides finding the configuration a bit ugly) and I use it for public-facing services all the time. If you're already using NGINX, you probably have a good reason to, and this list will have zero value to you.
5. NGINX Proxy Manager: Unreliable. It's this far down the list because I'd prefer anything over NPM. Don't let its shiny user-friendly frontend fool you, as underneath lies a trove of bugs that will inevitably lead you down a rabbit hole of stale issues and nonexistent documentation. "I've been using NPM for months and have never had an issue with it." WRONG. By the time you've read this, half of your proxy hosts are offline, and the frontend login has inexplicably stopped accepting your admin account credentials. Hyperbole aside, I've never self-hosted anything as fragile and prone to sporadically breaking as NPM in its current state, which is especially unappealing for something you might be putting all of your self-hosted services behind. From what I can tell, development is primarily focused on a major overhaul (v3) rather than fixing current issues in v2. I'd recommend anything else until then, including nothing at all. Just my experience though.

Honorable mentions:

• SWAG: Haven't used this one since I moved away from Docker, but I've seen it recommended a ton and it seems the linuxserver.io guys are held in pretty high regard. It's definitely worth a look if you use Docker or want an alternative Traefik.
• HAProxy: I didn't include it in the list because I was using the OPNsense addon and nearly went insane in the process. It might have just been the GUI, but it's the only reverse proxy solution I've used that made me actively feel like a moron. Definitely has its purpose, but I personally had no reason to keep putting myself through that.

Pri’Darya, Alcoranth Male, Pirate Captain
Oh where did it all go wrong? Me crew is dead, and my boy was brutally murdered.
In this void of sensation, I am only left with my thoughts. That stun baton has completely paralyzed me, and I know I’m being taken to a cryopod for holding, so I may as well dwell on my thoughts.
Was it taking the job where we messed up? No, I don’t think so. It was probably the bait. It worked too well. We caught too big of a Trorish.
I sigh internally as I can feel them lifting me up somewhere.
And we had such a good plan too. Well it wasn’t my plan, it was my boy’s plan. To send out a drone ship with a fake weapon system as a decoy so we can sneak up on them, it worked so well that they actually thought it was us.
I can feel them placing me down on a soft platform as a shadow seems to begin looming over me.
That Altrin girl could have gone for a pretty credit if we got her, but what the hells was that rifle she was using? I thought a fully automatic BYR was impossible due to the recoil and explosive payloads. But that white… whatever she was… She is completely terrifying. I thought she would just sell for a lot more since she kept her fur in good condition, so I thought she was just an assistant to that Altrin girl. Never in me life, would I expect a pretty girl like that to be so… terrifyingly deadly.
The air begins to turn cold.
Ah, I’m out of time to think… At least wherever I end up, I hope I don’t see that white furred girl again.
Cerelia, Altrin Female, Captain of The Opal Star
I sigh as we finish escorting the remaining crew to their quarters or work quarters, taking in consideration to take longer routes around the ship to avoid bodies that we haven’t had time to clean up yet. There were a few crewmembers we had to either escort back to their work areas or to communal areas due to bodies that we couldn’t avoid.
It’s going to be a long few days…
My attention is grabbed by my wrist data pad as I get a call from Triwt.
“Hey, Triwt, how are things going on your end?” I ask with a tiredness in my voice as I’ve been awake for roughly 13 or so hours now.
“Well, we’ve managed to move the majority of the bodies. Galactic Law doesn’t allow for spacing bodies.”
“It would be an easier clean up if we could.”
“Yes, but we still have to obey the law.”
We both sigh at the same time while I use my other hand to rub my face, trying to make my exhaustion go away with such a pointless attempt.
“Right, right…” I sigh again before continuing to speak, “Anyways, I’m setting up an autopilot course to take us to Verglas.”
“Verglas?”
“Yeah, sending you the information now.”
There’s a moment of silence from Triwt before she speaks, “You’re kidding me, right?”
“I wish I was.”
“An ice covered planet?
“Mhm.”
“Known to snow almost all the time?”
“Yes, but the cities and spaceport are built around a natural heat signature.”
“... You’re lucky I have a snow coat and that I have fur, but my fur isn’t really good at keeping out the cold.”
I hear her sigh on her end before I chime in.
“Wanna go meet up at Med Bay 07? Check in on Jordan?”
“Jordan? My my, Captain I didn’t know you were interested in him where you're already shortening his name.”
“It’s not like that! He said it was weird to hear everyone saying his ‘full name’ and prefers being called by his ‘first name’.” I huff in slight annoyance and embarrassment.
“Ah okay, does that mean we should all refer to him as Jordan then?”
“I believe so if that’s what he wishes.”
I mean I felt special when he wanted me to call him Jordan, but oh well.
“Okay, I’ll see you there, Cerelia.”

I slowly walk down the hall. It’s been quarantined due to the fact that there’s still blood and bullets on the walls and floor of the corridor. It seems that the trail of blood from Jordan has gone from red to more of a brownish black color.
I look up at a sign in the hallway that reads, “MEDICAL ROOM 07” which I smirk a little.
I always find it funny that despite it being a medical room, everyone calls it a Med Bay. I wonder where that name for it came from.
“Hey Triwt, I’m here-” I cut myself off as before me in the room is Triwt, Lys, and every crew member from the compromised safe room. Well all except for R’dorn.
I’m glad that prick isn’t here, but I wasn’t expecting everyone else to be here.
“Oh uh, hey everyone. Are we all here to see, Jordan Cores?”
Lys nods and speaks up, “Yes, and Triwt did inform us about his name preference. It’s a little bit weird, but we can do it if it’s what he wishes.”
I admit, I was almost a little bit annoyed that others were calling him Jordan now, but I have to let that emotion go for now as I’m here to see how he’s recovering, not to try and be an overprotective mother. I nod and walk over to the stasis regeneration tube as I look inside.
Part of me is glad that his arms and hands have already been fixed, but…
Not everything is going to be truly healed 100%.
I think to myself as I can see the formations of scars on his skin tissue. I noticed it the first time, but I don’t think he noticed it himself when he woke up after his first big injury. His wrists and knuckles are the most scarred, due to probably when he was punching that orange Alcoranth, but his wrists are from when he broke out of his restraints when we first found him.
Not the best memory to think back on… It hasn’t even been a full day yet. Oh, and where is Jordan going to sleep?
I then slowly bring myself to look at his face, which is almost finished healing. There’s a scar on his chin and a scar leading to under his right ear where the shot left his head. It’s not a major scar except for the entrance and exit wounds, but it’s still somewhat noticeable. If anything the white tissue of the scars make it stand out against his [tan] skin.
If only we had some higher grade Stasis Regeneration Tubes, maybe we could heal those scars as well… All we can do now is wait…
Jordan Cores, Human Male, Part-Time Security Worker
I take in a deep breath, gasping for air as I sit straight up in a cold sweat, holding onto my face and chest. My heart beats quickly and I sit there panting. I quickly check myself to make sure I’m not missing any body parts or anything.
“That is not an okay feeling!” I say aloud before shuddering.
It’s hard to describe how it feels to be in pain, everything slightly red in my vision, I was hearing my own heart thumping in my chest all the while I couldn’t hear out of my right ear, and then in the blink of an eye everything is fine, there’s no more pain just the sensation that something is missing while sitting on a bed of some sort surrounded by aliens.
Oh right the aliens.
OH RIGHT THE ALIENS
I turn my head and look around me, and while I’m a little panicked, I’m able to calm down as most of them are sitting further back or standing near the walls. The only ones closer to me are Lys, Cerelia, and I think the white snake lady is Triwt if I remember correctly.
“Um… good morning?” I ask nervously as I look around the room. “Is it even morning?”
“No, it’s technically the middle of the night, Jordan.” Cerelia says as she puts her paw on my head and rubs my hair like my parents used to when I was younger. “But, we all wanted to be sure you would be fine when waking up and it would be cruel to leave you alone when waking up. That, and these crewmembers wanted to express their thanks for protecting them. Though, hopefully next time it won’t be such a violent display.”
“S-Sorry, I wasn’t really thinking when that happened.”
“To be fair you were shot in the head. I think they were more scared that you seemingly came back to life.”
“Y-Yeah… Uh, if it’s okay, can I maybe say hi to them then?” I ask, peering around her shoulder to look at the other crew members. She nods and steps to the side as a line forms of aliens who want to speak to me.

I never expected to spend the next 20 minutes receiving thanks from complete strangers, aliens nonetheless, but it was still nice. I also apologized if I potentially scared them for what they saw me do.
Also aliens apparently hug. A lot.
That would probably explain why Cerelia was petting my head as well…
The last person I expected to approach me was Triwt.
She slithered up to me and offered me one of her four hands, which I accepted, gently shaking it before she pulled me into a hug like the last 13 people did. After a few seconds she lets me go.
“Jordan, since you will probably be with us for a while, could I potentially offer you a job while you are on this ship?”
“H-Huh? A job?”
Triwt, Female Valis-Trobat Hybrid, Security Commander
I try to stay focused on giving Jordan this job offer, but something is really distracting me, especially with our upcoming destination of Verglas.
Goddess, he is super warm…
And that is Chapter 10! I know it's probably a bit more on the boring side, but it's to try and set up our trip to Verglas (which is a thin coating of ice on a rock. Ice Rock. Ice Planet)! I really liked the suggestions of an ice planet so thats where we're heading. Major Cities and spaceports are built on natural heat signatures which cause a lot of natural hot springs (ooo fun!). Also for our theorizers, no, Pri'Darya will not be recurring, I just wanted to give him a name and their side of things in the aftermath.
Also it's time for Jordan to finally get a job! It hasn't been a full day and Triwt wants him on her team! This also means I can have an excuse for him to be around Lys and Cerelia more often. That being said, does Jordan get his own room, or does he have to bunkbed with somebody?
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I’m not asking about whether dumpers regret their decision (I’m not trying to feed into delusions here) more so do you think they regret how they ended things? My last break up (dumpee) I was told I did nothing wrong, was one of the best people to ever be in her life and the kindest soul and that’ll she miss me, yet she refused to talk to me when it happened and stonewalled me, left me hanging because she “couldn’t talk about it right now” and ignored me when I asked her if something was bothering her which led to the BU.
I’ve been doing kind of well and at this point idk if I’d even want her back, I’m also not hoping on some grand gesture/reach out from her. But I can’t lie a part of me hopes one day she realises how she handled it and at least feels bad for how she treated me at the end as I apparently didn’t deserve any of this according to her.
I know everyone in this sub can be a little biased (myself included) but do you think if you treated them well and you were a good person to them that they’ll at least regret being kind of shitty at the end? Any opinions would be appreciated.
I also know I shouldn’t think about these things but c’mon, we’re all human and I think we’d all like to know whether our exes did at least A LITTLE self reflection and realised “shit they didn’t deserve that I could have handled that better”