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Happy Sunday everyone. I (27F) need to get a situation off my chest and possibly advice on where to go from here.
Let’s start at the beginning, my best friend (28F) and I have been friends for nearly 14 years at this point, since we were freshman’s in HS. We’ve been inseparable pretty much since up until about a 1.5 years ago. My best friend has not had the easiest life, especially more recently. About 4 years ago, she was doing really well, had a decent job (we worked at the same place at that time) and was living with her fiancé. Everything went to shit when she found her fiancé had been cheating on her, so they split and she’s forced to move back home with her mom, which was an unfortunately toxic environment.
During this time, I myself was doing really well overall. I had a good paying stable job, a strong relationship with my BF whom I lived with (and still do). I was there to support her in anyway I could possibly. I didn’t have extra room to take her in or anything, we only had a 1 BR apartment. About 2 years after having to move home, she ends up getting fired from our job, just further piling up the string of bad things that have happened to her.
Fast forward to about 1.5 years ago… My BF and I are starting to look at buying a house and of course this is something I’m excited for. I recently had received a promotion at work that put me in a decent spot financially. I tell my friend this and she seemed genuinely excited for me. Out of excitement (and I think I was 🍃🍃 at the time), before talking to my boyfriend, say “When I get a house, you can come live with me!”, in which she was very happy about understandably given her current living situation. These are words I wish I never said, because I really think it has been detrimental to our friendship. Post 🍃🍃 clarity hits and I realize what I said, and realize how it wouldn’t work. She had gone through like 2-3 jobs at this point, in which she continued to get fired from for good cause. She, IMO, mishandles her money, which I get is her business, but if we were entering a co-living situation, it could quickly become my business. She seemed to keep her bills in check but I didn’t understand not saving up money to even try to get an apartment of your own.
For the hell of it, I bring the idea up to my BF, and while he wasn’t 100% against it, he definitely wasn’t thrilled. We discussed it at length, and ultimately decided that it would not be the right move for us. With her job record and the lack of saving up any of her money, I just didn’t understand how she would ever move on to her own place.
I tell my friend that while I love her and want the best for her, when I get a house I didn’t think it would be the best idea for us to be basically roommates. She seemed upset, which I understood and it broke my heart to tell her this as well, because I genuinely want better for her.
After this conversation, she noticeably started to distance herself from me. She would dodge making plans, take forever (days, sometimes weeks) to write me back. I took the hint, but can’t help to be hurt. She’s never brought up why she distanced herself, but I guess I don’t need her to.
One thing about her is that I am pretty much her only friend IRL. She has SO many online friends and I never really made friends online like that, so it’s not like she didn’t have anyone to vent to. I can only imagine what these people think of me, because I know she’s probably told them about this situation. My friend, to give you some context, is easily influenced. During the past year, she has switched her sexuality/gender multiple times in which I will always support her in this aspect of being her genuine true self. She has also recently self diagnosed herself with autism, which as someone who have family members that genuinely struggle with autism, this one took me back a bit, but I never said anything about my feelings surrounding that.
I finally bought my first home within the past year. An accomplishment I never thought I’d achieve. I lived in apartments my entire life, so to have something to call my own was an amazing feeling. I of course tell my friend about it and she seemed happy for me in a way, but definitely not excited. We close on the house and about a month after moving in, have a house warming party. Of course she was invited. She made up what I think was an excuse to not come over. I have made multiple attempts to invite her since and she’s declined each time. I’ve been in my home for nearly a year now and she has not come over. This genuinely hurt my feelings, but given the situation I guess I understand her reasoning.
Here we are today and I see she posts online that she’s planning on moving in the next couple months, to which I assume is with one of her online friends and out of state as I haven’t asked her about it. But AITAH to feel genuinely hurt that my best friend didn’t have the decency to tell me personally that she was moving, likely a distance away?
What would you do in this situation?

So I know we've got a patch coming but I feel like no one's talking about Grimm since he released and things I've seen in gameplay both playing as grimm and seeing others play him have led me to believe there's a real problem with his design. This is going to be long.
Let's start with his problems:
Grim is a carry, however unlike basically every other ADC he does not have mobility, escape tools, or even a snare. He at best has an anemic knockback but on top of that, he has a weak early game due to lack of offensive abilities and a severe dependency on items even more so than other carries. Murdoc/Twin blast/Kira all have some way to get away from or peel the enemy off themselves, even Sparrow(arguably the most basic of adc's) at least has a slow and movespeed bonus in her kit.
He also is unique in that he deals entirely magic damage but has a hybrid scaling setup. Which is a problem because items don't really fit neatly into his stat needs, and more importantly his unique situation results in awkward item interactions.
Ex: Items that apply on hit effects DO NOT apply assault mode damage despite it being an on hit effect. Life steal actually DOES work with his basic despite being magic damage(A loy of people were confused by this and didn't know lifesteal worked). He needs Magic pen to deal with tankyness but most of the items he would normally build don't have it as a stat leaving him with only caustica as an option and while normally magic damage doesn't crit Grim can...but only with his basic attack.
Additionally Items like Combustion and Magnify do not trigger off of Assault mode damage either(which i thought was really odd in the case of combustion in particular since it only specifies ability damage) So even these items which on paper might be things grim would want don't synergize as well as they should. Meanwhile Infernum does work.
This creates an awkward itemization and I'm seeing a lot of grims that don't seem to know what to build or when to build it. Grim's that commit to magic items end up with anemic damage output because assault mode doesn't scale well enough to be meaningful damage on it's own, his passive is minor damage even if true damage and in the case of magic items he obviously isn't able to increase his basic attack strength. On the other hand Physical item grim plays like a traditional ADC but just with magic damage yet still ends up lacking due to his lack of tools in his kit compared to conventional ADC's.
He's incredibly slow and easy to run down.
He essentially only has ONE offensive ability until level 6 meaning he's at a severe disadvantage against almost any lane opponents. He has no real benefits that make up for this.
His spell shield often fails to provide any real protection and has no real impact on the flow of battles. Ex: Phase fires her beam at you, spell shield only blocks 1 tick of it not the whole thing you still take damage you still get rooted and there's nothing grim can do about it because he's so slow in the first place.
His passive is literally forgettable, it contributes so little to fights it almost might as well not be there.
The benefits:
An emphasis on magic damage forces opponents into alternative build routes if he gets ahead to deal with his magic damage, they can't just build tainted bastion and call it a day.
Displacement cannon is a long range mortar in assault mode letting him poke like a mage would.
His ultimate tracks targets and can secure kills from long distance as long as he has line of sight.
In rare cases you just might spell shield something like a countess ult and save yourself but more often than not it'll be popped by an incidental hit from some ability and you'll die anyway.
Annnnd.....that's about it.
Possible Solutions:
1: Make the spell shield a barrier that gives damage reduction and CC immunity to hard CC(knock ups/stuns) but not soft cc(slows/silences) This would give grim an offensive and defensive tool to chase down a kill or to flee without getting cc locked. Or make spell shield into a stim, say successfully blocking an attack with the shield gives grim bonuses to aspd/movement for a short duration increasing as he ranks the ability up.
2: Assault mode's slow should not be a decaying slow. At max rank it's a 20% slow for 0.8 seconds. that means in 0.4 seconds the max rank slow is already down to 10%(the same as rank 1's full value) which is already not very significant especially for a character as slow as grim is. This also means the lower ranks are genuinely inconsequential amounts of slow. Additionally add a 4/8/12/16/20 base damage to the ranks of assault mode. A lot of people don't seem to realize ranking it up doesn't actually increase the damage at all despite the increased mana cost and the not very effective slow. since he lacks offensive tools, and an escape a decent slow is the least he can be given so he can at least attempt to kite. but given his movement speed that seems unlikely.
3: Add a silence or a micro stun to displacement cannon so he can interrupt enemy attacks. Position it as something that can be a life saving interrupt defensively or a silence to shut off opposing abilities to allow for an engage. Possibly also increase the knockback power. It's pretty sad to see an enemy blink/leap in throw a orb of plasma in their face and they only back up a whole 4 inches and proceed to be completely unbothered.

1. Change the pulsefire passive so either some % of magic power is added to his basic attack or give him magic armor shred on his attacks/abilities. Hell maybe even make it actual fire, some stacking burning effect with a max stack bonus. Any of these would give him actual team synergy with other magic users. Every other ADC has a passive that directly improves their ability to deal damage meanwhile Grim's passive is more like a bruiser passive more in line with someone like Kwang but without any of the durability.

All in all Grimm feels like he was designed for an entirely different role but got shoved into the carry position because his kit revolved around ranged basic attacks. But someone nerfed his durability but didn't change the rest of his kit to address his vulnerability in the new role.

I bought this game on release and got turned off of it pretty quickly due to some of the systems not being well explained in my initial perception (still think it coulda been a pinch better for a beginner, but I do get the appeal of a self-teaching experience 100%)
After giving it another try starting a few days ago, ive dedicated some time to it and ive begun really enjoying it! Fought a minotaur, a griffin and had some pretty intense moments in each.
The inventory management takes a bit to get used to and one of my pawns wont shut up about taking me to a town with a quest but thats a very minor thing 😂
I started as thief and am now using sorcerer. As someone who plays a mage in games whenever I can, its nice to have a focus on positioning and strategy compared to something like Skyrim (where most of my mage experience is). Baldurs Gate 3 is another good example of this.
Anything i need to know? General knowledge or helpful tips? I havent done alot yet but ive branched a good distance away from the first city, done a few mines as well as aforementioned activities.

I love playing characters in games that have some kind of magical/mystical/mythical/spiritual companion or pet creature: be it a god, angel, spirit, demon, devil, fairy, elemental, ghost, zombie, mythical creature, monster etc. The companion or pet fights on the character's behalf, while the character either actively uses abilities that enhance the pet or companion, or they have passive abilities that make the pet or companion improve over time.
I wish Baldur's Gate 3 had something like this. The closest is the Beast Master Ranger subclass. At level three they get a permanent beast companion, doesn't require any resource other than an action to summon, can be resummoned once per short rest and will last until a long rest. As the Ranger levels up, the beast companion will get bonuses to their attack rolls, damage, armor class, and hit points, and will learn to dash, disengage, and help as bonus actions, and even gain an extra attack. They'll also change visually over time, gaining armor and such to make them look tougher.
This is exactly the kind of subclass I would want for a magic user, just swap out a mundane animal for god, angel, spirit, demon, devil, fairy, elemental, ghost, zombie, mythical creature, monster, or what have you.
The closest thing is the Necromancy School Wizard subclass. At level six they gain Animate Dead for free and are able to summon one extra undead when using it, and the summoned undead will have increased damage and Hit Points. But that's it, that's all that subclass gets in terms of improving their undead companions: you have to wait until level six to get such bonuses, and then that's the end of it. Undead also have the problem in that they need new corpses every time you take a long rest, which can be a problem if you want to summon a lot at a time but also want to long rest for cutscenes or replenishing hit points and spell slots.
I actually thought the Necromancy School subclass was better than it actually is, as I thought the bonuses applied to any undead that were under the control of the wizard, such as from the Second Marriage, Create Undead, Danse Macabre, Fungal Infestation, etc. But as I understand it, the bonuses are only exclusively to the Animate Dead spell and not other ones.
There are several other classes and subclasses who gain spells that raise undead minions but I don't think any of them have any specific features that enhance their undead minions.
As for other companion-related features, there's also the Warlock's Pact of the Chain Pact Boon at level three. That gives the Warlock an imp and a quasit familiar. Unfortunately they can't be summoned at the same time, and their abilities are pretty low, so they are not that useful in combat except for finishing off enemies that only have a few hit points left, getting a surprise attack in while invisible, standing near an enemy to let rogues use their Sneak Attacks, or controlling them as a "scout" to see what is ahead. The only improvement they get is receiving an extra attack at level five, but later in the game most of those attacks will miss anyway. While they have their uses, they are not really full-on battle companions, more like little helpers that at later levels can take one or two hits, or maybe kill something that had one or two hit points left.
Anyhow, I'd love to play a character that focused on either conjuration magic for summoning a special companion creature or necromancy magic for a raised undead companion creature, with level up abilities focused on improving said companion to being a continuously useful battle buddy. Again, the Beast Master Ranger subclass handles this great to me. I just wish there was a class or subclass that did the same thing except with a magical theme rather than a nature theme, and with some kind of unusual companion rather than a mundane animal.

recently my fp and i have been talking a lot less than normal (for a couple months we would spend hours on call every night and a couple hours texting if not hanging out irl, and over the past month or two aside from 1 week where we were together in person every day, we’ve been talking much less. like, maybe 10-15 total minutes of texting (rather spaced out) and mostly only at night where we catch up on what happened in our day, what we’re looking forward to tomorrow and then our goodnights.
us talking less has been bothering me because i really miss him. rationally, i know that he has a lot of his own stuff going on and he’s very busy, which is valid and it’s definitely the reason we don’t really talk all day aside from when he’s free right before bed to check in. i want him to be happy and do things he enjoys and take care of himself, which includes being on his phone less. he reassures me whenever i communicate my feelings and ask if he still likes talking to/being around me. i’d say our relationship is rather healthy, i’ve completed dbt and use as many skills i know to keep it that way and communicate to avoid splitting and self sabotage. my bpd went into remission last summer but i feel like it returned a little bit when he became my fp and a lot more when i started feeling kind of insecure.
one thing i think hasn’t changed with dbt is my obsessiveness when it comes to fp’s. i’m not as outwardly clingy as i was before, and i don’t spam or excessively ask for validation or reassurement like i did before dbt, but i think about him ALL THE TIME. i feel like my attachment to my fp has changed since we started talking less, going from mostly secure to somewhat insecure. for the most part, the quality of my days has been depending on how much i get to interact with him, and i hate how it’s making me feel so empty. the less we talk on any given day, the more empty i feel. my days just kinda feel pointless and like i’m just waiting for the next time i can talk to or hang out with him. i was doing really well (as far as i remember) with having meaningful, fulfilled days before he became my fp (and during that time i didn’t have one)
not sure if it’s relevant, but i tend to split inwardly and only toward myself, though i do my best to fight it. i do my best to never see my fp in black and white or split on him and i do my absolute best to never fall into the cycle of “i feel like he’s going to leave me/doesn’t like me anymore/doesn’t want to talk to me” —> behaves in ways that cause him to leave/dislike me because i recognize when i get those “avoid abandonment” urges and fight them tooth and nail.
i think i’ll talk to my therapist about this and ask for his professional advice, but he also was assigned to me when i was really young and doesn’t specialize in BPD so i figured i would ask people with similar, if not the same, experiences.
TLDR: my fp has been talking to me less in the past 2ish months than the other 4 that we were really close during, and i’ve started feeling insecure bc of this and as if my days only have meaning/fulfillment when i get to interact with him and have a satisfactory conversation and/or talk for longer than usual. how do i stop this habit/dependency?

I've had some issues with my periods for a couple of years. I'm nearly 20 now and have suffered from extremely painful periods for around 14-15 to the point where I have had to come home from work/school and not attend as I'm hunched over in pain and can't stand properly or vomiting. I don't always vomit, but it is an issue if I don't keep up on ibuprofen.
I keep doubting my symptoms, I've had horrible cramping during periods, cramping 1-2 weeks before my periods which is present after I run or jog up the stairs etc.
I finally went to my GP because I had some pain to my lower left side in the uterine region when I leant over a table and that area was pressed or on pushing into the skin in the area. At this point I also had to light pink bleeding with normal discharge, when I was not on my period. I was extremely put off going to the gp again because I was given another NSAID, which I took once and don't want to risk taking again because I'm scared it won't work and I'll be in pain and can't take my regular ibuprofen with, and told that I will grow out of it when I've had babies. I was also told no investigations can be done, because they wouldn't offer me a scan due to my age. This was mid-last year. And since then I've been taking ibuprofen, using heating pads and dealing with it.
I usually take around 1200/1600mg of ibuprofen a day on the first 3-ish days of my period.
I've recently started to notice symptoms like waking up with strong cramping pains and almost pelvic pressure which I notice during sleeping and which takes a couple of minutes to resolve when I wake up.
I wanted to see others thoughts on this and what I should try/do next.

I feel like I need to learn how to code bots, to track sales of a coin….please throw in any random anecdotes or thoughts to the thread.
… I’m watching this coin consolidate, but it seems to have wide fluctuations. Please excuse my coinspiracy, or add on….
Bottom 50 of top 1000 holders (950-1000) have had very consistent stakes. It would only take $2,000 to reach the top 1000 holders. The MC is fluctuation by millions but the holder numbers aren’t changing much. Steady and slow rise in holders, but it can’t seem to account for the fluctuations by my poor math skills.
Is it possible this coin is being squeezed by a party with multiple wallets? Luring in legit HODL’ers and manipulating the price to show continued activity, even though it’s just playing a long game and luring in new holders with a better buy in?

Welcome to another giveaway on the island of Immortelle! Today, I am offering:

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You will see some duplicate items, but they are mostly different variations and colors of the available items.
Feel free to pick things up to catalog them, and try clothing on to see which items you want. Please put them back down relatively close to where you found them if you decide to drop an item.
Take as much as you can fit in your pockets! Please come with empty pockets.
Everything is in one large fenced in area. Take the pipe right in front of the airport and you’ll be transported to the giveaway area!
Comment your name and island name and I’ll DM you the dodo code!
Thank you for your patience, I look forward to seeing you here!

I've taken multiple tests and want to know exactly what type I am. I'd like an extra opinion on what potential types I might have, as I'm not sure if what results I am getting are due to me wanting to be a certain type and a certain person, and if I am an unbiased enough source. I'm not even sure if my answers to the questionnaire are the most reliable, especially since I have a bad recollection of what I've thought of in the past or my behaviors, and I have a memory that is not ideal in certain areas. On tests, I've gotten INTP, ENTP, and I have a feeling INFP and ENFP might be strong contenders.

• How old are you? What's your gender? Give us a general description of yourself.

All I’m going to say about my age is that I am young and I’m a student. I am female. I don’t think I understand myself too much, but I’m trying. I’m not sure how accurately I can assess myself.

• Is there a medical diagnosis that impact your mental/comportamental stability somehow?

I have been diagnosed with ADHD.

• If you had to spend an entire weekend by yourself, how would you feel? Would you feel lonely or refreshed?

That depends. I do it all the time and it really depends on how much I can do before getting bored. When I’m alone I can at least reflect on things, ideas, or whatever is going on in my head. I already spend most of my time alone because I have no social life and I find it hard to get to know people I click with, or people I can share my ideas with. Without other people, I can't discuss my ideas with other people and get their thoughts, which is something I like to have.

• What is your relation with movement and your surroundings? For instance do you prefer a sport or outdoors event? If an outdoors event what is it? And why? If not what type of activities do you tend to engage in?

I’m going to admit that I’m not the best at observing my surroundings. I have a tendency to walk too close to the counter and hit the side of my body against it, or smack my foot on a chair leg. I walk strangely. I’ve noticed that. That might be an ADHD thing.

• How curious are you? Do you have more ideas then you can execute? What are your curiosities about? What are your ideas about - is it environmental or conceptual, and can you please elaborate?

I’d like to say that I’m curious. But am I? I’m not sure. What things about me, things that I question, my general outlook on life, what qualities found within me would label me as someone who's curious? What I’m curious about can change, I tend to hop from one thing to another, which leaves me with a large amount of surface knowledge, but I can never get too deep into anything due to my mind already getting preoccupied by something else. I'd say I have more ideas than what I can execute. There are so many different paths I can take, so many different ways I can write this, or do that. My ideas are more conceptual. I'd think of a way to write a story or an imaginary situation. I'd go into more detail, but trying to pull up exactly what my ideas are is hard. It seems like I tend to forget my ideas a lot, or until something triggers them again.

• Would you enjoy taking on a leadership position? Do you think you would be good at it? What would your leadership style be?

I don’t know if I’d enjoy a leadership position or not. I dislike having to wrangle other people into doing their jobs during group projects, and I don’t like doing work I’m not interested in. I’d rather do things myself just because only I can at least measure up to my lofty expectations, or at least conjure a small fraction of them. I don’t take leadership positions often, so I’m not sure how I’d lead others. I’d rather question and criticize the leader’s decisions rather than contribute any meaningful ideas to the project.

• Are you coordinated? Why do you feel as if you are or are not? Do you enjoy working with your hands in some form? Describe your activity?

I am not coordinated. I run into things all the time, the edge of my desk, my door frame, the door handle, the countertop, a chair, etc. I walk super funny. I don’t mind working with my hands. It’s nice sometimes. I like working with my hands in the sense that it keeps my hands occupied. I move and fidget a lot. I can't sit still. It doesn't feel write when I'm forced to not at least move one part of my body repetitively.

• Are you artistic? If yes, describe your art? If you are not particularly artistic but can appreciate art please likewise describe what forums of art you enjoy. Please explain your answer.

I don’t know if I’m artistic. I’ve created my own characters for a story, or at least the shreds of one, and I like to come up with imaginary scenarios. I like to create elements in settings. Oftentimes, I do need some inspiration, something I can take an idea and turn it into something else. I really enjoy music and stories. With music, there’s something about it that I love, how it can evoke something from me, oftentimes a moment of an imaginary story, if that makes sense. I enjoy stories because there is so much to get from it. It’s at least entertaining, and it’s interesting to see how someone, a character or a real individual ends in the way they do.

• What's your opinion about the past, present, and future? How do you deal with them?

I have a bad memory, at least in certain aspects. The past is something I do wish I could remember better, at least to remember the fun and good things that happened, but there’s not much I can do about it. The future is something I fantasize about. I wonder what I’ll be, what I could be, and how unrealistic those paths and outcomes are. It’s a way to pass the time. There’s so much that could happen, so many ways my life could instantly change for the worse. There’s not much to say about the present. It constantly changes and it never stays for long in my memory. So I’ll just do whatever will keep me entertained for the moment. I have a sort of disconnect from my past self. When I think about myself, I have a hard time seeing any version of myself aside from my present self. It's hard to comprehend that I've changed, rather, I feel as if I've always been the way that I am.

• How do you act when others request your help to do something (anything)? If you would decide to help them, why would you do so?

That is heavily dependent on what exactly I am helping other people with. If it's anything involving heavy lifting, I'm not going to be too happy with it, just because I'm not going to be helpful. I help people due to

• Do you need logical consistency in your life?

I’m not sure. I like to get what I expect out of my work. Reality is unrealistic. It might be futile to expect logic to happen. It might be nice in some areas.

• How important is efficiency and productivity to you?

I’d be better if I were more efficient and productive, but I’m not. I’ll either be doing no work or forty hours of work within two hours.

• Do you control others, even if indirectly? How and why do you do that?

Do I? I might. I might be doing it subconsciously. I find others that I’m not too familiar with. I know what members of my family like me better. So I’ll use that to my advantage. I know that while I’m awkward and have a hard time talking to people like a normal person, I’m aware that some people find it appealing, especially if I’m genuine (or at least seem that way) or nice to them.

• What are your hobbies? Why do you like them?

My hobbies constantly change because I tend to bounce between multiple hobbies. One day I’m looking at airplane crashes. Next, I’m looking at birds or disasters. I’ll watch a whole bunch of media analysis videos because I tend to miss so many details when consuming pieces of media. I do have this whole fantasy world with a large number of characters I've made up, just due to how it encourages me to research other topics and I find it fun to implement elements from other pieces of media into it. I also have an addiction to TvTropes because I find looking at patterns in pieces of media quite fun, and it's fun seeing how certain tropes are a thing.

• What is your learning style? What kind of learning environments do you struggle with most? Why do you like/struggle with these learning styles? Do you prefer classes involving memorization, logic, creativity, or your physical senses?

Funnily enough, I could never figure out my learning style. That was because I tended to pick up on subjects very easily, so I never could tell what worked with me better. I prefer a learning environment where I can ask questions and get clarification, and as much as I dislike engaging and working with groups, I find it easier to process things if I can at least discuss those subjects with other people.

• How good are you at strategizing? Do you easily break up projects into manageable tasks? Or do you have a tendency to wing projects and improvise as you go?

I’m not that good at strategizing. I’d rather wing it, just due to my inability to think of ideas and paths to get things done. I can't get my brain in order and any plans I make will get derailed soon afterwards.

• What's important to you and why?

I thought about it for a little bit and realized that I don't have much of an idea about what I find important. I think I seek validation from people, as much as I don't admit it. I think I care about people's opinions more than I'd like to. But individual things that are important to me? I'm not sure. I've been trying to make some things important to me.

• What are your fears? What makes you uncomfortable? What do you hate? Why?

I fear rejection. I'm horribly sensitive to it and I'm not sure why. I can't name what I hate, but there are a lot of things that I'm frustrated with. I have some existential fears. I'm scared of what people could do to me. I fear what people think of me. I'm sure it's because people see me as strange. I'm alone, but I don't mind too much. But I still have that part of myself that has those fears.

• What do the "highs" in your life look like?

I'm enjoying new things, and new experiences.

• What do the "lows" in your life look like?

I'm stuck in an endless loop of days that seem to blend, doing the same mind-numbing tasks over and over. Then I start to wonder if this is all life has to offer me. Or I'm going through that downward spiral and I wonder if I can truly be valued, loved, or have any worth. I feel unlovable when stressed.

• How attached are you to reality? Do you daydream often, or do you pay attention to what's around you? If you do daydream, are you aware of your surroundings while you do so?

I am not attached to reality at all. I daydream a lot. When I daydream, my surroundings fade away. I’ve noticed that this happens when I’m focused on one task. I’ll often walk around, thinking about various subjects. I have walked past people I know well without noticing them despite knowing them well, just because I'm so deep in thought that I no longer notice things that are practically in front of me.

• Imagine you are alone in a blank, empty room. There is nothing for you to do and no one to talk to. What do you think about?

I’m not sure how I’ll react, but I have a few theories. I’ll just think about multiple things, like philosophical concepts, the latest form of media I’ve consumed, and random things. I’ll be thinking about all of my characters and potential plot points for a story. I’ll pace around while doing so because I’ll think better when my legs are moving and I’m walking around in circles. Eventually, I’ll get bored. Then I’ll contemplate a large number of things like when I’ll get to do something else because I need something to trigger the thought process. I might just sleep. Who knows. I might go down a dark spiral of self-pity, or maybe I’ll be confused about how I got into that room in the first place.

• How long do you take to make an important decision? And do you change your mind once you've made it?

I wait as long as I possibly can because I’ll probably have no idea what I’m doing. I’ll make a decision and question it. I’d like to say I’d try and consider if it’s a good decision, but I’m going to need a little more context about what decision I’m making before I’ll know what my approach on making important decisions is.

• How long do you take to process your emotions? How important are emotions in your life?

I have a hard time regulating my emotions. So oftentimes, I’ll be wondering why I’m feeling that way, why I’m reacting a certain way. I tend to start overanalyzing my emotions and overthink things. A lot of the time, I can’t figure it out. I find my emotions to be rather annoying, I can be overly sensitive and easily overwhelmed by emotions. I’m pretty sure that’s partially because of my ADHD, after doing some research. I find my emotions strange because I often react emotionally in strange ways.

• Do you ever catch yourself agreeing with others just to appease them and keep the conversation going? How often? Why?

I don't remember doing this. There are other ways to keep a conversation going and it depends on if I really want to be talking with this person for any longer.

• Do you break rules often? Do you think authority should be challenged, or that they know better? If you do break rules, why would you?

I wouldn’t consider myself that much of a rulebreaker. I’ll pirate stuff. I’ll ignore stuff that other people say. I think authority should be challenged, especially since I’ve reasoned that oftentimes, authority does not know better. I’m too lazy to be outright defiant. If a rule’s stupid, I might ignore it.

Backround info: I (16f) share a room with my sister (12f) and two of my friends that we took in to live with us permanently. We will call them Hope (16f) and Harmony (18f). Two of us typically sleep on my queen bed, the other a floor matress, while my sister sleeps in her own bed.
After prom Hope came up with the idea that we invite a mutual friend of ours over, Jude (17f). Jude has known hope since middle school and have been a "thing" on and off until they finally started dating like a month or 2 ago. Well at first when Hope and Harmony moved in, hope was constantly seeking affection with me (not sexual) and we would cuddle in an intimate way where our legs were intwined and we would be completely intwined in general and it we would even stay up all night talking and connecting. However when i started having conflicts which have been solved she stopped giving me affection as often. It was over regular friendship fears of not feeling good enough.
Well we resolved and it was still not often very much but she stopped altogether after she started dating jude. Well this has made me feel like i was the placeholder for jude and that it might have become deeper for me than i thought so i feel played with. I also feel embarrassed because i am such a prune that idk what normal behaviofeelings are for a friendship. But clearly ive been trying to take the time to get over it while i can and just move on.
Well when jude spent the night after prom at our house: Hope, Jude, and I slept on the big bed while harmony slept on the matress. Well this morning i woke up to them cuddled up and intertwined, making out. Like i could hear the spit and their tongues and they were having a full makeout session right next to me. They stopped when i made it fully clear i was awake but i felt like my space was invaded in some way and a certain anxiety or disgust.
Being intimate with your partner isnt gross to me but nobody in their right mind wants to wake up to that. Im used to my friends keeping that more discreet and private and being more considerate of my feelings. And i don't know if i am just being sensitive misophonic bitch or if this is genuinely a valid reason to ask my mom to not have jude over anymore. I don't want to have her over if the only reason is for consideration of her girlfriend without the consideration of other friends she is hanging out with. As well as feeling unimportant to a friend who is meant to be playing a sisterly figure.

1- I don’t use facebook and Craiglist has that sketchy reputation and I think no one will want her on petfinder due to age and temperment 2- We’re in MA, USA 3- None of us can take her into our homes 4- She gets along with no one. Fearful, huge hisser and spitter, has bitten people 5- “Look into local ____” hasn’t really helped me in the past because I can never find these “local groups” I’d like names please 6- My family wants to put her down. Her health is fine and I know putting down healthy animals is wrong

American weddings have gotten crazy with what it takes to be in the wedding party. From attire, gifts, travel, bridal shower, bacheloette parties, and more, it costs money to be in the party.
We have been in every one of our wedding party member's weddings and each one has been a good bit of money. The last, we spent $1.8k total as a couple. Every one I've had to pay $120-150 for attire myself + cost for bachelor party (sometimes paying grooms part) + wedding gift + travel + hotels
Therefore, we've tried to be cognizant of those hidden costs
Therefore, I have a sense of guilt for asking groomsmen to pay $120 for attire even though this is the main thing they have to pay for themselves.
we dont have a wedding/bridal shower, aren't accepting gifts, are paying for their lodging at the venue, and providing meals for their entire stay

they arrive on friday evening for rehersal, stay the night for wedding and have option to stay another night as we are paying for a party boat for those interested for the day-after.

I was thinking of paying for their attire for them ($600 total), but my SO said that I shouldn't feel obligated to. Primarily because I paid my part for ALL their weddings (and then paid for our own hotels, meals, gifts, etc). In addition, if they pay for their own attire, then I can shell out a bigger groomsmen gift for each.
However, I just feel so weird asking someone to buy something thats for my thing. Anyone else feel this way? did you just pay for it yourself?

Welcome to another giveaway on the island of Immortelle! Today, I am offering:

• Clothing
  
• Hats
  
• Accessories
  
• Shoes
  
• Socks
  

You will see some duplicate items, but they are mostly different variations and colors of the available items.
Feel free to pick things up to catalog them, and try clothing on to see which items you want. Please put them back down relatively close to where you found them if you decide to drop an item.
Take as much as you can fit in your pockets! Please come with empty pockets.
Everything is in one large fenced in area. Take the pipe right in front of the airport and you’ll be transported to the giveaway area!
Comment your name and island name and I’ll DM you the dodo code!
Thank you for your patience, I look forward to seeing you here!

I have been staying home a lot with a long term illness. I love hockey and baseball and football. Basketball was something my grandfather binged 24/7. We watched Michael Jordan when I was a kid. So of course the Bulls were my team then but, to be fair, whatever team MJ was on would’ve been my team then.
I’ve really gotten back into the NBA here the last few months. Widdling down my favorite team options. Bulls, Mavericks, Lakers, Pacers and Timberwolves are all still in the running.
I live closest to Indy. The Bulls for my childhood and MJ. Mavericks for my favorite color and jerseys in the league. Minnesota for mostly KG nostalgia and Lakers for Kobe.
What a game that was tonight and I got to watch it with family which was awesome. Basketball has evolved to where the Europeans are taking over. Big men can still grind inside like Shaq but some can even shoot threes too. Wild man. Super fun just wanted to share my thoughts.
So even though I’m coughing the entire time I’m really enjoying what we are seeing from the NBA playoffs.

Just as the title states, my GPA is sitting at a 2.5 because I was taking a bunch of stem classes while I was working 40+ hrs and dealing with a bunch of personal stuff. I’m only now redirecting and I’m planning on getting a degree in public health, I was a neuroscience major before hoping to go to med school, but I’m realized I’m a definitely not good fit for it. I’m currently working as a clinical data management intern, I’ve been working in this position for about a year now. I really enjoy it, I’m learning a lot from the data analysts I work under and the environment is one I really enjoy. Even though I’m approaching my 5th year of undergrad, they’ve been really great and I plan on working again during the summer and the upcoming school year.
After asking around, I realized just about everyone has a masters degree. I want to get one, I’m really passionate and interested in data analysis. I think this was the most interesting part during my biology labs. I’m finding that my GPA might be a barrier for me, I’m not sure what to do. I’m not sure if I’ll make it far with just a bachelor degree that I struggled to get. In a way, I thought the masters can be a refresh for me. A fresh new transcript, not marred by my mistakes. I know it was really ignorant and naive for me to just set my mind to it thinking that I could apply and get a whole masters degree easily, but I want to know what I can do to overcome? There are 3 that I’m considering; a masters in biostatistics, data science, health informatics. But all the masters program prefer a GPA of 3.0 or above, not including the other list of requirements I need. It says preferred, so there’s a very slim chance my application won’t immediately be tossed out, but what can I do to make myself a stronger candidate?
This field is starting to get very popular at my school, undergrad courses and majors that are related to the field are quickly filling up and professors are saying they’ve never seen this degree of interest in the field, so I’m really worried about the competition. One of the other requirements include having a strong experience working with at least one coding language, and I’m currently learning and training with R, would I need to learn another? Or complete certificates to solidify my foundation? For the biostats, I’m really interested in this one, requires a 3 semesters of calculus and one semester of linear algebra, and have only a single semester of calculus under my belt. For the health informatics, I need to take the GRE. For the data science, it includes the same requirements as the biostats, as well as 2 semesters of computer programming. The data science seems very rigorous, I’m not too sure about it especially with my crappy GPA, so I might stay clear of it💀
I think I’ll try to work towards the requirements for the biostatistics and health informatics degrees, take the necessary coursework and start studying for the GRE. But what else can I do in the meantime? I really do want to strengthen my application, but Im so scared I’ll get rejected because of my grades. I was hoping to attend Fall 2025 or 2026, more likely the latter, but what should I do to best prepare myself?

Spoilers for Curse of Strahd ahead, so read at your own risk!
You know those stories you hear every once in a while? The ones that start out with “there’s no way in hell this will work” and it winds up working anyway? We just had one of those moments in an online Curse of Strahd Campaign that I absolutely had to share. So I hope you enjoy.
Our party for this tale is thusly:
Vincent: Human Blood-Hunter
Nox: Human Warlock
Eylsa: Tiefling Druid
Coyote: Pixie Barbarian
Amor: Tiefling Artificier
Rictavio: DMPC Cleric.
Our story begins in the flooded town of Berez, home to the hag Baba Lysaga. For the past few sessions, our party had been pretty decisive in their decision to “burn the witch” as it were, but opted to go for a diplomatic approach instead, mostly because we had no plan or strategy whatsoever.
After meeting and discussing some terms with the hag, it turned out she wanted the following from the party in exchange for a gemstone she’d taken from a winery. She wanted Vincent’s speed, Nox’s tongue, Eylsa’s courage, Coyote’s last breath, Amor’s Hope, and Rictavio’s heart (Methinks she had a thing for our cleric). In any case, we found those terms unacceptable and combat began with Amor shooting her in the face with a firebolt.
First thing I had Nox do was cast fly on himself and Eylsa so he could go up to the roof so he could Thunderwave it down for his next turn. Meanwhile Coyote got right up in her face to attack and Amor popped a flaming sphere right behind her inside the hut. Meanwhile, Eylsa turned into a Huge Polar Bear and followed Nox up to the roof. After some brief talking, we had a small plan; Nox would Thunderwave the roof on his next turn, then move out of the way so Eylsa could dive-bomb the house.
And then the house’s roots started attacking us…
Nox failed his con-save and dropped 5 feet onto the roof due to loosing concentration. And with a passed acrobatics check, Eylsa managed to land on her polar bear tip-toes to avoid crushing the warlock. Figuring that he was likely going to die on his next turn, Nox went right ahead and cast that Thunderwave on the roof to try and get a hole made so Eylsa would at least have an opening.
It didn’t even make a dent.
And the tree roots were still attacking.
Luckily, Rictavio was able to keep us alive with some clutch Mass Healing Words. Meanwhile, Baba Lysaga had cast Cloudkill on the party, resulting in them all running into the hut for shelter. With the Hag still inside.
It paid off in the end as they managed to get a lot of good hits on her while Nox and Eylsa tried to take out the roof, causing her to misty step onto her skull and fly up into the air for that flying advantage.
With that, it’s Eylsa’s turn. And she proceeds tell us that there were two ideas warring for dominance inside her mind; one that played on the safe side of things and could probably reduce the amount of damage taken, one that was incredibly dumb.
Proving once and for all that we are terrible, terrible influences, we all tell her to go with the dumb idea.
Now, Eylsa had never dropped her Wildshape, meaning that while she was on the roof, she was still a huge polar bear. And now, the hag is eye level with her, some feet away from the edge.
With that information, Eylsa decides to throw herself off the roof and onto the flying Baba Lysaga… While still being a huge polar bear. Her plan was to belly-flop the hag to death.
There was some discussion about the rules of fall damage and how it would carry when there’s something huge literally pile-driving you into the ground beneath you. In the end, DM ruled that Eylsa would take the fall damage while Baba Lysaga would take the same damage, times nine.
So with that, Eylsa successfully jumps, soaring through the air right on top of Baba Lysaga and rolls the necessary 3d6. The final result was an 11 fall damage to the Polar Bear…
…And 99 damage to the hag…
…
Just let that image sink in for a bit, a huge polar bear taking a flying leap off the roof of a burning hut, splattering the hag to smithereens upon impact…
…
Once we were done cheering that the plan had actually worked, and laughing our asses off because the plan had actually worked, the house went catatonic and the party was free to loot the place to our hearts content with the hag-jelly still staining the lawn.
So the next time you get an idea that you think can’t possibly work out, go for it. If nothing else, you might get a few laughs and a dead hag out of the deal!

I have noticed differing little traits beyond plumage in breeds and now at my 3rd Silver Appleyard, I can say these traits are definitely part of the breed when kept as companion animals/pets:

• Sookiness level is off the charts especially the boys (My boy will stay on your lap head in your coat for hours if you lets him)
  
• Cuddles, cuddles and more cuddles as long as their footing is secure and they feel safe with you
  
• Burrowing into your waist/neck/pockets to hide their heads even though their bouffe feathered butts/tails are way out there
  
• Sounds - Quiet puppy dog whimpers in the girls tempered by let me expand my neck out to 5 inches in diameter, bellowing honks at a specific time of the day, as alarm or being a sassy pants/yell at you
  
• Don't be fooled by the bulldozer size, they will shorten their stride as though picking up the hem of long skirts from the ground and sprint across the yard like snowball avalanches...
  
• Hold them securely for they have no care and will jump and throw themselves out there
  
• Girls limping or waddling more than 'Silver Appleyard Waddle' is often due top unnoticed bumbles. Twice I have taken in girls whom the previous owners were completely unknown of that the degree of waddle was not right or they even had bumbles to begin with
  
• They take on the cold as though they descend from actual balls of snow
  
• They have a unique tilt of the head one eye stare down that they give you
  
• They really like to do things themselves, such as jump out the bath :)
  

This is 'Bella' at the 1 year age mark showing a black heart of feather (now gone)

Finally had the balls to watch it even tho before I even started it,I knew how it was gonna end. I’m really not a big fan of whoever idea it was to kill off all of them!! like why?? Why shisan 😭 I loved him so much I cried like a baby when they killed him off he finally found someone even tho I’m not a big fan of her I wanted him to be happy 💔. I really really loved the journey, it was fun seeing them all getting along. I felt so proud of yang ying she came such a long way, she’s really the mvp of the show I loved her. The main couple…. I can’t even describe how I feel about them that’s how much I love them, their love story is definitely one of a kind. I loved Ning yangzhuo his shyness in the beginning, the way he respected Ruyi nd lookout for her was my favorite .I love Ruyi like I really really really love her character she makes me wanna be her,she’s so independent, she’s strong , nd she doesn’t take any bs from anyone, I wanna be her so she’s such an inspiration to me like honestly I’ve never felt like this for any cdrama character before. Yuan Lu my baby 🥹 I hate that they took away ur story , u should’ve told her on that roof and y’all should’ve fall in love right then and there and have many babies but no they took u away.
The story is really not perfect at all of anything it’s far from that. They dragged the journey to an way too much so many plot lines could’ve happened if they hadn’t drag the journey to much,they mess with li tonghuang character over nd over I didn’t know what to think of him even till the end. I don’t like the ending. Chu yue really had no right to be in that last scene it should’ve been yang ying she knew all of them she went through life and death with them so many times it should’ve been her nd was that supposed to be ruyi nd Ning kid? It didn’t make any sense but I’m giving they wanted us to believe they faked their death? But why would they do that? It’s so many questions but I don’t regret watching it. I will probably be in a slump after this it’s so hard to come across a dynamic like a journey to love had. It was perfect the friendship the romance the tragedy.❤️

I’m 21M and have never really had a serious girlfriend. Multiple talking stages, and a lot of them ended with circumstances outside my control or bad timing. This girl in particular I met prior to heading to college my freshman year via a group of incoming freshman. I’ve known her almost 3 years and she was genuinely perfect, like I have high standards and also I have some morals too that can be a bit more difficult to find a match with. She met all of that and more. Had similar interests. We were hanging out a ton at college and then she transferred. I feel like we might have formed a relationship because we were so close. She came to my room and visited despite being just short of 3 hours away. We kept in contact and I wanted to try something with her so I brought it up and we kept talking the rest of the semester into the second semester and I shot my shot. She just wasn’t a fan of the distance. So I got shut down and I feel like I’ve barely made any progress in getting over her and that was 2.5 almost years ago
Since then we have barely talked but the last week we have talked more. She has a bf too now so that makes it harder. A lot of girls I’ve tried to talk to, I end up losing interest in because they just don’t come close to comparing with this other girl. I think of her literally daily. She was a perfect match and I also had so much fun w her and she was so easy and fun to talk to. The few girls that compared to her, I have had bad luck in timing with from things like, leaving from school, going to school, a very bad mental health period where they couldn’t handle a relationship, and even more distance. My hometown is rather isolated as is the place where I go to college. I hate it. I need to get over her. I need to just get on with it. Please help me, give me advice and tips. I am active, I do lift, I have friends, I take hard classes so that occupies me.

I spent 5 min making a post for makenewfriendshere for it to be deleted probably cause i said not to have [insert inappropriate word] on your account history. I hope it doesnt sound weird because things got messed up when i copy and pasted. Anyway here->
Okay so we can talk about things, I like to talk about boys and random things that pop up but puhlease dont let it be like ice breaker stuff. it would be awesome if you just came out talking about how to sprained your ankle rollerblading and when you got admitted to the hospital you realized you had stage 1 cancer but then the really cool doctors (like the kind from greys anatomy, the good doctor, new Amsterdam, the resident, etc.) saved you and now youre living your best life with your partner and kids or something. But like if youre my age im sure the marriage and children are unlikely but like literally anything im good with. Just dont send a pic of your willy after grilling me on weird questions where I have to dodge with some epic level trolling until I cant take it anymore.
And I knowww, people are always like "yuh im super fun and cool and i will def like talk" but its the same ones who are the worst people ive met in my internet existence. I mean sometimes i meet cool people but they turn out weird or they ghost me like what the freak??
Anyway, I would love some girl friends. BUT YOU have to play games cause i literally dont know any other way to bond cause lowkey i have no hobbies but uwuing on videogames. Im about to 'apply" to this girls only discord so im hoping to make friends there anyway please dm me !!! ( I have a PC and play mainly val but a few regular multiplayer games. Im down to get xbox gamepass or something cheap if we become besties fr fr.)
Also also, please be like not freaking old. You know who you are bruh. Peeps around my age preferably but lowkey someone at least 18 cause idk something about teens are soo weird (not the girls ofc) but yeah 18+ cause im a cool adult and we can both be cool adults. Also dont be racist, homophobic, xenophobic, ableist, dont be evil like im a nice person and id like not to cringe when you think being ignorant is haha funni.

So I feel I have mourned the relationship, accepted it's over, realised a lot of things and i'm slowly moving on. A big factor that has helped me is how much anger I have towards my ex for taking my cats without letting me say goodbye.. especially the eldest one.
I loved that cat soo much, he was so attached to me, I feel so sorry for him and often wonder if he's okay. We adopted him.. taken from one home he had been living in for 2 months, moved into our flat and lived there for 4 months and then into my house where he lived for 6 months until my ex took him. As far as i'm aware she has rehomed him. The poor thing has had such an unstable life, I hope he hasn't developed attachment anxiety or anything like that.
I don't know how my ex can live with herself with what she has put that cat through, I hope it eats her up inside. Vile little cretin she is.