1 guy and a horse

Its kind of my first time using online dating app. And I am having a good conversatiom with this one guy going. But somehow, he has a habit of praising an aspect of me and followed it up with "I like that"
Everytime messages like that comes up, I get turned off. Its been around 24 hours since matching, and he had said at least 4-7 positive comments ending with "I like that"
I find this comes off as 1. Arrogant (why would you think I care so much about your approval at this stage? And I certainly am not desperately seeking your approval)

1. Dismissing me into a certain specific traits that anyone can have (Smart, Resourcefull, Friendly etc. I feel assessed as my traits, not as me?)
   
2. A bit pressured
   
3. Can I mention arrogant again? Or should I use narcissistic ?
   

AITA here for feeling the ick? Is this normal ? I mean, I would have been fine if he ended at the compliments. But the fact that he followed up with "I like that" is making me uncomfortable. Should I give it a chance or not? Should I talk to him about it instead?

I’m 27 African (M) and I have thoughts that maybe make no sense or I’m just slow in understanding.

1. I find it hard to make friends and keep friends but yet with a complete stranger let’s say at a licensing department for example, they find it easy to strike up a conversation with me and tell me information about them that maybe I shouldn’t know about but still lend an active listening ear.
   
2. I can’t look at people in the eyes when asking for help or talking to them it’s as if I have some inferiority complex that I haven’t dealt with yet.
   
3. Despite the ease and accessibility with social media and dating apps I’ve found it hard to find someone im interested in and talk with them online without the conversation leading to anything sexual within the first 24 hours.
   
4. Regarding point 3, I believe I’m an average looking guy but somehow random accounts will follow me and dm me and I’ll respond as a normal human being would but then the convo leads to love bombing and I kinda play along but it’s as if it’s almost a game to most of them with I found unfair to me but then understand that I responded to the text so therefore I’m also complicit.
   
5. I do believe I have confidence im not even ashamed to walk around public spaces with paint stained clothes because I work in the construction field as a construction worker. People stare obviously but I pay no mind to it but somehow subconsciously it still bothers me.
   

Maybe I’m just confused and have unprocessed emotions. If you could spare time in your day a comment or two would be greatly appreciated. Maybe you relate or maybe you can knock some sense into me

Hey guys, I'm on my way to becoming a blue hive but I want to end up as a red hive in end game. I've got an early-ish blue hive (9 tads, 1 bouyant) and I'm wondering if I go for a full end game blue hive before switching or if I can just save up some honey and switch. If so, how much honey do I need to switch to red?. Is it similar to blue where there's budget hive and you slowly switch, and if so, is there some guide online?

Before we get started, please understand that I’ve been very anxious recently in thinking about my future. I don’t have a support system around me so I’m in this by myself. I’d appreciate if I have your guys’ back. It’s a long post so thanks for your time and help.
I just finished my first year of college after getting rescinded from my original university. I didn’t do too terribly — got into an REU, started a club, working closely with department to organize a competition I proposed, etc. But I feel behind. Really behind. I started feeling this when I first started getting ahead of physics content in second semester to study ahead for the REU (I want to do well for it and didn’t want to lag behind the other REU students). I got through more content than a normal semester’s worth, but felt behind because I was realizing how much more there is to learn. And how much more I need to learn to get experiences (ex. internships) that I want for my passion + need to successfully transfer (aiming for HYPSM).
On that thought, I feel like I need a gap semester or year to replan my bachelor experience, what I want to achieve and get done, and my profile for transferring. I feel like I’ve spent the year experimenting without a solid plan of what I want to / have to do. My parents want me to get into med school, I want to pursue physics instead.
I called my mom earlier to ask about the gap year and obviously she freaked out. “Gap year looks bad on med school applications. You are going to an easy school to have an easier chance of building a better profile to get into med school, and not an Ivy League. Taking a gap year makes sense in an Ivy League, but not you. How are you going to show you stayed busy during the year?” Etc.
I’m about 74% sure that I want + need a gap year (or at least a semester). I really want to transfer successfully to a top tier college, but more importantly, I want to be a leader in and contribute significantly to my field. I don’t want to just be “another” professor for lack of better phrasing.
Overall, I’ve been really anxious the last couple days and having a lot of thoughts on my college career so far + considering the gap semester / year. I remember how devastated I was a year ago after the rescind. It’s not that I’m afraid of shooting for the stars and failing, but more that I will react in the wrong way and not be able to get back up (I start to overthink in the wrong direction and become delusional when I react badly).
Please leave supportive comments and thoughts on the situation. Should I take the gap or not?
Summary: Want to take a gap year for the following reasons — 1. Replan transfer profile 2. Get more opportunities not limited by what I learn in school 3. Learn more physics not limited to the school’s curriculum schedule (also helps in my research) 4. Need time to rethink my approach to life and career (and what I want to get out of it / what to achieve)
What’s holding me back (and what my parents are afraid of): 1. Looks bad on med school applications 2. Studying ahead for research is not a good reason for a gap year (in the med committee’s perspective) 3. Already going to an easy school

Hello 👋 gentlemen im a FO currently fly b777-3 at my current company (egyptair) and i flew the 738 for almost 10 years too Lot of people currently applying for atlas from abroad through the new eb visa which transitions to green card upon arrival
So i had few questions if you could help me out about atlas.
1-ppl here usually say they make around 80k first year during training is that before or after taxes ?
2- some ppl here said they only make the minimum guarantee which is 65hrs to me thats awesome i dont like to fly too much but to me also its not realistic cuz thats like 3 long haul flights a month so do you usually get the rest of the month off ? Or do u get lots of days off between each flight ?
4-i know there is a bump in salary by next year but with current inflation and prices going up do you guys still find it 100-120k a year gives u somehow a luxurious life ?i feel its a bit low compared to other airlines but i dont care if the environment is friendly enough
5- hows the immediate family tickets ? Do they get anything ?
6- hows the captain transition in the company ?
Thank you and i hope to find some answers from you guys 🙏

Hey guys! I'm a 27-year-old female currently on a student visa, pursuing my master's at a level 1 university. I moved to Perth on February 14th. My partner, a 31-year-old male, applied for a dependent visa on March 5th. We're both originally from Turkey.
It's now been over three months, and his application has been at the "further assessment" stage for a month and a half. We've provided ample evidence of our de facto partnership, including a joint bank account that's been active for over a year and proof that we've been living together for about two years. We've been in a legitimate relationship for at least two years and even have a dog together.
Could anyone share their experiences or provide some insight into when we might expect the visa to be approved? Thank you in advance!

Hello guys.
When I logged on to the proxmox UI this morning I saw that a disk was no longer displayed in the list.
I then checked the system logs and found this : https://pastebin.com/r8i9uDPi.
The smartctl command gives the following error:

[root@pve1:~]# smartctl -a /dev/nvme1n1 smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.5.13-5-pve] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org Read NVMe Identify Controller failed: NVME_IOCTL_ADMIN_CMD: Input/output error 

This failing disk is in a BTRFS RAID 1 array, created during Proxmox installation:

[root@pve1:~]# btrfs filesystem show Label: none uuid: ebceadd3-6370-48cf-b665-588474fe3d5f Total devices 2 FS bytes used 616.25GiB devid 1 size 1.82TiB used 785.01GiB path /dev/nvme0n1p3 devid 2 size 1.82TiB used 785.01GiB path /dev/nvme1n1p3 

Maybe it's because the temperature was too high? Here's a screenshot of my Grafana panel showing the temperature of the disks: https://imgur.com/GcwnCnQ.
Note that both disks are Samsung 970 EVO Plus.
Thanks for your help!

Neopets definitely has me in a chokehold again lol. I'm having fun with all the nostalgia, plus figuring out the site's changes. Been setting new goals/rebuilding an account child me would've been foaming from the mouth over, but one thing I am missing from the old days is having active buddies to chat with. If you'd like just shoot me a DM or add usernames underneath, I'd love to hear from you guys :)
My #1 goal right now is hitting 1M by end of the month. Gonna get that bank account up before going full throttle on customizing my pets... and hopefully one day completing my Balthazar collection (odds on getting my hands on the trading card are currently not looking good, but a girl can dream). Tell me all about your current goals, niche collections, or favourite time sinks on the site!

Before we get started, please understand that I’ve been very anxious recently in thinking about my future. I don’t have a support system around me so I’m in this by myself. I’d appreciate if I have your guys’ back. It’s a long post so thanks for your time and help.
I just finished my first year of college. I didn’t do too terribly — got into an REU, started a club, working closely with department to organize a competition I proposed, etc. But I feel behind. Really behind. I started feeling this when I first started getting ahead of physics content in second semester to study ahead for the REU (I want to do well for it and didn’t want to lag behind the other REU students). I got through more content than a normal semester’s worth, but felt behind because I was realizing how much more there is to learn. And how much more I need to learn to get experiences (ex. internships) that I want for my passion + need to successfully transfer to a higher institution.
On that thought, I feel like I need a gap semester or year to replan my bachelor experience, what I want to achieve and get done, and my profile for transferring. I feel like I’ve spent the year experimenting without a solid plan of what I want to / have to do. My parents want me to get into med school, I want to pursue physics instead.
I called my mom earlier to ask about the gap year and obviously she freaked out. “Gap year looks bad on med school applications. You are going to an easy school to have an easier chance of building a better profile to get into med school, and not an Ivy League. Taking a gap year makes sense in an Ivy League, but not you. How are you going to show you stayed busy during the year?” Etc.
I’m about 74% sure that I want + need a gap year (or at least a semester). I really want to transfer successfully to a top tier college, but more importantly, I want to be a leader in and contribute significantly to my field. I don’t want to just be “another” professor for lack of better phrasing.
Overall, I’ve been really anxious the last couple days and having a lot of thoughts on my college career so far + considering the gap semester / year. I had a huge chain reaction of failures last year so I want to be careful in making the right decisions and not falling into that trap again. It’s not that I’m afraid of shooting for the stars and failing, but more that I will react in the wrong way and not be able to get back up.
Please leave supportive comments and thoughts on the situation. Should I take the gap or not?
Summary: Want to take a gap year for the following reasons — 1. Replan transfer profile 2. Get more opportunities not limited by what I learn in school 3. Learn more physics not limited to the school’s curriculum schedule (also helps in my research) 4. Need time to rethink my approach to life and career (and what I want to get out of it / what to achieve)
What’s holding me back (and what my parents are afraid of): 1. Looks bad on med school applications 2. Studying ahead for research is not a good reason for a gap year (in the med committee’s perspective) 3. Already going to an easy school

hello just asking to see what you guys would recommend for my next upgrade i was thinking a better GPU since i’m starting to run into lower frame rates with newer more demanding games like cyberpunk 2077 i run it on high settings and get about 50 fps average
GPU - Zotac Gaming GEFORCE GTX 1660 SUPER ОС CPU - Intel core i5 - 10400 CPU RAM - total physical memory RAM 32.0 GB MOTHERBOARD - TUF GAMING B460M-PLUS (Wi-Fi) 2 SSD - (total storage 1 has 500gb another has 1TB) of storage) CASE - BE QUIET Pure Base 500dx white CASE FANS - Corsair icue sp140 rgb elite performance CPU COOLER - Deep Cool GAMMAXX GTE V2 white cpu air cooler POWER SUPPLY - 750W

Hi guys, I was building a second PC:
Ryzen 5 2600 (5 years old)
Gtx 1660 Ti (5 years old)
2 x 8GB Corsair
PSU Gigabyte P550B 80 bronze (New)
Motherboard (B450 M Pro VDH MAX) New

1. First I tested My PC without case fans only with CPU, RAM and GPU inside my case and it was OK, I conected my GPU to an HDMI monitor and i could enter bios.
2. 3 hours later, I connected the case fans to my motherboard and to my PSU. I tried to boot up my pc, everything looks OK: fans spinning, lights on. Then i connected the gpu to a DisPlay monitor so i can install Windows from an USB, but i didn't see any image, So finally i unplugged the monitor from my GPU and my PC turns off inmediately O_O.
3. I tried to boot again but i couldn't. The PC was turning on and inmediately turned off.

I tried doing CMOS CLEAR , removing the motherboard battery but it was useless.
I tried removing the GPU ... and SORPRISE the PC turn ON without GPU and was estable ( keyboard OK, mouse OK, fans OK)

1. I thought it was a false contact of my GPU with the PCI port, so i put my GPU back on, but i Forgot to connect the extra 8 PIN , I turned on my PC again and now I saw smoke and a small fire?? coming out of my GPU, well I dont know if it was fire but it turned RED near the HDMI input . So inmediately turn off the PSU

Now my PC can't boot when I have the GPU connected ,( My first problem). I think My GPU passed away
*If i remove the GPU my PC starts OK . * I don't know if I will repair my GPU or buy a new one. Maybe my power supply will break all the GPUs?

I don't know the right place to put this (may be you guys can suggest), so I am posting it here.
Hey folks, as the title says, We are moving out from our bigger apartment into a smaller apartment and thus need to sell most of the items. I am really occupied with work and don't have the time to talk and negotiate with sellers to sell the items one by one.
We have a lot to sell from 5 star 1.5 Ton AC to book shelf, shoe racks, 100s of Gold Plated and Iridium Pointed Pens still in box and so many other items lying around in the house , where we could make money and get rid of the item at the same time.
You just have to list items on OLX or other selling platform, bhangar wala or literally anyone who is a buyer, talk with potential buyers, close the deal and send the buyer to our address from where we will sell the item, receive the money and send you your commission.
I have sold some items like Dish TV, Microwave and other items, but it would be too time consuming for me to do all that alone, would really appreciate if someone could sell these items for me for a 20% commission of the sales. This way you make some money and I get my items sold.
If anyone is interested, please let me know ( We live in Thane)

Congratulations for taking 7 games to beat a HANDICAPPED Knicks team and a HANDICAPPED Bucks. You guys seem very excited for a team that’s gonna win 1 game at most this coming series HAHAHA

Hi guys. Have a couple of problems with SynPhotos that's been driving me nuts.

I'm on DSM 7.2 on a 224+ with 6GB of RAM and 2x 4TB Iron Wolf HDDs. I've meticulously arranged my old photos in the proper folder structure: /yyyy/mm/dd before transferring all 50+ GB to the /home/Photos/PhotoLibrary directory in one go using File Station.

Once in and thumbnailed, the timeline was looking good. However, when I switched over to folder view, I noticed the ff:

• A bunch of random photos and videos were stored as loose files in some of the /yyyy and /yyyy/mm directories; a lot of them are not from that month or even that year
• As mentioned, these older media had already been manually organized in their proper /yyyy/mm/dd directories prior to transfer
• I figured I'd just redownload them onto laptop and delete from the webapp, then reupload in the hopes that the app would place in the right folders
• I made sure to drag and drop from the timeline view, with expectations that they'd be sorted automatically by my desired /yyyy/mm/dd directory format
• Sadly, they simply reappeared in the same directory (for this batch: /2024/05 -- which is the month I copied the 50+ GB into SynPhotos).

Here are my questions. Grateful to anyone who can point me to the right direction.

1. Can SynPhotos create subfolders for dates of the month? How do I enable?
2. How can I rectify SynPhotos incorrectly assigning these older media (a lot from 2020) to the wrong directory when importing? I checked the EXIF data using the info icon on the webapp for these files, and it seems like they all have their date taken info properties intact.

FIle structure is important to me outside of the app. Easier to handle for network access and will be valuable for migration scenarios.

TL;DR: Shadow Hearts is at its best when its reveling in its weird scenario and unusual character lineup, but suffers from a lot of issues common to early 6th gen JRPGs - and its biggest sin is that the combat is downright boring.
Shadow Hearts is one of those franchises that constantly comes up on 'best games you never played' lists, yet despite seeing three back-to-back releases on PS2, it somehow never even hit enough critical mass to even count as a cult classic. Instead, it's largely sunk into the memory hole.
Is it due to its first true entry being a pretty mid game? Maybe.
The Good
Shadow Hearts makes a strong first impression with its genuinely unique setting - the real world, in the late 1910s. Moreover, the first half of the game takes place in China while it was under Japanese occupation. I've never seen another game to ever have that as the setting, much less one from a Japanese developer! (They don't like talking about the Imperial days.) On top of that, the game is fundamentally horror themed, with a really interesting mashup of Victorian gothic, Lovecraftian, and Daoist horror tropes.
So if you want a JRPG with a totally unique setting, Shadow Hearts definitely has that going for it.
The game also features one of the more unusual casts of heroes to show up in a JRPG. By the end, your party includes:

• A loveable (sometimes) jerkass American as our protagonist, who can transform into demons
• A British Christian woman who prays her way to victory while smacking enemies with her Bible
• An ancient Chinese master of Daoist magic
• An overenthusiastic mercenary lady who likes explosives a bit too much
• A friendly vampire who's mostly there because he was bored from centuries cooped up in his castle
• A Dickensian waif, complete with newsie cap

Later on, the game's action moves to a grand tour of Europe, including Germany, France, and England. You get to cover a lot of ground in this one! The artwork was clearly drawn without much in the way of reference material, more of a dreamlike reimagining of the early 20th century.
Graphically, it's nothing special. It continues the 5th Gen method of using pre-rendered backgrounds with polygonal characters on top, and CGI cutscenes for major events. Honestly, at times it just feels like an upscaled PSX game, and rarely feels like it's making good use of the PS2's power. Still, the artwork is generally nice, within this style. Plus, the monster designs are genuinely creative, with some of the most interesting creatures I've seen outside of an Atlus game.
And it features one gimmick unique to this franchise: The Judgement Ring. It's basically a QTE, with a line sweeping around a round dial, and you have to hit the X button when it passes over certain hit zones. Every time you attempt to attack, or do any other battle action, you have to hit 1-5 marks on the dial for the action to succeed. Small red areas, much harder to hit, add power to the action, much like a crit.
The Ring of Doom also gets used for various other actions, such as haggling in shops, or performing actions on the map. Basically, you'll be spending a lot of time doing precise button-presses.
Unfortunately, this is where the game's good aspects mostly stop.
The Bad
Many of the game's problems are simply due to it being an early-2000s JRPG, with many of the issues common to that time - such as battles being filled with overly-long repetitive magic spell animations that get very old, very quickly. Worse, because of the nature of the combat and its QTEs, you can't just play the game on fast-forward in an emulator. At least, not without constantly toggling FF on and off.
Making the combat worse is that it's simply boring. They don't actually do anything interesting with the Ring of Honor. It's just there to slow down your commands and punish you for not constantly giving the game your full attention. Otherwise, the combat is absolutely bog-standard stuff, with two lines of combatants taking turns wacking each other.
In theory, elemental weaknesses come into play, but their effect on battles seems absolutely minimal. Even the hero's demon transformations just grant a couple extra magic powers and extra-powerful standard attacks. The only other halfway interesting aspect is that the enemies are ruthless about spamming status effects, including ones which can make the Dial of Destiny invisible to prevent you from attacking! Which is just obnoxious, frankly.
To its credit, at least the game keeps the encounter rate fairly low. But that's faint praise.
Plus, of course, all the bosses are big sacks of hit points, leading to tedious 20+ minute battles as you whittle down their health. Attack, attack, heal. Attack, attack, heal. Attack, attack, heal. Neither side has enough attacks or buff options to actually make the fight interesting. Either you go into it with sufficient magic and consumables to survive, or you don't.
Likewise, while I love the setting and scenario, the actual plot is a silly cliche storm. A bad guy wants to destroy the world to save it. Our plucky heroes have to kill god. You've seen it a million times. I found the game was actually more interesting in its episodic moments, when the heroes wander into a town that's haunted by an evil spirit or such, and have to deal with that. By the end, the combination of the rote story and annoying/boring combat made me really hate trudging through the obligatory too-long final dungeon.
Piling onto the issues, I also really disliked the soundtrack. The main battle theme in the first half is genuinely one of the worst I've ever heard. It would have been OK as a one-off bespoke boss battle track, but it became downright grating quite quickly. Most of the rest of the tracks were unexceptional, and occasionally felt out of place (like a bouncy happy theme for a London slum?), with very little standing out.
And while the English voice dubbing in cutscenes and battles does have that early-aughts cheesy charm, it's surprisingly inconsistent on what got dubbed. Some characters even switch between English and Japanese during their battle cries!
Then on top of everything else, the game is absolutely FULL of missable content, including entire side-quests in new locations. Even important stuff like how to unlock your most powerful demons and attacks are gated behind completely unintuitive actions. And if you want to see the good ending, you pretty much have to follow a guide - not unless you're willing to religiously go back to every previous area and talk to every previous NPC, over and over after every plot beat.
In Conclusion
Can Shadow Hearts be recommended solely on its own merits? I'm not sure it can. The unusual scenario and Red Ring of Death gimmick just weren't enough to hold my interest, even with its relatively short 25-30 hour playtime, when the rest of the game design was just so mid. However, it seems that the sequels are considered much better games, so at least I'm still interested in continuing the franchise. Although I think I'll take a break before playing the next one.

Hey guys! First post here 🙃
I'm really into getting to learn how to be a DJ (Techno specifically) I tried to look online for posts but most of what I found was pretty old discussions..
I will put my questions in numbers I hope that's not rude 🙏🏼
I'm 28 years old and I completely lost my hearing in the right ear 6 months ago. (probably because of a party I was in as the doctors hints)
1) I read that I need headphones with “mono” output or something like that.. I couldn't find any specific models that are recommended, and also what do you guys think, will it really help me get over the lack of stereo hearing that I have now?
2) Also, is it even a good idea to try and be good at DJing with one ear? (not to mention the concerns I have of harming my hearing in the left ear too..) but I'm for sure more awake for hearing loss and trying to keep it safe.
3) And what do you think about monitors? Can't headphones just be enough for me as with speakers I might not get all the sounds anyways.. 👂🔇
4) I'm looking for big speakers (can also rent of course) so I can host some friends and potentially play for them, but do I need both speakers and headphones? (I do have kind of a dream to perform live in clubs also 🙈)
And last question 🙌🏻🙌🏻
5) I also read that a DJ deck with lots of lighting cues can help me with a lot of things if I hear only from one side.. but that's very expensive for me and I'm not even sure if I need that..?
Thanks a lot for taking the time and read Best regards!

My wife and I (mid 30) been together 18yrs married for 8yr. (Kids) She always have the thought to experience being with another man since I’m her only one been with
The conversation started years ago, we always have deep conversation one of our topic is regrets. She was always curious about being with another man, she doesn’t want look back in her life not knowing the feeling being touched by different person.
A couple months ago while having sex she said “ I bet you take a hall pass if I gave it to you” I said “only with you” her eyes lit up, I know there something on her mind. I ask her the same question and she replied “ only with you”. My mind was racing not sure what she trying to say.
The next day while working I couldn’t stop thinking about what she said. That night while having passionate sex I ask her do you want to fuck another man? She whispered in my ear “ YES just once ” I was in shock not sure how feel about it. Following she said “ I want to see you fuck another girl” (My bedroom name is Daddy) she got on top proceeded talking in sexy voice “ can daddy share his pussy one time please just once” we look at each other eyes and said “YES just one time” I grab her violently toss down got on top started fucking hard as I can. I was mad and turn on at the same time. We continue with dirty talk My feeling all over the place. Just found out my wife having a fantasy being with someone else.
Afterwards we began talking she confessed that swinging something she be interested in. The only way she would want to do it if we both do it so there no way that one person can be mad because we both doing it. She wants to find a couple and have a swap.
The next few weeks our dirty talk during sex went through the roof we said something like “Be Daddy’s little slut, having 3 some, she getting eating out by a girl, DP” all kind of shit
I’ve never been torn apart. One side of me saying hell yea this will be great!!! A lot of guys would love this.
The other side, my 1 in a million girl wants to be like the millions of girls.
Our sex life before confession: We always have a great sex life! I LOVE eating her out (as she got older her taste got really good I’m obsessed with it, not sure why) Her pussy throbbing after sex and she a squirter. And we recently started exploring anal and she starting to like it! She usually hate anal but one day I had a “c”vibrator that goes in her clit and pussy same time and I can still put my dick in it too. I took my dick out and ask if I can go in her ass surprisingly she said yes. After few minutes just going slow she grab my ass slam it hard against her and said fuck me hard!! I could not believe she took all it! (we do use toys, no dildo I use promecent delay spray just starting to use blew chew keep harder specially after a pump session I can get pretty thick)
Back to the story:
I’m not sure if I can take another man fucking my wife but as husband do I let her experience being with another man?
Do I let her live her life with regrets?
I truly love her but do I love her enough to try or should I be selfish?
I dont think I can live knowing that this will hunt her.
Not even 1year ago she said it didn’t cross her mind to bring this up. I ask what change and her respond “ I’m getting older and she keeps thinking about it”
I ask her on the scale of 1-10 how bad you want to do this, at first she said 5-6 over the phone. We spoke that night face to face and she said 10 she didn’t want to tell over the phone.
Knowing this now we started to place out rules: 1- it has to be a married couple preferably first timer 2-have to have some type of connection (no take one for the team) 3-alway use protection 4- no oral sex yes kissing 5- no playing with out each other 6- nothing in our house
As we keep talking about this fantasy Im getting excited and scared.
I’m excited because we get to experience new adventure. Having sex with different partner
I’m scared of what the outcome will be: What if our friends and family found out what will they think of me letting someone else dominate my wife? What will our kids think? Am I less of a man? More of a man cause I let her?
Will my wife lose her respect for me? What if she like him better what if she like his dick better? What if I like her better?
Will this be a good beginning or is this is a horrible end. Please let me know what you guys think I’m very confused with this

Before we get started, please understand that I’ve been very anxious recently in thinking about my future. I don’t have a support system around me so I’m in this by myself. I’d appreciate if I have your guys’ back. It’s a long post so thanks for your time and help.
I just finished my first year of college after getting rescinded from my original university. I didn’t do too terribly — got into an REU, started a club, working closely with department to organize a competition I proposed, etc. But I feel behind. Really behind. I started feeling this when I first started getting ahead of physics content in second semester to study ahead for the REU (I want to do well for it and didn’t want to lag behind the other REU students). I got through more content than a normal semester’s worth, but felt behind because I was realizing how much more there is to learn. And how much more I need to learn to get experiences (ex. internships) that I want for my passion + need to successfully transfer (aiming for HYPSM).
On that thought, I feel like I need a gap semester or year to replan my bachelor experience, what I want to achieve and get done, and my profile for transferring. I feel like I’ve spent the year experimenting without a solid plan of what I want to / have to do. My parents want me to get into med school, I want to pursue physics instead.
I called my mom earlier to ask about the gap year and obviously she freaked out. “Gap year looks bad on med school applications. You are going to an easy school to have an easier chance of building a better profile to get into med school, and not an Ivy League. Taking a gap year makes sense in an Ivy League, but not you. How are you going to show you stayed busy during the year?” Etc.
I’m about 74% sure that I want + need a gap year (or at least a semester). I really want to transfer successfully to a top tier college, but more importantly, I want to be a leader in and contribute significantly to my field. I don’t want to just be “another” professor for lack of better phrasing.
Overall, I’ve been really anxious the last couple days and having a lot of thoughts on my college career so far + considering the gap semester / year. I remember how devastated I was a year ago after the rescind. It’s not that I’m afraid of shooting for the stars and failing, but more that I will react in the wrong way and not be able to get back up (I start to overthink in the wrong direction and become delusional when I react badly).
Please leave supportive comments and thoughts on the situation. Should I take the gap or not?
Summary: Want to take a gap year for the following reasons — 1. Replan transfer profile 2. Get more opportunities not limited by what I learn in school 3. Learn more physics not limited to the school’s curriculum schedule (also helps in my research) 4. Need time to rethink my approach to life and career (and what I want to get out of it / what to achieve)
What’s holding me back (and what my parents are afraid of): 1. Looks bad on med school applications 2. Studying ahead for research is not a good reason for a gap year (in the med committee’s perspective) 3. Already going to an easy school

I have owned a game shop for 10 years now. I see neck beard types. I see leg beard types. I see incels. The whole rainbow of cringe is often in my very shop. They play their games. Stink up the joint. Above all else though they got on my ever loving nerves I swear.
I bought the shop back in 2013ish after my grandfather died. He left me some decent money, which is about all the good he ever did. Cranky old man stuck around far too long and was a drain on myself. My parents saddled me with caring for him. My only escape from that bitter old man was the game shop. I would go and play war games and yugioh. Around 2011 I was banned from the store for chronically selling yugioh cards in the shop. Something the crotchety land whale that owned the shop did not like. So he banned me. When my grandfather finally died he afforded me the opportunity to lift my ban by purchasing the shop at a high markup. I may have overpaid, but it was worth it to get back my home away from home and to ban that landwhale from his own shop.
Once I took over. I learnt that I wouldn’t be able to participate in games as much unless I wanted to hire employees. Which I did not. I don’t really understand the taxes and had no interest in paying extra to employ people. So I basically ran it all myself for a damn long time. It was fun at first. But I realized I actually hated my customers. I hated games. I hated these goblins that occupied my shop for events and game nights. That’s how you make money though. Stupid events for stupid little neckbeards.
So I am gonna tell you about some choice individuals. I like to call them The Party. Four human shaped food holes that were far too loud. When I was young, back in the 80’s dungeons and dragons wasn’t fun. It was a game to be won. I dont know what happened. Maybe it was all them critical role streamers that ruined it. At some point neck beards gravitated to dungeons and dragons as a form of fun. As a way to make jokes. They basically ruined the game. I hate that they ruined a great war game and turned it into nothing but jokes. Us older nerds get not a drop of respect as these youngins trample over our great games.
The party consisted of two manlet weirdos. Dressed in what looked to be homemade wizard robes. A tall thin man dressed in an outfit that would be seen on frank sinatra. And the loudest legbeard landwhale I have ever had the displeasure of meeting. They would come in on open play nights and occupy the back room where the warhammer gamers played. Their volume was completely unacceptable. I had asked them politely several times to keep it down. I had received several complaints from the warhammer players as well. It was not uncommon for the war gamers and The Party to start arguing. Which was always a sight to behold. 90 percent of the time I didn’t intervene hoping one of The Party might get their teeth knocked out. It never got to that point. Despite all the wishing in my heart.
Still I tolerated them for the most part. They bought plenty of snacks. Overpriced soda cans and over priced chips are good money in this line of business. Cleaning up after them was a pain. Cheeto smeared tables and chairs are not fun to clean. I remember once asking them to clean up after themselves. They just stared at me with blank dead fish eyes before talking about the hot dog man. The hotdog man being some sort of inside joke. They found it hilarious. It was some recurring npc in their campaigns that did “wacky” hijinks or something. They tried to explain it to anyone who would listen. Anytime someone else would laugh at their stupid joke I wanted to just close up shop.
Then I started fucking with them. I’d shake up cans of soda they bought. I’d “accidentally” bump into their table while moving inventory. This would cause their set up and dice to spill all over. I’d sell them microwaved dice sets “at a discount” and laugh with joy as they consistently rolled nat 1’s. I actually had quite a bit of fun coming up with new ways to inconvenience them. Damaging their favorite table, replacing the chairs at that table with uneven ones. One time I spilled a cup of hot chocolate on the one dressed like frank sinatra.
They eventually started blaming their new streak of misfortune on the hotdog man. That fucking stupid inside joke about the hotdog man had grown to encompass their real life misfortune. These beardy fucks had completely disassociated from reality apparently. It wasn’t long after this began in the shop that it spread. Any little thing that went wrong in the shop others started blaming on the hot dog man! Bad game of yugioh…hot dog man. Shit your pants? HOT DOG MAN! Dog got hit by a car! HOT DOG MAN! It permeated and spread because these little beards never shut up about their stupid inside joke.
I could not tolerate it any longer. As a game shop owner I am the god of these halls and I would not take this beardery. NAY! I didn’t clean my grandads colostomy bag for 8 years to have my castle ruined by the fucking HOT DOG MAN! No these nerds hard to go. I had to hatch a scheme to get them out of the shop.
It was actually relatively easy to come up with a scheme. I knew the fat leg beard was dating the tall “well dressed” kid. But, I also knew she was a bit of a cheater. They had many arguments about her cheating on him. Why such a beast would be able to get so many men interested in her I have no idea. But i knew she had her eyes on one of the seedier warhammer players in the store. He wasn’t a good guy, actually a bit of an alcoholic who hung around because this was all he had left. So I struck a deal, I offered him a hefty amount of figurines for his army in return for “seducing” the land whale. A task he was actually excited about.
Over the next couple weeks I watched as the alcoholic man inserted himself into The Party. I watched as he got closer to the girl, I saw the “well dressed” beard grow more and more insecure. Going outside in a huff more often. The leg beard and her boyfriend arguing loudly in front of the store a few times.Then on the third week during an open play night only the land whale leg beard appeared, crying as she clung to the alcoholic war gamer and complained about her boyfriend. The crying was only slightly less annoying than hearing about the hotdog man. I tried to tune it out by doing some stocking of new inventory for the upcoming yugioh release. I eventually noticed a distinct lack of belly aching. I looked over to the side room, and saw that the alcoholic and legbeard were actively making out on a table. Disgusted I made sure the cameras were recording in the side room.
The world was at peace again. The Party would soon be destroyed thanks to some well deployed miniatures in the right desperate losers hands. Simple as can be. Soon my store would be free of the hot dog man plague. This is why you should never mess with a wealthy man we are wealthy because we are wise. My store is one of the best in this town and it is because of my wisdom. No one else can compete with me because I am too good to be doing this.
As I stocked the cabinet with new singles I had recently bought from someone clearly desperate for drug money I found myself very pleased with myself. I sang as I organized my new acquisitions. Then sneaking a peak at the camera I noticed a distinct absence of the obese legbeard and the war gaming alcoholic. I tried to locate them by walking back there, only to hear the sounds of unholy degenerate acts in the bathroom. I found myself amazed by their lack of shame and more so how easy the land whale was. I guess it’s true what they say “fat chicks will do anything”. I contemplated breaking it up. Then I thought it might be really funny if she got pregnant and the frank sinatra wannabe had to raise a cuck baby. So I allowed it to continue. They left together sometime later.
I went ahead and did a little facebook stalking, as frank sinatra and the land whale were both on on my stores facebook page. Two days later they were broken up and the land whale was dating and apparently living with the alcoholic wargamer. Now I still have to deal with her, but the rest of The Party is distinctly absent.
I posted the video from the security cameras on the facebook page on valentines day that year and tagged the frank sinatra wannabe, deleting it after he left some angry comment under it. Just one more jab at his stupid broken heart. That’s what he deserves for being a cringe neckbeard with his stupid inside jokes.
Now the legbeard and alcoholic play wargames on open play nights at the shop and she’s much quieter. The legacy of the hotdog man died shortly after. I do now have to occasionally observe as the land whale and alcoholic wargamer swap spit on a table. I’ve had to make a sign for the bathroom door that say “please do not fuck in here” and when that didn’t work yell at the both of them. Saying something along the lines of “THIS IS NOT A MOTEL!” but even with that inconvenience, it is still preferable to those beards and their stupid inside joke. I will take cringe bathroom sex over the hot dog man any day.
I am just happy that I met my wife in Mexico. If you have money and a passport, get yourself a Mexican wife. They are much less insane than your average american woman. Also they are very grateful to be here. So that pays dividends in the end. Plus you have someone who can talk to the repair men in their native language around here. Wish I would have known she was infertile beforehand. On the brightside though no condoms. So its not all bad. There are no any beards in Mexico my friends.
If you read this ReddX thanks I’ve been a big fan of the channel for a long time and have wanted to write a story. I just haven’t had the time as I am a very busy and important man. But I can tell we’re like kindred souls. You’re gonna love reading all my installments because were bouth great men of substance and the world. It is time I aired out all these beards. So you’re welcome for contributing to your collection of stories. I truly am a generous king.
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I think we signed a lot of high talent players this season but they don't really fit Okan's tactic. I would describe Okan's tactic high press tactic with very quick transitions to get the ball forward as quickly as possible. This tactic creates a lot of chances but also a lot of possession losses. This works great if our teams has higher stamina and the opposition can't keep up and breaks apart.
Some players we has that can play very well with this tactic; BAY, Kerem a., Mertens, Torreria, Berkan (i thnik köhn will fit in too)...
High value star players who don't fit in this tactic; Oliviera : in this tactic having static play makers is not necessary Zaha : The wingers need to run relentlessly in this tactic, Zaha tries to dribble too much he just need to kick it and run İcardi : We actually just need a pressing forward, İcardi is very skillful but his pressing and agility is not enough. He is a very good player just not in our tactic. Ziyech: Very talented guy who saved us many crucial times but, the same thing a said before he is not the winger we need.
What need to happen is either 1- we decide to play possession football or some tiki taka to fit our star players; 2- We let these stars go and just get physically strong players What I guess is going to happen; -We keep almost all of them -Sign a few stars who can't keep up with high tempo and won't get ready until December