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2023.06.07 08:04 theTitaniumTurt1e A History of Human Precognition
Humans are not the fastest, not the strongest, not the most durable, or even the smartest race. They do not proliferate quickly, live very venerably, or evolve rapidly at will. They variously track higher on all of those scales, certainly making them one of the most formidable species among the stars, but none of that is what makes them the most terrifying predators in the known universe.
As humans would put it, the six sensory groups are touch, taste, sight, smell, hearing, and place. There are many many more specific senses of course, but each is a subset of one of those, such as a sense of temperature being part of touch, or the sense of motion being part of place. There is however a seventh sense that all humans possess and only humans possess: Precognition.
Several thousand cycles ago, a ship of the Tlygot was investigating the human home world long before they came to be and found many species of similar build to modern humans proliferating across the planet. They were all variations of the same evolutionary line, but not quite sentient. Seeing potential to corral them into a docile, slave race they collected a few specimens to see which genetic variations had the most desirable traits and began experimenting with the Terran genome.
They wanted a race capable enough to complete nearly any task they might be assigned, but not innately intelligent enough to defy their masters. They removed genetic markers for dangerous traits like claws and fangs, and then crippled their infants to prevent escapees from becoming invasive to the local environments wherever they may be. As fits the Tlygot reputation, it was masterful bioengineering, but there was a single flaw. One of the newly spawned hominids possessed a genetic mutation that seemingly gave them the ability to predict future events. This was not immediately apparent to the Tlygot, and all evidence had been written off simply as savantism. As such, the Tlygot release the first humans to their homeworld to reproduce and eventually become a valuable source of labor amongst the galaxy once they’d reached significant enough numbers to collect.
Following their standard procedure for such ventures, the Tlygot left the world under the eye of an AI meant only to alert them of anything that might spoil their investment. A few hundred cycles later they were alerted that the planet had begun to show signs of civilization which should never have occurred. Assuming another race had missed, or more likely ignored, their claim to the planet, they returned with a small task force of assault craft should they need to deal with them aggressively. Instead they found that their creations had spread across the globe and advanced far faster than even the most intelligent known sentients would have in that time. Still primitive and restricted to simple wood and stone, but a dangerous development nonetheless.
As per galactic treatise, no species may subjugate or enslave another without formal declaration of war, requiring witnesses from at least three non-party races. As an uncontacted race would have no representation, the war could not be approved by the Assembly. This was a problem for the Tlygot because, before bioengineering, the various species of the world had been pre-sentient; therefore outside jurisdiction of the treatise. A clearly sentient species however could not be enslaved, and furthermore, resource rights to the entire local cluster would be lost.
Attempting to hide their mistake before it was made known to the wider galaxy, the Tlygot had their assault craft divert an asteroid to strike the planet in an attempt to wipe the slate clean. The impact caused massive climate change across the biosphere that decimated the populations of all life on the planet, but unexpectedly enough humans survived to not only replenish their numbers, but allow them to advance further still. The Tlygot tried again by setting off a super volcano, and both again, watching the evidence each time they returned and witnessed as the humans somehow managed to predict what decisions would lead to another advancement. Even lacking the Tlygot's own genetic memory traits, they passed their knowledge on to subsequent generations despite the crippling of their young. It was in the young that they found the truth of their mistake.
Lacking the physical ability necessary to survive in any capacity for the first several cycles, the species had adapted to continue development of the brain far beyond infancy. Particularly the enlarged frontal cortex. This has been well documented to be the origin of sentience, or at least its equivalent in other species. All sentient species in the galaxy evolved as predators due to the increased need for the brain to predict the actions of its prey and prepare the appropriate reaction. This would eventually lead to planning and reasoning and the building blocks of sentience. Humans have a frontal cortex so highly developed that what most species would take rotations to calculate and predict, they can often do off handed in moments. While most species could not develop any feasible ranged weapons of war until the development of advanced mathematics, humans could sling stones at avion prey while in motion and predicted where large beasts would flee over long distances, all before they had even invented clothing.
For the Tlygot, the species they had created was beginning to become too expensive to hide and while resetting a biosphere was doable without being noticed on the galactic stage, destroying one would be troubling to say the least; but better to lose a single planet than the entire cluster. The Tlygot with their final attempt decided to crash a comet into the planet's moon on a path that would then in turn cause the moon to collide with the planet. Gravity tugs were dispatched to gradually curve the comet into a collision course to better avoid any unexpected witnesses. As if by cosmic coincidence, the new path accidentally converged with a major hyper lane and an antimatter fuel ship collided with it, destroying both of them along with many more; and slingshotting the situation to the forefront of the galaxy's awareness.
The debacle immediately cost the Tlygot much more than they would have ever lost had they simply openly admitted to everything from the start. The Tlygot were immediately sanctioned and the entire sector of space around the Human homeworld was quarantined while the Galactic Assembly reviewed the records turned over by the Tlygot. The ruling against them for the destruction of the fuel ship and cascading damage to everything within 500 stellar units along the hyperlane was damning. They were forced to inevitably sell themselves into indentured servitude to pay off the debt that could never be repaid.
While the Assembly prioritized matters of blame and repayment, the matter of the fledgling sapients at the center of the events was entirely overlooked. After all, new sapients blinked in and out of existence frequently, and few ever advanced far enough to even be worth contacting. Those that did, took millions of cycles to stumble into electricity let alone any form of communication that could be interpreted into galactic common. They had expected to have ages to come back to the small world, after they settled the financial matters first. The quarantine enacted after the hyperlane disaster had left their corner of the galaxy practically uninhabited and untouched, and with the cloud of antimatter blocking the hyperlane, it stayed that way until the Assembly ordered a proper clean up.
By the time the Tlygot’s sentence was carried out, the Galactic Assembly found themselves facing an entirely different monster than had ever been expected. The humans had advanced. They had advanced into a thriving interstellar civilization. Not just one civilization either, but several independent states of their own. Their ability to predict possible futures inevitably gave way to the means of creating said futures. While every sentient race was capable of planning and devising new means of accomplishing goals, they did so out of immediate need or convenience. None did so with the foresight of humanity.
The disastrous antimatter explosion that ravaged the hyperlane and facilitated the human’s isolation didn’t go undetected by them. Their primitive detection systems registered the energy release and caught their attention like lightning to an iron rod. The whole of humanity suddenly became aware that they were not only not alone, but that they had been in the direct path of imminent destruction. They leapt forward into the stars with all their intuition, which they had mistaken for imagination and ingenuity.
They imagined reviving the reassembled dead with lightning and manufactured their medicine into defibrillation and artificial organs. They imagined being able to fly like insects and avians and navigated their means of transit to hypersonic jet propulsion. They imagined statues that could think and function autonomously and fabricated their machinations into robotics and cybernetics. They imagined harnessing the power of stars and delineated the secrets of fusion power. They imagined faster than light travel and illuminated their physics to the warping of space and time. They imagined instantaneous communication and compiled quantum mechanics into the creation of an ansible.
It was the humans who made first contact with the Galactic Assembly, much to the shock of every other sapient race. Humanity had used its time to not only advance to a level of technology almost on par with the Assembly, but had predicted where and how to communicate with them once the cleanup of the hyperlane was underway. As far as the rest of the galaxy was concerned, a new galactic power emerged from the aether overnight. A power that proved proficiency in nearly everything they came in contact with. Anything humans didn’t know, they quickly figured out; and anything they couldn’t do, they quickly made something to do it for them.
In physical ability they were certainly not the strongest or the fastest, they didn’t have the most powerful weapons and armor, and there were ships far larger and more advanced; but all of that counts for little in combat if your opponent knows what you are going to do before you do. Even more so if your opponent is the one who planned for you to do it. Their ability to predict what others might do and what events might unfold was so ingrained in their society that their most simple spawnling games involve divining where their opponents might hide from a predator.
By adolescence most were already so proficient in prediction that they played dozens of advanced simulations that follow various sets of goals and restrictions involving everything from combat and commerce to technological development and social engineering. They even bestowed the title of Grand Master to those so proficient in their clairvoyance that their greatest competition wasn’t each other, but advanced artificial intelligences that could calculate every possible move faster than their own minds.
Humans were the most cunning diplomats and merchants because they could guess how far to negotiate before settling any deal. Humans made the best security forces because before danger they always felt their hair “stand up”. Humans seemingly avoided disasters and created miracles seemingly on a whim based on nothing more than a “gut feeling”. Humans navigated the ins and outs of societal norms and taboos simply by feeling “the vibe”. Even works of art or ability they themselves deemed masterful were often attributed to simply being “in the zone”.
In the span of only a few Human centuries, the new galactic standard of time, humanity had seemingly conquered all of known space simply by existing. They may have been products of the Tlygot’s less than savory business practices, but even they were freed by their creation as the humans saw no need to enslave what could be just as easily guided to a better future.
A future of their own design.
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As humans would put it, the six sensory groups are touch, taste, sight, smell, hearing, and place. There are many many more specific senses of course, but each is a subset of one of those, such as a sense of temperature being part of touch, or the sense of motion being part of place. There is however a seventh sense that all humans possess and only humans possess: Precognition.
Several thousand cycles ago, a ship of the Tlygot was investigating the human home world long before they came to be and found many species of similar build to modern humans proliferating across the planet. They were all variations of the same evolutionary line, but not quite sentient. Seeing potential to corral them into a docile, slave race they collected a few specimens to see which genetic variations had the most desirable traits and began experimenting with the Terran genome.
They wanted a race capable enough to complete nearly any task they might be assigned, but not innately intelligent enough to defy their masters. They removed genetic markers for dangerous traits like claws and fangs, and then crippled their infants to prevent escapees from becoming invasive to the local environments wherever they may be. As fits the Tlygot reputation, it was masterful bioengineering, but there was a single flaw. One of the newly spawned hominids possessed a genetic mutation that seemingly gave them the ability to predict future events. This was not immediately apparent to the Tlygot, and all evidence had been written off simply as savantism. As such, the Tlygot release the first humans to their homeworld to reproduce and eventually become a valuable source of labor amongst the galaxy once they’d reached significant enough numbers to collect.
Following their standard procedure for such ventures, the Tlygot left the world under the eye of an AI meant only to alert them of anything that might spoil their investment. A few hundred cycles later they were alerted that the planet had begun to show signs of civilization which should never have occurred. Assuming another race had missed, or more likely ignored, their claim to the planet, they returned with a small task force of assault craft should they need to deal with them aggressively. Instead they found that their creations had spread across the globe and advanced far faster than even the most intelligent known sentients would have in that time. Still primitive and restricted to simple wood and stone, but a dangerous development nonetheless.
As per galactic treatise, no species may subjugate or enslave another without formal declaration of war, requiring witnesses from at least three non-party races. As an uncontacted race would have no representation, the war could not be approved by the Assembly. This was a problem for the Tlygot because, before bioengineering, the various species of the world had been pre-sentient; therefore outside jurisdiction of the treatise. A clearly sentient species however could not be enslaved, and furthermore, resource rights to the entire local cluster would be lost.
Attempting to hide their mistake before it was made known to the wider galaxy, the Tlygot had their assault craft divert an asteroid to strike the planet in an attempt to wipe the slate clean. The impact caused massive climate change across the biosphere that decimated the populations of all life on the planet, but unexpectedly enough humans survived to not only replenish their numbers, but allow them to advance further still. The Tlygot tried again by setting off a super volcano, and both again, watching the evidence each time they returned and witnessed as the humans somehow managed to predict what decisions would lead to another advancement. Even lacking the Tlygot's own genetic memory traits, they passed their knowledge on to subsequent generations despite the crippling of their young. It was in the young that they found the truth of their mistake.
Lacking the physical ability necessary to survive in any capacity for the first several cycles, the species had adapted to continue development of the brain far beyond infancy. Particularly the enlarged frontal cortex. This has been well documented to be the origin of sentience, or at least its equivalent in other species. All sentient species in the galaxy evolved as predators due to the increased need for the brain to predict the actions of its prey and prepare the appropriate reaction. This would eventually lead to planning and reasoning and the building blocks of sentience. Humans have a frontal cortex so highly developed that what most species would take rotations to calculate and predict, they can often do off handed in moments. While most species could not develop any feasible ranged weapons of war until the development of advanced mathematics, humans could sling stones at avion prey while in motion and predicted where large beasts would flee over long distances, all before they had even invented clothing.
For the Tlygot, the species they had created was beginning to become too expensive to hide and while resetting a biosphere was doable without being noticed on the galactic stage, destroying one would be troubling to say the least; but better to lose a single planet than the entire cluster. The Tlygot with their final attempt decided to crash a comet into the planet's moon on a path that would then in turn cause the moon to collide with the planet. Gravity tugs were dispatched to gradually curve the comet into a collision course to better avoid any unexpected witnesses. As if by cosmic coincidence, the new path accidentally converged with a major hyper lane and an antimatter fuel ship collided with it, destroying both of them along with many more; and slingshotting the situation to the forefront of the galaxy's awareness.
The debacle immediately cost the Tlygot much more than they would have ever lost had they simply openly admitted to everything from the start. The Tlygot were immediately sanctioned and the entire sector of space around the Human homeworld was quarantined while the Galactic Assembly reviewed the records turned over by the Tlygot. The ruling against them for the destruction of the fuel ship and cascading damage to everything within 500 stellar units along the hyperlane was damning. They were forced to inevitably sell themselves into indentured servitude to pay off the debt that could never be repaid.
While the Assembly prioritized matters of blame and repayment, the matter of the fledgling sapients at the center of the events was entirely overlooked. After all, new sapients blinked in and out of existence frequently, and few ever advanced far enough to even be worth contacting. Those that did, took millions of cycles to stumble into electricity let alone any form of communication that could be interpreted into galactic common. They had expected to have ages to come back to the small world, after they settled the financial matters first. The quarantine enacted after the hyperlane disaster had left their corner of the galaxy practically uninhabited and untouched, and with the cloud of antimatter blocking the hyperlane, it stayed that way until the Assembly ordered a proper clean up.
By the time the Tlygot’s sentence was carried out, the Galactic Assembly found themselves facing an entirely different monster than had ever been expected. The humans had advanced. They had advanced into a thriving interstellar civilization. Not just one civilization either, but several independent states of their own. Their ability to predict possible futures inevitably gave way to the means of creating said futures. While every sentient race was capable of planning and devising new means of accomplishing goals, they did so out of immediate need or convenience. None did so with the foresight of humanity.
The disastrous antimatter explosion that ravaged the hyperlane and facilitated the human’s isolation didn’t go undetected by them. Their primitive detection systems registered the energy release and caught their attention like lightning to an iron rod. The whole of humanity suddenly became aware that they were not only not alone, but that they had been in the direct path of imminent destruction. They leapt forward into the stars with all their intuition, which they had mistaken for imagination and ingenuity.
They imagined reviving the reassembled dead with lightning and manufactured their medicine into defibrillation and artificial organs. They imagined being able to fly like insects and avians and navigated their means of transit to hypersonic jet propulsion. They imagined statues that could think and function autonomously and fabricated their machinations into robotics and cybernetics. They imagined harnessing the power of stars and delineated the secrets of fusion power. They imagined faster than light travel and illuminated their physics to the warping of space and time. They imagined instantaneous communication and compiled quantum mechanics into the creation of an ansible.
It was the humans who made first contact with the Galactic Assembly, much to the shock of every other sapient race. Humanity had used its time to not only advance to a level of technology almost on par with the Assembly, but had predicted where and how to communicate with them once the cleanup of the hyperlane was underway. As far as the rest of the galaxy was concerned, a new galactic power emerged from the aether overnight. A power that proved proficiency in nearly everything they came in contact with. Anything humans didn’t know, they quickly figured out; and anything they couldn’t do, they quickly made something to do it for them.
In physical ability they were certainly not the strongest or the fastest, they didn’t have the most powerful weapons and armor, and there were ships far larger and more advanced; but all of that counts for little in combat if your opponent knows what you are going to do before you do. Even more so if your opponent is the one who planned for you to do it. Their ability to predict what others might do and what events might unfold was so ingrained in their society that their most simple spawnling games involve divining where their opponents might hide from a predator.
By adolescence most were already so proficient in prediction that they played dozens of advanced simulations that follow various sets of goals and restrictions involving everything from combat and commerce to technological development and social engineering. They even bestowed the title of Grand Master to those so proficient in their clairvoyance that their greatest competition wasn’t each other, but advanced artificial intelligences that could calculate every possible move faster than their own minds.
Humans were the most cunning diplomats and merchants because they could guess how far to negotiate before settling any deal. Humans made the best security forces because before danger they always felt their hair “stand up”. Humans seemingly avoided disasters and created miracles seemingly on a whim based on nothing more than a “gut feeling”. Humans navigated the ins and outs of societal norms and taboos simply by feeling “the vibe”. Even works of art or ability they themselves deemed masterful were often attributed to simply being “in the zone”.
In the span of only a few Human centuries, the new galactic standard of time, humanity had seemingly conquered all of known space simply by existing. They may have been products of the Tlygot’s less than savory business practices, but even they were freed by their creation as the humans saw no need to enslave what could be just as easily guided to a better future.
A future of their own design.
2023.06.07 08:04 Accurate_News_2890 Cicada 3301 community was probably organized by the founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange, who created a similar game, while studying at the university.
From 2003 to 2005, Julian Assange studied mathematics and physics at the University of Melbourne. There he organized a very difficult quest with many tasks on various topics. The competition was open to the public, and anyone with internet access could try their hand. It lasted one week and led participants to treasure, buried somewhere on the campus. Assange took the most active part in the preparation of the first game in 2004. He was responsible for the story, script, and media coverage of the game. Julian was also the author of 6 tasks, more than anyone else. It is also interesting, that some of this tasks were quite similar to the Cicada 3301 puzzles. Source - https://wondrousnet.blogspot.com/2022/11/cicada-3301-solution.html
Assange came up with his most elaborate puzzle for this game in 2005. It was a long dialogue in 7 languages based on the board game "Cluedo". In order to solve the task, it was necessary to find a site on the internet dedicated to the game. After that, it was possible to extract pieces of the necessary information from the dialogue. Then, based on this information, it was required to determine the murderer. Source - https://wondrousnet.blogspot.com/2023/05/solution-to-puzzle-sleuth.html
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Assange came up with his most elaborate puzzle for this game in 2005. It was a long dialogue in 7 languages based on the board game "Cluedo". In order to solve the task, it was necessary to find a site on the internet dedicated to the game. After that, it was possible to extract pieces of the necessary information from the dialogue. Then, based on this information, it was required to determine the murderer. Source - https://wondrousnet.blogspot.com/2023/05/solution-to-puzzle-sleuth.html
2023.06.07 08:04 dadplup Update to my last post from 3 months ago
I had expected my ex to try something around her birthday in April fishing for information about our daughter, to recap she had not contacted the kid in over a year and blocked her from all social media and it didn't disappoint sadly it was a bad as expected
The people involved names are made up are my ex Josie, stepson Bob, ex boyfriend Sal my daughter Tea
Josie is a covert narcissist that walked out of the therapist office when she was being diagnosed with it,
Josie had Bob call Tea the day after Josie bday to gather information as to why Tea didn't call to wish s happy birthday, we didn't have a contact number for either of them until that day, Tea is 19 now and can speak for herself, during that inertial conversation Josie tried to paint herself as a victim claiming that she was being kept from Tea since the divorce, that's a lie, I have a custody and visitation agreement that was signed by the judge that she couldve enforce had she showed up in court I have been very clear and honest with Tea about the divorce and I encouraged her to maintain a relationship with her mom , but it hasn't been easy because she left the state and never came back. Thus communication started to deteriorate by may 9th the day that it would've been our 21st wedding anniversary
That same weekend was mother's day and Josie expected calls flowers cards etc from us obviously it didn't happen so she stopped talking to Tea for a few days as punishment, when she calmed down she started talking again and she was confronted by Tea for the things that she did to her, the lies, the gaslighting, Josie still sees her as a child so she got defensive and wouldn't answer anything for days.
By the end of May Tea sent her a message expressing that although she was hoping to remain in contact with her mom that it would me so much more harder without her being honest and taking responsibility for her actions and suggested a mutual exchange of information to begin with, surprisingly Josie agreed and over the next few days Josie weaved a very complicated web of lies that she couldn't keep straight, her stories changed when confronted with them it wasn't pretty
We discovered that she's dating now to the surprise of no one really because I expected her to have done that as soon as she left the house, then the explosion happened, Bob called my number and he is 21 but he is special needs he's got the mind of a 5 year old I suggested that he talked to his mom before continuing the conversation and hung up , he called back and told me that if I wanted to talk to him that I needed to talk to Josie first I said ok but I didn't call you, you called me
I must mention that when she left the state she left Bob at a group home and disappeared it was 14 months ago that I had contact her to let her and her family know that Bob was in the hospital And that he was in rough shape, that got me yelled at yelling me I had no business talking to him or having nothing to do with him to begin with,( I raised him since he was 10 months old ),I ended the call by telling her that I was just trying to inform her about the son that she left behind was sick and I didn't want anything from her and hung up
Fast forward to today after I got off the phone with Bob she called me, actually called me but what came out of it was nothing but another argument she had me on speaker phone and her boyfriend decided to get involved in it they both stayed to yell and cuss and I responded the same way, she yelled at me for the back child support she has to pay and the insurance copay, saying I did that, when it was the judge and the state that did it, he stated that if I had had sex with her more often she wouldn't have done anything, ( btw she was the one that didn't want to because it wasn't important to her yet she was screwing other guys that's the reason for the divorce) even threaten me over the phone which I found hilarious as they are in Illinois and I'm in Texas
Got off the phone and the conversation with Tea got so much worse that I had to convince her to just stop talking to keep her from saying anything too bad
Josie tried to spin/ history claiming that I did all the things that she did , that she was just a helpless victim, but the kid knows the story as she was there and I wouldn't tell her details but was honest with her, when confronted with it she just went in to gaslight mode which is her m o but Tea didn't buy it, I don't expect Josie to try to talk to Tea any time soon and I already blocked them from my phone and social media by the kid hasn't and I won't force her unless it gets worse which is about to , sorry about the rant I went to long
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The people involved names are made up are my ex Josie, stepson Bob, ex boyfriend Sal my daughter Tea
Josie is a covert narcissist that walked out of the therapist office when she was being diagnosed with it,
Josie had Bob call Tea the day after Josie bday to gather information as to why Tea didn't call to wish s happy birthday, we didn't have a contact number for either of them until that day, Tea is 19 now and can speak for herself, during that inertial conversation Josie tried to paint herself as a victim claiming that she was being kept from Tea since the divorce, that's a lie, I have a custody and visitation agreement that was signed by the judge that she couldve enforce had she showed up in court I have been very clear and honest with Tea about the divorce and I encouraged her to maintain a relationship with her mom , but it hasn't been easy because she left the state and never came back. Thus communication started to deteriorate by may 9th the day that it would've been our 21st wedding anniversary
That same weekend was mother's day and Josie expected calls flowers cards etc from us obviously it didn't happen so she stopped talking to Tea for a few days as punishment, when she calmed down she started talking again and she was confronted by Tea for the things that she did to her, the lies, the gaslighting, Josie still sees her as a child so she got defensive and wouldn't answer anything for days.
By the end of May Tea sent her a message expressing that although she was hoping to remain in contact with her mom that it would me so much more harder without her being honest and taking responsibility for her actions and suggested a mutual exchange of information to begin with, surprisingly Josie agreed and over the next few days Josie weaved a very complicated web of lies that she couldn't keep straight, her stories changed when confronted with them it wasn't pretty
We discovered that she's dating now to the surprise of no one really because I expected her to have done that as soon as she left the house, then the explosion happened, Bob called my number and he is 21 but he is special needs he's got the mind of a 5 year old I suggested that he talked to his mom before continuing the conversation and hung up , he called back and told me that if I wanted to talk to him that I needed to talk to Josie first I said ok but I didn't call you, you called me
I must mention that when she left the state she left Bob at a group home and disappeared it was 14 months ago that I had contact her to let her and her family know that Bob was in the hospital And that he was in rough shape, that got me yelled at yelling me I had no business talking to him or having nothing to do with him to begin with,( I raised him since he was 10 months old ),I ended the call by telling her that I was just trying to inform her about the son that she left behind was sick and I didn't want anything from her and hung up
Fast forward to today after I got off the phone with Bob she called me, actually called me but what came out of it was nothing but another argument she had me on speaker phone and her boyfriend decided to get involved in it they both stayed to yell and cuss and I responded the same way, she yelled at me for the back child support she has to pay and the insurance copay, saying I did that, when it was the judge and the state that did it, he stated that if I had had sex with her more often she wouldn't have done anything, ( btw she was the one that didn't want to because it wasn't important to her yet she was screwing other guys that's the reason for the divorce) even threaten me over the phone which I found hilarious as they are in Illinois and I'm in Texas
Got off the phone and the conversation with Tea got so much worse that I had to convince her to just stop talking to keep her from saying anything too bad
Josie tried to spin/ history claiming that I did all the things that she did , that she was just a helpless victim, but the kid knows the story as she was there and I wouldn't tell her details but was honest with her, when confronted with it she just went in to gaslight mode which is her m o but Tea didn't buy it, I don't expect Josie to try to talk to Tea any time soon and I already blocked them from my phone and social media by the kid hasn't and I won't force her unless it gets worse which is about to , sorry about the rant I went to long
2023.06.07 08:04 Ambitious_Factor_865 AITA for purposely rash/scary driving my car on to a speed breaker, when I was the one carrying the family back from my grandfather's birthday, just because they mistreated me and disregarded my migraines?
I 21(F) have had driving lessons since I was 16. I am the "elder daughter" in both sides of my family and so I have had to be the "responsible one" since I was a kid. Everyone at my house just expects me to be the right person, do the right thing, be a fixer upper, provide advice, give emotional support, and arrange birthdays/events/gifts that make my family feel special (even though no one in my family has done anything on my except my younger sister, I love her, she has grown up to be an amazing teenager and I would like to say I had a part to play in her values growing up). Anyways fast forward to my grandfather's 75th birthday last month, I am the only one who can drive so well among my parents, aunt, and grandfather (my sister and cousin are minors). So naturally on my grandpa's birthday I drove to a restaurant we all love. Now the thing about this restaurant is that it has two parts, rooftop and indoors. I didn't want to go on the rooftop because it was ladies night and very loud music was playing. [Context: that very day on his birthday I took myself to the hospital because no one else would (despite ample family living around me), and the doctor told me that my wound (a few days ago my 3 y.o. cousin hit her head on my nose and I had headaches since) has turned into a ligament injury, but it is treatable by meds. Although I also had severe headache for days and when he checked me he was certain that I will have short term migraines and sinus headaches for 10 days. He gave me meds and I came home, got ready and drove me family to that restaurant.]
Back to the rooftop, my aunt insisted on going there. I told her and my dad that I don't want to but they brushed it off. The whole time there I was. hiding tears from my family. My head was hurting horribly. And my aunt decided to sit near the plants, she made me sit on the inside near the plants, cause she "doesn't like the smell of it" (WTF is wrong with her, why did she bring us to the plants then). Well in those 2 hours I took 2 painkillers and both my legs were covered in mosquito bites. By the time dinner ended I got up and left for downstairs. I met my parents there separately and told them that I was furious and this is unacceptable, they completely ignored me there.
(you can ignore the unbold text and move to next para also) They called me spoilt. This is after I have never literally asked them for anything, like my 12th birthday gift ask was a microwave because we didn't have anything to heat pre-made food and my mom had to use the stove, she was sick at the time so we had a lot of pre-made food. I got a camera for my 16th which I still use, I am a professional photographer now, but between 12 - 16 the only birthday gift I got was clothes on sale, and I never complained. That is what I have always gotten. My birthday falls on independence day sale time which is the biggest sale of the year and I stock up my clothes then. My birthdays have always led my family to fight with me and no one gives a shit other than my sister, but when she was a kid, she didn't like me getting attention so she would put menace on my birthday. I have had some bad birthday experience. My aunt used to make me cry and force makeup on me on my birthdays so that I look more girly, she started this when I was 13. So I was pissed that the people who ruined my birthdays just tried to ruin my day on someone else's birthday while I am sick.
Well when we drove back in the night, hahahahhaha, I was pissed. I stepped into the car with my parents, aunt and grandfather, and sister + cousin. It is a 7 seater for reference. And I started driving at 95 - 100 km/hr the second we exited the parking lot. The road after that restaurant for 5 kms has a bad short width but long height speed-breaker after every 500 meters. At each speed breaker I would purposefully not slow down and make sure to have a smirk on my face so that my dad can see. Before the right turn on the final speed-breaker I took the car so fast that everyone's head (except mine and dad's we were sitting up front) hit the car roof. It was not a big thing, thankfully nothing happened, but what I did was under my control. Although everyone was scared, especially my cousin sister, that was the only thing that made me feel bad. Okay, following up, but then after that right turn I slowed down my car to 20 km/hr speed which was annoying AF. Everyone behind thought that my dad got angry that's why I slowed, little did they know in that moment for the first time roles were reversed because my dad was scared, angry yes, but scared too. I saw it in his eyes. I love my dad, but I know my dad loves power. He never hit my mom but he has hit me a lot till I was 16 and a couple times even after.
That day I lectured in how I am a grownup, I earn, he even took money from me recently to give to some of his employees on short notice (which he returned); I told him that I have been grown enough to handle a lot of things since I was a kid and now at 21, I should be heard for myself too. This past year I have built a lot of courage and confronted my parents about a lot of shit they did.
Anyways my mom and aunt think I am an asshole and what I did is a proof that my driving rights should be taken away. Although they didn't do shit cause their emergency driver would go away if I stopped driving. But back to my question, AITA?
PS: I usually just read on reddit, but I feel like I wanted to post this.
#aita
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Back to the rooftop, my aunt insisted on going there. I told her and my dad that I don't want to but they brushed it off. The whole time there I was. hiding tears from my family. My head was hurting horribly. And my aunt decided to sit near the plants, she made me sit on the inside near the plants, cause she "doesn't like the smell of it" (WTF is wrong with her, why did she bring us to the plants then). Well in those 2 hours I took 2 painkillers and both my legs were covered in mosquito bites. By the time dinner ended I got up and left for downstairs. I met my parents there separately and told them that I was furious and this is unacceptable, they completely ignored me there.
(you can ignore the unbold text and move to next para also) They called me spoilt. This is after I have never literally asked them for anything, like my 12th birthday gift ask was a microwave because we didn't have anything to heat pre-made food and my mom had to use the stove, she was sick at the time so we had a lot of pre-made food. I got a camera for my 16th which I still use, I am a professional photographer now, but between 12 - 16 the only birthday gift I got was clothes on sale, and I never complained. That is what I have always gotten. My birthday falls on independence day sale time which is the biggest sale of the year and I stock up my clothes then. My birthdays have always led my family to fight with me and no one gives a shit other than my sister, but when she was a kid, she didn't like me getting attention so she would put menace on my birthday. I have had some bad birthday experience. My aunt used to make me cry and force makeup on me on my birthdays so that I look more girly, she started this when I was 13. So I was pissed that the people who ruined my birthdays just tried to ruin my day on someone else's birthday while I am sick.
Well when we drove back in the night, hahahahhaha, I was pissed. I stepped into the car with my parents, aunt and grandfather, and sister + cousin. It is a 7 seater for reference. And I started driving at 95 - 100 km/hr the second we exited the parking lot. The road after that restaurant for 5 kms has a bad short width but long height speed-breaker after every 500 meters. At each speed breaker I would purposefully not slow down and make sure to have a smirk on my face so that my dad can see. Before the right turn on the final speed-breaker I took the car so fast that everyone's head (except mine and dad's we were sitting up front) hit the car roof. It was not a big thing, thankfully nothing happened, but what I did was under my control. Although everyone was scared, especially my cousin sister, that was the only thing that made me feel bad. Okay, following up, but then after that right turn I slowed down my car to 20 km/hr speed which was annoying AF. Everyone behind thought that my dad got angry that's why I slowed, little did they know in that moment for the first time roles were reversed because my dad was scared, angry yes, but scared too. I saw it in his eyes. I love my dad, but I know my dad loves power. He never hit my mom but he has hit me a lot till I was 16 and a couple times even after.
That day I lectured in how I am a grownup, I earn, he even took money from me recently to give to some of his employees on short notice (which he returned); I told him that I have been grown enough to handle a lot of things since I was a kid and now at 21, I should be heard for myself too. This past year I have built a lot of courage and confronted my parents about a lot of shit they did.
Anyways my mom and aunt think I am an asshole and what I did is a proof that my driving rights should be taken away. Although they didn't do shit cause their emergency driver would go away if I stopped driving. But back to my question, AITA?
PS: I usually just read on reddit, but I feel like I wanted to post this.
#aita
2023.06.07 08:04 joereddington Every year, redditors from tech subreddits lay flowers at Alan Turing's statue in Manchester for his Birthday, who wants to send some?
Alan Turing, the pioneering Computer Scientist and World War II codebreaker, has a statue in Sackville Gardens in Manchester.
Each year on 23rd June, people from Reddit1 honor his birthday by surrounding his statue with flowers. Since 2013, we’ve raised over £12,700 for the amazing Special Effect. Based in the UK, they use video games and technology to enhance the quality of life of people with disabilities.
Since 2013 we've raised over £12,700 doing this, and 2023 is our tenth anniversary! Anyone who wants to get involved is welcome. Donations are made up of £3.50 to cover the cost of your flowers and a £14 charity contribution to Special Effect for a total of £17.50.
Manchester city council have confirmed they are fine with it, and we have people in Manchester who will help handle the set up and clean up.
To find out more and to donate, click here. We've curently raised £2 from previous donors,and a couple of other subreddits, but I feel like geek is the right place for this.
Joe
1- Also a small number of people from Facebook and some university academics, but easily 90% of donations of reddit.
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Each year on 23rd June, people from Reddit1 honor his birthday by surrounding his statue with flowers. Since 2013, we’ve raised over £12,700 for the amazing Special Effect. Based in the UK, they use video games and technology to enhance the quality of life of people with disabilities.
Since 2013 we've raised over £12,700 doing this, and 2023 is our tenth anniversary! Anyone who wants to get involved is welcome. Donations are made up of £3.50 to cover the cost of your flowers and a £14 charity contribution to Special Effect for a total of £17.50.
Manchester city council have confirmed they are fine with it, and we have people in Manchester who will help handle the set up and clean up.
To find out more and to donate, click here. We've curently raised £2 from previous donors,and a couple of other subreddits, but I feel like geek is the right place for this.
Joe
1- Also a small number of people from Facebook and some university academics, but easily 90% of donations of reddit.
2023.06.07 08:03 Averenn A few lore questions from someone who (as of yet) has only gotten the storyline through comics, movies, and random BS01 articles
What's the deal with the red star stuff? I've read about it but it still confuses me, also does it work now that everyone is on Spherus Magna?
Is Lhikan just objectively the coolest Toa because from the stuff I've seen nobody else comes close
Why are some Toa designed differently? I mean in universe, I can figure out the irl explanation for myself
Is "love isn't canon" an elaborate joke that I have been fooled by because that doesn't make any sense
How many new Toa can a Toa make? Lhikan made six so it that THE number you can make or can you make more or less?
Does anything that functioned inside the GSR not function on Spherus Magna? (Masks weapons technology powers etc)
Could EVERY Glatorian have their powers awoken like Mata Nui did for those few in the 4th movie? What about Agori?
Which area of the GSR is the LEAST explored in canon (for the purpose of MOCing and whatever)
Is everyone on Spherus Magna now?
What happened to those dinosaurs on the other planet are they okay
Why did Makuta call Mata Nui his brother? I get it from a storyline standpoint in 2001 but it's not true right? I'd say he's just a liar but he literally mumbles stuff about it to himself when he's alone, is he just nuts?
What happened to the barraki I completely forgot about them until I was writing this
Okay sorry for the long post but an answer to even one of these questions would help me out
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Is Lhikan just objectively the coolest Toa because from the stuff I've seen nobody else comes close
Why are some Toa designed differently? I mean in universe, I can figure out the irl explanation for myself
Is "love isn't canon" an elaborate joke that I have been fooled by because that doesn't make any sense
How many new Toa can a Toa make? Lhikan made six so it that THE number you can make or can you make more or less?
Does anything that functioned inside the GSR not function on Spherus Magna? (Masks weapons technology powers etc)
Could EVERY Glatorian have their powers awoken like Mata Nui did for those few in the 4th movie? What about Agori?
Which area of the GSR is the LEAST explored in canon (for the purpose of MOCing and whatever)
Is everyone on Spherus Magna now?
What happened to those dinosaurs on the other planet are they okay
Why did Makuta call Mata Nui his brother? I get it from a storyline standpoint in 2001 but it's not true right? I'd say he's just a liar but he literally mumbles stuff about it to himself when he's alone, is he just nuts?
What happened to the barraki I completely forgot about them until I was writing this
Okay sorry for the long post but an answer to even one of these questions would help me out
2023.06.07 08:03 Quirky-Gear-5214 which ap’s should i drop?
 | i’m going into my junior year of high school next year and i chose to take 4 ap’s ( compsci, aplang, apush, and research). after doing some research on the universities i want to attend, majority of them don’t accept credit for the ap’s im thinking of taking. on one hand, i don’t want to waste my time taking ap’s that aren’t going to be accepted and stress myself out but on the other hand taking these classes can help me in other ways ( for example my ap seminar class has helped me research and write essays a lot better). i also feel since i’m better in history/english, aplang, research, and apush are gonna get me good grades easily and compsci is the only thing i’ll have to really focus on more. at the end of the day, i don’t want to burn out frm the excessive amount of work i’ll need to do from ap classes that aren’t going to benefit me, so i really need to know what classes i should definitely drop. i took world and seminar this year and i’m great at both/get great grades but the workload stresses me out which sometimes causes me to miss due dates. for some background i’m thinking of majoring in either compsci or psychology when i’m in uni. submitted by Quirky-Gear-5214 to APStudents [link] [comments] |
2023.06.07 08:03 purified_piranha I just reached FI
It just happened. Upon checking my spreadsheet this morning, I realised that the market gains over the last couple of days pushed me past my target number. Wow. Strange feeling. I had of course known that this was going to happen in the next couple of months (and planned accordingly), but as an otherwise very rational person I can't help but feel surprised by an unfamiliar sensation I can only describe as a mix of success, exhilaration, tenseness and expectation. What has been a key financial and career goal since the moment I started my career was just reached.
So, what now?
For the next couple of months, little will change in terms of my daily routine. FI coincides with a major professional milestone: I'm in the closing stages of the part-time PhD programme I have been enrolled in, expecting to graduate in September this year. FIRE was never about the RE part for me, but rather about the freedom to pursue my life and professional goals independent of financial considerations. That's why I've applied for academic positions at several Ivy League universities which I hope to leave the corporate world for in the autumn (increasing my workload while cutting my salary by 80% in the process). In fact, I have a major interview in 9 days (good luck to me), leaving little time to properly celebrate this milestone. Nevertheless, after years of corporate rat race and the majority of my 20s being dominated by career pursuits, I feel that whatever lies ahead professionally will be unapologetically dedicated to my own interests, ambitious and goals. And that feels unapologetically fantastic.
Thank you for reading, the nature of the FIRE related matters often mean that there are few people beyond my SO one can share results with, so it's nice to have a shared community of people with the same values and goals.
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So, what now?
For the next couple of months, little will change in terms of my daily routine. FI coincides with a major professional milestone: I'm in the closing stages of the part-time PhD programme I have been enrolled in, expecting to graduate in September this year. FIRE was never about the RE part for me, but rather about the freedom to pursue my life and professional goals independent of financial considerations. That's why I've applied for academic positions at several Ivy League universities which I hope to leave the corporate world for in the autumn (increasing my workload while cutting my salary by 80% in the process). In fact, I have a major interview in 9 days (good luck to me), leaving little time to properly celebrate this milestone. Nevertheless, after years of corporate rat race and the majority of my 20s being dominated by career pursuits, I feel that whatever lies ahead professionally will be unapologetically dedicated to my own interests, ambitious and goals. And that feels unapologetically fantastic.
Thank you for reading, the nature of the FIRE related matters often mean that there are few people beyond my SO one can share results with, so it's nice to have a shared community of people with the same values and goals.
2023.06.07 08:02 I_Jungle_Teemo Excuse me while I rant to this wall over here for a while
Ok look, I just want to open by saying that this is gonna be long and kind of a vauge rant; but i wanted to post it somewhere just so that someone might understand where i'm coming from.
Im pretty sure i fall into a smallish minority of players of the Phantasy Star series. My first foray was Phantasy Star Universe; and while it seems to be a bit of a blacksheep of the series, as someone just discovering my first mmo outside of Runescape (and on a console no less) it was pure MAGIC. There was SO much to do, so many cool and unique items to collect, a fun and engaging community who was friendly and willing to help. You had branching paths, themed bosses; everything just felt so ALIVE to me as a kid. All these people here in this awesome virtual world all having fun, making real memories with real people through the joy of fun community features, and a shared love of finding the next exciting drop.
Jump forward in time a couple years after the PSU shutdown; I catch wind that PSO2 is playable in japan, and its possible to play from the US. Immediately, nostalgia floods me, and i start trying to rig the wonky launcher and super primitive english patch on some crappy 200 dollar walmart laptop i had (SO many hours spent doing captchas in hiragana as a dumb american... holy hell). I get into the server, and its like magic all over again; im a little confused about how the field lobbies are gone and how the layout works as a whole; but im having a good time. I settle in on ship 2, i do a handful of missions and happen to run across some english speaking players and boom; i'm in an alliance, here comes the sense of community again! Now, at this point i'm a little older and wiser; i've played a good few f2p mmos at this point, and so it isn't long before i notice the cash shop and start trying to figure out what i'm missing. So I start asking about in the voice chat of this alliance i'm in; and most people tell me that if i'm having fun that a premium set is the biggest thing worth having. However i would need to find a way to convert my money (which at the time was quite complicated, though it later got easier i'm told). So i kind of hit a stone wall and decide "Well im having fun, all these new skill trees are really cool and im enjoying the game and its combat especially vs PSU..... so how hard can it be to grind it out as a f2p?
Well it wasn't the worst. I lasted a good 6 months and maxxed out 1 class, i survive through SG storage space, and learn that through shop tickets and room tickets i can get pretty much anything i want through smart grinding. At some point through the leveling process, the loop started to feel more rewarding the more you really learned combat; but the overall rewards just felt so slow and unsatisfying. I'm sure it didnt help that MANY items were untranslated; but so much of the loot felt so samey. There were no super cool special drops or anything outside of augments really that people wanted that werent AC scratch items; so i got to farming. Alot of my alliance members were very skilled and knowledgeable, and frankly carried me super hard in both knowledge and power (shout out to Cedric, Gorani, and Maileese). I started to learn and understand alot about the game outside of the fun community aspects that drew me in. I started bringing in ok money and got my character set up with a cool outfit; made my room nice and decorated so i could invite my alliance over to hang out. Overall, i managed to thrive as a f2p despite constant mid run banking, storage problems, slower xp, and shitty buff drinks. I stayed and learned to thrive, because it gave me the option to thrive as a f2p through learning the finer bits of the market (and being able to access it reasonably easy).
Jump forward like 5-6 more years; my crappy laptop is dead; I had long taken a break from pso2 JP when they started ip banning english players; and im playing on xbox as my main source of gaming entertainment. I had almost forgotten they ever promised to bring pso2 west nearly 10 years ago; but when i saw PSO2 at E3 of all things; needless to say I LOST MY MIND! i was beyond excited for it to finally touch back down; and whats more its even coming to the platform i have access too! so many years of content and things i missed! I was mentally preparing to lose myself in PSO2 for ages; but this time i was fully invested in "Min/maxxing" mentality. I know that lots of people are going to be playing for the first time, and that having already played a bunch myself; i have the advantage to some degree in knowledge; and can use it both to help myself and others. I like to think that overall i did pretty good; i ran an alliance with a good handful of friends who i convinced to play; and we all had a great time... for about 2ish weeks until we realized gearing peaked at revolsio weapons. I knew the content drip would be slow but steady; but there was such a renewed sense of community, that even though they began to trickle out; i couldnt help but stay.
I started getting into augementing and experimenting with builds; i start affixing units and weapons for profit, i engage in the community colored chair wars, i people watch on block 69; life is GREAT and im having a great time. Ofc i bought in for a founders pack and had premium and some cosmetics and stuff; i was actually an adult with money this time, and i mean hey; what's 30 bucks to support a game i love and get basically everything i need for one character? I occasionally grumble over the inability to trade people without premium, or that those without it level extra slow; but i know that if they just make it over a certain barrier that they can thrive no problem. I use photon capsule machines to trade friends gear; we do even more advance quests even more of the time to make sure people get the levels they need; and eventually they have a stockpile of tickets, and have a max level character; and start making money. At some point alot of them start having enough fun that they too buy into the game, some for a premium set; some full send whales. Now, the whales started being a double edged blade; because there were enough people making well affixed gear at steady enough of pace; but jussst slow enough at first that demand was still very much outweighing supply. So the market begins to skyrocket on perfect affixed units. Now me personally; i made alot of money on this. but for MANY of the other players who are just trying to get better gear and those who are chasing the "end game" so to speak; this became super punishing.
I could go on and on and on about how much stuff got super crazy on the market because of whaling. but as long as you were on the right side of it from a standpoint of affixes and material farming; you could make a fortune off of it; although at some point they even started making that not as good with premium capsules and whatnot. Soon capsules are best in slot across the board, shop tickets begin trickling out; The balloon breasts jump to like 2 billion meseta lol. so much stuff starts happening around me that im like "man this game isnt like... pay to win but SUPER pay to conveinence". but the reality was starting to get a little bit bleaker by the end of pso2 era for F2P players.
To come full circle here with what drove me to rant and rave about this al;l is how the model has progressed in NGS. We lived in an age where there was no player shop access for f2p (unless you were sitting on a dragons hoard of unsed 3 days from base game), there were no rooms, even premium benefits were basically nil outside of a shop. AC scratches were getting pumped at at an all time high, no concerts, no real entertainment of any kind; just fuggin resol forest all day. and finally we have come to an age of content where sega finally makes skill trees not cost money to change; but just sells you the ability to skip playing the game. and not only that but effectively spawn in the best items in the game for AC. It just feels so unfortunate that the content has dried up; nothing feels anywhere near as creative or fun. the combat is inch deep; as are the skill trees. theres no crazy combos; no 20 piece combo craziness. just the same 4-5 moves; on repeat; with mostly some % buffs thrown in.
I havent even begun to mention the mile long list of other stuff missing that even base game had. Bas egame had some genunely fun and challeneging content. there were fun missions to run and it made sense to do them. NGS is just devoid of any of the charm of fun that made any of its previous iterations great; and all while gouging you for more and more.
I know this trails all over the place and has a rushed conclusion, but i was just reading the patch notes considering dipping my toes back into the water again after skipping stia; and im just honestly so turned off by it. nothing has changed; no major interesting content has dropped; and now they are going full on pay to win. I'll be honest; i think ill just stick to clementine server or something; because at least there, the devs actually give a shit about the game. I feel like im in an abusive relationship im just waking up to after 10 years os PSO or something. and with that i dont have much else to say tbh. i love this franchise, and i want to love this game; but SEGA really just cannot do right with this game.
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Im pretty sure i fall into a smallish minority of players of the Phantasy Star series. My first foray was Phantasy Star Universe; and while it seems to be a bit of a blacksheep of the series, as someone just discovering my first mmo outside of Runescape (and on a console no less) it was pure MAGIC. There was SO much to do, so many cool and unique items to collect, a fun and engaging community who was friendly and willing to help. You had branching paths, themed bosses; everything just felt so ALIVE to me as a kid. All these people here in this awesome virtual world all having fun, making real memories with real people through the joy of fun community features, and a shared love of finding the next exciting drop.
Jump forward in time a couple years after the PSU shutdown; I catch wind that PSO2 is playable in japan, and its possible to play from the US. Immediately, nostalgia floods me, and i start trying to rig the wonky launcher and super primitive english patch on some crappy 200 dollar walmart laptop i had (SO many hours spent doing captchas in hiragana as a dumb american... holy hell). I get into the server, and its like magic all over again; im a little confused about how the field lobbies are gone and how the layout works as a whole; but im having a good time. I settle in on ship 2, i do a handful of missions and happen to run across some english speaking players and boom; i'm in an alliance, here comes the sense of community again! Now, at this point i'm a little older and wiser; i've played a good few f2p mmos at this point, and so it isn't long before i notice the cash shop and start trying to figure out what i'm missing. So I start asking about in the voice chat of this alliance i'm in; and most people tell me that if i'm having fun that a premium set is the biggest thing worth having. However i would need to find a way to convert my money (which at the time was quite complicated, though it later got easier i'm told). So i kind of hit a stone wall and decide "Well im having fun, all these new skill trees are really cool and im enjoying the game and its combat especially vs PSU..... so how hard can it be to grind it out as a f2p?
Well it wasn't the worst. I lasted a good 6 months and maxxed out 1 class, i survive through SG storage space, and learn that through shop tickets and room tickets i can get pretty much anything i want through smart grinding. At some point through the leveling process, the loop started to feel more rewarding the more you really learned combat; but the overall rewards just felt so slow and unsatisfying. I'm sure it didnt help that MANY items were untranslated; but so much of the loot felt so samey. There were no super cool special drops or anything outside of augments really that people wanted that werent AC scratch items; so i got to farming. Alot of my alliance members were very skilled and knowledgeable, and frankly carried me super hard in both knowledge and power (shout out to Cedric, Gorani, and Maileese). I started to learn and understand alot about the game outside of the fun community aspects that drew me in. I started bringing in ok money and got my character set up with a cool outfit; made my room nice and decorated so i could invite my alliance over to hang out. Overall, i managed to thrive as a f2p despite constant mid run banking, storage problems, slower xp, and shitty buff drinks. I stayed and learned to thrive, because it gave me the option to thrive as a f2p through learning the finer bits of the market (and being able to access it reasonably easy).
Jump forward like 5-6 more years; my crappy laptop is dead; I had long taken a break from pso2 JP when they started ip banning english players; and im playing on xbox as my main source of gaming entertainment. I had almost forgotten they ever promised to bring pso2 west nearly 10 years ago; but when i saw PSO2 at E3 of all things; needless to say I LOST MY MIND! i was beyond excited for it to finally touch back down; and whats more its even coming to the platform i have access too! so many years of content and things i missed! I was mentally preparing to lose myself in PSO2 for ages; but this time i was fully invested in "Min/maxxing" mentality. I know that lots of people are going to be playing for the first time, and that having already played a bunch myself; i have the advantage to some degree in knowledge; and can use it both to help myself and others. I like to think that overall i did pretty good; i ran an alliance with a good handful of friends who i convinced to play; and we all had a great time... for about 2ish weeks until we realized gearing peaked at revolsio weapons. I knew the content drip would be slow but steady; but there was such a renewed sense of community, that even though they began to trickle out; i couldnt help but stay.
I started getting into augementing and experimenting with builds; i start affixing units and weapons for profit, i engage in the community colored chair wars, i people watch on block 69; life is GREAT and im having a great time. Ofc i bought in for a founders pack and had premium and some cosmetics and stuff; i was actually an adult with money this time, and i mean hey; what's 30 bucks to support a game i love and get basically everything i need for one character? I occasionally grumble over the inability to trade people without premium, or that those without it level extra slow; but i know that if they just make it over a certain barrier that they can thrive no problem. I use photon capsule machines to trade friends gear; we do even more advance quests even more of the time to make sure people get the levels they need; and eventually they have a stockpile of tickets, and have a max level character; and start making money. At some point alot of them start having enough fun that they too buy into the game, some for a premium set; some full send whales. Now, the whales started being a double edged blade; because there were enough people making well affixed gear at steady enough of pace; but jussst slow enough at first that demand was still very much outweighing supply. So the market begins to skyrocket on perfect affixed units. Now me personally; i made alot of money on this. but for MANY of the other players who are just trying to get better gear and those who are chasing the "end game" so to speak; this became super punishing.
I could go on and on and on about how much stuff got super crazy on the market because of whaling. but as long as you were on the right side of it from a standpoint of affixes and material farming; you could make a fortune off of it; although at some point they even started making that not as good with premium capsules and whatnot. Soon capsules are best in slot across the board, shop tickets begin trickling out; The balloon breasts jump to like 2 billion meseta lol. so much stuff starts happening around me that im like "man this game isnt like... pay to win but SUPER pay to conveinence". but the reality was starting to get a little bit bleaker by the end of pso2 era for F2P players.
To come full circle here with what drove me to rant and rave about this al;l is how the model has progressed in NGS. We lived in an age where there was no player shop access for f2p (unless you were sitting on a dragons hoard of unsed 3 days from base game), there were no rooms, even premium benefits were basically nil outside of a shop. AC scratches were getting pumped at at an all time high, no concerts, no real entertainment of any kind; just fuggin resol forest all day. and finally we have come to an age of content where sega finally makes skill trees not cost money to change; but just sells you the ability to skip playing the game. and not only that but effectively spawn in the best items in the game for AC. It just feels so unfortunate that the content has dried up; nothing feels anywhere near as creative or fun. the combat is inch deep; as are the skill trees. theres no crazy combos; no 20 piece combo craziness. just the same 4-5 moves; on repeat; with mostly some % buffs thrown in.
I havent even begun to mention the mile long list of other stuff missing that even base game had. Bas egame had some genunely fun and challeneging content. there were fun missions to run and it made sense to do them. NGS is just devoid of any of the charm of fun that made any of its previous iterations great; and all while gouging you for more and more.
I know this trails all over the place and has a rushed conclusion, but i was just reading the patch notes considering dipping my toes back into the water again after skipping stia; and im just honestly so turned off by it. nothing has changed; no major interesting content has dropped; and now they are going full on pay to win. I'll be honest; i think ill just stick to clementine server or something; because at least there, the devs actually give a shit about the game. I feel like im in an abusive relationship im just waking up to after 10 years os PSO or something. and with that i dont have much else to say tbh. i love this franchise, and i want to love this game; but SEGA really just cannot do right with this game.
2023.06.07 08:02 Optimal_Earth_9859 What would you guys do to make more unique the tipical elemental based mana bar magic?
Context: This magic for my rpg exploration/combat videogame is based on the idea that everything is made of energy. This energy is normally called essentia and can be clasified intro 5 priomordial groups called aspects(FLAMMA, VENTUS, FLUCTUS, THUNDUR, TERHIA). Each thing made by matter is represented by a characteristic combination of aspects.
This energy can be divided into 3 groups based on where it is found:
Flux is the general term for a chaotic overflow of our magical energy "essence", often produced as a by-product of risky experiments or negligence in working with ambient energy. This type of enviromental energy, if not cleaned quickly, will break the chaos/control of the universe and consequently will generate unimaginable great catastrophes (dimensional cracks, living beings without any logic, instant deaths, areas incapable of using magic, etc). The flux normally manifests itself in the form of negative matter, either in a liquid or gaseous state (this is known as TAINT) and is what generates the "corruption" or rupture of order. The only way to remove the corruption is to transform the taint back into flux(Negative pure essentia) because normally the flux purifies itself after a long period of time.
The problem begins on the Soul Energy system, It's just the tipical elemental mana bar system with nearly infinite spell posibilities and idk how to I make it more unique Im looking for something that can be unique as a mechanic while being good lorewise too
I wont go in much detail about spell crafting and stuff cuz I made another post for it and it's not the point of this post.
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This energy can be divided into 3 groups based on where it is found:
- Environmental version(Called "Pure essentia"), found in the environment completely purified of its aspects. Can be used to power machines and various arcane items, as it gives you the ability to cast very complex spells without being limited to a physical affinity. This pure essentia is a stationary energy, meaning that its "closed" in areas with diferent energy levels and will never move from there.
- Normal version(Named "Essentia"), found in matter. Has at least one aspect.
- Soul version(Called "Soulshine" or "Soul Essentia"). The soul is a nearly infinite source of "extra" essentia found in the particles of a living being with normally 1 aspect(or 2 in rare cases) (called "Soul Affinity"). This essence is not added to the particles and does not generate any direct physical change or alteration, instead its more like an "outline". This soul is what gives life to living beings, working as a link for our cells and stuff so that all together share the same "will".
Flux is the general term for a chaotic overflow of our magical energy "essence", often produced as a by-product of risky experiments or negligence in working with ambient energy. This type of enviromental energy, if not cleaned quickly, will break the chaos/control of the universe and consequently will generate unimaginable great catastrophes (dimensional cracks, living beings without any logic, instant deaths, areas incapable of using magic, etc). The flux normally manifests itself in the form of negative matter, either in a liquid or gaseous state (this is known as TAINT) and is what generates the "corruption" or rupture of order. The only way to remove the corruption is to transform the taint back into flux(Negative pure essentia) because normally the flux purifies itself after a long period of time.
The problem begins on the Soul Energy system, It's just the tipical elemental mana bar system with nearly infinite spell posibilities and idk how to I make it more unique Im looking for something that can be unique as a mechanic while being good lorewise too
I wont go in much detail about spell crafting and stuff cuz I made another post for it and it's not the point of this post.
2023.06.07 08:02 gyuvinist Is a Digital Anthro worth getting into?
I'm currently in grade 11 and Asian. So the people around me are starting to ask about university and career options or whatever. Anthropology was my favourite subject last year, but for some reason, the subject was wiped out of my school's curriculum entirely. I've been interested in this for a while now as I've spent my whole teenhood in various online communities and I didn't even know there was such a thing as Digital Anthropology! I've been enjoying reading articles and posts from this subreddit. Do you guys think this is something worth getting into? What career options do I have as a Digital Anthropologist? And what school do I go to to study this.
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2023.06.07 08:02 rabbit_holeexplorer Weight skyrocketing on and after TRT
2 weeks quitting TRT cold-turkey due to dangerous blood pressure increase that put me in hospital and on 2 BP meds. While BP has normalized and is almost down to normal range without either blood pressure medicine (130/80ish), my weight will NOT stop climbing.
I went from 165 pre-TRT to 175 on TRT (water), I’m now 193, (6’1’ BMI near 26, body fat nearing 15%).
This is icing on the cake of TRT fucking my health beyond all reason. I’m eating at a steep deficit, doing between 1-2 hours of cardio with heart rate at 150-175 per day. Any other suggestions for cutting or at least stopping the mad dash to 200 ibs?
Going to try to get bloods in the next few days to determine if taking an AI might help, and to see overall levels a few weeks after quitting.
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I went from 165 pre-TRT to 175 on TRT (water), I’m now 193, (6’1’ BMI near 26, body fat nearing 15%).
This is icing on the cake of TRT fucking my health beyond all reason. I’m eating at a steep deficit, doing between 1-2 hours of cardio with heart rate at 150-175 per day. Any other suggestions for cutting or at least stopping the mad dash to 200 ibs?
Going to try to get bloods in the next few days to determine if taking an AI might help, and to see overall levels a few weeks after quitting.
2023.06.07 08:01 Null7g Whistleblower Claims Government Has Recovered Alien Technology
Whistleblower Claims Government Has Recovered Alien Technology
A former intelligence official has come forward with startling allegations that the government has recovered alien technology. David Charles Grusch, who claims to have worked on classified programs related to UFOs, says that he has seen firsthand evidence of alien craft and technology.
Grusch's claims have been met with skepticism by some, but others are taking them seriously. If Grusch is telling the truth, it would mean that the government has been hiding information about UFOs for decades. This could have a profound impact on our understanding of the universe and our place in it.
I'm not sure what to think about Grusch's allegations, but I find them fascinating. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this story.
My Blog Post about the subject can be found here.
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A former intelligence official has come forward with startling allegations that the government has recovered alien technology. David Charles Grusch, who claims to have worked on classified programs related to UFOs, says that he has seen firsthand evidence of alien craft and technology.
Grusch's claims have been met with skepticism by some, but others are taking them seriously. If Grusch is telling the truth, it would mean that the government has been hiding information about UFOs for decades. This could have a profound impact on our understanding of the universe and our place in it.
I'm not sure what to think about Grusch's allegations, but I find them fascinating. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this story.
My Blog Post about the subject can be found here.
2023.06.07 08:01 Ambitious_Factor_865 AITA for purposely rash/scary driving my car on to a speed breaker, when I was the one carrying the family back from my grandfather's birthday, just because they mistreated me and disregarded my migraines?
I 21(F) have had driving lessons since I was 16. I am the "elder daughter" in both sides of my family and so I have had to be the "responsible one" since I was a kid. Everyone at my house just expects me to be the right person, do the right thing, be a fixer upper, provide advice, give emotional support, and arrange birthdays/events/gifts that make my family feel special (even though no one in my family has done anything on my except my younger sister, I love her, she has grown up to be an amazing teenager and I would like to say I had a part to play in her values growing up). Anyways fast forward to my grandfather's 75th birthday last month, I am the only one who can drive so well among my parents, aunt, and grandfather. So naturally on my grandpa's birthday I drove to a restaurant we all love. Now the thing about this restaurant is that it has two parts, rooftop and indoors. I didn't want to go on the rooftop because it was ladies night and very loud music was playing. [Context: that very day on his birthday I took myself to the hospital because no one else would (despite ample family living around me), and the doctor told me that my wound (a few days ago my 3 y.o. cousin hit her head on my nose and I had headaches since) has turned into a ligament injury, but it is treatable by meds. Although I also had severe headache for days and when he checked me he was certain that I will have short term migraines and sinus headaches for 10 days. He gave me meds and I came home, got ready and drove me family to that restaurant.]
Back to the rooftop, my aunt insisted on going there. I told her and my dad that I don't want to but they brushed it off. The whole time there I was. hiding tears from my family. My head was hurting horribly. And my aunt decided to sit near the plants, she made me sit on the inside near the plants, cause she "doesn't like the smell of it" (WTF is wrong with her, why did she bring us to the plants then). Well in those 2 hours I took 2 painkillers and both my legs were covered in mosquito bites. By the time dinner ended I got up and left for downstairs. I met my parents there separately and told them that I was furious and this is unacceptable, they completely ignored me there.
(you can ignore the unbold text and move to next para also) They called me spoilt. This is after I have never literally asked them for anything, like my 12th birthday gift ask was a microwave because we didn't have anything to heat pre-made food and my mom had to use the stove, she was sick at the time so we had a lot of pre-made food. I got a camera for my 16th which I still use, I am a professional photographer now, but between 12 - 16 the only birthday gift I got was clothes on sale, and I never complained. That is what I have always gotten. My birthday falls on independence day sale time which is the biggest sale of the year and I stock up my clothes then. My birthdays have always led my family to fight with me and no one gives a shit other than my sister, but when she was a kid, she didn't like me getting attention so she would put menace on my birthday. I have had some bad birthday experience. My aunt used to make me cry and force makeup on me on my birthdays so that I look more girly, she started this when I was 13. So I was pissed that the people who ruined my birthdays just tried to ruin my day on someone else's birthday while I am sick.
Well when we drove back in the night, hahahahhaha, I was pissed. I stepped into the car with my parents, aunt and grandfather, and sister + cousin. It is a 7 seater for reference. And I started driving at 95 - 100 km/hr the second we exited the parking lot. The road after that restaurant for 5 kms has a bad short width but long height speed-breaker after every 500 meters. At each speed breaker I would purposefully not slow down and make sure to have a smirk on my face so that my dad can see. Before the right turn on the final speed-breaker I took the car so fast that everyone's head (except mine and dad's we were sitting up front) hit the car roof. It was not a big thing, thankfully nothing happened, but what I did was under my control. Although everyone was scared, especially my cousin sister, that was the only thing that made me feel bad. Okay, following up, but then after that right turn I slowed down my car to 20 km/hr speed which was annoying AF. Everyone behind thought that my dad got angry that's why I slowed, little did they know in that moment for the first time roles were reversed because my dad was scared, angry yes, but scared too. I saw it in his eyes. I love my dad, but I know my dad loves power. He never hit my mom but he has hit me a lot till I was 16 and a couple times even after.
That day I lectured in how I am a grownup, I earn, he even took money from me recently to give to some of his employees on short notice (which he returned); I told him that I have been grown enough to handle a lot of things since I was a kid and now at 21, I should be heard for myself too. This past year I have built a lot of courage and confronted my parents about a lot of shit they did. Anyways my mom and aunt think I am an asshole and what I did is a proof that my driving rights should be taken away. Although they didn't do shit cause their emergency driver would go away if I stopped driving. But back to my question, AITA? PS: I usually just read on reddit, but I feel like I wanted to post this. #aita
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Back to the rooftop, my aunt insisted on going there. I told her and my dad that I don't want to but they brushed it off. The whole time there I was. hiding tears from my family. My head was hurting horribly. And my aunt decided to sit near the plants, she made me sit on the inside near the plants, cause she "doesn't like the smell of it" (WTF is wrong with her, why did she bring us to the plants then). Well in those 2 hours I took 2 painkillers and both my legs were covered in mosquito bites. By the time dinner ended I got up and left for downstairs. I met my parents there separately and told them that I was furious and this is unacceptable, they completely ignored me there.
(you can ignore the unbold text and move to next para also) They called me spoilt. This is after I have never literally asked them for anything, like my 12th birthday gift ask was a microwave because we didn't have anything to heat pre-made food and my mom had to use the stove, she was sick at the time so we had a lot of pre-made food. I got a camera for my 16th which I still use, I am a professional photographer now, but between 12 - 16 the only birthday gift I got was clothes on sale, and I never complained. That is what I have always gotten. My birthday falls on independence day sale time which is the biggest sale of the year and I stock up my clothes then. My birthdays have always led my family to fight with me and no one gives a shit other than my sister, but when she was a kid, she didn't like me getting attention so she would put menace on my birthday. I have had some bad birthday experience. My aunt used to make me cry and force makeup on me on my birthdays so that I look more girly, she started this when I was 13. So I was pissed that the people who ruined my birthdays just tried to ruin my day on someone else's birthday while I am sick.
Well when we drove back in the night, hahahahhaha, I was pissed. I stepped into the car with my parents, aunt and grandfather, and sister + cousin. It is a 7 seater for reference. And I started driving at 95 - 100 km/hr the second we exited the parking lot. The road after that restaurant for 5 kms has a bad short width but long height speed-breaker after every 500 meters. At each speed breaker I would purposefully not slow down and make sure to have a smirk on my face so that my dad can see. Before the right turn on the final speed-breaker I took the car so fast that everyone's head (except mine and dad's we were sitting up front) hit the car roof. It was not a big thing, thankfully nothing happened, but what I did was under my control. Although everyone was scared, especially my cousin sister, that was the only thing that made me feel bad. Okay, following up, but then after that right turn I slowed down my car to 20 km/hr speed which was annoying AF. Everyone behind thought that my dad got angry that's why I slowed, little did they know in that moment for the first time roles were reversed because my dad was scared, angry yes, but scared too. I saw it in his eyes. I love my dad, but I know my dad loves power. He never hit my mom but he has hit me a lot till I was 16 and a couple times even after.
That day I lectured in how I am a grownup, I earn, he even took money from me recently to give to some of his employees on short notice (which he returned); I told him that I have been grown enough to handle a lot of things since I was a kid and now at 21, I should be heard for myself too. This past year I have built a lot of courage and confronted my parents about a lot of shit they did. Anyways my mom and aunt think I am an asshole and what I did is a proof that my driving rights should be taken away. Although they didn't do shit cause their emergency driver would go away if I stopped driving. But back to my question, AITA? PS: I usually just read on reddit, but I feel like I wanted to post this. #aita
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2023.06.07 08:00 AutoModerator [Download] Tony Endleman – Integrated Man University
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I found a link for the course for all of you out there who need it.
I don't know how long it will be available.
But it is working right now.
Link to download:
chrisdownload.com/download-tony-endleman-integrated-man-university-2022/
2023.06.07 08:00 Dyllan88 IRB Question
I am a social scientist. I am collecting data and researching on a topic that pertains to U.S. law. I plan to publish with the data. I wanted to reach out to a local attorney to ask them some questions that pertain to the technicalities in this area of law, and I wanted to better understand some general background information related to my research question. I don't plan on directly putting any of the information shared in the meeting into the research article.
I am not sure if IRB is necessary since I don't plan on quoting them. Is there someone I should double check with at my university on this issue?
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I am not sure if IRB is necessary since I don't plan on quoting them. Is there someone I should double check with at my university on this issue?
2023.06.07 08:00 autotldr Manipur violence: Seven-year-old boy, mother, relative burnt alive in ambulance
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)
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A 2,000-strong Meitei mob allegedly torched an ambulance in front of police on Imphal's outskirts on Sunday, burning alive a seven-year-old boy, his mother and a relative who were being taken to hospital with bullet injuries.
"We have been facing a lot of atrocities from the Meitei community since May 3, but Sunday's incident was the worst," said Paolenlal Hangsing, a relative of the dead who had seen them off when the ambulance left the Assam Rifles camp for the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences and Hospital, Imphal.
A preliminary report sent to the Assam Rifles headquarters indicates that the bullet injuries were reported at 16.03pm, following which the victims were given first aid at the camp, and that the SP was informed at 16.20pm. The ambulance left the compound with the patients and a nurse under the SP's supervision at 17.16pm. None from the Assam Rifles, which has often faced attacks from Meitei rioters, accompanied the ambulance lest there be trouble on the way to Imphal.
"The SP, who was with the ambulance, called one of our seniors at 17.31pm and informed us about an attack on the ambulance by a mob. He said there was a major law-and-order problem," an Assam Rifles source said.
Sources in the Assam Rifles and the RAF said they learnt later on Sunday evening that the ambulance had been set on fire in front of the SP and three people had died.
"The incident is surprising - we had never before come across any attack on medical facilities or ambulances since being stationed in Imphal to tackle the situation here," an RAF source said.
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2023.06.07 08:00 miyukichanz Feeling like a failure
I’m a (26F) who graduated from a well known university 2 years ago and still lives at home with my parents. I haven’t been able to get a full time job even after applying to numerous companies and getting interviews. I always seem to get ghosted, rejected, or given excuses like a hiring freeze. Everyone that attended my university has big great paying jobs while I’m just lost in the sauce. Till then I’ve been doing gig work like babysitting, acting, makeup, brand ambassador work, and currently substitute teaching to make some money. My parents call me a failure even though I’m trying and working as a first generation student with barely any support. I live in a big city with no car and always have to get around on my own. I’ve never been on unemployment or any benefits that would help me. I just feel like there’s always a roadblock or no support at anything I want to work at. I even tried signing up for Uber but got rejected since my credit score is just fair and I don’t have a CC. I honestly don’t know what I’m destined for since everyone that’s claimed to care about me just abandons me when they said they believe in me like my former mentors. Most of my college friends stopped being friends with me because I wasn’t on the same level as them. Sometimes I wish I never went to college and pursued my passion instead because I wouldn’t have $35k in student loans or depression. My dream is to be an actor and I still want to achieve that, it just seems impossible nowadays.
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2023.06.07 08:00 anonlawpros My best friend (27F) is in a terrible relationship with her husband (31M). She’d made so many strides after the last terrible incident, and I was really hopeful she would leave him. I found out that she isn’t. I (27F) can’t help but be devastated.
My friend and her husband have been together for a long time, they married young, and he has never come through for her without significant teeth pulling on her part, and he’s usually grumpy about doing anything for her.
My friend is the kindest, most wonderful person you could ever meet. Effortlessly cool and fun, empathetic. She’s a magnificent piano player, though she doesn’t often get to play anymore. I grew up with her, and despite her somewhat fucked up home life, I watched her become one of the most amazing people who everyone loves. She just had the WORST taste in men, and I think she married the worst guy of all.
He’s from Europe, they met on study abroad, and he claimed he wanted to live in America so badly when they were dating, but she’s the one who had to fill out all his paperwork. She’s the one who got him a job here. She’s the one who funded everything. He came, and he’s been an anchor ever since.
He has picked a fight at every stage of their relationship. On their honeymoon, the day after their wedding. He doesn’t respect her. He treats her like he owns her.
He claims he’ll do equal housework but she does the cooking, cleaning, laundry. He yells at her if it’s not done. He gets upset easily. She commonly says “I feel like I’m going crazy, I don’t know why I set him off.” I know this is abusive. She seems to finally see it that way, too. But it’s still not enough.
They have a dog together who he won’t clean up after or watch. She has to watch it. However if it acts weird, he demands she take it to the vet and states that he has equal rights to it and she should listen to him about what to do with it. He then fed it chocolate despite her telling him several times chocolate is bad for the dog. When the veterinarian told him that, he asked “how was I supposed to know?” Because your fucking wife told you.
She had a severe medical incident with her Crohn’s last month, I ended up taking her to the hospital. I had to take her because her husband, who was right there, was so focused on his video game he didn’t see it. When I cooked her and him dinner for the week (because I knew he wouldn’t) he asked if they should “call the make a wish foundation” because he didn’t think what she was going through was severe. She had been bleeding internally and needed different medications, and had spent two days in the hospital. I am convinced he would have let her bleed to death in her bed if I hadn’t come by.
However, when his mother went to the doctor for menopause, and we responded sympathetically but “it’s another aspect of life, wish her luck as she enters a new phase” I watched him yell hysterically at my best friend for an hour for being so insensitive to his mother’s condition.
After this last incident I thought she finally saw what was happening. He had a bad day at work, and when she said she wasn’t feeling well and wanted him to just order out because her Crohn’s was flaring up and she didn’t have energy to cook, he yelled at her about her inability to take care of herself, claimed all he does was take care of her, and that if he decided he didn’t want anything to do with her she’d die — and maybe that’s what should happen. She was scared for her life. When she tried to order food for him to just appease him and get it to stop, he threw a lamp to the ground and shattered it.
She finally talked about leaving him. She finally stated that she knew it was abuse. She finally stated that she didn’t deserve that, no one did. I’m so proud of her.
Except then they had their conversation today. He agreed to go to counseling, said he understood she was scared, but said that she was to blame. He stated his reaction terrible but that “they both have a lot to work on”. She says if they can find a path forward together they’ll take it, but if they cant, they’ll work on separating.
I know those who suffer abuse take a long time to leave, if they ever get the strength to. I know I should take the victory for what it is, that she’s made some strides and is standing up for herself, but I’m devastated. She’s one of the most wonderful, empathetic people in the world. She was with me by my side every step of the way when my sister died. I went to a really bad place and she let me stay with her rent free while I got back on my feet, helped me search for therapists because I was really struggling. It was a traumatic event, and she was so warm with me, and I just — she deserves so much better.
I don’t want to leave her behind, but this is hurting my heart. I want her to have my support, I want to be there for her and show her that she deserved a kind love — that her husband should not treat her this way, that her friends would never dream of hurting her like this. But I also just don’t know what to do. I don’t know if I can hide how sad I am she’s staying with him. I’m scared for her, I’m scared of him. I’m just lost.
How do I go about this from here on out? How do I talk to her without showing my disappointment that he’s still in her life? I don’t want to break off from her, she’s my favorite person and I don’t want her to be isolated with just him to manipulate her, but I don’t know what else to do.
TLDR: my best friend is in an abusive relationship, and despite things coming to a terrifying head, she wants to try to get him to change via counseling despite him still mostly blaming her for the incident. I don’t want to abandon her, I want to remain supportive of her, but I just don’t like this and I don’t believe he’s capable of change. I’m devastated in her decision, and am unsure what to do with myself to keep her in my life but also keep my own sanity.
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My friend is the kindest, most wonderful person you could ever meet. Effortlessly cool and fun, empathetic. She’s a magnificent piano player, though she doesn’t often get to play anymore. I grew up with her, and despite her somewhat fucked up home life, I watched her become one of the most amazing people who everyone loves. She just had the WORST taste in men, and I think she married the worst guy of all.
He’s from Europe, they met on study abroad, and he claimed he wanted to live in America so badly when they were dating, but she’s the one who had to fill out all his paperwork. She’s the one who got him a job here. She’s the one who funded everything. He came, and he’s been an anchor ever since.
He has picked a fight at every stage of their relationship. On their honeymoon, the day after their wedding. He doesn’t respect her. He treats her like he owns her.
He claims he’ll do equal housework but she does the cooking, cleaning, laundry. He yells at her if it’s not done. He gets upset easily. She commonly says “I feel like I’m going crazy, I don’t know why I set him off.” I know this is abusive. She seems to finally see it that way, too. But it’s still not enough.
They have a dog together who he won’t clean up after or watch. She has to watch it. However if it acts weird, he demands she take it to the vet and states that he has equal rights to it and she should listen to him about what to do with it. He then fed it chocolate despite her telling him several times chocolate is bad for the dog. When the veterinarian told him that, he asked “how was I supposed to know?” Because your fucking wife told you.
She had a severe medical incident with her Crohn’s last month, I ended up taking her to the hospital. I had to take her because her husband, who was right there, was so focused on his video game he didn’t see it. When I cooked her and him dinner for the week (because I knew he wouldn’t) he asked if they should “call the make a wish foundation” because he didn’t think what she was going through was severe. She had been bleeding internally and needed different medications, and had spent two days in the hospital. I am convinced he would have let her bleed to death in her bed if I hadn’t come by.
However, when his mother went to the doctor for menopause, and we responded sympathetically but “it’s another aspect of life, wish her luck as she enters a new phase” I watched him yell hysterically at my best friend for an hour for being so insensitive to his mother’s condition.
After this last incident I thought she finally saw what was happening. He had a bad day at work, and when she said she wasn’t feeling well and wanted him to just order out because her Crohn’s was flaring up and she didn’t have energy to cook, he yelled at her about her inability to take care of herself, claimed all he does was take care of her, and that if he decided he didn’t want anything to do with her she’d die — and maybe that’s what should happen. She was scared for her life. When she tried to order food for him to just appease him and get it to stop, he threw a lamp to the ground and shattered it.
She finally talked about leaving him. She finally stated that she knew it was abuse. She finally stated that she didn’t deserve that, no one did. I’m so proud of her.
Except then they had their conversation today. He agreed to go to counseling, said he understood she was scared, but said that she was to blame. He stated his reaction terrible but that “they both have a lot to work on”. She says if they can find a path forward together they’ll take it, but if they cant, they’ll work on separating.
I know those who suffer abuse take a long time to leave, if they ever get the strength to. I know I should take the victory for what it is, that she’s made some strides and is standing up for herself, but I’m devastated. She’s one of the most wonderful, empathetic people in the world. She was with me by my side every step of the way when my sister died. I went to a really bad place and she let me stay with her rent free while I got back on my feet, helped me search for therapists because I was really struggling. It was a traumatic event, and she was so warm with me, and I just — she deserves so much better.
I don’t want to leave her behind, but this is hurting my heart. I want her to have my support, I want to be there for her and show her that she deserved a kind love — that her husband should not treat her this way, that her friends would never dream of hurting her like this. But I also just don’t know what to do. I don’t know if I can hide how sad I am she’s staying with him. I’m scared for her, I’m scared of him. I’m just lost.
How do I go about this from here on out? How do I talk to her without showing my disappointment that he’s still in her life? I don’t want to break off from her, she’s my favorite person and I don’t want her to be isolated with just him to manipulate her, but I don’t know what else to do.
TLDR: my best friend is in an abusive relationship, and despite things coming to a terrifying head, she wants to try to get him to change via counseling despite him still mostly blaming her for the incident. I don’t want to abandon her, I want to remain supportive of her, but I just don’t like this and I don’t believe he’s capable of change. I’m devastated in her decision, and am unsure what to do with myself to keep her in my life but also keep my own sanity.
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