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2023.05.30 00:44 Ok-Significance-2022 Added fans, average temp went up...
Okay, so I built a computer and I thought it was running really cool. Strangely with one case fan only. The case fan is a 3-pin one so it runs at one speed (which might also be the culprit here). I bought two Corsair fans 4-pin with PWM control. Exchanged the rear stock fan because I found it a bit loud. Then added one to the front. Before the additional fan the idle temp would range between 30-40 degrees while the ambient is at around 20C°. Watching videos would hardly affect it at all. Gaming would put it to 50-60 which is really cool. With the new fans the average idle went from 35-45 instead with the same ambient. Watching videos bumped temps up to 35-50. While still not an issue I just found it odd that the average went up and not down! Is this due to how the PWM controller flags need for additional airflow?
To be noted, front fan sucks in air, rear fan blows it out of the case.
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To be noted, front fan sucks in air, rear fan blows it out of the case.
2023.05.30 00:44 Objective_Drummer148 Should I talk to my GP about vEDS re. following?
Dear vEDS community,
Flagging that I am only looking for advice, potentially similar stories etc. AND not a diagnosis.
I have ADHD and read the New Scientist article today which mentioned co-morbidities. I stumbled on a blog, and youtube video, and realised I have a rich medical history of unexplained but potentially linked issues and a ton that I never told anyone about because I didn't think they were super abnormal/pressing.
After reading a few articles, it strikes me that many of these align with vEDS but with one distinct difference - I am not hyper mobile.
My instinct is (as per) to tell myself it's nothing to worry about, there are multitudinous conditions which could cause these symptoms eg. dehydration, stress, poor circulation, being a fkn clumsy person. But..there's a nagging thought I can't shake that's telling me (like when I first read about ADHD) that it's too much of a coincidence.
I have had shocking experiences with the GPs in my country (England) pushing all health issues off to stress/overreacting/fully not believing pain that wasn't visible. See 1x broken elbow, kidney infection (told likely IBS..), acute and prolonged menstrual issues. So, I am loathe to introduce these symptoms and be laughed out or told to take more down time (I take plenty) or that they'll automatically resolve (they won't, it's been my entire life thus far).
Do I bother raising this, and if so does anyone have any recommendations for who/how to approach? (UK specific would be exceptionally useful)
Apologies for the essay, and I hope this post is suitable for this forum.
See below list of malaises:
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Flagging that I am only looking for advice, potentially similar stories etc. AND not a diagnosis.
I have ADHD and read the New Scientist article today which mentioned co-morbidities. I stumbled on a blog, and youtube video, and realised I have a rich medical history of unexplained but potentially linked issues and a ton that I never told anyone about because I didn't think they were super abnormal/pressing.
After reading a few articles, it strikes me that many of these align with vEDS but with one distinct difference - I am not hyper mobile.
My instinct is (as per) to tell myself it's nothing to worry about, there are multitudinous conditions which could cause these symptoms eg. dehydration, stress, poor circulation, being a fkn clumsy person. But..there's a nagging thought I can't shake that's telling me (like when I first read about ADHD) that it's too much of a coincidence.
I have had shocking experiences with the GPs in my country (England) pushing all health issues off to stress/overreacting/fully not believing pain that wasn't visible. See 1x broken elbow, kidney infection (told likely IBS..), acute and prolonged menstrual issues. So, I am loathe to introduce these symptoms and be laughed out or told to take more down time (I take plenty) or that they'll automatically resolve (they won't, it's been my entire life thus far).
Do I bother raising this, and if so does anyone have any recommendations for who/how to approach? (UK specific would be exceptionally useful)
Apologies for the essay, and I hope this post is suitable for this forum.
See below list of malaises:
- Severe headaches multiple times per week - temples
- Susceptible to injury: 2x broken arms, 2x torn MCL, numerous ankle sprains, severely tight traps/neck issues (told to stop boxing), RSI from music practice, handwriting, and typing- mottled skin when cold (photos) and red skin with joints white- very dry feet - extremely prone to blisters and cuts (much more than my peers - my boyfriend is often surprised). Most of the time when I’m out and about, I end up with extreme pain- fallen arches, flat feet
- Feet falling asleep, pins and needles hands and feet, foot cramp while swimming, cramping legs during kayaking- dizzy when sit to stand - fainted a couple of times. Fainting loss of vision after blood tests, pain or injury- skin marks and scars very easily: remember friends laughing at my grass pressure marks/red knees when they didn’t have any
- Often overheat - sweat (will have a noticeably shiny and flushed face from fast walking, even in cold weather). Grew up running cross country - would win the ‘who’s the most red’ competition at end of races incl. flushed legs. Friends find it funny how sweaty get in exercise classes.
- Very visible blue veins wrists/arms
- Dark blue purple circles under eyes. My concealer game is STRONG
- Diagnosed ADHD (combined inattentive hyperactive)
- Digestive issues: severe bloating/distention, pain - lactose, gluten ( enzymes help with latter), vomiting/feeling ill after low amounts of alcohol, frequent nausea, very tired after meals, acid reflux
- Difficulty falling asleep - have a second wind of 'awakeness' late night - 10pm-2am
- Very bad lower back pain, especially when standing for prolonged periods. Diagnosed mild scoliosis
- Menstrual issues (a rich and painful history. On medication so I don’t have them. Issue never diagnosed)
- Severe kidney infection aged 18
- Chest zaps. Like electricity, lasts 5-15 minutes. Acute pain
- Often very jittery/nervous... 'wired'
- blue fingernails, cold fingers, unusually cold hands, hands unusually sensitive to cold (eg. Hockey practice being unable to move, well known in friend group)
- extremely bruise prone - everyone is always concerned/confused about how many bruises I have
- very clumsy - poor spatial awareness. Abnormal, always a joke among friends (and annoyance for mother)
2023.05.30 00:42 ReporterLow2914 Using cesium and google maps to render buildings and identify features with computer vision
Hey guys, I know this is a big task, I want to use the new cesium google maps api to render a building in unreal/unity, then use computer vision to count the number of doors/windows/etc, can someone help me with system design for this? do I use CV inside the engine? do I simply render a building inside the engine then programatically take screenshots or a video of all 4 sides of the building and then use CV outside of the engine to count features?
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2023.05.30 00:42 uprightunicorn Dealing with unsolicited advice from parent
How do I set boundaries with unsolicited advice?
What’s with people asking how or where your baby sleeps or how much breastfeeding they do or how much solids they eat? I don’t want to answer these questions anymore but I don’t know how to respond without being bitchy.
My main concern is my mum, but other people do it too. My baby is almost 12 months old, and I’ve really struggled with being a mum, largely because people get in my head because I am doing things a bit differently to them. I’ve always had low self confidence and motherhood has me questioning everything when everyone is asking the same questions and having the same reaction when I answer.
For examples, I want to breastfeed until 2 years. I feed to sleep. I don’t want to do controlled crying. I want to find gentle ways to get my baby to sleep independently. They are judging if my daughter wants to comfort feed or makes a big mess with baby led weaning.
I know I say too much to my mum, but that’s partly because I don’t have many people to talk to. In the early days, my baby would cluster feed so I just plonked myself on the couch and enjoyed it as much as I could, knowing how normal it was. But my mum would always comment that I should put her down. I shouldn’t let her feed that often, etc. She was telling me that my baby was fussy or irritable because she was overtired. So then I spent the next 9 months hyper fixated on sleep and I am now an anxious mess because my mum is always asking me how my daughter slept. And if I say, not well - it’s like she’s judging me because I won’t just sleep train and she will give me a lecture about what I should be doing. It’s like by me opening up to her has given her a green light to comment on literally everything I do as a parent or everything my daughter does as a baby and everything is a lesson for me now despite me knowing what to do because I have already come across it with my baby. It’s extremely annoying. For example, my daughter will be trying to get to the power point, and she does it all the time and I redirect her but if my mum is present, there will be this lesson as if I don’t know how to take care of her or as if its a new experience for me and I need her to tell me how to handle it.
I’m at a point where I think I need to lie. I need to take more control and be confident but I don’t really know how to.
Any tips? Thanks in advanced!
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What’s with people asking how or where your baby sleeps or how much breastfeeding they do or how much solids they eat? I don’t want to answer these questions anymore but I don’t know how to respond without being bitchy.
My main concern is my mum, but other people do it too. My baby is almost 12 months old, and I’ve really struggled with being a mum, largely because people get in my head because I am doing things a bit differently to them. I’ve always had low self confidence and motherhood has me questioning everything when everyone is asking the same questions and having the same reaction when I answer.
For examples, I want to breastfeed until 2 years. I feed to sleep. I don’t want to do controlled crying. I want to find gentle ways to get my baby to sleep independently. They are judging if my daughter wants to comfort feed or makes a big mess with baby led weaning.
I know I say too much to my mum, but that’s partly because I don’t have many people to talk to. In the early days, my baby would cluster feed so I just plonked myself on the couch and enjoyed it as much as I could, knowing how normal it was. But my mum would always comment that I should put her down. I shouldn’t let her feed that often, etc. She was telling me that my baby was fussy or irritable because she was overtired. So then I spent the next 9 months hyper fixated on sleep and I am now an anxious mess because my mum is always asking me how my daughter slept. And if I say, not well - it’s like she’s judging me because I won’t just sleep train and she will give me a lecture about what I should be doing. It’s like by me opening up to her has given her a green light to comment on literally everything I do as a parent or everything my daughter does as a baby and everything is a lesson for me now despite me knowing what to do because I have already come across it with my baby. It’s extremely annoying. For example, my daughter will be trying to get to the power point, and she does it all the time and I redirect her but if my mum is present, there will be this lesson as if I don’t know how to take care of her or as if its a new experience for me and I need her to tell me how to handle it.
I’m at a point where I think I need to lie. I need to take more control and be confident but I don’t really know how to.
Any tips? Thanks in advanced!
2023.05.30 00:41 RiotMMO Riot Games' Project F - An Upcoming ARPG In Depth Introduction
Project F Early Development Gameplay
Source: TheRiotMMO
Project F is a research in-development game that will be produced by Riot Games, Inc. The upcoming ARPG is expected to be a PvE action RPG. In other words, a player vs environment action roleplaying game. It appears to be a cooperative action game based in Runeterra, where players can team up against monsters using champions from League of Legends. Project F is isometric, stylized and casual. It seems Project F has been in development for some time. If you’re looking forward to playing it soon and learning more, then read on.
10-Year Anniversary Celebration Riot Pls: 10th Anniversary Edition - League of Legends
Beginning at the 32-minute 38-second mark there were a few sequences of Project F gameplay. Granted, it was early development footage of Riot’s Project F. It is important to note, Riot Games intentionally previewed Project F. Project F was not a leak. In fact, Project F has been under wraps for the most part since that very day.
You can expect to see familiar landscapes that share a similar art style as League of Legends’. As with many isometric games, such as Lost Ark, Diablo, Path of Exile, etc., the background will contain interesting landscapes while the foreground will feature rich and detailed visuals.
Overall, it appears the art design will showoff bright and beautiful colors. Expect to see the following decorative elements; colorful trees, plants, flowers, roots, large stones plus a variety of terrains. While we aren’t sure yet, it appears players cannot fall off the map.
One feature we find to be a nice touch is the dust from the ground that rises as players jump from heights.
Taliyah
Project F takes a feature from it’s inspiration League of Legends. Ranged characters will have casting with indicators. It’s not known if the indicators can be turned off or not. Casting indicators are a useful feature. The indicator serves as a projection guide. Players can line up the indicator with their target for improved accuracy.
While the friendly fire colored cast indicator is insightful, it brings up more questions than answers. First, maybe it’s possible there are various difficulties in which you can damage your teammates. Second, allies could very well block teammates skill shots, hence the red indicator. Another possibility is while hovered over an ally, you cannot cast your skill shot. All of this is speculative of course. We will provide updates as they come.
Project F Early Development Gameplay
https://preview.redd.it/x1fpwcje3w2b1.jpg?width=864&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3cafe07ef5f0e7952af3c7cb515481cdb6947dbe
In that same screenshot, the giant Static Shiv appear to emanate a yellow aura outwards up to under the attacking champions’ feet. The yellow aura looks incredibly similar to the slow effect from League of Legends.
Vayne
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In League of Legends, he uses powerful lightning infused mechanical forces to subdue, retract, and stun foes for his allies. Meanwhile, he soaks up and blocks damage effectively for his teammates.
While playing League of Legends, Lux possessing offensive and defensive magical abilities that can stun and damage enemies and shield allies.
Gameplay wise, Ezreal is a ranged short-ranged damage with good mobility including short teleports.
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Blitzcrank Fan Art
Lux Fan Art
Ezreal Fan Art
During the League of Legends 10-Year Anniversary stream, a developer had a reference page on his second monitor. It appeared to be two League of Legends champions outside of the traditional League game environment. In fact, is looked like a rudimentary Project F environment based on the ground particles seen in the anniversary video. Although, the screenshot of Varus and Ashe were assets from Wild Rift along with Wild Rift user interface. In the frame, you could see Varus and Ashe attacking a large massive image of the League item Static Shiv. Presumably the image of static shiv was a placeholder image for a boss.
Moreover, there was a clip in the video where Lulu was being designed for Project F in Unreal Engine. This Lulu was distinguished from the Lulu in League of Legends. Therefore, it’s safe to conclude, Lulu was at the least being designed in the early development stage.
Therefore, it is possible Varus and Ashe could be in Project F.
In-development Lulu
Lulu is a yordle from Bandle City. Specifically she is fae sorceress. While wandering in Runeterra she befriended a fairy named Pix. We she delighter to find many of her newfound abilities remained while back in Bandle City.
During gameplay, Lulu is a ranged support champion. He has a lot of crowd control and can provide her allies with buffs such as shields, increased health and movement speed.
In League of Legends, is a ranged damage dealer, known as an ADC (attack damage carry). Ashe also features support features in her kit, such as slows, and revealing fog of war for the team.
Varus is an ADC, with a mix of attack and magical damage.
For example, Blitzcrank make possess tankier stats such as increased health, resistances, and mitigative abilities.
Next, there could be support classes and mage support classes. If League of Legends is to be reimagined, Lux would fall into the mage-support class type. Also, Lulu would belong to the support-mage class type.
Another class would be ranged damage dealers. Naturally, Ezreal and Varus would belong to this category.
We’ve yet to see a brawler, or physical fighting class type. Would would an Action RPG be without one. It would be interesting to see champions such as Darius, Garen, Tryndamere, Olaf and others of the like fit this role.
It’s possible Assassins could be a class in Project F. We have a ton of them in League already. Assassins champions that come to mind include, Nocturne, Evelyn, Talon, and Fizz.
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Nonetheless, we can speculate the game have a trailer, gameplay or other public media in late 2024. Remember, Project F likely began around pre-development in May 2022. This is based on Kate’s start date at Riot Games from her LinkedIn experience. In the experience description she describes work that lines up with Project F. Furthermore, 17 months later, Riot showed an early development of Project F where Kate was actively iterating.
Also, Project F looks to be a casual friendly game. We believe it would make a great party/couch game. It wouldn’t be a surprise if this game became available for PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC. Project F does not appear to be graphically intensive. It comes off as a nice coop couch game you’d play on the weekends with friends.
Project F will be created in Unreal Engine. We’re unsure whether it’s Unreal Engine 5 or 4. We can expect to play as several champions such as, Blitzcrank, Lux, Ezreal, Lulu and likely more.
Stay tuned for more updates on Riot’s upcoming Project F.
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Project F Early Development Gameplay
Source: TheRiotMMO
Project F is a research in-development game that will be produced by Riot Games, Inc. The upcoming ARPG is expected to be a PvE action RPG. In other words, a player vs environment action roleplaying game. It appears to be a cooperative action game based in Runeterra, where players can team up against monsters using champions from League of Legends. Project F is isometric, stylized and casual. It seems Project F has been in development for some time. If you’re looking forward to playing it soon and learning more, then read on.
Riot Project F Announced
Interestingly, Project F was never officially announced. We had our first glimpse of Project F during League of Legends’ 10-Year Anniversary Celebration live stream.10-Year Anniversary Celebration Riot Pls: 10th Anniversary Edition - League of Legends
Beginning at the 32-minute 38-second mark there were a few sequences of Project F gameplay. Granted, it was early development footage of Riot’s Project F. It is important to note, Riot Games intentionally previewed Project F. Project F was not a leak. In fact, Project F has been under wraps for the most part since that very day.
What is Riot Project F?
Project F is an upcoming ARPG set in the world of League of Legends. Actually, set in Runeterra to be more precise. It is a cooperative action game where players control the champions from League of Legends. You will traverse through Runeterra and defeat enemies along your way. Players will get to use iconic and familiar champion abilities that have been established through League of Legends gameplay as well as new abilities too.Project F Landscape
There will be varying levels of inclination throughout your adventures. Given Project F is an isometric game, the sense of height and depth will be an important design element if Riot wants to make this game a successful as possible. So, throughout your adventures you will have to descend higher terrain on occasion.You can expect to see familiar landscapes that share a similar art style as League of Legends’. As with many isometric games, such as Lost Ark, Diablo, Path of Exile, etc., the background will contain interesting landscapes while the foreground will feature rich and detailed visuals.
Overall, it appears the art design will showoff bright and beautiful colors. Expect to see the following decorative elements; colorful trees, plants, flowers, roots, large stones plus a variety of terrains. While we aren’t sure yet, it appears players cannot fall off the map.
One feature we find to be a nice touch is the dust from the ground that rises as players jump from heights.
Project F Game FeaturesPing System
It looks as though Project F might feature a ping system. Presumably players can ping locations on the field. Once a location is pinged, a red floating inverted cone will remain at the desired location for a time. Coordinated players can use pings to set focus areas, destinations, and other communicative commands. It could also be that Blitzcrank’s melee abilities inadvertently marks the ground for some unknown reason. Again, we saw early development footage. We expect most of the features to not be fully implemented.Jumping Over Ledges
Another feature that Project F appears to include is jumping over ledges when traversing through corners of map without terrain. For example, when Ezreal walks forward, there is no terrain under him just a few steps ahead. Just before the ledge, Ezreal leaps over the cliff edge and lands on the other side. It’s unclear whether this will be a player command or our characters will jump over edges by themselves.Cast Indicators
Taliyah
Project F takes a feature from it’s inspiration League of Legends. Ranged characters will have casting with indicators. It’s not known if the indicators can be turned off or not. Casting indicators are a useful feature. The indicator serves as a projection guide. Players can line up the indicator with their target for improved accuracy.
Friendly Fire
Friendly fire was a feature in the early development build. When a player is in a casting state, it means they are about to use an ability. At this point a cast indicator is visible. Likely only visible to the player casting, if it’s anything like the League of Legends feature. Now, when the player’s indicator intersects with a cooperative teammate, the color of the indicator turns red.While the friendly fire colored cast indicator is insightful, it brings up more questions than answers. First, maybe it’s possible there are various difficulties in which you can damage your teammates. Second, allies could very well block teammates skill shots, hence the red indicator. Another possibility is while hovered over an ally, you cannot cast your skill shot. All of this is speculative of course. We will provide updates as they come.
Equal Base Movement Speed
From looking at the Project F short clip, we can see each player has the same base move speed. Keep in mind, equal base movement speed may not be the case at launch. Furthermore, it’s possible gear can be equipped and stats or talents can be acquired that affect the champions movement speed. Nonetheless, an equal base movement speed does reinforce the casual nature of Project F.
Project F Early Development Gameplay
Possible Game Features
Boss Fights
We may see boss fights. In the image below, a Project F developer is seen with a reference image on his second monitor. Part of the image showed Wild Rift assets of Varus and Ashe fighting a massive image of the League of Legends item Static Shiv.Boss Mechanics – Slow Effect
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In that same screenshot, the giant Static Shiv appear to emanate a yellow aura outwards up to under the attacking champions’ feet. The yellow aura looks incredibly similar to the slow effect from League of Legends.
Vayne
Checkpoints
On the same map where we have Blitzcrank, Lux, and Ezreal fighting, all three champions can be seen fooling around a campfire. There are no enemies present. Furthermore, they appear to be at a dead end with only one direction to go….into the forest. In the meantime, the players are running around and using abilities around this empty campfire area. Perhaps this starting area can serve as a communication hub amongst teammates before they begin their quest or journey. Alternatively, these checkpoints could be scattered throughout zones in order to let players rest, change armor, tools, loadouts, or reestablish their strategy.Champions in Riot’s Project F
We know of at least three playable champions in Project F. The following champions include, Blitzcrank, Lux, and Ezreal. Below includes a brief overview of the mentioned champions for those unfamiliar with the League of Legends champion roster.--
Blitzcrank
Blitzcrank is a support-style tank. In the world of Runeterra, he a a mechanical golem dedicated to protecting Zaun from harm and supporting its citizens.In League of Legends, he uses powerful lightning infused mechanical forces to subdue, retract, and stun foes for his allies. Meanwhile, he soaks up and blocks damage effectively for his teammates.
Lux
Lux is a support-style mage. In Runeterra, Lux is an aristocrat from Demacia with the ability to manipulate light. Unfortunately, Demacia prejudice against mages.While playing League of Legends, Lux possessing offensive and defensive magical abilities that can stun and damage enemies and shield allies.
Ezreal
Ezreal ranged damage dealer. According to the lore, Ezreal was born by wealthy Piltovan archeologists. Ezreal now explores foreign lands and uses his powerful yet mysterious Shuriman gauntlet to defeat his adversaries.Gameplay wise, Ezreal is a ranged short-ranged damage with good mobility including short teleports.
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Project F Champion Abilities
In the snippet, we saw several champion abilities adapted from League of Legends. At the same time, there were a number of innovative abilities that fit with the theme of the respective champions. It’s worth mentioning the champion auto attacks have a low cooldown.Blitzcrank
Blitzcrank Fan Art
- Basic Triple Auto Attack Combo: Blitzcrank uses three separate attack to perform a combo.
- Blitzcrank uses both fists to attack foes directly in front of him
- Blitzcrank begins with a wide left hook and then a wide right hook to damage enemies directly in front of him.
- Finally, Blitzcrank leaps into the air, extends his arms and and smashes the ground doing damage doing damage in a radius around him.
Lux
Lux Fan Art
- Basic Attack: Lux let’s out a projectile of light as well as a short arcing swipe with her wand damaging foes directly in front of her.
- Final Spark: In Project F, Lux possesses what is known as her Ultimate ability, Final Spark, in League of Legends. Lux projects a narrow beam over an incredible distance, dealing dealing high damage to all enemies.
Ezreal
Ezreal Fan Art
- Ezreal lets out a grappling hook that returns to him upon reaching its destination.
Possible Champions in Riot Project F
During the League of Legends 10-Year Anniversary stream, a developer had a reference page on his second monitor. It appeared to be two League of Legends champions outside of the traditional League game environment. In fact, is looked like a rudimentary Project F environment based on the ground particles seen in the anniversary video. Although, the screenshot of Varus and Ashe were assets from Wild Rift along with Wild Rift user interface. In the frame, you could see Varus and Ashe attacking a large massive image of the League item Static Shiv. Presumably the image of static shiv was a placeholder image for a boss.
Moreover, there was a clip in the video where Lulu was being designed for Project F in Unreal Engine. This Lulu was distinguished from the Lulu in League of Legends. Therefore, it’s safe to conclude, Lulu was at the least being designed in the early development stage.
Therefore, it is possible Varus and Ashe could be in Project F.
Possible Champion: Lulu
In-development Lulu
Lulu is a yordle from Bandle City. Specifically she is fae sorceress. While wandering in Runeterra she befriended a fairy named Pix. We she delighter to find many of her newfound abilities remained while back in Bandle City.
During gameplay, Lulu is a ranged support champion. He has a lot of crowd control and can provide her allies with buffs such as shields, increased health and movement speed.
Possible Champion: Ashe
Ashe is an Iceborn Warmother. She is from an inhospitable norther region called the Freljord. She leads the Avarosans, which is one of the three major tribes of the Freljord.In League of Legends, is a ranged damage dealer, known as an ADC (attack damage carry). Ashe also features support features in her kit, such as slows, and revealing fog of war for the team.
Possible Champion: Varus
Varus used to be a magically ascended hunter from Shurima ages ago. After the loss of their king, his kind had succumb to insanity and blood magic, becoming Darkin and wreaking havoc on Runeterra. The Darkin were imprisoned in their weapons by the Aspects. Accordingly, Varus in his bow. Two Ionian men relinquished Varus. Now Varus consists of a Darkin and two men who resist his every more.Varus is an ADC, with a mix of attack and magical damage.
Classes in Project F
Several League of Legends champions will be designed in Project F. We also know Project F is an action roleplaying game with a cooperative option. With the brief gameplay in mind, each champion will be unique. As a result, Project F could implement at the very least a basic class system. This is an role-playing game after all.For example, Blitzcrank make possess tankier stats such as increased health, resistances, and mitigative abilities.
Next, there could be support classes and mage support classes. If League of Legends is to be reimagined, Lux would fall into the mage-support class type. Also, Lulu would belong to the support-mage class type.
Another class would be ranged damage dealers. Naturally, Ezreal and Varus would belong to this category.
We’ve yet to see a brawler, or physical fighting class type. Would would an Action RPG be without one. It would be interesting to see champions such as Darius, Garen, Tryndamere, Olaf and others of the like fit this role.
It’s possible Assassins could be a class in Project F. We have a ton of them in League already. Assassins champions that come to mind include, Nocturne, Evelyn, Talon, and Fizz.
Who is Working on Project F?
We currently know of one Riot employees working on Project F.Kate Chironis
We believe Kate Chironis is the design director for Riot Games’ Project F, the upcoming ARPG. If so, then she started the early development of Project F when there were only three designers. Here’s what Kate had to say.I helped bootstrap a new game as one of three early designers on the project. I focused on core game loop, player systems, the fundamental building blocks of enemies/encounters/AI, and helping establish the initial vision for several different types of content in the game. I prototyped heavily during this time period to “find the fun” in UE4/Blueprint.Kate - LinkedInIt’s likely the quote from Kate refers to Project F because in the League Anniversary from October 2019, we can see Kate working on Project F.
Riot Project F Release Date
We’re not sure when Riot Project F will release. Even Kate Chironis, a likely Project F employee said she’s unsure of the release date.
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I am optimistic that players will get to see it, but I don’t know when.
Kate Chironis – Twitter
Nonetheless, we can speculate the game have a trailer, gameplay or other public media in late 2024. Remember, Project F likely began around pre-development in May 2022. This is based on Kate’s start date at Riot Games from her LinkedIn experience. In the experience description she describes work that lines up with Project F. Furthermore, 17 months later, Riot showed an early development of Project F where Kate was actively iterating.
Summary
Let’s summarize what we know about Riot Project F, the in-development ARPG. Project F appears to be non-canon. We saw three unrelated champions fighting alongside each other. Specifically, Ezreal, Blitzcrank, and Lux generally do not interact in canon lore. Ezreal is from Piltover, explores Shurima. Lux is from Demacia, and Blitzcrank is bound to Zaun as far as we know. To have all three of them fighting alongside a common enemy defies canon lore.Also, Project F looks to be a casual friendly game. We believe it would make a great party/couch game. It wouldn’t be a surprise if this game became available for PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC. Project F does not appear to be graphically intensive. It comes off as a nice coop couch game you’d play on the weekends with friends.
Project F will be created in Unreal Engine. We’re unsure whether it’s Unreal Engine 5 or 4. We can expect to play as several champions such as, Blitzcrank, Lux, Ezreal, Lulu and likely more.
Stay tuned for more updates on Riot’s upcoming Project F.
Source: TheRiotMMO
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2023.05.30 00:40 dez432 Punishing grey raven is the most fun gacha ive played
while everyone is playing aether gazer i finally started to actually get into PGR. i had the game since it launched globally but never really "played" it outside of doing summons and a few missions every other day. but after seeing the famous alpha bury the light video and with the announcement of the pc client i finally decided to jump in
Im enjoying the game alot so far. it almost feels like a normal action game sometimes. PGR is a rare gacha in which i actually have to really focus on average combat. in most other gachas you just put on auto and you win for most of the content but with pgr im damn near fighting for me life with some of the bosses, modes, and some story stages.
all the characters ive used so far are genuinely enjoyable. my main gripe with honkai impact was how alot of the older characters where not fun to play to me at all. and the game would usually force me to use those characters in story. in PGR i find that even A rank constructs are a blast to play and almost feel like s rank ones lol.
PGR also makes me want to get better at the game in a way no other gacha has. like i genuinely want to master the combat and style on bosses and what not. it reminds me on how i feel about devil may cry and bayonetta. i actually want to increase my skilll level in the game.
i also adore the character designs. one that i have to give a shoutout to is Qu. she looks so badass
one gripe i have so far though is that the stamina system is kinda beating my ass. i have no problem grinding for hours but i really cant when i gotta be stingy with my serum usage. im sure that would probably go away later down the line.
im on chapter 8 and the story is meh so far but i heard it gets better at around this point.
So ya this may be a honeymoon phase but if i get tired after putting alot of hours in it having fun then i think it would be worth it in the end. also REALLY looking forward to some of the new characters because from looking at gameplay videos, they all seem cracked.
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Im enjoying the game alot so far. it almost feels like a normal action game sometimes. PGR is a rare gacha in which i actually have to really focus on average combat. in most other gachas you just put on auto and you win for most of the content but with pgr im damn near fighting for me life with some of the bosses, modes, and some story stages.
all the characters ive used so far are genuinely enjoyable. my main gripe with honkai impact was how alot of the older characters where not fun to play to me at all. and the game would usually force me to use those characters in story. in PGR i find that even A rank constructs are a blast to play and almost feel like s rank ones lol.
PGR also makes me want to get better at the game in a way no other gacha has. like i genuinely want to master the combat and style on bosses and what not. it reminds me on how i feel about devil may cry and bayonetta. i actually want to increase my skilll level in the game.
i also adore the character designs. one that i have to give a shoutout to is Qu. she looks so badass
one gripe i have so far though is that the stamina system is kinda beating my ass. i have no problem grinding for hours but i really cant when i gotta be stingy with my serum usage. im sure that would probably go away later down the line.
im on chapter 8 and the story is meh so far but i heard it gets better at around this point.
So ya this may be a honeymoon phase but if i get tired after putting alot of hours in it having fun then i think it would be worth it in the end. also REALLY looking forward to some of the new characters because from looking at gameplay videos, they all seem cracked.
2023.05.30 00:38 ChrishumFTW (PROBLEM) hi-hat stand not compatible with electric drum kit? Fix?
 | I got this drum set for Christmas as I’ve been playing on a crappy electric set for 5 years now. Everything’s a massive improvement except for the hi-hat, which I assume is a free floating hi-hat stand due to the symbol moving around when I hit it with the hi-hat open (stand is a DW3000). Would I have to purchase a new hi-hat stand or is there a work-around I could use to keep the symbol stationary? Any feedback is appreciated and I’ve provided a video with the problem: submitted by ChrishumFTW to Drumming [link] [comments] |
2023.05.30 00:37 RiotMMO Riot Games' Project F - An Upcoming ARPG In Depth Introduction
 | submitted by RiotMMO to MMORPG [link] [comments] Project F Early Development Gameplay Source: TheRiotMMO Project F is a research in-development game that will be produced by Riot Games, Inc. The upcoming ARPG is expected to be a PvE action RPG. In other words, a player vs environment action roleplaying game. It appears to be a cooperative action game based in Runeterra, where players can team up against monsters using champions from League of Legends. Project F is isometric, stylized and casual. It seems Project F has been in development for some time. If you’re looking forward to playing it soon and learning more, then read on. Riot Project F AnnouncedInterestingly, Project F was never officially announced. We had our first glimpse of Project F during League of Legends’ 10-Year Anniversary Celebration live stream.10-Year Anniversary Celebration Riot Pls: 10th Anniversary Edition - League of Legends Beginning at the 32-minute 38-second mark there were a few sequences of Project F gameplay. Granted, it was early development footage of Riot’s Project F. It is important to note, Riot Games intentionally previewed Project F. Project F was not a leak. In fact, Project F has been under wraps for the most part since that very day. What is Riot Project F?Project F is an upcoming ARPG set in the world of League of Legends. Actually, set in Runeterra to be more precise. It is a cooperative action game where players control the champions from League of Legends. You will traverse through Runeterra and defeat enemies along your way. Players will get to use iconic and familiar champion abilities that have been established through League of Legends gameplay as well as new abilities too.Project F LandscapeThere will be varying levels of inclination throughout your adventures. Given Project F is an isometric game, the sense of height and depth will be an important design element if Riot wants to make this game a successful as possible. So, throughout your adventures you will have to descend higher terrain on occasion.You can expect to see familiar landscapes that share a similar art style as League of Legends’. As with many isometric games, such as Lost Ark, Diablo, Path of Exile, etc., the background will contain interesting landscapes while the foreground will feature rich and detailed visuals. Overall, it appears the art design will showoff bright and beautiful colors. Expect to see the following decorative elements; colorful trees, plants, flowers, roots, large stones plus a variety of terrains. While we aren’t sure yet, it appears players cannot fall off the map. One feature we find to be a nice touch is the dust from the ground that rises as players jump from heights. Project F Game FeaturesPing SystemIt looks as though Project F might feature a ping system. Presumably players can ping locations on the field. Once a location is pinged, a red floating inverted cone will remain at the desired location for a time. Coordinated players can use pings to set focus areas, destinations, and other communicative commands. It could also be that Blitzcrank’s melee abilities inadvertently marks the ground for some unknown reason. Again, we saw early development footage. We expect most of the features to not be fully implemented.Jumping Over LedgesAnother feature that Project F appears to include is jumping over ledges when traversing through corners of map without terrain. For example, when Ezreal walks forward, there is no terrain under him just a few steps ahead. Just before the ledge, Ezreal leaps over the cliff edge and lands on the other side. It’s unclear whether this will be a player command or our characters will jump over edges by themselves.Cast IndicatorsTaliyahProject F takes a feature from it’s inspiration League of Legends. Ranged characters will have casting with indicators. It’s not known if the indicators can be turned off or not. Casting indicators are a useful feature. The indicator serves as a projection guide. Players can line up the indicator with their target for improved accuracy. Friendly FireFriendly fire was a feature in the early development build. When a player is in a casting state, it means they are about to use an ability. At this point a cast indicator is visible. Likely only visible to the player casting, if it’s anything like the League of Legends feature. Now, when the player’s indicator intersects with a cooperative teammate, the color of the indicator turns red.While the friendly fire colored cast indicator is insightful, it brings up more questions than answers. First, maybe it’s possible there are various difficulties in which you can damage your teammates. Second, allies could very well block teammates skill shots, hence the red indicator. Another possibility is while hovered over an ally, you cannot cast your skill shot. All of this is speculative of course. We will provide updates as they come. Equal Base Movement SpeedFrom looking at the Project F short clip, we can see each player has the same base move speed. Keep in mind, equal base movement speed may not be the case at launch. Furthermore, it’s possible gear can be equipped and stats or talents can be acquired that affect the champions movement speed. Nonetheless, an equal base movement speed does reinforce the casual nature of Project F. Project F Early Development Gameplay Possible Game FeaturesBoss FightsWe may see boss fights. In the image below, a Project F developer is seen with a reference image on his second monitor. Part of the image showed Wild Rift assets of Varus and Ashe fighting a massive image of the League of Legends item Static Shiv.Boss Mechanics – Slow Effecthttps://preview.redd.it/fymkg8j32w2b1.jpg?width=864&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14d8e7accf6513aee0741b710c07460bae9a6aefIn that same screenshot, the giant Static Shiv appear to emanate a yellow aura outwards up to under the attacking champions’ feet. The yellow aura looks incredibly similar to the slow effect from League of Legends. Vayne CheckpointsOn the same map where we have Blitzcrank, Lux, and Ezreal fighting, all three champions can be seen fooling around a campfire. There are no enemies present. Furthermore, they appear to be at a dead end with only one direction to go….into the forest. In the meantime, the players are running around and using abilities around this empty campfire area. Perhaps this starting area can serve as a communication hub amongst teammates before they begin their quest or journey. Alternatively, these checkpoints could be scattered throughout zones in order to let players rest, change armor, tools, loadouts, or reestablish their strategy.Champions in Riot’s Project FWe know of at least three playable champions in Project F. The following champions include, Blitzcrank, Lux, and Ezreal. Below includes a brief overview of the mentioned champions for those unfamiliar with the League of Legends champion roster.-- BlitzcrankBlitzcrank is a support-style tank. In the world of Runeterra, he a a mechanical golem dedicated to protecting Zaun from harm and supporting its citizens.In League of Legends, he uses powerful lightning infused mechanical forces to subdue, retract, and stun foes for his allies. Meanwhile, he soaks up and blocks damage effectively for his teammates. LuxLux is a support-style mage. In Runeterra, Lux is an aristocrat from Demacia with the ability to manipulate light. Unfortunately, Demacia prejudice against mages.While playing League of Legends, Lux possessing offensive and defensive magical abilities that can stun and damage enemies and shield allies. EzrealEzreal ranged damage dealer. According to the lore, Ezreal was born by wealthy Piltovan archeologists. Ezreal now explores foreign lands and uses his powerful yet mysterious Shuriman gauntlet to defeat his adversaries.Gameplay wise, Ezreal is a ranged short-ranged damage with good mobility including short teleports. -- Project F Champion AbilitiesIn the snippet, we saw several champion abilities adapted from League of Legends. At the same time, there were a number of innovative abilities that fit with the theme of the respective champions. It’s worth mentioning the champion auto attacks have a low cooldown.BlitzcrankBlitzcrank Fan Art
LuxLux Fan Art
EzrealEzreal Fan Art
Possible Champions in Riot Project FIn-development Lulu During the League of Legends 10-Year Anniversary stream, a developer had a reference page on his second monitor. It appeared to be two League of Legends champions outside of the traditional League game environment. In fact, is looked like a rudimentary Project F environment based on the ground particles seen in the anniversary video. Although, the screenshot of Varus and Ashe were assets from Wild Rift along with Wild Rift user interface. In the frame, you could see Varus and Ashe attacking a large massive image of the League item Static Shiv. Presumably the image of static shiv was a placeholder image for a boss. Moreover, there was a clip in the video where Lulu was being designed for Project F in Unreal Engine. This Lulu was distinguished from the Lulu in League of Legends. Therefore, it’s safe to conclude, Lulu was at the least being designed in the early development stage. Therefore, it is possible Varus and Ashe could be in Project F. Possible Champion: LuluLulu is a yordle from Bandle City. Specifically she is fae sorceress. While wandering in Runeterra she befriended a fairy named Pix. We she delighter to find many of her newfound abilities remained while back in Bandle City.During gameplay, Lulu is a ranged support champion. He has a lot of crowd control and can provide her allies with buffs such as shields, increased health and movement speed. Possible Champion: AsheAshe is an Iceborn Warmother. She is from an inhospitable norther region called the Freljord. She leads the Avarosans, which is one of the three major tribes of the Freljord.In League of Legends, is a ranged damage dealer, known as an ADC (attack damage carry). Ashe also features support features in her kit, such as slows, and revealing fog of war for the team. Possible Champion: VarusVarus used to be a magically ascended hunter from Shurima ages ago. After the loss of their king, his kind had succumb to insanity and blood magic, becoming Darkin and wreaking havoc on Runeterra. The Darkin were imprisoned in their weapons by the Aspects. Accordingly, Varus in his bow. Two Ionian men relinquished Varus. Now Varus consists of a Darkin and two men who resist his every more.Varus is an ADC, with a mix of attack and magical damage. Classes in Project FSeveral League of Legends champions will be designed in Project F. We also know Project F is an action roleplaying game with a cooperative option. With the brief gameplay in mind, each champion will be unique. As a result, Project F could implement at the very least a basic class system. This is an role-playing game after all.For example, Blitzcrank make possess tankier stats such as increased health, resistances, and mitigative abilities. Next, there could be support classes and mage support classes. If League of Legends is to be reimagined, Lux would fall into the mage-support class type. Also, Lulu would belong to the support-mage class type. Another class would be ranged damage dealers. Naturally, Ezreal and Varus would belong to this category. We’ve yet to see a brawler, or physical fighting class type. Would would an Action RPG be without one. It would be interesting to see champions such as Darius, Garen, Tryndamere, Olaf and others of the like fit this role. It’s possible Assassins could be a class in Project F. We have a ton of them in League already. Assassins champions that come to mind include, Nocturne, Evelyn, Talon, and Fizz. Who is Working on Project F?We currently know of one Riot employees working on Project F.Kate ChironisWe believe Kate Chironis is the design director for Riot Games’ Project F, the upcoming ARPG. If so, then she started the early development of Project F when there were only three designers. Here’s what Kate had to say.I helped bootstrap a new game as one of three early designers on the project. I focused on core game loop, player systems, the fundamental building blocks of enemies/encounters/AI, and helping establish the initial vision for several different types of content in the game. I prototyped heavily during this time period to “find the fun” in UE4/Blueprint. Kate - LinkedInIt’s likely the quote from Kate refers to Project F because in the League Anniversary from October 2019, we can see Kate working on Project F. Riot Project F Release DateWe’re not sure when Riot Project F will release. Even Kate Chironis, a likely Project F employee said she’s unsure of the release date. https://preview.redd.it/x0wi7bcu2w2b1.jpg?width=534&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=45725b43395229c66c086a823d1c67cc7fcaf708 I am optimistic that players will get to see it, but I don’t know when. Kate Chironis – Twitter Nonetheless, we can speculate the game have a trailer, gameplay or other public media in late 2024. Remember, Project F likely began around pre-development in May 2022. This is based on Kate’s start date at Riot Games from her LinkedIn experience. In the experience description she describes work that lines up with Project F. Furthermore, 17 months later, Riot showed an early development of Project F where Kate was actively iterating. SummaryLet’s summarize what we know about Riot Project F, the in-development ARPG. Project F appears to be non-canon. We saw three unrelated champions fighting alongside each other. Specifically, Ezreal, Blitzcrank, and Lux generally do not interact in canon lore. Ezreal is from Piltover, explores Shurima. Lux is from Demacia, and Blitzcrank is bound to Zaun as far as we know. To have all three of them fighting alongside a common enemy defies canon lore.Also, Project F looks to be a casual friendly game. We believe it would make a great party/couch game. It wouldn’t be a surprise if this game became available for PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC. Project F does not appear to be graphically intensive. It comes off as a nice coop couch game you’d play on the weekends with friends. Project F will be created in Unreal Engine. We’re unsure whether it’s Unreal Engine 5 or 4. We can expect to play as several champions such as, Blitzcrank, Lux, Ezreal, Lulu and likely more. Stay tuned for more updates on Riot’s upcoming Project F. Source: TheRiotMMO |
2023.05.30 00:36 BeatsLikeWenckebach Remember this ? The Quest survey that was going around 18 months ago -- 'latest processor, new lenses, 2.2k display, Mixed Reality, 10 feature Big IP games ......'
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2023.05.30 00:36 leylaraine Grown son needs to go
I’m going to try and make this short but it might be hard due to the details.
My son is almost 25 years old. Him and I have had years of issues going back to him being about 11 or 12 years old. So many things, it’s exhausting to think of them all or even look back and try to make sense of them. So, here I go.
He moved out when he was 17 because I told him he can either follow rules, go to school, respect my house, or leave. He didn’t graduate, he never got his drivers license, just never really accomplished anything.
Fast forward to 7 years later, he’s almost 25. He has been back with me twice during this time and neither one were long term due to him not making any attempts to do anything. Even the simplest things such as, keeping the room clean, throwing away trash, food, etc. The last time I kicked him out, he was 19. He went to stay with my oldest daughter for a while, then his dad, neither situations worked out and were very short term. Oh and he didn’t talk to me for two of those years after I kicked him out. Here we are in 2023, he called and I found out he has a six month old daughter. Has been living with the daughters mother and working but recently got fired. Daughters mother has now kicked him out. Still has no license. Of course I tell him he can temporarily stay here to get back on his feet. He did get a job but he has to ride a bike there as he has no license and no car. He has been going back and forth to court trying to get visitation to see his daughter, which he now has visitation. After all of this, he lost his new job. Tried to apply for another and got all the way through the process but failed the drug screen (THC). Stays in the room all day and night playing his video games. Promises me he will get a job and has been applying.
He is better at keeping things cleaned up but I still have to ask him about taking his things to the trash, cleaning the room, etc. He is also quite arrogant and disrespectful sometimes. I told him if I was in his situation, I would definitely show more respect for the people who are trying to help me.
I am just done. Worn out completely and I haven’t even mentioned yet that I have a husband who is growing very tired of this as well. I also have two other grown kids that are wonderful, hard working people. I get tired of hearing the whole “if he was raised better” because it’s just not always the case. I raised three children in the same home and two of them are fine. I just don’t understand this. I don’t know what to do. I have no idea where he will go and he will probably stop talking to me again but I’m ready to give up and tell him to go.
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My son is almost 25 years old. Him and I have had years of issues going back to him being about 11 or 12 years old. So many things, it’s exhausting to think of them all or even look back and try to make sense of them. So, here I go.
He moved out when he was 17 because I told him he can either follow rules, go to school, respect my house, or leave. He didn’t graduate, he never got his drivers license, just never really accomplished anything.
Fast forward to 7 years later, he’s almost 25. He has been back with me twice during this time and neither one were long term due to him not making any attempts to do anything. Even the simplest things such as, keeping the room clean, throwing away trash, food, etc. The last time I kicked him out, he was 19. He went to stay with my oldest daughter for a while, then his dad, neither situations worked out and were very short term. Oh and he didn’t talk to me for two of those years after I kicked him out. Here we are in 2023, he called and I found out he has a six month old daughter. Has been living with the daughters mother and working but recently got fired. Daughters mother has now kicked him out. Still has no license. Of course I tell him he can temporarily stay here to get back on his feet. He did get a job but he has to ride a bike there as he has no license and no car. He has been going back and forth to court trying to get visitation to see his daughter, which he now has visitation. After all of this, he lost his new job. Tried to apply for another and got all the way through the process but failed the drug screen (THC). Stays in the room all day and night playing his video games. Promises me he will get a job and has been applying.
He is better at keeping things cleaned up but I still have to ask him about taking his things to the trash, cleaning the room, etc. He is also quite arrogant and disrespectful sometimes. I told him if I was in his situation, I would definitely show more respect for the people who are trying to help me.
I am just done. Worn out completely and I haven’t even mentioned yet that I have a husband who is growing very tired of this as well. I also have two other grown kids that are wonderful, hard working people. I get tired of hearing the whole “if he was raised better” because it’s just not always the case. I raised three children in the same home and two of them are fine. I just don’t understand this. I don’t know what to do. I have no idea where he will go and he will probably stop talking to me again but I’m ready to give up and tell him to go.
2023.05.30 00:35 0xdaydreams New Skittish kitten advice
Hello /catadvice, my partner and I just recently adopted two new kittens to our cat family. We now have 4 cats for reference. The issue we are having is that the 7 month old torbie kitten (1st picture), Bean has perplexingly skittish behavior. We have had the new kittens for 3 weeks and our other two since last year. The cat introductions went really well except for Bean getting sick the 2nd week.
A combination of being sick and moving to our main bedroom after has possibly caused her to be skittish and anxious.
We’ve watched Jackson Galaxy’s videos on how to make her more confident and have blocked off access to hiding spots but given her high areas to relax in and sleep. She prefers a cat bed beside my computer desktop where she spends majority of her time.
Some of her quirks
• Stays in bed all day besides occasionally coming down to play briefly with the other cats on her terms. She hisses and growls at them if they try to initiate play. She’s ok with them sleeping with her and grooming her but she doesn’t do it in return.
• Will growl and hiss if she is picked up or moved. We have stopped picking her up and mainly try to get her to move through treats or using quiet soft voices.
• she will only play with us if we use a feather toy and have her hunt it through the top of the cat trees and her cat bed. She will never chase it on the floor because it seems like it makes her anxious.
• She hates being picked up but loves to be pet by me for a long time (5-10+ minutes). She purrs, talks to me, and head bunts me during this period. She is affectionate like this before I feed her and sometimes throughout the day. It only happens when she is on the cat bed though.
• When my partner and I are laying down or doing stuff, she will come down from the cat bed to play or explore. The moment we look at her or get up to do something, she freaks out and runs back to the cat bed. We try to ignore her and walk away from her to ease her anxiety.
• She will walk towards us or stare at us but if we look back or notice her, she runs away back to the cat bed.
• She’s very active at like 4am-6am while we are all resting.
• We can tell she likes me a little bit more due to her being more affectionate and not recoiling when I reach towards her but she is still overall scared. Overall she is not that affectionate and is very low energy compared to most kittens.
I guess the advice I am seeking is, how do we know if she likes us? How can we help her adjust? What are we doing wrong? Will she become less anxious and skittish?
Pics for tax: https://imgur.com/a/tRjgxvI
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A combination of being sick and moving to our main bedroom after has possibly caused her to be skittish and anxious.
We’ve watched Jackson Galaxy’s videos on how to make her more confident and have blocked off access to hiding spots but given her high areas to relax in and sleep. She prefers a cat bed beside my computer desktop where she spends majority of her time.
Some of her quirks
• Stays in bed all day besides occasionally coming down to play briefly with the other cats on her terms. She hisses and growls at them if they try to initiate play. She’s ok with them sleeping with her and grooming her but she doesn’t do it in return.
• Will growl and hiss if she is picked up or moved. We have stopped picking her up and mainly try to get her to move through treats or using quiet soft voices.
• she will only play with us if we use a feather toy and have her hunt it through the top of the cat trees and her cat bed. She will never chase it on the floor because it seems like it makes her anxious.
• She hates being picked up but loves to be pet by me for a long time (5-10+ minutes). She purrs, talks to me, and head bunts me during this period. She is affectionate like this before I feed her and sometimes throughout the day. It only happens when she is on the cat bed though.
• When my partner and I are laying down or doing stuff, she will come down from the cat bed to play or explore. The moment we look at her or get up to do something, she freaks out and runs back to the cat bed. We try to ignore her and walk away from her to ease her anxiety.
• She will walk towards us or stare at us but if we look back or notice her, she runs away back to the cat bed.
• She’s very active at like 4am-6am while we are all resting.
• We can tell she likes me a little bit more due to her being more affectionate and not recoiling when I reach towards her but she is still overall scared. Overall she is not that affectionate and is very low energy compared to most kittens.
I guess the advice I am seeking is, how do we know if she likes us? How can we help her adjust? What are we doing wrong? Will she become less anxious and skittish?
Pics for tax: https://imgur.com/a/tRjgxvI
2023.05.30 00:35 Such-Page-5563 Storage unit
I need emergency assistance with my Storage payment. I have my stuff stored in a friend of mine's garage. I lost my parents house in 2021 and the reason why because me taking over the house payment was unexpected I lost my mother and father in 2019 my mother was sick so we was prepared for her death but not my father he was diagnosed with cancer in 2018 and passed away March 2019 and then my mother followed July 2019 I was a caregiver for my mother for two years so I took a huge pay cut stay home but at that didn't matter to me I wouldn't change that for anything but when my father passed away I had to take over things that I wasn't prepared for and still was taking care of my mother I tried my best to keep up with the house but it fell through so I lost the house September 2021. Due to the setback of me being home with my mother it was hard for me to get back on track especially losing my parents so close together. So what I'm getting at is in September of 2021 when I lost the home I had a friend of mine let me store my personal belongings and lots of my parents' personal belongings in his shed because I could not afford to get a storage unit I still can't afford it. In April he came to me with some unexpected news but he wasn't prepared for either his daughter was going through a divorce and she needed to store her stuff in the shed so I had to get my stuff out with that being said I had to find a storage unit still expensive for me but I can't afford to lose my stuff and I had to leave a lot of stuff behind because I couldn't fit it in the storage unit. The reason why I'm behind on my storage unit in February there was money stolen out of my bank with some online transactions in the amount of $2,000 dollars so therefore identity theft I canceled my card and I'm waiting on my new card to arrive and I knew what day it was coming because I had it expedited so on the day that the card arrived I was out running some errands I get home to check the mail and there's no card so I quickly get on my phone call the bank and ask them where my card is and they said what do you mean it's been activated and there's been two $500 withdrawals and $50 varo charge. I was so Furious and confused on what in the hell is going. So the bank tells me all I need to do fill out some paperwork and the investigation that could take up to 90 days so I do all that about a week later I called check on the status of the situation and I now have to go down and make a police report so I did that and I still have not received my money, that's why my storage unit is behind I have a lien on my storage unit I kept in contact with them about this and they were okay with it and now they're saying that there's nothing they can do so at the end of June if I do it will be going up for auction sometime in July and I do not want to lose what I have left it would be greatly appreciated if someone can find it in their heart to help me there's a lot of memories in that storage unit. I'll show police report you can even call the police station I have the police officer's name who I made the report and if anyone's willing to help me the payments could directly go to the storage unit so you know it's going for a good cause. Thank you in advance have a blessed day!
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2023.05.30 00:30 stevetheclimber OPENING the /r/Mindcrack Time Capsule of 2022!
Hello everyone, and welcome to the annual peak back into the past!
It's been another year since the 2022 capsule was posted, and for the 9th time we'll be unpacking all sorts of info that was stored away in this annual tradition. Not only is this a great way to look back on what all changed over the last year, but the time capsule also serves as the most complete recap for the current state of Mindcrack and is the best way to see the entire group's recent overall activity with info not found anywhere else.
We'll be opening the ninth edition of the mindcrack time capsule from 2022. You can also find these frozen moments in time for every year going back to 2014 here: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021. Now that all that's out of the way, let's officially open the 2022 time capsule!
And there we have it, another look back into the past is complete as we take a moment to reflect on how we got here amongst the never ending flow of time. Even in just one year there's been countless changes throughout the many people in Mindcrack, both good and bad, and it's easy to lose track of just how much happens with so many different people each living their own lives. Who knows what kinds of changes we'll see as another year passes and we open the 10th time capsule in 12 months.
The 2023 time capsule will be coming soon, there's a lot of info to collect so I'll be asking for help in the Discord, and anyone in the community will be welcome to add their own messages and info in the capsule. For the time being though let's focus on this capsule and all the changes that took place in the last year, and feel free to discuss any of them that stood out to you!
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It's been another year since the 2022 capsule was posted, and for the 9th time we'll be unpacking all sorts of info that was stored away in this annual tradition. Not only is this a great way to look back on what all changed over the last year, but the time capsule also serves as the most complete recap for the current state of Mindcrack and is the best way to see the entire group's recent overall activity with info not found anywhere else.
We'll be opening the ninth edition of the mindcrack time capsule from 2022. You can also find these frozen moments in time for every year going back to 2014 here: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021. Now that all that's out of the way, let's officially open the 2022 time capsule!
Today is the 29th of May, 2022.
General Information
A current concise definition of Mindcrack is "A group of friends and content creators founded in 2010 who come together for gaming content and regular charity events primarily based on Twitch."
Mindcrack currently has 24 official members and around 18 VIPs/Friends active in the group, though there is no official list on who all is a Friend and the linked image is probably missing at least Darkosto and Sapphyrei. Mindcrackers and Friends essentially differ only in name.
The latest member to join officially was OMGChad on the 31st of October, 2014. The latest member to leave was BTC (BlameTheController) on the 12th of November, 2015. The latest Friend to join is difficult to determine, as most Friends have gradually become involved in the group over multiple years.
Charity
There have been nine full Mindcrack Marathons to date and a multitude of other charity efforts, both from individuals and the full group. In total Mindcrack has raised an incredible $1,950,563.23 for others through their group fundraising streams since 2013, of which $1,817,090.78 has been for the charity Extra Life (totals missing $0-5K). The latest full marathon was on November 8-14 and ran for 117 hours across a full week for the first time, raising a record $348,565.69 for Extra Life plus Twitch and merch revenue.
A complete list of all totals raised during Mindcrack group fundraising streams can be found here, the source message is pinned in the Mindcrack Discord and regularly updated.
The most recent fundraising event was held less than a month ago for Arbor Day and was Mindcrack's first time supporting Gone West, the UHC raised £6,161 for the company, helping plant over 1,125 trees for the planet. It's been mentioned that Gone West will return in future fundraising events. Mindcrack also raised $15,651.94 for Extra Life last month during the first spring marathon since 2019 which ran for 12 hours. It was followed up by Extra life United's return to Florida just over a month ago, Mindcrack had multiple attendees who also spent several days at Disney together where some of them unfortunately got COVID-19. ELU 2022 featured the return of the Minecraft Building Competition, and Pakratt led team Mindcrack to a 1st place finish against 6 other teams which included Aureylian.
The Mindcrack Patreon has now been supporting Mindcrack's charity efforts for over 2 years, allowing the marathon to grow in size and production quality. A new $10 tier was added in fall which gives monthly behind the scenes updates on charity events. Currently the Patreon has 413 Patrons pledging $3,626 per month, with 88 Patrons on the $25 tier, 1 on the $500 tier, and the rest split between $5 and $10.
Kurt's Far Lands or Bust journey has continued on as always, having just started Season 10 with Season 9 ending a couple months ago after close to a million blocks traveled in a year. He is currently at 5,765,878 blocks traveled towards the Far Lands as of March 28th, 2022, sitting at 45.9% of the way there. The latest episode was #829 on May 28th, 2022. The series has raised $472,939.92 for 7 different charities since 2011, with $4,470.00 raised during Season 9 for Rise Above The Disorder, and $4,600.00 raised for Equality Texas Foundation during the recent FLoB-a-Thon.
MCGamer and the Zeldathon Team have raised $3,064,623 for 11 different charities during their 32 charity events. The latest Zeldathon was Zeldathon Ascent which raised $176,843.00 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital from December 26th to January 1st, and they just finished the smaller event Piece of Heart raising $20,120 for St. Jude at MomoCon from May 26th-28th. The next Zeldathon will be Zeldathon Daybreak, scheduled to start on August 2nd raising money for Direct Relief.
There's also a multitude of individual charity efforts in Mindcrack; several people in the group hold streams supporting their individual Extra Life campaigns, and there's frequently one-off streams for various charities, such as a few days ago where Justin, McLaffyTaffy, and MyLawyerFriend were in a D&D stream supporting St. Jude. A complete list wouldn't be feasible to collect, but their efforts are appreciated. In total everyone in the group have raised over $5.5 million for charity over the years.
Regular Series
The Mindcrack Podcast is hosted by Sevadus, Guude, and recently Soccer releasing two episodes every week, consisting of a public episode every Monday and a Patron-exclusive episode every Thursday. Additionally, Patrons at the $25 tier can watch the recordings live and discuss in the live chat. The latest public episode was S2E99 which released on May 23rd, 2022, and the latest premium episode was episode 99 released on May 26th, 2022. The 10 year anniversary of the podcast is just a few weeks away.
Cone, Kurt, and Zeekay host the podcast Ran When Parked which releases new episodes every other week, the latest episode was episode 78.
As of tonight Coestar's StreamADay is sitting at Day 3,099, and Phedran's daily streaming streak is on Day 1,702. Coe still holds the second longest daily streaming streak on Twitch.
There have been over 500 collabs within Mindcrack in the last year, but with Mhykol's Discord bot not posting VODs it's hard to track them and get specific numbers. In the last year Monday Group Games, Space Cops, and the Dads have gone on indefinite hiatus, so there's currently fewer weekly series than normal.
The following is a list of the more stable weekly collab series within Mindcrack currently:
- Armo, Breon, Coestar, and Kingster play PUBG for Sunday Gunday every week, and PUBG also makes frequent appearances throughout the week with other squad combinations.
- Pakratt's Vintage Story Tuesday with Honney and DireDwarf recently ended after 38 weeks, it's likely TFC Tuesdays in MC 1.18 will replace it in the near future.
- Coestar and Guude's Two Bananas for Sale continues strong, playing games together or with Patrons every Friday night. Their most recent games include We Were Here Forever, UHC, Traitors in Salem, and Codenames. Their joint Patreon currently raises $625 per month thanks to 36 Patrons.
- Arkas, Guude, Nebris, and Pakratt have recently returned after a long hiatus to play Divine Journey 2 every other Saturday and just passed their 7-year anniversary playing together.
- Arkas and Cone just wrapped up another season of Cities Skylines, this one being a challenge to build the best city in 36 hours.
Servers
Season 9 of the Minecraft vanilla server is currently ongoing; Amethyst, Guude, his daughter Apple, Honney, Mookake, Pakratt, Phedran, and a multitude of $25 tier Patrons have been on in the last month. The current season started on December 11th, 2021, and the server is running on 1.18.2 with some extra plug-ins. For the first time the majority of Mindcrack is using shaders on the server in a client modpack with other QoL mods. This season has had approximately 765 hours streamed by Mindcrack so far. The most recent event on the server was the Spring Festival held on May 1st and 7th; Amethyst, Guude, his daughter Apple, Honney, Pakratt, and about 15 Patrons attended one of the two.
Mhykol hosts a server map at https://mindcrackmap.com, the map uses BlueMap which was used as a secondary map on the previous season.
The most recent full modded server was Crackpack Season 4, Mindcrack's 7th modded season which was active from November 2019 until January 2020. A more restricted Crackpack 3 server was active for 3 hours every week from May to October last year as part of Monday Group Games.
The Dadcraft Minecraft server reset at the start of December for 1.18, Arkas and Jaaski joined Chiblee, Coestar, Justin, and Pause with others and the server was active for about a month.
Adlington, Arkas, Cone, Dire, Doc, Kurt, Phedran, and VintageBeef all have fan servers for Twitch subs and/or Patrons.
Ultra Hardcore (UHC)
There have been 33+28 (Twenty-seven donation UHCs and S4b) seasons of Mindcrack UHC. There were 8 Mindcrack UHCs in 2021, the most since 2012 with 9 UHCs.
Breon, Coestar, ConeDodger, and Kingster are the winners of the latest UHC season, Season 33, which was streamed on the 26th of February, 2022.
Mookake and SethBling are the winners of the latest donation UHC, the 27th of its kind, which was streamed on the 30th of April, 2022 for Gone West.
PauseUnpause is the most deadly player in regular UHCs with 36 kills, and Coestar is the most deadly player in donation UHCs with 38 kills, having recently taken the lead from Arkas. Nebris and VintageBeef are tied for the most wins in regular UHCs with 9, and Guude and Kurt are tied for the most wins in charity UHCs with 7. (Latest UHC Stats by Guardax)
Seasons can be categorized as follows: 21 teams of four, 15 teams of two, 13 teams of three, 8 free-for-all, 2 PvE, 1 teams of five, 1 teams of ten.
UHCs have been becoming more frequent recently with renewed interest from the group and there's plans for even more in the future, starting with the first ever collaboration between VintageCraft and Mindcrack Patrons with a UHC next month on June 11th.
Individual Members
The table below contains current subscription, follower, and member data for the Mindcrackers' various social media accounts. Each number is hyperlinked to include an image of that member's account as it appears on this day for easy comparison of account contents, videos, and Discord channels:
* indicates accounts that haven't been used in the last year ** Discord messages are all messages sent in default channels since server creation.
Mindcracker Twitch YouTube Patreon Discord Size Discord Messages** Adlingtont 2,889 35,200 6,405 9 ($71) 44 29,700 AnderZEL 286,781 532,000* 72,995 Twitch sub to join 4,160 Arkas 39,358 86,300*/383 25,712 447 51,640 Aureylian 148,698 267,000* 164,528 AvidyaZen 21,652 274* 353 78(new) 9,090 Coestar 62,880 110,000* 30,709 29 ($79) 1,554 1,943,640 Docm77 128,355 982,000 225,648 124 ($952) Patron only ? Guude 45,651 366,000 95,260 Twitch sub only 875,670 JSano19 5,103 48,800 14,035 1 ($5) Patron only ? Kurt 53,293 412,000 57,844 199 Patron or Twitch sub only 180,680 MCGamer 87,722 HIDDEN 36,934 Mhykol 15,793 53,000 25,336 154 17,280 Millbee 55,977 114,000 45,799 545 754,160 Nebris 20,809 134,000* OMGchad 53,832 119,000*/1,390,000 32,816 2,047 34,920 Pakratt 102,661 50,200 20,929 562 351,980 PauseUnpause 151,562 HIDDEN 947 134,680 Pyropuncher 29,807 HIDDEN 48,857 SethBling 246,113 2,020,000 380,303 330 37,240 Sevadus 412,912 45,600* 57,420 1,875 45,810 Vechs 9,692 171,000 50,404 114 1,061 154,270 VintageBeef 28,405* 1,570,000/13,800/19,800* 197,020 251 Patron only ? W92Baj 9,548 113,000 43,394 7 Patron only ? Zisteau 55,408 340,000/981(new) 72,216 91 1,240 400,910 Mindcrack Network 70,390 153,000 50,044 413($3,626) 2,711 262,240
The following table is the same info for Friends that are content creators, though this isn't an official list so it may have extras and not be complete:
There are currently about 28 people part of Mindcrack that stream on Twitch regularly, and about 10 that upload to YouTube regularly.
Friend Twitch YouTube Patreon Discord size Discord messages** Amethyst 552 852 Breon 2,605 291 1,705 167 49,230 Chiblee 24,332 4,330(new)/1,540(new) 31,923 2,338 473,600 ConeDodger 5,598 9,340 1,423 160 Patron or Twitch sub to join/use 1,006,770 Dahl 458 21,400/25(new) 837 0 Patron to join 51,560 Darkosto 76,839 3,560 6,049 7,947 439,360 DireDwarf 18,335 4,730 3,104 5($56) 372 190,740 Drooo 346 11 446 54 21,150 HCJustin 66,741 13,500 19,144 29($178) Twitch sub to join 1,184,780 HonneyPlay 11,607 3,100 1,259 11 562(shared w/ Pak) 351,980 Jaaski 10,850 458* 2,694 606 220,530 Kingster 390 2(new) 20 Mookake 690 2,360* 244 Phedran 9,470 8,870* 4,900 52($388) 372 89,430 Ryuski 1,383 181 436 75 26,541 Sapphyrei(formerly OnlyBentley) 17,636 58(new)/129,000(old) 12,243 3($19) Soccer 505 137* 251 Twitch sub to join 440
In the last year there were approximately 30,813 hours streamed on Twitch by about 41 Members and Friends, with 2,483 combined hours streamed during last month. During that year there were 792 unique categories streamed, 4,294,294 total views, and 3,863,022 hours watched on Twitch which is equal to 441 years.
The most streamed games in order were Minecraft, PUBG, Escape from Tarkov, RimWorld, and Elden Ring. Minecraft had the most streamers with 37, most hours streamed with 6,278, and most hours watched with 713,580; the category Just Chatting was also among the most streamed and had the most views with 718,610.
Here's a chart showing monthly hours streamed by Mindcrack members from August 2015 to April 2022; here's a similar chart with Friends added from May 2020 to April 2022.
According to the Mindcrack website, the total YouTube subscribers across all official Mindcrackers is 9,042,471(+24,900 in the last year), the total number of videos is 71,787(+1,586), and the total views is 2,418,417,594(+36,497,698). The website hasn't been updated in years so the accuracy of those numbers isn't guaranteed.
The total member count across public Discord servers in Mindcrack is 25,526 which includes significant overlap(13,595 for just Mindcrack Members). In total there's been approximately 9,394,181 messages sent across all 33 servers including from bots, but I don't currently have Doc's or Beef's numbers which would push that number well over 10 million. Coe's server remains heavily active and is poised to be the first to reach 2 million messages in about 4 months.
SethBling is the most subscribed on YouTube with 2.02 million subscribers as well as the most followed on Twitter with 380k followers. Sevadus has the most Twitch followers with 412k followers. Darkosto has the largest Discord server with 7,947 members, and among the Mindcrack Members OMGchad has the largest with 2,047 members.
Subreddit
mindcrack has approximately 45,100 subscribers. Discord servers and Twitch chats are the primary places the active Mindcrack community's interactions are based, so the subreddit sees minimal activity.
The Moderator Team of mindcrack consists of 10 humans and 2 robots: GuudeBoulderfist, pakratt0013, stinusmeret, Zisteau, pajam, Lost-Chord, Compieuter, ArmoAram, stevetheclimber, emilythecool, MindcrackTwitchBot, and CrackBot / AutoModerator.
This is the subreddit today using old Reddit (Picture Version), and this is the same page using the redesign (Picture Version).
Here's the current flair selection, and here are the subreddit's traffic stats which are normally only viewable by mods.
Miscellaneous
Docm77 and VintageBeef are both also members of HermitCraft, and Arkas, Chiblee, Coestar, Jaaski, Justin, and Pause are all members of Dadcraft.
SethBling currently holds 2nd place for the Super Mario World 0 Exit speedrun with a time of 41.350 seconds. He also holds records for several speedrun categories he created, including SMAS+SMW All Five Games with ACE which he'll be running in this year's SGDQ in July, he currently holds a record of exactly 9 minutes for it.
On the IRL side of things several people in Mindcrack have gone through changes in life; in the last year, Guude and Jess got engaged, Cone and Paint also got engaged and announced they have a baby coming, and DireDwarf got married. There's also been multiple kittens and other pets, at least half a dozen job changes, and several moves, including Soccer living with Guude until earlier this month.
There have been no updates in the last year on Mindcrack's progress towards becoming a non-profit that's publicly been in the works for years.
Community Contributions
u/Omegatron9 has kept his spreadsheet and graphs on YouTube subscribers up to date.
The events of Mindcrack's first 10 years are covered in my History of Mindcrack written in 2020.
Some spreadsheets I have with stats:
Thanks to Guardax, Pellervo_page, and Ageofdune for providing Discord numbers.
- Mindcrack monthly hours streamed - August 2015 to April 2022 copy
- Mindcrack Stream stats - May 29, 2021 to May 28, 2022, has extensive numbers for every category streamed by everyone in Mindcrack in the last year
- Quarterly content produced by Mindcrack Members, 2010 Q4 to 2020 Q2, useful for seeing Twitch overtake YT for Mindcrack content
The 2023 time capsule will be coming soon, there's a lot of info to collect so I'll be asking for help in the Discord, and anyone in the community will be welcome to add their own messages and info in the capsule. For the time being though let's focus on this capsule and all the changes that took place in the last year, and feel free to discuss any of them that stood out to you!
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2023.05.30 00:29 DildoShwa66ins Believe to be experiencing some intense paternal instincts and would appreciate some clarification on what’s going on with me?
Hello all 👋
37M here and I would say that I am a pretty ‘normal’ guy as far as things go. No kids and was generally never really that into them/ been fussed about having my own.
I have been with my current partner for 7 years, someone who I love dearly and could absolutely see spending the rest of my life with as we get on in so many ways. She has a daughter that has always lived with us and despite what I have just said we have always had a great relationship and she is genuinely a great kid and someone who I would be proud to say is my own.
However the past 7 years have flown by and she is now 21 years old with a little boy of her own who is now 1 years old.
Over the years I have had multiple family members who are extremely close to me have children of their own and I have held babies and been around the experience of it all quite a bit etc but I have also always been one of those people who just never ever ever felt/ saw that love and magic that is within children and what comes with it.
Fast forward to around one ago when little Felix arrives and the first maybe two three weeks I didn’t actually even hold him! Partly because Angela was a new mum and still young herself and so I just held back and let her do her thing.
Then by the third week something strange started happening, I couldn’t hold back any more, I just wanted to hold him so bad, never in my life had I experienced this before!! Usually when I have a baby I am looking forward to handling it back and that of course is nothing personal to any particular baby out there lol.
So this one night I ask to hold him and as soon as this little fella is placed into my lap he stares directly up to me with the most gorgeous deep blue eyes that I had ever seen before and this deep sense of warmness then begins to take over and almost overwhelm me.
As the next few months carried on we of course began to grow a great bond and the love and intense feelings I began feeling for this little guy were something that I had never experienced before. Almost like when you are a teenager and first experience the deep romantic feelings for another for the first time .. I guess something like that but on the unconditional level. There have been multiple times when we have been sat on the living floor playing with his truck and putting blocks into it and he just stops and looks up into my eyes. No smile, no frown, just complete neutrality that exhumes this pureness and completely exposes just how innocent and darn right cute the little bugger is. It is these moments that pull on my heart strings so damn hard that I can’t even look at him for too long without tearing up. I’m talking 4/5 seconds max and that’s it I have to get out of there and get my mind away from the situation.
This is really starting to become a problem because I want to be able to just sit there and stare back into his eyes and talk to him and engage but I just can’t handle it a lot of the time and I have to get myself out of there for a few minutes to save embarrassment in front of the little dude and also other family members who may think I am weird.
I’m not even 100% sure what is going on through my mind when these moments occur. I think it’s just down to the fact that I think he really is super cute and is also becoming such a nice little person who is so kind. I also believe that it is because this whole experience and the love that I have been feeling has been quite a shock to me as the idea of fatherhood never came natural to me. However this is now beginning to lead into conflicting thoughts such as wondering if having my own children is something that I will one day regret not doing?
The truth is that it was little Felix who looked into my eyes that night and unlocked something truly magical.. It was like I absolutely f**king get it now and I can totally see the magic in what having children is all about and why people say that despite all of the hardships, that it is still the best thing in the world. I even feel like a bit of a dumbass for not seeing it until so late in life and truly feel like I have missed out on something. I see young couples in their twenties with two/three kids and I am envious that by the time they are my age they will have a bunch of teenagers for kids and still be super young to experience grandchildren.
This conflicts my emotions and my head about everything again because the last thing that I want to do here is come off ungrateful with having the amazing things that I already do have in life and ofcourse never seeing my partner and little Felix again would be an extremely tragic thing to experience.
I also can’t shake the feelings how much I would love to see my own parents play with my children and have them experience seeing me with the next generation of our family. They are both getting older and neither are in the best of health and so I can not help but admit that it does sadden me to think that this may one day never happen… something else that I have never considered until now in life. I have been truly lucky to have been blessed with having the best of parents in life and for them to see my children would be a dream come true for them and that does sadden me also I have to admit.
I’m not even sure what I am looking for here but if you have read this far and find any of this interesting at all and would like to give your two cents then please feel free to say what ever you like.
Thank you & kindest regards
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37M here and I would say that I am a pretty ‘normal’ guy as far as things go. No kids and was generally never really that into them/ been fussed about having my own.
I have been with my current partner for 7 years, someone who I love dearly and could absolutely see spending the rest of my life with as we get on in so many ways. She has a daughter that has always lived with us and despite what I have just said we have always had a great relationship and she is genuinely a great kid and someone who I would be proud to say is my own.
However the past 7 years have flown by and she is now 21 years old with a little boy of her own who is now 1 years old.
Over the years I have had multiple family members who are extremely close to me have children of their own and I have held babies and been around the experience of it all quite a bit etc but I have also always been one of those people who just never ever ever felt/ saw that love and magic that is within children and what comes with it.
Fast forward to around one ago when little Felix arrives and the first maybe two three weeks I didn’t actually even hold him! Partly because Angela was a new mum and still young herself and so I just held back and let her do her thing.
Then by the third week something strange started happening, I couldn’t hold back any more, I just wanted to hold him so bad, never in my life had I experienced this before!! Usually when I have a baby I am looking forward to handling it back and that of course is nothing personal to any particular baby out there lol.
So this one night I ask to hold him and as soon as this little fella is placed into my lap he stares directly up to me with the most gorgeous deep blue eyes that I had ever seen before and this deep sense of warmness then begins to take over and almost overwhelm me.
As the next few months carried on we of course began to grow a great bond and the love and intense feelings I began feeling for this little guy were something that I had never experienced before. Almost like when you are a teenager and first experience the deep romantic feelings for another for the first time .. I guess something like that but on the unconditional level. There have been multiple times when we have been sat on the living floor playing with his truck and putting blocks into it and he just stops and looks up into my eyes. No smile, no frown, just complete neutrality that exhumes this pureness and completely exposes just how innocent and darn right cute the little bugger is. It is these moments that pull on my heart strings so damn hard that I can’t even look at him for too long without tearing up. I’m talking 4/5 seconds max and that’s it I have to get out of there and get my mind away from the situation.
This is really starting to become a problem because I want to be able to just sit there and stare back into his eyes and talk to him and engage but I just can’t handle it a lot of the time and I have to get myself out of there for a few minutes to save embarrassment in front of the little dude and also other family members who may think I am weird.
I’m not even 100% sure what is going on through my mind when these moments occur. I think it’s just down to the fact that I think he really is super cute and is also becoming such a nice little person who is so kind. I also believe that it is because this whole experience and the love that I have been feeling has been quite a shock to me as the idea of fatherhood never came natural to me. However this is now beginning to lead into conflicting thoughts such as wondering if having my own children is something that I will one day regret not doing?
The truth is that it was little Felix who looked into my eyes that night and unlocked something truly magical.. It was like I absolutely f**king get it now and I can totally see the magic in what having children is all about and why people say that despite all of the hardships, that it is still the best thing in the world. I even feel like a bit of a dumbass for not seeing it until so late in life and truly feel like I have missed out on something. I see young couples in their twenties with two/three kids and I am envious that by the time they are my age they will have a bunch of teenagers for kids and still be super young to experience grandchildren.
This conflicts my emotions and my head about everything again because the last thing that I want to do here is come off ungrateful with having the amazing things that I already do have in life and ofcourse never seeing my partner and little Felix again would be an extremely tragic thing to experience.
I also can’t shake the feelings how much I would love to see my own parents play with my children and have them experience seeing me with the next generation of our family. They are both getting older and neither are in the best of health and so I can not help but admit that it does sadden me to think that this may one day never happen… something else that I have never considered until now in life. I have been truly lucky to have been blessed with having the best of parents in life and for them to see my children would be a dream come true for them and that does sadden me also I have to admit.
I’m not even sure what I am looking for here but if you have read this far and find any of this interesting at all and would like to give your two cents then please feel free to say what ever you like.
Thank you & kindest regards
2023.05.30 00:28 RiotMMO Riot Games' Project F - An Upcoming ARPG In Depth Introduction
| | Source: TheRiotMMO submitted by RiotMMO to theRiotMMO [link] [comments] Project F Early Development Gameplay Project F is a research in-development game that will be produced by Riot Games, Inc. The upcoming ARPG is expected to be a PvE action RPG. In other words, a player vs environment action roleplaying game. It appears to be a cooperative action game based in Runeterra, where players can team up against monsters using champions from League of Legends. Project F is isometric, stylized and casual. It seems Project F has been in development for some time. If you’re looking forward to playing it soon and learning more, then read on. Riot Project F AnnouncedInterestingly, Project F was never officially announced. We had our first glimpse of Project F during League of Legends’ 10-Year Anniversary Celebration live stream.10-Year Anniversary Celebration Riot Pls: 10th Anniversary Edition - League of Legends Beginning at the 32-minute 38-second mark there were a few sequences of Project F gameplay. Granted, it was early development footage of Riot’s Project F. It is important to note, Riot Games intentionally previewed Project F. Project F was not a leak. In fact, Project F has been under wraps for the most part since that very day. What is Riot Project FProject F is an upcoming ARPG set in the world of League of Legends. Actually, set in Runeterra to be more precise. It is a cooperative action game where players control the champions from League of Legends. You will traverse through Runeterra and defeat enemies along your way. Players will get to use iconic and familiar champion abilities that have been established through League of Legends gameplay as well as new abilities too.Project F LandscapeThere will be varying levels of inclination throughout your adventures. Given Project F is an isometric game, the sense of height and depth will be an important design element if Riot wants to make this game a successful as possible. So, throughout your adventures you will have to descend higher terrain on occasion.You can expect to see familiar landscapes that share a similar art style as League of Legends’. As with many isometric games, such as Lost Ark, Diablo, Path of Exile, etc., the background will contain interesting landscapes while the foreground will feature rich and detailed visuals. Overall, it appears the art design will showoff bright and beautiful colors. Expect to see the following decorative elements; colorful trees, plants, flowers, roots, large stones plus a variety of terrains. While we aren’t sure yet, it appears players cannot fall off the map. One feature we find to be a nice touch is the dust from the ground that rises as players jump from heights. Project F Game FeaturesPing SystemIt looks as though Project F might feature a ping system. Presumably players can ping locations on the field. Once a location is pinged, a red floating inverted cone will remain at the desired location for a time. Coordinated players can use pings to set focus areas, destinations, and other communicative commands. It could also be that Blitzcrank’s melee abilities inadvertently marks the ground for some unknown reason. Again, we saw early development footage. We expect most of the features to not be fully implemented.Jumping Over LedgesAnother feature that Project F appears to include is jumping over ledges when traversing through corners of map without terrain. For example, when Ezreal walks forward, there is no terrain under him just a few steps ahead. Just before the ledge, Ezreal leaps over the cliff edge and lands on the other side. It’s unclear whether this will be a player command or our characters will jump over edges by themselves.Cast IndicatorsTaliyah Project F takes a feature from it’s inspiration League of Legends. Ranged characters will have casting with indicators. It’s not known if the indicators can be turned off or not. Casting indicators are a useful feature. The indicator serves as a projection guide. Players can line up the indicator with their target for improved accuracy. Friendly FireFriendly fire was a feature in the early development build. When a player is in a casting state, it means they are about to use an ability. At this point a cast indicator is visible. Likely only visible to the player casting, if it’s anything like the League of Legends feature. Now, when the player’s indicator intersects with a cooperative teammate, the color of the indicator turns red.While the friendly fire colored cast indicator is insightful, it brings up more questions than answers. First, maybe it’s possible there are various difficulties in which you can damage your teammates. Second, allies could very well block teammates skill shots, hence the red indicator. Another possibility is while hovered over an ally, you cannot cast your skill shot. All of this is speculative of course. We will provide updates as they come. Equal Base Movement SpeedFrom looking at the Project F short clip, we can see each player has the same base move speed. Keep in mind, equal base movement speed may not be the case at launch. Furthermore, it’s possible gear can be equipped and stats or talents can be acquired that affect the champions movement speed. Nonetheless, an equal base movement speed does reinforce the casual nature of Project F. Project F Early Development Gameplay Possible Game FeaturesBoss FightsWe may see boss fights. In the image below, a Project F developer is seen with a reference image on his second monitor. Part of the image showed Wild Rift assets of Varus and Ashe fighting a massive image of the League of Legends item Static Shiv.Boss Mechanics – Slow Effecthttps://preview.redd.it/0wj3ki930w2b1.jpg?width=864&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ab336083bcf0ecf91503f90509e0668c4e8fa855 In that same screenshot, the giant Static Shiv appear to emanate a yellow aura outwards up to under the attacking champions’ feet. The yellow aura looks incredibly similar to the slow effect from League of Legends. Vayne CheckpointsOn the same map where we have Blitzcrank, Lux, and Ezreal fighting, all three champions can be seen fooling around a campfire. There are no enemies present. Furthermore, they appear to be at a dead end with only one direction to go….into the forest. In the meantime, the players are running around and using abilities around this empty campfire area. Perhaps this starting area can serve as a communication hub amongst teammates before they begin their quest or journey. Alternatively, these checkpoints could be scattered throughout zones in order to let players rest, change armor, tools, loadouts, or reestablish their strategy.Champions in Riot’s Project FWe know of at least three playable champions in Project F. The following champions include, Blitzcrank, Lux, and Ezreal. Below includes a brief overview of the mentioned champions for those unfamiliar with the League of Legends champion roster.-- BlitzcrankBlitzcrank is a support-style tank. In the world of Runeterra, he a a mechanical golem dedicated to protecting Zaun from harm and supporting its citizens.In League of Legends, he uses powerful lightning infused mechanical forces to subdue, retract, and stun foes for his allies. Meanwhile, he soaks up and blocks damage effectively for his teammates. LuxLux is a support-style mage. In Runeterra, Lux is an aristocrat from Demacia with the ability to manipulate light. Unfortunately, Demacia prejudice against mages.While playing League of Legends, Lux possessing offensive and defensive magical abilities that can stun and damage enemies and shield allies. EzrealEzreal ranged damage dealer. According to the lore, Ezreal was born by wealthy Piltovan archeologists. Ezreal now explores foreign lands and uses his powerful yet mysterious Shuriman gauntlet to defeat his adversaries.Gameplay wise, Ezreal is a ranged short-ranged damage with good mobility including short teleports. -- Project F Champion AbilitiesIn the snippet, we saw several champion abilities adapted from League of Legends. At the same time, there were a number of innovative abilities that fit with the theme of the respective champions. It’s worth mentioning the champion auto attacks have a low cooldown. BlitzcrankBlitzcrank Fan Art
LuxLux Fan Art
EzrealEzreal Fan Art
Possible Champions in Riot Project FIn-development Lulu During the League of Legends 10-Year Anniversary stream, a developer had a reference page on his second monitor. It appeared to be two League of Legends champions outside of the traditional League game environment. In fact, is looked like a rudimentary Project F environment based on the ground particles seen in the anniversary video. Although, the screenshot of Varus and Ashe were assets from Wild Rift along with Wild Rift user interface. In the frame, you could see Varus and Ashe attacking a large massive image of the League item Static Shiv. Presumably the image of static shiv was a placeholder image for a boss. Moreover, there was a clip in the video where Lulu was being designed for Project F in Unreal Engine. This Lulu was distinguished from the Lulu in League of Legends. Therefore, it’s safe to conclude, Lulu was at the least being designed in the early development stage. Therefore, it is possible Varus and Ashe could be in Project F. Possible Champion: LuluLulu is a yordle from Bandle City. Specifically she is fae sorceress. While wandering in Runeterra she befriended a fairy named Pix. We she delighter to find many of her newfound abilities remained while back in Bandle City.During gameplay, Lulu is a ranged support champion. He has a lot of crowd control and can provide her allies with buffs such as shields, increased health and movement speed. Possible Champion: AsheAshe is an Iceborn Warmother. She is from an inhospitable norther region called the Freljord. She leads the Avarosans, which is one of the three major tribes of the Freljord.In League of Legends, is a ranged damage dealer, known as an ADC (attack damage carry). Ashe also features support features in her kit, such as slows, and revealing fog of war for the team. Possible Champion: VarusVarus used to be a magically ascended hunter from Shurima ages ago. After the loss of their king, his kind had succumb to insanity and blood magic, becoming Darkin and wreaking havoc on Runeterra. The Darkin were imprisoned in their weapons by the Aspects. Accordingly, Varus in his bow. Two Ionian men relinquished Varus. Now Varus consists of a Darkin and two men who resist his every more.Varus is an ADC, with a mix of attack and magical damage. Classes in Project FSeveral League of Legends champions will be designed in Project F. We also know Project F is an action roleplaying game with a cooperative option. With the brief gameplay in mind, each champion will be unique. As a result, Project F could implement at the very least a basic class system. This is an role-playing game after all.For example, Blitzcrank make possess tankier stats such as increased health, resistances, and mitigative abilities. Next, there could be support classes and mage support classes. If League of Legends is to be reimagined, Lux would fall into the mage-support class type. Also, Lulu would belong to the support-mage class type. Another class would be ranged damage dealers. Naturally, Ezreal and Varus would belong to this category. We’ve yet to see a brawler, or physical fighting class type. Would would an Action RPG be without one. It would be interesting to see champions such as Darius, Garen, Tryndamere, Olaf and others of the like fit this role. It’s possible Assassins could be a class in Project F. We have a ton of them in League already. Assassins champions that come to mind include, Nocturne, Evelyn, Talon, and Fizz. Who is Working on Project F?We currently know of one Riot employees working on Project F.Kate ChironisWe believe Kate Chironis is the design director for Riot Games’ Project F, the upcoming ARPG. If so, then she started the early development of Project F when there were only three designers. Here’s what Kate had to say.I helped bootstrap a new game as one of three early designers on the project. I focused on core game loop, player systems, the fundamental building blocks of enemies/encounters/AI, and helping establish the initial vision for several different types of content in the game. I prototyped heavily during this time period to “find the fun” in UE4/Blueprint.It’s likely the quote from Kate refers to Project F because in the League Anniversary from October 2019, we can see Kate working on Project F. Riot Project F Release DateWe’re not sure when Riot Project F will release. Even Kate Chironis, a likely Project F employee said she’s unsure of the release date. https://preview.redd.it/hufmno271w2b1.jpg?width=534&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d9b0a775f8c611eb7ddcc058851e0ac6bd2b2009 I am optimistic that players will get to see it, but I don’t know when. Kate Chironis – TwitterNonetheless, we can speculate the game have a trailer, gameplay or other public media in late 2024. Remember, Project F likely began around pre-development in May 2022. This is based on Kate’s start date at Riot Games from her LinkedIn experience. In the experience description she describes work that lines up with Project F. Furthermore, 17 months later, Riot showed an early development of Project F where Kate was actively iterating. SummaryLet’s summarize what we know about Riot Project F, the in-development ARPG. Project F appears to be non-canon. We saw three unrelated champions fighting alongside each other. Specifically, Ezreal, Blitzcrank, and Lux generally do not interact in canon lore. Ezreal is from Piltover, explores Shurima. Lux is from Demacia, and Blitzcrank is bound to Zaun as far as we know. To have all three of them fighting alongside a common enemy defies canon lore.Also, Project F looks to be a casual friendly game. We believe it would make a great party/couch game. It wouldn’t be a surprise if this game became available for PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC. Project F does not appear to be graphically intensive. It comes off as a nice coop couch game you’d play on the weekends with friends. Project F will be created in Unreal Engine. We’re unsure whether it’s Unreal Engine 5 or 4. We can expect to play as several champions such as, Blitzcrank, Lux, Ezreal, Lulu and likely more. Stay tuned for more updates on Riot’s upcoming Project F. Source: TheRiotMMO |
2023.05.30 00:28 Fruit__S4lad [WTS] Ruben's Rone
Timestamp: https://imgur.com/a/qjdJBuG
Pics: https://imgur.com/a/SFqTodD
Video: https://imgur.com/a/BvO9FNk
Not taking trades at this time.
Up for sale is a Ruben's Rone with CPM-154 blade and custom American flag scale ano. Sale will be done through pp f&f.
Knife is like new. It has never been cut with or carried. I am the first and only owner. Comes with COA and handkerchief. DOB is 4-17-2023. This is number 188.
SV: $950
As always, if you want more pics or info, let me know and I will do my best to get back to you in a timely fashion.
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Pics: https://imgur.com/a/SFqTodD
Video: https://imgur.com/a/BvO9FNk
Not taking trades at this time.
Up for sale is a Ruben's Rone with CPM-154 blade and custom American flag scale ano. Sale will be done through pp f&f.
Knife is like new. It has never been cut with or carried. I am the first and only owner. Comes with COA and handkerchief. DOB is 4-17-2023. This is number 188.
SV: $950
As always, if you want more pics or info, let me know and I will do my best to get back to you in a timely fashion.
2023.05.30 00:28 MathematicianNo4588 Honest video review
Good evening all, I’m uploading a new video idea on youtube and i would really like to know the community thoughts about this, because i enjoyed try and build this base and get down on a little history of the monument. Also i would like to get more engaging with my small amount of viewer by building something they would like to see. If you have a little time please come and check out, that would really make my day. Thank you all❤️
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2023.05.30 00:28 BeatsLikeWenckebach Remember this ? The Quest survey that was going around 18 months ago -- 'latest processor, new lenses, 2.2k display, Mixed Reality, 10 feature Big IP games ......'
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2023.05.30 00:26 ThatWeirdNerdGuy Do I keep trying polyamory for my wife and I, or just go back to monogamy?
Time for backstory: my wife (23) and I (22, today is my birthday actually) have been together going on 4 years now and we have a 16-month-old son. Neither of us had ever been poly or had an open relationship, and we're both frankly new to all of this, although we've talked about it for many months now.
Originally it was my idea, and she was very much against it but was willing to try for me. I had a hard time finding anyone to even had a conversation with, but eventually, the idea of me falling for another person overwhelmed it and we called it all off. I was okay with this as this is what we agreed on.
About a month later she told me she felt bad about it and wanted to try again, so we did. This time I found a girl on a poly Facebook group that was fairly local and we hit it off talking. I asked my wife if it was okay if I asked her out for coffee and she said she was okay with that. The day before we were supposed to go out, my wife said it was all overwhelming for her again and we called everything off once again. (worked out fine because that girl ended up ghosting me the same day)
My wife became very upset by the mention of poly shortly after this, and I agreed to not even bring it up again for the sake of our marriage. This was about 4-5 months ago.
Out of the blue a few weeks ago my wife ask if she could look for someone on Tinder to hook up with. I happily said yes, because I think that's hot and I'm kinda a cuck tbh. She hit it off with the guy and she left to go meet up with him. they ended up doing some stuff in his car (making out, fingering, etc) that night and she liked the whole experience. (this was the first time she had done anything like this since we had been together) she kept texting the guy and enjoyed his conversation as a friend and I was really happy that she was having fun.
The next day she met another guy (we will call him J), and they hit it off even better. He asked to take her out that night and she got excited and got dressed up and he came and picked her up. I met him at the door when she picked him up, he was a little old than us both (26), in much better shape than me, and shared in all her interests that I didn't. I felt a little jealous at first, but I wanted her to be happy, and this was what I had been wanting for almost a year at this point. She asked when she should be home, I told her 11. It was weird when she left, sending her out with this guy she had been talking about all day at this point. I felt jealous and lonely while she was gone, but I was doing my best to handle it. Around 10:30 that night she asked if it was okay if they stayed out a little late and said she was having a wonderful time. I reluctantly said yes, wanting her to have fun, but also missing her. She didn't end up coming home til almost 2 am, which was much later than I even expected and I was honestly upset, but I didn't feel like I could be mad since she did ask if she could stay out later. She came in swooning over him and telling me all the great things about him and then showed me all the Hickeys and bite marks and the videos of them fucking. He was much more dominant and aggressive than I am, and she was loving it. was equally jealous, and angry at this guy, and honestly turned on. I'm not the jealous type at all, but this had me overwhelmingly jealous and upset. My wife noticed that I was turned on and we ended up fucking ourselves and she kept telling me how hot it was that I was jealous and how she wanted both of us at once. Which did admitted turn me on a lot, even though I was jealous.
I talk with my wife about all the feelings I was having and that this was all a lot for me in all honestly. It was at this point she started telling me that she wants to be poly now permanently and that she finally gets it and I should go find a girlfriend. I was taken aback by both, how I was feeling and how she was feeling now. Our places from our last two experiences just flipped. I agreed that we could give it a try, and figured maybe I wouldn't feel so weird or upset if I was also getting to enjoy another person.
The next day my wife asked if she could have J over to have a campfire once our son was asleep. She was so excited when she asked, and I wanted to challenge my comfort zone, so I said yes. I was going to be in my office playing DnD with the guys, so I wouldn't be able to be around. She assured me they would just hang out as friends tonight and take things slower than before. Later into the night, about 3 hours after he got there, I walked in on them having sex on the couch in the living room, him on top of her. her moaning a little extra loud so I would hear them. At this point I was full of so much anger and jealousy I felt my blood boiling. But she was enjoying herself, and she smirked at me, which I knew meant she was wanting to make me a little jealous. I ended up leaving my dnd game early, and trying to calm myself down and talk to J. Maybe I would like him more. But I don't think talking to him while I was fully clothed, and he and my wife were both naked helped at all. They also were drunk, especially my wife. (which my wife never drinks) somehow it turned into my wife talking me into doing shots with them and her taking my clothes off. I reluctantly joined in, still not happy about this situation, but admittedly turned on, and not wanting to ruin the night for my wife. I remembered Tyrion from GOT thrones when he said "I should have defied him, but my cock betrayed me, and I did as I was bid." and related to this very strongly. I mostly was a 3rd wheel, as he was so dominant and she just leaned into him. I hadn't seen her kiss someone so passionately and aggressively before. It was hard, and I was too pussy to stop it. My wife certainly had a good night. J ended up sleeping on the other side of our bed with her in the middle, (later described by her as heavenly) while I was mildly wanting to stab this stranger that my wife was so infatuated with.
After he left that next morning, I sat down with my wife and gave her my recap of the evening and all of my feelings. She technically didn't do anything wrong, as we really hadn't set any rules or boundaries, but I quickly discovered that was out of our noobie foolishness. But I felt so betrayed and violated. This was 2 weeks ago now.
We have been talking a lot about everything, and I've tried to take some time to process everything. My wife is on board to never talk to J or anyone else again if I ask her to, as I had done for her previously. But she likes J, and I know that would hurt her, and I can't stand hurting her. I've talked a little more to J, and he's honestly a nice guy. I wanted to find red flags or something to dislike, but I can't. The worse part is, I kind of hate the guy, and I don't know why. I think he's just a victim of circumstance, and that evening hurt me and fucked me up a little, even though it wasn't his fault any more than it was mine or my wife's. It was just naive people doing foolish things before we were ready.
This last couple of weeks has been a lot of emotions, my wife and I communicating, arguing, crying, and hugging. Me feeling lonely, a little broken, and honestly depressed. We love each other and agreed that our marriage is most important as things are. But my wife has also expressed that she really likes J and could see a future for him with us too. And I don't feel like I'm able to give him a fair shot, because of my unfounded emotions toward him.
Now that you know all of that, here's the reason for the post: Any advice, I will happily take it. After careful consideration, I only see 3 options and I can't figure out which is best, and neither can my wife, and I'm honestly lost. 1. Stop polyamory in our marriage and ghost J 2. Stay polyamorous, and ghost J (he just leaves a bad taste in my mouth, and it's sadly not his fault but idk how to get over it, I want to, but idk how.) 3. Stay polyamorous, and try to befriend J for my wife's sake, even though it makes me extremely uncomfortable, and want to stab myself a little bit.
Sorry, that was long, thank you for reading.
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Originally it was my idea, and she was very much against it but was willing to try for me. I had a hard time finding anyone to even had a conversation with, but eventually, the idea of me falling for another person overwhelmed it and we called it all off. I was okay with this as this is what we agreed on.
About a month later she told me she felt bad about it and wanted to try again, so we did. This time I found a girl on a poly Facebook group that was fairly local and we hit it off talking. I asked my wife if it was okay if I asked her out for coffee and she said she was okay with that. The day before we were supposed to go out, my wife said it was all overwhelming for her again and we called everything off once again. (worked out fine because that girl ended up ghosting me the same day)
My wife became very upset by the mention of poly shortly after this, and I agreed to not even bring it up again for the sake of our marriage. This was about 4-5 months ago.
Out of the blue a few weeks ago my wife ask if she could look for someone on Tinder to hook up with. I happily said yes, because I think that's hot and I'm kinda a cuck tbh. She hit it off with the guy and she left to go meet up with him. they ended up doing some stuff in his car (making out, fingering, etc) that night and she liked the whole experience. (this was the first time she had done anything like this since we had been together) she kept texting the guy and enjoyed his conversation as a friend and I was really happy that she was having fun.
The next day she met another guy (we will call him J), and they hit it off even better. He asked to take her out that night and she got excited and got dressed up and he came and picked her up. I met him at the door when she picked him up, he was a little old than us both (26), in much better shape than me, and shared in all her interests that I didn't. I felt a little jealous at first, but I wanted her to be happy, and this was what I had been wanting for almost a year at this point. She asked when she should be home, I told her 11. It was weird when she left, sending her out with this guy she had been talking about all day at this point. I felt jealous and lonely while she was gone, but I was doing my best to handle it. Around 10:30 that night she asked if it was okay if they stayed out a little late and said she was having a wonderful time. I reluctantly said yes, wanting her to have fun, but also missing her. She didn't end up coming home til almost 2 am, which was much later than I even expected and I was honestly upset, but I didn't feel like I could be mad since she did ask if she could stay out later. She came in swooning over him and telling me all the great things about him and then showed me all the Hickeys and bite marks and the videos of them fucking. He was much more dominant and aggressive than I am, and she was loving it. was equally jealous, and angry at this guy, and honestly turned on. I'm not the jealous type at all, but this had me overwhelmingly jealous and upset. My wife noticed that I was turned on and we ended up fucking ourselves and she kept telling me how hot it was that I was jealous and how she wanted both of us at once. Which did admitted turn me on a lot, even though I was jealous.
I talk with my wife about all the feelings I was having and that this was all a lot for me in all honestly. It was at this point she started telling me that she wants to be poly now permanently and that she finally gets it and I should go find a girlfriend. I was taken aback by both, how I was feeling and how she was feeling now. Our places from our last two experiences just flipped. I agreed that we could give it a try, and figured maybe I wouldn't feel so weird or upset if I was also getting to enjoy another person.
The next day my wife asked if she could have J over to have a campfire once our son was asleep. She was so excited when she asked, and I wanted to challenge my comfort zone, so I said yes. I was going to be in my office playing DnD with the guys, so I wouldn't be able to be around. She assured me they would just hang out as friends tonight and take things slower than before. Later into the night, about 3 hours after he got there, I walked in on them having sex on the couch in the living room, him on top of her. her moaning a little extra loud so I would hear them. At this point I was full of so much anger and jealousy I felt my blood boiling. But she was enjoying herself, and she smirked at me, which I knew meant she was wanting to make me a little jealous. I ended up leaving my dnd game early, and trying to calm myself down and talk to J. Maybe I would like him more. But I don't think talking to him while I was fully clothed, and he and my wife were both naked helped at all. They also were drunk, especially my wife. (which my wife never drinks) somehow it turned into my wife talking me into doing shots with them and her taking my clothes off. I reluctantly joined in, still not happy about this situation, but admittedly turned on, and not wanting to ruin the night for my wife. I remembered Tyrion from GOT thrones when he said "I should have defied him, but my cock betrayed me, and I did as I was bid." and related to this very strongly. I mostly was a 3rd wheel, as he was so dominant and she just leaned into him. I hadn't seen her kiss someone so passionately and aggressively before. It was hard, and I was too pussy to stop it. My wife certainly had a good night. J ended up sleeping on the other side of our bed with her in the middle, (later described by her as heavenly) while I was mildly wanting to stab this stranger that my wife was so infatuated with.
After he left that next morning, I sat down with my wife and gave her my recap of the evening and all of my feelings. She technically didn't do anything wrong, as we really hadn't set any rules or boundaries, but I quickly discovered that was out of our noobie foolishness. But I felt so betrayed and violated. This was 2 weeks ago now.
We have been talking a lot about everything, and I've tried to take some time to process everything. My wife is on board to never talk to J or anyone else again if I ask her to, as I had done for her previously. But she likes J, and I know that would hurt her, and I can't stand hurting her. I've talked a little more to J, and he's honestly a nice guy. I wanted to find red flags or something to dislike, but I can't. The worse part is, I kind of hate the guy, and I don't know why. I think he's just a victim of circumstance, and that evening hurt me and fucked me up a little, even though it wasn't his fault any more than it was mine or my wife's. It was just naive people doing foolish things before we were ready.
This last couple of weeks has been a lot of emotions, my wife and I communicating, arguing, crying, and hugging. Me feeling lonely, a little broken, and honestly depressed. We love each other and agreed that our marriage is most important as things are. But my wife has also expressed that she really likes J and could see a future for him with us too. And I don't feel like I'm able to give him a fair shot, because of my unfounded emotions toward him.
Now that you know all of that, here's the reason for the post: Any advice, I will happily take it. After careful consideration, I only see 3 options and I can't figure out which is best, and neither can my wife, and I'm honestly lost. 1. Stop polyamory in our marriage and ghost J 2. Stay polyamorous, and ghost J (he just leaves a bad taste in my mouth, and it's sadly not his fault but idk how to get over it, I want to, but idk how.) 3. Stay polyamorous, and try to befriend J for my wife's sake, even though it makes me extremely uncomfortable, and want to stab myself a little bit.
Sorry, that was long, thank you for reading.