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2013.12.14 10:28 thegeeknerd Literally, a bigger fish.
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2012.06.24 04:34 zapff PlantBasedDiet - Whole Food Plant Based Diet subreddit (WFPBD)
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2013.07.30 20:58 ThereIsNoJustice The Study of the Week
We post a topic of art study each week and study it as a group.
2023.06.10 19:27 Significant-Sets Looking for an experienced cloud infrastructure dev partner
Hey everyone, I have a strategy I’d like to put into production for multiple asset classes first on a minute frequency, then work our way down to shorter frequencies. I already have done the backtesting and deployed it on a daily frequency for equities. It works but I’d like to scale the whole operation up. The strategy is a 0+ HFT type, and currently coded in Python. I already have an angel investor along with my own capital. I’m not very good at integrating with brokers or working with cloud infrastructure, so I need someone to handle that side.
I’m willing to either pay a lump sum or a percent of the profits for the infrastructure work. I need someone who has done this before, so if you’re interested be ready to demonstrate your skills with a past project. I would try to figure this out on my own but my day job has been eating up a lot of my time. It could be months until I figure out how to do it on my own, and I’d rather not leave money on the table. I’d like to work with someone that resides in the US and they’ll have to be alright with signing an NDA.
I’m about to go on a road trip so I won’t be able to respond for eight hours. For anyone that feels this works for them, you can DM me or leave a post highlighting your experience. I’ll get in contact with those qualified candidates so we can get into the gritty details. Let me know if I forgot any important details.
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I’m willing to either pay a lump sum or a percent of the profits for the infrastructure work. I need someone who has done this before, so if you’re interested be ready to demonstrate your skills with a past project. I would try to figure this out on my own but my day job has been eating up a lot of my time. It could be months until I figure out how to do it on my own, and I’d rather not leave money on the table. I’d like to work with someone that resides in the US and they’ll have to be alright with signing an NDA.
I’m about to go on a road trip so I won’t be able to respond for eight hours. For anyone that feels this works for them, you can DM me or leave a post highlighting your experience. I’ll get in contact with those qualified candidates so we can get into the gritty details. Let me know if I forgot any important details.
2023.06.10 19:27 YungJDubz420 Dealer tells me issues on my new car isn't covered
I purchased a 2022 Honda Civic from a dealership in Southern California last March. I live in Norther California so I have been the car serviced at another dealership nearby my place. Couple months ago, a warning for adaptive cruise control failure popped up on my dashboard and has been there since then. Since I never use the cruise control, I figured I'd just wait till I get my car serviced again to get it checked out.
My car recently hit 15000 miles so last week I took my car in for service (oil change) and was told that the express service guys can't help me look at the problem with the cruise control so the adviser scheduled a regular service for me this Saturday. After the express service last week, I was told that my rear shock absorbers are leaking also and they will look at it when I bring it in today.
I brought my car to the dealer to get it checked out today, and was told that the rear shock absorbers that's leaking don't fall under the warranty. I asked the adviser that since the part isn't supposed to fail within a year and half and 15000 miles why is it not covered? I was essentially told that since the part isn't supposed to fail that quickly I must have done something to break it so it isn't covered. By that logic what is the point of having warranty? If any part fails they can just cliam "oh it isn't supposed to fail so you must have done something and borke it:"
For issue with the adaptive cruise control, they told me that they need to do a diagnostics to figure out which part is causing the issue. If the part that's causing the issue falls under warrnty and they'll fix it for free. If not, they are going to charge me $210 for just the diagnostics alone.
I was also told that the extended warranty I had purchased from the from the SoCal dealership is through a third party and that third party isn't a partner with the NorCal Honda so it's basically useless.
I left my car at the dealership to do the diagnostics and I am waitinfg for them to call me back. I am just so frustrated with this whole situation and I need some advice on how I should proceed. If they call me back and tells me the part that is causing the adaptive cruise control to fail doesn't fall under warranty what should I do? Also what can I do about the whole third party extended warranty situation?
I apologize for the long post and any help is appreciated!
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My car recently hit 15000 miles so last week I took my car in for service (oil change) and was told that the express service guys can't help me look at the problem with the cruise control so the adviser scheduled a regular service for me this Saturday. After the express service last week, I was told that my rear shock absorbers are leaking also and they will look at it when I bring it in today.
I brought my car to the dealer to get it checked out today, and was told that the rear shock absorbers that's leaking don't fall under the warranty. I asked the adviser that since the part isn't supposed to fail within a year and half and 15000 miles why is it not covered? I was essentially told that since the part isn't supposed to fail that quickly I must have done something to break it so it isn't covered. By that logic what is the point of having warranty? If any part fails they can just cliam "oh it isn't supposed to fail so you must have done something and borke it:"
For issue with the adaptive cruise control, they told me that they need to do a diagnostics to figure out which part is causing the issue. If the part that's causing the issue falls under warrnty and they'll fix it for free. If not, they are going to charge me $210 for just the diagnostics alone.
I was also told that the extended warranty I had purchased from the from the SoCal dealership is through a third party and that third party isn't a partner with the NorCal Honda so it's basically useless.
I left my car at the dealership to do the diagnostics and I am waitinfg for them to call me back. I am just so frustrated with this whole situation and I need some advice on how I should proceed. If they call me back and tells me the part that is causing the adaptive cruise control to fail doesn't fall under warranty what should I do? Also what can I do about the whole third party extended warranty situation?
I apologize for the long post and any help is appreciated!
2023.06.10 19:26 ZeonoxButBetter Attack of the Dead Terrans
Sorry for the absence of story for the last two weeks. No I'm not dead, it's just my exams weeks. And because of that, I have to redirect a lot of energy from writing. So all the stories I've developed over the past two weeks have sort of run aground, and I'm not sure they're ready to be uploaded here, yet. But now I'm back and ready to write some more, so roll up that daily disclaimer: As usual accidental copy is truly unintentional
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~7th Chromia Orbital Dock Facility~
~Orbit of Oskwa~
"Have they arrived yet?" I asked to my fellow commander.
"Yes General Burg, the convoy has just unloaded the... cargo just now" General Von said, looking down through the glass barrier to the cargo bay below where hundreds of yellow capsule-like containers sat in rows.
"Good, so I assume that the assault could be launch in a few hours?" I asked.
"After we distributed this to the orbital bomber we should be clear to go"
"Excellent! We'll finally be able to destroy that annoying little castle of them" I exclaimed. Excited, because finally after months of fighting, we'll be able to seize the last stronghold of the Terran Republic on this planet.
Fort Linsky, a large military fortification built by the Terran Republic before the war on the planet of Oskwa, one of their territory at the time. Equipped with eight pairs of massive railgun cannons, each with the capability to penetrate anything ranging from our capital ships in low orbit to anything on the ground not covered by at least twenty meters of solid rock within the range of one thousand kilometers from its' location.
There were more of them before. But since our invasion, with either brilliant tactic, incompetent opponents, or a pinch of luck. We managed to destroy or seized all the other fort on this planet.
But Fort Linsky on the other hand is harder. Its fortification is enforced not only by its massive cannons, but also by what our soldiers on the ground called 'The Torture Zone'.
First the most obvious one, the giant wall covering the entire parameter. A huge twenty five kilometers long stone-composite wall, shaped like a giant star with spikes sticking out of each end, circling the ring where the railguns take places. Rendering all kind of ground incursion imposible.
Behind the wall there is the 'artillery', somewhat a miniature version of the railguns they're trying to protect. A long range kinetic weapon capable of yeeting medium sized projectile, both High Explosive and Armoured Piercing. Preventing any of our heavier vehicles to get close and deal any damages.
And then there is the 'always on particle shield'. While their counterpart in space is extremely weak, their usage here was proved effective against all sort of our attacks. Be it orbital bombardment, areal assault, or our own artillery or missile attack.
And of course lastly, we have the Human themself. A tough mammals bipedal species born on a level six death world. Raised by wars they have perfected the art of defense, utilizing the terrain and weather for their advantage.
In battle they themselves go forth to fight, in armor suit five meters tall equipped with a large gun and a pile of rockets that can be fired to scorch our troops.
And accompanied by innovative flying vehicles that uses a single propeller to lift themself from the ground, armed with the same weapon hold by the armour suit they become the thorns that've always prevented us from occupying this fort.
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I stepped down from my transport ship to the barren ground, on a mountain ten kilometers away from the fort. Just outside their artillery range, and on a such makeshift observation point it would be worthless to shoot us out with their railguns.
"Is everything ready?" I asked to one of my officer.
"Yes Sir, General Borg just sent out the last confirmation signal" He reported.
"Good" I responded just before a flock of officers approach.
"Sir, are we sure with this?"
"Yeah gas attack seems a little too much, perhaps even breaching the Communities Treaty of war"
"And are we even sure this will work?" They asked one after another.
"Hey, do you remember what've they done all through the war? The sight of their armour suit killing all of our soldier? their rail gun destroying our base? I bet they have committed several warcrimes on their own.
And yeah, We're pretty sure this one will work. Our capsules is small enough to slip through the particle shield, and their content... Well gas attack have been banned by the Terran Republic, so I'm sure it's bad for them. And what gasses are we using again? chlorine and bromine? yeah I think they're included in the banned substance" I said reassuring the officers.
Not long after, the time finally came. Receiving the signal from the Borg, we sat and watched as hundred of small yellow capsules pierces the cloudy sky with green tails coming out of 'em. Passing through the Terrans shield, straight down to the rows of troops doing their morning call.
Landing next to the unsuspecting soldiers the capsules burst and released their contents. Thick green smokes billowed from the shattered containers, soon filling up the whole facility with an eerie chemical haze.
We watched silently from afar. We couldn't see individual soldiers anymore, but from the lack of large response or any other movements around the base, I think it's safe to assume we've caught the Terrans off guard.
"Yeah, that should kill them" I said breaking the silence.
"We better start moving now, before any surviving Terrans re-enact the automatic defense"
We jumped into our armoured vehicles, surrounded by around twelve thousand troops ready to captured the fort.
Approaching the structure, we could feel the atmosphere getting cold. The still lingering green gasses floating low on the ground, getting darker each moments as the thick cloud from the ever-closing storm covered the sky.
"Well at least the rain could clean up this mess" I said to myself.
Closing in, now only a few hundred meters, we could fully feel the eerie state of this fortress. A huge ominous dark wall covered in green haze stretched out for miles, accompanied by a huge thunder on our east suddenly halted the movement of our forces.
The frightened troops stopped on its march, shaking on their boots.
'What are they afraid of, there shouldn't be anyone anymore in that fort' I muttered, trying to figured out what happened.
And that's where I see it, no... see them.
Dozen of bulky silhouette, accompanied by a couple hundreds smaller hump lined up between us and the wall. I squint my eyes, the figures standing menacingly became clearer as the green smokes cleared.
'It-it's the Terrans! T-they're still alive!?!' I screamed internally, clenching the iron bars I was holding onto.
The Terrans, on their armoursuits once again challenging our march, but there's something wrong.
Their beige colored skin has grown darker, now with black ulcers and red patches covered many of their exposed area, their once white eyes were now bloodshot like those of an ancient creature on our folklore, and where their mouths should have been, were now covered by all kind cloths with their bright red bloodstains splatred on it.
My frustration and annoyance suddenly turned to fear and horror as my blood ran cold from the realization. They... they're not alive anymore.
Me and my troops stand there for a minute, trying to process the sights we behold. The silence continued as fear crawls on our back, forcing us not to move a muscle.
Suddenly out of nowhere a blood screeching screams rang across the battlefield. The Terrans letting out a battlecry as they began to charges.
An entire legion of the undead leaping into our position with the classic noise of rockets and artillery soon followed.
"Retreat! Retreat!" I shouted, breaking the stagnant of my remaining troops.
Without wasting a second, the remaining nine thousand troops ran away from the cursed fortress. Racing back to the safety of our base.
Skipping some heartbeats I looked back, to the horror we just made.
'We didn't kill them, we just make them mad'
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~7th Chromia Orbital Dock Facility~
~Orbit of Oskwa~
"Have they arrived yet?" I asked to my fellow commander.
"Yes General Burg, the convoy has just unloaded the... cargo just now" General Von said, looking down through the glass barrier to the cargo bay below where hundreds of yellow capsule-like containers sat in rows.
"Good, so I assume that the assault could be launch in a few hours?" I asked.
"After we distributed this to the orbital bomber we should be clear to go"
"Excellent! We'll finally be able to destroy that annoying little castle of them" I exclaimed. Excited, because finally after months of fighting, we'll be able to seize the last stronghold of the Terran Republic on this planet.
Fort Linsky, a large military fortification built by the Terran Republic before the war on the planet of Oskwa, one of their territory at the time. Equipped with eight pairs of massive railgun cannons, each with the capability to penetrate anything ranging from our capital ships in low orbit to anything on the ground not covered by at least twenty meters of solid rock within the range of one thousand kilometers from its' location.
There were more of them before. But since our invasion, with either brilliant tactic, incompetent opponents, or a pinch of luck. We managed to destroy or seized all the other fort on this planet.
But Fort Linsky on the other hand is harder. Its fortification is enforced not only by its massive cannons, but also by what our soldiers on the ground called 'The Torture Zone'.
First the most obvious one, the giant wall covering the entire parameter. A huge twenty five kilometers long stone-composite wall, shaped like a giant star with spikes sticking out of each end, circling the ring where the railguns take places. Rendering all kind of ground incursion imposible.
Behind the wall there is the 'artillery', somewhat a miniature version of the railguns they're trying to protect. A long range kinetic weapon capable of yeeting medium sized projectile, both High Explosive and Armoured Piercing. Preventing any of our heavier vehicles to get close and deal any damages.
And then there is the 'always on particle shield'. While their counterpart in space is extremely weak, their usage here was proved effective against all sort of our attacks. Be it orbital bombardment, areal assault, or our own artillery or missile attack.
And of course lastly, we have the Human themself. A tough mammals bipedal species born on a level six death world. Raised by wars they have perfected the art of defense, utilizing the terrain and weather for their advantage.
In battle they themselves go forth to fight, in armor suit five meters tall equipped with a large gun and a pile of rockets that can be fired to scorch our troops.
And accompanied by innovative flying vehicles that uses a single propeller to lift themself from the ground, armed with the same weapon hold by the armour suit they become the thorns that've always prevented us from occupying this fort.
--------------------------------------------------------------
I stepped down from my transport ship to the barren ground, on a mountain ten kilometers away from the fort. Just outside their artillery range, and on a such makeshift observation point it would be worthless to shoot us out with their railguns.
"Is everything ready?" I asked to one of my officer.
"Yes Sir, General Borg just sent out the last confirmation signal" He reported.
"Good" I responded just before a flock of officers approach.
"Sir, are we sure with this?"
"Yeah gas attack seems a little too much, perhaps even breaching the Communities Treaty of war"
"And are we even sure this will work?" They asked one after another.
"Hey, do you remember what've they done all through the war? The sight of their armour suit killing all of our soldier? their rail gun destroying our base? I bet they have committed several warcrimes on their own.
And yeah, We're pretty sure this one will work. Our capsules is small enough to slip through the particle shield, and their content... Well gas attack have been banned by the Terran Republic, so I'm sure it's bad for them. And what gasses are we using again? chlorine and bromine? yeah I think they're included in the banned substance" I said reassuring the officers.
Not long after, the time finally came. Receiving the signal from the Borg, we sat and watched as hundred of small yellow capsules pierces the cloudy sky with green tails coming out of 'em. Passing through the Terrans shield, straight down to the rows of troops doing their morning call.
Landing next to the unsuspecting soldiers the capsules burst and released their contents. Thick green smokes billowed from the shattered containers, soon filling up the whole facility with an eerie chemical haze.
We watched silently from afar. We couldn't see individual soldiers anymore, but from the lack of large response or any other movements around the base, I think it's safe to assume we've caught the Terrans off guard.
"Yeah, that should kill them" I said breaking the silence.
"We better start moving now, before any surviving Terrans re-enact the automatic defense"
We jumped into our armoured vehicles, surrounded by around twelve thousand troops ready to captured the fort.
Approaching the structure, we could feel the atmosphere getting cold. The still lingering green gasses floating low on the ground, getting darker each moments as the thick cloud from the ever-closing storm covered the sky.
"Well at least the rain could clean up this mess" I said to myself.
Closing in, now only a few hundred meters, we could fully feel the eerie state of this fortress. A huge ominous dark wall covered in green haze stretched out for miles, accompanied by a huge thunder on our east suddenly halted the movement of our forces.
The frightened troops stopped on its march, shaking on their boots.
'What are they afraid of, there shouldn't be anyone anymore in that fort' I muttered, trying to figured out what happened.
And that's where I see it, no... see them.
Dozen of bulky silhouette, accompanied by a couple hundreds smaller hump lined up between us and the wall. I squint my eyes, the figures standing menacingly became clearer as the green smokes cleared.
'It-it's the Terrans! T-they're still alive!?!' I screamed internally, clenching the iron bars I was holding onto.
The Terrans, on their armoursuits once again challenging our march, but there's something wrong.
Their beige colored skin has grown darker, now with black ulcers and red patches covered many of their exposed area, their once white eyes were now bloodshot like those of an ancient creature on our folklore, and where their mouths should have been, were now covered by all kind cloths with their bright red bloodstains splatred on it.
My frustration and annoyance suddenly turned to fear and horror as my blood ran cold from the realization. They... they're not alive anymore.
Me and my troops stand there for a minute, trying to process the sights we behold. The silence continued as fear crawls on our back, forcing us not to move a muscle.
Suddenly out of nowhere a blood screeching screams rang across the battlefield. The Terrans letting out a battlecry as they began to charges.
An entire legion of the undead leaping into our position with the classic noise of rockets and artillery soon followed.
"Retreat! Retreat!" I shouted, breaking the stagnant of my remaining troops.
Without wasting a second, the remaining nine thousand troops ran away from the cursed fortress. Racing back to the safety of our base.
Skipping some heartbeats I looked back, to the horror we just made.
'We didn't kill them, we just make them mad'
2023.06.10 19:26 endersgame69 Kayobi's Days Off C23
I had a wonderful life on Earth, I really, truly did. Jokes aside, the social nature of humans let me be a little eccentric and people would laugh it off, they would enjoy me for me, the few I’d gotten to know at least. You don’t find that very often on any world. In a way, this was payback. Swappers have a hard time with kindness for kindness sake, I admit. I only barely grasped it as a concept, but an equal trade? That I understood.
So when I snuck into the hospital the way I did before, I did so with intent to repay a debt and to make my life easier. I can’t very well be a proper NEET if I’m always out working and doing things for myself now, can I? No. No I can not.
Suki was lying there in her bed, the machine at her side beeping with steady slowness, her face was pallid as if she were freshly dead, her decline was steeper than I expected. Her eyes were dull, listless, unfocused.
She showed no sign of response until my hand touched hers. I hadn’t made myself visible yet. “Who…?” She spoke with difficulty, her voice was scratchy and faded.
“Are you? To stop the pain?” She asked.
“Yes.” I said, my slender fingers ran over the back of her hand, she had tape on her arm holding a little clear rubber or plastic tube of some sort down, needles in her hands, tube in her nose, to say she looked like hell would be an understatement.
“Good.” She tried to smile up at nothing. “My boy. He was here. Kayobi is doing all the work. I feel bad that I. Can’t help them. Sweet boy. Sweet girl. He will be…OK. But she seems. So lonely. But. A good neighbor. I hope she is eating. More than just snacks. Look in on her. Would you. Angel. Bless her. For me.”
I don’t know why that made me want to shed human tears right then. My lower lip trembled a little and my eyes watered over. “Open wide,” I said, and pulled open the cap on the vial, then tilted its contents into her mouth. It was tasteless stuff, but more importantly she didn’t really have to do much about it, not even swallow, it rapidly began to absorb into her body and never reached the back of her throat.
I put the vial away, and shifted into an angel’s form. Only then did I bend over and give her forehead a kiss. “You make her such good meals, you bless her plenty for both of us, human. Just… don’t let her chores get to be too much.” I said and unable to resist the urge, I reached for the little hand button to call for a nurse.
The beeping was going much, much faster now. I dont’ know what it was, but if I had to guess, it was probably her heartbeat rising to a normal pace? Her respiration was already improving. “Here. Let me help you. You won’t need this.” I said, and began to undo the tape pull the tubes free, that took a moment, and involved a fair amount of gagging and more snot than I expected.
The beeping ‘flatlined’ when the machine could no longer detect the patient, and I stroked her hair one more time. The color was coming back into her face and body, her eyes were coming slowly back into focus.
“You’ll be fine.” I said, and as the medical staff’s rushing feet drew closer, I cast my spell again, slowly turning myself invisible.
I turned my head to look at their faces this time, and winked at them as they stared, agog and disbelieving when they saw Suki Toriyama’s condition.
I stepped out of the way right enough, and… alright I couldn’t resist. [D’oog kul] I whispered the spell very quietly, and touched the backs of each of the three to come rushing in. It was just a little ‘good luck spell’ nothing ‘tremendous’ but ‘luck’ isn’t really a thing.
Luck is just a matter of probability recognition and well timed decisions. It’s just being more ‘aware’ of things and making a person’s brain more likely to make the right call as opposed to the wrong one.
How long it would last? Well it was hard to say. Maybe their whole lives, maybe only a few months? That was just dumb luck, as far as I knew, if you’ll pardon the expression. I don’t really know why I chose to do that for them, maybe because they were helping out Suki, maybe because it was just funny if it seemed to them that they’d been blessed by seeing an angel, maybe there was no reason at all.
But I left just as Suki began to sit up on her own, staring at her intact hands and weeping with uncontrollable joy as she realized she would see her son, her store, her home again.
“It was real.” She gasped with the barest of disbelieving breaths. “I thought it was just a dream, that I was just a dying fool who was hallucinating, that it was all in my head. But it was real.” I looked at the scene from the door, keeping myself undetectable. The doctors and nurse were busy looking her over, urging her to lie down and shouting things like…
“This isn’t supposed to be possible!”
“Get her into testing, we need to be sure!”
“I’m going home… I’m really going to go home…” Suki whispered and wiped her eyes and face, and I don’t know what happened after that.
I got out of the way of the door, the chaos was bringing other people over, white coats were fluttering in momentum made breezes as staff clustered around and shouted and tried to squeeze in. I suppose by then the story of the angel visiting the patient had spread, and I had to bite my arm to keep my laughter at bay until I could get out of there again.
I teleported outside my building, then up to the walkway outside my door, and then walked back in again.
Celia was dozing on the couch, a big bottle of soda was drained down to about half what it started as and the array of snacks was severely attacked. She’d even finished off an entire pizza by herself.
I looked at the screen and watched the male protagonist get dunked into some water and emerge as a pretty young girl. “Could have waited on me.” I grumbled a little, she was only two episodes in, but still.
I turned it off and went to fetch a blanket, which I then draped over her. The couch was thick and cozy, honestly I’ve fallen asleep on it many times, I knew she’d get a good night’s rest.
Tomorrow the store would be open for only a few hours, it was a national holiday, minimal work would be done, no kids would be in school, all in all, that would mean more time for pretty much… everything. And of course, more time to enjoy my lazy summer day.
I’d probably see Suki come home too, and I wouldn’t need to work the store anymore. One less thing.
“Lucky me.” I thought as I closed my bedroom door. Celia was sprawled out and starting to snore. Her human form was apparently the sleeping embodiment of a buzz saw.
No matter. I wouldn’t hear her from where I would lie curled up beneath my own covers.
I yawned, closed my eyes, and as I thought about my last day working the register at Toriyama’s… I felt, strangely enough…
Like I might miss it.
Just a little.
I hadn’t worked out why before I fell into a deep, contented sleep.
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So when I snuck into the hospital the way I did before, I did so with intent to repay a debt and to make my life easier. I can’t very well be a proper NEET if I’m always out working and doing things for myself now, can I? No. No I can not.
Suki was lying there in her bed, the machine at her side beeping with steady slowness, her face was pallid as if she were freshly dead, her decline was steeper than I expected. Her eyes were dull, listless, unfocused.
She showed no sign of response until my hand touched hers. I hadn’t made myself visible yet. “Who…?” She spoke with difficulty, her voice was scratchy and faded.
“Are you? To stop the pain?” She asked.
“Yes.” I said, my slender fingers ran over the back of her hand, she had tape on her arm holding a little clear rubber or plastic tube of some sort down, needles in her hands, tube in her nose, to say she looked like hell would be an understatement.
“Good.” She tried to smile up at nothing. “My boy. He was here. Kayobi is doing all the work. I feel bad that I. Can’t help them. Sweet boy. Sweet girl. He will be…OK. But she seems. So lonely. But. A good neighbor. I hope she is eating. More than just snacks. Look in on her. Would you. Angel. Bless her. For me.”
I don’t know why that made me want to shed human tears right then. My lower lip trembled a little and my eyes watered over. “Open wide,” I said, and pulled open the cap on the vial, then tilted its contents into her mouth. It was tasteless stuff, but more importantly she didn’t really have to do much about it, not even swallow, it rapidly began to absorb into her body and never reached the back of her throat.
I put the vial away, and shifted into an angel’s form. Only then did I bend over and give her forehead a kiss. “You make her such good meals, you bless her plenty for both of us, human. Just… don’t let her chores get to be too much.” I said and unable to resist the urge, I reached for the little hand button to call for a nurse.
The beeping was going much, much faster now. I dont’ know what it was, but if I had to guess, it was probably her heartbeat rising to a normal pace? Her respiration was already improving. “Here. Let me help you. You won’t need this.” I said, and began to undo the tape pull the tubes free, that took a moment, and involved a fair amount of gagging and more snot than I expected.
The beeping ‘flatlined’ when the machine could no longer detect the patient, and I stroked her hair one more time. The color was coming back into her face and body, her eyes were coming slowly back into focus.
“You’ll be fine.” I said, and as the medical staff’s rushing feet drew closer, I cast my spell again, slowly turning myself invisible.
I turned my head to look at their faces this time, and winked at them as they stared, agog and disbelieving when they saw Suki Toriyama’s condition.
I stepped out of the way right enough, and… alright I couldn’t resist. [D’oog kul] I whispered the spell very quietly, and touched the backs of each of the three to come rushing in. It was just a little ‘good luck spell’ nothing ‘tremendous’ but ‘luck’ isn’t really a thing.
Luck is just a matter of probability recognition and well timed decisions. It’s just being more ‘aware’ of things and making a person’s brain more likely to make the right call as opposed to the wrong one.
How long it would last? Well it was hard to say. Maybe their whole lives, maybe only a few months? That was just dumb luck, as far as I knew, if you’ll pardon the expression. I don’t really know why I chose to do that for them, maybe because they were helping out Suki, maybe because it was just funny if it seemed to them that they’d been blessed by seeing an angel, maybe there was no reason at all.
But I left just as Suki began to sit up on her own, staring at her intact hands and weeping with uncontrollable joy as she realized she would see her son, her store, her home again.
“It was real.” She gasped with the barest of disbelieving breaths. “I thought it was just a dream, that I was just a dying fool who was hallucinating, that it was all in my head. But it was real.” I looked at the scene from the door, keeping myself undetectable. The doctors and nurse were busy looking her over, urging her to lie down and shouting things like…
“This isn’t supposed to be possible!”
“Get her into testing, we need to be sure!”
“I’m going home… I’m really going to go home…” Suki whispered and wiped her eyes and face, and I don’t know what happened after that.
I got out of the way of the door, the chaos was bringing other people over, white coats were fluttering in momentum made breezes as staff clustered around and shouted and tried to squeeze in. I suppose by then the story of the angel visiting the patient had spread, and I had to bite my arm to keep my laughter at bay until I could get out of there again.
I teleported outside my building, then up to the walkway outside my door, and then walked back in again.
Celia was dozing on the couch, a big bottle of soda was drained down to about half what it started as and the array of snacks was severely attacked. She’d even finished off an entire pizza by herself.
I looked at the screen and watched the male protagonist get dunked into some water and emerge as a pretty young girl. “Could have waited on me.” I grumbled a little, she was only two episodes in, but still.
I turned it off and went to fetch a blanket, which I then draped over her. The couch was thick and cozy, honestly I’ve fallen asleep on it many times, I knew she’d get a good night’s rest.
Tomorrow the store would be open for only a few hours, it was a national holiday, minimal work would be done, no kids would be in school, all in all, that would mean more time for pretty much… everything. And of course, more time to enjoy my lazy summer day.
I’d probably see Suki come home too, and I wouldn’t need to work the store anymore. One less thing.
“Lucky me.” I thought as I closed my bedroom door. Celia was sprawled out and starting to snore. Her human form was apparently the sleeping embodiment of a buzz saw.
No matter. I wouldn’t hear her from where I would lie curled up beneath my own covers.
I yawned, closed my eyes, and as I thought about my last day working the register at Toriyama’s… I felt, strangely enough…
Like I might miss it.
Just a little.
I hadn’t worked out why before I fell into a deep, contented sleep.
2023.06.10 19:26 MidnightIcy5693 Frustrated
I know I'll be down voted, but I don't care. I play this game for comfort. I found it peaceful, an escape from the stress of life. Now there is a dark portal popping up in the Plaza and a character that we have "helped" who needs to move on, that is supposedly half of me, walking around. This portal and character are ruining the look and feel of the valley. I was fishing and this character suddenly appeared next to me and started talking... this was a miserable experience, and I really want it to stop. Hoping this character short-lived.
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2023.06.10 19:26 nibek1000 How much would a week in Sweden cost?
Hi there! In a month I'm lucky enough to visit Stockholm. I'm really excited for this trip as I wasn't able to visit there in years. But for the first time I'm traveling there with my own money so here's the question. How much Coronas do I need for comfortable stay?
For context: my gf and I would like to visit about 3 museums and rest of the time spend near the lake chilling. We would like to taste your restaurants, buy souvenirs and just not worry about money at all. I already created revolut for this trip and need a clue for prices. Anyone would like to help me estimate that?
Thank you and hopefully see you around!
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For context: my gf and I would like to visit about 3 museums and rest of the time spend near the lake chilling. We would like to taste your restaurants, buy souvenirs and just not worry about money at all. I already created revolut for this trip and need a clue for prices. Anyone would like to help me estimate that?
Thank you and hopefully see you around!
2023.06.10 19:26 KabeerS52 My GF[18] says I [18M] have no right to say a word about her parents.
We've been dating since almost 2 years, we've known each other since we were 12. She's recently fought a seemingly terminal deasese. I've recently gained control over my situation of extreme parental abuse (drunk dad who physically beat me and mom). We've both been there for each other through this.
Over the last year, through the things she tells me, I've noticed some things about her parents which bother me. and today I finally confessed it to her.
Here are the things that bother me.
1) her dad has 3 kids despite having a govt job, my GF is middle child, who is officially not their child, not on paper. Not only this thing could cause her legal issues related to her rights, but it also indicates that they are extremely conservative. How? My GF is born almost 10 years after her sister. Why? Apparently they kept trying for a baby for all that time but her mom had multiple abortions due to her being unfit for a child. But they kept on trying and finally has their 2nd child, who was also born prematurely, and yes, she had to face many deaseses, including this terminal desease. Had to live her entire childhood with restrictions.
You would think her parents would stop after barely having a second child, who is unfit and will have to face hell. But no, they went for a 3rd one, immediately. Yes, the 3rd child who is the only boy is born less than a year later.
And the reason for this I think, is obvious. They wanted a boy, and her father would rather break the law and risk the life of his wife multiple times for years, just for a boychild. (Not to mention he is born with extreme harmonal issues)
Correct me if I'm wrong but this is the first thought that comes to my mind based on the facts, please tell me if there's another possible reason.
2) After that there are other things like how he actively and verbally hates people of other religion, and is possibly also castiest, which concerns me since I'm SC.
3) Then there are other concerns like how parents have left her alone while she was in ER on fucking life support, and her parents were legit "attending a family funtion" or paying a visit to family members who lived near the hospital. But they were mostly absent.
4) They were reluctunt for letting her eat nonveg which was recommended by the doc. Especially her mom was very against it. They are vegitarians for religious reasons. Actually it's since I almost forced her to go against them and eat nonveg more often and in her house, when her issues regarding weightloss ans immunity statrted to go away.
I stated my concerns that their conservative behaviour is causing her issues and will definately become an issue when it comes to marriage (yes, we are stupid for thinking that far. But consider the ammount of suffering we have faced together, I can't imagine a life without her, and she says she feels the same. Also know that we've known each other since more than 5 years)
After I said all that, her response was "shut up". Followed by how I have no right to say anything about her parents, how she owes me zero explaination for these concerns and that her parents are always right.
If her parents are always right as she says, will she also listen to them when they tell her to stay away from me? Which they will Since I'm SC and they're hella conservative.
Not just that, she said stuff like...
They've been there for her and I haven't. This hurts because she used to call me from the ER, with a tired breathless voice, just because her parents were absent and she'd feel alone. I left everything when I used to see her call, even abandoned college classes in the middle, basically leaft anthing at hand once I saw her call. Now she's saying I haven't been there for her?
When I found out her desease was terminal, I legit went dark for 20 days, Didn't go to college, didn't see anyone except my parents maybe once a day. Stayed locked in my room trying to scour through all the 100s of pages research papers which were so hard to find it since it was a rare desease and most of the patients were above 65. It's a lung desease which was said to be 100% fatal. I stayed up all nights, made a mess of my own health while doing so, until I came accros a study, which showed only 5 patients in the entire world, who susrvived, all were minors, I figured the desease is said to be fatal because it mainly attacks old people and they don't have any regen power in their lungs. But a 17 year old girl's lungs are constantly growing, she should survive this.
I gave her hope, that alone improved her health from needing support to walk to jumping around in just one day. I forced her to get more involved in her medical process and make the doctor give her curative care instead of end-of-life support like her parents wanted. and it worked, she went to a doctor in Pune and the retests showed she's curing that desease (which is impossible on paper).
In this process, I lost 15 kgs of my weight and the will to eat anything due to severe deppression. I still haven't recovered from the physical impact. After all of this, she compleatly discredits me and my concerns, says I wasn't there for her and all that.
I feel deeply hurt.
I legit feel like I'm nothing to her, I feel like she always thought like this about me.
In her defense. She's a mature person and doesn't have traditional or conservative thoughts, neither does she seem all that proud of her parent's being so conservative. So I know she doesn't share her parent's thoughts. she was never like this, NEVER. And maybe this isn't the person in her talking, maybe she just said this because she got triggered, I understand many Indians are conditioned to blindly trust their parents and never question them, so I'm not sure if I blame her.
What should I do?
Please don't start teasing about age, we're not nibba-nibbi. We've both supported each other through life threatening situation. I have got physically injured due to family fights, have had to lock myself in a room for days with my mom to fend from my dad. Been forced to spit on my own mom, hit her with a sandal and other types of torture. she has had to face extreme pain and illness all her life, had to witness a rape and murder as a pre-teen, been through therapy. So please understand our bond is really strong after we've been through all this. This relationship is serious.
TL:DR GF's parents show extreme signs of being conservative and casuing a problem for us. GF gets hella triggered and says I have no right to talk about them, they are always right and she owes me no explaination regarding this. I feel undervalued and basically got shut up for stating my concerns.
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Over the last year, through the things she tells me, I've noticed some things about her parents which bother me. and today I finally confessed it to her.
Here are the things that bother me.
1) her dad has 3 kids despite having a govt job, my GF is middle child, who is officially not their child, not on paper. Not only this thing could cause her legal issues related to her rights, but it also indicates that they are extremely conservative. How? My GF is born almost 10 years after her sister. Why? Apparently they kept trying for a baby for all that time but her mom had multiple abortions due to her being unfit for a child. But they kept on trying and finally has their 2nd child, who was also born prematurely, and yes, she had to face many deaseses, including this terminal desease. Had to live her entire childhood with restrictions.
You would think her parents would stop after barely having a second child, who is unfit and will have to face hell. But no, they went for a 3rd one, immediately. Yes, the 3rd child who is the only boy is born less than a year later.
And the reason for this I think, is obvious. They wanted a boy, and her father would rather break the law and risk the life of his wife multiple times for years, just for a boychild. (Not to mention he is born with extreme harmonal issues)
Correct me if I'm wrong but this is the first thought that comes to my mind based on the facts, please tell me if there's another possible reason.
2) After that there are other things like how he actively and verbally hates people of other religion, and is possibly also castiest, which concerns me since I'm SC.
3) Then there are other concerns like how parents have left her alone while she was in ER on fucking life support, and her parents were legit "attending a family funtion" or paying a visit to family members who lived near the hospital. But they were mostly absent.
4) They were reluctunt for letting her eat nonveg which was recommended by the doc. Especially her mom was very against it. They are vegitarians for religious reasons. Actually it's since I almost forced her to go against them and eat nonveg more often and in her house, when her issues regarding weightloss ans immunity statrted to go away.
I stated my concerns that their conservative behaviour is causing her issues and will definately become an issue when it comes to marriage (yes, we are stupid for thinking that far. But consider the ammount of suffering we have faced together, I can't imagine a life without her, and she says she feels the same. Also know that we've known each other since more than 5 years)
After I said all that, her response was "shut up". Followed by how I have no right to say anything about her parents, how she owes me zero explaination for these concerns and that her parents are always right.
If her parents are always right as she says, will she also listen to them when they tell her to stay away from me? Which they will Since I'm SC and they're hella conservative.
Not just that, she said stuff like...
They've been there for her and I haven't. This hurts because she used to call me from the ER, with a tired breathless voice, just because her parents were absent and she'd feel alone. I left everything when I used to see her call, even abandoned college classes in the middle, basically leaft anthing at hand once I saw her call. Now she's saying I haven't been there for her?
When I found out her desease was terminal, I legit went dark for 20 days, Didn't go to college, didn't see anyone except my parents maybe once a day. Stayed locked in my room trying to scour through all the 100s of pages research papers which were so hard to find it since it was a rare desease and most of the patients were above 65. It's a lung desease which was said to be 100% fatal. I stayed up all nights, made a mess of my own health while doing so, until I came accros a study, which showed only 5 patients in the entire world, who susrvived, all were minors, I figured the desease is said to be fatal because it mainly attacks old people and they don't have any regen power in their lungs. But a 17 year old girl's lungs are constantly growing, she should survive this.
I gave her hope, that alone improved her health from needing support to walk to jumping around in just one day. I forced her to get more involved in her medical process and make the doctor give her curative care instead of end-of-life support like her parents wanted. and it worked, she went to a doctor in Pune and the retests showed she's curing that desease (which is impossible on paper).
In this process, I lost 15 kgs of my weight and the will to eat anything due to severe deppression. I still haven't recovered from the physical impact. After all of this, she compleatly discredits me and my concerns, says I wasn't there for her and all that.
I feel deeply hurt.
I legit feel like I'm nothing to her, I feel like she always thought like this about me.
In her defense. She's a mature person and doesn't have traditional or conservative thoughts, neither does she seem all that proud of her parent's being so conservative. So I know she doesn't share her parent's thoughts. she was never like this, NEVER. And maybe this isn't the person in her talking, maybe she just said this because she got triggered, I understand many Indians are conditioned to blindly trust their parents and never question them, so I'm not sure if I blame her.
What should I do?
Please don't start teasing about age, we're not nibba-nibbi. We've both supported each other through life threatening situation. I have got physically injured due to family fights, have had to lock myself in a room for days with my mom to fend from my dad. Been forced to spit on my own mom, hit her with a sandal and other types of torture. she has had to face extreme pain and illness all her life, had to witness a rape and murder as a pre-teen, been through therapy. So please understand our bond is really strong after we've been through all this. This relationship is serious.
TL:DR GF's parents show extreme signs of being conservative and casuing a problem for us. GF gets hella triggered and says I have no right to talk about them, they are always right and she owes me no explaination regarding this. I feel undervalued and basically got shut up for stating my concerns.
2023.06.10 19:26 Hazelnutpanda My Best Friend Made Me Cried On My Birthday
I have a best friend who I’m going to called Leo for privacy.
A few days before my birthday I found out some devastating news that has shook my whole world and completely once again change my world for the worse. I found out about this news awhile we were at the gym together and they were heartbroken for me. After we left the gym we didn’t talk much for whole evening because I was in my feelings dealing with a lot of emotions about my future.
Because of this crazy situation that just happened I’m unemployed and Leo decided to form a plan on how to cheer me up. They when ahead and asked me if we could have a picnic for my birthday.
And I said yeah ofc
So the day of birthday comes this bitch bought a cake drinks all I brought was ice and sandwiches and they even bought me gifts.
We chat, we laughed and they told me to close my eyes and me swore I did and I ofc swore on my mums life and their life I did lmao
They proceeded to light up some candles and play Stevie wonders happy birthday song I was in awe by this person love and pure endearing hard work they have put together just to make me laugh and smile again just to make me forget about my awful reality.
I mentioned to Leo once that when I was young I used to drink an specific fizzy drink (soda) and that I would do anything to have one again neither to said this bitch is a witch they manage to find the bloody drink and surprise me with it keep in mind this drink was a special drink my father used buy me before he left my mum and I.
So when I tell you I was shocked and emotional I truly was.
I cried a bit in front of them but when I got home I started to sobbing because I’ve never had anyone do something like this for me
I love them so much if you have someone like this in your life please hug them for me and tell them how special they are to you because time is a thief.
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A few days before my birthday I found out some devastating news that has shook my whole world and completely once again change my world for the worse. I found out about this news awhile we were at the gym together and they were heartbroken for me. After we left the gym we didn’t talk much for whole evening because I was in my feelings dealing with a lot of emotions about my future.
Because of this crazy situation that just happened I’m unemployed and Leo decided to form a plan on how to cheer me up. They when ahead and asked me if we could have a picnic for my birthday.
And I said yeah ofc
So the day of birthday comes this bitch bought a cake drinks all I brought was ice and sandwiches and they even bought me gifts.
We chat, we laughed and they told me to close my eyes and me swore I did and I ofc swore on my mums life and their life I did lmao
They proceeded to light up some candles and play Stevie wonders happy birthday song I was in awe by this person love and pure endearing hard work they have put together just to make me laugh and smile again just to make me forget about my awful reality.
I mentioned to Leo once that when I was young I used to drink an specific fizzy drink (soda) and that I would do anything to have one again neither to said this bitch is a witch they manage to find the bloody drink and surprise me with it keep in mind this drink was a special drink my father used buy me before he left my mum and I.
So when I tell you I was shocked and emotional I truly was.
I cried a bit in front of them but when I got home I started to sobbing because I’ve never had anyone do something like this for me
I love them so much if you have someone like this in your life please hug them for me and tell them how special they are to you because time is a thief.
2023.06.10 19:26 endersgame69 Adopted By Humans VII C23
Something about the idea that Lisa and Bonny Red might be in any kind of regular communication was… I don’t know. Disturbing. If I had to say it was comparable to anything I knew, the only near example was finding out that Fauve was hiding harassment from [Wolfbeard’s] friends and associates. That’s not even quite right, but… it was just the idea that there was some talk in reference to me that was absent me was just… strange.
Like a vague ominous feeling, almost like a conversation in another language that I don’t speak, spoken in my presence with expressions and gestures hinting that it was about me specifically that the discussion was being had.
It was probably nothing, and I dismissed my own thoughts on the matter, one thing I noticed about the females of both species is that it is sometimes difficult to quite comprehend their thoughts from the male perspective. Disturbing as this instance might have been, on the whole, I found that difference between the sexes to be almost refreshing.
There is something to be said for mystery, for having company that is apart from one’s self. Which does bring me to one other small point about the xenophobes that rose and fell. Their male membership on the whole seemed to hold the females of their species in the highest contempt. The very fact that Fauve was a woman, well, a young girl, was held against her.
In a way, a defining feature of these extremists was that everything had to march in lockstep together, else it had to be subdued or destroyed. In all the reports I read, in all the stories told to me by those who raided their headquarters and training centers and other lairs, only a handful of women found positions of note in their organization. This wasn’t to say no women agreed with these men, but they were all but locked out of participation in any direct manner, more than a few evidently had evidence of abuse on their person.
In a very real sense, the ability to thrive in this world now, was intrinsically tied to our ability to engage in that which made us differ from one another, between our species and our sexes alike, we were happier in just being ourselves.
I doubted xenophobes were ever very happy for very long.
I remained at her apartment that night after a quick call to the Walkers to let them know what I was doing, I still had work to do of course, even though I had AI management tools to do most of the day to day administration of my organizations, I still had to actually handle approvals, but since everything was mobile now, more or less, I could work from damn near anywhere.
I’d borrow some talent from the Barnum Cooperation to handle things while I was away, of course. At least for the last few weeks once we got to our destination.
But until then, this was super easy, barely an inconvenience, as the humans are fond of saying.
Of course, Lisa had questions about what the reason was for me going away. She asked me that, later, and I stretched out and answered her as truthfully as I could. “I can’t really tell you that.”
She cocked her head and raised her eyebrow at me as if to say, ‘Really? After all this?’
So I elaborated, “It’s one of those kinds of things. I’d rather not be a criminal on two worlds, you know. It’s bad enough that somebody on my homeworld has decided I need to be ‘expended’.”
That had her attention. “What’s that?” She asked, why I was leaving was now a secondary concern to her.
Honestly, thinking about it in retrospect, I should have been a lot more afraid than I was. After all, getting rid of ‘problems’ was as humans say ‘par for the course’ for a lot of governments. I had my suspicions about the Earth government’s quashing of the Earth First movement being even more obscure and black operated than I already knew about in the Silent Civil War. Not that I could prove anything, and if I’m being honest, after what they wanted to do to my humans, not that I cared.
It’s a universal truth of all governments that when it comes to their security, they do not mess around, and disruptive elements tend to get some form of unpleasant treatment, even in a near utopian or utopia aspiring state. There’s always something unpleasant in the foundations that nobody sees. How much moreso in the dystopian world of Dlamias?
Bonny Red and her crew were all meant to die in the void, I, had I not gone a different route, would have been offworld for centuries and not brought back until I was old and set in my ways and easily compliant. Even my sister, who more or less slipped under their radar, was put into a job where she would have her spirit essentially eroded.
I don’t know about our father, but as for our mother, I will only say I had little hope that she was living any better now than she was before.
So I took this understanding that I was now an ‘undesirable’ in stride. Not to be overly dramatic, I am not saying my whole government was after me, just that somewhere a bureaucrat decided that it would be better if I were chosen for more ‘dangerous tasks’ and that if something happened to me, things might be ‘safer’ overall. As far as I knew, nobody had been sent to eliminate me personally, though if a team were sent to get in my way eventually, that wouldn’t be a shock.
I looked over at Lisa and my ears all drooped as I explained all that, “You’re not going to have to worry, you’re not in any danger. But… my people have focused on stability for so long that disruptive elements are ‘pruned’. We’re not as crude as humans… as far as I know. I don’t have to worry about being,” I made air quotes, “black bagged, and disappearing into a shallow grave somewhere. It just means that I can start expecting my government to start making more dangerous requests of me until something happens. It’s a very practical way to get rid of trouble, especially since they can’t exile me while I’m elsewhere already anyway.” I huffed, I had to laugh at the situation, I could picture the conversation now…
“Can we exile him?”
“He’s doing this from another planet already, what are we going to do, double exile him?”
“That’s… shocking. I’m… I didn’t know your people could be like that.” Lisa seemed genuinely shocked and the sheets rustled as she brought her knees up to her chest, a genuinely worried look settled on her face.
“We didn’t become the strongest Empire in the galaxy because we’re gentle.” I said and put my hand on her shoulder, “It will be fine. I doubt they’ll do anything overt, I have a practical usefulness to two different governments right now, it’s just one of them is willing to risk losing me. Change is… well it’s hard for us sometimes, and I’ve been introducing a lot of it.”
“So you’re like a scientist bringing technology to the stone age and being declared a witch.” Lisa declared, it was an apt analogy that I would think about quite a lot as time went on. For all my people’s advances, we missed the very idea of therapy and psychiatric treatment, and I still hadn’t forgotten the team of therapists who so bluntly diagnosed my species in a general sense.
In a very real sense, by bringing my people happiness, a concept of wellness, even for all the clear and obvious good it was doing across the board, I might as well be a witch bringing unknown magics to a primitive and superstitious, anxious people.
If I may speculate for a moment, I have seen that humans who struggle most, often mistrust happiness, finding it to be suspicious, waiting for the other shoe to drop, as if happiness is just a setup for the pain to come. As I thought about Livingston, joyless, direct, having nothing but his work… how must it been for him when he first bonded with a human and found that someone genuinely cared for his wellbeing?
Maybe what made me an outlier was that I wasn’t suspicious of happiness, but embraced it, while many of my species, once they found it, didn’t know what to do with it and treated it as a danger. Maybe… Maybe I have grown, just a little.
As I’d let go of my bitterness about what our ancestors did to us, I felt no bitterness or anger toward the nameless background figure who decided my life is best spent at risk. He, like so many others, was so afraid of being taken in by contentment, that he wouldn’t be taken out of whatever darkness held him back. They were clinging to their chains even while I worked to cut them.
That was something to be sad about, more than anything else.
Lisa brightened up. “Well then, if you’re a wicked witch, how about you cast one more spell over me.” She teased, and then her face went blank and eyes unfocused. “Your hypnosis spell hits with a D20, your target is now hypnotized, what do you do now?”
I rolled my eyes, she could never take anything too seriously, even death or danger. It’s no wonder I like humans as much as I do. Even half dead they’re more alive than most of my whole damn species. So…
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Like a vague ominous feeling, almost like a conversation in another language that I don’t speak, spoken in my presence with expressions and gestures hinting that it was about me specifically that the discussion was being had.
It was probably nothing, and I dismissed my own thoughts on the matter, one thing I noticed about the females of both species is that it is sometimes difficult to quite comprehend their thoughts from the male perspective. Disturbing as this instance might have been, on the whole, I found that difference between the sexes to be almost refreshing.
There is something to be said for mystery, for having company that is apart from one’s self. Which does bring me to one other small point about the xenophobes that rose and fell. Their male membership on the whole seemed to hold the females of their species in the highest contempt. The very fact that Fauve was a woman, well, a young girl, was held against her.
In a way, a defining feature of these extremists was that everything had to march in lockstep together, else it had to be subdued or destroyed. In all the reports I read, in all the stories told to me by those who raided their headquarters and training centers and other lairs, only a handful of women found positions of note in their organization. This wasn’t to say no women agreed with these men, but they were all but locked out of participation in any direct manner, more than a few evidently had evidence of abuse on their person.
In a very real sense, the ability to thrive in this world now, was intrinsically tied to our ability to engage in that which made us differ from one another, between our species and our sexes alike, we were happier in just being ourselves.
I doubted xenophobes were ever very happy for very long.
I remained at her apartment that night after a quick call to the Walkers to let them know what I was doing, I still had work to do of course, even though I had AI management tools to do most of the day to day administration of my organizations, I still had to actually handle approvals, but since everything was mobile now, more or less, I could work from damn near anywhere.
I’d borrow some talent from the Barnum Cooperation to handle things while I was away, of course. At least for the last few weeks once we got to our destination.
But until then, this was super easy, barely an inconvenience, as the humans are fond of saying.
Of course, Lisa had questions about what the reason was for me going away. She asked me that, later, and I stretched out and answered her as truthfully as I could. “I can’t really tell you that.”
She cocked her head and raised her eyebrow at me as if to say, ‘Really? After all this?’
So I elaborated, “It’s one of those kinds of things. I’d rather not be a criminal on two worlds, you know. It’s bad enough that somebody on my homeworld has decided I need to be ‘expended’.”
That had her attention. “What’s that?” She asked, why I was leaving was now a secondary concern to her.
Honestly, thinking about it in retrospect, I should have been a lot more afraid than I was. After all, getting rid of ‘problems’ was as humans say ‘par for the course’ for a lot of governments. I had my suspicions about the Earth government’s quashing of the Earth First movement being even more obscure and black operated than I already knew about in the Silent Civil War. Not that I could prove anything, and if I’m being honest, after what they wanted to do to my humans, not that I cared.
It’s a universal truth of all governments that when it comes to their security, they do not mess around, and disruptive elements tend to get some form of unpleasant treatment, even in a near utopian or utopia aspiring state. There’s always something unpleasant in the foundations that nobody sees. How much moreso in the dystopian world of Dlamias?
Bonny Red and her crew were all meant to die in the void, I, had I not gone a different route, would have been offworld for centuries and not brought back until I was old and set in my ways and easily compliant. Even my sister, who more or less slipped under their radar, was put into a job where she would have her spirit essentially eroded.
I don’t know about our father, but as for our mother, I will only say I had little hope that she was living any better now than she was before.
So I took this understanding that I was now an ‘undesirable’ in stride. Not to be overly dramatic, I am not saying my whole government was after me, just that somewhere a bureaucrat decided that it would be better if I were chosen for more ‘dangerous tasks’ and that if something happened to me, things might be ‘safer’ overall. As far as I knew, nobody had been sent to eliminate me personally, though if a team were sent to get in my way eventually, that wouldn’t be a shock.
I looked over at Lisa and my ears all drooped as I explained all that, “You’re not going to have to worry, you’re not in any danger. But… my people have focused on stability for so long that disruptive elements are ‘pruned’. We’re not as crude as humans… as far as I know. I don’t have to worry about being,” I made air quotes, “black bagged, and disappearing into a shallow grave somewhere. It just means that I can start expecting my government to start making more dangerous requests of me until something happens. It’s a very practical way to get rid of trouble, especially since they can’t exile me while I’m elsewhere already anyway.” I huffed, I had to laugh at the situation, I could picture the conversation now…
“Can we exile him?”
“He’s doing this from another planet already, what are we going to do, double exile him?”
“That’s… shocking. I’m… I didn’t know your people could be like that.” Lisa seemed genuinely shocked and the sheets rustled as she brought her knees up to her chest, a genuinely worried look settled on her face.
“We didn’t become the strongest Empire in the galaxy because we’re gentle.” I said and put my hand on her shoulder, “It will be fine. I doubt they’ll do anything overt, I have a practical usefulness to two different governments right now, it’s just one of them is willing to risk losing me. Change is… well it’s hard for us sometimes, and I’ve been introducing a lot of it.”
“So you’re like a scientist bringing technology to the stone age and being declared a witch.” Lisa declared, it was an apt analogy that I would think about quite a lot as time went on. For all my people’s advances, we missed the very idea of therapy and psychiatric treatment, and I still hadn’t forgotten the team of therapists who so bluntly diagnosed my species in a general sense.
In a very real sense, by bringing my people happiness, a concept of wellness, even for all the clear and obvious good it was doing across the board, I might as well be a witch bringing unknown magics to a primitive and superstitious, anxious people.
If I may speculate for a moment, I have seen that humans who struggle most, often mistrust happiness, finding it to be suspicious, waiting for the other shoe to drop, as if happiness is just a setup for the pain to come. As I thought about Livingston, joyless, direct, having nothing but his work… how must it been for him when he first bonded with a human and found that someone genuinely cared for his wellbeing?
Maybe what made me an outlier was that I wasn’t suspicious of happiness, but embraced it, while many of my species, once they found it, didn’t know what to do with it and treated it as a danger. Maybe… Maybe I have grown, just a little.
As I’d let go of my bitterness about what our ancestors did to us, I felt no bitterness or anger toward the nameless background figure who decided my life is best spent at risk. He, like so many others, was so afraid of being taken in by contentment, that he wouldn’t be taken out of whatever darkness held him back. They were clinging to their chains even while I worked to cut them.
That was something to be sad about, more than anything else.
Lisa brightened up. “Well then, if you’re a wicked witch, how about you cast one more spell over me.” She teased, and then her face went blank and eyes unfocused. “Your hypnosis spell hits with a D20, your target is now hypnotized, what do you do now?”
I rolled my eyes, she could never take anything too seriously, even death or danger. It’s no wonder I like humans as much as I do. Even half dead they’re more alive than most of my whole damn species. So…
[Redacted]
2023.06.10 19:25 YungJDubz420 Dealer tells me issues on my new car isn't covered
I purchased a 2022 Honda Civic from a dealership in Southern California last March. I live in Norther California so I have been the car serviced at another dealership nearby my place. Couple months ago, a warning for adaptive cruise control failure popped up on my dashboard and has been there since then. Since I never use the cruise control, I figured I'd just wait till I get my car serviced again to get it checked out.
My car recently hit 15000 miles so last week I took my car in for service (oil change) and was told that the express service guys can't help me look at the problem with the cruise control so the adviser scheduled a regular service for me this Saturday. After the express service last week, I was told that my rear shock absorbers are leaking also and they will look at it when I bring it in today.
I brought my car to the dealer to get it checked out today, and was told that the rear shock absorbers that's leaking don't fall under the warranty. I asked the adviser that since the part isn't supposed to fail within a year and half and 15000 miles why is it not covered? I was essentially told that since the part isn't supposed to fail that quickly I must have done something to break it so it isn't covered. By that logic what is the point of having warranty? If any part fails they can just cliam "oh it isn't supposed to fail so you must have done something and borke it:"
For issue with the adaptive cruise control, they told me that they need to do a diagnostics to figure out which part is causing the issue. If the part that's causing the issue falls under warrnty and they'll fix it for free. If not, they are going to charge me $210 for just the diagnostics alone.
I was also told that the extended warranty I had purchased from the from the SoCal dealership is through a third party and that third party isn't a partner with the NorCal Honda so it's basically useless.
I left my car at the dealership to do the diagnostics and I am waitinfg for them to call me back. I am just so frustrated with this whole situation and I need some advice on how I should proceed. If they call me back and tells me the part that is causing the adaptive cruise control to fail doesn't fall under warranty what should I do? Also what can I do about the whole third party extended warranty situation?
I apologize for the long post and any help is appreciated!
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My car recently hit 15000 miles so last week I took my car in for service (oil change) and was told that the express service guys can't help me look at the problem with the cruise control so the adviser scheduled a regular service for me this Saturday. After the express service last week, I was told that my rear shock absorbers are leaking also and they will look at it when I bring it in today.
I brought my car to the dealer to get it checked out today, and was told that the rear shock absorbers that's leaking don't fall under the warranty. I asked the adviser that since the part isn't supposed to fail within a year and half and 15000 miles why is it not covered? I was essentially told that since the part isn't supposed to fail that quickly I must have done something to break it so it isn't covered. By that logic what is the point of having warranty? If any part fails they can just cliam "oh it isn't supposed to fail so you must have done something and borke it:"
For issue with the adaptive cruise control, they told me that they need to do a diagnostics to figure out which part is causing the issue. If the part that's causing the issue falls under warrnty and they'll fix it for free. If not, they are going to charge me $210 for just the diagnostics alone.
I was also told that the extended warranty I had purchased from the from the SoCal dealership is through a third party and that third party isn't a partner with the NorCal Honda so it's basically useless.
I left my car at the dealership to do the diagnostics and I am waitinfg for them to call me back. I am just so frustrated with this whole situation and I need some advice on how I should proceed. If they call me back and tells me the part that is causing the adaptive cruise control to fail doesn't fall under warranty what should I do? Also what can I do about the whole third party extended warranty situation?
I apologize for the long post and any help is appreciated!
2023.06.10 19:25 jennaatails Makes no sense
I finished a whole can of whipped cream and not once did i feel guilty or worried about the calories, but had a quarter of a bagel the other day and it’s still haunting me, make it make sense!
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2023.06.10 19:25 TruecrimeRealityLuv New here
I’m still really unsure of myself. I came out as asexual last year. I’m a woman and I’ve been married to a wonderful man for nearly a decade. I’ve always had relationships with men and felt I needed to please them. Once having sex I enjoyed it (I assume physiological result) but thinking about starting or sometimes even during I want it to be over. I haven’t had sex in probably 3 years. I stopped counting after I came out. Sorry if my thoughts are a bit jumbled.. I’m just wondering if anyone else has experienced this? I’m attracted to women and always have been but was confused because I don’t want to have sex with them. I’m realizing now that I’ve never wanted to have sex with anyone but have been following what I thought I should (please a/your man). Am I asexual? I love my husband, sometimes I want a kiss but he’s still so sensitive about me “not being attracted to him”. He gets upset sometimes and I just have to walk away. He admits that he’d rather be with me than without and I feel the same. Thoughts???
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2023.06.10 19:25 JimiChangazz Question from a noob…
Can anybody tell me what’s the benefit of all the dungeons levelling up with you so that no matter what they’re always at your level?
I prefer the idea of dungeons being at a set level and if I want to level up until I can blast through them then that’s up to me. Of course the experience you get would be relative to how difficult it was. I’m thinking of the WoW model because that’s my only reference.
I’m sure there’s a good reason for this, just wondering what it is. Makes it seem pointless for me to level up if the whole world is always at whatever level I am.
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I prefer the idea of dungeons being at a set level and if I want to level up until I can blast through them then that’s up to me. Of course the experience you get would be relative to how difficult it was. I’m thinking of the WoW model because that’s my only reference.
I’m sure there’s a good reason for this, just wondering what it is. Makes it seem pointless for me to level up if the whole world is always at whatever level I am.
2023.06.10 19:25 greencatz412 Dating 5 years and bfs son doesn’t want my 14 daughter at his graduation dinner.
My bf of 5 years has a senior in high school who is having a graduation dinner next week. I was invited but my bfs mom said something to me about seeing me at graduation. I asked my bf and he said I was invited, but that my daughter was not. For context the kids have known each other for 4 years and have hung out periodically. Never consistently and never really got along. Mine would bring a book over and choose to disengage rather than talk and recently the 17 yr old was here to do some fishing with his dad and my daughter said hello from the yard, but wouldn’t get up and declined dinner out after. So I understand his sons feelings. However, the son made it clear he wanted me at his dinner. I am kind and chit chat with his son. I am uncertain what to do. Do I go to the dinner and hope my daughter has plans ? Or not go bc we both were not invited ?
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2023.06.10 19:24 white_bloodcells I cut off my best friend
So I was best friends with someone for almost 5 years. She would often jokingly insult me, comment about things she knew I was insecure about. For example, she would comment about my clothes, how an old lady would wear it, even commented about my body (my ankles were fat, my teeth were small, my voice was high piched or my laugh). She admitted, multiple times how she knew and like manipulating people.
She would even "jokingly" hit me, for example on the arms and shoulders, and I would sometimes have bruises because of her. I tried multiple times to explain to her how it hurt me and that I didn't like those comments, but she didn't understand at all so I would just be mad at her and wouldn't talk to her a couple of days hoping she would realise how hurt I was. At one point we were hanging out with another girl, who didn't really like me and exaggerated a scenario saying to my friend (over texts) a different scenario than what actually happened. My friend then send me screenshots of the conversation and told me "look what __said about you!" , in which she (my friend) was saying how I was insecure about my facial expressions and that people often judged me about it, and what I would randomly ghost her with no reason for a couple days multiple times and to just ignore me (all this time we were in highschool). She was also friends with another girl who really hated me, made up lies about me and talked bad about me. I confronted my friend one time about it and she said that she wouldn't fight with the girl just because I didn't like her. The girl attacked me (not physically) in front of the whole class one time but my friend didn't even try to defend me. I felt very alone but she was my only best friend, and we were practically sisters.
After we enrolled in college (we chose very different professions) she would make fun of my proffesion and say how she would make a lot more money than me, and would be really aggressive about it. She would also say how she liked copying me in everything, which she really did, mostly about clothes, all the time. A couple of months ago I stopped talking to her, every time she messaged me I said how I was busy studying and didn't have time for talking. She never in those 5 years apologised to me for anything she said to me. I'm also scared that she talked bad about me to my other friend who I recently introduced her to, because she is now avoiding me. They both know a lot of secrets about me, and It could ruin my reputation if it got out (i really do regret it). I now have 0 friends,and I feel really lonely because it's so hard to fit in this society and people think I'm weird. I really miss her and am wondering if I should have done something different, because it's too late now to reach out to her.
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She would even "jokingly" hit me, for example on the arms and shoulders, and I would sometimes have bruises because of her. I tried multiple times to explain to her how it hurt me and that I didn't like those comments, but she didn't understand at all so I would just be mad at her and wouldn't talk to her a couple of days hoping she would realise how hurt I was. At one point we were hanging out with another girl, who didn't really like me and exaggerated a scenario saying to my friend (over texts) a different scenario than what actually happened. My friend then send me screenshots of the conversation and told me "look what __said about you!" , in which she (my friend) was saying how I was insecure about my facial expressions and that people often judged me about it, and what I would randomly ghost her with no reason for a couple days multiple times and to just ignore me (all this time we were in highschool). She was also friends with another girl who really hated me, made up lies about me and talked bad about me. I confronted my friend one time about it and she said that she wouldn't fight with the girl just because I didn't like her. The girl attacked me (not physically) in front of the whole class one time but my friend didn't even try to defend me. I felt very alone but she was my only best friend, and we were practically sisters.
After we enrolled in college (we chose very different professions) she would make fun of my proffesion and say how she would make a lot more money than me, and would be really aggressive about it. She would also say how she liked copying me in everything, which she really did, mostly about clothes, all the time. A couple of months ago I stopped talking to her, every time she messaged me I said how I was busy studying and didn't have time for talking. She never in those 5 years apologised to me for anything she said to me. I'm also scared that she talked bad about me to my other friend who I recently introduced her to, because she is now avoiding me. They both know a lot of secrets about me, and It could ruin my reputation if it got out (i really do regret it). I now have 0 friends,and I feel really lonely because it's so hard to fit in this society and people think I'm weird. I really miss her and am wondering if I should have done something different, because it's too late now to reach out to her.
2023.06.10 19:24 brookeskitties What Draws Us Near - Review
What Draws Us Near is an anthology edited by Keith Cadieux and Adam Petrash and published by Little Ghosts Books.
I’m still new to writing reviews, and anthologies are especially tricky since every story deserves its own review.
This collection of scary stories is varied and unique. All of the stories give you that wonderful “I’m safe at home but also terrified” feeling.
My favourite stories were Semi-Detached by Suzette Mayr, Garden of Guiding Eyes and Grabbing Bones by Ai Jiang, and Marin: A Good Place to Live by Susie Moloney.
Semi-Detached tells the story of moving in together too soon and the stress that home ownership can put on a relationship. The ending was shocking and terrifying.
Garden of Guiding Eyes and Grabbing Bones is a story about being trapped and trying to escape. Though the story is short, I was rooting for the main character to get their deserved freedom.
Marin: A Good Place to Live is a tale of something too good to be true. It honestly gave me Goosebumps vibes in the best possible way.
If you like horror short stories, this anthology is a must read.
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I’m still new to writing reviews, and anthologies are especially tricky since every story deserves its own review.
This collection of scary stories is varied and unique. All of the stories give you that wonderful “I’m safe at home but also terrified” feeling.
My favourite stories were Semi-Detached by Suzette Mayr, Garden of Guiding Eyes and Grabbing Bones by Ai Jiang, and Marin: A Good Place to Live by Susie Moloney.
Semi-Detached tells the story of moving in together too soon and the stress that home ownership can put on a relationship. The ending was shocking and terrifying.
Garden of Guiding Eyes and Grabbing Bones is a story about being trapped and trying to escape. Though the story is short, I was rooting for the main character to get their deserved freedom.
Marin: A Good Place to Live is a tale of something too good to be true. It honestly gave me Goosebumps vibes in the best possible way.
If you like horror short stories, this anthology is a must read.
2023.06.10 19:24 ImQsq [WTS] BM Ritter Mini Grip, Boker Kalashnikov, Ridge Wallet, Metonboss Top
Hey KS!
Timestamp/pics: https://imgur.com/a/Mzgu0B2
Got a few items for your consideration. You know the rules, so feel free to skip to the goods. If not...
YOLO > PMs and chats
PPFF with NO NOTES in the comments section
Prices include shipping to the CONUS only
No international shipping even if you're willing to pay for it
The GOODS...
Take $5 off for each additional item purchased. If someone wants the whole bundle, I can do $325 shipped!
Benchmade 558-1401 Ritter Mini Griptilian SV: $225
No idea how to price this one as this an older and rare model before Ritter went to Hogue. I've polled the Benchmade subreddit group and got a value of $225. So let's start there and see where it goes. Like new condition with no scratches on the m390 blade or pocket clip. Includes box and baggie.
Boker Kalashnikov SV: $35
Not much to say on this one. Like new condition. Wanted to try an auto and it's not for me. No box, just the knife
Ridge Wallet SV: $50
Cool wallet, but a little small for me. Bought it from a member on the edcexchange. It was lightly carried by him and I carried it for a week. Still in great condition. Includes the box and the tool.
Metonboss Top SV: $50
Another edcexchange catch and release. I honestly know nothing about these. Bought it to fidget with in the office and never did. So it just sat in my drawer. It was sold to me as metonboss, but I can't confirm or deny. No scratches that I can see. Includes bag.
Thanks for looking!
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Timestamp/pics: https://imgur.com/a/Mzgu0B2
Got a few items for your consideration. You know the rules, so feel free to skip to the goods. If not...
YOLO > PMs and chats
PPFF with NO NOTES in the comments section
Prices include shipping to the CONUS only
No international shipping even if you're willing to pay for it
The GOODS...
Take $5 off for each additional item purchased. If someone wants the whole bundle, I can do $325 shipped!
Benchmade 558-1401 Ritter Mini Griptilian SV: $225
No idea how to price this one as this an older and rare model before Ritter went to Hogue. I've polled the Benchmade subreddit group and got a value of $225. So let's start there and see where it goes. Like new condition with no scratches on the m390 blade or pocket clip. Includes box and baggie.
Boker Kalashnikov SV: $35
Not much to say on this one. Like new condition. Wanted to try an auto and it's not for me. No box, just the knife
Ridge Wallet SV: $50
Cool wallet, but a little small for me. Bought it from a member on the edcexchange. It was lightly carried by him and I carried it for a week. Still in great condition. Includes the box and the tool.
Metonboss Top SV: $50
Another edcexchange catch and release. I honestly know nothing about these. Bought it to fidget with in the office and never did. So it just sat in my drawer. It was sold to me as metonboss, but I can't confirm or deny. No scratches that I can see. Includes bag.
Thanks for looking!
2023.06.10 19:24 Joshua_channel I saw this creepy apartment near me.
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2023.06.10 19:24 Skewed21 Why You Never DM For a Group of Highschoolers
before we start here are the names I will use for the people in my story
experienced player= warlock new player 1 = paladin new player 2 = druid new player 3 = fighter Co Dm= CDM
So, I Was a first-time DM. I decided to run Lost Mines of Phandelver and I found on XP to Level 3's discord on the looking-for game channel a person looking for a dm for him and 3 other players. I agreed to do Dm for them. a few days later I went on vc to talk to the group the one who invited me mentioned that there were 2 other DMs before me but "they left and ghosted us before we got to play" said Warlock. I am like "Uh ok sure" and well I was a bit skeptical because If it was 1 dm that ghosted the group maybe that DM got salty over the group but 2 DMs that ghosted the group?! not sus.
fighter asked me if it's ok if his character can be racist. this part may be my fault because I said he could be racist but only if he has a reason to be racist to another race me saying that was a big mistake, we will get to that later we talked about character sheets and how we going to play. Then eventually everyone made their sheets warlock and Druid had decent characters while Paladin was iffy but minor iffy then we got the fighter who it says in his background. "is a loudmouth shithead who is big racist. now you see why I said it's my bad for telling him he can have some racism.
The week was coming for the game to play warlock pinged everyone and had a poll to ask if he can stream the session on Twitch and I instantly shut it down that part was resolved. but idk if I was paranoid due to watching too much Crit Crab and Crispy's Tavern or if these were red flags?
what I did next was probs the biggest mistake, but I did not know what to do so last minute I found CDM and explained the session to him and I got him to help me keep the players in check. then it was time for the session to happen when I allowed the group to introduce each other Fighter was not prepared yet when I gave them a whole month to work on the character. but he managed to figure something out. Oh, yeah I told the players "If you do something dumb you going to have a hard time.
when the goblin ambush happened players managed to do well at the start but the fighter intimidated a goblin passed the intimidation check had the goblin surrender begging for his life in character I tried to encourage the fighter to spare him to get info but no fighter first said "I will shove a stick up in his ass" I'm like "no you can't do that I am not going to allow you to do that do something instead then he tried to argue to me about it a little bit about he wanted to "embarrass the goblin because its funny. and still no but he cut the goblin's arm off and bled out. signs of murder hobo tendencies then the party had a hard time fighting a goblin a few death-saving throws happened and it was a bad idea to have 8 goblins for 4 players.
everyone survived. CDM had the 4 alive ones back off and go because we wanted to keep the party alive and not kill them. then they went on rest and leveled to LVL 2 took forever to get their LVL 2 stuff like 15 mins then we continued to the Crogmaw hideout part. now I the new dm had trouble trying to approach the cavern since its theater of mind CDM Decided to not give me tips on how to run it but he ran it like a main dm making me feel like a spectator at that point and that's where I fucked up getting a co dm. in the first place.
Party split 2 of them warned the bugbear and the other 2 went to the rebellion to gain Bootlicker's trust. yes, bootlicker was the leader of the rebellion's nickname. due to licking a character's boot during the ambush. gross I know. the party met they made the bugbear hostile bootlicker kill the bugbear boss. then the whole party killed all the goblins, but the bootlicker and the fighter want to kill the bootlicker still although he is now a companion to the group.
session ended and I concluded that everyone had fun but was not having fun idk if it's because they are high schoolers at the age of being edgy or I was being a bit of a sour puss? but I decided to have CDM to DM the game. And I leave. I told him the game did not click for me calmly and he agreed to take the game over I announced it CDM asked me if I will just be a player but I'm like no I don't want to be a player since the group just did not vibe with me. so, I left the server. kind of feeling like I'm not fit to do, but I am not sure my mind is still over the place.
plz let me know if I am an idiot or what your thoughts, please.
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experienced player= warlock new player 1 = paladin new player 2 = druid new player 3 = fighter Co Dm= CDM
So, I Was a first-time DM. I decided to run Lost Mines of Phandelver and I found on XP to Level 3's discord on the looking-for game channel a person looking for a dm for him and 3 other players. I agreed to do Dm for them. a few days later I went on vc to talk to the group the one who invited me mentioned that there were 2 other DMs before me but "they left and ghosted us before we got to play" said Warlock. I am like "Uh ok sure" and well I was a bit skeptical because If it was 1 dm that ghosted the group maybe that DM got salty over the group but 2 DMs that ghosted the group?! not sus.
fighter asked me if it's ok if his character can be racist. this part may be my fault because I said he could be racist but only if he has a reason to be racist to another race me saying that was a big mistake, we will get to that later we talked about character sheets and how we going to play. Then eventually everyone made their sheets warlock and Druid had decent characters while Paladin was iffy but minor iffy then we got the fighter who it says in his background. "is a loudmouth shithead who is big racist. now you see why I said it's my bad for telling him he can have some racism.
The week was coming for the game to play warlock pinged everyone and had a poll to ask if he can stream the session on Twitch and I instantly shut it down that part was resolved. but idk if I was paranoid due to watching too much Crit Crab and Crispy's Tavern or if these were red flags?
what I did next was probs the biggest mistake, but I did not know what to do so last minute I found CDM and explained the session to him and I got him to help me keep the players in check. then it was time for the session to happen when I allowed the group to introduce each other Fighter was not prepared yet when I gave them a whole month to work on the character. but he managed to figure something out. Oh, yeah I told the players "If you do something dumb you going to have a hard time.
when the goblin ambush happened players managed to do well at the start but the fighter intimidated a goblin passed the intimidation check had the goblin surrender begging for his life in character I tried to encourage the fighter to spare him to get info but no fighter first said "I will shove a stick up in his ass" I'm like "no you can't do that I am not going to allow you to do that do something instead then he tried to argue to me about it a little bit about he wanted to "embarrass the goblin because its funny. and still no but he cut the goblin's arm off and bled out. signs of murder hobo tendencies then the party had a hard time fighting a goblin a few death-saving throws happened and it was a bad idea to have 8 goblins for 4 players.
everyone survived. CDM had the 4 alive ones back off and go because we wanted to keep the party alive and not kill them. then they went on rest and leveled to LVL 2 took forever to get their LVL 2 stuff like 15 mins then we continued to the Crogmaw hideout part. now I the new dm had trouble trying to approach the cavern since its theater of mind CDM Decided to not give me tips on how to run it but he ran it like a main dm making me feel like a spectator at that point and that's where I fucked up getting a co dm. in the first place.
Party split 2 of them warned the bugbear and the other 2 went to the rebellion to gain Bootlicker's trust. yes, bootlicker was the leader of the rebellion's nickname. due to licking a character's boot during the ambush. gross I know. the party met they made the bugbear hostile bootlicker kill the bugbear boss. then the whole party killed all the goblins, but the bootlicker and the fighter want to kill the bootlicker still although he is now a companion to the group.
session ended and I concluded that everyone had fun but was not having fun idk if it's because they are high schoolers at the age of being edgy or I was being a bit of a sour puss? but I decided to have CDM to DM the game. And I leave. I told him the game did not click for me calmly and he agreed to take the game over I announced it CDM asked me if I will just be a player but I'm like no I don't want to be a player since the group just did not vibe with me. so, I left the server. kind of feeling like I'm not fit to do, but I am not sure my mind is still over the place.
plz let me know if I am an idiot or what your thoughts, please.
2023.06.10 19:24 YungJDubz420 Dealer tells me issues on my new car isn't covered
I purchased a 2022 Honda Civic from a dealership in Southern California last March. I live in Norther California so I have been the car serviced at another dealership nearby my place. Couple months ago, a warning for adaptive cruise control failure popped up on my dashboard and has been there since then. Since I never use the cruise control, I figured I'd just wait till I get my car serviced again to get it checked out.
My car recently hit 15000 miles so last week I took my car in for service (oil change) and was told that the express service guys can't help me look at the problem with the cruise control so the adviser scheduled a regular service for me this Saturday. After the express service last week, I was told that my rear shock absorbers are leaking also and they will look at it when I bring it in today.
I brought my car to the dealer to get it checked out today, and was told that the rear shock absorbers that's leaking don't fall under the warranty. I asked the adviser that since the part isn't supposed to fail within a year and half and 15000 miles why is it not covered? I was essentially told that since the part isn't supposed to fail that quickly I must have done something to break it so it isn't covered. By that logic what is the point of having warranty? If any part fails they can just cliam "oh it isn't supposed to fail so you must have done something and borke it:"
For issue with the adaptive cruise control, they told me that they need to do a diagnostics to figure out which part is causing the issue. If the part that's causing the issue falls under warrnty and they'll fix it for free. If not, they are going to charge me $210 for just the diagnostics alone.
I was also told that the extended warranty I had purchased from the from the SoCal dealership is through a third party and that third party isn't a partner with the NorCal Honda so it's basically useless.
I left my car at the dealership to do the diagnostics and I am waitinfg for them to call me back. I am just so frustrated with this whole situation and I need some advice on how I should proceed. If they call me back and tells me the part that is causing the adaptive cruise control to fail doesn't fall under warranty what should I do? Also what can I do about the whole third party extended warranty situation?
I apologize for the long post and any help is appreciated!
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My car recently hit 15000 miles so last week I took my car in for service (oil change) and was told that the express service guys can't help me look at the problem with the cruise control so the adviser scheduled a regular service for me this Saturday. After the express service last week, I was told that my rear shock absorbers are leaking also and they will look at it when I bring it in today.
I brought my car to the dealer to get it checked out today, and was told that the rear shock absorbers that's leaking don't fall under the warranty. I asked the adviser that since the part isn't supposed to fail within a year and half and 15000 miles why is it not covered? I was essentially told that since the part isn't supposed to fail that quickly I must have done something to break it so it isn't covered. By that logic what is the point of having warranty? If any part fails they can just cliam "oh it isn't supposed to fail so you must have done something and borke it:"
For issue with the adaptive cruise control, they told me that they need to do a diagnostics to figure out which part is causing the issue. If the part that's causing the issue falls under warrnty and they'll fix it for free. If not, they are going to charge me $210 for just the diagnostics alone.
I was also told that the extended warranty I had purchased from the from the SoCal dealership is through a third party and that third party isn't a partner with the NorCal Honda so it's basically useless.
I left my car at the dealership to do the diagnostics and I am waitinfg for them to call me back. I am just so frustrated with this whole situation and I need some advice on how I should proceed. If they call me back and tells me the part that is causing the adaptive cruise control to fail doesn't fall under warranty what should I do? Also what can I do about the whole third party extended warranty situation?
I apologize for the long post and any help is appreciated!
2023.06.10 19:24 Realistic-Dot6062 My (23F) boyfriend (23M) wants me to move in but I am not sure I am ready.
Hi! I have been dating my boyfriend for a year and three months long distance. We haven’t met yet due to being full time students who’s schedules haven’t lined up, but we have spoken to each others family members and facetime or call daily. In the fall of this year my boyfriend is moving near his college to finish a second degree and has invited me to move in too, signing a lease and all. This is a big dream of ours, to close the distance, but I am hesitant because I do not yet have a job. Although I have recently begun applying, I am also waiting for acceptance into a masters program which would take up much of my time come fall. The apartment we want to lease is beginning to run out of spots, so to live there we would need to sign now. My boyfriend encourages me to sign anyway under the pretense that he can pay my rent until I have a job, but I would very guilty about this as he would need to work way more while also attending school (he would have enough to pay the rent for both of us for about 6 months, so I would have 6 months to continue looking for a job if I do not immediately find one). He says that if I do not move in, he will have to break up with me because he will have so little time between work and school to maintain a relationship. I do love him very much, but I’m so hesitant given the uncertainty of having a job or getting a masters. What would you do if you were me?
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2023.06.10 19:23 throwthrowjoe 31 [M4F] - Wisconsin/Online - Tell me your name and I’ll tell you how hot you are based solely on that.
Still looking for that 10/10. Maybe it’s you?
I wanna talk about food, the dumb stuff you did today, our mutual appreciation for rear ends, and why cereal is the best late night snack. I like gin, cool words, watching food network and pretending I can cook, all of the worst movies, and making bread. Tell me something awesome about you, something crazy you've done, play a drinking game with me, or discuss whether a grilled cheese or a taco would win in a fight. Let's hang out and be pals.
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I wanna talk about food, the dumb stuff you did today, our mutual appreciation for rear ends, and why cereal is the best late night snack. I like gin, cool words, watching food network and pretending I can cook, all of the worst movies, and making bread. Tell me something awesome about you, something crazy you've done, play a drinking game with me, or discuss whether a grilled cheese or a taco would win in a fight. Let's hang out and be pals.