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M27 here. I've been unemployed for a while, I'm applying for jobs in IT. In startups and LinkedIn everywhere I see I feel like world is just going too fast. AI this and AI that, There's just not anything natural and easy like before. I fear too much competition and starting to question my abilities like am I even able to do anything? Everyone seems so smart and capable even people younger than me are getting six figure jobs and I just feel like I'm missing out a lot in life. I've been very persistent but lately I'm losing hope.
I tend to find comfort in watching old nostalgic movies and old shows because there I feel like escaping from this fast modern trends
I feel like just going somewhere quite near lake with small house and live out of all this noise. I did started doing mindful meditation practices but still not much helpful.
Any suggestions or thoughts on this?
Thanks in Advance :)

For those who've seen organic growth on Instagram, even if it's just a few hundred followers, how did you target and engage the right people who might be interested in your content?
Did you just post content you loved and wait, or did you have a specific strategy?
I'm hoping to grow a small, niche following of around 5000 individuals who share my interests, age group, and location.

Cruising the PVP zone doing whatever, not flagged myself, then in giant mob groups I'm seeing my health just melt. I know I'm being attacked, but I can't see which thing is attacking me. It's bad with necro's to, cause their skins look like the stuff you're fighting. It's near impossible to focus on the player when you can't see them. PLEASE make the players flagged for PvP more noticeable. An odd aura color or something. I've only been able to kill the other player a quarter of the time, and only by luck because he got caught in my death trap and I just nuked everything and they happened to be in it.

M27 here. I've been unemployed for a while, I'm applying for jobs in IT. In startups and LinkedIn everywhere I see I feel like world is just going too fast. AI this and AI that, There's just not anything natural and easy like before. I fear too much competition and starting to question my abilities like am I even able to do anything? Everyone seems so smart and capable even people younger than me are getting six figure jobs and I just feel like I'm missing out a lot in life. I've been very persistent but lately I'm losing hope.
I tend to find comfort in watching old nostalgic movies and old shows because there I feel like escaping from this fast modern trends
I feel like just going somewhere quite near lake with small house and live out of all this noise. I did started doing mindful meditation practices but still not much helpful.
Any suggestions or thoughts on this?
Thanks in Advance :)

I've been talking about this recently so I decided to talk about it here.
So I listen to music nearly everyday. I have been doing so for years, because of this I keep my headphones in my bed beside my pillow of the left side at all times for easy access. My headphones multiple times a week fall off my bed and end up between the mattress and the wall. At this time my bed situation was a mattress on a box spring so I didn't have an " under the bed " for things to go missing under.
So one day in 2017 I went to listen to music and like always my headphones appeared to have falling off the bed between the mattress and the wall. I went to grab them without looking because they always end up and the exact same spot. I didn't feel them so I looked over so I could grab them but they weren't there. It didn't seem possible so I got up and pulled the mattress out further and looked they still weren't there. I checked all over my room which was very clean and minimal in furniture and design so there weren't any places for things to hide or be stored away. After a good while of looking I got a replacement pair of headphones and went about my day. For the next 3 or so days I kept looking where my headphones should be because it just didn't make any sense. After that I gave up and forgot about it. About a week after they went missing my replacement headphones fell off the bed like they always do and I went to grab them without looking like always but instead of the replacement headphones I pulled out the missing ones. They were on top of the replacement ones as if they spawned back in.
For a bit of supporting detail the headphones were large over the ear pink and white headphones so extremely hard to miss and the replacement ones were black from a different brand so they're impossible to mix up. At the time I was home literally 24/7 because this was after I graduated highschool, I wasn't working anymore, and I wasn't going out with friends because my one friend just had a baby and was busy so no one could have came in my room without me knowing. I'm always an only child and my parents don't come in my room in the first place. I also don't put anything beside my phone, headphones and computer on or near my bed so they couldn't have been that I put someone on my bed and they fell out of it.
Neither me or my dad could come up with a logical explanation for this.

I (f18) was in a relationship for a year and a half with my ex (m19). He was very very insecure. He was a virgin when we met and I was far from it. He took it out on me constantly. He blamed me for getting physically assaulted by a man before we met because I slept with him. He ruined my 18th birthday by accusing me of cheating with my friend because her middle name is my first name. Bare in mind she was my ONLY friend. And he was critical of her for no reason. Making jokes about her weight and such. And a friend I made later who was transgender he was extremely rude about her and wouldn’t let me see her because he viewed her as a man, and I wasn’t allowed to be near men.
He made me cry constantly and wouldn’t listen or care. I have ASD and I’ve always been very naive when people hit on me. The problem was he constsntly shamed me and controlled what I could do. So I didn’t take it as a oh he cares I took it as a wow what a bad person. So I defintiely talked to people who liked me a lot and didn’t really realise and I feel bad but I wish we’d had good communication. I tried to have it so many times and talked very openly about what upset me and why but he wouldn’t do that.
Later on in our realtionship he snapped at me for no reason and screamed at me in public, cussing me out and made me cry and starting punching walls and threatening to leave me alone there (he was my lift and we weren’t near home). What caused this? Me asking to pee hahah. I left him for one day and inevitably ended up being the one to beg for him back. During the day we were apart I was trying to sext other people to get my mind off it and move on but I couldn’t, ofc I undersrnad how this puts people off getting back together. I’ve used my body for attention for years and it’s not healthy. But we got back when we shoudlnt have. I wasn’t happy.
He always bought me things and took me places. Comforted me and bought me things when I was on my period or sad. Took me on dates and paid for everything. The occasional insults and anger outbursts and controlling behaviours were not all the time. I’m not close with my parents and have 2 friends who I’m not rlly close with. So this is a lot to me and it was hard to leave because I’ve never met someone who could put up with me.
I got a new manager at work (m29) who immedaitely took interest in me. I was very disgusted at first, I have a history of sexual harassment at my workplace being the only girl and dealing with old men as customers all day as well. We eventually became sorta friends and talked a lot over text. Looking back it was weird but I don’t really have many friends and it seemed genuine. I hate how naive I am but I still view him as nice and more genuine than anyone else sometimes.
One night we had a staff do. Both drunk, me and my manager flirted over text after. Not in person once. I felt disgusting about it. I kept saying I can’t because of my boyfriend and I don’t like my manager at all. But it happened. I told my bf within an hour and broke up with him. I was glad we were over and I had an excuse (I knew what I did would mean we’d break up and honestly I think that’s partly why I did it) He came over to my house and started throwing my stuff, snatched my phone, filmed a video of me crying to send to his friend saying “look at the wh0r3” over and over saying how I don’t deserve to be loved and even called his friend so they could degrade me together and threatening screaming at me so loud my parents were going to call the police. It was scary. He went straight to my workplace right after to scream at and threaten them. Within a day he came back to my house to ask for forgiveness. I turned him away as I was still shaken.
After we broke up, I went on a date with my manager. He was talking to me every day and letting me cry about missing my ex over the phone. I thought he really cared for me more than anyone ever has to let me do that when he likes me. I’ve never had that support in my life. But looking back that might be naivety. It’s probably stupid that I’m still not sure. I still think he cares more than anyone else but he’s almsot 30 and I’m 18 and he wanted to sleep with me. But still I’m not sure. I went to his house after and I wasn’t rlly sure on sex. I’m not at all attracted to him and the age gap is weird. I Saïd no at first but he really wanted to and I was physcially aroused so I said he can just touch me but I am not comfy doing anything back.
Long story short he ended up giving me head because he really wanted to and I didn’t see the harm in refusing because well it’s just free pleasure right? I don’t know why I’ve always had that mindset because the sex I had with my ex was so passionate and intimate and I truly can’t enjoy casual sex with people I don’t care about after that. Looking back the age gap and my lack of self respect to firmly say no makes me feel sick. But I was still single and it wasn’t really overly willingly
My ex has come back to me so many times. Every time it starts off the same. He makes a new account or even showed up at my house before. He’s bought me many gifts since we broke up to get me back. Every time I let him back in, tell him how sorry I am and let him insult me to blow off steam and comfort him. And he cuddles and tells me he Loves me and gets me food. Then he has sex with me. And then within a day tells me how disgusting for getting with my manager. Bear in mind he’s been with another girl since we broke up as well. He’s fully harassed me for almost 5 months now and can never leave me alone more than a week. Well tell me he wanted to murder me then 3 days later message all of my friends to beg to see me and bring flowers. And I feel so much guilt for what happened that I keep letting him back but he’s extremely verbally abusive. I just always feel I deserve it because of what happened and let him blow of the steam.
I judt don’t know what to think. I know I’m in the wrong. And I know the guilt and disgust I feel is the result of my own actions. But being so lonely now with no friends and awkward at my job as well as being harassed reguarly is so hard. He always makes new accounts and it’s so hard to shut him down when he pretends to wsnt me to lead me on because I feel so much guilt. I know how awful he is deep down but I don’t know how to move on when I’m far from the victim in this situation. It’s hard to stop responding when I messed up. But the harassment and making me feel I deserve to die and whatnot with zero support in my life outside of my manager who I’d rather not use as support is difficult. Man relationships are complex. I’m not asking for sympathy btw I know what I did was very crappy. How do I move on from this?
TL;DR I cheated on my toxic ex to leave him and I let my older manager use my body and I’ve been harassed by my ex for months on end

Chapter 2: A Feeling For Home
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After a few hours and weighing a few more of my options I found a suitable place for my core, on top of a shelf!
To be a bit more specific a shelf resting in the furthest room of my dungeon, the room itself had no windows and only one door making it the most defensible option. Moving it seems simple enough now that I had Tama. She seems to listen to orders more directly than the cats that the spawner continuously makes.
The graceful scion drops from the old stool she had been napping on and carefully took the core delicately between her teeth and set off to the designated room.
I did not that as Tama padded through the hallway a number of other cats took formation behind her, despite not having been ordered to. It quickly became clear Tama herself was directing them, as with a few muffled meows and a firm stomp of her paw the cats quickly set to work dragging a few bits of old cloth and ruined cotton into onto the shelf. Once the improvised bed was finished Tama leapt onto my new perch and gently laid my core in the center of the bedding.
"Excellent work Tama!" I praised towards her. Even if I wasn't sure she heard me word for word, I could tell she felt the praise as she took a second to pose.
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The next order of business was categorizing what information I had, and prioritizing my next few steps for expanding my 'facilities.'
My cats and slugs have tags that list them as denizens, the frogs and beetles are labeled as invaders. Their interactions are my source of major income, with mana being drawn in whenever my units defeat theirs. An important note however is that nothing seems to be lost when my units are killed, but it was pretty clear to see in a more fast paced situation when all hands are needed, the cost of rapidly fielding replacement units would add up quickly.
I also have access to a few traps that can be scattered around my controlled zones.
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Bile Sack
Detectability - High
Activation Chance - Moderate
When an intruder approaches, the sack will expand and burst after a short moment. Intruders will be covered in sticky bile and slowed.
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The idea of covering some poor sap who blunders into this place with sticky bile didn't exactly sit right with me, but my sense of self preservation and long ingrained RTS tactics told me adding a few of these would be necessary. For just a small trickle of mana each I put a few of the grotesque pods around the door to my core, as well as a few in the hallway for good measure.
My next trap I would do without, security be damned.
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Vile Ichor
Detectability - Low
Passive Presence
An opaque purple ichor will ooze from nearby walls and crevices and coat the ground. This ichor is highly flammable and slippery.
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I want this place to eventually become a library or study of some kind, not a death trap! So for now I snub the rather malicious trap and return my focus back to my dungeon.
Having watched the cats deal with frog infestation in my upper floors, I felt a bit guilty when I looked back down to the slugs. The gooey little mollusk soldiers, keeping the seemingly growing swarms of beetles at bay.
The cost for a Slug Scion was still rather high, but the actual cost to upgrade the spawner was just a little less so. But seeing the little things try so hard, I bite the bullet and make the purchase. The reaction was a bit more volatile than just spawning Tama however. The coral like hive of the slugs snapped and crackled as it grew slightly, the slugs it began to produce were also quite a bit bigger than before, now about the size of a soda can.
The new slugs were also a little bit faster and they surged into the line of beetles with a vigor. Were before there was a rickety stalemate, now the slugs were driving back the chitinous swarms with ease! The large slugs water jets just splatter even the large beetles in one shot now, their smaller kin following in close groups around them and pick off the stragglers.
The small counter attack made for an excellent show as the slugs manage to push the swarms back out of the borders of my dungeon. I can still sense them actively swarming just outside my bounds, but they seem notably more hesitant to enter now.
While I don't have a scion to praise just yet, I instead make sure to give the little guys a bit of extra attention for a while.
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With my borders now guarded and my core secured, I could finally take a breath. Up until this point I've been too distracted with all of my new functions and responsibilities, I hadn't taken enough time to fully get a good idea as to where I am or what I am.
I understand I am now a dungeon and that it's my duty to maintain and protect my controlled territory. But apart from some old ruined furniture and my denizens, I have no idea what else is in store for me in the place. The angel had said that I couldn't go back to Earth, so I doubt I'm anywhere familiar, but at the same time this building looks like it was made by people for people. The chairs and tables look to be about right for humans proportions, I can even see old faded tapestries and paintings but their details are too far gone to make out what may have been on them.
I want to turn this place into a library or similar institution, but I have no idea if the natives of this world can even read any languages I know! I've been browsing through my options and I can see that I have the ability to designate a room to a specific function, but none of them are for a library or study.
Workshop and Abbey
I don't see any point in having a workshop, as I doubt my cats and slugs would be very efficient on the assembly line.
But the idea of having an abbey doesn't seem so bad. I wasn't the most devout person back on earth, but I always did enjoy reading various books on religion, philosophy, and any sort of theistic concept really.
Tossing the idea around in my mind I thought about where I would even assign said abbey. Most of the rooms I had access to were about the size of a medium or smaller bedroom. My cores 'Sanctum' as it had been labeled was only about 4 feet on all sides.
As I drifted room to room, trying to pick one out for the abbey, I noticed that at each of the majors ends of my borders I had unique options.
I could expand myself?
Sure enough, as I felt along the walls of my dungeon I was given 3 options. The first was the option to expand outward and into the open expanse of this new world, the cost was rather high but it would be within my range after a few more days of bug stomping.
Next I had the option to take a new wing of the complex I was already apart of. I could afford this option right now, but it would leave me a bit light in the pockets. I also didn't know if this was the entire remaining space of the complex or just another wing. But it was more tempting than expanding outside, as I needed actual rooms for my library to eventually come to life after all.
The last option did not appeal to me at all however, down and also outside. I had to check to make sure it was a separate choice from the first but sure enough it was. I could feel that choosing this path would grant me a very large space, at a very high cost, and that it would not automatically conjoin with the first exterior expansion.
Filing the three options away for later, I also held off on purchasing the Abbey room as well. This seemed like a bit much for me. Even if I had the frogs and beetles managed, I had no idea what was waiting past my current borders. Would I get new denizens or invaders, and given my current financial situation, would I be able to afford them.
No, I needed to be careful and keep pace with myself, this wasn't a race. I still have a scion I need to get, as well as upgrade both spawners a few levels each.
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ALERT - INTRUDERS APPROACHING
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I was grateful I no longer had to worry about my asthma, or I would have been in a lot of trouble.
From next to, what was the closest approximation to my front door, Tama stood with her fur on end. Nearly every cat, save for Tama, darted into a hiding space. My brace scion stood ready to face whatever was approaching the old wooden door from the other side.
I ordered what few slugs weren't needed to hold the line, to move to protect the core. By now I could hear the muted sound of voices from the other side of the door. I couldn't make out anything being said, but I could tell there were multiple people just outside.
I eyed my mana again, I was so close but so far from being able to spawn my other scion!
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This story is a personal project and any criticism and advice is welcomed and appreciated, hope you enjoyed!

I am used to cooking for 3 - myself, my partner, and my step sister who lives with me while she's in school. I am grateful that my family are willing to eat vegan food that I prepare, but we are talking about seven grown adults, three of whom are bottomless pits (quite literally always eating, always hungry). I am feeling extremely overwhelmed and would welcome tips for meal planning, meal prepping, shopping, cooking, and grab-ready snack ideas for a crowd. Help meeeeeee!

What is, in your opinion, your least favourite area in the entirety of DS3? And by area I don't necessarily mean the entire location, could be just segments of it. For me, it's:
Demon Ruins: The whole underground section of the Smouldering Lake. Filled with poison spewing Ghrus, really strong fire mages, an insanely strong NPC, items on lava and is generally very ugly.
Irithyll Dungeon: Every single part of it, from the area filled with rats and basilisks, the giant and that huge room with like 10 jailers
Dreg Heap: The first section of it absolutely drains my FPS and fighting hordes of those little endlessly spawning guys is not fun

basically ive been having a kind of bad time for the past few months because i got into some of my absolute dream schools (northeastern & oberlin, namely) and cant attend either for financial reasons. i did everything i could to increase my scholarships; i emailed the financial aid offices and practically begged. it wasnt enough. i ended up committing to rhodes college, which id barely considered previously (and only applied because my dad liked it). rhodes is still way out of our price range for college (even with nearly 40k in merit scholarships), but basically the only thing we could actually afford was my safety, which i thought i liked initially but ended up really disliking. my parents are withdrawing money from my siblings' accounts to pay for rhodes, which i didnt know about, and im also completely on my own for law school, even though aid applications factor in parents' incomes and assets until like age 25. now, i do really like rhodes. really. im back from orientation and i think the campus is gorgeous, memphis is great, and the programs are what i want. but i keep comparing it to my dream schools and thinking about how much different it would be if i were attending oberlin. i feel terrible because i know my parents want me to adore the school since theyre paying so much for it. so im a) disappointed im not at a school i like more, and b) feeling like shit about the financial stuff. i think i should have just gone to my safety and sucked it up for 4 years, no matter how bad a school. whatever. theres no solution to this, so i guess it isnt worth thinking about. im just ... feeling really terrible and needed to rant about it and maybe possibly hear some good stuff in the comments? idk. hope yall are doing well

I got out of the military when I was 23 and spent 4 years in college right after for 3 different things with the help of the GI bill ("free" money for four years.) I received a diploma for HVAC, spent one year in forensic science (dropped out), and then depleted my GI bill with my associates in avionics. I've been working as an avionics tech for a company since then. The job isn't too bad. It pays decent but it could be quite mundane sometimes and I feel like I could do better in when it comes to pay.
I have some financial goals that I hope to reach within the next 3 years that are possible if I stay committed. Returning to college has crossed my mind, but it would set be back and impede other goals that I have in mind. My goals include starting a business and a few other sources of income that could make me at least $3000-$4000 of passive income a month while I work my regular day job.
However, if I do commit to that plan, I feel like going back to college will be futile. I do not plan to commit to working 5 days out of the week for the rest of my life. I just want to make enough passive income so I have the option to work part time for the rest of life and maybe return to full time for a year or so if I ever feel like doing so.
There are many opportunities for me to make 70k+ in my field by accepting contracts and relocating within the US and even overseas. There are even some contracts that offer 100k+ a year. Most companies are looking for 3+ years of experience and some licenses that I have no interest in pursuing especially when I do not plan to do this in the long term. Some companies really aren't as picky but they are a little harder to find.
There is a new major aviation manufacturer being constructed in my area but that place won't start operating for around a year. Idk if I should wait and get experience while it is up and running or relocate to another place and risk them running out of positions by the time I return. I've been vacillating on this for a while. If I were to relocate, I would have to be making at least $32 an hour (if the cost of living is equal or less of where I'm currently located) for it to be worth it for me to relocate.
Maybe I'm just tired of my job or maybe I'm regretting how I spent my GI bill. Maybe I'm just getting impatient about my goals and I'm unhappy about my current position. Maybe all of the above?
Tl;Dr idk if I should seek another job or remain at my job while this new job opens up. I also don't know if I should go to college in the next few years especially when I don't intend on working the traditional 40 hours a week in the future.

The agency that used to manage my site created separate pages for "Contact", "Phone", and "Location", "Ask a Question". To me this seems kind of odd. Like why wouldn't you just put it all one one "Contact Us" page?
I created a new Contact Us page and I used the RankMath schema (hopefully that helps).
Should I trash the aforementioned pages and redirect them all to my new Contact page? I guess I half wondered if my former agency knows something I don't and there is a good reason to do it this way?
I have very little knowledge of these things so I appreciate any guidance. Thank you.

Sunday we found out I was having a miscarriage.
I went back to work Tuesday. OB gave me some medications to help with the cramps, to slow the bleeding, & hopefully help with the scary amount of clups of hair I had been losing that week. I go through 2-4 super+ tampons an hour, with a pad for back up. It's been a terrible, scary, exhausting week.
I woke this this morning, made breakfast, and took the 3 gaint different types of pills the OB gave me. Then, as the stomach pain/head ache started to creep in, in an exhausted tone I said "ugh, what the hell, what is wrong with me."
He, without hesitating, said "nothing you're over reacting about your symptoms."
Hurt, I calmly replied, "how could you even say that. It's so inappropriate and hurtful."
He tried to back track, "no I was just joking, I was trying to make you laugh."
I told him that's now how you make someone laugh, he replied "well what was I suppose do do, you've been doing nothing but complaining all week. "
I told him all I wanted was for him to pat my head, tell me he loved me & let me vent when I needed to..
He (clearly annoyed) kept trying to play it down, saying well with the right person you could joke about these kind of things. And that hes been nothing but supportive (he's done the bare min but because I know he was dealing with things too I didnt want tonask too much of him)
I lost it. I started screaming. I just lost a baby and had to work all week while my body did things I didn't know or understand. I had no one walking me though what was happening. I told him to shut his fat fucking mouth. I called him uneducated swine. Told him to educate himself on why I was saying and feeling these things. How much pain I am in right now. He knows nothing about miscarrying or what the body goes through. He hasnt done research, or helped or talked me though anything. Hes given no suggestions on what to do to feel better or help with pain. I've been doing it all alone.
I ended my screaming with "I hate you. I'm so close to leaving you, so don't talk to me, don't look at me, and even come near me right now." Before going upstairs & locking myself in my bathroom.
He still thinks I'm overreacting. I know he's hurting too. He also lost a baby. But his body isn't the one thats suffering. He's not sleeping on the couch & waking up every 30 mins to an hour to change their tampon, pad & diapers because otherwise they'd bleed everywhere, or vomiting from getting too hot or moving too fast. He's not the one who is so bloated wearing flip flips out of the house hurts & leaves indents in your feet.
He's not very good at caring for or taking care of others, but the bare minimum should be not underplaying someone's pain.
Tl;dr AItA for yelling at my husband, telling him I hate him and might leave him when he told me less than a week after we found out I was miscarrying that I was being dramatic about the pain & symptoms I was feeling?

my DOT is 6/13 or 14 (originally the 12th, have to push it back). i live in nyc and cant get any appointments so i was considering flying out to dallas since i've heard they actually take walk-in's with urgent travel. i have my locator # and all my documents ready and everything so i was wondering if it would b worth it to fly out? i found some relatively cheap flights and i think going to dallas would be cheaper than cancelling all my plans 😭

32yo straight, looking for new friends and//or workout partner ideally in NYC, but open to all locations. Please be around my age, straight, and be able to voice chat on snap.