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2023.03.22 16:44 Cloudy_Melancholy I had imposter syndrome, so I wrote almost everything I felt orientation wise.
I had imposter syndrome today, so this was a way for me to cope. I decided to post this as a vent, because of the feelings I expressed. I decided to make this public to help others with imposter syndrome and also be there for those who can relate with some things I said. I feel safer online and at home, unless I go to a LGBTQIA+ in person group near me. I highly suggest listening to soft music or music relating to what you're thinking so you can get your thoughts out easier. I am so lonely, and my health is not good, but I'll get to my goals eventually.
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2023.03.22 16:43 JokePsychological624 Actually gained erect length
Uhhh, I have literally never been able to get anywhere near 7 inches doing any measurement technique on my erect penis pre-op. Bone pressed, on the side, flaccid stretching, and now just a normal bone pressed erect measurement and the tip of my glans just barely touches 7 inches.
I remember a normal hard on would take me to 6 inches, barely. I don’t know how it’s possible with all the people reporting erect gain loss or erect length stagnation. Im 9 months post op.
Im on testosterone and jerk off like 4-5 times a day (yes I know it’s not healthy but I’m in a long distance relationship) maybe I’m stretching the skin like a motherfucker? Idk. Im 25 and fit. I grapple and lift everyday. I make sure to double wrap with tubi and wear a cup when I grapple.
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I remember a normal hard on would take me to 6 inches, barely. I don’t know how it’s possible with all the people reporting erect gain loss or erect length stagnation. Im 9 months post op.
Im on testosterone and jerk off like 4-5 times a day (yes I know it’s not healthy but I’m in a long distance relationship) maybe I’m stretching the skin like a motherfucker? Idk. Im 25 and fit. I grapple and lift everyday. I make sure to double wrap with tubi and wear a cup when I grapple.
2023.03.22 16:42 Miatia404 I don't know how to move out of my strict Muslim family's home without causing too much of a stir
Long post warning! I (22F) have lived at home my entire life with my strict Muslim parents (60F and 58M). They are pretty conservative. I was homeschooled and raised in an environment where I wasn't allowed much freedom, I'd get scolded and shamed a lot. There was constant screaming and fear of upsetting mom cause she didn't want to help me with math homework or thought I was too artistic, too quiet, too loud, etc. Due to this, I never had much freedom. As an almost 23 year old, I feel like I am just starting my teenage phase and all I am looking for is a little bit of freedom. I love to buy clothes and makeup that I'm normally not allowed to wear, it seems like a silly guilty pleasure for an adult woman. I wear stuff under my clothes when I leave the house and go shop on my lunch break. I order stuff to the Amazon locker near work to buy things, because they track my phone and it's an easy way for me to have freedom without them knowing about it. I just hate the feeling of having to sneak around to do basic things out of the fear of upsetting my mom.
As I got older, my parents have become less harsh and verbally abusive to being more overprotective and nosy. I think a lot of this is related to me starting puberty, there's still a big fear of boys but now partying, drugs and drinking. I should mention that my brother (20m) rebelled a lot. He moved out with his girlfriend at 17 and got heavily into partying and so now they have seen that their kid is capable of "degenerate" behavior, I think they fear me ending up like that even though we have totally different personalities. I am an introverted, mild mannered girl. I just want my own space to be able to experience independence. I don't like feeling anxious every time I walk to the kitchen, fearing a comment about my outfit from my mom or being told that I slept in too late on a Saturday. I would like to start dating, and my mom simply won't approve of any mom that's not a 6'5' Muslim engineer that makes over $100k a year. I went on a couple dates in college and it was hell. My parents lost it so that part of my life is not something I want them involved in until I meet someone I really want to be with long term. I want to live my life free of constant feedback.
I am really grateful that my parents have allowed me to live at home for so long, I have saved up quite a bit of money. The problem is that now they don't want me to leave. I paid off my student loans and have $35k in savings. I am starting a new job on Monday that pays even better than my current one, which gives me an average salary. I have always dreamed of buying a home in cash, but I don't think that's going to even be realistic until I'm like 27, and by then, I have wasted so much of my young adult life just sitting in my childhood bedroom living the same life I did when I was 13. I have a good career going and it kind of feels silly to have the adult responsibilities of paying for my own car, buying my own stuff, while still not having much freedom.
I have brought up the topic of moving out before and my mom always come up with 100 reasons why I can't do it. Such as, it's a horrible financial decision, it's not safe, interest rates are too high, or that my dad has heart issues and we don't know how long he'll live - so if I move out, I will have regrets about leaving too soon. I do feel slightly guilty, I guess it's oldest daughter syndrome knowing they don't really have much family in the states and would be lonely and bored. My mom has shouted at me when I bring it up, saying that I'm ungrateful and don't understand how hard it is to live in today's world and that the economy is set up for married people. I understand that it's hard in this economy. Like I mentioned, I had always wanted to save up and buy a home in cash but as I get older, I am starting to think just getting out is the most important thing for me. My friends who make the same income as me afford to live alone.
At this point, I have literally thought about getting "caught" with some weed so my parents want me to leave. I do love my parents a lot, and I know they want the best for me...but their idea of the "best" means living with them until I get married and never finding myself. Just having someone else look over my every move to ensure I am not a shame to the family. I am looking for ways that I can move out without harming our relationship too much. I have considered saying that I want to move out so I can get a dog or something, my mom isn't vehemently against them and understands my love for animals is something she can't provide while living here. I think she views them as Haram but doesn't have a strong enough basis to scold me for it. I have tried telling them that I need to learn how to budget on my own but that isn't a valid excuse in their mind. They tend to believe there is not a valid reason for an unmarried young adult to move out unless they have things to hide. Privacy isn't really on their radar.
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As I got older, my parents have become less harsh and verbally abusive to being more overprotective and nosy. I think a lot of this is related to me starting puberty, there's still a big fear of boys but now partying, drugs and drinking. I should mention that my brother (20m) rebelled a lot. He moved out with his girlfriend at 17 and got heavily into partying and so now they have seen that their kid is capable of "degenerate" behavior, I think they fear me ending up like that even though we have totally different personalities. I am an introverted, mild mannered girl. I just want my own space to be able to experience independence. I don't like feeling anxious every time I walk to the kitchen, fearing a comment about my outfit from my mom or being told that I slept in too late on a Saturday. I would like to start dating, and my mom simply won't approve of any mom that's not a 6'5' Muslim engineer that makes over $100k a year. I went on a couple dates in college and it was hell. My parents lost it so that part of my life is not something I want them involved in until I meet someone I really want to be with long term. I want to live my life free of constant feedback.
I am really grateful that my parents have allowed me to live at home for so long, I have saved up quite a bit of money. The problem is that now they don't want me to leave. I paid off my student loans and have $35k in savings. I am starting a new job on Monday that pays even better than my current one, which gives me an average salary. I have always dreamed of buying a home in cash, but I don't think that's going to even be realistic until I'm like 27, and by then, I have wasted so much of my young adult life just sitting in my childhood bedroom living the same life I did when I was 13. I have a good career going and it kind of feels silly to have the adult responsibilities of paying for my own car, buying my own stuff, while still not having much freedom.
I have brought up the topic of moving out before and my mom always come up with 100 reasons why I can't do it. Such as, it's a horrible financial decision, it's not safe, interest rates are too high, or that my dad has heart issues and we don't know how long he'll live - so if I move out, I will have regrets about leaving too soon. I do feel slightly guilty, I guess it's oldest daughter syndrome knowing they don't really have much family in the states and would be lonely and bored. My mom has shouted at me when I bring it up, saying that I'm ungrateful and don't understand how hard it is to live in today's world and that the economy is set up for married people. I understand that it's hard in this economy. Like I mentioned, I had always wanted to save up and buy a home in cash but as I get older, I am starting to think just getting out is the most important thing for me. My friends who make the same income as me afford to live alone.
At this point, I have literally thought about getting "caught" with some weed so my parents want me to leave. I do love my parents a lot, and I know they want the best for me...but their idea of the "best" means living with them until I get married and never finding myself. Just having someone else look over my every move to ensure I am not a shame to the family. I am looking for ways that I can move out without harming our relationship too much. I have considered saying that I want to move out so I can get a dog or something, my mom isn't vehemently against them and understands my love for animals is something she can't provide while living here. I think she views them as Haram but doesn't have a strong enough basis to scold me for it. I have tried telling them that I need to learn how to budget on my own but that isn't a valid excuse in their mind. They tend to believe there is not a valid reason for an unmarried young adult to move out unless they have things to hide. Privacy isn't really on their radar.
2023.03.22 16:42 Robert_B_Marks Horne's The Price of Glory is driving me nuts...
This may be less a review and more of a rant...
Watching some Perun videos about the trench war in the Ukraine (and the "Verdun" of Bakhmut) got me to finally start reading my copy of Alistair Horne's The Price of Glory...and it's hard reading. I'm 25 pages in, and it's driving me up the wall.
So, for a bit of context: this book was first published in the early 1960s, and the revised edition that I'm reading was published in 1993. In his introduction, Horne states that in the intervening time, nothing really made him revise more than a couple of lines here and there...and it really should have done.
The amount of information that comes across as received wisdom (much of it from Basil Liddell Hart) is pretty staggering. More than once I've gone to the back of the book for his source notes to track down a direct quote to find no primary source for it.
For example, Grandmaison. Horne's depiction of Grandmaison is of a lunatic obsessed with the bayonet who had an "attack at all costs and regardless of the circumstances" approach. According to Horne, Grandmaison had no understanding of modern firepower. Now, Horne can read French - he has French language sources in his bibliography. However, he didn't actually bother reading any Grandmaison to chase down the source and see if the quotes were accurate.
If he had (speaking as the one who translated Training of the Infantry for Offensive Combat), he would have realized that Grandmaison understood the power of modern small arms quite well - he considered the ground in front of enemy field fortifications to be unsurvivable for any extended length of time. Infantry had to attack not because attacking was the only thing they were supposed to do, but because it was the only thing they could do that would stop the enemy from shooting them to pieces. The casualties would be costly in the attack, yes, but they would be total if the unit didn't attack.
Then there's the depiction of the pre-war French army. This is an army that Horne depicts as not having howitzers because they were considered unnecessary, and wearing the famous red pants to intimidate the enemy - AKA, completely disconnected from the reality of modern warfare. HOWEVER...both of these were issues the French army had been trying to solve for years before the war. The military notes in the RUSI Journal have announcements of French army uniform changes to get rid of the red trousers, followed by announcements that the trousers are actually being kept, every few month (it was, in fact, the French army fighting their personal Battle of Verdun against the French bureaucracy to put their soldiers in uniforms that didn't scream "Please shoot me!" to the enemy). And one of the excised chapters of the first volume of Joffre's memoirs covers his struggles to get heavy howitzers for the French army. The French army was not disconnected from reality here - they were trying to modernize in the face of a government bureaucracy that was dysfunctional to the point of lunacy.
And then there's Horne's treatment of Joffre, which is character assassination...and one that doesn't survive Horne's own text. He literally declares that Joffre was taciturn because, unlike Haig, there was nothing inside his head. He presents Joffre as being somebody who was not a military thinker at all...and then credits Joffre with calculating the timing just right for the counter-attack at the Marne that turned the battle. There is a massive contradiction here. Now, Joffre made his fair share of mistakes, but the bumbling idiot that Horne makes him out to be could not have saved France at the Marne the way that Joffre did. The degree to which Horne twists himself into a pretzel to try to reconcile these (and fails to do so) is pretty staggering.
But the thing that I find absolutely unforgivable is Horne's treatment of the German war planning. Now, in fairness, most of the German war planning documents were thought to be lost until Terence Zuber unearthed them in the late 90s and early aughts. Historians had to reconstruct it from what the German official history and German generals had said after the war. So, up to 1958, Anglophone historians faced a massive question mark as to what the German war plans had actually been, and generals like von Kuhl trying to excuse the failure of the Marne campaign were taken at face value.
...BUT...
Notice I said "until 1958"? The reason I said that is because in 1958 Gerhard Ritter's The Schlieffen Plan: Critique of a Myth was translated into English and published, and contained the actual Schlieffen Plan memo (you can find the book on archive.org - due to not being sure if it's in the public domain yet, I'm not going to link it). If Horne had read it, he would have realized very quickly that it wasn't a master plan for the quick defeat of France followed by a turn to the east to deal with Russia, but a hypothetical exploration of what it would take to beat France in a single-front war. There was still a massive question mark over much of German war planning that wouldn't be answered until Zuber started translating and summarizing documents (I will say that I think his translations and summarizations are invaluable, and his conclusions based on them are very faulty), but what the actual document contained was no longer a question mark.
The fact that Horne did not read this, but instead relied upon earlier reconstructions by Liddell Hart and Fuller is inexcusable. He equates the later war planning for a two front war with the Schlieffen memo, which was no such thing.
And, just to close, there's his statement in the reference notes that "After the passage of nearly half a century, there is probably little of value that has not yet appeared in print" - in fairness, this statement was clearly made in the early 1960s, when the book was first published. But, this isn't the original edition - this is the revised edition published in the 1990s, and it's a hell of a statement to make when the fall of the Berlin Wall made a bunch of German records that had been thought lost available to historians, and opened up the German side of the war in a way that had the potential to recontextualize EVERYTHING we understood about the war. There's quite a lot of value yet to be said in the 1990s alone, and this is still the case in the 2020s.
This is the problem with any book about the war written at a time when Liddell Hart was still actively poisoning the well of scholarship. But, that doesn't make it any less frustrating, particularly when one discovers that Horne is relying so much on received wisdom that he could have discovered was wrong just by bothering to track down the sources of the quotes he was using, most of which were in sources that were available to him at the time.
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Watching some Perun videos about the trench war in the Ukraine (and the "Verdun" of Bakhmut) got me to finally start reading my copy of Alistair Horne's The Price of Glory...and it's hard reading. I'm 25 pages in, and it's driving me up the wall.
So, for a bit of context: this book was first published in the early 1960s, and the revised edition that I'm reading was published in 1993. In his introduction, Horne states that in the intervening time, nothing really made him revise more than a couple of lines here and there...and it really should have done.
The amount of information that comes across as received wisdom (much of it from Basil Liddell Hart) is pretty staggering. More than once I've gone to the back of the book for his source notes to track down a direct quote to find no primary source for it.
For example, Grandmaison. Horne's depiction of Grandmaison is of a lunatic obsessed with the bayonet who had an "attack at all costs and regardless of the circumstances" approach. According to Horne, Grandmaison had no understanding of modern firepower. Now, Horne can read French - he has French language sources in his bibliography. However, he didn't actually bother reading any Grandmaison to chase down the source and see if the quotes were accurate.
If he had (speaking as the one who translated Training of the Infantry for Offensive Combat), he would have realized that Grandmaison understood the power of modern small arms quite well - he considered the ground in front of enemy field fortifications to be unsurvivable for any extended length of time. Infantry had to attack not because attacking was the only thing they were supposed to do, but because it was the only thing they could do that would stop the enemy from shooting them to pieces. The casualties would be costly in the attack, yes, but they would be total if the unit didn't attack.
Then there's the depiction of the pre-war French army. This is an army that Horne depicts as not having howitzers because they were considered unnecessary, and wearing the famous red pants to intimidate the enemy - AKA, completely disconnected from the reality of modern warfare. HOWEVER...both of these were issues the French army had been trying to solve for years before the war. The military notes in the RUSI Journal have announcements of French army uniform changes to get rid of the red trousers, followed by announcements that the trousers are actually being kept, every few month (it was, in fact, the French army fighting their personal Battle of Verdun against the French bureaucracy to put their soldiers in uniforms that didn't scream "Please shoot me!" to the enemy). And one of the excised chapters of the first volume of Joffre's memoirs covers his struggles to get heavy howitzers for the French army. The French army was not disconnected from reality here - they were trying to modernize in the face of a government bureaucracy that was dysfunctional to the point of lunacy.
And then there's Horne's treatment of Joffre, which is character assassination...and one that doesn't survive Horne's own text. He literally declares that Joffre was taciturn because, unlike Haig, there was nothing inside his head. He presents Joffre as being somebody who was not a military thinker at all...and then credits Joffre with calculating the timing just right for the counter-attack at the Marne that turned the battle. There is a massive contradiction here. Now, Joffre made his fair share of mistakes, but the bumbling idiot that Horne makes him out to be could not have saved France at the Marne the way that Joffre did. The degree to which Horne twists himself into a pretzel to try to reconcile these (and fails to do so) is pretty staggering.
But the thing that I find absolutely unforgivable is Horne's treatment of the German war planning. Now, in fairness, most of the German war planning documents were thought to be lost until Terence Zuber unearthed them in the late 90s and early aughts. Historians had to reconstruct it from what the German official history and German generals had said after the war. So, up to 1958, Anglophone historians faced a massive question mark as to what the German war plans had actually been, and generals like von Kuhl trying to excuse the failure of the Marne campaign were taken at face value.
...BUT...
Notice I said "until 1958"? The reason I said that is because in 1958 Gerhard Ritter's The Schlieffen Plan: Critique of a Myth was translated into English and published, and contained the actual Schlieffen Plan memo (you can find the book on archive.org - due to not being sure if it's in the public domain yet, I'm not going to link it). If Horne had read it, he would have realized very quickly that it wasn't a master plan for the quick defeat of France followed by a turn to the east to deal with Russia, but a hypothetical exploration of what it would take to beat France in a single-front war. There was still a massive question mark over much of German war planning that wouldn't be answered until Zuber started translating and summarizing documents (I will say that I think his translations and summarizations are invaluable, and his conclusions based on them are very faulty), but what the actual document contained was no longer a question mark.
The fact that Horne did not read this, but instead relied upon earlier reconstructions by Liddell Hart and Fuller is inexcusable. He equates the later war planning for a two front war with the Schlieffen memo, which was no such thing.
And, just to close, there's his statement in the reference notes that "After the passage of nearly half a century, there is probably little of value that has not yet appeared in print" - in fairness, this statement was clearly made in the early 1960s, when the book was first published. But, this isn't the original edition - this is the revised edition published in the 1990s, and it's a hell of a statement to make when the fall of the Berlin Wall made a bunch of German records that had been thought lost available to historians, and opened up the German side of the war in a way that had the potential to recontextualize EVERYTHING we understood about the war. There's quite a lot of value yet to be said in the 1990s alone, and this is still the case in the 2020s.
This is the problem with any book about the war written at a time when Liddell Hart was still actively poisoning the well of scholarship. But, that doesn't make it any less frustrating, particularly when one discovers that Horne is relying so much on received wisdom that he could have discovered was wrong just by bothering to track down the sources of the quotes he was using, most of which were in sources that were available to him at the time.
2023.03.22 16:42 Educational_Ad_4727 "Internship" Employer Refuses to Pay
To summarize, I got this software dev internship with some small entrepreneur in Toronto to create a webapp for him. I got this through linkedin, not through waterlooworks.
In the contract it was stated they would pay us twice a month, but they never have. They did pay us for the first 3 weeks of January, but sometime early in februrary via an etransfer - not even "payroll".
It's been nearly 2 months since then, he said he would pays us for Februrary and mid march on March 15th, but he still hasn't paid us. His reason for the first delay back in Februrary was because "the payroll company sucks" and that the current delay is just "payroll being processed". He said it would take 3-5 business days but it's been 5 business days by now?
It's us two interns, kinda unsure what we're supposed to do. They said they knew SWPP won't pay him his subidy until he fully pays us, but he's not paying us at all. I've stopped working cause I can't fathom how I could let someone get away with not paying me for 3 and almost 4 payment cycles, terms he put in his own alleged contract
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In the contract it was stated they would pay us twice a month, but they never have. They did pay us for the first 3 weeks of January, but sometime early in februrary via an etransfer - not even "payroll".
It's been nearly 2 months since then, he said he would pays us for Februrary and mid march on March 15th, but he still hasn't paid us. His reason for the first delay back in Februrary was because "the payroll company sucks" and that the current delay is just "payroll being processed". He said it would take 3-5 business days but it's been 5 business days by now?
It's us two interns, kinda unsure what we're supposed to do. They said they knew SWPP won't pay him his subidy until he fully pays us, but he's not paying us at all. I've stopped working cause I can't fathom how I could let someone get away with not paying me for 3 and almost 4 payment cycles, terms he put in his own alleged contract
2023.03.22 16:42 VaultOfSecrets188 Possible Additions
This app is pretty much the only way I ever use reddit and I can't find any app I like nearly as much. That being said there are 2 things recently that have been bugging me.
- I can't see picture descriptions
- I can't see gifs in the comments
I did not even know picture descriptions were a thing until recently when I started getting really confused at some posts, and it wasn't until I went on desktop I saw a picture description I couldn't see on the app. It is also annoying to have all the top comments be gifs and I am incapable of seeing them.
Other than those things, this app is the best I have seen by far.
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- I can't see picture descriptions
- I can't see gifs in the comments
I did not even know picture descriptions were a thing until recently when I started getting really confused at some posts, and it wasn't until I went on desktop I saw a picture description I couldn't see on the app. It is also annoying to have all the top comments be gifs and I am incapable of seeing them.
Other than those things, this app is the best I have seen by far.
2023.03.22 16:42 Able_Willingness4703 Discussed Promotion.. Next Step?
Hi all,
Looking for some advice on how to move forward with my current situation. I work in management for a pretty success company, and the way the structure was when I started a year ago was the two owners at the top, then one individual at the highest level of management, and then me and one other manager. The dynamic changed quite a bit relatively fast, both the other manager at my level and the manager above me left the company, and it was basically just me and one of the owners running the company. Things have been very good, I'm treated very well by my boss and pretty much anything that I need in terms of accommodations is met without any issue, I also feel very respected by my boss and the team that I manage.
We did hire one new manager who doesn't have nearly as much responsibility or as many tasks as I do, and people often tell me that I do just as much as the previous higher-up manager did before they left. The owners of our company are in the process of opening up a new location in the late Spring/early Summer, and I wanted to get an idea as to where I fit into the plan for the new company and even at our current one, so I had a meeting with my boss (one of the owners, the way our owners operate is that one is much more of an in-house person, while the other stays behind the scenes and is the money guy).
Before the meeting my boss asked me to think about where I want to go with the company and where I see myself, and after thinking it over I knew that I wanted to get as high in the company and in the industry as I can, outside of ownership (not opposed to it down the road, but I had my sights set on the upper, highest level management position for now). I told him that, he agreed that it would be a good idea and he's supportive of it and thinks I'd be the right person for the position. He mentioned getting the ball rolling soon in terms of me learning what I need to learn and deciding which current tasks I want to rid myself of as I'll be taking on new things as well. Me moving up would also require us to fill a lower-level management position.
So while he sounded entirely on board, he did mention that the other owner didn't see filling the higher management role as a priority like he did, which can be understandable because the in-house owner (the one who wants the role filled) actually spends time within the company and understands that he won't be able to do that when the new company opens. The owner I met with said he was going to discuss this with the other owner and felt he'd be able to convince him. This meeting was two weeks ago and while I've talked to my boss about normal things and what not, he hasn't mentioned anything about our conversation.
I don't want to seem needy or naggy or impatient, but I'm a little anxious to know if the conversation happened and what the outcome was. I'd assume if it did happen and the other owner was receptive, I would've been told by now. Do I ask if the conversation has happened? The owner I met with can be a bit scatter-brained and scatter-lifed, a ton going on and he jumps from project to project and I also remind myself that they are opening a new company in the next few months and I kind of shy away from the idea of asking.
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Looking for some advice on how to move forward with my current situation. I work in management for a pretty success company, and the way the structure was when I started a year ago was the two owners at the top, then one individual at the highest level of management, and then me and one other manager. The dynamic changed quite a bit relatively fast, both the other manager at my level and the manager above me left the company, and it was basically just me and one of the owners running the company. Things have been very good, I'm treated very well by my boss and pretty much anything that I need in terms of accommodations is met without any issue, I also feel very respected by my boss and the team that I manage.
We did hire one new manager who doesn't have nearly as much responsibility or as many tasks as I do, and people often tell me that I do just as much as the previous higher-up manager did before they left. The owners of our company are in the process of opening up a new location in the late Spring/early Summer, and I wanted to get an idea as to where I fit into the plan for the new company and even at our current one, so I had a meeting with my boss (one of the owners, the way our owners operate is that one is much more of an in-house person, while the other stays behind the scenes and is the money guy).
Before the meeting my boss asked me to think about where I want to go with the company and where I see myself, and after thinking it over I knew that I wanted to get as high in the company and in the industry as I can, outside of ownership (not opposed to it down the road, but I had my sights set on the upper, highest level management position for now). I told him that, he agreed that it would be a good idea and he's supportive of it and thinks I'd be the right person for the position. He mentioned getting the ball rolling soon in terms of me learning what I need to learn and deciding which current tasks I want to rid myself of as I'll be taking on new things as well. Me moving up would also require us to fill a lower-level management position.
So while he sounded entirely on board, he did mention that the other owner didn't see filling the higher management role as a priority like he did, which can be understandable because the in-house owner (the one who wants the role filled) actually spends time within the company and understands that he won't be able to do that when the new company opens. The owner I met with said he was going to discuss this with the other owner and felt he'd be able to convince him. This meeting was two weeks ago and while I've talked to my boss about normal things and what not, he hasn't mentioned anything about our conversation.
I don't want to seem needy or naggy or impatient, but I'm a little anxious to know if the conversation happened and what the outcome was. I'd assume if it did happen and the other owner was receptive, I would've been told by now. Do I ask if the conversation has happened? The owner I met with can be a bit scatter-brained and scatter-lifed, a ton going on and he jumps from project to project and I also remind myself that they are opening a new company in the next few months and I kind of shy away from the idea of asking.
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2023.03.22 16:42 mmascfc My experience with Zozo! Gonna be a long one folks!
About maybe 2 years ago, me and my girlfriend were on a Ouija board (baring in mind we were always respectful, we said goodbye and used protection spells before and after etc)
About a month after I started noticing things happening in the house and they were only happening to me due to me not being very strong mentally.
The first thing that happened was our knife block started to turn on the kitchen side, at the time , I had cardboard boxes in my hand and my girlfriend just walked into the room and saw it!
The second thing that happened was, I was in bed relaxing watching television and my girlfriend was fast asleep, in the corner of the room was my girlfriend’s facial steamer in a box, that was thrown across the room and none of us were near it, very scary experience
Our third experience was, me and my girlfriend were watching tv in the living room and we heard that the tap came on in the kitchen, I went in the kitchen and the tap was on full whack and none of us had been near it
I came home from work one day and I went into the kitchen and straight away a lucozade bottle got thrown across the kitchen.
At this point we both had enough and contacted a medium, a medium came round to the property and explained that a dark entity had left the board and attached itself to me and the house, he explained that the entity was lingering in the back room upstairs which was quite strange because every time I went in there, it felt like somebody was watching me.
The medium suggested that we do a seance that banished the entity. So we gathered all the materials we needed and me and 3 friends who are pageans started the seance, during the seance we had to hold hands and banish the entity using our voices, as we did this I could feel my hand slipping from my friends like somebody was forcing our hands apart, also in the corner of the room was loud bangs and our blind started moving.
It was very disturbing and scary at the time, I will not use an Ouija board again, it can be very dangerous.
For anyone wanting to use a board, please use at your own risk, even with the correct things in place, an entity still managed to escape the board
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About a month after I started noticing things happening in the house and they were only happening to me due to me not being very strong mentally.
The first thing that happened was our knife block started to turn on the kitchen side, at the time , I had cardboard boxes in my hand and my girlfriend just walked into the room and saw it!
The second thing that happened was, I was in bed relaxing watching television and my girlfriend was fast asleep, in the corner of the room was my girlfriend’s facial steamer in a box, that was thrown across the room and none of us were near it, very scary experience
Our third experience was, me and my girlfriend were watching tv in the living room and we heard that the tap came on in the kitchen, I went in the kitchen and the tap was on full whack and none of us had been near it
I came home from work one day and I went into the kitchen and straight away a lucozade bottle got thrown across the kitchen.
At this point we both had enough and contacted a medium, a medium came round to the property and explained that a dark entity had left the board and attached itself to me and the house, he explained that the entity was lingering in the back room upstairs which was quite strange because every time I went in there, it felt like somebody was watching me.
The medium suggested that we do a seance that banished the entity. So we gathered all the materials we needed and me and 3 friends who are pageans started the seance, during the seance we had to hold hands and banish the entity using our voices, as we did this I could feel my hand slipping from my friends like somebody was forcing our hands apart, also in the corner of the room was loud bangs and our blind started moving.
It was very disturbing and scary at the time, I will not use an Ouija board again, it can be very dangerous.
For anyone wanting to use a board, please use at your own risk, even with the correct things in place, an entity still managed to escape the board
- Keep chasing x
2023.03.22 16:42 Able_Willingness4703 Discussed Promotion.. Next Step?
Hi all,
Looking for some advice on how to move forward with my current situation. I work in management for a pretty success company, and the way the structure was when I started a year ago was the two owners at the top, then one individual at the highest level of management, and then me and one other manager. The dynamic changed quite a bit relatively fast, both the other manager at my level and the manager above me left the company, and it was basically just me and one of the owners running the company. Things have been very good, I'm treated very well by my boss and pretty much anything that I need in terms of accommodations is met without any issue, I also feel very respected by my boss and the team that I manage.
We did hire one new manager who doesn't have nearly as much responsibility or as many tasks as I do, and people often tell me that I do just as much as the previous higher-up manager did before they left. The owners of our company are in the process of opening up a new location in the late Spring/early Summer, and I wanted to get an idea as to where I fit into the plan for the new company and even at our current one, so I had a meeting with my boss (one of the owners, the way our owners operate is that one is much more of an in-house person, while the other stays behind the scenes and is the money guy).
Before the meeting my boss asked me to think about where I want to go with the company and where I see myself, and after thinking it over I knew that I wanted to get as high in the company and in the industry as I can, outside of ownership (not opposed to it down the road, but I had my sights set on the upper, highest level management position for now). I told him that, he agreed that it would be a good idea and he's supportive of it and thinks I'd be the right person for the position. He mentioned getting the ball rolling soon in terms of me learning what I need to learn and deciding which current tasks I want to rid myself of as I'll be taking on new things as well. Me moving up would also require us to fill a lower-level management position.
So while he sounded entirely on board, he did mention that the other owner didn't see filling the higher management role as a priority like he did, which can be understandable because the in-house owner (the one who wants the role filled) actually spends time within the company and understands that he won't be able to do that when the new company opens. The owner I met with said he was going to discuss this with the other owner and felt he'd be able to convince him. This meeting was two weeks ago and while I've talked to my boss about normal things and what not, he hasn't mentioned anything about our conversation.
I don't want to seem needy or naggy or impatient, but I'm a little anxious to know if the conversation happened and what the outcome was. I'd assume if it did happen and the other owner was receptive, I would've been told by now. Do I ask if the conversation has happened? The owner I met with can be a bit scatter-brained and scatter-lifed, a ton going on and he jumps from project to project and I also remind myself that they are opening a new company in the next few months and I kind of shy away from the idea of asking.
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Looking for some advice on how to move forward with my current situation. I work in management for a pretty success company, and the way the structure was when I started a year ago was the two owners at the top, then one individual at the highest level of management, and then me and one other manager. The dynamic changed quite a bit relatively fast, both the other manager at my level and the manager above me left the company, and it was basically just me and one of the owners running the company. Things have been very good, I'm treated very well by my boss and pretty much anything that I need in terms of accommodations is met without any issue, I also feel very respected by my boss and the team that I manage.
We did hire one new manager who doesn't have nearly as much responsibility or as many tasks as I do, and people often tell me that I do just as much as the previous higher-up manager did before they left. The owners of our company are in the process of opening up a new location in the late Spring/early Summer, and I wanted to get an idea as to where I fit into the plan for the new company and even at our current one, so I had a meeting with my boss (one of the owners, the way our owners operate is that one is much more of an in-house person, while the other stays behind the scenes and is the money guy).
Before the meeting my boss asked me to think about where I want to go with the company and where I see myself, and after thinking it over I knew that I wanted to get as high in the company and in the industry as I can, outside of ownership (not opposed to it down the road, but I had my sights set on the upper, highest level management position for now). I told him that, he agreed that it would be a good idea and he's supportive of it and thinks I'd be the right person for the position. He mentioned getting the ball rolling soon in terms of me learning what I need to learn and deciding which current tasks I want to rid myself of as I'll be taking on new things as well. Me moving up would also require us to fill a lower-level management position.
So while he sounded entirely on board, he did mention that the other owner didn't see filling the higher management role as a priority like he did, which can be understandable because the in-house owner (the one who wants the role filled) actually spends time within the company and understands that he won't be able to do that when the new company opens. The owner I met with said he was going to discuss this with the other owner and felt he'd be able to convince him. This meeting was two weeks ago and while I've talked to my boss about normal things and what not, he hasn't mentioned anything about our conversation.
I don't want to seem needy or naggy or impatient, but I'm a little anxious to know if the conversation happened and what the outcome was. I'd assume if it did happen and the other owner was receptive, I would've been told by now. Do I ask if the conversation has happened? The owner I met with can be a bit scatter-brained and scatter-lifed, a ton going on and he jumps from project to project and I also remind myself that they are opening a new company in the next few months and I kind of shy away from the idea of asking.
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2023.03.22 16:41 ThrowRAintothewild I (M28) keep hurting my partner (NB24) from other friendships
Hi everyone, thanks in advance for your help. I have been with my partner for almost 2 years now. It’s the healthiest relationship I’ve ever been in, but I’m terrified I am ruining it. We’ve been fighting more lately, and it is nearly all related to relationships I have with other people (primarily women). Some of them are ex’s turned friends, others are just longtime friends with some previous sexual tension, and a few others are just friends-plain and simple.
I have failed in the past holding my partners trust to the highest regard, and sometimes they feel suspicious and untrusting of me because of that. I’ve kept a couple stupid secrets (that had become fights with ex-partners, so I preferred not to divulge, but of course the details came out) and had a conversation about a swingers club with another girl (not intimately or about us but my partner asked about the conversation and I told them)—however, I would never EVER physically cheat on them, and feel for the most part I deserve their trust. That said, I absolutely understand why I don’t have it.
Last night, things got to a really bad point when it was revealed that I had been sending flirty messages to one of the people my partner feels insecure about. I honestly never felt like I was flirting, but in hindsight, reading those messages with my partner last night, I was sickened by my flirty tone and how badly it hurt my partner. I have no feelings for the other girl other than she’s my friend (and we text almost daily about the Wordle).
I am ready to end my wordle friendship for my partner, but am really scared of losing other relationships that mean a lot to me, including of course the one with my partner.
Idk if I have a specific question other than… what’s wrong with me? Why do I keep hurting my partner with these other relationships? Any general thoughts or advice? Thanks again ♥️♥️
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I have failed in the past holding my partners trust to the highest regard, and sometimes they feel suspicious and untrusting of me because of that. I’ve kept a couple stupid secrets (that had become fights with ex-partners, so I preferred not to divulge, but of course the details came out) and had a conversation about a swingers club with another girl (not intimately or about us but my partner asked about the conversation and I told them)—however, I would never EVER physically cheat on them, and feel for the most part I deserve their trust. That said, I absolutely understand why I don’t have it.
Last night, things got to a really bad point when it was revealed that I had been sending flirty messages to one of the people my partner feels insecure about. I honestly never felt like I was flirting, but in hindsight, reading those messages with my partner last night, I was sickened by my flirty tone and how badly it hurt my partner. I have no feelings for the other girl other than she’s my friend (and we text almost daily about the Wordle).
I am ready to end my wordle friendship for my partner, but am really scared of losing other relationships that mean a lot to me, including of course the one with my partner.
Idk if I have a specific question other than… what’s wrong with me? Why do I keep hurting my partner with these other relationships? Any general thoughts or advice? Thanks again ♥️♥️
2023.03.22 16:41 KamchatkasRevenge Out of Cruel Space Side Story: Of Dog, Volpir, and Man - Ch 188
The group outside of the cell that had been assigned to Indra was far more solemn than the joyful reunion the night before. Firi was nowhere in evidence. Not out of a fear of her birth mother, or a lack of will to confront her, on the contrary, Firi had shown a surprising amount of fire with her will to accompany Inara to confront the woman who had made her childhood and young adult life a living hell. As much as anything Jerry expected, Firi wanted her mother to see. To be forced to recognize Firi's success. Jerry wasn't sure a woman like Indra would do so, but Firi desired the opportunity to show her mother that she hadn't needed a damn bit of the 'help' her mother had inflicted on her.
Despite that fire, it also hadn't been difficult to convince Firi to stay with the kits. To focus on her litter and the rest of the family's children, and Firi had agreed that such matters were far more important than the two bit crook who professed to have whelped her's fate.
That left Evie and Syl, both as victims of Indra, and those experienced with dealing with her, but also in their positions as First Wife and Sky Mother. This was family business, as much as a matter for the justice system. Jerry existed then both as a potential agent of that justice system, but also as husband of the clan. He held an important position as tiebreaker and mediator when the triad that ruled a Volpir clan came to an impasse. Firi had signed her authority over to Inara on this incident, who was also the principal victim of the many, many crimes Indra had committed or attempted against the Volpir sisters that Jerry had married, and against Inara herself.
"Apparently she's been fairly quiet. No ranting or raving. No attacks against the guards when food's been brought to her. She got a stun stick across the ribs once when they were taking her bindings off and she's more or less complied after that. They've left her alone as I instructed. No interaction beyond food or in an emergency."
Indra had been placed in one of the isolated holding cells in the proper brig, not the mass facility where pirates were kept and processed either into an Undaunted recruiting process, or to a proper prisoner holding facility till they could be transferred to the Council police force or some similar authority that had an appropriate bounty on their heads. The iso cells were for especially dangerous, high value or vulnerable prisoners. They weren't uncomfortable. Just separate. Quiet. That could in theory be torture for some species, though the usual occupants of these cells had a steady stream of visitors. Interrogators from intelligence, medical professionals, enough to keep the mind somewhat stimulated and not descending into madness. The goal of the iso cells was protection, for both staff and prisoner, not torture.
Evie looks around. "Everyone ready?"
Syl takes a shuddering sigh. "As I'll ever be."
Far from the bright, vibrant and charming woman she'd been last night, Inara looked more like she was being taken into a morgue to identify the body of a dead loved one. Eyes wide, a pale look on her face that made her look far older than her body was. "I... Yes. I need to do this."
"Then let's go." Evie steps towards the door, and Jerry waves the MP who'd escorted them into the cells.
"Petty Officer, we're okay from here. This is family business."
"Yessir. Anything else I can do for you?"
"Tell central to shut down the cameras in this cell. This could get ugly, but not in the dangerous way. If I need support I'll trigger an omega signal."
"Aye aye sir."
Inside the cell Indra is pacing and snarling like a trapped animal, clearly already ready to attack again, seemingly eager to fasten her hands around any of their throats. The cell it self is divided down the middle by a light axiom field. As good as heavy duty glass, the force field would generate just before the wall and move forward, herding the prisoner, Indra in this case, across the room when someone needed to enter the cell to interact with the prisoner directly.
"I won't stand for this! Inara! Your bitch daughter has gone too far this time! I'm going to make you all pay damn it!"
Evie snorts. "Cut the crap. You lost. You aren't doing anything to anyone. We're here to determine what happens to you."
Indra rolls her eyes. "Oh please, I know my own bounty, a few years in prison and I'll be back doing what I do best."
"Be that as it may, but this is my ship, and you attempted to murder a woman in front of me."
"What would a man know about any of it?" Indra snaps.
"Enough that it would behoove you to listen before I skin you for boots woman... and just so you know I'm serious..." Jerry takes a slow breath, opening himself to the local axiom... and grins as Indra recoils back in horror. He was lethally serious and she knew it now.
"Th-the hell are you?"
"Human."
"Those ain't just a made up thing for some action porno?"
"Nope, and you just threatened two of my wives and my mother in law, so I'd maybe consider shutting your mouth for a bit and let Inara talk."
Indra, rattled by the raw emotion Jerry had put into the local axiom, seems to nod her assent to the whole 'shutting up' plan.
Inara takes that as her cue and steps forward. "Well. Actually I do need you to talk sister. I-" Inara's voice hitches a bit, her emotions plain on her face axiom or no axiom. "What did I ever do to you to make you hate me so?"
"What didn't you do!?" Indra spits. "Ever since we were girls you've looked down on me. Pitied me. Mocked me! It got to the point that I just wanted to hurt you. To take that mocking smile off your face permanently!"
Inara's jaw goes slack. "I-I. Look down on you? Indra I never-"
"Shut up! Everything would still be fine if it wasn't for you! I wouldn't be divorced just to start! All for a little whining over you getting what you deserved. And you will get what you deserve Inara, I swear it!"
Indra lunges forward, seemingly forgetting the axiom field until she hits it, pounding at it three times before an automatic stun beam drops her in a crumpled heap on the floor. The force field deactivates, and a small drone detaches itself from the wall, checking the prisoner's life signs and reporting them to Jerry and Evie's communicators.
Inara stands there for a few moments, frozen from the brief outburst of raw spite before she staggers over, collapsing to her knees next to her sister, struggling to find words.
"Oh my sister... what happened to you?"
"Some people are just like that in my experience, mother."
Syl's face is hardened, her tone clipped, her hands balled into fists. She clearly didn't even like being in the same room as Indra. She fights down the cold hatred and embraces Inara instead, warming herself up by comforting Inara and being comforted in turn.
Inara simply nods, the distraught look on her face making the whole room feel more gloomy before she looks up to Jerry.
"What will you do with her?"
Jerry shrugs, not entirely sure what to do for once in a blue moon.
"...I was going to leave that to you, Inara. She will come after you again eventually. I know we were going to offer you a place with us here. Still are. Hell we might even beg a bit. Gods know the girls could use Grandma's help with the kits and other kids, and it's not like we're running out of room... and even if we just... let her go. She'd have to work damn hard to get back aboard... and to get into the Den now that we have her genetic sequence? Near impossible."
Inara sniffs, tears welling up in her eyes as Syl supports her mother.
"I wonder where it all went so wrong sometimes. Indra used to have such a beautiful smile. She was the sweetest sister a girl could ask for. It was only when we started going through our advanced education that she became distant, and cruel. She began to focus on money and things... Those things never mattered to me, so she saw that as a challenge to what was becoming her way of life. Volpiri society can be harsh. Lots of backstabbing and politics. Even in the school yard. She joined the right cliques, moved in the right circles. She could get the right things, would do whatever she felt she had to... all to gain some modicum of power. Then she became... that. Whatever that thing is, that's wearing my sister's face. I had hoped when she had daughters of her own that it might help. Invited her into the marriage I'd joined with the first wife's assent... but it just seemed to get worse. Making her own daughters little monsters save Firi."
Evie steps forward. "It always struck me that she blamed pretty much everything that went wrong for her on you somehow. Goddess knows why. Some slight from childhood or deep insecurity. The terrible part is I had a deep bio scan done when she was brought in. She's not a monster. Not a real one. Not like that Talz creature. Her mind is fine structure wise. She's just... a terminal bitch for lack of a better term. Sorry for swearing mother."
"It's alright dear, I understand it's... appropriate at the moment. It's how I'd describe her too sadly. She made choices. Some good. Many bad. Her pride and vanity were always her greatest weaknesses, and any slight to those... well. She could be a cruel girl when we were finishing our primary education. Many girls go through that phase, I just. I suppose Indra never grew out of it."
Evie shakes her head. "Honestly I'm not sure if that makes this better, or worse somehow. At least if she was a monster there'd be some clear cut mandate or meaning. Still. We have to do something with her, and I don't think we can turn her over to planetary authorities. She's got a bounty, but she said it herself, it's only a couple decades of jail time at most. She'll come back. Sooner or later she will try to kill Inara again, and Inara can't just stay in the Den forever. We might not even be living aboard the Tear by the time Indra gets out of prison."
"So... what? We should just execute her? It's within my authority, she's a confessed attempted murderer, and she just tried again now..." Jerry frowns. "Inara... what do you think?"
Inara lets out a wracked sob as she pulls away from Syl, moving to embrace her sister's unconscious form. "Damn you Indra! Damn you, why did you have to..."
The tears flow freely now, decades of Indra's abuse rolling out of Inara's eyes as Syl slides back up to gently stroke her mother's back.
"I-I... while I understand that... executing her would likely be the best course of action I just. I can't let her go. For all her cruelty. For all her hate. I just can't give up on her."
Syl continues to stroke her mother's back, ears flat against her head, visibly stricken with her mother's pain... and her own, remembering her own torments at her aunt's hands. "W-what if... what if there was a third option? She... she wanted. She tried to erase your memories. We could... erase her memories. Regress her back to infancy. Just a kit. You said yourself mother. Aunt Indra, she made her choices. She could make better choices. In a healthy, safe, positive environment. A culture very different from our homeworld in Volpiri space."
Indra lets out another choking sob. "I. That... a second chance? That could. It might. No doctor or adept would allow such a thing though."
Syl shakes her head. "I suspect Cascka will help us. This is a family matter after all."
"What about her criminal record? Her past?" Evie, ever practical asks, her own voice wavering.
"She died on the Talasar Spire. Killed by the pirates. We haven't even gotten close to writing up that incident yet. Nadi can issue the birth certificate."
Jerry's tone, more level, even, reflecting his slight detachment from the situation at hand was still not entirely stoic. This was a woman who had tormented his wives for decades and their mother for at least a century. Cindy was in his thoughts too. Her mind had been destroyed over and over again... whoever Cindy had been though, she'd gotten a second chance. Her soul had gotten a second chance because she lived still. That meant something. It had to mean something. Did it make this any better though? There was no good solution. Only pain and heart break. This second chance. This rebirth, as monstrous as it might be to intentionally erase the memories, the life of another... to reset them back to zero... it was the only path with even a glimmer of hope in it.
"I... suppose we need to raise the Cindy question."
Inara cocks her head, looking over at Jerry. "That adorable little Kohb girl I had such wonderful cuddles with last night? What about her?"
Syl rests a hand on her mother's back. "Well we told you Cindy was adopted, and she was, but it was special circumstances, even for an orphan. Cindy, or more accurately whoever she used to be, was the victim of an organ harvesting operation. They more or less locked her in a healing coma for centuries. Ripping the organs out of her body and letting her heal again. She was rescued by an allied faction of the Undaunted, then Nadi and Jerry found her in a hall having a cry. The rest... well. Is history really. She's been Cindy Bridger ever since."
Inara sniffles. "Goddess, how horrible! That poor little girl! Still... at least she was rescued and brought somewhere her soul can hopefully recover from her ordeal. She certainly doesn't lack love in this household."
Evie chuckles. "That she doesn't. She's a great big sister now, even if she isn't the biggest sister any more, but Joan and the girls love their little sister almost as much as we do, so that's worked out beautifully. As to the Cindy question... I'd say this is different. We're not abusing or exploiting Indra. We're trying to turn back the clock and give her a second chance. It's a not an unknown punishment on worlds where the death penalty is outlawed if the person in question can be proven to not be psychologically deviant, and even then a targeted healing coma can potentially be life changing."
Syl nods. "Yes, I agree. This... it's perhaps monstrous, but no more monstrous than ending her life. Another option would be stranding her on some deserted world, but few of those exist. She'd be found and rescued eventually. Or she would die to the wilds... a death sentence, even if we're too cowardly to execute her ourselves. I- say we give her a second chance. It's not pretty, but if she really is healthy. If this is really just a result of her poor choices. Perhaps my aunt can yet be redeemed."
Jerry considers, then slowly nods. The decision felt heavy, but once made... it was at least better than killing Indra. "Who... will raise her then?"
Inara slowly raises a hand. "I... please. I'll take it upon myself. Please. Let me save my sister's soul. I beg you. I just... I don't want her to die. Not like this. Not as this monster. I'd give my own life if I thought it would help at all. To get to see her smile one last time."
"Alright. I'll get the paperwork started and bring some trusted help in. Evie, keep Indra unconscious. We'll take her, quietly, to Cascka's dojo."
First Next
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Despite that fire, it also hadn't been difficult to convince Firi to stay with the kits. To focus on her litter and the rest of the family's children, and Firi had agreed that such matters were far more important than the two bit crook who professed to have whelped her's fate.
That left Evie and Syl, both as victims of Indra, and those experienced with dealing with her, but also in their positions as First Wife and Sky Mother. This was family business, as much as a matter for the justice system. Jerry existed then both as a potential agent of that justice system, but also as husband of the clan. He held an important position as tiebreaker and mediator when the triad that ruled a Volpir clan came to an impasse. Firi had signed her authority over to Inara on this incident, who was also the principal victim of the many, many crimes Indra had committed or attempted against the Volpir sisters that Jerry had married, and against Inara herself.
"Apparently she's been fairly quiet. No ranting or raving. No attacks against the guards when food's been brought to her. She got a stun stick across the ribs once when they were taking her bindings off and she's more or less complied after that. They've left her alone as I instructed. No interaction beyond food or in an emergency."
Indra had been placed in one of the isolated holding cells in the proper brig, not the mass facility where pirates were kept and processed either into an Undaunted recruiting process, or to a proper prisoner holding facility till they could be transferred to the Council police force or some similar authority that had an appropriate bounty on their heads. The iso cells were for especially dangerous, high value or vulnerable prisoners. They weren't uncomfortable. Just separate. Quiet. That could in theory be torture for some species, though the usual occupants of these cells had a steady stream of visitors. Interrogators from intelligence, medical professionals, enough to keep the mind somewhat stimulated and not descending into madness. The goal of the iso cells was protection, for both staff and prisoner, not torture.
Evie looks around. "Everyone ready?"
Syl takes a shuddering sigh. "As I'll ever be."
Far from the bright, vibrant and charming woman she'd been last night, Inara looked more like she was being taken into a morgue to identify the body of a dead loved one. Eyes wide, a pale look on her face that made her look far older than her body was. "I... Yes. I need to do this."
"Then let's go." Evie steps towards the door, and Jerry waves the MP who'd escorted them into the cells.
"Petty Officer, we're okay from here. This is family business."
"Yessir. Anything else I can do for you?"
"Tell central to shut down the cameras in this cell. This could get ugly, but not in the dangerous way. If I need support I'll trigger an omega signal."
"Aye aye sir."
Inside the cell Indra is pacing and snarling like a trapped animal, clearly already ready to attack again, seemingly eager to fasten her hands around any of their throats. The cell it self is divided down the middle by a light axiom field. As good as heavy duty glass, the force field would generate just before the wall and move forward, herding the prisoner, Indra in this case, across the room when someone needed to enter the cell to interact with the prisoner directly.
"I won't stand for this! Inara! Your bitch daughter has gone too far this time! I'm going to make you all pay damn it!"
Evie snorts. "Cut the crap. You lost. You aren't doing anything to anyone. We're here to determine what happens to you."
Indra rolls her eyes. "Oh please, I know my own bounty, a few years in prison and I'll be back doing what I do best."
"Be that as it may, but this is my ship, and you attempted to murder a woman in front of me."
"What would a man know about any of it?" Indra snaps.
"Enough that it would behoove you to listen before I skin you for boots woman... and just so you know I'm serious..." Jerry takes a slow breath, opening himself to the local axiom... and grins as Indra recoils back in horror. He was lethally serious and she knew it now.
"Th-the hell are you?"
"Human."
"Those ain't just a made up thing for some action porno?"
"Nope, and you just threatened two of my wives and my mother in law, so I'd maybe consider shutting your mouth for a bit and let Inara talk."
Indra, rattled by the raw emotion Jerry had put into the local axiom, seems to nod her assent to the whole 'shutting up' plan.
Inara takes that as her cue and steps forward. "Well. Actually I do need you to talk sister. I-" Inara's voice hitches a bit, her emotions plain on her face axiom or no axiom. "What did I ever do to you to make you hate me so?"
"What didn't you do!?" Indra spits. "Ever since we were girls you've looked down on me. Pitied me. Mocked me! It got to the point that I just wanted to hurt you. To take that mocking smile off your face permanently!"
Inara's jaw goes slack. "I-I. Look down on you? Indra I never-"
"Shut up! Everything would still be fine if it wasn't for you! I wouldn't be divorced just to start! All for a little whining over you getting what you deserved. And you will get what you deserve Inara, I swear it!"
Indra lunges forward, seemingly forgetting the axiom field until she hits it, pounding at it three times before an automatic stun beam drops her in a crumpled heap on the floor. The force field deactivates, and a small drone detaches itself from the wall, checking the prisoner's life signs and reporting them to Jerry and Evie's communicators.
Inara stands there for a few moments, frozen from the brief outburst of raw spite before she staggers over, collapsing to her knees next to her sister, struggling to find words.
"Oh my sister... what happened to you?"
"Some people are just like that in my experience, mother."
Syl's face is hardened, her tone clipped, her hands balled into fists. She clearly didn't even like being in the same room as Indra. She fights down the cold hatred and embraces Inara instead, warming herself up by comforting Inara and being comforted in turn.
Inara simply nods, the distraught look on her face making the whole room feel more gloomy before she looks up to Jerry.
"What will you do with her?"
Jerry shrugs, not entirely sure what to do for once in a blue moon.
"...I was going to leave that to you, Inara. She will come after you again eventually. I know we were going to offer you a place with us here. Still are. Hell we might even beg a bit. Gods know the girls could use Grandma's help with the kits and other kids, and it's not like we're running out of room... and even if we just... let her go. She'd have to work damn hard to get back aboard... and to get into the Den now that we have her genetic sequence? Near impossible."
Inara sniffs, tears welling up in her eyes as Syl supports her mother.
"I wonder where it all went so wrong sometimes. Indra used to have such a beautiful smile. She was the sweetest sister a girl could ask for. It was only when we started going through our advanced education that she became distant, and cruel. She began to focus on money and things... Those things never mattered to me, so she saw that as a challenge to what was becoming her way of life. Volpiri society can be harsh. Lots of backstabbing and politics. Even in the school yard. She joined the right cliques, moved in the right circles. She could get the right things, would do whatever she felt she had to... all to gain some modicum of power. Then she became... that. Whatever that thing is, that's wearing my sister's face. I had hoped when she had daughters of her own that it might help. Invited her into the marriage I'd joined with the first wife's assent... but it just seemed to get worse. Making her own daughters little monsters save Firi."
Evie steps forward. "It always struck me that she blamed pretty much everything that went wrong for her on you somehow. Goddess knows why. Some slight from childhood or deep insecurity. The terrible part is I had a deep bio scan done when she was brought in. She's not a monster. Not a real one. Not like that Talz creature. Her mind is fine structure wise. She's just... a terminal bitch for lack of a better term. Sorry for swearing mother."
"It's alright dear, I understand it's... appropriate at the moment. It's how I'd describe her too sadly. She made choices. Some good. Many bad. Her pride and vanity were always her greatest weaknesses, and any slight to those... well. She could be a cruel girl when we were finishing our primary education. Many girls go through that phase, I just. I suppose Indra never grew out of it."
Evie shakes her head. "Honestly I'm not sure if that makes this better, or worse somehow. At least if she was a monster there'd be some clear cut mandate or meaning. Still. We have to do something with her, and I don't think we can turn her over to planetary authorities. She's got a bounty, but she said it herself, it's only a couple decades of jail time at most. She'll come back. Sooner or later she will try to kill Inara again, and Inara can't just stay in the Den forever. We might not even be living aboard the Tear by the time Indra gets out of prison."
"So... what? We should just execute her? It's within my authority, she's a confessed attempted murderer, and she just tried again now..." Jerry frowns. "Inara... what do you think?"
Inara lets out a wracked sob as she pulls away from Syl, moving to embrace her sister's unconscious form. "Damn you Indra! Damn you, why did you have to..."
The tears flow freely now, decades of Indra's abuse rolling out of Inara's eyes as Syl slides back up to gently stroke her mother's back.
"I-I... while I understand that... executing her would likely be the best course of action I just. I can't let her go. For all her cruelty. For all her hate. I just can't give up on her."
Syl continues to stroke her mother's back, ears flat against her head, visibly stricken with her mother's pain... and her own, remembering her own torments at her aunt's hands. "W-what if... what if there was a third option? She... she wanted. She tried to erase your memories. We could... erase her memories. Regress her back to infancy. Just a kit. You said yourself mother. Aunt Indra, she made her choices. She could make better choices. In a healthy, safe, positive environment. A culture very different from our homeworld in Volpiri space."
Indra lets out another choking sob. "I. That... a second chance? That could. It might. No doctor or adept would allow such a thing though."
Syl shakes her head. "I suspect Cascka will help us. This is a family matter after all."
"What about her criminal record? Her past?" Evie, ever practical asks, her own voice wavering.
"She died on the Talasar Spire. Killed by the pirates. We haven't even gotten close to writing up that incident yet. Nadi can issue the birth certificate."
Jerry's tone, more level, even, reflecting his slight detachment from the situation at hand was still not entirely stoic. This was a woman who had tormented his wives for decades and their mother for at least a century. Cindy was in his thoughts too. Her mind had been destroyed over and over again... whoever Cindy had been though, she'd gotten a second chance. Her soul had gotten a second chance because she lived still. That meant something. It had to mean something. Did it make this any better though? There was no good solution. Only pain and heart break. This second chance. This rebirth, as monstrous as it might be to intentionally erase the memories, the life of another... to reset them back to zero... it was the only path with even a glimmer of hope in it.
"I... suppose we need to raise the Cindy question."
Inara cocks her head, looking over at Jerry. "That adorable little Kohb girl I had such wonderful cuddles with last night? What about her?"
Syl rests a hand on her mother's back. "Well we told you Cindy was adopted, and she was, but it was special circumstances, even for an orphan. Cindy, or more accurately whoever she used to be, was the victim of an organ harvesting operation. They more or less locked her in a healing coma for centuries. Ripping the organs out of her body and letting her heal again. She was rescued by an allied faction of the Undaunted, then Nadi and Jerry found her in a hall having a cry. The rest... well. Is history really. She's been Cindy Bridger ever since."
Inara sniffles. "Goddess, how horrible! That poor little girl! Still... at least she was rescued and brought somewhere her soul can hopefully recover from her ordeal. She certainly doesn't lack love in this household."
Evie chuckles. "That she doesn't. She's a great big sister now, even if she isn't the biggest sister any more, but Joan and the girls love their little sister almost as much as we do, so that's worked out beautifully. As to the Cindy question... I'd say this is different. We're not abusing or exploiting Indra. We're trying to turn back the clock and give her a second chance. It's a not an unknown punishment on worlds where the death penalty is outlawed if the person in question can be proven to not be psychologically deviant, and even then a targeted healing coma can potentially be life changing."
Syl nods. "Yes, I agree. This... it's perhaps monstrous, but no more monstrous than ending her life. Another option would be stranding her on some deserted world, but few of those exist. She'd be found and rescued eventually. Or she would die to the wilds... a death sentence, even if we're too cowardly to execute her ourselves. I- say we give her a second chance. It's not pretty, but if she really is healthy. If this is really just a result of her poor choices. Perhaps my aunt can yet be redeemed."
Jerry considers, then slowly nods. The decision felt heavy, but once made... it was at least better than killing Indra. "Who... will raise her then?"
Inara slowly raises a hand. "I... please. I'll take it upon myself. Please. Let me save my sister's soul. I beg you. I just... I don't want her to die. Not like this. Not as this monster. I'd give my own life if I thought it would help at all. To get to see her smile one last time."
"Alright. I'll get the paperwork started and bring some trusted help in. Evie, keep Indra unconscious. We'll take her, quietly, to Cascka's dojo."
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2023.03.22 16:41 maxrunyon Earn $150 in 3 hours Testing Wearable Tech in NYC
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This project is located in Midtown Manhattan. Sign up, participate, and get paid this week.
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We are looking for individuals living in or near New York City, NY who would be interested in participating on-site in testing exciting new digital wearable technology.
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- You will be wearing and using technology on your arms and hands that will control a device through movement and manual inputs
- Participants will be required to give feedback on their experience with the device through a survey
- The time commitment for testing is approximately 3 hours
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2023.03.22 16:41 bruhynn Trans or dysmorphic?
This is my first post here, I’m sorry if my writing is all over the place. I’m ADHD and keeping my thoughts on track is damn near impossible.
I’ve recently been debating something regarding my identity, and I’d like some insight/advice. I’ve been really nervous to discuss this because it means taking time to self reflect and really face the music of a problem I’ve been lightly skirting around. For some context, I’m a 19-year-old AFAB person who has identified as non-binary for about 3 years. I can’t say “something’s always felt off about me” because I grew up in a very rural environment where everyone around me (except for maybe one or two people) was cisgender. However, when I turned 16 I moved out and began interacting with people of all walks of life and different gender expression and identity. This is when I finally took some time to reflect on myself and really think if this applied to me. Before then, any time I ever had any issues with my body or presentation I would immediately label it as dysmorphia and dismiss myself with the same thing my grandparents always told me: “you’re just being a teenage girl, those feelings will go away when you’re older.” They always had a saying like that to dismiss when I was having body or mental issues. When I moved, I started seeking therapy through my school, and overtime we made a “chart” of how my body image has changed. My thoughts went from “I’m too big/fat” (even tho fat is not a bad word/thing and plus size people are beautiful, it was just the only word I had to describe the feelings I had at the time) and “X part of me looks weird” to “my chest makes me uncomfortable, I wish my breasts were smaller so I could bind more easily” and “my hair is too long/makes me look effeminate” and “I wish I were taller”. I constantly joke about wanting to be/look like a twink, and my partner (who is also trans) eventually sat me down and said “I think you might be trans masc”. We looked over my general behavior including my reaching for more masculine clothing/silhouettes, the way I style my hair, the way I generally carry myself, the fact that I’ve only ever truly related to my male/nb friends, and a plethora of other habits and small details that would take me wayyy too long to write. I’ve talked to multiple medical professionals and I fall under the medical qualifiers for experiencing gender dysphoria (even tho we all know people can be trans without feeling dysphoria), but something feels off about my decision to start transitioning. I know that most everything hormone therapy can do can be reversed (I’ve made sure to have an “out” for everything thus far) and I start T on Monday, but I don’t know if my feelings are being trans or being insecure about my body. Most of my issues come from the fact that my body has certain traits (breasts, body fat in specific areas like my stomach, sides, and back, a rounded facial shape, and thighs that don’t look muscular despite being muscular) that are generally considered “feminine”. People also just generally treat me more like I want to be when I present more nb/masculine.
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I’ve recently been debating something regarding my identity, and I’d like some insight/advice. I’ve been really nervous to discuss this because it means taking time to self reflect and really face the music of a problem I’ve been lightly skirting around. For some context, I’m a 19-year-old AFAB person who has identified as non-binary for about 3 years. I can’t say “something’s always felt off about me” because I grew up in a very rural environment where everyone around me (except for maybe one or two people) was cisgender. However, when I turned 16 I moved out and began interacting with people of all walks of life and different gender expression and identity. This is when I finally took some time to reflect on myself and really think if this applied to me. Before then, any time I ever had any issues with my body or presentation I would immediately label it as dysmorphia and dismiss myself with the same thing my grandparents always told me: “you’re just being a teenage girl, those feelings will go away when you’re older.” They always had a saying like that to dismiss when I was having body or mental issues. When I moved, I started seeking therapy through my school, and overtime we made a “chart” of how my body image has changed. My thoughts went from “I’m too big/fat” (even tho fat is not a bad word/thing and plus size people are beautiful, it was just the only word I had to describe the feelings I had at the time) and “X part of me looks weird” to “my chest makes me uncomfortable, I wish my breasts were smaller so I could bind more easily” and “my hair is too long/makes me look effeminate” and “I wish I were taller”. I constantly joke about wanting to be/look like a twink, and my partner (who is also trans) eventually sat me down and said “I think you might be trans masc”. We looked over my general behavior including my reaching for more masculine clothing/silhouettes, the way I style my hair, the way I generally carry myself, the fact that I’ve only ever truly related to my male/nb friends, and a plethora of other habits and small details that would take me wayyy too long to write. I’ve talked to multiple medical professionals and I fall under the medical qualifiers for experiencing gender dysphoria (even tho we all know people can be trans without feeling dysphoria), but something feels off about my decision to start transitioning. I know that most everything hormone therapy can do can be reversed (I’ve made sure to have an “out” for everything thus far) and I start T on Monday, but I don’t know if my feelings are being trans or being insecure about my body. Most of my issues come from the fact that my body has certain traits (breasts, body fat in specific areas like my stomach, sides, and back, a rounded facial shape, and thighs that don’t look muscular despite being muscular) that are generally considered “feminine”. People also just generally treat me more like I want to be when I present more nb/masculine.
2023.03.22 16:41 ChunkeeMonkee83 Celebrity Spa, Kuta
...another vent.
If you're looking for any spa treatments, provably avoid Celebrity Spa on Jl Legian.
Went in for a 250k nail paint (already 180k more than the much cleaner Kimberly Spa next door that has just closed for the night).... they took it upon themselves to throw in a "manicure" and "hand scrub" (both were over in about 2 minutes) and charged me 550k.
My partner asked if they did waxing. He wanted his butt waxed we had seen prices around the 25-35k mark for men's bottom waxes in the region. 3 hours later, a severely bruised and burnt behind, he could barely walk... and they tried to charge us 2,500,000rp (that's $250 AUD) ... we had a stand off which ended in me throwing 450k on the bed and walked out.
They also gave him no.privacy...had him completely naked with the blinds open... our friends saw more than they ever needed to see of him. It was a horrendous experience.
Avoid if you can.
Also, a mouse was hanging out behind one of their paintings :p
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If you're looking for any spa treatments, provably avoid Celebrity Spa on Jl Legian.
Went in for a 250k nail paint (already 180k more than the much cleaner Kimberly Spa next door that has just closed for the night).... they took it upon themselves to throw in a "manicure" and "hand scrub" (both were over in about 2 minutes) and charged me 550k.
My partner asked if they did waxing. He wanted his butt waxed we had seen prices around the 25-35k mark for men's bottom waxes in the region. 3 hours later, a severely bruised and burnt behind, he could barely walk... and they tried to charge us 2,500,000rp (that's $250 AUD) ... we had a stand off which ended in me throwing 450k on the bed and walked out.
They also gave him no.privacy...had him completely naked with the blinds open... our friends saw more than they ever needed to see of him. It was a horrendous experience.
Avoid if you can.
Also, a mouse was hanging out behind one of their paintings :p
2023.03.22 16:41 FaithlessnessTotal43 Looking for a Fart meet up with Any gender-near/ from Liverpool MSG me if interested
im a guy(18) who is looking for anyone of any gender from/near liverpool in the UK who would be interested in meeting up for a fart session where id be down to try any other kinks aswell if we fart together if anyone is interested DM me
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2023.03.22 16:41 BioluminescentMemes More fan-alt-floor concepts for the Caves and Metropolis
I put together a few more little alt-floor ideas for the next two floors! Here ya go, tell me what you think!
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THERMAL VENTS
- Alt variant of the Caves, themed around a lush cavern filled with both water and lava everywhere. Almost jungle-like aesthetics.
- Diverse plant life has sprung up as the ocean above filters down into the molten depths of the Caves!
- Yog’s corruption hasn’t ignored this place, though, both the flora and fauna here are out to get you.
- Visually much greener and more vibrant than the standard Caves. Vines and plants line the walls and rooms are filled with rivers of water and lava!
- Dart Gnolls replace Gnoll Warlocks. While they’re far less durable than their magic brethren, they’re much craftier, fleeing the player like Scorpios while pelting them with darts!
- Like Warlocks, their sprites correspond to the type of dart they shoot. Red, Blue, Brown, and Purple.
- Darts can be Burning, Chilling, Crippling, or Poisonous!
- Gnoll Hunters replace Brutes. These heavyset enemies travel in groups of two like Ghouls; While they cannot Rage, care must be taken to kill them both quickly.
- If one Hunter of a pair is killed, the other will receive a very strong Rage-like buff until it dies, seeking to avenge its partner!
- Blind Bats replace Vampire Bats. These creatures have lost the ability to see, instead relying on sonar to track down adventurers.
- 25% more durable and 25% more damaging than Vampire Bats, same Vampiric effect
- Any movement or direct action near an awake Blind Bat will call its attention, even from far away, but standing completely still or throwing an object away from you can trick it, leading it away and making it vulnerable to ranged attacks!
- Swarm of Spiders replaced Swarm of Flies. Like the Flies, these tiny Cave Spiders split into two upon a successful hit.
- They cannot shoot webs anymore nor can they Poison you, but their attacks do Cripple! Extra care should be taken not to be overrun.
- City Guardians replace DM-200s and 201s. These more defensive DM variants hold slightly less potent offensive capabilities compared to their previous models but also possess the ability to buff and shield nearby enemies by up to 5% their max HP per turn!
- Will always spawn in rooms with other enemies.
- If less than 2 other enemies are present, it will heal/shield itself by 20% HP per turn. This amount decreases by 10% for each enemy present that it is shielding besides itself!
- Hot rooms will appear from time to time, filled with molten lava and plumes of smoke! Staying in these rooms for too long will slowly damage you similar to toxic gas, pay close attention to the debuff icon to tell when you need to cool down!
- Vine Lashers grow all around the floors, hiding in the lush grass of the Vents and crippling unwary dungeoneers. Like the quest Rotberry Plant, they have a central core, which must be destroyed to progress onto the next floor. Doing so will destroy all undefeated Lashers on the floor!
- Idol rooms will appear from time to time in this area. Picking up the shiny golden statue at its end will send a giant, spiked log rolling after, trying to crush you! Adventurers must take care to avoid dart traps and pits while they escape.
- Idols can be sold at the Shop for a hefty sum, providing a nice boost to your Gold count.
OLD KING'S PALACE
- Alt variant of the Dwarven Metropolis, themed around a regal castle that has fallen into heavy disrepair…
- Heavy use of ethereal shades of blue and cyan to contrast the standard red of the base Metropolis
- Like the Demon Halls, many rooms’ floors are half-broken and collapsed
- Each floor is structurally similar but still randomized, consisting of a basic dungeon layout within a large cylindrical “tower” framework hanging over a pit
- Long, wide bridges can appear on the cardinal sides of the tower on each floor (north, south, east, west) leading to exterior parapets that house special rooms
- After defeating the boss of the Caves, the player will find the path to the Metropolis beyond a wall of bluish, impassible flames. A doorway set into the brick wall to its left leads upwards…
- A powerful magical barrier blocks the player’s path into the Metropolis, and thus they must scale the palace of the Old King, standing on the ledge between the Caves and the Dwarven City, to find a way to dispel it.
- This zone of the dungeon goes up instead of down!
- Lost Souls replace Dwarven Ghouls. The spirits of these emaciated, frail remains of neglected Ghouls are only tenuously holding onto their cursed life after the New King’s fall… Even more agile and fast to attack, they no longer travel in groups. Instead, they will explode with damaging dark energy and turn into angry Wraiths when killed.
- Newborn Elementals replace most Elemental types. The potent magic left unchecked in this place gives birth to a steady stream of these! Each type will apply their respective debuffs even if it’s the player attacking them, so extra care must be taken dealing with these. They’re not quite as dangerous as the Wandmaker Quest elemental, though.
- Crazed Warlocks replace Dwarf Warlocks. No longer possessing their Degrading magic, these warlocks instead fling bolts of potent, damaging dark energy that temporarily lower your maximum HP by 10%, but they have much stronger melee attacks compared to their other counterparts. The debuff doesn’t stack.
- Tainted Monks replace Dwarf Monks. Left without purpose after the Old King’s fall, their bodies have become increasingly tainted by demonic energy from below. They can no longer Focus, but their attacks are just as deadly, and can inflict Crippled and Bleed.
- Overgrown Golems replace Golems. Though they possess only 75% the health and armor of their more well-maintained counterparts, attacking these creatures directly may trigger a harmful plant effect.
- Elemental Spawners appear on each floor; while they aren't required to progress, defeating them stops a steady flow of new Newborn Elementals from spawning.
- Magical pylons can appear in rooms similar to the ones in the DM boss fight. These will shield all enemies in the room from damage until they're destroyed.
- Royal Armories and Royal Libraries replace their typical special room types here, containing rarer and more powerful items and consumables. They're also considerably more ornate
- Probably some other special rooms I haven't thought of yet
- The boss here is not the Dwarf King, but the spirit of the Old King!
- Like his less-benevolent successor, the Old King guards the depths below, but wishes not to directly cause you harm; instead, he insists that you are tested for your might, as he refuses to dispel the seal to the demon-infested Metropolis for anyone short of a true hero.
- The fight proceeds quite normally to the typical Dwarf King fight but atop the Palace, with a sheer drop to the depths of the Caves on all sides…
- The main focus here are the waves of Palace enemies, with four of them of increasing intensity until the King deems you truly worthy.
- Warnings will flash throughout the fight as the King prepares potent magic, sending powerful gusts of wind through the arena that will cripple you at best and throw you off the sides at worst! This won’t always kill you, but will send you back to the previous floor with typical falling damage. Get behind the abundant pillars in the battlefield to avoid these attacks.
- Beating the King’s trials will have him grant you his Crown, allowing you to pass unhindered into the Metropolis. However, the King passing on causes the magic holding up the Palace to become unstable, the entire structure crumbling with each passing second…
- Escape! Once you go back to the previous floor a five-minute timer will begin to count down, granting you a few short minutes to flee the Palace before it falls apart and buries you.
- Ankhs will break if the time runs out during the escape sequence. Unblessed ones add an extra +30s to the timer, blessed ones add +90s.
- Once you reach the bottom, you can finally pass into the final area of the game.
2023.03.22 16:41 KNIGHTMARE098 I have hit a wall...
So I have recently started playing Skyrim again after my last save files got deleted. Wasn't that far on my first playthrough either, was at the part where you come face-to-face with Alduin for the first time ever with Party Snax. My first playthrough was very linear with main focus being the main storyline, maybe that's why it got deleted or its some Daedric sorcery who knows ?
This time round, I have chose to ignore the Main Questline for now. I am just doing side-quests, faction quests, etc. Even got the Nightingale Set (And no, I am not a stealth Archer, I use Molag Bal's Mace for Sithis's sake), now doing the Dark Brotherhood Questline. I am level 25 with a Heavy Mage-Knight Build.
What I also have been doing is hunting Dragons with a passion. I see a dragon and it will be dead no matter what. I actively hunt for them on the lands of Skyrim, drenching the soil with their blood and eating souls.
But this one time, something strange happened. I was just casually Dragon Butchering when I came across Shearpoint. I saw the dragon mark and decided to follow it. Saw a Dragon and did what I do best i.e. slaughtering and mauling it. Once dead, something unusual happened. I didn't devour its soul, the dragon was dead but intact, it didn't turn to a skeleton mess and I got no soul. And to those who are wondering if I came across the Dragon Priest near the wall with the shouts, I did. I fought and I died. I tried again and I got my ass kicked, I tried using Sanguine Rose against him but he turned my Daedra against me. Managed to throw him off the cliff so he wouldn't bother me, learned the shout and ran away.
Now the the wall in question is : 1. What is wrong with the dragon and what should I do ? 2. What is up with Krosis and how to deal with him ?
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This time round, I have chose to ignore the Main Questline for now. I am just doing side-quests, faction quests, etc. Even got the Nightingale Set (And no, I am not a stealth Archer, I use Molag Bal's Mace for Sithis's sake), now doing the Dark Brotherhood Questline. I am level 25 with a Heavy Mage-Knight Build.
What I also have been doing is hunting Dragons with a passion. I see a dragon and it will be dead no matter what. I actively hunt for them on the lands of Skyrim, drenching the soil with their blood and eating souls.
But this one time, something strange happened. I was just casually Dragon Butchering when I came across Shearpoint. I saw the dragon mark and decided to follow it. Saw a Dragon and did what I do best i.e. slaughtering and mauling it. Once dead, something unusual happened. I didn't devour its soul, the dragon was dead but intact, it didn't turn to a skeleton mess and I got no soul. And to those who are wondering if I came across the Dragon Priest near the wall with the shouts, I did. I fought and I died. I tried again and I got my ass kicked, I tried using Sanguine Rose against him but he turned my Daedra against me. Managed to throw him off the cliff so he wouldn't bother me, learned the shout and ran away.
Now the the wall in question is : 1. What is wrong with the dragon and what should I do ? 2. What is up with Krosis and how to deal with him ?
2023.03.22 16:40 Joewis75 Any repair shops or individuals near Seattle for reel to reel?
Hey guys, it was suggest to me by the kind folks at reeltoreel/R to come over here and post to see if anyone is near the seattle area that can repair reel to reel machines.
The guys on the forum said i have most like an Akai M5 which was given to me by one of my customers and im sure its in need of repair.
Any help greatly appreciated thank you.
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The guys on the forum said i have most like an Akai M5 which was given to me by one of my customers and im sure its in need of repair.
Any help greatly appreciated thank you.
2023.03.22 16:40 FaithlessnessTotal43 Looking for a Fart meet up with Any gender-near/ from Liverpool MSG me if interested
im a guy(18) who is looking for anyone of any gender from/near liverpool in the UK who would be interested in meeting up for a fart session where id be down to try any other kinks aswell if we fart together if anyone is interested DM me
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2023.03.22 16:40 van1llawithsprinkles Drunken Ex-Stepfather Tales
Hey community of dads 🫶🏻 I’m really not sure how to write this out, honestly. I just found this subreddit, and felt the urge to start writing. If this is too much or too chaotic, don’t worry about responding. This is only my first post ♥️ This is going to end up being really long if I know anything about myself, so buckle up.
Growing up, I was lucky enough to have two dads in my life. My mom divorced my dad and remarried when I was between 5-7, which was really hard for me since I’ve always had a deep connection with my biological father. But I loved my stepdad (let’s call him Anders), and he was an amazing support with my own dad living over 3,000 miles away.
We had some great years. Anders was with me for over a decade. I grew up in a house full of alcohol, which I now know was because of his influence- but at the beginning, my mom was the one who drank herself into oblivion and would become abusive towards me. Anders was a safety net; he was my home. He’d take me out on long drives, or spontaneous trips to the movies when my mother’s dialogue towards me became unbearable, and he’d coach me on how to maintain my sense of self worth while being surrounded by that sort of energy. He saved my life too many times to count. My dad was always my best friend growing up, but Anders was a close second. My girlhood dreams of the perfect wedding included them both walking me down the aisle.
Things started changing rapidly as I got into my preteen years. Suddenly, I was noticing aggression between my mom and Anders. I knew that my mom loved to pick fights to cause little arguments, especially when she had been drinking, but this was different. This was all Anders- in the way he’d grab my mother’s arm to pull her from the room, the expression lurking in his eyes, and the dialogue he’d start spewing in the direction of anyone who came near. I started to see that Anders had been just as much of a drunk this entire time. He was just skilled at hiding it.
I’d prefer to not go into much detail about this part, but for a few years, he was very physically abusive. I can’t count the amount of times I threw myself between him and my mother, begging him to leave her alone. For a while, that worked, but after a time, he became frustrated with me for getting into his way. I started to receive some of his blows, and my whole life went up in flames.
By this time, my father had moved into the state to be “closer to us,” (a lie, but not the point.) My dad comes from a very dark background, and even though I knew he’d protect me, part of me wanted to keep Anders safe from the things I had seen and heard my dad do over the years. So I remained silent for the better part of two years, until I got too scared to go home anymore.
My friend encouraged me to go see the school officer, to speak to a position of authority who may be able to help or offer some advice on where to go next. What he told me, though, is that “men have the right to discipline their children in their own house.” I was shocked and scared, because I’ve read books and seen movies where people get met with that sort of response, but I guess I hadn’t thought that it actually happens.
Less than a week later, everything fell apart. In November of 2017, my ex stepfather came home from work drunk and started rampaging around out home, breaking things and hitting my mother. I was asleep, and got woken up by my little sister shaking and bawling. I don’t want to go into details, but I locked my little sister in the bathroom with instructions to call the police, and I went downstairs.
I’m going to put the rest into comments, because it isn’t letting me post the entirety due to my rambling. If this is already too much: entirely understandable, and thank you for reading this far ♥️
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Growing up, I was lucky enough to have two dads in my life. My mom divorced my dad and remarried when I was between 5-7, which was really hard for me since I’ve always had a deep connection with my biological father. But I loved my stepdad (let’s call him Anders), and he was an amazing support with my own dad living over 3,000 miles away.
We had some great years. Anders was with me for over a decade. I grew up in a house full of alcohol, which I now know was because of his influence- but at the beginning, my mom was the one who drank herself into oblivion and would become abusive towards me. Anders was a safety net; he was my home. He’d take me out on long drives, or spontaneous trips to the movies when my mother’s dialogue towards me became unbearable, and he’d coach me on how to maintain my sense of self worth while being surrounded by that sort of energy. He saved my life too many times to count. My dad was always my best friend growing up, but Anders was a close second. My girlhood dreams of the perfect wedding included them both walking me down the aisle.
Things started changing rapidly as I got into my preteen years. Suddenly, I was noticing aggression between my mom and Anders. I knew that my mom loved to pick fights to cause little arguments, especially when she had been drinking, but this was different. This was all Anders- in the way he’d grab my mother’s arm to pull her from the room, the expression lurking in his eyes, and the dialogue he’d start spewing in the direction of anyone who came near. I started to see that Anders had been just as much of a drunk this entire time. He was just skilled at hiding it.
I’d prefer to not go into much detail about this part, but for a few years, he was very physically abusive. I can’t count the amount of times I threw myself between him and my mother, begging him to leave her alone. For a while, that worked, but after a time, he became frustrated with me for getting into his way. I started to receive some of his blows, and my whole life went up in flames.
By this time, my father had moved into the state to be “closer to us,” (a lie, but not the point.) My dad comes from a very dark background, and even though I knew he’d protect me, part of me wanted to keep Anders safe from the things I had seen and heard my dad do over the years. So I remained silent for the better part of two years, until I got too scared to go home anymore.
My friend encouraged me to go see the school officer, to speak to a position of authority who may be able to help or offer some advice on where to go next. What he told me, though, is that “men have the right to discipline their children in their own house.” I was shocked and scared, because I’ve read books and seen movies where people get met with that sort of response, but I guess I hadn’t thought that it actually happens.
Less than a week later, everything fell apart. In November of 2017, my ex stepfather came home from work drunk and started rampaging around out home, breaking things and hitting my mother. I was asleep, and got woken up by my little sister shaking and bawling. I don’t want to go into details, but I locked my little sister in the bathroom with instructions to call the police, and I went downstairs.
I’m going to put the rest into comments, because it isn’t letting me post the entirety due to my rambling. If this is already too much: entirely understandable, and thank you for reading this far ♥️