Hello,
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2.5 years ago I saw a girl that fit my type exactly and I ended up asking her out and we hit things off right away to where we agreed to be boyfriend/girlfriend after the first date, the chemistry was that good.
The first year of the relationship I was just kind of a bad person and that led to her crying a lot.
The last 1.5 years, it was more due to me being a bad person that caused her to cry a lot. I put this girl through the ringer, including telling her "I don't miss her" (not with bad intent; I just didn't feel her void in my life yet on that vacation), telling her "you look Amish" after she got all dressed up once (I might have mild Asperger's?; not sure) and more socially unaware episodes like that.
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She broke up with me in May after I let my room get disgustingly dirty due to depression, and feeling like I wasn't listening to her. She ended up taking me back after a few days, after I promised to be better with cleaning, listening to her, and trying Adderall. After she took me back, I just remember looking at her with the most admiration I've ever looked at anyone in my life and being so grateful to have another chance with her.
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We had a good summer living together; there was a few conflicts because she had to teach me how to do a bunch of chores that I never learned at home. I did my best to change for her and to be cleaner, but I was starting at such a deficit that it ended up causing a lot of problems.
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We agreed to try to do long distance the last 4 months and I ended up getting very complacent with our relationship. I would travel 8 hours to see her every few weekends, which I was proud of, but in terms of the long-distance parts when we were away, I totally neglected to Facetime her and didn't really enjoy listening to how her day was. We would facetime for like 15 minutes total some weeks.
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There were a few incidents in particular that upset me, like when I neglected to wash her $80 bikini after it accidentally ended up going home with me after our vacation and it ended up getting mold, getting her a birthday gift a few days late (because i was so obsessed with getting the perfect one) and just generally not listening to her.
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When she came to visit me two months ago, I ended up losing her prescription at a pharmacy 3 minutes away because I went to a nearby store to try to get her sprinkles for ice cream we had back at home. She said that was a turning point and it led her to viewing me as incompetent. (I have ADHD that I couldn't take medication for due to bad side effects).
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Well, after that, we talked for a few weeks after and we decided to give it one last try, where I went up on a first date with her two weeks ago. She said it felt "hollow" and that though she was content, it did't feel right (no shit, we were broken up for 6 weeks) and then the next day I ended up crying in front of her asking for another chance. After that didn't work, we ended up spending the last 2 days together, where I was pretty aloof and rude, which I regret being. I ended up kind of being a nuisance the last two days.
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She ended up texting me later saying "before, I never thought the chances of us getting back would be 0. Now, though, seeing how much better my life is without you, it is 0."
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As unbelievable as it sounds, I never really acted maliciously, I am just pretty emotionally stunted and immature. Now I'm really down because this girl treated me perfectly with such tremendous patience, checked all my boxes (like seriously, every one--she was out of my league) and I mistreated her to where I will never have a chance with her again.
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The way I was raised, a partner was someone you enjoyed spending time with and got gifts for, as opposed to someone that you learn the intricacies of their every day life and learn about their day and bake them gifts, etc.
I'm now realizing that regardless of my next girlfriend, I'm going to have to do that emotional labor anyways and listen to how their day was, but now I'm bummed because it will be the same cost for what I can't imagine to be as good of a reward.
I'm just sad how little of a chance I gave us. I wish I could go back, be on my meds, listen to her, and maybe be cleaner. Maybe then, we would have had a chance.
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Now, it feels like I crashed a Lamborghini as a five year old, and now I'm gonna have to settle with driving a Prius to work later (and do my best to forget that I ruined my chance of a Lamborghini).
TL;DR: I mistreated my ex due to some immaturity, wish I had been able to go back and take my ADHD meds and maybe give us a chance.

^{I have been lurking on reddit for a long time so I can kind of guess the responses I am going to get from this.. but if you want to criticize, please do it in a constructive way, please do not immediately start attacking me or my family. I really need to vent.
And I've titled every part so you can skip those that don't interest you. I've laid as much info as I thought might need to be less biased.}
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I am 25F, I have a mother (55+), father (60), and a brother (32). I love Liam (26M). We've been friends for 4 years, been in a relationship for about 1.5 years.
I live with my parents. In our culture, living with your parents at my age and taking care of them is normal.
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Background:

From childhood, my mother has considered me her best friend, and so did I. I used to share EVERYTHING with her, and so did she. She knew all my friends, she knew my all my plans with my friends, she knew when & what I was doing - because I always kept her informed about my whereabouts as she seemed to be mostly cool with it. I considered her pretty open-minded about everything, my friends love her. And from her I knew how shitty our relatives was, some in-depth info about the relationship with her & my father, how she actually feels about my brother (long story), and many other "family" stuff which I doubt any mother tells their daughter.
My father is very chill but very protective of me. He has always been a great father who has always gave me & my brother advises about life in general, in every stage of our life. It is always a delight every time I talk to him about any serious issue. He has had a rough childhood which I feel has made him a wise man he is today. I have always considered him to be calm, kind, and understanding, and I have huge respect for him. I just never had that "best-friend" kind of relationship with him. We do have a good relationship, but just not as close as my mother.
With my brother, it is a bit different. we've never gone past the "joking sibling" phase. Hard to explain - I feel okay to joke around with him, but we've never had any serious convo about anything. We'd share the movies we've seen, share new music we've explored, joke about how the lady next door walks like a sloth - but never about how is his job going or why he is feeling depressed and does he need someone to talk to, or why I am crying because I was overthinking some stuff, or how our childhood went together... we never talk these things which now makes me sad.
Liam is who I love. He has been a great friend from the very beginning, he has helped me in a way I never thought I needed help with. I always had self-image issues, my confidence level was low and for that I wasn't doing very good at my career. It is only him that I got to explore the confidence in me, and this is all before we got into relationship.
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Where the issue started (as per me):

My view of my mother was always like "she's a victim of injustice and I need to back her up". I always sided with her about everything because the way she usually tells stories, that makes the other person look bad. She has always told me that my father was very doubtful of her when she talked with his male friends, father always got angry when she wanted to spend money on something, other relatives "talked shit" directly to her and they mean bad for her etc. One bad habit of her was this, she used to talk bad about father a lot.
Now, I am not even defending my relatives because I know they're not good people. But for my father.. it was not really believable whenever she said those things, but I believed her anyway. Idk why.
Also my family, ESPECIALLY my mother is very opposed to love marriage. Can't really blame her, she grew up in a way where, at any age, getting invovled romantically with a boy meant a forcefull marriage to another boy which the family chooses for her. It didn't happen with my mother, just pointing it out so you can get an idea of her mindset about love & relationships. She always sees it as a bad thing.
So, as I mentioned earlier, I shared everything with my mother. In 2021, when I first got into relationship with Liam, I thought it'd be cool to share it with my mother. And I did. At first, she was very much acceptable about it. At one point, she straight up told be "I'd happily accept Liam as our son-in-law, i have no problem!" I was beyond happy! Mind you, at that point she didn't even know him, never saw a picture of him.
I used to inform my mother everytime I went with him. She seemed cool with it.
But then idk why, things went south. One day last year, I was about to go out with Liam, and before that my mother was yelling at my brother for some reason. And then suddenly all the heat turned to me. I was the one getting yelled at because I am in a relationship against her will. I was at complete lost. I argued back with her, that he is a good man and you should meet him before coming to any conclusion. She just went nuts. I still went out that day, and after that I stopped sharing everything with her.
A lot of drama has happened after that incident. The very next day, my father, for the first time ever, cried infront of me. Calmly saying "I have shifted my focus from building my career to something detremental and by doing so I have destroyed their dreams" My mother always dreamt that I will get a high paying secure government job, instead I am doing a somewhat good paying job in web development WHICH I LOVE DOING but just in private sector. I am also doing freelancing which adds up to my earning. I have stopped trying for govt jobs because that's really hard to get and I don't want to put all my energy in doing something I don't really want to do. They think I am destroying my career.
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Current situation:

For the past year, me and Liam were dating in private. His family also didn't know about me, but he always said that his mother & father won't have any problem with our relationship. And it turned out to be true actually, 2 days ago he informed his parents about me and I talked with his mother over a phone call. She made it clear that if me & Liam are sure and think that we can live with each other, they don't have any kind of problem with me.
I told my mother last week about talking to Liam. She agreed but said she will only talk to his parents. I was like "okay" and then arranged a call with them. She talked with his mother, the conversation was going good. At one point I heard she said "Oh I am so greatful that I have a friend now!" and Liam's mother laughed. I was beyond happy that my mother was finally convinced!
But after she put the phone down, she went to trash talk about Liam's mother. "His mother will be viscious mother-in-law, I know it. She will make you (me) work like a slave and I know you will not get to keep your job after marriage. They will make your life hell" so on and so forth.
Before all this, me & Liam have had very long and multiple conversations about all stuff like - if his family has any problem with me working after marriage, if his family expects me to cook for the whole family without any help at first, does his family supports love marriage, will his family expect me to cut ties with my parents after marriage. if his family likes girls at all (he is a single child), how financially stable we need to be in the long terms, how we're going to handle finances, investing and stuff, we've talked about our children, our medical conditions... like all the stuff that we consider is vital for a marriage. So I was pretty clear about him, and so was he.
It baffles me how after 3 days of talking to his mother, my mother still continues to say bitter things about him, his family, his neighbours even, without even knowing him properly! I don't know, I feel to distant with her. I am not angry with her in any way, I truely understand where she's coming from. I am just disappointed in her that she's not even considering that I love him, before saying all that hurtful things.
And my father, he has finally accepted my decision. Though he is not in full support of it, he says to me "Just make sure you're happy afterward. Because that is the only thing my heart wants to see".
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The part that changed my perception:

During all these situation, I have got to talk with my father a lot. I have realised how much similarity Liam and my father has, which makes my heart warm for some reason.
My father has given me advises that I hope my mother would have gave me. Now that I am considering marrying Liam, my father told about his own experiece after marriage. He told me how understanding we both (Liam & I) have to be in order to have a healthy marriage. How I need to handle the bad days because they are inevitable. How we both should handle different opinions, different views. How I should be respectable to his parents as I am to my parents.. and many other things he told me yesterday.
During which, he mentioned, that jealousy is a valid emotion in a marriage, especially in the beginning. He said, Liam will and have all the rights to get jealous if you spend time with you male friends alone and without his knowledge. And vice versa. An example he gave, how my mother argued with him when he talked to a female infront of my mother, and my mother got sooooo angry that they argued like crazy.
That made my head go upside down.
I always thought my mother was the "open minded" one. SHE was the victim of being doubted with male friends, SHE was the one with whom father would argue because of it.
Mind you, my father don't know about the stuff my mother used to tell. He then continue to told other things also, which then made very much sense to me.
I remember I have heard my mother twist some words about some things to my father, and my father being upset and I never understood why.
I remember she saying about a person that "he's bragging about his son being in medical field so that I can be jealous" to which I thought he was just informing about his son, not bragging, because it was my mother who asked about his son.
Recently, she straight up villainized Liam's mother. Because as per her, Liam's mother rudely said "I don't want your agreement in our children's marriage" which is straight up lie! I was their when they were talking over a phone and the way Liam's mother said it to my mother was "actually I think they are old enough to decide for themselves, and I don't think Liam needs my permission to do what he wants" that was what Liam's mother said.
My mother, after the call, was furious about it. And I said it to her "may be you've misunderstood" and then my mother proceeds to tell me that "Oh now I am the liar?? She's the good one, I am the bad one??" And then smiled sarcastically and went away. I felt so horrible about it.
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My brother:

There's nothing to mention about him, really. He's a 32 year old, doing everything my mother says, have a unreasonably high temper which gets triggered by smallest things, posts sad content on Facebook and bitches about a neighbors to my mother. That's it.
Unaspiringly he opposes the relationship as well. He had one relation which failed because my mom interfered in his life. The girl wasn't good in my opinion but I think it should have been him to end it all, instead of my mother getting involved unreasonably. He was 26-27 at that time so he should have been more than capable of this.
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After thought:

I am not villainizing my mother. She is my mother and I love her, very much that I am willing to do everything to care for her and get the life she wanted from her childhood. I look for her when I get back home, I look for her the first thing when I get up in morning, I look for the regular tea breaks in afternoon where we used to gossip about stuff and laugh together.
But I am honestly tired of feeling guilty over the expectation my mother have of me. Overtime, I did something that is out of her expectations, she made sure that I know she's upset. I felt horrible every time, I felt I don't deserve to live even. I have gotten so depressed over it 2 years ago, that I had to take 1 week leave from office just to sit in house and think about how horrible daughters I am.
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Mom, just so you know, I have gotten over it. I have gotten over the guilt that I have trapped myself in for a very long period of time. I might regret my decision to marry Liam against your will in future, or not, I don't know. But I sure as hell know that when the time comes that I have to leave this house, I will miss you. A lot. I cried last night just thinking about a life without your voice, your ocaasional kiss on my forehead, the way you fix my dress before a big event even though we argued prior to that. I know that I care about you from the bottom of my heart, and I hope that one day you see the light in all your dark & negative thoughts. I love you.

Hi, I've been in a relationship with my GF about 2 years now. It's been mostly good, but there are some issues.
We're from different cultures, but that mostly isn't an issue. The largest issue is her parents do not accept me as I am not from theirs, so they have gone no contact with her. That is a huge issue, but we're dealing with it the best we can.
Second issue is, I've always been very open about my life and discuss things with people freely, asking for advice from people I love and trust. She is not that way, and prefers things to be private between us. This has led to me, unfairly, complaining about her to people in my life, which caused a huge rift. I'm promising not to do that, and hopefully this advice request does not violate the spirit of that... But it feels weird not to be able to talk to my family about my life.
Last big issue is, she read my text messages to a friend while I was sleeping one night, and found me complaining to him about her(before I really realized the harm it was doing. I get it now), and he was also complaining about women, and used a phrase like "I'm tired of these hoes", basically conveying he was tired of women in general. When she read this, she took it as him calling her a whore and me not standing up for her. It was course inappropriate language, but I do not believe he meant it personally against her. She does not want to see him because of this, and I feel she does not want me to, but he is my best friend of 15+ years at this point. I am unsure what the resolution is. We both want to continue the relationship, as we have a very good one in general, but she seems a bit more unhappy recently. I just am unsure what to do. Can I salvage the friendship and relationship?

Hello everyone and thanks in advance. I just moved into a new house and I tried to turn the water off to one toilet and I think the shut off valve was broken because water still kept flowing. So I turned the water off to the whole house and installed a bidet(this process went fine but there was a lot of water coming out of the supply line.
I turned the water to the house back on, the bidet worked perfectly with no leaks. This was in the guest bathroom.
Then I went to use the master bathroom and there was hardly any water in the toilet. I flushed it once and the toilet overflowed with water.... I cleaned everything up once it stopped and then took a look at the guest bathroom. This toilet now had hardly any water and when I flushed it, the water filled to the brim of the toilet.
Should I call a plumber or is this an easy fix? I'm hoping since I shut the water off things will resolve itself once the water levels are back to normal
Edit: changed a misspelled word

I'm 17 and still sometimes mix up "a, u, o" mostly when copying from the board. Sometimes "h, n" too. I used to confuse "y" and "u" when I was small. I kind of know four languages and I don't have this problem w/ Sinhala & Tamil. It's only English, French and any language with Latin letters, yk. I also unknowingly change the side of the accent in French when writing. I stutter under stress and when I'm too excited. It's hard for me to say words with similar sounds in a row. But I wasn't delayed in reading. I read my first real novel at age 6. I hold the pen and the paper the wrong way. My French teacher has always come after me about my writing but now a lot of new students join our scl for A/Ls and I feel really embarrassed when she calls out on me in front a bunch of kids I don't know and THEY LAUGH. I also feel, when I'm dealing with books for too long without a break the words are kind of shifting off the page like they are zooming in and it's really uncomfortable. My mom will think I'm crazy if I say this to her. Is this dyslexia or something?

Two weeks ago, I started taking 30mg Vyvanse the very same day I quit vaping and switched to nicotine patches. I thought changing two things at the same time would distract me from wanting to vape and help with any brain fog. But (I made another post about this) Vyvanse feels super subtle to me. It definitely helps a bit, but not in an intense way at all. It's almost like it just relaxes me and this helps me focus. I'm still on step 1 of nicotine patches (21 mg a day). Could this be interacting with the Vyvanse?

I'm planning to go back to college this fall and I'm really anxious about trying to do school and work at the same time. My parents wouldn't let me get a job in high school because they wanted me to focus on my studies, and the one semester I did try of college went horribly even with it being my only responsibility so I'm kinda going in blind. I'm definitely planning on being frugal, just need to work enough to afford rent and contribute to groceries. Any jobs yall would recommend or strategies to manage my time/energy?

I have a question about muscle growth. I have been lifting for about a year now and have made great gains in strength, but I only get about 10 to 15% more gains in muscles after a month of lifting. The only reason I'm asking this is because I've always been worried I wasn't seeing the best results because I was still adding muscle weight, so when I started I was still adding about 0.5-1.0 lbs a month to body weight. So now I'm worried about the best time to start bulking again, so I know after a year I'll have gained a LOT more muscle.
What should I expect to see a year from now when I start lifting again? Is it still going to be a slow progression? I am looking to see my body change more than I'm seeing now, and I know I'll have to work a lot harder than I am now to make that happen. I'm starting to think it's not going to happen, and I'm going to have to work even harder than I am now if I want the muscle gains I want.
I know I'm going to have to be really careful with eating to make this happen, and I'm going to need to go to a higher calorie diet than I am now. I'm also going to have to work hard at the gym when I do it. I've always been a very sedentary person, and I still am, but I have been getting out of that mindset and looking to do more work to increase my muscle mass. Is there anyway I can improve my training so I can lift heavier and get bigger, but still be careful with my diet? Should I look to do a lot of cardio?
Thanks for reading, and if you have any advice please PM me. Also, I'm a male, 5'6" and 190lbs.

Does anyone know of a good OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software that could read scanned images of trading cards, detect the name of the card located at the top of the card while ignoring the card text, and either rename the file to the name of the card or provide an output of multiple filenames with associated name of card? Currently I scan the card with my document feeder scanner, then put on file preview and tab through them all on rename typing the names in manually (I'm fast at typing but this gets old after a few hundred) but there has to be a way to automate this.
Ultimately I want a folder of images of the cards with the filenames being the title of each corresponding card. If renaming isn't am available function then I want a folder of image files say 111.jpg 112.jpg and a file with spreadsheet showing which file is which card title. Eg. 111.jpg Pikachu

So I'm a very risk averse player and never made it out of the 50s. I don't tend to snap and rely on the opponent to do it even if I'm fairly confident. I feel like I end up losing 1 cube than risking 4.
Now it could be because I suck as well but is it possible to get far with this kind of approach? Any tips on how I can improve?
Also, I've never run with a destroy or discard deck outside of challenges. Could they help with progressing faster? I'm running Patriot at the moment.

My exhaustion, anxiety, high standards and low effort are all ruining my life. I let the whole day outside of work pass me by. I don’t workout anymore, I take all of my feelings out on food and then beat myself up for allowing myself to make the less healthy choice. I sleep as much as I can. I feel exhausted all of the time. I constantly feel like I’m on a time crunch. I feel like I missed the boat in life. I realized all the things I wanted to do too late and I don’t need to hear the “it’s never too late” bullshit because for some career paths, it just is and that’s the reality I have to face. I’m digging myself deeper and deeper and I know I am but I can’t STOP. Im going to ruin my life. I see myself doing it. Im going to lose my fiancé and my dog and my roof. I can’t drag myself out of this. I wake up late, I binge eat, I tell myself I’ll start tomorrow, I don’t clean because I slept in too late and now I’m out of time and I need to get ready, I cry my eyes out because weeks go by like this and then maybe my shits together for a week and I prep my food and stay on the house and get to work on time and I can get up at 7 instead of 10 and I can workout every day and wash my hair more than once every week and a half. I feel so lost. I don’t know who I am anymore. I can’t stop spiraling and I know I sound insane. I’m just so sad and lonely and anxious feeling all the time and I feel like such a FAILURE. God, help me.

Hi there! (Is C.C./Feedback the right flair?)
So for the past few months, I've been working on a board game that combines elements of wargames and 4X games. The game is 2-player only at the moment, but I'll probably look into 4-player integration further into development.
Throughout the game, players control their own medieval empire, which seeks to expand their territory and kill the enemy. There are multiple ways to win the game, but I'll ignore this for now.
The board is composed of hex tiles, some of which have special properties. There are water tiles where units must build bridges to pass over. There are resource hexes like Forests and Fields, where players can collect resources like Wood and Food respectively. These resources can be used to build settlements and train armies.
Speaking of armies, each player's army is composed of 'units.' Each unit has an HP count, representing the damage it can take before it is destroyed. They also have a certain amount of action points called 'Energy' which can be used to move, attack other units, and use special abilities. Oh yeah, there's also types, which are essentially the class of unit it is, like a Polearm, Bow, or Cavalry unit.
Each attack has its own type, denoting the type of damage it does. For example, a Bow type unit will use a Bow type attack. The purpose of the types is to denote the strengths and weaknesses of a certain unit, like how a Polearm unit will decimate nearby Cavalry units and how it would be defenseless against Bow units.
Overall, I find unit types integral to the flow of the game. I want the game to be heavily focused on strategy, meaning that players should have to make the right choices and play the right unit types to gain an advantage. Sort of like Pokemon and their types, if you want a comparison. But right now, I'm having a game design roadblock where I can't decide on what mechanics to use for this strengths/weaknesses concept. Currently, I do have a mechanic on how dice are used in calculating damage, which can be found at this link. Hopefully, this gives you a general idea of the way I imagine strengths and weaknesses will work. The only problem is that I don't know if this would work on a massive scale. It would definitely take a long time to (1) decipher the cryptic rulebook, (2) roll the correct dice, (3) calculate the damage according to the dice, (4) add damage counters to the targeted unit, and repeat this 50 or so times in a single game. It just seems like a lot. I want the game to be as newbie-friendly as possible, and this will certainly discourage them from playing.
Any help is greatly appreciated, and if there are other subreddits I can post this to, that would be appreciated as well! And if you would like to follow the game's development, DM me and I'll share the Trello board with you. It's a working mess in progress :)

m22, been doing art freelance for the past two years, seen some progress but generally just unsure how to go about achieving the goals i have for it. If i had to say my long-term goal, it would be the ability to still enjoy drawing whilst at the same time being able to support myself and those around me. A pretty generic goal with a very ambiguous way of going about completing it, which has led to many nights feeling paralyzed over not knowing whats the next step that i should take to ensure im making progress on it.
Unlike traditional jobs, in the grand scheme of things there is no big red arrow pointing towards a pay-raise, promotion,steps to the new big goal, etc. because its all just me, nobody else to hold my hand through this thing, and while im not afraid of the instability that can come with this, i am unsure what my next steps are. Of course ive done several things to figure out how to, but some days i just come up empty, like nothing ill ever do now will help me make it to the next step. Maybe thats on me for making a goal i know i cant achieve, but i dont know any other way to describe it then how ive done so already, so yeah, thats how i feel rn.

So I'm nearing the end of my dedicated. The thing is, I never opened FA. Do you think I'll be ok for the exam, if I don't go over FA? I felt like BNB, Uworld and sketchy covered most of the material tbh. Any feedback on this is appreciated. I already pushed my date to second week of April.
Also, does everyone start second guessing their prep close to their exam date?

I recently bought a Lectric XP 3.0 thinking that it would be small enough to tuck away on my boat, but while I fell in love with the convenience and ease of this bike, it's just not going to be a good fit in the space I have for storage after all. Just too awkward and too heavy to be constantly lifting up and storing on board. I'll bring that one back home and use it here.
The only bike that really gets small enough is the Brompton. It is also well built enough to take the elements better, I believe. Buying a used one and adding power over a brand new one will probably get me a few extras and save about $1k or more. I'm looking at importing a ARCC or nano kit to convert, but wondering what model is best. Brompton's ebike in the US uses the 6sp, but wondering if other configurations would work as well or better? I'm seeing a couple used on the market locally, but they are single speeds or 2 speeds.
This is going to be a basic errand running ebike. I'll rarely need more than 10 mile or so range.

Dating apps have made us sooooooooo judgmental these days. Swipe left because a woman is "ugly". Swipe right cuz she is 🔥. Read the actual profile.... ❌ ya right....
If someone really is searching for a genuine connection like myself who cares about looks?
I wouldn't describe myself as Channing Tatum but I'm no Shrek either for those who may question this post.
Things I am or enjoy -outgoing -extrovert -happy go lucky -home owner -single never married no kids(want kids) -Dog dad -sports enthusiast -poker player -lover of card games and board games -terrible movie watcher -honest / genuine / loyal -small biz owner -very mobile (can live/work anywhere in the WORLD) -semi bilingual (haven't used it since college 😒
That's enough for now
Looking forward to any and all responses

Hear me out, lot of people been clowning on Big Mom because Kid was tanking her attacks, but let me get this straight: Lot of different things make someone strong. Be it endurance, durablity, speed, AP.
If the spoilers are indeed true, and Shanks really did defeat Kid with one attack, this only implies that Shanks has better AP (ability power) than Big Mom. However, Shanks is a normal human. He doesn't have the durable body of BM or Kaido. If pre timeskip Luffy punched him, he might bleed. (Just like how Garp bleed after Luffy punched him in the face)
Again, I'm not making a statement on who is stronger, I'm just saying that we shouldn't automatically jump to the conclusion that Shanks is stronger than BM.
But who knows, my post might age like milk.

So maybe 8-9 years ago my grandmother had given me D28 that was from 68 or 69 from what I remember. At the time I didn't know or appreciate the value of the guitar. It had the bridge lifting extremely badly. I believe it also had some cracking though the top. I ended up selling it and buying a Taylor that I liked a lot. At the time this was great and I had no remorse.
As time went on I started thinking about the martin a lot and wishing I had kept it and had it repaired. Over the years it became one of my bigger regrets in life.
Recently I started a new job and a man I got to know talked about selling his house. For whatever reason I randomly asked him if he was selling anything else amd if he played music or had any instruments (I know, what are the odds I randomly ask that? I can't help but think maybe we had talked about music playing music in a previous conversation and it sat in my subconscious). So turns out he has a d28 he would he willing to part with. I told him about my story and how I always regretted selling mine and I'd love to buy his.
He told me he bought it maybe 40 years ago so I figured it was maybe from the 80s. I was still very very excited to get one again. As time went on he sent me pictures and eventually I asked for the serial number.
It's a '67. And I basically loose it. It just seemed way to strange how it was all working out.
The day came where I bought it and upon opening the case I could not believe what I was seeing. The guitar was in absolutely amazing condition.
So I guess the take away from the story is you don't know if you don't ask. I can't believe how life basically returned me one of the biggest regrets I've had.
The guitar is now in a shop. I'm having a neck reset and a few other things done to it. If nothing happens to it I plan to keep the guitar and cherish it. Life is very strange but beautiful.

I'm 14m rn and I used to be really fucking loud and likable and could genuinely talk just by doing it and without thinking. but since the start of the year and a lot of last year ive slowly become more introverted and less confident. like now i can sit next to someone for 15 mins and cant think of shit to talk about and i don't know why. i used to enjoy talking to people and be dead social but now i just want to go home and listen to music.I spent the last year trying to be "more normal" and now i feel like ive become boring. the only people who actually appreciate me are the people who knew the old me well. and honestly i don't know how to get out of this rut even if it is a rut like ive tried doing the normal things like focusing on myself, praying to god, working out,taking cold showers meditating and i still feel like I'm preferring my own company rather than other peoples more and more. Ive done or am doing all the shit i always wanted to do and just feel like ive lost the main reason people liked me and a huge chunk of my personality.Its not even a question of self confidence since I'm a really confident person in general and am fine with a lot of things.I just don't know how people even talk now. What should i do?