Hello redditors!
Any and all suggestions appreciated.... I'm currently living in the centre of Manchester (Ancoats) and have been here just over 6 months. When my lease expires (Mid October) I'd like to try living outside the city. I go hiking often mostly in the peak district so ideally somewhere out that way, but anywhere with nice walking nearby would do. I'm newly single and at some point when I have outside space want a dog and to live in a place with nice countryside but also a few restaurants, good pubs and near a train station.
I'd likely need to come to work 4x week in Manchester so somewhere with a direct train is ideal, though I do have a car for when the inevitable strikes and cancellations happen.
I own a house in the Midlands which I'm renting out and my plan would be to sell it and buy something once I find somewhere I can imagine myself settling. I've decided that's not central Manchester, though I do enjoy it here.
Places I like the look of: Todmorden, Littleborough, Glossop, Marsden... anywhere else I'm likely to be able to find a 2 bed flat/house rental. I know in the smaller villages they're few and far between. Budget would ideally be not more than 1000/month.
Long post, appreciate anyone who got this far!

North America
The first quarter saw a continued decline in the Ammonium Chloride Prices in the US market as a result of the sharp drop in raw material costs, which also had a significant impact on the price of ammonium chloride in the US market. The statistics show that the price of feedstock natural gas decreased by about 15% throughout the last quarter, and this trend continued in the current quarter. The decrease in feedstock costs allowed manufacturers to offer discounts to entice offtakes from downstream niche consumers, which had an effect on pricing trends in significant importing nations like India and some European countries. The operating rate remained positive despite the fact that there was still a labor shortage in the US market.
APAC
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Europe
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My mom currently lives in GA at SLA and wants to transfer to the Tampa location. However no matter how much research I’ve done I cannot figure out where this place is.
It’s not on google, so I called and the lady and she said they have two locations, one in Tampa and one in Jacksonville.
Me and my mom have been separated since 2019 and I would really love to have her back.. but she works for Publix and doesn’t drive, so if she moves down here she would need to be close to a Publix.
Is there anyone who can give me a general vicinity - or zip code? Does anyone know where the heck this place is so I can figure out if we will be close?
Thank you so much to anyone who read this far and wants to help me and my mom be reunited.

Mud and rain accompanied Edmund and his new companion as they walked along the railway track, exiting the tunnel and seeing the familiar broken railway bridge up ahead. Edmund motioned for Artur to duck behind the nearby rusted train carriage with him. Dozens of military men walked around up ahead, moving around equipment and talking amongst themselves. The lack of military stalkers worried Edmund. It was clear whatever was going on, the military were keeping it as clandestine as possible.
“You seen much of what these lot have been doing Artur?”
“Actually yeah…” Artur muttered, “Given that my previous posse figured me for a pussy I often got scouting duties. They figured if I didn’t have it in me to kill anyone, I could at least play lookout. They’ve been moving stuff around now for at least 3 weeks. Seem to want to lock cordon down tighter than a nun’s-”
Edmund interrupted the bandit before he could finish his vulgar quip.
“Three weeks you said?”
“Yeah man, three.”
Edmund’s sense of unease only increased, acutely aware that the massacre that had befallen his comrades had happened more recently than whatever it was that the military were doing.
“Ok what else Artur?”
“I dunno man. Just seen them moving weapons, including some turrets and the like. Seems like they are trying to fortify the bridge as their spot.”
“Whole of Cordon probably…”
“You reckon?”
“Yeah, they’ve got Agroprom and likely the swamps now, maybe have finally taken the train yard too. Mercs also gave them access to some of Dead City.”
“Fucking hell…you think they’re trying to take the zone?”
“Not all of it no, further north and to the east are still much too dangerous for whatever little forces Ukraine’s government can spare to go losing military in. If they were able to take the place in one go, we wouldn’t be here gallivanting around. It’s no secret the military simply does not have the funding or power to take the whole zone. Furthermore, from what I’ve heard from outside sources taking the zone is not popular for domestic policy and any politician who would have to explain to a mother why their run of the mill soldier son died in chernobyl would be out of a job in an instant.”
The cogs turned in the young bandit’s mind as he listened to Edmund’s very brief lesson on military politics in the zone.
“Thus why, other than the odd spec ops or military stalker, the military are content just to police the borders and stop people entering?”
“Exactly.”
Edmund began moving motioning for the bandit to follow as they darted to a nearby tree, then a boulder, moving as stealthily as they could. The bandit was hardly trained in stealth, but he was not clumsy neither, something that gave Edmund a small level of comfort.
“What’s the plan?” Artur whispered.
“Observe for now. Want to see if there is a way we can sneak past. A guard not paying attention or a swapping of post.”
Artur bit back the urge to ask Edmund what if no opportunity came. He did not want to piss off the one person who may be his ticket to getting out of the zone and he found that he oddly trusted the man, even if it was only due to seeing first hand what he was capable of.
Minutes turned into tens of minutes as the time passed, but no opportunity seemed to present itself. Military men were looking in all directions and Edmund had spotted no less than 32 men milling around, under and above the railway line, setting up defenses and otherwise just keeping watch.
Edmund looked at his watch, it would only be around another 2 hours until nightfall.
“Get comfy but not too comfy, we’re going to need to wait a few hours.”
The two men spent the next two hours waiting behind the rocky outcrop they had nestled behind with two completely different reactions. To Edmund, waiting for hours in one spot was nothing new, hell it was part of his training before he entered the zone. Artur was much less comfortable, constantly readjusting to stave off pins and needles, a mixture of boredom and anxiety making him constantly toss between wanting to do something and wanting to do nothing at all. Eventually night fell and lights that had been set up near the bridge swept the area, the noise of generators working off in the distance.
“Fuck man, they have spotlights?”
“Easy Artur, still much easier to get around than the light of day. Now get ready to run and stay low.”
“The fuck?” Blurted out Artur in panic. “Thought you said we were going to sneak?”
“No, what we are going to do, is run like fuck after I kill the lights ok?”
“You sure man?”
“Yes Artur, I’ve been watching these so called ‘soldiers’ for two hours and not spotted a single night vision device between them. They are about to go from eyesight adjusted for 1000 lumens to complete darkness and let me tell you those torches won’t show enough.
Two spotlights swept over toward the rookie village and two toward the direction of garbage. Only the former would need to be dealt with. Edmund took a breath, having already analysed exactly where he needed to shoot. The Mosin Nagant he had scavenged was not suppressed, so it would be immediately obvious that shots would be fired after the fact.
“Artur, down the grass, under the bridge and then back up form the right and beeline it to the outside of the Cordon, that’s where we’re going ok?”
Artur nodded wordlessly, a lump in his throat as he knew how dangerous things were about to get. Two Mosin Nagant shots rang out, everything left of the bridge being plunged into darkness as the two men ran as fast as their bodies could take them. Shouting ensued behind them, but the utter darkness of night and the long grass seemed to conceal them as short ranged flashlights shone hopelessly over random spots avoiding the two men. No shots rang out, but this did nothing to ease the two men’s feelings. Artur had already picked himself back up from a fall he had not even felt as they sprinted for under the bridge, careful to also stay away from the farmhouse. Edmund could afford himself a brief glance as they sprinted by. The farmhouse was definitely inhabited by military, a sizeable force although at a glance not as large as that of the bridge. Artur let out a yell, panickedly falling backward onto the ground. The blunder likely saved his life, an equally startled military man shooting above Artur where he was previously standing. Edmund had already shot the man in response, the bark of a sawed off killing what Edmund presumed was a scout of some kind. He hauled Artur up, barely breaking stride to quickly put another slug into the fallen military man’s skull to finish him off.
The two kept running, gasping from the exertion. Substance abuse had hardly been kind to Edmund’s body and Artur had never exactly trained his running much in life. Still, the two were fit enough to press on, emerging over the hill and seeing the glow of fires as nearby men chatted.
Thank fuck, Edmund thought to himself. The chatter was that of untrained men and as the two men approached the entrance, Edmund could see the mismatched clothing of Loners occupying the village.
“Freeze!” Yelled the guard stationed at the front, his sawed off drawn.
“Easy.” Edmund replied, through gasps of air. “Just trying to get away from the conscripts”
“And?!” The guard yelled sarcastically clearly on edge. It dawned on Edmund he was dressed up like a stereotypical bandit and so was his companion.
“Ah I get it man, I look like a bandit huh?”
“Yeah, you fucking do, put your guns down.”
“He’s not a bandit!” Artur piped up. “I am, so I’ll put mine down-”
Edmund admired Artur’s sudden bravery in sticking up for him, but motioned for him to keep his gun on him, now not being the time for him to try anything. Thankfully others had come over to see what all the ruckus was about, including Wolf.
“Wolf, get this rookie to ease off the trigger before he blows my fucking head off by accident.” Edmund ordered him.
Wolf was not sure who this bandit in front of him thought he was to order him around, but figured such a level of authority was worth at least hearing out. Wolf lowered the shotgun in the man’s hands.
“Did everything right keeping the gun trained on him, but we can relax now.”
The loner guard took the hint, relaxing his stance as the sawed off now pointed much less threateningly at the ground.
“How do you know who I am?” Wolf asked.
“Because I literally know you Wolf, just can’t reveal my identity for…well I can’t even tell you that until we are in private.”
“And why would I let you go in a room with only the two of us there?”
Edmund raised his hands walking slowly to Wolf as Wolf pulled out his pistol and aimed. Edmund was unfazed, walking slowly and calmly as he approached Wolf and whispered in his ear.
“It’s me, Edmund.”
Wolf holstered his pistol as quickly as he drew it, easing up at the sound of the name. He did not know Edmund a great deal, but had met him enough times to know he was an ally and a capable one at that. Wolf turned and addressed the rest of the Loners.
“These two are friends and are to be treated as such.”
With that one sentence, all guns were holstered, most loners simply returning to their fires, the more curious ones watching and listening. They would have to stay curious, Wolf ushering Edmund and Artur into a more private bunke basement of the area. The two men had a lot to discuss and Edmund owed Wolf an old favour…
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Editor's note: Something a little less emotionally heavy given the last chapter. Not to say the theme will turn particularly happy, but the heavier stuff will take a backseat to conventional action and mystery...for now...

So I recently saw an apartment in San Francisco; fantastic location, excellent building with great amenities. They're renting it out for 60% of the market rate, with the following caveat: this apartment is also registered as the office for the landlord's business.
They have an office in the living room, which they don't use anymore because they permanently work from home and clients don't come in anymore. The office is technically a franchise of a larger group, and I was told "They inspect the office once every two years, but apart from that nobody comes in except to collect the mail." The current occupant has been here a year and a half and is moving out of the city, hence the vacancy.
I get to have the place basically entirely to myself, although the living room is largely occupied. I don't mind this given the rent. I really like the place, and the rest of the apartment is enough space for me and my stuff. But I'm not sure if the landlord (who owns the condo) has done this whole thing with knowledge of whatever HOA etc there might be, or if there's some zoning issues that might make this a problem on their part.
Given this, if I do rent out this place, do I face any risk as a potential tenant? I honestly don't care about whatever issues the landlord has to face as long as it's not a headache for me; especially long term in the future when I'm applying to jobs and stuff.

my husband recently got orders to germany, and while he was ecstatic about the news… it was about the worst possible news i could receive.
as a little background, we are currently at our first duty station, both 21 and have been married for 2 years. we have been here about a year and a half, and i have not been able to adjust whatsoever. i had our son while my husband was still in basic training and we moved when he was about 3 months old- postpartum depression on top of regular depression has made it extremely difficult for me to adjust. i have always been incredibly close with my family and they have always been a massive support, and moving cross country (from OH to AZ) and away from almost my entire support network has put a massive strain on me mentally. even with therapy and medication i still struggle with homesickness and major depression to this day, and i can’t begin to imagine how much more it would be amplified in a whole other country.
my husband and i have agreed that me and our son moving home with my parents is an option that he is fully supportive of, and while that would solve most of my problems, we would still be without him... we both know i’d be miserable over there. i know staying with my parents would provide my son and i with a massive support network and a lot of loving family.
we have also mentioned the option of our son and i moving home long enough to get my mental health in order before joining him in germany. this is most ideal to me, personally… but i still have the biggest habit of doubting myself.
what do i do? i feel like i’m having to choose between my mental health and my husband and it’s breaking my heart. i apologize in advance if this is a little all over the place- admittedly i wrote this up in the middle of another breakdown thinking about the situation.
and before anyone says anything, yes, i know i signed up for this. it is so much easier said than done, though. husband and i have been together since the 8th grade, and it has always been his goal to be in the military- i have supported this since the very beginning, but i have also struggled with my mental health for a very long time. i went into our first PCS very optimistically, and my mental health still tanked. please be patient with me.

Throwaway account being used for obvious reasons, i chose an auto generated username which i know looks bottish, but isn't.
So the story is i'll be getting divorced because my wife wants to start a family and i have never wanted children - i realise this is not a normal scenario but i'd like to keep the topic finance/law related rather than a discussion around "shouldn't this have been decided earlier".
For a timeline of our relationship:
Got together in June 2015
Bought a house together April 2019, joint mortgage
Married April 2022 - we were married in the US while on holiday (this was planned, not on a whim).
The house was bought with a deposit i saved from selling a previous property (owned solely by me). I put down a £48k deposit and the house was bought for £240k (192k mortgage after deposit). I paid all fees, stamp duty etc and since owning the house we have paid the repayment 50/50 but i have made overpayments consistently, my wife has made none.
We have done a lot of work to the house - new kitchen, log burner, bathroom, roof, boiler, patio, new furniture, general decorating, all paid for by me out of the proceeds from my previous house sale.
The bills have been split 50/50 athough i have paid the water bill entirely and since the rise in gas/electric, i have paid the difference.
Our finances have always been separate - no joint account. The mortgage and all of the bills have been paid from my account, with my wife making payments to my account for her part of the bills.
Judging by sales of houses nearby i'd say the house could be valued around £300k at this point, with the remaining mortgage sitting at shade under £170k. In an ideal world i'd like to stay in the house but i think it's unrealistic that i'd be able to get a mortgage by myself, can't be sure on that front at this stage, though.
i'd say the divorce will be amicable but it's early stages and i'm aware that could change, so the advice i'm looking for is around the following issues:

1. What sort of legal advice should i seek? My wife has so far said she has no intention of coming after money, she's aware i've pad significantly more in to the house etc. That all sounds great on paper but if things get nasty i'd like to avoid getting fucked over here.
2. If i wanted to explore the option of buying her out of the property, how would i calculate the figure to do so? I'd assume a minimum would be to repay all the money she paid toward the mortgage but then the increased value of the property has to be taken into account (albeit a significant portion of that value comes from works i've paid for).

Generally any advice around things i might not have considered would be great. I'm trying to be practical here and take emotion out of the equation as much as possible. I have zero interest in trying to get one over on her, i just want us to go our seperate ways in as fair an outcome as possible.
Thanks in advance, happy to answer any relevant questions. Sorry if i sound a little bitter.

With apologies in advance to readership this is bound to be from an egocentric point of view, but I’ll try to add some colour from how the rest of the tournament was going too ;)
My first international trip since the pandemic eased (thankfully last year was in London!), and I was greeted for the first time by being stuck in the non-EU passport queue. I took the opportunity to loudly ask my UK counterparts in the queue who’d voted for this, as I surely didn’t. Thankfully I had a travelling buddy in the form of Fruitstrike, who was taking in the tournament for the first time!
We travelled on Friday and whilst a bunch of people met up for a pre-tournament drink, I took the opportunity to indulge another gaming vice and hit up Dragon’s Lair for Friday Night Magic (for those who care, I came 2nd in my pod, which is good as we redrafted rares so I got some nice cards!). I then got a full night’s sleep knowing the mental bludgeoning that awaited us over the next two days. Having gone 5-3 and 4-4 at previous conventions I was hoping for a similar outcome this year, but am coming off the back of a late 2022 disaster of going 2-8 / 5-15 in RTSL/ITSL, so can’t say I was brimming with overconfidence :P
Saturday rolled around and I found myself in paradise, having Swedish meatballs for breakfast. And pickles with my bread roll! Seriously, Scandinavia knows how to do breakfast. Also, painfully aware how cramped for time getting 4 games of TS in is, I ate looooooads and sought to fuel myself with caffeine and sugar the rest of the day. Getting from in-town to our games venue was a breeze, with Stockholm’s well-connected public transport system and app – Anton (stenskott), our host and organiser, set us up in a board games café/bar called Alphaspel. This was one of the best venues to date, with loads of room, lots of games tables, and a well-stocked bar connected.
We made some introductions and hellos, both to returning faces (people like Anton, OF COURSE Tasos, Karl Johan, Shez and Sean, David, Ziemowit etc. who have regularly attended these conventions), new faces to tournaments like Linh Le and Christian Månsson, but also some great and good names in the TS community like Fredrik Adlercreutz, Henrik Pettersson, Ryan Pindulic and Luis Rubio – BasqueMex, one of our knights in shining armour who keep the community organised, which is no mean feat! We then got our pairings and sat down to get to work.
Anton had prepared a lovely trophy for the winner and a couple of novelty prizes, including a mug for anyone who was dealt all 5x 4-op cards in Early War (“Mr Big Spender”), and anyone who evented Summit for ‘meaningful stakes’ (“Event Summit, You Coward”). There was discussion pre-tournament on our WhatsApp group thread that the chances of the first mug being claimed was pretty slim even with 8 games in the brackets. Our host needn’t have worried though, as Davorac completed that task within about 20 minutes of the first coup roll!
I was paired against Jarek Grzaslewicz in game one, and I also got all 5x 4-op cards (the last appearing in the turn 3 deal), so was pipped to the mug by Davorac, alas! However, the important thing was the win, and with an ops surfeit in the early war I (as USA) easily weathered Jarek’s USSR attacks and eventually ground it out to a final scoring win, going 1-0.
My second game I was paired against Ziemowit. How did that happen? Z lost game 1 :O I also have to add we’ve never played across the table before. I was USSR and thankfully was able to score Asia in T2 and T3 for -7vp each time, which gave me a solid buffer. Also heartening was to hear every time I played an acceptable move I got the “makes sense” response, which warmed my cockles each time, as positive feedback from a far better player is music to my ears! However, let’s not forget this is a game against Z, and the game is never over till it’s over, which means it was a relief when I was re-dealt Asia scoring in Turn 8 (playing it to an “oh, come on!”), and following it up with Wargames to close the game out. Ziemowit is 0-2 starting the tournament and I’m 2-0, now that’s an upset.
For match 3 I move to the ‘feature table’ (Anton had set up a stream, you can catch at https://www.twitch.tv/stenskott_/v/1830554267?sr=a&t=9228s) to play Tasos. Tasos was my first ever Convention pairing in 2019 and we hadn’t been matched since, so it was nice to play him! I was USSR and benefitted from about 6 war rolls going my way, so the match ended in a win in final scoring for me, and I’m off to my best ever start for sure, 3-0. Nosebleed heights!
Match 4 for the day and it being swiss pairings I’m up against another unbeaten player in Ryan Pindulic. I was USA and Ryan applied excellent pressure throughout the game, so by Turn 10 it was a pretty lost cause (it had been for some turns!), with no defcon gambits or Europe Control possible, so I took my opportunity at -19 in headline at Defcon 3 to event Summit. After some feverish discussion with Anton, where I basically admitted I was only doing it to win the novelty mug, and Anton suggested that the strategic answer was to say this was the only way to prolong the game (and I said ‘yeah, that’s definitely why I’m eventing summit), I event it, lost the roll at a +1 modifier, and Ryan wins on VPs to go 4-0 on the day.
Heck, I’m chuffed at 3-1, but I think the feelgood story of the day is Sean, who had a bit of a ‘mare in 2022 at London, is also 4-0 on the day, kapow! We repair to a nearby pub, have some beers and pizza, and dissect the day, before getting some sleep and doing it all again the next day.
Day 2 we knew from the start we’d be under time pressure – getting to the venue at 9am and having to be finished absolutely positive no later than 7pm is really tough for 4 over-the-board games, and in Swiss where you have to wait for the last game to finish to get pairings. Knowing that I doubled down on my breakfast, tripled my meatball ration and ate a day’s worth of food at 7am. Any excuse for my gluttony.
Back to the venue, and Ryan/Sean are paired in the winner’s enclosure, and I play Henrik Petterson, a fellow 3-1 player. I don’t get the USSR steamroller going and the game eventually drains to a USA wargames victory in T9. On the podium, Ryan beats Sean and keeps his streak going, whilst I’m at 3-2, which is still a fine record for me – I’d be happy on day 2 with a 1-3 record to finish 4-4 overall, but 5-3 would be more pleasing.
Game 6 I am paired with David Persson, who I had the pleasure to play in London last year too. It was an excellent game, and David did brilliantly as the USSR, turning the screw on me, and despite me being able to stick him in the Bear Trap for 3 action rounds (the old 1 in 9 chance), he was able to consolidate his position and close out with Wargames in Turn 10. I’m back to 3-3, alas! But we do get to go outside and talk about poker, both of us being poker players in our time, which was fun to talk about another game for a while. Meanwhile at other tables Ryan wins again, with some players breathing down his neck, including Ziemowit who has won all 4 games since starting 0-2 to come back to 4-2.
Game 7 I am overjoyed to get paired with my troublemaking counterpart in team Fruitlinger – Fruitstrike! Our camaraderie stops at a tournament though and I was a horrible mean opponent, giving him all the hassle I could, and thanks to him being incredibly fatigued and me being a merciless, stony-hearted monster, I did enough to crest with VP in Turn 7 as USSR. Fruitstrike also took that as an opportunity to drop G8 and go for a sleep, so one can really really say I pissed in his chips, can’t we. However, I try not to feel too bad as I really, really wanted a winning record at this tournament and I’m up to 4-3. Meanwhile at the top table, Ryan Pindulic is playing Fredrik Adlercreutz, and their game ends in one of the rarest things, a draw in Final Scoring! So Ryan is 6-0-1, Fredrik is 5-1-1, David P is 5-2 (having lost to only Fredik and Sean), and Ziemowit wins again to go 5-2. Spicy!
The final game, G8, in the games that matter most, Ziemowit plays Fredrik and Ryan plays David Persson; Ryan seals the win to finish the tournament undefeated with a 7-0-1 record, and Ziemowit wins his 6th straight to finish 6-2 for 2nd place. Fredik completes the podium with a 5-2-1 record.
Meanwhile, in midtable obscurity, I still have an 8th game to see if I go 5-3 or 4-4 and I’m paired with Shez, who I’ve played a bunch online and over the table with and is a pleasure to match up with. He is USSR and comes out firing, he’s all over Africa and South America, and I’m only surviving by being able to ditch scoring cards with Ask Not. He pitches CIA nice and early so DEFCON lines are lost to me, and in the end my only gambit is Europe Control, so I first try Tear Down This Wall after attemping (but failing – nicely parried) to take Czechoslovakia and Austria too to enhance the roll, but in the end only manage a small realign at +1. In T10 I have to specifically get dealt Chernobyl, Shez mustn’t get Wargames, and I need sufficient ops to flip East Germany (which was at [3][9] at turn start). All those things happen (Shez opts for Aldrich to pull a 4op card, but said after the game he should have used ABM and pumped another 4 ops in East Germany, which is unfortunate) so I sneak an improbable Wargames win, and get a 5-3 record.
I’m happy with that, and whilst I’m not a ratings hound it was nice to see my awful sub-5k rating bounce back to a healthier 5500ish following the tournament. I got wins, and even better a mug which I will treasure and use every time I’m streaming in future! It’s gonna get some shoutouts, and it’s the only mug I’ve used since returning to the UK as well, haha.
We’re already feverishly discussing the 2024 venue – Lisbon is a frontrunner – and I encourage people to come along. Yes, it’s kind of weird to visit lovely cities and spend 2 days in a room not looking at said cities. But, the games are by and large incredibly friendly, high level events, the gang are excellent company. It’s not just about the games – as well as the bar trips Friday and Saturday night many players headed into town to dinner Sunday night, and also met Monday afternoon for a great game of Kubb (a fantastic outdoor game I recommend checking out!), so really fantastic company all round. Whilst a lot of brainpower was expended playing the 8 games, the time we had was a blast. Mega thanks to Anton for organising the venue, the great trophy for Ryan, the fun novelty mug prizes, an extensive google doc guide on transport options, places to stay, venue and city information and so on. It must have been like herding cats at times, but he did great. Tasos and Luis were as always fantastic on the reporting, pairing and games org side, the convention was slick on that front all thanks to their hard work, so many thanks as ever to them. And of course thanks to all the players – not just those I was paired with, but it was a huge convention (22 players attended!) and a great time.
Those who read this and want to share their own stories please do, I’m sure there was more besides what was going on at my table that I totally missed. As noted earlier Stenskott’s Twitch channel has the featured table videos up currently at https://www.twitch.tv/stenskott_ so you can look through those! And, hope to see you at a future convention ;)

I'm not talking anime catgirls that are just humans with animal ears slapped on, or anthropamoprphic animals, though that'd be a step up in my opinion.
I'm talking Quadrapeds, talking floating rocks, sentient bodies of gas that talk telpathicaly or something.
I feel like so few sci fi universes take advantage of the setting. You have an infinate universe filled with planets that developed in so many ways, that could produce so many types of life, but so often I feel like they just decide to make everything just look like a human, a blue human, or a human with animal ears. Heck, some of the side stuff like the memory bubble things in Herta Space Station strongly insinuate weird species besides humans exist, but we haven't seen any.
I'm enjoying this game a ton but I'd love to see some creative species to interact with besides just humans, even if we never got to play as any.

Ages & Genders: Me, 30m with 26f. Relationship length: 7 months
First-time reddit poster – Apologies if this reads a bit convoluted...I am recently in a relationship (7 months since we started seeing each other, 1 month since 'official') with a wonderful woman who I feel I am very compatible with. She is extremely kind, thoughtful, considerate, and we have great chemistry in the bedroom, and feel very comfortable around each other, whether on a fun weekend away doing different activities, or just hanging out. She has a decent career as a teacher and is sensible with morals, money, and managing her relationships with family and friends.
However... There is a concern that keeps getting reinforced the more time I spend with her, and I feel I must address it now before the relationship starts being counted in years rather than months, for my own sake (and hers), but my question is how to go about it. For the record, I would like to think I’m quite emotionally intelligent, and always look for the good qualities in people. I have also never commented negatively to, or suggested a partner change their appearance to suit my tastes.
Essentially, over time as we've become more comfortable, it's become clear to me that we have completely different values when it comes to health and fitness, and so my second question would be whether, based on anyone's experience, whether the likelihood is high or low that this will have a positive resolution. I have been lifting weights since I was 15 and go to the gym 5-6 days a week and go on long-distance cycles once a week. My partner, when in the dating phase, gave the impression that they were similar, they dropped into conversation about going to the gym, attend pole fitness 2-3 times a week, and like lots of outdoor activities like paddleboarding (which to her credit, in the summer, she does like to get out and about a lot to the beach, lakes etc for anything water related).
Now this person was, (being honest and hope this doesn’t sound shallow) somewhere close to the end of the spectrum of what I find attractive in terms of body type, however because I was so attracted to their personality, this did not faze or register with me significantly for the first 4-5 months of our dating phase, on the basis I guess, that I semi-subconsciously assumed that so long as they didn’t get significantly larger I wouldn’t mind, our sex life was outstanding (it is), and I appreciated people can be thicker-framed and still healthy. She is also very pretty.
However, since being official, when spending whole days with her, I have left with what I guess, ashamedly, you could refer to as the ‘ick’ when observing her health choices after naturally being witness to what the average day looks like for her in terms of food and lifestyle choices. The long and short of it is that she is like a big kid when it comes to food. Any food item she sees, she wants to try and needs to be constantly ‘topped up’ every hour or so with a snack (I thought maybe the same dopamine necessity that makes our sex life so regular?). When walking round a theme park, every single food stall/restaurant gets commented on or an ask to go and buy something, and a home example would be me cooking dinner on a work night, while she eats chocolate spread from the tub while watching me, then roasts marshmallows on the gas hob (while I’m cooking still), then eating a big dinner, and getting hungry 30 minutes later and going for the doughnuts. She also has a chronic soda addiction and consumes 2L per day and every cupboard in her house container junk food (there is even a large snack fridge in the living room.)
She also hates any physical activity that makes her sweat, including the gym (she actually only goes once every 2 weeks, and that’s only if her friend bothers to go, for the social aspect). She does do pole, however this is also mostly for the social too, although I do appreciate it tones muscles. Finally, she is quite mischievous (which can be a good point to her personality), but it bleeds out into the aspect I’m worried about, as an example her kids all bring her snacks every day (as they love her as a great teacher), so she constantly puts the snacks in a drawer, so they keep bringing more to her…
As someone that has struggled with weight in the past and for many years now has taken pride in their appearance but more importantly loves feeling ‘healthy’ and hates the feeling of not being physically fit, my recent observations (and I hate to call it that, but when the behaviour has been so consistent, it’s hard not to notice) have made me panic that if I go long-term with this person, I’m going to end up partnered and potentially married to someone who will consistently decline in health and attractiveness (far quicker and beyond the natural ageing process I mean), but equally importantly over time, pulls me into their bad habits to the point I don’t recognise myself anymore. I am a foodie myself and only stay healthy through strong discipline with what foods I shop for and keep in the house.
I’ve not commented on her habits negatively at all so far with one minor exception where I asked her not to stop eating all the grated cheese while trying to make us a pizza on date night and got an immediate defensive remark - whether that’s a one off or a clue to how our discussion will go, I don’t know. The offset of this of course though, is that she’s an amazing person otherwise and what’s also factoring into my mental haze here if I’m honest with myself is that my ex was the polar opposite, possibly the most unempathetic and unloving person ever, so the contrast (not comparison) of how well we click and how lovely this person is, further emphasise the good points in my mind and how lucky I am to find someone who fulfils my emotional needs is making it harder to let go or reassess this relationship.
If anyone has any prior experiences of how they approached similar talks with a partner, especially in newer relationships, I’d be grateful. The last thing I want to do is upset this person or throw away someone who loves me so dearly and makes me happy, but I feel I need to look at the longer-term picture here and whether I could get her to adopt my healthy habits to the point where at least she’s at least reasonably healthy where I feel it’s not an issue anymore. I’m not looking for perfection, just to kerb the consistent terrible habits into something normal and to not end up like any of her family which are all, as far as I can see from the occasional photo (they don't live nearby and limited relationship with my partner so haven't visited yet) are morbidly obese. It's a hard one to not look like a shallow a-hole while trying to genuinely determine if it’s possible to get someone to want to change their habits for the better for the right reasons, hopefully some of you can give me some examples to navigate this.
Thanks all,
TL;DR! I, a person who places a lot of importance on staying fit and healthy, am worried about long-term future in terms of attraction and picking up bad habits with a very compatible, amazing partner who unfortunately has terrible eating habits and total lack of interest in fitness.

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