(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman Puns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pybfUcTSO3A

Cafe Arabia
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Acoustic cover of Aretha Franklin's hit (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
Filmed back in August at short music performance in Abu Dhabi

I hate how being tall is affiliated with masculinity. I feel like there's nothing feminine about me and I'll always be seen like some freak. I avoid being around people that are shorter than me just because it makes me feel so insecure and awful.

Anyone else have similar feelings here?

As an airplane is about to crash, a female passenger jumps up frantically and announces, "If I'm going to die, I want to die feeling like a woman." She removes all her clothing and asks, "Is there someone on this plane who is man enough to make me feel like a woman?"

A man stands up, removes his shirt and says, "Here, iron this!".

And obviously that’s worse than what I do

I feel like hip hop should be exciting, edgy and take risks (my opinion of course) the mainstream wasn't quite doing it for me so I made a spotify playlist full of songs that stand out in terms of production quality, originality and cohesiveness.

Dive into this pristine playlist for hours of great music: https://open.spotify.com/user/12172782523/playlist/4nTqYYeSVIJjyxeUM05eMg?si=gi6qMxd8TZa0IDocp5-DOg

I also have a soundcloud version in case you dont use spotify: https://soundcloud.com/gvobeats/sets/gvo-gold-the-best-new

Hope you guys enjoy it!

I feel that the current design of raising the max light level by 10 every season needs to be reworked. Most of us spent most of the previous season maxing out our light level using the painfully slow and arduous pinnacle gear climb. Only for all that work to be negated this season since the max level has been arbitrarily pushed up by 10 points. To what end has the max level risen? Are we fighting a new higher level baddie this season that we need to become more powerful for? No. It's not like this is like an old school RPG where we can't go to certain areas or dungeons because we are woefully underleveled and will get annihilated. This season brought no new raid so it's not like we were working to become more powerful to overcome a new raid boss. What was the point?

At the moment there is no payoff for maxing your gear level (I'm solely talking about gear and not including the artifact). Most of us will have a similar experience. Spend half the season (if not more as some of us are not that lucky) getting to max level. Following that is there a point to bringing all the gear that you tend to use in rotation to max level? Not really since in a month all that effort and resources will be rendered pointless.

TL;DR I feel that the pinnacle grind is pointless and arbitrary. I feel that there is a huge inconsistency between the immense amount of effort hitting max level takes compared to the payoff (which will be negated in a very short time).

Your thoughts?

And how do you respond?

I recently started my 3rd antidepressant (Brintellix) and I'm noticing I feel really "off", almost as if I smoked weed 5 hours ago and I'm not high anymore but my perception is still not normal. First antidepresant (Lexapro) also made me feel weird but in another way, however it was acceptable because of the benefits. Second antidepressant, Wellbutrin, boy that was weird, at times I felt like I was out of my body and existing in some sort of parallel reality. However, o Reddit I found similar reactions to Wellbutrin so I comforted myself that it's not only me.

I admit I've struggled with depersonalization in the past, but it seems to me that antidepressants are trigerring it directly which is a shame because I don't want to choose between depression and DPDR. I really hate DPDR and anyone suffering from it will tell you it's a "painless" yet awful condition. If I had to choose, I'd probably choose depression because then at least something would be real. Now you know how much it sucks. :)

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>Detroit Pistons' Andre Drummond: 'No player should feel like they’re not a max player'

>Andre Drummond considers himself worthy of a max contract.

>Isn’t that normal, to go for full value while pursuing a career?

>“That’s the way anybody would see themselves,” he said Tuesday, one day after Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores said the franchise is “dedicated” to the 2012 first-round pick.

>“It doesn’t matter if you’re a basketball player. With the work you put in, you should be rewarded for it — no matter who you are. If it’s me or even a rookie. Everybody feels like they should make a maximum amount of dollars.”

>The center’s contract situation is the most pressing issue facing the Pistons.

...

>He has indicated he plans to decline a $28.75 million player option for the 2020-21 season, and if the two sides can’t reach an agreement on an extension, he becomes one of the top free agents available next summer.

...

>The Pistons would still retain Drummond’s Bird Rights, meaning they can offer him more money than any franchise. If he is a free agent, the Pistons could offer him up to roughly five years and $190 million. Other teams could offer about four years and $140 million.