Hello. I want to be able to get that demonic sound when doing inward bass. like this https://youtu.be/yC4XF0DNoM4?t=130 and https://youtu.be/dB0ywAvcEBo?t=54

So far this is what I have https://soundcloud.com/michael-chaney-636382781/new-thang#t=0:51 , I can make it sound more constricted and high sounding, but something doesn't sound right. When people put out tutorials, their foundational sound is closer to the demonic sound than mine. notably the "hip hip hop" sounds https://youtu.be/9omo8hUry70?t=65 .

Can anyone help me?

Up to this point I've been pretty focused on how my recovery from PMO will improve my interactions with women. It's been a severe source of discomfort and suffering for me for an incredibly long time (like 12+ years). I have thought in the past that my fapping habits were detrimental, but until discovering NoFap and then sites like YourBrainOnPorn I didn't know it.

I know that there's a big push to get the PUA stuff off NoFap. It's not about scoring chicks. However, 12 years of ED, numbed pleasure response, and delayed ejaculation were reasons I wanted to kill myself. So, for me, a resolution for these problems was my biggest reason for embarking on the ultimate challenge.

I've also since come to learn just how skewed my thinking is in regards to the opposite sex. This is where I think steering away from PUA comes in. Porn helped to train my brain, I believe, to see women as a means to an orgasm, rather than as people with differing personalities. I have experienced much confusion about lust vs. love. To view NoFap as a means to score women repeats the cycle of objectification, and would keep my brain in a state of confusion.

In the last two weeks I've had an experience or two that indicate to me my brain is clearing up. A girl I wanted to date desperately a week ago, I now realize is not right for me. I just wanted to have sex with her. There's nothing wrong with casual sex between consenting adults. But what I was experiencing was not that. It was confusion, which leads me to suffering. In the week since we hung out I have thought more about her personality, her energy, her interests, and her mannerisms. I see that I'm not romantically interested in her. She, like so many girls before her, not being in the same foggy head space as I, was able to see that at the time. We're decently close friends, and that's perfectly appropriate given who we are.

I know that the type of woman I want to be with ultimately wants to be with a man who is pretty much as healthy (psychologically and physicaly), creative, spirtual, and active as she is. And the reason I want to be with a woman like that is because those are the things that interest me. Things that PMO scams the time away from. PMO is the Bernie Madoff of my life.

In order to develop a relationship with that person, I have to focus my energies not on finding her, but becoming that man I want to be.

So I'm going to redouble my practice of creative expression through writing and painting. I'm also g

This is just a theory of mine, based on what I've seen over the years. Find a large jaw and a wide palate and you usually have teeth that are perfectly straight, *if not a little angled inward*. I'm surmising that given proper palate growth and jaw development, there is more than enough space for the teeth to actually grow inward because that angle would oppose biting/pulling force more than outward angling teeth. On the other hand, overcrowding of teeth usually results in the teeth angling outwards toward the gums because there isn't enough space in the palate, but there is essentially infinite space outwards. Does Dr. Mew have any say on this matter?

I did watch his tutorial. But still I think I'm missing out something. I don't have a clue how he's making those vibrations so prominent and noticeable which see almost like soso's inward vocal fry!

Link to article: https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nba/ben-simmons-postseason-struggles-philadelphia-76ers-joel-embiid

> Simmons spent the year rehabbing, and about a year and a half working alongside shooting coach John Townsend. Townsend had been hired by Brown in 2016 to work closely with Simmons and together the two had made progress. Maybe not as much as some in the organization would have liked, but still, that 70.6 percent mark during the postseason represented a massive step forward.

> Two days after that 2018 loss to the Celtics, the Sixers held exit meetings in their Camden, N.J., training facility. Each player was given a four-page document containing individualized offseason plans. For Simmons the list of priorities included free-throw shooting, finishing at the rim and developing a jump shot. In that order.

>After the meetings, Brown told reporters during a press conference that he expected Simmons to spend "intense time" with Townsend over the offseason. Everyone around the team was excited. They felt like a breakthrough had occurred, that Simmons was ready not only to solidify his improvements at the line but also to begin carrying those changes over into his shooting overall.

>After exit meetings, the players and coaches went their separate ways to recharge. Some time passed and, according to multiple league sources, when Townsend returned to the team’s facility Brown pulled him aside. Change of plans, he said.

>Simmons’ agent, Rich Paul, and family had decided that he’d be better off working with one of his brothers, Liam, a former low-level Division I guard and assistant coach, who now coaches at D-2 Colorado Christian University.

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> Simmons’ embraced that reality, even having a documentary crew following him around during his lone season at LSU — where he had enrolled largely because his godfather, David Patrick, was an assistant coach — but his life was more akin to child stars like Justin Bieber than basketball prospects like Karl-Anthony Towns.

>That chasing of stardom also came with consequences. Keith Hornsby, an LSU teammate and roommate, told me in 2016 that, "Some people couldn’t handle that Ben was always the one getting credit. It wasn’t Ben’s fault; it was just hard with all the media attention."

>NBA executives told draft expert Jonathan Givony they thought Simmons had a character problem. An introvert by nature, Simmons responded by turning more inward, cutting his circle down to

Updated: July 2, 2021 @ 5:06pm EST

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• Seems like the comments on this post are growing at a faster rate now. In anticipation of the thread potentially getting set to read-only if comment content gets out of hand I wanted to let you know if that happens I will clone the post content it self and continue updating it over at https://champlaintowerssouth.org (it doesn't exist right now, but that's where things will continue on eventually.)
• Updates going forward will be once daily.

Reconstructed Timeline of Events (as per photos, videos and eye witness accounts):

They lived in 508. I'm going to put up exact timeline tonight. The gist is:

• Eric and Tamar Zion came home at 10:30 and power was out in their apartment on the uncollapsed side.
• They left at 11:30 for hotel.
• Eric arrived back at the parking garage at 12:30am
• At that very moment, Sarah Nir begins hearing "construction" noises from the garage at 12:30am.
• Sarah Nir eventually goes to the security guard in the lobby to complain.
• Between 12:30am and 12:50am/1:00am (Eric couldn't exactly recall) he was up in the apartment to get his scooter and then leave back to the hotel.
• While Sarah Nir was with the security guard, the pool/patio deck collapsed at 1:14-1:15am. At least part of it. Sarah and the security guard mistake this for an earthquake. She immediately rushes back to apt 111. It is unc

EDIT: This has been a great discussion! A surprising amount of it has actually been centered on whether or not Loki & Sylvie's relationship is even romantic, so I wanted to link an article to you all that a redditor commented below. In it, the creators address some of the points in this post. They also confirm that the story being told between Loki and Sylvie is indeed a romance. Although, as I say a few paragraphs below, I'm sure some will still disagree. LINK: ‘Loki’: Inside the Decision to Have Him ‘Fall In Love With Another Version of Himself’ | Marvel

ORIGINAL POST:

So, I’ve really enjoyed discovering this subreddit during the first couple episodes of Loki and participating in all the theorizing and discourse about its plot points. I’m a fan of romance subplots, so there’s one discussion point in particular that has drawn a lot of my attention. That is, of course, the growing bond between Loki and Sylvie.

I’ve seen some people say that they have a sibling bond rather than a romantic one. Others have said they think Loki loving Sylvie makes him the ultimate narcissist. To those people I say, “What show have you been watching?”

Now, before I get accused of being a shipper with some sick fantasy I’m trying to push onto other viewers, I’d like to note a few things. First, I f*cking hate shipping. Ships usually fly in the face of everything the story is trying to communicate to the audience because they favor an individual’s fantasy over the needs of the plot. Second, Loki and Sylvie’s relationship was characterized as romantic implicitly in Episode 3 (24:20 “Loki sings a song about a girl while locking eyes with Sylvie”; 21:45 “Loki opens a discussion about past relationships over a drink at a nice restaurant”; 25:44 “Loki stands very close to Sylvie and softly recites a metaphor about love”) and explicitly in Episode 4 (21:13 “Mobius berates Loki for his ‘sick’ romance with his variant self”; 41:35 “Loki is about to admit his feelings to Sylvie”). There are many more flirty moments that I have not cited, but if you re-watch the train car scene especially, you will see what I mean. For god’s sake, they talk about (romantic) love for half of the ride.

I don’t think I have to do much more to prove the romantic nature of their relationship, seeing as the show has made it increasingly obvious as the episodes roll out. I’m sure there will be some who disagree, though. There is al

My son is almost 9. For the last 18 months his ability to walk has been declining, hes become incontinent, and so far im left with a ton more questions than answers.

It started with his left leg turning inwards as he walked and got tired. Family doctor did a physical and noticed slight curvature in the spine and extra movement in his left hip, recommended ortho specialist. I took him to Shriners to check for scoliosis. First visit ruled that out, the curve was well within normal range. Xray reveled slightly less than 1cm difference in length and an enlarged hip joint. Doctor said all minor issues that shouldn't effect him long term and should even correct itself.

Over the next 6 months it got progressively worse, he constently drops to the ground like a sack of potatoes. Not tripping, his leg literally collapses on him. He started having poop in his underwear constently, I thought it was unrelated early on and just a behavior thing (boy wanting to play and not stop to poop). His fine motor skills also aren't developing. He struggling to hold shoe laces and tie his shoes, pencils, etc...

We go to the follow up visit and I mentioned everything, they seemed super concerned and did another set of x-rays. The leg difference got slightly larger (estimated a full cm now) and spine was still the same but they saw his walk was awkward and the left leg turning in. Ordered a Gait (spelling) study which confirmed there was issues with his walking but they weren't able to tell me why or even what corrective measures we could take. They recommended an MRI.

Due to covid it took almost 2 months to get an appointment for the full brain and spine mri, apparently looking for tethered cord, chiari malformation, etc. Today we got the MRI results and everything seems perfect where it supposed to be, no compression, no lesions, cranial opening is perfectly normal.

I was praying for a physical problem, like tethered cord. So it could be addressed.

Now I'm set to see neurologist is August, genetics and GI in October.

This rabbit hole is scary. Things like muscular dystrophy, MS, and other nerve problems all come to mind. Most of which cant even be treated.

I'm overwhelmed. I'm scared. I'm crying whenever hes not looking. I've raised him alone since he was 7 months old, my job is to protect him and I cant. I watch him try to play everyday woth friends, only to fall and be embarrassed, or unable to keep up because he cant run properly. He pops right back up when he falls, bu

I have been reading up on this and the literature available online is quite unclear about requirements around SOFTEX filing for freelance developers operating in their individual capacity from their homes (not registered as any company). Does anybody have any insights into this, if this is a requirement for us or not?

Edit: I just realized that this can be considered Reddit community drama. A lot of it was centered around several subreddits, but since like half the drama was on Reddit and half of it wasn't, I assumed it'd fit here. A hybrid or something, if you will.

In recent months, things have been pretty hectic in the subsection of the piracy community that dabbles in video game cracking and repacking, and I figured this subreddit would like to join in on the fun.

A quick disclaimer: Most of this information is secondhand because I was too busy forcing Lydia to carry my burdens to pay attention while the bulk of this was going on, so apologies in advance for any inaccuracies.

The Villain Origin Story

Our timeline kicks off with the appearance of user C000005, who showed up out of nowhere on the subreddit r-CrackWatch last February with a brand new crack for Conan Exiles - Riders of Hyboria under one arm. Half a month, five games, and a metric ton of upvotes later, she changed her pseudonym to EMPRESS and made a new Reddit account accordingly.

Over the next while, EMPRESS amassed a very enthusiastic following for her work, which came to include titles such as Mortal Kombat 11, Red Dead Redemption 2, Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, Planet Zoo, Anno 1800, and Borderlands 3, among others. There's no question that she's more than competent at what she does; the DRM (Digital Right Management) software that she's focused on cracking, Denuvo, is hated almost universally by everyone that isn't a faceless corporation (developers included) and is notoriously difficult to circumvent. The competition for Denuvo crackers is very scarce—I can count the amount of people and groups that I'm aware of who have actually managed to break it on one hand—and it's established EMPRESS firmly at the forefront of the piracy scene.

72 Foolproof Ways to Alienate Philosophy Majors

It begins, as many things do, with a Reddit post. This one, specifically.

If you don't want to click on it, this excerpt is pretty much what set people off:

> I have always had lots of universal philosophy knowledge inside my soul and it always opposes the famous philosophers and thinkers' theori

The Terran homeworld is, in short, a problematic environment. Beyond its classification as a deathworld in no fewer than six different grading systems and on the Unified Galactic Sapiency Guidelines itself, the place is awful. The inhabitants, by their own admission and shared historical records, have experienced a grand total of eleven days without an incident involving groups of more than fifty opposed by a group of equal size - and that is since their ability to keep those records began.

This places them at the lowest tier of known species as far as global peace schedules persist - beneath every single warmongering race and culture, without exception.

This alone should be an informed point of interest for the following doctrine changes to galactic policy regarding their expansion efforts beyond their solar reach - namely, in maintaining the border, revising all contact-to-conflict encounter diagrams, and embracing the idea that their culture and way of life are not toxins, as originally described by the first contact group listed for their homeworld, they are the singular definition of terror itself.

Their young are born into a crucible state, with even the most modern medical sciences engineered into preserving life only allowing a scant 99.87 percent of their child-bearing genders to survive the incident - again, placing them at the lowest tier listed, this time for survivability of infants through gestational processing, and once more, from all known comparable species.

Their youth are encouraged to take part in war simulations, ranging from comparatively-benign physical exertions which routinely cripple, maim, or psychological scar them for life, under the guise of developing excellence in applied endeavors - or simply for the bragging rights of dominion against separate unities of education and social groupings.

Their adult years compound this through financial and emotional warfare, thinly disguised under the aegis of developing business acumen and standings on a social level through competitive wage-earning and/or acquisition of materiel in excess of need and reliable predicative notions of justification.

Zero parts of their species' endeavors into space have failed to produce corpses, often in large amounts, further compounding the issue of their declared interest in retaining life and livelihood for all of their species - despite mounting evidence that safety guidelines could safely and sanely see their culture spread, they continuously o

#Welcome to the reveal for players ranked 80-71 for this year’s r/NFL Top 100 Players for the 2020 Season!

Players whose average rank had them land in places 80-71 are on this portion of the list revealed today. Players are associated with the team they finished 2020 with.

Below you will see write-ups from rankers summarizing the players' 2020 season and why they were among the best in 2020. Stats for each player are from this season and are included below. Additionally, their previous ranks in this long running series are also available for all of you.

Lastly, we have a return of the individual player cards this year with some fun “facts” about each player.

Methodology

LINK TO THE HUB POST WITH A MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE METHODOLOGY

1. A CALL FOR RANKERS just before the Super Bowl.
2. Rankers for each team nominated players to rank. 10 Games Played Minimum Threshold. Players are associated with the team they finished the 2020 Season with.
3. The Grind. Utilize ranking threads for individual rankers broken up by positional groups. Users were tasked with ranking players within the following tiers based on their evaluation: T-25, T-50, T-100, T-125 based on 2020 regular season only. There were no individual user case threads. There were no arbitrary position limit caps. Just questions and rankings.
4. Users submitted their individual Top 125 list.
5. User lists were reviewed for outliers by me with assistance from two former rankers. Users were permitted to correct any mistakes found. Once complete, lists were locked.
6. Reveal the list… right now.

So now, without further ado, here are the players ranked 80-71 in the r/NFL Top 100 Players of the 2020 Season!

##80 - Jamal Adams - Safety (SAF) - Seattle Seahawks

Previous Ranks

Player Profile Card

Written By: /u/MattyT7

Jamal Adams makes my heart flutter and my toes tingle. The way he moves on the field is an utter delight to watch and the Seahawks are lucky to have this absolute stud on and [off the field](https://i.pin

Edit 11, Final Edit: Okay everyone. I have answered over 500 questions. If I didn't answer you, I apologize, but there are FAR more questions than I anticipated. There is a huge possibility your question was already answered multiple times as well, so feel free to look through the questions and answers. With what remained of my time, I tried answering questions that seemed like they hadn't been answered yet. Thank you everyone for your questions, stories, ponderings, and help. If you have a specific question that you think didn't get answers, feel free to PM me. All the best to everyone, and remember to remain diligent and disciplined in your practice. But more importantly, remember that we have no idea what life is or why anything at all is happening. So try to enjoy yourself, lucid dreaming included. I love you all.

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WE ARE AWAKE!

Hello everyone!

My name is E. S. Fein, and I have been lucid dreaming for the last 19 years. I started when I was 13, getting most of my information, insight, questions, and answers from a forum that is still active today called LD4ALL.com. It is a really exceptional community (though I admit I haven't been on those forums for at least a decade).

In 2013 I published a guide to lucid dreaming on a website I developed with a small team at the time called Wondergressive.com.

The guide: Lucid Dreaming Guide

My short, free guide has been viewed millions of times on my own site, and it has been republished on countless other sites as well (with and without permission lol, though I don't mind! I WANT people to lucid dream! It's truly an exceptional tool for inward exploration). Tens of thousands of people over the past 8 years or so have reached out to me for help on their lucid dreaming journey, asking for insight beyond what I provided in the beginner's guide.

The whole reason I decided to do this was after seeing the previous lucid dreaming AMA. I really don't want all of you to think that the world of lucid dreaming is just one giant sales pitch for some dude's book. I really don't mind supporting indie authors (I'm an indie author of multiple science fiction novels myself!), but the answers were just so lackluster...it was just a big let down to me. So, I offer my knowledge and years of teaching and providing support to students in numerous fields of expertise, including lucid dreaming.

Sorry, this isn't associated with my other stories. Just a different storyline that was filling my brain today.

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It hadn’t been an unusual day aboard the Rehabilitation segment of the Drakta Station. A few new species members had arrived to be rehabilitated in accordance with Union law and all was routine.

That is to say it was routine until the message arrived.

***

UNION PRIORITY CHANNEL TO DRAKTA STATION - REHABILITATION

PREPARE TO RECEIVE CLASS 10 SPECIES OFFENDER

***

The supervisors of the Rehabilitation segment had all needed to read and re-read the message before taking action. Within minutes, the Rehabilitation segment was buzzing with the word of the impending arrival, both the guardians and the offenders being rehabilitated.

There could be no doubts as to the contents of the message, but along with the buzz came a chill that seemed to fill the whole of the Rehabilitation segment and seemed even to spread outward into the station beyond.

Union law was very clear on how rehabilitation was conducted. Offenders, regardless of their species, were subjected to what Union outsiders condemned as effectively torture. The Union didn’t care. It was viewed as far more effective and universal than attempting to correct built in sociopathic and perhaps psychopathic behaviors that the various members of species were bound to develop over the course of social developments in mixed societies.

The Rehabilitation Segment of the various stations throughout the Union were a necessary combatant in order to protect the larger population and the Drakta Station segment was no exception. But the Drakta Station Rehabilitation segment was also older, built from scrapped vessels and so was more heavily reinforced than the average Rehabilitation segment.

The long singular passage that connected it to Drakta Station was kept sealed by the void of space and was long enough that even the most hardy Union species wouldn’t be able to cross it without inflicting lethal damage upon themselves to the point that without immediate medical aid from the best species doctors on the other end, they would assuredly perish.

And yet still the hushed whisper of a Class 10 Species Offender arriving moved like tachyons, utterly permeating the station and cloaking it in an almost nervous sense of fear. Union species weren’t pacifists nor were they warriors. They simply did what was necessary. But this was something new.

There were no Class 10 Species within the Union a

In this book (Digital Minimalism), professor Cal Newport conducted his own experiment. 1,600 volunteers followed his guidelines for a month-long technological sabbatical, providing him with valuable feedback. The result of this study is digital minimalism: a way to step back from the onslaught of digital distractions and find a more satisfying and rewarding way of life.

Click here for video version

Digital minimalism is based on the philosophy that less can be more.

There are plenty of people recommending quick fixes like simply disabling the notifications on your smartphone, but Newport doesn’t trust these little adjustments to make much difference in the long run. After all, the author of one such article said he disabled the notifications on 112 apps, which begs the question, do you really need that many apps in the first place?

Cue digital minimalism, which is about the time-honored philosophy that better living can come from less. The name is purposefully similar to the minimalist lifestyle promoted by people like author Marie Kondo, who propose only letting things into your life that bring joy. Newport is applying this to the apps and digital media you take in, suggesting that you ask: Does this website, app or service really support what I value in a way that nothing else can?

Digital minimalism takes a further step in asking you to optimize this technology in a way to maximize the value while reducing the cost to your time and energy. So, if Twitter is something that your career clearly benefits from, you can use it wisely by setting purposeful rules around it that allow you to go in, do what needs to be done and get out.

Tyler was one of the 1,600 people that signed up for the author’s experiment with digital minimalism. He’d signed up to a few social media platforms because he valued staying connected to friends, entertainment and networking. But following the principles of digital minimalism, he realized that the benefits of social media were actually small compared to the time it cost him. Tyler closed his social media accounts, and a year later, he’s still thrilled with the change digital minimalism has brought to his life. He’s getting more exercise, reading more books, volunteering and learning to play music. Even with all this, he has more time to spend with his family and feels more focused at work. Tyler knows people who say they can’t quit social media, but at this point, he can’t see any reason

I've been casually developing this for like 2 years and I'm getting kind of close to being done I think but I need some people to look over it before I enter my finalizing stages.

The naming of terms is in beta stages, so some are lore and some are placeholder real-world terms

The type of advice I am most looking for is(although not necessarily limited to):

1.ideas to improve idea cohesion(make each aspect connect better to each other)

2.Different Weave shapes ideas(really hard for me to think of good ones for these so looking forward to advising on this the most)

3.Ideas on Lore impacts of this magic system

4. Revisions/critiques to the weaves I have already constructed

5.Ideas on what to call stuff, although if I have already named it, it will have to be pretty good for me to switch over.

Source of Magic:

https://preview.redd.it/nitigps17l271.jpg?width=236&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c208c272e8dddf04fcfdd363131a236967608b53

Ikor-

A naturally occurring crystal that grows in semi-permanent(hundreds of years) areas known as apex points

• Exists in two known states
  • solid(low-energy/stable) and gas(high-energy/unstable)
    • While solidifying it will initially link up into stretchy strands before naturally organizing itself into several outlines and eventually the gas will fill in and harden
• The Ikor mined is most often blue but there are other colors
  • The spectrum of purity varies from blue to purple on a spectrum
    • Also, the purer Ikor has a tendency to have a high ratio of a single shape weave
    • Ikor of higher purity is also denser and maintains its density even in 'gaseous form' allowing for higher storage capacity within one gate, but also brings about the mental side effects more quickly
  • There are also clear Ikor as well which is exceedingly common but has long been considered useless
• The blue hue comes from many different impurities whether that be air metal or dirt trapped in the Ikor
  • Because these are all absorbed along with the Ikor when being used in spell casting it is important to expel the excess energy out of your gate or you risk eroding your censer and shortening your lifespan
• Ikor can be bought at different concentrations of Ikor pattern type
  • Only known and understood patterns are considered valuable(square, diamond, circle, and triangle)
  • The percentage of a particular pattern in a crystal, the more efficient the energy transfer for that particular type

I'm in Florida this week for a friend's bachelor party ... However, I flew down a few days early to a different city to meet up with a lady I knew from my school days. This lady, whom I will call Amanda, lived on the same street as I did when we were kids. Due to proximity and the fact that our moms moved in the same social circles, we were close friends throughout elementary and middle school. We began to drift apart toward the end of 8th grade when Amanda filled out and started gravitating toward the athletic / popular clique. Although I participated in club swimming in middle school and was on the swim team all four years of high school, I was a skinny late bloomer who never fit in with that crowd.

At the time, I didn't understand what was going on. Amanda would ignore me at school, but if we ran into each other at church or around the neighborhood, she was all smiles and hugs. She would also alternate between being very responsive to my calls and texts and then go long stretches without answering. I see now that her willingness to acknowledge me correlated with how much attention she was getting from other guys. If she had a boyfriend or a more promising orbiter, I wouldn't hear from her for weeks. If, on the other hand, she wasn't getting what she wanted, she always had me on standby. This meant that, by the time we were in high school, I was regularly called upon to listen to Amanda cry about the succession of jerks and players that she dated.

By this point, I had developed a crush on Amanda and thought that I could win her over by being a good friend (sigh, yes ... I know). One night, we were talking on the phone and she was telling me about her latest breakup with the captain of the soccer team. Figuring this was my chance, I said, "Amanda, you date all these awful guys who end up being terrible boyfriends. Maybe you're just going after the wrong type? We've been friends since kindergarten - I like you, and I think you like me too. What's wrong with me? Why not give us a shot?"

There was an uncomfortably long pause on the line. Then, Amanda said something I'll never forget. "Darth Turbo," she began, "you're a great guy and of course I like you. It's just that I see you as husband material and ... well, that's not what I'm looking for right now."

It was like a dagger to my heart. I didn't know anything about TRP, the CC, or AF/BB back then - but the idea that she would postpone a worthwhile relationship with a good man to waste time with playe

Next

Sam was sitting on the mat, stretching his right leg as was the rest of the class. Jaha'din was at the front, stretching. "Now hold, til the count of twenty." Jaha'din pushed into the stretch. A Krattoch in the back groaned at the exertion. "Don't push so far you're in pain. Just enough to feel the stretch. We want to loosen our tendons and muscles, train them to be longer." Jaha'din got up. "Everyone hold a bit more." He walked to the back of the class and knelt beside the Krattoch.

"You ok?"

The Krattoch looked up at him. "I've hurt worse."

"I'm serious. I do not know your species that well yet. If you have limits, I need to know them. I don't want you getting hurt."

The Krattoch shook a bit, its jowels shaking. "I am fine human. Nothing a drink won't cure. Forgive my groan, get back to teaching."

Jaha'din nodded and walked back to the front of the class. "Ok, everyone relax."

The class groaned as they released their poses.

Jaha'din walked through the group. "I want you all to pair up in sparring partners. I have preset kantas that I will feed to your spectacles. You will practice them until they stick in your muscle memory. Do you understand?"

The class responded as one. "Yes Jaha'din!"

Jaha'din paired up with the grazer student Il'fante. The two bowed to one another. The class paired off and each set did their bows.

Then on the count of three all started their practice moves.

Jaha'din and Il'fante were going off script. They had fought together so many times they knew each other's habits, Jaha'din having taught Il'fante his. Now they were developing counter techniques to counter each other's counters.

They began. Jaha'din struck. Il'fante blocked with a wrist and then crossed over to attempt to grapple. Jaha'din spun with a pull, flipping Il'fante over his back. The grazer landed on three of his four feet, and used the last to continue into a flip. Jaha'din dodged back as two of Il'fante's legs kicked out from the inner core of his body. Il'fante landed on his side and rolled, dodging Jaha'din's stomp.

Jaha'din did a run and double kick while Il'fante tried to get up. Il'fante rolled around on his back and thorax, spinning his legs into his teacher's legs. Jaha'din got tangled and fell into Il'fante's limbs. The Grazer latched onto him in a grapple. Jaha'din struck the soft points in Il'fante's chest

How do y'all find folks to hang out with now that you're FIREd?

I am soft FIREd - I saved enough that I quit my full-time job but I still need to make a little bit of money to shore up the budget, which I do with occasional part-time work and side hustles. So far it's a pretty sustainable way to live and I have been semi-retired for about 5 years now.

The problem is that my life is still centered around waiting for the weekends. All my friends still live normal lives as well as my partner who I live with, so I spend 5 days a week filling my time in unfulfilling ways, waiting for all my friends to get off work in the evenings or weekends so we can go do the kind of fun stuff I imagined my life would be full to the brim with. This isn't supposed to be the way it is! It's gotten to the point where I almost considered going back to work full time just to fill the time.

I've spent the last few years looking inward - trying to find projects to busy myself with or find ways to become a little more introverted, working on developing good habits so each day feels fulfilling, but something has always been missing. Just now, moments before writing this post, it occurred to me that it might just be that I need more folks around. 5 days a week, 16 hours a day, I'm totally tribeless.

Has anyone else solved this problem? Ideally, I'd like to make local friends I can see in real life. Or possibly, how does one hunt for a job where money barely matters and it's all about doing something fun, fulfilling, and social?

“Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer” - J.P. Morgan

I am not a financial advisor and do not provide financial advice. Co-written by myself, a January holder, and my partner, a May holder. This post could also not have been possible without the valuable teachings of u/thatssopisces - if you found this content interesting, send them some love.

While talking about astrology necessarily involves pinpointing space and time, this post does not pinpoint nor advocate for any potential dates for MOASS. That is not the purpose of this post (which is looking more big-picture), nor our practice of astrology, and we do not acknowledge or endorse date-setting.

This is a supplementary perspective on the GameStop saga as it continues to unfold, and what we endeavour to be an accessible introduction into how our collective stories have been recorded, what those stories tell, and how we see those stories influence our lives today. At best, we hope this post will provide spiritual assurance to individuals participating in this massive moment in history; at worst, this is more confirmation bias to throw into the ever-growing pile. You don’t have to believe in astrology to get value from this read: we ultimately just hope to provide something different for apes to enjoy and reflect upon.

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On the rocketship to Andromeda, it is probably a good idea to know where you are going. While astrology can provide meaning as we look outward into the universe, the stars can only guide us toward the story that is being acted out. It is still up to each individual to figure out what part they will play.

1. Why Investors Should Be Looking to the Stars

Astrology is an extremely useful tool for investors who recognize that, just like in the stock market, cycles exist in all aspects of life, and importantly, that those cycles can be tracked and analyzed. Astrology is premised on the notion that the universe is cyclical. On both micro and macro levels, the narrative of life repeats itself, and each time tells a different version of the same story. Many of you will understand this eternal struggle in the context of the Hero’s Journey, which is discussed more thoroughly in section 3.2.

Astrology as a practice represents one of the oldest branches of knowledge known to mankind, spanning at least 10,000 years into the past. In its simplest form, it is the practice of tracking the movement of time on Earth using the pl

Serving on a Star Destroyer? How do you spend your days? Let’s find out!

TL:DR - lots of numbers. Breakdown of crew areas. Guesses about tasks and functions. Also, this is long as hell. So, so long.

This is a highly speculative proposal for a crew breakdown of an Imperial-II Star Destroyer. I’ve been writing a fanfic set aboard a Star Destroyer and as I’m getting back into it the ISD is always on my mind. Much reflection on the role of an ISD within the Empire and some of the nuts and bolts about how that is accomplished.

There is plenty of stuff I haven’t watched or read so I’m sure I have errors all over and I welcome feedback and correction to refine this. As well, I haven’t served in any navy so I’m sure I have fudged or overlooked details in that regard. I have some design principles that I’ve tried to apply consistently through this. The ‘meat’ of this is numbers so I’ll put my design stuff at the end. Skip down to it if you want.

The crew of an ISD-II, as listed on Wookiepedia, is 9,200 officers, 27,850 enlisted crew, and 9,700 stormtroopers. In my imagination, I have the crew divided into 7 basic departments: Command, Administration, Operations, TIE Wing, Stormtrooper Legion, Research & Sciences, Engineering, Civilian Support, and Imperial Security Bureau. Everyone’s running on a three watch rotation so the number on duty at any given time is roughly a third.

Command Department is actually the most contrived so I’ll double back to it later.

Administration Department (2,000 officers and 8,000 enlisted) This is the internal day-to-day running of the ship. This group comes from the normal Imperial Navy ranks. Think of it as generally things focused inwardly on the ship. It isn’t glamorous but it’s the daily grind that keeps everything else moving.

Medical (300 officers, 700 enlisted) covers a wide range of issues including battle injuries, chronic conditions, dental care, physiotherapy, and rehabilitation. Despite what the Jedi would make you think, getting used to a cybernetic replacement for a limb takes quite a bit of rehab.

Supply & Logistics (200 officers, 1800 enlisted) primarily looks after food, water, laundry, and cargo. Food for the lower ranks is mostly nutrient slurry and water is endlessly recycled. Bland coffee with artificial cream and sweeteners is the least power intensive form of caffeine for the ranks. Mess halls throughout the ship serve different sections. Enlisted crew often get rations of meat and sweets a

Note: Welcome back to the land of the Mass Effect! This is the last chapter (7/7) that focuses on the effects of Humanity on the Batarian Hegemony. We finally see the effect of Humanity's creative destruction on the stagnancy of the Citadel species!

I want to address some much comments from much earlier in the story. Civilization does not change for no reason~ It is only in moments of enormous stress that we see a people change. The weight for each civilization is of course different. But change will never be because of a single lost battle, or fleet, that only makes the people dig in harder. Instead with the Salarians, we saw a great betrayal of trust, and with the Turians it was the unfair peace treaty more than a lost battle. These two species are much short-lived compared to the third of the triumvirate, but with the Asari, too, we will see an interesting time of self reflection. (It is already planned intricately, please look forward to Book 3, hahah.)

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In the weeks and months that followed, a new power rose within Citadel space. With the majority of active military operations effectively on hold, especially given the continued absence of any "Human" invasion, all the previous effort of the Turian Hierarchy spent were diverted into a new front: Diplomacy. Compared to the hesitant, timid Turian efforts at the Great Game before the ceasefire, a more determined Hierarchy poured almost endless resources into the withered branch of Government.

For the first time in recorded history, Turian culture took a tentative step away from viewing the military as the sole respectable career. Encouraged by the humiliation of having their enemies for generations simply be brought into the Galactic government without consultation, Turian society as a whole was starting to look at other methods of "fighting". Encouraged in part by elder statesmen and war heroes like Councillor Arterius, the idea of fighting a war of words and public interest spread quickly outwards from Palaven, reaching even the outerm

I’m gonna be super real with you -- applying to college is fricking stressful -- and often overwhelming. And it's totally ok and normal to be stressed out. Still, no doubt, there are going to be times when you’re going to absolutely need to be able to handle the stress of it all. So in honor of Mental Health Month, as we finish off May, I’m gonna try to get all the mental health tips that I like to share throughout the year all bundled up in one post -- this one.

Warning -- it’s long. And if you read the stuff I write here on A2C (and thank you if you do), you might have seen all my advice and stories I’m sharing here, but I always think good reminders are important -- especially about your mental health. Graduating seniors, y’all might wanna hold on to this post too. Some of these tips might come in handy during the college transition.)

So, yeah -- there are times when the college admissions experience absolutely sucks. But there’s also something really amazing about the admissions journey. And here’s why: Some stress is good for you. You aren’t going to live long, full, absolutely stress-free lives and the sooner you learn to handle it, the better. I’ve heard this called stress inoculation before.

I call it wind.

🌳 Baby Tree Metaphor

Now, I really hope there aren’t any botanists out there to call me out on the details of this story because anyone who knows me can tell you I’m no scientist, but I am a former English major and English teacher, so I love a good metaphor, and when I first heard this story, it struck me, and it stuck with me.

Back in the 90s, there was this big ole Biosphere in Arizona where they were trying to create a completely self-contained ecosystem and grow trees, so that, you know, if we get booted off Earth someday, we can take our plant life with us.

They made the conditions absolutely perfect for raising these baby trees. Perfect soil. Ideal temperature. Perfect amount of sunlight and water. And the trees grew and they grew fast and tall and seemed healthy and then —- they started to fall over. And do you know why? The scientists had forgotten to provide the wind in creating the perfect environment for raising their beautiful baby trees. And because there was nothing pushing on these baby trees, nothing trying to knock them over, the saplings never experienced any stress. And without the stress from the wind trying to knock them over, the trees weren’t creating “stress bark,” a bark that makes them stand strong, and t

Both hornevian and object relation groups deal with how childhood affected enneagram typings so I found them to be pretty interesting.

I'm making this from a mobile phone, so please understand if things dont line up perfectly.

for example, a 7 would be frustrated and assertive, a 5 rejected and neutral, and 6 attached and responsive.

Hornevian Types

• Assertive (3,7,8): This triad is seen as the ‘moving against’ stance. The types are very much focused on acting in a manner to gain what they desire. They are the types that think about what they want and then act do gain this. It’s this focus on the self that matches the Freudian association of the ego. To assert oneself is second nature. This is very obvious with type 8 as they assert themselves very often, sometimes to the point of aggression. For Type 7, the assertion is seen when they pursue new things, asserting their right to fun. Type 3 asserts itself in a more subtle sense, focusing more on their own goals. However, if one was to stand between them and these goals, they would stand up for themselves. The general advice for the Assertive Stance types is to be aware of the other people. The types can often act without thinking about how their actions are affecting people, sometimes with very negative consequences. It the simple notion of thinking before acting but also thinking about others before doing. It’s also interesting to note these types can sometimes have difficulty forming deep, meaningful relationships with people.
• Neutral (4,5,9): The Withdrawn Stance as the name suggests are those types that 'move away’ from people. Here we find the types that focus on thinking and feeling, making them highly imaginative. It is hard to see how their Freudian assocation, the Id, can be linked with these distant types however Freud himself remarked that it was 'thinkers and poets’ who were most in connection with their subconscious. Type 5 often withdraws the most physically, strongly asserting their need for privacy and withdrawing from the world. Type 4 withdraws socially, taking time to construct their own individuality separate from others. While Type 9 doesn’t necessarily physically withdraw from the world, they are guilty of zoning out with people, a mental withdrawal into an inner sanctum of being. Types of the Withdrawn Stance can all benefit from moving themselves into the world an

Hey folks, paraplegic manual wheelchair user here developing wrist issues from rolling my wheelchair around that are starting to bleed into my ability to type and work/be a student. Doc suggested a split keyboard with a width that would allow my my elbows to be at 90 degrees without rotating my forearms inwards, or in other words, no longer having my thumbs next to each other on the home row of a regular keyboard which requires bending my forearms inwards maybe 15 degrees or so. Doc said shoot for 0 degrees rotation of my forearms.

So I don't know if maybe I'm a weirdo (5'8 160 lbs) but the distance between my thumbs when my forearms are at 0 degrees and parallel to my thighs is like 20 inches. I would probably need at least 22", 25 would be nice just to have the cable completely taut.

I am not sure if I'm looking in the wrong places online, but a lot of ergo mechs I have seen have a max split with of like 8" and the highest I could even find was 20 inches. The cables seemed proprietary too, on most the jacks weren't exposed outside the casing/housing so probably soldered or something I would suspect. So its not like I can just buy a 25" usb C male to male and swap it out or something.

Am I the weird one? Is there something wrong with extended width splits I just don't know about yet? Does 8" vs 20" create ridic input lag or something? Am I just looking at the wrong ergo split mech keyboards?

In this book (Digital Minimalism), professor Cal Newport conducted his own experiment. 1,600 volunteers followed his guidelines for a month-long technological sabbatical, providing him with valuable feedback. The result of this study is digital minimalism: a way to step back from the onslaught of digital distractions and find a more satisfying and rewarding way of life.

Click here for video version

Digital minimalism is based on the philosophy that less can be more.

There are plenty of people recommending quick fixes like simply disabling the notifications on your smartphone, but Newport doesn’t trust these little adjustments to make much difference in the long run. After all, the author of one such article said he disabled the notifications on 112 apps, which begs the question, do you really need that many apps in the first place?

Cue digital minimalism, which is about the time-honored philosophy that better living can come from less. The name is purposefully similar to the minimalist lifestyle promoted by people like author Marie Kondo, who propose only letting things into your life that bring joy. Newport is applying this to the apps and digital media you take in, suggesting that you ask: Does this website, app or service really support what I value in a way that nothing else can?

Digital minimalism takes a further step in asking you to optimize this technology in a way to maximize the value while reducing the cost to your time and energy. So, if Twitter is something that your career clearly benefits from, you can use it wisely by setting purposeful rules around it that allow you to go in, do what needs to be done and get out.

Tyler was one of the 1,600 people that signed up for the author’s experiment with digital minimalism. He’d signed up to a few social media platforms because he valued staying connected to friends, entertainment and networking. But following the principles of digital minimalism, he realized that the benefits of social media were actually small compared to the time it cost him. Tyler closed his social media accounts, and a year later, he’s still thrilled with the change digital minimalism has brought to his life. He’s getting more exercise, reading more books, volunteering and learning to play music. Even with all this, he has more time to spend with his family and feels more focused at work. Tyler knows people who say they can’t quit social media, but at this point, he can’t see any reason t

I'm in Florida this week for a friend's bachelor party ... However, I flew down a few days early to a different city to meet up with a lady I knew from my school days. This lady, whom I will call Amanda, lived on the same street as I did when we were kids. Due to proximity and the fact that our moms moved in the same social circles, we were close friends throughout elementary and middle school. We began to drift apart toward the end of 8th grade when Amanda filled out and started gravitating toward the athletic / popular clique. Although I participated in club swimming in middle school and was on the swim team all four years of high school, I was a skinny late bloomer who never fit in with that crowd.

At the time, I didn't understand what was going on. Amanda would ignore me at school, but if we ran into each other at church or around the neighborhood, she was all smiles and hugs. She would also alternate between being very responsive to my calls and texts and then go long stretches without answering. I see now that her willingness to acknowledge me correlated with how much attention she was getting from other guys. If she had a boyfriend or a more promising orbiter, I wouldn't hear from her for weeks. If, on the other hand, she wasn't getting what she wanted, she always had me on standby. This meant that, by the time we were in high school, I was regularly called upon to listen to Amanda cry about the succession of jerks and players that she dated.

By this point, I had developed a crush on Amanda and thought that I could win her over by being a good friend (sigh, yes ... I know). One night, we were talking on the phone and she was telling me about her latest breakup with the captain of the soccer team. Figuring this was my chance, I said, "Amanda, you date all these awful guys who end up being terrible boyfriends. Maybe you're just going after the wrong type? We've been friends since kindergarten - I like you, and I think you like me too. What's wrong with me? Why not give us a shot?"

There was an uncomfortably long pause on the line. Then, Amanda said something I'll never forget. "Darth Turbo," she began, "you're a great guy and of course I like you. It's just that I see you as husband material and ... well, that's not what I'm looking for right now."

It was like a dagger to my heart. I didn't know anything about TRP, the CC, or AF/BB back then - but the idea that she would postpone a worthwhile relationship with a good man to waste time with players

In this book (Digital Minimalism), professor Cal Newport conducted his own experiment. 1,600 volunteers followed his guidelines for a month-long technological sabbatical, providing him with valuable feedback. The result of this study is digital minimalism: a way to step back from the onslaught of digital distractions and find a more satisfying and rewarding way of life.

Click here for video version

Digital minimalism is based on the philosophy that less can be more.

There are plenty of people recommending quick fixes like simply disabling the notifications on your smartphone, but Newport doesn’t trust these little adjustments to make much difference in the long run. After all, the author of one such article said he disabled the notifications on 112 apps, which begs the question, do you really need that many apps in the first place?

Cue digital minimalism, which is about the time-honored philosophy that better living can come from less. The name is purposefully similar to the minimalist lifestyle promoted by people like author Marie Kondo, who propose only letting things into your life that bring joy. Newport is applying this to the apps and digital media you take in, suggesting that you ask: Does this website, app or service really support what I value in a way that nothing else can?

Digital minimalism takes a further step in asking you to optimize this technology in a way to maximize the value while reducing the cost to your time and energy. So, if Twitter is something that your career clearly benefits from, you can use it wisely by setting purposeful rules around it that allow you to go in, do what needs to be done and get out.

Tyler was one of the 1,600 people that signed up for the author’s experiment with digital minimalism. He’d signed up to a few social media platforms because he valued staying connected to friends, entertainment and networking. But following the principles of digital minimalism, he realized that the benefits of social media were actually small compared to the time it cost him. Tyler closed his social media accounts, and a year later, he’s still thrilled with the change digital minimalism has brought to his life. He’s getting more exercise, reading more books, volunteering and learning to play music. Even with all this, he has more time to spend with his family and feels more focused at work. Tyler knows people who say they can’t quit social media, but at this point, he can’t see any reason

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In this book (Digital Minimalism), professor Cal Newport conducted his own experiment. 1,600 volunteers followed his guidelines for a month-long technological sabbatical, providing him with valuable feedback. The result of this study is digital minimalism: a way to step back from the onslaught of digital distractions and find a more satisfying and rewarding way of life.

Click here for video version

Digital minimalism is based on the philosophy that less can be more.

There are plenty of people recommending quick fixes like simply disabling the notifications on your smartphone, but Newport doesn’t trust these little adjustments to make much difference in the long run. After all, the author of one such article said he disabled the notifications on 112 apps, which begs the question, do you really need that many apps in the first place?

Cue digital minimalism, which is about the time-honored philosophy that better living can come from less. The name is purposefully similar to the minimalist lifestyle promoted by people like author Marie Kondo, who propose only letting things into your life that bring joy. Newport is applying this to the apps and digital media you take in, suggesting that you ask: Does this website, app or service really support what I value in a way that nothing else can?

Digital minimalism takes a further step in asking you to optimize this technology in a way to maximize the value while reducing the cost to your time and energy. So, if Twitter is something that your career clearly benefits from, you can use it wisely by setting purposeful rules around it that allow you to go in, do what needs to be done and get out.

Tyler was one of the 1,600 people that signed up for the author’s experiment with digital minimalism. He’d signed up to a few social media platforms because he valued staying connected to friends, entertainment and networking. But following the principles of digital minimalism, he realized that the benefits of social media were actually small compared to the time it cost him. Tyler closed his social media accounts, and a year later, he’s still thrilled with the change digital minimalism has brought to his life. He’s getting more exercise, reading more books, volunteering and learning to play music. Even with all this, he has more time to spend with his family and feels more focused at work. Tyler knows people who say they can’t quit social media, but at this point, he can’t see any reason to