Sakto long weekend, kaya may time makapagisip. May time para for self-love. At may time para makamove-on sa crush na di ka naman mahal.
Kaso, gaano katagal na panahon ba kailangan para magmove-on? One day? One week? One month? Pota. 3 months na ever since umamin ako sa kaniya pa din ako maka move on. Kala ko ok na ako, nakamove on na after yung last long talk, di pa pala. Sobrang. Hindi. Pa.
Paano ba naman kasi, he is, for me, the perfect person. The vibes are always right pagmagkasama kami. Andun sa kaniya mga hinahanap ko sa lalake. Ang hirap makahanap ng red flag sa kaniya when all the flags have been green. Bonus na din na cute siya, chos.
Kasalanan ko din naman kasi lahat, ayaw ko tanggapin yung fact na need ko ng space from him. Magdedecide na lang ako isang araw, need ko siya layuan pero di ko sasabihin sa kaniya, pero parang magnet lapit pa din ng lapit sa akin. Kaloka, ang hirap sabihin sa kaniya na need ko ng space sa takot na baka masaktan ko siya ulit.
Nakakatakot isipin na masaktan nanaman siya dahil sa failure ko to communicate with him. Ang sakit sa puso, di dahil lang may gusto ako sa kaniya, but dahil nararamdaman ko yung guguho din friendship namin.
Ang hirap na never ako nagkaroon ng friendship like kung ano meron namin, yung tatanggapin ako for me, di ako jinujudge, iniintindi ako, di ako sinasabihan na weirdo at di ako dinodown. Lumaki kasi ako sa toxic na friend group, yung hahanapan at hahanapan ka ng masama, binabackstab ka, dinodownplay lahat, ginagaslight ka, kaya pagdating sa kaniya parang bumalik ako sa pagkabata na first time magkaroon ng totoong kaibigan.
Kasalanan ko din na nagooverthink ako at feel ko nagsesend siya ng mixed signals, when sinabi na nga close friends lang kami kaya iba ang treatment sa akin. Ako lang naman kasi nagbibigay ng meaning sa mga ginagawa niya. Pota. Bakit sa akin lang kasi siya ganiyan when ang dami niyang ibang masclose at masmatagal ng naging tropa? Dahil ba sa sinabi niya na masmabait ako compared sa mga iba niyang kaibigan? O dahil ba babae ako?
Kasalanan ko din naman na naging reliant na din ako sa kaniya if may mga specific na problems ako. Ang hirap kasi feel ko na nagiging burden na ako sa kaniya. Ang hirap na feel ko pabigat lang ako lalo sa kaniya. Ang sakit kasi di ko siya masyado natutulungan.
The worst part? I have to pretend everything is ok, not just in front of him, but to everyone else in the damn office who knows of our friendship, kung gaano kaclose kami, kung gaano kakulit namin sa isat isa, and how much we rely on each other sa work namin. I have to keep pretending wala nagyayari sa utak ko. I have to pretend na I am ok to be close with him when need ko ng space. Alam niya gumuguho na mental health ko for the past month dahil sa trabaho, pero di ko inaamin sa kaniya na one of the reasons na gumugulo utak ko ay dahil sa kaniya.
I feel guilty everytime I try to push him away without telling him. And I feel bad when I tell him I need time away knowing he will wait for me to be ready to tell him what's wrong. Ganun siya kabait, ganun siya kapatient, ganun siya karespectful. And it breaks my heart na I am about to put him through my emotional rollercoasters again.
In the end, ang sakit lang na I have to figure this out again in 3 days before namin bumalik ulit sa trabaho. If not I would have to pretend na wala nagyayari and try again next time to move on.
Gusto ko lang tumahimik utak ko. Gusto ko lang tumahimik puso ko. Gusto ko lang magmove on. Ayaw ko ng masaktan.

Hi guys,
Carpenter for 14 years and studying CM degree part time.
I just received an offer for my first Site Superintendent position for Multifamily. Any insight on how to negotiate a good salary would be appreciated. I know SS work a fair bit of overtime, wondering if you are ever compensated for this, or is it just apart of the job, which is what I’ve been told?
Appreciate the help.

Hello all.... I have only been diagnosed for about a year, so I'm still learning about parts of me that are relevant to the diagnosis.
I work at a high school, this was the end of my third year. Graduation was last night. I knew a lot of the kids, I'm familiar with the staff and the building and yet... I felt SO out of place. Like I didn't belong, didn't know what to do with myself. Almost like, I was an animal in an exhibit at a zoo looking out on all the people and not really comprehending why I was in such a different space than everyone else, if that makes sense.
And I realized that I feel this way SO often, and couldn't really remember the last time that I didn't feel that way, particularly when it comes to events/parties/celebrations.
Is that something that you all can relate to? I guess I'm trying to decipher if this is a me thing or an autism thing, if that makes sense.
Any help or commiseration would be appreciated. Thank you!

The final change to the Book of Mormon that I will be addressing is the two verses where the name was changed from Benjamin to Mosiah. King Benjamin’s death was recorded in Mosiah 6:5. These changes take place in Mosiah 21:28 and Ether 4:1. Both of these verses talked about King Benjamin as if he were alive after his death. Both verses were later changed to read as King Mosiah, a change which disagrees with the original manuscripts. FAIR addresses these two changes:
"One of the most common criticisms of the Book of Mormon concerns changes that have occurred in the text over the years. And within this category of criticisms, one of the most interesting involves a textual change involving a proper name, where the name Benjamin was printed in the 1830 edition, but was changed to the name Mosiah in later editions. This actually occurs in two separate passages in the Book of Mormon."
"At Mosiah 21:28 of the Book of Mormon, both the Printer’s Manuscript and the 1830 edition reads Benjamin, while all subsequent editions read Mosiah. Why was this change made, and was it warranted?"
"Similarly, at Ether 4:1 the Printer’s Manuscript and the 1830 edition, as well as many of the early editions, all read Benjamin, while the later editions, including the current edition, read Mosiah. Why was this change made, and is it related to the change in Mosiah 21:28?"
"Was it an inadvertent slip of the tongue on the part of Joseph Smith as he dictated his translation to Oliver Cowdery, or did he translate correctly enough an original error on the part of Mormon, the abridger of the Book of Mormon? The last of these suggestions is probably the correct one, for the fact remains that the reading “king Benjamin” is an out-and-out error, because the king had been dead for some time."
A 1983 Ensign article also addressed this change to the Book of Mormon.
"In Mosiah 21:28 and Ether 4:1, the first edition had “Benjamin” where the name of Mosiah now appears. In fact, King Benjamin would not likely have still been living in the historical period described by these verses. In the 1837 edition, the Prophet Joseph made this correction."
"We can only speculate about the cause of this error. Book of Mormon scholar Sidney B. Sperry has posed this interesting question: “Was it an inadvertent slip of the tongue on the part of Joseph Smith as he dictated his translation to Oliver Cowdery, or did he translate correctly an original error on the part of Mormon, the abridger of the Book of Mormon?"
The importance of using this 1983 article as a source is to show that the church has been aware of these changes for the last four decades. While one Ensign article did address it long ago, the general church membership has largely remained unaware of these details. I was unable to find a more recent article that mentioned changes to the text.
The apologists argue that this change came from one of three scenarios: either Joseph made a mistake when translating, Mormon made a mistake when compiling the plates, or these chapters were written by other record keepers while Benjamin was still alive. Hugh Nibley asserts this could have been the case:
"Sometimes the editors of later editions of the Book of Mormon have made 'corrections' that were better left unmade. . . . Was it necessary to change the name of Benjamin (in the first edition) to Mosiah in later editions of Ether 4:1? Probably not, for though it is certain that Mosiah kept the records in question, it is by no means certain that his father, Benjamin, did not also have a share in keeping them. It was Benjamin who displayed the zeal of a life-long book lover in the keeping and studying of records; and after he handed over the throne to his son Mosiah he lived on and may well have spent many days among his beloved records. And among these records could have been the Jaredite plates, which were brought to Zarahemla early in the reign of Mosiah, when his father could still have been living (Mosiah 8:9-15)."
No apologist has a suggestion that would reflect poorly on Joseph Smith or the validity of the gold plates. I would encourage the reader to dive into the FAIR apologetic response to this issue. Each person must decide if the name changes are an issue at all and if the apologists provide adequate explanations for these changes.
Is the name change from Benjamin to Mosiah significant to you?
How does this change fit into the translation method of reading words off of a seer stone?
https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/conference/august-2001/benjamin-or-mosiah-resolving-an-anomaly-in-mosiah-2128
https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/archive/publications/king-benjamin-or-mosiah-a-look-at-mosiah-2128
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1983/12/understanding-textual-changes-in-the-book-of-mormon?lang=eng

So I'm close to 30 years old now.
My best friend is almost 29.
He is the complete opposite of me in some things. He never studied in his life, he did not really care for it which was perfectly fine. I mean not everyone has to follow the exact same path.
He was the drunk fun good looking guy that would get all the girls (and I mean all) . Never really held a job for more than 2 months and whenever he got drunk (every time we went out) he would make inappropriate jokes and comments to random girls or he would get into random fights.
Still it never really stopped him or me from hanging out with each other. I had so much fun and I'm sure he did too. Until he started making those comments to random girls.
This got old really fast.
On the other hand I was studying a lot during all my college years and I now have a really well paying job in a big company which doesn't leave me with a lot of free time.
I would also partake in the drunk escapades when I was younger (without the comments and fights part) however I don't really want to anymore.
He still wants to get hammered everytime we go out and act like a jerk. I thought he would grow out of it but He never really did.
As a result I have started avoiding hanging out with him and we are slowly going distant with each other.
I have talked to him about that a million times however he never changes.
What should I do? Anyone has a same experience to share?

Critical role is an enigma. In the tabletop RPG (TTRPG) community, “the bigger they are, the harder they fall” is a fact of life. TTRPGs are a very lucrative industry, and the demand for new games, books, and shows provides plenty of opportunities for bad actors. From Satine Phoneix to Adam “forced robo orgasm” Koebel, it’s normal for this week’s darling to become next week's pariah (almost always for good reason). By that logic CR’s meteoric rise and near decade-long reign means we’re due to find out Mercer binds the souls of orphans to his dice. Until that day, while CR hasn’t stirred up drama, it’s played a (Critical) Role in several tales. Critical Role is basically the NBA of ttrpgs, and a lot of people try their damndest to get a piece of the pie.
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In that vein, three people have most famously wrecked their own careers trying to cash in on CR. The first two are well known, namely the dragonborn sorcerer Orion “I want to do four things” Acaba, and former Talks Machina host (current full-time piece of shit) Brian W. Foster. However, in the background, a third career was also ended by Critical Role, or more specifically the influencer's obsession with it. This is the tale of FreckledHobo, the TiktoTer who tried to harpoon the white whale of Critical Role, and ended up being dragged under the water.
Welcome... to Critical Role
As they put it, Critical Role is “a bunch of nerdy-ass voice actors” who “sit around and play Dungeons and Dragons”, but they are truly so much more.
Started in 2016 by a group of some of the most iconic voice actors in anime, video games, and just general nerd media, the group's in-game chemistry, dedication to roleplaying, and just fun atmosphere took them from a subsidiary of Geek and Sundry to an empire. They have their own TV show, partnerships with major ttrpg companies including the publisher of D&D, Wizards of the Coast, and their own upcoming set of games. And from what we can tell, it couldn’t have happened to a better group of people. As a company and as a cast, CR has a long history of supporting various charities. Anecdotes from fans depict them as nothing but kind, friendly people. Don’t get me wrong, there are critiques to be levied against them about their rather aggressive fanbase and the fact their all-white party is now playing in a SWANA-inspired continent written by a white man, but it’s more things you find out over time than are warned about. When the only hobby drama that actually involves them is about playing a crappy corporate oneshot or ones where they sound like the victims you know they’ve done well.
This is all to emphasize that Critical Role is big and nearly blemish free, so any attempt to come at them best come correct, or you risk dealing with a massive company and an incredibly rabid fanbase. FreckledHobo was not correct.
Who is Freckled Hobo, and what is tiktok?
Katie Ford (aka Freckled Hobo) is technically still an influencer on the video-sharing app TikTok. TikTok is known for two things generally: The diversity/strangeness of its content, and its incredibly detailed algorithm. By interacting with a handful of videos it’s able to create a feed not only specific to your tastes but also sets you up to connect with like-minded people. This leads to incredibly tight-knit communities connected by their passions, which are generally known as ___tok, such as cooktok, booktok, kinktok, or the one we’ll be looking at here, D&Dtok. While this is appealing because it allows influencers to find and build networks with other influencers, it also means drama can never be contained to one part of the community. If anything goes down, the entire community of influencers, and the millions of collective followers, will know every detail in less than 24 hours. This means you’re one good video from skyrocketing to fame, and one bad video from complete collapse.
Freckledhobo belonged to D&Dtok. She rose to stardom by making content about her experiences playing D&D, doing skits to lip-synced audio, having immaculate makeup and cosplay, and generally being a bubbly, fun personality. It’s not an overstatement to say she was the biggest ttrpg influencer on the app, with over 1.2 million followers at the time of the drama. Through her own actual play on Twitch Dragons and dreaming, she was already well on her way to becoming a star of the ttrpg world in her own right. At least, until she decided her rise wasn't happening fast enough.
Aside: TikTok
As you’d expect, much of what transpired with this event happened on TikTok. TikTok’s horrible search algorithm, ease of purging videos, and Freckledhobos own efforts to drown out the controversy and flood her feed have made it impossible to find much of the initial creator response or to even find the video that kicked this off. It’s led to a situation that pretty much looks like that scene in south park, as you can find a ton of videos in response to what she said, but you can’t actually find the videos they’re referring to. This unfortunately means a lot of this will be “just take my word for it”. Instead of just linking random clips I’m able to find, below are three best collections of content from the event
Here is google doc with transcript of several of the tiktoks and their comment sections
Here is a video with some of the deleted tiktoks
Here is an article summarizing what happened with a handful of quotes
The Claim
In late June 2021, Freckledhobo published a TikTok, but there was no silly audio, no cosplay, and no jokes. It was her, sitting in front of (we guess) her house, and on the verge of tears (I would link it but the video itself seems to have been scrubbed too thoroughly for me to find). With a sigh, she began to explain how she believed that Opal, the human warlock with silvery hair played by Aimee Carrero in the recently released Exandria Unlimited:Kymal, was a stolen copy of her own character, Opal, also a human warlock with silvery hair in the aforementioned actually play.
Over a series of videos, she detailed her evidence for the claim. The full transcripts are in the document above, but it boils down to her belief that the D&D creator community is incredibly small and with her million tiktok followers, she must be big enough for her and Opal to be known about. The actual play itself has a whopping 500 followers, and this event was actually the first time I at least had heard about FreckledHobo. She cited her playlist of Opal cosplays as the method by which Carero discovered her character, seemingly pulling it from her TikToks. On the right of the photo here is Opal's character art. Here is Freckledhobo in her Opal Cosplay.
She laid out what she felt must be done. She had reached out to Critical Role's legal team and threatened legal action because (*check notes*) someone was playing a similar character to her. She was, however, amicable. She was willing to “settle” for something she felt would be beneficial to both of them: a guest cast role on Critical Role.
As I write this out, I need to specify that this was not a joke misconstrued by a defensive fanbase. She was not attempting to start some light ribbing she was hoping to use to build up a rapport. She seemed to fully believe her character had been stolen, and that she was providing a respectful compromise.
She would eventually say she was given an “ultimatum” from CR’s legal team and “chose to walk away”, and end this by plugging her current actual play, where Opal would be given a “makeover to look like more of an individual”. There are various videos interspersed and after this, but these are the key ones to understand what’s going on. It should also be noted that throughout this entire event, CR never put out any statements, meaning she’s the only source we have for any conversation.
Putting the Critical in Critical fail
Of course, nobody supported her, especially when she stated what she wanted in compensation. The connections between her character and Aimee’s Opal were, to say the least, light. The concept of a gem aestheticized character wasn’t exactly groundbreaking, and there was evidence that Carero had started working on the character before Freckledhobo. The only strength to her claim was the fact that the profile art for the two characters was similar, both dark-skinned women with silvery hair. However, this is where the problems started not only for FreckledHobo, but her entire actual play cast. As it was the crux of the evidence, people began to question why Opal's profile, and the profiles for much of her cast, left their artists uncredited. It would eventually be discovered that not only Opals but all of their primary artwork, including work used for merchandise, was either traced over or directly ripped from the internet without crediting the artists. Her justification was, in short “they wouldn’t be online if they cared about compensation or credit”.
At the same time another creator CertifiableNerd, someone who had played with FreckledHobo previously came forward saying Freckledhobo was rude in the campaigns she’d played with them, forcing specific character classes and alignment, lying about paying players, forcing players to purchase/make cosplays of characters for games that weren’t even off the ground, and guilting someone for not playing a session when they had a family emergency because they’d be “disappointing fans”. She also would privately claim she had played D&D with Matthew Mercer and Marisha Ray, two founding members of Critical Role, and that they said she was not “special” enough to even play a guest role on CR. I’m more writing about this because it transpired than because it had an effect because none of these details were levied when most people spoke about this. Opal was more than enough to sink this ship.
You see, Freckledhobo had made her fame within the modern niche of D&D players, which is predominantly made up of artists, POC or active allies, and Critical Role fans. Accusing a POC Critical role cast member (who had already been dealing with a lot of issues as a first-time player) of theft, accusing the community of reverse racism, and stealing art was a perfect storm of things to piss them off. It didn’t help that her response was all of this was to release a TikTok saying she expected her “fellow nerds” to have her back while she attempted to bully the Ke=eanu Reeves of D&D into giving her a guest spot. Her entire following turned against her, and her DM promptly quit, ending her own actual play. Other creators either spoke out against her or shut her out, putting her out of favor with the algorithm. In the span of 10 days, Freckledhobo went from an influencer darling on her way to at worst whatever the modern equivalent of Attack the Show is to a toxic personality that most of the community wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole.
To get an idea of how badly she’d poisoned the well, a year later when it turned out she and several others had been invited to participate in the same event, the other creators had to release public apologies and still faced heavy scrutiny for months after.
Post campaign wrapup
I often struggle writing the endings of these things because I like to write about large-scale events liable to have ripple effects for years to come. That is not true for FreckledHobo. FreckledHobo's career is dead and will stay dead. You see, the goal of TikTok is to translate your fame to a field that will actually pay your bills, and she pretty much shut down that path entirely. In retrospect, if she hadn’t fucked up her trajectory, she would probably have had that guest cast role a year later or had them on her show. Connie Chang and Haley Whipjack, TikTok influencers whose combined follow count is a third of Frecklehobo’s, now play pretty frequently with D&D juggernauts like Travis McElroy and Brennan Lee Mulligan. Hell, it wouldn’t surprise me if she would have gotten herself a cameo in Honor among Thieves the recent D&D movie.
Instead, she is the only example I’ve ever seen of cancel culture being successful.
It has now been 2 years since this all happened, and if you didn’t look closely, you’d think things are fine. She’s even grown from 1.2 to 1.6 million followers! However, followers are to TikTok what views are to modern Twitter: they don’t mean anything. Views are the stronger metric of regular success on the site, and her videos don’t even crack 10,000, less than 1% of her total following. She attempted to re-enter the public eye through further controversy a-la a very anti-semitic goblin cosplay a year later, but it wasn’t enough to bring her back to the heights she once reached. She’s stepped away from D&D, now only doing cosplays that are absolutely D&D characters. She says she’s focusing on an acting career which must be going great as sometime between the fiasco and now, she started an onlyfans(NSFW Link). That announcement, which is pinned to the top of her feed for maximum coverage and has her shaking her ass in a bikini, has 200k views(NSFW Link). The pinned video next to it, of her (fully clothed) in horror makeup from her heyday, has 90 million.

Let me start this by saying I tried fixing something on my truck for the first time. I’m not super mechanical and never worked on vehicles so this was out of my comfort zone but seemed easy enough and I wanted to try something new.
My truck is a 2019 F150 STX 2.7L Ecoboost. I was replacing the oil inlet tube for the driver side turbo and it was a success. Unfortunately while doing it I broke some things.
First, I had to take the exhaust tube that goes into the EGR cooler off. Well, when I was unbolting it, the stud on the EGR cooler side broke in half so I need to replace it but can’t seem to find just the stud. I don’t really want to replace the entire EGR for the one broken stud. I believe that tube I am talking about is the EGR valve tube that goes from the exhaust manifold to the EGR cooler? It has a mesh sleeve on it and has some ribs in the middle of the tube.
Second, I lost one of the bolts to the other side of that EGR exhaust tube that goes into the exhaust manifold. I can’t seem to find that one online either.
Third and last, I accidentally broke off one of a piece of plastic on the air intake that goes into the center of the turbo. It is where two tubes snap on, one with a red clip and one with a green clip. I’m assuming i’m going to have to replace the entire tube but not sure.
I have been searching but i’m not 100% sure they are the right parts. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Edit: Clarity

Going to Vilnius for work for a few days. I will have Monday morning off and a couple random evenings during the week. No weekends.
What can I see tourism wise in that amount of time? Staying in a hotel central to the city.
In a perfect world I would get the following: - 1 or 2 tourist landmarks (don’t have to be the best, just what fits the timing)

• something ‘locals only’ that tourists care less about (a meal, a bar, a part of town, something locals do that doesn’t automatically make it into the tourist books)
  
• a place to buy small gifts for parents, girlfriend, etc.
  

Thank you in advance. Can’t wait to see what I can in the time I have.

Hi everyone!
I am currently still using a OnePlus 3T as my daily driver. I bought this phone back in 2016 and it has been great for me so far. I replaced the battery a year or 2 ago and it is still holding up. But it is struggling more and more with apps like Discord and browsing. Especially Discord can be very slow to use on it. But in all fairness it is not bad enough that I need to upgrade immediately only because of performance reasons. I am not a heavy phone user anymore these days, as I do most of my heavy stuff on my computer and I consume most of the media (Anime, YouTube, Manga etc) on my tablet.
I just think it is finally time to move on from this legendary phone that was by my side through multiple schools and university. And honestly, as much as it weird at it sounds, it feels a bit sad to replace it lol. Even tho its only a phone. But I had this phone almost for like 1/4 th of my life. I plan to use this phone at least for a year or 2 as some sort of interim phone, until I go onto a vacation to a place where I want to have a good camera on a phone. But that won't be for at least a year or 2 (or even at all as I got no concrete plans for it yet). Hence, why I am not considering something like the Xperia 1 V due to it's price.
Anyhow, that aside. I am currently looking for a phone that will work fine with WhatsApp, Discord, occasional YouTube, some light web browsing (during lunch brake at work for example) and Reddit. The camera is not as important of a factor. But I would like if it is better than the camera currently on my OnePlus 3T. I saw that the Sony Xperia 10 V could hit a lot of these check boxes, and the battery life is a nice bonus as well. Also the SD card slot, no notch and headphone jack are a nice bonus.
With all this said. Would the Sony Xperia 10 V be a suitable replacement phone for me? If there are things I might be overlooking, please let me know. I am not really home/ informed into the smartphone world.

Motivation : Body Swap Motive
I think I deleted nearly half of the rules of Danganronpa.
It is worth mentioning that:

• role is random
• No Monokuma that everyone hates as host, replaced by a character I made myself
• No motivation, instead unnatural events
• there may not even be a mastermind in it
• The moderator has no intention of interfering with the students
• There is still killing, there is still despair, but despair is not the goal of this 'game'
• ... (and possibly others, but I can't think of any)

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I modeled this fan motivation by using a random roulette to draw 10 people. Also I plan to only write stories from when the motive is revealed to when someone dies.
The reason for only writing ten people is: this motivation will be more complicated if there are too many people, but it should be relatively easy for the ten people selected with distinctive personalities.
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●In response to motivational needs (called unnatural events in this story), if A becomes B, it is shown as
A(B) :
If you're wondering, read on and you'll know what I'm talking about.
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Character :

• Leon Kuwata (Main POV.Of course, by lottery)
• Kiyotaka Ishimaru
• Kyoko Kirigiri (Dr1)
• Kazuichi Soda
• Chiaki Nanami
• Sonia Nevermind (Dr2)
• Rantaro Amami
• Kokichi Oma
• Angie Yonaga
• Himiko Yumeno (V3)

...
The explanation at the beginning of the story: Leon, the Ultimate Baseball Star, wakes up in an unknown place with 15 other students Leon doesn't know. Here they are trapped, in a seemingly abandoned town center. A translucent wall traps them here. The center of this small town should be the place with the most resources, which may be one of the reasons why they are there. They were told the rules of this place by an artificial intelligence named Kokokuka (they can't attack Kokokuka, not because the attack will kill, but because Kokokuka is a projection, they can't touch it, and they can't find the projected place)
"You have to kill to be the only way out of here, but you have to participate in death debates, go undetected and be voted to get out of here. If you choose the right person, he will die; if you vote for the wrong person, that person will die, and the murderer can leave. Every time someone dies, no matter what the ending, new places open up and the better your chances of finding the truth, that's your second condition for leaving. This is the rule of this place. And, during this time you will encounter various events that may or may not entice you to kill, I call it unnatural events, when all the survivors are in the same place, I will detail when you encounter that event. As for any potential regulations here, I can tell you that there are none, but I suggest you not go out at night. After 10 o'clock, it is safe indoors, but not necessarily outdoors."
It's been a while since they woke up from this strange place, and besides the 10 mentioned above, the other six... are dead. It could be that one of them has a reliable [detective], or it could be that they don't want to kill innocent people, so they help the case as much as possible, and that's why no one has escaped from here yet.
They once asked Kokokuka a question: "Are we in a virtual world? Because that wall is not something that would appear in real life..." Kokokuka's answer was: "This is the real world, the unreal real world ."
Note: In this story, everyone actually knows the rules of this killing game, under normal circumstances. Because this is a story that happened after Dr1, 2 and V3, but they are the same age. That is, they know Momokuma. But those three killing games had a very vague impression on them. No one remembered that they killed or were killed, and even if they remembered, they were not among them. Everyone remembers people differently, which leads them to think they're in 16 different killing games.
Now, the story begins!
Midnight. Leon lay on the bed, thinking about everything that had happened.(For me, if I don't explain the previous story well, I will be very sorry.)
Leon: "Damn it, someone died again yesterday, what the hell is going on?"
Leon: "In my understanding, even if it is a killing game, three people will not be killed by the same person at the same time! This is because the damn Kokokuka didn't set the rules!...Although it is so, Kyoko said that the two died The cases are all because of those unnatural events...otherwise no one would die at all...why..."
Yesterday, Leon made a friend and they swore to escape together, but, he died.Not just him, but many others.
If there were no unnatural events... would none of this happen? But it's impossible...
Leon fell asleep sad and angry. Nothing should happen in a short time, right? Leon thought. But this place doesn't seem to give them a chance to rest at all.
Seven forty the next day. Leon woke up, but normally he didn't need to get up until after eight o'clock. Eight o'clock in the morning, this is the time they should have woken up in the previous killing game. But since Kokokuka doesn't call them and has no rules, it doesn't matter what time they sleep. However, to avoid accidents, Ultimate Moral Compass usually wakes everyone up during this time, and his voice is very loud, which is not a problem.
"Had a bad dream..." Leon thought, rolling over and looking at the clock. (Is that clock weird?) "Wait a minute, that guy Taka is coming to call us, alas... I can't sleep, let's get up and wash up first."
Leon got up, wait, what was he wearing? Leon looked at what he was wearing now in disbelief. A princess outfit.
Leon: "AHAHAH!!! WHAT THE FUCK!?...HOW IS THIS!?!?"
A crisp female voice sounded. He knew the dress and heard the voice. To be precise, very familiar. Sonia Nevermind, Ultimate Princess, the girl who met in this killing game, the same age. She's cheerful and well-mannered because she's a princess, right?
Undoubtedly, he became Sonia.
Of course Leon didn't believe it, he rushed into the bathroom, looked in the mirror, and there was a panic-looking "Sonia" inside.
Leon(Sonia): ". . ."
Leon(Sonia): "Damn."
Leon screamed inwardly. It took him a while to get used to not having pants and being a girl.
Now, Leon was faced with a challenge. He had to tie up Sonia's hair, which, as he remembered, was partly braided and the rest flowed slightly to the left. And she has a green and black ribbon in her hair. It wasn't hard to find that ribbon, the hard part was tying it. After a while, Leon finally fixed his hairstyle, which was simpler than imagined.
??? : "Everyone! Time to wake up!"
Another female voice rang out, it's eight o'clock. The voice sounded familiar, but she didn't seem to speak like that. The voice is familiar, but the tone has changed.
Leon(Sonia): "No way...everyone..."
Leon opened the door cautiously and looked out. He saw a familiar figure, it was Kyoko Kirigiri. Kyoko Kirigiri, Ultimate Detective, is a clever and mysterious girl, thanks to her talent, we were able to find the killers... Now, Leon was looking at Kyoko, watching her trying to wake everyone up with her throat, and Kyoko didn't notice him.
Leon(Sonia): "Although I have a bottom line in my heart, I still can't be sure if other people are like me..." Leon tried to pose Sonia's usual graceful movements, which was very difficult because Leon NOT a princess.
Leon pretends to be nonchalant and walks out of his room, well, it should be Sonia's room. And he just ran into Kyoko. (Is this just a coincidence?)
Kyoko(?): "Good morning! Ms. Sonia!" Suddenly, Kyoko(?) paused, "Would you agree...I call you Ms. Sonia?" It seems that Taka has indeed become Kyoko, Leon thought.
"I don't disagree, but I do mind."
Leon(Sonia): "I think I know who you are..." Kyoko(?): "Rea...really?" This was probably the most surprising Leon had ever seen Kyoko, well, if she was Kyoko.
Kyoko(?): "..." Kyoko's face seemed a little red. Kyoko(?): "Okay, okay! I'm Taka! Are you satisfied?"
Leon(Sonia): "Ah! Uh...I didn't mean to...I apologize if I upset you. And...I'm...Leon." Leon found himself going a little too far.
Taka(Kyoko): "Well, I'm not used to it yet, I'm too impulsive. But, why is it like this?" Leon(Sonia): "Needless to say, there must be some incident." Taka(Kyoko): "Then we Should we meet up with the others first? So that AI can explain it to us..." Leon(Sonia): "Maybe? But it might take some time for others to get used to it."
Leon(Sonia): "By the way, have you been to other places?" Taka(Kyoko): "Oh, yes, uh, did I mention that the place where Sonia live is the last place I came to?"
Actually, they don't live in the same hotel, some are in the residential area, some are in the hotel. Since Sonia's hotel is farthest from where Taka lives, when Taka comes to wake Sonia up, it's normal , everyone else is awake. And now Leon is Sonia.
Leon(Sonia): "You haven't met anyone else?" Taka(Kyoko): "Yes...but I promise, my voice will be enough to wake them up." They arrived at the restaurant where they usually gather.
Empty.
Leon(Sonia): "What do you think, how long do we have to wait here for all to arrive?" Taka(Kyoko): *sigh* "Hard to say."
...
Leon(Sonia): "Hey, Taka, let me ask you, is the talent we have now still there? I mean, is the talent we have now the original one, or the current body?" Taka(Kyoko): " I don't know. " Leon(Sonia): "..." "It doesn't matter, just try it and find out!"
Leon left Taka, and when he came back, he had an extra tennis ball in his hand. Taka was still wondering, but Leon had already assumed the pitching posture of a baseball pitcher. Taka(Kyoko): "Hey you... what are you---" The tennis ball flew past Taka at an extremely fast speed, and the air current caused by the tennis ball blew up Taka's long lavender hair. (There will be a mismatch between the appearance and the name, that is.)
Taka was shocked.
Taka(Kyoko): "..." "So fast...Wait, Leon! Do you know if you do this, you will attack other people? Please stop your behavior!" Leon(Sonia): "Sorry~ But I can be sure that the straight ball I throw will not deviate from the target by more than five centimeters!" "One more thing I noticed, you know? I threw that ball with all my might." Taka(Kyoko): "Of course...so it's fast... " Leon(Sonia): "No, it's too slow, my top speed is 160 km/h speed pitch, I can see it." Taka(Kyoko): "Hmm... back to the question you just asked me, I have an idea." Leon(Sonia): "What?"
Taka(Kyoko): "I think we may have two talents now, but both are weakened. Um...let's say you're a football player and you become a helicopter pilot. You can play football because you remember the skills and tricks of playing football, but due to physical factors and other reasons, you can't perfectly show your original talent. And you are a helicopter pilot now. When you come into contact with things related to flying a helicopter, you will find that you are somewhat familiar with this thing, so you can fly a helicopter. But if it is a proportion, the original talent will remain more. I guess."
Leon(Sonia): *puff* Leon laughed. Taka(Kyoko): "Uh? So...so...what's up? I...just speaking my mind! I'm just guessing..." He was a little flustered. Leon(Sonia): "It's okay, it's okay, what you said is very reasonable, very reasonable. I just see Kyoko in you." Taka(Kyoko): " ? "
...
Taka(Kyoko): *Walking around* "I already went to call them! Why aren't they here yet? They're already late!!!" Leon(Sonia): "As I said, they might need a little time--" Taka(Kyoko): "It's been a long time!" Leon(Sonia): "..." *sigh*
Taka(Kyoko): "I want to find something to do..." Leon(Sonia): "I'm hungry..." Taka(Kyoko): "Oh? Uh...yes! I can...try to make breakfast for Her Majesty the Princess!" (He didn't make breakfast)Leon(Sonia): "I'm not Your Majesty...but you can call me that if you want." Taka didn't hear it. Leon(Sonia): "Taka has never been to the kitchen...But Kokokuka took a bunch of recipes before, it should be okay?"
Ten minutes later...
???: "Good morning~~~Your Majesty Sonia~~~" A high-spirited, enthusiastic and lively male voice sounded. Oh no, Leon wanted to laugh again. ???: "Oh? Is Her Majesty Sonia the only one here?" Leon(Sonia): "Ah, and Kyoko, but she went to the kitchen." Leon was holding back his laughter, he still didn't want to ruin Sonia's demeanor. ???: "Really? (she looks excited) I'm going to her!" Leon(Sonia): "Ah! Wait--" He goes. Leon(Sonia): *poof* Leon laughed again. He probably knew who he had met.
Yes, Angie is inside Taka's body.
Angie Yonaga, Ultimate Artist. She's supposed to be the most poised of them all, she almost always has excitement and a big smile on her face, and she's not afraid to die. Leon guessed she didn't care about face, because she usually came out in nothing but a white ruffled bikini top and a yellow cover-up. So Leon was a little surprised when he found that the person in front of her was Angie. He didn't expect Angie to be able to wear Taka's military-style white school uniform and black lace-up boots.
Leon(Sonia): "I think... there is a good show to watch..." Leon looks to the kitchen, and
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
It was a very high-pitched, piercing scream.
Leon(Sonia): "Uh...?"
Looks like something happened in the kitchen.
After a while, Taka and Kyoko came out from the kitchen. The former had a big smile, while the latter had a helpless expression.
Leon(Sonia): "What happened?" Leon knew that the voice just now belonged to Taka.
Taka(Kyoko): *sigh*
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Taka is in the kitchen now. Taka(Kyoko): "What am I going to make for breakfast? Well, I haven't been in the kitchen at all." Taka held a cookbook, thinking. At this time, a voice he was very, very familiar with sounded.
??? : "Kyoko~~~ you are here, right?"
Then came Taka's scream.
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Angie(Taka): "Sorry~ I didn't expect you to be scared so easily!"
Taka(Kyoko): "I seem to have become less courageous... Do you know that what you said just now is really scary!?"
Angie(Taka): ":)"
Oh no, I found that I typed too many things, so I gave up typing all of them before posting, because it would take a lot of time for me to type this story. This is just the beginning of this motivation, if I could I would hit it to the point where someone dies. But this will be very long, please forgive me.
As for why there is a spoiler warning at the beginning of the character introduction, because some characters have not yet appeared. :)

For about a week now I’ve been waking up around 4-6 am and being unable to fall back asleep. When it’s time for bed I can fall asleep in less then 5 mins, but when I wake up I can’t fall back to sleep period. Recently I’ve been having anxiety and depression, but felt like it’s gone away fro the most part. When I wake up I feel exhausted as In I could go back into a slumber, but I’m incapable of doing so. I average around 2-5 hours of sleep a night with this issue, but oddly enough I feel fine throughout the day. I’ve recently started using zquil which knocks me out but I stopped taking it because 1 I don’t like how it makes me feel in the morning, and 2 I don’t want to become dependent on sleep aids. I have never had sleep issues in my life, does anybody know why this could have started happening suddenly.

Hi there! I'm Chloé, 30, trans lesbian. I started transitioning 4 years ago and today I feel like my transition is pretty much over. Things are good for the most part but there are still hard times.
I'm sure all of you know the feeling of just wandering on the internet, reading random posts and comments, and suddenly being like sucked up in a shitshow of bigotry, transphobia, and whatnots. It happens even when you know how to avoid the unsafe spaces of the internet and sometimes I just end up reading horrible things, seeing the most abject comments being upvoted, all that. It affects me a lot and I admit that I need your help.
I'm curious to know how y'all cope with that, if you have any tips to get back on your feet after such a horrible experience. What makes you feel better? How do you forget the stuff that just scarred you and get over it? I could really need advice right now. Thank you!

-The Total storage of the game will be estimated by 750 gb campared to 40 gb for gta 5 -The Game will be 8 times the size of gta 5 and will contain Liberty city - Los Santos - Las venturas and san fierro -Artificial intelligence will have an impact in the game and will took part of the project -You can make changes in real life, but that is only by solving puzzles and easter eggs, which will be more difficult than the previous ones in gta 5, due to several factors, the most important of which is that the estimated time period to finish the game is 450 hours campared to 81 1/2 hours in gta 5 - There will be multiple paths in the game that may lead you to multiple different endings and there are many missions that only can be played to a specific path. Note: gta 6 is not at all like other games that have the advantage of changing endings such as detroit and others due to the clarity of the way in it, but in gta 6 you are building the events of the story without knowing the possible ending . gta 6 will be completely different from any other game that preceded it, and it will make a qualitative leap in the world of games, and I am sure it will blow your mind

Good morning everyone! Welcome to the writing prompt thread for the Dragon Age series. I hope everyone has fun and lets their muses fly free and they have an excellent weekend!
Due to issues with the writing prompts link, it has been removed until I can figure out what is going on.
GUIDELINES FOR THE WRITING THREAD
Hi! Welcome to another new year of the writing thread. It turned 6 years old a couple months back. Below are some general guidelines for the thread. Also please don’t hesitate to add prompts to the linked doc just above. This helps me out greatly when choosing prompts. Whether it’s a specific pov, or a line of a dialogue, or a theme choice, or whatever strikes your interest. Label the type of prompt you want it to be (Examples: bard style, villain pov, Modern Day AU, What If?, 100 Word Drabble Dialogue Only, etc) and then whatever phrase or idea for the prompt itself. Anyways, guidelines below, and also the prompts!

1. Constructive Criticism and interaction is always welcomed and encouraged on the thread. What is not welcomed nor encouraged: Making people feel unwelcomed, whether through unneeded negative comments or downvoting, copying others work and trying to pass it off as your own, or trying to bring in unnecessary fandom feuds/wanks. Please keep any and all negativity off this thread, and continue making it a welcoming place for sharing stories, writing and ideas. This is a place to share our works and encourage creativity in the community.
   
2. Word limit is between 1500-1800. You are welcome to respond to multiple prompts, but do not put your writing in multiple posts. It makes the thread hard to read. Instead, link to AO3, google docs, etc if you go past the reddit post limit. Please keep all visible content SFW. ANY CONTENT THAT CAN BE CONSIDERED NSFW MUST BE PLACED IN GDOC OR ON A WEBSITE AND LINKED-This Thread is To Be SFW If you are unsure about something, then put it in a doc and link it, just to be on the safe side.
   
3. The writing thread usually has 6 prompts of varying styles, some with restrictions, of bonus difficulties add to them. There is also a bonus prompt of free form. Every now and then there will be Challenges, or Themes. Every 5 to 6 weeks will be Catch Up Weeks. If you are interested in a specific prompt, challenge, or theme to appear, please don't hesitate to PM me on Reddit or Discord. Also, the prompts are for any character set in the Dragon Age Universe, in any form of media. Ranging from Original Characters, to an NPC in the game or comic, or anything that happened in the books.
   
4. MOST IMPORTANT: PLEASE HAVE FUN! Make us cry, laugh, growl in frustration, cover our faces in secondhand embarrassment, snicker, or awwww at the disgustingly cute fluff. And I want to continue to thank everyone for their part in making this an awesome place to indulge our creativity.
   

Addition: If you are indeed posting, but the post is not showing up, please message the moderators of the subreddit to let them know that there is a glitch.
Due to requests, we have a third week of the theme of Emotions! As a reminder, each prompt has an emotion tied to it and the point is to ensure the emotion is the star of the story. Have fun!
THE PROMPTS
Prompt 1: Amusement "Did this go the way you wanted?" laughter "Yes, yes it did."
Prompt 2: Heartbroken A misunderstanding leads to an unfortunate ending.
Prompt 3: Anxious Hawke and their first job with Athenril or Meeran
Prompt 4: Compassion As a victim of the Red Templars is dying, the Inquisitor spends those last few moments with them.
Prompt 5: Satisfaction A skill that took forever for your OC to learn, finally using it successfully in a situation.
Prompt 6: Vengeful A plan in motion, the trap laid, the target on their knees.
Bonus Prompt: Freeform

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• I'm socially introverted, to be sure, but neither shy nor socially anxious. I have no issues talking to others or standing up to give presentations/speeches. Was shy when I was younger, but I forced myself to come out of my shell in high school and became much more brazen over time until I became who I am today.
• When it comes to things like work and serious decisions, I'm known for being pretty cold and rational about it, heavily valuing adaptability and pragmatism. A good example being that few weeks ago we had a particularly bad day at the office, and while everyone was worrying about the workload and how long it would take - I was the one who took the initiative to start going around and organizing everyone to get the work done as quickly and efficiently as possible. Under my leadership, we finished with time to spare. I was pretty proud of myself for managing to do this, and also got a genuine adrenaline rush from having more than a dozen people follow my lead without question.
• At home, I'm pretty relaxed most of the time. Most of my time is spent online - reading, listening to music, watching videos, and spending time here on Reddit. Maybe a video game from time to time, but not nearly as often when I was younger. Genre I gravitate toward the most is horror, but open to most others. On some occasions I want something simple and fun, other times I can dive deep into something esoteric and abstract (e.g. I'm a huge fan of ARGs and Analogue Horror). I do workout to stay fit and do my own cooking, the latter I find somewhat therapeutic, and have an interest in racing and caving, but otherwise I'm pretty sedentary and almost never go out. I do also like to learn, and have been learning some new things lately like picking up the Spanish language for future career prospects and also learning how to whistle just because I wanted to.
• I'm always in search of the next thing that I find interesting or exciting. On some nights I prefer to relax with some ambient music while I do some reading and browsing, on others I like to have a whole thing planned out to really enjoy an exciting evening with something new and interesting. It's entirely mood dependent on which I'm more interested in. I pretty much always go through this same cycle of finding something new and interesting (e.g. a TV Show or YouTube Series), fully exhausting it within a few days or weeks, maybe marking it down it if it's interesting enough to want to revisit in the future, and then moving onto something new.
• I tend to have a pretty resilient attitude. A mantra of mine for work is that - "I will stay until the work is done." (Barring physical injury or severe illness, I'll be there to see that it's done). A personal mantra I've had for even longer is that - "No matter what happens, I'm going to be okay." - in part because I have a lot of confidence in myself and my ability to get what I want out of this life. The belief that there's not a goddamn thing in this life that can stop me when I'm motivated and will roll over anyone or anything that gets in my way.
• Outwardly, I'm pretty confident. That's how most people have described me, with that being their first impression. I tend to be pretty quiet and unexpressive while working, but outside of that - public and at home - I have a pretty relaxed and assertive disposition, often describing this as being 'casually confident'. This could also be summed up by the fact that in virtually every picture ever taken of me since I was fourteen, I have a smirk on my face rather than a smile. In this regard, I am extremely aggressive and unapologetic about going after what I want. Like I've said to others, my attitude toward life is tantamount to - "Try and stop me." or "I'd like to see you try."
• Despite my huge ego and self-confidence, I am conscious and caring toward the feelings of others. I've also been called "sweet" before for this reason, because I would feel wrong if I didn't check in on people from time to time to make sure they're doing alright. To make sure my co-workers (at least the ones who do a good job anyway) know that they're appreciated and that it wouldn't be the same without them. As a friend of mine with depression once said, I seemed to be the only one who actually understood them and understood how it was impacting their ability to work and the like. My humor also helps with this, which is often observational and/or sarcastic. I also tend to have a righteous anger toward those who cause harm to others without a good reason and will shut people down if they try to excuse their bad behavior. More intimate partners have commented that I'm a mix of "radiating dominance" and having "a big heart."
• At the same time, I've always felt difficulty connecting with others, and people have always noted that I'm different from most people. As a kid, I related more to the adults in my life (e.g. teachers and staff) that other kids from my generation, often being told I was very mature for my age and an 'old soul'. This was also partly due to the fact that I have a rather formal way of speaking in general. As an adult now, I relate to pretty much no one and tend to simply go my own way more often than not. This is also expressed by me "liking what I like" and doing my own thing away from others. Tending not to go along with the group in most cases, and for that reason I tend to always be a perennial outsider - althought I prefer it that way, being a natural loner.
• That's also reflected in my future plans, as I never plan on having a family. When imagining the future, I never imagine it with anyone else. No family, no friends, no pets, nothing. Nothing except for me living alone, enjoying my own peace of mind away from the rest of the world and indulging in my hobbies and personal interests without interruption or interference. That's ultimately all that I want out of this life. Everything else, like work, is something I figure I might as well get the most out of while I can since I have to do it anyway (i.e. I can at least have some fun by seeing how far I can go with my career while keeping my private and professional lives completely separate with a healthy work-life balance). Like I said, I'm introverted and tend to be pretty sedentary beyond being mindful of my physical fitness and health.
• I have always kept an eye toward the future, both near and far. If it all works out, as I know it will, I should be sitting on around five million dollars or more by the age of fifty in accordance with a lucrative career in business and long-term investments in index funds. Even now in my mid-twenties, I've structured my budget to ensure that I'm saving at least a thousand dollars or more every month. I'd like to become the CEO of a large company in my late forties or early fifties through a combination of hard work and building important connections, enjoy a tenure of four to eight years, and then retire to enjoy my later years collecting a substantial annual dividend income that will ensure I never have to worry about money or expenses ever again.

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Looking forward to seeing what all of you have to say on the matter.

So hi guys when i readed the previous chapter I was like euphoric, it has been quite some time that I have mentioned a certain theory about Im-sama here is the lik :
https://www.reddit.com/OnePiece/comments/115cyt8/my_theory_about_im_and_joyboy/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
And I must say that from what I have read, the part about Im-sama being someone from the void century and being immortal with the ope ope no mi death surgery can pretty much be true.
Just imagine this when the world gouvernement was founded they have appointed the figarland family to be like the police of the tenryubito.
And Im-sama being immortal and with the power of the ancient technology and some mysterious mystic devil fruit, he took everything and erase thoses amcienr technology from history book and created a new gouvernement the actual "world gouvernement " with the tenryubito system. Then he did kill lily because he was afraid she will betrayed him and I think like in my previous theory that Im-sama, joy boy were friends but this time with also lily D Nefertari.
They were a group of 3 friends and Im wanted to have all the power to himself and be the king of the world so he fough joy boy and killed him and lily and now he want some replacement for here so he want to have vivi because she surely is the spit image of lily.
I am sorry about my English but also about the terrible progress of my theory and thought, it just that I am sooo excited about it, so tell me what you think about it.

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i'm at the end of my first year at university studying illustration and hopefully moving on to my second year in september. i've passed my first year, but i may have to drop out based on circumstances which i really do not want to do. i failed highschool and got onto my course on portfolio basis which im incredibly proud of and to drop out and not get a proper education will devastate me.
for context, i chose to move to a city for university about four hours away from my home city because of my upbringing and the trauma i have surrounding that city. i grew up with an abusive + neglectful father and i wasn't in contact with my mother until the end of last year. my father houses my brother, who sexually abused me multiple times throughout my childhood and due to all of this, i ran away from home at 17 and was briefly homeless for two months. neither of my parents financially support me — my father could but doesn't want to as he's angry i left home and my mother cannot work as she's disabled and therefore can only provide for her and my younger brother. i do not have family members outside of them that i'm in contact with so have been living from student loan payments only. i recently started working but only making around £7.40 / $9 an hour and i'm meant to be working full time but have been put on part time hours — one of my weeks was only about 6 hours of work in total. it is not sustainable to live on right now and won't be able to cover my rent.
my living situation right now is uni halls but i will be (hopefully) moving into a house with five other people. i'm meant to be moving in on the 1st of july, but pay my rent on the 22nd of june (funnily enough, my birthday). i have 12 days to pay £640 so i can move in, but if i don't pay none of my housemates can move in either and that really worries me. i don't want to be reason people cant live somewhere. hopefully by the end of july i will have more money and will be able to sustain myself. i am also £250 in overdraft at the moment as i have been using it to eat so cannot take anymore loan out as i cant repay off my current one so i'll need to sort that out as well
i really want to live in the city i moved to. this course means a lot to me and i have a job and friends and people i love and care about deeply there and i don't want to give it up and be homeless again. for the first time in my life things were looking up and it feels like it's all crashing down again. i feel helpless and i want something bad to happen to me so i don't have to deal with this. i'm only 18, i really don't know what to do

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Even if you're not a mobile user and don't use any of those apps, this has an impact that could be detrimental to all of us - including the loss of popular mod tools that help prevent spam and predatory behavior, bots that help both mods and users by automating common tasks, and labor of love resources such as Reveddit that allows everyone to audit mod actions and removals.
In the Media:
The Verge - Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps
Techcrunch - Developers of third-party Reddit apps fear shutdown because of API pricing changes
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Mashable - Reddit's new API pricing could kill its most popular app with a $20 million bill
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UK FI blogger posts from the last 7 days

• Continue the discussion below, any post from the list grabbed your attention this week, made an impression within the context of FIRE, maybe presented additional questions or an opportunity for further discussion here.

FI Blogger	Latest Post	Last Posted	Posts This Week
Monevator	Weekend reading: not so super-forecasters	Sat, 10 Jun 2023	4
Bankeronwheels.com	Weekend Reading – Vanguard’s 10-Year Market Out...	Sat, 10 Jun 2023	4
Gentleman's Family Finances	Volunteering	Fri, 09 Jun 2023	2
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Foundered	Serviced Accommodation – The Ultimate Side Hustle	Tue, 06 Jun 2023	3
Monevator	Why commodities belong in your portfolio	Tue, 06 Jun 2023	4
The Fat Software Engineer	Getting a Pay Rise in the Age of Lay-Offs	Tue, 06 Jun 2023	1
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The FIRE Shrink	Quarterly Returns – Q1 2023	Mon, 05 Jun 2023	1
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