How did vader not sense leia

Dude I’m gonna respond to you 1 time and 1 time only. Your crazy fucking meth binges are one thing but usernames like that and accusations like that are fucking foul. Nobody can stop you from spamming us on Reddit but one day you’re gonna say the wrong thing to the wrong person in real life and they are gonna disfigure your face and give you brain damage. I hope you remember that next time you snap out of this psychosis and vehemently apologize to us on the microtech subreddit for doing this shit once again. Please find some help for your own sake. Goodbye.It’s so funny. At any time i go on, he’s there. Stalking me. Like I leave for a day or two, and he’s literally just lived on my account. Pathetic, bc he clearly has no friends, and wants none. So many theories go through my head, on how he probably is just a lost man, who was abandoned as a child and never figured out how to socialize. I literally wake up, and ignore him, then at lunch, my coworkers and I use his content for comedy. We actually put money in a hat and then guess how many messages he sent me that night and morning. Pure entertainment! He says he served the military, this man on man stalking is far from patriotic bro. He’ll read this now too, then maybe post another 2-300 messages from several accounts. When I see someone depressed on the street, I show them the life of this guy and how he follows me like my shadow. That even though someone may have what they think is the worst day and don’t want to live, that at least you’re not this guy. Stalking a man, wanting to be him, but instead gets laughed at by complete strangers off the street. I have turned this guy into something positive. Without him, I can’t show others that there’s folks that have a worse and more horrible existence. I was thinking about using this for one of my comedy routines and then posting it for him to see. How I can literally get a room full of complete strangers laughing at how this man has nothing better to do than to follow me around all day on a social media site. Good idea, I’ll use one of his words and use it as the name of my show. Sweet. I may be able to make money even off his shit show. I should thank him, I would say next chance I get, but he’s already have started messaging me now 108 times!! 😂😆🤣😅Nah dude. He sends me 300 l+ messages a night like he’s an ex girlfriend that spends her whole existence on my life. He picks all kinds of things. Also sent his number six months ago allegedly. Too specific on his messages though they are copy and paste. Also he can’t spell, a bit canHey bro, lmk if you want to put you heart where your mouth is. I challenge your big mouth to meet me, bring whatever you got, but that’s probably nothing. That’s why you hate yourself so much and why everyone else in your family does too. I’ll give you an address, then you jump in your moms car, and meet me there. But chances are you’re just a little boy, with a big big mouth, and mommy needs to wash it out with soap. Oh and you did apologize, bc you knew you were wrong for doing this dumb nonsense. You apologized twice actually. And when you get off this tweak binge, you’ll do it again bc you’re just in a psychosis from all the bath salts. Get well soon buddy, you need to lay off the stuff, it’s making you look weak. I mean trolling ppl bc nobody else wants to talk to you, yikes Hey loser, I think I heard your mom say it’s time to get off your phone or she’s gonna take it from you….. again. Last time you were on here you must have gotten punished and grounded from your phone privileges. I know you’re just a lost little soul, far from any type of man that you claim to be, and you never served a day for our country so stop trying to pretend you did by calling us civilians, you sound tacky bro. The reason I know you’re a fraud, isn’t just by the fact you hide behind a computer, it’s bc you call us “civilians” such vulgar words! People who serve out country are proud, have manners, class, and dedication to protecting this country and all the people who live here. You wouldn’t be bullying the people who you claim you protect. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Also, learn how to type and go back and correct you spelling, probably can’t spell you’re name either. Poor child, if you need someone to talk to I’m here for you, I know how it feels to be alone, unwanted, and to feel pain that is far worse than death. So if you need anything and someone to talk to, you got my attention, I don’t want you to lash out at people anymore, it’s not just negativity that gets attention, kindness works too. There’s something I’m that head though that makes you hate yourself and everything around you, so let me pick your brain 🧠. It must not be easy being like this.

I didn't drink in a while after the last time I got very drunk. I'm in a limbo where I want and don't want to drink, but it's different than the stuff people usually talk about, I am not fighting myself and trying to stop myself from drinking, trying to suppress the urge or debate myself out of it.. not at all. I am open to the idea of drinking and getting drunk. If I did it today, fuck it, my health won't suffer, I can take it. My drinking at this point is pretty low, and I never put any value in counting sober days, it's a childish game.
The problem is something else. I allow myself to drink if I want to. I want to drink in order to help myself reach something or unlock something that's currently unobtainable for me. But, I fall short and it's disappointing. This last year, most of the time I can even start drinking just to stop without any imperative that stopping is the right thing to do and all that shit. And I'm not glad about it, I'm disappointed, not because I want to drink but because I lost something. I don't know how to explain it well, I get that if your main issue is fighting the urge to drink this almost sounds like a brag, like "look at me here, I want to drink today but I stop myself", what a problem in life. But that's not the point, it's not anymore about changing my lifestyle, I'm already not drinking much anymore, blacking out and all the shit that was an issue before.
Now I lost any fucking ability to be anything except for completely empty. I can't even let myself get out of this obsessive control in my head that blocks me from everything. The last few days again I feel like I'm going to go completely insane, I have the constant urge to break things
But I think I understand how everything is going to shit, how nothing will be better, everything will be lost, and nothing is missing, that is just the normal state, nothing was ever there, I don't know what I'm looking for because there is nothing, nothing is a substitute for something else, just for itself not being there. Everything is missing.
I don't know, I really feel life is a horror movie and there are no options available. I swear I wish there was a comfort, if I could believe it I would, I wish I was wrong about everything. I can't force it and pretend but if there was anything I could genuinely hold on to, good or bad, I would. But that thing doesn't exist.
Alcohol is just another thing I lost. So being sober doesn't make me happy. I didn't achieve anything, I just lost.

Hello. I am a sophomore student (or rather incoming third year because Academic Year 2022- 2023 is over) and I incurred grades of INC in two subjects during my first year of college. May I ask how they are completed? How does the process work?
I actually contacted the two professors of the two respective subjects (Path-Fit and Math respectively) already. I lost contact with the first one because she did not respond to the go-signal of the Dean of her college to help me complete even if it was past her set completion period. The second one made me sit in with Electronics Engineering students (I am from Faculty of Arts and Letters) to help me complete but I did not continue because I had a lot of groupwork to focus on during that time and it was not "officially" part of my school calendar. The reason for that was because my Math professor gave me an INC rather than a 5 even if I passed all the requirements (I just got low scores on all of them) because she said she understood the difficulties of paying extra fees. I guess that is nice and considerate and all but it kind of complicated matters because it meant that I had to go through it all over again rather than just finish one last task (which she explained is what usually happens to students who have INC grades?). I schedule sent them an email because I am scared of their responses but I will be sure to get in contact with them again.
Any advice will be appreciated. This is my first post on this subreddit and if there is anything wrong with this post (like the flair, for example), then I will gladly edit or let it be deleted. Thanks.

Looking for reassurance or advice on this as it is really making me stressed and unhappy.
I have an almost 2 year old. My kid is fantastic. Communicates so well and is generally very happy and content, a real joy to be around.
I work part time and my husband works full time. My kid is in nursery a couple of days a week and loves it. The staff there love him too and always go to great lengths to tell us how much they enjoy having him there. He’s learned so much from being at nursery. It’s going really well.
The issue is that my parents absolutely loathed the idea of him going to nursery. At all. To the point of implying I was a bad parent for sending him. I should also say that while my relationship with them can be problematic, they provide great care for my kid and never deviate from my instructions. I wouldn’t send him if they did. They offered to take him full time, but quickly realised they weren’t physically up to the task. They’re still fairly young but have a few health issues and realised it would be too tiring. We got into a good rhythm of them watching my kid one or two days a week and having him in nursery one or two days. Ideal. Except that every time there’s even a small issue at nursery they start to berate me about how it was a terrible choice.
This week, another child bit my kid on the face. Am I happy about it? No. Do I understand it’s something young kids do? Yes. I’ve spoken to my nursery who assure me they are working with the parents of the other child on this and that they will not allow it to happen again. The other kid went in for a kiss and just got too excited. It happens.
My parents are extremely angry and are flooding me with phone calls and texts to tell me this is unacceptable and I need to ‘deal with it’. It’s my fault. I can’t send him there anymore. They were right and knew this would happen. The whole lot.
My dad especially is a very angry man and is the type to keep shouting and swearing about something until everyone else bends to his will. I hate it. He refuses to acknowledge that biting happens. He says it’s ‘not normal behaviour’.
I suppose I’m just looking for reassurance really that this isn’t my fault. I’m a bit worried that it will happen again, and also worried about my parents reactions when the next ‘issue’ at nursery eventually comes up.
Does anyone else have difficult parents who are super judgemental about how you parent your kids? Do you limit the info you give them? I admit that I wasn’t mentioning this to them and only brought it up because they planned on popping over and I knew they would see the bite mark anyway.

Sanded my floors (white oak) and damn if they don't look utterly amazing - you'd think a pro did it lol. (I'm handy and not a stranger to wood or tools, but first time doing floors)
BUT...how do I ensure the last untold hours aren't for naught...
I am in a bit of a time crunch, so I'd like to better understand my options.
I originally wanted Varathane Crystal Clear Satin Water-Based but Home Depot won't deliver it until too late.
Amazing likewise has the diamond finish version of the Varathane (is it the same thing just different version?) That I should be able to get in time.
Lowes has Minwax Super Fast Drying Water Based available, but reviews dont seem great.
Not seeing much of any other options

I've seen women talk about this online. For those who don't know it seems to be the concept that when you're about 20-25 you gain weight & your body doesn't look how it did at 16/17/18 anymore.
I'm 24 but wasn't aware of this as when I was 17-21 I was overweight, so when I was 22 I actually lost like 25lb and now I like my body a lot more than before lol. And I plan on losing a bit more weight.
I wasn't exactly clear on what the exact definition of this second puberty is? It sounds like people are just saying you gain weight when you get older & there's nothing you can do.
But I was always under the impression that your metabolism just changes as you get older. So if you eat the exact same when you're 22 as you did at 16, you would naturally gain a bit of weight. But that doesn't mean you can't eat less and/or exercise more & get back the figure you like does it?
When I first heard of this "second puberty" it scared me as I was in the middle of losing weight. I was like wait can I not lose weight if I'm meant to be gaining weight at this age?! But now I'm starting to think that's not really a thing, in the way that people are talking about it at least.
Thoughts on this?

I honestly don't know how best to go about this, however I will start with the subject matter, being my father passed away late last year.
Sadly, he played a very small part in mine and my sisters life. Without going off subject, he was a heavy drinker, abusive man and left my Mum, when we (my sister and I) , were very young!
I would be lying if I suggested there was no contact, because admittedly we did visit him on weekends/school holidays and I/we do have memories of time spent with him.
However, growing up through life, naturally my sister and I amongst everything else that comes with adulthood, matured and became wiser. As a result, if anyone has had a similar life scenario can relate, you wise up, you reflect on things and appreciate the traumatic and hard life our Mum experienced.
Therefore, consequently contact with our father became less and less and he made very little effort to change that, until basically the day he died. So much so, we didn't have any recollection of his death, until my sister saw a post on Facebook, and regardless of our opinions/relationship with him, it has hurt us.
Ok, enough life history and back to the purpose of this post and all the complicated stuff..
Upon retiring, my dad decided to jump ship and move to Greece (from the UK), which was ultimately his final place of rest. However, despite spending the majority of his life here in the UK, he was born in New Zealand, where with the exception of his ex wife and kids (my Mum, sister and I) all his family are.
How much contact he had with them, I simply don't know but very evidently there was enough for all the relevant documents that come with death, and personal things (bank cards/statements, passport, mobile phone etc) to end up in the hands of a sister of his.
This only came to our attention after my sister reached out to the sister in New Zealand via Messenger to express our sorrow at having no knowledge of his death at the time. Ordinarily, such conversation would be a niece and aunty speaking after losing their father and brother respectfully, but this is different. We have never met, spoken with or had association with any "family" in New Zealand, because such opportunity was never possible.
At the time, I specifically remember my sister's relief, surprise and general peace of mind after how the nature of the conversation turn video-call was so pleasant! Amongst the pleasantries, my sister was informed of, I quote, "a substantial amount of money" left by our father, thus being his children and not being married or having a civil partner will inherit his estate. The reason being, he died without leaving a will, therefore from a legal perspective, intestate.
The pleasantries soon turned very sour as our request to see any relevant paperwork or just have some kind of knowledge of our fathers assets, were met with what I can only describe as blackmail tactics, "only prepared to supply the requested information and documentation on payment of $10000 (NZD)".
Astoundingly, this request didn't come directly from the sister, but her lawyer in New Zealand. Furthermore, we were both subsequently blocked on messengeFB by the sister, a woman I must add, in her 70's who has absolutely zero knowledge on lives we have both experienced.
To confirm, we had no knowledge at the time of our Dad's death, and most definitely no knowledge of any assets associated with him. This was brought to our attention, upon nothing other than showing a little respect and expressing our sorrow.
I cannot emphasise it enough, both my sister and I, had no support let alone financial support from our father in our lifetimes, so this situation is so hard on us. We even mutually agreed to simply forget the whole situation and just live our lives the only way we know how..
But, why should we? Without any animosity, I'll-feeling or hurt towards our father, whatever he left, too right we take it, even more so due to the resulting behaviour of his sister.
To bring you up to date, we have instructed our own solicitor, based in Greece to avoid any further complications, whom has basically made no progress in what's now, 3 months. Admittedly, not the lack of trying, but more hitting stumbling blocks.
So, this is where anyone who has taken the time to read this comes in, literally ANY advice and comments will be truly appreciated beyond words. Honestly, life is not easy, that applies to each and every one of us, so all I actually wish for is peace and happiness as opposed to being held to some kind of ransom for my father's death, a man whom I will never get the opportunity to confess "Do you know what Dad, I actually needed you in my life!!" That's hard.. And will never ever accept someone making that harder.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Chinese states competed to unify China. Many states invented new methods of ruling that increased efficiency and effectiveness of governance. Some states promoted education while some states built new war machines. The push to create the most efficient state meant that many developments were made. China also had many periods of disunity, such as the Warring States period, the dusinuty that came after the decentralization of the Jin Dynasty, the civil war that came after the collapse of the Sui Dynasty, the 5 Kingdoms and 10 Dynasties period, and the Warlords Period.
However, the Chinese government is known for being a bad governance, both ethically and efficiently. China still has many problems with quality and safety control, poor governors (governors make poor decisions), lack of public accountability, inefficient usage of resources (many funds are squandered trying to make chips, high unemployment rates for well-educated youth), and conservatism which heavily stifles China's growth as a nation.
It's weird how some nations with much shorter histories than China have way better governments (notably Japan and the Nordic States).
Despite having a long period to experiment good governance, why is the Chinese government still not as effective as other governments? Did other governments copy from China and got ahead?

No idea how to title this one.
I might remember this wrong, but I’m damn near sure that the Necromancer VO had a … Russian accent? in the Beta. Certainly not the same lines and accent as the Sorcerer. So this is me confused why, after very first creating a Sorcerer, my second character roll, a Necro, has the same VOs.
Was there an announcement about them rolling back the VO work tbat I missed? I did a quick Google search, but didn’t find anything.
Thanks!

I recently read up on how Gavin Arvizo is going and not only did he invite the prosecutor of the 2005 trial to his wedding (which is huge) but he also shrugged when the DJ played an MJ song.
Michael’s been long dead after this. He invited the prosecutor for a reason! He didn’t invite him for publicity but as a thank you. Theres no other reason. Let’s be serious now. Gavin has never gone to tabloids or anywhere else and sold his story for money.
I’m open to any all reasonings and discussions.

So, I moved to Bangalore some months ago for work and I dabbled on dating some men and got real bad experiences. And upon self relfection, I realised that I need good platonic women friends and it's horrifying to admit but I have none. Being an introvert with bad-to-alright social skills, I just never knew how to make women friends. I want to go do fun things like exploring the city, take trips with a girl gang etc. I feel like I have so much to offer as a friend but I have none to give and take. It's just making me feel sad. I have had traumatic experiences and in college, my days passed in depression and anxiety coupled with toxic home life and lack of money (because my parents had strict budget for my expenses and I didn't have anything at the end of month to spend on going out etc), I just couldn't explore anything and never had more than 2 friends in college. My school friends are all gone. I'm 23 and I just want to start making women friendships that are not just ephermeral. Because I tried being on bumble BFF section, it wasn't going anywhere. Maybe being friends for the sake of being friends is not a motivating factor to continue on I guess. But Idk how to proceed from now. Should I join group classes? or is there any something? I work in tech and code and maybe that's also a way to make friends but I barely have anyone in office. Everyone seems so busy and already have big circles. Hard to break into. I just wish I had natural social skills and just be a butterfly because I see how some girls make friends so easily. I feel so odd and like a misfit lot of the times.
So, my question is : How did you guys make friendships after college and outside work? Specifically women friends because all the men friends I encountered online develop feelings or just want sex, it 's so weird. I hope some good male friends in future prove that notion wrong but for now, I just want some girl time with some girls... dangg

Jordan was desperate.
They rushed through the forest, high-heeled shoes long gone, hosiery torn and bloodied from the thorns they had fled through.
It was never meant to be like this.
The screams of anger followed after, hatred and bile spewed forth without so much as a thought as to who they were chasing.
Jordan tried not to scream, tried not to cry, they kept running, knowing that death was a preferable alternative to the prison they had just fled.
They only noticed the hateful screams had silenced entirely when they tripped and fell to the forest floor. Momentum had ceased, only the choked sobs of one desperately seeking sanctuary remained.
Jordan was not entirely certain how long they laid there, too exhausted to stand, too hurt to move. The bruises had not even begun to heal, the wedding dress torn to shreds.
With trembling arms, they pushed themselves to a standing position, wincing at the pain in their feet. The dress filled them with hatred and revulsion, and under any other circumstance would have gladly torn it to shreds.
But they were lost in the forest, and it was just on the cusp of evening. Was death really better than wearing such an ill-fitting garb?
The leaves whispered, the wind caressed the blood-stained flesh of the runaway bride, and with it, came an ephemeral mist that gathered around them.
"Why do you trespass upon my land, daughter of Adam?"
Jordan turned around, wincing at the pain in their feet. A tall woman, dressed in flowing silk that waved through the air as though suspended by a wind that had long since blown past.
Her skin was fair and flawless, beautiful, her eyes glimmered in the dusky twilight, her hair floated as though suspended in water.
Jordan was too stunned to answer.
"Is your tongue gone, daughter of Adam? Why do you trespass upon my land?"
"I'm not a daughter." Jordan said in a hoarse voice. They expected the woman to counter with some snide remark about wearing a dress, of having breasts... but the woman simply nodded.
"Then why do you trespass upon my land, son of Adam?"
"I'm not a son either."
The woman's expression shifted slightly, as if amused.
"I shall ask only one last time, child of Adam, why do you trespass upon my land? My patience wears thin."
Jordan's legs gave out from under them, as far as dying dreams were concerned, dreaming of a beautiful woman wasn't a bad one to have.
"I was just trying to escape." They said.
"Indeed." The woman replied. "There is a heavy toll to pay for your trespass, child of Adam. I require the payment of a life, the child of your womb shall suffice."
"Take it." Jordan spoke with a vehement rage. "It means nothing to me."
The woman observed Jordan for a moment. "Very well, but as it has no use for you, I will take it, and will require something of greater value."
"What could you possible take from me?" Jordan asked.
"Your name will suffice. You will give to me your name."
Jordan sighed, uttering a name with such hatred and bile, it was a wonder they didn't puke. The moment the name was uttered, Jordan couldn't remember it anymore.
"It would seem you did not value such a name either. I do not surmise you care much for your fertility?" The woman asked. Jordan shook their head no. "Very well, I shall take that as well. This leaves me at an impasse, then. I have taken your child, and I have taken your name, I have taken your fertility. What, pray tell, could you offer me?"
"I don't have anything else." Jordan replied hollowly.
The woman smiled. "Nothing of value." She replied. "I shall take your body as well."
The pain was nothing like what had come before. As bones shifted and snapped, as forcibly delicate fingernails split, giving rise to gnarled claws; as silken hair of gold fell away, neatly plucked from the air, replaced by wild and unruly fur; as bruised and soft flesh toughened, and immaculate teeth were pushed out by vicious fangs-
As Jordan's body was taken, they wept. It was not sorrow or loss that emanated from their newly lupine maw, but joy and euphoria.
"I suppose, now that the child of Adam is gone, thou would need a new name, perhaps?" Jordan looked at the woman with surprise, and with some trepidation said, "I've been using the name of Jordan."
The woman tutted fretfully. "Such a name is fitting only for a child of Adam. I shall carve into thy newly-born soul the name of Flann, in honor of thy blood-red fur."
Flann let out a small gasp, the joy they felt at the name was overwhelming, they almost wept.
"Come, my child, it is a blessing this is no place for the children of Adam." Their Mother spoke tenderly. "We have far longer than their memory shall last to sing and dance."
Their Mother gently kissed Flann's brow. "I shall let you begin."
Flann raised their mighty head to the sky, and let out a long and joyous howl.

I want to apologize for my rambling and if this doesn’t make much sense my mind is a mess. I was in a car accident 8 years ago and ended up getting addicted to pain killers. The addiction took over quick but I seemed to still be able to function and no one in my family seemed to notice so I didn’t think it was a big deal. I never planned on getting sober I was happy with how I was living my life and thought I was doing well balancing everything. I was very wrong. On September 20th 2017 I was driving home from college while high and fell asleep on the highway. I woke up with enough time to realize that I was about to go off the highway and hit a car on another road. I was some how able to maneuver my car safely enough out of harms way of the other car and stop. I realized in that moment I needed to get my shit together or I was going to kill myself or worse someone else. It was tough but I entered rehab and started making changes.
This brings me to the other day as I mentioned I was in a car accident that started all of this. In that accident I broke my pelvis and herniated a disk in my lower back. My back causes me pain and I can normally tolerate it but it was so bad that I asked my girlfriend of 2 years to get me some Advil for the pain so she did. After I took the meds I got a old but familiar feeling and realized it wasn’t Advil. Apparently she had some meds left over from a dental surgery she had a few months back and put them in an Advil container without thinking since I never take Advil and forgot about it. I am so hurt and upset because the cravings for it that I haven’t had in a while are back full force and it’s all I can think about now. I haven’t been able to sleep because of this.

I honestly don't know how best to go about this, however I will start with the subject matter, being my father passed away late last year.
Sadly, he played a very small part in mine and my sisters life. Without going off subject, he was a heavy drinker, abusive man and left my Mum, when we (my sister and I), were very young!
I would be lying if I suggested there was no contact, because admittedly we did visit him on weekends/school holidays and I/we do have memories of time spent with him.
However, growing up through life, naturally my sister and I amongst everything else that comes with adulthood, matured and became wiser. As a result, if anyone has had a similar life scenario can relate, you wise up, you reflect on things and appreciate the traumatic and hard life our Mum experienced.
Therefore, consequently contact with our father became less and less and he made very little effort to change that, until basically the day he died. So much so, we didn't have any recollection of his death, until my sister saw a post on Facebook, and regardless of our opinions/relationship with him, it has hurt us.
Ok, enough life history and back to the purpose of this post and all the complicated stuff..
Upon retiring, my dad decided to jump ship and move to Greece (from the UK), which was ultimately his final place of rest. However, despite spending the majority of his life here in the UK, he was born in New Zealand, where with the exception of his ex wife and kids (my Mum, sister and I) all his family are.
How much contact he had with them, I simply don't know but very evidently there was enough for all the relevant documents that come with death, and personal things (bank cards/statements, passport, mobile phone etc) to end up in the hands of a sister of his.
This only came to our attention after my sister reached out to the sister in New Zealand via Messenger to express our sorrow at having no knowledge of his death at the time. Ordinarily, such conversation would be a niece and aunty speaking after losing their father and brother respectfully, but this is different. We have never met, spoken with or had association with any "family" in New Zealand, because such opportunity was never possible.
At the time, I specifically remember my sister's relief, surprise and general peace of mind after how the nature of the conversation turn video-call was so pleasant! Amongst the pleasantries, my sister was informed of, I quote, "a substantial amount of money" left by our father, thus being his children and not being married or having a civil partner will inherit his estate. The reason being, he died without leaving a will, therefore from a legal perspective, intestate.
The pleasantries soon turned very sour as our request to see any relevant paperwork or just have some kind of knowledge of our fathers assets, were met with what I can only describe as blackmail tactics, "only prepared to supply the requested information and documentation on payment of $10000 (NZD)".
Astoundingly, this request didn't come directly from the sister, but her lawyer in New Zealand. Furthermore, we were both subsequently blocked on messengeFB by the sister, a woman I must add, in her 70's who has absolutely zero knowledge on lives we have both experienced.
To confirm, we had no knowledge at the time of our Dad's death, and most definitely no knowledge of any assets associated with him. This was brought to our attention, upon nothing other than showing a little respect and expressing our sorrow.
I cannot emphasise it enough, both my sister and I, had no support let alone financial support from our father in our lifetimes, so this situation is so hard on us. We even mutually agreed to simply forget the whole situation and just live our lives the only way we know how..
But, why should we? Without any animosity, I'll-feeling or hurt towards our father, whatever he left, too right we take it, even more so due to the resulting behaviour of his sister.
To bring you up to date, we have instructed our own solicitor, based in Greece to avoid any further complications, whom has basically made no progress in what's now, 3 months. Admittedly, not the lack of trying, but more hitting stumbling blocks.
So, this is where anyone who has taken the time to read this comes in, literally ANY advice and comments will be truly appreciated beyond words. Honestly, life is not easy, that applies to each and every one of us, so all I actually wish for is peace and happiness as opposed to being held to some kind of ransom for my father's death, a man whom I will never get the opportunity to confess "Do you know what Dad, I actually needed you in my life!!" That's hard.. And will never ever accept someone making that harder.

"Well, today I felt like I had enough. So I had to write this just to get it out of my head. Before that, lemme predict some of your comments, and reply back:
1: "skill issue"
Okay, I may or may not have to say I have a skill issue, but somehow that only applies to Sharkos. I can somewhat take on a stone golem at level ~5, a stone knight at level ~8 and cheese threshers by just holding S.
2: "Just do trial of 1 it's not that hard"
Trial of 1 IS the reason why I'm making this.
3: "Stat check them then."
Well, apparently EVERYTHING I READ ON THE WIKI AND THE ADVICES MY FRIEND GAVE ME ARE ALL FAKE. Tank the swipes, dodge the kicks? Yea no shot I'm dying almost instantly. The kick has a narrow hitbox? The sharko kicked me from 100 STUDS AWAY.
4: "Are you okay?"
No, I am not. I am at the verge of quitting the game and the community as a whole as to how the toxic side (98%) treats others as "metamancers or free loot". The game's dry as hell as it's more because of how meta overshadows anything else creative and I get punished wildly for the SMALLEST mistakes like blocking a sharko kick (We'll get to that later).
Okay, now the discouragement comments are out of the way (Aside from 100 more I don't have time to talk about), brace and listen to my rant.
Part 1: Deepwoken Devs, gimme some of your marijuana you're smoking rn.
So, this is ages ago, but I just want to question WHY THE HELL DID YOU GUYS MAKE SHARKOS MOVE AROUND? At first it's said as a "Starter monster" but I feel like nowdays these little bitches are nothing but nuisances. I go mining at Vipers Jaw, they appear. I go hiking at Songseekers (Impossible), they appear. I DO LAYER 2, THEY STILL APPEAR AND COULD AND WILL FUCK ME OVER. JUST, MAKE THEM STAND STILL, PLEASE, LIKE THE OTHER MONSTERS WE FACE. IT'S A STARTER MONSTER, WHY THE FUCK DO YOU WANT TO MAKE THEM SO UNIQUE?
Part 2: The moveset of the apparent "Starter monster"
So, lets revise what the sharko could do when you're close to it:

• Swipe: A simple, parriable swipe that could be followed up with a swipe or a kick
• Kick: A hard, punishing unparriable kick that launches whoever hit sky high.

Simple, right? WRONG. Apparently it's this two SIMPLE ENOUGH MOVESETS THAT BREAK MY ADHD BRAIN CAPABLE OF ONLY MEMORIZING 1+1=2. People often times say to "memorize its pattern", but when the sharko's main method of attacking you can be mixed up so much I don't think memorizing is a good idea anymore.
One main reason why this moveset is so busted is because of the lack of its obviousness, or rather, how much you'd notice it when you're focused on attacking it. Sure, some people suggest hitting it 2-4 times after parrying or dodging its attacks, but to me it just doesn't work as it just starts attacking when I throw my 3rd/4th hit in and I forgot that feinting is a thing and I can just do that. Its swings are fast, it throws out kicks so unpredictably, and the fact that YOU CANNOT ROLL SHORTLY AFTER A FAILED PARRY (what) JUST MAKES THIS EVEN MORE BULLSHIT.
Part 2.5: THE KICK
If all Sharkos did was kick I swear to god it'd be the easiest monster to fight against. But hell, put an entirely different move that acts drastically different to the kick and suddenly Sharko becomes from attention seeking to FUCKING STRESSING. Just knowing the fact you getting kicked means you're gonna fly so far out the stratosphere you can't fight back and that dying means losing days if not months (Yes I am this bad) of progress just DISCOURAGES ME from learning to fight Sharko. What's the reward for defeating that beast you may ask? Its hide, small chance for it to be a jacket and even smaller chance for it to be shadow poop. It's just not worth it man, it's just not.
Part 3: PLEASE STOP MAKING VARIANTS OF THIS GUY
So far, we have:

• The normal, unbearable variant
• The previous but now it can Tacet
• The previous but now it can rain swords of flame
• The one that's actually worth fighting (and is fun against)
• Idk if this is a variant but Frog in Layer 2

Sharko by itself is already annoying. Unless you can stat check it, fighting it is always a chore rather than a fun interaction. However then, something weird makes these sharko variants different from the normal sharko:
They have gimmicks.
The Tacet sneak attack is a pretty good (but obviously obvious) attack that makes the Sharko fight trivial to fight against. Just stay a decent distance from it, wait for it to Tacet to you, dodge it and slam it continously for 2 seconds.
Ooh, the Mechasharko. The one that I actually like fighting. Sure it still has the swipes and kicks, but the extra attacks make it more of a live being than the normal sharko. (That's said when sharko is BIOLOGICAL while Mechasharko is just a bunch of cogs and an AI) These extra attacks are also the reason why I like fighting against them, as I don't need to focus too hard on these two punishing attacks and actually have fun. (Except for the flaming kick. I hate you)(I don't hate you as much as you don't really send me THAT far)
All these variants of the sharko, yet the normal one is the HARDEST to fight against. I'm starting to wonder what the fuck the devs are up to after this.
Part 4: Toxic fanbase
Do you know why the devs don't know that the normal sharko is hard to fight against?
Yea, the fanbase is so toxic to newcomers, that they LAUGH AT THEM for not being able to kill a sharko. (Remember the times when you got your asses kicked by them and learnt them in excruciating pain) This one thing, THIS ONE THING is enough to make the devs realize they gotta nerf the Sharko. Instead, they BUFFED THEM, because APPARENTLY THE TOXIC PEOPLE MAKES UP 98% OF THE PLAYERBASE.
I'm speaking of this as a return player, for the 3 times I've came back (First is when Layer 2 dropped, second was when a friend of mine persuaded me to, and the third and last is when I still had feelings for making builds and eventually got around to making a Minos prime build. (Still in the works)), never once have I actually skill checked a Sharko. Idk if it's because of me unwilling to learn, or that I have ADHD and cannot focus for long periods of time, but this alone should be a reason to nerf Sharkos as a whole.
Part 5: How I would nerf sharko (and buff other monsters)
So since the devs are so negligent on their newcomefreshie playerbases, I think it might be a good time to nerf that guy into the ground and make it easy to fight, as well as buffing others that could be potential candidates to replace the sharko as the "Starter monster".

• Swipe: Make it so it will never incorporate the kick. Newbies shouldn't be tortured to be able to learn multitasking. BUT, it will throw in another move to further enforce the idea of parrying this attack.
• New attack, Slam: The sharko raises its claw before slamming down in an attack to crush the player. This creates an undodgeable AoE that MUST be parried, and sometimes would be thrown out on its own albeit with a larger windup. A sound cue also plays when the sharko uses it as its own attack rather than in a combo.
• Kick: Longer wind-up, make it groan before kicking. This adds an extra obvious factor to dodging the kick. Alongside this, make it deal only 99% of a player's posture if blocked instead. This much posture damage would tell players that this attack is not meant to be blocked so they'd be more careful later on fighting the same thing. Ah right, lets also reward players by making it stun itself shortly if it misses its kick so its less time spent on this thing.
• Command grab attack? Sure why not: Lets say we also add a new attack to the sharko that also incorporates the lesser used Ritual Casting. The sharko would swing forward for an undodgeable. This grab doesn't deal damage on its own, but the player gets 3 seconds to gather ether by inputting 4 ritual casting keys (5-6 for the harder types) to escape, should they not want to get eaten by the sharko and take grave damage.

Of course of course most you guys would think I'm malding. But just think about this, fighting the new sharko of above text. You'd be actually having fun and you know what's what and not get punished too hard for making a mistake.
Oh, and did I mention the stone knight? Apparently Tankfish flawlessed it first attempt so lets buff this guy.

• Firstly, lets add an undodgeable Shockwave attack. The Stone Knight would swing their blade downwards, creating a shockwave that trips anyone that isn't standing their ground (Those that roll would slam their faces on the rumbling ground, tripping them).
• Next, make the Swings slightly faster? Not to the Sharko point of speed but still fast enough to be a challenge and punish the impatient.
• Also, the pillar move. I was thinking if there could be an alternate variant where it launches you right at where it is if you start running. This variant would also attempt to predict where the player would be.
• Lastly, I'm thinking of having the Stone Knight be able to feint (and only feint) their stone pillar move. Yep, you heard me. I'm gonna make Stone Knights unbearable. It should be, though. Considering that you meet it at Starswept Valley which is a Level 15+ zone.

And that's it. This is the only monster I want to buff. Also, if the devs are reading this, please add the red flash/audio cues to other unblockable moves of other monsters. (Golem's swing, almost all the possible monster kicks, DREAD SERPENT'S ICE BREATH)
Well, I'm feeling much better now, though I do have an extra idea to share. So if this post gets good enough reception, I may as well release this idea same day. So uh...
Thanks for listening to my rant.
I'm just, gonna go.
Gl on whatever you guys are gonna do, ig." - Kuduro "Lapiz" Cairo

General summary of the thread goes here
The following two questions discussed on how Naoki Yoshida (YoshiP) answered the following questions that involve the game sales, projection and predictions of how well FFXVI (or his knowledge on games today are sold.) This won't be summarized and will be given a full transcribe and translation due to how most people tend to translate pre-order or first week sales as the success of the game, but do note that I may need to do some paraphrasing as to minimize mistakes.
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Ochiai: This might be a weird question to ask but since you have put so much passion and effort into creating this game, when it comes to management, how do you think about the sales aspect here (read: translate it into profits and sales)? In terms of timing and your target audience and so on. YoshiP: So when it comes to product, when I first submit my proposal, it's a given that I would attached together with the budget documentation, like this will be the platform where the game will be released, development wise it'll take a grand total of this amount, when the game will be released, the cost for marketing and PR will take this much, and the projected profit will be around this much...these will of course be included into the documentation...but I can tell you that I wouldn't want to look at the first week sales for FFXVI (laughs).
Ochiai: (laughs) But still, I take that the board of directors came together and approved the budget you're issuing during the meeting I assume
YoshiP: Yes that was indeed the case, but when it comes to FF, there are places where you can't turn back once you get into it. but I'm being quite drastic here, and precisely because I'm a creator here, I have to be particular about the business aspect, and if I'm just creating this game out of self-satisfaction, it will definitely not connect to the next. So even though if I get told that it was a fun game, but if this doesn't translate to sales then we won't be able to create the next game. So our policy at Creative Business Unit 3 here is that at the very least, create a game where you yourself think it's interesting, and make the game earn in black numbers (※A Japanese word meaning "profit", loss of profit is "red numbers"), even if it's just a little. By doing so, we will still get money and we'll be able to work on the games we like or things that we think are interesting so I think this time.......well......well if I think this wouldn't work out, I'd actually go destroy those projects myself, like, "I'm sorry this is impossible" and then work on other projects to supplement it, and yeah I would tell them to cancel this project. I mean, I've already done this numerous times throughout my career but still, yeah since I can't turn back this time when it comes to creating this game and I told them that we'll try to sell it all out so allow me to put this amount of budget I need for this game. The answer I got from them was "Yeah, do your best"...so...yeah. But then I've been generating profits from FFXIV anyway, and manage to contribute a lot to the company and it was thanks to the Warriors of Light that made it happen, so it was hard for the company to say "no" to what I've proposed I assume (laughs).
Ochiai: Since I do not have any experience in game sales here, but you previously mentioned that if you go with the selling out pattern, then you can somewhat see the how the next implementation will be, and sometimes there are cases where this isn't what's the approach taken when it comes to sales pattern so my question is how, or at which timing would you be able to grasp on how the sales of the game will end up when it comes to today's context? YoshiP: By the way, the system of lump-sum payment is applicable only in Japan※¹ but when it comes to overseas, basically if you can just "break in" if you want to. This can be weird, but they basically just go "just purchase a shelf". What this means is that, let's take a street-level store for example: when release date approaches there will be other games released along with your game, yes? You can brush all of them aside and say you want to place one huge portion of the segment to sell, say, FF16, then you can ask them how much do you need to pay them to do so, and they'll do so. They would also tell you that you can ship them as many copies as you want to and they'll return the extra copies that they couldn't sell. Therefore to see how sales would fare will be starting from...the amount of pre-orders...but when it comes to pre-orders, anyone can pre-order whenever they want to these days and not many would do so....so sales wise we'll look at the first week, to see how many have purchased the game digitally as well as from wholesale dealers, so the sell out starts there, and the rest will be predictions: How much the game has reached to the hands of gamers, so predictions will be made. So we'll use those detailed data in advance and create a simulation. The reason is because we'll have proof at hand on how much the copies have reached the players. For example, for FFVII Remake, we calculate based on what we can see how many user base do we have and calculate from there, so judging from the content we have this time, we can estimate that there are certain generation base that hasn't played a single Final Fantasy game purchased this game but since we are making it a full real time action, we can calculate once on how much it has dropped in percentage for certain player base who would prefer turn based Final Fantasy games and create a simulation based on that, but ultimately the results cannot be certain until we open the lid (read: release the game) so it can be hard to tell.
※¹ - YoshiP's original Japanese sentence was "ちなみに買取なのは日本だけなので”. 買取 in Japanese can be different depending on the subject discussion on hand, and the standard meaning for this word is buyback, as in trading in used goods to get back some amount of money. But considering that's definitely NOT what it means... See here for more info
Ochiai: Like for example when it comes to movies, as movies run a duration of usually 2 hours when it comes to content, so in a way we can easily see how it performs, but when it comes to games, it takes time to complete them from start to finish so it's tougher to grasp how the behavior would change. So this is my personal thoughts on the matter but how do you approach the post-release sales period like there's a change in certain behavior, and what kind of marketing strategy would you take after the game is released? YoshiP: When it comes to sales extension, well, this can slightly different from country to country, but when it comes to Japan, I can bring up one good example which is Slam Dunk (which is recently aired in theaters).
For the generations who are fans of the show, they would be extremely interested about it, but there was a commotion when it comes to the promotion prior to its release and this caused everyone to have doubts. But once the fans watched the movie, they'd go "You better watch this movie!", or they'd go recommend those who haven't watch the movie but expressed interest in it and nothing beats that kind of attraction when it comes to what PR can do even today. Though as for me, I'd go back to my roots, and convey properly on how the game has been made and released properly, and if people find the game interesting, streaming from all around the world who will be streaming this game will convey their comments and the louder those voices are, then it might encourage others who hasn't buy the game yet to give it a try, purchase a PS5 along. Another thing I've realized that younger generations don't tend to be particular about the release date, and tend to based their purchase on what's popular within their community circles, and what everyone is playing. In fact this is what happened when it comes to Apex, Fortnite, and this is definitely what the flow goes for today, so what I did is to make estimations on budget, laying out the plan saying "FFXVI is coming out", and making simple approach to try getting the staff members in the shop to convince gamers to buy FFXVI along when they purchase a PS5. So this time, I've laid out a plan on sales that would last about 18 months.※² Even when looking at the ownership ratio for PS5, there's no mistake that there will a drop in absolute ratio rather than looking at the games that are released for both PS4 and PS5.
Ochiai: Yeah, that's right.
YoshiP: I mean, yeah, it would be idiotic for anyone to not make these calculations beforehand, which is why it's important to consider the sales in a long term and extend them for as long as it can be, and then from the sales that have accumulates in these long months, we can see up to which extend people have played the game, and since we can see data in the achievements people obtain in game, we can tell how much people are stuck at certain aspects, and so on. From there we may make adjustments so that it'll be easier for people to obtain them, and we wouldn't need it to be an online game to do so. Therefore, I'm not looking at the short term sales at all.
※² - In Japan, this method is called じわ売れ (Jiwa Ure), an internet lingo literally translates to "Gradual Selling".
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This is it, this ends the all the relevant info you need to know from Weekly Ochiai's talk show with Naoki Yoshida.
As YoshiP encourages the collection of responses of how FFXVI, I figured that I could make some little advertisement (which I don't always do so), and if you want to help YoshiP see how his game would perform), do feel free to make a visit on my Youtube channel which I'll stream the game on Day 1. But only do so if you're:
A) Isn't planning to get the game just yet B) Doesn't mind spoilers
While there's no guarantee that YoshiP would even look at it, but at least the data will always be there. So do feel free. Of course, watching other streamers are fine as well, but the main point here is to give YoshiP the data he needs.
That would be all. I apologize if the translation doesn't seem coherent, but hopefully it gets the point across.

Hi, I am in Texas and I am the custodial parent. Our child is under two and we have had a visitation and custody order in place for over a year. We have never followed the standard visitation schedule prior to this month because we were in agreeance of our own version. Until now.
For the past year our child has only stayed overnight with the other parent 5 times. One of those times (in April) the other parent ignored my calls and did not drop her off as planned in the morning. Instead they took our child to court where they failed a UA. (You can't do either of those things). They dropped the child off to me and three hours later a CPS investigator knocked on my door to inform me of what happened and that he ran out of the court room with our child. Police and CPS had been looking for our child and worried about their safety with the other parent. I gladly signed a safety plan from CPS that limited his visitation to supervised visitation for 30 days. Cps investigation was closed before the end of the 30 day period. Other parent eventually went to jail for two weeks after running from warrants stemming from that court date. Bond was set at an amount higher than $300,000 and I did not think they would make bond. They did. I was not able to retain a lawyer before he was released.
Now the other parent is demanding their time and waiving the visitation order around. I unfortunately have to follow this order. They keep saying and sending texts that say "I am trying to keep the child from him and "it will bite me in the ass". Very obviously documenting pick up and drop off times, called in a welfare check on our child the day they got released from jail stating they "have a right to know where the child is since I didn't answer my phone". recording (and sending to me) video of our child playing and laughing while in their possession stating how happy the child is to be around them.
I have yet to not follow the orders or deny him any visitation.
How would you advise in this situaion.

Sorry for breaking the political post streaks but this is something I want to know how you deal with it.
I’m sure for casual friends it doesn’t matter who they date or marry with because you don’t have daily interactions with them.
This whole thing started when my friend’s ex girlfriend broke up with her because of her family melodrama and my friend meet this thing.
She likes to school people on everything, argues on topics she doesn’t have any idea about and is totally a snow flake, basically if you just point out that she is wrong about something she will get super offended and the whole evening we have to spend to make her feel good.
We got on a lot of arguments and mostly it’s her being wrong and I’m trying to correct her politely until I lose my patience and say something like, “maybe if your knowledge of this topic matched up to the course you are studying you wouldn’t got bad grades in that”.
I have bought more chocolates to her for apologising than I ever bought to all my my 4 ex girlfriends combined.
Just about this last week we were making a plan to go out and eat something nice she enforced the idea of going to Hyderabad to eat fry fish, “ I’m not going to Hyderabad to eat some stupid fish, I have other things to do as well”.
This whole situation is becoming really toxic we can’t go out without her as it will make an impression we are ignoring her , well honestly that would be the best way to avoid the unwanted turf war as we are going to chill we don’t want rule book of Geneva convention.
Does anyone faced this kind of situation in their life? If so how did you deal with it.

Not actually mad but thought it was funny in today's episode they speak about Mark on the Australian tour going to an ice cream shop in Auckland (which is in New Zealand). That all makes sense as they did AU and NZ in the same tour until Mark says it was one of the hottest days in Australia!
How dare you mix up our two amazing countries up!!! Cancel Mr Markiplier