The sheridan at green oaks

So I'm at the Water Mill Idol, and I was wanting to get all the same I could, and the only one left was the one from dragonrot (hadn't gotten it so far), that's easy, I just farm deaths until I get it, so I do that. I talk to Sculptor, then Emma (who's at Ashina Castle), and she does her normal dialogue of going through Dogen's documents. Here's the problem, I ALSO have completed the first step of the Purification ending, so when I talk to her after resting, she does he normal dialogue for THAT. So now I'm worried that I gave the Info Broker and Sculptor the dragon cancer for nothing.

Hi Guys!
So I fell off the wagon, and its one of my worst relapse in 2-3 years. So I decided to make this account as the first step to my recovery, and post my thoughts, and experiences during this journey. Your thoughts, experiences and encouragement I always welcome!
Socrates said something like: How sad it is that the person who lies to us the most, never leaves us, because it is ourselves. I have found this to be particularly true in regards of this addiction.
We lie to ourselves and fool ourselves. I have always found that the best way to fight my mind, my toxic habits is to speak the truth. And instead of relapsing into this warm disgusting habit I will write the truth, bring light to the shadow, and be my best self step by step.
A key element of theater is the “willing suspension of disbelief” meaning that the audience consciously sets aside its knowledge that what is happening on stage is fiction and pretends for the duration of the performance to believe that what it’s watching is real.
Lies I tell myself:

1. Porn is good. Whereas what happens on my screen is a terrible and evil act. If my psyche wouldn't have been infected so young (and even now when I abstain for a longer time) I see it what it is a terrible act, the normal reaction should be vomiting.
2. That it is me who is experiencing this lie. When in reality I'm in a dark room front of a laptop fapping to other people like voyeur. I'm degrading myself. This is not someting a healthy man does.
3. My third lie I tell myself that this is allright. That one more time is allright. That my relapse is allright. Whereas it is not allright. I'm robbing myslef of so much with this. It robs me of my energy, my creativity therfore my performance in my carreer, and living my best life, my time with my friends, robs me of my confidence with girls. Robs me from a healthy relationship that is otherwise easily achieveable. Robs me from being a great partner, robs me from being sensitive for my partners needs. robs me from being a great lover. Robs me from being human. It's a pact with the devil, fulfilling a natural desire in an evil way, not exerecising self control, and paying soo soo much more for a fading moment of pleasure, yet not even realising. The worst thing? It's a deathly spiral since it makes your life worse and worse you turn to it more and more, you sink deeper and deeper, while loosing the ability to fight against.

My truths that I live by from this moment:

1. Porn a terrible thing. It is degrading both for it's makers and for it's viewers. It was degrading me, me engageing in pmo in the past was a harmful, degrading, shameful act.
2. I have not experienced those fantasies. It is other people, and even they fake it. What really happened were a degrading, sad and evil act when I engaged in pmo.
3. My past decisions and acts engageing in pmo were not acceptable, and not allright in any way. I fooled myself thinking it was allright but I robbed myself of time, energy, my confidence, my experiences, success in my carrier, success in my romantic life, and robbed myself of experienceing life to it's fullest.

My pledge today (2023.03.28.)
I will not engage in pmo ever again. I am done with it once and for all. If I ever relapse in my life I will fight tooth and nail to get on my path again. In no way shape or form will I think, feel, or speak of pmo as anything else but a harmful, toxic, degrading and evil act. I will dedicte myself to live a healthy sex life and to live life to it's fullest.
My affirmations:

1. My past is not a reflection of my future. The old has gone, the new is here! Every day I'm getting better and better.
2. I am worthy of a wonderful, loving and sexually fulfilling relationship.
3. I am worthy of the perfect womans love whose image lives in me.
4. I will find her when the time is right.
5. I am a work in progress. I am working on to be the best version of myself every day.
6. I am enough.
7. I humble myself and face my trials with endless patience, perseverance, and power.
8. I take full responsibility for my needs and desires.
9. My needs and desires will be fulfilled in the right time.
10. I consider it pure joy, when I face trials, because I know that the testing of my faith will produce perseverance and lead me to become a mature and perfect man.

Thats it folks. I wanted to write about my journey so far with nofap and where I am at now, but maybe another time. I wish you luck!

Hello,
I am 28 years old. I make about $65k/year. I save 11% with a 4% match on my employer's part for a total of 15%. They max at 4% contribution. I have saved 7k in my 403b so far. I have some credit card debt that will be finished being paid off by the end of April. I live with family to save money on rent, and the only debt I have is my car 368$/month and my car insurnace 130$/month. I have about 1k in savings. Once I finish paying off my credit cards, I will be able to save about 2300$/month. I want to buy a house, but this just doesn't seem viable. How can I better position myself financially?
will hopefully have 23k in savings by the end of the year.
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Proposed budget after credit cards:
Monthly income after taxes and 403b contributions:3300
Car payment: 368
Insurance: 130
Monthly fuel: 100$
spending allowance:$400
Savings: $2300

So I have a friend, who has been single for a very long time. In fact, he's never really had a boyfriend. For the past 2 years or so (just around when COVID restrictions started lifting), he has gotten fixated on finding a boyfriend. Like it's all he can talk about. All conversations with him eventually lead to his complaining that he's single, guys don't like relationships, guys don't like him, guys are flaky/shallow, guys only want sex, guys only care about money etc. At first, I thought this was a temporary mindset and he was just reacting this strongly after lockdown because of the pandemic. But it has gotten worst as time has gone on.
What brought things to a head is that my fiancé and I got engaged a few months ago and have been slowly planning our wedding. At first he seemed happy for us, but as time has gone on, he's become very sippy, not just at us, but towards all the couples in our friend group. It's made a lot of people not want to get together to plan things out. My boyfriend and I are estranged from most of our families for the typical reasons, you might expect for gay men. So it means a lot of have our friends kind of take the roles that would have gone to family members and helping us plan.
He has made things unbearable and all about his singleness. He always has something sarcastic and negative to say ("Thanks for letting help out with planning your wedding, since I'm never going to have my own!", "I guess only the good looking guys get happily ever afters", "I guess the guys with money just want to marry each other and us peasants have to beg outside for scraps"). Please note, my fiancé and I are neither insanely rich or outstandingly handsome (well I think he is, but I'm bias), but it's like he's been lionising everything to make the wedding seem "outrageous", "unrealistic", or "unattainable".
He says these things in a "I just JOKING" way, and with anyone else I would probably believe that, but these catty/mean comments have been happening so frequently that I just don't buy that he means it light heartedly.
He also has had the audacity to ask me to set him up with dates, implying that I owe it to him since I'm having a wedding while he's still single and thus embarrassing him. Note, I've tried setting him up in the past, but according to the dudes I set him up with, he came on WAY too strong, was super clingy, and was already talking about relationships and LOVE before they had finished their coffee. And those guys are now in long term relationships with other men, so they were genuinely looking for relationships. So I honestly don't want to set him up with another friend, because that would be unfair to the friend.
The cherry on top is that he has started confiding to another single friend, whom has never said anything negative about being single. But now he's starting to immitate his behavior and has started to commiserate with him.
I know most of you will say to dump him as a friend. Admittedly, this would be the logical choice. But he was my first openly gay friend. When I came out to my family and my brother punched me and my father disowned me, he held me as a cried and drank myself to sleep that weekend. He's been there for me when I was at my lowest, I don't want to write him off unless I really have to.
I know I need to have a discussion with him about how his actions/statements/attitudes have become intolerable at this point. My friends and I have tried to broaching the topic before but he becomes defensive, will make excuses, and will redirect the conversation.
So how can I have a direct conversation with him, without him feeling threatened/criticized so he doesn't try to run away from the topic? How can I frame it? Should I have him come over one on one to watch TV, then transition into the discussion or should I tell him directly what I want to talk about? Should it just be me or should other friends that he's started to become critical of also be present to Voice their concerns/hurt, or would that make him feel like he's being gained up on?
Any experience and/or advice on organizing/framing this discussion would be of a great help.
TLDR: Chronically single friend had started to become intolerable toxic/mean/snippy since fiancé and I got engaged. His negatively is affecting the friend group and I need help on how to frame a discussion with him that won't feel overly critical so he doesn't try to deflect.

What will you be doing with this PC? Be as specific as possible, and include specific games or programs you will be using.
1080p gaming at max settings / Squad, Total War:WH3, Elden Ring , WH40k Darktide, Flight Sim, Resident Evil 4 Remake, Hogwarts Legacy and other new releases
What is your maximum budget before rebates/shipping/taxes?
£1150 but would prefer to stay at around £1050 (if my requirements can be met for less even better)
When do you plan on building/buying the PC? Note: beyond a week or two from today means any build you receive will be out of date when you want to buy.
Next couple of days, start of next week at the latest
What, exactly, do you need included in the budget? (ToweOS/monitokeyboard/mouse/etc\)
Tower and monitor
Which country (and state/province) will you be purchasing the parts in? If you're in US, do you have access to a Microcenter location?
UK, England
If reusing any parts (including monitor(s)/keyboard/mouse/etc), what parts will you be reusing? Brands and models are appreciated.
240GB ssd
Will you be overclocking? If yes, are you interested in overclocking right away, or down the line? CPU and/or GPU?
No, unless necessary
Are there any specific features or items you want/need in the build? (ex: SSD, large amount of storage or a RAID setup, CUDA or OpenCL support, etc)
No
Do you have any specific case preferences (Size like ITX/microATX/mid-towefull-tower, styles, colors, window or not, LED lighting, etc), or a particular color theme preference for the components?
Simple colour scheme and minimal RGB, prefer performance over looks for each part
Do you need a copy of Windows included in the budget? If you do need one included, do you have a preference?
I have a Windows 11 copy
Extra info or particulars:
This is a build a quickly put together https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/68GL3y

Anyone interested in a season long DFS league? There would be an overall buy-in, and then a 25 cent contest every day, winner take all. Chance to make money back throughout the season. First place at end of season wins the buy-in pool

Hi all,
Looking to start streaming Switch and Xbox Series X gameplay, think I'll go with the HD60 S+.
I have a Macbook Pro but it belongs to my work, and I may need to give it back in. Would it be possible to stream via the HD60 S+ via an iPad Pro?
(I'm aware I can stream via the Series X natively, but I was thinking of 'possibly' Vtubing at the same time via my iPhone camera.
Possible? Thanks

Anyone have experience fitting a kodiak sks-101 pic rail on a an sks with a tapco stock. I'm worried I may have to cut away at the stock to make it fit. Any knowledge is appreciated.

I was very happy with how it all worked out. I called 14 days before my flight on a Monday and got an appointment for that Friday at the Buffalo office. I think I was in and out in under an hour. They told me to come back two hours later, and they had my passport all printed and ready to go. They weren't stingy about ink color, cause they gave me a blue pen to write in my state where I had forgotten it (though I would still recommend using black ink!) The people were very kind and efficient. Honestly, 10/10 would do again in ten years.
Personal notes:
I had a baby passport where my name is spelled with the cultural spelling instead of the legal spelling, they had no problem making the change to the legal spelling on my new passport so that I could have consistent documents. No, I have no idea how that was allowed to happen in the first place.
I'm from Mass, but I live in upstate NY for college (about 2.5 hours away from Buffalo) and applied with Mass documents.
I had copies of my documents with me, but they just made copies of all my stuff behind the counter, so that was nice.
Did not need to contact a Congressperson or Senator.
Paid with credit card (via Apple Pay).
Hope this helps some other people with questions about the process, feel free to ask about anything I might have missed!

As my org moves to a work from home model, I am tasked with looking for a company that can provide hands on support to users, specifically executives, providing that white glove type of service in their homes in case they have any desktop support issues at their homes.
We are not staffed to support in person desktop support but would like to provide that service to our Executives who work remotely from their homes across the US.
Anybody have any suggestions on vendors that can provide this service?

My understanding is Verfasst is more formal than Geschrieben. And v. is more formal than von. I’m just not sure how formal these words are.
If I were to write and article and at the bottom of the article I want make a statement of “my article is not written by AI”, should I say “Verfasst v. Menschen, Nicht v. KI” or “Geschrieben von Menschen, Nicht von KI”?

Looking for stories to read, I have something in mind for you!
Title: For Better or Worse
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Drama
Status: Ongoing. 50% complete. Written 12/25 chapters, posted the first full act (9/25) (looking to update every other day/weekly depending on my schedule.)
Blurb: Nikki Jordan, 5x-GRAMMY winner, international pop star, and ... Houston Rockets superstar Malachi Mixon's (former) fiancé. Following his infamous cheating scandal, Nikki is left in the crossfire of gaslighting propaganda kickstarted by his management with uncertainty if anything will ever return to normal for her.
Draya Kelly is the hotshot point guard for the New Orleans Jazz, the only player to win rookie of the year and MVP simultaneously since the legend herself, Candace Parker. After various failed relationships consisting of gold diggers, toxicity, and an unrequited crush on her closest industry friend, Nikki Jordan, her expectations were drastically lowered when it came to another shot at happiness.
Nikki proposes an indefinite hiatus, turning her week-long bachelorette trip to Vegas into a vacation with friends. While reluctant to go for personal reasons, Draya accepts the invitation with hopes of healing from all aspects. This is a beautiful love story that tackles relearning the meaning of love, nonstop adversities between the rumor mill and the most prominent media outlets, their respective careers, and the inner circle accompanying them.
Besides, you know what they say. What happens in Vegas...

So I’m in college right now (second year) and at the start of the year I smoked for the first time my friend’s roommate named Tyler.
Tyler would always ask to smoke for that first semester but over time he would just get openly annoyed towards me when asking people if they wanted to smoke. He’d just walk in the room, ask everyone individually if they wanted to smoke and then he’d get to me and just be angry. Starting 2 months ago he just started ignoring me.
I always wanted to get him back but drug deals scare me (illegal state) and I haven’t been able to get in on someone else’s order so I never have anything to offer. If it matters, he has never asked me to pay him.
Now he’s just super passive aggressive to me and I’m getting tired of it. Is this even worth trying to fix?

Thinking about taking the virtual BSW. Just wondering what the schedule is like and if one can work and raise kids at the same time? How time consuming is it and what is the workload like? I’m full-time right now but not sure if I can do it for another 2 years, as my husband is also a student and we have 2 kids 😅 Looking to hear people’s experience.
Thanks ◡̈

My parents and I have always gotten in arguments, but I feel like I am not the instigator. They insist I am but they have talked to people again and again( professionals ) and they say I am not. Others looking in do not think I am what they make me out to be. All my life I was taught to fear them, they would hit and yell at me. I get that can be normal but most of the reason why they did this was because I was rude. So I’ve tried new things over and over but they never seem to work. I remember cases of them locking me in a room, making fun of me, and other traumatizing things, but they claim it to not be true? Often I feel they have isolated me from the outside world. But to admit I have been angry with them, but is that wrong? I ask for help but they refused to give it to me, until I am very upset then they try to send me away. They have refused to buy me food, our house is actually empty, they refused to help me learn what I am doing wrong, and they have never stood up for me with school. I feel neglected, and I feel like they are manipulative, I feel insane and I question my reality. They often want to send me away, rather than deal with it. To them I am a burden, they’ve made that very clear. I don’t know how to talk to them anymore, and I can’t leave. I have tried, if they want me to leave they call the police ( this has happened multiple times ) and tell them to take me away. They never have but they try their best. I don’t know? Is this all a coincidence or are they actually hurting me? I have heard of what gaslighting can do, I relate to it but is it realistic? Am I a victim or am I the abuser they make me out to be? I genuinely don’t intent to be angry all the time.

So I've got a 2009 Ford Focus with the 2.0 on my hands that needs repairing. The issue is, the brakes won't engage until the pedal basically is to the floor. According to the owner, he was driving it and he heard a CLUNK and his brakes basically went out. He says that it's not leaking fluid at all. I, unfortunately won't get eyes on it until Tuesday night. Does anybody have any idea what the problem could be? I'm guessing master cylinder and/or brake booster. Thanks!