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I sat on my bunk nursing a nasty looking black eye given to me by our “Gracious host”. It’s funny how humanity has sprung forth from its homeworld, and the best remedy for a black eye is still a frozen bag of peas. This is bullshit, I don’t want to be here anymore then they want me to be here. This whole idea of cooperating for the “good of all” isn’t panning out. I need to put—— my train of thought is interrupted by the sound of klaxons. I put down the mostly frozen bag of peas and reach for my gear. Having drilled for this thousands of times in my 4 years since being drafted. It took my less than 30 seconds to dawn my armor. As I lifted my helmet and activated the display I saw red text scrolling across. “HOSTILE FORCES IN SYSTEM, FLEET ATTEMPTING TO REPELL. CONFIDENCE LOW. PLACING ALL TERRAN FORCES UNDER THE TEMPORARY COMMAND OF LOCAL FORCES” Fuck, this couldn’t get any worse. I just got into a bar fight with these lizards and now I have to take orders from them? What is command thinking? A new text message scrolled across my display. “ATTENTION ALL TERRAN FORCES, UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE YOUR ORDERS ARE TO GARRISON THE CIVILIAN SHELTERS IN THE F’RIX DISTRICT. DIRECTIONS ARE BEING FORWARDED TO YOUR COMMAND.” Great, that didn’t take long. Bet the— my thought was interrupted by Captain Armstrong. “Alright D Company, Lets stow the attitude and get to work. Our assignment is approximately 10 kilometers deep in the city. Hurry up and mount up and let’s get rolling. We’ll decide all the details when we get there” I grabbed my rifle and medical kit and heaved up from my bunk. “Jesus St. John, you look like I feel” Corporal Blankenship said with mirth in his voice “Fuck you, let’s just get this over with.” He’s easily the most annoying member of my team. Being a Navy Corpsman in the Terran Republic Marines isn’t all it’s made out to be. On one hand, you become family to them. They treat you as a brother even if you aren’t “one of them”. On the other hand, you might as well be in the Marines. “ Hey corpsman, do you think the fleet is going to be able to prevent a landing?” PFC Thompson yelled over the sound of shuffling gear “ Oh jeez PFC, I Don’t know. Let me call up the Admiral and check. Right after I do that I think I’ll also wish the enemy away as hard as I can.” “Dick” he shot back I set towards the door with my rifle in hand. As I approached the threshold an APC skidded to a stop. Several tons of steel, the APC wouldn’t have been out of place in any old war movie. The best way to move troops on the ground was still a fast and lightly armored box with wheels. The loading ramp defended and I proceeded to stow my rifle in the racks by the entrance. I took my seat at the back of the APC. I hate riding in these steel coffins. Although if we get hit the chances of me making it aren’t any better if I’m here or sitting in the driver's lap. The tires skidded as the last troops loaded in and took their places. Limited conversations were taking place. With time to think about the situation we were in everything became so much more real. Marines are still Marines though. It didn’t take long for jokes to start flying and ease the tension. A new message scrolled across my vision. “FLEET FORCES HAVE FAILED TO PREVENT THE ENEMY FROM GAINING ORBITAL SUPREMACY. RETREATING TO FORWARD OPERATING BASE LINCON TO RENDEZVOUS WITH OTHER FLEET ELEMENTS.” Fucking great. The APC skidded to a stop in front of the main entrance of the emergency shelter. “Everybody out!” Yelled Sgt. Newman He is the saltiest Marine I’ve ever had the pleasure of serving with. Straight to the point and no time for bullshit. I Exited the APC to find controlled chaos. Everywhere seemed like it was filled with figures in armor running to some location. Sgt. Newman was instantly called to the small Command post immediately forward of the Shelter Entrance. After a short exchange, he jogged back to us. “ Alright folks, We have been tasked with taking up position in the outer defensive line. This means we will get all of the action if there is any to be had today. Lets hoof it up there like a couple of Marines on leave in a whore house” Everyone chuckled, even me. I’ve been around Marines to long. We jogged to our new position and set up. My job was essentially to sit back and wait until someone got hurt after I helped set up the squad's plasma gun emplacement. “ORBITAL LANDING PODS DETECTED IN UPPER ATMOSPHERE. APPROXIMATE LANDING LOCATION UNKNOWN. PREPARE FOR DEFENSE OF THE PLANET” Here we go. “They won’t land here right Sgt. I mean we are just protecting the civilians” said PFC Thompson said with a clear quiver in his voice. “Stow that shit Thompson, if they do we’ll handle it” Sgt. Newman fired back. He didn’t look so sure. I’d never seen him actually look nervous. “KLAXION FORCES HAVE ENGAGED THE ENEMY———“ The rest was cut off. What was that? I’ve never seen the tactical net go down before. “LOCAL COMMAND NET OVERRIDE: DROP PODS DETECTED WITH TRAJECTORY CORRESPONDING TO OUR LOCATION” The silence of my squad was heavy and thick. We all knew what that meant. We were cut off from joint command and on our own. No backup. “ LOCAL COMMAND NET OVERRIDE: KINETIC BOMBARDMENT INCOMING TAKE COVER “ I threw myself to the ground and tried to bury myself behind the thick concrete barriers originally intended to prevent vehicles from leaving the roadway. A sound lack thunder followed me there. The ground shook, glass broke in the buildings above and heat washed over me. A wall of dust and dirt moved through our position obscuring everything. As my hearing returned I raised my head to see that most of the squad had recovered and was preparing to repel the enemy attack that was surely going to accompany this. “CONTACT!” Screamed our plasma gunner The world became a place filled with bright lights and sizzling bolts. I looked around to see if my services were needed anywhere. “CORPSMAN!” The sound that all corpsman dread hearing because it means that one of our charges is hurt. Possibly fatally. I rushed over to the huddled mass of marines. “Move over dammit” I yelled as I pushed past the two marines who called me over. “He took a piece of falling debris” What I saw in front of me was a mangled mess. I looked up at the wounded marine. From what I could see it looked like whatever hit him shattered his chest. “ Alright, We need to get him back to the aid station in the shelter I can’t do anything for him here. I need someone to come with me because I can’t carry the stretcher on my own. “ Sgt. Newman “ Take Thompson, radio before you come back” The look he gave me was one of resignation. It was bad, really bad. He knew it, and he didn’t expect there to be a position for me to return to. Thompson and I grabbed the stretcher from my aid bag and assembled it. Carefully we rolled the wounded marine onto it. “ Suppressing fire “ shouted Sgt. Newman We launched to our feet and took off running as carefully as possible. Plasma bolts sizzled past us as we approached the second and then final defensive line. We hurried into the entrance of the emergency shelter alongside several other wounded. We placed our charge down on the floor in the hallway. At this point, our job was done and we were to return back to our post. As I turned to go back another Sgt. Blocked my way. “The first defensive line is gone. Corpsman, Stay here. We are trying to consolidate at the second line but it’s not looking good. PFC Stay here as well. I’m attaching you to the Final line of defense. I need more marines if they break through the second line” I glanced at Thompson who was already moving to obey orders. The shock of what we had just been told hadn’t had time to set in. The training was what kept us both moving. I rushed into the field hospital to see what I could do. What greeted me was horror. Men bleeding, screaming, and dying. A field surgeon grabbed me. “I need you to hold pressure on this wound so I can go prep a the Emergency OR” I stared at him in confusion. OR? What do you mean OR? We’ve been here maybe 30 minutes. How the hell did one get set up here so quickly? I obeyed regardless of my disbelief. The Marine screamed out in pain as I applied pressure. There was blood everywhere. The next couple of hours were a flash of gore and death. We were caught in the middle trying to fight back the Grim Reaper as well as this new foe. By nightfall, the enemy had broken through the second defensive line and had drawn back before taking on the final line. It was quiet, so damn quiet. I wandered around the shelter. I couldn’t sleep. A tail as old as time. I came to A large room with bunks and voices. Inside were the people we are here to protect. Lizards, that's what most of us described the Klaxions as. They were basically bipedal reptiles. However, I found something in my heart while watching them clutch their children to their scaled faces. This is the first time I’d seen any civilians. They looked, and acted like us. Yes, they appeared different but they still clutched their young to their chest. Still comforted the old. My entire worldview that I thought was stable as a concrete high-rise came crashing down on my head. I thought these people were vicious killers of men. All of them, but they just aren’t. They are afraid just like us. One Motioned me over and held up a device. “What is your name Terran” the device spat out at me “St. John” “St. John, will you join me for tea?” “I uh—“ “ Please, it's the least we can do” I sat as a cup was placed in my hand, the tea was warm and steaming. After the Klaxion was done pouring my cup I lifted it to take a sip. It was full of flavor causing my sharp features to scrunch up with surprise. “First time having traditional Klaxion Tea?” “ Yes, it’s uh. Really good *chuckle* “ “ I’m glad you like it, do you have any news from outside the shel——“ Three thunderclaps shook the shelter. Screams rang out in the crowd. “Everybody down!” I yelled as I ran back to the adjoining hallway I didn’t get far before I ran into retreating elements of the final defense line. “Corpsman, take up position in the doorway and prepare to repel the enemy” I looked at him in shock. “Do it now goddammit!” Plasma bolts started flying down after the retreating marines. At their rear was Captain Armstrong carrying what seemed to be…… Thompson, PFC Thompson. He looked badly injured. The Captain rushed him inside the main shelter room and laid him down. Immediately the Klaxion rendered as much aid as they could. Although physically different. Both of our species knew that fluids leaving the body in a hurry was bad news and to apply pressure. As I turned back to the Captain he took a plasma bolt to the face. There wasn’t anything left. What was left was all over my face shield. “Here they come!” Shouted someone from the hallway. I heard screams, so many screams. Screams of terror, screams of anger, screams of rage. In the end, my Plasma rifle ran dry. I looked around me, spent plasma cartridges layn in piles. I heard footsteps behind me. The walking wounded had armed themselves with knives, sticks, and sidearms. Then they came into the entrance. I threw myself in front of the civilians out of instinct. An instinct given to all humans. To protect the innocent. As the plasma bolts ripped through my body, one must have clipped my spine. I could feel the pressure of the shots but nothing else. The room grew dark except for one spot. This must be the light everyone talks about. I’m sorry I couldn’t do more, but we did all we could.

Today I put away my sweaters and took out my summer clothes it was kinda depressing and even sad, but overall I'm glad about how I did it.
Long story short, I lost more than 20 pounds about 10 years ago during a very stressful time of life. Bit by bit, the weight has crept back on. I've been keeping some clothes with the thought that I was going to lose weight. Today I finally faced the reality that the weight loss may not happen, or not as much as I would need for some of these clothes. So I tried everything on, painful as it was, and everything that doesn't fit now is going away. Some of these were favorites, and it was sad to say goodbye. But now I know that whatever is in my closet and dresser is at least going to fit. I have more space, too.
I still have too many clothes and need to go through and get ruthless about the things that fit, but at least I've made a start. And if I do lose weight, surely I can find some nice things to replace the ones I gave away.

So I called up the sporting good section of the GoodieGoods store, but they wern't expecting me to use the voice of Felix from the Crossfire games
GG Store: Thank you for calling GoodieGoods sporting goods, how can I help you
Felix: Hey.
GG Store: Hello.
Felix: Where can I find the
Felix: 10mm ammo?
GG Store: We got some ten millers
Felix: How much
GG Store: That will be $49.95
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GG Store: Lady, please step down the attitude
Felix: Don't play dumb with me.
Felix: I'm Felix, Felix Terry
GG Store: Felix Terry from Crossfire 2?
Felix: No.
GG Store: Whoever the [bleep] you are, don't use video game voices on me, just use your real voice, and don't be shy
Felix: No.
Felix: I'm Felix, Felix Terry
GG Store: Ok, then, anything else
Felix: What about
Felix: some shotgun shells?
GG Store: Yep, got a few of those
Felix: The
Felix: rocket launcher?
GG Store: No. No rockets.
Felix: Get me a [bleeping]
Felix: rocket launcher
GG Store: I said, no rockets
Felix: How about a
Felix: napalm canister
GG Store: Lady, we carry only legal weapons here, no napalm for you, that's a war crime
Felix: I'm an agent
Felix: I'm Felix, Felix Terry
GG Store: What organization do you work for, FELIX, FELIX TERRY
Felix: I work for
Felix: the Crossfire organization
GG Store: Haha, enjoy some cops
Felix: My brain is nitro-charged
GG Store: Haha
Felix: Blah blah blah, just send me to jail, tough guy
GG Store: Haha, thats exactly what I'm doing, I'm gonna find the location of this call and send some cops
Felix: This call is being monitored by
Felix: The Crossfire organization
GG Store: Haha
Me: Ok, I'm sorry for all this, I wasn't intending to piss anybody off here, this is just a joke and please don't send cops to my door GG Store: Ok, that will be alright, but don't do that on me again
What store should Felix call next, tell me in the comments

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It all came to a head when I found out she had been bringing the guy to our apartment to have sex. So I ended up moving out and getting my own permanent apartment. She refused to end it with the new guy when I asked if we could work it out. So I began seeing other women to spite her or in hopes to move on. She said she doesn’t want to work things out because she thinks she will get hurt again and again as I have hurt constantly over the years, but she continues tells me she thinks about giving us another try all the time. It gets confusing because we still sleep together constantly multiple days out of the week, and she tells me she loves me and still would like to have more kids in the future. But she just needs time and space. I’m not sure what to do here. Do I go no contact. Do I continue to sleep with her. Or throw in the towel. We had a lot of good days and years. It was never all bad at all. I’m completely in love with her. I’m not sure what she might want, but part of me feels like she’s stringing me along till she finds a solid relationship. Idk what to do or see how this could possibly end. Any advice would be great.

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Hi, I'm 25 and was diagnosed last year, so I'm still very much in the process of figuring out what accommodations I need, what helps me, etc.
I have a hard time dealing with heat, and find myself overheating very quickly. The heat makes me go into sensory overload three times as fast, and it's awful. It doesn't help that I wear a binder (I'm transmasculine) whenever I am out and around other people - the tight fabric makes me overheat very fast, but I don't have much choice about wearing it. When I'm at home, I can cope with heat-induced sensory overload in various ways; the best for me is honestly just to shower more often, because I have full control of the water temperature and can finally be comfortable. I also always make sure to have ice in the freezer for drinks and ice packs to hold against my skin as soon as the weather gets hot.
However, in a few weeks I'm traveling to Italy - Italy in July sounds terrible already, but I'm traveling with my choir and so will be out and about a lot of the time. It's not a holiday, where I could go back to my hotel room when I felt like it and shower; I'll have long days of rehearsals and recitals/services/etc, and due to my severe social anxiety I don't expect I'll be separating myself from the group much. In short, a recipe for overload and the resulting shutdowns etc. Only a few people in the choir know I'm autistic, and of those people only a couple of them know how bad both my anxiety and my overload, shutdowns, etc can be.
SO I was wondering if anyone had tips?
- Does anyone know of anything I can bring with me in order to cool off quickly? I have bought some cooling patches designed for soothing headaches and migraines, but I've never used them before. Is there anything else? I need things that I can carry with me all the time and that don't have to be put in a freezer since I won't have access to that.
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I’ve been with him for 3 years. Early into the relationship I asked him about finances just to be on the same page. I’ve been saving for our future so I wanted to know that he was too. I told him I wanted marriage and kids by a certain age. He was on board.
He said that he had all this money in his savings account and to not worry. He told me that money comes easy to him and that after he meets my parents he’ll start saving more.
I didn’t want to introduce him to my parents because I didn’t think he was serious. He’s a big time careless spender. We are both Indian so meeting the parents basically means getting married. I don’t feel like my parents would’ve taken him seriously given how he has been handling his finances. I’m not sure what his plans were after meeting my parents, if he didn’t have money to marry me. Weddings and downpayment costs money. I’ve told him this many times before.
Long story short I found out that he’s $40k in debt, and that the money he claims to have saved up, is really a condo that his mom owns. He had given her money to buy it years ago. His mom had no intention of selling it. She told me and him that at the beginning of the relationship. I am now finding out that his plan was to basically bully his mom into selling the condo and use that money after he had met my parents. I’m not ok with that. I don’t want bad blood. She had already told us that condo was for our future as inheritance.
I confronted him about all this and every time I talk about finances and settling down without fail he brings up this whole laundry list of things that I don’t live up to. Apparently I don’t pay enough attention to him, I’m not supportive, I’m not caring, i’m not there for him, I haven’t introduced him to my parents yet etc etc etc. Every time I bring up marriage and getting serious with finances, instead of doing the work that is needed to make this work, he makes me feel like I’m not good enough for him. This has been going on for 3 years. We literally never have problems within our relationship until I hold him accountable for finances.
How would you handle this situation if you were in my shoes?
TLDR: Everytime I (34f) bring up getting serious and settling down with my bf (34m) of 3 years he brings out this laundry list standards that I don’t meet

I'm new at using Scratch. When somebody posts their project/game for questions or help, how can I view the code? The game they link is playable, but I don't see the code anywhere. It seems others can find it in order to assist, but I can't for the life of me locate it.
If it matters, I'm not registered. Is this my issue?

Currently working in the same job for 7 years now. I have been able to have great success and really feel that I've had a positive impact. But I feel underappreciated and also that it's no longer a challenge. There are positives like the people I work with, the freedom I have to do whatever I want and how I want. But I'm worried about making a change and finding myself in a worse position, the grass isn't always greener and all that.

ILPT Request - An ex partner r**ed a minor. Someone in my family. The minor is not going to the police, as is their right. I would never push for them to do anything before they are ready.
I want the community to know. He has a new girlfriend and is around young women.
How do I get this out there without looking like the bitter-ex? Anonymously. Besides tossing a bunch of flyers in the air and watching them rain down?

I am an artist. I see the world through a creative lens. And when I realized I could tattoo a story on my body, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I am 20 years old and have full blown front neck tattoos, yet I don't regret a thing. In fact, I just got another one a few days ago. You can check my posts to see it. I have always felt insecure in my body, in my appearance and in my self. As a trans girl that sense of wrongness is far stronger than the average person, but thanks to starting hormone injections in April, I feel so much better and now patiently wait for my right body.
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Back to my tattoo, though. The moment my first neck tattoo was finished I felt so.. absolutely safe in my own skin. Like I wasn't in danger, like I have control over my body and who I am. I still feel that way. And the tattoo itself, as a full piece, means a tremendous deal of overcoming trauma and building up hope. It is a constant reminder of the promise I made to myself, and what I went through to become who I am.
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I still can't explain this feeling. The safety of it. It is a physical sense of safety, not just a mental one. Like I can go outside and not worry about someone trying to hurt me. Maybe it's because I feel I don't look like as much of a target. Maybe it is because of what it represents. Maybe it is because of how much physical pain I endured to get it permanently etched into my skin. Who knows.
All I know is for once I feel a little safer. A little stronger. And maybe, just maybe, a little more worthy of finding someone to love me.
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Maybe.

I’m an intern that’s been assigned to do time studies and find the cycle time of manually assembled wire harnesses. There are about 400 different harnesses that they produce. How would you go about this? I’ve been brainstorming and trying out a few different strategies but I can’t seem to get in flow on this project.

[English not my first language, sorry in advance]
The idea: party gets sent from the king to investigate a place where someone is impersonating him because they are the only one that have the items to get there [magical meccanic creatures] . Party arrives, they leave the creature to wait somewhere, goes to the city, find this "museum" where the "fake king" is showing famous items. Party enters museum, feels a little like a scam, until the end of the tour where there are other 2 magical creature like the one they have. Not sure if I should do it, but I was thinking of making their creature get captured in that moment too.
Objective of the mission: The "objective" should be then the liberation of the creatures / defeat the "fake king" [either one will do]. My "idea" is that they will meet the future BBEG of the next sessions here, since one of the creatures here is her "pet".
But, I'm not sure on the "how to do it". If they should meet her before the heist or during it. If she should join her, then betray them to get all the creatures...
In the "worst" case, I can just spawn her during their heist, but I wanted to create some build up to this BBEG, make her seem friendly/docile but then let her betray them (because there is drama between the king and the BBEG), but I just have no idea on how to let them meet and interact to the point of her joining in their heist in that case.
Seeking any advice on how to do it, thanks in advance.

I think people might find this funny but some might also get triggered. I quit listening to metal around 2005 and now getting back to metal music. During my absence this ”core” genre seems to have taken the front seat in metal music.
I’ve been listening and researching some bands and there are few bands I really like in this genre the reason is that I can’t stand the ”college rock” harmonies and the choruses that reminds of Blink 182. What I did enjoy was bands like Green Day.
What I do like in this genre is the riffs and ”djent”(?) and good growls and the modern productions in some songs.
I was a devoted metal-head in the early 00s, I listened to lots of melodic death metal, black metal and Children of Bodom is probably my favorite band in metal.
So to the question: can somebody give me a pointer to what bands don’t have these shit generic choruses and also a short history lesson on how and why this genre has become such a big deal?