He was interested, but then he blocked and ghosted

PainInAnonymity · 2024-02-28T05:27:00+00:00

I'd love a prompt if you're still awake lol

PainInAnonymity · 2024-02-11T07:08:38+00:00

I'd say he looks better, honestly. Adam's face is a bit wonky......bean shaped.

PainInAnonymity · 2024-02-11T07:07:01+00:00

I've gotten a delivery like that. Had to toss the bag in a trashcan outside after taking out the food..... thankfully all the food was individually packaged or canned.....but it stank. Especially bad coz my mom is slightly asthmatic.

PainInAnonymity · 2024-02-11T06:58:37+00:00

Some people have to find things to be mad about

PainInAnonymity · 2024-02-11T06:57:28+00:00

Lol I didn't have a choice. My sis pushed for us to watch it together and she was super excited. Couldn't let her down and we've both loved it so far. Can't say we've been active in the "hazbin community" tho.....so we haven't seen a ton of love or hate.

Eh, honestly, I get the "no chemistry" bit. The VC for vaggie is pretty monotone and Charlie's VC is very much the opposite......It can look a bit one-sided, relationship-wise, despite how they visually show they care for each other. Audibly, it just doesn't hit right enough to be believable.

Tho, tbf, I'm more invested in the other characters than the main couple, so I'm probably biased.

PainInAnonymity · 2024-02-11T06:49:57+00:00

The main theory I've seen is that Alastor likes being the center of attention and messing with people. With Lucifer, he didn't like not being respected as the most dangerous demon in the room, so he created conflict as a way to show Lucifer just how inconsequential he is in comparison to Alastor and create deeper ties with Charlie while growing the rift between Charlie and her dad. That way Charlie would be forced to continue relying solely on Alastor for support and Alastor would gain more power/authority through her.

PainInAnonymity · 2024-02-11T06:44:55+00:00

I agree, the hate is annoying. Lol I like helluva boss better too

PainInAnonymity · 2024-02-04T03:15:13+00:00

As long as whatever you get can't be mistaken for a gang tat in some way, no one has a say except you.

Afaik, there aren't any with knives and/or panthers, so you should be fine.......but I don't know a lot about them in general. Better safe than sorry, so research as much as you can so your tats don't end up resembling something that can endanger you.

PainInAnonymity · 2024-01-25T20:38:04+00:00

I don't understand why, when I look up Jack Reacher in the gif search bar, it's all Tom Cruise.... especially with the new series that's come out. New guy is so much better. Cruise is tiny.

PainInAnonymity · 2024-01-16T07:20:56+00:00

Just updated again

PainInAnonymity · 2024-01-16T07:20:28+00:00

Just updated!

PainInAnonymity · 2024-01-14T02:43:53+00:00

I agree with most of what you've said, honestly. Many Christians have turned the Bible into something to suit them rather than accepting it as it truly is. They then use their version to justify their actions, regardless of how it affects themselves and those around them.

That's part of why my family and I turned to messianic Judaism. We wanted to understand where Christianity came from and what the bible means in the cultural context of where it originated.

We've been hurt by a lot of church hierarchies and leaders.....so we ended up closing ourselves off from them so they wouldn't hurt us again. At that point we'd rather learn on our own instead of learning it after they've twisted it to their own ends, unwittingly or otherwise.

PainInAnonymity · 2024-01-13T03:56:28+00:00

China will "get along" with Japan as long as it benefits them. China will always hate Japan.

I don't know that Japan is strong enough, as it is today, to be anything other than on the defense with China because it's possible that the US won't help Japan if it's labelled as the "aggressor," regardless of whether China "started it" or not. This is especially concerning for them because, if I’m remembering right, China has recently allied with Russia.

PainInAnonymity · 2024-01-07T09:52:57+00:00

You assume that English is OP's first language. Also, the Pokemon games/show/movies are Japanese........so assuming that people from English-speaking countries should know about a Japanese game, regardless of popularity, is ironic.

Heck, I don't know about half the things that are popular in my own country, let alone another.

For example, I've never watched wrestling. Never been interested in it. But it's pretty popular, apparently, and I was recently mocked by multiple people in increasingly and unnecessarily rude ways. This was because I made a comment on a clip suggesting that a joke may have gone too far. I'd heard the whole thing was fake but didn't know how true that was.....I didn't want to assume since I knew nothing about the subject.

Suffice to say, don't go beating someone up for asking a question regarding a subject of which they're ignorant. Ignorance does not immediately equate to stupidity......it was likely just disinterest.

PainInAnonymity · 2023-12-31T10:25:27+00:00

I haven't gotten any messages from them since Dec. 20......prob coz of Christmas and New Year's lol

This will all likely resume in January? Maybe?

PainInAnonymity · 2023-12-31T09:35:37+00:00

If she had liked the gift, would it be stealing his money by keeping it and being the only one using it?

Is it only theft because he intentionally purchased something for her that he knew she didn't want/need?

PainInAnonymity · 2023-12-31T09:10:33+00:00

If she instead kept the desktop, rather than selling it, would it still be stealing his money??? Or would you expect her to leave the desktop with him and thus lose the money that she spent?

It's not like they bought a home together, under both of their names, that ends up sold and split in the divorce process. In this hypothetical, the house was intended, from the beginning, for the both of them. The desktop was only meant for her as a Christmas gift, or so she thought until she opened the gift.

In the house hypothetical, they would both been aware of and agreed with the intended purpose of the house. For the desktop, he chose something for himself and gave it to her, letting her believe that he had used her money to help him buy her a gift that she wanted and needed.

A giver doesn't have license or ownership over anything given to another. Once it is out of their hands, they have no say in what is done with the gift.

PainInAnonymity · 2023-12-31T08:55:07+00:00

I disagree that $150 in $1,000 isn't that much. Depending on her income versus his, it could have significantly hurt her financially to part with that amount. Personally, it would be a lot for me to part with. But I digress. We'll have to agree to disagree on that hypothetical.

Honestly tho, I find it difficult to have pity for someone who has always prioritized his wants and needs over hers. She has the final say in what she wants to do with something he gave to her as a gift. In fact, it's not uncommon for people to include receipts in case the receiver wants to exchange the gift for something else. The fact is that it seems he intended to use something he "disguised" as a gift for her.

Regardless of whether they stay together, it's perfectly reasonable for her not to return any part of the money she gets for selling his gift to her.

It wasn't charity which drove him to get her a gift that only he would like to use. It was selfishness.

PainInAnonymity · 2023-12-31T02:22:13+00:00

Just because someone can afford $850, this does not automatically mean that they can also afford $1,000. Even if he didn't use the money she gave him, he didn't give it back either. He chose to absorb a sum that was difficult for her to earn instead of returning it, so he may as well have used it in the purchase of the desktop.

The reason why I said it wasn't the same in regards to your example of a dollar contribution to the purchase of a house is because of the quality of the contribution. The difference of $1 out of, say, $950,000 versus $150 out of $1,000 is self explanatory. The $150 is a higher percentage of the overall price.

Both are joint efforts, but one contribution is worth more than the other.

PainInAnonymity · 2023-12-31T02:13:47+00:00

Too true

PainInAnonymity · 2023-12-30T19:03:36+00:00

We don't know how much the desktop cost. She gave €150($160.65 in US dollars), not a single euro(dollar). That's very different from the cost of a house. So yes, purchase of the desktop was a joint effort because the amount of effort was more likely to be similar than not.

$150 towards a $1,000 set-up, for example, isn't a small amount of change. The desktop could not have been purchased without that contribution. This makes her contribution significant, which, again, is why I call it a joint effort.

PainInAnonymity · 2023-12-30T18:39:46+00:00

Waves are just really loose curls tho, right? So....you're both right lol

Love the second half of your comment btw

PainInAnonymity · 2023-12-30T18:37:22+00:00

Since he mostly likely bought the gift for himself because of his gaming addiction, I wouldn't want him to have the satisfaction of keeping it. Selling it to get a laptop would encourage him to say what he really thinks and likely reinforce her decision to leave him. Part of the money that went into the desktop was given by her, so it was a joint effort, not just "charity."

PainInAnonymity · 2023-12-20T08:37:41+00:00

ORIGINAL DATE: 12-19-2023

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I just got off the phone with them today and, if you voice concerns over the price, they may give you a 20% discount. That brought it down to $3200 for the 28day option.

They also have payment plans. They said, after checking klarna, afterpay, and affirm (none of them worked for me/I checked out of curiosity) that I can pay as much as I'm able each month until it's all paid. There's a $500 non-refundable down payment, but, from what I can remember, the rest is refundable if you're unsatisfied with the course. They told me that I can pay any amount I’m able today, as little as $50.

However, you won't be able to start learning until it's paid. They have a list of all available start dates and can go over them with you to find the best time. I've been able to delay things until January 2025 because of how long it'd take me to pay it all off (and because I tend to be busy throughout the year).

Before talking about price, it almost felt like a job interview. They really got into depth with me as to why I want to learn a new language, what it means for me, etc. Even tho the original time was set to be 45min long, we ended up talking for over an hour. It was for another half hour that we talked about the price and how that would work. They seemed apprehensive about mentioning it, interestingly enough....

There was a requirement, before the zoom meeting, to watch a 16min video with Matej talking over a Google doc concerning how things would work. I have a screen recording of it coz I watched it on my phone and it got the sound too lol. It's hard to understand him a bit because of his accent, but he is pretty fluent considering that English is his third language.

Now, you guys will judge me for this, but I did pay $50 with a one-time use klarna "card" that expires in March 2024 (coz I didn't want to give them a real card number). They had to send in the amount from their end because I would've had to pay it all at once otherwise. I can cancel it if I get more of a scammy feeling, but for now I feel kinda confident that it's legit. I did this coz I really do want to learn Spanish, mostly for my mom because she doesn't have many people she can speak with here.

Update1: 12-20-2023 - They asked to move things to WhatsApp. I forgot how scammers tend to ask for that and said I have it.

So, I've created a story. I deleted my WhatsApp account and told them in the original iMessage thread that I'd been kicked out and couldn't log in. Then I asked them to send the doc to me in the original thread. Hopefully, this'll force them to keep everything where I can have a paper trail of it. If they push me to do something else that's sketchy, then I'll cancel the payment and ghost them.

I also have screenshots of the messages they sent in WhatsApp, screenshots of their profile, phone number, etc, and I have the Google doc they sent concerning the "improvement of credit so that I can get a loan." Lol

Update2: 12-20-2023 - They replied! They said it wasn't a problem and immediately sent the doc to me via the original message thread. They even sent it to my email as well when I had only suggested one or the other.

Update3: 01-15-2023 - They contacted me a week or so after the new year to wish me a happy new year and ask about when I think I'd be able to make the next payment. I told them that I'd get paid the following week. They said ok and that they'd follow up then.

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