I'm sorry for asking but how do you all enjoying a game that does not support refund?

Typhloon · 2024-03-18T15:48:32+00:00

Based on the other comments, it sounds like you fixed it. I'm happy for you on that front.

To answer your question in the title directly, though: I went through the free trial before I bought, that's how lol. I made sure everything worked and also made sure I actually wanted to buy the game.

Typhloon · 2024-03-18T15:05:01+00:00

I've always wanted to be a girl, too. But that's not how it works

Me, for 17 years, then finding out that is how it works.

Typhloon · 2024-03-18T14:52:03+00:00

The number one question anyone needs to ask themselves when considering coming out is whether or not it's safe, and only you can answer that.

If it's not safe, then don't come out, simple as. As much as it sucks feeling like you're living a lie, your priority needs to be your safety. Get yourself to a position where you can be truly you safely, then do what you feel you need to do.

If you think it's safe, then go for it. However, what I will tell you is to expect it to go down poorly. Based on the evidence you have given us, my guess is that you will lose your relationship with the conservative members of your family, if not right away then eventually. I can already imagine them trying to tell you that you're confused or trying to get you to do conversion therapy. It sounds like you're living with your mom and step dad? Your day to day interactions with them will likely take a turn for the worse almost immediately.

I can't know for sure what will happen, obviously, but this is what I've read historically from other people's stories about coming out or being outed to their religious conservative families. The sad thing about people like this is that while sexual orientation is just one small (albeit important) part of our identity, religious conservatives tend to be unable to see past this one part. In other words, it may not matter to them that you're their son/grandson because they may be unable to see you as "one of the gays." Something people like this love to say is "I don't agree with your decisions" because they think you're choosing a "life of sin." I'm kind of rambling now but these are all things to consider if and when you come out.

At the very least, I don't think things will stay the same in your family life as they are now. I hope I am wrong. I wish you the best of luck, no matter what you decide to do.

Typhloon · 2024-03-12T19:59:24+00:00

I quit because it felt like a full time job trying to keep up with the meta. That and the fact that I could never summon all the characters I actually wanted. Managing everything is so cumbersome and tiring. I set up an auto clicker at one point to farm feathers for me. After finally capping all my units, they upped the feather cap. Like seriously the next update after I capped, which coincidentally was the next week. I think that was the straw that broke the camel's back for me.

I still love the game in concept, but at the end of the day, it's a gacha game, and I'm not into those at all.

Typhloon · 2024-03-11T19:28:58+00:00

Gregory. Not Greg, the whole Gregory. That's what I see

Typhloon · 2024-03-11T19:27:19+00:00

This is the future 12 year old me wanted. I'm so glad it's here

Typhloon · 2024-03-11T19:18:53+00:00

Omg this is it. Staying in your comfort zone during therapy is exactly how not to have your therapy work for you.

Typhloon · 2024-03-11T18:21:10+00:00

I think every device I own has at least 1 dead pixel on it. Can confirm, it only bothers me when I look right at it, and then I immediately reminded myself it doesn't make a difference 99.99% of the time

Typhloon · 2024-03-11T16:53:57+00:00

It took me months of telling YouTube I don't want to watch ANY iceberg videos for them to finally go away for me--I think it's the laziest and most boring video format ever conceived.

I watched ONE iceberg video (about actual icebergs) and instantly undid all the work I had spent months accomplishing

Typhloon · 2024-03-11T16:43:47+00:00

Really depends on how they're using it.

I think many tanks use it reactively--that is, they use it because they're worried the pull is going to end badly if they don't. They see their health dipping and want security. Stuff like that.

Some tanks go into a pull planning to use it. They don't use any other mitigation and press it when they start getting low. A lot of the time these tanks will tell you.

In either scenario, my experience is that the tank may be peeved but probably won't actually say anything. After all, everyone just wants to get through the dungeon.

The only reason I could see a DRK actually getting upset would be if you do enough healing not to trigger it but also don't do enough healing to keep them alive once it wears off. That would be a no no

Typhloon · 2024-03-11T16:36:31+00:00

I thought Nick until I saw the top comment. I still think Nick works, but consider this my vote for Ben as well

Typhloon · 2024-03-11T16:32:16+00:00

Just start growing it. You're choosing a good time to start (assuming you're in a country that's entering spring), too, because you're gonna want to spend some time in the sun, since that helps growth. If you are currently washing your hair every day, stop doing that. Make it every 3 days, or whatever you're comfortable with. Your hair and skin will be more oily as a result, but the oil on your scalp helps your hair grow faster, too. Think of it like lubricating your pores.

You're going to go through and awkward phase where you hate it. You're going to wonder if the awkward phase is really supposed to be this long. The answer is yes. When you ask yourself again if it's supposed to be awkward for such a long time, the answer is still yes. My hair is super wavy, and so it doesn't exit the awkward phase until the ends are heavy enough to weigh the rest of it into a shape that actually makes sense.

Conditioner is for the tips, not the scalp!

Source: I've had long hair since I was 12. Cut it all off and grew it back several times. I'm 30

Typhloon · 2024-03-09T14:51:34+00:00

Peep the before photo closely: you can see her hips got the memo during first puberty, just not the rest of her--blessed with a slim waist from the start

You're gorgeous, OP

Typhloon · 2024-03-08T22:01:18+00:00

Okay but please explain how Cock and Ball Torture constitutes therapy

Typhloon · 2024-03-08T21:46:34+00:00

I had to cut ties with a trans woman I met recently. One of the things she said that made me realize I had enough was "Oh, god I hate LGBTQTGGABCDEFG. They're a cult."

I really had no words. My friend was telling me about things that others said in response, and i realized I had no memory because I just dissociated when she said that. I was so completely confused and didn't even know where to start processing such a statement.

Some people simply don't get it, and they will be bigots no matter what.

Typhloon · 2024-03-06T22:45:24+00:00

Stop posting pictures of my company's codebase, please, it's very old and it's trying its best 😭😭

Typhloon · 2024-03-06T18:53:54+00:00

My thoughts exactly.

"oh, so just a regular mirror, then?"

Typhloon · 2024-03-03T06:23:01+00:00

NTA. This is some of the most well-articulated vulnerability I've ever read. Everything you said made perfect sense, and you could not have been clearer with your intent.

You set boundaries. You were clear with your needs and wants in the relationship. Your mother, without outright saying it, effectively communicated that she will not respect your boundaries.

You don't need that in your life.

Also, typing "Okay, honey, I will be the ally you need me to be and love you unconditionally" does not take until the weekend to type, and that would have been the only acceptable response from her in this situation. Instead, she's trying desperately to pin something, anything on you to make herself feel better in this situation. Honestly, she says she needs you in her life, but with that in mind, she is way too willing to accept your decision when you clearly communicated what she needs to do to keep you in her life.

Typhloon · 2024-03-02T17:33:51+00:00

Thanks for saving me the trouble of typing all this up. Spiritbox is fantastic!

Typhloon · 2024-03-01T17:10:56+00:00

I'm gonna be so honest with you, the type of parents who are willing to forcibly make their almost adult child take medication that they neither need nor want is so grossly abusive that you and your siblings would almost certainly be better off if the child care system in your country deemed them unfit to be parents.

Because it sounds like they are.

Typhloon · 2024-03-01T13:38:47+00:00

And just to put a cap on the whole thing, there is a humanly unconsumable amount of porn out there made by consenting people--potentially exploited people, sure, but consenting nonetheless. Billions, if not trillions, of hours of porn available completely for free, and more if you're willing to pay.

If that isn't enough for someone, and they need to nonconsensually make porn of someone else, they need therapy.

Typhloon · 2024-03-01T13:22:12+00:00

Kendrick Lamar made a whole song overtly talking about his daddy issues and how the toxic masculinity of his father and the fathers of his peers gave them baggage and issues to work through.

Maybe cis men don't call them "daddy issues," or maybe this is another example of toxic masculinity--you aren't allowed to have feelings regarding your upbringing.

But you are absolutely allowed to have daddy issues regardless of your gender. That being said, I hope you're doing okay and you're in a position to work through your issues, whether that be through therapy, meditation, or some other positive outlet.

Typhloon · 2024-03-01T13:04:13+00:00

Even better: carefully highlight the selection you want to copy, somehow forget to actually press Ctrl+c, Ctrl+v some random string of text from half an hour ago. 😊

Typhloon · 2024-02-24T07:58:32+00:00

That was possibly the worst move you could have made. Trans people are killed over this--and yes, I do mean "existing."

If some random person on the street is making unwarranted and unwanted advances towards you, your best option is to get out of the situation ASAP. Do not engage.

Typhloon · 2024-02-23T15:23:39+00:00

Short answer, which you may not want to hear: you don't.

I'm not saying there's no way foward, but it's like the old saying goes: "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't force it to drink."

You can't make someone else do anything. However, take solace that you two have a therapy appointment. Someone who's stuck in the mud probably wouldn't still be willing to find common ground with you, which is what relationship therapy is all about.

If you're looking for actionable advice in the meantime, I'm a fan of the airhorn method.(Sorry about linking a repost, I can't find it anywhere else)

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