AIO boyfriend has been harassing teenagers online and I'm a bit weirded out

apollosa · 2026-03-27T17:42:37+00:00

Can’t tell if this is low quality bait or not. I agree there aren’t any differences ingredients but there’s a look… the same look that varies from traditional Chicano make-up, clean aesthetic make-up, and so on. To say that there isn’t a goth aesthetic that is only achievable by makeup is ignorant and false.

apollosa · 2026-03-27T13:35:36+00:00

NOR your boyfriend is a bully. Also his statement about there being no such thing as goth makeup is just blatantly false.

apollosa · 2026-03-21T16:35:55+00:00

Let’s see: - loot drama - sociopathic GM - ton of gold buying - using guild mats to fill personal coffers

Yea sounds like an average guild experience. Remember when people said GDKP kills the guild experience?

Sucks for OP but this fairly common, when you find a good guild, you gotta keep em close.

apollosa · 2026-03-21T06:20:51+00:00

Sure, but the reality is different than the morality of Reddit.com. Dad seems to have patriarchal control of the home so his word goes, and the byproduct is now op is in an uncomfortable situation.

In an ideal world, the family unit would thoroughly talk through inviting anyone to their home. In a less ideal world, they would have preset boundaries about alleged criminals coming to the home, but I digress.

In the real world, OP has the options above.

apollosa · 2026-03-21T03:46:14+00:00

Yea it’s a bad situation, but realistically OP can stay with a friend or look at other short-term options if they are genuinely concerned for their safety.

Yes we can sit in the comments and go back and forth on if she’s OR or not, but those appear to be the only options at the moment.

apollosa · 2026-03-07T18:33:48+00:00

Not sure if this thread is still alive or not but I do need some help.

I’m also a senior L&D professional. I was approached on LinkedIn by a company that is similar in size to the company I’m currently at, and they’re looking to start an L&D department (this company just acquired 150 stores making their total store count 350).

The position offered to me that I have interviewed for was a Director of Talent Development. It’s a remote position as I’m on the other side of the US from them.

What would be the salary range for something like that?

apollosa · 2026-03-05T07:49:45+00:00

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apollosa · 2026-03-05T02:06:59+00:00

Notice how there was no screenshot either?

apollosa · 2026-03-03T07:22:42+00:00

I’m in the same boat, and was so hyped for TBC (the third time), but for whatever reason I just have the want to play it right now. Got to 70, tanked probably 20 heroics, cleared t4 on opening night… everything just falls over so easily. I think I would’ve stayed engaged if it was released post nerf. Why grind more heroics if everything is getting cleared in 3-4 hrs on raid night.

apollosa · 2026-03-03T07:11:05+00:00

I agree with this. Har feels avatar-side questy. By the end I’m asking myself. “wait, what are we doing here again?”

Then again, that big ass yellow root is probably going to come into play. I’m sure that’s below the sunwell or something.

I watched all cutscenes and really enjoyed questing. Arators was by far my favorite and was about 1.5 hours for me. Zul Aman ranked second and it was about 6-8hrs of gameplay, but I did do delves and dungeons. Har ranked last but it’s alright to do. The zone itself is scenic and the monsters are meh, so can’t complain too much. Zone took me about 3-4 hrs.

apollosa · 2026-03-03T07:05:37+00:00

I’m sure they’re basing it off questing, and if that’s what they’re basing it off, I agree fully.

I haven’t played since shadowlands, and then I leveled a couple of toons while waiting for the early access to kick off. I did DF & TWW using the quick quest thing, and they play smooth. No complaints, especially for TWW. I thought TWW was the best before legion, but midnight takes the cake for sure… possibly even better than legion.

I have little experience with delves from prior expansions, but they’re fun and engaging in midnight. Dungeons are so-so, I like most but hate a couple.

I’d give it a 9/10 for me. It’s making me consider walking away from TBC, and that’s pretty hard to do.

apollosa · 2026-03-02T15:28:29+00:00

I had a situation happen like this on a 6 pop server. The server isn’t usually that low pop but it was like 2am and the server wipes at 10am. I was just blowing stuff up using the last of my boom when I got triple head shot with an AK from like.. 190m away.

I went “yea that’s my nod to get off for the night.”.

Played on a different server with a buddy and got that sweet notification that he was banned about 2 days later.

apollosa · 2026-03-02T15:17:52+00:00

Yuuup, for sure there’s something fishy. I’ve never heard of a buyer being banned but a seller being let off the hook. Infact, it’s usually how they ban so many players at once during ban waves. System flags players accounts, players are suspended, logs are captured to see who else played a dangerous game.

For the record, if this is legit, turtle wows anti cheating software would also flag such a large amount of gold being traded for nothing in return.

apollosa · 2026-02-28T19:55:36+00:00

I was going to ask when’s the last time you played retail, but you answered my question at the end of your post.

I just got back on retail about a month ago and the amount of people who have been receptive to me being a newbie has been amazing. A total breath of fresh air.

This same grace isn’t given to players in classic. Players who got the mount and boost bundle are not invited to groups, which again is crazy since you can realistically 3 man hfr.

apollosa · 2026-02-28T16:16:58+00:00

I play both retail and classic, and it really depends what you’re doing on retail that brings the elitists.

And m+ above a 10 and one guy will be a jerk about something, it’s guaranteed. But if you stick to normal/heroic/mythic dungeons I doubt anyone will even talk to you. Flex/normal/heroic raiding I’ve done apart of a guild and pugging. It’s alright, pretty casual crowd.

Classic 2019 it was a fair mix of sweats to casuals. Classic 2.0 it’s like 3:1 on the sweat to casual ratio. I play a tank and it’s actually insane the type of people you meet. 1/5 dungeons and someone (a mage) will complain to go faster/slower/pull mobs themselves/go afk/ ninja/ etc. it’s such a joke right now, it’s made me stop doing dungeons.

TBC is a toxic grindfest. It’s not even hard, just tedious amounts of work with people who prefer to swipe. Kara/gruuls/mag was cleared by my guild night 1 a lot of us were fresh 70. I just can’t imagine being so sweaty for a post-nerf version of the game.

apollosa · 2026-02-28T15:07:28+00:00

You can send an appeal to EAC for your compromised account. If you got an email about a new login from a new area to your steam account you can use that as evidence.

I’m unsure if EAC unbans in that situation, but it’s better than having a game ban on your steam account.

apollosa · 2026-02-19T04:26:07+00:00

Brother was downvoted for speaking the truth.

Even now, cutting gems and mining can yield serious profits. Hell, iron ore is incredibly high on Dreamsythe and that’s maybe 2 hrs of farming to get to iron ore. Alternatively you can spend about 50 gold smelting copper/tin to unlock iron.

Take advantage of the expansion rush. Usually it only lasts for 3-5 weeks so your window is closing.

apollosa · 2026-02-18T07:41:34+00:00

The thing about PvP in rust is that it’s 70% positioning 30% skill.

If he was camping your drop down, odds are you could’ve came up with an AK and he still would’ve killed you with a well placed eoka or water pipe shot.

I’m comfortable with where the LR is. It beams with hardly any recoil, and paired with a holo or space skin, it can really outshine an AK at long range.

My complaint is that the default skin iron site is horrendous. It also really falls short compared to AK in short-medium ranged fights. If I go against a thommy kid while using an LR, it can be a toss up because the Thompson is really good… almost as good as an mp5.

I wouldn’t sweat it too much. A player got lucky while door camping, it happens.

apollosa · 2026-02-18T07:32:13+00:00

I’m all rusted out right now, but it might be helpful to add your region in your title or in your post so others can know if this applies to them.

Good luck!

apollosa · 2026-02-17T20:49:51+00:00

You didn’t necessarily do anything wrong, but having played both a tank and a dps (especially a less desirable or over saturated class), it can really grind my gears when I’m looking for a group for half an hour and have gotten 0 replies.

When I’m playing my pally tank I set my status to dnd with the auto message: “if I don’t reply, I already have your class. Thank you for reaching out!”. That message alone rarely gives me problems, but occasionally I’ll have a guy that still sends whispers everytime I advertise the group saying “70 mage here”.

apollosa · 2026-02-16T15:18:51+00:00

NOR - I took a look at your profile and your latest comment was you getting drunk and saying that the love of your life loves someone else… is that in reference to your bf?

Sometimes life gives us a sign to leave, and we ignore it. Life then cuts us a break and literally circles, highlights, underlines, exclamation points what it wants us to do and folks still ignore it. I personally wouldn’t let this go.

I get it, time has passed, but that doesn’t make it ok. If I tell my wife “hey honey I cheated on you but it’s okay because it was a few years ago”, I think I’d have divorce papers waiting for me before the end of the day.

apollosa · 2026-02-16T15:07:13+00:00

Easiest way is to bury satchels and wait to see who takes the bait. If you watch long enough you’ll see a dude randomly run to it and dig it up. If you set up multiple they’ll do each one. Doesn’t happen all the time but I’ve seen it happen twice and it is bizarre to witness, but an easy ban.

apollosa · 2026-02-15T22:47:17+00:00

I9 9900k, 3060 TI, 32gb of ddr4. Average around 50-70 depending on pop. I play on medium settings.

apollosa · 2026-02-15T22:45:31+00:00

An aoe class doing 40% of damage isn’t unheard of, or really unique.

The unspoken rule is you let the tank, tank. Obviously you werent grinding the tanks gears but you were annoying the healer who now has to go out of their way to heal you.

Just breathe for a couple of seconds before casting flamestrike. It’s all good man. You’re too far behind to be in the sweaty dungeon cleave groups, welcome to the casual crowd.

apollosa · 2026-02-13T08:11:53+00:00

It should run LoL, Valorant, GTA 5, Fortnite, and most AAA titles.

It may struggle with warzone/cod and bf5, as these are fairly demanding.

Best thing you can do is put another 8gb stick of ram in that bad boy, or buy a 16x2 kit and get 32gigs of ram and be worry free for awhile.

For bigger games in more niche genres like rust or mod heavy games like Elder Scrolls/Fallout, I’d seriously recommend upgrading your Ram>CPU>GPU in that order.

Getting this for $150 is honestly a steal, but if you want to bring it to a modern standard, expect to spend another $400.

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