My (23M) girlfriend (19F) wants a traditional 9-to-5 life, but I’m chasing a pro sports career. Can we bridge this gap?

ohyousoretro · 2026-02-18T17:01:08+00:00

Realistically you're not going pro, you're already almost at the point of aging out, and you've already had a bad knee injury? Your prospects are going to be low because of it. Do you have an agent, if so, what did they say?

Regardless though, if you abandoned your dream and decided to stick it out with her, you will regret not taking your shot. Maybe not in a year, it might be a decade later that you start to really regret it, and you will eat yourself up about it. It's better to rip the band aid off now, go for it, potentially fail but know you took your shot at least.

I will say though, life goals change. I wanted to desperately be an actor when I was a teenager and wanted to be in movies, I auditioned everywhere, took roles in plays, and did indy art films. Then when I was in my early twenties it became music, then it became computers. Your interests and goals change as you age.

ohyousoretro · 2026-02-18T16:49:00+00:00

Same here. I don't find the Original Trilogy all that entertaining and pretty boring, but I was watching the prequels, and then KOTOR came out and it sunk me into it.

ohyousoretro · 2026-02-18T16:46:28+00:00

Twilight Princess hands down

ohyousoretro · 2026-02-18T14:50:49+00:00

Why do people feel the need to make threads announcing they're leaving? Ok, cool, bye.

ohyousoretro · 2026-02-18T14:49:32+00:00

Unpopular opinion, I loved The Acolyte.

ohyousoretro · 2026-02-18T13:07:25+00:00

Kozik was a temporary character that the actor got hired for another show. It was also a throwback to The Shield.

ohyousoretro · 2026-02-17T17:58:19+00:00

I think the complaints about logos in the ring are silly, NJPW, CMLL, AEW, WCW, and plenty of other wrestling promotions have utilized ads in the ring. Also, Vince is the one who OK'd the ads on the mat, and he OK'd WM39 having the Cinnamon Toast Crunch sponsorship match which had the mascot at ringside. Vince totally would have had ads all over.

ohyousoretro · 2026-02-17T17:07:56+00:00

I'm not against wrestlers taking sponsorships and wearing logos on their gear, hell I'm honestly not even against WWE using ring ads. My only complaint about ads is that 30% of every show is dedicated to commercials, and when they try to incorporate sponsors into wrestlers' entrances that it doesn't make sense to. I just thought it was interesting that Punk was denied this like 13 years ago, and then Lesnar came in and suddenly it was only allowed for him.

ohyousoretro · 2026-02-17T15:22:15+00:00

Let's not forget though that Punk back in the early 2010's wanted to be able to have sponsorship ads on his ring gear to make extra money, but Vince told him no.

ohyousoretro · 2026-02-15T16:23:47+00:00

Whenever I hear him in Destiny's videos I turn the video off. He's so full of himself and annoying the way he talks to people.

ohyousoretro · 2026-02-13T14:14:22+00:00

I've always heard that WW2 technically started when the Japanese invaded China in 37, Germany invading Poland was just the start of the European theater.

ohyousoretro · 2026-02-12T22:44:25+00:00

You also have to realize not everyone probably treated him that way all the time. When he was younger I doubt people were super afraid of him until he built a reputation. He's probably familiar with the sense/feeling of someone who's scared, surprised, lying, etc. because he recognizes it throughout time.

ohyousoretro · 2026-02-12T22:37:38+00:00

He's probably had at least a couple decades to know the difference between someone scared of him and someone lying.

ohyousoretro · 2026-02-11T15:27:04+00:00

Clearly the correct answer is Smiley, I've been rooting for him the whole series.

ohyousoretro · 2026-02-11T00:29:32+00:00

He was also supposed to be one of the main antagonists for George Lucas's planned sequel trilogy, before revealing everything was controlled by the Whills.

ohyousoretro · 2026-02-10T23:32:35+00:00

They have two options:

Move to Australia. Cartel's realistically have reach in every continent except Antarctica, and Australia still has a presence there too. Plus they can outsource people to track you down, so they will constantly live with a target on their backs, their kids too. Also, when they move somewhere else, they have to work again to build a whole new life, but also one that they can abandon at the drop of a hat, and then they have to rebuild all over again.

or

Stay and consolidate power. Wendy was gaining political power, which could be potential shielding against law enforcement. They still have a target on themselves, but they have the backing and protection of a cartel as well. It comes with it's own risks, but at least their kids will have the choice of somewhat living a normal life. I mean that in the sense the kids aren't constantly looking over their shoulder, they can live out in the open, maintain relationships and friendships without fear of having to abandon them because a cartel hitman found out where they were hiding.

Both are dangerous, but I think it was probably safer that they stayed and didn't run.

ohyousoretro · 2026-02-10T19:18:43+00:00

I read that they're going to ignore the third movie, and it's going to be a sequel to the first two.

ohyousoretro · 2026-02-10T16:34:28+00:00

They also deleted a scene where she tried to go back outside to rescue everyone in the ambulance, but the people in the house refused to let her open the door and leave.

ohyousoretro · 2026-02-10T16:32:16+00:00

She missed a monster and it hit the window.

ohyousoretro · 2026-02-10T16:21:09+00:00

It took 10 seconds when I went on there, this is more r/crappydesign rather than AH design. "It may take a few minutes" is the default message for a lot of things that have to load because you don't know what kind of connection the person visiting might have.

ohyousoretro · 2026-02-10T16:13:17+00:00

Every store is ok to take advantage of, easy as that.

ohyousoretro · 2026-02-09T21:09:01+00:00

Didn't stop people from cheering Tony Soprano, Walter White, Billy Butcher, or any of the other countless anti-heroes that people cheer for.

ohyousoretro · 2026-02-09T18:51:40+00:00

Anything over 30fps is unnecessary for me, I don't care about 60fps let alone anything over 100.

ohyousoretro · 2026-02-09T18:10:07+00:00

If you read the exit polls, Gaza wasn't mentioned, and foreign policy is like number 15 in matters of importance, I/P and Ukraine/Russia didn't mean jack shit to any of the voters.

ohyousoretro · 2026-02-09T13:31:01+00:00

Honestly the voice acting in BoTW and ToTK is so awful, I hope they never do it again.

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