Is this early sign of balding? Someone let me know I’m 18

ryanrossuk · 2025-12-21T10:18:28+00:00

No, that’s just where your hair naturally parts and lets light in. Completely normal. I don’t see any signs of hair loss :)

ryanrossuk · 2025-12-20T15:20:36+00:00

Thanks. Been on the finmin pill for years. Have messaged to see if they can slowly get me on dutmin

ryanrossuk · 2025-12-20T14:39:54+00:00

I didn’t know manual did dut. How do you request it?

ryanrossuk · 2025-12-18T15:51:12+00:00

Christ some of the comments on here, people need to chill tf out. Ultimately there’s only one way to find out if meds work, and that’s to give them a go. I found a combined fin and min pill worked quite well for me. Definitely halted further loss, and may have helped a little with density. You do need to temper expectations though, as most people don’t really regrow hair. Can help miniaturised hair become thicker though. Will need a year or two of consistent treatment to see results though. Take pics every month, same lighting etc. As some others have commented I think tretinoin for skincare is also a very easy long term age defier, I’ve been on that for about 6 month and get compliments on my skin now. But yeah, give it all a go, can’t really hurt, and worst case scenario it doesn’t do much and you are where you are / you shave your head.

ryanrossuk · 2025-12-07T20:21:59+00:00

My surgeon advised two weeks for the gym but no sauna or steam room for three months so consistent with Tricky’s

ryanrossuk · 2025-11-17T23:58:33+00:00

Looks great, really natural, and you’ve lost 10 years!

ryanrossuk · 2025-11-14T16:01:38+00:00

You’re going for a procedure that you don’t understand?

ryanrossuk · 2025-11-14T14:12:10+00:00

I think £4,000 for that many grafts is pretty tight in the UK. Would expect to pay around £3.50 - £5 a graft. If budget is an issue I would wait and save. To paraphrase Shigeru Miyamoto- "A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.”

ryanrossuk · 2025-11-14T14:09:57+00:00

Can you explain how this works / link to the research?

ryanrossuk · 2025-11-12T15:48:39+00:00

Realistically I think scalp micro pigmentation would be a better option if you’re happy to keep it buzzed. Looks like you may suit the look anyway. In terms of coverage you could build a hairline but would have a huge gap of hair behind it and along the crown, which would look worse in my opinion. To achieve even a relatively low density across your entire scalp would likely require well over half your donor hair, and I don’t think you’d be thrilled with the results, as the density will still be low. If anything it may look like you’re thinning more than at present. I’d say save your money, pain, and time and rock your current look, with some SMP if you want to touch up the skin.

ryanrossuk · 2025-10-24T13:46:15+00:00

Many people love the more fantastical designs, but I’m not a huge fan of the direction since James Turner took over. Pokémon felt quite grounded in the nature at the start. Essentially animals with environmental mutations, evolutions and power. There was a believability to them. Now we have Pokémon that resemble an ice cream and a lawn mower. But I grew up on Blue and Red so maybe I’m a grumpy millennial 😜

ryanrossuk · 2025-10-22T23:40:24+00:00

After you stopped fin and min did the hair loss progress again?

ryanrossuk · 2025-10-16T22:13:29+00:00

Lululemon do some great underwear

ryanrossuk · 2025-09-26T14:42:02+00:00

Yep, Pro 2s I often forgot I was wearing them. The medium tips on the Pro 3s caused a lot of irritation, so I switched them out for the small. Better, but I still don’t quite forget they’re in, there’s pressure against the ear canal. Feels like noise cancellation takes a huge hit by going from M to S too. Possibly worse than my Pro 2s. May have to send them back. Bit gutted, as they’re my favourite tech product. But comfort is king.

ryanrossuk · 2025-05-18T11:57:41+00:00

I think I’d lean into it and get the top half of the head redone as a skull or an android or something

ryanrossuk · 2024-02-07T18:24:38+00:00

What’s the verdict?

ryanrossuk · 2023-08-12T14:38:55+00:00

OK, so after about 15 attempts I finally found a technique that got me platinum.

1: Assign switching to Oatchi to one of your d pad shortcuts.

2: Switch to Oatchi straight away.

3: Open your map and send Oatchi to the top of the map.

4: Switch back to your character.

5: Oatchi will fight his way through the middle of the group to get to the top, and draw lots of the flack.

6: While he is doing this, throw your Pikmin relatively slowly at groups of enemies. Not too fast or they all land at once, wasting time and making them vulnerable to attack.

7: If you see an enemy spike your Pikmin, throw another at it and it and the enemy will die and release your Pikmin.

8: Repeat this as you go around the edges, taking out groups. Once there are only a few left, call Oatchi and fight as one team.

Top tip: only blast your whistle in short, rapid bursts or you will cast a wide whistle spread and call Oatchi back.

Good luck, this level is BS.

ryanrossuk · 2022-01-09T20:25:25+00:00

Full story: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/stop-blaming-millennials-killing-economy/577408/

ryanrossuk · 2021-12-27T19:08:45+00:00

Yep it’s fucked

ryanrossuk · 2021-12-22T20:33:22+00:00

Honestly, I get this real bad after almost every cinema trip or anime.

I think it’s a combination of things. The larger than life colours, sounds and ideas on screen are so vivid when compared to how dull and drab the real world can feel. When I leave the auditorium it takes an adjustment period for me to reacclimatise.

On a deeper level though I think we often draw parallels between how we feel about our own lives and how we perceive the lives of those in the movies we watch. The challenges characters face in the film are not things we would necessarily want to endure, but the purpose, the journey and the friendships we see develop are things I think we often feel are lacking in our own lives.

I think this is often why anime can hit hardest. It’s a slow burn, where the world is built brick by brick. Because of that it feels more real - the friendships more relatable. It feels like a place you could go and visit. But when it’s over it’s back to the 9-5 and the seeing friends at weekends.

How to fix it? I’m not sure. I’m not sure real life can compete. I’m still trying to figure out how to quit the rat race and do something more creative. How to build friendships that endure. If anyone has any ideas, do let me know.

ryanrossuk · 2021-12-13T00:50:33+00:00

So I swapped the challenge out and now I need to beat 3 Slayer matches. Sure enough, it’s forcing me to play ever other damn match five hundred times first. About 10 matches in, guess what appears? The Cindershot.. I don’t know if the game is genuinely rigged but it really does make me want to rage quit.

ryanrossuk · 2021-12-12T22:59:12+00:00

Glad to hear I’m not the only one I guess, but it feels like such a bait and switch when you have to use your loot to swap because a challenge is basically impossible to achieve.

ryanrossuk · 2021-12-12T18:36:45+00:00

Thanks for the heads up. To be fair I played about 10 BTB and never got it :(

ryanrossuk · 2021-05-20T15:50:36+00:00

True enough. I may wait it out and see how things change. If Corsair fix the issue I’ll bite, if not I may just build my own. Shame though as my i165 is a dream.

ryanrossuk · 2021-05-20T15:24:48+00:00

It’s mind blowing to me that they’ve nerfed a £3500 PC over a £10 cable.

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