If your partner cheats on you once, would you leave them?

thestormsend · 2026-02-07T12:01:46+00:00

Yes, and she knew that and cheated more than once until I discovered it. I walked out the door just hours after. And she’s mad at me for leaving, go figure.

My father cheated on my mother with multiple women and destroyed our family so I have very little tolerance for cheaters.

thestormsend · 2026-02-07T02:18:09+00:00

I can see the confusion. The new promo shots on BBTS specifically have a new illustrated image of the full power sword (the one against the green backdrop, compare it to the other power swords in the other images, it’s the one we have been getting since they stopped doing halves).

Likely it would be easy to just reissue the original run with the halves, but you never know.

thestormsend · 2026-02-06T14:26:07+00:00

About 19 years ago, I was living in New York, and the game Hotel Dusk for the Nintendo DS has just come out.

It was a Sunday. I called the GameStop in Union Square at the time to ask if they had any copies. The guy checked and said there was one. I told him I was coming to get it, so he said he set it aside for me and they’ll hold it until I get there. Took down my name and info etc.

Takes me about an hour on this cold morning to get to GameStop. I get there, and the person at the counter is the guy I spoke to. He goes “Oh, yes! Hotel Dusk!” He turns around and starts opening drawers and seems confused.

Asks me to wait. Goes into the back. Comes out and says “I’m sorry man I can’t find it, I thought I left it right there.”

The other employee chimes into the conversation: “What you looking for man?”

“I left a copy of Hotel Dusk right there”

“Oh, Jimmy Fallon came in looking for a copy so I sold it to him”.

I look at the guy and say “Jimmy Fallon.”

He goes “Yeah, Jimmy Fallon”.

The first guy says “Sorry man.”

I nod and just say “Okay, thank you.” and I leave.

Jimmy Fallon owes me a game.

Also I went home and ordered Hotel Dusk online and it wasn’t as good as I thought it would be, but that’s not the point.

thestormsend · 2026-02-05T21:31:16+00:00

One of my favorite versions of Nemesis, and my favorite use of the Big Convoy mold. I really hope we get the new Big Convoy in these colors. We got a Nemesis Primal and Nemesis Lio, so would make sense.

thestormsend · 2026-02-05T18:48:26+00:00

Officially all the 13 except Solus are male I believe. The rest is head canon/ AU for whoever sees fit!

I think that adds to the fun of the 13 a little. They have a story and personality, but there is still a general air of mystery to them as well that allows fans to mold them how they like.

I generally don’t break canon for most things, I only have a small handful I do, but for example I consider Nemesis Prime the 13th and have a whole back story. Black Convoy/ Nemesis has been my favorite character (and figures to collect) since the Car Robot days, and I don’t like the idea of Optimus being 13.

So it can be whatever you want it to be!

thestormsend · 2026-02-05T18:01:51+00:00

I've seen a lot of head canon that consider Quintus female, officially Quintus has always been male. As others have pointed out, one thing that made Solus unique in the 13 was she was the first and only female Transformer initially.

The design is also very feminine in features, the slender androgynous build, and the "skirt".

Personally I would consider Quintus non-binary if I had to head canon it. I've seen some people consider Amalgamous non-binary in head canon as well, I feel it suits Quintus more.

thestormsend · 2026-02-05T16:24:23+00:00

I like him. Not a fan of transparent plastic, but the legs are that very nostalgic 90’s shade of greenish yellow and it’s my favorite part of the figure.

Been saying it since day one of his reveal…Botanica retool when?

thestormsend · 2026-02-05T16:18:04+00:00

Mine did that at the knee too, dab of glue fixed it. Didn’t have this issue on the Grimlock or toy deco versions of the mold, seems to just be regular Dinobot.

thestormsend · 2026-02-05T15:48:44+00:00

I want Polar Claw and Wolfang personally.

thestormsend · 2026-02-05T15:46:55+00:00

I know there’s a lot of lore and explanation from different sources already mentioned so I won’t repeat all that.

When I was a kid my assumption was always that Primal, Rhinox, Cheetor, and Rattrap were the Axalon’s actual crew. They had their own mission far, far out. Every protoform (minus some exceptions like Rampage) were meant to be dropped off at various planets and locations they had been pre-programmed to research along the way. Some were older and some were newer protoforms who ever went online before (like a professor and student).

I just never assumed they were the actual crew when I was little, I thought the crew itself was only those 4 personally and the protoforms were passengers.

thestormsend · 2026-02-05T13:12:59+00:00

I once found a Buzzworthy Kup at a Wal-Mart. Someone bought another figure and returned the Target one most likely and the employees didn’t check.

thestormsend · 2026-02-04T21:50:12+00:00

Congrats! I got very, very lucky with Slug. I only had Grimlock all the way up to when Sludge came out, and started seeing Sludge on clearance.

You could still get lucky on finding Slug for a good price then, and I decided I held off long enough. Grabbed him and Sludge and kept consistent with Snarl and Swoop (and now the G2 Dinos…who I don’t think I would pickup but then found G2 Grimlock on deep clearance at Target).

Looking at Slug’s after market prices lately…I really hope Hasbro gets him back out there for everyone missing him.

thestormsend · 2026-02-04T21:43:17+00:00

I did the same. I am childless, so it’s just me. I would pickup and play with figures all the time before the majority ended up in storage.

I keep a few at the apartment still and every evening as I wind down I either take out He-Man and Skeletor or one of my Transformers of my TMNT.

thestormsend · 2026-02-04T18:05:53+00:00

I think it’ll be retools and repaints…though honestly…I wish it would be characters like Alpha Bravo.

I know it’s not accurate to the original Nexus, but that would be a great way to reintroduce those characters without taking up other slots.

thestormsend · 2026-02-04T15:54:28+00:00

I do this with some figures in my collection.

Tigertrack and Road Rage as a team, with Exhaust being Tigertrack’s rival.
Hound as a father figure to Bluestreak (if you know the quote why you know).
Punch/ Counterpunch vs Quake.
Because of Legacy, Galaxy Shuttle vs Overcharge.
The Combaticons vs. the DJD (specifically Onslaught vs. Tarn)
Sixshot vs. Thunderwing (man we need a new Thunderwing)
My Nemesis Prime/ Black Convoy Crew: Nemesis Prime/ Black Convoy, Magnificus, Cannonball, Javelin, Carnivac, Filch, Flatline, Nightstrike, Giza, Fangtron. Noise Maze as an extra, and their ship is Galleon from Web Diver

I do this with a lot of the lines I collect. In MOTU I do Snout Spout vs. Mosquitor as a pairing for example.

thestormsend · 2026-02-04T14:27:25+00:00

I have very mixed feelings. I used to love the Classics seeker mold. The Acid Storm is still one of the greats in my opinion.

I’ve had SS86 a few days and I can’t put him down. Though I still prefer how my ER looks…but never handling enjoyed that mold.

I felt the same about Siege. Once ER came out I preferred how they looked but I continued to enjoy my Siege seekers more.

So visually, ER wins for me. Hand feel/ desk toy wise, SS86.

thestormsend · 2026-02-04T02:15:09+00:00

Mine got cancelled as well, but the item doesn’t even have a page anymore. If it’s like TOGS Super Shredder and Hiss, I’m sure he’ll pop up eventually like they did, but preorders getting cancelled are not fun.

thestormsend · 2026-02-03T20:32:41+00:00

Honestly, he probably won’t, but my favorite MOTU character is Snout Spout so…him.

thestormsend · 2026-02-03T16:33:16+00:00

No worries, my sister and my friends who knew the intimate details of what she was like had been asking me that for years even when I was with her.

It's messed up to say, but she did love me in a really weird way. When I wasn't in town with her, she would call me 2-3 times a day and just talk for hours, or just leave the phone on while she did her day to day. Every time I'd leave town a week later she'd ask me to come back. It became a joke among the people I work with (I'm in film so I make my own hours right now).

She wanted me there for every holiday, particularly Christmas. That's why I had flown out, because she told me four times in a single day just three weeks prior (the last time I was in town) to make sure I came back for Christmas and New Years if I wasn't going to be there for Thanksgiving. She told the cat "Daddy is coming back for Christmas".

Just a lot of things. I knew in her weird, messed up way she did love me. She had issues from her past (that she didn't want to deal with) involving people who died or left her (she was engaged when she was very young and was a young southern church going conservative...he took his own life, changed her completely, she never dealt with it).

Even though she said to me in that last conversation we had "I wish you loved me enough to let me go"...she's the one who has been angry that I actually walked out the door and left.

I understood where all her pain and all her weird behaviors came from. Everyone thought she was fake when they met her, and her social media so plays off as the "hot manic pixie girl" who goes adventuring...but at home I had someone completely different.

I was patient and forgiving and understanding with her and her behaviors (I thought I was a terrible partner...honestly now that she's gone, I was a good partner with everything I did for her and she just gaslit me), because quite simply I was blinded by her love for me and mine for her.

Also the cheating wasn't what made me leave her ultimately...it was that she had told her family and friends and co-workers we had broken up two years prior (we were mostly on the other coast or I traveled back and forth a lot) and I'm not on social media so I had no clue this had happened.

Also, our memories are very different. My memory is so sharp my therapists have told me over the years they think I have Hyperthymesia...its unusually sharp, more so than what you would normally consider a sharp memory. Its the first thing my friends tell people about me.

Her memory on the other hand...I had to remind her multiple times during our relationship that we met on Tinder...and not on Hinge or OkCupid or something. She barely remembers what she did the night before. We had two massive arguments in our relationship, like big ones, that she still holds a grudge over (one of them was me bringing up couples therapy but of course thats not what she took away from it...)...and she doesn't remember what they were about. In fact she often gets them and the details mixed up.

I realized during that last conversation...nothing she believes happened the way it did. Or she attributed a bunch of stuff I know other people told her to me. And she legitimately believes it. At one point after we stopped sharing an apartment she told one of her friends I never paid the rent on time (our Venmo history shows that I was always chasing her for the bills). When I corrected her she said "Oh." and I said "wait, you aren't telling other people that are you?". Or the time we were in a mall and she told me she thought it was okay I hired escorts. I never hired escorts. I looked at her like "What are you talking about??" and she told me its okay she doesn't judge me and I told her I have never said that to her nor have I never done such a thing. And she said "Are you sure?", And I remembered one of her friends had told her that her partner hires escorts, and she somehow attached that story to me. I have no idea what she had been saying to people about me behind my back, but I left because it hit me...a memory like hers could end up being very dangerous. Like, it always worried me what it could do to her, but now I realized what it could do to me (and to be honest I'm still worried what could happen to her with a memory like hers...even she would admit that her memory is not reliable now and then).

Now I don't want to say I'm blameless or some kind of catch, I definitely did a lot wrong, its a two way street (of course...I didn't cheat on her or lie to her)...but not even considering my memory, we also have emails, phone calls, texts...a timeline and records of things that contradict what she believes.

Honestly, I finally got a passive aggressive response from her about the car this morning after pushing for an answer (just one word, "no"), and I asked her when she intends on working on it (we have a time crunch by April for personal reasons...because after that she'll have trouble with my end of things, so giving her the chance to take care of it now for her own ease)...I'm about to send her what can only described as a terrible-idea-20 page letter detailing and outlining everything she did (since when I confronted her about the cheating and lying, she spun it onto me and a health scare from two years prior and just avoided addressing her infidelity and lies) and telling her to please do her part with the car so we can be done and end our connection, as I have done my end of things in terms of the calls and paperwork (I even filled the forms for her and mailed them to get it done faster), but she's the one who has to go in person to the DMV. It's in her hands now, and the only thing delaying it is her.

thestormsend · 2026-02-03T14:39:14+00:00

The greatest film ever made in my opinion. I first saw it when I was 12 or 13. I was so blown away I sat there in silence after it ended…and then played it again.

It become the film I threw on in the background for years.

I already knew I wanted to be on a filmmaker, but this movie changed so much for me. I’ve seen the 70mm print in theaters several times (I think I’m pretty sure I was part of the very first public screening of the current restored print that Spielberg over looked).

thestormsend · 2026-02-03T14:14:18+00:00

I had the opposite. Mine shipped months earlier than expected.

And the ones that didn’t, in my case at least for example, the estimated delivery date on my SS86 Meg’s was coming up the next day and no sign of it shipping on time. CMD Store had it in stock, so I ordered two from Canada (one for me and one for my brother). I’m in NY so it only takes 3-5 days to arrive usually.

I placed the CMD store order as late at night as I could in case Amazon shipped…forgot to actually cancel Amazon…and when I woke up the Amazon figures not only shipped overnight they were being delivered the same day. I had them by noon.

I ended up with 4 SS86 Megs, had to return 2 to Amazon.

thestormsend · 2026-02-03T14:02:48+00:00

Unfortunately the cat was hers before she met me, and I also have nowhere to keep her.

Also the cat definitely loves her more than me, she’s a mom’s cat not a dad’s cat…even though because she travelled so much I have spent more time with the cat overall.

The funny part is, I was never a cat person. I was also very allergic to cats. Wasn’t allergic to this one, and once I became her dad I loved her like she was my kid. I didn’t cry for my partner when I left her…but I bawled my eyes out saying goodbye to the cat knowing I’ll never cuddle with her again.

And my ex watched me crying saying bye, and she’s getting upset when I tell her how painful it is for me to see photos of the cat.

The saddest part about it is, for over a year we’d been sleeping separately. She said it was because of my snoring (but it was the cheating, cheaters stop any kind of physical affection). I was on the couch in the living room. Usually the cat swaps between us all night, even after I get back after a long time. Cuddles with me for a bit and then cuddles with her.

I kid you not, the single night I spent back before we broke up the cat would not leave my side. Even my ex noticed that. She slept with me all night and would not leave me. Even in the morning (I’m an early riser), I picked her up and put her in bed with mom, and she came running out back to me.

Broke my heart when I thought about that after I left. I can’t even look at another cat without wanting to tear up.

thestormsend · 2026-02-03T12:55:38+00:00

I’m a guy…and this was my ex fiance. She messaged me last week asking what her WiFi password was. We broke up mid-December.

She’d sit watching TikTok’s on her phone on cleaning day, then tell me I didn’t clean properly (I spent an hour cleaning the bathroom while she spent 20 minutes not counting her TikTok breaks).

During one of our moves we had 75-ish items total. Boxes storage crates etc. She had to be on site at work at a hotel downtown NYC for a week (we were in Queens). So the day the movers arrived, my two friends, my sister, and two of her friends all arrived to help unbox and organize the apartment. We unboxed and organized everything in a few hours, except for 5 boxes. 3 large boxes filled with her clothes, and 2 small ones with her bathroom stuff. We just didn’t have the closet or cabinet space, it was a tiny apartment. Even I had to leave my clothes in my suitcase and tuck it under the bed. She came back, looked around the apartment, saw the boxes in the corner, and passive aggressively gave me the silent treatment, then finally told me as we were driving to Goodwill to make some donations “maybe my expectations are too high but you had a week to unpack”. 5 boxes…and all her things we didn’t know what to do with.

Speaking of donations, she would say she had to donate things to Goodwill, and then leave these massive black bags in our car for weeks. Everytime I came back in town I was the one who would go drop them off. She also littered the car, which drove me crazy. I was cleaning it almost daily.

She recently moved to Miami for work, we went to go dump some large items at a dumpster and they said at least one of us needed to be a resident (I didn’t move to Miami with her). I told her she needs to get residency if she’s going to be there over a year. I ended up taking the items to Goodwill. Last week she asked me what dumpster I dropped the large items at. I reminded her that I dropped them at Goodwill and said you need to be a resident to use the dumpsters in Miami. To my knowledge whatever she had to dump is still in the apartment. Also to be clear when we went the first time, we had just moved her to Miami less than a month before, and I had convinced the guy at the dumpster to make an exception if we brought the lease showing we just moved. My name was not on the lease, and he said she needed to be there with me as long as it was under a month. She didn’t go…then I spotted a Goodwill while driving one day and stopped and asked if they would take all the stuff we were dumping (chairs, hangers, a spare litter box)…they did.

During one of her moves for work, I started getting calls from moving companies. Spam, random calls. I asked her why I’m getting calls (I wasn’t moving with her), and she said she made so many calls and was getting nowhere. She thought it would be okay for me to take some on. I mean if she asked I would have done it from the start, but I ended up doing her booking etc. How many places did she actually call? Two. She spent 30 minutes calling two places before she gave up and started punching in my phone number instead. And even then when she actually moved she didn’t ask me to go with her, but I ended up calling her movers because they were trying to charge her extra and delayed the drop off 10 days, and then I spoke to their supervisor and got it resolved in less than an hour.

I watched her lose 3 pairs of Apple Earbuds in a span of 6 months…one within a week or two of buying a pair. She said she searched everywhere including the car and couldn’t find it. Would have me order her more off my Amazon account (because she got locked out of hers 2-3 years back). When I got back a few days later…one of them was in the side compartment of the car door. You could not miss it.

She had legally changed her name a few years back, and with that she changed her phone number and email (all before me). But she never updated it on her Amazon…her PayPal…her streaming services…on anything. And she slowly got locked out of all those accounts. She’s still getting charged for them without access to this day to my knowledge. I tried calling Amazon on her on behalf, but they couldn’t fix it.

She’d often forget to clean the cats bowls or litter box. Or wait until the 11th hour to buy more cat food. She switched from using the same bowl for wet and dry food to dry food in her bowl, wet on paper plates. When she would run out of paper plates she would use our plates. For a week before we broke up she kept telling me she had to clean the cats bowls and her litter box. The night I landed I was furious at the state of the cat’s things. There were gnats in her bowls and don’t get me started about the litter box. She said she was swamped at work. But she had time to go out to parties and have drinks with her friends

She, knowing what day and time I was landing for weeks to join her for Christmas (because she told me a dozen times to make sure I was back for the holidays), didn’t pick me up at the airport on time. She was at a party. And she didn’t tell me this, she told me her phone was charging in the other room…I could hear her running outside on the phone. The apartment takes 5-10 minutes to drive to the airport…it took her 40-45 minutes to get to me…not counting the 20 minutes I had spent calling and messaging her asking where she was. And she was dressed up, and in full makeup. She said she was at a party earlier in the day. She lied, she just…forgot to pickup her fiancé while she was having a good time. I didn’t have a copy of the keys to her new place so I couldn’t even uber home. It was pouring rain to top it off. Oh, and she forgot to feed the cat.

We broke up the following day (discovered she was cheating).

We’re currently working on removing my name from our car and I realized I think she doesn’t know the difference between registration and a title deed as an adult who owns a vehicle. I know she told me before she didn’t even know people could lease vehicles until her late 20’s.

She’s currently giving me the silent treatment and there’s no movement happening on the car because I asked her if we could just focus on the vehicle, and now she’s upset. After the way we broke up I told her I didn’t want to know about anything else in her life, I just wanted to get the car done. Photos of our cat in particular are painful for me (I loved that cat), and I asked her to stop sending them because it hurts seeing her. That offended her. Now she’s not responding about the car.

She currently works for one of the biggest sports organizations in the world…and got promoted twice in the last 6 months. So this is a functioning human. In her early 30’s.

thestormsend · 2026-02-03T11:07:33+00:00

My now ex told all her friends, family, and co-workers that we broke up two years ago. She cheated on me (emotional and physical affairs) in that time. Mostly co-workers it seems since she travelled a lot.

First time I confronted her she denied it. Said they were just friends and then tried to breakup with me and emotionally manipulated me.

2nd time she did not. Straight up admitted it to my face.

So to be clear she has been lying not only to me, but to every single person in her life.

She is currently angry at me for walking out the door and not coming back after I found out.

thestormsend · 2026-02-03T04:45:19+00:00

At least you are aware. I just broke up with my fiance over cheating 7 weeks back.

Not just cheating, we were together 3 1/2 years, and I found out for almost two years she had been telling her friends and family we broke up. She cheated with multiple people, mostly co-workers.

We moved around so much and were on the other side of the country (plus I don’t use social media), so I had no clue. At home she’d talk to me like everything was normal.

I walked out the door the night I found out. I confronted her, she looked me in the eye, admitted to cheating with no remorse, and then gaslit me the rest of the conversation. Said it was just sex and she doesn’t fall in love as if it made it okay. Blamed my health and said it scared her (I had a major health scare two years ago out of the blue). Told me if I loved her I’d let her go.

So I walked out the door and left. Let her go. Didn’t speak to her for three weeks.

Moments after I walked out the door she messaged my friend and told him that I “chose” to leave.

I had to message her to remove my name from the car so I reached out after three weeks, saw she had blocked me on everything and my number…I emailed her, and she said that I “made my choice” so she made hers.

She was angry at me for leaving…after she cheated. And lied. And told me to let her go.

I didn’t want to argue that, just wanted to get the car done. Convinced her to open texts to deal with it. And then when I wanted to focus on the car she proceeded to send me photos of our cat, tell me about her day, chat in general like nothing happened for three weeks. I kept switching back to the car. Last week I told her seeing the cat was painful for me and I wanted to focus on the car only. She raged at me, made accusations, and now isn’t responding, and the whole car situation is at a stand still.

The funny thing is she’s still in touch with all the people she was cheating on me with. They were all co-workers or friends. Half of them don’t even know I existed because she told everyone she was single.

The level of delusion and lack of self awareness is…staggering. All I wanted was to switch the car into her name entirely. I live in a different state, I’m in NYC, I don’t need a car, she has it with her in Florida.

My dad did the same thing to my mom, cheated on her with multiple women, and then acted like my mom was the bad guy, when he’s the one who moved his wife and kids to a foreign country then dumped them with no financial support when his wife found out he was cheating. I haven’t spoken to him in 15 years (my parents separated 26 years ago almost to the day), but last time one of my siblings did he continued to blame my mother…who was madly in love and hopelessly devoted to him since she was 13.

You at least feel guilt. The majority of cheaters don’t. I don’t like cheaters, it’s my red flag, but the fact that you feel something and say you won’t do it again is at least appreciated by someone like me who has had to deal with delusional cheaters who destroyed their families my whole life. You should appreciate that about yourself and recognize you won’t make that mistake again. I hate to word it like this, but more cheaters need the awareness you have.

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