I’ve have been lifting for about 3 years now but was so inconsistent like one or two weeks hard than would just roll over and take a week or two off. and you don’t need a masters in exercise science or medical degree to know that won’t build gains. One thing that helped me (saw on twitter) is making a collage of your Day 1 or starting pictures and make it your home screen on your phone or laptop! A mobile device or laptop is something you use everyday and something you see everyday and looking at those day 1 pics has got me reminding myself where i was a where i wanna be. It tells me I’ll always look skinny and weird unless i put in the time. Happy to say i’m one month in and haven’t missed the gym once besides rest days. Now i’m focused more on my diet too and tracking calories and macros. What are some things that have helped you stay consistent?

Wanted to get input from those build experts out there. How useful do you see this feat for a Legend build? I understand that when going to Legend you only keep the first two mythic levels. So for my second should I take weapon focus to get plus one to attack or this skill which would improve all subsequent attacks by 1. Seems like the same impact if I’m equipping the weapon I’m focused on. Unless I’m missing something?

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tS0Oob8WaWeVSxv0k-oGReS2W4fPAn57
Hi all, I’m trying to print an array of 50 small voronoi elephants on my Saturn 2. The sliced file works great with default settings (3.5s & 35s exposure) on one of my saturn 2s. However, every time I try and print it on my other Saturn it fails. The parts seem to spontaneously not stick to themselves, but only some of the models fail. Others print successfully. Everything sticks to the build plate, and everything sticks to supports. It almost seems like part of a few layers are just missing.
So far I have tried: -Printing the same file (on same usb) on another printer (which succeeded)
-slicing into a different USB
-updating firmware
-leveling bed
-increasing and decreasing layer exposure
-increasing and decreasing lift speed
-increasing and decreasing dwell times
-Fresh resin
-lubricating the z axis
I’m completely at a loss here. I can’t find anyone else who’s had this exact problem where only part of the layer fails. I’m especially stumped by the fact that the print works on my other printer perfectly.
Any suggestions are appreciated, I’m pulling my hair out here.

Hey all,
https://imgur.com/a/JDOgYyi
Here are two guns I'm selling today...

1. AGM M16A3 with extra parts

I bought this gun many years ago and used it for 15-20 games. While it's not boneyard, it is dying. The motor definitely needs replacing. Otherwise the gearbox does fine and it feeds well. Once motor is replaced, the gun is a solid beginners/backup gun.
Along with the gun, it will come with a spare barrel, handguard, upper receiver, picatinny rail (mounting screws missing), and a dust flap. Great if you want to do a custom build or need spare parts.
All of this for 40$ plus shipping.
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1. KWA MP7 with 5 mags

I bought the KWA MP7 brand new. It has never been fielded and I've fired less than 150 BBs total. I just realized that GBB primary guns aren't my thing and I'd prefer sticking with AEGs for now. The gun shoots great, is very loud and realistic. Main issue is that the bucking swells, which is a common problem for stock KWA MP7s. This would result in occasional feeding issues, but if the bucking is replaced this will not be a problem at all.
Along with the gun, it will come with 5 mags. All of them work great, no leaks. 4 are Green Gas and 1 is CO2 canister. It will also come with an uninstalled MP7 sling mount. With the mount installed, this would also fix the cracking issue that occurs in KWA MP7s as well. The barrel also comes with a 12mm to 14mm barrel extension, this way it can fit normal tracer units and muzzles.
All of this for 300$ shipped.
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Let me know if you're interested. Thanks!

I have a history of anorexia where I would restrict myself for months in isolation, had a period of vomiting at least once or twice a day until I vomited up blood and had to visit the ER. This was a couple of years ago and it was a really dark and lonely time and possibly some of my most traumatic memories thinking back on it.
Since then I have somewhat recovered from it, mostly alone through radical self acceptance, having actual stuff to do in my life and having a support network/friends in general. The ED never really left my mind though, I have always constantly been focusing on what I eat/other people eat, afraid of certain foods like oil and butter and phases of being afraid of bread. I always had to ask and check if my SO was eating enough and sometimes couldn't even eat in front of them if they weren't also eating. It's like my mind was constantly checking and comparing without me actively wanting to or making the conscious decision to. I've also constantly been struggling with extreme self hatred towards my body. My biggest passion, cosplay, has also become my absolute cryptonite for my ED (partially what kickstarted it in the first place) with how literally every single cosplayer deemed 'the best' and 'most popular' is (edited to be) tall, extremely thin, androgynous (as in, no curves whatsoever), white and edited to have a thousand filters so their makeup and bone structure looks even more flawless. It's all about being a thin fucking model. And it's fucked up my brain to think that in order to be presentable at X convention or have an active social media account again, I should first starve myself and then build muscle so I can also be one of those 'perfect' cosplayers.
But, yeah, the past years my ED has been more manageable. Not the self-consciouss thoughts per se, but I wouldn't say it impacted me to extreme degrees that I really felt 'disordered' in my behaviour again.
At the beginning of this year though, I noticed my ED thoughts flare up again. I've been depressed and have severe OCD for which I've been trying to get proper help for literal years now, and I finally started therapy like... this month. But it's at the very beginning though so nothing major has changed yet. I also have autism, ADHD and chronic fatigue so I am currently unable to have a job and had to quit university twice because it was way too much without a proper support network.
I'm sorry, this is all over the place. But I have to get it out even if it isn't coherent. I've never vented about this anywhere before.
In December I started working on fixing my sleep schedule (I used to fall asleep at like 7 AM) and I in general really wanted to work on feeling better. Being healthier. Loving myself more and getting more energy. The following month I did actually make some progress, but I was aware of how 'getting healthier' for me could spiral into really toxic behaviour again, so I warned my mom and SO about it.
And, well, it did.
I have some big events coming up this spring and summer and my mind was constantly telling me I had to change in order to look perfect and presentable. I have literally nothing on hands in my life and was trying to get control over it by 'getting better', so my ED was like ''Hi!". Even though I was aware of its dangers and presence in the back of my mind. So I convinced myself I had to lose a lot of weight and exercise every day in order to e.g. see my friends again 2 months later. So I was constantly looking for ways to do this as effectively as possible. Cue: Keto : -)
What better way to convince yourself you're not really 'eating disordered' but 'taking care of yourself' than to start a new diet which restricts an entire food group in order to change your body!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I read that it could help with OCD, that people got mental clarity, slept better, lost tons of weight and felt like Jesus himself had basically descended and given them the gift of a perfect life forever.
I was struggling with all of those things, so of course I wanted to do keto. It was perfect for me, it was right for me. It was my new gateway to a perfect life and more control, I would finally be happy and people would admire me and I could finally do what I enjoy most again without shame or feeling self conscious! So I did. And I didn't tell anyone. Didn't visit my SO that whole month, was barely online, was on keto subreddits literally all day, was body checking like every 5 minutes. Read about IF (intermittent fasting) and tried to implement it but felt guilty when I was feeling a bit hungry while skipping breakfast, or couldn't fast for longer than 14-16 hours. Was only eating eggs, fish and greens and felt guilty for implementing stuff like mayonaisse, nuts, peanut butter and raspberries bc they were either too high in calories or had too many carbs and I was stressed out all day thinking about my carb intake after eating 6 walnuts or 10 raspberries in my keto yoghurt with cocoa powder.
Thing is, I did feel like my OCD lessened and I slept better? I did lose weight (water weight ofc but water weight is also desirable to lose bc then you look....slimmer ugh). I never used a scale though and didn't religiously counted calories because I didn't want to be 'disordered' and wanted to look out for myself but. Lol. Man. I put my whole life on hold for 5 weeks and severely restricted myself, didn't go out and avoided social stuff and didn't have energy at all, started drinking black coffee even though I found it disgusting before and also relied on caffeine all morning and afternoon so I at least could get through the day while fasting. I felt guilty for eating ''too many eggs / fish'' or ''too much keto yoghurt'' but looking back I'm like. Bro I didn't eat enough. But then my ED brain is like>! ''yes you did. you even ate too much you ****"????? !constantly focused on it, constantly preoccupied with keto thoughts and losing weight, and body checking 24/7. I was constantly lonely and miserable and low energy and scared of social settings or someone finding out and forcing me to eat carbs. I was dreaming about eating 'bad' foods and woke up feeling guilty.
Then last weekend there was a social event with friends where we were gonna eat nachos and someone had made cake and I missed them all so much and I really wanted to go but even 2 weeks before the event I had already decided in my mind that I could not go no matter what bc it was too scary and it would fuck up my ketosis. But I was trying to battle so hard against it and I finally opened up about my struggles to my SO again and I did eventually decide to go and it was SO scary. I left my piece of cake on the plate all evening and I almost cried in front of everyone when I ate a nacho bc that was the first time in like 5 weeks I ate something that had 'a carb'.
I felt so happy to be with them though and I was so proud of myself and I felt so good but I was so afraid of having a breakdown about eating that evening... and I did. And then came the extreme cravings which I was SO afraid of. I did eat the little piece of apple cake at the end of the evening and it was SO good I again almost cried because I had missed the pleasure of food and sharing it with friends so much. It's such an important and healthy cultural thing to not just see food as fuel but explore a vast amount of flavours with the people you love. But that evening I started craving carbs like crazy. At home I suddenly couldn't stop the feeling of intense hunger and ate savory waffles with chocolate spread and lots of bread with butter and I got so full my stomach was so bloated but my mind and mouth(??) still weren't satisfied and I cried for 2 hours about it on the phone with my SO. The day after I was so scared I did keto again, then the day after I had immense hunger and 'binged' again on bread with chocolate spread and the day after again- that was yesterday - and I just suddenly am SO hungry and craving carbs and sugar and chocolate and shit and I am so scared of eating too much and 'bingeing' and shit. My ED is panicking SO much and telling me to go back to keto but my body is like, it feels deprived and like it HAS to eat all this??? I know extreme hunger exists but it's not like I've only been eating 200 calories a day for 3 years or something so it just feels like I'm out of control bingeing and disgusting and it's all not justified and I just have to start keto restriction again to even it out and also add exercise but I am SO depressed about it all. I want to STOP THINKING about this bullshit I just want to LOVE my body and feel happy and energised and have a fulfilling life with friends and people I love what the FUCK I fucking HATE this so much.
But my brain is still like,>! ''well you went into it with the right intentions and only did this for 5 weeks or something and you did eat, just not carbs, so you're probably just too weak to do keto because you know, the whole keto subreddit is so positive about it and you're just being a piece of shit about it because you're weak and you don't even have an ED lol look at all these real anorexics you'll never be like them, you have a normal body and you'll never be underweight you'll never get there so why even bother. now you're just eating so much bc you're weak and you slipped so get back to fucking keto and restriction''!<
Anyway I feel like a fraud and a scam like I don't really have an ED but I know I do but I'm also full of doubt and I'm just so depressed. I'm sorry I just needed to vent. If anyone read this far, thank you and I'm sorry I don't feel like I deserve or am allowed to take up much space anywhere even on a subreddit meant for ED help

From the first line of code, to having the money in the bank, it took me 4 years of side hustling while having a 9 to 5 job, and 9 months of working on it full-time.
I spent hours digging Quora, Reddit, startup stories trying to find answers to “how to fundraise as a solo founder without a team”. There were more arguments against doing so than success stories.
Things like:
- find a cofounder
- if you can’t even convince someone to join you, how can you convince investors?
- single point of failure: what if you get hit by a bus?
- you can’t possibly do everything by yourself
Those are all valid and justified concerns.
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I end up finding the answer myself by going through it for my startup SewaYou after lots of moments of self-doubt.
I’ll walk you through my journey to reach this point.
I hope my experience can help you go through one of the darkest moments in a startup founder’s life - fundraising, because many of us (wrongly) associate our personal and company value or worth with the Yes or No from investors.
Please read until the end to learn how I did it.

Timeline

Quick personal background: I started my career as a software engineer in Japan 5 years ago, and was building on the side my, now startup, SewaYou, an app to help you find language exchange partners in your area.
During 4 years here in Japan Tokyo, I’ve worked for 3 different companies while side-hustling, quit twice my full-time job and finally get the Japanese Permanent Residency to allow me to legally open and run a company.
I quit my last corporate job in October 2021, so almost a year now.
In December 2021, so 2 months after I quit my job, I got invited to speak at a small event to share my experience as a solo founder.
That talk then helped me get introduced to a few people, and I ended up being introduced to a VC in Tokyo. That was the first time that I got my first step into that whole startup ecosystem.
Got an in-person meeting with one of the general partner of the VC, and then got introduced to another general partner over email.
That was right before the year-end holidays, so you can guess that it was not the best timing to start an investment discussion or business deal.
During the holidays, I also took time to reflect and see whether it’s the right choice to raise VC money at this stage of my project, or should I go with Angels investors instead, or wait a bit more.
Then around mid January, so a few weeks after the introduction email, I sent a follow up email, without much follow up.
Social momentum is real: you’ll be forgotten if you don’t keep that momentum and try to quickly get to a potential agreement.
I also incorporate my project into a real company, a 株式会社 for those who know, which is a joint-stock company in February 22. (2022/02/22).
An easy date to remember and to prepare the legal side in case I might receive investment in the near future.
I know that I needed to raise money at some point, as soon as possible and I can’t possibly grow the project with just my 1-year-ish savings and stay as a one-man show.
Startups is about growth, and fast growth.
So, after that, I started to dig into finding and talking to like 4 or 5 potential angels investors instead, and attended one pitch event online.
Btw, making a pitch slide deck is also pretty time consuming but that helps to understand your business better and think of thing like financials, and go-to-market strategy.
At first, I was pitching angels with the mindset of “I need funding”. This will show in your words as you might sound desperate without you even realizing it.
So as expected, I didn’t get much out of it neither. It’s better to hear a clear No so that you can move on.
But mostly, I didn’t hear neither a clear No nor a clear Yes. That’s a difficult situation you can find yourself in. So I appreciate investors saying straight No.
It’s pretty common to find angels or investors who only invest if there’s a bigger player who leads the round so they can follow.
It also doesn’t help to be a solo founder without a team, nor prior track record of exiting a previous startup.
I wasn’t working neither on trendy projects of the moment to get an extra excitement from investors.
I mean language exchange/learning doesn’t sound that trendy or hot the way NFTs or web3 projects seem to be, right?
So instead, I took all the valuable feedback and just focus on improving the product. That’s a good thing to talk to investors even though you don’t get any investment, they still kindly give you valuable feedback!
So I stopped trying to look for investors, and spent the next 5 months in focus mode just building and improving my app, code, talk to users, code, retain users, rinse and repeat.
I spent time testing hypothesis, adding new features, deprecating features that are not used, improving the app performance, make it more user friendly, get feedback and so on.
I played to my strengths and focus on building the best product possible that people want. Better build a beautiful product than beautiful pitch slides.
Then I started to implement a payment system and try to charge users.
To my surprise, I realized that there’re people who need your product enough to be willing to swipe their credit card. That was a big validation and leverage.
At that time, my app SewaYou, which is a social consumer app, had only around 5000 users with around 700 Monthly Active Users.
At around the same time, after getting my first organic paid users, I got introduced to another VC. One Zoom meeting, one in-person meeting demoing SewaYou app, showing some traction KPIs, talking about the big vision.
They decided to invest. A month later the money is in the bank.
That’s what I take: 2 meetings and an app demo, no pitch deck, and small due diligence.
At the seed stage, you know when a VC or investor wants to invest or not after one or two meetings. If it takes too much time for them to decide, that might not be a good sign.
I was asked questions like:
- How much I plan to raise
- How I’m gonna spend that money
- How much % am I willing to give for the amount raised.
We agree on a % that is less than 10% for this first seed round.
In term of the due diligence, it was pretty basic:
- I wrote a small report summarizing my app usage metrics, like monthly download progress, MAU and other basic metrics.
- I wrote a one page Business Plan with projected revenues and user growth for the next year
- and copies of legal papers like the Company Articles of Incorporation. Fortunately, since I already incorporated my company back a few months ago, this step was quick
Then we started to draft the terms for the investment, with the help of a lawyer that they also introduced. Everything was written in Japanese, even though I can speak fluently Japanese, I still need some time to go through it.
The whole process took around 3-4 weeks, from the terms drafting and having the investment money wired to my company bank account.
That was a good thing to incorporate my company and opening a corporate bank account beforehand, so the investment process can go smooth and quick, because at a seed and early stage, there are teams working on projects without having a company ready.

Recap

To recap a little bit my journey:
- it took me 4 years of side hustle and 9 months full-time to build from scratch my app as a solo founder doing everything myself (dev, design, marketing…)
- I had no prior credentials or track records such as second time or exited founder
- time spent from “I want to fundraise” to “the $ is in the bank” was 8 months
- numbers of investors pitched: 2 VCs and less than 5 angels
- pitching event attended: 1 (and it was online due to Covid)
- amount raised: 20 million JPY (which is roughly $150k) for less than 10% of equity
I’ve seen stories where people pitched 98 times at events, reached out to 146 investors, and got 145 “No” and a single “Yes”. How much energy and time were spent on that effort? Fundraising is really hard.
My journey is a bit different, and I hope that can give you more data and founder stories.
Here are lessons I learned and some takeaways:
- as a solo founder, there’s nobody else to hedge against or hide behind, you’re completely out there in the wild
- your army is your product, your execution power and you as a person
- show why you’re the best person to build your specific product
- when your personal story aligns with your startup vision, it resonates.
SewaYou is on a mission to help people unlock and multiply opportunities in life, relationship, and career by reaching an advanced level in foreign languages.
And that’s what happened to me: a foreigner who learns Japanese, landed in Japan, mastering the language and finally quitting my 9to5 job to pursue my dream to build a startup and contribute back to Japan that makes me grow as a person while building my startup.

So what now?

So that’s it, my journey from side hustling to fundraising as a solo founder with zero employee or cofounder.
But like they say: “Alone you go fast, together you go far”, it’s now time for SewaYou to go beyond a one-man show, so I will spend the investment money to start recruiting and build a small team.
I also have this in a video version if you prefer to listen, and also other stuff (like How I built my app part-time for 4 years etc) around building and growing a startup as a solo and foreign founder in Japan!
Thanks for reading so far! 😀

Years and years ago I worked on a project to build out a document management system for a very specific use case. Not too complex, invoices with approval flows that would produce an excel spreadsheet. Nothing crazy.
FFW to over a decade later and as I've stepped out of (and back into) the Sharepoint world I'm looking to build a new dms through SPO. Steps are below:
Users take notes over the week
Notes are then compiled by point person, that point person formats notes into a word doc with specific structure. That word doc also includes some pivot tables that point person is copying/pasting image of into this doc. The doc is then formatted into a pdf and emailed to senior leadership. Problem with this process is that the point person has to chase users and then format their notes into a consumable doc. Not a huge deal but the chasing part results in delays of this weekly report being sent.
What I'd like to accomplish: A list or doc library where users can enter notes and have due by dates and status assigned for note entry with notifications sent automatically each day notes are missing. Once all notes are entered, point person can initiate a compile function on the doc library (maybe a power automate flow?) that formats into a word or pdf doc and emails out to a certain group of individuals.
I feel most requirements could be accomplished. Even if I just eliminated the chasing of team members for notes, this would be a huge bonus. For now I've recommended the point person share a word doc with all involved to have them coauthor. This may end up being the final solution.

I grew up dabbling in dance/gymnastics/ice skating but my untreated ADD made it hard to follow through with things ): I started pole dancing on and off starting in 2016 but my health got in the way. After what feels like forever, I’m finally feeling like myself again and started doing lots of floor work/conditioning to start building my body back up to feeling safe. Im hyper mobile so I know that my limits need to be more mental than physical because my body will do it even if it shouldn’t. Working on conditioning and form OFF the pole has been so helpful in not hurting myself. Practice makes permanent haha
It’s been a little over a year or doing 2-3x a week dance/conditioning at home and a few months ago I added a pull-up bar to my house (pole folks who didn’t have the ceilings for a pole like I havent- it was a VERY nice way to engage my shoulders and legs without being too pricey/in your face). It’s been lovely to get off the ground, work on my grip and simple leg moves.
Made the choice to go with a TG Xpole (putting in my order today). I’ve got sensitive skin and am a worrier but it was between TG and brass and I feel like a static TG pole is going to be the best starter pole for me and my skin/grip. I wanted a 40mm if I’m being honest because my hands are small and I don’t have the best grip but I’m sure having one in my home will help me build the grip up more too.
Dance has given me such a great view of myself. I’ve got some trauma so my connection to my body has been hit and miss. I’m also queesapphic but didn’t come out till my 30s so seeing my body as sexual and for other’s gaze has made my feelings towards myself difficult. Being a gay girl though I’ve learned to embrace my sensuality- something I’ve never explore (men didn’t seem to notice the nuance and it was just sexual).
Very excited <3

(T,L,D,R PLEAS READ FIRST)
this is a little intro to the would that we will be building together but first we got to lay some group rules to help us stay together.

1. Most important, we have to mesh well, so this can last long term.
2. New home built ruleset (do not let this scare you, its just little things for cool shit).
3. (Super flexible) but we will sit down together and plan a day or 2
4. I am looking for exactly 3 players,
5. we do personnel sessions or pcs an npcs or 1 on 1 with the pcs
6. this is not just my story its yours to ( pcs will have a big impact on the would)
7. discord an r20 is were will play but will roll on discord follow me there ( read to fined it )
8. this is a 18+ campaign no erp but lot of gore and dark shit
9. we will vibe in call for at least for 10 mins to get a read on each other

(THE STORY)
“In the vast reaches of life, the path will always lead to death. However, the journey to get there is my favourite part.
Welcome all who may join, this is a little project that I’m trying to start and this is where I wish to hear your story. Now I know you may not know where you are right now, this is not important .
[Clears throat] Anyways, we need to get back on track.
Let's start from the beginning, from the spark that started it all.”
[As your eyes start to wonder, a small light can be seen flicking in and out, an image of a world unlike ours within the light itself, almost like a new hope in the night .]
“The world only had 2 beings, the All-Giving Estefania and Avarice, the Web Weaver. They are the Beginning and the End, and as they are the first beings to take in the world, and the first to spring life in to the blank canvas that is the world
They paved the way for life itself and brought love to a place where that concept hadn't yet existed yet, Estefania was blessed with the gift to make grand works of art. In the discovery of this gift of mastery of the fiscal aka (master manipulation of physical matter to the very definition ). The more and more she explored her new powers she became overcome with greed for the masterpiece that she strove for, in this journey she made the stars and stars forum her quest. Whale avarice was left to tend to the aftermath with his power of (moving on). During this time this was the new life of the worlds that the two have made from the smallest blade of grass to the tallest tree, but something was missing from this masterpiece as she walked her land she could not hear sound it made her heart long for something more for this would. As she had realized that her want for sound turned to a need for it.
She began tirelessly working on this project while her lover cased away, forgotten by her. In this obsession of passion she felt nothing more than to make her music of life.
Avarice at this time had seen that his love had found a new passion in which he felt left in the shadows of these noises , heart broken and angry he started to weave the web of fate this put a timer on these noise of life as he spun this web he wove fear in the harts of life he gave them greed knotted in their souls and lust in their minds with this he made his own stephanie with the twining of the web . Now the wound that once stood as a single song is now divided and as avarice sat at his work desk his jealousy festered longer and longer.
vessels that had taken his place with his beloved where the goddess wanted nothing more for us to prosper and thrive only to have the Web woven around us, encasing humanity in this Cocoon of Mortality.
This world is yet new, no stories told, no songs written, no Heroes forged, no villains risen. That was the Mantra man once sung many lifetimes ago but now they have seen the horrors in the night, witnessed monsters that wrench apart villages. A corruption bred from the Father of monsters, Giver of Death.
you may ask yourself in this journey why am I telling you this story why am I relaying this message in your dream you don't even know what Journey I'm talking about the highs the deaths the love the songs of a new day is a head but let me tell you I'm excited for what you have to share until we meet again this is farewell you my wake up and welcome home (DISCORD tinnyg#6029)

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Synopsis:
Juliette Contzen is a lazy, good-for-nothing princess. Overshadowed by her siblings, she's left with little to do but nap, read … and occasionally cut the falling raindrops with her sword. Spotted one day by an astonished adventurer, he insists on grading Juliette's swordsmanship, then promptly has a mental breakdown at the result.
Soon after, Juliette is given the news that her kingdom is on the brink of bankruptcy. At threat of being married off, the lazy princess vows to do whatever it takes to maintain her current lifestyle, and taking matters into her own hands, escapes in the middle of the night in order to restore her kingdom's finances.
Tags: Comedy, Adventure, Action, Fantasy, Copious Ohohohohos.
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Chapter 18: Candle In The Dark
My boots waded through the shallow stream as I led the way, Starlight Grace in hand.
The caverns leading from the well were far more extensive than the alchemist had suggested. As I directed the tip of my sword into the darkness, its light caught against surfaces so high that I had to stretch my neck to see them … but not the tunnel bats that'd made their homes against the stalactites in this vast underground system.
Their eyes peppered the resounding darkness like red stars against a bleak sky. But while the sheer quantity of tunnel bats that'd made their home here may ordinarily have been cause for alarm, I had other concerns on my mind.
Namely, that the water was extremely unhealthy for the integrity of my boots.
They were hand crafted by royal commission for outdoor endeavours, yes, and could reliably step on mud, ash, saltwater and the hopes of the poor, but this wasn't a downtrodden farmer I was stepping on. It was … water.
Mossy, slimy water that dampened the colour of my boots.
And that was even worse than losing them.
The moment my outfit no longer matched, I'd have only two choices. Find a new set of clothes, or use Starlight Grace to conjure enough light that I could irrevocably damage the eyesights of everyone around me.
And right now, I was missing my wardrobe.
“Did you know that tunnel bats are blind?” said Coppelia, humming as she skipped behind me like a girl playing in a pond. “Those bloodthirsty, murderous eyes? Yep, they're just for show. They actually glow even brighter during the day. Of course, you never see them since they're usually sleeping.”
I glanced up at the litany of red dots, neither perturbed nor comforted by the thought that none of them were actually gazing back at me.
Rather, I simply could not take them seriously in the slightest.
“Bats.” I sighed. “Barely inside, and I can already see this cavern hasn't a speck of originality to it.”
“Eh?”
“It's like peering into the mind of a decrepit baron and seeing his wildest fantasy come to fruition.”
“Barons dream about bats?”
“The ones who have not received an invitation to attend a soirée in years, yes.”
I sadly shook my head.
For all their teeth, wings and claws, bats occupied a different category in my mind than heralds of the night.
To some, they were low-tier monsters fit for training new adventurers and soldiers. To me, they were a fashion statement. And a poor one, at that. Far too many nobles sought to decorate their middling towers and keeps with bats of all varieties, hoping the time-tested mystique would somehow mask the very public decline of their family lineage.
It never did.
The irony, of course, is that any noble house's fall from grace was due to this lack of familiarity with contemporary home design. Why, I had no doubt that if this cavern were put to auction, irrelevant nobles would paw at each other to make this their new villainous hideout from which to plan the usurping of my father's throne.
“Well, if you don't like bats, what about strangler crabs?”
Coppelia pointed ahead of us. A pair of deathly black pincers were briefly sighted, before they disappeared to a chorus of scuttling movement.
“Uninspired,” I replied.
“Decrepit barons stopped using them as pets ages ago, huh?”
“What? No, they still do. They simply taste awful as well.”
“... You've eaten strangler crabs before? The monster variety? Not the, 'Hey kids, Papa's going to teach you about fishing today,' kind?”
“Bland and flavourless. With a mucous-like texture. Highly do not recommend.”
I shuddered as I recalled the scene. There were many things I wanted for my 7th birthday. A horse-drawn carriage in the shape of an open seashell. A choir of my playmates singing my praises for being born wealthier than them. A fireworks display of me sitting cross-legged on a throne while laughing down at the assembled masses ...
Well, actually, I did get all of those things.
But I also got a buffet of the most strangest crustacean. What's more, it was still moving. And it's pincers were very sharp, indeed.
And that's the story of how I survived my 19th assassination attempt, aged 7.
The strangler crab tasted terrible afterwards.
“And water slimes … ?” queried Coppelia, pointing at a particularly reflective section of the wall. “Have you ever … ?”
Upon closer inspection, the shimmering of movement could clearly be seen, as could the mucus trailing behind. Only by purposefully directing my sword away could the form of the water slime be viewed, still partially aglow from the light as it half-crawled, half-bounced away from us.
I stopped, then set my frown directly at Coppelia's inquisitiveness. Predictably, she was already looking highly amused even before I gave my response.
“... Gastronomy was in a highly experimental phase at the time ...”
“It sounds like you've quite a robust palette.”
“Robust, no. Black, yes.”
Sadly, the world of gourmet dining wasn't built on stability. It was on constantly sprinting so that the quicksand wouldn't envelop you. And sometimes, those competing had no time to run. They simply had to leap.
Hence … Steak au slime was invented.
It did not last.
“You've … eaten all these things?” said the alchemist, staring at me in wonder. “Incredible! Although you appear very refined, in truth, you live off the land as much as even the most seasoned adventurer, don't you?”
I had a feeling that this woman was perhaps grossly misinterpreting how I came to be fed steak au slime.
Naturally, I nodded and accepted the praise.
“I … I suppose, by definition, yes, I certainly have lived off the creatures of this land!”
I gave a small cough and hurried ahead, valiantly ignoring both the creeping darkness and the sight of Coppelia hiding her laughter.
“I hope we find what we're looking for,” said the alchemist, somewhat absent-mindedly as she trudged along behind us. “Although right now, I'm mostly hoping that nothing worse than a water slime appears before us.”
Coppelia's sigh practically echoed around us.
“Now, if this was Ouzelia, what you just said would pretty much guarantee something dreadful will be waiting down here.”
“Huh?”
“Rules work differently in the Northern Realm. The power of stories is prevalent in every facet of life, but most often when we're courting jeopardy.”
“I … I see! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to invite peril.”
“Oh, it's fine. Peril makes things more fun.”
“What?”
“What?”
The clockwork doll and the alchemist blinked at each other, each wearing vastly contrasting expressions.
Their conversation ended.
… For a short time, at least.
“Hmm, the water slimes aren't biting, are they?” said Coppelia cheerfully. “Shame, I imagine they're pretty hydrating. Great if you find yourself in a desert. They're like a bouncing oasis. Never tried one myself. I prefer green or sweet things. But I'm feeling adventurous!”
I shuddered to think that she'd willingly consume a water slime. And yet I couldn't bear to warn her against the taste. The memories were too painful to recall.
That aside, she did raise a fair point.
“Why have we not been attacked yet?” I asked, turning my light around the tunnels, only to witness the scuttling form of another strangler crab already moving away from us. “I was led to believe that monsters attacked indiscriminately.”
“Most monsters do,” replied Coppelia. “But weak monsters have a unique flight instinct. It's the only way to survive in a cruel world full of murderous adventurers. They're exceptionally good at identifying powerful threats.”
I raised a querying eyebrow at Coppelia.
“Do they detect your absurd level of physical strength and flee from it, then?”
In response, Coppelia grinned and turned to the young woman walking closely behind us, her wide eyes constantly darting in all directions.
“Hmm, who knows? Maybe our alchemist is secretly super strong?”
Marlena … Marina blinked in surprise, then rapidly shook her head.
“Um, I'm not sure why they're not attacking. But I do have a monster repelling potion in my satchel. Maybe they can sense it … ?”
“Well, whatever the cause, we should take full advantage,” I said. “My attire is at risk enough without water slimes further dampening it.”
I received fervent agreement from our alchemist as we trundled along, free from attacks by the inhabitants of this cavern.
Buoyed by the lack of opposition, we pressed on through the cavern until we entered a smaller chamber filled with a central basin of water. Here, no tunnel bats plagued the ceiling and no strangler crabs tried to give me flashbacks, but that didn't mean there was no life.
It was, in fact, teeming with it.
Long strands of wet greenery blanketed the walls almost like a net, the strands and leaves interwoven like a circus of green as it stretched out from the pool of shimmering water.
“My … how peculiar!”
Unless my studies of horticulture were very much mistaken, this was seaweed—or at least something similar. But these weren't the bedrocks near a shoreline or the wooden joints of a dock that the weeds found themselves clutched against. It was a chamber deep beneath the earth, devoid of even the shallowest hint of the sky or saltwater.
This basin of water was either connected to more than a regular reservoir, or these seaweeds were a unique new variety!
“What a magnificent amount of life,” said the alchemist, her wide eyes taking in the tapestry of green. “It appears to be … well, weeds. But to be found underground is remarkable!”
I nodded, sharing the appreciation. I spun around while pointing the tip of my sword towards each wall in turn.
“Either they don't require sunlight to grow, or they're able to survive long periods without access to it. But how would they come to be here, I wonder?”
Suddenly, the alchemist gasped.
“Wait—look! Look where you just shone the light! Keep your sword away for a moment and look!”
I did as asked and peered away from where I was directing Starlight Grace.
Only then did I notice the glittering in the darkness.
It was like hundreds of jewels lighting up where the light had receded, as though having absorbed the radiance from my sword. Stepping closer, I leaned in and spied to my surprise the clear crystalline spines.
“Arcana crystals,” I remarked. “Now, this truly is a boon.”
It was the crystalline mineral prized among mages, and in turn, shopkeepers. The light absorbent crystals which were a crucial reagent in the crafting of mana potions, a lifeline for mages at risk of suffering from magical burnout induced nausea.
Though by no means rare, it was practically unheard of for a mineral deposit to be discovered so far from the eastern mountain ranges where so much of our mining industry takes place. A discovery such as this needed to be properly documented, and the size and quality of the deposit surveyed.
A rush of excitement coursed through me as I tip-toed from glimmer to glimmer, assessing each shine with a rudimentary appraisal that could glean nothing other than the fact that this was a precious opportunity.
Nor was I the only one to spot this.
“Gosh, what a magnificent sight!” exclaimed the alchemist, her eyes almost shimmering as much as the precious crystals. “Arcana crystals. Here of all places. Beneath Rolstein. I never thought such a thing was possible!”
I nodded. I didn't think so, either. But that was mostly because I never gave Rolstein any thought whatsoever.
“A precious find, and worthy of a dismal climb down a dilapidated well.”
“I had no idea … in all the records I've seen of Rolstein's history, no mention has ever been made of arcana crystals.”
“Ohhohoho! Rejoice, for where there are precious reagents, there are profits, and where there are profits, there are taxes to be reaped!”
“... Huh?”
“T-Taxes … as in, taxes to ensure the building of new roads and watchposts, to ensure the security and economic prosperity of this new opportunity!”
Yes, indeed! The Miner's Guild will no doubt wish to claim rights to any mining operations. But in exchange, Rolstein and the kingdom will receive a share of the proceeds.
If there's a sizeable deposit to be had, then this could become a wonderful opportunity for the lowlands as a whole. Diversification of the local economy was a rare and precious opportunity.
“Indeed, but any merits are a matter for the future,” said the alchemist, her excitement visibly tempering. “My concern is still the present. And so before we turn these precious fields into a mine, I'd first like to know if it can be saved. The starflower ...”
“There's no starflower.”
My blunt assessment caught the alchemist by surprise.
She said nothing, and so I provided my reasoning with an additional spin of the chamber.
Seaweed, arcana crystals, and the granite walls to which they clung. There was no sign of a fabled starflower, nor an exit from this chamber. Our journey had been linear. Had we missed a path in the darkness? If so, we'd need to backtrack in order to find it. Otherwise, this was the end of this jaunt, though it was by no means unfruitful.
“M-Miss Juliette ...”
Then, the alchemist's timid voice called out to me.
I knew what it was before I finished turning around. The bright glow being emitted by my sword was no longer the only source of light within this small chamber.
To my astonishment, a single flower was gleaming from a crevasse opposite the water basin. Even from a distance, its details shone in the darkness like the moon on a clear night, each petal radiating with the intensity of a flickering flame.
It was a single flower, and yet if it were to be placed in the sky, I had little doubt it would be the light that drew stargazers and sailors towards it. The beauty was mesmerising. So much so, that I almost failed to question why it was now gleaming for all the eyes in this chamber to see.
Almost.
“The starflower,” whispered the alchemist. “It's … It's here … !”
“I-Indeed, it is … !”
I was astonished.
The starflower. It truly was here. But how?
Its nature meant that simply missing it with my sword was impossible. Its radiance matched Starlight Grace. Did it function similarly to the arcana crystals, and was now reacting to the light? Yet I was always under the impression that a starflower's strength was in its undying glow.
Why, it was almost as if something covering it had been displaced. But nothing but walls of rock were present around the starflower, with each damp surface covered in arcana crystals and soggy seaweed.
And nothing but walls of rock was still here … even as it moved towards me.
Brruuuuuummmmmmmmmmm.
A deafening rumble resounded throughout the chamber. The surface of the water basin shook violently, while bits of the cave fell around us like the beginnings of an earthquake.
That sound could've been the precursor to a landslide. But I realised as the sound went on that it was more than that. It was a bellow. The very land made manifest and sentient with rage.
A living roar from a creature with no vocal chords, yet had no difficulty resonating with the earth.
It was, after all, a monster born of it.
Brrrrrruuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmm.
The shadow of a massive stone golem jerked alive, shaking off rocks and dust as it woke from its slumber.
And I knew immediately from its movements that it was feeling deeply inhospitable after just waking up.
Why, it reminded me of myself.
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So I saw a few posts that questioned whether or not the next bitcoin halving in one year from now would cause another bull run, as it has always done in the past. He also wondered why the price would not be calculated in already. Let me show you what I believe, based on this analogy, where building a house represents mining a BTC.
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Let's say I build and sell houses as a job. Today I can build a house for $70K and sell them for $100K, netting me a profit of $30K per house. Wow what a nice profit for me.
However, 1 year from now, magically, all materials will double in price and I will have to spend $140K to build the same house. At this point I cannot sell these houses for $100K anymore, I will go bankrupt in no time! I will have no choice but to raise my prices to around $170K to keep the same profit of $30K per house.
So why don't I already start selling my houses for $140K?
Because all my rival companies can still build the exact same houses for $70K and sell them for $100K too. No one will buy my houses if I am $40K more expensive than my competitors, I'll go bankrupt again!
One option I do have however, is hodling on to all my houses that I build now and sell them later, when the prices have risen. But unfortunately I need to sell houses to get capital to build new ones. I might be able to hodl on to a few towards the price changes, but I can't start doing this too far upfront.
THE END
So this is obviously an oversimplification, but at its core I believe this to be true, or am I missing anything? Why would anything be different now?

All Games Below are Steam Keys unless noted by it and are gotten from places Like, Humble and Fanatical in and out of Bundles.
I am Mainly looking for games I do not own, ones at least Playable on the Steam Deck are ones I will more likely trade for. I will also take tf2key offers but please no low balls.
I will only Trade for Games I do not own, I do not want keys for Games I own since I would have to trade those for other games. An since there is no way to check if a Key is Valid without activating it they are worthless to me.
Have
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• The Smurfs - Mission Vileaf
• Ampersat **
• Weaving Tides **
• Double Kick Heroes **
• Switchball HD **

^\* Will keep if I do not get a good offer)
March 2023 Choice Leftovers

• Hero's Hour
• Golden Light

Türkiye-Syria Earthquake Relief Bundle Leftovers
I may of missed some the games from the bundle I will be going through the bundle list again and will add ones I missed Some that I do not own I may keep so I will update that info too. The 3 bigger games I already used the keys for since that's the main reason I bought the bundle.

• Xcom 2
• PAYDAY 2
• Ticket to Ride
• Strange Brigade
• Stick Fight
• Farming Simulator 17
• System Shock Enhanced Edition
• System Shock 2 **
• Pilgrims
• Flynn: Son of Crimson **
• Worms Rumble
• Mount & Blade: Warband
• Armello
• Backbone
• 911 Operator
• 112 Operator
• Calico
• X-Morph: Defense Complete Pack
• Zombie Driver HD
• Space Crew: Legendary Edition
• Monaco
• Death Squared
• Lust from Beyond - M Edition
• Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
• Remnants of Naezith
• Planet TD
• Firegirl
• XEL
• Little Orpheus
• Detached: Non-VR Edition
• Agent in Depth
• Lighthouse Keeper
• Hyper Gunsport
• Meow Express
• Arcade Spirits
• Non-Stop Raiders
• The Inner World
• The Amazing American Circus
• Soulblight
• Stacking
• Hack 'n' Slash
• MirrorMoon EP
• Cosmic Express
• Cris Tales
• Orbital Racer
• Symmetry
• Guilty Gear X2 #Reload
• Alchemist's Castle
• Soul Searching
• Doughlings Arcade
• Doughlings Invasion
• Quadrata
• Rym 9000
• stikir
• Cats and the Other Lives
• Soulflow
• Izmir: An Independence Simulator
• Guns & Fishes
• Pill Baby
• Project Chemistry
• Pixross
• Frick, Inc.
• Sunlight
  ^\* Will keep if I do not get a good offer)
  

Humble Choice, January 2023 Leftovers ^{(If I don't get good offers on these I will keep them})

• Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG

Older Games
Humble Choice, August 2022 Leftovers

• Emily is Away <3

Humble Choice, May 2022 Leftovers

• Command & Conquer Remastered Collection (origin)
• Surviving the Aftermath
• If Found...
• Genesis Noir
• Morkredd

Stand with Ukraine Bundle Leftovers, I may have missed a few or listed ones I did not mean to, I will update the List when I go through the bundle more.

• 112 Operator link
• 911 Operator link
• Amnesia: Rebirth link
• Book of Demons link
• Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons link
• Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 link
• Crying Suns link
• Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft - The Eldritch Box DLC link
• Dear Esther: Landmark Edition link
• Drawful 2 link
• Draw Slasher link
• Endless Space 2 link
• Fury Unleashed link
• Popup Dungeon link
• Ryse: Son of Rome link
• This War of Mine link
• PGA Tour 2k21 Link
• Ring of Pain link
• Expeditions: Viking link
• Rustler (Grand Theft Horse) link
• Radio Commander link
• Kingdom Two Crowns link
• West of Dead link
• Going Under link
• Yoku's Island Express link
• X-Morph: Defense Complete Pack link
• WARSAW link
• System Shock: Enhanced Edition link
• Moon Hunters link
• RPG Maker VX link
• Slinger VR link
• Telefrag VR link
• Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine link
• Wizard of Legend Link
• Pixplode link
• Pawnbarian link
• Hexologic link
• Post Void link
• Roarr! The Adventures of Rampage Rex link
• We Are Alright link

Other Games

• 911 Operator Link
• 12 is Better Than 6 Link
• A Case of Distrust Link
• AI War: Fleet Command Link
• Age of Wonders III Link
• American Fugitive Link
• Amerzone: The Explorer’s Legacy Link
• Ancestors Legacy Link
• Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead
• Calico Link
• Contagion Link
• Crown Trick
• Curse: The Eye of Isis link
• Darkwood
• Duke Nukem Forever Link
• Endless Space 2 Digital Deluxe Edition Link
• Eastside Hockey Manager Link
• Europa Universalis IV Link
• Evoland Legendary Edition link
• Fluffy Horde Link
• Galactic Civilizations Ultimate Edition x2 Link
• Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition Link
• Galaxy Grey Goo Definitive Edition link
• Gift of Parthax Link
• GRIP: Combat Racing Link
• Haegemonia: Legions of Iron Link
• Haimrik Link
• Hero of the Kingdom Link
• Hero of the Kingdom 2 Link
• Last Word x2 link
• Love Letter Link
• Milky Way Prince - The Vampire Star Link
• Millennium: A New Hope Link
• Monster Slayers Link
• Mysterium: A Psychic Clue Game Link
• Neon Abyss
• Nostradamus: The Last Prophecy Link
• Oniken Link
• Papo & Yo Link
• PAYDAY 2 Link
• Project Nimbus: Complete Edition **
• Project Winter Link
• Realpolitiks link
• Rebel Galaxy Link
• Regular Human Basketball Link
• Remnants of Isolation Link
• Shark Attack Deathmatch 2 Link
• Shelter 2 Link
• Sinking Island Link
• Skautfold: Shrouded in Sanity Link (I may keep)
• Skautfold: Usurper Link (I may keep)
• Skautfold: Moonless Knight Link (I may keep)
• Skautfold: Into the Fray Link (I may keep)
• SKYHILL Link
• SONG OF HORROR COMPLETE EDITION Link
• Space Run Link
• Starpoint Gemini Warlords
• Surviving Mars Link
• Sword Legacy Omen Link
• Take On Helicopters Link
• Telltale Texas Hold'em Link
• Terraforming Mars Link
• The Corporate Machine Link
• The Long Dark: Survival Edition
• The Political Machine 2016 Link No Longer on Steam
• The Princess' Heart Link
• The Ship: Remasted Link
• The Walking Dead: Season 1 Link
• Ticket to Ride Link
• Titan Quest Anniversary Edition Link
• Yoku's Island Express Link
• YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Vol. 1 XL Link
• Zeno Clash 2 Link

DLCs
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• Surviving Mars: Deluxe Edition Upgrade Pack Link
• Fall Guys - Popstar Pack DLC Link
• Fall Guys: Collectors Pack DLC Link

Software
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• AppGameKit Classic Link
• Axis Game Factory's AGFPRO v3 Link
• Axis Game Factory's + Zombie FPS + Zombie Survival Pack DLC Link
• Fences 3 Link
• GameGuru x2 Link
• RPG Maker XP Link

Software DLCs
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• AppGameKit - Giant Asset Pack 1 Link
• AppGameKit - Giant Asset Pack 2 Link
• AGFPRO v3 Premium Link
• GameGuru - Death Valley Pack x2 Link
• GameGuru Mega Pack 1 Link
• GameGuru Mega Pack 2 Link
• GameGuru - Fantasy Pack Link
• GameGuru - Buildings Pack Link
• RPG Maker VX Ace - High Fantasy - The Deep Link
• RPG Maker VX Ace - Tyler Warren RTP Redesign 1 Link

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Wanted
Below are just a few of the games I am looking for, there are a lot more, so don't just think these are all I am looking for. If you have something else to trade, make me an offer, I will look through what you got and let you know.

• Farcry Games
• AMID EVIL
• Tunguska: The Visitation
• THE GAME OF LIFE 2
• Ice Age Scrat's Nutty Adventure
• From Space
• PlateUp!
• Dreamscaper
• Praey for the Gods
• Syberia: The World Before
• Streets of Rage 4
• Garfield Lasagna Party
• Any other Offers

DLCs

• PC Building Simulator Fractal Design Workshop
• PC Building Simulator - Razer Workshop
• PC Building Simulator - Overclocked Edition Content
• Stellaris: Toxoids Species Pack
• Stellaris: Overlord
• I will also take tf2 keys for any game I have listed above. Make me an Offer and I will look at it.

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• Rich Dad’s Who Took My Money
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• Robert Kiyosaki – The Real Book of Real Estate
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• Robert Kiyosaki Cashflow 101 and 202
• Robert T. Kiyosaki – 8 Lessons in Military Leadership for Entrepreneurs
• Sales Dogs
• The ABC’s Of Building a Business Team That Wins
• The ABC’s Of Property Management
• Why -A- Students Work for -C- Students
• Kiyosaki Live NY City
• Robert Kiyosaki – 60 Minutes To Getting Rich

Hi everybody, I'm planning a solo trip to Japan for February 2024. I've started my planning really early because this is my first ever solo trip and I wanted to allow lots of time to find anything extra that I wanted to do (E.G. a month ago I didn't even know about Hakone, I've learned a lot from reading this subreddit!)
I'm a HUGE anime nerd, my favorite is Sailor Moon. I'm hoping to find some 90s Sailor Moon merch at Mandarake. I also like shopping and arcades, but I don't wanna go to Japan just to see the inside of a mall lol.
I want to add that I can't eat pork and I'm not particularly fond of seafood, so any restaurant recommendations would be very helpful! I really wanna try Mont Blanc (no one sells it in my city!) so any suggestions for that would be appreciated as well. :)
I've tried to plan everything so that everything I'm doing on a given day is in the same area; would love to hear if there's anything I should add, remove, or move around!
DAY 1: Arrive in Japan. Depending on the time of day, maybe check out Character Street if it’s early enough; otherwise I’m really just planning to get to my hotel and get some rest
DAY 2: Ghibli museum
Shirohige Cream Puff Factory (closes at 7)
Nakano Broadway
Donguri Republic in Chuo (ghibli store) (closes at 9)
DAY 3: Shinjuku
Meiji Jingu shrine + grounds
bookstore opens at 10:30, fruits parlor opens at 11
Shinjuku Kinokuniya Bookstore! I’d like to find a manga magazine…
Takano Fruits Parlor
Shinjuku Marui Annex
Tokyo Metropolitan building in the evening
Omoide Yokocho for dinner
DAY 4: Daytrip to Kamakura:
Breakfast at Chocolate Bank - opens at 8am
Walk to Hokokuji (Bamboo grove)
Komachi-dori street
Sasuke Inari Shrine
Back to Tokyo
DAY 5: Imperial palace in the morning
Senso-ji and the shopping street leading up to it
Sanrio Gift Gate
Character Street if I missed it on day 1
Possibly going to Akihabara if I get done with everything else earlier than expected, since it’s fairly close by
DAY 6: Harajuku
Pompompurin Cafe
La Foret (Sailor Moon store <3)
Candy Stripper
Closet Child?
Kinji [Harajuku Branch]
Kiddyland
DAY 7: Hakone daytrip
Hakone Ropeway (Owakudani)
Hakone Glass Forest - opens at 10
Hakone Open Air Museum - opens at 10
Hakone Yuryo onsen - opens at 10, presumably will take ~2hrs.
Then get back to the train station, grab dinner before heading back in to Tokyo. (i think ill be hungry after the onsen lol)
Haikara Chinese Nisshintei for dinner (closes at 8) OR Hatsuhana Soba Honten (closes at 6:45)
DAY 8:
Hachiko Statue (I want a picture of it in the morning, would 7am be a good enough time to get there to avoid the crowd?)
Starbucks in Shibuya
Shibuya 109
Don Quijote
Tokyo Comedy Bar
DAY 9:
Ueno park + Museums; some museum choices include:
-Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
-National Museum of Nature and Science
-Tokyo National Museum
babe wake up it’s time for Sanrio Garden Cafe in Ueno
Ameyoko Street
DAY 10: Odaiba
TEAMLABS Borderless in the morning
Miraikan
Small Worlds Tokyo for the Sailor Moon exhibit
Concert in Shimokitazawa?
https://www.japan-experience.com/all-about-japan/tokyo/nightlife/shimokitazawa
DAY 11: Akihabara! More figure shopping.
New figure shops: Amiami (tax-free shopping), Volks Akihabara Tengoku (lots of displays), Animate (Ikebukuro flagship store), Gamers
Used figure shops: Mandarake, Lashinbang, Suruga-ya
Radio Kaikan,
HEY! Taito Arcade
DAY 12: Kawazu
Cherry tree festival
Stop in Izu on the way back to Tokyo for Izu Teddy Bear Museum [closes at 5]
DAY 13: Last day in Tokyo. Go back to something I really liked. If you want extra time in Shibuya, Harajuku… this is the time to do it!
DAY 14: Go home! Maybe have 1 really nice last meal in Japan + LAST chance to repeat anything/buy more souvenirs (most flights leave in the evening so I should have at least until the afternoon)
Thank you for any advice/answers!!
**edited for formatting

Hello, I would like to begin by saying that this project is currently a personal creative interest of mine, and I hope that this is the right place to try and take it to the next level. Specifically, I'm looking for someone skilled in programming who is open to a revenue share. The project is a 2D web or mobile multiplayer game inspired by aspects of Sid Meier's Pirates! and the Battle Royale game mode, as well as multiplayer web-games like Diep.io and Surviv.io.
Here is a detailed description with images: https://www.reddit.com/CutthroatIsles/comments/11l42r7/cutthroat_isles_plunder_royale_multiplayer_naval/
The general gameplay revolves around naval battles from a top-down perspective, where players control a customized sailing ship and can choose to play as either a pirate or as part of the navy. Pirates aim to amass a fortune by capturing NPC merchant or naval ships, other player ships, and raiding NPC island ports while staying in a safe zone that decreases in stages. Meanwhile, the Navy tries to counteract the pirates by enforcing the Safe-Zone and periodically cruising into it to target fortunate pirates. Ultimately, the goal for the pirates is to escape the map with their plunder after the Safe-Zone has shrunk and been abolished, while the Navy aims to prevent as many pirates as possible from executing their escape.
The proposed revenue strategy is a free-to-play model that uses two in-game currencies: a standard currency called Silver and a premium currency called Gold. Silver would be earned through general gameplay and used for basic ship equipment, ship builds, and simple cosmetics. Gold could also be earned in small amounts through gameplay, but it would mostly be acquired through purchases with hard currency. Gold would be used for a wider range of unique equipment, ship builds, and cosmetics.
If you're interested in joining me take this project from the concept/design phase to further development and completion, please let me know.

I (M20) had never felt an attraction to a guy before until I met my partner (M 24) in November
We got on so well and everything was effortless, I had never realised what I had been missing out on in terms of having a connection with someone and getting to know them beneath the surface (as I had never been in a relationship)
We spent 4 months seeing each other very frequently and this increased as time went on - in the last few weeks of February we were with each other nearly all day, every day.
However, there was a catch, this guy is an international student and he was only staying in the UK for 4 months…
We both knew this all along but we couldn’t help falling in love
I tried to stop liking him so much by distancing myself in January when I realised I was becoming attached - but this didn’t work, I couldn’t help but want to be with him all of the time.
I felt like he checked all the boxes for what I would want in a boyfriend and in a relationship and I expressed to him that I felt that he was the right person but it wasn’t the right time - since he was leaving and neither of us has any stability in our future (in terms of knowing what we’re going to be doing, where we are going to be living etc). We couldn’t define an end goal for us or see a definitive point in the next 10 years when we will be able to definitely be together.
Then, the end of February comes and he has to move to another country to continue with his master's degree with no plans in the foreseeable future to return to the UK. When he left, I accepted that what we had was over. I had to deal with the fact that the first guy I have ever been attracted to has now left me.
Before he left, we were on the same page and hoped that we could build the friendship and perhaps form a relationship in future if the universe brought us together again…
But then a week after leaving he completely changed his approach and told me that he wants to continue being with me and having a long-distance relationship.
This completely threw me off course and I told him that I don’t think I’m ready for that and that I feel overwhelmed and I told him that I don’t want it.
He was heartbroken and I felt so bad because I want to be with him but it just doesn’t feel real to me from a distance.
After that, we continued talking and communicating in the same way, even though we weren’t in a relationship I was still enjoying all of the long-distance things we were doing - face timing every day, texting frequently, playing on our Minecraft realm and so after 2 weeks of us ‘breaking up’ I felt completely different...
I felt like I was kind of enjoying the long distance and it wasn’t that bad I had an eye-opening moment where I realised that I still love him and I asked him to be my boyfriend over FaceTime! He instantly said yes and was very happy and I was too.
Soon after that, I booked a flight to visit him for 12 days in Slovenia - scheduled for mid-April
I have realised that asking him to be my boyfriend and booking the holiday didn't only temporarily removed the feelings of doubt.
But then 2 weeks later (present day), I feel the same way I did originally. I feel like I’m not enjoying the long distance and it’s too much to maintain knowing that I can only see him for a maximum of a few weeks at a minimum of every few months.
It just doesn’t feel like a real relationship to me, it feels like all the best things that I enjoyed with him aren’t available..like a walk in the park, our fajita Thursday nights or studying together in the library…I’ve realised that it’s the little things which made me fall in love with him - and now I’m not able to have that for months at a time.
I also feel like I’m relying on the idea of me completely falling in love with him again when I next see him and I’m worried that I won’t feel the same way. I told him that I see the trip as a turning point to define if this will work and I expressed that if the “vibes” on our trip are anything less than what they were like when he was with me in the UK then it is a sign that the distance and time gap causes the relationship to break down - no matter how much we talk or how hard we try…
He completely disagreed with me and said that he sees the trip as “another brick to our house” in terms of the relationship, no matter if the “vibes” are good or bad
He tells me that “he feels happy with the long distance” that “I’m the man of his dreams” and that “he sees no reason why it wouldn’t work”
But I feel like I’m constantly in two different mindsets which are polar opposites - one which wants to be his boyfriend forever and the other which doesn’t enjoy being in a long-distance relationship.
I feel like he is everything I’d want in a man, but he’s not here. And I know that is the reason why I’m having conflicting feelings - because I really don’t know what to do and I feel as though I’m currently in my “this won’t work mindset” however I could be in an “everything is okay and I love him” mindset next week. I just don’t know what to expect of my own feelings and it’s also not fair on him for me to be “half in half out” when he is fully in.
I feel like my head and my heart are in two different places and they each have valid reasons why.
I don’t know what to think or feel and I can’t rely on my thoughts or feelings as two sides of me are in disagreement.
What’s your opinion?

I am actually not too sure where should I go with this stuff. I feel bad enough asking random strangers for help, and I also hardly talk to anybody to build up networks to post this on social media as well. The reason I am posting this is because my grandmother is in danger on losing her home due to missing out on payments. We have been trying to help her the best that we can but things aren't going so well. We also are staying with her but COVID had hit us so hard that I lost my job to provide. I've been looking for a while but most jobs around me are looking for certain type of qualifications or degrees that I do not have. If anybody is able to spread on their social media or able to help it would be much appreciated. https://gofund.me/d2b35468

I (M 20 from UK) had never felt an attraction to a guy before until I met my partner (M 24 ) in November
We got on so well and everything was effortless, I had never realised what I had been missing out on in terms of having a connection with someone and getting to know them beneath the surface (as I had never been in a relationship)
We spent 4 months seeing each other very frequently and this increased as time went on - in the last few weeks of February we were with each other nearly all day, every day.
However, there was a catch, this guy is an international student and he was only staying in the UK for 4 months…
We both knew this all along but we couldn’t help falling in love
I tried to stop liking him so much by distancing myself in January when I realised I was becoming attached - but this didn’t work, I couldn’t help but want to be with him all of the time.
I felt like he checked all the boxes for what I would want in a boyfriend and in a relationship and I expressed to him that I felt that he was the right person but it wasn’t the right time - since he was leaving and neither of us has any stability in our future (in terms of knowing what we’re going to be doing, where we are going to be living etc). We couldn’t define an end goal for us or see a definitive point in the next 10 years when we will be able to definitely be together.
Then, the end of February comes and he has to move to another country to continue with his master's degree with no plans in the foreseeable future to return to the UK. When he left, I accepted that what we had was over. I had to deal with the fact that the first guy I have ever been attracted to has now left me.
Before he left, we were on the same page and hoped that we could build the friendship and perhaps form a relationship in future if the universe brought us together again…
But then a week after leaving he completely changed his approach and told me that he wants to continue being with me and having a long-distance relationship.
This completely threw me off course and I told him that I don’t think I’m ready for that and that I feel overwhelmed and I told him that I don’t want it.
He was heartbroken and I felt so bad because I want to be with him but it just doesn’t feel real to me from a distance.
After that, we continued talking and communicating in the same way, even though we weren’t in a relationship I was still enjoying all of the long-distance things we were doing - face timing every day, texting frequently, playing on our Minecraft realm and so after 2 weeks of us ‘breaking up’ I felt completely different...
I felt like I was kind of enjoying the long distance and it wasn’t that bad I had an eye-opening moment where I realised that I still love him and I asked him to be my boyfriend over FaceTime! He instantly said yes and was very happy and I was too.
Soon after that, I booked a flight to visit him for 12 days in Slovenia - scheduled for mid-April
I have realised that asking him to be my boyfriend and booking the holiday didn't only temporarily removed the feelings of doubt.
But then 2 weeks later (present day), I feel the same way I did originally. I feel like I’m not enjoying the long distance and it’s too much to maintain knowing that I can only see him for a maximum of a few weeks at a minimum of every few months.
It just doesn’t feel like a real relationship to me, it feels like all the best things that I enjoyed with him aren’t available..like a walk in the park, our fajita Thursday nights or studying together in the library…I’ve realised that it’s the little things which made me fall in love with him - and now I’m not able to have that for months at a time.
I also feel like I’m relying on the idea of me completely falling in love with him again when I next see him and I’m worried that I won’t feel the same way. I told him that I see the trip as a turning point to define if this will work and I expressed that if the “vibes” on our trip are anything less than what they were like when he was with me in the UK then it is a sign that the distance and time gap causes the relationship to break down - no matter how much we talk or how hard we try…
He completely disagreed with me and said that he sees the trip as “another brick to our house” in terms of the relationship, no matter if the “vibes” are good or bad
He tells me that “he feels happy with the long distance” that “I’m the man of his dreams” and that “he sees no reason why it wouldn’t work”
But I feel like I’m constantly in two different mindsets which are polar opposites - one which wants to be his boyfriend forever and the other which doesn’t enjoy being in a long-distance relationship.
I feel like he is everything I’d want in a man, but he’s not here. And I know that is the reason why I’m having conflicting feelings - because I really don’t know what to do and I feel as though I’m currently in my “this won’t work mindset” however I could be in an “everything is okay and I love him” mindset next week. I just don’t know what to expect of my own feelings and it’s also not fair on him for me to be “half in half out” when he is fully in.
I feel like my head and my heart are in two different places and they each have valid reasons why.
I don’t know what to think or feel and I can’t rely on my thoughts or feelings as two sides of me are in disagreement.
What’s your opinion?