My ex ended up unblocking me and talking to me a little, even after he did everything and hurt me by legit going to some other woman. The conversations weren't that great at first, then after it seems he was being somewhat joking/playful toward me. He was still asking for me to send myself? Like... what does this mean can anyone tell me this behavior? Why is he still trying to ask for me while he wanted to cheat and all that? Seems like he was flirting with me and is still trying to control me. He liked being in charge and having you listen to him. (Sounds bad I know). Does he now miss me, regret what he's done, or what? It's been 2 days since he last replied and he ghosted again but I'm not blocked so I'm so confused. Could there also be a reason that he isn't replying again?
For a little context, the break up was about a month ago and we had been together for 5 years.

I have a L4-L5 disc bulge anterior to the right causing subarticular stenosis. That’s what the radiologist report says even though the pain Dr says my mri was normal and they could do nothing for me. I haven’t seen the images I probably couldn’t read them anyway. My primary and my physical therapist are both going by the radiologist report. I do have to do PT before being referred elsewhere, at least 5 weeks. When I had my assessment with the PT that I had before we talked about what was wrong and he did some manipulation and decompression, he showed my husband how to help my back decompress. We hadn’t even discussed treatment until I was getting ready to leave and I said I’d like to do pool therapy, I start this week and I’ll just me walking around the 3 ft pool.
That’s the background. This all started 6-7 months ago with a fall. In the last couple weeks I’ve been experiencing numbness. Sometimes the back of my knee and the bottom of my foot tingle. Most of the time it’s my foot and it feels like hot sand being ground into it. I don’t know why this is, it started before a family emergency had me riding in a car 4 hours one way. Now it’s bad my foots always tingly and it hurts. It’s hard to sleep at night.
Any tips or tricks to help this? Slapping it isn’t helping. My calf and thigh feel weird but not tingly.

I failed. She managed to get a message through on Friday, on a platform I forgot to block her on. And her message was both (a) apologetic, apparently sincerely, and (b) indicated that she needed to tell me something about an STD.
Because I'm an idiot, I responded, thinking that I needed to know whatever it was about the STD. Since I hadn't been with anyone else, and I had lots of suspicions about her, it seemed quite plausible that she had one, and that I needed to find out what she knew. Instead, she basically told me that she was worried b/c she had "some symptoms" of something nondescript, but really, she had heard that my ex-wife was telling people that I gave her an STD that I got from my exwuBPD. And that was definitely news to me, since I definitely hadn't slept with my ex-wife! But this accusation has been hurled at me at least three dozen times over the course of the last year.
And because I'm an idiot, I started talking to my exwuBPD again, trying to be her friend. She has been through some hard things recently>! (her mother passed, possibly suicide)!<, and she could use a friend. And I'm away for work for a while, so there's no risk of me seeing her any time soon in person, so maybe, I thought, I could actually transition us to a healthy friendship.
Wrong!
We had ONE day of healthy, normal interactions. We talked, exchanged some interesting stories, and caught up.
Then she sent me a bunch of messages while I was sleeping, and deleted them all before I woke up. Weird, but whatever, she said she'd prefer to discuss on the phone. But when I called, she didn't want to talk about it, and I didn't have much to say, so it was a short conversation, and I was fine with that. Which set her off. And she proceeded to spend the next 30 minutes on the phone telling me how fucked up and in violation of social norms that was, before I finally got her off the phone and went to sleep.
Today I woke up to a couple dozen deleted messages. And then the messages demanding to know if I still wanted to talk. When I responded that I would call as soon as I got done working and asking if she was okay, she just re-asked the same question several times. And when I told her that the deleted messages made me feel uncomfortable, and that I was worried she was mad at me and going to attack me, she guilted me until I did call.
Bet you can guess what that call was like. She immediately went in to how I made her feel bad by not answering her question (apparently "I'll call in 30 minutes" isn't a good enough answer to "do you want to call"), and then by asking why she deleted messages, and then by not asking how she was doing (umm, I did just that, you just ignored me). For a good fifteen minutes, until I lost my patience, and told her the she sure did a shit job of listening (shitty of me to say it like that, yes, but also true), then hung up. I followed up by messaging her, telling her that I was going to bed, and that ending the conversation then and there was the better alternative to letting things keep going like they were.
And in response, she accused me of abusing her by stonewalling and giving her the silent treatment. Despite me actively messaging her as she made those accusations. I finally told her I was going to go to sleep, and letting her know that if she wanted, she could leave me messages that I would reply to when I got up. And her response to that: go through our message history and delete every single one of her messages from the entire last 2 days.
I knew I shouldn't have let her back in at all. I was doing pretty good, focusing on myself and things I needed to do. And now I've spent hours dealing with her, and now I'm back here, mostly just venting to y'all. And knowing that I failed, b/c I went NC with very good reason.
Time to restart that counter and try again, I guess.

this post is for families with small children.
this could have just been an isolated incident but this should not be normalized and creeps should not feel comfortable filming children in pools.
English is not my first language so please be patient with me.
me my spouse and our 3 children of 4 9 and 12 year old stayed 10 days at Disneys Aulani.
one thing that bothered me but it could just be me.
my spouse and I was relaxing watching our 3 children play in the pool (it was a smaller quiet pool off to the side no slides or gimmicks just a regular pool) when I noticed an older guy walking around in the pool holding his go pro while recording all the kids play around. immediately I felt sick but I did not want to jump to any conclusions I waited to see if he had any family with him. after I noticed him I got up off the chair to stand by the pool and I was watching him when he noticed me watching him he went to the end of the pool and just stood there. when I went to the life guard for small talk. I noticed the guy get out of the pool to stand in line at the bar I am assuming to order a drink. when I noticed this I asked the life guard is it normal for older men to be in the pool while recording she said no why. so I told her that guy over there was filming these little kids all play in the pool but I dont see him with any family of his own. at this point I was talking louder and all the adults in the pool was looking at me. I was hoping someone would say no that man is with me. I would have rather be ashamed then to know this man intentionally filmed my kids in their bathing suits playing in the pool. when the creep heard me he left the bar with out ordering and disappeared.words cannot explain how upset I was. you see this type of thing on TV and movies but you never thing you would experience it in real life.
well the point to the story is be careful. if you see an older man filming in the pool area and have no children tell the life guard. this kind of behavior is not ok.
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thank you for reading this.

I have gastroparesis and see a registered dietitian who is also a family NP. She referred me to a Neurogastroenterologist who I am seeing next week, and everyone really has hyped this guy up. It'll be my 4th GI so I hope he helps.
I guess him and his team did a paper that showed promise with the use of low dose gabapentin to improve the symptoms of functional dyspepsia. My dietitian knows he's going to want me to try it, so she's been trialing me on it before the appointment so it's one less thing to deal with. I appreciate the insight but im so over jt.
I took the 100mg and it made me feel like I was trapped inside of myself. I did it a few times, just to see, and it was the same result every time. Now she's trying to get insurance to approve a lower dose gabapentin to be compounded because it's VERY IMPORTANT I try this.
Again, I appreciate her insight and proactivity but I just do not want to do this. I don't think it will work, and gabapentin makes me feel awful

I emailed support because i couldn’t finish slumber party. They respondee with a standard reaction that I need to close and restart the game. Since it didn’t work I emailed them again. But the closed the ticket without any reaction. Did this also happen to you guys? And did you eventually get a response?

Tried to post on advice but no one answered and I am genuinely so scared) Little back story, (I’ve already contacted the police) I know it’s on me(f21)and it’s just for me to take it. But at the same time I can’t afford the money and can’t reach that person.
Last fall I had a very hard one and lost everything, I lost partner, friends and my job bc of a suicide attempt I committed. I know I’ll get bunch of “oh, suite yourself” “you shouldn’t have tried, no wonder you lost everything” and so on. I know, I don’t like me either. There is a reason why I don’t want myself to be here even and I know I can’t control being very mentally ill. But it’s on me to not take my on life and live for other people who treat me badly but think it’s selfish to do the things they either indicate would solve the problem or say straight out is the reason why they don’t want to live.
During the fall I got mixed in with the wrong crowd and got a partner”M32” that is 10 years older then me. I tried after the first period get out but with promise of economical help and being there I made the biggest mistake I could have done. I keep seeing them and after a while they got a pretty good grip on me. Ik it’s on me, even tho I lost my job and everything else/everyone around me I didn’t have anything, so having a person who help you pay your million dollar loan and wants too see you every week. I was stupid enough to let it happen. During the fall he started to misuse things that makes you extremely aggressive, he even told me about a time his friend got so mad on the drug he beat his friend up and burnt his car on fire. The friend never got charged. During the fall he happened to get investigated for tax fraud and all his accounts got locked. So he took help from the people around him to get by, one of them being me. He for instant loaded 2200$ to get back his car that got pounded so he could get back money when he sells it straight afterwards. He also needed money for furniture and I stupidly agreed to help him, the first order he sent the wrong banking address and I lost 5000$. We cancelled that order cause they were about to send it to my address instead of his, he made another order and got the things. The only thing is that I got the payment even tho I didn’t get that before. I got the payment late last year and contacted him telling him that i didn’t agree on that and he needs to solve it cause I don’t even have that amount of money anymore. He disappeared and now I can’t reach him anywhere, I thought “he has borrowed before and always paid back and bc of the drugs he ended up at the hospital and maybe he is back with a coma??”.
That was January and I’ve been trying to hunt him down ever sins then, called the company who wants the money and tried to explain that even tho it says my name I never ordered them and that even the delivery guy and name and address stands on him. But they said I need a police report and I said I was waiting for them to call. They called back and I told them that yes I agreed the first time but the second Time I never really did. I was begging them just too even see if he is alive and that I just wanted to be able to reach him, but they could only comfire he is and press charges. We can’t do any wellness checks in this country and all I could do was press charges, that I need to stop getting impounded by the company he used.
He is apparently alive and I can’t do anything to reach him and I just wanted help with that. They asked if I was a friend of him harming me and I confessed that I really do think he would harm me. And Ik “why would you care if someone who knows where you live came to you and either beat you up so badly or killed you, when you already tried to kill yourself?”.
Valid point but it might just be me who feel putting that choice in someone’s else hands is worse then doing it yourself. They said that the only thing they can do, and I pleaded if there was another way. I said that he has my address and everything, I can’t go back home then and admitted that I genuinely think I will get harmed if I pressed any charges. I even said I might do it cause then you have a recording if I do get harmed of the person who is likely to do it. When I pleaded if there was another way they said I could call when it happens and I told them that we both know that it won’t do any difference and That he will most likely get away with a slap on his wrist. If it wasn’t clear enough I really tried to ask the attorney for help but nothing have been committed so they can’t do anything. I’ve spend the whole night doing a proper death will not a letter as before, so it will be easier for the people I leave behind. So plz don’t say I deserve it and should die cause I’ve spend every single day sins June trying to convince myself the same bc other wants that and even if I call the police they only say they can’t do anything.
So basically, I’m asking if someone has any advice? I’ve tried to recover so hard the last 6 months. And Ik it’s all my fault but I cannot afford paying all this and even tho I’m crying to the police and just asking them to help me get in contact. They tell me all that they can do is press charges if I don’t want to pay it, and if he actually does show up I can call 911 then and there. Any side husels you know or anything I truly am begging

TL;DR: My Vantage M seems to delete A-GPS data as soon as it gets a GPS lock
Recently my Vantage M has been having trouble acquiring a GPS lock. So I checked the A-GPS expiry date and sure enough it said 1-1-2018. Huh, weird. So I synced my watch, checked and the date was 3-4-2023. Good. GPS lock came on in seconds.
Later that day I went for another workout and sure enough, GPS lock took ages again. I checked and what the... A-GPS expiry date was 1-1-2018 again. I did a soft reset of the watch, synced it, date was 3-4-2023 again. Checked it, lock within seconds. Went back into the menu and... A-GPS back to 1-1-2018 again. Did a factory reset, synced, date OK, GPS lock and poof date reset to 1-1-2018.
Just to rule out any glitches I tried syncing with the Android app and the Windows app and the result was the same, making me think that it's not the app somehow overwriting the A-GPS data from FlowSync with bad info (or the other way around).
Does anyone have a clue what's happening?

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The Dauntless
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“Oh wonderful. So our predictions were completely accurate?” Admiral Cistern notes.
“More or less sir, granted the worst case scenarios we sent the men into on the simulations did NOT happen, but there was a more or less total outbreak of hostilities between the gangs.” Private Stream answers and Admiral Cistern thinks.
“How responsible is project Phoenix Fire?” He asks.
“If you listen to the man’s own reports he’s responsible for everything from the Hindenburg to last night’s unrest to the sinking of the Titanic. He’d fit original sin in there as well if he thought we were a big enough sucker for it. At worst all our man did was accelerate an incredibly volatile situation. To him the gangs being almost impossible to infiltrate and unwilling to even contemplate bringing someone new in meant they were defensive and stable. What it really meant is that each gang was hyper paranoid and just looking for an excuse. Whatever he did was at most the straw that broke the camel’s back.”
“For someone who claims intelligence it’s rather stupid of him to miss that.”
“He is intelligent, but he has an ego sir. A big one. He’s been at the sidelines of society and judging the movements of peoples for centuries. Growing contemptuous and disdainful over everyone. He has learned a lot and is very capable, but he’s so cynical and dismissive of others he always settles on his first assumption and never leaves it. Sometimes it’s right, other times it’s far from it. It’s how we were able to jump on him so easily. He was so convinced that his safehouse undetectable. But to be honest... he’s not all that good at hiding them. The ones he’s set up on level eight we’ve had to cover up further.”
“I see... what’s your assessment of him?”
“We’ve observed him in action. He’s vicious, opportunistic and patient. Fine traits in a field agent, if we can carve away his arrogance, complete apathy to the death and suffering of others and outright scorn for the mental capacity of other people he might make a decent person. Unfortunately he seems to think we only have control of him because we got lucky and while he knows some ways to get us to do what he wants us to, he can’t seem to understand that we’re perfectly aware of what he’s doing.”
“So you’re saying the man needs to be humbled?” Admiral Cistern asks.
“Yes sir.”
“I’m not comfortable setting people up for humiliations and possible torture.” Admiral Cistern says politically.
“There’s little, if any need for that sir. He’s already had his first taste of humility. He has nearly died in the pursuit of the goals last night and has learned quite clearly that our insistence that all agents on the field wear at least a low profile armoured vest is a very well reasoned and intelligent idea.” Private Stream explains and Admiral Cistern huffs somewhat in amusement.
“How bad was it?”
“Point blank plasma shot. It melted through the first metal layer of the plate, burnt the first ceramic layer, slagged the second metal layer and cooked the second ceramic layer and then heated up the final metal layer red hot. This saved his life as it was right over his heart.”
“So our design works even with point blank plasma shots?” Admiral Cistern asks.
“Yes sir, but it will only take one shot at point blank range, and only from a low yield weapon. If his opponent had a plasma rifle then we would have a very dead Carib to deal with.” Private Stream answers.
“Hmm... it’ll do for now, but we’ll need to keep R&D on it.” Admiral Cistern notes. Then a coffee mug is placed to his left by another Private Stream and a third steps up to put a small tray of donuts next to it. “You’re getting good at this.”
“Sir! Thank you sir!” The Streams reply just before the door opens and Ambassador Nikta Tal walks in and pauses.
She then takes a big meaty pinch out of her thigh and blinks. “No, no this isn’t some strange fetish dream.”
“Fetish dream?” Admiral Cistern asks as she walks in and the Private Streams vanish.
“Oh you know, going airtight and still needing to use my hands for something.” She answers and his eyebrows go up. “Oh like you haven’t had little dreams of a horde of bouncy green sisters doing every nasty little thing with every part of ourselves.” Ambassador Tal says and there’s a faint pink blush across Admiral Cistern’s face. “There’s a blush, I know I got you.”
She saunters fully into the room with the secretary outside looking in with wide eyes. A stern glance from Admiral Cistern has the door close as Ambassador Tal smiles.
“So... new recruits are nearly finished.” She says walking up, a distinctive bounce to her bottom with every step.
“Yes.”
“Soon to take the oath of the Undaunted.” She continues as she hops up onto his desk and he stands so she doesn’t completely tower over him. She still bends over to give him a very good look into her cleavage. “Big cunning man is getting the sons and daughters of Centris loyal to him and his ways.”
“I do what I can.” He says very aware that the glistening black gloss over her lips not only matches her hair but from the way her tongue flicks over it she clearly either likes the taste or is eager to put it to use.
“And I’d like to do something I can. How open is your schedule?” She asks and he pokes a button on his desk.
“Free up my next two hours.” He orders his secretary. Before the confirmation comes he’s already contending with Ambassador Tal’s tongue in his mouth.
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“Uh sir you have a uhm....” Doctor Samuel says as he sees Admiral Cistern enter and notices the black smear on his jaw. Then he spots the Ambassador Tal applying more black lipstick and smacking her lips together.
“I’m aware.” Admiral Cistern states. “You wanted to see me?”
“Yes sir. This way please.” Doctor Samuel states, not mentioning that he had expected to see the Admiral an hour ago. It’s no mystery what’s going on. Not in the slightest.
“We have had several interesting tests and the initial trials with the hologram technology have proven very successful. Coupled with the prediction algorithms and we’re ready much sooner than expected when it comes to releasing fully immersive AI environments.”
“I saw the training programs. It looked fairly well done already.”
“Somewhat, we’re adapting entertainment systems to do this Sir. We didn’t have any real psychological profiles or proper interaction integration beyond injured and needs assistance or up and fighting.”
“Ah, so you’re saying the test lacked the ability to include diplomacy and intimidation as options.” Admiral Cistern notes.
“Just be careful with this tech. The Synthetic Ascendance often protests if you make a character in games like this too realistic.” Nikta says and Admiral Cistern looks at her in confusion. “Well think about it! Who plays those games more or better? They get way too involved in them and there’s more than one case where they’ve accidentally copied bits of themselves into it and had digital kids that way! Lots of fun scandals.”
The particular pronunciation of fun spoke volumes.
“Anything you’d like to get off your chest?” Admiral Cistern asks.
“But I just got the bra back on!” She states and he rolls his eyes. “But no. Just typically whine whine whine, oh your new holo-complex might have the programming required for this or that and it can be abused in this or that way and I’d rather you not have something then there by any risk at all that any citizen of mine get caught doing something they shouldn’t.”
“Sore subject?”
“Annoying subject. Bruel is a Frontier world. We need less regulations to thrive not more. Also, it’s not like we actually listen, but then some paper pusher comes screaming into my office and threatens sanctions they can’t enforce or trade embargos with nations and polities that aren’t trading with Bruel to begin with and it’s just so annoying.”
“Ah, those types.” Admiral Cistern says sympathetically. “Unfortunately necessary. Nitpickers are annoying, but needed, preferably where there’s a lot of nits to pick.”
“Nitpicker? Nit picker? An interesting way to describe the pedantic, detail obsessed and idiotic.”
“That’s basically what it means. Someone who focuses on unimportant details to the detriment of everything else.”
“As fascinating as the linguistic conversation is I do have some more for you than just the holo-training updates.”
“By all means.” Admiral Cistern states and Doctor Samuel looks quickly to Ambassador Tal and then turns to lead them in.
“As you know, we have been studying many, many differing types of weapons. So many in fact that many soldiers have taken to using compressed space techniques to carry their entire armouries in the equivalent of cigarette cases. This has been a very useful stopgap method and one I heartily encourage continued use of. But the issue is that there are numerous Axiom effects which can and will cause such things to effectively detonate. A disruption of the expanded space finds a soldier quickly buried in their concealed armoury.” Doctor Samuel explains.
“Have you found a solution?”
“We are working on a morphic weapon prototype. It is incredibly Null Vulnerable, but unlike many other Null Vulnerable techniques it’s merely disabled rather than destroyed when disrupted.” Doctor Samuel says.
“How did you do that? Is it carved in khutha?” Ambassador Tal asks.
“Lined with khutha Ambassador. We have an aluminum frame that has carved out areas lined with a thin khutha layer. This keeps the device lightweight and effective.” Doctor Samuel states as he leads them into a weapons range. Being operated by a scientist are several weapons in two different clear configurations. A long range laser and a short range plasma spread burst.
“Meet the Mark One Shift Rifle. Currently it has two modes. A short range plasma burst that spreads out in a cone three five meters long and wide. And a medium range burn laser effective out to twenty meters. It can freely shift between the two configurations and the shifting feature even works in Axiom Poor environments.”
“I see.” Admiral Cistern says taking up the weapon. “How does it work. Is it this small lever on the side?”
“Yes, you pull it out to unlock the shifting. Shift it to the desired configuration and then push it in to lock it again. The weapon will not fire while unlocked.”
“Smart safety feature.”
“One we implemented a little too late. I have a scientist in medical for the rest of the day.” Doctor Samuel states.
“I wasn’t informed about any injuries.”
First degree burn and nerves sir. We’ve had worse coffee spills. He’s getting some ointment and a day out of the lab to calm down before he really hurts himself.” Doctor Samuel explains and Admiral Cistern frowns a little as he shifts the weapon into another configuration. There’s a red aura around it now.
“Red is the plasma burst. Yellow is burn laser.” Doctor Samuel states.
“It’s a little clunky. The change was slow and required a bit more force than expected.”
“We’re working on that sir. Right now the best way around that is to give the muzzle a swing while it shifts.” Doctor Samuel advises.
“And light up half the room? No thank you doctor.” Admiral Cistern says pulling the weapon into it’s laser configuration. “Still, this will take a slight bite out of the sheer size of armouries that our boys are lugging around.”
“Our eventual hope is to get all formats of energy weapons stacked onto a single stock. Couple that with a pistol, a knife and their armour and our boys will be ready for just about any minor skirmish the galaxy over without the risk that an Axiom disruption will render someone vulnerable or your munitions easily stolen.” Doctor Samuel says.
“Hmm... still I think we’ll go with a hybrid style. Easily modified weapons in arm’s reach, but still having a moderate to large number of weapons to increase the firepower and versatility.”
“So more Doom Eternal than Jak and Daxter.” Doctor Samuel asks and Admiral Cistern just blinks at him. “Videogame references sir.”
“Doom Eternal? What kind of game is that?” Ambassador Tal asks.
“One unimaginably angry super-soldier against an unending horde of demons. And the demons are rightfully terrified of him.” Doctor Samuel explains.
“... I want to play that.” Ambassador Tal says with a big smile.
“It shouldn’t be too hard to do that.” Admiral Cistern replies.
“Can we?”
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Private Stream pointedly does NOT laugh as he brings in the latest report of what Moriarty is up to. It’s rather difficult as Ambassador Tal has embraced her inner gremlin and is sitting on the floor with a game system set up and giggling like a lunatic while she glorykills a baron of hell.
“Thank you Private Stream.” Admiral Cistern says as he takes the paperwork. The man had clearly just finally had a moment to sip his coffee and here he was with more work.
“You’re welcome sir.”
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First Last

The Atavitae are an open species based in a solarpunk world.

Calamity struck humanity in one of its most literal of forms when a vicious solar flare smashed an odd meteor-like object the likes of which have never been observed into the planet. The object, dubbed "R4GNA-R0K" by scientists, was speculated to be extraterrestrial in origin and taken elsewhere for study, but its true fate remained unknown.
On the other end of the spectrum, the fate of the known world remained in flux for several years. Natural disasters became all the more prominent before escalating a global crisis altogether. Architects created a multitude of arks intended to preserve high society at the cost of everyone and everything else, and during the final wave of the apocalypse, several billion people perished, along with most of the animal kingdom.
Those days were the days of Old Earth. Mankind has since evolved into something greater in both body and spirit, but the new world of Neo Earth is far from at ease. Mild quakes and other disturbances are activating again, and while it's nothing humanity can't handle in its current state, people have begun to worry.
Will the new generations learn from the past? Where did the object from which the disasters originated go? Is there a way to stop a repeat of the apocalypse? Only you can say for sure and change the course of evolution.
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• SCIENTIFIC NAME: Homo chimaeras (chimera man)
• COMMON NAME: Atavitae, Ark, Chimera, Splice, Grafter, Mutant
• CONCEPTUAL: The Atavitae are a brand of near-future humans. After a worldwide series of natural disasters left most of the world's creatures all but extinct, humanity spliced the animal kingdom into a number of living arks. Each ark is a person, and each person contains the genomes of different animals in their tails.
• ORIGINATION: The Atavitae were inspired by various media, including (but not limited to) 2012, Avatar, Brand New Animal, and Zootopia. By bringing therianthropes into a semi-futuristic world bordering utopia, it's meant to be a new take on an old classic.
• AVAILABILITY: Atavitae can be created and written by anyone, which makes them a free-to-play open species! That said, we do have a few house rules when it comes to character creation...
• INQUIREMENT: Atavitae questions can be sent to CrystalDisc.

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The Atavitae is an interactive multimedia science-fantasy project where everyone has a beast beneath their skin and forces beyond humanity's control fight to wipe what remains.
Written by advanced-literate writers for the same, we expect everybody to already know the in's and out's of good roleplay and discourage the use of tasteless language, violence, and sexuality.
Anyone who applies must be 18+ for the comfort of all players but sexual content is not allowed. We play on both The RP Repository and Discord.
Are you ready? Get involved today!
🔗 https://www.rprepository.com/g/atavitae

This is a story for those who are huge fans of the Jurassic Park/Jurassic World saga and have seen ALL of the films(including Dominion).
Cast: Me=Me, OG=Owen Grady, CD=Claire Dearing, ML=Maisie Lockwood, EM=Entitled Mother, CLD=Cool Dad, ND=Nice Daughter
This takes place about 2 weeks after the events of Jurassic World: Dominion.
With Dinosaurs now back in the world once more, we have started attempting to coexist. Owen Grady has decided to turn his ranch into a safe haven for some of the dinosaurs. Mostly herbivores like Parasaurolophus, Triceratops, Stegosaurus and a couple small Carnivores, including Velociraptors Blue and Beta, who are now tamed.
One very early crystal clear morning, when the sky was just starting to turn that lovely shade of orange, after we got up and had breakfast, we heard a noise coming from outside. We got outside and saw Blue growling loudly near the paddock fence.(despite being tamed, Blue can still be aggressive, but only when the situation is justified)
We looked in the direction the raptor was facing and saw 3 people get out of a car. A woman(the entitled mother, complete with Karen haircut, posture and face), a man(the cool Dad, who actually looked quite shocked at seeing real dinosaurs) and a 19 year old girl.(the nice Daughter, who despite having a similar hairstyle to her mom, wasn’t entitled or snotty)
Owen ordered for Blue to stand down and, like a good girl, she did.
Owen: *shouts* “Hey!”
CLD: “Hey! You’re Owen Grady, right?”
Owen: “Yes I am. How’d you know?”
ND: “My dad is a big fan of you. He saw videos of you training actual Velociraptors! It’s sucks that they’re gone though.”
CD: “Theyre not ALL gone. Blue is still alive.”
ND: “Really?!” *her eyes widen*
Me: ”Yes! And she has a baby.”
CLD: “Like, can we see the raptor?”
CD: “Absolutely!”
Owen does his thing with the clicker and calls out Blue’s name and she immediately comes running, followed by Beta.
ND: “Awwww she’s adorable! Can I pet her?”
OG: “You have to be careful though. She can still be very dangerous.”
Thats when the EM started.
EM: “Well if she’s soooo dangerous then why do you even have her? Besides, you’re not fooling me.”
CLD: “EM, what’re you talking about?”
EM: “This isn’t real. These things are all fake. In my church, I was taught that there are no such things as “dinosaurs.” The earth was only born 6000 years ago, not 4.6 billion. These are all, what, stupid people in costumes or some type of animatronic stuff. This is all Stupid Blasphemy.”
Owen, Claire and Maisie all shared a WTF expression. Blue even tilted her head in confusion.
ML: “Um, this IS real. You are looking at a real dinosaur in the flesh!“
ND: “Mom, please don’t start. How could you even THINK these are fake?”
CD: “You seriously can’t be that delusional.”
EM: “First of all, these so called “bones” and “fossils” were not from real animals. Satanists put these on earth to scam true religious people. And I also heard about this THING *she gestures to Maisie* being a “Clone” of a young human who “presumably” died in a car accident. Gimme a break! *mutters the R word under her breath* kid.”
Maisie gasps at this response and she is nearly in tears.
Me: “How could you say something like that?! This little girl lost her grandfather at a young age and she was kidnapped by poachers, along with the baby raptor!”
EM: *now being all smug like she knows everything* ”Well, she probably had it coming for being a disgusting FREAK of nature! Claiming to be a stupid clone and all.”
Claire gasped at this and Maisie was crying.
The baby Velociraptor came up to the ND and started nuzzling her hand, but EM decided to fricking KICK the baby dinosaur like a dog!!!
Beta shrieked and fell into the snow, but she got up. To say that Blue was pissed was an UNDERSTATEMENT! She ran up to the EM and full on TACKLED her to the ground, but due to being tamed, she knew not to actually bite. She was just growling and snarling loudly.
CD: “Call the police!”
OG: “Already on it.”
He whistled for Blue to get off of the EM and she did, but was still growling.
EM: *screaming* “YOU FREAKS WILL NOT GET AWAY WITH THIS! YOU AND YOUR STUPID FAKE LIZARD AND YOUR DUMB KID! I’M CALLING ANIMAL CONTROL AND HAVING THAT STUPID THING FUCKING SHOT!”
About 5 minutes later, the Police arrived and PO1 and PO2 walked up to us.
PO1: “What seems to be the problem here, folks?”
Before any of us could even get a word in, the EM started twisting the story and putting on fake tears.
EM: “I was just coming to tell them how beautiful their animals were, and then that A**HOLE *points at Owen* told his stupid pet Velociraptor to attack me for no reason! I want that THING KILLED RIGHT NOW!
OG: “I did no such thing, you lunatic!”
CD: “This coming from the moron who KICKED a baby dinosaur like a dog because it was playing with your daughter! And called MY Daughter a Freak of nature and a r****d!”
EM: “THAT ABOMINATION WAS GOING TO MAUL MY DAUGHTER TO DEATH YOU FAT COW!”(Claire Dearing is pretty curvy, but is in NO way shape or form, obese.)
PO2: Ma’am, I’m gonna need you to put your hands behind your back right now.”
EM: “WHAT?!”
PO1: “You’re under arrest for lying to a police officer, threatening to kill an animal and promoting kidnapping towards people with special needs *referring to Maisie*. You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defense if you do not mention when questioned, something which you later rely on in court. Anything you say may be given in evidence.”
EM: “HELP! RAPE! RAPE! RAAAAPE!!”
OG: “Oh, cut the crap! You brought this on yourself. Take her away.”
Me: “Hold up there, officers! I’d like to just do one more thing!” *I do a two finger whistle like in cartoons or movies and we hear thudding footsteps.*
EM: ”Oh that was just a stupid earthquake or a tree falling down.”
Trees were indeed falling down, but the thumps were rhythmic, and getting louder.
Me, ND, and CLD all said in unison “Don’t move!”
There was something beyond the leaves.
The EM looked up, higher.
Behind the foliage, beyond the cabin, she saw what looked like a thick body with a pebbled, grainy surface like the bark of a tree. But it wasn't a tree. She continued to look higher, slowly tilting her head upward.
She saw the huge head of Rexy, the elderly Tyrannosaurus just standing there, looking through the trees at us! EM turned her flashlight on, and the big animal rolled its head and BELLOWED in the glaring light! Then darkness, and silence again, and the chittering of night critters.
There was another pause. EM watched the scarred Tyrannosaur. The head was huge! The animal looked around slowly, scanning its surroundings and searching for prey. She seemed to stare right at EM!
In the flashlight, the eyes glowed bright red.
EM: "Jesus Christ!”
The greatest predator the world has ever known. The most fearsome attack in human history. Somewhere in the back of her Karen brain, EM was in disbelief, but she could feel her knees begin to shake uncontrollably, her trousers flapping like flags.
Man, she was frightened. She didn't want to be here. Alone among all the people on the scene, EM was crazy religious. She didn’t believe in dinosaurs. She thought that all the fossils and skeletons were a scam by satanists to thwart religion, or in her words, “Blasphemy.”
She tried to reassure herself that she was hallucinating, but her eyes were not deceiving her at all! She was looking at a giant dinosaur! But it wasn’t just any dinosaur, this was a rex! Much, much bigger! The greatest meat-eater that ever walked the earth!
Jesus!
When the Tyrannosaur roared it was TERRIFYING, a SCREAM from some other world! EM felt the spreading warmth in her trousers. She’d peed in her pants! She was simultaneously embarrassed and terrified. But she knew she had to do something. She couldn't just stay here. She had to do something. Something! Her hands were shaking, trembling in her pant pockets.
EM: “Jesus Christ!”
ML: (While wagging her finger at her) “Bad language!”
EM started whimpering and we swung our heads away from the Tyrannosaur. Our flashlights streaked laterally-in time to see EM tripping over her high heels and struggling to get back up.
The police officers cuffed her and dragged her into their vehicle while she was screaming gibberish about knowing the mayor, having a cop brother, threatening to sue.
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Needless to say, we never saw her again.
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TL;DR Stupid entitled Karen who doesn’t believe in dinosaurs, comes face to face with one.

I (15m) was/is friends with two girls and a boy, who I'll call P(15f), S(16f) and M(15m). We were in three discord servers together, one with only us 4, another one with us 4 and some other friends and the last one was a much older server also with some other friends. The first evening of the year I was in a call with M, but I had to get ready for bed, because my parents sleep earlier than me and I don't want to wake them up. I said I would be gone for 15 minutes, but it turned out to be longer. By the time I came back he was in a private call with P, who he has a huge crush on and she has a crush on him, but doesn't want a bf yet. They were playing a 2-player game, but didn't want to join me in the call in our server. I sent some angry texts and they responded quite toxically and didn't care to join. Problem is that I felt very much like a second choice to M the last couple of days/weeks, while S definitely wasn't like that to P. The next day the three of them were in a call and they wanted me to join, but I ignored them because I was still mad. The day after that it was the same, however S sent me a message asking if is was still mad at P and M, to which I didn't respond. On January 4 P asked me if I was mad (I obviously was) and I again didn't respond, later that day she had wanted to ask me if I wanted to go out with them and grab dinner that holiday (we had holiday at that time in the Netherlands), but I probably didn't want to because I ignored her. I then replied that I was indeed still very mad at them. After that I decided to leave all group chats with them, except the older server. The next day I finally replied to the text from S and we talked a bit. I felt awful the rest of the holiday. I had to see them at school of course and I never talked to P and a whole lot less with S and M. My friendship eventually got better, because he always sits next to me in the classes we share, we have an assignment together and he was my best friend. I got really depressed that couple of weeks and had suicidal thoughts. Once during a PE lesson I had to play a match against P and M and P pushed me over a bench by accident (kinda) and messed up my goal and she found it really funny and I pretended to not know who did it. Later that day I sent a message in the older discord server about how saying sorry doesn't fix anything (pointed towards M) and about my depression and suicidal thought and about how funny P found it that she tripped me. I then leaved that discord server. I almost never cried in my life, but during my depression I cried a lot, like almost every day. I have considered trying to fix everything, but I'm scared of how they'll react, especially P. I also feel like I've been exaggerating and its all my fault. Let me know what you think, so I know what to do

So long story short, my front tooth filling on the right came out less than a year since I got it done at a private dentist and I had to go back today to get it fixed for the second time. Fair enough these things happen...but what I'm really not happy about is being told lies as they said this would be fixed free of charge which wasn't the case at all after visiting the practice today.
I am now being charged £255 for a filling that should've been fixed for free, and they're now trying to tell me I did not get the filling done at the practice before and that's why I'm being charged? Absolute bunch of lies! They're not being transparent at all, and I can't help but feel they deliberately mislead me into thinking my broken filling would be fixed free of charge (they informed me of this over the phone and was apparently approved by the manager) just so they could get even more money out of me! I've argued about this over the phone and they're not budging at all. Only good thing is that I haven't paid the fee yet!

I received a score of 70, told I passed but likely to not get hired because I didn't score within the top ranks.. it seems you need to get 90 or better to succeed. It is very competitive.
Did anyone get a 90 on here? What does it take? I think maybe the personality questions weren't as straight forward as I thought. I have no clue why I got a 70. I thought I did very well....
Please share your thoughts below.

For today's episode, the challenge was the blind taste test.
First up was Tommy and Jamie, and Jamie and Tommy both scored one. However, Elizabeth failed to score any points while Will scored one. Paul and Jennifer then both scored one, and Natalie ended up scoring one whilst Jason scored zero. In the end, Elise would get the win for blue after scoring three against Jamie who went again, who scored two this time.
The blue team was rewarded with a horseback trip to Hollywood’s highest point for lunch, while the red team was punished by taking in a delivery of 200 pounds of grapes and make jam out of them for the Steakhouse service.
For the steakhouse service, things did not go well.
The red team would serve first, and made it through without many problems. In the kitchen, Tommy would fail to communicate several times, while Elise was a nightmare on the meat station, setting fire to it and bringing up several raw and overcooked strips. Eventually, Ramsay shut down the blue kitchen as they ran out of time with five tickets remaining, and the red team had to apologize to the blue diners.
When the roles were switched, Tommy had troubles writing down orders, whilst Elise sent up an improperly written ticket. In the kitchen, things were not much better, as Elizabeth struggled on apps, and Jamie would start falling apart on garnishes, to the point that Ramsay shut down the red kitchen.
Both teams were declared joint losers, and Ramsay berated Tommy for not communicating with his teammates while telling Elise she was not working well with a team. Elise argued against that, leading to an argument that only ended when Jason furiously told her to shut up, calling her a little cunt. Ramsay would tell the chefs to nominate one person from their team.
During deliberation, the argument between Elise and Jason continued, resulting in Paul wondering if Jason was worth keeping around.
At elimination, Jennifer announced Jamie as the Red Team's nominee, while Paul announced Elise as the Blue Team's nominee. Ramsay said he respected those decisions, but he wanted to hear from some others, and called Elizabeth and Tommy up as well. After listening to their pleas, he started by sending Tommy and Elizabeth back in line, before eliminating Elise for her awful performance on the meat station and failing to gain the respect of anyone on the team, although he praised her resilience.
HK9 Your Way (Part 11) - Online Poll - StrawPoll.com
RED TEAM: Elizabeth, Jamie, Jennifer, Natalie
BLUE TEAM: Jason, Paul, Tommy, Will
18th. Steven
17th. Chino
16th. Carrie
15th. Brendan
14th. Amanda
13th. Monterray
12th. Gina
11th. Jonathon
10th. Krupa
9th. Elise

A lady was at a work event today who I spent a few months working with not long ago. She was always very nice to me and said I did well. I was excited to see her again. After the time we worked together I sent her and the others there a 'Thank you' and she emailed saying she really enjoyed working together. I know we weren't 'friends' as she's very much my superior but I thought we were on friendly terms.
At the event I spoke to all of the others, and saw her chatting to other people.
At the end she was at a table handing out brochures. She saw me but then looked down and ignored me. I said Hi and smiled and she did a very quick glance then looked away but said "Hi how are you?" I said "Yeah good thanks you?" She sharply and rapidly said "Good good good" like ushered me off and said "Hi how are you" to the next person. Like she wanted me to leave asap.
It kinda hurt. I feel I did something wrong but everyone else was fine with me. I don't know why she talked to everyone else apart from me, or why she shooed me off like that. Literally nothing has happened since the very nice "Thank you" email 2 months ago. I know I can't dwell on it but it's confusing. I just want to know the reason. Has she just forgot me or was I sadly just a number to her?
I'm a girl btw this was just a work situation with someone I admired in a work context.
TL:Dr: College I trained with for months last year seemed unhappy to see me at a work do. I don't know why and it's hurt.

I’m not even talking about the orders, which generally suck. I’m talking about the actual app itself. It’s the worst app I have by far. Here’s a list of reasons why:

1. The app drains my battery. I can’t have the app on for more than maybe 45 minutes before my battery is completely drained. This doesn’t happen with DoorDash or any other app. For whatever reason the Uber app destroys my battery life
   
2. You can’t ignore the offers. On DoorDash, if you swipe up on your screen, the offer doesn’t come back. On Uber, it doesn’t matter, it demands that you acknowledge it. It’s really annoying as hell, plus the sound makes me want to punch something. It’s really grating on the ears
   
3. Trip radar- This might be the most useless function of any app. You will get pinged with trip radar, then get the offer again. I hate this function, and have found no way to turn it off. The few times I have tried to take a trip with trip radar, the offer got matched to another driver. The whole thing just seems pretentious as hell
   
4. There’s too much crap going on the app, it’s too difficult to contact support. The app is just confusing. When I first started, I had a hell of a time contacting support about an issue. There’s no functionality at all with this app. It actually stresses me out at times.
   

Anyone have anything to add?
Edit: I forgot about that stupid hand gesture they have now on the app. That’s annoying as hell too.

Hi, I'm 22 years old. I have my bachelor's degree in education. I chose this path because education seemed meaningful to me. I didn't have a good experience in school when I was younger, so I thought I'd become a teacher and I'd be able to help kids like me. I wouldn't label teaching as a passion of mine, though. I don't think I have any passions. All I know is that teaching is important and when deciding my major, it was the one I gravitated towards.
I am currently a paraeducator at a high school. I've been here since the start of the new year. And I am having so many second thoughts. I just keep thinking I could be doing something more, something "better," something that makes more money. I don't have a partner and I don't want to count on getting one or doing anything for me, so that is contributing to my doubts, since I realize I want to make more money. It feels silly to commit myself to a life that I know won't make a lot of money when I still have the chance to back out. I know teachers get good pensions, and time off, but I can't shake the feeling of "I should be doing something else." And as a paraeducator, I don't know how much I actually want to be in an actual teacher's role. I feel kind of worn out and depressed, but I've been dealing with these feelings most of my life so I don't know how much can be attributed to working at a high school. But I also think if this was my dream job, wouldn't I be happy? I've built rapport with the students, they seem to like me and respect me, I care for and respect them, I'm on track to fulfilling what younger me thought I would've wanted. So why am I so upset and dissatisfied? I am 22, my options should feel limitless? Are they? I feel confined to the path younger me chose for herself. But now that I am here, I think I should venture off and do something better. Why did I pay the same amount for college as people getting comp sci degrees or are going into medical fields who will make so much more money than I would if I do proceed with the field of education? Im mad at my younger self for being careless.
Advice I've gotten/things I've considered so far:

1. Get my teaching credential and to just try it out, if I don't like it, I could leave. My issue with this is that I don't believe teaching should be taken that lightly. Kids are counting on me to preform and teach them. I don't think it would be right of me to "experiment" with it and then just be like bye! the minute I decide I don't like it. If I go and get my teaching credential, I want to be sure of it.
2. Take different kinds of classes at community college to see what strikes your interest. I like this idea but it hurts my ego and makes me feel like an idiot if im being honest. I already went to community college, and then transferred to a 4 year to get my degree. To go backwards feels like a major blow. It feels like a waste of time. And it makes me feel ashamed that my life isnt panning out the way I thought it would.
3. To consider jobs that require an education degree, but aren't exactly teaching (such as admin)Or to consider jobs outside of education that'll hire you with any bachelor's degree?
4. Trade school. Ive lightly considered this idk what I'd do, I just know its an option.

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If anyone took the time to read this, I really want to say thank you. I guess my question would be, genuinely, what do you think I should do? Please don't say "only you can know that" because honestly I don't. I need some guidance.

I was employed by a company in Texas (but I am located in Oregon) until August of last year when I was laid off. I had a HDHP that made me eligible for a HSA account, which I continued through COBRA until the end of the year – making me eligible to max out my account for the year. After my final paycheck/severance cleared, I made a one time deposit to fully fund the account for the year (based on contribution numbers my bank provided) and then immediately reimbursed myself which emptied the account.
When I began filing my taxes, the HSA contribution amount listed on my W2 was higher than I expected. When I added in my additional contributions, the combined number exceeded my limit for the year. I knew that I had done my math correctly when fully funding the account, so I began combing through the listed transactions at my bank compared to my paycheck deductions. Lo and behold, I found a paycheck where the contribution was deducted from my pay but was not deposited into my account. Because the account is empty, I have no way of withdrawing my excess contribution.
I called the bank to see if it was an issue on their end, but as expected, the transaction was not in their system. I then reached out to HR explaining that the contribution was missed and I needed an amended W2 as well as a check for the amount deducted from my paycheck that I did not receive. They responded saying they’d look into it. I have followed up weekly asking for an update and at first they were responding with a generic “oh we’re still trying to figure it out,” but have not responded in almost a month. My first email was over 6 weeks ago.
I’m kind of at a loss for what to do at this point. I’m attempting to find a phone number to try and reach out that way, but so far no luck. I know I still have a little bit of time before I actually have to file my taxes, but I don’t feel hopeful it’ll actually get resolved based on the interactions I’ve had with them during this issue and previous ones. Do I just start emailing them more frequently to annoy them into solving it? Do I bite the bullet and just accept that I’ll have to pay the excess contribution penalty? Do I escalate by mentioning legal action and hope they don’t call my bluff? (the missing amount is only ~150, so it really wouldn’t be worth it). Something else?
If anyone has any advice, I would greatly appreciate it. This has been beyond frustrating for me – I just want to never have to deal with this company again.

Hello there. I’m not exactly sure where to post this and the flair but mainly I need this off my chest and maybe get some kind of support because I am not sure what to do really..
I (29F) have been.. sorta seeing this guy (37M) since last year. It’s complicated. Those kind of things where you started FWB, one falls in love (or both) then one pulls away and never tells you why. You know you both love each other but one is holding back a LOT and they never or couldn’t tell you why.
I stayed in contact regardless of how complicated and difficult our situation was. I mostly was the one who kept reaching out. I love him dearly despite barely seeing each other in person. He never told me off although he did distanced himself a lot.
Fast forward to this year, he eventually opened up to me and said he’s been accused of sexual assault and that’s the main reason why he didn’t want to be in a relationship with anyone and he strictly enforced that between the 2 of us including no kissing or sex since last year. He said it’s unfair for me and for him. So he wanted us to stay just friends.
Other than the fear of finding out how I’ll react to this, he believes he is going to lose and be sent to jail anyway.. the way I view him hasn’t changed and I love and care for him still.
His court date is next month, April. I have a lot of fear and he of course does too. I’m not exactly sure what to do and how to deal with this. All I have been doing is show up and be there for him as a friend and he appreciates everything I’ve been doing..
I fear losing him. Not seeing him for a long time. Or, ever. I’m not exactly sure what to do before, during or after his court date. Idk much about these. I don’t know what I can do while awaiting for that date.
He hasn’t responded to my text since yesterday which is unusual. I even fear that he may not want to see or contact me anymore leading up to it, just to make it easier for the both of us. He tried a month ago but he said “Having you as a friend is more valuable to me than not having you around”
Which I don’t want to happen.. I just don’t know what to do. I fear he might just cut ties altogether and disappear without telling me but what can I do..

A lady was at a work event today who I spent a few months working with not long ago. She was always very nice to me and said I did well. I was excited to see her again. After the time we worked together I sent her and the others there a 'Thank you' and she emailed saying she really enjoyed working together. I know we weren't 'friends' as she's very much my superior but I thought we were on friendly terms.
At the event I spoke to all of the others, and saw her chatting to other people.
At the end she was at a table handing out brochures. She saw me but then looked down and ignored me. I said Hi and smiled and she did a very quick glance then looked away but said "Hi how are you?" I said "Yeah good thanks you?" She sharply and rapidly said "Good good good" like ushered me off and said "Hi how are you" to the next person. Like she wanted me to leave asap.
It kinda hurt. I feel I did something wrong but everyone else was fine with me. I don't know why she talked to everyone else apart from me, or why she shooed me off like that. Literally nothing has happened since the very nice "Thank you" email 2 months ago. I know I can't dwell on it but it's confusing. I just want to know the reason. Has she just forgot me or was I sadly just a number to her?
I'm a girl btw this was just a work situation with someone I admired in a work context.
TL:Dr: College I trained with for months last year seemed unhappy to see me at a work do. I don't know why and it's hurt.