My roommate is moving out in a few months and I'm unable to meet the requirements to stay, so I need to find a roommate to take their place.
Apartment is a 2 Bed 1 Bath at Park Avenue Apartments on 51st street off of Fowler.
Apartment includes laundry, water, and wifi/cable. Rent being split 50/50 comes up to around $750-850 depending on if/how much they raise rent for the upcoming leasing period.
Students preferred as the complex allows you to apply with a guarantor.
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Sorry for the long post but wanted to put lots of context into this.
This past weekend, my friend (single mother of 2 kids) asks if I can help her move apartments. She tells me she has a new apartment and need to clear everything out of her old place in two weeks. She says she will pay for any gas I use plus provide food as needed. I agree and head over around 9 am. When I get to her place, nothing is packed. We proceed to put things into boxes until about 12 pm.
“Hey can you do me a favor? My mom needs some help so can you continue to pack while I head to her place really quick. It’s only gonna be 30 minutes.” She says. I agree and she heads out. I continue to stay behind and pack. It’s about 1:30 pm now and I’m starving.
“When are you coming back? I’m hungry.” I text.
“Sorry my mom asked me to go run some errands with her. Can you please help me and continue to pack? I promise I’ll take you out to a nice dinner later.” She replies.
“Ok but are you gonna come back and help me? Is anyone else coming to help me?”
“Not really…I’m sorry I don’t feel comfortable asking other guys to come to my house and handle my personal things. I can trust you. Plus I don’t want people other than you or my mom knowing where my new place is.”
Although I think this is messed up, I agree and continue to pack. She finally shows back up at 4 pm with a uhual which surprises me.
“You got a uhual?” I ask.
“Yeah I figured it would be easier to just rent a uhual to move the bed and sofa.” She says.
“We’re moving that today? I thought you had two weeks to move out. Are you trying to move everything TODAY? Your new place is only 5 miles down the road.”
“Well yeah…I’m paying for the uhual so duh we’re using it today.”
“And there’s no one to help me lift and carry your big bed?”
“I’ll help you don’t worry. Like I said you’re my best friend and the only one I trust being here and knowing where my new place is so I don’t feel comfortable asking any other guy friend to help cause all they want is to flirt and hold me.” Not wanting to fight, I just continue on.
We start moving her bed frame from the bedroom to the outside until her neighbor comes up to us. They start speaking in Spanish which I can’t understand.
“Hold up I’ll be right back. Just a moment.” My friend says as she walks off with her neighbor. I wait for about 10 minutes until I go looking for her. I find her at her neighbors apartment sitting and drinking tea.
“Are you gonna help me move your bed frame into the uhual?” I ask.
“Yeah sorry I’ll be right there.” She says. I walk back to the apartment. I figure I’d make myself useful and start loading boxes into the uhual. Finally after almost an hour of waiting I get fed up and start moving the bed frame to the uhual by myself. I inch my way to the truck little by little. At one point, a different neighbor sees me and offers to help me which I am so grateful for. He also offers to help me move her sofa into the uhual. 7 pm now and everything is magically loaded into her truck now. She FINALLY shows back up but she’s in tears. Although I’m very angry, I first ask what’s wrong.
“My neighbor is so sweet. We just talked and she kept saying how sweet and kind I am and how much she will miss having me around and that god will bless me in my new life.” I count to 10 in my head and resist the urge to tell her off but don’t. I tell her that everything is packed but if we can call it a night and unload this stuff at her new place tomorrow. She agrees and I ask if we could go to the dinner she had offered. She says yes but just then she looks at her phone.
“Hey. I need you to get the fridge back out. Someone on Facebook offered to buy it from me.” She says.
“What? You’re selling your fridge?” I say.
“Yeah I already have a fridge at my new place and asked anyone on Facebook if they wanted my old fridge. Someone just said they want to buy it. I need you to get the fridge back out and help me clean it right now. They’re literally on their way!” The fridge is located in the uhual behind a bunch of boxes. I frantically move the boxes out of the way and we clean the fridge quickly as the buyer shows up. I help the buyer load the fridge into his truck as my friend chats with the buyers wife. We both get into the uhual but she says we need to divert to a house about 30 minutes away first cause she wants to buy a lamp from a lady she saw on Facebook marketplace. I ask her if this is essential business right now to which she says yes.
“The lady will only be home until 8 pm so we need to go now. Don’t worry I’ll buy us dinner.” We go and she buys the lamp which is huge by the way. I load it in the uhual and we head to her new apartment. I park the uhual and ask if we could go to dinner now.
“Can we unload the truck?” She ask.
“I thought we’d agree that we’d do this tomorrow? It’s almost 9 pm and we’re still moving.” I say.
“Well they said if I return the uhual to them tonight I won’t get charged for tomorrow. They have a overnight drop off location.” Unbelievable I think to myself. We start unloading and magically everything is off the truck and into her new place by midnight.
“Hey you messed up by bed frame.” She says pointing to a small scratch by the footboard.
“Well I’m sorry you wouldn’t help me load it into the truck.” I say.
“You could’ve waited like I asked and I would’ve helped you. This bed frame was expensive and it’s not cool that you messed it up.”
“You gotta be kidding me right? After I’ve helped you move all day, you want to give me an attitude like that?”
“I’m not giving you an attitude. You’re the one getting all dramatic for no reason now.”
“You know fine. I’m outta here. Forget about dinner. Thanks for wasting my day.” I leave and call an Uber to get me back to my truck at her old apartment.
“You’re fucked up. You’re suppose to be my best friend. I told you I only trust you and yeah maybe I asked a lot from you but that’s no reason to blow up on me. I actually made late dinner reservations for us but now I guess I’ll go alone or cancel. Thanks for nothing.” She texts. I ignore it. After I get my truck I drive home and go to bed.
The next morning I check my instagram and see she went out to dinner after I left last night but she definitely wasn’t alone as she was posting stories of toasting drinks. This slightly angers me. Later that day, she calls to apologize. She says the move was stressing her out and her impending divorce made her lose focus. She offered to take me out to lunch but I declined. She begged me to come over so she could take me to lunch but I still said no thanks.
Advice on how things could’ve been handled differently or how to proceed with this friendship? I am very angry over her treatment of me but also somewhat sympathetic for her divorce and stress.

We’ve been together for over a year and have lived together for over 10 months. I moved in with him due to a freak situation and it’s been great.
Some relevant context:
Until recently, my bf refused to wash any kind of produce. I would separately rinse the produce I was going to eat. This continued until he got sick, had a routine colonoscopy, and his doctor noticed a GI infection. He told him to start washing his produce, and he finally agreed it was a good idea.
A few weeks later, my BF took our steak leftovers out of the fridge and onto the counter in a Tupperware. About 4-5 hours later he went to heat it up. I thought about his GI issue and said something, esp because I was also going to eat that meat. I said “hey, just so you know, that’s a potential food safety issue.” He was confused, and I explained that meat shouldn’t be left at room temperature for >2 hrs. Did I think it was going to kill us? No. I ended it with saying that it’s probably fine but in general it’s better to not leave meat at room temperature for more than 2 hrs. He mentioned that his cookbooks suggest letting meat get to room temperature before reheating them, but moved on.
After dinner, I did the dishes. The sink was fully of dirty dishes that had mayo/oil on them. I saw that he had put the clean InstaPot lid on top of the dirty dishes. IMO, that creates another thing for me to clean. I think it makes more sense just to put the InstaPot on a towel (bc it gets wet with steam) on the counter instead of in the dirty sink.
So, I asked “does the InstaPot lid need to be washed?” and he said no. I started to say “oh okay. If you don’t mind, in the future—“ and he cut me off by saying “oh great, here comes another dressing down.” I stopped talking & became upset because he always accuses me of dressing him down. I don’t mean to be motherly/domineering. I just wanted to ask him to not put it in the sink because then I have to wash it when mayonnaise gets all over it. We ended up having a massive argument about this and he said that the right thing to do in both situations was for me to say nothing at all. I don’t think I was demeaning in how I said it.
I feel that his solution is rude and unfair. If I live in the house too, why am I not allowed to have an opinion on something that affects both of us? Why can’t I suggest a different way of doing things if I believe it makes more sense? Even if we disagree, by asking I can find out his rationale for his method of doing things and then maybe I will agree and then the issue is solved. I don’t think it’s fair that I have to just shut up and do things in what I perceive to be an inferior way because the mere suggestion that his method could be improved upon constitutes a “dressing down.” I think the solution is that he should be less sensitive to perceived criticism. That argument was never resolved and we sort of agreed to disagree, which doesn’t solve the issue of our communication.
Cut to now: We were expecting a maintenance man but didn’t know when. I slept in yesterday as it was Sunday. I awoke to the sound of knocking at our door and ringing the doorbell. It was 9:30 AM and I was naked in bed so I called my bf (he was on balcony). I said “I just woke up to knocking on the door. Please don’t let them in because I’m naked.” He didn’t really respond but I heard him let in the worker. I like to be clothed/look presentable if we have other people in the apt, so I threw clothes on and began brushing my teeth/washing my face. I knew the worker would eventually be coming into the master bath to fix something in the shower, so I was hustling. Before I could finish washing my face, my bf asked if they could come look at the shower. I asked for a couple mins. Finally, I left the bathroom and had to awkwardly say hi to the guy while still looking a mess because I hadn’t had time to brush my hair. I ended up going into the one room where I knew the maintenance worker wouldn’t go, which was the other bathroom. I sat in the tub for like 20 mins until he left. When I left, my bf goes “oh no, you had to hide in the bathroom!” I was pretty annoyed but decided I didn’t want to have WWIII that early in the morning and let it go.
This recent issue is still unresolved and I want to address it. I would like to ask him to check with me before letting someone in our apartment. How do I say that without dressing him down?
Am I the problem here? How can I effectively communicate my concerns/preferences to him without coming across as dressing him down?
TLDR: My bf accuses me of dressing him down every time I ask him to do something differently. I want to ask him to ask me before letting people in our apartment in a way that he doesn’t perceive as being dressed down, but I don’t know how to do that.

Hi all! New to this thread here — I (22F) am currently sitting on a nest that I have built up over the last couple years. It’s not a LOT but for most people my age it’s enough for me to invest, start a small business, etc. I worked hard to save this up, and would like to use it wisely. I was wondering what are some good ideas for generating passive income? I have tried to look into flipping and renting out apartments, stocks, etc but not sure which options suit me. Any ideas/insight/personal experiences?

Hey!
I've started sort of looking into housing. I'll be startingn my bachelors in Enschede or Maastricht, and my partner her Masters at the same university. Since we're mainly looking to rent a Studio or apartment, does the housing crisis still affect us as much in these areas? From my short looks at Kramernet and other housing websites, it seems like with a budget of 800-1300 EUR, there are TONS of offerings. Is it as bad / hard to find a place to stay as it's made out to be?
My previous experience with shitty housinng markets includes trying to find a room or apartment in Konstanz, a German university city I was living and working in for a few years. Usually searching for a room 1-3 months ahead of time was possible, but the main problem here was that getting a shared apartment to pick you over the 50 other applicants was nigh impossible. I would assume that this is not a problem when renting an apartment or studio straight from a landlord from e.g. Kramermet?
I'm far from rich and don't have parents, so I want to avoid renting a place 5 months before I even start the semester if at all possible. Please do advise me what I should do and what our best options would be to find housing!
Thannks in advance :)
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Bonus question: Will my partner (US Citizen) be eligible for the cheaper 2300 EUR tuitionn fee? Based on my chat with the IND this would be possible if we apply for verification against EU law, but I was wondering how surefire this way to go is and if there are any other things we should be aware of.

Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on where and how to find a place to rent for one person. I was renting a 2 Br with a family member, however due to their health they are no longer able to keep going. I make roughly 3k a month, I’m looking for a place no more than $1200. I’m trying to have money left over for bills and school lol. I’ve only looked through Zillow and apartments.com but I can’t find anything. Is there any advise or place I can try looking into ?

Hi everyone, I'm looking at moving in somewhere in the general Tigard area or just outside of it to shorten my commute a bit. I've been Googling and reading reviews for some apartments in the area but figured it would be smart to ask some residents.
I'm not looking for somewhere cheap but I also want to make sure where I'm going provides good value for the cost. I'd like to keep cost of rent under $2000 but flexible for the right complex. No pet requirements. I was hoping for a pool/hot tub, and preferably somewhere with grass and trees so it's not just a bunch of buildings in a parking lot.
I know you can't trust every bad review but have seen a number now saying something along the lines of, "don't waste your money here, you can get a way nicer place for cheaper." So where is that place?

this fall i (20f) lived with four other people. 3 girls ~ 20-22 years of age and a boy call him ron (19m). i left school unexpectedly and moved out end of september. since then he stole $250, trashed my apartment bathroom, used the id he convinced me was “lost” for his friends to sneak in the bar, used my room as a guest room even suggesting he could rent it out for extra cash, and i suspect he may have killed my fish. anyway, after discovering he had blocked me about a month ago i had my room locked and told him he was not to use it ever. He chose to call maintenance and lie and say he locked himself out of “his” room (my room) and got it unlocked by the workers. he immediately made the bed for someone to use and fully thought his behavior is ok. i said if he does this again i will press charges but based on all the patterns of behavior he will not stop trying to use my room and stuff with just the threat of charges. would i be the asshole if i did press charges now instead of waiting for him to act out again? he broke the law several times throughout this and there is evidence to convict this charge.

Tw: mention of potential suicide.
They're also my ex. I'll try to be brief but idk that's hard. From the start when we gave them a place to stay where I live with my mom, they promised they'd move out in 1 or 2 months without rent in exchange for extra chores, there was instability at their previous place and they had a mental breakdown through text, a series of very many texts that expressed all they needed was a stable home, so I reacted in panic by offering them a place.
Bc their ADHD they would struggle to look for work and frequently not follow up with it, and lo and behold they're still here after over 3 years. They also frequently do not do chores and also leave a mess for me and my mom to clean. Eventually my mom was over it. Not only did they never pay any living expenses here including food, she even cooked for them sometimes. They did eventually start doing lyft though but it's hard to make enough since they have the lyft rental. And my mom is struggling with money, she and I have just had a fight because we don't know a solution about making more money to pay for our bills.
They never got their ADHD treated despite me finding them an assessment and also I have autism so it's not easy for me either. I finally gave them a therapy mandate---I told them it's required.
Throughout the relationship they have mentioned that they'd rather commit suicide than be homeless. It was never stated as a threat, but for me, I always remember it. And now my mom gave them a deadline so they had another mental breakdown (they had them on and off many times the past 3 years, many of which resulted in me offering them money for their debts.)
So my mom finally set her foot down, gave them a deadline (2 months) and since they had their breakdown, they said they'd really actually change.
Well, since then this past weekend they barely worked. I was understanding on Friday since it was fresh and they said they were too anxious. But Saturday they only worked a bit, maybe an hour or two. Then yesterday they asked me to give them back rub so they can have some comfort before work. I did so, but they didn't work.
The entire day they spent at home. If you guys know lyft, supposedly weekends are more lucrative, and they just skipped this weekend despite insisting they'd change. Despite having to pay the lyft rental. If they're changing, why aren't they working? That's the only way to better their situation with housing.
I, who have been struggling with my own anxiety since their last mental breakdown, just lost control today. I shouted at them, saying that they only think about their own mental health while I'm falling apart dealing with this, and how I always walked on eggshells not to set off another mental breakdown around them.
Well, I think it probably made them feel worse. I'm trying so hard because I don't want them to kill themselves. I don't know what to do. I don't believe anything they'll say anymore because all the times they didn't follow through. I don't think I can handle this anymore.
I also know for sure that if they do end up committing suicide it's going to affect me for the rest of my life. I'm already traumatized about my dad's dead from illness and feeling responsible. I don't think I'll be able to move on if they kill themselves.
I also struggled with being suicidal in the past and used to self-harm. And I do so much to try to keep myself mentally healthy because of it.
I'm also currently waiting for the finalization of my Healthcare packet so I can get therapy, too.
Anyone have advice?

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Some context Me and my family immigrated from Africa, and we were really struggling for the first few years, but now we have found stability in our current community. My parents are divorced and me amd my siblings live with our mom. Now my brother really wasn't the type of person he is now a few years ago. He used to be an alr person although it seems to me he held some type of grudge against me from we were younger, I don't know why but he did try to insult and mock me in front of my mom since I was around 7ish. It's whatever, to be completely honest, it's not even 10% as bad as what he treats me like right now.
Recently, it feels like he just seems to do whatever he wants and says whatever he thinks will get him what he wants. He moved out when my mom offered for him to stay for free with food and everything he'd need, but instead, he decided to leave. Now, for the first 3 months, everything was alright. While it seems he was not trying to talk to us, he was still thriving. But now, for the last 5 months, he has not been paying his rent and does not buy food. He just pushes those bills on my mother to pay for him. My mom is working 2 jobs where she takes most of the shifts just to be able to cover all of our finances. She now has the burden of paying for our home and my brothers apartment, his food, and its utilities. The money he makes from his job just disappears and he doesn't have money at the end of every month.
Another issue we have is that my brother, although being an adult, is very immature. He does whatever he can to get what he wants. This includes lying, emotional manipulation, hemorrhaging our finances, and then gaslighting my mom. It's like he can never stop. He'll take an interest in getting something, use one of the classic methods of manipulation to get it, then forget to even pay thr damn thing off. My mom wanted to be nice and get my brother a new car just because he was driving a shitty one. She wanted to get him this nice 21k Volkswagen that was new and had low mileage. But he didn't want that. He wanted a 30k Mercedes with high mileage. He has such a bad credit score that my mom had to cosign the car. He made a promise to her that if he got the car, he'd come back to live with us. My mom, being someone who doesn't believe in forming contracts, puts her trust in him. Guess what he didn't do. He hasn't even gotten off his ass to get the car some insurance.
My brother also has an addiction to eating junk food and told my mom that he got diagnosed with diabetes. He just turned 20. I have offered to train him to help him live his best life. He still hasn't even responded to me. I'm doing the best I can here, I'm a 16 year old who is trying my best to give advice to my mom that she should just cut him off. She doesn't want to listen to me. She believes he will change. My family has a goal of buying our own house in a year, and I've been telling my mom that she should cut him off cause he is hemorrhaging money from our savings.
The car he decided to get was too expensive for him, he might have to default on the car. This will ruin my mom's credit score. We are stuck between a rock and a hard place to put it kindly.
He also vapes, he's tried to get me into it. I don't vape tho. Another issue with his lifestyle. There is just so much stuff he has done that I keep remembering each and everything and it's hard you know.
Just wanted to get this off my chest. It'd been really stressful for me recently.

I received verbal notice from my landlord that he is selling the mixed use building I live in and have lived in for 9 years in Toronto, Ontario.

There are two apartments overtop two commercial units downstairs. I've lived here 9 years, my neighbour has been here 14 years. My landlord occupies one of the commercial units downstairs, and he rents out the other one. They've started construction in the building and because of the lousy sound proofing I can hear it 3 floors up through the walls/floors.
I asked the LL about the construction noise as it's disruptive and loud. He responded with it'll be a couple weeks, they're renovating because they're selling the building 'sometime in the summer.' He also mentioned that the new owners want to convert the upstairs apartments into commercial use and that he was basically 'giving me lots of notice' I haven't received paperwork.
I talked to him today and he confirmed that the buyers want vacant possession to turn the apartments into office space. Is this allowed? What forms can I expect? Am I guaranteed any money from either my LL or the new owners?
So I need to know, can they evict me? I'm on month-to-month. If I CAN be evicted, who has the right to? My current LL? Do the new owners inherit me and have to apply to the LTB to convert it to commercial? I can't find any clear answers as to whether it's 90 days notice or 60 and what money I'm owed if any?

I (24M) know that there are a lot of factors depending on one's personal or professional lives, but under completely normal circumstances, I don't know how people my age even survive a place like New York.
The reason why I'm asking this question is that I see a lot of people my age and around my age on Insta, Facebook, TikTok, etc. moving there for whatever reason, and I don't know why it's so compelling, or even possible, for people to live there.
I get that they want to be close to all the action, but I know quite a few problems that are especially prevalent and persistent in the five areas:
-Astronomical costs of food, utilities, transportation, etc.
-Tiny apartments/residences that have aforementioned astronomical cost
-Crime everywhere
-Weed smell everywhere. Especially times square
-Scammers and shady individuals. Especially times square
-Even if there's no crime, there's still hostile locals
-Overwhelming crowds
I honestly don't see how people manage to build carefree lives there, especially when the people I know graduated their colleges with low paying majors like fashion or journalism. There are 100 other places to move to, yet New York City seems to be the prime location for these people. It may as well be a trial by fire which not many people apparently survive.
I was once accepted by NYU, but turned them down because of the high tuition cost. Sure, other kids may split the rent bill, among other bills, but costs can still take their toll. I'm surprised that the majority of them somehow don't wind up homeless.
If I were to move to New York in the near future, what tips or processes would I need to follow to survive?

The posts on real estate here are very helpful but somehow have not managed to fully respond to this situation (or I did find the right post). So this post is to invite ideas and suggestions on the topic
I have been hesitant to buy property because I believe it tends to bind you to a place, to debt, to work.
BUT there is the opportunity to use generational wealth to buy/contribute to buying an apartment or house at the range of 550-650K, all charges included.
Other than this being hard to accept, it is also an opportunity that should not go to waste.
So I am looking to buy property in the Brussels region. Mostly in its south-southeast arc Moving out of Brussels would also be an option, but life will become too lonely further away from the buzz of the city. And will need to buy a car.
I am looking for a Goldilocks house, and I am afraid that no one is putting these houses on the market. I am looking for one with big garden or terrace, high ceilings, facing south, away from traffic, close to public transport, walking distance to basic shops, resto, bars, and preferably in a small building. Also have some sustainability preferences: good insulation (EPC at least C), roof PVs, preferably a heat pump, a rain water collector, etc
I have been looking at newly built and newly renovated apartments, but they are not convincing. Either low ceilings, low quality works, still use gas, mostly in residential areas,, and usually are promoted by sleezy real estate agents.
There is also the option to renovate an apartment, where an architect would have to fully take over. The downsides are: -permit takes about 12 months, and then another year to complete. -you never really know the final cost of the works (or is 20% - 50% higher than expected), -cannot supervise, there are usually no guarantees -you need to find an architect to trust (how?) -and someone is needed to navigate all fiscal matters and subsidies.
There is also a thought about buying or renovating 2 apartments usung both generational wealth and a mortgage. One will be to live in, and the other to rent out to contribute to the mortgage.
I wonder if it would make sense to set up a company to buy the property. A meeting with a tax consultant was inconclusive mostly because I felt that his proposals were partially fraud/tax evasion, and it didn't feel he was disclosing all costs of his services. Btw fyi setting up the company was estimated at about 3500 in fees for tax consultant and notary, plus 12k company capital.
There is also a superstitious element about timing, considering that in the past 3 years I have been consistently buying the top in both shares and crypto. Having an inverted yield Curve for some time now we are- it seems very possible - to enter a recession, and I wonder what that might make to housing prices in a high inflation environment.
About me/finances: 40y old 5200 brutto, 3600 netto - and could work 100% remote but my partner is from BE. 120K in bank account 140K in investment account (sitting in cash now) Property on my name in another EU country, declared to BE authorities. Using only my salary I can get a loan of a less than 300K, at 3,5% (now probably higher).
It would be very helpful to have some of your thoughts, links, suggestions, alternatives and insights

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Hey Reddit fam
My car was broken into a few days ago in my garage of my apartment building they claim to be secure and monitored. I pay nearly $400 a month just to have to now repair a broken glass and my stolen personal belongings.
I'm avoiding using auto insurance to file a claim for the damaged window as I don't want my premium to go up, but I might file with home insurance to get the cost of my personal items back (ideally hoping my home insurance premium doesn't go up by much either - currently about $125).
Is there anything I can do or say to my apartment building to get them to 1) pay for the cost of my glass replacement 2) pay for 1 month parking rent 3) any other payment option?
Is there any specific clause to look for in my apartment lease that would negate any type of financial compensation?
Thanks in advance! Any help is help!

Part 2
I fell backwards through the portal, landing on the ground back in the reality of hell. The dread spiked as I got back up on my feet. I thought the two blond maniacs would follow me back in, but they didn't. The portal closed, offering me a view of somebody crying over the phone on their porch across the street. Did they notice the flash of light? They're probably too caught up in their own business. The attacks being as gruesome as they are, I'm surprised I haven't died yet.
I stepped back into the house and closed the door behind me. William and Jason sit on the couch, faces pale and mouths hanging open as they watched helicopter footage of wild tentacle creatures running down streets and tackling people. A tighter dread overtook me.
Was this really it for me? Was I going to die here because my parallel self thought revenge would somehow fix things? Do I think that way? No, I don't. If she thought nobody should feel trapped, she wouldn't have been okay with making me feel trapped. I guess that's because he only cares when she's the one feeling trapped. People are human to her until they do something she doesn't like, then she lowers her standards and treats them like animals… Somehow that's supposed to make peace. It doesn't.
I asked Jason if there was a room I could stay in. I was given a spare bedroom down the hallway. Once I found it, I layed down on the bed and stared at the ceiling, hoping I'd be alive for more than another 24 hours. Any moment, some creature was probably going to crash through the window or something, or a giant monstrosity was going to smash the house to the ground. I had never been more afraid of death in my life.
About 20 minutes later, I decided I had to distract myself from all the mayhem and fear in any way possible. I pulled out William's spare phone and Googled various things I was interested in. I assumed TikTok would be filled with video clips of the attacks, so I wasn't downloading that. I watched some YouTube videos though. My adrenaline decreased, but I knew that if I ran out of things to enjoy, I would get bored and the adrenaline would shoot back up.
I'm not sure I'd say putting autoplay on was a mistake. It kinda was, but it kinda led to something interesting for me. The third video to play automatically was a video of a news report from the day the attacks began.
It started with Ontario politicians answering questions from reporters, then the Breaking News animation flashed across the screen. A video taken in Sharon, Ontario showed one of the giants moving down a street, smashing houses along its way. The uncanny look of the thing and how it moved sent chills down my spine. I tapped the screen. The title appeared on the screen.
"First news reports of the giant attacks - Full news broadcast 11 AM to 12:30 PM"
This was the very first attack. Interesting. Morbid curiosity overtook me. The attacks were historical, and if I was going to die here, why not know more about what's going to kill me.
I kept watching. Video footage taken from the Newmarket Community Center was played. It showed two giants smashing buildings down Main Street. The white church blew up, with debris flying all around. The buildings to the south were also reduced to rubble and dust. It was saddening to watch. As the giants began smashing buildings beside the Community Center, the camera operator let out a shaky "Oh my god" then backed away. They aimed to their left. A dozen of the bystanders were slowly turning away. As if they wanted to run but were too curious. A couple of them ran. A few other people from up the street ran by with pale faces. After the giants had passed by and smashed the buildings further to the south, some people in the crowd began to have a conversation.
"What is going on today…? why is this happening…?"
"We don't know why they're doing this… have they been reported elsewhere?"
"I checked the news five minutes ago. Nothing."
"I'm checking it again… nothing"
"I just checked CP-2-4 and they have footage of one in East Gwillimbury"
As they're talking, the giants smash the churches to the south, then they knock down the grey apartment building. Explosions can be seen inside as it crumbles and a plume of smoke rises up.
The next video I watched was of the two giants knocking the apartment building down but from an angle to the south based on what I knew about the location.
The next video began with the camera pointed to the ground. The camera was aimed up and a bit shaky. The camera was aimed at two giants standing a mile away. Flames were thrown at an area obscured by trees. This is Aurora, isn't it? I guessed it was since it was the first of two places to be torched. The giants torched side to side then back and forth, then the trees obscuring the area caught fire. The camera operator turned around and ran without hesitation.
Another video was taken near the Burlington Skyway Bridge. Two giants knocked the bridge down from north to south. My gut clenched watching cars fall into the water below.
As terrifying these videos were, it was interesting to see the beginning of the attacks this close. The news mostly only played footage taken from news helicopters and the same bits of footage over and over. Many of the videos I had seen on the internet so far were videos I hadn't seen yet.
I looked up videos of the attack on Central Manhattan.
One video was taken from a window somewhere to the east of the Empire State Building. One of those horrifying giants seamlessly smashed its way through the skyscrapers, leaving expanding plumes of smoke behind. Once it reached the Empire State, it focused a ton on smashing it to the ground. A plume of smoke rose up against the oncoming plumes of smoke created by the destruction of the nearby buildings.
I had seen many things like this over my journey throughout the different realities, but this just seemed too familiar to me. Nothing about this reality was different until the attacks began. Not even some detection of the Godzilla-like giants beforehand. I'm in this reality where these attacks are happening and I can't escape. I sank in a pit of dread as that dawned on me. I had to deal with the craziness of the I was in. I needed to learn as much about the attacks as possible.
I looked up a more recent attack. The one in Bradford parallel me mentioned. I found multiple videos of it. The first video I watched showed a giant leveling a two story facility as people ran by and screamed. It was sad to see a place I was so familiar with be destroyed. The second video was shaky camera footage of two giants leveling some other facility, also with people running by and screaming. One was crying. The third video was helicopter footage of four giants smashing and attacking the town. Carving up the southeastern and northern areas. As sad as I felt, I noticed they didn't attack the part of town I lived in.
Wasn't that attack supposed to kill me? Or was it just supposed to scare me? Either way, I wasn't there to witness it. Of course, I could've been killed in a part of the town that was destroyed. Maybe my parallel self was playing coin toss. Either I live or die. Either way, he'd be benefited by the fact I would be fearing for my life in the event I'd survive. Then he visited me where I was miles away, after the attack on the town. He brought his cronies with him. The evil alternate versions of two people I knew of and liked very much. I'm still not comfortable specifying who.
As I continued my watch through the footage, I found some videos of the creature dump on the place I was just in. Watching the giants pour the creatures onto the city… the creatures running all over the place… down roads… across the roofs of buildings… through parks… just chill inducing and gut wrenching. I couldn't get through one whole video. Flashbacks of escaping that thing just kept popping up in my head as I watched.
I looked up some discussion threads about the attacks. Of course, everyone expressed how they didn't know what they would wake up to the next day, how they didn't know where they would be safe… some speculated hiding out in the mountains or down in subways would be a safe bet to stay alive. The subway part of the discussion was shot down later on in the thread by one claiming the creature dumps would render that idea hopeless. Others said bomb shelters would work. I needed to know if there were any bomb shelters around. Probably useless though, as the government probably wouldn't just let anybody in. The closest mountain that could keep anyone safe would be 4 hours away. There was another comment though, one that brought up Iran and Belgium being wiped off the map entirely by dozens of miles wide giants, and they suggested any country could be next to be destroyed by giants that size. The middle of the ocean would be a safer bet.
What about Lake Ontario? The eastern half of it. It's not an ocean but it's a pretty big body of water. As long as I don't go near any shoreside cities I'll be good. I ran over to William and asked him if he had a boat. I explained to him eastern Lake Ontario may be too big a body of water for the giants to care about. Unfortunately, he, nor Jason, nor anybody they knew had a boat. At least I had some relief for a moment. I fell back into the pit of dread and walked back to the spare bed.
As I browsed through Reddit, I came across a post about a rare angle of the attacks. The video was taken from a live stream that was held in a suburban area not too far away from where the giants were standing. Chills overtook me, seeing the giants again. They were holding their giant bags of creatures. The streamer said he didn't know what the giants were holding, then the giants tilted their bags and the thousands of creatures came raining down. My gut clenched hard. The last words of the streamer were what one would expect, but they chilled me due to the context.
"What the hell? No… god… please…"
He turned around and sprinted down the road. He aimed the camera up at the incoming creatures. They blocked the view of the sun and everything was darkened by shade. The streamer aimed the camera back out in front of him. You could see the sky on the horizon, but then a wall of blackness obscured it. My gut began to ache. The streamer fell to the ground and screamed. Nothing could be seen. Loud thuds were heard, then the stream ended. Then the video ended.
The people in the comments were freaked out. Many of them mentioned the chills they got watching the video. One comment thread went like this:
"I can't imagine standing there. Thinking you'll live, then just seeing that and KNOWING with great certainty you're about to die. Chilling. This is probably the most up close video I've found of this."
"I know more videos will surface, especially because the attacks are still going on right now, but this video will be something that always sticks with me"
(I pressed the link and it took me to a YouTube video showing a livestreamer in an office. She tells her viewers she's in the Empire State Building. She aims her camera out the window towards Central Park.
"It's 1 PM right now and…" A giant pops up in the middle of Central Park. I jumped while watching it. Chills ran straight down my spine. "What the hell is that?" The giant walked south, smashing through the buildings along Park Lane. It knocked down the world's skinniest skyscraper, then it smashed its way through some more buildings, including the Museum of Modern Art.
"Oh my god," the streamer says with a shaky weak voice.
She puts the camera down and you could hear quick footsteps and the creak of a door being swung open. The giant continues its straight faced rage through Central Manhattan, smashing down the Rockefeller buildings, the East Times Square buildings and battering Times Square in dust and smoke, then it stumbles a couple blocks to the east. A man over the intercom tells everybody to evacuate immediately.
The giant smashes the low rise buildings two blocks away, the low rise buildings one block away, then the room shakes. Loud crashes echo from below, along with light crashes somewhere behind the camera. Then the office light goes out. It looks as if the giant is rising, but then you can see its triangles, then the sky. The section of the building the room was in was falling. The camera started spinning, then the livestream ended. Then so did the video.)
"Absolutely terrifying. Imagine that being the last thing you see… this stuff going on right now is probably the worst, most insane stuff to happen in a long time. You should see the video where people are hiding in a room from the literal Lovecraft-like wild creatures.
Edit: here" (I opened this link and it took me to a YouTube video showing three people, including the camera operator, in a small toll booth room. The two others, one woman with blond hair who looked to be in her 30s and an adrogynous looking person with black hair who looked to be in his 20s, were both shaking, glancing between each other and the camera operator, then there was a loud bang at the door. Adrenaline rushed through me, hoping those people could be rescued. The camera was aimed at the door, which had multiple cracks in it. There was another bang. The door shook and the cracks got longer. One of the two people on the left began to cry. With yet another bang, pieces of the door flew across the room. The door itself began to loosen off its hinges. Then with one more bang, the bottom half of the door was pushed in by a round dark gray beast with about 10 long tentacle-like appendages. It was so uncanny looking, adrenaline shot up through me. My eyes were wide open watching it. It ran up to the camera operator, who moved to his right then backed up. The creature climbed up on him. He struggled, then the camera fell face first on the ground. Nothing could be seen, but loud painful screaming, growling, and a couple wet crunches could be heard.
Further down the thread was something even more terrifying but interesting.
I wonder why we haven't seen any videos of creatures attacking people
Those videos are probably very NSFW. They likely haven't made it past content filters.
Some pictures were posted to MorbidReality and somebody found a video of a creature attacking somebody's back and legs. If you can't take that kind of stuff do not look at it. It's very gruesome.
There's some on Archive.org, along with many other videos I haven't seen anywhere else. Here's a link to an archive somebody is making.
I opened the link. I was taken to the page with the archive. The first video was titled Footage From Upper Canada Mall. It began on the roof of the mall. All that was heard were sirens and the sounds of helicopters. The camera operator aimed up at two giants being circled by two military helicopters. The giants appeared to be holding people. The giant on the right was holding two people who I can only describe as looking like a man and a woman, while the giant on the left was holding a woman. The giant on the right tossed the woman. She glided through the air. She hit the roof of the mall with a loud bang and turned into a red mist. I gagged and twitched. The camera operator kept the camera still. He had to have been in shock. He panned to the left a bit and caught the man landing on the roof of the mall with a loud thud while also turning into a red mist. I gagged again. What the hell? The camera was aimed up at the giant on the left, who was getting ready to throw the person it was holding. It tossed them towards the roof of the mall. They too landed with a loud bang while turning into a red mist.
That was something I never thought I'd ever see. People exploding into a bloody mist like they were nothing. Or just bags of blood. That's not something anyone should ever have to see. I'm glad that stuff won't make it past content filters. Hopefully, nobody who doesn't want to see that will ever see that ever. It's okay to be morbidly curious, and yes, it's historically significant, but I hope people are careful with footage like this.
The next video was titled "Seattle Explosion" and began on a freeway in what seemed to be the late afternoon. A man off camera said he was driving towards Seattle. He said he was driving down highways and filming in case he catches anything historic, and added that all his friends are doing the same in various parts of the US such as Houston, Texas. I was beginning to think about skipping this one due to anxiety. I didn't want to see people explode, but I assured myself it wasn't filmed close enough to capture such things. A minute into the video, the Seattle skyline could be seen in the distance. Seconds later, balls of yellow and orange erupted from every building.
These giants sure are making it a point to scare everybody. Dumping deadly creatures, torching entire areas, EMP Bubbles, Godzilla-like smashing, and now blowing up entire cities.
I don't know which one of those is going to happen to me.
What the hell do they want?
I'm afraid of having my guts sucked out by a creature
I'm afraid of being caught up in a torching
I'm afraid of being gassed
I'm afraid of being crushed to death
I'm afraid of being in an exploding city
I'm afraid of being tossed to the ground from high up in the air
Where are they going to hit next? Where are they going to hit next? Where are they going to hit next?
Where do I go?
I was hyperventilating for a couple minutes there. I paused the video and attempted to not judge my thoughts or feelings, then I wrote the above to acknowledge my feelings. Now I'm really starting to understand why people write sad songs about depression and anxiety. More so than I already did.
I looked at some of the titles of the next few videos in the archive. I hesitated to watch them, but I'll list the titles I read for curiosity's sake.
"SEATTLE EXPLOSION - East angle"
"Naypyidaw attack"
"Manila attack"
"Manila attack from north"
"Bradford attack from helicopter"
"Bradford attack angle 7"
(Six more Bradford attack videos, two of which are probably the ones I've already seen)
(Ottawa attack videos #27 to #2)
"Ottawa attack angle 1 - filmed by a Canadian Minister"
"Aftermath of Creature Dump in Niagara Region, Canada"
Out of curiosity, I decided to watch that last one I listed. It started in the backroom filled with boxes. The camera operator walked out of the room, into a smashed up restaurant. The front windows were shattered, tables and chairs were strewn everywhere. The camera was aimed to the right. Two bodies covered in blood were laying in the corner. It was unsettling to see. The camera was aimed back towards the windows. The operator moved up to them. A body was laying under an outdoor table.
After exiting the shop, the camera operator took a right and walked down the sidewalk. As he walked, he briefly looked inside different stores and multiple cars, all of which had shattered windows and thrashed items. No cars drove by. Not even police, fire department, or paramedics. No people were around at all. My breaths became shallow as I anticipated the worst. Something like a creature popping out of nowhere or another body.
A couple more blocks down the road, sirens began blaring in the distance. The camera operator walked by a store that had music playing from inside. It was something I hadn't thought of. Music that was being played as background noise was still being played through all the death and roaming creatures. They stepped through the shattered window, and as they walked to the center of the room, the music got clearer. It was a slow piano ballad about a woman telling her lover to go easy on her. It was weird hearing the song play in a smashed up deserted room with the world crumbling all around right outside. The words made it sound eerie in the context it was playing right in the middle of. As the song played, the camera operator moved broken table pieces out of their way and dug through some piles of table debris along the cracked wall on his left.
What is he looking for?
As the camera operator continued looking under knocked over tables, he began to sniffle. The song changed to a sad pop song with a high pitched piano melody. I knew the song. It was eerie too. It was about a breakup, but the lyrics about taking a metaphorical final bow echoed what I was feeling. The end of civilization, or at least the end of the civilization I was used to. I was getting very settled into this reality.
The camera operator walked to the back wall and looked around at the wreckage again. An ambulance drove by outside. The camera operator walked into the bathroom. It was reduced to rubble. Stalls ripped apart, toilets shattered, most of the mirrors were cracked… and blood was smeared across the wall near the back. The camera operator stood in one spot for a couple of moments before turning around and stepping out the door and back into the restaurant. They took some steps through the restaurant, then they aimed the camera at the ceiling. Then at the picture frames. One of them was lying on its face. Another one of them was tilted and ripped in half. Some happened to be in good shape.
After the tour of each of the paintings, the camera operator started rummaging the debris on the left side of the restaurant. As he did so, the next song began. This one was upbeat, juxtaposing the context it was playing in. It kinda creeped me out. It was supposed to be played for people's enjoyment, but nobody was enjoying anything. At least the lyrics were about persisting through absolutely anything. I guess that kinda fit, but things were too dark to think straight. The camera operator stopped rummaging about halfway to the back of the restaurant and stared on at the rubble that he would be digging through next. He zoomed in on what was clearly a shoe being worn by somebody unmoving under the rubble. He zoomed back out, turned around, and walked to the front of the restaurant.
As they looked at the buildings across the road, a creature crawled into view from the right, climbing above each window before climbing in through the window of a bike store. The camera operator moved back a bit. A minute later, a military jeep pulled up in front of the building the creature climbed into. Three soldiers climbed out and entered the store through its shattered front window.
As the camera operator zoomed in on the building, the next song began to play. It began with a whistle melody then led into lyrics about not being worried. Another upbeat song that juxtaposed the seriousness of the situation, which unsettled me more so. Inaudible shouting echoed from inside the building. Gunshots followed. A moment later, two of the soldiers stepped out of the building, uniforms stained with blood. They stood around, talking into their radios. Then the video ended. A couple seconds of the next video, titled Incoming Creatures, played before I paused it. That video began on an elevated platform near a forest. I was done watching videos of the attacks, so I wasn't going to stick around for more.
I checked the time. 10:58 PM. I slid the phone into my pocket and walked out into the livingroom to see what the others were up to. They were discussing what the giants may want while the news played on the TV. A woman was talking about the destruction of Town Zero… Sharon. Footage was played of a colossal giant popping up just north of the town, then with two swoops, the giant smashed the town to dust and rubble. My heart sank. We're getting colossal giants here too? I mean, of course we are. They're not just going to reserve certain things for certain areas. Clearly they will attack just about anywhere, right?
William asked me to help him get something from the shed out back. I told him I'll go out and wait for him there. I got my shoes on and stepped outside into the warm dark night. There was an eerie calmness to it. Like nature hadn't been going nearly as insane as we humans have. I stepped around back and spotted the shed. As I stepped towards it, two colossal silhouettes formed in the sky some distance away. They contrasted the light polluted light orange glow. I don't want to under describe how massive they were. Not tall enough to reach above the clouds, but tall enough to make my chest drop to the point I thought I was about to have a heart attack. They moved in my direction, their silhouettes growing, obscuring the light orange glow of the sky.
Why here? Who's here that they want? Unless it really is me. They aren't going for some random people I don't know. This is an alternate reality in which they're coming after me. But that theory seemed to small minded. I wasn't possibly going to be in multiple places in the US, China, North Korea, Belgium… maybe they're also going for my relatives… but I don't know anybody who would ever be in North Korea of all places.
I thought about it as I sprinted for my life over the fence into the neighbors yard, then over the next fence, then over the next… I kept hopping fences until I made it to the corner of the town. It was just a field. Thumps shook the ground. Car alarms began going off. I fell to my knees due to the heavy vibration. I avoided looking to my left, at the giants' massive silhouettes. I stared at the ground and hoped for the best with the worst pit of dread I ever felt.
Loud booms and crashes blew out my ear drums. I never heard loud sounds like those so up close. I covered my ears, but the piercing sounds still hurt. The smashing lasted a couple minutes, getting quieter and quieter as the giants moved further away from me. My curiosity got the best of me and I glanced at the giants. They had to have been 500 meters tall or something. For some reason, not being able to see them was more dread inducing than being able to see them. A cloud of dust hit my face. I coughed like a motherfucker and walked forward, finding my way out of the choking smoke.
William and Jason…
I looked in the direction of Jason's house. It was too dark to see anything but some fires a couple houses away. Whatever was left of those houses anyway. The giants were still smashing their way through the town when I heard a fast plane. I looked up and saw a light flying towards the giants.
Fighter jets? Missiles?
The missile struck the giant in its midsection and exploded in a ball of fire. The giant continued smashing. It didn't move differently after the hit. It continued eliminating the town. Another explosion occurred near the head of the other giant and it was the same outcome. The attack continued on for another minute, with more explosions that didn't faze the giants. Maybe the missiles made a mark. It was too dark to see those marks if so. Finally, the crashes and booms stopped. The giants stood in one spot, not moving at all, then they vanished into thin air.
That was seriously screwed up. I almost died. I want out of this. Who in the multiverse would wish this on their worst enemy? The idea of possibly being crushed, gassed, blown up, thrown to your death… I walked back to Jason's house. It only took a couple of minutes. When I got back there, it was a pile of wood, broken up walls, unrecognizable rooms, scattered roof tiles, and bricks. I hurried around to the front. When I saw Jason's arm crushed under a pile of bricks and wires, I almost gagged. I looked away and stepped to where the front door was. William's hand laid beside a growing fire.
Where am I supposed to go? I'm a refugee now. I should check the news. Any news outlet that hasn't had its data center destroyed. I haven't heard of that happening but it has to have happened by now.
I pulled out my phone and opened CNN.
"THE GIANTS CONTINUE TO BERATE THEIR ROOTS"
"Ontario, Canada is ground zero for the attacks. Everyone is still wondering why"
"WATCH: See Seattle explode in a ball of fire"
"The black chemical agent sprayed on multiple American towns and Chinese cities may not be of this world"
"Bomb shelters, caves… even sewers. Americans are desperate for safety, but some Americans claim all they need to do is stay armed and ready"
MILITARY: "Civilians shouldn't push their luck thinking standard rifles are enough to defend against Giants"
"Security camera footage shows Manila attack"
"Ukraine is free, but for how long?"
""I'm tired of living through history" The attacks from Gen Z's perspective"
It was always interesting to go into an alternate reality and look at the top news headlines. This time though… it's very serious, as I'm a full on victim of the wild stuff that's going on in the alternate reality. I sat down and read all the news articles I could. I read all the Reddit threads about every major development in this whole event. I also felt it was important enough to go back to that archive on Archive.org and download all the footage posted there for archival, especially in the case I ever made it out of here. There was a ton of interesting things I saw in the various realities I traveled to over the years. If I get the device back, I can go back and download some footage from those realities. I could become an archivist or something. But it hit me that I was more likely to die than fulfill any dream I ever had.
At around 1 AM, I heard my name being called by a familiar deep voice.
"You were supposed to die!" he said. "How are you still alive!?"
"I saw them pop out of nowhere… so I ran like hell."
"Well now we're going to have to take you somewhere else."
"Why not shoot me?" I asked, frustrated. "Why not end my life right now?"
"True Nicole said you needed to be weighed down by the stuff going on in this reality," he said, resting his hand on his hip. "Either you are scared of the giants or you are killed by the giants."
I stood up, slid my phone into my pocket, and walked away. I didn't think I was going to make it far without confrontation. A couple homes down, a pain hit my neck. Before I could process it, I woke up in the trunk of a car. All I could hear was the news. All I could feel was the car bumping up and down. All I could see, other than the interior of the trunk of course, was a light morning sky. One right before the sun rose above the horizon.
"...still no word from British officials after the attacks on London and Cheltenham, England. Reports of giants being present in London and Cheltenham came out just after 4 this morning. The number of casualties is unknown, and the British Prime Minister is still missing…"
"She's awake."
"What's up fake Nicole?"
"Where are we?" I asked.
"Williamsport, Pennsylvania," alternate me said. "We're going to Washington DC."
"How do you know anything is going to happen there?"
"She never said anything would," Ian said.
"You said I was supposed to die," I said. "You knew the giants were going to strike the place I was in."
"I traveled to a reality where it was this timeline, but one month after the attacks began," alternate me said. "Then I copied a list of everything that happened in these attacks. I know what happens next."
I froze. They really did have this planned out, didn't they…
"Now, I want you to stop talking," alternate me said. "Don't breathe too loudly either. Also, if we catch you calling for help, I will stop on the side of the road, Ian will inject you with fire ants and Billy will inject you with steroids."
"To keep you awake and energized so you feel the pain more intensely and for a longer amount of time," she said.
"Yes," alternate me said. "And you can still go on the internet if you want."
I stared up at the blue morning sky, strangled by dread. I realized I had cold sweats all over me. I pulled out my phone and Googled some more Reddit threads. 20 minutes into reading comments, the news channel on the radio switched to a Pop music station. At first, I assumed alternate me changed the station, but when I went back to the Giant Attacks search results, they had all changed to results about some unrelated game.
My hopes went up. Could it be? A slip? I was ready to believe it, even if it was mostly to ease my anxiety. I went to CNN's website. To my relief, the headlines were about… normal topics. [Top news headlines on the day I post this story]
I don't know how long I'll be back in our reality. If I even am back here… I guess you will know if you see this update.
Alternate me is swearing. I think she caught on to what happened… Now she's turning the car around. I'll update again when I'm back.

Hello!
Like lots of people now no doubt, I too am thinking about buying a steam deck. I am kind of unsure about how much I would truly be using it, I am a college student living in a rented apartment in another province near campus, and I have a gaming laptop and a PSVita for when I have to take trains and stuff. I would buy a steam deck solely because I don't have the nice, comfy office chair I have at home and it is kind of uncomfortable to sit on a basic wooden chair for hours on end just to play Dead Cells or Persona 5.
Adding to the uncertainty now the store page says "estimated shipping time 2-4 weeks" and "delivery may be delayed due to high amount of orders". Now, I am going back home in two weeks and I am going to stay there for about 10 days, so I was planning on sending it to my home and bringing it with me when I return to campus, but if it gets delivered after I return on campus, well, that would just suck and I wouldn't have the time to prep it with all the tools I have back home.
So, risk it for the biscuit or just save the money and play one of the thousands games I am yet to play on my Vita?

Apartment opening up in Fitchburg for $1350 for a 1 bed 1 bath, 842 sq. ft. Great location from work, only 10 minutes away and 15 minutes from downtown. Is very nice and has been great for me, I am just moving. Figured I would post on here as there are many Epic staff that live there, and enjoy it.
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