just like the first and second one I'll have three plots, more or less, that I am willing to do, one condition Is to state the name of the plots you want and remember each of these plots will have limited slots, so BE QUICK! And just like any plot post, something will be added, for this one it's "favortism" where people will be favored based on conditions written in the plot description between ()
1- "a star, dangling so close to mere dirt": a faraway planet in an endangered galaxy, you and I were raised on a simple planet, everyday we saw more and more stars dying out day by day, desperation was hitting us closer as teh threat of the evil empre the evil empire approached us more and more, a space battleship landed on our grounds, we as childhood friends, were in the forest as that happened, after telling the elders, they ordered us not to come close to the ship, but you, I listened, but you didn't and took the ship, and with the help of a team of space adventurers, you defeated the forces of teh empire...you grew famous, and you came visiting your home for the first time in some weeks, I wasn't there...why would I be? You are a hero, loved, a star, me? I'm a nobody I'm an unimportant lumb of dirt (favortism:seen or read "starlight brigade, can write several paragraphs) [slots0/3]
2- "till death do us part,but... we're already past that":two princes of opposing kingdoms fell in love together, as a curse, you were given immortality, to live eternally, and me? To be reborn without my memories, you find me, fall for me, see me die, over and over again, but this time...it'll be different (favortism: can write severalparagraph)[slots0/3]
3- "he's the main character, not me!": reincarnated into the world of one of my most loved story, I reincarnated as an evil dragon who serves the demon king, ofcourse disregarding my job and leaving to spy on you, I watch you in the distance, but when a dark scene of the story comes, the dragon that follows the demon king,me, decides to help you in defeating an army of foes, ofcourse according to the original plot if I didn't come you would have died and came back, but this time...you're severely wounded, and after healing you for weeks, you wake up, as a side charecter I try to not make main charecters attached to me, but I seem to have left quiet the impression on you...BEFORE YOU EVEN MET THE FEMALE LEAD(favortism: can write several paragraph)[slots 0/3]
several is 3 or above

Demographics: Asian, International (IB + IGCSE) high school outside the country + US citizen (not intl, but I'm OOS everywhere welp), EFC ~45k
Stats: 1550 SAT (750 ERW, 800 Math)1510 SAT (first attempt, 9th grade) - 750 ERW, 760 Math, 7/5/7 essay (19/24 cumulative)No GPA, class rank calculated (I'd estimate around top 10-15% though) IGCSE - 3 B, 12 A, 12 A* (across internal exams in IGCSE/9th and 10th) + 9/9 A* for leaving IGCSE examsIB - averaging 38/42 across 3 sems (39, 38, 39); predicted 42/43 on 45.
Intended Major: Electrical Engineering
IB Diploma Subjects: Physics HL, Maths AA HL, Chemistry HL, Spanish ab initio SL, Economics SL, English A L&L SL
Extracurriculars
Spike-related

1. Research (10h/wk roughly) @ top-name uni in my country for 1.5 years; 1 paper (self-published), wrote course material for undergrads; Domain slightly outside EE, but close enough lol.
2. Research (10h/wk roughly) at another uni for a different uni 2 years; 2 papers (one self-published, one lead author in student journal); Added to open-source repos for a project run by my advisor; Wrote coding demos for undergrads
3. Ran a separate open-source project along similar lines as my research w/10 other students for, lead developefounder. 1500+ lifetime downloads, 20k lifetime site hits
4. Internship (12th grade summer) @ bioinformatics startup; 55h/wk for 10 weeks; Worked on NLP algos

Others

1. MUN - chaired 5(ish?) conferences, ~ 7 placements/10 as delegate; 3 college-level, lead organizer for largest conference (1000+) in my city
2. Varsity sport; 8+ year involvement; 3 years as captain
3. Rural digital entrepreneurship project - Head of Operations - helped ~ 15 to financial independence
4. Teaching underprivileged kids Grade X students English weekly

Minimal awards rip, some school recognition for research impact, MUN awards, etc.
Essays: I like to THINK they were pretty good, essentially worked on connecting storytelling to MUN to my love for the research process. I'm gonna give it a 8.5/10, since there is ONE acceptance that says it's not entirely horsecrap even though it's a little out there. Would have said 7 a month ago lol.
Letters of Recommendation:

1. Supplemental LoR -- 8/10 (former employer; said some great stuff about my technical acumen)
2. Physics Teacher -- 9/10 (talked about my research skills; primary LoR discussing academic excellence)
3. Economics Teacher -- 7/10 (talked about my extracurriculars a lot, not too much to write home about w/class participation, but I always topped the class)

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DECISIONS:
Acceptances (first-choice major - EE - everywhere):

1. Georgia Tech (EA)
2. UIUC Grainger EE
3. UMD
4. Purdue
5. UMN-Twin Cities
6. UC Davis
7. UW Madison
8. North Carolina State University (NCSU)

Waitlists:

1. Virginia Tech
2. UCLA
3. UMich

Rejections:

1. UC Berkeley
2. MIT
3. Cornell
4. Princeton
5. UCSD
6. UT Austin

just like the first and second one I'll have three plots, more or less, that I am willing to do, one condition Is to state the name of the plots you want and remember each of these plots will have limited slots, so BE QUICK! And just like any plot post, something will be added, for this one it's "favortism" where people will be favored based on conditions written in the plot description between ()
1- "a star, dangling so close to mere dirt": a faraway planet in an endangered galaxy, you and I were raised on a simple planet, everyday we saw more and more stars dying out day by day, desperation was hitting us closer as teh threat of the evil empre the evil empire approached us more and more, a space battleship landed on our grounds, we as childhood friends, were in the forest as that happened, after telling the elders, they ordered us not to come close to the ship, but you, I listened, but you didn't and took the ship, and with the help of a team of space adventurers, you defeated the forces of teh empire...you grew famous, and you came visiting your home for the first time in some weeks, I wasn't there...why would I be? You are a hero, loved, a star, me? I'm a nobody I'm an unimportant lumb of dirt (favortism:seen or read "starlight brigade, can write several paragraphs) [slots0/3]
2- "till death do us part,but... we're already past that":two princes of opposing kingdoms fell in love together, as a curse, you were given immortality, to live eternally, and me? To be reborn without my memories, you find me, fall for me, see me die, over and over again, but this time...it'll be different (favortism: can write severalparagraph)[slots0/3]
3- "he's the main character, not me!": reincarnated into the world of one of my most loved story, I reincarnated as an evil dragon who serves the demon king, ofcourse disregarding my job and leaving to spy on you, I watch you in the distance, but when a dark scene of the story comes, the dragon that follows the demon king,me, decides to help you in defeating an army of foes, ofcourse according to the original plot if I didn't come you would have died and came back, but this time...you're severely wounded, and after healing you for weeks, you wake up, as a side charecter I try to not make main charecters attached to me, but I seem to have left quiet the impression on you...BEFORE YOU EVEN MET THE FEMALE LEAD(favortism: can write several paragraph)[slots 0/3]
several is 3 or above

just like the first and second one I'll have three plots, more or less, that I am willing to do, one condition Is to state the name of the plots you want and remember each of these plots will have limited slots, so BE QUICK! And just like any plot post, something will be added, for this one it's "favortism" where people will be favored based on conditions written in the plot description between ()
1- "a star, dangling so close to mere dirt": a faraway planet in an endangered galaxy, you and I were raised on a simple planet, everyday we saw more and more stars dying out day by day, desperation was hitting us closer as teh threat of the evil empre the evil empire approached us more and more, a space battleship landed on our grounds, we as childhood friends, were in the forest as that happened, after telling the elders, they ordered us not to come close to the ship, but you, I listened, but you didn't and took the ship, and with the help of a team of space adventurers, you defeated the forces of teh empire...you grew famous, and you came visiting your home for the first time in some weeks, I wasn't there...why would I be? You are a hero, loved, a star, me? I'm a nobody I'm an unimportant lumb of dirt (favortism:seen or read "starlight brigade, can write several paragraphs) [slots0/3]
2- "till death do us part,but... we're already past that":two princes of opposing kingdoms fell in love together, as a curse, you were given immortality, to live eternally, and me? To be reborn without my memories, you find me, fall for me, see me die, over and over again, but this time...it'll be different (favortism: can write severalparagraph)[slots0/3]
3- "he's the main character, not me!": reincarnated into the world of one of my most loved story, I reincarnated as an evil dragon who serves the demon king, ofcourse disregarding my job and leaving to spy on you, I watch you in the distance, but when a dark scene of the story comes, the dragon that follows the demon king,me, decides to help you in defeating an army of foes, ofcourse according to the original plot if I didn't come you would have died and came back, but this time...you're severely wounded, and after healing you for weeks, you wake up, as a side charecter I try to not make main charecters attached to me, but I seem to have left quiet the impression on you...BEFORE YOU EVEN MET THE FEMALE LEAD(favortism: can write several paragraph)[slots 0/3]
several is 3 or above

We have a cat, male roughly 4 years old, fixed, no front claws (wasn’t my choice, done before we had him). His name is Ash. Ash has been through a lot. He was moved from his only home last year by his previous owner, then his owner passed unexpectedly within a month, and he was moved again with his owner’s widow. Then his owner’s widow decided he couldn’t keep him anymore and we took him. It’s been almost 3 months and Ash is decently settled. Now for the problem.
Ash pees everywhere. I don’t know how to fix it. I’m assuming it’s stress. I’ve added another litter box, I’ve put litter boxes in different areas, I’ve changed litter, changed routine. You name it. What can I do to stop this? We can’t have our house smelling like cat pee all the time and this is a daily thing where I have to follow the smell and find whatever he’s peed on overnight. I do know it’s him because we’ve caught him doing it 3 times now
Some extra, maybe important information. We are a multi cat home, with 2 other female cats. 1 of which is not fixed(goes next week for a spay.) a week prior to taking him, I had a fixed male who passed away of natural causes. We had had him for several years, so I don’t know if maybe there’s a lingering scent of another male that’s causing this. I have thoroughly cleaned most of the shared areas with no change.

25C cube (just over 4 gallons) ONF Flat HOB filter CO2 Inert substrate Stocked with about 20 cherry shrimp Heavily planted (Mostly stem plants) Thrive root tabs Heater in the winter (71F) Weekly water changes (~33%) Distilled water remineralized using Salty Shrimp
I recently added the CO2 and have been using the NilocG Thrive C low-tech fertilizer, but I am getting a fair amount of algae on the glass and plant leaves.
I don't mind mixing my own if that's the best option. I've read up on PPS and EI, but I'm not sure which method is best for my tank or if I should use an all in one or mix my own.
Help is appreciated. Thank you!!

Moving to the table and preparing a drink, she added, “I’ve been asking my mother when your next get-together would be, and she would give lame excuses. I sensed something fishy. And from her responses on phone calls with me, I knew something was up this week. Looks like I was right.”

My girlfriend and I have been together for nearly three years now. She matched in a state that would take a 3-4 hour flight to get to. She got a hospital that was relatively high on her list and I'm happy for her. But im also sad because I can't see this relationship working out with the distance. She'll be working all week and my work schedule is tough for me to get away also so we'll likely see each other only a couple times a year.
In the past couple months she's become more distant. I assume its because she may be trying to distance herself for the potential breakup between us. Mainly I'm just sad. I knew dating a doctor-to-be would have it's difficulties but I didn't know it'd be this hard.
She struggles with her mental health, which I imagine is true for many pre meds and residents, which has added it's hiccups to our relationship. She claims this is the reason why she's been distant but it doesn't make sense to me when shes visiting with friends every weekend. I want to make the most out of these next few months before she leaves but she is prioritizing her friends over me. I can understand wanting to see her friends she won't see for a long time, I'm just having a difficult time compartmentalizing and coping with this.
Just had to get it off my chest

Hey RepFam. I have been looking for an all black AP Royal Oak however ZF no longer is making it. I asked about 5 TDs and nobody can get it. Havent found any other factories that make it either.
I saw that R8 makes an all black Royal Oak but with a flying tourbillion.
I have a few reps and know that movements can last years without issue or fail within weeks. What I dont know is how a rep flying tourbillion is.
Am I just asking for problems? Id rather not spend $800+ on a rep if the likelihood of failure is much higher due to any added complexity.
Any insight is greatly appreciated!
Thanks

This has been an INSANE series of unfortunate events, and I’m hoping that someone has any sort of advice on how to get through this.
I want to start by saying that I am not positive that I have Narcolepsy, however after talking with my Therapist and Psychiatrist, some things have really added up. I used to experience really bad daytime sleepiness when I was in high school until I started taking a depression medication that actually worked, and a lot of that went away. I used to fall asleep in every single class, fell asleep while driving many times, and was constantly tired. I have also experienced Hypnagogic Hallucinations for as long as I can remember, horrible Insomnia at night, what I can only assume are Sleep Attacks during the day, and more (these I still experience).
I am currently a 21M and I recently decided to stop taking edibles, I wasn’t a smoker because I have other throat issues that I won’t get into, but I took edibles at a bare minimum once a week for 2 years. Almost 2 months ago, I took a large amount out of a tincture and felt nothing for around 8 hours (these have basically done nothing for me in the past). I decided to go to sleep and woke up at around 1:30 in the morning, absolutely out of my mind. I was experiencing a hypnagogic hallucination, but because I was as high as I was, it triggered something a lot more pattern based which I haven’t experienced. It was essentially like I was seeing crazy moving geometry all around me, this was an extremely intense experience and I had a severe panic attack, but I got through it and thought that would be the end of it. I was extremely wrong.
After this experience I stopped for about 2 weeks, and then went back to just taking one edible a week (also, these were not strong edibles, they were almost always 10mg of D9). About 2 weeks after this, I woke up to a panic attack because I experienced similar triggers from the last panic attack and struggled through this one, I had another hallucination and could see every decision I was making and watching it split in the opposite direction simultaneously (I was not high). This messed me up and I had another the next night, although this one was a more normal hallucination, the hallucinations had become a trigger, so I felt like I was actually losing my mind.
This was when I decided to quit for good, and this is where things got really intense. I had a few things to finish up with school and luckily that went fine, I finished my final projects, and started my spring break. I was barely sleeping at night at this point due to hallucinations and just general panic. This just happened to occur just before my bachelor party and we were supposed to go to to New Orleans, but I was so anxious and sleep deprived that I had to basically pivot and have my friends come to my place. I handled things decently well while they were here because I had distractions, although I was still ridiculously tired and basically not functioning when they left.
Things got a lot worse from here, I was having some panic attacks a few times a week, I was ridiculously on edge all the time. I had so many different types of hallucinations, everything from wild patterns, to event based hallucinations (thinking I was in a situation I wasn’t in), to normal visual and auditory hallucinations. My dreams have been off the walls, some of the most disturbing nightmares I’ve ever had, from creepy pasta esc cults to pulling rods of glass out of my legs, it’s been absolutely insane. Between the first week and the second I had my spring break so I could sleep a lot more. Then classes started again because my school is on a quarter system. This was terrible, I would wake up for class and would be very anxious after a night of no sleep, I nearly had a panic attack in one class. Immediately I knew I had put way too much stress on myself, I was basically collapsing under all of the pressure. I just decided to drop my classes for the quarter so I can get my head straight.
On top of all of this, my fiancé has started to snore very loudly due to allergies and she has started a new job where she has to wake up between 3 and 4 in the morning. I have to have absolutely perfect conditions to sleep right now, and she has begun to sleep in our guest bedroom (yes, I feel horrible about this, but I am running out of options). My dog is also terrified of me at night and will not stop shaking when she is around me in our room once the sun goes down (dog with insane anxiety, how ironic for the situation).
I also had a crazy lady bang on my door at 6:30 in the morning one night (morning) and I had to get up and check it out. This lady was yelling at me that I had to move out of my house because there was some sink hole to ANOTHER DIMENSION in a neighborhood nearby. She also said she was running from the police because she was being chased with an energy weapon, because she was Russian? This would normally be something I could deal with, but unfortunately I am in the middle of losing my mind, so perfect timing, right? I have essentially decided that the entire Universe is now plotting against me for whatever reason.
I have tried everything from calming breathing/meditation, calming walks in parks/botanical gardens, to facing my panic directly. I would essentially let the panic consume me, and then do EMDR (basically a non intrusive self induced hypnosis), I would try to logic out everything that was going on and sometimes it would work, but everything I did ended with this insane panic. I have horrible anxiety during the day and feel like I am actually being enveloped in hell at night. This is by far the worst anxiety I’ve had in my entire life and I am losing my mind.
I have read Reddit forms on both Narcolepsy and Weed Withdrawals, lots of people have experiences this kind of anxiety, and people that have talked about hallucinations, but never both together. If anyone has ever experienced anything like this, I’d love to hear how you got out of it, this is literally my personal hell, and hope somebody has some advise.

I run a small deck refinishing company. Im the only full time employee. I use some freelancers sometimes, but am trying to hire some regular part time help this yeasummer. I handle all my admin myself: bookkeeping, marketing, sales, etc. I want to grow it.
Anyways, I get calls all the time from marketing agents that wanna partner with me. So, I’m thinking maybe this would be a good idea. But is it really worth it? And what am I missing?
Most recently, a guy calls and says he wants to build me a new website, one optimized for Google ads, he’ll run the campaigns, target the right audience, etc. - $250/month including ad costs. The plan would be to help grow my business and employ more labor.
I currently get enough business to support myself using FB and Insta ads. But I would need to optimize my site if I wanted to use Google ads. So, hit is something I need.
I don’t know much about this guy yet though. But I’ll meet with him next week. I’m not sure how to take control of this discussion though. Is it crazy to accept up front terms like this? Should I demand some kind of commission based agreement?

Full disclosure, this is my first psychedelic experience of any kind and other than some weed edibles in Canada after legalisation my only real drug experience (alcohol not withstanding).
I read Michael Pollans book, a small amount of the reserach literature on theraputic effects of psychedlics and some youtube videos (there are a few Huberman Labs videos on it). Currently in therapy and not on SSRIs ( I was on them until about ~1 year ago). Bought a San Pedro online. Made a tea out of it - removed the spines, peeled off the translucent skin, cut it into stars and then much smaller pieces and added water. Did 3-4 hours with multiple reductions (re-adding water). I left the core in rather than just going for that dark green layer.
I dosed it by drinking half at 9am, 1/4 at 930AM, and 1/4 at 1030AM. The taste was god-awful but I althouhg I felt about queasy I didn't vomit or get close to vomiting. I found it easier to drink cold when I had the second two doses - not because it tasted better but because I was able to gulp / swallow it faster.
I video-logged the trip (not continuously but every 20-30 minutes) and also had a notebook handy to write things down or draw as things came up.
From about 30 minutes in the body high was on and steadily building, although I didn't recognize it as such. I hadn't really researched the specific effects of the mescaline experience so this aspect was a surprise to me. Around 30 minutes - 45 minutes in there was also a subtle perception shift; I stood on my porch and started to become more aware of the birds flying around and in and out of trees at the houses nearby in an unusual way.
Body high and happiness continued building. In most of the videos from the first two hours I'm talking about how I think I've done it wrong or bought the wrong cactus; although I muse in a few of them that drinking a morning cup of coffee doesn't usually have me sitting in the corner of my flat on a cushion laughing and giggling and feeling jolly.
From around the 2 hour mark mild hallucinogenic effects combined with clairvoyant insights start occuring. THe hallucinogenic effects are mild things - the bubble animation on the screen of my phone, the hanging lights in my room starting to occassionally duplicate as my eye moves. From 2-4 hours the hallucinogenic effects steadily build. During this time I'm alternating between being inside and outside laying on the grass. Outside the hallucinogenic effects are stronger - a purple colour around the edges of hte clouds, deeper colour and texture, the sky becomes a deeper blue. I become even more hyper-aware of birds - can see the wings flapping in slow motion and they kaleidoscope and duplicate as they move across the sky. At one point I'm looking at the grass and become hyper aware of the depth and texture of the grass, the bubbles of water dew on the grass, and a wasp that lands in front of me. The hallucinogenic effects seem stronger outside.
Inside the house, the clairvoyant insights - I had prepared a list of questions on paper to re-read (that I had re-read the night before, and as I took the mescaline etc). As I read them and thought about them, the answers start coming to me. Why do I drink. How do I change my habits. How do I quit drinking. There are alot of these, and I have about 10 pages of notes - free-flowing answers and clairvoyant insights. In the videos at this stage I talk about it as though the cactus or some other being is answering the questions although I suppose it is all in my mind.
Towards the 4 hour mark the experience starts peaking; in a wave-like fashion I start feeling increasing pressure to go outside and lay down. The curtain on my sliding door seems to flutter and an insect flys outside in a way that seems to beckon me. She wants me to be outside. To lay down. Who is she? I don't know, but i need to lay on the grass. I take the blanket away so I can be on the grass. I feel myself melting away and dissolving into the grass as I lay in the sun and watch the clouds. Am I the clouds? Maybe I'm a blade of grass. Maybe I'm the earth. Maybe I'm the sky. I am dissolving away. Time has lost meaning. I seem to be outside for eternity. I can feel myself zooming out from where I am laying on the grass - the street I live on, the town I live in, New Zealand, Oceania, the world. At each level I can see the connections between everyone and how everyone is connected to each other and the other. It's a repeat of a very dark, depressing experience I had shared with my therapist - only in that experience, at each level was emptiness and loneliness. This is the opposite of that. I feel a deep sense of connection. I start to feel that my deceased brother is with me, and that he is part of the earth and sky. I am part of the earth and sky. So we are connected; even though he is gone, he is still here. Hallucinogenic effects are stronger during this time - the colours and depth in the clouds and sky, the birds. The peak fades towards the 6 hour mark (based on the time the videos were recorded). In the first video after the peak I am talking about the earth mother, the sky mother, the volcano mother and the volcano god. I am content. Goopy. I still want to lay down.
Spent alot of time laying down on a long, gradual comedown, still feeling mild hallucinogenic effects and happiness. There was at this stage the first ' sad ' parts of the trip - some crying about my brother and being alone which lasted maybe 10-15 minutes. This was followed by the only 'dark' part of the trip. I had read some flight instructions about essentially facing fear / leaning into it rather than turning away. I saw a demonic, metallic face with my eyes closed - red lights in the shape of the face, and I could read the emotion of the face although it didn't seem to have a face. It alternated between threatening me and threatening people I care about. When it threatened me I did nothing, turned away, did not react, but when it threatened others, I started getting angry and wanting to fight it. As it alternated back and forth it started threatening people I cared about more and more, until eventually it threatened my five year old niece and in my rage I felt myself reaching into the volcano beneath me and sucking the lava out and pouring it into the demon face until it dissolved. I then had the thought that the cactus was trying to show me the difference between how I reacted when it threatened me and how I reacted when it threatened others. The demon face returned, and this time when it threatened me I started it down and told it to leave; it again alternated to threatening my neice; and as I felt the rage building within me again the face developed a look of fear and dissolved. I recorded myself after this saying that I thought it was trying to show me that I don't defend myself or stand up for myself because as a kid I couldn't, but now I can - as demonstrated by the fact that I defeated the demon when it threatened my neice.
The trip gradually faded and around 6pm I started feeling the effects were really wearing off although sunset (around 7:30) was still supersaturated and beautiful. I was finally able to sleep around 9.
The next day I woke up at 6am - one of the things I had asked in my q&a period - and went for a run; something I have been trying to do for a decade with no success (get up and exercise). I then went about my day quite productively. In the evening I went to the store (I habitually drink around 1L of 7% beer a day) but felt no urge to drink; instead I felt drawn to some mandarin oranges. For the next two weeks more or less this carried on (I drank socially at work a few times but that's it) along with an elevated mood and morning running.

Hello all,
Recently I put my first multi-player map up in Steam Workshop (T-55 Oil Terminal Defense). The map was generated from a height map of Valdez Alaska and as someone that lives in the area im happy with how the scale of everything fit. I have learned a lot about the VTOL VR editor and have fixed and added quite a bit. I get very busy with work so I'm looking for some VTOL Vets to get in to play and give me some feedback on what direction I should take it. I get maybe 1 day a week to get in and play for a couple hours so it's been tough to play test.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2953163876