I need to have a pride background for an early morning meeting tomorrow. The batch that was sent around to my company is pretty bland and I’d love to use something different. I’m already planning on wearing my “Pride is a Riot” shirt with a picture of a flaming brick. It needs to be work appropriate, but not necessarily just a flag. If it matters, I’m trans and pan.
Oops wrong flair. Should have been pride month, obviously. I can’t figure out how to fix it.

I purchased a new 7.5" rear display from them. Have had numerous issues.

• I wasn't told I was preordering the display. It took over 5 weeks for them to ship.
• Once installed, the screen was mounted flush and the instructions followed exactly. Well they apparently never tried opening the center console, because the spring hits the display when closing, making a loud thunk. I had to cut away plastic from the screen to clear the spring.
• The display has a QC issue, shifting the display behind the bezel on one side, and overexposing it on the other.

I could overlook literally all of these, but the entire point of purchasing it was to install a data card and allow the kids to hotspot on their devices during long trips. When inserting a sim card, it can only be input 1 way and makes a satisfying click. At that point, its never recognized. Support says it must not be compatible, but cannot provide me any guidance on what networks *would* be compatible.
Has anyone worked with them before? Or have any experience with these displays?

What's good? I guess this is the part where I talk about myself and my lack of friends. If you like nonfiction novels, you're in for a treat with this post.
I'm 33 and live in southern California. I'm not really the social/hang out and do things all the time type. I'm a homebody, always have been. Usually only going out when my partner drags me 'kicking and screaming' out of the house. Everything with Covid exasperated my antisocial tendencies, to say the least. So I typically only socialize with my coworkers and our clients. I don't crave physical interactions with people, the feeling of it being a requirement to make plans with people is not something I enjoy very much.
I'm here to find an online friend or two. I've been with my partner for 5yrs, literally only looking for a friend. Proud member of the LGBTQ+ community as well. Time zone wise, probably best if you're here in the states.
I'm pretty sarcastic and make self deprecating jokes on a regular basis. My sense of humor can be a little messed up, and I'll probably complain about a lot of things. The plus side to that is that I'm always down for a good vent sesh or good ol' trash talking. I have a lot of interests, but not many hobbies. But I do know how to sew. My latest vest has 15 patches on it that I stitched by hand. I have a collection of puppy teeth and I don't care how weird people think that is. I have a few good tattoos and a few not so good ones. I have 12 piercings, had 13, but that's a story for when I want to laugh at how dumb I am sometimes. I've been working with dogs for over 12yrs, which keeps me pretty active. We have a dog and a cat. Definitely more of an animal person than a people person. I'm a vegetarian. Not religious at all. I'm a product of divorce, shout out to all the single parents. I'm the oldest of my siblings, and that is why I don't have an spawns of my own.
I can eat my body weight in pizza, enchiladas, and hot cheetos. The more painful the hot sauce, the more I like it. Coffee before anything else in the morning is a must. I day drink on my days off so I can't be called into work, that's probably not healthy.... But it makes doing the laundry and dishes more bearable.
I prefer true crime documentaries and trashy reality TV due to the lack of plot and the ability to decompress after a stressful day at work by talking endless trash on the horrible people that go on those shows because they're perfectly content with showing the whole world that they are indeed horrible people. I don't play video games and you'll only catch me on a hiking trail if I was murdered and that was where my body was dumped.
I mostly listen to metal, but you'll still find me listening to early 2000s pop punk, emo, and screamo. Shows are fun, but I deal with chronic pain now that I'm older and I try to avoid the things that are going to remind me of my reality. Mosh pits make me hurt too much now.
Oh, and because my partner says it's "terrifying", I have 6 Capricorn placements in my chart and my Mars is in Sagittarius. So...do with that what you will.
If you've made it this far and don't find me as abrasive as most people do, shoot.
But don't DM with a single word or standalone sentence. Give me something to actually respond to that has more substance than the interaction you'd have with the barista making your overpriced beverage.

I'm 45, single, really good career, great friends and I've been working on myself for 20 years.
I can paint, dance, travel well and I've done stand up and improv comedy before.
I've been told I'm pretty blah blah. However I think I need to accept I'm never going to find anyone. I live in Los Angeles and done the apps, meet ups, networking events, etc
I've tried hard, I haven't tried and read all the books and implemented the advice, followed my gut and not followed my gut while working on toning my gut.
I'm sure someone will tell me I'm wrong or did I try this or that or to just jump off a cliff.
Fuck...I've never been such an unmitigated failure in any other facet of my life than my romantic one. Sometimes I think I have accepted that I'll be alone but still hold out hope like a sad 90s romcom.
I just got unmatched from a Bumble guy because I asked if he liked STL cardinals fans when he used to play for the Reds....thus my spiral into the deep abyss of life.

I haven't seen anybody talk about this before, but I think this is part of the issue why farming for gear feels so tedious and slow - there's just too many affixes.
Just take a look at this list with all affixes. Just the list itself is extremely long, but it's probably a multitude longer since a lot of the affixes are things like "increased damage to [crowd control effect]", meaning it could be burning or chilled or any one of those.
This means, most gear has probably hundreds of possible affixes, with most of them very situation and hence not that interesting in general, and a lot of affixes that just don't work with your build - who cares about increased critical strike chance against chilled when your build doesn't make enemies chilled? And some affixes are just simply boring (Who is actually looking for specific damage type reduction?)
While in theory, having this many different affixes sounds cool, and allows for some very specific builds, it also mean looking for certain very specific affixes gets extremely tedious. Most runs, most of the items I find don't have any of the affixes I'm looking for. Not even worse than what I'm currently having, but just not there at all. E.g. I want Cooldown Reduction on my helmet. Current one rolled with a very low roll. But I got it just before the end of the campaign, with I think level 50 or 51. Level 57 I haven't found one helmet which improves my CDR.
While I don't think removing affixes would be a good idea (with some exceptions), with this many affixes there needs to be some remedy to change luck in your favor. I don't know if there is any skewing of the affix tables, but there should be. E.g., adding some similar affixes to the same bucket, so they drop less and others more. Or ways to increase proximities for certain affixes (you could sacrifice some gear at the occultist which increases chances to find loot with the same affixes).
What are you guys thinking? Am I completely of the rails or do you think there's some merit to this?

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I went on a date with a Brazilian. He went in for a kiss but it was super aggressive and like open mouthed? I’m American so usually a first kiss just starts out slow and works up to making out. But I felt like he went straight to making out. I’m not sure how to feel about it lol. Was this cultural or just…..desperate ish?

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Background: 34, AMAB, Autistic, DDDD cluster (DPDR), HRT 03/25/2923
Tonight I think I feel better than I have at any time in my life and frankly part of me is scared.
I didn’t do anything special today. I worked my usual 9 hours; HRT has given me back enough emotions the I have come to love my job and want to be a better and more profitable employee for my company, and I’m a fucking Marxist! I went home, cooked a Hello Fresh meal (Spicy Peruvian Chicken), walked on a treadmill for 65 minutes (“fat burn” program), and got ready for bed (wear I am now). I’ve barely interacted with my cats, except for preventing them from burning themselves while I cooked).
Visually I’m still the same overweight tall guy in the mirror. But seeing myself as I am now hasn’t spoiled this “high”(?). I probably need to shave in the morning, but that’s it. I did use a new face wash tonight: CeraVe exfoliating wash, but I can’t believe that is connected.
I’m only on a 0.05 mg/day E-patch regimen, with 50 mg spiro and 5 mg finasteride. I have an appointment on Saturday morning to with Planned Parenthood to hopefully (I won’t take “no” for an answer) to switch to a proper second puberty inducing injection regimen. I have been routinely feeling better all the time, but this likely temporary high is worthy of note.
I don’t use recreational drugs, other than alcohol: I had one shot earlier while already feeling better than ever. I know a few sobriety and coordination tests, and as far as I can tell I’m within my typical limits.
The only special thing I’ve done today is watch WW2 in Real Time’s D-Day 24 hour special broadcast; obviously not all of it.
Most likely I’m feeling the first post workout endorphin rush of my life. I’ve never had a “reward function” before and exercise was just tiring and painful. And if that’s the case, I should feel more typical in the morning.
But if I don’t, I know enough about neurology to know that any sudden improvement in mood that doesn’t go away is often a sign of neurological trouble. If this “high” doesn’t go away, I will go to the hospital.
Tomorrow I’m calling to book a laser hair removal consultation. That and Planned Parenthood are my GA related activities for this week.
Yours, eventually,
Maude Katherine [REDACTED]

Hey all,
I'm sure this is more or less repeat post, thank you all for taking the time – I'm at a bit of a loss on how to start my apartment hunt. I start work in SF on September 5th, fly in on September 1st. I have a friend I can crash with for those few days. Anything beyond that, I'll need to Airbnb (okay with me would just prefer to have things settled before my first day of work). There's no way I can make it to SF sooner than that date which is causing me some stress. That leaves me with a few options:
-Should I passively look for an apartment throughout the summer and send a good friend to check them out for me, and just sign on the spot if its good enough? (nervous about this because I'm not sure if the sublease can be agreed upon 1-2 months before I move in on Sept. 1. Seems a bit early for the fast paced market)
OR
-Should I start viewing places a week before I arrive on Craigslist and FB, and just schedule hella viewings in the few days before I start work? (nervous about this because I'm not sure how fast the market moves, by the time I schedule something, could it be taken within that week?)
I'll have a budget of $1800-2200, pretty flexible with location as I'll be working Hybrid. My job is in SF proper.
I appreciate all advice! Thank you!

So basically, I speak French. So every word is gendered, I’ve always been using she/her and I don’t plan to stop. (I have autism and using those pronouns is part of the stable things for me in life, it would be too destabilizing to use anything else)
But I’m not she/her in the usual sense. I don’t associate myself with femininity. I like to dress in baggy tshirts, jeans, combat boots or sneakers and I’ve never really been into typically girly things. My wardrobe consists of Hawaiian shirts, cargo shorts that go down to my knees, fishnets (for visual texture, not in the sexy way because I hate that) and funny socks. I despise wearing revealing clothing or anything that “follows my curves”. Sometimes I forget I have a body altogether. And until I bump into them I also forget I own a pair of tits. Which by the way, I can’t tell wether I like having them or not.
I never wear skirts and dresses because they make me feel so uncomfortable in my own skin, almost panic inducing. The only time I do wear them is for costumes. Like for a renaissance fair! I can’t wear them in a genuine way, it just doesn’t work for me. I also like to do makeup, but very rarely and again, in a very performance way? I don’t wear it because it makes me pretty, I wear it to feel colourful like a cartoon character or an illustration! When I wear earrings, it’s the big acrylic ones in various shapes like ghosts or anything silly. Again, like a cartoon character.
I enjoy dolls, pink, glitter but in a very queer bimbo way y’know? Not in the mama’s little princess way. Everything else I like is art, morbid things (I’m alt/goth/ idk what to cal my style) and nerd things.
My mom has always been a tomboy who does the renovations, physical work and messy things. She doesn’t have any girl friends. My dad has always been the more “fem” one of the two. He does the cleaning, he’s very precious about cleanliness and dressing well. So I’ve been raised with their model and as an adult now, I realize that the others aren’t like that.
I also have PCOS, hirsutism and co so I’ve always been a hairy girl. I have super broad shoulders, im tall and wide. Im wider than my dad. I’m plus size so I don’t have that typical feminine shape. I grew up not seeing myself like the other girls, even before I got my diagnosis I knew I could never be like them. I don’t want to either, I like my chaotic self, and I’m happy I wasn’t raised like those girls who’s mom bought matching Joshua perrets stuff, or things like that.
The other day we were doing work on my grandpa’s property and I was really enjoying the physical work, all that messy and exhausting stuff that’s usually seen as “manly”. Made me laugh how dainty my dad was and how much of a city guy he is compared to me and my mom.
What do you think I am? Do I have a specific label or am I just a quirky girl? Is there anything for people like me? I know I’m gnc in general but I like to be precise and know the facts.

Note 1: If you ever traced the locations of the 7 woodcutting crystal trees and the one you grow in Priff, it forms the shape of a diamond, Seren's symbol.
Note 2: if you look for the center of the shape, the Chaos Druid's Tower is fairly close by.
Have you ever wondered why there are so many Evil Trees?
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The Boss
The Evil/Corrupted Crystal Tree would be a skilling boss.
It would borrow some mechanics from normal Evil Trees where you need Woodcutting and Firemaking to damage it. Players would need other skills like Mining, Farming, Divination, Runecrafting, etc to take down this particular Evil Trees.
Coloration of this Evil Tree would be inspired by the Dark Lord as a sign of its corrupt.
Suggested Lore
How this Crystal Tree got here would remain something of a mystery. But as it is in the center of the Crystal Trees on the surface, its connection to the anima mundi is fairly strong. It's corruption however, and ties to the anima are part of why Evil Trees spawn so frequently.
The Chaos Druids, in turn, would have been drawn to the location. Whether or not they were responsible for creating or influencing the Evil Tree somehow is up to devs.
After years of Evil Trees plaguing the lands, the Tool Leperchaunsm Druids, and elves of clan Cryws managed to track the affected Crystal Tree to this location.
The Tree and the Cave
The cave would be giant. This Crystal Tree would also be somewhat larger than a normal Crystal Tree.
The Cave would act as the arena for the boss fight.
Suggested Mechanics
This tree, of course would require a means of damaging it. And a means of damaging you.
Players would need 1-4 skills to directly damage the core of the Crystal Tree. Woodcutting, Mining, and Firemaking are recommended are the core skills. This is how players would finish off the Tree.
Much like normal Crystal Trees, the Evil/Corrupted one would have the wall of Crystalline spikes that players need to clear. The Evil/Corrupted Tree however can harden them. A skill like Mining would be needed to break thru the hardened defenses. Woodcutting would/could work, but it wouldn't be as effective.
Spike Growths. Much like evil roots that spawn for Evil Trees, the Evil/Corrupted Crystal Tree would have its own variant. But, as these are Crystalline, they would be far more effective at damaging or trapping the player. Imagine instead of simply stunning the player ... you get impaled ... or trapped in crystal and need to break free somehow.
Infected/Corrupted Roots. These would be running out from the tree and to the walls and out into the world. Players could use a skill such as Divination or Runecrafting to siphon/transmute the corrupted anima from the roots in an effort to limit the amount of Evil Trees that are spawning in the world (or could said as a way to prevent it from at least infecting the world even further).
Just as players gain kindling from Evil Trees, a corrupted crystal shards would be gained. These shards would be ... explosive ... when lit. These would be very effective at blasting away at the Crystal Tree. Using it however is risky since you too would take damage or at least get stunned by it.
Corrupted Crystal Singing. The Evil/Corrupted Crystal Tree could also emit a song, much like how elves use their own form of chanting to creating crystal tools, weapon, and armor, this tree could do something as a counter effort. Prolonged exposure to the corrupted crystal singing would have an effect on whomever was trying to attack the tree. Effects could be diminshed stats, negating summoning familiar effects/boosts, or causing the player to have to leave the arena sooner.
Whatever risks and debuffs and defenses of the Evil Tree, players will need to overcome them to get their rewards.
Rewards?
Obviously, players would get XP in whatever skills are used to defeat the Evil/Corrupted Crystal Tree.
After that, any item rewards are TBD by the devs.

I work an office job and with not that many people. Mostly wear a DJ so a lot of people know I have a DJ (they don't know rep or real they don't ask I don't tell)
I have a few others in my "rep"itore that I don't get a chance to wear in case they think I'm ballin hard etc
Yes I'm in a job where I can afford whatever watch I want, so is everyone I work with, but the mentality still is "rolex is for millionaires"
I have a sub and pp calatrava on ice along with a nttd.... What do I say when the eventual question comes how can you afford to wear a new watch every day?

Disco Elysium is a roleplaying game in which players take on the role of an amnesiac detective who has been tasked with solving a murder in the midst of a heated labour dispute. Events are resolved through skill checks and dialogue trees via a system of 24 skills that represent different aspects of the protagonist.
I'm interested in seeing which skills people who peruse this subreddit gravitate towards and in what capacity ideology plays a part, though it's hard to discern the latter with only six options, so feel free to say which skill you chose and why in the comments.

Endurance

Take the blows. Don’t let the world kill you.
Cool for: Fighters who can take a hit. Lookouts who don’t sleep. Human Batteries.
Endurance is your metabolism and circulatory system. It improves your Health – one of the two health pools in the game. It enables to survive being a cop. Who cares if you can’t aim a gun, if you can take a few bullets? Why be afraid of drugs that hurt your health if you’re a very, very healthy man?
At high levels, Endurance enables you to take a few knocks to the head, enjoy a greater quantity of drugs, and shake off a few cardiac arrests – it makes you a powerful man, who looks down on the weaklings who can’t keep up. However, cops with low Endurance are likely to struggle. The body is frail already, and the flesh of a cop will often be tested. And if it doesn’t pass, it dies.

Pain Threshold

Shrug off the pain. They’ll have to hurt you more.
Cool for: Unstoppable Fighters. Guys who don’t die. Masochists.
Pain Threshold ignores damage so you can push on, bloodied and crawling, to the bitterest end. It enables you to negate damage you would otherwise take. Even mental pain – heartache and loneliness. In fact, these things can become a thrill you seek out and perversely revel in.
At high levels, Pain Threshold turns in on itself in seriously unhealthy way, with full-on self-destructive behavior. With a low Pain Threshold, however, you will suffer too easily. Even a slap from a teenager will make you whine and complain.

Physical Instrument

Flex powerful muscles. Enjoy healthy organs.
Cool for: Muscle Men. Bare-Knuckle Brawlers. Gym Teachers.
Physical Instrument is not only your muscles and your skeleton – it is your ability to use them effectively. It enables you to do push-ups, sit-ups, knock-out punches, and 360-degree spin-kicks. It’s a one size fits all solution to thriving and surviving in a physical world.
At high levels, Physical Instrument breaks doors, chains, and bones, and it makes you laugh at the namby-pansies who can’t. You’ll be manned-up, encouraging others to curl iron until they’re manned-up too. At low levels, however, you’ll have a hard time arresting anyone who isn’t infirm or already dead. Indeed, engaging in physical confrontations could leave you in either state.

Electrochemistry

Go to party planet. Love and be loved by drugs.
Cool for: High-Fliers. Party Enthusiasts. Cops who need Lightning.
Electrochemistry is the animal within you, the beast longing to be unleashed to indulge and enjoy. It enables you to take drugs with fewer negative side-effects. It also enables you to better investigate lurid matters – if you need to understand a chemical breakdown, or talk to someone blasted out of their mind, or understand sexual dynamics, Electrochemistry is there to guide you.
At high levels, Electrochemistry makes you a man of unrestrained pleasure – an unrepentant lothario who leers at people with a bottle of speed and a plastic bendy straw in either hand. But with a low Electrochemistry, you’ll be too innocent to be effective. Without a working knowledge of drugs and sex, the city will be difficult to understand.

Shivers

Raise the hair on your neck. Tune in to the city.
Cool for: City Lovers. The Wisest of the Street Wise. The Genuinely Supra-Natural.
Shivers come when the temperature drops and you become more keenly aware of your surroundings. It enables you to hear the city itself, to truly belong to the streets. It is a supra-natural ability; old wrongs play out in present time, scenes across the city happen in front of you. But who is speaking to you?
At high levels, Shivers may make you seem mad to the outside world – as you listen to the city, you don’t listen to others. Your superiors may begin to worry. With a low Shivers, though you will seldom hear the city speaking to you – and if you cannot hear it, how can you ever save it?

Half Light

Let the body take control. Threaten people.
Cool for: High-Strung Investigators. Shoot-Now-Ask-Questions-Later Cops. Surprise Haters.
Half Light is your fight-or-flight response. It enables you to sense the way situations are about to turn. It injects palpable fear into your heart – fear that urges you act before it’s too late to act ever again; fear that makes you frighten others. It is the aggression that lets you squeeze every last drop of information out of a witness.
At high levels, Half Light makes you ultra-attuned to the world. It is perpetual fear – of your own shadow, of someone else’s name or scent. You’ll be ready, always, to pounce and physically interrogate passers-by. At low levels, however, you’ll find your survival instinct is lacking. And your methods limp-wristed. Those who respect violence will not respect you.
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In protest of Reddit killing off 3rd-party apps, this subreddit will join others in a site-wide blackout beginning June 12
Effective July 1st, Reddit is implementing changes to their third-party API services that will effectively kill off all third-party apps and many external tools that Reddit users and moderators have come to rely on.
We won’t rehash points that many of you have already been reading about — details of the changes and the discussion surrounding them can be found on the announcement post here, and the initial response on /modcoord: https://www.reddit.com/ModCoord/comments/13xh1e7/an_open_letter_on_the_state_of_affairs_regarding
Instead, we’ll just briefly talk about why we consider this important, and what it means for you, the average Reddit user:
Third-party Reddit apps are going away
If you make use of a third-party app to browse Reddit, such as Apollo, RIF, BaconReader, or Narwhal, those apps are going to stop working on July 1st of this year.
Reddit have implemented enterprise-level pricing for their API that they state is intended for third-party apps, however the pricing model they’ve released is unconscionably high, nearly twenty times what it’s believed their API services actually cost to operate. The developer of the Apollo app expects that keeping their app running would cost upwards of twenty million dollars a year, and will no longer be able to offer their app. Effectively, this change is an elimination of third-party apps in everything but name. The developers of RIF and Narwhal also expect they will be forced to shut down their apps.
Reddit content is about to become worse
Many subreddits make use of third-party tools to support their community, including custom browser extensions, bots, and archival services. Many of these services are likely to stop working, robbing communities of tools they have come to rely on to manage their content. The Pushshift API, which powered sites like Reveddit, has already ceased functioning. Many more tools are expected to cease working after this change goes into effect. We can surely expect the legacy old.reddit.com to be next on the chopping block — the mobile browser site, i.reddit.com, has already been removed.
That means that you, the user, can expect to see more spam, more FUD, more trolls, more stolen content, and more reposts in your communities.
The mod tools offered by the default app and website also pale in comparison to what’s offered by third-party apps and plugins. This means that communities can expect less moderation, worse moderation, and less transparency after these changes go into effect.
Reddit is about to become less accessible
Accessibility tools like screen readers simply do not work on New Reddit and the official iOS Reddit app. This change will effectively exile the Blind community from Reddit overnight. Read more about this here.
So what are we doing?
As a subreddit, we do have some sway here. Reddit requires its user’s content in order to survive — if we stop posting, Reddit stops making money.
To that end, askembryologists will be joining hundreds of other subreddits in a Reddit-wide blackout. On June 12th, 2023, participating communities will set their subreddits to private in protest of these changes, depriving Reddit of the content and traffic it needs to survive. The intent is to force Reddit to reconsider these changes and come to a reasonable compromise with app developers — who have stated they are willing to pay reasonable API costs — so that we can ensure that Reddit stays as safe and accessible as possible.
This isn’t a decision we’re undertaking lightly, but we believe that we do have the capacity to force change here, and we’d be remiss as members of this community to not take the few steps we can to attempt to ensure a better and safer Reddit experience for everyone.
Read more about the issues here:
https://www.reddit.com/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/13yh0jf/dont_let_reddit_kill_3rd_party_apps/
https://www.reddit.com/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/
https://www.reddit.com/redditisfun/comments/13wxepd/rif_dev_here_reddits_api_changes_will_likely_kill/
https://www.reddit.com/getnarwhal/comments/13wv038/reddit_have_quoted_the_apollo_devs_a_ridiculous/jmdqtyt/
https://www.reddit.com/ModCoord/comments/1401qw5/incomplete_and_growing_list_of_participating/

Been single for about 3 months after a 2 year relationship. Before that I had been dating someone for a few months right after another 2 year relationship. Even when I was single I was playing the field. And even when I wasn't I would recruit a male friend to be a strictly platonic cuddle buddy.
Suffice to say I don't seem to do well on my own. I'm older now and know that I need time to heal and find myself. I have been basically ignoring any male attempts at flirting and diving into work and hobbies That part of me is happy and whole for the first time in a long while.
But I miss having someone to just lay and watch a movie with. Someone to hold me when I'm sad. I've noticed that when someone at work gives me a hug I've been holding on just a little longer, trying to get just one more moment of intimacy. Mostly the girls, of course, I'm not trying to start anything at work.
Anyways, I don't really want to do anything with some tinder random, but with no other options for intimacy right now idk what else to do. It's only been 3 months since I've had a cuddle, maybe I just need more time and that craving will subside. I keep downloading and deleting dating apps after a few conversations because I just don't know what to do.