Once upon a time in the mystical land of Wall Street, there lived a wise and noble trader named Hindenturd. He was renowned for his exceptional trading skills, making his fortune by navigating the wild and unpredictable world of stocks.
In the heart of the stock market kingdom, the legendary stock SPY was known for its remarkable resilience. The stock had a magical power called the 200-day Simple Moving Average (SMA), which traders from far and wide worshiped as a vital support level. Whenever SPY approached this SMA, it would bounce off, creating a ripple effect in the market.
On a particularly tumultuous day in the market, SPY began a steep descent towards the fabled 200-day SMA. Hindenturd and traders across the land held their breath, watching as the stock moved closer and closer to this critical support level. With bated breath, they wondered if the magic of the 200-day SMA would hold once again.
Meanwhile, in the realm of financial technology, the stock $SQ was considered a force to be reckoned with. Its prowess in payments and digital transactions had earned it a loyal following among traders and investors. However, $SQ's fate was often influenced by the larger market trends, and it found itself at the mercy of SPY's movements.
As SPY finally touched the 200-day SMA, the market trembled with anticipation. It was in this moment that the magic of the SMA proved to be true, and SPY bounced off with incredible strength, soaring higher into the sky. The kingdom of Wall Street erupted in cheers as the market began a robust rally, led by the resilient SPY.
The bounce-off from the 200-day SMA sent shockwaves through the market, and $SQ felt the power of this incredible event. With the force of a thousand suns, $SQ surged upward, pumping like never before. Traders who had taken positions in $SQ rejoiced as they watched their portfolios swell with gains.
Hindenturd, however, was caught off-guard by the rapid ascent of $SQ. He had placed a significant short position on the stock, believing that its fortunes were destined to fall. As $SQ continued to pump, Hindenturd found himself in a precarious situation. His short position was taking a massive hit, and he felt the weight of the market bearing down on him.
In a final act of humility, Hindenturd admitted defeat and closed his short position on $SQ. The market's invisible hand had fisted him, and he had no choice but to accept his loss. As he licked his wounds, Hindenturd vowed to learn from this experience and to never underestimate the power of the 200-day SMA or the prowess of $SQ.
From that day forward, Hindenturd became a wiser, more cautious trader. He continued to navigate the treacherous waters of Wall Street, bearing in mind the lesson he had learned from the legendary 200-day SMA and the unstoppable force of $SQ. And so, the tale of Hindenturd and his humbling experience became a cautionary story shared among traders, reminding them of the ever-changing nature of the stock market and the importance of respecting its magical forces.

This is my husband's story but he doesn't reddit and I just lurk. So he has weekend planned with his boys and we live on the West Coast but most of them live on the East Coast. So he was his second leg and taking a flight from Baltimore to Cleveland (1.5 hrs) but had already been on first leg for 4.5 hrs and had packed snacks and things to do.
So he is playing his Nintendo DS and decides he is done and wants to just rest his eyes. So he closed it and puts it in his backpack when the drink cart comes by. The flight attendant advised me that the woman across the aisle would like to use my gaming device. And he said, "Whatever. I will take a Coke Zero."
Then the woman whom I shall refer to as Karen started demanding through the flight attendant that I give her precious Timmy (about 9 years old) my game. He said again "Yeah whatever" and started to eat his snacks. Then they collected the trash so that must have occupied Timmy's time for a while, but then Karen started in again but now directly to him.
Karen: " Are you playing your game?"
Hubby: "Nope."
Karen: "Well MY Timmy would like to play your game."
Hubby: "I already told you NO."
Karen: "Well you're not playing it."
Hubby: "And neither are you!"
She then got red faced and started reading her book.
With this memory, he got petty revenge even though she will never know. So he is on his return flight from Cleveland to Denver ( 3.5 hrs). He was one of the first to board and the flight attendant asked him if he minded sitting with an unaccompanied minor. His name was Collin and he was about 12 years old. I said no problem. I use to send my daughter that way for visits. I can tell he is bored and asked him if he liked Pokemon. He said YES. So I gave him my Nintendo DS to play. Then I opened my backpack and offered him snacks. He was so happy. He ate trail mix, beef sticks, and Starbursts while playing his favorite game. And all my hubby could think about was that horrible Karen and her bored son on his last flight. Ha Ha Ha.
So the flight attendant was so happy I was occupying his time, she gave me the entire Coke Zero can instead of the tiny cup that the other passengers get. The next time around she offered a drink on them, and I discovered that I like Mango Vodka Seltzer. And I had 2.
He was so excited to tell he when he got home of dealing with a Karen in the Wild and a much better experience on his next flight.

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• Online Activities are accessible from the Main Menu via "Poke Portal"
• Once in Poke Portal you can select your desired activity

Co-Op Lobbies

• Select the "Union Circle" option, or visit a Pokémon Center's Union Circle directly
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Hi! My name is Caleb and I'm from upstate New York. I'm bi, though I'm more attracted to people who are more feminine physically. I am currently unemployed due to personal issues, but I am an aspiring game developer and enjoy video games and anime. In terms of games, some of my favorites are Halo, Pokemon and the Half-Life series, though there's lots of other games I enjoy to play! For anime, I generally enjoy slice of life and romance anime more. If you have any recommendations, please feel free to say so!
Physically, I am somewhat on the larger side right now, but I am working on losing weight. I am willing to send a picture of myself, but please send one yourself too. I'm also very socially awkward and have bad social anxiety, which makes it very difficult to carry conversations. Please be patient with me. I promise it's worth it! I'm very cuddly and very loving.

Hi! My name is Caleb and I'm from upstate New York. I'm bi, though I'm more attracted to people who are more feminine physically. I am currently unemployed due to personal issues, but I am an aspiring game developer and enjoy video games and anime. In terms of games, some of my favorites are Halo, Pokemon and the Half-Life series, though there's lots of other games I enjoy to play! For anime, I generally enjoy slice of life and romance anime more. If you have any recommendations, please feel free to say so!
Physically, I am somewhat on the larger side right now, but I am working on losing weight. I am willing to send a picture of myself, but please send one yourself too. I'm also very socially awkward and have bad social anxiety, which makes it very difficult to carry conversations. Please be patient with me. I promise it's worth it! I'm very cuddly and very loving.

I've got 5 Auspicious Armors that I'm willing to trade 1:1 for Malicious Armors (although if you've got something else you'd like to trade for it I'm all ears), I've got several in case that several people are looking into getting this Scarlet exclusive item. I'm stocking on Scarlet Paradox Pokemon in hopes of hosting a giveaway soon too

I have changed my name before but i cant seem to figure out how since the update. Am i missing something. I cant get any help online

timestamp & card list (5 pages)
Selling a lot of ~145 Pokemon Cards. They are all varying in condition, going from Damaged to near mint. I would say they are mostly moderately played. They are mostly Japanese but there are lots of English cards and other languages as well. Please message me or comment for pricing, going by eBay sold for reference. Trades welcome, PayPal preferred.
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1. De mis pasatiempos actuales es ver streamers por la plataforma de twitch, me entretiene ver como juegan diversos juegos y las personalidades que encuentras en dicha plataforma es muy variada. Twitch
   
2. También me gusta ver anime o series de vez en cuando, principalmente del género de terror. Netflix Jkanime
   
3. Otro de mis pasatiempos es escuchar música, me gusta mucho el trap aunque ahora estoy escuchando un poco más de regional mexicano. Spotify
   
4. No podian faltar el uso de redes sociales, aunque no las uso tanto como antes de igual forma sigue siendo uno de mis pasatiempos. Instagram
   
5. Y finalmente el pasatiempo al cual le dedicó más tiempo actualmente es jugar videojuegos, me entretiene mucho y me desestresa (algunas veces), pero me deja olvidar los problemas que pueda tener. Pokémon Unite Dead by Daylight
   

thinking about changing up my pronouns again; thought of this after i realized i sometimes refer to a groups of people using "em"
then i realized that like it even has historical usage, like the Pokemon company has been using it for years; in "Gotta catch 'em all"
i do not know what the possessive variant would be,
but then i kinda was like 'actually fuck that shit, why does every pronoun need Nominative, Accusative, Possessive, and Reflexive variant anyway' - why cant i mix and match shit however i like, if i wanted go by 'she/him' [as an example, please don't call me him] i don't see why i should have to have the entire she/heherself, or he/him/himself set. like, having them as a set like that is so needlessly limiting!
so yeah, i think im they/them/em/fae/faer, but then how are you suppose to know 'em' is only for possessive use well whatever;
what ya'll think :?
coolest part is that now i actually am rewriting the rules of English grammar!, take that transphobes

Alright, this will be a long one since I'll be going over 3 campaigns I've had, back to back, but with mostly different groups. the reason I'm lumping them together is because at this point, I'm starting to believe it's just me who's the bad player.
So! campaign one: we were playing in an evil campaign and I was playing a succubus bard called Lily. The rest of the party is mostly unimportant to the story since what happened was mainly with the DM and his apparent favouritism for another character. They were this mysterious information broker simply called the broker. (player who played the character, nothing against you, I love you and you played him incredibly fun 10/10 no complaints)
So, my character's whole thing was that she used to be an angle of love, followed asmodeus in his rebellion and later when she broke away from asmodeus had her true love killed by him. now cue her being a dick to all the gods equally but asmodeus especially. now, this was an RP heavy game where we were part of this massive evil corporate thing, think the monster association from one punch man.
Lily and the broker started to make this sort of rivalry of wits. Lily trying to gather recourses and undermining the broker while the broker, I found out later, was trying to get Lily's true name when she mentioned that he'd have to pry that from the hands of asmodeus. Now, the broker already had this massive network of resources at his disposal including one of the other PCs being his henchman. So it was an uphill fight for Lily to begin with. That sets the stage for a campaign I was really looking forward to.
Now, Lily's goal was to corrupt some poor paladin into becoming an npc henchman so she could also have one if push came to shove. I captured one and spent my limited downtime exclusively towards corrupting him and making him a henchman. now by this time, the broker had faked his death because he wanted to play a different character for a while. We didn't know it was faked until later in the story. but when I had spent some 16 ish sessions of downtime and finally made the paladin a usable npc, the DM just made him disappear. confirmed alive, but with not a single trace or lead what so ever to my 16 session investment. And I never found him again.
Throughout this time, my characters backstory was largely put to the side with no real time for me to shine. no infiltration to make use of my shapeshifting, no other fiends or stuff for me to relate or connect with, just one instance of delivering a death kiss to a random peasant in a destroyed town, off screen, after i insisted on having a moment too.
When it came to my character finally having a moment too, I was contacted by Loki (yes that one.) to become his herald for the end times. basically, I'd become his champion and in exchange I could demand stuff from him. That particular session ended on my character being given some magically binding paper on which I could write the contract in question. The DM even told me "bring your lawyers" because we both knew he was going to fuck me over.
Que next week, and me having spent 3 days writing up a legit 4 page legal contract that I gave to my DM for Loki to sign. (still proud of it and still have it) I even went through the effort to try and write in some clever legal wording to be able to fuck over Loki in time. Now, the campaign ended before this contract became relevant some 2 months later. Apparently the contract had invisible ink on it that said something along the lines of "ignore what is written, I own you." which when I learned that, only fuelled my later reaction.
Que the return of the broker. He is revealed to be alive and came back to Lily with tea and a chessboard with her king in checkmate. Apparently, while being a until then, dead PC. he had achieved to obtain the egg of a death dragon, got in contact with the god of the nine hells, and traded it for the true name of my character. mind you, in this world, if you know the true name of a fiend, you get certain levels of control over them. The DM had until then, just blocked any of my attempts to become relevant to the story with he being controlled by NPCs and never getting a win. Now to be controlled by a PC that had achieved such off screen.
I didn't want to play that character anymore after the DM had spent the whole campaign not using anything in my 4 page backstory, filled with NPCs, hooks, and even a timeline. and having anything I did with her being for nothing. Essentially, I had my backstory Ignored. which was the reason I gave in a private channel with the DM before changing characters.
later, I spent equal amount of time and effort into the backstory of a new werewolf character. Now, the the DM's credit, my character got some story moments in this RP game! except he inserted an NPC that was not from my backstory, as contradictory to my backstory, and after the game when i confronted him about it answered with "well, the is still a False Hydra on the lose." which to me, just sounded like an excuse to disregard my backstory again. (for those who don't know, false hydras eat people and then modify the memory of people to make them believe they never existed.)
I left that game after that session.
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Later, I joined a game with a new DM. he was excited about a world he'd been making and I joined under the impression of it being a more open ended game. later, he'd turn it into a big multi-campaign thing where there were a bunch of other parties in it at the same time.
I carried my werewolf character over since I could easily make her good instead, and I didn't want to waste all that time after just one bad session. This game had a guy who definitely fits the traits of a chaotic stupid dwarf. and, not just a dwarf... early on in the game, stuff went fine, but we quickly found out that this DM really likes his mass combat that will last multiple sessions. Indeed rare was the fight that could fit in one 4 hour session. and RP was practically unheard off. Not to mention that this guy would put sometimes hundreds of enemies all on the same turn! not to mention that he really liked 3.5 more then 5e which we were playing, so he'd sometimes just put 3.5 monsters up against us. Any experienced player with knowledge in both of these things, will tell you that this is not a good idea.
Now, me and about half or more of the players were expecting your more usual mixed game and not one where Min-Maxing will quickly become a requirement to survive. Now, if all of this wasn't hard enough, the dwarf, and later paladin, would see any suggestion of danger and run up ahead with a death wish. one time, he just flat out walked into a clearly trapped open area of goblins yelling for them to come out. Another, he insisted on staying inside this dungeon and continuing on while we all went to rest outside. he almost died, and we wasted a healing potion on him. then he died when he started yelling in the still not cleared dungeon attracting all the enemies at once. and died, nearly taking all of us with him.
later, in a police stake out where we had to find an underground slave trade and bust it. he pushed himself forwards in the middle of us trying to deceive the merchants into believing we wanted to buy some, and said "We are police, you'd want to help the police right?" while flashing his badge.
he eventually left the game after complaining that he never gets the spotlight. Eventually I changed characters into a fully min-maxed ranger. And then the rogue left because he felt useless as a single target class against literally hundreds of enemies all acting in unison. and because they wanted more RP.
Im still in that game. Yes our longest fight took 2 actual months to complete. yes, I'm debating on leaving.
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the last game I'll mention is one that ran at the same time as the previous one with the same player who played that rogue and DMed by that party's Min-Maxed skill monkey. Again, it's an evil campaign with a focus on RP and again im playing Lily. the DM wants us all to feel powerful and so he gives us all some dormant artefact that will grow in power with certain personal milestones. Mine is to collect particular souls. but where this turns into a horror story for me, is again favouritism.
See, his artefact is a piece of full plate that just requires him to obtain specific gems that slot into the armour. And at the time of writing this, he has already found a bunch of them. while the rest of us is all at none and thus still dormant, or at the first stage or developing to it. a player that joined later, doesn't even have one at all. besides this, the DM thought that his character should totally have a big greatsword so heavy only he could lift it, that deals double the damage of your ordinary greatsword. Its also a magical one which, I don't know what it does exactly, but apparently whatever it can do is much better then a very rare Nine Lives Stealer longsword.
In any fight, he is pretty much the only one doing anything because his big sword and armour while the rest of us just kinda buff him and stand back. I tend to be the face, being the bard succubus who cant roll lower then a 21 in persuasion (got to love eloquence bards) he still regularly inserts himself into RP moments specifically made for other players, and one player has already left because of the favouritism and how much that player is left with an artefact that just give 4 useless spells of which you can cast a combined twice.
There is a big RP moment coming up for Lily in which I again spent a bunch of downtime to get it going. but if that gets neglected in this game like it did in the last, I might follow and leave too.
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This post was less so for a video since its not really a good one big story thing but I hope at least it fits the sub and flair. there are more minor short games I played that had similar things going on with some of the same DMs. I just joined a game with the player who left the last campaign I mentioned as the DM so left hope my streak breaks. but, now i have to know. am I over reacting to the stuff I said in here? are these just things that aren't a big deal? because I'm starting to feel like all these games are fine, but its me who's the problem. kind of the "if everyone is an asshole around you, you're the asshole" idea.