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2023.03.29 02:56 ParetoOptimalAuthor An Empirical Revolution in Asset Pricing
When we think of economics, we think of markets, and when we think of markets, we think of private incentives moving towards a socially optimal allocation of resources through the invisible hand. Each firm sets its marginal cost equal to its marginal revenue and each consumer pays the price up to their marginal utility. We see in a Hayekian sense how the price system delivers information through no means of its own. Risk and return are adjusted towards equilibrium, and in viewing through this lens, we know how work in finance and asset pricing from Chicago to Yale can tie into the heart and roots of economics built by Smith and Hayek. It is through this lens we see risk and its compensatory returns
The Fama-French three-factor model is an economic model that arose from the need for an empirical asset pricing model to test the efficient-market hypothesis (EMH) in the 1990s. This model was proposed by University of Chicago professors Eugene Fama and Kenneth French in response to empirical evidence against the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), which initially worked as strong evidence in favor of EMH. However, the empirical evidence of volatility in stock prices and dividends inconsistent with market efficiency led to the development of the Fama-French model
The original Fama-French three-factor Model Originally meant to be a counter to Robert Shiller's 1980 paper on discount rates, the three-factor model served as a response to plenty of empirical evidence against the CAPM.
In asset pricing, there is a famous theory developed by Fama known as the efficient-market hypothesis. There are three forms of EMH: the first one, the weak form, states that past prices do not predict future returns, i.e. they are independent of one another, the second one, the semi-strong form, says that asset prices reflect all publically available information, disincentivizing the public from active investing to the profit of private insiders.
The second form is the one most strongly supported by empirical evidence through event studies
The third form, the strong form, states that asset prices reflect all information. private or public, making inside trading unprofitable.
To test EMH, one needs an empirical asset pricing model, thus we have the Joint hypothesis problem.
The CAPM was developed in the 1960s to help explain stock-market returns; initially, it worked as strong evidence in favor of EMH
Only in the 1980s did empirical evidence against CAPM and thus EMH was born. A group of behavioral and Keynesian economists, including the great Robert J. Shiller, came in with evidence of volatility ins stock prices and dividends inconsistent with market efficiency. CAPM could now explain only 60% of stock-market returns.
Fama, Cochrane, et al. found it hard to reconcile with this until the early 1990s. Noticing various stock market risks and using factor-analysis Fama, et al. found three additional risk factors to explain over 90% of stock-market returns. This would lay the foundation for groundbreaking academic work in Fama and French (1992).
The Fama-French model is an econometric model in asset pricing used to predict stock-market returns based on three risk factors, with two additional risk factors added later. It considers the outperformance of small versus big companies, the outperformance of high book/market versus low book/market companies, and the market excess return as necessary to counter the additional risk. The model helped explain over 90% of stock-market returns, and the research behind it earned Eugene Fama, Robert Shiller, and Lars Hansen the Nobel Prize in economics in 2013.
While the Fama-French model was a major advancement in finance, it has also faced criticisms. Some argue that it relies too heavily on past performance data and ignores other relevant information
Shiller and Hansen's work on behavioral finance and econometric tests of asset pricing also contributed to the development of the Fama-French model. Shiller's research showed that investors do not always behave rationally and that their decisions are often influenced by emotions and behavioral biases. This finding challenged the traditional assumption of rational investors in economic models.
Hansen, on the other hand, developed statistical tools to test asset pricing models, which provided a more rigorous and accurate way to evaluate theories in finance.
With this new wave of research on factor premiums and the beginnings of financial economist Cliff Asness, behavioral finance proponents would need to come up with research against EMH that wouldn't show up nearly a decade later in the early 2000s
You'd think the Nobel committee would be against giving the prize to research opponents. Instead in 2013, the Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to Eugen Fama, Robert Shiller, and Lars Hansen, for their empirical work on market efficiency, behavioral finance, and econometric tests of asset pricing respectively.
The winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Their research would serve as the background for Fama and French (2015), where two additional risk factors were added.
The updated Fama-French model Without this credibility revolution in finance, the capital markets would be less information efficient and result in less income per capita for not just the big guys and Wall St., but for the average Joe too. Through no altruistic motive of their own, the profit motive moves millions of traders towards optimal equilibria allowing low trading costs, speed of information, no Pareto improvements, and the free-riding of stock-market returns to savvy investors like you and me.
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2023.03.29 02:56 Whats_it_to_ya_69 No such thing as love for me...
Being a 24M who is 5'4 pakistani American, sucks. There's no such thing has love...or even having female friends. I thought people were kidding about Straight women being ridiculously picky but boy.. they are right. I liked 1,500 to 1,800 women in hinge, tinder and bumble in total. And only got 4 matches and 2 or 3 likes in 2 months.... all being bi sexual women. Not even a single straight women liked me or matched me ever. Its pretty f ING sad .... I've never felt more hopeless and suicidal then now... being brown, short and unattractive is a death sentence and there's no doubt about it. And don't tell me dating apps don't work, your lying. I live in a dorm with roommates both (white,5'8 and average looking)who match around 40 or so women in 3 weeks here near our college. And when he asked me, i was so embarrassed... he also honestly felt horrible and kinda felt sad for me. Even I feel horrible about myself. I wish I was dead honestly, cause it's an embarrassment to live like this every freakin hour..and for straight women.... it honestly unbelievable how crazy their standards are ..
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2023.03.29 02:55 Newyorkhispanic Any thoughts on Frank Rainieri and his company Grupo Puntacana
Tengo opiniones encontradas sobre la familia Rainieri y su empresa. Frank, la familia Rainieri, ha comprado mano de obra barata para la República Dominicana pero ha puesto al país en el mapa como un destino de lujo. Sospecho que la familia Rainieri, sin duda, trabaja con el gobierno de EE. UU./CIA para acabar con Trujillo. Las familias de élite de la República Dominicana querían matar a Trujillo. Los tipos de proyectos que están sucediendo en la parte oriental del país nunca sucederán bajo Trujillo. Me extraña que Balaguer permitiera al Grupo Puntacana. Puna cana es tierra gringa punto.
Trujillo fue asesinado el 30 de mayo de 1961. En 1969, Rainieri compró con Ted Kheel y grupos de 40 socios compraron aproximadamente 30 millas cuadradas de tierra sin urbanizar en el este de la República Dominicana.
la república dominicana necesita invertir más y empujar a nuestra población hacia el lado oeste del país cerca de la frontera con haití o la perderemos.
According to Forbes***, Rainieri has one of the ten largest fortunes in the Dominican Republic, with a net worth near the billion-dollar mark as of 2014.***
Rainieri family is out of touch with the Dominican people and don't have long term goal for the country. Our people deserve more than tourism. Rainieri is pro Haitians due to cheap labor.
Look at Grupo Puntacana History below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Rainieri
what is anyone thoughts on Rainieri family and other elite Dominican families?
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2023.03.29 02:55 Montreal4000 Year One Update
Year 1 Update
Long time lurker, 1st time poster. I, 41/M was floxed last year around this time. The usual story, was given Cipro for suspected epididymitis which I did not have (big surprise). I’ll keep my story short as it’s similar to most on here except my symptoms are like 99% musculoskeletal.
What I had/Or mostly gone:
Eye problems (felt like I constantly had sand in my eyes) – Gone
Photosensitivity - Gone
Heart Palpitations – Mostly gone depending on diet. Fried foods and too much sugar will cause this to flare.
Tingling in my left hand and feet – Mostly gone, flares up here and there but not painful.
Brain Fog – Gone
Depersonalization - Gone
My current Symptoms:
Pain in my upper back – Constant, pain varies to certain degrees
Right Hamstring – Near constant but not everyday
Pain in shoulders – Intermittent
Bicep Pain – Intermittent
Calf pain – Intermittent
Rotating pain – Intermittent (sometimes neck, hands, elbows, feet, etc.)
None of the above pain is particularly intense but it is annoying and enough to make me avoid exercise and other activities. For a while I could not stand for long periods of time (at the grocery store, at work, around the house) because my shoulders, back or my calves would start aching. That is pretty much resolved and I am functional and can work, drive, and do most normal things. I’m not where I want to be, but I am happy with the improvements. As of now, I am pretty much stagnant and have not gotten worse or better and coming off a bad flare.
What’s Helped:
Possibly Supplements but it is hard to gauge (I have tried so many)
Red Light Therapy
Saunas
Stretching
Epsom Salt Baths
Icing the problem areas
Magnesium Spray
Cleaning up my diet
And most of all… TIME
My Stack:
Magnesium Glycinate
Calcium
ALA
Vitamins – Multi, C, B, D, & E
CoQ10
Turmeric
Probiotics
Flairs:
The weather (Rain, snow, and/or cold really affect me)
Fried and/or sugary food
Stress
Sitting too much/Inactivity
Doom scrolling – That post about Bobby Caldwell really affected me
Injuring myself rolling over in bed – Happened twice and recovered both times
Dehydration
I am looking into trying NAC and ordered some Astaxanthin. Given my age I am not looking to get back to 100% but if I can get some of this chronic pain under control, I would be happy. I have had some symptom free days and a few days when I forgot I am floxed but I still get flares. I am also thinking about trying LDN, but not sure how to get it.
I want to thank everyone in this group for the information provided and the overall support. Everywhere else is doom and gloom and I do not really have that outlook. I did have some dark days where I felt hopeless but I seem to keep bouncing back from these flares, so I do have hope and have been able to manage. Any suggestions would be welcome. If you have any questions feel free to DM me (as long as it is positive and not negative stuff, I have read the post on this and it made me hesitant to post my story). Thank you for reading and I will continue the good fight. I refuse to let Cipro win at this point.
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2023.03.29 02:54 LilCizur Grimmspeed AOS for FA20 (2019 WRX)
Called Grimmspeed and asked if they had an AOS in the plans for an FA20 engine. They didn't say 'no', but they didn't say 'yes' either...
What they did tell me is that the GS AOS will fit, but the tubing might not work and it would be up to the installer to figure that out.
Has anyone given this a run? Will it work on my 2019?
https://www.grimmspeed.com/air-oil-separator-wrx-sti-lgt-fxt/
If this is a definite NO GO. Are there any AOS's for under $350-400 that you would recommend? Really like the idea of the GS due to it's very basic nearly maintenance free design.
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2023.03.29 02:54 Goddess_personified AITAH FOR STARTING AN ARGUMENT WITH MY BF AT HIS BEST FRIENDS FUNERAL
Me [19f] and my ex [20m] had been dating for nearly 7 years . We got together at 13/14 and the early years of our relationship were nothing but pure bliss. We were often referred to as “end game” and our peers, family and even teachers would often command us for being able to maintain such a solid and consistent relationship at our young age especially in todays day and age. Going to the same school, having the same friend group and sharing the same hobbies were in my opinion, the things that attributed to our relationship being able to last for so long. Though young and naive , him and I would always express how we felt like God brought us together and that our relationship was uniquely important. We would spend all night chatting and pouring our hearts out , we went on adventures and dates and he knew that ANYTIME he needed ANYTHING I was a phone all away . I would do anything to see him smile and I would give my life if that ment that he would survive. I wasn’t only I love I genuinely felt obsessed with him. As we got older , our relationship began to change and his eyes started to wander . Social media came into play and hormones began to rage more than ever . Eventually he ended up cheating on me with someone he claimed to be “just a friend” which ended up shattering my heart and our relationship. In an effort to convince me otherwise , he got down on his knees and started to cry like I had never seen before and kept repeating that “he only loved me” blah blah blah . We broke up for a few months after I found out but ended up getting back together soon after. Ever since , he would “conveniently” end up in situations where he would have to work with her or was around her. He’d constantly make me feel bad to doubting his loyalty even after he cheated on me after being together for so long . We would constantly argue over him adding her back on social media after swearing that he would never or him texting his sister asking about her and her family. I always felt as though I was the side chick in my own relationship. About a year after he cheated , his childhood best friend [17m] , which he still was extremely close with , got into a tragic accident while on his way home from school . An ambulance hit him and rolled over his body and he died on impact. The news absolutely destroyed my boyfriend and our school. The night of the accident my boyfriend laid up all night crying and pacing up and down . The days following the accident were extremely tough for my boyfriend and he spent hours trying to rationalize his best friends death through many hours of tears. My heart broke for him and his classmates, as his best friend was in his class. The night of the viewing came and my boyfriend attended without me. One of my friends texted me during the viewing and told me that the girl that he had cheated on me with was crying and he went over to hug her . Apparently they were sobbing and embracing each other for a good 10 minutes, he wiped her tears and rubbed her back and vice versa. Though in hindsight , the embrace was justified being that they were both grieving a good friend , the news infuriated me and I felt like I needed to talk to him when he got home . I expressed how the embrace made me feel uneasy and uncomfortable and how I felt as though many other people could’ve comforted her ie her close girlfriends and parents so why did he have to ? Again he put on a whole performance and cried and begged me to just relax because although he cheated they were “just friends” and that the hug meant nothing. Given the circumstances I decided to leave it alone and believe him. I still felt uneasy about the funeral the next day but I shut my feelings off and focused on the real matter at hand ; my boyfriend about to burry his best friend in less than 12 hours. He did assure me that he would stay far away from her at the funeral. The day of the funeral came and I spent the entire morning praying with my boyfriend, wiping his tears and trying to do all that I can to make him happy. I had brought breakfast and hot coco to his house and even ironed his tux for him . I did not go to the funeral myself because I struggle with extreme social anxiety but I was going to watch the funeral online . My boyfriend understood and told me that he appreciated my efforts to support him even though I wouldn’t be there in person. He left and I went back home so that I could watch the funeral . The funeral was beautiful but the entire time I couldn’t stop worrying about him and her. I tried to pan the audience and hoped that the camera would glance over to where he was seated but it didn’t . Finally , 30 minutes before it ended I spotted him on the camera . Seated right next to her … with his arm around her I quickly texted him a long and detailed message with very colorful language. I blew up his phone and threaten to leave him if he didn’t move away from her . He ignored my texts all day and I continued to curse him out and call him constantly. When he got home he said that I could go to hell and told me that I was an ass for blowing up at him on the day of his best friends funeral . We dated for a couple more years and he continued to “conveniently” be around her and every time I would confront him he would tell me to get over it and bring up how I wasn’t there for him on the day of the funeral while she was… needless to say we broke up . But still to this day I wonder AITAH for starting an argument on that day ?
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2023.03.29 02:54 tattooarms I had several successful conversations with people today!
I suck at conversation, a conversation with me is more like a question and answer session. I rarely ever I initiate conversation. All my conversation revolves around pre-written scripts and deviation from said scripts results in a brain malfunction and I go mute.
But today not only did I speak to multiple people but we had good back and forths and I initiated the conversations.
Its my second day in a new job and when my colleague asked me questions I actually answered them and expanded on my answers rather than simply answering the direct question she asked, and we spoke for nearly 30 minutes. I didn't really ask her any questions though.
When I got home I bumped into a guy I've spoken to once or twice before but never really had a long conversation with him. He initiated the conversation and I didn't really ask him many questions but we talked about a range of things in detail and ended up talking for 3 hours about the most random stuff.
I also spoke to another guy I know. We speak regularly but he always initiates the conversations and I struggle to expand on my answers and never ask him question for fear of being too nosey. But today I actually asked him questions back and initiated some of the conversations and we had a good back and forth going and it wasn't just him asking me questions
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2023.03.29 02:53 inacceptable_ Am I just overreacting or is was he being sarcastic?
I tried ordering from a fast food place near me a few times but it keeps going bad (drivers being at the place and then cancelling 3-4 times in a row and it going on for over an hour, which the place closed then) so I contacted a service agent to ask if there were any prior problems and I explained the situation to him. He responded with "oh no. It's hard to wait an hour for your order when you are hungry." Might just be me being defensive but it sounds sarcastic to me. Like 'oh no, it's sooo hard to wait for your food.' again, I might just be being defensive and it might be nothing but it seems sarcastic to me.
If it isn't just me, it might help for customer service to try to be more understanding. I understand that there are a lot of annoying people who you really wanna just stop talking to or cuss out but some people actually use it for the reason it's intended and shouldn't be treated with disrespect and sarcasm.
If it is just me and I'm overreacting, then Im sorry. I understand that it is difficult to express tone through text.
Also, if this belongs somewhere else then could you please tell me before you remove it? Thank you.
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2023.03.29 02:53 Goddess_personified AITAH for starting an argument with my bf at his best friend’s funeral?
Me [19f] and my ex [20m] had been dating for nearly 7 years . We got together at 13/14 and the early years of our relationship were nothing but pure bliss. We were often referred to as “end game” and our peers, family and even teachers would often command us for being able to maintain such a solid and consistent relationship at our young age especially in todays day and age. Going to the same school, having the same friend group and sharing the same hobbies were in my opinion, the things that attributed to our relationship being able to last for so long. Though young and naive , him and I would always express how we felt like God brought us together and that our relationship was uniquely important. We would spend all night chatting and pouring our hearts out , we went on adventures and dates and he knew that ANYTIME he needed ANYTHING I was a phone all away . I would do anything to see him smile and I would give my life if that ment that he would survive. I wasn’t only I love I genuinely felt obsessed with him. As we got older , our relationship began to change and his eyes started to wander . Social media came into play and hormones began to rage more than ever . Eventually he ended up cheating on me with someone he claimed to be “just a friend” which ended up shattering my heart and our relationship. In an effort to convince me otherwise , he got down on his knees and started to cry like I had never seen before and kept repeating that “he only loved me” blah blah blah . We broke up for a few months after I found out but ended up getting back together soon after. Ever since , he would “conveniently” end up in situations where he would have to work with her or was around her. He’d constantly make me feel bad to doubting his loyalty even after he cheated on me after being together for so long . We would constantly argue over him adding her back on social media after swearing that he would never or him texting his sister asking about her and her family. I always felt as though I was the side chick in my own relationship. About a year after he cheated , his childhood best friend [17m] , which he still was extremely close with , got into a tragic accident while on his way home from school . An ambulance hit him and rolled over his body and he died on impact. The news absolutely destroyed my boyfriend and our school. The night of the accident my boyfriend laid up all night crying and pacing up and down . The days following the accident were extremely tough for my boyfriend and he spent hours trying to rationalize his best friends death through many hours of tears. My heart broke for him and his classmates, as his best friend was in his class. The night of the viewing came and my boyfriend attended without me. One of my friends texted me during the viewing and told me that the girl that he had cheated on me with was crying and he went over to hug her . Apparently they were sobbing and embracing each other for a good 10 minutes, he wiped her tears and rubbed her back and vice versa. Though in hindsight , the embrace was justified being that they were both grieving a good friend , the news infuriated me and I felt like I needed to talk to him when he got home . I expressed how the embrace made me feel uneasy and uncomfortable and how I felt as though many other people could’ve comforted her ie her close girlfriends and parents so why did he have to ? Again he put on a whole performance and cried and begged me to just relax because although he cheated they were “just friends” and that the hug meant nothing. Given the circumstances I decided to leave it alone and believe him. I still felt uneasy about the funeral the next day but I shut my feelings off and focused on the real matter at hand ; my boyfriend about to burry his best friend in less than 12 hours. He did assure me that he would stay far away from her at the funeral. The day of the funeral came and I spent the entire morning praying with my boyfriend, wiping his tears and trying to do all that I can to make him happy. I had brought breakfast and hot coco to his house and even ironed his tux for him . I did not go to the funeral myself because I struggle with extreme social anxiety but I was going to watch the funeral online . My boyfriend understood and told me that he appreciated my efforts to support him even though I wouldn’t be there in person. He left and I went back home so that I could watch the funeral . The funeral was beautiful but the entire time I couldn’t stop worrying about him and her. I tried to pan the audience and hoped that the camera would glance over to where he was seated but it didn’t . Finally , 30 minutes before it ended I spotted him on the camera . Seated right next to her … with his arm around her I quickly texted him a long and detailed message with very colorful language. I blew up his phone and threaten to leave him if he didn’t move away from her . He ignored my texts all day and I continued to curse him out and call him constantly. When he got home he said that I could go to hell and told me that I was an ass for blowing up at him on the day of his best friends funeral . We dated for a couple more years and he continued to “conveniently” be around her and every time I would confront him he would tell me to get over it and bring up how I wasn’t there for him on the day of the funeral while she was… needless to say we broke up . But still to this day I wonder AITAH for starting an argument on that day ?
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2023.03.29 02:53 JeskoTheDragon Most difficult race in Ridge Racer history?
Just wondering what everyone thinks is the most difficult race in the series’ history, I’ve unfortunately only played RR1(PSP), RR6 & RR7 and i can say the one that gave me the most trouble was the RR6 Final Route #1. Everything about it, Island Circle being ridiculously thin, and the unrelenting AI boosting anytime you get anywhere near them. Again, my knowledge is limited due to my small collection of the games but i’m curious to see what everyone else thinks.
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2023.03.29 02:52 MinimalCollector [26M, 6'0 185lbs, Caucasian] Anxiety over suspected "sciatica"?
Waiting until after the first of the month to go to the doctor as my new job's insurance hasn't kicked in yet.
I do weightlifting and had tried a new variation of squatting (Platz Squat). I worry I had curved my lower back at the bottom of the squat, and doing this a few times has goofed me up a little. I had very minimal hip irritation on my right side near the labrum. That has since gone away. Yesterday at 6pm I thought maybe I should stretch my hamstrings. I attempted some toe touches (not flexible) and held a static hold for about 10 seconds x 3. I feel I might have went a bit aggressive on the depth of it as I felt my lower back round slightly. I felt great, took a shower and an hour later my tailbone lit up with that numb "foot fell asleep" feeling. It translated into my glutes as well and a little bit on the more front facing part of the side of my right thigh. Absolutely no pain but it was very surprising/stressful.
This morning I woke up feeling phenomenal. Then about 30 minutes in I imagine my spine recompressed and I felt for the entire morning the same areas affected but more mild. The afternoon was *mostly* issue free spare when I tweaked it walking on maybe a 40 degree decline at work. It went away after a bout 10 minutes of very minor tingling. I came home, sat in a warm shower (careful to try not to sit ON my tailbone and now it has been off and on tonight. Much more bearable than last night but it seems to be hanging around a little bit.
No pain. No lack of mobility. No saddle numbing/loss of bladdebowels. Just a lot of anxiety. I've never had nervous system issues before but paired with horrible health anxiety and a brother who can't walk, I always fear the worst. I've read that tingling is the first stage of sciatic nerve compression and as long as nothing else is the matter it might work itself out in 4-6+ weeks. I still plan to see the doctor even if it goes away by another 5-7 days. But in the meantime I'm curious.
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2023.03.29 02:51 sleeping0dragon Void tRrLM(); //Void Terrarium 2 Review
| https://preview.redd.it/ig10ee0tbkqa1.jpg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7bb88658aa5502037d80be8b4680d7990a7a45b KEY NOTES: - Rogue-lite/turn-based gameplay
- No voiced dialogue
- Multiple Endings
- ~30 Hours to clear the game
- Directly follows after the events of the 1st Game
INTRODUCTION Back in 2020, NIS released void tRrLM(); //Void Terrarium (VT1) which didn't seem to sell particularly well. The game remained quite unknown to many people to this day even when compared with other NIS' niche games. Despite that, the game had won the hearts of a small fanbase with its fun rogue-lite combat loop, the charming characters and the surprising emotional story beats. About 3 years later, the sequel finally gets released in the west. For people new to the games, I highly recommend checking out my Review of the first game since it will cover overlapping content that aren't necessarily covered here. Void tRrLM(); //Void Terrarium 2 (VT2) is essentially more of the same from the first game, but with some new gameplay changes. STORY VT2 begins right after the events of the first game and the Terrarium trio has moved to a new location. In addition to adapting to their new home, they also start investigating into Toriko's origins, the last surviving human on the planet. Like the first game, VT2's story is filled with happy and sad moments that did an excellent job of making me interested in seeing where the story was heading to despite not a whole lot actually does happen. Fans of the first game will most likely feel the same level of investment here. What VT2 does different and a bit better is that there is a story direction right at the start. It didn't feel as aimless as seen in the majority of VT1. If you wanted another roller coaster of emotions, then VT2 is the ticket that delivers. I didn't expect to experience the same level of raw emotions as the first game, but the second game had surprisingly exceeded it. CHARACTERS The three returning characters are as lovable as they were in the first game. They haven't really changed much either. Robbie is still the loyal and kind robot. FactoryAI is still the very expressive chatterbox, but her fondness for Toriko may have reached a new level. https://preview.redd.it/ugdn9x40ckqa1.jpg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=09f3c3327551c7bb3537bd6c64ca4639f4d8381b As for Toriko, she remains as cute and adorable as ever, but her new animations and interactions have allowed her to seemingly express even more of herself than before. Toriko has picked up a few new tricks ART DIRECTION/GRAPHICS The graphics hasn't changed a whole lot from what I noticed. It is still quite beautiful during the Terrarium scenes. VT1 seems to have more vibrant colors while VT2's colors are "softer" in comparison which I think looks a bit more pleasing to me. The graphics in the dungeons remains pretty mediocre and uninspiring, but they weren't very noticeable as I went through my exploration runs. MUSIC The music style hasn't changed much either. The dungeon music range from upbeat techno music to relaxing atmospheric ones. I think the quality is roughly the same for both games so I still enjoyed the music here. GAMEPLAY At its core, the gameplay loop for VT2 is nearly the same as VT1. Go to the dungeons, reach the end or until you die, collect any blueprints and materials you find along the way, return to the Terrarium hub, feed and interact with Toriko before going back to the dungeons. This is part rogue-lite so your level and skills obtained will reset back to the default each time you die or return to the Terrarium. Items obtained are converted into one of the four main resources in the game which are used to craft things. Resources are noticeably more in abundance this time around even Contaminated ones so you can craft most of the blueprints as you obtain them. The items you do keep are food items, blueprints, and special items needed to craft blueprints. Fortunately, these games aren't too challenging in progressing compared to other rogue games. You can permanently increase your stats by crafting blueprints. All of them except for clothing related ones come with a permanent stat upgrade when crafting it for the first time. It gives you a steady pacing of progression just like a typical JRPG so it's not too demanding or stressful on the player. The core gameplay loop aside, there are some new changes and mechanics. DUNGEONS Dungeons are now connected with each other so instead of picking one dungeon from a list and then going directly to them, you start at the same one in the beginning and then eventually get to branch out at the later ones during the same expedition. It was annoying at first that you have to keep running through the same dungeons just to reach other dungeons, but fortunately, you will eventually get shortcuts that allows you to skip ahead. Although, you might not always want to do that considering your level will always be at one at the start and the tough enemies found in the later dungeons do not scale down to you. New to dungeons are the portals that randomly appears on a floor and will transport you to a random mystery room. The concept is similar to the Mystery Rooms in the Disgaea games, but aren't as varied. Nevertheless, they provide helpful benefits for entering them which includes items and even a bonus temporary skill. Probably most important is the room with the gem trader. One of the few mystery rooms in the game where you can get a free item You can collect gems for completing various tasks. The time allowed for the tasks reset after a set amount of expeditions, but are generally very simple to do. The tasks mostly involve defeating a certain type of enemies x amount of times, use an item x amount of times or just clear a specific dungeon. The gems can be used to trade for special items from the trader. The concept sounds nice in theory, but I found it to be not as good as I'd liked. https://preview.redd.it/4ts5gyovckqa1.jpg?width=3840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e8ca916498d8c9210fc21e6c18bf839cba12670a First, it takes a while to accumulate a decent amount of gems. The reset period is often too long so there is a noticeable gap as to when your supply just stops increasing for a while. The second issue I had was that the gem trader's appearance is too reliant on RNG. It's already random if a mystery room portal would appear, but there's a second level of RNG with its appearance too. If the trader's inventory was just decent and not that important, then I wouldn't be bothered as much. However, the trader has many exclusive robot customization blueprints so being able to get them is key to creating and customizing for fun builds. It will take a really long time to clear out the Gem Trader's inventory Other than the above points, the dungeons and its mechanics remains the same. Dungeon layouts are randomly generated so none of the floors are fixed. In addition to the returning Endless Dungeon where time stops outside and you can go on an infinite dungeon expedition until you die, there's a new optional Danger Zone dungeon. This actually consists of five separate dungeons each with a noticeably higher difficulty. All of them have only 11 layers with the first and last completely voided of enemies. The first layer has four random items to start with. The last has unique blueprints on the first run and the special exclusive Gold materials needed to make them. These blueprints are meant to be made multiple times to essentially power up for the end/post game. Most are stat upgrades, but others provide certain effect upgrades like Critical Chance % Up. Each Danger Zone level is meant to prepare you for the next one considering the high difficulty of each subsequent one. The optional dungeons are great if you want to reach an even higher level of power than before, but it can be a pain to clear. Other than simply power grinding the permanent stats for it which may take a long time, it heavily relies on good RNG to clear them otherwise. The initial items you get are very important to determine how you fare and in many cases, make or break your expedition. TORIKO CARE Other than enemies and the items in the dungeons, you have to pay attention to Toriko's condition while she's left back at the Terrarium. The tamagotchi-like image in the bottom left corner of the screen will reflect her condition. The hearts represents her health gauge which if she loses all of it, will be a Game Over. The Pet Nanny system is available right at the start and allows you to deal with the issues that will routinely arise such as clean the terrarium or play with her. The system is usable anytime during an expedition at the cost of some EN points. A new function allows you to even feed her food that you already have. It does not recover any hearts like when you feed her directly back at the Terrarium, but it will at least stop her hunger momentarily and prevent her from losing any more hearts. Even if you prevent her from losing all of the hearts, if you let her Terrarium continue to pile up the dirt without promptly cleaning it, she may fall ill regardless. The same would happen if she gets bored and you don't play with her. In regards to her illness, many of them return along with some new ones. They range from minor tame ones like Toriko suddenly become pixelated to more disturbing nightmare fueled ones. Treating them is a bit different this time around too. Before, an illness would unlock a temporary new dungeon that has the material needed to treat it. This time, all of the materials needed will be placed in one of the currently available dungeons. Furthermore, the time duration to cure her has been extended for some of the illness. It just took one expedition to normally cure her before, but a few now requires multiple expeditions and it's not because more materials are needed. It's because it just takes several expeditions for Toriko to recover after administering the medication. For some, it can take up to 5 expeditions which can be a hassle. You can't advance the story while Toriko is ill or while she is recovering from an illness. COMBAT The combat itself hasn't changed much. Despite how it may seem, the underlying mechanic for the combat is turn-based. Characters move on an invisible grid and each action takes a turn. If you're standing completely still, then enemies don't attack or move. Any action other than simply changing the direction you are facing counts as a turn. That said, some of the higher tier enemies are allowed multiple actions per turn up to about three. In those cases, those enemies can attack or move more than once before you can take a subsequent action. With these information in mind, you can slowly take your time to calculate your next move and approach accordingly adding a decent layer of strategy to the game. It's worth noting that health will regenerate at a slow pace unless you're poisoned. It is also based on turns so if you stand completely still, your health will not regenerate. Other than attacking with melee, you can throw bombs at enemies. In addition, you can activate gadget items for various effects. Active Skills are high powered attack skills with various effects and can be very strong. The drawbacks to them are the turn cooldown after using them and that they cost EN to use each time. EN is Robbie's endurance gauge which continuously drains as you go through the dungeons. Once it reaches 0, your health regeneration stops and instead, health starts to decrease instead. EN can be recovered using items like Batteries. https://preview.redd.it/ojqnermoekqa1.jpg?width=3840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e39cc6a89fe5ce37c9a40c9efbe8688cc68b890 One new notable change with the combat mechanics involve the weapons, armors and the Active Skills. With Active Skills before, you have a chance to learn them on level up as a random skill. Now, they aren't included as part of the pool anymore and are instead attached to weapons as a skill there. You can level up weapons with continuous use. Each new level unlocks a passive skill or effect which may include a straight stat boost or a new Active Skill. It was fun to unlock new levels especially since they are permanent upgrades. If you find the weapon type again on a subsequent expedition, the level will be the same as where it left off before giving an additional sense of progression in this game. Armors have their own levels and effects as well The biggest change with the combat comes from the skills you get on leveling up. The skills seems to have been re-balanced with many new ones. The OP builds from the first game don't exist anymore especially with the high criticals and evasion builds based on the mods in your inventory. The evasion skills in general have practically been removed other than maybe one. It took out part of the fun for me, but at least this game gave more varied builds to work with instead. The addition of the different weapon and armor effects also help in creating different builds. ROBOT CUSTOMIZATION While the vast majority of blueprints consists of Terrarium objects, there are some that directly affects the customization and builds you can experiment with. First are the Knacks which are labeled like various job classes (Fighter, Assassin, Berserker, etc..). They affect the type of skills that are more likely to appear on level up. So for Offensive Oriented Knacks like Berserker, more offensive related skills would more likely to appear. You can have up to 3 Knacks equipped to further focus on a combination of skills. You can equip up to four customization parts which have various effects including decrease chance of a specific tier of skills to show up on level up. You can also have three or four skills show up on level up instead of the default 2. Finally, you can also have a chance at picking an additional skill instead of just one for each level up. The last major customization mechanic is the Skill Removal. The general Skill Removal blueprints allows you to outright remove specific skills from even appearing at all thus increasing the chances of obtaining the other skills. The combination of the three major customization functions in addition to the weapon/armomods you can find, all help to create a build you can experiment with for a more varied experience. TERRARIUM Customizing the Terrarium was surprisingly addicting in VT1 and a big component of why I enjoyed these games so it was great to see that it has been improved greatly in VT2. The new Terrarium has a flat ceiling and side which makes it seemingly larger in size than the previous one. This allows you to fit more things inside which will delight people who are fans of the customization. The number of different Terrarium blueprints are quite large which includes many (if not all) of the ones from VT1 and its DLC. The new atmosphere type objects will change the Terrarium BGM NIS took it one step further by adding up to three total Terrariums to use at a time and even allow saving Terrarium settings so you may quickly switch back and forth. The Terrariums aren't connected directly so Toriko won't be able to cross one to another by herself. You would have to manually hold Toriko's hand and walk with her to another one. Fortunately, the distance between each one are noticeably small so it's not a long trip. To my great delight, Toriko will interact with more things now such as picking up a feather duster and dusting some objects. She will even dust Robbie at times. A fun past time that involves Robbie is playing catch with her which has them throwing a ball back and forth between the two. Toriko doing her part to keep the Terrarium clean You can still play hide and seek with her Then there are some subtle actions from Toriko that makes it feel like she is more alive than before. Every now and then, she would just smile and follow you around. When you return from an expedition, she sometimes stands by the edge of the Terrarium and welcome you back with a wave. Interacting and spoiling Toriko had never been more fun. GROWING PLANTS A major new function of the Terrarium now involves growing plants and small trees. You can craft a seed which would quickly grow so that you can eventually harvest them. When you harvest a plant, you get to use it as a Terrarium object, but more importantly, you can obtain various "Cores" which are items needed to craft some blueprints. It is annoying that harvesting a Core is random and not a guarantee. You can also obtain clothing blueprints from harvesting. Fortunately, you get a new seed after harvesting so you don't have to craft new ones unless you want to grow multiple at a time. The growing process is short in steps, but does take a while to complete in-game. It goes through three phases which starts with the planted seed, half grown and then full maturity. It takes one expedition to reach the half grown phase and then another to fully grow it. You have to water it one time each for the first two phases. It's a simple process, but having to go through two expeditions just to reach full maturity for harvest does take longer than I'd liked. Especially considering it's not a guarantee to get a Core from it or a clothing Blueprint. There is an added layer for growing plants that can be tricky at times depending on how many concurrent different plants you are growing together. Each plant requires the Terrarium's temperature and humidity to fall within a certain range for it to actually grow. Temperature and humidity slightly fluctuates after every expedition, but to make significant adjustments to them, you can install electronics like heaters or various Terrarium plants/objects to change the values. If you're growing just one plant or multiple copies of one type of plant, then it's not really an issue dealing with that. But if you're growing different ones together then getting the right amount to overlap can be tricky. Furthermore, extreme temperature and humidity can get Toriko sick if she's inside that specific Terrarium. It's nice to see Toriko helping out, but it does not count as watered if she does it Overall, it's a nice new mechanic to the game even if I had some issues with how they worked. SIDEQUESTS For those that have played VT1, it might be surprising to hear about the existence of sidequests. They do in fact exist in VT2 and they actually make up a large portion of the overall game. The sidequests consists of mostly fetch quests where you have to find certain items in the dungeons and then bringing it back to craft something else. It doesn't sound all that interesting, but you can take care of those along with any story related expedition at the same time so it's not really going out of the way too much. The rewards are more blueprints which are very helpful. Surprisingly, I thought the story related to these quests are quite good. I got emotionally invested in a number of them and despite the large amount of them, they are very well worth completing just to experience that. That said, most of the story isn't directly related to the main story. FINAL REMARKS Overall, VT2 is very much like VT1, but with a bit more content and changes. Fans of VT1 will likely enjoy what VT2 has to offer, but those that were expecting a full blown set of changes and additions to the overall game might be disappointed with it. The story has its relaxing moments, but as expected, some pretty powerful emotional moments as well. The endings had lingered in my mind days after viewing them. The more focused story direction early on is appreciated. I had mixed feelings about the new skills and its rebalance, but trying to experiment with new builds was still an enjoyable process. While VT2 does directly follow right after VT1, you can technically jump straight to VT2 and understand much of it since VT1 wasn't that plot heavy to begin with. That said, I highly recommend starting with the first game to familiarize and appreciate the characters and the world. It makes the events of VT2 much more powerful and meaningful if you do. 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2023.03.29 02:50 anonymousj100 I Keep Ending Up Back Where I Began Every Time I Try To Move Forward With My Life
Short background info: I'm 19M with no job, no driver's license, and am not in college, due to the fact that I keep ending up in these situations, and I've lost all trust for any system that's supposed to help me.
The first instance of this phenomenon really happening was when I was 17 and in my senior semester of high school (I was in online school and had voluntarily opted to graduate a semester early as I thought it would be helpful). It proved more difficult than I had anticipated, but not for reasons you would initially think. Not only did the school decide to TRIPLE the amount of written assignments that year for everyone, but my town specifically was also having near-weekly power outages that just so happened to occur during this period of time, and caused me to miss a whole bunch of work, significantly impacting my grades. The cherry on top was that, at the end of the semester, the testing center for the ACT/SAT was too far of a drive, and iirc my family was having issues with our car anyway, so I never got to take either. I did manage to scrape by, barely graduating with all C's for the semester. However, my options for college have been significantly limited forever, due to this convoluted situation of external factors.
The next instance of this happening has to do with my first (and only) semester of college. It was an online school with a 100% acceptance rate. I was studying accounting but it ended up being confusing and had less to do with math (which I enjoyed) than I had thought. Still, I persisted and was on track to do fine for the semester. That is until my family decided to move across the country on a 2-week-long road trip, and I had no choice but to go with them as I live with them. Due to being on the road all day and only staying at hotels at night, I had practically no internet access once again. It was kinda like my high school situation all over again, but for a different reason. When I finally got internet access again at the new house, I realized I had missed pretty much the most important work of the semester, and all my A's and B's had turned into F's. The semester was almost over too, leaving me no time to realistically raise my grades enough to pass, so I sucked it up and failed and never went back. Almost a whole semester worth of college work for nothing, leaving me back at square one, just older.
The third, most recent, and arguably most tragic instance of this happening just happened last year. I can't really go into much detail regarding the opportunity that was affected, but I can share what happened to me individually. Basically, I was in a really rare but cool opportunity right up my alley that lasted a few months and would benefit me forever. For the first half, it was going smoothly. I was also just learning to drive and had just scheduled my road test. However, Hurricane Ian eventually decided to strike and take out the power pretty much the day before my road test and also interfere with said opportunity. Simultaneously, I started experiencing many strange health issues. Over the next few weeks they got worse. To put a long story short, eventually I couldn't fall asleep at all, was having seizures (or at least something similar), was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia, and put in a mental ward for 10 days. I eventually came back to normal, but I strongly believe I was misdiagnosed and still haven't received closure or a real second opinion. You can find more about this in my post history. My best guess is that I had a blood clot in my brain/head, because immediately after one of the seizures, I felt a crack in the back of my head which triggered a really bad nosebleed, and after that I gradually started getting better. This seizure also happened WHILE in the mental hospital and they said I was FAKING all of it. They actually kept me longer because I "faked" that seizure (When I didn't, it was real. Maybe it wasn't a seizure, but whatever it was, it was similar and wasn't fun). I'm still really mad about that, because I probably could have died from their negligence had it been something worse. Anyways, the opportunity I was in just kept going on without me because there were other people in it, but it was pretty much over by the time I got out, which felt really isolating and basically ruined what was left of it for me specifically.
But yeah, to sum up, every time I think I'm doing something to move forward with my life, something else always comes along and interferes to the point of sabotage. I'm sick of this happening and have made no further efforts to improve my life anymore because something stupid always happens that sets me back to where I began. I don't know what to do anymore. I'm sick of mooching off my parents and feeling embarrassingly inferior and increasingly incompetent compared to my fellow young adults, but it's still better than going through these types of experiences repeatedly and wasting my time.
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2023.03.29 02:49 BreadOnSkateboard 2 phone interviews and a sit-down interview
I just got off my 2nd phone interview and I think I did good, and they invited me for a “sit-down interview” but the odd part is that when I received the email notifying me where the interview would take place, it was nowhere NEAR the McDonald's I plan to work at (like a 30-minute drive away from each other) and I'm wondering is that normal? I even checked out the location on Google Maps, but I didn't see a McDonald's in that area, and before I got off the phone, near the beginning, the guy on the phone even repeated where I was applying to work at, and what he said was right, but the email that told me when the sit-down would be, says otherwise? Is that normal? If it does turn out to be an error, how would I get back in contact with the person I talked to get that fixed? Can I just recall the number that called for the phone interview in the first place? (if I'm overreacting just tell me please lol, thank you)
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2023.03.29 02:49 Annual_Designer_9475 The military has arrived dont want to mess up again, what now?
So i beat the game already, but last time i forgot to wait near the helipad and there was only like 40 seconds from my save in the main lobby to get to the helipad
i was able to make it to the helipad in time, with like 5 seconds to spare, and i would stand on the helipad
But, hilariously, the helicopter pilot looks through his binoculars at the rooftop, and says something like "well i guess he risked it all for a scoop" and the game just ends.
apparently theres a whole nother part with a commander fight and a tank, i want to experience this.
So i did another playthrough (god this one was sooo much easier) and it says ALL SCOOPS CLOSED BUT...
I just saved after the cutscene where the military guys drop in the glass dome from above, and i just killed two with my machete.
I gotta ask, did i already "meet isabella at 10am"?? I keep reading that on posts and stuff.
Is that what i didnt do last time? Ive done everything the game points me to. Is there some sort of additional unmarked easter egg quest where i need to meet her at 10am in order to beat the game?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, i want to grind some military guys to level up more but i dont want to mess up again
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2023.03.29 02:46 TiniestChickadee Pain
23 y/o female. I don’t even have a confirmed diagnosis yet. All my life I’ve had heavy periods, thigh cramps, and ovulation pain. Six months ago, I started having the worst abdominal pain in my right side near my ovary. Went to my PCP, a GI specialist & an OBGYN. Did multiple tests for multiple things and everything was negative. Meeting with my doctor on Monday about getting a laparoscopy.
The pain used to come and go ( it is actually always there but not as intense) but it’s been constant for the past week. I just went off my birth control like a month ago so I haven’t had a period yet but maybe that’s why the pain has been so constant? It is the most painful thing I have experienced. Like a deep ache that throbs/pulses. Like a period cramp but a thousand times worse. It wraps around my side into my back and it doesn’t just ache, it burns and stabs. I’m so constipated and it makes the pain and pressure worse. The right side of my tummy gets hard when it hurts this bad.
It’s so frustrating because people get sick of hearing me complain about being in pain. Work gets sick of me calling off. But I can’t leave my bed some days because moving makes it that much worse. OTC pain killers don’t touch it. I’m so miserable. I don’t know how people go through this for so long. It’s only been six months for me and I’m SO anxious to have the laparoscopy done.
Any advice on pain management would be helpful.. heating pads work for a little bit but the intense throbbing is unbearable :(
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2023.03.29 02:44 Mysticism1 Hey guys, I am so embarrassed about this 🥺
I saw a dog licking itself alone in a lot, near a run down motel. It was all alone in the lot, with its mouth opening repeatedly, and kept biting his feet. My first thought was that it was abandoned! It had a very worn leash on it, and a collar, so I assumed it wad someone's pet, and must be nearby. Well, I kept saying to the dog, "you lost cutie?" and maybe for about 4 minutes, no one appeared. I decided to call a family member and ask what to do. I explained the dog looked possibly rabid, kept biting and looked lost. And someone closed the door at the dingy motel, clearly seeing me and the dog. I thought that was strange... so that led me to believe it was being abandoned. Well, out of nowhere, a guy with a leaf blower approaches the area. I decided to go into the motel to possibly ask if they knew someone who lost a dog there. Well, the front desk woman was very busy and so I decided to step out, and the dog was gone. I suppose the leag blower guy was his owner. I am still feeling the embarrassment, cause he must've heard me talking on the phone about his dog. I am so cringe!!! lol. Not cool from the owner, in my opinion, to leave a little dog unattended like that in a parking lot. Anyone could've swiped it, ot worse. I always want to get involved in things and help, but to a fault. Ughhhhh. Should I still be embarrassed? lmaooo
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2023.03.29 02:42 Standard_Scene_7136 No one believes that I was SA
No one believes I was raped.
I’m someone who has fucked up a lot recently and this has caused people to distrust me. I have been battling a drug addiction, which has turned me into a liar.
Two weeks ago a friend of a friend took advantage of me while we were both very drunk. I told him not to tell anybody what happened because I knew people wouldn’t believe me. He ended up telling his friends who told my friends who told my ex girlfriend who I still live with.
Things were already fucked between us because of my drug issues, but when she found out she went crazy at me saying I never loved her. We broke up two months ago ish. I tried to explain to her that I didn’t want it to happen, and when he made moves on me I froze because of past trauma. But she has quizzed me and decided that I’m lying to save my own ass.
I have never felt so alone. The guy claims he can’t remember anything. And that he would never force himself on anyone. I told him that as hard as it may be to accept that he did force himself on me. At the start he told me he wanted to kiss me and that he found me attractive. I told him I was still in love with my ex and so I didn’t want to kiss him or do anything. I told him this multiple times. Regardless of this he kissed me and started touching me and I froze. I feel incredibly bad because I KNOW I should have done more to prevent it and made it more clear to him.
However there’s something about hearing the people who you love the most telling you that “you must have wanted it or you would have done more to stop it” that hurts more than words can express.
I know it’s hard to trust me because of my issues with drugs. But the fact that I’ve gone through this horrible experience and no one believes me makes me feel so alone and like I deserved it.
I’m at a loss. I have no one left. I’m 21 (m) and have just been been broken up with by the love of my life who stayed with me for nearly three years.
I understand it’s hard to trust me but seriously. I would never lie about something like this. I’m in a house with people who think I’m the worst person alive because I hurt their friend (my ex). And now I have no one and nothing.
How am i meant to keep going ? I feel like I don’t have anything to live for anymore.
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2023.03.29 02:42 TiredOfHumanity64 Third Party LDS Collective Harassment
I left the LDS Church via quitmormon last year(2022). However, I had stopped going to church nearly 2 years prior to that. There are a plethora of reasons I stopped going, but the last straw was quiet ironic. Since around 2018 or so, I had developed an idea to purposely look at the other side's arguments against the church and write a book so that members of the LDS Church could read it and see the ridiculous and false ideas that the world had against the church. It would be designed to immunize them against the spiritual threats of the world. This was especially important since I was convinced we were all living in the last days, yet I had personally witnessed fully believing members increasingly leaving at higher rates than I have ever seen in my life. I even prayed about it and received the answer to create this book, but was waiting for a time I could. I also had this odd fear to look at anything Anti-Mormon at all. Covid gave me that time. The church was true and my testimony was immune. I began looking at anything and everything that I was told to be 'Anti-Mormon' that I could locate online during the first or second week of Covid since we all had the time. Here are the results:
It only took about a week before I switched from fully believing to being convinced the church is a fraud. I am agnostic now; leaning toward atheist. I have become convinced if any god exists at all, there are three gods that 100% don't exist: The Mormon Elohim (God the Father), Mormon Yeshua (Jesus), and Mormon Holy Ghost. I was unsure what to do with the knowledge I had obtained and remained in a strange sense of disbelief for over two years. I analyzed the pro's and con's of both leaving and staying, telling family or not telling family, and so on. Ultimately I decided in March 2022 I couldn't remain in a church that lies to its members on a regular basis and expects the members to do the same regardless of level of belief.
Over the past 2 years however, something kept happening to me which has happened at least twice now and I am at a loss of how to deal with it. I have reason to believe the church figured out my doubt far before I ever applied for my church resignation. There are many other reasons for this but I will not discuss them at this time. What is more the problem at hand is I am convinced the church is harassing and stalking me. They have learned to do this using third parties. I do not know the lies that are being told to my fellow workers, but the actions speak for themselves. The harassments occurred at the last two places I worked. Initially, both my bosses and fellow employees acted kind and helpful, but over time, they became distant and then began to act strange. I've never had this happen anywhere else I ever worked.
I had tricks played on me, and many incoherent things said to me. Sometimes straight up gaslighting. The actions started as individual acts but over time-before I quit both times-the actions became clearly coordinated between two or more people. It is clear to me they have been lied to, but they don't even question it when I confronted some of them. I had even came into the second job telling others outright about leaving this cult, about the things it has been caught doing and yet that made no difference. What the heck is wrong with human beings? How can the church use third parties to do subtle collective harassment and appear to be getting away with it?
During this time, my family effectively ceased contact not calling me with many times not returning my calls and currently I'm not even bothering to call any longer. The only member friends I had left were fine at first but also began ignoring me, except when I called them. I can't see those friendships as being anything other than a strange façade and inauthentic. In fact, just to let you all have a taste of what I'm dealing with I told one of them I think a member was harassing me to see a response and asked if moving would make a difference. They answered 'No, if they were they would just follow you'. Contrast that answer with others I asked the same question who said the opposite. Besides those I worked with at my last two jobs, this is another reason I am convinced some of the members I personally knew are in on this harassment, but have no evidence. So, I am alone and on my own in basically every way. I have only managed to maintain one previous friend who technically considers themselves ex-Mormon(but hasn't officially left the church). However, I can only talk to them on the phone. They are too far from me to be of any immediate physical help.
Unfortunately, the worst part is I have no proof of these strange words and actions besides my own word. I have talked to random people I used to know, law enforcement, lawyer offices, and so on questioning what I can do or what could be done. Due to my financial situation of currently having no job, the best plan I have is to get an ex parte for at least one of the people at my previous job, if not more than one person, in hopes the church will stop this harassing pursuit in the assumption that I send the message I will not be harassed and take it. But this will take time. I can't afford a lawyer. I was informed it will take weeks for people to get the paperwork let alone the court date set so I may not have the time. And worse, what if they don't stop even with this? What if I am followed to my next job? What if the courts don't take or believe my case? What do I do then? I'm at my wits end.
I adhered to the LDS's teaching so hard I never did more with a women physically than kiss a few times my entire life and yet now I have no GF or wife to speak of. I kept the word of wisdom, etc. Yet now, I have no friends I trust any longer. My family is unhelpful. And worse, I have learned anyone who isn't Mormon, or never been in a cult, does not understand what it is like to have been in a cult your whole life suddenly realizing its true nature and that you wasted 95% of your life serving them. Even the law appears to be helpless in aiding me or anyone to its full extent. I'm baffled! I have read a few posts in this forum and see that perhaps some of you are also going through similar situations, but I quiet literally got followed into another city.
How can this be? How is it that this is how reality truly is? I can't fight large numbers alone. What do you do when large numbers of people don't believe you or minimize what has happened or is happening? Or worse, deny it outright. I'm beyond frustrated. I don't know how to find ex-mormon allies or friends and even if I do that doesn't mean we will get along or agree on everything. What is it that provides you all some level of a shield against the constant barrages of the LDS Cult? Is this exact situation happening to any of you? What else can I do to prevent ongoing harassment? I have so much more to say, but if I could get any advice on this issue or ways to get in contact with ex-mormons that would be helpful.
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2023.03.29 02:41 Technology_Boxes Did I make a terrible mistake?
So I'm the moron who attempted to CT from a 4 year, 5-10gpd habit (after jumping off a 30 gpd kratom habit 3 weeks ago). I jumped off whatever my dose was about a week ago (it was like upwards of 4-6 of those liftmode scoops taken 4x per day). I made it until Friday night before caving and taking around 300mg (which didn't really do much) but haven't taken anything since. I've been able to force myself to work about 4 hours per day, and have also forced myself to go to the gym about every other day (it's the only thing that makes me feel somewhat normal), but this shit is really rough right now... I'm sure my WDs aren't nearly as bad as some have had on here, but I'm beginning to wonder if I just set myself up for a world of long term PAWS by jumping off like I did, and that it may be better for me to try starting back at a comfortable level and tapering.
Am I an idiot for even considering this? Is that just my brain trying to convince me to go back to using? This shit is really starting to wear me down... I constantly feel tense and on edge, like I can never relax or take a deep breath. My sleep is absolute garbage, even with medication. I have this weird feeling of itchiness/pins and needles all throughout my body, and I feel fatigue and muscle weakness like I've never felt. It's just a lot... Someone please tell me that I can expect a day of relief sometime in the near future.
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2023.03.29 02:41 critivix came out to my dad today
actually i came out to him a few weeks ago, but didn't actually talk about it in detail until today (i just gave him a note saying "i'm trans, my name is [...] and my pronouns are she/her")
yesterday i asked him if we could go to a coffee shop today and talk in more detail, and well it happened. it went pretty well, he said he supports me didn't mind what i do as long as it's not something evil or self destructive (he's always like this), and he's cool with me being trans
we also talked about hrt. i told him i was only considering it, but i was nowhere near a final decision and i didn't plan to be for a while. he said he supports me if i want to do it, but doesn't recommend i do it now (i'm 15). he said i'm at an age where my mind and emotions change a lot, and i might regret it in the future, AND, i'm still in high school so i might run into some very shitty people. he recommends i wait until i'm 18 (i think it's a bit high but i kinda agree)
anyway, yeah, went pretty good, thanks dad! (now for the harder step, tell mom)
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2023.03.29 02:39 Outrageous-Cream-711 So many reasons to quit but can't seem to drop it (vent)
Kind of just a rant here but there are so many reasons for me to quit and I still can't seem to shake it. It's both interesting and infuriating how strong of a hold this silly drug can have. I've quit a couple times before after longer stints of vaping/smoking but now after a much shorter period of (heavy) vaping I'm more attached than ever.
I've got a bunch of physical symptoms from it including chest and back pain, shortness of breath, high resting heart rate, low libido, as well as all the other mental/motivational issues, but my brain is still acting like its saving my life.
I was also at ~11/2 days of not vaping at all until yesterday when I remembered my brother used to leave empty pods in a drawer at our house like 2 years ago. My fucking fiend brain decided to check even though he hasn't vaped pods in years and found a nearly dead disposable he left recently. I ended up hitting it a ton for the rest of the night and all of today. It didn't even make me feel good, like maybe 2 mins after the first hit I was feeling good but then it was just shitty agitation and guilt for relapsing. Kind of an awkward situation too because I can't really throw it out since I shouldn't have found it anyway, but just having it there at all basically forces me to hit it since I have the willpower of a mouse.
Anyway reading all of the posts here really helps, I know we'll all make it through. Just so frustrating how this shitty drug can mold my life. Gonna pick up some nic pouches tomorrow just so I can stop the lung related stuff and break the habit of hitting the vape every 5 mins.
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