u/Bitter-Affect909

Bear with me on this one.

Myself, wife, and 6 year old are currently living in a duplex on a quiet street in CA (renting thru a property management company). Our son plays with the grandkids of an older couple that lives right up the street. In talking with them, we expressed a desire to move and they mentioned that the lady who owns their property, and the house next to theirs, is going to be renting out the vacant house next to them, and put us in contact with her.

Owner is a nice older lady, and the house is bigger than our current one and doesn't require a huge move, and is literally 150 feet away from our current place. So we put in an application and she approves us. Easy-peasy. We start the move in process on in October.

Today, she asks that we pay rent and deposit in cash only. Furthermore, she asked us to draft the lease agreement, rather than her giving it to us. Obviously I know there's a couple red flags there. But the couple next to us have been at the place she also owns for almost 10 years and have mentioned that she is super chill and have had no issues with her.

I honestly think it's more of a situation of an old lady not wanting the hassle of dealing with banks, checks, etc. So I'm not particularly concerned about paying in cash in this instance.

However, i also want to protect me and my family as best I can. I don't think she's trying to do anything shady necessarily, otherwise I don't think she'd have her new tenants draft up the lease agreement.

I guess my question is...what should we put in the lease agreement thst ensures we're protected, should anything happen? I'm definitely going to want a record kept of when we pay rent, but what other things should we put in there to protect ourselves?

So I'm playing the game, just grabbed a body and was going to start the checklist process. Filed and Printed out report in computer. I was on the part where I'm supposed to sew the mouth shut.

I put the controller down to go to the bathroom. When I come back to game, Rebecca is now outside next to her car, instead of being inside the mortuary. I go back inside and the body is gone. Check the room where they keep the bodies. Not there. Still getting scares like a shadow crawling away, the grandma in the window, etc.

Normally when the body disappears, it reappears on the gurney after a scare. But this time, the body is still gone.

Go back to my car and sit in it. A voice whispers "The door is open now". Go back in. Still no body. Its been like 20 min now, and I've had multiple scares/haunts, but the body has still not returned to the gurney.

This happened to anyone else?

I'm debating on which game I want to get.

My personal favorite horror games are Visage, Mortuary Assistant, and Silent Hill 2 remake.

I tend to lean more towards psychological horror/dread over action Survival horror. But I also love the RE games and the Dead space remake, so Survival horror is absolutely not off the table.

As far as Fatal Frame goes, it looks like "Maiden of Blackwater" and "Mask of Lunar eclipse" are also available. Where would you rank those 2 when compared to the remake of Crimson Butterfly?

I'm just trying to get some different perspectives on how to approach this. My son started 1st grade about a month ago. More often than not, in the mornings, he will get himself all worked up about not wanting to go to school. His main complaints are that it's too long, and it's boring.

In Kindergarten, it was 8:55 until 12:25. Now in first grade, it's 8:55 to 3pm. Which is a huge jump for a little kid, I understand that. In Kindergarten, they would do prizes every Friday. They dont seem to do that in 1st grade.

Thing is, almost every day when I pick him up, he's happy as a clam, says he had a good day, and seems like nothing is wrong. It's only in the mornings he gets worked up.

He doesn't struggle in school. He completes assignments, doesn't cause trouble. He has multiple friends, even the higher grade kids will say hi to him in the morning, so it's not a bullying issue or anything.

But probably 3 out of 5 days, he'll get himself all worked up about how he hates it so much.

I've tried framing it in a way to empathize with him, but also telling him that it's something we have to do. I've likened it to adults going to work with him. We have to go to work to pay bills and get food, and school is like his job. If he wants to be able to play video games, or play, he has to go to school.

It's just become a repeating loop though, and I'm wondering what other parents are doing to help their kids thru these phases.

I'm not talking about the overall best sellers, but just one move they take better than anyone else.

For example: I think Bret and Owen Hart were the best at selling a chest-first turnbuckle bump. Bret made it seem like his chest wrapped around the buckle, whereas Owen had more of shotgun blast reaction and bounced off of it.

Another one that comes to mind is RVD taking a piledriver and giving himself that extra bounce that springs him up into the air.

Triple H was great at selling punches. When he had long hair, he'd snap his head back perfectly and make it look like he got absolutely rocked.

Curious what others think.

For some background: I suffered from debilitating headaches starting at the age of 12. Basically kept me out of school for all of Jr. High and HS. From the ages of 13 to roughly 25 years old, I was prescribed large amounts of opiates on a monthly basis. Like 120 each month for my entire adolescence.

After they stopped prescribing it, I had to find it elsewhere, which led to me consuming any and all opiates tgru illicit purchasing. I essentially had a 20+ year run of consuming opiates every single day until 2017. I've tried every drug under the sun, but opiates were the only one that had it's hooks firmly in me.

Whenever I was on them, I always felt like the best version of myself. I had more energy, focus, drive, and confidence. I could dive into anything and fully commit myself to whatever I was doing.

I got off them 7 years ago with the help of Bupenorphine. Haven't touched an opiate since then. I'm truly happy and lucky to be where I'm at, because there's no doubt i wouldn't be here if I didn't get off them.

But ever since then, I just haven't felt like the best version of myself. My mind wanders more, I have less passion for my interests. I feel I've become much more apathetic to everything. Used to be I'd decide I want to clean the house, or work my card collection, and i would lock in for 2 hours and get it done.

But now? I'll start to clean, but then my mind wanders, I get overwhelmed, and just....stop. I feel like I can't wholeheartedly commit to anything anymore. As a result, I've gotten more depressed because my personal life feels lazy and disorganized.

In my heart and mind, I know what I need to do to better myself....but there's a nagging part of me that just says "what's the point?".

I don't know. I just needed to vocalize it. I've started therapy, but I just feel listless about almost everything. Thanks for listening ya'll.

So i purchased a box of NBA signature series in late June. Pulled a Cooper flagg odyssey card that had an ink issue on the back. Started a product defect submission and I got an email back saying it was approved.

I kept checking in periodically, but there were no updates other than saying approved. Check in today and it said it was completed.

Evidently when they sent emails to me, it got sent to my spam folder instead of my "primary" folder, so i did not see the follow up email where they asked me to send the card. As a result, they closed the submission and marked it as completed.

So my question is, if I make a new claim, will it get denied because it already shows as "completed" or "closed" on their end?

Playing thru Silent Hill 2 again, and I'm going thru these rooms where the mannequin figures are hiding. As i passed by a mirror, I thought anout how freaky it would be if James decides to look in a mirror, only to see a mannequin quickly scurry away behind him. But when he turns around, it's gone.

Just got me thinking how it would be a great spot in a game. To either get the jumpscare from the mirror, or it to be an illusion where once you turn around to see what's in the mirror, it's gone.

Did 55 minutes on the treadmill today and went 3.1 miles. 5% incline and an average pace of 3.8-4mph.

At the end of it all, it said I burned a little over 1000 calories. And while I'd love for that to be true, I'm pretty certain that is simply not the case. So I'm wondering what that number is realistically closer to. For context, I'm 5'4, 175 lb male.

Was having a debate with a friend of mine.

In sports, you'll often see conversation of "Player X from 30 years ago would never be able to hang with today's current landscape".

So it got me wondering, which sport would be the most adaptable if a player from generations ago all of a sudden showed up in this era?

Of all the "major" sports (Football, basketball, American football, baseball and Hockey), football seems like it has remained the most consistent over the years in terms of rules and style of play. And while other sports utilize the whole body, football seems to rely mainly on footwork and stamina, which are traits that translate into any era, regardless of changes in modern medicine and health. Atleast to a casual, untrained eye like mine.

So if a Pele or Maradona all of a sudden showed up in their prime in 2026, would they have an easier time than if Wilt Chamberlain showed up in today's NBA? or if Hank Aaron showed up in 2026 baseball?

And if you don't think football would be the most adaptable, which sport do you think would be easiest for a former great to come in to and still be great today?

For the purpose of this exercise, I'm keeping it to the 5 major sports i listed above. I'm not including things like billiards or darts, or other smaller sports like that.

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