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Questions about "part" HRT? (Or idk how to call it)

So, I'm not gonna start an HRT any time soon (still a student, won't have a stable situation in the near future, and my mind isn't clear at all on the subject, plus the subject is kinda scary)
I'm mostly here to get informations about what exists and help me make my mind for when the time comes

So,

I'm 20, AMAB, not trans (of that I'm sure), but I don't really feel like a man either (and I really don't like getting associated with masculinity and stuff like that), I'd say I'm probably agender? (like when I check the "man/male" box on a form, idk it feels off, but I feel quite good when I'm treated like a wolf (let's say I absolutely simp on wolves))
And I'm asexual (probably influences a lot that I don't feel like a man, like all this sex mentality... nah)

I'm mostly fine with my body, except mostly my libido...
Despite being ace (and not planning to have any intercourse, the idea of it icks me), I have a quite high libido, which is quite annoying (like imagine just wanting to sleep and it asks you to take care of it and won't let you sleep until you do... and that basically every night... please leave me alone...)
Plus I've got "big genitals", and on their own it's not that annoying (beyond the "big exposed very sensitive thing hanging between your legs"), but it also stinks and sweats like crazy... My jeans take that smell despite wearing a layer of pants in between because of the stinky sweat traversing the fabric, so just an annoying part that I don't plan to ever use... (well, except that it does produce testosteron and I'm okay with that...)

(And as a bonus it'd be nice if I had more hair and was a bit taller, but I'm already quite hairy and tall by my family's standard, so I guess no amount of taking any hormone will help me on that because genetics won't allow it)

I've heard estrogen reduced genitals size, and that it existed in patches (I'm really not comfortable with needles) that can deliver a somewhat local effect, but It's a hormone, so it would ultimately propagate in the entire body, and I don't plan on getting breasts or reduced hair growth
How does it really work?
Would getting idk like testosteron elsewhere balance the estrogen's action in the rest of the body? Or e-blockers (but that sounds quite dumb...)?
Or are there other things that exist?

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u/LOSNA17LL — 22 days ago

"Hide AI results" doesn't hide AI results

https://preview.redd.it/cjpqjcak5vfh1.png?width=1901&format=png&auto=webp&s=45fa8576c05ee80748fd3f72baed2fa0758c6f8b

So, this is the image results of the search "water pollution leaving data center" (wanted to get results on a claim about the pollution of water leaving AI data centers)
(The setting in bold at the top is "hide AI results", plus I'm using the noAI version of DDG)

1st line: 1st and 2nd images are AI-generated
2nd line: 1st and 3rd images are AI-generated (2nd might be but not 100% sure)
3rd line: 2nd and 3rd images are AI-generated
That's 6 images (probably 7) out of 11 in the first 3 lines. More than 50% of AI-generated results

And down the line it's not any better, some results have explicitely "AI-generated" in the title, but still show

How do I get so much slop when I check out ALL the settings to prevent this slop to get to me?

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u/LOSNA17LL — 23 days ago

[Recruiting] Clan Name: Pretty Platypuses

[Closed]
Hi everyone,
We're a LvL43 clan, and we offer 4 spots to fill, no level requirement, nothing, beginners are fully welcome
Plus we offer a discord server full (we're a conglomerate of 4 clans) of experienced players if you have any question

Requirements:
- Join the discord server (it's easier to talk about logistics and other stuff that way)
- Be kinda active (keep a life outside the game, but we're recruiting players, not ghosts, so if you don't plan on keeping playing, let others have that spot ^^)

To apply:
Apply in game
Comment your ingame username (so I can DM you the discord link)

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u/LOSNA17LL — 1 month ago

Is MM1 that hard or do I just suck?

I just started MM1 (had previously played the 7 and 8, a bit of 6, 9 and 10, but never finished any game ^^")

And... Gosh, this game is rough...

Started in Sorpigal, no problem, wander around town, find statues telling me I have to get to the 5 different cities accomplish the journey... Okay, that's it? Find a few mobs, and... get purchased by guards for... I have have no idea why they were after me, I opened an unlocked door, they were behind, I retreated, reappeared at the inn and whenever I enter and leave a shop, they're here again for my ass

So I left Sorpigal (can't do anything there if the guards are searching for me for opening a door...), ran into a few more difficult mobs, got lost, arrived at the beach, and found a small shipwreck, tried to search it for loot, and... got demolished by a gang of pegasi, why are pegasi hiding in a shipwreck??

Retreated with only my knight alive/conscious, ran, got lost again and again, because fleeing from encounters and... well, no map
And arrived I don't know how to Portsmith
Can't find any temple/church/whatever to restore the 5 other characters' health, all I found was an armory, a training ground (but don't have enough xp, so...), and the inn for saves
At every intersection, I get "drained"? I guess from health? Because my knight (male) is at 0 health and still isn't dying, so I guess it's just a health drain without letting him die?
And everytime I try finding something, it's either a trap (back to the inn) or a monster (back to the inn again)

Is the game really that hard or do I just suck?

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u/LOSNA17LL — 1 month ago

Être payé en cesu par ses parents?

Bonjour à tous,

Je (20 ans) suis étudiant, cherche un job pour l'été, vous voyez l'idée.
Il se trouve que mes parents disposent de cesu pour financer du travail à domicile (y a un grand terrain, donc y a de quoi faire), et ne trouvent personne pour les utiliser.

Donc ils m'ont proposé de travailler pour l'été en me payant via les cesu, d'après eux il suffirait que je monte une auto-entreprise, ce serait complètement légal et tout...

Cependant, je suis personnellement un peu dubitatif quant à la légalité de la procédure. De mon point de vue, on se retrouve avec quelqu'un (moi) qui serait financé par l'URSSAF pour faire du travail... sur son propre terrain (certes je suis loin pour les études et je suis le proprio c'est mes parents et pas moi, mais ça reste mon adresse principale, mon foyer fiscal est toujours chez mes parents, etc...)
Et l'URSSAF est pas tellement faite pour donner du fric au gens qui juste débroussaillent leur terrain...

Donc est-ce que la procédure est bien légale?

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u/LOSNA17LL — 2 months ago

The hell does that mean?

https://preview.redd.it/xbjjtb5iwwah1.png?width=667&format=png&auto=webp&s=0b19e30deb385ea94502ba0c0e5b3c7fa41faa15

So, I'm Bronze 2 (was Gold 2 last act, and the reset hit hard), and my friend is unrated (hasn't played in a while, but peaked like plat a long time ago)

We played comp together, won, and when queueing (or rather trying to) for a new game, we get hit with this...

Same team, same ranks, but one game it's fine and the other it's not

Has anyone an idea of what that is?

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u/LOSNA17LL — 2 months ago

How do you store your lineups?

Hi everyone
(This is obviously adressed to the people who use lineups, please don't come at me with "Nerd" or shit like that...)

So, I'm a KJ main, and I have lineups (especially which I create on my own)
As a human being, I can't remember all of them on the spot (I remember the ones I use the most, but that's... it)

So I need a way to store lineups, and ideally in an easily browsable way, so I can go through them between rounds when I died, while the match loads, etc...
(Not a way to like, show me the lineups in game, that would imo be cheating, and I certainly am NOT a cheater)

Currently, they're stored in a private discord server, one thread per map, with description of each lineup, one per message (where it lands, where to stand, where to aim at, if it's a crouched/normal/jumped/jumping throw*)
But... Well, they're not really ordered, I have to go through them all to get a specific lineup...
(*Yes, firing a molly at the same time you jump or at the peak of the jump lead to massively different results, because the vertical momentum you get when you jump is also given to the molly)

I've seen handbook.gg, it looks great:
Easy to create lineups with
Kinda easy to browse (unless you have like a thousand lineups per map, not my case yet ^^")

But... It's not been maintained for now more than 3 years, so... the latest maps are missing (Abyss, Corrode, let alone Summit)
And the UI is still a bit clunky (but like, project made by 1 person, I'm not gonna complain)

On the other hand, things like tracker.gg (the lineups section), that's not what I want:
Even harder to browse than my discord channels
And not my lineups, so could be from multiple versions ago and not work because map changed, and I can't ensure the quality of the explanation
And the goal isn't to learn new lineups, it's to revise/brush up on my own lineups

So:

How do you do to store your lineups?

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u/LOSNA17LL — 2 months ago

Quelles sont vos stratégies pour gérer au mieux la transition d'un·e ami·e?

(Le titre est à chier, désolé, je vais essayer d'être plus clair)

J'ai une amie qui est en train de commencer à faire sa transition (MtF), du moins sociale pour l'instant (changement de prénom et de pronom), et elle n'est pas encore out auprès de tout le monde.
Elle m'a annoncé son changement de pronom y a quelques mois (mais était pas sûre de changer de prénom), mais elle était out qu'auprès d'une petite poignée de personnes, et elle a annoncé son coming out (+ changement de prénom) hier (mais pas de manière générale, juste auprès d'un plus gros groupe)

Comment vous faites mentalement pour:
1- Changer l'association mentale que vous faites entre une personne et le prénom/pronom que vous lui associez? (J'ai essayé la strat du "penser à la personne en répétant le bon pronom", mais les résultats sont... mouairf, j'ai toujours l'association précédente qui revient au gallop)
2- Pas out la personne non plus (je veux surtout pas la out avant qu'elle soit prête et le fasse elle-même). Pour l'instant ça m'est pas arrivé, mais y a eu quelques fois où j'ai pas mal hésité avant de regarder qui était autour et déterminer si je devais utiliser le nouveau pronom ou l'ancien...

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u/LOSNA17LL — 2 months ago

Hi everyone,
(Sorry if the writing is messy, I'm still really sad and shocked)
Just learned almost all my fish just died (I'm a student, I don't live at home, so my family takes care of the aquariums for me), and we have no idea why

It's a 120L freshwater aquarium, with a filter, a light and a CO2 dispenser

There were plants (I don't remember all of them, I don't have the labels here with me), including: Anubias, Alternanthera and Echinodorus

And the fish (and shrimps):
3 Ancistrus sp.
2 Corydoras panda
5-10 Rasbora heteromorpha
~30 Neon tetra
~20 Shrimps, mainly japonica

Out of all of them, only the corydoras, 1 neon and 5 shrimps have survived, with no visible symptom

All of the other ones are dead within the last 2 days (2 days ago they were fine, and now they're dead), the bodies (won't show images for sensitive people) all look fine, nothing odd (except that they're dead)

- The last time water was changed was about 2 weeks ago, same time the CO2 dispenser was refilled
- The last fish to come were a batch of neons in February, nothing since
- All the plants are here since last summer (when this aquarium was started)
- We've had an algae issue (likely was Audouinella) for a long time, but it was under control, and it's apparently harmless to fish
- An algae treatment was stopped ~4 weeks ago
- There was no heater, the aquarium was in the living-room at room temperature
- The water test (pH/NO2/NO3/KH/GH/Chlorine/CO2) returns normal values (the GH is kinda high, but we live in the mountains, the water is naturally high in calcium)
- The food hasn't changed recently

So this thing (or these things? we actually don't know if it's only 1 cause) simultaneously killed nearly all our fish, from various species (except some individuals), in less than 2 days, leaving no sign of affliction on the dead bodies nor on the survivors, and there is no recent change in the aquarium

Any idea what it may be?

For now, 75L were changed with fresh new water, all the plants have been cut to a few centimeters, the "lawn" (2 species that I don't remember the name that make sort of a carpet) has been removed
And a bottle of the aquarium's water has been kept to be brought to the pet store for analysis (or so they can say who to bring it to)

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u/LOSNA17LL — 4 months ago