u/Luviebug19

I'm 18M and I lost my v card to my gf of 2 years a few days ago (she was also a virgin). We waited 2 years bc of circumstances but man was it worth it. It was something pretty new to me and like nothing I've ever done before, but just the experience of being there with the person you love, communicating and seeing what things work on one another... some people think the first time is always awkward, but while we definitely weren't experts I still found it enjoyable. The whole experience taught me that sex is a skill you need to learn and practice, kinda like playing an instrument. 10/10, would recommend.

I know it's a bit counter intuitive to ask that question on this sub but I'm doing it anyways. Thankfully my tinnitus is not too severe and I only really notice it when I'm alone in my room, and my air dehumidifier provides enough ambience for me to forget about it entirely and sleep soundly. But I swear, everytime I've visited this subreddit it's made me so aware of my tinnitus that it's all I can focus on for a couple of hours. I'm trying to live life the best I can with this condition but I can't imagine what it must be like for more severe people reading stories abt this awful thing so often. Quitting this subreddit was the best option for my tinnitus.

I browse this sub occassionally out of curiosity and I see talk of escorts. Seriously, please don't. If you're having sex for the first time you really need to do it with someone who knows you very well. Sex isn't something you can just easily do like drinking a glass of water when you're thirsty, and tbh you need a lot of communication AND PRACTICE to have an enjoyable sexual experience. Don't think you're gonna hire an escort and have an insane experience that is easy and enjoyable. I don't want to sound condescending but you rlly shouldn't do it with someone you don't even know because it most likely won't even work out. Not to mention you're a lot more likely to catch something, and tbh it's also harmful to the escort themselves.

if the lobby says "1v1 random civs" THEN DON'T PICK DUTCH AND PRESS READY 🙄🙄🙄. it's not even non-English speakers bc they have no problem saying "go" if I don't start the match immediately. or in team games when ur tryna communicate just absolutely anything, even just flaring 3 hussars making a beeline for ur teammate's villagers, and they're just absolutely unresponsive.

this must get asked a lot here but tbh I still haven't found an answer that works for me. I've tried humming, didn't work. I tried blowing water out of my nose and I think that actually made it worse, not to mention I just run out of air so quick that I have to surface. What does everyone do?

no matter how hard my day gets I know I'll always have this game to look forward to. I love FFs, I love sending groups of pikes to deal with cav, I love blasting units away with my skirms. I love armored pistoleers and sacred band infantry. I'm not the best (only 1245 elo after 300 games) but still having a huge blast.

The other day I REALLY undercooked my salmon but it tasted really good so I didn't bother trying to cook it again. I thought since it's the same principle sushi follows it'll be fine. Apparently though you can get parasites in the salmon. Is salmon from the supermarket ok to eat raw if I freeze it at home first and then defrost it?

Just some background first. I'm 18M currently sitting very stressful, high-stakes exams I need to do in order to get a university course. I got chronic tinnitus last August and I'm still having trouble making peace with the fact that I'll never experience silence again for the rest of my life. I have a good social life and a gf of 2 years which I love.

I really don't want to fit into the stereotypical teenager ranting about how their parents are oh so awful but I really need to get this off of my chest. My mother is the most controlling, hateful, draining person I've ever met. At the same time, she has worked so hard and given me so much and has spent thousands of euros this year getting me grinds classes, revision textbooks and all kinds of academic support. That being said, the extent to which she's controlling is brutal and none of my friends experience anything close to what I experience.

There's a bathroom next to my bedroom (arranged in a way that you need to enter my bedroom before you can access the bathroom, but only I use it). I was taking a shit and must have been there for around 10 minutes before my mom came into my bedroom (the bathroom door was closed) and started screaming about how I could forget about calling my girlfriend tonight and about how awful I was for not studying. While I was sitting on the toilet. I just remained quiet and she left.

The past few months she's also been really nasty and saying things to me about my gf that she swears are just jokes. My gf is of filipina descent so my mother constantly makes jokes about how she's a "yellow" and a "cat-eater", and when I don't laugh she usually gets mad and calls me a faggot or a retard. Ofc I tell my girlfriend all of this and naturally she really resents my mother for this and has made it clear. A few days ago I broke down crying in my room and when my mom came in to check on me I told her it bothered me when she said things like that, and she told me she didn't have to change who she was for me. And then she said I couldn't be trusted with anything because I had told my gf my mom was making these racist "jokes" about her. And then she told me how she resented my gf for having "changed" me and how she was turning me against her.

I genuinely don't know what to do. The odd moment I do get to call my gf my mom constantly checks WhatsApp to see I don't go over the 20 minute limit she's imposed. She always needs to know where I am and what exactly I'm doing. When I'm in my bathroom she'll sometimes enter my bedroom to ask what I'm doing.

Again I don't want to sound like a sulky teen but I feel like this is warranted. I need to get this off my chest and see what the general consensus is.

it's actually crazy how a goverment body is making such a mess of this year, how hard is it to not use shitty generative AI and confuse "3rd" for "3th"? not to sound like an absolute nerd BUT i want to send them an email expressing my dissatisfaction because their performance really has been embarrassing this year. can i get away with doing it or could it affect my results? anyone got a link to email them with.

Yes it sounds obvious, no im not trolling. It took me YEARS to discover shipments and XP were a whole game mechanic, imagine my shock when I clicked on my flag for the first time after hours of playing. I wish someone had told me sooner.

To any new players: if you click on your flag during a match you can select a deck. Decks can be edited in the main menu. Basically each deck is made up of a lot of cards you can send, e.g. units, resource crates, improvements, etc... and shipments are locked by age and gotten by achieving XP, which u get from doing almost anything (training units, killing enemies, building things, certain treasures, etc).