The story is a bit convoluted. I live in her country, kinda speak her language (we both work in multinational environments and speak English), and our cultures are very different. She comes from a small town in the countryside of the country where she was raised as a conservative, I come from an Islamic country and was raised as such but spent my life in big cities, so my world views and opinions are a bit on the liberal side, in a way that I'm more curious, accepting, endorsing and open-minded about other cultures, which is the eabsolute opposite of her situation. She's more close-minded, nervous and afraid of my culture and heritage.

She finds the idea exciting. She loves me to her core and I do too. Besides this issue, I've never had a healthier relationship in my life with any other girl I dated, and she could say the same as well, that I'm providing her with things in this relationship on several levels that she couldn't find in her dating life. She's also not that experienced, and she's more long-term-oriented, and her worry is that our children will be raised some kind of way that they would have these negative behaviors that my culture is (unfortunately) notorious for, like being aggressive, Muslim, oppressive, abusive...etc.

The issue is that, even though I come from that culture, myself and my family do not fit that stereotytpe at all. This is not computing in her brain. It is shaking her worldview significantly because her entire life she attributed my race and culture with these negative sterotypes, and here comes a guy from that same culture that doesn't exhibit any of that, not only that but he exhibits qualities she expected in her own culture and couldn't find them.

At first, when she brought this topic up in the first trimester of our relationship, I thought it was just a worry. I tried addressing it and understanding why she thinks this way. She had negative experiences with Arabs unfortunately that tainted her view on them. And she told me that the countryside and her culture is all she's ever known. She said it is less about being an Arab, and more about her being completely disconnected from the rest of the world. She told me she would be as anxious if she dated someone from Latin America for example or from Asia, because, again, she has no idea what these cultures are like and what raising children there means.

I feel frustrated with this. My frustration stems from the fact that I cannot change anything about who I am and where I come from. I was raised a type of way, this is how I live my life, and I treated her the best I could treat anyone and it shows.... and my reward is her being skeptical about everything related to my culture, because I'm Arab?

The last point of frustration came when we spoke about our wedding. We will for sure have a wedding in her country however she sees fit, and I took it for granted that we will have a wedding in the style of my culture too. She seemed disappointed, said she's afraid of this, and wouldn't want to engage in such a thing. I told her she could practically negotiate anything, but this if we don't do, not necessarily to the fullest extent with all the blows and whistles, just a get-together and a party afterwards, my family wouldn't be so happy. She doesn't want to engage in anything basically.

She keeps bring up points that the children will be her nationality, will speak her language, will have her belief systems, and I keep reminding her that I'll speak Arabic to them and I'll take them home every once in a while because remember, they're 50% coming from that land and connecting them to their origins is healthier for their development on the long run. She accepts this, but I could feel the hesitance.

She's been colder and more distant recently. She reached a point where she needs to tell her dad about this, and she guaranteed to me that her dad will not be happy about her dating a foreigner. The question is burning in her mind, and I think she's figuring out if she really wants this or not, but to be honest, I feel really disappointed in this and I cannot believe that this is even a question.

I explained to her for me, it's first herself, her personality, her traits, and everything I love about her, and her race, her nationality, and her background come with that as bonus. I accept the bonus. And her counter point, "You live here. You have to accept it anyway". And I was taken aback.

.... I don't know what do you guys gather from this?

TL;DR: Girlfriend keeps brining up cultural difference and is being hesitant about engaging with my culture due to her being unfamilair with it. I feel frustrated because I haven't done anything to hurt her and this is how I'm getting rewarded.

A good friend and I keep going back and forth on best SEO practices. I keep coming up with new ideas and hacks to maximize impressions, clicks, or CTR, and he keeps being skeptical and course-correcting whenever he feels I went too much. One of the suggestions I came up with a few weeks ago was translation.

My website increased in pages. It went from 170 pages to around 500, and I added around 8 locales in the first wave, of course all translated by AI. The mistake that we picked up on in this operpation was to not properly set up the language picker in its html structure so it redirects the googlebots for more effective crawling, the pages were orphaned, but as soon as we fixed it, the pages got indexed properly and the impressions and clicks skyrocketted.

I started seeing more foreign queries and I started seeing my best performing page being picked up by other locales and languages and over a few weeks, it started averaging 1000 impressions with +40 clicks every.

Last week I went ahead and added 10 more locales. I'm now getting 5k impressions per day and +60 clicks. Granted, the clicks haven't improved that much, I still need to figure it out. But translatioin, as my case study shows, helps SEO. Highly recommended if you wish to make a quick SEO win!

Has anyone tried training based on their recovery status? I mean for instance you wake up and you feel like you walked a lot the day before and your legs are hurting so in this case, your legs and your lower back are out of the question for training today, so you would do exercises that would target other muscles, like arms, chest, or abs, and once you do these exercises, then you "eliminate" these trained muscles out of the equation and you would schedule a workout for other muscles that you didn't hit. I'm thinking about designing a workout regime based on this principle. It would count as a "cycle" when all major muscle groups are hit, regardless of how long that cycle takes.

I'm curious about what people have tried in terms of this kind of program and what would be "bad practice" trying to design a training program like this.

Kind of shooting in the dark here, my real life job has kinda taken over the past few months and I didn't have time to properly work on marketing by creating content. The apps I made are social in nature, so without a userbase, they're worthless. The good news and what's in it for whoeover decides to bite, the plan is pretty much set, I just need someone who is good at executing and can have time to make social media content, and once the userbase picks up and we start making money, you will have an equity ownership to the gross revenues of the apps.

Like I said, ASO, SEO, branding, marketing plans... everything is laid out in detail, not just with AI, but my own research on the matter and the path going forward. I honestly just didn't have time to execute any of it due to time contraints. I'm looking for someone who did this before (ship and/or market an app from 0 users).

My DMs are open. Let's talk! :)

First thing I did was to simply browse the web using the keywords I had in mind and I studied the competition. I got to work. I learnt the patterns that they follow. I started creating landing pages based on the play store postings that I created. And then I started looking up best SEO practices, like actual factural and documented ideas and tricks to help with SEO and organic growth, I poured a few weeks sinto this, then I got tired, lowkey got depressed that nothing was working.

Life happened on the side, got distracted, haven't checked on the app since May. Came back to it a few days ago and I noticed that it is... kind of taking off?

This app is only 3 months old. It has 0 budget, 0 presence, 0 hype, it just launched, and it has so far acquired around 400 users across play and ios stores, and I'm surprised. Right now, the website is getting impressions, approx. 600 per day, unpaid and unprompted, and around 30-50 of them click on the website itself, voluntarily and willingly, and then, on average, everyday, around 10 people sign up! I'm actually astonished that people get curious enough to download and install.

It means that the SEO and ASO are working. Google is trusting the page enough to actually show it, App and Google Stores also have shown my app to the explore page a few times as well, and it seems like it is working.

I look forward to feedback on what oculd be improved further and what are the next steps! :) Would content creation and simply trying to go oviral on social media be the mosts logical step at this point or what?

As a quick disclaimer: I have no issues with people using VPN and circumventing the SBMM in Warzone because it could be too unforgiving and some people just want to have fun and play in easier lobbies. It's not a problem.... unless someone does implicitly and tries to come off as a "warzone pro". I distinctly remember the first guy ever to been caught using VPN and playing in bot lobbies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFnyjwLIADU and he was called out for it when the tool became mainstream, and he came out and apologized and admitted to having used VPN to get easy lobbies to get kills anad it is what it is and he won't do it again. I respect this.

But the guy in the video, so-called "Warzone Pro Coach" took this shit to new levels. He has these "coaching" videos and he also offers "coaching services" to newbies or people who just started playing the game and he's passing himself as a "Warzone Pro" while showing videos in bot lobbies playing against newbie players or less skilled ones. He also conveniently leaves the part that he is commentating over the video and is providing feedback and wants his content to look like he's live-commenting on his stuff, and on top of that, he only shows fantastic clips where he is killing other players.

And when he's called out on it or when he is asked to provide feedback of his incredible gameplay during a Ranked game, he immeditealy resorts to cheap shots and insults and dodges the question altogether.

I can tell you without a shred of a doubt, as someone who's been iridescent in Warzone consistently with no cheats whatsoever that if this guy plays Ranked Warzone the same way he's preaching, he'll get shit on left and right.

IDK I thought I'd point it out because I think it's such shitty behavior.