u/d3athgate

I'm a trans man in Texas and I turn 18 in 3 days. I have two moms that wholeheartedly support me with all they have and really want to help with my transition progress. Only thing is that I worry testosterone might become illegal in Texas for people under 26.

There has been talk about a u.s. bill going around that HRT is going to be illegal for people under the age of 26 to use. That would really screw me over since I live in Texas and don't have the money to move, nor do my parents. I was hoping to get started on T this month but now I'm scared on how it's going to work out for me. I already have to travel to New Mexico to visit a planned parenthood since that's the closest one to me. So if I'm getting HRT in the mail and it suddenly goes illegal... what would I even do??

Also on top of that it's illegal to change your gender marker in Texas. So even if I start HRT it'd be really awkward for job interviews and legal processes if my marker says F and I show up looking like a full man. I'm really in a bind here.

I'm downloading baldurs gate 3 through steam and it's downloading at 1-6mbps average and says it'll complete in *two days*. I'd really rather not leave my computer on for 48hrs just to download a game.

My xbox typically downloads at 30-40mbps on average so I'm not sure why my pc is so much worse. Its new as well, built in May. Any way I can fix it? I've already messed around network settings in device manager from tutorials people on tiktok have given and nothing changed.

I'm brand new to RE, I started with RE2R a few weeks ago, and after a failed first standard attempt (I used all the herbs in rpd and was still in the danger state) I went back and played on assisted with my gained knowledge and beat it in a complete breeze with some guilt sitting on my shoulders over playing on easy. I'd say I'm newer to horror games in general since the only other horror game I've really played is outlast trials.

I beat RE2R and moved on to RE4R and I'm about an hr and 30 mins in and yet again had to turn it to assisted because I felt like I was just simply dying and getting attacked far too much. And the guilt over it is insane. I've been playing games my *entire* life without ever having to play on easy difficulty for any game until now. I was stuck on the bit of moving on right after meeting the merchant for the first time and simply kept getting ganged up on by the enemies too many times and dying to the point I gave up and turned on assisted. And after that I passed through the section in a breeze.

It feels like the run doesn't count if I'm playing on easy mode is the best way to explain it. I already have pretty shitty aim in general I'll admit but resident evil really makes me feel 10x worse at it. I maybe got too used to the slower pace of re2 zombies and the switch to re4 right after was a bit drastic, but I still feel like I should have been able to push through standard since I had gotten used to the general feel of how resident evil is but I guess not.

I just hope I'm not alone in feeling this way or having this experience.

It's my first playthrough of this game, and first time playing resident evil as well. I have Mr. X following me but keep getting sacked by zombies in the way in small rooms when I try to work around the big man, (Ahem.. East Storage Room...) And after a while I got attacked too many times and now I'm all out of green herbs. I mean 0. None in the police station nor the basement. There's plenty of red and blue herbs but those don't heal.

I guess I forgot that ammo isn't the only thing I need to conserve. I am on the danger health state... am I done for? I'm playing on standard difficulty 7 hours in. I don't wanna have to restart just because I ate all the herbs :(

I play on xbox series x. Recently my ping has been ridiculous, and it didn't always used to be this way. Usually my ping sat at under 100 for multi-player games and I had no issues, but recently these past few weeks games have been just unplayable.

Everytime I pull up the menu im sitting at 130-800 ping on average, and games are so laggy that I literally cannot play them. Specifically dead by daylight is the game I have issues playing. I'm lagging literally every other step, and I wish that was an exaggeration. I have 2.4g internet that sits in the livingroom while my xbox is in my bedroom. Not a very far gap, my bedroom is literally two steps away from the livingroom. The router isnt covered with anything and is in a fairly open spot.

Is there any way I can get rid of this god awful ping? Because I miss being able to play multi-player games without having to work around a CONSTANT lag.

My mom and I had a hypothetical conversation in the car this morning with me about what I'd do if I ever got pregnant. Which, firstly, wouldn't happen. But even if it did an abortion would be scheduled same day no hesitation. But of course my mom decided to take the hypothetical a step further and make it unrealistic.

She said "But if you don't get an abortion," (wouldn't happen) "you should give the baby to me instead of giving it up for adoption." So, first of all, hell no!! I told her a hard no to her face and she was a little taken back on why I wouldn't do that. There are an infinite amount of reasons on why I would never do that. Let me list a few, actually.

I would never want the chance of coming in contact with a child I didnt want. I didnt want it for a reason, why would I want to have it near me? I dont want it to be my 'little sibling' either. My mom has talked to me abt it before and said she'd raise it like a sibling and won't tell it I birthed it and I'm like thats somehow worse than telling it the truth?? And in general I just dont want my mother caring for a child I birthed because just... that's weird, I dont know. I would never visit her again frankly just to avoid the kid.

I mean just where is her logic?? If I for some reason let the baby reach birth stage, (again, wouldn't happen) I'd give it to adoption without hesitation and not tell her. I am hard-core childfree simply because I dont like children nor the idea of having one. So if I had one I'd want nothing to do with it, and adoption would be its first destination straight out the womb, I do not care. I wouldn't want it to have chances of contacting me, knowing who I am, etc.

My mom is crazy to think I'd ever let her get anywhere near a baby I birthed before it's sent to the center. Soon as it's gone its not my problem either. Out of sight out of mind. What a mess...