u/dissabrie

I’m looking to sell some manga that are like-new. Any places in Windsor that will buy?

I've had nosebleeds all my life, but for the last two years it's more so died down. Recently though, in the past 5 months, they've started up again but much more rampant and severe than ever. In February to March there was a time where everyday I had 1-2 nosebleeds on a regular basis. They were heavy and usually lasted around 10 minutes. Once in the morning when I woke up, and once in the shower usually that would usually last 5 minutes. Just yesterday, I had 3 heavy, long-lasting nosebleeds (15-20 minutes). I was at work in the bathroom just waiting for it to dry out on my break.

They are usually all very heavy to the point that if I leave a tissue in for 2-3 minutes, there will be so much pressure in the one nostril that the other nostril will start bleeding or I'll start coughing up the excess blood from my nose. It feels like if I even touch my nose in the wrong way a nosebleed will start.

Basically the title - I like to shop for my equipment in person to get a feel for gear. Sure, there are plenty of online pro shops but I don’t really see any options for actual pro shops in the area (Google Maps needs to STOP recommending canadian tire and sport chek).

I'm looking at the Ryuga line and there are so many different models: Ryuga, Ryuga Metallic, Ryuga Muse, Ryuga II, and Ryuga II Pro.

What is the difference between all these models?

My (21F) boyfriend (20M) and I have been together for a little over a year now and we both attend the same college. I’m a third year eng major and he is a second year history major. I recently found out that he was either failing or barely passing (low 50s) the majority of his classes throughout the semester, and that he also failed a class in first year which has put him behind in terms of completing his major. He has been placed on academic probation and forbidden from attending school temporarily. I’m not sure what the exact details are of his current academic standing but he’s only recently been really worried about it. I’ve been comforting him about this and trying to help him move past it but deep down I can’t help but feel like this was a direct result of his own actions.

For the past two semesters, he has complained that I rarely spend time with him since I’m always doing school work. I consider my major fairly demanding so I do agree that I am frequently studying and working on projects and assignments. However, I used to invite him to study with me all the time until I learned we aren’t really compatible in terms of study ethic. I will sit for hours listening to music while working on my things, and he will constantly interrupt to converse with me or do something else. It bothers me a lot that I can’t productively study around him since he fidgets and gets impatient within less than two hours of sitting down and suggest we do something else. I’ve expressed this to him before that I cant get much work done and if either of us want to be productive it would not be the best idea for us to work together. My bf still has his share of schoolwork to do as well but he doesn’t spend as much time working on them and outside of the few times we study together, he rarely studies.

Since the beginning of our school year, my bf has been really into video games. Don’t get me wrong, I also love playing his favorite FPS games with him but I don’t spend as much time playing. It feels like, though, that video games have consumed his life. He’s gotten really good at a particular game to the point of potentially getting into esports teams and getting his name out, however, this is all at the cost of his academic performance. He will spend an average of 5-6 hours a day playing, sometimes even more depending on the day. He has attended a total of maybe 15-20% of his lectures and spends most his days and evenings either playing video games or watching streams or videos. I usually come back from classes in the afternoon and I’ll see that his discord status indicates that he had been playing all afternoon, or I’ll see in the evening that he plays into late hours of the night. It’s almost a cycle of sleeping late to play games, then waking up late to miss classes and play more games. During school I confronted him a couple of times saying he should attend class more often or should stop spending so much time online but it puts us in an awkward spot because he’ll go silent about it or get defensive and insist he doesn’t.

There was a specific incident I remember where he was at my house and we were studying together. He got really chatty and kept asking me questions to the point where I took off my headphones and looked over to what he was doing. I quickly realized he was studying for one of his courses for the first time as he was looking into ways to acquire one of his textbooks for free. We were well into the last few weeks of school at that point and was baffled he was only looking for the textbook for the first time. The textbook was $120 online but he wanted to find a free version. I helped him look online as well at first before I got frustrated and made a snarky comment about how if he hadn’t spent so much time playing video games and spent more time actually doing school we wouldn’t be looking for his textbook right then. He was visibly upset at that and got really quiet. Then he texted his mom asking for money to purchase the textbook, to which she also reprimanded him for looking to buy a textbook this late into the semester.

Either way, his work ethic has gotten him into a position where he may not be able to attend school anymore. I’m not sure if his parents know or what his requirements are to apply for school again but I’m not sure how to approach him about this. A part of me wants to yell at him for not being disciplined but I also understand that being on academic probation is a gutting feeling and he may not want to talk about all this or address it. How do I approach this?