u/mydeiskitten

NOT SURE IF I'M SUPPOSED TO POST THIS HERE.

okay so, ive been friends with this guy for a little under a year and im like one of his only friends. recently, since a girl he liked moved out of the picture, he's been treating me very similarly to how he used to treat her. we spend almost everyday together, but we've been distancing very recently because we had a big fight where he got jealous of a male friend of mine (but has no problems with my female friend).

im starting to think he likes me based on a few things, including multiple people telling us we act like a couple/he treats me like a girlfriend. i do want to ask him about it but i don't want to make things awkward if he doesn't actually like me and is just treating me well because he wants me around. im also considering he might not like me and im just trying to make it seem like he reciprocates the feelings i have for him. there's also quite a big age gap between us, with me being 17 in a couple months and him being freshly 20.

is there any way to go about asking a very very close friend about whether they like me without ruining our friendship/making things awkward?? its been playing on my mind for the last couple months to say something to him but i just haven't found the courage to do so.

i'm very socially anxious so please keep that in mind.

okay so, ive been friends with this guy for a little under a year and im like one of his only friends. recently, since a girl he liked moved out of the picture, he's been treating me very similarly to how he used to treat her. we spend almost everyday together, but we've been distancing very recently because we had a big fight where he got jealous of a male friend of mine (but has no problems with my female friend).

im starting to think he likes me based on how possessive he is of me, how he doesn't like being away from me very long and is very open about how he feels, his struggles, etc. i do want to ask him about it but i don't want to make things awkward if he doesn't actually like me and is just treating me well because he wants me around. im also considering he might not like me and im just trying to make it seem like he reciprocates the feelings i have for him.

is there any way to go about asking a very very close friend about whether they like me without ruining our friendship/making things awkward?? its been playing on my mind for the last couple months to say something to him but i just haven't found the courage to do so.

i might be going crazy or have a mega skill issue but i swear they've amped up the aim assist in general recently. these mobile/console players im going up against are literally under level 150 and consistently winning games because their AA knows where i am before they do.

could just be a skill issue but i shouldn't think it is

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I've never been someone to have a big circle of friends so most of the time I talk to one guy. Every day, every night, we talk to eachother and stay on call almost 24/7.

BUT. BUT. Here's where I need advice.

I was playing a game with him, just some social game on Roblox called Gakuran. My friend was, I assumed, AFK because he wasn't speaking and his character was standing still. Bear in mind, he often leaves without warning to go do stuff.

Whilst he was AFK, another guy came up to me and I didn't want to be rude, so I reciprocated a conversation they started then we became friends.

My friend then came back from being AFK, or just spoke after some silence (I'm still not sure if he was AFK or not), and asked what I was doing because I had walked away from where he was. I said I was making a friend and he got really upset with me, immediately leaving the call we were in without saying anything.

I tried to ask him what I'd done because I didn't see an issue in me making a friend whilst he wasn't there, especially because he himself has done it before, but he is now telling me not to talk to him and that I'm "so fucking rude", and "really fucking weird". It's genuinely upsetting me because I don't know what I've done and I hate upsetting him, I've struggled with socialising so I thought he'd be happy I'm making a friend.

Can someone help me understand what I did wrong?

I'm planning on using E1/E2S1 Sparxie, YG, EMC/DHPT, and Sparkle as a team for my endgame once I pull Sparxie.

Which stats are more sustainable for Yao??

If I put YG on Vonwacq, she gets to 162 spd but only 69/95

If I put YG on Lushaka, she gets to 154 spd but 80/102

I feel like my Lushaka set is better with stats because my Vonwacq was on Robin, but I've seen that YG likes Vonwacq alot.

slight backstory to make things make sense: i've been struggling badly with including myself in conversations, making friends, and generally socialising. this stemmed from, i think, dropping out of school at 14 and isolating myself as a coping mechanism for the overwhelming stress, burnout, and suicidal thoughts i was facing daily. i would post this in the social anxiety subreddit but i can't access it.

i'm starting college in the next coming year and i really need some advice/help on how i can make my social anxiety more manageable. when it comes to socialising, for me, i can't even chat in public chats on games or put my character near other people because i feel like i'll be judged or ignored if i even try to exist with other people. this has led to me only really having 2 online friends, and no irl friends thanks to not getting out the house enough (i'm trying to be better at that but am hoping college will give me the push i need to get some friends irl). every time i attempt to interact with someone new, my heart starts racing way too quickly and i can sometimes shut down if i'm being pushed too far out of my comfort zone. it's even worse when i am with someone; i constantly feel like the person i'm with is judging me for my bad social skills and inability to talk to strangers, even when they are not and are trying to be supportive of me. i was an outcast throughout secondary school and really don't want to be like that in college, it was so tough battling loneliness when i can't do anything about it without making myself overly anxious.

it is incredibly difficult for me to talk with people unless they initiate and lead the conversation. i am much more confident over text as i tend to struggle with what to say and what is acceptable, so over text i can at least delete messages or think before i type.

this is probably just a bunch of yap/block text so please comment if you need clarification/further explanation on anything. any tips will help but please don't be horrible about things or my situation, i am quite sensitive when it comes to being insulted.

I have 196 pulls left over after getting Cyrene E0, and am saving for Sparxie next patch (at least E2). Is Cyrene's cone worth going for if I'm struggling to meet her speed requirements. My build I've been farming for for nearly 3 months only hits 155 SPD with the Herta Shop LC at S2. I'm mainly using her with my E2S1 Mydei and maybe DOT in the future, once I invest in it.

On Seeleland, I gain a 17.55% increase and can hit 180 with her lightcone, but I also need E2 Sparxie alot for my Elation team (in which I'll be using main dps Sparxie unless I decide to pull Evanescia). Is it worth putting pulls into or should I just save?

EDIT: I will be pulling E2 Cyrene in the future.

i have literally just pulled lohen this banner and am resaving up for arlecchino, but citlali's rerunning next patch. so, that is the trigger for this question.

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is citlali a must have for arlecchino? like, im talking, how much does she buff and how much of a dps loss are her alternatives? i have arlecchino's premium team, minus citlali, and have prefarmed for her as i wanted her on her last rerun but didn't end up having enough pulls.

okay so, i'm the kind of person who thinks she has a crush on someone but it sort of fades away (i'm not too sure if that's how crushes work, i'm a romantic virgin). i'm also not the kind of girl to have friends very often so i cling when i can to prolong me being their favourite.

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but, there's this guy i've been talking to for the last year and i genuinely can't stop thinking about him, imagining a future with him, picturing us being in a relationship, etc. we're (long distance) best friends at the moment and we call everyday, talk almost all the time, and for some reason (despite me being the kind of person who is affectionately rude, and i NEVER mean anything maliciously) i can't stop being nice to him even if i regret it as soon as i say it. he trusts me with almost everything, and i trust him with everything too. he is, as corny as it sounds, everything to me. i just can't tell if i like him or if i'm just clinging again, and it genuinely stresses me out because i don't want to be like that and have him like me back just for me to not actually like him romantically.

i get super bummed out when we don't talk, even if it's only for a day, and miss him alot. i am a very anxiously attached person, but also avoidant??, so i'm not sure if that's just my anxiety getting to me there.

this probably just sounds like a bunch of rambling and not enough clear points but i really do need some advice on this, i can't stop thinking about it!!

and, FYI, this is did not start as, nor is it, an online friendship or whatever the fuck. he just moved away so we primarily have to talk over the phone/over text

EDIT: i forgot to add that, as creepy and weird as it is, when we don't talk, i like to nose around in his socials to see what he's doing. yes, i admit i do stalk him because i tend to associate him not talking to me with him being upset/something being wrong, as it is usually why we don't talk. that may also be me being overly jealous and anxious about him.

i also get very easily jealous when it comes to who he talks to, like i'm his girlfriend or something. he had a situationship thing with a girl, it didn't last long, and i always got so jealous it genuinely made me feel sad that he didn't want to spend time with me, that he liked her more. that is probably something big but hey, i added it in there now.

For DPS Sparxie, is it better to go for 2pc Izumo Gensei and Takama Divine Realm for the 12% crit rate and 12% ATK, or is the Tengoku@Livestream 16% base crit dmg + 32 from 3 or more consumed skill points more sustainable?

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I'm going to be farming the Tengoku boss thing for Cyrene planar upgrades so I'll get Tengoku pieces but if Izumo is better for a DPS Sparxie, I can happily synthesise any pieces for that set/farm its boss. I just thought Izumo would be a good option if I wanted her to be less crit rate heavy to build.

I want to pull both Sparxie and Evanescia on their reruns but Yao Guang is only one unit, and both need her. So, I was thinking of either doing sustainless with Evanescia, Sparkle, Yao Guang, Sparxie or unfortunately having to run them in different teams. Could Sparxie work as some sort of sub-dps for Eva like she does SW 999? Or do they not synergise as well? I'm mainly asking so I can know whether to invest into 2 teams or if I can just invest into Sparkle, Sparxie, YG, and Eva!

I have an E2S1 Mydei, E0S1 Hyacine, and either RMC or Sunday, plus a flex slot for someone like Cyrene. I'm planning on pulling E0S1 Cyrene anyway, or E1S1, as well as E0S0 Yao Guang and maybe E0S0/S1 Mortenax Blade. I will 100% skip Mortenax Blade if E2 Cyrene is worth it, but Yao Guang is a need for me. I only have around 270 pulls (and the whole of Planarcadia to do, plus most events if things go wrong) but I'm hoping luck will be on my side. I managed to pull E2S1 Mydei in 240-250 pulls so I'm using that as a baseline of how much I'll need for E2S1 Cyrene, not sure if that matters.

I am planning on pulling for Sparxie on her rerun and making her my main Elation DPS, but have no idea how to vertically invest in her as 4.x progresses. I'll be pulling for Yao Guang but am unsure on E1 or S1. I may just go E0S5 Shroomy and go all in for E2S1 Cyrene for a different team, depending on how Yao Guang needs to be invested in for a Sparxie Main DPS team.

I'm also not sure on what sort of team to run her on. I was thinking Sparxie, YG, Sparkle, DHPT as a team but am open to flexes for the sustain. I also have E0S1 Hyacine and E0S0 Luocha who can be used in that team.

Let me know please!