u/patriotraitor

I thought I might launch a new ad campaign for Facebook and not even 2 days in I was getting incredibly low budgets, and bots asking for my phone number... despite having classy looking wedding photos, a professional looking page.

What are my other options? Google SEO? Promoting my Instagram? Knot?

I did Google ads for a while and it had really minimal returns.

Lately I've been thinking and looking at a lot of the stuff I have sitting on eBay and it's just sitting at 0 viewers, 0 watchers... stuff that's maybe been listed for 200 days. It feels like it's becoming just junk to me at this point.

Thankfully I bought on the very cheap end (under $3) so I wouldn't be taking a huge loss by cutting my losses and purging.

I've got clean photo lists, good listing descriptions but no moving action.

Is there an ideal time frame of when it's time to purge something? I've always had the optimistic approach that it will eventually sell but truth be told I'd like to have some of my storage space (in my apartment) back.

I wanted to level up the FG42 last night, so I hopped on and my first few games like 2-3 were pretty decent -- didn't go substantially crazy but felt fair at best.

So I played Nuketown 24/7 because it's just the convenient for leveling new guns.

For the next 2 hours there was a WILD and I mean WILD variety of games -- maybe it felt like no actual SBMM but I found myself getting into lobbies with 3 lvl 1000's on the enemy team, found myself in a lobby with Twitch reverse boosters, but then found myself on a team with stompers.

What felt really odd at times is that perhaps there was almost little to no SBMM when it came to Nuketown 24/7 as the variety kept changing match to match, but there were times I stayed in a match, like 2-3 games and other times I was searching for a new one.

At times it felt so intense getting either spawn trapped and not having teammates push, or being seen immediately by the enemy that I just ultimately backed out because it was straight up not fun. The team balancing itself is really the issue here. It's either one extreme or the other, there's no middle ground.

It feels like Activision is doing some sort of surveillance and hoping that the variety of lobbies pushes players to implementing some sort of SBMM back into place again, but not actually putting ping first.

Really don’t get how I was playing the game a few days ago with no issue (Chaostown) and then S5 drops and now I can’t even get past the loading screen.

Error 0x00001338 pops up, I have nothing overclocked, fresh windows install and all I did was update the game from Battle.net — it attempts to load shaders and crashes automatically — what gives?

I uninstalled and reinstalled and same issue… 7800x3d with the 9070xt. This is really lame honestly.

Video courtesy of NerosCinema, starts around 1:34 if the video doesn't load properly.

I consider the gym to be a holy temple (imo) where we all go to work out and improve ourselves. Naturally there's going to be looks shot across rooms, while on machines, walking by...

However I'm kind of in the boat of, do they actually find me attractive, am I supposed to approach them because they won't approach me? Or are they equally wanting to approach but nervous?

As a man it's a 50/50 thing because I could entirely misread the whole thing, but also we're the ones who approach. I guess if I had a wish is that I'd meet and date more women from the gym because that's the place I frequent to most.

Obviously we're all working on a schedule or time limit at the gym so we can't talk all the time too.

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Second time making ice cream with the ninja creami and tweaked this recipe based on what I used to make for greek yogurt (protein dirt essentially) so I added black cocoa to this and 3 oreos.

1.5 Cups of Whole Milk (or any you'd like)

45 grams of Monk Fruit

1/4 tsp Xanthum Gum

1 Scoop Whey Protein

Vanilla Extract

1 tbsp of black cocoa

3 Oreos (used regular)

Sprinkle of sea salt.

Don't have the exact breakdown macros, but probably around 30g of protein. Enjoy!

I just did a fresh install of Windows 11 running AtlasOS for debloating, and I cannot get BO7 to run properly if not launch from Battlenet at all.

It gets to loading shaders then comes up with 0x00001338 error and closes.

I haven't tweaked anything in my BIOS such as overclocking.

I downloaded MW3 (2023) and have zero issues opening it / playing it.

Is there something specifically different with this game that I'm not getting?

I was back in one of my favorite towns this past weekend for a wedding.

The experience was amazing, friendly people, amazing bridal party cooperation, shout outs during thank yous from the bride & groom but also guests telling me I did an amazing job.

Honestly, probably the best wedding I'll shoot all year (too early to say, but it feels like it)

Playing tourist, going to various cities in between (suburbs) getting mistaken for a local.

It made me realize that I wanted to keep traveling for weddings, I don't have any major travel this year and that low key bums me out. Just the idea of being in a new city feels so energizing to me.

I used to do a lot of travel from 2018-2022 and it kind of slowed down a bit, I still get excited when people ask me to come to another state. Really hoping it kicks back up again.

I was out of town for work and swung by a few garage sales, ended up finding an older 80s toy with the box.

The lady says "make me an offer" I throw out $5 and she counters with $10, and replies "Well I can get $20 for it online, but don't want to mess with shipping" and as I'm giving her cash she goes "I hope I don't see this on eBay!"

I bite my tongue and go "Oh no, keeping it for sure" as I walk away.

Here's the thing, there were no prices on the actual boxes, nothing... like, if it's gone, it's gone and out of your hair, no?