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I'm just writing this to vent a little. Over the past year and a half, I have gained so much weight it's unbelievable. I've never dieted before and never weighed myself so idk what my weight was before the gain. I had to buy a scale after the gain. Rn I'm pushing 70kg and I'm 5'2 so that's big on my body.

I know the exact reasons I gained weight but am not gonna go into allat unless someone asks but, simply put, there were a lot of major life changes and lifestyle changes. Living my previous lifestyle in which I cooked all my meals at home was no longer possible and, out of necessity, I began to rely heavily on delivery food which, over an extended period of time, given the nature of delivery food, resulted in a food addiction.

I've never been addicted to food before. In fact, up until a year ago, I almost never craved junk food. Again, I never dieted, I just never wanted it. Obviously, I gained some weight after hitting puberty which is normal. But I was never fat. I'd say I was on the slimmer side but wasn't super skinny. I never had any other noticeable weight gain in my life and kind of assumed maybe I'm one of those people who can "eat whatever they want and not get fat". And that's true. I could eat whatever I want and not get fat because the things that I wanted were homemade soups, breakfast wraps and matcha. I've always had a big sweet tooth and have always had daily desserts too but, looking back, nothing extreme or exorbitant. A cookie at a cafe in the afternoon, an ice cream bar after dinner.

But now, both the food and desserts I crave have become very different in both quality and quantity. Using delivery apps regularly really rewired my brain. Now it feels normal to crave junk food every day and full massive desserts as soon as I wake up. I have massive stretch marks around my hips. The gain was so rapid so, for a while at first, they were bright red like open wounds. I'm not bothered about it as I'm not the kind of person to put myself down over something as trivial as weight gain but just saying to emphasise how serious it has been.

The main thing that makes me uncomfortable isn't to do with looks but is to do with the fact that fashion is a major passion of mine and yet now I don't fit into any of my clothes in my wardrobe that I love so much. On top of that, I feel uncomfortable by how big my breasts have gotten. I've always had small girls and never wore a bra. But now I feel the need to buy some which is just annoying to me as I like being bra free and have always been comfortable in my size. I also started breaking out a lot more which I suspect is also due to the change in diet. I also find it painful when my thighs rub together so much when I walk, especially in hot weather, because of how much friction it causes. And above ALL my biggest issue is how much money is has cost me which I don't even want to get into because it makes me cry. I've always been a frugal person and worked very hard to build some savings as a lifeline for me. I needed that lifeline badly because I have no parents and am graduating in a year. But now all those savings and more are gone. It's a hard topic for me and makes me feel physically sick when I think about how many thousands went down the shitter on food that I don't even necessarily want to be eating.

It's hard because I don't have anyone to talk to about this and the people who I do mention it to brush it off like they don't believe me when I say that I changed so much in a year. When I look in the mirror, I don't feel disgusted (as I have a good relationship with my self) but my brain just feels ... confused ??? I didn't notice how much I gained until I had gained a lot already, as it was never a habit of mine to stand in front of a full length mirror naked. It is something that I'm still processing and it's hard when it seems like other people think I'm lying about when I gained the weight. I understand they might just be brushing it off like that cause weight is a taboo subject though.

Anyhow, soon, I think I'll be able to return to the lifestyle that I used to have. The main challenge will be shaking the habits that I've built up over the past year and also dieting. It'll be good to go back to eating how I was before but, with how much I've gained and how short I am, losing the weight just with my previous diet alone probably won't be effective so l'll need to diet. I find the idea of dieting to be extremely tedious since it means weighing your food and doing a bunch of math. As a language major, numbers aren't my strength lol. But I hope someone reading this can understand my struggle and wish me luck

Old people are a mixed bag. They're either the nicest people ever or the biggest assholes ever and it feels like there's no in between. I'm glad that when I first came to Korea a year ago, most old people I met were exceptionally kind. But the longer you live here, the more you will experience the other side. It's just how the cookie crumbles.

Sometimes they aren't subtle. I remember on new years day I was the ONLY person queuing for the namsan cable car and some old dude literally walked all the way up to me just to walk up against me and physically PUSH INTO me despite not needing to and then stand RIGHT in front of me despite the fact that I'm clearly waiting. That same day, at the top, I was looking out on the view and some guy taking a picture of his adult son comes up to me just to put hands on me and PUSH ME 'out of the way' despite the fact that I was standing like 5ft away from them and even if I was hypothetically in the pic , he could've just moved like a normal person or even asked me to move.

But a lot of what I see is smaller. Like one time, while I was walking, an old guy walked in my direction. He doesn't move so I walked very clearly to one side so he could walk the other. It wasn't one of those awkward situation where you get stuck going back and forth with a stranger after you can't decide which way to go. I was walking on one side and he was walking on the other for a good few moments before he suddenly and rapidly SWERVED into me. It was so ridiculous it had to be on purpose.

Many other times I've had people (both young and old, actually) cut me off in lines or walk in front of me specifically to get through to the other side of a queue. It's like I don't exist to people sometimes. One time a girl cut in front of me like I wasn't even there (fyi this was ALSO while waiting for the namsan cable) and her boyfriend literally said to her shocked" what are you doing? There's clearly someone waiting" and took her to the back.

And today I was on the train. and a significant amount of time after doors closed some old lady makes her way from wherever she was standing to stand right in front of me. She also stood sideways instead of facing forward taking up even more space. And the train was a little bit crowded but she had plenty of space to stand further away from me. I couldn't move much and my arm kept knocking into her back and her bag kept knocking into my leg. Obviously she would be able to feel this and even kept subtly looking back as if checking me but still didn't move. I just got a strong vibe that she moved to stand in front of me on purpose. But after a while some distance was made and I started to think I'm probably just assuming the worst in people and forgot about it. Then, a minute or two after getting off the train, some lady walks under my toes. I'm mildly pissed off but more focused on where I'm going. Then she does it again and atp I'm like wtf and look at her and it's the same damn woman. She then walks under my toes for a third time. Yes, we're all walking in the same direction and yes Koreans generally seem to have awful spacial awareness. But she kept specifically swerving while walking to walk in front of my feet. Given what happened on the train, this only confirmed in my mind this was some kind of micro aggression..

Mine just broke and I literally can't find a single one! All the adaptors that come up on search support basically every plug in the world except the UK. If anyone could link me one on coupang or link a physical store on naver, I'd really appreciate it!

I've had this chromebook for a long time now. Maybe like 6 years? According to Google lens it's a Acer Chromebook Spin 311.

I've never been a fan of the thing since I got it. Anyhow it got much slower as the years went on. Even like 2 years ago, it was so slow that, when working via my mobile hotspot in public, it was sometimes take like 30 minutes for a single page to load. A year ago I reset the browser, deleted extensions and eventually did a full powerwash on it and even made a new account but it was still slow. I've continued to use it for the past year.

I'm at the stage where I'm willing to just lay it to rest and buy a new laptop. But, for some reason, it is significantly faster on guest mode. Fast enough that I would be fine keeping it. But it would be extremely inconvenient to always use guest mode.

Is there any easy fix for this? I really don't get why guest mode is faster even after a powerwash and new account. If the fix is really complicated then I'd rather buy a new device.

I really wish they would make more wattson skydives. Right now the only one I have is where she rides the Nessie inflatable. Other than that one, I haven't seen any other Wattson skydives in the BP since I started playing. I'm not sure how many she has but it can't be many, in comparison to most legends. I mean, right now Rev has a skydive in the current BP. I love Rev but bfr ain't nobody even playing him bro!! 😭✌🏼 justice for wattson

Been really busy lately so didn't have time to play much. Hopped back on pubs after a while, maybe like 2 weeks ago. But ever since then I've had honestly the worst matchmaking ever.

I seem to only get matched with people under level 50. Most of my teammates can't get more than 200 dmg and are always pushing impossible fights. I'm constantly resing my team but rarely get resed myself since me getting downed usually means the game is over. Obviously, imbalanced teams aren't uncommon when playing pubs but being paired with level 10 players every single match is diabolical (I'm 756). And the champion squad are almost always pred or master lmfao. It's almost comical.

I'm on the ap-northeast-1 server so this is pretty unusual since I'm used to being outshined by Japanese sweats lol. Why is my matchmaking so mismatched? Was there some update I missed?

Like everyone on earth, I've been playing this game lately. I've just been playing on public servers but I think it's kind of impossible to have fun on this game long term unless you're playing with friends cause everyone on pubs is soooo fuckinggg boringggg.

I feel like a big part of what made this game so likeable and what made so many people buy it is that it's honestly a pretty goofy game. It was so fun to watch content creators playing with their friends and disguising themselves in creative and hilarious ways even if it's not always discreet. In fact, the more ridiculous the hiding spot, the more fun it was.

But on pubs it seems that the only way to play the game is to stuff yourself into a corner somewhere, paint yourself black and wait either for your garunteed win or for the hunters to start shooting aimlessly until they hit you. Hiding like that was fun for maybe the first few hours of play. But it gets boring going through the same song and dance every game.

So, I figured why not just have some fun. I made my body the biggest size and tried a few funny disguises in plain site. On one map, I sat my character on a toilet and drew them taking a shit with a constipated face. On another map, there was a burger place so I dressed my character up in a macdonalds uniform and stood in front of the till. On another map, I painted a bikini and Betty Boop esque face on and sat my character by the pool. On another map, I painted my body yellow, added the derp face on and replaced a baby in one of the paintings.

In every single one of these instances, I was killed on sight. I'm talking like 0.1 seconds after being seen. Not even a full second. I mean, I'm not even trying to hide man. So I feel like its super lame to take the game so seriously that you can't even look at something for funny 1 second and maybe smile or laugh. It's obvious I'm not going anywhere, so being in such a rush to kill me is cringe imo. If it were me, I would love to see more fun stuff as a hunter.

After all those tries, I realised there was no point in trying to loosen up since somehow the game is full of sweats already. Hiding has become so sweaty that you have people glitching themselves off the maps or hiding in nooks that can't even be reached by hunters, just to not be found. And, because of that, being a hunter has become a boring and sweaty role too, so they get overexcited to kill the second they see something obvious, just to get a kill.

Maybe it's just me but I feel like the game will become stale for a lot of people if players keep taking it so seriously. I'm not saying to get yourself killed everytime for laughs but every now and then a laugh wouldn't hurt.

Does anyone have PDFs for the Korean level 4 and level 5 textbooks? I have to resit the level 5 exam in my home country but the physical books are ridiculously large and heavy (almost 5kg for the 4 books) so it's gonna be really inconvenient to include them in my flight luggage.

I've had an ingrown toenail since summer last year. It got infected when it first started. It started in one side of one toe, then two sides of one toe, then in two toes. I tried to get it treated back in London months before I was set to move to Korea. But, as any Londoner can tell you, getting any treatment via the UK health care system these days is like waiting for the second coming of Christ.

After I moved to Korea, last year, it showed signs of infection again. I went to a GP nearby and explained. He said that he could cut it out immediately. I was taken aback because even getting an appointment for a minor surgery like this is like a 6 month process in the UK. And this guy was down to do it within 5 seconds. I mean I know that it's Korea but still caught me offguard. He immediately ushered me over to the table before I could process anything and called in a nurse with a trolley of blades and pliers and other intimidating looking surgery tools. I asked him about the anaesthetic. He said he wasn't going to use any. I tried pressing him but he refused (he even said that anaesthetic "makes the pain worse"???? like what..) and just sat me down. I was visibly panicked and expressing that I don't think I can do it raw without any kind of local anaesthetic/ring block. The nurse seemed annoyed. Eventually I got up, insisted that I couldn't sit through it, apologised, grabbed my shit and left in hurry, feeling embarrassed.

The doctor told me that no doctor in Korea will give me anything for the pain. If that's true, I find that to be a little insane.. He said that, at best, maybe I will find a dermatologist willing to do it.

It's been a while since then and my toenail isn't infected or in any pain at the moment but I would like to avoid it reoccurring. I have to leave Korea at the end of July and would rather get it treated here, if possible, since UK waiting lists are egregious.

Does anyone have any experience with this? Is there a clinic/hospital/dermatologist that you would reccomend?

Planning on hanging around akihabara today and want to visit a maid cafe. I have a café in mind. But going alone would be mortifying lol. I'm 22F so if any other women of a similar age are around, maybe it'd be fun to go together lol

Does anyone know of any English speaking swimming instructors (for beginners) in Seoul? It feels like a niche service so idk if there are any

If anyone else is going tmrw (friday) and wants to hangout, lmk!

My main question is how early to arrive in order to secure a seat in the bleachers. I read that this can be different for different points in the route.