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  • Nope, not banned, chose to leave. Realized most of my anxiety and fear were due to Reddit's algorithm amping up my issues.

    Was banned from a couple of subs for promoting Lemmy though.

  • hoo boy, okay, let's break this down. Since you call her a girl I'm going to assume you're fairly new to this and I'm not talking to someone who is say, over 30 or something.

    1. You don't love her. You have a crush on her. Love is something that grows over time after already being in a relationship. Girls know this. If you tell her you love her, she's going to freak out. Real life ain't the movies, the movies have some romantic saying or gesture that says I love you. She's gonna run for the hills if you use the four letter word on her.
    2. If you do it in person, you have a solid minimum 50/50 shot. You do it on snapchat, that drops to maybe 10/90. No matter what you write, it's going to come off as creepy. Don't want to believe me? Fine by me, it's your life - but I've been there, and I've done that exact thing. It's gonna be weird, you're going to stare at your phone for 2 hours. You have no idea what she's doing when she replies, she may be with her family, she may be go-karting, and you just dropped that on her notification. It's going to be a notification that sits there, she's going to be at a movie or something, check it, and be like "wtf". Digging your own grave if you want to.
    3. Be freaking casual my man. Remember, it's a crush. Your life will be fine if she says no. There are many many other women out there. I know, you're centered completely around her, and I've been there you've probably dreamed up your perfect life. Full stop, throw that all out. You're in love with you're imagination of her, the idea of dating her. It's not real. She's not that dream girl. She's a real life human breathing woman who has her own thoughts and opinions about you. You find time, you walk up, be casual, ask her if she's heard about that new movie everyone is talking about. What does she think of it? What about that new show? Ha that's awesome. Hey, maybe sometime, would you like to go see it with me? That's it, that's all it is.
    4. Nobody fell in love without being a little brave. If you're too afraid to do it in person, you're not ready to do it. What do you think you're going to say to her in person if she does say yes? Welcome to the game friend, this is your time to be brave. You want her? She's right there, go up and ask her. We've all done it, we all know the feelings, the stomach turning, the sweats - but fact of the matter is that you have to take the leap of faith. If it's a no, it's a no. You're still in the game, it will happen, and we've all been through it - but when it's a yes it's a perfect moment. I've been rejected many times over my life, every one of them stings. But when it's a yes, well, it's a wonderful feeling. There are 2 moments in a person's life that will last an eternity. The first one is asking someone out. The second is asking them to marry you.

    There you go, that's my advice. As a guy who was probably in your shoes, who made a lot of mistakes, I give you my wisdom over the ages. From your other comments it sounds like you're going to yolo it and just word vomit something into snapchat, which I guess hey, you do you. I hope you at least think about some of this though.

  • In that case, you have options (but your post really does not convey that).

    Personally, I'd be hesitant to moving any retirement account. Touching that at all has massive tax implications, but you could casually ask them how disbursements work if you move out of country, I'm sure there is a policy for that.

    As for individual accounts, you can set up an account in another country. (I believe Canada has an account expressly for this). However as I said, tax implications. I believe up to 10k is fine, you just have to say you have an account on your taxes. Over 10k you have to report the amount on the taxes, I believe it has to do with FINRA regulations. I wouldn't put all of my money into an overseas account unless I was moving out, that just opens you up for audits. Personally, I'd think in your case it's safe to have a safety net overseas, but I'd be hesitant to start moving everything until you're ready to move.

  • This is 100% fear based and not at all what you should do in an emergency situation.

    First of all, why would you want to pull money out of your investments at all right now? Now is probably the worst time to pull out any money. Let it ride, this will pass eventually. If you touch investments at all right now you're just going to lose money. Remember that losses are only actualized once you sell.

    Second, yes you can move your funds, but there are tax implications for it. However, as other commenters said, the US is the world currency. Way more is screwed if the US was frozen. The looneys and tooneys up in the great white north would not be worth anything either.

    Stop reading the news, just turn off the TV, and try to relax a bit. Yes, the market is unstable, it may even go down, but the best thing for you to do in those downturns is to just let your money sit. Make sure you have a good savings buffer somewhere if you need it at some point, but you don't need to start buying gold or anything. We're definitely not heading towards a civil war, jesus. Us Americans are much too lazy for that.

  • Really? How do I find it? Search for wav files or something?

  • Oh my god winmx! Talk about infecting the family computer!

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  • They probably know they have to have something with a track record. I use librewolf, but if they stop maintaining it tomorrow I'll just replace it. I have elderly relatives using Zorin and they would not know how to replace it

  • Climate town is always an immediate watch for me

  • I honestly agree and usually get downvoted to hell for it. I spent $60 on Halo 3 in 2007. Today that would be close to 90. Inflation is here, and as you said we know that Halo 3 took less manpower than most modern games. I think there needs to be a price adjustment.

    Now that also means that I expect people will not buy just any game that comes out, we'll start being more picky, and I say good. True masterpieces I'm happy to shell out 100 dollars for. I'm also happy to try that with their AAAA assassin's creed games and watch sales fall. That's the market.

    People say it's greed. 90 is not greed. That's how much it costs to make games. Battlefront 2 with endless micro transactions are greed. Required dlc is greed. If its 90 bucks and I get 100 hours of entertainment from it, I'm doing pretty well.

    After all, let's remember that movies are like $16 now and you only get 2 hours of entertainment.

  • { r, g, b}, hex code, rgb encoded in some stupid format, types are just helpful. I don't know why people don't like them. 30 seconds of creating a class for your type saves you hours of debugging later

  • Modern problems require modern solutions!

  • I'm commander Shepard and I approve this community. (I have zero authority here but would love to see a ME community)

  • Jesus. Like him or not, those guys started writing raw assembly. I have a lot of respect that they could go from nothing to writing a compiler raw out of assembly

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  • Lemmy.world is federated, use any server that it federates with, as you're doing right now.

  • whoa whoa calm down I'm not rich here.

  • Agree, what a weird take that says more about this creator. If positive reviews make you angry, well that's says a lot about you more than a game. Out of all the things to be angry about...

  • I'm glad they're calling out Microsoft's bullshit with contractors. Most people don't know a massive chunk, I think even a majority of Microsoft employees are "v-", contractors. They pay them less, they get no benefits, no PTO, no health insurance, and then after 18 months they're out. Contractors usually rotate around between the big firms but Microsoft is notoriously bad.

    I say good on them for calling it out. Microsoft just wants cheap labor with no benefits. Fuck that, give contractors benefits, or stop using contractors and just hire them

  • They're phasing it out, manifest v2. Blue green testing, at some point you will be forced out as well.