I’m not really sure where to put this, so I’m putting it here. I have this best friend(J) of six years and he is such a sweet and amazing person. But I’ve also been seeing this guy(E) for about less than a year. Every time we hang out together I feel like they’re ganging up on me.. E doesn’t really show his love in words, and tends to be kind of verbally aggressive. Which is not a problem for me since other than that, I love him, and I know how to handle him. But recently J has started acting like him when we are all hanging out.. J has always been such a sweet person and has never made me this upset. I want to tell him what’s wrong, but I’m not sure how to tell him. Any advice on how to bring it up without seeming like I’m the asshole would be helpful. I just want my best friend to be himself again, but I also don’t want to drop this guy. Is there a way I can still have both of them but go back to things being nice?

Are there still active servers for Classic-Era PvE raiding content? Doesn't matter what phase, MC/ZG/Nax. I am currently leveling a paladin, level 51 and would be interested to transfer to an active PvE or PvP server once I hit 60.
I would prefer to find an active PvE guild on NA/Ally, but if there are not active PvE guilds anymore, I would be interested in a full PvP server.
Thanks in advance for your recommendations!

Looking for some help for a conundrum I’m trying to solve…
Long story short, my sister (20F) and I (27F) share an apartment. Due to my sister being borderline abusive and narcissistic, I’ve decided to move out when our lease is up at the end of July. However, my sister wants to stay. She can’t sign the lease until she’s 21 at the start of March. (She is listed in the lease as a tenant alongside me, but isn’t a co-signer since she was 18 when we moved in.)
My mom says she will co-sign the lease at the end of June, however, and remove me from the lease when she does... I just have to sign it so we aren’t giving our official notice to vacate, which is what I’m told will be assumed if I don’t sign.
My question is: is this going to totally bone me over? My landlords are SUPER nice, but I’m afraid to ask them about this in case they tell us no and we— or rather my sister— have to vacate. My mom assured me that it’ll work, but I’m so unfamiliar with leases and legal obligations that I’m having some reservations. That, and my mom can also be slightly manipulative because she very often sides with my sister. My dad is 100% against me signing, but if I don’t then I cannot describe to you the hellfire that it will bring down on me, and despite all I don’t want my sister to be homeless.
Please help if you can.

Need suggestions for long-term game for my friends and I.
Hello all, this is somewhat of a long post but trying to solve a dilemma in my closest group of friends (3 guys with families and kids). I wanted to ask for recommendations for a cooperative game that fits the following criteria:

1. We can individually progress at our own pace.
   
2. We can share success with each other, i.e. the ability to share gear, resources, etc.
   
3. Require us to work cooperatively to accomplish massive in-game goals.
   

Also, specific quirks of the 3 individuals involved:
Person 1 - doesn’t like vertical progression
Person 2 - doesn’t like being forcibly progressed and likes to earn things generally on his own right, but is ok with sharing resources
Person 3 - somewhat inconsistent with time available and will typically disappear the minute any sort of family situation pops up.
We’re aware of big name titles, like WoW, New World, FFXIV, Baldurs Gate, Diablo IV and even more niche ones like Star Citizen, Mortal Online II, and Albion Online. Just want to see what else is out there that people have found work really well for a group of friends that have limited time for gaming together and want to fill that space with meaningful experiences. Thanks all!

Are there any games similar to sections like the RPD in RE2 or Castle Dimitrescu in RE8? I’ve recently been through RE8 and was left reminded and craving my favorite part of the games for me, big building solving puzzles and backtracking to progress further through while under threat. I’m not sure if this type of game has a name but I want to play more if it’s out there.

Both these dumpling dishes have Iranian names. Does anyone know their origin stories, how far they go back and if they are Turkic/Chinese influence?
Here is what the Oxford Companion to food says on joshpara.

an ancient form of Iranian ravioli (or, to be exact, capelletti, meaning ‘little hats’) made by folding a square of paste over a filling to create a triangle and then wrapping the two acute angles toward each other. This creates a compact shape which is sometimes likened to the hat worn by 18th-century grenadiers because of its tallness, sometimes to an ear because of its impression of convoluted folding.It is quite an ancient product.
The Arabs adopted it with the pronunciation shushbarak or (through a folk etymology connecting it with shish, ‘skewer’, and börek) shishbarak, which indicates that it was borrowed before the 10th century when it was pronounced joshparag. The first part of the name, josh, means ‘to boil’, but the second element is obscure, possibly meaning ‘bit’. Iranians have felt the absence of a clearly analysable meaning, and the word is now pronounced gosh-e-barreh in Iran, literally ‘lamb’s ear’. The Turkish nations who have borrowed joshpara have done even more violence to the word: Azerbaijani düshbara, Uzbeki chuchwara, Uighur chöchürä.
The usual Iranian or Arab version is filled with lamb and onions and cooked in yoghurt. In C. Asia it is usually served without its cooking liquid and may have such fillings as meat, wild greens, dried tomatoes, mashed potato, or eggs and onions.
Medieval Iranian merchants trading flour for furs in W. Siberia taught it to Finno-Ugrian peoples such as the Udmurt, who coined their own name for it: pelnan, literally ‘ear-bread’, because of its shape. In the 17th century the advancing Russians adopted pelnan, eventually Russianizing the pronunciation to pel’meni, and pel’meni in chicken broth is now a classic Russian dish.

Also found this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DpN-S7pZzw

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Need suggestions for long-term game for my friends and I.
Hello all, this is somewhat of a long post but trying to solve a dilemma in my closest group of friends (3 guys with families and kids). I wanted to ask for recommendations for a cooperative game that fits the following criteria:

1. We can individually progress at our own pace.
   
2. We can share success with each other, i.e. the ability to share gear, resources, etc.
   
3. Require us to work cooperatively to accomplish massive in-game goals.
   

Also, specific quirks of the 3 individuals involved:
Person 1 - doesn’t like vertical progression
Person 2 - doesn’t like being forcibly progressed and likes to earn things generally on his own right, but is ok with sharing resources
Person 3 - somewhat inconsistent with time available and will typically disappear the minute any sort of family situation pops up.
We’re aware of big name titles, like WoW, New World, FFXIV, Baldurs Gate, Diablo IV and even more niche ones like Star Citizen, Mortal Online II, and Albion Online. Just want to see what else is out there that people have found work really well for a group of friends that have limited time for gaming together and want to fill that space with meaningful experiences. Thanks all!

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Hello hello welcome to my post!! So to start I’m 18 years old. I’m from the U.S., CST time!
To get to know me a bit!! I love love music! Any kind like techno, dubstep, rock, indie, alt, pop, literally anything mostly! Music makes me feel a wide range of emotions and I love it. Big foodie, love sweets a lot. I love drawing, writing, and poetry! I actually write poetry and I don’t write as often because it’s kind of a coping skill but sometimes I will write when I’m in deep thought also. Gaming, love all kinds of games! Roblox, MC, Visual Novels, Borderlands, Sims, horror games etc. I love nature, and animals, I’m honestly fascinated by life which I couldn’t say a few years ago but I can now. Like watching cars drive, like watching people interact with each other, and seeing people being kind to one another is something I love to see. Cooking and baking as well! I love to cook and bake, even though I can’t as much now but when I can I love doing it. I love nighttime! I also love deep conversations because I find it to be a great way to connect with people. Watching TV Shows, Movies, YouTube videos, podcasts, and anime I’m starting soon! I need to figure out where I want to start haha I also love musical instruments, play clarinet every now and then but have been for 9 years. It’s something I love and enjoy when I do play even if it’s not often. Being around family and talking to friends, something I value a lot!!
Deep conversations, I feel like it’s a good way to connect with someone.
Self care, I’ve been doing a lot of things to take care of myself like getting my self something I really wanted and just learning about myself and growing and have healed a lot!!
All things horror, mystery, thriller, psychological love it!!
Mental health is very important to me too, and I think it’s an important thing to discuss and check in on how others are doing as well.
So that’s a bit about me!! If you are interested, feel free to message me!! Have a good day or I hope you do even if you just read this!! :)

Disclaimer: I’m not a pro AI bot, I haven’t completely formed my opinion on AI art yet. I’m a painter and consider myself a surrealist. I got into a debate with a pro AI art friend and he said something that I wanted to hear other people’s opinions on.
He said for surrealism specifically, if the goal is to use art to access the unconscious and illustrate dreams, wouldn’t AI be more efficient than, say, painting or collages? His point is that AI art takes less time and one could insert word prompts relating to their dream (e.g. man standing outside window with a clock as head) and receive images that illustrate that dream perfectly, wouldn’t that be more sufficient than painting that dream?
Basically his argument is that if the goal of surrealism is to make art depicting scenes of the dream world and the unconscious, then does it matter what the process or medium of getting to the result is? In other words, why not use AI if it creates images of the unconscious more efficiently?
What’s are your thoughts?

Is there a collection of information for time of day correspondences (e.g. King Paimon being referred to as a day demon, Lord Lucifer dawn/dusk, Etc)? Right now I’m trying to fact check what time of day Archduke Gremory is associated with but I’d really like a better resource than a singular answer; it’s not the kind of thing I like to guess on and posting the same question for each individual Infernal that shows up for me would be tedious, but I barely find information on time associations whatsoever (including day of week etc)

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NLC Rank	Team	W	L	GB (E#)	WC Rank	WC GB (E#)
1	Milwaukee Brewers	28	25	- (-)	-	- (-)
2	Pittsburgh Pirates	26	27	2.0 (108)	5	1.5 (108)
3	Cincinnati Reds	24	29	4.0 (106)	7	3.5 (106)
4	Chicago Cubs	23	30	5.0 (105)	10	4.5 (105)
5	St. Louis Cardinals	24	32	5.5 (103)	11	5.0 (103)

	Probable Pitcher (Season Stats)	Report
Pirates	Johan Oviedo (3-4, 4.70 ERA, 53.2 IP)	No report posted.
Giants	John Brebbia (2-0, 3.68 ERA, 22.0 IP)	No report posted.

Pirates Lineup vs. Brebbia	AVG	OPS	AB	HR	RBI	K
1 McCutchen - RF	.375	.819	8	0	1	1
2 Marcano - SS	-	-	-	-	-	-
3 Joe - 1B	.000	.000	3	0	0	1
4 Suwinski - LF	-	-	-	-	-	-
5 Hayes - 3B	.000	.000	2	0	0	2
6 Bae - CF	-	-	-	-	-	-
7 Castro, R - 2B	.000	.000	1	0	0	0
8 Delay - C	.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
9 Palacios, J - DH	-	-	-	-	-	-
10 Oviedo - P	-	-	-	-	-	-

Giants Lineup vs. Oviedo	AVG	OPS	AB	HR	RBI	K
1 Wade Jr. - 1B	.000	.667	1	0	0	0
2 Yastrzemski - CF	.500	1.667	2	0	1	0
3 Davis, J - 3B	-	-	-	-	-	-
4 Conforto - RF	.000	.000	2	0	0	0
5 Haniger - LF	-	-	-	-	-	-
6 Sabol - DH	-	-	-	-	-	-
7 Schmitt - 2B	-	-	-	-	-	-
8 Bailey - C	-	-	-	-	-	-
9 Crawford, Bra - SS	.000	.000	2	0	0	1
10 Brebbia - P	-	-	-	-	-	-

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I've been fighting over whether I present more qualities of the eight or the one over the past while. Figured I'd fill out this questionnaire I saw circulating over the past few weeks for a post like this. You don't have to read through all of this since I already know that it's absurdly long.
• What’s your biggest fear?
Loss of autonomy is probably the single biggest thing. I value my freedom and independence immensely. The ability to live my life as I choose to and make my own mistakes, no matter how good or bad things turn out, is critical to me.
• What’s your biggest desire?
Ideally, in thirty years, I'll be in a secure enough position where working is a choice for me. I'd love to become financially independent through the combination of a high-paying career and long-term investments over the next several decades. To a point where I could simply retire whenever I choose to, and be free to live in any way that I desire.
• What are you ‘’the best’’ at?
"Organization" is the word that comes to mind. A good example being a particularly bad day at work a few weeks back where the owners were out of town, the assistant manager was on vacation, and the only other top level person had to leave due to a doctor's appointment. It was one of the busiest days of the year, and we knew it, and circumstances made it even more chaotic than it would've already been with the massive workload we had ahead of us.
Taking the initiative, I pulled people from several different departments - including both other managers who had many more years of experience and people I'd never spoken to before, and got them all assigned to positions to handle elements of the work without fear or apprehension. Turning what would've been a disastrous eight hours of work into less than four. When corresponding with the only person directly connected to the owners after we were done, I explained what I'd done and how I'd organized everyone, and they asked "You're not done already are you?", and then proceeded to look over all the completed work and just said "Holy shit." when they realized how quickly I'd managed to get everyone to finish the workload and get it done well.
For reference, with the cognitive functions, I'm not sure if I have high levels of Te or Se. On the one hand I like work to be organized and efficient, and have been told I have an authoritative presence, but I'm also exceptionally adaptable to changing circumstances and also get a genuine thrill and adrenaline rush from taking control and having others follow my lead.
• How do you see yourself right now?
Getting my first steps out into my career field. Enjoying my life at the moment. Well on my way to my long-term goals at this point, just need to stay the course since I've historically had issues focusing on any particular interest for long periods of time in favor of whatever is exciting or otherwise interesting to me at any given time.
• How do you see yourself 5 years from now?
Making over a 100k, getting started at a large company after making a leap up in the next few years. I have no doubts about my ability to do this, no matter what it takes. I'll note that a particular quote I've become fond of in recent years is the following:
"Whether you believe that you can, or that you can't, you are right."
• How do you express yourself?
I'd say this is done in two ways, mainly through visual means. The first is with my style. I've always been conscious of the clothing I wear and the like. I believe that I look good from a physical standpoint, to the point of sometimes looking in the mirror and feeling - "Damn, I look good today." - but I will make sure that my skin is clear and that my hair co-operates with me. I like to look composed and professional at work because it feels good to me, where my appearance reflects what I feel on the inside.
The other is through writing. I've been told I have a 'visceral' style, and I do get some relief from expressing a lot of my feelings into writing (especially anger), whether it's shared with others or kept to myself. I also would love to pick up a martial art as an avenue to vent my anger in a healthy way, and also to test myself since I used to love fighting with my friends for fun to see who was the strongest. (Other things that help me when I need to decompress are cooking/eating, exercise itself, and sex).
• How do you feel about those near you (family, friends)?
I don't, generally. While I care for others, I'm consciously egocentric. I pretty much never think about anyone else if we're not in the same room together, no matter how close they might be, when considering my future or even my actions in the present. They aren't in my thoughts at all. I'm consciously egocentric, and honestly I'm kind of proud to be so.
A good example here is that, when I went to college, I pretty much never contacted or called my family and didn't care to. Not that I was ungrateful for their support, but I had no interest in maintaining any sort of relationship with them. No bad feelings, just an absence of interest or feeling of obligation to them.
• How do you feel about strangers?
Again, I don't really think about anyone other than myself 99% of the time and refuse to have it any other way. However, this doesn't mean I'm rude to others. I'm always polite with most people and honestly surprised myself at how well I handle customer service issues because of how uninterested I am in most people.
Capping off my thoughts about other people - I never plan on having children, or even a long-term romantic partner. The most I'd ever want is a few friends with benefits. Otherwise I'm generally happier when I'm alone. I find the concept of loyalty, of having an obligation to anyone other than one's self, to be funny.
Worth noting that a trigger for my anger is when other people are hurt by the actions of others. When people - whether through stupidity, willful ignorance, or uncompromising idealism - cause harm to others for no good reason. The expected consequences of acting out on that anger, namely losing my job and/or going to prison, are the only things that stop me. In that regard, I believe that people are free to pursue their own lives and their own individual ideas of happiness in whatever way they see fit, so long as they do not cause harm to others.
• How do you view change/uncertainty?
Depends upon the circumstances. On an average day, I might be irritated by an unexpected change - expressing it in some way usually, but quickly adapting and deciding what to do about it.
If I'm on my own time, chances are if someone tells me to do something and I don't want to, I'll say - "I don't think I will" or "No, I'd rather not."- I also might snap at people with a "What?" that tells them immediately that I'm not happy about the interruption.
At work, I'll process the situation, make sure everyone is on the same page, and get to work. If I'm actually angry about it, I'll hold it in until I get to my vehicle in the parking lot and yell about it to myself to let out that frustration.
In the case of the latter - I actually find most challenges or unexpected hurdles funny. With that work example from a few weeks back mentioned above, while everyone else was irritated or talking about how bad it was going to be, I found the whole situation hilarious and laughed about it before getting everyone into their proper places and moving forward.
I'll also note the fact that I frequently flip between new interests. I can become deeply engrossed in something new for a day to a week or so before moving onto something else once the feeling dies down. Even in my day-to-day life, you can see this with me leaping from focus to focus, task to task, completely forgetting about what I was just doing to focus on whatever is in front of me (or on my mind) at the moment. In other words, I'm essentially driven to pursue whatever I find interesting, exciting, and/or engaging to me on any given day. One of the few optimistic things I have to say about life is that I'm always looking forward to all the new things that the future will bring, and I'll always have plenty of other things to return to to keep me occupied during down periods where nothing new is grabbing my attention.
• How do you make decisions?
In my day-to-day life, I'm mostly motivated by my mood, energy, and interests for the day. While I possess long-term goals, I tend to need to remind myself of them when making decisions (e.g. I try to save about 1k a month and need to remind myself not to spend too much on things like food or clothing that I'd like to have. To that end, there's often a conflict between the things I really want and the reality of how much they'd cost me, always having to reason with myself that it's not worth it.
Long-term, I only think about material concerns for the most part. What kind of house do I want, what vehicle, do I want to own rental properties, how much money will I need to be independently wealthy, and so on. I don't see my lifestyle changing much overall (e.g. internet for entertainment, working out regularly, listening to a lot of music, and so on) since I don't see the point in a lot of luxury items or expensive things beyond personal gratification.
• How do you solve logical problems?
I tend to be pretty decent at them. Growing up I'd question why things were the way that they were, and I'd like to think I'm pretty decent at noticing when someone's arguments and/or positions on an issue aren't lining up.
I tend to believe that everything in life has a logical and grounded explanation, believing that there's nothing else that exists beyond the physical world as we know it - governed by the laws of physics.
• How do you deal with your emotions?
Kind of a weird question. I tend to go through them pretty quickly. I will remember feelings long into the future, especially if someone pisses me off, but in the moment they tend to pass as I focus on other things that are more important.
With the four temperaments, I'd be inclined to say that I'm either Choleric-Melancholic or Choleric [Dominant].
• What drives you in life? What do you look for?
I'd say that my search for true independence from the world is probably the defining motivation in my life.
To that end, my dedication to work is a means to an end. The excitement I get from it only comes with knowing that I'm taking charge and making myself stand out so that I can make more money and gain more leverage over my employers. Wanting to eventually secure a high-paying position with a substantial annual bonus at a major corporation one day, keep at it for a couple decades, and then withdraw from the world entirely as I make continuous passive income from long-term high-yield dividend investments.
By my estimates, I should be able to have around $4,000,000 by the age of fifty, and be reaping an annual dividend income of about $65k or more from those investments. With that value only going up year-over-year based on the average returns for the past forty years for the index funds I follow. Making it so I always match, or exceed, the level of inflation and never have too little given my fairly minimalist lifestyle.
• What do you hope to accomplish in your life?
Accomplishment is relatively irrelevant to me. I don't really give a damn about prestige or anything like that. With work and the like, my motivations are pretty much entirely internal, as described in the previous response. All that I really care about is becoming financially independent so that I'm free to do whatever I want without worrying about money ever again.
• What do you hope to avoid doing or being?
One thing I'll admit is that I often feel obligated to do certain things under the right circumstances. Going back to that example about my organization skills from a few weeks back, I felt obligated to thank everyone for their help as I'd have felt guilty if I didn't make sure that they knew that their contributions were appreciated. In that regard, I don't want to be seen as someone who takes the help of others for granted, or who takes advantage of people's kindness.
I also never want to be weak. For me that comes with always standing my ground on what I want, refusing to give into the wants of others if they conflict with my own, and not really giving a damn about what people think about me as a person as long as they don't get in the way of my goals. This also applies with me liking what I like, and not letting the opinions of others influence me on the matter - as I said to someone recently here on Reddit - "I'm not stating my opinion as objective fact. It's simply my preference on the matter. You don't have to agree with me, and I'm not going to change my mind."
• How do you want others to see you? How do you see yourself?
A Dominant Force that is not to be taken lightly, more or less. I revel and excel in leadership positions, and am the one who takes charge of a bad situation to get people calmed down and organized.
In my own mind, while I do know that I'm just one person in reality, in truth I believe that I can accomplish anything that I set my mind to and that there's not a goddamn thing anyone can do about it to stop me. I will get what I want if I want it badly enough, and I will use whatever means are necessary to do so.
This is bolstered not only by my huge ego and self-confidence bordering on arrogance, but also the fact that anytime I commit to something people are blown away by how quick I get things done. As some of my more intimate partners described over the years - I can be "overwhelming" and "dangerous" when motivated because I will keep pushing until I've gotten exactly what I wanted.
• Describe how you experience each of: a) Anger; b) Shame; c) Anxiety
a) - Anger has been a prevelent emotion in my life since I was a kid. I physically fought with my parents to avoid going to school as a young kid, became angry at the world as a teenager when I began learning about all the terrible things that had happened throughout history, and to this day I still struggle with an intense gut reaction to tear into people who do stupid or willfully ignorant things to the detriment of other people. I've internally described this as feeling like a caged animal sometimes, trapped by the laws and expectations of modern society. In particular difficult situations, I can feel like I'm about to explode if I don't walk away. I also can use it productively as well. I remember getting frustrated with my family and people at my first job when they'd incessantly complain about something that had an easy fix, but they'd never do it. It'd get to a point where I used to tell them - "If it bothers you so much, then do something about it."
b) - I feel almost no shame, really. More times than I can remember, people have told me that their first impression of me is that I'm confident. Even if people called me out on some of my behavior, my gut response is "Yeah, and?" - I'm proud of who I am, and wouldn't want to be anyone else. To this end, it's also worth noting that despite my care for others, I would never put the wants or needs of others before my own. This is also why people tend to follow my lead on things, because I've been told I'm a natural leader and that I have a 'strong personality' more times than I care to count - and I'm all too glad to embrace that and run with it. This is also a key reason why my strongest trait on the Big Five test is "Egocentric" at 88%
c) - I pretty much never experience anxiety in my day-to-day life beyond concerns for making sure my work is done properly and that I have enough time to do the things I want to do in the day. I've only had two dark periods in my life where I was overcome with anxiety. That is to say when my normally confident, strong, and authoritative personality gives way to feeling hopeless and stuck.
There is also that feeling of guilt if I don't act in a way that I feel that I should on the inside, and also feeling stupid for making simple mistakes.
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It's important to note everything about the confidence and egotism here is almost entirely internal. While it leaks through publicly in the fact that I tend to smirk more than I smile, and the fact that people regularly tell me how much of a presence I have and how confident I seem to be, I'm normally pretty quiet and unexpressive. I'm known for being pretty serious and I pretty much never joke with people i.e. I feel awkward trying to joke with others, even through text, and the most you'll get out of me is an observation that I find funny or a bit of sarcasm. This serious nature is largely why people tell me I have a very intense presence about me when motivated, and why I've been told my writing is 'visceral'.
As a side note - I am certain that I'm not any of the following types:

• 9 - As I have no guilt or shame related to anger or asserting myself. While I will force myself to walk away from doing something I might regret if sufficiently angered, I will still make my feelings known either through a glare or through a curt response.
• 2 - As I'd never put the needs of others before my own, and don't believe I have any obligations to anyone other than myself. Historically, this is easily the type I score the lowest on.
• 3 - As it's impossible for me to try to be someone that I'm not; I have to be authentic to myself and feel completly wrong if I try. Accomplishment and social status are also fairly inconsequential to me for the most part. I like having leverage that I can use to my advantage, but couldn't give less of a fuck if you don't like me.
• 4 - As I don't need to feel unique and I don't feel down that often.

Type Eight appeals to me the most, but I feel like I lack the sense of vulnerability although I can see it more after writing out that part about not wanting to be weak or dependent. As well as the fact I like to use leverage to put myself in a strong position to get what I want out of a negotiation. Though I lack the heavy extroversion associated with the eight. Being more socially introverted, albeit being considered charismatic when actually engaging with other people for any particular purpose. I also have a more laid back and relaxed attitude generally rather than being aggressive all the time. The way I've put this before is being "casually confident". As well as the fact that I would prefer 90% of my time in bed, relaxing and just watching videos, listening to music, enjoying some peace and quiet after a long day despite the genuine excitement and thrills I get from taking charge of others. I could simply be a more relaxed e-Dom, but I'm not too sure about that.
Type One grabs me because of the reactive nature of becoming angry when others cause harm to others through stupidity or willful ignorance. As well as that feeling of guilt for making stupid mistakes (i.e. wanting things to be done properly and in an organized manner) and with me being a loner most of the time. Though I lack the concern for being "right" and simply pursue whatever I want to without much concern.
In essence, it boils down to a conflict between my internally self-indulgent nature, combined with my ego and immense self-confidence that I truly can do whatever the fuck I want to in this life and no one can stop me, contrasted with being outwardly stoic and quiet, concerned with persevering through all things and making sure things are done properly. As well as primarily being concerned with simply relaxing and being able to do whatever I want in my free time without interference or interruption.
Also would be interested to hear your thoughts on my MBTI type as well.
Worth noting that I know for a fact that I'm social-blind on the instincts, just unsure if I'm sp/sx or sx/sp.

Will keep this direct to the point. Seryoso naman sana. Im done w games and parties and temporary flings.
About me: already working (night shifter). pretty and cute (sabi ng exes and friends lol). not that chubby but not that slim either. loves anime/films/series but more into suspense/thriller. plays steam games but mostly survival/escape/horror. listens to diff kinds of music i.e. jpop, kpop, indie, etc. loves match, creamcheese / anything cheesy/creamy.
About you: easy on the eyes, M/F, and just dont be rude. hindi rin sana maarte. mabait at matino kausap. also must be working already, preferrable gy shift so same ikot ng oras natin therefore we can interact or talk more.
That's it. I only talk to one person at a time and if ganon ka rin, much better. Message me here if you're down, haha.
EDIT: Im from Central QC. Yes Im Bi and NO, Im not down for fw b. We can be friends tho if you're looking for one.

Need suggestions for long-term game for my friends and I.
Hello all, this is somewhat of a long post but trying to solve a dilemma in my closest group of friends (3 guys with families and kids). I wanted to ask for recommendations for a cooperative game that fits the following criteria:

1. We can individually progress at our own pace.
   
2. We can share success with each other, i.e. the ability to share gear, resources, etc.
   
3. Require us to work cooperatively to accomplish massive in-game goals.
   

Also, specific quirks of the 3 individuals involved:
Person 1 - doesn’t like vertical progression
Person 2 - doesn’t like being forcibly progressed and likes to earn things generally on his own right, but is ok with sharing resources
Person 3 - somewhat inconsistent with time available and will typically disappear the minute any sort of family situation pops up.
We’re aware of big name titles, like WoW, New World, FFXIV, Baldurs Gate, Diablo IV and even more niche ones like Star Citizen, Mortal Online II, and Albion Online. Just want to see what else is out there that people have found work really well for a group of friends that have limited time for gaming together and want to fill that space with meaningful experiences. Thanks all!