West wichita minor care clinic

Hi, I own a 2012 Honda Civic LX coupe with 193,000 miles and I am the second owner. I’ve recently found another car i’m interested in for $8k so I was considering trading-in or privately selling my car for the new one. My car is completely paid off, in great condition (nothing wrong except some paint chips around the bumpers and some white spots on engine parts due to weathering from relocation of the car) I take amazing care of it by handwashing, polishing, and waxing it. Interior has no stains or anything of the sort. New alternator put in, new $800 tires on it, and admittedly some pretty rusted rims but lightly scratched hubcaps. Car runs absolutely perfectly. Would it be realistic to expect to either trade-in or privately sell the car for $8k?
Timing belt has not been replaced while ive owned it, and the previous owner got into a minor accident which caused the paint chips. I got a color matched paint pen from the local honda dealership to fix most of the paint chips.
If images would help, I can send in DM

It's been almost a year since I started playing through the Trails series, and I just beat Cold Steel 2! I basically binged through it in the past two weeks--the weather has been too hot to go outside, or so my excuse has been. I still have more to finish in Erebonia, but after two games I thought I'd get my thoughts out in text on both Cold Steel itself and how it relates to the rest of the games altogether. Warning, word-vomit ahead!
Crafts!
Crafts have always been around throughout the series, and there are usually a few stand out entries each game like Zin's Thunder God Kick, Elie's Holy Bullet in Zero, Lloyd's Raging Spin in Azure, and so on. Arts have definitely dominated though. However, never have there been so many good crafts across all the characters. I swear every single member on Class 7 had at least one really good craft, and I loved that. Even in the second game where accuracy for melee definitely took a hit, they were still extremely strong.
I still had characters I used mostly as mages like Emma, but even with her I would use her magic reflect craft frequently. Alisa's Heavenly Gift was a mainstay in my team for the entirety of Cold Steel 2. Fie's Sweep and Scud Ripper were incredible for going around and killing mobs, and her damage late Cold Steel 2 was so good I used her for most of the bosses as well. Jusis was basically used as a Noble Command bot because holy hell that is a lot of buffs. And that's not even talking about how good Rean's True Arc Slash, Gale EX and Flame Dragon were. Definitely hope this is the case for all future games as not having Arts be your only true option is incredibly fun.
Favorite Characters!
While overall I would say my attachment to Class 7 has been noticeably weaker after two games than with the Sky cast or the SSS, I do like some of the characters quite a lot. Fie has been my outstanding favorite in Cold Steel--her backstory is interesting, her characterization is both cute and funny, and she is strong and effective both in gameplay and story. She reminds me a lot of Tio with her generally deadpan expression and humor, and Tio is my one of my favorite characters so... I may be biased.
I feel Rean has been a pretty interesting main character too. Maybe not so much as Estelle, but at least moreso than Lloyd (no matter how much I love my boy). I do feel like they took some traits from Lloyd (speeches, denseness) and pasted them right over to Rean, but I guess that is just the shonen protagonist curse.
Apart from them, I've liked the development they gave Emma. I think they kept everything hidden/vague maybe a bit too long (I think they had the "Aren't you going to ask me about the weird witchy thing that just happened?" scene at least 3 times lol), but I appreciate her quite a lot. Alisa has not had too much plot relevance, which is unfortunate because I actually like her quite a lot. I think the romance between her and Rean is pretty cute, especially after the scene in Nord in CS1. I like how caring she is not just towards the protagonist, but towards all the other characters as well. She's a good big sister type haha.
Sara has been pretty decent, although I felt like she kept her distance from Class 7 somewhat in the second game which is a bit sad. I am happy to see her returning to the Bracer life though, and her backstory was cool to have confirmed. Jusis has been pretty good too--a bit disappointed in the long periods between when he has plot relevance, but I suppose that it just how it is sometimes. Millium is both an annoying gremlin and also my adorable child, and her backstory and characterization in terms of her empathy has been good. I cried as soon as I saw her cry for the first time in the epilogue haha.
I feel like Elliot was a fine character but I never got particularly invested in him. Same thing for Gaius and Machias. Laura is one character who I didn't use much of, but I like her overall and I feel like her character could definitely go somewhere interesting--especially with her ties to Legram and now her somewhat oblivious rivalry with Duvalie (which I love).
Returning characters!
I know he shows up at the very beginning, but I thought it was just going to be a cameo, so I got SO excited in Cold Steel 1 the SECOND I heard the lute being played by our favorite traveling bard. Disclaimer, he is probably my second or third favorite character so I may be biased, but every time this man was on screen brought me so much joy. I probably had a similar reaction in Azure when you meet Klaudia and The Wind from Liberl plays (I legitimately started crying lmao). I liked how they kept it mostly about Class 7 for both games though. Seeing Bleublanc and Duvalie before their actual introduction in the story was super fun too!
When I got to the divertissement and I heard Lloyd narrating, and then we SEE Crossbell and Lloyd/Rixia in proper 3d I about jumped out of my seat. My only regret is I didn't get to see my girl Tio! The dungeon felt a bit filler-y, but man, just getting to see the Crossbell cast again had me so excited, and the boss fight at the end surprised me and made me really interested for the next CS game too. Also... glad we got in a barrier speech from Lloyd right at the end lmao.
The Quartz System
I have a love-hate relationship with the new system. I would say on the whole I actually prefer the old system with the elemental values--I never found it particularly difficult to understand and I enjoyed optimizing it and having a large variety of arts options. I do think Master Quartz tend to help with that but it is still noticeable. That said, my LORD cold steel really steps it up for melee orbment setups which I appreciate so much, especially with how much crafts improved. It has some really good quartz like the different status-inflicting quartz, Impede being super useful, "Breaker" quartz, as well as really strong melee options like Domination, Carnage, or Wrath. Not directly related, but I also really liked the addition of Zero Arts turns--I loved equipping Chrono Burst on my melee character and occasionally getting the free double melee turns haha.
I also think the variety of Master Quartz is really good at this point--I loved using both Aries and Criminal on Emma and Alisa respectively. Aries let me absolutely spam Maelstrom, especially after getting water bell, basically for free. Criminal was great on Alisa for turns between using Heavenly Gift to maximize her damage with her lack of EP regen. Both Raven and Vermillion in CS2 were really good on Rean as well. Plus there are the dozen other great options--definitely one of my favorite features they have added.
The Plot Pacing and Stakes
Honestly my biggest complaint with the new arc. Cold Steel 1 had some weird stakes at the end of the game. While Sky FC had you going underneath the castle to save the country from Richard, and Zero had you making a last stand against the drugged-up CGF soldiers to stop them breaking into the IBC, CS1 has you going through the Old Schoolhouse at the end of the game because if they don't take care of it they... won't be able to have a school festival because the old schoolhouse is blue? I know it's so you get Valimar, but compared to the other games the stakes in that moment really felt like a letdown. Thankfully, the very end hits--Crow does his thing and Trista gets invaded, Rean gets launched off, and now you're excited for the next game. It kind of had me expecting a Fire Emblem: Three Houses deal for the second game.
Cold Steel 2 has you going around to collect your team again in Act 1, and then retaking the towns in Act 2. I think Act 1 was mostly fine--a bit repetitive maybe, and it doesn't have the benefit the first game had of these places being new to keep the repetitive structure fresh. Act 2 I really started to feel the burnout with the liberating towns cycle and the spirit shrines. The recapturing of Trista and the academy was an idea that had me really excited, but after the one mech battle the only people there to fight you are... 8 nobles from the academy, 6 of which were students? Which wasn't only an easy fight, but also... there were only two duels! It felt way too easy, which really felt like a letdown.
The finale itself was really good overall--the Infernal Castle was awesome. As Millium put it, it really felt like a final dungeon. It still felt a bit weird how Vita set up this whole duel, Crow lost, and then she didn't explain why the duel happened, but I am guessing that is less of a problem with the stakes and more something that will be explained in a future game. (Side note: I suspected the witches were destined to repeat a cycle of the two Chevalier's fighting and Vita left because she wanted to break that cycle, but that doesn't seem to be the case so... we will see.) I feel like the game itself should've ended after the divertissement and maybe another cutscene, but the epilogue went on WAY too long. I ended up blazing through the dungeon as fast as I could and got to the boss, and the boss literally says "there is no point to beating me" which made me laugh given the issues I have had with the stakes, but with all the classmates going their separate ways it felt like one last victory lap to show how much they had grown--both in their own capacity and with each other, so it got a pass from me haha. Still WAY too long though.
"Time for me to stop holding back."
Seriously, how many times did this happen? Did we actually beat anyone in CS2? One thing I've enjoyed about the Trails series so far is very few people are so ridiculously strong they can't be overcome with teamwork. There are some exceptions I have been fine with, like facing Arianrhod in Azure--it makes sense. Honestly, a number of them in CS2 made sense but the frequency of it was somewhat infuriating. Minor complaint, especially since I know we have two games to go, but still.
Lack of Character Development
I feel like, maybe besides Rean and a select few characters (Fie, Emma, maybe Jusis and Sara a bit?), there was not much character development in CS2 which was a let down. Plot definitely took precedence, but I felt that was somewhat repetitive and mediocre which is a shame haha.
Friendly, Bespeckled Academic-types
Professor Alba was obvious, I caught that one practically from when we first saw him. Joachim I didn't suspect because I thought "there's no way they could do it again!", and barely figured it out just before they actually revealed it. I didn't suspect Big Bear Grimwood because he was so chill and SURELY they wouldn't do the glasses thing again. Little did I know.
The SECOND, and I mean the SECOND I saw Instructor Thomas, I had my eye on him. And his last name is Lysander? LYSANDER? Could you come up with a more villainous sounding last name? And he's always smiling! Like come on. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. If you're going to fool me a third time, EXTRA shame on me. I wasn't having it. I was convinced it was him.
...Do I at least get half points?
FINAL THOUGHTS
Honestly, while CS2 had some really cool moments (especially right at the end, like the Ironblood reveal and the Osborne reveal), this was probably my least favorite Trails game so far. CS1 had its own problems but I feel it ended with a decent setup, but CS2 bungled it a little bit IMO. It's still a really good game, but just the weakest of the Trails games I've played. I'm also not nearly as attached to Class 7 after two games as I was the majority of the Sky cast/the SSS. That said, there are two more games to play so maybe that will change! Plus, it sounds like we are going to see the Crossbell cast next game, which I am EXTREMELY excited for. I will probably cry tears of joy when I see Tio in 3D. I'm interested to see where the plot with Rean goes after this point, what the deal with Vita and Ouroboros is, and what Osborne's goal is, what the HELL is Thomas up to and where the hell the supposed TWO Sept-Terrions of Erebonia?? All in all, lots more to look forwards to!

I hope this belongs in this sub, but if not, please direct me to the proper place, thanks <3
I am a minor, and I’ve been trapped in an abusive situation for my entire life. At least, I believe it’s abusive, or at the very least toxic.
The abuse isn’t physical, but more verbal/emotional/psychological. A big portion of it is that my father is extremely concerned about the safety of our family (mother, brother, and I). Prior to the pandemic (middle school age and younger), I was rarely allowed to hang out with friends outside of school. In these cases (less than 5), my father either had to be present for the entire time, or I had to be in a public place (like a library) with my older brother present for the entire time. This was to avoid myself potentially being kidnapped or assaulted at another person’s house. (I am female) It didn’t matter that most of my friends were girls; my father was worried that their uncles would show up without advance notice, or that their brothers would assault me.
To this day, I have walked down my own street unsupervised less than 5 times in my entire life. I live in the suburbs (not a city or somewhere with a high crime rate), but I am not allowed to step outside of my house’s property lines unless I am walking to my bus stop for school. Additionally, if myself or my mother are in our backyard and a neighbor is nearby, we must go inside and hide until they are gone before returning outside.
Since the pandemic hit, I have been almost fully isolated from the outside world unless there is a necessary event or school. I have just graduated high school, but I haven’t been with my friends outside of a school event in the past four years. My father believes socialization with friends is important only if you “have nothing better to do,” and that I have already achieved enough socialization at business events.
My father also has extreme anger issues and is extremely controlling toward my family. He often yells at my mother or questions her for hours (sometimes 5 hours at a time), and will get angrier if she loses patience or raises her voice back (he views this as disrespectful). I myself often get into trouble for “lying” (as in saying something that is true but he doesn’t think is right), misspeaking, or other things. He views his anger as uncontrollable and expects us to accommodate his temper. I also believe he is manipulative, as he almost always blames us if he is angry (“Why are you always like this? We could have avoided this if you had _____”). I have tried multiple times to express that him yelling at my mother has affected my mental health, but he blames me for that as well, telling me that all couples are like this and I’m making this a problem in my head – all I have to do is stop being affected and tell myself that I don’t need to be sad. He has specifically told me that if I keep crying when he yells at my mother, then my mother will not be able to talk much anymore (because he yells at her constantly for saying things he doesn’t approve of). He has taken to calling me “emotionally weak” if I cry, and reminds me that I need to “grow up.”
He is also racist and homophobic. My brother and I are often lectured about how those who are LGBT+ are mentally ill and need to be fixed for the “survival of humanity”. I am bisexual, but have kept my identity hidden from everyone in my family except for my brother and one cousin for this reason. I am also not allowed to date at this time (even though I am almost 18), and will be questioned if I am seen talking to a boy or if I have befriended a boy.
The result of all of this is that I have been feeling increasingly trapped. I began harming myself 2-3 years ago to cope with not being able to cry freely. I feel as if my life is always falling apart. I come home from school to screaming and anger, and I always feel tense as I try to not set my father off. I will be attending a university that is several states away in the fall, but he has repeatedly threatened to force me to transfer to a school very close by if I am not continuously obedient. I am not actively trying to kill myself, but I always think about it.
I have been increasingly emotionally unstable. At my worst points, all I want to do is die, and then minutes later I feel better and fear that I am simply being dramatic. I always feel ungrateful that I do not appreciate my father’s concern for my safety, but at the same time, I was almost completely robbed of a normal and healthy childhood. I don’t see a way out of this situation except for death. I cannot actively seek a way to improve the situation, because my father will simply further isolate me as punishment for being disrespectful.
To be honest, I hate my life, and I hate myself. I have a boyfriend of over a year who I feel safe with, but I’m terrified of being discovered by my father and losing my emotional support (my father would most likely also cut me off from my friends). I am terrified of being myself even when my father is not around, as I am paranoid about my father seeing pictures on others’ social media posts that will expose me.
I don’t see this getting better. I am hopeless in every sense, knowing that I have to deal with this situation or otherwise deal with it becoming worse. My close friends and boyfriend are aware, but they can’t do anything more than offer emotional support, and sometimes that’s not enough. Sometimes I just want to escape, and death feels like the only way. In college, my father will not allow me to go off campus, nor will he allow me to socialize in other students’ dorms – he expects me to go to classes and otherwise remain in my dorm room, and he will call me regularly to check that I am being obedient.
I don’t think I can live like this anymore. I don’t even know if it’s worth it to live anymore. Maybe I’m being overdramatic. Maybe I’m just an ungrateful and selfish person who doesn’t care about safety. I don’t know.

Long story short, i had a tooth extracted at a local dental school. They gave very bare minimum post op instructions and a piece of gauze. I had been to their emergency clinic twice prior to getting this pulled and had told them that I had been on penicillin for 2 weeks and still hadn't worked.(refused to prescribe antibiotics or refer out) They pulled the tooth on Thursday followed all directions. On Friday the next day i had called to ask about new swelling and puss coming out. No one called me back.
I woke up Saturday to my entire mouth coated in puss and lots more swell in sinus, i called the number for over weekend emergency and the resident said he couldn't do anything and told me to go to either 2 of our trama hospital( we have lots of hospitals but these ones are the only one that will handle teeth) the hospital workers were great but still couldn't do much and just started stronger antibiotics. No other dentist would see me, no urgent Care would see me because they did not do the extraction or didn't handle the care for teeth and had already been in antibiotics for the tooth.
I'm not comfortable going to the school again at this point and hope to get this recheck by another private dentist.
my biggest concern is they are pretty negligent, and being that it's a dental school they take advantage of low-income people that can't afford the better care for whatever reason at that time. I'm not in the business for lawsuits but certainly reform on quality accessable dental care. This isn't just about me its about anyone, family, friends because i know I'm definitely not the first nor last to run into this.
They had also broken another tooth that I just paid a $1,200 to get root canal and was waiting to get the crown.
ANYWAYS WHAT CAN I DO TO CHANGE THIS, WHO CAN I WRITE TOO, WHO CAN I REACH OUT TOO for more information and that could help.

If this formats weird it's because I'm on mobile. I'm not sure where else to post this somewhat anonymously, but here goes.
I'm a nurse. All of the local hospitals are short staffed and treated like shit from upper management. We aren't able to provide the best possible care because we're so short staffed that we have such high nurse to patient ratios that severely limit the time we have to provide the bare minimum expectations of our job. You as patients suffer and it's dangerous for everyone. New grad nurses are getting short, inadequate training because there simply isn't enough time and not enough staff.
The thing is, everyone in upper management knows about this, they just don't care.
Wesley’s staffing on 6/3 was that all ICUs 6 or more nurses were tripled. They are supposed to be one nurse to one patient, MAYBE two depending on acuity. They had three extremely critically ill patients. Remember- the ICU is where the sickest of the sick land and require the most monitoring and care.
The medical surgical units, where most admissions typically land depending on what's going on, they were flexed to 8 patients to 1 nurse. According to National Nurses United, a safe ratio on a med-surg floor is 1 nurse to no more than 4 patients.
We all work 12 hour shifts, so if we have 8 patients, we are only going to have 1.5 hours max for each patient in a day. That's 1.5 hours to do everything - meds, helping with basic activities of daily living, taking vital signs, and monitoring you in case your condition changes and you need either a different plan of care, or require more close monitoring and have to be shipped off to the ICU. Never mind that you as an individual person need to be educated on what's going on, you might be scared and lonely, your family might have questions, the doctor has questions, if your toilet is broken we have to fix it, your sheets are dirty we have to change them, etc etc. Plus getting yelled at and physically hit by patients and families. All of this falls on one nurse for eight different people. Let that sink in. Wichita sadly isn't alone in this either, it's all over the country.
Our community deserves better. Our nurses deserve better.
We are exhausted and burnt out and begging for help that is falling on deaf ears because profit is the only thing that matters to these hospitals. Nurses are trying to unionize at Ascension, but there's no guarantee that'll improve things either.
I guess this is partially a rant but also a cry for help, and also to alert the community of the BS that goes on in the background of healthcare here. Talk to your community leaders, write emails to the CEOs of the hospitals, the senators, anyone that will listen. If you find yourself in a hospital as a visitor or patient, please just be kind and give some grace to everyone.

I've been dealing with an old shoulder injury and visited two different physical therapy clinics covered by my insurance. My experience is that the actual physical therapist will spend 10-15 minutes with me, and then pass me to an aide. The aide doesn't correct my form when I perform exercises, and seems to be clueless if I ask for clarifications.
It seems like most clinics that accept insurance are run like this. I'm looking for a clinic where I spend the entire session with a physical therapist, and are specialized in sports-related injuries. I don't care if I have to pay out of pocket.
I tried searching on Google, but there are a lot of results that pop up and they all seem to be the type of clinic I'm trying to avoid. Does anyone know a good clinic, preferably in the east bay?

I am a minor, and I’ve been trapped in an abusive situation for my entire life. At least, I believe it’s abusive, or at the very least toxic.
The abuse isn’t physical, but more verbal/emotional/psychological. A big portion of it is that my father is extremely concerned about the safety of our family (mother, brother, and I). Prior to the pandemic (middle school age and younger), I was rarely allowed to hang out with friends outside of school. In these cases (less than 5), my father either had to be present for the entire time, or I had to be in a public place (like a library) with my older brother present for the entire time. This was to avoid myself potentially being kidnapped or assaulted at another person’s house. (I am female) It didn’t matter that most of my friends were girls; my father was worried that their uncles would show up without advance notice, or that their brothers would assault me.
To this day, I have walked down my own street unsupervised less than 5 times in my entire life. I live in the suburbs (not a city or somewhere with a high crime rate), but I am not allowed to step outside of my house’s property lines unless I am walking to my bus stop for school. Additionally, if myself or my mother are in our backyard and a neighbor is nearby, we must go inside and hide until they are gone before returning outside.
Since the pandemic hit, I have been almost fully isolated from the outside world unless there is a necessary event or school. I have just graduated high school, but I haven’t been with my friends outside of a school event in the past four years. My father believes socialization with friends is important only if you “have nothing better to do,” and that I have already achieved enough socialization at business events.
My father also has extreme anger issues and is extremely controlling toward my family. He often yells at my mother or questions her for hours (sometimes 5 hours at a time), and will get angrier if she loses patience or raises her voice back (he views this as disrespectful). I myself often get into trouble for “lying” (as in saying something that is true but he doesn’t think is right), misspeaking, or other things. He views his anger as uncontrollable and expects us to accommodate his temper. I also believe he is manipulative, as he almost always blames us if he is angry (“Why are you always like this? We could have avoided this if you had _____”). I have tried multiple times to express that him yelling at my mother has affected my mental health, but he blames me for that as well, telling me that all couples are like this and I’m making this a problem in my head – all I have to do is stop being affected and tell myself that I don’t need to be sad. He has specifically told me that if I keep crying when he yells at my mother, then my mother will not be able to talk much anymore (because he yells at her constantly for saying things he doesn’t approve of). He has taken to calling me “emotionally weak” if I cry, and reminds me that I need to “grow up.”
He is also racist and homophobic. My brother and I are often lectured about how those who are LGBT+ are mentally ill and need to be fixed for the “survival of humanity”. I am bisexual, but have kept my identity hidden from everyone in my family except for my brother and one cousin for this reason. I am also not allowed to date at this time (even though I am almost 18), and will be questioned if I am seen talking to a boy or if I have befriended a boy.
The result of all of this is that I have been feeling increasingly trapped. I began harming myself 2-3 years ago to cope with not being able to cry freely. I feel as if my life is always falling apart. I come home from school to screaming and anger, and I always feel tense as I try to not set my father off. I will be attending a university that is several states away in the fall, but he has repeatedly threatened to force me to transfer to a school very close by if I am not continuously obedient. I am not actively trying to kill myself, but I always think about it.
I have been increasingly emotionally unstable. At my worst points, all I want to do is die, and then minutes later I feel better and fear that I am simply being dramatic. I always feel ungrateful that I do not appreciate my father’s concern for my safety, but at the same time, I was almost completely robbed of a normal and healthy childhood. I don’t see a way out of this situation except for death. I cannot actively seek a way to improve the situation, because my father will simply further isolate me as punishment for being disrespectful.
To be honest, I hate my life, and I hate myself. I have a boyfriend of over a year who I feel safe with, but I’m terrified of being discovered by my father and losing my emotional support (my father would most likely also cut me off from my friends). I am terrified of being myself even when my father is not around, as I am paranoid about my father seeing pictures on others’ social media posts that will expose me.
I don’t see this getting better. I am hopeless in every sense, knowing that I have to deal with this situation or otherwise deal with it becoming worse. My close friends and boyfriend are aware, but they can’t do anything more than offer emotional support, and sometimes that’s not enough. Sometimes I just want to escape, and death feels like the only way. In college, my father will not allow me to go off campus, nor will he allow me to socialize in other students’ dorms – he expects me to go to classes and otherwise remain in my dorm room, and he will call me regularly to check that I am being obedient.
I don’t think I can live like this anymore. I don’t even know if it’s worth it to live anymore. Maybe I’m being overdramatic. Maybe I’m just an ungrateful and selfish person who doesn’t care about safety. I don’t know.

Anybody knows if there is a vision care clinic in winnipeg that offers sports goggles prescription? Unfortunately there is none available in my small town outside wpg. Thanks everyone!

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Hello people of Reddit, I need some help.
This is my first time here personally, but I have been listening to reddit stories for almost 2 years whether on Youtube, Insta, or any other platform. I made this account specifically because of this and I despratly need others' opinions as it has been eating at me for the past day.
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*TW for talk of blood, illnesses, and implied pedophilia*
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Some backstory first:
I am a high school student (so think in the age range of 15-18). I volunteer at a hospital every weekend: helping patients and nurses and showing visitors to their friends and loved ones. It can sometimes be a very sad job as I have met parents who children were dying, mentally ill patients who were being schedualed to be tranfered into mental hospitals, and watching bloody patients come out of ambulances.
One highlight of my job, however, is an older coworker who was being paid at the hospital, let's call him "G". G was a graduating college student (think in his mid 20s) who had been working at the hospital for a few years now. We worked together at the front of the hospital to greet and direct visitors. He was great, we had a lot of fun conversations, joked around, and he helped me become more confident when speaking with others. We became really good friends and I looked forward to seeing him every weekend for a few hours before I went to another part of the hospital to help out there.
Now to the actual story:
About 6 months into me volunteering around the hospital, G had told me he was quitting to find another higher paying job closer to his home. Of course, I was happy for him and supported him, wanting my now close friend to seceed. We exchanged numbers on his last day of the job and I never saw him again after that. I currently still work at hospital, but now with new people who I'm usually in charge of teaching because G is gone.
At first, we would talk once a week, mainly on my break at the hospital, as I had a small phase of hating the changes and wanting things to go back to normal. Of course, I soon got over that and stopping starting conversation a lot less as I had grown more busy with my daily life and wanted him to focus on his new job. He started texting me once or twice through the week, almost always texting first with a "hey" or "whats up". At first, I didn't think much of it until he started texting me even more. Of course I didn't mind, he was a good friend of mine and it seemed like he really cared about our friendship. The only problem is that he had and still currently has a girlfriend of three+ years (I'll call her "F"). I had known about G and F's relationship since G and I had started working together in the hospital. He talked about her pretty often.
I began to feel was possibly over stepping unknown boundries by talking with G too much. So, I started pushing back a bit to try and subtly force those boundries and respect their relationship, telling him things like "you've been talking to me a lot lol" and "Go check on your girlfriend, I'm sure she misses you rn". Keep in mind, this is all over text messages.
For a bit of context, I wasn't sure if F knew I was talking to G. over the phone, he never really mentioned her until I brought her up and asked about her.
Flash forward a few weeks until yesterday. Earlier in the day (around noon), G had texted me mention he was going out to celebrate his Dad's birthday. I tell him to have fun and go on with my day. later, I was going to a family event, both parents and my siblings in the car and we're driving to this event an hour away from our home.
I get a text from G around 6:30pm:
G: Yeah I'm drunk
Me [not completely sure if he's being serious or not]: Pfttt what
G: I'm drunk we went to a drinking festival [for his dad's birthday, he meant]
Me [laughing about it lightly to my family as I'm texting]: Lol you better not be driving home
G: I'm not
Me: okay good lol stay safe :>
G: I will don't worry
Me: Okayyy is you gf with you???
G: Yeah well she was with me but she went home, she was with us all day
Me [confused]: Oop- how come? Why did she leave early?
G: She was tired and it was getting late and she was drinking
Me in my head: huh........
Me on text [wanting to end the conversation]: Ooo well it sounds like you guys are having fun :)
G: It was
I was talking about it with my parents (I basically tell them everything) and they felt kind of off about it all. Like I had stated above, I am a minor, this dude is not. It especially didn't sit well with my dad who had implied that MANY older men had crushes on minors. Of course, because G is my friend, I defended him, but that comment had stuck with me and I'm now over thinking things.
To continue the story, after the conversation I had put down my phone for the event. When I got home around 9:30pm, I realized he had texted me again. I'll spare the finer details, but we had asked about each others' events, what we were both doing the next day, then our birthday came up (we have the same birthday). He asked how old I was turning. I got a weird vibe from that, but I told him and said "why do you ask?". His response was "Just asking", which I'm getting weird vibes from as I'm going through the texts again...
After that we spoke about things we want to do for our birthday, and then he asked if I wanted to hang out at some point.
For some more context, my parents are extreme planners, we practically already had the rest of the year planned out on your giant family callender. This mean I'm of course WAY to busy to make a 30 minute drive to his area so we can hang out for a few hours.
I told him this and our conversation was pretty normal after that.
It was around around 10pm when I really just wanted to end the conversation and told him: "Text your gf, make sure she's doing okay, I gtg to bed :P"
He didnt respond after that.
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Knowing all of this information, what do you think is going on here? Is G just overly confortable with me??? Or was my dad right about something?? I don't freaking know and I need help. I not going to try and deny it, I'm not muture enough for these kinds of things. I just need help to figure out if I should cut him off or if I'm over reacting. All opinions are valid and will be looked over by me.
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Thank you <3

(Sorry if my writing is a bit awkward, English is not my first language)
I (23F) was recently told by my friend (A, 24M), that someone in our social circle (B, 24F) doesn't want to attend any gatherings I am also at because I "give off depression vibes" and I honestly don't know what to do with this information.
To be fair to B, I have been struggling with my mental health for the past year and I have been receiving treatment from a therapist (my mental health is not what I am seeking advice for), and when I last attended a gathering that B was also at, I was very much in the thick of a depressive episode. However, instead of isolating myself, I decided to attend the gathering to be a good friend to A, who had organized it. I remember making sure to talk at least a little bit to everyone there, Including B, so as to not be rude.
Apparently though, I didn't hide my mental state well, because when I saw A at another gathering he organized just yesterday, he told me that B had told him that if he were to organize another gathering, to let her know whether I would be there as I "give off depression vibes." I can only assume B was implying she would not attend if I was coming because of this, as A said he was on my side before he even passed on the information, so B's tone had probably not been positive or concerned.
Surprisingly, I am not having a super emotional reaction to hearing this, but it has been preoccupying my mind and I don't really know how to react to it.
Since B isn't really a friend of mine I won't be seeing her very often. However, we do have a couple mutual friends and work in the same city in the same field, so it is likely I will run into her in the future.
So, there are two aspects regarding which I could use some advice:
What can I do to get B's comment out of the forefront of my mind? Should I let A know this is bothering me? Should I just ignore it and hope I stop thinking about it?
And, what should I do if and when I am invited to the same gatherings as B again, or if I encounter her in a professional setting in the future?
Thanks to anyone that has cared to read my (admittedly quite minor) problem.

I saw the giveaway posts for travel the words a while ago, not really knowing hear it was. In fact I even misread the name as travel the worlds. And even when I looked at the pictures I still wasn't sure what the hell I was looking at. It wasn't until I downloaded the demo and tried out the 3 puzzles available. I thought it was really fun. It does have a few little quirks it would be nice to see worked out, and I'll get into those later, but overall it was a pretty nice experience.
I later showed my brother, who is 10 years old, not a fan of word searches, and just didn't care for it and went back to playing re8 (ik he's 10 and playing re8 but he's handling it surprisingly well. Only part that even kind of freaked him out was beneviento)
Then I showed my mom, a big fan of word searches. She said, and I quote "I wish real life word searches were as fun as this" and then my mom, who hates video games and has only liked a very select few VR games, bought her first video game. Travel the words. It was cheap and came with a bunch more puzzles and she was totally into it. Her favorites have been Kitchen, Wild West, and The Market (The Market is in the demo)
If it wasn't clear already, Travel the Words is a word search game. You spawn into this place and you have a giant wall of text in front of you. There are the words on the side you have to find, and you have a laser pointer to find them and cross them out. You're in a cool little environment with some ambient nose playing to fit the theme (like in the mines level which is available in the demo there's like cave drops). Also when you find a word there are some fun facts about the word. You are able to turn fun facts or ambience off if you find either one of them annoying.
That leads me to my small complaints. I know the devs are on this sub based on the posts a while ago so I hope you guys read this and take it into consideration.

1. The pointer is very finicky. It can be hard to press down on the right word. Also, because the words that aren't a first or last latter do literally nothing when you highlight them, it's pretty easy to just spam the trigger until you find a word without putting too much thought into it. A good solution would probably be letting you highlight in any direction on any words but it just sort of does nothing unless it's an actual word.
2. This one is the most minor, but I think a limit on the hints would help. Make it like 5. Hints are supposed to be a tool if you get stuck, not an automatic win. Also, if there is already a limit on hints, my bad. I've never used more than 5.
3. Settings menu. Or just a couple small options. There should probably be a setting for player height (looking up to see the whole board starting hurting after around 45 minutes). Also, you should be able to choose whether fun facts are automatically on or off. Same thing with ambience. Another big one would be to add an option for colors for the crossed out letters. On some board they can be overwhelming, and the white colors can be hard to see. Just an option in the settings for either "Default" or "Select a color" would be nice. For examplez the red ones tend to stand out. Changing them to be all red would be fool
4. It would be cool if the game didn't start in the same position every time. It made it so when I was showing it off to different people I already knew where everything was. Having it be randomly shuffled each time you load in woud be cool.
5. Why is there foveated rendering? I don't feel like the game fully needs it. This one isn't as much of a complaint as I am just gejinpt curious. Because if you are able to achieve a really sharp image on the level of walkabout (which you do) with foveated, then it would be interesting to see how good walkabout would look with it. Just wondering. Not a complaint. More games need to show this off anyway.
6. When one hand is in use, the other one should be disabled, like walkabout. There is no need for 2 hands.

It seems like I hate the game. I don't. I think it's really fun. It has some serious merit and is for the most part a pretty polished experience. Never had a lag or a crash. And I've had a great time, and my mom had a really great time. The game just had a couple of small quirks it would be cool to see worked out, and maybe either some free or paid dlc down the line to add more puzzles would be greatm I think I'd pay like a dollar for a new puzzle every once in a while. Considering how many possibilities there are with shuffle it would be very worth it.
Thanks devs, great game. And a pretty big portion of it in the demo. Keep up the great work!