Started reading Meditations, Hays translation. I read about logos and pneuma in the book. Some of these concepts seem familiar to concepts in Hinduism. Like Pneuma and the inanimate material and a force of life that is present in everything. This sounds similar to the concept of athma and paramathma and how there is this force inside all of us and we are all part of the same thing.
I was wondering how many similar things would have been discovered or deduced in different parys of the world, the names differ but in the end it points to the same thing.
Also like how there are pyramids in egypt but we have pyramids in other parts of the world and how they resemble so much. I mean it is not impossible but it is very difficult to believe that one of them influenced the other or like someone who has seen one went and made another somewhere else. What are your thoughts on similar ideas appearing around the world but likely original ideas to that person? Do you have any interesting things like this that connects different cultures/ philosophies/ religions etc?
(Also just a request since I mentioned religion here, please dont bring the mine is better yours is bad comments. Giving examples or similarities or ideas is fine from anywhere. Thank you)

Throwaway account because my bf knows my main.
My BF and I are together for a month. We met here on Reddit. He confessed about a past relationship that really caught me off guard.
When we started talking early this year, last week of January, he said that he’s been single since November 2021. So was I, May 2021. Early this morning, he sent a message, out of nowhere, saying that he has a confession to make.
That’s when he said that him and his ex went seperate ways just this early January 2023. They were living together for more than a year. His ex picked up her things just last March.
I really thought that he was single and they’ve broken up when she cheated on him. That was Nov 2021. He never corrected me. That’s what I assume. I keep on asking how long he’s been single, he always answers with, his ex cheated last Nov 2021.
What angers me the most was not the connection he still has with her - they got cats - when we started talking, it’s the lying. I don’t care about his past relationships because they’re in the past for a reason. But I feel betrayed. It makes me sick to my stomach.
We live 2 hours apart and he drove all the way to me to explain everything. I told him to give me some time to decide. I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt, but I’m not sure if it’s the best course of action. We’re really compatible in all aspects like life values, hobbies, morals, and I want this relationship to work. But I’m now I’m not sure how to look past this.

Most posts here are about being unable to do something due to migraines, and I love reading all the helpful comments stating alternatives or other practical advice. But I’d like to write about something that I love and am lucky enough to be able to do.
I have chronic migraines and am in bed most days of the week, I have trouble being able to work at all, and I’m afraid of getting lonely.
But I love cooking. I love all the flavours, smells and making something myself in my own home. It’s so relaxing and one of the few activities I can do without triggering a migraine. When I don’t have an appetite, I freeze what I made and have a ready meal when hungry but in too much pain to cook. I just wanted to share how glad I am that I am able to cook; so this post is a cooking-appreciation post :)
(Luckily my migraines are not triggered by smell and I haven't noticed clear food triggers. Those would definitely limit the fun I have in the kitchen. I feel bad for all whose migraines are triggered by cooking and would gladly cook for all so you don't have to.)

1. Would I like the Trails series if my favorite games are Final Fantasy IX, Xenogears, Suikoden II, and more recently Chained Echoes and Octopath Traveler 2?
2. From what I read it seems like the most ideal thing to start with is the "Trails in the Sky FC". I do have PC and Steam but I prefer playing many JRPGs on the Switch OLED, and thus perhaps I should start from "Trails from Zero". How much would I miss not playing the Liberl trilogy arc and would I be confused starting with Trails from Zero?

Tl;dr when my SO and I fight, it always spirals into a massive blow-up that takes days to recover from, need advice on how to proceed when things get tense before the blow-up, help seeing the bigger picture.
Been together since high school, married over a decade, have always fought, but things evolved over that time and our lifestyle has finally settled into more typical parental home life. It seems we can discuss any other uncomfortable topic, but if I at all imply I have a negative emotion tied to something SO has done (or is related to/responsible for in any way) they immediately defend themselves instead of support me through my emotions.
I am a highly-sensitive person and SO is definitely not. I believe this is relevant to the bad pattern we’re in.
Example situation, not real: I will be the one packing lunches and all the lunch meat will be gone. My frustration at the situation may arise and could look like me huffing a bit, complaining to myself, commenting there is no lunch meat, bring generally annoyed until I fix the issue.
If my SO catches on that I am frustrated about the key ingredient missing, they will react too, but to me and my emotions. Keep in mind, I am not a bawling mess on the floor, terrorizing people, and I am not literally blaming anyone person. I am probably figuring out a plan B while outwardly expressing my frustration. I suppose doing that let’s off the stress I have about the inconvenience. Unfortunately, SO has no choice but to believe I am upset AT THEM for the situation.
Maybe SO ate the last of the meat, maybe they were the ones who forgot to buy more, it doesn’t really matter to me.
I just wish they would see me having my reaction (amplified by the hyper-sensitivity) and just be there for me while I ride the emotional wave, possibly commiserate some. Maybe SO doesn’t see the lunch meat issue as a big deal, and they certainly won’t feel as intense as I do (HSP again!), but they could care that it bothers me at least.
ATM, I feel like anything that jostles my mood like this will make SO feel blamed. Feeling blamed and not even feeling the same negativity about my issue inevitably leads to defensiveness from SO. That defensive behavior feels like an attack back on me, the emotional one who is in the throws of said emotions snd wants supported… the vicious cycle begins.
Regardless of what initially triggered my negative emotion, we end up here. I used lunch meat as a pretend example to illustrate how inconsequential the topic may be, but it is always about my emotions causing a feeling of blame that just isn’t there. SO equates saying sorry with taking the blame and sometimes people say they are sorry or comfort others just because they care for them, not because it was their fault necessarily.
What are we doing wrong here and how do we fix it? I love them so much and we have built something incredible, but this could ruin it all.

My wife and i are about go to local swinger club for the first time. The reason for this isn't meeting new couples (not in near future at least) but rather to engage in some play while being in "public". We thought that swinger club would be perfect choice for it because it gives us the feeling we are asking for, but on the other hand we wouldn't be doing anything illegal. We have nothing against meeting some couples and talking to them,learning their experiences and maybe some tips about lifestyle,but that's about it.
Do you think swinger club would be the right choice given our preferences?
To my second question, i have read the rules of mentioned swinger club online. They are all common sense but something made me thinking. They say something along the lines that sex is allowed everywhere inside the club except for the balcony. But how do we handle body fluids? Who cleans that up and how? When? And if we are the ones to take care about it (what i would expect) how is it done and where do we get the wipers or whatever?
Also,when i say that we are not interested in other people for sex,it isn't entirely true. My wife does have something she would like to try but it's so specific that i didn't need to read the FAQ here to know that it almost certainly won't happen. Without going into too much details,needing other woman for it has led us thinking that paying for it would be easiest way of doing it,because where we live it's perfectly legal.
What do you guys and girls think?

I’m in a really fragile state so please be kind with your responses. I’m not sure what to do.
I’ve been on Wellbutrin since end of January and my depression isn’t much better. If anything, I am far more irritable than ever. This is surprising to me because I had tried Wellbutrin years ago (before kids) with great success and am surprised at how poorly it’s working for me now.
I have 2 young kids and I was hoping to shout less/lose my patience with them less and there’s been no change. Perhaps it’s impossible considering one child is a toddler, I don’t know.
I’m afraid to get off the meds because it gives me energy. Also I’m terrified to try other antidepressants because of weight gain. Due of other existing health issues , I was recently only able to lose weight with the help of Ozempic and don’t want to risk regaining weight. I’m finally more comfortable with my appearance after many years. In the past, I’ve tried Prozac for 6 months and Zoloft for 3 months and had a lot of emotional blunting which I didn’t like.
The other problem is that I have undiagnosed ADHD. I constantly feel stretched thin and unable to finish anything I start - which stresses me out even more. I know a lot of you on this subreddit have ADHD and am curious if you think it’s be better if I managed my ADHD primarily instead with a medication designed to help ADHD directly. So far, Wellbutrin hasn’t helped me in this regard. I have just started the process to finally explore getting a diagnosis because I feel that I feel so out of control and without focus.
What would you do? The last problem with Wellbutrin is that I live outside the US and it’s very difficult to find. There’s only one pharmacy I know of that can supply it. But between the expense of the private doctor who writes the prescription and the cost of Wellbutrin, it’s a struggle to afford it. Since it’s not entirely helping me anyways, I wonder if it’s worth it. I wanted to stay on it at least a year because I get serious seasonal affective disorder and wanted to have a consistent mood because this past winter was very hard on me emotionally.
Lastly, the doctor who provides the prescription doesn’t really know much about Wellbutrin because it’s not widely available where I live. This Dr is comfortable providing it to me because I was prescribed it in the US before so I have previous experience with it. And I pay his huge fees directly outside of insurance so it’s more of a business transaction than medical care.
Thank you for reading this far!

We have been together 6 years married 3. In the beginning she was nice, genuine, caring. I talked to her about my future plans of moving out of this town we live in to create better for myself she was all on board with everything. She knew I was an adventurous person I live in the moment and she at the time acted like she enjoyed that.
After we got married everything has changed. I guess there were signs I just didn’t see them then because there was always an excuse. But now when it comes down to moving she’s to “scared” She said she’s afraid of failure. She tells me she is selfish. Which is true, she’s been holding me back and she admits it but she will not change. I asked her if she would actually move and she said “I don’t know what is going to be on my path” and to me it seems like I’m just her crutch until she finds someone else or I leave. I asked her if I save up money to move and we move is she going to go she said she didn’t know. I said so pretty much is I start saving to move then you’ll let me know if you want to go or not. She said yes. To me that was the biggest slap in the face.
This marriage is weird… in my past relationships I don’t expect to text all the time. But example, I left work 2 hours early yesterday and I didn’t tell her because she never tells me what she is doing she got mad. But I found out she went and had lunch with her co worker friends which she ALWAYS does. THey go to nicer places than me and her and she will leave me on read on her lunch.. which I find weird. And then she will text me after acting like she is just responding to my message.
I don’t care if she eats lunch with her friends but what I do care about is she blows and wastes all her money and I only get paid monthly and I always have to bail her out money wise and help her out. What she likes to do is act like she doesn’t have money if she knows I have extra money and I end up paying for things. And I’m at the point were I just want to be like nah even when it comes to eating out, we are separately paying. How can I save up if im always helping her???
When she kisses me sometimes I won’t even kiss her back and she doesn’t even notice. She gave me 3 kisses this morning I didn’t even kiss her back and she didn’t notice. When I brought it up to her before she says things “well your lips are small I can’t tell if you’re kissing me back or not” But you can tell, my lips aren’t that small.
She’s even openly admitted that she feels like she’s already pushed me away so far that I don’t even care anymore and I’ve told her I feel like if things don’t change I’m starting to resent her. I’ve communicated that her actions don’t match her words. And she gets mad. When I communicated how I feel stuck and unhappy with life which I always communicate she told me “sometimes I want to tell you to shut the fuck to because there is no way I can help you and it’s frustrating” and I told her “you could have helped though and you always choose not to” and then she starts this crying crap calling herself selfish and now I’ll just say “I don’t even want to talk about this anymore because it’s a broken record”
I paid for marriage counseling, she said it didn’t do much but she didn’t really participate. When we first got together she would communicate and then there was like a switch, she acts like she has all these communication issues. Idk. I always ask her if she still wants this because honestly it doesn’t feel like she does and she gets annoyed at me…
And to top it off, she has a cat and I’m always stuck cleaning the litter box and I’m just so tired of taking care of everything.
When we go on vacations it’s all about what she wants to do only, and if she’s not happy or enjoying herself it’s constant complaining. Down to it’s to hot, my back hurts, my feet hurt it’s like it ruins every trip. It’s okay to complain, but I do stuff all the time just to make her happy and I try to overlook these issues but it’s starting to get on my nerves. And I feel like after her saying the stuff about moving that I’ve just wasted these years. She likes to tell me I’m just a overthinking. And idk if I am or not. I’m just mentally exhausted, I feel like I should be distant and give what I get. I’ve asked her if she wants to go on a break she says no. Idk what to do and I feel like I’ve lost all confidence and I’m unhappy and I told her that. She tells me “you seem like the same person to me” idk how to even build myself up back again.

Sam Husseini: The Silencing [ongoing by Twitter] of Kennedy's Most Notable Critic:

In 2016, Jared Beck with his wife and law partner Elizabeth Lee Beck put forward a lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee rigging nomination process against Bernie Sanders.
In the course of the lawsuit the DNC lawyer argued before the court: “We could have voluntarily decided that, look, we’re gonna go into the back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way.”
The DNC won the case.
I emailed Beck as part of an effort to determine the true nature of Kennedy’s campaign in the Democratic primaries.
Beck: “As to RFK, Jr. – I am afraid he is playing the Bernie Sanders role this time around, to give a ‘voice’ to the disaffected, so that this ‘voice’ may be publicly gaslit and abused in the mainstream media, used as a tool to extract funds from the disaffected for the political party system, and then deployed to sheepdog the disaffected into supporting Joe Biden. That’s how U.S. ‘electoral’ politics rolls and has rolled since at least the time RFK Jr.’s uncle was publicly executed. I can’t imagine RFK Jr. is unaware of the role he is playing. But in order to play any substantial role in the family profession, it’s the only role he would ever be allowed to have. So perhaps understandable, but no less morally despicable.”
He then added: “The fact that Elizabeth and I are still banned from Twitter – notwithstanding Elon Musk’s purported ‘general amnesty’ – demonstrates just how high the stakes are for those invested in maintaining the sham.”
I’m not sure Beck is completely right in all he says — and hope to be writing a more detailed piece about various aspects of Kennedy’s campaign.
But it’s completely scandalous that the Becks are being silenced.

"Would you like to have a near-death experience? By crossing the boundary between life and death."

Yukari Yakumo

Themes:

• Necrofantasia:
  
• Night Falls ~ Evening Star: 7.5, 10.5, 15.5
  
• Yorimashi Between Dreams and Reality ~ Necro-Fantasia
  

Yukari Yakumo is a legendary youkai with the ability to manipulate boundaries. She is one of the sages who created Gensokyo in the first place, and a good contender for its most powerful resident. Despite this she is also exceptionally lazy, spending most of her time sleeping and foisting most of the problems off on Reimu or Ran. Still, her incredible intelligence and completely inhuman nature means one can never tell quite what she's thinking, and making her angry is a very bad idea.

Notes

• Source Index
  
• Perfect Memento in Strict Sense and Symposium of Post Mysticism is an in universe book written by Hidea no Akyuu. She has a tendency to exaggerate and speculate, so her claims should be taken with a grain of salt.
  
• Yukari herself is noted to lie quite a lot, so her own claims should also be taken with a grain of salt.
  
• In 15.5 Yukari makes use of the urban legend Teke Teke, but her attacks while using this urban legend are fairly in line with her normal capabilities. As it's unclear what effect the Urban legend is having, these feats will be included in this section but marked with Occult
  
• Yukari scales to a large number of characters, so here is every Touhou respect thread for the games
  

Defining Some Terms

Spell Card System: The Spell Card Rules were put in place by Reimu Hakurei in order to make duels between everyone fair, formalized, and safe. It is also the method nearly all Touhou characters will use in-character. Spell card battles have very clearly defined rules and attacks that are agreed upon before a duel with the purpose being that the most beautiful attacks win. In general Spell Cards are characters going easy on the foe, with ZUN outright stating they're not something the characters would ever use if they were serious.

• Given the original rules of spell card battles and a characters being introduced to the spell card system stating it would prevent useless bloodshed, there is at least a decent amount of implication that Spell Card battles are inherently non-lethal.

Danmaku: Danmaku are the "bullets" fired in a bullet hell, take many different forms, and are able to be fired by most Gensokyo citizens. They're an essential part of duels in Gensokyo, being used to control an opponent's movement and overwhelm them. They can either be fired in intricate patterns, or just fired rapidly from a single point.

• Danmaku is intentionally not efficient or effective for serious combat
  
• Danmaku in general can be lethal to normal humans
  
• Danmaku from major characters is very consistently able to break rock
  
  • Seija is considered notably weak
  • Sanae is considered nothing special as far as humans in Gensokyo are concerned

Youkai: Supernatural beings typically born from humanity's fear of the unknown, and the primary residents of Gensokyo. Youkai can be highly varied, but tend to be highly resistant to physical attacks while far more weak to spiritual attacks, such as names and traditions.
Gensokyo: Genoskyo is the region Touhou takes place in, and is a small landlocked region of Japan. It is fully enclosed by the Great Hakurei Barrier (more information bellow). The clearest picture of it shows it containing a few mountains, with it also being noted Gensokyo is small enough to see almost all of it from the Hakurei shrine

• The Sages of Genoskyo (of which Yukari is a member) are the beings responsible for the creation and maintenance of Gensokyo

Urban Legend Incident: Due to the occult balls various Urban Legends begin to manifest in Gensokyo, and some characters are capable of controlling an urban legend in battle that matches their tempermant. It's worth noting that the effects are present even after the occult balls are removed from Gensokyo though Reisen notes it will soon settle down.

Boundary Manipulation

General Description: Summarized, Yukari's power allows her to manipulate the boundary between any two things.This can apply both to physical boundaries (such as between Gensokyo and the outside world), or even the boundary of concepts (such as human and youkai or night and day).

• Both her profile and she herself state that she can manipulate the boundary between any and all things
  
• An official magazine says her power can affect anything, and that for narrative purposes she has to limit herself to the spell card rule or it wouldn't even be a game
  
• The manual states the danger and potency of her power is beyond imagination
  
• Akyuu states that her power fundamentally undermines reality. She states that it can create new existence and reject existence, is the most powerful ability held by any youkai. Additionally she states it can be applied to pictures, peoples dreams, and even stories
  

Direct Combat Usage

• Feats/Statements
  
  • Being able to draw boundary lines along surfaces means there is nothing she can not split in two
    • Sumreiko comments on her seemingly cutting space, with opening gaps in space also being her main method of transportation (see below)
  • Her barriers can destroy large amounts of enemy danmaku and damage her foes
  • Creates a large boundary around the entirety of Suika's mist form, and then suddenly makes it much smaller to force her back into her physical form.
    • Suika's mist form covered all of Gensokyo
• General
  
  • Uses a barrier to block enemy danmaku and strikes
  • Creates a boundary line with her strikes to hit her foe
  • A fan granting her powers is able to crash through all obligations, directly hitting a foe while they're guarding
• Skills
  
  • Boundary of Intellect and Feet: Runs a straight boundary to split her foe
  • Universe of Matter and Antimatter: Creates two gaps that do nothing on their own, but when they collide they create a huge distortion attack
• Spell Cards
  
  • Border Sign "Quadruple Barrier": Creates several overlapping boundaries to produce a barrier that can strike foes
  • Sign I "Quadruple Barrier": Another version of the above spell card
  • Barrier "Charming Quadruple Barrier": A larger version of quadruple barrier that sucks the foe in
  • Boundary "Quadruple Barrier of the Imperishable Night": Creates a larger quadruple barrier to protect herself and attack her enemy
  • Border Sign "Boundary of 2D and 3D": Creates a boundary that travels along the screen edge and changes directions to follow the movements of the screen
  • Barrier "Objective Barrier": Fires off four linked borders that travel along the edges of the screen
• Last Word
  
  • [Occult] Lend Me Those Beautiful Legs!: Locks her foe in place with boundary lines and then uses a gap to split them in two before putting them back together

Gaps and Warping

• Feats/Statements
  
  • General
    • Able to travel to entirely different locations by opening up gaps in space, with (according to Akyuu) it being said that this can also access pictures, dreams, and even stories
    • Can open gaps in thin air
    • Opens up a large gap, and is gone when it clears away
    • Repositions a gap to use as a seat
    • Spiriting away Kosuzu doesn't leave a single trail any other youkai can follow to locate her, not even leaving a trace of her soul behind
  • Travel/Range
    
    • Uses gaps in space as her main means of transportation, with her warping around Gensokyo, up youkai mountain, and even to and from heaven (though how direct these trips are isn't clear given how the time of day changes)
    • Reimu states Yukari can travel anywhere she wants to in a flash
    • Is able to freely travel past the Great Hakurei Barrier into the outside world, and pulls Rinnosuke back into Gensokyo after he's accidentally pulled into the outside world
      • Casually travels out of Gensokyo to see cherry blossoms
      • Comments to Mamizou about what's currently going on in Sado
      • Sends Sumireko and dream Sumireko from Gensokyo to the outside world
    • Off screen travels overseas and brings back a Hobgoblin, which she states are a Western creature
    • Instantly sends Marisa from the Hakurei shrine to the forest of magic
    • Easily travels to the netherworld (though in Gensokyo the netherworld is a location you can physically travel to
      • Summons Ran and Chen to her while within the netherworld
    • Suddenly goes from behind Luna to in front of her
    • Disappears to somewhere... literally
    • Placed a gap in a doorway so that Flandre traveled from the Scarlet Devil mansion to deep underground without even realizing she had done so
    • Pulls Sumireko out of the dream world (though Doremy implies this isn't something she's supposed to do normally)
      • Reimu refers to the dream world as another reality that is two sides of the same coin with the real world
      • Is often lurking in the dream world
  • Utility
    
    • Claims to have an undending supply of electricity, kerosene, and nitroglycerin, and fills up Rinnosuke's heater with fuel while having a conversation with him, without him even realizing she had done anything
    • Covertly drops money into the shrine's donation box while having a conversation with Reimu
    • Puts a hand through a gap to block a hammer and grab a gameboy
    • Makes food disappear from right out from under Reimu's nose
    • Summons other characters like Reimu or Chen
    • Reimu implies Yukari can send just some body parts through the Great Hakurei Barrier
    • Left her arm dangling through a gap while asleep, and then puts her hand through another gap to douse a candle
    • Hid some of her own energy inside of a gap to revive herself after having all of her magical energy drained by Mizuchi's possession. Though she states it will soon run out and she needs to rest after. Also sticks her hands through gaps to grab cookies and wave at Reimu independently of her body
• General
  
  • Warps from one side of the screen to the other and grants Reimu the ability to do the same
  • Vanishes to dodge a spell card
  • Leans back into a gap while firing projectiles
  • Sticks her arm into a gap to strike her foe with an umbrella from another location
  • Drops into a gap and then appears in midair
  • After being knocked to the ground, creates a gap below and above her to redirect back to standing up
  • Opens a gap through which several pieces of wood fly out at her foe
  • Spawns street signs to attack her foe
  • Opens gaps through which rapid fire danmaku and lasers fire out
  • Summons a monstrous arm out of her gap to grab or strike her foe
• Skills
  
  • Rest on Stone, Rinse in Rivers: Opens up a hole that swallows up projectiles and stores them
  • Rinse with Stone, Rest in Rivers: Fires off stored projectiles
  • Chimera's Wings: Places a gap that she can then warp back to.
  • Fantasy Maniacal Rift: Disappears into a gap and keeps moving, before coming out to strike her foe
  • Flesh Dismantler: Drops down into a gap before leaping out while spinning her umbrella
  • Urashima's Box, Filled With Lament: Opens a gap in the sky to drop debris on her foe
  • Home is Where One Lays to Rest: Hits her foe with several pieces of wood
  • [Occult] World's Most Agile Torso: Uses a gap to send her upper body forward to attack her foe while her lower body remains in place
• Spell Cards
  
  • Evil Spirits "Yukari Yakumo's Spiriting Away": Repeatedly teleports around while firing off danmaku
  • "Boundary of Humans and Youkai": Vanishes entirely and attacks the foe with danmaku patterns while not physically present
  • Splitter "Thing That Splits All Into Two": Repeatedly jumps in and out of and moves through gaps while spinning her umbrella
  • Fantasy Nest "Flying Noctilucae's Nest": Opens up several gaps that fire danmaku forwards, always in the direction of the foe
  • Boundary "Overflowing Flotsam": Sends several pieces of wood flying at her foe
  • Abandoned Line "Aimless Journey to the Abandoned Station": Opens a gap through which an abandoned train comes from, though (in gameplay at least) it takes time to open the gap
  • "Unmanned Abandoned Railroad Car Bomb": Summons three train cars that fly into her foe before exploding

Great Hakurei Barrier

• The Barrier Itself
  
  • Feats/Statements
    • The Great Hakurei Barrier is a barrier of sense that surrounds all of Gensokyo, and keeps living creatures and their tools from passing through while allowing non-living things to pass through without issue. Via non-Euclidian space a person attempting to pass through the barrier will find themselves wandering endlessly, and they will find themselves back where they started upon turning around.
    • Even when Reimu and Marisa traveled to the moon they never left the barrier, and they consider getting through the barrier to be harder than going to the moon
    • Gensokyo is designed to be the opposite of the outside world, and things that contradict that concept cannot pass through the barrier
    • Akyuu states the barrier is a barrier of common sense and keeps the outside world's common sense outside, and that it's composed of multiple smaller barriers, but that it periodically weakens every 60 years
    • There is at least some difference in the seasons between Gensokyo and the outside world
    • Sumireko was unable to fully penetrate the barrier from the outside
  • Limits
    • Non-living things and certain creatures are able to pass through the barrier more easily
    • It's noted Remilia's scarlet mist would have spread past the boundary into the human world
    • Objects that violated common sense from the outside world being used on the barrier would threaten its very existence
• Manipulation
  
  • Yukari was one of the sages to suggest the creation of the Great Hakurei Barrier, though whether she's the actual creator is unclear. Reimu refers to her as the original creator but Yuyuko thinks the barrier is too strong for Yukari to make
  • States that she has torn holes in the barrier
  • Creates a powerful distortion in the barrier
  • Repairs the barrier after Reimu does something to weaken it
  • Whenever a human from the outside world wanders into Gensokyo, it's because of fluctuations in the barrier caused by her

Gensokyo's Boundary of Reality and Illusion

• General
  
  • Created a boundary of illusion and reality around Gensokyo, defining Gensokyo as illusionary and the outside world as real, so anything that becomes viewed as fantasy is pulled into Gensokyo, even from outside Japan. This was performed 500 years ago and still going strong.
  • Yukari seems to have at least some amount of awareness of those who enter and leave Gensokyo through this method
• Living Things
  
  • A snake wakes up in Gensokyo as soon as he transforms into a youkai, with Mamizou stating that when you turn into a youkai you wind up in Gensokyo. Said snake is potentially originally from India
  • When there's a demand for Zashiki-Warashi in the outside world they start vanishing from Gensokyo, and later return when that demand fades
  • New youkai created in the outside world immediately appear in Gensokyo as well, but due to not having a clear form they disappear just a quickly
  • Rinnosuke notes that Gensokyo is rather multicultural, as youkai brought with them foreign cultures as they were pulled into Gensokyo
  • A real life human shows up in Gensokyo after becoming a god
  • Animals that become endangered or extinct (at least in Japan) are more prevalent in Gensokyo
  • A completely ordinary seal winds up in Gensokyo after being forgotten while a youkai well integrated in human society could remain in the outside world
• Nonliving
  
  • Items that fall out of use in the outside world wind up in Gensokyo
  • People doubting or forgetting the moon landing is enough to cause several magazines about it to appear in Gensokyo as well as the Soyuz spacecraft
  • Lyrica implies that instruments and even noises can fall into fantasy
• Buildings
  
  • The Scarlet Devil Mansion is a western style mansion housing multiple powerful youkai that is assumed to have arrived in Gensokyo fairly recently, with Akyuu also noting that it seemingly wasn't designed for Japanese climates
  • Another western style mansion housing the Prismriver sister also exists in Gensokyo
  • Unused radio towers occasionally appear in Gensokyo
  • After Miko is forgotten by the outside world, her entire mausoleum arrives in Gensokyo
• Large Scale
  
  • Due to Kanako making it fall into fantasy the Moriya shrine and the nearby lake move to Gensokyo
  • According to legend the Bamboo Forest of the Lost appeared in Gensokyo after being washed away by a tsunami
  • It's thought (according to Keine) that Youkai Mountain in Gensokyo is the original mythical form Yatsugatake, before it had been torn down by a god, back when it was taller than Mt. Fuji

Misc

• Boundary of Reality and Illusion - Moon
  
  • Erases the boundary between the real and illusionary moon, turning a reflection of the moon in the water into a portal to the moon itself that allows for instantaneous travel
  • Can return to Earth by doing the same thing to a reflection of the Earth
  • Leaves the portal open by shoving an umbrella into it
  • The Watatsuki sisters state she can freely travel between the Earth and moon, and that she once brought a throng of youkai to the moon with her
  • Implies this can only be performed when the moon is completely full, and that she was trapped on the moon when the full waned more quickly than expected
• Netherworld
  
  • Weakened the barrier between Gensokyo and the Netherworld so Yuyuko could more easily enter Gensokyo. She is also responsible for its repair
    • The Netherworld's barrier weakening causes the boundary between life and death to become vague, with Youmu wondering if it's okay to leave the boundary between this world an the next so ambiguous, though Youmu also notes it hasn't changed up the natural order too much
  • States that she caused the borders between Hell and the Netherworld to fade
    • Both the Netherworld and Hell are massive, but it's not clear to what extent she actually merged them
• Lunar Capital
  
  • Breaks through the barrier of the lunar capital, but it takes her a while due to the complexity
    • This barrier separates the living fantastical moon from the scientific dead one, and requires a specific route in order to reach the capital
  • Opens a whole in the barrier hiding the house of the Lunar sage with her thumb, and leaves her glove in the gap so that Yuyuko and Youmu can later use it to enter the Lunar Captial
• Misc Conceptual
  
  • States she can manipulate the boundary between Gensokyo and the outside world, the worlds of the living and the dead, human and youkai, or even day and night
  • Claims she can give the immortal Mokou a near death experience by manipulating the boundary of life and death
  • States she thinned the barrier between human and youkai, possibly making Reimu a youkai temporarily
    • States she could set the boundary between human and youkai for Mai and Satano to make them one or the other
  • Manipulates the boundary between daylight and moonlight to cause both to happen at the same time
  • Makes the moon as bright as daytime by manipulating the boundary between day and night
  • Marisa speculates that Yukari manipulated the border between danmaku for play and danmaku for combat for one of her attacks
  • States she can easily manipulate the boundary between spring and winter
  • States she causes noctambulism (sleep walking) in humans by manipulating the boundary between asleep and awake
  • Manipulates the boundary of master and slave, causing both teams using perfect possession to swap said roles
    • Doing this required interfering with the dream world

Other Abilities

Note that a number of feats here potentially involve boundary manipulation, but it's less explicit
Energy Projection

• Feats
  
  • Individual needles can break rock, and destroy a large boulder with sustained fire
  • Effortlessly defeats the three fairies of light, throwing out projectiles made of light and non-light
  • Marisa considers Yukari's danmaku harder to deal with than Yuyuko's
  • Surrounds herself with rings of danmaku
• General
  
  • Fires out large amounts of danmaku in various patterns
  • Fires off danmaku in front of her with a swing of her fan
  • Attacks with lines of energy
  • Fires off several orbs trailed by lines of energy
  • Creates spirals of energy around her body
  • Using a bomb, unleashes a pulse of energy that knocks back her foe
• Skills
  
  • Purple Needles of Painful Reproach: Rapid fires needles in front of her
  • Bewitching Bait: Creates a bird's eye that high speed projectiles then fly through at random paths
  • Spacetime Seam: Creates a pulse of energy projectiles in all directions around her, possibly by cracking space
• Spell Cards
  
  • Standard Danmaku Pattern
    • Barrier "Curse of Dreams and Reality"
    • Barrier "Balance of Motion and Stillness"
    • Barrier "Mesh of Light and Darkness"
    • Evil Spirits "Dreamland of Straight and Curve"
    • Evil Spirits "Bewitching Butterfly Living in the Zen Temple"
    • Sinister Spirits "Double Black Death Butterfly"
    • Barrier "Boundary of Life and Death"
    • Yukari's Arcanum "Danmaku Barrier"
    • Outer Force "Infinite Superspeed Flying Object"
    • Border Sign "Boundary of Form and Emptiness"
    • Border Sign "Boundary of Wave and Particle"
    • Photon "Doppler Effect"
    • Aerial Bait "Hyperactive High Speed Flying Object"
    • "Yakumo's Nest"
    • "Impossible Danmaku Barrier"
    • "Casebook of Luck, Resilience and Perseverance"
  • Combo Attack with Others
    • "Perfect Possession and Dream Seal": With Reimu
    • "Boundary of Spirit Medium and Divine Spirit": With Reimu
    • "Secret God Barrier": With Okina
    • "Shoot the Danmaku Barrier!": With Marisa
    • "Unauthorized Danmaku Photography is Strictly Prohibited": With Reimu
    • Paper Sign "Barrier-Enclosed Zener Card Shuriken": With Sumireko
  • Misc
    • Aerial Bait "Addictive Bait": Opens several locations through which high speed projectiles travel from
    • Fantasy "Perpetual Motion Machine of the First Kind": Creates a perpetual motion device that automatically fires danmaku without her input
    • Spirit Medium's Melancholy: Fires off danmaku that only hits one part of a perfect possession duo
• Last Word
  
  • "Profound Danmaku Barrier -Phantasm, Foam and Shadow-": Creates an everlasting bullet pattern with her finger deciding its life and death

Shikigami: Shikigami are spirits that have been turned into tools via a patter, that have software installed to control them

• Feats/Statmenents
  
  • Has the ability to control shikigami, which like computers will follower her commands exactly. Her primary shikigami is Ran, who herself has her own shikigami Chen
  • Has shikigami possess various crows which she uses for scouting
    • A crow rapidly flies over large swaths of the lunar surface in what is implied to be a short span of time. Its flight is also described as unnaturally straight, with it following the special path required to reach the Lunar Capital with computer-like accuracy
    • [Limit] A crow is killed by being possessed exposed to the vacuum of space
  • Has eyes all over Gensokyo... literally, with this eyes noted to be her familiars
• Skills
  
  • "Apparotation Needle": Has Ran chase after he foes while firing off danmaku
  • Eyes that View Change: Opens a gap holding an eye, which attacks the enemy when it sees a weakpoint based on specific programming
• Spell Cards
  
  • Summoning Rand and or Chen to attack enemies
    • Shikigami "Ran Yakumo"
    • Sign III "Ran Yakumo"
    • Shikigami "Ran Yakumo +"
    • Shikigami "Chen"
    • Shikigami "Ran Yakumo & Chen":
  • Other
    • Magic Eye "Laplace's Demon": Opens up several gaps holding eyes which attack when they see an exploitable weak point

Umbrella

• General
  
  • Hits her foe by spinning her umbrella
  • Creates spirals of energy around her umbrella
• Skills
  
  • Bewitching Butterfly Lurking in the Zen Temple: Envelopes her umbrella in energy and spins it while slamming into her foe
  • Fantasy Manji-Parasol: Gathers spiritual energy on her umbrella, then spins and fires it off as a projectile
  • Full Moon Umbrella: Creates a ring of energy around herself with a swing of her umbrella
• Spell Cards
  
  • Sign II "Manji-Parasol of Yakumo"

Senses

• Sees the human village despite Keine attempting to hide it by trying to make it appear that nothing had ever been there by eating its history
  
• Youkai can see perfectly by moonlight
  
• Claims to see the backside of the moon bathed with sunlight, even during a new moon
  
• Detects that a tree is from the outside world
  
• Eavesdrops on Sakuya's conversation while not physically present, and speaks to Reisen before warping to the location
  
• Claims to clearly see the launch of the Scarlet Devil Mansion's rocket from a ways away
  
• Senses Eiki's presence
  
• Senses the weakening of the Great Hakurei Barrier while presumably asleep
  
• Realizes the Shinmyoumaru in front of her isn't the normal one
  
• Sees the outside world beyond the Great Hakurei Barrier
  
• Sees the flow of energy from living things and helps Youmu to understand it
  
• Able to see the god that Utsuho had absorbed the power of
  

Hey y'all. I've been on my first official fantasy kick since childhood after re-reading Lord Of the Rings and a few Brandon Sanderson novels.
I've recently tried Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb and started the sequel, and I've found that I love Hobb's storytelling and how she flips over conventional fantasy tropes and how her stories unravel without holding your hand to tell you exactly what's happening.
What are some authors/novels that have this "unwinding" effect, like I can step into the story and figure things out naturally through intuition and paying attention rather than through exposition dumps

There's nothing really remarkable in this text,but read it if you'd like to know what a newcomer is thinking. I'm so happy I'd like to share my views.
Of course I knew about IndyCar before, but it was Max Verstappen's remark in a F1 post race interview that made me actively look for a way to watch the Indy500 (I'm not in the US). I tried to quickly get up to speed with the season and was really surprised by the fantastic 30 minutes highlights on Youtube, and also the qualifying highlights from the past week...Then I was ready to soak in those 500, and I simply don't remember the last time I've been so entertained, I was almost teary on that last lap, and I wasn't even particularly supporting any them, but the sheer gritty racing after hours of such intense chess-like trench war made my hair raise.
Then watching the next race was a no brainer for me, after seeing the track layout I like "how is that exactly the opposite of the flowy oval race we just had, that is nuts", and I was really skeptical to be honest. But what a race! Between the weeks I read and watched about the 2021 and 2022 season, so I was really up to speed with the boys like Palou and Power (at least very recent history, there's so much more to dig in), and seeing them fighting up front with everyone else behind also able to get into the Mix was mind blowing. And while in F1 I often have to fast forward the races (I usually watch the replays after the live race), in Indy I actually had to PAUSE it to keep track of everyone's strategies and soak in what was really going on.
What a treat! I can't believe I spent the past decade in F1 looking for something that was right there all this time in Indy. Of course I love the engineering contest that the vastly different machines in F1 offer, but we are trying to look for something there that simply doesn't exist, and that Indy seems to offer consistently...IndyCar is the perfect F1 companion. You wouldn't complain about lack of wheel to wheel battles and single team domination if you get those needs satisfied by another category.
I've seen how the next race is yet another very different concept (a proper race track) and I can't wait to watch it fully and see how it differs. Of course I've seen the highlights from last year, but they end up skipping the tug of war that makes Indy strategy so Interesting, as you have to deal with so many cars and variables (while in F1 most teams don't even see each other as competitors...they just ignore those who are too far ahead and too far behind...that's cool but honestly makes strategy a bit too simple.

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hello!
i'm feeling down right now, but i wanna read what's your first failure in life? Either in life/studies/business /career... And what did you do that time?
I want to take risk pero natatakot ako magtry... Gusto ko malaman how did you survive your first failure :)
Thank you!

Hello,
Let me start this with a backstory of me and my relationship. Me and my girlfriend met in college and have been together for almost 2.5 years. When we met it wasn't anything particularly special, but soon we noticed we have the a similar personality type and after some time we decided to get together. We work good together, we always talk things through, don't fight, all in all a pretty healthy relationship, which was good because this was both of our first real relationship.
I'm wasn't ever really a relationship type of person, meaning I never really understood when people talk about having butterflies in their stomack, being completely obsessed with their SO, jealousy, etc. I just enjoy the company of my girlfriend, it doesn't drain my social battery considering I'm really introverted.
Losing my parents probably contributed to me feeling like this, because ever since I lost them I don't think I ever felt a real emotion for anyone, including family members.
For context I'm an electrical engineering student and a member of a non-profit organization for engineering students, and this year I've been assigned to work on a project to show off my development. For this project I've been assigned a small team, which randomly happens to be all girls. I didn't really think much of it, because I'm not the type of person to go after every girl I meet or have any type of contact. I have lifelong childhood friends that are female and I never developed a crush on any of them. I didn't meet my team IRL for multiple months, we just had occasional video calls discussing how and what to do with our project, but no one really stood out as anything other than colleagues and potentially friends.
Fast forward to recently.
I needed to meet one of the girls because I needed some documents from her. Let's call her Olivia (fake). We come to find out we lived in the same apartment complex which I thought was really convenient for the development of the project later on.
We meet each other and I was just... can't even describe the feeling. I instantly thought that she was the most beautiful girl I've ever seen in my entire life. We talked for maybe 5 minutes max, because both of us were busy at the time. But during those 5 minutes I felt the rush of every emotion I used to hear / read about. We instantly clicked and it felt like we could talk for hours. I don't remeber the words, but I jokingly said something about how I'm surprised that we have so much to talk about, considering that I'm a rather introverted person. She said she felt the same and that we should perhaps hangout sometimes when both of us get some free time.
It took me couple of days to realize what had happened in that moment. The realization that I am in a relationship and what I felt was absolutely wrong. I felt so shitty when I thought how my girlfriend would feel if she knew what had happened. After the first encounter with Olivia I thought to myself I would just not meet up with her, finish the project asap and forget about it.
I did want to forget about it completely, but I couldn't really do that. I couldn't get her out of my mind. Her image kept reapearing in my head.
The other day we came across each other by accident and the same rush of emotions happened. We talked for 2 minutes because we both were with our friends and didn't wanna make them wait too long. During those 2 minutes it felt like on heaven. I even noticed every now and then she'd place her hand on my hand or shoulder and I instantly remembered those videos I used to watch as a child that were about "How to tell if a girl likes you" lol.
So yeah... that's pretty much it. I feel horrible for feeling this way, because I know it's morally wrong to my girlfriend and I don't know how to procede. Do I breakup with my girlfriend, do I wait it out, does this happen to others, etc.

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I'm trying to apply for a tourist visa to Philippine. Has anyone been through the process and explain how it's done if your visa is Abu Dhabi issued. Do I have to go to Abu Dhabi or can I get it done in Dubai? The instructions provided are somehow confusing and no one picks up the phone of the consulate.

This movie is based on a book by Isabelle Allende, whom I haven’t read anything of yet.
Please help me make sense of this movie. It hinted at big themes but strayed into VERY dark territory, when they depict the horrible Esteban violently raping a strange woman he sees in the woods. It’s implied that he rapes and creates bastards left and right.
He is, does and stands for just about anything negative you can think of and he cheers when his political party appears to overthrow the democratically chosen one.
Then this dude finds out it’s a military coup and he turns all “A Christmas Carol” on us and laments how he could have been “so wrong.” This was laughable enough, because people like him don’t tend to have epiphanies like that and if they do, they aren’t redeemed by them for long.
Then he redeems himself by not murdering his daughter’s rebel partner whom he had abused and humiliated earlier in the movie. He dies and is picked up by his beautiful ethereal wife Clara to escort him.
WTF about the women he raped??? The bastard children he left behind? His sister to whom he was so cruel. She rightfully said he deserved to die alone. He should have at least done that!
What the fuck is the point of this movie? Boys will be boys?! Stromg women suffer silently through abuse and do nothing to stop the men in their lives from raping the tenants on their land???
My mom love Isabelle Allende and I trust her taste in books but if this is also how the books are then I am not about to read them at all.
Maybe you all have a different opinion about this movie but I can’t find a lot of good discussion so I thought I’d start one.

Throwaway account.
I (33m) live in a foreign country without local language skills. My girlfriend (26f) is a local. She started to mention having memory lapses about 6 months into her job as a content moderator for a well known social media platform, which she started 10 months ago. It's the type of job where you have to watch random garbage content all day.
She told me about heading home from work via public transport despite having her vehicle parked at the office, or forgetting to lock her apartment door. Things like that. In my presence she has never shown any of this behavior (or maybe I didn't pick up on them?). So I was not sure what to think about it (although I occasionally suggested looking for a different job). But this has changed recently.
Last month we decided to go on a week long vacation. We met at my place to share a ride to the airport. She wanted to order a ride on her phone, but instead of selecting the airport as the destination she proceeded to stare at the ride hailing app for what felt like a minute. In tears she told me she forgot where we were going.
I asked her about her sleep and she admitted to only sleeping for two hours because she worked late. Okay so that's why, right? During our trip I did not notice any other memory lapse, everything seemed normal. We've had great sleep every night, so I started to assume her memory issues are purely stress related.
At this time I have been trying to convince her for weeks to quit her current job as the salary (which from a purely financial perspective is way above average in this region) is not worth the toll the job is taking on her, and to see a doctor about the issues she has been telling me about. I have also offered to cover her rent until she finds something new. Unfortunately without success, she is refusing all of it.
She's been back to work for a week now. Yesterday we both enjoyed another day off. I showed her a scratch on my laptop screen and we decided to go out, have it fixed, and then go for lunch and coffee. Everything felt normal, we had a good day. Until this point, the only instance of her 'memory problems' I've witnessed was her forgetting what to put as destination into the ride hailing app.
In the evening we watched a few episodes of Breaking Bad. During a sex scene she turned to me asking why we haven't had sex today yet. But wait a second.. we did. I explained to her we had sex before going out today, in the morning. She had no recollection of it, at all. I thought this was a bad joke at first but I decided to dig deeper, and it turns out she forgot most of what happened during the day.
She did not know I didn't get my laptop fixed (price of screen replacement was not worth it), despite her being there when I walked out of the shop after 2 minutes and telling her exactly what happened. She told me I did get my laptop fixed, without being able to tell me what was wrong with it. She did not remember the scratch that I showed her before, even after showing her the screen damage once again.
She misremembered what we had for lunch, and where, citing a location and a dish that doesn't match reality. She completely forgot about the dinner we just had, of which the leftovers were still on the table in front of us. She didn't remember how many days we spent on vacation, nor the name of the hotel.
That's when she opened up and told me about more instances of memory loss. For example crashing her bike because for a moment she forgot she was riding a motorbike in traffic and thus released the handlebars mid-drive. She previously told me this accident happened for turning too fast.
She also failed to find her way home from work once, driving around aimlessly for half an hour.
At this point I wasn't able to hold back my tears and I was too afraid to ask more questions. This morning she forgot she told me the truth about her recent traffic accident. I feel like she doesn't want me to know about the full scale of the problems she is experiencing, and who knows what else is happening that I don't know about.
I'm begging her to forget about work for a second and go get a proper screening at the hospital. She's refusing to listen, not wanting "additional stress". I have no idea what to do, I can't force her. I'm thinking about sending a text to her mother, and/or friends, to convince her to get help.
How can a 26 year old woman be having these issues? There is no substance abuse, she doesn't drink any alcohol. I can only link this to her work, but those are just assumptions. How do I make her seek serious help for this serious issue?