Events in tupelo ms this weekend

Following the conclusion of his feud with Kevin Owens, Aleister Black would set his sights on the man who humiliated him on Raw earlier in the year, taking him out for months and leaving him visually impaired; the ‘Messiah’ Seth Rollins. On a late October episode of SmackDown, the pairing of Rey and Dominik Mysterio would defeat Seth Rollins and Buddy Murphy in the main event to retain the SmackDown Tag Team Championships. After the match, Aleister Black would confront Seth Rollins in the ring; this time, Murphy would betray the Messiah, instead aligning forces with Aleister Black, who would take off his eyepatch to reveal a completely blackened eye, with no sense of vision whatsoever. The damage that Rollins did to Black. The next week, Black would praise Rollins, claiming that ‘extracting him of his vision has allowed him to see everything’, and noticing Rollins’ manipulation of Murphy, somebody Black knows is worth a lot more than the role he is being subjected to as one of the Messiah’s Desciples. Going into Survivor Series, the feud plays heavily on the imagery of the Messiah vs The One-Eyed Serpent.
Survivor Series 2020 - Aleister Black vs Seth Rollins
An intense conclusion to a half-year grudge feud, Black and Rollins go all out, a very athletic bout with riveting sequences brought together by the compelling story which has set the backdrop for the bout. It’s essentially the last showing of the Messiah, as Black takes a convincing victory with brief assistance from Murphy, furthering his stock. This would send Rollins into his break before returning at the 2021 Royal Rumble.
Aleister Black def. Seth Rollins (23 minutes)
On SmackDown, in the lead-up to TLC, Aleister Black and Murphy become a formidable force in the tag team division. A duo that would always be seen as eternal foes, Murphy and Black would make for an effective pairing, taking down many top teams in the lead-up to TLC, where they would go up against Rey and Dominik Mysterio for the SmackDown Tag Team Championships. In the lead-up, Black would try to force the dark side out of Mysterio, encouraging him to leave his father’s shadow, a seed that would later be followed up by The Judgement Day.
TLC 2020 - Aleister Black and Buddy Murphy vs The Mysterios © for the SmackDown Tag Team Championships
Taking out Rey, and isolating the rookie Dom, Black and Murphy execute a smart and cunning plan to perfection as they attempt to separate the Father and Son and win Tag Team Championship gold. It is a fast-paced match with plenty of psychology, a true test for the Mysterios. In the end, however, they cave in, as Aleister Black and Buddy Murphy win the SmackDown Tag Team Championships.
Aleister Black and Buddy Murphy def. The Mysterios © (16 minutes)
Murphy and Black hold the SmackDown Tag Team Championships going into the new year. They have a successful defence on SmackDown against the teaming of Shinsuke Nakamura and Cesaro. Both Black and Murphy declare for the Royal Rumble Match.
Royal Rumble 2021 - Men’s Royal Rumble Match
Black and Murphy have a showdown in the match, with Murphy getting the upper hand and psyching Black out. As a duo, they get many eliminations, having showdowns with previous enemies and Black even having a run-in with the returning Seth Rollins. Eventually, Black is eliminated by Murphy, who catches his tag team partner off guard.
Elimination Chamber 2021 - Aleister Black vs Kevin Owens vs Daniel Bryan vs Sami Zayn vs Buddy Murphy vs Cesaro
A stacked Elimination Chamber line-up, throughout the match, Murphy and Black tease further disarray, however, the final two comes down to both Aleister Black and Daniel Bryan. They have an intense back and forth, both men kicking out of some close near falls as it goes down to the wire in the Thunderdome. In the end, it’s Daniel Bryan who takes victory, surviving the Chamber.
Daniel Bryan def. Aleister Black vs Cesaro vs Kevin Owens vs Sami Zayn vs Buddy Murphy (29 minutes)
Bitter at the result, Black would deliver a Black Mass to Bryan before leaving the ring, allowing Reigns to take a cheap victory. Following Elimination Chamber, Aleister Black would enter a feud with Daniel Bryan, who is vengeful following the events at the PPV. Black would try to get into the head of Bryan and leverage a win against him to weave himself into the world title feud at WrestleMania. Following a tag team win of Black and Murphy over Bryan and Cesaro on SmackDown, Black would challenge Bryan to a match at Fastlane, the implications high for the world title scene at WrestleMania.
Fastlane 2021 - Aleister Black vs Daniel Bryan
Perhaps the most important match of Aleister Black’s career on the main roster, Black and Bryan would go at it, Black calling on the assistance of Murphy towards the end of the match. However, Murphy instead turns on Black, hitting him with the SmackDown Tag Team Championships and leaving the ring, allowing Bryan to take the win.
Daniel Bryan def. Aleister Black (25 minutes)
Following Fastlane, the SmackDown Tag Team Championships would be vacated and Black would enter a WrestleMania feud with Buddy Murphy. All their years of feuding and being together would lead to this, Black alleging that Murphy’s legacy will be synonymous with Black, but Black’s legacy will never receive a mention of Murphy.
WrestleMania 37 - Aleister Black vs Buddy Murphy in a Loser Leaves SmackDown Match
A night one spectacle bout, this is a chance for Murphy to finally break free as a singles star. Him and Black show off their excellent chemistry once again, tearing the roof down and providing a definitive conclusion to their story. In the end, Murphy would be the one to end the tyrannical grip Black had over SmackDown, exiling him from the brand.
Buddy Murphy def. Aleister Black (18 minutes)
Following SmackDown, Black would return to NXT to have feuds with the likes of WALTER, Finn Balor and Karrion Kross.

I (23f) had plans to see my two friends (24f)(25f). Friend one, let’s call them Z, was going through a funk, they had to give up a dog they just got bc of medical reasons. They were pretty tore up so I offered to come ovego out with them and my other friend, let’s call them J, to help them feel better. This day, my best friend D(24m) comes over bc I invited him to tag along, (the other 2 were okay with it and suggested it) and while I was getting ready to meet them catching a ride with D, I’m venting about my ex. Me, my ex, and D used to be close. We didn’t break up amicably. He was abusive. D was still following my ex’s finsta account and screenshot a story post of my ex talking about cheating on me with this girl we knew while we were dating. I remember asking my ex about this. He lied. It ruined my whole day. I was retriggered with all the bad feelings I had and even texted my ex like “wtf?” after a month of nc. I told my other friends Z and J, and Z was being kind of snarky bc they felt like our plans were ruined bc of my best friends lack of discernment. They were upset he told me and I agreed but I was so mad at my ex I didn’t even tell D how I felt. I said I didn’t want to go out anymore and that I was sorry but I’m pretty nonverbal when I’m upset. I felt super bad bc I wanted to be there for my friend but I didn’t think I’d be much help considering I was spiraling in my own deprecating thoughts. J was okay with it, Z was not. J suggests they come to where I am instead of me having to travel an hour away to meet them and I give in and go out with my friends. I needed it and had a good time.
We come back after getting dinner so I could grab some clothes for an impromptu sleepover when I pull up to my house and my best friend was there. While we were out he stayed and hung out with my roommates. He hugged me and immediately Z gets out the car and is cussing him out asking why he felt the need to show me something my abuser posted if he cares about. Starts hitting him and knocks his bottle for water out his hand, smashing it. J tells them get back in the car. Me and him in shock, I say “I don’t know why they did that” and apologizing, I went into the house to charge my phone, deciding how I’m going to approach either of them. After some minutes go by I go outside and get in the car with Z and J and immediately Z is crying saying how this weekend was supposed to go without a hitch and tonight almost didn’t happen bc it’s my fault for keeping a bad friend around me that purposefully retriggered me. “I have been miserable and this is the one time I’ve depended on you emotionally and you were about to give up over a man”. They start yelling and hurling insults at me and reducing me being triggers by my abuser to some silly hiccup in my day. I couldn’t get a word out. J asks what am I thinking and before I could get any words out Z is screaming over top of me again reiterating what they just already screamed. I start yelling back a little before I start getting my stuff and walking back to the house. While I’m walking away they scream “FUCK YOU BITCH” “I HOPE D RUINS YOUR LIFE”
I cried bc even if they were right I would never speak to my friend with so much Brutality. They were right, my closest friend did retrigger me. And showing me that didn’t help. It put a thought to rest but awakened 100 others. But I should have been able to handle my friend. Not you. And not in a violent way. It was also treating me like a horrible person for not being confrontational enough or having strong enough boundaries. I’m learning slowly how to communicate my feelings better when it comes to friendship, but don’t you think it’s hypocritical to preach to me how I shouldn’t give my friends so much leeway to possibly retrigger me and yet you’re screaming at my face, berating me and calling me a bitch for not moving the way you want? And it’s not like their friends are the most morally righteous either. It was embarrassing. And I never thought a friend would speak to me that way.
D came back and we talked. Z and J drove back home. J asked if I wanted to still talk about it the following morning in the group chat, and I apologized to Z for flaking on plans at first, and how I do need to work on my interpersonal relationships so it doesn’t bleed into others. However, I don’t deserve to be belittled and verbally antagonized bc I’m not growing at their pace. They only admitted they “overreacted” but still doubled down on everything. “I didn’t say anything wrong” it’s not about being wrong you were cold and nasty. J thinks we should talk more about it and take space but I don’t know if I want to repair that friendship with Z. I took my space from D as well bc that’s not the first time they have been aligned with someone who harmed me. I just had to vent about a friend who isn’t coming from a “wrong place” but they go about it horribly and the confusion on whether or not it’s worth saving when your heart is in the right place but your actions contradict that with your behavior. What good is a friend that thinks they should speak to you horribly so you can “get it”? Are we all not young and growing…

Hi, my sister and I are attempting to hike Hallasan this weekend (26/3 or 27/3) via the Gwaneumsa route up. I’ve made the reservations but would be great to know if crampons are needed during this period. As we’re not avid hikers (no mountains in my country), we’ll be wearing sports shoes for the hike.

I (29M) recently awoke after experiencing a blast to the past, all the emotions and pain were well with it. More accurately, I found myself nearly reliving an experience from my preteen years, around the time when I was just transitioning into the age of 13 so nearly seventeen years ago. It was when I experienced a traumatic time, trying to process the world around me. But it was one of the first moments in my life that I realized I was completely helpless on my own. And the perceived bullying I mistook was not because I was being bullied on purpose. Rather, how I understand it now, my peers were frustrated with my inept ability to function like them.
I was at a summer training course with fellow Royal Canadian Air Cadets during the summer of 2005. But I quickly discovered that I was not like my peers: incapable of functioning like the rest of them. I could not meet the same standards like the rest of them, and the hygiene forgetfulness (not to mention the bathrooms were kept at dismal standards). My barracks in particular were constantly being grilled over failing to meet standards and it was because I was bringing down my group. And that level of frustration from them, I quickly recognized it, and inwardly blamed myself and hated myself for not being like the rest of them. It is just realizing that I was just helpless then that is why I probably battled a lot of depression in my youth because I wanted to be like my peers. And yet deep down, I knew that would never happen.
I woke up nearly in tears after that dream. Because I recognized that state of helplessness. And because I perceived my peers' frustration as bullying, I was quick to seek refuge from the officers in charge. Oftentimes at the expense of my peers. I now feel awful because they got scolded for bullying me but now I realize they were just frustrated with having to deal with me along with what was expected out of them. Cadets was about team building. And I was not a good team player, especially not in that circumstance.
It probably did not help that I was gaslit my whole life into believing there was nothing wrong with me. But that was the moment that I knew that I was truly different, and completely helpless in the world on my own. That was probably the first time in my life that I realized that I was different than my peers. Not because there was something inherently wrong with me, but because I am autistic. And I never said anything because, well, who would believe me? After all, there was nothing wrong with me, right?
As a result, I have always been pushing myself outside of my own limits, experiencing new things and doing whatever it would take to succeed in life... only to have all that come crashing down around me after a very traumatizing event in my early adult years that I do not wish to discuss here. But perhaps that is why I have been dealing with this constant state of feeling burned out. I do not think I am lazy but I just feel like everything I do nowadays takes up so much of my energy reserves.
Anyway, that was just my little vent and what I suppose is the being of self-healing the more I come to accept that I have always been autistic. I just wish I could keep a doctor instead of them leaving all the time so I can finally get the diagnosis I have been seeking for several years now.

I've been playing pen and paper for over a decade now and D&D since 5e came out, but never DMed until recently.
I'm going to DM my own little campaign in a few weeks, so I decided, it would be a good idea to DM an established oneshot/mini campaign first, to get a feeling for it. Coincidentally some friends asked me to teach them D&D at the same time, so I thought - why not - let's do this, they're learning D&D while I'm learning DMing.
I got a group together with 3 new players without any rpg experience (2 of them being some of my best friends for 15+ years) and one friend who's been playing for a while (thought he was a good addition, helping them out). I chose Frozen Sick as short campaign and prepared it very well.
We had our first session last weekend and I felt like everything was going to shit. People arriving over an hour late, me being too nervous and getting out the alcohol too soon, some players playing ridiculous characters, plus the one that took it most seriously rolling two natural 1es in a row for Start... it felt crazy, they were very slow, the cleric was very drunk and zoned out and I thought no one would enjoy. I really got depressed over it.
But now it turned out, they had fun after all!? They want to continue and made up a date today (1.4.). I got some feedback, but it was very different from everyone. The cleric can't remember the last hour of playing at all, but overall enjoyed it and how much fun he had and that I went with his rather funny approach. His criticism was, that I didn't give them any time to plan things out and everyone just acted the way they felt and chaos ensured.
The rogue told me, he had fun playing, but felt bad for the fighter (the experienced player) since he felt like they expected a more serious round. He told me he wasn't too much into the story (rather generic) but enjoyed fighting/ encounters.
The wizard had - to my surprise - also a good experience. She was the only one not drinking alcohol and she played an rather serious character - who rolled really really badly and I decided to turn her bad rolls into something humorous (eg she wanted to inspect the dead body at his funeral and rolled for stealth, so the funeral attendees wouldn't notice - rolled a 1. I made her make an acrobatics check - another 1, so I made her fall into the hole with him, taking 1d6 falling damage, landing on him with everyone noticing. She still asked me, if she learned anything about the body, lying on top of it - I told her she learned that dead ice statues still can have an erection - so that's how we started the campaign - definitely my fault, if it is). She actually liked the story and wants to know how it goes on.
Now I'm not sure how to continue. If anyone is familiar with Frozen Sick (SPOILERALERT), we're already in Croaker Cave and after that, there won't be a lot of npc interactions, but lots of dungeneering and fighting.
I want to take the feedback seriously, eg giving them more time to think, but it's hard, when they're just having straight stupid ideas. How stupid does an idea have to be, to punish players, even if they're new? Where do I draw the line? Should I give them ideas about what they could do in a rather specific way? Like knowing eg the wizard's spell list by heart and tell her when it's a good time to use, or would that be too much interfering?
When I'm a player, I tend to plan things for the group - and I don't want that behavior to spill into my DMing. But how little is too little for new players?
Also, some of them were enjoying npc interaction, others fighting. When traveling the tundra next session: the random encounters for this are just not really exciting. Does anyone know about sources for tundra environment? Maybe a cool fight or a strange encounter at night watch? I still want to go for some established stuff for my first mini campaign, before I'm coming up with own things, that I might over or under estimate.
I'm thankful for any advice and any source, if you read so far! I want them having the best experience and hopefully continue playing D&D. I only now realized how much of an impact it has, having an inexperienced DM first xD

Hi all, I started learning Godot this weekend after about 5 years of no gamedev. I'm running into an issue with UI & CanvasLayer. -I created the CanvasLayer, attached some placeholder text to it as a test, and noticed that it doesn't show up unless Follow Viewport is enabled. -Changing the layer also doesn't do anything. -It's not a Z-ordering bug, as it also occurs when I have no background tilesets visible. -Taking the text out of the CanvasLayer makes it visible again, but of course I need it to be included for proper visibility/positioning on the screen. Has anyone ran into this issue before? Here's a video of what I'm experiencing (MS Paint placeholder horse riding included): https://streamable.com/s5h12h Any help would be greatly appreciated so I can continue making my stupid cowboy game.

Kidding but also not kidding, if you’re interested in a green card I don’t plan to ever seriously get married so I’m open to hearing interesting offers 🤣.
I’m a 30 year old man with a slight handicap I’d be willing to share more about if we hit it off right. 6’ tall (and super strong), animal lover, and a stereotypical gamer like most people on Reddit. Im not addicted and spent 10s of hours playing weekly though, and spend a fair amount of time in the gym. My other hobbies include lifting heavy weight, doing cardio boxing workouts, and walking my wonderful dogs around the neighborhood. I also like to casually go out with my friends for events when I have an opportunity.
I hope to hear from some of you wonderful Redditors! Have a blessed day if you made it this far.

Hi everyone! I’m interested in moving to a mountain town. I work remotely and really want to spend more time in very close proximity to mountains, lakes, and rivers. I also have 2 large active young dogs and need a backyard for them.
I want to get into backcountry skiing and/or snow shoeing with my dog, more paddling, hiking, backpacking, mountain biking, yoga, and the list goes on!
I love being in nature, and would like to meet more friends who are into the outdoors. I currently live in the redwoods, in the Santa Cruz mountains. I do love it here, but it’s getting difficult to afford and I find myself wanting to do more extreme activities in the mountains than be by the beach.
I am not huge on drinking or smoking anymore, though I do on very rare occasions, and really enjoy music and art so I usually try to keep my drinking to these events. I used to party a lot when I was in my 20’s, but now my tummy and body can no longer hang 🥲 but honestly, I’ve been happier without the substances and submerged in nature instead.
I’m in a stage in my life where I want to spend most of my time outside with good company and my dogs, prefer coffee over beer, then to curl up inside at night with my cat. Maybe I’ll go to a show or two every few months, or I don’t mind going out to eat and being the only one with water.
I understand Reno is Reno and lots of people drink here, but curious about the outdoor folks who are more into physical fitness and health?
Other places I am considering: Truckee, Auburn, Grass Valley, similar
I am a single F, no kids, looking for a solid friend group or two who are down for the weekend warrior dirtbag lifestyle most weekends
edit: this is my first Reddit post and am unsure why it says “spoiler” or how to remove it 👀

Hi ShopifyeCommerce - I'm Paul and I follow the e-commerce industry closely for my Shopifreaks E-commerce Newsletter. Each week I post a summary recap of this week's top stories, which I cover in depth in the newsletter.
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1. STAT OF THE WEEK: 92% of Zillennials prefer to shop in-store despite being digital natives. They are also leading the charge in consumer demand for cross-channel experiences. – According to PYMNTS .
2. Shopify is in talks with Amazon about adding its Buy with Prime service as a payment / fulfillment partner. When speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology Media and Telecom Conference earlier this month, Finkelstein said, “I'm optimistic we'll get there with Amazon. We have a good history and a good relationship with them.” However Finkelstein later added that if a deal were to get done with Amazon, it would be on Shopify's terms — leaving merchants in control of their customer and order data. .
3. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published a report analyzing the financial profiles of consumers who use BNPL. The report found that BNPL borrowers on average are more likely to be active users of credit cards and payday loans, more likely to exhibit signs of financial distress, had higher usage of loan products compared to non-borrowers, had a higher frequency of reported delinquencies in other accounts, and had average credit scores in the sub-prime range of 580-669 versus the near-prime range of 670-739 of non-borrowers. In a statement released with the report, CFPB Director Rohit Chopra noted that there is a common misconception that BNPL borrowers lack access to other forms of credit and that the survey data instead indicates that BNPL borrowers are more likely to use a wider variety of credit products than non-borrowers. .
4. The Biden administration is planning to take action on at least three of its half-dozen investigations of Amazon. POLITICO spoke to more than 10 people with direct knowledge of the investigations by the FTC to learn how the agency is now pursuing Amazon, why it didn't take action on the One Medical acquisition, and what's likely to happen in the coming months. .
5. eBay competes with Facebook Marketplace, but NOT with Facebook's social network — at least that's what it told a judge last Monday. eBay filed a motion to quash Meta's deposition subpoenas, claiming that it had already worked with Meta for a year and already disclosed nearly 2,500 pages of internal records to the company. eBay's lawyers said, “Meta's discovery gluttony confirms its request of eBay is not worthy of the burden Meta seeks to impose. The breadth of the subpoena is alarming.” .
6. Klaviyo laid off 10% of its workforce, or approximately 140 staff members across all teams including engineering and design, in what they said is an effort to reduce redundancy and recalibrate their areas of investment for the future. .
7. Fetch Rewards, a shopper rewards startup, also laid off 10% of its workforce, comprising of around 100 employees. Fetch was impacted by the SVB situation, but a spokesperson for the company said that the decision to restructure was in the works prior. .
8. Anchorage Digital, a fintech that offers prime brokerage services and custom API integrations for financial institutions, laid off 20% of its staff, or about 75 employees, citing regulatory uncertainty, crypto market volatility, and macroeconomic headwinds. In December 2021, the startup raised $350M in a Series D round, valuing the company at over $3B. .
9. Twitch announced it would be laying off over 400 of its 13,600 employees, also pointing to the current macroeconomic and missed projections as the cause. The layoffs come a week after cofounder and CEO Emmett Shear stepped down from his role. .
10. In addition to those lay offs at Twitch, its parent company Amazon also announced another 9,000 lay offs, bringing its total to around 27,00 since late last year. Most of the cuts will be from AWS, advertising, and human resources. .
11. Amazon sent a survey to users asking detailed questions about which features would convince them to download and try a new desktop browser from Amazon. Users were asked to rate the important of features including text to speech, extensions, data syncing across desktop and mobile devices, and blocking third-party cookies. This would not be Amazon's first attempt at a browser. The company launched Silk browser in 2011, which is built on the Chromium Project and used for its own products including Fire Tablets, Fire TVs, and Echo Show devices. .
12. Amazon Go stores have no cashiers and instead use a system of cameras, sensors, and motion detection software to track customer shopping. New York City customers are now suing Amazon in a class action lawsuit which claims that Amazon collected data on the shape and size of customers' bodies, as well as scans of some customers' hands, without proper warning. .
13. Meta rolled out blue ticks in the US, costing $11.99/mo via web or $14.99/mo via app store. Web sign ups only receive the blue checkmark on Facebook, while the mobile app sign ups includes the blue checkmark for both Facebook and Instagram. .
14. Paramount Global is rolling out a mountain of merchandise from Paramount Pictures, CBS, MTV, BET and Comedy Central to Nickelodeon and Showtime. The site launched on Wednesday under the tagline “Where Products Are Paramount.” .
15. Lands End reported that their e-commerce net revenue decreased 10.1% to $1.1B for the fiscal year, primarily driven by lower consumer demand caused by the global supply chain challenges in the first half of fiscal 2022. Gap also reported a 10% drop in online sales for Q4, however, the company's e-commerce revenue is still up 29% compared to pre-pandemic 2019. .
16. Amazon will discontinue distributing Kindle Newsstand subscriptions in September and is no longer selling new Kindle Newsstand subscriptions for magazines and newspapers as of this month. Starting in June, Amazon will no longer alow users to manage print subscriptions either, and subscribers will have to deal with the publishers independently. .
17. Ulta Beauty is transforming its e-commerce operation with Google Cloud, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Anthos cloud-based managed services solution, which will enable the company to save several hundred thousand dollars in additional licensing fees. The company is relaunching its e-commerce platform with multiple, distinct microservices to perform unique functions. .
18. ALPHV, a ransomware group, claims to have breached Amazon Ring and is threatening to publish its data. Since Ring devices support E2EE in most countries, which means that neither Amazon, law enforcement, nor ransomware groups could access uploaded footage, it is possible that ALPHV exfiltrated corporate or customer data rather than video. .
19. About You, a German fashion e-commerce platform, introduced a minimum order amount of €30 to obtain free shipping, while customers with smaller orders will have to pay €4.90. The new feeds are already in effect in Germany, and will eventually be rolled out to all markets. Last week I reported that their parent company, The German Otto Group, was disbanding its operations of MyToys.de by next year. .
20. AliExpress launched its AliExpress Choice service in Spain, which will offer a curation of the best value products the platform has to offer and a new monthly shopping event “Choice Day”. The marketplace has been offering a nine-day delivery time for customers since the beginning of this month, and hopes to have 7,500 pick-up locations throughout Spain by the end of the month. .
21. Wix partnered with Forter, a US-based trust platform for digital commerce, to increase approval frates for merchants while minimizing fraud. Forter will deliver its real-time decisions to Wix merchants in certain regions using an identity-based decision engine. .
22. Searchspring, a specialist in site search and e-commerce personalization, appointed Alex Kombos as CEO to head up its next stage of growth. Kombos previously served as CEO at Pressable, which is part of Automattic. .
23. Brightcove, a streaming technology platform, introduced new integrations with Shopify, Instagram, and Salesforce Sales Cloud to its video cloud platform. The integrations enable merchants and content creators to leverage live and on-demand video content. .
24. WooCommerce 7.5.0 was released this week with three new blocks for the Product Archive templates including a new Store Breadcrumb block, Product Results Count block, and a Catalog Sorting block. The release includes two database updates, 278 commits to WooCommerce Core, and rolls in 170 commits from the WooCommerce Blocks plugin. .
25. Some eBay affiliates were hit with hefty bank fees after Impact, the company that eBay uses to manage its affiliate program, used wire transfer instead of ACH transfer to distribute funds to affiliate's bank accounts. eBay was responsive to affiliates and said that it will reimburse those who were unexpectedly charged wire transfer fees by their banks. .
26. Plus 13 seed rounds, IPOs, and acquisitions of interest including Stripe's $6.5B raise from Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Goldman Sachs, and Temasek at a $50B valuation, a steep discount from its record valuation of $95B in 2021. .

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i have a juvenile crested gecko (winnie) who i bought from a breeder a little over a month ago. i noticed winnie was only eating if i held her and fed her fed her from the bottle, so i said something to my vet about this and she told me to attempt to ween her off the bottle and get her used to eating out of a bowl. i’ve tried everything, i’ve put multiple food bowls, shown her me filling the bowl, and absolutely nothing is working. i contacted the breeder, and asked her if she was bottled fed before purchasing and they confirmed ms. winnie has only been fed via bottle. after feeding her, i do put some food in her bowl for overnight to show her it is still there. she has an insane dependency on this and will not eat any other way. my question is: has anyone else had this hurdle? and if so, how did you help your crestie learn how to eat from a bowl?
disclaimer: i have no issue with strictly bottle feeding her but my vet heavily emphasized that i need to get her independent on feeding. she also gains weight well, and eats plenty when i do bottle feed her but she will go on a hunger strike if i just leave a bowl full.

I (27M) have been dating my GF (29F) for 3.5 years, and we've been living together for the past 2. She truly is a wonderful person; kind, compassionate, funny, beautiful, educated, and successful. We have so much fun together, want the same things in life, and have many of the same hobbies. She is the first GF I've ever had that I both love to spend time with (like a best friend), and at the same time am extremely attracted to.
That said, she had a bit of a traumatic up-bringing, and has always had issues with substances. Years ago when she was younger she had a problem with coke for a little while. She kicked that successfully and never touched it again. But her problem lately is more with alcohol. She doesn't drink every day, but sometimes she will use alcohol to self-soothe when life gets hard. When this happens, she sometimes has trouble stopping and has gotten WAY too drunk on a couple of occasions. She doesn't intend too, she just doesn't know when to stop sometimes, and she's a petite woman.
Anyways, fast forward to about 5 months ago, she was out of town for a sporting competition (staying in our camper). Her grandma died while she was away, and she performed very poorly in the competition. She called me afterwards in tears, so embarrassed about how she did. The day after the competition there was a wrap-up party and she went with her girlfriends. She started drinking by herself before even meeting up with the girls because she was embarrassed and anxious. She probably started drinking around 3 in the afternoon, then met up with the girls around 5 or 6, and then went to the party around 9. By the time she got to the party her memory gets fuzzy. She remembers being at the pre-drink with her friends, arriving at the party, dancing with the girls, and then the rest is black.
She woke up the next day in our camper by herself, but she immediately had a terrible feeling that something bad had happened. She had a couple flash memories of this guys face, and this guy kissing her but no idea where it happened, how they got there, or how she got home. Lets call this other guy "Nate". She immediately told me in tears that something "bad" happend. Ofcourse I wanted to know more.
She then texted Nate the following messages. She originally deleted these messages because she was scared of losing me - so its safe to say that she didn't shape these messages thinking that I was going to be reading them - they are her genuine words. She only told me about these messages a couple of weeks later and recovered them upon my request.
Her: "Heyy I’m so sorry to be doing this. I am trying to piece together last night. I don’t remember much but I have a sinking feeling…. I can’t hide anything at all from my boyfriend so I told him I think you tried to kiss me when we were outside but I stopped it (which I don’t think is entirely true…?) and that I got a ride back to [neighbourhood] with you and walked home from there. Can you please text me back when you get this. I feel like such an awful human being and I am so sorry, I know this is not a cool message to be receiving"
Him: Hi, dont be sorry! I am sorry that you have that sinking feeling. Would you like to chat on the phone instead? I’m just driving back from dinner but could call you quickly.
[she calls him, no answer]
Her: Don’t worry about calling me back, thank you for the offer to chat. I honestly don’t know if I want to know the details. I have responsibility in the matter I’m sure. [my boyfriend] doesn’t deserve that. Can we please please keep this between us? I don’t know WTF happened but it shouldn’t have. I want to be honest but I’m scared he will never forgive me and he is literally the best thing to ever happen to me. I told him I texted you, I would never ask you to lie for me, and there’s no pressure to text me back. I really hope the truth is that we kissed, I stopped it, I walked home. :( "
Him: "OK i’m sorry I missed the call. Speaking outside of you and I, I tend to believe that sometimes these types of things happen and while they are obviously unfortunate and create hard things to overcome in a relationship, they shouldn’t have to mean you can’t be together anymore. It sounds like you love him very much from reading the above and I would be very upset if last night meant the undoing of that. You’re a very kind and amazing person and I hope everything between both of you works out, truly."
{Conversation deleted}
The next day she calls him again and tells him she needs to know WTF happened. He said that they walked home from the party together, ended up in another friends house, hooked up on the couch, and then she left. He said they made out, he had his hands down her pants, he went down on her, and then got up to put a condom on and then when he came back he said she looked visibly uncomfortable and said she wanted to leave and "just want to be in my own bed", at which point she left. Apparently she was only in the house for 20 or 30 minutes, and they werent hooking up the whole time, so whatever happened was breif. She was a mess when she heard this. She genuinely could not believe it was true and remembered none of these details. She told me all of this and was crying.
As for "Nate". He has known my GF for almost 10 years. They used to work together and kept in touch as friends from time to time. He has tried to pursue my GF before we were dating but she never allowed his advances. She is adament that she never had any romantic interest in him ,and that if she wanted to hook up with him, it would have already happened. When I read back through there conversations, they used to ask each other to hang out quite often (before we were dating), but my girlfriend said this was because she thought he was a friend and when she was new to town she thought he would be a good way to meet people since he was established and one of the few people she was familiar with.. they rarely ever actually hung out, she usually bailed. She often referred to him as "pal" "dude" or "friend" in her messages. Maybe women can comment on this, but if she was actually interested in him, she probably wouldn't have bailed on him over and over again? And she probably would have already hooked up with him? (It'd been 10 years after all). Also, in reading there conversation, it was obvious to me that this guy had eyes for my GF. He was being flirty and she failed to recognize that. She thought he was just being friendly.
Also, for the record, there was no flirting or texting prior to this party. It was just a coincidence that he was there and according to her friends that were with her they weren't even interacting all that much. My GF has one memory of talking to him when she first arrived, but she said there was no part of her that wanted to hook up with him or had eyes for him at all. She was alone at the end of the night and this guy lived in the same area so It makes sense that she would walk home with him - she thought he was a trustworthy friend. Not sure how they ended up in the other house. But its possible that she just went in to use the bathroom since she was staying in our camper which doesn't have one. I'll never know.
Her friends who were with her that night all confirmed that she was visibly intoxicated and seemed very very out of it. I've seen her in this state before, and I know how she was feeling that day, so I believe it.
THEN a week later I literally almost run into the other GUY. It was as if the universe wanted me to talk to him. I really feel that way because he lives in a different city and the odds of us running into each other where we did was really low. I had a mini panic attack and then approached him and said we need to talk. I told him I was very upset and that my GF couldnt remember everything and I wanted to know what had happened. He told me everything. There was nothing pre-planned or pre-meditated. He told me about the phone call he had with her where she told him she couldnt remember anything and he felt really awful about what had happened. I could see by the look on his face he realized he had done something wrong. He didn't mention ONE thing about my GF initiating anything, or being all over him or anything like that. Even by his own discription it didn't sound consensual to me. He said that she made it super clear to him that I was the most important thing to her and that what happened was a huge mistake. He kept telling me that he thinks I should "bury" it if I can.
Anyways, this incident seemed to have shaken my GF to the core, as much as it has me. She immediately quit drinking alcohol cold turkey (6 months sober since this incident) and is seeing a counsellor regularly. She seems genuinely distraught whenever we talk about it. She immediately cut this guy out of her life and never wants to speak to him again.
She is adament that there was no consent and no intent, but at the same time, she also doesn't remember much of anything. She has no idea what the conversation was that led her into the house.
If there was a spectrum with sexual assault on one side, and cheating on the other, I feel as though this would be much closer to the sexual assault side. Sometimes I don't know how to act. My GF may have been sexually assaulted by someone she thought she could trust - then why do I also feel like I've been cheated on.
My GF doesnt call it "cheating" but she also doesnt call it "sexual assault". She says she was "taken advantage of" and she made a huge mistake by getting herself that drunk and putting herself in such a terrible situation.
I’m not proud of this, but one night I was feeling paranoid and I looked through her phone. I wanted to see how she described the situation to her best friend. I figured, maybe she would lie to me, but she wont lie to [her best friend]. Anyways, the messages to her friend were the exact same as what she’s telling me "I’m in utter disbelief that this happened", "no part of me wanted to hook up with this guy", "I need to quit drinking" "I ruined my life for nothing" ect.
Do you support my decision to stand by this woman?
She told me right away and I would have never found out. She is adament that it was not consensual, no part of her wanted this, and it was a HUGE mistake. And perhaps most importantly she quit drinking alcohol for good. Perhaps she needed a "rock bottom" type of event to really make a change.
I wish I could stop thinking about it.
<3

Last year, I had a miscarriage. It was the 1st real lost that I had in my life. The pain was so overwhelming and I stopped living for a month. I just eat because my husband gave me food. If I can, I will just sleep all day, forever. My mind was in a very dark place but somehow, here I am, still alive. Meanwhile, my husband just continue his everyday task as if it doesn't affect him. I don't take it against him, because we grieve differently. Maybe he saw my breakdown and just chose to be strong for the both of us.
5 months later, my MIL ask my husband to accompany her to a relative's baptism. He asked me to come with him and I said yes. What made me think that it was a good idea to go to that event? At first it was okay. We were in the church and the baby was baptised. It was a little awkward because I stand in as godparent in leu of my sister in law, who doesn't want to come because she had a miscarriage too last year. Nobody knows me personally in that family. They just know me as my husband's wife. Then, it all went wrong in the reception. Every old relative came to our table just to ask if I am pregnant. Of course we said no, and did not elaborate. Then one of the aunties ask the same question. We answered the same, then she said, "Oh, it's just fat then?". Yes I am fat. This is the heaviest that I've been. I'm trying to loose weight, I still am, but still I don't need to hear from anyone that I'm fat. I'm aware of that. After I lost our baby, the only thing left with me is my weight. I hate my body for that, I hate myself.
After the fetus died, I only found out after a few weeks. I thought, when a child is in trouble, the mother should know, like an instinct. I don't have that, I had no idea. I didn't feel a thing. My body was okay after it killed my baby. I hate it so much. I still do. Of course we went to the doctor and they can't point out why my baby died. I think it was because of me, maybe because I'm fat. So, I was thinking all of these while in the reception. While the party music was playing. While everyone was happy. Then, I saw the baby again, the one baptised. She is so tiny, so fragile. Then I wonder, why my baby has to die? I just don't get it. It's not fair. I want to take their baby, and keep her. But of course, I just just sat there and stare. It was so dumb, why did I go there. The food was definitely not worth it.
Just sharing this because I can't share it with my husband. I don't know why, but it's so tiring being vulnerable in front of other people.

Throwaway account because my sister has a Reddit and this is a sensitive situation that I don’t need my family shoving their noses into. So my Gf accidentally got pregnant from me, she is on hormonal birth control and we stopped using condoms a few months ago. I guess that was a bad choice, we will go back to using them. We have had the ‘what if you get pregnant’ conversation a few times before this and have always agreed that she’d abort and we’d split the cost. She told me on Friday that she’d been feeling unwell and bloated so took multiple pregnancy tests and they were all positive. She said she’s going to follow through with our plan as we had previously discussed, and she set up an appointment for next week and I’ll go with her and drive her to/from. The thing is that after she told me that she’s getting an abortion, for some reason I felt…melancholy, I guess? “Sad” isn’t the right word, it almost feels like loss or grief but more ambiguous. To be clear, I 100% fully agree with the abortion and will be there for her every step of the way. We are not in a good space to have a child right now, it would be very financially stressful and we do not have much social support to lean on. But my gf noticed that I was quieter over the weekend and was more of a homebody/couch potato than usual. She asked me what was wrong and I told her that I’m honestly not really sure. She asked me all weekend to talk about it but I told her I can’t really put it into words, I just feel weird, but that right now we should focus on her and the process of the abortion and we can address my feelings after she’s healed, if my issues even still exist at that point. I could tell she was not happy with this answer but I honestly didn’t know what to say. I was basically quieter all weekend because I was trying to figure out what I’m feeling so that I could explain it to her in a way that doesn’t make her feel responsible or attacked. Because that’s true, I’m not trying to say my negative feelings are her fault. Well today, when I got home from work 2 hours ago, she confronted me. She accused me of not actually being ok with the abortion and that I think less of her for it. I said no, that’s not true, and explained what I said about us not being in the right position for a child right now and that an abortion is the smart and responsible thing to do. She replied something like, well then why have you been moping around the apartment all weekend like someone just ran over your puppy? I said I don’t know why, she said that’s not good enough and she needs to hear an explanation. So I stood there for a few seconds and then said something like, we absoutly can’t have a child right now and I agree with this choice, but I guess that having a child is something I want in the future and I think for some reason having that option presented to us right now and choosing not to take it, for some reason it makes me feel some kind of loss or grief, even though I 100% do not want a child right now. I said it doesn’t make sense it’s just how I feel and it isn’t exactly logical and that I’m not trying to cast any kind of moral judgment on her because I fully agree with her choice and would do exactly the same if we swapped bodies. But for some reason I still feel this weird sense of loss but that feeling is not her fault. She was quiet and kind of paced around the living room for a couple seconds, and then she went to our room and started throwing clothes into her backpack. I asked her what she’s doing but she stayed quiet and didn’t answer me at all. Then she went to the door and got ready to leave and when she left she said “That was a lot of bullshit words just to say you resent me”. That was about 30 minutes ago and I’m just left with this overwhelming feeling of emotional whiplash. I assume she went to her sisters apartment which is only 10 minutes away, and I texted her sister to ask her if she’s there and that I’m a little concerned but if they’re together then I know it’s fine. But her sister hasn’t responded. I don’t know what I can say to her to fix this. I tried to explain even though I didn’t fully understand the feeling myself but it made everything worse. I didn’t ask to feel like this. I’m not feeling like this on purpose.

Hello wherever you are! Just a 38 year old dog dad here. 6 foot 215 pounds brown hair with one green and one blue eye(people seem to find that interesting 🤷🏻‍♂️). Have had a hectic past 4 months of travel and work and family drama . Would really like to meet someone new and take some time for myself now. I have a 7 year old red Labrador retriever and a black tuxedo cat. I plan to get another dog maybe a husky or German Shepard. Needles to say huge animal lover . My absolute passion and favorite thing to do is travel internationally. I’ve been fortunate enough to visit 50+ countries and 5/7 continents and I want to see more! I also enjoy road or train trips around North America. I love sports , food(always trying out new cuisines and restaurants ) and tech. I game but only in moderation. I love cars and going on drives on the weekend with my dog in the passenger seat. I really miss going to concerts with friends and hope to again soon, this pandemic has been a pain! If any of this strikes you as interesting feel free to send a chat!

Hi ecommerce - I'm Paul and I follow the e-commerce industry pretty closely for my Shopifreaks E-commerce Newsletter. Each week I post a summary recap of this week's top stories, which I cover in depth in the newsletter.
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1. STAT OF THE WEEK: 92% of Zillennials prefer to shop in-store despite being digital natives. They are also leading the charge in consumer demand for cross-channel experiences. – According to PYMNTS .
2. Shopify is in talks with Amazon about adding its Buy with Prime service as a payment / fulfillment partner. When speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology Media and Telecom Conference earlier this month, Finkelstein said, “I'm optimistic we'll get there with Amazon. We have a good history and a good relationship with them.” However Finkelstein later added that if a deal were to get done with Amazon, it would be on Shopify's terms — leaving merchants in control of their customer and order data. .
3. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published a report analyzing the financial profiles of consumers who use BNPL. The report found that BNPL borrowers on average are more likely to be active users of credit cards and payday loans, more likely to exhibit signs of financial distress, had higher usage of loan products compared to non-borrowers, had a higher frequency of reported delinquencies in other accounts, and had average credit scores in the sub-prime range of 580-669 versus the near-prime range of 670-739 of non-borrowers. In a statement released with the report, CFPB Director Rohit Chopra noted that there is a common misconception that BNPL borrowers lack access to other forms of credit and that the survey data instead indicates that BNPL borrowers are more likely to use a wider variety of credit products than non-borrowers. .
4. The Biden administration is planning to take action on at least three of its half-dozen investigations of Amazon. POLITICO spoke to more than 10 people with direct knowledge of the investigations by the FTC to learn how the agency is now pursuing Amazon, why it didn't take action on the One Medical acquisition, and what's likely to happen in the coming months. .
5. eBay competes with Facebook Marketplace, but NOT with Facebook's social network — at least that's what it told a judge last Monday. eBay filed a motion to quash Meta's deposition subpoenas, claiming that it had already worked with Meta for a year and already disclosed nearly 2,500 pages of internal records to the company. eBay's lawyers said, “Meta's discovery gluttony confirms its request of eBay is not worthy of the burden Meta seeks to impose. The breadth of the subpoena is alarming.” .
6. Klaviyo laid off 10% of its workforce, or approximately 140 staff members across all teams including engineering and design, in what they said is an effort to reduce redundancy and recalibrate their areas of investment for the future. .
7. Fetch Rewards, a shopper rewards startup, also laid off 10% of its workforce, comprising of around 100 employees. Fetch was impacted by the SVB situation, but a spokesperson for the company said that the decision to restructure was in the works prior. .
8. Anchorage Digital, a fintech that offers prime brokerage services and custom API integrations for financial institutions, laid off 20% of its staff, or about 75 employees, citing regulatory uncertainty, crypto market volatility, and macroeconomic headwinds. In December 2021, the startup raised $350M in a Series D round, valuing the company at over $3B. .
9. Twitch announced it would be laying off over 400 of its 13,600 employees, also pointing to the current macroeconomic and missed projections as the cause. The layoffs come a week after cofounder and CEO Emmett Shear stepped down from his role. .
10. In addition to those lay offs at Twitch, its parent company Amazon also announced another 9,000 lay offs, bringing its total to around 27,00 since late last year. Most of the cuts will be from AWS, advertising, and human resources. .
11. Amazon sent a survey to users asking detailed questions about which features would convince them to download and try a new desktop browser from Amazon. Users were asked to rate the important of features including text to speech, extensions, data syncing across desktop and mobile devices, and blocking third-party cookies. This would not be Amazon's first attempt at a browser. The company launched Silk browser in 2011, which is built on the Chromium Project and used for its own products including Fire Tablets, Fire TVs, and Echo Show devices. .
12. Amazon Go stores have no cashiers and instead use a system of cameras, sensors, and motion detection software to track customer shopping. New York City customers are now suing Amazon in a class action lawsuit which claims that Amazon collected data on the shape and size of customers' bodies, as well as scans of some customers' hands, without proper warning. .
13. Meta rolled out blue ticks in the US, costing $11.99/mo via web or $14.99/mo via app store. Web sign ups only receive the blue checkmark on Facebook, while the mobile app sign ups includes the blue checkmark for both Facebook and Instagram. .
14. Paramount Global is rolling out a mountain of merchandise from Paramount Pictures, CBS, MTV, BET and Comedy Central to Nickelodeon and Showtime. The site launched on Wednesday under the tagline “Where Products Are Paramount.” .
15. Lands End reported that their e-commerce net revenue decreased 10.1% to $1.1B for the fiscal year, primarily driven by lower consumer demand caused by the global supply chain challenges in the first half of fiscal 2022. Gap also reported a 10% drop in online sales for Q4, however, the company's e-commerce revenue is still up 29% compared to pre-pandemic 2019. .
16. Amazon will discontinue distributing Kindle Newsstand subscriptions in September and is no longer selling new Kindle Newsstand subscriptions for magazines and newspapers as of this month. Starting in June, Amazon will no longer alow users to manage print subscriptions either, and subscribers will have to deal with the publishers independently. .
17. Ulta Beauty is transforming its e-commerce operation with Google Cloud, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Anthos cloud-based managed services solution, which will enable the company to save several hundred thousand dollars in additional licensing fees. The company is relaunching its e-commerce platform with multiple, distinct microservices to perform unique functions. .
18. ALPHV, a ransomware group, claims to have breached Amazon Ring and is threatening to publish its data. Since Ring devices support E2EE in most countries, which means that neither Amazon, law enforcement, nor ransomware groups could access uploaded footage, it is possible that ALPHV exfiltrated corporate or customer data rather than video. .
19. About You, a German fashion e-commerce platform, introduced a minimum order amount of €30 to obtain free shipping, while customers with smaller orders will have to pay €4.90. The new feeds are already in effect in Germany, and will eventually be rolled out to all markets. Last week I reported that their parent company, The German Otto Group, was disbanding its operations of MyToys.de by next year. .
20. AliExpress launched its AliExpress Choice service in Spain, which will offer a curation of the best value products the platform has to offer and a new monthly shopping event “Choice Day”. The marketplace has been offering a nine-day delivery time for customers since the beginning of this month, and hopes to have 7,500 pick-up locations throughout Spain by the end of the month. .
21. Wix partnered with Forter, a US-based trust platform for digital commerce, to increase approval frates for merchants while minimizing fraud. Forter will deliver its real-time decisions to Wix merchants in certain regions using an identity-based decision engine. .
22. Searchspring, a specialist in site search and e-commerce personalization, appointed Alex Kombos as CEO to head up its next stage of growth. Kombos previously served as CEO at Pressable, which is part of Automattic. .
23. Brightcove, a streaming technology platform, introduced new integrations with Shopify, Instagram, and Salesforce Sales Cloud to its video cloud platform. The integrations enable merchants and content creators to leverage live and on-demand video content. .
24. WooCommerce 7.5.0 was released this week with three new blocks for the Product Archive templates including a new Store Breadcrumb block, Product Results Count block, and a Catalog Sorting block. The release includes two database updates, 278 commits to WooCommerce Core, and rolls in 170 commits from the WooCommerce Blocks plugin. .
25. Some eBay affiliates were hit with hefty bank fees after Impact, the company that eBay uses to manage its affiliate program, used wire transfer instead of ACH transfer to distribute funds to affiliate's bank accounts. eBay was responsive to affiliates and said that it will reimburse those who were unexpectedly charged wire transfer fees by their banks. .
26. Plus 13 seed rounds, IPOs, and acquisitions of interest including Stripe's $6.5B raise from Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Goldman Sachs, and Temasek at a $50B valuation, a steep discount from its record valuation of $95B in 2021. .

I hope you find this news recap helpful. See you next week!
-PAUL

For anyone who browses this sub on a semi-frequent basis, keys being a bottleneck for progress is a common pain point to see mentioned.
There's a decent number of tasks that require a key to complete, some of these task are skippable such as Good Fortune (extract the Golden Deagle from Room 302), Return to Sender (Sattiq Poppy Farmer House). Others are not such as Toxin Research (extract research documents from the Ashika Science Center) or Air Traffic (Call in Executive's Aircraft from the Air Traffic Control Tower). One of the common complaints is players not having the keys and being unable to find them despite repeatedly farming supply drops and HVT contracts. Another aspect of this is having the key but being reluctant to infil with it because of the danger of losing the key and then being stuck with the earlier problem.
For those familiar with Escape from Tarkov, they have this problem with a lot of tasks with keys that have very low spawn rates but many earlier tasks are purposefully built around a required key and include a fixed spawn point.
The task "Checking" is a very early quest in Escape from Tarkov and requires the player to retrieve a bronze pocket watch from the cab of a fuel truck on the map Customs. The fuel truck's cab is locked with the "Machinery Key" and the key has a 100% spawn rate in a specific jacket in the Customs three story dorms. This leads to players potentially clashing over the jacket spawn to get the key as well as fighting over the truck itself to retrieve the watch (EFT does have player rather than instance based quest item spawns so you can theoretically just show up late after someone has already unlocked the truck and grab the item).
DMZ could implement a similar system for keys that are required for quests. Add a fixed spawn for quest keys where they will spawn in with a single use (they can still drop with 2-3 uses from HVTs or other places you find keys) so players who need the keys for a quest can rush the spawn for the key. To use a hypothetical example for DMZ, the Ashika Science Center key with a single use has a 100% spawn rate inside the dome of the Zaya Observatory. This makes it possible to target if you need the key for quest progression but it's in enough of a hotspot that it's unlikely players who do not need the key will rush the spawn. The keys don't necessarily have to be in hotspots either, I could easily see leaving a single use 302 key somewhere in that small suburb with two ammo resupply boxes on the Eastern side of the map. It might be a little too close to a player spawn but spawn luck already impacts the difficulty of a lot of quests.
I'd accept a reduction in the loot behind the quest key doors but I personally don't believe that's necessary. Between strongholds, restricted areas and buy stations, large backpacks, three plate vests, and killstreaks aren't that hard to find. In addition, most people who are doing tasks that require keys will do so once they're at least moderately well kitted to maximize their chances of success and minimize the chance they lose the key and have to do it again. EFT also has a decent number of tasks that require a key (that also doesn't often have a fixed spawn) and the room that is unlocked is already a high value loot spawn, the "tape key" to Sanitar's office on Shoreline is a great example of this.
I also don't believe this kind of solution is particularly strange or out of place. Prior to the most recent update that reverted the changes to Building 21 access keycards, you needed to use a key every time you went into the building (yeah there was the glitch if you were in a party but that doesn't work if you're a solo player and the game being mostly built around squad play is a different discussion) and B21 has a large number of quests in it later in the mission chains so B21 access keycards were not uncommon from supply drops and could be outright purchased at buy stations for a large sum of cash to minimize that bottleneck (it's already bottlenecked by being only accessible on weekends).

Despite lots of advice that gratitude is a mentally healthy behavior, my OCD brain has decided to make being grateful a compulsion. I need to list all the things, health statuses, people, events etc that I am grateful for both aloud, in my head and in writing. Otherwise, I worry that those things will be taken away. When something does go wrong (injury, illnesses, tragic event etc), I attribute it to not being grateful enough. Does anyone else do this? Any tips for stopping the cycle?

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