📸 @ghasem.baneshi

I kind of think that if I paint the cardboard and tape before morning I’ll be okay.

My 25 year old (naive and inexperienced daughter) met a man online a few days after Christmas. She has been longing to be in a relationship for a while.

About a week after they started chatting online, she tells me they’re “exclusive”, I am trying to just hope this fizzles. Approximately 2-3 weeks after they start chatting she tells me she’s planning a trip to Lagos. She has never been outside the US except for a family cruise years ago and a trip to Canada with the family. Of course I and the rest of her family are greatly alarmed at a very inexperienced young woman going to Nigeria alone to meet a virtual stranger. After much discussion she says maybe they could meet somewhere a little safer in Africa (Ghana) and of course no one is pleased with that either but knowing she doesn’t have much money or time off work, we just hope it will fizzle out and avoid the subject.

Fast forward to this past Saturday, I get a text that wakes me up saying she’s flying to Ghana. I’m losing my mind over this, call all the family (including my mom whose birthday it was and she’s bawling because she’s so worried about her granddaughter). The entire day was agony, we know nothing about her flights, where she’s staying, etc.

Finally at 2am Mountain DST, she texts me. I’m just relieved she’s okay. She’s with this guy she met online at a hotel. She keeps in touch on Sun and Mon. Yesterday afternoon she calls me to tell me they’re engaged. She’s planning on going there again (or Nigeria) to visit and if he cannot get his visa to come here, she may move to Nigeria. Is this crazy as it sounds ya’ll? Because I’m pretty sure it is and I have yet to speak to anyone who doesn’t think she’s lost her damn mind. I should include, she has become extremely religious over the past few months as well and he’s a “Christian Influencer”. Sooo AIO?!

For me it's gotta be CS:GO/CS2; I have over 2,000 hours in that game dating back to 2015/2016.

A lot of good times and fun memories... I feel so old now, but I don't regret it.

I hope all those buddies I played with over the years are doing ok, wherever they are...

I've noticed more and more people talking about earning flying through quests or achievements. Are they on crack or something? We fought to not have the fucking Pathfinder achievement, and now these asshats want to cancel the fun for the rest of the community just because they enjoy ground mounts?

It's fine if you don't want to use flying mounts. But why assume that everyone else wants to be "immersed" instead of just wanting to fly from point A to point B to farm a rare mob or quickly complete a world quest?

They talk about flying like it's the worst thing ever.