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I'm going to preface this right away by saying I know exactly how stupid, irrational and childish I'm being. This is exactly why I'm asking for help.

On paper I have a pretty good life. I have two jobs and I'm doing a PhD part time, I have good friends and I have a strong relationship. I'm not really good at anything apart from being booksmart, so I like to play video games. My friends also like to play video games and they're really freaking good at them, so we usually get together and play games, then also travel around and enter tournaments.

Problem is, I get really, really sad when I lose a lot. I don't mean yelling and screaming and calling people names because that's horrible, I just sink into a deep spiral. I think everyone's laughing at me, I feel like I'm good for nothing and that I'll never amount to anything or improve at all.

So I hate getting myself in the spiral, it makes me a pain to be around as my friends and partner hate seeing me be sad, but it also stands in the way of me actually improving as the depressed feeling overpowers actually adapting and improving.

Yes I know it's video games and yes I know it's dumb, but I can imagine this feeling is comparable to things like chess, sports and other competitive things. How do I stop being a little bitch and overcome this? I don't want to just outright stop as I'll be losing one of the things that brings my friends and I together and one of the few things I get to do outside of work and study.

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What's a good argument for someone who says that if you like short haired girls you wanna fuck little boys?

I'm fucking mad, me and my friends were talking about Tracer from Overwatch over Curse and they said this. I do have a thirst for short haired girls but I ain't a faggot.

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Do I leave a job I was fired from on my resume?

I was there for 2 years, and the experience might be beneficial to the job I am interviewing for tomorrow. I was fired for sleeping on the job during a 16 hour shift where someone called off and I had to stay. On the other hand, the companies may have a good rapport with each other and may tell them not to hire me.

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I got hired as a presentation team member at Target. My orientation is tomorrow. I have no idea what I just signed up for. My future boss said something about putting up promotional posters and such, but the actual job description describes heavy lifting and rearranging products. Am I a stocker?

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Does anyone have general advice on how to break up with a girl who's insecure and very attached? She believes what we have will be forever..

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Hey /adv/ My best friend plans to break up with his gf, because he met somebody new. Problem is, he plans to force her to break up and blame everything on her, while still progressing his new relationship right now. I wouldn't say shit about it, but i've been on the "recieving end" of such act recently. My ex-gf broke up with me, tried hiding that she cheated and played the blame card. What should i do guys? He openly flamed my ex for doing this shit, yet he now wants to do the same stuff without any concerns.

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Can I take classes for engineering as a computer science major?

I may be accepted into a great school as a CS major because I lack a course requisite in time for engineering

This means if I attend the school for CS I'll have to wait until I have about 27-30 credits before major transferral

I'm a freshman now, to be a sophomore.

I can go to another school with an engineering major already, however this other school is literally like ten times better.

I can wait a year sure, but I really don't want to. I can't stand it where I'm at anymore, I have nothing in common with most of the people and am an outsider to the culture.


What do?

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Is love meant for eveyone?

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My friend's bike was stolen a couple days ago
>police have been notified
>it's been spotted around the area but culprits have not been caught yet
>absolutely heartbroken
>please help me get him back

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Hey can i get some advice from people who've left a home without family support?

I'm currently going to college but the combination of a shitty home life + having to do schoolwork and hangout with friends is really taking its toll and I'd like to leave.

My parents are fairly wealthy and have decided to pay for school and let me use their car, but if I leave I won't have a car or any money.

My plan was to get a job, save up about 1200 and then leave if I have to (things have been getting pretty bad) and sleep on a friends couch until I can afford an apartment.

Thoughts? Things I haven't considered?

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So, there's this girl whose virginity I took about a month ago, we both thought it'd end up being something serious but recently just figured we're better off just being friends because of the distance. She was the one who brought it up so I'm not hurting her feelings or anything. Still want to be there for her when she feels like shit though, and tonight seems to be one of those times. I really don't know how to handle this though, chat log below:

(was busy for about 3 hours, sent a message, seemed like she was asleep for about half an hour but then she read it)
Me: Yay, she's alive!
Her: She wants to die though!
Me: :c Why?
Her: Because. Let me be.
Me. What happened?
Her: Ok, here's a tip. Most girls sometimes mean "Don't let me be at all" when they say "let me be", but you don't fucking ask what happened, jesus.
Me: Alright, I don't know what happened and if you don't want to talk about it that's alright. I just don't want you to feel bad. :/
Her: Then comfort me?? It's not so fucking hard, jesus.
Me: It's a little hard when you seem pissed as fuck at me, feels like I did something. Did I?
Her: -_- Bye, see you later
Me: But, no. I want to talk to you.
Her: Sucks to be you.
Me: Talk to me, [name]. I want to know what happened. Never seen you this upset :(
Me: <3
Her: Fuck off
Me: I want to talk to you and I want to comfort you :/
Me: I'm not going to bed until I know you're ok

So...what the hell? I'm not sure if she's upset because of me or because of something completely unrelated, and I have no idea how to comfort her right now.

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okay i need some advice pretty quick

>virgin
>never had a girlfriend
>meet this girl through friends of friends sort of thing
>she's not crazy pretty or anything but she's quite funny and we connect on things like video games, movies etc
>by some divine miracle she likes me and i get her number
>hang out with a few of my friends the next day and tell them about this chick
>they tell me not to waste my time with her
>confused.png
>think about what they said the next day
>say fuck it, this is gonna be one of my only chances to find someone
>call her and arrange to get coffee next week
>day comes, nervous as fuck
>tried to dress nice, probably looked like a sperg
>she comes in and sits down and we talk for what seemed like hours
>eventually she says she has to go but arrange another date, this time dinner on the weekend
>excited as fuck
>buy a suit
>we go to a really nice restaurant, food was really nice
>she looked great, objectively 7.8/10
>finish meal, pay the bill
>m'lady
>kiss outside restaurant
>it feels like that sequence in requiem for a dream where they shoot heroin
>constantly text her, become really close
>feel like i could tell her anything
>a couple of months go past, we go on dates all the time
>movies, dinner, bike rides, all the regular shit
>i've been round her apartment a couple of times and she's been round mine
>it's never progressed from kissing and making out
>become frustrated
>i ask her why we haven't had sex yet
>she becomes all serious and explains to me how she used to date skeevy guys and a lot of them were into hard drugs
>a lot of those dudes had contracted hiv from fucking prostitutes without protection and sharing needles and what have you
>dawns on me what she's telling me
>'i have hiv'
>calm on the outside, meltdown on the inside
>she seems pretty calm and nonchalant about it
>tells me she loves me
>tells me she wants to have sex with me
>i tell her i don't want aids
cont.

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Seriously? How do people get into relationships? All the things you see people doing in candid amateur porn videos, your girlfriends have done with other guys, and you still buy them shit and fawn over them.

Yes, sex is natural, but does this not destroy the image of a romantic relationship for anyone else?

Personally I'd rather be alone or have one night stands than pretend the person I'm with is anything special. What do you guys think?

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Sorry for the stupid image, I'm fucking shaking.

My mom just got a call from the special victim's unit. It's about my little brother.

Is there a chance he's okay?
This feels ridiculous but I don't know what else to do with my eyes and hands right now.

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How do I go back in time, /adv/? I'm 18 but I feel so old, like the best years of my life are already over. I just want to go back to my childhood days where life was easy and there were no worries or hard decisions to make...

So yeah, any CERN employees here? Pls tell me how to go back in time thx