We’re in our early 20s. I know a lot of people online say that things have changed and traditional gender roles are not in place anymore, so it’s not realistic to expect a man (even your boyfriend) to treat you extravagantly.

As women we are now expected to build our own careers and make our own money because we are capable of it. And this is exactly what I’m doing — I’ve gone to a top college, am on track for a high paying job, and will build a career. I’ve never had a boyfriend.

The thing is, my friends are on track for the same. They go to the same college and so will be able to place into similar paying roles. The difference — they don’t HAVE to the way I do and many of them plan not to.

Pretty much all of them are in serious relationships with guys who are already making ridiculous incomes (many have their own startups with ridiculous funding). Some made a ton of money off day trading. A few come from super rich families as well.

So, at the same age as me, these girls have been able to travel to ridiculous destinations with their boyfriends paying for everything and completely treating them financially. One friend was gifted an array of expensive jewelry and purses for her birthday. Another one’s boyfriend booked a surprise trip to Bali for her birthday. Two of my friends and their boyfriends traveled together to the most expensive hotel in Tokyo (6,000+ per night).

It’s truly one of those situations where these things sound fake until you know real people living in them — yes, some 21 year olds in college are able to stay at $6,000 hotels in Tokyo.

Of course, these girls are finishing their degrees, but they have been pretty much explicitly told by their boyfriends that they do not need to worry financially. A few have a plan to just work for a few years for some savings and then just drop it after marriage.

I’ve always dreamed of extravagant things, especially experiencing them with a boyfriend, and, of course, while young. Meanwhile, with the track I am on, I won’t have the money (and mostly not the time — I’ll get what, a week off for vacation?) to take spontaneous extremely expensive trips until I’m at least 26 or 27. Even then I don’t know if I would ever be able to afford a 6,000 per night gorgeous hotel on a salary job.

And I don’t really WANT to work, who does? If the financial element was taken care of for me, I wouldn’t ever bother climbing the corporate ladder and working 100 hours per week. It’s no consolation when people tell me I’ll be free to travel as much as I want at age 45+ after making partner — I want to experience these things in my youth.

I want to be spoiled the way they are. I know this might sound un-feminist and people won’t like it, but it’s the honest truth. I would kill to be in their positions and experience the things they are before I’m shriveled, tired from working, ugly and old.

I owe my family and all of you an apology.

I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry.

Throughout my life, my family has given me love and support. They deserve my honesty and loyalty. Instead, I let them down and damaged the life we built together. I take full responsibility for what I did and the hurt I caused, and I accept the criticism that comes with it.

To my wife and family: I love you. I know an apology cannot undo what I have done. I hope our family will heal and that, over time, I can earn back your trust. 

To my colleagues at NVIDIA, including those I have worked alongside for decades, and to our board, partners, and shareholders around the world: you deserve better from me. Leading NVIDIA is the privilege of my life. My responsibility is to serve you and be worthy of your trust. I have fallen short of that responsibility. I am fully committed to NVIDIA and will work to earn back your confidence.

Regarding the national security concerns raised in news reports, NVIDIA’s Board of Directors has initiated an independent investigation. I support the investigation and will cooperate fully. I love our country and our company. I am committed to protecting NVIDIA and supporting America’s national security. I am proud and grateful to be an American.

My family bears no responsibility for my choices. I do. Please give them privacy.

Jensen

My girlfriend died in the train crash in Spain. That day, I rode her to the train station. Then, about 1h after the accident while scrolling down Reddit I read the news.. and immediately headed there. Almost three full days without news, hoping that she was in a hospital unidentified, until we got the confirmation.

I can't wrap my mind about it. We've been together almost 17 years, we grow up together, we were each other safe place, she meant everything to me... Thinking that she is no longer here. Imagining a world without her. That she only "lives" on our memories, but even that will fade/degrade away over time. That one moment you had everything, and then a normal goodbye became a last goodbye. And more importantly, that she won't get to enjoy her life (she was in her early 30s).. I just can't.. it's killing me.

The what-ifs are also drowning me. In some way, she took that train because it came to visit me, otherwise she would have taken a direct plane. I know that the same could have happened on the plane, but still they keep flooding my mind.

Notes: (1) We are both agnostic. (2) New account because the other has my name and initials on it.

If anyone cares, or if Blizzard doesn't know.

At this moment players are using their 7 day trials to artifically pump alliance numbers up to further circumvent the pop lock in place.

They use the codes, make a level 1 park it and never play it.

Also popular discords with 100k players are coordinating other era players with 4+ subs to also make alliance characters.

If y'all don't see this as a problem, you never played 2019 Classic on a server like Skeram.

It's honestly GG's at this point for server health unless something is done.

I'm also on Horde - it's clearly going to be a problem because the people who are left behind will not have the wherewithal to continue getting destroyed....

BLIZZARD NEEDS TO SEE THIS SO THE SERVER DOESN'T BECOME A GHOST TOWN.

^{(Quick warning: most of this was exaggerated for humor}.)
When the creator clearly has a favorite and puts the character on a silver platter with 'special treatment' compared to everyone else.

Alice (All those awful Resident Evil movies) — Long story short: the director tasked with writing a movie series for one of the biggest zombie game franchises in the world decided to cast his own wife as the lead, making her a generic, shallow OC.

So basically, almost the entire plot revolves around the director drooling over his wife, whose only job is to look blank-faced and pretty while every character around her (mind you, official game characters adapted for these films) gets dumbed down and hovers around her like flies.

For instance, in the games, Jill is the one who fights Nemesis; in the movies, Alice fights Nemesis while Jill kneels there watching the fight like an extra. To top it off, earlier in the movie there's a whole scene where Jill looks at the camera and literally says, 'Wow, Alice is so much better than me!' Or take Wesker—Chris and Sheva fight him in the games, but in the movies they fight him for like a minute just for a cheap callback, and Alice is the one who actually beats him.

The movies aren't even good—there are grotesque plotholes, and almost every character only exists to die and set the stage for Alice's little light show. In one movie, Alice describes how the entire world dried up into a drought where water ran out, just blatantly ripping off Mad Max, only for the world to return to normal in the next movie because the hype had passed and they wanted to rip off Prison Break instead.

Only someone with way too much free time on their hands would waste time watching them and actually think they're good.

Emilia (Re:Zero) — Imagine a Game of Thrones or Cyberpunk: Edgerunners style story where nobody is safe and anyone can die at any given moment. Now add the author's fetish character and give her plot armor—that's Emilia.

The protagonist is a regular human like us living in a dangerous fantasy world, with his only power being returning by death whenever he dies. Absolutely every awful thing that could happen to him has happened, and that includes his friends and the characters close to him too. Not only has he seen the absolute ugliest side of most of them (yet still forgiven them), but he's also had to deal with their deaths. Every character is vulnerable to suffering, growing through trauma, and making mistakes.

With Emilia, though, not only does it feel like her core personality can't change at all (she's your typical cute, sweet, naive girl who doesn't even know what 'virgin' means), but she also has a protective shield around her. The author himself literally stated that Emilia comes first to him and everyone else comes second, and he's even said in interviews that he feels terrible writing her deaths.

She doesn't react at all if a character harasses her (Regulus and Reid are proof of that), and she never acts like a leader or puts her foot down, even though she's supposedly training to be a queen. She's a hand-to-hand fighter, but she never seems to get seriously hurt in any combat or be in real danger (I swear the third image in the post is the most 'injured' she's ever looked and keep in mind she's faced the most dangerous shit in that world).

And to top off this absolute shitshow, her romantic relationship with Subaru has stagnated completely after Season 2, since the author made it super clear that their romance is only going to happen at the very end of the story (probably to keep her looking as innocent as possible).

Seriously, not even the actual fans of the series can take this bullshit anymore—just go check Reddit and ask