To be honest im just a poor 16 year old kid, so i saw a lot of videos on internet its all about the high-class people and i was so motivated to earn money and at the same time im so jealous of them cuz how do they live so comfortable? And here i am worrying about my future, trying to grow and survive. To all billionaire, millionaire and rich people there...how do you guys get on top? What kind of work do you guys work? And how did you make it? I also want to be a billionaire nor millionaire but i dont know where to start.. I was searching and looking for a way to earn in online cuz i want to be rich at a young age then be free and travel everywhere. I am from Philippines, i live in my grandma house where my 2 uncles is my guardian parents. Im separated from my family and actually i am part of broken family, my dad already has a another family with 3 children haha and my mom is working and still supporting me and i have a big brother who is also fighting to survive he is 18 and this year he will be a college. I just want to share this with you guys, at the age of 7 our life ended there. Through out the problems we faced, the situations we encountered,the decisions we made and the realization of reality, i am so grateful amd thankful to God that we are still fighting and standing on this life, may God guide us always and the person also reading may God always guide you too.. i know this is a random post, i just want to share this online cuz i dont know where to share it lol haha. Its like a diary lmao I wish i will be a billionaire someday then finally,i can be free, i can travel, buy all the things i want, donations,help those people who needed,buy a house and lot and live so comfortable and lively.

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Background:
My mother has always been an alcoholic and codependent on men her whole life (Grey Goose Vodka being her drink of chose). Every man she had chosen including my father were all physically and mentally abusive to her. She dated this one guy for four years when I was a young teenager that used to psychologically mess with mine and my brother’s head to make sure we understood that we were just their little slaves who were only good for cleaning the house and washing cars. We weren’t allowed to just be kids. Mom always treated me and my brother like inconveniences in her life. When we were kids, she would flick cigarettes on the ground and she would watch as we picked them up off the ground for her. Otherwise she would completely isolate herself from us and never come out of her room where she drank herself to sleep at night.
I always gave her grace. Always forgave her for treating me less than her own flesh and blood. She never let me confine in her or come to her for anything because she would tell me I should “just get over it.” Or that it was my fault for one reason or another. Despite that though, I continued to give her the benefit of the doubt and loved her anyways. I always thought that maybe she loved me and didn’t know how to show it. Now as an adult in my late 20s, I was just starting to detach from her emotionally thinking that it was best for me to finally move on and break free from her abuse.
Fast forward to two months ago:
My mom had gotten super drunk and had been having arguments/ fights with my current step-dad. Well something happened and she suffered a massive head trauma to the brain. A Careflight helicopter had to get her from her house. She had no pulse and they worked on her the entire way to the hospital. Their home actually became a potential crime scene because they saw she had fucking bruises all over her body. My stepfather is under investigation for possibly causing the injury. It is confirmed he has physically abused both by kicking her and punching her on her arms and legs but there is not hard evidence that he caused the brain injury.
My mom had to undergo not one but two brain surgeries because the head trauma had caused intense bleeding in her brain and they had found fractures of her skull in her brain. They had these two brain tubes that went straight into her head to drain the loose blood out. She was like that for two weeks. The doctors said she was lucky to be alive. They also said that they believed my step-father did it because there was no way a person could cause that themselves.
Well a few days went by and something went terribly wrong. They pulled the tubes from her head and she started going into shock. She went unconscious and I was there freaking out thinking she was going to die before my eyes. The doctors had me leave the room and I had a terrible meltdown right there in one of the hallways at the hospital. She ended up surviving the surgery again.
The doctors had to cauterize a main artery in the brain this time. Luckily, they saw she had lots of healthy arteries so they were willing to take the risk.
She was in a coma after that for a whole week. One day during that week we were going to have a meeting on whether it was time to let her go. But the day before the meeting she woke up from the coma. It was another miracle. She would get better every day after that. She eventually got into Rehab early May.
While all of this is happening, I did all of mom’s insurance claims and talked with the investigator on mom’s case. I did all of her medical paperwork and did everything I could to protect her. During her stay at the hospital, my step-father wasn’t allowed to see her at the hospital. All the doctors in that hospital that worked on her case said they believed he did it. He had to have an armed guard with him during visitation.
Unfortunately, before she could be admitted to the new rehab facility, the Director of the facility said the only way they will take her in is if I agreed to let my step-father have free rein to come and go as he pleases because they don’t have the security staff to escort him and he is not technically convicted yet. I reluctantly agreed because what other choice did I have? She had to have rehab.
Well, my step-father has been with her now the entire time she has been in rehab. Brainwashing her into believing he didn’t do it (because she doesn’t remember how the accident happened). She has admitted several times he had hit her but her memory is so fragile that she doesn’t remember admitting his abuse to the doctors. That then told me about it. (They still won’t do anything about it ironically)
The doctors are suggesting she go to another rehab in the next two weeks that is supposed to be good for psychiatric treatment. My step-father doesn’t want her to go because maybe the truth will come out. So he has convinced her not to go.
Fast forward again two weeks later:
I went to go see my mom. She immediately asked, “what do you want” like I was already unwanted in her eyes. I had waited an hour for her in her room at the rehab while her and my-stepfather got done eating at the cafe downstairs before they finally headed back to her room. I didn’t feel comfortable talking with my stepfather around but mom said “whatever you want to say to me you can say in front of my husband”.
I tried to ask her why she didn’t want to go to the other rehab to get treatment for her alcoholism (which apparently my step-father already convinced her not to go). That she made me a promise to make better decisions for herself like getting psychiatric treatment which she could get at this next rehab. I told her I watched her die and be brought back to life and was with her the whole month she was at the hospital taking care of her. I did all her medical paperwork, and had next of kin rights to make the best decisions for her then.
She said, “okay so?” That’s what I got from her after thinking I had lost her and took care of her all that time.
My stepfather tried to cut me off while I was talking and I said "I wasn’t talking to you I was talking to my mother."
So then he immediately went and got a staff member to have me thrown out. Literally thrown out of the facility. Mom was fine with it and told me to “leave and goodbye forever”…. I am having to let her go and wrap my head around the fact that she is choosing her husband over me “again.”
She doesn’t want me in her life anymore even though I have been through everything with her and gave her all the love I could give another person but its too much of a sacrifice for me to continue doing that for a person who will never appreciate or love me the way I loved her. All the years of pain she has caused me I was willingly to forgive her because I love her so much. Turns out it means nothing to her and I have to live the rest of my life getting over that.
The staff (I think the acting head nurse) didn’t even ask me anything about what was going on and just had me thrown out without question. I don’t know what my step-father told them but he convinced them I was trouble enough to kick out. He has managed now to keep my grandmother and me away from her.
My grandmother can no longer visit because she was borrowing my mom's car (which she was fine with at first) then my stepfather went to where my grandmother lives and stole the care back without my grandmother knowing (he had a spare key). Her purse was still in the car because she was going to run some errands and had left it. He drove off and when my grandmother came back she had no car and her purse was stolen. He must have had a friend or one of his sons drive the car that my step-father was in for him to have driven it off. The next day I found out about it, he told me to go get her purse from the car and return it to her myself.
This rehab facility let my stepfather run around and do whatever he wanted. Now he's calling all the shots and brainwashing her to believe that nobody is on her side but him, while simultaneously driving away all her loved ones.
The investigator doesn’t know if they have enough evidence to support his conviction but it may be months or years if ever that happens. All the while, my mother is blind to anything other than my stepfather giving her a toxic relationship of codependency and abuse. She is willing to allow her husband to kick me out of her rehab.
I am done overextending my love and time on the worst people on planet earth. It doesn’t make it any less painful as it is my mother but a mother who has been the most selfish person imaginable. I have learned that there are just bad people in this world. Even those that are supposed to love you the most. And I can break the chain by starting a family of my own one day and give my children the love and attention they deserve unconditionally.

He told my friend that he’s gonna whoop my shit after school because he can control his “adrenaline” or sum shit.
I whooped his ass 😀👍 (I also dropped my Vietnamese sandwich which kinda sucks too I was lookin forward to eating it)

to preface this i’m a girl, and all throughout my life i can remember only having crushes on girls, since i was in like the 4th grade. i’ve never had a crush on a boy before, like while talking with friends i would be like yea this guy is cute but i have never had a crush on one before. strangely though, i have had boyfriends before. with my first boyfriend i don’t think i felt any type of romantic attraction to him, i just went with the flow and ended things with him pretty quickly.
with my second boyfriend, he pursued me heavily and that’s how we ended up dating. it took me like 6 ish months to get comfortable with being openly romantic and physical with. like we had a sexual relationship just fine yea but it took me a lot longer to feel comfortable with romance with him. eventually though i think i did fall in love with him, maybe? i honestly can’t differentiate if i was in love with him or if i loved his company, hanging out with him and his personality and grew so accustomed to being around him that i thought it was love. by the time we were over i wasn’t fighting us breaking up out of love, it was more so out of pure attachment.
but following that relationship is where i really become confused because as far as i can tell, he was an outlier and broke the consistent pattern of me only liking women that i had had for my entire life. since i ended things with him i’ve tried being with a handful of different men but i don’t know, never really cared to get to know any of them and didn’t feel an attraction to any at all. is it possible that i’m just fully gay and not bisexual like i thought i was?

I wanna put it up for discussion cuz it's been bugging me for ages
In a fight between Billy or Gina vs Kaiju No.9 from the Kaiju no.8 series who wins? Could you explain your reasoning?
If you need details on Kaiju No.9 i can provied in form of an edit

I've never had a decent relationship with my mum. It isn't due to lack of trying. I think my mum is narcissistic and abusive. Since I was 4, I've been hit/slapped with the hand or multiple random objects, yelled at, locked in dark rooms, been chased with a burning hot item to get burnt, been chased with an electric bat, had my shoes and clothes thrown out of the house, would get hit more because my mum claimed her hand hurt when she hit me, made to drink milk with ants, are among the physical harm I remember. She'd often be nasty when I score a 17/20 instead of 19, call parents of guys in my class who were extremely violent and make a systematic plan to scare tf out of me, would call parents of children who'd fail and cry about how much of a failure I am, call the parents of top scorers and ask them what did they do differently to make their child score better, plan to drop me at my uncle's place (my uncle is extremely physically abusive and has almost beat his child to death) she'd plan to drop me there so that I get abused too, she'd cry and yell when I'd not draw or colour, sing, dance or play as well as my cousin, humiliate me infront of guests, expect me to thank her everytime she gave me food, milk or water I'd get yelled at or hit if I would forget, make a behaviour evaluation chart and I'd get 5 starts based on how much of a submissive puppy I am, take credit for all my accomplishments list goes on ngl. When I was around 10, I was forced into this music class and for pressured into taking part in reality shows. Both my mum and the music teacher were abusive and when my music teacher humiliated me, my mum would feel humiliated and abuse my physically and psychologically at home. I've never been allowed to go out and play as a child because I was always supposed to study or do co curriculars. While the physical abuse continued for 8-10 years, the mental extended post the same. I'm 21 rn and I'm not allowed to go out with my friends for more than a couple of hours once a week, not allowed for sleep overs, none of my friends are allowed to come home etc. The constant abuse led me develop a phobia towards anything competitive including exams. Even looking at a question paper makes me want to puke. I feel like fainting while studying. I've survived 7 ODs including one which almost took me to a state of coma a couple of months ago and God knows how many SH attempts since I was an 8 yo. I used to be a deans list student until 2 years ago but after that, something snapped. My anxiety makes me puke and faint before exams and i end up missing them. I ended up missing 19 exams over the past couple of years. All of which I should give before i graduate next year. I'm under 5 pills for severe anxiety, depression and OCD which make me physically exhausted. Yesterday in the midst of a fight, among a plethora of things my mum yelled a couple of them went like, "I wish you and your grand mum died", you make me want to commit suicide. "I will commit suicide just so you regret not loving me and to prove that something bad can happen to me too" "you are the one who's ruined your life. You can't don't have the audacity to take responsibility for it, which is why you blame me". While I've told my father and sister about the abuse, nobody seems mad at her because she'd do it when I'm alone. And honestly since the time I left home for University, my sister is not the same person I once could confide in. My mum constantly cries and victimises herself infront of my sister giving her an impression of me doing something bad to my mum and making her feel the necessity to protect her. I genuinely feel lonely and I don't know whom to confide in. I don't think therapy is taking me anywhere and my partner gets very aggressive when I tell them and says they hope my mum dies. That's not what I want to hear. I probably need a bit of gentleness and acknowledgement because that's precisely what Ive never received. I have an exam day after tomorrow and I'm just stuck with what she said yesterday. She doesn't even let me use the word abuse and starts crying endlessly the moment I confront her. But tbh I really don't think she has any remorse. I'm so worried that my bad academic record might get me stuck with her and the thought makes me sick to my gut and want to puke and pass away. I really don't know how I can help myself atp when even getting out of bed feels heavy and like a chore. Is this normal? Am I overreacting or something? Any words or suggestions would help. This is probably the tip of the ice berg. I don't think I can type out each and everything here. Is this all my life is/will be? Also, if I go no contact with her my dad and sister will probably go no contact with me and i genuinely love them.

I want to make a chapter near the end of the 5 minutes Yuta currently has. He’ll have a timer counting down at half a minute left, Monster Rika is fighting alongside Yuta with him preparing a Hollow Purple and Rika’s cursed energy beam. Sukuna pulls some binding vow shenanigans and dodges the combined attack. Yuta, however, already closes the distance between them, and lands a heavy Black Flash. The black lightning lingers, and then when they clear, Monster Rika is nowhere to be seen. Instead, an adult Rika in a wedding dress can be seen next to Sukuna. Time has slowed to a crawl. The timer reads 15 seconds left.
“Are you ready to keep our promise?”
“… I need just one more favor before.”
10 seconds, Yuta is reaching for the ring on his hand,
“For you, Yuta? Anything.”
“Protect him. Just till the excess energy runs out.”
5 seconds, the ring slips off his finger,
“Are you sure? It might be a while.”
“Yeah. You waited my whole life for me, it’s okay if I have to wait for you.”
1 second, the ring lands at Yuji’s feet. Gojo’s brilliant six eyes dim once more. Monster Rika stands by Yuji, ready to honor her promise to Yuta.

He is more than a pretty face
His soul is woven from the darkest fallen grace
In the depth of deepest dark our love was born
Inside the flame this soul was torn
He had freed me from the violence of my mind
My thoughts of self-hatred buried me alive
My flesh had crawled out from the crimson veil of dying agony
In the whirlwind,
In the cobblestone chain of cracking words, I scream
Why can’t the burning stop?
He has gone again inside,
inside the love of bleeding ribbons of sorrow that touch the skin,
that burnt the flesh
I hear his scream again
I crawl out from the sand
I fight for my first breath
I love him
I’m bound by him
I thought I’d come to be too late
His walls have grown high
I wanted to break those walls like
he had broken mine so long ago
I faltered to my knees
I fell upon my back
I lie here in the stillness with only the sound of tearing
to fill my eyes
I dug into the earth beneath me
until I saw those eyes, eyes of light, eyes of purest ocean
He looks upon my face
His tears wet my lips
My very heart quivered.
In passionate embrace I exhale

I would rather not get into specifics. Essentially I was wronged, was angry at first, but as the anger has subsided, details came to light that put things into a stark focus.
I’ve put things together, and now I am struggling with the feeling of moral obligation to act. This affects a lot of other people.
But I am not exaggerating when I say that simply exposing it may put my life in danger, and give the rats time to flee the ship. The other option is to play the game, but it’s a dangerous game, and I don’t think I can do it on my own.
At the same time, I’ve encountered my inner child and my shadow in the mirror and in open-eyed visions, and my anima in my dreams. I’ve been struggling with the meaning of a lot of it, but it’s hard to deny that the fervent moral beliefs of my younger self are keeping me stuck on this. I’m also still between jobs and my unemployment is going to run out fairly soon. Love life is a mess. Dark night of the soul stuff.
My anima seems to be insisting on self-expression related to my family and somehow this will lead to some kind of security (possibly financial based on the dream symbolism) but I’m not even sure where to begin there.
The Shadow is the part insisting I basically play Faust; “use the devils tools to do the lords work” so to speak. Subterfuge.
Inner child just wants me to fight anyway I can.
In any case, because I really do view these “creatures” as archetypes in the general way Jung describes them, I suppose what I’m looking for is wisdom. Stories that deal with the kind of battle I’m in for.
I’ve battled depression and self sabotage my entire life as well as feeling like there’s something wrong with me because people will simultaneously tell me how intelligent and wise I am and then in the next breath make asinine arguments against what I have to say, and I think this is the internal dragon I need to slay. There was even “throat chakra” symbolism in one of my more vivid and poignant dreams.
I feel like I’m heading into darkness to do battle and am woefully unprepared, but maybe that’s the point? Should I say “to hell with the stories” and just go in and figure it out as I go, or should I learn more about human behavior so I can try and beat these people at their game?
I am struggling with the weight of this and could sincerely use some wisdom.

(Edit: this post got way longer than expected, I'll cover Curses and other more info in a different post! For now, here's just my thoughts on Blessing Picks)
Hey everyone, I've been playing a lot of Blurtra and figured I'd post some of my thoughts, tips and tricks. There's already a few great guides on the mode, so this may be repeating some known info, but more info is never a bad thing.
I just finished up my best run, which made it to floor 848, though it was unfortunately ended by (don't laugh): The Bell, due to an absolute disaster of worst case scenario on turn 1 that snowballed out of control, leading to a party wipe: https://i.imgur.com/2kqWSfh.jpeg
So here's my own tips for "How-to-Blurtra", but keep in mind these are based on my opinions and experiences. Feel free to add info or thoughts or disagreements below! Also this post is being made on the old reddit format. If the formatting is weird in new reddit, you can use this link to view it: (https://old.reddit.com/SliceAndDice/comments/1d35tsx/guide_to_blessings_for_blurtra_mode/?)
First of all, I'll discuss blessings You get a max of 10 points of blessing per loop, including the start of the run.
I'm sure there's many more blessings or curses that I'm forgetting or haven't encountered (especially wild modifiers), so let me know in the comments if you want me to add my thoughts on a curse or blessing I missed!

Useful One-Time Blessings

Some of these may be possible to take extra copies of, and they may stack, but I think overall you don't get much benefit for extra copies beyond the first:
Poison Immunity (3 Points, Immune to Poison) - This is a wonderful blessing throughout the run and should be taken as soon as it shows up if nothing critical is competing for the points. Early game it makes fights like Snakes, Bandits, Carriers, and bosses like Troll or Dragon so much easier. More importantly though, it makes a huge chunk of curses that poison you completely free (Start Poisoned, Poison per Item, etc). So much value for only 3 points.
Underworld Deal (2 Points, No HP penalty on deaths) - Very useful all run. Early game it lets you play aggressively with things like Berserker or Cultist, midgame it helps avoid starting fights with the Sickly curse already active, and lategame it helps buffer against Caltrops curses. Like poison immunity, you want to grab this as soon as it appears if it's not competing with a required blessing.
Treasure Seeker (4 Points, +1 Equipment Slot (max of 4) & +1 Item Quality) - Technically not a one-time blessing, but you only want two extra item slots before any repeats give no value. That said, the sooner you can unlock all 4 item slots per Hero, the better. Both for enabling better combos with gear, but also for being able to stick as many cursed items onto the same 'mule' character as you can, freeing up more heroes to fight without the handicap of cursed items you may have been forced to take.
Deep Pockets (2 Points, +1 Equipment Slot (max of 4)) - A cheaper version of +ItemSlot, but without the tag-on of item quality. If you haven't unlocked all 4 item slots yet, grab this when it appears.
Knicknack Knapsack (5 Points, +1 Equipment Slot, Choose a Tier 1 Item each fight) - Another source of +EquipmentSlot, but this also gives a tier 1 item pick each fight. Now, the catch is, this is modified by your current Item Quality blessings and curses. If you're in the positive for Item Quality from blessings, you will find that tier of item EVERY fight. So if you have +6 item quality blessings, you will find a tier 7 item every single fight. Kind of amazing. Grab this if you see it and there's no major tradeoff.
Unsummon (3 Points, -1 Pip to enemy summons) - This is a nice perk in the early game, allowing you to ignore Graves or Seeds until last, and making fights against things like Alpha, Basalt, Hand, etc just a lot smoother. Lategame, when monsters are so buffed from curses that they're summoning 10+ enemies per die, this is almost meaningless, but it's still very worth the points in the first 100 to 200 floors.
Monster Blank (6 Points, Enemy left side is blank) - This is a surprisingly useful curse, though expensive. Generally, a monster's strongest side is their left side, and many curses specifically buff the enemy's left side. Taking this blessing not only buys you a free turn 1/6 of the time vs enemies, but it also makes a batch of curses completely free picks (who cares if you're giving +8 to an enemies left side if their left side is empty!). Even in the lategame when the goal is to turn 1 kill everything, you may sometimes brick your turn 1 rolls, and this might give you that 1 extra turn to survive. I'd rank it as a mid-tier pick. Never skip something like Bone Math or Enemy HP Down to choose this, but if you haven't taken it yet and you're not competing with a meta pick that loop, grab this one.
Hamstring (6 Points, -1 to Enemies Two Right Sides) - This can be useful, but I'd say low priority. It's great on a few enemies, and it can stack with Unsummon to shut down a few summoners like Wiz or Sarcophagus, but this blessing will be mostly obsolete when you eventually add enough +Pips to enemies from curses. I'd rate this as low priority, only take if the loop is offering nothing better.
monster.decay (2 Points, Add Decay to Monsters) - This one is very cheap, only 2 points, and it can be useful in the very early game. If it's offered on the first 100 or so floors, I'd grab it. That said, it's going to be almost meaningless later on.
Monster Single Use (9 Points, Add Single-Use to all monster sides) - So this is the much better version of Decay, but it's also 9 points. This blessing can allow you to go for a turtle strategy in the early game, just outlasting hard bosses because they will at most get 6 actions against you (5 if you also took Monster Blank!). The problem is that later in your run, this will be almost meaningless because fights are often decided on turn 1 or 2, meaning you "wasted" a full loop worth of blessings. Turtle strategies also become less viable later in the run, as you get curses that do their bad thing every X turns in the fight. This one I'd say pick if it's very early in the run and the offerings were mostly duds, but don't skip anything useful for this one.
Monster Left Pain (10 Points, Add Pain to Enemy Left Side) - Skip it. This is your entire blessing budget for the loop, and you eventually want to give monsters a blank on their left side anyway, which would completely obsolete this blessing.
Monster Right Pain (4 Points, Add Pain to Enemy Right Side) - This one is both cheaper, and potentially useful sometimes. Early in the run it can be some free damage, and even in the very late game, this could have a small chance to save a run heading for disaster if you brick a turn 1, but the monster(s) ends up killing themselves for you. Low priority, but I'd grab it if there wasn't a big trade-off.
Boss Smash⁹⁹ (9 Points, +99 Pips during Boss fights) - There are some bosses that are very challenging. Inevitable, or really all of the end bosses after some curses are stacked, including many boss fight-specific curses. This blessing is mostly a silver bullet get of jail free card vs every boss, with some huge disclaimers though! The biggest consideration is the order of curses you've picked. You do not want this curse if you've already chosen a Caltrops curse, because then this will change the Caltrops to 99 damage, giving the potential to instantly wipe your entire party on turn 1 with bad luck (which will happen in 999 floors!). On the other hand, if you have NOT chosen a Caltrops curse, then you can take this, and a future Caltrops curse will NOT get the benefit of the +99 during bosses. There's also some other considerations (something like Doctor dealing party damage, etc). Be mindful of the potential drawbacks of this curse, but if those are taken care of, this can be your solution to the hardest fights in the game. I'd say it's an auto-pick if Caltrops curse hasn't been taken yet.
Reliable (6 Points, Blanks are filled with the middle's side) - A great blessing that salvages terrible units like Scoundrel or Prodigy, and it can also reverse curses like Right Side Blank (but only if you take this AFTER the blank curse). I'd say if possible, try to hold off on taking this blessing until you've taken a Blank curse, then grab this. This curse can be taken more than once, so you could for example take this on floor 1, get Blank curse on floor 205, then take Reliable again on floor 281 to negate the blank (though you're "wasting" some blessing budget). Even so, giving yourself less blank sides is just good at any stage of the run, and probably worth possibly losing some long term value. Reminder that blanks added by an item will still remain blank (so i.Hat gear and so on).
Divine¹ (2 points) or Divine² (8 Points) (All pips have a MINIMUM value of 1 or 2, applies after items) - These seem kind of rare, but they're great. The ² version is obviously the goal, but even the ¹ if it shows up is so cheap I'd say it's an auto-pick (if you don't have ² yet). Setting a minimum of 1 or 2 to your dice is great, especially since it applies after items. The ² one is just a huge buff on almost every tier 1 hero, and it also turns normally bad items like Ace of Spades into something much better. I'm actually not sure if it also applies to debuffs like Weaken? It may, but by the time I found this in my run, I was past the point of Weaken mattering. Let me know in the comments!
Turn 3 Heal (3 Points, Heal/Shield all Heroes at start of Turn 3) - Useful early game, and could possibly divert a disaster lategame. Low priority pick, but it could see use.
Preparation (3 Points, Auto-Shield for 2 on Turn 1) - This one is a lot better of a survival tool. Turn 1 is the most important, and this gives everyone a small protection boost. It will also disable the Exposed curse on turn one. Can have some synergy with Steel too.
Leyline¹ (5 Points, First spell per fight is free) - This is great, and even deep into the run when you may have tons of curses nerfing your spells, you can still always use any spell on turn 1 to do things like Blaze, Abyss, or Infinity to nuke a boss, or just something simple like Slice in the early floors. I'd say any other versions of Leyline (2nd spell or beyond) lose a lot of their value once your casting is bricked due to curses (depending on your curse selection strategy). Definitely worth grabbing when this appears, but I'd say it's more like upper mid-tier.
Fumes (5 Points, Highest HP enemies start poisoned for 2) - Too expensive in my opinion. It only works on the highest HP enemies. Useful in the very early game, but late game this will be very low impact, and for 5 points, I'd expect better.
Cataclysm (3 Points, Kill all enemies at the end of turn 7) - For the early game, this could save you from losing a war of attrition on a fight gone wrong, but late game, still being alive at the end of turn 7 (and not having won already) is unlikely at best. I'd say this is a trap, don't waste the points unless you have a specific plan in mind for it. Also, does this kill reinforcements off-screen too? I actually have no idea, but if it can't... definitely skip this one.
Keep Rolls (2 Points, Keep Unused Rerolls) - It's very cheap, and in the early game this might have benefit, but I'd still rate this as very low priority. Lategame you won't be able to reroll at all once curses block them, and even early game, it's often better to use all rerolls for either cantrips, or fishing for a slightly better turn. How often do you actually save unused rerolls anyway?

Keyword Blessings

These add a keyword to either all dice, or a specific side, or only on X turns or every X'th use per turn. I'll mostly be covering the ones that can be found that add to all sides permanently without restriction. Keep in mind that most of these are NOT retroactive. Meaning, if you found Self-Heal to all sides, then later you replaced right side with Caltrops, that Caltrops will not have Self-Heal, but if you take Caltrops curse first, then take Self-Heal blessing later, it will be added. Also most of these keywords only apply to the base sides of a dice. If you replace a side with items, it will not have the keywords unless another mechanic is adding it (like Enduring).
Ranged (3 Points, Can hit Backrow and Avoid On-Hit Counters) - I'd say this is arguably the highest priority of them all. Later in the run, you're likely to have blessings like Monster's Start Damaged, and the Flighty curse, which puts damaged enemies to the backrow, behind potentially waves of reinforcements with low HP that keep coming in at the front row, putting that boss summoning 10 demons just out of reach... Adding Ranged to all sides means you can always reach the backrow. Also avoids things like Thorn, Imp, Basilisk, or Hexia counters. It's also very cheap... just pick it!
SelfHeal (7 Points, Heal myself for X) - Great blessing that lets you ignore pain, and just keeps you nice and topped up in health. Expensive, but worth it when it appears.
SelfShield (10 Points, Shield myself for X) - More expensive than SelfHeal, but (mostly) does the same thing. This one shields instead of heals. Better vs incoming attacks, worse for long term sustain in the early game. Even so, you ultimately want both SelfHeal and SelfShield blessings if possible, grab it when it appears if possible.
Critical (8 Points, 50% chance for +1 Pips) - This blessing seems overpriced. 50% chance for +1 pip for 8 points? It's a skip from me.
Growth (8 Points, Side gets +1 Pip after use) - In the early game this would be very powerful, and can make cantrip builds go insane. That said, in the lategame you're probably going to be unable to reroll thanks to curses, and fights should mostly be over in 1-2 turns. Very expensive early game investment that gets obsoleted late game.
Duel (4 Points, x2 vs Enemies Targeting Me) - Great value for the points. Many enemies do AoE attacks that target the whole field, and even single target enemies will buff the unit they're targeting. For only 4 points it's a definite grab if there's no meta picks being traded.
Focus (4 Points, x2 vs same target as previous action) - Another good one for the price. This one is in the players control for activating it, and being able to double most of your pips for only 4 points is superb. Grab when possible.
Deathwish (10 Points, x2 to sides if currently dying) - This is a whopping 10 points, your entire budget for a loop. Lategame this will be active on basically your whole team on turn 1, but early game it might not be active as often as you'd like. A strong blessing, but so expensive. Still probably worth it.
Cruel (6 Points, x2 vs targets on half or less HP) - Moderately priced, and still somewhat useful. Early game this is good for both heals/shields, and for damaging down the bulky enemies. Won't see much or any use vs the smaller swarm type enemies like Bones or Archers. I'd say it's good, but medium priority.
Vigil (10 Points, +1 Pip per dead ally) - Another 10 pointer, using your whole loop budget. Early game this will only really come into play when things are going wrong, but that's exactly when you are looking for a power boost anyway. Lategame when you have 10+ Heroes and 1-2 of them are always instantly dead from carrying your cursed items, it's basically a permanent +1-2 or even +3 to your team. Very strong, take when possible, just hope it doesn't show up at the same time as Bone Math or Monster HP Down.
Enduring (4 Points, Keywords remain when side is replaced) - This one I'm unsure on. It has both positives and negatives to give all of your dice Enduring. On the good side, it lets all of the above blessings also apply to those fancy items and i.Hat equipment you've been collecting. On the other hand, it also means you can't item away all the curses you've been collecting like Exert, Pain, Death, Heavy, Sticky, Single-Use, etc. I'd say by lategame you don't care if your dice have negative keywords, and getting all of the positive ones too is worth it. I just don't know whether to recommend to take or skip this one... it's a double-edged sword. Let me know in the comments your thoughts on Enduring to all sides!
Dispel (4 Points, Removes all traits on target) - Another blessing with double edged benefits. Adding dispel to all of your attacks will trivialize some enemies, such as Shade, Slate, Chomp, and many bosses like INEVITABLE, Hexia, Rotten, Wendigo, etc. On the other hand, it also removes beneficial traits from enemies, such as the mana from Baron, the +1 from Hand, the run away from Goblin / Bandit, the auto-death from Zombie, etc. Also, any friendly targeted actions remove player traits, such as Granite's HP lock. Something to note is that traits added by a blessing or curse are NOT affected, so this won't remove Bone Math or Slimedemic (though it WILL removes a Bone's natural 1 damage explosion, etc). Like Enduring, I can't say if this is worth taking or not... consider all the pro / con and decide for yourself!
Fierce (7 Points, Target flees if they have X or less HP after action) - A big trap blessing, do not be fooled! For one thing, this works both ways, meaning if you heal or shield your own units, you can absolutely make your own team flee! Not only that, but an enemy that flees will not explode for Bone Math, which can destroy a popular end-game strategy. Player beware, this keyword has more negatives than perks in my opinion, but it is certainly strong at what it does.
Rite (1 Point, +1 Pip per unused ally, all allies end their turn) - Biggest trap in history, avoid like the plague. 1 point to brick your party the moment you roll a Caltrops cantrip, or any cantrip really. It makes every action from any unit instantly end your turn. While it may be fun to do a 7 damage AoE blade toss on floor 1 with Scoundrel... trust me you don't want this for the long term.
Steel (?? Points, +1 Pips per Shield on Hero) - This is too expensive to show up as a normal blessing (12 points), but I've heard it can appear as wild modifier? I've never seen it, but if you do see it as a wild modifier, it's certainly very strong.

Blessings that Stack

These are blessing that have an obvious benefit from taking multiple times.
Monster HP Down (6 Points, -1 Max HP on enemies) - I would argue this blessing is equally as important as Bone Math, possibly even more so? It should be taken as often as it appears, worth skipping almost any other blessing (with exceptions, use your judgement). The reason it's so good, is that not only does it just make killing monsters easier, but for many enemies it can bypass some of their threshold passives. For example, with 2 copies of this blessing, a Ghost has 4 HP, meaning it doesn't have the immunity HP at all anymore, never going invulnerable, or a Demon doesn't have the player locked HP pip until the final hit instead of twice. Slates require 1 less hit to die per copy of this blessing, Chest don't start with a stoned HP, etc. Also, unlike the Monster Start Damaged blessing, this applies to ALL monsters without restriction. Unfortunately though, monsters can't be reduced below 1 HP from this. As a final perk of this blessing, if you take this before taking the "Monster HP per 1/5" and others along that series, then those monsters won't qualify when you do take that curse someday. For example, a wolf that only has 4 hp due to two copies of this blessing, will NOT be buffed by the "Monster HP per 1/5" curse!
Damaged Monsters (7 Points, Monsters 1 per 4 Max HP starts empty) - So this one is also very strong, and worth taking whenever it appears. The majority of enemies you will be fighting will be swarm type enemies added by your curses (Bones, Slime, Wisp, Illusion, Archer, etc), but it's the thick bulky enemies that will give you trouble, like Fanatics, Cyclops, Hydra, and Bosses (unless you found Boss Smash^99). This blessing makes them start weaker. While the HP Down blessing is more effective on smaller enemies, this is more effective on the bigger enemies, and it does stack, so again you want to pick this every time it appears in a loop, within reason.
Bone Math (5 Points, Monsters deal 1 damage to adjacent enemies on death) - Here is the common strategy to deal with the hordes of monsters you're going to be fighting from curse additions. This does stack, and you want as many copies of it as you can find. When you're fighting a screen full of enemies, with 22 more waiting off-screen in reinforcements, having multiple copies of Bone Math (in combination with making enemies squishier from the HP Down / Damaged blessings), will allow you to attack a rat, explode it for X damage to it's neighbors, who will in turn die, exploding for damage to their neighbor, chain reacting until the entire screen is dead from 1 damage dealt to a HP reduced rat, or some other such enemy. Then the next wave of reinforcements come in, you attack 1 of them, which explodes, wiping the next 10 monsters instantly, bringing in that last wave of reinforcements.... you get the idea. This is the blessing that lets you cut through 30 enemies at a time with 3-4 attacks. Take it whenever it's offered during your run.
Bones.spirit (8 Points) - Exactly same as Bone Math, just a more expensive generated version. Still worth taking when it appears.
Hunt¹ (6 Points, Enemies Start with +1 Vulnerable) - This will apply vulnerable to enemies when they spawn, either on turn 1, or from being spawned like a slimelet HP. This blessing is a big help later on when monsters may start shielded from curses, or they have Tough HP like Gnoll, etc. Another high priority pick, and it does stack.
Better Items^X (X*2 Points, +X Item Quality) - This is an important blessing for two reasons. For one thing, higher tier items are for the most part just better. While there are some meta items in the lower tiers, once you reach tier 10 and higher for items, you will start finding those lower tier items as generated items in a combo with another item. So while you may really want Determination from tier 6, you could still find it on a tier 11 item as Determination + Quicksilver, as an example. The other, arguably more important part of +ItemQuality blessing, is that some curses will penalize your item quality. Items in the negative quality tiers are cursed items, and you can't skip items after a fight. So for example if you take a curse for -3 item quality and you haven't found any +Quality to offset that, then after your floor 2 fight you're going to find a -2 Cursed item that you MUST equip and can't skip. Do you really want to find a Wretched Crown on floor 2? Yeah, so take at least some Better Items from blessings in your first few loops. Preferably take a lot.
Perceptive^X - (X Points, +X Item Choices) - This lets you select more items each time one appears. Like quality, curses will reduce the value (by default you start at 2). If curses bring you into the negatives, you just skip any item offerings period, so always at least stay positive, but more is of course better, especially once you get into generated items at tier 10+ because those are... sometimes terrible, and you want a wider selection to find the diamonds in the pile of junk. I have seen reports that if you get this value TOO high, it can start to crash the game (probably depending on your device you're playing on). I've never crashed on item selection, so take that warning with a grain of salt.
Versatile^? (? Points, +X Levelup Choices) - More selections of Heroes when leveling one up. Once again, curses will penalize this, and if it goes into the negative, you simply skip levelups entirely. Don't let this go negative, and more options is better. I try to keep my hero levelup choices around 5-8 or so. I find more to just be wasteful, personally.
More Levelup Phases - Another thing that is penalized by some curses (Hero De-Level, etc). I personally don't like tier 4+ heroes that much (too many empty blanks on generated heroes), so I try to keep my level-up phases sort of in-sync with my curses that are de-leveling heroes. I like to reach floor 14 or so with all tier 3 heroes, then I may just skip levelups to avoid generated bads with half blank sides, but I don't want to reach floor 20 with mostly tier 1 heroes either due to curses. Just balances it. Also keep in mind the more heroes you add, the more +levelup phases you need to keep them updated by floor 20.
Latent (1 Point, Add 3 Regen & 3 Poison to all heroes) - This is a hidden gem of a blessing. So, on it's own, it does absolutely nothing. You regen 3 and poison 3, leading to a net nothing. But, it does mean, that once taken, any cleanse you use in battle can turn into +3 regen (per instance of this blessing). That's sort of awesome. The true grand prize though comes when you eventually find Poison Immunity blessing, which means for a whole 1 point of blessing budget, you're adding 3 perma regen to everyone. Incredible value, and this is a blessing I grab every single time it appears if there's no massive tradeoff in the selection. Even lategame when the goal is to turn 1 everything... sometimes that doesn't workout the way you hope, and you have to go to turn 2 or 3. Regening 3-12 or so just may save your run.
Hero Regen¹ or ² (6 or 10 Points, Start with Regen 1 or 2) - The significantly more expensive cousin to Latent. This doesn't have the poison component, so if you haven't yet found poison immunity and you really want perma regen, this is an option, but feels bad man to spend 10 points of budget for 2 regen, when you can instead get 3 regen for 1 point with Latent (after poison immunity). Full disclosure: On my 848 floor run, I didn't find poison immunity until like floor 300, so I took this around floor 120 and had no regrets).
2 Hero HP (4 Points, +2 Max HP) - Simply adds more HP, no fuss. More HP is good, and even lategame when the goal is turn 1, as I've said a few times not sometimes turn 1 doesn't work out from bad rolls, and things like Caltrops or Pain+Cantrip are a thing, so having a nice HP buffer is great. I try to take +HP on Heroes whenever I can afford it within the offerings.
Youth (3 Points, +4 HP @ Hero Tier 1, 2 @ Tier 2, 0 @ Tier 3) - Another HP Blessing. For less points, this adds more HP to tier 1 (same to tier 2), but no benefit at all to T3. As you get more heroes, less of them may reach tier 3 in a run, so this is still quite potent for only 3 points. Very worth taking.
Gym (4 Points, +1 HP per Hero Level) - So this is probably the overall worst +HP blessing UNLESS you have a lot of +levelup blessings, allowing you to reach tier 4 or 5 heroes. Even so, HP is HP and more is better. Another good blessing.
Survive (3 Points, +1 Incoming Healing, +2 Empty Max HP) - So this won't help you with turn 1 Caltrops or Pain+Cantrip, but if you have to go to turn 2+ then +healing (which works on regen) is great. It can even turn a Latent 3regen/3poison into 4regen/3poison, leading to actual regeneration, if you haven't found poison immunity yet. Also for early game, where you're doing real combat, not OTK's, this is of course great to help survive, especially those big 15+ damage hits the end bosses like to do.
Survive/2 (6 Points, +1 Incoming Healing/Shields, +4 Empty Max HP) - So it's the above blessing, but also adds shields. Slightly worse benefit to cost than the above one, but still good and I'd take it when it appears if it's not competing with a meta pick.
Rest (1 Point, +5 Pips on floor 19) - So this is basically like Boss Smash, but cheaper, only for the 19th floor, and only +5 Pips (per instance taken). Everything I said about Boss Smash applies here, and floor 19 is probably your hardest non-boss floor, so getting +5 to everyone for 1 point is great. I take it if I see it, with all the disclaimers in mind I said during Boss Smash above.
Boss Smash¹ or ² (3 or 6 Points, +1 or 3 Pips during Boss fights) - This is just the cheaper, but worse version of Boss Smash⁹⁹ (but also far more common). If you're struggling on the end-boss, and haven't found or can't take the ⁹⁹ version, this could give you a boost. Just depends on how your run is going when it's offered.
Absorb Bosses (10 Points, +1 to Hero Sides per Boss Killed) - A dramatically worse version of Boss Smash^99. It gives +0 to floor 4, +1 to floor 8, up to +4 by the final boss. Resets each loop. Definitely a trap blessing, unless you're desperate for a solution for the final boss and this is the only thing that's showing up for you.
Free Turn (7 Points, -1 to Enemy Sides on Turn 1) - This will be almost meaningless later in the run, and even early run, for 7 points of your budget, it feels like a really steep price. It doesn't help you at all when going for a turn 1 kill, though it could save you when you go to turn 2 (though again, by floor 300'ish and beyond, you've given so much +Bonus to enemies that them having -1 will do almost nothing). I'd skip this.
Great Start (7 Points, +1 to Hero Sides on Turn 1) - This one is better, because it at least lets you improve your turn 1 plan. It's still a high price for "only" +1 and only for the first turn. Could be a great boost in the early game, but I feel like once you get going, this won't be worth the cost.
Essence Capture^1/2/3 (3/7/10 Points, Heroes add +X mana on death) - This depends on your strategy. If you're going for a heavy spell build (Mountain team or something), then this is great. Heroes will be dying later in the run, even during your own turn 1 (Pain, Death, Caltrops, etc). I personally tend to avoid spell builds in Blurtra, so I'm not great to talk about going a heavy mage route. If you do though, this is a good pick.
5 Max Mana (1 Point, Adds +5 Max Mana) - I tend to prioritize early curses that target spellcasting, so by floor 100 or so I've cursed my magic so badly that I never use spells, so for me this is kind of bad. Like just said though, if you go the mage/spell route, more mana is probably good. It's one point so... it can't hurt.
All +Reroll Blessings - Eventually curses will block you from any rerolls at all, no matter how many you have. So early game this is great, more rerolls means more consistency and better cantrips. Eventually though, once you're forced into taking Heavy + Slippery dice curses, any rerolls at all become an illegal action and they're blocked, making that +12 reroll stat you've got completely useless. Take this blessing at your own risk, knowing that eventually it's a lost investment.
Add -HERO- (7 Points if Tier 1, 9 Points if Tier 2) - More heroes are great, and should be added when possible. The best way to deal with having zero rerolls is just rolling more dice period. No rerolls on a 5 Hero party is infinitely worse than no rerolls on a 14 Hero party. You want consistency and options in the higher floors, and that comes from just throwing more bodies onto the field. If you see a hero, take a hero unless it's up against one of the high tier blessings. Even that 'useless' Reflection hero could serve as your curse mule, carrying your Parasite, Soul Link, Conscience, and Broken Spirit curses, dying instantly on turn 1. Hey, someone's got to take one for the team!
DELIVERY Blessings - These are the generated and wild blessings that give you a permanent item, or a batch of permanent items that you always start with every loop. These can't really be ranked, other than to say just use your judgement. Look for items that can really influence the run. Something like a powerful tactic or spell, or an i.hat that lets you start with a tier 3 'hero' each run. Always be on the lookout for a delivery blessing giving you Determination or Pentagram (death immunity for 1, or 5 turns). Those are instant picks no matter what, probably even skipping Bone Math and such if need be. Be VERY careful though and look closely at the whole package before choosing these. Often times that batch of 4 awesome items also has a cursed item hiding in the bundle. Don't be stuck with Wretched Crown by accident from clicking that Dolphin delivery package too quickly...

Closing Thoughts

I rambled so much longer than I expected, and this only covered Blessings! I'll work on a Curse Pick post soon, then a general tip post too I hope. Anyway, for a VERY GENERALIZED tier list of Blessing Priority, I would rank them loosely like this:

• Any Delivery Blessing w/ Pentagram
• Monster HP Down, Bone Math, Damaged Monsters
• Hunt^1, Boss Smash^99, 4 Item Slots, Knicknack
• Add:Ranged, Add:SelfHeal OR Add:SelfShield
• The other Add:Keyword Blessings
• Extra Heroes, ItemQuality, Item/Hero Choices, Divine²
• +HP/Healing, Poison Immunity, Latent, Underworld Deal
• Reliable, Monster Blank, Divine¹

Please be mindful that the exact combination of blessings and curses at your position in your run would influence picking priorities. Anyway, hope this has been entertaining!

I will go first with something my close friend wanted my help with. I will be putting it in his words.....Recently I was scolded and escalated for something that I didn't work on, neither was I aware of its status. Just because I was addressed in the very last mail of the trail, I was dumped with everything that went wrong in that task. Now I couldn't raise my voice for the following reasons:

1. My manager is a lady and apparently you can't talk back to a lady in workplace
   
2. Upper Management is not at all interested in how it all went wrong rather who needs to be held accountable for it.
   
3. My senior, who dumped the work on me at the very last stage was friends with my manager as he is a tenured member of the team. So he very conveniently shifted all the accountability on me.
   
4. Things happened so fast that I couldn't even understand what and how to handle things. My senior dumped the work, and half n hour later I received another mail asking me why it wasn't done. In next 15 min I was asked not to proceed as it has already been taken care of, and quiet literally after about an hour or so the escalation went all the way upto global head.
   
5. I had to go through 1 on 1 with multiple layer of people in the organisation and nobody was interested in my side of story.
   

All of this happened in addition to the 4 deliverable I was already working on. I didn't even get the chance of fair hearing. I have understood one thing that I can't fight with the management.
I will be putting in my resignation after a month or so. It eats me everyday to come to this workplace. Need your help in taking legal actions against mental harrasment and workplace related remedy.
This was his side of story.

We have been in a long distance relationship from past 5 years. I am living in Canada and she is living in Delhi, India. She recently broke up with me because I was being toxic. Let me share she was thinking and what I did to her.
Here is her message -
“ We have been in a long distance relationship from the beginning. He went to a different country after 3 months of our dating. I last met him two years back when he came for 2 months to India. So, from the last one year we have been fighting a lot. In fights, he has a habit of saying very bad and hurtful things and I have told him numerous times to not say such stuff and he realises it too but after some time he repeats and says even worse. For context, my family wasn't doing well financially last year so he helped me with some money for my business and in a fight he told me a gold digger and insulted me on my financial situation. He even said about my character. Then last week during our recent fight, he again said very hurtful things like-" deserve someone like my ex who used to keep me in his feet. (Pairo me rakhta tha jo aapko) and also said that your parents should have aborted you. (He knew this thing that actually my parents wanted to abort me because of me being a girl child). He basically says very very hurtful things and later apologises. I know he loves me a lot and I too love him but these words of him keeps bothering me. Our families know about our relationship and I keep visiting his house. I don't feel the same love for him because these things just pushes me away from him “
After she shared this on Reddit, many people advised her to break up with me which she did the next day. so I will share my part of this. From the past six months, we have been fighting a lot. The relationship was becoming toxic. I was going through a really hard time in my life, I had some big losses in my business and had to shut that down. I was also going through a lot from the job that I was doing. After three months of the business shutting down I lost my job. From past two years, I have not visited my family due to permanent residency and job things. I literally had very, very limited friends and she was the only one whom I was sharing each and every part of my life. She supported me a lot during my journey in Canada. So as I did when she was having a hard time due to financial situations in her family or her career. She broke up with me 12 days ago and these 12 days have been the most difficult days of my life as this was my first relationship and I haven’t encountered anything like this in my life. During the 12 days, I realized that I was so bad and I did these things to Gem of a person like her. I have also changed myself a lot during these five years that have spent with her in a good way. I have never been taught such things and I have seen some kind of male dominance at my home as well (by the way, my mother have not been degraded by my father the way I did to her). I am consistently trying to reach out to her and apologizing for my mistake. I have reached out to every single member of her family to ask her if she can give me another chance, but she is saying that her decision is final and firm and she doesn’t feel the vibe anymore. Feelings cannot be fade in just 12 days, I also know that she still loves me but the way that I treated her was so bad that she don’t wanna come into a relationship with me. I just want to know if anything can be done to get her back in my life because at this time I am mentally drowning. I am getting panic attacks from last 12 days. At one moment, I thought I am not able to breathe. I have never cried so much in my life like this. I thought that I was a very strong person emotionally but I realized I am not. I literally want to fix everything that I did to her and want to treat her like a queen and want my relationship back. Can anyone advise me? What should I do now because I have reached out to every single person of her family to ask her to give me another chance what she’s not ready to give me another chance at this moment. Even her parents told her to give me one last chance, but she is so rigid at this moment. Planning to visit home in 4 to 5 months.

I just read a post about how play fighting could be the start of physical abuse and it’s a way to test the waters as to how much you will put up with.
My partner use to do jujitsu and often puts me in a lock with his legs if I try to leave the bed in the morning.
Day to day, he will pinch me sometimes, slap my ass, tickle me when I ask him to stop or pull up places like my stomach that have more fat and jiggle it. Or push me into the grass while walking, not hard, but just not needed.
His love language is physical touch, but the post in which I read detailed all these things as the start of physical violence.
I say stop nearly every time not in an overly serious way as it feels like it’s playful, but sometimes I have snapped as it hurts a little or just feels uncomfortable and unneeded.
Does anyone else have any past experience with this?

Hello!
I hope you're all doing well!
Gonna try to keep this under 40k characters... so, the main event is going to be a bit shorter than usual, so if you have questions about that particular fight (or any, really), let me know and i can expand on thoughts and answer those questions!
Also, if you have feedback about the slightly new format, let me know!
(c) - Champ
D/DWCS - Debut/Dana Whites' Contender Series
FLS - Fight Lose Streak
FWS - Fight Win Streak
NS - No Streak
(#x) - Rank in division
x/3 - Confidence Levels
Lets go!
Prelims
Flyweight
Andre Lima (8-0-0, 8 FWS) v Mitch Raposo (D) (9-1-0, 4 FWS) - I feel for Lima here, three changes in opponent during this entire camp, that can’t be easy for the mental stress, but I do think that this last minute change gives Lima that advantage in preparation and cardio and such.
Lima is coming off quite an interesting debut result, in which his opponent straight up chomped on Lima’s arm. For the most part prior to that unique moment, Lima was doing relatively well on the feet, his boxing was crisp and whilst Severino was being pretty effective with his wrestling and pressure, you can almost see Lima settle in the longer the fight went on, and in the second round, he was finding his punches fairly easily, landing at a 66% rate in that second round. That has always been Lima’s main attribute as a boxer, his accuracy is oftentimes high when he fights, never wasting many shots as he sets his own pace and finds his timing, and it’s going to be relatively effective against Raposo who has a slight disadvantage in reach, and has a rather funky style himself, and sometimes funk is fun, but not when you have a sharp boxer opposite you.
Raposo is someone who tried to get into the UFC a while ago via Dana Whites’ Contender Series, but didn’t quite succeed due to a loss against Jake Hadley. Raposo is a fairly well rounded fighter but from the footage that I have seen, he is mostly a stand up fighter who utilises variations of a two to three punch combination, with a bit of an emphasis on his wide right that he tends to swing from a somewhat loaded up position. Now, I do want to point out in a positive light that he does come from the New England Cartel, and that gym generally produces outstanding strikers, but I just think Raposo is a few steps (or leaps) behind the stars of the gym in Kattar and Font. Now, there are positives for Raposo, he shells up relatively well and he doesn’t stay in firing range the whole time, especially when shelling up, he circles away whilst keeping his guard up. The one thing I cannot help but notice though is how exposed his body is to attacks, he isn’t that adaptable when it comes to his defences, and whilst he has a very typical high shell, I can just see Lima exposing the body with strong punches, and given that Raposo isn’t quite prepared properly for a fight against Lima, those body punches could shut him down. Now, Raposo does have a strong right hand, the one he tends to wind up and throw from the same angle at the same speed and such, but once it lands it could certainly cause trouble for Lima.
Lima has incredible potential in the UFC, his boxing is very sharp and I do think that the fact he has been preparing for a fight for quite some time now shows that he has the cardio and the durability to perhaps outlast Raposo, especially if those body shots that I predict will be there, land effectively. I almost want to make him a 2/3 confidence pick, but since he’s new to the UFC, and Raposo does have a bit of danger himself, I don’t feel comfortable putting him that high of a confidence pick. This is a fun first fight of the night.
Lima via KO R2 - (1/3)
Women’s Bantamweight
Joselyne Edwards (+210) (13-5-0, NS) v Ailin Perez (-265) (9-2-0, 2 FWS)
Edwards has had an interesting time in the UFC, she has had rather lacklustre performances against some of the more lower skilled fighters in the division. Edwards was introduced to us fans as a kickboxer from Panama, and for the most part her performances have echoed that style of kickboxing, but she walks into two metaphorical brick walls which hinder her performances. First, her cardio tends to fall apart relatively quickly, she does look fatigued after the second round, heck, even during it, and I do think considering Perez’s skillset is heavily wrestling based, that the fatigue problems will be a bit more prevalent, but that also tends to lead to a different issue that Edwards walks into, and that’s her weight. See, Edwards missed weight a few times in the UFC so far, and whilst those issues on the scales are perhaps anomalous to those two incidences, it does somewhat connect with her fatigue problems, she carries a lot of weight on fight day and that’s all a major contributor to exhaustion and fatigue. As for her record, it’s been stated many times, but she’s been gifted quite a few scorecards… She arguably lost to Pascual, Pudilova and even went to a split decision against Kim Ji-yeon. To say her record is pretty sketchy is putting it lightly. Her style is pretty standard for a boxer or kickboxer, she often strings together decent combinations with a fair bit of power given her size, but her major weakness is defending takedowns, and given that Perez is perhaps the first major wrestler that she is going to face, I suspect she’s going to be struggling to defend those takedowns, especially the longer the fight goes on, when that fatigue problem kicks in (if it kicks in).
Perez on the other hand is slightly more newer to the UFC, having had her debut at 145 against Egger before moving back down to 135 to take on Ashlee Evans-Smith and Pudilova, and it was in those two fights that we truly saw what Perez is capable of. Perez is very dependent on her takedowns, she does not strike a whole lot on her feet, she often uses some strikes to close the distance then level changes for a takedown or a judo throw, in which she then unleashes a lot of ground strikes, and it’s a bit obvious to me that she is going to utilise that exact style against the much taller and longer Edwards. Now, the longer this fight remains on the feet, the more chance Edwards has of pulling away with a win, but I only say that because I know that Edwards is going to have a striking advantage, but her kicks perhaps would be shut down by the wrestling threat of Perez.
This is very much a wrestler versus striker bout, and whilst you might argue that Edwards has shown some wrestling in her last fight against Cornolle, it’s important to know that Cornolle most definitely was not a wrestler so those takedowns would have been relatively easy, and there’s no doubt that Edwards has worked on her wrestling just so she is a more well rounded individual. I still firmly believe that Perez is going to get a win here through her wrestling, and the longer the fight goes on, the more Edwards is most likely to feel that fatigue. I am predicting a KO here, but it is going to be one of those ground and pound TKO’s. It’s also very possible this fight goes the distance so if you want to place a bet, either double chance this one or just have it go o2.5 or something.
Perez via KO R3 - (2/3)
Welterweight
Mickey Gall (+225) (7-5-0, 2 FLS) v Bassil Hafez (-290) (8-4-1, NS) - There is honestly not a lot to say about this one, Gall is severely overrated and a bit of a failed product of the Lookin’ for a fight show, and Hafez still has quite a lot to show us given he went three rounds against future contender Jack Della Maddalena.
Gall is coming off back to back losses over two years ago, so not only is he coming into this fight with a tough losing streak on his record, but those two years away are certainly muddying the waters a bit here. Anyway, Gall is mostly a submission artist, he somewhat thrives on the ground, although that would be a major gamble given the fact that Hafez is very wrestling oriented, and I mean, let's be honest, as long as a wrestler is in top control, it’s very rarely that they get submitted, and it’s not like Gall is some high level BJJ fighter with an impeccable record, he is just someone who has been given somewhat name-worthy opponents and that’s practically it. Gall's best chance to win this fight is on the ground, he needs to stick to his guns in this fight and be incredibly active on the ground or Hafez is going to shut down all of the submission attempts and just smother Gall in pressure. There is a possibility of Gall being somewhat effective on the feet, but a lot of his striking is fairly standard, often really using his grappling over anything else to get a win. One thing I don’t particularly like seeing when it comes to Gall’s striking is he is very still and perhaps too calm when he’s standing in front of someone, he doesn’t move his head a lot and his lead leg is often very out there and exposed, and whilst he does have quite a bit of power in his hands, I just don’t think he’s that capable of being a strong striker, his best skillset really is his BJJ. He is often quick to tie up his opponent or at least grab for a guillotine, and that guillotine will be there for him the more Hafez looks for takedowns, that will probably be the main threat coming from Gall for Hafez in my opinion.
Hafez has only one fight in the UFC but it was against one of the toughest opponents one can possibly debut against in Jack Della Maddalena, and whilst Hafez was simply outmatched on the feet, he persevered and still looked for those takedowns that he very much needed. It is the style of Hafez that will test Gall in this fight, because if Hafez attempted 20 takedowns against JDM who has exceptional takedown defence, I just think Hafez is going to have a bit of an easier time against Gall who is mostly a BJJ fighter who typically has terrible takedown defence, and I mean, this is something i’ve gone on and on about many times before, a good wrestler is a lot better than a good BJJ fighter, and whilst this is not exactly a case of Gall being a good BJJ fighter and Hafez being a good wrestler, that style clash is basically the same. Even if Gall does put up a good defence/offence on the ground, I do think Hafez and his grappling skillset is more than enough to deal with it. Hafez has gorgeous double leg takedowns, I mean, look at this beautiful takedown he used just seconds into his debut against JDM, he can do this over and over again, and realistically, he just needs to do this for the first two rounds, then he pretty much gets a win, but I think it’s going to be a relatively one sided wrestling attack by Hafez, and a few defensive submission attempts by Gall like guillotines or arm triangles off his back.
This is a great fight to be honest, I was rather impressed by the grit and determination of Hafez, he was getting torn up on the feet by JDM but still was willing to try and wrestle, resulting in a split decision loss, but an immeasurable amount of experience gained. I think Hafez gets a win here, but I only say that because I just don’t know how Gall is going to look coming off of a two year hiatus. We have sometimes seen insane improvements from fighters who take a few years off, so it’s possible Gall could look incredibly good, but based on what I know for “certain”, I think Hafez has this one.
Hafez via UD - (1/3)
Welterweight
Niko Price (+210) (15-7-0, 2 FLS) v Alex Morono (-260) (24-9-0, NS)
Morono is coming off a fairly competitive back and forth fight against McGee, and whilst he got the win, he didn’t look too great in there in all honesty. Morono does quite a few things with his striking that looks very funky and silly, he plods around a lot, his open elbow stance leaves him very open to being attacked, which often plays into his speed advantage in his fights as he can easily retaliate very quickly and land some thunderous punches. Morono is a very powerful boxer and he often uses a very quick left body or inside/outside leg kick with his boxing combinations just to add more sting to the sequence. However, as much as I find his striking style to be very unorthodox, what I do love about him is his grappling. Morono has ridiculously good BJJ, and whilst he doesn’t have the best takedown defence to take full control of his grappling ability, he is very, very good off his back. During his fight against Court McGee, he jumped the Guillotine, and whilst he didn’t successfully submit McGee, he was proactive in chasing an armbar off his back instead… It is the activity off the bottom that makes him a dangerous grappler and it’s always great to see. Now, Morono most likely has a fairly big power advantage here, and given that Price is coming off back to back KO losses, there is some question about whether or not his chin is durable enough to handle the right hand of Morono, and boy that right hand is a tough one to deal with.
Price is indeed coming off a KO loss against Robbie Lawler, and whilst it’s a tough loss for anyone, I do think that he still offers a great deal of threat for Morono, and whilst one might imagine the threat is going to be mostly his punching power, volume and other delicious words, I firmly believe that Price is going to chew up the legs of Morono very early and very often. Price is a fantastic leg kicker, he lands about one third of his strikes to the legs most of the time, and given that Morono is a very “plodding” stance fighter, I just cannot help but imagine that Price is going to land phenomenal leg kicks throughout this fight. However, the counter for leg kicks is, as we all should know by now, a power side attack, and if Price gets hit by that right hand, the momentum could shift very quickly. Now, if the fight ends up on the ground, I do think that Morono is going to swarm Price with overwhelming pressure and activity, given that Morono has excellent BJJ, and Price isn’t exactly that well versed on the ground.
As long as Price avoids the grappling and wrestling of Morono, he has a solid chance to win this fight, but I do think if he attacks the legs early and slows down the forward aggression of Morono, he could pull out an upset here, but that’s a bit of a big order given the threat of Morono’s quick one-two and his ability to utilise a wide range of attacks throughout all three rounds. This is very much a 50/50 fight though, I don’t feel confident at all in either fighter to win, and whilst I think Morono has more tools and more pathways to victory, Price could indeed surprise us this weekend.
Morono via UD - (1/3)
Welterweight
Phil Rowe (+135) (10-4-0, NS) v Jake Matthews (-165) (19-7-0, NS) - This is certainly a fascinating fight, but the first thing that screams at me is the size difference between Rowe and Matthews.
Rowe is coming off a back and forth, relatively slow and unimpressive fight against Magny, and whilst the fight took place in the clinch for the large majority of the fight, I did enjoy watching him use his reach by throwing that quick one-two down the pipe, and its that one-two that is going to be fairly problematic for Matthews given the fact that Rowe has an 8 inch reach advantage. I do believe that if Rowe keeps this fight clean, he has a major advantage here, but there is a glaring problem that I can see Matthews expose, and that’s the lack of defence that Rowe has. Whilst his ranged attacks are relatively effective, I do not like how hittable he is because he does not use footwork a lot, he just stands in front of his opponents target zone, kind of eating punches whilst trying to maintain his range. This is a problem for Rowe in this fight because Matthews is the type to push forward at a strong pace and let his own hands go effectively. Rowe has a phenomenal right hand, it is very accurate and thanks to the reach advantage, I don’t think he needs to show it off too much for it to be effective, he would just need to pop it out there in order to have it land. Now, Magny did make the fight gritty in the third round when they fought, and I did notice that whenever a pocket exchange is initiated, Rowe is on the receiving end of the harder shots, and that is primarily due to his lack of footwork and evasive movement in that particular bout, and whilst he did underperform during his fight against Magny, I do think he has the sharper, straighter punches that could be problematic for Matthews if Matthews is unable to close the distance and enter the pocket effectively.
Matthews is coming off a tough loss against Michael Morales, and it was in that fight that we saw Matthews get hit the most in his UFC career, receiving 84 significant strikes, although I think it’s fair to say that Matthews’ incredible defence allowed him to absorb those significant strikes without much serious damage. Matthews’ defence is actually one of the most impressive things I have seen, he shells up so effectively whilst leaving his stance open enough for aggressive retaliation. Everything Matthews throws comes with him immediately shelling up and moving off the centre line, he is impeccable with his defensive timing, and whilst he has been stumbled and rocked before, he has never really been in dire trouble. I do see Matthews using his overhand left followed by a quick duck followed by a straight right, that is his best entrance for the pocket and it is something he has used incredibly well against Morales. It is this exact style which makes his fight against Rowe a phenomenal match up because we have seen Rowe struggle when an opponent enters range, and I think Matthews is a lot more quick and explosive with forward momentum than Magny is. Plus, it helps that Matthews is such a gritty fighter, constantly moving forward and putting on strong pressure even if he gets hit, and that’s mostly due to his defence, he is just so good at absorbing and blocking damage whilst moving forward.
It honestly is a bit of a story between who can initiate their gameplan a bit better. For Rowe, he needs to be active at range, on the feet, he needs to use that quick one-two to freeze up Matthews and just eventually find the chin, because the chin is there, especially if feints are involved because Matthews does instinctively shell up a lot when something is coming his way, feint or otherwise. However, I do see Matthews making this a chaotic fight, especially since he loves to enter the range by weaving into the pocket, where Rowe is perhaps at his most uncomfortable. I got Matthews winning this one, I think his experience is going to shine here, as well as the fact that his defensive habits are going to be pivotal in mitigating a lot of the dangerous shots coming his way. I am not very confident in Matthews, I do see Rowe being dangerous at range still, but I just think Matthews ability to enter the pocket here is going to be the main story here.
Matthews via UD - (1/3)
Lightweight
Grant Dawson (#15) (-320) (20-2-1, NS) v Joe Solecki (+250) (13-4-0, NS)
Dawson is coming off a rough KO loss against Bobby Green, and that was always going to be one of the main outcomes for that fight since Green has excellent boxing, and thankfully for Dawson, that boxing or striking threat will be mostly gone here since Solecki isn’t at all a striker. Dawson is a very well rounded fighter who is incredibly effective on the ground, he is someone who is able to keep up a high pace of activity and still have enough cardio to be explosive, and I do think that the UFC is kind of making this fight a “comeback” fight for Dawson because I honestly don’t think Solecki has enough of an all round threat to make this interesting for Dawson. Dawson is going to employ the same strategy he has done in almost all of his fights, and that’s wrestle and control, he is so good at maintaining advantageous positions on the ground and the longer he is in top control, the worse it is for Solecki whose only chance to win this fight is to find a submission off his back, but since Dawson has ridiculously good wrestling and grappling himself, I think he can see any set up that Solecki attempts coming. On the feet I could say Dawson has the advantage here, but I don’t think a lot of the fight is going to take place on the feet, I think there’s going to be a lot of wrestling involved with Dawson being in the better positions.
Solecki is a sneaky fighter though, and whilst he has had some underwhelming fights, I do think the threat of his submissions are going to be fairly prevalent. I don’t think those submissions are going to land. Now, I will put a major disclaimer here saying I have struggled to find a lot of “working” tape for Solecki, and I have been unable to find what submission attempts he used against Alex Da Silva when they fought two years ago, I only bring this up because I believe Solecki is active off his back and if he is lucky he could at least make Dawson’s control time a bit more difficult, but I still don’t think Solecki has that kind of threat to catch Dawson in anything, so whilst he might be active off his back and in the guard, it’s going to be the kind of activity that results in Dawson just adjusting over and over.
I don’t really have much else to say about this one, Dawson is the better all round fighter and a much better wrestler, and I do think that whilst both fighters have outstanding BJJ, Solecki’s submission output could make it a bit gritty for Dawson, but this isn’t new for Dawson, Dawsons faced excellent grapplers before (Ismagulov, Madsen and Gordon to name his recent wins). Dawson should win this one in my opinion.
Dawson via UD - (2/3)
Middleweight
Roman Kopylov (-135) (12-3-0, NS) v Cesar Almeida (+115) (5-0-0, 5 FWS)
Kopylov is coming off a tough submission loss against Alexander Hernandez, and it was a competitive fight up until that point. One thing that I like about Kopylov is his diversity with striking, he is ridiculously quick on the feet for a Middleweight and that allows him to simply flick out anything and there’s some certainty that it’s going to land. He has a very quick and sneaky lead leg kick that he often uses to change target very quickly, usually kicking the leg then following up with a left straight, instead of what we see in typical combinations where the leg kick is the final attack in a sequence. Kopylov does get hit a lot, and he does leave his right hand a bit far from his face, which makes me think that Almeida and his fantastic left hook is going to be a major problem for Kopylov. However, Kopylov does have some grappling in his arsenal, although we have yet to see it in the UFC, but since he is a multiple time sambo champion, I can’t help but think that he is going to be using his wrestling a fair bit in this fight, especially since he is facing one hell of a dangerous kickboxer, it would only make some sense, right? Now, on the feet, there are two attacks that Kopylov is going to put a major emphasis on, that is the liver body kick (left roundhouse) and the left straight, those two attacks are going to be his most damaging and I do wonder how effective it will be in slowing down Almeida.
Almeida is coming off a strong debut win against Budka, and whilst Budka isn’t exactly a tough debut, he still managed to test Almeida a little bit on the ground. However, as I highlighted in my last write up about Almeida, his defensive grappling is very, very good, he has adapted exceptionally well to MMA. Now, Almeida is one hell of a dangerous kickboxer, he is stupendously sharp on the feet and he is tight with his combinations, and it is for that reason alone that I think Kopylov needs to wrestle in this fight, use his Sambo to mix it up and make it frustrating for Almeida. Now, Almeida is outstanding at all ranges, but I think he excels in the pocket where he can land his tight left hook, a left hook that’s eerily similar to Pereira, it’s just a clean left hook that has no read and a lot of power behind it, and I think Kopylov is going to have to be the first one to start the action in order to not let Almeida settle in to throw that hook.
This is going to be a fantastic fight though, and honestly a fascinating match up for Kopylov who, up until this moment, only faced standard MMA strikers who throw big power with not that much technique, so this is going to be fascinating. Going with the underdog here, but it will absolutely not be a high confidence pick.
Almeida via KO R2 - (1/3)
Main Card
Welterweight
Randy Brown (-155) (18-5-0, 2 FWS) v Elizeu Zaleski (+130) (24-7-1, 1D/2FWS) - This is going to be absolutely awesome.
Brown is coming off a fantastic KO over highly touted kickboxing veteran Muslim Salikhov, and despite the fact that Brown did defeat Salikhov, it did not come without a lot of damage coming his way. Brown suffers a little bit from what a lot of longer and taller fighters suffer from, and that's a lack of fundamental striking defence, his range and reach is his defence, if someone can penetrate that reach difference and enter the pocket, then Brown is a vulnerable target in that moment. However, when Brown is at range and he’s in the zone, he is incredible. His long jab is his best weapon, he uses it to both damage his opponent and to set up subsequent punches, and these shots aren’t always the same, there are so many permutations of that same set up, as soon as you see Brown throw more than one jab, you know he is setting up a clean combination. However, he has shown a bit of a weakness and that’s his legs, he is so easy to leg kick due to his height and size, his lead leg is ripe for the taking and there is little doubt in my mind that Zaleski is going to chew up those legs early, as that was the game plan for Salikhov before that one-one-two combination came his way at ridiculous speeds.
Zaleski is coming off a draw against Rinat Fakhretdinov, and very early on we saw Zaleski struggle with the pressure and power of Fakhretdinov. That pressure and power is not exactly the style of fighting that Brown utilises, Brown is a lot more patient and systematic with his approach, never pressuring his opponent but keeping a constant pace of a wide sort of attacks. Zaleski has ridiculous power in his hands though and he has the speed and explosiveness to enter the pocket and land those dangerous punches that are going to land whenever he is going to enter the pocket during this bout. However, Zaleski does not have the best defence, he often leaves his hands a bit low, and whilst that’s great for an explosive overhand or a quick burst of action that’s hard to read, I don’t think that’s a good kind of defence when you’re fighting someone who has a 5 inch reach advantage and a 4 inch height advantage. Zaleski is not a safe fighter, he is here to perform and look for highlights, he is an incredible finisher, but he is also reckless, he is also susceptible to getting hurt, and whilst he did exceptionally well against Fakhretdinov, that was mostly due to Fakhretdinov’s predictable attacks. Now, Fakhretdinov threw the same attacks over and over, and since that same attack was the one that dropped Zaleski, he kept using that same thing. In order to be effective in any combat sport, especially against a veteran, you need to have different combinations, and that’s exactly what Brown has, he has such a wide range of attacks, including his very snappy front and head kicks, so there is little doubt that Zaleski is going to be somewhat overwhelmed on the feet if Brown finds his groove early on.
This is a fantastic fight, perhaps one of the best fights on this card, I expect there to be fireworks and a lot of adjustments as the rounds go on, but I do think that Brown is going to get a win here, his reach and height advantage gives him a lot of additional set ups and effective strikes, those front kicks up the middle could be effective given the loose shell of Zaleski, and those long one-two punches that Brown uses are just beautiful to watch. This is going to be awesome. Now, before I get to the prediction… Zaleski has the right tools to make this messy enough to get a win here, so there will be an alt bet here for a Zaleski Points/KO Double Chance.
Brown via UD - (1/3)
Heavyweight
Jailton Almeida (#6) (-300) (20-3-0, NS) v Alexandr Romanov (#14) (+240) (17-2-0, NS)
Almeida is coming off a KO loss against Blaydes just a few months ago, and I mean, losing to someone like Blaydes isn’t too big of a deal since Blaydes is a genuine talent in the division, but I do wonder how Almeida has improved since that loss. Almeida is a very grapple heavy fighter who has torn through a division full of unathletic brawlers, and now he is facing fighters who have a very similar style and skill set that he has, which makes this fight all that more interesting because I have been very high on Romanov in recent years, mostly due to his style being unique in the heavyweight division. Almeida has ridiculous cardio for someone at heavyweight, and whilst you could argue that his lay and pray style does not really reflect great cardio… how often are we going to see Blaydes get taken down 9 of 13 times. 13 fucking attempts against someone who has one of the best wrestling backgrounds in the UFC at heavyweight? Almeida’s wrestling is going to be a problem for a lot of people, even as we move up the division, but it comes at a cost. Almeida is very one dimensional, he has a heavy reliance on those takedowns, and if he doesn’t get them, you get a repeat of what Blaydes did to him. On the feet I don’t see a lot happening, Almeida has shown to be a bit more free with his boxing, only to open up his opponent to takedowns, and that could very well be the gameplan for Almeida this weekend, box a little then shoot for a takedown, and it could be effective against Romanov who is a bit more one dimensional than Almeida.
Romanov has somewhat stagnated a tiny bit in his career, with a not-very-recent win over Blagoy Ivanov, and for the most part it was a strong showing of his wrestling ability and strength, however I do question the quality of opponent that Romanov has defeated in comparison to Almeida’s… It seems that Almeida has been given the more star-power names whereas Romanov has been climbing the ranks in a more natural way. Anyway, I like Romanov, but I genuinely don’t think he is going to fare well against someone like Almeida. If an old 40+ year old in Espino can out wrestle Romanov, there is no doubt that a younger and perhaps more athletic fighter in Almeida can replicate that same kind of style and just overwhelm Romanov. Romanov is a strong competitor though so I think there might be enough resistance in the wrestling department to make this fight a long, gruelling one.
A very fun clash of similar styles here, which I find pretty important since Almeida is a very impressive fighter, and I think the more we see him take on opponents with a similar style to himself, the more we get to see what he is truly capable of. I got Almeida winning this one, it should be a fun fight!
Almeida via UD - (2/3)
Middleweight
Kevin Holland (-250) (25-11-0, 2 FLS) v Michal Oleksiejczuk (+200) (19-7-0, NS) - Oh man do I love this fight.
Holland is coming off back to back losses against JDM and MVP (Jack Della Maddalena and Michael “Venom” Page”), and whilst back to back losses could easily make people dismiss Holland, I do want to bring up how competitive his fight against JDM was, and how durable and tough he was when MVP was taking his soul in what was such a brilliant display of unorthodox kickboxing. Holland has always been a game fighter, he has a chin that allows him to hang in there with the hardest hitters, and he is genuinely a very skilled fighter who has outstanding boxing and such an expert at range and luring his opponent into an angle that gives him an advantage. Holland is coming back up to 185 after a fun stint at 170, and since Oleksiejczuk has very little wrestling threat, I am excited to see if we witness Holland be himself once again, because prior to his losses against Brunson and Vettori at 185, he was a dangerous fighter. Holland has a substantial reach advantage coming into this fight which is only going to shine even more when Oleksiejczuk tries to box him in a typical boxing range. Holland is also a fairly experienced grappler, he has quite a few submissions on his record and I do think that if he wants the path of least resistance when fighting Oleksiejczuk, he is going to look for that takedown and find a submission. However, that’s not how Holland fights, he is a crowd pleaser and is most likely going to want to keep this fight standing so he can land his quick combinations at range and just put away Oleksiejczuk that way.
Oleksiejczuk is coming off a tough sub loss against Pereira, and I honestly learnt nothing else about him during that fight, he was still looking for those heavy punches, and he still had somewhat bad takedown defence. I do think that Oleksiejczuk’s best chance to win this fight is to put Holland away, but it’s just a bit of a tall order because if Holland couldn’t get knocked out by the ridiculous power of MVP, I don’t think Oleksiejczuk is going to achieve that success that MVP tried to chase. The reach disadvantage is going to be fairly prominent here too, it’s going to make Oleksiejczuk rush in a little bit with some explosive forward movement in order to cover the distance, but Holland is so good at crowding punches and being hard to hit that I just don’t think Oleksiejczuk is going to land too cleanly on Holland.
With that said, I’ve always been a fan of Holland so maybe there is a bit of bias here, but I think Holland wins this one, i’m just mostly curious to see how he looks when he returns to 185 this weekend.
Holland via KO R2 - (2/3)
Co-Main Event
Middleweight
Sean Strickland (#2) (-205) (28-6-0, NS) v Paulo Costa (#8) (+170) (14-3-0, NS)
Strickland is coming off a very competitive fight against Dricus Du Plessis, and whilst he arguably won that fight, what I was most impressed with was the little amount of damage he absorbed, even by one of the most powerful punchers in DDP, and if Strickland could absorb that little amount of damage from DDP, I can only think that he is going to be relatively fine against Costa. Strickland does struggle a little bit in turning up the pressure when pressure is needed, he does have a bit of a predictable style which has been talked about for ages, but it’s a style that works, and if he sets a high pace of steady volume and walks Costa back throughout the fight, he can easily win this fight. The only thing that Strickland needs to be careful of is the power of Costa coming back his way.
Costa is coming off a tough loss against Whittaker, and whilst he did display that power late into the first round, he struggled to keep up with the speed and footwork of Whittaker. Now, the good news for Costa is that Stricklands footwork only involves walking forward, and occasionally taking a step back, there is no tricky blitzes or anything, so the striking success rate for Costa should be at least more stable numerically in the second and third if he doesn’t succumb to the pressure and slow down in those two rounds. However, I don’t trust Costa’s gas tank that much, he may be a physical specimen but the power he throws with is unsustainable for a three round back and forth, and it’s certainly not the first time Strickland has fought a powerhouse. My main concern however is the judges scorecards, and I know its a bit weird to talk about judging, but when you have big action fighters throwing things that aren’t super effective, the visuals reflect effectiveness, regardless of the supposed damage received, will the judges this fight see Costa throw heavy, despite not landing cleanly (which is hard to do against Strickland) and give the rounds to Costa? If that is the case, then a Costa Decision certainly should be in your books, but I just think that Strickland and his 4 inch reach advantage is going to be too effective in stifling the aggression of Costa.
I ultimately have Strickland winning this fight, I never really have been big on Costa, he’s a fun fighter to watch, but when you have Strickland taking away a lot of that fun by marching down a lot of his opponents, you get a Costa that struggles to keep up a bit. This is going to be a low confidence pick due to the judging factor, I have a weird feeling about this one lol.
Strickland via UD - (1/3)
Main Event
Lightweight Championship Bout
Islam Makhachev (c) (-480) (25-1-0, 13 FWS) v Dustin Poirier (#5) (+360) (30-8-0, NS)
Makhachev is one of the most well rounded fighters in the UFC at the moment. Everything he does is with clean technique and outstanding timing, and he has the cardio to keep up a ridiculously high pace for 5 rounds. There is no doubt in my mind that he is going to be using his brilliant wrestling and grappling to slowly dismantle Poirier, because Poirier’s grappling is rudimentary at best, it does not hold a candle to Makhachevs wrestling. There is a lot of discussion about Poirier landing a guillotine on Makhachev, but it’s all hype and hope at this rate because if he could not land a guillotine on BSD, he probably isn’t going to land one against a high level wrestler in Makhachev. Makhachev is a few steps behind when it comes to boxing though, I do not see him being successful against Poirier on the feet, Poirier’s striking is sublime, it is the most brilliant close range striking that you’ll probably ever see in the LW division, those tight hooks he uses is something nasty.
Poirier is on his last legs career wise, there is quite a lot weighing on him for this one as it is his final chance to get a belt, so that’s already a lot of pressure, but I guess he thrives in this kind of environment. Poirier is going to have to contend with the almost instant wrestling pressure and pace of Makhachev, and given that Poirier is not at all a wrestler, he is going to get taken down, he got taken down quite a few times when he fought a very depleted BSD, and now he’s coming up against a very physically ready Makhachev, I just don’t see Poirier doing too well in the wrestling department against Makhachev. However, when it comes to the striking, Poirier holds all the cards here, he has incredible timing with his lead hook and if he times it right, that uppercut could be disastrous for Makhachev. It’s going to be the hook and the uppercut that catch Makhachev, but if Makhachev can survive those attacks and get his hands wrapped around Poirier, it’s not going to matter if Poirier rocks Makhachev in the process, Makhachev is insane in top position.
That’s the story here, Poirier’s boxing versus Makhachevs wrestling and grappling. I got Makhachev winning this one, but it is always a good idea to sprinkle a bit of money on a Poirier KO, especially since he’s such a big underdog here.
Makhachev via Sub R2 - (2/3)
And that's it!
Primary Parlay - Price/Morono o2.5 or GTD + Dawson/Solecki o2.5 or GTD + Almeida/Kopylov ITD + Makhachev/Poirier ITD
Secondary Parlay - Price/Morono o2.5 or GTD + Almeida/Romanov R3 Starts Yes + Strickland/Costa o2.5 + Makhachev/Poirier u3.5 or ITD
Locks: Perez (optional), Dawson, Almeida, Holland and Makhachev.
Prediction Accuracy for 2024: 64.3%
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