u/WasntMyFaultThisTime

I recently got a new female betta (that red mark in the bottom left) and for several days she would refuse to eat anything I put in the tank. She didn't want brine shrimp, pellets, bloodworms, flakes, etc. At first I figured it was because she had just been fed when I bought her so she wasn't hungry, but it went on for several days.

Fast forward to yesterday where I'm still trying to feed her and she repeatedly notices and then ignores pellets sinking past her, except this time I watch her behavior a little longer and I see that she circles back to the pellet and picks it off the sand and eats it. I drop another pellet in and she does the same thing.

Turns out for whatever reason she'll only eat food that she finds on the bottom of her tank and doesn't even make an effort to compete for falling pellets like my other two bettas do with their tankmates. So now every once in awhile I'll see her scrounging around the bottom of the tank with the pygmy cories looking for something to eat.

Trying to decide if I should trim off these bottom parts on my neckline. It gives my beard this weird inward dent (pic 3) that very likely isn't noticeable to anyone else but drives me a little nuts.

Pic 2 is the general area id cut, the back end of the line lines up just about where the bottom of my jawbone is and follows my while leaving a bit of overhang. I hear all the time that you shouldn't trim up against the jawline so I'm a bit iffy on this.

Pic 4 is me trying to push as much hair out of the way as I can to get a guesstimate of what it'll look like when trimmed

Pic 5 is me trying to again show the area I'm talking about, this time using a comb to show the trim line and angle.

Am I going to be trimming too close to the jaw and fuck up my neckline? Should I just not worry about it?

Also any tips for managing flyaways would be great. Pic 2 was taken after a long trimming session and they're *still fucking there* no matter how much hair I remove.

So, this is probably getting old by now. 8pm-ish EST rolls around and now you've got some dude breaking the rules again and inspiring a handful of other rule-breaking posts as well. It's probably not any effort to remove the posts, but it's an annoyance. What'll it take to get him to knock it off?

Let me address some things first. I, and everyone else who has joined in this small crusade, are here because we enjoyed the game when it was popular and are still hoping that something may come from the development team and at least being a small handful of players back, if not make the game popular again. Enough to have more than one server operational at a time would be good enough.

The issue, however, is that we have gotten *fuck all* from you. After the initial April deadline passed, people were willing to cut you some slack because maybe there were unforseen issues, technical problems, etc. But as time passed with little to no communication, you lost more and more trust from the community until by the time next April rolled around, the update schedule had become a meme, which certainly wasn't helped by the fact that you missed *that* year's April too.

A lack of updates when they were promised is one thing (and a pretty egregious one at that, not to downplay the severity), but the lapse in communication is what's killing a lot of us here on Reddit specifically. I can't speak for everyone here, but I would bet money that a significant amount of us feel disrespected and led on or lied to by how little info we're getting about the development progress.

So where do we go from here? How do you regain the trust of the community? Is there any hope if the update releases it won't turn out to be a massive waste of time since nobody is left around to play it?

The first thing we need is an apology and an honest admittance of wrongdoing and failure. Own up to the fact that you missed your deadlines and failed to deliver what and when you said you would. Right now there is zero accountability from the dev team and it irritates some of us (myself especially) that this whole situation is being brushed under the rug and ignored and that the devs are acting like nothing is wrong.

Second, some transparency. The best way to dispel rumors and griping about update timing is to give us a comprehensive list of what you finished and what is planned. A lot of us don't speak code, so just a simple estimated percentage of completion will work. Don't bother with setting release dates, because frankly we don't believe you anymore. Tell us *why* it's taken you two years to work on what you have. The more honest you are, the better.

Third, *ANY* content. Even if something is a half-finished mess, please add it to the game. If it causes game-breaking bugs, remove it and show players that the game is still being updated/moderated. The game is so stale that even the smallest features will have a big impact.

Now realistically, I don't have any authority to be asking this of you. You could very easily ignore me with no consequence to yourself. After all, I'm just a dude speedrunning a ban on Reddit. But my intent is to be an exceptionally vocal community liaison through intentional yet minor and harmless disregard of the rules to attract attention to the issue. This isn't *me* specifically voicing these issues, these are community-wide complaints that I happen to be the mouthpiece for and we hope you'll take the time to listen.

At the end of the day, we're still here because we had a lot of fun and are hoping we still can.

-Lowes Guy

Also I apologize for the abysmal quality on the second picture, I was standing in my kitchen and saw my reflection in the window and thought "oh shit, nice" so I snapped a zoomed-in photo from across the room.

Those are all Bolbitis Heudeloti. For scale, the piece of wood in the second picture is the one at the bottom of the first photo.