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What lifestyle changes have you made in the pursuit of FIRE? Which ones were the most effective at helping you reach your goals?
For our family, the best thing that we have done is take up biking everywhere. It is great in so many ways. Get exercise. Get fresh air and sun shine. Save money on gas. Save on wear and tear on the car. No paid parking. Never stuck in traffic.
> On the Lakers front: Spoke to someone over the weekend who believes that the Los Angeles Lakers aren't going to wait for Anthony Davis to become a free agent. > > Source believes that the Lakers are going all out in pursuit of AD via a trade next summer. Source says that in talking with at least two people in the know in LA, that they could attempt to propose a trade as early as this year! > > To do that, the Lakers would obviously have to part with at least one of their young budding players and could bring in a third team to make this deal work. > > Told that KCP could be convinced to accept a trade (he's eligible to be traded after December 15, also would have to give up his early bird rights) as his salary would be useful in any trade to match salaries. > > Any trade is difficult to pull off, so acquiring AD isn't as sure of a thing as securing KD via free agency summer ‘19. > > Source says Lakers are interested in a potential Laker team with LeBron, KD and AD next year. > > Per my source: “The Lakers are gunning for the biggest names. LBJ, KD & AD in LA. It's all part of the plan.”
I honestly don't see the reason to why we can't simply lock the most important and time sensitive items to the top left or wherever we want in our pursuits. Having to spend extra time per rotation of Menagerie cheesing reduces the total amount of gear you can get from a single run down by one or two items due to this and the loading times.
Motes in Reckoning are also kinda a pain due to not being able to hold more than one of a kind (t1-3 I mean).
It's like if after ww2 instead of hanging nazi's we forgave jews
The entire war on drugs was a lie, those who extended were lying, the entire fucking thing is a travesty that has destroyed countless lives, and NO ONE is going to have to answer for it. And while I know many of the original people to blame are long gone, there are plenty of living people who have some responsibility
So, RNG locks the biggest chunks of earning titles, right? Along with meta-focused play styles. I know a TON of the Dredgens-to-be are just trying to get their Light vs Light kills... so let's scratch each other's backs en masse?
Since there's going to be more gambit players next week thanks to Malfeasance chasers, I think it would be cool if we stopped Hammerheading, Thunderlording, Queensbreaking and Making-Go-Night-Night (that's what my whole clan calls the Sleeper) and invade with our supers more. Don't hold back, either. I don't mean jump portal>pop super>stand around>serve up free kills.
Mix it up and chase down my entire team with that hideous Eternal Warrior on. Fill the air with the sound of Phoenix screeches and cleanse my team with flame. Tether us to one another and laugh as your Two-Tailed rockets sidewind into the face of my clan's titans.
I know we've all thought about a mayhem-gambit mode, and maybe as part of the Heavy Curse Week we can bring the ruckus, ya feel?
Anyhow that's just a thought. We all mostly hate the rng element of Title Chasing, and at least this is one fun thing the community can do to liven up Gambit from its meta, during the title chase.
Edit: Thank you for the Gilding anonguardian, see me on the field, buried under motes!
Second edit.
I didn't get a single fucking one. Saw many people pop their super AFTER I died to mobs or crooked fangs, but literally saw around 12 or so supers this week, and even got utterly obliterated by the #1 and #2 players this week! I can honestly say that none of this experience was fun, worth the time, or worth my effort. Thanks anyhow Guardians!
Later there was also an obligatory question on Yugoslavia.
We had a good set to chase after last season and it was earned in-game through the Prophecy Dungeon. Actually it had 2 sets, a reprise of the old Trials armour and the Moonfang set (which I believe is the pursuit armour).
Note how there were no ornament sets purchasable outside events last season. Every set was earned by playing. Hell even the plain solstice glow was earned by grinding with coloured options purchasable after.
Now in Beyond Light/Season of the Hunt we have the standard armour sets from each activity; A raid set, a seasonal set with its ornaments, and the vendor sets strikes/crucible/gambit(which all three are the same but with different paint jobs). This is all expected of those activities and sources. But what I'm not seeing is a set we pursue like described... Instead we have another ornament set put into eververse. Also I don't feel like the raid armour is the aspirational set either, a new raid is expected to have new armour.
Bungie, you can't promise one thing and deliver it merely one time before going back on it. You even stated this was planned for Y4 despite it being only true for the last season of Y3. "Each Season we will deliver an aspirational pursuit for armor. We haven’t done this consistently in Destiny 2."
It's feeling very inconsistent indeed.
I don't like being negative but please... just don't forget about the things you have promised to do...
As for the community, what do you all think? Does the raid armour count as a seasonal pursuit set? or should the current eververse set be earnable in game by doing objectives this season?
Link for reference: https://www.bungie.net/en/News/Article/49002
I heard about this book in a post on Tumblr within the last three months but was not able to find the comment again. The argument of the book is only an approximation of the book's topic.
TL;DR: What do you think the implications are of the U-shaped happiness curve and Financial Independence?
Today I was reading about the U-shaped happiness curve as we age in populations across the world and thought of FIRE.
https://imgur.com/a/DZ2xq2E (Happiness - Source 1) *edit: Potentially misleading graph. Do note though: > In the seven data sets, they studied the size of the drop, in well-being to the low point in the late 40s is equivalent in magnitude to the influence of a major life event like unemployment or marital separation.
https://imgur.com/a/hvamxFT (Despair - Source 2)
Is Happiness U-Shaped Everywhere? Age & Subjective Well Being in 132 countries (Source 1)
Paper Conclusion >No ifs, no buts, well-being is U-shaped in age. In this paper I undertook what Deaton (2018) called a "daunting task" of drawing systematic comparisons across data files and countries of the relationship between well-being, variously defined, and age.
>Averaging across the 257 individual country estimates from developing countries gives an age minimum of 48.2 for well-being and doing the same across the 187 country estimates for advanced countries gives a similar minimum of 47.2. The happiness curve is found in 132 countries.
I started to wonder if there were any implications of the happiness curve and Financial Independence.
Such as:
- Does declining happiness as we enter our careers prompt us to reflect on what changed and prompt us to figure out a way to recover the halcyon days of our 20's?
- What is the cause of the U shape curve? Does pursuing FIRE blunt the effects?
- Is it our environment. People becoming unhappy from the mounting stress of growing responsibilities at work, home with children and aging parents? Being depended on in multiple areas of life.
- Is it biological? They way she goes with aging? Interestingly enough it seems this U-curve is reproduced in other great apes.
- Would this data replicate in FIRE cohorts? Likely not if it results from the environment, very likely if the effect results from biological changes in m
https://twitter.com/FabianArdaya/status/1204936881906958337?s=19
Not sure what the Angel's have that would be enticing enough to move him there. Anyone have any idea?
