"Try to separate a man from his soul. You'll only strengthen him, and lose your own."

Hello once again, my beautiful dipshits! I find myself in a type-y mood this evening, so I might as well put it towards a bit more confirmation bias. But this wont be all feel-good vibes. I've gotta hit you with some realness as well, and I hope you'll be receptive to it. But first, a little more of that yeezus juice for your veins:

You aren't market manipulators, gamblers, a "cult", or any other form of bullshit MSM or the shorts would have you believe. In fact, they're all holding back smirks as they try to paint you as the culprit when they'd do the exact same in your place. In fact, I'll wager one mooned GME share that Melissa Lee and friends are all long on this bitch. You've made arguably the most intelligent single play in market history, followed closely by the shorting of the British pound. And it fucking infuriates them. You little plebs from all walks of life, with your imperfect information, your memes, and....ugh, your HOPE. Disgusting.

How could you possibly have found, understood, and capitalized on a decade's worth of education in a matter of months? How could you be holding through the wildest swings and the most extensive fraud the market has ever seen, defying "economic fundamentals" the whole way? As popular as behavioral economics have become in recent years, this is still unprecedented behavior. What good is buying "one more day" when the end result will ALWAYS be the same? How is it possible that NOTHING has an effect on diamond hands?!?!

They've never understood, and never will. They haven't been through what you have. To them, the American Dream is still very much alive. How couldn't it be, when it was handed to them on a silver platter at birth? It takes a special kind of idiot to shirk your birthright, your easy path to easy paydays. To allow the shame and regret of what you're a part of wash over you completely and drive you down another path, rather than bottling it up and hoping it doesn't eventually kill you.

*waves*

To John Q Public, the American Dream is dead, and has been for some time. As I've said before, the proletariat is only complacent until they're not. History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. This boom/bust cycle has become steadily and steadily more egregious and offensive each iteration. And as wonderful wrinkly fuckers like /u/dlauer, /u/criand, and /u/atobitt have pointed out, this situation runs SO

Religious and spiritual beliefs are a defence against the often painful and anxiety provoking realities of existing as human beings. These anxiety provoking topics are four existential givens. They are the four basic fundamental truths of human existence: Death, meaninglessness, isolation and freedom.

Death

We’re all going to die, and we know it. This is, for almost everyone, a source of significant anxiety. We’ve evolved with two basic responses to danger, we punch it, or we run from it. We have a pretty extensive understanding of this fight or flight mechanism and the associated anxiety effectively serves the function of keeping us alive most of the time. Of course we can’t run from death and we can’t punch it. If we can be certain of anything in life it’s that death will get us all in the end.

It’s obvious how most religions address this anxiety: Denial, immortality, reincarnation. You put in a little effort, you go to church, you pray, have faith, and you can content yourself with the belief that death is not the end.

Meaninglessness

Life does not have a meaning. There is no grand cosmic plan. We are born, we live, we die. As intelligent animals we constantly search for explanations, we have an instinctive desire to know why. Why does lightning strike, why is the fire hot, why is the sky blue. But there’s are some answers we can’t find: why are we here. It may make no sense to even ask why, but we do anyway, hoping there’s some reason for it all. But the universe remains silent.

We are meaning making creatures and we can’t help but find things to which we can assign meaning: family, work, hobbies, experiences. But part of us feels, deep down, that this isn’t “real”, we know meaning is just a property we attribute to things and somehow that’s never quite satisfying enough to stave off the anxiety of meaninglessness.

But here’s religion again to put your mind at ease. You may not be in on the grand cosmic plan but don’t worry, there is one, and god knows what it is. When things don’t make sense you don’t need to think too much about it because it’s all part of a plan and if there’s a plan then there must be some purpose to it. Thanks to religion we can content ourselves with the belief that at least something out there knows what the point of all this is.

Isolation

We are all islands. I know my own mind, I have my own thoughts and experience things in my own personal way. I assume you do as well. But I can never really know you i

#Edit: Seems that my post has been hidden.

#Edit2: ..And now it has been unhidden. Not sure why this happened.

#Unfinished Business

##My Thoughts

You will probably want to ignore my feedback and blabbering - so scroll down until you see 'Updates'

I did one of these a few years ago, and I thought it'd be fun to do another with an updated list of forgotten, cancelled, previously suggested, highly polled, confirmed, shelved, popular, etc. content. Not everything here was 'promised' and, again, some of these updates are definitely cancelled. It's quite cheeky of me to refer to all of these as 'unfinished business'. But an unfortunate, and almost unbelievable, proportion of it was promised. The majority of it we have no idea whatsoever about. Each year Jagex has decided to knuckle down even harder on the 'we've made mistakes in the past, but this time we really promise' tagline. The problem is that when the inevitable happens - Jagex will lose support amongst the playerbase. I have no doubt that once we reach the Winter months, the same promises and optimistic prose will be published to the community once again.

There's no way all of this could ever be released, nor is it reasonable to expect it to be. At least not within any short frame of time. But, it'd be nice for Jagex to begin to making some headway on these projects. It's entirely baffling to me that Jagex polled so many ideas between 2017 and 2019 - and yet almost none of them have been made. Not a single one from the 2019 poll, and only one or two from the 2018 polls. I haven't even added every poll to this list (RuneFest 2018 poll results, Dag King poll, 2017 polls, etc). What's even worse, to me, is how important many of these are. Things that should really have been prioritised many years ago, nevermind a decade later in some cases.

The new and shiny updates are always going to be super exciting. I'd love nothing more than Raids 2, another difficult Grandmaster Quest, or a Player Owned Town. But what I take the most issue with is the lack of care for the integrity of the game. The reworks, the core issues which remain entirely unresolved, the outdated content and areas. It's great to see a Vannaka moved to Edgeville bank, a new level 1 Slayer master added to Lumbridge, a few new Lunar spells, Shattered Worlds to be given minibosses which can't really be differentiated from regular mobs - without adding any new rewards, the hi-scores, etc. However, none of these deal with many

Background: I’ve been married for 15 years and have one 11 yo DS. I’ve been a SAHM for the past 5 years after moving back to the US from an expat stint. Because of medical issues including a cancer diagnosis in my early thirties and infertility treatments for recurrent miscarriage, I worked part time for four years. After DS was born, I didn’t return to work until he was 4. The plan was to return to work in 2 years, but DH was recruited for a job overseas. Luckily, I was hired by the same company 2 months after arriving and after waiting a year for a work visa, worked full time the remaining time we lived overseas. All of our accounts other than individual retirement accounts are joint accounts. We consider all of our income and assets as a single pot that belongs to us both.

Numbers below are rounded. Section One: Assets & Debt

Retirement Balances: 2,038,000 Since 2012 we have contributed the after tax maximum to DH’s 401k including a 9% match from his employer. I was not eligible for the expat employee 401k nor pension plan. I was considered a dependent of my husband. My IRA balance is much lower because my retirement balances went to infertility treatments.

• 401k: 774,000
• Rollover IRA: 569,000
• Pension: 648,000 (vested)
• IRA: 55,000

Home Equity: 436,000

• Home value: 800,000
• Home cost: 695,000
• Mortgage: 364,000
• Down payment: 278,000 This was money saved from my expat salary.

Joint Savings account balance: 76,000

Joint Checking account balance: 36,000

Investment accounts: 215,000 I opened bc I didn’t have access to my expat employer’s 401k or pension (86k). The other is joint.

529 account: 188,000 After starting my expat job, I converted a $500 Coverdell account. I used my expat salary to make monthly contributions of 1,290. A year after we moved back, I cut the contributions in half. Last month, I stopped contributing and routed to savings.

Jewelry: 20,000 Getting appraised; this is probably an underestimate.

Credit card debt: 0 (paid off monthly)

Cars: 42,000 total 30,000 loan balance/27,200 value 11,400 loan balance/39,483 value We bought two cars when we moved back. DH just traded in for a newer (used) car in Oct 2020. We debated paying cash outright for both but qualified for 0 interest.

Student loan debt: $390 DH is almost done! I’m done with mine. My husband and I both received scholarships and generous merit and need based financial aid for our undergrads. We both also worked on campus and summer jobs to earn person

When I first started frequenting this sub a couple of years ago the realities of what was to come, and what is still to come seemed distant, almost separate from that time. Now, some of the near term issues exacerbated by climate change are beginning to materialise - water access, rising sea levels, and extreme weather. All of these stories were reported in the last couple of weeks. Climate change is real and it's here today.

To combat this hyperobject society must fundamentally change, and this is where I think a lot of people get disenfranchised - it comes at great cost. We must stop emitting carbon dioxide and a myriad of other greenhouse gases immediately. This issue penetrates every facet of society - we have to change practically everything we do.

But with an uptrend in the release of methane through melting permafrost it might already be too late. To stave off the worst effects of climate change we may need to sequester greenhouse gasses already released into the atmosphere to keep us from passing tipping points we may have already started to pass, using technology which hasn't yet been invented. This is an insane situation; sequestering greenhouse gasses is analogous to burning a fire and trying to capture the smoke - we can't do this cheaply or at scale with current technology.

What's perhaps more incredulous is our collective response to what's happening. We continue to dig for oil and make new discoveries, we continue to emit greenhouse gasses, we continue to deny, delay, and distract from the most important issue we have ever faced as a species. Your average Joe is probably aware of the concept of climate change, but, like many of us I suspect at some point, considered this issue to be one for the grand-kids or not as great a threat to humanity as it is likely to be. I asked my father what he thought the world would l

Mark Seifter / Logan Bonner / Avi Kool

***[4:04 PM]***Talking about the cover and the finalized version

***[4:05 PM]***Logan had a vision about how the core books are done CRB through B3, they're doing a different presentation, they wanted to dig into the cosmology and go into the narrative of the rules of magic.

Essentials of Magic Diagram

They concepted many different versions of this diagram

***[4:07 PM]***They wanted an immersive reading section for the "Essentials of Magic" where a scholar of each tradition talks about their perspective. Associations with colors and animals for each kind of magic, something that would be important to the in-universe practitioners and enrich their stories.

Excerpt from the treatises

From Seifter's treatises on essences, end of spirit, beginning of life

[4:08 PM]The Wizard who wrote it got a lore oracle to do an editing pass, who gives editing notes throughout

.[4:09 PM]They're mentioning William Blake's philosophical treatises as an influence.

[4:09 PM]Primal one is a letter that a primal caster if leaving for her grand daughter

[4:09 PM]***Time to talk about the new classes(edited)

***[4:09 PM]***Magus up first

***[4:11 PM]***They went broad in the playtest with what spells you could use for Spellstrike, but that was too limited and confusing you use, since it took too many actions to use.

***[4:11 PM]***Spellstrike is now two actions, but you have to recharge it, which you can do with an action, but you have focus spells that ALSO recharge it as a side effect.

***[4:11 PM]***The staff weapon lets you hit two people while you recharge it.

***[4:12 PM]***It makes it more flexible than it was in the playtest.

***[4:12 PM]***Other major addition is Arcane Cascade, which is a damage buff all Magus gets, stance Magus enters after casting a spell that gives them an ongoing boost.

***[4:14 PM]***Avi on editing the Magus, they loved thinking about how they would use the Magus. It doesn't feel constricting at all anymore, you can do a lot of bizarre powerful things, and you have a lot of agency even at first level to do cool stuff.

***[4:15 PM]***"Do you have to

Hey everyone! I wanted to write this diary to give you a look at how I make it work in a HCOL area with a very average income. It definitely turned into a little bit of a Job Diary, with my thoughts on my new workplace. I hope it gives you a look into a low-paying and very necessary industry that many don’t know about.

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Section One: Assets and Debt

Retirement Balance: $1,597 in a 401K and index funds. I had a hard time on my last income putting much away, but I’d like to change that with my new income.

Savings account balance: $6,476 — this is $900 in grad school savings, which I began saving for a few months ago, and my three-month emergency fund as well as sinking funds for car maintenance, holidays, and plane tickets.

Checking account balance: $2,830. I normally keep less in here and put it towards savings right away, but I wanted a buffer since this was a single paycheck month.

Credit card debt: $0

Student loan debt: $24,336 federal for a BA in Psychology. Not currently using it but obviously need it for my Masters.

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Section Two: Income

Income Progression: I've been working in my field for 4 years. My starting salary was minimum wage — $11.10/hr ($21,333 take-home) for working with teen girls in a group home setting; I then worked with adults with disabilities in long-term care at $15.75/hour ($22,702 take-home, fewer hours); and I started a new job last week working in residential with teens with disabilities at $18.60/hour ($29,790 take-home). I’ll be getting a raise to $19.25 by the end of the year, which will be an extra $1,000 take-home.

This company is pretty much the cap of what you can make working in residential as direct care staff for people with disabilities. The work is hard (shift work, unsafe and injuries are frequent, emotionally exhausting), and compensation is not commensurate, literally no matter where you go. I’m just doing my time, applying to MSW programs, and hopefully getting out of residential the second I’m licensed for clinical work. It’s a transitional field for practically everyone. You’ll probably burn out in a couple years, and if you don’t and you can hack it, you move on because the pay is awful. A tiny handful of people move on to management, but that’s its own hell. (I’m making it sound awful, but it’s relatively fun most days and it’s invaluable experience. If the mgmt is alright, they can be much more sustainable jobs than retail or food service.)

My p

With massive QE over the past year and recent spikes in Overnight Reverse Repurchase Agreements, how does it play into the GME short squeeze?

Buckle Up kiddos, this is a long one:

(EDIT: if you're here to learn about RRPs, feel free to ignore the last 2 sections)

Agenda

• The Federal Reserve
• Repurchase Agreement (Repo) Market
• The Value of the Dollar
• Synthetic Share Creation
• My Theory

The Federal Reserve

The Federal Reserve, The Fed as it’s commonly referred to, is the US Central Banking institution. Without getting too much into the history of banking both in the USA and globally, a national central bank was always advocated for, but never fully successfully implemented, dating all the way back to the Revolutionary War.

The modern day Fed got its start in 1913 via the Federal Reserve Act, singed into law by President Wilson on Christmas Eve. Prompted by consistent financial instability, and specifically the Panic of 1907, Senator Aldrich gathered a group of financial experts (essentially the richest American businessmen at the time) out on a small island off the coast of Georgia, to come up with a solution that later became the basis for the Federal Reserve Act. The Act stipulated the creation of a system of private and public entities that would help manage the monetary supply of a national US currency. Essentially, an institution that existed within the boundaries of the Federal Government, but was not beholden to public scrutiny.

The Fed has since had a tumultuous, yet ultimately prosperous journey over the years. A number of various regulations, Acts, and reforms have shaped the Fed into what it is today. Currently operating across 12 Central Banks, the Federal Reserve System works with the US Treasury Department and federal legislators to oversee the monetary policies of the US economy. There are similar Central Banks around the world, as well as a number of decentralized global institutions such as the IMF.

The Fed manages this monetary policy through Open Market Operations, managing the supply of reserves in the banking system, influencing interest rates and the supply of credit. These operations can be simplified into two categories with opposite objectives:

1. Expansionary Monetary Policy - the Fed creates and pumps reserves into the banking system, putting downward pressure on interest rates to encourage borrowing. Stimulating the economy
2. Contractionary Monetary Policy - the Fed buys back reserves in the banks by issu

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As we Northern Hemispherers enter the heart of summertime, with outdoor adventures ever beckoning, this time of year is also a period of peak buzz for gamers. Video game companies finally reveal their hands for what blockbuster titles they have in store for the fall and holiday season. Board game publishers announce their headline releases for the biggest conventions of the year. After what frequently feels like a long winter and spring drought, the hype train finally pulls into station, welcoming all aboard once more.

Those who know me know that I’ll happily board such trains. And when opportunity presents itself, I won’t hesitate to put on my conductor hat and fuel the engines that carry us onward to thrilling horizons.

We kicked off this year with an article featuring My Most Anticipated Board Games of 2021… twenty games highlighted and hyped, many of which we’ve now had the pleasure of playing. Few have disappointed, and many more will find their way to the table very soon. Meanwhile, a whole extra batch of games have been surfacing from the deep unknown sea, landing a spot on my ever growing wishlist.

Due to their striking presentations, intriguing mechanisms, thrilling promises, and/or reliable creators, the following fifteen games have earned a place onto my most anticipated games of 2021 part II:

Bear Raid

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Expected Release: November 2021

Hot new designer, Ryan Courtney, returns with another promising game in Bear Raid. Here we see players buying, selling, shorting, and manipulating stocks in competition for the biggest payoff. Under the steady hand of publisher Board Game Tables, we’re sure to see a solid production with what appears to be the perfect choice of an artist in Nick Nazzaro. The psychedelic colors and animals seem to hint at the bitey gameplay lurking beneath. For some reason, Bear Raid reminds me of cutthroat auctioning game, The Estates, and I’m all for it.

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Beyond the inexplicable limit of his calm self was a raging hurricane of emotion. He could stand on the precipice, and peer down into the abyss, only superficially aware of the terror that awaited him should he take one step further. It was Chaos. It was everything and nothing, simultaneously; it was the wreckage of his life and his love for what once was. It was every dream — every hope — he once selfishly and jealously guarded, now screaming and falling apart.

Because he couldn’t stand the sight of an advertisement.

Once again, Fubuki Heavy Industries had ruined him. Even though he knew that this was not true, his irrational hatred only grew stronger. Even though he was aware of how irrational it was, somehow, that only made it more justified.

Was it Fubuki Heavy Industries’ fault that he was here? Infallible AI; immaculate manufacturing; impossible accidents. No. In all likelihood, Fubuki Heavy Industries had nothing to do with his accident — they just manufactured the APV.

Perhaps in Aren’s mind, Fubuki Heavy Industries represented the true culprit behind his cruel fate. It was the face of his villain, but not his villain’s identity. It was a stand-in, so to speak, — a cardboard cut-out — of the vile and terrorizing entity that shattered his life.

Aren walked for what felt like hours. To him, at least. Here, on the precipice, the perception of time was warped. Reason and logic themselves were warped. He tried not to think about anything. He tried to think about the road in front of him, the literal road, and perhaps even wondered about the mechanics and the workload required to pave it with stone like this. It was the King’s Highway, after all. Countless caravans passed over this road each day, carrying goods, frontier refugees, and other types of cargo. Merchants, mostly, used the King’s Highway — or King’s Road as it was often called in the modern times.

The reason why it stopped being a highway in recent memory was because the world was smaller. In the golden age of Singularity, alliances pushed the borders of the unknown back. And when those alliances declined, and the sharp spike in difficulty discouraged the geniuses of

Since this is a Novella the TLDR is coming at the top. Yes, I literally copied and pasted a lot of regulation documentation. There is a lot of info-heavy information, even summarizing I found it was almost as long. So here goes: TLDR: Odd Lots:

1. Do not get calculated into the NBBO, they do not affect the price.
2. They are short exempt, immune to the uptick rule
3. Are not required to be reported to the Tape, are visible on proprietary data feeds only. They don't affect the price but those subscribed to the feed can track volume and price trends.

If you need proof of these statements continue on. It is a heavy read and I did not finish going through all of "Market Data Infrastructure" aka NMS II. I literally couldn't do it anymore. I hope someone comes along and can help me out. Over 60 hours into this and I'm done. And it's over the character limit so this will be in pieces. As stated on the final line:

** Please somebody take this and run with it. I only ask for a mention so that I don't feel as though all those hours were for naught. **

*Many weeks ago, I saw a post and wondered what is this 'odd lot' orders they speak of, and why does it matter? Oh, the rabbit hole I plunged into turned out to be an underground metropolis. After all this time underground, I’m left with more questions than answers. I decided to put together what I’ve found and hope that someone with a lot more wisdom and experience could chime in.*

>odd lot - order amount for a security that is less than the normal unit of trading for that particular asset.
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>round lot - is any lot of shares that can be evenly divided by 100.
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>mixed lot - orders over 100 shares, but that cannot be evenly divided by 100. Reporting on mixed lots, including bid/ask data, generally only displays the portion that constitutes a round lot.
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>While round lots are posted on the associated exchange, odd lots are not posted as part of the bid/ask data. Further, the execution of odd-lot trades does not display on various data reporting sources. Due to the uncommon number of shares involved in the trade, odd-lot transactions often take longer to complete than those associated with round lots.(Investopedia)

***Insert record scratch here *- Do what? So my buy order of 2 GME shares isn't displayed/reported and I get the short end of the stick, getting it filled because it's not an even

Phil

Again to reiterate, since this should probably be at the top. This is not financial advice. It's at the bottom of every post but from now on I'll keep this at the top.

Summary of resources I used to learn:

>I would recommend Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets by Murphy and How to Day Trade for a Living by Aziz. You can find the free PDFs online. I watch Humbled Trader on YouTube. She's legit and really knows what she's doing. I also read a lot of Investopedia and learned about options trading from the online websites Options Playbook and TheOptionsGuide. Understand options is important for understanding trends, sentiment and where prices should go. Being able to read and understand the options chain is important. I use several tools at my disposal. Namely, optionistics for understanding IV and option price trends, barchart for options chain, OptionSonar for scanning for unusual options activity, Webull for charting and level 2 data, ThinkOrSwim for quick news scanning and Stonk-O-Tracker for SSR data. I check TradingView for amateur trading ideas just to make sure I haven't missed anything, and I like to read Form-10Qs (quarterly earnings), Form-8Ks (emergency updates), Form S-1 (for IPOs), 13Gs to track institutional positions (it's usually outdated but still useful), and 13Fs for funds that didn't file a 13G.

Edit 35 4:00 PM:

What a solid fucking finish to the day. We were shorted down to the ground but we ended the day up 6.21%! Keep in mind this is a win. We are on SSR for tomorrow! I heard stonks go up.

See you apes on the moon tomorrow.

Edit 34 2:49 PM:

I'll be back later in the day, probably around power hour. Will post another edit if anything interesting happens.

Edit 33 2:28 PM:

It's since formed a dome. The short attack was certainly effective in staving off momentum. The price should recover more slowly. Shorts may not even need to cover EOD. They can choose to do it on another day. Especially if this was long side whales triggering SSR, expect them to cover when they want to price to skyrocket.

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Time for some speculation. Could this short attack be done by our whale allies? Possibly so. After all, we should have hit the SSR today which will be insurance against short attacks for today and to

Hello once again! It is my pleasure to present yet another chapter already, and hope more might be just as easily on the way! But we will see. Otherwise, enjoy!

See the previous chapter here.

As the archaeology team in front of MAXINE stared dumbfounded, painful and anxious milliseconds passed like eons in the AI’s mind as they processed what she said. Flashing through her artificial mind was the ongoing decree to protect - to PROTECT - to defend - to hide. It weighed heavily on a disjointed intellect that was itself fighting to survive against the encroaching ravages of time, and the protocols conflicted heavily with the necessity of the situation now. There were several times as they ever so slowly found words to reply that she simulated various outcomes that included how best to safely create their demise, or their inclusion into her protection protocols depending on their answer. Finally, Doctor Ghan spoke, “Ah, so… you are dying? I’m not quite sure how we are able to help prevent that from happening.”

Codru interjected next to say, “Yes, I did notice the breaks in your speech patterns and your body’s motor functions, but are you in need of parts, or someone to work on your hardware?”

MAXINE turned towards Codru as she said, “Yes, parts are what I especially require at this moment. The avatar I use to converse with you has been in storage for a long time, and several of its parts have been used elsewhere. I have also made use of all available spare parts without endangering other critical systems, but finally, I need ambassadors that can go back to the Voteran government.”

Murien looked bemused and asked, “Our government? But wouldn’t the Federation be the better one to ask for help from?”

The android looked at her with a blank expression. “A Federation founded, in part, by the Scaanid Empire.”

Murien with a start had the moment of realization and hung her head. “Oh, right.”

Hyupi nodded her head in understanding. “I see now. You need outside help but don’t want everyone finding out.” The android nodded and motioned back to the opening door behind them, and the group continued the conversation away from the frigid chill of the room that even their suits couldn’t stave off for long. MAXINE continued, “For the work that is to take place, the first focus would be on stabilizing and repairing my systems. As it stands, I hav

Trigger warning: talk of suicidal thoughts.

Alright prepare for a rant. Please read and respond if you feel so inclined. I don’t have anyone in my life who also has bipolar disorder who might be able to really understand this situation. I’m very isolated. So thank you in advance.

This old friend I’ve been rather close with off on on over twenty years messaged me on Instagram asking “done playing sad little boy?” When I questioned what he meant by that he said he sent me a video of him singing a song for me to cheer me up and since I hadn’t responded in three months he wouldn’t indulge me with a response. He said I should wake the fuck up and that there are people that care about me.

Okay......

It’s been a week and I’m still thinking about it. If I offend someone with my suicidal depression by ignoring them I’m sorry. It is something I think about and feel guilty about. Just like if I killed myself id feel guilty for others but one reason people may kill themselves is often because the pain is so bad they see no other way to end. These past six months have been so hard. I’ve been at the end of my rope, hopeless from trying to many meds and being suicidally depressed again, therapy not working, all many of holistic methods and practical ways to combat depressions not being able to stave off episodes. However, what I have a very real illness. These things won’t cure it only treat it. It’s natural that things can and do get so dark for me. Of course I do feel bad that it negatively affects others. In fact this is one of the many things that help that wonderful dark spiral down.

It’s just so bizarre to me. Its so frustrating I wanna cry. Having an illness that’s majorly upset my life for the past sixteen years, in and out of mostly depressive sometimes manic cycles, it takes a toll on relationships. Mental illness can be a strain, just as much as chronic physical illnesses I suppose. I’m trying to see things from His point of view and maybe he’s seen me so depressed so often and to him he has no idea what it’s like it just appears to be “an act?” Like- this again? Get over it! Get over yourself! Do something! ( as if I didn’t spend YEARS with this same internal dialogue) “Wake the fuck up and realize people care about you!” He said. If people caring about me could cure me when I’m in the depths of my illness that’d be great! Or not even cure me but at least help at all! It’s feels like such a mindfuck to have some say that to me. It could so easily

I'll start by saying I'm by no means an expert in game balancing. I don't have encyclopaedic knowledge of all the game's set bonuses, skill lines or damage scaling. Even still, I find the weapon type variety in this game kind of restrictive.

The fact that a spellcaster typically needs to hold a staff to be considered optimal feels odd to me. And why a whole staff? Why not rods for one- handed use? Even if only staves, why not let characters use those necrotic staves with black and blue energy that some non-player enemies use?

For these reasons, I decided to theorycraft a new type of Destruction Staff, the Necrotic Staff, two new weapon types, the Magicka Focus and the Spear, and two new weapon skill lines - Spellblade and Spear. Please feel free to leave any feedback.

##Necrotic Staff

A new type of Destruction Staff with a focus on damage over time and enemy debuffs. Instead of elemental damage, the Necrotic Staff deals plain Magic Damage with a little bit of Oblivion Damage thrown in occasionally.

Elemental Storm

Becomes Diabolical Storm when used by a Necrotic Staff. When morphed into Diabolical Rage, its bonus effect with a Necrotic Staff fears opponents for 4 seconds with the first tick and afflicts them with Major Vulnerability while they stay within it, increasing their damage taken by 10%.

Force Shock

Flame, Frost and Shock damage dealt is reduced by 8% each, but it now also deals an equal portion of raw magic damage. When morphed to Force Pulse, it also deals AoE damage to enemies near the target if they're affected by a damage over time effect.

Wall of Elements

The Necrotic Staff's effect as Wall of Darkness inflicts Minor Maim on enemies affected by the wall. If they're affected by a damage over time effect, it also fears them for 2 seconds.

Destructive Touch morph: Destructive Clench

Instead of converting damage over time to a new effect, as Ravaging Clench the damage over time can now stack, similarly to the Warden class' Cutting Dive ability.

Weakness to Elements

No changes.

Impulse

No changes.

Tri-Focus

Fully charged Necrotic Staff heavy attacks now leave a damage over time effect that deals 300/600 Oblivion Damage every second for 5 seconds.

Penetrating Magic

No change.

Elemental Force

Now also raises the chance to apply the Overcharged status effect by 50%/100%.

Ancient Knowledge

Necrotic Staff increases your damage over time dealt by 4%/8%, and increases the dam

Forgive me if this post doesn't really fit here. It might be TMI, and might even be more of me just letting it all out to anyone who will listen. Kinda just writing this as I go.

We've been dating for about three and a half years now. When we first started dating sex was on the table at least once per day. We would go down on each other, steal some sneaky gropes in public, and we even did anal a good few times which we both loved. She never had a very active role in sex itself; definitely a bit of a "pillow princess", and she also makes very very little if any noise (both things I wish would change tbh), but she made me feel desired enough outside of the bedroom that it wasn't really a problem at the time because my sexual needs were being met, and I felt loved and wanted. And I love the ever-loving hell out of her. She's basically my best and only real friend. I love her so much. I love seeing her smile and she makes me laugh like no other woman has.

But ever since we moved in together shit started to get rocky. When we met, I was going to school full-time on the GI Bill and pulling in pretty decent money for not having a job; we live in Los Angeles so I was getting 2.5-3k untaxed per month just to attend school. Once I graduated though, there was definitely some financial struggles. I work in film/tv sound, and while I still have to hustle to get work, I now get consistent enough work to help out with our finances. But things were very difficult when I had just graduated in mid-2018... She said at the time it's fine, she'll pull us through until I can get on my feet. But after not even a full year of working in my career, it was basically slammed to a halt because of COVID-19 the following year. Thank fucking god they opened up unemployment to freelancers in California.

Last year was just fucking awful. So many fights. So many tears. So many horrible things said. And I just felt powerless. She has the master's degree, she has the union salaried w/ benefits job, she has the apartment in her name, she has total control. She broke up with about once every month or two and would say things like "my life would be better without you, I wouldn't have money troubles and I'd only have to worry about my own happiness, and I wouldn't have to worry about sex" Needless to say I've likely been traumatized by the experience.

I mean I get it. I felt like the bum I definitely was. Nobody was more aware about how pathetic I was than me. I did my best to help out and

Sudden Lee

Go post NSFW jokes somewhere else. If I can't tell my kids this joke, then it is not a DAD JOKE.

If you feel it's appropriate to share NSFW jokes with your kids, that's on you. But a real, true dad joke should work for anyone's kid.

Mods... If you exist... Please, stop this madness. Rule #6 should simply not allow NSFW or (wtf) NSFL tags. Also, remember that MINORS browse this subreddit too? Why put that in rule #6, then allow NSFW???

Please consider changing rule #6. I love this sub, but the recent influx of NSFW tagged posts that get all the upvotes, just seem wrong when there are good solid DAD jokes being overlooked because of them.

Thank you,

A Dad.

So far nobody has given me a straight answer

SUMMARY

An avian alien known as an 'Olympian' tells a friend their most memorable tale of a human, with slight allusions to the greater setting as a whole. It's the tale of defiance, and of a timeless hymn from a timeless man whose voice rose right out of the ground.

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So, yes, we've been following them for the better part of their entire existence.

Call it whatever, we swore an Oath to their predecessors, and we took it as the closest thing to Holy we have as a people. We watched as they were born. Even had a faction decide to send somebody down and teach them about democracy. Ironic, it was, that their planet had analogues to us. 'Eagles' they call them. They put their eagles on coins!

But despite our long-standing history of watching them, forming a border-state around a cleared sector of space for them, and our rare luck in surviving that awful god-machine they put out that exterminated at least fourteen empires before its capture by the Proktari God-Emperor, I have to tell you of a personal account. Do you remember the First Contact Skirmish? I know your people had a different name for it, something like 'Olympian-Human-Proktari Border Dispute,' or something, but I tell you it was a three-way bar-brawl that we pretty up with names like that. This isn't that story, but I can tell you that one later, to provide context for this story.

Humans are strange creatures: they figured out psionics in ways species like yours and mine wish we could have done before them. Natural disasters, kinetic forces, the very minds of sapients, they can use them almost on par with Proktari! They also have cybernetics, some have nearly entirely become machines. Even with these, however, they have purists as well who refuse both and are somehow stronger for it. But I'll tell you of one I met, a few months back, that showed me why Humans are the first contenders we've ever had for the Proktari and their God-Emperor.

It was a calm outpost, a border colony we shared with the Humans, the embassy was built in the center of the colony. We enjoy the idea of icy, mountainous planets, and humans genetically enjoy more continental ones, but these people came to our most recent colony with thick clothing lined in artificial furs and said it was 'just like home.' One family was my neighbor, but when they left for leisurely vacations to more comfortable climes, they had a cousin of some sort come to hold

In the early experimental days of Dreamweight, back in 2017, Outlier released a flowy, hooded piece called Unfinished Nothing. It offers light and breathable thermoregulation, significant sun protection, and the opportunity to dance around the house like a possessed dementor.

Without any sleeves or explicitly-defined torso section, the form of this piece falls somewhere between hooded poncho and top sheet. The overall concept/pattern is similar to Beach Thing (Unfinished Nothing measures just slightly smaller at 45.5” x 38.5” vs. Beach Thing’s 48” x 39”). While standing, with the right arm placement, this should cover the upper body with plenty of overlap, but I especially like how the generous helping of fabric and flexibility of form can be arranged to cover all or most of the body when sitting down on the ground. I could see this coming in handy for picnics or other outdoor hangouts (if this piece ever returns, a lighter or more playful color option might be even better suited for this occasion, depending on your angle/vibe).

Temperature-wise, Deamweight is airy and breathable in heat (particularly in dry heat) and still comes in handy for staving off a mild chill when the weather/season starts to turn. The super free and open cut of this piece makes it especially well-suited for hot, sunny days.

The sun protection of Dreamweight most recently clocked in at UPF 25, but is likely higher after washing. However you slice it, this piece offers significant sun protection— markedly more than Grid Linen’s already respectable UPF 15, while also being close to half the weight (105 gsm for this experiment, 110 gsm for the current generation of Dreamweight vs. Grid Linen’s 200 gsm). The Dreamwight should also pack down really efficiently, which would be nice for use as a packable pseudo-poncho. The main advantages of the Beach Thing would be absorption for toweling off, durability, and sand-shedding (although I can’t say I’ve tested Dreamweight for that yet).

Although the two forms are undeniably similar, they seem to arrive at that juncture via opposite paths: Beach Thing feels like a towel that’s made wearable, while Unfinished Nothing seems like a Dreamweight garment reduced to one of its most basic possible form

Hi all,

I've joined a local 40K league and originally my plan was to use Chaos soup but with the new GK codex on the way and knowing there's no new units and no radical points changes, I think it's fairly certain a lot of the stuff won't change significantly in terms of stat lines (e.g. Strike squads will be 2W, but storm bolters are still storm bolters, I will probably have a heavy psychic phase etc).

Therefore the idea here is to build a list that works well (as well as can be anyway) now, and get some games in before the new codex is released. The league only lasts for 8 weeks so I'm expecting to basically use the codex for at least half the games in the league if not the entire thing (depending on GW release schedule).

I will be playing against Sisters, Ad Mech, and Space Marines, but I'm not tailoring my list to them, I want a TAC list. That being said I've tried to think about how to answer each of the armies and advice on what to look out for for sisters and Ad Mech in particular would be useful.

The core concept of the list is to use two big terminator blobs, a GMDK, and cheese 2++ purifiers to control the middle of the board, and generally go for a combination of Stranglehold and Retrieve Octarius Data (which my Interceptors can get easily as they can not only move fast but redeploy twice a game). Where the mission requires it, I can swap in Engage on All Fronts and Raise the Banners, the latter thanks to having three units that aren't that offensive and I don't mind losing their shooting (small squad of servitors, a strike squad, and the purifiers).

The third objective can be Warp Ritual, Pierce the Veil, No Prisoners, Titan Slayer, Bring It Down, or Assassinate depending on mission and opponent.

The strike squad theoretically can deep strike but since they are the source of Gate to throw Terminators somewhere turn 1 (potentially) they need to remain on the board. Interceptors likewise are so fast the deep strike isn't really needed, and the GMDK can get to the centre of the board with Edict Imperator pretty much turn 1. As a result everything actually starts on the board.

I've also kept it all in a single battalion as this army is super CP hungry and I'm loathe to spend anymore than I have to pre-game.

Finally I went with Terminators over Paladins because the main thing the blobs need to do is survive, and while the Paladins have more wounds, they also cost about 50% more for 33% more wounds. I

..... Will get a reward.

Introduction

So many people have asked me what items would be value for low level duels and what to save and what to throw away, so here is a write-up of what items the lld-community want's you to keep ;) But this post is not only aimed at regular people - it is aimed at the loot filter writers, to hopefully make you add in an LLD-tag (and mark it with 9 / 18 / 30). If any loot filter want to work together with me feel free pming me, Details can be found in the bottom of the post. The LLD-community is highly alive and the gear for clvl 30 costs many HR. These are not cheap items! :) The best rogues bow on ladder recently sold for 25 HR. I will not write up items that are already widely considered useful (bloodfist, magefist, stone of jordan for example) unless they have weird demands (nagel attackrating for clvl 9 for example).

What this guide contains

1. Introduction
2. What this guide contains
3. Unique Items
4. Set Items
5. Rare Items
6. Magical Items
7. White items - bases
8. Help me improve and develop this guide
9. Thanks and Credits

Unique Items

Well, toucan play at that game.

Windows

Martin Freeman, and Andy Serkis.

They also play roles in Lord of the Rings.

I guess that makes them the Tolkien white guys.

She said apple-lutely

Heading to a 3 round local tournament this weekend and trying to optimize my list. I'm limited by the models I have and i do wish to stay focused on big choppy beasts being the core of my army. Overall strategy is to turn 1 charge disco lord, then charge in everything else in quick succession while my marines secure mid table objectives. Abaddie, termites, oblits, and Raptors deepstrike in and crack tough nuts or sweep back field objectives. Unsure what local meta is because this is the first tournament in my area since the great plague.

2k competitive Heretic Astartes - Strike Force - Grand Tournament ( 14CP - 2000PT - 0PT )

Heretic Astartes Battalion Detachment ( 3CP - 2000PT ) SUB-FACTION: Black Legion

HQ
	WARLORD: Abaddon the Despoiler (220) 
		MARK OF CHAOS: Khorne
		TRAITS: First Amongst Traitors

	Lord Discordant on Helstalker (200) Baleflamer
		MARK OF CHAOS: Khorne
		RELICS: Talisman of Burning Blood

	Sorcerer (115) Force stave, Jump pack
		MARK OF CHAOS: Tzeentch
		PSYCHIC POWERS: Prescience, Warptime

TROOPS
	Chaos Cultists (50)
		MARK OF CHAOS: Undivided
		1x Cultist Champion
		9x Chaos Cultist

	Chaos Cultists (50)
		MARK OF CHAOS: Undivided
		1x Cultist Champion
		9x Chaos Cultist

	Chaos Space Marines (170)
		MARK OF CHAOS: Undivided
		1x Aspiring Champion: Astartes chainsword, Plasma pistol
		1x Chaos Space Marine: Autocannon
		1x Chaos Space Marine: Plasma gun
		1x Chaos Space Marine: Icon of Vengeance
		6x Chaos Space Marine

	Chaos Space Marines (170)
		MARK OF CHAOS: Undivided
		1x Aspiring Champion
		1x Chaos Space Marine: Reaper chaincannon
		1x Chaos Space Marine: Plasma gun
		7x Chaos Space Marine

ELITES
	Greater Possessed (65) 
		MARK OF CHAOS: Khorne

	Greater Possessed (65) 
		MARK OF CHAOS: Khorne

	Khorne Berzerkers (184)
		MARK OF CHAOS: Khorne
		1x Berzerker Champion: Plasma pistol
		9x Khorne Berzerker: Chainaxe

	Terminators (170)
		MARK OF CHAOS: Slaanesh
		1x Terminator: Combi-plasma, Power fist
		1x Terminator: Combi-melta, Power maul
		1x Terminator: Chainfist
		1x Terminator: Power fist, Reaper autocannon
		1x Terminator Champion: 2x Lightning claw

FAST ATTACK
	Chaos Spawn (23) 
		MARK OF CHAOS: Khorne

	Chaos Spawn (23) 
		MARK OF CHAOS: Khorne

	Raptors (110)
		MARK OF CHAOS: Slaanesh
		1x Raptor Champion: Plasma pistol, Power fist
		2x Raptors: Meltagun
		2x Raptors

HEAVY SUPPORT
	Maulerfiend (140) 
		MARK OF CHAOS: Khorne

	Maulerfiend (140) 

Out of the 7 times I have attempted it, it has worked a grand total of 1 time. Those doors that you need to shoot to open is the #1 cause of soft-locking this mission. If a crew has done the tale at all before you get there, you are locked out of the top room with the staves, as well as lock you out of the boat ascent. The checkpoint where you spawn with a siren heart also doesn’t work, as you can’t interact with the statues anyways. Please for the love of god play test the game.

Because they work on many levels