Sur Reddit, les jeux vidéos ne gardent jamais leurs secrets bien longtemps. Les redditors, fans de jeu vidéo explorent, et posent toutes sortes de questions en rapport avec leurs jeux préférés. Certaines d’entre elles retiennent particulièrement l’attention des internautes et les publications liées cumulent un grand nombre de recherches sur la plateforme. Alors, jetons-y un œil !
Fallout
Depuis la sortie de la série Fallout, la franchise connaît un regain de popularité. Mais pour les nouveaux joueurs, il peut être compliqué de savoir par quel jeu commencer. Des redditors se sont posé la même question et partagent leur avis. Un bon moyen de se lancer !
Jouer à Fallout 76 en solo est-ce que c’est possible ? Et est-ce que ça vaut le coup ? Les conseils des redditors vous permettront certainement de vous faire votre avis.
Les fins multiples dans les jeux donnent souvent aux joueurs le sentiment de suivre leur propre voie. Mais qui dit fin multiple dit aussi fin plus ou moins heureuse en fonction de vos choix et de vos réussites. Si vous souhaitez découvrir quelle est la meilleure fin dans Fallout 4, c’est par ici.
Bloqué sur une mission particulièrement compliquée ? Comme Covenant ou Erreur Humaine par exemple ? Vous n’êtes pas le seul joueur dans ce cas, appuyez vous sur la communauté Fallout de Reddit pour trouver comment réussir ces missions.
Fallout 4 offre de nombreuses missions qui diffèrent en fonction des factions que vous rejoindrez. Vous vous demandez laquelle est la mieux ? Vous pourriez trouver la réponse à votre question ici.
Baldur's Gate
Des boss durs, il y en a pas mal. Cazador fait partie de ceux-là. Quand on commence à s’arracher les cheveux sur l’un d’eux, c’est que c’est peut-être le moment de trouver une autre solution, et vous pourrez la trouver ici !
On aime tous le mystère, et quand un jeu vidéo nous en propose, c'est toujours un plus. Mais il peut s’avérer difficile à résoudre, comme par exemple, comment réveiller Dairow Vin dans les égouts. Alors n’hésitez pas à chercher, des redditors auront certainement trouvé la solution.
Hogwart Legacy
Il arrive souvent, quand on joue à un nouveau jeu vidéo, de buter sur certaines mécaniques, pas forcément compliquées, mais qu’il faut connaître. C’est le cas pour certains dans Hogwarts Legacy sur Switch qui n’arrivent pas à avancer dans le temps. Si vous rencontrez ce même problème alors ce post est fait pour vous.
Albion Online
Quand un jeu nous propose des choix libres, c’est une expérience agréable pour le joueur. Mais au moment de choisir on peut se demander comment cela aurait été si on avait agi différemment. Venez partager le choix de votre ville dans Albion Online et expliquer pourquoi vous avez fait ce choix plutôt qu’un autre !
Albion Online vous intéresse mais vous avez peur de vous lancer ? Voici un guide de 20 conseils qui vous aideront à prendre le jeu en main et éviter les écueils que les nouveaux joueurs rencontrent.

Im sort of new to the fantasy genre, and also stuck on what to read now, and would love some recommendations
Series i have read by how much i liked them: A song of ice and fire, Lord of the rings, Harry Potter, The Dark Tower and First Law.

this is really embarrassing, and i understand if people make fun of it but.. i have this weird thing where i think pictures and posters can see me? its not like in a creepy way or anything.. like its only certain ones and people.. celebrities only i’ve noticed and only ones i feel drawn to. For example, i fell in love with heath ledger when i was like 10 and i would have posters of him in my room and would feel like he would watch me throughout my day and it was very comforting. i started to put pictures on my folders at school so he could come with me everywhere no matter where i was.. my phone background, in my car.. like anywhere that he could “watch” me.. i ended up self diagnosing myself a few years ago with erotomania because i saw an episode of dr phil where this woman thought someone like idk johnny depp or some other big actor or something was in love with her.. i was like wow she’s crazy during the trailer of the ep but then watching it it hit a little too close to home for me.. seeing numbers on license plates thinking it’s a sign or looking at the clock at the right time to see a number somehow relating to him (IE his birthday or something like that) it became consuming and i’ve been working on it ever sense and trying not to let it effect me or anything.. even though it was always a nice feeling and most of the time was the only good thing in my day. i’ve now been noticing that i think pictures and posters can see me and watch my day a little bit more.. right now ive been really into the Harry potter movies and Draco is my favorite so i’ve been super super into Tom Felton and bought his book. he’s on the cover and i take it most places with me so he can “be around me” and watch my day.. if im working the book is on the table next to me, if im cooking it’s leaning on the toaster so he can see what im cooking, if im driving its in passenger seat.. if im sleeping its on my nightstand next to my bed.. i dont like take it in stores or restaurants because im aware its not normal and weird and creepy but my brain is like it’s real he can see you… i know this sounds stalkerish and creepy but i really dont do anything else like find where they live or anything like that!! i just think the pictures want to be with and around me..
i think because i feel so unloved in reality that the pictures bring me a sense of love and comfort that someone loves me and wants me even though i KNOWWWW they can’t see me or anything like that my brain has this delusional obsession with thinking that they can somehow. it’s not debilitating me or anything it’s just something i’ve noticed and want to know more about what it could be so i can learn to cope and heal from it more and possibly control the delusion one day.
is this part of erotomania or something else? has anyone experienced this or know what it could be?
again i expect to be bullied or made fun of for this i know it’s weird.. i just can’t help it my brain is just broken or something

DAY: MAY 13, 2024

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• 5-13-2024IT’S TIME TO USE TIKTOK TO TALK TO YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT OBESITY, SAYS RESEARCHER There is an urgent need to harness the potential of TikTok and other social media channels to provide scientific information about obesity to young people in engaging and accessible way . The popularity and broad reach of such platforms provides the opportunity to reach diverse audiences, including teenagers and young adults, explains lead researcher Dr. Antonella Franceschelli, of Unicamillus International Medical University, Rome, Italy.
• 5-13-2024WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER TAKE NUTRITION ADVICE FROM A CENTENARIAN It’s a cliche of reporting on people who reach 100 years of age, or even 110, to ask them some variation of the question: “What did you do to live this long?” Inevitably, some interesting and unexpected answer is highlighted. Fish and chips every Friday. Drinking a glass of strong liquor every day. Bacon for breakfast every morning. Wine and chocolate. While a popular news story, this is a relatively meaningless question that doesn’t help us understand why certain people have lived so long.
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• 5-13-2024HOW SCIENCE CLEARED THE AIR OVER INHALED HEALTH RISKS
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I couldn't stop myself and I'm so proud of what Harry's become.
Also, good on Snape for sticking with the plan.

So a little background, I am a teacher and I was in an adaptive classroom that was dangerously understaffed and was being bullied by my TA and her clique so badly I had to quit. (I am gay and she was homophobic) I had took a sign on bonus with a 2 year term. My boss at the time said they'd find me a different position if I signed their pre typed resignation form. I did it and then didn't end up taking a position for a couple months. Fast forward to now it's almost the end of the year and there was some weird stuff with my pay( they were not paying me for my experience level) . I am on an interim contract and not planning on coming back to teach but don't want to burn any bridges because in the distant future I may want to come back as a principal. They're telling me again I have to sign this same resignation form to stay in good stading with the district. It says " I wish to state that I have no claims or grounds for any claims against my employer based upon my time of employment with (district name) and am submitting this resignation of my own free will. They're pressuring me to sign it saying they can't hire someone for the position until I sign it but I just feel weird about that part. Should I just sign it and move on?

I can't tell you how often I hear people who I consider very intelligent spout the thoroughly disproven myth that the Earth's population is exploding, that we are all going to starve, run out of resources, etc... Before the internet, it was easy to buy into this narrative. However, even then, the idea of overpopulation always had a racist tinge to it. "Those" people are having too many children (meaning the global poor, mostly non-caucasian). The message was clear, if the poor keep having so many babies they'll outcompete and replace us (this is a common theme for bigoted assholes).
Even a cursory examination of the statistics would show that birth rates around the world were already falling even in the early 2000's: https://youtu.be/fTznEIZRkLg?si=l0Uxa62wNxov1jgM
It was hypothesized that as people grew more wealthy (and I don't mean rich, just as they accumulated enough capital to be somewhat free from the cycle of poverty), they began to have less children, because fewer would die during childhood and labor had shifted from heavy agricultural work to less physically demanding jobs. A more modern twist, posited that skyrocketing costs for childcare, housing and education have contributed to this trend.
However, more recent data seems to upend this hypothesis, as a global contraction of birthrate is becoming apparent, even in countries that have not reached the level of financial security where one would predict that people would start to have less children: https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/newsroom/news-releases/lancet-dramatic-declines-global-fertility-rates-set-transform
Now, when births per woman are below 2.2 (replacement), the population will begin to decline. For a country with below replacement births, this means that the tax base shrinks as the average age of a citizen of that country increases. This will necessitate increased spending on elder care even as the number of people available to tax decreases. If monetary insecurity is truly a root cause of population decline, then this will only exacerbate the problem.
It's also a problem for capitalism, which is couched in ever increasing consumption. If the number of people available to consume decreases, the economy contracts as well. This is going to wreak havoc on the retirement system of the US especially, since we were sold to financiers by our government, replacing pensions with retirement investments in the stock market. Even if we still had a pension system, the number of people paying into it would decrease, limiting payouts. This is why I have always assumed the following:

1. Social Security will not be available when I retire.
   
2. The government is going to renege on the promises made to us regarding our personal retirement accounts (e.g. the tax free status is likely to go away).
   
3. The government may even take retirement funds from younger generations to pay for the boomers to retire thus continuing a recent trend of fucking over the young.
   

Seems like doom and gloom? Hardly. The fact that the linked article was posted in the Wall Street Journal implies to me that the people who are most worried about this change are our would be corporate overlords. After all, if working age people are scarce, it will be harder to treat them like commodities and pay them subsistence wages. This will directly impact the bonuses executives receive, decimating the private jet, yacht, gated community and vacation house markets.
I think population decline will be the best thing that ever happened to us for one main reason: It is the only thing that can break us out of this current, hollow, exploitative, fiercely individualistic culture that is cheapening our lives and destroying the planet. We are going to have to think long and hard about what it is that we actually want, what makes a life a good life and how we can live responsibly.
I always noticed that in Star Trek: TNG, when the crew would visit other worlds, they were always quite spartan (for cost reasons of course), and I thought this made total sense. These people had access to unlimited technology but used it to live simply and unobtrusively. This is what we need to do.
It's time to start planning how we are going to withdraw from the world and consolidate in smaller, better planned communities. This is going to mean letting some towns and even cities die, letting many simply return to nature, demolishing structures that could become unsafe and clearing out any waste that could contaminate the water or soil if left unattended.
It's also going to mean the end of infinite growth (at least until we get a foothold in space). Before the modern age, the rate of growth per year was something like 0.1%, often times there was no growth. THIS IS FINE! The captains of industry will bemoan the end of the world, but it will be the end of their world, not our World.
Of course, this contraction will also help in our fight with climate change (in the sense that less people consume fewer resources) but it might also make the more expensive options (large scale geoengineering) more difficult to fund. I'm also concerned that a contracting population will lose interest in space exploration and colonization which is, frankly, vital to our survival as a species in the long term.
So, I have mixed feeling about population decline, but for the most part, the future under decreasing consumption, contracting financial markets and fundamental societal reorganization sounds a hell of a lot better to me than a world of ever increasing consumption, corporate oligarchs with ever increasing control and resource wars on a scorching planet.
I'm hopeful we can arrive at the high tech low consumption society of my dreams, and judging by the failure of pro-natal programs, regardless of generosity, to boost birth rates, this transition now seems inevitable.

She told me repeatedly that I wouldn’t want to come back after experiencing nursing in a state with good laws and unions, as a nurse that worked for UC for 30 years… I told her I’d definitely come back for a bit if for nothing but to tell everyone how it goes and maybe help improve things.
Nope, she was totally correct. I literally cannot imagine going back to work in my home state. That place SUCKS. I thought that since I was going into it knowing that it sucked by comparison, that I’d be able to think about my future plans accurately. I was wrong, haha.
I don’t think I could ever work in a state without ratios or mandatory rest breaks every again. Not to mention, the access to healthcare for the general public here is so much better… The hospital actually advances people on the pay scale instead of such a thing being basically a myth… Patients are in soooo much better health, too. Even the CNAs are well-staffed (by comparison, at least) and certainly well-equipped to do their job. It’s like night and day for me.
Staff drama, while present universally in some form, is normal instead of batshit levels of insane (or inane). All the equipment works. The charge actually makes sure things are going well. Upper management isn’t entirely unnecessary individuals lining their pockets. I feel like I’m living in a reality I didn’t know could exist.
It’s not perfect, but it’s almost the best we have in the US. Yeah, I’m not sure I could leave.
Bonus thoughts: there’s a nurse here planning on moving to the south because ratios are similar and property tax, etc. is much cheaper. I highly doubt she’s prepared for the reality of the situation—even though the ratios may be comparable where she’s going, she has no idea how much more work it is and how much worse generally the places can be… Before I left, a nurse moved to my old hospital from the East Coast for similar reasons, and immediately started bemoaning the lack of basic services (both for patients in the community and things like maintenance of city infrastructure). I was like, come on, it’s not all sunshine and tornadoes out here 😭 there’s always a catch!

To preface this post, I want to give the disclaimer that like many things, there is not a black and white answer the question. I'm writing this as an experienced tech professional, and the information provided is based on opinion.
To start with. A little bit of history..
The golden age of software engineering(and similar jobs) is over. At least for the next 5 - 10 years. I don't think this is an unpopular opinion. The reason why between the years of 2010 - 2022, these jobs exploded, was because of the boom of the internet for commercial and personal use.
This is different from the dotcom boom of 2000s, where the internet was just starting and most of the products being created were for basic things like: putting banking on the internet, putting videos on the internet, etc.
The boom in the 2010s was related to the widespread popularity of commercial and personal products. Things like Uber, Spotify, and Salesforce. With the sudden increased usage of the digital world, there were MILLIONS of companies rushing to create digital products.
However, we're starting to see the rise and fall of some of these products, millions of startups failings, and less VC funding. In case you don't know, VC stands for Venture Capital, which are basically investment companies that give money to other companies to help them grow and develop, in return for partial ownership of the company.
As the industry began to mature, successful companies started to emerge, and many more started to fail.
The present day..
Software engineering and like jobs will continue to be important, and there will be a high demands for these engineers. Nearly every company will still need a website, a place to manage their data, and people to manage their hardware. BUT.. the basic technologies they need to run their company will become more efficient. AND there will be less research and innovation because the a lot of the trial and error already occurred.
We're in a weird spot where the demand for workers is now decreasing from it's recent peaks, and the supply of workers is now increasing because of how all the benefits of being a software engineer in the past decade.
This has really unfortunate consequences for any recent graduates or others trying to break into the tech field. There are WAY more beginning career people than jobs available. Which is made even worse with the amount of layoffs there are, where mid-level employees are now having to settle for entry level jobs.
What can we do?
I have two pieces of advice for people interested in the topic, or wanting to break into the field but can't. Try breaking in from a adjacent field, where you can get some exposure to tech. Things that data entry, analytics(this can be finance, supply chain etc). Then try to learn as much as you can from the tech people at your company.
The second piece of advice. Go into a different field. Software engineering is not for everyone. You have to learn and understand some relatively complex topics, and it's becoming harder and harder to be competitive in the industry. Healthcare, supply chain, and many other industries are booming right now.
Understanding history, you can see that certain industries will rise and fall. For the near future, technology might be one of the harder careers to break into. Something like healthcare would be that's expected to grow exponentially. The average population of the world is getting older, as less and less people are wanting to have kids. There will be higher demand for healthcare professionals and healthcare technology.
Do your best to review and understand these trends, and hopefully you can create a good life and career. Best of luck!
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Im kinda new at D2, and Im working on an LMG build. In this image, on the the left Walker, Harris Gloves show +5.0 Weapon Dmg and +15 Weapon Dmg, does that mean its a total of +20% ?
And the Petrov Defense on the right, is that a total of +25% dmg?
Final question; If i get the Petrov Defense set @+10% LMG dmg, all 3 items, will that increase my LMG dmg to 30%? Or will it just give me the Weapon Handling and Ammo Capacity bonus?

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Platform(s): Console; Strongly believe it was a Nintendo 64, remember it having a game pak as a part of it.
Genre: 2D Side-Scroller; Adventure
Graphics/Art Style: Pixelated, but with good detail and shading. Had a rather realistic style considering the fantastic subject. Would slip into surreal seizure-like strobing lights at the end.
Notable Characters: Reject Toy (Main Character), Tall Robotic Toy Collector, Anthropomorphic Cat
Notable game play Mechanics: Very intense bullet hell-like mechanics, but combined with a classic Super Mario Bros. Style. Had a bonus level between normal levels.
Other Details:
I remember playing this on my Uncle's Nintendo 64 back around either 2005 or 2008, the exact date is a bit fuzzy.
It was very brief, leading me to think that it might have been a demo. The fact I can't remotely find anything relating to this game has led me to further believe that it probably never became an actual game. At least, not in the form that I played and witnessed.
It began with the main character, a goofy looking Toy, on a conveyor belt in a Toy factory. There were other toys on that belt with him, but the only one I could remember is a crying doll that was in front of him. Anyways, this goofy toy, was apart of a line of toys being inspected a by a factory work. If they made the cut, they proceeded. Of not, they were sent down a chute. Our main character, setting off alarms, is sent down the chute.
Then, literally in the next scene, he is fleeing a flaming factory in ruins (it looked more like a flaming cityscape, tbh) with other toys. We think he's making good progress when suddenly a huge towering robot starts chasing and collecting the other toys. Yours is the only one that escapes.
After that, the game is a blur. There's a Circus-themed level with a big dog and bouncing basketballs. Then there's a boss level with an anthropomorphic cat that devolves into psychedelic seizure-level trippy visuals.
This game has haunted me for the better part of a decade-and-a-half. I'm almost convinced that I hallucinated the whole thing, but I have such strong memories of trying to beat it and never succeeding.
Can anyone help?

I genuinely don’t get it, ive been looking at some tweets from her that has been going around lately and went to investigate her Twitter page and was shocked: she definitely has a serious and personal grudge against us.
She clearly has an obsession with trans women and will go out of her way to find content just to bash us for. Like this is insane, she literally has entire pages of rants on her Twitter. Like she has an entire novel worth of content about anti-trans rhetoric. And if you question her she’s snarky and vicious in the comment section. Some of the responses she writes makes my jaw dropped to know this is the writer of my beloved Harry Potter. I watched the movies for my entire childhood. I have the entire book collection. My dad loves the movies too. It’s very shocking to really see the real her.
She genuinely thinks she’s untouchable and that any one who disagrees with her is actually wrong. She thinks of trans women as less than scum and it’s so shocking since so many queer and lgbtqia+ people enjoy her content.
My question is what made her this way, this feels way too personal like this is something happening in her personal life?
What if jk Rowling herself is trans? It’s a really out there theory but the truth is stranger than fiction. She only uses masculine pen names and nearly all of the protagonists of her stories are men. Only the casual vacancy is the only book which uses female perspectives and I find them to feel flat, like a man trying to write things from a feminine perspective.

This is the strategy I used recently to get my first Roc very early on in the game - before even making my full diamond armor set. It's quite easy to do and overall I think it takes less time and is safer for any gear you have than the "intended" way, that being hunting and killing or soulgazer-ing multiple Rocs and then hunting for trolls for materials for the saddle.
Part 1: Needed materials (minimum, you can add other stuff for utility or whatever)

• Multiple shovels (1-2 diamond shovels should do the trick, or their equivalent durability-wise of iron shovels)
• Some basic materials for a small temporary base - blocks, furnace, crafting table, bed, etc.
• A boat
• Soulgazer
• Soulstone
• Name tag
• Basic Saddle
• ~20 bones
• 20-30 river fish
• At least level 1 in treasure hunting skill ("L" hotkey) - the more, the better
• A few stacks of easily breakable blocks (dirt will probably be your first choice here)
• Any of the matierials mentioned in Part 2 as things to farm that you might already have

Part 2: Strategy

1. First you obviously want to get everything mentioned above. Everything can be found easily in many structures around the world, both safe and unsafe (villager "mansions" with basements, battle towers, etc.)
2. Next, you want to have waystones at specific locations
   • In a snowy biome, close to ice villages (the common small ones), best to have a few of these
   • In a regular plains or forest area with a nearby rivelake/sea
3. Once you've found those, the next step is to make a small base in the plans/forest area. Obviously, make sure it's not near a dragon and also not near a village (unless you don't care about keeping villagers alive in that village). You'll be spending quite a bit of time here now
4. Before your first night, get at least 5 Silex meat from the nearby body of water. If near an ocean, Ika and Crab meat works too. Cook the meat and make your first avian treats
5. Once night falls, wait for a Roc variant to spawn (Scarlet or Golden) -> variants give double knowledge when using Soulgazer (or avian treats if still at knowledge level 1), giving +200 instead of +100 and therefore requiring only 5 interactions with the Soulgazer. Place your boat near your base, then lure the Roc to it by holding your avian treats. Once it's in the boat, use your name tag on it so it doesn't despawn, then use your Soulgazer and go to sleep.
6. From now until you make the Roc your pet:
   • Keep it daytime the whole time (sleep as soon as you can)
   • Use your Soulgazer on the Roc when you can
   • Keep farming Silexes/Ikas/Crabs for their meat and making avian treats
   • While waiting for new ones to spawn, start digging dirt. Once you have about a stack or 2, just start building a pillar and then digging down. This will give you some random stuff occasionally due to Treasure Hunting skill. The chance of getting any drop at all is 5% per level of the skill, and out of those 5% approximately 0.016% is the chance for a Troll Tusk (this is 0.016% per each block, which equates to about a 1% chance in any 64 dirt blocks broken), which is the main thing we're after here. This might sound like a very low chance, but considering how many dirt blocks you'll end up breaking the chance is actually quite high. At level 2 Treasure Hunting, I gotten both of my Troll Tusks (one for avian saddle, other one for dragon saddle) within 20 minutes of placing and breaking dirt. On top of this, you can get some other stuff as well, including enchanted stone tools (usually with quite good enchants), enchanted diamond sword, dragon bones and even a pig spawner!
7. Once you have level 2 knowledge of the Roc, you can start taming it with your treats. On average, you'll get 50-100 taming points per treat, and you'll need 1000 total for the Roc to be tamed. This means that most of the time 20-30 treats should be more than enough. After the Roc is tamed, make sure to use the Soulstone on it so it can respawn when it dies!!!
8. If you still haven't gotten a Troll Tusk, keep digging for it. If you have, move on to the next step.
9. Now take all your river fish and any dragon bones you're fine with trading and go to the ice villages (wool armor highly recommended). Find a Fisherman (they usually have a spear in their hands) that's buying the river fish at a 1:1 ratio and sell your fish for Sapphires. You can do the same with your Dragon Bones at a Shaman.
10. Next, find a Craftsman and level him up fully (usually 1-2 trades are enough for him to level up once, I just went with the cheapest one and spent maybe 5-10 Sapphires to level him up fully). His final trade will ALWAYS be Ice Troll Leather. You should have enough Sapphires left over to buy 3 pieces of leather, but if not just get more by finding and trading more river fish and Dragon Bones. Shamans will also buy Blaze Powder, so that's another alternative for getting Sapphires.
11. Only the last material left for the saddle now: 2x Amphitere or Stymphalian Bird feathers. Unfortunately, hunting and killing them is damn near impossible in early game (as most RLCraft players know). Fortunately, however, you don't have to do that. You can get both of the feathers in those small floating structures high up in the air (kinda like small "cubes" with a single chest in the middle). Just pillar up to them with your easily-breakable blocks, optionally take a few lockpicks with you in case the chest is locked (or do what I did and look for a different one, they're very common) and see if you got lucky. From my experience, at least half of the chests will have the feathers in them and there will always be at least 2 feathers if they are in there. Added bonus is that you can often find Potions of Wings in the chests too (seems to also be at least half the time), which give you free flight for 3 minutes and can make finding more of these structures a lot easier and faster if you get unlucky with the first one.

And there you have it, you now have all of the stuff you need to craft the avian saddle and a Roc to use it on! A quite simple strategy that requires about as much effort as hunting for trolls for the materials would, but a lot safer and requiring very minimal gear. Plus added bonus from all the additional stuff you get thanks to Treasure Hunting.

Hello! My name is Joesph! I’m 27 years young. I have a 11 month old daughter named Izabella she’s my world! I work 3rd shifts as an Operations Supervisor. A little about me, I’m a major fan of Star Wars LOTR and Harry Potter. I watch a little bit of anime but not a whole bunch. I’m a very outgoing person. I tend to shy away from people in real life as my anxiety tends to get the best of me but I’ve been working on it. I have a vast variety of interests. I love to go hiking or just being outside. I play some video games here and there. I’m a huge horror fan! I’m a big sports fan as well’ I also love muscle cars. I collect watches, embroidered patches, and playing cards. I’m the black sheep in my family that being said I have 2 sisters and a brother. I love to learn I’m always looking up a topic or listening to a podcast. In my opinion knowledge is power and the only dumb question is the one that’s not asked. I have zero interest in people who are rude and have zero morals. Respect is a huge thing for me. I’ll always respect your boundaries please do the same for me. I have a miniature schnauzer! Her name is Rosie! If I sound like someone you could be friends with please don’t hesitate to message me! No matter what you choose I hope you have an amazing day!

Take the whole "can't choose where the shot lands" to a whole nother level. Bonus points if the fic moves past one shot.

I know it was your first relationship. At 28, you had already been through so much, having been on your own for 13 years. You were forced to grow up too fast, and had to prioritize yourself, building a life from nothing. I get it. It was your fierce independence that made me fall for you in the first place.
I always knew that trying to build a life with you was going to be a struggle. I thought it would be worth it, for both of us. You deserve to have someone in your corner, that always has your back. You shouldn’t have to be alone. I don’t know if you believed the same.
I think I gave up too much of myself for you. Was that my mistake or yours? Did you really ask for too much, or did I give too freely without expectation for anything in return? Maybe both. Probably more on me. I’m not perfect by a long shot.
Compromise. It really does all come down to that. I tried to show you its importance, but in the process I ended up being the only one willing to do it. Me getting to pick what movie we watched or getting to plan a date became something I only got to do on special occasions. You said you felt like you didn’t know me, but so many times in so many ways I offered up little pieces of me to you. I share myself by sharing the things I love with the people I love. But more and more towards the end, all you’d say was “no”. Ignoring any context. Ignoring those pieces of me.
I know you don’t like movies about kids. I know asking to watch Home Alone during Christmas was a big ask. But it was a tradition that I shared with my dad, who I lost just over a year before. I know you think that traditions are pointless, but it was important to me. My earliest memories are of that. I needed to continue on, but I couldn’t bring myself to do it alone. I needed you there, your support. It was such a small gesture I was asking of you, but all I got was “no”. Instead we watched a movie you picked: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. A movie made by the exact same people that made Home Alone, and with even more kids.
We wanted to go to Ireland. Personally I’ve been wanting to go for years, but couldn’t because of my dad’s illness along with everything else going on. You knew that in the last 3 years I lost all of my grandparents, two uncles, my dad. I couldn’t risk going so far away for so long while everyone was sick. My mom saw me giving up the latter half of my 20s for my family, when she was hoping I would be enjoying life and seeing the world. That’s why she was happy to give us the money to have the trip of our dreams. I explained all of this to you while you were struggling to find a way to save for the trip. All my mom wanted in return was a single nice photo of us. That wasn’t even a requirement for the money. She just wanted to see me with the person that I love making our dreams come true. I know you hate having your picture taken. The only attention your dad ever gave you was when he wanted to test a new camera. It’s a trauma trigger. But I was only asking for one picture. You’d compromise for your friends, you’d compromise for your sister. You’d take pictures with them. Why wouldn’t you compromise for your partner, and the other most important person in your partners life? After a year, we have 3 pictures together, none of which are very good. I know that I was asking for a lot, but I felt so less important than everyone else in your life. Maybe you felt that as your partner, I was to be held to a higher standard? I honestly don’t know. All you said was “no”.
You admitted yourself I was so supportive. I always prioritized you. From always making your tea before mine, to giving you the better looking plate at dinner, to planting all of your favorite flowers in my garden. I always complemented you, how smart you are, how beautiful you are, how driven and independent you are. Your friend needed a ride to a 5k and someone to cheer them on? I was there. You needed someone to drive you around while your car was in the shop for 2 months? No problem. Accidentally overdrew your account again, and you couldn’t afford the late fees? Here’s $50. Need to move on short notice? I’m the guy tearing apart and moving your furniture. You have a migraine so bad you can’t eat? I’m bringing you pedialyte and sleeping on your couch, even though I didn’t actually get any sleep. I learned all your rituals so not to trigger your OCD. There are countless other examples. I never said no. I never complained. You rarely said so much as “thank you”.
The big one. The thing that ended us. You’re right, we did sit down like adults time and time again and talked things out. You said you needed me to anticipate your needs. You’d get overwhelmed, and couldn’t articulate what you needed from me. You couldn’t stand being asked what you needed. You just needed me to start helping. “Mental loads” and all that. I took that to heart. But I’m not perfect. Sometimes I’d miss the mark. Tried to support you, but in the wrong way. Even in my failures I showed effort, but you never seemed to see that. You only focused on how I failed.
We recognized that this was a problem caused by both of us. The communication wasn’t getting through. But I had already adapted to your communication style as much as I could. My exited, rambling, almost impulsive way of generating ideas became slow, methodical, thoughtful. I put intention behind everything so not to overwhelm you. I learned not to jump at the obvious solution.
Yes, we sat down like adults and talked things over time and time again. You told me what you needed from me, but I also told you what I needed from you. If I was missing the mark, please just guide me to what you needed. I’m not a mind reader. I did it for you all the time. You were honestly awful at anticipating my needs too. If I was venting, had a bad day, all you’d say was “I’m sorry”, and pat me on the back like a puppy. No effort to dig deeper. No words of support or encouragement. So I had to show you how I needed support. I just needed you to do the same for me. “No”. Again.
One final time, I sent you words of support when you were having a bad day. It wasn’t enough, you wanted more. A phone call? For me to come over so you could vent in person? Did you actually want me to directly help for once? I don’t know. You never told me. Instead of guiding me to what you needed, you immediately shut down. Full silent treatment. I’ve been in abusive relationships where the silent treatment was welded as a weapon. I know you didn’t mean it in an abusive way, you were just overwhelmed again. But I never expected it from you. I didn’t see it for what it was. I only ever asked one thing from you to save us. I put in the work, got us 80% of the way there. I knew I couldn’t bridge the gap on my own. I wasn’t even asking you to put in effort on my behalf, it was for your benefit. I begged you time and time again for help. To communicate. Not to put it all on me, because I couldn’t do it on my own. But instead, you did the opposite.
You said that you felt like you were putting more effort into the relationship than I was. I’m sorry, but I can’t see that effort. I’m trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, but I can’t. Maybe you mean you put effort into forgiving me every time I messed up? Maybe you mean that you were always planning dates, always picking what we watched, where we went, what we ate, what we drank? Again, mental loads and such. But I had things that I wanted to do and share with you that you always turned down. You only had to plan everything after my plans were rejected. It would have been more efficient for you to show love, patience, and compromise.
And then you left.