Ever since i've been a child i've had these dreams about a man, its like im awake but dont realise i aint awake?? first dream i had was when i was 7-8. i was in my childhood room, keep in mind i cannot sleep for the life of me, and at that time i didnt have sleeping pills. so i was doing my normal playing with plushies late night game. my room was on the second floor and i lived in a small town, my house was ontop of a mountian with a big forest right outside my window. but a small road just before it. as i looked out it was raining, the small light coming from the street light but it was flickering cuz it was old, i watched the rain drop but got an uneasy feeling as i looked further into the forest i saw him, he was a man, tall, strong but not too strong to it being his only feature. he looked like a normal man. his left hand had an axe. and i started to sweat as he walked slowly towards my house. stopping under the dim light. then up the driveway, then watched me like i watched him. he threw the axe at my window, and i must've woken up, but i didnt realize i was dreaming it, so i fell off my bed and ran to my parents room yelling at them that 'hes here' and call the cops. i still to this day dont remember it being a dream.
as some time went by, i didnt sleep at all. but only night i fell asleep, but woke up to an uneasy feeling like the first dream. then i heard it, our doorbell. i somehow didnt get scared and just walked downstairs, knowing he was there. i opened our door, and walked out. it was propally in the middle of the night cuz it was fully dark. i started to walk towards the forest. knowing he was there. my ma stopped me. asking the hell i was doing. i straight up told her 'hes here' but then realised what i was doing. keep in mind, i was too scared as a kid to even leave my bed at night. i still dont get how i just walked out of the house without sobbing.
my dreams slowed down. i felt uneasy sometimes but kept telling myself it was a dream and i was okay, even tho i was actually awake. it fully went away in some years, moslty cuz i never slept. but when i moved to a diffrent place he came back. first one after a while was while i was babysitting this dog for two weeks, he had been there for a week atleast at that point. i woke up and went upstairs, sitting on the arm rest on my sofa and scratching the austrelian sheperds ears. he was pretty big so he was perfect height for it, but then he got a freaked out face on. like he knew someone was there but didnt dare to look. i was confused and got the uneasy feeling again, i looked over at this corner, as i look down i saw two shoes. and i know for a fact no one was home cuz it was summer break and everyone in my fam was at work. i didnt say a word, my breath stopped as i saw the shoes move a bit. then i woke up, with a full on panic attack. it felt so real.
some days later i dreamt another dream. it felt so real, i was doing my morning rutine, but when i came to the living room which is upstairs. i saw my whole family, mom, dad, and my big brother. they were towering over something on the floor. it was an dark aura around it as i kept asking them why there were home and not at work. but they had the same as the dog in the other dream had. i looked more down. the shoes were at the floor with some jakcet over them. but then somone started to crawl out of it, hands gripping the floor as it came to life. and i woke up.
after that he kept coming. one dream i had was while i was sleeping at my aunts in my childhood city. i dreamt like i was walking back to my old house, going to check it out. but when i came there, all the windows, door and carage was fully open and fully dark inside. all our stuff was thrown out of the house laying at the drive way. i went up and kncoked on the wall next to the open door. no one came so i turned around going to leave. but when i turned around someone grabbed me, dragging me inside the dark empty house. i looked down as it happened and then i saw it again, those shoes.
im starting to lose track on what happens after what, but i remeber always feeling awake as it happens, to the point i dont know if im awake or dreaming anymore. ive had plenty of dreams of just living and then seeing him stareing. then waking up. i wont name them all but imma name the worst ones.
still during the summer i was laying in my bed, my room is very small, and my window is next to my bed, but i got curtains over the window to block the sun light, i was watching tiktok as i layd there, but then i got that uneasy feeling again, i looked to my door, and the light in the hallway made it easy to see two shoes blocking the light. i sat more up, grabbing some scissors i had next to my bed on my desk. as i sat started to sit even more up i heard knocking on my window, i fully turned my eyes there, and it was a gap just with the curtians enough to see some of the window, and there he was sititng, leaning down to meet my gaze. same shoes as always. i woke up in a panic. i didnt even know if i was awake or not. but i looked towards my window, and it was a gap with my curtians, its never a gap there cuz its creepy.
Another dream i had was that me and my family was at this place, my pa was sunbathing and i was chilling inside. its like a hotell. i kept going out to check on my dad as it started to get dark and i got an uneasy feeling. i knew something would happen. as i went out again, i found my dad laying on his sunchair, only that his limbs had been awfully ripped off. just where is knees started his leg stopped, just where his elbow started his arm stopped. and he had that look on his face like in the others dreams whenever someone saw him. i ran inside agsin and got met by his gaze as i woke up in panic. i ran to my parents room as they were dead asleep. but i needed to check if it was real cuz it felt so real.
im seeing that im writing a lot so imma just hurry up with the newest ones.
one dream i was back at my childhood home, i was with my two friends from there as we were playing in some tunnels made from WW2. me and my friend was supposed to find our other friend cuz he ran away somewhere. but as we looked she also dissepeared. i looked around. i saw some stairs, i know exaclty where i am and is 100& i was there, the stairs leads you to the dakrest point of the tunnel, its like your eyes are closed cuz its fully dark, as i went down i stood still for a second trying to hear them. but only thing i heard was the mans heavy breathing. in every damn dream he has this heavy breathing. i woke up with a scream as i dreamt that.
this is the newest one, only last week i dreamt of him again.
i was biking to my nearest shop for a drink, as i went back my bike had stopped cuz something happened with it, it does that sometimes. so i walked instead. it was fully dark outside and raning just so slightly. but as i looked forward in the small street, i saw him walking towards me. his head slighty turned to his side like hes watching me. with a knife in his left hand. i woke up with my breath knocked out of me, i went out again with a friend, we were getting some snacks to watch a movie, it was late, so it was dark. she sat behind me on my bike as we biked the same way i did in my dream. i got like a deja vu from my dream. but i was awake for sure, cuz i had already dreamt. but then i saw him again. the sight made me crash the bike into a small hole. she fell off as well did i. i quickly sat up a bit and went to help her sit up from the fall. but then as i was helping her i felt that uneasy feeling. but i didnt turn. her face went like everyones face whenever they see him. i didnt have time to turn. the knife he held in the other dream went straight into her collarbones. i turned around in fear only to be met by him sitting close to me, watching me with a damn mask on, the mask is fully black wiht a white lines a cross of it with some 2-3 other small lines over it. i had, had a double dream. it felt so unreal. and i never know if im awake anymore.
i went to a therapist for it one time cuz i hadnt slept for two week straight, and my parents got worried, and they tried to sign me up for pills. but i told them i was getitng better cuz i didnt wanna take pills and get worse.
PS. one dream i had was that i was in school, i had a morning rutine. getting ready, biking down there, sititng in fucking math class, learning math!! but then i got an uneasy feeling as i saw him just stand next to the door to the classroom watching me. that was an annoying dream cuz when i woke up i actually had to do it all over again.
but he seems to alwyas hurt people i know but never seems to hurt me, just stare, watching or some touches. ive had one dream where he shot my two best childhood friends in my old woods at where i used to live. it felt so real, i saw their pain as i hid behind a rock, as he just shot them with a hunting gun. and while they're brains were dripping everywhere he just stared at me and walked closer till i wake up.
i srs dont know what is happening, its creepy and idk if im dreaming or awake anymore. i be hanging with friends but get the uneasy feeling and just run off. into the woods or hide or legit start to sob.

In the Recent Livestream at 24:00, didn't want to calculate the outcome of a Match between him and Levan at 115kg.
https://www.youtube.com/live/iLvJJmuAmaU?si=zwSdu5DrStMb0Oz9&t=1453
He was asked what he thinks about it and said SHW Division the Crown (of the Sport) ?
The SHW Division with no upper weight-Limit basically says you have a freeway ticket to Hell. If you go the furthest beyond anyone else, you become the strongest but risk and damage your body. That means if Athletes set their Goal for the SHW Title doesn't matter what it takes, it will lead to a spiral of doom.
i would like to see Levan come down in Weight to see if he can hold his Title in about even weight class. The Pound for Pound comparison that Devons says we shouldn't do is exactly what i would argue is what we should do in a healthy weight class <=105kg with a healthy BodyFat-% where your Body can naturaly support your Physique without needing Oxygen-Tanks.
If Devon would follow his own belief, he must bulk up to reach Levans weight to be able to pull against him but he doesn't do this.
If Levan is truly the BEST Armwrestler, he should be able to defeat all the other Athletes in their weight-classes and if he can't do this and "cheats" his way beyond a status that can be called humanly-healthy, it doesn't translate into being the best at the sport but being best at cheating.
Who is the best Armwrestler ? i would argue that it is someone who beats any other Top Armwrestlers in a fixed, healthy Weight-Class with even Weight, hence utilizes Technique, Endurance, Power at this Level to win. This Definition does not fit to SHW. And the best of all would be someone who can shift between the weight classes and defeat all Top-Athletes in every division. Open-Weight-Division should be abolished.

the first exams at my college yesterday were chaos, the people who sat maths had the first 40 minutes of their exam without the formula sheet !!!?? and teachers and students have complained and the college hasn’t done anything. as well as this i didn’t have the question paper, only the resource booklet so had to wait 25 mins for someone to bring it. and the same thing happened in sociology where the exam started 45 minutes late because they weren’t given the rescource booklet.
it’s ridiculous, also forgot to mention my english teacher left our coursework deadline until the DAY BEFORE its needed from AQA.
is there any way to complain to a business or something outside of college? because this is just ridiculous, not to mention my college has 1000 other problems too

Are you planning to set new goals for the upcoming year 2024? Do you wish to start a new business? If yes, now, you can consider initiating a new home-based travel business. No doubt, it is not for the overly determined industrialist who has a grand plan to collect millions in funding to try his hand at developing a successful business empire.
If you wish to start something new on a small scale with flexible hours, you can look ahead with a small start-up cost. Still, you can enjoy the potential of generating new part-time or even full-time earnings.
If you are interested then, here are the top 7 Good Reasons to Start A Home-Based Travel Business.

1: Make A Beginning With A Part-time Work

If you wish to make a beginning on a new business, the brand may start earning immediately. In the developing period of the business, you as well as your family will still be required to survive so having the flexibility of beginning very part-time so you can keep the present salary stream is essential.
If you are not presently working, by different means, go full force in trying to speed up the development of the new trade. Are you working with some company at present? With a home-based business, you will face no problem starting your travel business and finalizing the hours based on the current job requirements. No matter, whether it is related to answering an email inquiry from a client searching to book a trip, or contacting a business for quotes, one can manage the jobs during the lunch break, just before or right after work. Say thanks to social media, endorsing your business can be completed at any time of the day as long as there are businesses online.

2: No Fixed Education Or Training Compulsory

It varies on where you plan to have the physical business address, proper training is required which includes a manual and exam to sell travel legally. It is surely used in India. Meanwhile, the course must take more than a few days to a week to get ready for and the exams are available multiple choice. If you do research over the internet about how to start a travel business and generate genuine travel leads, you will come across different courses being promoted. It is not a compulsion and surely not something most present travelers have completed. If you consider that is something you require to familiarise yourself with the industry, you can surely go for it. However, it is not the right way to begin and operate a successful home-based travel trade.

3: Affordable Start-Up Cost

There are lots of reasons that make a home-based travel business quite attractive. Here, the start-up cost is quite minimal. According to your budget, you can customize your business. It is especially right if you join a host agency. The expert will give you the required training and resources that you are training and resources you require for the business. To make a beginning, you need to register for a small business for a couple of dollars according to the resident, and finish a compulsory training course. All you need to pay is a fee small to learn the techniques of the program. The Host Agency will let you sell travel under their legal registration numbers, and vendor business and give you an all-important resource that needs to travel trade from any remote area.

4: Everyone Love To Travel

When everything is ready in the setup, you are all set to endorse the travel business. Once, you are ready with the setup, you can easily endorse your business; there is no need to wonder if somebody will be willing to the product. No doubt, travel is considered a universal language, and everybody adores speaking it. All you require is to find and calculate what small niche within this giant business you wish to focus on and discover the people who are involved in the area. If you can do that, your client will face no problems during the travel. It becomes easy to support them in making their travel plans.

5: No Need To Have A Physical Office

Surely, it is a good fact that if you search for a home-based business, there will be no need to buy or rent some office space. It implies that you don’t need space to store office equipment. You do not require clients to walk in, and you don’t require housing a lot of staff. Moving a travel business from home has none of these needs as all that is necessary is for you to have a working PC, the internet, a mobile phone, and an email address. The above-mentioned points will surely help you with the right business solution without investing huge money.

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Some of the people begin their own travel businesses. Not for the extra earnings, but to enjoy the countless unbelievable travel perks that will make their life better. Tours and travel business ideas often get to contribute to all cost-paid or heavily discounted site examination trips to resorts at the renowned tourist ends in the world. Airlines and former travel product vendors offer “traveling business ideas” discounted costs for personal bookings. Moreover, you get to spend your work hours researching and educating personally about hundreds of unbelievable destinations and products. They make things simple for you to plan your trips with any finances.
Conclusion
No doubt, tours, and travel are some of the most popular and biggest consumer industries across the world and have huge annual revenue. It implies unrestricted earning potential, and one can make as much as one wishes.

Hey mates, I found this strange behavior that storage data can’t stop calculating. I try to re-install macOS but still the same issue I will try today without my time machine backup to if changes something. Anyone else with this issue?

I’m a musician without much technical skill but a lot of raw talent. Dont care if I sound full of myself My sound is unique and my flow is untouchable. My genre is funk soul and country, but I want to apply hip hop and edm elements with rap and beat boxing. I play ukulele, guitar and piano and when I’m more financially stable my ability to practice more often will skyrocket those abilities. I like cerebral beats and using my voice to create intense emotions I want to create music that people all over can listen to from rednecks to hippies to the city rats My music is my mantra and my mantra is peace on earth
Looking for the Aaron to my Moses The drum to my Dan The math to my art The machine to my heart
Have a tendency to say things that seem batshit insane but when you give it more thought it makes more sense than you want to admit
The jewel is the in the heart of the lotus the funk is in the soul of the country
God bless anyone crazy enough to pick up my line

Hi, I don't post on Reddit much, but I've been stressing over this for way too long and need some input. I'm 30 years old, single, have a BS in Physics. Since I graduated, I've worked at factories in the area for about 5 years. Two years of that I worked as a process engineering technician, the other 3 years have been spent as a machine operator. I bought into the whole "get your foot in the door" and "these places love to promote from within" rhetoric and have started from entry level, but, without naming companies, recent management changes have made that essentially impossible and the culture has shifted towards just slapping associates with write ups at the drop of a hat, negating any ability to move up or around within the company. My resume isn't anything spectacular, but I have excellent manual dexterity, observational skills, upper level math/science, computer skills stemming from being around computers since I was able to read. My college capstone was in Optics, and my senior year my team delivered a presentation at the Society of Physics Students conference in Ft. Lauderdale on testing the reliability of pulse lasers. I'd like to think I have a decent spread of hobbies as well that could at least point towards other skills and aptitudes that don't come with a certification, such as electric guitar repair including wiring, I have a project car I bought non-running and have repaired the wiring and engine parts to have it now running reliably, I recently assembled an entire Warhammer 40k army and painted it myself, and dabble in video editing/photo editing in Adobe suite for personal video game funny videos/montages or what have you.
I'm looking at relocating, but trying to narrow down where I would want to move to and find jobs there with no responses through Indeed has been emotionally exhausting. I'm afraid I've wasted the last five years working entry level when I could have been doing something else to develop skills in an industry or something. I don't have involved parents or a support system either, which makes this all the more difficult.
Thank you for reading all of this even if you don't have any input. Feels good just to get some of it typed out. 🤷‍♂️

First of all, yes, her kit is decent. but being "decent" isn't good enough anymore when you have "broken".
Hoyo isn't afraid of making her bad, because they know we will pull for her anyways. In fact, I think Hoyo will try to make her kit bad just for them to sell the solution later (probably a support with a mix of HMC and RM's kit). That is just bad character design principle, and I don't want that to happen.
Take a look at Acheron. Her kit is so broken you can basically bruteforce any content currently in the game with her. And her team comp isn't as restricted as firefly's. Granted, at E0 her team comp is somewhat restricted, but not to the point that only one team comp exist. Even then, her E2 enables a lot more team combination. Meanwhile firefly, even at E6, still only has one strong team comp.
Then there's Boothill. While he's not broken, he's still a pretty decent damage dealer. From what I see, he's able to deal damage around 500k-700k on weakness break with enhanced basic attack. Even without break, his kit seems to be pretty decent, able to hit 60/200 crit easily thanks to his trace while maintaining around 400% break effect without Harmony MC or Ruan Mei. While Boothill is break oriented, this is pretty much what I would expect of a hybrid character, unlike firefly's kit.

Problem with Firefly's kit

To me, it seems like the devs wanted her kit to be a hybrid, but doesn't know what to do. This is supported by two reasons:
First, she needs a lot of ATK, yet all of that ATK is useless on break builds. Break damage does not scale on ATK (See the wiki or Guoba's post), so I don't know why they have this trace on her. She also needs a lot of break effect, making her build priority being break effect > ATK > speed, and not allowing her to build crit.
Second, her enhanced skill has a huge damage multiplier, yet again is mostly useless on break builds. Her enhanced skill deals 400%/200% damage on primary/secondary targets hit, up to 580%/290% with 360% break effect. Now usually, destruction characters (or blast type attacks) only deals damage at around 300%/150%. 400% is on a level of hunt character's ultimate damage. While her damage multiplier is huge, it is useless if you can't build crit on her, resulting in only 30k-40k damage on her enhanced skill.
And for those of you who thinks that we should build her as either break build or crit build, I need to tell you something:
It does not have to be mutually exclusive, and boothill is the proof of that.

What could be improved on her kit

(Do note that this is just a bullet point on what could be improved, and while some of them can work together, some are mutually exclusive. Do also note that the numbers are pretty much arbitrary and you can put any number you think is good yourself. Do tell me if you have other ideas or what improvements should work together)
There are several improvements that I think is possible on her:

• Instead of ATK -> BE, change the trace to BE -> ATK

"For every 100.0 of SAM's ATK that exceeds 2400.0, increases SAM's Break Effect by 6.0%, up to a maximum increase of 60.0%." -> "For every 10% break effect, increase SAM's ATK by 6%, up to 250% break effect" or something like that.
This change allows her to forgo ATK entirely. With ATK not a problem anymore, she can freely build crits for her kit.

• Change her effect RES trace to crit rate or ATK traces

I'm personally not a big fan of non-damage related traces on damage dealers. I think should change it to crit rate traces, or if it's too powerful, ATK traces could also work. This also adds value to her E4 a bit, if you're looking to get that.

• Decrease her BE requirement for DEF ignore trace

"If SAM is in Complete Combustion with a Break Effect that is 250.0%/360.0% or higher, additionally ignores 30.0%/40.0% of the target's DEF when attacking." -> "During Ult, If BE is higher than 150%/250%, gain 30%/40% DEF ignore."
This allows her to further build her stats for a hybrid build.

• Add increase crit on her kit

We could add boothill's trace effect into her kit. Probably something like "During ult, increase her crit by 20%/100% crit rate/crit damage."

• Increase her toughness damage

If they really want her to synergize with super break, might as well increase her base toughness damage on her enhanced skill. I believe right now she has 90/45 base toughness damage on her enhanced skill with primary/secondary target, and granted, that is pretty big already.
But for comparison, boothill has 60 base toughness damage on enhanced basic attack, with 150 total toughness damage on max stack trickshot. Gallagher, which is a sustain, has 30 AoE base toughness damage on ult, and 90 on enhanced basic attack.
Most elites have 300 toughness or above, and most bosses have 360 toughness or above. Therefore I think it's still fair for her to have 120/60 base toughness damage. That way, with all buffs considered, she's going to deal around 240 toughness damage on primary target. This will prevent her from losing turns on her ult to reducing enemy toughness.
Or at the very least, increase the weakness break efficiency on her ult to 100%.

• Make her enchanced skill deal break damage outside of break

This is pretty counterintuitive for weakness break mechanic, so I'm going to put it in a "I don't want this, but it's possible" category.
Since her skill damage multiplier is already high enough, they can do something like "A percentage of this skill's damage is considered as break DMG.", though I don't know how to calculate this as break DMG. Perhaps instead of level multiplier in regular break DMG, it is replaced by the skill's damage.

• Rework her BiS relic's DEF ignore

Not really related to her, but I think 18% DEF ignore on break damage isn't good enough. We already have quantum set that gives 10% DEF ignore just by existing, and 20% for quantum weak enemies. Prisoner set also has an easy requirement, 18% when there's 3 DoT on enemy. I think it's should be either 10%/18% DEF ignore on all attack, or 15%/24% DEF ignore on break damage.

What I think is good for her kit

Currently I have two separate ideas on what changes is the best for her kit. One is for Hybrid build, and one for break build. Here's the changes:

• Changes for hybrid build

1. Rework trace "For every 100.0 of SAM's ATK that exceeds 2400.0, increases SAM's Break Effect by 6.0%, up to a maximum increase of 60.0%." -> "For every 10% break effect, increase SAM's ATK by 6%, up to 250% break effect"
2. Rework trace "If SAM is in Complete Combustion with a Break Effect that is 250.0%/360.0% or higher, additionally ignores 30.0%/40.0% of the target's DEF when attacking." -> "During Complete Combustion, if SAM's Break Effect is 250.0% or higher, additionally ignores 40.0% of the target's DEF when attacking. Furthermore, If SAM's Break Effect is 360.0% or higher, Increases SAM's weakness break efficiency by 100%."
3. Effect RES trace -> Crit rate trace
4. Rework Ultimate "Upon entering the Complete Combustion state, ..., increases SAM's Weakness Break efficiency by 50%" -> "Upon entering the Complete Combustion state, ..., increase SAM's crit rate and crit damage by 20%/100%."
5. Change Enhanced skill "Deals Fire DMG equal to 0.5 × Break Effect + 400% of SAM's ATK to the target enemy. At the same time, deals Fire DMG equal to 0.25 × Break Effect + 200% of SAM's ATK to adjacent enemies. A maximum of 360% Break Effect is calculated." -> "Deals Fire DMG equal to 0.4 × Break Effect + 400% of SAM's ATK to the target enemy. At the same time, deals Fire DMG equal to 0.2 × Break Effect + 200% of SAM's ATK to adjacent enemies. A maximum of 250% Break Effect is calculated."

I think this is the best changes for her, since players will have an easier time building her kit. With this, you could also run break firefly with decent damage on her skill. Though this number is probably still too overpowered, so you can balance it a bit more for a better hybrid kit.
One of the problem is that this kit is pretty similar to boothill's, and I really don't want her to be just a destruction boothill. So I made a second changes for her break build.

• Changes for break build

1. Increase enhanced skill's toughness damage to 120/60
2. Effect RES trace -> ATK trace
3. Change trace "For every 100.0 of SAM's ATK that exceeds 2400.0, increases SAM's Break Effect by 6.0%, up to a maximum increase of 60.0%." -> "For every 100.0 of SAM's ATK that exceeds 2000.0, increases SAM's Break Effect by 6.0%, up to a maximum increase of 60.0%."
4. Change trace "While in Complete Combustion, attacking enemies without Fire Weakness can also reduce Toughness by an amount equal to 55.0% of the original ability's Toughness Reduction." -> "While in Complete Combustion, attacking enemies without Fire Weakness or weakness protected enemies can also reduce Toughness by an amount equal to 75.0% of the original ability's Toughness Reduction."
5. (optional) Change BiS Relic effect "If the wearer's Break Effect is 150.0%/250.0% or higher, ignores 15.0%/24.0% of the enemy target's DEF when dealing Break DMG to them."
6. (optional) Change E6 "While in Complete Combustion, increases SAM's Fire RES PEN by 12.0%. When using the Enhanced Basic ATK or Enhanced Skill, increases the Weakness Break efficiency by 50.0%." -> "While in Complete Combustion, increases SAM's Fire RES PEN by 24.0%. When using the Enhanced Basic ATK or Enhanced Skill, increases the Weakness Break efficiency by 100.0%."

If they wanted firefly to be a break character, then I think this is the best changes for her. Though compared to my changes for hybrid build, I think this is still too underpowered, so again, adjust the numbers as you see fit.
Though, this kit still doesn't remove her reliance of super break, since regular break damage doesn't scale off character's toughness damage. At the very least, if she's going to rely on super break that much, her high toughness damage is going to give her a lot of damage.
So, what do you think? Do you think her current kit is good? what changes would you like to see in her kit?
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So I did the calculator a little while ago my measurements are 31-30-29.5 and then 36-37-36. I suspect my breasts are very full on the bottom which is why I think I struggle with overfilling my cups. The calculator told me to try 30E or F or sister size 32DD (which I find more comfortable but i still spill out the cups even without padding.
Getting a bit frustrated, I hate full coverage bras because they feel too much for me but even in a t shirt bra I seem to end up with quad boob.
I included an image of me wearing a 30E t shirt bra by Lounge which I think fits horribly except for the banding.
https://imgur.com/a/vSXTXBq
https://imgur.com/a/vSXTXBq

Hiya Reddit, a little defeated I write this post but I don't know where else to ask. I first attempted going to UK university/college over a year ago where I did a course for game design & development, after not feeling I was being challenged in the right areas I left as to not waste any more money. Now I step a little more cautiously but its left me feeling restless and I just really need education to keep me motivated/distracted.
That said, I really enjoy Pixel Art and making sprites and such for video games, maybe its just my strong point and thats why I enjoy it, and I could possibly get the same enjoyment if I was good at another form but jumping in and taking a generalised art course or games art course I feel is too risky as it challenges many different 2D and 3D forms, and going into Art is already accepting I'm not going to be paid much so if It's not perfect its hard to settle.
I also feel I could develop my 2D Pixel artistic skills on my own without uni, but I'd enjoy the environment and give me something to do.
Alternatively, I've enjoyed programming too, I have experience with game modding, and thoroughly enjoyed computer science in GCSE as we worked with Python and building physical hardware, I understand this is the safer choice as its a much more respected industry and pays well but maths is really quite boring to me and I feel no security I'l enjoy it like I had before with new modules introduced. But I truly don't know until I've tried, and that gets expensive.
So in short I'm calling to computer scientists, artists, and people who know their shit about uni to tell me something I don't know or change my perspective.
Thanks <3

I made an account to play apex like 4 days ago (new player) and to this day i cant do anything to install the game properly...
So i just registered EA account and downloaded the usual EA app... and started downloading on 500gb free space drive to make sure it can download whatever it wants... Whenever it downloads 99% of the game at 100% its "calculating" then removes everything from install folder and starts download from 0 MB again... Whats interesting ME legendary edition (125GB) installed properly without issues... No i dont use steam...
Things i have tried:
1.Restarting all network devices at home.
2.Reinstalling whole system doesnt matter if its 10 / 11 version of windows (clean after format with drivers from windows update / manufacturer).
3.Clearing cache that they suggest to do.
4.Reinstalling the app completely with traces removed.
5.Turning off all firewalls / defenders / antiviruses / antiexploits / adding exceptions.
6.Installing origin with ea app block prevention patch.
7.Trying to install the game with origin... just gives an error after 75gb of download and starts again.
8.Using different hard drive to install the game.
So after nothing worked when i had 98% of download ready i paused it in ea app... went to the folder of apex install and copied all to make a backup... then proceeded with download... after it removed everything i copied backup to the install folder and ran origin to fix it... it removed the extension type that downloads make to make it normal files without any python scripts... then ran EA app to try to repair... after all of that its still downloading but instead of 80gb its downloading 25gb of data that its removing over and over... doesnt matter what i do... Whats bad about it is that i can stop ea app at 99% then go to old origin to hit play and game will start with EAC running and i can play 1-2 matches before it gives me engine error... Is there any way i can solve this problem? Or its impossible to play this game at all today? What can i do to even start and play the game normally?

Over the past few weekends I’ve been bringing my chess board to Northgate, sitting down in the tables in front of Dixie Chicken or The Backyard, and playing whoever sits down.
The reason I did this was out of love for the game, boredom, and desire to socialize. I don’t drink and am not very talkative so yes this was the best way to spend Friday and Saturday nights, obviously.
For reference, I peaked at 1850 ELO in chess.com. People who sat down could be any rating. I played people who were probably rated close to 100 all the way to people who must’ve been 2300+. If I had to guess, the mean rating was around 900 but with a very large standard deviation. I won more than 95% of the games. I must have played hundreds of people in total, with the vast majority being men. I only played against 3 women. I played people of all ethnicities but the majority were white Americans. The good thing about playing here was that it took a very short to play someone. The average wait between games was probably about 5 minutes. This made it by far the best time and place to set up a chess board in CS. I sometimes set up my board on campus in between classes but got nowhere near as many people to play then.
It was fun! The “rudest” comment I got was “congrats, you beat a drunk person, you four eyed nerd.” Most people were super friendly and amused at the idea of playing chess in a place that seems antithetical to it. What makes playing chess in person worth it is shaking your opponents hand and saying thanks for playing after. It feels very human and warm when compared to online chess. The problem is that talking while playing chess is hard. Calculating moves takes a lot of brain processing, so there’s little space to think about what to say in a conversation. This means that I had mostly just pleasant small talk before or after games.
Most people sat by themselves, but it was very funny when a group of people sat down. Sometimes people would cheer when a piece was captured. People walking by would holler a move (KNIGHT TO F5!!”). People would make a celebrity move then disappear. Others would take pictures. Illegal moves were seen: knights moving like bishops, pawns moving diagonally without capturing, castling in check, and moving a pinned piece so that the king could be taken. A girlfriend complained to her bf who sat down “babe you are NOT about to do this.” People told me about how they used to play chess with their grandfather. They said chess in person feels different and harder than online. I won $5 once. Somehow, I went on a date out of all of it.
I graduated this semester so I won’t be able to do this anymore. But it was honestly one of the best things I’ve done in college and I’ll miss it a lot. If any of the people I played reads this, thanks for sitting down and playing.

I sat down and did some math with sig LC.
At x crit rate (say 40% = 0.4), you want (DEF/1311):CM to be 5.4:6.48x for optimal dmg, CM being 1+CDx
This gives
When DEF = 1311×5.4[1+(CR×CD)]/6.48CR
1 more roll of CD is equal to 1 more roll of DEF%
Or
When DEF = 1092.5(1/CR + CD)
Say you have 40(+48)% CR and 180% CD
DEF = 1092.5(1/0.88 + 1.8) = 3208
Note that our calculations assumed +48% CR. DEF coming out less than 4k simply means that crit is simply better after 4k def.
Till 4k DEF it is
DEF = 1569.9(1/CR + CD) for optimal dmg
Let's say you somehow reached the same crit rate and crit damage with DEF less than 4k
Then
DEF = 4609
This means DEF is simply better till 4k
Now some of you may point out that I entered fixed values into it to check. What is the break point?
Let's fix DEF at 4k. For simplicity I'm keeping CR as 40 but you have the equations, feel free. I am assuming that whatever CR is gained through DEF becomes CD to keep CR fixed, and vice versa.
To find the crits at which reducing def to trade for CD becomes better, use the less than 4k equation
4000 = 1569.9(1/0.88 + CD)
CD = 1.411
At less than 141.1 CD, you'd rather want to reduce def and increase CD if your focus is dmg.
At what crits it's better to start increasing DEF?
4000 = 1092.5(1/0.88 + CD)
CD = 2.525
At more than 252.5% CD you'd rather want to increase DEF than add more CD.
If CR = 1, the numbers are
154.8% and 266.1%
If CR = 0.78 (recommended baseline)
The numbers are
126.6% and 237.9%
Safe to say, if your CD is between 154.8% and 237.9%, lowering your def towards 4k and increasing your crit is better for the dmg

Brief background: I've ridden mostly road bikes for decades, with power meters for about the last 15 years. I think I understand bike tech but I've never owned an e-bike.
I'm considering buying a R&M Multicharger HS Rohloff. This, I believe, is about as mechanically efficient a long-tail (?) cargo-ish bike as it's possible to spec, since it has mid-drive and supposedly 95+% efficient hub gears.
However, actual range reports, specifically this one, bother me:
https://www.reddit.com/ebikes/comments/14dvgwo/my_trusty_steed_a_riese_m%C3%BCller_multicharger_mixte/
Summary: 27km commute in 55 mins (around 30kph average) consumes approx 65% of a 750Wh (?) battery. That's an average of 531W, before pedalling effort. The OP of that thread says they have to charge at work in order to get home if they want to use maximum assist.
Now, I used to do a 32km commute on a 9kg road bike with 400m climbing in around 1h15 (26kph average), at (I would guess) well under 200W average.
I know that aero drag is going to be hugely higher on an upright utility bike, and rolling resistance a bit higher due to the 30kg-ish extra mass of the bike and panniers, but over 500W assist + pedalling effort (100W+?) is just insane for 30kph average speed.
The reason this is important to me, other than curiosity, is that I'd like to be able to do my old commute route on the Multicharger at a decent pace, i.e. 25-30kph, without charging during the trip. It's 64km round trip with ~800m of climbing, but judging by that report it's not going to be possible even on the latest double battery version.
Is my maths wrong? Did that model in January-ish 2023 come with 625Wh or 750Wh battery?
I could obvs buy a drop bar ebike instead but I was hoping to use the bike for local shopping too as a car replacement.

Labour Value is an invisible parallel economy that works on top of the visible economy. It's only function is to prove Marx's Hegelian dialectic materialism right. Otherwise it is completely unnecessary. There is nothing in Marxs observations that cannot be explained elsewhere.
LTV acts as a retreat for Marxists into which they can climb when all else fails. It's like jumping from one reality to the other. Marx uses an idea of “value” which in itself is an intangible ghost and divides this into other ghosts, all dancing to the tune of his pipe.
His thorough belief, influenced by the other economists of his time, is that value is an absolute, a definite. However value is simply a human expression of usefulness, something's value is as concrete as the user wishes it to be, which is changeable and intangible. The value of anything without humans is 0. It's an entirely social relation. However as a social relation valueis only one sided. It remains in the hands of the demander. Something Marx chooses to ignore focusing on the supplier for philosophical conscience.
Value can only be realised through exchange. Exchange requires a demander as it's common denominator. A supplier need not work or own or have madeve found, have been in the vicinity of the commodity to exchange it. The demander is the active participant in the exchange. The supplier is passive. He may set up shop, he may go door to door, but only by becoming a demander himself, he must forgoe his passivity and become an active demander to open shop or move himself from place to place. Demand is the active state.
Choice becomes dominant in this exchange afterwards. As the demander has, going into the exchange, a preference for that good. The supplier must then look at their own situation, seperate from their labour and their inputs as a demander to evaluate whether the trade should be made. This works in individuals as well as in aggregate. The value therefore is itself an expression of multiple and myriad individual factors that we group together as an easy expression of “Value.” Marx then takes this idea of “Value” itself a ghost or a spook, simply a notion for a phenomenon that is itself unreal, without a stable meaning or equal sum of parts from one exchange to the next, he takes this and divides it into the parts of his choosing: Labour value, use value etc.
This is done to suit the historical materialism that he has set out to prove as the driving force of nature. The value theory of Marx is itself unrefutable, however this is due to its place above the actual and tangible economy. The beauty of creating this ghost is that like any spectre we cannot hit it, for, self contained, it simply flits away into the air from whence it came. The Marxist idea of value presents itself as scientific but remains pseudoscience.
It might follow laws of logic, but not of empirical inquiry. Marx's theory of labour is etherial for this very reason. Marx as a philosopher is well aware of what he is doing. By proposing a theoretical model that sits on top (A superstructure if you will lol) of the processes of production and exchange, in which those processes can function as well without it as with it, he creates a spectre that can jump out at any stage in the process and shout “boo” announcing its presence and then disappearing again.
It, despite the attempts to formally calculate and realise it in reality, remains elusive. But that is a power granted to it by it's creation. It cannot be proven or disproven, you could replace the whole thing with ghosts and it wouldn't lose any logical reasoning. The labour value of Marx indeed acts as a ghost, an intangible and etherial force that work embues into commodities, a spirit that lives in that commodity and realises itself spontaneously when another person claims ownership of it.
The challenge that Marx gives to his acolytes is to find this transformation using his vague mathematical theories, that aggregate the economy, then divide and sub divide through further aggregates until you end up with a number that has absolutely no relevance to anything and has to be proven useful in predicting anything. The Value of Marx is therefore at once a concrete, self contained theory that follows strict laws of logic and is irrefutable in it's own theoretical state.
But it is also a ghost, it takes an intangible human construct and breathes a whole mysticism into it, which l, like any religious system is thoroughly logical in itself. Accept the idea of Kronos and nothing about the Roman pantheon makes sense. There is nothing about Marx's value theory that doesn't mimic in this regard.
It suffers the same fate as well, when science, medicine, economics etc are based on religious mysticism they suffer from the unrelenting forces of reality. Marxist theory suffers the same fate. Marx's observations were nothing new, simply taken from other economic theories of the time. His predictions are explainable with more robustness and accuracy with Austrian Economics for example, which does not need any ghosts to make it work.
His only contribution is the additional and contrived shoe horning in of his theory of value, itself a cheery picked combination of classical economic ideas. Marx wished for value to be a tangible force that can explain things as elegantly as electricity, but instead it remains a ghost, like the old aether that filled the void.
It comes from nothing than the mind, stays in the mind and dies there when it cannot be brought out into reality.

Due to the Covid batch, I wasted 11th and 12th grades. In my first and second drop years, I couldn't study due to financial conditions, which resulted in wasted time. In my third drop year, I focused on biology and scored well. However, I am completely weak in basic maths, which ruined my performance in physics and physical chemistry, and consequently, I couldn't focus on organic and inorganic chemistry.
The lack of discipline, hard work, and consistency led to my failure. I wish I could have studied earlier. I wasted a lot of time watching lectures repeatedly instead of solving more questions.
I want to join offline coaching classes in Pune that are good at teaching the basics. I am not from Pune; I live near Nagpur in a Tier 3 city without train facilities. It's almost like a village, although it's technically a city. Despite having an ex-chief minister of Maharashtra from the early 2000s, the city is now almost like a village.
I just want proper NEET classes in Pune.

Background information: I completed school in 2020 without taking my GCSE exams due to COVID-19. Consequently, I received teacher-assessed grades. Over the next three years, I pursued catering at college with the ambition of becoming a chef. During this time, I managed to attain my maths GCSE on my first attempt and my English GCSE on my second attempt, finally having the opportunity to sit the exams after two years of COVID-19 disruptions. However, in my final year, I became disenchanted with the idea of being a chef and discovered a passion for geology. To pursue geology at university, I needed a science GCSE and planned to take an access course to higher education.
Now, my dilemma: I am currently taking GCSE biology and have already completed the first exam, with preparations underway for the second. Recently, I underwent an interview for the access course, which required me to undergo English, maths, and science assessments. Due to a lack of preparation time, I performed poorly. Consequently, I received an email rejecting my application due to my assessment performance. This rejection left me feeling depressed and questioning the significance of my GCSEs, as they seemed invalidated by this assessment. I have lost motivation to revise for my GCSE paper 2 exam, feeling it is pointless. Additionally, I am unable to apply for a foundation year because I need a combined science GCSE, which I am not currently studying. It feels like hitting a dead end, and the prospect of waiting another year to start over is disheartening. I am overwhelmed with feelings of hopelessness and depression.
I don't want to waste another 3 years and be feel to old and feel defeated

i just completed 12th. so here’s my marks cs-98 english- 96 math- 73 phy- 92 chem- 95
i scored well in all except math. i expected more in math than the rest of the subjects.
out of the whole paper, i was unsure about 2 2 marks questions and 2 mcqs. i was confident about the rest of the paper.
but in my whole school no one scored above 85, so im doubtful if i even wrote the paper well.
im considering of giving my paper for re evaluation.
any advice?
also is there a chance that my marks can decrease more?
there r three steps 1) verification of marks 2) obtaining photocopy of answer books 3) re- evaluation
can i get a copy of my answer sheet without verification of my marks? as i believe that there is a risk of losing more marks
help me out guys as soon as possible 🙏🥲

Is this just core + clock speed math? Was the infinity cache included in this calculation? I really wanna know if it was or was not included in said calculation...