I have worked for a week or so (each night that I get a free hour) to to level up a character to 20, to finally get my mount and head off to watch Deathwing in action changing the landscape of Azeroth by destroying some of the zones 🔥
I feel this would be really cool and just such a rare occasion to experience being a fan of this game now and missed it the first time.
Anyway.. to the question!
How do I see this happen being just a level 20 Palidan starting out in Elwyn Forrest?
I heard he shows up In: Arathi Highlands Burring stepps Blasted lands Twilight Highlands Eastern Plaguelands Wetlands But how to I get to any of these to be able to camp and wait for him from Elwyn Forrest, also being just lvl 20? (tough enemies blocking some routes).
I have 4 days left and running out of time, so grateful if anyone can help!

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I have 2 situations. Feel free to respond to either or both if you’d like.

1: Recent friend (more a casual friend of circumstance) invited me to her wedding. She told me about her engagement and wedding plans as soon as i saw her after but made no mention of invitations so i just assumed whatever, we’re not that close and moved on with my day. A month or so later i get a text with an rsvp link. A part of me wondered if she invited me because hey another gift is still a gift but i figured whatever, might be fun. But I didn’t reply for a few weeks and when i texted back with a response, i found out i was blocked. The only reason i could think was i didn’t reply fast enough but that seems like a small thing to be that upset about. Her wedding’s not for another 4 months and i’d think most people would just assume you weren’t going. Perhaps i’m misunderstanding customs here but when/where i grew up, it was normal not to respond for a few weeks because people had to check schedules, see about arrangements, etc. but maybe it’s considered rude by today’s standards? I can’t think why else i’d be blocked. What gives? She seems like a very nice person otherwise.

2: A friend i’ve had for 15+ years and i try to get together once in a while. It’s often hard to schedule because she has an extremely busy schedule working multiple jobs and a gaggle of small children and numerous extended family members they’re committed to visiting weekly. I work a lot. So between those things, there’s a lot of back and forth working around. I reached out to her recently to let her know i would have some time coming up to find out i was blocked. I understand the working around times might be frustrating and it might have appeared i was blowing her off or being difficult. At the same time, i feel she of all people should understand. I work a couple different jobs with demanding and often irregular schedules. Since they’re on the lower income side, i need the hours because just existing is so dang expensive! She knows this and I feel like she should understand this as the sole breadwinner of her family herself. She works multiple jobs not because she absolutely has to (because her main job pays a generous salary and she’s very frugal having grown up in a large family on a farm) but because they come with perks which happen to benefit her finances a lot, especially considering her husband is unable to find a job in his field being undocumented and all. She just happens to have ‘good’ jobs (higher status, good pay/perks, time off and other flexibilities, etc.) and i don’t.

as a side note, i’m not asking because i want to repair these relationships necessarily. If they don’t want to be friends, fine by me. I’m just curious what their logic could be.

So, long story [not so] short: I hung out with this guy I work with one time in late February and while it was fine, I could tell we weren’t a good match so I told him that. He flipped out on me and started sending me angry texts about how he saw this coming, sorry he didn’t “measure up to my standards,” telling me that they way I try to get to know guys “bothered” him (namely that I spoke about my ex bf after he asked me why my last relationship ended and that I talked about my friends — he informed me, “Guys don’t want to hear that. I’m there to get to you know. Not your ex, not your friends, you.” I was like okay, whatever. I didn’t say anything to him freaking out on me.
He then started sending me these long texts apologizing for his behavior and saying things like “I’m just a fuck up, I know you hate me now and I get why” and I was like DUDE. So I texted him and said hey, I don’t hate you, it’s fine, no hard feelings, let’s move on. All is forgiven. Then he just continued apologizing as if he didn’t even read my reply and proceeded to reprimand me again for talking about my ex when we hung out. He said, “But you get why I was upset right? You talked about your ex when you were supposed to be getting to know me. Do you understand this, yes or no?” It was exhausting. I just said “Yes, I understand. What I don’t understand is why you’re trying to have this conversation again.” I stopped responding after that completely bc we obviously were not communicating.
Then more long, drawn out apology texts. “I just feel terrible bc that’s not who I am but sorry again for fucking everything up.” Was the summation of basically every single one. I wanted to block him, but I also felt that it might escalate more, especially because he would sometimes tell me he was drinking when he texted me these novels, so I thought I might want to have screenshots of him basically harassing me via text if I ever did want to report him or at the very least, ask my supervisor for guidance. I finally texted back and said “I have no other response for you. If you want to talk to me about something work related only, feel free to reach out.” He said okay and apologized AGAIN.
Then last week I ran into him in the office which was inevitable. I said hello, he asked me how I was, I told him I was great and asked him the same. He seemed completely different than how he had been acting which was such a relief. He seemed calm, happy, and like he had put everything behind him. He then sent me a Teams message right after that and thanked me for breaking the ice. I said sure, it was nice to see you. My ultimate goal this whole time has been for things to smooth over so I don’t have drama with this guy I hung out with ONE TIME! He then said if I wanted, we could go on a walk sometime at work to take a break and get some fresh air. I very stupidly said sure. We went on a few walks and then yesterday right when we got back from one, this text convo ensued:
Him: Hey, I appreciate your time and the 2nd chance at a friendship but maybe we should just keep it a work thing. I get a vibe from you that's what you prefer to have, which sucks but I also know my place with you at this point. I've enjoyed the walks and talks but I'm not trying to ruin the vibe more than I already have previously.
Me: Yeah, I would like to be friends but I will respect keeping it a work thing if that's what you want. Definitely don't want to make you uncomfortable or anything.
Him: Oh I'm not uncomfortable. It's just hard to catch your vibe a little after some things. Maybe I'm just reading you wrong after things went south too. But I'm not trying to make you feel uncomfortable or like you have to try to be friends just cause we work together. I know you're dealing with whatever it is so maybe that's why it's hard to catch the same vibe I caught from you when we first talked. I also didn't really care for how you subtly threw my failure with you in my face on our walk but I deserve that a bit and that's my fault for bringing it up. I'm cool with being friends but like I said, it's just been different and a little difficult lately.
Me: No matter what I say or do, you seem to have a problem with. I didn’t throw anything in your face. I think at this point, we should definitely just keep it a work thing.
Him: I didn't say I had a problem and it just one thing. And you kind of did when I brought up me asking you to tom segura but my bad for saying anything. I should have just bowed out and been quiet. And yea, I had already stayed that it should be a work thing. You're the one that came back to me wanting to be friends, not the other way around. Remember that since you got a bit of attitude suddenly. Best of luck to you sarah. Hope you bounce back from whatever issues you have.
And actually I've not had a problem with anything regarding you just to be clear, you are just perceiving it oddly which is cool, saves me the headache.
Me: Okay. (then blocked him)
A little context about his “failure”: He said he might see this comedian this weekend who is like Tom Segura’s best friend. RIGHT before I initially texted him back in February to tell him I didn’t think we should pursue dating, he had asked me if I wanted to go see Tom Segura w/him. It was just terrible timing for him to suggest that right when I was saying let’s just be friends. So anyway, yesterday I really wasn’t thinking and said, “Man I’d love to see him live someday.” And he was like, “Well I tried to get you to go with me, remember?” And I said, “Yeah.” I was like oof that was awkward, but I assumed he remembered the timing of that invite?? So that’s what he was referring to that I apparently “threw in his face.”
So first of all, am I overreacting wanting to report this guy? And second of all, is my fear of retaliation irrational? He seems unhinged to me but I could be overthinking this. I truly don’t know what to do.

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I haven't told anyone this, but I have an addiction to weed. I'm 17 and in grade 11.
During winter break in Dec 2023 - Jan 2024, my friend and I decided to hit up my plug and each get a cart. He plays hockey and would rip his teammates' carts sometimes, so we thought it would be fun. After I got it, I would get high every night. I wouldn't ever get high during the daytime, and I always did it when I had no other moral obligations, so I didn't think it mattered that I had this small vice. Sometimes, I would skip a night to tell myself that I'm not actually addicted, and because I would successfully do that, I would think that I could keep going because there were no consequences; I was still able to fulfill all my duties.
When school started again, I did not wean off my habit because I was doing better than ever. That's not because of the weed, but because I had a crush on a girl who was very studious, and I looked up to that. So, I found my flow and I was just more productive. But, totally unrelated to my developing addiction. At one point in February, my cart ran out, and I decided that that was it and I would not buy another one because I just didn't need it. Almost surprisingly, I did not feel like I was struggling at all with going to sleep sober, and it did not feel like anything was missing from my life. So, for a couple of weeks, I was sober. This was the first time in almost 2 months where I could actually remember the day before whenever I woke up.
As spring break was approaching, my friend's cart also ran out. Originally, he did not want to buy another one, but his teammates were talking about this different brand that was apparently much smoother or more potent or whatever. So, we each decided to get one. Over spring break, my habit of vaping every evening returned, and my productivity began to decrease. I started waking up feeling really lazy and thinking, "It's spring break, I have so much time. I can just do my homework tomorrow." But, this cycle continued, and I would tell myself this almost every morning. Sometime in late March before school was going to begin again, I bought some joints so I could smoke with my friends and have a social time.
This was a mistake.
I gave my cart to my friend because, in my mind, I was justifying my addiction by thinking that since joints are much more consumable, expensive, and less convenient than carts, I'd just finish those joints and no longer have an addiction like what happened in February. But, this created a recurring event in my routine. Almost every evening, if I had joints on me, I would go out for a smoke. Whenever I didn't have joints on me, I would always think, "Damn, I kinda wanna go for a smoke right now." But, I would always meet with the plug soon enough and restock my supply. This happened over the course of April and early May, and I just ran out of joints 2 nights ago. I began coming to terms with the fact that I am addicted, and I need to make a bigger effort to get off this shit.
This all came to a head last evening. I ran out of joints two nights ago, so yesterday was going to be my first time having a sober evening in several weeks. Last night, I didn't even really have the craving to smoke, even though I really enjoyed going out for my walks while enjoying a joint. But, when I was in the kitchen preparing my lunch for the next day, I decided to try drinking again. I hadn't drunk since winter break, and I had lost 10kg since then, so I was curious what my tolerance would be. I opened my parents' alcohol cabinet and quickly downed 7 shots because I didn't really like the taste. At first, I wasn't feeling it and was thinking, "the effects take time to kick in, I'll just wait it out." I was just sitting on the couch on my phone, not feeling any different. Then, I turned my head and realized how different everything felt. I was like "oh shit, I'm drunk. This feels so cool." At midnight, I decided to go for a drive.
I made a sandwich and took a calm drive to a park to eat in the parking lot. It was great. Afterwards, I decided to hit the highway since I haven't driven fast in a small while, and I knew the roads would not be busy. I was driving at more than 200km/h while drunk. The roads were clear, flat, straight, and empty. Still, I remember thinking "wow, I do not deserve to be driving right now,", as I knew driving is a privilege and I was abusing my privilege.
I make it back home after driving for about 30m and just can't believe what I've done. After running out of weed, I decided to get drunk off a whim; I don't even really like drinking. After getting drunk, I decided to go for a drive. While on a drive, I decided to go double the speed limit. I could never imagine looking my mother in the eye if she ever found out. I let my addiction go on for so long because it wasn't really affecting my life; my grades were better than ever (despite my slight dip in productivity), my social life was flourishing (for unrelated reasons), and I was making great progress in the gym. People around me are telling me how awesome I am or how impressed they are with me because of my commitment to extracurriculars, my weight loss, my grades, and my overall demeanour and personality. No one knows that, behind that positive and outwardly-successful individual, there is a young man battling addiction.
Tonight will be the beginning of my turnaround; I will block my plug and I will always remember last night whenever I feel tempted to drink or smoke. I cannot keep living like this. This is not normal. I need to be the man who people think I am.
If you've read all this, thank you. It feels freeing to finally vocalize the thoughts that have been percolating in my mind for such a long time.

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Office of the Chancellor May 16, 2024 Dear Campus Community,
Our campus has a long history of effectively balancing our mission of teaching, learning, and conducting research with the rights of free expression as seen through rallies, marches, and other demonstrations. All these activities can and do occur regularly at UC Santa Cruz.
We share in the profound grief and concern for the individuals and families who are being impacted by the staggering loss of life in Gaza and by the fate of the hostages still being held by Hamas. There is immense suffering by children, families, and other civilians. We continue to express our grief for the victims of violence and displacement. We also understand that many in our community feel a deep need to do all that they can, in their own spheres of influence, to halt that violence. We respect that intention. We are, however, a large and diverse community, and we have obligations to our fellow community members and the responsibility to support the rights of everyone in our community to access all aspects of their work and education.
On May 1, a group of students created an unlawful tent encampment in Quarry Plaza. Our response has been to prioritize and support the safety of the students in the encampment and everyone else in our campus community. The campus fire marshal inspects the encampment area daily, and we have appreciated that the student demonstrators have acted to address some of the safety concerns, such as keeping staircases unobstructed.
Still, the existence of the encampment is a violation of law and university policy, has ongoing safety hazards, and has impacted our community in various ways. Our campus store has been forced to close as well as several campus food options, our resource centers are providing services from alternate locations, and a number of events have been postponed or canceled, much to the disappointment of both organizers and those planning to attend. A number of employees and others who work on campus have had their work schedules disrupted. Last week, we also experienced three dining hall disruptions. Disrupting dining halls prevents students who rely on meal plans from accessing food, an outcome that is the opposite of the action's stated goals, but the actual outcome nonetheless. These disruptions reflect a lack of respect, even if unintentional, for many in the community who are trying to do their job and simply trying to serve the campus community.
Campus leaders met with students from the encampment throughout last week to see if we could reach a mutually agreeable resolution that would include the voluntary disbanding of the encampment. We were largely quiet during that time, mostly posting safety updates on the status website to respect the intentionality and earnestness of those discussions. We remained optimistic throughout those discussions. Unfortunately, student representatives rejected the proposal that campus leadership put forward Friday, then posted on social media that our discussions were over. We remain ready to resume our dialogue with student representatives, and the ideas that we put forth remain on the table. We have communicated that with the student representatives. We believe the student representatives saw in our discussions last week that our approach was both earnest and in good faith.
Yesterday, our campus community faced additional disruption. Students blocked Hagar Drive throughout the afternoon and evening, while another group disrupted several classes. These actions are not protected speech and violate the student code of conduct. This escalation of disruption was unprompted by any action by campus administration. The continued presence of the unlawful encampment itself is causing unease for many in our community, because of the loss of access to campus resources and the messaging that has been displayed or chanted at the Quarry Plaza encampment.
We continue to call for the unlawful encampment to voluntarily disband.
We are ardent defenders of free speech and of the right of our community members to express themselves within the rights and protections of the First Amendment. As an academic institution, we encourage and depend on the robust exchange of ideas. We also strive to maintain a campus environment that is welcoming, open, civil, and mutually respectful of everyone and their views. This means speaking out against speech that deeply harms our community. This balance–and responsibility–is something all of us must take seriously. Over the past two weeks, we have seen appalling antisemitic and anti-Israeli messages and graffiti at or near the encampment. These expressions of hate, like all expressions of hate, are despicable, damaging, and have no place in our community. Our campus has a webpage with support and reporting resources for students and employees.
Our campus is special because of the remarkable students, faculty, and staff who make up our community. It is a place of learning and robust discussion. As a publicly funded university, it is also a place of laws, rules, and policies that govern the education that our students receive and the work we do. We expect everyone to uphold their responsibilities as members of this community.
Sincerely,
Cindy and Lori
Cynthia Larive Chancellor
Lori Kletzer Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor

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Hello fellow redditors. Finally fis got the big P!!!!! Honestly this test and the whole process of this is not at all fair on our mental well being. Went through all kinds of Ups and downs during the prep phase, but hey, we're humans after all right? What is life without all the hardships and obstacles? Icing on the cake for me through out this journey was this platform. Cannot emphasize enough the gratitude I feel for many strangers that were willing to go to great lengths to help out fellow strugglers like me. So I promised myself I'd definitely pass on the goodwill here.
Enough rant, back to business now. Honestly all the timelines others post is bs guys. Sorry no offense but it really varies from person to person. So don't depend on them or weigh in your prep based on that. You do you. You feel like you need a whole year or maybe two to finish this step, take it. Or you feel 3 months is enough, good for you, do it.
I started with BB videos to supplement with FA. I tried reading FA alone, but it felt like Japanese to me, so went back to BB, did some annotations on FA. Please note "some annotations" guys. Because you don't want to mess up your entire FA just while watching BnB, coz you'll have more stuff to note down while doing UW. Finished one topic on BnB+FA and did that topic on UW and started with a new chapter on BnB simultaneously.
So the whole first time completing FA and UW took me around 6-7 months with many breaks in between because I'm so inconsistent with my prep. And then after that, started reading FA once again. Never did second pass of UW/ incorrects.
At this point took a baseline NBME 25- scored around 50% and realized I have shit memory of many topics so started doing FA a tad bit more seriously now.
At this point I realized I never really did biostats or ethics or gen pharma or micro properly and took around 1-1&1/2 month to finish them and started taking some other NBMEs. You wouldn't want to know the timeline because it is very inconsistent guys.
NBME 27 - 60 NBME 26- 68 NBME 29- 72 NBME 30-70 (17 days before exam) NBME 31- 76 (12 days before exam) Old free 120- 84 (6 days before exam, couldn't believe my eyes at this point and honestly most of this test I just felt I was guessing most the answers) New free 120- 74 (3 days before exam)
Didn't take UWSAs. Didn't really see any point taking them.
And coming to the MISTAKES I DID during this phase-
1- GIVE IMPORTANCE TO YOUR WELL BEING If you feel like you need a break, then please take that break people. But remember to come back stronger to your table after that break. Or else, you'd feel that exhaustion during the last leg of your prep and we wouldn't want that to happen
2- PLEASE REVIEW YOUR NBMES GUYSSS Honestly saw some pretty similar topics tested in the real deals. Do this and do it religiously. I didn't review most of my NBMEs and I regretted it on test day. Saw 2 or 3 nome images also, so do the high yield nome images pdf
3- CONCENTRATE ON BUGS AND DRUGS FROM BEGINNING. Do micro and pharma for 1/2 hour each at least during the last one month. They're solely based on memory and you can probably save some time in the test.
TWO CENTS ON EXAM-
Trust me it's very doable people. We just gotta put our heads sane and think straight during the whole thing. Sounds pretty simple right, but not that easy to do.
Slept for like 30 mins that night, and was shit scared if I can do it. But the adrenaline rush got me thru it very well.
Honestly guys, all everyone's saying about the length of the questions is very wrong. They're pretty normal, 50% UW length, 40% NBME length and some even smaller, like literally 2-3 liner questions and <10% questions are lengthier than UW.
Had like 4-5 ethics questions in most of the blocks, micro was decent in number. HUGEEEE number of Gen path and system pathophysiology. Maybe around 2-3 biostats questions in the whole test. Took break after every block, 20 min break after 4th block for a light lunch and 7 blocks and 8 hours just flew by. Didn't mark many questions, maybe like 3-5 in each block.
So that's it guys, enough of this monologue for now. Keep your resources limited, Do what you gotta do to get that P. Never compare your journey with others, but always ask for help if you need it from others. My dms are always open if you need any suggestions/ support or you just want to rant.

I saw this post in passing and can't find it now, about an idea that basically just doing sets of military burpees you're getting a pretty good overall workout that your average person would find sufficient.
I'm really intrigued by the idea of a simple rotation that only needs some floorspace and actually hits everything I need for physical maintenance, but I'm deeply suspicious of anything that feels that simple. I'm crunched for time like any parent is, and rarely even sit down except at work. At home I find myself getting interrupted a lot, even during my herniated-disc maintenance exercises that I absolutely cannot forget to do, and it always causes me to forget to finish my routine. I feel bad about it but I'd rather do something to address the issue.
I can't just block off the time and space either--I've got a tiny apartment, no free space, and I'm physically required to intervene to keep these people alive. One of the upsides of bodyweight exercises is that I don't need to go anywhere to do them, so as long as I have the energy to clear a bit of bedroom floor I should be able to get at least some movement in each day.
If this idea doesn't actually work well, is there a similar one that does? The RR and the Minimal Routine are both pretty simple as-is, they're just falling victim to space crunch and "Hey Dad..." style issues.

I am a beginner to OpenFOAM 11 so apologies in advance if this is a simple question.
So I am trying to simulate a wind tunnel test of an aircraft and I am currently trying to mesh using snappyHexMesh. My process that I am following is creating a poor mesh using blockMesh, then refining that mesh using snappy. The geometry is basically a wind tunnel (box) and the aircraft is inside of it.
I built the blockMesh file such that I mesh the wind tunnel (no aircraft is mentioned in the blockMesh), and then I refine the mesh of the tunnel and add refinements for the aircraft as well in the snappy. The issue I am facing is that after snappy is ran (with no errors) and I go to the polymesh folder, in the boundary file I can only see that the tunnel is meshed, nothing about the aircraft is mentioned. So I am starting to think that maybe I should have mentioned the aircraft in the blockMesh as well? Although that's not the impression I got when reading the documentation so I am confused a bit. Here is my blockMeshDict:

FoamFile { version 2.0; format ascii; class dictionary; object blockMeshDict; } convertToMeters 1; vertices ( (-0.5 -0.884 0.9675) // vertex 0 (-0.5 -0.884 -0.9675) // vertex 1 (-0.5 0.884 -0.9675) // vertex 2 (-0.5 0.884 0.9675) // vertex 3 (2 -0.884 0.9675) // vertex 4 (2 -0.884 -0.9675) // vertex 5 (2 0.884 -0.9675) // vertex 6 (2 0.884 0.9675) // vertex 7 ); blocks ( hex (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7) (50 25 25) simpleGrading (1 1 1) // Coarser mesh ); edges ( ); boundary ( bleeding { type patch; faces ( (0 3 4 7) // Bottom face of the tunnel (1 2 5 6) // Top face of the tunnel ); } walls { type wall; faces ( (0 1 4 5) // right face of the tunnel (2 3 6 7) // left face of the tunnel ); } inlet { type patch; faces ( (0 1 2 3) // inlet of the tunnel ); } outlet { type patch; faces ( (4 5 6 7) // outlet of the tunnel ); } ); mergePatchPairs ( ); 

And this is my snappyHexMeshDict file:

FoamFile { version 2.0; format ascii; class dictionary; object snappyHexMeshDict; } castellatedMesh true; snap true; addLayers true; geometry { TRY_body_scaled.stl { type triSurfaceMesh; name body; } TRY_fin1_scaled.stl { type triSurfaceMesh; name fin1; } TRY_fin2_scaled.stl { type triSurfaceMesh; name fin2; } TRY_fin3_scaled.stl { type triSurfaceMesh; name fin3; } TRY_fin4_scaled.stl { type triSurfaceMesh; name fin4; } TRY_fin5_scaled.stl { type triSurfaceMesh; name fin5; } TRY_fin6_scaled.stl { type triSurfaceMesh; name fin6; } TRY_fin7_scaled.stl { type triSurfaceMesh; name fin7; } TRY_fin8_scaled.stl { type triSurfaceMesh; name fin8; } TRY_tunnel_scaled.stl { type triSurfaceMesh; name tunnel; } } castellatedMeshControls { maxLocalCells 1000000; maxGlobalCells 4000000; minRefinementCells 10; maxLoadUnbalance 0.10; nCellsBetweenLevels 3; allowFreeStandingZoneFaces true; features ( ); refinementSurfaces { body { level (3 4); } fin1 { level (2 3); } fin2 { level (2 3); } fin3 { level (2 3); } fin4 { level (2 3); } fin5 { level (2 3); } fin6 { level (2 3); } fin7 { level (2 3); } fin8 { level (2 3); } tunnel { level (1 2); } } resolveFeatureAngle 30; refinementRegions { body { mode outside; levels ((1E15 3)); } fin1 { mode outside; levels ((1E15 2)); } fin2 { mode outside; levels ((1E15 2)); } fin3 { mode outside; levels ((1E15 2)); } fin4 { mode outside; levels ((1E15 2)); } fin5 { mode outside; levels ((1E15 2)); } fin6 { mode outside; levels ((1E15 2)); } fin7 { mode outside; levels ((1E15 2)); } fin8 { mode outside; levels ((1E15 2)); } tunnel { mode inside; levels ((1E15 1)); } } locationInMesh (0 0 0); } snapControls { nSmoothPatch 3; tolerance 2.0; nSolveIter 30; nRelaxIter 5; } addLayersControls { relativeSizes true; layers { body { nSurfaceLayers 2; // Reduce the number of layers } fin1 { nSurfaceLayers 2; } fin2 { nSurfaceLayers 2; } fin3 { nSurfaceLayers 2; } fin4 { nSurfaceLayers 2; } fin5 { nSurfaceLayers 2; } fin6 { nSurfaceLayers 2; } fin7 { nSurfaceLayers 2; } fin8 { nSurfaceLayers 2; } } expansionRatio 1.2; finalLayerThickness 0.2; minThickness 0.1; nGrow 0; featureAngle 30; slipFeatureAngle 30; nRelaxIter 5; nSmoothSurfaceNormals 1; nSmoothNormals 3; nSmoothThickness 10; maxFaceThicknessRatio 0.5; maxThicknessToMedialRatio 0.3; minMedianAxisAngle 90; nBufferCellsNoExtrude 0; nLayerIter 50; nRelaxedIter 20; } meshQualityControls { maxNonOrtho 70; // Increase from 65 to 70 maxBoundarySkewness 25; // Increase from 20 to 25 maxInternalSkewness 5; // Increase from 4 to 5 maxConcave 85; // Increase from 80 to 85 minVol 1e-14; // Decrease from 1e-13 to 1e-14 minTetQuality 1e-10; // Decrease from 1e-9 to 1e-10 minArea -1; minTwist 0.02; // Decrease from 0.05 to 0.02 minDeterminant 0.0001; // Decrease from 0.001 to 0.0001 minFaceWeight 0.02; // Decrease from 0.05 to 0.02 minVolRatio 0.001; // Decrease from 0.01 to 0.001 minTriangleTwist -1; nSmoothScale 4; errorReduction 0.75; } debug 0; mergeTolerance 1e-6; 

I'm revamping my WordPress site and found a website called Blocklayouts (https://blocklayouts.com/) that offers lifetime access to ready-to-use block patterns and templates for $99. They claim these work with any theme, which sounds too good to be true.
Anyone here have experience with pre-made block patterns? Were they worth the investment? Did they truly work across different themes, or were there limitations?
For reference, the free patterns I tested worked just fine. But I'm worried about the variety and long-term use for the paid ones.

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I keep running the numbers and the points cost of these guys and they just seem insanely good right now. However, despite multiple local DA players, I've never seen anyone else run them and haven't seen any top tournament lists with them.
They're priced just above SM battleline/basic infantry units but can deal out way more damage and are tougher. They're also incredibly flexible with how to build them. Single 3-man squads are excellent at taking objectives/secondaries and can still cut down enemy infantry. 6-man squads threaten elites and 6-man + command squad can threaten anything smaller than a land raider.
If we look at 3 knights vs 5 jump pack assault intercessors (would fill a similar role): BKs have up to 9 ranged attacks and 9 melee attacks for up to 18 or 27 damage if supercharged while JP ints have 5 ranged and 19 melee attacks (if using powerfist) for 27 damage, however, all BK weapons have more STR and AP. BK technically have 1 less wound than JP Ints but have more toughness and a 5++.
If we compare a mega-block (6-man + command squad) to something comparable like The Lion (similar points), we get a massive 27 ranged attacks and 30 melee attacks for up to 90 wounds if supercharged. The lion will cap out at 4 ranged attacks and 16 melee attacks (8 strike would maximize damage) with a cap of 40 damage. Obviously The Lion is hitting more attacks and likely wounding easier, but the bikes do wound on 4's against vehicles/monsters on charge. We also have to consider that The Lion is harder to wound and has a better save, but he has significantly less wounds at 10 vs 30 and the command squad can bring back dead bikes, restoring 3 to 4 wounds per round.
There are some other benefits the the BKs that they have over other similar units such as a massive amount of OC. 2 per model standard or 3 with the command squad brings it to a max of 27, more than any other single unit in the game. Adding 1 to all charges and advances + free HI isn't nothing either. I've been playing DA in Firestorm Assault and a minimum 14" (up to 19") advance + shoot is typically getting you anywhere you want to go.
I know they're not optimal in every situation, but compared to most other light infantry or even elites (specifically terminators) these guys just feel like way more value than you would otherwise get for your points.

Hi Everyone! I've been getting some DM's after the score release thread yesterday, and it seems like it might be helpful for some to hear my experience with the test, so here we go.
BACKGROUND: I'm a US MD student at a T20 who is not top of the class in anything.
THIRD YEAR: Throughout clerkships, I used a pretty standard way for studying for every shelf exam. I would do all of the anki found within the most up-to-date version of the AnKing step 2 deck, did all the Uworld for the clerkship once, re-did all of my wrongs on uworld, then took as many CMS's for that subject as I could. I'd throw in a couple review videos from Emma Holliday and Divine here and there, but overall this was the setup. Generally scored about 85th percentile or so on those, and ended up scoring 74% on this first pass of uworld.
DEDICATED: Gave myself 5 weeks to study for it just to have a little more flexibility in how hard I went each day. On average I bet I spent around 8 hours studying each day, except for practice test days where it was more like 12ish.
Anki: I reset the step 2 AnKing deck at the very beginning of dedicated and set the due date for two days before my test. This came out to ~800-1200 review cards/day, which I mainly did at the gym while on the treadmill or in between sets. I also made anki cards for my wrong answers on Uworld and NBME's, which came out to about 800 cards total.
Practice Questions: Uworld is still king. I did around 80-120 questions/day on timed testing mode nearly every day that I was not taking a practice test. I would do all of these questions in a row in the morning and review them later in the afternoon at lunch. For reviews, I would honestly skim through the ones I got correct unless there was a knowledge gap, and read through everything on those I got wrong + make an anki card. Ended up getting through 45% and scoring 85% on this. Only other practice questions I relied on were the AMBOSS high yield risk factors, ethics, 200 concepts, and vaccine/screening blocks, which I did during my first week of dedicated.
Practice Tests: Do as many of these as you can. Both UWSA's and NBME's are great, but if you're in a bind and can't do both, I would focus on the NBME's since questions seem more alike to those seen on the test. I also tried my best to take and review the tests on the same day so I had a better recolleciton of my thinking during questions, but idk if this helped that much and it was brutal getting through on some days. Here's the order I did them and my scores:
NBME 9: 244 (35 days out), NBME10: 253 (28 days out), NBME11: 260 (21 days out), UWSA 1: 260 (18 days out), UWSA 3: 255 (13 days out), Old New Free 120: 91% (11 days out), NMBE13: 264 (10 days out), NBME14: 261 (7 days out), UWSA 2: 268 (5 days out).
I did these in this order based off the recommendation of some friends who had taken the exam previously, but I don't think there's a right answer. I also didn't take NBME 12 because I heard horror stories (I'm just a scared little guy) or the old old Free 120 since I heard it wasn't super representative at this point. SUPER IMPORTANT BOLDED POINT - I would normally take 1-2 days following my practice tests doing uworld specifically on the areas that were weaker based on my test result. I think doing this really helped keep things efficient.
Podcasts: Divine Intervention and Emma Holliday are the truth. For DI I listened to the rapid review series (there's a good spotify playlist if you type in "divine intervention rapid review") and the QI episodes. I also listened to all the Emma Holliday episodes by the end of dedicated. I mostly did this passively while exercising or cooking.
Day before test: This video right here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJgjMZk8\_To) is sweet. I followed a lot of the tips and found them helpful. Waking up early at 5 am and exercising helped a lot in terms of sleeping and calming my nerves. I also did NOTHING to study that day and recommend you do too. If you have to do something, try to keep it relatively light.
Day of Test: Got to the testing center half an hour early. I also had plenty of water with me and tons of different protein bars (shoutout kirkland brand protein bars) which I ate from during each break. The video I linked recommends having just a small cup of coffee before the exam to keep nerves stable, but if you're like me and a straight up caffeine junky you can do what I did and take caffeine pills before and during the test. I ended up taking one (200 mg) right before, another (200 mg) after three blocks, and a final (200 mg) after six blocks. Yeah I know that's a lot stop looking at me like that. For breaks I took my first after two blocks, one after the third, a longer one after the fourth, one after the sixth, and a final short one after the seventh. I will bold the following because I think this is what gives people an edge on test day, try to poop before the test begins. Nothing worse than thinking about that while trying to perform. Other than that, just be nice to the testing center folks.
OTHER STUFF: Try your best not to burn yourself out studying. Only you know what your capacity is, so strive towards maxing that out and no more than that no matter what those around you say. Also, try your best to eat healthy and exercise at least 3 days a week. Doesn't matter how you exercise, but just getting some movement is super helpful. I found going to the gym and mixing in anki was effective and efficient, but you do what's best for you. Last thing, try to find a hobby you can do at night after you're done studying. Mine was video games and seeing friends, but you do whatever makes you happy.
FINAL THOUGHTS: This test sucks man. It's long, the questions can be vague, and its stressful. That said it's also doable (especially compared to Step 1). The most important part is just doing your studying consistently and keeping yourself sane. That's easier said than done, but its definitely possible to do it. In the end, a lot of what happened in my case was just the form I got falling into my strengths, but being consistent with your studying and working on your weak areas through Uworld sets you up to be lucky.
tl;dr: 80-120 uworld questions/day, reset step 2 anking and set due date to near test date, take NBME's and UWSA's, hit weak areas, find a stress reliever, be cool to yourself, poop before test.
Put the word out that we all back up. Hope this helps someone.

So I checked out the latest patch yesterday and I have to say, I cannot imagine a better re-design for upgraded Stoneskin and Caltrops. Thorns Andrin is a build I've been trying to make work for awhile now, as Deflect is a dumb card that lets him stack hilarious amounts of block for basically free and stoneskin was always pretty cost efficient. However the build always had a few big issues.

1. It lacked a good energy sink. Most of the best tank scout cards are free or 1 cost, leaving you with a bunch of energy you couldn't do a whole lot with. Acrobatics Strike nonbos pretty hard with thorns stacking because enemies don't take recoil damage from dodged attacks, and dumping your spare energy on something like rain of arrows or far shot just feels really sad.
   
2. It lacked good team survivability options. While Andarin could generate comical amounts of block for himself, he couldn't really protect his team from AOE effects, which are quite common in this game. A lot of the great team heal/support scout cards are locked behind stanza, which was difficult to setup and was often not worth the effort.
   
3. It just didn't generate enough thorns. Stoneskin is a phenomenally efficient card that gives thorns, block, and even phys resistance for the low cost of 1 energy, but wasn't enough to carry the build on its own. Caltrops generated a surprising amount of thorns across your entire party, but was generally too low impact to be worth the draw. It was difficult to generate enough thorns to make thorns Andarin feel worth it over evade tank Andarin, which had more survivability and a more coherent game plan in general.
   

The new blue upgrades for Caltrops and Stoneskin fix ALL of these issues, making thorns Andarin a real build now. Blue Caltrops is basically a budget barricade that also gives your party a pretty solid amount of thorns, giving some much-needed party-wide survivability while also punishing aoe attacks. Blue Stoneskin is honestly one of the best OC cards we've gotten, as it gives Andarin a much needed energy sink allowing him to generate 30+ thorns on turn 1. You can even combine it with the Maneuvers trait card to draw your entire deck and give yourself a bunch of evade, just to be really sure you don't die. I've already gotten some highlights off of this build, including dealing over 300 recoil damage to the new DLC boss, securing a round 1 kill, and it just feels so much better than it did before.
I have not tried thorns tank with Nenukil yet. The lower speed could definitely be problematic, as this build really likes going first, but the extra caltrops are definitely welcome. I don't think this build wants more than two stoneskins, though I guess I could experiment with shuffling in some orange stoneskins. Having fewer deflects is definitely sad, as that directly reduces the amount of block you can generate per round. I dunno. I'll have to experiment.

When I'm working on a hero I go to duels so I can find what works for them in a one v one situation. Teamfights are super easy. For every single hero in a teamfight your objective is to not feed revenge, be as obnoxious as possible to the enemy, and throw orange attacks from external to get free damage, roughly speaking of course. So I never really bother training for team fights because that's not something I feel I need to improve on. But I do need to improve in those moments where I'm caught out, no teammates, no extra enemy's to feed me revenge, just a 1v1 somewhere on a dominion map. So I go to duels to practice for this kind of thing. Sometimes however, I get into a duel and I litterally can't touch the guy. Throw a light it gets blocked, worse deflected, worst parried. Throw a neutral bash, it gets dodged. Start getting complicated throwing neutral heavy feints into light attacks. That still gets parried FML. Try to go defensive so I can start up my moveset off of a parry or dodge attack, no dice they aren't willing to do anything that is in any way risky. At this point I just put down the controller. The weird part, they usually get mad that I give up, but from my point of view they were reacting to everything I had in my tool kit so there's no point in even trying to have fun playing against them. They usually also go afk and sit there until I engage with them again. If that's the case I throw out of lock heavies until I'm dead. What do you guys do about people like this? How do you improve against someone who can parry neutral lights on reaction, who can dodge every move you have, who has a counter for every mix up you can think of. Like this is pre CCU levels of obnoxious, how is it still possible that I run into enough of these people that it warrants complaining about?

Feeling some writers block for the current arc I’m doing. Was wondering if anyone would be willing to help give me some ideas to help make things more interesting.
So just to give some premise the story is oc focused, although the did just infiltrate a young Weiss’s birthday party by being forced to crossdress as a young g debutante(I know there’s an oc thread, but I feel like I’d get more info here rather than there, even if a lot of it becomes basically hate mail) and takes place before the events of RWBY, at present time Ruby would be around 7 and the mc would be around 11. Anyways the arc involves the main character and his grandfather heading north to a hidden fortress where he meets one of his grandfathers oldest comrades.
The area is kind of like an old Slavic themed town surrounding a metallic black fortress which looked like it came out of a sci fi story.
Currently planned to have the mc meet with a new “team member” (story isn’t truly team focused though.) Then have him talk with his grandfathers comrade who reveals the fortress is built on a rift between worlds where they have imprisoned a beast of the apocalypse(which is actually pretty common, his grandfather and his comrades dealt with things capable of destroying the world all the time) and is used to travel to other worlds by delvers who bring back technology and see if they are compatible with the laws of remnant. Later maybe have some other people from there mcs generation try their hand at world delving.
There is a spirit co-inhabiting Lans body who belonged to a civilization pre dating the arrival of the gods of light and darkness. I plan to have its presence interfere with the world delving process and bring the mc and his traveling team to a place inhabited by the old gods.
Here i get a little uncertain how to proceed. 1. I’m uncertain whether I’d like them to delve another world and be pulled in on their way back or be pulled in. In the beginning of their delve. 2. His grandfather and his comrade are essentially demigods and could protect them from most things(even warp problems likely wouldn’t be an issue) and the old gods aren’t exactly dangerous, in fact they let the mortals just have the old universe when they rebelled against the gods(basically a bunch of chill logic based gods). So I’m not sure how to really give a sense of danger. 3. I’m not sure I should have a whole team together, you see one of the team i originally planned to have the mc meet in another arc, but that’s the only important part of that arc so I decided to just fuse it into this one, but I’m uncertain how much the character dynamics and interactions should change because of this. Or if I should even remove that arc in the first place.
All in all I think I just find the details I use to flesh out my current arc a little dry and boring, and was wondering if anyone had a good idea to make things more interesting. Like maybe a kind of world they visit before being pulled into the realm of the old gods. I’m running on empty, the only thing I can think of is a dark souls like world but that seems a bit too difficult to make interesting in the short term.
I dunno, I haven’t really talked to anyone about my writing in detail for a long time, and I’m at the time in my life when inspiration and motivation are running dry so I thought I’d just give things a try and ask around.
If you want more details feel free to ask, I’ll try to respond as best I can. And on the off chance you actually want to look at the story: https://m.fanfiction.net/s/9860028/1/RWBY-The-Journeys-Of-Lan