May napapanood ako sa twitter, tiktok and facebook na pinipilit ng ibang funny people na meron din daw Aurora borealis oder Aurora australis sa pilipinas last weekend dahil daw sa geomagnetic storm.
Grabe yung iba, ang dami pa nila explaination kung bakit daw nakita ang aurora sa pinas last weekend. Todo gamit pa sila ng scientific terms para lang ipush na totoo daw ang aurora na nakita sa pasay.
Im in tears habang nababasa ko yung comments nila na super confident pa sila about it. May ibat ibang thoeries pa sila, may nagmention pa ng mga names ng scientists about it. Pero kung titignan mo talaga yung clip, ulap talaga yung tinuturo nila.
Naisip ko na lang, gusto lang talaga nila masabi na meron din sa pinas nun kasi trending nga naman worldwide e. Siyempre, di sila papahuli o papalamang. 😭
Possible naman makita ang aurora sa pinas, kaso pag nakakita ka na ng aurora sa pinas eh malamang sa malamang global catastrophe na yun. Ibang level na ng geomagnetic activity yun. Tipong masisira na ang electric grids sa north and south regions. 🤣

There was this situation that bothered me and I'm wondering if I'm unreasonable here or if me being annoyed by this is justified.
It was in this campaign that mostly takes place in one specific town where our characters live, so they are not traveling a lot but have a home and their own rooms, whereby it’s not necessary for them to always carry all their belongings with them. We are a small group of three people with two PCs having a noble background and my PC basically not having any money. This is also not a setting where the characters often get the chance to acquire large amounts of money. My character then acquired several hundred gold pieces, which to him is a LOT of money. To me it was completely obvious that he wouldn’t walk around with a pouch containing several hundred GP. I had decided that he would usually just carry 10 GP and keep the rest safely stashed in his room. I kept track of that in my notes but did not put it anywhere in his character sheet because I did assume the money in the inventory was simply the money he owned and not necessarily the money he kept on his person. (Dndbeyond doesn't have an option to make a distinction there.) One time our characters did travel somewhere and I told the dm that my character would take 100 GP with him. I only said it but again did not note that in the character sheet. During that adventure my character walked through a portal that caused him to lose all money and gemstones he was carrying, including what was left over of the 100 GP he had been carrying.
Then one day my character’s money pouch got stolen while he was at the market. I shrugged it off and was like “That’s annoying but there were only a few gold pieces in there, so it could be worse”. But then the dm told me that no, ALL his money had been in the purse, since I had not stated otherwise in the character sheet. I said that made absolutely no sense, why would my character carry all his money with him? Of course he would keep it safe in his room. The eventually decided that my character had only carried half of his money with him, so I was allowed to let keep half.
I wasn't happy with the solution but accepted it because I didnt want to cause an argument and derail the session. But it still bothered me.
What annoys me about this is that sometimes it seems to be super important what is in the character sheet and other times it’s not. If they made a point of it being very important to them to have everything accurate in the character sheet and they expect us to keep track of everything 100% all the time, then I would have been like “Damn, that was an oversight on my part. I get it, I messed up here”. But to me it seems so random when something is supposedly important and when it’s not. There have been instances where they berated me for not having a certain weapon equipped (when I was still very new to combat) and then another instance they explicitly said equipping weapons in the character sheet wasn't important and it didn't matter.
There could be a possibility that they told me somewhere along the way to put the money stuff in the character sheet in the future that I don't remember. But even in case they did it still wouldn't feel right to me because they CONSTANTLY forget stuff, like incorporating homebrew stuff into the game and then not adding it on dndbeyond after being reminded several times. I am very understanding of them not always remembering things, so it doesn't sit right with me for them to not be understanding when I (possibly) forget something and make it have negative consequences for my character.
If I were the dm I would just trust my players to be honest about this. If I were a player who is known to cheat, the kind of person who would decide their character carries all their money but then upon hearing that it was stolen would suddenly pretend that their character of course would only carry a small amount… then I would understand why the dm would decide that way.
But I am the opposite of that. It is very important to me for things to be realistic. So even if everyone at the table had been aware that my character usually only carries 10 GP, if I had decided that on that specific day my character would have taken 300 GP extra with him because he wanted to buy something specific later that day, I would have reacted with “Oh no! He took 300 GP today! And now it’s all gone!!”. Even if I had not mentioned that he had taken 300 GP or that he planned on buying something and could totally get away with just changing it and not mentioning it. But I don’t do that. I’m honest about this kind of thing and I feel like the dm should know that. I even reminded the dm of a specific magic item that my character was carrying when something happened that I feared would affect the item. An item which I was very worried about my character losing. And still I mentioned it being there because if it’s there, it’s there. Cannot change that.
So to me it just seems random and petty and like I’m being punished for not explicitly stating something in the character sheet.
I can live with both the character sheet having to be 100% accurate and with it not mattering. But it sometimes having to be accurate and sometimes not and me apparently having to know when which applies and getting punished when I don't magically know that just really bothers me.
Am I being petty and unreasonable here? Is that just how the game is and my dm was justified in deciding that way, or is it understandable that this bothered me?
Tl;dr DM decided all my character’s money was stolen from his pouch despite me saying that my character doesn’t carry all his money with him. DM said since I didn’t explicitly state that in the character sheet they’ll go by the assumption that my character carries all his money and therefore it’s gone. Sometimes they say the character sheet has to be accurate and other times they say it doesn't matter, so it seems very random to me. They also constantly forget stuff and I am very understanding of that, so I feel like they’re being petty and unjustly punishing me for failing to put something in the sheet.

I do t know if it’s just me or if this stuff is suspicious. We’ve been together for a year now. Here’s the reasons I think she might be cheating:

1. We used condoms at the beginning of our relationship. Then about two months in we stopped. Now all of a sudden she wants to start using them again. She said it’s because she doesn’t like the smell we both produce when we have sex and that the condoms help.
   
2. We barely even have sex anymore. We’re going on two months now.
   
3. She accidentally turned off her location services on her phone and I can’t see her location. She can still see mine. When I asked her about it, she said she didn’t know how to turn it back on. I walked her through it and got it back on. A day later, they were off again.
   
4. She doesn’t wear her engagement ring. When I asked her about that, she said it’s because she doesn’t like being asked personal questions about her life while she’s at work. That kind of makes sense, but when she goes out with friends, she doesn’t wear it either.
   
5. When invited to go out with friends, her friends don’t invite me to tag along. Our group of friends is one that we have both known since high school. We’ve both been friends with this group for almost 20 years.
   
6. She’s been distant. We used to cuddle every night and now I barely get a kiss good night.
   
7. She recently started doing her makeup and hair in the spare bathroom. She’s always done it in our shared bedroom or bathroom. When I asked her about it, she said it’s because she doesn’t want to wake me up. I’ve told her that she is the only person in this world that could wake me up and I’d have no issue with it.
   
8. It took her two weeks to tell her family about our engagement. When I shared it on Facebook, she got upset with me.
   
9. She always keeps her phone unlocked. That’s not the issue, but she used to always just leave it lying around. Now she never lets it out of her sight. My phone is locked because I use it for work and have sensitive company information on there. She has the password and has her face assigned to it, so she always has access.
   
10. She used to take calls while I’m in the room and always used speaker phone because she said it’s easier for her to hear it. Now within the past month she leaves the room and uses the regular speaker.
    

I really hope this is me just being paranoid. I don’t know how to approach any of this with her without making her uncomfortable or without it seeming like I’m accusing her of cheating. I don’t want to secretly go through her phone or anything like that. We signed a lease together a month ago. If she is cheating and I find out, I’m stuck with her for another 11 months. Any help would be appreciated.

I had a run where buutenks lived agl super buu's SA post super. He still took 554kdmg, which is quite a lot considering his damage isn't too insane. Also, the fact that his only use apart from debuffing certain bosses is as a slot 3 floater that can tank normals is kind of a bummer. He should have gotten some sort of support or hp regen to help out the team. As for fat buu, he's way too inconsistent. If only his dr and defense wasn't tied to str orbs exclusively and if he changed random ki spheres to str instead of only int ki spheres he'd be way better. Both runnable, but only if you lack any other options.

Mas excited pa sa tattoo..
So, my partner and I have been together for almost 17 years. Started living together on our 7th year ‘cause we tried having a baby (me diagnosed with pcos and going in 30’s that time). When I got pregnant on the third year of trying, I was asking if we gonna get married para syempre paglabas ni baby legal na, either hindi sya sumasagot or sasabihin “tsaka na yan”. That time it was okay naisip ko lang kasi syempre gastos muna sa pangananak ang priority. When I gave birth I asked again, since nag aask din family ko, 10 years together na kami nito sagot niya, hindi pa daw sya stable, ano lang sasabihin ng mga ate niya? This time, I swore to never ever ask again, na offend ako kasi bat mas matimbang pa yung sasabihin ng family niya kesa sa iisipin ko at legality nung anak namin. That time I was having second thoughts na, actually way before na bago ako mabuntis I was having second thoughts na but I let it slide kasi, hey, we’ve been together for so long, siya nag-iisang naging boyfriend ko, time and effort, youth, all with him.
Kinalimutan ko mga red flag niya (mama’s boy, nahuling may kachat, mas priority niya family niya over samin ng anak niya) and was just going with the flow, sa akin, as long na walang third party, I will go with the flow. Yung third party although may nahuli ko syang kachat, he reiterated na chat lang yun, although walang sweet talks etc, for me kasi cheating yun however wala akong super enough evidence na sila, alam mo yung papunta pa lang pero nahuli ko na agad. So, yeah it was a huge fight, although we made up, nakalista sa kin yun. 😏
Fast forward, nakapagabroad siya and he will be coming home this year, binigay niya sakin itinerary niya, kasama dun “kasal”. Kasi nga daw mas mabilis process in case magmigrate compared declared ako as common-law. He’ll be staying for 3-4 weeks lang. Nag-ask ako if ano kaya need ang lagi niya sagot “ikaw na bahala”.
However, when it comes sa pagpapatattoo niya and timeline, yes bukambibig niya yung tattoo, ang naisip ko parang di yata kaya isingit yung kasal? Ni hindi sya nagtatanong tungkol dun, basta “this week, tattoo, then healing time” since hindi simpleng tattoo papagawa niya. Panay send sya ng design and mga artists na pinagpipilian niya. Hindi sya nagtatanong, pano yung seminar, reception, ring, ninong, ninang? Civil wedding btw.
Alam niyo yung movie ni Arci Munoz na Open Relationship? Yung line na, verbatim “ang tagal kong hinintay pero ngayon hindi ko na alam ang isasagot”. Kasi at this point parang ayoko ng magpakasal. 🙃
It is just me or ganto lang talaga mga lalaki? 🙂

ay but it isn’t the first time she has done this in tandem but it is the first time my sister has expressed that she has reached out to a hotline and within a few days my mother is claiming to have done the same thing) has been really stressful. I’m not saying it’s easy for anyone, but I guess I don’t know how to help my sister. She doesn’t feel seen in her terrible situation where this man was almost proposing to another woman and he was cheating with her and I don’t know how to tell her that she deserves better (will a hard slap or solid punch get my message across more? Because she doesn’t need this hurt in her life on top of everything else and I know this fuckin kid and am willing to speak to him myself) but our mom is also super hard on her and while I live far away, it just seems like between her love life and home life it’s enough to break someone (which is why I am on high alert when she calls me and is having those thoughts and sleep with my ringer on and just sometimes can’t even sleep because I can’t lose her along with losing my baby brother) I just don’t know what I can do. She’s successful and amazing and beautiful and wonderful but our mom lays a lot on me too and has since our dad died when I was pretty young and I just don’t know how to best support her I guess

Slight spoiler for “Chillin’ in another world with level 2 super cheat powers” about a vague character coming up in the show.
This has been bothering me on and off for nearly a decade. Recently it was triggered in my mind again from the anime “Chillin’ in another world with level 2 super cheat powers” where the female lead is shown to have fox ear shaped hair, but has normal human ears. But in the anime there’s also normal demi-humans with animal ears, and of course there’s count all other anime’s with demi-humans with animal ears (holo, raphtalia, etc.).
Has there been a single instance where it’s confirmed what Demi-humans look like under their long hair? Do they have human ears or are they flat headed? If I don’t find this soon, I’m invading every manga/anime studio to find out

I started developing ocd over a year and a half ago, whilst dating my ex boyfriend. Our relationship was incredibly insecure and felt threatened very frequently, because of that, I began my first steps, which consisted mainly of doing certain actions with my phone whilst texting and closing their messages, then I started doing it 1, 4 , 5 times. The numbers increased and developed their own meanings over time, and then, over time, I hadn't taken the compulsions as seriously. I didn't understand what they meant, I just knew, I had to lock my door 5 times, and touch the handle a certain way, or my ex boyfriend would leave me. If I saw any girl on social media, and I didn't click "not interested. " he would cheat on me with them.
It took over my life at the start.. But not nearly as much as now, by now, I have compulsions at least 1-7 times every 2 minutes. Every number has a meaning. From 1 to 10, they all mean something, they all represent destressors. These have evolved over time, from 2 meaning "I'll live if I use this number. " to it now meaning "my boyfriend will lose interest in me if I do this 2 times. " and I see these numbers everywhere. I feel so stressed and I count everything.
Every action is now a compulsion, I have to type a certain way, my brain has to decide on everything, " Will something bad happens if I do this? " and it looks in the future as if it's a fortune teller- as if we can actually see. I feel distressed all the time, my life is under it's control pretty much-- if I don't do said thing now, I must later, perfectly, in perfect order, perfectly so they don't stop loving me, perfectly so they don't get hurt, perfectly so my life doesn't crash down- but the sense of perfection isn't real.
Sometimes I don't even know that. Sometimes- a lot of the time, when my now boyfriend leaves to shop or work i'm convinced he's dead, experiencing a roberry, got hurt outside somewhere, stuck In a horrible place- whilst he really just isn't replying, because he's busy, I will suffocate for hours, crying and unintelligible, ties with reality cut, feeling like my downfall has been caused by my failure, or exposure attempts.
I have depersonalization-derealization disorder, which I feel like makes it all the more worse. I made the mistake of starting to categorize my disorder as a person or thing of it's own, in attempts to be calmer, but it did nothing but raise the stress and false feeling that someone is truly in my head shattering everything and holding me at gunpoint every second. I very rarely feel real and this disorder has somehow felt even more catastrophic than my severe dpdr, which I have had for around 5 1/2 years.
I spent the prior months convinced every night I'd be dead, I ruined my friendship because it started treating talking to my friend as a "no you can't do this or i'll ruin your life :D " compulsion, have no ties with family, worry myself to the bone each day regarding my relationship, ask every day if their feelings have changed - and they always say no.
I don't know how to make it stop- I know I feed it too much but the amount of compulsions are overwhelming, the anxiety always draws me back, clinging to it and begging to "make things okay again. "
Any advice would be really appreciated! I'm also not good with tone inside of text so I'm sorry if this sounds over intense or aggressive, I just feel super stressed atm, have been breaking down because my bfs actions don't seem to match his words- through absence. It seems to be a really big trigger when he leaves and doesn't text me for hours when out. I brought it up and it hasn't been fixed but that's okay. Just really tired. Wish my head could just be empty again for a second or a minute- the noise is horrible. It feels like being screamed at by 10 different people, all the time with horrible threats.
Can't tell if things will be okay rn. Usually when I do compulsions it at least tells me sometimes that things will be okay- the anxiety goes away a little- but I have a painful silence now, for the first time, getting this out. I feel very afraid

I have a Lore Bard that just hit level 14 and with it, I need to pick some more Magical Secrets. I've managed to lose my notes on what spells I was going to pick, so it's back to the drawing board. So far, Find Greater Steed is already slotted in for level 14 and Wish is slotted in for level 18, but the second pick for both of those levels is wide open. My feats are Inspiring Leader, Ritual Caster, War Caster, and Moderately Armored.
My current Magical Secrets are Haste, Counterspell, Telekinesis, and Wall of Stone.
Haste was chosen for cases where the solution to an encounter was more Divine Smites from our Paladin. Wall of Stone was chosen for a combination of story reasons and the permanence of the wall playing into the DM's style. Counterspell and Telekinesis were chosen for reasons of pure power.
The party consists of a Vengeance Paladin, Dragon Sorcerer, Light Cleric, and a Moon Druid.
The Paladin primarily smites but does occasionally use spells for movement. The Sorcerer primarily uses Fireball, Lightning Bolt, and Scorching Ray. Our Cleric favors primarily using either Spirit Guardians or Sunbeam. The Moon Druid is a fairly even split between using Call Lightning and melee Wildshape.
So far I've bounced between crowd control, buffing, and blasting as seemed most advantageous at the time. Often I'll lead with a Hypnotic Pattern or a Wall spell or Haste and then in subsequent rounds either throw out a Blindness or blast. I keep wanting to use Animate Objects or Telekinesis but it just never quite seems to be the right moment for them.
Simulacrum has been considered, but it would probably be an extended period of time before I'd have both the 12 hours to cast it and the ruby dust to spare.
Contingency is one that I'm interested in, but still a bit unsure about what spells I'd really want to use with it and how useful it would be.
Plane Shift is another I thought about, but it is of questionable use given the cosmology of the setting we're playing in and the nature of our current adventure with difficulties traveling between Feywild, Material, and Shadowfell.
I've been considering grabbing Aura of Vitality to help the Cleric feel less obligated to healbot or Heal for an emergency mid-combat. I briefly considered Revivify but decided that between the Paladin and Cleric, if both of them were dead and I somehow survived, they're just going in the portable hole.
I've got so many Concentration spells competing for my attention that I'm not super keen on ideas like Circle of Power even though I have used it with other characters and loved it, and it feels like there should probably be enough blasting between what I already have and the rest of the party that something like Destructive Wave is less called for.
I've been considering Wall of Force since I don't know how long it will be until I can actually use Forcecage, but I do currently have 3 flavors of Wall spell already at this point.
I'm probably just overthinking it, but I keep having this feeling that I'm overlooking something that might be obvious to an outside perspective.
Full spell list as follows. Note that our DM allows us to have an additional spell known per spell level for spells that we're playtesting for him.
Cantrips - Minor Illusion, Mage Hand, Siren's Shout(single target blast, ranged spell attack, Thunder damage), Flash of Foreboding (Green Flame Blade clone, Psychic damage, rider effect requires downing an enemy in that encounter), Razor Edge(Shillelagh + damage buff), Prestidigitation
1st level - Faerie Fire, Dissonant Whispers, Speak with Animals, Hidden Bolt (single target Force damage blast)
Rituals: Alarm, Comprehend Languages, Detect Magic, Find Familiar, Floating Disk, Identify, Unseen Servant
2nd level - Blindness/Deafness, Invisibility, Mirror Image, Bone Fiddle (Conc., single target speed debuff + Psychic + Slashing damage over time), War Cry (bonus action, AoE minor Buff to party + Wis save vs. 1 round Frightened on enemies)
Rituals: Augury, Gentle Repose, Magic Mouth, Skywrite
3rd level - Dispel Magic, Hypnotic Pattern, Major Image, Slow, Ghostly Charge (30' Cone AoE Psychic damage blast, Int save for no damage)
Magical Secrets: Counterspell, Haste - Rituals: Phantom Steed, Tiny Hut, Water Breathing
4th level - Confusion, Greater Invisibility, Polymorph, Psychic Lance, Songbird (10 min Conc., gives an additional, less powerful Bardic Inspiration die to a 2nd character each time Bardic Inspiration is used)
5th level - Animate Objects, Synaptic Static, Telepathic Bond, Wall of Thunder (10 min Conc., 5' thick, semi-invisible see-through wall, Con Save vs Thunder damage + Deafened, Disadvantage to ranged weapon attack through it, blocks sound)
Magical Secrets: Telekinesis, Wall of Stone
6th level - Mass Suggestion, Irresitible Dance, Flock of Retribution(10 min Conc., Crown of Stars meets Armor of Agathys, Shadowfell-energy-based, Psychic damage single target blast, 1 per turn, no action or reaction beyond the initial cast)
7th level - Forcecage, Mirage Arcane, Wall of Dread (Conc., 20' thick Wall of Magical Darkness + Difficult Terrain + Wis save vs. Psychic damage + Frightened + Bonus Action single target blast + save vs. Frightened)
I also have some items that give me access to 1/day of Detect Magic, Entangle, Faerie Fire, Fly, Ice Storm, Invisibility, Levitate, Protection from Evil and Good, Shillelagh, and Speak with Animals.

I've dated my boyfriend for 3 years. We lived together, we went through so much together. it wasn't just a relationship, he was like family to me. I broke up with him during our second year due to me finding him flirting with a girl at a bar. Then he ended up begging me to take him back; he said how I'm the woman of his life and how we have such bond and connection. I'll admit, yes, he was the love of my life and vice versa. I don't feel like I'll love anyone else in my life as much as I loved him, because our love was so pure; my love for him was, and still is unconditional. It's hard to put into words but it just feels like our inner childs connect and we share so much with each other. We know everything about each other and that always brought me a sense of comfort. I ended up taking him back because I didn't want to make such big deal out of just flirting for female validation.
However, it always felt like he wanted the best of both worlds. He wanted to have me committed to him, staying at home, have no male friends, while he could just get out to bars and even not text me sometimes for the whole night. I gave a lot of what he did to his age at the time, he was 21-22.
After putting the puzzle together though, I realized that he was and is super insecure. He wanted constant validation from family, friends, me, and apparently other females to keep going and pushing. He never really liked his body while liking his overall stylish look. But never with his body underneath. The interesting part is, he didn't really workout and he would put junk food into his body and then internally cry about the results not being there, since he is not his 17 year old self who burned so many calories naturally without having to do anything. I would encourage him to come to the gym with me and he did at times, but he was always grumpy when a topic about working out was being talked about.
He also had an avoidant attachment style. He would run away if there was a need of emotional vulnerability. I believe that's how he coped with things when his parents got a divorce; he was only 6.
Anyways, after taking him back, I went to my home country and he came to visit in between my visit to get a good taste of where I grew up in. (it was his first time visiting overseas.) We had a blast time. I stayed longer so he came back and was by himself, mainly with his friends. I didn't question him much when i was there because I wanted to give him space while I took mine, we were in touch though, just not as regularly.
I got back, he picked me up from the airport and had something going on with him. He did not seem happy to see me. Long story short, he broke up with me for bullshit reasons and I couldn't just let him go because it was very unexpected and unbelievable. I saw him multiple times and in all of those conversations, he was so cold. Cold to a point where I questioned who I was dating. And on my last conversation, he admitted that he cheated on me when I was back home.
I didn't say much, I was disgusted. I let him go. 7 months after no-contact, he texted me to give me my stuff back. I sent someone to take them and they came back with a letter from him...
You can probably imagine what the letter says. It was three pages long, majority of what he addressed was a loving goodbye while confessing his love over and over again. He addressed how much he regrets this betrayal and how he is aware of him being a broken person who needs therapy.
3 weeks after receiving his letter, I decided to see him in person to give this an end fully. I didn't want any more love letters or anything, I was logically done and I had to see him because I gradually got worse as the days went by. As soon as I saw him, I melted. I noticed how much I was sick of trying to move on and date other people. I missed our connection, love, affection, and our lovey-dovey times. I missed him so much to a point where I forgot where I was or what time it was, I never wanted to leave or give it an end right there. He also have lost the 20 pounds he was upset over for years.
Now, I have been talking to him for 3 weeks or so. He's been showing the commitment and consistency towards his own workout routine and healthy eating. He said things like, " I told you so many times before that I felt like I didn't deserve you, but now I feel like I do." "I will show you through my actions, just wait and see. Give me a chance to just be in your life." "I love my body now and I only need your validation to feel handsome, you are the one."
He cried so many times for hours and I have never seen him as emotionally vulnerable and open. He really seems like he wants to work on himself and his overall health. (In all aspects.) He really has been showing so far how much he wants to change his life for the better and for himself, not just for me. it doesn't feel like it's only for me because I saw him not committing to his routine one time and it kills him mentally, he needs to be on track with the promises he makes to himself, it seems.
He recently moved to another state, for the sake of growth and him wanting to get out of his hometown. I don't know what that will bring, but I'm trying to do my own thing. He talks to me like how we used to talk and I don't know how to find the balance because he was the most important person in my life for a long time.
I have hope for him, I want him to be happy regardless. But I'm so confused. I feel betrayed every time i'm not with him. When I'm with him, he is my person. But when I come home or we're apart for couple days, I think of everything and just get disgusted.
I feel emotionally weak right now so if and/or when I make a logical decision of letting him go for the better, it stabs me mentally and I feel like I'm dying, so I know I'll be crawling back to him and that'd be even more embarrassing. Also, letting go of him seems hard because I am almost so sure that I won't be able to fall in love with someone as much as I fell in love with him. I'm not saying that I won't at all, but I just know internally that I won't love someone else as deeply and unconditionally. We have so many memories together and I feel like he is my family. Our physical attraction is so on point. I know he didn't do this because of me or the relationship because I think it was beautiful and every problem could be solved if we just talked.
Other option is to stay with him to let him prove everything to me and see if I want to be in a relationship with him again, but in that case, will I respect myself? Will I actually forgive him for what he did and everything he put me through? Can I ever build that trust with him again? Will he actually develop himself and grow for himself? Am I willing to take the risk of him cheating on me again? Will I be happy with him, knowing what he did to me? (I feel like if he did it again, it'd be easier to move on, but what do I know.)
This is also a topic of morals, ethics, and values aligning or not in a relationship. I would just never cheat on someone simply because that's not within my character and I never even thought of it as an option due to my ethics, morals, and values. But obviously, that's not the case for him.
Would I rather take the risk of moving on with my life, letting this love go and potentially compare every new person or relationship to my connection with him, or would I rather go down on a path where I might never feel that safety and loyalty from him and also live with the thought of accepting such behavior that my morals are so against towards.
There is also another flip side to the coin where, everyone has the capability of cheating and I know there are 7.9999 billion people who didn't do that to me yet, but can this be forgiven for the sake of this unknown phenomenon that applies to everyone else also?
This a battle of my logic and my heart. One thing I wrote is "Is it worth to let go of love, for the sake of self-respect?"
Is once a cheater always a cheater?

Health crises and other unexpected life events that forced long breaks from paid work, have meant my wife and I are far financially behind where we hoped to have been by the time we reached our 40s.
I'm not salty about this. I know many stories of people who went through similar and didn't make it through as well as we did. We've got a secure housing situation, improving health, and putting food on the table is never concern (even if sometimes bills can hit hard). That wasn't the case for many years, so we're thankful for that. Saying that, we're definitely not hardcore frugalists with milkcrates for furniture and a house full of Facebook marketplace finds.
We've got a household income of ~$160k (most of that is my income), weekly mortgage repayments of ~$900 on a $585k loan against a $620k 1960s home that we expect to be our forever home. We have no other debt, but also no other significant assets (other than super, which isn't huge).
There is a good possibility that in the near future, I could receive a one-off windfall. Nothing huge, somewhere around $50K-80K. This would be subject to CGT.
Given the amount of stress caused by defaulting on our first home, I'm very keen to get our mortgage balance low as soon as possible, and plan to refinance once our equity in the home is great enough that we wouldn't be looking at LMI. For this reason, I'm tempted to put all, or most, of this windfall money onto the loan, but I'm not sure if that's really the smartest thing to do.
Note, while I have a good income now, I would like to make a career change within the next few years, possibly with study beginning as soon as next year. With this change will come a significant wage decrease (but I'll be doing something I love, as opposed to a job where the stress is affecting my mental health significantly). I'm hoping that over that same time my wife will grow her wage, but that won't happen without her making a significant job change either.
So, do I throw the money all at the loan? Some of it? Throw it all in an offset? Invest it in something? Or use it to help ease the transition with a career change? What would you do?

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Hallo /heidelberg,
am Sonntag, den 9. Juni können die wahlberechtigten Heidelberger:innen nicht nur das EU-Parlament wählen, sondern auch den Gemeinderat von Heidelberg.
Wir von der SPD Heidelberg haben von den /heidelberg-mods die Möglichkeit bekommen, hier ein AMA zu machen. Das freut uns sehr.
Fragt uns alles rund um die Kommunalpolitik in Heidelberg oder was euch sonst so politisch bewegt! Denkt dabei bitte auch daran, dass wir bei der SPD Heidelberg alle ehrenamtlich unterwegs sind und keine Berufspolitiker:innen.
Wir stellen als Kreisverband Heidelberg derzeit keine:n Abgeordnete:n im EU-Parlament, im Bundestag oder im Landtag. Deshalb ist unser Einfluss auf diesen Ebenen relativ gering. Wir freuen uns aber über jedes konstruktive Feedback der /heidelberg-Community, weil wir der Überzeugung sind, dass Politiker:innen in erster Linie mal zuhören können müssen.
Was ist der Gemeinderat?
Der Gemeinderat wird gerne als "Stadtparlament" bezeichnet, aber das ist nicht ganz korrekt. Der Gemeinderat erlässt nämlich keine Gesetze, sondern ist ein Verwaltungsorgan der Stadt. Der Gemeinderat bestimmt also, was "die Stadt" als solche tun soll. Das ist super wichtig: Öffentliche Bauvorhaben, Schulen, ÖPNV, Parkplätze, Radwege, Stadtpolizei (aka Kommunaler Ordnungsdienst), städtischer Wohnungsbau, Kultur, soziale Programme und vieles, vieles mehr werden vom Gemeindrat und seinen Ausschüssen gesteuert. Deshalb ist auch super wichtig, wer da so drin sitzt. Und wie sich die Mehrheitsverhältnisse gestalten.

§ 24 Gemeindeordnung für Baden-Württemberg
(1) Der Gemeinderat ist die Vertretung der Bürger und das Hauptorgan der Gemeinde. Er legt die Grundsätze für die Verwaltung der Gemeinde fest und entscheidet über alle Angelegenheiten der Gemeinde, soweit nicht der Bürgermeister kraft Gesetzes zuständig ist oder ihm der Gemeinderat bestimmte Angelegenheiten überträgt. Der Gemeinderat überwacht die Ausführung seiner Beschlüsse und sorgt beim Auftreten von Missständen in der Gemeindeverwaltung für deren Beseitigung durch den Bürgermeister.

Wer seid ihr?
Unsere Kandidierenden könnt ihr hier einsehen. Auf der städtischen Seite findet ihr hier alle Listen.
Was wollt ihr?
Unser ausgearbeitetes Programm in seiner Gänze findet ihr hier.
Unseren Gesamtflyer findet ihr hier. Da ist eine eingedampfte Version vom Programm, alle Kandidierenden sowie unser "best of" aus der Legislatur 2019-2024 drin.
Wir haben auch folgende Themenflyer, die wir verteilen:

• Wohnen
• Mobilität
• Kinder, Familie und Bildung
• Arbeit, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft

Und hier unsere ganz konkreten Themen für einzelne Stadtteile, auch in Flyerform:

• Altstadt & Schlierbach
• Bahnstadt
• Bergheim
• Boxberg & Emmertsgrund
• Handschuhsheim & Neuenheim
• Kirchheim
• Pfaffengrund
• Rohrbach
• Südstadt
• Weststadt
• Wieblingen
• Ziegelhausen & Peterstal

Wer schreibt hier?

• Tim Tugendhat (itsTugi), Listenplatz 7, Vorsitzender der SPD Heidelberg und schon relativ lange auf reddit mit dem Account unterwegs.¹
  
• Marvin Frank (MarvinNo5), Listenplatz 3 und Juso-Spitzenkandidat.
  
• Falls eine Antwort nicht von uns persönlich geschrieben ist, sondern ggf. Kontext aus dem alten Gemeinderat braucht von z.B. Sören Michelsburg (LP 1, ehem. OB-Kandi) oder Anke Schuster (LP 2, Fraktionsvorsitzende), schreiben wir das dazu. Falls ihr Fragen direkt an eine:n Kandidat:in z.B. aus einem bestimmten Stadtteil habt, können wir diese gerne weiterleiten und besorgen euch eine Antwort.
  

¹: Ich bin heute 0745 bis etwa 1030 auf einem Podium im St. Raphael Gymnasium, verzeiht mir also, falls ich vor 11 Uhr keine längeren Antworten geben kann
Wo kann ich euch sonst so kontaktieren?
Falls ihr Fragen habt, aber keinen Kommentar schreiben wollt, schreibt gerne auch eine Reddit-PM, per Mail an kontaktatspd-heidelbergpunktde oder per Insta via @timtugendhat, @iammarvinfrank oder @spd_heidelberg. Außerdem machen Tim und Anne (beide Co-Vorsitzende) jeden Freitag von 14-16 Uhr eine offene Sprechstunde im SPD-Regionalzentrum, auch für Nicht-Mitglieder.
Auf diese Weise erreicht ihr uns auch, wenn das AMA vorbei ist.
Ihr könnt uns auch an den zahlreichen Infoständen in der ganzen Stadt antreffen und jederzeit ansprechen -- ich sag euch nämlich eins: Es tut als Wahlkämpfer:in enorm gut, an einem Infostand auf ein konkretes Thema angesprochen zu werden (gerne auch kritisch) und sich nicht andauernd wie jemand zu fühlen, der den Leuten ein Staubsauger-Abo oder sowas verkaufen will.

A/N: This incorporates a new build, with additional drawbacks and perks. I added a few gamer functions, as well as Lightning Quick, Brute Strength, DPS, and Rogue. More details are available over on Spacebattles (I also edited the original chapters there to reflect the changes).
Within minutes of entering the building and clocking in, I'm speedily typing away at my computer. There are stacks of papers on my desk that I am dedicatedly transcribing and digitizing.
This is my job, at least on most days. I have to take sheets of paper, invariably assorted forms related to insurance, and digitize them. In minutes I have already done this to a few different types of forms, from applications to the paperwork regarding claims and investigations into claims. "Speed Typist" mixed with "Lightning Quick" allows me to easily breeze through even dense forms and shift between the programs I need to use for each type of form. My job is hilariously, almost offensively, easy and I have already heard that we have a backlog so I have plenty of stuff to go through.
As I type I begin to think about each of my gamer perks as well as my system. Every few minutes I'll "mistype" thanks to "Buggy" and I'll spend a split second going back and fixing my mistake but between "The Devil's Own Luck" and "Lightning Quick" I'm able to fix my mistakes in a span of milliseconds. While I type I use "Observe" every instance I can, throwing in a tiny burst to the overall amount of experience I gain.
I use my enhanced mind's passive ability to follow two trains of thought while I work. As far as anyone can tell I'm diligently doing my job, but in actuality I'm exploring my system. Through passive, almost imperceptible gestures, mostly due to how fast they are, I am messing around with my rather system.
I whittle away the hours I need to spend at my job doing this. During this time I get a few of my skills to level up a few times, thanks to my decision to faithfully and diligently hone some of my other abilities like "Observe". Eventually lunch rolls around and Amy sneaks up behind me so she can surprise me and draw me away from my work. I feign surprise when she reaches me up and taps on my shoulder, and this is a perfect chance for me to try something out.
I make small talk and I silently activate my ability to pause reality while I'm in the middle of a sentence. The world freezes around me and I get to see Amy freeze as she reacts to what I'm saying. I have a reason for doing this, it's all for the sake of experimenting with some of my more intriguing abilities.
I focus on Amy even as I interact with my system's UI and I activate my "Gacha" mechanic. In my mind's eye I can see a logo representing a capsule machine beginning to stir to life and spin some of the capsules containing various awards, and I think about two enormously powerful perks: "The Face" and "Silver Tongue".
These two charisma enhancing perks are incredibly valuable tools in my repertoire and I have yet to meaningfully use them. One of them, "Silver Tongue" is not as directly powerful as "The Face" but it offers me broad knowledge of psychology, enhances my charismatic intuition, and makes me incredibly attractive. The real powerhouse of a perk is "The Face". By focusing on people and thinking of something I want them to believe or persuade them to do I have a supernatural intuitive sense that allows me to know the best sort of argument I could make to achieve that goal. To test this I study Amy while wondering if there's any way for me to convince her to go on a date with me, and after a split second of thinking I begin to feel vague intuitive senses of what I could say and do that would make her see me as a potential romantic interest, and I know that doing that before I ask her out would guarantee success if I wanted her to go on a date with me.
I immediately shift tactics and try to see if I could persuade her to give me 100,000 dollars, and I am unsurprised when I do not gain any vague sensations about how to make that happen one way or another. "Worth a shot..." I tell myself, and if I could smile more I would. Both of these perks are strong, but I'm clever enough to recognize that they become even stronger when I add "Beautiful Mind" and "Well of Wisdom" to the mix. WoW is especially handy in a combination like this, since it allows me to pick and choose the most efficient route to my desired outcome. This is especially true if I mix it with my ability to pause time, since I can give myself breathing room and contemplate how to most skillfully word my arguments and present my positions.
The gacha machine, or some abstraction of one, in my head slows to a stop. When it does a symbol of a capsule pops out and I am delighted to see that I've won a mundane iPad like device, a handy thing I can use as a computer for the time being! This is quite handy, and I can see this particular mechanic becoming something life-saving in a moment of desperation with the right amount of luck. The decide immediately fills a slot in my inventory, and I make a mental note to pull it out and use it later.
I unpause time and over the course of the next few minutes I use my skills, mixing all of the aforementioned perks and functions of my gamer skills as Amy and I walk over to the cafeteria. It is only when we're sitting through the door into the cafeteria that I sense an opportunity to ask my friend something.
"Hey, do you want to try a soup I made? I like it but having a second opinion is always good." I remark, causing her eyes to brightly light up. I grin at her and we walk over to the same table we ate at yesterday. I hand her the small container I'm holding my soup in, and she looks at it. I see her inhale and watch as her eyes light up. We're the first of the people to arrive at our table so no one else sees this. The container I gave her also has some silverware which she uses to go ahead and take a sip of the soup. I am delighted when time freezes and I get a notification alerting me to the acquisition of a new class: that of a chef. I immediately equip it even as I click through the drawback that appears before me. This also confirms that at least in some cases what is needed for me to get a class is for me to do stuff in front of others or at least involve them in some way.
As time resumes I see Amy's face light up.
"This is delicious!" She states with a delighted and sincere grin. I light up as she tells me this and I lightly cheer. This is excellent news, and my acquisition of this class is very fascinating. When it comes to classes I have a unique ability to get them to "Prestige" once they reach a high enough level, and given my current build's focus on support, buffing, and healing, if I can master a class like that of a chef I can do a lot.
"I'm so happy you like it!" I exclaim, sincerely. It really does taste quite good, but my whole body is enhanced and I'm superhumanly sensitive to things like taste so there's no guarantee that what I taste will be what others taste. That said, cooking is an absolutely incredible skill so if I can master it... Well, I'll always be able to prove my worth in almost any situation involving other people. Cooking... is a cracked skill to have in real life.
Our friends join us and as they do Amy turns to them and hands one of the women the container. Mary looks at us quizzically and Amy pantomimes for her friend to try the soup. Mary's look of confusion only becomes more apparent, but she still dutifully does as she's been asked, using her own silverware to do so. Her eyes light up as well and I feel how much experience I have as a cook slowly increase, which brings a smug smile to my face.
"This is delicious! What is this?!" Mary asks, and I grin and point at me. She smiles, impressed, before handing it back to me.
"I made this soup last night. I liked it but I didn't know if I was going crazy or not." I remark, and that gets a laugh out of Amy.
"Well, if working at an office ever gets boring you could make a living as a chef. This is amazing!" She states, and I can hear the honesty in her voice. It's kind of nice how much she likes the stuff, and a part of me wouldn't mind making more food for her if she's gonna be this enthusiastic about what I give her to eat.
It's hard not for me not to beam at my companions in passive delight the whole time we're eating lunch. The lunchroom conversation is kept simple and we simply inform each other about upcoming plans and light gossip, all of which I've heard before thanks to my enhanced, and growing, senses. Super Sensory is a strong enough perk by default but because of my ability to expand every facet of myself, coupled with the universality of "Master of All" I am just passively growing in my ability to hear stuff. Seeing as I am uncapped I could see myself someday hearing every conversation in this building, almost certainly by the end of the year given how all of my growth is linked together and builds on each other.
Lunch comes and goes in a blur and in minutes I'm back in front of the computer. In front of the computer I'm a blur, my fingers strengthened by Lightning Quick and Speed Typist. I whittle away the hours diligently doing my job, distracting myself and minorly doing other things by making use of my dual trains of thought, and even when I overcome instances of "Buggy" every few minutes I still find myself grateful that I took the drawbacks I did. This work would be... less than fun otherwise. By the time my workday comes to an end and I find myself outside of the office I've filled out hundreds of forms and diligently pushed various skills of mine to new levels. Colleagues of mine are walking around me and also leaving the office. I casually pause time. making use of my pause ability again, and I begin to think of what to do and where to go next.
"I suppose now's as good a time as any to go and see about volunteering..." I eventually realize as I think about the various things I can do from here. I momentarily wonder where I should go to try and do that before I remember what I told Amy and the others yesterday about how I volunteered at a clinic. WIth Healer volunteering at a hospital would be good for me, even if I couldn't do as much good as I'd like too since I am not a doctor. I unpause time and smile as I reach into my pocket, use "Inventory" and retrieve my cellphone.
"Where is the nearest hospital?" I ask aloud, into the phone. Some of the people walking past me glance at me curiously and I smile sheepishly as my phone begins to tell me where to go. I begin to walk in the direction the phone indicates, happy to have a chance to begin to do some good.
The walk isn't terribly long. It turns out that the hospital is in a part of downtown that I didn't explore last night, and I reach it less than five minutes after I start walking, just in the opposite direction of where I was going before. The hospital isn't huge, which surprises me since I don't seem to be living in some small town but in a decently sized city. I walk into the main entrance and step into a large lobby where a decent amount of foot traffic seems to happen, judging from the footprints I can faintly see on the floor beneath me. I walk up to a receptionist desk and the man behind it doesn't bother looking up and instead taps the clipboard in front of him. I glance at it and laugh when I see that it's a standard questionnaire for people who are visiting a hospital for normal, health-related reasons. My reaction surprises the man, and to be fair it's definitely odd for someone in a hospital to laugh at the sight of a hospital questionnaire.
I am laughing at the questionnaire because it's amusing to think about the possibility of getting sick, I'm a gamer, and while normally that'd conjure images of nerds and geeks in my case it means that my health is protected. I have two very powerful perks/features that wildly mitigate the dangers of sicknesses: "Tough As Nails" which guarantees that it'd take something supernatural or almost supernatural to stand a chance of even slowing me down, and "Gamer Body". Gamer Body is interesting in this context since it gamifies negative conditions and allows me to, quite literally, sleep them off. Even something like losing a limb can be cured with a night of sleep thanks to my abilities which feels radically overpowered given how little it cost. I have other perks which further lower my odds of being negatively affected by sicknesses, such as "The Devil's Own Luck". I also have my magic, which includes spells that completely heal and purify the body, and would work on me just as readily as they'd work on other people.
"I'm actually here to learn how to volunteer? I'm new in town and I used to volunteer at a clinic in my home town so I wanted to see if I could volunteer here." I explain, which causes the guy to look up at me. When he does his eyes widen, and I smile awkwardly. I consider feigning ignorance, or perhaps innocence, but I know what's going on. He wasn't expecting me to look the way I look.
My new looks are something it is taking me a beat to get used to. I was only okay looking before, but now my looks are hyper idealized, and I am a conceptually handsome version of the very best I could have ever looked, and it is a bit jarring. It's more jarring for me, knowing that before I was an at best average-looking guy before coming to this world and gaining this new form. I allow the man a beat, before I clear my throat and the sound snaps him out of the daze he was in.
"Oh! Sorry, man, I just assumed you were sick. Umm... Yeah, let me give you a packet." The man says, before reaching under the desk in front of him. I smile lightly as he rummages around the interior of the space that separates us.
My powerful senses allow me to easily notice all sorts of stuff occurring around me. I can hear the vital processes in the bodies of the people closest to me, such as heartbeats and the smells of sweat, as well as other bodily fluids. Many of the people in this area of the hospital are sick, and truthfully if I could I'd heal them all.
One of my reasons for coming here today is to give myself a means by which I can help and heal people. This is, mildly, altruistic but more than anything else I want to master the power to heal people before I leave this setting. In the right setting, being a healer is absolutely a pivotal method of interacting with my environment and also getting allies, as well as staying alive.
The man eventually hands me a packet, along with a pen to use to fill out parts of it, and I smile at him as I take it. It is filled with information, including an application to fill out, and I thank him as I walk over to the waiting area and begin to fill it out. The questions are simple and ask for basic information about me. I fill it out, though a part of me is curious how this'll mesh with my drawbacks...
When I finish filling out the form I hand it to the man and he gratefully takes it. He explains that I'll be contacted by someone named "Ms. Jimenez" soon, and that she oversees the volunteer program. I delightedly thank him for that information and begin to head out of the hospital.
In minutes I'm part of the way home. I am a decently fast walker, though that's something I'd like to work on more in the days to come. The sun is quickly descending, and the moon is already visible in the night sky. I'm approaching the row of apartment buildings that include the building I live in. As I draw nearer and nearer to it I spot a lone homeless man sleeping next to one of the apartments. He is clearly asleep and my observation ability only confirms this. It also reveals that the man is sick, and when I glance at his hit points I see further confirmation of that, as he's down a few of them. I am walking towards him, and as I move I see a nice opportunity for me to try something.
I silently activate "Rogue", one of my more odd perks, and I feel my presence become much more subdued and difficult to notice. I approach the man, and I shut my eyes. As I walk towards him I allow myself to be guided by Super Sensory and only stop when I'm right in front of the man. I kneel and I focus on my spellbook icon, allowing me to see my list of spells. My senses allow me to be confident that the figure is still asleep when I gently move my hands so that they are in front of him. Time freezes as I gain a "Stealth" skill, and while time is frozen I swap my class and become a mage so I can gain valuable experience before I deactivate "Tutorial Sprite". I allow time to resume and smile as I trigger a spell for the first time, one of healing.
For me to activate the spell requires nothing more than for me to have enough magic points and an applicable target. This particular spell is my more advanced spell and it can work on all sorts of living targets. It is named "Intermediate heal" and the fact that I have it is a sign of one of my purchases; Healer. I feel my points of arcane energy be converted into sacred, restorative energy and I open my eyes in time to watch my hands begin to glow as energy leaves me and enters him. I look at his hit points and watch them begin to slowly increase even as I hit him with another instance of "Observe". I do so just in time to feel time freeze as new notifications appear in my mind's eye. One of the first notifications is that I have just earned experience for the "Mage" class, which becomes experience for everything thanks to Master of All, while another indicates that I've just unlocked a quest to become a healer! I study these notifications with a proud grin as this marks an important milestone in my journey. The fact that the class I want is locked behind a quest is interesting and I make a mental note to study the quest as I head home.
I unfreeze time, notice that the man is already visibly healthier, and turn to make my way back to my new home. It takes only about six minutes before I find myself stepping into my apartment. Now I can play with my new toy from earlier!

Having played Royal, Golden, Reload, Portable, Dancing, Ultimax, Strikers, and Tactica, I decided to try Q and have just reached the first game’s third dungeon. And wow - it has some really amazing and fun gameplay.
There are so many aspects to it which make it super enjoyable. I’ve heard it’s very similar to Etrian Odyssey, so maybe a lot of these are shared with that but I’m not sure:
Sub-Personas - Tactica has these, but they only add so much due to only have one fixed slot and one inherited slot for skills. In Q, sub-Personas have 6 slots, which adds an enormous extra layer of strategy that makes every character feel as valuable in combat as Makoto/Yu.
Money - I’m playing on normal, and money feels like a lot more of a valuable commodity here than in mainline Persona. Usually, it piles up and up until I’m basically just buying everything I see willy-nilly. Conversely, I actually have to strategise with whether to prioritise items, weapons, armour, accessories, summons, healing, etc.
HP and SP - The problem with mainline Persona games is that, especially in the early game, you are always conscious of using SP because you will run out very quickly. The game wants you to come back another time with renewed SP, but when you have to max out social links minimising your time in a dungeon is vastly preferable. As a result, I often end up doing normal attacks, which ends up being quite boring. In Q, your HP and SP are tied to your sub-Persona, which lends you a certain amount automatically at the start of every battle. This is great because it strikes a perfect balance between feeling like you can never use your skills and feeling like you can use them ad nauseam. You also have to distribute your HP and SP buffer strategically, as you’ll want Kanji to have a lot of extra HP for physical skills, but Naoto to have plenty of extra SP for insta-kills, say.
Dungeon-crawling - Dungeons are really well-designed and feel like a pleasure to traverse. Shadows are always a threat because of random encounters, which is preferable to something like Reload in which you can easily just run away from them (probably the worst change from earlier P3 games imo). I like having to manually keep track of where everything is in the dungeon, and there’s a decent balance of social hijinks and actual traversal, which is what makes Shido’s Palace really fun for me. Special events in the dungeons’ nooks and crannies make everything feel more fresh, in a way which even P5 doesn’t replicate in its more scripted dungeon novelties, nor P3 or P4 in their randomly-generated samey hallways.
Difficulty - I’ve died more in Q than I ever have in a mainline Persona game, and I think that it strikes a better balance with hard bosses and enemies that screw me over a lot. All-out attacks are also more unexpected, so it feels extra rewarding to pull of a solid set of moves.
The boost system - Another way HP and SP is handled better is in its reduction to a cost of 0 after a successful ‘weak’ or ‘critical’ attack. This rewards you for playing strategically, and opens up your options as you can pull back your attacks to heal, carry on racking up boosts, or transfer to a different sort of move entirely. Plus, being hit while boosted is another obstacle to victory which helps to balance out the difficulty.
Leader and navi skills - I like that Fuuka and Rise feel much more useful, because there are so many tools with which to customise their arsenal. I like to have Fuuka run a move which teleports everyone back to the floor’s entrance, because it’s more foolproof than escaping and can be used for traversal.
Party layout - I like that the party is five strong, which is necessary in a game with so many party members as Q. But more importantly, the front and back layers add another degree of depth, though I’ve yet to move around in combat, despite that being an option.
Quests - These mostly come with some interesting joke, like Teddie trying to find a love potion or Junpei trying to anonymously set up a date with the P4 girls. They’re fun, and having EXP as a reward is also cool.
The only complaint I have is shared with my remonstration with Tactica, which is that sub-Personas often feel a bit suboptimal. You only have so many Personas at your current level, especially when fusion is so costly. Therefore, you often end up loading teammates up with Personas several levels lower than yours. I’m not really sure how one would fix that, though. Great game, anyway.

Hi all,
This happened 2 weeks ago however I have been away so haven't been able to try to deal with it until now. My PC is taking around 30mins to eventually load into Windows. When loaded it seems fine, however as I start to browse through folders it takes a while to load them, and trying to move some files around to backup, Windows Explorer crashes.
Specs: CPU: Ryzen 7 3700X 4.4GHz RAM: G-Skill Ripjaws 32gb GPU: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 Super 8GB PSU: Corsair RM750 HDD: Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB NVMe M.2 MOBO: MSI B450 Tomahawk Max OS: Windows 10
Context: I was playing COD and I spilt pretty much an entire mug of coffee on my keyboard (CM Storm QuickFire TK). I immediately unplugged my keyboard, cleaned it up and gave it a dry. I had another keyboard to use however I stupidly decided to plug that keyboard back in to see if it was ok. When I plugged it in, Windows began spam loading tonnes of different programs as if the keyboard was going haywire and at this point I figured it's done for so I unplugged it and plugged a different one in. The program continued to load, almost like the PC was trying to catch up with how fast the keyboard seemed to be spamming the buttons due to damage. I waited a minute and was closing down the programs but they kept on loading so I held the power button to shut down the PC.
When I loaded the PC back up, it sat on the motherboard logo screen loading for a long time and didn't seem to be progressing. After a few attempts I figured that I may have corrupted the HDD. I had a Windows flash drive that I tried to boot from to do a fresh install but it's taking a very long time, seems to hang on the Purple windows install screen.
I left the PC for a day and went back to it, turned it on and left it whilst I went out for an hour and when I came back it had loaded, this is when I noticed that it was incredibly slow browsing through folders on the HDD, although loading a Firefox or Discord it seemed fast, as if there was no issue. I restarted it and again, it took around 30mins+ to load back to windows. Once it gets to the login screen, takes around 5mins to login and show the background, then another 5-10mins to load the taskbar and icons.
Things I've tried: 1. Re-seating the M.2 2. Unplugging all USB devices to boot 3. Using Windows Repair – Just hangs in a loop, doesn't seem to do anything 4. Using a bootable Windows Flash to re-install – Hangs on the “Setup is Starting”, doesn't seem to progress (Left this to run all evening) – Went out and bought a new flash drive and made a new bootable Windows install, made no difference – Tried all USB slots 5. Left the PC for around an hour to load – Eventually loaded 6. I scanned for HDD errors using CHKDSK and it has come back saying there are none. 7. I used SFC /scannow – It said “Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files and successfully repaired them” - Still same issue, very long reboot, slow browsing the HDD
I've never had an issue like this before, tried what I can find on google and now I'm at a loss. I would buy a new HDD or format this and start again but I'd rather not if I can help it as I need files on it, and it also seems that my PC is struggling to boot from a bootable flash drive if I were to try to re-install windows.
Is anyone able to help?
Many thanks

Hello mappers and adventurers,
We're thrilled to announce our latest updates and improvements, designed to enhance your mapping experience and game management! Here’s what’s new:
Instant Default Maps:

• Rapid Map: We've added a few default maps for those times that you just need to throw a map on a table and get into the combat.
• Multiple Categories: We're working on more default maps, but we've split them into categories to make it easier to find the one you're looking for. Forests, Villages, Plains, Rivers, etc.
• Map Loader: We made a map loading spinner so that people aren't confused before the map shows up

Overhaul of Attacks:

• Damage Types: You can now specify that it's slashing or fire as part of your rolls
• Connected to Trackers: You can automatically subtract 1 from Spell Slot level 3 when you cast your fireballs. You can also get super nit picky if you want and make it so that your arrows go down by one each time you use your longbow attack (we recommend making it a ratio of arrows so each time you know how many you used in case you want to gather 1/2 of them back up)
• Notes: You can now attach notes to the attack like "dc 12 con save or they go unconscious"

Overhaul of Fog:

• Overhaul might be a stretch :), we made it so that now each fog block that you add can be toggled independently to be hide or show
• We added a banner when the world is covered with fog to make it easier to know that your players see nothing but a black screen

Technical Enhancements:

• Major overhaul to our websockets: We kept getting odd disconnections, people had to refresh the page regularly, etc. We overhauled the way that websockets in general work in our product, giving a dedicated server to just them to hopefully add a great amount of stability.
• Token Overhaul: Now when you move your favorite hero from map 1 to map 2 (as a subscribed user) the hero themselves move. This means if they take damage on map 2, they have less hit points when you go back to map 1.

Bug Fixes and Style Enhancements:

• We’ve ironed out various bugs and refined styles across the platform to improve your overall experience.
• Monsters in DND no longer have proficiency bonus, instead we calculated it from their CR
• We went through several player tests to find more things that didn't make as much sense as we'd like and we revamped them. For example - it's not called handouts anymore now it's called Full Portrait.

Thank you for being a part of our community. Happy mapping!

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