I'm glad to hear this medication works really well for some people, but my experience has been pretty terrible.
I've been taking Auvelity for a little over 3 weeks now (2 weeks since I started taking it twice per day) and the first few days it made me feel a little disassociated/high.
Since then, I have been occasionally extremely agitated towards my girlfriend and convinced that she's cheating on me/lying to me despite having absolutely no evidence/reason to think that. It is super unlike me to act this way towards her, and I didn't even realize I've been behaving this way until she pointed it out. I literally didn't sleep last night because I was up trying to figure out who she's been talking to.... Thank God she is super understanding.
From what I've read, Wellbutrin can cause paranoia, agitation, manic episodes, and delusions so I'm guessing this is what triggered it.
Needless to say I have an appointment tomorrow and I'm getting off of this ASAP.

Throwaway account for this one.
I moved to Japan recently and have a very high income and changed tax residency to Japan and all that.
Anyways, I was told by my wife (JP) that ふるさと納税 is the thing to do in Japan. I read up on it, and it seems that, basically you get equal amount of tax deducted based on your donation to a particular 自治体 - 2000 yen.
Now, I did the math using Japanese online calculators, as well as 年収早見表, and it seems that the upper limit for contribution room is absurdly high.
For example, according to this chart, if you earn 25M / yr, then your upper limit is 85万円 https://www.soumu.go.jp/main_content/000408217.pdf
For someone earning 50M / yr, then this calculator tells me it's about 220万円 :
https://furunavi.jp/deduction.aspx
For someone earning 100M / yr, then it's 430-450万円 ish as well.
That'll buy like 100kg of mangoes and 30kg of beef and 100kg of シャインマスカット from さとふる. You can essentially eat a whole year just on ふるさと納税..
Provided at that income level, you're paying almost 45-55% effective tax rate incl residence tax, but it's still a great deal.
Is this correct? That's some insane deal. Essentially I can get x00万円 worth of items for free? That's mad.
Thank you!

Not really sure how to go about deciding on what schools to app to. I feel like my research interests are super broad, basically sums up to molecular biology and neuroscience. I have definite interests but some of them are completely different from others. I could be more specific if it helps but I find it easy to get excited about a lot of things and my clinical interest is neurology which pretty much needs basic science everywhere.
My inclination is to just apply really broadly so i can have the best chances, and make more definite plans once i hear back about secondaries. Is that a reasonable plan? Given most places with an MSTP will have faculty doing molecular neuroscience.
I’d like some help in trying to decide if I just shotgun a ton of primaries or try to make a shorter list of schools I know have PI’s I’m super interested in. Just feel like that may be closing doors on stuff i dont know i’d like to do.
I also dont have a great sense for what schools i should consider reaches, midlevel and safety. I’m not too attached to location but have a mild preference for the coasts.
Would love any thoughts from yall on these questions and my app in general bc im coming up with reasons to psych myself out tbh.
Stats 521 mcat
3.76 gpa (3.7 sgpa)
1000+hrs undergrad research 1 authorship
6000+hrs postgrad research, working as a tech with the responsibilities of a grad student more or less. Totally independent work. Have 1 low authorship and have 2-3 first author pubs in the works.
2 very strong letters from the two labs ive worked in, (undergad and post grad) and a good letter from a shadowing doctor. Might throw in a dinky little letter i got shadowing a doctor back im high school but idk if its worth it?
100 hrs shadowing
Maybe 100+hrs volunteering i have to think about it

25, currently live at home in San Diego, California and for the past 2 years, my mom has been trying to marry my cousin. She is a 17 year old girl from Morocco. Let me be clear, I do not want to marry her, I don’t really want to do anything with her but this has been a topic my mom has brought up at least once a month for two years and she has finally broke me. I just signed a bunch of forma from U.S. Immigration with all my information, I’m getting pretty worried at this point as she says shes going to be submitting the paperwork at the end of the week. Is there away for me to get out of this without any other party knowing. I am going to be moving out in a couple months and I feel like once I do, it’ll be a lot harder to bicker at me about this, I just really can’t have her know the application was withdrawn before I leave.

Need advice pls, Also TW possibly ahead. Had a real Shit day today.

Started off aight. Had a dream I was spiderman, and this time didn’t run outta my web fluid mid-swing 🤣😭

I had a shower was all good but after that. Shit only went down hill. (In the shit way) So I showered, and got ready to go get my T shot. Because I’m due today. (This was on Monday and it’s now Thursday 😭) So I got ready all except my shoes and grabbing the actual box of T to take with me. Went to look for the box. It’s gone.

(For context my mum had been in my room, had admitted to “cleaning up the floor a little and taking out the rubbish”)

Right so ideally id like to assume my mum hasn’t taken it. Because I’d like to assume my mum wouldn’t push her opinions of my decisions on me like that. So I’m just gonna say it was on the floor and she put it in the medicine cabinet or in the bathroom with my other ointments n meds n stuff (or where my morning meds are next to the bench.) Not in any of those places. Right so I thought right I’ll call mum. Coz she’d probably just moved it and hadn’t known that id put it in a very specific location for a very SPECIFIC REASON. Call her. “Nah idk I havnt seen it” Right. Then I’m just fuckin blind coz I’m rushing and looking for it. It’s gotta be here somewhere. Aggressive loud and panicked rummaging Bout 20 mins goes past. (Queue the bin/recycling truck noises this will be useful later I promise) I call her again. “Mum can you please promise me you didn’t see it and that you didn’t take it.” “deadname stop calling me I’m at work. I’ll talk to you later” Right she didn’t promise. She was either actually stressed at work or was trying to get me to stop talking about it. So I go looking in the places she used to hide my phone / iPad / DS / Computer / whatever when she took things off me. Not anywhere. Right now I think back to the last time I saw it or something similar and brushed my eyes over it. Last I KNOW I saw it. It was in the chemist warehouse (Australian chemist place) bag on the floor beside my bed. Right well she cleared the floor. So I’ll go look in all the places she stuffed shit in while I wasn’t here. Not in the backpack, not on the top bunk of my bed, not under my bed. Not in any drawers. Ok well my appointment to get my injection is in 30 mins and I’ve been searching for 30mind stressed asf coz I needa get on the bus. So let’s see if I can move that appointment. Moved the appointment back 2 hours. Right now I got 2.5h to find it. Now I have a very thorough look for it in my room in all the places that have been TOUCHED recently. Incase I’m just stupid and put it there to HIDE it. Coz doggy brain (and trauma) say “hide precious thing so nobody take. Coz precious thing good and need to keep safe.” Ok. I look in those places. Not there. Right well she cleared out the RUBBISH and a plastic chemist warehouse bag with a box and a receipt could be “rubbish” right well I took out the recycling yesturday and saw a blue and white somethin in the recycling maybe it’s in the recycling bin. …. •-• the bins 2 houses up. Has already been. Fook me dead. Right well literally EVERY OPTION of me getting the box I collected last week at the pharmacy hasn’t worked. Aight well what’re my options? Call the hospital see if they can get me an emergency script. Nope they said call ur GP. I call my GP, ask them what to do coz I havnt had my T shot, and they have literal proof coz I booked the injection with them. Had havnt had it…..

so I call em up. They said “yeah come in we’ll see what we can do” they get me a script. I’m brilliant I could KISS the gp rn :D!!

Get to the chemist. They make me wait 45mins. “Sorry we gotta call the dr coz he didn’t put the interval of how often you take this” Aight sure I’ll just wait. … Sorry you already have a script for this, and you picked it up the other day, so we can’t give it to you. Aight. Well I literally got the second proscription, so that I could get a new bottle… because I’ve LOST / HAD IT TAKEN FROM ME / IT HAD BEEN THROWN AWAY BY ACCIDENT That’s why u got the second proscription paper thingy. “Yeah nah I can’t do that” “Tf you mean nu-uh.” “Well we called ur GP on the script.

Told him (coz why wouldn’t you) you picked it up the other day and he said not to dispense it”

Dawggggg I literally came into the fucking medical centre told y’all the situation and u gave me the script not even 20 mother fucking minutes ago. Aight can I take my script back? Yeah. Aight well I still have the bit of paper of me needing my T. (Mind you, he didn’t put the fucking concession on it. So would’ve costed me 150$ instead of S E V E N which is how much u usually pay.) I call the medical centre I was literally JUST AT 20 mins ago “hey yeah he just told the chemist NOT to give it to me after I literally just left to come get it.” “Aight brb I’ll go talk to him” … “Yeah nah sorry can’t do anything…” “Aight well what am I gonna do then?”

“Idk hangs up”

WELL FUCK ME SIDEWAYS (don’t actually but it’s too late coz my days already FUCKED ME SO WHY NOT JOIN IN )

Aight well what are my other options. I’ll ring my endo see if he can call the pharmacy and tell them to gimme my fuckin boy juice. Aight he’s not in today. Right well reception sent him an email. He’s on leave for another fuckin 3 weeks. Right. Only other option. Is to go to another pharmacy. And try use this script which chemist warehouse already scribbled all over.!!!! See if they’ll give it to me. Priceline (another pharmacy) doesn’t have any. Right try the other one. They’re confused as to why they’d scribbled on it and DIDNT give it to me. I explain my situation. They said “also btw how much you usually pay for this..?” “Like 7 bucks..” “He hasn’t put the concession on this. And he can’t cos he’s not a specialist. And I’d have to ring him to ask if I can give this to you.” “Right then nvm I’ll try something else. Coz he’s just gonna tell you not to give it to me :)” Ok well I’m fucked now. It’s not at home. They won’t give it to me. I’ve tried every pharmacy in the area and they’ve all told me to get fucked. Right idk what else to do so I’ll go to safe haven (where mentally ill people go when they’re having / about to have a crisis. And need help coz they’re feeling unstable.) I go there. Chat to the chick there she suggested I try the gender centre or 20ten or whatever. Call the gender centre. They gimme a list of numbers to try. Tried all of em. One calls me back and says to call MY endo’s place coz SURELY he’s not the only endo there. So I do. They shut THREE MINUTES AGO. (4.03pm) :))) Aight guess that’s all I can fuckin DO FOR TODAY :))) So now I’m sitting here (bbq sauce in my tiddies) / ref And idk what to do.
OH and coz the day wasn’t COOKED enough.

The buses I signed by waving for a solid 8 seconds. Both changed lanes (to make the next turn in the route) AND DROVE PAST ME!!!!! So I WALKED to safe haven!!!!

Anyways. It’s Now Thursday I have some more info. Still have the problem UNSOLVED.

Called the endo. They said they’d see if they can get the other endo to call the chemist.

Mum didn’t chuck it out on purpose but thinks I could’ve been thrown away by accident when she was cleaning (it has to have been coz it’s not in my room or any-bloody-where else.

Ive called the endo up multiple times. I’ve called my GP and he just said “you could’ve sold it so we can’t get you another one” BUT WHY WOULD I SELL IT?! W h Y?!! And it has MY NAME ON IT. NOBODYS GONNA GIVE SOMEONE AN INJECTION THAT DOESNT HAVE THEIR NAME ON IT🤌🏻 bro the fuck just gimme my boy juice 😭😭😭

So I’ve had a pretty fucked week stressing over this so I’d appreciate any ideas anyone has on how I can get my T 😭

I live in Australia so we gotta abide by those laws with giving meds n shit but if u know a way around it… or somethin pls comment at lmk I really needed this like a hole in the head 😭😭😭

My son is graduating high school in 2 weeks. I personally had some turmoil at that age so I didn’t graduate and had to get my GED a few years later, didn’t go to college, so I am incredibly proud of him and all he accomplished in school. He also got into an Ivy League for college, which made me even prouder.
Here is the problem. My wife and several family members, including her brother and father, all went to this same Ivy school. So my wife really pushed for him to go there. An unhealthy amount imo. She has always run a tight ship with his schooling over the years, while I’ve been more lax and said that if he is legitimately trying his hardest between school and extracurricular and social life then all is ok even if he struggles sometimes. Now that the “payoff” is here, wife was insistent that he goes to this school. I’ve told him he could go anywhere he wants and go into whatever field he wants, or he could even take a gap year or go straight to work; whatever makes him happy. He got into an Ivy. He showed he’s good enough, now let him follow his dreams. My son did two visits to this school and confided in me that he did not want to go there because of both the culture, and he felt like the program he was interested in was better at another school. He was scared to tell his mom to disappoint her. The three of us sat down and talked about how he was feeling. Wife was clearly disappointed but accepted his decision, although we did get into an argument a week later about how he might regret this years from now.
Once the news broke that he would not be going to the Ivy, wife’s family expressed their disagreement with the decision. I laid down the law with how this was his choice and he’s still going to an excellent school and he’s pursuing his passion, so I will not tolerate any harassing him or telling him that he’s making the wrong choice. Most did not put up much of a fight, but my wife’s brother is being a real jerk about it. All three times that we’ve seen him in the past two months since this all started, he has made comments to my son about how the Ivy is much better and such. I yelled at him last time when I saw it and he lamely apologized.
So my son’s graduation is in 2 weeks, and his party with family and friends will be a few days after that. My son told me privately that he does not want his uncle to be there because he is uncomfortable around him and doesn’t want to feel that way at his party. I said ok, no problem, and texted BIL that he needs to sit the party out because he is making my son feel bad for his choices. As can be expected, I am now under fire from my wife’s family. Everyone’s mad I’m excluding him from celebrating my son’s accomplishments and that my son can toughen up and whatnot, and my wife is mad that I went over her head. I felt like my wife would not be willing to cut out her brother, so I made the decision myself. I can accept partial blame for going over her head, but I have no regrets otherwise. AITA?

i decided to ask here because i figured those who watched brett as well would probably be on the youngerside so maybe understand wehre im coming from more?? anyways! im a conservative highschool student. my friendgroup is very liberal but most of the time it isn't a problem bc we talk about our interests and not really anything political , though they are all aware i am conservative. well, a friend of mine 'came out' a little while ago and said that he wants to go by she/her and considers himself a girl now. I'm not really sure what to do right now. i do not want the people in my friendgroup to dislike me if i don't call him by his new name and preferred pronouns, esp since he is making no effort to change his appearance or any of that and we still have to call him his 'dead'name and he/him in frnot of other people. not only is it confusing for my head with names pronouns etc, it's hard to wrap my head around someone ive known for a while and even joked about the 'blue hair they/thems' with him and all of a sudden he's one of them. I can sympathyze and understand that it may have been hard for him to admit this but i'm not sure if he's genuinely trans or not. another thing that makes me speculate this about him is because he is already very obviously gay. painted nails, feminine voice, the whole bit. and we got along quite well until this little thing all because i'm not sure i can call him a her. im risking getting judged by the people around me if i don't call him a her and use his new name, but im also literally going against everything that i beleive if i do, and that's just kind of humiliating. i don't understand that, as a woman, i should be expected to accept that some guy cosplaying as a girl is actually a girl. he will never know not ever have a clue of knowing what it's like to be a woman. To make matters worse, my lib friends added him to our all-girls group chat. I am uncomfortable with this but don't want to say bc im scared. i dont know quite when i got to a point of being scared of libs; i guess it's more the social rejection. any advice? being scared of social rejection of stupid but that's the life of any high school girl i guess.

I had a django app working a couple days ago. Last night a screwed around and messed up the migrations adn the db. I basically remade the db and the project. I changed the name and the venv, install req's, appended the httpd conf file to match the new venv and project name. Now I cannot for the life of me undestand why wsgi.py is failing to execute. I'm using the same interpreter as the old app, python 3.12. the venv is the same as the old one, made the new one because the old one wouldn;t work. I can't get rid of these errors. I occasionally get the 'phone_field' not found error, 'phone_field' is indeed in INSTALLED_APPS.
All I can think is that the logs say Python3.9 and I'm using 3.12 in the venv.
I can access the app with python ./manage.py runserver locally. So must be the httpd.conf or the WSGI config?
[Wed May 15 22:44:39.393611 2024] [core:notice] [pid 2877189:tid 2877189] SELinux policy enabled; httpd running as context system_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0
[Wed May 15 22:44:39.394134 2024] [suexec:notice] [pid 2877189:tid 2877189] AH01232: suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /ussbin/suexec)
AH00558: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using fe80::4a22:54ff:fe6f:eb43%enp7s0. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message
[Wed May 15 22:44:39.415910 2024] [lbmethod_heartbeat:notice] [pid 2877189:tid 2877189] AH02282: No slotmem from mod_heartmonitor
[Wed May 15 22:44:39.418070 2024] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 2877189:tid 2877189] AH00489: Apache/2.4.57 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) OpenSSL/3.0.7 mod_wsgi/4.7.1 Python/3.9 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Wed May 15 22:44:39.418080 2024] [core:notice] [pid 2877189:tid 2877189] AH00094: Command line: '/ussbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND'
***** [Wed May 15 22:44:39.980866 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877314] [remote 172.69.7.9:9928] mod_wsgi (pid=2877193): Failed to exec Python script file '/vawww/html/CRM/python3.12.1-venv/venv312nserp/nserp/nserp/wsgi.py'.
[Wed May 15 22:44:39.980890 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877314] [remote 172.69.7.9:9928] mod_wsgi (pid=2877193): Exception occurred processing WSGI script '/vawww/html/CRM/python3.12.1-venv/venv312nserp/nserp/nserp/wsgi.py'.
[Wed May 15 22:44:39.981169 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877314] [remote 172.69.7.9:9928] Traceback (most recent call last):
[Wed May 15 22:44:39.981188 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877314] [remote 172.69.7.9:9928] File "/vawww/html/CRM/python3.12.1-venv/venv312nserp/nserp/nserp/wsgi.py", line 16, in
[Wed May 15 22:44:39.981190 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877314] [remote 172.69.7.9:9928] application = get_wsgi_application()
[Wed May 15 22:44:39.981192 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877314] [remote 172.69.7.9:9928] File "/uslocal/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/wsgi.py", line 12, in get_wsgi_application
[Wed May 15 22:44:39.981194 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877314] [remote 172.69.7.9:9928] django.setup(set_prefix=False)
[Wed May 15 22:44:39.981196 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877314] [remote 172.69.7.9:9928] File "/uslocal/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/__init__.py", line 24, in setup
[Wed May 15 22:44:39.981197 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877314] [remote 172.69.7.9:9928] apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
[Wed May 15 22:44:39.981199 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877314] [remote 172.69.7.9:9928] File "/uslocal/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py", line 91, in populate
[Wed May 15 22:44:39.981201 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877314] [remote 172.69.7.9:9928] app_config = AppConfig.create(entry)
[Wed May 15 22:44:39.981203 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877314] [remote 172.69.7.9:9928] File "/uslocal/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/apps/config.py", line 193, in create
[Wed May 15 22:44:39.981204 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877314] [remote 172.69.7.9:9928] import_module(entry)
[Wed May 15 22:44:39.981206 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877314] [remote 172.69.7.9:9928] File "/uslib64/python3.9/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
[Wed May 15 22:44:39.981207 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877314] [remote 172.69.7.9:9928] return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
[Wed May 15 22:44:39.981210 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877314] [remote 172.69.7.9:9928] File "", line 1030, in _gcd_import
[Wed May 15 22:44:39.981212 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877314] [remote 172.69.7.9:9928] File "", line 1007, in _find_and_load
[Wed May 15 22:44:39.981214 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877314] [remote 172.69.7.9:9928] File "", line 984, in _find_and_load_unlocked
[Wed May 15 22:44:39.981219 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877314] [remote 172.69.7.9:9928] ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'phone_field'
[Wed May 15 22:44:40.823149 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877334] [remote 172.69.7.9:32586] mod_wsgi (pid=2877193): Failed to exec Python script file '/vawww/html/CRM/python3.12.1-venv/venv312nserp/nserp/nserp/wsgi.py'.
[Wed May 15 22:44:40.823182 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877334] [remote 172.69.7.9:32586] mod_wsgi (pid=2877193): Exception occurred processing WSGI script '/vawww/html/CRM/python3.12.1-venv/venv312nserp/nserp/nserp/wsgi.py'.
[Wed May 15 22:44:40.823244 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877334] [remote 172.69.7.9:32586] Traceback (most recent call last):
[Wed May 15 22:44:40.823261 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877334] [remote 172.69.7.9:32586] File "/vawww/html/CRM/python3.12.1-venv/venv312nserp/nserp/nserp/wsgi.py", line 16, in
[Wed May 15 22:44:40.823264 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877334] [remote 172.69.7.9:32586] application = get_wsgi_application()
[Wed May 15 22:44:40.823267 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877334] [remote 172.69.7.9:32586] File "/uslocal/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/core/wsgi.py", line 12, in get_wsgi_application
[Wed May 15 22:44:40.823268 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877334] [remote 172.69.7.9:32586] django.setup(set_prefix=False)
[Wed May 15 22:44:40.823271 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877334] [remote 172.69.7.9:32586] File "/uslocal/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/__init__.py", line 24, in setup
[Wed May 15 22:44:40.823273 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877334] [remote 172.69.7.9:32586] apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
[Wed May 15 22:44:40.823275 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877334] [remote 172.69.7.9:32586] File "/uslocal/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py", line 83, in populate
[Wed May 15 22:44:40.823277 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877334] [remote 172.69.7.9:32586] raise RuntimeError("populate() isn't reentrant")
[Wed May 15 22:44:40.823284 2024] [wsgi:error] [pid 2877193:tid 2877334] [remote 172.69.7.9:32586] RuntimeError: populate() isn't reentrant

Using lessons learned we of the Ketchup's and Mustard's Company, learned while training our security forces in fighting fronts made us reliaze we need quicker ways on how to build fortifications and bases to hold ground. Along with modile bases so we can provide ground support much more easier to our ground security forces, than our ships in space. We have restarted efforts into studies of mobile bases..as they look to be more than able to be put to use on the war fronts to supply front line support and defences much more than our current abilities from space. Localized support will be a boon for any forces willing to put in the effort for making localized supply lines. On that front we have designed a mobile construction yard thanks to how much tech is avaible for us and from the interweb. We were suprised that these MCV's weren't picked up earlier by other factions to research into and develop their own.
And studies into those teleporting particles that the darleks used has opened up more technology pathways, we feel that we will be making some certian breakthroughs that a certain company will kill everyone involved to keep a secret, Chrono technology..instantly able to teleport forces across areas to locations already known at the same time..so far we have only these particles to study, but they have opened up so much pathways into instant teleportation.
Meanwhile that research was put on hold for our faction to begin Standardization of all of our ships, of researched and developed systems on many fronts we feel that while new to this galaxy our ships need massive standardization, while some of our ancient ship hulls have better armor and shields than some factions here, we won't be fielding them until we can make those type of armors and sheilds ourselves first.
So far our standardization of our ships are going very smoothly, along with our massive ability to do so to our many large ships thanks to some of our solar system large yards. It wasn't enough, thankfully our allies where able to help in our standarzatations operations. So far we have gotten 45% of all of our larger ships standardzied we need more materials to do so.
Thankfully our Material recovery units and ships are working their thoraxes off to get us those materials, and old technology that needs replacing has been recycled and all data regarding them has been saved and put into secure databases in case we need to remake them anytime in the future.
Thank the stars we have been able to keep ourselves selfsufficent, however our material trades have put on hold for a bit until our standardization of our fleets have been completed which will probably take a week or 2. Our standardized forces that are already in this galaxy are thankfully taking charge of operations galaxy wide to help push our own efforts forwards without needing to slow down our backline efforts thanks to how much we where able to standardize...armor and sheilds, upgraded power systems and electrical systems across the board and just so much more that has been worked on. Its a miracle that other forces haven't relized that our starships aren't that standardized yet..which is a good miracle. As it allows us time to finish our own standardization efforts across the board with our fleets. Then we can work on our ground forces after words...and we don't have to do such a rush of upgrading all of our ships even the new mothballed ones we gained from the hegemony...soo much bugs we had to recycle but it did help us research more advanced communication networks during the hyperlane travels. And those ships are being standardized too as they are our ships now woohoo take that everyone We made all of those mothballed ships better and ours so none of your so called spyware can even work on us! So thanks for the free tech ya gits! We appreciate the freebies.
Logs written 2 weeks ago from CEO F.U.BAR of the KnM company.

The following are some tips for trading on CUE (the best card app!!) I’ve picked up over 8 years on multiple card trading apps and would like to pass on that may not be common knowledge.
I’m not writing this out of frustration or anything lol. I’ve been around long enough and have seen it all xD. I write this because I wish I knew this when I started out or wasn’t as experienced, but once I applied it, it made a big difference.
My game has always been trading & collecting, so I applied myself to learn how to do it the best I can and it’s worked for me and I feel it would be of benefit to share.
This is not a sure fire guide as everyone manages their collections their way and values are subjective but more some info to help out. No trade is ever 100% gonna happen but this will give you the best possible shot :)
The most successful trades tend to be equal value ones, especially if it’s the same 1:1 value for each player. Logical, right?
Of course with values, trades may have multiple cards to help balance values but that’s usually a pre trade discussion or for more advanced trading, I’m referring to general, more common trades where you want a specific card.
1:1 value for value is your best bet. We all see quantity low end stuff for 1 good/great card and those usually end in a decline. Mostly because it’s one of the most common trades you will see and that’s usually not considered an overpay, just quantity.
So it helps to find/learn values or ask pre trade to get an evaluation if needed. This alone won’t 100% be accepted either. This should, however, be applied as often as you can though. Taking the time to learn values is the most important tool you can have for trading, it’s worth the time investment if you can.
Another variable is what to do if the person you’re trading with is complete/doesn’t need any card you have.
In this situation, while still applying the above 1:1 value, look for a card you have of equal value that they have less of, better yet if they don’t have a dupe and have a few of what you want from them.
It’s usually logical to balance dupes, it gives them a card to unlock or they have little of to trade for what they’re looking for while still potentially leaving them dupes of the card you’re taking. In the case they have 1 dupe of the card you want, send one they don’t have a dupe of. They’re more likely to decline if you take their last dupe and you’re giving them a card they already have dupes of even if same value because it takes a card out of play for one they have available already.
This next one is more my personal trading rule, but I feel it’s worth a mention. Respect people’s collections. I don’t send trades for singles. Unless it’s pre discussed I won’t send for them. Most people want to keep cards they have and not chase them again, I feel if they want to trade them, they’ll send it. So I only look for dupes. The only exception is when I go to counter and I see their original offer was a single on their side, this tells me they’re willing to trade a single so I’ll counter to one if there’s one I’m looking for. There’s more to this and I’ll touch on it another time.
Next, assume when you sent a trade and it was declined, they looked for a counter. I always do(look for a counter and assume they did too if I sent). It can irritate some people seeing the same trade repeated or slightly different cards but essentially the same value wise. The person you sent to knows with the first trade what you want, if they change their mind they’ll most likely send to you.
This is more for the novice/less experienced players, do not trade your level up cards. They can be difficult to get back. Especially the few ones that have value. Also, do not accept level ups from others, many don’t have much value and it’s common to see them be sent for limited cards. Until you’re familiar with values I’d recommend just not dealing with them or at least ask for an evaluation before hand.
Next, Some tips for dealing with collectors (not because I am one, but because they’re on every card app lol).
I have always been a collector and most of my dealings in all card apps I’ve been on are mainly with them, so here’s some stuff I see often that may help.
Most likely if they collect multiple copies of a card, they’re on a social platform. We usually have somewhere to post exactly what we offer so it’s worth while to check it out for successful trades as we trade exactly what we offer.
Next is a big no in my books and I’ve seen it often on these apps. Don’t try to push thru a bad trade by adding in a card they collect. For example, don’t send a low value Limited Legendary for a high value one 1:1 and add on their basic card they collect. It will usually not get accepted.
Half the time if you followed everything above then the collectors card may not be needed at all. Trust me collectors aren’t usually only after their cards, they do fair, logical trades also. Just makes sense lol.
If you want to trade a collector a card they collect and you are not sure what they offer for it, send it for something of the same value 1:1. Taking an overpay without knowing what over pay they offer could get declined. Collectors will usually send an overpay themselves or, again, post exactly what they offer which is usually an overpay as is.
I know it can take some time but hopefully these subtle but valuable tips lend to helping you improve your trading game.
This again isn’t an end all for getting every trade accepted as other factors can be involved, value, scarcity etc. But, they’ve been key for me and a staple for successful trading on every card app I’ve been on and hope they help you as well.
If you have any questions please comment/reply and I’ll do my best to respond. Please keep in mind this is very bare bones. I plan to do other segments when I have time to elaborate more :)
I’m hoping to touch on some of the other trading and collecting aspects and strategies of the game down the road. Until then, Happy Trading!
I apologize for the length but I wanted to be as precise and clear as possible so you, the reader, would benefit the most from it :)

I try to cut contact with her and this is how she responds.
When I was having a psychotic episode last year (due to Covid-related brain inflammation) she manipulated me into committing myself to a psychiatric hospital (I was hallucinating so it was easy for her to do this). Upon leaving the hospital, docs onboarded me with a psychiatrist who prescribed me 20mg Prozac.
SEVERAL MONTHS LATER I tell my mom I no longer want to have a relationship with her because she has severely abused me through my life.
A few days later, she contacts my psychiatrist and feeds him a bunch of lies about how I’m “sleeping on the concrete floor in the basement” etc etc.
The psychiatrist 1) believes her fully 2) doesn’t double check with me 3) diagnoses me with schizophrenia based on my one covid-related psychotic episode (naturally he doesn’t acknowledge the existence of post Covid psychosis) and 4) he signs a form certifying that my judgement is impaired and I need to be placed in a guardianship “without limitation.”
His reasoning for why my judgment is impaired:
-I’m unemployed… which is entirely due to my long Covid health issues and depression from the reality of being stricken with long Covid + ground down by living with my parents who constantly abuse me. Plus the Prozac he prescribed made it impossible to concentrate on anything.
-I’m eating too much salt (no joke)
A few weeks ago, with no warning, I’m served papers for a guardianship hearing.
The court official “guardian ad litem” interviews me and writes a report, full of punctuation errors, endorsing the guardianship. He says the guardianship should grant my mom power over all areas of my life, including where I get to live.
As for my mom’s abuse? He casts doubt on my accusations and insinuates I’m being petty and overly critical. My mom clearly has my best interests at heart and would be an excellent guardian etc etc.
He also never mentions that it’s his job to help me find a lawyer to represent me in my hearing… I figure this out a few days before hearing is supposed to take place… I go to the hearing without a lawyer…
At the hearing, the judge listens to my objections but allows the guardianship go through, sighting the schizophrenia diagnosis provided by the psychiatrist.
I’m numb right now.
I know my mom will do everything she can to make the guardianship as invasive as possible + last as long as possible. She is currently talking with her lawyer to see how the guardianship can be expanded.
She is nothing but cruelty, hatred, hold me back as much as possible, make my life just as bad as hers etc. that’s all she does.
I guess I’m looking for Advice? Emotional support? Can anyone… relate?

This while entire week has been so tough. I’ve been on my journey for 3 months and down 25 lbs (YAY!) super proud of myself and I’ve really been doing well. But this specific week is so important because I am about to cross the threshold into overweight (bmi has gone from 35 to 30.5 !!) and if I lose 2 more kg I will be overweight which is crazy because I haven’t been like that since I was 18!!!
But sadly this week I am having the most insane cravings. Almost like the uncontrollable emotional eating craving u used to have. I think about food all day. And I eat but only feel satisfied for one or two hours. It’s like an itch I can’t scratch. I think I’m also stressed about something so it’s just like this weird feeling in the back of my mind.
Because I don’t want to approach this with an unhealthy mindset I told myself if you really need it you can have it and I’d go to the store and stare at all the things but still my healthy self kept winning (which felt amazing btw because I said if you really want that chocolate cake or pizza get it and it was like there was an adult glib me that was like actually I know I don’t want it)! and I didn’t cave until today- I got potato chips. They are my addiction and the bane of my existence. I almost wish I had never ever eaten them. Like I can finish the family size in one sitting.
I’m still proud I weighed out my portion and ate it even though I’m over by 300-400 calories today I’ll be fine. But I just hate his much my cycle controls me.
Anyways just needed to vent :)

as in, i think it it sucks for everyone that there isn't a word to describe someone being lonely (and maybe even frustrated about it), which doesn't also have the baggage of being a mass shooter. i think that limitation in vocab itself leads to more polarization -- if you're a young guy who happens to be single, yet despite that feel like you're a decent person, what are you meant to think about yourself watching peers form relationships the way you learned to read? (for me i always turned the hatred entirely inward, don't worry)
i think it's especially confusing if you have autism -- society upholds it as a sign of virtue or success if you're in a relationship: you must've done something right, and if you're single you need to self-improve. YOU NEED to self improve, because all those NTs in relationships, they certainly don't have any flaws, they don't cheat or abuse, of course, clearly they're reached some moral or philosophical peak that enables them to find companionship.
and if you try to make that a goal, the way 'advice' about being single sort of suggests...isn't that then wrong and inherently a bit incel-leaning because you're viewing the relationship as an achievement or someone to gain possession of? despite, i think, the millions of normal people in history that have wanted someone and got them, and used that language, and turned out fine.
so it's like... it can't be a goal, because that's dehumanizing. but you also have to self improve to get there. but if you don't have someone, you're clearly deeply flawed and need to fix yourself. and i think it's possible to be in this situation, look at the work you've put into yourself, still not succeed, and be a bit pissed off, generally.
has anyone said the word 'bachelor' in the last 20 years? or 'unlucky in love' or 'spinster' or something? those words seem to have vanished. it's all polarized to hell (in a social-media-rots-your-brain sort of way) -- you've either sorted out all your problems, you have a partner, you have achieved the milestones, well done; OR ... what are you, some kinda incel sicko?
i think only the real real freaks genuinely think they are OWED anything, but i think it's perfectly reasonable for people to look at the vast majority of others in relationships, look at the fact that you have improved your life and self over the years, you don't hate women, etc, and think "well, what the fuck have i done wrong?"
and there doesn't seem to be any outlet for that thought besides deep dark alt-right shit or The Gym.
and that's a bit annoying.
these days, culturally, you're not really meant to interact with romantic motives with a stranger unless it's through a dating app, which are hell on earth for everyone, but i think especially us. (i have no idea how to approach 'small talk' on there -- why are we talking about coffee and baking and margaritas? why is that all anyone says on a profile?)
all that when added to the universal pressure of the economy getting shittier, rent and everything else growing grotesquely in price, and you don't even have someone to share the financial burden, let alone the emotional one.
it's a bit of a bummer, is what i'm saying. and it seems like....are you even allowed to be frustrated about it? the implication feels like: if you're upset, you're obviously blaming women instead of working on yourself. when i think:
a) there's only so much self improvement you can realistically do. people with massive flaws and issues get into relationships every day, as well. isn't that weird? from the way people talk about it, it seems like you have to be a paragon of virtue to find someone if you're single.
b) blaming people for not reciprocating interest is obviously asinine. it seems more like a broken societal promise, much like The American Dream generally. it seems like The Goal of being a person is to die retired in a house with a partner by your side. and if you're missing pieces of that....well, what the fuck do you do? especially if you're someone that isn't an alt-right sicko, has no bigoted hate in your heart, but is simply lonely due to shyness and Extremely Detrimental Disorders, but feel like you keep getting lumped in with the sickos just for being alone....is it not rough?

I have been seeing a counsellor for other issues but shopping is one of the points I brought up. I mentioned to my counsellor that I think I have a shopping addiction but after talking about it, I realised my issue isn’t as bad as it may seem to me. My counsellor also mentioned that she didn’t see much issue as i’m not in debt, I am still reaching my goal of paying off my student loan in the timeframe I want. Which is true, but I did raise that I want to also learn some technique to reduce the urge if need be as I feel guilty for spending sometimes.
Growing up my grandma always taught me not to spend and I have this mindset of spending = bad = feel guilty. One thing my counsellor said that made me realise that spending isn’t always bad and sometimes “it’s okay to buy what I want & treat myself” as long as i’m not going overboard or taking it to the extreme.
I definitely could have saved enough and pay off my student loan once my pay from May is in but sadly i’ll be paying it off in Aug instead which is still within my timeframe of paying it off by 2024 or asap.
I’ve always been purchasing way too many lip products🙃 and will be going on a no buy for Makeup for the rest of the year.
1 thing i’m looking forward to see my leave in end July where i’ll be going on a short trip after not travelling for over 5 years. I originally wanted to travel further but it’s too expensive so a short trip of around $500 will be sufficient and i’ll technically be paying only $0 since I can claim $300 from my company and paying it using a new CC so will be getting $300+ back so technically a free trip. Which i’ll be applying for the CC once my passport is ready as it can help me to save around $10 per month in transportation and no min. spend per month (recommended by my brother).
As i’ve also been investing using a robo advisor (easier and safer for me), that’s where majority of money is and i’m thankful for it as it takes me a few days to withdraw & keep me in check. When my pay deposit, I usually just transfer it around to put aside $x for monthly student loan deduction -> transport expenses -> food allowance -> leftover will be thrown into the robo advisor app.
Due to doing this, i’ve saved almostttt 10k with “interest” from the investments (split in mid, high risk and savings) in 10 months although half of what I could have saved if I didn’t spend soo much..but I did plan out my black friday purchases months before so that’s fine and i’m still trying to come to terms that it is okay.

28F. Nobody knows how much I drink- not a soul. I didn’t consider I had a problem until I was 24, and since then I’ve really been putting my liver through a lot, having only a combined 90(ish) scattered days sober in the last 4.5 years.
Appendix went bad 6 months ago, which forced me to have blood work done. Surprisingly, I got “liver and kidney enzymes are fine,” BUT “eGFR is EXTREMELY low.” She didn’t recommend any further testing or action on that, so I sort of took it with a grain of salt. I mostly focused on that magical first sentence… liver and kidney enzymes are normal. Yay, I’m cleared to keep drinking! And ramped up my drinking to bad levels again within a month.
Recently, sudden pain at upper left of my abdomen. At first I thought pancreatitis. I thought, whatever, I’ll just have more water so I can keep drinking. But then I felt it in all four corners of my abdomen. Doc was really concerned and ordered a full abdominal ultrasound on rush.
The only abnormal thing they found was a liver 3x the standard size of a woman. Three fucking times. 21.5cm when normal is considered 7cm. I wish I didn’t look it up. I’m nervous for what that means. Anxiously awaiting getting life-changing news that finally forces me to get fully sober.
Paired with that I’m getting a colonoscopy because during the appendix stuff I had a CT scan that showed unusual areas of inflammation in my colon.
I’m positive both are directly caused by years of abusing my body.
And you know the worst part? Even with all this knowledge, there’s a demon voice in my head telling me that soon I might not ever be able to drink again, and I’m highly anxious, and I’m probably physically dependent on alcohol right now, so why not pour a drink. What a stupid, stupid disease this is.
Don’t be like me. Take control while you still can. If you find yourself saying “I can stop whenever I want to- I just don’t want to”, THAT is when it’s time to stop. People who “don’t want to stop” cannot, in fact, stop.
Just had to get all this out tonight.

Hello again everybody!
Before we get started on today's post the current voting for GengaMega GengaDynamax Gengar has seen votes for A tier start in a strong lead and not really let up on that lead since. Also the previous day's vote for Toxtricity/Dynamax Toxtricity has ended up with Abstaining votes in the lead.
So with that being said it's looking like the Gengars will be headed for A tier while the Toxtricitys will go back onto the radar list for a future vote. Like with all previous votes I'll continue to check the numbers and if anything changes I'll update it on tomorrow's post.
(Please note that this voting/tiering is centered around Classic as after a certain point in Endless only about 5 Pokemon and 2 abilities are truly viable.)
So current tiers are:
S tier - Garganacl, Cloyster, Skeledirge, Gholdengo, Tinkaton
A tier - Gyarados/Mega, VenusauMega/Dyna, Aegislash, Corviknight/Dyna, Excadrill, GardevoiMega, Toxapex, ScizoMega, GengaMega/Dyna
B tier - Kanto-Persian/Dynamax Kanto-Meowth, Weavile, Starmie, Rhyperior, Quagsire, Mamoswine
C tier - Linoone
F tier - Dustox
With that being said let's get to today's vote!
Today is day 29 of tier voting and today we will be talking about the poofy-hair fairy from generation 5 that was one of the first Pokemon to make notable use of the now well-established Prankster ability. Whimsicott has an okay typing (although it does have a 4x weakness to Poison), some decent bulk and a good Speed stat at the trade-off of lackluster attacking stats. However its movepool does offer it some good utility options and high-power moves to compensate for the rough attacking stats. The main claim to fame that Whimsicott is well-known and liked by people to use it for though is no doubt the Prankster ability which it gets as a regular ability, and its signature move Cotton Guard which boosts its Defense by 3 whole stages at once. On top of that this game goes ahead and gives it more utility options in the form of egg moves as well as a really good STAB attack and rounding out with a dual-functioning coverage/utility move. Its Passive ability in this game is interesting as a bit of a double-edged sword. It does greatly increase the Pokemon's physical bulk but also turns one of the Pokemon's natural 2x weaknesses into a second 4x weakness.
(Please note that Pokemon with Mega/Dynamax evolutions will be tiered as one Pokemon and not tiered separately for their Mega/Dynamax form. Different variants such as Alolan Persian vs. Kanto Persian will be tiered separately however.)
(Also here is the post with rules for voting/tiering posts and a little more explanation about them in general: https://www.reddit.com/pokerogue/s/0LNZhPPzR9 Links to past votes can all be found here as well in comments added to the OP with each new vote)
And here is a quick reminder of what each tier generally means:
S tier: Top tier, can make or break your entire run, essentially the cream of the crop
A tier: really strong but not quite top tier, maybe slightly outclassed or has a slight weakness holding it back
B tier: solid choices that can make it to your endgame team, might be reliant on team composition to truly function well or might just be outclassed as well
C tier: usually early-mid game Mons, ones you don't really want to take to end game if you can avoid it, usually pretty decently glaring weakness but something redeeming enough to keep from F tier
F tier: no reason to use in end game unless you're doing it for a meme/joke
Abstain/No Opinion: this will be a voting option mostly just in case someone accidentally votes and then can't remove their vote (I've noticed that happens on Reddit sometimes) or for Pokemon people haven't unlocked/used to their full potential yet. If Abstaining votes outvote each individual tier then the Pokemon will be tabled for the time being and another vote will open up for it later (can mostly see this happening with Legendaries).
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Whimsicott
Type: Grass/Fairy
Mega: No
Dynamax: No
Starter cost {Cottonee}: 3
Possible Egg moves: Sleep Powder, Parting Shot, Pollen Puff, Seed Flare
Abilities: Prankster or Infiltrator
Hidden Ability: Chlorophyll
Passive Ability: Fluffy - this Pokemon takes half damage from contact moves but takes double damage from Fire type moves (Fire type contact moves will deal normal damage)
Evolution: Cottonee evolves into Whimsicott with a Sun Stone
Base stats:
HP - 60
Attack - 67
Defense - 85
Sp. Attack - 77
Sp. Defense - 75
Speed - 116
Learnset by level up: Absorb, Charm, Cotton Guard, Cotton Spore, Endeavor, Energy Ball, Fairy Wind, Giga Drain, Growth, Gust, Helping Hand, Hurricane, Leech Seed, Mega Drain, Memento, Moonblast, Poison Powder, Razor Leaf, Solar Beam, Stun Spore, Sunny Day, Tailwind
Notable TMs: Protect, Thief, U-Turn, Rest, Sleep Talk, Seed Bomb, Light Screen, Dazzling Gleam, Grass Knot, Shadow Ball, Psychic, Play Rough, Helping Hand, Grassy Terrain, Misty Terrain, Trick Room, Grassy Glide, Swagger, Double Team
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Tomorrow's vote: Aggron/Mega Aggron!
Pokemon on the radar for voting very soon: Comfey, Crobat, Ferrothorn, Gliscor, Delphox, Roserade, Vileplume, Minior, Hitmonchan, Bibarel, Chandelure, Archaludon/Dynamax Duraludon, Alakazam/Mega, Infernape, Flamigo, Volcarona, Alolan-Decidueye, Barbaracle, Butterfree/Dyna, Beedrill/Mega, Mawile/Mega, Drednaw/Dyna, Annihilape, Cramorant, Aerodactyl/Mega, Glimmora, Heatran, Tapu Koko, Dialga/Primal, Galarian-Zapdos, Regieleki, Regidrago, Zacian, Zamazenta, Rayquaza/Mega, Latias/Mega, Latios/Mega, Ho-Oh, Volcanion, Toxtricity/Dyna, Carbink, Porygon-Z, Cinccino, Snorlax/Dyna, Wishiwashi
(Other requests will be added to this list and this list is not necessarily in order)
Happy voting!
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After speaking with a few members in this group and few outside this group this is what I have gathered from the market for my project
let me know if this perspective is accurate or not and feel free to add to it
Service providers in the market:
Wedding videographephotographer that charge between 5-25k per wedding doing 12-40 jobs a year
Desired situation:
To be the go to wedding videographephotographer in their locality and be recommended by top venues and planners as well as having a good reputation online and in the community as well as having a lot of profit for me and my family
Issues:
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• Trying to show their creative side through their work as well as producing high quality work without “churning and burning” their customers
• Too much inquires coming in and wasting time with low quality inquires
• Trying to stay away from feast and famine months with their business
• Keeping a good name and image in the community
• Collaborating with venues and planners to get more high quality inquires
• Making sure to have a good and consistent online presence
• Spending a lot of time sorting and finding high quality leads
• Getting on the recommended vendors lists for venues and planners
• Being able to work “on” the business getting more inquires as well as them being a good quality

What are people trying to sell you:
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• SEO: the issue they brought up… Does it even work? What are the quality of the people calling me?

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• Social Media Management Agency: the issue they brought up no real ROI on the service the money would be better spent elsewhere

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• Software: mainly business management software doesn’t actually target pain points really can only send invoices contracts and speak with customers but not actions that move the needle forward

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• Full service social media: the person handling it doesn’t bring out the vision the client is looking for and the same issues with the social media management agency

Majority of your market:
Main pain point ( NEGATIVE FEEDBACK LOOP )
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• Forget about quality of inquires not enough are even coming in
• Jobs are low budget and low quality ( making it difficult to create good marketing material for the business having good looking brides and grooms in a good venue high quality backgrounds which would’ve created a positive feedback loop )
• Difficult to get out the 1-3k price range when marketing materials aren’t as good and are stuck delivering for clients to make sure the services were good

WORD OF MOUTH IS EVERYTHING IN THIS INDUSTRY
Softwares that are popular in the market currently use:

• Stripe (Payment processor)
• Gmail
• Adobe Suite
• Mac OS
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Honeybook
• Helsome (Payment processor)
• Shoot proof (sends clients there images and videos)
• Studio Ninja ( Invoicing, contracts, customer management )

My question is what are people trying to shove down your throats?
like if you're running a wedding photography business what are people trying to sell you over emails or cold calls,
Are those things even use full to you?
I noticed the big boys that help provide tools are mainly honeybook and studio ninja ( my study is strictly from a business POV not actually delivering i.e ( editing videos, sending to clients etc ) things that push the needle ( marketing, reviews, word of mouth ) ETC )
Could you share with me for example,
what you would prefer if you were looking to grow your photography business
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1) All in one tool where you can manage your social media ( Facebook, insta ), Follow up on inquires automatically also with AI so you can sift through shitty ones and save time, Build workflows that automatically ask for referrals on your behalf so you don't have to remember,
sending personalized messages a year after you shot your clients weddings, Basically all the things that you know you should be doing but because if your hectic schedule it's a bit difficult to fit in and be constant with it building your reviews and testimonials
which will make your life easier with trying to get into the big venues and get better clients not to mention save you so much money rather than hiring an agency to do it and paying between 10-20k yearly
OR
2) Have an outside agency or person handle all those things for you white glove service style where you pay 10-20k yearly but you have the same benefit as the tool but with an element of human error but you'd also get the benefits of having a human eye as well as an extra set of hands for customer service
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I want to gather accurate info and see what you guys deal with on a day to day and what areas you'd like to improve
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Simply from a world building logic perspective I think patrols and mission troop counts should be varied.
The bugs need organic matter to consume in order to grow and breed. For most planets there is organic material for them to consume so it makes sense they have very high troop numbers and very high patrol numbers as the patrols are looking for food. Would be cool that on dead planets like the moon one there is a negative mission modifier impacting the bugs but not the end of the world. They have no ships so no universe supply lines making the bugs be extra aggressive planet side.
The bots however require two distinct inputs metal and brains. They are cyborgs and definitely have to harvest SEAF troops and metals in order to produce more units. So they should in theory have less total volume of troops compared to a bug mission as it’s harder to produce new units, and patrols should be relatively lighter but farther ranging and more dispersed. I think they canonically have space ships so it allows bots to reinforce but in turn this should make them relatively more defensive. Because the unit production of bots takes more destroying fabricators should reduce the end mission volumes and it would be cool to see patrols Bunker and regroup on a position instead of chasing
I know we keep getting edged about the illuminate but I don’t know enough about them. Gut reaction would be between bugs and bots
TLDR: bug easy to make, bug get most troops and most patrols per mission. Bug no have spaceship to reinforce so bug ultra resource aggressive bug high command no retreat or regroup during mission.
Bot hard to make. Bot get less troops and patrols. Bot have spaceship so bot planet can be reinforced. Bot high command then not ultra aggressive and will tactically retreat to regroup. Means destroy fabricators and less bot to fight at end of mission.
Any discussion not 100% backing this analysis will be shared to your local democracy officer

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7A05ouRrCJ have made sudu ceramic, sparkling, sudo uranium glass, fools metal (non sinterable), fumegated glass (uberlight with bubble), graphite and fiber filled resins in experiments some take thinners some take thickeners and with enough cure timing and practice with types u can get results for spectacle creations. Lots of hasle with stiring and viscosity on the heavy filler even at high mesh. Metal filler would be awesome with a flow pump that stirs resin during lift and drop and off while curing the layer.
If I were to start again and make a porous print that is very absorbent (maybe a bentonite clay with some solvent based adhesive and uv resin base though it would have high shrinkage good for absorbancy and super surface area) what use case could a clay like apparatus that is probably not aquarium safe be useful for? Maybe coral bacteria and mold Scaffolding but is there a big brained use for a print with a very high capillary action attribute that is better then just displacing moisture. Something Creative. Also beside on demand shapes what would make it better for a printer instead of molding clay and casting a material. (A precise capillary size from dot holing each layer is what comes to mind.) Infinite chia pets Also mineral fills that can have a scatter plot of holes in each layer have worked but only have done a calcium filled and acid wash for a filter project I never completed. Same concept. Looking for creatives.

I'm reading posts about Nexon struggling with their finances and the game having less players than their expectations, so my aim in this post is to all of us have some good feedbacks and discussions to how to make the game better.
I reached in Discord feedback channels but most of the times my feedbacks got buried by other's balance feedbacks. Here I want to discuss more potential game changing feedbacks that might help the developers get better vision and ideas for their game. I love the game and how much developers and their marketing team respect us with their good pricing and free skin giveaways so I want to give back to them.
I invite others to upvote good feedbacks and discuss new mechanics and possible solutions to game's low population (in publisher's eyes). I don't think balance issues should be discussed here cause we already discussed them a lot.
As others mentioned I don't think the game has monetization problems cause I've seen my friends and me all paying for skins without feeling ripped off and love to pay for their great skins and the game has the most reasonable price to quality for cosmetics in the whole PvP shooters I've seen.
Here is some of my feedback discussions:

Photo Mode and Replays:

One huge feature that I think would change is photo mode. But to have photo mode in middle of the game you can't have it without replays cause of the nature of the game being online.
One simple suggestion I have is to add a prototype photo mode in loudouts. I love to change the pose of my character based on game animations or already in game expressions. It would be great to have a timeline of the animation so we can pause the animation in a specific time and take a photo with nice filters, effects or even different lightning if it's possible. I mention lightning cause Finals lightning is the most astonishing lighting I've seen specially on shiny guns. It should have camera movement, zoom, focus and the usuals of photo modes.
Doing this can result in better advertisement of the game from players using photos for their profiles or even wallpapers or YouTube thumbnails and it will help us advertise the game ourselves or just simply enjoy the details of the game graphics.

Non-Objective Game Modes:

Another discussed topic is to make the game have Team Deathmatch or just Deathmatch for newer players to experience the game without the stress of objectives and necessarily committing to a goal and just get experienced with weapons and gadgets or any other game mode that just gives players cash (game points) for just killing and not completing objectives (like depositing). A gun game mode could be fun, just guns switch after killing and at the end we have dagger only weapon. Doing this requires smaller maps that I will discuss in the next part.

Smaller Maps or Limited Play Area:

Most of The Finals map are pretty big with repeated buildings and shapes, it is understandable as design point cause it will make use of reusing same premade objects that helps the game with performance and lower disc space along with less development times. My suggestions is to either make smaller maps that I understand takes a lot of time, map design is not an easy task for this reason other solution is to limit the play area to smaller sections (it can be easily added by the lore that CNS corrupted the map data and things like that). Doing so would cause another problem that is the destruction of the buildings and map can make the map look flat after destroying the objects. A solution I have to this is to add some interactable objects that would reconstruct the buildings or some part of the map with added cooldown. Doing this my cause some physics problems but another solution to this is repel (knockout) the players out of that area and reconstruct the building so it would prevent players getting stuck somewhere on the reconstructed part.
It would be great if mods could help me with this post and reach out to developers for better visibility. I highly suggest others discuss about these or their own game changing feedbacks to help the game become better. We are a community and a group that I'm sure most of us love the game and want to see it succeed. As always be civil and don't argue with others feedback without good reasoning.
Edit: added gun game mode suggestion.