How funny is this "FFIE down 12%" like it wasn't up over 100 lol HODL buy the dip

In the game Divinity: Original Sin, the weirdest class I played was the Ranger. At first, life was pretty rough. Using basic arrows were pretty underwhelming and getting and using magical ammunition felt good, but was incredibly expensive/hard to find early on in the game. As the game went on, though, and both materials and money became much easier to come by, things started to change. I dubbed my ranger a "Money Wizard" because, effectively, instead of paying for spells in slots and cooldowns, I was paying in straight cash and materials. If I had the resources to fund my lifestyle, I could realistically do what most of the magic classes could do to enemies every single turn. It was kind of a joke, but also a super interesting concept and it worked really well. Surprisingly, the potential is also there in this system with the Thaumaturge.
The Thaumaturge with a scroll can hit like a full caster with the same spell at the majority of levels. With Scroll Thaumaturgy, all their scrolls' DCs (Rumored to also apply to attack rolls) scale based on their class DC. The Thaumaturge's Class DC is only two points behind a caster's DC at levels 7,8, 15, 16, 19, and 20 and otherwise the same. That surprised me a fair bit. As far as the in-combat logistics, Scroll Thaumaturgy also has you covered. Since you can hold a scroll in the same hand as your implement, you can roll into combat with up to two implements and two scrolls in hand and be able to use all of them freely. But, I mean, the Thaumaturge is a martial, so how are we going to afford all these scrolls? The Wand is the way.
The Wand implement effectively gives the Thaumaturge the "cantrip" for the Money Wizard. It's free, it's nice, and it scales surprisingly well. It isn't super flexible, so I would recommend starting off with electricity and branching out to fire or cold with the Adept Benefit. It is competitive with ranged cantrips and gains range, rider effects, and a 1 action "spellshape" that adds a significant amount of extra damage, culminating at level 17 in effectively giving an at-will ability with the damage and area of a Rank 5 Fireball with rider effects on a failed save and freely chosen between fire, cold, and electricity damage. Additionally, it de-emphasizes the need for runes, so we can chuck the majority of our budget into just buying scrolls. A recommendation to squeeze a bit more out of this wand is to take some kind of spellcasting archetype (Bard is convenient), so that you can make your wand implement a magical wand and get yet another casting of a spell through the power of the almighty gold coin.
The biggest problem is pretty much always going to be the economic side of things. Ostensibly, you can "convert" a Striking rune into 5 Rank 2 scrolls or 16 Rank 1 scrolls with a similar amount of gold, which isn't a terrible number for the Rank 1's, but is definitely on the skinny side for Rank 2s, especially considering it is a fairly large amount of the budget. You might be able to scrap up some looted scrolls, which would be pretty funny, but that's going to be random. Scroll Esoterica and its line will give you a few more lower level scrolls, but that feels like more of a bonus than a true budget reliever. This may be the biggest impediment to the Money Wizard concept. One thing that could help significantly, if downtime is available, is to gain Magical and Communal Crafting and work together with your caster(s) during downtime to Craft some scrolls to mitigate some of that cost. Outside of that, though, you will probably always be a least one spell rank behind, except for certain circumstances.
Of course, regular Wizards (or any caster) can ALSO be Money Wizards, if they want, because you can just buy and use a bunch of scrolls of anything from your tradition, but I find it interesting that a non-caster might be able to do the same thing and, even more interestingly, without being beholden to any spell tradition. Outside of being tradition agnostic and having a very strong damage cantrip in the Wand implement, though, there are significant weaknesses due to a limit on how many at-Rank scrolls a Thaumaturge can produce in a given level.

I had DI w/ free Nip Grafts at Reformkliniken in Malmö on 18th April! Dr Tuve was my surgeon. I wanted to leave a review here since a few things happened that I wasn't prepared for and maybe this'll help anyone else!
I am from the UK and decided to have surgery privately with Dr Tuve as it was much cheaper than the UK. The cost of the surgery was 65000 SEK which is about £4800.
I flew from Manchester to Copenhagen, and then took a train to Malmö. It wasn't that expensive and very easy to figure out directions in person.
I went for 2 weeks and 4 days so I could go to in person appointments before and after the surgery. I'm also autistic and felt I needed the extra time to ground myself in a new country. I stayed at the Scandic St Jörgen hotel which was only a 5 minute walk from the clinic. Hotels are quite pricey and it has it's pros and cons. Pros - close to clinic, hotel cleaners, free wifi, close to food shops and restaurants, easy to get to train/transport. Cons - more expensive than airbnb, no fridge so had to have takeout a lot, they did a laundry service but it was VERY expensive.
In the end I do think the hotel was right for me and my needs, but I know many others are not as privileged to be able to stay that long in a hotel.
I had my pre op appointment on the 16th, which I was dreading but it went a lot better than I thought it would. Dr Tuve asked me a lot of questions about my gender, how long I've wanted top surgery, is my family accepting, etc. He then examined my chest and asked what kind of results I'd like. He let me get changed before he stepped in which I was grateful for. They asked if I had picked up my prescription (meds needed before surgery), however I hadn't had any notification about this prescription at all. They were very quick to give me a new one, which I collected the next day.
The 18th was surgery day, and I was told to arrive at the clinic at 7am. My partner walked me there, and we said goodbye outside the clinic doors. I had to fill in some paperwork, have an anti bacterial shower, and pee before surgery. I was really nervous for the anesthetic and going under, plus the IV, but it was a lot better than I thought it'd be! The nurse who did my IV was very kind and did it quickly, and it wasn't painful at all. I was called into surgery at around 8:20am. I had to lay on the surgical table, which was honestly the scariest part. The anesthetic took a few minutes and then it all kinda hit and once. It felt like a very deep long nap. I was out of surgery and awake by 12:20pm.
I was very sleepy for a few hours and apparently I sent a lot of videos of me to my partner but I don't remember taking them! They are funny to watch back! I was feeling quite nauseous so out of the food options I had some granola and apple juice. I was offered a sandwich too but that was too much for me. I kept falling in and out of sleep for a bit. The nurse was encouraging me to try go to the toilet, but I was really nauseous. I did end up being sick a lot, it was whenever I sat up. We ended up wheeling me in a wheelchair to the toilet to try pee (which was a success!). I was given some anti nausea meds. Before I left the clinic, the nurse took off my post op binder, nips dressings, and large dressing, and I felt a lot better. I got to see my chest for the first time (my nips were still covered by gauze). It looked really good for the first day! The nurse showed me how to wrap the binder myself and what to do with the nip dressings. He then wrapped me back up, but I immediately threw up which he realised was from the pressure of the large dressing. He decided to take off the large dressing so I was just wrapped with the nip dressings and binder. He only allowed this because I wasn't that swollen!
I left the clinic at 7pm, and my partner picked me up. I was able to walk easily, just sore on top, and I was on a lot of painkillers so it wasn't that bad.
The instructions from my dr was to have a shower daily, antibiotics twice a day, pain meds twice a day, more pain meds can be taken if needed (I did for the first few days). My partner helped me shower the first 3 days as I couldn't really reach anything, but after that I was slowly more independent. We had a shower head we could take off the wall which was very handy and made it a lot easier. I had to sleep on my back, which is quite painful since I had a curved spine, but I found ways to cope with it (pillow under lumbar region, pillow under feet for elevation). I brought a travel pillow and a mastectomy pillow with me. I honestly didn't use the mastectomy pillow for what it was made for, as it hurt to put my arms in the side holes. I used it more to stop myself rolling to the side. The travel pillow is a must. It helped stop a lot of neck pain, and I could fall asleep a lot easier laying on my back with my head surrounded by the travel pillow.
Unfortunately I got really ill on my 4th day post op. I track my periods, and knew one was coming up, so I was already expecting pain the week before (normal for me). This pain was a 10/10, I couldn't move and threw up a lot. We called the clinic and apparently it is normal for surgery to affect periods and cycles. I wasn't expecting anything quite this intense, so I thought I'd leave this in here in case anyone else experiences it! No-one else that I knew that was having top surgery experienced this, but I know I have a lot more intense symptoms of periods normally so this may have contributed to it. Luckily this only lasted 1 day.
The rest of the week was a lot better, and I managed to eat a lot more and do a few more things. I went on daily walks as advised by Dr Tuve, but nothing too far.
On my 9th day post op I had a random allergic reaction. My body really went through it! My face was swollen and red, and I had hives all over my body. We had no idea where it had come from since I was just doing the same stuff as normal, however I am almost certain it is linked to my autism/stress levels (I have had random intense illness related stuff flare up from overstimulation and stress a few times). I was given some antihistamines and they worked slowly over a few days.
On my 12th day I had my post op appointment where a nurse removed the gauze from my nips and any visible stitching from them. I was super nervous going to this appointment as my nips smelt really bad and I was worried they were infected. Luckily all was good ! Apparently I had a small hematoma, but it didn't have fluid so no need to drain. I was instructed to wash my nips 2-3 times a day, have my daily shower as per usual, and change the tape on my insicions once a week. I also had a small bandage gauze I taped to my nips which I had to do til they were dry. My nips were dry by 2 days after this appointment, but I used the small bandages for about a week as I was nervous of the binder causing irritation on my nips. I also had to keep wearing the binder, which I have to do til 4-6 weeks after surgery (depending on how swollen I am).
I flew back home on 2nd May, and it was all good health wise.
Since then, recovery has been good! I'm very happy with my chest. My insicions look super thin and the nips look great too.
Overall, my experience with Dr Tuve and his team was great! Here are my main pros and cons:
Pros - Cheaper and high quality results! - Very lovely nurses and Dr. I felt I was in good hands. - They are happy to answer any questions, post op and pre op. - The clinic is very nice. Felt like I was in a hotel! - You do not need to be on T or have a gender dysphoria diagnosis. These things can help the process, but are absolutely not necessary.
Cons - Most documents were in Swedish and I had to translate them using Google Translate. You can call up the clinic to ask questions, but I am not good with phone calls! - The documents/help sheets aren't super clear on post op care, it is mostly for pre op information - Sometimes a lack of communication, such as with the lost prescription.
I hope this helps anyone!

Hi all,
I'm trying to create a custom field for volume made up of 4 parts (length, width, height and units). I'm thinking that extending the models.JSONField class makes the most sense.
Does anyone have any experience with doing this or another suggestion on how to achieve the same result?
I've implemented what I think is correct. However, I keep getting this error:
TypeError: Field.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'encoder'
Below are the relevant project files.
inventory/models.py

from django.db import models from tpt.fields import VolumeField class Measurement(models.Model): volumne = VolumeField() 

tpt/fields.py

from django.db import models from tpt import forms class VolumeField(models.JSONField): description = 'Package volume field in 3 dimensions' def __init__(self, length=None, width=None, height=None, units=None, *args, **kwargs): self.widget_args = { "length": length, "width": width, "height": height, "unit_choices": units, } super(VolumeField, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) def formfield(self, **kwargs): defaults = {"form_class": forms.VolumeWidgetField} defaults.update(kwargs) defaults.update(self.widget_args) return super(VolumeField, self).formfield(**defaults) 

tpt/forms.py

import json from django import forms class VolumeWidget(forms.widgets.MultiWidget): def __init__(self, attrs=None): widgets = [forms.NumberInput(), forms.NumberInput(), forms.NumberInput(), forms.TextInput()] super(VolumeWidget, self).__init__(widgets, attrs) def decompress(self, value): if value: return json.loads(value) else: return [0, 0, 0, ''] class VolumeWidgetField(forms.fields.MultiValueField): widget = VolumeWidget def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): list_fields = [forms.fields.CharField(max_length=8), forms.fields.CharField(max_length=8), forms.fields.CharField(max_length=8), forms.fields.CharField(max_length=4)] super(VolumeWidgetField, self).__init__(list_fields, *args, **kwargs) def compress(self, values): return json.dumps(values) 

I'm able to run the server but when I try and add a new entry to the Measurement Model in Admin I get this error:

[13/May/2024 11:57:59] "GET /admin/inventory/measurement/ HTTP/1.1" 200 12250 Internal Server Error: /admin/inventory/measurement/add/ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/core/handlers/exception.py", line 55, in inner response = get_response(request) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 197, in _get_response response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py", line 716, in wrapper return self.admin_site.admin_view(view)(*args, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/utils/decorators.py", line 188, in _view_wrapper result = _process_exception(request, e) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/utils/decorators.py", line 186, in _view_wrapper response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/views/decorators/cache.py", line 80, in _view_wrapper response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/sites.py", line 240, in inner return view(request, *args, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py", line 1945, in add_view return self.changeform_view(request, None, form_url, extra_context) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/utils/decorators.py", line 48, in _wrapper return bound_method(*args, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/utils/decorators.py", line 188, in _view_wrapper result = _process_exception(request, e) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/utils/decorators.py", line 186, in _view_wrapper response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py", line 1804, in changeform_view return self._changeform_view(request, object_id, form_url, extra_context) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py", line 1838, in _changeform_view fieldsets = self.get_fieldsets(request, obj) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py", line 404, in get_fieldsets return [(None, {"fields": self.get_fields(request, obj)})] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py", line 395, in get_fields form = self._get_form_for_get_fields(request, obj) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py", line 786, in _get_form_for_get_fields return self.get_form(request, obj, fields=None) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py", line 837, in get_form return modelform_factory(self.model, **defaults) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/forms/models.py", line 652, in modelform_factory return type(form)(class_name, (form,), form_class_attrs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/forms/models.py", line 310, in __new__ fields = fields_for_model( ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/forms/models.py", line 239, in fields_for_model formfield = formfield_callback(f, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py", line 228, in formfield_for_dbfield return db_field.formfield(**kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/Development/django/tpt/tpt/fields.py", line 22, in formfield return super(VolumeField, self).formfield(**defaults) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/db/models/fields/json.py", line 159, in formfield return super().formfield( ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py", line 1145, in formfield return form_class(**defaults) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/Development/django/tpt/tpt/forms.py", line 26, in __init__ super(VolumeWidgetField, self).__init__(list_fields, *args, **kwargs) File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/forms/fields.py", line 1087, in __init__ super().__init__(**kwargs) TypeError: Field.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'encoder' [13/May/2024 11:58:01] "GET /admin/inventory/measurement/add/ HTTP/1.1" 500 179729 [13/May/2024 11:57:59] "GET /admin/inventory/measurement/ HTTP/1.1" 200 12250 Internal Server Error: /admin/inventory/measurement/add/ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/core/handlers/exception.py", line 55, in inner response = get_response(request) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 197, in _get_response response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py", line 716, in wrapper return self.admin_site.admin_view(view)(*args, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/utils/decorators.py", line 188, in _view_wrapper result = _process_exception(request, e) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/utils/decorators.py", line 186, in _view_wrapper response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/views/decorators/cache.py", line 80, in _view_wrapper response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/sites.py", line 240, in inner return view(request, *args, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py", line 1945, in add_view return self.changeform_view(request, None, form_url, extra_context) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/utils/decorators.py", line 48, in _wrapper return bound_method(*args, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/utils/decorators.py", line 188, in _view_wrapper result = _process_exception(request, e) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/utils/decorators.py", line 186, in _view_wrapper response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py", line 1804, in changeform_view return self._changeform_view(request, object_id, form_url, extra_context) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py", line 1838, in _changeform_view fieldsets = self.get_fieldsets(request, obj) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py", line 404, in get_fieldsets return [(None, {"fields": self.get_fields(request, obj)})] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py", line 395, in get_fields form = self._get_form_for_get_fields(request, obj) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py", line 786, in _get_form_for_get_fields return self.get_form(request, obj, fields=None) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py", line 837, in get_form return modelform_factory(self.model, **defaults) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/forms/models.py", line 652, in modelform_factory return type(form)(class_name, (form,), form_class_attrs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/forms/models.py", line 310, in __new__ fields = fields_for_model( ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/forms/models.py", line 239, in fields_for_model formfield = formfield_callback(f, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/options.py", line 228, in formfield_for_dbfield return db_field.formfield(**kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/Development/django/tpt/tpt/fields.py", line 22, in formfield return super(VolumeField, self).formfield(**defaults) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/db/models/fields/json.py", line 159, in formfield return super().formfield( ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py", line 1145, in formfield return form_class(**defaults) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Users/stu/Development/django/tpt/tpt/forms.py", line 26, in __init__ super(VolumeWidgetField, self).__init__(list_fields, *args, **kwargs) File "/Users/stu/.local/share/virtualenvs/storefront-QvD1zd1X/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/forms/fields.py", line 1087, in __init__ super().__init__(**kwargs) TypeError: Field.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'encoder' [13/May/2024 11:58:01] "GET /admin/inventory/measurement/add/ HTTP/1.1" 500 179729 

I've tried extending models.CharField to test but I'm then getting an error CharFields must define a 'max_length' attribute. and when I do specify a max_length I get a similar result to the JSONField but with max_length instead of encode: TypeError: Field.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'max_length'
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Stu

As seen from several posts, yesterday in Charlotte was a complete shitshow due to severe storms. I was flying CAE - CLT - PHL. Arrived in CLT at 3:30pm with a connection at 4:39, that was originally delayed 30 min. I'm EXP and have the CC so I went into the AC to wait out the delay and that's when the craziness hit. Huge storms rolled in and caused a ground stop, the plane that I was supposed to take to PHL was diverted to CAE (Ironically) and never made it due to further delays and the pilot timing out. I got the cancel notification and within 2-3 minutes got an update on the app that I was rebooked on the 8:14pm to PHL that was at that time delayed 40 minutes. Weather continued and the 6:15pm and 10:25pm PHL flights were canceled but the flight I was on was still active. My flight got pushed out again to 10:00pm. I left the Lounge and went to the gate a few minute before boarding was supposed to start and saw the chaos of delays with the customer service line several hundred ppl deep. Just before we were supposed to board, they canceled the flight, making that the 4th and last flight to PHL to cancel. I was originally pissed since I was on the first flight to cancel but am now 3 canceled flights behind everyone else for rebooking. I called the AA number and got the if you wanna call back in 50-70 minutes press one, to stay on hold press 2, stayed on hold and within 5 min had a rep on the line helping me. She looked at options and originally wanted to put me on CLT - ROC at 10:43pm (flight delayed and didn't wind up getting in until 2:30am) and then a 6am ROC-PHL. While looking at that she said "Oh wait, the system just booked you for tomorrow morning 9:15am CLT - CHS - PHL with a 12:30pm arrival in PHL. So I took that.
I say all of this to show that status matters when shit hits the fan, and most of this was completely out of AA's control. AA did their best to accommodate me as best they could in both situations, and I was able to limit my delay and time spent waiting around. I know my experience was not what many had to endure last night, but if it wasn't for status there is no way I would have been rebooked on the first flight and then again within 15 minutes of the last cancelation. I'm not trying to be an AA apologist, but shit happens and the airline is not out to get you if they cant put you on the very next flight out.

My boyfriend and I met 6 years ago and started dating 4 years ago. We were good friends by the time we started dating so mutually agreed that we would be entering into a serious relationship with marriage on the table. He is the love of my life and someone I can see a future with. We’re aligned on so many things and he’s funny, loving, supportive, and an overall good partner, we take time to understand each other and I’ve always felt very safe and respected with him. For context, I come from a traditional family who is strongly against living with a partner before marriage, and its important to me to adhere to this one request made by them which I made this very clear to him from the get go. His family also has similar views so I thought he understood this. About 2 years into the relationship, his parents decided that I was no longer a suitable partner for him, for reasons yet unknown to me, and have been encouraging him to break up with me since. He told me when it happened that while it’s important that his family accepts me, he doesn’t agree with their views, so he would like to pursue this relationship with the intent of marriage in the future. Fast forward 2 years, we’ve been discussing getting married, but every time it comes up he says he’s ready but still needs time to either convince his family, or feel financially ready. While both of these are valid reasons I agree with, I’ve heard some variation of them for a while now, to the point where we even decided to pick a date for summer 2023 and then he flaked on it because he wasn’t ready yet. I love him and I understand he’s in a tough position with his family not really being accepting of me, but I’m at my wits end. I’m not in a rush to be married soon, all I’ve asked for is a clear time line of when he thinks it would be a good time for him, even if it is 2 or 3 years down the line, so that I know what to expect. I’ve had concerned friends reach out to me saying they hate to see me be treated this way and that I deserve better, and they’re not wrong, but I also see how happy I am in this relationship otherwise. How do I move forward? Any advice or similar experiences would be appreciated.

Most here do the 1.5mm weekly and abstain from topicals for a good 24 hours, some wait just 12.
Others micro-needle at a depth of 0.2-0.4mm daily or near daily in order to enhance their absorption rates more directly than the once a week approach.
Both arguably provide different benefits.
After my last post I got persuaded to get on the Minoxidil as that is undoubtedly effective for responders. I probably won’t be applying Minoxidil after a deep treatment, around .3/.4mm+ but might perform the increased absorption technique here and there.
So that left me with the question of how to optimize condition or processes of the scalp when I do the intensive sessions. I researched quite a few different compounds in this avenue. Unfortunately most microneedling serums are made with the skin of the face in mind.
Eventually I managed to find a few different serums that might prove effacacious. While they probably wont provide the results of any of the compounds in the Nuclear stack. I still firmly believe they provide better conditions for hair growth than the alternative, which is just causing a lot of trauma and then relying on the body’s natural response to grant the desired effect, which obviously work. But .
I wonder if it wouldn’t be more effective if we introduced some compounds that activated beneficial pathways, provided the nutrients for growth or something along those lines?
While it’s quite hard to find serums containing ceramides, EGFs and FGFs, and when you do find them, reasonable priced.
Do you guys know if there is a big difference in the ceramides and EGFs used for skin and hair? Or are they simply the same by large?
Nano Recipe seems quite interesting as they sell many of the following in concentrated forms and designed to be added to creams and products already used by the consumer.
Compounds or serums that looked interesting in conjunction with Microneedling.
Following benefits provided by Chat GPT.
Copper Peptides:

• Stimulate Hair Growth: Promote angiogenesis and increase blood flow to hair follicles.
• Collagen Production: Enhance collagen and elastin synthesis, strengthening the scalp's structural integrity.
• Anti-inflammatory: Reduce inflammation, speeding up the healing process of microneedling-induced injuries.

EGF:

• Cell Proliferation: Stimulates the proliferation and differentiation of hair follicle cells.
• Wound Healing: Accelerates the repair of micro-injuries caused by microneedling.
• Collagen and Elastin Production: Improves scalp health and supports the structural foundation for hair growth.

FGF:

• Hair Follicle Development: Promotes the growth and differentiation of hair follicle cells.
• Angiogenesis: Enhances the formation of new blood vessels, improving nutrient and oxygen delivery to hair follicles.
• Regeneration: Supports the regeneration and repair of damaged hair follicles.

HS microneedling serum - Control Hair and Scalp:
Ceramides:

• Barrier Function: Strengthen the scalp's lipid barrier, preventing moisture loss and protecting against external irritants.
• Hydration: Maintain optimal scalp hydration, promoting a healthy scalp environment.
• Scalp Health: Support a balanced, hydrated scalp conducive to hair growth.

Pep Factor: Very Expensive Hair clinic treatment, Multi Peptide Formular, around 100-150 for one treatment for at home needling.
Hydration Serums/Compounds:

• Moisture Retention: Ensure the scalp remains hydrated, preventing dryness and improving overall scalp health.
• Improved Elasticity: Enhance the flexibility and resilience of the scalp.
• Healthy Scalp Environment: Create an optimal environment for hair growth by maintaining adequate moisture levels.

That's funny "meme stock rally fizzles". Way to embolden the community to rally even more just to prove you wrong. This is where you separate the wolves from the sheeple. Newscasters and Social Media serving their billionaire overlords. You're naive if you think the people that own media companies aren't pushing agendas so they can make money in the stock market. Don't see them getting arrested for insider trading though. Media is no better than those in Capital Hill, passing laws and regulations, and making deals to drive prices in the stock market. Like archers on the front line "hollllldddd"...

I sorted hole sizes of the 36 dodecahedrons that have complete data and listed them sorted by the largest hole size of the dodecahedron.
They are from this research (written in Dutch) which list many dodecahedrons: https://www.robertnouwen.be/boeken/de-gallo-romeinse-pentagon-dodecaeder
Not 1 is the same. I do not see how that can fit any theory that point to some kind of measuring tool, astronomic calendar, agriculture calendar, knitting tool, etc. Change my mind :)
Here is the data, check for yourself. The number at the start of every line, is the id used in the research above.
1: 9.0, 9.5, 13.0, 14.0, 15.0, 15.0, 15.0, 15.0, 15.5, 16.0, 16.5, 17.0,
66: 13.0, 13.0, 13.0, 14.0, 14.0, 15.0, 15.0, 15.0, 15.0, 16.0, 17.0, 18.0,
60: 9.0, 10.0, 11.0, 12.0, 14.0, 17.0, 18.0, 18.0, 18.0, 19.0, 19.0, 21.0,
73: 9.0, 9.5, 13.0, 13.0, 14.0, 14.5, 16.5, 17.5, 18.0, 19.5, 19.5, 21.0,
15: 11.0, 11.0, 14.0, 14.0, 14.0, 16.0, 17.0, 19.0, 19.0, 19.0, 22.0, 22.0,
69: 7.0, 8.0, 10.0, 12.0, 13.0, 15.0, 16.0, 16.0, 16.0, 17.0, 20.0, 22.0,
43: 12.0, 12.0, 13.0, 13.0, 13.0, 14.0, 14.0, 16.0, 22.0, 23.0, 23.0, 23.0,
76: 10.0, 10.0, 11.0, 12.0, 13.0, 14.0, 17.0, 20.0, 21.5, 21.5, 22.0, 23.0,
29: 6.0, 7.0, 9.0, 10.0, 11.0, 12.5, 13.0, 13.5, 14.0, 14.0, 16.0, 23.5,
9: 12.0, 12.0, 14.0, 15.0, 16.0, 16.0, 16.0, 17.0, 20.0, 20.0, 24.0, 24.0,
16: 7.0, 8.0, 11.0, 11.0, 11.0, 11.0, 13.0, 16.0, 16.0, 16.0, 24.0, 24.0,
44: 9.0, 13.0, 13.0, 16.0, 17.0, 18.0, 21.0, 22.0, 22.0, 23.0, 24.0, 24.0,
50: 10.0, 10.0, 10.0, 10.0, 11.0, 12.0, 15.0, 15.0, 15.0, 16.0, 22.0, 24.0,
51: 13.5, 14.0, 14.0, 15.0, 19.0, 20.0, 20.0, 22.0, 22.0, 22.0, 23.0, 24.0,
63: 9.0, 11.5, 12.0, 15.0, 16.0, 17.0, 18.0, 19.0, 19.0, 20.0, 23.0, 24.0,
25: 8.5, 10.0, 12.5, 12.5, 13.5, 15.0, 17.0, 17.5, 17.5, 18.5, 22.5, 24.5,
12: 11.9, 12.2, 12.5, 12.8, 13.2, 14.4, 15.5, 16.7, 16.8, 17.3, 24.0, 25.0,
30: 12.0, 13.0, 14.0, 14.0, 14.0, 18.0, 19.0, 20.0, 20.0, 23.0, 24.0, 25.0,
39: 9.0, 12.0, 12.0, 12.0, 13.0, 15.0, 17.0, 17.0, 21.0, 21.0, 23.0, 25.0,
6: 12.0, 12.6, 12.8, 13.0, 13.4, 13.5, 14.5, 14.5, 24.5, 25.0, 25.0, 25.5,
75: 9.5, 10.0, 12.5, 14.0, 14.0, 15.0, 15.0, 19.0, 24.0, 24.5, 25.0, 26.5,
3: 10.6, 13.0, 13.8, 14.0, 15.6, 17.8, 20.3, 20.5, 23.0, 25.2, 26.3, 27.0,
4: 10.0, 12.0, 12.0, 13.0, 13.0, 13.0, 14.0, 16.0, 16.0, 20.0, 24.0, 27.0,
10: 12.0, 16.0, 16.0, 16.0, 18.0, 21.0, 21.0, 21.0, 21.0, 21.0, 27.0, 27.0,
74: 9.0, 10.0, 11.0, 12.0, 12.0, 12.0, 14.0, 19.0, 23.0, 24.0, 25.0, 27.0,
41: 12.0, 13.0, 17.0, 18.0, 20.0, 20.0, 23.0, 23.0, 25.0, 27.0, 27.0, 28.0,
67: 15.0, 15.0, 18.0, 20.0, 20.0, 20.0, 20.0, 21.0, 22.0, 25.0, 28.0, 28.0,
27: 10.0, 12.0, 14.0, 16.0, 17.0, 17.0, 22.0, 22.0, 22.0, 22.0, 28.0, 29.0,
36: 14.0, 15.0, 15.0, 16.0, 18.0, 18.0, 20.0, 20.0, 20.0, 22.0, 24.0, 29.0,
45: 11.5, 13.5, 15.0, 15.0, 19.5, 20.0, 20.0, 23.0, 23.0, 24.0, 30.0, 30.0,
23: 10.0, 12.0, 12.0, 13.0, 13.0, 15.0, 16.0, 17.0, 17.0, 20.0, 24.5, 31.0,
8: 6.0, 10.0, 11.0, 14.0, 14.0, 14.0, 17.0, 17.0, 17.0, 18.0, 30.0, 32.0,
17: 10.5, 12.0, 16.0, 16.5, 19.0, 20.5, 21.0, 21.0, 21.5, 21.5, 30.0, 32.0,
26: 10.0, 12.0, 16.0, 16.0, 18.0, 20.0, 24.0, 27.0, 27.0, 27.0, 27.0, 32.0,
55: 16.0, 19.0, 22.0, 23.0, 25.0, 26.0, 27.0, 29.0, 30.0, 30.0, 38.0, 40.0,
57: 28.0, 30.0, 32.0, 32.0, 33.0, 34.0, 35.0, 35.0, 35.0, 36.0, 38.0, 40.0,

I have an amateur background in game design, concept artist, study game design, work in education, and honestly obsessed with game design as a whole. Heros, cards, mechanics, systems etc, etc, I’m very passionate about it and I don’t want to sound pompous cause i am aware to how the “oh I KNOW about game design” sounds, but I am serious about it so I don’t want this to sound like it comes from ignorance.
Here’s the list of changes, tell me what stands out, ideas, etc..
General- ultimate Charge rates need to be increased significantly, cooldowns should not carry over between rounds. Healing across the board needs to be reduced slightly which I will go into in each character suggestion for Strategist. (If not mentioned the healing stays the same)
Give players more information- damage numbers, stats, healing numbers, ability explanations, Etc..
Teamups need to be reworked or removed from the game all together. They should be flavorful add ons, not so important that they make or break a charcater like magneto and scarlet witch or almost useless like Magik and black panther, or massively oppressive like punisher and rocket.
Seasonal buffs need to be removed. They are not enjoyed in any game they have ever been in, and creates artificial metas. Also defeats the purpose of the playing your favorite characters, because it pushes you to play other characters if the seasonal buffs are made too strong.
Melee damage characters need to have movement speed increased above normal speeds to help chase and not get backpedaled by other characters. Black panther, spiderman, hulk, etc.
More signs you are taking damage, either visual effects, screen effects, sounds, etc. sometimes it’s hard to tell where or who is damaging you and makes the game feel floaty.
Possible suggestion- add “power” health- a new type of health that can replace a portion of characters like vanguards health bars, that reduce instances of damage by a percentage. Rapid damage instances will be reduced more than single shots.
Example: A fast hitting attack that does 10 damage multiple times will be reduced more than an instance of damage that does 70 damage 1 time.
Similar to armor in other games. Example- hulk health: 400HP+200 power= 600 total on health bar.
Add a universal HP regen when out of combat for a certain time period.
Add a role lock or Queue system, at least in competitive play. Unbalanced teams are un-fun to play against and un-fun to play with.
Hulk- put his leap on a cooldown, dealing damage when he lands. Remove the targeter and make it a leap in the direction he is looking with a set distance about the maximum length of the current jump if not a little less. Also let him aim it down to target people next to him.
Start the game and respawn as the hulk instead of Banner. Makes getting out of spawn after dying take way too long to return to the fight and serves no real purpose compared to other vanguard.
Remove the radioactive lockdown ability, and replace it with something new. Doesn’t feel like a “hulk” ability.
Ability concept Suggestion: a stomp that leaves a jagged rock wall going forward and up in a line that knocks up enemies and damages them. Leaving the wall in place as an obstacle that can be destroyed or that last a short duration before breaking.
Vanguards are all about controlling the area; and right now hulk just doesn’t do that, he feels like a giant duelist who’s doesn’t do any damage.
Gamma burst- reduce damage, now pierces enemies.
Increase melee damage slightly.
Overall the hulk doesn’t feel powerful like the hulk should, I feel like these changes can fix that problem.
Magento- Replace his primary fire with the greatsword from his team up. Reduce the damage, cleave width and range.
Metal bulwark- can now place it on himself as well as Allies.
Metallic curtain- blocking damage adds to megnetos metal rings.
New passive- hold jump button to float into the air, doing so slowly consumes metal rings. Can no longer slowly descend.
Team up (if they are kept in the game)- scarlet witch makes metal malwark deal damage in the area around it when destroyed or when it ends.
Peni Parker- Make being pulled to her web a cooldown that can be activated, instead of being a certain distance away. Current form of set distance feels very clunky, and awkward to use in regular gameplay.
Reduce the amount of mines placeable, and damage of arachno-mines. Limit amount of mines to either 5 or 6. I stopped counting when I had 14 mines on the ground at the same time.
Make arachno-mines able to be destroyed by shooting them. Mines inside the webs are now invisible.
Mines from the ultimate are not limited in amount.
Doctor strange- Reduce damage on primary fire.
Groot- Reduce the amount of walls that can be placed. 1 for each wall type at a time. Cooldown of each wall starts when walls are retrieved or destroyed.
Walls now also have a duration.
I know the initial idea of him building ramps and connecting walls was cool, but in practice it just provides too much ability spam potential instead of building like intended, and that many obstacles in the game at one time that can be used rapidly makes some matches purely unplayable.
Reduce damage of primary fire to be more similar to hulk. ( no reason Groot should have more damage at a longer range)
Ironwood wall health reduced to 600 from 900.
Reduce damage Groot Ultimate does significantly, almost to nothing. Around 50 damage on initial hit and ticks of 5 damage for its duration.
Storm- Make movement similar to magneto, where she floats on the ground. And an activated flight can be turned on and off with an ability key-bind with a 1.5 second cooldown between activations, but consumes no resource, just a different movement type.
Increase base movement speed in the air while flying.
Enemies hit by the Lightning strikes on goddess boost, receive a chain lightning debuff. When they are hit by bolt rush, a chain lightning bolt will arc to nearby enemies who also have the new debuff. But for reduced damage of the initial bolt rush.
Black panther- Reduce cooldown on sprint rend to 8 seconds from 12 seconds.
Increase amount of spears to 3.
Remove spinning kick and replace with a new ability to help him initiate attacks and stay alive.
Suggestion: vibranium shielding-black panther crosses his arms and reduces his movement speed slightly. Creating a small shield that only covers his own body that floats in front of him. This blocks damage all frontal damage and last 2 seconds. Does not block melee damage.
This ability would have a 8 second cooldown.
If spinning kick is not removed, make it aim-able in any direction similar to sprint rend.
Sprint tend cooldown is refunded if a KO is achieved with it, no matter if a vibranium mark was applied.
Bast’s decent resets sprint rend cooldown when it is used.
Increase primary fire melee damage and range to be more inline with other melee characters. Reduce attack speed.
Make subtle step a passive like spider-man or Peni Parker. Feels too clunky to be on a cooldown and doesn’t make sense.
Iron man- Make movement the same as storm new movement I suggested above. Always flying feels like a detriment to the player and does not feel good to play.
Increase direct hit damage of his primary fire.
Keep direct damage as it is now in armor overdrive.
Increase damage of micro missle barrage and make it usable in Ironman’s regular mode, not just flying or overdrive.
Scarlet Witch- Reduce sensitivity of chaos control lock on. Slightly Increase the rate of chaos energy gained.
Mystic projection charges reduced to 1 and now is a single use ability cooldown reduced to 7 seconds from 8 seconds.
Starlord- Primary fire Damage fall off increased (should do less damage at longer ranges)
Primary fire spread increased slightly.
Suggestion: replace blaster barrage with a new ability. This ability is essentially a “I win” button, which feels really bad to play against this strong of an ability that isn’t even an ultimate.
Suggestion: an element gun element switch that have different effects for a few seconds when switched (not constant) fire, ice, shock, etc.. which activate after hitting a certain amount of shots on a enemy.
Effects would be up to devs.
If not removed than the damage should be reduced.
Punisher- Primary fire Damage fall off increased (does less damage at longer range)
Primary fire Spread increases the longer the trigger is held down, starting when the magazine reaches 20 rounds and ramps up on continuous trigger hold.
Stopping the trigger pull will reset the spread.
Shotgun damage reduced significantly, headshot multiplier reduced, damage fall off increased, spread of pellets increased.
Ultimate should have wider spread, doesn’t make sense he can laser beam people across the map. Also increased damage fall off.
Turret health reduced to 400.
Hela- Primary fire Damage fall off increased.
Primary fire damage decreased
Ultimate damage decreased, ultimate duration decreased (maximum 4 Nastrond crows can be fired.)
Blast radius of Ultimate decreased, makes the player be more accurate to get KOs with it.
Magik- no longer gains bonus health on primary fire melee attack or quick melee attack but these melee attacks heal Magik if she is below full health for the same amount of bonus health previously gained: 13 HP.
Bonus health received for dealing ability damage is increased slightly.
Primary fire melee attack speed increased slightly.
Spider-Man- No changes needed that I can currently tell. These other changes should make the character more reliable when playing.
Namor- Character needs to be reworked from the ground up. Does not feel like I’m playing Namor or feel like a comic book character. Decent viability, but boring design.
If the same playstyle is kept, give him different turret types, (fast firing fish, water barrier turtle, slower fire rate octopus that gets an incsreaed attack from wrath of the seven seas) allow him to move while shielding himself and does increased damage with wrath of the seven seas, but has a longer cooldown.
Loki- No longer receives full ultimate ability when transforming, but has a massively increased charge rate.
When KO’d in his ultimate, he no longer is eliminated but reverts back to Loki.
Reduce the amount of healing and damage illusions do.
Regeneration domain- renamed “untouchable domain” no longer heals from damages received, but character inside can no longer be damaged.
Hela and Loki team up removed from the game, or when activated goes into a long cooldown.
Mantis- Ultimate no longer is a heal over time, but a large bonus health shield that is applied to all Allie’s in range. Keeps the same duration.
Movement speed of the ultimate stays the same.
Her current ultimate Feels way too similar to Luna snow ultimate and when used together or back to back feels really unfun to play against.
Luna Snow- Ultimate duration reduced from 12 seconds to 7.
Healing reduced for primary fire.
Healing from share the stage stays the same. So percentage would be increased to accommodate the reeducation of primary fire healing.
Rocket raccoon- Primary fire damage reduced, projectile speed increased. Now has significant damage fall off at longer ranges.
Healing reduced from secondary fire repair mode. But increased if the orb fired is closer to the ally they are healing. (Rewards accuracy)
B.R.B.- now has a duration. (Maybe 30 seconds)
Recall cooldown increased to 10 seconds from 5.
Cooldown increased to 35 seconds on revive from 25 seconds.
Punisher team up removed from the game.

Tldr: A critical SYNDE coalition home hole is burned to the ground by HAWKS and hundreds of billions are lost or safelogged.

On Starting Points

One of the more contentious elements of any major conflict is identifying when, precisely, it actually began. In EVE, as IRL, that is particularly challenging given the breadth of metagaming which takes place. Did the Wormhole War begin when SYNDE decided last summer that they wanted to replace HAWKS as the dominant high-class wormhole group and committed to making that a reality? Did it begin when they solidified their alliance with the Initiative? When they build their wormhole coalition? When they seeded HAWKS home with capitals? Any of those, had they been out in the open, would likely have triggered open hostilities. But those plans and the steps towards their ultimate objective were carefully and smartly hidden from view.
The widespread SYNDE coalition assault on HAWKS C5 and C6 holes began on March 24^th. With the information we now have available to us, the real start of the war was likely the eviction of Voidlings during the first week of March 2024. HAWKS and their future allies were almost certainly unaware of the significance of that eviction, but leaked internal SYNDE comms put truth to the notion that SYNDE viewed that as a critical first step in isolating and crippling HAWKS. It was, then, the first overt act of war by SYNDE – though its place in that broader campaign remained shrouded for several weeks.
Voidlings is a small to midsize wormhole group. A few years ago, they were a growing low class wormhole group living in a C2 with HS and C3 statics. In 2022, they moved into a new home, a C5 wormhole with a C5 static. For non-wormholers, nearly every high class PVP group lives in a C5 with a C5 static. C5 space is both where the majority of high class farms are. The abundance of C5 statics means that living on the “C5 Highway” is often the best route to all forms of high class pvp and pve content. Honor brawls also almost exclusively take place in C5 holes.
So Voidlings grew from a low-class group into a high-class group, and they continued recruiting in an effort to become one of the relevant high class PVP groups. Their zkillboard suggests they participated in most traditional high class activities – farming, feeding, fighting, evicting, ganking, skirmishing. It appears they were supported during this period of growth by one or more HAWKS members. As a result of this affiliation they were not approached by SYNDE during their coalition-building period. Instead, they were marked for pre-war eviction both to be a preliminary test of coalition coordination and also to eliminate a potential HAWKS ally. Isolating HAWKS was key to the entire war plan.
SYNDE began seeding the Voidlings home with dreads in Feb 2024, ultimately bringing in 6 to support their eviction. At the appropriate time, a robust joint fleet led by SYNDE but also including key coalition allies TURBO and Stay Feral infiltrated the Voidlings home hole, installed a staging POS and began their eviction. They diligently held hole control, adding another half-dozen capital ships to their arsenal over the next several hours. A Voidlings eviction seemed inevitable, as they simply lacked the manpower and experience needed to prevent a collection of wormhole groups that large from evicting them. As is often the case when a home hole is under threat of eviction, batphones rang out across wormhole space. HAWKS, NOVAC and SL0W answered the call for Voidlings. The future SYNDE coalition was on already on standby to support this eviction if necessary, as well as future neutral LUPUS. SYNDE had also secured a commitment from the Initiative to support should the need arise.
At first, it did not appears that the batphoning was likely to change anything. SYNDE maintained diligent hole control, not permitting either Voidlings or any allies from bringing in ships or pilots via the Voidlings static. HAWKS rage rolled from their home to get into the Voidlings home, but was unsuccessful.
For the non-wormholers, when you rage roll a C5 static in order to connect with a specific C5 wormhole, you have a 1 in 531 chance of getting connected to that specific hole with each rage roll. Rolling into a specific hole requires days of 24/7 rage rolling and even then the odds are against you. Wormhole groups really only engage in this level of commitment for really high-level situations, such as the historical eviction of HK’s home hole Rage back in 2018.
Midway through the eviction, however, a frig hole popped connecting the Voidlings home with Horde space. HAWKS, NOVAC and SL0W immediately burned in shuttles to that frig hole, and SYNDE was unable to stop the vast majority of them from jumping into the hole and docking in the besieged Voidlings fort.
Voidlings leadership distributed their home defense handout Ravens to their comrades and the stage was set for a glorious home eviction defense fight. SYNDE and friends had a large 100-ship Barghest fleet supported by nearly a dozen capitals (dreads/fax) while Voidlings and friends could field 100 cruise Ravens with FAX logi and nearly two dozen long-range dreads. Range control and capital placement was understood by both sides’ FCs to be critical to the outcome of the fight. SYNDE had a fleet advantage, but one that could be overcome. Unbeknownst to the Voidlings side, once the frig hole popped SYNDE leadership had invoked their war alliance with Initiative, The Initative pinged and mobilized a 200-man Tengu fleet, travelling quickly to the wormhole chain’s entrance. Jumping in, the Initiative fleet docked in a nearby SYNDE farm and waited.
As a critical citadel timer approached, SYNDE FC Cyrus Kurush fleet warped dreads to range the full Barghest comp along with them. Bubbles exploded all over the grid, aiming to stop the Voidlings defense fleet from warping to a good position. This was an effective stratagem, as SYNDE knew that the Voidlings defense fleet would rely on FAX logi – so pinging around grid was not a viable option. The Voidlings fleet needed a clean warp-in, to a position favorable for their cruise Ravens. The dreads began bashing the fortizar, forcing the Voidlings fleet to commit the fleet or watch their citadel burn. The Ravens and their FAX logi aligned and warped, accepting a mediocre initial position that would permit the SYNDE dreads to apply well. Once the FAX landed, the HAWKS FC leading the Voidlings fleet called for all dreads to undock, and they were warped in to support this all-in defense effort. Those dreads landed, activated siege modules, and began primarying the SYNDE dreads.
After one SYNDE dread exploded and another started taking damage, the trap was sprung. Reports on both comms noted that a 200-man tengu fleet was on dscan. Confusion turned into delight on SYNDE comms and resigned frustration on Voidlings comms as the Initiative fleet landed on grid and immediately began fragging Ravens. What might have been a closely-fought battle quickly turned into a complete rout. Voidlings was able to extract a small number of dreads – but the butcher’s toll was a heavy one. Voidlings – having supplied all the ships used by the defenders – lost the entire Raven fleet and nearly all the capitals, for a total of 327b lost against 1117b killed. https://br.evetools.org/related/31001880/202403020300
The remainder of the eviction proceeded to plan, and all Voidlings citadels were destroyed. SYNDE celebrated a successful test run of their broader vision and campaign. In recent leaks that cover the aftermath, SYNDE lead Cyrus Kurush noted that although SYNDE had shown they could take on HAWKS alone, they would take advantage of their massive alliance to simply speed the broader war goal of taking all the HAWKS high class farms and taking their rightful place atop a New Wormhole Oder.

On Rallying Cries and Motivations

This leads to another critical element for how the war would unfold. Wars in EVE are won by motivated pilots first, and a war chest second. For some time, SYNDE and their primary allies had planted the seeds of resentment towards HAWKS among their members. This is not a challenging task, as most wormhole groups generally dislike each other to begin with. In casus belli discussions with HAWKS immediately prior to the war, and in coalition and leadership meetings with their side, SYNDE was fairly consistent about their war aims: take all HAWKS C6 farms, take HAWKS C5 farms, and take HAWKS home. Those farms were to be distributed to SYNDE and their allies, although the specifics were studiously avoided in discussions.
The leak of the SYNDE pre-war CTA gives real insight into members motivations going into the war. Typically, pre-war CTA meetings in EVE are full of hype, energy and enthusiasm. The Synde CTA, by contrast, seemed a much more pragmatic event. Members were concerned about their current farms, about the plan to deploy out of home and into a C6 staging, about working with blues, and about their ability to participate in NPSI fleets during the war. SYNDE lead Cyrus Kurush needed to make clear several times that the expectation was that even though many SYNDE members were also members of other LS and NS groups, they were expected to devote their full effort and focus to the upcoming war against HAWKS. It is almost impossible to take away from that CTA meeting anything other than a rather shocking lack of enthusiasm for the war from SYNDE line members.

The War in Heaven

On the other hand, HAWKS motivations were much easier to discern. This War presented an existential threat. In the eyes of the SYNDE coalition, HAWKS farms and home were both forfeit. Everything they had built over the preceding decade was destined for destruction. Isolated and outnumbered, this would be the ultimate test of HAWKS members’ commitment. The sudden and shocking rebirth of Hard Knocks was mirrored by a large number of longterm HAWKS members also resubbing.
Another critical and perhaps overlooked element of motivations on HAWKS side was the war vs peace element. Although “peace” in wormhole space is a decidedly violent affair in general, with pretty much every group killing every other group on a daily basis, it had been many years since there was a major, sustained conflict in wormhole space. Nullsec often differentiates between “Skirmish FCs” and “Strat FCs”, with the former leading normal day-to-day fleets of battlecruiser sized ships or smaller, and the latter leading the heavy fleets, cap fleets, super fleets or the sizeable, complicated fleets deployed in major conflicts. In the cartel world that is wormhole space, it might be more appropriate to differentiate between “Territory FCs” and “War FCs”. The former freely leads the wide range of fleets that fight, gank, camp and brawl throughout wormhole space on a daily basis. The latter wants to lead larger, more complicated fleets in direct support of a broader strategic initiative. In gaming as IRL, it is normal for highly skilled players to want to be challenged – and at some point, the normal day-to-day fights no longer satisfies those urges. In some cases, that leads to corps fading away (HK), in others, it leads to limited participation (many HAWKS members/FCs).
When this Wormhole War kicked off, it was promptly dubbed “The War in Heaven” by the HAWKS/HK side. This name refers directly to the biblical conflict between two rival groups of Angels – that led by Michael, and that led by Satan. Revelation 12:7-10:

7 Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. 8 But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. 9 The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

It is not particularly challenging to figure out which side HAWKS was associating themselves with, given that the name of their CEO is Michael1995.
Perhaps more pragmatically, among members in both HAWKS and the reborn HK, this war was indeed a gift from Heaven above – a chance to dive into a massive, complicated campaign against a foe who was willing to violate wormhole norms in order to achieve their goals. During the first two weeks when HAWKS farms were burning, there is a sense that many of the HAWKS and HK leads were genuinely giddy about the opportunity to take the field and leverage all their accumulated skills, knowledge and experience against an increasingly-reviled opponent. Yes, things looked dire from the outside but internally, there was a mixture of enthusiasm and cautious optimism.

Headshots and Flipping

During normal wormhole fights, both brawls and skirmishes, it is generally considered poor form to headshot the other side’s FC. It happens sometimes, but is definitely looked down upon in the wormhole community. This is the sort of norm that disappears in the context of a large war, or any sort of existential threat situation.
At the strategic level, “headshotting” generally refers to destroying or debilitating the other side’s capacity to fight by taking home holes or staging holes. This would be a key element in the HAWKS strategy, and one surprisingly absent from the SYNDE side. From the very first week, HAWKS looked to take advantage of any opportunity, however fleeting, to headshot SYNDE and their allies. The early ATRAX eviction was the first example of this. It would not be the last, not by a long shot.
Another key tactic is flipping. Not flipping as in changing sides, but rather flipping as in unanchoring and then re-anchoring an Upwell citadel. Recall that when a citadel dies in a wormhole, every pilot’s possessions that remain in that citadel drop as loot cans on the grid. 100% loot drop, 100% of the time. Over time, as pilots join and then leave a group, hangar containers accumulate. Over the years, in successful wormhole groups, this frozen hangar trash can reach into the tens or hundreds of billions. This can make evicting a wormhole resident or group an increasingly attractive over time. A hole that has been owned for a year will not have much loot drop. One owned for many years will likely have a great deal more.
Years ago, intrepid wormhole residents realized that a good way to counter this mechanic was to “flip” their citadels: unanchor, get all the AFG/left corp loot for yourself, then re-anchor. There is risk to this, but for a pvp corp that maintains hole control, the risk is quite minimal.
HAWKS had lived in their current home for nearly a decade. A large, successful group like HAWKS accumulates a large amount of hangar wealth over a period like that, much of it frozen as members AFG or leave corp. During the first week of the War, HAWKS recognized this large oversight and unanchored all the structures in their home hole. A neutral observer might have thought that HAWKS were self-evicting. Through their spy, SYNDE knew that they were planning to flip them and stay in the fight. Unwilling to entertain a HAWKS home eviction at this early stage in the war, SYNDE watched as HAWKS unanchored all their citadels and replaced them with a dozen newly anchored fortizars – and clearing their citadel grid of thousands of loot cans. A steady stream of DSTs transiting in and out of HAWKS home confirmed that wealth was quickly transferred out to kspace.
In that first week, by “flipping” their citadels, HAWKS eliminated the majority of the financial incentives that generally come with evicting a pvp corp’s home hole.

Seeding an Apple

During the period where HAWKS farms were burning and SYNDE was soaring, on Tuesday April 2^nd, HAWKS rolled into the SUGAR home hole. Some of SUGAR’s pvp toons were supporting SYNDE, some were farming, others were out participating in NPSI roams in kspace. Few of them were in their home hole. HAWKS sent in a bait RF fleet of a trio of Leshaks while at the same time pinging for a heavy armor Nighthawk fleet. SUGAR panic pinged as the Leshaks began RFing one of the many citadels in their home. With confusion reigning, SUGAR undocked a kitchen sink fleet including armor and shield, capital and subcapital. Once SUGAR began engaging, HAWKS brought in their heavy shield fleet. HAWKS then began dismantling the haphazard SUGAR home defense fleet, as captured in the first 3 minutes of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZKgFPbSaLk
After fragging much of the SUGAR defenders, HAWKS proceeded to reinforce every citadel in the SUGAR home. SUGAR lost 35bn in ships in a one-sided fight. SYNDE was dismayed by the poor SUGAR showing. https://br.evetools.org/b66452e6803aec30012694316
Those structures all repaired over the coming week.
On April 12^th , HAWKS returned and again reinforced all SUGAR structures, this time with no opposition. Following that second round of reinforces, SUGAR pinged and directed its members to return to home and adopt a defensive posture with rigorous hole control to prevent a HAWKS return.
Many SUGAR members by this point were now opposing their corp’s direction. They certainly disliked HAWKS, but they had historically disliked SYNDE and their allies just as much. Joining them struck many members as a short-sighted, unwise adventure. They had actively participated in reinforcing and blowing up HAWKS structures, only to discover that SYNDE was most often dropping replacement citadels as they got cleared. SUGAR line members felt they were doing a lot of work for little or no benefit.
On April 13^th, HAWKS rolled into the SUGAR home hole for a third time – this time with amor timers only hours away. SUGAR immediately sought to roll that incoming wormhole, throwing yacht after yacht at it, as well as a lone praxis. They were able to crit the hole despite losing yachts every few passes.
Sigils are a common ship used most often by Nullsec farmers looking to roll wormholes that threaten their peaceful farming, These Sigils are referred to by wormholers almost universally as “suicide sigils”. The SUGAR FC directed his members to get into Sigils, undock, nullify, and warp to the hole. That hole needed to die. It needed to die now. “Even mains?” one member – Scott Appleblade - inquired. “Even mains,” replied the FC.
Scott hopped into the sigil, and warped to the hole, forgetting to nullify. He landed in the bubble, and was immediately fragged by the HAWKS on grid. https://zkillboard.com/kill/116986540/
Scott, now sitting in Jita, asked for a route back into his home. The FC replied they had no kspace entries at the minute. Scott asked if one could be found. The FC replied not now, quiet, we’re still dealing with this hole. Scott logged off, seething.
Scott had not wanted this war from the very start. Scott had recently upgrade from a Class 3 farm to a Class 5 farm of his own. Scott enjoyed farming combat sites in Leshaks and dreaming of a brighter future. Scott had always dreamed he might one day save up enough to afford a faction FAX: the Loggerhead. He knew they didn’t make much sense and were rarely used, but Scott loved the “Poggerhead” meme. Scott prided himself on his memes. He would often meet people and knew right away that they would become a meme. That was just life, but an elite meme could memorialize that. Scott just wanted to undock from his home fort in a Loggerhead and enjoy the moment. That seemed less and less likely now that the SUGAR home was being reinforced weekly. SUGAR leadership was either absent or, frankly, being dicks. Scott was over it. He had worked too hard. He deserved better. His fellow SUGAR members did, too.
Scott waited until later in the day when he was able to get a kspace entry for his main back into SUGAR’s home chain. He flew his inty in, still seething but with a plan for exacting revenge coalescing in Scott’s mind.
For the non-wormholers, it is important to explain that when you are a member of a wormhole corp, you have a lot more access to corp assets than you likely ever would in a Nullsec or Lowsec corp. Due to wormhole mechanics, wormhole corps almost always have a “Shared” corp hangar in each citadel where commonly used ships and modules are available to all members. This usually includes rolling ships, and handout pvp ships, among other things.
Scott docked in their home fort. He hesitated for a minute as he surveyed those familiar surroundings, but then the rage came back. He just wanted to farm, and now he might lose that. All because of SUGAR leadership. He knew his corp mates understood and would appreciate his actions. Scott proceeded to move everything in the SUGAR shared corp hangar to his personal hangar. He did a double take – he had just acquired over 30b of assets. That would go a long way towards a down payment on the Loggerhead if he could get that to a trade hub.
One good idea begets another, and Scott repackaged every assembled ship he had just taken. He then put the most valuable elements into his two DSTs. He shuttled those out to Jita and back, and then repeated the round trip several times. During the monotony of the transits, Scott realized that nobody – not leadership, not his corp mates – had noticed anything. Even though he was now much wealthier, SUGAR was still in need of a wakeup call.
As he warped to the next wormhole, it hit him – the bookmarks! This is another major difference between Nullsec / Lowsec and wormhole groups. In kspace, one can navigate very easily, or at least with confidence about where you’re going. In wormholes, one needs corp mates scanning wormholes and making bookmarks, basically a temporary map that wormhole pilots use to navigate the ever-changing wormhole landscape. All members need access to those bookmarks, and the ability to create, edit and delete them.
Scott deleted them. All of them. No more going to help SYNDE. No more warping your dread to a safe because HAWKS had bubbled the fort. No more finding your way back after getting rolled out. With no bookmarks, SUGAR would need to stop and consider where they were and why. Scott was pleased with the neat metaphor. At least he thought it was a metaphor. Might also be an analogy. He wasn’t sure, but he was sure it was brilliant.
His DSTs landed on the next hole and Scott jumped. It was then that Scott noticed he had no bookmarks in the next wormhole. That knowledge, combined with his decision not to fit probe launchers on either of his DSTs, was not a positive development. Scott, priding himself on his judgment, weighed his current situation against all he had achieved this evening – over 20b of ships and mods in Jita, and a powerful statement to SUGAR leadership. That was worth the loss of two DSTs that only had about 1.5B combined between them. Scott self-destructed the DSTs, returned to Jita, and went to bed contemplating a brighter future.

When Espionage Meets Opportunity

Prior to shutting the doors a few years ago, Hard Knocks had been regarded in the wormhole community as the top wormhole group for espionage. In a world where information is power, they have always had a remarkable abundance of critical information. Unlike HAWKS, HK was aware of the SYNDE plans and coalition building not long after they were conceived. As allies joined the SYNDE effort, HK sought to penetrate those groups. SUGAR accepted a key HK spy in January of this year. Over the next two months, this spy would quickly work his way up the SUGAR hierarchy, demonstrating strong FC and leadership abilities. When the war broke out, he was one of the main FCs. His background in HK and HAWKS affiliated groups was no concern for SUGAR leadership as they committed to the SYNDE coalition.
When Scott pilfered everything from SUGAR shared and deleted all bookmarks, the spy noticed both. He consulted with his HK mates and decided it might be a fantastic opportunity. The spy reached out to SUGAR directors and offered to do his part in resolving the matter – they needed to cut off access to Scott and his alts, they needed to do it 5 minutes ago and they needed to tighten things up. He knew how to do it, and he was happy to help. There was only one SUGAR director online. He was unsure of how to best resolve the Scott situation, so he called up the CEO on his cell. The CEO and director huddled up and agreed that their best FC was the man to fix it. They gave director roles to a spy who’d been in corp less than 3 months. During a war. A war against HAWKS and HK.
SUGAR members woke up the morning of Sunday April 14^th, logged on, and discovered that every one of the structures in their home hole had been transferred to an HK holding corp. Their implant sets were all gone. Every single one. They were unable to dock. Most of their combat pilots were not even in their home hole. What was in the SUGAR home was a massive HAWKS coalition fleet.
And NOVAC was in it.

Stay on the Sidelines and You Will Burn

SYNDE’s diplomatic efforts had been widespread for the months leading up to the Wormhole War. They had enlisted the support of both large wormhole groups and small in building their expansive anti-HAWKS coalition. Two of the biggest pvp groups in wormhole space had consistently declined their overtures: LUPUS and NOVAC. Strong, independent, brawling groups, they did not like HAWKS, but they also didn’t like SYNDE. In proper cartel fashion, they were not interested in helping either of those groups achieve more power or territory. Truth be told they wanted both sides to lose. Better to remain neutral and pick the best course at a later time.
SYNDE did not push much until the first two weeks of the war. During that first week of burning HAWKS farms, according to SYNDE lead Cyrus Kurush, 16 or 17 C6 farms were transferred from HAWKS to NOVAC. LUPUS was the beneficiary of a smaller number of HAWKS farms. It was clear that under the weight of the broad offensive, many HAWKS members had opted to sell their farms to neutral wormhole groups. In most cases, it was HAWKS members selling farms to long-term EVE friends in other wormhole groups.
Cyrus Kurush was livid. He had already earmarked every HAWKS C6, and now many of them seemed to be passing out of the war and into the hands of neutrals who continued to refuse to join his coalition. He directed his lead diplo Zelvig to reengage with NOVAC and clearly relay his message. Zelvig did so, informing NOVAC of two key things: one, further receipt of any HAWKS farm would be viewed as an act of war, and two, while NOVAC was welcome to remain a friendly neutral during this early part of the campaign, the C6s they had already received from HAWKS should be seen as being held in trust for the wormhole community. Following the now-inevitable HAWKS eviction and removal from high class space, NOVAC would have to settle their farm accounts with SYNDE. With his customary enthusiasm, Zelvig gave NOVAC a timeline for their decision to join the coalition: as soon as the last HAWKS C6 farm fell, SYNDE would turn to the NOVAC C6s unless they had already joined. Zelvig estimated that gave NOVAC 2 or 3 more weeks to make a decision.
NOVAC made their decision that night, informing HAWKS leadership that they would be joining the HAWKS side. They asked only that they have a week to get their group organized and prepared. At the end of that week, NOVAC joined HAWKS, HK, Voidlings, and 418 in infiltrating a Vulture fleet into SUGAR’s home hole.

Sugar Free: J104037 Bleeds and Falls

Two things happened from the jump: HAWKS took and held hole control in SUGAR’s home hole while infiltrating additional pilots, and SYNDE pinged hard to get their coalition members to consolidate in Waffle House, the C6 hole that they had made their staging at the start of the war. It was chosen due to its C6 static, which permitted SYNDE to roll into HAWKS C6 farms and reinforce then destroy them at will.
With the HAWKS fleet swelling in numbers with NOVAC’s addition to their alliance, they openly docked in SUGAR’s citadels – now owned by HK. SUGAR members could only watch in horror as the citadel showed more and more reds docking in their fortizar.
SYNDE began rage-rolling in earnest, hoping to connect to SUGAR’s home. Cyrus Kurush was eager to test the new coalition Cyclone Fleet Issue doctrine they had theorycrafted to counter the HAWKS Vuilture doctrine. He preferred their blaster Megathron Navy Issue doctrine, but that had proven ill-suited to deal with the Vultures in the earlier brawl in the HK staging C6.
As would happen often throughout this campaign, luck favored the bold. SYNDE rolled into SUGAR’s home at a high point for SYNDE fleet participation. SYNDE immediately jumped sabres into system and fully bubbled their “in” hole, giving them the time they needed to warp their entire fleet to the hole. They avoided a repeat of the prior fight where they were unable to get their entire fleet in due to poor hole control. The full SYNDE fleet jumped through the hole, rolling it as they sent in the full 3b+ in ship mass. All told, over 150 Cyclone Fleet Issues flooded into the SUGAR home, along with support. The HAWKS fleet undocked to reports of 20 dreads on dscan as the SYNDE fleet warped to the (former) SUGAR main fortizar. SUGAR members had logged on the caps they were still able to pilot – some undocked from that forts, others from deep safes in system. As the CFI fleet connected with the increasing dread bomb, siege modules were engaged and the battle was joined.
The fight was a back and forth affair for a short period before some aggressive FCing by the HAWKS/HK/NOVAC FC team forced the SYNDE fleet to extract. At that point, a dynamic unique to wormhole combat emerged. SYNDE, realizing they could not win on grid, focused on extracting as many SUGAR capitals as possible. They would scan the new static C5 connection – as would HAWKS – and then each would race subcap fleets to that new hole and contest it. If SYNDE was able to get there first and keep the hole clear of sabre bubbles, SUGAR would warp their capitals to that hole and jump 3 of them out. That would kill the hole, causing a new static wormhole to appear one minute later where the two sides could repeat the process. With each new static wormhole, SYNDE continued to feed ships and lose combat capability.
A highly comedic situation occurred on one such hole. HAWKS warped their lone rolling carrier to it blind. In so doing, they hoped to be able to jump the carrier and briefly assert hole control – preventing more than one SUGAR cap from getting out, and also giving the HAWKS fleet time to tackle the others. The carrier landed right after the SUGAR caps did – but in a critical communication gap, the SUGAR caps did not know which 3 were supposed to leave on this hole. SYNDE sabres bubbled up, but the carrier was already on the wormhole. It jumped the hole with its prop on. A clamor erupted on SYNDE comms as they awaited guidance about which cap, if any, should leave. The HAWKS rolling carrier burned untouched back to the hole on the other side. A SUGAR Moros Navy Issue, frustrated at the indecision, jumped anyway. Most of the time, that would have rolled the wormhole, trapping the Moros Navy and rolling carrier on the other side. Luckily for the HAWKS carrier, it was a high-mass hole. The wormhole went critical but did not close. The HAWKS rolling carrier jumped back.
The Moros Navy had extracted, but the remaining SUGAR caps were now sitting around the now-dead hole’s bookmark. Many began burning away and out of the bubbles from the SYNDE sabres who had tried to protect that hole. SYNDE FC Cyrus Kurush ordered his sabres to get off the hole and stop bubbling their dreads, and they did. Forgotten in the chaos and indecision, the HAWKS rolling carrier decloaked, aligned out, cycled prop and initiated wrap. It was immediately primaried by both dreads and the SYNDE CFI fleet. Chaotic calls to bubble the carrier were met with hesitation as those same sabres had only recently been told not to bubble. The carrier entered warp as the bubbles were deployed. The carrier pilot shared this video of the bold carrier roll and escape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDgzA8J6j44&t
The carrier escape from a heavily bubbled grid marked the final turning point in the SYNDE extraction efforts. HAWKS sabres flooded the grid, tackling most of the SUGAR caps. After more fighting, the SYNDE coalition CFIs extracted from the grid, leaving the caps to their fate. As the caps began exploding and with the HAWKS fleet committed to their destruction, the SYNDE subcap fleet left via the new static.
The final totals for that fight were 48b lost by the HAWKS side, 144b lost by the SYNDE coalition side. https://br.evetools.org/b6633f295132a2a0012c77eb6
SUGAR had extracted 4 dreads, but at a heavy price.

Blue Balls and Explosions

With the clock ticking on the armor and hull timers of the SUGAR structures, SYNDE tried to reset in their C6 staging. Again, they pinged for their coalition to reassemble in that system. Again, they began rolling. That process continued for many hours.
The following day, on April 15^th, SYNDE would roll into the SUGAR home not once but twice. Both times, SYNDE only had a partial CFI fleet docked in their fortizar while the HAWKS side maintained a full Vulture fleet ready to undock on a moment’s notice. The HAWKS, HK and NOVAC leadership team knew that this was a critical moment in the campaign, and every effort was made to complete the SUGAR eviction.
SYNDE rolled into SUGAR’s home twice on April 15^th. And they immediately rolled the connection both times.
SYNDE lead Cyrus Kurush was personally scanning and rolling. He knew exactly what HAWKS had on hand, knew he could not contest for hole control, and just rolled the connection off quietly. Twice.
Cyrus Kurush knew that the integrity of his coalition required him to make every effort to save a key member’s home hole – but he was also very frustrated by SUGAR’s lack of readiness to defend their home. He had expected a lot more caps, more ships, more support. He felt he had beaten the HAWKS fleet in that large initial brawl, and had been let down by SUGAR. He did not want to risk sacrificing another major loss for a group that could not stand on their own two feet.

The Initiative to Regain the Initiative

The SUGAR Fortizar hull timers were on Tuesday, April 16^th.
A key early-war HAWKS ally, a small EUTZ pvp group called Czarna-Kompania, had infiltrated two dreads overnight. Two other groups had brought in one each. That dread force would give HAWKS the flexibility of hitting concurrent hull timers. There were multiple structures that needed to get hit over a two hour period. The dreads would let the HAWKS side bash those citadels while also keeping their subcap fleet free to fight for and maintain hole control if at all possible.
Hours before those timers, disaster struck the HAWKS effort. An A009 wormhole connection popped into the SUGAR home.
For an eviction, the worst possible wormhole connection is an A009 wormhole. It is a 16-hour frigate-sized wormhole that connects to a shattered wormhole that will also have a number of frig holes connecting outward to kspace systems. Frig holes cannot be rolled.
This meant that for the time leading up to the critical hull timers, there would be an unrollable hole into the eviction target, into SUGAR’s home.
By this time, it was clear to all involved parties that SYNDE had a close partnership with the Initiative. Although this was fraying some of the wormhole groups in the coalition, it still afforded SYNDE a chance to salvage the situation. SYNDE lead Cyrus Kurush formed an attack plan with Initiative leadership. During the hours immediately prior to the hull timers, SYNDE would assemble a heavy fleet in their staging, and rage roll for the SUGAR home. The Initiative would form a full bomber fleet, and travel to the C13 shattered wormhole. The second that SYNDE rolled in, they would execute a lethal 3-pronged attack: the SYNDE fleet would explode into the SUGAR home, all remaining SUGAR capitals and subcapitals would undock, and the Initiative bomber fleet would jump the A009. They would time those 3 critical elements based on the location, strength and composition of the HAWKS fleet. It was a good plan. If they could connect those three prongs, they would have 3 times the number that HAWKS could muster. Pings went out and the fleets assembled. Init travelled with a 300 bomber fleet to the shattered hole. SYNDE began rage rolling. About 50 SUGAR pilots sat on logon screen and waited on SYNDE comms.
HAWKS was aware of all of the above. HAWKS, working closely with HK and NOVAC strategists, devised a counter for the two concerning prongs. The SYNDE rolling threat had two counters. Within the SYNDE staging, there was a small fleet of yachts and a seeded, cloaked rolling carrier. In the SUGAR home, another rolling carrier sat ready to suicide roll if needed. Should SYNDE warp their fleet from the fort to a new wormhole, HAWKS was prepared to simultaneously warp both carrier and yachts to that same hole. They were confident they could stop the majority of the SYNDE fleet from making it through the wormhole.
The real threat was the Initiative, and that damned frig hole. HAWKS placed three sniping fleets around the wormhole and dropped a massive number of anchorable bubbles around it. On the hole itself were a mixture of smartbombing battleships and suicide dictors, each orbiting patiently. When the report came of the 300 Initiative bombers entering the shattered hole on the other side, the HAWKS team was ready and waiting.
The Initiative FC team, with a scout already in SUGAR staging, saw all of this. War-seasoned FCs, there was no scenario where they were jumping their bombers into that future charnal house. Unless SYNDE could pull those fleets away from the hole, it was an impossible standoff. The HAWKS battlecruiser fleet could not jump the hole. The Initiative bombers would not jump the hole. The Initiative bombers sat there and waited for SYNDE to roll in.
Meanwhile, in SUGAR staging, citadels came out of reinforce for hull timers and the allied dreads went to work. And everyone else waited. The SYNDE fleet waited on their fort while their FC rage rolled. The Initiative fleet waited in the shattered. The HAWKS alliance fleet waited on the other side of the shattered. One by one, the citadels began blowing up.
The SYNDE fleet stood down. The Initiative left the shattered wormhole and headed back to Fountain. SYNDE had gotten the full Nullsec batphone allied response, but been unable to take advantage of it.
Unconfirmable reports are that the HAWKS alliance looted nearly 200b from the various structures, including a large number of capital ships, on top of the 150b+ exploded. https://br.evetools.org/b661f2a2eddb48200112d82c5 (The three “friendly” caps that were destroyed were looted SUGAR caps that the allies decided to blow up rather than keep and exfiltrate from the hole.)
Some SUGAR members would still try to participate, but SUGAR was done as a fighting unit in the Wormhole War.
The next part will focus on what would become the most important battlefield in the either war – Waffle House, the SYNDE coalition staging C6.

I (27F) never had a great relationship with my mom. She left us to chase her career when I was young but now my parents are back together and she makes most of the money. At my dad’s insistence, my parents jointly paid for 1 year of my med school and let me stay in the basement and paid for living expenses. Because of that, I only have $180K in loans. I took that money because I have no other means of income. The problem is, however, that my mom now thinks I owe her obedience and allegience.
She has some racist political views and Ive voiced my disapproval. At every argument she would remind me that she pays the bills around here and she is my mother.
She didn’t like the specialty I applied to and threatened to withdraw all support if I didn’t apply to internal medicine. I took out more loans and we compromised by dual applying.
She doesnt like my boyfriend. He’s from another med school. We’ve dated for a year now and he hasn’t met them yet due nervousness. This has led her to accuse him of being unfaithful and leading me on. I defended him and it’s led to major arguments, including one where I brought up the her past financial blackmail. That was wrong of her and abusive. Now she’s demanding her money back for being ungrateful. Every dollar she’s contributed past age 18. At least $100K. And I should go back to my home country because I wouldnt be here if she didn’t apply for my immigration visa when I was 12.
She knows I dont have any other source of money and I dont have any other place to go. I have a place lined up for residency at the end of this month but I wouldnt have any money for the deposit if she doesnt help me. I took out the minimum amount of loans this year and have $1500 in my account, which is not enough for rent. the first paycheck is still 2.5 months away and emergency loans have pretty high interest rate.
The rest of my family says I should just suck it up and apologize to get her monetary support until I move out. My friends who moved out already say dont, freedom is priceless. What should I do?

I am dentist from Turkey, 25Male. I started smoking at 15 and quit at my age of 25! I graduated from university 2 years ago. In Turkey there is an exam for dentists to be expertise in any subject. Which is called DUS. One of the hardest exams in Turkey. You study 8-12 hours with chronometer. From morning to night like 1-2 years and you compete with other dentist in your country. And I started to study for it. The thing is I woke up at 6 in the morning everyday and I studied till I sleep. The subjects are too complex. You sit on a chair whole day (it had been 3 months and I still have chronic neck and back pain. Having physiotherapy for it :(. You are in a room for all day/ whole week. No socialisation. And you are always stressful cause you know you are compiting with other nerds who studies 12 hour a day etc. Anxiety, depression, loneliness any kind of bad feeling is in this shit. After a point it feels like hell. You have idea of what was my situation.
I only had two things. One was to study, other one was to smoke. My only prize was to smoke after a long studying sessions. I was someone already who had a huge smoking addiction. I wouldn't just smoke ciggarete. I would inhale with all of my lungs till tobacco burns like volcano. If you are addicted enough you know what I mean :). And this Exam thing put me in a very bad situation. I went from smoking 1 packet to 2 packets. I wouldn't think anything other than ciggaratte. I would snatch the filters of my ciggarettes to inhale nicotine better. Imagine how addicted I was to that shit.
And it was like 3 months till the exam. My most stresfull days were came. And I had huge cough attacks. I was lying my parents about my coughs. I would always say them I got flu or something :) I knew it was ciggaratte that was giving me cough attacks. But I was lying to myself. Never accepted it but Ciggaratte was already cursed me. I had other symptoms of COAH too. (whizzling, shortness of breath etc.)
One day I just ended my studying session for the day. I got into the bed and was coughing like hell. I was mentally drained. I was the most unhappy person in the earth. I had no morals to live. I was crying to myself about Exam. I had already lost my health. I had nothing in my hands. I was going to smoke because I felt sad. and I just said to myself. I wasnt going to be a victim. I had enough. I was going to fight myself. Just got on my computer and wondered how people on earth quits smoking? I googled it up and bumped on a post at reddit about allen carr. In first I thought it was a bullshit or something. I found it funny to quit smoking just by a book. How could it be possible? And I thought I had nothing to lose and read the book till half that night. Had a half pack of ciggarette. Threw it in thrash can. It was never on my mind to quit smoking. But it just happened and in the morning I was a person who was trying to quit smoking. First 3 days gone hard. Everytime I felt withdrawals I said to myself "You see what does this poison do to you, This is a fucking dope. And this withdrawals proves such a toxic thing it is!" So everytime I had withdrawals I thought that this shit was a dope and it was evil. But after 3 days I just realized I was good with it. I was feeling much better. next week I started to run and do sports . While I was studying I would give myself a 1hour break in the middle of the day. And would go to run or to play soccer. I couldnt believe to myself. Just in 1 week I was breathing again. Life was colourfull again. and days gone like these. now I am a person who plays soccer, who runs in his freetime, goes to gym etc. ( I would be breathless if I had walked from my home to market when I smoked.)
And There is one very important I want to say to people. I wish I had know how easy was it to quit smoking. Whole media, market, internet is planned to teach people it is "Hard to quit smoking". This Idea is engraved in every person's brain by media. I remember from my childhood till this day. Every body told me about how hard it is to quit smokking. Every commercial, every elder person I know, every friend(Even the non-smokers think it is very hard to quit smoke). It is all bullshit! QUITTING SMOKING IS EASY! Don't be afraid! Don't be coward! It is freaking easy! That is it. Media traps you in that idea "to Quit Smoking is Hard". Just know that idea is bullshit. And give a try to quit smoking! I Will be try to active and reply if you have any questions. Just believe in yourself! Nothing is bigger than you.

hello, today's a significant day for my boyfriend and his current health situation which had been steadily declining the past 6-7 months. He is diagnosed with Crohn's disease since age like 12 and currently has a shit ton of scar tissue due to past resectioning surgeries which is causing adhesions and blockages in his intestine. Drs don't want to do surgery because it will be his 3rd one and his quality of life will be less than it is right now which is really saying something. He currently weighs 138 lbs. This is a 70 lb difference from 6 months ago. He eats "real food" as well as drinks like ensure, boost, etc. yet he is unable to hold onto, let alone gain, any weight. Because of this, his team of doctors (which he just was assigned even tho he should've had a team for years now..) decided a PICC line for TPN is the best option right now while continuing the drinks and some approved foods. He's had a PICC line before but only for a month and this one is going to be for much longer. Last time he was on TPN he did gain weight and it helped him although he hated the experience in general. So with all this backstory I guess I'm just looking for other people's experiences with a long term PICC line, and advice for the girlfriend of someone going through this that has never dealt with significant health situations before. He's worried about liver damage and other complications that he's been warned about but I'm trying to keep his mind focused on the positives as much as possible. Thanks for anything you guys are comfortable with sharing as any and all information will only help at this point. ♾️💟☮️☯️🕉️

bash-5.2$ systemctl start NetworkManager Warning: The unit file, source configuration file or drop-ins of NetworkManager.service changed on disk. Run 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload units. bash-5.2$ Run 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload units bash: Run: command not found ● NetworkManager.service - Network Manager Loaded: loaded (/uslib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Drop-In: /uslib/systemd/system/service.d └─10-timeout-abort.conf Active: active (running) since Thu 2024-05-16 07:12:54 EDT; 8h ago Docs: man:NetworkManager(8) Main PID: 1599 (NetworkManager) ● NetworkManager.service - Network Manager Loaded: loaded (/uslib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Drop-In: /uslib/systemd/system/service.d └─10-timeout-abort.conf Active: active (running) since Thu 2024-05-16 07:12:54 EDT; 8h ago Docs: man:NetworkManager(8) Main PID: 1599 (NetworkManager) Tasks: 4 (limit: 18297) Memory: 10.7M (peak: 12.0M) CPU: 1min 2.348s CGroup: /system.slice/NetworkManager.service └─1599 /ussbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
May 16 16:06:38 fedora NetworkManager[1599]: [1715889998.2170] device (wlp3s0): state change: ip-config -> ip-check (reason 'none', sys-iface-state> May 16 16:06:38 fedora NetworkManager[1599]: [1715889998.2425] device (wlp3s0): state change: ip-check -> secondaries (reason 'none', sys-iface-sta> May 16 16:06:38 fedora NetworkManager[1599]: [1715889998.2427] device (wlp3s0): state change: secondaries -> activated (reason 'none', sys-iface-st> May 16 16:06:38 fedora NetworkManager[1599]: [1715889998.2429] manager: NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_SITE May 16 16:06:38 fedora NetworkManager[1599]: [1715889998.2436] device (wlp3s0): Activation: successful, device activated. May 16 16:06:38 fedora NetworkManager[1599]: [1715889998.2442] manager: NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_GLOBAL May 16 16:06:38 fedora NetworkManager[1599]: [1715889998.2835] audit: op="statistics" interface="wlp3s0" ifindex=3 args="2000" pid=15612 uid=1000 r> May 16 16:06:38 fedora NetworkManager[1599]: [1715889998.2980] audit: op="statistics" interface="wlp3s0" ifindex=3 args="500" pid=15748 uid=1000 re> May 16 16:08:33 fedora NetworkManager[1599]: [1715890113.7154] audit: op="statistics" interface="wlp3s0" ifindex=3 args="2000" pid=15612 uid=1000 r> May 16 16:08:33 fedora NetworkManager[1599]: [1715890113.7282] audit: op="statistics" interface="wlp3s0" ifindex=3 args="500" pid=15748 uid=1000 re> ~ ~ ~ ~ lines 1-23/23 (END)...skipping... ● NetworkManager.service - Network Manager Loaded: loaded (/uslib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Drop-In: /uslib/systemd/system/service.d └─10-timeout-abort.conf Active: active (running) since Thu 2024-05-16 07:12:54 EDT; 8h ago Docs: man:NetworkManager(8) Main PID: 1599 (NetworkManager) Tasks: 4 (limit: 18297) Memory: 10.7M (peak: 12.0M) CPU: 1min 2.348s CGroup: /system.slice/NetworkManager.service └─1599 /ussbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
May 16 16:06:38 fedora NetworkManager[1599]: [1715889998.2170] device (wlp3s0): state change: ip-config -> ip-check (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed> May 16 16:06:38 fedora NetworkManager[1599]: [1715889998.2425] device (wlp3s0): state change: ip-check -> secondaries (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'manag> May 16 16:06:38 fedora NetworkManager[1599]: [1715889998.2427] device (wlp3s0): state change: secondaries -> activated (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'mana> May 16 16:06:38 fedora NetworkManager[1599]: [1715889998.2429] manager: NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_SITE May 16 16:06:38 fedora NetworkManager[1599]: [1715889998.2436] device (wlp3s0): Activation: successful, device activated. May 16 16:06:38 fedora NetworkManager[1599]: [1715889998.2442] manager: NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_GLOBAL May 16 16:06:38 fedora NetworkManager[1599]: [1715889998.2835] audit: op="statistics" interface="wlp3s0" ifindex=3 args="2000" pid=15612 uid=1000 result="suc> May 16 16:06:38 fedora NetworkManager[1599]: [1715889998.2980] audit: op="statistics" interface="wlp3s0" ifindex=3 args="500" pid=15748 uid=1000 result="succ> May 16 16:08:33 fedora NetworkManager[1599]: [1715890113.7154] audit: op="statistics" interface="wlp3s0" ifindex=3 args="2000" pid=15612 uid=1000 result="suc> May 16 16:08:33 fedora NetworkManager[1599]: [1715890113.7282] audit: op="statistics" interface="wlp3s0" ifindex=3 args="500" pid=15748 uid=1000 result="succ> ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ lines 1-23/23 (END)

[currently on episode 8]
My two cents on events and the people -
— Courtney & Aiden I liked how Aiden treated Lebo a lot. Courtney was just a mystery. I feel like these two didn't get a lot of screen time but it could also be because there was no/little drama. Didn't get good vibes from Courtney after they moved back. The "dude" thing was very off putting. Aiden seems like a nice guy, but he's indecisive and unemployed. Why does Courtney want to marry him if she's looking for stability? They don't even look like they're crazy in love or something.
— Khanya A lot to say about her. This is a long one. She was abusive in many ways. However, (unpopular opinion coming), I don't think that the points that she was making were unreasonable. It was her way of doing it.
Example 1, when she met Isaac's friends and they started asking her about why Isaac hasn't been eating well when there's a woman in the house. I would not entertain that sexist BS either. That was out of line. This made Isaac get on her nerves about dishes. Yes, I personally like things clean BUT we're all different people. In an ideal scenario, yes the dishes would be done when you're living with someone BUT these people are all strangers and I wouldn't be doing my chores on someone else's time especially if they're being an ass to me. The whole "what do you bring to the table" thing was also crazy for me for because 1. It's not a job interview and 2. They barely knew each other. He could've asked her anything like "what are some aspects you're trying to work on? Or what do you think works in your relationships?" Anything. Endless possibilities. And he chose the stupidest question.
Example 2, the siza, nkateko, and her scene. Uhfff. There was too much rage in that scene and it was hard to watch. I'm sure everyone understands how badly khanya behaved there but I'll play the devil's advocate for a second. Siza, while seems like a really nice person, has some issues to deal with with her laughing situation, because when you laugh in front of (or worse, AT) an angry person, it tends to agitate them further. Because it's not funny. Be an adult for a second and recognise that this is a serious situation. I understand that laughing is a coping mechanism for some people but it's not always perceived well. Two, Khanya was in fact right for establishing boundaries. Like hello, you showed up unannounced in someone else's house. Nkateko did the same thing. Just barged in like he owned th house with no regard to the othe person living in the house. Where are your manners? Idk if this is a cultural thing because everyone kept going to everyone's house without notice, just randomly showing up. I don't get it. Nkateko is the real ass here who left Siza alone with Khanya because why would you ever do that when you know both of those people? There's something really wrong about Nkateko.
Lastly, I understand that a lot of people might not agree with me here but I'm trying to understand why Khanya behaved that way. She is a strong woman who's not afraid to speak her mind and society doesn't always take that well. Clearly, Isaac's mom hated her and I see that their culture treats men and woman differently. This is not to take away from the fact that she was abusive and escalated situations that could've been handled better.
— Ruth, Isaac, Nolla, Lebo Lebo's a gem and I hope she blocked Nolla from her life. Period. Nolla, doesn't deserve any attention. Ruth, love that she's unapologetic about her actions. She knows what she wants and she's not afraid to ask for it. Deserves muchhhhhh better than Isaac and def Nolla. Isaac, man, get off your high horse. There's some deeply ingrained gender superiority in that man. I have a bad feeling about him.
— Sizakele & Lindile This couple is a question mark for me. Like why come to a show like this when you've only been together for 6 months? Also, the whole gift thing, Siza again just randomly showed up at someone's house and ruined their evening. Like stop going to other people's houses. It's not wrong to speak your mind, but there is a time and place for it, ideally arranged in advance, agreed by both parties.
— Thabi, Genesis, Lindile Genesis looked a bit hurt but I liked how he was dealing with things. Showed maturity. Thabi and Lindile really got along well I think. The Love triangles are messy, def not as bad as the other couples tho. At least they're keeping it civil. I feel like these 3 people at least seem aware that they are on television while the others seem to have forgotten this liittle detail.
In conclusion - I didn't understand why they were trying to replace their partners permanently. The idea is to work on your issues and go back to your OG partner. While there's always room for feelings to develop, it's like no one really spoke about their old partners with the idea of working on their relationships with them. I think they completely missed the point of the show here, but in the drama department, the season was on point!! It was a bit too intense honestly. Could've held back a lil and I never thought I'd say that for the ultimatum/lib producers lol.
ALL THE MEN ON THIS SHOW WERE ABSOLUTE GARBAGE. The bar is in hell ladies.
Edit - grammar +

I have a dataflow in Power BI consisting of multiple CSV files in a folder. One of the CSV file contains log entries compacted into a single column (LogHistory), with each entry separated by a tab. A new log entry starts with a date and time. I need to transform this data such that each log entry appears on a separate line while retaining the job number from JobNumber for each entry.
I’m a noob but back myself to use Python for this curious about what would be the best options.
Sample Data Below
JobNumber, LogHistory 12345, 08/02/2024 11:43:11 Alice Smith Status: PENDING -> LOST 15/11/2023 11:22:45 Bob Johnson Address Update: Old Address -> New Address 28/01/2022 15:20:25 Carol White Job Date: 24/12/2019 -> 28/01/2022 15/06/2020 13:49:16 Dave Brown Notes: Discussed project timeline with client.
Question:
I need help with transforming the data in Power BI to achieve a clean result with separate rows for each log entry. The desired columns are Date, Time, Editor, From, and To.
Requirements:

• Split each log entry into a separate line.
• Retain the job number for each entry.
• All transformations should ideally be within the Microsoft ecosystem without requiring an upgrade to Microsoft Fabric.

What is the easiest way to accomplish this transformation using Power Query or other tools available in Power BI?
I don’t have fabric capacity & currently no access to the original log history.
Any guidance or solutions would be greatly appreciated!

Hey Reddit, I’m starting to think one of two things. 1- There’s no such thing as a monogamous committed relationship or 2- I’m just meant to be alone. Because dating apps aren’t the way to go let’s try this subreddit and see if I can find something.
Alittle about me: 31, I work full time as a customer service rep, I am in school as well, I live on the western side of the US (it’s the state that doesn’t do daylight savings), no kids, I am divorced, Pisces, ISTP (if you know), insanely shy, nice, sometimes funny, and Conservative
Likes,hobbies, randomness: Hiking, camping, off roading, fishing, hunting, shooting, traveling, watching horror movies, listen to county and rock, cooking (currently on weight loss journey), all jokes, and cheesy pickup lines, I love the color pink.
Looking for: Please please please be in the US, be a male, with age I do learn towards older men 33 and up, please be single! No preference on weight I like bigger men, you can have kids. Just don’t be a jerk, liar, cheater, or an abuser.
I don’t have Snapchat! lol if you like this and want to see what can happen message me :)

I AM NOT OOP. OOP is u/ReverendMuddyGrimes
Originally posted on relationships
2 updates – short
Content warning: drug and alcohol abuse, waste of questionable origin
Original post - October 7th, 2023
Update 1 - March 17th, 2024
Update 2 - May 15th, 2024
Sister-in-law told me my wife cheated while on vacation
The players in this drama. My wife who for the purpose of this post shall be called Anne (female 47). My sister-in-law (female 40) who we shall call Shannon. SIL's cheating partner (male mid 40s) known hereafter as Tony. And myself (male, so close to 50 that I can reach out and slap it). We shall refer to me as "me". Usual disclaimers of cell phone and English is my first language, I just suck at it. So my wife had to travel to her step father's house. He is in very poor health, and she went there to help set up home heath. She was there for a week, and we were in constant contact. Her sister is a drunk and a drug addict. At several points during the visit, we were on video chat when "Shannon" came into the room where my wife and her father were. She was buck ass naked, raging drunk. In front of her father. I was mortified, and I'm sure he was too. Now "Shannon" is married, but separated. She has a live in boyfriend. "Tony" is my father-in-law's primary care giver. For the flight home, "Anne" missed her flight. "Tony" was driving her to the airport. There was an unusual amount of road construction, and they arrived late. She had to take a different flight. Not a big deal. After she was home for a few days, the following text exchange happened between me and Shannon. Shannon: they fucked. Me: who, and did you film it? We could make a fortune on pornhub! Shannon: I saw him leaving her room and smiling. You know she didn't miss her flight! He ain't denying it. Me: well, if they did, he's the luckiest man alive.
Now guys, I know that I have a better chance of creating a fart powered personal jet than this story has of being true. It's just not in her nature. That said, damn that woman to the depths of Detroit's South side for putting the idea in my head.
So, the question: how do I deal with a crazy drunk 80lb woman from 1000 miles away. I can't block her, because the rest of her family has. If something happens to the father-in-law while Tony is at work, I'm the only one she can contact.
Tldr: drunk SIL claims wife cheated. She didn't. I have to decide how to deal with her.
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Indianblanket
Tell Tony you are blocking Shannon and to please contact you directly with any updates he receives from Shannon while he's at work.
Block Shannon.
Call Dad daily.
EdgeCityRed
Yeah, I had a former friend like Shannon: a heavy drinker, mental issues (no offense intended to people dealing with mental issues, but this was the main factor in that case), major liar who'd fixate on specific things to lie about.
I did block this person in every conceivable way but I can't think of anything else to do in your situation but ignore the behavior since you have to be in contact. OR, you and your wife could just talk to Tony about the father-in-law with the understanding that if Tony quits being the caregiver or breaks up with Shannon, he passes your contact info to the next caregiver. If something happens when Tony is at work, he'd still probably know before you.
Anyway, you have nothing to worry about with the wife anyway; you're too funny to dump.
\too funny to dump. I have a host of exes that would strongly disagree. Unless you meant funny looking. Then, they would come down solidly on your side*
Update 1
Several months ago my drunk of a SIL (f-40) told me (m-50) that my wife of 12 years (f-47) cheated on me while setting her her step dad's home health in Detroit. I, of course, didn't believe her. A lot has happened since then. First, we all went up for Christmas. While we were there, SIL (I called her Shannon in the original post) stormed in and claimed that my wife was having sex with her boyfriend "Tony" on the front porch. Two problems with that. 1) It's Detroit in December so it's cold as a well digger's ass outside. 2) my wife is in the chair next to mine. SIL ended up assaulting Tony right after I returned home. She ended up in jail where she was placed on a 3 day psych hold. Apparently being a drunken meth addict makes you crazy. Who knew? Mid January, my father-in-law passed away. This sent SIL into a spiral. Especially when she found out that she couldn't stay in the family home anymore as it had to be sold. She was given $35,000 from her father's retirement to get a new place and hold her over until the sale of the house. My wife and I drove up to prepare the house to go on the market. Y'all, I've been in nasty houses before, but not like this. My father-in-law kept this place immaculate. Now, in just 2 months, it qualifies for an episode of Hoarders. There is dog crap halfway up the walls in the den. I didn't even know dogs could poop that high! There were several empty bottles of $350 tequila in the living room. We figure that she will have drank her entire inheritance in six months. We had to rent a dumpster for me to shovel all of her garbage in to. Obviously, I changed the locks and garage door codes. Im a career garage door installer, so that part was easily done. Even more obviously, all those people who responded to the original post that my wife cheated were VERY wrong. Edit: the dog is a chihuahua. We assume that it did it's doggie business off the back of the couch, since we had to move the couch to find what was causing the smell. We can't take the dog because SIL refuses to see us. TLDR, Wife, who I knew didn't cheat even though her sister claimed she did, was exonerated because her sister is batshit crazy from meth and alcohol.
Comments
Scarletnightingale
Sir, given that she is an alcoholic with a meth addiction, I would assume that that was not dog poop on the walls. Alcoholics tend to have issues with their digestive system and meth and alcohol mess with judgement and a person caring of they pooped on the wall.
Good luck with the house, and I'm sorry that your SIL is making things so much more difficult for you during the loss of your wife's father.
Elfich47 If she making meth in the house, you may need a decon team to clean the site up.
She doesn't make it, just uses. We know this by the amount of dealers that FIL had to chase off
Update 2
I mentioned in my last post that my Father-in-law passed away. From insurance and his retirement both of his daughters received $104k before taxes. We paid our taxes up front leaving us just over $80k. We really don't have much debt, so we put it all on our house. My SIL however chose to accept a lump sum. In the update, when she had gotten the first installment of $35k, I said she would have drank it all in 6 months. Apparently I am a very optimistic man. She has drank,shot up, and snorted the entire $104k in less than 3 months. Through most of the high times, she sent my wife incredibly awful texts claiming that her dad never loved her. Technically it was my wife's step-dad. One of the claims made was that if he loved her he would have adopted her. SIL was too young to remember, but he did try. Her birth father wouldn't sign off on it. Anyway, she is out of money. My wife is getting around a dozen slurred phone calls a day begging her to let SIL sleep on our couch. That is a giant HELL NO from us. We expect to hear any day that she has been found dead.
TLDR: SIL blew her entire inheritance on drugs and alcohol. Now after insulting my wife for months, wants to live with us.
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crom_77
Sounds like you have a head on your shoulders. SIL sounds like a nightmare. Money can wreck a family if it's not handled carefully, I've seen it happen several times. People live like there's going to be a big payout at the end, or like they deserve something.
HuntEnvironmental863
Do you think in 3 months OP will be back on here cause Anne took the 80k and ran off with Tony?
80k is gone. It went on our mortgage. As for Tony, he disappeared when the SIL ran out of money.
Marked as concluded per OOP.
No brigading, no harassment.

First off, congrats to everyone for the past application cycle! No matter what your outcome was, it's a big accomplishment to have gone through the whole process. I'm a non-trad who was accepted to Queen's this year, on my 2nd application cycle. I will be 27 when I start this Fall. It feels surreal and I always told myself I'd write a post about my journey if this day ever came - and here we are.
I didn't decide to apply to med school until after I finished undergrad, and while doing my research, I always wished I could read/hear perspectives from others with my background. Even though everybody's path will be different, I hope that my story can provide some insight (or even hope) for other non-trad applicants out there.
Before we start, here are my stats because that's important:

• cGPA, OMSAS: 3.53
• wGPA, UBC: ~85%
• MCAT: 515 (127/129/130/129)
• Casper: 4th
• IP: BC and ON

I'll go in chronological order, briefly describing some of the major events that led me to today, starting from high school. Please ask me any questions in the comments - (almost) nothing is off limits :)
TLDR: I was a software engineer who quit after a year to go to grad school and pursue medicine. It took me 4 years from when I decided to pursue this to getting accepted at a Canadian school. I did a Masters in stats and applied 2 times. My biggest takeaway is to do a lot of what you are passionate about, do it well, and take it far (for me, that was teaching and research).
Some demographics:

• My parents and I immigrated to Canada from Asia when I was 3
• I grew up in the GTA and did undergrad in Ontario
• I'm the first person in my family to pursue med school. My immediate family and I are the only people in our whole family who live outside of Asia, and nobody in my parents' network of family friends is in healthcare either.

High school, 2011-2015: I was always interested in medicine as a kid, but math was always my favourite subject. I applied to several science and math programs, and was choosing between Western Med Sci and Waterloo Math. I did not apply to Mac Health Sci and looking back, I'm not sure why (perhaps a sign that I didn't believe in myself). I ended up choosing Waterloo Math and giving up on the medical school route in grade 12, for a few reasons: the math program had 6 co-op terms, meaning I'd graduate with 2 full-time years of job experience, and I wasn't particularly good at biology and didn't have strong reasons for pursuing medicine back then. Med school also seemed like an impossible goal, especially since I didn't have any mentors in the field.
Undergrad, 2015-2020: This was honestly a fun time for me. I double-majored in stats and CS and I did 6 co-ops, 5 of which were in software engineering roles. I had originally planned to do actuarial science, but quickly saw the earning potential in the tech industry and made it my goal to get a job at a big tech company. A lot of personal stuff happened during this time as well that affirmed my decision pursue a software engineering career. One part of it was that I didn't want my parents to worry about me, and being able to show them that I was able to do well for myself in tech felt really good.
Halfway through my co-ops, I realized that I wasn't feeling the most fulfilled in software roles, but management roles also didn't appeal to me. I didn't really take the time to fully explore this feeling, and it was easy to put it away in light of the high income and getting to live in big cities for internships. Still, I did well in my co-ops and built up my software skills. After realizing that "grades don't matter for getting tech jobs", I let my grades slip. It wasn't until 4th year that I decided I wanted to keep the door open for grad school, and starting taking classes I liked and getting better grades. I graduated with an 82% average, with my grades all over the place (which I'd later learn was bad for calculating my OMSAS gpa lol).
Throughout undergrad, I still wanted to be involved in clubs and stuff, so here's a list of all my undergrad ECs. All these were only 4-8 months long.

• 1st year: I was a member and president of my first year residence council
• 2nd year: I was in a leadership position at the statistics club
• 3rd year: I was an event coordinator for co-op students in a city away from home
• also 3rd year: I was part of a club that builds software for non-profits

Another activity from undergrad that made it onto my application was a research project I did at one of my co-ops. It was in NLP and I worked on it even after finishing that coop term. It ended up taking 4 years to get published.
Full-time software engineering, 2020-2021: I signed a return offer from one of my co-ops, and had planned to move to Seattle in the summer after graduating to start working. But Covid changed all that. I moved back home with my parents in the GTA and worked at my software job remotely for the full year.
It was during this year that I was really feeling unfulfilled in my job, and did a lot of thinking about how I wanted my career to look. I started to remember that med school was something that I once wanted to do, and I also started reading/watching a lot of content from people in medicine with non-traditional backgrounds. My partner, who is also from Ontario, was accepted to an international med school, and many of our friends were also getting into schools in Canada around the same time, so this reaffirmed to me that it was actually possible. While working for the year, I made a plan to apply to grad school (academia would be my back-up) and take the MCAT. Here's what my 2020-2021 looked like:

• July: started full-time work
• December-January: wrote personal statements and applied to 5 Masters programs in biostatistics
• February-April: acceptances to Masters programs came in, and I was studying for the MCAT
• June: took the MCAT, scored 508, and told my manager that I'd be leaving by August to start grad school

During this year, I also wrote out a 3-year plan that included my masters and 2 application cycles. I wrote out what courses I would take to fulfill prereqs, which schools I would apply to each year, and what my back-up plan would be. I think this was important to do rigorously since it gave me a clear idea of which schools I was eligible for, and how much work it would take me to become eligible for the rest of them.
I will also add that this is a rather objective recount of my process that year. In reality, I completely recognized how insane it was to quit my job to go to grad school, and I'm super lucky that I was able to.
Grad school, 2021-2023: I moved to BC to start my Masters in statistics in August. This choice was partly to gain IP status in BC, but mostly, this was really the best program for me out of the schools I applied to. Even looking back now, I would have chosen this program even without the IP consideration.
Here's a breakdown of everything I did during the first year of my Masters:

• Started a new volunteering role (tutoring) right away. Still doing this today, almost 3 years later.
• Took a first year English class to fulfill the UBC requirement. Side note: it felt very odd being a 25-year-old in a class of 18-year-olds, but I did well in both classes probably because of being older. At first, I dreaded taking these classes since English was never my strong suit. But being older meant that I allowed myself to be truly curious about the topics being taught, and I treated it more as an experience to learn more about the world than to just check off some boxes.
• Took the MCAT again, at the end of my first year of MSc. I had already confirmed a supervisor by then, and thankfully she is/was incredibly supportive of my goals. I took it in June 2022 and got 515.
• TA'd stats courses throughout the year
• Started working on my thesis research with my supervisor

First application, 2022: I applied only to UBC for my first application cycle. In retrospect, I should have just applied broadly right away, but I didn't feel like I had enough references built up by then. And UBC doesn't require references unless you get an interview. I honestly had very high hopes of getting an interview this year, and was crushed to receive a rejection in December with an NAQ of 50-75. I thought that my application was unique, but upon reflection, I realized that the lack of volunteering and community service was a big gap in my application.
So here's a breakdown of everything I did in my second year of my Masters and beyond:

• TA'd stats courses throughout the year, and was the head TA for one of them (I think this showed leadership and commitment to teaching)
• Started another volunteering role at the food bank
• Took another first-year English course
• Continued my research with my supervisor
• Got offered (and started) a lecturer role for an undergrad course at the university, which was such an amazing opportunity. My supervisor helped me a lot with getting this position, since I TA'd for her one semester and she recommended me to the department. This was a class of 150, and I was also in charge of a few TAs. I ended up teaching this class 2 more times after this!
• Finished my Masters in August 2023
• Started working full-time as a biostatistician in September 2023
• A first-author paper I started working on during undergrad was accepted in Fall 2023. I had been working on this on-and-off for the past 4 years so it was incredible for the work to finally pay off!

Second application, 2023: This time, I applied to UBC and every school in Ontario that I was eligible for: Queen's and Mac. I was rejected by UBC pre-interview again. Same NAQ, and my total score didn't change. I was totally crushed and thought it was over for this year. I was very honest with myself about the Ontario applications - Mac was a total throwaway application and Queen's felt like a complete gamble. I was rejected from Mac pre-interview but one fateful day in January, I received an email from Queen's. It had a very generic "Application Status" subject line and I opened it fully expecting a rejection. I was totally shocked when it said I was invited for the MMI! And a few months later, I was also invited to the Panel.
Some of my thoughts and preparation for the interviews:
MMI - Aside from the usual resources that are posted here, I also took advantage of the following:

• Support system: I had a lot of support from my partner, who had gone through MMIs from non-Canadian schools, and many of my friends who were already in med school.
• Resources: I paid for a prep session on AcceptedTogether and had a positive experience there. I also used the BrightStudent question bank and although the questions were good, the explanations and overall experience were mid. But their YouTube video was extremely useful.
• Mindset: Throughout my whole MMI prep, I was honestly very interested in exploring each prompt, and I think this mindset was extremely beneficial for making my answers both unique and genuine. During my Masters, I also took a class that covered topics in social determinants of health, and I semi-regularly enjoy reading about current events in this area, so both of those pieces of background were super helpful for me.

Panel - I was so happy to receive a panel interview, and knew that I could not mess this up. I prepped with a few different friends of mine who were in med school, and another friend who was going through Ontario interviews too. Going in, I felt very prepared, and in the days leading up to it, I even felt like my answers were on autopilot and a bit over-prepared. So I really tried to relax and "be myself"/answer genuinely during the panel. The real panel felt quite cold - I didn't get any feedback from my interviewers, and was a bit thrown off by some of the questions. I was also cut off by the Kira Talent timer at the end, and didn't get to say goodbye or thank you. For the rest of the day, I ruminated on all my answers. The content of my answers felt somewhere between "why would I say that" and "just fine" and "great", but I was definitely feeling a bit bad about the whole experience.
Decision Week, 2024: That brings us to this week! In the week leading up to the decision, I flip flopped between "My panel hated me, there's no way I passed the vibe check" and "My answers were good, my MMI felt good, why wouldn't they accept me". I opened the email at 6am (Pacific time) with zero expectations - I truly had no idea what was waiting for me on the other side. The first word was "Congratulations!" and I didn't read much farther than that before I started celebrating :)
So that's it. I told a lot of people I work with, my Masters supervisor, my parents, and my friends, and it felt amazing to deliver this good news. My closing thoughts about my whole journey are that even though I do think my application was great, I still got incredibly lucky. At any point in the process, I could have gotten an undesirable outcome, and there was nothing I could do to control that (other than my efforts prior). I also relied a lot on my support system, and was so lucky to have had + made friends who are in med school or were practising already.
I just feel so grateful to be starting this Fall, and I'm happy to say that my high school self would be in absolute disbelief if she could see where I am today. That statement is a sign to me that I'm on the right path, and I'm just so excited to be starting this long, hard career that is medicine.
If you've made it to the end, thank you for reading!! If you can relate to any part of my journey and have questions, please send me a comment or DM - my inbox is always open.

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