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Playing the three new Synthetic Ascensions makes me daydream about similar Genetics Ascension splits. I love the idea of an Ascension perk unlocking three options instead of just one. It makes each Ascension feel meaningful to every empire regardless of Ethics and playstyle.
These are just my ideas, and feel free to downvote them into oblivion or discuss them.
Transformation
Concept: The Wide Play Ascension for Genetics. Variation takes genetic alteration to its logical extreme and applies it to Terraforming Worlds. A species that tailors their species for every world, and every world for their species.

Adoption Effects: 1) +10% Habitability. 2) Your Species gain the Transformative Trait (functions similar to Synthetic's Auto-Modding Trait, but it alters the species' Habitability Preference to match their current world each year.) 3) Unlocks the Transformative Genetics Agenda. (Same as other Ascensions, this grants 25% research towards select technologies, mostly focused on habitability and terraforming.)
Tier 1A: Organic Terraforming Microbes: 1) -25% Terraforming Cost. 2) +25% Terraforming Speed.
Tier 1B: Anaerobic Transfer Proteins: 1) -25% Modify Species Special Project Cost. 2) +25% Modify Species Special Project Speed. 3) +3 Genetic Modification Points. +1 Genetic Species Trait Picks.
Tier 2A: Worlds of Clay: 1) Unlocks the Remove Modifier Planetary Decision. (Remove any modifier on a planet over 30 days.) 2) Unlocks the Modify Planet Planetary Decision. (Spend Unity and Influence to add powerful Planetary Modifiers to your worlds over 600 days.)
Tier 2B: Hyperthermic Adaptation: 1) Genetic Modification can add genetic ascension habitability traits that boost population output and habitability at the cost of decreased habitability on other worlds and increased upkeep. (Ex. Alpine Adaptation. 90% habitability on Alpine worlds. 50% habitability on all other worlds. -5% housing usage. +10% upkeep.)
Tier 3: Artificial Gaia Protocol: 1) Habitability is no longer capped at 100%. Every 1% of habitability above 100% decreases pops' upkeep and amenities usage by -1% and increases their job output and species growth by +0.5%.
Finisher Effects: 1) Terraformed Planets can have +1 Planetary Modifier. 2) -50% Empire Size from Terraformed Planets 3) -15% Empire Size from Pops with Advanced Habitability Preferences.

Explanation: The playstyle rewards wide play with lots of planets. Terraform as many as you can and add planetary modifiers to make them even better, then make your pops match your planets. The high upkeep cost of Hyperthermic Adaptation can be mitigated by stacking bonuses with Artificial Gaia Protocol. Many planet modifiers reduce habitability, and I imagine a few unique ones would be added, making it a game of balancing as many bonuses as you can to maximize Artificial Gaia Protocol. Take World Shapers. Turn the entire galaxy into Gaia Worlds. ??? Profit.
Evolution
Concept: This is the advancement of the base Genetic Ascension in-game and the analogue to the Synthetic modularity. Evolution is about encouraging the species' innate evolutionary abilities through cloning and intentional genetic manipulation. As part of this, Organics would get a 6 cost species trait Evolutionary Markers that mimics the effects of the Synthetic's Auto-Mod (higher cost because

Adoption Effects: 1) +4 Pops with Vocational Genomics traits optimized per month 2) Unlocks the Clone Vats Building (same as in game). 3) Unlocks the Genetic Pursuit Agenda (Same as in game).
Tier 1: Genetic Resequencing: 1) Genetic Modification can remove positive traits. 2) Genetic Modification can add negative traits. 3) Genetic Modification can change species trait. 4) Unlocks Assimilation into or out of Hive Minds. 5) Genetic Modification can add genetic ascension species traits.
Tier 1B: Stem Cell Stimulation 1) +1.5 Monthly Organic Pop Assembly from Clone Vats buildings.
Tier 2A: Allelic Expression: 1) +3 Gene Modification Points. 2) +1 Organic Species Trait Picks. 3) -50% Modify Species special project cost.
Tier 2B: Retroviral Manipulation: 1) Unlocks the Clone Complex (second tier building for the Clone Vats to match second tier building for the Roboticists.) 2) −33% Clone Vats upkeep.
Tier 3: Engineered Evolution. 1) +3 Gene Modification Points. 2) +1 Organic Species Trait Picks 2) Genetic Modification can add genetic ascension species traits.
Finisher Effects: 1) Every 10 years, all species traits (positive and negative) increase (or decrease) by 1%, to a maximum of + or -10%. This bonus resets each time that species is modified. 2) Can research transgenesis options (as in game.)

Explanation: Much of this Ascension is taking what existed previously and expanding upon it. The original Engineered Genesis was, for non-Hive Minds, a flavor tradition, at most. It feels natural to combine it with Genetic Resequencing. Allelic Expression is moved up a tier, and half of its bonuses are shifted to the first tier, allowing a civ to benefit from the increased trait picks earlier. The Finisher seals the deal: encouraging players to tailor a species well and allow evolution to follow its natural course instead of forcing them to micro-manage each species on every world.
Purification
Concept: The Tall Play Ascension for Genetics. Purification believes that a species is the best it can possibly be right from the start, and that any changes are WRONG. This ties heavily into the new Civic "Natural Design." A Natural Design species would be able to start the Genetic Ascension situation, but they would be locked into the Purification line.

Adoption Effects: 1) +10% Pop Growth Speed. 2) +10 Leader Lifespan. 3) Unlocks the Pure Blood Agenda (Same as above.)
Tier 1: Self-Actualization: 1) Cannot terraform planets. 2) Cannot modify species habitability preferences. 3) Cannot modify species. 4) All species that migrate to your empire automatically gain the genetic ascension habitability trait corresponding to their habitability preference.
Tier 2A: 1) +5% resources from jobs and per positive trait. 2) +10% resources from jobs per negative trait.
Tier 2B: Purity Politics: 1) +10 Leader Lifespan, and +10% Leader Experience Gain per positive species trait. 2) +15 Leader Lifespan, and +15% Leader Experience Gain per negative species trait.
Tier 3A: 1) +50% Empire Size, +25% Pop Upkeep, and -25% Pop Growth Speed from Population on planets with 90% habitability or lower. 2) -50% Empire Size, -25% Pop Upkeep, and +25% Pop Growth Speed from Population on planets with 100% habitability or higher.
Tier 3B: Alpha and Omega: All Leader traits (positive and negative) are increased by 1% per Leader level.
Finisher Effects: 1) Every 5 years, pops will automatically migrate and resettle to worlds that match their habitability preference. 2) Unemployed and unhoused pops do not produce crime, unhappiness, or instability while on planets that match their habitability preference. 3) Unlocks the Purity of Purpose policies. (Unemployed Pops increase Unity, Research, or Trade Value by .25% per population but reduce the remaining two by .25% per pop.)

Explanation: Do you want to be the best you can be? This is how. Virtualization's penalty directly correlates to how many colonies you have, but Purification's penalty is on having species on any world that isn't habitable. This also presents the interesting option to heavily delay the tradition to terraform as many planets as possible. Spend energy and time to play wide what robots must play tall, or gain as many benefits as possible as soon as possible? Bonus: Invasive Weeds meta build.

Dear redditors,
Bit of background. For nearly year i am happy user of decently performing QNAP nas with 4x20To, 64GB of memory and 9th gen i9 processor. Also it's fitted with 4x2To Gen3 TLC nvme drives. It serves both myself and my family as:
1) storage of important family data of around 3To 2) storage of movies/series which i do consume through Plex, no wonder, incl. hw transcoding 3) 1x VM of Windows 10 used as RDP with Qbittorrent, Firefox and jDownloader
For half of month i am work related traveller and above setup helps me to remotly (via WireGuard but it's not NAS related as i got it configured on my router) help both myself to access my important work related data as well as my family (simple things such as downloading stuff, scheduling backups)
Now given that forementioned device draws nearly 90W i came to conclusion that since i have a spare device i would rather use it instead to save om bills which are being generated by QNAP. Also at this moment i will create fresh PLEX library and keep what i have already on NAS bit reorganized but in offline mode.
So i got following:
1) 1x NUC13i5FHH (tall chassis) 2) 2x 16GB 2400MHz sticks found in drawer, 3) 1x M2.2242 SATA3 Transcend 425S 2To 4) 1x M2.2280 KC3000 4To from Kingston 5) 1x SATA3 2To (slightly used) MX500 drive.
Now getting to question finally. What is bugging my mind is choice of OS given the very same set of tasks that i would like to do which i am able now.
I see following choices:
1) Windows 10 OS

• Important family stuff to be kept on KC3000 (since there are several thousands of photos involved, amount of small files is really huge). Since this isnt really hot data its not accessed that much. But i believe accessing (eg. Thumbnails while browsing) that data due to its type will be just faster on nvme drive that on sata.
  
• Windows itself and Plex hosted on either Transcend or Crucial drive. Second SATA will be used only as temporary/current media library (before we consume them and if desired / move / archive to NAS)
  
• Native RDP works from scratch and works nicely (as MacOS user i use MS RDP app and its doing good job having full screen in retina mode clear n clean)
  
• No issues with Raptor Lake related issues/Plex issues
  

2) Ubuntu Desktop.

• KC3000 will be used the same, to store important data,
• Ubuntu itself again like in 1st Scenario on one of SATA drives.
• Desktop version instead of Server to not loose important for me ability to remotly log in to desktop environment,
• I think Ubuntu has some built-in RDP solution based on VNC. My concern is that quality sucks? And its not that (experience) good to use as what Windows offers?
• Slightly steeper curve to do sharing via Samba. Not greatest concern as i share just a couple of directories.
• Expected issues? With hardware transcoding on Raptor Lake CPU
• Filesystem choice. Maybe zfs on single nvme drive and ext4 on sata drives? Pros and cons?
• Idling. Any better or the same like on Windows?

3) TrueNAS scale

• If installed on one of SATA drives, its a waste of its capacity.
• Zfs on drives, wouldnt cow eat them quickly due to its nature ? Remind of fact that i do download a lot and one of sata drives will be used very frequently.
• plex as container. as benefit of this - i can limit usage to be less draining on cpu while doing all these indexing background stuff.
• Vm of Win10 to run Jdownloader and operate Firefox. Using truenas builtin VM hypervisor and uze it via RDP
• Easier than on stock Ubuntu managing of shared folders among myself and homeusers (7)

In all cases backups will be periodically made to QNAP (pulling off whats changed).
By changing platform i expect magnitude of improvement if it comes to power efficiency. My aim is to bring actual 90W to 15W (idling) without sacrifying my workflows.
Question is - did i miss anything? Any unforeseen obvious issues that i run into? Which way to go. Also bear in mind that it has to be rock stable with uptime expectations of 30+ given my frequent absence at home.
current clients of my NAS - Wife, sons, parents in law and couple of friends (plex users) are mix of Windows and MacOS devices.
Current QNAP will be just WoL operated when necessary to do backups.
Did i answered myself correctly that properly configured (eg. windows updates off to avoid random reboots) ltsc Win10 will be... simply best solution?
Cheers Yoni

From childhood to college to working years and unto death, women are increasingly favored over men for at least the past few decades in America. And not enough people realize this will come with significant costs and downsides to America as we age.
1.)
Teachers give higher grades to girls than to boys with the same academic ability. And the bias is evident across different types of schools and for different teacher characteristics, suggesting teachers are hard-wired to give girls higher marks. The size of the gap is considerable and could have significant long-term consequences, both on college admission and employment prospects:
Researchers compared the results of standardized anonymous tests taken by almost 40,000 15 and 16-year-olds in language and math with the grades the same students were awarded in classroom tests. While the results of the anonymous tests followed the expected pattern, with girls outperforming boys in languages and boys doing better in math, in the non-anonymous classroom tests the girls scored higher in both subjects.
And the disparity could mean the difference between boys getting a pass and a fail in some subjects.
The average grade for girls in language was 6.6 out of 10, compared with 6.2 for boys, and in math it was 6.3 for girls and 5.9 for boys, just under the pass mark of 6.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01425692.2022.2122942
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nickmorrison/2022/10/17/teachers-are-hard-wired-to-give-girls-better-grades-study-says/?sh=7f95fbef70a6
2.)
For the class of 2022, women comprised 58.6% of all bachelor degrees.
For the class of 2022, women comprised 57% of doctorate and professional degrees. As we know, people who have degrees tend to make more money, widening the growing pay gap between men and women.
https://educationdata.org/number-of-college-graduates
3.)
Working women already earn more than men on average, per hour:
The New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles metropolitan areas are among the cities where young women are earning the most relative to young men. In both the New York and Washington metro areas, young women earn 102% of what young men earn when examining median annual earnings among full-time, year-round workers…
However, even among full-time, year-round workers, men and women devote DIFFERENT amounts of time to work. Men under 30 usually work 44 hours per week, on average, compared with 42 hours among young women.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/03/28/young-women-are-out-earning-young-men-in-several-u-s-cities/
In healthcare, at least 53.7% of the next generation of doctors are all women. One medical school even BOASTED about the fact that OVER 65% of its student doctors were female.
Please also keep in mind: 22% of women doctors choose to work part time, and 9% of male doctors choose part time. This only exacerbates the doctor shortage in America, as the field continues to grow in favor of a female ratio.
Other healthcare jobs with good pay are dominated by women:
87% of all registered nurses are women.
88.8% of nurse practitioners and 78% of physician assistant students are women (average 130K salary).
https://www.ama-assn.org/education/medical-school-diversity/women-medical-schools-dig-latest-record-breaking-numbers
4.)
Women are living longer and longer than men.
As life expectancy at birth in the US decreased for the second consecutive year, from 78.8 years (2019) to 77.0 years (2020) and 76.1 years (2021), the gap between women and men widened to 5.8 years, its LARGEST since 1996 and an INCREASE from a low of 4.8 years in 2010.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2811338#:~:text=As%20life%20expectancy%20at%20birth,of%204.8%20years%20in%202010.
5.)
Healthcare funding is heavily slanted towards women. Example:
The NIH spending for prostate cancer in 2015 was US$288 million, which is LESS THAN HALF that for breast cancer…The difference between public funding and disease burden is even more striking in the case of COPD: NIH invested a mere US$97 million, almost SEVEN TIMES LESS than for breast cancer, although COPD killed 292,000 Americans, SIX TIMES MORE than breast cancer.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2811338#:~:text=As%20life%20expectancy%20at%20birth,of%204.8%20years%20in%202010.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5836059/#:~:text=The%20NIH%20spending%20for%20prostate,43%2C000%20people%20died%20from%20it.

I(19m, 180 cm) was at about 73 kg in December 2023 but accidentally started bulking and gained weight and muscle. I am now at 83 kg and want to get back down to 73 kg by end of September, ideally with minimal muscle loss but am willing to sacrifice a bit for the sake of losing fat. This is my first time planning a weight loss diet/meal plan that focuses on more than only calories+protein lol. I used mostly rough estimates, but I would appreciate all advice.
Breakfast: 100g avocados, 3 boiled eggs
Avocados: 160 calories, 14.66g fat, 8.53g carbs, 6.6g fiber, 2g protein.
Eggs: 231 calories, 15.84g fat, 1.68g carbs, 0g fiber, 18.78g protein
Total: 391 calories, 30.5g fat, 10.21g carbs, 20.78g protein, 6.6g fiber
Lunch: salad with 2 chicken breasts
Salad: 525 calories, 38.5g fats, 38.5g carbs, 7g fibers, 10.5g protein.
Chicken: 396 calories, 8.6 g fats, 0g carbs, 0g fibers, 62g protein
Total: 921 calories, 47.1g fats, 38.5g carbs, 72.5g protein, 7g fibers
Dinner: smoothie (Dates, banana, apple, ground almond, 2 scoops protein powder)
Max 300 calories, 62.5g protein
Snack throughout the day: Watermelon(2-3 cups a day, depending on how snacky I feel)
90-140 calories
Overall estimated daily key macros: Roughly 1750 calories, 77.6g fat, 155.78g protein
Cardio/Strength: Supplementing this with around 2 hours of moderate-high intensity cardio(Muay Thai) 3 times a week, 3-6 hour low-intensity hikes once a week, and occasional moderate-high intensity basketball maybe once every two weeks. For strength training, mainly just going to do kettlebells, 50 swings every other morning.
I tried my best to follow one of Jeff Nippard's videos(linked below) whose guidelines set my target daily macros at <1800 calories, 155g of protein, >50g fat, and the rest into carbs. I have been eating healthy for a few years now so I am not too worried about falling off the wagon from this plan since I have practice employing healthy habits as a lifestyle rather than diet.
In particular, I am unsure if the total daily fats are too much, even if it does come from healthy sources.
Thank you all so much!
Jeff Nippard vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn-XvYG9x7w

Hey guys I have come into some money and have a question.
Won't go into anything and this is all made up amounts.
Lump sum amount = $500k
Mortgage loan amount = $350k
Pay off the loan amount and have no debt? Switch to a offset loan amount and cover the full amount in the offset?
I am currently pushing more towards an offset account and covering the full amount as to pay no interest each month. My thought is each monthly payment towards loan amount I would then transfer the excess amount in the offset to a term deposit account.
Before someone asks why not pay off the loan and then just transfer that same amount to a term deposit each month from income. I'm certain i would spend more and not transfer the same amounts.
Then one other question would be if I wanted to renovate/add to the home in the ball park of 50k. Just use the remaining lump sum amount to do this or do this with an equity loan and then cover that amount in the offset and continue with the above mentioned.
Thanks in advance.

Hello, I'm a female(27) and my BF(29) so bale nasa mga 4 years na kami ang set up pala namin is live in kmi ng parang mga 2years na. Nakikitira sya dito samin parehas kami may work. Sa previous work ko may naging BFF akong babae mga kasing age ko lang rin and madalas naman sya bumibisita dito sa bahay pero nagkakataon lagi na pag nagppunta sya is nsa work ung bf ko so di sila nagtatagpo pero may one time na nagka tagpo sila since day off ng jowa ko nun tas bumisita ung bff ko na un bale wfh nga pala ako kaya palagi lang ako nasa house and anytime nakakapag welcome ako ng bisita or tropa na gusto tumambay. So para mas maintindihan nyo kami ng BF ko di kami friend sa FB or kht anong soc med dahil may one time na nag away kami noon then pinag dedelete nya nga pics namin sa FB nya then sabi ko di ko sya i aadd ulit hanggat d nya binabalik mga pics namin hanggang sa pinanindigan nalang nya na ganun bago pa lang kami mag live in d na kami friend sa fb pero nabbuksan ko ung acc nya ng hindi nya alam. So eto sa tagal na hndi kami friend sa fb pag chinecheck ko ung search history nya never ko nakita ung name ko dun so ibig sbhn di nya ako iniistalk or check manlang kung anong balita sa profile ko. Not until nung bumisita yung BFF ko dto sa bahay nung gabi na andto sya nun ung BF ko biglang naging madaldal tas kung ano ano tinatanong nya sa BFF ko so prang ako nanibago ako sa kilos ni BF nun kase di naman un ganun sa mga ibang tropa ko na napakilala ko sa knya before. So medyo kinutuban so paguwi ng BFF ko chineck ko yung FB ng Jowa ko nagulat ako kase inistalk nya ung FB ko so medyo natuwa ako nun pero nung issearch ko sana ung name ng bff ko 2 letters pa lang ng name nya ung na ttype ko lumabas agad ung profile nya it means na inistalk na sya ng bf ko pero binura nya ung history nun. So ibig sbhn kaya nya lang ulit ni visit ung profile ko para hanapin yung profile ng bff ko. Kinompronta ko sya about jan and umamin naman sya na ganun nga gnwa nya. Ang sabi nya lang wala lang daw yun. Pero ang sakin kase sobrang tagal ko nang nakakasama ung tropa ko na un halos madalas ko din ikwento sa knya at ipakita ung mga pictures namin nung bff ko pero bakit nung nagkita sila ng personal biglang ganun sya makapag react at inistalk nya na agad bakit hndi nung mga time na kinukwento ko palang? Stka nabanggit din pala nya sakin after umuwi ng bff ko nun na may itsura nga daw ung tropa ko na un. So ano sa tingin nyo guys? Hahahahah

What should I do with my eagerness to be wanted? With some background I am Maeya ‘20MTF’ and I never new my bio dad ’40M’ he and my mom ‘40F’ were young and he was a coward and left. My mom met my first stepdad ‘41M’ (aka stepdad 1) when I was 5 yo. He is mostly traditional he understands what being gay is but other than that hates all of it. Where I was the black sheep of the family. And where my brother who is 5 years younger was the masculine son he wanted. At school I was the floater in social groups who could be anywhere. But that didn’t mean I could fit in anywhere. I am too awkward of a conversationalist and social situations aren’t my strong suit. The group I stayed with through high school had 4-5 people all male and we were all “pairs” in the group where I was the third part of a trio that would hangout after school. Because my gendesexuality I really had too decode whether I had a crush on a girl or I just wanted to be them thankfully most of the time it was the ladder but I knew I was mostly into women. But because I did grow up in a semi traditionalistic setting and my messed up social awkwardness I didn’t ask anyone out ever. Because I was male presenting but flamboyant I was either expected to ask them out or I was too feminine too be into women. Which resulted in a couple of times being pranked on by both guys and girls saying that some girl would be into me just to be fake. One was a high school dance and another was just a Sophomore joke. Sophomore year my Nana passed away from a stomach/intestinal cancer. And because of my paternal upbringing she was the consistent secondary guardian that was there from the beginning. Then Junior year my mom and stepdad dad 1 got a divorce and then the pandemic happened. Senior year began and I knew I needed too prepare too say goodbye too my old life and prepare to start a new one and my friends will find there own paths in life too. But I did expect us too have a way of communicating. My mom ended up meeting someone and remarried in January of 2021. October of 2020 one my friends passed away from an OD. The rest of us graduated class of 2021. One friend ended up becoming a hermit I tried reaching out but he didn’t come out of his house. I ended up going to the Navy in September of 2021 but had a leg injury in bootcamp and didn’t make it. While in bootcamp my family moved across the country Northwest to the South. So I ended up going with them once I was out of bootcamp. I ended up feeling alone and restless I just found a job and was in a rut. Then in July of 2022 another one of my friends died in a car crash. This made me determined too try something new like college but that ended up not working out mentally. But things at work were looking brighter. I did come as trans at this time. And seeing a dynamic duo of Hope ‘21F’ and Sophia ‘22F’. For this story you need to know has been in a relationship for 3 years. I knew Sophia since I started working their and seeing her and Hope more at work and hearing about there night outs during the summer of 2023 when both turned 21 was something I wanted to be a part of as a friendship. It was difficult for me too articulate it especially when I am an outsider in so many ways but they said they’ll take me in. This was January of 2024. Due to the weather there wasn’t much communication but I did make plans to go out to a club as a first time being full femme and it was a time to tackle my gender anxieties but not my social anxieties so I wasn’t as social as I would’ve liked. Then after that Hope has had a lot of new adulting things this year from insurance, dental, a new car, and ending a three year relationship because of online betrayal.
When she broke up with her boyfriend I knew she was physically the most beautiful person inside and out I’ve ever seen but because of how well oiled her relationship seemed too be I never truly paid attention to this feeling. She is the center of the group and has constantly people wanting to hangout with her. But she was ranting how she is so bad at responding to people because there seems too be so much responsibility. With that every time I reach out she does respond in reasonable measure. But the only time I’ve been messaged by Hope or Sophia it’s too see if I can come in too cover someone else at work who called out. I know it’s not intentional. I didn’t tell Hope about the lack of communication. But I did explain my feelings and I knew she experimented once or twice and she doesn’t float that way but I have feelings for her and don’t know if they’ll go away but I’ve already accepted the facts and she means more too me than my own feelings and I’m willing too stay friends but just wanted too be honest with her and not do something stupid. She was completely understanding and as expected she viewed me as more of a sister and I completely understood and accepted. But now there is this growing communication issue where so many people want to be a part of Hope and Sophia’s click that I am having no communication in general because of my social anxieties, lack of experience in the South, am for and can hangout around recreational use but don’t partake myself, and my fear of being “the single trans/gay person of the group”. Because of those things I see people who do want to be a part of their click being shown more effort because they fit their vibe/vibe of their hangout and I don’t know what to do. From confessing my feelings to Hope and these communication issues I just realize I’ve had a few number 1 friends but I was nobody’s number 1. But I’m not looking to be number 1 I just want to not be last thought to feel wanted. I just need to know how to communicate this without feeling like I am forcing them too because the last thing I want is too be a friend out of pity.

Did any people, still has a clear mind, to understand the meaning of beating the raid as first team. Just because Bungie let those guys, those streamers who played new dlc way earlier than anyone in the community, I won't buy the new expansion and stop playing destiny from now on.
Didn't those dev in Bungie, or you streamers don't understand the meaning of getting started early? so what is the meaning of day1? what is the meaning for those people, who want to beat the new raid first, those people has prepared for this long time ago. Now, you tell me, will those streamers get a better understand on the new ability, new exotic if they didn't get the chance to play new dlc earlier than any of us? Are they one of Destiny's test team? Bungie don't have a test team? are those streamer going to join the day1 race or not?
wow, so this is what they do when the game is at it's end, they delayed the hole dlc for almost 3 month, and there is barely any time for others to prepare for the race... and they set the time for day1 just right after the dlc's launch, wow, so that's how Bungie play the community? Best community? wtf? did any of you guys still believe in this shit?
Just, let we see, they didn't get the chance to play new expantion a week ago, it's way earlier than we thought, there are more content coming out, I'll just wait.

Before I start off this review I just want to let you know that I’m sorry if my grammar sucks in this review because I am typing on a phone but if you want any questions on what I mean by it just lmk.
First off I wanted to say I loved the way they protrayed the characters of the show and it is really nice to learn about their past, their role of the school and the hidden struggles they’ve been through throughout their school life. Which is pretty cool. I think the dynamic relationship between Eun Oh and Tae Woon are amazing. I love how they acted throughout the show and an amazing duo main characters.
(The Story) With the storyline I thought the idea was interesting. A hidden prankster exposing the corruption of the school and how they favor rich kids than students. Taking bribes, making kids eat expire food and rigging competitions just so the rich kids can go to college easier. It was just plain scummy. In my opinion (sounds like a hot take) I thought it was fairly obvious that X was Tae Woon because judging about his background and how he changed ever since the death of his best friend affected him so much. Originally I did think it was Dae Hwi but the more I learned about Tae Woon’s character and the fight that he had with Dae Hwi calling him a murder I thought it was obvious. But overall the way they structured the story and all is very entertaining and it does leave you to continue more of the episodes the more you watch
(Complaints)
The one thing that I had a gripe with Eun Ho’s character. Seems to me that throughout the entire show she would willingly take the fall several times throughout the show especially with Tae Woon. But the one thing that really didn’t sit right with me is that she tried to take the fall and claim that shes X and willingly to risk ruining her future just to save her boyfriend which made Tae Woon mad. In which I agree that he had the right to feel upset about. The one thing that didn’t sit right with me is that she threatened to quit school to Tae Woon if he ever turned himself in and I’m like what the fuck? Why are you willingly guilt trip your boyfriend to not do anything when he was the one who did the most damage. I get that she didn’t want Tae Woon to move away if he ever got exposed but willingly to throw away your future and not recognize that was the reason why he became the reason he became X in the first place because his dad covered up his best friends death and its quite dumb for her to cover it up for him when that hurted him a lot on how much his dad keep covering up things he won’t take responsibility for
The one thing that also that didn’t sit right with me is that there was no action against the parents who bribed their kids to be successful. I don’t know if I missed something but I wanted karma so badly for these rich kids and their parents who think that they were all that. Especially with Min Joo. He was such a fucking asshole and I wanted him to get huge karma especially when he went and beat his ex girlfriend because he was fucking freaking out that his mom finding out smh.
Another thing that I wish they showed in the show is the relationship between Nam Joo and her father. I wish we gotten more background about her past and how she went on with that lie. I get that we got bits of information but it would’ve been nice to see a small background about her past on why her dad went bankrupt but to me it felt that the story of her relationship with Dae Hwi felt rushed to make it a happy ending for them
Despite the 3 criticisms I had with the show. I think the show is good and very interesting. I just wish we gotten some more context with some of the characters that deserved to have more screentime (Like Nam Joo for an example) I think the show is amazing. I did had a bits of ups and downs with the storyline but overall its not bad and I think its worth recommending to some people.
(8/10) Lmk your thoughts?

I tried to fix it myself because it’s driving me crazy. Every single video is in like 480 or whatever the worst quality is and I’m completely unable to change it.
I googled and it said if you have premium turn off Smart Downloads. Done. Has been done actually I disabled that immediately on getting premium.
Try restarting the app. No dice. This has been going on for months and months.
Wait for the video to finish processing. These videos are anywhere from days old to years old. It’s not an issue of processing.
And that’s it. That’s all I found. Besides a post on here from 2 years ago where no one had any other tips. Just it might be a bug (seems unlikely two years later) or that they might have gotten rid of the feature completely. But if so, why can I still see the option in the video settings? When I click the gear, I get all the normal options with video quality at the top, it’s just grayed out and says it’s unavailable.
Anyone have anything to help me? It’s annoying for most videos as is but I crochet and trying to watch tutorials makes me want to claw my eyes out. I can’t see shit 🫠

So, I'm currently playing as a Tiefling Durge DEX Monk (4 Elements), got Shadowheart (Light domain), Astarion (Assassin) and Gale (Illusion) in the party.
To be honest, I feel like I'm lacking some more melee power for honor mode. So far it hasn't been too difficult but I just got to the grove in this run.
Should I swap in one of my companions for Lae'zel, Karlach or Wyll? Or will I be just fine with this party?
I was also considering making Shadowheart a Rogue 1/Light Cleric 11 so I could swap Astarion for Wyll (blade pact).
I'm asking in regards to act 1 only, as I am planning to swap Astarion (assuming I keep him) for Minthara (sword bard respec) once I get her in act 2. I'll also be doing the Creche pre act 2 if that matters. Oh right, this is in Honor difficulty, will continue as custom if I die xD
*To clarify, Shadowheart as Rogue 1/Cleric 11 is to get her sleight of hand and would only be until I get Minthara as a bard. Once I get her, I would respec Shadowheart back to pure cleric.

so my ex-boyfriend (17m) and me (16f) just broke up, he told me that i had messed up 3 times when i don’t feel as though i did. the first time was because i had changed my Instagram note to “everything sucks” as i had wanted to go swim but no one could, so he asked what it was about and i told him. he proceeded to leave me on seen for hours and ignore me because i had told him that and he was upset about a bathing suit (which was never mentioned in the conversation at all). he was then going on about how i had never made it clear that i would get a new one, when we had talked about this a month before and he forgot that i had said it. i told him i had said that i did tell him that yet no i was in the wrong so i took the blame because he wouldn’t stop saying i was wrong and it was my fault.he than wanted to say it was ironic for me to be upset that he ignored me because i do the same when i don’t, i never ignore him i ignore my feeling 2 completely different things. the second time was because i had said “i guess” i had told him he wouldn’t understand how upset i was but i was wrong on that so whatever i guess, but he told me that me saying “yea i guess it is” to him saying it was sad i had just assumed that without knowing (which it was and i admit that). he was saying it was hurtful for me to say that but i didn’t feel like it was, it wasnt towards him so how could it be? ofc i took the blame though to keep him happy. the third time was today, we were talking and i said i love you to him like i normally do he said “i love you more” but said it again the exact same way as the one before he had copied and pasted it, so i asked if he really did and why he loved me his responses were “MHM” and “i just do”. i asked him to explain why he loved me he told me he couldn’t he has so much going on so ofc naturally i say “i tell you that all the time i just want it once is that to much to ask for?if it is i just won’t ask again”. that set him off he when on and on about how i say i care and understand but i don’t (i did and i did everything in that relationship when he wouldn’t reply i changed the subject it was all me never him and i was always there for him) than told me he can’t come to me for shit. he didn’t even properly break up with me just “i’m sorry”, but there’s so many other things he would do that were just wrong. like tell me im victimizing myself when i was just talking about my feelings, say i was gaslighting him (again talking about my feelings), told him about weird comments i got he told me that i already know how to deal with it and not to go to him about(just wanted his comfort), told him i was harming myself never comforted me just told me he was disappointed which he could have comforted me and then told me that just made it all worse, told me i wasn’t i never tell him how i feel, got upset with me when i went to my best friend instead of him when i was upset but he was mad at me, never seemed interested in me or anything we talked about, and stopped doing certain things with me out of the blue and never explained why (probably when he stopped wanting me all together). but is it my fault?

Guys top iims I'm getting is Trichy, Ranchi, Raipur. What if i choose Nirma University in Ahmedabad over them? Would it be a very very big difference if I choose creating incase I chose to go for job after 2 years?
My plan is to figure out something in these 2 years and go for that thing as a business which i can have a space to do at Nirma and incase I can't I would opt for job and Placements, so what would be a right decision? Need genuine advice, Thank you!

Dm has stated that we can go through the equipment list, including magical, and wonderous items, and pick out 3 and we will get 1 of them "soon:
I am currently level 5 and our dm allows us to cast spells portportionate to our level (level 1 spell at level 1, 2 at level 2, 3 at level 3, yes i know its wack) so on so what are the 3 best items I could chose even if I only get one?

I don’t know where else to say this. No one believes me, no one that hasn’t seen it already. But I have to say something so here it is and the world can decide.
I was a good worker. I showed up for my shifts and did what my written job description said, never missed a day or a chance for a day off. My goal was to be average, to not be good enough to noticed and given more responsibilities, but also not be bad enough to be noticed and put on watch. It’s what I’ve done all my life. Fly under the radar, be easily missed during inspections and blend into the crowd. I got B’s in school, had no intention of going to college or university, not like I’d ever be able to afford it, just wanted a secure job to let me afford my underachieving lifestyle. Took me almost ten years to find something like that, drifitng from one job to another, leaving when too many people started to notice I was much better at the job than I let on.
And eventually I found the perfect fit for myself. I was an overnight security operator, don’t get excited it’s a fancy title for spending all night watching security monitors, for a commuter train. I can’t say which one or where for the safety of others and myself. The job was simple, watch the camera feeds of my designated train and write a report for anything unusual. On a rare occasion make a statement to the police, and I mean rare occasion. In my five years doing that job I spoke to the police maybe twice before the incident.
I think that’s enough background so onto the point. It was a regular Thursday night, shift started at 10pm, working with Larry, Bob, and Sue (not their real names for their safety and more importantly, mine) watching the cameras. Made some notes, forgotten umbrella (wasn’t raining), camera glitch, group of 4 drunk men, person in hoodie doing the drug addict lean (you know the one). The camera glitch was expected, an extension to the rail line was recently completed which included a very long tunnel through a hill side, which about the middle of it was so deep that the cameras would cut out for about 2-3 seconds. It was actually pretty amazing that we got any signal from the trains in the tunnel at all. The wonders of signal boosters. But something about that night caught my attention. I didn’t know what it was at first, just felt something was off. I ignored it that night because at 3 am, everything feels weird. At the end of the shift, about 930am I made my report for the night, handed the desk over to Bill (again, not their real name) and went home on the same train system I monitored.
But the feeling was still in my head. Something happened on the train that night that I wasn’t consciously aware of. I ignored it still, drank my favorite cheap whiskey and went to bed. The feeling stayed with me the next few days. That damned feeling that you know something isn’t right but you can’t figure out. It’s like when you accidently put your phone in a different pocket than normal. So finally on Monday night (you have no idea how busy security monitors get on weekends) when my trains were in the depot getting cleaned I brought up the Thursday night footage and scrolled through it. Same things I made note of were there but the feeling was still there. So I went through it again. And again. The fifth time through I finally found it.
On the third wagon, almost in the blindspot between the cameras, at 2:58am was a regular person just playing a game on their phone. The camera glitched for 2 seconds, and they were gone. I though maybe they just moved completely into the blindspot but no, they were gone. Didn’t get off the train, didn’t reappear. I checked the entire recording of the night. I had no idea what to do. I should have told someone, or made a report, or anything. Instead, I told myself that was really weird and kept doing my thing. Flying under the radar, trying to be mostly invisible.
Two weeks later on Monday night, I saw it again. The camera glitch, and someone disappearing. I scrolled back the footage to make sure. Again, I did nothing. This time telling myself it was just shadows on the lense or the plastic bubble around the camera was dirty. But you know what they say; once is odd, twice is a coincidence, thrice is a pattern. The third time I did something. I made a report. Yeah, real brave i know. Making a comment about “shadows on the lense after tunnel glitch” on my daily report. But that night I started looking into missing people cases. Larry asked what I was doing, I said reading the news while my train was getting cleaned. Better than Bob, who was usually watching youtube and/or playing games on his phone while his train was still making rounds.
Anyways, I found some leads. 3 missing people, last seen heading to the public commuter train before disappearing. But there were more, so many more. Dozens over the past several years, all last seen heading into the area above the new tunnel. Unsurprisingly, they had all been alone at the time.
I won’t go into detail about how this troubled me for nearly a year. Just know that eventually curiosity got its way. On a night off I got my jacket and went out to a train station. Late spring night, a bit colder than prefered, 2am train. The last circuit before this train would make for the depot for maintenance. And I was on it. It would take nearly an hour to reach the tunnel and I was scared but I had to know. Like all those times you watch or read some horror and the character starts reaching for the obviously dangerous thing, you mock them endlessly but I understood now. Fear of the unknown is strong and just seeing what is obviously evil will help you put it out of your mind. But I knew the rules. Be ready to run, have two exits planned, don’t look back.
I sat near the door because I didn’t want to stand the whole time. And when the train finally barreled into the tunnel I started to regret my choice. It was nearly a mile long and just enough room for the train and a very brave worker on each side. I watched my watch 2:59am and ticking closer to 3am. Tick, tick, tick. Who knew a twenty year old analog watch could be so ominous? But then my watch stopped. I looked out the windows and the train had stopped. Not rolled to a stop like trains need to do, just complete dead stop and I didn’t notice. But the lights on the walls were stretched out, the effect that you can only see when you’re moving past them really fast in the dark. My first thought, being a sci-fi fan was that time stopped, yet I moved.
Then I heard a scream and footsteps at the end of the train behind me. I thought about the rules of survival I made and then thought about time being stopped, would the doors open? WOuld I be safe jumping from the train? I’ve seen what happens when someone gets clipped by a train (one of the reasons I had to speak to police) and it’s messy. I heard another scream, desperate and afraid, then the sound of someone tumbling to the floor and something scratching over the floor. A phone bounced off my foot and spun to a stop in front of me. I looked down at it as the screams behind mean grew more horrified and pained. I dared a look at the window to see the reflection of what was happening. And the best I can say is smoke pouring over someone but it was completely shredding the person like a blender but not making a noise and vacuuming up the shreds. Some mental fortitude I didn’t know about kept me from puking and stock still. The screams eventually came to a wet gurgling end and in the reflection I saw a pair of lights flick on in the smoke. Looking back they were eyes but in the moment they were two neon blue lights looking at the window, then making eye contact with me in the reflection. I held my breath.
The smoke soundlessly glided up the aisle and I kept still, not moving at all, keeping my eyes exactly were they were focused before. It drifted closer and closer to me and by god I wanted to cry. It hovered there letting me catch a scent and I want to say it smelled like something burning, or like rot and death, or anything bad. But it was worse, so much worse. It smelled like cooked pork, lightly burnt. It hovered for what felt like hours beside me, I was desperate for air, my eyes were burning from not blinking and those neon lights were staring into my soul. Then the train wobbled as it passed a bend. I have no idea when the thing disappeared or when time resumed, felt like I blacked out for a moment but I know that's not what it was.
I sat there in my seat blinking and breathing deeply to recover. And then I looked down. The phone was still on the floor near my feet. I left it there but I kept staring at it, like when you notice broken glass on the ground and focus on it so you can avoid stepping in it. At the next station i got off the train and went to an always open fast food place. I got a coffee and started writing this. It would be two hours until a train back towards my apartment, one that takes the old long route around the tunnel.
I didn't sleep that day. How could I after watching someone get shredded and devoured? So I sat at my PC and wandered through my games library all day. Think I fell asleep a couple times for maybe an hour. Next night I went to work like normal, focused on my usual behavior. But after two hours I was called into my supervisor's office.
It was relatively normal, they check in with night shift people every few months to make sure we're doing okay. See if we want to change to day shift for mental health. Was all normal until he put his clipboard down and off to the side. He took a deep breath and looked at me, like really looked. That deep penetrating look when someone can see through your lies.
“You saw it.” He said. Three simple words that felt like he was telling me I had a fatal incurable illness. I just nodded. “You have two choices now. Like all of us that know. Either you leave and find a new job and never speak of the incident because you will be a suspect in the disappearance; or you keep doing your job as you always have but with a raise to ignore the camera glitches.” I sat for a while assuming I had to make a choice then and there.
That conversation has been burned into my brain. I still remember it verbatim. And I wish I could say I made the morally correct choice. But I'm an underachieving coward always looking to take the easy path. So I still watch the cameras through the night, but with some extra money to ignore the occasional camera glitch on the extension. I found out accidentally that Larry and Sue also knew about the incidents and made the same choice I did. And we all knew the same amount of nothing and we prefer it that way.
So that's why I'm putting this out there. Maybe someday someone better than me can figure this out.
I still can't eat pork.

I am unsure if such an idea had been presented before but here is my proposal to make the exo suits a more appealing choice to bring into battle.
Make it function like eagle-1 where you are able to call for a resupply for you exo suits.
How it would work in gameplay:
The mechs will still retain their 2 use limit but they can be negated if you play your cards right.
Resupply: When ever you call down your mecha, you will now have a stratagem command to resupply mech. You call it down expend all ammunition and input a command to have a dropship pick up the mech and fly it back to the destroyer for repair & resupply. Cooldown would be the same as eagle-1 resupply
Call in limit: This will only apply if you screwed up an the suit gets destroyed in battle and you are forced to call the new one(only one extra mech).
Overall this proposal is to make the exo-suits a more appealing option to take and at the same time has a risk of becoming an empty stratagem slot if you aren't careful.
Hopefully someone at Arrowhead can make this idea happen and make our exo suits the absolute beasts they can become.

1. Mina does not read books. She stares at them until they give up their information
   
2. The only time Mina was wrong was when she thought she made a mistake
   
3. If Mina were to travel to an alternate universe in which there was another Mina and they fought, both Minas would win
   
4. Mina can divide by zero
   
5. Mina can sneeze with her eyes open
   
6. Mina doesn't wear a watch. She decides what time it is
   
7. Mina can slam a revolving door
   
8. Mina can dribble a bowling ball
   
9. If you spell Mina in Scrabble, you win. Forever.
   
10. Mina can kill two stones with one bird.
    

ELDEN RING SPOILERS AHEAD
In the beginning all life was one big consciousness (The One Great), overlooked by God (The Greater Will) . But the greater will made a mistake, and it was all split into many different types of creatures. The greater will then sent the Elden Ring to govern these new creatures.
The strongest among them were the dragons, who worshiped a consciousness born of an aspect of nature (an outer god). The strongest dragon eventually conquered the elden ring and became elden lord. However, the god of the dragons disappeared, and so the elden lord locked himself in a place beyond time, were he could wait for it's return forever. Doing this, however, cost him the Elden Ring, and the title of Elden lord.
This led to a power struggle and an inevitable war with only one winner: Hoarah Loux, who became elden lord. But, an individual was chosen to become a god against their will, this being Marika. Marika agreed to marry Hoarah Loax, but only on the condition that he became less war graving. He did this by putting his battle lust into his pet lion, Serosh and adopting the name Godfrey.
Marika did not like the idea of death, so she took it out of the very Elden Ring, and had her most faithful servent Maliketh to steel the very rune of death from the Gloem eyed queen (I can't get into who that is because this is already gonna be long enough) But death was no more.
Godfrey and Marika had three children, Godwn, Mogwyn, and Morgott. These are the first demigods. Godwyn was first born and the golden child, set to inherit the throne. He would have two sons, Goedfry and Godrick who would graft limbs to there bodies in an attempt to gain power. However, Morgott and Mogwyn were born Omens. The Omens are remnants of the One Great, with features of all different kinds of animals (scales, horns, tails, feathers, ect) and unusual strength. They are seen as curses and were killed as babies, but because those two were born of royalty, they were instead locked in the sewers. They both eventually escaped with the help of an outer god, the formless mother (god of blood) who thought it was unfair. She set they're blood ablaze, giving them the power to make anyone bleed. Mogwyn praised the formless mother for letting them go and became the lord of blood, but Morgott hated the formless mother for setting his blood ablaze and embraced all things holy.
Eventually, a comet fell upon the land with a special type of stone: glintstone. Glintstone is magical. A couple of people started studying it and they made a magic wizarding school. They became powerful enough to challenge Godfrey and Marika's rule, and so a war began.
The war ended with a notable warrior, Radigon, marrying Renalla, queen of the magic peeps. They had three children. These are the second Demigods. Ranni the witch, first born and set to inherit the throne (mommies favorite). Starscourge Rahdan, giant guy who learned gravity magic so he could ride his regular sized horse but then also used it to hold back the stars from moving just cause he's the goat. And Practor Rykard, who got himself eaten by a god devouring serpent and fused with it from the inside or something idk.
But wait, why are they demigods? Was Radagon actually just Marika in a boys body the whole time? yup
Anyway, Marika sent Godfrey and his armies far away, because the land was peaceful. Radagon left Renalla as soon as he heard this and married Marika (who is actually himself) and they had two children, twins. These are the third and finale demigods, and by far the most powerful. So powerful in fact that the Greater Will nerfed them. Malenia was cursed with scarlet rot, (basically she her body rotted from the inside out) and Miqualla, who was cursed with eternal youth. Malenia promised to always protected her brother, because he could not protect himself.
Ranni, Malenia and Miqulla were chosen to become the next gods after Queen Marika's rule ended. However, Ranni did not like that idea. However, she couldn't just end herself to avoid this fate because the rune of death was sealed away. So, she stole a small piece of the rune of death and killed herself and had Godwyn the Golden assassinated at the same time. This is called the night of the black knifes (because they used black knifes) However, because they were killed at the same time, only Ranni's body was destroyed while only Godwyns mind was destroyed.
Learning of the death of her favorite son, Marika shattered the Elden Ring in a fit of rage. Demigods all claimed shards of the Ring and gained immense power. This led to a war beyond comparison, leaving the ground shattered and no victor. The war was so horrible it led to the abandonment of the Greater Will.
That's when Marika called back the armies of Godfrey, who would try and kill demigods to and claim the shattered pieces of the Elden Ring, so they could mend it and become Elden lord.
🤣🤣🤣

I was trying to figure out what a f2p could do if they wanted to breeze through the first area and levels as quickly as possible, especially afk stages.
The game requires you to collect an afk reward once you hit afk level 5, completely wasting one of your first 2 you will ever receive. This will ONLY happen once you leave the actual battle start screen. If you continue to tap "battle" you'll never go back to the screen that shows you the afk stages, and you'll never be forced to waste an attempt.
This might sound like the most min/max stupidity of all time, but I tested it on two completely different accounts.
If you ignore everything other than the mandatory afk stage, pass through the first and second miasma areas (easily done in about 30 min if you're skipping story), and THEN do as many afk stages as you can, you will almost triple your rewards for the day.
If you want to spend even more time playing and force yourself to get as far as possible before doing the afk stages, you can most likely cuadruple or quintuple your afk rewards for that day, as you want to get as far a possible in afk stages before collecting.
Just a small tip as I tested on two separate accounts.