First Sales Job - Feedback - Posting again since no traction
I have landed my first sales gig with a lateral transfer and am looking for feedback and just a place to share.
I graduated college Dec 22’ with Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering degree. I took my first job out of college as a Sales Engineer as I knew I wanted to move towards the business world. 4 months into this role a regional sales manager left and I was tasked to manage his accounts with support from my boss. I proved myself in the months I covered the positon, bringing on multiple new accounts and managing current customers.
The positon wasn’t filled, so I did what any logical underqualified overmotivated person would do, I applied. My boss moved my application along and I had 5 interviews only to be shot down by HR saying I did not have the experience even though all interviewers gave green lights. The consensus the upper management team and HR came to was to split the territories and give me a stepping stone territory. I have now accepted the role and offically started, though still covering my prior position.
I got a 10% base salary raise and am looking at ~125k OTE. I am full cycle sales rep from prospect to close to account management of 3 million in OEM business.
I feel like the offer is fair, and a great stepping stone in my career. I don’t have anyone close to me in sales to go to for advice, so help/advice/feedback is all appreciated as I am a lost dog.
Side Notes:
The company is paying for my MBA.
Industry - Life Science Equipment Manufacturer

Hi, everyone. I'll be going back to Japan to visit my mom and relatives next month (June 2024), it’s been 5 years since my last visit. I'll be flying from California with my husband and it'll be his first time visiting Japan. We're only spending 14 days in the country and we intend to spend as much time with family in Chiba as possible so we're only visiting Osaka, Kyoto, and Nara for 3 days, and then 4 days in Tokyo. We'll land in Narita on June 1st and our trip to Osaka won't be until June 4th so I think we'll have acclimatized by then so jet lag won't be a problem. Below is the itinerary I put together for us (just me and my husband (both in our mid-20s, fairly active), and my mom (in her 40s)) and I'm hoping to get anyone's input/suggestions/tips, i.e., whether the days are packed or can be made more eventful, things to look out for, etc. If it’s gonna rain, anything to consider or look out for?
Also, I'm going to get us eSIMs in advance and I think we're just going to use Suica via Apple Pay/Wallet for train and bus rides, rather than get rail passes as I've kept seeing posts that those aren't worth it anymore for short travels. Google Maps is what we’re gonna use as a guide for our commutes.
June 4, Tuesday: Osaka

• We'll be flying in from Narita via JetStar and shall land at KIX around 9:35AM. Any suggestions on which mode of transport we should take on the way to Osaka? Our hotel's gonna be Osaka Teikoku, which I was happy to see is close to the Dotonbori area. We can grab food there that morning when necessary.
• From the hotel (if we're leaving our bags prior to check-in time), 15-min walk to Namba Shrine.
• Osaka Castle. We don't intend to enter the museum, just stroll around the garden and take in the views of the castle.
• I was thinking about going to the Umeda Sky Building but based on early weather forecasts for June, it might be rainy that day so I'm not sure if it's gonna be worth getting tickets for.
• Dotonbori and Shinsaibashi for the rest of the day. Does this also lead to the Kuromon Ichiba Market and is it worth checking out?
• Maybe grab snacks at nearby 7-11 for breakfast the next day.

June 5, Wednesday: Kyoto

• Fushimi-Inari. I'm hoping I can convince my mom to get up early so we can leave the hotel 7AM at the latest lol. If it's gonna be rainy that morning, does anybody have inputs about this stop?
• Kiyomizu-dera.
• Starbucks Yasaka Ninenzaka. Just an 11-min walk from Kiyomizu-dera and if by the lines it looks impossible to get into, it's totally okay for us to skip and just pass by.
• Gion District for lunch and some shopping for souvenirs.
• Kodai-ji Temple and Bamboo Garden. I'm totally okay with us just going here for the bamboo grove, that's why there is no Arashiyama Bamboo Forest in our itinerary. (I just think it's too far and may not be worth spending a lot of time to travel to since we only got a day in Kyoto.)
• Yasaka-jinja Shrine. Another 10-min walk from Kodai-ji.
• About an hour to Kinkaku-ji (Golden Pavilion) via bus?
• And then back to Osaka, 1h50m travel time, maybe just go around Dotonbori again in the evening.

June 6, Thursday: Nara

• We’re checking out early, probably should leave by 7:30AM, so we can make the most of the day before our 6:30PM flight back to Narita from KIX.
• Catch the mochi-making at Nakatanidou.
• From there, walk to Kofuku-ji Pagoda.
• And then to Yoshikien Gardens.
• And then to Todai-ji Temple.
• Lastly, Nara Park for the deer.
• I think we should be on our way to the airport by 2PM as it’s almost 2 hours to KIX from Nara and our flight’s 6:30PM.

Question for this Osaka trip: are the Osaka Metro Pass, Kansai Mini Pass, or other passes from Klook worth getting for our 3-day trip? Although my mom is a Japan permanent resident so I don’t think we can get one for her online as only I and my husband are the tourists. Also, my husband is really looking forward to trying out A5 wagyu, even if just in skewers, where can we best get them? He also wants to try Japanese omurice, but I think we’re better off trying it somewhere that’s not Kichi Kichi because of mixed reviews I read here.
I’m sorry if this is looking to be a long post, but here’s our 4-day itinerary in Tokyo. I got us a hotel in Shinjuku, Tokyo Plaza Hotel. I was thinking that we could take the 8:29AM Keisei Skyliner from Narita Airport Terminal 1 to get to Nippori around 9:16AM (based on time table on their website) and then transfer to JR Yamanote for Shin-Okubo station. Our hotel also agreed to take in our bags prior to check-in time so we can go around the city without them.
June 9, Sunday: Narita - Shinjuku - Harajuku - Shibuya - Meguro - Shinjuku

• Drop off our bags at our hotel in Shinjuku.
• Harajuku
  • Meiji Jingu
  • Takeshita Dori for some cremia ice cream and to look around.
  • Get to Tokyu Plaza Omotesando.
• Shibuya (will adjust the order to accommodate Shibuya Sky reservation which I hope to get when it opens 30 days before this date)
  • Shibuya Square, Hachiko, and Scramble.
  • Shibuya Sky
• Meguro for Starbucks Reserve Roastery, which closes late at 10PM.
• Back to Shinjuku at night. If still up for it, check out:
  • Shinjuku no Nekomae
  • Omoide Yokocho
  • Pass by Kabukicho Ichiban-gai, see the red LED sign.
  • Back to hotel.

June 10, Monday: Tsukiji Market - Ginza - Akihabara - Roppongi - Shinjuku

• Get up early to go to Tsukiji Fish Market for A5 wagyu skewers (if we weren’t able to get them in Kyoto) and other snacks to check out.
• Ginza
• Akihabara
  • Maybe eat at the Gyukatsu Motomura there.
• Roppongi
  • I’m still on the fence on whether we should go to TeamLab Borderless and about how much time of our day we’re going to spend in there. I‘m thinking it’s a choice between TeamLab or Mori Tower for views of the Tokyo Tower and for sunset. Although if it’s raining on that day, is the skyline worth paying Mori Tower tickets for?
• Back to Shinjuku or maybe Shibuya if the previous day’s time wasn’t enough.

June 11, Tuesday: Asakusa - Kappabashi - Ueno - Shinjuku

• Asakusa for Senso-ji Temple, Nakamise Street, and view from the Tourist Info Centre.
• Kappabashi to shop for kitchen knives.
• Ueno
  • Ueno Park and Ueno Zoo
  • Ameyoko Street
• Back to Shinjuku. Probably gonna check out the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building at nighttime.

June 12, Wednesday: Warner Bros. Harry Potter - Shinjuku - back to Narita

• The hotel allowed us to leave our bags there until 3PM of that day, so we can head to The Making of Harry Potter without them.
• Should be back at the hotel to pick up our bags before 3PM. And then do some shopping at a Don Quijote nearby.
• Catch the Keisei Skyliner back to Narita Airport Terminal 1.

I originally planned a day trip to Lake Kawaguchiko for views of Mt. Fuji, but I don’t think the trip’s gonna be worth it because I read online that June is probably not a good time to see a clear view of Mt. Fuji.
Thanks so much for taking the time to read all this and in advance for your comments!

So I had an open an account recently with citizens bank and today out of the blue they close but I had some money there already and Zelle transferred coming into that account still processing which is supposed to post tomorrow. What happens to that money now?

I was trying to look for posts that address this, but couldn't really find it. I'm toying with the idea of adding group therapy to my practice. I've been in PP for about 2 years, and work with individuals. I've done group therapy in IOP, PHP, and RTC, and I enjoy the work, but needed a break from it after leaving acute settings.
I'm seeing that there are some of my individual sessions that are dedicated purely to psychoed and teaching coping skills. I'm wondering if it's possible to offer a coping skills group 1x/week (for maybe 1.5-2 hours) for my individual clients. I'm thinking that time can be dedicated purely to teaching the skills, which would give more time in individual sessions for processing.
I'm curious if anyone has done group therapy in this way. I know that a lot of times it's marketing and networking to fill groups with clients who are just seeking sole group therapy, but what if I offer a 10 week group therapy program that current clients can choose to attend to learn coping skills, see how others use coping skills, and/or normalize how difficult it can be to implement skills consistently.
I'm thinking I'd offer this 2x year or something and bill insurance for it and I would offer it to clients who are needing a bit more structured/manualized approach in therapy. Anyway, just spit-balling. Any feedback wouuld be appreciated!

Hello, I saw a job posting for the Medicare health and life insurance agent and was hoping someone could give me their thoughts about the job. I would have to get the license which I’m open to but I’m a bit hesitant. What’s the money and work actually like? I’m looking to get out of a psychical job that doesn’t rely on tips. Any insight would be appreciated

Will probably post my swing tomorrow, so I can’t get tips catered towards my specific swing, but I’m hitting my driver about 200 yards and all of that is from roll out when usually I would carry about 260, my irons are all overdrawing and don’t have my normal high ball flight. How do you guys regain your swing after not playing for a few months (I’m Canadian so I didn’t play at all over the winter). Also might just need to go back to basic fundamentals like alignment and proper weight transfer so any video recommendations for that? Probably would’ve lost about 20 strokes from my game from last season. Only played one round though. Thanks

I’ve transferred a zacian from Pokémon go to pokemon home, but it won’t let me transfer that zacian to my shield account? How do I get it then? I think I understand from other posts that have the same issue, that you have to trade a zacian with another zacian in Pokémon home and then you can trade it? Seems dumb..🥴

Don't let this happen to you if you have a high BMI.
My clinic called my transfer a negative on day 9 and then found a sac after a progesterone withdrawal bleed weeks after my transfer. You can see my post history for more details. The thing is my beta was at 4.8 mIU/mL. Plenty of clinics would call that a negative, but with fat women HCG is lower in early pregnancy.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0015028218318867
Here's just one paper (there are more) I found after all this mess happened. It states that with a a 100 lb difference in weight HCG is about 34.8% lower in early pregnancy. Apply that math and my HCG if I weighed less would have been 7.4 mIU/mL. If you think about it, it really just makes sense. If you weigh more you have more blood and it will take longer for HCG levels to get to "positive levels." For every molecule of HCG someone of a normal body weight makes, I would have to make at least 1.25 molecules. That's not even counting what effects fat could have on HCG production, just simply considering how blood volume works.
There's no guarantee I would still be pregnant. My doctor keeps insisting I was magically breakthrough ovulating after a fully medicated cycle. I spoke to two fertility nurses who agreed with me though. I get why my doctor is sticking with breakthrough ovulation, if I caused a miscarriage I would want to grasp at any other straws I could to deflect from that extremely obvious conclusion.
I've known my whole adult life fat people do not get the same quality of medical care, but it hurts when it happens to you. What would have been our daughter survived a progesterone withdrawal bleed for as long as she could, but ultimately had no chance on a depleted lining. I'm so angry and sad and tired of this.

I didn't expect this to be so stupidly long. I don't know who's going to read it but here it goes anyway.
It's been years since I decided to play an online game again because of how time consuming they are. When I was younger I enjoyed games like Ragnarok Online, Lineage II or Guild Wars, but life goes on and you grow up and you have many other responsibilities. However, FromSoftware's soulslike masterpieces made me fall in love with video games again since 2021, and after spending like 1500 hours on those games and other great titles I asked myself "Hey, why don't you try an MMO or something?". Also, since I was a bit depressed back then, I finally decided to play a game where I could go deeper and deeper, get lost and forget about my daily worries.
Like two years ago, a friend of mine who has been obsessed with Warframe for years showed me some good stuff. He told me about the charactebuild variety, which is very important to me, and showed me the arsenal: katana robot, magnet robot, invisible robot, mind control robot, pixie robot, speed robot, music robot, ass robot(s)... He also told me about spaceship battles, open worlds and excellent storyline, so two years later I finally decided to give it a try.
On January 16th I decided to install Warframe, and it has been one of the best gaming experiences I've had in my entire life.
Not gonna lie, the beginning was... definitely not underwhelming, but a bit discouraging compared to what's to come. And I'm not talking about the tutorial. I think Awakening and Vor's Prize are a decent introduction to the game. Hell, that "new" cinematic is both amazing and necessary, but after that first impression my interest continued to decrease. Fortunately, I kept reaching certain highlights that served as milestones and made me want to move forward.
My main problem back then was the early craft time gating. This was a huge letdown for me because I wanted to try different stuff and didn't have the MR or the resources to do so. You want Rhino, so you kill the Jackal to get the blueprints. Then you farm the Plastids, only to find out that you have to wait 3 and half days until your Warframe is complete. Currently I really like the craft time gating because I find it very rewarding. Because I like to put in practice that kind of delayed gratification, but as a new player you want to try some things and you can't do it right away. I think it would make a much better impression on a potential new player if you could get Excalibur, Mag and Volt already crafted as a very early quest rewards to avoid the 3 day wait, or at least an option to skip the crafting time for the first frame you choose to build. Otherwise you are locked to your very first selection for a few days, regardless of whether you are comfortable with it or not, unless you decide to spend your free 50 platinum to rush the craft. But of course no one is going to do that, because you don't know yet if you're going to invest some money to buy more plat. Actually, I think such situation can backfire and kill the willing to do it.
Another important issue I remember is that, after Vor's Prize, you don't have many interesting things to do for a while, especially since the most useful advice is to complete junction after junction to reach The Second Dream as soon as possible. So you keep completing the nodes, one by one, with almost no relevant story, cinematics or lore involved. The first impression fades until it's completely gone. Eventually I thought "Ok, so I guess this is it. I'm going to kill the same enemies over and over again, just with more health and more damage". And, while this is still kind of true in the "endgame", I never expected how much the game would eventually open up.
To be honest, the mindless slaughter wasn't terrible for me because I was having a blast anyway, and really loved playing Excalibur. Slash Dash was becoming easier to control, Radial Javelin felt powerful and I found out you can toggle your Exalted Blade at will. I couldn't appreciate the usefulness of Radial Blind because the game was being too easy, so I didn't use it at all, and unfortunately this is another great issue in the early game: I can't express how easy Warframe is for almost the half of the Star Chart. For real. It's too painfully easy to the point where you can't possibly die playing the first planets, and anyone who played this game for more than two hours knows that I'm not trying to be cocky. It's a mindless button holder until you get to Uranus or so, and the only redeeming quality of this bloodfest is how good it feels to obliterate things. And no, I don't need the game to be extremely hard. I actually like the difficulty later on and I think it's progressively more and more adequate, but the early game almost discourages you from trying to figure out how to kill things because it's not necessary at all.
Hey. I swear this is an appreciation post, but not everything in the game can be perfect. Especially when you start playing it.
So I keep playing. Saya's Vigil is a nice addition to show you some of the game's possibilities. It's a cute quest with cute characters, they talk about some Sentients, you see the Eidolon, you know one day you will be able to kill it, you have a new open world... yeah, it was okay, but I had to stay away of Plains of Eidolon and completely skipped Fortuna and Orb Vallis because my friend recommended me to focus on completing the Star Chart, so my first real highlight was the Heart of Deimos quest. The New Strange got me interested with that weird transmissions and the womb of the sky thing, but Heart of Deimos was where I really thought this was much more than a pew pew game. This was the quest that made me start loving Warframe, and it was a smart move on DE's part to place it in the early progression.
I absolutely loved this quest, to the point that I even doubted if it could be topped in some way. Yeah, little did I know. I loved the environment, the Entrati family, the Necramech and the possibility of getting one in the future. Then the game decides to go full Zone of the Enders and gives me the Archwing. When I first saw how beautiful space looks in this game and how smooth the flying felt, I was in awe. Everything was getting better and better. Then I got my first Kubrow. My Taxon, both companions with their own mods to configure. I crafted Zephyr, and after a ton of Oxium farming I got the Archwing Segment to fly through open worlds. Then I found myself mining and fishing, hoarding resources that I know I would need someday while listening to some good music. I opened relics to get some Ducats. After Zephyr I crafted Valkyr, and the whole foundry waiting was much more manageable because I finally had more options to choose. I claimed things while crafting other things, increasing my MR little by little. Then I took a detour to visit Fortuna and Orb Vallis, and those lovely singing fellas gave me a friggin hoverboard to race and do tricks on. I paid attention to that Nightwave menu and started to complete Nora's objectives. A free battle pass with even more free rewards? Of course, sign me in.
I wondered how many things I had left to discover. "This game never stops giving", I thought to myself as a new Gift from the Lotus notification appeared in my Warframe Companion app, which I started using to get some extra resources with the extractors. Then I found out about the Twitch drops, too, and I started claiming rewards week after week. I was so in love I couldn't believe all of these awesome experiences were for free, so I felt compelled to contribute as soon as I could get a -75% discount. I finally got it, so I bought 2000 plat and spent a bit on some fashion and slots.
Character building still wasn't a big deal at this point because I didn't know about how much I could boost my Warframes yet. I knew about some mods and subsumable abilities, but nothing else. Adapters, Corrupted/Riven/Augmentation mods, Focus Schools, Amps, Arcanes and Archon Shards were all unknown to me, but now that I have much more knowledge of the game I have to say it's amazing to try your own things and play however you want. Not only what I mentioned is available to you, but also more than 50 different Warframes and a ton of weapons, both ranged and melee. It feels so good to try different things and see how they work together, so rewarding I can't stop looking at the Wiki to find out more about other unknown mechanics.
So my complaints were diminishing as I was making progress. However, there were still some gripes that I want to address here: being a soulslike player, one of my greatest fears was the boss quality, and sadly I hated a lot of them. I know this is something DE is working on and I appreciate it a lot (Jackal, Eidolons, Exploiter Orb, Ropalolyst, Archons, Orowyrm and The Fragmented prove that they are getting somewhere), but Vay Hek, Sargas Ruk, Tyl Regor or Lephantis were a torture for me, especially because I mostly play solo and they took forever the first time. I'm fine with the phased invulnerability timings because there are builds so broken that could kill any boss in one shot, but precisely for that reason you can work around them in other ways. This game has extremely good character movement, and that means a lot of possibilities. Luckily, as I said, bosses are improving with time, but it took a while to find another interesting one besides the Jackal.
My other great issue was the enemy variety. I've seen how Warframe looked in 2013 and I think that slower, strategic combat could be much more enjoyable than the lightning fast pace we have now, where you just can melt enemies with the right config. Melee animations looked better back then because you could actually see what your Warframe was doing. But yeah, I'm aware that we can't go back to those days because the game evolved into what it is right now, and honestly I also love the current gameplay because of how frenetic it is. What I mean is that sometimes I miss more rough enemies, maybe something like the Eximus but with more variety because most enemies die the same way. I'm almost grateful for guys like Drahks, Scorpions, Shockwave Moas, Nullifiers, Terras, Ancient Disruptors, Saxums, Thrax Legatus, Severed Wardens, Hollow Veins... Yes, those enemies can be VERY infuriating, but at least they make you turn your head to kill them first and eliminate their threats as soon as possible.
Again, I think DE is slowly taking care of that, and thankfully these concerns were alleviated for me as soon as I got to Natah quest because I knew something big was coming. The game was finally raising questions about important stuff.
And then I got to The Second Dream. This remains my favourite cinematic quest in all of Warframe, including The Sacrifice, The New War and Whispers in the Walls, and I don't know if anything will ever top its final moments. I couldn't believe what I was witnessing. Those levels of immersion, thanks to the astonishing visuals, immaculate writing, voice acting and OST, will never leave my mind. Generally speaking, DE worries about making the player feel involved because I think everything you do in Warframe actually matters (even some secondary quests give me that vibe), but here everything looks even more in place. Yes, I saw some humanoid players here and there before the quest, walking around Cetus and Fortuna, but maybe thanks to knowing that something called Duviri exists I thought it was a completely separate thing. Of course during my playthrough I was asking myself "So what the fuck is a Tenno? Is this the game's way of breaking the fourth wall to talk to us players? Is Tenno synonymous with Warframe? Are the Tenno inside Warframes? Are they controlling them from somewhere else?", and then you finally get the answer, and then some. And a new character creator. And 5 different skill trees yet to unlock.
The Second Dream changes everything about Warframe, and it can't be rushed. It can't happen before it happens. After 40/50/60 hours of gameplay the game grabs you by the balls and pulls you out of your comfort zone. This is not about what you could possibly think anymore, and from here DE makes a great job giving you new drops of information with each new quest, expanding their multi-layered timeline. The Orokin collapse, the Zariman incident, the Void, the Grineer Queens, the Dax, Transference, Continuity, some entity old as stars, how the Warframes were created and by whom... starting with The Second Dream, Warframe's storyline never stops delivering in the most unexpected ways.
Since I can't praise enough the story and lore because it's my favourite aspect of the game and I could go on for literally hours, I'll stop here to briefly talk about the OST. And more important, the sound design. Playing this game with headphones adds so much to the experience it's unbelievable. Everything sounds as it should. Voices, grunts, bullets, explosions, engines... I've recently watched an old video on PlayWarframe channel about the sound design and I could watch an extra hour of it. And about the OST itself I don't think I can say anything that hasn't been said before: This Is What You Are, We All Lift Together, Corpus Greed, Smiles from Juran, Octavia's Anthem, For Narmer, those chants from the Orokin Derelicts, the entire eerie score from Whispers in the Walls, Nine Inch Nails (I've heard this song for many years before I knew about the game, so go figure)... not a dull theme in this game as far as I know.
There's a lot more I want to say but this is taking too long, so I'll try to be brief from now.
The War Within, Chains of Harrow and The Sacrifice are almost equally good to me. And that means very good. I love them so much and I could replay them over and over. The New War is my second favourite quest of the entire game and I'm envy of those who played Scarlet Spear, Orphix Venom and other related events that prepared players for months until the main event came. My only "hated" moment on New War was when I had to play with the Railjack, and only because I didn't do any Railjack missions before this quest. Now I want to take the opportunity to talk about this: I currently LOVE Railjack and I find it spectacular because of how it feels and looks, but it's not very welcoming at first. After crafting it in Rising Tide you should have to play a mandatory mission where some mod rewards are guaranteed: for example one of the speed mods, because without it the ship moves so incredibly slow the thrill you should feel piloting it is non-existent. Thanks to this short mission you would get the main idea of how plexus works through modding, identifying new gear and levelling up some intrinsics. Maybe then you would be more interested in the Railjack, maybe then you would be ready and hyped to use it on The New War.
Angels of the Zariman plot felt very short but gave us my favourite tileset, some of the best new game modes (I personally love Void Flood) and Holdfasts standing, which is probably my favourite to rank up because of the Voidplumes and Accolades. I always have so much fun searching them. Duviri is... amazing in a generous amount of things, but not all of them for me. I don't want to sound elitist or harsh here because I can't imagine how hard it can be to make decent soulslike combat (actually some dedicated soulslike games also have trouble replicating FromSoftware formula, and not even FS formula is perfect in all of their games). Despite that fact, I still wish we get some more Duviri content in the future because it's so beautiful to leave it like this, and I also hope that Soulframe nails soulslike combat because it will probably be the game that make me buy a PS5.
VeilbreakeKahl's Garrison is great because, well, we're talking about Kahl here. Also bonus points thanks to Blue Girl.
Whispers in the Walls is absurdly jawdropping and I can't wait for 1999. I don't want to write another 20 pages about story and lore but I swear to God this has to be the best moment to play Warframe yet. My only fear is what can possibly come after facing the Man in the Wall because I don't think there can be anything more interesting or powerful than such entity. I know this is asking too much because we're talking about an online game, but I pray this story to have a proper ending, not something artificially long or forced unrelated stuff or poor retcon. I think this story should end with Wally's conclusion... unless the character alignment system eventually leads to turning some of the Tenno into the new antagonists, with a civil war as the third and final story arc. I don't know, but a new unknown villain after the Wall won't work for me.
Now I want to mention some other important things that I feel need to be addressed.
Early game: it begs to be improved. If DE finally makes the journey to The Second Dream interesting even for the most impatient players, this game will be unbelievably good right from the beginning. As I said, placing Heart of Deimos after Mars is a wise move, but some gaps are still need to be filled on many planets until Uranus/Natah. How, then? The good news is DE themselves already have the exact content they need because this content was once playable. Of course I'm talking about past events like The Gradivus Dilemma, The Hunt for Alad V, Ties That Bind, Eyes of Blight, Tubemen of Regor... there's SO MUCH story with great characters like Alad, Vay Hek, Tyl Regor, Sargas Ruk, Frohd Bek and many others.
They already HAVE the early game they need buried in old code and the only thing they have to do is re-release it, so new (and not-so-new) players can enjoy those little stories while making their way to the huge reveals. I was baffled by how much content I've lost because of these one-time events. How much they told, how much secondary characters shone and delivered. Even the bosses were introduced properly, such as the Ambulas or Kela de Thaym. And yes, I know the devs themselves already said that those events are pretty messy code-speaking to be reinserted in the game, but then why not make them playable with a single specific characteframe like they did with Kahl, Veso or Teshin in The New War? You don't need to redesign every event from scratch, you even have the assets and dialogues. I understand this may result in a significant inversion of time and money at first because it won't exactly be new content, but in the long run it would be extremely beneficial for the game.
I can't stress this matter enough because of how important it is. Those fragments added so much to the lore it's a shame they are now completely abandoned. For example, if you don't read about these past events you can't even understand why Alad is helping us in The Second Dream, or when he became Mutalist or why he's not Mutalist anymore. The game doesn't tell you about the Zanuka Project, or about Darvo's lineage. Or how close was Regor to cure the Cloning Decay Syndrome. If a new player gets hooked early on with these story fragments and not just by completing nodes one after another, it makes sense to be sure how invested they will eventually be, considering how much this game opens up as you progress.
Random points I don't know where to fit in: the best part about this game is that all of my issues (mentioned before or down here) not only have a simple solution, but I think they will be solved eventually. However, I would like to talk about the discounts that console players get. I honestly think that's not working at all. I don't want a platinum discount on my next purchase, I want to purchase platinum at a reduced price so I can buy whatever I want.
-The Wiki. I love the Wiki so much I almost spend more time there than in the game itself. I'm not asking to put every single article from the Wiki into the game, but I think the Codex should be much more complete than it is now. Maybe more guides about certain mechanics and modes would be great. I'm not asking to complete the Leverian or anything like that, even though I would love to because it feels so incomplete as it is now.
-One specific thing that pisses me off is that sometimes I'm sprinting and I get unrealistically stuck in a corner or a wall when there doesn't seem to be enough collision to stop me. It might be nice if you just slid a little off the obstacle instead. Also there's a lot of annoying ledges when I'm trying to jump to reach something. I hit them constantly and I can't go up any higher because of that, maybe it's because I'm a terrible player but it would be better if I could go up straight until I reach my destination.
-I can beat the Eidolon Teralyst alone in 10 minutes and I'm so proud of it because it's a fun boss and taking it down gives me an immense sense of accomplishment.
Community and devs: saved the best for the end. This is, unironically, the best gaming community I've ever seen. People around Warframe is, with some inevitable exceptions, very kind and welcoming. If you need something, people are willing to give it to you for free. I needed a Necramech Engine and wanted to trade it for another part during an Isolation Vault, but then a player decided to trade me the part for free. I tried to give her plat but she insisted on giving me just the engine with nothing in return. At least I managed to give her a Lobotriscid because I think they look cool, and she happily answered that she was going to put it in her aquarium. Those kinds of gestures are what make this community so great.
Yeah. This subreddit is great and awesome and funny and wise and horny and I love it so much. I really mean it. You make my day when I'm at work, but that's why I feel even worse when I see how a small fraction of them/us behave so ruthless with DE, especially in the Wiki comments. Don't get me wrong: I think positive criticism is necessary in Warframe, to the point I even think DE expects that feedback from us to balance the game, correct bugs or find out what players really want or need, but there are individuals out there who just want to be as unpleasant as they can. DE has the balls to always be at the front line, ready for anything those people could throw at them. Besides the great community, DE truly deserves an ovation here because of how amazing they are. Because they believed in their product and fought for it since 2012, and after a lot of struggle they succeeded in what they dreamed of. I love watching early updates with Steve, Scott, Rebecca and many other exceptional people. How enthusiastic and proud they talk about their own creation. And that's so inspiring, especially if you are trying to create any form of art yourself. They are in touch with us, share with us, play with us and laugh with us. They are not only devs, but also people who enjoy playing video games, like us, and that kind of closeness is lacking nowadays in the vast majority of video game companies.
So please, stop going bananas on the same people who are giving you a free fucking 3000+ hour game. They are not holding a gun to your head to play it, or pay for it, so next time you think about throwing your shit at these people try to be more human instead, then express as many thoughts about their product as you want, but always with the same respect they are giving you.
Well, I love Warframe. I love it so much that I wrote this corny fanboyish wall of text. I love it so much that I'm going to take a long break because I want Jade Shadows and 1999 to be released so I can play for another 100 days. I love it so much that I want to buy another 2000 plat as soon as I can, because I want this company to be as successful as it deserves.
Thanks for reading, you beautiful people.

I found a comment in the mountains of posts I searched this week that mentioned one place, but of course I can't find it again.
No one takes my insurance locally or via telehealth, but I just confirmed with my primary that she can treat me once I bring in valid paperwork from one of the telehealth places that states the diagnosis. As long as I get some sort of email or actual records that I can bring them, she's fine with me doing this -- thank goodness.
I know many of you have done these services. Can you please tell me which ones actually provide you with records that are printable/transferable to be printed or faxed?
Thank you SO much for taking the time to help.

I was so excited to take my husband to DCA for the first time yesterday, May 1 (Wednesday). I needed to use the last day of my soccal Mon-Thurs pass.
What we did ahead of time:

• we have a young son, so I had to coordinate my parents arriving at our house early in the morning (5:30am), taking him to daycare + picking him up, my mom spent the night at our house since we were coming home so late.
• We waffled between which park to rope drop but decided on DCA so we could just get one park out of the way and done before heading to the second. Plus I thought it would be nice for my husband to see Pixar Pier before the area got really crazy
• We didn't want to spend a ton of money so we made sandwiches and brought carrots, chewy bars, and almonds. We made breakfast before leaving home so we wouldn't need to stop and get something on the way. We also brought water bottles to refill.
• First time using Genie+ so I used this reddit and others to do research. Thanks for all the help!

Arriving
5:30am - Left San Diego
6:55am - Arrived at Mickey and Friends parking, waited for parking to open at 7am. About 40 cars already waiting. Highly recommend buying the parking pass ahead of time for quick transaction.
7:07am - parked
7:15am - bathroom + security
7:19am - Tram
7:27am - Got in for rope drop, second row in. Surprised people were being let in before 7:30am. It was the day that the hotels are allowed in early to DCA so maybe that was why.
California Adventure (13 rides)
8:01am - Guardians (4 min wait)
8:17am - Webslingers (5 min wait)
8:38am - Incredicoaster (14min wait)
9:05am -Swings (walk on)
9:18am - Midway Mania ⚡️(used lightening lane, already had a 40min wait)
9:30am - Already so hungry, ate our Turkey sandwiches.
9:50am - Goofy Sky School (22 min wait)
10:17am - Llittle Mermaid (walk on)
10:31am - Mater's Jamboree (4 min wait)
10:43am - Radiator Springs. 70min posted wait so we did single rider and were assigned to the same car. Lucky! (13 min wait)
11:20am - Grabbed a Vietnamese Ice Coffee and Chocolate Horchata from Cappucino Cart
11:30am - PhotoPass pics at Avengers Campus
11:40am - Stuck around to see the Spider Man show/apperence. Husband was underwhelmed by it but I thought it was cool tech.
11:51am - Guardians ⚡️ (used LL but waited 20min to get on)
12:32pm - Incredicoaster ⚡️ (5 min wait, could have done it again as posted time was only 10min)
12:50pm - Grizzly, I got so wet. So happy I brought extra clothes to change into. (10min wait)
1:20pm - Soarin, the only ride that made my husband feel sick. ⚡️ (LL, 15 min wait)
Disneyland (8 rides)
1:55pm - Transfered over to Disneyland and immediately overwhelmed by the crowds compared to DCA.
2pm - Decided to take a break and get some late lunch at Stage Door Cafe
2:50pm - Pirates ⚡️ (LL, 10 min wait)
3:15pm - Used an Experience Redemption to get onto Thunder with no wait but it closed as soon as we signed in. (failed LL)
3:45pm - Decided on a another break. Had my very first dole whip and was disappointed. It was fine but I wouldn't get it again (tbh aligns with how I feel about most of the food)
4:18pm - Stopped by guest relations in front of the castle because my app wasn't showing my new Experience Redemption.
4:25pm - Star Tours ⚡️ (LL, 7 min wait)
4:50pm - Hyper Space Mountain - single rider rider line was longest I have ever seen but the posted time was 60min (14 min wait)
5:20pm - Thunder Mountain ⚡️ (LL, 8 min wait)
5:55pm - Smugglers ⚡️ (5 min wait, got pilots spot!)
6:15pm - Had to get a Cold Brew Caf at Docking Bay 7 (my fav). Took another break but energies were still high. Rise was down and had been for a few hours so we sat outside it for a while to see if it would open.
7:15pm - Finally gave up on Rise opening up and went to find the famous cheesy bread.
7:24pm - Grabbed a Pizza Port popcorn bucket for my aunt
7:29pm - Finally tried the cheesy pretzal which was a 10/10, so good.
7:52pm - Indie ⚡️ (LL, 16min wait)
8:31pm - Mickey's RR ⚡️ (LL, 8min wait)
9:09pm - For some reason our Roger Rabbit LL res got canceled so we switched gears when we saw Rise was finally opened after being closed for 3-4 hours. (20 min wait)
9:48pm - Thunder ⚡️ (LL, 5 min). I tried to get my husband to do it once more as we had another exp redemption but he was ready to go.
10pm - Park Closed, we walked to parking structure because the trams were insane
10:30pm - In the car
10:43pm - Finally out of the structures and headed home
Honestly felt like we could have done more rides if our afternoon hadn't been disrupted by a few plans not panning out. We also did a lot of crisscrossing around the park and it would be been more efficient to plan more things around certain areas.

My wife is trying to get her prescription filled, but none is available at any CVS in town (apparently, off label weight loss is more important than diabetes management, but that’s for another post…). With lines through the roof and pharmacies not answering their phones, I hope someone here might know of a pharmacy where she could transfer her prescription.
Thanks in advance.

Hey guys! I was wondering if yall could help me choose which Texas schools to apply to and help me figure out if I have a good chance at getting into them. My relatively low MCAT is making me concerned as I am ORM - Asian (514 matriculant AVG per AAMC). I really would not prefer DO.
3.92 CGPA
512 MCAT
500+ Hours ER Hospital Volunteer (Direct PT Care)
300+ Hours Ambulance Cadet (volunteering with EMTs on ambulance, BP, vitals, etc.) - EMT Course Completed (planing on taking NREMT this summer and finding work)
Some number of Research Hours (need to calculate):
• 2 Publications (2nd and 3rd author) about a machine learning model used to evaluate pediatric mortality risk, model uses information obtained at scene (GCS, BP, location of injury, etc.) to predict mortality risk on a scale of 0-1 to assist with triage (validated at 97%+ accuracy), looking at next steps for real world implementation
• 1 First Author Publication in progress, this is relating to the same model discussed above with some improvements in discriminatory ability with increased accuracy and sensitivity/specificity (this research is something that greatly interests me and I can talk forever about)
• 1 Presented Posted on HIV Malignancies (won Magna Cum Laude at RNSA which is awarded to around 2% of all presentations)
400 Hours Non Clinical hours at Children's Special Needs Camp over summers
120 Hours Shadowing: (80 Neonatologist, 40 Radiologist)
Good LORS (4 total: 2 from science professors, 1 from machine learning PI, 1 from RNSA PI)
Good Essays (IMO) highlighting how much application is focused around a pediatric theme

32 years old. 9 year old kid.
As title says got a Backpay from taxes of about 20k. Between me and my wife. From my disability.
We have a mortgage of about 150k left of 185k total. Monthly payment of about 950.
We owe currently 34,000 on our credit cards and LOC. Combined.
22k for her. 17 credit. 6 LoC 12k for me. 9 credit 2 LoC.
Both credit cards are standard 19.99% interest rates. LoC is prime + which I believe is currently 13%.
I was unsure if we should just be snowballing/avalanching the debt down. With the money. Or what to do with it.
Overall we are a single family income am the stay at home parent. Looking to potentially further myself with education. And get back working. Eventually.
Hopefully computers? Where I can work remotely?
Became disabled so in the process of applying but will take time. For federal disability.
Also will get help from the metis federation which helps education provincially.
Autistic/ADHD
So I have no income. EI is not an option nor is EIA wife makes too much. Federal disability takes up to a year. So I'm just floating till then right now.
Was a Painter previously fire/flood restoration, before disability.
Wife works she makes about 45k a year before tax. So we are mostly living pay cheque to pay cheque.
We had a major sit down last night to discuss the root of the problem a lack of recovery since almost covid. Living on credit cards. Now interest is the problem.
We are going to budget/cut the cards/remove spending except minimum as that is truly what got us into the problem.
But curious if anything else I'm not thinking about. Few ideas I had were not sure if possible for the wife to take a consolidated loan for lower interest?, or we both have high credit 750+ could we safely do a balance transfer with a 0% APR card?
It feels like a no brainer but really don't want to make mistakes on this chance.
Long post but here is some info about us. Such as a rough current budget.
I had a surgery that costed us about 5k we put on the credit card *worst decision ever.. * . It was basically an emergency. And before that were living on our credit cards for awhile just buying groceries and things back around Covid
financially we are in a better place and now she got a much better job.
it's majorly the interest from before more holding us back from putting back into savings
We already do planning of meals and cook from home I never made a direct budget yet this would be the next step as well in this process.
We get CPP which is about 450 a month
But in general my wife makes about 2400 a month. Take home. Our bills look like this. Or roughly this.
950 for mortgage
500 for groceries
200 gas
150 car insurance
100 cell phone.
100 utilities
350 interest/minimum payment on card (which id love to snowball down into paying other stuff off not go oh I have 300 more to spend but that now this 300 would be spent into other direct snowball bills.)
Total= about 2350 a month. Our of a total 2750.
And I know I potentially missed something. But she's near her max on her take home.
I have a small income now but not much. . But I was paying the entertainment stuff Netflix outings etc.
Now my bills
50 medical prescription
60 health plan insurance.
100 phone.
100 Internet. (About to run out and shopping around for a cheaper package/deal already) (We're already jointed and want to drop our contract lower but are locked in for a bit. So that's also.. something we're looking at. As in a different cheaper provider. We use Netflix as tv source to avoid cable packages.
25 Netflix
200 credit card minimum. (Same exact ideal or problem as my wife. I'd like to attempt to snowball down and directly funnel into the same snowball. System with her card..)
All in all I owe about 550 a month and make my payments but barely make it..
So the goal or hope.. was to snowball all my debt down like credit card. And then any money I get funnel into her debt.
Sorry about the long response hope this maybe gives enough insight or help. To give advice.
Sorry for jumble and formating. Any and all advice appreciated.
Edited to add CPP amount*

Need some help on how to approach this. My full legal name is composed of a First Name and two last names separated by a space, as is common for many countries around the world.
As you may know, ANA does not accept spaces in names and asks you to remove them. On the other hand, AMEX has my full legal name properly formatted.
When trying to transfer MR to ANA, the transaction gets rejected.

• I have tried calling AMEX and asked them to change the linkage between ANA and my MR account to no avail.
• I have tried setting up another ANA profile using one of my last names as middle name to no avail.
• None of my AU will be able to do this, as they all have two last names too.

AMEX is not being helpful, their best suggestion was for me to transfer to a different airline. ANA is not being helpful because their systems are not prepared for Western names.
So, am I out of luck? Where should I file a complaint about this? I do understand the issue is on ANA side but it seems to me that AMEX is not willing to fix this for their customers either.
Note: I've read similar posts and tried the recommendations on them but none have worked.