Biglaan nalang bumigay yung main phone ko today lang. Coincidentally, papalapit na ang 6.6 sale. Right now pinagpipilian ko itong dalawa, reasons are listed below. MAX budget ko na talaga 6k (both below 6k this upcoming sale) dahil may ibang bagay pa ako na planong bilhin hehe
Phone usage: Casual user. 95% of the time ay social media, banking, ewallet at gsuite. I honestly don't play mobile games, but I may play online games such as ML occasionally.
Samsung A05s - Consistent software/security updates. Afaik, even this device will get 3 and 4 years of updates respectively - Mas madali magparepair ng phone just in case masira, I think. Samsung eh. Dami nilang repair center - I like its design better. Mas premium-looking tingnan yung camera module at mas type ko yung Infinity-U na front camera. Plus the OS
iTel P55 5G - Mas malakas na chipset - 5g enabled
That's it. I honestly cant think of anything else na mas better si P55 5G kay A05s aside from that.
Still hesistant ako kuhanin si A05s. Why? Hindi kasi ako nagpapalit ng phone every year. Yung phone ko na nasira ay vivo na mula pa 2019. So I think I could never go wrong between these two naman. It is just that I know na may mas better option for me between them. Aside from that, I read somewhere na dogshit daw performance ng lower end A series phone. Although I take it as a grain of salt dahil hindi ko naman alam kung ano use case nila kaya nila nasabi yun. And also since I am a casual user lang. Also, I am not sure kung good thing ba yung software (not security) update ng samsung sa mga lower end model since I also read na mas lalo daw bumabagal phone nila kapag inupdate(?). Pakiconfirm naman kung tunay.
Pumasok sa option ko si P55 5G since naka Dimensity 6080. Mas future-proof chipset niya naka 5G pa.
Still, mas pabor ako kay A05s. I will say 70% sa A05s, 30% sa P55 5G. Why? - I use banking and ewallet apps. Hence the concern in security - Software and security updates. I don't change phone often - Design and software mas premium ang dating sa akin
May mga happy user ba dito ng lower end model ng A series? Please share your experience
Thanks

Hey all. Recently came back to the game after being gone since basically first season. I saw there was some changes to these 2 damage bonuses. Playing a Bash Barb, and seeing the build favors Crit Damage over Vulnerable.
My question, found a GA 2H mace, perfect Vulnerable stat. And hit nice Tempers on it. Is it still usable w/o the crit damage roll, or pass? My current one doesn't have a crazy CD roll, and my CC isn't poppin off yet. Maybe like 60% with bonuses. So I was thinking until I find a GA CD roll, this could suffice. I'd also be gaining a Damage vs. Close over the Damage vs. CC'd Temper on my current one. Someone with more experience in the current state of the game, thoughts?

Last night I had a very abnormal dream. It started with just pitch black vast nothing with a high pitch tone for what felt about 35-40 minutes. Then abruptly a display of a waterfall appeared. It wasn't like I was at a waterfall, but more like a still scene or an image of a waterfall. Then the songs Libet's Delay by The Caretaker begun playing (Which I know sounds absurd and a bit cliche, but I have been listening to it quite frequently recently so that's probably why.). Then a few seconds after the song had started I could feel my heart racing and felt as though something had been watching me. Suddenly, it then appeared that I had woken up in my bedroom, but the song was still playing. I looked around and noticed that my closet was closed which wasn't the case when I fell asleep. Then I had woken up for real and everything was as it was when I fell asleep, including my closet being open. There was this sense of dread that had been in my mind the whole time that lingered after I awoke, so I couldn't go back to sleep proper. None of this is really out of the ordinary for my dreams, I just felt like sharing it. Thanks for reading.
Sorry if my words, sentences, phrasing, or english came out weird, I'm not to good at talking. Especially like this online lol.
What the waterfall kinda looked like. just found a similar pic online.
https://preview.redd.it/7iaogu7gu34d1.jpg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c09206130e92c03b431903f483d9a7ba7a3bb355
Libet's Delay - The Caretaker

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Disclaimer: THIS POST IS VERY LONG!!!
Other disclaimer: This is a post I made on a website a month ago but no one responded unfortunately. So when you read stuff like “a week ago” and see the dates don’t correlate to now, that’s why.
Background information: I had two friends, one a guy and the other a girl. We were all online friends for years, me and the guy were friends since I was in elementary school.
Starting with the guy who from here on I’ll call Blake (not his real name of course) me and Blake were the best of buds, we played the game basically every day, and regardless of our different lives and us only being online friends, I actually liked Blake a lot (as a friend). But Blake had a tendency of bullying me, which didn't bother me too much when I was younger, but as I got older, I did. For example, I told Blake one time that I failed/got held back in first grade, and he would bring that fact up whenever anything intelligence-wise come up or just bring it up out the blue. “N word, you failed the first grade” or “ok…flunky” and other variations. He would say all that…even though first grade was a million years ago (I’m a senior about to graduate high school, and I haven’t gotten held back or struggled with grades since.) (I’ve graduated high school now!). Like I'm about to graduate and he would still make fun of me with that fact, saying stuff like "you would've graduated soon if you didn't fail the first grade" and if I tried to rebuttal saying how I do well in school, he would say "well you did the first grade twice so of course you'd do better. you've done it twice".
He would constantly compare his life to mine, making fun of how I’m a virgin who never done anything with a girl, my social anxiety, me being a loner, how I don’t have as much money as him, how my parents are not as laid-back as his, how I didn’t have as much money as him, make fun of the type of girls I like, my music taste, and more.
He was controlling while we played games. He would always decide what games we played, and he would bitch and moan when I wouldn’t get onto a game he wanted to play with me despite valid reasons like it being too expensive. He would always be on his phone or just be otherwise distracted for long periods of time when we're playing, and then he would expect me to wait for him. He was especially very controlling when we play a game like R6s, he would be in my ear after he died ordering me around and telling me what to do and where to go, expecting me to get kills when I’m completely trash at the game, then he would complain heavily when I would of course die. Note: he was a frequent rage quitter and frequently switched games, which was very annoying
There is way more things he would do but if I typed them all out, I would be typing all damn day, so I’ll stop here.
Next is the girl, who I’ll refer to as Amber.
Amber was not so bad, she was annoying at times, and she would sometimes mimic the things Blake did but overall, she was alright. But she did contribute to the situation I’m in as well as Blake did overall.
For the last year, It got to the point where I would be so fed up with them, mostly with Blake, that I would ghost them, not talk or play with them for a few days to basically recover before interacting with the two again. I would even groan in annoyance when either one of them would call me. I would either ignore their calls or make up a lie of me being busy with other things so i wouldn’t have to play with them.
Now I know what you guys are thinking, "why didn't you tell them how you felt about their treatment of you???", well, I tried, but I would just be met with being called a "pussy" or "soft" and the behavior wouldn't change.
Now: Now let’s go back about three weeks ago, April 1st, my 19th birthday, Amber called me up and told me to hop on the game, I was in the ignoring them phase, but I decided to hop on because they wouldn’t be mean to me, right? Wrong, they told me to install rocket league, a game I’ve never played in my entire life and when I was able to join their game and we got into a match, I was obviously performing very very poorly, but that didn’t stop them very berating me and telling me how trash I am…even though they been playing longer than me.
Then we got on Roblox, and I was having technical difficulties because I was using the Microsoft store version of Roblox as I didn’t know that there was an actual Roblox client and launcher. when the two found out that I was using the Microsoft store version, they proceeded to berate me and belittle me some more, calling me stupid and dumb and questioning how in the world did I not know about the Roblox launcher and just basically making it feel like I just committed a cardinal sin. Then we play some Roblox, and somehow someway I kept on doing things wrong and games were playing because I kept on getting berated and belittled. Eventually, I got off.
I didn’t talk to them on the second, but I did talk to them and play with them on the third. We ended up playing Roblox again and just like last time I was getting berated and belittled because I would do things that they didn’t like. And after a couple hours, we eventually stopped playing Roblox and it suddenly goes into Blake diss tracking me. He would find random rap instrumentals on YouTube and then he would rap over them dissing me. He then told me to diss him back but I didn’t want to cause I was already in a bad mood, and I’m not good with words so I would make a fool of myself. And despite me saying multiple times that I didn’t want to rap, they both kept saying that I had to rap, eventually I just unplugged my mic and said that my mic was broken, which caused Blake to be like “if you don’t want to rap just say that dude, you don’t have to do all that”, like, bruh, I said I didn’t want to rap multiple times…
Eventually, I left a discord call and went to sleep because I had school in the morning, and when I woke up in the morning and checked my Discord, I saw that I had a message from Blake and the message said “pussy”. After that, I ignored them again until the 6th. When I took my phone off chill mode (do not disturb which I have specifically to hide text and calls from Blake and Amber) I noticed that Blake unfollowed me on Instagram and that he kicked me out of the discord server (it was of course his server as he liked being in control of everything). I was like "damn", but I just went on about my day, Amber was still following me though.
Now today, the 25th of April, I realized that Amber unfollowed me on Instagram as well, and that they both blocked me on Steam. So, I thought our friendship was over, so decide to unfollow both of them on Instagram, Discord, Steam, and delete both of their contacts from my phone.
I wasn't perfect in the friendship either, but I never berate or belittle either of them, bully and make fun of either of them constantly for their struggles in life or interest, and I never made either of them feel inferior. Never...
Part of me feel relief that I no longer have to deal with them anymore, but another part of me feels sad as they were both my only friends. I don't really know how to feel or if I should try to reach out to them somehow and apologize for ghosting them.
As I’m sure a lot of you can gather, I’m not a very confident person nor I’m I one that does conflict. But I feel like if I tried harder to preserve our friendship, maybe we’d still be friends? Like, maybe if I was more adamant and forceful about them stopping with their behavior? I just feel like I should have tried harder to preserve the friendship like reaching out to them both instead of just blocking them…
Am I The Asshole? For not trying harder?

So I've been reading through here and online resources about how each army plays. I get the general play styles of each army. But I was wondering which army focuses the most on buffing units and "working together"
I'm looking for an army that takes mediocre or even weak units and through some type of buff mechanic makes them stronger. Ideally this would be from leaders but things like unit coherencey could work too. Think armies like tau or guard in warhammer, the whole undead faction in AOS or menoth in warmahordes. Menoth being the closest.
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I don't use the word lightly. I've tried countless times to be the person someone else can love. I'm still alone.
My father never loved me, and made it clear my brother was his favorite. While he would go out of his ways to spend time with him and even call off of work some days, I would be lucky to say good morning to him and receive one back. He died 5 years ago now and his last words ever spoken to me were him yelling at me while I was throwing up. Those words still echo in my head every night.
My mother makes it a bit less obvious but to her I'm a workhorse. She doesn't take interest in anything I do, only if it's something that would prevent me from helping her. Recently she's been asking for all my free time since she is moving, and when I had to leave early for an event she had called me the next day to berate me for not getting enough work done.
My siblings couldn't care less about me, they are kind when I'm around but I don't think I've talked to either outside of family events or gatherings in a year
My friends don't want me around. I'm always the one to reach out and start conversations. I'm always the one inviting them to play games online or go grab something to eat. When I'm around them I feel like a burden, someone they deal with rather than hang out with.
Any romantic attempts have been shot down quickly. Always excuses and nobody just telling me they don't want to be around me. I had one friend who said they were aromantic when I asked them out and then the next day told me about a person they want to date.
I'm truly unlovable.
Don't worry about me internet strangers, I'm coming to terms with it and I won't be doing anything crazy. Just another night I'm reminded of how I spent the day alone and end the day alone. My 'friends' don't like it when I open up to them like this so I've resorted to this.
I don't believe I've done anything to deserve this. Maybe in a past life I was a real asshole and this is karma catching up on her paperwork. She seems to be the only person who checks in on me.
Goodnight random reader, please take care of yourself.

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I'm a freshman in UNI and today I was studying for a course which basically involved the language C, i had a video on playing on C on my monitor and as I was learning the language and when i tried to do the thing in the video into my VS-Code, my copilot would recommend me the same thing that the video said, down to the comments. does Github copilot or VS-Code have unauthorized microphone access or something? idk, but i'm terrified.

I’ve been playing for 2-3 years now(admittedly didn’t login for months in between). And PvP has been unplayable for me from the start, I even switched my mobile(not for the game ofc), playing on iPhone 14 now with a stable wifi that gives ~250 Mbps. So can’t understand where the problem is.
I really enjoy playing this game vs AI, how smooth my players are able to dribble and all. In PvP tho, it’s almost impossible, players take too long to pass or shoot, it’s unbearable even when the connectivity shows 5 bars at the start of the game. Anyone else facing this issue?

I'm at my wit's end, hopefully someone can help me resolve this issue. I apologize for the deluge of text you're about to read.
My laptop is an Acer ConceptD 7 Ezel CC715-71, running Windows 11 Pro. I got it late 2020 I believe, and aside from the sound no longer working a few months in and the finger print sensor saying it can't recognize my fingerprint after like a handful of uses until I reset/re-register the fingerprints and anew, only for the process to repeat yet again, it's been perfect.
(I was living in Canada at the time and imported it from the States, so after all the hassle with customs, it wasn't worth jumping through all those hoops to send it back again, even if it was ridiculous that the sound and fingerprint sensor stopped working just a few months in for such an expensive device.)
Fast forward four years to yesterday, and it was working fine, but I went to the bathroom and came back, and suddenly the WiFi wasn't working. It was fine on every other device/phone/laptop/Steam Deck, but no matter what I did, the WiFi refused to connect.
In the past, I've had issues with this laptop being the only device to not connect to the WiFi network in this building, but now it's not detecting any networks. It claims the WiFi is on, but checking in the settings show it isn't. Clicking it on refuses to engage, either failing to do so, or looking like it complies before immediately turning itself off.
Then the WiFi icon/option would disappear entirely, and the Bluetooth did the same. I would find the Bluetooth setting in the Device Manager window when I enable "Show Hidden Devices", but I don't know how or why it was hidden.
My Network Adapter (Intel (R) Wi-Fi 6 AX201160MHz, I believe) would be disabled, and checking the Event tab in the Properties would say things like "Device not started (Netwtw10)" and "Device configured (oem91.inf)" and things like that.
I would try updating, downloading the latest drivers from Acer for my laptop using my phone and transfer it to my phone and try to install them, and sometimes it would say it installed and works, but other times it would say it detected the drivers I wanted to install but failed to install them.
I've tried disabling and enabling the driver, uninstalling and reinstalling it, deleting it and restarting the laptop to automatically get it again (not sure how it did so without the internet, but it would be there, every time), and doing the same for the Bluetooth driver.
Sometimes the WiFi would work for like all of a minute or two, before it would become disabled and find no networks and there would be an error with the driver and the event log saying things like the Device didn't start, and once or twice I think I saw it say "WiFi Device Cannot Start (code 10)".
At this point I was ready to give up and just use my phone as a hotspot for my laptop to connect to and call it a day until I could care enough again, but even that wasn't applicable, because that option for Mobile Hotspot was grayed out and said something about how I couldn't connect it no Ethernet or Wifi device connected. (Specifically, it says "We can't set up mobile hotspot because your PC doesn't have an Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or cellular data connection.)
All through this, my laptop started being fucking weird in that if I clicked "restart", it wouldn't turn itself back on. I'd have to press the power button to do so, and even then, it often wouldn't. I've tried power cycling like three fucking trillion times, and it would never work consistently or turn on after I've let the lights blink several times or waited 30 seconds or 60 seconds or longer.
(Aaaaaaaand I suspected my WiFi would be a bitch again and so I tried to send what I've typed out on the laptop to my phone via Telegram (because typing all this on my phone was getting tedious), but of course, the WiFi went out the SECOND I tried. I was using the Mobile Hotspot option immediately just in case my normal WiFi network went out, but it still disabled itself and wouldn't stay online via Mobile HotSpot when the option was available/not grayed out like it is now.
So I'm going to have to save this wall of text as a text document or something and manually transfer it to my phone.)
I finally decided to do a system restore, selecting one from May 26th, and it took like 30 - 45+ minutes, and of course it didn't restart itself, but when I finally managed to find the right power cycle attempt to get it to turn on, my laptop said the system restore was a success.
Huzzah! It was working. For 30 minutes.
😐
So I tried to download MalwareBytes on my phone, and it downloaded then I transferred it to my laptop, and of course it needed to connect to the internet to download the rest of itself, so it wasn't conducive to anything in this situation.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the driver and I (foolishly) thought I had solved my WiFi/Bluetooth issues last night and was even feeling galvanized to try and open up the bottom of my laptop and see if the sound issue I've been avoiding dealing with/coping by using Bluetooth earbuds/headphones for the past four years was as simple as something being unplugged, so I went to get my strebito kit, which I see everywhere around me and in my vicinity, except of course (you guessed it) the one time in four years that I actually genuinely needed it :))))))))))))))))
I also got a BSOD today, and I think I glimpsed it saying something like "ACPI block management", but it was very quick so I can't be sure. I tried to google that, but the only ACPI answers I could see in relation to googling it for reddit solutions (lol I love that everyone has had a problem before and that there is invariably a reddit thread with that exact problem, situation, and solution) were in relation to ACPI BIOS errors, so it may have been that.
I tried accessing the BIOS (which took a lot and trial of error in power cycling because of how inconsistent it is that my laptop has been with turning on since yesterday). Of course, I had apparently previously set a BIOS password when trying to allow my laptop to boot into Batocera like a year or so ago, and I apparently am not intelligent enough to have had the foresight to write it down in a note or document on my phone, despite me knowing my ADHD/memory is garbagio, so I always make it a POINT to do so, because I don't trust my powers of recollection (and apparently, as evidenced by this instance, with good fucking reason!).
Of course, I forgot to mention that now my laptop freezes, including when I was writing up a majority of this thread in the aforementioned notepad, so now I can't even transfer it and have to re-type what few paragraphs I see (I had JUST scrolled down to make more distance between the bottom of the text and the document because I hate not having that visual buffer between the text and the bottom of the window, it makes me feel like the text is running out or more difficult to see/continue) on my phone anyways, so that was yet another obstacle. 🙃
So, to summarize:

1. Laptop's WiFi/Bluetooth keep disabling themselves and the Bluetooth keeps hiding itself, so not even the icon is visible. The WiFi can't find any networks, and refuses to turn on (even though it says it does when I toggle it), and when it's like this, I cannot connect via Mobile Hotspot either.
2. The laptop is being very peculiar about it restarting, only does so if I press the power again after it shuts down (despite me selecting restart), and even then, only sometimes. I keep having to power cycle it to try and find the perfect sweet spot to let go and have it actually turn on.
3. The laptop now freezes within 20 or so minutes, and stays that way until I restart the laptop.
4. Sometimes it tells me that a driver reinstall works, other times it says it doesn't.
5. The driver events say that the device did not start, and error 10.
6. The laptop showed a Blue Screen of Death today, and the error said "ACPI" followed by (what I think it was) "block management" or (what it probably was) "BIOS error".
7. I set a BIOS password that I do not remember.
8. I do not have access to my Strebito toolkit to open up the laptop, nor do I have money to take it to BestBuy Geek Squad or wherever does laptop repair.
9. My laptop speakers do not work, despite sound apparently playing based on the animation/sound waves playing in the sound settings when media is active, and stops when nothing is playing, leading me to believe maybe something has been unplugged for like 4 years internally.
10. (I have many a time tried to uninstall, reinstall, download, and update Realtek drivers, but no sound comes from my speakers.)
11. I managed to run MalwareBytes, and it said it found a Neshta virus in a CEMU/WiiU emulator I downloaded literally years ago in the CEMUHOOK.DLL file), which I assume was present even in the system restore done yesterday backed up from 6 days ago. Apparently there was also Yontoo adware. I have since quarantined them.
12. (I should perhaps also note I rarely if ever use CEMU, and certainly haven't within the past two years, if not longer. I just like having access should I do desire on a whim to play.)
13. The problems (aside from the missing sound) started just yesterday, when I was away from the computer briefly, so it's even more vexing because I wasn't there at the onset of the issue or saw what caused it.
14. I'm incredibly reticent to do a clean install/start from scratch because I have so much stuff I'd have to reconfigure and download and reinstall because I'm a very particular person, and that would be so insanely time-consuming, you don't even know. If there's anything short of nuking this laptop that can help resolve these issues, that's what I would like to find out. I'm aware this is not the optimal/best idea, but I'm willing to deal with that in the future.
15. I do not have access to the router, as this is a building and they handle the Wi-Fi.

Either the universe or my own hubris and ineptitude keep trying to humble me, so I require patience and assistance. Please. And thank you. 😭 Whatever steps, whatever instructions, as long as they're clear and step by step, I can provide whatever you might need to deduce what the issue is and what a solution might be.
Edit: Of course, as soon as I do everything in my power to try and get it done and finally admit defeat and resort to outside help from the community, the internet seems to be stable for the moment. I'm hesitant to turn off my laptop and restart again to see if that's still an issue.

When my ex and I were dating, we both became friends with a woman 7 years older than us. After our breakup, she and my ex became close friends. We talked occasionally, but she would often become unresponsive, making it hard to maintain a consistent friendship. Meanwhile, she and my ex played games together and talked daily.
One day, she messaged me, saying she felt I wasn't moving on and waited for me to reach out to her for advice. I didn't reach out, so she reached out on her own accord. She then told me about one of the girls my ex messed with, claiming she was trying to help me move on and she knows him so well. She mentioned his abandonment and commitment issues and said she would find out more about his mental state. She mentioned how well he treated her, sharing that he called her his twin and how similar they were
During our 2 hours convo, I told her about my new guy best friend and how he reminded me of my ex in positive ways. She shrugged it off and continued talking about my ex, even saying she felt like she was my replacement. A few days later, she texted me more information about another girl he had been with and gave me updates on my ex. She asked if he had spent money on me, and when I said it was just small things, she laughed and listed the things he bought for her. I told her my guy best friend also spoils me like my ex spoil her, but she ignored it and continued talking about my ex.
Tbh I thought she was trying to help, but a couple people said she wasn't being a real friend by sharing all this. It made me wonder if she was socially unaware or just actually being shady. I mean, I'm thankful to know my ex is a cheater, which helped me move on. But some comments were unnecessary and felt like she was rubbing it in. I'm gonna tell her I don't want to hear about him anymore because he's dead to me next time she brings him up
I'm not sure of her real intentions. Maybe she has good intentions, but if she's telling me all his business, she might also air out my business to him.
TLDR: After my ex and I broke up, a mutual friend grew very close to him. She shared unsolicited details about his life and often compared my relationship with him vs her relationship with him. She claimed she did this to help me move on, but her actions made me question her intentions.

Seems like something that would be possible to clean vs. a mattress. I don't see it as being much more different than sleeping on a mattress.
I've tried looking online, but I've not found anything.
edit sods law, just found somethng googling 'net bed'
here's what I found online

I want to test out some mods but i dont want to risk getting my account banned from online

I have a 2004 ram 3500 HD srw I want to use for hotshotting. My trucks gvwr is 9900 and the trailer I have in mind is a 40' 8300lb tare 30k gvwr tri axle low bed deckover. However dodge says the combined total weight rating for a 2004 ram 3500 diesel(goose neck or trailer hitch configuration) is about 20k, 21k lbs total? I've seen some anecdotal claims of people riding through scales at 30-35k lbs on 3rd gens fine. But Officially I've only seen big nono's from CVSE information online. The truck should haul it just fine, it has new everything, steering stabilizer, 16k hitch, 30k goose neck that adds lots of frame strengthening, power bolt ons, exhaust brake, built trans bla bla... but officially only 20k vs similar 5th gen rated at 40k...
I would imagine Commercial Vehicle Safety Enforcement here in BC canada would rail me for going over the official 20k gcwr limit. even if all the axle weights are in spec and legal for the GVWR of the truck and trailer.
What do? run outside of scale times? get a smaller trailer and plan different operations? stay within the official GCWR? I'll be getting an official NSC#, (like USDOT) so if I get busted it'll be bad bad history. I would imagine with 2 sedans or an suv and sedan I'll be near the limit but with 2 trucks or some equipment I'll be pretty over the GCWR. I plan on uprgading this truck one day if the business works out. Just this truck is what I have on hand and I don't have money for new equipment.
tia. have CDL, not that it matters? except for making it worse if I mess up, lol

Aka your roadmap to the leaderboard!
Who am I? A dojo obsessed masochist who is nearing the end of mirroring every dojo fight (beating enemies with their weapon and style)
I’ve gotten on the leaderboard a few times in the process and it’s gotten me more interested in how it all works and figured sharing what I’ve learned can help others
Alright let’s start by breaking down the scoring, which will lead into some more detailed breakdown of things
You’re score is based on 3 things
Time
Damage
Technique
First off, Time. This is really your DPS score, the faster you kill the enemy the higher the score, I’ve seen upwards of around 4600 I think and I’m not sure you can get much higher than that, but this is truly a measure of how well you kill things.
Next: Damage. This is actually scored based on how much damage YOU take, with a max score of 4200. Now if you take even a single hit, that drops down 1-200 points depending on the severity of it and can quickly drain your score if you keep getting hit
Now if you’re only worried about the master rank of 7k, you can kinda see how just no hitting and killing fast regardless of anything else gets you there
So here’s where it gets more interesting
Tech. This is scored on 3 different things. How many crits you get, how many countersparks you get, and how many martial arts you land
The martial arts part I think has a quality and quantity score, aka landing a few big ass hits scores just as well landing a bunch of weaker ones, which is why you’ll still see good tech scores from Greatswords and Odachis despite less total MAs used
Now prior to the most recent update, it was just Crits and Countersparks, and typically the ceiling for that score was around 1600 or so. Now though, you can get tech scores 2000-2500+ if you’re landing martial arts all over. Sometimes then it’s actually worth it to drag a fight out a bit longer in order to get more Countersparks and MAs landed. You might lose 2-400 points on the time, but potentially gain 800+ on tech in the process
Again for the 7k threshold, this is easy as hell to reach with the change, but if you’re going for something higher like the leaderboard, you more or less have to do damage exclusively with Martial arts. After all any regular hit done doesn’t get you any points in itself (but if it helps you kill faster then it helps your time score)
So it serves you well to figure out what combination of MAs work for you and your favorite styles. Violent Gale and Flash attacks are also pretty crucial to this, not because they score points by themselves but they allow you to more quickly transition from skill to skill so you can land more scoring Martial Arts. PLUS they help your Ki management and recovery.
So how do you get in the leaderboard? Simple really
Don’t get hit, counterspark damn near everything thrown at you, deal damage almost exclusively with Martial arts, and get at LEAST one critical hit in the process. 2 is better but not always possible
Pre 1.05 9000 pts was sorta the threshold for “great”, didn’t take a perfect no hit run but overall excellent play. 10k+ was the realm of absolute perfection (or pre nerf Unearthly Flame)
Post 1.05, 9k isn’t such a hard thing to achieve, I’d say 9700ish is the new equivalent of that, with 10k+ being the next step, and likely puts you on the leaderboard. Absolute perfection with a meta strategy puts you in the 11k range
And not all fights are created equally, as an example I think Genzui first dojo fight actually has a higher scoring potential than the fierce version because of the mock vs actual combat, allowing you to get an extra crit and more countersparks
Let’s also compare the 2 different types of dojo fights. Mock combat and Actual Combat
Mock combat is with wooden weapons, damage is much lower and fights tend to be longer because of it. For your gear you’re only benefiting from your 4 armor pieces and 4 accessories so builds are more limited. In these fights, you’re often able to get 2 crits and sometimes 3 if you play well
Oh and if you like running 6 katana styles you need to enter into the dojo with 2 equipped, once you’re in the menu only gives you access to one of each weapon (except bayonet because its rifle and shotgun bullets)
This has made some of my sequential mirror fights a pain because I try to double up on weapons to flash attack between the same style
Actual combat is basically toned down real shit. You have access to your normal weapons, though they’re downtuned for base damage which means your bond transferred skills and set bonuses also apply. The base damage is higher compared to wooden weapons, on top of having more of your build available, leads to shorter, bloodier fights. If you use hard hitting big weapons sometimes a second crit is hard to come by because of the sheer DPS. Oh you also get your grapple hook! That can be a big deal if you’re running the Dragon set to make use of its grapple max ki damage
And now we get into some more details about MAs I’ve found work EXTREMELY well for dojo scoring, my MVP list
Remember the tech score includes critical hits and MA landing? Well there are some skills that do BOTH, so you get a double count on your score for using them. I highly recommend having one in your arsenal, and several veiled arts are included so there’s some flexibility
Now the downside of these arts is your Ki recovery is slower to start up after use compared to a regular triangle crit so be aware. Also the actual critical blow portion tends to come at the end of the move, so there’s a bit of lead time with it. The slower ones you’ll maybe consider using to actually be part of the final depletion process, but if you’re committed to a big combo that ends up fully depleting an enemy, there may not be enough time to do the entire art with the crit at the end, in those instances just take the regular crit
I apologize if the names are off, I’m doing this off memory at the moment
The number one art? Nozuchi Drop on Odachi (Mumyo). This is a triple threat. It’s a skill, it does a crit on a Ki depleted enemy, and on a panicked enemy it suplexes them. Plus it’s FAST and useful even if you’re not in a scenario to use the extra functions. Even when it takes the crit it’s a very fast and short animation which can save you precious time for your score. Plus the crit happens almost immediately so you run less of a risk of missing the crit compared to other moves. Works great in combos too because of its speed and as a standalone for the panic grab after deflecting attacks
Next I like Roaring Blade on Tennen Rishin Latana. It does a big ki pulse that can do a good deal of Ki damage and the downward slash can take the critical hit, good at the end of a combo when an enemy is near depletion.
Night raven(Mumyo) and Spring Storm (Jigen) on Katana. These are triple threats in a different way, and are especially useful in Mock Combat because they count as grapple attacks, so they can trigger the Dragon grapple ki without having your grapple! Oh and they also can take critical hits, so excellent choices all around
Twin Dragons (Mumyo) on paired swords. This is a GREAT art, it is fast, does a bunch of hits, does great Ki damage especially when blocked, and can take the crit
Bone Shatterer on bayonet. This is another solid one, does a great deal of Ki damage, does a BIG crit hit on Ki depleted, and overall just fun to use
Demon Bear on Greatswords. Decent, animation for the crit is a little long but you do start regenerating Ki sooner when you use it compared to others
There are others, every style (except unarmed) I think has at least one Veiled Art that can also crit but these are my favs
A couple non criticals worth mentioning
Autumn Current (Hokushin Itto) is a solid choice, does great damage, even better Ki damage (especially if they’re blocking) and you can run it as long as you have Ki. Be wary of overcommitting with it though, its easy to do
Shadow Double, a bit slow overall but can strip Ki very well. Gives you a somewhat long range option too. Not sure it’s worth using as a VA on another katana style but Gikei is a solid shinobi style so it’s there for you
Mugai-ryu Firecracker. Not a veiled art, has a tricky range, and a long recovery after using it. But it does a FUCK ton of Ki damage, if you use it after a violent gale so that you’re very close to an enemy that helps ensure it hits. I’m planning to experiment more with this one after I finish my mirror challenges
And if you haven’t checked out the write up on Panic, I’d recommend giving it a read, as learning to understand, plan, and manage panic is really the key to getting those low to no-hit high score runs
https://reddit.com/riseoftheronin/comments/1d5d23l/panic_is_maybe_the_most_important_mechanic_in/
That’s all I can think of at the moment, so get out there and start scoring some points!

My ex and I became friends with this girl at the same time when we were dating each other. My ex and I are about the same age and she's 7 years older than us. We're all in our 20's. After my ex and I broke up, him and her got extremely close. Over the few months, her and I talked on and off. Sometimes one of us reach out and talked for a few minutes about a topic, then she would become unresponsive so it was a bit hard to maintain the friendship much. On the other hand, according to her, him and her played games together and talked almost every day for hours. Although, I don't prefer my friends being friends with someone I had a negative experience with, it's not my business so I didn't mind
One day, she randomly messaged me that she felt like I wasn't moving on and was hoping I would reach out to her to talk? But she waited too long for me to reach out so she reached out herself
She approached me with information about one of the girls he messed with. She told me "trust me, I'm close with him so I know it's time to move on, I'm just trying to help you. don't tell anyone I sent you this". she started talking about how she thinks he has abandonment issues, commitment issues, etc. After that, she said she's gonna find out "what's wrong with him" because he seems to be "struggling mentally lately" and let me know about it. I never asked her to do that.
She told me how he treats her so well: texting her 24/7, how he act & the things he would say. telling me he called her his twin and how they're so similar like the same person, etc. We talked for 2 hours. I told her about my new guy best friend. I told her how he reminds me a lot of my ex (the good aspects) and how he treats me the same way my ex treats her. She would shrug it off and continue to talk about my ex. Then she said she feels like she's my replacement for him
Few days later, she texted me again with info about another girl he messed with and gave me more life updates on my ex. Asked me if there's anything I want her to ask/find out about him and I told her no. Then proceeded to ask me if he spent any money on me when we were together. I told her just small things and paid for dates. She laughed and listed out things he bought for her and how he would randomly buy her food to make sure she eats well. I don't understand how she thinks any of this would help me move on? I told her how my guy best friend spoil and buy me things as well. She ignored that and continue to talk about my ex
To be honest, I didn't think much of this and thought she just wanted to help. But a couple people are saying she isn't being a real friend by telling me all this in the first place. It got me thinking if maybe she's just trying to help, but socially unaware or she's actually shady. Tbh thank to her I found out he messed with a lot of girls before, during, and after me. I'm thankful for that and it has helped me move on, but sometimes it just feels like she's rubbing it in? Sometimes the things she tell me, idk how it benefits helping me move on in any ways. Next time she brings him up, I'll tell her I don't want to hear about it anymore because he's dead to me now. But I'm not sure of her real intentions, maybe she has good intentions? Also, if she's telling me all his business, nothing stops her from airing out my business to him too.
TLDR: After my ex and I broke up, a mutual friend grew very close to him. She shared unsolicited details about his life and often compared my relationship with him vs her relationship with him. She claimed she did this to help me move on