Can you take half of an adderall xr

The past couple of months I feel as though I've been doing really well with staving off the need to buy more things. I just got my first house and I had saved the most amount of money I have ever had in my bank account. But then the house needed things. And I was stressed from the move so I "definitely" deserved some presents for myself because I had done so much! I owned a home with my partner! Oh and the cat needs new toys and furniture too so he can settle in to the new place!
Before long, and far too late, I realized I was in too deep. My bank account kept dropping lower and lower, nearly every fund depleted because of "necessities". I'm embarrassed and ashamed of myself, after all my hard work to get financially stable I have just flushed it all down the drain. Thankfully, I had enough thought to not touch my savings so bills will still be paid on time and I'll remain in good standing but... I can't help but feel like an irresponsible child. It hurts. The look on my partner's face when I told him how much I had left in my checking account stung.
I was prompted to post here because even though I had a discussion with my partner last night about personal finances I went out and made another big purchase. Yes, all the things I've gotten have been to improve the house in one way or another, but that justification isn't enough anymore. When my spending has blown through hundreds and hundreds in a couple of weeks time it isn't healthy. I was wondering what techniques y'all use to help control your impulses or what has worked for you personally? Specifically online shopping. I have half a mind to just delete my shopping apps, despite the anxiety that creates for me. Anything that helps though, I appreciate it!

I'm having fun with solos, but it is a real clusterfuck quite often. With a circle half the usual size, and a total of 44 enemy 'groups' dropping, I am having great difficulty dropping somewhere alone. As soon as you fire a single shot at someone, you can be sure that a third player has heard and started to move to your location. In solos, I haven't been able to activate a UAV without at least one hit. It makes for really chaotic play, especially around the start. In squads I've had people drop in the same location about 10-20% of games, in solos it's at least 90%. Those times, it's just a diceroll who ran into the building with the gun that can actually down+kill a player, since many weapons can't do that with one clip. If you manage to get the first guy, a second one will be coming over towards your shots while you just emptied the only clip you had. Once you get past that annoying start it's actually a lot of fun, until the circle starts shrinking incredibly fast near the end and you're in shooutouts with 3+ people again.
I also really dislike the self-revive. It makes everyone take more bullets, and the times I've been able to get back up didn't even make me feel good. It just means you were beaten, but were lucky enough to go down behind cover. I've also downed a lot of players that were outside the circle meaning I couldnt really go for the kill secure, and they simply get back up, heal themselves and run into the safe area again.

Need some advice regarding how to walk the line between between being annoying and conveying issues to my landlord. Let me start off by saying that my “lease” is basically a handshake agreement. I pay a minimal $500 in rent, but do a lot of the grounds keeping on the 20 acre property. The living situation is a 1 bedroom guest home that sits across the property from the owners who are family friends. The rent we pay is at least 1k under what it would be for anything comparable in the area therefore, I feel it is being rented to us as a favor. It was set to be the perfect situation but since moving in this month, we have had an animal die under the house that required a plumber and a service call from the cable provider to get everything hooked up (cable that we are paying for). It seems like every other day I have been hitting them up to report a new problem, or work with them on an existing problem. It’s obvious that this has been a little bit more stressful for both us and the landlord than expected but we thought we were finally headed in the right direction of being low key, tenants that pay on time and keep the property looking nice…. Then the AC went out last night. I have a decent idea of what is wrong with it but don’t have professional hvac experience. Do I let them know and make another ask? Do I try to make the fix myself? Do I offer to pay for the fix even though we have literally lived there for 2 weeks and it was obviously not our fault?
I feel like I am just struggling with this because I feel like they are renting it to us as a favor but now it’s going to cost them. I’ve gone above and beyond in taking care of the place and making sure I fulfill my end of the deal, but can’t shake the feeling that they are beginning to regret their decision to rent their place to us. Let me know what you would do and if I am thinking way too much into this.
Thanks!

So, I'm in a relationship with a girl for the past 4 years. Currently, I'm residing outside India and have been for almost 2 years. We both were very serious about it from day one. Our parents met last December for the first time, and then again last March. Everyone in the family is extremely happy, as am I, since we are planning to marry at the end of December this year or early next year. I certainly love her from the bottom of my heart and she also loves me a lot. However, during the last few months, there have been issues after issues, and now I'm deeply concerned about our future. She is the only girl I have dated, and it was almost a blessing for me as from day one I imagined her as my better half.
Now, coming to the core issues between us, I have jotted down all the points that bother both of us along with her responses. I have tried to be as neutral as possible and removed our personal biases from it.

Anecdote One

This happened a couple of months back when her parents met my parents for the second time. Everything was looking good, but it seemed she was a bit unhappy. I asked her many times, but she was hesitant from the beginning. Later, she said I didn't appreciate her much and I don't understand her fully. Initially, I was hesitant to accept it, but I realized there is certainly an issue that needed to be addressed as we are not living together for a long time (I usually visit India once a year and stay with her for almost a month). I agreed with her and she was certainly right that I don't appreciate her enough. Regarding knowing her, I said it's a long process; I certainly don't know everything but I will try to do much better once we live together. Apparently, the fight was sorted and we both were very happy.

Anecdote Two

She has mostly male friends in her group from childhood to college and even at work, which is completely normal in this day and age. I certainly don't have a problem with male friends, but there are two folks that I don't like, though she admires them. There was no fight as such until last month as I accepted they were just friends. Somehow, last month both visited her place for 5 days and, as they were new to the city, they stayed together. To be honest, I was a bit unhappy as there was only a single room and she had to sleep in the drawing room on the sofa. But to be fair to them, this was not the issue. I understood that since both hadn't met for 6 months, they wanted to spend some time together and have fun. There was a day when I was a bit unhappy as she was not picking up the call or responding to texts. I then slept due to the late night in my place. Apparently, she was very angry about the incident and told me, "You don't really care about me being happy, you wouldn't have messed up the thing that day."
As she was very angry, I said sorry to her and assured her that it wouldn't happen next time for sure.
A few days later, when things seemed to be normal from our end, deep down I couldn't understand my fault. I believed and felt that she was not acting normal when they were there with her. I said I didn't like the idea of inviting the boys to her place and staying with them and the way they were holding each other (I'm not against hugs, but it didn't feel like just a hug; it felt a bit different, a bit romantic). To which she said, "Nobody has the right to tell me what I want to do in my life, I live life by my own choices."
She has written a long paragraph about the following incident and I'm quoting it verbatim: "Because I was the happiest kid who was having all the fun and where I felt I was perfect the way I was, not because I am, but because they made me feel so. Not for a single second did I lose a smile on my face. The child within me lived to the fullest. My madness was at its peak."
After this, I couldn't respond to anything. Now she is planning to stay at their flat for a week next month.

Anecdote Three

Last week, I was on a business trip and lots of our colleagues visited my office, including many colleagues from India. However, there were a couple of Indian colleagues who were a bit off from their normal behavior. They were throwing garbage in the bus, not following traffic rules, creating a ruckus in the bar after drinking a lot, and didn't arrive at the most important presentation because they planned a city tour. I can understand they are visiting the place for the first time, but I was a bit unhappy about their behavior. I shared the story with her and, strangely enough, she supported them. She said, "You are too serious about life. Don't stop people from enjoying." I disagreed as it was a very important event for our department. She said her male best friend would do the same and that life is for enjoyment. I didn't argue after that point.
I don't know what to say. I'm a bit anxious and nervous. If I say something, as she has said I'm considering my decision to marry you!, but I really wanted to know: Am I wrong to ask her? As things will not matter in the long term, am I being too insecure about my partner? For me, it's hard to share the same room/flat where only three of them will stay.

Hello, all! I, 21M, have been looking into getting my first car. I've been trying to take in whatever financial advice I can, and one common thing I keep hearing is to never finance, especially at my age and income level. I have an idea, though, that in my opinion could lead this to being a smart move in my situation. I want to hear what y'all think, though, so I'll lay out my current position and rationale.
21M
No student loans or other debt of any kind.
Earning 30-35k, but I'm blessed with the opportunity to move into a role in my family's business that could earn 100-200k within a few years.
700 a month in rent
So, let me just say it: I've been looking into getting an EV; specifically an old Tesla because they're about the cheapest EVs that exist. Now, before you pass judgment, I'm not one who's looking for comfort or to have a sweet looking ride. I live with my parents and some siblings who also have Teslas, and we aren't currently paying anything on top of our rent for the charging costs. So for those with EVs, day-to-day driving is essentially free. On top of that, if I managed to get the right car, I could get free unlimited supercharging, so I'd literally be paying nothing to drive this car. This point is particularly important to me, because my parents to take several long road trips a year, and it means a lot for them and myself if I'm able to join. These memories are priceless to me, and just the idea of being able to save hundreds on these trips per year would make it much easier to tag along.
Now, the important numbers: I'd probably be looking at somewhere between 13-18k on this car, and probably financed over the course of 60 months. From what I hear, the general consensus from those who have gone this route is that they've generally been very pleased with the vehicle, and they haven't had to spend a lot on repairs or maintenance. I'm from a big family, and 4/4 of my sibling who have Teslas have been very happy with them. I've probably personally put several thousand miles on them, so I'm not going into this totally blind and without any experience of what the operating costs are like.
Anyway, sorry for rambling so long. Any thoughts on this?

Hey folks
I am currently uitlising a ESP32-Cam to take a picture and send it to telegram directly via the web API. (Code can be seen below). On some requests this works perfectly, but on others, I get a HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request back. No error code, just pure html with the title 400 Bad request. (See attached screenshot). I am seriously scratching my head right now, since I cant figure out whats causing the problem...

#include  #include  #include  #include "soc/soc.h" #include "soc/rtc_cntl_reg.h" #include "esp_camera.h" #include  #include  #include  // Initialize Telegram BOT String BOTtoken = "**********"; // Use @myidbot to find out the chat ID of an individual or a group // Also note that you need to click "start" on a bot before it can // message you String CHAT_ID = "-*******"; //Using this tutorial as a base: https://randomnerdtutorials.com/telegram-esp32-cam-photo-arduino/ String sendPhotoTelegram() { const char* myDomain = "api.telegram.org"; String getAll = ""; String getBody = ""; camera_fb_t * fb = NULL; fb = esp_camera_fb_get(); if(!fb) { delay(1000); ESP.restart(); return "Camera capture failed"; } if (clientTCP.connect(myDomain, 443)) { String head = "--RandomNerdTutorials\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"chat_id\"; \r\n\r\n" + CHAT_ID + "\r\n--RandomNerdTutorials\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"photo\"; filename=\"esp32-cam.jpg\"\r\nContent-Type: image/jpeg\r\n\r\n"; String tail = "\r\n--RandomNerdTutorials--\r\n"; uint16_t imageLen = fb->len; uint16_t extraLen = head.length() + tail.length(); uint16_t totalLen = imageLen + extraLen; clientTCP.println("POST /bot"+BOTtoken+"/sendPhoto HTTP/1.1"); clientTCP.println("Host: " + String(myDomain)); clientTCP.println("Content-Length: " + String(totalLen)); clientTCP.println("Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=RandomNerdTutorials"); clientTCP.println(); clientTCP.print(head); uint8_t *fbBuf = fb->buf; size_t fbLen = fb->len; for (size_t n=0;n0) { size_t remainder = fbLen%1024; clientTCP.write(fbBuf, remainder); } } clientTCP.print(tail); esp_camera_fb_return(fb); int waitTime = 10000; // timeout 10 seconds long startTimer = millis(); boolean state = false; while ((startTimer + waitTime) > millis()){ Serial.print("."); delay(100); while (clientTCP.available()) { char c = clientTCP.read(); if (state==true) getBody += String(c); if (c == '\n') { if (getAll.length()==0) state=true; getAll = ""; } else if (c != '\r') getAll += String(c); startTimer = millis(); } if (getBody.length()>0) break; } clientTCP.stop(); } else { ESP.restart(); } return getBody; } 

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We've been together for around 2 years and moved in together 6 months ago. Like all relationships, there have been some ups and downs, but generally, everything has been okay so far. (I will touch on this later in my post.)
Backstory relevant to the issue: About 1.5 years ago, my girlfriend and a female friend went on a 2-week vacation. They met a group of 3 brothers there, who were all their age and from the same country, so they got along well and exchanged contacts. One of the guys, let's call him Tim, was my girlfriend’s age, and they seemed to get along.
Since then, they met as a group a couple of times, nothing too crazy, just hanging out and catching up. Fast forward to yesterday, a festival took place in our city, and the group of guys was there. My girlfriend and our friend group went to the festival and met up with the guys.
They sat, chatted, and spent some time together. At one point, Tim started chatting with my girlfriend. She expressed to him that a female friend of hers (who was there that day) always takes all the attention, which makes her feel insecure. Tim assured her that she didn’t need to think that way and that she’s beautiful as she is. They then went silent for a bit, and he asked her if everything was alright. She proceeded to tell him that she felt some sort of connection and was “attracted to him in that moment.” After a bit of silence, she regretted what she said, told him it was the wrong thing to say, and maybe alcohol played a role. He assured her it was okay and that she might have felt this way because of what happened that day.
I should mention that I’ve been working a lot for the past 5 months on a project and have had very little time to spend with anyone, let alone my girlfriend. She later mentioned that she has been missing me and that might have played a role in her confusion of feelings that day.
Fast forward to today, he messaged her asking about the photos she took that day and engaged in small chat. She then told him that it would be better if they restricted contact because she loves me and if they happen to encounter each other, she wouldn’t mind saying hi but other than that, he shouldn’t expect anything. He said he understands, and that’s how the conversation ended.
I’ve been holding the opinion that she should block everything that has to do with him and the male group they met. She believes that what she has done is enough and there is no need to block him since he didn’t do anything wrong, and she already told him she doesn’t want further contact.
Furthermore, we’ve been having our fair share of discussions and differences. One major issue is that we have significantly different sex drives, which we've been trying to work on for a very long time. Another issue is her physical health; she has always preferred staying at home over engaging in physical activities, which has affected her weight, confidence, and self-esteem. Personally, I don’t care if she’s a bit overweight, but for her, it’s been a huge source of stress and insecurity. I’ve never forced her to do anything, but I always invite her to go to the gym with me or participate in outdoor sports if she’s interested.
I am not sure how to feel about the whole situation. She’s been very clear in telling me how much she loves me and that this was a huge mistake on her part. She wants to work to fix it and work on all the points I’ve mentioned. On the other hand, I feel like with regard to this situation, it’s been difficult to process. Regarding the other differences, I feel like we might’ve reached a dead end since she’s been saying she wants to work on these things but with no significant improvement yet. Recently, she went to the gym a couple of times with her female friend, but that’s about it. She’s asking for one last chance to work on everything.
Unfortunately, I have no one to talk to about this topic. This is why I need your help and feedback. I appreciate all the feedback I can get. Thank you all very much in advance.
TL;DR: My girlfriend confessed she felt an attraction to a friend at a festival due to feeling insecure and missing me. She restricted contact with him but didn't block him. We've had ongoing issues with different sex drives and her physical health. She wants to work on our relationship, but I'm unsure if we can overcome these problems.

With all the AP mine nerf talks I think there could be ways of improving it without directly nerfing the mine's damage. It should be more situational and more difficult to use.
Currently there are 2-3 issues with AP mines:

1. Anyone can carry one
2. They are extremely easy to set up (just dropping it)
3. They are difficult to spot, especially German ones that magically sinks into the ground

My proposed solutions include:

1. Either set a hard cap for mines deployed per player (say, you can only have 3 mines active at once, if you deploy a 4th then the first one would automatically despawn, similar to how in GTAV you are capped to 20 sticky bombs), or limit the availability to engineers only, similar to Rising Storm 2, where the sapper carries 5 AP mines or 2 tripwire traps.
2. Make setup harder and take more time. Throwing it on the ground isn't enough. Using RS2 for example again, here's how a MD-82 AP mine is set up. You stop, kneel down, shove the mine into the ground, and pull the pin. Not just drop it mid-run and carry on. Or have tripwire activated ones where you have to manually set up both ends of the wire, which takes significantly more time for passageway denial. Right now it's just dropping 1 mine in the middle of an alley, and it magically triggers.
3. Add a mine spotting label like how you can scout machine guns, tanks, and AT guns. Make engineers able to hold F to defuse mines for a points reward, so you no longer have to stand back and shoot at a tiny target to diffuse it. If they are deployed outdoors on soil or grass, show a small patch of disrupted fresh dirt around the mine like an ant hill.

Feel free to add to the post. I'll submit something to the forums later.

Short background: I work as a senior pentester (consulting, not internal) doing primarily network and assumed breach pentests for my clients.
The last few weeks I've been working an assumed breach test for a client and was able to privesc fairly quickly into the test. Nothing strange there, typical client AD weak/misconfigs.
While doing post-ex recon on the domain, I noticed something very strange when running BloodHound. Typically, the first thing I do after importing my collection zip into BH is I take a screenshot of the Domain Admins group as my simple "hey heres what bloodhound looks like" for my report walkthrough. Easy enough, right? Go into bloodhound, type "Domain Admins" into the search bar, select the DA group, expand the group members. Only issue is there wasn't a "Domain Admins" group in BH... like, at all. Okay, odd but I can work around that. Lets look at "Enterprise Admins".Odd again, it wasn't present. I thought maybe I pulled in a bad zip or my data was somehow corrupted in a way i've literally never seen before. So I type in "ADMINISTRATORS@" to see if thats there and, lo and behold, it was there.
Returning to my assumed breach host, I run a simple powershell script to enumerate domain users that gets output to a csv and also run ldapdomaindump. Checking out ldapdomaindump, I see that "Domain Admins" is referenced in recursive group memberships, but is not an actual entry in my domain_groups* files. However, "Domain Admins" is listed in the group membership of several users in my domain_users* files.
Checking my powershell output, which includes the full DN for users' group membership, i DO see "Domain Admins" and "Enterprise Admins" DNs for several users. This is when i noticed something else strange about these privileged groups.
Typically, and by default, the "Domain Admins" and "Enterprise Admins" groups are within the "CN=Users, DC=, DC=" container. so DA for a domain of "shell.smoke" would have a DN of "CN=Domains,DC=shell,DC=smoke". But in my harvested data for my client's domain, the "Domain Admins" and "Enterprise Admins" groups were moved to a different container underneath Active Directory Administrative Center (CN=Domain Admins, OU=ADAC,...). This was absolutely wild to me, because never in my career had I seen an organization move the DA and EA groups to a completely new OU structure within AD.
I did some further testing to see what was going on. I hopped onto a DC with winrm and tried to lookup the groups by name, but got an error saying object not found, which i kind of expected by this point. But also kind of weird and kind of to be expected, using powershell to "resolve"/"translate" the full SID of these groups was successful, translating -512 gave me "\Domain Admins". But then trying to get the AD object by directly referencing the SIDs ended up with the same result as referencing by name, object not found. Getting onto RDP on a DC and navigating through ADAC I was hopping I could find SOMETHING, literally anything, pointing to what had happened here. ADAC has a "Recycle Bin" of sorts, and there were entries in there but nothing related to what i was looking for.
Later on in testing I tried making a golden ticket with impacket, using the defaults that'll add the DA and EA SIDs into the ticket, and that did work to effectively give me DA access to hosts. Likewise, requesting a TGT for an account that was supposed to be in the privileged groups and using the describeTicket script from impacket to decrypt the "enc-part" of the ticket showed me it did have the appropriate group SIDs for the privileged groups.
Basically, I'm at a loss at what the hell is going on here. Attempting to do some googling on the topic pretty much just led to dead ends revolving around removing DA from hosts' local administrators group... so completely useless. Referencing Microsoft's documentation on security groups (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-serveidentity/ad-ds/manage/understand-security-groups) did show me that you can in fact move some of the privileged groups out of the default container, like DA and EA, but not some others, like Administrators. That's interesting and all, but why would anyone do this and then seemingly remove the groups? I dont have a Windows Server image laying around to play with to see what this looks like from an admin's perspective, but would there be any kind of security or warning prompt if you tried to move these groups, and then again if you attempted to remove them? What kind of implications would these group NOT being present in AD have for their AD security? Clearly, based on my golden ticket, you can still inject the appropriate SIDs into a forged ticket and they'll be recognized, but if the objects don't exist in AD, considering i couldnt even reference them directly by SID, how could a Service properly determine whether an account with those SIDs in a ticket should be given access? Most EDR and AD monitoring services that are configured to monitor and alert on changes to privileged AD groups keep an active watch on the actual containers themselves, with limited ability (pretty much just Windows Event Logging) to identify rogue use of the groups.
Any insights, answers, thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. I definitely intend to make some mention of this in my report, but since this is my first time encountering this I'm kind of at a loss for what the overall implication of this is and how this can even happen to begin with.

Hello, all! I, 21M, have been looking into getting my first car. I've been trying to take in whatever financial advice I can, and one common thing I keep hearing is to never finance, especially at my age and income level. I have an idea, though, that in my opinion could lead this to being a smart move in my situation. I want to hear what y'all think, though, so I'll lay out my current position and rationale.
21M
No student loans or other debt of any kind.
Earning 30-35k, but I'm blessed with the opportunity to move into a role in my family's business that could earn 100-200k within a few years.
700 a month in rent
So, let me just say it: I've been looking into getting an EV; specifically an old Tesla because they're about the cheapest EVs that exist. Now, before you pass judgment, I'm not one who's looking for comfort or to have a sweet looking ride. I live with my parents and some siblings who also have Teslas, and we aren't currently paying anything on top of our rent for the charging costs. So for those with EVs, day-to-day driving is essentially free. On top of that, if I managed to get the right car, I could get free unlimited supercharging, so I'd literally be paying nothing to drive this car. This point is particularly important to me, because my parents to take several long road trips a year, and it means a lot for them and myself if I'm able to join. These memories are priceless to me, and just the idea of being able to save hundreds on these trips per year would make it much easier to tag along.
Now, the important numbers: I'd probably be looking at somewhere between 13-18k on this car, and probably financed over the course of 60 months. From what I hear, the general consensus from those who have gone this route is that they've generally been very pleased with the vehicle, and they haven't had to spend a lot on repairs or maintenance. I'm from a big family, and 4/4 of my sibling who have Teslas have been very happy with them. I've probably personally put several thousand miles on them, so I'm not going into this totally blind and without any experience of what the operating costs are like.
Anyway, sorry for rambling so long. Any thoughts on this?

I’ve been struggling with body dysmorphia since I can remember, I was bullied alot and abused when i was younger which probably contributed, it’s pretty terrible, other people tell me I don’t look that bad even the opposite, ive gotten compliment but perhaps they are just being nice, i hate that I cannot believe them because I look at myself and all I see is the worst looking human ive ever seen, I don’t post pictures of myself yet. I am very self obsessed with trying to take a picture of myself. I barely save them when I do its mainly half of my face covered, when i was younger I would stare at myself for hours crying telling myself i hate you (i did this for like 10 years) and ive also struggled with eating disorders. I used to not let anyone take pictures of me till recently because i know its illogical and if anything did happen to me i want them to have a keepsake, but before i let them, i tell them to not show me (because i am repulsed by it) and tell them not to post me and if they posted it id freak out and have panic attacks and force them to take it down, i worry about how everyone will know im ugly and they all know and theyll all hate me and laugh at me and ill lose my friends,( aka my online friends) i worry if they saw me they might never talk to me again even though they say otherwise, its super embarrassing i trully wished i wasnt like this, i find myself so ugly, for a while i thought i perhaps may have been trans i am quite tomboyish and my female anatomy disgusts me when it comes to me, But i find women very attractive and their bodies perfect, but i came to the conclusion idc what i am i just hate me and everything about me, even if i did switch im pretty certain id still hate myself so i doubt thats the problem, All of this to say that recently I graduated, many pictures taken of me and i wanted to see if i could post one because i felt very accomplished and i looked at it and was deeply saddened because im disturbed by what i saw. I want to be like other 22 yr olds and post and be confident i hate being like this, why does it matter to me so what if i am ugly, why am i so afraid of just being me. I really want to change. How does one even start? Will it get better? I feel like it inhibits me of being the best I can be and I feel like being insecure just holds me back so much. Very strange because I don’t care about how other people look i care about their personality, so why can’t I do the same for me?

I was told by a couple different sources not to worry too much about my query until I’ve gotten about 20 rejections. I did my research first, of course, before submitting, but I don’t know what to do to improve my query letter. What can I do? What other websites or resources do you recommend?
Here’s my Query Letter:
To [agent name],
My name is David Shepherd. I (personalized thing for the agent)
My novel, Dragonson, is a Young Adult fantasy of about 62k words.
Jak Dragonson lives in a world where almost all adults have a magic weapon created by the voices of the dead. But they cannot wield the more powerful weapons for fear of being noticed by the dragons who rule them.
One of these dragons kidnapped Jak when he was a child and transformed him into a half-dragon hybrid known as a dragonchild. He serves as a liaison between Tyrant, the ruling dragon, and the people in the valley below.
When Jak receives his own talking magic sword, the sword helps him realize the way he was raised makes him an unlikeable bully. With the help of his sword, a moose, and his dragonsister Valeria, he seeks to find his real family, prevent a rebellion, and try to stop being such a jerk.
Dragonson is comparable in length and tone to Spirit Animals by Brandon Mull, and Ranger’s Apprentice by John Flanagan. The tone is comparable to the Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathan Stroud. The world-building is comparable to Spirit Animals, and How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell.
I am a stay-at-home dad living in New Jersey, and have been writing seriously for about four years. I have written four novels thus far, Dragonson being the second. I love nature and hiking, hip-hop dancing, and my family. Before my son was born, I studied wilderness conservation at Brigham Young University, where I also took several courses in writing and creative writing. I love and am fascinated by animals. One of my favorite things about writing is the chance to create new and fascinating creatures. I also studied and speak fluent Portuguese and Spanish.
Thank you in advance for your time and your consideration, sincerely David Shepherd.

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To my beloved Marcus
I know you will make sure
this Heart reaches every lost Bastard
or any curious soul in general
until this guide is no longer necessary.
It makes me so sad to think I won't live to see that day.
It is hard for me to say this, but if this book has made its way into your hands, it means that it is already too late for you. For some reason, whichever it may be, you are already in the middle of our situation. And taking the chance now that I already said something so depressing, here is another thing: there is no way for you to get out of it.

Are you being surrounded by strange events lately? I don’t know, maybe the lights around you blink more often than not, the radio changes stations without anyone touching the dial? The animals are suddenly extremely aggressive, or maybe unnaturally tame towards you?

Suddenly you can’t shake the feeling that someone, or something, is staring at you from somewhere unseen in the room…

I guess that I don’t need to mention how this all started. You probably saw something you weren’t meant to see, didn’t you. Some random person breaking the rules of reality in one way or another. A guy flying, a girl on the streets spitting fire, objects appearing out of nowhere.

Nothing makes sense and no one seems to care or know how to explain it. Well my friend, I am sorry to inform you that you have been infected. You are incubating the Arcane Infection, and you are now Awake.

Now, you are a Mage. A Bastard Mage, if you don’t have a master to guide you… which is most probably the case.

If this is the first time you read this book, or any kind of Draconian Text, this probably doesn’t make any sense. I know, it didn’t make sense for me either when I was in your place, almost seventy years ago. But trust me, everything will be explained in time. Just be patient, and stay with me, ok? Keep calm, and keep reading.

The first thing you need to learn is to shut up. You cannot talk about this with anyone who hasn’t experienced it and holds some sort of relevant position in society. Really. Famous scientists, politicians, Mayors, I don’t know. Anyone who tends to be trusted by non-mages. Just. Don’t.

If you already did, let’s hope they didn’t believe you. With some luck, you were disregarded as a fool, a maniac or a person with too vivid of an imagination.

If you survive past three days or so after opening your dumb mouth, you should be safe? Now don’t do that again. The Black Pages don’t like it when you try to talk about this…

Remember that sensation of being stalked? Let’s say that it will eventually go away, unless you are stupid or naive enough to try and bring attention to this deal.

Yes. Magic is real. Good for you. Now shut your piehole and keep reading unless you want to be remembered soon. Walls have eyes and ears, and they’ll probably continue to have them for two or three months. Trying to run away will only perpetuate this, so the best thing you can do is not think about it.

Do something stupid in these months and you will die. Disappear. Kaput. Remembered.

There are people who want to maintain this as a secret. That is another thing I will explain in time.

Right now you have two options: You can learn how to manage this new “gift” (if you want to call it that) in a remotely appropriate way; or you can just be another idiot, and try to live a normal life.

What? You think I am being unnecessarily aggressive? Well maybe I am. But you need to understand the gravity of this situation.

Because I lied. You have no options. Learn how to use this new capability to your advantage, or you will die in a freak accident.

If after reading this you prefer to just keep on with your life like nothing happened, then good for you. Close the book, and put it back where it was. With some luck it will land in the hands of someone less dense.

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Still reading? Good. Excellent! Sit down, get comfortable, maybe grab a drink. This is going to be long.

Among the words of this tome in your hands, you will find all the information I have been able to gather along my eighty god damn years of life, or at least all that you need to know to keep yourself alive until getting a proper guide.

It will be a long journey, and many of the things here won't make much sense, especially because I had to take the time to adapt and translate documents three or four centuries old to a mostly understandable format.
So you better be thankful.

The first thing I want you to know: please, for the love of God, do not settle for the things I am exposing here. All the information in this book will be absolutely basic, it won’t replace a formal education.. All the information here is for you to know where you are, how to start, and where to aim.

And now is when I am going to start telling you what IS inside this book.

We will start with something simple: what is Magic (or “The Art”) exactly, how did you end up in this situation and why is it important that you study it by yourself.

Then, after the general explanation, I will talk a little about our “Society”, if we can call a bunch of lonely, grumpy jackasses a “Mage Society”. There are some non-written rules of etiquette and other details that you need to keep in mind, if you want to keep the head on your neck.

Another section of the book will talk about the dangers around us… and this section will be, ironically enough, quite short, because the less you know about it, the better.

Mystery is your greatest ally, it’s everyone’s greatest ally. All that you don’t know is as important as what you do know. And that is what the fourth chapter is about. Each Mage has their own magical system, according to which they can create a Heart. There are as many ways of Magic as Mages in the world (so, not really that many), but all of them share some similarities.

Chapter Five is about the foundations of a ritual. Not every magical system has rituals, but it is always useful to learn and understand how these work, just in case you may find yourself in a desperate situation..

Finally, Chapter Six will be a directory with Formulas, Glyphs and Thrills that should serve as a starting point for all of you. Nothing too complex, but still, very useful. I left a few blank pages here, for you to add anything you learn and feel convenient.

If any of you misuses it, I swear to the Gods.

And this would be the real reason behind this tome: take whatever you can, leave what you create for others to use. I started this book as some sort of reproduction of the classic “Metodología del Fantástico”, that dear Gwendolin de Recattio left for us almost four hundred years ago, and that is obviously beyond obsolete at this point.

That and also probably burned to ashes as many other manuals end up.

Take notes damn it, I will leave spaces for everyone to make a little mark. But for the love of the Gods don’t use your real name, don’t be an imbecile.

Let’s make something together. Let’s create something important for once in our stupid lives. Let’s make the Bastard's life a little easier.

Gato.

That casual exclamation to the so-called ‘gods’ makes it clear that this book is either heretical or very old. Then again, the Wohlian it is written in is quite modern… but that could be the effect of magic, right? After all, this thing is written in ‘draconic’, which seems to be a magical language that self-translates or something?

But that was not the only thing that kinda came to my attention. This guy, Gato, is treating magic like this incredibly serious and dangerous thing… and I can’t help but feel a little nervous about it. I mean, everyone seems to be doing just fine, even if there are a few rules that I have to consider. Was this deal really so complicated?

Well, Gato was the expert, and it felt like everyone respected them plenty so… I will abide by them!

Besides, the knowledge here is beyond promising! A part of me wants to skip right to chapter 6 and start learning new runes! But no, I have to be patient, I have to learn the way it was intended and take my time absorbing/acclimating to the knowledge!

That does remind me, I have my own runes to learn and start using, too… should I begin practicing that before I start learning new ones?

“Wait. Before you do any of that… there’s more on the page?”

Huh?

I will add as much as I can! This book is a great resource but it is also a bit outdated, after all it’s been almost 80 years since its writing!

Don’t give up! We will see this through!

— Giovanni.

If I leave that idiot in charge of the notes he will undoubtedly forget things. Take his optimism with a grain of salt.

Pay attention.

— Mustafá.

Annotations?

I quickly open the file on my computer to compare… and just as I thought, these annotations are not on the scanned version. The beginning is exactly the same, but the writing makes it obvious that these two were written at different times, by the same hand but, still, copied individually!

I look down at my physical version again. Who are these people? And why did they feel the need to vandalize the book like this? I can only beg for them to actually make sensible and useful comments. If this book is as old as they say, maybe the updates will be a good thi–

Wait, only 80 years? I thought a book like this would be at least a century old.

Maybe magic is surprisingly modern after all!

“Fat chance. Gato quoted one of his sources, ‘Metodología del Fantástico’, which should be around five hundred years old.”

Hmmm, whatever the case… I should ask someone about this.

But I can’t just go right back to the Chatbox after saying I would be busy, that would be silly! I instead connect to the Messenger.

Pepe is not online, probably planning a cool vacation with his family or something. Vito is out drawing, Patricio is online but busy… ah, there it is! The group Gal made. Someone should know something there…

xXxCallMeBigCookiexXx: Hi hi! n.n Anyone here?
GalaxyTaco to your rescue!: hey Tav, just me for now! the others are busy or snoring.
GalaxyTaco to your rescue!: I wish I could go for some zzz right now
xXxCallMeBigCookiexXx: Is it late where you live? o.o
GalaxyTaco to your rescue!: early, we have a few hours of difference between Wohl and Rayah.

The Commonwealth of Rayah… that’s on the literal other side of Jericho, so of course we have half a day of difference!

xXxCallMeBigCookiexXx: Wait O.o is it like, five in the morning over there then!?
GalaxyTaco to your rescue!: eyeup
GalaxyTaco to your rescue!: today I gotta take care of granny’s business and that means waking up EARLY
xXxCallMeBigCookiexXx: Damn u.u I hope you have a good day, remember to keep hydrated!
GalaxyTaco to your rescue!: hah, will do, will do.
xXxCallMeBigCookiexXx: Hmmm… hey, sorry to bother you with this but, I gotta ask… uwu
xXxCallMeBigCookiexXx: Have you ever heard of Mustafá and/or Giovanni? uwu
GalaxyTaco to your rescue!: in what context?
GalaxyTaco to your rescue!: those are names, you’re saying names right now
xXxCallMeBigCookiexXx: In magic contexts? O.o
GalaxyTaco to your rescue!: not a clue, sorry
xXxCallMeBigCookiexXx: Bah, probably just a couple of randos then u.u
xXxCallMeBigCookiexXx: Oh well, thank you anyways! n.n
GalaxyTaco to your rescue!: where did you even find those names?
xXxCallMeBigCookiexXx: Ah! I found them in the physical version of the book you sent me!
GalaxyTaco to your rescue!: why did you go looking for that?
xXxCallMeBigCookiexXx: I don’t like reading in electronic media TwT
GalaxyTaco to your rescue!: hmmm ok but be careful
GalaxyTaco to your rescue!: don’t go testing the knowledge of randos or something like that
xXxCallMeBigCookiexXx: I won’t, I won’t -u- I will be nice and careful!

Cracking my knuckles, I finally get back into the book. Finally, some answers at hand!

My brain is so empty yet I can’t stop thinking
My body constantly tense
Constantly on an emotional edge
I thought I got rid of the numb
But it’s back again
Back to crying myself asleep
Back to pushing everything down
Back to barely surviving
I hate numb
I’ve felt anger, grief, pain, sadness
Nothing compares to numb
Constant worry
Constant fear
Constant tears
Constant lies
Yet constant nothing
Numb again
It never goes away
It hides away until you can’t handle it
It never comes when you can prevent it
It never comes at the good times
It’s always here on the worst days
It’s always here when you have no one
You can’t escape it
It never leaves
You never notice it
It never shows
Maybe that’s why it’s so bad
This battle is never won
This battle is constant
Not a constant daily battle
But a battle that takes breaks
Long breaks
Breaks that make it seem like it’s all over
Then one day you’re back in the trenches
Back to the lonely trenches
Where nobody is let in
Nobody can see in
Nobody’s truly told how bad they are
Except for you and your pillow
Because that’s where the trenches are
You want people to know
You want them to understand
But how
You don’t know how to explain
Explain how you look okay
Explain how you’re fine during the day
Explain how you’re okay until you’re alone
Explain how you’re this bad all of the sudden
Explain how bad it hurts
Explain a feeling that you can’t put in words
But how
You have no idea
How do I look okay
How am I fine during the day
How am I okay until I’m alone
How am i supposed to tell them it’s this bad
It’s gone on for so long
You’ve hidden it too long
Nobody knows
So will anyone understand
Understand how you’re not okay
Understand why you didn’t let them in
Understand that on the outside you’re okay
Yet understand your not on the inside
Understand why they didn’t notice
But why not just tell them
You’re hurting
It’s bad again
You’re not okay
You cry yourself asleep
You don’t say a thing because
What about their pain
What are they dealing with
What if they ask questions
What will they think
These things stop you from telling them
It’s stops you because you don’t want to think
You don’t want to explain
You don’t want more pain
You don’t want more worry
You don’t want more tears
You don’t want them to hurt because of you
You don’t want any of this
You don’t want to be numb
Yet it’s here again
Not letting you think
Not letting you relax
Not letting you breathe
Not letting you sleep
Not letting you feel
Because you’re numb again
Maybe this time will be easier
Maybe since you’ve been here time after time
Maybe they’ll finally notice
Maybe you’ll finally tell them
Or
Maybe this time it’s harder
Maybe they’ll never know
Maybe you don’t survive this numb
Maybe the last thing you feel is numb
The one thing about being numb again is
No matter how many times you’ve been here
No matter how long you’ve been there
No matter where you are
No matter if they know
You never know what to expect
Except your brain is empty but you can’t stop thinking
Because you’re numb again

I M23 recently got matched with a girl F21. It was a weird profile but curiosity got the better of me. Since girls make the first move on Bumble she started the conversation with a "Hi" followed by a "Supp". Not sure how this could be a great conversation starter but I tried to initiate a conversation by checking her profile for her interests and BAM. We ended up talking about movies. In a great momentum of flirtatious conversation, I asked her out for a movie and she was astonished. But it backfired, Remember how you see some profiles with multiple people and assume one of them is the owner but look at some signs. That's where I made a mistake. I assumed the girl taking selfies in most of the pictures was the one using the profile. She asked me if I knew which one of the girls she was in the pics and I swiftly responded by mentioning the one taking the selfies. WRONG ANSWER!
She started being mysterious leading me to guess who she was and it went on for a while. Somehow we got to a point where I gave her my number and she called me, I wasn't able to pick up cause I had to go somewhere so I simply asked her to that I would be calling later on. Now, I am a tech guy, and somehow I got her details using her number, simply her profile picture, profession, vague address(Area), and more.
Well, I played along for a while cause we were having the same discussion about professions and stuff once we were on a call, and guess what we started playing an MCQ game and I guessed all the answers correctly (Cause I knew 🤷‍♂️). But it creeped me out because, on the first call, she demanded some attention, not directly but you get the idea when conversing. I do WFH and sleep late most of the time. Before she went to sleep she called me again before midnight, and I didn't want to take any immediate steps so I talked to her for a few minutes and got out of it.
The following day I didn't text since I wanted it to settle down automatically and till evening everything seemed fine. But then she video-called me again and I avoided the call. I don't like to ghost since I feel it's rude. The second option was the send her a text to clear things out but I was not sure what to say. I talked to one of my friends and he advised me to simply tell her what I assumed and how it's making me feel weird and that is what I did.
The text I sent her:
Hey I hope you are doing well I have been thinking about mentioning this since yesterday when we matched on Bumble I was under the assumption that your friend owned the profile i.e. my first guess. I found her cute. I am finding it weird to talk, cause of the way I assumed things previously. So I am not sure if I can move forward. Though I enjoyed the conversation and the vibe, I wish you the best moving forward. Thank you
Her response:
Okay Sorry for everything No issues Nice to meet u
Final Outcome: She blocked me immediately and unmatched me on the App 🤷‍♂️ (PS. I am okay with that)
Not sure if my response hurt her, offended her, or gave her a reality check but I am glad that I came out of this situation clean and square.
From my perspective, I swiped right based on the assumption I made that went wrong (I found the girl I assumed cute). Also, I noticed that in every picture she posted she was on the side and even partially trimmed in some. So initially it was nearly impossible for me to guess who she was. And why do I even need to play Russian Roulette on a dating app. Now some of you might wonder the reason I didn't want to move forward with her since at the end of the day she is a girl. Simply saying it felt like I was catfished by the way her dating profile was set and also she didn't seem very enthusiastic about her fitness (Not body shaming)...
I might have missed some details but if it clicked to someone I will try to add them.
Views?

For the nth time, somebody tell them Impact Sub is vital and needs to create impact. Having options that will help take the game deep is what makes a team champions. Why would you doubt yourself and bring on an impact sub batsmen already, if batting all 20 overs is the goal, could've waited a bit more to see how all who can hold bat fare ! Sanvir is not your regular save the innings kind of player anyway. The only way that kinda move works is how KKR introduced Manish Pandey. It would have been great if Cummins tried himself in the middle before calling in Sanvir as impact sub, had it failed you could have gone for the move.
Ideally it would have been great to have VV and GP in the impact sub list with Markande already in the XI. Now as the match progress you would have an option to bring in a genuine batsmen or a bowler. Chepauk is a slow and turning track, with a ton of dew expected. Really wish we win the toss and chase that one.
I hope somebody passes along this consideration to the SRH think tank:
Playing XI:
1.Head
2.Abhi
3.Tripathi
4.Nitish
5.Klaasen
6.Samad
7.Cummins
8.Shahbaz
9.Bhuvi
10.Markande
11.Nattu
Impact subs:
1.Glenn Phillips
2.Viyaskant
3.Unadkat
4.Umran
5.Sundar (just if the track is rank turner)

Hello!
I’m 27F, 102kg, occasional tramadol (related to what I’m going to describe), occasional zopiclon, multivitamin for gastric bypass.
I have had pain in the hip area for years now and I’ve seen physical therapists multiple times. My gp finally sent me to an orthopaedic doc. After a ct scan he suspects my femur is turned inwards too much. I don’t know what it’s called in English. But that could cause the pain. To be 100% (or more than almost sure) he prescribed me a cortisone shot. If the shot doesn’t relieve the pain, he thinks the pain might come from something else, but don’t know what yet, we will look further if that’s the case.
I got the shot almost three weeks ago. I know it takes some time for the shot to fully work. The pain was gone for two to three days and now I think the pain is coming back. Before the shot I was constantly in pain. Now it differs from day to day. Right now it feels uncomfortable, yesterday I was painfree and the day before was unbearable without painkillers.
I don’t know how to explain it well, but could it be that the shot doesn’t ‘work’ the same everyday? Or should the shot relieve me from all the pain until its effects has worn off?
I have a next appointment with my doc half of June, but I’d like to prepare myself and I want to know, for a little bit, what to expect. If the pain does come from my x-leg, I’ll be having surgery this year.
Hope I explained it well enough and that someone can answer my question! :)

Salam everyone, So I'm not gonna talk about all the details, but to summarize, I'm engaged to a man, whom my father approved of at first, but after some time, he doesn't accept him anymore unless some conditions are met.
While I understand that my father has some extreme mentality, but I know he'd doing it for me cause he wants the best for me.
However, all the situation has stirred many problems between the two families now, for months, and there's no solution for now. But my fiancé and I still want to be together. He resents my father for things , so he doesn't want to do what my father asked...
Now what's worse in my situation, is that my fiancé's father doesn't even know about this! And when I asked his family why wouldn't they tell him cause even my father wants to talk to HIM, man to man. They said if he heard about what my father thinks and how he treated my fiancé he won't accept this marriage at all ans it would make things even worse...
However, me and my family think it's only natural for the father to know! What can I do so that he knows? What would you do in this situation?
I obviously cannot tell him, he an old man, and has medical conditions, I'm afraid I would cause him harm, and I don't want to take any responsibility for that, God forbid. But still, what can I do so that he knows?
He suspects something is off, but he didn't call my aily to ask... It's always my MIL who talks, even in the last meeting between families she came with her eldest son not her husband.
Please any suggestion would be helpful 😭😭

I just can't take all the negativity.
Per the description this sub "We are a passionate group of fans who come together to share news, information, and our love for this iconic brand"
The only thing this sub is generally passionate about is their disgust with "what Mercedes has become" and of basically anything that came after the W140. There is no love for this iconic brand.
90% of the sub is unflaired. I can't tell if they're just jealous haters who cannot afford a Mercedes and come to this sub to project their insecurities and shit on those who can? Have these unflaired people even driven (lived with, or known anyone closely) these cars they tirelessly shit on? Or do they just parrot the shit they've heard?
People come to this sub asking what to buy and are regularly met with advice against any new Mercedes -- and are upvoted. "Don't buy anything after 201X" is upvoted constantly. Older MB's had problems too, and it's not like getting old parts is an easy process. But it seems like the people in this sub just want to wear their rose-colored nostalgia glasses and live forever in the past.
I constantly see upvoted comments that basically come down to "they don't make them like they used to". You're right, they don't, because if they didn't they might be out of business now. These companies have to stay with the times or they die like so many before.
Another one I see is "the deprecation is so bad". And it is. But that's common with most models of luxury cars, even if it is worse with MB and especially the EQ line. Don't like the depreciation? Then don't buy it new -- or at all. Only classic cars can realistically actually be "investments" and even that is rare.
And yeah, I'm definitely sensitive to the tremendous anti-EQ circlejeck but if it was just that I wouldn't leave -- it's everything else together.
I'm happy you all have your opinions, but I don't think they fit with the description of this sub. Anyways, like I said, I don't need this negativity in my life. I'm happy with the two I own and have had pretty great experiences with most of the ones I've driven.
Thanks for letting me vent <3

Im a fairly green tech working 2 years in MFM. I recently started feeling the effects of our VERY high BMI population. Other than the fear of severe injury I feel like it’s time to branch out and test the waters of General/Vascular.
I’ve been applying to hospitals left and right and just got a scanning interview in a few days.
Looking for advice on what to expect or what to have prepared to ask/ answer the interviewer.
I want to be upfront so they know what I have to offer. That the only experience I have is in MFM so I haven’t ran through an abd exam in years. But I don’t want to count myself out and get rejected. I guess how do I sell myself with out letting imposter syndrome take over.
Mind you I got hired straight out of school for MFM and was helping train others within my first year there. So that is one point I can attest to my ability and adaptability to learning new things.

I really love the new update for the game, and it's got me excited for what's to come next. I'm at NG+ 12 (lost count honestly), with a lot of hours logged, and I've got a lot of feedback for what would make the game a lot better. I know some of this has been said on this subreddit already, but I think it's worth saying again in the hopes that Bethesda is reading this while they start working on the next big update.
First, I would love a more difficult hunger and thirst mechanic, similar to Fallout 4 and New Vegas. In the current update, you either gain a static buff or debuff, depending on whether your character is satisfied or hungry/thirsty. However, Fallout 4 and NV had systems where the debuff got worse if you went longer and longer without food/water, up until player death. IMO this added much more depth to the game, and Starfield would be far more interesting if it had this as an option. This could be implemented as just another option on the sustenance difficulty settings, perhaps an "extreme" mode. A harsher sustenance system would also incentivize players to use outposts to generate crafting ingredients for food.
Second, we need the ability to scrap weapons and spacesuits for parts and materials. Currently, there is little incentive to pick up 99% of weapons and spacesuits that you find. An ability to scrap equipment at relevant workbenches would give the player an incentive to actually pick these up, because they can be a source of valuable parts that can be used to craft other things, just like how it works in Fallout 4. Additionally, it would be great if we could also upgrade lower-tier weapons/spacesuits ('refined', etc.) into higher-tier (advanced, etc.).
Third, I would love the ability to craft spaceship parts/modules/habs at outpost ship builders. It's great that we can purchase parts at spaceports, but the game is missing a great opportunity for a crafting system. I want the ability to spend (large) quantities of raw materials and rare parts to craft new modules for my ship. For balancing purposes, these ship modules should cost a lot of resources. For further balancing, and to encourage outpost usage, I also think that the ship module crafting should be limited to outpost shipbuilder landing pads only. I think this could also pair nicely with scrapable weapons and spacesuits, since you could scrap guns for rare parts that can be used for crafting a better ship cannon, for example. Also, I want the ability to scrap spaceship parts/modules/habs for materials and parts as well. I want to be able to take a ship that I salvaged/hijacked and scrap it for parts that I can use to craft habs for my other ships.
Finally, and I know this has been said here before, but I really think this game needs to add in the ship fuel mechanic that we all know they were working on but removed. This could also be an optional difficulty setting. FTL travel from system to system should spend some portion of your fuel reserves. How much fuel is spent should depend on how far the destination is, but also your ship build. For example, more expensive grav drives could improve fuel efficiency, but increasing your ship's mass too much could reduce fuel efficiency. Of course, adding more fuel tanks could increase fuel capacity. This could be as simple as adding a panel to the cockpit that functions as a container that only accepts He-3, and allows the player to deposit or withdraw He-3.
There are probably other features that could improve the game that I'm not thinking of, but these are the ones that I personally feel would make the game way better. I know Bethesda's team reads this subreddit so I am writing this post specifically for their eyes. Thanks for reading!
TL;DR: Would be nice to have Fallout 4-like survival difficulty options, scrappable weapons/spacesuits, craftable ship habs/modules, and limited ship fuel survival difficulty.