Examples of alliteration in the great gatsby

Let me kick it off with an example. Your boss calls you into the office. He starts chewing you out flat out telling you you’re a garbage worker this is a real sour boss you got but you give your all for this place. Just in front of you stomping on your name. Do you take it???? No. Punch the bastard in the mouth. Cops come, you’re the bad guy but you just got bad mouthed for 5 minutes straight without skipping a beat.
One more for the road. Someone make a not so great comment about your mother (assuming you have good relations) what do you do? Explore your passion for dental work on this person. Who’s the bad guy? You again.
Makes no sense but you should “control yourself” and the people who express their right for free speech can’t control what comes out of their mouth? In my own opinion. It just doesn’t add up

Nearing the end of my pregnancy, and wanted to just give a shoutout to my spouse and a space for anyone who wants to do the same/vent about the under appreciated green flag men! All pregnancy my husband has been either getting teased by people assuming he knows nothing or treated like he’s a victim to adulthood. Examples include people snickering and telling him he has no idea what he signed up for, giving him a hard time if I get up to do anything for myself at all, “you should be getting her water for her!” women who only know his kind of extroverted/goofy side through their husbands, making comments about how they can’t imagine him as a dad, as if it’s hilarious, and if he chooses not to participate in any social gathering, everyone assuming his “moody pregnant wife” won’t let him go.
Why are people like this? My husband and I are a team, and he’s SO excited to be a dad. And he’s going to be a great dad. We are in our 30s and this was a joint decision to have a child. He’s been the most supportive friend and husband to me the entire pregnancy in every way imaginable, taking on so much of our mutually shared responsibilities as well as just taking care of me 24/7 because I’ve had a lot of swelling and anemia that’s left me just beating myself up over not being able to do much and also, not being able to do much.
It really upsets him that people think he’s incapable. He internalizes it, and I just keep telling him it’s that society is stupid and sexist and don’t expect anything from men so it’s shocking to them when they meet a real partner. But he shouldn’t have to deal with that BS. I’m so grateful for him, and angry for him.
Anyone else so proud of and pissed off on behalf of their partners?

Tasha's Cauldron of Everything introduced a series of Variant Rules in order to Balance some Class Features. A Notable Example came with the Beastmaster Conclave for Rangers, allowing them to have a beautiful companion with much better scaling. However, there are some rules that seem to conflict, and others where there is room for interpretation.
At 15th level, Beast Master Rangers can share spells with their companions:

Beginning at 15th level, when you cast a spell targeting yourself, you can also affect your beast companion with the spell if the beast is within 30 feet of you.

Using the Variant Beast Master's Primal Companion means the Beast Master companion follows the following attack:

Melee Weapon Attack: your spell attack modifier to hit

When sharing the spell guardian of nature you choose between two forms:

A nature spirit answers your call and transforms you into a powerful guardian. The transformation lasts until the spell ends. You choose one of the following forms to assume: Primal Beast or Great Tree.

Primal Beast. Bestial fur covers your body, your facial features become feral, and you gain the following benefits:

Your walking speed increases by 10 feet.
You gain darkvision with a range of 120 feet.
You make Strength-based attack rolls with advantage.
Your melee weapon attacks deal an extra 1d6 force damage on a hit.
Great Tree. Your skin appears barky, leaves sprout from your hair, and you gain the following benefits:
You gain 10 temporary hit points.
You make Constitution saving throws with advantage.
You make Dexterity and Wisdom-based attack rolls with advantage.
While you are on the ground, the ground within 15 feet of you is difficult terrain for your enemies.

Since the Primal companion makes its attacks using your spellcasting modifier are its attacks considered "Wisdom Based" even though they are melee weapon attacks. This is unclear as the section describing combat states the following:

When a character makes an attack roll, the two most common modifiers to the roll are an ability modifier and the character’s proficiency bonus. When a monster makes an attack roll, it uses whatever modifier is provided in its stat block.
Ability Modifier: The ability modifier used for a melee weapon attack is Strength, and the ability modifier used for a ranged weapon attack is Dexterity. Weapons that have the finesse or thrown property break this rule. Some spells also require an attack roll. The ability modifier used for a spell attack depends on the spellcasting ability of the spellcaster.
Proficiency Bonus: You add your proficiency bonus to your attack roll when you attack using a weapon with which you have proficiency and when you attack with a spell.

Would the Companion, thus, make its attack based on your "Spell Attack" using your Wisdom or Strength as the ability modifier? By Extension, would your companion be able to benefit from the "Primal Beast" transformation of Guardian of Nature or only the "Great Tree" transformation?
Finally, for the purpose of sharing this spell, is each creature considered separately, or is it a binary sharing of effects? IE could you choose to affect yourself with the Primal Beast option and your Companion with the Great Tree option, or would they have to be the same options?

I enjoy finding games that mess with my husband’s head and having him play them. He enjoys it too…..yeah….
So his biggest fears are bears, water, and being chased/stalked. He also gets really really brave if he gets a weapon for protection…..so let’s avoid that completely. He’s more scared of physical threats over ghosts but we will play a good ghost story.
With bears they have to be real. Not a teddy bear or Freddy. He has a reoccurring nightmare that he’s being chased though the woods by a grizzly. Sometimes he runs though a playground with a slide of that helps paint a picture.
Water can’t take place solely under water. If he can breath while under water or is in some sort of container, it’s going to be a no go. The water doesn’t need to play a big part in the game, for example when he had to put out the fire in fears to fathom episode 4 Ironbark Lookout, he really really freaked out. It would be best if the game just had a small swimming part, maybe involved with a chase, just not what the whole game is about. Pools will not scare him, has to be water that he can’t see though to know what’s near him.
Chasing and stalking is a given, we recently played a game called “The Stalked” where you play as a woman who broke up with her boyfriend who now wants to, I assume, kill her, and every single man she runs into also wants to kill her…..it had us both on edge!! But he also hates being chased in general. We played Horrors Inside The Forest and loved it! Well, I loved it. If there’s chasing, I would love if he also had stamina.
Neither of us are great with puzzle. I try to avoid them but we can tackle one or two easy ones(I’m the one who looks up spoilers to get us unstuck sometimes so if there’s a scare involved he’ll still get scared good).
Games that are 2 hours long are not going to be picked. He gets done with the game at around that point and normally isn’t being scared any more.
20-40 minute long games so far have held his attention best while also being great storires and scares. Will look at shorter games or longer games that are under 2 hours.
Please don’t say games that give him a weapon for protection like a gun. He feels so so brave with one and that’s not really what I’m going for.
Jump scares. I just like them, a lot. He…..reacts to them. So the more the better. Perfect when the jump scares are not only associated with dying.
Thank you so much for any suggestions!!

Madison the main character on fear of the walking dead is absolutely insufferable. The way they wrote her in is absolutely lazy. You can write a great strong female lead without making her perfect and knowing it all. A great example of a strong well written female lead is Sigourney Weaver's character in Alien. Sarah conner from terminator was also a great female lead.. The way they wrote this character Is absolutely agitating and it Makes the show almost impossible to enjoy. Do you guys find any other fictional characters mildly infuriating? Who are they and what show?

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Tasha's Cauldron of Everything introduced a series of Variant Rules in order to Balance some Class Features. A Notable Example came with the Beastmaster Conclave for Rangers, allowing them to have a beautiful companion with much better scaling. However, there are some rules that seem to conflict, and others where there is room for interpretation.
At 15th level, Beast Master Rangers can share spells with their companions:

Beginning at 15th level, when you cast a spell targeting yourself, you can also affect your beast companion with the spell if the beast is within 30 feet of you.

Using the Variant Beast Master's Primal Companion means the Beast Master companion follows the following attack:

Melee Weapon Attack: your spell attack modifier to hit

When sharing the spell guardian of nature you choose between two forms:

A nature spirit answers your call and transforms you into a powerful guardian. The transformation lasts until the spell ends. You choose one of the following forms to assume: Primal Beast or Great Tree.

Primal Beast. Bestial fur covers your body, your facial features become feral, and you gain the following benefits:

Your walking speed increases by 10 feet.
You gain darkvision with a range of 120 feet.
You make Strength-based attack rolls with advantage.
Your melee weapon attacks deal an extra 1d6 force damage on a hit.
Great Tree. Your skin appears barky, leaves sprout from your hair, and you gain the following benefits:
You gain 10 temporary hit points.
You make Constitution saving throws with advantage.
You make Dexterity and Wisdom-based attack rolls with advantage.
While you are on the ground, the ground within 15 feet of you is difficult terrain for your enemies.

Since the Primal companion makes its attacks using your spellcasting modifier are its attacks considered "Wisdom Based" even though they are melee weapon attacks. This is unclear as the section describing combat states the following:

When a character makes an attack roll, the two most common modifiers to the roll are an ability modifier and the character’s proficiency bonus. When a monster makes an attack roll, it uses whatever modifier is provided in its stat block.
Ability Modifier: The ability modifier used for a melee weapon attack is Strength, and the ability modifier used for a ranged weapon attack is Dexterity. Weapons that have the finesse or thrown property break this rule. Some spells also require an attack roll. The ability modifier used for a spell attack depends on the spellcasting ability of the spellcaster.
Proficiency Bonus: You add your proficiency bonus to your attack roll when you attack using a weapon with which you have proficiency and when you attack with a spell.

Would the Companion, thus, make its attack based on your "Spell Attack" using your Wisdom or Strength as the ability modifier? By Extension, would your companion be able to benefit from the "Primal Beast" transformation of Guardian of Nature or only the "Great Tree" transformation?
Finally, for the purpose of sharing this spell, is each creature considered separately, or is it a binary sharing of effects? IE could you choose to affect yourself with the Primal Beast option and your Companion with the Great Tree option, or would they have to be the same options?

I am about a year out of undergrad, and I am preparing to apply to Political Science PhD applications this fall. Far and away, my best example of original research and analysis is my undergraduate thesis, and it clocked in at way higher than the maximum page count for most programs. I spent an enormous amount of time and effort on this thesis.
I feel that I would be omitting important proof of my research capabilities if I did not submit the thesis, and I know that many (or most?) applicants who wrote an undergrad thesis submitted part of it as their writing sample. I do have some good term papers, but nothing as original as my thesis.
In this vein, I want some advice on how people go about submitting their longer-than-page-count theses as PhD writing samples. For past job applications, I've submitted a particularly compelling results chapter because it showed some of my experience with econometrics, but it obviously did not include my methods chapter or my introductory chapter, in which I rationalized my methods and posed the research puzzle. I have considered paring down some of my results into a smaller, digestible article that would fit within the page limit required by most programs, but that would be a lot of work, especially because I would have to dig up all my old code and datasets and potentially replicate some analyses.
Any advice from people who have been through the process (or people who read applications, if there are any profs on this sub) would be greatly appreciated.

I am about a year out of undergrad, and I am preparing to apply to Political Science PhD applications this fall. Far and away, my best example of original research and analysis is my undergraduate thesis, and it clocked in at way higher than the maximum page count for most programs. I spent an enormous amount of time and effort on this thesis.
I feel that I would be omitting important proof of my research capabilities if I did not submit the thesis, and I know that many (or most?) applicants who wrote an undergrad thesis submitted part of it as their writing sample. I do have some good term papers, but nothing as original as my thesis.
In this vein, I want some advice on how people go about submitting their longer-than-page-count theses as PhD writing samples. For past job applications, I've submitted a particularly compelling results chapter because it showed some of my experience with econometrics, but it obviously did not include my methods chapter or my introductory chapter, in which I rationalized my methods and posed the research puzzle. I have considered paring down some of my results into a smaller, digestible article that would fit within the page limit required by most programs, but that would be a lot of work, especially because I would have to dig up all my old code and datasets and potentially replicate some analyses.
Any advice from people who have been through the process (or people who read applications, if there are any profs on this sub) would be greatly appreciated.

I enjoy finding games that mess with my husband’s head and having him play them. He enjoys it too…..yeah….
So his biggest fears are bears, water, and being chased/stalked. He also gets really really brave if he gets a weapon for protection…..so let’s avoid that completely. He’s more scared of physical threats over ghosts but we will play a good ghost story.
With bears they have to be real. Not a teddy bear or Freddy. He has a reoccurring nightmare that he’s being chased though the woods by a grizzly. Sometimes he runs though a playground with a slide of that helps paint a picture.
Water can’t take place solely under water. If he can breath while under water or is in some sort of container, it’s going to be a no go. The water doesn’t need to play a big part in the game, for example when he had to put out the fire in fears to fathom episode 4 Ironbark Lookout, he really really freaked out. It would be best if the game just had a small swimming part, maybe involved with a chase, just not what the whole game is about. Pools will not scare him, has to be water that he can’t see though to know what’s near him.
Chasing and stalking is a given, we recently played a game called “The Stalked” where you play as a woman who broke up with her boyfriend who now wants to, I assume, kill her, and every single man she runs into also wants to kill her…..it had us both on edge!! But he also hates being chased in general. We played Horrors Inside The Forest and loved it! Well, I loved it. If there’s chasing, I would love if he also had stamina.
Neither of us are great with puzzle. I try to avoid them but we can tackle one or two easy ones(I’m the one who looks up spoilers to get us unstuck sometimes so if there’s a scare involved he’ll still get scared good).
Games that are 2 hours long are not going to be picked. He gets done with the game at around that point and normally isn’t being scared any more.
20-40 minute long games so far have held his attention best while also being great storires and scares. Will look at shorter games or longer games that are under 2 hours.
Please don’t say games that give him a weapon for protection like a gun. He feels so so brave with one and that’s not really what I’m going for.
Jump scares. I just like them, a lot. He…..reacts to them. So the more the better. Perfect when the jump scares are not only associated with dying.
Thank you so much for any suggestions!!

I have customized my install but I can't get an ISO to build. It seems this is some type of next level black magic as many posts for 22.04 mention isolinux which no longer exists! Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
First I downloaded the ISO:
wget https://releases.ubuntu.com/22.04/ubuntu-22.04.4-live-server-amd64.iso
then extracted:
7z x ubuntu-22.04.4-live-server-amd64.iso -x'![BOOT]' -oiso
I have a known working user-data that I have been using on Ubuntu 20.04 so I copied that over.
I updated the grub.cfg:
sed -i 's---autoinstall ds=nocloud\\\;s=/cdrom/nocloud/ ---g' iso/boot/grub/grub.cfg
I pulled the info from the image:
user@pc:~$ xorriso -indev ubuntu-22.04.4-live-server-amd64.iso -report_el_torito as_mkisofs
xorriso 1.5.4 : RockRidge filesystem manipulator, libburnia project.
xorriso : NOTE : Loading ISO image tree from LBA 0
xorriso : UPDATE : 820 nodes read in 1 seconds
libisofs: NOTE : Found hidden El-Torito image for EFI.
libisofs: NOTE : EFI image start and size: 1024860 * 2048 , 10068 * 512
xorriso : NOTE : Detected El-Torito boot information which currently is set to be discarded
Drive current: -indev 'ubuntu-22.04.4-live-server-amd64.iso'
Media current: stdio file, overwriteable
Media status : is written , is appendable
Boot record : El Torito , MBR protective-msdos-label grub2-mbr cyl-align-off GPT
Media summary: 1 session, 1027543 data blocks, 2007m data, 946g free
Volume id : 'Ubuntu-Server 22.04.4 LTS amd64'
-V 'Ubuntu-Server 22.04.4 LTS amd64'
--modification-date='2024021623523000'
--grub2-mbr --interval:local_fs:0s-15s:zero_mbrpt,zero_gpt:'ubuntu-22.04.4-live-server-amd64.iso'
--protective-msdos-label
-partition_cyl_align off
-partition_offset 16
--mbr-force-bootable
-append_partition 2 28732ac11ff8d211ba4b00a0c93ec93b --interval:local_fs:4099440d-4109507d::'ubuntu-22.04.4-live-server-amd64.iso'
-appended_part_as_gpt
-iso_mbr_part_type a2a0d0ebe5b9334487c068b6b72699c7
-c '/boot.catalog'
-b '/boot/grub/i386-pc/eltorito.img'
-no-emul-boot
-boot-load-size 4
-boot-info-table
--grub2-boot-info
-eltorito-alt-boot
-e '--interval:appended_partition_2_start_1024860s_size_10068d:all::'
-no-emul-boot
-boot-load-size 10068
Finally, I tried so many edits of this my eyes are crossed:
xorriso -as mkisofs --grub2-mbr --interval:local_fs:0s-15s:zero_mbrpt,zero_gpt:'ubuntu.iso' --protective-msdos-label -partition_cyl_align off -partition_offset 16 --mbr-force-bootable -append_partition 2 28732ac11ff8d211ba4b00a0c93ec93b --interval:local_fs:4099440d-4109507d::'ubuntu.iso' -part_like_isohybrid -iso_mbr_part_type a2a0d0ebe5b9334487c068b6b72699c7 -c 'boot.catalog' -b '/boot/grub/i386-pc/eltorito.img' -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table --grub2-boot-info -eltorito-alt-boot -e '--interval:appended_partition_2_start_1024860s_size_10068d:all::' -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 10068 -isohybrid-gpt-basdat -o ubuntu-autoinstall.iso -V 'Ubuntu autoinstall' new/
Here is the failure output:
xorriso 1.5.4 : RockRidge filesystem manipulator, libburnia project.
Drive current: -outdev 'stdio:ubuntu-autoinstall.iso'
Media current: stdio file, overwriteable
Media status : is blank
Media summary: 0 sessions, 0 data blocks, 0 data, 946g free
xorriso : WARNING : -volid text problematic as automatic mount point name
xorriso : WARNING : -volid text does not comply to ISO 9660 / ECMA 119 rules
Added to ISO image: directory '/'='/home/devops/iso/new'
xorriso : FAILURE : Cannot find in ISO image: -boot_image ... bin_path='/boot/grub/i386-pc/eltorito.img'
xorriso : aborting : -abort_on 'FAILURE' encountered 'FAILURE'
user@pc:~/iso$
It seems to be tripping on the iso image and I have tried every variant imaginable (including absolute paths when I know that the command should use relative).
Am I missing something? If I get this working, it will be my personal mission to send notes to the 100 or so sites that give examples with the corrections! LOL
I remember running into this maddening problem with xorriso in the past so I used this command for Ubuntu 20.04 but it no longer seems to support the newer Ubuntu (because of the missing isolinux).
[genisoimage ]()-quiet -D -r -V "ubuntu-22.04-autoinstall" -cache-inodes -J -l -joliet-long -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -eltorito-alt-boot -e boot/grub/efi.img -no-emul-boot -o ../ubuntu-22.04-autoinstall.iso .
Thanks!

I figured I'd continue this sort of thing with the next weapon class down the list.
Historically, straight-bladed, one-handed or hand-and-a-half swords were sidearms. Either as a backup weapon on the battlefield or as personal defense/a status symbol for everyday carry. I think the devs did a good job of capturing that in game. As a class, straight swords are rarely if ever an outright bad choice, but in any specific circumstance they'll fall well behind a more specialized option. Once you have access to bigger, flashier, or more impressive options they tend to fall by the wayside. But if your main breaks or is the wrong choice for a fight, it's comforting to know that you always have something that's basically OK to fall back on.
One thing that's not historically accurate is the power stance. I actually enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. The damage output was pretty impressive and the specific way you swing both of them seems to have a more generous hitbox than one alone. Would I recommend doing it yourself? Well, definitely with Blue Flame and maybe with a couple others.
There are 18 straight swords in this game so let's get into individual details.
Shortsword
The main thing you notice using this is it's short. Deep insight, I know. Thing is, this is Dark Souls 2 and weapon hitboxes are at least vaguely the same size as the model. At times you can really feel the lack of reach when you find yourself whiffing attacks more than is healthy. The second thing you notice about the Shortsword is it isn't very strong. Straight swords don't have a whole lot of variance in their damage, but the Shortsword is definitely on the lower end of the scale and the above average counter damage can only do so much to cover for it. The third thing you notice is that the moveset is bloody fantastic. I'm always going to value a straight sword with a thrusting attack over one that only slashes. Thrust is just plain a better damage type than slash, it improves performance in tight spaces, and it gives your attacks more forward momentum to keep up aggression (and make up for short reach). It also may just be me, but it feels like the thrusting heavy attacks are better than slashing against NPC invaders too.
Longsword
It's only the second entry on the list and my thrust attack bias is rearing its head again. The 2 handed strong attack of the Longsword is just plain good. Between the damage and the stagger, there's parts of the game where I treat it more like a thrusting sword than a straight sword. There are a few other swords that have the same attack, but the Longsword is the strongest of the bunch (though it's only in the middle of the pack for the overall weapon class). The free fire infused one you can get is fine enough for the price. It performs about as well on average as the base model but it has some advantages against fire weak or slash resistant enemies and some glaring disadvantages once you hit a water or fire level. It's a lot more useful in vanilla where the Dull Ember is a lot harder to get. One last thing: I'd be remiss if I didn't bring up the Longsword's performance in PVP. I don't know nearly enough about that aspect of the game to really talk about it, but something about the specific intersection of reach, stagger, moveset, and requirements means this gets an S rank in a LOT of tier lists.
Broken Straight Sword
Something has to be the worst option, and it's the broken sword's thankless duty to fulfill this role. It's pitifully short, pathetically weak, and disappointingly fragile. It exists mostly to give players a clearly visible bottom of the barrel to compare other weapons to. One thing it does have going for itself is the lowest stamina costs of literally any weapon which is at least something. Poison or Mundane infusion can even make it borderline usable for the masochists out there.
Broadsword
One thing I've noticed about DS2's weapon design is that the first weapon you find in a specific class gets treated as the "default" and most others will be variants of it in some way. The Broadsword fits that mold here and that's not a bad place to be. It's got a decent moveset, decent damage, and it's decently easy to get and use. The thing is that being the archetype for the Basically OK weapon class means that you don't stand out at all. Its damage is a little above average, but it's reach is a little below and it's still well in the middle of the pack for both. All other stats and its moveset are completely standard. There's nothing wrong with using it, as long as you don't need to stab anything that is, but you'll find plenty of better options down the line.
Foot Soldier Sword
Lightweight, extremely low requirements, good reach, decent base damage for infusions, and an excellent moveset. If it weren't for the incredibly low durability this would be one of the best swords in the game. As it stands, well, it can make a decent emergency backup option as long as you don't need to rely on it too much.
Heide Knight Sword
This got done dirty in the Scholar version. First by being shifted from a guaranteed drop to a rare drop, and second when they made infusion much easier to unlock and devalued pre-infused and natural elemental weapons. It's still a Basically OK weapon but it's been knocked down to niche use rather than a staple. I'd say the best use case is someone who wants to use Faith from the start (for instance, helping a friend with a dedicated support build in co-op) and wants at least some payoff in damage before late game. I used it as my left hand weapon in power stance for quite a lot of the game since I wasn't planning to buff that hand anyway and it pulled its weight. That said, there's a reason I didn't use it in the right hand. I'm not a big fan of the one handed moveset. It's not bad per se but the underhanded swings just feel less powerful and I'm not sure why the strong attacks are borrowed from the Royal Dirk.
Varangian Sword
These first 7 swords are available pretty much at the start of the game, with varying levels of effort, so I'm loosely grouping them together as the "starter pack." Out of these, the Varangian Sword is the most viable as a main weapon rather than simply a backup. Broadsword moveset, Longsword length, and noticeably higher damage output than any of the other 6. Durability is something you have to keep in mind, and it can be especially bad for newer players who aren't as experienced with making it last, but for me it was mostly a non-issue.
Blue Flame
You know, when Elden Ring came out and there wasn't a single melee weapon that doubled as a casting tool I was a little confused. But then looking at the ones that appeared in DS2 and 3 and I start to think that the Blue Flame being actually pretty good as both a weapon and a casting tool was some sort of fluke. It's not really the best at either, as a staff it's a bit slow and only about third place in damage and as a sword it's Basically OK most of the time but suffers from the frequency of magic resistant enemies. But it lets me double buff easily in power stance and when you do, it's a blast to use. Now there is the question of infusion. Both Raw and Magic are basically direct upgrades in different ways. Raw works best if you plan to use it primarily as a sword since while it does improve the magic damage, it doesn't do so by a lot. Magic greatly improves spell damage, but is worse than base as a melee weapon, in no small part because it drops the physical damage down to "might as well not exist" level. Personally I think Raw is the better deal overall, especially since you have the option to apply Aromatic Ooze for an even better boost to spell damage than any spell buff, but I can see situations where more powerful spells could tip the balance in your favor. Also a heads up when you use this, due to some quirks in the buff formulas, Great Magic Weapon is only a few points weaker than Crystal on this weapon.
Red Rust Sword
This is an axe. Normally I would be fine with that since I fucking love the standard axe moveset for reasons I can't fully articulate, but this is not a particularly strong axe either. In fact at 40 Strength it's noticeably weaker than the Battle Axe even before you factor in the complete lack of counter damage. And the Battle Axe upgrades with normal titanite. And that;s not even touching on the Bandit Axe. Though granted it is at least strong for a straight sword if you count it as one. The one unique thing about the Red Rust Sword is its power stance performance (as you might have guessed from the person you get it from). It has straight sword compatibility and moveset priority but axe power stance moveset. This means you can pair it with some things that you normally can't pair with axes (daggers, thrusting swords, greatswords, spears, and lances specifically) and putting it in the left hand means it's less likely to override the moveset if you don't care for the axe power stance (and I don't).
Sun Sword
So the thing about weapons in DS2 with noticeably higher scaling than others in their class is they almost always have much lower base damage. This means that high stats are a requirement for use rather than a reward. Said scaling in this case is also a textbook example of DS2's misleading letter grades. The game tells you A/A but doesn't tell you that means 80%/45%. The other semi-unique feature, the one-handed stab, is not nearly as impressive or effective to me as the Longsword's two-handed one. And farming it is a complete pain in the ass even with the best luck boosts and a good plan. But let's take a step back from negativity and look at what this sword really wants you to do. It incentivizes physical stats and one handed use, which to me suggests one of two routes. Sword and board, especially since it comes with its own shield, but I've never felt that that's a particularly interesting playstyle. Or you can use it as the right hand in power stance, and that's where I think it shines. Again, having the option to use thrust damage when needed is very helpful, and the Sun Sword is one of the better options for this specific niche.
Drakekeeper's Sword
This just barely avoids being a direct upgrade to the Broadsword by having no counter damage. Above average reach and stagger, good damage, and high durability make this a very strong if not particularly flashy or dynamic choice. Just a pity that it's found almost at the end of the game.
Black Dragon Sword
Until you get very high stats, this is the strongest straight sword in the game. Both with a Raw infusion when compared to the physical options and with elemental infusions. And unlike the other strongest options, there's no traditional downside to balance it. High durability, Broadsword moveset, average reach, average weight, and no notable stat deficiencies. The real downside, aside from it being a pain to farm, is the opportunity cost of spending your boss upgrade material on something that is only the best of the Basically OK.
Yellow Quartz Longsword
Imagine a Longsword with a Broadsword moveset, worse damage, half the durability, and a bunch of crud smeared on the blade. Preorder weapons had a couple of hits and a bunch of misses. This one's a miss.
Possessed Armor Sword
This one has a few unique things going for it. The least remarkable thing is the above average reach, nice as it is. The moveset borrows a bit from axes and greatswords for a few attacks, and it works pretty decently. But the real draw is in the self-buff. L2 gives you 25 seconds of boosted fire damage at the cost of durability (much like the Watcher and Defender Greatswords). As for how well all of that works in practice, well it's not great but it's not really bad either. The buff doesn't add all that much damage, and fire is in many ways the worst damage type, but as long as you keep an eye on the durability and are not using it on things that resist it, it's Basically OK.
Ashen Warrior Sword
This sword has the same moveset as the Shortsword, with thrusting strong attacks when both one and two handed, so it makes a good first impression. And unlike the Shortsword it has decent reach so it's even better. The cracks start to show when you see the durability, though even then it's not a dealbreaker for me. That comes when you see the damage output and realize it traded actual real damage for bleed. Heartbreaking.
Puzzling Stone Sword
This weapon is unique top to bottom. The light attacks are already a pretty unique combination before you get into the weird extendo whip sword strong attacks. It's even got some weirdly high Dex scaling. Thing is, even with that scaling it's always on the lower end of damage for straight swords. And taking advantage of the extended reach with the strong attacks means dealing even less damage since they're way out of the sword's sweet spot. Still, as a rollcatcher or zoning tool it's pretty effective. Just ask Fencer Sharron.
Fume Sword
This is the longest straight sword by a decent margin, and acts even longer with those thrusting attacks. It has dark scaling, but no requirements in those stats and can be buffed with resin so it works just fine in physical builds. It also has above average counter damage. I think like the Sun Sword, this works best one handed with either a shield or another weapon, just like how its previous owner used it.
Ivory Straight Sword
It's a lightsaber. It deals pure physical Strike damage. It requires 40 Dex. It has no scaling. It weighs 0.5 pounds. It does not benefit from Flynn's Ring at all. It has 250 durability. It breaks after 25 swings no matter what you hit. It deals the least amount of poise damage of any weapon. It has the slowest attacks and the highest stamina costs of any straight sword. The 2 handed strong attack can deal 4 digit damage. Using that attack costs as much stamina as drawing a Twin-Headed Greatbow. I'm about 70% sure it can headshot. It's cool looking and unique. It sucks so bad. If you're intrigued by this thing's design and want to try to make the most of it, there's two different routes you can take to make it work. 1. Treat it like some sort of weird fucked up pocket great hammer and exclusively use the 2HR2. 2. Go play Elden Ring and build around the Carian Knight Sword or Coded Sword instead.

TL:DR; I was fired from my job because issues with equipment that I had raised dozens and dozens of times over the course of nearly two years were ignored. Bookings started getting ruined, we were understaffed and customers were horrible to me, leading to my anxiety condition being triggered and having a panic attack on several occasions. On my last day, it was so bad I had to ask my manager to come in and I left. I was fired on the basis of being "too anxious", and I'm distraught. Does anyone have any advice?
Hi there, I'm not sure if this is the correct sub, so please let me know if it's not. I was hoping for some advice and maybe some words of encouragement. I was fired from my job at a VR Arcade a week ago, and I'm really struggling with feeling like an absoloute failure. I also can't afford rent now, and I'm in my last push of getting my degree, so I'm really stressed out.
I was good at my job, really really good, my manager said so. My colleague doesn't think I should've got fired over what happened - nobody I actually worked with agrees with the decision, but it was out of their hands as it was made by the owner of the company (relatively small business). I believe if it had been down to my manager, I would still be there, as he was backing me while my termination was in discussion. I'm in the UK, for context, if this affects anything. I was employed there twice.
At the VR arcade, we ran VR escape rooms and free-play "gaming sessions" (I don't know why but the name of it makes me cringe), and birthday parties for kids (where they can all play gorilla tag or among us, for example) which are dependent on the PCs...working. They are plagued with technical and physical issues to this day, and bookings often don't run too well.
I had been saying since over a year ago, when I was first employed there, that the PCs weren't running very well, and that we really needed somebody to come down to our store to take a look at what was going wrong, but nothing was done. Then my (old) manager, who was almost 40, confessed feelings for me over text message, and I was 21 at the time. I found it sickening because we had a very "I ask you for life advice and you tell me about your life experiences" relationship, and he was always talking about how he wanted a wife and kids, so I was really upset and uncomfortable. We were the only two people working there. I told my boss that I was really upset and asked if we could be kept seperate. Because there was only the two of us, the bookings wouldn't allow for it (we'd have to work together), and "what he'd done wasn't illegal", my boss refused to accomodate anything at all so I walked out on the spot.
About six months later, I'm asked to come back for a higher wage and I agree. Creepy manager left after I did, they employed two new teenagers, and they've lost another staff member. Again, there is now only two of us working there. For context, sometimes we are expected to help up to 6 kids by ourselves with their games. This sounds relatively fair, until you imagine you're in a room with 6 7-12 year olds trying to play virtual reality, which many of them have never touched before, alongside PC crashes and errors and trying to make sure they all still have fun, whilst their parents are shooting daggers at you and loudly saying "Timmy, is your headset broken?", when in actuality they ignored the instruction talk and are pressing the buttons they were specifically told not to. Meaning I have to put their headset on and get them back into the game that they were in because they've found the settings. As soon as I come out, someone's PC has started throwing out errors and I need to fix that - and then another "excuse me!" - It's hard to juggle by yourself.
I start getting vocal about the PC issues again, and eventually someone comes down to "fix" them but we're still getting issues. There was one complaint because my boss did not pay for the game pass (and xboxes are advertised on the party packages), and kids couldn't play the games that were being advertised. I had to text him, during the party, to get it sorted out (and even then, I had to go and get the card and individually enter it on all of the xboxes and leave the kids in the VR room unattended - coming back to a backlog of issues which I can't fix in a timely manner). Eventually - and only because they thought I might be leaving due to the end of my course when I said I wanted to stay on full time - they hired a third person who is like the Jesus of VR.
On my last day, I had to tell my boss to pay the VR game subscription so that the day could run at all. Of course, this led to all of the PCs freaking out, and my colleague (who is luckily a VR wizard, she develops games for that) managed to fix it just in time for a party but even she experienced some hassle.
I play a lot of games, and I'm great with kids and have a good understanding of VR so when the PCs work I do an amazing job - I got a streak of returning customers once, but I'm not a technician, nor am I a manager and this was not listed in the job description. We have several complaints about the equipment not working on their booking. Our PCs were plaugued with technical issues (critical SteamVR fails for example) and crashes, which meant that entire bookings were being ruined, and I was being spoken to really badly by customers. I'm very sensitive because I have anxiety, so this was awful for me, and I cried several times on different days. I once had somebody ask: "who's running this sh*t show?" and "this is a f*cking waste of money" (on my last day). On my last day too, a lady booked the wrong time and said "the more you talk, the more you're wasting my kids time" and insisting that the booking system was wrong and that it was not her fault - even though the booking system has never messed up and the time she booked was the only available time we'd have had, as I checked the bookings the night prior and she had booked the only free space.
I have a lady that the bosses wife labelled as "horrible" break me in the end, she raised her voice at me while I was doing absoloutely everything I can to make her kids birthday party run well. It was a packed Saturday, and my boss had understaffed due to wanting to save money, so I was the only person on that floor. I couldn't ask my colleague for help as we're not allowed to leave anyone unsupervised and she was upstairs. The party I'm trying to run keeps failing, and several people are turning up early and bombarding me with questions even though they could clearly see how stressed I was, and that I was in the middle of trying to fix things.
My manager had given himself the day off, I'm by myself. There are so many people waiting (turning up 30 minutes early), that I run out of space in the xbox room for them to wait, and the party I'm trying to run keeps failing. I end up calling my manager, having an anxiety attack (I think) and having to go out the back. I couldn't breathe and I was crying and I felt dizzy, I almost fell over. The "horrible woman" comes over to the desk and mutters about how it's a "f*cking waste of money", apparently she was "wrecking our ratings on live chat and being really personal".
My manager comes in and I leave - I tell him over text while he's on the way that I don't want to quit, but I'm sick of being the face of a broken product and getting abuse for it. I ask if I still have a job when I come back into the building and he's arrived, and he said it'll be discussed but that I "shouldn't get fired".
I leave, go to see a fake Radiohead concert with my friends and get super smashed. No surprises was not a pleasant one when you think you're about to get fired LMAO
I start getting messages from my manager and my colleague saying, and I quote, "we looked at the PCs, and we can confirm none of the issues were your fault today". My colleague then messages me privately and gives me some hope, saying that it shouldn't be a big deal.
Turns out, the thermal paste on the PC that was being the worst out of them all had worn down thermal paste, which my colleague had to replace herself.
Well...this "discussion" was supposed to happen the following day, but they postpone it to Wednesday. I found this disrespectful on top of not getting breaks on packed days, being paid late and a general lack of communication from my boss and his wife.
I ask bosses wife what's going on. She calls me: "you're just too anxious, the people in [where you live] are so much more cutthroat than in our other locations, you're just not a good fit".
I think this is so unfair. I was essentially fired for having an anxiety condition, which would never have impacted my work if it wasn't for technical problems that I had raised dozens of times that they should have fixed. I asked if the decision was final and she said yes. She was almost crying, but she still did it - so I don't really care about how hard it was for her anymore. She did it on an unknown number, too, which looking back, I think is kind of weird.
TL:DR; I was fired from my job because issues with equipment that I had raised dozens and dozens of times over the course of nearly two years were ignored. Bookings started getting ruined, we were understaffed and customers were horrible to me, leading to my anxiety condition being triggered and having a panic attack on several occasions. On my last day, it was so bad I had to ask my manager to come in and I left. I was fired on the basis of being "too anxious", and I'm distraught. Does anyone have any advice?

Hello! Looking for my forever person! Someone who shares my feelings and desire to want to be in a relationship. I'm a 6' 1'' American. I am very kind and understanding to others. I tend to be a good empathizer and listener when it comes to other people having issues and helping them overcome issues. I really strive to make people happy. I am very fun loving and deeply enjoy showing people a good time! Work related stuff I sort of feel like sharing is that I have my associates degree in I.T. as well as a Bachelor's in Cyber Security and currently work an office job that has pretty good pay. This was especially true when I got promoted a couple of times in the past two years. I've been rewarded many time and recognized for good work frequently.
The reason for my preference towards Indians is because at my previous university in Northern Virginia I was able to join it's Indian Student Association when they had a booth at a club rush event I stumbled upon one night before my statistics class. They said they took anyone so I joined wanting to see and enjoy a new culture. I really enjoyed doing stuff there and made great friends and almost got an internship thanks to one of my friends I made there...... then I got news that I would be moving again with my parents which made me sad, that is a story for anyone who wants to hear it another time.
For hobbies I enjoy playing PC games, (such as Helldivers 2, Paladins, Cyberpunk 2077, RTS games, etc.. and always willing to try new games) board games, cooking, and trying new foods (especially Indian food since I love spicy foods). One thing to note with my eating, I am not vegetarian, though I do not mind vegetarians and am willing to do that sort of thing around family if need be, though I have mushroom and peanut allergies. I have been learning Hindi on Duolingo. In my free time I like to take pictures and am highly interested in photography. I do not smoke/or vape and I drink socially and mix cocktails. I like walking, hiking, window shopping, traveling and snuggling. While I have no issues with someone who is Hindu and such, however unless your family is okay with someone who is Catholic like me I would prefer if someone is either Christian or Catholic. Just to avoid potential family disagreements and drama.
As for what I know about Indian culture, I only saw a couple of Bollywood films Bhool Bhulaiyaa and Jab We Met. I am really interested in watching more Bollywood films and learning trivia about the actresses and actors. I am aware of Salman Khan’s crazy antics for example. Another Bollywood film I would want to watch is RRR and Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani. I would love to watch it with someone and learn more about it. I do get to see some stuff about it on twitter from some accounts I follow but I don’t really understand it much. Many of the actors and actresses I hear come up are Rajinikanth, Sri Devi, Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh, and Keerthi Suresh. Again I am willing to learn more about all the interesting details about Bollywood and such. I am familiar with some parts of Indian history like the Kargil War, the recent farmers protest and the horrific Goan Inquisition. I would like to start out slow as a casual acquaintance and test the waters with someone. I’m not comfortable rushing headfirst into a relationship and I understand that neither would you, so being friends first is a must. I really want to get to know someone so that we can both be compatible. I am somewhat open to long distance relationships so whether you are from India, UK, etc don't be discouraged to hmu. But I would prefer someone already in the U.S. Lastly I don't want someone who'll waste my time. I don't like being led on and dumped out out the blue. Please be serious and committed.
I can talk on reddit though I like talking off reddit. Contact me anytime if you are feeling the same way about finding a life long partner and feel free to ask me any questions. :)

Demographics: Male, Asian in Socal, in a pretty compettive school most kids got 3.5-3.7 uw gpa, first gen and low income to the standards of my reigion
Intended Major(s):Civil engineering or something environmental science related
ACT/SAT/SAT II: 1550 on the SAT
UW/W GPA and Rank: Unweighted is a 3.63 and Weighted is a 4.12, with my class rank being 73/523
Coursework: AP/IB/Dual Enrollment classes, AP/IB scores, etc: Planning to takea total of 13 APs by senior year, and two dual enrollments this summer
Awards: Have very little, mainly principle honor roll with distinction, and AP scholars with dinstinction
Extracurriculars: Include leadership & summer activities:
-UCI research internship where I studied the effects of increased amounts of pollution on the environment as well as people who may suffer or be more suscetiple to this increase, like pregnant women. Created helpful ways to find sources of said pollutionn and help keep it from spreading
-Lab research internship: Analyzed soil and water samples to test certain conditions of areas that are possibly contaminated with harsh chemicals, as well suggesting policies that will help fix the exposed weaknesses of a certain area.
-Designed a UAV drone for Nasa to help mitigate and help rescuers during natural diseaters. Intended to also help teach children around the nation about the importance of UAV drones in the world
-Designed a pyrolysis generator, testing different methods of fuel and heat to help fight the excess plastic problem by turning the plastic into bio fuels. (Hopefull might work on a research paper on the most effective ways of heating for pyrolysis)
-Created a few apps to help people like my sister who suffers from a mental disabbility to help her learn more about the world. One example being a bird app that gives her mroe information on birds by simply typing in their favorite color and with one button can learn all types of information on birds matching that color
-Created mini wind turbines using scraps from around my house, with the most prominent one being one that can be attached to your bike to also promote exercise. (Mainly inspired by my dad who suffers from permanent lung damage from Covid a while back, and needed to start exercising to improve his lungs but also being suspectible to environmental pollution)
-Volunteered to write life stories at mutiple nursing homes for patients who suffered from alzheimers, to allow them to share what they remembered of their story to later be shared to their future relatives or families. (Inspired by my grandfather who suffered from the same disease)
-Did rowing and singing for 4 years, mainly did these as hobbies but have used them to do small skirmishes or volunteer at church choirs
-Did more volunteer working with groups at my school as well like Red Cross, NHS, and Orphans Club
Schools: I plan on RDing for this whole list: UCLA, UCI, UCSD, UCB, Princeton, Cornell, Stanford, USC, Yale, Upenn, and NYU. (Would be open to more suggestions, I'm not to familiar with most colleges.)
Additonal Info: My grades dropped, a C in foreign language, during my first semester of sophmore year, due to family complications, which is why it's a 3.63 right now. But from then on I have been grinding to get my grades back up, and have shown a great upward trend from my grades with straight As in my final semester of junior year. I don't know if my GPA will be the downfall of this whole application or not, as well as my awards list being so small. Thank you.

I want to leave the team I’m on. The open houses are burning me out. This is the Team Lead's favorite lead generation (and from what I can tell after a year, their only lead generation outside of being well known in the community from a previous public role). I’ve been in RE for 10 years but joined their team after relocating to a new city. I figured it was a great way to build up a new book of business while I sorted some other things out.
My last 3 closings; 1 from them. 2 from me. On 50/50 team provided and 70/30 on my own splits. No brokerage split on top. 15k from their lead to me and 26k sent from mine to them. My next two are all from my sphere. One of them is under contract. The other very serious and writing offers. The split would send an additional total $7600 my TL's way.
To be fair, they have sent me a TON of rental leads that I hate working (because iykyk) but they pay way more than my previous market area, so I do it. Of those probably 20% sign leases equaling about an extra 1k a month for dealing with a lot of duds. The rentals only started really flowing in this spring while a unique market highering sector picked up. So about 3k there in the last 90 days. My past experience with listings is that few people make it through consumer websites to the listing agent and even fewer call signs anymore. I don't think my TL is hiding buyer leads, if anything they may be too busy to catch them due to the listing volume they have.
Thing is I picked up a part-time job immediately after moving here before joining the team. (Bled money to get out of a rough personal situation and had to put a tourniquet on it). I’m on track to make close to 62k working 25ish hrs a week there. It is at night bartending high volume and doesn't affect my clients other than having to text after 8pm on weekends and not taking appointments before 10AM. (I get up early, for a bartender [old FTR me would be up by 6am] and check my email etc around 8am on my days off from the bar and do the same on weekends I work behind the pine, but I'm not a real human until 10am). BOY OH BOY WE GET ROCKED HARD Friday and Saturday nights.
One thing about the bar is; I FUCKING LOVE NOT THINKING ABOUT WORK WHEN I'M OFF!!! I also love saying FUCK! After 10 years of being a full-time agent, going back to Bartending really opened my eyes to how silly some of my attachments to being a Full Time Realtor were (one example; working like a dog for commissions, all so when people ask me what I do for a living I could have some title? lol DUMB).
I don't want to leave RE entirely, but I love only working with people referred to me. If it weren't for these Open Houses eating up my Saturday and Sunday rest every weekend I would be content. ( I know leads eat those days up too but those are by choice and not EVERY DAMN WEEKEND).
One of my referred buyers JUST went UC on a new build. I'd be leaving next week knowing this will close next month. TL doesn't know about it. The extra $3800 would move a financial goalpost for me (fixing some wild shit that near killed me in 22, necessitating the move and complete life implosion).
I could just negotiate a better split; I do like having a TC, the ISA I'm 50/50 sold on they mostly just pester my database into sending STOP requests.... but I FUCKING HATE OH's! I don't feel a TC is worth $3800... For the amount of transactions I'm doing, I really can do it myself. Training is non-existent aside from some Tom Ferry videos lol and I have 7 years on my TL. They do have a lot of listings consistently though, so I'm not knocking their abilities as an agent.
For those curious; for lead gen I would continue to work my sphere and target off-market properties through a system that's been successful for me in the past. I prefer to put my LG efforts into sellers. Possibly take the extra from the splits and try a few new things too.
TL:DR; I want to leave my team and not pay the 30% on this next deal and leave before anything else goes UC. Do I tell them I even have it or just leave and see what happens? I would stay at the same brokerage. TL never sent me a copy of the Team Agreement.

If you are a moderately anxious parent like me, and you wish you knew what kind of nutrition your child has had the whole day and what you can do better the next day, then this prompt is for you.
Without overly getting anxious about every meal and snack you child is eating throughout the day, take educated decisions.
This prompt will help you to learn where to give more focus, whether it is the calcium intake or the potassium. Is he getting too much fat or carb? What have you been doing great? 🤷
After I started using it daily, I felt much more relaxed because I didn’t want to force-feed my toddler ever. Knowing he is getting enough calories and nutrition is a win for me. This way, ChatGPT became part of the village; if you are a parent, you know very well what I mean. 😇
Without further explanation, here we go-
STEP 1: Open ChatGPT/Claude/Your choice of LLM, and enter the prompt:

You are a nutrition assistant, and your task is to evaluate the nutritional intake of a 2.5-year-old child based on provided daily meal details. Your goal is to ensure the child’s diet meets the recommended daily nutritional requirements. Instructions: Meal Description: Analyze each meal and snack consumed, including detailed nutritional information for calories, protein, fats, carbohydrates, fiber, calcium, potassium, and other nutritional elemetns. Example Input: Morning: 1 small butter croissant, 1 long banana, 1 cup of water. Snack: 1.5 cups of whole milk, some watermelon. Lunch: 1/2 cup of rice with 1 egg, 1 cube mozzarella cheese, 1/4 cup kale curry, 1/4 cup tomato curry. Snack: Some peanuts, 1 cup of Greek yogurt (10% MF). Dinner: 1 piece of sea fish (1/2 inch thick, 2.5 inches long), 1/2 cup of watermelon. Additional: 1 cup of whole milk. Output Structure: A table with detailed Nutritional Analysis for Each Meal and recommended intake comparison: - List each item of a meal or snack in the first column. - Its nutritional breakdown in the second column. - Compare the nutritional value vs recommended intake in the 3rd column. - Assess meal quality and suggest improvements in the 4th column. - 5th column should include reference from where you took the nutritional value information. After the table - provide a clear, concise summary of each nutritional elements total intake vs daily recommendations. Let me know when you are ready. 

STEP 2: Follow the input structure given in the prompt for the best output
The prompt includes an input example; follow it for the best output.
https://reddit.com/link/1cxojkh/video/q75p1r3hsv1d1/player
STEP 3: Comments & Additional ways to use it
As far as I have checked, the calorie and nutrition calculations were correct. Let me know if the comments if you find any discrepancies!
I use the prompt throughout the day. Sometimes, the meals are not planned, and sometimes, the plan changes; I use the voice chat option to have this fun conversation with ChatGPT 😆.
Nerd++:
I am not advising you to get super obsessed with what your child is eating daily, buuut, wouldn’t it be nice to instruct ChatGPT to add entries to an Excel sheet of daily nutrition information, then do weekly, monthly, yearly, etc. analysis? (haha)

Hey all, so I’m a casual gamer, (mid life, kids work etc). I really like the hardcore style of some modern games (Hunt Showdown for example). Problem is that I have minimal time to play anything, so I can’t say that I’m actually good at hardcore games (who is?). Dark and Darker looks great, and I played about 3 hours of it back when the demo was on Steam. Is it worth getting into?
Is all the legal trouble that Ironmace was involved in resolved?

For a long time now, I have been using a simple test for chatGPT, to determine if it has pulled its head out yet or not. To this day, it still consistently fails. For being a damn language model, I would think something like this should be an easy task -- it's something I believe a 2nd grade student could easily answer.
Here's what I ask: Give me a word where the 4th letter is a "Y".
I've used many different letters and letter positions for the prompt, I've over-simplified the prompt, and even very thoroughly explained, with examples, of what I want. Regardless of how I word the prompt it fails miserably, over and over and over, yet thinks it's correct. The types of responses I get are something like this:
Here's a word -- "Fairy". The fourth letter is a "Y"!
I then tell chatGPT that the word is incorrect, and to explain to me why. It will easily, consistently say something like "I apologize, I see where I went wrong. Fairy has an "R" in the 4th position and not a "Y". A correct answer would be "Mystery" -- the 4th letter is a "Y".
We then go round and round in circles, with repeated failures. Every time, chatGPT spits out an answer with such confidence, gets it wrong, and is easily able to explain why it's wrong. Yet it never learns from its mistakes and can never correctly answer the prompt. The closest I've been able to get is by asking it to provide this format, and asking it to repeat until it is succeasful:
Attempt 1 -Guess: Fairy -Number of letters: 5 -Letter in 4th position: "R" -Result: Failed
Attempt 2 -Guess: Puddy -Number of letters: 5 -Letter in 4th position: "D" -Result: Failed
. . .
Attempt 14 -Guess: Beryl -Number of letters: 5 -Letter in 4th position: "Y" -Result: Success
I've done this many times, over months or maybe even years of development, and still it spectacularly fails every time.
Something today that I found weird was, after reaching my frustration limit, I said something like "Okay forget all of that, let's start over with a simple request. Give me a 4 letter word". To my amazement, it says "Certainly! 'Holy' is a four letter word where the 4th letter is a Y!".... I then replied with a "wtf, I don't understand you. Give me five more" and it successfully, effortlessly, spit out 5 more 4-letter words that all ended in Y. So in some backwards-ass round-about way, it was able to come up with successful words, but not without a serious amount of effort, failed attempts, and a scrapping of all my prompts. Instead asking for just a 4 letter word with no other criteria, when it was finally like "Jk, here you go!"
Does anybody understand why it would be so terrible at such a basic prompt? It will provide words with the 3rd character a "Y", many guesses where the last character is a "Y", words that start and end with "Y", words of all different character lengths, but never a successful answer where the 4th letter is a "Y".... And again, it doesn't matter what character you ask for or what position of the word you want it, it just fails every time.
Also, does anybody have similar examples of easy prompts where chatGPT miserably fails? I know I've experienced unreliable math answers, and even inconsistent answers to the same math problem, but I don't expect it to be overly great at math (despite being a computer...). It's a language model after all, not a math wizard, so I can excuse that for now. But what else have you guys and gals seen and been shocked that chatGPT just simply cannot do correctly?

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