How long does it take to get clean from k2

I have a feeling a lot of us are going to say things like the Moog synths, Hilda, VHS Synth, etc., but I’d love to know what you’re enjoying. These don’t necessarily have to be the best plugins, just the ones you reach for over and over again.
Mine are:
Baby Audio BA-1: It sounds great and has a very straightforward UI. The simplicity means it never takes long to come up with a cool patch.
BLEASS Arpeggiator: This thing is amazing. It’s got a ton of parameters and modulation options. When you start to abuse it, it doesn’t even sound like an arpeggiator anymore. I use it more like a weird generative sequencer than an arpeggiator.
Continua: Great sounding synth with a few more params than BA-1, but still not too bad. I like the way it handles the mod matrix. I’m not crazy about the chorus effect on it; it seems to delay my notes enough that it screws up the feel of typewriter basslines. But I can always slap a chorus plugin after it, so it’s not a huge deal.
Drum Computer: I love the range of sounds I can get out of it. The randomization feature is surprisingly effective at giving me good drum sounds.
Factory: Picked this one up recently on sale, but I like the range of sounds. The randomization on the mod matrix is a quick way to get interesting stuff. You’d think that would quickly descend into unusable madness, but it’s actually pretty good.
Hilda: Reminds me a lot of my Ø-Coast and Strega hardware synths. Absolutely fantastic.
Nerd Synth: Tons of great sounds and easy to tweak.
Phosphor 3: An emulation of one of the first softsynths ever made. It’s relatively simple, but I love the sound of it.
Zeeon: Dagger’s big brother. I love how they cleverly tucked wave folding and FM into it to let you experiment with some different forms of synthesis.
Atom Piano Roll: Great for getting more intricate with sequencing. The ghost note feature is great. I often record my OXI One into it so I can instantly recall my OXI One songs without even needing the hardware.
Fugue Machine: Lots of fun for coming up with unexpected polyphonic sequences.
Harmony Bloom: This generates sequences so gorgeous that it feels like cheating.
Neon: My favorite generative sequencer of all time, and I should note that I have about $3,000 worth of hardware sequencers sitting on my desk as I write this. Neon beats them all.
Velocity KB: Basically the MPE functionality from an Ableton Push 3 at a tiny fraction of the price. Works way better than I expected.
Reverbs: Too many favorites to list individually. Blackhole, Alteza, Crystalline, and Cascade are my go-to reverbs. All are wonderful for different reasons.
Dials: I love the way this fattens everything up.
Enso: Great for recording things and mangling them.
Looperator: Great for injecting some life into otherwise boring sequences.
Other Desert Cities: I use it in every single song. Maybe my favorite delay of all time.
Rymdigare: Fantastically weird little ambient maker.
Volcano: Often used to subtly bring things in and out of the mix over time. Great for ambient.
Weeping Wall: Fantastic for making sparse sequences sound emotional.
So what are you using all the time?

I’ve had contamination OCD for four years now, maybe I’ve had it all my life but it got way worse when Covid hit. At one point it got so bad that I couldn’t touch anything in my room, which I considered a safe zone, except for my bed. I had to use tissues as “gloves” to turn the light on, I took boiling hot showers daily and my hands bled because of how much I was washing them. I didn’t have anyone to talk to about it because my family isn’t really that understanding about mental illnesses (and I was scared, tbh if I told them they would’ve probably helped me) so I felt really lost.
As bad as it was, slowly I learnt the way my mind worked and started to manage my compulsions. A lot of it is lying to myself and gaslighting myself which I know doesn’t work for everyone but it worked for me. Now I’m a lot better then I was those three years ago, a set routine keeps me from washing my hands too many times and I find ways to work around my compulsions. That’s not to say I’m all better, not by a long shot, there’s so many things I’m still working on, like physical contact with others, animal fur and lately I’ve been thinking about slowly getting rid of my “safe zone” but I’m not sure if I can do that yet.
But what I really want to say is you’re not alone. I know it’s scary and painful but you can make it through this and get better. If you can get professional help then do that, but if for whatever reason you aren’t able to, don’t worry it’ll be okay too. My advice would be to find what works for you, routines, meditation, making fun of the situation (this also works for me I look at the situation I’m taking too seriously and make fun of it and how ridiculous it is), talking with people or gaslighting yourself (I mean if it works it works right). Just be patient with yourself and never give up.

The game opens with constant gunfire and artillery shells bursting, the sound of men yelling as gunfire stifles the darkness of the night. We focus in on a platoon of troops in a foxhole, like lightning a shell hits close to, wiping out most of the men. As the ringing of the remaining ears clear they realize they need to retreat as they can no longer stay in the tight, cramped, flooded hole they've found themselves in and the only way back is up.
Every player must roll a d10, the player with the lowest role finds a piece of wood stuck within their leg, not bleeding but obstructing the ability to run without help, the players decide to deal with the issue there and then or deal with assisting the injured player in the retreat to try and fix it in a safer location.
As the players leave the foxhole a machine gun fire begins to target the group
Triggers a sequence
Flairs shoot lighting up the battlefield as you hear a whistle from the enemy blows They're crossing no man's land.
This sequence where the players must make a 200-250yd dash for a trench behind the foxhole.
Players take priority in turn rotation

Fleeing is (Mov x 5 =x yd) 

Every player must make a dex roll on their turn
-a critical success allows them to run uninhibited
-a regular success causes equipment to get snagged on barbed wire causing them to get slowed
-a failure causes you pouches or bags to rip dropping a small amount of ammunition
-a critical failure causes you to get cut by barbed wire dealing 1d4 damage
Players carrying injured role with penalty die
On the machine guns turn roll to full auto at players but role with triple penalty dice due to multiple shots, out of range, and fast targets. You can decide volley size and damage per shot, BE NICE it's just the beginning
Once all players have made it across no mans land they will arrive at the door of a rather large bunker, they bang on the door and request assistance. After a bit of pleas a slot on the large door opens with a bun barrel sticking out. A rather shooken young man asks the players to tell him “where are you from” clearly trying to see if the players are enemies. A player can say anything but the second the man hears perfect english or french he swings open the door. The players see a young man with a shotgun, couldnt be over 20 years old. He commands the players to get in fast. As all the players enter he immediately goes to slam the door shut seeming to struggle to do so.
You meet Bert Newman a strapping young man from new york a very charming quick witted kid, he's always there to boost morale and is always ready to get work done. Its best to slowly show off his personality with small talk while he leads you down the winding halls.
After a few turns and twists you arrive at a sort of check point with a man with a british bren gun points his barrel down the hall, directly at Bert and the players.
You meet Rook a very large man sporting a very clean uniform, he seems concerned and Isn't too welcoming to the new residents, hes a harsh with his words, and presents himself as no nonsense, he does have a soft spot for Bert, able to handle his constant cracks and stories. I recommend making some dialogue for them to have every now and then to show their relationship.
After the players are done interacting have rook notice the player with the injury if it hasnt been taken care of he’ll direct the players to go to the infirmary to get fixed up. Have Bert offer to show them where to go. On the way to the infirmary try to keep engaging with the players as Bert
As the players arrive they will notice a large room with a few injured men, a very poor sight to behold. Once you arrive at the entrance you will meet a beautiful young lady dressed in a nurses gown
This is Louise, say hi to Louise :D. A pretty woman with a caring face, but with a hint of concern and fear.
She welcomes you and immediately notices the protruding fragments sticking out of the injured player, she looks back up and tells them to take a seat. The players can interact with Bert more, with each other, or Louise. Try to have Bert and Louise interact if you can, they are great friends.
After the player is patched up they can leave. They can follow Bert back to rook where Rook will give you the task to retrieve barbed wire from the armory as they want to start adding more defenses for the door incase of being invaded. Bert will again offer to guide the players
You begin your journey to the armory, once again try to interact if you can, mention what could have brought Bert to the war and his family. At a certain point Bert will trip a grenade wire trap, everyone roles a dex or dodge role. Bert is killed in the blast anyplayer that fails gets knocked to prone, you can determine if they were close enough to take damage. After all the dust clears the players see Bert's body slumped against a wall lifeless,they can't save him. If the players decide to search him they will find a mostly burnt map of the bunker, some ammo for a shotgun and a letter addressed to what you can assume is his family.
If the players continue to go and retrieve the barbed wire they will get a chance to change their weapons if they choose. As they return they notice Bert’s body is now gone, with a blood trail leading around an separate hallway
Thank you for reading!!!

Hello, I have two cats who we have been introducing very very slowly over the last 10 months. We have followed the jackson galaxy method basically to a T and are in what I view as the last stage and need some advice. We have two cats S and K, K was originally my cat and has had terrible anxiety her whole life but is so sweet to people. S was originally my girlfriend's cat and could not care less about anything he is the most easy going cat I have ever met, the guy takes swipes from K like it's nothing and is ready to play with her again in 5 minutes. They are both about 4 years old and S is a boy and K is a girl, both spayed/neutered.
About 3 months ago we put K on prozac and have seen amazing results from it, she's nicer to her brother, reacts much more consistently and generally her quality of life is much better.
This process has taken quite some time, so we've had to find solutions that work given how long we've been doing this. For instance every single day I switch their litterboxes and one cat's "home" for the next 24 hours becomes the office and the other cat is out in the whole home. We used to only let them out after work and fully supervised breaking up anything that could turn into a fight for about 5 months. That has been going really well and so we let them out full time during the workday as well (we both work from home). They get along super well, K loves her space and used to get really annoyed when S would come close but has started to get used to it over the last couple months.
That brings me to the current issue, we live in an older 2 story apartment with some narrows hallways, narrow stairs and a couple narrow choke points between rooms. I find K seems to plop in those narrow areas which causes problems when S tries to get by her and she'll jump up and hiss and swat at him. She's only drawn blood once and then we started trimming K's claws more and while there have been many altercations since then she's never broken blood again. We always break the thing up whenever we hear the hiss and see her lunge at him but I am wondering what my next steps should be here.
Should I just let them work it out, should I put down cat tunnels in the cramped spaces so S has alternate routes, should I just pick K up whenever I see her in those spots that cause issues. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

We’re talking seasonal bugs like ants, pincher bugs, and spiders. They’re everywhere. No matter how often I clean up, they just find new places to appear. I found a highway of ants in my closet and I just can’t take it anymore. I cleaned everything out and I have no idea what they’re going for. I bought pesticides from Home Depot a couple weeks ago and my partner finally sprayed around the perimeter of the house last week. Still tons of bugs, so he sprayed again. There are less, but still so many.
I have a newborn and a toddler and I’m struggling to keep up with their usual schedule because I’m constantly sweeping up ants, killing pincher bugs (blehck), moving spiders outside, etc. I’ve been spraying them with a watedish soap mix, but that only helps for a little bit.
When I was 13 years old, an ant got in my ear and it was a bit traumatic. I could hear it walking around and I couldn’t get him out. Grossest feeling. I put my head under a faucet and ran water in my ear until the noise stopped. Gave myself an ear infection. Now I’m afraid of it happening to me again, or worse, happening to one of my kids. I’ve asked my partner if we can contact a pest control company, but he refuses. I asked him to spray again last night and he said, “are you serious?” I then asked if he could spray in the morning, and he ignored me. I feel incredibly anxious and overwhelmed with trying to keep things clean and safe.
So I’ve had enough. I want to go stay with my parents for a couple days and hopefully my partner will do something about the bugs while we’re gone. I have a feeling he’ll do nothing (the bugs don’t bother him and it frustrates him when I talk about it), but at least I can get a short reprieve from this living nightmare. I know he’s going to be pissed if I go, which will just make him dig in his heels and double down on not taking care of the problem. I would spray myself, but again, I’m taking care of a 10 week old baby and a 3 year old and it’s hard to find the time to go outside and spray pesticides undearound the house , and then take a shower before getting back to them. Maybe I need to just do it. I just don’t want to accidentally subject the baby to poison.
AITA for leaving? I’m so exhausted and frankly, scared of these stupid bugs. Just discovered the ants are taking over my toddler’s room. It’s going to be a huge undertaking to clean this up and I NEED help.

I dont really understand what CORE 1010 is, all i know is that it counts towards AXLE. Do a lot of freshmen take it or is it recommended for sophomores or later.
Also, I am really lost with all these classes and scheduling them by myself. I dont know what to take and when to take. How helpful are the advisors in this case, any recommendations on what to do. I am set on Econ as a major, with a business minor, and i might take math as a major or minor, i dont really know. Im also really interested in CS.
Also, how do credits work from IB, lets say I get credits for Econ 1010 and Econ 1020, does that mean I dont have to take those classes at all. Do I still need to take other classes that will add up to 12/13 hours, or does this credit count towards those 12/13 hours.
Id be really grateful for any help.

I’m gonna lay out the whole context here, and it’s 2 years long so bear with me. A TL;DR isn’t really possible as there’s so much important context to whether or not IATA.
We’ve been married almost 10 years and she’s from overseas. She came here through our marriage. We were happy and doing extremely well for ourselves.
The problem started to 2 years ago. My friends wedding. Afterward we went out and then went to another friends house to continue partying. At the party one of the wedding guests started having a pity party about how he’s depressed because all these happy couples are around and he’s single.
For context. This guy is weird. He’s disrespectful to women, capitalizes on captive audiences (waitresses most often), and is overall a loser. He’s got a good job but that’s about it.
My wife, listens to his sob story and says “I have a sister!” and immediately starts FaceTiming her sister. This is something I’ve said isn’t okay. We’re not tinder, and we’re not matchmakers.
Beyond that her sister has a history of treating her poorly. She constantly told my wife she’s stupid growing up, well into adulthood. She blocked my wife for a whole year because my wife called her and told her not to go on boats with men she doesn’t know. Told my wife to live like she doesn’t have a sister. For a whole year I consoled my wife a couple times a week.
Anyways we were both drunk and with people so I’m not gonna start a fight right there. I figure I’ll talk to her about it maturely later. So I do. In the meantime, I switch to speaking Arabic with her sister and tell her this isn’t okay and isn’t what she wants.
Her and my wife to this day claim I was happy and supportive. They claim I was too drunk to remember. But there’s a few things wrong with this. I drove home, I take drinking and driving VERY seriously and would never, ever do it. In fact, if I know I’ve drank too much, I’ll hand my keys to a friend before the liquor starts hitting, just to avoid any possibility of making that bad decision.
Secondly, I switched to Arabic. I’m white. Arabic is a language I learned. When I speak it, I speak it very, very deliberately and remember the conversations perfectly. I know exactly what I said.
Anyways, when I talk to my wife later, I’m told how it’s wrong to prevent her from helping her sister and how her sister really likes this guy. A guy she talked to for 5 minutes. I told her it’s wrong to think of it as “helping” her sister in the first place and that her sister is a grown woman who can find her own partner.
So my wife says “okay I’ll tell my sister to stop talking to him”. That was the end of it. Or so I thought.
A few weeks later I’m at a different event and this guy let it slip they’re still talking. Immediately I’m upset and text my wife about how she lied to me.
She said her sister was really falling in love with this guy and separating them would be wrong. She said she did tell her sis to block him but when her sis went into a depression she told her she can unblock him and talk to him, behind my back.
Upset I told her we need to talk about going behind my back and how disrespectful of my boundaries this whole ordeal was. She said “it’s okay I’ll tell her to block him again”.
Over. Or so I thought for the next few months. A few months later I again am at an event with this guy and this time he’s smart enough to lie about them talking. But I’m a salesman and a bullshitter. You can’t bullshit me unless I trust you. I knew immediately he was lying but I let it go. I did ask my wife and she said no they’re not talking. So I believed her.
Well, a year and a half goes by. In that time her sister and her fought about how her sister could come to the US. We said we’d help her but it’s a lengthy process. At the time I had little animosity toward her sister and would’ve loved to see her come here and be near my wife again. She wasn’t happy with that and said it takes too long. This is her sister’s mindset.
Anyway. Her sister gets a B1 visa in the meantime, temporary business visitor and wants to come visit my wife. Lies through her teeth about her intentions to the immigration officer, telling them she wants to stay 90 days. They approve her for 60.
So we file for an extension ASAP so she can visit for 3 months. Staying with us the whole time. I wanted her to have fun on her visit so I arrange for my friends and I to go out. This guy shows up. She talked to him and told him our plans.
Immediately they disappear into the casino and come back holding hands and all kinds of PDA. I’m fuming because I know she’s a conniving word I won’t say here. I don’t say anything though and we go through the night and I let it go so I can have fun.
The next day he’s picking her up from my house and they’re out for the whole day. The next time my wife is off work, same story. Well, I thought you were here to visit her? And that’s where I put my foot down.
I got told it was wrong to try and control her, wrong to try and separate them, etc. etc. etc. Finally she blocks his number and he calls from a separate number. I turn off her SIM card because I’m not gonna support her going behind my back in my own home. He calls me and tells me he really loves her and just wishes I’d accept it.
I tell him very plainly I will never, ever accept it because it all stemmed from him, her, and my wife going behind my back. Primarily my wife, as she’s the only one of the three I should be able to trust is telling me the truth.
At this point, I feel as if my wife had an emotional affair, although it’s with her own family. She repeatedly chose to go behind my back, against a boundary I had told her repeatedly before this situation at my friend’s wedding after party ever transpired. If that’s not an emotional affair, I don’t know what is.
So I tell him bluntly to not call me anymore and I’m not going to change my stance, and his feelings don’t mean shit to me. He started to give me a sob story about how we’re friends and he I should be happy for him and I cut him off and told him to save his breath.
My wife is upset at me for how I talked to him. Another emotional affair. Trying to protect the feelings of this dude.
The next day, while my wife is at work I’m eating lunch at our dinner table and studying schoolwork her sister comes to the table and starts talking to me about this guy asking if I talked to him and I tell her plainly I did and what I told him.
She goes into a story about how she really loves him, she’s an adult woman and I shouldn’t be intervening etc. I told her I agree I shouldn’t ever have been involved and neither should my wife. I told her to save her breath with any talk of her feelings because I don’t care. She started crying telling me I’m cruel etc.
I told her at this point I’m done being nice. I’ve been lied to for 2 years and it’s over. I’m done being my laid back self and I’ve been pushed repeatedly and I’m standing up for my marriage and my boundaries.
I did turn her SIM card back on so she could call my wife and I, her hosts.
The next morning I wake up to my wife in tears calling me to her sisters room. Her sister is bawling her eyes out and packing her bags to go home. I talk her sister into coming for a car ride with my wife and I to talk things out.
Immediately in the car my wife starts berating her sister about how she’s selling her for a man and a whole host of other things. I calm my wife down and tell her that’s not okay to say to her sister. Because against what they thought I don’t want and would’ve never wanted this to cause a separation between them. I know how much my wife values family.
In the car her sister tells me she really loves this guy and that she can see them being a family one day etc. etc. etc. I tell her plainly don’t ever bring him around my house, if they do marry and have kids, don’t ever bring them around my house, and don’t consider me her brother in law because I will never do anything for her again after she goes home.
My wife is shocked, she’s shocked and they both wonder how I could be so cruel. I said I’m over it. I’m over hearing about this guy, I’m over being used, and I will never again trust her. She said she understands and resumes talking to this guy.
A few days later we’re in the car going to a family event with my family and I get asked if he can come. I said no, very politely. I said no, he’s not part of my family. I was told how terrible I am, and my wife and her sister both jump out of my car in a bad part of Chicago, an area neither of them know.
My wife calls my family and tells them I kicked them out of the car. So my family starts blowing up my phone screaming at me. Once I explained the situation my family said they’ll come pick them up but I hung around and kept driving by to make sure they were okay. Eventually my wife calls me and says they’ll get in.
So I pull over and they open the doors and my wife goes “I’m scared I don’t feel comfortable getting in the car with you”. So I drive away pissed off. This is a 85,000 car in a bad part of the city where carjackings happen every other day.
I go park somewhere but keep an eye on them to make sure they stay safe. A homeless guy passed them and my wife calls me to come get her. So I do and we go home.
Again her sister packs her shit and cries that she’s going home. I tell her to relax, sleep on it and we’ll talk in the morning. She does eventually and in the morning she decides she’ll stay.
A week goes by and I hear nothing about this guy from her. My friends and I all joked about him and made light fun of him. He caught wind of it and cried to my wife’s sister who told my wife, who came to me and aggressively told me to stop and leave them both alone. I got pissed off because this was a private convo between me and my friends and if he heard it and got his feelings hurt it’s on him.
This spiraled into a huge argument with me, my wife, and her sister. In the argument I asked her sister plainly if she planned to leave at the 90 day mark. She said no.
So I kicked her out of our house. Her and my wife went for a walk and I yelled out the front door to get her shit to the curb before the walk before I do, because if she doesn’t do it herself it’ll be thrown on the wet ground. They both thought I was joking before then I assume. Her sister comes in and packs her stuff and gets out. I said if you plan on staying here illegally it won’t be in my house. If the choose is between here or the streets, it’ll be the streets.
She went to stay with the boyfriend and his parents. His parents must not have liked her too much because within a couple weeks they made them both move out.
This was in January of this year.
Since then, I’ve been repeatedly goaded into accepting this. My wife has tried to get me to visit her sister, etc.
It came to a head recently at a wedding we went to for another friend. Her sister and this guy were there. I didn’t say a word to either one the entire night and all was fine.
Except my wife spent the whole night at their table because he wouldn’t dance or do anything to have fun. She can’t handle the idea that her sister might find something she doesn’t like about this guy. She has to be there just in case the relationship goes on life support.
This pisses me off, obviously. She’s more invested in their relationship than she’s been in ours for the past 2 years. Grown adults.
Well, today she was going to her sisters house. She had 2 bags. An ulta bag and a discovery bag. I asked what that is, and she said it’s for her sister. She pulled out taco shells and said it’s just small stuff she wants her to try. But I could see through the bag and saw beauty products. I’m not an idiot.
I looked in when she went to the bathroom and saw a fucking armoire full of shit. I looked at the receipt. $300. I was fucking livid.
I continued getting ready for work and said “her husband can’t buy her that?”. It’s confrontational, yes. But I said it politely, and was open to talking about it.
I get met with immediately hostility. I never raised my voice but I made it very clear I wasn’t being nice about this or anything anymore.
I told her “maybe she could pay you back and find you a new husband”. I’m going to give her a choice. Me or her sister now. Because this has gotten fucking ridiculous.
We pay for her to come here. She hired an immigration lawyer apparently, but doesn’t have money to pay me back for the flight or even pay for the Ubers they take or anything. My wife is trying to make up for this losers shortcomings. He’s too much of an idiot to see that her sister is using him.
By the way, this isn’t her first fiance. It’s not even her first western fiance. She’s been engaged to at least 3 different guys. One from France, another from Belgium, and a third from Canada before this guy. She was looking to immigrate. He’s a fucking idiot though so, oh well.
My wife’s sister is very materialistic. My wife is fortunately down to earth but is so far up her sisters ass because she thinks if she doesn’t do everything her sister wants that her sister will cut her from her life again. Which is exactly what would happen.
I told her that’s on her sister. I’m not asking her to never talk to her sister. I’m asking her to stop treating her sister like she’s a child and putting their relationship before ours. Stop bending over backwards for a grown woman who will throw you away the moment you’re inconvenient.
But it’ll never happen it seems and it’s the reason I’m strongly considering divorcing her. I’m over this fucking shit. Oh, and by the way, my wife claims that she’s scared of me etc. now when she tells the story to other people.
I have never and would never hit my wife. I’ve never given her any reason to be afraid of me. So to put that out there on me is absolutely fucking bullshit and I’ve lost all trust in her.
AITAH?

i’m still in school . . . for some reason, people always find everything that i do absolutely hilarious. it’s been like this for literally as long as i remember, but of course more prevalent in high school. i mean, me just walking past in the corridor can’t be that amusing, right ? why do i get mocked for doing anything at all, why is my existence so strange to others ???
i’ve always tried my hardest to be friendly and i’ve always had quite a few friend yet always end up as the target for bullies since i sorta seem a bit off or “weird” to people . it’s rough 😭 does anybody have any advice on how to deal with this ?
꒰ note ꒱ : i have kind of lost the ability to mask as well i used to as a result of the mental + physical exhaustion it takes to keep it up, i became less bothered when my mental health deteriorated and haven’t been able to act in public very well since :( i dont think i ever even masked THAT much either since i got bullied so much, idk . .

So Weekly shonen magazine, the biggest rival to jump, just produced a new “hit”, Mayonaka heart tune, that just got a LCP. Lets look at its stats.
-Mayonaka Heart Tune 3 — 9,443 (12 day sales)
It has gotten an LCP by chapter 30 and is considered a new hit
Lets compare this to a recent similarly performing series in jump
-MamaYuyu 1 10,480 (10 days sales)
It got axed by chapter 30…..
Now obviously they have different standards, and jump cares a lot about toc and survey results, but still this is pretty funny. The same sales performance in jump that would nab you a LCP in WSM, gets you axed in jump.
So most here will be familiar with the minimum requirements for staying in the magazine at present. Its….
Weekly Shonen Jump
1.Sell at least 20-25k in volume sales for the first month (Roboco does 20k, kill blue does about 25k) Gag manga have slightly lower standards though.
2.Avoid the bottom 5 of the TOC for consecutive weeks. Unless there is editorial reason for being put low, or other promotional/magazine related reasons something is low.
Also, You can start at around 15k for volume 1 but you have to grow.
Obviously there are other contextual considerations like whats in the magazine, whats ending etc etc, but right now these are the general standards.
People call this harsh, but shonen jump has gotten more lenient of late. Regardless, this method has served it well… to generate a higher proportion of hits than most other magazine for a very long time.
Lets compare it to the second biggest shonen magazine though.
Weekly Shonen magazine.
1.Sell at least 7-10k in volume sales for the first month (Akabane Honeko no Bodyguard, yowayowa sensei and blue wolves of miba all sell less than 10k)
2.Avoid the bottom of the toc consecutively, but the requirements are less strict. WSM has more discretion with what they put at the bottom, with hajime no ippo and to your eternity put low at times just for editorial reasons.
WSM has more leeway for the mangakas, with break weeks very often, and has less stringent requirement for axing and gives them more time. It is still fairly strict and you will get axed eventually if you don’t perform.
So superficially, jumps method produces bigger hits, and magazines gives more leeway more the mangakas.
Let compare the hits each have produced in the last 4 years .since 2020
Shonen jump (numbers rounded)
Ruridragon 118,000
Sakamoto days (116,000)
Blue Box #12 (110.000)
Mashle (90,000)
Kagurabachi 2 (70,000 est)
Akane Banashi #8 (50,000)
Witch Watch #13 (45,000)
The Elusive Samurai #13 (40,000)
Undead Unluck #20 (30.000)
Nue's Exorcist #3 (30,000)
Kill Blue #4 (25,000)
Me and roboco (20,000)
Weekly Shonen magazine
Shangri-La Frontier #15 + Limited Edition (110.000)
Four Knights of the Apocalypse #14 (62.000)
A Couple of Cuckoos #19 (48.000)
Seitokai ni mo Ana wa Aru! #4 (48.000)
Megami no Café Terrace #12 (41.000)
Amagami-san Chi no Enmusubi #12 (31.000)
Gachiakuta #8 (27.000)
Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms #12 (24.000)
Sentai Daishikkaku #12 (14.000)
Kanan-sama wa Akuma de Choroi #4 (14.000)
Mayonaka heart tune (10,000)
Yowayowa-sensei #4 (9.700)
Ao no Miburo #11 (8.300)
Akabane Honeko no Bodyguard #6 (6.000)
Observations
1.Jump produced 12 hits since 2020. Shonen Magazine 14. This is by their own standards though.
2.Jump had 37 axes in the same period, shonen magazine had 23 axes.
3.Even though the aggregate sales are higher for jump titles, the highest ceiling is similar. Shangri la vs ruridragon/sakamoto. Shangri la does have an anime though, which only gave a minimal boost.
4.Jump is still better at producing better selling titles more frequently. Magazine axe less and give more time and breaks to the mangakas.
What about series in other magazines?
Monthly Afternoon
Monthly afternoon is a seinen monthly magazine by kodansha, that values quality and gives a lot of time. They let series even with a few thousand sales, have a lot of time to build up an audience, which they eventually do. No idea what the internal process is, but my guess is that they also evaluate for quality on top of popularity.
Here is a series skip and loafer, that started with low sales, but is now critically acclaimed and selling pretty well with an anime.
Skip and loafer
Volume 1/ 2 068
Volume 5/ 8 914
Volume 8/ 28 766 /4 weeks
Volume 9/ 59 996 /6 — anime
Volume 10/ 74 262 /7
https://x.com/al_mavivi/status/1558278403664535552
This method of dealing with new series gives them more time to develop and find an audience. It may not produce as many big hits, but it works for the prestige brand they are trying to cultivate at afternoon and is doing a great job at it. They obviously introduce less and axe less, but that comes with the territory of more curation.
Obviously there are a lot more magazines to go through, shonen Sunday and champion, shoujo and josie magazines, but the post would get too long for all that. The general gist is almost all of them consider a few thousand sales good enough to start, and aren’t anywhere near as strict when it comes to voter survey results. And of course, they dont axe or introduce as many series as jump.
What I also think is interesting is that there seems a clear set of ways in how a magazine can configure their axe methods for different objectives.

1. Do you want to produce the biggest hits?
   
2. Do you care about quality and critical prestige?
   
3. Do you want to give the mangaka more lenience and breaks?
   
4. Do you want to give manga more time to develop an audience?
   

….
Jumps method prioritizes 1 , but considers 2
Magazines method prioritizes 1 , but considers 3
Afternoons method prioritizes 2, but considers 3, 4 and 1
What jump can learn from this?
The question people will ask of course, is why cant you do all 4? If someone figured that out, im sure they would do it. Problem is physical magazines have a finite set of slots, keeping something for too long prevents other things from being cycled in, which is why jump axes so much. People always wonder why jump don’t keep more than 20 titles in the magazine like other magazines. Other magazines do this where they have 25+ series, with a few taking breaks every few weeks. Jump only gives breaks to one piece, jjk and mha. But newbies could do with them too.
Also, others can also produce big hits, Blue lock was the biggest selling manga of last year, and it comes from magazine. Its stats early on
blue lock
1) 25k
5 ) 45k
20/ 197, 494
21/ 278, 301 — anime
22/ 346, 180
23/ 445, 253
Before that there were successes in other genres like Tokyo revengers, quintessential quintuplets etc.
Moreover, since the demographics of jump are changing, prioritizing quality on top of hits is also a good way of transiting into a new era. Look at monthly afternoons lineup after using its method.
https://x.com/al_mavivi/status/1607031535760203776

1. Blue Period 12 — 154 652
   
2. Land of the lustrous 11 — 133 430
   
3. Yakuza fiancé 6 — 121 598
   
4. Big Wind up 35 — 97 861
   
5. Vinland Saga 26 — 80 278
   
6. Skip and Loafer 10 — 74 262
   
7. Darwin Jihen 4 — 66 211
   
8. Heavenly delusion 8 — 31 926
   
9. Medalist 9 - 30,000
   

No massive hits by jump standards, but lots of high quality, award winning, solid selling series….with mangaka who are certainly treated way better.

I know a lot of people are against it. But what are your thoughts/opinions of euthanasia/assisted suicide for people diagnosed with mental illness?
Here’s my take: I have schizophrenia. I do take medication, but my life is meaningless. I’m not the same person I was before. Everything is a struggle for me and I don’t enjoy anything. I feel so alienated from my family, they speak about me as if I’m already dead.
And in my experience (I know others have and do have better experiences) with mental health professionals. But Schizophrenia is looked down upon. If someone, even a doctor finds out you have it they abandon you. And with mental health professionals, if you have a disorder that can't eventually be treated with their expensive ketamine treatments, they don't want to treat you. My psychiatrist was a very positive person when he first diagnosed me with anxiety and depression. Then once it changed to schizophrenia he acts like I'm a waste of time and a bother to him.
My therapist a while ago even went to a convention and all the new drugs and treatments are for anxiety, depression and bipolar… nothing on schizophrenia.
I know some people do get better and that is great! But for those of us whom are doomed to suffer for however long we have left on this Earth, we should have an option. And I don’t understand why we don’t get that option. If we are considered loss causes (which is how I feel) mental health professionals don’t even want to work with us, and we are the ones costing the most money and are the majority of the homeless, why not let us end our pain and suffering?!
I wish Schizophrenia was treated like how anxiety and depression and bipolar are treated. Doctors actually care if you have one of those, with Schizophrenia its another story.
Anyway, this is just my experience and opinion.
Please don’t attack me

So this happened a few months ago. I was at this gas station and all the registers were broken but one. I had this older lady in front of me who seemed like grandparent to two kids. Behind me the line was probably 10 deep of people waiting at the only working register.
The manager was on phone with someone trying to fix another register but not seeming to get anywhere.
The lady in front of me took a while to figure out she needed to put her card in too pay. I wasn’t upset by this sometimes people just don’t know. But finally she finished the purchase of snacks for her grandkids and left. My turn!
Only not, she came storming back in and cut in line in front of me and said the snacks were 2 for 1 dollar. The cashier let her know the snacks were buy one get another for a dollar. She said “well I don’t want any of it! Refund me!” Well problem there, is machine to do refunds was down (says attendant) boomer said “I’ll wait”. Meanwhile the line is even longer now and I’m stuck behind this lady. Who knows how long it would take to get system running for refund.
Finally I just pulled out my wallet and tapped on boomers shoulder. I told her here is the 3 dollars for the snack you good? She without batting an eye said yep, took the cash and walked out. I thought it was hilarious.
In my defense paying her the refund, I was driving from Nebraska (at this point in the trip) with fam back to Texas and just wanted to get my drinks/snacks and go. Hahaha. Also I felt bad for the kids they looked bummed boomer grandma was gonna take their snacks away after already telling them she could get them.

Hello, I am 19 years old and i have a sister that is 10 years younger than me (9 years old). I've been worried about what she watches for a while and the impact it has on her. I can't remember when exactly it was but maybe like a year ago my dad gave my sister her own phone (before she could only borrow his phone). Since that happened she got addicted to yt shorts. I can see the negative impact it has on her, an example: I've tried watching some anime with her, specially to try and make her watch some show with a story and not the brainless yt stuff and it gets some intrest from her. When we started doing it we could watch even 10 episodes of it in a row and she would be fairly invested, since then she can now only watch 2-3 episodes before she claims that she is bored and runs off and she fidgets a lot when watching. She has been getting more and more rude towards me and my father as well as any family we may visit. She also watches stuff on a computer, she has been doing it for a long time, unfortunetly she was the watcher of that brain dead elsa spiderman garbage and my dad just played it because he found it funny. nowadays she doesn't watch that stuff anymore but she just watches diffrent types of brain rot with shitty influancer types. She seems to be very behind in school stuff, she still can't read much, she can only do it very slowly and with errors, not enough to watch something with subtitles for example. At her age i was able to read full books already, she is also behind in other subjects and has a dismissive attitude towards learning claiming that she doesn't need it. She also claims that she doesn't like books. My dad hasn't been pushing her to do any reading or anything.
Recently when my family gathered for easter, me and some other family talked to him about why short type content like yt shorts is harmful and I think that he kinda got it? He said that he will look into it and block it but he keeps delaying it. He generally spoils my sister a lot buying her often unhealthy food.
I want to try and do something about my sister's brain rot. The problem is that my dad keeps putting off blocking youtube on her phone over and over again. Like any time that I try to tell him to do it he claims that he is busy and puts it off. The part that annoys me is that the things that he is busy with are often much less in priority like taking care of the garden behind the house which I completely don't care about. Shouldn't taking care of your child and family be more important than some stupid garden work?
I also tried to tell him to block youtube or at least set some time limit for youtube on the computer. I started searching around on that computer about the methods to do that and testing out some browser extensions but when i started doing that he started telling me to go off and telling me to not block normal youtube for her because "she likes it" and claiming that she doesn't just watch brain rot (I've looked at the stuff she watched and I never saw her watching anything decent and I am pretty sure that my dad just doesn't pay attention to what she watches more than giving it a 1 second glance). He pretty much said without saying it that I can't block it because when she watches it, she shuts up and he doesn't have to deal with her.
Here's the thing, do you have any ideas on what I should do to convince him to do those things? I am pretty sure that he just doesn't know how and why that stuff is harmful. because he is of an older generation. Here are two problems: my dad has a tunnel attention span. Basically if he does one thing, he can't focus at all on another one and barely listens to anything and tells you to go off until he finishes it. The other one is that he almost always claims to be busy and it's hard to make him do something. That's why I can't see being able to have him sit down to watch some video explaining the whole thing. Do you have any ideas?

I (36M) have 2 kids (16F & 14M) from a previous marriage. My ex (34F) and I share custody but because she lives in a better school district she primarily has them during the school year and I get extended time with them during the summer. For the past 4-5 years I have taken the kids on a fun summer road trip. The three of us plan a destination and pick things we want to see on the way there and back. It's been a great bonding experience for us and a lot of fun. Last year I let each kid bring one friend along on the trip and am doing the same thing this year. We are planning on leaving for the trip next weekend.
My son is an outgoing, gregarious kid who is involved in multiple sports and has a long list of close friends. My daughter, on the other hand, is very much an introvert and only has a few friends that I know of. The friend she brought with last year is definitely her closest friend. She was planning on bringing the same girl with on our trip this year.
Unfortunately, my daughter's friend had a fall a couple weeks ago while riding her bike and broke her leg & collarbone. Obviously, she would be very uncomfortable sitting in a car for long periods and there are stops on our trip where she would be unable to participate in the activities we want to do. There are also a couple places we planned on camping that I just don't think will work for her. My daughter says her friend still wants to come with and her parents are OK with it but I don't think it's a good idea.
I suggested to my daughter that she invite a different friend but she says she doesn't have anyone else she wants to ask. I might have messed up but I went behind her back and talked with her friend's parents about it. I expressed my concerns about their daughter coming on the trip and I guess the two girls did not give them a complete rundown of the activities we have planned. After our conversation, they agreed that it would probably be best if their daughter stayed home.
As you can imagine, my daughter did not take this news well. She is very angry with me and thinks I sabotaged her friend coming with on purpose. She has been begging me to cancel/change some of our plans so that her friend can still come with. I told her that both me and her friend's parents agree that her friend coming with isn't a good idea, so this isn't just my decision.
She is saying she won't come on the trip at all if her friend can't come. I do feel bad about the whole thing, but at this point I don't think there's much else I could do to make this work. I mean, yes, I could alter plans to make things easier for her friend, but with how limited her mobility is going to be that probably wouldn't be much fun for everyone else.
My ex thinks I should do whatever it takes to get my daughter back on board so that she isn't excluded. But that just isn't realistic. I'm also worried that this will be the last year this sort of trip happens because summers get busy for teenagers.

Okay so, I bought my kitten from an old “friend” who literally was going to let mama and kittens roam the streets. I bought the one, and literally stole the entire group of kittens&mama. These were not good people and i literally just made a run for it (it was dramatic, but i was 20 and just couldn’t let these babies struggle when I KNEW they’d be adopted at my local shelter)
So fast forward a few months, I find out my kitten has feline herpes. she got vaccinated, got the meds, she didn’t eat her food with the powder they gave me with both wet and dry food. So I continued the eyedrops and ditched the powder, I got an alternative paste to add to the food. She hated it. So we stuck with eye drops.
Fast forward to now, I’ve managed the flare ups well, she sits in the steamy bathroom, I always wipe her eyes multiple times a day with a warm cloth, eyedrops when necessary, etc.
Unfortunately as a first time pet owner, I was always told by relatives that unless the animal is showing signs something is wrong, a vet appointment isn’t necessary. Her and her sister are crazy playful, she loves snuggles and gets so many of them, she eats and drinks on routine and she seems really happy, however her flare ups have been a bit more intense than normal, her ears won’t stay clean no matter how often I wipe them, so I made an appointment right away.
I can’t shake the feeling I’m going to get judged and crucified for asking questions or just not knowing things I should already know. Or even judged because maybe her ears are dirty, or her nails are a little long. I give her trims but it’s the fight of my life, truly, I’ve almost lost an eyeball like 12 times.
Any advice on how to calm my nerves? It’s insane I’m even asking this, but I get anxious over everything so I just want to make sure I can handle things well, I guess?
Both are spayed, purely indoor cats. They only go outside for vet trips.

Hello. My girlfriend and I had horrible bedbugs from last summer. (Our 2000$ fabric headboard was completely covered. Literally hundreds). We threw it out, washed every article of clothing. Then put it in vacuum sealed bags outside for 3 weeks when the temp was 30+ degrees all day. Then we put the bags in a hot car for another 7 days. The guy who came and sprayed said to add a zipped cover to the mattress.Everything was fine. Fast forward one year, we started getting gettting bites, and found a few. The guy came and sprayed again and said he didn’t find any. We read online that adding plastic wrap around your mattress can help. So we did that, and literally spent an hour wrapping it and used an entire roll. As we were doing this, we noticed that under the bottom of the mattress, directly in the middle, it’s all black. We were told to NEVER remove that mattress zip cover we added last summer. My girlfriend thinks it’s from sweating(how does sweat turn black and soak through sheets/bedding and an entire mattress and only end up in the middle. My question is, does anyone this black spot in the bottom middle of our mattresss on the bottom, could be where they are living?? Like I said, the company that came and sprayed said to never remove it, so we cannot check. Only sprayed the shit out of it. Gf doesn’t seem bothered by it, but could this be an issue/the main spot they are living? Such a nightmare. Especially because we are very clean people. Ugh. I really don’t want have to do this again.

So i’m only going off of tiktok reposts but it does link into reality. so my girl ‘18 F’ ‘18 M’ (dating for 2 months) has told me before that she used to self harm but doesn’t do it anymore. she is currently doing her exams and she has a lot of stress on her from school and exams.
i’ve noticed that he reposts have shifted to a more depressed look into life some of them relating to SH and relapsing. one of them was saying how this has been the worst week of her life.
last weekend i noticed some new cuts near her wrist but figured it was from her 2 cats that she has so i didn’t really think of it.
me being concerned i asked her if everything at school is alright and if she is doing well. she responds with “yeah i guess” i ask her why she said “i guess” and she replied “just the same as usual”.
so she clearly isn’t being open with me. i’m trying my best to communicate with her and support her but she don’t tell me these things.
it’s getting to the point where it’s taking a toll on me mentally. i’m considering just taking her word for it and assuming nothing is wrong for my own peace of mind. not sure if that is right or wrong.
any advice would be deeply appreciated
tl;dr - she isnt being open with me and it’s taking a toll on me

I'm trying to figure out the best way to use fuinjutsu. I don't want it to be, you write down a code and you get that affect." I was thinking the seal would act like containers for whatever jutsu was put inside of them. The requirements would be the user needs to be able to preform that jutsu and they need to use the correct kanji. Kanji is used to "guide" the sealed chakra or jutsu.
Using naruto as an example, let's say he has wind chakra with the level of 10. He'd write down how the chakra or jutsu that's gonna be sealed will be used in Kanji ( in a straight line, over a larger area, working with other seals, on a single or multiple targets), made from ink that's been infused with his chakra. With him having a level 10 in wind chakra, he'd be able to seal any wind jutsu that level 10 or below inside the seal and it can be used by anyone at a later time. Sealing jutsu will take time to seal because the user must slowly pour the jutsu inside the seal, but it can be activated in an instant.
For non elemental jutsu, it only matters how much chakra you put in the seal, the user must still be able to preform the jutsu and they must use the correct Kanji for the seal to work.
Does this seem good?

Posting this on a throwaway account because I need to vent and I'm just constantly frustrated at this.
For the past several years I was a very successful part-time professor at a college. Things were great. I loved my work. I adapted remotely very well... But there was one caveat. I had several international students amongst the locals and most of them were fantastic... Except (and I hate saying this because it sounds very racist) some of the International students from India who were very entitled and demanded I give them top marks for doing basically nothing. I told them off and they either failed my class or barely passed. I am a person of colour and I don't usually note the nationality of my students ever, but this has become a somewhat consistent trend I've noticed.
A new dean was hired recently and he demanded all part-timers take a severe pay cut, under half our regular earnings, or leave. I left and didn't hold back how angry I was about it to this dean (partially because I knew him before he weaseled his way into the job with no qualifications). Several of my old students were pissed when they heard why me and a few other profs left. This unexpected development and my layoff from my other job around the same time has left me basically jobless for about a year. No matter my credentials and my 15 years of experience, I can't get a job anywhere. The job market is ridiculous hard right now and money is running out.
I got headhunted to teach at a college the next city over a few months ago. Never heard of them, but I interviewed and they offerred me a job this semester teaching something adjacent to what I used to teach. Okay, cool. They said that they would have 'some' international students and I told them I was cool with it. I did get a few weird vibes during my interview, but I ignored it because it's not like I had anything else going for me in the job hunt.
Fast forward to the in-person orientation last month... This place is a scam! Holy shit. It becomes so obvious the moment you get there. The staff have no clue what they're doing. The IT department runs away if you ask them any tech questions and can't solve basic issues. We get told even more that our classes have a lot of students from India, which I didn't have a problem with, until it was emphasized how sensitive we must be to this being their first time in Canada and saying we basically have to be their counsellor... Which is not supposed to be my job. They tout how much advanced equipment they have but completely blank when asked how we're supposed to access it... I was told I would get access to set up the online portal of my class a week before the semester. I don't and only get access to it the day classes begin after complaining. Not only am I not allowed to touch my classes' online portal, but I can't edit any of the content or assignments; it's a very strict "you must do this each week" mandate which was not the flexible class approach of any of my previous teaching jobs or even what they told me when I was hired. I feel like my curriculum is an assembly line. Everything is so disorganized. Furthermore, I was lost at one point on campus and asked a student for directions... He didn't help and it felt like he didn't even understand English. Since orientation I felt, "something is VERY off here" and so many scam red flags kept appearing in my mind.
Then the kicker... My class gets cut because of recent government news about immigration caps and I am reassigned to another I have little qualification to teach, but I already signed my contract. A week later, they announce because of the caps they are stopping new applicants into the program... So now it's effectively dead after the current cohort.
I finally get to teach my class a few weeks ago and... EVERY student in this class is an international student. All but ONE of them is from India. I try to teach and they won't stop talking; I have to tell the class to be quiet several times. They don't interact when you ask the class questions. Absolutely NONE of them are taking notes. All of them either don't pay attention or they are giving me a thousand yard stare when I talk like they aren't understanding a word I'm saying. It was that point that I realized what my gut had been telling me for a long time: I've been had. This is a fake-yet-legit institution and diploma mill.
I've taught 3 classes so far and each one of them is the same. The administration is confused about everything and can't give a straight answer on anything. IT is useless. I'm locked out of my own course with no flexibility, making all the curriculum planning I did useless and needs to be redone. I have to go through like 2 people to make even basic changes to the course like spelling my own name correctly. I teach a 3 hour class and I am fairly positive at this point most of these students have little to no understanding of English. The course content is stiff and I have to invent ways to make it interesting which doesn't seem to land. The students say nothing during class and then send me messages after class about the shit I just explained to them. In just a few short weeks, I hate that I'm starting to harbor a slight resentment for Indian students that is filling the back of my mind.
It's just ugh... All the effort I put into making innovative and fun curriculum using their guidelines is now moot. Few of these students seem to understand or want to listen a word I say. I'm in a diploma mill and now I have no choice but to fulfill my obligation. I usually love my students no matter where they're from and embrace diverse classrooms (it's been a big sticking point of my career as a teacher of color), but I feel horrible for thinking badly about these Indian students in a somewhat racist fashion while also lamenting that they are being scammed and now I'm a part of that.
I put so much pride in being a Teacher as a major part of my career... And now I feel absolutely pathetic for being so desperate that I have fallen this low. I want out so bad.

Hi all. I finished Words of Radiance for the first time 3-4 months ago and absolutely adored it. After WoR I’ve easily read a few other short and light hearted books. However, every time I try to start Oathbringer I just cannot bring myself to do it. I’ve also heard a lot of mixed reviews about Oathbringer which makes me nervous about dedicating so much time to it. Has anyone else experienced this with Oathbringer? I typically read physical copies of books but am contemplating listening to the audiobook to see if that would help. I know it’s personal preference, but how long does it take to really get into Oathbringer? And out of the first 4 books of stormlight, how would you rank oathbringer among them? I’m really trying to convince myself to read it so I can get caught up with the series before December

Hi folks, this is going to be my second time traveling alone to a foreign country, done it once so I am aware of what to watch out for in terms of common sense. However, there are so many questions I'd like to ask about Thailand.
*I plan to go during August, how bad will the weather be like? will i be expecting a lot of rain? this is the only time i can go because I will be in school during October which is when i really wanted to go for my birthday.
*how much money should I bring? (USD)
*I know cash is king but do a lot of places take card/Apple pay/etc?
*what can I expect at a night out? I do like to party and drink
*How long should I stay to get a full experience? 1 or 2 weeks?
*I plan to go with a travel group (contiki), should i pay for it or just do it alone? i would like to meet new people as well.
*what are some things i should avoid?
I plan to go to bangkok and phuket during my trip
Why does everyone say to avoid pattaya?

I'm (F36) faced with accepting I'll need to use an injectable weight loss medication as a result of hormone challenges. I've been fortunate and never needed medication in my life for long term treatment. My weight however has been an issue for the last 10 years. I'm 239 lbs, 5'3", considered morbidly obese. I'm a single mom, I love a lot, eat as healthy as I can, have tried so many diets and lifestyle approaches. And I can't get away from this weight.
My son (9), is my motivation to get healthier. He loves me the way I am, but I feel my body screaming for help. I sprained my ankle missing a step and the poison was so intense. I hurt my back trying to carry in a small box. It's the weight.
I walk every day, I do workout videos, track calories. I'm fatigued by having to think about my weight constantly and have so much shame that I can't get this right.
I'm at the point where I need to accept I need medication. Wegovy was mentioned in my last doctor's appointment. My doctor mentioned, that because I'm against hormones, I will likely have to use an injectable for the foreseeable future. And that once I stop the medication, the weight will likely return.
I'm trying not to overthink it. My son takes medication for his ADHD and I try to keep a positive tone for that experience for him.
I'm not sure why I can't do it for myself. Why am I so resistant? Why does it feel so shameful?
What is the longest you have been on this medication? Have you had results that outweigh the risks?

Valheim is great. It gets better with every major patch. With the Ashlands, we have received so many things off of our wishlists and the dev team really has been knocking it out of the park. So many new shapes to build with. So many new decorative items. It's fantastic, however...
At the end of a long day venturing through the realm, slaying enemies and gathering resources, I want to come home to a base or home that truly feels like MINE. Yes, I understand that there are so many different ways to build to make things feel unique, but there's still something...missing.
For me, that is a sense of customization. A sense of being able to have decor that really shows my own identity fo all who see it. Especially on shared and community servers.
I wonder if perhaps the besr way to do this as the game stands is to provide a system for customising things like banners, shields, and even sails. I'm not saying allow everyone to upload jpegs as custom textures or anything (that would be immersion breaking), but there are many of examples in other games of a system that could work well. Guild tabards in WoW or player banners in Diablo are good examples. When a player goes to create a banner, perhaps they have an interface at the workbench that allows them to choose the color, the trim details, the type/placement of a sigil or crest, or even the shape of the banner. Then they set that style as a loadout. Different options for banners require different materials, and maybe even make it so that obtaining new materials in the world unlocks customization options in the banner menu just like how it does with new build pieces. New sigils could be earned by earning achievements or killing bosses etc.
I don't know how many instances something like this would add to the environment, but I feel like it would be well worth it. I don't see how adding a feature like this into the game would be overly complicated, and I am willing to wait if it needs to take a back seat to things like new biomes, new materials, and expansion content, but seriously...it would be a big deal for most people. Imagine being on a community server and looking out to a series of docks with several longboats and knowing whose they are based solely on the markings on the sail?
Anyway, to the devs, keep up the amazing work! You folks are truly delivering some of the best survival builder content out there. I just wanted to put this out there to the community and hope that perhaps it gains traction because...I think it would be a HUGE plus for what would assumedly be a reasonably small amount of effort?
Cheers, vikings!