Hi all.
I'm a SWE with approximately 3 years of experience. Currently job hunting.
My previous role was performance engineering focused: my day to day consisted of identifying performance optimization opportunities for the company's various user-facing applications and working on solutions to speed those applications up.
As a result, many of my most impactful contributions are of the form "did X to speed Y up Z%".
The issue is that it looks like everybody these days is stuffing their resume with made up metrics in an effort to game ATS and recruiters, with resume bullet points like:

• Saved 308940382908 estimated man hours by writing a for loop
• Gazed at attractive co-worker longingly, resulting in their disgusted reaction which fueled a company wide seminar on appropriate behavior at work, resulting in a 45% decrease in harassment complaints

So my concern is that recruiters or hiring managers will see my resume, where pretty much every other bullet point has some metric, and think I'm just making stuff up.
I feel like the one legitimate service animal owner in a sea of emotional support animals.
Anyone have any advice for how to indicate on a resume that my metrics are actually legitimate? Should I indicate somehow that I was on a performance-oriented team, or am I overthinking this?

In the modern age, fairytales and medieval myths are just considered cautionary tales of the last. But what if they were real?
Several years ago, humans began to form abnormal abilities and quirks. Scales forming on their bodies, people able to control fire and water, and some transforming into hideous creatures. Not everyone was affected, but those that were had been shunned by society. Hunted and killed by humans, these "inhumans" are considered to be extremely dangerous.
You are one of the few exceptions. Gaining your own unique abilities, you decided to use your talents to become something similar to a superhero. Stopping criminals, defeating other Inhumans, and fighting corrupted organizations, you became well known in your city. You're being hunted too, of course, but you wear that like a badge.
While things are not so bad, you soon discover that playing the hero has it's consequences, and balancing your personal and heroic life is a lot harder than you thought.
If you had this concept interesting, please DM me and we can discuss the main plot and other concepts in full! I'll be running this similar to how a GM runs a D&D game, to give you an idea of how this would work.

Is there any areas where you can shiny hunt Eevee early on in the game? (like around lvl 11-25ish ideally) Because I want to use a shiny Vaporeon in my playthrough but I don't want it to be too op super early on.
Also sorry for the potentially misleading flair I didn't see a "question" flair so I chose the closest one to it.

So, I've been feeling really bored of a lot of the Pokemon showing up in events and raids lately. I really just want to save my coins up for Global Go Fest, since I love the Eeveelutions, and want to shiny hunt those in raids. I play for free though, so my only way to do that is coins. I know each area has a "cell" in the game or something right? and in that area, if it has a certain amount of stops, one has to be a gym. So why have the locations of the gyms be set like that? I know people vote for locations, but that doesn't really matter when after all these years, people play gyms just as toxic as when the game first came out. I'm a team Instinct player, and some days I get less than 20 coins, because team Mystic players still have no manners as a collective I guess, I spend a long while taking out their tanky Pokemon that have been in there for a full day, start walking away, and 5 mins later, they have reclaimed it. People with a gym right by their apartment building instantly knock me out whenever I take it even though they live there. One time someone in there even cheated, glitched out the gym, turned it white so I couldn't add Pokemon with the "gym currently being attacked" message, stayed like that until near midnight when of course it turned blue again!! The library has a gym and I've never ever seen it any colour other than blue and it's always full of 6 tanky mons that are berried up at all times. Why do players like this get full monopoly and a fixed gym location? It really makes gym control impossible for certain teams in certain areas. I really think to counter this gyms should randomly generate new Pokestop locations once a month or so. especially in more residential areas.
thoughts on this? I know Niantic probably won't change a core mechanic that has been there since launch but it's still nice to throw ideas around I suppose!

Over 2000 pps, 160+ premiums, all the sbc upgrades, over 100+ 89 exchange and not a single tots over 50K. Whats the point? I genuinely believe this is why they put exchange packs in the game, knowing full well wed be on this endless cycle of menu grinding. Well im done. I wasnt even hunting the top cards. All i wanted was a fuckin cancelo and gundogan for my p&p barca team. And i cant get either? This game is scuffed. It was no where near this bad last year… im out! May god have mercy on your souls!

My college friend really needs help and has for about 10 years. Despite trying a lot of tactics to help her, she just isn’t interested in sobriety or therapy. The past few years she seems to be devolving into what I can only describe as alcoholic rambling, general madness, and randomly lashing out.
When she calls me, it typically goes something like this: she tells a story or talks at me, reminisces about the good old days, remembers something that upset her, yells at me, says she loves me, reminisces again, and then I try to exit.
I think it would help me to have a few terms to describe her behavior and maybe mine too… My husbands friend was a total jerk to me behind his back for years and no one believed me. Understanding what “gaslighting” is helped me frame that behavior and be able to talk about it!
So that’s why I’m posting and would so appreciate any comments.
—-—- here’s the long version:
My friend is a 37-year-old living in a rural area with her parents and grandmother with dementia since COVID. My friend is an alcoholic, workaholic, and has ADD. She also really smart, funny and social. Shes amazing at her job in sales/recruiting and really defines herself by it. Her parents are both alcoholics, kinda conspiracy theorists, and often mean to each other (yelling in the background, belittling, hiding things from eachother, etc). She feels obligated to help with her grandma and is kinda resigned to change nothing. Clearly the environment is bad and rubbing off on her.
For example, last week she called me frantic and crying because her dog killed a bird. She talked for about 30-45 minutes, jumping between the current bird and other bird stories, of which there are many. I barely uttered a mmhmm the whole time. Eventually, she asked what’s up with me. I mentioned that I’ve been depressed and struggling to find a job, which is putting stress on my marriage so overall I’m feeling really low. Since she’s in recruiting and knows my work history, I asked if she knew of any job openings. She then launched into a story about how competitive she is with her coworkers and how it’s all a game to get the biggest commissions on placements but those are for engineers. So I take that as a no and by the end of her monologue she was back on the topic of birds. I tried to exit the conversation, and she said to call her the next afternoon if I wanted to talk about job hunting and she may have ideas.
The next day, I called her, optimistic to see the side of her that shines and hoping for some jobs she can refer me to. Instead she pulled up my LinkedIn profile and started telling me what I should change. Which wasn’t want I wanted but sure if that’s her approach she’s the expert. Then she became critical, loudly laughing at my picture, saying my hair was covering part of my face and I looked like a villan, untrustworthy. She’d never hire me based on that photo. She was kinda manic laughing as I was kinda tearing up (I’m aging and avoid photos so I thought the one take by my hairdresser was a high quality headshot and my hair looked cute). Okay sure I’ll change it. The critique wore on roast style with the justification of this is just tough love, the way we talk to each other is unfiltered and she just always around guys.
She brought up networking and remembered introducing me to a coworker, Sally. I said I didn’t remember what ever happened with Sally because it was two years ago. To which she got very heated, accusing me of dropping the ball and never following up. She started screaming, how she put her neck out for me and I couldn’t be bothered. I tried to talk her down and eventually hung up. I later checked the old email thread and saw that I had followed up with Sally, but she was going on vacation, so it didn’t go anywhere. My friend kept calling and texting, so I eventually picked up. I told her I didn’t mess up, and I didn’t want to be spoken to like that. So she apologized for yelling. Then she went back to criticizing my LinkedIn, pointing out a spelling error and calling me stupid. I told her I wasn’t in a great place and that her feedback style was hurtful.
She then veered off into a story about how she loves me and has saved the letters I wrote her. I cut her off, saying that while I appreciate it, those notes aren’t relevant to this conversation and let’s focus on job talk. She got upset, saying I don’t value our friendship and was using her just for a job so fuck you blablabla…
After a few more hours of texts and calls, I let her know I’m going to prioritize my own feelings and block her number but I’ll check in with her in 3months. I’ve tried to support her but also keep my distance but I need to be firmer in enforcing that. I’d say forever but that feels like canceling her when I know she needs help. ——- Rewriting this, feels as long and draining as that conversation was so I’ll stop there.
All of this to say, what kind of pattern is that? Is it something she’s doing because her parents do it to her? Am I crazy to keep picking up her calls? I feel like if I had a name or terminology to unpack all these conversations it would be easier to process them.

7053VB ign is Dynasty PC Illios
I am a diamond tank/supp that is now learning tracer. Many of my games are like this where I think I'm getting decent value and staying alive but not enough to carry like an actual good tracer could. I think my timing and gamesense is generally pretty good but aim/pulse is pretty poor and I'm afraid of taking a lot of duels
this game had a pesky sombra that I tried hunting down when I could, but she basically got a free kill on anyone she decloaked on, and I wasn't able to match the same level of kills.
Please let me know what I need to work on
thanks

I recently heard animal crossing has seized updates, is that true? If so I don’t understand why? There’s so many ways they can improve the game that have been stated multiple times I assume. I wanted to come and list some features that I never understood why they weren’t in the game in hopes that one day they’ll come back and fix them 🥹

1. Turning off the music!!! I know this is a big complaint across the board, but that’s precisely why I’m bringing it up again. If so many people complain and have asked for the change, then why have they not done it 😭 Please I’m begging ya’ll to make a feature where we can turn the music off. I want to enjoy the nature ambiance or actually be able to hear shooting stars 🙏🏻 I was going to state after the 600 hours I have in this game it gets very annoying, but I got annoyed by my 5th hour.
   
2. Crafting or purchasing in bulk. This one is self explanatory. The worst is crafting fish bait one by one. 🥲
   
3. Unique voice lines and personalities for some villagers. I understand there’s a ton of villagers and it would be hard to make them all unique, but at least for the very popular ones like Raymond, Marshall, etc; it would be nice if they acted different and said different things. Not a big complaint, but it’s my wish 🥹
   
4. This one is kind of nitpicking, but it would be nice if we could climb onto land from the rocks instead of just the sand. We seem quite strong since we’re able to uproot tree stumps and break rocks with shovels, so we definitely could pull ourselves up. Please!
   
5. A way to see where villagers are. Maybe just seeing them on the map or if they wanted to keep it like you’re hunting for them, then an option to ask another villager “have you seen ‘this villager’?” To which they can then give an area where they last saw them.
   

If y’all have any pressing ones feel free to add! I know these will most likely never be implemented in the game, but a girl can hope 🥹💗
Bonus: I wish you could find random villagers visiting in the coffee shop at any time. I think it would be super cute if you could see villagers interacting with each other and sitting around in there.

PRICE IS $3500 (Less than half of what steam account is worth)
These are just the games in my library. I have lots of dlc and in game purchases. If you have a question about a specific game or anything else just dm me
Aimlabs AirMech Among Us Apex Construct Apex Legends ARK: Survival Ascended ARK: Survival Evolved ARK: Survival Of The Fittest Awesomenauts Banana Shooter Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY Edition Batman: Arkham City GOTY Batman™: Arkham Knight BattleBit Remastered Blade & Sorcery Blood and Bacon Bloons TD 6 Boring Man - Online Tactical Stickman C Brawlhalla Call of Duty® Chivalry 2 Combat Tested Conqueror's Blade Contractors Showdown Contractors VR Core Keeper Cortex Command Counter-Strike 2 Crossout Cyberpunk 2077 DAVE THE DIVER DAYZ DayL CAYZ DayZ Experimental Deadside Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The H Destiny 2 Devil May Cry 5 Dishonored DOOM Eternall DRAGON BALL FighterZ DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2 Drunken Wrestlers 2 Duck Game Dying Light Dying Light 2: Reloaded Edition ELDEN RING Emily is Away Enshrouded The Escapists 2 Factorio Fall Guys Fallout 4 Fallout 76 Fallout 76 Public Test Server Fallout: New Vegas Fallout Shelter FC3 Far Cry® 3 5 Far Cry 5 THE FINALS Fistful of Frags For Honor For Honor - Public Test For The King Formicide fpsVR FreeStyleFootball Full Metal Furies Galactic Junk League Gang Beasts Garry's Mod Gauntlet™ Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT Gladio Mori Playtest Going Medieval Goose Goose Duck Gorilla Tag Grand Theft Auto V Gray Zone Warfare GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE Half-Life: Alyx Halo Infinite Halo: The Master Chief Collection Happy Wars HAWKED Issue #2 Playtest HELLDIVERS™ 2 Hellish Quart Heroes & Generals Hero's Hour Human Fall Flat Hunger Dungeon Hunt: Showdown Hunt: Showdown (Test Server) IdeOn - The Idle RPG Infestation: The New Z Insurgency: Sandstorm Insurgency: Sandstorm Community Test The Jackbox Party Pack 3 The Lab Last Man Standing Left 4 Dead 2 Lethal Company Lost Ark LuckCatchers Manor Lords Marvel Rivals Playtest Marvel's Avengers - The Definitive Editic Marvel's Avengers Beta Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Marvel's Spider-Man RemasteredMechWarrior Online Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™ MORDHAU Mortal Kombat 1 Mortal Kombat 11 Muck Murder Miners MY HERO ULTRA RUMBLE NARAKA: BLADEPOINT NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja STI NARUTO TO BORUTO: SHINOBI STRIKEF NBA 2K23 No Man's Sky Omega Strikers Operator Ori and the Blind Forest Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Editic OUTRIDERS Outward OVR Advanced Settings Oxygen Not Included Paladins Paladins - Public Test Palworld P.A.M.E.L.A. Party Animals Passpartout: The Starving Artist Pavlov VR PAYDAY 2 Phasmophobia Pixel Gun 3D: PC Edition PlanetSide 2 PlanetSide 2 - Test Pogostuck: Rage With Your Friends Project Winter Project Zomboid PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS PUBG: Experimental Server PUBG: Test Server Pummel Party Raft Ravenfield Ready or Not Rec Room Red Dead Redemption 2 - Update Queue Remnant: From the Ashes Resident Evil 5 Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality RIFT RimWorld Ring of Elysium Risk of Rain 2 Robocraft Rocket League ROUNDS Rust Rust - Staging Branch Satisfactory SCP: Secret Laboratory Scrap Mechanic Secret Neighbor Beta Shotgun Farmers The Sims™ 4 Slappyball Slime Rancher SMITE SMITE - Public Test Sons Of The Forest Source Filmmaker Space Engineers Space Hulk: Deathwing Space Hulk: Deathwing - Enhanced Editi Splitgate SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikir Sprint Vector STAND OUT Star Trek: Bridge Crew Star Trek Online STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ Il STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy STAR WARS™: Squadrons STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ Starbound Starbound - Unstable Stardew Valley Stellaris Stick Fight: The Game Street Fighter™ 6 Subnautica Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Super Animal Royale Super Crate Box Tactical Craft Online Teeworlds Terraria theHunter: Call of the Wild™ Time of Dragons Titanfall® 2 tModLoader Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege - Test S Toribash Totally Accurate Battlegrounds Trove Ultimate Chicken Horse UNO Unrailed! Unturned V Rising Valheim Vampire Survivors Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt VRChat VTuber Maker Wallpaper Engine War Thunder Warface: Clutch Warframe Warhammer: Vermintide 2 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt World of Soccer World of Tanks World of Tanks Blitz World of Warships Your Only Move Is HUSTLE Zero Caliber VR

I do hope this is common knowledge, and I'm just not Googling the right thing, but there's an issue a few friends and I have with Discord voice chats killing our microphones in games like Lethal Company and Content Warning. Any other game with voice chat is fine, and it seems isolated to whatever these two games use for their voice capabilities. We all use different Linux distros, but I do think we're all using pipewire. It also doesn't seem to matter if the mic is wireless or not.
In my case, I have a Hyper X III headset, and it's wireless. What I've noticed is that when I'm in a Discord voice chat, and launch one of these games, it seems to overwhelm the 2.4 dongle for the headset. It just dies, and eventually resets itself. In this time, my mic doesn't work at all, but output does. I can still hear everything. I've tried fiddling around with the quantum clock rates under pipewire, and adjusted my alsa headroom to see if this would help any. I had to do this anyway to fix audio desyncing in browsers, so I figured it may not hurt. This made no difference, though.
Aside from that, I've tried several other things through Discord itself, and under pavucontrol, but this didn't get me anywhere, either. These games are fine so long as Discord doesn't have my mic open in any capacity (muting does not help), and I'm really not sure what I can do to properly debug this. For what it's worth, I had a wired Jabra headset prior to my current one that didn't have this problem. I seem to remember it having a stereo duplex configuration under Pulse, and I've read elsewhere that this can resolve things like mic stuttering in these games. If that's the missing factor, I guess I'll just have to live with it. I do hope somebody out there is familiar with this problem, though, because we've been hunting for a solution for quite some time now.

It's time: Luka as the "Draymond Green/Jokic" short roller on some plays would neutralize the gameplan of the timberwolves which is very similar to the Mavs: Run shooters off the three point line and into the shot blockers at the rim.
Their strategy like ours gives up open mid-range opportunities as their way of selling out to stop higher efficiency shots. Obviously Luka is great in the mid-range and is a generational passer, so:
-Kyrie Shoots a ridiculous percentage on wide open 3s, in the like high 40%. Wolves would be terrified to leave him open for practice shots.
-Luka setting a simple screen with this huge frame and slipping into the paint, has to work less dribbling and banging away to get into the paint, giving him more energy throughout the game.

• because of the lob threat of lively and gafford in the dunkers spot, the wolves big will have to commit to staying home and sinking in the paint which would leave the floaters/pull up mid-range shots available all game.

-If they rotate over help from the corners or wing its an automatic kick out for an open 3, or drive to the basket. or swing the ball to the open man which puts the timberwolves in heavy rotation, making them run around and chase the ball. wearing down their shooters as well.
-It means the timberwolves can never rest with a set defense and cannot maximize what they do best with their big frontcourt.
-There would also be open three opportunities for luka, with kyrie keeping the ball as a scoring threat and picking and popping with luka, depending on how they play the screening action.
I think they should mix this into their offensive gameplan more as well as hunting Gobert on switches with luka and kyrie and also of course Luka post ups on guards.
is this another dumb idea of mine? do you have an idea you like better? let me know in the comments.

Good evening to y'all.
So a few hours ago I commented on a post that was reflecting about the great number of credited voice actors with the full list of the dubbed names for the eleven starting players for both Raimon and Hokuyou Gakuen. But since then I noticed two thing about that list that I believe to be interesting enough to be on its own post.
Every team in Inazuma Eleven follows an aesthetic theme no matter how loose or obvious it is, from something as obvious such as Zeus (greek mythology) or Big Waves (aussie surfers) to some less obvious teams such as Kidokawa Seishuu (mid to upper-class junior college with strong sporting culture) or The Empire (a team from Captain Tsubasa and just how argentinian footballers looked in the 90s and early 2000s, also their names).
The themes of both Raimon and Hokuyou are pretty evident looking at their names. I don't believe this gives us any hint on how their hissatsu or narrative will be but there's a common pattern. I am also going purely by dubbed names, because for me it takes too much time looking at every japanese name.
This list was already posted once by me, as I said, so sorry for the spam. But here it is:
Raimon Eleven Dubbed Names:

1. Dantouya Kanata - Zander Warmington (warm tones)
2. Shigure Yuusuke - Viorain Maleby (violet)
3. Tenguuji Rei - Clement Mariner (clematis, lemon yellow, marine blue)
4. Toono Zenya - Boone Wretman (no idea lmfao)
5. Akasode Matsuri - Jazmine Carmine (jasmine and carmine, this one cannot get more obvious)
6. Kido Satoru - Colton Sharps (coltsfoot)
7. Arashi Daisuke - Maddock Johnson (earthworms?)
8. Hoshimura Nao - Eleanor Estella (no idea at first glance? googling brings up a star shaped flower from LOTR. cool reference if true.)
9. Tsukikage Ren - Darian Moonward (moonwort and maybe clarian flowers?)
10. Endou Haru - Harper Evans (I don't really think his name is really a coloubotany reference at all I think they just went with the "H" thing but there's harper's beauty)
11. Nogami Yuu - Talon Lewis (lewis monkeyflower)

As y'all can see there is a clear pattern of their names having references to both COLOURS and BOTANY. I'm also not implying that the Raimon hissatsu will be flower themed or sum' but it makes a lot of sense coming from this Raimon, especially, taking a look on how over-the-top colourful their designs are and how they first stood out to everyone when people found out about them in the first time.
But what's very interesting about this is the following:
So let me put y'all in game. In the credits the names are grouped together in a very particular way. The are loosely sorted by order of apperance but you can see that the names that were present and SPEAKING in the same cutscene appear next to one another. 1) there's the main cast; 2) then the people from the Raimon vs Hokuyou cutscene; 3) the three more relevant adults from the first chapter that appeared in different cutscenes; 4) then the baseball club cutscene dudes; 5) the rest of the Raimon team; 6) ??????????; 7) the rest of the Hokuyou team and 8) ?????????????
What were those spoiler tagged groups? We don't know for sure. But they're both composed of FIVE names that follow the thematic sense of the previous group. Five as always been the size of a bench in Inazuma Eleven and following the thematic names thing. I believe they are the bench players of both Raimon and Hokuyou, because they cannot be anyone else anyways.
In Raimon they are: Mama Sigdale (sidalcea), Nino Gamberini (idk lol), Kaeo Springfield (cannot get more flowery than this), Milan McGrath (grafting horticulary technique, shoutouts to both my nan and my boy Josefumi Kujou) and Hortensia Raintree (hortensia is a synonym of hydrangea and also their name in español and portuguese).
I would go instantly to Hokuyou Gakuen's possible bench but I'mma go for the main team first to say what I believe to be their pattern of thematic names:

1. Jinnai Gohei - Milo Rankin
2. Yagura Takajin - Peake Fletcher (a fletcher is an arrow vendor)
3. Jouhekidou Sanpei - Sentry Scarborough (sentry guard)
4. Yarisaki Yuuji - Autry Rogers (auditor, medieval occupation related to accounting)
5. Tonda Mannen - Bohdi Field (field for battlefield or crops field, most likely the former due to the given name)
6. Hohira Ayumu - Chase Winthrop (calthrop, anti-cavaltry medieval weapon)
7. Kishibe Towa - Hawky Savard (no idea, sounds like the most british insult ever tho, read it in a heavy north yorkshire or scouse accent for bonus comedy points)
8. Shinkari Eito - Taliesin Greenhunt (taliesin is the name of a mythical bard, also "to hunt")
9. Shinano Masashi - Ivan Mercer (a mercer is an textiles seller)
10. Tomobe Jin - Erdem Barath (also zero clue)
11. Soramiya Sei - Nikas Himmelstein (himmel is german for sky/heaven)

So yeah. I believe there's a pattern of MEDIEVAL themed names here. Some are very obvious like the Sentry, Mercer and Fletcher names. Again, not claiming anything about their history, how they'll play in the narrative, hissatsu or anything else. The five names next to them are even more obviously medieval themed than these eleven!
They are: Hugh Pronghorn (prong as in pointed parts of a pointy weapon or tool, think about the Three Pronged Attack tactic in the game), Denzel Harvest (it could either go to damsel or harvest, you pick), Everett Shipman (ship), Armin Marshall (could go to marshall for stable keeper, marshall for military commander or martial for military) ,and finally Conley Quiver (a quiver is a container for arrows).
All the other names are of people we already know because they were in the first chapter, but there are a few exceptions and some more info about some characters we already saw:
Verity is the name of Unmei's mother and Howell is the name of Briar's father. By exclusion of parts we can determine that Raimon's coach is named Addison Norris and the manager is named Leia Caperton.
Then there are five names that I can only assume to be the baseball club's? But they could also be the thug's? Maybe a mix of both? I would go with them being the baseball club's on the very basis of simply believing that they will be named in the future, as they will be recruitable characters for the football team and we already saw them in a 5x5 battle in a trailer. The thugs already had their chance of being named but they went by Thug A, Thug B and Thug C. They are:
Maximus Cordray; Eamon Cattrall; Zayn Pinegrove; Kendrick Townsend; and Flynn Duval.
And that's all. I am also totally open to corrections, I am a fallible human being, as is everyone else. Would love to see y'all's input in the names and their themes and inspirations. Also sorry for not digging the japanese names.
Thank you for reading. :))

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Embroil yourself in a dangerous game as you hunt tainted beasts, journey through untamed lands, and conquer ancient ruins thought lost to time all the while dealing with the ramifications as your actions affect the tense political landscape of The Shattered Kingdoms.
A new power is growing in the expansive caves and caverns underneath the surface world that threatens to upend the tense order of the nations above. As a group of new adventurers, how will you act? Will you work to leverage this power to establish peace for the citizens of The Shattered Kingdoms? Or work to take advantage of the situation to expand your own wealth and power? What lengths will you go to in the search for the Shards of the Shadow Dragon?
Please shoot me a DM if you are interested!
https://startplaying.games/adventure/clw5it7eg000l1zvpvr9behv1

Hi there, I am looking for people's advice or suggestions on some purchase options. I'm primarily interested in a .22 and a .270 for small and medium-sized game (grouse, ptarmigan, caribou, moose if close enough.) Budget is not a huge issue though as an entry-level hunter, I'm hoping to keep things reasonable (the features of the top-end stuff would mostly be wasted on me.)
These are the current .270 options at the store in my community:

• Ruger 270Win combo with Vortex Crossfire scope - $1099.99
• Winchester 270Win combo with Vortex Crossfire - $1174.99
• Tikka T3X Lite 270Win (stainless) gun only - $1524.99
• entry-level scope: Vortex Crossfire 3-9x40 - $249.99

I am partial to a Tikka as one of my hunting buddies swears by it and I've enjoyed practicing with theirs. I also have another hunting friend who's offered to sell me a .300wsm for $450 (what they bought it on consignment for); it's not my ideal gun but seems like a pretty good price.
I'm less fussy about a .22 option, but would be curious to hear if folks have opinions on those as well. Thanks in advance.

Been playing since Dec, and I'm still no closer to finishing any of the bundles because the RNG is terrible. It's become more tedious than fun. Not to mention I've spent time and effort leveling up skills, getting rod boosters, making fishman's stews, and getting the exquisite rod... only for the legendary fish to be super difficult to catch. It doesn't feel like progression or improvement.
You can't save decorations you find to give to your friends, nor can you help them decorate. The only thing you can do is water seeds and cook with friends. What's the point of it being MMO if you can't actually have fun helping other people/friends? I can't give friends materials to help them make arrows/bug bags either. It's kind of ridiculous.
Playing on the Switch, sernuks still rubberband and bugs still disappear into the ground, making it impossible to hunt/catch anything.
Do I still love the game? Yeah. But it just doesn't feel like fun anymore.

Capfriendly has the Avs July 1st cap space at $15,916,250 with 11 roster spots open.
Pending RFAs -Casey Mittelstadt: -62gp 14G 33A 47pts w/ Buffalo -18gp 4G 6A 10pts w/ Avalanche -Mittelstadt is the main piece to sign this offseason as he has stepped into the 2C role and thrived after being acquired from Buffalo, and at only 25 he is a piece to lock up for the future.
-Alex Beaucage: -21gp 1G 6A 7pts w/ Colorado Eagles -29gp 11G 14A 25pts w/ Utah Grizzlies -At 22, he is likely looking at a deal coming his way this offseason. Slotted to be with the Eagles for the time being, if he performs well, he could become a float between Denver and Loveland or see himself being moved in a more “win-now” focused deal
-Jason Polin: -7gp 1G 0A 1pt w/ Avalanche -42gp 4G 6A 10pts w/ Colorado Eagles -An Eagles mainstay this season, who spent some time with the big club this year, he is likely looking at another year primarily with the Eagles, and at 24 another cheap deal is likely in the Avs best interest.
-Wyatt Aamodt: -60gp 6G 8A 14pts w/ Colorado Eagles -An AHLer this season and not much else, he is looking at more playing time with the Eagles this upcoming season. Will likely see a qualifying offer.
-Gianni Fairbrother: -1gp 0G 0A 0pts w/ Colorado Eagles -8gp 1G 2A 3pts w/ Utah Grizzlies -Part of the Newhook trade in 2023, Fairbrother is a young, only 23, developing defenseman who could see increased playing time in Loveland, and Utah, but is a way away from being a potential AHL call-up.
Pending UFAs -Andrew Cogliano: -75gp 6G 13A 19P -At 36, the NHL journey is coming to an end for Cogliano in the near future, it appears he likes it in Colorado, and Colorado likes him. For the right price, Cogs will be back in the burgundy and blue as pillar of the bottom-6.
-Jonathan Drouin: -79gp 19G 37A 56P -A guy who has come into his own this season in Denver, while a new contract will be expensive, it is in his best interest to stay in Denver and playing next to his QMJHL buddy MacKinnon.
-Brandon Duhaime: -62gp 4G 4A 8pts w/ Minnesota -18gp 1G 4A 5pts /Colorado -A high energy player who is not afraid to play the body and muck it up in the o-zone. At 26, for the right price, the Avalanche could benefit from a deal.
-Joel Kiviranta: -10gp 3G 6A 9pts w/ Colorado Eagles -56gp 3G 6A 9pts w/ Colorado Avalanche -I don’t see Kiviranta coming back next season, I feel the Avs can replace his production and energy from within.
-Yakov Trenin: -60gp 10G 4A 14pts w/ Nashville -16gp 2G 1A 3pts w/ Colorado -Another piece in a crucial bottom 6 for the Avalanche, for the right price, would be welcomed back with open arms.
-Jack Johnson: -80gp 3G 13A 16pts w/ Colorado -At 37, I am not sure he fits into the window for the Avs anymore. His production can be replaced from within, or through a younger free agent on the market. But his veteran presence is likely highly important in the locker room
-Caleb Jones: -12gp 0G 6A 6pts w/ Colorado Eagles -25gp 0G 5A 5pts w/ Colorado Avalanche -Not expecting Jones to be back with the team next season, while high-energy, the production is just not at the level it needs to be at across the board, another case of he can be replaced from within.
-Sean Walker: -63gp 6G 16A 22pts w/ Philadelphia -18gp 4G 3A 7pts w/ Colorado -Unfortunately, Walker has likely priced himself out of Colorado and will be wearing a different logo come October. Giving up a 1st stings for a rental, and I would expect the Avalanche to kick tires and see if an agreement can be made.
-Fredrick Olofsson: -20gp 3G 9A 12pts w/ Colorado Eagles -57gp 3G 6A 9pts -I would not expect Olofsson back in Colorado in 2024-25, his production can be replaced, and did not play with the big club during the most important part of the year
-Spencer Smallman -53gp 12G 9A 21pts w/ Colorado Eagles -Another AHLer who is likely looking at a deal to be mainly a piece in Loveland, don’t expect to see Smallman play with the Avalanche
-Riley Tufte: -67gp 23G 22A 45pts w/ Colorado Eagles -5gp 1G 1A 2pts w/ Colorado Avalanche -A high-energy and hungry player during this sort stint with the Avalanche this season, I expect him to have a new deal and be fighting for a mainstay spot in the Avalanche roster at training camp.
-Nathan Clurman -37gp 1G 4A 5pts w/ Colorado Eagles -At 26, Clurman is likely an AHL only defenseman, and is likely low on the pecking order when it comes to call-ups, I think a deal is negotiated for cheap. Also he’s a Boulder native.
-Brad Hunt -70gp 16G 33A 49pts w/ Colorado Eagles -As captain of the Eagles this season, I definitely think Hunt is due for another deal here in Colorado, as well as being a call-up candidate in event of injury
-Corey Schueneman: -64gp 4G 18A 22pts -Another likely AHLer, we’ll see what happens. Could go either way.
-Ivan Prosvetov: -11gp 8gs 4W-3L 3.70GAA .881SV% -At 25, Prosvetov is likely wanting to find a place to prove himself in a backup and potentially starting goalie, I feel the Avs want to keep him to depth purposes, but I don’t see Prosvetov staying.
Resigned: Mittelstadt, Drouin, Trenin, Tufte and others
Resigned for the right price: Walker, Duhaime, Cogliano, Johnson, Prosvetov, and any of the other AHL guys who want to stick around
Mittelstadt and Drouin will eat a good portion of the cap space we have, leaving 9 roster spots open with under 10 million to spend.
League UFAs(Top 10 on Capfriendly) -Steven Stamkos -Sam Reinhart -Matt Murray -Jake Guentzel -Tyler Myers -Adam Henrique -Anthony Mantha -Tyler Bertuzzi(🤢) -Teuvo Teräväinen -Jason Zucker
We are unfortunately probably priced out of most of the premier talent in this years free agency class. We are likely targeting bottom 6 forwards and bottom 4 defense as depth, our top players are payed for a reason, need to find the complimentary pieces. Not sure what realistic options would be.
Promotion from within options -Riley Tufte(pending UFA) -Oskar Olausson -Jean-Luc Foudy -Sean Behrens -Sam Malinski -Nikolai Kovalenko -Calum Ritchie -Mikhail Gulyayev(Under contract with Avangard Omsk until 2025/26)
-I think the lack of money to play with is the perfect opportunity for our young talent to step in a prove themselves, or can become trade pieces to improve. Olausson and Foudy are the most dire in need to make the jump, we are running out of time on their development as prospects. A full season will undoubtedly help Kovalenko, as he can adjust to the North American game and can likely become a valuable piece on the 2nd or 3rd line. Ritchie will have to wait until training camp to see if he is ready for the jump, at only 19, he can afford to wait to make the move full time and flesh out his game. Gulayayev is a pipe dream this year, although I believe once he makes the move he will be a quality defenseman who will inject some youth in a d-core that is starting to age.
Definitely leave your thoughts, opinions and other comments. I’d love to discuss.

Thank you to those who helped me destash my postcards, and HUGE thanks to those who sent cards back! Sorry this thanks is delayed - one of the cards went to another person in my building and I had to hunt it down 😖😩
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I’m looking to get pokemon Shield and it’s mainly to shiny hunt Regigigas and need both Regieleki and Regidrago, in The future, is anyone willing to trade a regidrago to me in a couple weeks once I finish the game so I can hunt for Shiny Regigigas. I’m willing to return the Regidrago afterwards but unsure how long the hunt will take

I had a great time with this one. I'm a relative newcomer to the series and didn't grow up playing the games. My first FF was FFX, and FFIV is the first game in the series I've played prior to VII. I know the 3D look of the DS games is polarizing, but for me having never played any 2D FFs before, the 3D felt like a natural extension of the style that VII / VIII / IX have. For some reason, the original NES/SNES pixel graphics of FF feel like a taste I haven't quite acquired yet, even though I've played lots of old 2D games from other series.
I've read that FFIV DS is the hardest final fantasy game, or at least arguably so. And it was definitely challenging at times. I ended up using a guide for boss strategy, because if I hadn't it probably would have taken me way too long to finish. Also, I would have been completely lost on how to find/use the Augments without a guide, so unless you want to mindlessly re-tread every area in the game multiple times (and over multiple playthroughts) hunting for them, I recommend it. The game just doesn't telegraph how that system works really at all.
Aside from that though, the difficulty wasn't too bad. In FF games that are less combat-oriented, battles can really start to feel repetitive and cause me to lose engagement with the game. FFIV DS's regular combat encounters were just challenging enough to keep me on my toes in a way that was enjoyable. I did not like the ATB system when I first played VII. I'm still not the biggest fan of ATB and prefer traditional turn-based systems. However, ATB was more enjoyable in FFIV and I think it's used well here, which makes sense since FFIV introduced it.
I enjoyed the 3D cutscenes and even the voice acting was serviceable. Nothing amazing but never bad enough to take me out of the experience. It beat my expectations.
I think the game was well paced. I don't know if this was part of the original game, but in the DS remake there's a system where you get rewards to fully exploring each section of a dungeon. It was fun to walk around exploring every nook and cranny to see that explored % tick up, and this caused me to do more combat encounters in the process, which kept me well leveled. Aside from maybe once or twice early game I never had a moment where I felt like I needed to intentionally set aside time to grind up. Compared to FFX, which for me required multiple hours of dedicated grinding to feel prepared for the final boss, this was a welcome change.
Finally, the final dungeon was pretty epic. Only having a couple save points in an 13 ~ floor dungeon required strategic judgement in terms of when to press onwards and when to teleport out to save and rest. Probably not everyone's cup of tea, but I enjoyed the challenge.
I think my only complaint is that the game feels extremely linear and aside from the Augment system there isn't much room for player expression or choice in how you develop your party. But I get it, that's not what this game was trying to do.
Next up I'm going to try FFIII DS. I played the 3D remake on Android for a few hours ages ago and it was technically the first FF game I ever played that made me realize I enjoyed the series. I know the PR is much preferred today, but I'm going to dive into the DS version for nostalgia's sake if nothing else. Cheers!