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August 2023 Collector's Cache:
Ancestral Heritage – $2.5 – Jakiro
Astral Herald – $2.5 – Dawnbreaker
Beast of Thunder –$ 3 – Storm Spirit
Brightfist – $8 – Merci
Crescent Huntress –$3.5 – Spectre
Darkwood Eulogy – $2 – Death Prophet
Dezun Viper – $4 – Dazzle
Primeval Abomination – $3 – Primal Beast
Sea Spirit – $5 – Kunkka
Snailfire – $20 – Snapfire
Spectral Shadow – $3 – Abaddon
Taur Rider – $2 – Alchemist
Tomo'kan Footsoldier – $2.5 – Hoodwink
Triumph of the Imperatrix – $3 – Legion Commander
Tyrant of the Veil – $3.5 – Wright King
Dapper Disguise - $6 – Pudge
Distinguished Expeditionary - $4 – Tusk
Lineage of the Stormlords - $18 – Juggernaut
Perception of the First Light - $3 – Dawnbreaker
Perils of the Red Banks - $1.5 – Chen
Scales of the Shadow Walker - $5 – Phantom Lancer
Secrets of the Frost Singularity - $2.5 – Ancient Apparition
Sight of the Kha-Ren Faithful - $5 – Drow Ranger
Wrath of the Fallen - $5 – Doom
Darkbrew's Transgression – $2 – Alchemist
Freeboot Fortunes - $2 – Alchemist
Withering Pain - $2.5 – Clinkz
Brands of the Reaper (unbundled) - $9– Anti-Mage
Acrimonies of Obsession - $3 – Vengeful Spirit
Tomo'kan Footsoldier - $3 – Hoodwink
War Rig Eradicators - $2 – Techies
Feasts of Forever - $3 – Night Stalker
Sacred Chamber Guardian -$3 – Huskar
Forgotten Station - $3 – Terrorblade
Deathstitch Shaman - $2 – Witch doctor
Dirge Amplifier - $1.5 – Undying
Hounds of Obsession - $2 – Chen
Seadog's Stash - $2 – Clockwerk
Expired Gun - $10 – Sniper

I speak as someone is a HUGE fan of all the Dark Souls games, Bloodborne and Sekiro which were made first by the company that made elden ring. God of war ragnarok is far superior in gameplay, if you enjoy using all your tools and still being challenged, especially if you play on the hardest difficulty. If you use all your tools in elden ring, you will feel overpowered and if you don't like that youll get bored. Even if you only use melee, because the game doesnt scale enemies to your level, you will come across many enemies and bosses that are so pathetically easy because of how strong you are. Not only this, god of war ragnarok's combat has the most creative satisfyingly challenging melee combat i have ever played. I understand people love elden ring because of its open world and epic setting, and the combat is still good. But imo, if you want the very best melee combat experience, play god of war ragnarok and god of war 2018.
Also, nioh 1 and 2 get an honorable mention, they come close but for me are slightly not as good as the new god of war games.

Just something I did for fun. Having played a stupid amount of this game, these are changes I believe will make each gun good but most importantly fun to use. All weapons are currently "viable" but most don't feel good to use despite this fact.
Primary Weapons:
AR-23 Liberator:

• Damage 60 70

(breakpoint for 2 hit kill in Devastator head)
AR-23P Liberator Penetrator

• Damage 45 60

(should feel like current Liberator but with worse mag capacity)
AR-23C Liberator Concussive

• Recoil 28 20
• Fire rate 320 475

(same fire rate as SMG 72P with a recoil reduction to make it feel similar to currently)
AR-61 Tenderizer

• Damage 60 80

(hits better breakpoints vs bugs but very similar to base Lib vs Bots)
BR-14 Adjudicator

• Recoil: horizontal recoil reduced by 80%
• Capacity: Extra mags increased 8 9

(with effective mouse/stick drag the recoil can now be controlled. The extra mag brings the total ammo capacity near to that of the other AR's.)
R-63 Diligence

• Damage: 125 128

(allows for 1 tap headshots sub 25m on Devastators. Further cements this as the close range battle rifle compared to the R-63CS.)
R-63CS Diligence Counter Sniper

• Damage: 140 175

(unchanged vs Bots, allows for consistent 1 taps vs bugs.)
MP-98 Knight

• Damage: 50 60
• Recoil: 20 10
• Bug fix: Receives full ammo back on resupply.

(fix the legacy errors and make it controllable in 3rd person. Also makes it more ammo efficient)
SMG-37 Defender

• Unchanged

(gold standard for an SMG)
SMG-72 Pummeler

• Unchanged

(effective side grade to both SMG-37 and Lib-C)
SG-8 Punisher

• Unchanged

(gold standard for a shotgun)
SG-8S Slugger

• Heavy stagger added back.
• Projectile velocity reduced 25%
• Projectile drop increased 25%

(Much better close up but less able to function as a marksman rifle.)
SG-225 Breaker

• Capacity: 13 16

(game has been power crept enough, the nerf is no longer required much like the Railgun)
SG-225SP Breaker Spray&Pray

• Ergonomics: Improved to match other Breaker variants.
• Capacity: 26 30
• Recoil 45 28

(easier to control and better at quickly spraying down light hordes)
SG-225IE Breaker Incendiary

• Unchanged

(gold standard for Breaker family)
CB-9 Exploding Crossbow

• Damage: 420 550
• AOE: increased to original value.

(550 is the breakpoint to be able to 1 hit Devastators in the weak point or 2 hit otherwise. 2 hit kill Brood Commanders. Can now clear chaff as well while dealing with elites.)
JAR-5 Dominator

• Unchanged

(gold standard of explosive primaries)
R-36 Eruptor

• Damage: 420 650
• AOE: Restored to post AOE nerf value but before the shrapnel was removed.

(A large but fair AOE paired with the ability to 1 shot Brood Commanders/ Devastators like before. Importantly it won't be able to 1 shot chargers due to the shrapnel bug. Despite claims it was +100 shrapnel was much closer to +300 to 500)
SG-8P Punisher Plasma

• Unchanged

(Gold standard for AOE weapon)
ARC-12 Blitzer

• Unchanged

(Already strong but one bug fix for arc weapons away from becoming a monster. May need to be adjusted down once this fix happens depending.)
LAS-5 Scythe

• Scope: Changed to Sickle/Liberator scope
• Damage 350 400

(now able to beam heads with a good scope vs Bots and higher DPS will help vs bugs.)
LAS-16 Sickle

• Unchanged

(with almost 100 shots per mag and the ability to run forever, the lower damage and worse breakpoints is a fair trade vs kinetic AR's.)
Plas-1 Scorcher

• Unchanged

(Gold standard of Plasma weapons)
Plas-101 Purifier

• Rework: 3 tiers of charge up.
• Tier 1: Trigger pull 200 damage 80 fire rate. (no splash)
• Tier 2: Trigger hold 1.25 second 300 damage.(small splash)
• Tier 3: Trigger hold 1.75 seconds 400 damage. (large AOE splash like currently)

(better matches the description of the weapon. High incentive to hold your fire for longer but allows for it to be used as a weaker Plas-1 when required)
Stratagem Weapons
The following are pseudo primaries and so will be looked at as well.
M-105 Stalwart

• Ergonomics: Improved by 25%

(Often struggles to feel competitive with top tier primaries but should blow them out of the water if you are giving up your stratagem slot. Will hit more shots and clean hordes easier.)
MG-43 Machine Gun

• Capacity: reserve mags 2 3
• Reload: able to reload while moving.
• Damage: 80 90

(Very little reason to give up a stratagem slot for a Adjudicator damage equivalent with low max ammo and a stationary reload. With more ammo and the ability to move and shoot this will be a good choice.)
MG-206 Heavy Machine Gun

• Rework: Backpack fed weapon. Does not require reload.
• Capacity: Total ammo 225 250
• Damage: 102 128

(Will have cleaner breakpoints vs Bots allowing for 1 shot headshot kills up close and won't have its current ammo problems. Will still be hard to handle and consumes a backpack slot but worth it)
Bonus:
Recoilless / Quasar Cannon

• Damage: +10%

(Currently both launchers do not 1 shot Hulks or Tanks in their rear weak spot. Both survive on a tiny amount of HP. This change will fix that making launchers viable vs Hulk backs and the backs of tanks)

• Projectile: Hitbox size increased by 25%, projectile has priority on weak spots.

(if the projectile contacts a Hulks front plate and it would have hit the head but instead touches the body armour first it counts as a headshot. Simulates penetration of the round. Also the headshot hitbox is larger and more forgiving. Currently the launchers are completely outclassed by the AMR and Autocannon vs Bot armour, requiring the same level of precision for a headshot but not being versatile weapons or having fast follow up potential.)
SPEAR

• Projectile: Hitbox size increased by 25%, projectile has priority on weak spots.
• AH studios makes a daily sacrifice to the machine god to appease it and fix the SPEAR lock.

(shooting a hulk from the front should always award a headshot kill but currently it's random chance. This change will fix that.)
Extra Wish list:
Bot Trooper Infantry:

• Rework: Hp increased 100 400
• Rework: Appear in higher frequency alongside Devastators at higher difficulties.
• Rework: Accuracy improved

(currently Bot infantry pose 0 actual threat outside of calling in drops. They can be ignored almost indefinitely and they wont kill you. This change makes them more like the terminators they are suppose to be. Taking a decent amount of fire to go down while still being a fodder tier enemy. This is also a massive indirect buff to AR's as dealing continuous damage to low armour targets is where they shine.)
Feel free to offer feedback. and don't forget to downvote.

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So, my theory is that the humans of the Matrix series were able to successfully colonize space. Followed by those points:

1. Human technological advance: The Second Renaissance occurs between the years 2090 and 2139, in which the machines are built and then banned/destroyed. This means that in such a long time in the future we humans have currently developed several technologies capable of sustaining those Megacities that are showed in the short animation. Those technologies would include nuclear fusion, advanced biometric and probably cured most of the known diseases. Plus we would probably use genetically modified aliments.
   
2. Human exploration: Given the right technologies and necessity for the elites to always find a higher place to live in the social pyramid, the human race would already have started if not completed the construction of a self-sufficient lunar base and, moreover, lunar launchpad.
   
3. Human preservation: During the first part of the war, lasting from 2139 to Operation Dark Storm, a large part of the Earth as the America's were untouched by the Machines (Source in basing this on: The Matrix: The Machine War - Every Year, from Eric von Schweetz). With two continents being relatively untouched by the Machines, the humans would probably direct resources to the space program and the colonization of the Moon, founding domes on the Moon surface and constructing whatever necessity for life to... Well, live.
   
4. Human Exodus. Before the beginning of Operation Dark Storm most of the top scientists, researchers, biologists and engineers, along with heads of states and the wealthiest, would departure to establish a constant presence on the Moon, probably transporting weapons of mass destruction and part of the so vast employed nanites.
   
5. Human settlements: Once the first colony is set the humans would probably keep exploring the space, colonizing it.
   

Now here's how would the humans live on the Moon Settlement: Nuclear fusion reactors would be deployed to grant illimitate, secure and clean energy, this is already a big step for self-sufficiency. Domes made for crops and animals would be built with the help of genetic manipulation. About the water I'm thinking about using the asteroids full of it, with rockets capable of redirect the trajectory to crash on the Moon surface importing water and materials. Speaking about rockets, the low gravity of the satellite combined with reusable rockets would be an enormous advantage for colonization efforts and logistics. The last remaining problem is the impact it would have on the human mind. But I have the solution: We have to stop thinking as we are. Let's make an example, a human of the modern times is completely different by the human of the Victorian Era, and the more the time advance the less the similarities between the humans of different Era's are. With the implement of virtual reality and bioengineering probably the future human mind wouldn't be impacted as it would be for the current one.
So probably during the events of The Matrix the humans on outer space would live in a state similar to the one from Starfield, if not even more united by the fact that the humans weren't extradited from Earth thanks to a natural disaster, but thanks to the entities, The Machines. This means that probably, during the events of the Matrix, the humans could be, after centuries, preparing themselves to take back the planet.
How the invasion would work isn't on my interests, but it would be a more equal war thinking that since the end of the Human-Machine war The Machines stopped transforming.
So this was all, feel free to prove I'm right or wrong, I'm curious to hear your opinion.
P.S.: Sorry for the bad grammar, English isn't my native-language.

Hello,
After seeing the success of the Fresh project on the US servers I’ve decided to do the same over here on EU. If you are like us and Cata, SoD, and Retail is just not what you want feel free to jump over and simulate a Fresh start on a dead server.
The realm of choice, ZANDALAR TRIBE, is the same type as on the US servers, RPPVP. As over there the server is dead, only some bots running arounds that we can report. The auction house has no items on both Horde and Alliance.
On Horde, I will create a guild so if you are interested come send me a PM ingame, ign: Zzo. Guild name will be: FRESH enjoyers
Hope to see you ingame and wish you all a great rest of the day!

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• If you see someone breaking the rules, report the post or comment to the mods rather than engaging them in an argument. Failure to do so may be subject to comment removal at moderator discretion.
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FAQ - About the Rules

What does Kindness Matters mean?

• Shortest version? Don't be an asshole. People come here for support and advice, they do not come here to be yelled at or told they are the reason everything is going sideways. There are ways to point out that someone may want to do some reflection on their own actions and reactions without being an asshole about it.
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What about being kind to the kids?

• "Won't somebody think of the children?" Pearl clutching isn't needed here. If you read the Kindness Matters rule closely, you will see that there is a clause in there about name calling children. We don't allow it. We also don't allow people rolling in telling OP that they feel sorry for their stepkids because OP is feeling overwhelmed and overloaded.
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Why is this sub such an echo chamber?

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Why can't I tell OP that they are an asshole?

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• Comments with terms like YTA, NTA, ESH, NAH will be removed.
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But OP asked if they were an asshole?!

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What is a gendered slur?

• While it seems that everyone understands what racist slurs are, people struggle understanding the concept of gendered slurs. Generally speaking, we are talking about derogatory nouns or verbs that are used to negatively describe people or situations based on gendered terms.
• We've gone back and forth on this a few times, and the truth is, we get it, it's your safe space and you want to be able to vent about BM/BD how you want to vent about them, without us telling you how to vent about them. Fair enough. Vent away. What we are going to stick to here how people are referring to other users and to stepchildren.
• Examples that are not allowed:
  • "My SD is such a little bitch."
  • "She dresses/acts like a slut."
  • "My SS acts like a pussy."
  • "My SS is such a beta male."
  • "You are all fucking whores."
  • "Any dude who is raising some sluts kids is a cuck!"
  • "Little Lord Fauntleroy over here thinking he runs the house!"
  • "You're just the bangnanny, get used to it."
• Don't call users here names, don't call stepchildren names.
• Masking the term with asterisks or other neat little tricks might get you around the bot, but if we see it, we're removing it and quite possibly giving you a time out. The intended word is still there and you deliberately tried to skate the rule.
• As there is not enough space to list every term that is offensive and does not belong, nor every situation in which term or phrase may be allowable in context, this rule is enforced based on moderator discretion.

Seriously? You are the language police now?

• We're here to talk about stepparenting. And we would like for that to happen in a respectful way. Attacking each other doesn't help. Belittling stepchildren draws in trolls who don't understand your frustration, all they see is an evil stepmonster talking shit on the internet about a poor, innocent baby. Yes, even if that "poor, innocent baby" just robbed you blind and set fire to the house on their way out the door. That's just how it goes.
• We are aware that this is a relatively new rule and a lot of older posts and comments contain a lot of problematic language, including some from mods themselves. We are growing and evolving, and rules change as the sub grows and evolves.

What does No Drama really mean?

• Pretty much what it says, do not bring drama from other subs into this sub. Do not engage in vote brigades. Do not try to incite other subscribers to riot in a different sub. Don't follow posters into this sub from other subs to continue to harass them. Do not badger someone or derail threads. Do not harass community members because you don't agree with them. There's enough drama in the daily lives of subscribers, more isn't needed.

What is thread derailment?

• When a comment chain has devolved to the point where all you are doing is arguing back and forth with someone about the same thing over and over again, you have derailed the thread. Also known as bickering. It's what children do. We assume if people are in a stepparent role they are adults. We expect you to act like it.
• If you aren't a stepparent, or in a stepparenting role, consider that perhaps this subreddit isn't for you. If you want to participate, do so with respect. Thread derailment, arguing, bickering, and nitpicking are not allowed.

But what if they didn't answer my question?

• No one has to answer your questions. This is a support sub, not an inquisition. Jumping on a bandwagon with "OP is evading the question" in a 20 comment long chain is the epitome of thread derailment. You'll find more information about trolling below and how this might be considered such.

Why am I being silenced? I'm just asking for a back and forth!

• Thread derailment, badgering, and nitpicking are considered harassment. Continued harassment of either community members or mods will get you banned.

Why can't I look at someone's post history and comment about it?

• No mod in the history of this sub has ever once said post histories are forbidden. What we do frown upon is using someone's post history to attack, belittle, or otherwise harass someone.
• Example Post: "My stepkid's mom really hates me. How can I make this better?"
  • Okay: "Based on the timeline and your post history, it looks like this may have started as an affair. Unfortunately there's going to be outstanding issues for a long time due to that. Try focusing on yourself and how you can move forward without worrying about how someone else feels about you."
  • Not Okay: "Holy shit! You were the OW! What the hell do you expect, homewrecker?!"
• Example Post: "I am completely overloaded and feeling very down about myself."
  • Okay: "In your post history you mentioned that your spouse wasn't really helping around the house. Has that changed at all?"
  • Not Okay: "LOL, you already got the answers you need in your post on relationships. You are stupid for sticking with your lazy spouse."

Why can't we crosspost stuff to other subs?

• We can't stop you from doing so. The problem isn't that something has been crossposted, it's when the community that it's been crossposted to feels the need to come over here and harass OP. When we see that happening, we lock the post and start passing out bans. If you did the crossposting, you'll be banned. If you participated in the brigading, you'll be banned.

What if it's my own post?

• Again, we can't stop you from doing so. We prefer that you don't technically crosspost, but rather just copy and paste your post. Why? Because inevitably the above will happen. Redditors from other subs will follow you back to /stepparents and start attacking users here. It just happens.

What is "brigading"?

• Reddit defines vote manipulation and brigading as follows:
• Using multiple accounts, voting services, or any other software to increase or decrease vote scores.
• Asking people to vote up or down certain posts, either on Reddit itself or through social networks, messaging, etc. for personal gain.
• Forming or joining a group that votes together, either on a specific post, a user's posts, posts from a domain, etc.
• We, along with pretty much every other subreddit that has ever had to deal with this nonsense, further define brigading as this: You saw a post on another sub that linked to our sub either via a link in a comment or a crosspost. It was basically saying something along the lines of "OMG, check out these assholes over on /stepparents! They literally hate all their stepkids!" And then you and your friends come over and start hammering on OP and telling OP how much they suck. Congrats, you have just participated in a brigade.

What is this whole Report, Don't Rant thing about?

• If you see a post or comment that breaks the rules, instead of engaging, report it. When you report it, it sends notification to the mod team. We will act on it where appropriate. Engaging with bad faith users may result in your comments being removed. If you repeatedly do so, you may end up being banned.

What if I see an obvious troll?

• Report it.

What if they are being really mean in comments?

• Report it.

What if they are harassing me in private messages?

• Step 1: Report them to admins. You can report harassment to reddit by using this link or send a DM to reddit admins. Include the link to the DM, admins can see your inbox and providing a direct link is helpful for them to weed out bad actors.
• Step 2: Block the person so they cannot directly contact you again.
• Step 3: Send us a mod mail and let the mod team know. Tell us who they are and what they said, send us a screenshot if you can - admins can see your DMs, mods can't. We'll take action where necessary by banning from the sub if they aren't already banned.

What do you mean by No Naming & Shaming?

• Just as we prefer to not be linked to or crossposted from, we do not allow linking to or calling out other subs by name. If you see something you want to share, say it's a hot post that has hit the front page and a stepparent is being absolutely flayed, just refer to it as "that hot post that hit the front page." If you want to complain about other places in general, "other parenting/advice/judgement subs" will suffice. Absolutely under no circumstances should you link to anywhere else.

I can't link to other subs?

• Do not directly link to another sub. (e.g.: "/insertsubnamehere is ridiculously hostile to stepparents!")
• Do not name other subs. (e.g.: "I won't link to it directly, but insertsubnamehere is ridiculously hostile to stepparents!")
• Do not abbreviate other subs. (e.g.: "I know that ISNH is ridiculously hostile to stepparents!")

I can't ping other users?

• Do not summon another user with a username ping/tag. (e.g.: "insertusernamehere was being an asshole.")
• If you are agreeing with someone, it is okay to link to them. (e.g.: "I agree with insertusernamehere, you need to take a couple of steps back and reflect on this.")

What does No Platitudes mean?

• Sanctimonious, overused clichés that grossly oversimplify the stepparenting experience are neither wanted nor allowed here. We have all heard it a thousand times before, we don't need to hear it again. It's not nearly as insightful and wise as some would like to think.

Why don't you people understand it's a package deal?

• Any comment that suggests that OP should have known what they were getting involved with, or that they needed to understand that the kids were part of some package they needed to accept before signing up for marriage is subject to immediate removal.
• This is one of the most insensitive things you can say to a stepparent. Most stepparents were aware of the children, but they were probably not aware of all of the family dynamics.

Why can't you just love them like they are your own?

• Demanding that a stranger you do not know love children that are not biologically theirs as if they were theirs can be incredibly damaging to someone who is already in a vulnerable situation. Any comment that falls along these lines will be removed.

What do you mean by No Trolling? I was just...

• No means no. No trolling. No pretending to be a stepparent and then whipping out the Greatest Hits Bingo Card of The Worst Stepparent in the History of Stepparents. We see you. We've seen you a thousand times.

What does "concern trolling", "gish-galloping", and "sealioning" have to do with stepparenting? This isn't a debate sub, why are you using debate terms?

• That's absolutely right, this isn't a debate sub. And yet, here we are, day after day, having to defend ourselves against this sort of thing. So, enough. No more. Usage of any of these things will get you banned.

What is "Concern Trolling?"

• A concern troll is someone who disingenuously visits sites of an opposing ideology to disrupt conversation by offering unwanted advice on how to solve problems which do not really exist.
  • Example Post: OP expresses concern that she will feel, and possibly act, differently towards her stepchildren after her husband decides that no, he doesn't want anymore children after all.
  • Example Concern Troll pulled from actual mod mail after their comment was removed: "Possible child abuse claims need to be sorted out well before whatever empathy you believe the OP was looking for."

What is a "Devil's Advocate"?

• "I'm just playing devil's advocate here, but have you considered that maybe BM is just really tired and needs a break, too?" BM has dozens of different mom based subs alone on reddit she can complain on, this sub is for stepparents. The stepparent doesn't need to consider that maybe BM is just really tired and needs a break.

"Gish-galloping?" What does that even mean?

• The Gish Gallop is the fallacious debate tactic of drowning your opponent in a flood of individually-weak arguments in order to prevent rebuttal of the whole argument collection without great effort. The Gish Gallop is a conveyor belt-fed version of the on the spot fallacy, as it's unreasonable for anyone to have a well-composed answer immediately available to every argument present in the Gallop.

And "sealioning?" What's that?

• Sealioning involves jumping into a conversation with endless polite, reasonable questions and demands for answers, usually of entry-level topics far below the actual conversation (e.g. "please prove sexism exists"). This tactic differs little from harassment; instead of discussion, the point is to derail discussion, receive criticism (for their ignorance) so as to look like a victim, or to make someone feel overwhelmed and quit talking.

Who gets to define what is considered asshattery?

• The mod team, of course! If we feel that comments are out of line, are trolling, are leading up to a fight or "just asking questions", we are going to remove them and most likely ban the offender.

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FAQ - Sub Questions

Posting Guidelines for Stepparents

• Body text is required, we suggest you use line breaks between paragraphs as a wall of text is difficult to read. Posts that have only a title are likely to be removed. Instead of using names (even fictitious ones), try to use the sub acronyms. It helps our users to follow along if you use the acronyms and not names.
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Posting Guidelines for Bioparents

• Stepparents is a support community for stepparents, by stepparents. As bioparents, you may want to have more insight into how the stepparent in your life feels or thinks. You may have questions on how to ease the transition for your partner. However, please keep in mind that this community was not created for you. It was created for your partner or your ex's partner. If you are seeking support on how to deal with a stepparent, there are other subs more suited for your situation and your post is subject to removal.
• There are some posts from bioparents we will accept:
  • Seeking advice on how to support your partner as they navigate stepparenting
  • Seeking resources to help you better support your partner
  • Seeking resources for your partner
• There are some posts from bioparents we will not accept:
  • Complaints about how the stepparent is too involved in your kids lives
  • Vents about how the stepparent is not involved enough in your kids lives
  • "Cautionary tales" advising stepparents to back off
  • Seeking advice on how to tell the stepparent to back off
  • The Do's and Dont's of Stepparenting
  • How your kid's stepmom is literally The Worst
• Comments from bioparents that are helpful and supportive are welcome and appreciated. Comments from bioparents that are not helpful or supportive are not welcome and subject to removal. There are several other subs that may meet the needs of bioparents better than we can. We recommend /coparenting, /parenting, /parents, /blendedfamilies, and /singleparents as starting points.

Guidelines for Stepkids

• At this time, we do not generally accept posts from stepkids. Comments from stepkids that are helpful and supportive are welcome and appreciated. Comments from stepkids that are not helpful or supportive are not welcome and subject to removal. If you are a stepkid seeking support, we highly recommend /stepkids. It is a very supportive community specifically for stepkids. We also recommend /blendedfamilies as another potential group for support.

What the heck are all these acronyms? I'm confused!

• Check out the Common Acronyms wiki page. We try to keep this updated as new terms are introduced to the sub.

Why aren't my posts or comments showing up?

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What are the general moderator guidelines?

• Users are expected to know the rules before posting. If you are warned or banned for violating the rules, ignorance is not an excuse.
• Moderators will remove posts and comments and/or lock threads in accordance with the rules above. Typically this happens when threads have gone off-topic in a way that is not productive for the OP, or comments overall have become contentious or disrespectful.
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• Due to an influx of harassment from users with specific user histories, we have employed a user history ban bot as described above. If you think this has affected you and wish to appeal, please message the mods.

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What if the Traveller IS the afterlife, like a supernatural being that souls go to when they die?
-it might go wherever the most death is in the Universe, it came to the Sol system knowing the war that was to come
-it explains why our 'GHOSTS' can bring us back
-the Veil can be used to access it. As in 'crossing the veil', it separates our world from the afterlife, but is more physical than we thought.
-Maybe it sees itself as saving us from the Darkness. Which is essentially loss and the void.
-Cayde-6 would be inside the Traveller, along with everyone we've killed
-Maybe the Witness is on a mission to get someone back, or even an entire species after they were wiped out?
Or
-Maybe the Traveller is collecting souls until it has enough to restart the Universe, that is known as 'The Final Shape'. At that point it wipes out the Universe and starts again (very Bungie), seeding it with the souls it has taken.
Perhaps the Darkness emerged as a protection from this cycle, and the Witness has seen the death of the universe many times before (explaining the name 'The Witness'). They have finally amassed enough power to take on the Traveller to try and stop the cycle of destruction and rebirth.
I could imagine the Final Shape ending with the destruction of the universe (a reboot ready for Destiny 3) but with our ghosts and guardians being protected from it by the Darkness (and maybe the sacrifice of the Witness), so we would continue the Witness's plan to take it on in the next Universe.

Before I start, I want to say that I don’t mean to intentionally offend anyone and I am solely looking for different point of views which might change my perspective. I will not go too deep into my thought and will try to provide as much context as I can. If my point of view is confusing or needs further clarification, I can further clarify.
Now to begin, I am currently under the belief that Sikhism like all other religions is man made.
REINCARNATION:
Aspects about reincarnation do not seem to make much sense. In Sikhi what I have found is that it is stated that 8.4 million life forms are which we have to cycle through to finally become human. First of all, I am pretty sure this is a concept that is very similar to the Puranas, in which it is also listed that the cycle of reincarnation is through 8.4 million life forms. The more detailed view might be different but the underlying concept is the same, some argue that this is a evidence that concepts in Sikhi are copied(I don’t have much of an issue with this but would like if someone can elaborate). Now the 8.4 million life forms do not make sense to me, while it is predicted that 8.7 million species exist right now(National Geographic) this number is also ever changing. And SGGS also proposes that there are multiple worlds with multiple species, wouldn’t this already contradict the claim of 8.4 million species?
My other issue with the concept of reincarnation is that from what I have gathered consciousness is exclusive to one life, meaning it does not carry over to another reincarnations(I got this concept from many videos that talk about death/consciousness and from people I have talked to about Sikhi). If the consciousness does not carry over and only the soul does what is the point of going through so many cycles of reincarnations? You obviously won’t know, sure your soul might be the same in every reincarnation but then again I have found no clear definition of what a souls is in Sikhi. It cannot be consciousness as that is clearly evident to be a byproduct of the mind.
REINCARNATION and SUFFERING:
If one is born into extremely poor circumstances(war, bad family, forced into non consensual acts, does crime due to circumstances) how exactly is that fair? We say that they must have done bad actions in their previous life, but this leads to two different questions. If they went through 8.4 million cycles to be a human why were they given impossible circumstances to become one with god? The other question being, if they clearly don’t remember what they did in the past in what way is it fair to give them a less desirable environment(in which they suffer)?
THE GURUS:
Now before I start this section, I think all Sikhs would agree that preforming miracles was a key aspect the Gurus were against. Yet we say that every guru had the “light” of Guru Nanak passed through them. I do not know if this is metaphorical or literal, if it is literal it goes against the no miracle teaching.
Another issue I struggle to understand is how I believe 7 out of the 10 gurus were directly related? I understand that there is a saki(forgive me I do not remember the exact saki) where someone asked one of the gurus to keep all the remaining gurus from the same family. This seems to be a somewhat of an escape from answering the question. Whether the saki is true or not I do not know but in the end the whole idea of many of the gurus being from one family makes the religion seems somewhat like a empire to an outside(non Sikh) and in some I have discussed it is one of the vital point of doubt.
Why were none of the Gurus female? This is a small non issue but slight confused question I have. If one of the gurus was a female it would further solidify how Sikhi broke norms and how regardless of gender the gurus were enlightened.
I think I will stop here, I have some more questions regarding practices done by the gurus and the concepts taught but I will stop here. My questions are not intended to offend someone and if my language used may seem offensive or aggressive I apologize that is not my intent. It just seems based on my research I seem to only conclude that Sikhism out of the major 5 religions is the most morally just and inclusive religion. The teaching taught in Sikhi can be adopted my anyone and they generally lead to good outcomes for many(good morals, equality, etc). However, other than this I do not see any evidence of God in Sikhi. The questions I ask seem to be my biggest issue in taking a “leap of faith”. The answers I have gotten is you have to experience god yourself, which is to me the same as telling a Hindu to imagine Vishnu(or any deity) with their eyes closed obviously they will have a image of the said deity if they truly imagined such. I will stop here, it seems I am frustrated with myself and I initially wanted to get closer to Sikhi to help deal with the unknowns of life. I am in simpler terms struggling to take a leap of faith due to some of the questions I have with Sikhi, this has lead me to currently take a agnostic stance in which I think God does not care about what we do and simply ignore us.
If any of my passages seem to be just rants or repetitive I apologize I did not mean for them to be as such(I have this problem sometimes). I can clarify any of the topics I discussed and I am open to anyone changing my mind.