I'm the GM for my group. I do everything on foundry. And I'm currently run IceWind Dale for 5e and just finished our first session of Abomination Vaults. I got some feedback from the players. And I don't really know how to answer cause of my PF2E inexperience. So I'm hoping you all could help me a bit. Here are their comments

1. The system is clearly better for dungeon crawls. (Awesome!)
   
2. Sometimes the really fun or cool moments feel like they can be bogged down by the rule system. Rather than just kind of going with the flow like 5e.
   
3. The rules can feel a bit restrictive. Ie we did a haunt and it had no AC or HP or anything and the player was like I attack and I just said he couldn't. I in hindsight shoulda maybe came up with something on the fly. But I'm trying to learn the system.
   
4. I nearly TPK'd them. They followed a magic thing down a flight of stairs and split the party. One group fought a drake the other a fog monster forgot its name. The drake people both died. The two chasers only lived cause I changed the rules on how tumbling through worked mostly cause I didn't know how it worked.
   
5. Definitely a less forgiving system and the socerer said he felt like nothing landed everything he did wouldn't work. The cleric felt like her spell list sucked. And forgot the free heals.
   
6. The fighter loved his character but he's more of a freeflow make things up as you go at least when he DM's. The monk loves his character.
   
7. This is the wrong sub for this question. But my friends said in their opinion at least that vanilla 5e is great for 90% of players. I don't think that's true I think that's true for the first campaign but after you start seeing the cracks.
   

I guess coming from 5e theres some growing pains. And my biggest worry is that pacing issue where maybe the rules bog down epic moments.
Does anyone have some comments. I absolutely love the system. Not having to homebrew everything, strong martials, etc it's great.
I told them let's do the campaign and come back to the problems and see how we feel once we have more experience. I know there lost of critique but they had a really good time. The two players that died are experienced and dont care. They already started building new characters.

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Recommended progression: GB10 -> ToAN -> GB12 -> ToAH -> (DB11 ->) NB12 -> R5 and Rifts
Fast progression: GB12 -> (DB11 ->) NB12 -> BJ5 -> Tricaru DB12
Note that for NB12 a few violent sets (especially on twins) are making things a lot easier so before tackling Necropolis you might want to farm a little bit of DB11, it also gives you Guard runes for Tricaru.

• GB10: Vero (L), Fran, Loren, Lapis, Shannon/second awakened (2A) Kro
• Legacy GB10 teams typically include Belladeon, Bernard, or Darion. These units are outdated and can be skipped.
• GB12: Vero (L), Fran, Loren, 2A Kro, Shannon/Lapis/2A Naomi
• DB12: Verde (L), Fran, Loren, Sig, Elsharion or Verde (L), Vero, Fran, Loren, Spectra (2A)
• PB10: Verde (L), Colleen/Fran, 2A Raoq, 2A Kro, 2A Spectra/Yen/Pang. You can also use 2A Jultan to tank the boss (on multiple Will sets).
• SB10: Fran, Loren, 2A Kro, 2A Raoq, Ling Ling
• NB12: Lapis (L), Colleen/Fran, Loren, 2A Raoq, 2A Kro/Raoq (NB10 guide). Twins are a much better choice and should be used if possible. You can also directly use Tricaru.
• ToA(H): Fran (L), Lapis, Verde, Loren, Vero/2A Kro/2A Spectra. Use Tyron if you have him. 2A Sath/Thrain are good options if you want to go for a dot team, do not use Baretta as he's terribly outdated.
• R5: Front Line: Xiong Fei, Darion Back Line: Colleen, 2A Kro, Tesa, Theo/Xiao Lin/Belladeon
• R5 stat minimum: You need 25k HP and 1.5k DEF for FL units and 20k HP and 0.8-1k DEF for BL units. Healers and your cleanser should have 100% RES after lead.
• Rift unit options: Xiao Lin, Theomars, Fran, Colleen, and 2A Kro can be used in most of your rift teams. FL Mav/Bernard is good for Water rift and Lapis is good for Fire and Dark rifts. Twins are great in all rifts.

You still need appropriate rune quality and turn order! Do not expect to beat a dungeon just by having these units

Common speed teams

• R5 - BJ5: Colleen, Baleygr, Janssen, Dagora, Loren, lead unit (BJ5 guide)
  
• DB12 - Tricaru: Verde (L), 2A Icaru, 2A Icaru, 2A Icaru (guide (Note: DEF requirement is 3300)) (Cheatsheet) (Calculator)
  
• NB12 - Tricaru: Either add Astar or replace Verde with her (on vamp, same stats). Adding Astar and Lushen to clear waves first also works.
  
• GB12 - dots dots dots: 2A Sath, Mellia, Mellia, 2A Tatu, dot unit/Lushen (guide)
  
• PB10 - Tricaru: Kill towers first (usually L>R>B but some people reported R>L>B working better for them).
  
• SB10 - dots dots dots: 2A Sath, Mellia, Mellia, 2A Tatu, dot unit/Lushen
  

PvE accuracy requirements

Rifts need no ACC. R5 needs 15%. SB10 needs 25%. PB10 39%. ToA(H), GB10, and NB10 45%. DB10, GB12, NB12 and ToA Hell 55%. DB12 needs 65%.

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We’ve heard Dorsas Ine mentioned a number of times as being one of the worst great powers on Anastis, but I’m somewhat puzzled by what we’ve heard. He apparently has no desire to rule anywhere, and just goes around randomly ransacking various cities and stealing their gold. If gold is all he wants, considering he has a great power-tier gold affinity, he shouldn’t need to steal it. He could presumably just extract it from the surrounding environment like Eragon does in Brisingr, without painting a massive target on his head in the process.
So is Dorsas Ine supposed to just be a truly evil being who just enjoys killing and causing chaos for its own sake? Or is there more to him that we just don’t know yet? Because at least so far, he seems a lot more Disney villain-ish than most of the antagonists of the ME series.

A Proposed Approach for AI Safety Movement Building: Projects, Professions, Skills, and Ideas for the Future [long post][bounty for feedback]

Written as a non-expert to develop my views and get feedback, rather than persuade.
Read this post for
I also ask for your help in providing feedback and answering questions I have about this approach. Your answers will help me and others make better career decisions about AI safety, including how I should proceed with this movement building approach. I am offering cash bounties of $20 for the most useful inputs (see section at the bottom of the post).
If we want to more effectively address problems of AI safety, alignment, and governance, we need better i) shared understanding of the challenges, better coordination of people and resources, and ii) prioritisation.
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There is uncertainty about what AI Safety Movement Building is, and how to do it helpfully Uncertainty about AI Safety Movement Building reduces the number of potentially helpful movement builders Having fewer movement builders probably reduces AI Safety contributors, contributions and collective coordination To address the uncertainty and related problems we need a better shared language and shared understanding AI Safety movement builders contribute by helping to start, sustain ** and** scale AI Safety projects AI Safety movement builders start and scale AI Safety projects by contributing ** **human resources : ** ** technical and non-technical professions and skills ** *in * *full-time * *and * *fractional * **capacities. AI Safety Projects generally require many ** **technical ** ** and non-technical professions and skills to start/scale Technical contributions to AI Safety Movement Building are very valuable, but need to be balanced against trade-offs, and may best be made in a fractional capacity There are relatively few technical experts within the AI Safety community and most are (rightly) focused on doing technical work Many technical experts within the AI Safety should consider fractional movement building Technical novices within the AI Safety community should consider assigning a larger fraction of time to movement building What do technical contributions look like in practice? Non-technical contributions to AI Safety Movement Building can best support AI strategy and AI governance but can also support AI Safety technical work. Non-technical people may be best suited to movement build for AI strategy and AI governance Non-technical people can also contribute to technical AI safety Non-technical people are in greater supply than technical people, they have lower opportunity costs, and their complementary skills are needed to produce the optimal outcomes from technical contributors and contributions. Non-technical people who are able and willing to contribute to AI Safety should prioritise support technical AI Safety movement building when possible . For some non-technical movement builders, it will make sense to work in a fractional role where only part of one’s time is spent on AI safety work For some non-technical movement builders, it will make sense to work as a generalist across multiple parts of the AI safety community Non-technical people working as experts in AI governance or strategy roles should consider being fractional movement builders What do non-technical contributions look like in practice? Use the three AI Safety Movement building outcome metrics suggested (Contributors, Contributions and Coordination), or something similar, to evaluate progress in AI Safety Movement Building I think that AI Safety Movement building is doing well for a small community but has significant potential for improvement Determining clear priorities for AI Safety Movement Building is the most important bottleneck to address once we have a shared understanding Fractional movement building seems like the best way to grow the community once it knows if, and how, it wants to grow It will usually be better for most people in the AI safety community to do fractional movement building than to entirely focus on direct work It will be usually be better for AI safety movement building to focus on growing fractional movement building commitments than full-time movement building commitments I have outlined a basic approach/theory of change - does it seem banal, or flawed? I will pay you for helpful feedback! To encourage feedback I am offering a bounty. What next? Acknowledgements

Announcing the European Network for AI Safety (ENAIS)

TLDR; The European Network for AI Safety is a central point for connecting researchers and community organizers in Europe with opportunities and events happening in their vicinity. Sign up here to become a member of the network, and join our launch event on Wednesday, April 5th from 19:00-20:00 CET!
ENAIS (pronounced e-nice) was founded by European AI safety researchers and field-builders who recognized the lack of interaction among various groups in the region. Our goal is to address the decentralized nature of AI safety work in Europe by improving information exchange and coordination.
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Why did we create ENAIS? About the network What does European AI safety currently look like? Vision Join the network! The near future of ENAIS Current Organization—Temporary Board, calling for permanent board Launch Event Conclusions Acknowledgments

Personal Finance Coaching for EAs: Call for Applicants

We’re excited to announce the launch of Yield & Spread’s free 1:1 Coaching Program, designed to help people with their financial plans for giving. We are looking for applicants familiar with the Effective Altruism movement to help us trial this program, and give us their feedback.
You can apply for the coaching program here.

Yield & Spread is a nonprofit whose mission is to promote personal finance as a force for good. We believe that increasing financial literacy creates more opportunities for people to give back; when we can better optimize our own finances, we are in a much better position to help others. We have educational materials, free resources, and tools that are accessible to those outside the EA community, but our coaching program is specifically designed to help “do-gooders” do better with their finances and give them peace of mind.
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Coaching Program Rationale Who Should Apply What to Expect How We Can Help Things We Cannot Help With How Much Do I Need to Know About Finances About Me

Books: Lend, Don't Give

Transcript: NBC Nightly News: AI ‘race to recklessness’ w/ Tristan Harris, Aza Raskin

Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4 Microsoft Research

The Overton Window widens: Examples of AI risk in the media

New 'South Park' episode on AI & Chat GPT

In case anyone's a fan of the US animated TV series 'South Park', a recent episode (Season 26, Episode 4, released March 9, 2023) is titled 'Deep Learning', and features AI & Chat GPT themes. (Link here if you want to watch with ads; otherwise it's on HBO Max or Comedy Central streaming services.)
Curious what your reactions are....

Holden Karnofsky’s recent comments on FTX

Holden Karnofsky has recently shared some reflections on EA and FTX, but they’re spread out and I’d guess that few people have seen them, so I thought it could be useful to collect them here. (In general, I think collections like this can be helpful and under-supplied.) I've copied some comments in full, and I've put together a simpler list of the links in this footnote.[1]
These comments come after a few months — there’s some explanation of why that is in this post and in this comment.
Updates after FTX
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Comparing Health Interventions in Colombia and Nigeria: Which are More Effective and by How Much?

TL;DR: Nigeria bears 10 times the burden of communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional diseases per capita than Colombia, despite both countries having similar health expenditures to combat these diseases. Applying the SNT framework suggests that health interventions are around 10 times more cost-effective in Nigeria even when comparing only the poorest regions within each country.
Chatting with the members of my EA university group in Colombia, I noticed many of them were mainly interested in contributing to problems that affected their home country. Although Colombia is far from being one of the poorest countries in the world, various regions of the country still suffer from similar problems as less developed countries. I thought there might be a chance that we found opportunities with similar cost-effectiveness as those that EA tends to prioritize in the area of health and development.
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So I just vaped dmt and it was so amazing, I took about 5 hits, it wasn’t enough for a breakthrough but I didn’t want to do that yet because I am alone right now and I want to have a trip sitter when I do that. Every time I took I would spit into a Gatorade bottle because the taste is very unpleasant to me, the best way I can describe it is like inhaling and old musty antique rug and mothballs, but when I got to the last hit I blew the smoke into the bottle instead of spitting by accident because I was so out of it, I didn’t even know what was going on anymore.
Near the last hit my lips and mouth felt kind of numb and over stimulated, I felt very floaty and a deep pressure in my chest like a heavy weight inside my lungs, I felt very light headed and dizzy, I could feel the bottom of my jaw and my neck stick out like a toad does and all I could I think of was thatI was becoming the toad even though this dmt isn’t from a toad😭. and When I put the vape down I looked around and everything had a very odd ripple effect, like it was breathing, it kind of looked like how sand looks like underwater at a beach, or sort of like crumpled tin foil, I had adventure time playing on my tv😭and the characters faces looked distorted and slightly deformed, then I looked down at my dog and she was laying in a black blanket and it looked like she was dissolving into it like she had become one with the blanket and she was decomposing into the earth, she looked dead like she had melted into it and was a corpse, I looked at my wall and it looked it was sort of moving towards me and was going in and out like back and forth, then I looked at my arm and my veins looked very prominent, they were a much more vibrant deeper blue and I felt like I could see and feel the blood pumping through my arm. When I looked into the darkness of my room things like my jacket and my T-shirt on the floor had small distorted pencil drawing like faces emerging from them, everything I looked at had a very earthy looking texture and sort of maroon hue, I looked at my face on my front camera and my face looked very fat and like I was 70 years old.
I can’t really describe what I saw in words but it looked like everything was a cartoon, I am still coming down as I’m typing thing and I am having trouble remembering things, even the words are moving around on my phone as I’m typing this. It was honestly slightly nerve racking at first and then I sort of mellowed out and just accepted it and it was magical, that was by far the most relaxing and mesmerizing experience of my life, i can’t even begin to imagine what a breakthrough would be like, I vaped dmt the other day for the first time but I didn’t really do enough so it wasn’t very exciting things just looked very vibrant and sparkly, but this time wasn’t even that mind blowing it was just so pleasant and beautiful, I am so excited to experience a breakthrough I can’t even put it into words, I will definitely write a trip report when I do that with my friend. Also I am starving now after that, idk it that’s common with dmt but I want Chinese food now😭also I am definitely missing a few details because of some short term memory loss.

Essence of The Dark Father (VtM) (By ZagreusHades)

• You have become an existence equal to Caine, the First Murderer, and Lilith - the one who taught Caine the secrets that would evolve into the vampiric disciplines. You will gain the combined power, abilities and strength of both Caine and Lilith, including the ability to create vampire clans with specific disciplines and banes. You will never suffer from any negative effects of living for long periods of time and can share that same ability with others.

If Zagreus is here, I just want to know if being an existence equal to Caine means one also gets the mark and his ability to kill higher beings or induce the concept of murder into reality such as when he killed Abel (turning the angelic war into more than just a series of harmless debates), and whether or not being equal to Lilith makes us similar to an Archmage or mage who is so powerful as to be beyond stats. Because if so, then by virtue of being both, could you bypass paradox altogether thanks to being a vampire? Assuming you can't just, you know, overpower paradox or consensus outright that is. And if that is the case, does anyone have any examples of what capabilities this would entail exactly? I have an idea of what vampires can do ala Gehenna and the Antediluvians, but less so for what a 5-dot plus mage with what I can only assume would be maxed out Arete could do.
If Zagreus is not, however, than anyone knowledgeable on Mage will do.

The controller is recognized in Ghub and reads perfect in settings however when I start the game it works for maybe a second and then stops working and controls become frozen. Each time this happens the controller shows no readings in Ghub or AC settings menu. I have no idea what’s happening, have tried reinstalling everything and restarting Pc. I’ve spent nearly 7 hours trying to solve this and am now very close to throwing the setup out of my 3 story apartment.

So I just vaped dmt and it was so amazing, I took about 5 hits, it wasn’t enough for a breakthrough but I didn’t want to do that yet because I am alone right now and I want to have a trip sitter when I do that. Every time I took I would spit into a Gatorade bottle because the taste is very unpleasant to me, the best way I can describe it is like inhaling and old musty antique rug and mothballs, but when I got to the last hit I blew the smoke into the bottle instead of spitting by accident because I was so out of it, I didn’t even know what was going on anymore.
Near the last hit my lips and mouth felt kind of numb and over stimulated, I felt very floaty and a deep pressure in my chest like a heavy weight inside my lungs, I felt very light headed and dizzy, I could feel the bottom of my jaw and my neck stick out like a toad does and all I could I think of was thatI was becoming the toad even though this dmt isn’t from a toad😭. and When I put the vape down I looked around and everything had a very odd ripple effect, like it was breathing, it kind of looked like how sand looks like underwater at a beach, or sort of like crumpled tin foil, I had adventure time playing on my tv😭and the characters faces looked distorted and slightly deformed, then I looked down at my dog and she was laying in a black blanket and it looked like she was dissolving into it like she had become one with the blanket and she was decomposing into the earth, she looked dead like she had melted into it and was a corpse, I looked at my wall and it looked it was sort of moving towards me and was going in and out like back and forth, then I looked at my arm and my veins looked very prominent, they were a much more vibrant deeper blue and I felt like I could see and feel the blood pumping through my arm. When I looked into the darkness of my room things like my jacket and my T-shirt on the floor had small distorted pencil drawing like faces emerging from them, everything I looked at had a very earthy looking texture and sort of maroon hue, I looked at my face on my front camera and my face looked very fat and like I was 70 years old.
I can’t really describe what I saw in words but it looked like everything was a cartoon, I am still coming down as I’m typing thing and I am having trouble remembering things, even the words are moving around on my phone as I’m typing this. It was honestly slightly nerve racking at first and then I sort of mellowed out and just accepted it and it was magical, that was by far the most relaxing and mesmerizing experience of my life, i can’t even begin to imagine what a breakthrough would be like, I vaped dmt the other day for the first time but I didn’t really do enough so it wasn’t very exciting things just looked very vibrant and sparkly, but this time wasn’t even that mind blowing it was just so pleasant and beautiful, I am so excited to experience a breakthrough I can’t even put it into words, I will definitely write a trip report when I do that with my friend. Also I am starving now after that, idk it that’s common with dmt but I want Chinese food now😭also I am definitely missing a few details because of some short term memory loss.

So my gpu has a bit of a hard time running in dx11. I get frequent stutters near the beginning of my first few games then it eventually settles, but often it'll stutter during gunfights.
I switched my render mode to performance, and while it does help I have encountered some issues. I know that the graphics will probably look worse, I can deal with that, but one thing I absolutely cannot is when using weapons that have a sight, the game renders them in the lowest draw distance model, so half of the scope will be taken up by the model. It can take upwards of 3-5 seconds before I can use the full scope. Obviously this is something nobody wants. What can I do.
Nothing that requires updating my GPU or anything cause I have to have it configured a certain way, so I can't mess with anything other than in-game settings really.

My (22M) father is a career soldier, has been since before I was born, in fact he's served 26 years exactly, I know because he nwver forgets to tell someone. My family, including my sisters (20F, 18F) was your classic military family. He never deployed overseas, he does base maintainance stuff , but we still moved a ton. I think the longest we spent in one place between when I was born, and when I turned 18 was two and half years.
My dad was always insistant that whether or not it was in uniform, that we "serve our country" though he was never clear on what that meant. My older sister is going to school to be a L&D nurse, that counts according to him. My youngest sister joined the navy the day she turned 18, that obviously counts to him. I decided to be an electrician, that doesn't count according to him.
When I was 18 and told him he wouldn't pay for trade school (he payed for nursing school for my sister) and he didn't let me move with the family when I came time to do that a year later. I was able to get an apprenticeship with an older cousin of mine, and that's what I'm doing right now. My dad told me to my face how disappointed he was when I told him what I wanted to do, and to this day while he'll say he's proud of me, he always prefaces it with "Even though I'm disappointed you never decided to serve our country..."
I don't really care for him these days, but I still fly out at least twice a year to see my mom and sisters (who are all supportive). I was over there last month to visit, and he started telling me it was never too late to enlist, and that the military still needs electricans, and I was sick of his crap. I told him I've done as much for our country as him, all he's ever done is be a mechanic who knows how to shoot. I'm sick of him acting like he's special. He kicked me out so I went home early.
My mom and sisters don't blame me for finally snapping, but they think I went too car to imply he hasn't sacrificed for our country. I'm still not sure if I was wrong to lose it like that, but I was sick of him.

Last year my dad was dead set on buying a West Highlander Terrier. I was always an “adopt don’t shop” kind of person but he’s old school, it’s his house and there was no point in arguing. After months of convincing, my mom finally caved in after me and my older brother promised, alongside my dad, that we would take care of the dog and she’d be off the hook. So around 9 months ago, my dad bought the dog, I’ll call her L. L was a very energetic and sweet puppy that got along great with our other dog, H. H is an elderly Shih zu and very early on made it pretty clear to L that she didn’t like to play so their interactions were pretty much napping together. Now, my dad and my brother did not keep up their promise: the dog was pretty much my responsibility. I had to take her to the vet to get her shots, I was always the one to play with her and walk her, also I did most of the training as well. If I wasn’t the one training her, my mom was. Yes, despite the agreement with my dad a few months prior. But everything was ok. I enjoyed taking care of L and my mom had grown fond of her too so she wasn’t helping out of necessity, she really wanted to. I understood my dad and my brother’s side of things: my brother was busy with university and my dad’s a busy doctor. I was (still am) an university student too, but had much more time in my hands since I had just quit my job. Besides they would both walk her on the weekends, so I was fine with how things were. Things started getting bad when my training was apparently not fast enough for my dad’s liking. He would come home and lash out at me because the dog peed where it wasn’t supposed to (we live in an apartment) and would constantly threaten to get rid of L while I was sleeping. I understand it’s tiring to get home after a hard day at work and be greeted by a pool of piss but I was trying my best. I remember crying to my mom out of frustration and fear he would actually get rid of L at least once a week. But L got the hang of it as she got older so things were starting to get less stressful. And it was perfectly timed as well since I got a job offer at a pretty big tech company and became quite busy juggling work and school. Only thing is, now her relationship with H soured out of nowhere. We thought it was because of L getting on heat for the first time but that came and went and she’s still attacking H multiple times a day. Sometimes we can pin point why the fight happened, other times it comes out of nowhere. Their worst fight happened at 2AM and the whole house was sleeping so we will never know what triggered it. Ever since that day we are afraid of leaving them alone, if we weren’t there that day L would have easily killed H. L also does this thing: every time she’s disciplined she immediately attacks H afterwards. Just a stern talking to because she jumped on top of the kitchen table is enough for her to feel so stressed she attacks H. We also cannot give H any attention: L attacks her immediately. We’ve tried everything we could but this isn’t like potty training anymore: I can’t be on dog watch 12 hours a day. It’s also so disheartening because this seemed to happen out of nowhere and she just keeps getting worse. She’s even multiple times got disciplined after picking a fight and then immediately attacked H again once we are done. The vets don’t seem to know why she’s become aggressive with H this suddenly and we’ve been advised so many different things. A trainer is way too expensive for us according to my dad and just waiting until H passes away (yes, a vet did suggest this) could take anywhere between months and years since she’s healthy. It all comes down to me also not having that much time to dedicate to dog training anymore, which makes me feel so guilty but it’s the reality. I’m afraid our only option is what I feared my dad would do months ago: giving her away. I’m crying just thinking about it but I don’t know what else to do. I feel like a terrible person. I feel like I’ve failed my dog. Please I need help.

Hi everyone, new here. I’ve battled with CFS for about three years now, I’m 23 years old. I was diagnosed by a specialist early in 2021. Later that year I was bedridden for three months - only being able to leave bed for the bare minimum.
My friend managed a pub and I was able to slowly get back to work with no judgement and my progress was fantastic. My social surrounds were super supportive and over the next 4-5 months my condition improved dramatically!
I was then at a fantastic level and when my friends invited me to backpack around Europe I hesitated, but took the plunge and sent myself to the other side of the globe for 4 months.
It wasn’t always easy, and at times I needed to slow down, take a break and perhaps not do what the others were doing at that time.
But I went, and I had some of the most remarkable experiences of my life!
Since returning however, I lost sight of my fatigue - perhaps burying my head in the sand and once again denying its existence. Working myself to the ground and now putting myself in a poor functioning level once again. I’ve since accepted that given this resurgence, I’ll have this condition for life.
When I read through the posts here there are a lot of bleak anecdotes which is completely understandable!
My lesson here is that when I was bedridden for those three months I saw no light at the end of the tunnel. I thought I’d be refined to this bed forever.
But 12 months later I was in Europe drinking chilled red wine on the Cinque Terra for my birthday!
I understand everyone’s condition is different and I might be luckier then some - but there is always hope.
After accepting that my fatigue has returned, and that it’s my fault - I recognise that I’m going to need to quit my physical job and find something a bit more feasible. I also don’t have the cushion of the financial position that I did two years ago. Eyes are on me to get started on my career and I’ll likely let them down. It’s stressful.
I also recognise that I’ll likely get worse before I get better.
But I do know now that I can get better, and that I will get better again. And I want you all to see that!
Just because you can’t necessarily be cured doesn’t mean you can’t have a better quality of life.
I’m keen to get involved in this community!

Hey! From folks who have gone to the UMO shows for this tour, did they have an opener? And around what time did the actual show start?

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. -Sun Tzu (The Art of War) This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object, as Tu Mu puts it, is "to make him believe that there is a road to safety, and thus prevent his fighting with the courage of despair." Tu Mu adds pleasantly: "After that, you may crush him."
Ape Goals:

1. Hurt the Hedgies
   
2. Apes get rich
   
3. Criminals go to Prison
   
4. The following plan has an additional benefit: Apes keep the shares at the end.
   

According to all the DD the "Hedgies funds are Fuk"
They are "FUK" because they got caught doing a thing they have done many times before: Killing a company for profit.
It is a battle to the death. If the Short Sellers kill the company they feast. If they fail to kill the company, they get feasted upon.
They failed to kill Gamestop.
Now the Apes gather for the feast. What will that feast look like? Will Shorts line up in an orderly fashion and hand over all their money then peacefully go to jail?
Yes, if we give them the chance!
The other option is that they commit suicide in the way that hurts Apes the most. That is what this post seeks to avoid and the reason for the opening quote.
Short positions owe mote than 100% of the float.
IF THEY HAD INFINITY DOLLARS IT WOULD NOT BE ENOUGH.
Apes know we will never get infinity dollars because infinity is not a thing in physical reality. We cannot demand infinity dollars and expect to be taken seriously. We can only demand ALL the dollars and the criminals go to prison.
It is time to change that. It is time to give the shareholders of the institutions that shorted GME the opportunity to hand over all their money, send their C suite to prison, and close the position.
Here is how.
(This is for RC and the managers of GME to implement. I post it here to trouble shoot the idea and get RC's eyeballs on it.)
GME Solution:

1. Issue one NFT per existing share as Proof of Original Ownership (POO). Those who DRSed will immediately get the POO. Those who have not DRSed might find out they have no POO and be sad or fight for their right to have POO.
   
2. AFTER POOs are established, offer to create as many shares as needed for Shorts to close their positions at Penalty Price (PP). PP, for any given institution = 100% of the value of that institution's assets. (This fulfils goal 1. Hurt the Hedgies.)
   
3. All penalty funds would be distributed to POO HODLers as dividends. (This fulfils goal 2. Apes get rich.)
   
4. Shareholders of the institutions that shorted Gamestop can offer evidence and testimony in exchange for a discount on the PP. If GME hits the institution with a smaller PP, the institution might be able to survive or recover intact. If nothing else, enduring a smaller PP would allow the shareholders to escape with something. This would greatly incentivize the shareholders to betray the criminals. (This fulfils goal 3. Criminals go to Prison.)
   
5. Here's my favorite part: If RC and the rest of the GME management team adopt this strategy and allow the Short institutions to give Apes everything we want in exchange for a small portion of the value of their institutions, the Apes don't have to do anything but HODL. There is no need to sell stocks and experience all the price uncertainty that goes with selling too early or too late. There is no regret at losing stocks with sentimental attachment. Apes just keep HODLing while money comes in and criminals go away.
   

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What do you think? (Please be gentle.)

I wrote this about two months ago in my journal and it changed my life.
"I'm hoping this is it. This is the time where I transition into the person I need to be. A person that becomes ignorant to the nihilistic world around him. The deep comfort of being a nyctophiliac dissipates and the world finally opens up for what it truly is. A world not perceived through discouraging pessimism and hardship, but instead one that is filled with opportunity that leads to having a genuine sense of contentment. All of the chaotic emotions and thoughts stop governing how I understand the world. I break free and let go, starting the long-awaited process of becoming Max 2.0. I finally become conscientious of my actual priorities and attack the world for what it is, not run away from what it's not. To obtain the ultimate goal of happiness the new perspective has to be implemented and the old has to be disregarded. Attacking the opportunity leads to accomplishments, accomplishments allow you to have something to stand on, which grants one with a true feeling of contentment and fulfillment. One that is content with their life is one that is happy. In truth, no one can save me from the inevitable misery to come without change but myself. The world is fundamentally dark and bleak but that can change if you're able to look at it differently."
This sort of perspective switch saved me. If you're in a position where everything in your life seems to be collapsing, just trust the bizarre process of life, and in time your perspective on the matter will change.

I’ve been NC with my mother for over 2 years. Best 2 years of my life.
Unfortunately, she doesn’t know what boundaries are and does not care about or respect mine. For the first year of going NC, she would text (until I blocked her) and email me from different addresses as often as once a week. Anything from “please call me” to “listen to this anti-psychic energy attack audio so you stop being depressed” to paranoid things like “my boss and landlord put cameras in my apartment and are spying on me, I’m going to quit my job, move apartments, and change my phone number and get new email addresses”. Every time she gets a new number or email she’ll text me with it because obviously I wouldn’t have had the chance to block it yet, and tell me to save her contact info. And I’ll get bombarded with 40+ texts in the span of 3 minutes. It’s exhausting.
One of her tactics in this last year, since none of her efforts have worked, is trying to scare me by threatening me with my grandparent’s (her parents) health and possible deaths. They’re elderly, live overseas, and she has sent me a couple emails now with various stories and alternating pleading/threats of how “one of them just got rushed to the hospital so call me immediately”, or “you’ll be sorry if they die and you didn’t get to see them”, or “your grandmother is having breathing troubles, I think her time is almost up”, or “you’ll regret this forever if you don’t listen to me and go visit them with me”.
She keeps emailing how worried they are about me and they want to see me, and that I should call them or email them, but she doesn’t provide me with any way to contact them and it’s because she knows that the only way to get their contact info is through her. There’s a language barrier and that’s why I always had to have my parents help to translate and communicate. I speak to my father, and she knows I can get him to translate too, so this is why I know this attempt to get me to “reconnect” with my grandparents is not an actual good faith effort to do right by them.
I love my grandparents despite the language and culture barriers, and my mom may well be telling some truth about their deteriorating health, but I think it’s so gross how she uses them as bait to try to get me to break NC and relent. 2 years in, she still doesn’t respect me or my wishes and keeps trying to manipulate me. I don’t understand how she can stoop so low. It’s still not going to work in getting me to cave, but it’s impressive how shameless this all is.
She just doesn’t give up.

Just wanted to get some clarification.
I recently got the one-time purchase of CSP (2.0) bc of the sale, and have been enjoying it so far.
However, I was reading on some other threads that updates would require an update pass?? I'm confused about this. Is that for all plans/purchases (both subscription and one time purchase), or is it just for people who got the subscription? Do I need the update pass even if i got one-time purchase? How does this work?
I'm gonna try reading CSP's site, however I wanted to know from people who have used CSP longer than I have what this means. I'd appreciate it!
Edit: I guess overall, I want to ask: If i got the one-time purchase of 2.0, do i still need to get an update pass?? Or is that up in the air rn?? This is all so new to me, sorry.

Hi loseit,
Back in 2018 I was quite overweight (M, 175 cm, 89 kg) and i finally decided to take my health seriously and managed to lose about 25 kg in half a year by restricting calories to 1500. At my lowest i managed to get to 61.5 kg. I mostly managed to maintain it since with some zigzaging, occationally gaining and losing in the 62-65 range. After losing weight i started running which helped me maintain it.
About half a year ago my leg started feeling numb and i had to stop running. I went to more than a few doctors and could not get a diagnosis until eventually the numbness started speading over the entire right side of my body. When my face started feeling numb i had enough with waiting for doctors and was admitted to the hospital where they finally did a CT and MRI scan.
Surprise- turns out i have central nervous system demyelinating disease. I don’t have a specific diagnosis yet but Multiple sclerosis is probable. I was hospitalized for 10 days where they gave my a very high dosage of Prednisone (an anti inflammatory steroid). After being released from the hospital i was forced to be on sick leave until further notice. As of now i have been at home for a month and a half, and i have had to take prednisone since my hospitalisation to slowly lower the dosage.
Me first of all not exercising for a while, and then being off of work at home for months while simultaniously having to take a drug known to cause weight gain has done some very bad things to my weight. As if today i am 69.5 kg and i am VERY scared. I am seriously considering restaring my old diet to go back to an actually healthy and reasonable weight.
My problem is that motivation is a lot harder to come by duo to my environment. Even before i mentioned to my parents and grandma that i am restarting my diet they said that i look “better” or “healthier” at this weight, and that i looked “underweight” previously. Obviously, they are against me calorie counting again. At the same time my partner also said she thinks i look better like this than when i was at my lowest. I for one think they are wrong and not looking at it objectivly, and even if it does “look better” (it absolutly does not) my health is more importaint to me and i am currently going in a very dangerous direction.
I know telling people can generally be a mistake but in my situation is unavoidable- as long as i am at home it’s impossible to hide calorie counting since i need to weigh stuff.
I am going to do this anyway, but i conceded to at least talk with a dietician first. Seems to me like a waste of time considering i already have a process that works but maybe at least i can get them to support me. It just makes my kind of sad that i have to convince people close to me to “let” me try to improve my health.

Ask not--thatyemayconsumeituponyourlusts ; ask with a firmness unshaken -- that ye may yield to no temptation -- that ye may serve (pause) the trueandlivingGod.
Ask not--thatyemayconsumeituponyourlusts ; ask with a firmness unshaken -- that ye may yield to no temptation -- that ye may serve (pause) the trueandlivingGod.
Ask not--thatyemayconsumeituponyourlusts ; ask with a firmness unshaken -- that ye may yield to no temptation -- that ye may serve (pause) the trueandlivingGod.
It's from the book of Mormon within the Book of Mormon. If I were pressed at gunpoint I would say Mormon chapter 9, but don't quote me on it. I met with missionaries again in fall 2021, to try and start over from the beginning. I learned from elders (men missionaries) this time instead of sisters (women missionaries). Not that that matters at all. Just, what was sexual. Well it was just more immature the way we boys are.
Just throwing this out there, but if I'm bored, something useful that I can due is re-read the Book of Mormon. It's not the only thing I can do, it's not even necessarily the best thing that I can do. But it's an option. I haven't read it in full in over ten years.