Basic kibble ark

Hello! I'd like to preface this by saying I'm not trying to complain and am actually really loving Lost Ark so far. The graphics are amazing, story is enjoyable, combat is unique, and I assume lots of people like the game based on how many bots there are in the starting area.
I recently picked up Lost Ark and just hit combat level 39 on my Artist. I see a lot of places talking about how raids and cool gear upgrades are available at level 50, which I assume isn't too far away, but I'm a little confused on how long that'll take me. I currently have 38 hours on the game, and I don't know if that's typical or not. I'm just wondering how much longer it should take me to get to play with other people, because it's pretty lonely in the earlier areas.
I usually complete games pretty fast which is why I'm curious. I've been completing all the quests I come across and collecting mokoko seeds but other than hitting that stupid barricade on Mount Zagoras for like 40 minutes, I haven't really been doing anything too crazy or out of the way. Should I be farther along by now? Is there something I'm missing?
Also, when do I get cute outfits? The ones I'm getting now are basically recolors of the same crop top and booty shorts (I don't mind the style it's just that this green + brown combo is giving me hives), and I'm really jealous of the cute mage outfits I keep seeing on the bots. Are there any outfits I can get for actual money? When I open the shop I just see a couple simple coats and some baseball outfits (?) but sometimes on the loading screen I see an "Artist outfit" promotion. Are those actual gear sets I'd have to level up to be able to buy?
This is a lot of questions rolled into one and sorry for the wall of text! I'm just kind of twiddling my thumbs atm because I find the combat not super challenging thanks to the new character buff. I haven't died or even been close once, is the class I chose overpowered or something? It is still fun but I want to play with other people. Also not used to Reddit so let me know if I should format posts differently or word things in a different way :)

Basically the title. I'm fostering a lovely, sweet mama kitty pregnant with her first litter of 5 kittens. She is super friendly so the foster org thinks she was raised in a house and then abandoned.
She's right near term and showing signs of labour happening soon. Her appetite has been on/off for about 3 days and you can see a *ton* of movement in her belly - her babies must be doing kung fu in there and are getting ready to come out!
However, for the last day and a half she has been vomiting. Her stomach was empty at first, this afternoon she ate some kibble and threw up about half of it. She ate some more this evening and threw up again a few hours later, no kibble this time.
Should I be worried? I know vomiting can happen during the first phase of labour but this has gone on longer than 6-12 hours. She seems very close to term but is not showing other signs of being in labour yet. She won't let me leave the room without meowing like mad, so I'm staying with her. What do I do?

For context; I played Sorc (~lv22, initially easy mode then upgraded up one difficulty when it was too easy) and Rogue (~lv9) on a 3000 series Ryzen 7 and a 3060 gpu with Windows 11 x64.

Starting off with the great

• Art direction is fantastic
• Spells and skills feel great
• Combat still feels slick
• Cinematics team is still one of the best
• I appreciate that its got an M17+ rating
• Mark as junk is a welcome improvement for inventory management. I kinda wish there was more marking types (mark as junk, mark for scrapping, etc)
• Storytelling has definitely stepped up from the Saturday Disney villains of Diablo 3
• Never had a crash!
• I like the revised potion system

I'll start with what could potentially be fixed by launch

• Rubber-banding issues when walking between areas. I kept running into invisible walls and then bounced back to a previous spot when walking between two areas. Most notably the Kyovashad and Eastern Gatehouse/Cathedral of Light.
• An annoying delay after talking to an NPC while the camera pans, preventing you from choosing the next dialog options. I'm a bit of a lore junkie and playing it for the plot.
• Can't always skip dialogue with characters? Couldn't seem to find a pattern with it.
• Subtitles on movies are buggy. Doesn't go away after words are spoken or de-sync within a minute.
• The (dungeons?) felt too too big, overstaying their welcome. I had moments that I was so bored while backtracking that I actually dozed off at the computer.
• Big bosses seem to be mainly damage sponges. The one at the end of Act1 took forever with 2p, despite the pattern not deviating much other than attacks speeding up a bit.
• If I'm playing solo, please for the love of Akarat pause the damn game when I press ESC. Coming back to a dead character after having to run off and do something on a moments notice isn't fun.
• I can see textures loading in as cutscenes play.
• Why can't I right-click and teleport to someone in my party? The friend I was playing with was genuinely angry about it
• It's too easy to miss waypoints. Could we automatically activate them once we step foot into a town?
• Camera zoom levels of the gameplay area (this has been discussed thoroughly by others already)
• Comparing off-hand damage tooltips seems buggy (off-hand skull showing me +1 damage, swapped off-hand showing me +13 damage). How could they both be better than the other?
• Every cellar I went into was the same hallway/room. Did I just have awful RNG?
• My basic lightning arc attack was one-shotting mobs. Chain lightning destroyed everything it touched. The iconic frozen orb spell? Merely tickled the enemies...
• Exit dungeon button is useless whenever I reach for it. Dungeon map doesn't always have "leave dungeon" or leave area. I don't always want to TP back to town.
• I keep pressing "E" by accident during a battle and it is always followed by panic as chunks of my HP are taken out. Remapped it to backspace
• Performance is steady for the most part, but randomly stutters for a few moments.
• Consider unlocking the skill slots for the earlier levels as we gain more skills. What's the point of letting us unlock multiple skills if we didn't have the ability to use them in slots?
• Sometimes pinned locations on the map will show you a red line path that isn't valid

Post-launch improvements?

• Character designer has so little options compared to Lost Ark. The interface to create your character felt really clunky too (eg. left/right buttons instead of a gallery)
• If I was somewhat bored with the "increased drop rates" during beta then I'm not really looking forward to the launch drop rates
• Only realising it now after the beta had finished, I never noticed the music in the game. Is there even any music?
• For a game that was touted as Diablo+MMO I found very little reason to interact with strangers, and even if I wanted I found it very difficult to figure out how.

Things that stop me from buying but unlikely to be fixed, ever

• No offline mode for console. I am not paying a monthly subscription fee to PSN/Xbox to play Diablo solo.
  
• The story-telling mechanisms used are cheap. D4 is too much "telling", not showing
  

-- Over-use of holograms to re-tell events
-- Neyrelle's mum is having the time of her life following Lilith around. Why on earth does she spend so much time leaving diary entries on stone tablets?

• The plot/dialogue is an insult to the intelligence of the M17+ audience. I found Dead Cells had a more intriguing way of telling a story than Diablo 4.

-- After gruesome scene where priest is killed in church, Lilith speaks to guy in hoodie, "Now our true work begins" - that last line cheapened the whole scene. Would have maintained a more menacing tone by ending with "Go to the Dry Steppes and proceed with preparations".
-- Our character is drugged and abducted after their first meal, escape and hours later happily agrees to enjoy a meal with another total stranger (Lorath)
-- A grave danger has been unleashed upon this world, we need to hurry! But first, carry this token around in the snow to a few altars. Then seek blessing from our living Angel. Oh he didn't approve? That's ok, I'll bless you anyways lulz
-- Nobody in town seems surprised by my discoveries about the big baddie. They all seem to be ahead of any developments, why cant they just save the world themselves?

• The world feels TOO big? I felt fatigue looking at the map and thinking about how much walking is required before a mount is unlocked. Parts of the game felt like a walking simulator (could just be a me-problem)
• Sorc skill-tree seems too linear, felt more like a skill-stick.
• Missing the feeling of building a character the way we want and having items supplement that build, rather than the other way around. Most notable after playing D2R prior to D4 beta.
  
• Why no local co-op for PC?
  
• I feel nothing towards the MMO aspects of the game.
  
• I feel next to nothing towards the story of the game.
  
• I thought my friend was lying about how much the game costs (too damn much)
  

Thanks Blizzard for the D4 open beta, but I have now confirmed that the franchise is no longer what I crave for in an ARPG.
This is really sad for me as I always saw Diablo 1 as the genre defining game and Diablo 2/LoD/D2R as the gold standard that every game aspired to be. Hundreds of hours sunk into D1/D2LoD, not even including the time on creating fan apps (mobile app for Runewords) and D2 mods. D3 was ok, RoS fixed it up but the ARPG genre now has alternatives.
Diablo 4 is a decent game. I want it to succeed and I'm sure many will enjoy it thoroughly, but it's not for me.

I just recently fired up MEA because the monkey part of my brain saw a clip of MEA on TT and decided I need to play it again so here we are.
I am now doing Cora loyalty mission Sarissa reasoning abandoning their pathfinder to steal the data from the kett sound more of an ego trip than a survival reason.
The Asari have a SAM so couldn’t their SAM find away through the Scourge like our SAM can ?
I get Ryder SAM is more advanced but from my understanding a basic SAM should be able to find a path through the Scourge.
I get that the kett are a threat and the data could be used to help navigate the Scourge but it seem stupid and irresponsible to put the whole ark in danger for the Data. Iam sure their SAM could of found a hiding spot until help arrived.
At the end of the mission we can keep quite about Sarissa sacrificing their pathfinder for the kett Data or expose Sarissa and either make Vederia pathfinder or keep Sarissa as pathfinder.
At the end of the mission what did you chose and why ?
Did anyone else find Cora cringe and annoying during this mission?
Vederia to me comes across as incompetent rather than inexperienced but Sarissa ego cost to many lives.

Does anyone hate when a self insert is written into a story and the already built up chatecters are put into a horrible light just to make the oc look better?
An example of this is in a Sasuke self insert fanfiction, I dont remember the name but in the story the main charecter essentially says that naruto talked about how he wanted to be the hokage but never worked to doing it
Which is funny because the entirety of naruto and naruto shippuden is naruto working up to being hokage, which he can't do if he isn't an adequate ninja, which he's working on being so he can be hokage
And what makes this worse is that this is just after the massacre, so this is YOUNG naruto
It really upset me so I didn't read past that part But another example is a marvel fanfiction about this guy that makes these steps to becoming omnipotent Not gonna say the name but I stopped reading after he basically helped colonize wakanda, killed the queen, and somehow earned the power of bast even though he basically ravaged the country she's the deity of
And one of the other things that pissed me off about that was the fact that he was punched by a vibranium suit, caught the attack, and then proceeded to say that wakandas technology wasnt comparable to Tony starks
And you may think "thats kinda understandable with what Tony stark has made" But then you realize that this is only iron just before iron man 2 or after 1 Which means either he just made the ark reactor Or the arc reactor is still killing him
It also means that this isn't even when iron man made his nano tech suit And yet he basucally said that the 3rd suit he made was better then wakandas technology
Do you also hate when a self inster or oc story completely changes the world around them or makes charecters weaker just to fit their own narrative?

Link:
This is a web game that should work in the browser via HTML5, tested in Chrome and Edge without extensions. The project was created in Unity (C#). It's not currently particularly mobile compatible, as the viewport isn't setup for anything other than PC and there's no way to use the hotkeys.
https://umbragames.itch.io/brel-g6-practice-tool
Why?
It seems G6 progression groups have people dying constantly to the hallucination mechanic, prog basically means two hours of losing 1–4 people to this mechanic. Taking learners usually means restarting the gate until they finally nail the controls, while they feel bad about wasting everyone's time. I also see PLCs die to the second hallucination, which can of course spell disaster if you don't have the combination, and it's chosen. Long story short, I recreated the mechanic and uploaded it to Itch to allow people to practice in a stress-free environment.
The main difference is that the simulator continues endlessly, instead of repeating the pattern, since that's the easy part. It also has a much lower chance to repeat patterns in sequence. The game currently has no sound effects, menu, or death screen. Maybe they'll be added in a future update. Your deaths are simply tallied for now and displayed at the top of the screen.
The reversed controls are almost a 1:1 recreation as far as I can tell, so it should be exactly what you can expect to deal with.
Mechanics:
Hallucination 1:
Cycle's reversal > non reversal > reversal endlessly, as this is effectively how it works in game.
Hallucination 2:
567 are destroyed and reversal is randomly applied, so you'll have to be on your toes. Usually people use defensive sidereal to avoid the reversal here, however sometimes people die, and you need Azena's damage, so being able to deal with random reverse is important.
Hallucination 3 (requested, added)
11-12-1 are destroyed, reversal is randomly applied. Preparation for HM strategies.
White character = reversal is not applied.
Purple character = reversal is applied.
Keybinds:
LMB/RMB – move/stop (toggle which button does what with W.)
Q/E – adjust FOV if you feel it's not quite as it should be. To be accurate, you should not be able to see both 3 and 9 while standing dead centre, as you cannot in game. It looks like you can see the edges of the tiles in 21:9 if you're standing dead centre.
LeftShift / LeftControl - increase/decrease player speed, just for fun, really. It's already tuned to be about as difficult as the game version is.
Tab – swaps between altered reality 1/2/3, this also resets all of your other settings, so it works as a reset.
R – locks the current state of reversal, useful if you want to keep it on to get used to it or off to simulate sidereal.
T – adds a flash when the tile attempts to kill you, somewhat like the one in game. Off by default, no impact other than visuals.
Spacebar - instead of a dash, it's a simple 1-second speed-up with an 8-second cooldown. You can make it from 3>9 if you immediately click back to centre like you should, so ideally you can complete it without space bar, but it's in game, so you do have it as a bailout.
A closing warning:
Lost Arks visual effects are far less clear than this simulator, people often die on the second reality as they can't tell the difference between a damaged tile and a death zone. It'd suggest watching videos a few times to be able to easily recognize the visual effect.
Future Development:
I may add additional stuff if they're any requests that don't take too long. If anyone else is interested in adding features, improving the art/VFX or whatever, I can upload the source to GitHub. However, as Unity handles a ton via the inspector, you'd likely also need Unity (2022.2.0f1) installed. The main thing I personally think would improve the project would be having the VFX as close to 1:1 as possible with Lost Ark.

Sailing I could very easily see being a fun skill to engage with.
It has a large variety of different ways to train with obvious tie-ins to other skills like Fishing, Hunter and Slayer (tracking and killing sea monsters), Construction, Combat, etc.
Regardless of the rewards, I think it will have a lot to offer in terms of adding fun and unique experiences to the game.
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Taming I could also see being quite enjoyable.
When playing Summoning in RS3, I always disliked having to train the skill by farming Charms, most of the time the summons were used for their passive boosts rather than them fighting with you as you needed scrolls and summoning points to regularly use their special moves, which I also thought was a bit obtrusive.
Taming however seems to not have any of these issues. Tames are permanent so no having to bring summon potions and spare pouches to sustain them, the training method of them gaining exp with you sounds like a fun way to train them and may encourage players to re-engage in activities they haven't done in a while to level tames (i.e. go fishing to level a fishing related tame), and I always enjoyed the hunter skill in general so having to do a special trapping method to tame a creature sounds fun in the first place.
As with anything Combat related, balance is the main concern. I think those details can be ironed out later.
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Shamanism, while I think looks thematically cool, I think whether its a good skill or not entirely relies on what the magical items do and what the upgrades are.
Making magical objects is most likely just like any other artisan skill already in the game, so there's not much new and fun experiences to be had making those. The entire enjoyment comes from using the objects if and only if these objects have cool functionality, and the same goes with the upgrade system.
Basically, how good this skill feels to train and use entirely relies on information we don't have yet.
Playing RS3's Invention and Archaeology skills (of which this skill has many parallels with an item upgrade system and relics that presumably will provide passive effects), I'm not super confident the upgrades or special passive effects will be all that cool or useful as I found a lot of the effects to be very high effort for very minor benefits (as they too wanted to try to ease into adding new upgrade systems to the game to prevent balance from getting thrown out of whack).
A lot of the other non-combat effects that I think magical tools could have that could spice up OSRS's gameplay, I could easily also see just being in the Taming Skill just the same. For example RS3's Divination Portents that allow for auto-banking could be done by a monkey tame or something that brings items back to your bank, or various passive boosts could just be passive effects of having a tame with you.
This begs the question, if tames sound more fun to capture and train, could reasonably provide most of the same functionality as magical items could, and both skills could reasonably make use of the Hunter skill's underutilized resources (kibble from bird/kebbit meat, tame armo equipment/ saddles/ satchels/ etc from hides), then wouldn't Taming just all around be a more solid skill?
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I personally think Sailing sounds the most fun, but I could also see myself very much enjoying Taming.
Shamanism doesn't necessarily look bad, it's just that it looks like it doesn't look particularly new or exciting on its own without knowing what the upgrades / items it provides do, and even then it feels like those things could be done in a more enjoyable way through Taming instead.

Sorry if this is too irrelevant but I feel like it fits. If it doesn't then I will remove it.
My Christian friend and I were talking about religion yesterday, since I had recently stopped being a Christian and we were discussing it. It was quite a long back and forth that was quite civil until the very end. I asked her some questions about the god she worships, and tried to test if she knew the bible or if she was just repeating what she had been told. She seemed to have some misconceptions about it, believing that Satan created hell and it was his "realm" and that Yahweh sends "bad people" like rapists, pedophiles and murderers to hell as punishment, instead of Satan being punished along with any unbelievers in the ,,realm” that Yahweh created for them. She didn't know that the bible says that ALL people are "bad" but by god's grace they'd be saved. I corrected her on these things and she really didn't seem to disagree. I told her several times throughout that I'm just trying to have a discussion with her and I'm not trying to fight, because she tends to get heated about things very quickly and easily. I told her that the bible is like 2000 years old, and it's been rewritten several times and people interpret it in many different ways. She didn't deny this and actually agreed, and we came to a point where she actually said that maybe some of the things are very historically incorrect, maybe key points like Noah's ark or Adam and Eve's stories just didn't happen and were put in by people. She even went as far as to say that maybe Satan doesn't exist or is working with Yahweh (I'm not sure because she was unclear on that). Then I asked her how she would know what she can and cannot trust if these things were wrong. She ignored the question even though I asked her quite a few times throughout our conversation (like maybe 3-4?).
Then something just seemed to "flip" with her and she got really pissed off with me. She turned to insulting me like she usually does with any serious discussion and I pointed out that it was uncalled for, and then she said I can't play the victim and act like I'm the one being "attacked" when that's what I was doing to her. Insulting or offending her wasn't what I was trying to do at all, and I don't think I said anything offensive. She said several times that I insulted her and her matrix friend so I can't be upset about being insulted. I also asked her where I insulted her a few times (also like 3-4) and she hasn't told me. I really have no idea what I did to make her that upset, and I'm not sure what to apologise for because she hasn't told me what I actually did.
So basically it got down to the two questions "How do you know to trust the bible if you've already admitted that it's probably not a reliable source?" And "Where did I offend you and your matric friend?" And she is just ignoring me. It's frustrating because I don't want to leave things off on a bad note like this and at the very least I'd like her to show me her perspective so that I can understand but she isn't. She said some things that make me a bit confused, like she said that she doesn't believe Satan exists and when I asked her to elaborate then she said she didn't say that, so I pointed out where she said it and she is ignoring it. I'm wondering if I made her doubt the bible by asking her those questions and she got upset from that? Or I just misunderstood something…? I'm sorry for this is was kind of a long vent.

We are Ark 2 Ready! Servers are prepared and will be accepting new survivors on Release Day! Join now to be a part of a great community when Ark 2 comes out!
Davidscloud Raidable Bases are back! Raid custom build bases to get the loot, for that PVP flavor while maintaining that laid back PVE environment!
Welcome survivors! Have you been looking for a cluster where you can get a little bit of everything ark has to offer but still play with the same great people across the board? Well, here at Davidscloud we can offer just such a cluster! We have everything ranging from vanilla maps for those who just want to play the basics all the way up to Primal Fear. All of our servers are interconnected with a cluster-wide general chat (so you can still talk to your friends on Primal Fear if you are just hanging in your Island base!) unique creatures, interactive weekly events, and so much more. We strive to provide top-of-the-line admin support and gaming experience with as little downtime as physically possible with our personally owned servers. Our community is a non-profit group with the goal to provide a place to play for every game available to the public and we ask nothing in return other than our players having fun and enjoying their time here. Davidscloud is a long-standing community over 8 years strong with trained and experienced admins and owners. Feel free to message us with questions anytime and we will get back to you as quickly as possible!
Our server rates are the following: -Harvesting: 5.0x -Taming: 10.0x -XP: 5.0x -Egg Hatch Speed: 5.0x -Maturation Speed: 15.0x
Server Extras -All engrams Unlockable -Cross Cluster Chat (also available in Discord) -A starter kit that spawns automatically for new players. -A currency system. -Shop where you can buy things with metal ingots and currency points. -Custom built raidable bases, for that PVP flavor in a PVE environment! -Web View of your tribe and dinos so you can see your stuff remotely! (The Almanac) -Professional Admins and Website. -Events every month. Storage Map with a 1 year decay timer. (Only available to the Vanilla Cluster.)
Contact Us -Web Page: Davidscloud.net -Discord: https://discord.gg/wDPY5yr​
Mods: You can see all the mods listed for each server here https://www.davidscloud.net/servers/
Primal Fear (all cluster mods plus) -Primal Fear -Primal Fear Aberration Expansion -Primal Fear Boss Expansion -Primal Fear Extinction Expansion -Primal Fear Genesis Expansion
Connection Information: IP’s are below or alternatively go here (https://www.davidscloud.net/servers/), and click the join button or copy the IP of any server we host.
Vanilla IP’s
-The Island: dscgames.net:27045
-Scorched Earth: dscgames.net:27016
-Aberration: dscgames.net:27013
-Extinction: dscgames.net:27080
-Genesis Pt 1: dscgames.net:27050
-Genesis Pt 2: dscgames.net:29805
-Ragnarok: dscgames.net:27025
-Valguero: dscgames.net:27085
-Crystal Isles: dscgames.net:28080
-Lost Island: dscgames.net:29821
-Fjordur: dscgames.net:28037
-Ice Age: dscgames.net:28015
Primal Fear IP's
-Lost Island: dscgames.net:28010
-Ragnarok: dscgames.net:28005
-Crystal Isles: dscgames.net:28008
-Valguero: dscgames.net:28045

We are Ark 2 Ready! Servers are prepared and will be accepting new survivors on Release Day! Join now to be a part of a great community when Ark 2 comes out!
Davidscloud Raidable Bases are back! Raid custom build bases to get the loot, for that PVP flavor while maintaining that laid back PVE environment!
Welcome survivors! Have you been looking for a cluster where you can get a little bit of everything ark has to offer but still play with the same great people across the board? Well, here at Davidscloud we can offer just such a cluster! We have everything ranging from vanilla maps for those who just want to play the basics all the way up to Primal Fear. All of our servers are interconnected with a cluster-wide general chat (so you can still talk to your friends on Primal Fear if you are just hanging in your Island base!) unique creatures, interactive weekly events, and so much more. We strive to provide top-of-the-line admin support and gaming experience with as little downtime as physically possible with our personally owned servers. Our community is a non-profit group with the goal to provide a place to play for every game available to the public and we ask nothing in return other than our players having fun and enjoying their time here. Davidscloud is a long-standing community over 8 years strong with trained and experienced admins and owners. Feel free to message us with questions anytime and we will get back to you as quickly as possible!
Our server rates are the following: -Harvesting: 5.0x -Taming: 10.0x -XP: 5.0x -Egg Hatch Speed: 5.0x -Maturation Speed: 15.0x
Server Extras -All engrams Unlockable -Cross Cluster Chat (also available in Discord) -A starter kit that spawns automatically for new players. -A currency system. -Shop where you can buy things with metal ingots and currency points. -Custom built raidable bases, for that PVP flavor in a PVE environment! -Web View of your tribe and dinos so you can see your stuff remotely! (The Almanac) -Professional Admins and Website. -Events every month. Storage Map with a 1 year decay timer. (Only available to the Vanilla Cluster.)
Contact Us -Web Page: Davidscloud.net -Discord: https://discord.gg/wDPY5yr​
Mods: You can see all the mods listed for each server here https://www.davidscloud.net/servers/
Primal Fear (all cluster mods plus) -Primal Fear -Primal Fear Aberration Expansion -Primal Fear Boss Expansion -Primal Fear Extinction Expansion -Primal Fear Genesis Expansion
Connection Information: IP’s are below or alternatively go here (https://www.davidscloud.net/servers/), and click the join button or copy the IP of any server we host.
Vanilla IP’s
-The Island: dscgames.net:27045
-Scorched Earth: dscgames.net:27016
-Aberration: dscgames.net:27013
-Extinction: dscgames.net:27080
-Genesis Pt 1: dscgames.net:27050
-Genesis Pt 2: dscgames.net:29805
-Ragnarok: dscgames.net:27025
-Valguero: dscgames.net:27085
-Crystal Isles: dscgames.net:28080
-Lost Island: dscgames.net:29821
-Fjordur: dscgames.net:28037
-Ice Age: dscgames.net:28015
Primal Fear IP's
-Lost Island: dscgames.net:28010
-Ragnarok: dscgames.net:28005
-Crystal Isles: dscgames.net:28008
-Valguero: dscgames.net:28045

I hope that didn’t come off tooooo passive aggressive.. but maybe it still grabbed your attention? Anyways, here is the meat and potatoes of my pitch!
I have been on and off Reddit for a little while. I’m hoping to reconnect with those I’ve lost touch with or find new people to chat with regularly. If we click and it feels right, I like the idea of opening up more and talking about deeper topics and life in general. I miss the days when I had friends I could check in with and feel like we support one another. I am on a journey of sorts to improve my mental health and heal from my past, more specifically my childhood. I have an easier time talking to women or those who are more empathetic, but as long as effort is put into the conversation I will give anyone a chance. I’m not picky about age, just be 18+ please. I tend to be an anxious and more introverted person. But I digress, it’s up to you to find out more if you so choose!
I am in a committed relationship, so SFW intentions only. We also have a daughter, who is absolutely perfect. I would love to hear all about your experiences if you share these things or want that someday. I will include some more of my interests below, it’s a bonus if we have these in common but not required to chat!
•Video games- I enjoy first person shooters, role playing games and survival games. Specific games I have played in the past are fallout 3, fallout new Vegas, fallout 4, fallout 76, borderlands, borderlands 2, borderlands the presequel, borderlands 3, ark survival evolved, and grounded.
•Tattoos and piercings- I have 5, including my sleeve which will be totally done very soon!
•Animals- I have 3 cats and an infinite amount of pictures to share (standing offer).
Those are just some basic things about me, if you want to ask more specific questions or get to know me better just message me! Tell me a little bit about yourself and the rest will fall into place.

Israel has been rocked by weekly protests since a series of judicial reforms were unveiled in January, but the situation came to a head on Monday, as coalition divisions became apparent and the nation's largest labor union threatened to shut down the country. Flights were grounded at Ben Gurion International Airport, ports, banks and schools began to close, while a strike by the medical association left hospitals with skeleton crews. Earlier, military reservists from key units had refused to serve, triggering national security threats, and while Israel's defense minister flagged the concerns, he was fired for calling for a pause to the legislation.
Quote: "When it is possible to prevent a civil war through dialogue, I, as the prime minister, will take the time for dialogue," Bibi Netanyahu said in a televised address from Jerusalem. "Out of national responsibility, and to prevent a rift in the nation, I decided to postpone the legislative process in order to reach a wider agreement and broad consensus. In one way or another, we are going to bring a reform that will restore the balance of power."
The crisis has unnerved investors, with fluctuations in the country's currency, the shekel, but it's now back to where it started the year (check out currency and other market data on Seeking Alpha). One of the big worries is that the reforms could hinder Israel's ability to attract capital inflows and maintain investment, making waves in the country's tech sector, which is responsible for over half of its total exports. Credit rating agencies have also flagged longer-term risks associated with the weakening of institutions that could hurt the broader economy.
Big players in the Israeli tech scene include Amdocs (DOX), Check Point (CHKP), Elbit Systems (ESLT), Fiverr (FVRR), NICE (NICE), Tower Semiconductor (TSEM) and Wix.com (WIX), while tech funds include the ARK Israel Innovative Technology ETF (IZRL) and the BlueStar Israel Technology ETF (ITEQ).
What are the reforms about? Both sides maintain that they are defending the soul of Israel's democracy, but disagree on the appropriate balance of power between the branches of government. Arguments center around the process of appointing judges, jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, as well as standing and override mechanisms. Complicating the situation is that Israel does not have a written constitution, but rather a series of basic laws, meaning policy and value judgments play an outsized role, while there are also fewer checks on executive and legislative functions, with no second chamber or the concept of a presidential veto. (7 comments)
Binance up next
The ongoing regulatory crackdown in the crypto industry is continuing, with the latest target being the biggest cryptocurrency exchange - Binance. The exchange, along with its co-founder and CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, was sued by the CFTC on allegations that it violated certain trading and derivatives rules. It alleged that Binance solicited U.S. users via unregistered crypto derivatives offerings, and directed its employees and customers to hide their true location by using VPNs to evade compliance controls. Other crypto exchanges were also hit by the news. On Monday, Coinbase (COIN) and Bakkt (BKKT) closed down 8% and 5%, respectively, and are sliding again in the premarket session. (9 comments)
Critical minerals
Big investments in electric cars will require big purchases of critical minerals, with batteries making up anywhere from 25% to 50% of an EV's cost. That means it's even more crucial to secure supplies of lithium, cobalt, manganese, nickel and graphite, especially as the Biden administration pursues a goal of phasing out the internal combustion engine with the climate-focused Inflation Reduction Act. A new deal announced in Washington is looking to change that, while negotiations are underway for a similar trade agreement. Also see Lithium Miners News For The Month Of March 2023 by SA Investing Group author Trend Investing. (9 comments)
Most shorted stocks
As Wall Street approaches the end of the first quarter, the major U.S. equity averages are trading higher for 2023 so far, despite the turmoil caused by the bank crisis. Still, many traders have made large bets against a handful of well-known names, including Silvergate Capital (SI), which has already lost nearly 90% of its value since the close of last year. Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) and WeWork (WE) also made the list of the top 10 stocks with the current highest short interest stakes on Wall Street (here is the full list). (13 comments)
Today's Markets
In Asia, Japan +0.2%. Hong Kong +1.1%. China -0.2%. India -0.1%. In Europe, at midday, London +0.2%. Paris +0.3%. Frankfurt +0.2%. Futures at 6:30, Dow +0.1%. S&P flat. Nasdaq flat. Crude +0.5% to $73.13. Gold +0.2% to $1957.30. Bitcoin -3.6% to $26,931. Ten-year Treasury Yield +4 bps to 3.57%
Today's Economic Calendar
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Activist Elliott will not nominate directors for Salesforce (CRM) board.
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Lyft (LYFT) picks board member David Risher to be new CEO.
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Alibaba (BABA) to break into six units which may pursue individual IPOs.

Hello! I'm looking for some people to play games and hang out with. Now I play an assortment of games but ill get to that in a minute.First I would prefer if you were around my age 16-19 and within a couple of hours of MST for convenience, but the timezone/region can be whatever because of my sleep schedule when I don't work. I'm also looking for people who are willing to message each other. I also would prefer if you had a mic because it makes communicating a lot easier.
Now on about myself, I enjoy lots of anime and have seen enough to where I can have long conversations (a little too much lol). I've seen A LOT of it so I would be down to watch or even rewatch some. I like a lot of genres of games such as Fps, survival, space,rogue-like, automation etc. I'm a night owl when I don't work so ill be on almost the whole day. I also can have a dark sense of humour at times and don't mind if you have one as well.
Here are just a few that I have been playing or would possibly want to play
Stardew Valley
Valorant
Terraria/Modded
Valheim
Risk of Rain 2
Starbound
Guilty Gear Strive
league (main game still)
Lost Ark (basically at the beginning)
and possibly Maplestory (idk looked interesting)
and many other parties or games of the genre that I mentioned. (also your skill level in gaming doesn't really matter to me, as long as you can have a good time while playing)
I'm also down to just be on a call and talk while we play different games or if you want to vent about your day.
That's about it for this post! Just be around my age and timezone and it should be good. **message me your discord and an intro about yourself (age, name, likes, whatever you want).**
also don't be shocked if it takes me a while to respond sometimes, I get swamped with work quite often!

I know I'm one more random online person to just echo the sentiment of so many, but... this is such good storytelling.
Granted, I'm not a big anime fan (but I like anime games), so, maybe I'm ignoring some flaws, however, it's so easy to read these two games. Every line is well thought out and is not gibberish, it builds on something. In a lot of games I play nowadays, I'm impressed by the amount of text characters speak and at the end of the day, they say absolutely nothing, in contrast, on Sky FC and SC, every single line is, fun to read. You're learning more about the world, the characters, their motivations... you get invested to the bone in this game world.
Also, this was probably the best romance subplot I've played. Sure, Joshua and Estelle (probably) is just another romantic anime story, but, it's well written, it might be basic, but it's interesting to see it happen till the very end when they fall together from the Ark (maybe cliché, but emotional due to the entire build-up of both games).
Helping the "final boss" as one of your first missions in FC was just great, maybe, again, cliché, but, once again, well written. From the villains, the only thing I was not a fan of is that every enforcer is left alive besides Loewe, sure, I understand why, but, just feels like free drama and "need to save these for future game cameos of plot". That and, 2 of the enforcers have too big of a connection to some of the main cast. Loewe, I'm ok with it, it makes sense, but Direwolf and (the other woman I forgot the name), are too specific... feels like everyone there is the chosen one. I would have saved some connections to other games (and maybe they have). Anyway, small issue. I enjoyed their backstory and conclusion anyway.
I played FC on release on PSP, and loved it, but only played (FC again) and SC now because I was waiting for the Crossbell duology to be released, didn't want to go through the same pain again of not being able to continue the story because of no ENG version of those 2 games.
Anyway, I know this was a bit boring, but TLDR: These games are extremely well written, and they are a joy to read and experience. Loved every second of it.

I missed out on the ark of Omen:abbadon. Does the boarding actions grand tournament book have the basic rules for boarding actions? Is there any downloadable just how to play with no lore or can I just use the kill team rules upscale to 500 pts. The mustering rules even is like refer to this our of stock and sold out book for the rules. There's a comic shop by my house I'm going to hangout play kill team space hulk edition because he wants to do that get some games going on Friday nights. I have enough models put together I think for some killteam but feel like after getting into the dark and soulshackle I could run some boarding actions. My nearest game stores close at the time I get off work and this guy was like I want to be a place to hang out on Friday nights. I'm hoping to get some games going to try to get him to get and sell 40k comics.
Should I just stick to kill team and wait for tenth and hope the 10th core rules include boarding actions?

Basically just looking for mature people of any age to join us in our main goal : defeating all of ARK's boss fights. 2 servers where we vote on which to rotate once we are ready. Aswell as a chill pvp system where we choose specific week days where we will reset server to before the battle. Avoiding loss of progress. Winners of raids / events receive admin rewards such as bullets, blueprints, element, Exc. Server is boosted and is not focused on survival such as food and water consumption. More on fun and defeating ark completely.
Unnoficial pc session: Distant Lands Admin: psn - midget151
Message admin for Server stats and info. We are open to suggestions on Server settings. Currently have 6 dedicated players.

Hey y'all,
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Just looking to rant about some things that happened because my vet gave me the wrong advice on our cat and is now switching up on me about it.
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Context: My girlfriend and I don't live together, but we decided to get a cat. He's basically like our son, or at least we treat him like it. We also got him because she moved out of her parents house and wanted a support animal, I ended up moving to the same city just farther away from her because money.
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So about two and 1/2 weeks ago, my girlfriend went to her parent's house to visit. She was going to stay out there for about a week and some change. I am now fully medicated on Ritalin and it has given me the extra push I needed to be a better person, more organized, more put together, etc..... I'm enjoying where life is now that I am getting the help I need. That being said, I was given the task to take our cat to the vet. Now cat's old vet was walking distance away from when we first got him, but my girlfriend has moved since then and it's farther out now to the point where its kinda inconvenient for the both of us. I wanted to take some initiative and find a vet that was closer to where she is now, and luckily (or so I thought) I found a vet that was rated 4.3 stars and the best in the area (the 2nd closest vet was about a 3.8 rating). I went through the reviews and saw that there were like 5 bad reviews, but I know every service has a few of them, and the other 40+ were 5 stars, so I thought nothing of it. I'll admit that I didn't listen to my gf and just take him to our old vet, I am stubborn at heart but I thought I was making the right decision here.
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I go to the vet and I got the advice I knew that I was going to get, "you need to feed him less food and take him off dry food/kibble". He definitely has a much larger frame than most cats I've seen, so he can't really help looking "big", but by no means is he obese. He just needs to lose a pound at best and he'll be fine. I made sure to voice the concerns of both my girlfriend and I to him. In the end, he told me to feed him a can of 3oz pate PER DAY. I relay that back to my gf and trusted the vet and so we started feeding him a can of food per day (one in the morning and one at night). He was protesting it at first, but my assumption was that he's a cat and they just bug people more often than dogs do.
My girlfriend is now back and called me today voicing her concerns about him still crying about the amount of food he is getting. I call the vet and they are now saying to feed him two cans per day. I was taken aback because I KNOW for sure that the vet said only 1 can per day. I relay it back to my gf and get into an argument about how I am a bad pet owner and that I should have gone to the other vet too.
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What frustrates me even more is that this is making me look like I was being forgetful and neglectful towards our cat. My ADHD was BAD especially back in college and I was the typical forgetful person, not remembering what people had just said about 2 mins ago, and zoning out. I am trying my best to get better and it sucks because I'm made to look bad because of someone else's mistaken. I understand I should have gone to our previous vet, but for the vet to say "just feed him double" doesn't make sense to me. I made sure to ask him, "do we take him off his dry food and feed him this from now on" and got confirmation that I could do that. It just sucks that I'm made to look like a bad cat owner because of someone else's mistake. This situation definitely triggered my gf, which I totally understand from her point of view, I'm more so frustrated to the vet making it look like I'm going back to my old ways and not caring about our cat.
I called the vet again and double checked that we can feed him that much. He reassured us that the extra food he'll be given will be fine, just to look out for some more watery stool because he's gonna have more water in his system.
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Sorry for the long rant, my gf and I are fine and made up (for the most part at least lol). We're still pretty mad about the vet and our cat will be given more love and treats moving forward. Apologizes again because I know this is gonna be a tough and long read for some, I know it is for me and I'm the one who made it lol

So I played mostly on PC( Intel Core i7-12650H, GeForce RTX 3060, 16GB DDR5, 512GB SSD), with a brief bit(meaning a couple of hours only) of gameplay on my Xbox Series S.
I mostly played Necromancer, but I also did try Barbarian, Sorcerer, and Rogue.
The game itself was very fun and enjoyable to me. Necromancer particularly was very cool, felt powerful and interesting. Being able to make a ton of corpses and then lay waste to everything with just Corpse Explosions was hilarious in the absolute best way.
I do wish that the Necro didn’t look so emaciated though, give that man a couple of decent meals please.
I have a nitpick about Barbarian, I wish that the Basic Attack was a dynamic skill that automatically changed according to the weapon you are wielding. For example, you use a skill that requires a Hammer, and the game switches you to a hammer. Your basic attack should also change, until you use a skill that requires a different weapon.
There is no Paladin Archetype, and that disappoints me greatly.
I very much enjoyed the Open-World, “mmo-lite” aspects of the open world, public events, and so forth. Several of the Public Events were pretty awesome, and even when I am soloing, I do enjoy seeing other players in the open world, it makes the game feel more alive to me.
I found myself invested in the writing and world building going on and wanting to know more, as I am not an expert in Diablo lore by any stretch. But I am intrigued enough to probably watch whoever the Diablo Lore Daddy/Mommy is on Youtube.
Performance is where the vast majority of my issues are. I found several issues of stuttering, rubberbanding, brief freezes, and other performance issues on PC. I saw no such issues on Xbox. I hope those are ironed out before launch, because on PC it needs a good bit of work. But TBH I am unsure if it was a function of playing on lesser internet (I wasn’t at home most of the weekend, so I was using family member’s internet which is way worse than what I have at home), or the game itself.
Overall, I’m pretty sure I am going to buy the game. I’m an undecided on whether I will buy it for my PC or for Xbox though. Xbox runs smoother right now. But my gaming PC is a Laptop, and I’ve been looking for a good game to take with me when I travel. I paid for this gaming laptop, I should probably use it for some gaming, right?
All in all, the Beta gave me the itch to play Lost Ark again to scratch the Isometric ARPG itch while waiting for Diablo 4 to release in June.

hallo all, are you in need of gaming friend? me too! need a friend/random person to rant, vent, share your crazy ideas and or just someone to talk dumb with? i can fill that role! anyway, yes i am looking for mainly a gaming friend or if thats not your thing we could any other little things that you can think of :)
games: are you in need a of duo for whatever game you have? well just pick and choose your faves and keep reading :p. ark, overwatch, valorant, dead by daylight, phasmophobia, destiny 2, dont starve together, sons of the forest, deep rock galactic, raft, minecraft (modded or not). now that we have some in common, go ahead and dm the basics. age timezone games you play and (optional) name and we'll maybe move to discord as soon as possible
other things :p: i love anything horror related, comedy, and anime. tho i havent seen much anime, you could maybe get me into more stuff? im pretty much down to watch almost anything with you :) i WILL send you song recs, maybe a whole ass playlist. maybe even make you your own playlist if we known eachother for awhile. my humor is dark, cringe and dumb. no joke is off limits, you wont offend me im sure of it. will match your energy especially the bubbly types!
small intro greatly appreciated. hope to hear from you soon <3

Basically the title, I am wondering if anyone has seen of recommends any games where you have a 3rd person camera view, can customize your character, and can also build a settlement and manage an army to go and conquedefend. I know it’s a golden egg type scenario, but still I’m curious as to what our community will recommend. Thank you all in advance, and enjoy your days :)
For reference these are the games I’ve played like this that are similar:
-Mount and blade I and II
-Fable III
-Dragon Age(the whole series)
-Assassin’s Creed(every game, even the small bad ones lmao)
-Anno series
-Kingdoms of Amalie
-All Civ games
-All Total War games
-Bladestorm:Nightmare
-Risen series
-Elder Scrolls Series
-The Guild Series
-Conan Exiles
-Ark, Atlas, any open world survival craft