I don't know, typical DoorDash, it assigns me a traffic jam order 12mi away by way of making it look like a 1mi order 🥴 but I go to pick it up thinking maybe I beat traffic jam time.. there's not any other orders, anyway, and this one ends well geographically
So not only do I not beat traffic jam time but a lane is closed for no apparent reason right at traffic jam time then and 💥 I'ma now end up missing an appointment
Another thing is the car is upset about being in the traffic and getting too hot
So I let the customer know what happened, I already had let her know about the long distance and everything and she was cool .. and I told her that my car is overheating and I cannot make it
So she's all CAPS with the WAIT SO YOU'RE NOT BRINGING THE FOOD absence of question mark here
I don't know support told me to not drop the food off at the store, I told them I'm trying to make it back to my house and the KFC is on the way
Anyway I get free food for once and half pay And then the drink turns out to be diet and I'm all ... oh my Lord .. there's never one single thing which is correct when doordash is involved 😆
Perhaps it's human perception but the odds HAVE to be against so many impossibly stupid ridiculous perilous absurdly dumb things happening on nearly every delivery those doofy dastardly dunces at DoorDash send to their delivery driver dummies I'd say 😆😆😆
Can the discompassionate customer now rate me? Hopefully not.. if the order cancels no rating, I think???

Before you read on, here is a quick tl;dr I am super excited to meet some great people but I know the wall of text is a lot:

1. Most important, we have to mesh well, so this can last long term.
2. New home built ruleset (do not let this scare you, they are meant to be simple).
3. PBP, but we will have a specified time that we will meet (Super flexible)
4. I am looking for exactly 2 players, more or less could be possible.
5. Medieval or earlier setting, swords and sorcery type, Conan, LoTR, Solomon Kane.
6. I will limit the races to the big 3, and while your backstory is important, the real depth of your character will come from the adventures you have in our game.

Ready to jump in just from that? Please fill out this form
Alright, now let me elaborate on all of that

1. The game really comes second to enjoying the time we spend playing it, so I am looking for people I enjoy talking to who also enjoy talking to each other, who just so happen to also want to play a game. I want to find people who would be okay talking even if its not related to the game sometimes.
2. I built a ruleset that needs some playtesting, rules will probably be tweaked and changed as we go along to make the game smoother.
   
   1. In general its built to allow more natural growth for everything from attributes to spells.
   2. The changes mean things are simplified, but the tradeoff is that you will have to be more detailed about the things you do.
   3. Rolls will be less often and have less effect, so you will need to be more roleplay oriented in describing the things you do, for example: "I search the room" *rolls d20 gets an 18* "what do I see" will be replaced with "I search the stone walls of the room with a candle, holding it near any cracks I see to see if the flame flickers from wind." No rolls would need to be made for that, and I would let you know what you find.
3. I have a discord server, and messages can be sent at any point, but there will be an expectation that we will all be on between a specific time to play actively. Some days when we are all on it can last much longer at that set time. This allows things to constantly move forward at a slow pace, but be spurred ahead when we are all on at the required time. We'll work together to find a schedule that works for everyone, but generally we'll aim to play for a few hours on weekdays.
   
4. The group being small allows for things to work more smoothly. If the right two people can be found, then the story has a fairly consistent goals between them. If you have a friend to bring along, that is great, otherwise we will all need to meet and chat for a bit before we start to make sure things mesh.
   
5. The world is vast, filled with stories and quests large and small, NPCs, kingdoms, lands, and peoples. I build it all in my free time and have built up quite a lot. Anything you want to see can be added in, but it is all there for you to explore on your own. I will not force you in any direction, but the world might. What I mean by that, is that I will not make up things to push you in a direction, but your actions will have consequences that I will not alter for you. If you get stuck in a hole, I will leave you there to rot unless you can figure your own way out. That being said, you might die. If you do we will roll a new character and add them in so don't worry about not being able to play.
   
6. The world is to be explored, not to have already been explored. You will start probably as a human, probably as a farmer. If you want to go out and explore then do it, you might come from money, or nothing, but the adventure is ahead of you, not behind you. What I mean by that is the cool things in your life will be role played through in our game, not just a sentence in your backstory. This adds real depth to the character, and not a shallow backstory that could mean anything. We are reading the hobbit from page 1, not page 200, and you are Bilbo.
   

PS: I have tried my best to get the most detail in here as possible, of course there will be questions on both ends, so reach out if there are! If you and I get along, then tweaks can be made to the game that can make it more enjoyable for both of us. If you have any hesitation please reach out here, or on discord, my username on discord is: rednaxela#9761

Before you read on, here is a quick tl;dr I am super excited to meet some great people but I know the wall of text is a lot:

1. Most important, we have to mesh well, so this can last long term.
2. New home built ruleset (do not let this scare you, they are meant to be simple).
3. PBP, but we will have a specified time that we will meet (Super flexible)
4. I am looking for exactly 2 players, more or less could be possible.
5. Medieval or earlier setting, swords and sorcery type, Conan, LoTR, Solomon Kane.
6. I will limit the races to the big 3, and while your backstory is important, the real depth of your character will come from the adventures you have in our game.

Ready to jump in just from that? Please fill out this form
Alright, now let me elaborate on all of that

1. The game really comes second to enjoying the time we spend playing it, so I am looking for people I enjoy talking to who also enjoy talking to each other, who just so happen to also want to play a game. I want to find people who would be okay talking even if its not related to the game sometimes.
2. I built a ruleset that needs some playtesting, rules will probably be tweaked and changed as we go along to make the game smoother.
   
   1. In general its built to allow more natural growth for everything from attributes to spells.
   2. The changes mean things are simplified, but the tradeoff is that you will have to be more detailed about the things you do.
   3. Rolls will be less often and have less effect, so you will need to be more roleplay oriented in describing the things you do, for example: "I search the room" *rolls d20 gets an 18* "what do I see" will be replaced with "I search the stone walls of the room with a candle, holding it near any cracks I see to see if the flame flickers from wind." No rolls would need to be made for that, and I would let you know what you find.
3. I have a discord server, and messages can be sent at any point, but there will be an expectation that we will all be on between a specific time to play actively. Some days when we are all on it can last much longer at that set time. This allows things to constantly move forward at a slow pace, but be spurred ahead when we are all on at the required time. We'll work together to find a schedule that works for everyone, but generally we'll aim to play for a few hours on weekdays.
   
4. The group being small allows for things to work more smoothly. If the right two people can be found, then the story has a fairly consistent goals between them. If you have a friend to bring along, that is great, otherwise we will all need to meet and chat for a bit before we start to make sure things mesh.
   
5. The world is vast, filled with stories and quests large and small, NPCs, kingdoms, lands, and peoples. I build it all in my free time and have built up quite a lot. Anything you want to see can be added in, but it is all there for you to explore on your own. I will not force you in any direction, but the world might. What I mean by that, is that I will not make up things to push you in a direction, but your actions will have consequences that I will not alter for you. If you get stuck in a hole, I will leave you there to rot unless you can figure your own way out. That being said, you might die. If you do we will roll a new character and add them in so don't worry about not being able to play.
   
6. The world is to be explored, not to have already been explored. You will start probably as a human, probably as a farmer. If you want to go out and explore then do it, you might come from money, or nothing, but the adventure is ahead of you, not behind you. What I mean by that is the cool things in your life will be role played through in our game, not just a sentence in your backstory. This adds real depth to the character, and not a shallow backstory that could mean anything. We are reading the hobbit from page 1, not page 200, and you are Bilbo.
   

PS: I have tried my best to get the most detail in here as possible, of course there will be questions on both ends, so reach out if there are! If you and I get along, then tweaks can be made to the game that can make it more enjoyable for both of us. If you have any hesitation please reach out here, or on discord, my username on discord is: rednaxela#9761

Before you read on, here is a quick tl;dr I am super excited to meet some great people but I know the wall of text is a lot:

1. Most important, we have to mesh well, so this can last long term.
2. New home built ruleset (do not let this scare you, they are meant to be simple).
3. PBP, but we will have a specified time that we will meet (Super flexible)
4. I am looking for exactly 2 players, more or less could be possible.
5. Medieval or earlier setting, swords and sorcery type, Conan, LoTR, Solomon Kane.
6. I will limit the races to the big 3, and while your backstory is important, the real depth of your character will come from the adventures you have in our game.

Ready to jump in just from that? Please fill out this form
Alright, now let me elaborate on all of that

1. The game really comes second to enjoying the time we spend playing it, so I am looking for people I enjoy talking to who also enjoy talking to each other, who just so happen to also want to play a game. I want to find people who would be okay talking even if its not related to the game sometimes.
2. I built a ruleset that needs some playtesting, rules will probably be tweaked and changed as we go along to make the game smoother.
   
   1. In general its built to allow more natural growth for everything from attributes to spells.
   2. The changes mean things are simplified, but the tradeoff is that you will have to be more detailed about the things you do.
   3. Rolls will be less often and have less effect, so you will need to be more roleplay oriented in describing the things you do, for example: "I search the room" *rolls d20 gets an 18* "what do I see" will be replaced with "I search the stone walls of the room with a candle, holding it near any cracks I see to see if the flame flickers from wind." No rolls would need to be made for that, and I would let you know what you find.
3. I have a discord server, and messages can be sent at any point, but there will be an expectation that we will all be on between a specific time to play actively. Some days when we are all on it can last much longer at that set time. This allows things to constantly move forward at a slow pace, but be spurred ahead when we are all on at the required time. We'll work together to find a schedule that works for everyone, but generally we'll aim to play for a few hours on weekdays.
   
4. The group being small allows for things to work more smoothly. If the right two people can be found, then the story has a fairly consistent goals between them. If you have a friend to bring along, that is great, otherwise we will all need to meet and chat for a bit before we start to make sure things mesh.
   
5. The world is vast, filled with stories and quests large and small, NPCs, kingdoms, lands, and peoples. I build it all in my free time and have built up quite a lot. Anything you want to see can be added in, but it is all there for you to explore on your own. I will not force you in any direction, but the world might. What I mean by that, is that I will not make up things to push you in a direction, but your actions will have consequences that I will not alter for you. If you get stuck in a hole, I will leave you there to rot unless you can figure your own way out. That being said, you might die. If you do we will roll a new character and add them in so don't worry about not being able to play.
   
6. The world is to be explored, not to have already been explored. You will start probably as a human, probably as a farmer. If you want to go out and explore then do it, you might come from money, or nothing, but the adventure is ahead of you, not behind you. What I mean by that is the cool things in your life will be role played through in our game, not just a sentence in your backstory. This adds real depth to the character, and not a shallow backstory that could mean anything. We are reading the hobbit from page 1, not page 200, and you are Bilbo.
   

PS: I have tried my best to get the most detail in here as possible, of course there will be questions on both ends, so reach out if there are! If you and I get along, then tweaks can be made to the game that can make it more enjoyable for both of us. If you have any hesitation please reach out here, or on discord, my username on discord is: rednaxela#9761

I was reading another post here which got me thinking about something I experienced while getting my IUD that I suddenly realized was probably super weird. Might be a bit long/windy lol. I went to the local Women's Clinic which is inside our local hospital. It's actually attached to the maternity ward. Nothing like walking into the waiting room and all the women look at you like, where's your baby bump? Anyway, while I was being prepped for the IUD insertion the doctor told me that she was the one on duty today in the maternity ward and have several patients due anytime. So if she suddenly just gets up and takes off, it's because one of her patients went into labor. I was like oh ok, and then we went on with the IUD installation.
Now, thinking back at it, what would have happened if she DID have to suddenly run off? Would the have brought someone in to finish the IUD work, would I have just had to lay there half exposed for the next hour? Would they have suddenly canceled my appointment on the spot? Or worse, what if she'd been mid-insertion and string cutting???? They seriously couldn't have made sure they had extra people working so that there wouldn't be a conflict of multiple patients needing care at the same time? This was over 6 years ago, when there was not really a nursing shortage. I seriously can't believe I didn't think about this angle until just now... Am I overreacting, or does everyone else think it's just as unacceptable as I do??
Which brings me to the next part of this. I'm way past due to replace my Mirena because, like I said, the "installation" was done over 6 years ago and they said I needed to replace it in 5 years. I do know that Mirena is now supposed to be good for 7 years, but I'm starting to get my periods back (my husband has been snipped for 20+ years). The whole reason I have an IUD is because my periods make me basically non-functioning for a couple of days. I probably have PCOS but they'd rather medicate me than actually figure that out, but I digress. When I got my IUD it was incredibly painful. There was absolutely NO pain management, and I was just told to take the day off and take some Tylenol after it was done. I'm someone who has an incredibly high pain tolerance and I thought I was getting a dagger in my uterus. The WORST pain I've ever felt. Even the nurse laughed at me and told me I could go ahead and pass out if I wanted since I was already laying down (probably should have been another red flag for that place...). I have read on here that some people have gotten dilated, or something that really helped. I want to know more about that so I can find a new OBGYN to do the IUD switcharoo with minimal pain. The place I went to before is now no longer in my network (yeah, my LOCAL hospital is out-of-network now, yay) so I need to find a new place anyhow. I live in central Indiana around the Indianapolis area, if that is helpful.
TL;DR: Doctor inserting IUD told me after I was half naked that she might have to run out of the room to tend to a patient going into labor with no explanation of what I would have to do while she was gone. And my IUD needs replaced but I want to find a place that has some sort of pain management so I don't feel like I'm dying.

The big question for sim enthusiasts and VRAM hungry software is how effective the Quest USB packet compression is compared to other solutions like the DP cable on G2 or Index.
Right now, the QPro is losing on VRAM hungry apps to HMD's that utilize native displayport connections. There is a lot of extra overhead that comes from compressing rendered frames down into USB packets and then having to un-compress and process them, plus the input and output from the controllers, the audio, etc.
This is of course a Quest problem in general, but I am a little saddened that a premium headset like this one doesnt have an effective solution to this issue. Displayport native hmds like the Index and G2 dont have to deal with this overhead and can use the raw output from the GPU.
I understand the QPro is feature rich and has wireless, but it's also significantly more recent, the Index is almost 4 years old. With the new local dimming it feels like Meta isn't giving up on making this headset stronger for PCVR uses. With the possibility of eye tracked foveated rendering, it's possible this problem could be solved! If you want to test it out yourself, just run MSFS on 1.5x render resolution, high bitrate and texture mods. It will chug compared to a native GPU output, and compression should be more visible.
Does anyone have any tips to decrease overhead in the Quest link or airlink? Do you think Meta will continue to work on it to make it competitive vs native GPU output based VR?

Today is day 3 of my diagnosis, and I feel even more confused than I did when I started down this journey. My official diagnosis at this time is "Idiopathic Hypersomnia with characteristics of narcolepsy" because I did not have any SOREMs during my MSLT, but I have described experiences that I believe are cataplexy to my doctor, however he has not personally witnessed them.
At my diagnosis appointment, I was offered an opportunity to participate in a drug trial for treatment of IH with Wakix. My doctor's thinking was, Wakix is known to help with cataplexy, you have a diagnosis of IH, so perfect, two birds, one stone. However, the doctor in charge of the study went through an extensive conversation with me about my cataplexy symptoms, as cataplexy would mean narcolepsy, and the study does not accept narcolepsy patients.
During this conversation he said that my descriptions of cataplexy are slightly atypical, as I have hurt myself during a cataplexy attack before, and apparently that isn't a thing? My injury was caused when I fell, laughing, while standing up from a chair, and I landed across a footstool, bruising my shoulder. It's the only instance of injury I have so far (fingers crossed). I have only recently (6-7 months) started having narcolepsy symptoms/cataplexy, and they have definitely evolved over time. My more recent descriptions of my cataplexy - tingles starting at my head, down my body, then eyes drooping, tongue heavy, I can't keep my head up, sometimes full on slumping over - he said sounds like more typical cataplexy (which funny, I wasn't even calling it cataplexy, I've been calling them sleep attacks, because compared to my earlier cataplexy experiences, these make me way more sleepy).
All of this to say, it appears my ideas and what I've learned is cataplexy may not be accurate? But that I'm likely still experiencing it, but misunderstanding it to be sleep attacks? So my questions: can people predict their cataplexy attacks, in the moment? Do you feel them coming on before they hit? Are you sleepy during them? After them? When you fall, is it a controlled fall? If not controlled, have you hurt yourself? Do you feel tingles, like goosebumps but not, when you laugh, but without loss of muscle control? How often do you have cataplexy? I think my average is at least 1-2 times a day, some days none, some days closer to 3-4. But, sleep attack like, not full body, so I thought I was doing better? But the study doctor was alarmed when I told him how often....
And unrelated to cataplexy, but my no SOREM MSLT, is it possible I did something wrong before or during my MSLT that could have impacted my results? Did I just happen to unfortunately have a rare good day? I was very sleep deprived before my study due to a fussy toddler, could sleep deprivation have actually worked against me? My sleep latency was 3 minutes.
My current plan is to check for HLA, and if I'm positive for that, get a lumbar puncture to check my orexin. My original doctor was fine leaving me with the "abnormal IH", but the doctor on the drug trial convinced me it was worth it to look into things further. If I'm HLA negative, he said he'd feel more confident in my IH diagnosis, and place me in the Wakix study. But if I'm positive, and have symptoms looking so much like cataplexy, then I should try to determine if it's actually narcolepsy, and he was against a second MSLT, hence the lumbar puncture.
Anywho, thank you for getting this far if you have! Any help anyone can give me to better understand what is going on in my head and body is much appreciated.

I feel obligated to write this and continue updating people here because of the many kind responses and genuine attempts at offering advice and support.
My (26M) wife (29F) and I were supposed to be attending couples therapy together yesterday evening. We were lucky enough to have been able to get an appointment so soon. I was anticipating not being able to get in with a couples therapist for at least another two weeks, but we lucked out and were able to get one this week. My wife and I were supposed to meet each other there after I get off of work and out of class, and then go get dinner afterwards.
The appointment is at 6:30. I get out of class at 6:00, hustle across town to get there, still show up 3 minutes late, expecting her to already be there (she loves being places early) and I didn't notice her car in the parking lot. I figure it's whatever, this is a business park with a lot of parking spaces, she's definitely here, she promised me this morning she would be here, and I go into the lobby, talk to reception, and ask about seeing this doctor. Doctor's in, but my wife definitely is not.
Okay, no big deal, she's probably just late, because traffic is awful in this horrible nightmare city, so I call her, and it rings all the way through, which is kind of weird. Wait another ten minutes, no call back, and I try again, still nothing. I wait another five minutes, and now it doesn't even ring, like she turned her phone off. So obviously, the appointment winds up not happening, and I'm worried about the safety and well-being of my wife, because it's not like her to not return my calls, or to be late to stuff/skip appointments without notification. Her anxiety errs more on the "I have to be super punctual" type of anxiety.
So I head home, and lo and behold, my wife's car is in the parking lot of our complex. I head in the apartment, and she's in our bed, just watching porn on the TV and masturbating. Apparently that's what she's been up to all day while I've been at work and at school, trying to provide for us. And she was so nonchalant about it too, like it's the most natural thing in the world for her to be doing at that time.
Obviously I'm a little shocked. I'm not a porn guy, I think it's actually super unhealthy and overall does more harm to individuals psychologically than any good that empty instant sexual gratification can do. I don't think watching porn while in a relationship is cheating, but I don't love it. She and I will be having that conversation later, and her watching porn isn't what I'm really upset about right now anyways.
It's the fact that of all the reasons to blow off our appointment with a couples therapist to help her cope with all the shit that's been going on lately with the loss of our daughter and everything related to that, hers is because she was too busy watching some other chick get railed in a gangbang.
I get that she's not in a good place, and she hasn't been well mentally or emotionally for months now.
I get that it's affected her decision making.
I get that going and seeing therapists and doctors and doing that whole thing is scary for her and not something that she has much desire to put herself through, even though she understands that it's probably exactly where she needs to be.
I get that she's bored at home after having taken a sabbatical from her job.
I get that her hormones have been entirely out of wack since January and that sex just helps her not feel so terrible all the time.
I get that she was basically alone when we lost our daughter and that the way she lost our baby is a million times worse than the way I lost our baby.
I understand all of that.
But I still have to go to work so we can eat and pay our bills and rent, and come home and get yelled at for putting the dishes in the dishwasher the wrong way or whatever, and then not get any sleep at night because we're up till 2 in the morning because she got horny and will cry for hours if I don't do it. If that's the way life is till we can beat this thing together, then that's the way it is and I can tough it out for her sake. But the absolute least that she can do is show up when she's agreed to show up so that we CAN beat her depression, so that she CAN get better and be well again.
So I stayed at a friend's place last night, and I think I am crashing on his couch again tonight. My wife has called 6 times, and texted 90 times, and it went from asking if I'm ever coming back, to begging me to just come back, to rants that I haven't read about how sorry I'm going to be, back to begging me to come home. I made the mistake of answering one of the calls, and when I tried to explain that I'll come home when I'm ready to come home, and that I still love her and still want to be with her, that I'm just really hurt and upset and need space, she screamed at me like I have never, ever in my entire life been screamed at before, about how I'm probably cheating on her right now, and how I've abandoned her and about how dare I. "How dare you" was repeated a lot.
I don't really know what my criteria is for feeling ready to go back is either. I think at first it was when I felt like she was genuinely ready to talk, and not just to yell or have a meltdown, but then I remembered that fuck, she and I have already talked about this, and that didn't do anything. I think I'll call her when I get off of work, and give her the ultimatum of actually going to therapy, or a facility, or just anything that's a step in the right direction, or our relationship might have to be put on hold until she gets everything figured out.

We’ve been together 1.5 years. When our relationship started we were together 24/7 and I understand that, for an individualist like him, this has weighted a ton on him, but I was in a really bad place and at that time I needed that kind of presence, which he did.
With time we started to seek more time to spend to ourselves, which was a great achievement, but now that we’re not constantly together I’m naturally questioning if this is what I want (since we’re getting out of the honeymoon fase) and also if his detachment is one of his natural traits or if it’s due to the toxic amount of time we spent together (which gave him responsibilities he didn’t ask for).
-He doesn’t like conflict and he doesn’t know how to express his feelings. -He always repeats to me that he loves me, but he really never gave me any other compliment: the peak one is “cute”, which honestly is the only other sweet word together with “I love you”, since to him insults are “sarcasm”. -He defines a relationship between two lovers as “two people who love each other and spend quality time together”, which, to me, sounds like a friendship. -When it comes to making plans with me it’s always “whatever”, and he really likes making experiences. -He NEVER texts me, he could go days without texting me anything, not even “hi”, and when he does it’s only to meet up, as if I was a medical appointment he must go to against his will. I gotta say that this last period has been shitty for him due to serious problems, so I hope it’s just a hard time and I’ll be more that happy to be by his side, but now he tells me that he feels like he’s losing his youth and me, I’m feeling used…as if he didn’t like me and I can’t stop bringing up proof to this feeling

I'm struggling to find the answer and could use some insight.
Long story short, my BIL (and husband) had a very traumatic childhood. My BIL has significant trauma, and he has accepted our help to get him back on his feet. He will be moving in with us, and we're not asking him to get a job or anything else--just go to therapy and start healing. He moves cross country to us in 3 weeks.
I have had a fair amount of therapy in my life, from a teen to an adult. I have experience in vetting and finding someone who is a good fit for an issue. My BIL has no such experience.
I just tried to book a consult with someone who specializes in trauma, and 10 min before the appointment was told they could not talk to me without the client being present.
In all honesty, this process would completely overwhelm my BIL in his current state, and I can't imagine that we're the only ones in a situation trying to help someone else who isn't in the best spot to do it themselves. Not only this, but I don't feel comfy asking him to open up about his trauma in front of me in a consult. That doesn't seem ethical or fair.
We have his consent, and he knows I'm doing this. I just want to make it so that when he moves down here in less than a month, he can start his healing journey ASAP.
Am I going to keep running into this problem of therapists not talking to me unless he's present? My husband and I will be the ones paying for it as well.
I'm in Texas if that matters!

I know Bo-Katan seems like a “good guy” at moments, but here’s a quick history lesson:
1,000 years ago the Darksaber was stolen by members of House Vizsla. What was once a symbol of Jedi/Mandalorian unity was taken in bad faith during the fall of the Old Republic. For a millennia, the Darksaber was used as a symbol of power, rallying Mandalorian’s to fight- mostly one another. War became so ubiquitous to Mandalore culture that the verdant planet was eventually turned into a desert wasteland. Under the nepotistic power bids of the Vizsla lineage, Mandalore grew weak.
Flash forward to a few years before TPM. A pacifist revolution led by Dutchess Satine Kryze, has overthrown the self-destructive “Old Mandalorians” in a decisive civil war. For 20 years, Mandalore remains neutral in galactic conflicts and actually begins rebuilding. For the first time since they scuffled with the the Jedi, Mandalore begins to learn from past mistakes. And then comes Death Watch.
Pre Vizsla, governor of Concordia, still wielded the Darksaber, and continued it’s long history of in-fighting. Bo-Katan joins his secret terrorist cell and begins to attack her own sister’s peaceful regime. People seem to forget Death Watch’s long list of war crimes. Their collaboration (and falling out) with CIS is likely what caused Din Djarin to be an orphan in the first place, despite Death Watch being portrayed as Din’s savior. Bo and Pre Vizsla learn nothing from this betrayal by Dooku, and later team up with Maul and a collective of crime lords to violently overthrow a peaceful Mandalore. That goes bad for them, as Maul claims Mandalore and claims the Darksaber. Both the old and new mandalorians are defeated, because of their division. A thousand years of self destruction continues with Bo and Vizsla unwittingly aiding the rise of the galactic empire, with nothing to show for it.
Bo then forms a Mandalorian Resistance. She rallies the new Republic to challenge their mutual enemy. She comes across as a valued ally to the Republic, and eventually is gifted the Darksaber by Sabine Wren. After a thousand years of misuse, the sword is back with a Mandalorian, a reluctant hero who is being trained by a Jedi- but Sabine hands it back to Death Watch. This mirrors Din’s hesitancy to lead- he is fighting against the Darksaber itself, but he is a Mandalorian who has already made peace with the Jedi.
Bo briefly leads as Mand’alor, and is in possession of the Darksaber when Mandalore falls in the Great Purge. She loses it to Gideon, but her compulsive quest for the Darksaber never ends.
SO. What has Bo learned? She’s doing what she’s always done, rallying Mando’s to fight. But what makes her intentions any different now?
Death Watch was known for staging false flag attacks and inciting violence. I think the Night Owls are the ones who boosted Gideon from the shuttle. The warrior culture that helped bring the Old and New Republic now wants a high profile execution, and is probably cavorting with bad guys.
If Mandalorians keep following the old ways, they will continue to fail. I believe Din and Grogu are the only way to reestablish harmony between Jedi and Mandalorian, and restore true Mandalore. Anyone that ever followed “the way” has brought destruction on themselves.
TLDR: Bo Katan is not to be trusted, and is shaping up to be the main villain of S3. Paz Vizsla is probably in on it too. For that matter, the Children of the Watch and the Armorer need to be convinced of a ideology adjustment. If they follow the path they’ve been on before, they’re going to make way for the first order and destroy themselves again.

I’ve been invited to an interview on teams early next week and need an excuse to finish an hour early. I’m terrible at coming up with excuses, and the classic doctors appointment isn’t going to work at short notice seeing as it’s impossible to get one in less that a billion years. Does anyone have any bright ideas?
Edit: bonus points for any ideas where I could make the time up as well by starting a bit early and taking a short lunch (maybe I’m too honest)

So, for context, the Imperious Sun Shell from collecting lore tabs during VOW tells a story of a wandering ghost finding their way into the Sunken Pyramid in Savathûn's throne world. Inside they meet Rhulk, the two exchange some words, one thing leads to another and we have Rhulk trying to essentially take apart the ghost or at least suck the light out of it.
Then...this happens:
R: Rejoice. I have worth beyond worth!
G: DISCIPLE OF THE DARK.
R: Adversary?
G: THIS ONE IS NOT FOR YOU.
R: RRRARGH! Too bright!
…
R: Nothing but scrap? They refuse to let their secrets be taken. Only given.
…
R: Poach another curious fruit from the witch's collection. They cannot, as a race, all deny our worth.
So, i've asked this question elsewhere (tiktok) and the best people could say is two things
1.It's the Witness
This doesn't make sense to me, Adversary is something you wouldn't want to call your master whatsoever, unless Rhulk is being like "my unknown speaker? That i presume is my enemy? My opposition in this single moment?" This doesn't make sense aswell, because i think Rhulk would know how the Witness sounds so he wouldn't be confused on who was talking if it was the Witness
2.It's the Traveler
This makes more sense, but not alot. As far as we can tell, when the traveler wants to say something, it doesn't have a voice, but instead uses visions (when we get knocked out during the first mission of the Red War campaign) or projections of light (the mysterious light Hawk from Season of the Hunts Hawkmoon quest)
My personal guess is a scrapped concept
3.The Herald of the Traveler
For those that don't know, The Herald of the Traveler is a ghostly woman that was seen in the concepts of Destiny 1's reveal trailer, the one on mars during the very beginning of the golden age, instead of simply the Traveler being there and rain begins to fall, there was going to be this strange light entity warning the astronauts of the Traveler's arrival, then it rains.
So...what do you guys think?
Sources:
Rhulk/Ghost encounter:
https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/imperious-sun-shell
The Herald of the Traveleoriginal concept of the reveal trailer of Destiny 1:
https://workbyilya.com/Destiny-Opening-Cinematic-2014

A family member of mine is being a worry wart and not being very supportive, saying I might lose all my payments if I even register as a sole trader.
I need to chat with tax/business advisor, are there any services I could make an appointment with that could help me with this?

If you're with the warriors of sunlight, please get out
Hi all! I have taken over DM'ing for my tabletter group and have thus inherited a party of level 16 characters (I've played with them all since level 1, I'm just sidelining my character and putting in a simulacrum as we progress to and beyond level 20)
This is going to be really long, but I am just going to paint out the general outline I have so far:
My party is blissfully naive and stupid, while also not one to ask follow up questions when presented with a quest (especially if the quest giver has a funny accent)
So to this end I've introduced the ancient red dragon inferno of the star mounts as the Scottish dwarf Boulderforce.
I've made it so he has a twin in the gold dragon Marsplendor the golden, and they were once a single divine dragon, the only true born child of Tiamat and Bahamut. When a war between the evil and good gods broke out, the divine dragon could not bear choosing a side, so he split into the red dragon inferno and the gold dragon marsplendor. They both vowed that until death parts them, none shall harm the other. That's why, when Marsplendor led a plot to seal away Tiamat, inferno was powerless to stop it. With Tiamat sealed away, inferno's power dwindled, and the balance of power leaned heavily in the metallic dragons' favor.
That is, until our group freed Tiamat a few months ago, during the events of descent into avernus. Now I've introduced dragons far more powerful than the ones we met before, both with spellcasting and other abilities. And now Inferno wants revenge.
He has contracted the party to take down Marsplendor by painting him as a thief who stole a dwarves artefact (he is in fact in possession of this)
To be able to have any sort of chance to take down a CR30+ creature Inferno has given them the locations of a couple of powerful (consumable) buffs. They have already recovered a potion of giant size from a village of giants as the first item.
Now, I have several bullet points for what is going to happen next, but I would love some input!
They're on their way to a Lich's lair, who has petrified a huge army of concordant killers. They have been spellbound by Tiamat so that they will always view her as an underdog, and thus always fight for her to achieve balance. Killing the lich will net them the scrolls needed to reduce Marsplendor's defenses AND give Tiamat her army back. I'm thinking this is my version of "a morally gray lich) as he pursued and preserved lichdom to keep the threat of the concordant killers in check.
They need to retrieve milk from a sun dragon and ground bone dust from a moon dragon, both located in the depths of a lair of kobolds. I want this to lead into them freeing Kuurthelmak, the kobold god. I have no clue how to make this occur naturally, but any tips would be appreciated!
Then I need them to fight an astral dreadnought, keeping it alive while the cleric goes inside its dojon and fights an avatar, casting regenerate on its ashes after it's killed. I have no clue how to even tie this into the overall plot, It's just that the item is astral based and I figured this would be really fucking cool
Next up is the fight against marsplendor the golden. If they win, Inferno is going to come in and revivify him, claiming "until death parts them" has come to pass, and he absorbs Marsplendor's soul, transforming them back into the divine dragon, but wholly subservient to Tiamat. After this, the next arc will be killing Inferno, then Tiamat herself. (We're planning on continuing until level 30 using the epic level stuff)
I'm sorry for the essay! But I was just wondering if anyone has any tips on how to make this flow naturally, how to foreshadow without giving too much away, as well as any improvements or things that seem stupid? I've already had my dragon sorcerer of tiamat have a prophetic dream of two figures (secretly Tiamat and Bahamut) playing chess, with Tiamat gaining the upper hand, with "Queen's gambit" playing in the background, so that one's taken
So yeah! Any and all tips would be greatly appreciated!

I went to the dentist over a month ago to get a cavity filled that they saw on an X-ray. It was on my gum line on the bottom jaw. The night after, I was eating and got pain in that tooth. I noticed a small hole on the top that I had never noticed before. The dentist said it was probably trauma from having the drill on it.
It is now over a month later, and I still can't chew with that side of my mouth comfortably, I can't brush that tooth, and if any pressure is put on a part of it it has pain shoot through my jaw. My wife rested her head on my cheek and lightly put pressure on it, causing this pain. I had zero pain on that side of my mouth before going to the dentist, in fact, it was the side that I used to chew with.
I had my wife look at it further with a flashlight, and she said there was a bunch of cavity looking holes. The spot where they put the filling, she said it looked like a small crack where the pain seems to radiate from.
I have an appointment scheduled in about a week, and I don't know what they can do for me. This dentist was recommended by my neighbor who lived in this area his whole life, so they are reputable. I really don't want them anywhere near my mouth with a drill, I just want them to make my mouth feel the way it did before they worked on it.
The last time I went to the dentist before this was in 2020, and the fillings they put in made it so my floss would get stuck and the teeth they worked on. Since then my flossing habit has been bad. I really don't want this incident to make it so I'm averse to brushing my teeth.
What can they do for me? Will they be able to do anything for me, or even take me seriously? Or is my best bet to just live with the pain, and take it as a lesson to never ever go to a dentist again unless my tooth is actually rotting out.

So this is what is being claimed after going through my medical records with a claims guy on base. I have my appointments over the next few weeks to be seen. The only thing that didn’t make my records was the MRI results from pec tealabrum & ac tendon tear that never got fixed. By the time medical got me in they told me it was too late to repair and I need to schedule reconstruction surgery somewhere down the line. Right pec is obviously torn and noticeable.
I think my two biggest are the sleep apnea and mental health. I also have a lot of limited rom post cervical spine fusion as well.
-Bilateral hearing loss -Bilateral tinnitus -Mental health, anxiety disorder -Obstructive sleep apnea w/ cpap -Acne -Allergic rhinitis -Cellulitis of the right arm -Cervical stiffness, cervicalgia, radiculopathy, disc degeneration, osteoarthritis, limited ROM -Eczema bilateral arms -Right foot dermatophytosis nails onychomycosis -Fracture of Coccyx -Thoracic pain, stiffness, muscle spasms, limited ROM -Lumbar pain, stiffness, lumbago, limited ROM -Facet syndrome cervical, thoracic, lumbar -Gastroenteritis -Nonallopathic lesions thoracic lumbar, pelvic -Left elbow pain, stiffness, olecranon bursitis, limited ROM -Wound on right forearm with residual scar -Bilateral shoulder pain, stiffness, osteoarthritis, ruptured tendon, torn labrum, limited ROM -Left triceps tear, repair w/ residual painful scar, pain, stiffness -Bilateral upper extremity pain, parenthesis -Left knee pain, stiffness, medial collateral ligament tear, limited ROM -Periodic limb movement disorder -Right pectoral muscle tear -Cervical spine fusion w/ residual painful scar on front of neck -Bilateral Sciatica and radiculopathy lower extremities

Hello,
I am new to the game, but I would love to have some guidance from you guys.
At the moment my gameplay is:
A) Scav and follow a loot route I know by heart from yotube. This is to make money (not as much as I could do if I were lvl15).
B) PMC and die trying to complete any mission. It takes soooooo long time/runs to complete a quest, and just to get 0.00000003 rep gain with a trader, from my perspective it looks like getting lvl2 traders would take 4-5 years.
Having scoped weapons and so would help to complete missions, but you know, you need lvl2 traders to have access to this items from traders, its a loop.
Am I doing something wrong? Somehow I managed to finish the custom quest about recovering the golden clock/medal from the truck, now I am going to woods to kill scavs and visit some places for Travor.
Thanks!