I've sent this stuff to my dissertation chair three times this week and she keeps saying she didn't get it. I don't believe her. She has broken my trust
Not really. She's also one of the people who gets to make a decision as to whether I get to stay in the program. So it would be dangerous not to play along.
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like is she trying to do a subtle hint with that like "oh, i didnt receive it. send me in your wink wink finished version wink wink again please" suggesting that it isnt ready and to try again nah that doesnt make sense nobody's gonna pore through it in that much detail and then go through it again everybody's fucked for time already nobody reads that shit
i wish every single draft i send her, she spends like 20 hours going through it even the parts we haven't even fucking edited it's so frustrating and such a waste of time
she's either stupidly incompetent or she's just lazy i don't know which it is but it's so frustrating
月😼
if it makes you feel better ive been transcribing all night and i got it down where this behavioral therapist says, uh he says that this student has hypersensitivity to sensory outputs like what the fuck
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and uh, tryna expel this kid because he mistook his airsoft rifle for a quote "50 caliber"
>>659656 I don't think I've ever thouught of a Monster as super refreshing
FormerRei@mobile
>>659658 I should've put it in quotes. I don't really like the taste of Monster but cool drinks are refreshing. Whatever that means.
FormerRei@mobile
It's more palatable when its cold.
FormerRei@mobile
What's your pick for AotS?
Anno
I guess so
FormerRei@mobile
Mine is Endro
FormerRei@mobile
Also I just remembered a really funny glitch in the doushio code I'll see if it still occurs Weiß Moped *nope But there was a glitch a while back on mobile if I used a German keyboard and auto-complete/auto-suggest suggested a word ending in ß and I selected it the post would automatically end as if I pressed done. *on Android
FormerRei@mobile
It was so super spe cific I thought it was really funny when I found it.
>>659661 I don't have a clue of what's good this season I struggle to watch any series Last thing I completed might have been something like uhhh that show about that treasure and the criminals who had the map on their skins
FormerRei@mobile
>>659670 Endro is really good. I would not call Tate Yuusha good but it is entertaining. Actually with how bad anime is in general this decade I should consider it good.
FormerRei@mobile
>>659670 Oh yeah i know that one Can't remember the name off the top of my head but ill blame that on sleep deprivation.
Anno
though I didn't get around to season 2 >>659672 yeah same had a guy called Sugimoto >>659674 the cgi was bad but you could easily overlook it
FormerRei@mobile
It looked decent but the cgi made me not want to watch it.
FormerRei@mobile
>>659673 I usually can't, stuff like that often kills my interest Kemono Friends being a major exception to that rule.
FormerRei@mobile
I was really really irritated by the new Berserk "anime".
Anno
what about Houseki no Kuni
FormerRei@mobile
>>659677 Never saw it, didn't really see screenshots either.
FormerRei@mobile
Ergh I'm trying to finish off this Monster but its so acrid.
That really makes feel Fremdschämen. Which is my new vocabulary word I need to keep using because its a really good word and I need to remember it. It means secondhand embarrassment but in German so it sounds cooler.
Anno
>>659678 It's apparently really good for a cg anime
>>659690 oh, we're on the same boss now you sure went fast
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wow really? huh i could go swimming i also fought uh rhe the most lying boss ever miniboss the lone shadow
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
wow jeanne d'slack that's awesome
FormerRei@mobile
>>659685 It's a much better word for it than any single English word. There's a reason people use words like schadenfreude, sometimes German compound words are just better.
actually now thay i think about it you mentioned stuff like an underwater fight and whatnot so maybe i should go explore
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also i cant believe i ran into the ape rematch and my entire body’s reaction was oh hell yes
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
it's such a good boss i ran into it by accident i had already gone through that before beating that boss the first time so it didn't spawn
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oh that’s neat
ill have to give spookmaster another beating im surprised that unlike dark souls you can stack consumable buffs so easily like the ako’s sugar and confetti
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
shinobi fightan is all about being unfair to your enemies
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
for corrupted monk, did you notice you can hurt it with snapseeds?
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I did not that’s really cool I have mixed feelings about that boss because while i was having fun and jt was tough, i kept thinking “theres no way its going to be over with one hp but man this guy is rough, he’ll probably keep me here forever” but then he fucking died and i was like oh km er she
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
you can literally do half it's HP with 5 of them the boss is too dark soulsy for me though
that one sounded really fun to me too i was thinkin about 360 cam in really spooky spots with that you remember that old show FEAR with the contestants in haunted places who just had to like stand still and not lose their shit haha that stuff is so dumb i wanna do it
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and on the flip side, alaska's got lakes you can fish at where the sun rises // sets and then rises within a 30-minute span that'd be a good capture too
submitted that's 21 hours and 20 minutes down hour and a half to go when this is done im gonna eat all the fish and take all the kratom you cant have any
!C0.PerkELE
>>659715 you ever checked that mine explorer/spelunkin channel on yt?
Anno
>>659718 No don't Moon. Think of the oceans! They need some fish too!
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i dont think so they got on all right for a couple billion years before any fishes came knockin about
>>659724 I'm considering backtracking and going to fight Granny Chouchou to see if she's got anything that helps hah hah. Also I remember you saying he's got three forms and as far as I know she's only got two which makes me feel my progression's off.
>Fun factoid: in the 1930s, it was discovered that you could inject human urine into African clawed frogs; if the frogs subsequently ovulated, the human was pregnant, and for something like 2 decades this became the universal standard test for human pregnancy.
i cant wait until we're all done with this game and can talk about the bosses in depth and rank them and stuff because most of them are so well designed it's amazing
Samu
sure hope i get to anywhere close to the end of the game
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
also interesting is that the game has been out a week and there's only been the day-one patch usually the first few days of a game being out is like patch city
>>659752 you can do it! once you get into the spirit of the combat and learn the fundamentals, you'll be golden
also kirara one thing I'm really looking forward to? Speedruns of Sekiro because aside from glitches, all the combat will be pure skill and trying to see how fast someone can murder bosses in this game is going to be nuts
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
>>659755 yeah it seems like they were really careful to ensure you can't cheese bosses and a lot of minibosses seem uncheesable too
Anno
I saw a report of someone already getting an hour-long speedrun already.
Talesof !NuKeSlvmWE
h-hayai
Anno
>>659756 It's not quite cheese but I've found a lot of mini-bosses are pretty easy to beat if you can get a sneak attack on them and if you stock up on oil and flame blast them. The fire interrupts them and does damage which helps keep Posture low.
now that I think about it I have never oil into fire on anything yet
Anno
Oil ensures anything will catch fire after using flame blast I think. It's pretty convenient.
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
oil+firecracker can work too
Talesof !NuKeSlvmWE
spiral spear is my favorite offensive tool to use. >>659764 I didn't get firecracker until recently.
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
i like sabimaru
Anno
>>659760 I dunno, I think most of the oh wait I was parsing that poorly. Yeah I've noticed the non-optional minibosses tend to auto-aggro on you once you step into their ring. I think all the optional ones though, I've been able to get a sneak on them even if I need to be a little cheesy about it.
Does make one once again ponder about the greek fire what the hell was that made out of and how did someone create it some 1500 years before gasoline and shit was discovered
But do you know what would be quite good substance to toss on people and then ignite them for lasting effect Tar too bd it requires 200+ celcius heat to ignite and once again for a quite long period
I can put 19k into my retirement funds per year that's 1584/mo or 792/check And I'm grabbing like 1339 each check so that leaves me with 547 every two weeks. Right now my contribution amount is just 300/check and I'm trying to see where and how I should balance this and the money I invest manually, and the money I spend normally/.
Anno
Sounds like kind of a pain. But I guess that's the work involved in getting as early a retirement as possible, eh.
Living like this is only viable because I don't pay rent right now. If I did, I'd need to shell out an extra 2-3k. So I figured I might as well make the most of my early numbers as possible. Like right now my split is 300/500 between the retirement portfolio and my manual portfolio. Maxing it out would cut into the ~500 of normal spending dollars I have. I'm thinking I can go 700/250 and just have about 300 per check to do stuff with. Also, I can always do overtime (but I really don't want to have to do overtime)
Thanks. It's not like I'm asking for advice. The only people who I know that are in my kind of position are very few and ... they aren't really the best people to ask things of anyway. If I can get a portfolio that can generate a lot in dividends/year, I can free myself from the coil of work.
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>>659956 I dunno what the cost of things is like there in NYC, but considering you've got your transit paid through your job, 150 a week to have for ... stuff seems like a lot to me.
>>659959 Yeah, that's a lot of benefits. The problem here is saving, I guess. I have to pay that cable/internet bill so that's a chunk off. eh, I think I'll go with 500/300 and just let my raises go into it.
>you forgot your student loans fuck it still comes up to 329/check but I can live off of that gah, I have to live for another 30 years... How do people do this. Why is both living and dying a panic to me
>>659967 I don't think you really have to do anything. You'll be directed at other places eventually, so just have fun and look around at all the DEATH
Though if you're in bloodborne town that's really interesting.
Anno
well it's not quite like bb i guess but there's lanky peasant looking mummy guys with spears and guns and shit and zombies i think i missed something on my way here
So a 13k loss in BTC means I get to reduce my taxable earnings by 3k for 4 years. I wish I could just have my lump sum money but I guess that's what I get for FUCKING UP. but a 3k minimum check per year isn't bad at all.
goddamn the levels are so open in this game i don't know WHERE the fuck i'm going anymore now i'm in a goddamn temple still never found ashina castle and apparently i skipped like a whole level in the path i took to the ashina depths? >>659986 i guess i went the wrong way i found the first ashina castle shrine, the abandoned dungeon entrance, and the ashina reservoir and depths and now senpou temple
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
i think robert was dying of a disease so he and his dad went to japan to get immortality
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
>>659984 you definitely found ashina castle, you had to in order to get to the temple
i slept for a really long time because ive been workin nonstop and im extra sleepy without my gosh damn meds but i had a dream that doctors said they needed to remove my pancreas so they did, and since i was now without a pancreas i was like okay i can never eat chocolate again now, but thats okay cuz chocolate is actually kind of shit but then people kept tryin to give me chocolate in like really dumb ways like "oh this shrimp scampi is really good isnt it? i used a family recipe of putting chocolate in the marinara sauce" and im like wtf why
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
>>659984 from the ashina castle idol, you just go straight up those stairs, at the top of the area, is the castle
you also can't complete senpou until you complete ashina castle although you can go really far there
>>659987 i had a dream that i was running away from construction workers
Anno
oh dammit i have like 4 idols here already guess i should go back to the castle
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
senpou has a really cool boss
月😼
>>659991 there was some point in this dream that i was with some people from my past i hadnt seen in like a decade we were movie hopping at the theater or whatever and i got into this one really bad action movie that had will smith in it it was like super futuristic and they had these high tech suits and people were all hunting each other and then they'd kill someone in general action movie fashion but instead of it being just quick and done the camera just stays on whoever's dying and it's really gruesome and the whole audience is like awww man wtf and they all leave i was fine with it but i was eating stuff from the concession booth and that's when my pancreas started to burst and called 911 the rest came later im not sure if it's because im off my meds or what but i usually don't have dreams this vivid or at all really
no will smith was not one of the cool turbo dudes i dont know what he was even doing but he was in the movie i think he was like the transporter or something to take people places
月😼
i think people left the theater not because of the gruesome stuff but because of will smith being in the movie if i remember right
did you see that will smith movie Bright it wasn't very good
Anno
ah apparently i reached the point i can't continue here
月😼
>>659999 was that the orc one i think i watched the cinemasins video on it then a review in brief i dont watch many movies but i find that doing that for 10 or so minutes at least keeps me up to date on most things and usually lets me find shit i do wanna see
月😼
it looked really bad though like it really had this one-dimensional view of oppression that shit that wants to be insightful but it doesnt know what the fuck it's doing like a 3rd grader wrote it
yeah they wanted to end racism but they didn't know what racism was
it's so silly
月😼
how did the orcs get oppressed anyway when they're that fuckin strong like just revolt you dummies if this fictional world is so black and white as it's painted in the movie you have no reason not to
>>660006 a lot of people do think that was the case for the slaves so probably
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>>660007 i mean i would do that in 8 minutes for $15 honestly or probably just if someone challenged me (and paid for it) 8 hours??? >>660010 i would just get water water is an important part of speed eating
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
drinking the two large sodas is what would kill me that's the part i don't think i could do
月😼
what's that sandwich on the left anywa anyway that actually looks pretty good
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
looks like a fish fillet sandwich? i dunno, i haven't been to mcdonalds in like a year
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
something about those nuggets is weird though they remind me of jpg artifacts
Anno
>>660007 >8 hours to eat this the fuck i'll do it for free
月😼
i went to a burger king that had "8 nuggets for $1 only! WOW!" posted up on their board like they really were excited about it so i got two of those (with some other shit) and i could hear the cook over the intercom from the cashier's mic sighing really distressed like they're fuckin done with people ordering these goddamn nuggets it's too much work which yeah if you're offering that deal everybody is gonna order them when i got them i could taste the flour lmao it was pretty bad
Anno
lemme get uh hhhh 80 nuggets
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
burger king has pretty bad nuggets i haven't had mcdondald nuggets since i was a kid though
hardee's has good chicken and so does checkers
月😼
>>660014 i know right i feel like it's the twitter equivalent of clickbait ads 98% of americans can't answer this!! and idk but someone was telling me about these porn ads they get on their porn sites that are like "you won't last longer than 30 seconds b4 cumming!!" or something like what are people gonna feel challenged by that and be like "oh yeah??? we'll see about that!" and go click it fuck im dyin over here for no reason just thinkin about it
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>>660010 yeah that's a shitload of soda true but if i can chug steel reserve i can chug some dumb soda just don't think about how it tastes or what it's doing to your body
it's always watered down and tastes bad and it always irritates my throats err throat i only have one throat haha!
月😼
idk honestly after taking kratom or a perk of sets i can drink like a whole 2-liter bottle of soda without thinkin about it somethin about it just makes me enjoy sweet shit and otherwise i never do i prolly drink like two gallons of fluids a day of which at least 50% is water and 20% is cum
the large mcdonalds soda is 44oz which is 1.3 liters
the medium is 32oz and that's like about a liter
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
>>660034 what the actual fuck i thought it was 32oz holy fucking shit
月😼
i feel like that's not right ive gotten beverages there and dont remember getting anything 44oz and yeah this >>660037 fuckin i had a 64oz insulated quiktrip mug in saint louis quiktrip is the best shit i'd fill that up full nbd
>>660036 i've seen someone with like a 128oz reusable jug and that shit was fuckin wild
ToN
>>660038 as someone who used to be a 2-3 can per day kid i imagine it’s just something you get used to
Anno
>used to be so you say
月😼
ive always been drinking like 2-ish gallons of fluids a day most of my life mostly water but stuff with salts in it too or my milk phase a couple years ago i was doin a gallon of milk then like three cups of coffee and a gallon of water your body needs fluids idk as long as you keep electrolyte balance it's fine but all that sugar's gonna cause oxalate deposits in your kidneys besides kidney stones you can also get oxalate crystal deposits in your bones and other places that can cause gouty arthritis or general discomfort
in my alcohol phase i was drinkin like 6 cans a day prolly but lots of water too i think im really just thirsty
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>>660043 yes used to be dont make me pout at you now im probably like a soda a week at most, since i get one when we go out most of the time
my mom drank almost exclusively flavored carbo water and now she drinks basically exclusively one brand if flavored water which i wish she would just drink regular ass water
i only made like 15k last year and i bet im gonna still owe like 5 lmao fuck my taxes are so dumb i havent even done em >>660059 im gonna see if i can find inca kola and im gonna make us all order some or i'll just buy it the shit's like a dollar
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
i made $2000 income but i took out $16000 in loans woo
The office keeps pestering me to do overtime but all I wanna do is change to another department. I'm going to apply for this social media position for the MTA and make 60k tweeting at people.
There is. You're essentially customer service but they also mention "creating content" which I am very curious about. So if people are having problems or they notice an issue, we are on the case. Of course, that also means uh... Well just take a nice search at "MTA" on twitter and you'll see what you gotta wade through
>>660054 >lime damn that made me remember how i spent thanksgiving 2017 drinking lime jarritos doing ecstacy at the mall i played ping pong at the arcade and got lost in the sporting goods store what a great day
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>>660067 >@MTA im at the bed-stuy station and can't find the bone deposit box ?? >please send help >urgent
oh that reminds me, did Kekkai Sensen only take Manhattan? It did right? Or was it NYC completely? I think it just took the island. Because I wanna know what Kekkai Sensen-Queens is like.
it's just hard to say because the shots make it look like the island was taken and the bridges are essentially the way out We need more Bronx and Queens.
>>660094 that's not a requirement to remember >>660096 It's less of a "difference between the parts" and "difference between who calls what what" because if you're here, you call everything NYC but "the city" is Manhattan. But were they calling Manhattan "NYC", or the whole of NYC as "NYC" I don't think they leave Manhattan at all except when they go to otherworldly locations.
FormerRei@mobile
>>660100 Nah, my mom's from Queens so its like we have the same ancestral homeland.
>>660129 have fun the midbosses for those guys are fun once you get their moves down it’s like a dance
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>>660130 no it's like a shotgun made by gluing 12 black powder guns together >>660131 i just want ed to get to the top of ashina castle but the more i went up the more cool shit i could see below
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
>>660129 the rocket shotguns yeah they're ridiculous
i can't even claim it's not fair because i was just thinking about how amazing the underwater traversal mechanics are and how much freedom of movement i have
!C0.PerkELE
and now the paddle is on the other foot
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>>660135 wtf more i only found one what does he drop?
it's probably my favorite boss fight ever i felt so good doing it all but one of the boss fights in this game have been really awesome though i love them all a lot more than like 90% of the soulsborne bosses
Anno
there was another phase lol but i still killed him get fucked genichiro
>>660153 hirata estate had 6 i think most of the other places only have 1-2 that i've seen there are scales you can find lying around and you can buy some too later you learn how to dive underwater and you can find a bunch by swimming around underwater
>>660158 i think there are two more in that lake near the pot guy, or it might be one fish that gives two scales? i just went back there and found those. there's also a prosthetic tool near that body of water, too. a bamboo wall you can break through leads to it
yes, but we know there were non-japanese people in japan, especially during the sengoku era so it's not weird at all that there would be a westerner despite the lack of relations between europe and japan there are other westerners in the game as well
!C0.PerkELE
>>660171 very limited and mostly portuguese missionaries and they got persecuted quite quickly and eventually the nation shut down its borders aside from one port though the shutdown was post sengoku era
!C0.PerkELE
so it is kind of a plausible, but eh?
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
>>660172 yeah but there were also westerners who became samurai so a half-westerner becoming a doctor isn't ridiculous especially considering this is a video game about a fictional area in japan during the sengoku era in which people can become virtually immortal with dragon blood
Anno
Or maybe it's a name given to her by Dōgen, who as both a doctor and genius inventor probably would have studied texts and culture of lands abroad.
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
yeah, there are a lot of ways to justify it it isn't that unbelievable
Oh yeah, for those worried about dragonrot, it's only true deaths that can cause it. So ressing won't incur the rot as long as you don't lose all your resses and survive to rest at an idol. It's only when you die and respawn at an idol that incurs it.
what is Dragon rot? oh you answered it I guess by the way, I've been trying to figure this out but when you die in Sekiro and come back does someone else die in your place or something?
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>>660186 it's okay later on in the game you'll be able to die 3 times in one boss fight and still win
I just kept fighting butterfly until I beat her, I died probably 300 times or atleast I felt like it. It is super fun. I am having a problem of dying to nearly every boss right now though and there are a lot of bosses
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>>660189 No but the lore goes that dying and resurrecting needs to pull that life energy from somewhere, so it pulls from the people Sekiro meets in Ashina. Though it seems to be more a distributed pull than from one target person.
Also people get sick but I haven't seen anyone actually die yet.
oh, so it isn't EXACTLY like that one book I read. Okay. There's this series where the big reveal about your immortality is essentially that. Someone you love dies in your place. And you're an assassin in that one too.
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>>660191 Hah hah, did you go straight to Hirata Estate immediately after getting the item to open it? There's a bit more of the normal world you can explore before going there that cam net you enough beads for a health extension.
When people get sick, it halts their quests until they're healed. I've heard they can actually die if you leave them sick long enough, though.
Kannagi
>>660196 I had two characters die ;_; >>660195 I did. I was stubborn when I went there and wanted to beat her. but now I've found like a billon different routes all over the place. I beat her though! with only the starting stuff!
>>660198 I had a pretty easy time with Horse Guy and I'd picked up quite a few health extensions before fighting Granny Butterfly so I had a pretty easy time with her. But I did get stuck on Genichiro for a decent while.
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>>660198 two tries sugoi did you RIDE THE LIGHTNING
>>660200 I think they both die as part of story things. Inosuke dies after the bell is used or finished or something, and his mom dies after you use her blood to heal dragonrot
Kannagi
>>660203 oh! I thought I fucked up by dying so much to butterfly. Good to know I didn't!
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>>660203 Inosuke was alive for me to get Dragonrotted blood from, but I hadn't finished Hirata Estate yet. I haven't been back there since beating it though.
Centipede was the easiest miniboss for me. It's just a bunch of swipes you deflect and then you jump! He only has one perilous attack and it's a sweep, so if you deflect all those and then jump kick his sweep, you do tons of posture damage.
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oh the fast boy yeah he was horrifying for like three seconda until i noticed how obvious his pattern is
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oh i was worried about who you were talking about until i realized you meant rifle grandma
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there are too many names to remember tbh
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>>660210 you can get out of that really consistently by just jumping backwards i was having trouble whittling her down though
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my favorite midboss so far has been the elite elite guy in the asiha dojo
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>>660213 You had a PC that could run NieR, it can probably run Sekiro. I've been playing with keyboard and mouse and it works pretty well after some tweaking.
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the easiest miniboss for me was that guy before genichiro
>>660221 I don't really want to play Sekiro. Souls games and the like never really appealed to me that much? why is that a question?
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>>660222 I had a little trouble with him since I couldn't really time his attacks well. But he's got like no health so once you get him a few times he died super easy.
Something interesting I've observed: The Mibu Possession balloon works by increases // increasing the chance items will drop and simultaneously increasing the chance to rarer items. But the Mibu Wealth balloon only increases the gold you get. So you can kill enemies and use the balloon after they're dead, and you get the extra gold.
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>>660231 what matters to me in watching a game is that the player: 1.) Doesn't start the game with advance information about it such that they already know how to overcome obstacles 2.) They are thorough and aren't skipping stuff to rush through major objectives 3.) They shut the fuck up i don't wanna hear you tryna be funny every 15 seconds that's why i go for longplays rather than live streams usually i dont care that they're good, like i wouldn't wanna watch someone who can't grasp the basics obv but i don't mind seeing someone who's just average
>>660233 i used to upload videos like this on YouTube but those fuckers striked me for uploading video games
i know it's copyrighted content but who the fuck is gonna watch 6 hours of unedited footage other than myself later
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the only ghost trick longplay on youtube already knows how to do the puzzles in advance so they just solve them instantly it's so fucking annoying and they just mash forward on the text segments it really pisses me off
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>>660235 yeah i would watch 6 hours of unedited footage
farming fulminated mercury is really miserable i've only found one place that will drop it and i get it like once out of every 20-30 enemies i kill even with balloon and bell demon
!C0.PerkELE
>>660235 you can actually contest this even unedited video, atleast by us law, falls under fair use
Ofc that doesn't stop the IP owners from being asses but yt rules are on your side, if you want to put in the effort and time to go through the processes.
okay! found the worst miniboss in the game it's a beasto with a charge attack and you have to fight it in shallow water so it's hard to move around BUT if you do enough damage it runs away behind a corner and you lose sight of it and the fight resets
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oh tbat skjnds awful
月😼
does it also shoot bees that you have to go underwater to avoid
also i suggest not using the Purple Fume Spark firecracker it makes enemies take more posture and vit damage but it also creates a massive plume of purple smoke that you can't see through so you don't know how your enemies are responding through it
>okay, let me do one last check of all these things >oh I have unspent funds, let me put that in something >[AT&T declares $0.51 dividend this quarter] What? >per share for everyone holding as on 4/10/19 WHY SAY THIS NOW?
>>660268 No, I'm doing long term stuff. Well, a split between long and short really. There are some that I have to watch and some that I'll just sit on. I was watching AT&T but I didn't put any in it because it was on the higher end of the things I was working with. And NOW they're saying that the dividend is going to be stupid high for some reason. AT&T is one of the long term choices so I guess I can funnel my next wave into that just to get what I can.
Let's see. Well, I just plugged into AT&T I have a few well... very few shares in a stock called BEP just because it's called BEP but they're also renewable energy? And when I looked them up they're actually pretty solid so I'm going to pour more into it over time. Some stock concerning senior housing and and maintenanc and healthcare (SNR) NCM which is third party advertising in movies and a couple of other weird things? >Management Investment Company >Business Capital Company I figure if these people are going to end the world, I might as well take some of the pot.
>>660271 Neat. I'm going to buy some stocks this summer, I think. Fish's dad was going to teach me the stock market, but then we had that fight and he's hated me, so I never got around to it.
The capital stuff is more of the short term. They're dangerous. They're low price but high dividend which isn't a problem in itself but whenever something bad happens at the company dividends are usually the first to get axed and that's really what I'm trying to capitalize on the most.
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I’m sorry everyone but I lost to stocks
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>>660273 does he actually still do trading and not have others do it for him, tho? Guess he prolly did it when younger and less rich
He probably does both. Get yourself a couple of investment firms to work on some money at a generally understandable rate and then have a pile for yourself to essentially gamble with.
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also this does mean that blue is a filthy capitalist pig dog
>>660279 We gotta do what we gotta do Choosing not to get that bread isn't going to change anything for the better, so might as well get your piece so you can actually do good things on your own
>>660277 I've only just started so I haven't really pulled anything yet. I should probably get an E*Trade account instead of using Robinhood because this whole "Wait a week for your money to show up" costs money. Anyway, I'm working with the 10k that I saved from last year. If nothing serious happens, I should be pulling $176 per quarter. Which sounds like trash because it is.
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is there like an online browser version of jenga or something we could play
>>660285 yeah, it's nice and it will grow as I put more money in to invest. The aim is to turn that 176 into 3500 one day >>660287 It's not taxed because it's automatically reinvested. So each stock pays me a dividend but then uses that payment to "buy more stock" So my stocks will grow by themselves this way.
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also isn't that small a sum taxation free over there?
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kirara log into granvblue its the last roulette day
>>660286 Here you don't pay taxes on hmm what was the word, whatever stocks etc investment income untill you cross a certain yearly amount I think it was 5000 or 10 000
>>660292 Oh yeah, that's another thing. If I was doing day trading, then yeah, it gets taxed. But since I'm just going to be buying and leaving things for more than a year, then I'll only have to worry if I pass a certain income threshold. However, by paying more into my retirement (and also with my 3k taxable income reduction due to crypto losses), it's a lot harder for me to pass that threshold.
>>660286 Wow, that's really cool. >>660291 True. But that would be 12 years to get your investment back, right? Maybe I'm just showing how bad I am at math
Yeah basically but that is how investing is, if you don't do risky or get some companies that pay royally it is basically like loaning money with an interest the income isn't that huge, but it is - if the credited does pay up - solid income the trick is, that you just need high amounts of capital to churn around
day trading ofc is much faster, but riskier and of course stressful
>>660293 my brother made huge stacks with crypto currencies back when bitcoin was 10k+(though he didn't have any btcs). If I recall correctly, he didn't get any of the money out for over a halfa year to avoid taxes, ending up with him losing like 30-40% of his profits he still profited, but he lost a chunk
Makes you wonder post fact, that he should have just gotten all dem munies out and paid the tax man prolly would have made more that way
>>660294 well, you gotta remember, this is strictly dividends. This doesn't account for things like if the price per share goes up. And also, since it autoreinvests, I 'll have more shares for the next quarter. The things I chose have been relatively stable for the past five years. if that keeps up, 176 this quarter, will become a little bit more next quarter. >>660298 what
let me put it this way. My CURRENT Dividend/Investment % is like... ...well, it's 1.76 lol duh, 10k you dummy which means it costs $56 to make $1 per quarter If I want 1k/mo (3k/quarter), I need to hit: $169,913
Do you think retirement is going to exist by the time you would have enough to retire? That's the biggest thing that's kept me from thinking about retirement.
I managed to save 10k in a single year. Technically that means it'll take me 17 years but if I can manage to compound on what I have upwards, it'll take less. I just have to be really smart and patient about it. But it's really hard for me to see myself doing that in the future because I live at home right now. Saving 10k if I was on my own? I don't know how I'd do that without making another 3-4k/mo
>>660303 This is actually an interesting topic and I am not even approaching it in terms of >we will be worked to death but in overall work culture and attitude changing
say people live up to 100 yo on average and stay healthy till 80-90s and if work is no longer that taxing, atleast physically why would you retire at 50s or 60s or atleast completely going from 40 hours a week, to say just half that with older people well who knows
i gotta admit that's pretty impressive blue my attempts to save anything end up with me still bein broke every month but honestly even if i could, i dont have enough faith in the dollar or enough faith in myself surviving 17 years to want to invest, personally it's super cool if you're able to set up your own retirement though.
THAT SAID. I CAN AT LEAST SAY THIS. IF I MAKE A SINGLE MILLION, SOMEHOW, ANYHOW, I'M FUCKEN SET FOR LIFE. JUST ONE. 5K/MO >>660309 I'm giving myself three years. I don't want to be in this house longer than that. My mom wants a maid and she doesn't have one which means her maids are me and my sister.
>>660306 I meant more along the lines of, ecological collapse is going to push us into a state of economic disaster in the next 30 years, and most of the money we save is most likely going to become worthless.
like. I know, okay. I KNOW that eating at home can easily cost less than eating out. But it is so fucking stressful to even want to go into the kitchen because Lord knows I will have to clean the entire thing before I go back to anything I was doing.
>>660309 Yeah that is one likely thing to happen This is why I dislike large currencies like euro nowadays a small nation can avoid total economical collapse most likely, if they can sever themselves partially from world economy but if something as large as euro or god forbid dollar collapses that will be disastrous to its users and anyone tied to it
Here ofc retirement atm means basic state income and saved work income and then any other savings you might have done a retiree gets something like 600 a month + income based on how much money they have been earning as a retirement money I have something like 20€ a month in terms of the latter built up so basically NOTHING
>>660309 If such a thing happened then all my saving would be for naught but I wouldn't really feel too bad about it because saving and investing hasn't really hurt me (yet) >>660314 yeah, this is where I'm at. It's hard to just destroy the value of a dollar unless you have some serious pandemonium. or any supreme currency People aren't looking for that kind of change in their lives and the world is getting very accustomed to the concept of >What if we monetized the rot?
dollar imo nor the euro would collapse, or any major individual economy there are too many pressures for outlet for major economies to collapse from here forward (i think) but currencies themselves are losing their purchasing power and i dont think the dollar or any currency will mean a whole whole lot on its own it'll still be nice to have more rather than less but the impact and control that is provided from it is probably going to scale down a lot
>>660312 and this kind of a system of course is something the experts tells us that "can't maintain itself without constantly growing population" and so on and god forbid if you mention japan to these people.
>>660319 I mean that even if shit went to hell we'd still have our industries here to "solve problems" >>660324 I don't wanna say "invest in the decline", rather "invest in the resistance of decline".
But yeah, we're also investing in the decline as well.
>>660321 like investing in the decline? that's what i thought but i wasn't sure if you maybe meant riot and typoed or something else
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yeah i guess that could be interpreted the wrong way i think it's the same but the perception might not be profiting off of a decline doesn't mean reinforcing it necessarily it just means that you're tending to needs that develop because of a decline, as opportunities open up for things that weren't needed during stability and because there's more mobility of information and access to information, it's very hard to abuse those channels for greedy profit at least at the local level of decline >>660326 yeah, that first one is indirect though if an industry is ruining the environment but still providing some sort of need, then i guess i'd say whatever their product or service is is what you're investing in and really when i'm saying investing, im not talkin aboot stocks necessarily but efforts and focuses, and then of course funding and resources is a significant driver, but not all of it e.g. a pharmaceutical company's R&D department has intention behind their spending whether or not they have the money isn't the driver, but what they see as significant areas of research which can be ascertained by probing the market, which has a lot of LAG or by predictive modeling (medium lag medium accuracy) probing would have higher accuracy or by just sayin "eh this is probably gonna be important" (low lag low accuracy)
I mean, it's pretty similar. like, if an industry is ruining the environment and you're putting money into it, that's investing in the decline. but the needs that develop would be the resistance of it. But yeah, I get what you mean.
FormerRei@mobile
>>660320 Would they just steal the money from my portfolio?
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I can't really think of a better place to move to as a Jew before an impending global disaster.
>>660327 i would not be surprised if in a time of economic and climate disaster, they seize it unless israel changes a lot and stop // stops its current path israel is a pretty bad country especially if you're not an orthodox jew i mean israel, the jewish country, is led by a holocaust denier
>global disaster happens >I shall move to a country that is surrounded by all sides by people who hate them and think of them as animals sure
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
well israel will probably have rid the middle east of those "animals" by then just expanded until israel was the middle east and left everyone else to die in open air prisons
>it's a boss i fought earlier again, but this time it has 10 an additional moves that it didn't use last time oh god
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have there been any multi-form bosses how many boss tropes does the game cover
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
several multi-form bosses i dunno what the boss tropes are
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multiform as in actual transformations or just changes in their fighting patterns and stuff? like i wouldnt count the latter or like // yeah okay neat
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
at least three of them have actual transformations into a new form
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The final exam for my class on world literature is an in-class exam (as opposed to one taking place during the exam week). That's a little weird, but what's even weirder is it's an exam we're required to do digitally, so we're required to bring in laptops for the exam? The professor does say exceptions can be made with the centre we've got for students with test concerns, and our library does offer laptop rentals, but it's still a really weird way to do an exam.
But at least I won't have to worry about being too slow handwriting the exam.
this boss keeps throwing explosives at me and then swiping at me at the same time and i can't figure out how to defend against it if i deflect his attack, i take damage from the explosios if i avoid the explosions, he gets me with his swipe
i reckon accessibility is going to have the most impact in the future rather than currency wealth like just plain ol how many terminals you have and well youve networked, how easy you are to be accessed by any trend in the network provided we ever hit post-scarcity anyway it's something that's pretty free right now too which is probably going to be more and more difficult in the future so i think that's a good investment to make sooner
The grappling hook in Sekiro just feels so good to use. I think the last time I played a game with a function like that was Assassin's Creed Syndicate, and even that was less fluid than in this game. It just makes moving around the world so much fun.
Yeah, it's gotta be. but thinking about it more, that makes things pretty weird like... There must be new bridges or something also, they seem really close hold on \
they said this in episode 2 err this is in the intro i mean right after the collapse
Koi
>>660370 yeah, that's either the Brooklyn or Manhattan bridge I remember them mentioning a bridge during the Curious arc too. but how do you get from Brooklyn/Queens to... anywhere else?
>>660376 flying over the water doesn't work i don't think you could take a helicopter over a bridge maybe
Koi
but there are no other bridges... Hold on.
Koi
Ahhh, that's right. There's the George Washington Bridge
Koi
it doesn't look like that though. I don't think the scenery does either Yeah, it's trying to depict a bridge in lower manhattan or midtown but all we got down there are tunnels. The Holland and the Lincoln Tunnel
Who the fuck names a town hellsalem's lot or Hell'skitchen
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
there's no town called hell's kitchen and hellsalem's lot is what they call NYC in kekkai sensen it's not a real life name
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i know you probably aren't going to believe this but i just saw a very large cat outside
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
impossible
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really wish i had some cigarettes heck but they make the wellbutrin not work as well anyway so it's fine maybe i'll smoke some w three three d instead
Anno
Get to know Mary Jane nice and personal.
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pay 45 bucks for this dumbass phone service each month that i NEVER USE all month long nobody calls or texts or shit then like one week without it and people start freaking out and stuff about why i dont have a phone if it wasn't for shit like this i'd have 50 more bucks each month and you wouldn't have to worry about me it's so counterproductive
FormerRei !GURPSRWiTs
>>660394 Hell's Kitchen was a shitty neighborhood in Manhattan. Its no longer shitty (in its original sense) but is now gentrified as fuck so they should change the name. Dare Devil was from Hell's Kitchen.
It's honestly a pretty fun second stage except for when he's terrorizing me and I get stuck under his fat ass body model.
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
It's such good boss design, though. I love it. The second form is actually easier than the first, in my opinion.
Talesof !NuKeSlvmWE
yes the second form is super easy in comparison Just keep the heck away from it which I tried for the first phase but that's the wrong idea. I was too fixated on it being too big to parry which is a lie because Sekiro is a god
Koi
YO I KNOW YOU'RE ALL SEXY ROWING AND SHIT BUT I'M BUYING RISKY RAIN 2
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>>660413 Yeah, the sword swipes are easier to parry and its perilous moves don't have such a crazy hitbox compared to the claw swipes and the huge fucking hitboxes of the first stage. Things are much more fun when it's sword-versus-sword.
Kirara, the Baseball Mom
>>660415 jan was lookin for someone to play that with my laptop can't run it unfortunately
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Oh shit is the sun setting as the game progresses. Are we gonna get some Bloodborne shit up in Ashina.
Anno
I keep forgetting to turn in Gourd Seeds hah hah. Sure would be nice to remember.
>>660426 Oh gosh that poor cat. It was really at unease with that statue. I wonder if it was thinking it was another cat or if it thought it SHOULD be another cat but doesn't smell cat which must be an imginative anomaly for a cat.
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that's what crossed my mind too as he approached and this other strange cat hasn't changed posture at all he must be super intimidating and then he's got no smell and no reaction and is so eery prolly thought it was a ghost
Anno
Yeah the ears flat back and narrow pupils are a sign of anxiety and feeling threatened. And that lay-down it does was definitely "look I'm being submissive don't hurt me". It makes me a little bothered to see the cat like that.
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i think it's fine they obviously were eager to comfort it and let it know it's okay as long as they're not constantly tormenting it a cat kind of likes a little bit of excitement once in a while i give my kitties lots of love but do try to show em new things
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what ended up being my old kitty's favorite toys was this little goat that honks a la last exile if you remember but he was SO terrified of it at first he wouldnt come out from under the bed
Anno
I guess that's fair. At least your cat was smart enough to run from things that scare it. This one just froze in place, hah hah.
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haha yeah i think if it was -too- frightened he'd have ran i think he was still very curious and wanted to know what it was but just wasn't sure how careful he needed to be
i was typing into google "how do autistic people handle prison" and the suggested autocomplete was "how do autistic people think" haha what a silly question
>>>/watch?v=hq1vTMG06EY check this guy out not necessarily the long legged one but that snapper underneath at like 6-12 seconds
FormerRei@mobile
>>660446 Probably better than you'd expect. Rigid routines are very good for people with autism. That's part of the reason mad thad did so well in prison.
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yeah but yard time and stuff like i couldn't even go play with other kids at recess i'd feel so fucking lost trying to navigate that prison politics
>>660453 Is yard time compulsory? Oh yeah prison politics would be really hard. Forgot about that.
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>>660454 right that snapping sound and the visuals were terrifying like a turtle >>660455 yeah you gotta avoid engaging with some people but you gotta show respect to others and if you just try to stick to yourself you get the creeps trying to befriend you because what you're doing, nothing, is super nice to them instead of treating them like trash for their perv crimes so they basically think you're their friend and that's not good but it seems like the older people all kind of just like the solitude so only the youngsters tryna feel tough are really the trouble causers
FormerRei@mobile
So we're going to this wedding in may and my dad and I needed to get new suits and my parents are pissed because we're dropping over a grand on it. I just got a (well ordered one) eight hundred dollar custom suit because the suit store had a buy one get one free and my mom decided that the shoulders on the jackets they had at the store didn't look right one me.
What's the problem Rei likes them, there's nothing wrong with that
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ungulate in a singlet
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Ungulate in a doublet
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Even knowing why, it's funny how one of those has a silent T and the other doesn't.
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i wouldn't eat it
Talesof !NuKeSlvmWE
>>660500 There is in fact nothing wrong with liking them. There is nothing wrong with disliking them either. And being told "Um akshully my dad thought they were cool and his opinion is more valid than yours." is kind of like 'oh ok whatever dude'
>>660508 Yeah you just gotta play keep away with the two of them until big pappy locks himself in an animation so you can focus on the tomodachi. Knocking them out will make the fight a ball in the park since he only gains like one whole new move for this fight.
>>660508 Save SE for phase 2, avoid Headless while you burn Brown to death. Finish her off with Kusabimaru. Then you'll be free to kill Headless. Maybe.
>>660511 Yeah that's kind of in line with the plan I had. I can beat the first phase without using any emblems easy, so I was saving them to throw down firecrackers to keep the guest off my ass while repeating what I did in the first phase.
>>660527 Oh, good. If you kill Headless Ape without Fushigiri, it comes back. So I was worried, haha. Hell yeah, Kotaro spirited away gang.
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>both of you made kotaro happy while I TURNED HIM INTO GOO
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He wanted something man why would you do anything to him before giving him his wanted items?
Talesof !NuKeSlvmWE
>>660531 Dude I gave him the shitty red/white one and he was like 'oh cool thanks for trying where should I go' and I told him to go to the dungeon so I effectively sold him to the surgeon
>>660531 Ton tried to use Kotaro to do the surgeon's quest
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>>660529 I think structurally, it makes sense game-wise to go to Sempou before where you find King Kong. Even though both regions pseudo-open up to you at the same time, Sempou's just much easier than the route to Ashina's Depths.
>>660532 >>660533 It's prompting me to use the guy who likes the music from the well for that questline but I keep bumping into him down here so I don't want to send him there until I see where this goes. Whether or not that locks me out of the quest I don't care, but I've got to satisfy my curiousity.
Talesof !NuKeSlvmWE
>>660537 be sure to check your home page after completing the 100 to unlock super mukku
i literally can't even play it won't let me start single player or multiplayer validating the files says "1 file failed to validate and will be reacquired and doesn't actually download anything.
maybe you can post on the community thing and get a refund if you did pay for -oh
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>>660628 Well it's a guaranteed refund under two hours of playtime or two weeks of ownership. After that they will potentially give refunds still but it's evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
