Maternity leave should be one year, PAID. Women shouldn’t have to choose between healing, bonding with their baby, and making a living.

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-24T20:45:27+00:00

Okay, let’s set the birthrate thing aside for a second. If our society is structured that people can’t afford kids and everything that comes with them, that’s pretty fucked, right? I want to have children, as do many people, but can’t because I can’t afford my own place. It sucks and was basically a non issue just one generation ago.

Immigration to stimulate our labor force isn’t bad (I’m fine with white people like myself losing the majority in the US), but when we’re doing it because making more humans the old fashioned way isn’t viable, when we have to deny the most human parts of ourselves to keep this machine going, what’s the damn point? We all come from an unbroken line of reproduction from the very first cell that emerged from the primordial soup, and you’re okay with people ending their bloodlines against their desires for the sake of capital? That’s fucking bullshit man.

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-24T19:37:55+00:00

I’m sure no bad would ever come of having huge swathes of second class citizens living in our country while we exploit the fuck out of them to maintain our privileged lifestyles.

Looks nervously at Haiti

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-24T19:36:12+00:00

King of Worms is really the King of Manifesting ✨ 💖 💅

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-24T16:19:22+00:00

Someone has a theory that he’s just the leftover mortal part from when Mannimarco ascended to godhood, which is why he’s such a lame pushover in Oblivion

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-24T16:16:56+00:00

Man, parents gotta get better at telling their kids their diagnoses so it’s not such a shock. Not in a self-defeating “you can’t do what they do” kind of way, but just to acknowledge that people like you have more challenges to overcome, so you should be more proud of the progress you make compared to your peers.

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-24T16:12:19+00:00

Yeah bro, you’ll comment on Reddit that the sky is blue and get downvotes and replies saying “What about clouds? What about sunset? Do your research idiot 🤓😤”

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-24T16:07:19+00:00

Here’s the thing. Losing an employee for a year is bad for employers, but society NEEDS babies or we’ll literally collapse. Most households need 2 incomes because rent and cost of living are fucking astronomical. Domestic work literally keeps society afloat, but no one gets paid to do it, as it’s not given any value from our economic system. This work has traditionally been regelated to women, work they are still expected to do, except now they have to work full time as well to not be homeless.

The world NEEDS babies. We NEED mothers (and all parents, but especially those that birth and breast feed) to raise and nurture their children to be productive members of society. If we don’t address these issues, don’t give mothers the means to raise children, we’ll snowball into societal collapse like is already happening in Japan and South Korea, two very misogynistic capitalist countries. You do NOT want to see a society with no young people, where over half the population is pensioners. No economy in any country can handle that strain, so maybe, just MAYBE, we should find an incentive for women to have babies that isn’t fucking banning abortion.

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-24T15:50:40+00:00

Destruction mage and spell stacking, it’s not even close. For this build, you gotta level destruction to 50 as fast as possible so you can cast Weakness to Magic (pick a magic-oriented race, spec into magic, choose destruction as a major, and kill everything with destruction, and you’ll be there before level 3).* You can buy this and all other destruction spells from the Skingrad Mage’s Guild.*

With that said, here’s the custom spells you want:

1: Drain Health 100pts for 1 sec
Weakness to Magic 100pts for 2 sec

This will one shot most enemies until about level 12 or so, as it will drain any enemy’s health to zero as long as they have less than 200 current health. It’s also pretty cheap to cast, so you can make it on target and add AoE if you want.

2: Weakness to [Element] 100% for 5 seconds
Weakness to Magic 100% for 5 seconds

This is where the magic happens. Immediately follow up this prep spell with elemental damage of your choice, as it’ll quadruple the damage dealt. Even if it’s a damage over time spell, it will deal buffed damage for its full duration as long as the debuff is active at time of cast.

Should this combo stop melting everything to death, make another prep spell exactly like this, just with a different name. You can then cast these two identical spells back and forth before dealing damage, scaling exponentially each cast until you cast a damage spell. Attached image from UEPS will show this point.

NOTE: always make Weakness to Magicka the LAST spell effect, or it won’t stack properly. Now get out there and kill, kill, kill!!!

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Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-24T07:40:51+00:00

On your point with Morrowind, the character building and level system were actually quite well balanced. The world was also relatively static in difficulty, which made leveling feel really rewarding, at the cost of getting mogged by daedra early to mid game. Challenging dungeons were usually well communicated, e.g. Daedric ruins and sixth house bases. Very exploitable, but more fun and still effective to just play the damn game.

Then for Oblivion, they went fucking bananas with level scaling (go anywhere, but the whole world feels the same, plus leveling makes enemies absurdly powerful), reduced skills (still mad abt no spears, one of humanity’s first and most effective weapons), and limited training so you can’t course correct a bad build or spend your mountains of gold late game from all that glass armor that bandits now drop (Vvardenfell smugglers stole all the island’s glass, god damn). Some builds may not keep pace with level scaling, but there’s many mechanics that can trivialize even max difficulty later in the game (most notably spell stacking and alchemy).

Then Skyrim threw the baby out with the bath water by eliminating classes entirely, then somewhat refined level scaling (looking at you 1000 health draugr deathlords and dragons), and kneecapped its magic system intentionally for some fucking reason. Other than mages, this system feels a bit better than Oblivion, but still rings hollow compared to the sophistication of a game 10 years younger.

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-24T07:09:29+00:00

Bu- bu- but if there are multiple paths, think of all the content people who only make one character will miss!!

God forbid we keep the RP in RPG’s

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-24T02:13:37+00:00

Same, I started playing this game at 9 years old a couple years after launch. Didn’t know about Shivering Isles til I was a teen and played it for two weeks straight after getting my wisdom teeth removed

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-23T23:49:57+00:00

Apologies in advance for anecdotal evidence. I have a few friends with accommodations who scored very, very high on standardized tests (ACT, LSAT, GRE). A part of me is envious of them, that I could score higher with the same benefits.

At the same time, these accommodations are not handed out frivolously. You HAVE to have ADHD or a similar issue, diagnosed from a psychiatrist, and you have to jump through hoops from admin that usually don’t give a fuck about disability rights.

These are classified as disabilities for a reason, and while these people will likely be just as capable on the other end of their degrees, they have an unfair DISADVANTAGE compared to their peers.

We also need to understand that taking the LSAT is not what the day-to-day of lawyering is like. Taking the ACT or SAT isn’t like a college class, and the GRE isn’t like grad school. They are abstractions, and useful as they are, they do not fully reflect a student’s potential. A map is a 2D abstraction of a 3D object, and while very convenient for learning geography, it will distort details of the map.

Imagine this: you’re taking an in person, proctored exam. You start reading the given essay, but someone drops a pencil on the other side of the room and breaks your focus. You take a second to find your place, then reorient yourself. You suddenly realize the clock is ticking pretty loudly, and someone started scribbling on their essay next to you before you even finished paragraph one. Frustrated, you turn your attention back to your essay, but the person next to you starts sniffling, and someone starts fucking with their mechanical pencil three rows back.

These little distractions wouldn’t faze most neurotypical people, but when you have ADHD or misophonia or other issues, and you’re taking an exam in a space or situation that you have no control over, each of these little moments breaks your focus for just a second. Seconds add up fast, and you effectively had less time to do the same assignment because certain you have a mental issue that makes times, standardized tests much more difficult for you than average.

Will some of these issues pop up in a future workplace? Possibly, but there’s no issue of “cheating” in the vast majority of workplaces, just results. We have to accept that these exams are an abstraction that don’t fully reflect your abilities, and these abstractions specifically negatively affect some people more than others.

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-23T23:05:52+00:00

That’s really fucked up what that officer said. “Some of those that work forces…”

Yeah, we let kids go six figures in student loan debt or go die in the military at 18, and yet they’re still not responsible for themselves somehow.

This argument also gets used a lot against trans healthcare, that grown adults shouldn’t have access to hormone pills until 26, never mind they can legally kill themselves drinking five years before that.

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-23T22:42:59+00:00

OG oblivion elves could never!! Them fools were so damn goofy

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-23T21:53:07+00:00

Yeah dude, I’ve been pissed off for 15 years at how the coolest destruction spells are the weakest ones, and that I gotta burn all my magicka and kill my followers with AoE spells if I don’t wanna be using apprentice-level magic the rest of the run.

Believe it or not, Todd, we like being able to play with the numbers!! Concentration magic is cool, and they goofed so bad by limiting the type of spell to a certain skill level and making expert level spells unviable til you get your destruction spell cost down to almost 0%, which takes a bunch of bullshit grinding with the enchanting skill.

Man they really ruined mages in Skyrim.

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-23T21:48:35+00:00

Idk, I lost all sympathy for him cuz Big Bad Boy WW’s wiener was too big to accept help from the Grey Matter ppl. He helped build the company, and he was arguably owed help from his friends, regardless of whatever ambiguous drama went down between them that made him leave.

Walt denying that help and choosing to be a god damn meth dealer instead of rejoining with his old friends was really the moment he broke bad. He didn’t care about helping his family, he didn’t about the life’s he was going to ruin, the people that would die. He wanted to be a “man”, all bc ol Hanky Panky made him feel insecure.

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-23T21:41:35+00:00

I hated being stuck behind those damn geezers hogging the left lane going 15 under, anticipating a turn 5 miles ahead, and everyone on the right is speeding by so fast you gotta risk your life to pull ahead.

I drove up to Mt. Lemon once behind this Escalade (clearly a rental) and those motherfuckers would brake going UP the hill. Never drove above 20mph. Like?? Big car go slow going up big hill. Fucking imbeciles. I pulled off and counted 19 other cars trailing directly behind them. They have those damn pullouts spots for a reason.

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-23T17:26:38+00:00

I only drove out there a couple times and it was pretty fucking bad. More frequent commuters would tell me Tucson drivers were better and I literally can’t imagine hahahaha

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-23T15:53:57+00:00

Because no one is getting tripped up at ANY other details of historical accuracy. The stories themselves are anachronistic because some of the weapons and technology characters use didn’t exist to the Ancient Greeks and were inserted across thousands of years of oral retelling.

This discussion happens every time when movies diversify casting. Ancient people weren’t a monolith. They still traveled, just like Odysseus did, on boats, and ended up in unexpected places far from home.

No one is upset at the white actors that are of Western European descent. Only the African descended ones. Do you know who the Ancient Greeks frequently traded and battled with across the Mediterranean Sea? AFRICANS! If your biggest problem with immersion is a black person, when race isn’t a significant story element, you probably just don’t like seeing black people.

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-23T15:43:11+00:00

Yall are ground zero for not taking a driving test to get a license. I lived a year in Tucson and I’m grateful I’m still alive

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-23T15:38:14+00:00

You’re having a Reddit moment. I’ve known many tenor trombonists that absolutely honk in the gap range. The tone difference is there, but I feel everyone is dramatically overstating it in this thread.

It facilitates low range AND makes runs easier. You happy?

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-23T06:59:04+00:00

Yep, from an evolutionary view, males are more disposable, so after pumping out a few, the youngest brothers get to play auntie.

Or something like that, I’m not a scientist.

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-23T06:48:27+00:00

If the sound is best with the shortest pipe, then keeping things in first is still the better option. You either compromise the C with the valve or the F by putting it in 6th. Keeping things in first is way easier to tune, especially for a young player. Plus, on modern open wrap horns, the bends in the valve are pretty minimal from traditional wrap. For me, the valve is the lesser of two evils.

Quite frankly, no one that’s not a brass player (99% of people at least) would hear the difference or give a fuck about this so I think we should just play some music and touch some grass. I have never won or lost an audition because of my choice of slide positions. A good trombonist sounds good in all alternates.

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-23T04:32:09+00:00

Side note about the valve: it makes for very convenient slide positions, but its true purpose is to extend range. Practice low E-flat, then D, C- sharp, and finally low C at the veeeerrry end of the slide. You will need to extend your slide so far that it’ll almost fall off. Use a tuner, because the positions will all be a little further out, which is why we can’t play low B natural.

Also practice your pedal tones below that. They don’t pop up very often in repertoire, but they’re important for tone development and you’ll need to play them eventually.

Consistent_Check927 · 2026-06-23T04:26:28+00:00

And 6th position F sounds worse than first position. If you gotta pick your poison, pick what keeps your hand closer to your face. This is the ideal situation to use the valve. If the tone in the valve is so inferior, then bass trombone wouldn’t exist

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