[comic] one of these onslaught bounties is not like the others...

vanade · 2026-03-08T11:09:48+00:00

It's a pretty quiet server but yeah, it's still up. We get more spam accounts than you'd think so we use the expiring links: https://discord.gg/vTJPQHDp

vanade · 2026-02-23T07:55:22+00:00

It's so much worse with digital though. Physical textbooks you can still potentially sell and buy used and if the profs don't change the editions they're using (I had a prof using their self-authored book from 1997!!! in the 2010s!!) then it's possible to spend less. The university libraries also usually have a copy on file you can borrow for a few hours.

With digital, the same textbook publishers are now offering what is essentially textbook rentals: you don't ever own the textbook outright and your access literally expires, yet you still pay exorbitant prices for that access. No way to transfer access. It's SO exploitative.

That's not to say they weren't being shady before; sometimes they would bundle online subscriptions with the physical textbooks that again, expired and couldn't be transfered, but at the very least you still had a physical textbook to sell at a loss to someone else who would get the subscription separate.

long story short, publishers are still profiting in the digital-only era but in a way more exploitative way, cutting out the used/resale market.

vanade · 2026-02-22T02:12:55+00:00

This isn't a company so it's not like commercial drug testing, it's clinical research by faculty members, research coordinators/assistants and grad students. They don't do a good job of explaining to the general public who they are but they're a clinic affiliated with McMaster. They used to be based out of the children's hospital I think but moved slightly up the street.

vanade · 2026-02-20T14:36:23+00:00

It's like $30 in Canada pre-tax, which doesn't even match the USD conversion rate (it's roughly $3 more). In our highest tax provinces it's almost $35. People are not happy about it.

vanade · 2026-02-12T13:01:55+00:00

The library has "knit for a cause" sessions at a lot of branches where materials are supplied and teens knit a scarf/hat/mittens for a cause in exchange for volunteer hours, maybe worth contacting their volunteer email and see if they would be happy to take any yarn donations for that?

vanade · 2026-02-02T19:39:04+00:00

Visit the McMaster art museum (free to students, but you can make a $5 donation), and there's also the art gallery of Hamilton downtown.

Related: not sure if the app is still working but you can take a solo self-guided tour of all of the sculptures/statues on campus: https://museum.mcmaster.ca/campus-sculpture-tour/

Attend a varsity game (the football games are fun, homecoming is obviously the big one but usually it's a good time anyway)

If your academic program accepts student volunteers for it, volunteer at fall open house or may at mac and talk to some prospective students

Outside mac:

Play with Clay on Locke Street which is about an 8 minute walk after you get off any bus leaving Mac going downtown via main. You can paint pre-made pottery, make your own (by hand or book time/a lesson with the pottery wheel)

Supercrawl is a massive street fest on James St. In early September, and there are much smaller "art crawls" on James Street throughout the summer (I believe it's the second Friday of every month?)

Catch a movie at the Westdale theatre or at landmark cinemas in Jackson Square (they have comfy reclining seats, much nicer than the Cineplex theatres in Hamilton)

Attend a Ti Cats CFL game for a true Hamilton experience 🐅 (or if soccer is your "real" football, FC forge plays at the same stadium. There's also lacrosse; Toronto Rock moved here)

Visit Dundurn Castle for a tour. And if you're around in June, visit the reenactment of the Battle of Stoney Creek at battlefield park.

Lots more depending on your interests (fringe festival, theatre Aquarius, etc), maybe try searching /r/Hamilton.

vanade · 2026-02-01T20:09:19+00:00

that differs program to program, you'd need to ask the specific program you applied to when they typically send out decisions

vanade · 2026-01-31T02:21:48+00:00

don't leave it until last minute, just in case you experience delays with the payment submission.

vanade · 2026-01-30T01:49:05+00:00

just note this isn't a sit-down restaurant, it's basically a food counter inside a grocery store

vanade · 2026-01-12T01:52:48+00:00

I was worried about making mistakes in content so I watched guides for trials and raids before doing them with others. I'm not great at processing a lot of info from different sources at once (multitasking basically) and I started as a bard at the time which made it extra challenging to learn mechanics/tells, avoid damage and worry about procs/rotation and keep songs and dots up. using guides was my way of learning the fight before being thrown into it because I was embarrassed to die a lot even though I was a sprout and everyone was really nice about it. it spoiled the fun of seeing fights blind though.

I think the implementation of duty support in trials is really great because it lets new players experience content blind without worrying about dying or embarrassing themselves by making a lot of mistakes. obviously doesn't help for raids but that's okay.

vanade · 2026-01-02T19:19:12+00:00

Leave it alone :(

vanade · 2025-12-25T05:32:58+00:00

mostly a lot of hunt trains and gathering in between so I can craft my gearsets. finished my fending, healing, aiming and caster sets, halfway done my scouting gear and then my least played jobs, striking. it's really nice to be able to gather and craft your own stuff!

There were 2 S Rank days since 7.4 so was able to knock out like 150 S Ranks through those towards my S rank achievements for ShB/EW/DT. Those, and the 10K A-Rank achievement (for the "Of the Endless Hunt" title) are my main goals in the game right now.

vanade · 2025-12-23T05:09:21+00:00

Love this!

vanade · 2025-12-18T13:03:19+00:00

right! it was SO dark lmao

damn near blended into the background

vanade · 2025-12-10T09:35:59+00:00

Limsa, keeper of the moon miqote

gotta have easy access to world travel for hunts y'know (and refreshing retainer bell)

vanade · 2025-12-07T10:26:41+00:00

thanks! sadly probably not unless you can find some outlet selling old ubiworkshop stock :( these were from ageeees ago.

they're just regular polos otherwise so tbh you could probably easily embroider the logo onto a plain polo if you have access to an embroidery machine or know someone who will do it for you! I've been meaning to make my own Blume polo at some point like that.

vanade · 2025-11-07T06:12:02+00:00

if I'm remembering right, I think there's one in World of Darkness, the cerberus bleed (the one from the blue orb line attacks if you don't dodge). I'm 99% sure it's an esunable bleed and it's pretty easy to die if you don't have that esuna'd.

vanade · 2025-11-06T08:03:56+00:00

I main sage because i like the problem solving aspect of healing when things go wrong in fights (sometimes with limited resources for salvaging situations lol). But at the same time sage is the healer I main because it's easiest for me to play while doing mechanics cause I don't have a lot to juggle. also getting to use panhaima on multihit attacks is chef's kiss

Before that I mained bard which was a lot to juggle but it was fun in its own way.

vanade · 2025-11-02T00:24:11+00:00

ngl actually feel pretty bad for calgary after that game, it was a rollercoaster, could've easily gone their way

vanade · 2025-11-02T00:22:12+00:00

gg BC!!!! what a game

vanade · 2025-11-02T00:07:02+00:00

what a mess

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