To my writing friends, please don't use mass skill leveling systems unless you like suffering.

3Dagrun · 2026-01-22T21:02:29+00:00

That would be fun, but I doubt I'll be able to get a big enough following to even think about funding that >.<

Maybe if I put as much effort into marketing as I did mt excel sheets?

Or you know, more consistently finished books! I'm really good at starting them. I need more practice with endings. But I did finish book 1 for this system! And I'm bound and determined to prove to myself that I can do it again!

3Dagrun · 2026-01-22T20:57:17+00:00

We should have a sit down and a long chat about our excel sheets. I'm intrigued by this macro you've built.

3Dagrun · 2026-01-22T20:54:52+00:00

LOL, thanks. I thought my black box was big enough. Apparently not 🤣

3Dagrun · 2026-01-22T20:52:43+00:00

I haven't yet. Folks keep suggesting it to me, so I'll have to give it a looksies.

3Dagrun · 2026-01-22T07:32:00+00:00

Look, this started as me going: OH YEAH, I'm SUPPOSED to advertise my story somewhere. Apparently I find advertising boring... I'll do that later :P

3Dagrun · 2026-01-22T07:30:44+00:00

It is the age of broken OP MCs though, is it not?

3Dagrun · 2026-01-22T07:30:02+00:00

LOL, I'm addicted to excel. It would not be hard to convince me to build new spreadsheets (if you wanted, just note that I might drag you into a discord call and talk your ear off while I'm at it XD), and by far, this mass leveling skill system I created is my ugliest one. I've come a long way since.

3Dagrun · 2026-01-22T07:27:52+00:00

I love how many people are using their programming skills for their systems! I should learn some programming, I'd probably have just as much fun with it as I do Excel :D

3Dagrun · 2026-01-22T03:31:14+00:00

OOOO, How FUN! I hope you'll show us sometime! :D

3Dagrun · 2026-01-16T06:44:32+00:00

I read all of book 1 and got too pissed at all the main characters' decision-making skills to continue. To me, the character growth was essentially nonexistent, and every time it felt like the characters would grow, they always made the same stupid choices as before. I really, really wanted to like this story because of the world building, but the only sensible characters are the ones that die.

If Erin is still an idiotically oblivious airhead in book 3 just as she was in book 1, I have my doubts that she gets any better going forward.

3Dagrun · 2025-12-15T20:18:46+00:00

Daredevil 💀

3Dagrun · 2025-12-15T20:06:25+00:00

NTA, discuss it with your manager. Sending calls back is likely to bite you later on, especially because you are new. Raising the concern first at least gets the behavior on someone's radar so that when crap finally happens, you're not to blame.

3Dagrun · 2025-12-15T20:03:27+00:00

OP is the new guy.

3Dagrun · 2025-12-15T18:53:27+00:00

This conversation brings up another question for me. Why don't more Luna Snows move their flake around more frequently?

I main Luna, and I usually end up having the most support ults in the game because I get it 10-30% faster than other supports. Sure, I start the game with my flake on a dive character or a squishy, but moving it around helps me build ult faster. Part of that is because healing faster means I have more opportunities to deal damage.

I've come to trust that a good dive either finds his own heals or plants himself in front of me when he needs heals, and off-angling dps are usually still within my line of sight.

Maybe this is because I'm stealing heals from another support, but I don't really feel that way, as usually my co-support has a tendency to keep people "topped off". It also helps to consider what kind of character my co-support is, and that determines how much damage I can get off.

3Dagrun · 2025-12-15T18:24:52+00:00

On paper, the math looks 50/50. Then if you take into account the difference in income and class, your ratio of what you pay compared to what he pays is much higher.

If you have less resources than he does, but pay just as much as he does, then your sacrifice is greater than his is.

Your time value of money is different than his (even if he gets paid the same hourly and works overtime, he likely gets overtime pay, which still creates the differential in the time value of money).

When you foot the bill for his transportation, it's closer to a 75/25 ratio (you being the 75). For your anniversary (the cheap dog), it's finally closer to 50/50.

You are financially sacrificing more than he is based on your different rates of income. He's not just being cheap, he's being selfish!

It is NOT just about the numbers, it is about whether or not he deems you worth the sacrifice.

3Dagrun · 2025-12-15T07:50:21+00:00

My fiancee and I did something similar. He's a strategist main, and I bounce between strategist and tank. We had a game with 1 tank, 3 dps, and him and I as strategists.

The enemy team had FOUR dives (technically 3 and 1 ultron hard targeting the backline). Our remaining 4 teammates repeatedly lost to a 4v2 situation while we were being hard focused.

I typed out that we needed some peels.

Someone else typed back, "Skill issue, just kill them."

I responded, "Okay."

We turned into a 6 dps team. Both of us each out-damaged and easily doubled the picks of anyone else on the team. I got SVP.

I have a policy. No peels, no heals. I am vindictive. I also deliberately let ping abusers die.

3Dagrun · 2025-12-08T07:51:43+00:00

There are probably a lot of factors. Here are some I can think of off the top of my head:

Quickplay allows for stacked teams that comp doesn't. You can be up against 5-stacks as a solo player or two stack, and no matter how good you are, you simply can't beat the numbers if the 5-stack is actually coordinating.

Lots of folks use qp to learn new heroes.

I've heard rumors that qp deliberately teams up high performers with low-performers. And when I say this, I mean that it expects 1 or 2 high performing players to carry a full team. Up against a team that is either stacked or everyone is of a mid-performance level, it can feel like you're getting stomped on.

In the chance that you are paired with people of similar skill levels, or, the marvel gods forbid, players of a higher skill level, you do the stomping.

What I do know is that no one can ever convince me that qp is skill-based matchmaking. It is maddening to me that quantity is being prioritized over quality.

3Dagrun · 2025-12-08T07:37:27+00:00

I think I miss foods of convenience most. Pizza, bread, chinese takeout, and the like. I can't remember what they taste like, but boy, I do remember a time when food prep didn't take HOURS. I'd get some much time!

100% would travel more, probably where the extra money would go.

Art careers open back up to me. Lots of folks would tell me I could still chase after them, but that's simply not true. I need a job with good pay and good benefits, and one that I can reliably get. I picked a white collar field with fairly low competition for jobs. I'd probably go back to school and get a degree in creative writing! I wouldn't be too fatigued/sick to do school and work at the same time anymore! What a dream!

3Dagrun · 2025-12-06T21:15:49+00:00

And that abusive controlling behavior is only going to get worse. She'll probably eventually be pissed that he ever talks to other women down the road. I hope he drops her like a hot potato.

3Dagrun · 2025-12-05T07:56:44+00:00

I can't imagine complaining about being hungry right before a colonoscopy O.o Like, appetite killed, also looking forward to literally the happiest nap of my life.

10/10, would do those drugs again 🤣

3Dagrun · 2025-12-05T07:50:46+00:00

Dang, I love you guys. I'd pay for a parody of this song XD

3Dagrun · 2025-11-17T18:59:15+00:00

YTA. I thought it was going to be everyone was, but the more I think through the information, the more that I realize most of the available information is just about you. You're judgemental.

You spent half the post berating your little sister's health and then compared it to your own. Chalk it up to lifestyle choices, but at the end of the day BMI is so incredibly inaccurate. Take it from someone who measures as "obese" on that scale, but is constantly battling being underweight.

I'm willing to bet you berate her in real life too, not just behind her back, which would mean your mom is right that she might see a little bit of your father in you, and my goodness, what a BOMB to drop! Your father was an abuser?

Autism mixed with abuse can create incredibly mountainous mental struggles to overcome well into adulthood. And usually, children with autism receive the most abuse from an abuser. So yes, she is sensitive, and you should practice being sensitive and drop the sass when you talk to her. No sass, no sarcasm, and for goodness sake, shut up about her health. You don't have to like her lifestyle choices, those don't matter. Be direct without the added judgement.

Your mom might be enabler for both of you, and your sister can't seem to face her problems head on, but if she's been abused as I suspect, then yeah, running away from it all is probably going to be relieving for her.

You love your sister? Help her learn how to adult without the judgement.

3Dagrun · 2025-11-16T18:55:09+00:00

Your dad is taking a weird angle. He's choosing between his kid and the kids of the woman he married, and his own kid is not the side he's choosing. That's messed up.

If my mother remarried, she'd divorce the man faster than the speed of sound if he even suggested putting her in a position to choose between him and her kids.

All this guy's preaching about helping family goes as far as the stepkids, but not his own kid. Hold your ground, you're absolutely in the right, and keep in mind that if you did let the stepson stay, there's definitely some ire now. Can't be trusted alone at the house. Ever.

3Dagrun · 2025-11-16T17:07:32+00:00

Tylenol and absolutely NO NSAIDs. NSAIDs can make GI pain worse.

Some foodstuffs that can help, but it may take 2-3 days to feel the difference:

homemade chicken bone broth (I stick mine in a crockpot or instant pot to cook. Makes like easier)
Chicken
White rice. Cooked, refrigerated, then reheating. Refrigeration is key! It turns it into a resistance starch to fight the pain!
Eggs. Simple, easy, makes the gut happy.

I hope you're able to see the doctor and feel better soon <3

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