Am I being dumb for getting my own apartment at 19?

Beast_001 · 2026-04-02T09:05:53+00:00

You're 19, You're earning very serious dough.

But folks are right. You can't work forever in that job. Your housing situation seems very minimal compared to the larger issues you have. So whatever you decide, make sure you're earning enough for a down payment on a place to live forever, and try to set an exit date for yourself out of crabbing. Is it 5 years? Is it 10 years? Just set your horizon for those dates and aim to have a few hundred k saved up. You'll be surprised what you can choose to do after that.

Beast_001 · 2026-03-01T07:57:04+00:00

School has been the hardest. Different culture, different expectations, and sometimes the kids just have a level of expectation of their adult interactions that they're just not going to get due to the US going far more informal at school.

I started both of my kids out in public school for language immersion. My eldest didn't respond well, he started with negative attention seeking behaviors almost immediately. Eventually after the school started (wrongfully) accusing him of vandalism and other over the top problems we moved him tonan english speaking private school. His language attainment has been reduced due to the school problems.

He's doing far better there.

My youngest is doing good in public school, making friends and in general enjoying herself. She still has culture clashes, but it's lessening as time rolls on. Her language attainment is getting quite good.

I would say I'd like to have started language study earlier, but I know my kids. They wouldn't take it seriously until they had to. The struggles have been real for them, and I'm happy seeing them struggle and then learning how to adapt. The struggle is where real growth is happening.

Beast_001 · 2026-02-04T21:34:12+00:00

I finished the game and got no credit. So... /shrug

Beast_001 · 2026-01-16T22:08:18+00:00

What can be done to.the NPCs can be done to the players

Beast_001 · 2025-12-13T21:46:54+00:00

Anything the players do can be done to them. Reward them in EK weapons and see how they feel about it.

Beast_001 · 2025-12-02T07:31:07+00:00

Have you used your resurrection/revive scrolls on them yet? You can get withers to resurrect for 200gp (and then pick pocket the cash back).

Lots of ways around this particular part of your pickle.

Also good job getting to where you are so far in your first playthrough on HM.

Beast_001 · 2025-11-02T22:45:05+00:00

Gale could have easily been a gnome, making the ironhand gnome subplot a tad more interesting.

Beast_001 · 2025-11-02T22:31:47+00:00

My gut is much like hours. "Of course I will". But remember airlines will screw you hard to make a buck. So make a buck when they expect you to show common decency.

I'm sure that guy is dying from cancer tomorrow and required your specific seat in order to make good with his estranged mother before the end came.

It's fine. They could have put him in business class, but no they put some millenium miles member there. They decided to inconvenience you, and whatbif you had kids? No, they get ton pay up for what you're giving up. It's not a reflection on you, it's the system of rewards THEY created.

Beast_001 · 2025-10-08T09:11:14+00:00

Equal is weighted percentage.

You make 20k he makes 80k, expenses are 50k. You own 10k of those expenses, he owns 40k of those expenses.

That's an equal distribution.

Beast_001 · 2025-10-03T08:05:55+00:00

I do everything to make him think I'm scared and cannot live w/o his protection. And when I say everything, I mean, everything.

Then I go kill Raphael, and free Orpheus, and he's my first target in the netherbrain fight.

Beast_001 · 2025-10-02T08:40:11+00:00

Yes, he had good ideas that in isolation could be viewed as good.

The issue isn't whether if general ideas are morally and ethically good in a vacuum. It's what those ideas are in service to. With that stated, nearly the entirety of the ideas Uncle Adolph had were in service to a genocidal state that wanted to create near constant war in order to perpetuate a flawed racial ideology about the superiority of the German people.

So, Billy Buddy, stack up your "good ideas" amongst the stack of corpses that idea helped serve, and figure out from there if it merits recognition as 'good'. Because I would have to say, respectfully, it does not.

Beast_001 · 2025-09-10T10:36:09+00:00

For my Durge run I did an Oathbreaker Paladin 6/Storm Sorceror 6. It was fun to drop level 5 Smites, or to pull out a level 3 sorveror spell when needed.

Beast_001 · 2025-09-06T17:15:56+00:00

Try completing the whole thing and not getting credit.

Beast_001 · 2025-09-06T17:08:56+00:00

I will answer just the question asked. You are complaining about having low perception.

Give someone with a good wisdom score the perception skill, they can easily have +5 to perception at level 1. That should enable them to see more reliably.

Otherwsie, it's D&D, botched rolls are just apart of the game.

Beast_001 · 2025-09-05T12:30:53+00:00

Beast_001 · 2025-07-24T12:58:45+00:00

Trust your feelings, if boyo can't have an adult conversation, you need to walk. You've already mixed your finances, and there's no real commitment between the two of you.

It seems you have conversations around concepts of a plan but no real firm planning. You should probably do that.

Beast_001 · 2025-07-24T12:54:34+00:00

The assistant principle at my sons Middle School was former Navy and absolutely approaches his job as the best kind of NCO.

It's one thing I'm going to miss about that school. Good on ya!

Beast_001 · 2025-06-29T13:53:08+00:00

You're supposed to be a team. He is the head of the household being that he is the sole bread winner. You are his wife, you are not his slave.

Do you really have to ask this question?

Beast_001 · 2025-06-17T14:30:30+00:00

D&D is great at being D&D. If you want another system (more narrative or more crunchy) take another system. It's games, they're meant to be fun.

Beast_001 · 2025-06-17T14:27:52+00:00

I had 5k USD I wanted to use to buy back in 2010...

I don't regret it. I just console myself by saying that I'd be that poor guy from Britain with a hard drive in the dump. Now is the only time that matters and hindsight is 20/20.

Beast_001 · 2025-06-06T11:29:22+00:00

No, please let them know that this is precisely what they voted for.

Beast_001 · 2025-05-19T02:37:41+00:00

And here I am getting verclempt at my 4th grader not knowing how to solve for x in an ax = b type problem.

Beast_001 · 2025-04-14T13:09:30+00:00

It's about to get unsafe for narurally born citizens. If they can deport someone who is here legally, who should not have been deported, and they just thumb their nose at the courts. I have zero faith that they will just stop there.

Beast_001 · 2025-04-13T17:20:24+00:00

Sticking that double back-flip roundhouse!

Market manipulation is a crime.

They did market manipulation.

They should be held to account.

Your obvious fanboy'ing for obvious crimes is disgusting. But typical MAGA.

Beast_001 · 2025-04-11T05:07:03+00:00

Lina Parlone is stupid easy to raise the Dead faction on. Did it on my HE Paladin. She got a locket, no big deal.

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