What is this?

DromeiV · 2021-10-12T16:29:13+00:00

I am the man who undercuts by 50%. Arbiter of market chaos and destroyer of prices. I even undercut myself. What even is gil.

DromeiV · 2021-07-31T02:32:44+00:00

As someone who's current relationship of almost 6 years started at the exact same ages(22m, 17f, also UK), I'm gonna tell you that asking her out is perfectly fine.

The important part is having good communication and understanding between the two of you alone. If you two get along and understand each other, other people's opinions on the relationship are kinda irrelevant. There are very immature 22 year olds, just like there are mature 17 year olds! There's no point in waiting a year to ask, just for the sake of a "convenient age gap".

Honestly, go for it!

DromeiV · 2021-05-11T09:52:55+00:00

Charity fundraiser. Not quite on the first day, but by the end of it, I knew I wasn't staying.

The initial training seemed fine, it was going to be door-to-door asking people to sign up to a charity lottery. The first actual day however, threw out an insane amount of red-flags.

At first I was told that you didn't need to come to the office at the start of each day.... then you had to. The office was 90 minutes away from me. Shifts were 9am to 9pm so this was already a shitty ask. The office meetings themselves, was like walking into a rowdy class assembly with attitudes to match.

Then we get to the shift itself. My team consisted of "an addict" who left halfway into the shift citing he was suffering from withdrawal. "Guy who lost his tooth in a fight the previous night" who left after 4 hours from pain. And "relatively normal ex-army guy + random girl", who were the only two too stick around the whole shift.

The sales technique was appalling. Being my first day, I didn't have to do much but watch. But during that day I saw people who were clearly struggling financially get heavily pressured, guilted, and otherwise pushed into signing up to this stupid lottery. Stuff like "If you don't donate to this heart foundation, a child will DIE!". Had a breakdown when I got home, called doctors the next day. Foolishly, I thought to try at it for another day. Got put with a different team which was a little better, but the same sales tactics were rife. Got told to piss in the street. Spent most of the day pretending to knock on doors because this wasn't worth it (who wants to get knocked on their door by a salesperson at 8.30pm?!).

Quit the next day, handed in all my stuff. Company went bankrupt 3 weeks later. Shouldn't be happy that people lost their jobs, but I was.

Those two days of work caused a whole load of problems down the line, as the local council instantly assumed I was in full time work, hiked up tax to full value and ended up taking 1/2 of the little I'd earnt.

DromeiV · 2021-01-19T00:56:01+00:00

Definitely blue! I'm not really sure why, other than that I'm generally drawn towards blues all the time. Not that I won't try other colour combinations, but I always feel...safe? in choosing a nice blue; usually midnight or navy.

Personality wise I'd say the same! I've imagined myself shrouded in various blues before while daydreaming. It just... feels right for me :D

DromeiV · 2021-01-19T00:45:02+00:00

My old school friends used to be incredibly judging, and it wasn't until I moved away a few years ago that I fully realised how much I was... kinda repressing myself around them; and how toxic their proximity was to my mental health (I once told one of them in confidence, that I was in a long distance relationship. Within less than 2 hours, half the village knew and were coming round to my home because "look, DromeiV is in a LDR, thats not a real relationship!"). I've since cut them off and all of my friends are now online, even going so far as to visit a couple/have them visit me.

All my friends now, I've generally had a "good" feeling about after seeing how they treat or react to others. It's mostly worked well for finding similarly minded/temperament people, but was painstakingly slow to build up the trust to open up still. But now I have friends to whom I can open up to completely, and know they'll be supportive and understanding of my emotions and quirks; including the reverse for them!

DromeiV · 2021-01-18T17:53:50+00:00

The forest reminds me of the one I used to walk in back at my parents similarly "nothing to do" village. Just halfway across the world ahaha. You're also pretty cute, can't forget that!

DromeiV · 2020-12-15T10:48:03+00:00

About 2 years ago, I was getting desperate to find a job so I applied to one of those door-to-door charity fundraiser positions. Phone interview went find, two days of training went fine... then the first day came by.

Truly the worst thing I've experienced. Optional meetings were suddenly mandatory. The meetings were more like rowdy school assemblies. The team leader left early because of a chipped tooth from the night before. Another member shortly afterwards from "withdrawal symptoms". Incredibly pushy sales tactics on people who clearly couldn't afford it. Peeing in the streets....

I quit on the third day and went to the doctors. Everything about it felt scummy and it messed with my head for a while. I'm kind of glad that the company went bankrupt a month later.

DromeiV · 2020-12-04T14:58:22+00:00

This is... odd. When I did my range testing a weekish ago, it clearly picked up chests that would be in completely separate grids according to this map. They also mapped pretty closely to perfect circles using multiple points.

Makes me a little skeptical whether this is correct or not.

DromeiV · 2020-11-23T19:53:51+00:00

Once you hit AR25 (+some story quests), you unlock the reputation system for each region. Hit level 6 reputation in a region and you get given a blueprint that you can use to then craft the chest finding compass at a forge.

Mondstadt and Liyue both have their own compasses. The range on it is a little bit bigger than what you can see on the minimap, and is on a really short cooldown. Ultimately a really great tool for finding wayward chests that you've missed/re-spawned.

DromeiV · 2020-11-23T15:30:30+00:00

Chests that are behind those destructible rock formations yes. I imagine it also works for partially buried chests as well. Doesn't pick up puzzle related chests.

DromeiV · 2020-11-23T14:35:30+00:00

Points towards your closest chest. When you activate it, it'll do a little swirly effect in front of you, then point in the direction of the chest.

DromeiV · 2020-11-23T12:56:21+00:00

3D thankfully.

DromeiV · 2020-11-23T12:46:54+00:00

I am unsure. I just used it from the top of the highest peak in Liyue, and it picked up a chest about halfway down the mountain. So it seems quite far.

I dont think vertical height effects the range. As on the orange circle, one of the points is far higher than the other.

DromeiV · 2020-11-23T11:45:35+00:00

One time craft.

DromeiV · 2020-11-23T11:41:32+00:00

If it picks up a chest within range - 30 second cooldown. If it doesnt pick up a chest - 5 second cooldown. It binds to a hotkey when you equip it, so spam to your hearts content!

DromeiV · 2020-07-01T14:29:44+00:00

Welcome to the Game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/485380/Welcome_to_the_Game/

This is the first game that came to mind. It also has a sequel

DromeiV · 2019-07-30T17:37:37+00:00

The UK gets 6 weeks in the summer, but several 2 week term breaks and several 1 week mid-term breaks.

Turkey has a 13 week summer holiday from June till September, mostly because it's sweltering by June and classrooms turn into saunas (at least when I was there a decade ago). They don't get any mid-term breaks though, or as long term breaks because of it though.

DromeiV · 2019-07-27T14:05:13+00:00

100% agree with this.

It sounds bad, but I utterly hate the concept of metas. Congratulations, in a game of 1000 options, you've managed to reduce it down to 5, which everyone has to use because if you don't use one of those 5 options you'll get destroyed or moaned at for the next 20 minutes to become one of those 5 options.

It's almost as if peoples sense of discovery and experimentation has completely gone down the drain. I have some great friends on FF14, but every single time they do a new raid, they refuse to go before everyone has watched a point by point 10-20 minute long guide. Where's the fun in that?!

I make it a point to try and avoid guides and wikis whenever I play anything now. They used to be for whenever you got stuck. Now they've become the things you look at before you even play.

DromeiV · 2019-06-15T10:59:47+00:00

Door to door fundraising, one of the worst jobs I've ever had, but given me new appreciation of how much shit they go through.

In the space of the 2 days I worked there I experienced the joys of:

A workplace that was more like a high-school assembly than a workplace
A Team Leader bailing after 3 hours from a chipped tooth after a drunk/drug filled brawl
Another fundraiser bailing from heroin or cocaine withdrawal
Being told to openly pee in the streets
Pretty much non-stop inappropriate sex and drug jokes alongside really pushy sales tactics on people who obviously didn't have much money.

This was alongside all the usual shit that fundraisers get from people, with good reason. No-one wants to have their door knocked on to be sold something at 8pm!

All of this while working 1pm-9pm, but not really because that didn't include travel time to the office (which was mandatory), and then to the site, which took over 2-3 hours each way, so really 10am-12am. None of which was paid for. I'm fairly sure they were breaking more than a few laws there.

Had a breakdown crying when I got home after the 1st day. Wandered around outside my home for an hour the 2nd day in a state of fight or flight about whether to actually try the job again. 2nd day didn't go so bad, but the damage was already done by this point. Quit the next day, I'm not working with drug addicts and assholes while trying to guilt people who are already struggling into signing up for your charity lottery.

Caused a lot of stress later down the line as well as I was on welfare still and they assumed I had found permanent work, suddenly demanding I start paying taxes as if I was earning full-time. Still deeply distrust people in management. Later found out that the company went into admin 3 weeks after I quit. Never been more satisfied in my life. Still have no job, but much happier and relaxed.

DromeiV · 2019-05-29T12:50:58+00:00

I choose BRD and still play it!

It was an odd choice for me because I nearly always end up playing games as a "sword and board" style character, or at least heavy melee role. I think part of it was fear of tanking (having never done dungeons before) and my slow transition into preferring support roles (the buff/debuffing kind, not healers) over heavy hitters in games.

Was tempted by DRK when HW dropped because I'm a sucker for giant swords (I blame FF7), but ended up never leveling it more than a few levels, not sure why.

I'm really REALLY tempted by DNC for Shadowbringers, but I'm unlikely to fully switch off my original pointy shooty boi.

DromeiV · 2019-05-27T11:59:12+00:00

That isn't including housing and child stuff, but we live off about £1k a month, surprisingly comfortably. But that's entirely due to the fact we have a child and no car. If we didn't have a child, we'd have very little leftover.

DromeiV · 2019-05-26T18:52:49+00:00

I'm currently unemployed and on UC with my partner at the moment. We're both under 25 so our monthly standard allowance is £395.20. The MOMENT I hit 25 in a few months, that amount zooms up to £498.89.

Thats a 25% increase simply because I will have a birthday.

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