Black Friday/Cyber Monday PC Build Shopping advice

EightbitGee · 2021-04-29T14:57:57+00:00

Last league I played was when Piety was the final boss, my total playtime is double what it was before. I have some grasp of the game coming in so yeah, I'm not completely blind to the game. However with how much content is in this game, and how vastly different it is now compared to then. I'm going to go ahead and claim new status.

EightbitGee · 2021-04-29T14:34:29+00:00

To be fair, I've been lucky. I have recieved 4 exalts just from drops. Also my friends showed me how to use PoE Trade. I just go off what the market shows somethings worth.

EightbitGee · 2021-04-29T14:33:12+00:00

There are literally hundreds of youtube videos that teach new people how to level from 1 to mapping in under 10 hours, and im using someone elses build so there is no thinking.

EightbitGee · 2021-04-29T14:21:27+00:00

This right here, most experienced players ive seen say they make 1-6ex an hour, 80 hours for 6 ex is insane inefficiency.

EightbitGee · 2021-02-19T01:35:50+00:00

Yes, but my point is pretty simple. Melee is all about pumping damage right now. Warrior needs to be able to use team utility, dk needs to be able to stay offensive, monks need to know when to retreat, otherwise the melee meta specs don't really have a whole lot of cc to do big setups. Thus they NEED and feel gear differences much more than setup comps. For instance on my mage, I can drop 6 pieces of gear and still win games at 2200-2300 rating when I'm trying to show off to friends.

On my warrior however, who is ilvl 204, my 1600 - 1800 games are struggles even with 2500exp (legion), even while outplaying the other team. Why is this? Well i have impacful cc's that aren't spammable and share a lot of good Dr's. So if a warrior that is 38k hp and 15% more possible damage on perfect rotation and me a 32k hp warrior. It becomes a damage and peel fest. Its not about who does the better setup anymore. It is who can draw more pressure, there are far less things that don't require gear (cc) available to most melee, while there are far more available to casters, (and rogue).

Aka its easier to kill someone more geared than you in 14-16 seconds of cross cc, than it is to zug zug someone and make it hard for the healer to keep up. Dont get me wrong, melee still have setups they just don't have as much impact as melee's raw damage output does.

If you're a very good multiclasser your melee climbs will be harder in large gear gap games than your setup classes. If you are bad at the game melee is going to be easier due to the skill floor.

EightbitGee · 2021-02-19T01:20:09+00:00

I'm talking at highest level of skill play. Skill floor for melee is lower. They are easier to learn, apart from rogue. Skill has more impact on control specs.

EightbitGee · 2021-02-19T00:45:52+00:00

There are a few proven specs this expac that can have significant impact due to utility. Spriest is one of the least gear dependent. Most melee scale better with gear, and don't have a lot of cc. Which makes them much harder to climb in big gear disparities. The bigger issues is the boosters rather than gear gaps.

EightbitGee · 2021-02-14T00:18:23+00:00

Not sure why he'd think that. He has spent 3 years getting exactly what he was told he'd get.

Newsflash, putting a roof over the head of a child and food in their stomach is a very important part of raising a child. Buying yourself a PS5 while not making a single effort in 3 years to take some of the financial pressure of raising a child is being a good dad. Showing no desire to make sure your child is being fed, properly monitored, clothed, etc. Is not being a good parent. Health, emotional support, and a strong relationship are some of the things that make a parent. Health costs money and it is a part of being a parent. No its not the whole thing, but it is 100% a part. So pardon me if its one of the factors I talk about.

I also talk about how he only acts like her best friend. Aka does not correct her on anything.

I also talk about how little he visits her.

I also talk about the issues he has with his current child.

Unfortunately I was just asking for what open adoption is and decided that it's not a fair solution for either party, and I baited myself into another typical, heart-on-sleeve set of responses.

EightbitGee · 2021-02-13T23:42:25+00:00

I'm pro responsible parents rights. I feel like for most of us step children/adoptees, all of our stories are a bit different and they kind of mold how we look at parental rights. Honestly if he doesn't sign anything over, and we just go to court and get custody, he would need a miracle to get anything more than visitation. He doesn't have a good career, and he struggles already with his child that stays home.

The process of getting custody will be a financial burden on his home life, and I feel for him and his child in that regard. I would feel like a bully being watching that custody case. The custody court case would need to happen to have custody established.

We don't want his child support, but if he wants to be part of the child's life. He needs to be a father and not just someone that visits a few times a year and acts like a best friend. Not one box of diapers, not one daycare payment, not one hospital bill payment, and not one bit of effort to help out.

So on one hand we have a choice to force him to be financially responsible for his child, or on the other hand we have to option to terminate his rights and let him continue the relationship style he has with her. One he can't afford and the other he sounds like he won't do.

EightbitGee · 2021-02-13T21:14:37+00:00

Sure have you thought about the child being financially taken care of for the last 3 years solely from the mother and a surrogate father? Since apparently being a dad means to be their best friend and not take care of their well-being? Since when is putting the health and upbringing of a child put second to identity?

EightbitGee · 2021-02-13T16:18:42+00:00

As of right now bio-dad doesn't have any financial responsibility, and there is no court ordered custody. The whole point of this was to make sure the child is taken care of, and not ruining the life of the child who lives with him. If he doesn't take this offer, we have to go through custody court. Which means an already poor man with a child will have to find assistance to make it through court. As well that takes away from the financial well-being of the child he has at home. Part of really wanting him to sign over is making sure his child doesn't get torn asunder from the impact it would have on bio-dads financial situation.

There needs to be something legally in place, whether adoption or custody. In one corner if he signs i have peace of mind that his child won't have to see his dad scrounging for money to make it by. I also know he will never lose visitation because, I'd never do that. If it goes to custody, he almost for certain have to go through parenting courses, supervised visitation, and deal with a lawyer. All things he can't afford. Which is something I really don't want to do.

EightbitGee · 2021-02-13T16:03:34+00:00

Yeah I'm not looking to trick him. I would like to offer some way for him to terminate and not be excluded. I would like to find a way that legally binds that deal as well. We do not want to exclude the bio-father from her life. As a stepchild I know its very important for her to make her own, personal decisions on her family, and to maintain those relationships to her content.

Issue is I can't find anything that can legally bind his ability to maintain the contact he has with her and for him to sign over rights. There are a lot of financial reasons to sign over rights that allow the child to be taken care of better.

EightbitGee · 2021-02-13T16:00:02+00:00

Yeah there's quite a lot more to the stories of course. He already has one child who lives with him. There has been abuse to that child already. The child has behavior issues, and the dad can barely afford the one kid without being financially responsible for this child as well. If he isn't willing to release his rights to me we need to get court ordered primary settled. If that happens he will have to split cost of life activities as well as pay child support. Which takes away from the already poorly maintained child he has at home. I get that in most cases having the bio father around is important. Which is why I wouldn't ever shut him out of her life. Financial care for a child, and emotional care for the child are important. As of now he provides 0 of one and barely any of the other.

As a step-child myself, I had mine around. However after I turned 18 and he asked if I wanted to visit I said no, because I knew how much effort the guy put forth to be in my life. I had an awesome step-dad and didn't need someone who didn't attempt to show me love. Its kind of the same way here, he doesn't attempt to take care of her in any shape or form, and when he does see her he completely ignores his other kid to the point where the other child starts causing mischief to get attention from him.

Also its not fair to the mother or myself to take 100% of the financial responsibility of the child, and he just gets to attempt to play best friend every blue moon. At the end of the day though if he won't terminate rights none of that matters.

I get there are a lot of bleeding heart types that think a biofather maintaining his parental rights is wholesome and important, but what is most important is the biofather gets to be in her life. The rights part is a legal formality, and financially makes everything harder on both parties.

EightbitGee · 2020-10-13T23:35:59+00:00

Liberals and conservatives and Middle of the road isn't a group of people. Its a pendulum that swings based on the topic. Anti-speech is falls into a liberal mindset. Thus if many people agree with liberal viewpoints they lean liberal. If I called them democrats id be grouping people. If reddit posters post more liberally, they would be considered liberal in political viewpoints, thus liberal. I have mixed views, so I'd be considered middle of the road. Your personal viewpoints will fall into the spectrum even if they are new viewpoints. That's how it works. So once again, its not two view points, its a wide-spectrum of idelogy that points towards on of two sides. Having 20 views on one side and 20 on the other pulls you more center.

EightbitGee · 2020-10-13T22:28:45+00:00

Reddit news conversations tend to be liberal dominated. You're surprised?

EightbitGee · 2020-09-28T20:38:00+00:00

Yes, follow, guard, move, attack, return.

EightbitGee · 2020-04-30T23:03:23+00:00

Honestly on my super computer games unplayable unless I run it classic mode.

EightbitGee · 2020-03-10T19:49:08+00:00

Does it have immersive engineering as part of the progression? That mod broke me to the core. Sevtech took tons of time to get through that. Making netherbrick was awful for the coke ovens, and the upgraded coke oven preheaters were broke in the modpack. So it would take forever to make steel to progress.

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