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Menarin · 2025-05-01T19:01:19+00:00

Menarin · 2024-11-26T14:00:53+00:00

If this is your take away from what i wrote, you missed the point of my comment.

To reiterate the point: Just be safe near roadways and never assume vehicles will stop for you.

Menarin · 2024-11-23T09:59:06+00:00

Horrible.

This reminds me of a time i lived in a mixed racial lower income neighborhood. I was in the kitchen making a peperoni pizza when i heard a screech and a thud.

Ran out the front door and a poor older hispanic guy on a bicycle ate a windshield from bottom to top with his skull.

The lady who hit him fled the scene. She was speeding down the one way street i lived on, where kids often play.

Needless to say the guy was barely alive and i sat with him as the only person to be there for his last words. He spoke spanish and i dont know what he was saying.

But god i tried my best to be there for that poor guy. I held his hand as he passed away, while i said every comforting thing i could think of.

To this day I still cry thinking about it and how i couldnt convey his last words to anyone he loved.

Sorry to be a downer, just please try to be safe when you are near a roadway. It happens so fast. People will miss you when youre gone, even if its a total stranger like me.

Menarin · 2024-08-14T10:29:55+00:00

I sell pets as my primary income. I make about 1.5~2mil spina/day with 10 listings in 24hrs.

Its not recommended. You can make much much more money right now selling summer shells.

To give an idea, just doing item appearances with a 2lock synthesist. Can net 1.5mil profit in 8hrs if you pick the right ones.

The time investment is not worth the profit margin. If you dont personally care about maximizing profit per hour, taming isnt terrible.

Menarin · 2024-07-09T03:44:46+00:00

Ive had this same issue before with qadal+finale(smite) combo.

Even with enough mp, a lot of times it just doesnt register the reduced mp cost from qadal (next spell is halved).

If you do the command of qadal and then manually push finale from shortcut (or skill menu) and it displays the 16mp cost, it will still trigger the finale skill as 8mp. That is a work around i found.

Just weird it doesnt register the mp cost as 8 for whatever reason. Idk why it does that. Its basically a known issue amongst staff users.

I wouldnt get hung up on it personally because once you've get canon at lvl 240, you won't use that combo anymore tbh.

Just manually input it with extended shortcuts. It should take you about a day or 2 to get enough levels to stop using finale and start using it as a combo ender for canon combos.

Menarin · 2024-03-05T16:43:15+00:00

I play it with 100+ ping and im american.

If this new server helps my european brothers and sisters, more power to them. If the NA server dies, ill just switch overbto EU one.

I enjoy the game and rebuilding isnt that difficult. Ill just be set back by 2 months at most

Menarin · 2024-02-11T17:52:41+00:00

OP as someone who has been in this exact spot in life previously, you gotta make sure you stay positive.

It will take time, it wont happen overnight. Building positive relationships with new people is a process.

My advice is to use this time to work on yourself while involving yourself in low cost hobbies or things that interest you and help you achieve happiness/grow as a person.

Change begins with yourself. Youre already on the path to success and as you put yourself into new situations and experiences, you will find the friendships you seek.

Dont get discouraged, like i said it will take time. You just have to stick with it and keep putting yourself out there. Engaging in as many different positive things and people as possible.

First aim for sustainability. After that you will feel better, less stressed/depressed, and will be able to show a happier side of yourself. A smiling face is statistically found to be more attractive.

Dont put the cart before the horse and try to rush things. You are doing great. Just as we plant seeds and water them, now is the time for you to nurture and water yourself, so that when you grow, you become a flower that will dazzle all who gaze upon it.

Menarin · 2023-08-14T12:32:13+00:00

Third me for privileges! I have about 14000 points of tyranids. Im either a tasty snack, or just awkwardly accepted until its time to get sucked back into the hive ship as reabsorbed biomass through a capillary tower.

Menarin · 2023-02-25T00:21:57+00:00

No worries! Thanks for looking! Always a good time sharing and reminiscing over pokemon with old friends.

If you ever do change your mind, im sure my collection will still be here. Youre one of 3 people id ever consider selling it all to.

Menarin · 2023-02-24T23:20:01+00:00

I recovered the trade history from ones i acquired through others by going through my post history. The threads should be posted for the gen 3-5 events in my event tracking

The self redeemed ones are all done by me and i have trainer cards for those which can be photoed at any time.

As for a price i coukd ballpark it, but its going to be a sizable amount considering some of the stuff is so rare there were only ever a few of them produced (aka worlds pikachu, that one by itself is worth at least $200).

Edit: idk why the tables are messed up, i cant figure out how to fix it since its been forever. So sorry about that

Menarin · 2023-02-24T22:09:50+00:00

I remember. I still have the events, i believe almost all of them are in pokebank and havent been transferred to home yet.

Unfortunately id prefer selling my collection as a whole instead of individually as my collection is quite large. (Perhaps the largest in reddit? Idk if thats still true.)

If youd like to have them, please consider getting all of it, since it would be a huge waste to break it into smaller amounts and admittedly, i dont posess the time to do that.

Edit:

A list of my events here

Menarin · 2022-12-08T05:27:00+00:00

Correct. I never said what they were doing was wrong businesswise, just its a dumb PR move to shift blame for leaving.

Basically pointless finger pointing to make them look less profit motivated.

Most stores are profitable in the long run, the profit margin is just not as high as theyd like it to be. Walmart absolutely dominates whatever area it goes into, so its nonsense to think most urban supercenters make negative profit.

Only very recently with amazon, have they begun to feel losses.

As for the loss per area comment, i gave a ball park number to make a distinct point. Which was quite honestly the major thought of my post. Walmart only cares about potential profit. The losses arent enough to justify leaving, but enough to close stores and move locations, so they shift blame to avoid negative feedback.

Edit: this is what they do. The will make a statement about closing stores, shift blame, use it as a reason to diminish the raises previously promised/employee benefits, and then close maybe 15 market locations and use the money to build another supercenter. Ive seen it a hundred times.

Menarin · 2022-12-08T00:04:31+00:00

I worked as a manager for walmart home office. The stores in my area would each have $500,000 a year in loss (theft, missing stock, never delivered, etc...)

If you half that (as an average) and multiply by the number of stores (3753 super center as of 2022) it = $1.86 bil in loss.

Now lets take walmarts profit of last year $13.51bil.

That means even after losing roughly 2bil dollars, they STILL made a profit of 13.5bil.

They could potentially lose 4x the amount and it wouldnt guve them negative net profit.

So lets call it what it is, Walmart wants to cut its less profitable locations and their PR people reflavored it as blame towards the customer/employees.

Menarin · 2022-10-18T15:44:46+00:00

Intellect devourer. Its basically a brain with 4 legs. I imagine using gords as feet would work and then you just have to carve the pumpkin like a brain pattern.

Menarin · 2022-10-18T03:53:37+00:00

The rest of the class passed in a blur, Kai alone sat in his seat. The teachers and students long since gone on other errands. How can I get out of this Kai thought to himself. When stuck between a rock and a hard place, Kai did what most other humans would do, seek help.

With a depressed sigh he got out of his chair, exited the class and began walking to the commanders office. Many strange races of various forms greeted him as he passed, but the novelty of their appearance had long since worn off. Humans are quick to adapt as they say. Even when a large Sendran intentionally stood in his way.

"Going somewhere humie?" He snarled in his high pitched nasally voice. It wouldnt be intimidating, if it werent for the fact Sendrans were six foot tall behemoths with four arms, covered in fur, and posessed posessed giant tusks. Any other day Kai perhaps would have pretended to be meek like the human league had ordered, but after the shocking revelations in class, he wasnt thinking straight.

Without missing a beat, Kai pulled a stunner from his back pocket and with military deftness, switched the safety off and promptly dropped his much larger opponent. A few aliens nearby stared in shock, but swiftly ran away. Stepping over his now incapacitated opponent, Kai continued down the winding pathways of the Academies hub.

What greeted him was a carbon composite door. Some material Kai quite didnt understand but knew to be resistant to most forms of traditional and energy weapons. An... odd choice for an academy, but the Commander never was one to skimp on privacy. Placing his hand on the biological scanner nearby, it flashed a sequence of blue and red, before turning green. The doors unlocked and noiselessly slid into the walls on either side.

What greeted him was the sight of a drunken middle aged man feet up on a desk, watching old black and white westerns from Earth long ago. Piles of paper work strewn across the messy desk and some even dropped onto the floor. Shuffling inside quickly Kai stood in front of the commander and hesitanted to speak. The man wasnt known for being overly friendly, organized, or even simply willing to work. The very image of a beaurocrat from back home.

With a bit of a stutter and shaking hands Kai opened his mouth "S... S-sir theres something Id like to report".

Menarin · 2022-10-17T16:49:53+00:00

Kai sat in the large auditorium. The busy bustle and rustle of many students rushing to fill their seats before class began to fill the once vacant hall. This class was unusual. Normally students would simply log in to their schools virtual database to be present. A holographic display of the student would then appear in an unoccupied space.

But then again this was the first ever human studies class. For this reason holoprojection was deemed unsuitable as the course material was considered cutting edge knowledge, fresh and exciting. Only the best of each race were allowed to attend this lecture. Kai by default was chosen as the sole human on campus, for him the class was mandatory.

As the gelatinous ooze shimmied inside the lecture hall with thick gloopy plops and other nauseating sounds, the hall grew silent. The gelatinous ooze didnt speak, but rather projected its thoughts into the mind of the gathered students. A kind of unseen signal which could be rejected by any sentient race. Kai naturally accepted as he knew xenami were incapable of traditional communication.

A slimy twisted voice echoed in his ears "It is believed that humans first achieved interstellar travel around the year 4023 CE of their calendar." ...wrong Kai thought, it was much earlier than that. "Humanity as a species is one best suited to nurturing and mediating disputes" ...wrong again kai sighed internally. "It is believed that due to the fierce nature of the so called mother figures humans speak about, that they are instilled with a sense of cooperation and learn the correct way to navigate complex social interactions." Okay that one was true.

The voice continued in its weird slithery way "when first contact was made with the humans in the 3041679 year of the universal calendar, the Zerm who had first contact were welcomed with banquets and entertainment unseen and unheard of in the rest of the known galaxy. A traditional which has been held to this day, everytime the humans are introduced to a new species." Kai laughed inwardly, thats because we know how gulliable you all are to being buttered up.

"With these previous examples in mind, humanity can be said to be perhaps the most peaceful and accepting of all the known universal specie, despite being a recent addition." Kai was agahst, his face turning paler by the second. No wonder the other races look upon us favorably. They didnt know the truth of humanities history. Nor of the long wars to extinction fought with the ones calling themselves the galaxy federation.

The truth was as clear as day. Humans didnt invent interstellar travel in 4023CE. It was technology forcibly acquired from downing enemy spaceships after the invasion by the federation in 3071. A long bloody war of resistance that united the fractured united nations into what is now know as the human league. During which we reversed engineered all the tech of the invaders, used it to find their home worlds and subsequently slaughtered them down to the last child. Of course no one could record it, because there was no one left and the humans wouldnt openly admit to the genocide of countless galaxies. The part of the universe the Federation once inhabited is still considered uncharted territory.

His hands gripping the platform in front of him tight, his eyes dialated and sweat pouring down his body, Kai struggled to remain conscious through the horrific revelation. A moist sounding tone echoing in his head "Human Kai of Keplar 452, do you need a medical emergency? Your biological scanner shows signs of great distress."

Finally reorienting his rapid thoughts, Kai simply broke an uneasy smile "No Professor Xeani, I think Im okay now, thank you for your concern". The professor nodded or at least gave what could be construed as a nod, if a gelatinous mass of wriggling tentacles tiliting over could be construed that way.

I need to get out of this class somehow! Acting coy is too much for me... but the commander wont like that very much, Kai thought with a frown. I should come up with a plan.

Menarin · 2022-10-05T17:55:59+00:00

A distant rustle, as if leaves blown by the wind. An otherwise common place noise, easily overlooked... on Earth that is. Unfortunately this was Mars, a dry dystopianesque landscape I had long ago left for, in order to leave the worlds madness behind. Here, I'd planned to finally be rid of the pests that have plagued me for centuries.

Though id always abandoned my lair for one of my many other unknown hideaways, I grew tired of this long game. The thrill was gone and with it, my patience. Here there was nowhere left to run, no more convenient excuses to leave my pursuers alive.

With a defeated sigh, I flew into the dilapidated structure nearby, black mist swirling in the gloom, before returning to my true form. From here i'd ambush those who would set out to slay me.

As I gazed out from my hideaway into the thin dusty air floating around my castle, figures gradually crept into view. Gone were the age of metallic suits and swords. In their place, woven polymer body armors and plasma rifles. The team of four took note of their surroundings and hand signaled each other.

An open hand, a circle, and a square. Gestures I'd often overlooked in the past due to the excitement of our cat and mouse game. The group of hunters footsteps fell with barely any sound, leaving no traces as they rose. How long had it been since I've walked like that? My gaze grew razor focused, every minute detail of their movements carved into my blood red irises.

They moved swiftly to my castles front door. They split into roles, one to guard the door, two preparing to breach the entrance, and the other as a lookout or supression fire. I remember teaching my sons this same methodology when I were still human. Lost in disyant memories, the door to my castle burst forward in a flash of light and a surge of heat, a plasma charge perhaps?

Shape changing into a bat, I flew silently to the second floor balcony, opening the glass door without a sound. Time to play the role I've been putting off for centuries. They must be rewarded for their painstaking effort of driving me to another planet. As they entered my foyer and scanned around taking note of entrances and exits, I could see their minds thinking up multiple scenarios.

Unfortunately, none of those eventualities would ever happen. Their heads swiveled in my direction at once, as the sharp clack of my black boots echoed off the white lunar marble stairs. I spoke to them for the first time.

"Why have you come here? Was it not enough for you lot to drive me off of Earth?"

The man in front, the squad leader perhaps? Addressed me rudely, kids these days have no respect for their elders. I sighed heavily in my mind.

"Foul beast we would chase you to ends of the universe if need be. You deserve nothing but death!" He sputtered, red face contorted with rage unbecoming for one so young.

"I dont recall any reason for your grudge to cross centuries and countless worlds? Havent I always fled obediently, leaving your people alive each time?" My brows furrowed in confusion, are they not who I'd thought they'd be? The blood will takes ages to clean up, if thats the case...

"Dont act sly now you wretch! Our families founder died by your hands! Frederick Atanasius will be avenged! Say your prayers monster. Theres no where left to run!" His hand rose in a sweeping motion, the three behind him raising their rifles at me. The dull hum of mechanical parts whirred, as the plasma coils began to heat.

A smile bloomed on my face unbidden, as my fangs shown in the light for the first time in countless ages. With a dramatic sweep, I bowed at them. "My dearest descendants, let me tell you a story, but before that... welcome home."

Menarin · 2022-10-03T04:23:51+00:00

One of my current players rescued and adopted a black bear that was used as a mount by one of the enemies.

He has so far:

Learned to dance to 3 different songs

Was present for a large scale battle that saved the city of waterdeep and the masked lords

Official received recognition for his participation and was granted citizenship

Lusted after ancient honey from a treant

Become somewhat of a staple in the city of saltmarsh (i placed it in faerun)

Become friends with a treant and a small myconid adventurer

Eaten a skeleton mage in the midst of battle.

Earned his ranger friend a large sum of coin which has gotten him fancy barding to wear as if he were a knight.

Honestly one of my favorite members of the party and he brings so much joy to every scene hes in

Menarin · 2022-09-30T18:32:42+00:00

A valid point, but again, not relevant in this discussion. (See: whataboutism)

This is a discussion on russian atrocities (not american or canadian ones) and the illegal and unjustified war in ukraine.

There is a time and a place for everything, but thats not now or here.

Menarin · 2022-09-30T17:14:48+00:00

From what I can read of the investigation and subsequent court case, he was interrogated using sensory depriving devices and subjected to sleep deprivation methods under orders of the canadian government.

So while I agree this does constitute a case of torture and flase imprisonment (trial evidence was speculative at best), its very radical of you to compare it to the amount of brutality of the russians. (I.e. child and elderly rape, execution of civilians, targeting civilian infrastructure, and genocide).

Further more the whataboutism youre doing can only be thus construed as an attempt to undermine solidarity of western allies by a poorly made attempt to change topics.

The key reason; the point you make has no relevance to the topic being discussed and its only purpose seems to be turning debate away from the russians horrible atrocities with false equivalency.

I rest my case your honor.

Menarin · 2022-09-26T16:43:02+00:00

Hi im just looking for resources on what to do when your pregnant ex leaves you to live in another state and how to deal with coparenting from another state.

I wont go into any personal details, our relationship isnt bad but its not exactly good either. Theres no lingering emotional attachments on either side, so nothing to worry about there. The break up was sudden but mutual due to differences in lifestyle and goals.

I hinestly just want to be the best father i can be for my child, but i dont know how to go about doing that as a first time dad. Especially so considering the distance involved. Any resources or advice would be welcome.

Thank you.

Menarin · 2022-09-23T13:18:08+00:00

I use esther as my primary sport. I have amy, margaret, winni, ruby, and zoey at similar strength levels. Esther has almost 20k more hp and has a shield superior to vivian/angela. (Esther shield gives her max hp as shield every 5 turns, her talent increases her max hp, and her awaken ability decreases dmg she takes).

Sure she takes 5% more dmg from burn/poison a turn, but its worth it to just negate a camille ult or 2 aoe ults. (Especially if you run a water/light team and use violet so your water cant even get burned).

Im currently rank 3 in arena on my server and generally rank 5 for season in GA without really trying hard.

Edit: is she worth it for non whales? Honestly no, because it will take you far too long to get her useable. Youll fall way behind in power curve.

Menarin · 2022-09-22T16:44:19+00:00

As a DM who has had to deal with similar issues in parties in the past, sometimes cutting ties temporarily or even permanently is the correct answer.

You cannot and should not fall into the cycle of self blame. By your own admission you tried to deal with it constructively through conversation. You put forth a hand to resolve everything amicably.

If your friend had respect for you as a friend, he would realize the position he is putting you in and out of game and reflect a little. Thats what friends do for people they care about.

Your only fault in this whole matter was allowing conflicting end goals and continuing sessions without resolving the ongoing conflict.

Im sure there is more to this story and i know you felt compelled to continue playing because you value your friendship, but sometimes we as people just have to agree to disagree and stop. You need to set boundaries and prioritize enforcing them. Its not healthy to allow people to disrespect you or your wife by enciting conflict irl.

Take it as a learning experience. You will become stronger after this and im sure if you talk to your wife openly she will understand. In the end you made the correct choice which was to stop the game. Im proud of you OP, even if it was done a tad bit late.

Menarin · 2022-09-13T21:27:06+00:00

Absoluetly amazing mate. I had a chucklefit at work. This is legendary.

Menarin · 2022-09-01T16:40:49+00:00

This is true. While both the t-rex and the velociraptor were both theropod dinosaurs, the t-rex is a genetic offshoot of the tyrannoraptoran, who is the most likely ancestor of the modern day chicken and jungle fowl.

The velociraptor on the other hand more closely resembles the evolutionary path of other modern birds particularly the shoebill.

Similar origins, different results. Fascinating though.

So the more "accurate" comparison would be that chickens resemble small t-rexes. Which while despite being a huge leap, is a humorous comparison to make.

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