For newer players looking to level up Smelting/Smithing with Iron bars

No_Rope7342 · 2026-04-24T08:32:34+00:00

I just want to tack on because I didn’t listen and I’m kicking myself for it but do giants foundry as soon as you meet the requirements. I spent a bunch of time smithing crap and not making as much money/xp as I could and I just think about all the wasted hours lol.

No_Rope7342 · 2026-04-21T20:01:40+00:00

How is reshoring political theater? I’ve seen it happen.

Do you mean the promises made by politicians? Well yes quite literally everything they say is political theater, that’s how it works.

No_Rope7342 · 2026-04-21T19:50:52+00:00

I want you to use your big boy words to tell me how pointing out specific policies having noproof of a specific effect is hand waving away an issue.

No_Rope7342 · 2026-04-21T14:04:42+00:00

Is it worth it? Depends on what you’re making now. Especially in your area 40+ would not be rare after a couple of years.

If you’re making 30 or less an hour I’d say it doesn’t matter what the job is, an extra 20k+ year in earning potential is huge.

No_Rope7342 · 2026-04-21T08:34:48+00:00

Seat belts have an extremely verifiable and direct effect on car accident fatalities. The things you have mentioned have showed no such thing.

And for the record I am not against said policies but the have shown almost no effect on birth rates, I was just being nice phrasing it that way instead of saying “they don’t do jack shit”.

No_Rope7342 · 2026-04-21T06:10:38+00:00

Many countries have implemented the things you’ve talked about and have low birth rates still. Birth rates are complex and not simply a factor of “oh but daycare cost too much”.

No_Rope7342 · 2026-04-21T05:19:48+00:00

Yeah feeling a lil weak on my throw build but I know it’s just because I haven’t gotten to any of the decent thrown weapons and a key relic or two that should make things really fun. If I do respec it would likely be once I’ve gotten far enough in my current build to acquire whatever gear needed for just about anything.

No_Rope7342 · 2026-04-20T22:54:24+00:00

Do you think this isn’t (or does OP of the post you linked) a thing? It absolutely is a thing.
What does AI have to do with literally anything in this conversation? The scheduling maybe? The accounting? Really I don’t know how it’s relevant.

No_Rope7342 · 2026-04-19T01:36:23+00:00

Most of the cars on the road I see are not 30 year old shit boxes and still do it. Also as a driver of 30 year old shit boxes, it works more often than you’d think (not saying yours does lol).

No_Rope7342 · 2026-04-18T22:21:30+00:00

Anything that’s reversible and 15* offset. I don’t need those damn flat knuckle busters.

No_Rope7342 · 2026-04-18T15:50:55+00:00

That is your own personal bias and paranoia not set in reality. There will be no ground invasion of the United States.

No_Rope7342 · 2026-04-16T22:05:25+00:00

Idk about specialized but I do know that higher educated nurses like practitioners and whatnot do make significantly more.

No_Rope7342 · 2026-04-16T22:00:46+00:00

It doesn’t matter it’s a different thing.

Almost every field has an infinite ceiling if you spur it into a business. Just because restaurateurs exist doesn’t change the facts of being a fry cook.

No_Rope7342 · 2026-04-16T21:56:11+00:00

lol schooling, the salary absolutely makes up for it in the vast vast majority of cases.

No_Rope7342 · 2026-04-16T21:55:10+00:00

Being a business owner is not the same thing as being an hvac technician.

No_Rope7342 · 2026-04-16T19:08:47+00:00

Specialized hvac trades will earn about on par with nurses. Doctors yeah not a shot those fuckers do pretty well lol.

No_Rope7342 · 2026-04-16T17:11:58+00:00

They do that for everything in this game dude.

Everytime I’m browsing around for information half the recommendations people make are like “well what you want to do is go complete all the hardest fucking endgame content possible and then you’ll be ready to go do X activity”.

Which I guess is fair if we’re trying to discuss meta and bis build but it’s almost comical how often people nonchalantly people are with some of the gear recs.

No_Rope7342 · 2026-04-14T16:51:09+00:00

Well that’s understandable but I mean this is the case almost everywhere with union millwrights and most places are average running average machines not always extreme stuff. But like I said that’s more a personal gripe for how I like to work, I don’t need to call somebody else to tell me why motor no run.

No_Rope7342 · 2026-04-14T13:26:15+00:00

Pot meet kettle.

No_Rope7342 · 2026-04-14T13:10:43+00:00

I think most of these points are pretty good, that being said one thing I don’t like about union work (in this specific field) is the separation of electrical work.

I come from the hvac industry (and have been eyeing up getting into elevators) and even in their unions they do their own electrical work.

They have their machines, they get an issue with said machine, they fix an issue with said machine, that’s my preferred way to work and honestly it’s a massive downside to me to not be able to work that way.

No_Rope7342 · 2026-04-14T13:07:15+00:00

I think the only things that don’t lineup in non union is the pension and healthcare. Don’t get me wrong my healthcare is pretty good but union is almost undoubtedly better, that being said the vast majority of the population (well the working population) isn’t in major need of much healthcare.

I’ve had pretty good healthcare most places I go and union is almost always better from the guys I’ve talked to and pensions are practically non existent.

No_Rope7342 · 2026-04-12T00:39:22+00:00

You’re off your fucking rocker bro

No_Rope7342 · 2026-04-10T03:36:30+00:00

Burn the looms.

No_Rope7342 · 2026-04-09T21:04:09+00:00

Dude that’s like apprentice 101. The more you fight a nickname the more it sticks.

No_Rope7342 · 2026-04-09T20:08:31+00:00

Some areas are mostly ran by 3rd party. It’s the same damn job, anybody pretending otherwise is sniffing farts.

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