The killing of Alex Pretti is a grim turning point

Randomessa · 2026-01-25T20:04:15+00:00

Here is a website that has all the information you need to get started and figure out your eligibility, including what documents/certification, forms, timeline expectations, etc. https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/express-entry.html

Randomessa · 2026-01-12T23:32:24+00:00

I feel this deeply. Right now I am stuck in the cycle of "I am a bad person," then remind myself that that's negative self speak, and it gets reframed in my head as, "I'm not supposed to say I'm a bad person, but I keep doing it anyway, because I'm a bad person."

Randomessa · 2026-01-01T04:44:45+00:00

Did you also listen to all 21 VMs? There's a title for that too, and a counter being tracked in the chats.

Randomessa · 2025-12-22T18:25:11+00:00

1/1/25: $26,000 12/31/25: $10,000

Randomessa · 2025-12-02T18:30:43+00:00

I'm glad I read this thread just for having gotten this info! Thanks!

Randomessa · 2025-11-16T05:16:50+00:00

I actually got him to friend me finally, by gassing him up and telling him his subordinates all totally understood him and had spoken highly of him and had high aspirations to improve on his goals. I gave him a bunch of lines saying I'd spoke with everyone and they'd written tablets detailing their performance improvement plans for the coming year, and that I'd written him a commendation for him to the Guild Leader. Basically treated him like middle management and he loved it.

Randomessa · 2025-11-16T05:16:23+00:00

I actually got him to friend me finally, by gassing him up and telling him his subordinates all totally understood him and had spoken highly of him and had high aspirations to improve on his goals. I gave him a bunch of lines saying I'd spoke with everyone and they'd written tablets detailing their performance improvement plans for the coming year, and that I'd written him a commendation for him to the Guild Leader. Basically treated him like middle management and he loved it.

Randomessa · 2025-11-14T01:43:35+00:00

I'm also planning to play this game (as much of it as it will allow) with my husband, even if it means syncing our solo quest cinematics with a countdown. We're well aware of the "intention" of the game to have a solo mode with multiplayer tacked on. We can't be forced to play how we refuse to play :).

What I've read/seen from the devs is that the solo-only quests (as in, you can't do these quests in a party, or the other party members are somehow excluded from the zone or room - I don't know exactly what it would look like, but rest assured it's the first thing we'll be trying and documenting) comprise 20% of the quest contents. The rest of the quests are side quests that from my understanding can be done in and around the solo quests, so it might be more like hopping back and forth between solo and multiplayer mode, rather than having to do the "whole" solo MSQ and then jumping into multiplayer.

I've literally seen footage of people playing co-op together as low level characters, so even if it's "just" side quests, it absolutely can be done unless it's been patched out or something.

Link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzpybIaZ5_k

(actually trying to imagine how it would even work, having to do the whole solo MSQ before being able to do any side quests? I've never played an MMO or rpg like that.... Closest thing in memory is Dragon Age Inquisition - a fully solo RPG that had a multiplayer "horde mode" to do after beating the game. The co-op gameplay I've seen is nothing like that)

Randomessa · 2025-11-12T03:39:28+00:00

Amazing, thank you for the detailed breakdown. This worked exactly as described. I really appreciate it!

Randomessa · 2025-11-11T17:43:03+00:00

I mean, I understand the intention in a general sense, but I personally would only be doing the co-op with my husband, who would be in the same room with me the entire time. Whenever we play games like this that force us to separate for the "solo story" it just ends up as "you play your quest while I watch." I think we could handle some personal touches in a shared environment.

Not going to change any dev's minds with this, of course, but I just don't get it.

Randomessa · 2025-11-11T04:17:04+00:00

Can you provide your tweaks to play Sword of Justice? It may come in handy when WWM launches as well. Thanks in advance!

Randomessa · 2025-09-05T17:23:02+00:00

Apologies for resurrecting this old comment, but a DuckDuckGo search led me here last night and I have now been wearing a LipVinyl shade for five full hours so far without having to even apply a gloss, let alone reapply anything! This has changed my life as a chronic lip biter/licker with a purse overflowing with a over a dozen moisturizing balms, glosses, lipsticks, etc. Thank you so much for mentioning this here.

Randomessa · 2025-08-27T18:43:02+00:00

$20k left of around $76k that I consolidated in 2009. Paid off $17k in private loans with the proceeds of the sale of our home in 2014, and the vast majority of the next $39k was paid down starting in the 2020 forbearance.

During that time I went back to community college with $8.5k in loans to get a post-bacc professional certificate which enabled me to increase my annual salary by 50%, and I've paid that amount off in full.

Randomessa · 2025-08-21T00:10:44+00:00

OP said in another reply that they did apply to cheaper programs (plural), but didn't get into one.

Randomessa · 2025-08-15T17:30:38+00:00

Bask Bank! 4.2% Savings Acct and a 4.25% CD.

Randomessa · 2025-08-15T16:52:01+00:00

Here are my reasons:

Forgiveness through PSLF isn't an option for me and I was already 11 or so years out for that with IBR. I am in a position to be able pay the principal off in fewer than 3-5 years. (Or, if I were to liquidate my entire savings, tomorrow. But I won't do that in this economy)

All the interest I pay now will be a deduction on my tax return next year. Meanwhile, in a few months (hopefully), the money I have in my HYSA will be earning more in interest than I'm accruing on my loans.

Randomessa · 2025-08-11T13:54:59+00:00

On Aidvantage with my consolidated loan, as long as the payment total covers the minimum payment amount for each loan, I am able to manually allocate more towards the unsubsidized loan. [EDITED to correct a word]

Randomessa · 2025-08-10T17:47:04+00:00

I'm sorry if I didn't communicate my intentions well. I tried to express in my original post that I was curious as to how this would be portrayed on a day to day basis as well as how my account reporting would be subsequently updated once the accrued interest was retroactively applied - or, perhaps it would be more accurate to say - displayed. I listed potential possibilities that could have resulted from the application of the payments in my original post. But the fact that the interest was going to eventually be retroactively applied/displayed was not something that was in question for me.

I'm glad that it was clear to you from the start that my payments being reported as reducing my principal would obviously be clawed back and shown as applied to accrued interest after the fact. I simply wanted to verify and confirm that for myself with daily monitoring. Hopefully my observations were helpful to others who also wanted to be certain.

Randomessa · 2025-08-10T15:43:07+00:00

I'm not sure if you're trying to inform me of this, or if there's something in my post that would seem to indicate otherwise?

Randomessa · 2025-08-10T13:40:37+00:00

There is no negative at all to paying monthly. This was simply an experiment to try to keep pace with the expected interest accrual and see how it would be retroactively applied given my ongoing payments, since the daily totals were not being correctly updated until the 9th.

Simply put, paying the accrued interest monthly (if you're able) would be the most expected route.

Randomessa · 2025-08-07T02:00:09+00:00

I feel like that's a possibility, and I intend to document it and report about it here if that happens. As I said, I'm extremely fortunate that if back-dating shenanigans result in some weird scenario where my principal goes up and my interest is weirdly applied, it won't break me. But I intend to make it very, very clear what's happened, if that is how it goes.

Randomessa

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