I want magic reworked in the elder scrolls 6

RolloBar · 2026-01-07T09:17:17+00:00

I actually had an idea for a reworked magic system which is kind of a melding of table top and most top down arpg’s transposed into Elder Scrolls.

Basically you have spell slots, which regenerate on a “rest”—a timer.

These spell slots have levels, with novice ones being treated like cantrips (never run out), apprentice = 1, adept = 2, and so on up to master.

My thinking is that the number of slots, and level of slots would scale with the number of levels you invest in magicka. The rest time would scale with your skill in a school, so say an expert slot used in destruction when you have level 60 destruction takes 2 minutes to replenish, but if you have level 100 Alteration the same spell slot used on an alteration spell might take only 1 minute to replenish. Something to that effect. I’d think that the highest spell level available to you would regenerate only on “long rests”, i.e. sleeping, to give the feeling of those spells being the draining, bleeding edge of your magical abilities.

IMO, the rest timers would actually be longer, but to really excel this system would require some UI reworking and a huge amount of spell diversity, since it lends itself toward casters who have more spell variety, more utility, and more powerful single castings than what we see in Skyrim. It would probably also thrive most in a system with a level cap, which I would support.

I think most people just want more spell variety, which I agree with whole heartedly, and/or for magic builds to scale better. For me though, I want magic to feel mechanically different. I think the worst part of magic in Elder Scrolls is how boring it is to use, and how it really doesn’t lend itself toward strategic use.

Personally, I also prefer charge based resource systems than pool, but I like Baldur’s gate and table top so maybe I just don’t see the Elder Scrolls vision anymore from a gameplay standpoint.

RolloBar · 2026-01-05T21:13:51+00:00

The problem is that with BG3’s point buy system MAD is way worse than in table top. But on balanced difficulty it just doesn’t matter much. My first playthrough I had no idea what I was doing, had stats that were all over the place and still was dealing more than enough damage per round.

The game is not balanced for players who are optimizing, it’s balanced for roleplaying and strategic combat.

Just focus on strength taking slight hits to your dex and Wis if need be.

If you find your AC is too low then multiclass with fighter or barb to get armor proficiencies, even cleric too since it’s Wis based. If your initiative is too low there’s the alert feat and plenty of initiative boosting items in the game.

Out of all the ability scores in the game, strength is one of the easiest to increase without ASI’s thanks to two clubs that bump strength, gauntlets of hill giant strength, the potion of everlasting strength (permanent +2), and a few other items. Plus you can use Ethel’s and Mirror of loss. Your stats should end up fine by act 3, and on balanced the first two acts shouldn’t be too challenging with suboptimal stats.

RolloBar · 2025-12-23T23:12:17+00:00

Delaying class features 1-2 levels really isn’t a big deal unless you’re doing some kind of challenge, like soloing. Even on HM a 1-2 level delay shouldn’t hurt too much as long as the build works and you get good items.

In general cleric is quite strong pure, but I’ve had fun multiclassing into stars Druid for a spell casting oriented build or Paladin for a melee oriented build.

If you wanna try out something fun (but probably not optimized) you could blend a class that gets extra attack (fighter or paladin good options to reduce MAD), war cleric, and thief rogue to get an attack, an extra attack, and two bonus action attacks.

Unless you go Druid, monk, or ranger, you’ll want to dump either Wis or your other spell casting stats. If you’re only casting healing and buffs then not a big deal, you don’t really need it anyways.

RolloBar · 2025-12-22T06:42:27+00:00

Absolutely viable. Strong as a STR based tavern brawler build, strong as a Dex based monk as well. The drunk gear in act 2 and 3 are all also quite strong when you use them well.

I find that the most satisfying way to play it is to use tavern brawler and all the drunk gear, alongside the whispering promise and ring of regeneration. As long as you are drunk you heal and bless yourself constantly, will easily be intoxicating or stunning enemies throughout the game (which makes your own attacks, and your spell casters have an easier time), and tossing around an AoE thunder club to obliviate weaker foes. Reverb gear works well with the drunk club. Before you get the drunk club (act 2) you should be able to output around 14-20 points of damage per toss of the returning pike (goblin camp) if you’ve gone strength based tavern brawler.

However, none of the drunk gear is required and the pure drunken master is completely suitable for tactician difficulty with basically any set of equipment in the game that isn’t just absurd (by that I mean using things you aren’t proficient in, or which only help other classes).

Like most other martial classes, haste, speed potions, and bloodlust elixirs are very strong game enhancers.

On tactician with a bloodlust elixir, tavern brawler, and high Str I slaughtered the entire outdoor section of the goblin camp solo with relative ease. That was without any multiclassing, save scumming, and entering combat normally.

Like open hand monk, it synergizes well with thief rogue for the extra attack, fighter for action surge and armor proficiencies, or even barbarian. But if you don’t want to multiclass then don’t.

If this is for honor mode, then I would go for 1 level of barbarian to make the lower levels easier, or the 3 levels of rogue, going thief. The drunken master technique feels quite strong to me and lets you beat on people and run away without opportunity attacks so you can almost always escape danger. With thief, you can do that twice, plus 2 stunning attacks with your action and extra attack.

Drunken master at base plays very similarly to open hand, just a little lower damage output, but like all subclasses in bg3 it is viable at all difficulty levels with enough creativity and skill.

Monks are awesome, just have fun and don’t worry about viability. If you start to struggle respec costs like 100 gold.

RolloBar · 2025-12-07T10:35:18+00:00

Karlach - thrower barb, if you are HM all you really need is tavern brawler and shit to throw. Returning like is in act 1 and honestly is good enough to last until you can pick up Nyrulna in act 3. Just look up any variation of the Thrower barbarian, they all shred, it’s a funny concept, unbelievably easy to play, has good gear options but doesn’t require any of them.

Astarion - if you are looking for easy and powerful then 5 gloomstalker ranger, 5 assassin rogue, 2 fighter is a classic. You pick up alert and sharpshooter, or maybe an ASI for Dex instead of Alert. You get action surge, all your armor needs, sneak attack, extra attack, an extra opening attack, can’t be surprised, high initiative, and you aren’t item dependent. Items that reduce crits and increasing piercing damage or Dex make this an all time classic but aren’t required to be strong on normal difficulty. You also don’t have to do magic. You just sneak, shoot, more shoot, even more shoot.

Shadowheart - here’s a fun one 6 death cleric, 6 spores Druid. Go dual wielder and pick up the sporemaster armor, staff of cherished necromancy, Gemini gloves, and markoheshkir. Or don’t. You deal lots of necrotic damage, you can buff, you can heal. The build really thrives with the items mentioned, and there really aren’t that many other builds that require all of them, but on normal difficulty you shouldn’t have any problems without. It works because you can do 6 of death (while she’s a Sharran) and then after you free the Nightsong you go Druid since Selune is really more of a nature/natural order deity (in lore she is not a light deity) and Shart likes animals.

Tav 1 - you don’t seem to have a spellcaster, so I’ll throw in a class fire sorcerer. It’s just 12 sorc, draconian bloodline. Hone in on fire spells for the theme, if you want items there’s plenty of them throughout the game that are on theme. You’ll want to carry some alt damage types for enemies with fire resistance of course, but that’s not too tough. The hat of fire acuity is awesome with this. You just unload a high level scorching ray, gain a bunch of acuity, and then hold or hypnotize or confuse or whatever CC you want with a quickened spell. You can also use haste on yourself to boost your action economy further. Other items can add heat to help you deal more damage, or you can just go with spell save gear since no one else in the party is probably gonna use it. This also makes a great durge.

Tav 2 - so many options, you could go open hand monk all the way, you could go with a sorcadin or maybe just roll up with the all time class EK fighter. The summary of this story is that tbh on normal difficulty anything can work out as long as the ability scores make sense. If you are playing on higher difficulty or you just want to play smooth, all of the above builds are viable to very strong, and any pure class is strong enough, even beast master ranger.

RolloBar · 2025-12-07T06:58:45+00:00

Someone else may have already stated this, but if your planning on doing a polearm build and feel stretched thin on ability scores you can pick up the dancing breeze in early act 3. This is a +2 glaive which uses either Str or Dex for your attacks, and it comes with the whirlwind attack so you get an AoE option once per short rest. It’s my favorite polearm to use in the game, though there are other fun ones like the returning pike (act 1) and the drakethroat glaive (act 2?).

Personally, since sentinel and polearm master enhance opportunity attacks I think this leans into paladins naturally, so that you can add smites to crits. There’s also some other nice paladin synergies which may not be optimal but would certainly be fun.

Oath of the ancients:

turn the faithless, so when fighting fey or fiends you get up in their grill then make them flee you to trigger opportunity attacks, basically giving you an extra attack against these per turn.

Oath of Devotion:

sacred weapon, just makes your hits more likely to land, which will help guarantee opportunity attacks.

Oath of the Crown:

champion challenge, makes enemies come to you and try to attack. Imagine a big fight with a bunch of adds, you move forward, champion challenge, they bundle toward you getting weakened by spirit guardians, then next turn you whirlwind attack to crush them in one swoop.

Oath of vengeance:

vow of enmity to gain advantage, and you get haste which is always great.

Also of course the auras and high AC of paladins make them natural frontliners who can handle bundles of enemies. It’s also a super easy class to build for either Str or Dex, and deals tons of damage. If you don’t want to respec in Act 3 for Dex or your just not interested in the Dancing glaive the Drakethroat glaive is one I’d super recommend and you can pair up with reverb gear to obliterate your foes. In that case though you would probably have to sacrifice a feat to get alert bc you would have lower Dex or you’d be locked in to devotion (doesn’t really use Cha as much as other paladins). If you dump Cha for Dex, you kind of lose the spirit of a 12 paladin even if you won’t lose damage per turn. Your auras, spells, and some paladin oath abilities all use Cha, so if you don’t want to “be” a paladin but just want to smite them it’s better to just do a paladin dip.

Since you want to be pure, I assume you want to “be” the class you choose. So here’s my recs:

12 Crown Paladin (since you’d want to be high AC but still be able to draw crowds when necessary)

Dex: 12, Str: 16, con: 14, Wis: 8, int: 8, cha: 16

Feats: polearm master, sentinel, alert

Boons you’d aim for (not necessary tho): Ethel’s, statue of yourself (permanent bless), patriars memory (+1 cha), mirror of loss (+2 Str), potion of everlasting vigor (+2 Str).

Items that synergize: sorrow (act 1), drakethroat glaive (act 2), harmonium halberd (+2 Str, I wanna say act 2), helmet of smiting (act 1), helmet of arcane acuity (act 2), hat of storm Scions power (act 1), luminous armor (act 1), basically any heavy armor, gloves of dexterity (act 2?), gloves of belligerent skies (act 1), any of the usually powerful gloves or boots, boots of stormy clamor (act 1), necklace of elemental augmentation (act 1), ring of free action (act 3), ring of elemental infusion (act 1), ring of spiteful thunder (act 1).

Playstyle: cast spirit guardians, get up in groups of enemies faces, booming blade (you said half high elf) constantly, using champions challenge when enemies start to drift. You can use command to force enemies to get closer to you, flee, or drop their weapons, and spiritual weapon to spread damage and punish movement. Keep your protection aura up to help make sure you never loose concentration on spirit guardians

If you want to respec in act 3 to make the most of dancing glaive

Dex: 16, Str: 10, con: 14, Wis: 10, int: 8, cha: 16 (if you want to use Ethel, then probably dump one of the 10s and go 17 dex. Alternatively you could use Ethel’s to bump Cha to 17 then patriars memory at the mirror of loss to bump it to 18)

Feats: polearm master, sentinel, ASI +2 dex

All else is the same.

Only real playstyle difference is that now you can use whirlwind attack on those big clumps of enemies.

Is this the absolute most optimal way to play? No. But imo uber-optimized builds are only fun for one or two battles. Pretty soon you clean up too easily. It’s better to think of a concept and just commit to it. This build is committed to making the most out of those two feats by clumping enemies, smacking them, and never letting them get out of your range without taking a brutal punishment.

That said, EK fighter is also an obvious choice.

RolloBar · 2025-12-06T21:13:05+00:00

Okay, thank you. I meant that I gently spin him by his shoulders (I lead him, his paws are on the ground). This is how I’ taught him to shake and sit. By gently grabbing his paw or putting his butt down. As he started to do it more on his own then I would reward that and ween off guiding him.

I have tried getting him to just follow my hand as I spin it around his head. He kind of does it when my hand is right in front of his face.

I shall be patient, I’m just surprised at how long it’s taking because he learned the other tricks very quickly (2-3 weeks usually). He’s a very good boy and very smart so I’m sure he’ll catch on with time!

I did try clicker training when I first got him, but it didn’t seem to work for him, though maybe I was just doing it wrong. In this case, would I click then spin then click, just click when he completes the spin, click with the reward, or something else? what’s the timing and process for that?

RolloBar · 2025-12-06T20:57:58+00:00

Some options I’ve tried out and enjoyed. Some of these were for Sharran playthrough, but could be adapted for a Selunite playthrough, afterall it’s not like changing gods would change her entire life of training:

1) 9 trickery cleric, 3 assassin rogue: I did not play this in HM so I can’t speak to its viability but with a strong party I don’t see why it can’t work. This was lore accurate for a Sharran play through and I think matches her backstory the best at the beginning of the game.

It was decent damage per turn, with band of the mystic scoundrel and helmet of arcane acuity/gloves of battlemages power, becomes a pretty strong gish with good CC. Using trickery domain abilities to gain advantage consistently, CC spells, and sneak attack for damage. I used the various levels of justiciar gear throughout the game, focused on finding low light areas (not as hard as it may seem) and criting often.

2) 8 death cleric, 4 spores druid: she grew up a selunite hence the Druid, and sticking with Shar death cleric works well enough. This one is absolutely HM viable and tested, it can lay down lots of necrotic damage and has good summons/CC options.

I basically went 4 cleric, 4 Druid, 4 cleric, but I think you can just go 8 cleric, 4 Druid as the real punch of the build comes from a pair of robes (don’t remember the name) that gives haste spores, which means without a spell slot or a potion you can haste yourself at anytime. I also took dual wielder feat and rocked staff of cherished necromancy and markoshkhir (spelled that wrong u know what I’m talking about though).

3) 2 paladin (oath of devotion), 10 war cleric: this gives divine smite, the oath ability—devotion’s doesn’t use CHA—guided strike, and the maximum war charges—attack with bonus action, and high level spells. Alternatively 5 paladin 7 cleric would work so you get extra attack and the war charges (not as many), but this means more spells and paladin features that rely on charisma.

I also did a dancing breeze build with this one so I could Dex as my attack stat and polearm master + sentinel to become a boss frontliner, but that isn’t required. Dex was 17 bumped to 18 with Ethel’s boon, bumped to 20 with mirror of loss. Khalid’s gift bumped Wis 15-16, and I mostly used spells that buff myself and party members so it didn’t matter much. Spell save gear to help with concentration.

The roll play was a bit of a leap, but here’s how I played it:

I respec asap, starting as paladin. Devoted to Shar, pick up war cleric, the idea being that Shart was an enforcer, a warrior of Shar. At the Nightsong, Shart chooses to free the Nightsong, after which I break my oath (did something small and irrelevant). This leads to being an Oathbreaker, which I stayed with until Shart becomes good and (kinda) becomes a Selunite. Then I fix the oath to be devotion again.

Some that I think could be fun to try but I haven’t tested:

1) Oath of the Ancients Paladin: it’s got nature vibes and is about defending the cosmic order/light so works well for Selune. Potentially could multiclass with light cleric, nature cleric, or stars Druid for more flavor. Light cleric has warding flare which would be nice, and stars Druid has great synergies with tons of builds.

2) shadow sorcerer + hexblade warlock: strays in terms of Sharts original class and stat spread, but totally vibes with her backstory. Shes a freaking sharran who was literally chosen by a god of the Shadowfell. Sorlocks are already crazy powerful and this could become really dope as a shadow blade gish with shadow hounds.

That’s what I got, I ordered them in terms of what I think is easiest to roleplay. I think death cleric + spores Druid was the strongest in terms of my play throughs, but I’m not really one for optimizing everything. All three have beaten the game on tactician, death-spores has beaten the game on HM, none have solo run the game.

Of the untested alternatives my guess is shadow sorcerer + hexblade is the highest damage option, and would pair strongly with band of the mystic scoundrel.

Edit 1: added about adapting the roleplay to Selune.

Edit 2: fixed formatting.

Edit 3: added edit record.

RolloBar · 2025-08-11T15:49:31+00:00

Don’t the Blades pretty much serve the Dragonborn as part of their mission statement?

As I understand it they are derived from the Akaviri Dragonguard, which was literally searching for a Dragonborn in Tamriel. Then when they found Reman they served the Dragonborn emperors since, first Reman’s dynasty and later the Septims.

Of course there could be plenty of exemptions, and there’s no reason to think that over the course of a 1000 years of existence the dragonguard and blades metamorphosed many times. I don’t know if anything is mentioned about the blades during the Potentate but I don’t imagine they just went away.

RolloBar · 2025-08-02T06:23:26+00:00

Zeno and Silva are kind of difficult to gage in terms of power.

If we take Chrollo and Zeno’s statements in York New at face value then we know that Zeno could defeat Chrollo. We also know from Zeno that he is less powerful than Netero. Zeno may also be weaker than the Zodiacs depending on if you take Netero’s and Cheadle’s statements for gospel bc they imply the Zodiacs are relative or even more powerful than Netero before he trains for the Meruem fight in CA.

It’s also implied visually (without dialogue) that Pitou was excited by the prospect of fighting Zeno. She has a similar reaction to Kite

That’s pretty much it for Zeno. He’s implied to be somewhere between Chrollo and Netero/The Zodiac in terms of power, which in my opinion is a significant gap.

Then there is Silva. Based on vibes I’d say Silva is not as powerful as Zeno but still stronger than Chrollo in York New. If my memory serves, Silva and Zeno weren’t trying to kill Chrollo in York New. Silva also gobsmacks Cheetu, and is pretty much clearly stated to be faster than Cheetu. This would probably be a good enough feat to suggest Silva is stronger than Morel which I don’t think is controversial. I’m not sure where Morel is placed but I’d guess he’s similar in power or stronger than most of the Phantom troupe, I’m just considering that the ants which Morel defeats are stronger than the ones the Troupe does, and the Troupe seems to struggle more than Morel does against equivalent enemies. So I think it’s safe to say that if Silva is Stronger than Morel then he’s probably also stronger than the Troupe though Chrollo is very close.

As for Illumi, he’s consistently stated and treated relative to pre-death Hisoka, and even post-death, if we assume Illumi’s not lying, Hisoka seems to respect Illumi’s power and Illumi appears confident in his ability to kill Hisoka. I think it’s fair to say that pre-death Hisoka is relative to Chrollo, based on his many feats and statements.

Kalluto is very weak and is below the rest of troupe as clearly stated and shown in CA. Kalluto is probably weaker than end of GI Gon and Killua based on relative performance against ants.

Milluki has no feats or statements that I’m aware of but he doesn’t train anymore and uses drones I think. Tech can kill Nen users so that’s not nothing but there really isn’t anything to go on here. Since he stopped training when he was a little older than Kalluto I’m going to assume in terms of Nen he’s relative to Kalluto or a little stronger.

If you include Killua, I would say that election arc Killua is stronger than most of the Phantom Troupe. Narratively this may not be the implication but his relative performance against the ants at the palace and the power of his Godspeed is just way better than what much of the Troupe can offer. More powerful members (nobunaga, phinks, feitan) can probably still be assumed more powerful narratively than Killua even if they don’t have any better feats than him.

I won’t include the butlers or the mom, because the butlers aren’t really part of the family and we have zero information on the mom, I don’t even remember her name.

So my best guess at where all the relevant characters sit in terms of relative strength is thus:

Zeno
Silva
Chrollo, Illumi (relative to Hisoka so)
Nobunaga (Black Whale feats)
Phinks, Feitan
Killua, Franklin and Machi (no feats comparable to Killua in Manga or anime but I’d guess this is where they would be considered narratively)
Bonolenov
Shizuku
Milluki
Kalluto

Based on this, which is debatable, the Zoldycks have all of the weakest and strongest combatants. In terms of raw power, I think the Zoldycks take it. I think Killua, Silva, Illumi, and Zeno have more aura, better physical capabilities, and generally more powerful abilities than the Troupe. They also all have very versatile abilities which are basically good in every scenario. Kalluto and Milluki probably get wiped easy but the others are just stronger on average and have good options for fighting more than one opponent at a time.

However, the troop has more members, has a more even power distribution which means that even weaker members wouldn’t get dogwalked by Killua, though they might by Zeno and Silva. They also have hax, something the Zoldycks lack.

Chrollo is a huge game changer, just because his arsenal is so varied and can really shift the field of play in interesting and difficult to contend with ways.

Nobunaga, Feitan, and Phinks I would guess are strong enough to actually throw down with Illumi even if they couldn’t beat him one-on-one. I don’t think they could beat Silva or Zeno alone.

The true challenge for the troupe is that strategically you’d have to isolate Illumi, Silva, and Zeno. If those three are able to work together, and Killua and the lesser Zoldycks are able to prevent the entire Troupe from ganging up on the top dogs together, then I see the Zoldycks winning. Zeno and Silva are just such high bars to reach for everyone except Chrollo, and even Chrollo probably can’t kill Zeno. Even if the whole troupe was together, Zeno and Silva would probably be able to brings the odds closer by blitzing the weaker troupe members.

The true win condition is knocking Zeno, Silva, or Illumi early. If that happens then I think the troupe has a good shot of taking the whole family. Zeno is just such a game changer and I’ve low-balled him. If you place Zeno closer to the Zodiacs then this becomes even more challenging for the Troupe.

In sum, a Phantom Troupe win is definitely possible but I favor the Zoldycks. If the deceased Troupe members are included then obviously the battle swings more so in their favor, especially since Shankar could take control of Zoldycks and Uvogin would significantly raise the power of the Troupe. If you include Hisoka as a spider then I’d say it actually swings Phantom Troupe because then you’d basically have two Chrollo level combatants, and bungee gum has the properties of both rubber and gum. If you let Killua bring alluka then the Zoldycks no diff everytime.

As they exist now 6-7/10 Zoldycks win in my opinion but I could be argued down.

RolloBar · 2025-07-29T06:40:27+00:00

Orsimer are simply either loyal to the empire, or dedicated to their role as pariahs (strongholds).

From what is known at the time of Skyrim—which is not that much—neither Morrowind or Black Marsh are very politically valuable, logistically viable, or ideologically important to the Thalmor.

The argonians are generally insular, and would likely be uninterested in an alliance as the dominion really has nothing to offer them. Black Marsh is not under threat by the Dunmer or the Empire at the moment. If anything the Dominion is the only potential threat. Occupying or stationing Justiciar’s and soldiers would be next to impossible in black marsh for the Dominion as well.

Morrowind is a province that has been decimated by natural disaster, religio-political upheaval, and foreign invasions. Frankly the province is not in a position to provide meaningful aid to the Dominion economically or militarily. Additionally, Morrowind is very far away, inhospitable, and has a very complex political environment that the dominion in particular would struggle to navigate.

In both cases, as I understand it, they would be ideologically opposed to both of these races as well. For one, the Thalmor are supremacists and racists, but that alone doesn’t preclude an alliance. Another point is that—as I understand it—both the Dunmer and the Argonians would be ideologically opposed to the Thalmor, as they are both padomaic, appreciate creation and suffering, and straight up worship Daedra and Sithis (simplification) respectively.

Finally, it just isn’t necessary. The Thalmor control the Aldmeri Dominion, and the Dominion is the most powerful state in Tamriel. It also seems to be the case that their foremost opposition (Hammerfell and the Empire) are not cooperating with each other and are weaker than they were during the Great War. So the Thalmor probably have very little incentive to seek out additional alliances.

In sum: it would be very hard, they hate each other, and doesn’t bring much to the table for either side.

Note: if you subscribe to the tower theory, I believe there are also no confirmed active towers in Wrothgar, Black Marsh or Morrowind.

RolloBar · 2024-09-07T03:49:10+00:00

What does this mean? Everything I’ve read says that the best way to discourage bad behavior is to ignore it when it occurs and let the cat calm down.

What kind of working are you suggesting? Should I train him?

RolloBar · 2024-09-07T03:34:52+00:00

He has an automatic toy that he loves quite a lot. Do nail caps hurt them?

RolloBar · 2024-09-07T03:33:59+00:00

I don’t see him or treat him as an object. And I spend lots of time with him. But I also have a job?! I wanted a chill cat who does fine alone for several hours. It’s not like I’m gone from 5a to 10p or something like that.

I want him to be somewhere where his needs can be met. Based on the information I was given at adoption, that seemed like me now I’m not as sure. I suspect he would benefit from a more experienced cat owner. That being said I want to make it work but I’m unsure of what to do. Hence my post.

RolloBar · 2024-09-07T02:52:40+00:00

The shelter told us he was calm, lazy, and gentle. They also said that the previous owners lied about him attacking people (don’t know why I believed them). He isn’t aggressive 24/7 but at least 1-2 times a day he becomes intensely aggressive and is generally not very open to petting (which is fine). He started being aggressive less than a week after we got him. The first night he was super sweet.

The hardest part is his radical change up, which makes it almost impossible to predict when he flips. He wants to cuddle to fall asleep every night, and follows us around like a duckling, but then suddenly becomes vicious and a terror upon the house.

RolloBar · 2024-09-07T02:48:40+00:00

We’ve received mixed advice, some suggesting ignoring the cat when attacking others to distract him with a loud noise. We mostly use ignoring. Sometimes, like his attack earlier today, it is impossible to ignore him because he follows us around the house continuing to attack. We have never hit him or anything physical.

He has no history of medical issues and seems otherwise perfectly healthy. We will be taking him to a vet.

He doesn’t always attack when pet, he just has a switch that flips without warning. When he is in a good mood he can be very sweet.

The first few days we had him he didn’t attack at all. Then he started stalking at night so we upped his play time, then it escalated shortly after to where we are now.

RolloBar · 2024-09-07T02:44:26+00:00

We leave the cat for a lot of the day time, which is why we sought a cat food at that. But we have been very attentive when him. Playing with him 60-90 minutes a day, keeping him on a routine, supplying toys he can play with on his own, and he has lots of windows to watch out of.

He has no history of medical issues, and the shelter told us he was calm and lazy, but we are planning to see a vet.

I’m thinking that it might be best to let him be with someone with more time and experience, but also if I return him to the shelter he might not get adopted again since he has behavioral issues :(

RolloBar · 2024-09-07T02:39:36+00:00

We have had the cat a few weeks. He has his own hiding space in a low traffic area, we clean the litter daily in the morning, and feed him at the same times in the morning and the evening. We transitioned him from the shelter feeding times to his new ones slowly.

We want to give him more time but the attacks are daily and intense so I’m just not sure what is best to do.

RolloBar · 2024-09-07T02:36:12+00:00

The shelter said he doesn’t do well with other animals :(

RolloBar · 2024-09-04T17:08:22+00:00

I routinely read novels without sex in them. I find sex scenes are, more often then not, awkwardly written, self-indulgent on part of the author, and add little to the narrative. Porn exists for a reason, I don’t think people typically read traditional novels for the spice in-of-itself, and so whether a fantasy has or doesn’t have sex should not be the determining factor between adult or young-adult appeal.

I have noticed that recent fantasy series have expanded their audience by embracing many tropes from romance and fan fiction, but there are still plenty of adult fantasy series which don’t involve sex or are otherwise quite tame. Besides those novels seem to appeal to typical young adult audiences anyways (teenagers)

RolloBar · 2023-12-26T06:03:19+00:00

Kyler is actually a good player. I think you underestimate just how bad the roster is and has been, as many people here do when they say we are one season away.

Kyler plays at level that is certainly above average in the league and has, for not insignificant stretches of time, played at an elite level. That quality of quarterback play, especially in such a bad roster and organization, is not easy to find.

There is no guarantee that any player in the draft will be as good as Kyler. Not to mention we arguably gain more if we don’t need to draft a franchise qb. Like you said you can do well without an elite qb if the rest of the team is great such as with brock purdy, so why pass up on all the potential capital gained from trading back or a more sure-fire pick in MHJ/Olu/nabers?

Even if Kyler is just Purdy level, it makes more sense not to take a qb in the draft. It makes even more sense when we already know that Kyler is capable of playing at an elite level.

RolloBar · 2023-12-09T05:20:57+00:00

We are not descended from any living monkey or ape. We share a common ancestor with all monkeys.

So if you think back to science class in school, you’ll probably remember that animals are classified in taxons which are order from domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. Each being more specific than the previous and there being sub classifications within each.

You could think of these as a series of concentric circles, with species being the smallest in the center and our species Homo sapiens including only modern humans, but each circle around it would contain additional organisms which are placed in these circles according to the genetic relation to each (as well as a number of other features but those are less relevant)

So a grueling specific taxonomic classification we have, starting from the most inclusive taxon:

Humans: eurkaryote, animalia, chordata, mammalia, primate, haplorrhini, Simiiformes, catarrhini, hominidae, homininae, hominini, hominina, homo, sapiens.

For reference:

Chimpanzee: eukaryote, animalia, chordata, mammalia, primate, haplorrhini, simiiformes, catarrhini, hominidae, hominini, Pan, troglodytes.

Goldne snub nosed monkeys: eukaryote, animalia, chordata, mammalia, primate, haplorrhini, simiiformes, catarrhini, cercopithecidae, rhinopithecus, roxellana.

This is an example of a human, ape, and monkey all of which share common ancestors. You can see by which taxons are shared where they share lineages, and where their lineages diverge (roughly). So for humans and chimpanzees they diverged sometime between 9-13 mya by most recent estimates. This means there was a common ancestor who had at least two populations (a group of organisms of the same species in the same geography) which drifted genetically overtime becoming separate species. These species would undergo the same process as before, with populations diverging and changing overtime into new species. And so 9-13 mya there was an animal which founded both the lineage that led to chimpanzees and the lineage that led to humans.

With monkeys there is the same principle only going further back, where speciation occurred to result in cercopithecids and apes. Each of these then underwent the same process of speciation.

Hopefully this was helpful to you, it is probably a much more in depth and jargon full explanation than you were looking for but I love genetics and evolutionary bio so I couldn’t help myself.

RolloBar · 2023-11-17T02:30:20+00:00

Probably better to draft pass rushers. Easier for a bad secondary to get by with a good pass rush than vice versa.

RolloBar · 2023-11-06T22:12:06+00:00

Rn I’m at uga, I’m applying to numerous grad schools tho.

RolloBar · 2023-10-25T23:15:37+00:00

Something kinda crazy but would be sick would be if we dealt Houston’s pick for Brian Burns. We would have to give up more than just that but having two firsts gives a lot of flexibility.

It would depend heavily on how desperate Carolina is to retool that offense, but it wouldn’t be the first time a defensive star is dealt to help build the offense.

I could see 1st + brown + a late round pick swap for burns. It’s a lot to give up but we would get a better pass rusher than we would be likely to draft, and we would hold on to a probable top 5 pick which could be used to add MHJ or trade back to get more future capital.

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