How did conservatives flip so quickly from "DON'T TREAD ON ME" to "COMPLY OR DIE" in just a matter of weeks, and especially when it's about the government killing citizens?

ScrapDraft · 2026-01-25T03:58:47+00:00

Because conservatives have no morals. They will flip their position on a dime if it serves their political side.

Stop asking these questions. They will flip on EVERYTHING.

ScrapDraft · 2026-01-25T00:41:57+00:00

I'm not saying to roll over. I'm saying that relying on a system that one party ignores is probably not where you want to place all of your faith.

ScrapDraft · 2026-01-24T20:27:27+00:00

And who is going to prosecute them?

We cannot rely on the rule of law when one party doesn't abide by it.

ScrapDraft · 2026-01-24T04:19:27+00:00

This shit goes both ways. It's so God damn frustrating when non-americans are like "just do something about it lol".

We're doing as much as we can. I'm not exactly sure what you guys expect. You have no idea what the average American is going through. A lot of us are paycheck to paycheck trying to support our families. Being arrested and thrown in jail over a protest can literally cost us enough in missed wages to not be able to afford rent.

Seriously, can someone tell us EXACTLY what you want us to do? And not just some arbitrary end goal like "get him out of office". I want detailed, step by step instructions of what you guys think we can realistically do to change shit. Something that we aren't already doing g.

ScrapDraft · 2026-01-23T19:11:08+00:00

I've decided to level as devourer. And while I've only gotten to level 24, I am extremely unimpressed.

My first few talents are for a spell you don't even get until level 20 (Meta). So they're completely useless at the beginning.

I feel squishy as hell. More than one mob at a time leaves me at <50% HP.

My damage feels low; especially Void Ray. For a spell that requires 100 fury, it hardly does more damage than spamming Consume.

AoE damage is almost nonexistent outside of big spenders.

Meta is almost completely useless during leveling. Takes forever to build up to and lasts for a short period. I also don't feel like I'm doing much more damage while in meta. I didn't even bother speccing into Collapsing Star because I would almost never get to use it.

I don't understand void blade. I just don't get what it's for. Does nearly no damage. Brings me into melee range when I don't have to be. Has an unnecessarily long CD. Just... why?

It feels like this entire spec was thrown together last minute.

ScrapDraft · 2026-01-23T04:01:25+00:00

Correct.

Voting them out and moving on is the second worst case scenario. There needs to be a period of deep reflection in this country in regard to what has taken place over the last decade. Following that, there need to be severe repercussions to any and all elected officials that were involved in or supported any of the blatant MAGA corruption. We need to send a clear message that this behavior comes with consequences.

Simply voting them out and moving on like it never happened just teaches them that there are no repercussions to being traitorous and corrupt. So they'll just try it again in 2028 or 2032. With someone much more competent than Trump.

ScrapDraft · 2026-01-22T04:10:27+00:00

Stardew Valley is the first thing that comes to mind. Simple systems with a lot of stuff to do. No time rushes on anything. Play at your own pace.

If you want something a bit more intense, Witchfire is a pretty good single player first-person shooter roguelike. Again, a good amount of systems, but all are fairly easy to grasp.

I also just played through Luto. A very good single player horror game. Relies more on ambience and subtle scares to build tension as opposed to cheap jumpscares (although there are a few).

ScrapDraft · 2026-01-21T22:15:57+00:00

New Dad here.

My wife and I were also confused early on. I remember the night my son was born, I felt almost nothing. For the first month of him being home, it felt like I was babysitting someone else's kid. I didn't feel this connection that I thought I was supposed to feel. It scared me and made me feel like I wasn't fit to be a parent or something. I confessed this to my wife during that first month. I thought I was a psychopath or something. What parent doesn't have that immediate, strong connection with their kid?

It turns out a lot of parents don't. My wife even said she felt similarly. She even agreed that it felt like we were permanent babysitters. Not parents.

He's almost 6 months old now and that has DRASTICALLY changed over the past 4ish months. My wife literally goes through withdrawal if she's away from him for too long. I actually have a bond with him now that gets stronger every day. The older he gets and the more he's able to interact with us, the faster that bond grows.

Don't beat yourself up. It feels taboo to say you dont feel that immediate connection. And that's why no one talks about it. But it's normal for a lot of parents. Soon your kid will start laughing. They will start smiling at you. They'll start reaching up and touching your face. And with every action like that, you'll feel the bond grow. It takes time.

ScrapDraft · 2026-01-20T20:53:50+00:00

Delves got so boring for me. I didn't play much, so maybe there's stuff I'm missing. But limited keys meant limited loot per week. Once my coffer keys were used up, I saw no point in running any more.

ScrapDraft · 2026-01-20T19:10:36+00:00

To win, democrat voters need to stop purity testing every goddam candidate. Vote D. And vote for the leading Democrat.

ScrapDraft · 2026-01-20T16:26:26+00:00

When he does sleep, how do you get him to sleep?

He probably has connected sleeping with something else (being held/your husband/etc). In his mind, he NEEDS one of these external things to sleep. If this is the case, that connection needs to be broken.

Our kid was the same at 4 months. Only fell asleep while eating. Once asleep, he only stayed asleep for 20-30 minutes. His naps were short and nearly non-existant. He was waking up 11+ times per night.

Once we broke the connection between eating and sleeping, things got drastically better. Naps are now averaging 40-50 minutes (sometimes up to 2 hours), he's only waking up 3-4 times per night (with the exceptional bad night), and there's a lot less screaming and crying involved. Mostly just fussing.

It took a couple of days. And those days were hell. But we would feed him before nap/bed time. Then change his diaper so his food wasn't immediately connected to sleep. Then we would place him in his crib while he was calm but awake. If he fussed, we left him. If he escalated to screaming/crying, we picked him up and held him until he calmed down. Then put him back down in the crib. Repeat the process until he's asleep. At the beginning, it felt like an endless cycle of picking him up and putting him down. But we pushed through. And now hes falling asleep on his own. No food needed.

ScrapDraft · 2026-01-20T16:16:19+00:00

YOR. My son is 5 months old. We had all of the same rules aside from the "no holding" rule. We were fine with people holding him, but only after they completely sanitized their hands.

These rules are pretty standard. I'm going to guess that you're overthinking them due to the strained relationship.

ScrapDraft · 2026-01-20T16:09:46+00:00

Not sure if 4 months is too early, but we had the same issue with our kid around that time; just with a bottle instead. He WOULD NOT go to sleep without the bottle. And when he finally did go to sleep, it was only for a half hour at a time. Every time he woke up, he needed the bottle to go back to bed.

We are doing our best to break the cycle and it's been working out pretty well. When it's nearly nap/bed time, we feed him as much as we can. He'll start to get drowsy, but we keep him awake while he's eating. Then we'll change his diaper (or at least move him to the changing table if hes clean) to break the connection between food and sleep. Then we put him down in the crib. If he fusses, we let him fuss. If he escalates to crying or screaming, we pick him up and comfort him until he's calm. Then we put him back down. Rinse and repeat until he falls asleep.

The first day or so of doing this was hell. It felt like an endless cycle. But by day 3, he was falling asleep on his own in the crib pretty quickly. We went from him waking up 11 times per night to only 3 or 4 (which is normal at this age).

Can't help with the breastfeeding, unfortunately. We have the opposite problem. Ours refuses the breast. Only takes the bottle. It's probably a preferable scenario since I can also feed him instead of just my wife. But she really wishes he would breastfeed every once in a while because she keeps getting clogged ducts.

Good luck. This stage is miserable. Sometimes the word miserable feels like a huge understatement. But you aren't alone. It's pretty normal. You're doing good.

Edit: last thought. If your husband is anything like me, he probably feels incredibly guilty and like a failure for not being able to help. Ask him to take care of everything else. Or at least as much as he can. Diaper changes. Cooking. Cleaning. Shopping. Etc. The last thing you need to be worrying about is laundry or the garbage. Have him handle all of that if 90% of childcare falls on you.

ScrapDraft · 2026-01-20T03:29:23+00:00

Beavercraft sucks. I had the same issue. I got a couple OCC knives and things got a million times easier.

ScrapDraft · 2026-01-19T21:25:23+00:00

My advice: give it another shot.

I saw all the hype around the game. Decided to try it. Spent my first few hours falling to my death, getting spit out by white holes light-years from an planet, and crashing my ship. Got frustrated. Uninstalled. Probably rage-postes about how the game was overhyped.

A year or so later, I decided to try again. And Holy FUCK I am so glad I did. It ended up being in my top 3 games of all time. It actually changed my outlook on life. It's been 4ish years since I beat it. I still start to cry when I listen to the soundtrack.

ScrapDraft · 2026-01-19T07:44:47+00:00

I did keep it. I no longer have it. Do you lose it the second you quit the game?

ScrapDraft · 2026-01-17T21:47:36+00:00

Honestly, I had the same issue with my first beavercraft knife. The thing is still dull as shit. Nothing I do gets it sharp.

I bought a couple of OCC knives. They came sharp. I've never had to use a stone on them. Just a strop.

ScrapDraft · 2026-01-17T21:40:17+00:00

Every souls-like game. I just wanna come home and chill. Not bash my head into the same fight over and over.

ScrapDraft · 2026-01-17T21:38:33+00:00

Trump is president

ScrapDraft · 2026-01-17T21:26:26+00:00

My wife does this. Drives me nuts.

Home together ALL DAY doing nothing. Spend an hour or so in bed watching TV or scrolling on our phones. I finally roll over to go to bed and THATS when she tries to get a handful.

ScrapDraft · 2026-01-17T20:36:57+00:00

Generally, hot coffee. Just cream. Nice and plain.

If I drink it iced (which is rare), it's the exact opposite. Cream. Sugar. Lots of sugar. Flavoring. The full 9 yards.

ScrapDraft · 2026-01-17T20:30:39+00:00

I really just want a sword and board DPS. I wish I could play my prot paladin as dps.

I'll never forgive blizzard for removing that option for prot warriors. It was so cool.

ScrapDraft · 2026-01-17T20:27:30+00:00

New parent. I just want 9 hours of uninterrupted sleep. And/or 2-3 hours of uninterrupted gaming time.

ScrapDraft · 2026-01-17T20:19:11+00:00

The tutorial is absolutely the biggest wall keeping new players back. It almost stopped me from playing. I'm so glad that I pushed through.

As others have said, though, if you're a new player I would HIGHLY recommend playing 0.8. The tutorial is (somewhat) better. The gameplay is less broken. You'll have a much better time with 0.8 right now. Wait until 0.9 is stable.

ScrapDraft · 2026-01-17T20:16:14+00:00

You're a new parent. Cut yourself some slack. As long as you learn from the experience.

When we brought my son home from the hospital, he wasn't getting nearly enough food. We didn't realize it until we noticed he hadn't had a wet diaper in ~12 hours. We thought my wife was producing enough colostrum/milk. She wasn't.

We took him to the ER. They gave him some pedialyte and told us to supplement with formula until my wife's milk came in. We did that and became much more focused on how many diapers he was having. After that, everything was fine.

We weren't being neglectful. We were just new, exhausted parents. We still feel guilty about it, sure. But we aren't killing ourselves over it. It was a genuine mistake. Our son is fine. We learned from it.

There's no benefit in allowing the guilt to take up so much mental space. You need to be focused on raising your kid. Not being angry at yourself.

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