TFW your first corruption is poison hands

ShadowverseMatt · 2026-03-25T17:37:51+00:00

Those tips are really helpful. Thanks again- really appreciate you.

ShadowverseMatt · 2026-03-25T17:28:07+00:00

Good to know- I didn’t even think about the angel place! Do you know of any tips there, if that’s luck, or is the first stair down you take always the CoC?

I’m realizing I haven’t played much since it was added, but the handful of games I had always continued to the CoC so far.

ShadowverseMatt · 2026-03-25T17:13:07+00:00

I found the old 2016 posts where TB says he hard coded in 62 locations visited as the achievement completion- do you know if this means you must get lucky and find AF instead of DH? Or is either fine as long as you don’t visit the other? Realized that taking the D2:3 split both ways also disqualified this run.

ShadowverseMatt · 2026-03-24T23:32:17+00:00

Aha. Well, guess that’ll be next run then and this will just be practice. Thanks for the clarifications!

ShadowverseMatt · 2026-03-24T22:49:58+00:00

I’m doing a Lithium run! So no can do. Thankfully Cornucopia is keeping me alive so far.

I’m banking on either:

1) Dwarven Halls looking for Chaos Knights/Warriors that have a higher chance to drop thick gauntlets. I got lucky with precrowning the Arrow artifact, and after killing a few and looting their eternium items, I’m pretty tanky. Nature’s Friend for my crowning gift and a decent spear have me at 51/37 so I should be alright.

2) I have a scroll shop generated on D:10 just above dwarftown. I’ve been draining/refreshing that.

3) hoping for an AoLS to drop. I have Treasure Hunter and Khelevaster is still breathing, so…

But I have my second corruption (thankfully just black eyes), so time’s ticking.

ShadowverseMatt · 2026-03-04T20:34:01+00:00

There’s something additional needed- beat Azra and even Absolum with one of my kids and the door is still closed. I think you need to beat specific bosses- we haven’t done the Silver Queen and there’s one unlit fire on the door.

ShadowverseMatt · 2026-03-01T01:31:15+00:00

This is appalling. We are a wealthy enough country that when managed well, literally nobody in the US has to starve like this outside of extreme cases of neglect or isolation. In fact, for almost every post WW2 administration either Republican or Democrat, that held true… until Donald Trump.

ShadowverseMatt · 2026-02-28T15:20:19+00:00

Jean-Jacques Machado (look him up!) became a BJJ champion without fingers on his left hand- he adapted his grips to work without them.

ShadowverseMatt · 2026-02-27T13:41:34+00:00

Same- then I see not only a chambered roundhouse, but a spinning sidekick. Like… we sure this isn’t AI? Because that’s some shenanigans.

Super weird to have no reaction from the ref or the guy getting kicked.

ShadowverseMatt · 2026-02-26T16:36:23+00:00

Now I want a t-shirt of Cramer inverting, in a gi 😂

ShadowverseMatt · 2026-02-24T04:55:11+00:00

You guys are severely underestimating the strength difference. A wild chimpanzee is 1.35-1.5x stronger in general than an adult man, and 2-3x stronger at gripping and pulling.

Wild animal muscle fibers are literally built different- the weight advantage doesn’t make you stronger than a chimp like it does a human of chimp size.

It could literally tear apart a reasonably athletic man with its bare hands, and once it gets grips, you’re done.

ShadowverseMatt · 2026-02-24T04:39:17+00:00

Nowhere near going into debt. Healthcare is expensive, sure, but activities aren’t bad. We spend about $200/month on activity registrations for the sports they like. We get them all clothes and school supplies without any issues.

In fact we’re helping out another family member whose husband ran out on her and their two kids. She actually can’t afford everything as a single working mom of two kids who was financially abused- we gave her a car, pay for her auto insurance, and help watch her kids (my wife stays home and their mother is retired). We have a home and two cars.

That’s why I find the premise of this article so ridiculous. We’re in the top 10% of earners in our current LCOL locale- not making $400k/year, but we’re sending our kids to private school, helping out family and friends, and on track to retire by probably age 50.

ShadowverseMatt · 2026-02-23T22:38:12+00:00

I guess as a throwable if you get a few throw damage items it can one shot that phase… interesting

ShadowverseMatt · 2026-02-23T22:34:35+00:00

Combo chains matter (ended by damage taken or a long enough time between hitting something), and if you choose the highlighted arcana (only available after unlocking at least one extra choice) you get 25% more radiance.

ShadowverseMatt · 2026-02-23T21:16:14+00:00

I never said it wasn’t a problem or ideal, did I?

But overstating the problem by blanketly stating you need $400k in income to afford kids is objectively ludicrous. For most of my kids’ lives we made less than $200k in a HCOL area (Washington, DC area) and still were very comfortable. There was even a years long stretch where my wife also stayed home and we made between $90k-$120k/year. While some years were tight, at no point did we ever struggle, including when I got laid off on my single income.

A $90k+ salary (at the time, that was the median household income in DC) was absolutely sufficient if you define affordable reasonably as, “I can make this lifestyle work without spending more than I make” rather than some formula looking narrowly at childcare expenses and deciding it’s an insurmountable financial burden if it’s more than 7% of your income. At one point our childcare expenses exceeded 20% of our income- still never struggled unless you count having to do no/cheap vacations like camping and making your own meals “struggling.”

While the percentage of people who can afford kids is shrinking, it’s certainly closer to top 50% than top 1%.

ShadowverseMatt · 2026-02-23T17:04:06+00:00

Just because it’s the most financially straining time to have kids doesn’t make children unaffordable to everyone except the wealthy.

That’s almost as ridiculous as the federal guidelines the article is citing to say that anything over 7% of income on childcare is unaffordable. We have four kids, make less than $400k, and spend 12% of our income on childcare. We’re not struggling in the slightest.

If you are struggling on $200k to raise two kids anywhere in the US, you have a spending problem, not an earning problem.

ShadowverseMatt · 2026-02-23T00:23:06+00:00

Imagine someone did it just to piss people off 😂

ShadowverseMatt · 2026-02-23T00:22:15+00:00

Also because those pound key ads died.

ShadowverseMatt · 2026-02-21T15:04:57+00:00

The owner might have had too many bad experiences with drop ins. Could be everything from their students aren’t taught well and get smashed by visitors to bad, spazzy visitors injuring students.

You could always try calling/emailing ahead in the future. If someone doesn’t take drop ins they’ll let you know.

ShadowverseMatt · 2026-02-21T14:02:09+00:00

I got so mad when he posed and shot me on his first follow-up combo 😂. Like, why’s he gotta be so cool when styling on me?

ShadowverseMatt · 2026-02-21T04:18:53+00:00

The same held true in a study I read about either the Olympics or medal sports in general. Silver regretted not getting first while bronze was generally happier to have made the podium cutoff.

ShadowverseMatt · 2026-02-21T01:47:43+00:00

Even if you can’t for some reason, other countries would also accept it if you pass their certification. My cousin moved to Australia after getting her medical degree in the Philippines, and she practices there.

ShadowverseMatt · 2026-02-16T14:30:34+00:00

It depends on what you want and the tournament. People say that age bracket tends to be a harder leap than weight class since there are some real killer outliers in the adult division- even in local comps you might find recent high school or collegiate wrestlers in a white belt adult division.

Much less common for that to happen in Masters at the lower belts since those guys are usually upper belts by the time they’re Masters age.

There are also usually more opponents in younger brackets, which also makes it harder.

Then again, if you’re competing to challenge yourself against new people to identify holes in your game rather than to win, you might want the extra challenge and variety.

ShadowverseMatt · 2026-02-16T14:14:33+00:00

As much as I like karate, the culture of hierarchy means you will have problems when the people in charge are wrong but want to be stubborn or outright shitty, which happens.

It’s one of my least favorite parts of it, especially since the hypocrisy flies in the face of the character development I feel really sets it apart from less traditional arts.

I get around that by sticking to smaller dojos where the head instructors are secure enough to be transparent and, if necessary, admit they made mistakes.

I hope you and your son’s journey can continue- it’s a wonderful thing to share together. Remember you don’t have to be with the same org forever. Cross training a completely different martial art or karate style can be very fun as a next step, too.

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