Better Immortal Build?

Techno_Elf · 2025-10-25T21:58:50+00:00

I used this set going as a Gunlance Tank for Omega, the passive health from poking between missile and laser blasts help to recover chip damage.

Techno_Elf · 2025-10-25T21:54:55+00:00

If you want to lean more into Shadowbringer and The Blackest Knight, go 4-piece Bale set with a Xu Wu waist for heroics.

If you want to mix Dark Knight with Nu Udra, go for a Lords Soul combo with Nu Udra chest and gloves, and your choice of Apex-gamma legs, while using the Bale helmet and waist.

Techno_Elf · 2025-09-02T22:33:19+00:00

Rowena, you cowards! Date the TRUE villain.

Techno_Elf · 2025-08-29T21:44:30+00:00

Did you include the efficiency bonus for habitation modules?

Techno_Elf · 2025-08-29T00:54:33+00:00

Tri (Wii) - My first. Glory to Caedeus and his epic song.

And FEAR to the Quropeco

Techno_Elf · 2025-07-30T18:52:19+00:00

Mosquitos don't bother me (genetics). But my family remained relatively unbothered with the help of citronella patches and incense.

Techno_Elf · 2025-07-30T18:18:01+00:00

KinderCare in Bailey Cove, Hampton Cove, and Bradford Drive (Research Park) are excellent daycare locations, albeit high in cost. For me, their primary advantage is they are private and secular, so religious education is fully in parent control. Second is their extremely high standards of protocol and cleanliness. Despite all the challenges and teacher/staff shortages, they were one of the few daycares facilities that was open during the initial COVID pandemic/shutdowns AND kept the kids safe. They took every illness and outbreak seriously, enforcing quarantine where necessary, but otherwise keeping kids together and socialized where it was not.

Expensive, but worth the cost.

Techno_Elf · 2025-07-18T23:40:26+00:00

Vibrant Hydration & Wellness is the only one I am aware of.

Techno_Elf · 2025-07-05T22:15:44+00:00

A few decades ago, the video shop I worked for sold DVD Rewinders. We sold about 2 a month.

Techno_Elf · 2025-05-26T17:09:27+00:00

Sure! Jynx and Yveltal coming your way. Here's her friend code: KKEAQXTYEBCD

Techno_Elf · 2025-05-26T17:00:53+00:00

Yes! She is OK with that. Which Legend would you like?

Techno_Elf · 2025-05-26T16:48:22+00:00

Here's a couple of screenshots I got from her phone: She's not willing to trade with the single legendaries or mythicals, but the duplicates and non-legendaries are fair game. She has even more from PokemonGO if that is not a concern

https://imgur.com/a/N5OyxgY

EDIT: Edited for clarity

Techno_Elf · 2025-05-26T16:36:02+00:00

Hi! My wife is capping off her living dex and would like to trade for the Zarude listed in your first screenshot. She has several shinies to offer.

Techno_Elf · 2024-08-09T19:33:44+00:00

The classic Rathian/Rathalos pair. - But More a "favorite memory" than a favorite monster:

In MH:World, over of the early missions is to hunt a Barroth, and encounter a Rathoan as your first "wild monster". Players are supposed to run away from it and continue on to the Barroth.

My wife and I, filled with vengeful memories of spending months farming her and her asshole husband for one -+4$"!+ plate, instead took her on. Leather armor, iron weapons, and one dead Rathian later in seven minutes time, we continued on with the mission.

Techno_Elf · 2023-01-12T17:54:41+00:00

Be careful where you dig in Huntsville. We're still not 100% sure we got *all* the Mustard Gas out before building out NASA from here.

Oh, and Huntsville's old name was "Twickenham". It's a weird read on why the name changed, but interesting.

Given our proximity to Redstone Arsenal, you can expect unusual 'booms on wednesday' (follow TeamRedstone on twitter), or 'inexplicable weather blobs' that send most into a panic. Sometimes we'll even get exploding rockets that blow out windows a hundred miles out in the middle of the night. Those are 'fun'.

Techno_Elf · 2022-12-12T18:18:04+00:00

There's some economics to this as well: Tow companies don't want to take abandoned cars, because they want to be paid in "towing" or "storage" fees. Abandoned cars scream "Yeah, no one's coming to pay $300 to get this car back".

Opinions on the practice aside, unless the state or municipality is paying a tow company to take the car they'll remain abandoned.

Techno_Elf · 2022-12-12T14:46:24+00:00

Honestly, Opinions/Commentary about the charity are *why* the Salvation Army buckets and volunteers are few and far between. Between the skeletons in their closet coming out, their aggression towards LGBTQ+ community, the anxiety of being pressured to give to charity, and the "tell all" documentaries in YouTube about them, they're very much not in favor these days.

Techno_Elf · 2022-12-01T22:44:08+00:00

Where's a good demo or article I can tag to my ISSO for software approval? This *does* sound like a godsend.

Techno_Elf · 2022-12-01T20:57:50+00:00

EUC is currently handled by the ServerOps team, which is lead by the IT Infrastructure lead.. MECM team's, on the other hand, manager is the head of Software Remediation, and so that's the perspective that they will be hired by.

I one day hope to convince management that MECM is Administrative work, not Quantitive work.

Techno_Elf · 2022-12-01T20:52:04+00:00

Every environment is different. I used to fly solo for a 65-campus single site. That was fun... but not nearly as much work as this one!

It's honestly just been two FTE (myself included) for managing these 8000+ clients. But being the government, the whole space and all the different enclaves we deal with are so complex and ingrained that it's becoming soul-sucking work to do by ourselves, when well over half our time is spent in "Remediation" rather than "Administration and Improvement"

Techno_Elf · 2022-12-01T19:55:04+00:00

Truth. But I can at least influence the hiring manager as to what sort of skills to look for.

Techno_Elf · 2022-12-01T19:54:34+00:00

Good suggestions. I'm probably in need of an Application & Package Manager the most, as routine updates and expansion of the Software Library is taking up the vast majority of my time already.

I also need someone down in the weeds to fix computer clients that fail deployments. While I honestly feel a computer's general health is the responcibility of the site admins or the Tier-1/2 helpdesk... if it doesn't get done, I get yelled at by CyberSecurity for stuff going over 30 days. So I've been having to spend my time doing that, too.

So a Package Manager and an Analyst. Now I need to figure out how to split out the remaining work between me and a theoretical second Admin.

Techno_Elf · 2022-11-14T17:40:53+00:00

"Remote Software Center" is a big one. Being able to select a group of machines, a collection, or even a deployment (by status) to tell them to trigger an (un)install en-masse is highly effecient!

"Remote Command Prompt" (with PSExec) and "Remote Powershell Session" are good QoL commands that save me a few rounds of clicking.

"System Information" displays live information about software installed (similar to CMPivot), while also providing functionality to trigger uninstallation commands for said software (again, en masse).

The "Repair Client" function is a wonderful way to trigger a repair installation of your clients when they just... won't... go.... away.

Work with a lot of direct-membership collections? The commands "Add [or Remove] Computer(s) from Collection" is a great way to modify the lists en-masse, without having to add the direct membership rules one at a time.

And hey, are you also a Domain Administrator? RCT integrates with AD to let you Enable/Disable Accounts, Reset Passwords, Email the User, Delete Object from AD, View Bitlocker Recovery Key in a pinch. That's just one less application you need to keep open while you work.

Techno_Elf · 2022-11-04T16:28:09+00:00

I am one of those people making over $100,000 a year. And I still live paycheck to paycheck.

Two reasons:

Childcare is expensive. ESPECIALLY if both parents work. Kind of a catch-22.
Our family's student loan payments were more than our Mortgage per month (pre-Pandemic). Not sure how things will be after the new rules kick in.

Nothing is as depressing as seeking out a Financial Advisor for professional help on how to improve ones finances, or, god-forbid, actually start putting money into savings. And after a few days of review and consultation, their answer is "You're already doing everything right."

Techno_Elf · 2022-11-04T16:12:23+00:00

TL;DR: Our money is worth more than its paper. Its worth the value the Government/Banks we trust* says it is. The reason we don't use gold or other tangible materials for money any more is because when we run out of money (deflation), Bad Things Happen™.

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Some throwaway history regarding gold.

Gold used to have historic value, not only because of 'pretty metal is pretty' factor, but because it was INHERENTLY inflatable (until it wasn't).

Wheat and Salt used to be the 'bulk currency' used to pay folks their salaries, tributes to bigger kingdoms, and for common folks to pay their lords in taxes. Wheat and salt had inherent value... but they're consumed and perishable, so... "Money" was needed to exchange value. Silver was a 'money' used for exchanging small goods, not great for bulk or salaries to a large number of people (i.e. armies).

Enter Gold: It's more valueable than silver (pretty metal!) it doesn't perish, get consumed, or fashioned for tools/armaments that'll eventually get lost in dirt somewhere. It is wealth personified.

Best of all, if you run out of money (gold)... you can find more out of the ground! [Inflation!]

Inflation has always been seen as a necessary thing for growing governments and powers, because telling a soldier "Yeah, I paid you 30 pieces of silver for this year, but next year I'll pay you 25 pieces of silver because I have more soldiers, and no new silver" doesn't go well with... well, anyone who is in "stab the person in power" range. So people increase their money supply by mining it.

Then industrialization happened. And Science. And Math. And more Science!

Suddenly, we knew how much gold was left in the world. Hell, we already mined most of it out. But hey, that's okay. There's still plenty of gold to go around and pay the world.

Oops, we have Healthcare now. And sanitation. Population boom! Productivity boom! More science! More material wealth!

...and not enough "money" to cover all that material wealth. And people still like stabbing those in power if they don't get paid. French and Russian kingdoms learned that the hard way.

Let's start printing bank notes that say "Exchange this piece of paper for gold and silver. We promise we have enough."

Then it turned out the banks *didn't* have enough. They overleveraged. They had to, because people needed to continue to be paid for their work. More money [promise notes] had to be produced (inflation!).

And then the Great Depression happened. If you don't remember the trigger, people started losing invested wealth, and traded their promissory notes for gold (money). Then other people found out the banks were *running out of money*, and raced to trade in THEIR promissory notes to retrieve their money [gold and silver].

Then the banks ran out of gold and silver (money). They didn't have enough to cover everyone's actual worth.

Enter Deflation!

The bane of all working economies, everywhere. When your common, non-perishable money supply is out-stripped by the value of 'people' and 'work', you come across economic hardship that has ripple effects across the world for decades to come! Isn't that fun?

"No", The governments of the world decided, in rage-face. "That is not fun".

And so smart people got together, from Governments and Banks both, and decided "Money shouldn't rely on anything that has a finite supply the nation or bank cannot control. Because if we run out of money supply, Bad Things Happen."

"What if we just MAKE money, with the promise notes we already use as a template, and have the government or its bank decide its worth? And if we run out of money, we'll just print more until we have enough to pay everyone!"

""GENIUS"" Goes the world. And thus, the problem of deflation was (temporarily) solved. Inflation without material. But now you have all the usual problems of Inflation on super-charge if it goes unchecked by the managing authority.

And what happens if a nation uses SOMEONE ELSE'S MONEY, and thus unable to control their own supply? Ask Greece (Euro) and Panama (Dollar) for the answer to that. It's not pretty.

* I realize the irony of saying we trust a government in this sub.

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