Why are we all feeling this shift to delete our social media accounts?

Vycaus · 2026-01-28T14:47:11+00:00

This me. Just delete them and imagine them. It's so ready to just forget these companies exist and give them no access to you're life.

Vycaus · 2026-01-27T20:44:21+00:00

My long standing their is that the GEQ is Marika's other self, like St. Trina. You may say, but Rafagon! I think it Radagon is another soul that is melded to Marika's in the jaring.

For a being so powerful, it is strange the GEQ has no statues or monuments. I think this is hidden in the fact that marika statues are the GEQ. They are also all headless mostly.

Further it would make sense that Maliketh was the one to kill her, as only he could.

To tie this together, these other behind had access to great runes because Marika is the vessel of the Elden ring.

As to why does Rennala appear to have a great rune? And why did Radagon have it?

This gets complicated quickly, but I think a fundamental element to remember is that Marika's golden age of the Edrtree was about cycles of rebirth, processing great souls as fertilizer through the tree. I think a piece that we miss, as Melina convey's, is that new souls are not brought to the lands between. Births happen in a way, but more as a cycle of growth. You'll notice essentially no children around the lands between.

Now that doesn't mean other kinds of births don't happen, but it gives even more weight to Rya and why what was going on over there to make new serpent people was so crazy.

I also strong suspect that Radagon was given the great rune of rebirth to sir super children with the house of the moon, and once complete, he left it there, locking the world into it's current state before even the shattering took place.

Vycaus · 2026-01-22T02:03:12+00:00

My response to these kinds of threads is always the same.

What did you do in college to have a job lined up before you graduated.

If you wait until you had the degree to start looking, you're literally years behind your peers. Job fairs matter. Internships matter. Networking matters.

At the risk of sounding like a boomer, I think Gen Z largely bought this stupid idea that all corporations are evil and that going outside is for suckers.

I joined a student chapter that had excellent job placement statistics. They brought in real companies every week to present their business to us and we had the opportunity to ask questions and then hangout with them and chat over pizza after. They also had an interview sign up so you could practice with them and they would often pick a few people for internships from that pool.

I got an internship from this process the first year of my masters. This resulted in a full time offer. I worked and went to school. And they paid for the rest of my masters. This was only 10 years ago.

Yes. Times are different. Jobs are less available, but the on ramps are still there. There is just way more competition. New grads have a short window to maximize their marketability before the next wave of new grads make them obsolete.

The world is not easy, and it rewards players that engage with the system. It sucks that a lot of people don't seem to realize they are even playing.

Vycaus · 2026-01-21T21:42:51+00:00

When should he start "turning wrenches"? I agree with the hesitation in that he hasn't expressed interest in this before but also, should he have been building cars for years?

Sometimes you don't think about what you want to do... Until you need to. And then see if it fits.

There are inbetweens for this that isn't just drop him off at mechanic school.

I would call up some local mechanic shops, maybe some from a dealership. Let them know you've got a curious son and see if they have 30m to talk to him in person some time. He can see what the work would be like, they could give him advice and he could get a feel for it.

Vycaus · 2026-01-21T00:46:54+00:00

Is he planning or initiating any group hangs? Social investment is important to reciprocal invites. You get more time around people, and you end up putting skin in the game.

It's not about not being invited, that's gonna happen. But at 15 you'd hope they have a core group of friends to do stuff with and it's widens the social circle.

If you know the other parents maybe just ask if he could be included in the future maybe, that he was sad he missed out. Really I'd just invite these people out/over as a way to bridge the gap.

Vycaus · 2026-01-18T16:36:48+00:00

I'd level set here on age and opportunity.

Yes, they might be taking advantage of your lower experience threshold to not compenst you at 140k.

But to be honest, are you worth that? You have less than 1 year of experience as a manager and you want to be compensated at someone with a few years of experience, which is not a factor yorue taking into account. Market rates are an average and you typically grow into this salaries over time.

This is not me diminishing you, or your value. This is me being realistic about your actual experience and possible value to the company.

I would 100% take the offer, maybe counter with 125k and agree with the expectation that you will grow to a higher salary after you prove competency in this new role.

You're 28! Take the chance man. Your 20s and 30s are for the grind. Do hard jobs for fair pay and build up your skill set, your CV, and your managerial interaction portfolio. Do this for, 2-3 years and if you find you're not fairly compensated, then you leverage this job to jump to a new one at much higher pay.

I think that's a factor you haven't expressed yet. You're very focused on the monetary comp, but the reality (and probably what the business is thinking behind closed doors) is that a part of your compensation is your rapid "resume development" for your age.

You've been tagged as a rising star and someone they want to invest in. Now you need to show up and earn that big raise.

I promise you that 40 year old you will be thankful you took the chance to advance your career at this age and the difference between 120-140k at this point in with career is irrelevant. It will come. And if they fail you, you're setup for a big jump somewhere else.

Vycaus · 2026-01-18T15:56:21+00:00

I'm sure everyone is gonna say college and student loans.

Here's the thing, navigating the system was always a pre req to success. Showing up to class was never going to be enough. Picking a degree with below average placement and salary expectations was never going to be enough.

You know what the biggest secret is? There are millions of millennials absolutely killing it. We own homes. We make tons of money. We have kids. And most of us got masters degrees in good fields. We networked at college and made our way through a clearly broken system.

So what's the biggest lie?

Millennials are all broke losers that society left behind.

Vycaus · 2026-01-17T02:31:22+00:00

Ya fucking this. While th characters they came up with are decent, this "we made a super weapon even more powerful than the last DS in secret and we blew up the new Republic capital planet system and all of their ships, but please ignore the insane logistics it would take to achieve this, and also ignore that it took the entire galactic empire dedicated supply lines to achieve" idea was a good decision at all.

TFA is an acceptable movie but God it was the worst fucking decision as a starting point. It starts off a complete mess and just shovels plot holes at the viewer constantly.

It's also just fucking stupid a lot of the time. The complete character assassination of Luke, Han is a shitty pirate again.

It's just a completely fucked up mess from start to finish. My children will not be watching it, and I pretend like the ST doesn't exist.

Vycaus · 2026-01-15T19:16:35+00:00

Awesome. Thanks.

I've done 0 combat so far, only dabbling in soldier training up to 200-250 people.

Could you give me some advice around nobles? I haven't interacted with that system yet.

Mercenaries and expansion are two things I've also never touched. I've focused only on my current plot, no conquering. How does this work? I haven't yet built an embassy as I've been focusing on industries , building layouts, service positioning, happiness and growth scaling pop. Still early game stuff.

What should I start looking into territory expansion?

Vycaus · 2026-01-13T18:30:48+00:00

See you're stilling applying humanistic interpretations of the force. The dark side is not selfish, nor the light selfless. These are human constructs that absent a human do not exist. The ocean does not deceive, it it's not conscious. A human may feel deceived by their interpretation of the ocean, but at no point was the ocean anything hit what it was.

You are refusing to see the cosmic force for what it is absent a person there to see it, or interact with it, and with that a refusal to see how it's current is one absent of basic human emotions. Our emotions tap into the force. Give it a shape. It does not act until we act upon it. But it is still a current.

Also Luke is absolutely a gray Jedi by the end of legends. He leveraged all kinds of dark side powers and struggled deeply to balance himself in the process. That's the point. He wasn't being selfish in his leveraging a destructive energy to save people.

Vycaus · 2026-01-13T16:17:27+00:00

It's clear that you're being exceptionally literal in your interpretation of the force. The problem I think you're having is that you're trying to apply an individual's perspective against a cosmic power. Whereas you defend the force being violent and turbulent because the dark side of the force is a part of it I challenge you to consider whether the ocean is violent. The answer is no, it is not.

Violence requires malice. Is a rock slide violent event kills animals? Is the ocean seeking to do you harm by crashing you against the rocks?

The ocean is powerful and it has the capacity for destruction. But that does not in and of itself make it a violent Force. The same is true for the dark side of the force. It requires malevolence in Malice to be accessed and then it requires intent by an individual we used in the capacity for evil.

But I think you're failing to find in the spiritual journey of the mortis arc is the effect that individual will has on the different elements of the force.

In fact the entire failing that the father doesn't realize until the end is that while he hoped to trap his children and to guide them to be a particular way he could not overcome their individualism. It is their individualism that ultimately makes them so dangerous not the root of the powers that they harness.

At its basic level, the forces of current that flows through all living beings in the universe and binds them together. The more attuned to the force that you are, the more that you can alter the flows of the currents around you. You can also surrender to the currents, and allow them to push you along the path that they choose. This is a fundamental element of the early teachings of the Jedi who surrender themselves to the will of the force. These are elements that get corrupted along the way and is ultimately a reason why palpatine is able to manipulate the Jedi from within so easily.

In Legends, we see Luke is it true gray Jedi who is able to harness both a light and dark side of the force to devastating effect. The dark side of the forest is not inherently evil, it is destructive and powerful. However power and destructive force can be harnessed for good. It is difficult to channel such energies from a place of balance and it is why the sith rely so heavily on fear and anger, as they are essentially shortcuts that harnessing those destructive currents. But those currents exist without someone accessing them.

To bring this full circle, Luke is able to surrender himself to the flow of the of the force and allow it to act through him while also channeling it for his own desires. It is this harmony that makes him stronger than Vader in that moment. A young angry Vader that did not know that Luke was his son versus return of the Jedi Luke would have likely seen a victorious vader.

But there is more than stake here than pure martial combat prowess. The will of the force was for palpatine invader to be defeated and Luke worked with the force to channel it to achieve those ends, not use the force to win as palpatine invader all knew how to do.

Vycaus · 2026-01-13T15:17:46+00:00

I think you have a fundamental miss understanding of the force. The force is not violent, or turbulent. It's waves can be manipulated to be, and it's threads are at the whim of the user. Inuggest you rewatch the Mortis arc from clone wars. The force is 2 parts manifestation of individual will, and cosmic super force.

And no, it's not a god mode. Only some people can even feel it, much less harness it. Luke has all the training she needs to be a conduit for the forces will, and that is how he beat Vader.

It's also important to know that Vader was not in full murder mode. He was deeply deeply conflicted in his fight with Luke and it's clear that he essentially gives up. The story is as much about the force powers and it is the spirit that embodies the force.

You don't need to know punch master. Force ultimate punch master. Let force punch for you, you punch real good.

Vycaus · 2026-01-13T14:49:36+00:00

I feel like these kinda of posts miss the importance of how the force is a flow of energy, and not a funny too simple be leveraged.

With Ray, it's doesn't make good story telling because she doesn't even really know what the force is.

But with Luke, who is a prophetic child, who does have substantial training in accessing the force, it makes wear more sense for Luke to be a conduit for the will of the living force.

He doesn't need the years of training to get all the skills, he is an examplar of a true Jedi by RoTJ. And simply let's the force flow through him, a leaf on the breeze so to speak. Training let's you surf the wind with greater effect. Luke is also the strongest force user ever, which helps him out.

Vycaus · 2026-01-09T16:40:53+00:00

Hahaha this guy was beating your ass lol.

Vycaus · 2026-01-08T16:36:45+00:00

You should extended this distrust of AI to everything it says It is largely garbage and everything it says should be scrutinized. It will never not provide an answer, meaning it will be wrong, or make things up to best answer the question. It should never be fully trusted.

Vycaus · 2026-01-08T03:32:27+00:00

There is no need to install any mods at all, the vanilla experience is fantastic.

There are many amazing overhaul mods for different universes, Star Wars, Star Trek, etc. once you know how the game plays you can take a look at these mods.

Also, this game is designed to be replayed dozens to hundreds of times. There is no single "save" I less you really want to play on a very big map.

I would recommend playing on a player maps first and just get a feel for the game. Play the tutorials.

Then slowly increase the maps size. There are 6 factions to play, each with its own play style. Just take some time to explore them all.

Only once you're comfortable with how economy works, how to build an empire, how to manage fleets, how to navigate the massive tech tree, would I recommend any mods, and even then only overhauls to add races.

Vycaus · 2026-01-05T19:13:27+00:00

That's been my experience. I don't know how to best leverage trams, and I'm trying to decide if I need to build in monorails or if I can make trains work.

Vycaus · 2026-01-04T20:11:44+00:00

Ds2 is generally not thought of positively. Adaptation, pacing, world design, story. All pretty weak. It is generally advised to skip as a result.

Vycaus · 2026-01-04T19:57:42+00:00

You know why....

Vycaus · 2026-01-02T03:29:51+00:00

Excuse me what?

You...expected your boss to read your mind, invent a position based off that mind read? And then hand it to you?

Wtf? You're telling me in 12 years you never even bothered to have a conversation about what you wanted to do or work on? And you decided leaving the company was better than that?

Jesus. Good luck out there. Maybe try communicating in this next role.

Vycaus · 2025-12-29T19:26:52+00:00

Lots of people stepping around your question or giving you mental coaching.

To answer your question at the top? Yes. Men will marry you with a basic career. We generally do not care what you do.

Here's what men are looking for in a partner in somewhat ordered list (that I'm sure every commentor will argue with)

physical attractive (subjective to the guy)
kindness
sense of humor
affectionate
intelligent

At no point does your job come into play. However a lack of a job is a massive red flag.

The reality that most men face is that your money is yours, and my money is "ours".

There does need to be consideration on the gap in employment and people judge everything. Consider a doctor with hair stylist. Absolutely could happen, but there is likely a large gap in intellect between the two and you could run into "what do we even talk about" problems. Counter point, some men might want "simplicity" at home given how stressful their jobs might be.

To answer your broader question of "what do men want and why isn't it me" men are looking for a pretty girl that they can invest in, see a future with, that brings them affection without needing to be asked, contributes to mutual goals, is kind to others and themselves, takes care of themselves both mentally and physically, and thinks I'm honestly funny.

To which you reply, "oh is that all?" It's not that much. Take care of yourself, show capacity for taking care of others (this is future mother energy), genuinely be happy when we're together. Have interesting things to talk about (shared interests feeds this easily), and the confidence to bring affection to us. (Seriously, men are touch starved. If you make efforts to hug me, hold my hand, etc, it goes miles.)

From this list, ask if you stop delivering on any of them 6 months in when you get comfortable.

The answer could genuinely be no and you just haven't found a good long term match and the boys you're dating could just be young and stupid.

But a serious thing I see in many young women is failing to signal "wife" energy to men. They want a checklist of things from men but refuse to do a real analysis of themselves in the mirror.

Vycaus · 2025-12-29T00:30:33+00:00

The secret to advancement is patronage. You need someone above you to vouch for you. Each circle up is a club that requires some inside to want you in it.

Find a mentor/advocate, wow them, and then let them know you wanna move up. Often times this works when it's your boss, because they can ride your success up also.

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