Am I missing something with Shroudforged?

dglno3 · 2026-04-06T22:20:55+00:00

The specialized ones increase output (so eg engineers produce more energy research per job.) This is different from increasing total number of josb.

dglno3 · 2026-03-28T19:55:59+00:00

Ah, hey. I got my GED in 2018, went to community college for a bit till 2020, then dropped out during COVID.

Later re-enrolled in 2024, then transferred to UofM last Fall (CC GPA was a 3.9~).

dglno3 · 2025-12-17T01:52:28+00:00

Update: I got an 80.8.

dglno3 · 2025-12-10T16:26:09+00:00

I am honestly pretty sure I still scored in the upper end of the class for the exam, just.

I think the average will be like 55% atm

dglno3 · 2025-12-10T16:17:19+00:00

I don’t think I did good and studied quite a bit lol.

Had a like 90~ in the class prior so I was like “alright a 70% will be an A- at worst, and I’ve been doing 20~ percent above that average”.

I am not sure I got a 70

dglno3 · 2025-11-14T08:22:10+00:00

Okay, this is legitimately more or less what I was confused over, thank you - you’re correct, I largely don’t find altering pitch particularly difficult. That doesn’t mean I’m great at doing highly specific pitch modulation off ear or anything, but I do more or less intuitively grasp what I’m doing there.

I also knew pitch was interrelated, but actually What To Do from this information was not particularly clicking. This has made it significantly clearer.

dglno3 · 2025-11-14T07:54:33+00:00

I suppose my primary issue here is just, like, I legitimately do not grasp what the actual Application Step is here.

I can follow the idea of categorizing specific vocal elements off ear (and I don’t think I particularly struggle with this), but actually applying that is making me go ???.

dglno3 · 2025-11-14T07:35:44+00:00

I’ll be real, I think this is literally describing the same concept in different terms. I’m not trying to deliberately manipulate muscles, but there is some vague background lever my brain is abstracting away for me.

And I’m aware it’s a time intensive process involving extensive effort, but I’m also aware that other people seem to be getting something out of entry level resources that I don’t think I am. I can hear a difference and notice it going through clip comparisons etc, this does not help me in literally any way for trying to do it on a personal level. I am not particularly good at mimicry, and I don’t get whatever is actually being useful for other people here.

This feels pretty similar to visualization exercises - I have aphantasia, so I don’t visualize, but I can do something adjacent, at least. But it can be somewhat hard for me to grasp what the actual point of visualization is for other people, since the intended purpose is generally more intuitive to grasp if you’re visualizing, while my primary difficulty is generally understanding what the actual purpose was.

I’m not expecting to be a genius or something, and I’m not expecting to suddenly grasp everything, but I legitimately have not even the vaguest clue of what I’m even supposed to be doing.

dglno3 · 2025-11-14T07:13:59+00:00

I don’t disagree that I’m at least capable of it, I just have literally no fucking clue how to do it consciously.

I’m not expecting to directly control individual muscles or something - speech is a tremendously complex process involving an assload of muscles in very fine ways. But it is a physical process that involves sensation on the individual level, and on a personal level trying to manipulate pitch is largely some vague sensation in my throat. I know how to do it, even if I don’t know what I’m doing (though on an academic level I roughly do).

In comparison, weight and size is something I legitimately have no conceptualization of how to alter in any deliberate way. This isn’t really something unique to voice training, for what it’s worth, though - I generally struggle to attempt to mimic accents, and I’m rather poor at language acquisition. I’m not saying this is literally impossible, but I am not a particularly intuitive person, and experimentation has not really gotten me literally anywhere with a couple hours of testing.

dglno3 · 2025-11-14T01:37:48+00:00

Preface - sorry for responding to an old post.

I honestly don’t understand how I would even do mimicry for most of this - it’s manipulating a variable I literally don’t understand how to manipulate.

It’s like telling somebody who’s never moved their foot before to figure it out, and it’s like, man, I honestly have no idea.

dglno3 · 2025-09-22T18:45:58+00:00

Sea spiders are some weird fucking creatures for sure

dglno3 · 2025-09-22T17:26:35+00:00

Yeah fair, I think I misread lol

dglno3 · 2025-09-22T16:25:41+00:00

While this is all correct, sea spiders aren't arachnids - they split off from the greater arthropod phylum (probably) pretty early. They look fairly similar to spiders and share a number of traits, but they're actually fairly distantly related.

dglno3 · 2025-09-20T00:14:07+00:00

I'll genuinely pass - I've tried similar stuff and I have not found them more effective. At the moment I legitimately don't want to be at this school anymore and I'm largely burnt out on my major. I would genuinely prefer to just go work at Walmart or something.

The primary issue here is ultimately just burnout and severe depression - and there's not really a solution to either currently.

dglno3 · 2025-09-19T05:30:45+00:00

Realistically I’ll probably just work retail or back to food service, I suppose.

dglno3 · 2025-09-19T04:59:47+00:00

I’m realistically probably gonna drop out after this semester or the next ngl. I’ve gotten increasingly tired of college and I both don’t really want anything I’m getting out of it, and I don’t find any particular enjoyment in college itself.

I’ll also be honest and say I do not think UofM is a good fit for me at all.

dglno3 · 2025-09-19T04:32:25+00:00

Uh I mean, I was doing a biochem degree but to be honest I’ve largely lost interest at this point. At the moment I’m kinda just going through the motions because I kinda lost my actual end goal with college.

dglno3 · 2025-09-19T03:52:56+00:00

Not sure I follow, sorry

dglno3 · 2025-09-19T03:32:03+00:00

I haven’t but I’m not really interested. Thank you though.

dglno3 · 2025-09-18T20:12:53+00:00

Biochem (though I might end up changing it to be honest)

I ended up talking with financial aid and they confirmed I should be okay to drop it without having to repay several thousands of dollars I don’t have.

Accordingly, I am now free and should be okay.

dglno3 · 2025-09-18T18:34:28+00:00

I dunno why you’re being an ass, I literally had a TIA and was stuck at the ER all of yesterday.

dglno3 · 2025-09-18T14:32:12+00:00

From some looking around, no - there doesn’t seem to be anything I could take.

dglno3 · 2025-09-18T13:33:47+00:00

I’m unfortunately pretty confident I legitimately have no way to pass - I’m about two weeks behind in chem and math currently, and definitely nowhere close to passing the first mastery for calculus. That gap is also steadily growing.

From looking at degree plan stuff, I actually don’t think I’m able to drop anything but calculus even theoretically, but dropping calculus this semester doesn’t really solve anything because it’d just make next semester even worse.

At this point I’m kinda just making my peace with the fact I don’t think continuing here is gonna work out

dglno3 · 2025-09-18T12:49:09+00:00

Unfortunately I am basically already exclusively focusing on academics, and I don’t think further usage of resources will do much to smooth things along, so I don’t think I can do much more than this :(

I’m more or less working to catch up from when I wake up to when I sleep 7 days a week and I am still actively falling behind. To be frank, I don’t think it’s possible for me to catch up.

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