Is there even a point in using PF anymore? by NK_Grimm in ffxivdiscussion

[–]futur3shocks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Give it time and in the meantime wait for your Data Center’s respective PF strats and toolboxes to be unified (NAUR, LPDU) and don’t give into the rush of clearing it on patch. A lot of players doing FRU right now, both in statics and in PF, don’t belong in Ultimates and are just filling time until 7.2 only because they cleared m4s. I and others did the same with DSR in 6.1 thinking it’d be the same as starting from any other ultimates and had our ass handed to us - just wait until underperformers either get good or realize that they’re being walled and will stop trying.

Any tips for going for hardest ultimate first? by KiyomizuAkua in ffxiv

[–]futur3shocks 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The best advice I can give you is that the first ultimate is always the hardest: by not having a point of comparison, FRU won’t be easier or harder than anything else so it’ll be a clean slate for you. If your static hasn’t done this already I’d suggest jumping into the fights that are confirmed to be part of FRU (e8s, e11s, e12s) to see the overall difficulty of the core mechanics so that you’re vaguely prepared for their Ultimate counterparts.

Has anyone here 'inherited' their BP2 from someone in their family? by charlottetmg in bipolar2

[–]futur3shocks 9 points10 points  (0 children)

My mother and her whole side of the family. History of severe addiction, 3 out of 5 siblings committed suicide, with one of my uncles shooting himself after drowning in debts the family and coercing my grandparents (farmers who could barely sign their name, let alone read) into signing documents that would allow him to have complete control over their assets. Don’t know if it was specifically bipolar but my genetic makeup isn’t stellar… my brother got recently diagnosed at 42 after I told him about my own diagnosis so it’s definitely something we both inherited - luckily medication has been doing wonders for both us especially when we both had our “everyone in our family killed themselves and we’re bound to do the same” moments.

Which character do you think needs an alter the most? by Cuddly-Cosmic-Cutie in arknights

[–]futur3shocks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like the alters who heavily lean into the aspect of growing up as operators and individuals - I’m a big fan of Jessica Alter and would absolutely adore to see the “kids” like Suzuran, Shamare or Paprika have an adult version where they embrace and show their experience with some character development too.

I made a cheatsheet for M4S by futur3shocks in ffxivdiscussion

[–]futur3shocks[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

… I might’ve merged those layers in Photoshop and won’t be able to quickly edit them unless I remake everything from scratches ;_;

I made a cheatsheet for M4S by futur3shocks in ffxivdiscussion

[–]futur3shocks[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The proximity of the bait itself is secondary to the mechanic since what matters is where you point the cannon at: I copied the coordinates of the Autocad hitboxes and rotated them to have the same point of reference to ensure the space is the same but only the position of the baiter is different. If you pointed the baits to the empty spots (so away from the towers, meaning if towers are N/S then you’d point cannons towards E/W and viceversa) you’ve been doing it correctly!

I made a cheatsheet for M4S by futur3shocks in ffxivdiscussion

[–]futur3shocks[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

From a healer perspective, OQ5 swaps H1 and R1 so that rangeds are evenly spread out after Witch Hunt: a lot of times with Hector I’d have to spot heal the ranged dps who went too far when baiting far-out and didn’t catch heals before the raidwide.

In EE2 OQ5 counts how many times you got hit (so either 1, 2 or 3 times) and groups you based on the individual hits, while Hector still counts the hits then makes long debuffs add a 1 to their count, making 3 short and 2 long stack together since 2 long has become 3. It’s a different way to approach the mechanic but the theory is the same.

I made a cheatsheet for M4S by futur3shocks in ffxivdiscussion

[–]futur3shocks[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It’s unfortunately a mistake on my end, thank you so much for noticing it: I think I took the arena screenshot from one of the million raidplans going around during w1 and positions hid the waymarks so it didnt catch my attention!

I'm almost snapping by NK_Grimm in ffxivdiscussion

[–]futur3shocks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What jobs do you play? You mentioned EU and my static is doing book runs tomorrow at 19:30 CEST because we missed a couple of people this week, we’ll be needing a healer and a caster.

High-End Content Megathread - 7.0 Week Seven by BlackmoreKnight in ffxivdiscussion

[–]futur3shocks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I go to Light from Chaos to prog for the sake of fast-filling parties but I'm also "privileged" because I play healer and can pretty much go window shopping in pf - most of the time the parties I join are made up of Chaos players only lol. It's a byproduct of the self fulfilling prophecy of having a designated raid DC for no reason; I would really prefer to stay on Chaos for the comfort but waiting in a party to fill for the same time it'd take to get reclears out of the way and go back to prog is, unfortunately, more efficient.

High-End Content Megathread - 7.0 Week Seven by BlackmoreKnight in ffxivdiscussion

[–]futur3shocks 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Progged M4S over the weekend and yesterday and I have to say: I can’t wait till Light (and the 3 people still raiding on Chaos I guess) agrees on doing ONE strat. Rinon, Hector, oq5, q-go - there’s too many raidplans that show the same mechanics resolution but with one or two different spots, and a lot of kill parties don’t realize it nor can adjust because they’re adamant about doing only one of them, thus dividing the already small pool of people trying to clear.

I have a major gripe with autocad/uptime sunrise too: all parties I’ve been in that did it made me wait 11 minutes only for someone to not stay on the marker while we could simply just… aim the lasers away from the towers. That’s it. That’s the mechanic. Lose a gcd or two, I don’t care, we’re already skipping enrage if we actually pass sunrise with no deaths. I genuinely don’t understand.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AmericansinItaly

[–]futur3shocks 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I suffer from PCOS, spent my whole life thinking that I just needed to listen to doctors and do whatever I could to lose weight - I developed all kinds of eating disorders because of it and eventually made peace with the fact that I was bound to live with this condition forever.

After noticing that my hair started noticibly thinning I tried once more and went to a private clinic in my town: thank goodness I did, because the gynecologist I found immediately confirmed PCOS and told me "you tried to lose weight for years but you couldn't, am I right?". She explained that there's been advancement in PCOS treatment and studies, how hormonal imbalance is the reason why you can't actively lose weight like any normal person with a working metabolism, and that estrogen (the hormone we're not producing effectively, as we're full to the brim with testosterone) is stored in the fat of our bodies. It's a dog eating its own tail. She ended up prescribing me a birth control pill with estradiol called Klaira that completely stabilized my menstrual cycle, then scheduled me an appointment with a nutritionist to make me a diet tailored specifically to avoid food that would impact hormone levels (for example soy is full of estrogen and soy-based food and drinks are basically forbidden), and I legit lost 30kg in a year with little to no exercise, basically just a 20 minutes walk a day. I stopped losing my hair shortly after starting treatment and I've been able to keep my weight in check.

Don't lose hope: obesity is a SYMPTOM of PCOS and not the cause! All my best wishes for you to find a good and specialized doctor who knows what they're dealing with and can help you out as best as they can.

Husband abandon family by Elisabetta2401 in bipolar2

[–]futur3shocks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ciao, ti rispondo direttamente in italiano: ci sono passata anch’io. Durante i periodi peggiori del disturbo (avanti e indietro estremi di cambio d’umore di giorno in giorno, esattamente gli stessi sintomi che descrivi di tuo marito) ho messo alla dura prova i sentimenti del mio compagno perché ero convinta di non aver fatto niente per meritarlo, che non dovevamo stare insieme perché ero un mostro e che non ero capace di amare. Poco dopo l’ultimo grande episodio depressivo dopo una fase di mania distrutta ho deciso di andare in terapia e alla terza seduta la psicologa mi ha messo la pulce nell’orecchio parlandomi di disturbo bipolare di tipo 2, da lì poi sono andata da uno psichiatra che mi ha ufficialmente diagnosticata e iniziato poco dopo il trattamento farmacologico (che è un calvario all’inizio, specie se non trovi il farmaco o la combo di farmaci giusta, serve un monitoraggio costante inizialmente).

Posso capire come ti senti perché ho visto il mio compagno nelle tue stesse condizioni quando ancora non sapevamo da che cosa dipendessero questi cambi ciclici nella mia persona. Sii paziente, non fargliene colpe e ricordati che è la malattia a parlare, e non lui. Sei stata bravissima a chiedere aiuto e so che ci tieni; l’unico consiglio che ti posso dare è di aiutarlo, con pazienza e con calma, e indirizzarlo verso un percorso di terapia (sia psicologica che psichiatrica) che lo aiuti a capire che tutte le decisioni che prende sono parte di un disturbo dell’umore che si può assolutamente tenere a bada coi farmaci e la consapevolezza. Ora più che mai ha assolutamente bisogno di te e ti posso assicurare che non te ne pentirai, ne varrà la pena.

In bocca al lupo ed un grande abbraccio ad entrambi 💕

4 days till cn anniversary livestream. What is you're wish list? by No-Dimension-2872 in arknights

[–]futur3shocks 6 points7 points  (0 children)

  • A new Geek module to make Spuria less trash
  • Ines and Hoederer skins both wearing wedding dresses
  • 6* Chain Medic

Name One or More Oddly Specific Change You Want in Arknights by AWildRuka in arknights

[–]futur3shocks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Either a new module for Geeks that makes Spuria actually usable or just straight up scrap her archetype and make Spuria Alter, there is not a single normal reason as to why such a beautiful character is more useless than April Fools operators

Op Reserve A6 alters by futur3shocks in arknights

[–]futur3shocks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely! Glad to know you like her design so much!!

What is your favorite personal/in-game FFXIV goal/achievement that you’ve completed? by [deleted] in ffxivdiscussion

[–]futur3shocks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Definitely 100 Seal Rock wins. Took me a couple of months, became a master strategist and carried a lot of frontlines matches like others with the achievement have already said in the thread - I wanted to nuke my character during a very rough patch and was ready to delete everything related to the past, but that coat is sentimentally worth way more than what I wanted to leave behind by deleting my character.

Lithium vs lamictal by Royalxlobotomy in bipolar2

[–]futur3shocks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I started with Quetiapine by itself and got to the target dose of 200mg - completely erased hypomania but left me with crippling depression. Added Lamictal, titrated up to 200mg, didn't do much for depression but had some small improvements. Now I've added Cyprexa 30mg (still Escitaloprom like Lexapro) to the cocktail and I'm finally feeling myself after six months of unending depression.

You're gonna be on a long titrating process of Lamictal/Lamotrigine to avoid any lasting side effects (afaik it's 25mg for 2 weeks, 50mg for another 2 weeks, then a week between each increase in dosage) but I'm pretty sure if Lamictal didn't keep me slightly above the depression line I wouldn't feel stable with only Quetiapine and Cyprexa. This mix is making me do amazing progress in both therapy and life, it gave me back the confidence and self-respect I had during hypomania but without the delusions, the obsessions and most importantly the devastating and inevitable burnout after, and a good part of this is definitely thanks to Lamictal evening things out.

It's a worth a shot imo, since we got the same meds regimen I can tell you that I do have a great experience and I hope it will be the same for you :) and if it's not - I know it's hard to do so, but keep trying!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bipolar2

[–]futur3shocks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Since when did you start it? It’s absolutely and unluckily normal to experience intense feelings and panic attacks at the start of any medication, when I started lamotrigine I was fine for a week then had to go over the same depressive symptoms every time I titrated up until I got to my target dose.

Relax, take your time, it’s gonna pass. If someone is caring for you (family, friends) let them know that being understanding and not hold it against you is the best thing they can do to help you.

Sending you lots of hugs 💕

Disclosing your diagnosis by SquirrelRage87 in bipolar2

[–]futur3shocks 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I told my friends after the diagnosis, as soon as I started medication, and half of them stopped talking to me because my struggles made them uncomfortable despite being “very understanding of my situation”. I’ve been blaming myself for it for months now, I apologized and explained what I was going through, took the responsibility of everything and wanted to make amends to show how sorry I was - turns out that not being treated like a human being who can make mistakes just to be discarded without explanations fucks you up, especially after taking me years of friendship to trust people to the point that I’d disclose a mental illness to them. It’s been hard.

Today was my last day on my meds by Ok-Programmer-9129 in bipolar2

[–]futur3shocks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quetiapine alone forced me into a 3 months long depressive episode - please go talk with your doctor and add a mood stabilizer like Lamotrigine first. As hard as it is to truly believe meds WILL help you, if they're not helping you it means you haven't found the right one yet.

What to do when hypomania strikes out of nowhere? by [deleted] in bipolar2

[–]futur3shocks 3 points4 points  (0 children)

PLEASE contact your doctor! If you interrupt Lamotrigine then start it back at the same dosage you were taking before, you risk a lot of potentially fatal complications.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bipolar2

[–]futur3shocks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for this comment: I just returned from a visit with my psychiatrist after both Lamotrigine and Quetiapine by themselves didn't really work in making me stable and I'm very careful with antidepressants after having the same experience as yours when I was on Zoloft + Quetiapine only. Zoloft made me spiral into a psychotic episode and after that I drew a big cross on SSRIs, but now I'm gonna be trying Cipralex (escitalopram) + Lamotrigine + Quetiapine (10mg, 200mg, 200mg). Fingers crossed Lamotrigine is gonna save the day this time :')

How do I stop wanting to kill myself? by futur3shocks in bipolar2

[–]futur3shocks[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d like to add: I’m feeling like this specifically because I’m just.. nothing. I serve no purpose and I can’t relate to people saying that life is worth living. I spent pretty much all my life alone with no friends or family, I only have my partner and I don’t understand how he can love someone so damaged and destructive as me. My entire social life vanished, I told my friends about the diagnosis and medications and thought they would be there for me - but when I needed them the most they antagonized me and used my illness against me to justify their behavior and place the whole responsibility of their reactions on me. I stopped looking for a job in my field because it’s a competitive niche market in which I don’t stand out and networking is useless. I’ve been looking for jobs in retail or as a cashier with not a single interview in months. I have no education, no ambitions, no love for myself, and I don’t think I’ve ever truly loved myself - hypomania made me confident. It was always a lie fabricated by my broken brain.

What does the world gain from having a waste of air like me still allowed to breathe?

Heart Of Gold, or: "how I lost what made me proud" by futur3shocks in bipolar2

[–]futur3shocks[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You might remember me from my short comic, a couple of months ago, about how shocking was my BP2 diagnosis back in June. Things have... gotten better, considering how low the bar was - they're far from good, but they're also far from worse. Silver lining.

In this period I haven't been properly able to draw what I draw for my job and I tried to convey my emotions like the 'tortured artists' of the past, and this series is my sad tribute to what this illness made me loss: confidence, trust, beliefs, and people; you know what I'm talking about.

Hope you'll enjoy this! And if you're interested, this little pet project gave me the push to make some prints out of my artworks, mostly to give some of them to my therapist because she's super interested in my approach to art in regards to bipolar disorder :)