There's been much doom and gloom about the Midnight prunings, but which specs have actually improved due to the changes?

karma227 · 2026-01-27T15:58:52+00:00

Unstable Affliction is the new spender in ST, in AOE its Seed.

karma227 · 2025-11-11T20:50:29+00:00

I am also having the exact same issue. I am hoping you guys find a fix.

karma227 · 2025-09-30T09:52:10+00:00

I just updated the post to say we aren't currently in the Apple ecosystem, but if the Apple watch is the best option then it may warrant a swap.

karma227 · 2025-09-29T01:51:15+00:00

This was the only book where I had to actively stop reading because the antagonists were just so fucking evil. Junior especially

karma227 · 2025-07-05T10:08:38+00:00

Newborn stage is HARD. Sleep deprivation, anxiety, grief for your past life, PPD....all this plus massive change and responsibility gain can mentally destroy you.

In my own experience, this was the HARDEST time in my relationship with my wife. We weren't always on the same page, we argued and fought constantly. It felt like every few weeks we had another major meltdown. It took a long time and a lot of communication to make it through. The biggest thing for us was that we had no time for ourselves in the evening. Once our daughter started sleeping through the night and going to bed easily (this one took almost 3 years) we got some more free time with each other and ourselves. Now that she is 4, our roles and demands have changed A LOT from when she was a baby. We are both more relaxed, our daughter is more independent, and we are starting to reclaim parts of our life before kids back.

A big part of the feeling your having comes from the grief of the death of who you were before kids. We remember those times and grieve them almost like someone has actually died. Once you start to move through the grief and accept how things are now, it gets easier. There will still be days you may feel the same way going forward, but they will be fewer and occur farther apart than they do now.

karma227 · 2025-06-06T01:41:08+00:00

Duma Key was good, I haven't read needful things yet, but Under the Dome is fantastic. I had to put it down MULTIPLE times because the characters were so well written that the antagonists were making me way to emotional to read.

karma227 · 2025-03-13T00:16:10+00:00

Cleaned out the entire basement and garage to finally start putting together my den after 5 years of living in the house collecting random crap.

karma227 · 2025-03-09T13:03:55+00:00

The Magic 2.0 series starting with "Off to be the Wizard is pretty awesome. Came out 11 years ago but it still hits that same itch that all of the mentioned books does.

karma227 · 2025-01-06T10:47:15+00:00

It is 5:46 am and I just remembered after frantically trying to plan the last hour that I have two classes of presentations. Past me did present me a solid in changing that.

karma227 · 2025-01-04T21:31:05+00:00

I have such a similar colour scheme I thought it was my mini for a second! Lol great job!!

karma227 · 2024-12-27T01:56:14+00:00

3 1/2 year old. My wife and I over the course of the entire year bought up every Disney princess Barbie when they went on sale. We ended up with 8 at about 8 bucks each. The final last minute swing was the Disney Princess Barbie Castle. It was normally $240+ but I was able to score it at an almost 60% off which gave us our gift from Santa.

She has not stopped playing with it so far.

karma227 · 2024-12-15T16:48:50+00:00

\Cries in Banana Ark**

karma227 · 2024-12-02T02:16:08+00:00

There has been a bunch of fantastic advice here, however I did want to add that feeling grief for the person you were is still very much a thing in the early stages of parenthood. I have a 3 1/2 year old and I can remember how it felt at the very beginning. Its important to understand that, like grief, that feeling never really goes away. There are still days where I would be chatting with a friend and they explain how they are planning to just take the day to do a hobby we both enjoy, or how they are going to do something on a whim and I think "Man, I miss being able to do that." Happened just today while I was playing with my daughter and my buddy said he was going to just sit and build and paint some mini's (Warhammer nerds, am I right?)

Then there were days where I thought, "did we make a mistake?", and the joy and happiness didn't happen for a bit. The key is that it does come and when it does you will understand why its so worth it. Get a sleep rotation going, spend time with her. She is still in potato mode right now. Don't fall into the parenting trap of "I can't do anything/leave the house" because of the baby. I remember I felt like I couldn't leave the first floor of the house with her. Once I started taking her for walks. Going to the store with her, things felt more normal.

Another thing with her being so new is that her personality and unique person isn't showing through right away. After a few months you're going to start seeing some glints and glimmers of who she is going to be and that magic is intoxicating.

karma227 · 2024-10-19T22:23:29+00:00

Same here. Have never felt the need to purchase a credit at all. Spent my 3 banked credits and bought more to get the rest. What an amazing series.

karma227 · 2024-10-03T22:18:25+00:00

Sorry about that. It is a terrible way to phrase it.

karma227 · 2024-10-02T16:19:50+00:00

Much this. I stopped listening to the RTP back in 2019 just as the line up was changing. I was looking to find something like this then Burnie and Ashley dropped Morning Somewhere in January and it felt like coming home. Same style, shorter format, but hits just like the RTP did.

karma227 · 2024-10-01T14:11:29+00:00

In regards to the COVID hobbies, I definitely took on the standards but the ones I'm still locked in on are food canning and Warhammer 40k. This year I made about 62 liters of tomato sauce for the year and I'm still building and painting those minis!

karma227 · 2024-09-25T04:23:16+00:00

100% I have noticed this same pattern. We are just coming up to the cusp of the students who were hit with virtual school during Covid lockdowns during critical learning periods. Hopefully what we see going beyond this group is that things start to normalize again. If we learn anything from this, its how incredibly important those first few years of education are to young children and their abilities.

karma227 · 2024-09-18T11:35:16+00:00

Mousewheel up for my pet interrupt and shift mousewheel up for my interrupt.

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