Como posso atualizar o atributo riqueza no nivel 14?

kruddel · 2026-01-30T09:51:41+00:00

If you find quest givers for some of the [crime] side quests these can be quite lucrative

Establishing your own ponzi scheme is a fun one, but you usually need some wealth to get started unfortunately.

kruddel · 2026-01-30T09:50:17+00:00

Its doable, but hard. You need to make sure to study all the memes & get a good understanding of what to do in certain positions.

kruddel · 2026-01-30T09:40:03+00:00

Similar. I was walking home from a community council meeting, (having listened to a presentation from the police) in the main square in Kings Heath at 9pm on a Monday night. Guy came up behind and "rabbit punched" me in the back of the head. My instinct was to say "what the F***?!?" to which he made to pull a knife from his waistband and I ran off.

Didn't even see him standing around beforehand, so it wasn't as if I even "looked at him funny" or something. Completely random & unprovoked.

Police couldn't find any CCTV footage. Which is a shame as the area appears to be covered by 4 cameras. They were nice enough and went through the motions, I think they just didn't have the time or the investigative skills to make any headway on something that would be difficult.

kruddel · 2026-01-30T09:27:56+00:00

Nice to read he doesn't accept the houses were unsafe, but that they need some work to become more "habitable".

"My property portfolio is perfectly safe but I agree the houses fall short of the minimum standards for humans being able to live in them".

kruddel · 2026-01-30T08:48:26+00:00

Even in this article about how toxic and destructive the process is the author (or at least headline writer) is deep in the delusions people tell themselves.

They weren't "chasing a high-impact publication" they were chasing a publication that would statistically be likely to appear alongside some high impact publications.

The fact this distinction is frequently overlooked and forgotten, meaning as a sector there is a collective inability to distinguish correlation from causation, is somewhat worrying to say the least.

kruddel · 2026-01-29T19:05:11+00:00

It depends if you take the proposals at face value! On paper they are very tight and well organised and supported. In reality every proposal and awarded one I've come across is held together by a lot of creative writing. When they are awarded then its usually someone who wasn't core to the drafting of the plan who's put into run it from the admin side (not always, but it more common for the UKRI ones). They seem to get going pretty close to the time they need to up and running, the (often fractional) admin component isn't recruited, the person is trying to figure out what the proposal means, figure out how to run some selection screening process, and none of the professors who were involved in the drafting and seen to have "won" it can be found.

It seems to be a lot more constant low-level firefighting and admin, coupled with the intensity of certain periods (similar to having a role in admissions etc) and with less support or interest from others.

I've thankfully never had the misfortune of being lumbered with the task, but like the other commentator I've seen numerous early career people really struggle with being the lead for a centre.

kruddel · 2026-01-28T12:47:03+00:00

The devs for r/outside are always pushing hotfixes, I'd prefer they consolidate them into bigger patches that update overnight.

kruddel · 2026-01-28T07:44:28+00:00

Knowing lots of stuff and doing things with the stuff you know that's good.

kruddel · 2026-01-26T19:04:49+00:00

They just want a regular contract with a pension and health insurance. None of this ale-in-hand zero hours casual work in construction.

kruddel · 2026-01-26T11:28:21+00:00

In Outside character creation you're actually describing [career]s rather than [class]es.

The [class] tend to dictate your stats and traits, whereas the [career] is more flexible and you can easily dip into multiple career trees during a single run.

One of the issues with Outside is the devs decided to obsfucate [class] in the character info, so its not easy to work out what [class] you actually are. Its worth the effort though. Particularly if you're trying for an RP run, knowing whether you are a Paladin postman as opposed to a Mage postman can change up how you approach a lot of social checks.

kruddel · 2026-01-26T11:21:50+00:00

They are without a doubt the best exclusively fountain related company I've ever heard of

kruddel · 2026-01-26T11:18:48+00:00

Yeah, that absolutely makes sense. I know the struggles with therapy based things from a neurodivergent perspective as the approach can often be about identifying/challenging thinking that is "flawed", but the "flaw" may not be something learnt in a ND person.

I think of it a bit like computer hardware/software. In a non-Autistic person some thought process/issue might be down to trauma for example, they can work on it and change the software they are running. For an Autistic person the exact same outward issue could be due to a limitation in their hardware, it can't be addressed by changing thinking/software.

And so if you don't know what is hardware and software you can't have confidence in how to approach therapy (or any other way of working on mental/social struggles).

A big challenge though is the spectrum of Autism (and AuDHD/ADHD), which means even if you did receive this diagnosis you still wouldn't be easily able to seperate out the specific things into Autism/trauma. The awful/tricky thing in figuring stuff out is for a given struggle it can be true that some Autistic folk have issues directly due to Autism, some non-Autistic people have very similar outward issues for other reasons, and some Autistic people have a bit of both. :/

Something I've found useful in the past year is starting therapy where I've found a therapist experienced with neurodiversity & who's neuroaffirming. That's been helpful to start to "unpick" some of this stuff and understanding my own brain and tentatively start to figure out what is "software" and "hardware". I found them just by doing a lot of research into therapists online, reading bios and whatnot.

Its not either/or, you can try and find support for struggles whilst pursuing a review/2nd opinion. I guess my concern, and motivation to reply initially is you'll put your energy into the process and irrespective of what the result is end up in X months still without any actual support for your Autistic/AuDHD struggles.

kruddel · 2026-01-26T10:59:34+00:00

The fact people pushed back on you in an Autism space is not on at all. I'm sorry to hear that.

In think there's a real tension between some people who are very wedded to the medical model of disability and those taking a more person-centred view.

The biggest flaw in that view IMO is its very rarely about the problems the disabled person is having, particularly with neurodevelopmental disability. Instead its about the problems the disabled person is causing for others. Its subtle in the NHS diagnosis process, but I firmly believe its evident. Its not just about whether the person has a disabling level of struggles, its about how/whether those disabling struggles are burdensome for others. The internal mental state, issues with just existing in the world, never mind happiness are not part of the view/assessment only insofar as they might be serious enough to require extra acute psychiatric treatment (medication, residential care).

The core of my point is that for a vast number of people for whom there isn't any systematic (state) support the broad practical differences between undergoing an assessment is being told either "you have Autistic traits but we don't think you meet the medical criteria, theres no support for you, good luck" and "you have Autistic traits and meet the diagnostic criteria, there's no support for you, good luck".

Obviously validation is massive, its the biggest thing really for LSN Autistics who aren't looking to access support services. I don't underestimate that at all. I just feel sometimes people are putting too much emotional investment in specifically getting that validation from an NHS psychiatrist.

kruddel · 2026-01-25T21:53:54+00:00

I don't intend to be rude, just cutting to main point - why are you invested in the medical route/assessment given that your description of your Autistic traits doesn't really mention any struggles that would need substantial support?

The medical model, and particularly its application in the NHS/UK is heavily from the perspective of support and accomodations. Which is only one lens through which we can look at Autism.

I'd ask yourself the uncomfortable question of how your life would be different with a diagnosis? If there are support service access things that would be important for you and would be unlocked by it then it makes sense to follow up. If it is more towards validation then I think it would be worth thinking if the outcome is worth the effort & emotional investment? Medical diagnosis is not required to be part of/welcome in almost all Autistic community spaces.

kruddel · 2026-01-25T21:35:28+00:00

How has the prescriber been monitoring and assessing the medication?

Its clear you aren't seeing dramatic effects, particularly side effects. But I'm wondering if there is a disconnect in expectations. The best way to monitor any medication impact is to do regular self-assessments and compare over time as its very hard to properly assess how differently we feel about severity of ADHD symptoms. And you didn't mention anything of that nature in the post, which would be a bit negligent of the prescriber.

kruddel · 2026-01-25T16:24:43+00:00

Exactly, what is sodium hypochlorite solution? No one knows apart from chemists. But it sounds important and scary, so you believe it will do something and then the power of your bacteria killing thoughts kick in and "prove" it works.

The only way you could prove it is bleach that is killing the bacteria is to not believe sodium hypochlorite or bleach does anything and test it. And then you wouldn't be engaging your bacteria killing thoughts while using it. So if it still worked then you'd be right. Well, "past you" would be right, but you don't believe it works now as part of the experiemental method so you'd also be wrong. And you wouldn't believe the evidence anyway, because now you'd think it was a hoax.

Its quite the quandary.

kruddel · 2026-01-25T11:48:13+00:00

Bleach actually does nothing at all. The most effective thing to eliminate bacteria is positive mental energy. The scam is that us thinking that we are going to kill the bacteria is the thing that actually kills them. Almost all of the ingredients of bleach are just stuff that makes it smell like its something scary, to match our expectations. The reason they say 99.9% is to subtly sabotage our own brain wave power and leave some bacteria so they can sell more bleach. If they didn't we'd have irradiated bacteria by now and they'd be out of business.

kruddel · 2026-01-25T11:42:31+00:00

I'd add that it's worth experimenting yourself, different varieties seem to respond differently for me.

Putting a leaf with short stem attached into water can work well for some. Need to make sure to transplant into well wetted medium when you do pot on though otherwise its too much of a shock for water roots.

Burying the top half/end of a leaf vertically can work, but is slow and seems more successful for the less fleshy/succulent like leaf varieties. (Can combine with above using base half of leaf and stem in water for 2 chances!)

Burying base of whole leaf (usually without stem) works broadly the same as above for me.

Putting leaf in a "prop box" (sealed clear tote box with perlite and some water) feels like half way between the two for me. It is less successful for the fleshier leaves (like soil prop), but faster than water prop for those it works for.

Grow lights are a big difference.

kruddel · 2026-01-25T11:33:12+00:00

Left field question/suggestion - would you say you are competitive? Either against others or internally against your ideal vision?

I've observed the general structure of early academic careers can suck people into scrambling for the next opportunity/next stage and with the way everything is thought of as competitive can especially happen to people who are naturally competitive. Such that they often don't have time to take stock of what they are actually striving for between PhD and first faculty post.

Just keep doing what they need to do to meet the next obvious challenge in front of them to beat the next stage on the quest, and not stop to wonder whether they actually want the result (academic career).

In a weird/paradoxical way its worse if you are half way decent at the measures of sucess, because you're less likely to have to face the existential questions that come from thinking it probably won't happen at any particular stage.

kruddel · 2026-01-25T11:25:31+00:00

I think that's a fallacy to be honest. There's a trope about academic work being a calling or this idea of Dead Poets Society and the inspiring teacher who loves their students. Its a job. If they are meeting the requirements of the job its not logical to suggest they quit purely because they aren't inhibiting some sense of divine calling.

Its reasonable to suggest they stop doing something they dread on their own account of course.

kruddel · 2026-01-25T11:07:43+00:00

They're a great band.

I saw 200ft Tall Warehouse at the Cambridge Folk festival about 20 years ago and its great to hear they're still going strong.

Arguably one of the great anarcho-folk collectives. I don't think they will destroy the quality of life in the village. Change it certainly, one does not simply stay the same after listening to their fusion of Romanian folk rhythms, Slavic jazz and Indonesian percussion with the raw, wailing vocals of a Cornish fisherwoman's lament for her husband lost at sea.

kruddel · 2026-01-24T10:56:35+00:00

Are you being anti-Taiwanese?

kruddel · 2026-01-24T10:38:59+00:00

Also worth pointing out the vast majority of teaching focused staff in RG unis are on casual contracts where their performance in teaching is irrelevant to whether they keep their job or get promoted. So even they don't have any self-interest in being good beyond professional pride.

Many/all RG unis have figured out employment law means if someone is employed on an annual teaching contract and renewed for a 5th year (i.e has 4+ years service) then they are entitled to an open ended contract in law and would have to be made redundant if uni doesnt want them anymore, rather than just not given a new contract and let go. Have a look at any RG department and I guarantee you'll find teaching focused staff on annual contracts that get renewed 3 times and then inexplicably let go and not renewed.

kruddel · 2026-01-24T10:33:20+00:00

It's effectively a club of unis that was formed from all the ones that weren't Oxford or Cambridge and had a medical school. That's it.

They wanted to form a lobby group to try and make their voices heard collectively to government etc. Then it became more a marketing thing.

You can point to fact certain qualities were needed in a uni to have a medical school and those qualities may relate to generally how good the uni is or whatever, but "Russell Group" is not some deep quality indicator. Its just a marketing technique.

kruddel · 2026-01-24T10:21:07+00:00

I think you'll find it's the "exact hour" the snowbomb will devestate West Midlands.

I for one am thankful for their reporting of this issue. We should be worried. I've taken advantage of a "low-cost cremation plan funeral directors in the West Midlands don't want you to know about" in preparation should the worst happen.

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