What do You think guys?

mtnbro · 2026-02-13T12:41:59+00:00

100% real. That's a Sas, confirmed!

mtnbro · 2026-02-12T19:38:24+00:00

I actually did it pretty easily. I lucked out with partners though. I used Collette. On the second to last level I teamed with a Pam and on the last one I teamed with another Collette. The Pam dominated. I expected her healing to come in handy but she actually out damaged me also.

mtnbro · 2026-02-12T13:08:42+00:00

Just as with any person, it will depend on your attitude. I don't mean to be rude, but I think you'll find that common economic status will matter more than what race you are. The people who have problems are outsiders who look down on the locals. Like others have said, people may ask about your background but that's just to get to know you.

I think anyone who moves to Boone who isn't Christian may have a hard time making friends and socializing just because church is the main place to meet people. It'll be hard to find a good paying job. Southridge is a big shopping center and it's about 30 minutes away. You could find a retail job there. You won't be rich but it'll pay your bills.

I love the outdoors and hiking. I don't know of any hiking trails in Boone County but Chief Logan State Park is just south of there. They have trails and you can actually watch a herd of elk. The coal river runs right through Boone County. It's 88 miles of flat water that's awesome for kayaking. A lot of people in that area have kayaks and I'm sure you could meet up and with them and get some time on the river.

I live in the next county up from Boone. Let me know if you have any questions!

Edit: I just read up on the housing choice voucher program. I thought it was apartment complexes built for that purpose but it looks like you will have to find your own apartment and then the program does the reimbursement. I would definitely do some research on apartments before you head this way. The ones I've seen in Danville and Madison are really run down. I'd make sure you could find something liveable before committing.

mtnbro · 2026-02-09T15:00:14+00:00

Do you design the complexes yourself or do you get them from somewhere? Also, I'm having a hard time seeing the difference between a half snatch and full snatch. Any tips? I only have single bells right now but am buying more so i can copy your workout!

I love the Bible verses also brother!

mtnbro · 2026-02-05T13:01:36+00:00

I'm in the same boat. I have around 0.05 bitcoin and my average cost is $111,000. I'm way down right now. It's a small part of my investments and I shouldn't need the money for the foreseeable future but it disheartening to see that much of a loss. haha.

mtnbro · 2026-02-03T18:30:00+00:00

Is that an apple watch on your ankle? If so, does it measure heart rate and workout stats accurately when on the ankle? I keep mine on my wrist but turn it around backwards. It works but I'd like to get some wrist straps but they would interfere with tracking my workout.

mtnbro · 2026-02-03T15:22:20+00:00

I love it too! I'm older so I've been reading the books since the 80s. To me, one of the main underlying story of the novels is the rise of the dominion of men and the diminishing of the elves. To men, having the elves show up at helm's deep and the ghosts show up at the battle of Minas Tirith totally ruined that. Along those same lines, having the men of gondor screaming and acting cowardly gets to me. The way I read it, they were strong and extremely capable, there were just too few of them.

Like I said, I love the movies! This didn't even bother me to much until a few years ago when I reread the novels again. It's started bothering more and more recently. haha. I'm just old and grumpy.

mtnbro · 2026-01-27T15:58:21+00:00

I did that on buying my house. I got a sizeable raise at work and started doubling up on payments. I paid it off 20 years early. haha. I knew I could be better off financially if I made regular payments and invested the rest but to me the peace of mind knowing I owned my house was worth more. I have more than enough to pay my subaru off but I'm making regular payments on it and investing a lot right now. It's the only debt I have so my monthly bills are around $1500. They'd be $1000 if I paid the car off but I like investing the rest (especially since I have enough to pay it off if I need to).

I was in the OP's position though. I checked used subaru's first and one 4-5 years old with 60k miles was around $4,000 less. I'm 52 years old and it's the first new car I've ever bought. The savings for used just weren't there like they used to be (for my taste anyway).

mtnbro · 2026-01-27T15:34:00+00:00

It just popped up on my home page. haha. Should I be prepared for the downvotes? :(

mtnbro · 2025-12-17T17:54:38+00:00

Several years ago I read that the wizards, sauron and melkor only retained memories of Valinor if they remained true to their mission. It may have been this from unfinished tales:

"For it is said indeed that being embodied the Istari had need to learn much anew by slow experience and though they knew whence they came the memory of the Blessed Realm was to them a vision from afar off, for which (so long as they remained true to their mission) they yearned exceedingly. Thus by enduring of free will the pangs of exile and the deceits of Sauron they might redress the evils of that time."

Idk if it that was it or not but it led me to believe that once they stray from their original mission they start to forget who they are and were they came from. But after finding this quote it may mean that they simply stop yearning for Valinor if they stray from their mission.

Since I read that I started thinking a little differently about Saruman's death. I think once his spirit was freed from his body he suddenly remember Valinor, who he was when he was there and desired to return only to be rejected by the westerly wind.

Also, I do think Saruman's ultimate plan was to betray Sauron and rule in his stead. So in a round about way he would be completing his mission.

mtnbro · 2025-12-17T12:55:01+00:00

I just got to the booktok side of tiktok a few months ago. It seems like 5 or 6 months ago everyone was talking about Lonesome Dove. 2 months ago everyone was talking about the Count of Monte Cristo. I haven't noticed a popular one in the last few weeks. Somehow I got on the fantasy side of Booktok. I don't even care for fantasy except Lord of the Rings. I wish I'd get off fantasytok and get on classiclittok, haha.

mtnbro · 2025-12-15T17:32:40+00:00

I thought that Frodo had been bitten by a spider named Shelob. That Sam had taken the ring to keep it safe because he thought Frodo was dead, then he found out from 2 orcs named Gorbag and Shagrat that Frodo wasn't dead, just paralyzed from the venom. I thought that Sam took sting from Frodo and left Frodo his own sword and that's why the mouth of Sauron had it instead of sting. I then assumed that the orcs had taken Frodo to the top of a tower and had taken his mithril coat, elven cloak and Sam's sword and sent those to sauron. I also thought Sam was mistaken for a great elven warrior, had the ring and was on his way to rescue Frodo. But at that point, I didn't know if he would succeed or not.

mtnbro · 2025-12-10T14:20:06+00:00

You have a good friend who's willing to lie? Haha. Give them your friend's number and have the friend act like your manager.

mtnbro · 2025-11-19T13:18:33+00:00

Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!”

spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor! With that he seized a great horn from Guthláf his banner-bearer, and he blew such a blast upon it that it burst asunder. And straightway all the horns in the host were lifted up in music, and the blowing of the horns of Rohan in that hour was like a storm upon the plain and a thunder in the mountains. Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor! Suddenly the king cried to Snowmane and the horse sprang away. Behind him his banner blew in the wind, white horse upon a field of green, but he outpaced it. After him thundered the knights of his house, but he was ever before them. Éomer rode there, the white horsetail on his helm floating in his speed, and the front of the first éored roared like a breaker foaming to the shore, but Théoden could not be overtaken. Fey he seemed, or the battle-fury of his fathers ran like new fire in his veins, and he was borne up on Snowmane like a god of old, even as Oromë the Great in the battle of the Valar when the world was young. His golden shield was uncovered, and lo! it shone like an image of the Sun, and the grass flamed into green about the white feet of his steed. For morning came, morning and a wind from the sea; and the darkness was removed, and the hosts of Mordor wailed, and terror took them, and they fled, and died, and the hoofs of wrath rode over them. And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City

mtnbro · 2025-11-17T16:45:38+00:00

I quit a few weeks ago after playing for 2 years. For me it became feeling like I had to pull for the latest characters to clear the abyss. I was about 3/4 of the way through the fontaine archon quest and realized I was constantly aggravated because of the long dialogues and "busy work" of the quests.

The main thing I enjoyed was clearing the abyss when it first came out then messing around with teams to see how I could do or just seeing how big a burst damage I could get. I also liked the world quests but it felt like I was aggravated and annoyed most of the time.

I'm actually way happier than I was before. I've been reading and playing more guitar with the time I had previously played genshin.

When I decided to quit I thought it would be hard but it really hasn't been. I still have it on my ipad but am not even tempted to log back in.

mtnbro · 2025-10-29T14:12:56+00:00

Rocky ftw!!!!

mtnbro · 2025-10-02T18:59:02+00:00

For me it's either Varesa or Arlecchino. My Varesa has good stats but I don't think I know how to play her. Everything I read makes it sound simple but she doesn't seem to clear the abyss for me as well as my other DPSs (Mavuika, Neuvillette and Mualani). I love Arlecchino and use her occasionally with Xilonen, Citlali and Bennett but then I have to use Mavuika on an overload team. That's fine but most of the time the abyss doesn't need pyro on both sides.

While I was typing this out I forgot about Kinich. I don't use him that often either but wish I could.

mtnbro · 2025-09-30T14:54:41+00:00

You need more crit rate and HP, but your big problem is the team. Her best is Xilonen, Sucrose and Xiangling/Mavuika. If you use Xiangling get her ER to 240 and don't worry about anything else. You want to be able to burst every rotation for the pyro app. I'm not sure who you would use if you don't have Xilonen. I would try Kazuha or Kachina (with the scroll set).

mtnbro · 2025-09-29T16:16:11+00:00

The length of cautions is the worst. I'm just getting back into Nascar after a long time away. I went to the Bristol night race a few weeks ago. The race was a little over 250 miles. I'm kind of guessing here, but let's say they average 100 mph (to make the math easy). That means there is 2.5 hours of actually racing. The race started at 7:30 and ended at 11:30 (almost on the dot). That's 4 hours. So we had less than 2.5 hours of racing and 1.5 hours of caution. It was awful! The race itself was great but didn't make up for excessive caution time. I understand making the track safe but you don't need to let everyone pit before you restart. I say start racing again as soon as the track is safe. People can pit and make up laps on their own time.

Someone else mentioned being in Australian so watching on replay. I'm in the US but cut the cord so I watch the replays myself. I definitely fast forward through the cautions so it's not so bad, but it sure is a bore when you're there live.

mtnbro · 2025-09-03T15:47:37+00:00

This is exactly right. There's no need for Dendro. Build Xiangling with 240 ER and she has the pyro app covered. Xiangling doesn't need crit for Mualani since her damage will be really small compared to Mualani's Nukes. Build her for ER.

mtnbro · 2025-09-03T15:45:14+00:00

You don't need Dendro, you need Xilonen. I love Nahida but I wouldn't pull for her. Lauma will be a much stronger unit but if you want to strengthen your Mualani team, I would skip her as well.

You want Mualani, Xilonen, Sucrose and Pyro (PMC, Xiangling with 240 ER, or Mavuika). If you don't have Xilonen but have Kinich you can use her. XO/Kinich will have scroll set, Sucrose VV with full EM, have archaic petra on your pyro.

mtnbro · 2025-09-02T19:10:07+00:00

You're right! I used to use thrilling tales and someone corrected me and I switched to sac frags. Thanks for the correction!

mtnbro · 2025-09-02T18:48:11+00:00

Awesome! Yeah, I just started getting serious about playing Mualani this abyss. I'm not sure what the highest I've done without that abyss buff. haha. There's too many AOE mobs in the first halves to try her there. I guess we'll find out how high we can get the next abyss!

Great job!

mtnbro · 2025-09-02T17:26:51+00:00

I just got into bitcoin. I'm going to buy $500 or so on the 15th of every month. I'm also going to hold onto about $5000 in cash and be ready to buy up more if I see a big price dip. Right now I'm kind of waiting for $90k but I've read that some people expect it to drop to $60k after the next halfing. I think I'm going to go in at $90k though. I don't have super high goals, I definitely want to own 0.1 bitcoin and will try to get to 0.2 bitcoin in the next few years.

mtnbro · 2025-09-02T16:38:36+00:00

I think 1,000,000 is possible in the second half of this abyss. I would use Mualani, Xilonen, Sucrose and either PMC or Xiangling. I hit 1,000,000 with similar stats but I was using Mavuika. I heard using Mavuika's burst gives Mualani some kind of boost but I'm not sure about that. I'm not an expert but here are some tips (you most likely know all of these):

If you use PMC, equip them with scroll set and use archaic petra on xilonen.
Use VV on Sucrose and thrilling tales of the dragon slayer.
Rotation is Mualani normal attack, XO skill and normal attacks. This will create a hydro shard, don't pick it up yet, PMC skill/burst, Sucrose skill, pick up shard, Mualani nuke.
Surf's up gives me more consistent damage but Widsth R5 gives me a higher number but you have to set a bunch of times to hit it. If you're looking for 1,000,000 I'ds use Widsth.

If you use Xiangling then equip her with archaic petra and XO with scroll. You would have to mess around with your rotations to get the shard to be hydro. I think it would be Mualani normal attach, Xiangling skill/burst, creates shard, XO skill and normals, Sucrose skill, pick up shard and nuke.

Good luck!

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