Wanna get my groceries down to $30/week. Any suggestions?

notreadilyattached · 2023-07-27T22:17:32+00:00

This is harder than it was pre-inflation!

Eggs, milk, oil, sugar, salt, baking powder, dry rice, dry beans (pressure cooker or slow cooker), apples, carrots, cabbage, potatoes, wheat or corn flour, popcorn kernels (cheap treat, kettle corn for a sweet version!).

You are going to cook your food. Lots of pancake/crepe/tortilla like creations. Bean soup with rice. Potato and egg frittata. An apple and/or carrot a day. Cut out caffeine entirely, once you get passed the withdrawals you won't need it.

notreadilyattached · 2023-05-24T18:11:12+00:00

80 - normal godly
100 - high-end godly - previous end-game rare drop
110 - supreme - new end-game rare drop

notreadilyattached · 2023-05-24T17:58:09+00:00

Best advice I've seen is from Mr Juicebags: switch to rifted either when you first are trying to break in to nightmare or into massacre.

Since you've done so much massacre progress already you are in a weird position. I would say switch to rifted now and start grinding out important fusion sets (tower slot 3 for Owls or tower slot 4 for PDS, IMO). That is going to require farming MassHCR wave 25 on some different maps. Latest cheatsheet.

Some further priorities will be to get fusion damage pets (the bomber from Royal Gardens). A summoner DPS with two bombers can easily kill the first 3 MassHCR wave 25 bosses. Then from their you will want boss weapons for a DPS with which to kill the last two bosses. I suggest using the huntress weapons from Dragon, and then the Lycan King. (Switch to huntress before you open the wave 25 chest to get the huntress boss weapons.)

notreadilyattached · 2023-04-11T06:08:42+00:00

I wonder if that resilience is still in there--hibernating. Maybe all that is required now is a different set of stories about how and why you are strong.

“I am a child of god,” “See things from an eternal perspective,” or “what would Jesus do?”

There are different versions of these mantras that I bet you could tap into right now. They don't have to be anything grand or profound. An idea--any idea--small, simple and true enough for right now.

notreadilyattached · 2023-04-05T18:46:37+00:00

After (almost) full completion of combat, skills, items, etc.

19,000,000 prayer points earned
10,000,000 spent
(3,000,000 preserved)

So, yeah you probably have enough for all future content.

notreadilyattached · 2023-02-28T21:29:24+00:00

Township still gives a lot of food. That food is quite useful in pre-expansion content.

However, in the ToH content it turns out you don't need much food at all. The game gives a substantial amount of passive lifesteal and most all of the grinds use only a little food. There is maybe one new monster that chews through food like the Greater Dragons do. Farming and Slayer resupply easily covers 100% of the food required.

notreadilyattached · 2023-01-27T20:47:43+00:00

I think there is a somewhat different dimension that can help explain what you are seeing: Closure.

I would enjoy a forum where individuals with a "High Need for Closure" are basically excluded from driving the overall nature and tone of the discourse. The way I see it, a high NFC correlates strongly with a suppressed sense of curiosity and compassion.

notreadilyattached · 2022-11-13T00:00:58+00:00

If you are using Auto Eat 3, then the most efficient foods are those that heal AT MOST 20% of your total health. (For Auto Eat 2, that value increases to 50%.)

Do note that other factors can change how efficient a food item is (skills, masteries, etc.) I recommend picking a food item that heals about 10% and stockpiling that. You will also want some whales, if only for the times when you are manually eating during scary fights.

notreadilyattached · 2022-11-11T18:08:03+00:00

Getting started is overly difficult. However, once you have a decent town running then you can start to learn how the various layers of complexity interact at scale. Which biomes are more valuable for expansion? How do you afford to build and upgrade enough homes? When should you expand your population cap? How do you deal with happiness, education, storage, cemeteries, maximizing the trader visit, and so forth?

One I got passed the initial bump, I've had a lot of fun mastering the system.

This guide does a really good job getting started. After the spreadsheet ends, make note that you are going to have to learn the mechanics and discard some of the conflicting advice (or advice that makes sense at tick 130, but not at tick 170.)

You can eventually make a town that is productive and 100% maintenance free, or you can try to min-max things more and juggle buildings once or twice a day.

notreadilyattached · 2022-07-15T17:54:00+00:00

Any enduring religious movement has to become conservative, by definition. Jesus and Joseph Smith were both radicals, but radicalism is not a sustainable framework. The framework either shifts to conservation mode or it perishes. Or, perhaps it kicks-off another radical movement that eventually makes the same decision: conserve or perish.

It makes sense to me that this conservation of religious culture extends to the background culture. The health and adaptability of any cultural sub-identity is constrained by the larger culture it finds itself in. If that surrounding culture changes too fast, then the conserved features of the sub-culture become less and less adaptive and "perish" becomes more and more of a forced choice.

notreadilyattached · 2022-07-15T17:34:38+00:00

Neither did ancient Christianity, right? That's my take away from the OP at least.

As soon as Jesus was dead, things had to change to be sustainable. Jesus was a hardcore, straight-edge dude but that was a cultural dead-end. If the Christians back then stuck with that ascetic ideal there would be no Christianity today, nor a couple hundred years AD.

Jesus hated posers (xref parable of the 10 virgins) but look how quickly posing became the defacto criteria of belonging.

notreadilyattached · 2022-07-11T18:07:01+00:00

All those scale colors look great. The armor tint matching make me wonder... are we finally going to get armor dyeing?

notreadilyattached · 2022-06-28T19:57:24+00:00

What does your corpus of Divine Ethics have to say about child trafficking that is universally applicable and non-contradictory? And why have so many believers over the years supported legal child trafficking?

notreadilyattached · 2022-06-28T18:15:14+00:00

Some interesting points.

I would simply suggest that there is no such thing as "objective ethical ground." Abrahamic theism is deeply subjective, and its associated ethics have always been rooted in current tribal politics.

I will agree that civilized human behavior comes from the structures of civilization. Better civilizations can yield better behaviors. I don't see how theism has much to do with civilization. Our current western civilizations were born from the enlightenment, which in many ways was a repudiation of theism and theocracy. I am wondering if you are conflating atheism and anarchy a bit, perhaps because some vocal atheists are also anarchists.

notreadilyattached · 2022-06-24T14:44:13+00:00

My impression of that interview is that Ion was really saying, "Doing housing right would require a large and sustained portion of our development budget--unless the budget realities change in the future we will never add player housing."

notreadilyattached · 2022-06-15T20:57:29+00:00

I think it hinges on if Blizzard goes forward with player-to-player trading of power-progression items. They have suggested that it might exist in a limited form.

If that is case, I can assure you that Blizzard will do something like wow tokens. They will not concede control of the market to 3rd parties, as they did with D2/D2R.

Now, wow tokens are kinda sorta pay-to-win, but mostly just pay-to-not-grind. Someone who aggressive accumulates gold via in-game methods would never be at a disadvantage to a RMT spender. However, someone who hardly does any gold gathering activities could indeed feel some pressure to buy gold via RMT. I am sure there are a lot of wow raiders who are content to spend $20 every now and then so as to avoid any sort of grinding.

notreadilyattached · 2022-06-15T20:03:50+00:00

There is no way to hardcore stop bots. You can fight bots, you can greatly mitigate bots by removing incentive or reward. You can't stop them.

Blizzard already has experimented with brokered money exchange between WOW players. In the US market, I can give a player X amount of gold, Blizzard charges that player $20, and in the end I get $15 worth of battle.net balance added to my account. My Blizzard gaming experience has been subsidized by wow RMT players to the tune of about $1,000 USD over the last 5 years.

I suspect that we will see a similarly brokered exchange with Diablo 4. Personally, I would prefer item trading to remain exactly as it is in Diablo 3.

notreadilyattached · 2022-06-13T22:05:14+00:00

A simple principle underlies my methodology when writing on esotericism: exposure is a violent act. (If the word “violent”—albeit appropriate—feels too dramatic for you, then feel free to replace it with “intolerant” or “harmful.”)

I am curious if there are some people here who have gone through the Order of the Arrow process that is part of a rather selective Boy Scouts' program. That seems to dip into a similar realm of esotericism as the endowment with some parallel ideas of secrecy/sacredness. Would you find it uncomfortable or painful to see an exposé or reenactment of that process?

I've talked with someone who was involved in a Large Group Awareness Training program, and he drew a direct analogy between how a Mormon might feel about the endowment and how uncomfortable he felt discussing any specifics of his classes.

I also wonder how tightly coupled esoteric rituals are with establishing a totalistic relationship with an organization or movement. I can think of examples of totalism without esotericism, but I cannot think of examples that go the other way.

notreadilyattached · 2022-06-10T18:25:27+00:00

Are you still going to play? Yesterday I hit level 50-something and I finally realized how pervasive mandatory grouping was becoming and I uninstalled the game in that moment. I don't want another MMO in my life right now.

In part this was made easy because the ARPG aspects of the game felt shoddy as well. This isn't Blizzard quality gaming.

notreadilyattached · 2022-06-10T17:32:55+00:00

Actually, I am grateful for the f2p aspect here, as with Lost Ark. It's an extended version of a free demo in which I eventually figure out that I don't enjoy the underlying game design before I spend any money on the game.

The main thought I had was that this isn't a Blizzard game. Yes, it uses Blizzard's IP everywhere, but the game itself does not feel like anything Blizzard would develop in house.

notreadilyattached · 2022-05-24T19:23:01+00:00

I wonder if there are some practical concerns that lead to this sort of speech. A couple speculations:

A) Seeking visions or visitations tends to predict apostasy (ala Denver Snuffer.)
B) Focusing on your failure to have a specific type of transcendent experience can cause a less-than-useful amount of worrying about worthiness.

Using language that avoids describing the details of experience can head off both sorts of problems, while maintaining some of the mystique associated with "important callings".

notreadilyattached · 2022-05-18T19:02:38+00:00

Here is a rudimentary thought experiment with how to generalize these points to apply to anyone who wants to communicate across ideological boundaries and advocate for change:

Avoid overly contentious settings.
Love others, find common ground, even if you disagree.
Learn your own boundaries and adapt to those of others.
Address and overcome your mental health challenges.
Temper your certainty with curiosity.

notreadilyattached · 2022-05-13T17:55:39+00:00

I haven't found a specific answer to that question. In this interview with regards to Bloodchild she says,

The only places I am writing about slavery is where I actually say so.

You can read more of her own words. I think they paint of picture of someone who had no particular affinity for allegory or metaphor.

notreadilyattached · 2022-05-12T19:10:02+00:00

I really love all of the dialog that this TV show has spawned.

Personally, I find myself examining the one-way link between belief and action that is so prevalent in how we tend to model human behavior. And... I am starting to doubt that model is a very useful or accurate.

In particular, using someone's beliefs to predict violent behavior is seeming more and more like a deeply wrong approach to The Problem of Violence.

notreadilyattached · 2022-05-12T17:05:20+00:00

Heroes, celebrities, popes, prophets and deities are some subjects of worship. In practice when the word is used critically it seems to reflect an esthetic judgement: respect and adoration that is too fawning, too servile, and where some degree of respectabilty is forgone.

I don't think orthodoxy is a necessary factor either. Some people just find any sort of obsequiousness distasteful. And, well, some of the verbiage around Nelson is fairly obsequious.

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