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Before I get asked “Why are you asking a bunch of internet strangers for advice?”. She is my niece but we have all lived together since she was born & for the last 3 years I have had custody of her. If this post isn’t okay, I’ll delete it. Using a throwaway for her privacy.
Yesterday I got a call from Lex’s phone but it wasn’t her. It was a shift supervisor at the restaurant that her friends had taken her for her birthday. I was told that two of the girls had left Lex before paying the bill & she didn’t have any money. I didn’t know if they were going to call the cops so I told her I was coming to pay. When I got there Lex was sitting in a booth with an uneaten birthday dessert. The look on her face broke my heart.
The host said that her 2 friends told her they were going to get Lex’s gifts from the car & would be back. 30 minutes went by & the host walked through the parking lot 3 times to look for them before telling her supervisor. Instead of grilling Lex infront of everyone I paid+tipped & we left.
In the car I asked her if she knew before they ordered that her friends weren’t going to pay because it could be considered stealing. I told her the meal I just paid for was $80 (my gas money) so she was going to have to pay me some of it out of her savings or get her friends to repay her. As I’m saying this she gets a notification on her phone. One of the girls posted a snapchat about how they just dined & dashed, got a free meal, & tagged Lex saying “thanks!”.
She starts crying saying “no they aren’t going to pay you or me back!”. We get home & I ask her if she is comfortable with me reading the messages between her & the girls so I could help figure out what is going on. It took about an hour & I’m genuinely speechless. Lex is a freshman & these girls are juniors. They became “friends” in gym class in Jan. The first time they hung out outside of school was to get smoothies. Lex offered to pay for them (her love language is acts of service & gift giving even though she is young) & it snowballed from there.
These girls would ask her for gas money but tell her they didn’t have time to take her home from school,they would give her the wrong parking lot to be picked up in, or they told her she was taking too long even though she would literally be running to meet up. School lunch is free but there is a “Panthers den” where you can buy fountain pop. icecream, snacks, ect. Nearly everyday they would ask her to get them something & they promised they would pay her back once they got their allowance.
They went shopping & Lex bought them all matching shirts to wear on a certain day & they showed up wearing different matching shirts & told her she just forgot which day they were doing it. Gaslighting. Manipulative. PETTY for no reason.
A few days ago Lex told them she needed her $ by this weekend because the field trip she was saving for was this coming Tuesday. They told her they would bring the $ when they went out to eat because they would be getting their allowance on Thursday (yesterday). I’m guessing they realized she wouldn’t be giving them anymore $ or buying them things…Idk the logic behind it.
I asked Lex why she was spending so much $ on them & she said “this was my first time having friends I thought this is what you do”. I asked her if they paid her back for anything & she said “not yet”. This went on for almost 3 months & she didn’t catch on. I told her these girls are NOT her friends.
The field trip coming up is something she has been talking about since the beginning of the school year. It’s an elective trip through her fine arts class but not everybody gets to go. You have to maintain a certain GPA, have all 6 of your teachers sign off on you to go, you had to pay upfront for the charter bus & pay admission to the 2 museums. She has struggled with her self worth & was so proud of herself. It’s her first ever road trip. She was so excited to go snack shopping & had spent hours looking up where they are going to make sure each restaurant has her “safe foods”. They will be stopping for breakfast, lunch, & dinner.
She had everything planned. For xmas & her birthday all she wanted was $, which I gave her. But it wasn’t alot (Single income with inflation & a lay off) I really wanted her to have fun, I knew how important this was to her so every time it snowed this winter we shoveled driveways for $20 & she got to keep it all. Hours spent shoveling. Which makes me so mad that she let these girls talk her into spending all her money. Especially since they hadn’t been “friends” for long.
Now it's all gone & I’m so pissed off because I can’t just give her more. I’m paycheck to paycheck right now. I don’t get a dime from my sister or the state because I haven’t tried for legal custody but since my sister has been in active addiction for years this is something I’m looking into. I told her I could maybe scrounge up $25 for her to take but now she isn’t going to go because “it won’t be enough”. She will just spend all of Tuesday in study hall.
I just don't understand why she would pay people to be her friends. The only way I’d ever give one of my friends money is if it was an important emergency, if I could loan it out without it putting something in jeopardy if I don’t get it back, and if we had been friends for a while. That’s normal, right? How did she not realize they were just using her?
I asked her if she was going to ask for her money back or tell them what they did was super shitty & she told me no. “It was my dumbness to think they were really my friends. I’ll go back to being alone & go back to eating in the library”.
I’m so mad I want to confront these little twits ( Don’t worry, I won’t). I don't know why she struggles to have friends. I didn’t know it was an issue. Has anyone else’s kid done something like this? Do they struggle to make friends? Have they changed themselves to “fit in”? Any advice is welcome.
TL:DR; Lex was giving money to “friends” under the impression that this is what “friends” do & that she would be paid back. She didn’t want her “friends” to run out of gas or not have treats to eat at lunch. Lex spent over $200 to have “friends” for three months.

someone who I see their work and am able to strive to be better it’s difficult for me to always compare my work to other famous mangaka because their leagues above me so looking for someone near my skill level and so we can constantly push each other to improve our art trade ideas on each of our series and able to give honest criticism of each others work if your interested let me know

In spite of my better judgement, I think a post explaining the end to end process could alleviate confusion about the mural and things. I think that the folks who are hell bent on dragging me won’t have their minds changed, but maybe this will help, starting with the raw rune text analysis data and working towards Kana. If you aren’t going to read this post and instead just act like a replyguy, I’m going to block at this point.
1. Things we know about the rune text
Once we transcribed all of the rune text in the art book, along with the murals, and other fragments from the trailers, we learned a few things. Using a standard cryptographic analysis technique, we knew the text was non-random and most likely Japanese in nature. I’m not going to explain how Index of Coincidence scoring works in this post because I’ve explained it far too much. There are base thresholds for different languages, which are:
English non-random text: ~0.06 Kunrei (and Nihon) Romaji non-random text: ~0.08 Hepburn (Hebo) Romaji: ~0.089
To get a really reliable score, you need a decent amount of text. This was a big issue for the original murals. When we scored all the words and text that we had, we scored at 0.08001, a good indicator for Kunrei or Nihon Romaji. It could also indicate Hebo Romaji with English words mixed in. We didn’t think that the latter was the case for a few reasons:

• The Sheikah Tapestry with several English words mixed in, dropped to 0.076 (IIRC it’s been a bit)
• Hebo utilizes less Latin characters than Kunrei or Nihon, and because of that, if the text was in Hebo, it should have scored higher.

Frequency Analysis
It’s worth pointing this out, so I want to touch on it briefly. The frequency analysis (distribution of characters and compounds for a language) is different between the types of Romaji. We initially attacked the problem on the basis that the text source was Hebo Romaji, only later changing to a Kunrei based view after finding an issue in the frequency analysis tool we used. Within hours of changing our view of the rune text, things started popping out. The frequency analysis we did is in the back of the guide as an appendix.
*2. Transliterating & Contextualizing the solved text *
Transliterating this stuff was a nightmare. There are a ton of rules that have to be checked to get it even close to right, and even then, you’re counting on the author getting it right, too. Nintendo is not free from mistakes. If you look at every single Hylian language translation, there are misspelled words, and other grammar issues. To illustrate that more, here’s a view of the monument sheet we used.
https://i.imgur.com/BR8y96l.jpg
Note the letters in red. Those things are a pain. There aren’t enough of them in enough places to be useful letters, but they appear in a few key places. As an additional analysis step, I used a technique where you apply index of coincidence scoring to capture standard deviation across random but nearly equally sized groups of the monument text. We found that the letters in red consistently caused spikes in the scoring. What does this indicate? Probably mistakes on the part of the author, potential punctuation, or other problems.
Looking at the rules for Kunrei and Nihon romanization, there were potential things for us to try. You can see a list of the consolidated rules that we compiled from different sources, here.
Even our list is not complete. To really understand this, you have to understand that a lot of rules are about taking a sound and turning it into a group of latin symbols. This allows for things that don’t seem intuitive. A great example of this is GN. Romanizing it requires understanding the sounds that you make for the target syllable. GN becomes GA in Hebo, but you pronounce it kind of like the original GN.
This is why, in the guide, we have the contextualized Romaji vs raw. The goal was to be transparent that we made changes during romanization. The whole goal was to be open about how we got here.
3. Translating the contextual Romaji text
This part also has its challenges. We have no semblance of word boundaries. None. This is a good reason to involve native speakers alone. This is a huge reason why the guide has a giant disclaimer before the interpretations. Furthermore, this is the reason that we label them as interpretations and why there’s no definitive translation. If you speak Japanese, and look at the monument text, you might notice the dumpster fire that is no line ending verbs or particles. So you’re left trying to decide if a letter gets turned into を or お, へ or え.
I wish I could give something definitive, but it may not happen until launch day. This is why my post called the work a “draft solution”. The rune to text mapping we created works incredibly well across three trailers, a cursed art book, and runes from still shots. Some things absolutely make no sense. Based on other Zelda games, I expect that not everything will work due to a margin of error.
I also want to clarify our purpose for sharing all of this. We considered sitting on it until launch day. We wanted to share it with the community in the hopes of taking the work further. We’re all exceptionally exhausted. I’m thrilled and appreciative for the people that realized that this is a work in progress. We made a massive guide as a giant love letter to the Zelda community. If we thought and felt it was nonsense, we wouldn’t have put hundreds of hours into it.
I said after the awful treatment last time that I’d never come back, and yet I still did out the spirit of sharing. This time though, I mean it when I say that I’ll never come back. The amount of toxicity here is alarming. I wish y’all the very best luck.

My parents were high school sweethearts, and have had this beautiful stump/log since before I was born (and I think before any of my siblings were born). They found it at the beach together in their younger years—a once beautiful piece of wood, nearly perfectly round, flat, and smooth. It has been a great seat/table/foot rest, and an incredible token of the long life my parents spent together. My father passed away about 12 years ago at a young age, leaving behind his high school sweetheart and three children, with me only being 13. Throughout the tough years that followed, this stump became even more of a cherished memory for my mother, a token of their love and time together with indescribable meaning and value. Sadly, the wood has started to rot, largely from the middle outwards, and over this past winter, some mushrooms have begun to sprout of the growing cracks at the top. A few chunks have also started to fall off around the edges. In the picture I hope I will be able to share in the comments, you will be able see some that fell off that we stuck back in in the front right part of the log. This piece of wood clearly doesn’t have much longer, and my mom is heartbroken she will have to throw it away soon. I am hoping that some of you might have some advice or ideas about how to save and repurpose some pieces of the wood, so that my siblings and I can gift it to my mom, and her love for and memories associated with the log can live on. I’d love to hear any and all ideas or thoughts, or if I’m being unrealistic. My main idea is to try to trim off the edges that still look nice and haven’t rotted too much, and try to turn them into a small table or tray or something encased in resin to stop further rotting. But I’ve also never done that and I’m not sure if it’s feasible. Please share any and all thoughts.
(Also sorry if this kind of post isn’t exactly what this page is for).

Ahoy!! This will be my 3rd visit to Czechia since it was called the Czech Republic back in the early 90s. I will be in Prague at the beginning and end of my trip since that's where I'm flying in and out of. I will be staying at the Dancing House near the river the first weekend in June. After that I will travel throughout Czech to previous towns I once visited before with my wonderful Czech friend who I was able to reconnect with last year.
I would love to make some new friends during this time if there is anyone who could use a night out on the town. I'm a male professional, 47 yo fun loving type of guy who loves music and is a musician as well. That's how I was able to visit Czech in the first place touring with an old band from the US. I don't speak Czech at all but I'm trying to learn a few things before my trip. If there's any Americans who will be there around this time, I'd love to meet up and share our traveling experiences over a few Pivo's!! Lol. If your Czech and would like to make an American friend, hit me up!! I'm looking forward to this so much and really want to get the best experience out of this trip as people. And meet as many peeps as possible!!
Děkuju!!!

Apart from the obvious reason, why do they seem to sit at the end of overtaking lanes? A nice straight bit of road to get past all the slow feckers? Noooooo, let's force impatient drivers to overtake on blind corners and cause a crash. Just seems to be a nice cash generator. The only reason I write this, is because today, driving out of Omagh, there was a speed camera van at the end of the overtaking lane just on past the fintona junction, a tool in an X5 realised they were probably going to get caught and nearly drove into the back of my car, they then proceeded to drive so close to me (I couldn't see their numberplate in the rear view mirror) then overtook further up the road on a bad corner, only for me to slam on the breaks otherwise they'd have forced me off the road. Absolute bellend.

Nearly every time we're nearing a checkpoint or just in general have urgent reason to prevent enemies from to contesting: Why do I always see you right beside me and dps' and no one on the payload. Your heals can reach from payload and we don't need real damage output - we need the payload pushed and enemies kept back. It's not just sometimes it's almost every time.
Is there any thought/plan behind this or just a brain-fart?

I really hope someone reads this. This is my story: I'm a 23 year old male. I developed anxiety and panic attacks on October 28th, 2022. It all began with an unexpected and massive panic attack. I was at work ready to clock out when I noticed that my heart rate was pretty jacked(150-160bpm). I freaked out and I ended up going to the ER and pretty much all tests ran back as normal. I did get admitted just for observation. This kept going on for nearly seven hours after the cardiologists decided to run me a trial of metoprolol. It was pretty traumatizing. Ever since then I have not been the same person. I have gone back to the ER two more times ever since then for the same reason. All of this caused me to develop agoraphobia. I was still able to go to work, run my errands and even hang out with friends but could not travel far or walk on very far distances. I was improving without meds or therapy. I was also afraid of working out and cardio because I feared a fast heart rate but I even improved greatly on that. All of this pretty much took a massive relapse last night when I decided to do a bit of exposure therapy. I decided to drive on the freeway and see how far I could go before getting a panic attack. It was a mistake. I got as far as 10 miles before I ended up freaking out. I made an exit very quickly and headed back home. I was getting calmed but then out of nowhere I began to feel very tense and more panic attacks began to hit but I was able to bring them down. I could not sleep all of last night and I lost my appetite. I have been feeling horrible all day. I tried going to the gym in the morning but my fast heart and palpitations said no. I am afraid that I won't be able to even leave my house anymore. What worries me the most is my job. I need my job. I'm trying to stay out as much as I can to not turn into a home-bound person. I'm yet to see my doctor in two days. I will let her know that I am slowly getting worse and that I am going to start getting CBT and possibly meds to avoid getting worse. As of now I have 40 capsules of hydroxyzine 25mg. I haven't taken none since I haven't had to yet but I might just take one at work if I don't get better. All of this makes me sad. I was already an anxious person but not this bad. I just need to fix this before it's too late.

I currently have a 1440p monitor and a 42" 1080p TV that I use when I want to play games with a controller. I'm thinking about upgrading the TV for something bigger, maybe to a 55", and looking in stores near me seems anything in that size range is 4K. I'm only running a GTX 1060 6 GB, so I definitely won't be playing games at the 4K resolution, so I'm wondering if but if just doing 1080p and letting the TV upscale to 4K would lead to acceptable results.

I’m recently diagnosed with LS. My gyn has instructed me to apply clobetasol every night for 2 weeks, stop using it for 2 weeks, and apply again for 2 weeks. After the 6 weeks, I have an appointment with them to see how it goes. Has anyone else been instructed to use this schedule? Curious to know what the benefits are.. if any. 🤷‍♀️

Hey everyone, I've been accepted to Liberty as well as a few other schools and I am wondering how good the math program is. How would it compare to an average state school? Also, is it any more difficult to get into good grad schools, and what are the research and internship opportunities like on or near campus?
I know liberty doesn't have the best reputation academically, so I'm somewhat concerned that grad schools would be more likely to reject me, even if the math program isn't below average.

No red anywhere near me now. Needs Re-buffing!

Do any of y’all have that video of Joeyy with the cup or whatever??
I remember seeing this video of him with a long ass leather jacket on like a trench coat and he opens the jacket where there’s like a mason jar or some shit on the inside pocket and then he spits in it and closes the jacket
Lmk if y’all find it
Also anyone in/near North lawndale chicago DM me I gotta paint my porch i’ll pay 15/hour and 60 for the job Two seperate payments

Title basically says it all, with the added caveat that I'm 5'6" and a friend told me it'd be near impossible to do Whitney in one go. I've got my little legs and the challenge of it to get me there, but not sure how to make a game plan.
Any and all advice appreciated 🙏

If y'all will recall, I was not doing so hot yesterday with stomach anxiety at full blast.
I wasn't feeling great today and was strongly considering backing out, but two things helped me feel really good as I write this:

1. A friend sent a meditation on YouTube that mentions the concept of surrender, and for whatever reason that helped tremendously. I think I was still holding onto the concept of control when really, I have no control over how the flight will happen. I'm going to talk to the pilot if I can, but otherwise I'm feeling much more confident in the idea that all I have to do is show up, no more and no less.
   
2. Someone in a previous thread mentioned hard sour candies helps with their stomach anxiety, and I can confirm it Sour Warheads helps my stomach immensely.
   
3. I already spent nearly 48 hours in anxiety hell, I'm kinda thinking: if I quit now, what was all that for?
   

Anyway, I leave around 10 pm CT. Frontier 2490 of anyone's keen on tracking. To whoever is flying today or soon, we got this.

Friday night, my GF is having a celebration dinner with her classmates for her school, and partners are invited. The original plan was to go for about an hour and then go do our own thing. Dinner time comes and I go to pick her up, and her friend/classmate is with her to carpool with us.
Since her friend is with us and we're driving fairly far to get to another part of the city for the dinner, I suggested maybe we could all get desserts afterward. That was the plan going into this, and all is well.
Dinner was great too and my GF got to enjoy the time with her friends and classmates. Instead of leaving after an hour, we ended up staying for about 3 hours. Which was totally fine and great because everyone was enjoying themselves.
Fast forward to about the end of dinner - one of her friends lobbied up the idea to go to a Club next. This was obviously a curveball and we were down for it, and others were too, except for the friend that came with us in the carpool. Long story short, it was obvious she was pensive and had reasons that were making her uncomfortable about going to the club. We were all still able to convince her to go for just a little bit (aka some peer pressure Lol).
As we all left to head to the club and the 3 of us were walking back to the car... the friend realized she didn't even have her ID on her, which made going to the club a total no-go for her obviously. We sat in the car and discussed for a bit what to do. The friend said we can just go to the club and drop her off on the street and she'd take an Uber back home herself. Although I didn't want to get in the way of things because I was just the driver, I also wanted to be thoughtful and considerate... so I may have been more skewed towards NOT leaving her out by herself while we went to the club, which wasn't even part of the plan initially. So I triple-checked the situation and ultimately asked my GF to make the final call, and she decided to just go get dessert at a place near home and go to the club another time.
On the drive back, I have a conversation with the friend about a mutual topic all three of us knows about... We get to the dessert place, stay there for about an hour and continue the conversation which ends up being pretty involved. My GF at this time is talking less and less and suddenly is getting sleepy.
Now the problem - when we get back and drop her friend off, my GF suddenly gets into a HUGE argument with me and said I wasn't being emotional and I cared more about her friend than her and that I was being careless, etc. She said I only cared about her friend having a good time. As I mentioned earlier, I felt some guilt about leaving her friend out on the street when we were her ride, and going to the club was never the plan anyway. Even though her friend said it was okay, I still felt like that would have been a rude thing to do. My GF feels otherwise, she said if the friend said it was okay, then it was okay.
She said I was only having a conversation with her... I was just trying to conversate and the mutual topic got interesting, but it was a MUTUAL TOPIC and I asked my GF many times about her thoughts along the way. It's just the way the conversation went and I wasn't sharp enough to realize she was tuning out and suddenly getting sleepy.
She said I was being dismissive and inattentive because we didn't go to the club instead. I get I was trying to steer things more heavily to what I thought was a good compromise - not leaving her friend out and still getting dessert like we originally talked about. It's evident now that my GF REALLY wanted to go to the club instead, but I feel like she should have put her foot down on that choice when I asked her to make the call. I was only able to do what I felt was right and not guilty, but I wasn't able to make the executive decision between my GF and her friend... To me, going to the club with one group of friends versus getting dessert with the other friend were both positive things for my GF.
So AITA and the one lacking emotional intelligence in this situation?
tldr; carpooled with GF and her friend to a dinner, got surprised with an invite to go clubbing... friend couldn't go, I didn't want to leave the friend out on the street to Uber home since we were her ride. I let my GF make the final call, we go back with friend to get dessert instead. I'm now being told I was not being emotional and an asshole.

With two beta weekends almost behind us, I'd love to discuss and hear your opinions. I'm not a game developer and don't claim to know what's best for the game or other players, so let me know in the comments what you think!
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First impressions:
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• They nailed the atmosphere + look and feel. Visuals and sound is near perfect. Game is dark!
• Combat feels great. Aside small performance issues like stuttering and area transitions, combat and movement felt butter smooth, responsive and tight. Attacks had weight to them and everything was telegraphed well.
• Open world works surprisingly well, I think they made a good balance between traditional solo experience and living world. I'm still unsure about timed events (Helltide and World Bosses), but as long as they don't gate you out of progression it could be fine.
• Story is well written and the world felt very Diablo. I'm honestly invested in the story already.

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Dungeons:
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• My favorite dungeon was Immortal Emanation. Objective was to destroy 5 "shrines", layout was circular with no backtracking.
• Dungeons are a bit repetitive with the requirements for opening the boss room and almost identical layouts. Running Den of Evil 20 times in a row isn’t my idea of a fun Saturday afternoon.
• Dungeon objectives that require a lot of backtracking, such as ”kill all monsters” or ”find two keys”, can feel like work instead of play.
• My solution would be to change the current requirements to optional, similar to how the world events work. You get a bonus for doing something extra. Maybe the boss is easier or it drops more loot? It would be up to the player if they prefer faster clear times or better loot at slower pace.
• I would also like to see them increase the number of dungeon layouts, maybe more circular and open areas instead of cross or tunnel like layouts.

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Area Scaling:
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• Area scaling in it's current form doesn't really allow the player to feel progression. If enemies are as difficult at lvl 1 as they are at lvl 25, has the player actually become any stronger?
• I think the biggest benefits of area scaling are multiplayer events and keeping all content viable for end game. What if they used area scaling only in some, not all scenarios?

1. Area scaling is ON in world events, world bosses and other instances where different level players are working together.
2. Area scaling is OFF in lower World Tiers when playing through the campaign to make the player feel more powerful when revisiting previous areas. This has the benefit of allowing overleveling if a player wishes to do so or a faster progression of side quests.
3. Area scaling is ON in higher World Tiers to make all content viable in end game.

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Gameplay:
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• World Tier 2 could use some low level uniques. Why leave the fun build enabling stuff for end game? I believe this would keep players in seasons longer, not shorter, as they try different classes and builds.
• Elixirs. I love the idea of elixirs to compliment your build or fill out some missing resistances, but I don't think it's a good idea to have XP boosts in them. It's just "another thing you have to micro manage" to keep playing optimally. I know most players probably don't mind, but XP consumables are a trick from a bag I'd like to keep closed.
• Skill level cap and skill synergies. I love what they did with class mechanics and skill trees! But with only 7 points on the main skill, you end up having multiple skills with similar power levels (which decreases build variety). Increasing the skill level cap from 5 to X or adding D2 style skill synergies would fix this. You could spread out the points or focus on your main skill, more options for players. I'm glad they have +skill items again!
• Necromancer minions are so bright and colorful. I understand why, but please give us an option to choose between cartoon and diablo looking skeletons. I want my minions to look just like enemy skeletons, with dark and muted colors.

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Early game resource management:
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• Druid especially felt difficult to manage spirit. I could use two core skills from full spirit, then I'm out of juice. Passive regeneration was non-existent. It's really hard to get a feel of the different skills when you can only use them two times. But maybe I'm just used to D2 mana potions?
• With 1 skill point you could get 3 extra spirit to raise the mana pool from 100 to 103. Tornado costs 39 spirit. Feels like a poor investment compared to what else you can get with a skill point? To be fair, you could also get 30% reduction to spirit cost with four skill points, which felt totally acceptable and helped massively.
• After investing few passive points and finding legendaries with resource generation, I respecced to Storm Strike and Pulverize (Shockwave + Mangled aspects) and the druid felt fine.

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User Interface:
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• UI changes. I would love to see a more classic version of UI, perhaps with a font better suited for Diablo, but still preserving readability. I would be happy with the title font used for item names (on tooltips) being used for all text you see on the open world: Items on the ground, enemy names, damage numbers**.** I don't mind a narrower font in tooltips, chat box and other UI elements that aren't visible all the time. Maybe give us some options in the settings to choose from?
• More skill slots. 4 + 2 is a bit restrictive for some builds, adding couple more would help a lot and promote build variety and player choice.
• Option to zoom out camera further away. A simple slider in settings should do the trick.
• Overlay map. This is just how I'm used to playing these games, it's a lot safer than having to open the full map and not seeing what's happening on screen.

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I played Barbarian to lvl 25, but have played all the classes in D4.
With some tweaking and updates I’m excited to see the future of Diablo when D4 launches.

(That title makes it seem like I had a tank battalion over the next ridge helping me out by offering fire support. What an image.)
I've beaten white and even silver lynels in single combat before, but so far I have only been able to do so with training wheels: level 4 amber earrings, champion's tunic, and soldier's greaves (a whopping 88 armor), which allows me to shrug off pretty much any melee weapon they hit me with for just a quarter heart of health (except the crushers, those take four hearts). The near-invulnerability provides a great base upon which to practice combat with these creatures in a safe(er) environment.
Also, if you kick a white lynel in the face, you get a really nice bow. I eventually got to the point where I'd use savage lynel bows to farm royal weapons from hinoxes, then go use the royal gear to farm lynels for savage bows. When you throw the Master Sword (here twice-upgraded to 50 damage) into the mix, you violate the laws of thermodynamics; you get more goodies out of the process than you need to sustain it.
But I wanted to complete the Trial of the Sword. To unlock the full potential of the Master Sword. I admit, I'm not doing it because it's right or because it's what heroes do. I'm doing it because I wanted a (sorta) free top-tier weapon that (sorta) never breaks.
Also the sword glows.
So I take the Trials. One might ask if it's worth the stress and strain at this point in the game; all of the shrines have been completed, all the inventory expansions have been acquired, all the memories re-lived. There's precious little remaining on which to use an awakened Master Sword. But questions of worth fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. Ain't nobody got time for dat, I wanna hit things with a shiny stick!
I tried the trials during my first play through the game, four years ago. I didn't do well; I couldn't even complete the first set—heck, I couldn't even get half-way through the first set. This second time through I do better. It still takes a couple tries, but the first trials go down.
I put it down to playing the game on a larger screen; 32 inches, not the Switch's 6.2. It makes a huge difference; I can actually see enough detail to let me parry and dodge. With my current play through clocking in at 110 hours, 105 of those on a large screen, it astonishes me that I completed my first 70-hour playthrough entirely on the Switch's tiny screen.
I've never seen the second set of trials before this playthrough, but they're actually easier than the first, there being no water-only levels. Bomb-arrow armed bokoblins on the third floor catch me off guard the first time, but I complete the middle trials on my second attempt.
The final trials scare me. I have read the ancient texts. I know what awaits me in the deep. I know what the monks awoke in the darkness of the magic boxes. Manes... and flame... Without gads of armor to cover my ass I fear I will simply be smashed flat by these beasts. But I dive in anyway—the trials won't complete themselves. The shiny stick won't be given to me. I need to earn it.
When I get to the first rest stop, I find something that makes my heart stop. Three ancient arrows? The ancient texts made no mention of these! The only equipment notices I had were for the flamebreaker boots; a not-so-subtle 'you will spend the next five floors on fire' advertisement. I know what these arrows can do to the mere meatbags who oppose me! Five minutes ago I wasn't even worried about guardians, because lynels. But these... these. For the first time ever, I feel a little thrill of hope. If I have these, even without armor, I can beat lynels. My own little cheat code. All I have to do is tough out the guardians.
My first pass through the final trials doesn't go well. I'm nervous, twitchy. I take too many hits. I inadvertently shove my one and only hearty radish into my greedy mouth instead of the cooking pot, wasting a whole full recovery opportunity. By the time I arrive at the second rest stop, there aren't enough food items on the floor to get me back up to full health. And after that comes snow levels; I can't cook everything on this floor to bring my health up as much as possible because I need them to provide me with cold resistance for the next few floors. I get through a couple levels before I tunnel vision on the wrong target; a blizzrobe freezes me and a silver bokoblin turns me inside out.
The second attempt I make sure to take a little bit slower. I plan my attacks, I withdraw if I'm in a position I don't like, I make very careful use of the few elemental weapons I have to one-hit kill and stunlock tougher enemies. When I get back to floor 14, I don't take my chances. I oneshot the blizzrobe with a fire arrow then pull out the first of my three ancient toys and stick it right up the silver bokoblin's backside, banishing his ass to the shadow realm. I will not have another run ruined by those two.
Things proceed more or less smoothly from there. I get to floor 17 and face my first lynel, a blue. It manages to glare at me for all of 2.6 seconds before the second of my ancient arrows wipes its stupid face (and the rest of it) from existence.
The guardians on the following floors give me pause, but the lone ones are easy to abuse and the three on floor 22 don't cover each other if you approach from the right angle. They are all slowly dismantled, one by one.
And then, finally, I arrive on the final floor, 23. Here there are eight little basic red bokoblins on horseback, a guardian turret, and my sum of all fears, Mr. White. Tall, proud, buff, and ugly as all get out, it spots me immediately, screams in barely-contained ketamine-fueled rage that someone as pink as me would deign to cross its field of view, and hauls its massive bow off its back. Before it fires is all the time I have.
It's all the time I need.
I draw the royal bow. I draw the last ancient arrow. I nock this final bolt, the swansong of power on the operatic ballad of shiny sticks. I raise the bow, pointing the arrow at a space a couple feet above the lynel's face; it's a long way, after all. I draw the string.
As afraid as I am, I'm also giddy. I'm there. This will be easy. I just need to let this thing fly and the hard work will all be over. The only thing remaining will be some little pissbabies on horses and a machine that is too stupid to avoid getting stunlocked by repeatedly having arrows shoved in its eye.
I loose my ultimate weapon.
The arrow travels gallantly through the air, its tip sparking into incandescent magnificence as it crosses the open space, dripping sparkles as it flies, little harbingers of its mission of doom. The giddiness reaches a fever pitch. I'm trembling with excitement.
The arrow buries itself...
...in the dirt six inches from the Mr. White's feet.
I've fluffed it. I had one shot, literally, to get this done, and I failed.
I want to cry. These trials have been hard on me. I've had to take extended breaks in the middle of them several times already to untense myself. The prospect of doing it all over again on account of one whinnet-ridden lynel quiet frankly gives me the screaming heebie-jeebies, you know what I mean? Ten year old me would have chucked the controller and screamed in guttural German. Thankfully those days are behind me; I simply pause and walk away for a while. Did I go have a little weep? Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe screw yourself.
I like to imagine the lynel and his hangers-on spend several seconds staring at the ruined arrow on the floor in front of them, then looking back up at me with contemptuous amusement as I literally try to swallow my fear, panic, and horror all at once. Of course, the game doesn't render emotions like that, but it's a funny image.
I have an argument with myself here. I don't want to try this full-frontal combat without my training wheels armor—I'm a coward. But even more so than that, I really don't want to run through the last 22 floors of the final trials again—I'm lazy. I even consider quitting the trials and giving up on the fully-awaked Master Sword. I consider using exploits to skip the final set of trials; it's not like I haven't already made it through all these floors, right? I'd just be... you know... skipping one single floor. Sorta. That's not too unfair, right?
When I come back I heave a large 'woe-is-me' sigh and unpause.
I can't face this creature and its groupies all at once on an open field.
I run for all my sorry little Hylian twink ass is worth.
Unfortunately, that's where the story stops being so dramatic. I climb the tower in the corner after I've broken the lynel's line of sight, severely abuse the guardian turret, and hunker down on my new perch. I know I can't bow the lynel to death; I don't have enough arrows and it'll call orbital strikes down on my head. I can't engage it in direct melee combat; I have only four weapons remaining and they'll break on its face before its face does.
But I realize I can abuse the bokoblins as well. They're really no more capable than the guardian turrets are. They won't attack me en mass. I pull them over where the lynel can't see them, one at a time, and pick them off their horses and steal their weapons. After a few minutes there's nobody left in the room except myself and Mr. White. Now I have a dozen weapons; sure they aren't all great, but they're fresh.
I now have no choice other than give up here, at the last step, or just dive in and see where it goes. It's not really a choice.
What I can say is that, thankfully, the training wheels experience gave me the actual skills necessary to get the job done. Mr. White and I engage in combat I manage to take him down with a dozen broken weapons, one broken shield, and all of my hearts.
That rush when the lynel finally collapses was incredible. It was like someone had jabbed an entire thing of adrenaline directly into my heart. I mean it was probably a week's worth of dopamine in my brain, dumped all at once, but still. At this point I want to cry, again, though this time not in pain or frustration but rather pure elation such as I haven't felt in a while. I did it. I completed the Trial of the Sword. And the final trials only took me two attempts.
I'm much better at this game now than I was four years ago.
I promptly take my glowing stick and use it to club Thunderblight Ganon to death.

I mean just look at them:
Obito: No explanation needed. Dude literally killed him, his wife and almost his Newborn son.
Rin: Preferred to die than return to his command.
Kakashi: Had Sasuke pinned under him completely under his mercy but who gives he the thousand years of death? That’s right his Sensei’s son.
All of this makes me believe that Minato was a horrible Teacher and Commander who gave his Students/Subordinates nearly Impossible tasks, when they failed said tasks he forced them through hellish training regimes and he also send them to do difficult missions which were actually for him but he just didn’t want to do them and wanted rather to bang his hot wife then do them so he sent his students ahead, saying that he would be watching them but actually only created a Shadow Clone to do that while he teleported back to Konoha to give Kushina the D while Obito, Kakashi and Rin were risking their lives in the Frontlines. WOn top of that he also kept most of the money of said Missions for himself instead of sharing it equally among his students and had them do his household chores and be slaves to Kushina to please her under the guise of D-Rank Missions. What do you guys think? 😅

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