u/AltruisticOwl156

4 years sober

4 years sober

4 years 😭

I initially thought I was only going to make it a few weeks or a few months, thinking I'd just end up losing my first chip. Now I'm going to buy a frame to display the ones I've got, and the ones I'll get in the future 😌

u/AltruisticOwl156 — 3 days ago

This game has massive potential for online coop content.

I don't mean just running around the map with a friend...

I would love to see dungeons in this game, both solo dungeons and also 4 man group and even maybe 12 man raid dungeons. World bosses that spawn from "rifts" that you have to take down.

Just imagine how cool that would be? And the gear that drops could be really real powerful armour pieces or weapons, maybe unique armour that has a set bonus? Maybe lots of embers and stuff?

To be honest it's always frustrated me that games like these don't try to branch into "mmo" territory a little bit. Also a pvpve realm would be amazing.

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u/AltruisticOwl156 — 3 days ago

I don't understand this level up menu

You can toggle the little diamonds and change them, but there doesn't seem to be any explanation of what they do or mean? Sacrifice max level, ascended, awakened, then I can toggle between different icons on the right etc.

What does all this mean? And my hero's seem to be levelling up automatically without me clicking on the promote button?

u/AltruisticOwl156 — 3 days ago

How do I get to this waypoint?

I can't find it anywhere. It's not in the cave and there doesn't seem to be anyway to get above the area.

u/AltruisticOwl156 — 5 days ago

Do gems apply to the item piece, or your overall stats?

For example I have a pair of gloves that have +0% focus gain. If I socket a gem that increases focus gain by 8%, do I still get +8% focus gain?

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u/AltruisticOwl156 — 6 days ago
▲ 1.8k r/tesco

Tesco pension £0 -> £100k in less than 10 years 😲

I'm 31 and I remember when I joined Tesco 9 years ago and asked the guy who was training me on my first night about the Tesco pension. He said something along the lines of "You can if you want but it's only like £75 a month there's not much point".

Well I enrolled from day 2, changed my pension contribution to 15% and continued that for 9 years.

Yesterday I broke £100k for the first time. 9 years at Tesco lmao 😂

u/AltruisticOwl156 — 9 days ago

Saving the guy in the Black Trench

The guy you meet near the start who is crying for help, is it possible to actually save him? I have down a few playthroughs now and no matter how fast I rush through the Black Trench he is always dead when I get to him.

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u/AltruisticOwl156 — 9 days ago

I think the gear design needs to be improved.

I don't really have much criticism about this game as I pretty much enjoy everything about it. But honestly the gear design seems so bland. Which is strange because the visual effects in the game and the overall graphics are amazing, so why do the weapons just look "ok"?

For example I'm wearing some leather armour and it honestly looks like I'm running around in rags as a homeless person. Also a grey weapon just looks indifferent to a legendary or plagued weapon.

I wish the weapons and some gear actually had "badass" looks to them, like in an MMO or an ARPG or like in Elden Ring for example.

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u/AltruisticOwl156 — 12 days ago

What does it mean if I (28M) caught my colleague friend (37F) rubbing her smell on my clothing at work?

We are good friends at work, always sitting together on lunch break and we laugh and joke and it's just a great friendship. She is really attractive but I've never made a move on her because she is married, but she's hinted to me she isn't that happy and mostly stays with him for the sake of her 6 year old kid.

Anyway today on our lunch break it was just us in the room and I went to the restroom and when I came back I saw her through the glass panel and it looked like she was rubbing the sleeve of her clothing on my jumper. Or maybe she was just moving it or something but it looked like she was rubbing her clothing on my clothing. When I opened the door she instantly stopped, I didn't say anything and we just carried on like normal for the rest of the break.

Once I put the jumper on I could smell her perfume on my jumper, she always wears the same distinct perfume. So all through the rest of the day I had her perfume smell on my jumper. Even now I'm at home I can still smell it a bit.

I actually noticed this once before but I assumed it was because I was just in close proximity to her, maybe I hugged her that day and I forgot or something.

She's really attractive and stuff but I don't really know how to handle it going forward.

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u/AltruisticOwl156 — 14 days ago

Nobody believes me.

5 years ago I injured my leg and went to A&E and because they had no beds available for me to rest my leg, they transferred me to a mental health hospital. While I was there they gave me Ibuprofen for my leg and zopiclone for sleep but they also said I could not leave because I was under section 3 of the mental health act. The thing is I was hearing voices (I still do) but the voices are not from schizophrenia or any mental health problem, it's due to poor sleep which is caused by my REM sleep frequency not tracking properly. Basically I don't sleep fully and deeply like most people.

After 5 months my leg was fully healed and my sleep had improved a lot and was not hearing voices that much anymore so they were happy to discharge me. 2 years later I injured my leg again and the same thing happened, the A&E department had no beds so they transferred me to the mental health hospital because that's the only place that had a bed available for me to rest up.

It's like my local A&E hospital literally never has a bed for me, they claim the only bed they have is in a mental health hospital so they transfer me there. Even when I tell them it's OK I'll just rest it at home, they refuse and force me to go because on my record I am diagnosed with schizophrenia even though I don't actually have it. I am prescribed Olanzapine which I take because it really helps with the voices and it helps me sleep better.

I try to explain to them that I have a chronic leg injury that flares up in connection with the voices, which is in connection with poor sleep but they don't believe me. My family are supportive and stuff but they side with the doctors and try to encourage me to accept the diagnosis is true but I just know in my heart it's not the reason.

All I can do is try to get good consistent sleep and hope my leg doesn't flare up.

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u/AltruisticOwl156 — 15 days ago

Started this pension when I joined Tesco nearly 4 years ago. I started contributing 7.5% initially, which Tesco matched. Then about 6 months ago I increased my contribution amount to 15%, Tesco won't go higher than 7.5% so in total I'm contributing 22.5% into my Tesco pension.

It works out at about £500 to £540 every 4 weeks or there abouts depending on overtime. I understand not everyone in retail is in a position to contribute this much, but for me I live quite a frugal lifestyle so it's possible.

Tesco usually gives about a 3% - 5% pay rise each year as well so my total contribution should increase by that amount each year as well. I figure if the market compounds at 8% per year, and I am contributing £520 or so every 4 weeks, which increases by say 4% per year pay rise, I should have somewhere in the region of £800,000 in 25 years time, which will make me 50 years old.

Adjusted for inflation that's about £600,000 in today's money. Enough to retire I think?

u/AltruisticOwl156 — 19 days ago
▲ 51 r/tesco

Your colleagues are the backbone of your business, without us there is no Tesco, there are no profits, there is no growth. Since I joined Tesco 8 years ago, the working conditions have hit rock bottom, all the while profits have hit record highs year after year, as has the stock price.

This is great for investors I get it, but it's destroying the foundation of the company, which is the actual colleagues who enable the entire operation to run. Every year it's just more and more cuts, less and less over time, most stores now seem to be run on skeleton crews, there's just not enough hours in a night to bring the store up to the standards that customers expect.

Imagine having a job where no matter how fast or hard you work, the end result is always abysmal. I am seeing the motivation and care being drained from people in real time because if they're never able to complete the job or feel like they're making a difference, they give up entirely. What's the point in trying to run a marathon if you know it's impossible to finish?

There simply has to be a better way of boosting profits and increasing share price without cuts. I know Tesco operates on thin margins but please for the sake of the mental health of the hundreds of thousands of colleagues, find a way to generate profits without the endless cuts and skeleton crew operation.

Bring back overtime, allow colleagues to make financial commitments and plan for the future because they can rely on overtime being there. You want people to stick at Tesco, build a career there and feel like the job is secure? Give them financial security of a FULL TIME job.

I wish I could sit in on a Tesco board meeting to see what really goes on at the executive level but to me it sounds like a group of people who've never worked a shift on the shop floor deciding what they can cut next to make an extra 0.5% profit over last year.

This kind of business model is not sustainable. Eventually the profits you're making from all the cuts will outweigh the total dissatisfaction customers experience from constantly empty shelves or low lines and colleague retainability.

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u/AltruisticOwl156 — 20 days ago

I'm probably reading too much into this and it's almost certainly not what I think it is. But most people, even close friends, really don't like sharing the same cutlery and drinking from the same bottle etc at least without wiping the area first.

But my 36 year old female friend at work seems to have no problem with this. I'll be drinking something from a bottle and she will ask for a sip, she will drink from the opening, with like full lip / mouth contact without any care that my mouth / lips have been drinking from it.

During our lunch break she will be eating some food with a fork or spoon and she will be like "this is so good here try some" and put some food on the spoon and hand me the spoon / fork to eat from. The cutlery has been literally in her mouth, then after I've eaten from it, it's been in my mouth, yet she won't care and will go right back to eating from it without any care.

Then today I had a five guys milkshake that I was drinking from the straw and left maybe 20% in there that I didn't want. She asked to have the bit left over and I said sure, she started drinking from the same straw. At that point she is literally sharing my saliva...?

To be honest I don't really mind because for a start she seems very clean, has lovely teeth, doesn't smoke etc. Plus she is pretty so it's not off putting or anything.

I'm thinking maybe it's just the way she is, maybe she does this with her other friends both male and female, or maybe she's hinting at something more because she is also quite flirty with me, at least that's the impression she is giving off. I don't want to ruin a great friendship by making this more than her just being normal in her own way.

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u/AltruisticOwl156 — 21 days ago
▲ 24 r/stocks

Every resource I use to study a stock always seems to mention things like

  • With a PE ratio of xx the market is pricing in complete perfection.
  • The market is anticipating consecutive years of hyperbolic growth.
  • Even a slight miss or underperformance in earnings could result in a big valuation reset.

The problem is I have actually gone back through several dozen companies that blew up and became house hold names and checked their stock performance when the PE ratios were high. And yes some of them did have 40% to 60% sell offs but some continued climbing for 18 months or so before selling off.

But the story is always the same, the multiples compress sure, but the revenue keeps growing, the profits keep growing, the margins increase, the customer count / quality increases, demand increases etc.

From my limited research it seems to me like getting in super early when the stock is richly valued can actually be better than waiting for the PE to settle. Yes you may end up sitting through a couple years of losses but in the long run if the company is successful, the price you bought in at will be a far better deal than the newly PE adjusted price.

Basically I'd rather invest at a $5b market cap with a PE ratio of 90 and risk losing some unrealised money for a few years for the company to become $70b, rather than invest at $40b with a PE ratio of 20. Yes a $40b market cap PE ratio of 40 is far safer most likely, but by the you've missed 80% of the bull run anyway...

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u/AltruisticOwl156 — 25 days ago