u/Cloud_N0ne

I'm looking to change careers after being laid off last December, and ATC looks right for me. I meet all of the eligibility requirements. The issue is it looks like they only accept applications during very specific windows, and from what I'm seeing that window is usually in April each year. I'm 30 years old, but I turn 31 in early April, likely before they open up another announcement for applications.

Am I too late to get into anything ATC related? It sounded like they were very understaffed, but according to the FAA website it looks like I can't even apply until they open up another announcement, and I don't know when that will be.

NOTE: I AM ONLY USING IT IN PRIVATE LOBBIES. I AM NOT BRINGING THIS BUG INTO NORMAL PUBLIC GAMES.

Dog Days might be the least fun I have ever had in Warframe since I started playing in 2013. Even after they buffed the feel of the weapons a year or two ago, these are still THE worst guns in the game both in performance and gunplay feel. They are just not fun. Dog Days is just not fun. I do not understand people's love for it.

The fact that standing in one spot, one-shotting enemies as they approach is more fun than playing it normally says a lot to me about how badly designed this mode is. It's just Rathuum with severely gimped frames and weapons, and Rathuum already isn't particularly fun. I get that it's supposed to be a quirky light-hearted summer mode, but it's just not fun.

I fully understand they need to patch this bug for future Dog Days events, as some people do actually enjoy Dog Days and this is very disruptive, that's why I'm not bringing it into public lobbies. But in the future they need to keep doing these alerts as a way to get lots of Nakak Pearls without actually doing the Dog Days activity, similar to what they did with that event around the time of Old Peace where you could run missions in the Void to get the event currency. I know, I know "why should you get event rewards without doing the event?!", but that argument kinda loses validity when the event is so monumentally un-fun.

I went to school for graphic design and got my first job as a designer in 2021. After just over 4 years with the company, my entire department was laid off in December of 2025 with no notice.

Since then I've been putting in application after application, with zero luck. I've even started submitting applications for entry level jobs like local restaurants, and STILL no luck. How is it that at 30 years old I can't even get a job as a barista at Starbucks with a history of working in food service, let alone getting a job as a designer with a degree, portfolio, and 4+ years of experience?

I'm running out of ideas for what to even apply for. I've used up all the unemployment benefits I'm allowed to claim for the year and still have not found anyone who seems to be hiring.

I've been trying to dabble into Havoc lately while working on other penances, and it seems very inconsistent.

I'm Havoc clearance 20 and my current assignment is 16. One match is an absolute breeze, easier than damnation by far. The next we get 5 monstrosity spawns within 5 minutes. And my most recent match spawned 3 minibosses (the ones with the gold bubble shields) at the same time, and they all seemed to focus on one person at once, quickly picking us each off.

I just wanna hit 25 for the penance but this feels awful, very overtuned with boss spawns.

Been playing since launch but never really understood some of these terms.

What exactly is "Power"? In Vermintide it was a cumulative gear score that effected your damage output and resistance, but Darktide doesn't seem to list your overall power score like that, so I have no idea if it works the same way.

What is "Strength", and how does it differ from Power? Is it the same thing and it's just a typo/translation issue? Something similar? Something different entirely?

What is "Finesse Damage" and how does it differ from the "Finesse" stat found on some weapons?

I'm looking to move away from a superautomatic machine (Phillips 5400 Lattego) to a more manual machine, and everyone seems to recommend the Bambino. From what I gather on the website, the only real difference seems to be that the Bambino Plus has an "automatic" milk foam feature. For $200 extra that seems like a minimal difference, especially given that it appears the Plus lacks the hot water button that the regular Bambino has, which would be useful for when I need water for pourover.

Is there any real reason to buy the Plus model if you're not that picky about milk foam? It all just dissolves into the coffee anyway, as I tend to make a single latte and sip on it throughout the morning and early afternoon.

Also, any grinder recommendations? I do have a Kingrinder K6 for my pourover, but I'd rather not use that every single day and I'd love an electronic grinder for light roast, as it's not fun to grind those by hand.

When I first got the blast furnace, I scrapped my existing furnace, thinking it would be a straight upgrade. To my dismay, that's not the case, the blast furnace can't be used for things like smelting bronze or iron bars. This means you need to have both bigass furnaces sitting around in case you ever need to make something that requires lower level materials. Sure, this isn't super common, but let's say you're building a new garden somewhere in the world and wanna put some iron secateurs there, now you need some iron bars.

I've always kept my base pretty small and I've managed to make it work with both furnaces and the three new bulky crafting benches, but it really is getting cluttered, for no real reason. Why I can't I just throw iron in the blast furnace and smelt it into iron bars?

When they added Farming, they obviously added farming tools, namely the compost bucket and watering can. The Watering can did get some upgrades:

• Wood (baseline)
• Bronze
• Steel
• Adamant

Why are there no iron or mithril versions? There should be an upgraded version for every metal, and it should be an upgrade over the previous tier. At the moment, steel and adamant cans have identical stats, so it's a waste of materials to make adamant for some reason.

The biggest annoyance tho is the compost bucket. Zero upgrades have been added, and the 150 capacity means you're refilling every 3 plots. Where's the oak, willow, maple and yew buckets?

First of all, why do they not snap together the way other plots do? It makes placing them in rows far more tedious.

Second, why do I need covered plots for planting things like cactus and desert weeds, which grow in the scorching desert sun all over the place without the need for the awnings that the yew plots have? The awnings just get in the way of my camera and movement when trying to harvest.

Most importantly, they don't even seem to work. I just set up 40 yew plots, 20 for desert weed and 20 for fibrous cactus, and 80% of each plant died. I've had less than 5% of these plants die in the willow plots I have back at my main base, so it seems like it's utterly pointless to try and farm in the desert, even with yew plots that say they're designed for desert gardening.

I've been out of work since my entire department was laid off last December. I've put out hundreds and hundreds of applications and thus far only gotten one response, and then they ghosted me when it came time for a phone interview.

Is there a such thing as a service that I can give my resume and job preferences to, and they'll handle the process of sending out applications and vetting potential responses? I thought that's what staffing agencies were, but every one I've looked at is just a job board, they're automating on the behalf of employers, not employees.

The first region of the desert is literally called Alcarrid, presumable pronounced the same as Runescape’s Al Kharid, just spelled differently.

There’s also the Plains of Uzzer, and one ancient city in the Kharidian desert of Runescape was Uzer.

Obviously not a big deal but it seems odd, given that they weren’t doing this with previous zones.

For context, I always play on Ruthless. It feels challenging but fair, while still resulting in successful missions the majority of the time. Given that failed missions give so little rewards that they feel like a complete waste of players’ time, I’m not interested in playing higher difficulties where mission failure is much more common.

That said, the stratagem experience is awful. Normal ones are a breeze and give too little in the way of rewards, while hard feels like Absolute with soul-crushingly difficult modifiers. Neither feel fun or fair, and neither feel rewarding enough.

Been doing Nightmare Prey all season on my Paladin and having a great time.

I'm gearing a BM Hunter now and it's a slog, even with full champion gear and a few Hero track pieces. My pets are not drawing aggro from my prey (yes, I have Growl enabled), and with only a single measly 30% heal on a 1min cooldown, it means I'm struggling to stay alive when being ambushed or in the final confrontations.

Are prey targets supposed to be immune to pet taunts?

I didn't go to school for IT and have no relevant experience, but I want to switch careers. As a PC gamer I've become pretty familiar with PCs over time and I got my CompTIA A+ certification to show I have at least some base level proficiency.

Now what, though? Do I just apply for help desk jobs until I find one? Should I focus on remote work or look for something local, and if something local, where should I go to find local entry-level IT work?

I'm enjoying fishing, I always love life skills like this in RPGs. But is there a purpose to it beyond just filling out the collection log?

Is there a reason to keep duplicate fish once you've consumed one to add it to your collection?

Are they used in the Horadric Cube at all?