u/CrustierGnuXII

The amount of times you see "X" martial art is better than "Y" is such an ancient topic. This questions existence started since the first form of combat had to compete against another.

Application is the only missing context in most cases. If a kick boxer had to follow taekwondo point rules, the result changes. If it's Boxing vs MMA but without ground combat, the result changes. Even no rules Muay Thai vs BJJ, results can vary without a detailed background on each fighter.

It always comes down to technical proficiency, skill and weight class. But the conversation will always come up, "What is the best martial art?"

I have 2 favorite martial arts, that's all I need to know about this topic.

I mention the most interesting since everyone has a favorite. I have a favorite but its not the same as the most interesting.

I personally believe the Sarkic Religious sects are the most interesting due to many of them being tied to some type of ritual or thaumaturgy magic. All off them include very detailed bodily and grotesque horror but it doesnt stop at that. Many Sarkic SCPs have a type of mysticism and connects other SCP stories together(like SCP-610 The Red Death) and worlds.

My favorite part is that many groups usually band together to fight off Sarkic entities, which is awesome.

Im not entirely an atheist and am more of a spiritual person. But almost every atheist, especially agnostic folks, know more about the argument they want to make than people of that religion in a suprising amount of times it gets brought it up in group or 1 on 1 conversations.

This is entirely subjective to my own experience but has anyone had a similar experience, verify or disprove my post?

I can bring up so many references and paraphrase quotes from both old and new testament. I was once protestant for the majority of my childhood so it helps for me as well to have a proper argument.

Two friends for some reason have some crazy Idea to pay more than 20k for electrician tradeschool when IMO you dont learn jack. I have taken 3 schools, one for wind turbine technicians, electrician and generators(didnt cost me a penny thankfully). Almost every one of those schools didnt give me actual useful on job information that I cant study on YouTube for a month.

Im in the belief that in order to get a job, you have to be currently working in the field you want. But before that you need to be lucky and just make like 200+ applications.

Am I wrong in thinking this?

They only want to go to trade school because they arent hearing back from anybody when they only put out about a dozen applications.

We have already seen plenty of movies and two famous pop culture films: Terminator&RoboCop, featuring the exaggerated danger of an AI take over. On the other side of spectrum, although lone heroes, there are AI led heroes in the Terminator & RoboCop movies. Representing that AI is both good and bad depending on the user and individuals/companies intentions and goals.

Bringing up this issue is Dejavu to human history, as any major change leads to widespread concern. Similar to the occurrence in the 1990's, fear of the internet. Many people were concerned about privacy, misinformation, job loss, and cyberp*rn(and early exposure to children). Look at us now, different situation and relatively similar concerns.

Where will the concerns about Deep fakes(including p*rn), misinformation, job loss, and loss of privacy take us now in the next 20-30 years?

Concerns from the 1990's to the 2020's, loss of privacy, misinformation, job loss, and heavy use of cyberp*rn did occur and is now rampant. Many of who heavily use the internet, I believe were born when the internet became common use. Now, its heavily tied to our daily lives and occupations. The problems still exist and increases by the day and effects everyone, many just dont know it.

There are many laws advocating against abuse with the internet and AI. Laws against deepfakes including photos, videos, and audio, which can act as propaganda, defamination, and cyberp*rn. Laws against scams and job practices against these, which jobs are now starting to implement AI scam prevention. Lastly, my current issue is with how common AI use, although helpful, is in the technical workplace. Many experienced technicians/troubleshooters use ChatGBT to find efficient solutions to a problem and get it right 99% of the time, when combined with personal experience. What will stop companies which revolve around software and technical manuals to prevent job loss?

With many existing laws against internet and AI abuse. Malicious users still find a way to poke their heads out. And many try to take down malicious sources but another pops up. Creating a never ending cat and mouse game. Which brings my concern with the Dead Internet Theory where most information is misinformation.

As of now, to even upkeep famous and complex AI programs such as ChatGBT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft CoPilot; Requires super computers, billions of dollars and AI researchers/engineers. But in order to create AI chatbots, AI bots and AI slop is incredibly easy, taking 10-45 minutes for very simple platforms or using already existing ones. Not to mention having self creating AI bots which are now harder to detect in social media platforms.

Should we just accept the loss as the future generation and the majority will just accept the upcoming change in hopes of a better AI tool despite the lack of regulation, restrictions and punishment we have over the internet alone?

Example: Some states, now after 30 years of unregulated cyberp*rn now have an age requirement and ID verification, although with thousands of websites still active, I will safely assume a majority of them are unregulated and dont follow the "strict" ruling.

Outward is its own unique game but from my experience with 200 hours in OW1 and played OW2 quite frequently. As you get more skills and items, regular enemies end up as a nuisance than a challenge. I get it can be seen as a reward for getting stronger but am I alone in thinking Outward should have enemy scaling? Im not talking about bosses since they are done pretty well. Instead Im focusing on regular enemies to make sure they dont become punching bags.

My thought was with every breakthrough skill you unlock. The harder regular enemies become. Or a hidden system where every 1000 silver you spend, enemies get harder since amount of silver is equivalent to strength in this game. Or another seamless method. It could be implemented by

-Increased health, stability and damage. Which is the most straightforward solution but also very thoughtless and unappealing.

-More agressive AI with lengthier combos, less stamina penalties and more reactive to block or dodge.

-They have better items and use active skills/spells.

-Lastly, increasing enemy count by 1-2 might help if enemy aggro is increased as well/calling out to nearby allies. Though more enemies means more loot and in turn can make the game easier if drop rate isnt reduced.

-Increased chance for harder enemy variation/types to respawn in the area where the regular enemy spawned before/add tougher enemies to respawn pool of enemies while keeping the old ones.

I cant for the life of me find these trainers. No information on videos or online. On the modpage it says you can learn it from a guy in front of your house from the starting town. I have looked everywhere in Cierzo and all other cities.

I might have a conflicting mod that makes them not show up, does anyone have their locations? Ive looked for a total of 5 hours collectively on multiple characters.

Thanks ahead of time.

I primarily play on Steam and Im about to be a dad so no more online or competitive games for a minute. Sticking to games I can pause or AFK without reprocussions, Co-Op works too. These are baseline.

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Why I Love RPG Games:

RPG is an always fluid genre and now it strays from the classic Role Play feeling (which Im fine with). Most popular RPG games are action RPG's which has been my favorite genre since Elder scrolls 3. Anything can really be an RPG if you want it to be, not that they are. Choosing to make or not make certain decisions even if its not part of a quest but more of a personal choice is always fun. Making an invincible but slow tank or a never touch a sword, runaway mage are definitely satisfying playthroughs. Deep lore is always included in RPGs which make the world more lively and replayable to find those easter eggs.

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Requirements:

-Must be a class build game. Item or skill wise.

-Must be difficult/challenging during most playthroughs.

-Despite having options, there should not be one clear strong choice/Meta

-Exploration

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Not A Requirement But Is Nice:

-Moddable Game

-Story

-In-depth lore

-Rogue Like

-Doesn't force me to finish story to progress

-Co-Op

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All Example Games Ive played:

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-ES3, ES4, Skyrim, Fallout 3 & 4

-Outward: Definite Edition

-Enshrouded

-Path Of Exile 2

-Diablo 3

-Baldurs Gate 3

-Remnant 1 & 2

-Demon Souls, Dark Souls 1-3, Elden Ring

-Witcher 3

-Vermintide

-Dark and Darker

-Warframe

-Guild Wars 2

-Wizard of Legend

-Terraria

-Binding of Isaac

-Crimson Desert

-Destiny 2

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Not RPG But Good Class Building:

-Once Human

-Icarus

I expected reaching about 50 mods to be a little challenging since Ive modded on other games, especially with Skyrim. By far one of the easiest games to mod above 50 plug-ins.

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There is so much potential with games like these and its so fun when the devs make modding so much easier. There is a lack of bug fix mods since the devs take care of bugs themselves and the overall experience can increase my playtime to hundreds of hours.

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I hope especially with all the popular mods, rated by download count. OW2 could add some more trainers in honor for these modders and have the trainers resemble their name. Of course with some nerfs/balances.

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Anyone have higher than 60 mods?

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Thunderstore/r2modman modpack code: 019ef1d2-9333-a40c-1993-9c1acc074e43

When launching it does take like 2-5 minutes to load sometimes.

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These mods are questionable for balance but its up to you:

-PotionsReverted(this was only for the 3 warm potions but this crafts 3 life, astral and endurance, which is a balancing issue, but I dont craft them), -

-CraftableLegacyItems(can absolutely abuse this to make money),

-TravelSpeed(is not first playthrough friendly, but I got tired of walking around map to map),

-Transmorphic(is because I didn't prefer the original crafting since it was incredibly tedious).

-Debug mode was for testing but you can uninstall or disable in side loader.

I want to have a playthrough with a friend of mine and extend builds beyond base game. I might add all trainer mods if they all dont interfere with each other. If they do, which ones do I look out for?

Outward is considered an Open-world, hardcore, survival, action RPG. What are some features you like and wish to see in Outward 2?

Ill go first, I like how stamina management is taken to the next level compared to games where dodging is essential. Ran out of stamina buffs, dead. Ran out of stamina potions, dead. Ran around and rolled too much, dead. Reduced stamina debuffs, dead. In the hardcore game of Outward, you have to finish the fight before your stamina drops to 0 in almost all cases. Doesnt matter if you have all the health potions in the world.

First playthrough, using gauntlets. I got caught in Vendavel Prison twice on my 3rd day. First was through a death and second, my gullible ah talked to the very suspicious guy and said sure let me in your fortress not knowing he meant back in prison. I farmed like 10 gold bars. It ended up being winter and I am unprepared. Got the blue sand armor set and somehow found coils for Mefino's backpack.

Could not find any gauntlet weapons so I went to Harmattan and started the process to join Sorobean Academy. This is the only time I went on the internet for this game. I wanted my first experience to be raw. But I feel like if I come back, will I be too strong for the main area and the main quests. I have yet to start it since I havent been to any big city other than Cierzo and Harmattan.

I only got like an hour to decide, lol. I have a deployment opportunity to africa for 9 months. I want to go so badly and Im actively discussing it with my wife.

At the moment, Im a reservist who sent up a package for conditional release to active recently and yet to hear back. Im obligated for reservist due to a bonus I took for it.

I've been to this deployment before when I was active after dodging Japan deployment and it was non stop work for me and gym time. Might I say, best time to be in the Marine Corps is being deployed.

My situation is tough since Im waiting to see if HQMC is even going to accept me going active since I have 1 year left till my obligation is over and going to active after is guaranteed. I dont want to regret missing this deployment if HQMC doesnt take me back in until my obligation is over.

I hate being a reservist who has to fly out to a different state. I lose out on 200-300$ since I miss out on a friday(and my job pays more) to drill and I get only about 6-10 hours of total sleep time during the 3 days. And Im f*king dead the whole week Im back and it affects my work productivity. Lastly, reservist do f*king nothing but train 80% of the time. Tired of all the SAPR, BITS and dumb training. Also my duty station isnt really known of being moto as well and the lack of go getters pisses me off.

The biggest concern is my child. Ill be here for the first 3 months but then Im in another state for 3 months after and deploy for 6 months. So about 9 months in total away from my kid. My wife is a big girl and can handle it and we have family and friends willing to help. Although, I miss out on his first words, his first steps and, first Christmas. I come back possibly same month of my kids 1st year b-day if I can delay his b-day celebration until later. But thats if my deployment doesnt get delayed.

I won't have any big regrets since if I go and come back. Im prioritizing them when Im active. I just need out of the reserves.

TLDR: Missing out for the majority of the 1st year of new born. Money, career preference, parent experiences were discussed. Will eventually go active for the full 20 years. 8k a month so wife can be stay at home for kids 1st year.

I have gotten 3 quotes for water heater install for a tank unit in SoCal. They were all ranging from 4k to 6k for a 40gallon unit. Is that normal?

I understand this is a commission job as all these expenses add up. The costs include: 15-30% for tech, cost of unit, delivery, technical exerience, and service/install. Am I missing anything else?

I understand this is usually a 2 person job and they have tools normal people dont which may add extra expenses but how come I cant find anyone who is able to do like 1k for service and I buy the tank and they only take care of service but like 3k in all not including unit, does that make sense?