u/DamagedbutFixable

As a fun little game for myself, I decided to complete all the souls games but with the caveat my friends would vote on my build for each game. They voted for luck.

Obviously the Blueblood Sword is the best way for me to go but I'm relatively unfamiliar with the game since I only beat it the one time.

The plan is to try and secure the sword as early as possible but I also know it requires some heavy stat investment for an NG playthrough.

Any advice on how I should manage my pathway as well as the most effective way to get the necessary souls (without duping) would be appreciated.

Hit a wall in ranked? Want to focus on refining your skills and fundamentals? Do you want long sets establishing muscle memory against matchups you're unfamiliar with?

Quick play sounds like the place for you! Except, it usually isn't. The percentage of players I see on there with 20, 30, 40 game winstreaks only to peep their profile and see them with minimum 80+% winrates on <100 games of ranked only to then lurk like sharks in quick play for thousands of matches is enough to sour the experience.

"Oh I just don't like ranked," "this is just an alt account," "I haven't played ranked this season" isn't an excuse to just sit in quick play and punk noobs because you're 4+ ranks removed from where you should be. Yet Bamco was dumb enough to tie your rank to your unranked matchmaking when most online games have a completely separate hidden mmr specifically for their unranked modes.

So on one hand you have a Ft2 format in a game with a bazillion knowledge checks making it hard to adapt yet when you don't already know them BUT you'll get to play people who are actually of approximate skill to you. Or you get long form sets with players that know your character down to the last frame and pixel because they've been playing Tekken since the dawn of time and they lack the integrity to actually push to their approximate skill level in ranked before jumping in quick play. Instead they just wanna style on objectively worse players to stroke their egos with meaningless large winstreaks.

Don't get me wrong, I still play these fuckers as many games as they'll allow because I'm no quitter. I want those fucking replays. But just know, I think you're a bitch if you do this and nothing will ever change my mind on that.

When I was six years old my parents and teachers at school came to the conclusion I must be a "gifted child" and insisted upon getting me tested. I tested well above my age in pretty much every category with some things being up to six years ahead of my current age. My parents were thrilled at the prospect of having such a brilliant child.

For me, though, I think it was the worst thing that ever happened to me. I've suffered at the hands of years long bullying, I've been in a terribly abusive relationship, I've wrestled with mental illness and various prescriptions to battle it but none of it compares to being tested for my intelligence.

It shaped my whole life and my outlook on it. My parents saw this as an opportunity to push and push and push a child so that they may reap the benefits of an exceptional child. Education was everything. Friends? Waste of time. Extracurricular activities? Waste of time. Girls? Well I was told I was forbidden from dating until I at least had my degree, I remember that from the time I was about eight onwards.

"You got 98? Why not 100?" Was a phrase I heard many times.

By the time I graduated high school, I hated school and I hated learning. Their reward for pushing me in this way was a three time college dropout. I developed a psychological issue where I could not struggle and I could not fail. If I couldn't figure something out quickly and stay on top of it, I quit. I couldn't be challenged, I needed to continue to be validated because I was nothing if I wasn't as close to perfect as humanly possible.

I'm 31 and I decided to try and learn a new language because my girlfriend speaks another language and I'm struggling but I so desperately want to learn. Yet that part of my brain pushes me to quit every single day because there are things I just can't wrap my head around. I'm still ruled by this many years later and I want so badly not to hate my parents for it but fuck.

Just...fuck.

To keep it brief, I work in a fly in fly out situation. I looked the other day and I saw that the deadline for changing your studded winter tires is now May 15th. Unfortunately for me I won't be home for another couple weeks so I'll be over the deadline by the time I actually get home.

Anyone else ever run into this problem? I would assume that should I get pulled over on my way home from the airport that I would just have to explain the situation and hope I don't get a ticket.