u/KevineCove

I've been FFT 5 times now (blind, completionist, no grind, mage only/no math/no special, one Beastmaster+4 monsters.) Most of these runs were easy enough logistically, although the monster run was annoying because I had to grind out Orator before the Dorter battle.

The last run I wanted to do was 2 normal characters + 3 Mimes. After reviewing the prerequisites for Mime, I'm intimidated by the prospect of doing so much grinding. For the Beastmaster run I let myself over-level because I correctly guessed being over-leveled would be necessary for the main story. Here, grinding out Mime in early game would be game-breaking, and leveling down or using spillover JP adds more work and overhead to an already awful process.

Any suggestions on what to do that doesn't involve extreme tedium?

I started working on a mobile game in late 2021 and have been continuously adding content to it since then. A year ago, my game was working fine, having last been published from 2022.3.17f1. Recently, Google Play required me to update my game due to security policies, so I tried pushing some new changes and ran into a bunch of issues. Figuring this was probably a consequence of a bunch of legacy packages and APIs I was using, I tried tinkering around and fixing stuff, then eventually gave up, migrated to 6000.3.19f1, and updated everything. Nothing is significantly worse (which is why I haven't restored my backup to 2022.3) but most of the old issues are still present.

When trying to build to Android, I get these two messages:

• Exception while marshalling ...AndroidPlayer\SDK\build-tools\36.0.0\package.xml. Probably the SDK is read-only
  • My minimum API level is 34, my target is "highest installed" which is 37.
• Duplicate class [class] found in modules kotlin-stdlib-1.8.22.jar and kotlin-stdlib-jdk8-1.6.21.jar
  • I was able to get this to go away and get a successful build by completely removing my In-App Purchases package. Presumably IAPv5 requires Kotlin 1.8 and something else in my project requires Kotlin 1.6.

These are all the packages I have installed:

• 2D Sprite 1.0.0
• 2D Tilemap Editor 1.0.0
• Al Navigation 2.0.13
• Analytics 6.3.0
• Analytics Library 3.8.2
• Android Logcat 1.4.7
• Custom NUnit 2.0.5
• In-App Purchasing 5.4.0
• JetBrains Rider Editor 3.0.40
• Multiplayer Center 1.0.1
• Newtonsoft Json 3.2.2
• Post Processing 3.5.4
• Services Core 1.18.0
• Test Framework 1.6.0
• Timeline 1.8.12
• uGUI 2.0.0
• Unity Version Control 2.12.4
• Visual Studio Code Editor 1.2.5
• Visual Studio Editor 2.0.27
• XR Legacy Input Helpers 2.1.13

Apart from this, my project has very few assets, but some third-party ones include Script Dependency Visualizer and iOS Builder; I feel like neither of these should be causing build issues as none of their contents would actually end up in an Android build.

I honestly have no idea how to track down an issue like this. How can I identify what is requesting Kotlin 1.6?

For the most part, I'm not a fan of autobiographical work. I don't like writing about myself, and a lot of autobiographical work I'm aware of is trash (either some rich asshole pays a ghostwriter to make them seem likeable, or someone with unhealed trauma is desperately reaching out for attention.) I'm aware that these are absolutely biases I have and are not hard and fast rules of the genre.

A while back, I read Mother Jones' autobiography and it sparked some genuine interest in the genre. Something that stuck out to me was that she went through the first 30 years of her life in 3 paragraphs and spent the rest of the book describing her work as a labor organizer.

Until that point, I'd mostly thought of autobiographies as an impartial summary of life events (which makes it no surprise that I expected them to be boring.) I also found the idea of writing an autobiography to be kind of pointless, because what I find important about my life in the present day is bound to change from year to year. If I wrote an autobiography now, then wrote another autobiography 5 years later, the second book wouldn't just be the first book with an extra 5 years at the end; the earlier parts would change to reflect what I found more or less important about my earlier life.

The obvious next question then becomes, if you're not just summarizing events but are editorializing, toward what purpose are you editorializing your work, and what's the point of starting now if your intent is going to change forever? Everything you write would end up completely changed, and even the parts changed by the future you would be changed again by a more distant future you.

I've survived two 6 challenge runs before, both multiple years ago. Now I'm trying to get a million point run and most runs I can't make it out of the sewers. I've even died on the first floor multiple times (usually from a flaming or projectile champion.)

I've mostly tried with Cleric, Rogue, and most recently Huntress (which feels the best so far.) Everything just feels bad. I can't engage enemies at distance because of Into Darkness, I can't ambush them one by one because of Swarm Intelligence, I can't wait and try again later because I'm always starving from On Diet. I get that Supernewb recommends engaging at distance whenever possible and that kind of helps, but enemies close the gap too fast to reliably kill them before they reach me. I'm trying to do trick shots but I don't see opportunities often and I'm bad at them. So far that's the only thing I can think of that I could potentially improve.

If I survive long enough to get a decent weapon or even just reach an alchemy pot, things seem to ease up, but early game I have basically no resources that could be used as a margin for error.

Btw, do you need to ascend a 7C for a million points?

First off, this doesn't have to be a book. Any storytelling medium is fair game.

I'm tired of "great men" in stories, whether it's chosen ones, heroes, avatars, or icons. I don't like one character disproportionately affecting things; even dictators tend to have cabinets of people working with them and exercising their own autonomy, because one person does not have the mental capacity to run an entire country themselves.

By the same token, large ensemble casts (ASOIAF, Dune, War and Peace) are too hard for me to track.

Ideally I'd like to see multiple self-contained stories set in the same universe, where each story has a small cast that's easy to track, but together the stories create a composite picture of a complicated system with many moving parts.