u/MidirTheGreatest

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do these clowns even realise what show they are watching?

Sure, merc is still having a big upgrade remaining, but seems like RB found some pace and performance since austria, and it is getting better and better. Also true that these tracks might suit the car a bit better, but IIRC RB also stopped developing for a while now, and they put more focus on next year.

So can we be optimistic for Max 27' 28' 29' 30'? He signed an extension, so surely he liked what he saw? I don't think he would have signed and stayed just to fight for podiums and random wins for 4 years.

Just curious what approach you all take.

Personally I have 60% in ETFs (30% QQQ, 30% SP500, at purchase price, no re-adjustment if one of them outpaces the other) and I tend to keep 40% in single stocks.

Of course sometimes if one of my holding runs up the ratio will tilt towards single stocks, but then I try to balance it out by only putting in my ETFs with my monthly contributions for a few months. For now that is still significant enough, but maybe in a year or two it won't be hopefully.

I also limit to not buy more than 10% of my NW in one stock, and max cap it at 20% if it runs up. E.g. bought google with 8%, and now it is 16%, once it hits 20+% i will start trimming.

For those of you who FIRE'd, how do you do the technical part? Do you sell every year the amount you need, or you sell monthly? And if you hold more than just 1 ETF (bond+ ETF, or some single stocks or more ETF) Do you sell them all with the weight they hold in the portfolio? Or do you sell only stocks if they are on a run and keep bonds for a bear market?

So by the full product I mean that, while there are objective parts in art, such as grammar in books, graphical fidelity in video games, etc. the full product can not be objectively judged. Basically, we can't say that this piece of art is objectively good or bad. By saying it, then by definition everyone who thinks otherwise is wrong. That is the basis of my argument. And I don't think that is true, and it also kills discussion on the topic.

Just to show what I mean: Two pieces of art -movie, painting, book, video game, whatever- are rated by the same 100 000 people, so it is a statistically significant sample size, with no difference in the sample.

Art A is rated 7.8.

Art B is rated 6.5.

We pick one person out, who rated Art A as a 5, and Art B as an 8. Can we say they are wrong for doing that? I don't think we can. And we can take this to the extreme, A being rated a 9.9, B being rated a 1.1, and a person who rated A as a 0, and B as 10. And my claim would still stand.

So what a high rated and award winning piece of art is, is 'just' a popular, well liked by the people, but not an objectively good piece of art.

EDIT: Therefore I also want to add that the opinions and views of 'critics' and reviewers imo are not a single bit more valuable than a random persons we ask.

I am using Iraqi steam, but sometimes CDkeys has cheaper prices even with steam sales, but I heard they don't work with this region? Neither the US or EU steam keys. Anyone has experience with that?

This is a general question, not specific to any game. Can it be done at all? Or are these items usually added differently to the account and can't be obtained with CE? -Single player games only.

Or depends on the game?

Let me start by saying how I think stories are made, maybe I might even be wrong here. I know the process and the order of these could be different for everyone, but just on a high level.

You have an idea, a concept, a theme, anything that you want to write about. Space vampires. Or a kid on a path to revenge, slowly coming to terms with the past and letting go. Anything.

Then you get a setting, a character, and an inciting incident, and then you should be good to start writing.

I have all of these. 2 main characters, few important side characters, inciting incident, setting, an idea for the story, and I even have some lore and worldbuilding + about 25k words written.

But here is my main struggle and a realisation I made during writing these 25k words. When I had an idea on what to write, I could easily put out a 3k word chapter in a few hours (albeit the prose quality is first draft level obviously, but 3k words is 3k words). But when I don't, and usually I don't know how to continue the story, I even spent 3 months on 1k words. I just sit and I go for walks and I am out of ideas.

This is not an outline or no outline issue, I tried outlining, but I ended up with the same struggle. What should the next scene/chapter be? What should happen in the next scene/chapter? How should the character change in the next scene/chapter?

And the answer to all of that is: I have no clue. It takes me painfully long to even get an idea for a next scene, I write it in an hour, and then back to weeks of thinking. This really kills my enjoyment of writing, even tho I love it when I can actually write.

So I would really appreciate some advice for this, anyone went through the same issue?

EDIT:

I have a beginning, I know how the story should end. I know how my MC starts out and ends up, and why he goes through the change. I have a few scenes worked out for that already.

I just have no clue how to connect the start from these scenes in the middle and the end. That is my main struggle. To break down the story on a scene by scene level and connect A to B.

Forgive me if this is a stupid question, I am really curious, because all the random reddit comment chains mentioning professional fighters (boxers, mma, bjj etc.) make them seem like they are demi-gods.

So my question is, assuming similar weight/height, how how much chance would an everyday person have against a professional boxer, mma etc... fighter who also trains in fighting sports, albeit not on a professional level, is athletic enough to have good endurance and goes to a gym often. Would it be a one sided bloodbath, or could it go either way given the circumstances?

option 1, in the ring with the rules of the given sport.

option 2, in a street fight with no rules, but no weapons, or any other help.

I know what I described is above average, so my title is not correct, but I meant average as in someone who doesn't fight on a professional level.

I have all the games on Ubisoft launcher, but I would like to migrate all my games to steam slowly.

I know the games are on sale right now, but I was wondering if there is ever like an AC bundle sale on steam? Or this 75% sale for each game is the best bet to buy them?

Elég ferde az orrsövényem, ez légzési problémákat okoz, szóval nem nagyon tudom már tovább halasztani.

Elég sok horror sztorit is olvastam erről, pedig elvileg egy rutin műtétnek kéne lennie nem? Kit ajánlatnátok ezzel a műtéttel kapcsolatban, illetve lézeres opcióról van valakinek tapasztalata? Illetve kell ehhez altatás, vagy nem ajánlott?

The synopsis on manga plus states that this is "The latest work from acclaimed novelist Toshinari Masuda!"

Does this mean this manga is based on the novel -I have not found any novel- or just that a novelist writes the story for this? Would love to read the novel if there is one.

I know the Webtoon format is made for scrolling on the phone, but could a manga work in the same format, if we cut the panels up and make it a scroll rather than on one page (a page usually has 4 panels IIRC), and vice versa, could webtoons work in a traditional printed format?

Or due to the way they are 'printed' and displayed it is very different and would need some redrawing?

All the advice online regarding how to improve writing involves people saying to read more. That is fair, you read works already published, which most likely hit a quality standard good enough to be out there and consumed by many. Or you read bak works and then you can identify why they are bad, you can learn either way.

That makes sense for writing related skills such as prose, sentence level pacing and so. But what about skills that are more or less transferable through other mediums -video games, movies, animation... etc.- such as making up the plot, the character arcs, the pacing of the big picture story and so.

Do you 'consult' the best works in other mediums and use it as a sort of guide in your writing? Can this be useful?

So, I started my first project, I have an inciting incident, I have a general idea of the main story arcs and how I would like to end it. The story focuses on 2 MCs, I know what I want with their character arcs and their personalities. I have also written about 25k words, albeit the prose is awful, but I will worry about that in the second draft.

But here is my main issue. This is a long form 400-500k+ wordcount story. And I am struggling a lot with coming up with what to do in the next chapter, what to do in the next scene etc. It got so bad lately a 1.5k word chapter took me 3 months to write. But when I have a proper outline I can easily write that 1.5k words in an hour or two (first draft quality).

I can't outline no matter what, and it is my biggest bottleneck at the moment. 25k words in almost a year is awful. So I was thinking to have 2-3 sessions of book/developmental coaching sessions. I even found a few people offering this service with a relatively good publishing background, e.g: trad published with a few thousand goodreads ratings. So it's not the 'if you can't do it, teach' situation.

I also struggle a lot with making any of the side characters memorable or good. I am more or less happy with my 2 MCs.

Let's say money is not an issue, do you all think I could get any value and help out of this? Anyone got experienced with anything similar?

Not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but ever since the armory update I think the leges are more annoying to use than ascended.

Let's say I play power guardian. Armor, trinkets all set to zerker, runes done, all good. But sometimes I like to switch weapons depending on the situation, open world, raids etc. And there are several viable power weapons for DH. GS, Spear, sword/sword, scepter (longbow if you need range).

Now, if I swap an ascended weapon it's literally 2 clicks to swap it out. If I want to swap a lege weapon, then I need to select the stat, add the sigil and infusion again. It takes longer and very annoying to do. And I think it goes against the idea of legendary, to be worse to use than an ascended, specially when you put a few k gold into it.

So this might be a very stupid question, but here I go.

I encrypted by hetzner storage box, and I have the rclone encryption file. Can I add this file to the storage box as an encrypted file, would that make a difference?

I mean if they steal my encrypted data, they need the key to decrypt, but if the key is also encrypted it should not make it any easier right? Or am I missing something?

So when you compress and decompress a file, let's say a large video, sure you get the same video after decompressing, but IIRC the file will not be 100% the same on the byte level. But if you encrypt and decrypt it, it will be the exact same, how come?

EDIT: And if I'm wrong about compressing, then same question, how come the file is the same in both cases if it undergoes two changes.

EDIT2: Thanks for all the replies!

1, 200-300 USD max budget

2, Switzerland, can order from EU and US most likely

3, PC compatible

4, More in point 6.

5, Mostly story driven RPGs, sometimes racing games

6, I have the ps4 and ps5 controllers atm, I am wondering if there are any cool ones out there that got some extra feature or some nice gimmick that would be worth getting. Layout wise I have no issues with the ps4 and 5 controllers.

So my nasal septum is not straight, it is causing me some breathing issues and I was recommended a surgery.

Now, I am the biggest coward when it comes to surgeries, so I got a few questions. How bad is this surgery, is there anything that could go wrong?

And I found out that there is an option to do the correction with a laser, is that better in terms of recovery and stuff? Would appreciate some opinions on this.

(I did and will consult with a few more doctors, so I am not looking for medical advice, just general opinions and experiences)