u/Mysterious-Plant1001

One aspect of immersive sims that disrupts, well, the immersion for me is the amount of combat. In real life, combat is extremely rare, extremely violent, and usually severely wounding, tiring, or fatal.

Most action/adventure video games, immersive sims included, include absurd, fantastical amounts of combat. Gunfights or sword fights around every corner. Killing enemies by the dozen or hundreds. This is fun in an arcade sense, but a wide departure from realism.

I know that you can play Dishonored without killing any enemies, although I've never been able to pull this off.

What other immersive sims have no or low combat, or the option to largely avoid it or to (potentially) pay huge costs if you engage in it?

About 5 years ago, I bought a prebuilt iBUYPOWER with specs:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, 6 cores / 12 threads, 3.7 GHz base, up to 4.65 GHz

GPU: ASRock AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT, 8 GB GDDR6

RAM: 16 GB TeamGroup DDR4, dual-channel, 2 × 8 GB

Motherboard:** Gigabyte B550 UD AC, AMD B550 chipset

Primary storage: WD Blue SN570 500 GB NVMe SSD

Secondary storage: Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM010 1 TB, 7200 RPM SATA HDD

It's starting to show its age on some newer games with High/Ultra graphics settings, with lags or slowness. Is there any upgrading to be done, or should I replace the whole thing?

Updating to add: budget is up to $1000.

Longtime US SodaStream user. Been using cylinder exchange by mail for years without issue.

About a month and half ago, I ordered a few replacement cylinders through the mail. Usually these ship within a few days. I got the "shipped" email. Nothing arrived, so I checked the tracking, which I usually ignore. Turns out they had not shipped.

I called and found out that they had not shipped due to some vaguely described "system issue" and that they would ship within a week. No big deal! Store bought bubble water is a change of pace.

About two weeks later, they arrived in a mangled box, open on one end, with no cardboard divider insert -- just a bunch of shipping paper stuffed in. It's somewhat surprising that all 9 made it here at all.

The box is unusable for returning the cylinders. So I emailed support and asked for another box. Several days later, I get a reply stating "Please be advised that we are currently out of stock of boxes. You may use any available shipping box you have on hand."

Maybe it's just a minor run of bad luck, but... system issues? out of boxes?? Any other similar experience recently?

I have behind me a trail of poor decisions scattered throughout about a half-dozen accounts. About 1M+ of equities: mostly random mutual funds, a few stocks. Some things I don't even understand exactly what they are.

A few accounts are IRAs/401ks, one Roth IRA, one taxable brokerage account, one MM account. I want to consolidate it and do something like simple TDF to unburden myself from the stress of thinking about this ever again.

What is the best way to go about doing this, in practice? I understand I need to liquidate various things, but can I move it all to Vanguard or Fidelity and have them do it for me?

Or is there a compelling reason to do it myself? Are there major tax considerations other than LTCG for the taxable account to think about?

I'm considering a move from an Amlaw 100 to a boutique. I expected a pay cut but the minimum hours are only a bit lower. What to make of this? What is an hour at biglaw compared with an hour at a boutique? Is working at a boutique that much better in terms of QOL (or something else) despite the comparable number of minimum hours?

Just bought this battery which arrived with empty threaded terminals, no wires of any kind, and no documentation, specs, etc. Buyers beware.

The Amazon page says the terminals are "F13 terminals" which does not seem to exist anywhere else outside this Amazon page. From the picture, it says the threads are 5 mm, so I guess I need some kind of 5 mm threaded screw or bolt of some sort.

Looking for recommendations on what else I need to buy to make this thing useable. I have an ICOM-7100 transceiver with two crimped pin connectors that I'll need to connect it to.

Amazon.com: Miady 12V 30Ah Lithium LiFePO4 Battery, 3000+ Deep Cycle Rechargeable Battery For Small UPS, Fish Finder, Power Wheels, Scooters, Solar Power, Built-in 30A BMS : Automotive