u/PossibleChangeling

I have bipolar 2, and experience constant, low grade mood issues.

The thing that feels abnormal, is how pervasive they are. I was on Latuda for six months, and it wasn't treating my psychosis properly, so I became much more bigoted and hateful, and it took a month of my actual antipsychotic to change my viewpoints back to the real me.

I recognize that everyone has different experiences, but has anyone else experienced this? Or should I talk to my doctor about if something else is going on?

It's hard to describe. I just feel.. unstable?

I switched from 120 mg of Latuda to 6 mg of Risperidone because the Latuda didn't properly treat my psychosis or hypersexuality. I'm now on Risperidone and not experiencing psychosis. However, shortly after switching I noticed that I was exceptionally neurotic and off, so my psych upped my Lamotrigine.

I've had traumatic event after traumatic event happen in the last few weeks, things that I should just be able to brush off and some things that deeply concern me, and I just can't seem to get my footing. I feel unstable, it feels like my head is fluctuating and it's hard to get a clear sense of what's going on. I'm unable to get past things, and developing strange opinions. I feel deeply insecure and unstable.

I'm scheduling an appointment with my psych. Does anyone have any insight they can provide? I know no one can give medical advice, but coping strategies would help as well.

I love Vampire: The Masquerade, but not for the reasons most people do. Most people like the brooding atmosphere, but I really enjoy the base building mechanics.

I've long since dreamed of running a V5 game built around base building, expanding and building an empire, but I'm frequently held back by how it seems like an afterthought in the system, and also my own general inexperience running a game like that.

What are some system agnostic tips and advice for running a game about logistics, base building and politics?

I really just love mundane worldbuilding, and want a TTRPG that lets my players build an empire and get embroiled in political disputes.

I'd ideally want a flexible system that lets me cater it to the setting I like, as opposed to one with a single setting.

Looking for $300 while I wait for my first paycheck from my new job to hit. Will likely repay earlier as that's what I already do.

Edit: Location is incorrect. Meant Portland, OR, USA.

Heyo!

Venira is a setting I've been making for sometime. Its a fantasy setting inspired by Elden Ring, Warhammer Fantasy, and all the happy fun fantasy stuff me and my players love. This is a followup to our Curse Of Strahd game, and me meeting the request from my players for a fun, pulpy game as a palliate cleanser from Strahd's dark and dreary horror.

While it is a fantasy game where most things are allowed, I'm the GM and I'm really passionate about mundane stuff like logistics, geopolitics, sociology and all that, so expect a lot of amazing boring worldbuilding about why the price of a copper is causing the dwarf king to revolt.

Our group is LGBT+, with multiple women/queer people and two of us have disabilities that affect mood, so this is a table for empaths and people who can have fun and try and get along. We're looking for 1-2 players.

Sessions are Mondays at 7 PM PST. As an added note, most of the group is from Portland, Oregon or the surrounding areas, so, while you're not at all required to be from PDX, if you are that's a huge plus! We are also not decided on whether this will be a 2E or 5E game yet, so your vote matters but be prepared for both! Session 0 will be on the 31st.

Send me a chat request with the following information to apply! I will be responding Sunday, so don't feel pressure to throw your hat in as soon as you see this:

• Name
• Experience with TTRPGs
• Discord username
• Favorite trope! I love tropes <3

I'm playing Marvel Rivals, but the issue is I always play on a super low DPI. It makes my shots more accurate since I have more room to click someone's head. But I also wanna play melee champs and I'm realizing a high DPI is required for Black Cat and other melee characters.

I could have a different DPI on melee characters, but I worry that would mess with muscle memory and make me worse with other characters.

Any advice on what I should do?

I'm trying to go to school to become a truck driver. I live extremely economically, and my brother has an amazing job, however we are $10,000 in debt.

The school I'm going to goes through this really shady loan company called Coachfinancing or something. I don't care that it's a shitty loan, I don't care if I spend six years paying it off.

My brother makes $2300 a month. As a truck driver, I'll be making $3200 a month minimum, and most likely closer to $4800. Our bills, even with debt and this loan, are $3600 a month. That means, full time as a truck driver, we will pay off all of our debt in a year. And even if we never pay off this loan, we'll still pay off our other debts and our income will go up significantly.

The thing is, my credit score is about 640. I already have a personal loan, and debt collection on my tab from my old apartment. But this is a really shitty loan, and I just need it to go through.

Is there any hope that this works out?

I know this sub is for minor loans, but here's to hoping.

I'm going through a four week truck driving school. The cost of the course is $6500. Combined with general living expenses, it's about $8,000. I'm currently fishing for really, really shitty loans, because the money I would make doing this far outweights any debt repayment I could have. It's estimated that I'll be making $3200 - $4800 a month from the date I'm hired. And recruiters will be at the school from my first day, so I'll sign on with the first one happily.

My goal here is to borrow privately instead. I'm already finalizing a loan with a shitty and predatory company, but if I can pay a 30% or even 40% interest rate to a real person and not a loan shark, I'll happily do it.

I have a history on this sub. Payment would be done through paypal. Unsoliicted DMs will be reported.

I'm trying to go to school to become a truck driver. I live extremely economically, and my brother has an amazing job, however we are $14,000 in debt.

The school I'm going to goes through this really shady loan company called Coachfinancing or something. I don't care that it's a shitty loan, I don't care if I spend six years paying it off.

My brother makes $2300 a month. As a truck driver, I'll be making $3200 a month minimum, and most likely closer to $4800. Our bills, even with debt and this loan, are $3600 a month. That means, full time as a truck driver, we will pay off all of our debt in a year. And even if we never pay off this loan, we'll still pay off our other debts and our income will go up significantly.

The thing is, my credit score is about 640. I already have a personal loan, and debt collection on my tab from my old apartment. But this is a really shitty loan, and I just need it to go through.

Is there any hope that this works out?

I'm taking out a loan to go back to school and become a truck driver. I really need it to go right because I have bills to pay, and can't handle a loan on a degree I didn't get.

How hard is a commercial truck driving course? I'm doing Elite Driving School in Oregon, it's a 4 week course where you have your CDL by the end of it.

I'm a gig driver for Curri which is basicallly about delivering hardware supplies. I've been doing it for about three months with no issue, and was a delivery driver for a month before that.

Could use some reassurance that this is doable, because I have a lot riding on this and don't have a lot of options.

Looking to go back to school and become a truck driver. Course is 4 weeks to complete, estimated time to be hired is 1-2 weeks after graduation. Loan would cover tuition.

Will be making monthly payments. This is predominately so that I don't have to take out a sizeable loan with an official bank.

Estimated salary upon first hire is $60,000 - $70,000 a year. I will be working overtime if at all possible.

Only accepting payment via paypal. Unsolicited DMs will be reported and banned.

I have bipolar disorder. It's treated, however I worry it would immediately disqualify me from becoming a law enforcement officer.

I live on the west coast in Portland, Oregon. Does anyone have any information about this?

Never give up

Prearranged with u/yonathandlc

I'm rewriting Argynvostholt. The goal is to make it a huge monastery worshiping the Morninglord, that has actually fallen to worshipping the dark powers. It's a major plotpoint I have planned that the players will redeem the valley in the eyes of the Morninglord, and that this will earn them either the sunsword or the symbol of ravenkind (in case you can't tell, my campaign heavily rewrites the module).

I need help with two things: First, I need help writing a settlement built around a monastery. Second, I need help writing the monastery as a major settlement for a quest where the players can redeem it.

Can anyone help me out please? I've asked and asked and no one seems to want to help me.

I'm rewriting Argynvostholt. The goal is to make it a huge monastery worshipping the Morninglord, that has actually fallen to worshipping the dark powers. It's a major plotpoint I have planned that the players will redeem the valley in the eyes of the morninglord, and that this will earn them either the sunsword or the symbol of ravenkind (in case you can't tell, my campaign heavily rewrites the module).

I need help with two things: First, I need help writing a settlement built around a monastery. Second, I need help writing the monastery as a major settlement for a quest where the players can redeem it.

Can anyone help me out please? I've asked and asked and no one seems to want to help me.

My best friend has a PC, and regularly plays with me and my brother. However, despite him having a prebuilt PC, it constantly crashes. Specifically, it seems to always crash with multiplayer games. We regularly play Liar's Bar, Buckshot Roulette, we use Parsec to play fighting games and they mostly work fine, but certain games just have stubborn issues that seem to create problems.

It's worth noting that he's always had network issues, but these seem to just be low quality internet, and don't seem to explain the issues with games crashing and kicking him.

The two biggest contenders are:

• Marvel Rivals
• Baldur's Gate 3

Marvel Rivals has a really stubborn crashing issue where it just crashes and closes. We've tested a ton of solutions and it just doesn't seem to work no matter what we do.

Baldur's Gate 3 is the biggest one. For starters, his game works fine playing without mods, however, every time we mod the game, regardless of the mods we install, his game crashes and exits to desktop constantly. And here's the weird part, the mod list works for me and my brother without issue. By and large, no one else in our friend's group has any issues playing with mods, but his game crashes regardless of what mods are installed.

Baldur's Gate 3 crashes with the script extender, and even without the script extender with just mods from the in-game mod manager. However, it doesn't crash if we play without mods, which is a bummer since all of us have hundreds of hours in the game and just can't seem to get it to work.

Things he's tried that haven't worked:

• Updating graphics drivers
• Rolling back graphics drivers
• Uninstalling mods (game works with no mods, but crashes with any mods)
• Verifying file integrity
• Fixing his connection by moving to a different room. This significantly decreased latency, however the crashing persisted.
• Reinstalling Windows 11.
• Removing mods with external dependancies.
• Playing Marvel Rivals on multiple different versions of the game.
• Playing Baldur's Gate 3 with and without mods on multiple versions of the game.

Any ideas? We're really out of ideas.

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Using Legion Of Excess and the new Cavalcade detachment.

The new terrain, Fight Phase and Charge Phase rules favor melee a lot more than 10th, where shooting was dominant, so I wanted to give Legion Of Excess another shot since Slaanesh are one of my two favorite demon factions.

The idea here is to rip and tear with chariots, fiends and keepers of secrets. My monsters actually have narrow target ranges, with both struggling into terminators more than other options on my list. But their auras are strong, and they do do well into softer or tougher targets.

Tormentbringers and Hellflayers are super strong, and getting to Rapid Ingress them turn 1, as well as give them Mobile to move through walls makes them super good. Together with how good their damage is, and Masque giving them +1 to Wound, and how Seductive Gambit doesn't necessarily mean they'll be hit anymore, it just seems like a really potent unit all around.

Feedback is appreciated!

I've been playing Warhammer 40k since 10th came out. I have a lot of experience, and my main armies are World Eaters and Genestealer Cults. Despite this, I always wanted to play Sisters but was unable to because my brother played them and does not like mirror matches. However, he dropped 40k, so I played my first game on TTS today.

Bear in mind, these are my initial thoughts, not only as a first time player, but also as someone with a lot of experience but who is unfamiliar with the new edition due to only having played a few games in it. So bear in mind, this is not the opinion of someone familiar with the army, and more just me sharing my thoughts casually for anyone who cares.

I played Bringers Of Flame. Here is my list.

My initial thoughts on Sisters is that they are an army that is hard to get value out of, but one that has a lot of options few other armies have. An example of this is how they have some of the best anti tank in the game, with a surplus of meltas and several melee units that can destroy vehicles, but their units are slow, and rely on niche or specific synergies to get into their win conditions. I'd argue Sisters when played right can get a level of value that other armies would struggle to get. A properly screened sisters army is a nightmare for World Eaters, and they're able to screen against deep strike like Genestealer Cults very effectively due to their higher model count compared to elite armies. However, they are very tied to limited movement and specific range and sightlines, and, in my opinion as someone playing them in 11th edition, I think they are one of the more struggling armies, more on that later.

As I played, I realized there was always something I could do, and I found a lot of potential, and a lot of times I went "Oh, that would have been cool" or "Man, I wish I realized I could do that earlier." Transports are very good in Bringers Of Flame, and Sisters have very good transports that give a lot of options that other armies don't have.

However, I think Sisters are going to struggle in 11th, and it's for a very specific reason; the new terrain rules do not favor them. Sisters have very medium saves across their army, so Benefit Of Cover was specifically good for them. However, a penalty to Ballistic Skill benefits them a lot less when a lot of armies have ways of circumventing that. There's inherently less counterplay, and, for units with Invulnerable Saves, I think removing a point of AP was a lot stronger for them than worsening accuracy. That isn't even the worst part of the new terrain rules.

I played on official layouts against Blood Angels. My opponent was playing Liberator Assault Group with no other detachments, so it was a pretty even match in terms of detachments. Despite this, I realized as I played that I could not draw a sightline at all. Terrain rules in 10th vastly favored shooting armies, and often melee armies needed boosts and synergies to contend with strong shooting. However, changes to charge rules mean that a unit in range to charge will often charge something, and as a sisters player there's very few units you can afford to lose. A charge that would have failed in 10th now succeeds in 11th, even if it wasn't the target they wanted. Additionally, with the new terriain providing more ways to resist shooting, I believe sisters, at least in bringers of flame, as an army with strong shooting struggles a lot. This is especially true since Sisters often have a very narrow range of circumstances to set up a win condition. To shoot meltas, you need to be within 6", need to move to a target, need to draw a sightline, and need specific units and synergies to make it work. This isn't because meltas are bad, but rather because no other army or detachment relies on them as their main tool for dealing with targets. This is also true because Sisters lack many of the conventional damage 2 options, meaning meltas, which are an inefficient way of killing medium wound infantry, are now more inefficient due to having less ways to get a sightline with them, and thus less meltas hitting overall.

I like sisters, so I think I will play them at some point in the edition. But I think I see them struggling a lot going into the early stages of the edition, and since points aren't something that can really be changed for them, I think they'll need more substantial buffs to overcome their issues, which might be hard since, having said they might be weak, I don't think they're the weakest army, so support may take time. I think the new terrain rules don't benefit them. I also think Disruption is a very strong force disposition, and I think Take And Hold is a weaker one in my experience, both of which do not favor Sisters.

So yeah, those are my takes as a new player playing Sisters. I don't think I'm good at them by any means, but these are my first impressions from playing Sisters for the first time in 11th.

Please be kind in the comments, thanks for reading.