u/Serif_1337

Hey all, I've been looking to get a new car recently and I always lean towards hatchbacks, especially manual transmissions, and there is a used 2022 Corolla Hatchback near me with less than 8k miles on it. I wanted to do a little research before pulling the trigger and I started seeing posts about transmission issues with some of these manuals and was wondering how common these issues are and if the car is still worth getting despite that.

So I'm aware of the duel servers and how much people say playing those a ton can help improve overall combat prowess much faster than just playing TO, but I honestly don't see much appeal in trying to just duel all the time and I really enjoy doing TO.

I've definitely grown a lot in my 40 hours of play and consistently find myself in the top 5 of my team as I've started to understand combat and the general flow of the game better, but I still sometimes struggle with the more advanced combat mechanics and am wondering how some of y'all practice those mechanics or build more muscle memory around it while you play.

I understand the concept of counters and feints, making good use of riposte, dragging and accelerating, all of that stuff, but once I actually get into combat I feel like my brain disintegrates and all of that information is no longer being processed lmao. I feel like I make good use of mixing slashes, overheads, and stabs, along with kicks and dodging instead of blocking sometimes, and I can occasionally get some good gambles in. Yet the moment some guy walks up and does a feint I feel like I'm just a drooling peasant and I fall for the feint over and over.

Am I cooked trying to learn all of this in TO or are there ways to just get more accustomed to the advanced mechanics more easily? Do I need to just bite the bullet and throw myself into some duel servers? I know I'll probably continue to get better the more I play, and I'm having such a blast that I'm also ok with the slower progress of my learning, but I thought I'd see if there are any good tips or pieces of advice for improving faster even in TO.

So a few years ago when I got my new gaming PC I did some quick googling on what was a good anti-virus/network and data protection software and it seemed like Norton was pretty highly rated for both personal and business use (my fiancée works from home) so I went ahead and got that installed on our computers.

This morning we lost power for a second and after booting things back up I got an ARP Spoofing warning from Norton that wanted me to turn on my VPN and do some other things, but I had already run into some iffy stuff with Norton so I just disconnected my router for awhile and then it went away. While I was waiting though I started trying to learn more about that alert and went down a rabbit hole of people talking about how often Norton sends these alerts and they are total BS, plus how much Norton has become useless anymore these days.

All of that to say that I'm trying to figure out what the best option for network defense/security would be for my home so I can drop Norton. I don't know if I need anything crazy, my fiancée and I just play lots of games and stream TV, but she also works for home and does some semi-sensitive work, although that specific device already has a bunch of security stuff installed by her business so it's probably already good to go.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! We are running on Windows PC's in case that matters.