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I picked up DE ages ago and got halfway through the storyline. I just finished AOI and wanted to keep going so I dusted it off. Granted my experience is with Zelda and I've never played a "warriors" style game until this series.

for some reason I find the maps and navigation of Adventure Mode to be exceedingly difficult to understand. There's so many options and maps, item cards, etc. I understand it but somehow I still feel like I'm vague on it all. It's not even obvious to me which challenges I've already completed.

The weapon system seems labor intensive and it's not always possible to see who will be a secondary playable character on the map until you launch the mission in Legends Mode (unless I'm missing something). Generally it seems like a far less polished experience than the two "age" followups.

I'm just wondering if anyone else had a similar experience getting into it or if it's just me. Is there something I'm missing that would help make sense of this, or should I admit defeat after I complete the story?

I can hear the music clear as day in my house. And I live two whole towns away. Oh good, now they're setting off fireworks.

I've been looking for help on what seems like simple and basic issues but so far I haven't found too many answers.

1. I had a pair of Era 100 in my living room. My first Sonos! I have a turntable connected and have autoplay on. The transition from streaming to LP was always smooth and seamless.

2. I just got a Beam for the same room, and it's been sort of a mess since adding it to my setup. I have autoplay on for the tv and "ungroup on autoplay" on since there are times someone is gaming but I'd still like to listen to music.

3. Autoplay for the turntable now never works. It's only usable if I switch the input on the app.

4. After the tv has been used the app thinks of the Beam as the default speaker for my streaming services, meaning I'll hit play on Apple Music and it will play to the Beam only. I have to go in and hit the checkbox for the Era pair for them to become active.

I'm chalking it up to user error or something I did incorrectly when I set up my system.
I do want to preserve the ability to play music on the Beam and Era pair together if possible but I can give that up if that's what's messing me up.

Anyone have suggestions or recommended help documents that could straighten me out? Thanks in advance!!!

Am I the only person here that finds pictures of enormous collections sort of gross and sad?

I realize there's already some other posts about Sarah's take on protests or JVL's take on MTG or whatnot so maybe this is redundant to say but, I just felt so frustrated and discouraged listening to this episode

I'm exhausted and feel defeated by the redistricting / return to segregation era politics and feeling like I'm losing my mind listening to folks tell me the only solution is "persuasion". I love Sarah and I typically have a lot of patience for the fact that she's usually the slowest to come around and face the situation we're in compared to most of her colleagues, but oh man oh MAN!

She made an interesting point that persuasion was key in the gay marriage fight but I think she's forgotten that it wasn't even really a political change as much as a cultural one and having movies, television, music and art that helped people to understand and empathize with gay characters (think: Will and Grace) played an enormous role in shifting attitudes around gay people in general and eventually a culture of acceptance.

Guess what? We have a culture that's now owned increasingly by right leaning supporters of the president, a news ecosystem that heavily favors right wing talking points and social media companies that control the algorithms that decide what we're experiencing online and a FCC that's like a dog off its chain going after perceived critics of the government. It's hard to imagine themes, ideas, critiques, or even satire that might be useful in changing our culture being produced or promoted in a meaningful way anymore.

That leaves what tools left exactly? Democrats have been so thoroughly discredited in the minds of people marinating in the Fox News soup for 3 decades, so anything they say would be dismissed out of hand. The right basically views anyone to the left of them as inherently illegitimate and more dangerous than our foreign enemies.I mean a stellar candidate like James Talarico may not even have a chance of winning his race against an obvious ghoul because having a D after your name is more or less a cardinal sin in parts of this country.

Who is left to do any "persuasion" at this point? And who would they be speaking to? And we're supposed to persuade people to reform the entire system because doing it by law can backfire? Do I have this right?