At first I thought it was funny that the "VS" screen had my trainer glaring down the other guy.

Until I met Misty.

Fuck you Misty, don't come at me with that peace sign and stupid smile.

I found out about Cayde being "back" thanks to you, so bless you. I wonder how Bungie is gonna fuck with us this time?

I knowww. And past me is just shaking her head saying this was always gonna happen.

But either way, I'm super happy just to have him around again, I missed feeling like I wanted to stuff him into ravioli, hang on the washing line, wobble like laminated paper etcetc

im already planning on rewatching naruto i cant be rewatching code geass as well. but my brain tells me it must be done and who am i to argue

Had a bad day at work today ... x__x...

I have a lot mixed feelings about the second part of the event.

hello!! sorry if this is a weird question, but do you happen to have any advice on how to reach 999 in salm? i keep seeming to get stuck in a loop around 400-500 and i honestly have no idea what i could work on to improve T wT

This ended up being pretty long whoops. The first 4 paragraphs are on advice if you think you've got a good understanding on map awareness and junk. The rest are kind of a brief summarization on your own mindset for SR grinding. I'd be happy to expand on it if you'd like further clarification though this post is long enough as it is @_@

The best option, but also the most inconsistent, is finding a team to grind with is the best choice. You can find Discord servers dedicated for this. I usually suggest the Reddit SR server, but the quality of players there are... questionable, but you can find a group there fast since it's a huge server.

The other option is learning all the tech that's available for SR. I again suggest joining the Reddit SR server as they also have the best resources on learning everything you need to know and learn about SR.

Also, comp and map are relatively what's going to make your grind a heavenly ride or a rollercoaster straight to hell. You need a good understanding of weapon roles on SR in order to judge whether it's a good weapon comp (or just ask people on SR servers). Typically what a good comp looks like is a good balance between high dps and range. And for good maps, my ranking for best to worst map (in terms of ease) is Gone Fission, Sockeye, Spawning Grounds and Marooner's Bay. If you don't care about what map it's on, go for Fission, as it's the best map to deal with Glowflies + it's pretty good all around.

(Not necessary to read) Usually shooters like Splattershot/Sploosh and range that one shots or deals fast damage like Charger/Squiffer and Splatling (debatable). Though specific weapons like Explo and Dynamo that have great properties (Explo being able to deal with Flyfish and Mudmouths, while Dynamo can roll over every Salmonid) can also greatly help, as long as the other weapons are fast to compensate for it's slowness.

Lastly, if you're dead-set on doing it on freelance, all I can say is you better have a cleared schedule because you're going to need 2 days (basically the full rotation including time for sleep) to grind it out, because at BEST, it'll take 7-9 hours to get to 999, and considering how bad freelance is at the low end of EVP.... You'll usually finish on the 2nd day of the rotation.

Otherwise, if you've done all this, all you really have to work on is yourself. Learn to understand the situations you're going to be in and have a good understanding of map control and bosses. Learn about luring and whether your teammates are doing that at the start of the wave (sitting back, but you usually find them at higher EVPs). Have a good understanding what your weapon role is. Take out bosses that do global attacks (i.e. Flyfish, Stingers, Big Shots, etc) if your weapon can do that job (or pop a special that can deal with numerous of them). Or clear lessers or bosses that take up your turf (cough Fish Stick) if your weapon does that better, all the while juggling the job of clocking in eggs.

Staying alive and doing as much work as possible (turfing ink and walls for your teammates before the wave starts, clearing out lessers before they start to overwhelm you all, taking out bosses based on priority and luring, and of course, clocking in eggs) is your priority. If you keep dying then learn to judge situations on whether or not you're going to get yourself killed.

Creators like Hazmy makes dedicated SR videos on teaching you this kind of stuff, while Reyko keeps updates on tech for SR (though, usually for overfishing, but it's still useful, and also includes tech that comes from the JP side).

Anyways, good luck! You get better freelancers at the end of the grind, i.e. ~800 EVP just letting you know, so there is hope.

sometimes I wonder if I should take a gender studies class just so I can bitch every day about how an imaginary boyfriend is often seen as a requirement for a woman to feel safe enough to have fun at a club, or the idea that an imaginary person with a fake “claim” over me has more influence over predatory men than my own voice saying “No, I’m not interested, get lost”

every time i learn more about how you view jeremy i am like. YES!!! we have very similar views about him….. he deserves to be a little bit of a freak

RIGHT i think well of course jeremy is nothing at this point in time like he's not even lines he's just a blank slate so i understand if people disagree with me but for me i just have a lot of fun imagining him being a very deranged kind of person. he doesn't need any major trauma to be like this he just is. do you know what i mean? it's not even like oh i'm Dark and Mean i really just mean that he's weird and he's very good at hiding it but it doesn't mean that he's not weird. i like imagining him being like and here's my trojans personality, here's my classmates personality, here's my dating personality, here's my talking to older people personality, here's my Talking To My Parents personality, etc....... he's those kind of people that have a plan a and b and c and d and e and further down the line if you're ever interested. just very clearly unwell about it all. someone's type A crazy mom for sure

and in a way i think any kind of deviance from the norm would be very um healing? for him. i'm thinking of that line from disco elysium where one of the characters say that beauty is a kind of mediocrity, i think jeremy would be like that! i think he'd be very aware of the roles he plays and the structures he operates under, so even something like sexual sadism (HRFGKJDHFGJDFG...!) could be a way to destress and let go of the ever-watching voyeur that tells him he should be like this or like that. the pursuit not of beauty or of acceptance but the blissful middle term where one can be immoral and nasty and vain and not have their entire personhood built around those flaws

50k words yoppee!

also i funneled all my resources into argenti so i cant build hanya at all rn... but i need her for my team.....

Sick of jerking off to porn now i just look up pictures of kiryu in his little grey tracksuit whenever i need to cum

YEAAAAAAAAAAH WOOOOO thanks to some careful planning some VERY GOOD BOYS and a handful of absolutely clutch flinches and crits thats LANCE DEFEATED!!!

so... it's been a hot minute

basically as ready as ill ever be to fight clay, still mad i lost my starter this run but tbh i have enough other pokemon that i still think i have a shot. 11 in my living encounters vs 8 dead isnt horrible (i did kill off a few pissoffs grinding up to level tho ugh) anyway lets go boiz

GAY RIGHTS WIN LOVE WINNING SO HARD????

oh boy school tomorrow! I missed 8 classes. I missed 2 work shifts. I missed 2 exams and a quiz. I have an essay due and I don't know when. I have accounting homework due tomorrow. I have a lab report due tomorrow. I have 2 days of lab to complete in 1 and I work immediately after lab (so can't stay after). I woke up at 10am and my first class tomorrow starts at 9 which means I have to be up at 7:45 and there's no chance I fall asleep before midnight tonight