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If someone asks me how work has been lately I just reply, "oh, you know, just working on my spreadsheet" and they laugh like I have just made a funny joke about how so much of work these days is pointlessly futile bureaucracy that slowly hollows out your soul but actually I made up a little game where we try to guess the CMYK values of a colour swatch and we're a couple of months in now and I am, on the clock, slowly building out this very very complicated spreadsheet that will work out for us who, at the end of the year, wins a $20 gift card for the bakery next door.
#I unironically love excel#yes there are a lot of things about it that are very very annoying#but that's what love is all about#anyway of the people with 5+ guesses Dave is in the lead with an average of 17.33#next up I need to make it start calculating the averages of the 5 best guesses#which will increase to 10 once we get to 15 rounds in#I am trying to make it fair for people who have missed weeks for holidays or whatever#while still rewarding people who put in consistent effort#and allowing for everyone to have a few bad guesses
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An Update to the Kissing Multiverse!
The first version is here, second version here, third version here. There is also a little bonus stat crunching here. My tag for this project is here.
Well, Only Friends and Dangerous Romance are over, so I am back with another GMMTV Kissing Multiverse update for you all. And boy howdy it is a doozy. We've added 16 shows, 19 actors, and 33 unique kissing pairs!
Rules
Must have visible lip to lip contact
Must be shown on screen in a GMM tv series (no kisses from ads, promotional content, trailers*, movies, etc.)
*please note this means none of the GMMTV 2024 trailers count
Breakdown by Show
The data set now includes 77 shows.
(full list in alt text)
Breakdown By Actor
The data set now includes 131 actors.
(full lists in alt text)
Results and Discussion
Unique vs. Repeat Kissing Pairs
Last time round we learned that the vast majority of GMMTV kissing pairs are one-offs and that mixed gender pairs were less likely to repeat. Those conclusions hold true for this update.
There are 169 "unique" kissing pairs in the dataset, and of those, 156 (92.3%) appear only once, in one show. 13 pairs (7.7%) appear at least twice.
The 13 pairs that appear in more than one show are:
Book/Force (in A Boss and a Babe, Enchante, and Only Friends)
Bright/Win (in 2gether and Still 2gether)
Dunk/Joong (in Hidden Agenda and Star in My Mind)
Earth/Mix (in A Tale of Thousand Stars, Cupid's Last Wish, and Moonlight Chicken)
Fiat/June (in The Gifted and The War of Flowers)
Film/Gun (in Not Me and Three Gentlebros)
First/Khaotung (in The Eclipse and Only Friends)
Gun/Off (in Not Me, Puppy Honey, Puppy Honey 2, and Theory of Love)
Lee/Mook (in My Dear Loser and The Jungle)
Louis/Neo (in The Eclipse and Fish Upon The Sky)
Marc Natarit/Pawin (in Dangerous Romance and My Gear Your Gown)
New/Tay (in Dark Blue Kiss and Kiss Me Again)
Phuwin/Pond (in Fish Upon the Sky and Never Let Me Go)
The kissing pair that has appeared in the most shows is Gun/Off, with 4 shows out as of now (and 2 more in the works!).
10 out of 13 of these repeating pairs (77%) are same gender pairs, specifically BL branded or brand-adjacent pairs. Once again, an interesting look into the GMMTV het vs BL system.
All in all, 97% of mixed gender pairs and 85% of same gender pairs appear only once, in one show.
Same Gender vs. Mixed Gender Kissing Pairs
Of the 169 "unique" kissing pairs, roughly 60% are mixed gender pairs and roughly 39% are same gender pairs. This ratio has shifted slightly from the last update (when it was 59% mixed gender and 41% same gender) as I have added more het shows to the sample.
Now to look at the shows themselves: 35% of the shows had only same gender kissing pairs, 47% of the shows had only mixed gender kissing pairs, and 18% of the shows featured both. You will notice that this is a 8% increase in favour of "mixed gender kissing only" shows compared to the last update which is due to the number of het shows I added this update.
Most Kissing Pairs Per Show
The average number of kissing pairs per show is 2.4.
The shows with the most different kissing pairs are:
Only Friends (16 different pairs)
The Warp Effect (15 different pairs)
Friendzone (11 different pairs)
The Jungle and U-Prince (9 different pairs each)
The Player (7 different pairs)
Not Me, Three Gentlebros, and 3 Will Be Free have 4 different kissing pairs each, and then all other shows have 3 or fewer kissing pairs each.
Welcome Only Friends to the top of the ranking! 🎉 A well deserved placing. I would like to take a moment to hone in on the distribution of kissing over the course of the series:
We hit 9 kissing pairs in ep. 9, 10 pairs in ep. 10, 11 pairs in ep. 11, and 12(+) pairs in ep. 12. Very satisfying.
The Power of Jojo
Jojo, every series:
You get a kiss and you get a kiss! YOU ALL GET KISSES!
(inspired by @dribs-and-drabbles here)
As we've learned over these past updates, Jojo has an outsized impact on the number of kissing pairs. He has directed roughly 10% of the shows in this sample, but his shows account for nearly a third of all kissing pairs (32%). Half of Jojo's shows are in the top 6 for most kissing pairs per show (Only Friends, The Warp Effect, Friendzone, and The Player).
The average number of kissing pairs in a Jojo show is 7.4, compared to 1.8 for non-Jojo shows.
Interesting to note: last update, the average number of kissing pairs per show for Jojo shows was 6.0 (1.4 lower) and the average for non-Jojo shows was the same (1.8). Only Friends had quite the impact.
(note: in this section, I am just looking at kissing pair iterations here not at unique kissing pairs, e.g., Phuwin/Pond are a pair in two shows (once in a Jojo show and once in a non-Jojo show), so they are counted twice.)
Most Kissing Partners
First, to put this in context: 50.4% of the actors in this sample have only had one kissing partner. The average number of kissing partners per actor is 2.6 (an increase of 0.3 from last update - again, possibly due to Only Friends).
We've had some significant changes in the leader board this update. Previously, our top 5 were Joss (10 kissing partners), Lee and Namtan (9 each), and Ohm and Nanon (7 each).
Welcome our new leader, Lee, with 12 kissing partners!
Krist takes the second spot (11 different kissing partners), followed by Joss (10), Namtan (9) and First (8) to round out our top five.
Next we have Gigie, Mild, Nanon, New, Off, and Ohm with 7 different kissing partners each; Film, Mond, Mook, Neo, and Singto with 6 kissing partners each; and Bright, Fluke Pusit, Jan, Khaotung, and Mark Pakin with 5 kissing partners each. There are also eleven actors with 4 different partners, and fifteen actors with 3 different partners each.
This update sees an astonishing 6 new kissing partners for Krist and 3 for First, catapulting them into the top 5. The impact of Only Friends can't be denied either - it increased every one of its actors' total kissing partners, and pushed Mond, Neo, Khaotung, and Mark Pakin up into the upper echelons, along with First, of course.
Most Kissing Partners in One Show
We have a new reigning champion for "Most Kissing Partners in One Show"! Thanks to his tireless hard work in Only Friends kissing 5 different people, Neo rockets to the top of the list.
We now have seven people who have kissed 4 different people in one show thanks to Only Friends (First, Mark Pakin, and Mond in Only Friends; Fluke Pusit, Gigie, and New in The Warp Effect; and Plustor in Friendzone), and eight cases of people kissing 3 different people in one show (Book, Force, and Khaotung in Only Friends; Joss and Namtan in The Player; Joss again in 3 Will Be Free; Krist in The Jungle; and Singto in Friendzone).
Please note that all of these instances (except for Krist in The Jungle) happened in Jojo shows.
In total, there are 52 instances of people kissing more than one person in a show, and 31% of actors in the sample have kissed more than one person in a show at least once.
Which of the GMMTV boys has kissed the most guys?
Last update we had a five-way tie for first place between First, Fluke Pusit, Neo, Plustor, and Singto, with 4 men kissed each. Only Friends has significantly changed the situation.
Congratulations to First for taking first place in the men kissing men category, with 7 men kissed! Next we have Neo in second place (6 men kissed) and Khaotung in third (5 men kissed).
First has kissed Gawin (Not Me), Force (Only Friends), Khaotung (The Eclipse and Only Friends), Mark Pakin (Only Friends), Mix (Moonlight Chicken), Mond (Only Friends), and Ohm (The Shipper)
Neo has kissed Drake (Only Friends), Force (Only Friends), Louis (The Eclipse and FUTS), Mark Pakin (Only Friends), Mond (Only Friends), and Title (Only Friends)
Khaotung has kissed Book (Only Friends), First (The Eclipse and Only Friends), Mond (Only Friends), Pawin (55:15 Never Too Late), and Pod (Tonhon Chonlatee)
There are now seven men who have kissed 4 men each: Fluke Pusit, Krist, Mark Pakin, Mond, New, Plustor, and Singto. Special shoutout to Mark Pakin, Mond, and Plustor for racking up all these kisses over the course of one show each (Only Friends, Only Friends, and Friendzone respectively).
Finally, there are eight men who have kissed 3 men each, and eleven who have kissed two men each.
The Kiss Web
Behold... the Kiss Web, newly updated:
And, as usual, some colourful breakdowns too:
The reach of the top 5 kissers: Lee, Krist, Joss, Namtan, and First.
The kissing webs of the top three shows: Only Friends (in pink), The Warp Effect (in blue), and Friendzone (in green). Yes these are all Jojo shows.
Some "kissing triangles" (no squares this time because there were too many to show). Note the triangles completed in the course of one show: Nat-Plustor-Singto (Friendzone), First-Khaotung-Mond (Only Friends), Mark Pakin-Neo-Title (Only Friends), Fluke Pusit-Gigie-New (The Warp Effect), and Joss-Mild-Tay (3 Will Be Free).
I’ve been having fun Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon-ing around this web and I’d like to propose a challenge to you all: what is the longest chain between two people (with the most people between them) possible? Basically, reverse Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Bonus points if there is no quicker shortcut between them.
If you’d like to play another little game, see my post here.
Contributing authors: @airenyah, @alsoran, @alwaysthepessimist, various anons, @bengiyo, @burnsuncomet, @callipigio, @cangse-sanren, @catboykacchan, @catboyjosten, @catsundmaus, @chickenstrangers, @crowie, @dribs-and-drabbles, @ffirstkhao, @foralleternityidiot, @isaksbestpillow, @jeonghanurl, @kattahj, @kpinhiding, @lurkingshan, @maibpenrai, @maybeitdontmakesense, @nieves-de-sugui, @non-binarypal7, @sammie-lightwood-bane, @sollucets, @userneos, @theselightsareblinding, @tiistirtipii, @waitmyturtles, @williamrikers
Data visualization consultants and beloved proofreaders: @chickenstrangers, @dribs-and-drabbles, @wen-kexing-apologist
Asked to be tagged: @blmpff
#kissing multiverse#gmmtv kissing multiverse#ofts#thanks for coming along on this journey with me!#and big thanks once again to those who contributed kisses#it will be a while till the next update - gotta let some more shows come out - but this project isn't done yet!#I would like to make a specific request - does anyone know what kisses happen in Wolf?
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Level Up Post: Mighty Nein: Echoes of the Solstice: The Speculation Version
DO NOT POST SPOILERS ON THIS IF YOU ARE AT THE LIVE SHOW IN PERSON. YOU WILL BE BLOCKED.
So here's the deal: I don't know what level they'll be (18-20), I am frankly assuming they level up in the first place (but like. why wouldn't they) and I'm going to have to make a bunch of assumptions, but here is a manageable-ish, I hope, summary, to be refined once we know more. Also: I'm assuming we've got Caduceus rather than Kingsley (I DO NOT KNOW THIS FOR SURE DO NOT RELY ON THIS BEING THE TRUTH) but I will make a Kingsley post if that is not the case (short answer - I'd recommend solely leveling up in blood hunter). As always with level-ups: if there is a significant omission or an error, please let me know. If I simply did not choose the same spell or feat you did, feel free to reply with "ooh nice, what about [spell]" but do not send me asks or get weird and sanctimonious about having different thoughts on subjective assessments. Anyway, here's the pre-show version; I'll make a new post Friday if appropriate.
Fjord: Let's get Mr. Complicated Tusktooth Stone Lavorre out of the way. He is currently Warlock 12/Paladin 5. Warlocks get a mystic arcanum at level 13 (7th level spell once per day) as well as another known spell for regular casting, a subclass feature at 14 (Master of Hexes for Fjord, which allows him to move his hexblade's curse from creature to creature if the first dies), and a mystic arcanum (8th level) and another invocation and another spell at 15. Paladins, meanwhile, get Aura of Protection (+CHA mod, so 5, to all saving throws to himself and all allies within 10 feet) at level 6, a subclass feature at 7 (Aura of Liberation - he and allies within 10 feet cannot be grappled or restrained, can use 5 feet of movement to get out of prior restraints [THIS WOULD HELP BEAU IF SHE SHOWS UP CHAINED BTW], and ignore penalties to underwater attacks) as well as another L2 spell slot, and an ASI at 8; his lay on hands pool also scales up by 5 HP per level. My personal feeling is: for the next level, take paladin level 6, which gives him and anyone within the aura +5 to all saves so long as he is not incapacitated; paladin auras are ridiculously good and every day I wish someone would play paladin straight through in CR, for me, much as I adore Fjord and Vax's dips into it. For his 19th level, I'd either take paladin 7 for the aura of liberation, or take warlock 13, which grants the mystic arcanum of which I'd take Etherealness, probably, or possibly Forcecage; the clerics can handle Plane Shift, and Finger of Death seems off-brand. He also gets another regular spell of which there are many; Contact Other Plane might not work under these conditions so I'm leaning towards Dream, which is just a great weird spell few people take, but also he could take a low level spell given he has paladin spell slots. And for 20th, take the one he didn't take for 19, for a final 13 Warlock/7 Paladin split.
Beau: Much more straightforward in comparison...but let's talk about the leveling up process. Level 18 grants Empty Body, in which she can spend 4 ki to be invisible for 1 minute and resistant to all damage other than force damage, or she can spend 8 ki to cast astral projection on herself alone, which is just hilarious and great and I would like to see it. She also increases her speed to 60 feet. Level 19 is an ASI/Feat; her stats are great so I say take Mobile because it's funny to make her normal speed 70 feet/round, or mage slayer for obvious narrative and "Beau, don't you want to pull a Cerrit on Ludinus" reasons. The capstone monk level kind of sucks (4 ki points back if she's tapped when rolling for initiative) but I don't have a good multiclass for her in mind so may as well ride it out. And of course she gets a ki point per level.
Caleb: Perhaps the only person for whom level 18 is actually fun (other than the multiclassed characters), at level 18 he gets to pick a 1st and 2nd level wizard spell in his spell book that he can cast at will. He can exchange these, but it requires 8 hours of study, so probably what he has going in to this show is what he has for the show. 19 is again a Feat/ASI, and honestly a con or dex boost never hurts a wizard. Level 20 gives him two 3rd level spells in his spellbook that he can cast once per rest (long or short) without using a spell slot. Might I suggest counterspell as one of them? And both he and the clerics gain extra high level spell slots at each level (5th, 6th, and 7th at levels 18, 19, and 20 respectively).
Veth: So she is actually trickier than Fjord, as the multiclassed character, in that I'm less sure how to split it out, but we'll go through the options: Level 17 in rogue grants her the ability to temporarily steal spells from another spellcaster who attacks her (Spell Thief) which is GREAT and she should definitely take it. Level 18 is Elusive; as long as she is not incapacitated, attack rolls cannot have advantage on her. And Level 19 is an ASI/Feat and an increase in sneak attack dice and also grants her a fourth level spell slot and new spell to go with it, which must be enchantment or illusion; Greater Invisibility seems like the obvious choice. I'd take the ASI to INT. On the other hand, if she pursues more wizard levels, Level 2 would give her a subclass and its features and another 1st level spell slot (and 2 more spells), Level 3 would give her 2nd level wizard spells and corresponding spell slots (and again, 2 more spells in her spellbook), and Level 4 is an ASI/Feat, a cantrip, and another 2nd level spell slot. I say take L17 in rogue first, then get a wizard subclass (transmutation does seem obvious for a number of reasons though abjuration, illusion, and divination have better L2 features and illusion makes narrative sense - divination would simply be hilarious), then take her final level in rogue for Elusive; but with both Veth and Fjord I think there's an obvious level to take (L17 rogue for Veth, L6 paladin for Fjord) and after that I respect Sam and Travis to pick what feels right.
Jester and Caduceus: At level 18, they can channel divinity 3 times per rest rather than 2. At level 19, they take ASIs, which honestly are up in the air for me - I'm excited to see what they pick, though @captainofthetidesbreath suggested Eldritch Adept for Jester which I would enjoy, and we haven't seen Caduceus's feat from the final episode yet which means I'm not sure about what he might take as a new one, though I'm personally always a fan of Chef. And at L20 divine intervention is guaranteed (though you can only use it once per week)...but to be honest if they are level 20, I am expecting this to be nerfed for solstice reasons because it is kind of game-breaking.
Yasha: So here's the thing. Barbarian 18-19 is kind of eh and 20 is good but not amazing. She could take it; she'd get indomitable might at 18 (treat any strength check as her strength score, 18, if she rolls lower than that), an ASI/Feat at 19, and her strength and con jump up by 4 each (and can exceed 20) - this would put her at 18 CON and 22 STR, assuming she doesn't increase either with the ASI (and to be fair I would take the ASI to strength). This is solid and entirely valid as a choice. HOWEVER, might I suggest the Grog move of taking her final three levels in fighter, which would give her a fighting style and second wind at L1, action surge at L2, and an archetype and its 3rd level features at L3. I like how Battle Master feels for Yasha but really it's that action surge that makes this great; Rune Knight or Champion are also decent options.
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Ride 763: The third year's start!!
Pag 2
1: Ten seconds until the start
Pag 3 /4
1: Let's run with everything we have!!
The last Inter High of the third year Sakamichi, start!!
Pag 5
1: Yeah!!
2: Let's go!!
3: Let's pour our whole guts into it!!
4: Yes!!
5: Let's go!!
6: Teh!!
Pag 6
1: The first day of the boy's Inter High competition in Fukuoka, starts now!!
It's here!!
Pag 7
1: All the cyclists are beginning to run, with the big bridge connecting Kyushu and Honshu through the Kanmon Straits in the back!!
Goo!
Waa, splendid!!
Do your best!!
Pag 8
1: The entrance of Kyushu, here from Moji city in Kitakyushu, going south, they'll fight for three days
Gooo
It's Sohoku!
Yeah!!
2: Waaaaa
The wind is so strong!
The cyclists are so close!
So fast!
Pag 9
1: Kumadai you can do it!
Fukuokaa!!
Their fight will unfold on the stage of Kyushu's nature!!
2: There are so many cyclists
Which team will win?
3: The one you need to pay attention to in the first place, is the one in the front with yellow jerseys
Pag 10
1: Chiba's representative, the two times in a row champion, Sohoku
The third year they call “Mountain King” took the top goal two years in a row!!
Huh... then it's decided already!!
2: Another one is the one with the blue jersey, Kanagawa's Hakone Academy
They were the team that kept winning before, and they're so strong they say that in that team “everyone is an ace”
Huuh... that's amazing too
Pag 11
1: Then there's Kyoto representative, with the purple jerseys, Kyoto Fushimi, who make the race unpredictable every time!!You can already feel their peculiar tenacity!!
They look scary
2: So those three!?
Well, yeah, but rumor has it that this year the mountain bike champion is participating, too
4: MTB!? The off-road one!?
That's right!!
5: And I guess the local Kyushu team won't keep quiet, and Hiroshima is strong too
There's a strong element of uncertainty in road racing
There are a lot of people, and the distance to cover and the time are long too
6: It's not the stronger one who always win
Huh
It's always been said that....
Pag 12
1: Until the finish line is crossed and the race is over, you never know what can happen during a road race!!
Pag 13
1: Hyoo... there's so many people, teh
2: They're all waving their hands, teh!!
Ahhh.... so many people, the scale is so different from the prefectural qualification, teh
3: What's wrong, newbie!! Hahaha
Ka-Kaburagi-san!!
4: It started
Huh!?
5: Finally, the Inter High!!
Pag 14
1: I'll show everyone here what I can do!! Take a look, newbie!!
2: This is the genius Kaburagi Issa's!! Super Special Strong-
3: Start Dash!!
Listen up, Rokudai
Yessir, teh
The red on the referee car means we can't surpass it
Pag 15
1: As long as that racket-like thing is red, this is a parade run
2: Until it gets turned round and becomes green, the race is in a neutral situation
Horuaaa
It means we have to run slowly and safely
3: There's no point in jumping ahead here
And if someone did that, he's just an idiot
Are you watching me, Aoyagi-san!! Haha
Teh... Aoyagi... san..
I'll surpass the care ahead of us!!
4: Once it becomes green, the speed will increase
Don't fall behind
5: Ye... yessir, teh!!
6: Hahaha I guess I left them behind of quite a lot
Waaa!? They're still right behind me!? Imaizumi-san, you're so fast!!
Choose a senpai to refer to
Ah.. huh... yessir, teh...
Pag 16
3: We've pretty much passed the residential area, teh
The parade will go on for a few more kilometers
4: Once we get on a wider road and can confirm it's safe, then there's the real start
Ohh
Pag 17
1: My first Inter High....
What on earth is it... the Inter High....
2: Ahh... my heart is pounding, teh...
Yeah, enjoy the scenery and the heart pounding while you still can
3: Teh!?
4: Once the race starts you won't have time to look at the scenery or take a breath
6: You- you have enough time to take a breath
Ro- Rokudai-kun
Don't bully the first year, Hotshot
7: Onoda-san!!
Pag 18
1: Only a little
3: Almost... none... the Inter High!!
I see... teh
Onoda-kun... you were even worst than Hotshot now..
Huh!?
The Inter H...igh sounds harsh
4: No, uhm
Uhm, it is
5: It's incredibly hard
It's so hard you could collapse
6: Your whole body falls apart and you can't even take a breath!!
Fall apart...!!
He's really putting the boot in...
Pag 19
1: But we run with all our strength
2: with everyone supporting each other
3: If we connect
Connect...
4: and we run until the end with all our might
7: When everything is over and we look back at it
Pag 20
1: We'll feel like it a really irreplaceable time
2: That difficult moment
Pag 21
1: When we were angry, frustrated, or when we smiled
We'll remember everything
2: Then, we'll think that we're happy we didn't give up
3: “Think”....
“Wish”....
4: That's....
Pag 22
1: That's the Inter High!!
3: If there are people who have “power” in their words
4: For me, it's this person
I've been thinking it since I've met him
5: Are you... in trouble?
Follow me
6: He usually seems unreliable when he talks, and there are times when he's awkward, but
… yes
Pag 23
1: His words always strike my core!!
Yessir!! Teh!!
That's right, Onoda-kun
You're right, Onoda
You can bet on it..!!
Yes!!
Pag 24
1: Thank you so much, teh
For bringing me, who didn't know anything, in such a brilliant and heart shaking world!!
Pag 25
1: Huh!? Everyone else too!! You were listening!?
Ah... uhm.. I was talking to Rokudai-kun...
2: Hahaha, we heard
3: And thanks to it, I'm all fired up!!
Don't get fired up more than this or you'll turn into ashes quickly
4: I-I'll run with everything I have, teh!!
5: So that you can fulfill
6: your dearest wish you told us about when we were coming here on the ship!!
Pag 26
1: “Dearest wish”
5: Yokosuka-Kokura ferry, off the coast of Kochi Prefecture
7: Well, the schedule after we arrive is roughly like this
Remember it yourself
Yes
Yes
Pag 27
1: Now if you get too excited you'll only get tired, and now it's okay to relax
Get a good night's sleep today, when you wake up tomorrow we'll go ashore
Yes!
2: Onoda, you want to say anything?
Huh!?
5: Let's... let's do our best
6: Yessir!!
Yes!!
On!!
7: Good night
Good night!!
8: Can I ask one last thing?
Pag 28
1: Earlier, Naruko-san said that our objective for this Inter High is to get our “third consecutive victory”
To be on par with Hakogaku, who is the only team to ever win three times in a row in the history of the Inter High
4: I agree, I also think we have to do it
But I there's one thing I'm curious about, and I don't think it's been asked yet
5: Onoda-san, what's your objective this year?
What are you running in the Inter High for?
#yowamushi pedal#yowamushi pedal translations#yowapeda#yowapeda manga#yowamushi pedal manga#yowamushi pedal spoilers#ride 763#thia chapter is basically sohoku bullying roku-chan asdfyggjtrdjt#i love them so muuuuuch#onoda and his adorable inspirational cringe speech!#and he thought no one but rokudai was listening to him lmao#as if onoda theyre all down for you#btw!! last page!! we all know hes going to say he wants to race against manami (and kiji but mostly manami)#for a mountain stage and not for the final goal#its what they told each other last year#i really hope they manage to do it this year#so on this first day everyone is going to make sure that they have their chance! and so the mountain stage will be#between the two of them! and itll be a parallel to the makishima vs toudou race on the first day of the first ih#and its gonna be amazing#please watanabe make it happen my boys deserve it
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A scientific Genshin Impact experiment
How far can you glide with maximum stamina (as of 3.5)?
Variables:
Amber’s passive: decreases gliding stamina for party by 20%
Kazuhas skill: lifts kazuha with a gust if wind; can be used midair
Double anemo resonance: decreases stamina consumption by 15%. Increases movement speed by 10% (i don’t think this effects gliding). Shortens skill countdown by 5%.
Delicious barbatos ratatouille: decreases all party members’ gliding (and sprinting, not relevant for this experiment) stamina consumption by 25% for 900 seconds
Starting location: tip of starsnatch cliff
Character gliding: kazuha in every round
Things to note: anemo resonance theoretically should be even more helpful with kazuhas skill due to the skill countdown decrease. Kazuha’s passive only decreases stamina consumption for sprinting, which does not count for gliding. All runs end in drowning to ensure the exact same start point. Once started, direction does not change. Runs without kazuhas skill start with a jump. Runs with kazuhas skill start with the held skill. All runs involving resonance feature a complete team. Other runs only feature the relevant character(s) for simplicity.
Hypothesis
You’ll get furthest with all four factors, next with kazuha and anemo, next with kazuha and amber, next with anemo and amber, next with kazuha, next with anemo, next with amber, and shortest with no bonuses.
Experiment process
I started by gliding off from the highest point of starsnatch cliff, heading towards the furthest point near the unmarked island near mondstadt. Upon finishing results, I determined i needed a second check, this time from a further point over the ocean. I couldn’t remember if i had a stamina food going for some of them. I then realized there was a fourth factor i was forgetting: stamina food. I also didn’t like the irregularity of my gliding trajectories. I determined i needed to restart.
New Hypothesis
Ranking of distance, from longest to shortest glide distance:
1) all factors. 2) food, Amber, Anemo. 3) food, amber, kazuha. 4) food, anemo, kazuha. 5) amber, anemo, kazuha. 6) food, amber. 7) food, anemo. 8) amber, anemo. 9) food, kazuha. 10) amber, kazuha. 11) anemo, kazuha. 12) food. 13) amber. 14) anemo. 15) kazuha. 16) control.
Experiment Process 2
I decided to aim for musk reef for better accuracy and distance. I started with the control, then added factors from there. At the end of each run, i marked the finish location on the map before the character hit the water/died. I saved all food related runs for last.
Test was done on PC. Screenshots were taken on Mobile.
Results (from shortest to longest gliding time)
Here is a comparison of results between my first failed attempt and the second (semi) successful experiment.
I cut out the starting point after this so i could get a closer up picture of the results.
Unsurprisingly, Control was the shortest glide.
Kazuha’s skill was barely further, but finished much higher in altitude
Next was Anemo Resonance
Not as much further as I expected was anemo resonance and Kazuha’s Skill
Then we run into what i call the altitude limit sweet spot. All tied due to hitting the water before i ran out of stamina, we have Amber’s Passive (the only one without excess stamina), Food, Food and Anemo Resonance, Food and Amber’s Passive and Anemo Resonance, Amber’s Passive and Anemo Resonance, and lastly Food and Amber’s Passive
Next is Kazuha’s Skill and Amber’s Passive
Then Food and Kazuha’s Skill
A good jump ahead is Amber’s Passive, Anemo Resonance, and Kazuha’s Skill
And photo limit has been reached. To be continued.
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Brya's Love Breakdown
Finally got the pattern for the new Void Precision Scout Rifle, Brya's Love. So let's talk perks, stats, and buildcrafting.
First of all, it's gorgeous. I love the D1 scout models so this being a Void flavored Vision of Confluence was an instant win. And while the IS scope isn't my favorite, it's clean with a very prominent red dot. The ornate details along the edge of the sight can be a little obstructive especially when comparing it to its older sister, Doom of Chelchis, which has one of the best sights in the game.
Speaking of Doom, how does this new one stack up.
Comparing both with just Arrowhead Brake, Steady Rounds, a Stability masterwork, and Icarus, which is how I'd recommend setting either of these up, Doom is objectively the stronger of the 2. No surprise given it's a Raid chase and not a seasonal weapon you can grind out the pattern for in a week. But tbh, it really isn't that much better. And once we factor in perks both scouts are able to clear out a niche for themsleves.
Doom's strength comes from the ability to run Explosive Payload with a damage perk like Frenzy or One-For-All. Remember, EP deals a bonus 15% damage in PvE for free. While Brya's can get Explosive Payload as well, it is locked to the 4th column with the rest of the damage perks.
Where Brya's is able to catch back up is in the sheer value of the perks in both columns. While Doom can get some nutty combos, not every perk it has is valuable. Brya's literally doesn't have any bad options. I might even wind up crafting multiple rolls. So let's talk about it.
Barrels:
At base, Brya's has 78 recoil direction. Which is the highest natural RD of any 180 scout HOWEVER it is the furthest from a centered recoil pattern. Remember, if it's not 100, you want your RD to be as close to ending in 5 as possible. I.e. 55, 75, 85, etc. will tend to be more vertical. Something like 63 will bounce left; 78 will bounce right. So I recommend just going for Arrowhead to make it 100 and be done with it. The handling bump is nice too. If you don't care about RD, which is completely valid, go for stability or handling. Fluted and Smallbore are 2 favorites.
Magazine:
This one is a bit more to taste. I like the consistency Stead Rounds give and the AE bump is a nice bonus. Tactical Mag, Flared Magwell, or Appended are also great choices.
3rd Column:
Here's where it starts getting good. Keep Away is free Range (10), Reload Speed (30), and Accuracy (5%, 7.5% w/Enhanced) just for operating in your intended range (15m away from enemies). Even with perks like Rapid Hit and No Distractions this one is my go to for a PvP roll. The bonus Range reverses the -5 you get from Steady Rounds and the Accuracy bonus is actually very impactful imo. You'll hit shots you had no business landing.
Loose Change, while good in concept, isn't strong enough nor does it last long enough. Even when running it with a Gyrfalcon build. I'd love to see it buffed. It has good potential.
Perpetual Motion is a great perk. Just not on this scout. Especially if you're trying to use the Head Rush trait perk.
Perfect Float is a good perk especially when pairing with Frenzy.
Shoot to Loot is always solid. Especially now that it works with Orbs and Explosive Payload.
Rapid Hit will always be strong. Especially if you synergize it with a new 4th column perk.
No Distractions is a personal favorite. Use it with EP to become a dueling king. Literally an Energy Tears of Contrition.
4th Column:
Precision Instrument is crazy. Rapid hits will increase precision damage. It's literally precision Target Lock. And like Target Lock, it will reduce ttks against certain resiliences in Crucible. Non enhanced will let you 3 tap T4 res and below (enhanced will bump that up to T5) for a .67 ttk. Very strong. A free 3 tap with no activation cost. Think Luna's Howl but on a much stricter timer and res gated. However, the likelihood of running into T5 res or lower is very unlikely in the Crucible rn with Titans being as strong as they are. Still strong tho.
Explosive Payload. You know it. You love it. I will never fault anyone for picking it. It's always a good scout perk.
Frenzy. Also strong on the archetype. Will allow 3 crits while active. The bonus 100 reload and handling are the best parts imo.
Adagio. Sleeper pick. Reduces RPM to 150 but allows a 2 crit 1 body. Great post kill perk. Damage output of a Radiant 150 scout but with the stat package of a 180.
Pugilist. Skip it. Use Monte Carlo. Stab the Witness.
Golden Tricorn. The king of damage perks. 15% for 7s after a kill will allow a 3 tap at all resiliences. 50% for 10s if you get an ability kill with x1 is active. If you get Tricorn x2 and also Radiant, you can 2 tap. But good luck with that setup.
Destabilizing Rounds. New for a scout. Great choice. Synergizes well with all Void classes but especially a Stylish Executioner hunter or Controlled Demo titan.
Recommendations and Closing Thoughts:
All great perks. Any combination of which I would recommend but let me give a handful:
PVE: Shoot-To-Loot/Explosive Payload. Perfect Float/Frenzy. Loose Change/Destablizing Rounds. Rapid Hit or Keep Away/Golden Tricorn.
PVP: No Distractions/Explosive Rounds. Perpetual Motion/Frenzy. Rapid Hit or Keep Away/Precision Instrument. Rapid Hit/Adagio.
And that's it! It's a very strong scout. I was initially disappointed to see another craftable void 180 but I was so throughly impressed once I got my hands on it. It feels better than Doom imo. Sounds better too. This is one that won't be leaving my inventory for some time.
Good luck farming!
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Fate and Phantasms #8P: Altera
Today on Fate and Phantasms we’re taking another crack at the Scourge of God, Altera, a.k.a. Attila the Hun! If Attila was a robot anime girl, at least. She is a Champion which you’re probably getting sick of but like, it’s not my fault they stuffed all the laser swordswomen in the first 10 spots. We’ll also slip into the Ranger archetype to help her be a better nomad, the Barbarian archetype to destroy bad civs, and the Runescarred archetype entirely for the aesthetics. And a little bonus from Extella, I guess.
Check out her build breakdown below the cut, or her character sheet over here!
Next up: Riiiight. We gotta make that guy again.
Ancestry and Background
Another servant that would’ve been Custom Lineage if she came out now, but thankfully Pathfinder has enough robot races to make this work. Specifically, Altera is an Android, giving you an ability boost in one of your choice like Strength as well as Intelligence and Dexterity, at the cost of a Charisma flaw. Altera’s pretty scary, but she’s not exactly great at talking to people. She also gets low-light vision, and thanks to being synthetic she gets a +1 bonus on saves against diseases, poisons, and radiation. She’s also emotionally unaware, giving her a -1 penalty to diplomacy and performance checks, as well as sense motive checks. Altera’s kingdom more came about from ass kicking, not smart internal politics.
At level one you become a Warrior Android, which doesn’t actually do much since you’d be trained in simple and martial weapons from your class anyway. The Cleansing Subroutine is nice though, it increases your ability to purge poisons, reducing the stage by one more than it would otherwise whenever you succeed your save. Natural Body for the win!
At level five your Inoculation Subroutine does the same thing against disease.
At level nine your Repair Module gives you fast healing for a minute once per day, giving you half your level in HP at the start of each turn, and it also prevents you from dying due to the dying condition. I wasn’t expecting a guts from this, but hey it’s free. The downside is it blocks you from using other nanite-based skills like your subroutines.
At thirteenth level you can activate a Nanite Surge once per hour as a reaction, adding +2 to a triggering skill check. It also makes your scars glow for a round, which is neat.
Finally at level 17 you gain an Offensive Subroutine. That doesn’t make you better at telling shitty jokes, but it does let you use your Nanite Surge on attack rolls for a +1 to the roll.
As a member of the Huns you are of course a Nomad, making you trained in Survival and Plains Lore. You also have Assurance in survival, letting you skip rolling to get a flat 10 + your proficiency bonus instead.
You also get another ability boost in Constitution and Strength. Swing sword, win fight, end civ. It’s nice to play a character whose flow chart is a single line sometimes.
Class levels
1. Okay, making this quick. You’re trained in Perception, Religion, Reflex, Class and Spell DCs, all weapons and armor, and as you level up in intelligence Nature, Diplomacy and Intimidation. You’re also an expert in fortitude and will saves.
Beyond that, you get an Ability Boost in Strength, Dexterity, Constitution and Charisma. That’s what you’re getting every time we level up, so get used to it.
We also dip into your Deity’s Domain a bit, and you can’t destroy a bad civ without some Destruction. This gives you the domain spell Cry of Destruction, a two-action spell that deals damage to every creature and object in a 15’ cone, and if you’ve already dealt damage before it gets even better, turning the damage from a d8 to a d12. It’s not quite an orbital laser, but by the end of the build it’ll be heightened to deal 10d12 in sonic damage, a type few things resist.
You’re chaotic good, so you obey the Tenets of Good and are a Liberator. So don’t do bad things, and respect people’s choices and freedom to make their own decisions. You can’t threaten anyone, so it’s a good thing you don’t kill people, you just destroy their civilizations. It’s a loophole, but it’s a bigun. You can use the Champion’s Reaction known as Liberating Step and can use Lay on Hands to heal people. The latter does pretty much what you expect, and the former lets you react to an enemy damaging, grabbing, or grappling a nearby ally, either granting them resistance to the triggering damage or giving them an extra chance to escape the effect. Regardless, they can then step as a free action. The Huns are pretty mobile. It’s kind of their thing.
You also get trained in Athletics to really beef up your strength.
Also, once again you can Shield Block, though you don’t use shields. Yet.
2. At second level your Resilient Mind gives you a +1 bonus against mental saves, and a +2 bonus if they’re caused by the undead. A brain is part of your Natural Body, I assume. Honestly you’re clearly not human, so who the fuck knows.
The crazy damage stuff will take a while, so for now we’ll work on your Hunnery. Pick up the Tame Animal feat to bring wild horses under your control, and then grab the Ranger Dedication to Hunt Prey, giving you a bonus to seeking and tracking prey you’ve either seen before or are currently tracking. Tyrants are bad civ, cut them down.
Since you’re already trained in survival, we’ll pick up Society instead. You’re a warrior king, but you’re still a king, politics aren’t completely foreign to you. Okay maybe they are, but take the training anyway.
3. At third level you gain a Divine Ally in your Blade, letting you put a property rune in one of your weapons each long rest while you wield it. As a champion of good, you can have a disrupting, ghost touch, returning, or shifting weapon, and for once the shifting is a good pick! It lets you turn your weapon into another weapon that uses the same number of hands, so your one-handed sword can turn into a whip and back again. Disrupting deals extra damage to undead, and ghost touch lets the weapon touch ghosts. Returning only works on thrown weapons so fuck it. You also gain the critical specialization of the weapon you’ve runed. A sword’s makes the target flat-footed for a round, while in whip form it will knock the creature prone, meaning they’re flat-footed and have to take an action to stand up. So, the whip finally has a leg up on any other weapon for a change! PF2E is wild coming from just 5e.
We also continue ruling the huns by grabbing the Ride feat, letting you use move commands on animals with automatic success, and they act on your turn as well. To stay on it better, we’ll up your training in Athletics.
4. At level four we get our last natural body buff in Divine Health, giving you another +1 bonus against disease, and any success against one is a critical success. It is really hard to make a robot sick.
For more physical buffs, becoming a Titan Wrestler helps you disarm, grapple, shove, or trip creatures up to two sizes larger than you, and even up to three sizes bigger once you’re legendary in athletics.
We also finally get some extra damage when we learn a Basic Hunter’s Trick, United Assault. You can make a strike as an action, but you can add 1 to the damage roll for each other creature that damaged it since the target’s last turn, up to +4. This only works once per turn, but extra damage is extra damage.
5. At fifth level you get expertise in Intimidation as well as all weapons. You also get another Ability Boost.
6. Sixth level is more exciting- if you want to deal more damage, more attacks will help. To get that, we can use an Attack of Opportunity to attack on the enemy’s turn if they’re trying to run away. Running away is completely understandable though, given your Intimidating Prowess, which gives you a +1 bonus to demoralization and coercion checks, plus you don’t have to know the target’s language. Turns out the Scourge of God is pretty scary to see in action- who knew? When your strength hits 20+ and you’re a master at intimidation, this will increase to a +2 bonus.
Finally, you learn an Advanced Hunter’s Trick, letting you turn your weapon into a Gravity Weapon. This increases your focus pool , and you can spend an action to empower your weapon for 1 minute, dealing extra damage equal to 2x your damage dice the first time you hit each turn.
7. Seventh level is another pretty quiet one. You’re now a master in Athletics, and your Weapon Specialization lets you deal extra damage the more proficient you are with a blade. You also have Armor Expertise even though you don’t use it, and you Die hard. I mean you’re a Diehard, so you die at dying 5, not dying 4.
8. Okay, enough pussyfootin around, it’s time for some serious damage! …After we get the Express Rider feat. Now you can make nature checks to speed up your horse while traveling.
Okay, now it’s damage time! Your Advanced Deity’s Domain gives you access to a Destructive Aura, giving every creature within 15’ of you (including you) a -2 to all resistances. And every four levels that increases by another 2, so by the time you’re level 20 that’s an extra 8 damage to everything for a minute.
If you want to protect yourself from all that damage, you might want to dip into the Barbarian Dedication for the ability to Rage. This gives you plenty of temporary HP and lasts up to a minute, until there’s no more enemies around, or you fall unconscious. While raging, you deal extra damage- +2 for most melee weapons, +1 with agile attacks. You also take a -1 penalty to AC and can’t use concentrate actions while raging. Fortunately, neither Destructive Aura nor Gravity Weapon are concentration spells! After you rage, you have to wait a minute before raging again.
Technically you’re a Fury Barbarian, though that doesn’t really affect anything. On the plus side since you’re pretty good with athletics you become trained in Arcana instead. Don’t ask how that works.
9. Ninth level! Real simple- expert in class and reflex saves, master in fortitude saves and intimidation. You also only get critical successes on fortitude saves now.
Finally, your Divine Smite means if the enemy that triggers your liberating step was trying to grab, restrain, immobilize, or paralyze your friend, they take persistent good damage equal to your charisma modifier. Because grabbing is bad civ, I guess.
10. At tenth level you get another Ability Boost, and you gain a Radiant Blade Spirit for even more ways to customize your sword. It can be flaming, anarchic, or holy. Flaming’s simple: deal fire damage, plus some persistent damage on a crit. Anarchic is pretty fun though- you deal extra damage on lawful targets, and your crits are extra random, making you roll a d6 to see what happens. On a 1-2, you deal minimum damage- a 3-4 is a regular crit, and a 5-6 deals maximum damage on top of your crit doubling. Finally, holy works on evil targets, and once a day when you crit you regain hp. While I still vote for the whipsword, having extra options is always a good idea.
When you roll initiative, you can shout out a Battle Cry and demoralize a foe for free. Once you’re legendary in intimidation, you can do this every time you critically hit.
We also get a little Basic Fury thanks to our barbarian dip, letting you make a Bashing Charge- spend two actions to stride twice, and if you move through or end at an obstacle, you can make a free force open check to blast through the thing with a +1 bonus. It’s actually really hard to get moves that specifically destroy civilizations, but at least you’ll do a number on cities now.
11. Another quicky. You’re an expert in perception and nature, and a master in Will saves- you also always have crit successes on will saves now.
Your liberating step also exalts your allies now. If the targeted ally doesn’t try to break free of anything, you and all allies in 15’ can step alongside the triggering ally. Extra mobility is never a bad move! Literally.
On the topic of never staying in one place, you show Incredible Initiative, so you get a +2 bonus to all initiative checks. You don’t come to the Mongol hordes, the Mongol hordes come to you.
12. Twelfth level champions can become a Blade of …Justice?, letting you spend two actions to deal a strike against a creature harming an ally or the innocent, dealing two extra weapon damage dice on evil targets, and also converting the damage to good if you want to. Now your sword/whip is a magical rainbow whip/sword! Coincidentally, this also supercharges your Gravity Weapon spell with extra damage, so opening with this is a pretty solid choice if you’ve cast that already.
You also have a Terrifying Resistance, so if you demoralize a creature successfully you have a +1 bonus against all their spells for 24 hours. I know I said we were done with Natural Body stuff, I forgot.
Finally, we pop back to ranger to become a Master Spotter, making you a master in Perception so you can spot enemies across the steppe.
13. Thirteenth level is fast too. Mastery in Armor and Weapons, and Expertise in Society. God, that was fast.
14. You and your allies get a bit more untouchable by bad civs thanks to your Aura of Righteousness, giving you and everyone you like within 15’ evil resistance 5. This includes you Bonded Animal, btw. You have to spend 7 days of downtime hanging out with your horse, but if you succeed on a nature check afterwards that animal is permanently helpful, though you can only have one at a time.
You also have Advanced Fury so you can get some Raging Intimidation. This lets you demoralize and scare to death even while raging, and you get the Intimidating Glare and Scare to Death feats for free. Once you qualify for them, of course. This means the whole battle cry thing won’t get in the way once you start critting.
You also immediately qualify for Intimidating Glare, letting you freak people out at a glance and avoid taking a penalty if the creature doesn’t speak your language. Technically this means you can now issue a battle cry without actually crying, but don’t think about it too hard.
15. At fifteenth level you get another Ability Boost, and you can make some Powerful Leaps, for extra distance. You also have Greater Weapon Specializations to deal even more damage with every weapon you hit with, and you’re a legend in Athletics.
16. Sixteenth level champions can exude an Aura of Faith, making all your strikes deal an extra 1 good damage, and all your nearby allies also get a +1 bonus on their first strike each round.
That makes you terrifying enough to do Group Coercion, intimidating up to 10 creatures at a time in a single Intimidation check, increasing to 25 when legendary.
You also look into what your glowy skin lines do and become Runescarred, giving you training in Thassilon Lore and expertise in Arcana. I… guess living in a moon computer helps you figure out magic? Maybe?
It also lets you cast Shield freely, making a magic shield you don’t need to spend a hand holding onto. I know the blocking shell thing in extella is a gameplay abstraction, but fuck it, we ball. You can shield block with the thing too, though this ends the spell and can be used against magic missiles. Its hardness increases as you level up, currently being Hardness 20.
17. Seventeenth level is… actually not barren, an oddity for odd levels. You’re a master with Class stuff, and a legend with armor and intimidation, which would normally be the end of it, but this means you automatically get Scare to Death as well!
Scare to Death lets you spend an action to make an intimidation check against a living creature within 30’, and makes them immune to further scaring to death for 1 minute. On a success or failure, the target is frightened. On a critical success, it gets fun. The target must then make a fortitude save against that check you rolled, and on a critical failure it dies instantly, and this effect has the Death trait so most guts effects won’t save against it. On any other result, they’re frightened 2 and fleeing for a round.
Also you can demoralize as a free action every time you crit, but like. The killing people via being scary is wayy more interesting.
18. At eighteenth level you can Smite Evil, spending an action to single out one motherfucker to really whale into. Until your next turn, all your strikes deal 6 extra good damage, and if they try to attack an ally the effect keeps going next turn too.
You can also Cloud Jump to move triple the distance, but w/e.
For more damage, you can use some more Advanced Fury to Cleave as a reaction. If you kill or ko a creature, you can follow through an make an attack against an adjacent creature as well. That whip’s got some reach.
19. We’ve got almost everything you’d want, but we’ve got some extra time to kill. So now you’re Fleet so even if you’re not riding a horse you’ll move 5’ more per round. You also have a Hero’s Defiance, a devotion spell that lets you not die when you should. You wouldn’t be the Scourge of God if you were easy to smite. Ironically, stuff like Scare to Death cuts right through this.
Also, expertise in Diplomacy, why not.
20. You get one last Ability Boost, and you become a Radiant Blade Master so you can make your sword dancing, greater disrupting, or keen. Keen’s the best one here, giving you critical hits on 19s and 20s.
You can also force foes to make a Terrified Retreat, so if you critically succeed at demoralizing someone they have to flee for one round. Assuming you didn’t just blow them up with your voice at level 17.
We also get one last look into Advanced Fury to pick up a Great Cleave. Now if your cleave Kos someone you can keep making attacks until you make on that doesn’t knock someone out or until you can’t reach another creature. This just goes to show that a character doesn’t have to be drawn by Raita to have great cleavage.
And with that 18-year-old joke out of the way, onto pros and cons.
Pros and Cons
Pros:
You might not have a laser, but you really don’t need one with the kind of damage you can pump out. Rage + Destructive Aura + Gravity Weapon + Blade of Justice = A shitload of damage, and that’s before we take into account how Destructive Aura helps every member of your team, not just you. Not only do you hit hard, you hit everything hard. You’ve also got the highest strength we’ve managed so far, which only drives the point home further.
While you can smash through objects with the greatest of ease, a lot of your build went towards scaring off the people of a civilization more than just smashing their toys. You can coerce up to 25 people at a time with your sheer might, and you can even scare people so hard they straight up die. Salter also had a lot of this kit, but keying in the barbarian levels really makes the whole thing shine.
You’re also great at commanding animals, and while that’s technically a situational thing, riding into battle on the back of a horse- or really any mountable beast- is fucking cool. It’s also great since if anyone tries to mess with your horse that just powers some of your champion abilities even more!
Cons:
You don’t have a laser. While you can do a lot of damage, all of that is kept within 15’ of you unless you pick the dancing weapon rune. So unless you can find a Pegasus on short notice, flying enemies will be entirely out of your reach. If you’re playing to character.
On a related note: random horses are not level 20. That means they will last all of eight seconds on the battlefield before being shot out from under you, and your aura of destruction doesn’t make things any better since it affects the horse too.
You don’t have much to do outside of combat. Sure, you’re technically good at society and diplomacy stuff, but you have exactly zero feats related to any of it so you’ll still be left in the dust by the actual face characters. You smash stuff, then kind of dissociate til the next fight. It’s in character, if not very fun to play.
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WOBBLEDOGS: THE JOURNEY CONTINUES on a new post because the other one is already a pain in the ass to scroll through. once again you are not allowed to talk shit on my unreadable screenshots unless youre going to buy me a new pc so i can play at something above 640x400 rez
anyway not a whole lot happening this time since i got like 80% of the achievements in my previous big play sesh and a lot of this one was detritus, but here's some highlights and lowlights
first: the worst
i hate this piece of shit so much. ugly, completely unable to take care of itself, didn't actually gain me any progress towards the worm achievement [one of the parents was also missing the same set of legs].
here's another one i used for getting worm, though im not showing him for the legs so much as just what the fuck happened to his face
also he has two left wings and 0 right which i thought was pretty funny
with those two i managed to get this single leg guy. stayed a grey ratlike slab for most of its life
after like 6 eggs of random other breeding around trying to find one missing front right leg i gave up and just used a dog code editor for it.
anyway heres my worm. more of a snake if im honest
next, descendant of Midge!!!, and the first in an entirely too long chain to getting the Flat achievement
this fucking achievement. i'd heard a bit about spindly being really picky and hard to get, and in some ways i get it since it's so weird about how it calculates leg length, but also all you need to do for that one is get a long-legged dog and cram it full of bananas and/or nutrition pellets and you should get there in 2 or 3 rounds. THIS fucking thing took balancing across 3 different genes; not just minus height, but also minus overall size because the fucking height reducer genes would not behave on their own. i also gave it length Increasers just to be sure we didn't run into weird issues with having too little surface area.
seriously though, you need <5% max height for the achievement, and i at one point got one from 10% down to 7%, but then in the following mutation the supposed height Decreasing gene made it Increase up to like 15%, and then to 27% after that for some fucking reason. by far not the first time i'd seen genes doing the opposite of what they were labelled to do, but the first time it so actively worked against me.
i went through at least 6 dogs for this one and none of them are notable but i like these two's names
eventually the winning one hit these stats in its teen mutation and i was like. oh my god please
and thankfully with the combo i was using it did meet the threshhold next mutation, and even managed to hit 0% when it was fully grown
so this is it. maximum thinness dog.
you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like
also, mkwii inadvertently gave me my first 2-tailed lad so yay
[there is no richter 1]
and finally here is my favoritest boy of this run
result of just breeding around because i needed a dog who was fucking normal and NOT: -way too fucking big, -way too fucking small, -missing limbs and immobile, -ugly as shit. and also didnt have a massive tail always getting it dragged through the tubes. anyway yeah i fed this guy like 4 cores before i let it go, but i did also export its code as a juvenile so i'll bring it back at some point too
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Five seconds to launch
I love the Cow Mangler’s charged shot. It’s not always a good choice, but it sometimes is, and it’s so satisfying. If other rocket launchers had alt-fire options, what would they look like? I think I’ll make a post about that.
Black Box with Alt-Fire
(+) Alt-fire: Consume your full clip to fire a shot that restores up to 100 health on hit
(+) On hit: Restore up to 20 health
(-) -25% clip size
Worth noting: unless otherwise noted, charged shots use Cow Mangler mechanics, slowing you down while they charge, which takes about two seconds.
You won’t be using this shot in the heat of battle, since - like the Mangler’s - it takes two full seconds to prepare. But if you use it from outside of battle, you can restore a significant chunk of health, and because the Black Box’s clip is smaller, you can do it more frequently than the Mangler’s.
The main risk with this weapon is that it’d be too passive, allowing Soldiers to sit back and spam charged shots to regain health easily. However, you’ll be very vulnerable while reloading, making it easy for opponents to punish misuse. We do run the risk of making users very difficult to kill while also keeping them out of the most interesting combat, though, which is something that would be good to iron out via playtests.
Air Strike with Alt-Fire
(+) Alt-fire: Consume four rockets to fire a shot with +100% self push force and no self-damage [1-second charge]
(+) Gain +1 clip size on kill, up to +4
(+) +65% attack speed while blast jumping
(+) -15% self-damage from blast jumps
(-) -15% damage
(-) -10% blast radius
(-) -20% blast radius while blast jumping
Notice that this shot always consumes four rockets, so you get better results if you’ve already increased your clip size. You can fly like an eagle, getting significant airtime to release your barrage(s). But once you land, you’ll probably have an empty clip, putting you in danger while you reload.
A mild concern is that this uber-powerful rocket jump could be used to traverse smaller maps very quickly, a bit like how Sticky Jumper Demomen always end up at the enemy spawn just after the round starts. However, because you’re almost immobile while it’s charging, and you have a hefty reload time, I’m inclined to say it’s probably less effective than just jumping normally.
Conclusions
Adding an alt-fire functionality is a great way to give a weapon more depth (although we don’t want to make it too complicated!) In these cases, there are definitely potential problems, but I think the risk-reward dynamic is pretty well-balanced, giving users more interesting choices to make on the battlefield. At the same time, the charged shots have serious drawbacks that enemies can capitalize on, meaning that opponents can also have a good time fighting against these launchers.
Of course, there are several more rocket launchers that don’t have charged shots! What options would you give to the Direct Hit, Liberty Launcher, Beggar’s Bazooka (if that’s even possible), or even Rocket Jumper or stock launcher?
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maya fertility journal #1
gonna start blogging more about my fertility journey as like a Thing.
under the cut is just ramblings that won't make any sorta sense.
1/21/2024
so since 2021 i've been trying to get pregnant. in 2022 i underwent two rounds of iui treatment that were unsuccessful. i have several medical conditions that are gonna make pregnancy difficult to say the least.
19-21 year old maya never thought they'd be wanting to get pregnant after the whole ovarian cancer nearly killed me thing, but here we are at 28-30 trying soooo hard. i was devastated to say the least when the 2022 iui didn't work? so i put a pause on it and just focused on transitioning out of the classroom. you can't like get pregnant when you're in that much stress, i figured.
so now i'm working at a new job and it also comes with fertility treatments covered up to 30K! this is great news cuz it's gonna be about 23-25K to do the first round of ivf...!!! ivf is def for those white rich types ngl.
anyway i was told that because of my weight increasing like 30 pounds since 2022 (i had to go off this medicine that was helping me lose weight in order to attempt iui cuz it's harmful to a baby) i had to lose 35-40 pounds. so for like seven months i've been trying to do exactly that! i was so excited this morning when i stepped on that scale and i've lost like 25 pounds. now i just need to lose an additional 10-15 pounds!!! then i can try ivf and hopefully it works! hopefully !!!!
my goal weight is to be around 250 pounds or under so that even when i stop my meds and my weight bounces back up i don't gain sooo much that it disqualifies me again. my doctor just wants me to be around 260 pounds or under.
i checked this morning and my scale says i'm 264 pounds--so hopefully the doctor's scale next month says i've hit 260~ pounds... i go in for an official weight check next month on feb 9th. the doctor scale is usually off by 5 pounds or so compared to my home scale. it's annoying af. hopefully i can get to 250 pounds or under by mid-march!!!
i...also have to still buy the sperm which is sooo ridiculously expensive. like ugh. it's $2,195 for ONE vial of sperm.
i did get my sperm donor approved tho! so that's great news as well. he's a korean dude since one of my wife's conditions for our sperm donor was that he be a man of color. because fertility treatments are like centered around rich white folks it has been a journey to try and find a man of color sperm donor that i like. there's like so few black sperm donors that have enough vials available... !! so we just went with the second highest donor pool which is typically asian men. like after white men, it's asian men, specifically east asian men.
my original sperm bank closed and my original chinese donor i used for the IUIs is no longer available. so i had to go with a new bank and i tried to pick one that has a legacy and like doesn't seem like it might fucking close!!!
we're also trying to make sure that our child can access the donor once they're 18 if they would like to. so that's adding to why it's so expensive for the sperm. like if we just went with an anonymous donor it'd be so much cheaper--however i am not going to deny my future kids the right to know their heritage.
anyway, it's been a whirlwind cuz on top of the whole trying to get pregnant thing i'm also dealing with marital issues. but... like it or not, i'll be okay even if i have to be a single parent.
it's fine.
my current goal is to lose this weight + get the sperm purchased by mid march/april so that i can do the attempt in mid april/early may to hopefully produce a pregnancy and have a baby in early 2025. i'm also trying to plan it for when my fmla will be available for me to start using because baby ! i wanna be able to enjoy the full 12 weeks with my kiddo. i also love my job for giving us six weeks of paid fmla leave... that's so cool. i'm going to save up my vacation leave to cover the rest of that 6 weeks!!!
so yeah, just a lot going on. but i think i'm in a better position emotionally and soon to be mentally and physically to attempt more fertility treatments.
#maya misadventures#maya fertility journal#weight discussion cw#cancer cw#fertility treatments cw#ivf treatments cw
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We sold 20 million yuan on Douyin, and Meituan saw that the platform’s deduction points were directly halved.
▶ The person in charge of the local life business launch of the chain restaurant brand Sichuan Guo No. 1. The company’s GMV generated on Douyin last year: more than 20 million yuan
We are a local hot pot restaurant chain brand in Jiangsu, with dozens of hot pot restaurants in northern Jiangsu, Hunan, and Anhui.
Last year, the epidemic made it impossible to dine in, so we posted a self-pickup hot pot set meal on Douyin. Through the promotion of experts, we were able to place an average of 1,000 orders a day. The Douyin platform’s HE Tuber deduction is 2.5%, while Meituan Waimai’s fee ratio exceeds 30% including deductions, traffic and delivery fees.
In May last year, the company started selling goods on Douyin. At that time, we thought of many ways to activate private domain traffic, including asking employees to post in Moments, tweet on public accounts, and guide consumption in offline stores. So in the first live broadcast, the hot pot set sold for about 30,000 yuan.
During this period, the Douyin service provider persuaded us to sign an annual sales contract of 20 million yuan. In the case of non-annual frames, the Douyin platform will charge merchants a commission of 2.5% of the actual write-off amount. If you sign the annual frame, you can get half of the commission back. For example, for a GMV of 20 million yuan, the actual write-off amount is 10 million yuan, and the difference between annual and non-annual deduction points is 125,000 yuan.
Things got a little messy this year.
This year, Douyin has become very anxious and asked us to triple the annual target to 60 million yuan. My understanding is that Douyin wants to quickly expand its user base. Our stores are in second- and third-tier cities and have limited user base. Once the annual sales volume doubles, the store guidance will become very strong, and the original offline transactions will have to be moved online. For brands, it is impossible for users to be deeply bound to a certain platform. In the end, customers will flow to the platform, so they did not sign.
During this period, Douyin’s BD (Business Development) also went through several rounds. Their feedback is that in order to reduce labor costs, they will not reserve their own people on the front line in depth, so internally they are often eliminated from the bottom, and the Douyin BD that we connect with changes frequently. Later, in order to reduce personnel expenses, Douyin began to cultivate local service providers. In Xuzhou, where I am located, Douyin allows people with live broadcast capabilities and store operation capabilities to help merchants open blue V, become experts to visit stores, launch new products, and conduct live broadcasts.
However, the emergence of local service providers has increased the operating costs of stores, especially the phenomenon of arbitrary charging.
First of all, the service provider will charge a pre-service fee, which varies according to the size of the merchant. As far as I know, the service fee is generally 20,000-80,000 yuan. In addition, service providers will also charge commissions for live broadcasts, and the quotation is generally 10%-15% of the sales write-off amount. We have run Douyin ourselves and understand the rules behind the scenes, so we rarely cooperate with service providers.
The fees for experts to visit the store are not low either. The basic fee for a single cooperation with a leading expert is generally around 5,000 yuan. In addition, the product link below the short video of the expert visiting the store will also charge a commission of 5%-15% based on the transaction volume of the product. Our platform deduction on Meituan is 8%-10%, which doesn’t seem low, but compared to Douyin, it’s actually about the same.
This year, Meituan’s attitude toward us has changed significantly. Perhaps it is because it has realized that leading brands have invested heavily in Douyin, and has gradually diluted its investment and operations in Meituan.
In the past, when we wanted to do activities on Meituan, the city manager refused directly when he heard that the discount was not strong, and there was never much policy on deducting points. In April this year, Meituan directly reduced our platform deduction points by half.
Two days ago, the regional director of Meituan came to me specifically and said that he would "accompany the company's growth" and "create a benchmark catering business." He also said that he would fight for resources for me and do a live broadcast, which I could not even imagine before.
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It is no secret that Google Chrome is a useful resource hog that drains RAM when you will have a number of tabs open. In case you're utilizing among the finest laptops, this can lead to decreased battery life. This drawback is one thing that Macbook customers are keenly conscious of, as Google Chrome degrades Mac efficiency.Fortunately, MacBooks have obtained a serious Chrome improve to increase your battery life. In keeping with the corporate, the most recent model of Chrome will now let customers browse for an additional half-hour on a Mac if they allow the browser's power saver mode. The take a look at was carried out in 2023 13-inch MacBook Professional M2 Utilizing Google's personal benchmarking device.Google's claims are all effectively and good, however we needed to test it out for ourselves. To that finish, we absolutely charged a brand new MacBook Professional 16-inch 2023 and streamed a YouTube video on the earlier model in addition to the most recent model of Chrome to see how lengthy it could final on a full cost.So, how lengthy did the MacBook Professional 16-inch with the M2 Max processor and 96GB of RAM final earlier than and after the Chrome replace? Learn on to search out out.MacBook Professional battery life earlier than Chrome replaceI ran this take a look at on a MacBook Professional 16-inch 2023 Chrome model 110.0.5481.96 (opens in new tab), which was launched on February 13. I charged the laptop computer to 100% battery life and made certain I wasn't operating any packages aside from Google Chrome. I set the display brightness to 50 p.c, then launched a YouTube video that performed for twenty-four hours.Swipe to scroll horizontallyHeader Cell - Column 0 Header Cell - Column 1 begin time7:20 PM ETDeadline (subsequent day)11:04 AM ETComplete Time (hours: minutes)15:46I began the take a look at at 7:20 PM ET with 100% battery. Earlier than I went to mattress at 12:30, the battery was all the way down to 74 p.c. Earlier than the replace, draining 25 p.c of the battery after enjoying a video for about 5 hours was spectacular. Then once more, given how a lot efficiency this explicit MacBook Professional has, I am not too shocked.At 9:50 a.m., I acquired a low battery warning whereas the laptop computer was at 10 p.c cost. The machine shuts down at 11:04 AM. General battery life is round 16 hours. Not too unhealthy.MacBook Battery Life After Newest Chrome ReplaceThe enjoyment begins right here. After seeing how lengthy I may play a video earlier than the Chrome replace, I am curious to see how lengthy the MacBook Professional 16-inch will final post-update. I hoped to see a lift, however the remaining runtime left my jaw on the ground.I up to date Chrome to model 110.0.5481.177, which is the most recent model on the time of writing. For good measure, I restarted the laptop computer after the replace. As in earlier checks, I charged the MacBook Professional to 100%, set the show to 50 p.c brightness, and made certain no apps aside from Chrome had been operating. I then booted up the identical video used within the earlier take a look at.Swipe to scroll horizontallyHeader Cell - Column 0 Header Cell - Column 1 begin time6:55 PM ETDeadline (subsequent day)1:25 PM ETComplete Time (hours: minutes)18:30This take a look at began at 6:55 PM ET at 100% battery Round 12:30 AM earlier than going to mattress, the battery life was at 85 p.c. To this point so good.I did not get the low battery warning till 11:44 AM the following day. At this level, the MacBook Professional operating the most recent model of Chrome lasted half-hour longer than the older model of Chrome This all however substantiated Google's declare of higher battery life, however I clearly needed to see how lengthy the take a look at would final.At 1:25 PM, the MacBook Professional 16-inch lastly ran out of juice. In complete, the laptop computer lasted an unbelievable 18 hours and half-hour whereas enjoying a YouTube video. That
is simply shy of 26 minutes in our personal battery take a look at, which concerned steady Internet browsing over Wi-Fi with the laptop computer's show set to 150 nits brightness.final row The testing methodology I used to jot down this text is completely different from the strategy utilized by Tom's information, therefore the inconsistency in my testing with what we noticed within the MacBook Professional 16-inch evaluation. With that stated, I am nonetheless shocked by the drastic impact Google's Power Saver mode has on MacBook battery life. A further three hours of battery life is extraordinarily spectacular.I am unable to communicate for everybody operating the most recent model of Chrome on their MacBooks Your outcomes could range relying in your machine configuration. However even if you happen to solely get half-hour of additional battery life in your MacBook, it is a good suggestion to allow this feature in Chrome.To allow Power Saver mode in Google Chrome, click on the ellipsis (three dots) subsequent to your profile image within the higher proper nook of the browser. After that, scroll down and click on on Settings. Toggle Power Saver Mode from the Efficiency tab on the left and also you're all set!Immediately's greatest Apple MacBook Professional 16-inch M2 Max (2023) offers
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Can Anyone Wear 6 Mukhi Rudraksha?
Introduction
The 5 Mukhi Rudraksha is the most powerful of all the Rudrakshas. It is believed that wearing this bead will help you to achieve your goals and overcome obstacles in life.
The benefits of wearing a 5 Mukhi Rudraksha include:
- Attracting wealth and prosperity
- Increasing concentration levels, confidence and self-esteem
- Enhancing creativity and intuition
Authenticating a 5 Mukhi Rudraksha
- Weight
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The weight of a genuine 5 Mukhi Rudraksha should be about 10 to 15 gms, which is heavier than other types of Rudrakshas. The color should be bright red or orange in color with no discoloration or spots on it. The shape should be round and smooth without any cracks or deformities in the surface area of the bead. The size must be small enough to fit comfortably into your palm without causing any discomfort while wearing it around your neck; however, this may vary depending on individual preferences as well as body type
Precautions to Take
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- Never wash or clean your Rudraksha with any kind of soap or detergent. If a Rudraksha becomes dirty, you can clean it with plain water and dry it in sun light.
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The Biggest Tech Stories of 2022
Don't worry core Repair Outlet fans, our 2022 Round-Up is coming very soon to outline how our year has been! But to give you guys another round-up of the year, we've collected a list of what we feel have been the biggest tech stories of 2022! So, before 2023 arrives and hopefully brings us another bright future for technology, let's cap off what were the biggest stories of the year.
Elon Musk's Twitter Escapade
Probably the biggest story to take place is Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter, which continues to produce headlines across all the tech news websites. If you've kept up with our Repair Round-Up newsletters, it's been tough to keep him and Twitter away from them. His Twitter deal was officially finalised in October 2022, with an owner turnover that’s been as publicly thunderous as we’ve seen.
The Teenager Tracking Elon Musk’s Flights
Whilst Twitter has been causing Mr Tesla a migraine, it wasn't the smoothest of beginnings either for the South African businessman. Jack Sweeney was 19 years old at the time when he started creating Twitter bots that would track the flights of billionaires and celebrities including Elon Musk. Musk offered the young man $5000 back in January, telling the kid in a message that “I don’t love the idea of being shot by a nutcase.” Want to explore more about a wide range of Refurbished iPhone Unlocked Mobiles.
Rise of TikTok
While social media giants Facebook and Twitter faced their struggles this year, TikTok continued to rise, doubling its revenues to at least $10 billion this year, compared to 2021. If you're not aware of what TikTok is, it resembles a replacement for the popular short-lived social media platform Vine.
Netflix Changes
Netflix was the one who kicked away Blockbuster and brought us streaming films and television shows directly to our TVs. But nowadays with competition from Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Disney Plus & more, they reported a loss in subscribers in April 2022, the first time in a decade. Some put it down to its increase in costs, which Netflix tried to counteract by setting up its Netflix ad-supported plan which came recently in November 2022.
The Universal USB-C
A regulatory change announced recently by the EU will force nearly all gadgets to use USB-C connections starting in 2024, including Apple's Lightning connector. USB-C is expected to first appear on the iPhone 15 in 2023. It is also expected that the US will follow suit with a standard charging cable, with USB-C becoming the default, but it is not likely to happen shortly.
2022 - Year of the Gaming Handheld
Thanks to the Nintendo Switch and the popularity of mobile games, “handheld” gaming never quite went away, even after the heyday of the DS and PSP. Nintendo continues to sell Switches hand over fist and has been claimed as arguably the best console to ever be released. In November, the console/handheld hybrid hit 114 million total lifetime units sold.
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While COVID-19 lockdowns kept many of us home, technology enabled us to continue working. Once the pandemic was under control, companies asked their employees to return to work in 2022. It was announced in April that Google would return to their employees, whereas Apple set a September deadline. In contrast, 64% said they'd rather quit than go back to work full-time.
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AI’s ability to dabble in the distinctly human provinces of painting and creating visual art, as well as completely rewrite has been limited until this year. Just about 86% of businesses have said that AI is becoming a “mainstream technology” at their company in 2022 and will continue to be something used more and more as time goes on. Heavy criticism comes from the lack of need for humans with the use of AI.
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Face Yoga For Glowing Skin: How To Get A Healthy, Radiant Complexion
Introduction
Face yoga is a form of exercise that focuses on facial muscles. It's similar to the popular trend of yoga for the body, but instead of working toward flexibility and strength, you'll be focused on relaxation, stress relief and better circulation. By using gentle movements on your face (and sometimes neck), you can stimulate blood flow to this area which promotes collagen production and increases elasticity in skin cells. These benefits can help keep acne at bay while giving your complexion an overall glow!
What is Face Yoga
Face yoga for glowing skin involves a series of poses that stretch and massage the face, helping to maintain a youthful appearance. The goal is not to achieve any sort of weight loss, but rather enhance muscle tone in the face. Face yoga for glowing skin differs from regular yoga as it focuses solely on stretching and massaging the muscles of your face rather than working out your entire body at once.
Face yoga can help improve blood circulation which helps with overall health and skin health as well. It's said that those who do face yoga regularly will even see results in their complexion!
The Benefits of Face Yoga
Face yoga is a great way to help you relax, improve your posture, and promote better blood circulation. Face yoga also tones the muscles in your face that you may not be using very often. This increases their tone, which can reduce stress and help you sleep better at night by relaxing facial muscles which are often tense from daily life.
How To Perform Face Yoga
· You can practice this face yoga for glowing skin sequence for up to 5 minutes, once a day.
· Perform each pose for 10 seconds and then rest by taking a deep breath for 20 seconds.
· Repeat the entire sequence two more times for a total of 3 rounds of face yoga moves.
· Do not perform any other exercises (like weight training) after doing the 3 rounds of face yoga exercises.
Getting Started with Face Yoga
Before you embark on this face yoga journey, we suggest starting with a gentle face massage. This helps loosen up any tension in your skin and can even improve circulation. After massaging your face for about five minutes, follow up with an exercise of your choice. Your daily routine should include at least 10 minutes of face yoga exercises every day. If you're new to doing these exercises regularly, start off slow and work up from there!
If you're looking for some guidance on how to go about incorporating this into your daily routine, try one or more of the following exercises:
· Massaging the Inner Eye (Start here if this is all new for you!)
· Beaming Eyebrows Upward (For those days when everything gets the best of us)
8 Exercises for Glowing Skin
· Face yoga. This is a system of gentle stretching and movement that's meant to improve blood flow, circulation, and lymphatic drainage. It also helps align facial muscles and tendons, which can improve your overall posture while allowing you to breathe more deeply—helping with headaches and sinus congestion—and release tension in the face (which may be why it's often recommended for people who suffer from migraines).
· Meditation or guided imagery. Studies show that meditation decreases cortisol levels (the stress hormone) while increasing dopamine activity (which is associated with happiness). You don't have to sit cross-legged on a mountaintop; just close your eyes for 15 minutes each day and focus on breathing deeply into your belly as if you were blowing up an imaginary balloon inside yourself; think about things that are making you happy or calm; or use an app like Calm or Headspace to guide yourself through visualization exercises designed specifically for improving mental health.
Conclusion
Face yoga for glowing skin is a great way to improve the health of your complexion and get glowing skin. As we’ve seen, it can help reduce fine lines and wrinkles while promoting healthy circulation in the face. The exercises are simple enough that anyone can do them at home without any special equipment or training. The best part about this practice is that it doesn’t take much time—just 15 minutes once or twice per week could be enough to see results! If you have been struggling with acne scars or dry patches on your face, then give face yoga a try today!
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Poker Hand Strategy ? How To Read Your Opponents When Playing Texas-Hold-Em
I use percentages to determine which cards are best for starting hands. The percentages shown in the figures represent the probability that the listed hole cards would win if the hand were to go to the river at a full-table of nine or ten players. The odds of getting Ace-Ace as the hole card and then winning rises from 31% when there are nine opponents to over 15% in heads-up. This is because any one of your nine opponents can win the hand in ten handed play. Add the statistics from each hand to get 69%.
Bully the weak. I don?t mean to scold them, but bully them poker. If a player is playing timidly and folding anything other than aces, you need to be a predator and extract as many money as possible from him. If he raises you, then you know he is capable of making a decision.
Old poker players who played in traditional casinos found this game to be very interesting. Online poker card games are much more efficient than traditional casinos.
The big blind and the small blind are to be placed in a pot by the two leftmost players. During betting, a player has the option to raise or re-raise his previous bet, call it, fold his pocket cards, or pass. Usually, the minimum limit for a bet is the actual big blind for the first two betting rounds, while it is twice the big blind for the betting after the turn and river card. The Texas Hold'em Poker variation that you play, such as limit, no-limit or pot-limit, will determine the maximum. The minimum bet is set in the no limit form. visit here can provide more betting options and is the most popular.
Although they are less common, there is a variety of games that have three amounts, such as $4-$8 or $10. poker betting game This only mean that until the river the bets are between $4 and $8, but once reaching the river the upper limit will increase and the bets can be placed using amounts from $4 to $10.
Before we get into the details, there are two important points to be aware of. First, watch out for very skilled opponents. They'll be able to read your emotions and try to deceive. It is also important to pay attention to the table, how each player reacts to different flops, and what betting patterns they have. For example, it is futile to try and push an opponent that calls on a weak holding. He will still call you! !
Last but not less, you should try to find your personal way of winning poker games. It could be a strategy to win at poker or a technique to predict your opponents' winning chances. You will quickly be able to recognize a new tactic by playing poker often.
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