Here are my examples:
1-1 - Turnabout Samurai. The victim (Sayaka/Hammer) was planning a murder, but their chosen prey (Leon/Vasquez) ended up killing them instead. The main suspect was the person who the victim was going to put the blame on (Makoto/Powers). The killer used an incinerator to get rid of the evidence.
1-2 - Farewell, My Turnabout. The scenario involved a threat of revealing one's secrets. The victim (Chihiro/Corrida) died by the hands of one person (Mondo/De Killer), but after that a third party (Byakuya/Andrews) alternated the crime scene to put the suspicion on another person (Toko/Engarde). The crime involved a killer that leaves their "signature" on the crime scene (Genocider Syo/De Killer). Person responsible for the murder (Mondo/De Killer) made a slip-up about one's gender (Chihiro's/Andrews').
1-3 - Turnabout Serenade. The victim (Kiyotka/LeTouse) actually died before their expected time of death. The culprit (Celeste/Crescend) used a concept (RoboJustice Hammers/Song Lyrics) to confuse the investigators on the order of the events. The culprit had a collaborator (Hifumi/Tobaye) whom they betrayed. One of the victims (Hifumi/LeTouse) managed to tell their last words before dying. During the investigation a body was moved from it's initial location.
1-4 - Turnabout Succession (Gramarye Trial). The victim (Sakura/Magnifi) committed suicide. Another person (Aoi/Valant) tampered with the scene to hide the fact that it was a suicide. The scenario involved people coming in and out one after another.
1-5 - Spoilers for 1-6. Inherited Turnabout. The victim (Mukuro/Dover) died once and was seen by a witness(-es), then it was taken away and stored via freezing. A person (Junko/Hall) decided to reuse the body to create a trap for another character (Kyoko/Gustavia). The sprinklers were a thing.
2-1 - There's two examples that include an element of this case. 1)Foreign Turnabout. A crime involved a blackout, with an object that shines in the darkness for the culprit (Teruteru/Andistan'dhin) to have an orientation. 2)The Adventure of the Blossoming Attorney. The culprit (Teruteru/Menimemo) stabbed the victim from outside of the room (through the gap in the floowall).
2-2 - Stolen Turnabout. The victim died from a blunt trauma to the head. The main suspect (Hiyoko/Ron) in the case was called to the future crime scene, then the culprit (Peko/Atmey) knocked them out. The culprit then fled, leaving the victim and the suspect on the scene. Upon awakening the main suspect left the scene too.
2-3 - Recepie for Turnabout. After the culprit (Mikan/Tigre) murdered their victim (Ibuki/Elg), they staged the moment of the crime in front of the witness (Hajime/Kudo) by dressing as the victim and acting out the moment of death.
2-4 - Not really a perfect match, but it is what it is. Turnabout Big Top. A witness (Fuyuhiko/Woodman) saw the victim (Nekomaru/Russel) going to the crime scene. The culprit (Gundham/Acro) tied something (Nekomaru/bust) with a wire/rope on the upper floor so it would collide with somethig on the ground (surface/Russel) resulting in the victim's death. A pet animal (Devas of Destruction/Money the Monkey) was used to realise the plan.
2-5 - Magical Turnabout. One person's (Chiaki/Betty) action caused victim's (Nagito's/Mistree's) death. A certain object (curtain/dragon) was obstructing the view of the scene. There was a rope mechanism implemented by the true mastermind of the case (Nagito/Retinz) and because of said mechanism the victim was pierced by a bladed weapon.
V3-1 - Spoilers for V3-6. Turnabout Trump. The culprit (Tsumugi/Kristoph) entered a room through the secret passage, killed the victim (Rantaro/Shadi) by smashing an object on their head, took and replaced necessary evidence and went back to the secret passage.
V3-2 - Turnabout Reclaimed. The victim (Ryoma/Shipley) was found in the water bothered by a water creature (piranhas/Orla). The culprit (Kirumi/Rimes) moved the body from one location to another via ropeway.
V3-3 - The Rite of Turnabout. A double murder. One of the victims (Tenko/Zeh'lot) died because a sharp object (sickle/statue) stabbed the back of their neck after they were moved by the pressure of a flat object (seesaw/slab). A possible suicide of one of the victims (Tenko/Tahrust) is discussed.
V3-4 - Bridge to the Turnabout. Two locations connected by a bridge were separated because of the bridge's absence later. The victim (Miu/channelled Dahlia) were trying to kill a person (Kokichi/Maya). However, they were ambushed by the culprit (Gonta/Godot) before they landed a hit. The victim's body was moved from one location to another.
V3-5 - This is the hardest one. The Resolve of Ryunosuke Naruhodo (Professor Killings). A victim (Kokichi/Klint) left a document (plan/will) for their killer (Kaito/Genshin) to use it to take down the person of great authority (the mastermind/Strongheart) who was responsible for deaths that they themselves did not cause.
Do you think some cases have a better example?

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Hey y’all. Just a fun post this time.
Integrated Strategy is my favorite game mode of this game. I legit quit every other gacha games as soon as IS#2 dropped back in July 2022. As IS#3 is on the horizon, I’d like to look back on IS#2 and the billion hours I spent on it like what am I doing with my life and, as you see from the title, to rank all of the IS#2 map, including boss stages and encounter stages, in an order from easiest to hardest.
Now, maps actually change their relative difficulty depends on what relics you have, what playstyle you go for, and occasionally what recruit tickets they throw at you.
Since I can’t create a template on tierlist maker as it will just be a bunch of text anyway (or a very small picture of each map which is hard to see) I guess I’ll just type it out manually here. Hope you remember all of the map’s name!
Just kidding I will post pictures of the maps. But that will bloat up this post a lot so you can see why this is a Part 1. Probably? Maybe by the time I managed to trim this post down by merging all the picture or something I will probably forget to edit this particular part and I will be talking about a Part 2 that will never come. Idk you will soon be able to tell that all of this is literally first draft.
Shit I should stop bloating this post with dumb talk then.
Here we go! All IS2 maps, from easiest to hardest.
Regular reminder that this is a tier list and therefore it’s biased af lmao. (More like this is my "get out of jail" statement, can't fault me for placing the hard map you hate the most on a lower tier now haha ^{looking forward your comment on my Unending placement}).
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My assumptions for comparing their difficulty will be as follow:

• no relics
• hard mode difficulty “Calamity Faceoff” (since that’s the only difficulty I play in).

Different hard mode relics usually wouldn’t change the relative difficulty so that’s fine.
And I will shorten the Emergency form to (E). If I meant both the regular map and its emergency version it will be (+E) instead.
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“A Date with Slugs” tier

• A Date with Slugs (+E).

https://imgur.com/a/QJOKJBq
Literally the easiest map in the entire mode. It cannot be threatening. Even with Chachek + Imagined (+54% ATK, DEF, HP) it’s still just barely harder than the next tier.

F tier

• Accident, Beast Taming, Gun Salute, Fight to the Death (+E), Destitute Knights (+E), Unequal Split, The Grand Finale, Patrol Squad, Duck Lord’s Play

https://imgur.com/a/9COpvjv
- Originally named the “super easy, barely an inconvenience” tier. They are Floor 1 and 2 maps after all. However, you may notice some Emergency version are missing.

D tier

• Accident (E), Beast Taming (E), Gun Salute (E), Unequal Split (E), First Come Last Served, Bound By Self

https://imgur.com/a/65Q1WIq (only 2 images cuz only 2 “new” maps)
While these are harder than F tier (cuz emergency duh), they also feel much harder than they actually are because of how early they can show up when you have barely any team build up (Have you ever got Bound By Self – Playwright’s 1st encounter – on the very first node of floor 2?). Them dogs in Beast Taming will mow through pretty much any E1 melee ops (some E2 ops even).
Accident is technically not as bad as the rest of this, as there are a notable amount of ops that can tank the archers or kill them fast enough to not overwhelm the medic. But they have to be higher than the above tier because it is still a significant step up from regular Accident. In normal mode, there is not much difference between the regular and the (E) version actually.
Also, for Gun Salute (E), technically just the Chadigan will tank the mortar guy with ease (need constant heal spam tho), making it F tier, but the issue is the RNG spiders, in (E) their death explosion will kill pretty much any ranged units, and you don’t have much space as they have to avoid both Chadigan and the spider and manage aggro away from the mortar boi.

C tier

• Sculptor and Statue, Premiere, With the Crowd, Alpine Visitor, Fireworks Show, Gopnik’s Fist, Surprise Factory, Drone Landing Zone (+E), Absurd Trickeries, Sarkaz Desire

https://imgur.com/a/zbnVbrE
These are the opposite of the above tier, where all of these stages listed are way too easy for the floor they appear in.
I first met Sculptor and Statue on its (E) version and not the regular one. I forgot entirely that the pillar can form chokepoints and still won that map leakless even when I had to hold 2 lanes. Note for this map though: the pillar’s ATK is less than the Gargoyle’s HP, meaning it won’t be an insta-kill. You have to lower its HP first before dropping the pillar on them.
Drone Landing Zone (+E) is probably an odd choice here. But as overwhelming as the drone horde looks, it’s fairly simple at its core. The only requirement is not using E1 Steward, Earthspirit, and Podenco as your only anti-air options. You can probably put the (E) version on the next tier.
You may also notice that Sarkaz Desire – a floor 6 map – is here. Again, easy for the floor it appears in. If you got to Floor 6, that means you beat either Phantom or Big Sad Lock (BSL). If you beat Phantom, you will beat Sarkaz Desire, period. Because the only threatening part of this map is the Balloon horde. Or more accurately, killing all of the Balloons on top of your ops and just wiped them with a burst of like a million damage. If you beat BSL, well it depends on if you beat it with a melee team or a ranged team (for obvious reasons).

C+ tier

• First Come Last Served (E), Patrol Squad (E), Justice, Pressing Ahead, Duck Lord’s Party, Unending, Shrouded in Cloud, Theft From Above, Fatal Melodies

https://imgur.com/a/5DEnksu
Now we’re at the next level of C tier where they are easier than the floor they appear in, but they are hard enough to not share that tier.
This tier also shares spot with maps that are hard if you lacks a specific functions but is otherwise easy. For example
Justice and Pressing Ahead: 1 non-Charger Vanguard, and a sufficiently tanky 2-blocks unit for Justice specifically, which can be that Vanguard. (Technically you can just get the +DP relics and it’ll also be sufficient, but I banned relics from this tier list lol)
Fatal Melodies: Any medic that isn’t Honeyberry or 3* and lower. Ansel could work with extreme finesses (and prayers).
I also have beaten this map without medics (or with only Ansel as medic) multiple times already. A DPS Ambusher or Dollkeeper on the healing tile will buy you enough time to musical chair the other DPS units to kill the boss. You can even deliberately block him with any weak unit just to stop the DoT for a split second to buy time for Ansel to heal up. Strong duelists like Nearl2 S2 will do wonder. What doesn’t work is the 3* Medic + Defender combo that usually works in Normal Mode. Both Chadigan and Spot will quickly die to the boss even with Ansel or Hibiscus. (Especially again, I’m not counting any relics for this tier list).
Unending: I heard y’all hate this map. It’s frankly not that hard. There are a lot of units that will help a lot with this map: the classic Defender + Medic, any Trapmasters, Dollkeepers, Ambusher, Decel Binders, Elysium, Roberta, Cliffheart, Gladiia, Red,... anyway the list goes on. And that most of the units I listed are still good in pretty much the other maps. (Cliffheart especially, but I’ll mention her later when it’s time). In IS#2 you also have 2 stun devices to help.
What doesn’t work are Sleep and Freeze user since those don’t reset the Lancer’s speed. But for Gnosis, his freeze and fragile are probably good enough for you to kill them anyway.
Note that if you’re placing 2 Defenders for this map, place the stronger one on the right, that’s where 3 Lancers Leaders will go to (not at the same time but you know what I mean). Unless you’re sure they can’t survive regardless.
A great thing about this map is that Hard Mode doesn’t change the difficulty that much. Most of lancer’s damage come from their speed, not their ATK. (Which also means that Shamare -50% ATK doesn’t work.)
End point is that you usually have more options than you think and the fact that it appears way at floor 4 means you have times to prepare for it.

B tier

• The Grand Finale (E), A Familiar Face (+E), With the Crowd (E), Reform (+E), Beast Fighting (+E), Premiere (E), Scupltor and Statue (E), Vintage Transport, A Dance Together (+E), Alpine Visitor (E), Bob’s Beers, Surprise Factory (E), Terrifying Legends, Mind the Doors, A Cold Separation

https://imgur.com/a/CewWfTO
This tier is a bit crowded but it’s essentially most of the Floor 3 maps. Floor 3 marks the middle tier or “average” difficulty of the mode. Obviously that means most Floor 3 maps will be here.
Some of these maps are also part of the “hard because early” gang. They are in floor 3 itself tho, just pray that you get their (E) version later in the floor.
The 3 boss stages are not necessary harder than Theft From Above and Fatal Melodies. But they don’t have the potential to be easy either. Basically they are… stable(?) in difficulty I guess?
Terrifying Legends is another map that got much harder in Hard Mode because of the stat scaling. The boss hurts because all of the buff stacks multiplicatively. The Hard Mode boost and his own +ATK/ASPD scales together resulting in him destroying most melee units even with healer. You just have to win the DPS race in Hard Mode because he does need ramp up. Or get a total of 4s of hard CC which may or may not be easily available.

B+ tier

• Vintage Transport (E), Knights’ Duel, Fireworks Show (E), Unending (E), Pressing Ahead (E), Traveler From Afar, Disorderly Banquet, Dangers Abound, The Night of Ritual, This Ursus Man

https://imgur.com/a/PqB8FOJ
- If you’re playing with Leader Squad, Knights’ Duel is the easiest map in the entire game: just leak them all. Otherwise, it’s relatively hard. The simplest strat is to just leak the axe boi while dealing with the rest of them. Cliffheart and Gladiia in particular can just yoink the archer boi down the hole even before he starts moving. FEater can also yeet him down the hole but requires a bit of finesse.
Unending (E) is a mile (per hour) above regular Unending. The faster speed means more damage, but more importantly it means you have less breaks in-between charge. More damage combines with less breaks means you’re more likely to die to attrition because you can’t heal up your defenders fast enough. Lancers Leaders now 1-shot anyone without immortality, shield, or massive HP/DEF pool like an E2 skill-active Protectors. But Bind, Stun, Dollkeepers, AMB-Ⲭ Ambusher,... still work wonder so it’s still in this tier.
Traveler From Afar regular mode is fairly simple. What you need to worry is the fireball caster and get units that can attack the hovering bois without being distracted (not necessarily Marksman). E2 S2M3 Cliffheart in particular destroys this map. She can yoink caster down the hole and ground all of the hovering boi. She doesn’t prioritize S2 on enemies she’s blocking from her side so it works wonder for prioritizing them. Bottom lane of this map has fairly low traffic, just Chadigan can solo it all the way until the red defender… I think. I never really paid attention to it.
This Ursus Man can be cheesed with AoE silence. Otherwise you need either Reapers, Dollkeepers or some Centurion. There is a spot that is guaranteed safe from Gopnik when he makes his first round: upright of the blue box. This spot is a bit awkward though as sometimes the spider will spawn the thingy away from that tile which let them slip pass, but it’s a great spot regardless.

A tier

• Justice (E), Bob’s Beers (E), Demonic Cage, Shrouded in Cloud (E), The Red Mist (+E), Absurd Trickeries (E), The Night of Ritual (E), From Afar, The Biting Cold (+E), Sarkaz Desire (E)

https://imgur.com/a/rDyBFWu
- And here’s the map with the biggest jump from regular mode to Emergency: Justice. Most other (E) maps become hard due to the stats scale turning the regular mobs into a dangerous beasts (Unequal Split, Beast Taming, Grand Finale,...) But Justice makes every mobs stronger and also keeping the Civilians the same stats. Even when you deployed a unit right in front of the red box, the enemies can still take 1 shot toward the Civilians because they spawned inside the red box and can’t be blocked yet. And with the (E) stats they will take less shots to kill the civilians. I hate these damned civilians so much. (I guess a puller will yoink the enemies away from red box so here’s another Cliffheart shill)
Sarkaz Desire is another one with a big jump. Like I said in the normal version, the only challenge of this map is not killing the balloon at the wrong time and have a million damage on your ops combined with a 10 seconds stun. But the (E) version makes their speed fast meaning said challenge is much harder. And the increased stats do make the other mobs more threatening.
Bob’s Beers is also a case of (E) stats turning the regular enemies into beasts, in this case the Brawlers and the regular drones. They are deceptively strong and then any single bomb dropped on your ranged unit means death.
Demonic Cage is uhh, a fairly simple map. But as I said somewhere in the beginning, there are some maps that do change their difficulty based on your playstyle. And mine doesn’t rely too much on strong melee units. The easy strat is to leak the first guy while passively collects DP to instantly deploy a bunch of units with the melee being lasts to draw aggro. It’s probably somewhere around B/B+ tier for other people, or even lower. Cliffheart is also amazing here because she can yoink the ranged enemy away from the ranged tile so you have a much easier time to deal with the rest.

S tier

• Traveler From Afar (E), Dangers Abound (E), From Afar (E), Observation, Ursus Desire, The Point of No Return, All I Ask of You*, Twisted Every Way

https://imgur.com/a/TMqzLe3
I don’t think I need to explain what tier this is. But I do need to explain why some of the (E) stages can match the “boss fight” of this game.
Dangers Abound (E) has 6 Wraith Leaders with about 30000 HP, 1000 DEF, and 50 RES. The Bullies also chonk af but they are blockable while not hurting that much.
Traveler From Afar should also be self-explanatory. The Caster actually chonk af and the hover boi hurts. (But Cliffheart still destroy the top lane of this map. She might have to be worry with the mobs this time though.)
From Afar has the stats scaling to the extreme, +50% ATK (stack multiplicatively with the Hard Mode relic) and +500 DEF (fortunately only add after the Hard Mode relic) from the 5 Heralds which makes the opening harder because of the snipers’ multi-target. If you haven’t killed enough Heralds by the time the elites and singers reach your frontline, it’s going to be a bad time.
Observation is pretty overwhelming at first and still difficult after getting used to it. The singers spam during the middle phase is pretty awful and if you accidentally trigger their passive once, they will shred through your line. Then the Golem spam at the last phase is also awful. Actually not that bad if you have relics.
*read below for more things about All I Ask of You

“Holy shit” tier

• Ursus Desire (E), New Chapter, All I Ask of You*

https://imgur.com/a/JSHJImc
Emergency Ursus Desire. Oh boy. 5 UFO drones with 36000 HP, 1600 ATK, 1200 DEF. 4 Shieldguards with 45000 HP, 1300 ATK, 2500 DEF. 4 Demolitionists with 55000 HP, 3500 ATK, 2100 DEF. Even the bottom lane is big pain with the stats-boosted bears and 2-block Raiders spam. If you somehow got Imagined (+10% ATK, HP, DEF), it’s going to be a fu…n time.
New Chapter’s actual boss is the Shaman. But Nightingale will trivialise that right? NOPE there are a billion shaman and their combined arts damage with the death explosion with Playwright’s constant onslaught means without NG S3 your units will die quite quickly (without relics).
Tbh, Playwright alone isn’t that bad. His mass AoE is preventable with the checker-deployment thingy and Nightingale (it is bad in the sense that he pretty much forces a NG on your team or relying on busted relics). Dollkeepers shrug off his -ASPD debuff when swapping back and forth (though only Spectwo is the only frontline that survive the shaman horde for any reasonable amount of time). You don’t even have to spawncamp him and instead burst him down in 2 different intervals (the idea is to avoid his <50% phase as much as you can). There are a bunch of big pp DPS units courtesy of year 3/4 powercreep (and heck even some old units still kinda works) so technically you have options. My dude has 90 RES when below 50% HP though so be careful with arts damage.
*Extra note: if you have Crown or Chachek, All I Ask of You is in this tier as well. BSL's ATK got buffed to the point where you might not be able to set up a squad at all (until 60s in), as they will get wiped. Again, I don't count relics, meaning operators will only have 10% ATK and HP and DEF to protect themselves with.
K that’s it you can now go flame my ranking or me in the comment or something bye.

My son was given a king roon 3D printer and it's missing one of the bed leveling adjustment knobs. We tried ordering a replacement set of knobs from the manufacturer but they canceled our order so we went to the local big box store looking for nuts and washers to make our own. The smallest metric hardware available at the local big box store was m4 and it's too big.
I'm assuming I'm looking for M3 but wanted to try to confirm before mail ordering something.
Does anybody know where we could buy replacement knobs or nuts and bolts that would fit and do you know what size those threads are?
We are complete total newbies at this that he's super excited to get the thing up and running and so am I.

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Hi, David here!
There will be many barriers to overcome on your journey of self-improvement. You may be surprised to find that lifelong friends may ridicule you and try to hold you back. There are multiple reasons why they may try to do this. Firstly, they may care about you and fear your success because it means that they might lose you from their lives. Another reason is that your actions make them reflect on their own lives.
If you can succeed, then they must consider what this means for them. Rather than serving as an inspiration, you can serve as a reminder of what they too could have achieved if they had chosen to put in the effort.
Try to identify the reasons behind people’s actions before you judge them. In addition, be aware of becoming resentful of your complacent friends who may serve as constant reminders of what you are fighting so hard to escape. As stated by Robert Pirsig:
“We always condemn most in others, that which we most fear in ourselves.”
The greatest success barriers will likely come from within you. It is common to commit self-sabotage because success leads to change and change can be scary. This often takes place on a subconscious level, where your brain will rationalize a decision before you can even consciously question it. It is more comfortable to remain in a known space than venture into the unknown.
Your fear of change may cause you to rationalize your limiting beliefs in order to protect yourself and justify inaction. You may believe that if you were to try and fail, then you would only prove to yourself without a doubt that you are not good enough. Thus you put off trying in order to preserve hope and protect the belief that you will succeed in the future.
You must remind yourself that failing does not equate to failure. As long as you keep honestly trying and learning from your mistakes, then you have no other option but to improve. The only true failure is outright choosing inaction.
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BTW, I just finished putting together my dating advice eBook "How to Date Any Girl" version 4.0 and would LOVE to get some honest feedback from you!
I decided to give it away for free for the first 100 people who join my mailing list.
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By joining the mailing list You would get:
- 27 pages long eBook (free for joining) that gives you a practical step-by-step guide to meeting women (14+ years of knowledge put into it).
- bonus emails where I share awesome advice on how to improve your dating life.
You can get the eBook and join the list by clicking here!
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This book is the result of going out and socializing with girls for over a decade. I have put in there all the fundamentals I have learned over that time so you know I have something to say ;)
P.S: You can unsubscribe at any time with a click of a button if you feel you don't like the content of the emails anymore (but I am sure you will ;)
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What are your thoughts? Do you have any tips to add?
Let's discuss in the comments :)
Thanks for reading and have a GREAT day!
David Davidson

If the order you are on can’t be completed for some reason, like the restaurant didn’t get it or someone else picked it up or the restaurant is closed… DONT JUST CANCEL IT AND SEND IT TO THE NEXT DRIVER. Take four or five effin minutes to call support about the order not being fulfilled so that it doesn’t just get money added to it and sent to another driver so they too can go waste their time and resources to find out the information you already know. It’s NOT THAT HARD, YALL.
Have a little respect for your fellow delivery drivers and save the next driver the time and pain of driving there for no reason. It’s a waste of everyone’s time and resources and it pisses the customers off to where they are likely to give a bad rating and no tip to the person that actually did what they were supposed to do and got their food to them.
A few bad apples that don’t care about anyone else make everyone else look bad. This gig is easy… have some pride in what you’re doing and take a few measly minutes to provide proper service (notice I said 𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕡𝕖𝕣 𝕤𝕖𝕣𝕧𝕚𝕔𝕖... it doesn’t even have to be GOOD service— just do it right!) so you don’t screw over the next driver who could be a single mom of three trying to feed her children between her chemo treatments by doing deliveries. It’s not that effin difficult to be a decent human.

Does anybody have any suggestions as to sites to use to sext and make money? I’m based in the UK and I’ve been doing sex work for a little while but I’m new to sexting. Any suggestions or tips would be appreciated! I already have an OF and Fansly, as well as a Reddit and Twitter that I use to promote.

My only method of learning things to now is just excessive trial and error. It is a method of improving, but I can't do this for every single thing in my life. It is painful, overwhelming, exhausting and takes too much time. In an environment when there's expectations and limited amount of time, it is just inefficient.
Does not help that I'm a scatterbrain. Thoughts are muddled like entangled strings, and the idea to compartmentalized information is very foreign. Again for me to learn this towering, vague topic on how to organize my brain, I can try to break down to bite size pieces, but the questions comes like: break down to what? (Factor in if I know how to segregate what can be separated, how small is small, what topics to isolate, how to put in order, etc.) -Even as I am typing I have an awareness I am probably missing to objective of doing these 'steps', I just don't know what is it am I going about this wrong?-
If you have resources do share, though I feel it is not the main solution. Having more books (knowledge) won't do be any good if I don't even know how to open it and use it wisely (basically not knowing what to do with said knowledge). :I
Instead I want to see your thought process: How you tackle things, how you do them, why you choose those ideas and why they help you? Why choose that over another method of thinking, etc.
EXAMPLE SCENERIO: You want to learn a new hobby because "Oh wow that seems fun to do"
What is your next step afterwards?

(This post isn't for everyone, TLDR at bottom)
There’s a reason these stocks are trading at extremely low prices. The puzzle has enough pieces in place now that the endgame is all but clear. If the share price were significantly higher at this stage I’d be much more concerned.
It’s called a bear trap. Bears are investors betting against stocks. Bears are usually hedge funds that cheat to guarantee victory and so stoping a HF campaign to bankrupt a company was considered impossible. They owned the market. But by doing the only thing their algorithms weren’t programmed to predict, millions of individuals holding, buying for and direct registering Gamestop shares for a shockingly long period of time, we won.
They had already lost, in January of ‘21, and to stop that tide they were forced to reveal their hand and expose their vulnerabilities by frantically hiding an untold number of shares that, according to market rules, should never have existed in the first place. Superstonk tracked, catalogued and nullified every illegality, saw beyond each and every hastily introduced legistive stopgap, through layers of complexity designed specifically to evade detection and what we found was a game of hot potato being played on the biggest stage in the world, the Central Bank Stage. This is a monumental achievement in and of itself for now the most entrenched and disguised among the oligarchy have begrudgingly been forced to reveal themselves. Think Scooby Doo times infinity.
Make no mistake, while the elite will desperately continue to maintain the status quo at all costs, unique to this conflict is that for the first time in human history the demand for greater cohesion among Heads of State and Central Banks will force the men in black suits to surrender one of their most effective tools of control. The threat of international conflict potentially leading to a cataclysmic event. In finding a common enemy the elite will ironically be forced to overcome their manufactured divisions to save their own lives. Filling the vacuum once dominated state and corporate propaganda will arise a competition for authenticity and transparency.
This Revolution has been underway for well over a year. Credit Suisse is the first shift of the tectonic plates and as they scramble, the elite are utilizing a kind of high speed digital “underground” railroad to share information and collaborate in a manner unprecedented. There will be rapid declassification of state secrets to facilitate a defense. They are facing the potential of diminished generational legacy which is a visceral threat to the very future of their gene pool.
But this threat is inevitable, it is a step forward in human collective evolution, it is a species adapting to, and finding clarity within, an environment shift occurring at lightning speed. Tomorrow’s digital transformation creates cognitive alignment among larger and larger groups of people, from a greater variety of cultural backgrounds, utilizing the sheer power of numbers and the compounding nature of shared individual perceptions, this shift in communication greatly increases both the group’s ability to establish consensus and set an agenda. This means real people will tangibly influence policy without reliance over reliance on a representative government which will naturally mitigate the corporate monopoly over cultural norms.
And so it will be interesting to see this unplanned international detente of sorts between the various iterations of the corporate dominance over central governments, be it the Internationally ubiquitous but Stateless oligarchies with a hand on every significant lever, to the state and local governments puppeteers who use bribes to open the door to institutional control over market mechanics, to the select few oligarchies so effective in their command over the narrative that the illusion of participatory governing appears so authentic it masks even the criminal activity in plain sight.
Will this conflict be defined by greater opposition between the Web3 community of tomorrow and the institutions tailored to an obsolete technology of yesterday be dominated by a crippling fear based approach from old money or by their acceptance of the inevitable seismic shift in power dynamics. A shift that will force them to open enlightened discourse with the pawns they once manipulated with ease. (think British Monarchy but stateless and worldwide. We are the parliament in this analogy).
That’s the fork in the road, it’s the next big step, a defining moment in human history and within it are extraordinary implications for the future. This next part is important.
At some point we’re going to have to find a representative way to break proverbial bread with even the more reviled of our opponents to broker a kind of rudimentary short term peace followed by the first ever crowdsourced, Constitution amended in real time for a digital populace no longer hypnotized by State propaganda to determine policy.
A blockchain supported global community that accounts for our inherent right and our absolute imperative to assert authority not through the hollow words of an agenda-less protest but manifested by the efficacy of our actions.
We didn’t hold up a sign until the “rights” guy stamped our wrists and gave us access to policy decisions, we developed a high speed network of our own. Where they controlled the state of the art technology to disseminate information, we had an extremely minimal degree of separation among hundreds of thousands to millions of unique minds which facilitated information sharing at a speed rivaling theirs. Their strategic advantages was trumped by an essential galaxy of uniquely crafted stars of human perception each enhancing the value of the next. The power of one mind is finite and not significantly greater than an average mind when considering the scale of intelligence disparity on Earth alone, forget about the infinite scope of the universe. Each mind, in ways too complex to explain, multiplies the power of the next by a power of 2. We won by unlocking the true World Wonder, the compound interest of each individual perception lasering in one one one specific event which created an explosion of consensus building to counter Buffets 8th World Wonder; the compound interest of unfettered wealth accumulation. They didn’t have enough minds, the deviation of mean intelligence between the two groups and the advantages that this disparity provided the elite was overcome by sheer number of prisms through which the information was filtered, reframed and ultimately weaponized against them by the galaxy of household investors.
To bring it back to the specific mechanics presently at play, a relatively small in number of bad actors representing a contingent of the elite, operating under the full authority of the Central Banking system, wrote a series of codes early in the machine learning era, that essentially just kept playing an updated version of the same rigged circus game. Retail investors were simply to powerless and divided to understand it let alone overcome.
By exposing the hidden underpinnings of this machine through the collective infiltration of one specific representative stock (GME) an obvious fatal flaw was discovered. This code was essentially universal in its control over order flow but, after years of research, the exhilarating theory emerged that winning in just one relatively battlefield (GME) would shatter the entire corrupt system due to it having never been programmed to capitulate. This House of Cards we discovered had always been protected from the any kind of threatening breeze by the Citadel walls but once beyond that wall you’re almost offended that they never considered an additional defense..
They relied on last generation algos that buckled under the unrelenting pressure of two straight years of an impossible retail stand. Web2’s final days saw a social media engagement that allowed for a human adaptation to market manipulation that nullified their ill gotten advantage.
Unaffiliated retail investors poured billions into a single stock and maintained a fluid consensus throughout a host of misinformation campaigns. Within that collective adaptation to information sharing at an unprecedented and highly accurate clip there existed a variable not accounted for by the early algorithms proving once again the necessity of entropic increase in variables over time to eliminate the deadly certainty of prediction devices.
When the machine’s broke they just kept doubling down creating an unsustainable number of illegal shares, colloquially known as naked shorts, to such an unfathomable degree as to threaten the stability of the the entire system and ultimately the world economy. They did this because the algos never programmed to capitulate continuously chose to simply survive another day despite exacerbating the inevitable failure. It’s like they kept pouring kerosene on the wood pile so as to distract themselves from the matches that would soon be the only remaining option.
The machine was running on auto for so long that once it was compromised the frantic C Suite decision makers only remaining option was to create the biggest bag of excrement the market has ever seen and that’s the story of how the mall store that you find scattered in nostalgic memories of those innocent and magical wonder years exposed the entire fraudulent market, then used that knowledge to bring it to its knees..
And just as predicted here, with an extraordinary degree of accuracy, one of the largest and most structurally important banks in the world, having spent two years trying to unload just one of the untold bundles of GME shares collapsed under its weight. Despite the greatest minds working round the clock for a solution, despite access to unlimited resources and extraordinary influence over the legislature, they found no way to negotiate this uniquely human wall standing firm against unapologetic, self serving corruption. A wall propped up by the hundreds of thousands of household investors with an integrity so unyielding as to turn the institutions most functional strength in to its kryptonite by removing the weapon of psychological manipulation and replacing it with clear eyed, crowd sourced due diligence.
Retail won. Retail earned their moment in the sun, and they will do will to not suppress that feeling of pride. Feel it, marinate in it, enjoy it then move on from it. Pride can lead to hubris, hubris to carelessness, carelessness to mortal error. Tale as old as time just ask Ken Griffin.
If retail tries to refuse entrance of the legacy generations of the 20th century elite to whatever Web3, AI etc becomes, then not only have we just guaranteed future conflict but, more importantly, we’ve failed to find the balance that promotes the most effective use of collective progress by excluding valuable sources of information who can help exponentially increase the collective understanding of our former enemies mistakes so as to avoid repeating them.
The future will be shaped by how well these two former enemies can become peers. There are two options forward.
Option A: It is the victors (retail) who will have to do the bulk of the heavy lifting at first which will feel uncomfortably similar to the previous dynamic. Don’t be dismayed, this will simply demand an initial deep dive into the technology itself to help create a mutually beneficial environment. This dynamic will evolve to promote greater and more valuable self fulfilling experiences engineered using the wisdom of the group (same thing we do here). The individual shares his new experience with the group and more valuable information is added to the pool of knowledge and understanding. This is all just an incredibly rapid turnover of the same process that has always spurred advancements.
Option B is the option that’s almost always chosen when the underdog wins, an appeal to pride, an unquenchable desire for retribution born of fear and insecurity. We cannot prevent this dynamic, it will eventually play out in one form or another, but we will soon find a common enemy much greater than man, an enemy only matched by all men working together. E Pluribus Unum.
Should we choose option A and successfully tailor the technology to ensure its success, we will have finally grasped the utility of our exceptionalism. Instead of random genetic adaptations to the unpredictable environment, which is the process that has traditionally defined organic evolution, we will have effectively wielded the technology with such scale and precision so as to facilitate the best environment in which to adapt. Selecting the environment first is an absolute game changer.
This is the moment man begins to fast track his own ascension and it will be an era of exploration so fantastic as to render all the so called great expeditions before it a mere orchestral diminuendo before the exhilarating crescendo.
TLDR: We won but now, somewhat ironically, it’s our job to assimilate the crooks responsible for immense suffering in the name of apparent unmitigated greed into the Web3 they so vehemently tried to strangle in its infancy.
This is a technological shift that would strip them of their legacy advantages, exposing them as imposters in an era of transparency. They’ve masked themselves in propaganda and they over valued capital accumulation this realization will be just as much of an enlightened journey for our journey here.
Of Note: This post is not for everyone, it’s speculative, somewhat haphazard and the bigger picture analysis is ripe for criticism.
However, while there are foundational weaknesses in some the supporting details, I will strongly defend the general theme, the appeal to a focus on improving the environment to help improve the individual, as opposed to the demand that the individual adapt to the existing environment despite its glaring inefficiencies has always separated the humans from the animals. Ironically it is the Apes who should start considering and planning for a future that is rapidly approaching, a future that will not wait for quiet contemplation, the time for action is now. For the Apes

It is my best friend's first time being a fan girl. I anticipated that like many fg out there, she could experience deep attachment or, for the lack of a better term, delulu phase. I wasn't exactly feeling negative about it except for getting a lil worried.
She told me it'll be nice if they meet someday when she got a job abroad. (Heads up, the guy wasn't a celebrity and doesn't face a lot of paparazzi but a famous personality nonetheless.) She'd literally joke about fake scenarios of their first meeting. Sometimes, she asks if I think she'd be able to meet anyone like him, and to be honest, it's hard to say yes because, from her stories, the guy seems very extraordinary, like the type of boy one would regret breaking up with. But, yeah, I tell her, yes, there's a lotta fish in the ocean.
One time, I noticed small changes in her. For instance, she's more conscious of things, like her habits, likes, and insights. I can see her slowly trying to take better care of herself and doing tiny things like sitting better, drinking more, eating healthily, and being more productive because she says he won't like it if she's not, and maybe she'd become more worthy of someone's love if she's better than who she was yesterday.
(Funny thing is she doesn't like sushi and seafood in general and said she now has a good reason not to because he's allergic to them lmao) Basically, he became her inspiration to be better. Not so bad isn't it? She told me she's doing it for herself and not for him (though I doubt it a little bit lol).
I do and want to support her in what she does, and I'm trying to help her get through THAT phase without hurting her feelings. But I'm afraid her attachment can get unhealthy (so far it's the opposite) at least for her emotional health.
Sometimes, she gets hopeless that she's never gonna stand a chance, and wonders if it's even worth trying to be positive about it because what she wants can only happen once in a blue moon. She's afraid she'd be investing her time and effort ^{(and money for the merch lol}) in something she'll never have.
I'd cheer her up and say at least he played a part in her happiness and getting her to change for the better. I know it's just a phase, lilipas din. I just wanna help a little bit, I guess. ^{(I don't intend to offend anyone with this. I hope I don't see someone say it's her problem, not mine. Lol})

Hello,
I have been married for 7 years now. We are both 34 years old. My wife is in a large amount of debt because of her spending habits. before I continue my story do NOT just say "DIVORCE HER" out of know where, if you do say this at least give constructive reasons why, however I do believe in working out things. I do not have debt.
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My wife spends a lot of money, and she has admitted to that a couple of times, I give a break down as much as I can. She spends around 1200$ a month on herself (is this to much for themselves to spend?) she has a credit card debt of 38k caused by her spending.
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I have given her money the first time to help pay for her debt which was about 4k at first, debt came back. I want to make a spreadsheet with her and help her with her spending but she feels very annoyed by this and does not like when she feels a burden of someone looking at her spending, which I can understand, it can be frustrating.
Should I as her husband pay her debt? Or should I leave this one to herself to pay? She is very much stressed out and honestly its driving her crazy the debt. She wants to live a good life and buy things but she feels her debt stops her.
Would I be the asshole if I do not pay her debt and let her handle it now?
I feel if I pay her debt she will never learn to save money and break her spending habits. Is this right? Is tough love worth doing here?
Just an FYI to everyone, she NEVER asks me for money, it was me offering to always help. Bills included in the 1200$ a month.
Thanks!

We are all in college and I have two friends, let’s say one is Sam and the other is Jim. Me (21 F) and Sam (20 F) usually hangout and do work while Jim (18 M) does hobbies. Jim always complains about not having the funds for ANYTHING.
A couple of times Sam has talked about things to do for the day, Jim would chime in with a place but as of lately the places would be more on the expensive side.
My first witness to this behavior was all of us going to a Diner. I ordered something dodgy while Sam ordered something small, Jim on the other hand ordered something a bit high. Sam was also paying for Jim’s food cause he doesn’t have money right now.
While Jim is eating, he makes remarks about how much he hates the food. While Sam is visibly annoyed by the comments cause she’s paying for his food. Jim even after Sam expresses how annoyed she was and while proceeds to continue talking like this.
Just recently we went to a very nice restaurant that Jim brought up. Yet he proceeds to spin it as solely my idea. When it came to ordering, I ordered what I wanted knowing it would last me days to finish to-go.
Sam ordered only a salad because she’s a picky eater. Then Jim orders something on the high side. I realized Sam wasn’t eating her Salad. Sam tells me it wasn’t that good and would like to find food before going back on campus.
I look over at Jim telling him “we should pack our food to-go when it’s done cooking so we aren’t eating infront of Sam.” Jim completely ignores my comment because Sam said it was okay, knowing damn well it’s not.
I ordered something that was on the high side cause it’s for me. Nothing was discussed prior. He’s acting all hunky dory until the bill arrives for all three of us. When the bill arrives it’s unusally quiet and all I hear is this small, “hey ____, mind covering me for this one?”
I looked at him like he got 5 heads and say, “Jim.. what are you asking me right now? Cause this is the second time..”
Jim played dumb like I haven’t paid to cover for him due to him having no money before. While I’m seeing red cause of how he’s treating us numerous times without giving ANYONE a heads up, I just say I’ll pay.
We get in the car and Jim asks “Where are we going now?” Like buddy, did you just forget what your “best friend” asked for inside the restaurant. ———
Just extra info…
Jim has guilt tripped us for being the driver after we’ve paid for gas, but never see him pull up to a gas station. Saying, “would any of you be a doll and get me something from ____ since I drive you guys everywhere?”
Since I confronted him saying, “Today was rough and me, Sam, and Sam’s boyfriend want this type of shit to stop. Sam has put up with you yanking her money all the time out of kindess.”
Jim then says how he owes everyone an apology. The next day comes and I don’t get my money back, Jim doesn’t say a word to
AITA for confronting Jim about his lack of care when he’s not paying his way?

Hi UKPF
I'm in the USS defined benefit scheme that I contribute to by salary sacrifice. My income after salary sacrifice for past few years has been over £50k, so I have refunded a portion of child benefit. Last year, I paid £4800 money into a Penfold pension (increased to £6000 with 20% tax relief) to bring my salary below £50k (I left it too late to do this via USS, so thought this the easiest thing to do). For USS salary over £40k is put into the defined contribution scheme they run, so I didn't think it would make too much difference - and I have chosen the 'highest risk' fund in Penfold which may give higher returns than the USS DC scheme.
Time move fast, and this year I've left it too late and I'll need to do the same - contribute to a pension scheme to offset. Of course, I could just pay into Penfold again but that would increase the pot to over £10k. If I withdrew money from it while working but over 55 (or 57 ) then it would trigger the money purchase annual allowance (MPAA) of £4k which would make things complicated for my ongoing USS payments If I'm still working.
So, I plan to open a second pension and pay £6-7k into that. I'm assuming both pensions will probably not rise to £10k over the next 5-7 years (but that would be a nice problem to have!) and I'll be able to receive one or both (if ever needed) while working without triggering the MPAA.
So, does these seem sensible? Maybe next year I'll get organised and over-pay into USS to bring my salary below the £50k level - I think you can receive lump sums form DB schemes without triggering the MPAA?
Thoughts anyone? Thanks and sorry for long post!