What will you be doing with this PC? Be as specific as possible, and include specific games or programs you will be using.

I plan to mostly game on it, games like Elden Ring, League of Legends, Civilization 6 or Witcher III.

What is your maximum budget before rebates/shipping/taxes?

Budget is around 2000€, I can add a couple thousands if necessary but would prefer not to

When do you plan on building/buying the PC? Note: beyond a week or two from today means any build you receive will be out of date when you want to buy.

I plan to build it in 1 to 2 weeks

What, exactly, do you need included in the budget? (ToweOS/monitokeyboard/mouse/etc)

I need a tower and a 24" monitor (no curved screens please)

Which country (and state/province) will you be purchasing the parts in? If you're in US, do you have access to a Microcenter location?

France

If reusing any parts (including monitor(s)/keyboard/mouse/etc), what parts will you be reusing? Brands and models are appreciated.

I already have a Logitech G713 keyboard & G705 mouse as well as a 27" 1440p DELL monitor

Will you be overclocking? If yes, are you interested in overclocking right away, or down the line? CPU and/or GPU?

Nope

Are there any specific features or items you want/need in the build? (ex: SSD, large amount of storage or a RAID setup, CUDA or OpenCL support, etc)

I'd like to have SSD storage of 500Go, or more

What type of network connectivity do you need? (Wired and/or WiFi) If WiFi is needed and you would like to find the fastest match for your wireless router, please list any specifics.

Wired connectivity

Do you have any specific case preferences (Size like ITX/microATX/mid-towefull-tower, styles, colors, window or not, LED lighting, etc), or a particular color theme preference for the components?

I'd like to go for a full white RGB build. So a white ATX Mid-Tower case with a window and RGB fans. I do understand that white components are more expensive than the black ones so if it doesn't fit the budget I'm totally ok with black ones. I'd rather have better quality black components than lower quality white ones. I'm also fine with mix of black and white components

Do you need a copy of Windows included in the budget? If you do need one included, do you have a preference?

No need for Windows

Extra info or particulars: None, thanks a lot !

Do these people not realize that disabled people can’t just jump and skip over to the post office every day to see if there’s a form they missed???
I live in a rural area with no mailboxes. I have agoraphobia, ptsd, anxiety and bipolar 2.
They basically gave me 4 days to return this form.
I’m so fed up with this process and not having a job due to disability but I can’t get benefits because of my disability.
Any advice? Should I try to get a free disability lawyer?

Hello everyone, after many years of just playing in console I have decided to go for it and try to build a PC.
I did a lot of research on the parts and selected the best I could for a budget that was ranging the $1700 USD. I am looking for mostly gaming at 1440p with max fps.
Here's the link to the build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/wcY2JM
CPU: AMD AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 RGB
MoBo: MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK ATX
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB
Storage: Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1 TB
Video Card: MSI GAMING X TRIO GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
Case: Corsair 4000D Airflow ATX
PSU: Corsair RM850x (2021) 850 W
Any advice is greatly appreciated as this is my first time planning a build.
Also, I know there's a lot of polemic regarding the 4070ti and it being overpriced. Considering that currently there's practically no 3080s and no 3090s out there at MSRP, I didn't see why I would pay 1300 for a 3080 compared to 850 for the 4070 ti (even though they can all be considered mid range cards). I do believe the 4070 ti would be overpriced if there was still supply of 30 series cards, but I don't see any other feasible option. At this point it became a lower priced "30 series card" that still performs well above at 1440p the way I see it.
Thanks in advance.

Just wanted to make a quick mention for the awesome researchers that keep coming here and sharing? One issue I have with Reddit is its very very hard for me - actually impossible for me to screen out folks who are scammers, others that are in different countries but lie and say they are in America and oh these Bots... Reddit is VERY hard to keep clean I just cant do it they don't provide the tools. That said- please take the time to also come over to my Facebook group. I am NOT a fan of Facebook, but unfortunately they have a LOT of tools that allow me to really screen out liars and fakes.. I hope many of you join that Facebook group because the responses you get will be much cleaner and less time consuming for you. I welcome all of you to come there but I also do hope you share in both that group AND still share here in this sub because there are many folks here on Reddit that I really feel VERY close to and for various reasons they cant or don't use Facebook so I am NOT trying to cut this off for them. Actually on that last note? I will give everyone a quick early headsup/secret- Very soon- its 100% a certainty that I will be starting a private sub here on Reddit. Its long over due. This will allow me to really create a 'clean' group where the people are real, its all USA folks and this will benefit all of us. Great things are coming - I am running with it you bet I am. Mind you I will still keep this group open even after I set up the private sub. When it really comes down to it- the truth is, its the researchers job to screen out liars and fakes. I have a reputation to keep up however so I need to know I can share a study and not flood the researcher with scammers. BUT I also wont stop sharing studies here in this public group... Scammers are a reality and researchers do need to fend for themselves just a little. The blame isn't on me but they sure put it on me - my hands are tied with these public groups and its just a reality. Truth too is times are very tough EVERYWHERE and in a way you cant blame a person for lying if they can get away with it- if researchers cant do their job they only have themselves to blame not the scammers. but yes its illegal to lie but shocker! people DO lie.. and when you are desperate and you can get away with it? I only judge so much. I just need to protect myself, my people and my reputation. Otherwise I have no bones with scammers just so long as they keep their affairs away from me - heck if I were desperate i'd do exactly what they are lets just e honest here. I have no bones with scammers- I just cant have it destroy what I am doing. Here is my Facebook group. You will have access to 11,000 people and the group is getting cleaned beyond belief by me right now. This will be very clean data for the most part (as best I can) so please take me up on the offer!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1288511251176736

Note please don't call me dad.
But yes! Hello it's my first time on reddit! A little-lot about me:

1. I first used reddit as of posting this about 2-ish weeks ago but I've shadowed Reddit for much longer. I never wanted to make an account due to shyness, confusing rules, and the dreaded censorship that seems to plague every platform. (Plz don't ban me reddit, I beg.) However due to my introvertedness taking over more and more, now seemed like a good a time as any!
   
2. Yep! The name comes from a Nickelodeon cartoon, and if I have to explain from: ¹ how dare you. ² we can't be friends!
   
3. I browsed over hundreds of subreddits, always thinking if I ever did join - where would I start? I had ideas of where, but not-so-much when...And given said strict rules, I always thought I had a knit and knack for sentence structure, spelling and grammar as I've been complimented on my penmanship and organization skills...yet, reddit I'm sure will truly test me on that. I've been out of an English class for many, many years now. So forgive me in advance I'll try my best!
   
4. Speaking of many, many years - I'm not so young and not so old either! It's a mystery. And as per reddit guidelines to not share sensitive information - I suppose I will keep it that way. You'll just have to think of me as an enigmatic mr. magoo-like shape; formless in the hands of it's users, but an organized cut figure in staunch of his allies. Think of Inspector gadget except more mysterious. (And who trips on his own shoelaces.) So...basically Timmy's dad!
   
5. I'm a gamer, hobbiest writer and photographer, and a perspective teacher (in my former years) and I plan on adding a bit of each into their respective subreddit categories in some form of time. I write amateur poetry from time to time, stemming from natural & creative to erotic prose gasp! and when I feel like it - short stories. I tend to also gravitate towards shapeable wordless songs and giving them my own spin (like ost's), as well as coming up with songs lyrics of my own. I went to a magnet school in my younger years for all of the above forms of writing as well as screenwriting and playwriting. All of this is fun to me and that's the extent of it. Nothing more. If you stumble upon any of my former pieces searching for an answer as to why I wrote some of the things I said, or why I said them...it comes down to just whatever floats into my peripheral vision in that given moment; sometimes it's music that inspires me, and othertimes it's just what needs to be said. And hey, sometimes I'm blindsided by my blindspots. And other, other, some times I stop using the word "time" so often! Grrr!
   
6. As for games, I'm a replayer of not-so-old games that are not so timeless, but not-so new anymore eiGarrett! This is mainly due to financial tightness and that older games charm I can't forget. Games such as:
   

• Kingdom Hearts 358/2 days (and all it's entries, except Unchained X)
• Resident Evil 4
• Uncharted 3 (and all it's entries, except Golden Abyss)
• Breath of the Wild
• Sonic Advance 2 & 3
• Yugioh 5d's Wheelie Breakers
• Yugioh 5d's world championship 2011: Over the Nexus
• Yugioh Tagforce 4 & 5
• Destiny 1 & 2
• Apex Legends

(There are others, but these are some games I hold dear that come off the top of my head.)
I've found games sometimes help shape and induce flow-like states to help us ease into transitions of moment-to-moment actions defining our playable characters, some. Or in other cases, defining ourselves most when we need to caught between a rock and a hard place...like in a gunfight...(I'm looking you Apex Legends, Uncharted, and Destiny.) But yes, in those instances - I've found that what help shape me along with some of the game's life-lessons taught to our characters, did indeed help shape me into the person I am today. (Inb4 someone says I identify as Harumo-chan the master of hoe-jitsu), lol no I'm saying the best parts about our characters can help shape us sometimes without us even knowing it. (But Harumo-chan did help shape me Timmy, why can't you see that?) More power to you then. The best parts for some and the worser parts for others i suppose. :P
6½. What i mean to the last point is, part of my strength I've found is from when I draw strength from other strong characters I've seen and what they've been through; (or put you through and thus you're going through the sh*t-show together.) Characters that have really inspired me are probably namely Sora, Riku & Roxas from Kingdom Hearts, Nathan Drake from Uncharted, Sonic, and Yusei from Yugioh 5d's. I know, very adult of me right? Mm, I am interested however where others draw their strength from? Which form of medium do they choose, why did they choose it and who do they draw strength from if not in a show or game?
I could talk about why I choose these individual characters but I believe that's best suited for another thread/post. P.s. as for tv shows though? A huge inspiration i draw from is Rick, from the walking dead. I don't watch many new shows anymore. (As for why that is, maybe that's also best suited for another post.)

1. Speaking of shows - I don't really have time to watch anime all that much but some influential ones I've grown to be very fond of are:

• Yugioh 5d's (subbed)
• Sword Art Online (subbed) and season 1 only
• Soul Eater
• Avatar: The Last Airbender (yes this counts lol)
• DragonBall Super (subbed)
• Soul Eater
• Gundam
• Golden Time (one of the first anime's I've cried to, though that was a long time ago, would be interesting if I have the same reaction rewatching it. All I remember is getting exceptionally emotional and invested which was out of the usual for me. Although I can't remember which part got me the most.)

There are others, and I've seen all series of Yugioh and DragonBall alike, but these in particular stood out to me. For DragonBall Super mostly due to the absolute insanity the tournament of power was and that last fight. I've seen other animes or stopped, started and stopped again as I couldn't get invested into them. That's why Golden Time really took me by surprise. Same with Yugioh 5d's and S1 of Sword Art Online. I am interested to see what other subreddits with differing views on what sorts of animes other people prefer or recommend I watch.
Same with games, music or movies.
To wrap up,
Tldr; you can call me Timmy (Timmm-aH!) For short, or even shorter than short - dad, just don't get weird with it, (unless?...no I'm joking, unless?...) and I'm here like anyone else to peruse reddit on useful or entertaining things!
Anything else I'll either edit this big jumbo post or add on later!
Sincerely,
Dad.

So i think i stumbled on an improved cleaning method to the typical iso and salt. I recently had time to clean some pieces, but realized i didn't have any iso around at home. I searched under my sink for alternative cleaners and came across PBW, a powdered detergent from my homebrewing days designed to break down stubborn organic gunk leftover from brewing/fermentation. A few tablespoons of the stuff with hot water overnight did as well if not a better job of cleaning vs iso and salt. The best part was the clean up, there was no sticky smelly residue left after drying like iso. Check it out and thank me later!

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Journal Entry: 37. Date: 1/7/5. Name: Greg George.

Okay, so the space bacon has increased. I think Mom is trying to cheer me up. I mean, it's not not working. I won't say no to delicious, delicious space bacon. What I want is some goddamn whiskey. Fuck's sake, these blue bois get fucking drunk of of tea like a bunch of fucking Teatopians or Britbongers.
Or some chocolate.
I wish I knew more about chemistry, the only fucking reason I even know there's caffeine in the tea is because I recognized its effect on me. If knew how to draw the molecules of hooch, maybe I could help my family figure this shit out.
Pretty sure the lack of xenos coco beans leaves me SOL on the chocolate front.
Fuck, I want chocolate.
In other news, the hands and Lucy are moving ahead with me merch. Is a five percent cut fair? I mean, it's my likeness and shit, but it's not like I'm doing any work. Then again, it would be funny if they caught on, so I'll definitely help promote that shit.
As Master at Arms, the state of the armory is my responsibility, and I have to say, it's pretty pathetic. These plasma casters wouldn't penetrate a standard boarding power armor's battle screens, let alone dent its heat dispersal systems. Speaking of armor, we have fuck all. The vac suits are even fucking soft sided. Leaving alone the fact that you want to tank your atmo during a fight to avoid the possibility of explosive venting, so fighting in vac suits is fucking standard, what if you have to go a spacewalkin' to repair something and get hit by debris? You're fucked in this soft sided shit.
Automatic naval shotguns aren't really an option, and there isn't really anything available that I would call equivalent. I can get some magac factettes to add a little kinetic to our arsenal, but they're semiauto and vulnerable to EMP strikes. Finding anything that's chemical propellant at all is proving to be extremely frustrating. I really don't like having that gaping hole in our defenses.
Speaking of holes, the armor. I brought it up with Pops, and he admitted that he's always ignored armor because he's always been uninterested in sailing anywhere remotely dangerous. Well the wide sea is all about you, you can fence yourself in, but you cannot fence it out. I felt kinda bad for being critical of his armory, but my job is to make sure the We Sing can defend herself, and now we're planning on going to space Tortuga.
We're going over to that Justiciar to request some combat vac armor. I want the bridge crew and a shipboard response team capable of acting even in the event of losing atmo.
Time to start drilling the kiddos for lockdowns. Maybe I can disguise it as a game. Speaking of the kiddos, I had a decent chat with Sarge. He gets why I was so harsh with him, and apologized for not thinking more clearly. Kid has a good heart, and will be a good leader one day. One day, but not today Sarge. Enjoy being a teenager for now, and don't worry about growing up just yet.
Then, I told the crew how I wound up in that animal shelter. Not a pleasant story to tell, but not so harrowing as the grubs.
Fuck the grubs.

Dear Diary,

We're getting ready to set sail.
Which is a bit more complicated since all twelve of the stops we plan on making are completely different markets than Mom's used to. She's been sinking her teeth into the social medias of the destinations though, and is slowly filling our hold with the few local products that will be in demand there.
Well, I have a product that's going to be in demand everywhere.
I will soon anyway, and Daddy said that we could use one of the cargo bays for our manufacturing base, and we still had enough money in our pool to get some textiles and stuffing material. I hope we don't waste too much of it getting the settings right.
I think that Greg is actually pleased with the idea of a cuddly toy of himself. He's got a soft spot for making kids happy, after all.
He told us the "last important part" about his past. I guess that means that he has lots of little stories he could tell, but this was the answer to the questions we've politely held back from asking since he showed that he's a person. Such as how he wound up in that kennel, and what happened to him in the fighting pit. I mean, we had the police reports, but that's just what some cops thought about what they saw and some recordings of the fights taken from the poachers' databanks.
But how he tells it...
Well we have twenty days. There are some things I want to talk about with him, if he doesn't mind.

Log: 6000001.1.02, Personal, Captain Yormdrill

Gregory had some criticisms of the armory. I knew he would, but it is still discordant to listen to him talk about combat effectiveness of various weapons. It's the dissonance between how lethal and how cute he is.
Apparently, his people believe in redundancies in weapons systems, such that they still use chemical propellant weapons. This means they either have electromagnetic pulse weapons, or are extraordinarily paranoid.
In any case, he's spent most of the day putting together a requisition for some more weapons, and wants to see about getting some armor from the Justiciar. Well, that might be an interesting encounter to watch, so I've reached out to her to see if anybody is willing to meet us over the issue. The Lord Justiciar himself wants to have tea. Oh, this is going to be funny.
He said that he owed us some more answers, and asked Trevdi to gather who she thinks can hear the story, and settled into a chair to tell the story.
"Well, this bit is... it is what it is. You've heard me mention Sanctuary before, and all of you have very politely avoided questioning me over it. But I'll explain anyway. Sanctuary is one of two rest and recreation planets, the Army one is called Respite. Anyway, Sanctuary is set aside, it has a low tech level, very little dangerous fauna, a nice, temperate to tropical climate, and low population. Importantly, it has no spaceport, or station, and the only way onto the planet is supposed to be to ride a shuttle down from a Navy ship. This is to keep the planet low-stress but activity dense to help us relax and recharge for redeployment. In my case, I was ordered there for mental health treatment.
"I uh... I did not take the break up of the Lost Boys very well, as I've said before. There were good people in the Navy who wanted to help me do what I wanted though. Like Doctor Johan. Even still, I was not very good at relaxing, so I got ordered back to Sanctuary after a few missions to work on that.
"It wasn't great that I'd get stuck on a planet for weeks at a time. Stuck on a planet, and not even working, but I didn't want to accept a medical discharge. That's when they declare you medically unfit for duty.
"Anyway, one of the things that I was working on was incorporating my skills into peaceful activities. So, recreational survival skills. Kind of full circle on that one, but I always liked going into wilderness, exploring, seeing beauty. So in order to help me get out of "work mode" and into a more... I don't know, "normal mode," was to just go on hikes. To just go camping. The trick was to not be, well, sneaky about it. I'll never not move quietly, but I did finally start camping in nice, open areas without carefully concealing my presence and equipment if I had any.
"It was a beautiful night, warm. Clear. No sign of bad weather. I'd decided to forgo the tent. Oh, that's a portable shelter. I'd just spread out my bedroll and was gazing at the stars, thinking about whether I'd be sent to protect some brothers soon.
"I woke up in a pit. It was big enough for me stride twice along each wall, and the rim was out of my reach. I could sort of try to shimmy up a corner, except for the shock collar. That scorching shock collar.
"It shocked me if I was too fast, if I was too slow, if I made an noise, if I refused to eat, if the googly eyed void sucker felt like I needed a shock.
"When it was time for me to beat some poor creature to death, they'd just turn it on full blast until I was convulsing on the floor, shove me in a cage and then came the needle. I don't know what they injected me with, but whatever it was, it wiped all thought from my mind, and made it feel like there was fire under my skin.
"I was completely out of control. I think that it must be how a grub victim feels. I was screaming. Screaming.
"Once I beat some innocent animal to death, then it was a tranquillizer. Then they strapped me to a machine, I don't know the word, but I think it was a blood filter. Whatever it was it hurt.
"My memory is a bit spotty, but eventually it was the... the people who go clickety-clack. Then, you brought me home.
"So that's how I got here. Thanks for taking me in."

My divorced alcoholic father had me on weekends while growing up. I was safe and fed and taken care of by a responsible mom and stepdad during the week but it was all fun and games at dad's shitty apartment on weekends. Empty fridge, trash everywhere, no rules, cockroaches run across my face in my sleeping back at night, his shady friends coming and going at all hours, him always drunk. He'd drink at least a handle of tequila every weekend. Despite all of that, we did a lot of fun things and had a lot of hobbies: RC cars, model rockets, video games, laser tag, paintball, shooting guns in the desert, kites, bike riding; but it was so scatter brained and chaotic, each hobby was so short lived and looking back it was a terrible environment despite the happy activities. On 2 occasions I watched him put a pistol to his head as a drunken joke or a sad threat.
He demanded that my mom return his child support money and would have me hand it back to him on weekends. Because of this my mom felt the need to work a job along side my stepfather (who is a really good dude). So she had to leave me at a babysitter after school. Well I was sexually abused at the babysitter several times by an older kid. The babysitter eventually seen it happening and told the kid's parents but did not tell mine. I guess she didn't want them to know about it? I was too young to know any better and didn't tell them either.
Anyway over the past 15 years my father has lost his job, become homeless, bounced around from all our family members and burned all bridges because he won't stop drinking and is completely insufferable while drunk. He refuses to get clean or go to meetings or get any kind of help. Eventually he was sent to me by other family members. I live in an apartment with a roommate a had a minimum wage job at the time so I didn't know what to do. He would constantly lie about drinking and would try to hide it so eventually I sent him back to his hometown and he wound up homeless for 6 years.
He eventually found his way back to my area and got housing but was kicked out for manufacturing weed wax. He eventually had some sort of manic break one night and was running around in public with a rifle BB gun claiming he was being stalked and people were out to get him. So he called me to move him and his shit out of that area. I picked him up and packed all his shit into my car and for hours I indulged his paranoia. We drove around and I let him point out people who he thought were watching him or wanted him dead. He kept pointing out people just walking down the street or pumping gas and never would admit he was wrong about being watched. I was driving him back to my place but had to stop for gas. He bought booze and got drunk and tried to hide it and kept rambling about us being followed. We got into it big time that night and I ended up throwing his shit out of the car and left him on the side of the road only for him to call me a couple days later and guilt me into picking him up again. He was used to the homeless lifestyle at this point and was stealing shit from stores as I tried to help him get a cell phone set up. I eventually sent him back to his parents as a last resort; they were old and retired and had already gotten rid of him once but at least they had a house with an extra room. He eventually got his own place through a housing system but is currently being threatened for smoking inside the unit. We've been keeping in touch through text and video calls but honestly he seems miserable and I'm burnt out on him and his drinking. It sounds heartless but I don't want to think of him as my dad anymore. I wish I could just cut ties and forget, but I can't. So we still argue and he'll throw insults my way if he's drunk. I've begun to realize the CSA may still be affecting me and I wonder if telling my father about it would help. It would crush him I'm sure, so it would be pretty selfish of me to do, I think. Just wondering if I should tell him about it or not, because he has no idea.

I took out a Parent PLUS loan (or Direct PLUS loan, I see them used interchangeably) in the Fall of 2015 when I was a student at Univ. of Mississippi. The amount was $9,700 something and sits at $12,000 something now. It will come due on Sept 3. I finished by undergrad then did masters, never paid on it. Well, the borrower is my mom and in the Fall of 2020, she was approved for full disability (much more details in next paragraph). Until yesterday, I had no idea that a pathway for discharge exists under this circumstance. I'm thankful that now I know, so that I have about 5 mo. to take action, even though that doesn't sound like much when dealing with the federal govt. I did read on the student aid govt site that sometimes if a parent has disability that Nelnet will automatically be notified and it will be automatically be discharged. I am unaware that me or my mom have ever heard anything from them. Does anyone have anything to share about this process? It seems that there are 3 "paths" being VA status (she's not a veteran), SSA documentation, and Physician Documentation.
Details about my mom's situation: she was once a registered nurse. she has a lot of issues with her back and chronic pain. She has received 3 back surgeries and 2 bone spur surgeries in her life. She has AS (ankylosing spondylitis) which means her upper back is becoming more stiff/rigid over time and there is a lot of pain involved. She had 2 back surgeries when i was little and a kid. Her last one was in the fall of 2014. It involved 3 vertebrae being fused into 1 column in her neck b/c the cartilage was so worn, causing severe numbness. She did return to work after healing. Then took off for a bone spur removal. Back to work for a moment. Then off again in 2016 or 2017 for the other foot's bone spur removal. After the 2nd one, the PT was very hard and it started to become clear to her that working would be very difficult. So, she began a disability claim. I don't know how far she got into the process. But she and her spouse were approached with a business opportunity that involved being owners/managers of a dog boarding facility. They did that, as my mom thought that this office type owner position would be something she could do. Well, that whole thing went down. It had a lot of overhead, in a rural area, dumb little workers that would quit, not good profit. So that was a 1.5 yr over and done thing. So after that, she began her Disability application again. I believe on this one, she was denied 2x (at least once, I know that) and finally, with her attorney, went before a federal judge in Memphis and did the thing. Before the judge, other staff, explained her case, her attorney had all I's dotted, T's crossed. And it was awarded in fall of 2020. So she is, right now, Totally and Permanently Disabled. Well, she and her spouse separated and filed divorce around Oct 2021. And out of spite and malice her wife called SSA and made a false claim that she was working, driving around and doing dog rescue, etc, which was not true. There were some instances where my mom would ride along on a dog rescue trip, esp some to VA, PA, CO, just to see the places on a budget, but she was not employed or getting cash under the table. That was her then spouse doing those jobs, and her then spouse that vengefully made those false claims once they were apart. Sadly, my mom's wife died in an auto accident after that happened and after they had been apart for some time. I only write all this to give a really clear picture. My co worker who used to work in financial aid has told me before that she knew a girl in college whose mother had a stroke and was receiving disability but that the federal govt only partially reduced the loan amount. Which is sickening.

This is the abridged tale of why the best story for one PC was to one-shot the Yester Hill Tree Blight for 39d6 damage. Trigger warning: suicide (heroically?)
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The Beginning:
When we rolled characters at campaign start, as DM, one of my players (CB) presented two dilemmas:

1. She would miss the first session. So while every other character would start at L2 in Daggerford, she would start at L3 in the Svalich woods.
2. She wanted to multiclass a L2 Halfling Emerald Enclave Moon druid, and asked me to choose for her. I told her she'd find out her other class and gift the night of the game.

When Theda Teafoot awoke in those cursed woods, there was no body around from when she and her Enclave partner had been ambushed from the fog by dire wolves. She found herself to have a form of dread: black branches and thorns thistled around her hair and an unknown undead warlock patron which had kept her safe.
In time she would find her natural druidic spells were black and corrupted like the Swalich woods, and the trees all spoke like they were a singular presence. Later, her wild companion was revealed to be a reflavored needle blight using the spider stat block, a creature none of them had ever seen and found horrific in its own right.
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The Winery:
What was described to them from the refugeed Martikovs matched her companions description, so she didn't reveal it, and once inside, having survived more than 54 blights and multiple druids who had corruption resembling her own, they encountered the druid with the staff. In a failed charisma save, she turned and eldritch blasted her own party. They tried to restrain her while attacking the Druid, and on his death she snapped out of it. While she was restrained, they checked his body and found no staff only to realize it had rematerialized in her hand. She refused to not keep it. In their final encounter with a vine blight, it bowed before her in the instant before it fled.
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Yester Hill:
Here is where her story will end. They reach the effigy moments before Strahds arrival. They try to hide behind what turns out to be a berserkers grave and fail a stealth check even with pass without trace. It kicks off. Strahd fireballs them and then decides to make a Spawn out of the fighter, Sextus, who tried to hold person him. Most of the party fights for their lives and the life of their many times bitten fighter against 6 berserkers and the dark lord.
Not Theda. She sees the druids ritual in progress and rushes far away to engage them solo, managing to peel off a few from the ritual to engage her, but never all of them. Her and those druids all roll like crap, and wild shape let her tank against many druids at a time. Meanwhile, every round of the ritual, she keeps getting asked to make a charisma save and she does.. saving 8 times in a row.
This encounter lasts a table-record 6 hours, 2.5 sessions, and 14 rounds of combat. On round 4, Strahd gets nova'd by a paladin and has to retreat out of melee and guiding bolt range as he falls below 30hp. The fight refocuses on killing the overwhelming numbers of Berserkers and Beucephalus before Strahd returns rounds later regenerated, with greater invisibility, ready to finish turning the fighter.
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Round 11:
The fighter has figured out Strahd intends to bite his max HP to zero and turn him. He offers info on Ireena in exchange for a normal death and when Strahd suggests he'll just ask him after he's enthralled, the fighter instead drinks a vial of acid to die. I rule this is an acceptable way to die without saving throws. And the party is stunned at the first PC death at my table in years.
Revenge is off the table as Strahd is back at full health, the other 3 PCs have a combined HP of 11 and their resources are drained. They begin to run all while Strahd goads them.
Then, 150ft away, Theda fails her charisma save and is forced to join the druidic ritual just as it climaxes. The druids stop attacking her briefly and the tree blight comes into existence.
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Round 12:
Looking at the towering creature before her, Theda finds herself free again and begins to dash towards her surviving friends, pursued by the druids and tree blight. Strahd stands nearby entertained by their fear.
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Round 13:
She knows she can't catch up to her friends and decides to draw aggro for a final round. She finishes off one druid that's pissed her off since the first round and is immediately jumped by the others, including being hit for two failed death saves. The tree blight then does something unexpected. It lifts up her body and places her inside of itself, sealing her in with its bark. Inside the tree, with a single death fail remaining, her unconsciousness finds out her patron is Gulthias and this is how it's meant to be because he has plans for her.
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Round 14:
From 200 ft away, the party hears a loud BANG! Debris of splinters rain from the sky and pepper their leathered backs and pierce one of their ears.
Rewind: CB and I rolled that death save privately, and I'll be damned 'nat20'. Theda awakes entombed within the darkness of the tree blight, save for the glowing green seed at its heart. She sees a knotting of tiny roots connecting the heart to the monster and she uses her last act to defy her patron and use his staff to break the roots and sever the connection.
The tree is killed instantly and the magic from the ritual erupts for 1d6 force for every turn a druid chanted. 120 damage and a luck roll determines everything within 50' becomes a pink, brown, and black mist; Strahd is bloodied, minionless, and has no reason to stay and every reason to leave. The survivors see him turn into a bat and fly back to the castle.
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Sextus and Theda are able to commune briefly in a pocket ethereal. They can see the madness-enducing edges of the domain of dread, the illusion of distance beyond the fog, and the traces of other trapped souls awaiting unholy infusion into a future husk they'll be born into. But until that happens, they can briefly consider their place in this non-afterlife.
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After a short rest and a few hours of searching, the survivors find the glowing green seed a few thousand feet away. Upon touching it, they feel a druidcraft of wind brush through their hair and fur, and two black flowers sprout thistled within.
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Edit: Reddit broke some formatting I wanted to fix.

Alright I'm back at it again, and this time with a big one!
Let's remind what I'll touch on in this post:
A character concept, 10 cards (4 commons, 3 rares, 2 epic, 1 legendary) with their mechanics, one passive, alternate skins if I'm inspired, a place in the Abbey, and a small in-universe explanation for the character's inclusion. Won't touch on the relationship stuff.
The first one was Hydra Bob, the second is dedicated to the grumpy protector of the Parchment of Power: Johnny Blaze, aka the OG Ghost Rider.
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Concept: Now you might be wondering, since there's already Robbie, how does one make the two distinct from one another? Well, luckily, the game gives him enough screentime to help me cook up a playstyle that would heavily differentiate the two.
Johnny is portrayed in this game as unwilling, and someone who's actions are purely reactionaries, if nothing happens to him and his people, he won't do anything, but if anything does happen, he'll unleash hell on Earth. Let's roll with that and have him focus on protection and counter.
But that's not all, Johnny is also a protector of the Parchment of Power as well as supposedly losing his status as a "Ghost RideSpirit of Vengeance". There's not enough detail to precisely determine what happened, but we know for sure that "Sparky" and Zarathos are not the same in this universe, even if "Sparky" became a spirit of vengeance instead of just being the spirit of a serial killer. Robbie also precise that the two demons are rivals. So I'll go with the theory that Johnny and Zarathos are still linked together, but are both weakened due to years of fending off countless demons, as well as the deterioration of Johnny's mental strength leading to a decrease in calling Zarathos out of fear for losing his mind, hence why he never transforms.
If we roll with this, this means he's battling with the last of his strengths.
And that's what I'm going to focus on.
Since both share power sets, I'll have Johnny also use "Souls" as a mechanic. However, instead of being a gauge that fills up, similar to Venom, it would start full before decreasing over the fight. The more he has, the more HP like Robbie, but his would decrease over time as well as his attack stat. Also, since he has much more experience, instead of only having a stack of 4, he'd have 40 of them at the start.
He'll also have two counters, when his legendary card is obtained: His basic one which would be a hellfire blast of his shotgun, and another which would be the "Penance Stare".
This would make Johnny a reactionary character, focused on counter and protection, that can't afford to be too aggressive. Especially since some of the skills that would force him to push forward would render him vulnerable. Which can be navigating around by using the fact his only defense is a supply of "Resists".
Cards:
-Attack:
-"I'm gonna whip your ass..." (Common):
A simple attack where Johnny whips an enemy with his gun. Redrawing it adds a "Propulsion" thanks to the hellfire
Doesn't consume any soul in its base form, but 1 in the redraw.
Upgrading it adds a Quick effect.
-"Blast your problems away..." (Common)
By redrawing the card, you change it from a single target to a spray attack which hits multiple enemy thanks to Johnny's hellfire.
The base attack only costs 1 soul, but the redrawn one costs 2.
Upgrading it expands the zone and readies Johnny for a "Counter".
-"Eat dirt..." (Rare):
Johnny grabs an enemy by the head/torso and brutally bashes them on the ground before igniting his hand and creating a column of hellfire
Zone damage around the selected enemy.
However, it makes you lose 4 souls.
Upgrading it expands the zone and the damage.
-"Bonds with the Devil..." (Rare)-(Just the side effect of another card):
He throws his chains made of hellfire for a forceful knockback but only towards himself, like Spiderman's "Special Delivery". If the enemy is brought to Johnny they'll get "Taunted" as well as some non-negligible damage.
Only available when activating "Chained Together".
Consumes 3 souls. Discarding them gives you 1 back.
Upgrading "Chained Together" lets you get a free "Resist".
Skill:
-"For just a little longer..." (Common):
Johnny hits his chest, small flames appearing over the position of his heart before disappearing. If he attacks this turn, his next card's soul consumption will be halved (or reduced to zero in case of the 1 soul cards) however, he'll get "Vulnerable" for the next turn.
If he doesn't attack, and simply uses damageless/skill cards, he gains one "Resist" as well as a "Counter".
It doesn't consume souls.
Upgrading it adds "Strengthened" for Attack and "Taunt" for Skill.
-"Chained together..." (Rare):
Johnny grunts in pain as he forcefully calls on the weakened Zarathos to go come forth and lend him a bit of his power. This leads to Johnny's hair and mustache to light in hellfire as well as chains to appear wrapped around his arms.
This gives Johnny a turn of "Counter" as well as 2 copies of the attack "Bonds with the Devil". At the end of the turn, he gets "Vulnerable".
Upgrading it gives Johnny 6 souls back on activation.
-"Look at me!" (Epic):
By briefly setting his head aflame while yelling at the top of his lungs, the entire battlefield turns towards him in fear.
"Taunt"
"Counter" for 2 turns.
It consumes 1 soul.
Upgrading it adds two "Resists" and a third turn of "Counter".
Heroic:
-"I'm the holder of the parchment..." (Common) (5 hero points):
For half of his remaining souls, Johnny reads the parchment and creates an area surrounded by flames with him as the center. Everybody can enter, but nobody can leave. Enemies will take damage when coming into contact with the flames no matter if it's in or out.
The duration of the zone depends on how many souls are used in the ritual, with 10 at a minimum. Inside the zone Johnny's attacks consume one less soul.
Upgrading it gives him a counter for as long as he's in the zone.
-"Running away from Hell..." (Rare) (2 hero point)
Johnny Blaze uses his bike to transport someone away from the battlefield, rendering them invulnerable but unable to act for the rest of the turn. (They can still act if they are a ranged character) If applied to self, it works but renders him vulnerable for the next turn.
It also automatically makes him "Taunt" the entire battlefield.
Consumes 15 souls.
Upgrading it gives Johnny one free "Resist" and a "Counter". Unless applied to self, in that case he only gets the "Counter".
-"No soul, but a will..." (Epic) (3 hero points):
Fully replenishes Johnny's soul gauge and healthbar but gives him a three turn "Vulnerable".
Upgrading it also gives Johnny a "Reinforcement".
Exhaust
-"Penance Stare!" (Legendary) (4 hero points):
Johnny Blaze's counter becomes the iconic "Penance Stare" which makes him grab an enemy and force them to look into his eyes, with his head becoming half man and half skeleton, fire enveloping the two parts.
This changes his counter property to have him inflict the exact damage that his enemies give/would have given him instead of simply attacking them with something else, it also grants him the ability to survive the entire turn without dying even at 1hp.
However, the immortality is only granted the first time so careful as to not overuse it.
On top of that, it cost ten souls right from the first activation and jumps higher in price each time by two.
By upgrading it, the damage he inflicts back is doubled.
Passive:
-"Collected Souls": Each "Soul" will increase Johnny's total healthbar by 1% that will disappear if it's consumed.
-"Collected Souls II": Same thing except he also gets 1% of shield, so 50% of his HP as shields when all souls are present. (However, he can't go over this total, which decreases over time encouraging the player to block as much as possible in the first few turns, and unlike the healthbar, the shield can't be replenished.)
Alternate costumes:
-Wrong One (Epic) : A joke costume that makes Johnny Blaze looks like Danny Ketch, so he can finally be in the game as well, would only change the bike if it was a Legendary one.
-Midnight Sun (Legendary): No real idea for this one really. Maybe make his flames gold?
-The Caretaker (Legendary): Both a nod to the Caretaker (Blood) from the comics and the one from the movie. That way him and Wolverine have a somewhat matching costume theme of "old cow-boys". His bike is obviously replaced by a flaming horse.
-Younger Days (Legendary): Self-explanatory really. Either make it look like the comics or Nicolas Cage, or both... (Bike included with a more circus act look) He also has a pin or a picture plastered on his jacket/bike that represents Roxanne. (His wife)
In the Abbey: Either at the training ground with Blade, in the forge for his hellfire bettering the rewards of Tony and Strange's draws, or allowing redraws. Lastly he could also be part of Peter and Robbie's crafting club.
Story: After dying, he found himself in Mephisto's hell. His old arch-nemesis, both for himself and Zarathos. The demon basked in the glory of finally having Johnny in the palm of his hands to freely toy with. However, Johnny and Zarathos, despite being severely weakened, don't give up the fight, having been inspired by the prior events to fight until the bitter end instead of running away. (This level would serve, like Venom's, as a way to learn his mechanics, and how important countering and managing is for him.) After a few turns of struggles, Robbie and Hunter, having sensed that something abnormal was going on, voluntarily go to hell, hoping to retrieve Johnny. (Even if it's more of Robbie's will and Hunter is unsure of it.)
They successfully manage to save him, and Johnny finally starts being somewhat pleasant with the two of them. Just before leaving hell though, Johnny, and only he, sees Sara's from above, who just nods before disappearing, followed by members of his carnival, making him smirk. "One day... one day I'll see you and them again... I love you Roxanne."
So? What do you think? Did I succeed in making Johnny different enough from Robbie, which would justify his spot on the playable roster?

I work for a large employer in Nevada. I followed all the steps outlined in the packet they provide to have a baby. I got fmla, short term disability and child bonding time. When it came time to go to my sons first pediatricians appt the office said he was covered under moms[me] insurance for the first 30 days, then after that he needs to be on mom or dad's insurance as a dependant. Great. About 2 months later I get a call from the hospital, they are asking me who's insurance my son will be on so they can release the hospital bills, I'm like what are you talking about he's already on my boyfriends insurance as a dependant like go ahead. They say no, he is not covered under anything in my system for the first 30 days. I was like what I thought it was automatically under mine because I'm the mom. She said no, I have to call the insurance and specifically let them know I need my child covered for the first 30 days... ok I call my insurance they say no, I can't just add a baby, your job has to tell me you had a baby....I've already let leave and disability know for fmla but ok I'll call HR and let them know to let you guys know...this feels so convoluted and I'm super confused at this point. I call HR and let them know and they are like ok so to add him as a dependant, no I don't want to add him as a dependant, he is already on my boyfriends insurance, I need to let insurance know I had a baby so they can cover his first 30 days. She said no we can't do that, it's too late. I said no one told me, it's not in any of the literature, I did not know, I called as soon as I was made aware. So now all of my sons hospital bills I have to pay out of pocket. I re read the baby packet and fmla packet I was given and it only says to contact the company if you want to add them as a dependant, which I didn't need to do because we decided to cover him under my boyfriends insurance and he works for a different company. Do I have any recourse here?

Florida World could exist in any state that's NOT Florida. Every park employs a mixture of local hooligans, Hicks and hillbillies, and a few transplants from the good old mother state to give you that real Florida feeling. The scripts are written, the meth is real!
We've got alligators! You can feed them! Is that responsible? That's not what this park is about!
Old people!! We've got em! And they have syphilis! We actually have a habitat set up to mimic the natural Florida environment of all elderly folks. That's right! A 50 unit trailer park where you can wander around and get yelled at to get off old people's lawns.
We've got golf carts! In fact, you get one issued to you right at the entrance of the park. Just remember- road rage is part of the fun!
Hurricanes!! Everyday at 2:00 p.m., a storm warning goes off and the cost of all goods doubles. Scramble in line for water! Get in a fist fight for batteries! Enjoy soup from the can, cold! Generators are available to rent, but lines for gasoline will triple after 2:00 p.m. everyday. Gasoline not included with rental.
Do you like bugs? Of course you don't! And we have all of them! And they will bite you, ON YOUR FACE! All in our interactive BIODOME!! Complete with tent city and buskers begging for change! And SNAKES!!! Florida has FORTY-FOUR species of snakes. Don't worry!! Only SIX of them are venomous! Which six?? The Mystery is part of the fun!
So what are you waiting for? Grab the kids and come on down to ~Florida World!~
It'll make you appreciate your own state!!

In my lobbies, you could have a short chase, and lose that game just because you hooked that survivor. You can hook people in my matches but often it results in a gen popping so you kinda have to slug and walk back. Lets do math real quick and ill show you why hooks are slower.
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Lets say every chase was 10s. You went for lots of hooks. And hooking a survivor takes maybe 5-10. Another 5-10 to walk back and find another survivor to chase with or gen to defend. So in total you are looking at 25-30s. For one hook. Some killer players prob take like 30s to a minute in chase. Anyway 30x12. is 360. My survivors do gens in 20-40 seconds. Lets say 30. 30x5. 150. So the survivors from a mathematical standpoint win even if the chases were 10s. 10!!! But a 3k is a win so lets do 9 hooks. 30x9. 270. versues the 150 my survivors need in order to win. You may be wondering how are my survivors doing gens in 150? prove thyself, brand new parts, or just some strongtoolbox while 2-3 are on one gen. That's how.
So anybody who thinks you can go against that level of gen efficiency and think you can win without regression or tunneling isnt experiencing that.
So i proved gen regression is needed, because from a mathematical standpoint you lose going for hooks. If you tunnel and use lots of gen regression sure you can win. You know how many times i watched a stream in dbd of a killer main and im like "why are these gens not done yet?" Because its true. If you pllay in my lobbies idc who you are or how many hours you have, and you try to use a "fun build" you are going to lose the game in 2-3 minutes, get tbagged, and gg ez. You are gunna go to post game and see 2 prove thyself and brand new parts. Meanwhile im looking at some streamer and im wondering why their gens arent being popped in 20 seconds lol. Idk. I just wish i could allow people to go against what i do so they can see how unbalanced survivor vs killer is.

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