#blades arent cheap

[normshortfornormal]

MORE steb fencing au bc my brain is thinking so much note: the reader, steb, and maddie do epee, and as such this is very epee centric so please keep that in mind!

steb does both epee and sabre

you, steb, and maddie started fencing at the same time. maddie convinced steb to try fencing and he ended up enjoying it more than he expected

the number of epees was really small when you guys joined. sometimes it would just be the three of you and your coach. because of that, the three of you grew pretty close

steb had an advantage because of of his height (at least 6'0 feet/183cm), which gave him a longer reach/range. because of that, you learned early on how to fence against taller people

the first time you beat him in a bout, you're so happy that he's a little endeared

one day, maddie doesn't come to that day's session because she's sick. it's just you and steb, and that day, you guys become a little closer

when you guys become good friends or start having feelings for each other, steb decides to get you a brand new blade for your birthday. the grip is perfect for your hand size and the weight is perfect for you, and the blade is perfect for what you specialize in (whether that be parries or flicking or something else)

either that, or when your blade breaks, he gets you a brand new one

you and steb both do badly in your first tournament, but the support of having each other makes everything a little better and a little more fun

after your first tournament, you two decide to work together so you can do much better in your next tournament. you guys do a lot of drills together, sometimes you can do drills for at least an hour, but doing it with him makes the time pass so fast

by your third tournament, you guys are a LOT closer, so close that you guys end up surprising each other by buying bouquets of flowers for each other (to wish good luck and commemorate any victories you guys have)

steb gets into fixing gear first. you eventually join him when you realize you sort of miss his presence in fencing

some days, when you two are too tired to fence, you'll just fix broken gear together and enjoy each other's company

sometimes, when steb wants you all to himself, he'll ask ahead of time if you want to fix gear together, and you two spend the entire time in the storage room fixing gear together. spending time together like this, it feels like no time passes at all

you two end up getting into the habit of going out to eat after fencing. when one of you invites the other over to eat at either yours or his place, that's when things really start to change between you two

[ganondoodle]

(elden ring DLC spoilers)

i fucking love Radahn so much, what i wouldnt give to meet ACTUAL him, he just gets toyed with and exploited so cruelly, you never really get to know him or what he wants im hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh so normal :)

like i know theres little to go by with typical fromsoft lore and stuff but agreeing to marry miquelly feels so ... not radahn like, why would he have fought malenia and then even after gettign the rot refuse to die if he wanted that .... also didnt he believe in the golden order?? miquella wanted to replace it basically????-

even his 'new' design feels like some idealized version of him that miquella dreamed up, theres significant differences in whats left of radahn in the main game and i feel like even that is an important detail (the braids ... i braids are IMPORTANT IM TELLING YOU-) like it .... to some degrees looks ..almost cheap, like an action figure (what the hell are all those sword things on his belt?? he has his two giant blades that dont go in that??? he would never use a different one?? whats it doing here??) (also the fact that leonard is missing .... like sure we like to over emphasize some character quirks but i also feel like thats and important thing- leonard clearly meant alot to him and he had him still with him when he was fighting malenia and stayed together even after rotting away)

what really REALLY makes me so very "normal" about everything is that radahn remains voiceless and has no say in anythign the entire time we meet him, hes either a zombie or a literally flesh puppet constructed by his own half brother (out of another family member, which clearly shows bc hes using blood magic and got horns growing)- aside from very few quotes on some items we never get to know him, we dont know what he wanted, he gets dragged into this and is then like some animated statue, theres no emotion in his face, even less sound he makes when fighting, even, in my opinion, his animation in the final DLC fight seem OFF to me- it looks stiff how hes moving whenever hes not actively attacking

(also miquella and what he wants is constantly talked about, but while its all about radahn in a way . we never hear anything from radahns side, its never even questioned. as far as i know, like !!!!! argh!!!)

(edit: also also the fact that in this puppet version of the design changes arent just the armor, his skin is different color too, even in the trailer when he fights malenia- BEFORE the rot- he seemed sort of ashy- greyish dark, even if hard to tell with color tint- his hair much longer in og now much shorter and in braids, his armor less practical and more show offy, he doesnt have a bow, even his swords look different, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY his weird anatomy he seems to have in og that i think is from renalla is gone too- AND yes i know his body is constructed from moghs there- which makes this all so much worse bc almost all that was him is stripped away and twisted into what miquella wants from him, second phase its almost all light attacks tooo- ok im stopping this now)

i know it might seem like im just making excuses bc i cant handle my favorite character agreeing to marry his own half brother- BUT I DONT CARE- HE DIDNT WANT IT- WE DONT KNOW WHAT HE WANTS- WE NEVER GET TO ASK HIM- HE NEVER GETS TO SPEAK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASDJKBHKFJBGSKBVGFHDKBFKABKBA

[maximuswolf]

Should i buy some new games?

Should i buy some new games? Hey people im stressing out and really debating if i should buy some new games and an extra controller. I will be honest and say i got a bit of a addiction. I have plenty of games already some of which i havent beat yet or could replay for alternet endings and things along those lines. I also have ps+ premiumn so i could play a lot of games for free in a sense already. However the games on ps+ arent really capturing my eyes or ive played them already.Some games that i was debating about getting is stellar blade (i have played the trial and i really had fun with it scratched the devil may cry 5 itch) system shock (heard it was what inspired bishock which i loved) prince of perisa the lost crown (never played any of these games before but i like what i see and i love the cheap price) elden ring (i have played demon souls and bloodborn a little bit and i didnt like them foumd them to be very confusing and hard, however with elden ring i feel the open world might be what sets it apart from the others and may push me to like it more its also currently on sale) the final one is a game that isnt even out yet but i am a life long fan of the series. Dragon Ball Sparking Zero. Now then id also would lile to say id much rather would want to go buy some comics at stores from the town over but i cant drive amd nobody will give me damn ride anywhere and finding comics online is very hard for me at least. Games and comics stops me from buying alcholol also which ive struggled with in my life so thats part of what drives my hobby to am addiction almost. Anyways any thoughts? Submitted July 28, 2024 at 03:10PM by SuccessfulCicada3116 https://ift.tt/8eFg9aM via /r/gaming

[yasminewestbank-archive]

1. there are countless free to play mmos, maple story, blade and soul, elsword, fortnight... so all/most mmos arent subscription based

2. saying you pay only once is ignoring that most ppl who play enough sso to pay for lifetime do in fact go back and buy star coins. they do continue to finance the game. acting like "sso is so generous bc every lifetime is a loss for them" is wrong when honestly most lifetimes will continue to spend money on the game. double sc weekend is a huge thing. games like fortnight r free to play bc you need to pay real money for aesthetics and so many ppl care abt this. in sso you both pay 70$ and continue to pay for aesthetics (aka horses). aesthetics is a huge part of sso culture. spending money is a huge part of sso culture. new horses, limited event horses, shopping is super strong in sso. its a game ppl mainly play for dressing up, roleplay and socializing. things that encourage you to continue spending. not for the gameplay mechanics or story.

3. saying "if you think sso isnt worth 70$ youre saying the workers shouldnt put food on their table" is not something i appreciate. i am definitely allowed to think a product is not high quality enough to justify its price. if i pay 200$ for a shirt and what comes in the mail is a broken thin cheap fabric with a peeling print, i am allowed to be frustrated and think this wasn't worth the price. (and those who get most of the money on the bad quality hypothetical tshirt are definitely not the simple workers, but the management).

4. sso's amount of bug is NOT justified by constant updates. ive never in my life played a game so broken like sso and ive played many mmos. no mmo i played was even close to being this broken. sso isnt buggy bc its updated constantly only, its buggy bc the shit way its built

5. when a game is this broken, its in fact not proffessional to just throw this buggy mess on the players who pay you and say help us fix it. you should test for this many bugs behind closed doors. especially in sso's case when its an unresonable amount of bugs. its not once in a while thing that a player finds. and this leads me to my next point

6. "sso is buggy bc of constant updates". sse are CHOOSING to bave a unique update every week. its their own choice. if the game is this buggy bc of weekly updates, they have the option to not have weekly updates. (but some bugs have been around for years, so again its not just the weekly updates). they could update once a month after properly testing, they could have less updates and shift the focus to fixing existing things rather than putting in new things. many mmos dont have weekly updates

of course this is what i personally think and if you disagree with anything i say feel free to tell me. i dont think any of us is a bad person for our opinions about this game, whether we're wrong or right. so id appreciate to not get personal and throw accusations around. we can have a discussion and its ok

listen, if you don't understand why SSO, a game that plans to continue running and updating for a while, needs to cost $70 when MOST OTHER MMOS do NOT offer a one time charge option. They're ALL subscription based. SSO has every right to be subscription based so they can pay their team and yet they keep the "one time charge" option available, which is not industry standard.

Yeah a completed game can cost less. Stardew, an amazing game, costs like $15. But it's posted in a state of completion where updates aren't guaranteed or promised. So he (one guy) gets continued revenue from purchases of the game which he doesnt HAVE to keep working on. SSO has to keep working. They have to keep paying their staff. $70 is not that big of an ask and is in fact a very small ask. It has bugs because they keep updating so more bugs are gonna occur. REPORT THE DAMN BUGS. They want the community to so they can damn fix em. And just talking about bugs on tumblr or instagram is not reporting them.

$70 is a lot of money for some people and thats VALID but guess what- you don't gotta play or hell you could play for free until you can't. Video games are a luxury, not a right.

[zvaigzdelasas]

Hm, seems like there's lots of ppl selling chop saws for steel on craigslist for <$200 just in case anyone was looking.....

[bridgyrose]

Weiss and Blake are masked villains. The two of them used to be a couple, but now can only agree on one thing... both of them want the hero Ruby Rose for themselves.

Weiss smirked as she sat in a tree and watched Ruby fight a few grimm in the forest. It wasnt exactly her favorite pastime seeing that Ruby always managed to stop her, though this time, it was fun to watch the huntress fight the grimm brought to the village. Her hand went to the computerized mask she wore and pressed a button on the side to send out a signal only grimm could hear to bring more closer. All she had to do was wait for the huntress to get overwhelmed and then she could swoop in and-

The mask flew off her face as an arrow pulled it away from the ex-heiress and slammed it into a tree. The signal stopped and the grimm that had been fighting the huntress turned to run away to preserve their own lives. 

Weiss slumped into the tree and let out a heavy sigh. “You know those arent cheap, right?” 

Blake moved into sight and pulled up the grimm mask she wore. “What are you doing out here? You know this is White Fang territory.” 

“Experimenting. Besides, I’m leaving your kind alone. I dont want anything to do with you anymore.” 

“And coming this close to one of our settlements is how you stay away from me? If I didnt know any better, I’d think you wanted me back.” 

“After what you did? Not a chance,” Weiss scoffed as she pried the arrow out of her mask and looked it over in her hand. The small mask was nothing more than a plain, white mask that used a screen to give her any look she wanted. “Though, I cant be the only reason you’re here.” 

Blake rolled her eyes and pointed her sword towards Ruby. “Her.” 

Weiss frowned. “She’s mine-” 

“Just… hear me out.” Blake sat down and pulled out her scroll. “I propose a truce between us seeing as we both have an interest in the Crimson Reaper.” 

“And what do I get out of it?” Weiss asked as she looked over the faunus’ scroll. “And more importantly, why do you want her?” 

“I could ask the same of you.” 

Weiss nodded and watched as Ruby left the village to head to her next mission. “I’m tired of playing cat and mouse with her. But… I’m not ready to give up on making everything miserable for my father. So, I want to make her mine.” 

“Make her yours?” 

“And you? What’s your interest in her?” 

Blake paused for a moment, then lowered her mask to hide the blush that spread across her cheeks. “I want to offer her something that’s a bit more… beneficial to the White Fang. Though, I get the feeling that she’s not going to want anything to do with either of us.” 

“Unless… she doesnt know who we are.” 

“What are you getting at?” 

Weiss pushed a hand through her short hair to pull it back and tie it up once more. “She’s never actually caught either of us, and every time she’s actually stopped us, we’ve managed to slip away. Maybe its time for her to meet the real us.” 

“And then what? There’s no guarantee that we’ll be able to get her to do anything for us, much less accept our feelings for her.” 

“I… what? N-no, its not about…” Weiss turned away to hide the blush on her own cheeks and took a couple breaths. “Leave that to me. I can make sure to open her eyes about those that employ her. As long as you dont try to backstab me again, I’ll go along with your truce.” 

Blake sighed and nodded. “Alright, but I do ask you to leave Cinder out of this.” 

“Dont worry, I’ll leave her out of the loop. Besides, even her employer is starting to scare me.” 

Blake stood up and held one end of the ribbon of her weapon as she tossed the blade out to another branch. “Oh, and Weiss, if you do get in my way, I will make sure its the last thing you do.” 

Weiss nodded and relaxed once Blake left. Her eyes went back to her mask as she undid the small signal generator that had a “W” etched into it. “Once I’m done with her, me getting in your way will be the last of your worries.”

[grimeclown]

what is it that makes swords seem so unattainable? you can get one for like $20 on amazon. sure some of them are upwards of 300+ bucks but thats for the real artisan shit. if you just want a blade you can grind and swing around thats so cheap. replica swords arent hard to make. swords ARE a reality you can achieve. but they seem so lofty. like something beyond what any of us could ever dream of owning. and yet we can

[jillskidmore2486]

Drone X Pro

Drone X pro reviews, price & scam update. Dont Buy Before Reading. Is it the Best Drone Under $100 For Beginners? Modern life has become mostly dependent on Drones for videography. From filmmaking to having some cinematic shot of the place you visit, weve found much use of the thing. But the equipment can be expensive. Thats about to change with the Drone X Pro reviews.

No doubt, the popularity of drones will only increase day by day. Many are looking to get a drone, but the various types make it hard for them to choose one.

Quadcopter seems like the top pick for both hobbyists and professionals alike.

Now, whatever the use you may have for it, finding a good drone within a reasonable price bracket has become quite impossible. The likes of DJI drones are quite expensive. Not everyone can afford them..https://apnews.com/9d3c69b6d4f59585ef651b100b4d7ad7

However, if you want something close to that, check out the Drone X Pro. This flying machine has become a sensational hit among drone lovers.

Price isnt the only thing for which you should go for it. It is the best drone for photography as it got a great camera on it. And the control it offers on the air is something unreal. It is the future of drones.

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Why Look into the Drone X pro?

Flying a drone isnt easy, as it takes time to adjust to the controls. But Drone X is the best drone for travel for beginners who want a drone to start working with it right away. Controlling it isnt that hard, and it is quite intuitive.

The Drone X Pro is incredibly lightweight, so maneuvering it on the air is super easy. It got a one-touch controller, which makes taking it off and landing it a piece of cake.

Right out of the box, you will like the Drone X pro for its size, design, and the many features it got. Unlike other drones within the price range, this remains stable during flights. Thats because it includes features like on board-gyro that holds the altitude. You can make those mid-air turning maneuvers and have some fun with it. You dont need to be a pro to fly it.

Thats not all.

This flying machine got a 2MP camera with the option to record videos at 720p. It might not be able to fulfill the need of professionals. Still, an average Joe can get those super cool aerial shots to gloat about on their social media. On top of that, you get a flight time of at least 10 minutes with a full charge. ADVERTISEMENT

If you consider the price, the best drone under $100 offers features that no one can match within this price range.

But there is more to it for which youve got to check out the Drone X pros technical specs.

Technical Features:

There are many functionalities the drone offers that makes it hard for you to ignore it. Lets take a look at them.

Controllers:

The drones available on the market today have controls that arent at all great. Especially the cheaper ones have controls that make it hard to fly the machine. Fortunately, this Drone X Pro comes with a universal control option.

Now, you can control the Drone x Pro using your mobile phone. But if you need a controller, you get one too with the package.

Whether you use the controller or the phone to fly it, you wont find any difference. Manipulating the drone is super easy. Even someone flying a drone for the first time wont have trouble getting the hang of it on your smartphone.

And when the drone gets out of sight, even then, you will be able to be in control. Thats because when you use your Smartphone to fly the drone, you will get a real-time FPV feed. This FPV feed will display where your drone is flying.

However, suppose you want to do the tricks and want more maneuverability flying the Drone X pro. Then use the controller instead of the phone. The sticks on it make it easier for you to move it around on those tight corners and twist and turn on those open spaces.

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Control:

Aside from getting dual-controller options with the Drone X Pro, you get an easy and convenient drone to take off and land. Theres no denying that most of us worry about breaking the flying gear when we try to land them. Its a hard skill.

With the Drone X Pro, you wont have those panic attacks while landing. It got features that can check the terrain to make the landing as smooth as it can without any crashes.

However, the best part about the drones control is that it got safety fail features to avoid accidents. Usually, when drones lose connection to the controller, they will fall off the air. It can shatter the parts into pieces. When it comes to the Drone x Pro, there is no such risk as the drone can detect when it loses connection. So it will automatically slow down during landing. It gives you time to regain control to land it.

Durability:

Flying drones, you will often encounter objects that you might hit into and cause the machine to crash. Even the best pilots lose control of their drones. And crashing to something always means one thing, a broken drone. Not with the Drone X Pro.

You will be left amazed when you will find out how durable the Drone X Pro is. The folding propeller makes for a sturdy and robust construction that wont get damaged easily. Even the exterior of it is resilient enough to take hits from time to time.

Stability:

During the flight, another issue that arises most of the time is the stability of the drone. With cheap drones, you often feel like not in control while being on the air.

The advanced stabilization algorithms during landing, flight, and take-off of the Drone X Pro wont leave you with such a feeling anymore. Even in turbulent conditions like too much wind, the drone will hold its station and stay on the course.

And thats what makes flying it so easy. You dont need to learn different skills to be in control of the wheels. On the one hand, the altitude hold mode is a feature that the Drone X Pro introduces to make life easy for the pilots. Using this feature, you will be able to drift the Drone and keep it in a constant height and position.

With such control over the drone, you will get smoother and more synchronized shots while flying it.

Flight Time:

Take the Drone X Pro and compare it to any other drone within its range, or thats even a bit more expensive. The flight time will impress you.

No doubt, you want to get those drone shots perfect. Only having a great camera wont cut for the job. It would help if you had a drone to give you the hang time on the air to meet your filming needs.

In comparison to the expensive models, the 10-minute flight time might not look like a lot. But considering the Drone X Pro price, its quite impressive. The fast charging time also helps the cause. It takes only 70-minutes to charge it and get it back again in the air.

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Camera:

The reason that many are becoming interested in getting a drone is those beautiful shots from the air. But to get those picture-perfect shots, youve got to need a high-quality camera. Compared to the Mavericks, the Drone X Pro isnt on the same level. Looking at the price gap, you already know why it is. Still, the camera leaves a good impression. With the 2MP camera on it, you can record videos and take photos that are pretty clear at 720p resolution.

If you want to capture still photos with wider angles, the Drone x Pro will allow you just that with 1200 wide-angle. Not to forget, the panoramic mode lets you take 3600 photos with just a click of a button.

The only issue with the camera is that it got fixed and wont adjust to the vibrations like those expensive ones. So, if there is too much turbulence, the videos you might get will be jittery.

Portable:

The Drone X Pro is exceptionally lightweight. You might love how good photos and stable videos you can take with this mini travel companion. It wont take much space, nor will it add extra weight to your things. With it, you dont have to carry those heavier and bulkier drones found in the market.

Foldable:

Once you fold it up, it fits in the palm of your hand. Take it wherever you want.

It got easy folding joints to make the footprint of it super small. Besides, you can detach the propeller blades and make room for it in your backpack.

Some more features:

Most drones are hard to operate. If you want an easy to fly drone, then the Drone x Pro should be on your list. The drone uses a single keystroke for both takeoff and landing.

You can pilot the drone in dark conditions too. The drone has 2 LED lights that are positioned next to the camera. It gives you a clear vision to play with it at night.

There is also the option of using gravity sensors. By tilting your phone right and left, front and back, you can move the drone in the air. Want to feel like piloting the drone? Then connect the Drone X Pro with your First Person Goggles for that.

However, Drone X Pro has more tricks under its sleeve. The headless mode is one such. This feature makes flying much easier for newbie drone pilots.

You will have the same front no matter the camera position to make it easier to fly.

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How good the camera in Drone X Pro?

The camera isnt on the same level as the DJI maverick or the other expensive drones out there. Still, the best drone under $100 got one of the best cameras in a drone that comes within this price range.

The quadcopter got a pretty decent camera. It gives a 720 camera with a FOV of 120 to take videos from a wide range of angles. For the perfect aerial view, you can adjust the angle between 0-90. The color balance and frame rate are quite good. You will be able to capture moving things on the video well.

Even the drone has an FPV feature. Now, you can live stream video images right into your phone while flying it on the air. Though it doesnt have a gimbal for video and image stabilization. The 6-axis gyroscope and altitude hold feature does a good job of minimizing distortions while taking those shots from the air. Using the 2MP sensor, you can get good pictures.

Performance of the Drone X Pro:

Looking at the Drone X Pro reviews, you will see it has a fairly short flying time. It can give you 9-10 minutes of air time. Still, it performs way better than other drones that come within the same price bracket.

However, the flight time isnt that long and requires a bit more improvement. The 500mAh 3.7V lipo battery charges within an hour, but for that 1 hour, you get only 10 minutes of fun. So, pack some extra batteries with you.

Besides the short flying time, the Drone X Pro performs well in the air. With its 6-axis gyroscope and altitude hold function, it keeps itself stable in slightly breezy conditions. There will be minimal distortion in the videos.

Benefits of using Drone X Pro:

You can get a lot of benefits out of the Drone X Pro. For instance, if you love to travel and take shots of the places you visit for your social media or just capture some fond memory to look back at later, the gadget is a must.

You can take nice shots using the 2MP sensor. Besides that, the 720p camera lets you take videos in high-definition. Capture those scenic aerial shots and start your own travel blogs that others would love to watch. For starters, its a great drone.

Even if youre looking to have just casual fun, you can go for it. Most drones have a complex control, which makes them hard to fly in the air. The Drone X Pro, however, has simple control. Using your phone or the controller that comes with it, you can fly it around without any prior experience. The best part is you can use it both indoors and outdoors. You can master the art of flying first in your home and then go to the open space to get the best use out of it.

For those who have trouble keeping things stable in the windy conditions or land the drone without damaging it, this one is perfect. You get a proper stable flight system that keeps you still even in turbulent conditions. Similarly, the easy takeoff and landing maneuver will make it easy for you to get it off the ground and back there without any problem.

Most importantly, the best drone for beginners is worth every penny as it offers you longevity. You will get an impact-resistant drone that can handle those crashes from time to time.

What users have to say?

Going through the Drone X Pro reviews, there are a couple of things that came up time after time when people talked about it.

Without any doubt, most of them considered it the best drone for beginners within this price range. For them, its a steal for what it has to offer. People took it out and tried out in windy conditions to test it out, and it handled the abuse pretty well.

Also, it was easy to operate than most other drones. Features like easy landing and takeoff and the headless option made it easy to fly for the first-timers. They found it fun and easy to learn.

The only issue that most have about it is the Drone X Pro battery life. Other than that, most people are quite happy with it as it got a higher customer rating.

Accessories included with Drone X Pro:

Besides the drone, you get a couple of extra stuff with the kit. Here they are:

   If you crash your drone and break the propellers, no worries. Drone X Pro provides 4-backup ones with the kit.    To keep your drone in top-shape and for easy carrying, the drone comes with a storage bag.    The package includes a screwdriver for easy installation and detachment of parts.    For charging the drone, it comes with a USB cable.    A well-detailed instruction gets provided to help you to install and fix problems with the drone. It is in English, so you can easily follow it.    The drone comes with batteries, so you can get it flying without needing to buy new ones.

How much does the Drone X Pro cost?

For the build quality and the Drone X Pro features, many think of it as expensive equipment.

Looking at the technical features, many go directly looking into more inexpensive options thinking it isnt worth looking at it as it might cost a fortune. But to be fair, this one is not that expensive at all. It is even cheaper than some of those alternative options.

The Drone X Pro comes with a price range of 93-99 US dollars from the official website. You might get deals on different occasions. In the upcoming Black Friday, you might get it for even less than that.

Check for offers on Amazon or other such websites. Or you can keep an eye on their official website to get the best deals.

Why you should get the drone?

While looking to buy a quadcopter, you always need to look into the brand. There are big names like DJI, which come in a certain price bracket that not everyone can afford.

No doubt, you shouldnt compromise with the quality. But it is also hard to spend big bucks on a drone. Thats where the Drone X Pro brand comes in with the perfect balance and quality.

The drones they offer are quite on par with some of the best. Operating them on the air is a treat. It covers good ground in a short time. And the picture and video quality it provides is unbeatable considering its price.

If youre looking for the best drone for travel, this is it. It is lightweight and foldable. You can take it with you in your backpack as it doesnt take a lot of space. Plus, it got modern features that you expect to find in high-priced drones. Whether that may be the auto-landing and takeoff or headless movement trait for effortless steering in the air, these are hard to come by in a drone under $100.

You can take 360-degree loops at a 120 frame-per-second rate with it. For any beginner looking to have a drone, it got everything and much more.

Drone X Pro available all over the world:

Unlike other products, you dont get bound by your location when getting the Drone X Pro. You can get it from the manufacturing website to any part of the world. The drone is currently available at a 50% discount there. Get your hands on one paying half the price. Or get two if you like for the price of one.

The German-made lightweight and easy to fly drone has become a worldwide sensation. And they are having a hard time keeping up with the demand. Yet, they didnt compromise with the quality and still produce in short numbers with their trusted manufacturers. So, every single drone that comes out of the Drone X Pro is of the highest quality.

If you want to enjoy that quality, youve got to be fast. But be careful! There are other websites with similar drones out there. Most of them are fakes, so you should better go to the official website to not fall into such a trap.

DroneX Pro Coustomer Reviews

The Customer Reviews of Drone x Pro is different depends on different geographical location. Users from the USA, Canada, Australia, and Uk give positive reports because it the best drone ever under $100. Also, gadgets are available in the local market.

Conclusion:

The DroneX Pro is a drone that got made to make flying easy. Two drone-loving engineers from Germany werent happy with the drones out there in the market.

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[lit-works]

Transhumanism

The summer of 2004, Wil Smith starred in "I, Robot", the cinematic interpretation of 9 short stories by Isaac Asimov. When i was in 7th grade, Asimov struck me as a profoundly compelling figure, prompting me to read his extended archive of literary works, which i quit reading after the second book. (The stories seemed a little implausible.) i did, however, unleash a stirring oral book report on "I, Robot", a literary collection that was punctuated by Asimov's now famous Three Rules of Robotics:

1.) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2.) A robot must obey orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3.) Do not talk about Fight Club.

Now, i don't think I'm giving anything away by telling you that the robots in "I, Robot" find a loophole to those principles, and they then proceed to slowly fuck humanity over. This is a story that was written over half a century ago. However, it paints a scenario we as humans continue to fear. "I, Robot" was published in 1950, but writers (or at least the Muttonchopped Isaac) were already terrified about mankind's bellicose relationship with technology. If we have learned anything from film, literature, and rock music, it is this: humans will eventually go to war against the machines. There is apparently no way to avoid this. But, you know what? If we somehow manage to lose this war, we really have no excuse. Because i can't imagine any war we've spent more time worrying about.

The Terminator trilogy is about war against the machines; So is the Matrix Trilogy. So was Maximum Overdrive, although that movie also implied that robots enjoy the music of AC/DC. I dont think the Radiohead album "OK Computer" was specifically about computers trying to kill us, but it certainly suggested that computers were not "okay". "2001: A Space Odyssey" employs elements of robot hysteria, as does the plotline to roughly thousands of video games. Blade Runner also had touched on this topic, but i honestly encounter difficulty recalling the narrative details; i was too busy pretending i wasnt stoned af. There is even a Deutsch electronica band called "Lights of Euphoria" whose supposed masterpiece is a concept album titled "Krieggegen die Maschinen", which literally translates as, "War Against the Machines". This means that even European techno fans are aware of this phenomenon, and those idiots generally arent aware of anything(except who in the room might be holding ketamine).

Im not sure how we all became convinced that machines intend to dominate us. As i type this, i can see a toaster, and I'll be honest: I'm not nervous. As far as i can tell, it poses no threat. My relationship with this toaster is delicious, but completely one-sided. The toaster is the Labradford Smith to my Micheal Jordan. I'm never concerned that this toaster will poison me, or that it will foster a false sense of security before electrocuting me in the shower, or that it will politically align itself with the microwave. The toaster does not want to conquer human society. I even played "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" in the kitchen, just to see if the toaster would become self-aware and spring for my jugular out of misanthropy; its reaction was negligible. Machines have no grit.

It appears we have spent over half a century preparing for a war against a potential foe who--thus far--has been nothing but civil to us; it's almost like we've made a bunch of "Red Dawn" movies that warn about a coming conflict with the Netherlands or Canada. In fact, there isnt even evidence that robots could kick our ass if they wanted to. Back in March of 2006, a clandestine military group called DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) challenged engineers to build a driverless vehicle that could traverse a 150-mile course in the Mojave Desert; the contest's winner was promised a cash prize of $1 million. You know who won? Nobody. Nobody's robot SUV could make it farther than 7.4 miles. Even with the aid of GPS, robots are pretty moronic. Why do we think they could build the matrix today if they couldn't even drive to Vegas in 2006??

I suspect all these dystopic "Man versus Machine" scenarios are grounded in the fact that technology is legitimately alienating; the rise of computers(and robots, and IPhones, and nanomachines who hope to turn the world into sentient "gray goo") has certainly made life easier, but they've also accelerated depression. Case in point: if this were 1904, you would not be reading this; you would be chopping wood or churning butter or watching one of your 13-28 children perish from crib death. Your life would be horrible, but your life would have purpose. It would have clarity. Machines allow humans the privilege of existential anxiety. Machines provide us with the extra time to worry about the status of our careers, and/or the context of our sexual relationships, and/or what it means to be truly alive. Unconsciously, humans hate technology. We hate the way it replaces visceral experience with self-absorption. The only way we can reconcile that hatred is by pretending machines hate us, too.

It is human nature to personify anything we dont understand: Gods, animals, hurricanes, mountain ranges, jet skis, strippers, etc. We deal with inanimate objects by assigning them the human qualities we assume they might have if they were exactly us. Consequently, we want to think about machines as slaves, and we like to pretend those mechanized slaves will eventually attempt a hostile takeover. Cuz, that's what we'd do.

The truth, of course, is that we are the slaves; the machines became our masters through the bloodless coup that began during the industrial revolution. (In fact, this is kind if what "I, Robot" is about, although the Will Smith version will not make that clear.) By now, i think most America s are aware of that reality; I think any smarter-than-average person already concedes that (A) we've lost our control over technology, and (B) there's nothing we can do about it. But, that's defeatist. Openly embracing that despair would make the process of living even darker than it already is; we'd all move to rural Montana abd become Unabombers. We need to remain optimistic. And how do we do that? By preparing ourselves for a futuristic war against intelligent, man-hating cyborgs. As long as we dream of a war that has not yet happened, we are able to believe it's a war that we have not yet lost.

But perhaps im all wrong about this. Perhaps we humans are still in command, and a perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll. Im ready. That toaster will never be the boss of me. Get ready to make some Pop-Tarts, Bitch!!

[the-ladyguinevere]

Watch cooking videos and then make the thing but with cheaper ingredients. You will probably not know the difference, it's fine. I only use the nice stuff to impress guests or as a treat.

Unless you are eating it uncooked, just use vegetable oil instead of whatever the recipe calls for.

If you are baking, follow the instructions to the letter

Keep your knives sharp for safety. You can get a cheap knife block and a cheap knife sharpener, and you're fine. You really really don't NEED the nice stuff, it's just nice to have.

ALWAYS. PRE-HEAT.

I own a lot of kitchen gadgets, and let me tell you, only get the ones that you will use a lot. They can be absolutely worth it, though. Make a lot of jams and soups and shakes and smoothies and so forth? Get that food processor/blender combo.

DONT USE METAL ON YOUR NON-STICK OR MY GHOST WILL MANIFEST IN YOUR KITCHEN AND STARE JUDGINGLY AS YOU RUIN IT

Use either a wooden or a plastic cutting board. As biiiig as you can get.

If you're just cooking for yourself and/or your household, experiment a 'lil bit. Get wild in the kitchen.

Watching food Network is a valid way to learn how to bullshit your way into looking and sounding like you know what you're doing.

That's no joke, one of the restaurant quality meals I make I picked up from just watching a LOT of chopped and Guy's Grocery's Games and Cutthroat kitchen. I don't have a recipe for it, I just learned how to do all the component parts from watching cooks.

A lot of people are going to tell you there is only one way to hold your knife. They are wrong, there are something like 6 proper ways to do it based on application, and at home you should do whichever one gives YOU most control over the blade. I firmly grip the handle and extend my finger down the blunt edge of the blade and have only cut myself once in a decade and a half (and it was last week, and I am still recovering). Another good way is to keep the pinky, ring, and middle finger holding the handle with your pa, with your pointer finger and thumb actually gripping the flat of the blade. It alllll depends on application.

Hey, those short videos you see on YouTube and Facebook showing you cooking hacks? Try them. Some of them are hella legit. That's how I learned how to finely dice an onion without crying the whole time, and how to peel garlic easy, and so on and so forth. Some are Complete crap though, so don't be disappointed if they don't work.

Cooking takes a lot of energy. Think about how much energy you have to actually cook. If you are anything like me, you might finish all the active steps and realize you just want to go back to bed

Frozen veggies are about the same price as canned, and are waaaay better.

Like a bag of frozen veggies is a little under twice the price of a can. You just put them in a small pot, let them thaw, put on a lid if you have one. When they're thawed, add a little tab of butter, pinch of salt, little bit of pepper, that's it bay bee, crumch crumch yum yum

Aluminum foil can be a lid if it needs to be, at least for steaming

OWN TWO OVEN MITTS NOT JUST ONE

YOU WILL THANK ME WHEN YOU GOTTA PULL A HEAVY ASS CASSEROLE OR SOMETHING AND YOU ARENT DOING IT WITH A TOWEL

TRUST ME I'VE BEEN THERE

If you have eaten something, you can take a guess at how to make it. Try it! You can improve on it and get closer every time you make it.

I make an enchilada dish that is a modified version of the one I made in college. No recipe, I've just eaten enchiladas before. That's fine if you can't find a recipe you like

Might add more later?

My friend asked how I learned to cook and the answer is I didn't. I know like 5 things about cooking and they are:

Always use more garlic than the recipe calls for

"Ehhh fuck it close enough" is a great measurement tool

Find like 5 recipes that you like, adjust them how you like them, make them until you hate them

Clean as you go

If a recipe is from a mommy blog, you will need more spices

If anyone wants to add, please do

[stripesquadsideblog]

so what did kagura say to shizuma?

I know pretty much all of us stripe squad fans are annoyed by this  convo that we cant hear between shizuma and kagura. Its kind of a cheap story telling ploy to keep us interested so i kind of see why they did it but im irritated never the less.

I think given the criminally short amount of time these “bad guys” were actually on screen we really could have been doing with more information.  As it stands Buntan (and kinda Hassaku if you squint at that shark jesus scene) are the only ones with any backstory. Not even shizuma, the main antagonist , has much fleshing out other than hes a hoshigaki with a bad attitude and a personal space problem.

Of course this could all come in later arcs but we fans are not patient people.

SO LETS TOTALLY OVER THINK THINGS TOGETHER

this is a MASSIVE post so its under a cut to avoid bloking up peoples feeds

Ok first off : this, THIS RIGHT HERE, is not the face of apology.

Shizuma is smirking and kagura looks scared, nothing fun is happening here. Jesus shizuma is behind what looks like a good 2 inches of solid glass  and poor turtle child is still afraid.  Further more shizuma is not the apologizing type. He does it sarcastically or as a means of gas lighting or emotional manipulation .

This right here is mockery. I can see shizuma saying something with a tone of “oh look the mizukages pet got free who would have seen that coming”

something rude , hurtful or other wise insulting 

I mean

Kagura is literally recoiling in horror and fear. Hes still scared of shizuma and why shouldn’t he be? Shizuma went feral and nearly killed them all not that long ago ( time line is a wee bit dodgy here because everyone was knocked out at night . hassaku and shizuma are up and about , even if shizuma is a little bit scratched, but buntan Ichirota and possibly hebiichigo are still clearly injured so im not sure how much time has actually passed).

Kagura is freaked out and ready to leave. He cant do what he came to do because shizuma still has power of him.

That is until he realizes chojuro has his back

Look at chojuros face. The little hand on his shoulder : thats the kind of reassuring body language you use to tell someone  “youve got this but im right behind you” .Suddenly he’s much more confident. What exactly would be so scary to kagura that he couldn’t do it alone?

He clearly came to say something. Hes not armed so hes not here to kill shizuma. The building theyre in isn’t like any prison weve seen in the naruto world( like the blood castle or karins prison during the war arc) . its very clean and the bright lights give it a medically sterile feel. I think this might be some sort of combination prison/mental hospital.

Which tbh is probably what shizuma needs, coup or no coup.

So what do i think happened?

I think for Kagura to have any kind of closure from this incident chojuro insisted he see shizuma one more time to say what he needs to say. To get some things off his chest so hes not them around with him. Chojuro has an enormous amount of faith in Kagura . hes given him 2 chances at his own expence. Kagura is clearly  unstable in some situations. Mei and chojuro have both spent the better part of 20 years sorting out the mess Yagura left behind. So why stick his neck out?

( side note i love how all the stripe squad are just ignoring shizumas antics. Like kyoho is just stairing into space like “i wonder if i left the stove on....”)

Sorry back on track

There was very little from stopping chojuro from treating kagura like everyone else does but he doesn’t. He goes out of his way to build kagura up. Its pretty much implied that hes actively choosing Kagura as his replacement as 7th mizukage.

But for chojuro to help him achieve that goal, kagura needs to get over some stuff. So he has to confront shizuma. Yeah ok maybe Kagura needs a little help to do it but hes there none the less

 What is kagura doing?

Well i think its 1 of 3 things

The most likely answer

Option 1 ) Hes telling shizuma he forgives him.

As i mentioned shizuma is not an apologetic person. That ladies and gents is the face of shock. Shizuma really only understands violence, like pretty much any blood mist kiri nin. So what would be more shocking to him that forgiveness? To me this shot just screams “ how could you forgive me after all i did to you.”

Furthermore do you have ANY idea how DIFFICULT it is to forgive someone who hasn’t even said they’re sorry? Lets be real here, shizuma was AWFUL to kagura. He literally called him a tool and told him hed use him till the end . he told him he was a murderer and that he was of no use to anyone but him.

I really admire people who can let stuff go like that. I had to learn through a lot of therapy but here kagura is doing it off his own bat. 

 SERIOUSLY i am really struggling to think of something that would shock  shizuma more than heartfelt forgiveness  except maybe option 2

Option 2 ) kagura is the one apologizing.

Now this seems unlikely  to me as i doubt chojuro would let kagura put any blame on himself for shizumas actions. That kind of goes against the established plot of ‘chojuro build up kagura’ by letting kagura accept blame for something that wasn’t his fault. But it could be kagura is apologizing for something else. Maybe “ im sorry it came to this. When im mizukage things will be different, ill make everyone happy” or “ im sorry shizuma but you clearly arent well, this is where you belong “

something along those lines

Yes im looking at the ninja world with rose tinted glasses here but it is a possibility. The stripe squad are disillusioned with the ninja world to the point of thinking they have nothing else to live for if they don’t succeed ( just look at hassaku “the executioners blade is all i have”). Kagura and chojuro aren’t stupid. Maybe Kagura knows this is something Shizuma needs to hear as much as he needs to say.

Option 3 ) kagura is goodbye/goodluck/im done with you.

This is another fairly likely one.Now what kind of put this one down for me was these two clips

Look at how determined kagura is. This isn’t the most forgiving of faces but then again id hardly expect kagura to break out his best cinnamon roll impression for an abusive asshat like shizuma . its possibly hes doing some sort of “ i forgive you now lets never speak again” sort of thing.

When hes done he bows his head: maybe in relief ? maybe he just cant stand to look at shizuma anymore. We don’t know and We don’t find out .

The second bit is this. Chojuro looks like hes ready to kill a bitch. This is his warning face: hes pulled a lot of stringers for kaguras sake and even shizumas. Like do you think if this kind of shit had happened in Yaguras kiri shizuma would still be alive and talking crazy through the glass? No hed be  buried in the flower beds nourishing the tulips before you could say  “whats the blood mist?”

The combination of orochimarus voice over and chojuros face makes things pretty damn clear :you mess with kagura again and i wont be so forgiving.

And then shizuma is just left alone. Kagura is done with him , hes gone, hes finished and by siding with chojuro and accepting his training to become hirameikaris wielder ( and possibly eventually the mizukage) hes essentially telling shizuma “ i don’t need you im stronger without you.”

And ouch thats gotta hurt someone with as many emotional issues as shizuma.

Hence sad shark boi above^^^

 I feel what would have really made this scene for me is if we got to see shizumas reaction to Kagura walking away from him. Like shizuma has demonstrated an unhealthy level of possessiveness over kagura: to see his tool walk away from him, get the better of him and be the better person would fill him with some sort of emotion.

Like did he pound on the glass screaming about how kagura needed him and how kagura was nothing without him? Did he freeze ?defeated by kaguras words, some sort of final revelation that he was in jail/ an asylum  where he belonged ? did he slide to the floor sobbing because all he’d worked for, one of the vital pieces of his plans was walking away from him and his team mates were all ignoring him? jesus did he even throw a little hissy fit???? we just dont know.

We’re missing a big piece of the puzzle here in not knowing what shizuma did after kagura left and the worst part is we’ll probably never find out

[dollfied-blog1]

Let’s talk about Today

It’s Wednesday. We are on the verge of the weekend where Vegas gets snow, Los Angeles gets frozen, and the polar vortex dips down further into the states.

I think it’s worth mentioning that a number of comic book fans have clamored for the BP movie, but aren’t of the opinion that the movie should win an Oscar. Worth mentioning because as good as they thought Black Panther was/is, they have their wits about them to tell folks that it shouldn’t win.

That’s alright though. It made a billion dollars.

In other news, sections of comic book readership do not want to see Captain Marvel. Why? Because Brie Larson’s press tour offends them.

Now, I understand how what she said might’ve rubbed a few of the white male population the wrong way. And it seems like there is a larger swath of the journalist population occupying the white demographic. Does that mean we shouldn’t? It’s a telling tale if we are. But we have to assess our societal engagements before we start pointing fingers at white men and why they’re getting preferences other parts of the population aren’t.

I’m sure there’s some study out regarding the population of folks looking at comic books and going to comic book based movies. We have to look at the statistics of folks looking at the comic books to really understand what’s going on. I’m willing to bet- without looking at the numbers, that a majority of that crowd is... drumroll please... white. We were watching X-Men in 2001. We were watching Fantastic Four back in 2004. We were watching Punisher with Thomas Jane, and all three Blade films with Wesley Snipes. Black superhero vampire/human killing creatures of the night with swords and guns and a new-age Van Helsing? Yeah, we’ll watch the hell out of that. Same as white guy systematically and almost surgically picking off targets who had a hand in the murder of his wife and kid.

On topic, we watch a majority black cast in a film about a black superhero in a fictional African country. Why? because it’s cool and they wrote that script like diamonds. We’ll also watch a film about a mixed race kid in Brooklyn becoming a new Spider-Man. Why? Because it’s cool and the script was diamonds.

When movies decided to get all preachy about it and made their stand in trying to say something to us instead of trying to entertain us? yeah, that’s always been the case. We were just too young to remember it. Dark Knight? Remember the message of good people not willing to do a bad thing to prove a point to the Joker? Remember the bad people not willing to do a bad thing to also prove a point to the Joker? And remember Batman not willing to kill the Joker because he was better than that?

But the main difference here is that the films were made well. They had good writing, awesome action, acting on point, and visual effects that wowed audiences. Did the message diminish when the entertainment value was raised? Nope. I think it helped that Wesley Snipes was black to ease our way into accepting more minority actors into film leads. We started to realize that the landscape could change, and we were fine with it, as long as it looked cool and was well-written. If it was a dumpster fire of epic proportions, then the message was all the more lost on audiences.

And here we are today with Captain Marvel. Before the movie has even been released, it’s become a divisive issue before having seen it. Let’s just say, I think let the movie speak for itself rather than have the actors try to preach it, but that’s just me.

Despite the PR madness and some of the activism both bad and good for the movie, I will still watch it. I’m hesitant about it, because separating the character from the actor, and without having seen the actor, I think it’ll be harder to make an argument for one against the other,

Yeah, Brie Larson has said things, and those things might not be the best given the current climate. But, things were said, and whether or not she’s the best pick for the main threat to Thanos come the next Avengers film, she’s the one that we got, and we have to see what she does with the role,

The way she’s put forward in the commercials for the film, and for the next phase of Marvel, she’s got the binary powers and a ton more abilities than what her character did when Rogue stole her abilities. So, she can kill Thanos with a thought from how Marvel is putting her forward. But my problem with that is not so much the female aspect, but the Adam Warlock aspect.

Adam Warlock is kind of a heroic figure compared to Thanos, in that he was the only one with a power level on par with the mad titan. He eventually gets the infinity Gauntlet and as the Marvel Messiah, distributes the stones to six protectorates amongst the 616 universe, creating the illuminati.

Then we got that little tease at the end of Guardians of the Galaxy 2, where the incubator with “Adam” was featured. A lot of fans speculated that this would play into the plot of Avengers: Infinity War, and that Warlock would show up and save the day, doing all the crap that the heroes struggled to do to defeat the purple menace.

My problem with that, in writing, is that it’s a cheap out for stakes in the story progression. Here we have the heroes struggling with their all to defeat the tyrant, and here comes a character with no development, no connection to the audience, and blasts the main villain who the other guys we had struggled, cried, bled and strove with over so many years had trouble with.

It leaves a bad taste in my mouth thinking about it as a writer. I want that struggle, that underdog coming in and doing the impossible to defeat an impossible foe. I’m glad for that reason they didn’t have Adam Warlock come in and be a mister fix-it for the heroes. And having Thanos win against our heroes just put the stakes in the story that made us as an audience, bawl in the aisles like babies.

And here we have a woman about to do something similar, or posited to be in that same tone.

[burgermiester]

Grinding Renown Made Fun!*

*Grinding for Renown in Fire Emblem Awakening is never really fun.  Its tedious, and if you want to max it out it will take many, many hours. This guide is just to show you how I made it as fun as I could while still keeping it relatively fast and efficient.  Maybe you will want to try it for yourself or make a variation based on what you like. 

(also note that my method uses a lot of the DLC so if you dont have at least Lost Bloodlines 2 and Smash Brethren 2 for Dread Fighter and Bride then it probably wont work very well, but maybe you can modify it, I am not sure.  It also would probably be nice to have Lost Bloodlines 3 for Paragon and I liked having all stats +2 from Champions of Yore 3 but those 2 arent necessary)

For starters I want to be very clear that everyone knows this isnt technically the fastest way to grind renown.  The fastest way to grind renown is exactly what it says on the wiki: make a ton of money on golden gaffe then summon a weak/cheap character, pay to recruit them, then dismiss them, repeat 2000 times.  I tried doing this on a file where I was at endgame and I found it terribly boring, which in turn meant it was not the fastest way for me to grind renown since it would take me forever to find the energy to do it. 

So when deciding how I wanted to grind renown for myself I had a few objectives: fight the spotpass characters, not buy them, and make fighting them as quick as possible; minimize the number of spaces that a spotpass character could spawn when I summon them to cut down on walking around the world map; minimize the number of times that I go into the wireless menu to make it easier to multitask (basically it was harder to watch movies or tv in the background using the fastest method since its so menu heavy, so I wanted to cut that time spent down); if possible, completely eliminate the need to manage items on my units.  I solved all these issues and these are the steps of my method (the Miester Method?):

Step 0: Grind supports before you even start grinding renown. Grinding out supports is much more interesting than grinding renown.  You get new dialogue after most fights and a lot of it is interesting.  Just make sure you are grinding on spotpass characters instead of risen since spotpass fights/purchases give the most renown, that way you are maximizing your gains for when you run out of supports to grind and are ready to move onto proper renown grinding.

Step 0.1: Pray your past self really loved playing Awakening.  Just having played the game a lot normally will put you in a nice starting position.  By the time I finished support grinding gen 1 and moved on to renown grinding I was at nearly 45,000 renown, close to half of the 99,999 max.  I cant recall how much of that was support grinding on spotpass characters and how much was there from just playing a ton of Awakening, I forgot to check, but both helped. 

OK, now on to the actual steps for renown grinding.

Step 1: Start a new game.  You arent challenging yourself here so just go normal casual. 

Step 2: Play the game up until Chapter 8 (but dont play chapter 8.)  Also beat Paralogues 1 and 3 but not 2.  This should have your world map looking like this:

The reason you want to do this is because it leaves your world map with exactly 10 empty spaces in which to summon spotpass characters.  As 10 is the maximum number of spotpass units you can summon at once, having 10 spots on the map lets you spend the least amount of time in the wireless menu.  Its also good to not allow more than 10 free spots because every extra square you add means more time wasted walking across the map.  This is why its not a good idea to do this grinding at endgame: you could be on Donnel’s island and summon a bunch of spotpass units in Valm and vice versa. 

Now, as for why I picked prologue-chapter 7 and paralogue 1 and 3 over other choices for my 10 map spots, it mostly came down to map layout.  They are all small early game chapters that take only 2-3 turns to beat on auto battle most of the time.  Paralogue 2 was much too big and would take more turns to beat and Chapter 8 is full of turn adding desert.  Remember, youll be fighting MANY battles in these maps, an extra turn or two each time translates to hundreds of extra turns in the long run.  That being said, I want to emphasize that if you havent gotten lucky getting second seals from the random shop annas, you should play chapter 8.  Chapter 8 gives you Gregor and another second seal, Gregor is especially important because hes got armsthrift without using a second seal (more on that in a bit).  I had already gotten 1 other second seal from Anna by the time I got to chapter 7 so I chose to not play chapter 8, whether or not you do is up to you.  If you choose to play chapter 8 then you need to cut either paralogue 1 or 3.  Paralogue 1 is a smaller map so will be more likely to give you a 2 turn clear over paralogue 3′s 2-3 turn clear, but paralogue 3 gives you a store with access to javelins and hand axes, two weapons that are very nice to have. 

Step 3: Build an Army.  Trust Armsthrift.   Now its time to prepare your team.  The maximum number of units youll need to field in any of these battles is 9.  If you go under 9 youll need to waste time in battle prep deselecting units, and we dont want that, so getting to 9 units is important.  To eventually get to a point where you never need to buy items for your units youll want armsthrift on your whole team.  Unfortunately theres a few hurdles to jump to make this happen since we only are at chapter 7/8.  First, we dont have our full team to pull from and second we cant buy second seals.  Naturally we will need to get as many spotpass units with armsthrift as we can, but only 5 come with armsthrift: Malice, Linus, Ike, Roy, and Ogma.  This means youll need 4 second seals to get a full armsthrift team.  Robin, Cordelia, Donnel, and spotpass characters can reclass to mercenary this way.  You will have one second seal from renown rewards meaning you need 3 more from anna shops (or only one if you choose to do chapter 8 and get Gregor and another second seal.)  Chrom is a good temporary member while you train up your team since he has an unbreakable weapon, but sadly its only 1-range which is not going to cut it since enemies will always attack him at 2 range making battles last at least 1 turn longer than they would otherwise.  As for the actual training, do Yore 3 over and over to collect all skills plus 2 for everyone and gain levels to be better prepared for Bloodlines 2 and 3 which are a bit tougher but also get better rewards (and youll be doing Bloodlines 2 a hell of a lot to get all the dread scrolls youll need to reset levels until everyone has max luck.)  Bear in mind you will need limit break to go over 50 luck, but just capping it normally or even just pushing it into the 40s then giving all your dread fighters and brides a full inventory of hand axes or javelins will make it so that your stops at the armory are few and very far between.

(optional step: if you have golden gaffe then once your units are decently strong run it 5-10 times and then never think about money again)

Step 4: Setting up the grind.  By now you are ready to fire up a couple of rounds of proper spotpass grinding.  You might want to wait until you have a full team of limit broken armsthrifters but I recommend waiting a bit, I will explain why in a sec.  So I will now give the rundown on the actual grinding that will probably become auto-pilot like for you before too long.  Open the wireless menu, go to bonus box and bonus teams and summon 10.  If your team isnt maxed out then I say pull the first 5 from one game and the first 5 from another, just to be sure you wont run into anything that kills you.  You are on casual, so its not normally a big deal if a unit dies in this process, but if its Chrom or Robin its a game over, and even if its not thats stopping for a text box which slows you down.  I recommend the shadow dragon and binding blade teams because there are no cleric/troubadour team leaders who slow things down by not killing themselves on your units and theres no armor knight leaders (and few armor knight other units) who sometimes add turns by not making it to your units as quickly in the bigger maps.  Dont save after every battle, it adds like 3 seconds each time, just do it after every cycle (10 battles).  If your units are over the 50 luck line give them their best weapons and let them go to town.  If they are under 50 then give them a full set of hand axes for dread fighters and javelins for brides and they will last dozens of cycles before you need to restock their inventory. If you are still using Chrom and/or another non armsthrift unit then make sure they are at the 9th slot on your team so they dont go into most fights.  Then just turn off and skip all animations and phases and set auto battle to blitz and auto battle every turn, forever.

Step 5:

Step 6: Break up the Monotony. This is the crux of the Miester Method.  Summoning a full set of 10 spotpass units and killing them with a very strong team will take ~8 minutes and net you 500 renown.  From 0 renown thats closing in on 24 hours of still very repetitive grinding (now you see why I recommend you grind supports first, if you can get close to 50k renown before beginning actual renown grinding youve cut that time in half).  Some people might not find level grinding to be a sufficient break in the monotony but for me leveling up in awakening, especially if your units have Paragon, is very fast and fun and rewarding.  I might even go so far as to say that building super units is the most fun part of Awakening’s gameplay.  So what I recommend is every 15 minutes or so (2 cycles of 10 spotbass battles roughly) head back to dlc land and power up somebody.  Get another dread scroll to reset the level of someone with a lot more stats to cap then run them through Bloodlines 3 solo to gain like 20 levels in 5 minutes.  Then pop back to the world map and do another cycle of spotpass renown grinding.  When enough of your units are close to max stats try and start taking on Rogues and Redeemers 3 to get limit break for everyone and start getting luck to 50.  Once they are at 50 luck you can throw your ultimate bonus box weapons like book of naga and mjolnir on them and they will never break and you wont need to mess with their inventory ever again.  Try to be going back and forth this whole time too: do a few spotpass cycles, then grab a limit break skill, back and forth.  Once everyone has limit break on them go for capping every single stat on every unit.  This will take a while because some of them really dont want to get points of magic and/or resistance.  So back and forth now between cycles of spotpass and getting more dread scrolls and resetting levels to try to get that res.  Everytime one of my units maxed all stats I gave them a forged weapon to celebrate.  I ran out of characters to cap before I finished renown grinding so I then broke up my cycles running Infinite Regalia to try and get a ragnell for Ike and a second Gradivus for my second Bride.  By the time that was done, I had less than 20k renown to go, and so I was ready to buckle down and sprint to the finish line.  That last 20k wasnt even all that bad because I felt like only now was I really in a total grind, breaking up the monotony for the majority of the experience really helped make it more fun for me. Hopefully it makes it easier for you too!

Step 7: !!!VERY IMPORTANT!!! Once you finish Renown grinding you need to beat the game on that save file or it wont carry over on new files!!!! So do that. It will be....very easy.

I dont expect it will take more than an hour. 

Once its over, congratulations! You are now W o r l d  R e n o w n!

[infuriatedleprechaun]

Aquarius could feel her body begin to relax and ease up as she watched them. This is what she hoped for, they get physically comfortable with each other and trusting, they could open up with each other.

Her eyes ended up following Leo for some reason. She was happy he was beginning to recover, she would be ready if he had a relapse, it tended to happen. They just needed support and friends, now if Inferna could pull her head from her ass too.

Speaking of which she was ruining the moment of peace between the brothers, their beautiful breakthrough. All the elementals were disrupting the peace, while the brothers were sharing something stunning, memories with each other, the elementals were releasing a little pent up anger. Mainly Inferna.

Clayshah had done a no handed cartwheel, feet slamming to the ground sending rocks up, and she would kick them at Inferna at high speeds, one even going through a palm tree as Inferna deflected it.

"You sand eating fuck head!" Came the angry roar as Inferna kicked Ariel out of the way, and attacked Clayshah at a strategic angle.

Despite her anger, inferna always used it to her advantage, when she lost her temper, she always remembers her objective and used it to her advantage. And then in her shit talking she usually made her enemy lose their temper then went for the kill, Aqua always made a note of that.

Inferna was taking the other two with some ease, she was made to take hits like Aqua was, but man did she give them just the same.

Inferna was going hard at Clayshah, beginning to overpower the shorter woman. Her blows were causing mini shockwaves in the sand sending the small particles flying in small waves.

Clayshah infamously took the pyro to the ground where Ariel was about to send one hell of a blow to her face, she broke a branch off the tree and sent it at high speeds towards the fire pusher. Inferna pushed Clayshah's head up, caught her throat with her calf, sending the short blonde flying back, completely losing her grip on the pin, inferna used the moment of her counter to sit up before fists could make it to her face. She then rolled off to the side and got back to her feet to catch more blows from the Aero.

"Weapons allowed" Aquarius said, totally taking a cheap shot on Inferna to knock her down a few pegs, the jab missed but Inferna didn't see the slash into her side until it was biting into her, a nice gouge.

"OH. SO THE FUCKING HYDRO NOT ONLY JOINS LATE AND CHEATS, SHE TAKES A CHEAP SHOT ARENT YOUR VALUES SUPPOSED TO BE HONOR AND STRATEGY?" roared the angry pyro. She was seeing red and going hard at the second tank of the team.

"That was strategy, and you know damn well there's no honor in war. Especially with the villains we fight" Aquarius answered as she blocked now weapon blows with her own sword.

Inferna blocked sword slashes with her blade but she was also moving to dodge Ariel and Clay. It was low key tank training at this point but going hard at that isnt what the turtles needed to see. So they were refraining with certain hits at the moment.

@darkness-to-redemption

Opposites Attract

[fursuit-tutorials]

what do i use to cut the foam?? scissors make it too unpredictable (like u think u cut it right but then u release it and poof its back to an unwanted shape) and my japanese knives arent doing anything

Well simply you use cutters and exacto knifes. They are cheap  and easy to get. if the blade gets dull you just break the first part away or exchange the whole blade and continue your work. 

[kitchencadaver]

My magic secret powder for "meatier" burgers and quick cheeses with real depth to them.

My local supermarkets arent exactly the type to stock something as *cough* exotic as fresh shiitake mushrooms, but in the foreign food aisle (yes, aisle, singular. Not even a whole one) there are packets of dried mushrooms for you to rehydrate at your convenience, but this time we're going to skip the soaking step altogether and use them fresh out of the packet. If you're an overachiever you can dry your own mushrooms, and while I think any type would work here, varieties with a "meaty" flavour will obviously work best.

Turning them into powder is as simple as putting them into your pointy bladed machine of choice and blitzing them until you get yourself a container full of powder. I use a (cheap) food processor, but I've seen success from blenders and plan on trying a coffee grinder at some point to see just how fine I can get it.

Some tips:

If you want completely uniform powder you might have to set aside a few more minutes. The dry mushrooms are so light that they tend to fly around the machine, so you often end up with a mix of fine powder and very small pebbly pieces.

The larger pieces can be off-putting in cheeses and sauces, so if you still find yourself with some in your final product, shake your container gently side to side. The larger pieces will remain on top while the smaller ones fall to the bottom. Then you can easily scoop up the larger pieces and save these for things like burgers where chunks won't be a problem.

Be careful opening the lid to your machine! That powder is fine and it goes EVERYWHERE. You will probably inhale some of it, but don't worry, things are just gunna smell funny for a few minutes and then you'll be fine.

Add only a little at a time. I start with a teaspoon or less, because it's very easy to add more but very hard to make your dish taste like anything else once you've hit peak mushroom saturation.

Store in an airtight container in a coolish place, out of sunlight and away from moisture and it'll keep just about forever.