Hi, I was looking at playing this Nikki game and had some questions I can’t seem to find any detailed answers for.

1. As a former Love Nikki Player, I remember Facebook was the best binding option for free Dias. Would that be the same in Shining Nikki or would it be ok to do one of the others? (Never liked FB tbh)
   
2. I know general rule of thumb when it comes to these games is that new players should choose the most recent server, is that also the case with Shining Nikki?
   

A main one they'll probably nerf is the new dragon (I mean have you seen what gragas can do because of it) and most likely immortal shieldbow. I don't think they would nerf champions too hard because if anything I think it's due to the items for adcs. Although if they do decide to nerf champions I'm betting it's on the early game champions since the game is now quicker.

Hello! As of today my dog has to stay with me again due to unforseen circumstances. (She was previously with a friend due to my living circumstances) The place I live in now has 7 other dogs that my roommates keep. Of those dogs 3 have been aggressive in the past. One of them had bitten me trying to get to my dog a couple years ago. My dog is a female German Shepard; overall well behaved but her recall when her dogs display aggression is lacking. The current plan is to confine my dog to the room I rent and ensure their dogs are put up from the commons when I go to take her outside or on walks. I'm really worried that if my dog slips out of my room we are looking at a major fight. I don't have the ability to board my dog (crazy expensive) nor do I have the ability to change my living situation. What steps can I take to ensure the safety of all dogs involved? What gear or items should I invest in? Any tips overall? I have a harness that stays on my dog 24/7 just in case there is a fight, an air horn (I read that can maybe help dogs separate) and my dog is kennel trained but I have no kennel right now. Any wisdom you could share would be of great assistance!
TLDR: Moving my dog into a semi hostile environment with 7 other dogs that aren't mine. How do I keep the peace?

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I bought an item from a seller for a decent amount of money. It had been almost a week since I bought it and hadn’t recieved any information about it being shipped. I’m new to Mercari and didn’t have the app so I couldn’t message the seller. Today I check on it and see it was canceled so I downloaded the app to see if they said anything as to why. Yesterday they messaged me and said they apologize but left the state right before I bought the item but could ship it when they got back. This was only a day ago and I tried to respond but the app wont let me send a message. I went onto their page to see if I could message them through a different product as they had many last time I checked, and it showed they had 0 items for sale. I’m confused. Did they block me? I’m really interested in buying their item but now I can’t get a hold of them. Any advice?

I'm new to the game and I love it, but I haven't played similar games so far so I'm confused by all the item upgrades.
My first problem is I have no idea what each engraving does (for example, what does CRIT even mean?), but I kind of wing that one and just add something that sounds cool lol.
However, I also have a doubt as to whether to even upgrade an item or not. What happens often is that I spend a LOT of resources to upgrade and engrave, and a few levels later, I get the item which has better damage (for example) without any upgrades. So of course I take the new one and the old one seems like such a waste.
Can someone more experienced please advice on this? Do you just stick with one item for a long time without exhanging it with the new one or what?

Crossbow, Foot Pinner
Weapon (Any Crossbow), Requires Attunement
Rarity: Rare
This magical crossbow is enchanted to shoot bolts that hinder the movement of your targets. The weapon has 6 charges, and regains 1d6 charges each morning.
Before shooting a bolt, you may expend one charge. If the following attack hits a creature, the bolt will pierce one of the creatures limbs and pin them to the floor, wall, or other immediately adjacent surface. While they are pinned to the surface their movement is reduced to 0, and they cannot use that limb. The closest limb to the surface must be targeted, and if there are multiple viable limbs you can choose which you target (e.g. if you target a standing man, you can pin either foot to the floor, while if the man is against a wall you can target either arm or leg. You couldn't pin a person's hand to the floor unless they were in a position with their hands near or on the floor).
The creature can use an action to carefully remove the bolt (causing no additional harm), or they can quickly pull it out as an object interaction (taking 2d6 damage). It takes a full round to remove the bolt carefully (no additional damage), or it can be pulled out quickly dealing an additional 1d6 damage. The bolt can bear 600 pounds before being torn out of a surface.
Very large creatures may be immune to the pinning effect, and flying creatures are immune to being pinned unless they are immediately adjacent to surface to which they could be pinned.

Don’t they seem insanely underpowered for a rare item? They require attunement, and all they have to offer is:

• Not Being Surprised, so…the less interesting half of the alert feat?
• Not Having to Eat or Drink; cool flavor wise, but unless you’re running a survival campaign, it’s probably not that big of a deal.
• Plus 1 to AC. You know what else does this? Cloak of Protection. And it’s Uncommon. AND it gives you a boost to saving throws.
• Storing Up to a Third Level Spell Slot. This one is by far the best one, but it’s still overshadowed by items like the Wand of Fireballs and the Wand of Paralysis.

Not to mention they come with a crazy weakness! They’re (as far as I recall) the only magic item an enemy can target! They can just get knocked off your head for 10 damage (20 with resistances).
Am I missing something? Please, sound off!

HEADS UP: long ass post warning so if you can't be bothered to read, see TLDR at the bottom.
So there's been a lot of discussion on here about whether or not adding the token was inevitable. Whether this is all the "player's fault" (an absurd claim imo) and what Blizz could've done instead.
So let's, for arguments sake, assume for a second that finding/banning people who buy gold, and fighting RMT in general is "impossible", like Blizz claims.
I was having this discussion with some friends today, and I believe we came up with a pretty good way to pretty much fix Classic, using only GAME DESIGN. (You should try this sometime Blizz ;))
So the basic idea is this: GDKP's are causing a lot of grief, because they inherently promote and incentivize RMT, resulting in more bots/goldfarmers, which in turn results in all sorts of nasty side effects (such as inflation, etc.)
HOWEVER: they do have some really legitimate benefits: older content stays relevant for much longer, as carries run old content to farm gold. It promotes players of all kinds of experience and gear levels to play together. Higher geared players are incentivized to play with "noobs" because there are benefits in it for them too: lots of gold.
When you take a step back and really look at this, why do people want so much gold to begin with?

• Gold can be used as a buyer in other GDKP's, or to gear up alts in GDKP's (this is arguably the biggest demand for gold)
• Gold can be used for consumables / to cover raid expenses.
• Gold can be used to make life for alts easier (train new skills, buy mounts + riding, level professions, ...)

The question is, can these problems be solved without gold? I believe the answer is yes.
What if: instead of fighting GDKP's, we integrate them firmly into the core game instead. Now don't start raging just yet.

• The first part of the solution is a new loot mode, let's call it "UDKP" or (Universal DKP or whatever). It functions the exact same way as a GDKP, except it is integrated into the game's UI like the need/greed buttons. An item drops, you have some time to bid for it using the in-game UI. When bidding ends, the item goes directly from the bosses corpse into the inventory to the player's inventory and is made untradable immediatily after.
• Ofcourse just doing this changes nothing. Therefore, the second part of the solution is a new currency, let's again call it UDKP, or perhaps something more blizzlike, "Platinum" perhaps. Platinum can ONLY be earned by killing raid bosses when the UDKP loot mode is enabled. (And perhaps, can even be given in small bonus amounts from doing heroic dungeons or other endgame activities, etc.)The big difference between Gold and Platinum is that Platinum cannot be traded. But it can be sent to alts (more on that later.)

This ofcourse creates a new issue: how do you make people actually WANT platinum? If it is useless outside of UDKP runs, people won't do them and GDKP's will still prevail.
To make Platinum an attractive currency, I propose to accept it as payment method for almost every NPC-offered service in the game. Yes this is a huge change with big implications. For example, in addition to gold, Platinum can now be used for the following:

• Purchasing mounts + riding skill
• Learning new skills & respeccing + learning dual spec
• Learning new profession recipes
• Maybe even have vendors that sell herbs & ores for platinum. This way, "raid expenses" (aka consumables) can be covered by Platinum as well. Not only that, but excess Platinum can be converted into gold this way by selling these on the auction house. (For those familiar with OSRS, this is kind of similar to buying "herb boxes" with NMZ points and then selling the herbs on the GE.)

To make Platinum even more attractive:

• Add vendors with exclusive (cosmetic?) items that can ONLY be purchased with platinum (mounts, tabards, ...)
• Maybe even certain exclusive enchanting (or other profession) recipes.

The main point is, if you can make Platinum attractive enough so that players actually want it, players will start to prefer UDKP over the gold-based GDKP's, and GDKP's will die naturally.
Ofcourse, there is a BIG caveat: what effect will this have on the existing economy, which revolves solely around gold? Short answer: There will be less demand for gold. (if these changes are implemented properly atleast.) Because Platinum now covers most of the "mandatory" things that gold does, with some additional extra's. Technically you could now play the game with 0 copper.
And honestly, that's probably not even a bad thing. Less demand for gold means less incentive to RMT, which means less bots & less cheating. This pretty much remedies all of the game's problems at once, without having to resort to banning.
That being said, gold will always retain some of its value because it is the only way for players to buy/sell to eachother. There's also BoE's and crafting professions and stuff like that which will make sure gold stays in some demand atleast. But it will be more of a "luxury" currency. Average Joe won't need a lot of gold to play the game.
I'm interested to hear what holes you guys will poke in this. There are probably things I didn't think about that makes this whole thing actually not viable at all.
Last thing I want to say is: I'm under no illusion that this post will be taken seriously by Blizz (or indeed most people on here), if they will even see it at all. The point of this post is more to illustrate that there WERE alternative paths that could've been taken or at least explored. Even IF enforcing the game rules is "impossible". That it's not "all the communities' fault" for playing the game the way it is. And that, if Blizzard had been willing to put in some effort, this entire situation could have been perfectly avoided.
This is just one example of a potential solution, that took about an hour to come up with and 20 minutes to write down in a reddit post. Now imagine you have a whole team of designers who can spend their entire days coming up with stuff like this. And on top of that, can actually prototype it into the game and have access to internal testing/QA to see if it actually works. Wouldn't that be something.
Aight, peace.
---------------TLDR---------------
GDKP's have legitimate benefits. Instead of fighting them, integrate them into the core game, but in a way that makes RMT impossible:

• Introduce new loot mode: "UDKP", works exactly like GDKP but supported by built-in UI.
• Instead of bidding with gold, you bid with "Platinum", a new currency, which works exactly like DKP.
  • Platinum is untradable, but can be sent between alts
  • There is no way, direct or indirect, to convert from gold into Platinum. It MUST be earned by defeating bosses. (Or other endgame activities.)
  • To make it attractive as a currency, Platinum can be used, in addition to gold, to purchase many (if not most) of the services in the game offered by NPC's, e.g.:
    • Respeccing, learning dual spec
    • Learning new spells, learning skills (such as Riding)
    • Purchasing mounts (the standard ones also offered for gold)
    • Learning/training profession recipes
    • Platinum-only vendors with exclusive (cosmetic?) items such as mounts & tabards
    • Platinum-only vendors offering herbs & ores in exchange for plat (like buying "herb boxes" for NMZ points in OSRS)
  • Because Platinum can be sent to alts, you can carry UDKP runs on your main, then go into other runs with your alt as a buyer to gear them up fast, just like with GDKP's.
• Expected result (?): Platinum becomes a highly demanded currency, demand for gold decreases as platinum now covers most if not all of the "mandatory" stuff in the game. Less demand for gold => less incentive to RMT => less bots. Because the only way most effective way to get Plat is by doing raids, doing old raids on your main (a big benefit of GDKPs) now becomes EVEN MORE attractive.

Looking forward to people tearing this to shreds haha

Hello, everybody,
I am writing some code and took a moment to make a repl with odd examples of ways to bind to nested objects.
I am still learning svelte, I am aware of how to do it correctly. But, I am working with nested nodes, in a tree, I can't use the $store auto subscriptions. And in this lite program of mine, I don't want to create lots of files. Because then I have to pass things around, and svelte code becomes as complex as everything else.
I post this public domain code in hopes of helping someone metaprogram some non-production code, and more importantly as an example of using .subscribe.
I hope to show that manually subscribing to stores it is not too scary.
https://svelte.dev/repl/61bf61c2d864443588f302640a06c5f7?version=3.59.1
Thank You.

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Hello HWS!
Planning a trip so I'm looking to get a bit of extra cash at the moment. Timestamps and multiple pictures are provided for each item.
Each item will be shipped for free, and I'm flexible on the prices. I'm local to DFW (76140), so if you're in the area I'd much rather just meet in person and give you a better price so neither of us have to deal with shipping and PayPal fees. Plus I need to leave the house more lol
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RX 6700 XT XFX SWFT309	Bought this around a year ago for a friends build, never ended up using it so I have been using it since Sept. 2022 for purely gaming. Swapped to an older, slower GPU since I don't game as much nowadays	$280 Shipped OBO
Ryzen 5 3600	Also bought it for friend's build but never used it. Has been sitting in its holder for around a year. I don't have the original box or stock fan	$70 Shipped OBO
Crucial Ballistix 2x8 GB 3200 MHz CL16 DDR4 (Micro E-Die)	Very good RAM. I managed to overclock these sticks to 3600CL16 and used it for a very long time. I upgraded to 32 GB though so I don't use these anymore	$40 Shipped OBO
Microsoft Surface Book 2 i3 7300u 8GB RAM 256GB SSD Windows 11 Home	Was girlfriend's but she gave it to me for school. Unfortunately it is too slow for the stuff I do so I have not used it for a while. It is not in the greatest condition ever, but it is 100% functional and the battery is surprisingly still very good. I do not have a Surface Pen	$210 Shipped OBO
Xbox Elite Series 2 Controller	Contains all of the original accessories and box. It is in a fantastic condition, however the warranty is expired. Minimal stick drift	$90 Shipped OBO
Cooler Master MasterKeys S Cherry MX Blue 80% Keyboard	My first mechanical keyboard which I haven't used for a long time. The keyboard still functions perfectly, however the keycaps are noticeably worn. Has some O-Rings installed which can easily be removed	$45 Shipped OBO

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I admire the effort put on mods like Anomaly/Dead AiCoC, caring up to ridiculous extremes for almost every detail (crafting-repairing-cooking) and aiming for the game to be more immersive and blablabla... and then... there's a single detail they missed: you go to sleep... wearing your exo and your backpack. No closet next to your bed (when sleeping indoors).
On the other hand, modders dedicate years to develop zillions of spares simply to repair your Fort12. Weird huh?
My gameplaying is mostly reduced to kill, scavenge and sell as much as I can carry while doing missions. Do I feel hungry? There is bread in the backpack; Tourist delis are better paid... And so on. I make money to pay techs for repairs. A waste of time carrying greasy oil to lube the barrel of my gun.
I stick to my FN2000 and a Protecta as secondary weapon. All the rest for me is superfluous and hope to be well paid by traders.
Just that... I can understand the dedication to create so many items than most players will never use but it's not for me. I prefer the FPS side of the game rather than the RPG.
It is only my opinion... Nothing again Anomaly and similar mods... They managed to turn a buggy but amazing game to something beautiful because a huge community full of creativity and ideas.
Just I think the goal to make it that immersive and closer to reality (if you like) has gone a bit out of hand.

2000 -
Beat [Jet Set Radio] (June 29th) Waluigi [Mario Tennis] (July 21st) Vyse [Skies of Arcadia] (October 5th) Saki Amamiya [Sin & Punishment] (November 21st)
2001-
Conker [Conker's Bad Fur Day[ (March 5th) Villager [Animal Crossing] (April 14th) Aiai [Super Monkey Ball] (June 23rd) Isaac [Golden Sun] (August 1st) Dante [Devil May Cry] (August 23rd) Phoenix Wright [Ace Attorney] (October 12th) Olimar [Pikmin] (October 28th) Master Chief [Halo: Combat Evolved] (November 15th) Jak & Daxter [Jak & Daxter The Precursor Legacy] (December 3rd)
2002 -
Demille [Tomato Adventure] (January 25th) Sora [KINGDOM HEARTS] (March 28th) Roy [Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade] (March 29th) Mega Man Zero [Mega Man Zero] (April 26th) Shantae [Shantae] (June 2nd) Bowser Jr. [Super Mario Sunshine] (July 19th) Sly Cooper [Sly Cooper] (September 23rd) Blinx [Blinx the Time Sweeper] (October 8th) Ratchet & Clank [Ratchet & Clank] (November 4th) Sam Fisher [Splinter Cell] (November 17th) Dark Samus [Metroid Prime] (November 18th) Toon Link [The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker (December 13th)
2003 -
Axl [Mega Man X7] (July 17th] Lloyd Irving [Tales of Symphonia] (August 29th) Billy Hatcher [Billy Hatcher & The Giant Egg] (September 23rd)
2004 -
Zero Suit Samus (February 9th) Estelle Bright [The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky] (June 24th) Quote [Cave Story] (December 20th)
2005 -
Raz [Psychonauts] (April 19th) Ike [Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance] (April 20th) Chibi-Robo [Chibi-Robo] (June 23rd)
2006 -
Lucas [Mother 3] (April 20th) Lucario [Pokemon Diamond & Pearl] (September 28th) Mii Fighters [Mii Channel] (November 19th)
2007 -
Neku Sakuraba [The World Ends With You] (July 26th) The Heavy [Team Fortress 2] (October 10th) Geralt [The Witcher] (October 26th) Rosalina & Luma [Super Mario Galaxy] (November 1st) Altaïr [Assassins Creed] (November 13th) Travis Touchdown [No More Heroes] (December 6th)
2008 -
Sackboy [Little Big Planet] (October 27th)
2009 -
Hatsune Miku [Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA] (July 2nd) Bayonetta [Bayonetta] (October 29th)

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What is your intended use for this build? The more details the better.
I'm looking to upgrade my personal gaming/(light) 3d-modeling computer. I was initially looking to upgrade my CPU, but that requires a MOBO, cooler, and RAM upgrade too, so those are the parts I'm focusing on here.
If gaming, what kind of performance are you looking for? (Screen resolution, framerate, game settings)
My primary screen resolution is 1920x1080. I'm shooting for the higher end of most games. I'm hoping to get good FPS on a heavily-modded instance of Rimworld, for example. Emulating on Ryujinx without frame drops would also be nice. RE4 remake at mid-high settings is already doable with what I have, so if that improves then that would be good as well. Fast turn turnaround would be nice for games like Total War: Warhammer III would be good, as well as good battle performance.
From what I understand about CPUs, I think this will do the job. I went a little overboard on the cooler, but if I can reasonably downgrade that without sacrificing on cooling power and noise then I'm open to that.
For reference, my previous CPU is an i7-4790K.
What is your budget (ballpark is okay)?
Hoping to keep it <$1000.
In what country are you purchasing your parts? The US.
PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	Intel Core i7-13700K 3.4 GHz 16-Core Processor	$415.99 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler	Noctua NH-D12L 60.09 CFM CPU Cooler	$89.95 @ Amazon
Motherboard	MSI MAG Z790 TOMAHAWK WIFI ATX LGA1700 Motherboard	$249.99 @ Newegg
Memory	G.Skill Flare X5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL36 Memory	$98.00 @ Amazon
Video Card	MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Gaming X12G GeForce RTX 3060 12GB 12 GB Video Card	Already own
Case	Corsair Carbide Series 200R ATX Mid Tower Case	Already own
Power Supply	Rosewill HIVE 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply	Already own
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total for new parts	$853.93