In a lot of countries (Northern Hemisphere) Summer is the holiday season, but that has never been my experience in the US. So it might not be as strange from that perspective.

Oh no sorry. It has creators and users that business model you described afaik. There are some creators on Nebula that are also on YouTube. Nebula is not a program to watch stuff on YouTube

Nebula does this. I really like the platform except there aren't comments. Sometimes I like reading the comments on a video

Oh apologies! There are a lot of event chains all over the Orr maps (Southern Tyria). You can most likely run around those maps and constantly find events. The temple meats are chained events as well

Not sure what level of content you’re looking for and what reason, but I’ll give it a go. The Heart of Thorns maps (apart from Dragon’s Stand) all follow the “event chain” model. You can see the tower icons on the map to find where the event currently going is. After you complete a chain, there are normally a few more harder events afterwards. I’m not sure I’d consider them fast if the goal was just number of events. This is also true for the “mini zones” in the SotO maps. There’s an event in Thunderhead Peaks (in one of the puzzle rooms) to kill 1 elite that can be spammed over and over again (easy way to finish the Return To achievement)

It really affects new players like you’re saying. As a long time player with stacks of XP books, I didn’t notice it. I imagine for players who want to get to max ASAP, it’s nice. For players who like the grind and want to compete a map before moving on, it might feel a bit strange to level so fast. I think with level scaling, it probably doesn’t make too much of a negative for anyone.

I’ve enjoyed it so far… Maybe I’m not being as analytical as you, but for $25 I’ve gotten a lot of enjoyment so far.

Ya, feed trolling is often the source of a lot of stress and outrage. It’s designed that way

That’s awesome!! Thanks mids and Penguin :)

Disclaimer: living in USA. I used to doom scroll a lot a few years ago… What helped me was initially leaving the feeds (head in the sand as you say), but this was not a good permanent solution. Since then, I have done a few things that have helped (your mileage may vary depending on what you’re trying to stay informed about). The first and easiest was to switch how I was getting my news. Now, I will get international news from different country’s sources (ie:https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/world-int.html or https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world). I’ll swap up which one I go to each day normally. It’s interesting seeing world news from different perspectives. If I find a story that is particularly interesting, I’ll look more into it. Secondly, I believe it is often more important to be aware of your local news than anything. To that end, I follow quite a few local sources of news. Most are hinted with my interests (urbanist improvements, community meetings, local discord servers), but some are more general. Also, I listen to a few podcasts not aimed at news, but as a queer person consuming queer media I occasionally hear things I didn’t know. Promptly, I might look into it more. My motto is if something sounds really crazy, it’s probably being misconstrued. You’re never going to be informed on everything, but if you want to get less biased news, there are ways. Hope some of this helps in any way

Not to add to your fears, but wisdom teeth surgery is also where a lot of people first interact with prescription pain medication. Depending on your situation and doctor, you can receive anything from higher strength ibuprofen or Tylenol to Percosets. Try to be mindful of how powerful pain medication is and if you can have someone you trust with you it’s even better. Overall, it’s not a very scary procedure and you’ll be fine :)

That wasn’t 20th Century was it? Unless there’s another one I’m not remembering. Gigantic was an absolute blast and I’m still a bit surprised it died.

I appreciate all the responses! I think we just need to be firm when asking to bag. Often, there isn’t a bagger so my partner will start (he used to work at a Target so he’s pretty quick and particular), and an employee will come over and take over even if he insists he would prefer to bag.

Thank you for linking this!! I’m so so excited for a return of Zojja! I really hope the story lives up

Definitely feels like something I’ll have to get my hands on before I judge it too much. The fact that they stated there isn’t a FOMO mechanic to it is good. As someone who played the previous two WOW expansions, I hope it feels nothing like them.

I didn’t know they stuck around if you upgraded. That’s awful lol

Not OP, but as someone who uses discord every day, I think I can speak to the general criticism. Discord has way more bloat than what is needed by most out of a communications program. They’ve continued to add “features” that a lot of the user base doesn’t really care about, but take up visual space and operating space. Discord Nitro ads are also on the list of criticisms as it’s nearly constant. I love having a place to easily interact with communities I care about, but if somehow a less “noisy” alternative came along and everyone I care about moved (lol), I’d change in a heartbeat and uninstall discord.