I will second Durock V2s and TX AP/Rev3 or rev4 stabs. If you use TX make sure you use the "plugs" - the little wheel of snap-off bell-shaped pieces that hold the stab in from behind since they do not screw in.
Also double check your PCB thickness, 1.2mm vs. 1.6mm and make sure you get the right size.
Transistor - really any Supergiant game, but Transistor in particular.
The friends we still see/talk to were about half formed before I left school and half newly found through a post looking to form a D&D group in the new city we moved to. We aren't in to the bar scene at all. Most of my coworkers have kids - the younger ones who don't have similar interests but I just don't seem to hang out with them. The ones with kids never have time for anything, only the most well-off ones with stay-at-home partners even have hobbies to speak of. It's depressing.
Best option seems to sniff out the spaces dedicated to your area online. Subreddits, Facebook groups, and then see if you can find local events happening that are related to your interests, or other people looking to meet up, hang out, play games you like, etc. I'm not religious but I know a lot of people swear by meeting friends through church or church-related groups.
Also the source is literally the Mormon church lmao
I think Linus is convinced that if they slow down at all, the entire company will collapse because they've grown so huge. They also ran up huge debt to build the Labs which will not start generating revenue for a long time.
Linus has been sticking his foot in his mouth often enough that it's starting to develop in to the persona he thinks he needs to/is supposed to have. The WAN Show is pretty much the only LTT content I care to watch anymore, but it has become increasingly common over the last ~year or more that he has a spicy take that gets embroiled in some mild controversy. But now he's like "well this is the part of the show where I have spicy takes" and is almost actively looking to do it. I see Luke becoming increasingly frustrated with it too. Stepping down as CEO is probably the right call, but this move to "CVO" seems a little too lateral. I think Linus needs to pull back out of the spotlight, for the health of his company. But I really think he thinks his personality is the brand.
He likes and wants to be on camera, and he knows a ton from years in the industry, but I wonder if he wouldn't be better as like... chief script advisor who also teaches other employees tips and tricks on how to compose videos, stage scenes, manage the flow of content, where to splice in B roll, how to read the weave of the youtube algorithm... They've grown remarkably, and I like what Linus states is the goal of the Labs project. But I worry he's both becoming increasingly convinced his personality is an important part of the channel cachet, and also increasingly impulsive with regards to making decisions and spending money in an effort to go fast.
Nice! I just picked up my first Sailor pen (Profit Black Luster) and the trim is very pretty. Enjoying the 21k nib quite a bit.
Looks like it is basically not changed. I downloaded the data and compared it against US population census data from https://population.un.org/wpp/
| Year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 (forecasted) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suicides | 4.834x10^4 | 4.751x10^4 | 4.598x10^4 | 4.818x10^4 | 4.945x10^4 | 5.029x10^4 |
| Population | 3.321x10^8 | 3.343x10^8 | 3.359x10^8 | 3.370x10^8 | 3.383x10^8 | 3.400x10^8 |
| Rate per 100k | 14.6 | 14.2 | 13.7 | 14.3 | 14.6 | 14.8 |
If anything it dipped during the pandemic and is returning to "normal" (although I can't see before 2018).
Quality of knock-off brands like Jinhao and Wing Sung is going to be pretty universally shit. You can usually buy a handful and one will be at least decent though.
One thing you could check - any moisture present in the cap can tend to draw more moisture out of the pen. You could dry rinsing and then thoroughly drying (Q-tip, compressed air, whatever) the inside of the cap, dab the section and nib to make sure it's fully clean, let it dry for a bit (you can shield the nib from air with a cloth to keep it from fully drying out) and then try writing with it and capping it again to see if it sorts itself. If not it might just be way too wet and dumping ink in the cap, or you're knocking the pen around too much causing ink to leak from the feed. This is all of course assuming it's otherwise properly tuned.
I've only played D&D for a couple years and don't have extensive experience with githyanki lore but my impression is they're not so much bent on genociding other races as they are exterminating the mind-flayers that enslaved, tortured, and fed on them. Everything about the structure of their society and their philosophy on the value of life hinges around that. They became hyper militaristic - only the strongest and most capable are valued. They seem to regard other races as largely weaker or simply unworthy/uninteresting, but aren't looking to kill or subjugate them, they're just irrelevant.
I'm only ~near the end of Act 2, but Laezel's development has been some of my favorite stuff about the second act.