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Howdy there all! I am an experienced DM of 8 years now, player of 10 years. I've run and read multiple different systems like Zweihander, Stars Without Number, D&D 4e, and more, but this here game is about 5th Edition D&D. 5e falls flat in a lot of categories, but it's the best for finding players. This game will be in mostly vanilla 5e, but I'll be making home-brew magic items, monsters, and abilities. My favorite fantasy is the classic d20 fantasy. Fighting Dragons & Archliches. Crawling through old dungeons and learning about the history of the world. My specific setting is a Country referred to as "The Grand Theocracy of Cor'Quessir", a sudo-germanic inspired land (mostly for the naming convention & social structure excluding how the government works).
Magic is not rare per say, it's just a bit of a lost art. It takes a lot of time and dedication to really learn magic, and most people aren't born luck like the mage-blooded sorcerers. And the idea of selling souls is a bit taboo as well. The local Blacksmith might have a +1 longsword for show, but it's really more of an attraction than anything else. Sure it's for sale, but nobody has every been able to afford it with the steep price tag. The peasants speak of a secretive old man that lives in a nearby tower, they whisper tales of him conjuring Fae to do his bidding, scribing arcane scrolls that nary a few mortal eyes may see. Respect goes a long way as lords and ladies expect to be referred to properly and respectfully. Some are more in touch with their towns than others.
You however, you have taken up residence in the town of Kleinstadt. A small out of the way village that sees very little conflict aside from farmers feuding over who has better produce. Most everyone knows each other. Bechtold, the local blacksmith. Mostly, he makes horse shoes and nails, but not long ago an order came from the Emperor themself declaring all smithies meet a certain quota of swords by the winter solstice or lose their guild rank. Supposedly, Cor'Quessir is on the brink of war with it's neighbor Vaedyl. But that is big politics, and little of it concerns you right now. What *does* concern you however is the rumors sweeping the town. A town over, a man killed a merchant in his own store over a squabble when suddenly the streets grew misty. A shaded figure, garbed in red robes appeared. He was flanked by his minions, their backs hunched, bodies covered in burlap. They took the body and dropped something into the mans hands, exchanging words. He then returned to the mist as it lifted. The Merchant and mysterious figures, gone without a trace.
You hear the other farmers and miners of Kleinstadt whispering about this over their drinks this evening, excited for some new gossip. But what about you? Maybe you're just a farmer or miner. Maybe an apprentice blacksmith or a member of another guild. Maybe you're a mercenary. Whatever you are, you crave more. But why? You have a place to rest. You get a meal each dawn and dusk. Why does the world call to you?
This is gonna be a modular campaign. So I'll be running "seasons" and we'll take a short break between seasons (maybe 2 weeks). Each season will be a full story, but they will all connect to each other. The end of each season will be neat points to change characters, or give you a good point to say "That was fun, but I think I'm good for a while." and leave the game. (you are ofc welcome to leave whenever you like if you do not feel like the game is to your liking or style)
I hope the hook has done it's job! If it has you'll be wondering what I need from you so we can talk about you joining the game. I want to first say that this game won't be starting for another 4 weeks, Session 0 taking place on June 12th or 19th. Session 0 will be setting ground rules. That shouldn't take long, so I'll also have content prepared to run if everyone wants that. There will be 4 players total. I am looking for anyone 18 and older. While my game is not going to be explicit, and I discourage any talk of the sort, I don't want to play with young kids. So, what do I need from you?

• Name, Age, & preferred pronouns (Ben, 21, He/they)
  
• Experience with TTRPG's & 5e specifically (10 years with 5e, some with other systems)
  
• Your favorite role to fill in a D&D party (Leader, Defender, Striker, Controller)
  
• Your favorite TTRPG experience, and your most distasteful TTRPG experience
  

-What is your favorite bit of media? It could be a book, movie, game, etc.
I'll read the applications as they come in. You can message me on discord, you should be able to find me as "the_retro_jedi". You can also apply here in the comments, or in messages on reddit. Anything is fine.
Any official content that was released TCE & back is accepted. Anything that is post TCE needs permission. The power scale between early & modern 5e is very different. Home-brew classes & subclasses are probably not allowed. But you can always ask. Home-brew races are more acceptable. I'm also very down with making custom backgrounds. I have a few home-brew rules as well, but they are for the benefit of the player exclusively.
Applications close June 1st 5:00pm CST. After you apply I will read it when I as soon as possible. We'll talk a bit and if we vibe we can do a voice call at some point. Anyone who I vibe with over the voice call will be added to the list of potential players. Everyone will be given a yes or no by June 8th at 5:00pm. Things might conclude before then. Good luck! I look forward to applications, and I'm excited to run this game.

Dream and Fire aspects
Rather than creating dream-fires - fires which burn Dreams, burning the mind, causing mental anguish, loss of memories and cognitive functions; it creates fire-dreams - Dreams that spread like fire, allowing for the creation of illusions on a grand scale, hallucinations that ensnare new victims by jumping to the next target; and granting the Sacred Artist themselves near inexhaustible Dream aura, an unshackled mind, memory like a vast library.
Madra ranges from magenta to fuchsia in colour, vibrancy varies. Fire and Dream madra aren't perfectly compatible, and so are difficult to mix together, requires a specialized Cycling Technique or a third madra type compatible with both. Cycling this madra tends to make people feel mentally energetic, curious and passionate.
Radiant Mind Remnants tend to grant Goldsigns which take the form of the eyes of the newly advanced Gold's eyes changing colour, becoming violet, acquiring an otherworldly depth and glow, faceted like a gemstone. Depending on the strength of the Remnant, can even grant more eyes.
Techniques
All their techniques incorporate Ruler elements, utilising Dream aura in addition to their madra.
Forger
Falselight Lamp: Their illusion creation technique has a significantly greater range than most other illusion Paths, allowing them to create vast illusory terrains even at lower levels of advancement. The Path also offers greater fidelity of the images produced by it. Like a torch can be used to ignite another torch, so long as you can hold a proper image of the object or creature in your mind (facilitated by the Path's Dream aura enrichment), you can duplicate its appearance relatively easily compared to most other illusion Paths, as well as any other sensory feature such as touch, sound, smell or taste if you can recall it, at higher levels. The illusions produced can act independently to some degree, or rather they need less direct control, only some direction; whatever you create copies your own impression of the thing you created, so whatever you think a bird does, your fake bird can do, this also means that this effect is restricted to creating illusions of actual animals you've observed (but people and sapient Sacred Beasts get more complicated because of their intelligence).
Paths of Dream and Light offer better fidelity across all the senses, fooling them all, and Paths of Dreams and Shadow offer more autonomous illusions as well as reducing the skill threshold for copying reality into illusions, but this Path offers a happy medium and its techniques be developed further if you so desire. Radiant Mind artists can learn to perceive through their illusions at higher stages of advancement, which further increases the effective range that they can operate at. They can set inconspicuous illusory items within their zone and peer through them to scout / scry / spy on their chosen target.
Striker
Spreading Flame: bolt of madra that causes hallucinations that spread from target to target, actively seeking out new minds and ensnaring them in a shared imaginary world. Draws Dream aura from its victims to sustain itself.
They can shoot dream-fire bolts of a sort, but their madra isn't suited for it. Their dream-fires would be illusory, generally dealing no damage. They'd have to learn to create fires that cause mental, physical and/or spiritual anguish, though it'd be relatively inefficient compared to a Path more suited towards producing dream-fires. It'd be easier to create illusory flames that cause pain but don't cause any actual physical burns, physical damage would be possible via flames conjured from Fire aura, spiritual damage would be the most difficult to achieve on this Path.
Enforcer
Brightburn: Mental enforcement technique that empowers and rapidly burns through their reserves of Dream aura in order to accelerate their perception and mental processing speed, (essentially giving them bullet time). It's mostly focused on enhanced mental speed, it does have a physical component made possible due to having Fire aspect but it isn't all that strong because of the focus of their madra mixture, and their spiritual speed is something they'd have to train on their own. Nonetheless, having more time to make decisions can be of immense value in any field or pursuit - martial or scholarly.
Ruler
Lighthouse: Their pure Ruler technique is what their Path is known for, allows them to "ignite" other people's Dream aura - not literally, it's a boost not an attack. Granting their allies enhanced perception speed, mental processing, memory and analytical ability. Powerful artists can even allow telepathic communication, something normally restricted to Archlords and above.
Jade Cycling Technique
Maw of the Tiger: Cycling Technique focused on combining Dream with other aspects including ones that would normally be incompatible with Dream, and improving the range at which the Dream Artist can operate, giving them increased stability of Striker projections and Forged constructs, as well as powerful aura resonance for Ruler techniques (these benefits only apply to Dream Paths specifically). It was originally created by the Silent Servants.
Iron Body
Lantern Wick Iron Body: an Iron Body designed by and for Fire artists whose Paths used Fire as a secondary aspect, making their madra unsuitable for powerful physical Enforcement techniques. Fire madra is still a requirement for this Iron Body. Consumes Fire madra to give more physical energy and speed. Chosen in this case to supplement the Brightburn technique on the physical side.

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Crownfall Treasure Chest 1 & 2 (Buy 3+ More at 10% / 6+ More at 20% / 9+ More at 30% discount)

Item	Quantity	Price	Type	Reserved
Owly Bear (URSA)	1	25$ or Items	Ultra Rare Treasure 2	Only ONE
Mocking Bird (Meepo)	4	20$ or Items	Very Rare Treasure 1	None
Ravencloak (Drow Ranger)	2	50$	Very Rare Treasure 2	Both Reserved
Whispering Wings (Silencer)	6	8$ or Items	Rare Treasure 1	None
Crown of the Condor (Wraith King)	6	8.5$ or Items	Rare Treasure 1	One Sold 5 Left
Thunderbird (Zeus)	5	7$ or Items	Rare Treasure 2	None
Birdfeed Bandit (Hood Wink)	4	8$ or Items	Rare Treasure 2	None
Blood Raven (Blood Seeker)	10	2.5$ or Items	Treasure 1	None
Tines of the Pyrexae (Jakiro)	8	2.5$ or Items	Treasure 1	None
Imperial Ember (Lina)	8	2.5$ or Items	Treasure 1	None
Designs of Ancient Druud (Disruptor)	8	2.5$ or Items	Treasure 1	None
Verdant Swarm (Nature Prophet)	8	2.5$ or Items	Treasure 1	None
Phalanx of the Bronze Eagle (Legion Commander -LC)	8	2.5$ or Items	Treasure 1	None
Raven of Ristul (Queen of Pain)	8	2.5$ or Items	Treasure 1	None
Eyes in the Endless Dark (Shadow Shaman)	8	2.5$ or Items	Treasure 1	One Reserved
Crystalline Crown (Ancient Apparition)	6	2.5$ or Items	Treasure 2	None
Flight of the Gryphon Lord (Keeper of the Light)	6	2.5$ or Items	Treasure 2	None
Lionheart (Omnikinght	6	2.5$ or Items	Treasure 2	None
Song of the Sea Lotus (Naga Siren)	7	2.5$ or Items	Treasure 2	None
Keeper of the Nether-Lens (Pugna)	6	2.5$ or Items	Treasure 2	None
Twitcher (Timker)	7	2.5$ or Items	Treasure 2	None
Highborn Heretic (Skywrath Mage	7	2.5$ or Items	Treasure 2	None
Mischief of the Winter Moth (Puck)	6	2.5$ or Items	Treasure 2	None

 

AUGUST 2023 Collectors Cache (Buy 3+ More at 10%/ 6+ More at 20%/ 9+ More at 30% discount)

Item	Quantity	Price	Type	Reserved
Snailfire (SnapFire)	2	25$ or Items	Very Rare Cache Set	None
Brightfist (Marci)	5	18$ or Items	Rare Cache Set	Three Sold One Reserved Last Left
Dezun Viper (Dazzle)	5	4$ or Items	Cache Set	One Sold One Reserved
Primeval Abomination (Primal Beast)	5	5.5$ or Items	Cache Set	Two Sold
Astral Herald (Dawnbreaker)	5	5.5$ or Items	Cache Set	Two Sold
Spectral Shadow (Abaddon)	5	3.5$ or Items	Cache Set	None
Taur Rider (Alchemist)	5	4$ or Items	Cache Set	One Sold
Crescent Huntress (Spectre)	5	4$ or Items	Cache Set	One Sold
Tyrant of the Veil (Wraith King)	5	5.5$ or Items	Cache Set	Two Sold
Tomo'kan Footsoldier (Hoodwink)	5	5$ or Items	Cache Set	One Sold
Darkwood Eulogy (Death Prophet)	5	3.5$ or Items	Cache Set	None
Sea Spirit (Kunkka)	5	4$ or Items	Cache Set	One Sold
Triumph of the Imperatrix (Legion Commander)	5	4$ or Items	Cache Set	None
Beast of Thunder (Storm Spirit)	5	5.5$ or Items	Cache Set	Two Sold
Ancestral Heritage (Jakiro)	5	4$ or Items	Cache Set	One Sold

 

Ultra Rare Immortals 2022

Item	Quantity	Price	Type	Reserved
Bloodfeather Finery (Queen of Pain)	1	15$ or Items	Ultra Rare Immortal 2	LastLeft

 

Diretide Collectors Cache-2 2022

Item	Quantity	Price	Type	Reserved
Sublime Equilibrium (Void Spirit)	2	45$ or Items	Very Rare Direteide Collectors Cache	One Sold Last Left
Brands of the Reaper (Anti Mage)	5	$18	Rare Direteide Collectors Cache 2	Three Sold Last Two Reserved
Grudges of the Gallows Tree (Treant)	6	15$ or Items	Rare Direteide Collectors Cache 2	Five Sold Last Left
War Rig Eradicators (Techies)	5	8$ or Items	Direteide Collectors Cache 2	Three Sold
Sacred Chamber Guardian (Huskar)	5	7$ or Items	Direteide Collectors Cache 2	Two Sold One Reserved
Acrimonies of Obsession (Vengeful Spirit)	5	7.5$ or Items	Direteide Collectors Cache 2	One Sold
Freeboot Fortunes (Ogre Magi)	5	4.5$ or Items	Direteide Collectors Cache 2	None
Withering Pain (Clinkz)	5	6$ or Items	Direteide Collectors Cache 2	Two Sold
Darkfeather Factioneer (Phantom Assassin)	5	8$ or Items	Direteide Collectors Cache 2	Three Sold
Feasts of Forever (Night Stalker)	5	5.5$ or Items	Direteide Collectors Cache 2	Two Sold
Cursed Cryptbreaker (Pudge)	5	5.5$ or Items	Direteide Collectors Cache 2	Two Sold
Dawn of Darkness Foretold (Doom)	5	10$ or Items	Direteide Collectors Cache 2	Three Sold
The Wilding Tiger (Brewmaster)	5	11$ or Items	Direteide Collectors Cache 2	Four Sold Last Left
Transcendent Path (Oracle)	5	7.5$ or Items	Direteide Collectors Cache 2	Two Sold
Darkbrew´s Transgression (Alchemist)	5	10$ or Items	Direteide Collectors Cache 2	Four Sold Last Left
Grand Suppressor (Silencer)	5	4.5$ or Items	Direteide Collectors Cache 2	One Sold
Bird of Prey (Legion Commander)	5	7.5$ or Items	Direteide Collectors Cache 2	Three Sold

 

Diretide Collectors Cache 2022

Item	Quantity	Price	Type	Reserved
Blue Horizons(Marci)	4	16$ or Items	Rare Direteide Collectors Cache	Three Sold Last Left
Hounds of Obsession (Chen)	3	7.5$ or Items	Direteide Collectors Cache	Two Sold Last Left
Seadog's Stash (Clockwerk)	3	6$ or Items	Direteide Collectors Cache	One Sold
Starlorn Adjudicator (Dawn Breaker)	3	11$	Direteide Collectors Cache	Two Sold Last Left
Chines of the Inquisitor (Faceless Void)	3	18.5$	Direteide Collectors Cache	Two Sold Last Reserved
Crimson Dawn (Phoenix)	3	7$ or Items	Direteide Collectors Cache	Two Sold Last Left
Forgotten Station (Terrorblade)	3	4.5$ or Items	Direteide Collectors Cache	None
Dirge Amplifier (Undying)	3	5.5$ or Items	Direteide Collectors Cache	One Sold
Champion of the Fire Lotus (Monkey King)	3	7.5$ or Items	Direteide Collectors Cache	Two Sold Last Left
Deathstitch Shaman (Witch Doctor)	3	5.5$ or Items	Direteide Collectors Cache	One Sold

 

Aghanim's Continuum Cache 2021 / Ti-11

Item	Quantity	Price	Type	Reserved
Scales of the Shadow Walker (Phantom Lancer)	4	12$ or Items	Aghanim Cache	Three Sold Last Left
Test of the Basilisk Lord (Razor)	4	11.5$ or Items	Aghanim Cache	Three Sold Last Left
Secrets of the Frost Singularity (Ancient Apparation)	4	5$ or Items	Aghanim Cache	None
Perils of the Red Banks (Chen)	4	7$ or Items	Aghanim Cache	Two Sold Last Left
The Chained Scribe (Grimstroke)	4	8$ or Items	Aghanim Cache	One Sold One Reserved
Widow of the Undermount Gloom (Broodmother)	4	9.5$ or Items	Aghanim Cache	Three Sold Last Left
Forgotten Fate (Mars)	4	5$ or Items	Aghanim Cache	One Sold
March of the Crackerjack Mage (Rubick)	4	12$ or Items	Aghanim Cache	Three Sold Last Left
Cosmic Concoctioneers (Alchemist)	4	12$ or Items	Aghanim Cache	Two Sold
Blightfall (Abbadon)	4	8$ or Items	Aghanim Cache	Two Sold

 

Nemestice Cache 2021 / Ti-11

Item	Quantity	Price	Type	Reserved
Astral Terminus (Enigma)	3	12$ or Items	Nemestice Cache 1	One Sold One Reserved Last Left
Caerulean Star (Enchantress)	3	9$ or Items	Nemestice Cache 1	Two Sold Last Left

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Collector's Cache 2020 / Ti-10

Item	Quantity	Price	Type	Reserved
Steward of the Forbidden Chamber (TA/Templar Assassin)	3	15$	TI-10 Rare Cache 2	Two Sold Last Reserved
Talons of the Endless Storm (CK/Chaos Knight)	3	7.5$ or Items	TI-10 Cache 2	One Sold One Reserved Last Left
Carousel of the Mystic Masquerade (Rubick)	3	10$ or Items	TI-10 Cache 2	Two Sold Last Left
Blacksail Cannoneer (Sniper)	3	7$ or Items	TI-10 Cache 2	None
Blaze of Oblivion (Phoenix)	3	7$ or Items	TI-10 Cache 2	None
Songs of Starfall Glen (Enchantress)	3	6$ or Items	TI-10 Cache 1	None
Flashpoint Proselyte (Huskar)	3	13$ or Items	TI-10 Cache 1	Two Sold Last Left
Fissured Flight (Jakiro)	3	12$ or Items	TI-10 Cache 1	Two Sold Last Left
Mindless Slaughter (Pudge)	3	12$ or Items	TI-10 Cache 1	Two Sold Last Reserved
Fury of Righteous Storm (Disruptor)	3	6$ or Items	TI-10 Cache 1	None
Apocalypse Unbound (Ancient Apparation)	3	9$ or Items	TI-10 Cache 1	Two Sold Last left

 

Collector's Cache 2019/ Ti-9

Item	Quantity	Price	Type	Reserved
Prized Acquisitions (Batrider)	4	7$	TI-9 Cache Set-2	Two Sold
The sight of the Kha-Ren Faithful (Drow Ranger)	4	12$	TI-9 Cache Set-2	Three Sold Last Reserved
Directive of the Sunbound(Clockwerk)	5	9$	TI-9 Cache Set-2	Four Sold Last Left
Distinguished Expeditionary (Tusk)	4	7$	TI-9 Cache Set-2	Two Sold
Automaton Antiquity (Broodmother)	5	9$	TI-9 Cache Set-2	Four Sold Last Left
Fury of the Bloodforge (Bloodseeker)	5	9$	TI-9 Cache Set-2	Three Sold
Tribal Pathways (Warlock)	5	8.5$	TI-9 Cache Set-2	Three Sold
Verdant Predator (Venomancer)	5	9$	TI-9 Cache Set-2	Three Sold
The Arts of Mortal Deception (Enigma)	3	9$	TI-9 Cache Set	Two Sold Last Left
Poacher's Bane (Tidehunter)	3	8$	TI-9 Cache Set	One Sold One Reserved Last Left
Riddle of the Hierophant (Oracle)	3	9$ or 3 Keys	TI-9 Cache Set	Two Sold Last Left

 

Collector's Cache 2018/ Ti-8

Item	Quantity	Price	Type	Reserved
Raiments of the Obsidian Forge (Underlord)	4	18$	TI-8 Rare Cache Set	Three Sold Last Left
Pattern of the Silken Queen (Brood)	4	8$	TI-8 Cache Set	Three Sold Last Left

 
https://steamcommunity.com/id/whatsyouraff (DireTide 2022 Oracle Set Sold Successfully)
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198063913439 (2021 Gyro, 2020 Huskar, AA, Warlock, Grim Sets Sold Successfully)
https://steamcommunity.com/id/Mujou64 (Diretide Cache 2 Doom & Venge Sold Successfuly)
https://steamcommunity.com/id/rudmax (2019 Brood Automation, 2021 Shadow Shaman & Enchantress Reserved - Full Payment Made Advance)
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198064920459 (2023 Rare Marci and Dawn Cache Sold successfully)
https://steamcommunity.com/id/Alacaster (2023 AM Ultra Rare, Hoodwink & Dawn Reserved - 14/70 Paid Advance)
https://steamcommunity.com/id/Default_panda (2023 Spectre Cache & Mars Wings of Imperium Sold Successfully)
https://steamcommunity.com/id/hollywoodsbleeding_ (2022 LC Cache Set Sold Successfully)
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198041012739 (2022 Phoneix Cache Sold Successfully)
https://steamcommunity.com/id/carantis (2023 Jakiro and Dazzle Cache Sold Successfully)
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198079185431/ (2023 Rare Treant, 2021 Rare Ogre & PL Cache Sold Successfully)
https://steamcommunity.com/id/muruph (2017 DP Cache Reserved Sold Successfully)
https://steamcommunity.com/id/LovelasStrasti/ (Techies 2022 Cache Sold Successfully)
https://steamcommunity.com/id/uziexe/(2020 Timber Cache Sold Successfully)
https://steamcommunity.com/id/SemiOfficialAnthonyAdams (Brewmaster and Oracle Cache Sold Successfully)
https://steamcommunity.com/id/V3G3TA (2023 - Wk, Primal, Storm, Alche, 2022 - LC, Techies, Alche Cache Sold Successfully)
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198829952373/ (2023 Kunka Cache Sold Successfully)
https://steamcommunity.com/id/Darkio567/ (2023 Dawnbreaker Cache Sold Successfully)
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198176999423 (2022 Brew Set Sold Successfully)
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198325291097/ (2023 Rare Marci Cache Sold Successfully)
https://steamcommunity.com/id/Snaily3000/ (2020 Shadow Demon Cache Sold Successfully)
https://steamcommunity.com/id/catgirllyra/ (2023 Rare Marci and Diretide 2022 Hoodwink Cache Sold Successfully)
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198877138961/ (2023 Dazzle and Aghanim Brood Cache Sold Successfully)
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198059954390/ (Diretide 2022 Rare Antimage, Huskar, 2021 Grimstroke, 2019 Drow, Chen & Tide, 2018 Axe & QOP Sold Successfully)
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199173346010/ (2023 Hoodwink Sold Successfully)
https://steamcommunity.com/id/LordPlasmarr (2023 WK Sold Successfully)
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198138951034/ (2023 Primal Beast and Brewmaster Cache Sold Successfully)
https://steamcommunity.com/id/waffler99/ (2023 Rare Marci Cache Reserved - 3.5/13.5 Paid Advance)
https://steamcommunity.com/id/vcxxiv (Crownfall Rare WK Cache Sold- Old Customer)
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198051968045 (2020 Pudge Cache Reserved - Full Payment Made Advance)
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199195274635 (2022 Faceless Void Cache Reserved - Full payment made advance)
https://steamcommunity.com/id/naptime_/ (2020 TA and 2021 Enigma Reserved - Full payment made advance)
https://steamcommunity.com/id/GayNoNePida (2x 2022 Rare Antimage Cache Reserved - Full Payment made advance)
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198334003229 (2019 Drow Ranger Cache Reserved - 25% paid advance)
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198176818975/ (2019 CK reserved - Full Payment made Advance)
https://steamcommunity.com/id/otafurvasquez/ (Crownfall Super Rare Drow Cache Reserved - 25% payment received advance)
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198031080008 (Crownfall Super Rare Drow and Shaman Cache Reserved -25% Paid Advance)
Wall of Shame:
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199102322625/ (This clown added me and when I asked to reserve which I have clearly stated in my post backtracked on trade offer, has no idea how 30-day steam gifting works so beware)
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197974015392/ (The newest Clown in town, Asks to buy legacy items, agrees to pay my listed price then tells me 2 days later about not making the payment because he found these sets for only 2 Dollars each which is not possible. Beware and don't add this person)

I completed all the achievements on my mains to get rings/trinket/necklaces. However, when my alt goes to the gem lady to buy the ring/trinket/necklace for 10 bronze each, she said I don’t have the achievement required to purchase those. It means I need to complete the same achievement again to get rings/trinket/necklaces on my alts, and I need to do it on every single alt to get rings/trinket/necklaces.
Also, I only farm frogs for 1 hour on my main… and the amount of bronze I get from it will take my alt at least a week of actively playing to catch up.
Moreover, the level 70 scaling is messed up, with fresh level 70s finding it hard to survive in heroics and raids, leading to an endless bronze grind. The higher the level, the weaker we feel. The best option seems to be using a trial account with a level cap of 20 to enjoy the overpowered low-level state.
Isn’t Blizzard advertising this MOP remix game mode to be the most alt-friendly one? We should have lots of fun leveling lots of alts to get ready for the next expansion, right……?

Hey guys,
I’m looking to pick up the Nox AT10 18k Alum 2024 Padel racket and I live in Texas so it gets decently hot over here. As far as my understanding goes, when temperatures start to rise, the carbon fibres in the racket expand and it starts to get softer.
With the AT10 18K 2024, with its hybrid aluminium/carbon material, it’s apparently supposed to withstand changes in temperature to avoid this. Just wanted to see whether anyone with this pala has noticed their racket getting softer during the warmer temperatures? How does it hold up?
Also I’ve seen differing opinions on how soft/ hard the racket is. On a scale of 1-10 (1 being softest, 10 being hardest), how would you rate this racket?
Thanks!

5 - Storm sorcerer - consistent high DPR
4 - Gloomstalker assassin - insane damage output when you get club of hill giant strength and titanstring bow. Eliminates key targets before their turn
3 - Throwzerker - rush to level 4 and make the early game a literal joke. Add thief and fighter later for better scaling
2 - Open hand monk - same as above, makes early game a joke, except with better scaling and added stuns
1 - 10/2 bardadin - can solo the entire game on honor mode. Powerful early/mid but reaches insane power spikes at level 8 and in early act 3. Use arcane acuity and band of the mystic scoundrel and make your companions question why they even exist

This is the eighteenth track from The 1975's fourth studio album, Notes On A Conditional Form. What are your thoughts regarding this song? How do you think it compares to the rest of their discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?
SUGGESTED SCALE: 1-4: Not good, regularly skip. 5: Okay, but maybe a certain mood. 6: Above average, wouldn't skip but also wouldn't choose. 7: Good, I enjoy it. 8-9: Really enjoyable, I rank it pretty highly overall. 10: Masterpiece, magnum opus, etc.
Google Sheet with all the results so far: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D36HK4W9VSlQmhXVo7v2fIgbC0ZsB466sFqiBGn5tw4/edit?usp=drivesdk
NOTES ON A CONDITIONAL FORM: 1. The 1975 (2020): 1.89 2. People: 9.12 3. The End (Music For Cars): 7.33 4. Frail State Of Mind: 9.31 5. Streaming: 5.85 6. The Birthday Party: 9.17 7. Yeah I Know: 7.32 8. Then Because She Goes: 8.71 9. Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America: 8.89 10. Roadkill: 9.36 11. Me And You Together Song: 9.56 12. I Think There's Something You Should Know: 9.22 13. Nothing Revealed / Everything Denied: 8.32 14. Tonight (I Wish I Was Your Boy): 9.41 15. Shiny Collarbone: 7.17 16. If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know): 17. Playing On My Mind: 18. Having No Head:

Validating the “Two Faces” of Envy: The Effect of Self-Control
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.731451/full
(1) Individuals’ striving behavior was only affected by benign envy; (2) Individuals’ aggressive behavior was influenced by both malicious envy and self-control. Ego depletion moderated the effect of malicious envy on aggressive behavior.
define envy as “the intense, unpleasant feeling that one feels when one realizes that another has something that one strives for, pursues, or yearns for.” Envy is a painful emotion, which may arise from a negative social comparison with another person who has superior abilities, achievements, or possessions (Parrott and Smith, 1993; Smith and Kim, 2007).
Envy, which stems from upward social comparison, diminishes as the gap between oneself and others narrows. This can be done by raising yourself to the other person’s level, or by lowering the other person to your position. According to a definition by Parrott and Smith (1993), the envious person either desires higher abilities, achievements, or possessions, or the envious person desires the other person’s lack of them.
High self-control leads to assimilative effects, and conversely, low self-control leads to contrastive effects (Brown et al., 1992).
In past research, the negative side of envy has often been emphasized, with many studies associating envy with negative factors such as hostility, sabotage, and aggression (Duffy et al., 2012; Khan et al., 2014; Rentzsch et al., 2015; Sterling et al., 2016). At the same time, however, researchers have also found and pointed out that envy can have a positive side. Envy can sometimes be regarded as a motivational force that makes people work harder to obtain what others already have (Foster, 1972; Frank, 1999). From these different perspectives, it is clear that envy may affect human behavior in many ways.\
In benign envy, the envious person may try to make themselves as good as the person being envied. Therefore, envy can increase personal effort (Schaubroeck and Lam, 2004; Van de Ven et al., 2012), drive behavior to achieve the desired object (Crusius and Mussweiler, 2012), and turn attention to the means of achieving it (Crusius and Lange, 2014). However, in malicious envy, the envious person may try to degrade the person being envied, to vilify or denigrate the other person’s advantages. Envy can increase schadenfreude (Smith et al., 1996; Van Dijk et al., 2006; Van de Ven et al., 2015), behavior that leads to hostility and resentment (Salovey and Rodin, 1984; Duffy et al., 2012) and can shift attention to the person being envied (Hill et al., 2011; Crusius and Lange, 2014).
malicious envy is characterized by hostility toward the envied person and the behavioral tendency to damage their status. Studies have shown that benign envy can motivate individuals to improve their performance (Van de Ven et al., 2009; Tai et al., 2012), and malicious envy can drive individuals to behave in a destructive manner (Duffy et al., 2012; Khan et al., 2014).
. Conversely, malicious envy can be associated with a fear of failure. Pessimistic expectations lead to a perception of low control over future outcomes. Low control is associated with malicious envy (Van de Ven et al., 2012), whereby the maliciously envious person believes that they fail to meet the comparison criteria. They fear that they will not meet the standards of success, and they may even actively refrain from pursuing excellence (Lange and Crusius, 2015). From a functional point of view, in such cases, it makes more sense to change the level of superiority to reduce self-threat.
Self-control refers to the ability to or the process to of changing or restraining habitual, spontaneous, impulsive, and instinctive reactions. It implies, resisting temptation, giving up immediate interests, and making behaviors conform to social norms or more meaningful goals. It occurs when there is a conflict between immediate temptation and social norms or long-term interests (Heatherton and Baumeister, 1996).
Other studies suggest that malicious envy will lead to low self-control behaviors (O’Guinn and Faber, 1989; Shoham et al., 2015).
individuals with a high sense of control are generally considered to have a high sense of autonomy and efficacy and to be better able to cope with difficulties in life (Frazier et al., 2011). Individuals with high self-control levels tend to be calmer, less irritable, and less aggressive (Funder et al., 1983; Funder and Block, 1989). Low self-control may lead to increased individual aggressive behavior (Dewall et al., 2006; Zhan and Ren, 2012).
People have to suppress the envy reaction in their lives constantly. It is painful to experience envy (Takahashi et al., 2009), and expressing envy not only violates social norms (Heider, 1958; Foster, 1972; Silver and Sabini, 1978) but also threatens the positive self-view that people strive to maintain (Tesser, 1988). People may not only spontaneously deny envy and suppress overt acts of envy but may also change their inner thoughts and feelings (Smith and Kim, 2007). Similarly, neuroimaging studies have shown that the brain regions associated with controlling emotions are activated in the presence of superior others (Joseph et al., 2008).
Previous self-control tasks can undermine people’s ability to exert self-control in subsequent tasks (Baumeister et al., 1998, 2007). The term “ego depletion” can be used to describe the condition in which an individual’s ability to control or regulate themself is reduced due to a lack of self-control resources (Baumeister et al., 1998, 2007).
. Researchers believe that when people are exhausted, upset, drunk, or otherwise drained of self-control resources, impulses may dominate their behavior (Vohs and Heatherton, 2000; Crusius and Mussweiler, 2012). Applying these ideas to envy suggests that emotional responses to envy are more likely to surface when self-control resources are compromised1 (Crusius and Mussweiler, 2012). Therefore, we thought that it is feasible to use an ego depletion paradigm in the emotion research.
. Having started an action, individuals with a high sense of self-efficacy will make more efforts. They will persist for longer, and recover quickly when they encounter setbacks (Wang et al., 2001). The deeper meaning behind self-efficacy is similar to self-improvement behavior and the associated pursuit of success corresponds to benign envy.
At the same time, because envy itself is an emotion related to social desirability, we anticipated that the envy response would be more authentic in a state of self-depletion. Therefore, the ego depletion paradigm was used to verify whether benign envy and malicious envy would lead to similar behavioral consequences at the state level under different self-control levels. In study 2, we hypothesized that the benign envy would not reduce striving behaviors much in the state of ego depletion, whereas the malicious envy tended to engage in more aggressive behaviors because of ego depletion.

The Benign and Malicious Envy Scale

The Benign and Malicious Envy Scale (BEMAS) developed by Lange and Crusius (2015) was used for measurement. The scale contains two subscales, Benign Envy and Malicious Envy
Malicious envy had a positive and significant effect on aggressive tendency, which while self-control had a negative effect on aggressive tendency through malicious envy.
When the individual was in a state of self-depletion, the higher the level of malicious envy, the lower the individual’s evaluation of “Sudoku superior,” and the stronger the aggressive behavior, which was similar to the results of Study 1.

The main motive of malicious envy is to attack others, while the main motive of benign envy is to improve oneself.Some researchers also found that self-control is related to goal realization (Righetti and Finkenauer, 2011).

Individuals with high self-control have a sufficient sense of autonomy and efficacy and can cope better with and solve difficulties in life (Frazier et al., 2011). Researchers believe that individuals with high self-control ability will have behavior that is less impulsive (Duckworth and Kern, 2011).

Benign envy pointed to the effort to succeed, while the malicious envy pointed to the urge to destroy and attack. Among the forms of envy, self-control would have a “beneficial” effect, promoting the upward leap and inhibiting the downward fall.
Malicious envy could lead to destructive behavior, degradation, or aggression toward others (Salovey and Rodin, 1984; Duffy et al., 2012; Khan et al., 2014).
To ease the unpleasant feeling by failures and setbacks, high benign envy participants will try to find ways to achieve their goals. They will persist for longer in difficult tasks. They will show determination and perseverance. Such personality traits may not be affected by the loss of state self-control
Although efforts at self-control positively predict the striving tendency, in reality, self-control resources are not always constant. We have reason to believe that some individuals’ self-control resources recovery speeds will be faster. However, there may be individuals who will not be affected by temporary ego depletion. They will overcome exhaustion, difficulties, and failures. They will be tireless in their efforts in pursuit of success. They will achieve their goals.
The malicious envy can affect individuals’ aggressive behavior. The higher the level of malicious envy, the lower the evaluation of the target of envy, which means a higher potential for aggressive behavior. The intrinsic experiential tendency of envy makes it closely related to aggressive behavior. Van de Ven et al. (2009)
More specifically, our results show that ego depletion moderated the relationship between malicious envy and aggressive behavior. As malicious envy increased, individuals with high ego depletion were more aggressive. In individuals with higher ego depletion, malicious envy has a stronger impact on aggressive behavior. At the same level of malicious envy, individuals with higher ego depletion are more likely to attack others. In short, ego depletion will amplify or enhance the adverse impact of malicious envy.
Validating the “Two Faces” of Envy: The Effect of Self-Control

Hyderabad is a hub for technology and engineering, and the field of Very-Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) is no exception. VLSI design is a crucial aspect of the semiconductor industry, and many professionals are looking to upskill themselves in this field. To cater to this demand, there are several job-oriented VLSI training institutes in Hyderabad that offer various courses and certifications.
Here, we take a look at the top 10 VLSI training institutes in Hyderabad:
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with bruiser item nerfs and tenacity nerfs, i find that its getting harder and harder to restrain myself from the temptation of building lethality. It's really fun to build lethality because i feel like I finally deal damage, i feel like i can finally secure kills and i feel like i can finally heal like i used to before patch 12.10.
The issue with lethality is that it doesnt fit the aatrox gameplay fantasy if you catch my drift. It's really annoying to play against because I'm killing you with 1200 dmg q's with very little counter-play and it's frustrating to play because I don't get to play aatrox like a raid-boss (which is the entire fantasy of aatrox to begin with).
Part of the issue is that his W doesnt pull most of the time so its usually just more viable to build movement speed to make up for the W's ineffectiveness. Most movement speed for AD champs is in AS items and assassin items and obviously I'm not gonna build attack speed unless im deliberately trying play crit-trox.
Another issue is his healing, after 12.10, 12.14 and 13.1 i think we can all agree that at THE VERY LEAST, it's generally harder to heal without just overloading on damage. Lethality was the response to this because aatrox only heals flat amounts based on damage POST mitigation. Duskblade aatrox was degenerate and they got rid of the item anyway so that's fine but aatrox's core issue didn't change. So far, I feel like i speak for a lot of aatrox players.
A third issue to address is the moving parts of the bruiser playstyle. A lot of tenacity that Aatrox would usually have was removed from the precision tree which is fine in isolation because he still has merc's and sterak's (note that i didnt mention the tenacity and slow resist stat shard because he needs the health most of the time) but tenacity is one the things that fuels his bruiser playstyle and its one of the things that is down at the moment. Another bruiser component that needs to be addressed is sundered sky, with respect where its deserved, sundered sky was nerfed extremely fairly but it was also the item that was keeping the bruiser build together because all the other items were kinda... meh. Again, to be fair, a lot of those items have gotten better but they all come together for a fundamental problem on aatrox. He has no health scaling and he scales AD based on the AD he already has (in his ult) which REALLY encourages AD stacking and he has low base damage which if i remember correctly was to discourage tank-trox which is fair again but most bruisers have health scaling like darius healing based on missing health in his Q or they have some other incentive. If I'm finally gonna split this paragraph soon maybe, aatrox is a thresh hold champ not to the standard of jhin but enough to discourage bruiser builds even more.
ALL OF THAT comes together to make a champ who was designed to be a raid-boss but ends up wanting to be an assassin which upsets me a little bit.

Compute is increasing overall and GPUs, TPUs and NPUs are getting more efficient and more powerful.
Context size is increasing rapidly (2 million tokens @ Gemini 1.5 pro).
Tokenization is improving. See GPT4o tokenization for languages.
Models are becoming multimodal and performing better on multimodal tasks.
Data quality is constantly being improved.
Data quantity via multimodal data and synthetic data is increasing.
Pretraining and post training is getting more efficient and more automated.
We now know more about the models yet so little because of Interpretability work by Anthropic and others.
RAG is getting better.
Other AI models (Text to image, video, music, audio, 3D) are getting better rapidly.
Every Cost is going down.
Everything is improving. Period and this is without mentioned other things like agents etc.
We are not seeing step improvements because we are yet to see a 10 trillion parameter models i.e. AI companies want to be as efficient as possible before scaling.

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Hero	Price ( USD)	Quantity
Trail of the Sanguine Spectrum(blood seeker)	15$	2
Pitfall Crusader(Pangolier)	23$	1
Insights of the Sapphire Shroud(Dark seer)	10$	5
Pillar of the Fractured Citadel(Spirit breaker)	12$	3
Forlorn Descent(Undying)	15$	0
The Murid Divine(necrophos)	22$	2
Primer of the Sapper's Guile(techies)	20$	3
Molokau Stalker(venomancer)	15$	4
Morbific Provision(witch doctor)	15$	3
Raptures of the Abyssal Kin(queen of pain)	12$	4
Fate Meridian(invoker)	25$	3
Grasp of the Riven Exile(weaver)	10$	6
Visions of the Lifted Veil(phantom assassin)	35$	1
Endowments of the Lucent Canopy(shadow shaman)	100$	sold out

TI8 cache 2

Hero	Price(USD)	Quantity
Pitmouse Fraternity(meepo)	15$	8
Fires of the Volcanic Guard(Ember spirit)	20$	7
Third Awakening(Dragon knight)	35$	0
Shackles of the Enduring Conscript(AXE)	8$	10
Shimmer of the Anointed(Nyx)	6$	10
Cruelties of the Spiral Bore(Magnus)	45$	sold out
Loaded Prospects(Brew master)	15$	8
Ire of Molten Rebirth(Phoenix)	8$	6
Pattern of the Silken Queen(Brood mother)	8$	11
Dread Ascendance(Doom)	50$	1
The Rat King(Chen)	10$	9
Raiments of the Obsidian Forge(Underlord)	20$	4

TI9 cache 1

Hero	Price(USD)	Quantity
Echoes of the Everblack(Abbadon)	30$	1
Allure of the Faeshade Flower(Dark willow)	25$	1
Paean of the Ink Dragon(Grimstroke)	20$	3
Scorched Amber(Dragon Knight)	30$	2
Priest of the Proudsilver Clan(Chen)	15$	5
The Arts of Mortal Deception(Enigma)	10$	4
Poacher's Bane(Tide hunter)	20$	6
Soul of the Brightshroud(Death prophet)	20$	2
Curse of the Creeping Vine(Undying)	20$	3
Pursuit of the Ember Demons (Husker)	22$	2
Appetites of the Lizard King(Slark)	25$	3
Forbidden Medicine(Dazzle)	20$	3
Riddle of the Hierophant(Oracle)	12$	7
Glimmer of the Sacred Hunt(Drow ranger)	30$	sold out
Adornments of the Jade Emissary(Earth Spirit)	25$	1
Defender of Ruin(Disrupter)	25$	8

TI9 cache 2

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Sight of the Kha-Ren Faithful(Drow ranger)	15$	21
Tribal Pathways(Warlock)	10$	26
Directive of the Sunbound(Clockwork)	10$	23
Souls Tyrant(Shadow fiend)	40$	4
Endless Night(Abbadon)	25$	8
Dapper Disguise(Pudge)	18$	16
Prized Acquisitions(Bat rider)	6$	29
Verdant Predator(Venomancer)	8$	23
Fury of the Bloodforge(Bloodseeker)	10$	27
Automaton Antiquity(Broodmother)	10$	25
Tales of the Windward Rogue(Pangolier)	30$	5
Grim Destiny(Wraith king)	20$	21
Distinguished Expeditionary(Tusker)	12$	26
Fowl Omen(Necrophos)	18$	21
Cinder Sensei(Ember Spirit))	80$	4

TI10 cache 1

Hero	Price(USD)	Quantity
Origin of the Dark Oath(Night stalker)	28$	22
Ravenous Abyss (Underlord)	15$	34
Apocalypse Unbound(Ancient appartion)	10$	36
Beholden of the Banished Ones(Warlock)	15$	5
Fury of the Righteous Storm(Disrupter)	10$	36
Lineage of the Stormlords(Juggernaut)	35$	16
Silent Slayer(Silencer)	20$	32
Mindless Slaughter(Pudge)	15$	37
Heartless Hunt(Bounty hunter)	15$	31
Herald of the Ember Eye(Grim stroke)	15$	27
Fissured Flight(Jakiro)	12$	34
Flashpoint Proselyte(Husker)	20$	34
Glory of the Elderflame(Lina)	25$	26
Signs of the Allfather(Nature's Prophet)	20$	34
Songs of Starfall Glen(Enchantress)	10$	23
Ancient Inheritance(Tiny)	25$	51
Forsworn Legacy(Mars)	40$	26

TI10 cache 2

Hero	Price(USD)	Quantity
Evolution of the Infinite(Enigma)	10$	24
Beast of the Crimson Ring(Bristle Back)	15$	23
Clearcut Cavalier(Timbersaw)	8.5$	27
The King Of Thieves(Keeper of the light)	10$	27
Horror from the Deep(Tidehunter)	20$	22
Ire of the Ancient Gaoler(Arc warden)	40$	1
Talons of the Endless Storm(Chaos Knight)	14$	22
Carousal of the Mystic Masquerade(Rubick)	12$	26
Crown of Calaphas(Shadow demon)	15$	26
Wrath of the Fallen(Doom)	15$	26
Blacksail Cannoneer(Sniper)	13$	26
Secrets of the Celestial(Skywrath mage)	10$	27
Blaze of Oblivion(Phoenix)	8$	26
Master of the Searing Path(Ember spirit)	30$	10
Steward of the Forbidden Chamber(Templer assassin)	30$	30
Claszureme Incursion(Faceless Void)	95$	1

Aghanim's cache sets

Hero	Price(USD)	Quantity
Silverwurm Sacrifice(Dragon Knight)	45$	4
Scales of the Shadow Walker(Phantom lancer)	12$	19
Perception of the First Light(Dawn breaker)	12$	16
Apex Automated(Clockwork)	10$	17
Test of the Basilisk Lord(Razor)	12$	17
Secrets of the Frost Singularity(Ancient appartion)	8.5$	20
Perils of the Red Banks(Chen)	8$	20
The Chained Scribe(Grim stroke)	12$	18
Widow of the Undermount Gloom(Brood mother)	10$	20
Forgotten Fate(Mars)	10$	18
March of the Crackerjack Mage(Rubick)	10$	19
Stranger in the Wandering Isles(Drow ranger)	55$	1
Cosmic Concoctioneers(Alchemist)	7$	19
Days of the Demon(Axe)	25$	7
Blightfall(Abbadon)	8$	21
Pyrexae Polymorph Perfected(Ogre magi)	20$	25
Wrath of the Celestial Sentinel(Chaos Knight)	50$	8

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Blue Horizons(Marci)	25$	6
Dark Behemoth(Primal beast)	50$	3

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Hero	Price(USD)	Quantity
Snailfire (SnapFire)	25$	10
Brightfist (Marci)	22$	10
Primeval Abomination(primal beast)	8$	10
Astral Herald(dawn breaker)	15$	10
Spectral Shadow(Abbadon)	5$	10
Taur Rider(alchemist)	5$	10
Crescent Huntress(spectre)	10$	10
Tyrant of the Veil(wraith king)	8.5$	10
Tomo'kan Footsoldier(hood wink)	7$	10
Darkwood Eulogy(death prophet)	5$	10
Sea Spirit(kunkka)	12$	10
Triumph of the Imperatrix(legion commander)	7$	10
Beast of Thunder(storm spirit)	10$	10
Ancestral Heritage(jakiro)	6$	10
Dezun Viper(dazzle)	7.5$	10

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my friend was in a precarious situation where i=she had to use pepper spray the other day and the shot was inaccurate. she said she also apparently shot it wrong--your thumb is supposed to be on the trigger, not your index finger?? i am thankful she is safe, but is this a common issue? why aren't there better designed pepper sprays?
i was thinking, i also don't know how to properly use one. they're really not intuitive.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169814120306491 this article shows how a large percentage of women use pepper spray inaccurately.
"The participants were also asked to state their confidence are you that you would be able to effectively use the pepper spray in a real-world situation using a 5 point Likert scale (1 –extremely confident and 5- not confident at all). The responses were not very encouraging with 10 out of 11 participants indicating that they were not very confident."
this is crazy!! do you all feel this too? does it need to be redesigned to be better???

I find the pain scale really unworkable when most people in some pain say 8,9, or 10. Now I do believe they are in pain, but an 8 is just a step down from being burned alive and if you are eating chips while scrolling through Facebook, while I believe you are uncomfortable, I am not sure its 8/10 if 10 is THE WORST PAIN IMAGINABLE.
I put into the ops chart whatever the patient says which, on the NSW system at least, flags that they are for a clinical review or means they should be a high triage category.
I do think a lot of the time pain is poorly managed and I think a lot of patients are unfairly branded "drug seeking" but I dont think the 1-10 pain scale really does much.
Anyone seen good alternatives?
Thoughts?

Hey guys, I wanted to share what has worked for me and what I’ve seen work to actually scale your brand without having to worry about CPA rising.
I’m going to start with 3 basic things you can do, then towards the end I will explain a process / framework you can use to collect data and use that to improve your CPA.
Before we dive into it, you need to understand this - for every 10% increase in ad spend, you’ll see a 1-5% increase in CAC/CPA
This is the reason why brands have trouble scaling. Every time you try to spend more, your CPA cost rises. There’s a lot of different ways to go about it and I can’t go into every single one but here’s some basics

1 - Scale horizontally

Idk if that even makes sense lol but here’s what I mean.
If you have a set of winning ads, you’re profitable but every time you turn up spend, you’ll notice CPA goes up. This may sound super obvious but go and run more tests that slash your CPA. The more ads you have with lower CPAs, you’ll slowly see a decline in your CAC costs and you’ll eventually reach a point where you can spend a bit more.

2 - Returning customers & LTV

First of all, what even is CAC? If you didn’t know, this is customer acquisition cost. This means how much does it cost you to acquire a first time customer. You should have a benchmark idea of how much you are willing to spend to get a new customer.
E commerce isn’t built on one-time sales, the way you actually make money is to get people to purchase more than once. We also call this “lifetime value (LTV)”.
You basically spend X amount of money to get a customer, then really make profit / money on that second purchase. Of course, this isn’t applicable to every e com brand and there’s so much more to it, but this is typically how it works from what I’ve seen.
If you have enough data and understand how many times your customer comes back to purchase another product over the course of 3 months, you can actually afford a higher CPA cost.
Let’s say my CAC for a product is $50, and my AOV is $110. If I factor in LTV, I can actually afford a higher CAC cost because I factor in my LTV.
I know this sounds confusing to people who are new to marketing and ads, so feel free to comment your questions.

3 - Offer iteration

This is another lever you can pull. If your offer is more attractive and better, you can get more people to opt in to purchase for the same ad costs.
Improve your landing page conversion rate (study CRO) and watch your CAC drop. Offer is king and if you can position your product in a way where it really looks like a good deal, you’ll see good results. Be patient and test, collect data, and adjust. Takes lots of time
Now, here’s a framework / process you can use to collect data to improve ads and your landing pages.
These are just a few things you can do to realistically drop your CPA. Better ads will result in lower CPA, so will a better offer, and so will a better landing page.
If I was given a client who needed me to drop their CPA, I would study competitors, look at their landing page CRO, look at their ads and watch which ones have been running the longest, and try to model off that. I would have a logical process for iterating offers on the ads and landing pages.
I would use GA4, Hotjar, GTM, and customer surveys to collect data and understand my customer and TELL THEM WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR.
I would also email my customers offering them a discount or some incentive to hop on a call to tell me what they liked, what they didn’t like, and why they purchased or decided not to purchase (most important). Once you’ve spoken to 100+ people and have a large data set, extract patterns on why they purchased and then go a run an offer based off the data you got from your real customers.
This is a realistic process you can use to help you figure out how to drop your CPA as well. If you can tell you customer exactly what they want to hear, you’re more likely to get sales.
Hope this helped, comment or ping me if you have questions.