So I’ve been on hrt for over a year and I recently switched pharmacies from Walgreens to a Kroger store called Dillons. I’ve noticed that after I switched that my blockers smell bad I mean like a skunk and I’m not sure they’re working like my old old pharmacy. My hairline has started to climb back again. All my doses are the same as the old pharmacy and I’ve only recently switched from estrogen pills to shots. Like I’m on my first month of them and I noticed my hair a few months back but I wasn’t sure which direction my hairline was going.
I’m on finasteride, spironolactone, and estradiol injections. Does anyone else have bad experiences with Kroger‘s medication?

I need some recos from y'all.
I developed muscle spasms from COVID and/or the Pfizer booster (the reason I suspect the vax is 1. all spasms are near the injection site [injected in my left shoulder; spasms in my left trap, left SCM, and left eyelid] and 2. pain and spasms became noticeable exactly three weeks after receiving it, while I had been fully recovered from COVID for two months).
Anyways, regardless of what the cause is, my body is shot and I've tried quite a few things to fix it. Here are the peptides I've tried so far:

• BPC (several months of daily injections) - no improvement
• TB500 (same as above) - no improvement
• 10mg of Thymosin Alpha-1 (no improvement, but hardly enough to judge)

I ordered another 50mg of TA1 from Peptide Sciences, which will give me roughly 4 months at 1.5mg 2x/week. Hoping that this might make a dent in healing any lasting inflammation, and resulting nerve compression/damage.
FWIW, I'm also taking Lion's Mane, Red Reishi, and a couple other mushroom extracts from Nootropics Depot in hopes that they will help restore or re-grow the damaged neurons. It's been a couple weeks and I haven't noticed a difference from those either.
Any thoughts on other peptide routes I could take? Could selank nasal spray be of any help? Cerebrolysin? Ghk-cu? ARA-290? I am open and I do have the budget to try anything, but I'd rather go one-by-one than spend thousands to throw the whole kitchen sink at it. Any intel is really, really appreciated.
Tl;dr: I have recurring muscle spasms, most likely due to brain/nerve damage from COVID and/or vax. Tried BPC and TB500, no results. Interested in any other recommendations that could help heal this kind of injury.

Rules
Every no reg take a shot
Every time you die due to not having footstep audio take 2 shots
Everytime you crash finish a cup
Everytime you get put with press and masters take 3 shots (only if your platinum and below)
Everytime you don't get teammates take a shot.
Everytime your teammates lands by themselves take a shot
Everytime your teammates disconnects take a double.
Everytime you find boosters take a shot
Everytime your told they are one shot and they aren't. Take a shot
Everytime you get called a slur take a shot
Follow these rules and you'll be so drunk you'll enjoy apex again or you'll die of alcohol poisoning either ways a win

Or how to mathematically oneshot every enemy in the entire game.
 
A braindead Maddening build guide with math and shitty gifs. With Wave 3, it was probably fairly obvious that Vantage+Reprisal is a disgustingly powerful combo. But in doing the math for stupid oneshot Silver Greataxe memes, I then started wondering about Thoron...
 
Well as it turns out, the heavy investment of Starsphere and a dust or two is enough to allow Jean/Anna/Citrinne/Ivy to hit the magic benchmark of 99 magic damage with a max forged Thoron to OHKO every enemy in the entire game at 1-3 range.
 
Some Proof of Concept  
OHKOing a wyrm
Scuffed GIF of finishing CH26P1 in 30 seconds (Spoilers obviously)
 
Required:

• Emblem Veronica
• Vantage (Leif)
• Holdout (Roy)
• Byleth-engraved Thoron+5 (Eirika if it's not being used or Leif as a distant third)
• Starsphere (Recommended for the midgame, but not required if you're willing to feed more boosters)
• Spirit Dusts
• Seraph Robes (for Citrinne and Ivy)

 
Eligible Candidates:  

• Sage Jean
• Sage Anna
• Sage Citrinne
• MK Jean (if you don't mind guaranteed missing MMs and High Priests)
• High Priest Citrinne (and it's more optimal than sage!)
• Lindwurm Ivy

 
Guide:  
Pre-CH10 Recommendations (none of these are required)

• Take Citrinne's starting Thunder and forge into a Thoron.
• For not-Ivy, you can also inherit Vantage now. You can also inherit Starsphere to reduce booster dependency, though that will require SP scrolls.
• Throw the Leif engrave on your Thoron.

 
General Use

• Equip Veronica onto your mage of choice.
• Run your mage facefirst into the nearest axe user to enable Reprisal.
• Oneshot everything. If you early-inherited Vantage, you can already enemy phase with almost full effectiveness. Otherwise, I'm sure you can find a good use for a 3 range pocket nuke.
• (Recommended) Swap Leif for Byleth engrave for more accuracy. Eirika is probably ideal, but Eirika is more contested by your crit users and Byleth is less so.
• After you get back Roy, inherit Hold Out. You can technically even inherit hold out before and go full build from the beginning, but maybe you want to think a little or use stat boosters for other units.
• (Recommended) Give your mage Rewarp and literally run facefirst into the middle of the map and hit + to skip turn until stage/game/life is cleared.
• Because you don't actually have to use your player phase to kill things, feel free to use your turns to AOE fortify heal/dance/obstruct/summoning a meatshield/waiting to stock freeze charges. This allows you to handle even 4 range wyrms and backup units with revive crystals because you can walk up and freeze in/out of range of those units and makes your supercarry your best support staffer as well.

 
Quick Stat benchmarks (more math here)  
There are effectively two damage tiers - 99 magic damage hits all generics and 96 hits everything minus Martial Master and High Priest. 103 is bonus extra credit that allows you to hit the final boss as well but is not attainable in fixed without extra levels past ilvl 40 or outside help (rallies, instructs, etc).
With Starsphere, at ilvl 40...
Sage Jean and Anna require anywhere between 0-3 Spirit Dusts depending on whether or not you give them some Starsphere levels and whether or not you care about hitting Martial Masters. Sage Citrinne might not naturally cap HP without Starsphere levels, so may need an extra dust. High Priest Citrinne and Lindwurm Ivy similarly require around the same number of Dusts + 1 but can also substitute up to 2 Seraph Robes for Dust.
If you forgo Starsphere, add 2-3 spirit dusts to all requirements. There are 3 (+1 from DLC) Spirit Dusts in the game so it'll be fairly tight, but still doable for all 4 characters mentioned if you settle for not hitting the arts-users.
Characters not mentioned require more boosters or outside assistance - if you really want to make your favorite work, you can rope in any number of the following to hit benchmarks.

• Given how much combat this unit will see, it's pretty likely that you'll hit a higher ilvl and Veronica even comes with Level Boost which amounts to another +2 damage. I ended the game with an ilvl 43 Ivy, and if you allow yourself to level boost on the not-arts users (which are always in the back anyways). ilvl 43 + level boost taken into consideration relaxes margins by about 2 spirit dusts/+4 damage.
• Swapping out Holdout for HP+15 (Corrin) if you're okay with manually setting up the low HP threshold. Unlike Panette's Wrath builds however, the damage margins are thin enough that you really do need to be very close to 1 HP, so this is difficult to do.
• Bringing in support buddies with Rally Spectrum (Chrom), Byleth Mystic/Dragon Instruct, Divinely Inspiring. This works as long as said unit isn't being ORKO'd - AI afaik, will prioritize the highest HP unit they can kill, but will otherwise never target your support buddies with your 1HP mage in range.

 
FAQ

Does this actually kill everything in one hit?

Yes, you can look at the math link for numbers.

What about hit rates?

You have ~80% accuracy at worst on wolf knights/griffins/swordmasters with Byleth, 90 with Eirika assuming that's not being contested. Anybody else, you're reliably at 100. It's frankly incredibly reliable given universal OHKOs on everything. You can also lug around an accuracy support cheerleader if you really want - as long as they're not being onerounded, all enemies will go for your 1 HP mage. If your mage of choice isn't Ivy, you also don't even care about avoid terrain.

You put Starsphere and a whole bunch of statboosters on a carry mage, of course you're killing everything.

Yeah, I'm not saying it's a low investment build. Without Starsphere, it's all of the spirit dust you'll ever get. But the fact is, it's still doable without starsphere and that's kind of surprising for a build that's mathematically guaranteed to one shot every enemy in the game.
Starsphere also obviously breaks the game for early recruits and you can turn the massive stat snowball into any number of extremely busted builds... but braindead oneshotting everything at 3 range is a pretty nice step up from most usual strong builds still even.

Can you set up more than one of these characters?

Technically, you could have Roy/Leif (Rise Above even does a good job of aping level boost as needed) on your non Veronica and you might have enough statboosters with Starsphere usage to make this work on two characters. You'll have enough from the natural SP conversion to inherit Reprisal on one of your two Thoroners anyways if the other plays as a standard mage build for most of the game. I don't know if I'd recommend it because I like giving the rest of my army something to do.

Why didn't you use High Priest for anybody else?

Because only Citrinne, Ivy, and Clanne get Thoron access in High Priest. Ivy has Lindwurm and Clanne will never get the magic required to pull this off.

Who's the best character for this?

By stats, Jean. Ivy has flight. Citrinne gets to go High Priest and be optimal as it (Entrap access is pretty funny on your wrecking ball!). Anna probably farms you a silly amounts of gold. All 4 have their perks!

Does this work on lower difficulties with anybody else?

Probably! I just don't know enemy stats for lower difficulties, but Chloe and Pandreo could probably squeeze in if the requirements are a bit less lax on both HP and RES.

Silver Greataxe?

Panette can pretty comfortably use forged Silver Greataxe/Ukonvasara and hit OHKO benchmarks with a similar build, but this is obviously limited to 1 range. Tomahawk is much harder (something like 18 points off from OHKOing CH26 generals) that you might as well just add Reprisal to her standard Vantage-Wrath build. I just wanted to justify overcapping DEX and using Ukonvasara in her zerker dress to myself tbh.

I live with two very vulnerable people so as soon as we heard about covid I've had to pretty much sacrifice my social life. I've been out to indoor restaurants only 2 times since covid started, almost no social events at all (unless outdoors and limited people) and only visited friends' houses about 5 times. Lost my fitness (I am an amateur athlete), social life and career aspirations trying to avoid covid. Many people got frustrated with me not attending things and stopped inviting me. Understandable I guess.
I want to get that back now, because at some point this is actually becoming untenable for my mental health. I need a life and I need people in it. I have started to at least go to the supermarket (previously I was only shopping online) by going late at night with a mask on. One of the vulnerable people in my house actually contracted covid and I managed to not catch it from them. They now go out and about to tons of functions with lots of people, so I'm not even really helping them by doing this anymore. The other vulnerable person is still being very careful but probably less than me.
Needless to say, I'm super pro vax and was the second person I know to get my first two doses. First dose knocked me around for a few days, but the second shot made me so sick I almost went to hospital. I woke up in the middle of the night aggressively shaking (like a spasm all over my body) with a high fever and horrible headache. I couldn't stop my legs from shaking. It was so painful because my leg muscles were getting so sore and tired but they just wouldn't stop shaking. I had to get someone in my house up by yelling (couldn't move) and they had to come and literally sit on my legs so they'd stop shaking. They also gave me panadol and nurofen and a wet towel over my face and sat with me for 45 minutes until my shaking turned into more typical feverish chills. I was then sick with high fever, horrible pains and chills and extreme lethargy for 4 days.
Needless to say I was pretty scared to get my third dose, but thankfully it was less severe than the second dose. I had a mild fever, bad aches and sickness for 3-4 days.
So it's now been over a year since that third dose. I haven't caught covid but for my own sanity I need to start doing activities that pose the risk of catching it. I am travelling interstate in a week and a half for the first time and I will be at social events too. I cannot avoid this any more.
I really want to be as protected as I can, but I keep reading that boosters don't make any difference to likelihood of hospitalisation OR protection from actual infection. So is it actually worth it? I'm so so so scared of having the bad reaction again, but also so scared of getting covid.
Is it worth it?

Hi folks! If I were to try to get a novavax shot after having all mrna vaccines and the bivalent booster, what's the time frame for that? Should I wait 6 months after my last booster? And then do I treat that novavax shot as a booster and just get the one? Thanks!

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It wouldn't hurt to add either gun in high rank, right? I'm sure there isn't an elemental booster skill for ammo. Then Light Bowgun should be raw dmg focused with optional status? And I already know Heavy Bowgun is a raw 'heavy hitter' but wasn't sure if other ammo would work.
Cluster stays the same. I thought Pellet was similar to Spread. Crag is Sticky with a bit of fire element and Slicing may not even cut tails. Are Normal 2-3 and Pierce 2-3 the only viable shots for both guns? I'm trying out both in Rise and know they play somewhat differently in early titles but if choosing one or the other.
Great Sword, Dual Blades, Hammer, Lance, Gunlance, Switch Axe and Charge Blade are all on the table, but which gun would go well with or balance these out if possible?
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No idea if this will be allowed as there is no direct relation to GME nor even the financial markets, but it’s worth a shot. For those like me who are riding this out with realistic hopes of not just a financial payout but, more importantly, systemic change and financial freedom for all, morale boosters are always needed. The discussion in this podcast does (what I think is) a good job of pointing out the importance of optimism and a true belief that change is coming.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/triggernometry/id1375568988?i=1000604892789
It’s easy to feel hopeless and to roll over thinking we are no match for those who have managed to capture the world markets and manipulate them to their benefit (and our demise). But don’t lose hope. Realism is important. From a realistic perspective, it’s easy to lean towards pessimism. Don’t. We are NOT up against god-like beings. We are NOT up against geniuses. In reality, we are up against people who are no smarter than many of us. Ken Griffin and his cronies may be clever but they aren’t geniuses. They rigged the game by cheating. Anyone can win by cheating. Look at the people you went to school who cheated their way to success. They weren’t smart people. The smart people were those who succeeded by playing strategically by the rules. Those people are the ones fighting on our side.
We’re NOT up against unbeatable characters and we ARE fighting the good fight. Change happens gradually and then suddenly.
Don’t lose hope and hodl strong. 🤙

The title is mostly clickbait, if you create a tier list for a clear purpose or even just because you want to that's totally valid. LTCs take a lot of planning and work and I have a lot of respect for the thought and effort that goes into them.
There is a clear problem associated with these tier lists though. Throughout the online FE community, I've noticed that people who talk about FE unit quality point to tier lists made based on LTCs as an argument why certain units are good or bad. In theory this makes some amount of sense - if units are still good under more constrained conditions then often they are still good when the constraints are relaxed and those constraints often bring the flaws of weaker characters to the forefront.
Moreover fire emblem in general has a lot of "slack" - you can be pretty sloppy with your play and still succeed if you know what you're doing (especially with a time crystal). LTCs turn a strategy game into an optimisation problem with a single clear metric of "success". If your LTC has fewer turns than another player then it's a better LTC; in normal fire emblem you get the same credits no matter how you win.
 

Those tempting incentives hide some pretty clear and substantial problems, however.

The first of which is more minor and easily fixed but is a problem nonetheless: often it's not clear exactly what the tiers mean. Are character tiers based on how much the minimum turn count would increase if each character was banned? Is it about how often they get deployed in the specific LTC? Is it just a vague assessment of unit strength/contribution with the objective metric of an LTC used to give credibility to the subjective opinions of the author? It's always the last one.
Without knowing what the tier list means it's basically impossible to get anything of value from it and even if the original OP writes a brief explanation for their rankings (wherein often they'll bump up characters a tier or 2 to avoid backlash based on community consensus despite never using them beyond their join chapter) those same tier lists will then get picked up and posted elsewhere often with none of the context and without even a link to the original source.
Often the criteria itself will also change between metrics where sometimes Jagens are good because they enable skips on early maps and then other times units are good because they're generally combat capable and other times it's because they get started with low investment because the cast of characters has to receive one ranking throughout the entire game despite the fact that the amount of contribution each unit makes will naturally change over the course of the game.
 

That's pretty bad, but it's also a problem for a tier list based on almost any criteria. There are also some problems more specifically related to using LTCs as a benchmark.

The most obvious problem is in the name: they're an LTC tier list and normal gameplay is not an LTC:

• Movement is a flat and insurmountable barrier in an LTC that is it just isn't in normal gameplay if a unit has other benefits.
• Warp access instantly rockets any unit who has it to S tier if there's any kind of exclusivity but many normal players may well finish the game without using warp once (especially if it has limited uses).
• Consistency and difficulty of execution is of at best secondary or tertiary importance once an LTC is routed most efficiently where as it is basically the defining experience of FE for a typical player.
• Most of the time spent in an LTC is (ideally) in planning and routing rather than execution whereas most players the relationship is strictly and substantially inverted and most often players will rush in with minimal preparations (and you would hope so too, given that that's the gameplay).
• LTCs require an incredibly intimate knowledge of the game, it's systems and the resources available to you which just isn't possible for a normal player on their first playthrough and possibly even later playthroughs as well if they don't check an external resource.
• LTCs are incredibly, overwhelmingly weighted towards bases instead of growths because of how limited experience is, how you'll constantly be feeding what little there is to the same handful of units and how a turn in the early game counts exactly the same as a turn in the lategame (even if you have to compromise consistency later down the line to compensate for the earlier choice).

This doesn't mean that LTC techniques and values aren't sometimes useful to more casual players or players in different contexts though. Movement opens up a ton of possibilities more generally, warp skipping and passing up on xp can lead to a more fun experience and sometimes it really is worth just mathing out and chancing a skip or planning stat boosters/meals before hand based on thresholds. None of these are because LTCs are somehow a more fundamental window into the game's systems than a normal playthrough though, they're mostly natural consequences of the fact that both in an LTC playthrough and a normal playthrough you're trying to clear the same objectives - of course some of the time the LTC way to do things will also be the easiest normal way to do things. They're tools in your belt to access when you need them, not a universally better way to experience the game.
Another problem is just how many hidden assumptions there are in LTC placements. They're built on the razor's edge of meta play and so a player without the most meta knowledge is often going to get lost looking at why specific units place where they do, even if the trends might be helpful. Shelter singing might be one of the most powerful techniques in fates and indispensable in an LTC context, but a player who doesn't know about it is going to be absolutely mystified when innate cavalry units place so high but lag behind their best units in combat who are tiered lower.

So that's the problem, but is there actually a solution? Well, I have a couple which I think are at least better even if none of them are good:

 

Spreadsheet Hell

The primary way that units are tested is in combat, so the most natural way to "objectively" compare them is checking their stat benchmarks against the enemy to see how they perform via excel or something. Units who hit benchmarks more easily are better units as are units who are able to hit higher benchmarks.
Advantages:

• More representative of a normal experience (i.e. a juggernaut who never dies is good even if they can't move very far. An enemy phase dodge tank who can clear out everything without getting hit is good even if it takes a few turns. A flying unit who dies in one hit and who doesn't have great damage output isn't good just because she can one shot the boss on level 21 if you give her every str drop and every speed wing and her skill procs and she crits and he misses on retaliation).
• Easy to conceptualise
• "Objective"

Disadvantages:

• An absolute nightmare in practice with so many degrees of freedom and randomness.
• The comparisons are objective, evaluating how meaningful each comparison is to a unit's performance absolutely isn't.
• Specific choices of rankings and the reasoning can be difficult to explain/justify

 

"Ironman" Tier List

A tier list based on resetting the game if your lord dies and leaving dead characters dead.
Advantages:

• Probably the best possible representation of the sort of units a player would most naturally want to use (units with safe combat thresholds who are unlikely to die even after multiple rounds of combat).
• Naturally incorporates all of the resources available to the player into the rankings.

Disadvantages:

• Difficult to justify placements which aren't obvious.
• Normal playthroughs aren't ironmen and so some strategies (like rigging a low% crit using divine pulse) still get disproportionately penalised.

 

"Fuzzy, Wishy-Washy, Gamefeel" Tier List

Basically just units where they feel like they should be, possibly with some vague justifications alongside certain characters.
Advantages:

• How people actually play and evaluate unit performance.

Disadvantages:

• You will get stabbed in the comments.
• No one will respect your opinion unless you've beaten maddening 3 times blindfolded with your feet.

 

"Just Don't Make A" Tier List

Just don't make one. Talk about general advice/principles and good builds for specific units instead.
Advantages:

• You can actually have a productive discussion and give/receive good advice about better techniques for playing the game.
• You don't hyper optimise a game which is already pretty forgiving.
• You get to use your favourites rather than worrying about missing out 1 point of str at level 99 or skipping half a turn at endgame.

Disadvantages:

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Overall I just really hope that people try to keep in mind that tier lists are only useful/valuable for the specific context that they're made in or as a simple way to summarise someone's opinion rather than a 2 for 1 on a gasoline can and a lighter. When you try to take that conclusion and broaden it outside of that context to win an argument against someone else's opinion, it just isn't fun for anyone.

Hello everyone,
I figured maybe this would help someone. I am a pretty healthy 35F in the southern US and I tested positive for the FIRST time today. Crazy.
Yesterday, I woke up with a dry cough. It just feels like my lungs/bronchial tubes are irritated and burning. In fact, yesterday, I commented that I wished I could put ice on my lungs to soothe that feeling. I also had weird stabbing chest pain a couple of times after exerting myself mildly. I took a rapid test last night and it was negative. Figured I was just getting a cold.
Fever, body aches, headache, and nausea started around 10 PM last night. I barely slept because of those symptoms. Lots of tossing and turning. I have been working remotely today and thought I had the flu versus a cold now. When I got hit with an absolute wave of fatigue and nightmarish headache after lunch time, I tested again. It immediately turned positive as soon as the test became saturated.
I had the J&J vaccine back when that was a thing, as well as 1 booster shot. The back pain and leg pain are pretty significant, but I haven't lost smell/taste so far. Body aches and incredible, unquenchable thirst are very reminiscent of the vaccine reactions I had. I will update if anything else happens.
Thanks!

As Tem used the Rhino mech to clear the debre, Vhan noticed something amongst the rubble. "Tem! Wait! The shelter is ri-" Vhan's is cut short, as a large explosion erupts from the debre. Sending Vhan and his raptor mech flying. Vhan's mech hit the ground hard and he dropped his rifle. Tem and the Rhino are still alive, but not moving. As Vhan gets up and goes for his rifle, Vhans combat systems turned orange. The Raptors AI warning system went into full alert. "INCOMING MISSILES" it blared.
Vhan managed to dodge the incoming missiles that had been fired from 2 near by high rises. Grabbing his rifle in the process. After the missiles flew by, Vhan soon realized, he wasn't the target. Tems Rhino is hit by both missiles, making the rhino fall to the ground. Face first. "Shit! Tem! You alive dipshit? Respond! We been ambushed!" Vhan shouted frantically. All Vhan heard is static. 'Shit, not good!' Vhan thought to himself.
Vhan moved the raptor behind a building and activated his AR systems. Revealing 2 anti mech tanks and multiple infantryman, hiding in the nearby high rises. Unsure where exactly. Looking over functioning system on the raptor, th short range missile rack is working and so is the AA gun. Vhan would try to fire a missile at the right buildings lower floors and use the AA gun for the left buildings upper floors.
Vhan tried his best to determine the locations accurately as possible, readying his weapons. Vhan activated a booster in the Raptor, flying out of cover side ways. He firing his rifle for coverage, firing the missile and rapidly turning to fire the AA. As impacts are made, Vhan rushed back to cover. "HEAVY IMPACT DETECTED! BACK ARMOR DAMAGED!" blared the AI again. The tank of the right building fired its canon as Vhan headed to cover. Hitting Vhan's raptor. No modules or components are damaged, but the next shot to his back may be his last. He peaked the Raptors head around the corner for a moment, pulling it back just as he heard a shot. Dodging a high impact round just in time.
Vhan tried to radio Tem again, who's mech is still face first in the ground. "Tem, we have anti mech tanks here! You alive? If not, Imma leave your ass!" Vhan shouted at him. He heard static for a moment, but the noise was brought to end. "Yeah yeah, shut the hell up, yer fuckin brat!" Tem replied with a furious tone. Suddenly the Rhino began to stand up, Vhan peeked the corner with his rifle. Ready to cover Tem. Vhan saw the barrel of the tank, "Tem, 23rd floor! They are aiming right at you!" Vhan shouted as he opened fire. None of the shots hit the tank, only around it. Though, hitting infantryman around it.
Vhan took a deep breath as it fired at Tem. Who just stood the rhino up and is swinging its left arm in the direction of the tank. Bouncing the shot off his Rhinos arm. Just after, swinging his heavy gun and grabbing it, perfectly aimed at the tank. Tem laughed, "yer done fucked with the wrong mech pilot!" Tem shouted, unloading a heavy and accurate line of shots at the tank. Pieces of the tank went flying and an explosion errupted. "What the fuck took your old ass so long? " Vhan lividly shouted at Tem. "What? Yer too damn stupid to know that the rhino clearly had to do a restart? Fuckin kid, shut up and pay attention! Either way yer brat, nice job! You managed to take out the other tank at least!" Tem exclaimed with a laugh, while pointing at the ball of fire from the left building. "How did you manage a crackshot like that?" Tem asked curiously. Vhan pointed to the AA gun on the raptors shoulder, "boosted out, used the rifle for cover. Fired a missile and missed the tank you got, but used my AA for that one." Vhan explained.
Tem nodded in approval. "Lets find yer old man and GTFO!" Tem exclaimed as he walked away, Vhan following behind him.
So? What can I do to improve this or is it good?

Hey guys,
Shot my 102 this weekend and it was flawless until I put the can on. Everything cycled until the last round of the mag I suffered a case ripped in half and stuck in chamber, looks like it ripped about 15mm from the mouth.
Has anybody experienced this? Is it just from shooting with a can while not adjusting gas therefore causing violent extraction due to over pressure? Or is it due to needing a booster to avoid short dwell time?

Just thought I’d share what happened this weekend and how much of a confidence booster it was.
My home center runs monthly 6 gamers on PBA patterns and racks of the heavy gold pins to keep scores low and place an emphasis on shot-making instead of relying on carry. I’ve bowled eight or nine of them up to this point and have just been absolutely lost, until this past weekend. Getting coaching from college bowling and developing an acumen of how to read a lane and ball motion, both side to side and front to back, was so critical. I made all the right moves, used the right ball for the transition, and felt confident that I was attacking the lanes correctly.
The other big thing about these tournaments is that they’re always a huge mental grind. I usually check out early mentally when I bowl these after I’d go -100 through 3 or worse, but this time despite going from +21 to -60 in one game (you do the math to what I shot, it was bad), I could have easily said screw it and act as if my day was over. I managed to keep my head in it, grind my way back to plus within two games, and then end up finishing +58 for 6 which was good enough to cash!
I feel like I’ve finally broken through to a new level of competition and am excited to see what happens next!