#hope this helps anyone

[cerastes]

I think a big part of the difficulties people seem to have with Integrated Strategies comes from not knowing how to fine tune team building, and it’s understandable, it’s only one of two modes in which this matters, the other being Contingency Contract, and even then only if you’re doing 25+ Risk in general, which is the minority of players. In every other situation, you grab your preferred 12+1, and go apeshit. Unless you intentionally indulge in challenging yourself through comps and other sorts of map-clearing (3*s only, MinOp, 1OPrally, etc), it’s very likely the average Arknights player just doesn’t have the experience to truly learn how building and finetuning beyond “shove all my meta and or favorite units in the team” works.

I’ve talked about this before but something I find helps is making a little checklist of what your ideal team has, and then pruning this into a checklist of what are the barest requirements you need to succeed at a run.

Let me use JT-8, for example. JT-8 needs you to deal with:

The boss and all their normal gimmicks.

The boss’ gimmick when they lose a lifebar.

The boss’ phase 2 bomb gimmick.

The non-boss mobs, which include dogs, casters, and 2-block lancers.

So you prepare:

Healing.

Maybe fast-redeploy to lure some of the bosses attacks + block/kill some phase 2 bombs.

Damage dealing.

Sufficient block.

Something to hold the boss.

These four points are very easy to cover with 12+1 units. Alright, now let’s prune that into bare essentials.

Healing and bulk (to resist Arts and survive) can be acquired with Nightingale.

Further healing and boss holding can be covered by Saria S1.

Enemies in JT-8 besides the boss deal low damage and are not bulky, so you don’t need a lot of bodies or a lot of bulk, and can focus on bringing damage. Thorns and SilverAsh have enough damage and block that they can each hold a lane, as well as ranged attacks that allows them to hit the boss when it’s in the center.

And we have reduced our entire checklist of needs into 4 units. These four units are all you need to clear JT-8. That’s your team. Anything else you throw on top of these units is gravy and will make the process even easier.

Of course, your comp needs to be consistent with what you actually have. So if you don’t have some of these units, or any, you look at what units you have that can achieve this. No Nightingale? Maybe use Perfumer+Ptilopsis instead to make up for the lack of Res with more pure healing. No Thorns and/or SilverAsh? You bring dedicated blockers instead (Specter, Cutter, etc) and bring Snipers and Casters to deal damage to the boss. No Saria? Use any other boss holder, like Nearl or even Spot, and make up for the Saria factor by bringing additional healers, or maybe even debuffers, like Shamare or Mousse. Maybe you can’t do it with 4 units only, but you can with 8 or 9, which is great, because that still gives you leeway to bring other QoL units in those remaining slots, like Gravel or Texas.

You prune and prune until your needs are met. This sounds like an involved process, and for high Risk and some IS2 runs, it can be, but for the most part, you simply know your roster, and know what it can and can’t do. You get that with experience, and you get a taste of team building.

In the case of IS2, specifically, there’s the roguelike factor unique to it, which means you can’t really build exactly the way you want unless you get lucky, but the point is, don’t rely only on luck, if you learn team building -- how to prune your ideal checklist into bare essentials checklists -- then you Make Do With What You Get, and you end up with more successful runs than failures. 

IS2 is, in part, a knowledge check of your own Operators. It’s a very niche knowledge check of your own Operators which exists only in the game mode, but that’s what makes it fun.

[tizzymcwizzy]

this is a poster i made for my call to action assignment in humanities! it's a bunch of basic and easy stretches for people who sit and work at a desk all day (me)

the idea is that you'd put the poster up above ur desk and do the stretches every 30 minutes or so,, the whole routine won't take more than about 6 minutes to complete and when done regularly it can prevent wrist, shoulder, neck and back pain! :)

all these stretches can be done while sitting (although i HIGHLY recommend you stand up and move around while taking a break from working)

you can get a free digital copy of this poster here on my gumroad!

and you can order a print/poster here from my inprnt!

[giantkillerjack]

Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".

Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"

And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".

Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.

At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.

So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!

Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!

Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!

Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.

[lilybug-02]

Dewi needed Hornets help OKAY.

Bug Fact: The Planthopper insect can accelerate from 0 to 12 miles per hour in less than a millisecond. Video/Pictures Below

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Masterpost

The Planthopper essentially vanishes from view.

They are also an extremely diverse set of insects morphologically!

Interested in learning more? True Facts About Leafhoppers and Friends <- very humorous and educational video :D PG-13

[scamoosh]

hi guyz i made a quiz abt which horror trope/theme i enjoy you are!! cws are in the description so please mind them!

[stil-lindigo]

the machine.

a comic about being a 'creator' online.

creative notes:

[edgeasaurus-art]

What several levels of exhaustion does to a mother fucker.

I was listening to the album grow again by Moe Reen while making this. specifically Why Deny (The Climate of Our Love).

You could admit it's all on fire And confess to loving me This world is surely ending soon, Our love is certainly something true So why deny the climate of our love?

Theres so much to say about them. The world is on the precipice of disaster and yet they found each other, the successors to the emperor and empress titans. Did the emperor and empress wonder what their successors would become? did they wonder about who their successors would be? did they hope that they would find the love they had? or did they think the story of the titans ended then?

When Fearne was alone with Nana Morri did she ever dream about the people she has around her now? about sharing a bed, with no other expectations other than waking up together?

When Ashton found themselves left behind after the nobodies left him, did he dream about a group of people who listened to what they said and respected their words? did they ever dream of someone wanting to be with them just because they liked being around him?

when they were at their loneliest, was the thought of each other a fever dream?

I still stand as a firm believer that both Ashton and Fearne have two hands, but watching them grow closer together has been amazing. And I hope their relationship continues to flourish, platonically or romantically.

[musubiki]

please save me star rail danmarch

[the-bitter-ocean]

Hi isat fandom. Points at the sign.

[mothermass]

No ❤️

[raisin-gran]

I don’t know if anyone has done this, but I took some time to try and write out what Bill is writing behind all over the page, but I wrote it all down to the best of my abilities!

(Writing Under The Cut.)

“Ever since that pathetic excuse for a 5-sensed, three-dimensional, one-life spanned, skin puppet was barfed into the universe he was nothing but a carbon-copy of a better genetic duplicate and he knew it! A trillion years from when I’ve broken out of this place—no, taken over, he’ll be remembered as a speed bump under the cement truck of my inevitable triumph, as a six next to an asterix next to an asterix next to an asterix. Who would be a joke if he was capable of understanding comedy when he OBVIOUSLY isn’t. I mean, have you heard the hack material he does on the tourists? I’ve been inside his dreams, he WORKSHOPS that material, he SLAVES over it and the best he can spare some pun that would make a third grader cringe and a vaudeville routinist that was a hack before they were even invented! It’s an insult that he’s allowed to wear a suit and tie, he should be in a BARELL and SUSPENDERS!“

[new-gender-who-dis-xd]

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[exploringopensky]

was reading Sherlock holmes and this popped into my head

[ask-jewels-against-the-sea]

In which Five Pebbles offers Survivor some much needed encouragement.

[losticaruss]

basically since i joined social media as a wannabe author, i've always seen character sheets for people to fill out to help flesh out their characters and, to be honest, they're always insanely specific and really overwhelming, especially for a novice author. so i've decided to post my general character sheet format:

name-

age-

gender/sexuality (if you know)-

3/4 general personality traits-

MBTI (to flesh out flaws and reactions)-

3ish sentences on backstory-

motivations-

values-

[ravennowithtea]

you can reply here with fanart requests/ideas or drop stuff in my askbox ✌️