I figured out problem 1 from an earlier post by using heat, my question is what do i do for a stuck tie rod end that wont come out with the removal tool? I don't know if its because the inner tie rod is seized, because every time i try to use the bloody tool the little end bit just does not want to grab on. The other two in the box are too small and this one isnt too big socket wise, its just too long if that makes sense. Like getting the socket around the inner tie rod end connection to the axle/spindle/whatever, it has to be pulled back in order for it to lock, but when i insert the bar over the tie rod to get it onto the socket itll push the socket forward thus preventing it from being secure. This is really frustrating and id appreciate any sort of help. I dont have any wrenches big enough to get over the inner tie rod end.

I decided to work on releasing my resistance to surrendering to the universe. I had an incredible experience of meditation which changed the way I see many things, but despite its effortlessness and beauty, I am scared to go there again. There was zero resistance the first time as entering that state wasn't intentional, and even if it had of been, I would have zero idea of how overwhelming it would be in retrospect. It seems kind of ridiculous that I wouldn't want to be in a permanent transcendent state. The day after I tried to get it back but couldn't. Since then I've been my normal self at times, but have been spending around half of each day in a state of extreme clarity and calmness.
I haven't taken my ADHD meds, because my focus is piercing. I didn't drink on my birthday because I needed zero extra to let go or feel relaxed and happy. That state, the milder version of a transcendent state I can accept happily. It's just the stronger version of it, where I feel like I could happily clean my windows or be in solitary confinement for all my life, just feeling at one with the universe and seeing everything in a way that is so familiar somehow yet completely alien scares me. But at the same time, I realise that everyone only does *anything*, be it good or bad, because in some ways they think it would make them happier or their lives more tolerable. I see this is a shortcut there. It will completely solve my ADHD, although I think this milder state will do that on its own, and it would also sort out my problems with fearing closeness. I've already changed so much of my misguided thought process. I thought that these two things would always be dampening my life experience somehow. I see the solution, by in the same way I find it difficult to believe anyone elses love for me, and push it away, I feel the same way about this feeling of connection when in that state. Also, I feel like anything that feels *that good* it must be bad. It made me realise that I do also have some desires for the future still, and giving into that state would mean deciding to give up on them.
But nevertheless, I decided to surrender. To just let go and allow myself to receive the feeling. To trust the universe. I spent some time meditating and writing about it, and then I had a sense of urgency, like I was supposed to go out. I had nowhere to be. There was nothing I needed. But I just decided to trust the feeling. I just had a sense that the universe was taking me where I needed to be, and this was a test, to show if I was tuned in, to show if I would trust. I jumped in the shower, felt more urgency like I needed to leave very soon, and went out with the back of my hair a bit damp. I walked with absolutely no idea where I was going. At each turning I just stopped and went what way I felt I was supposed to. I walked past someone talking to a friend and all I heard was "This is a journey you've got to take". A bus stopped at the stop just ahead of me, I had no idea where it was going, I hadn't got that bus before, but had the sudden urge to run and jump on it. At the zoo, I felt the need to jump off.
There was a beautiful park, which I hadn't been to before. I wondered if I was just supposed to be around nature, but it felt like more than that. I wandered through it, just taking in all the happy little moments I was seeing. Everyone seemed happy. A lady had music playing and was dancing with her two children, as I walked past the lyrics were "Hurry up she's waiting there for you". I walked up towards a fountain which was switched off and I got the feeling that here is where I am supposed to wait. That kind of confused me. Then a crow flew right in front of me and did a haphazard flutter and went back in the direction it came in. I thought, surely I'm not waiting for the crow haha. Later I googled and saw crows are symbolic of psychic awareness.
So I thought if I am waiting, I'm not standing by a turned-off fountain so decided to sit down somewhere. That felt right. I went round the corner and there was a lady in the distance on a bench and I wondered if I was supposed to talk to her. She was chatting to a friend on her phone. I was enjoying the beauty of the park. Watching the shadows moving, thinking that the present moment is where the shadows meet the light. There were a few people just sitting on the grass. The light was reflecting off the grass in a brilliant white, like an artist's highlight. The tree in front of me was the perfect shape, and very old, tree of life style. I was watching this but also very aware of most of the phone conversations she was having.
She was talking about the importance of supporting and being supported, but also supporting yourself. She was talking about joy coming from within and the importance of externals and how she just wants to live and experience life. She discussed an issue that she was having without casting a single bit of blame. She was talking about the dichotomy of control and just seemed like a very lovely person. I was just generally wowed by her emotional intelligence and thought yup, you would be the perfect friend. I felt that she was who I was supposed to meet. And THEN she said in the phone conversation that she's just moved to the UK, and she really wants to make friends and live her life, do more stuff. And I thought that the universe couldn't make this any easier if it tried. I didn't know if she would walk off on her phone or not, so in case she did I wrote down my number.
I don't know how much time passed, maybe half an hour, maybe one, but she did go. A beautiful albatross had just wandered up to the bench which is symbolic of good luck. I called her, and she was still on the phone, and I was like "Sorry, I couldn't help overhearing your conversation, I know your new to the UK and want to meet new people, I think we've got a lot in common so if you want to do something just let me know". She was so happy and smiley and thankful, and it was at that moment I was like woooooah this girl is beautiful on the outside as well, I didn't see her face before. She's a petite California beach babe, and there I am, all five foot nine of me looming, and clumping along in my doc marten boots and leather mini skirt. It's only since my original mini-awakening type meditation that I have the overwhelming sense that we are basically all the same though. Our personalities are built around our wants, desires, fears, hope s and dreams, and are moulded by past experiences. Before I would have pre-rejected myself from being her friend because of our external differences. But now I just feel like we are both people who know what the shortcut to joy is. And I just feel the need to support her.
She messaged me and I'm so excited. We're going for lunch next Friday, and I'm kind of terrified when I'm in a less meditative place like "omg the universe has sent her into my life, that's so much pressure" and "What if she rejects me because of my past experiences which I've recently decided to be open about". At other times I'm just calmer and filled with happiness.
I'm not expecting I'll be having more experiences like this. I just know I will. I feel the need to document them, so will be doing so.

Speaking with Total Film, Marvel Studios VP of Production & Development Jonathan Schwartz shared new details on the impact that 2019's Captain Marvel will have on the MCU's next Disney+ show, Secret Invasion.
One important plot development from Captain Marvel's final moments came when Carol Danvers agreed to help Talos and his Skrull family find a new home after being on the run across the galaxy for generations, with Nick Fury there beside her:
"I’ll help you find a home. Finish what Mar-Vell started."
However, Nick Fury is going to come into this series with some self-doubt after not fulfilling that promise.
Schwartz explained that this leads the Skrulls to be "unhappy with the status quo" as they point much of their frustration and anger towards Fury himself over this situation:
"Fury and Carol promise the Skrulls they’ll find a new home planet for them to live as themselves. And decades later, that hasn’t happened. The Skrulls are unhappy with the status quo, and starting to get very dissatisfied. A lot of that anger is directed at Nick."
Schwartz also dove into the idea of Secret Invasion being "a more grounded espionage thriller" for Nick Fury, something that the studio had wanted to do for a long time and only got to explore with him in 2014's Captain America: The Winter Soldier:
"It had always been talked about, but never really happened. We really liked the idea of a more grounded espionage thriller. That felt like the right home for Nick. That’s the way things crystallise sometimes in the MCU. You talk about something for a long time, and then the right idea or the right medium or the right genre just catalyses it, and makes it real."
Additionally, director Ali Selim explained how Fury is "going through something very internal" in this new series, teasing a new side of the character that's "a little broken and a little older:"
"Nick Fury is going through something very internal in this show. On our first call together, Sam said to me, 'I don’t know this Nick Fury.' He’s lived the badass Nick Fury. And suddenly, he’s a Nick Fury who’s a little broken and a little older, and wondering what’s his place in all of this and does he have the juice?’

There was an anime direct to home video miniseries in 1988 based on Heinlein's "Starship Troopers," called "Uchu no senshi" (Soldiers of the universe). The six episodes were released on laserdisk and tape in Japan, and AFAIK, have never been reissued since. I have seen it only because of rips of the laserdisk with fan-translated subs available from torrent sites.
The anime series is OK but not great. It avoids all the (endless, very grumpy) lectures about politics in the original novel and just sticks to the story of Juan Rico, his romance with Carmencita, and the war against the Bugs. It also only covers the first third to half of the novel (Johnny graduates from boot camp at the start of episode 4 of 6). Naturally, since it's anime, the powered armour of the original novel is featured front and centre.
On watching the series, I noticed some odd parallels between how the Anime departs from the novel and how the Verhoeven Starship Troopers movie departs from the novel. Does it make sense to think that the scriptwriter (Neumeier) consulted the anime series to fill in his very careless and sloppy reading of the actual novel? Verhoeven cut out the powered armour of the novel completely, allegedly for budgetary reasons. Other than that, though:

1. Novel: Johnny Rico was active in track, swimming, and debate in high school. Anime: Juan Rico plays American football. Movie: Johnny Rico is a football player.
   
2. Novel: Rico knows a girl named Carmen but their friendship occupies a couple sentences. She visits him for a date in officer training school, but they aren't in love. Anime: Rico is head over heels for Carmencita, and this is front and centre. Movie: Rico and Carmen's relationship is front and centre.
   
3. Novel: Rico's family is rich, unlike his best friend, who is poor. Anime: everyone in his social circle is well to do. Movie: everyone owns all the toys and doesn't need to worry about money, in the usual Hollywood "everyone is upper middle class" way.
   
4. Novel: Rico is a Filipino whose native language is Tagalong (revealed on the last page). Anime: Rico is blonde and blue-eyed. His classmates are likewise mostly very white looking. Movie: Despite supposedly being located in Buenos Aires, all these supposed Latino characters look very Anglo, like they came from an upper class LA high school.
   

In other areas, the movie takes something partially developed in the anime and runs with it to a new, often quite foolish place.
5: Novel: Rico lives somewhere in a former colony of Spain, but not in the Western Hemisphere (if you pay close attention to the subtle clues sprinkled sparsely through the opening chapters). Anime: Rico lives somewhere where American football is popular, there are lots of people with Hispanic names, all the signage is in English, and the sun rises over the ocean. (Florida?, Texas? California in a retrograde version of Earth? Japan but with everyone mysteriously having Spanish names?). Movie: Rico lives in an Americanized, Anglicized, whitewashed version of Buenos Aires, because Neumeier did not actually read the novel with much attention and failed to realize that Rico's mother was travelling away from home when she died in the Bug attack on that city.

1. Novel: boot camp instructor Staff Sergeant Zim asks the new recruits if any of them can take him in a fight. When he then breaks the wrist of one of the recruits who fights him, he apologizes for it – “I’m sorry, you hurried me a little.” Anime: Zim hurts a recruit’s forearm, possibly on purpose, and says “go to the dispensary, it’s just a simple dislocation, you’ll be better in three hours.” Movie: Zim deliberately and with malice breaks of the arm of an already defeated man (movie Zim = sociopath).
   
2. Novel: Zim trains the recruits in knife throwing. A recruit asks why they are doing something so primitive when the enemy has nuclear bombs. Zim replies with two short lectures, one on how there is no such thing as a dangerous weapon, only a dangerous man, and second on how the military’s job is not to obliterate the enemy but to exert as much or as little violence against the enemy as the government desires. Anime: there's a severely condensed version of the first lecture about dangerous men. Movie: Zim doesn’t answer the question at all, he just stabs the recruit in the hand because sociopath.
   

Finally, there are a few places where the movie follows neither the anime nor the book.

1. Novel: Zim cares deeply for the welfare of his trainees, and this is explicitly conveyed through a lot of words. Anime: in the three episodes set in boot camp, Zim is harder and more cruel, but we are shown through his expressions that despite the mean exterior, he cares a great deal about the welfare of his trainees. Movie: Zim is a sociopath who goes out of his way to hurt his trainees.
   
2. Novel: Zim's cheeks are "shaved blue," so he’s pale skinned. No other description of his appearance is given. Anime: Zim is of African descent, and just about the only character depicted with non pale skin. Movie: Zim is a blond, Aryan looking white guy. (considering Hollywood's racist approach to casting, this is not surprising)
   

Looking at all of that together, I start wondering: could the script for the movie have been borrowing from the anime? If you've seen the anime yourself, please let me know your thoughts. If you haven't: it's six short episodes, and worth your time if you are a Heinlein completist.

I am 22 years old, and I have never had a drop of alcohol so far for the following reasons.
I have this feeling of pride about not drinking and I value it too much to even try a sip. I somehow consider alcohol to be beneath my level and that trying even a little would mean that I insult myself. While this itself may or may not be a problem, what comes next could definitely be a problem. I sometimes feel like I am superior to the people who drink (regardless of how much they drink).
I have a fear of harassing anyone if I get drunk, even if it is baseless to even think of that possibility based on how I have led my life so far. I have been respectful to people, and I don't want to entertain a possibility where I could make someone very uncomfortable when I am drunk. Maybe the first reason could be a result of this as well. Maybe that pride comes from how I care enough to make the possibility of me hurting people zero. Maybe I feel superior to those who drink because I think about this whereas people who drink do it just for fun without thinking about all these remote possibilities.
Whatever reddit says, I know that won't ever take any form of intoxicating drugs. My question is not about if I should avoid drinking for the above reasons.
My question is if it is weird and wrong for me to have such a way of thinking? Is it wrong for me to feel superior just because I don't drink?
Since I am afraid of harassing someone if I drink, does it mean that I have no confidence in myself to be a decent human being at all times? Does this mean that I subconsciously know that I can be capable of being an indecent monster (even if there is nothing to even remotely support this idea) and that is why I am restricting myself?

They are a little dirty but I found these in my attic does anybody recognize them?

So, after everything we’ve been through this last little while and we’re all enjoying/waiting on the record.
Does anybody think we’ll get a new music video with the drop tonight?
I remember very firmly waiting up with my brother for midnight with Nightmare and it’s that extra special the boys like to give us. Fingers crossed for Mattel!

Does anyone know where I can find those vectors of certain characters where you have to transparent drag-and-drop their outfits and hair onto the bodies?
I'm working on a little personal art project and I need some of the Main 7 for it.

Hi all! Last week on Thursday I ate at Chili’s for the first time in years (it was actually good!). The problem is, I ordered a burger and bit into it, then looked and saw a part of it was still a little pink? (It was one of those double stack burgers) so the top patty had a little pink but not the bottom one. I did ask them to remake it and they did (it was delicious). On the menu it says their burgers are cooked medium well which is what I typically get my meat now (game changer).
I didn’t get any “food poisoning” per say (even though like an hr after I got home I had to use the bathroom) I’ve just have had stomach pain that comes and goes. Idk if it’s connected to the burger because I know seeing pink in a burger does not indicate that it is not done! I know some people get their burgers cooked to medium.
Just wanted to know some additional info regarding burgers and the proper temperature + cooking process of it. Like the difference between it actually being undercooked v pink due to the cooking process

I feel like I should carry around business cards that say “I’m sorry” because I am at the point where I’m becoming more aware of how bad some of my actions are. I have a person in my life that I’m close to who has a hard time “believing” me about my mental health. When I split and then I’m fine he thinks it was an all an act. I can understand that from his perspective it does look like an act. If I was watching it go down l as a 3rd person I would be rolling my eyes at me. I am actively trying to work on it and do DBT but there are still times when I can’t control it and the “crazy” in me comes out. I feel terrible about it. And I apologize and acknowledge what I did and I don’t know what else to say
One part of me feels like he should understand. And I that I have been making progress but it’s slow and hard to notice. And the other part of me is wondering maybe I am an abusive person who has been using BPD as an excuse to be that way.
I guess I don’t know where the line is between “I have a legitimate mental illness” and “I can do whatever I want and abuse people because I was told I have a mental illness”. I’m sick of playing the “sorry” card so I can only assume the people in my life feel the same.
I think one of the shittiest thing about this disorder is not being able to trust your own motives.
Sorry for the rambling, I’m a little stoned. Thank you if you read this far. It felt good to get these cannabis induced thoughts out of my head and onto the internet for anyone to read.

Hi. I am having odd symptoms. I’m not unsure if I am sensitive to heat but here I go…I am 33, 3 months post miscarriage and 6 months off birth control. I discovered I have Turner Syndrome and low AMH levels with possible diminished ovarian syndrome. 6 weeks after going off BCP I developed night sweats, as well as underarm sweats during the day. Then it stopped after 2 weeks. I was soon pregnant and no more sweating. 6 weeks post miscarriage it started it again. Nightsweats tend to be more prominent during or around my cycle. However, the under arm sweating is now every day on/off day time only. My new problem is I am sensitive to heat outside and ESPECIALLY when driving. My whole back sweats as well as behind my knees and legs. I also notice now when I rush around the house doing chores, or if the car is too warm, I easily get too warm. When I hop out of my chair in the morning at work, I do feel a little dizzy but it is only in the morning. Does this sound like POTS? I am nodding off around 5 pm almost daily. Please share experiences.

Been getting back into the hero and I feel like he's in a bit of a rough spot right now. He had a really powerful niche as a dusa counter bc he can just become better medusa but the top cores besides her are ones that he doesn't get to game that hard with (wind/meepo/spectre/naga), and his base kit of high burst is cucked by the aura meta, not even mentioning how hard he gets fucked by veno and AA. The change to adaptive strike is welcome cause it means you are heavily benefitted from maxing it first, but it still feels like he's an odd one out in the current meta, I've been experimenting with him as a mid but it feels rough and super niche, though it does feel a little better then him as a 1 rn, doesn't help that he kinda lost his signature playstyle after shotgun morph was kneecapped. What do you think about the hero? I'm kinda curious if anyone else has observed the issues I've mentioned.

Hi. I am having odd symptoms. I’m not unsure if I am sensitive to heat but here I go…I am 33, 3 months post miscarriage and 6 months off birth control. I discovered I have Turner Syndrome and low AMH levels with possible diminished ovarian syndrome. 6 weeks after going off BCP I developed night sweats, as well as underarm sweats during the day. Then it stopped after 2 weeks. I was soon pregnant and no more sweating. 6 weeks post miscarriage it started it again. Nightsweats tend to be more prominent during or around my cycle. However, the under arm sweating is now every day on/off day time only. My new problem is I am sensitive to heat outside and ESPECIALLY when driving. My whole back sweats as well as behind my knees and legs. I also notice now when I rush around the house doing chores, or if the car is too warm, I easily get too warm. When I hop out of my chair in the morning at work, I do feel a little dizzy but it is only in the morning. Does this sound like POTS? I am nodding off around 5 pm almost daily. Normal TSH and T3 Uptake is one point away from out of range. Went from 27 to 34 over the last 8 monthz. Please share experiences.

Some of us have limited free time & we choose to prioritize listening to this show instead of consuming other, higher quality sources of entertainment.
The Heat & Panthers could win championships at the same time this month but somehow I can’t listen to the show without Dan’s fat maw trying to ruin the Succession finale, TWICE?! Why!? What does that add to the show?
2 times this week I’ve had to immediately hit pause & mark as played, because I will not let this shoddy little podcast ruin that beautiful finale for me. Meanwhile you guys aren’t even paying the electric bill!!!
Dan, bottom line I’ve unsubscribed for the first time in five years. Because you are forcing me to choose, and I happily choose Succession.
-My God! -Suey! -You don’t get the show!

I'm not sure if this kind of post is allowed here, since it technically doesn't pertain to Honkai Star Rail, but is more-so targeted towards those players, so remove if necessary. Over the past few weeks I've seen a lot of players from HSR coming over to the various HI3 subreddits and asking various, but generally similar questions. I'm not sure if this has been done before, but I thought I'd make a post with all the information you need to know if you're a HSR player interested in HI3.
There are 3 main reasons I've seen for why HSR players are interested in HI3.

1. You want to learn more about Welt and his past/power.
2. You want to learn about the parallels between the characters in HI3 and HSR(Bronya, Seele, etc)
3. You are interested in HI3, the game itself.

I will provide resources for each of these reasons.

1) You're interested in Welt

Welt is quite the character. He is the only character(that we've seen in-game so far) in HSR that is directly from HI3. As in, they are the same person. There is a lot to him but you won't find much information about him in HSR. There are 2 main HI3 manga which heavily feature Welt:

1. Alien Space (17 Chapters) This manga serves as the bridge between HI3 and HSR, showing why Welt and Void Archives travelled there in the first place. You'll also get to see some of the backstory of HI3's Himeko, and her little adventure with Welt. Even with no knowledge of anything HI3, you should be able to understand this manga fairly well and enjoy it.
2. Second Eruption (66 chapters) This manga features Welt in his prime, during the war between humanity and the Herrscher of the Void during the 2nd Eruption. Welt uses his powers to the best of his ability here, and if you recognize the line "I am Welt of Humanity!...", yeah, that's here. Do note however, this manga will be very difficult to understand without any knowledge of HI3. If you just want to see Welt doing cool stuff, then by all means go ahead and read, but just be prepared to be confused. This is the best HI3 manga in the eyes of most, and also the longest by far, so maybe it might get you interested in HI3's story, for which, you can check the next the section.

Additionally, this post does a fantastic job of summarizing Welt's journey.
There is more to Welt, but this is all you'll get without playing the game.

2) You're interested in the characters/story

If you're interested in what the HSR characters are like in HI3, you'll have to go through HI3's story. But you don't actually have to be playing the game to do so! For the first 6 chapters, you can easily finish them with just the starter characters, and after that, the game will give you trial characters to use for every story chapter. So you can just login whenever you want to do story and not have to worry about actively playing the game.
The story is very highly praised by the community, but it's definitely not easy to get into. In order to get the full experience, you'll have to be jumping between different forms of media, as it is a multimedia story. There are the in-game chapters, several manga, 3 visual novels, anime(yes actual anime), and some amazing YouTube animations. The story is very long, and it will take some effort to go through. But it's definitely worth it. Hoyostans has put together an amazing story guide that you can follow, with everything linked right in the guide so you don't have to be searching for things yourself. Here is the guide
Do note that the early stuff(about the first half of Phase 1 in that guide) is pretty bad in comparison to what comes later, so don't let that discourage you from moving on. The story jumps in quality after chapter 7 and will keep getting better from there. (Ofc, this is an opinion)

3) You're interested in the game

Now if I were to talk about every aspect of the game in detail, this post would be like 10x longer. So I'll try to keep it short(I failed lol). I will also be making some comparisons to HSR and by extension Genshin(yes yes I know...) since this post is mainly targeted towards those players.
HI3 is difficult. As a F2P new player, it will definitely take you a long time to catch up. Powercreep is very present in this game, and characters get replaced fast(within 1 year even). But once your account gets the ball rolling(As in you get 3 teams fairly well built) things get alot easier and you''ll be able to keep up. The endgame starts post level 80, and you will get to level 80 very quickly with the amount of EXP you'll be flooded with. Luckily at level 80 its optional to breakthrough to higher levels and "enter the endgame". So you can remain at level 80 until you feel comfortable with your account to breakthrough.
Team and character building In terms of team building, you don't have much diversity. The teams are pretty much set in stone and there isn't much room for experimentation. "This character only does this and must go on this type of team and is pretty useless elsewhere" is the case for the majority of characters. Of course you can still mix and match but the ideal teams will always be the same. Characters however have alot to them, not just 3 moves. Like, alot. For example, there's a character with 4 different weapons and different movesets for each. (Yatta!).
In terms of character building, unlike Genshin and HSR, we don't technically have 5* gear. Signature gear is actually 4 star. You know the guaranteed 4 star every 10 pulls? You got a pretty good chance of pulling a character's signature gear from that. Unfortunately, every DPS needs their signature weapon. There isn't really any F2P alternatives that can come close to the signature for the majority of DPS, so you'll have to pull it. Supports have some more leeway with weapons but some still require their signature to work.
Artifacts/Relics Unlike Genshin and HSR, we don't have artifacts/relics. We have stigmata(stigma for short). Each character can be slotted with 3 stigma, with 2 piece and 3 piece set bonuses. You have to pull stigma and all signature stigma is 4 star. Therefore on your 10 pull 4* pity, you might either get a stigma or a weapon. Luckily stigma is not as mandatory as weapons, and there is a lot of craftable stigma that can substitute for signature.
Banners There is no 50/50 on character banner. Same 90 hard pity, 75 soft pity. Equipment banners have 5 stigma sets and 5 weapons in the pool, with 1 stigma set and the corresponding weapon rate up. Which means your 4* can be 20 different things, and if you only want 1 specific thing, yeah its tough, but there's a chance you might end up fully gearing another character by complete accident because of this. We also usually know the schedule for the next patch and maybe even the following patch, with all the banner details and events, so it's easy to plan your spending.
Events Honkai has events very often, and they are quite fun and sometimes "inspired" from other games. We essentially had a Fall Guys event, a Plants vs Zombies event, a somewhat Pokemon event and others. Event dialogue is usually pretty humorous and light hearted, and are pretty fun to read through.
End Game Activities There is alot to do in endgame.
Superstring Dimension AKA Abyss Every abyss cycle, you get grouped with a certain number of players, and you compete for score on a leaderboard tied to your group. Depending on your placement, you will earn trophies and either move to higher abyss levels, stay where you are, or move down, with different rewards for each level. Therefore HI3 can be said to be a competitive game. Every 3 days we get a new abyss cycle (not as long as Memory of Chaos or Spiral Abyss of course) and hence rewards.
Memorial Arena Every week, there are 3 bosses which players can compete for score on a global leaderboard(tied to your server like NA, SEA etc). This gives you the opportunity to use your various teams every week as each boss has their own weaknesses. Your score determines your rewards(not relative to other people's score) and your ranking affects some rewards as well but that one isn't really a big deal.
Elysian Realm This is HI3's equivalent of Simulated Universe, with some slightly different mechanics. This technically isn't an endgame activity, but getting higher scores will require you to have good gear. Its a weekly thing with good rewards, and the way characters play in Elysian Realm is fundamentally different from the regular game, since they might get new abilities specific to each character.
Raids Honkai has Co-op. Every week you can team up with 2 other players to go through 6 stages for rewards. To be very honest, Co-op is pretty meh. You'll be able to matchmake with other people easily but alot of people kinda just ignore this.
Oh, and we also have a customizable housing system with Chibi characters, and a global chat where people talk about all kinds of usually crazy stuff(looking at room 1). These are the real endgame activities 👍.
That's the main content besides the dailies, which you can finish with just a few mouse clicks. You will find lots of useful resources in the pinned post on the houkai3rd subreddit, so be sure to read through it if you get into the game.
Thank you for reading! I hope this information will be of use to anyone interested in HI3, and if you have any other things you may want to know, please leave a comment and I will answer if it's within my ability.

Over Memorial Day weekend, I caught my (27M) girlfriend (28F) cheating on me. I have a lot on my mind so this is going to be a long one... apologies in advance. I want to talk about the night it all went down, the days since, and life going forward.
Context:
I have been with my (likely soon to be ex) girlfriend for nearly 8 years. We met in college at a party and never looked back. Our relationship was never the most exciting or passionate, but we loved each other.
I will be the first to admit I was not a perfect partner. I struggled with alcohol and we both smoked a fair bit of marijuana through college and our early 20s. I also struggled greatly with depression and anxiety. Despite these issues, I always held down a job and paid the bills. We also rarely fought.
I have made great strides in my life to put these issues behind me. I am completely sober and have worked very hard to become the best future husband and father I can be for our family.
Over the years we built a life together. We both graduated college, moved to the big city, and began our careers. We have 2 dogs (luckily no kids) and live in a nice house in a nice suburb that we split rent on. Our lives are integrated. She is a part of my family and I am a part of hers. We have lived together for years and have shared expenses.
We are not engaged yet but I have had a ring for several months now. I had not proposed because I felt there were cracks in our relationship that I wanted to work on before taking that next step. I had tried to have conversations about these issues but was never met with any meaningful dialogue or action.
"D-day":
I think the story of my D-day actually start a couple weeks before it actually happened. One day before work, I had asked my GF (I'll call her J) if she could please clean her dishes in the sink and clean up her pile of laundry in the bathroom. No demands or anything, just "please, I'd appreciate it". J blew up at me. "Do you know how long you were a mess and I put up with it??". I was hurt but at this point I needed to leave for work so I said we need to talk later and headed out the door. I gathered my thoughts during the day and came home a little early from work. We sat down and I laid out the following points:
1. Please stop using the past against me. I know I wasn't perfect but I've worked very hard to become a better person. I cannot be in a relationship where my partner will hold my darkest days over my head to win an argument.
2. J works the nightshift and I have struggled with this in the past. We don't see each other very often as our schedules are completely opposite. She was open to changing to the day shift in the past but recently has hardened her stance. Recently, she has been sleeping a LOT on her days off. I understand nightshift is brutal on one's sleep schedule but it was getting to the point where she would only be awake 4-6 hours on her days off. These few hours she was awake she would lay on the couch and watch TV. It made having a relationship difficult, and it also meant her share of house duties was falling behind (leaving her dishes in the sink, her clothes all over the place, etc).
3. Sex. Our sex life has never been great. I have been open about my desire to improve things, have worked on myself to be an attractive partner, and have tried to discuss her wants and needs as well. There was never any progress.
During this conversation, I asked for her thoughts and feelings on each topic. I desperately wanted an actual dialogue but she was giving me nothing. Ultimately, she said she needed time to think about what I said. Since the conversation, I had not seen her hardly seen her at all. She had been gone almost a week on a hiking trip with some co-workers that had been planned for a while. Then because of work there was another week of not really seeing each other.
Friday night, J asks if I want to go to a birthday dinner for a family friend on Saturday. I had plans that required me to be up early on Sunday, so I said probably not as I knew she would want to stay and hang out late with them. She swore she would not as she had work on Sunday. I only half believed her, but agreed to go because I knew it'd make her happy.
Towards the end of dinner I go to the restroom and when I come back, what always happens happened. "Would you be ok if I actually went out? I won't be out much later" She asked in front of the entire group so I said "sure, you can do what you want" A few minutes later off to the side, I let her know I was upset that she went back on her word but she was un-phased. She promised she wouldn't be out very late and I believed her as the group was primarily mid-30s people with young kids. One of the other people at the birthday dinner assured me they would give her a ride home.
I drove home alone and the anger built. I typed out a long text about how I was hurt that she didn't come home with me like she said she would, but ultimately deleted it before sending. I didn't want to needlessly make her night worse and told myself we would talk in the morning. I go to bed.
2AM I wake up to go pee. She isn't there. I check my phone and she hasn't texted me at all either. We share locations with each other so I check and it's not loading so I am getting a bit worried for her safety at this point.
I call her and she picks up "Hello?" "Hey J where are you??" "Oh I decided to sleep over at family friend's house" This alone wasn't concerning as the family friends were a married couple with young children. We have known them for years and it was not unusual for her to spend the night there after going out with them.
At this point my concern quickly turns back to anger because not only did she lie to me again about coming home early, she didn't even text me to let me know her plans changed. I told J to get an Uber and come home, we need to talk. She was annoyed and let me know it but I didn't care. She told me she would order an Uber.
Nearly 30 minutes had passed and I had not heard from her. I check her location again to see if she's on her way. Unlike before, it does load this time. Not only was she not on the way back, she was at a house I didn't recognize. I call her back "Hey I thought you said you were ordering an Uber and coming home? Also where are you? Your location is showing you at some house I've never seen".
She sticks to her story. She is at family friend's. She has no idea why her location is showing the other house, because she is definitely at family friend's. I'm uneasy at this point but still haven't jumped to any conclusions. Maybe it was a glitch. Seemed to be pretty far away from where she was claiming to be for a glitch and it also hadn't moved at all in a while... but whatever, anything is possible I suppose.
I am asking her why she keeps lying to me. Lied about not going out in the first place, lied about how long she'd be gone, and lied about calling an Uber 30 minutes ago. She says the Uber is coming in 4 minutes and that she will call me when it picks her up because she doesn't want to argue with me in front of family friends.
I watch her location, expecting it to jump and correct itself once she starts moving. Instead, it moves exactly as if she was picked up in an Uber from that house. Whatever, she is on her way.
I go downstairs and wait for her to arrive. Once she does I ask what she did tonight. "I went to the bar and then to family friends". I ask her what she was doing at family friends. "Just talking. You know I stay there sometimes what's the big deal?". I ask what on earth they were talking until 2:30 in the morning. It just didn't make sense, they're a mid-30s married couple with young kids and full time jobs. Staying awake this late just to talk?
"Well we were talking about you for one" "Me? What about me" "For starters your psychotic behavior tonight."
I was mad sure but my behavior had been far from "psychotic". I never raised my voice and never accused her of anything. I demanded she come home sure but I felt I was justified in that.
From here she continues to say they talked about the discussion from 2 weeks ago. How I "attacked her" and "piled on her for no reason". I was shocked. I thought I had handled that conversation a couple weeks ago very maturely. I was actually proud of myself for taking time to gather my thoughts so that I could calmly lay them out when I got home. At this point however, I was questioning myself.
Did I dog pile her for no reason? Was the way I approached it an "attack"? My only thought was maybe it felt one sided because she refused to engage in any discussion. I asked why she could talk to other people about our relationship but not me.
It would never become clear however as she said she was done talking and was going to bed. I begged her to give me something, anything. I didn't care if her response was in the form of yelling at me. I just needed SOMETHING.
As she's walking up the stairs I ask her to explain why her location was at that house. The story was the same. She didn't know, she was at family friends house. I told her I want to believe her but I know what I saw with my own eyes. It just didn't make sense. I would have believed anything that plausibly put her at that house. "I was at family friends and that's that. If you don't believe me, the we have MUCH bigger problems"
That was that. I did trust her and so I accepted it and went up to join her in bed. There was a little voice in the back of my mind that knew what I saw but she wouldn't lie, she definitely wouldn't cheat.
As I am about to fall asleep, I sit up suddenly and say "J I have an idea" *half asleep* "what?" "Show me your Uber receipts. That will prove you're telling the truth, any small doubts I have will be gone and we can just move on from this. Now she seems to be completely asleep (almost certainly faking it looking back). I grab her phone from under her pillow and unlock it.
On the screen is a text thread to a guy I'll call Jake. There were only 2 messages. First from earlier in the evening "It's J". The kind of message you send when someone puts their number in your phone and you text them so they have your number now. Then one she forgot to send "Hey sorry about that... I made it home ok".
Even at this point, my naïve ass did not jump to cheating. I truly assumed it was probably someone who was also at the dinner and stayed the night at family friends. But then I saw the Uber receipt. It had picked her up from the house her location showed her at.
"J WAKE UP. YOU WERE AT THAT HOUSE. WHAT IS GOING ON? WHAT HAPPENED?"
"It's what it looks like"
I asked how could she do this to me? Why would she do this to me? Nothing. Not a single sentence that could be considered a thoughtful response. Despite my demands to know what happened that night, she, as usual, gave me nothing. "It's over. You threw away an 8 year relationship. We were supposed to be together forever. You were supposed to be the mother of my children." Only after those words "It's over" did she show any remorse.
The very little information I did get out of her was:
-This was the first time
-I caught her before anything actually happened
I'm not sure I believe either. It also doesn't really matter to me. Interestingly, about a month prior she told me she had HPV. She assured me that monogamous people can get it. Based on the research I did, it seemed possible, so I didn't think much of it. Now I wonder...
The next few hours were an unproductive loop of various iterations of "How could you" and "I'm sorry I'll do anything to make it up".
Eventually it was 6am and I still had those plans that brought me home early the night before. A 7am tee time. So I left.
It was actually a blessing but I had already had pretty much a full day of plans with some friends. First was golf, then some time at the shooting range with another friend who was going to show me the ropes. These are close friends and I told them everything. They listened to me ramble all day and spent as much time as I needed.
Once I knew J had left for work, I decided it was time to go back home. I had been up since 2am and I was exhausted. I don't fall asleep until midnight. Awake for about 22 hours on the worst day of my life.
The Aftermath:
Honestly... not much happened after. I hurt. It is a deep, constant ache. It was not overwhelming pain like hearing a family member had died. No... just a constant, deep, ache.
I reached out to some more friends who have all been incredibly supportive. I am truly blessed to have the support system I do.
The people I really want to talk to, but haven't had the courage to call yet are my parents. I can't explain why, but I feel almost embarrassed. I also know that once I tell them, the relationship is 100% over with J. They will never see her the same, and she'll know it. I can't live with that tension my whole life.
While I am 99.9% sure this relationship is over, it's hard to say 100%. She was in my life for 8 years. It means a fundamental change to my life presently, and the entire future I had planned.
Work has been hard. I haven't gotten a lot done this week. I've been distracting myself by talking to my co-workers. Today though... I was the only one in the office. Seems everyone else happened to be working from home.
It was not a good day. I have been in my head replaying the events of the weekend and spiraling. Until this point I was weirdly ok. I think it's the first time I've been alone since it happened so all the feelings are coming out.
Going Forward:
I'm not sure what the future holds. I have a few short term plans:
1. STD test
2. Therapy
3. Talk to my parents and likely make a trip home
I also need to talk to J. While I repeatedly said it was over the night it all went down, I think it still needs to be made official. I have not seen J since that night. After work Sunday and Monday night, she has been home. I don't think she's left the house. However, I've been spending as much time away as possible and the little bit I am home, she is in the guest bedroom. I have not had the strength or desire to talk to her.
What I'm most scared of it my living situation and the dogs. While one dog is clearly mine and one is clearly hers, there's a part of me that worries she may do something crazy. I don't know what she's capable of anymore.
We are locked into this lease until February. I have re-read the lease and it seems were pretty much stuck. She has family in town she could stay with but I've got nowhere to go. While it wouldn't ruin me, it would certainly be financially painful if she stopped paying her half of the rent. Best case scenario seems to be we live as roommates and stay out of each other's way for 8 months... A pretty bleak best case scenario.
Once we do separate, there's going to be the challenge of divvying up the stuff. We own a lot of nice furniture together. That furniture probably wouldn't fit well into the apartments we'll likely have to move back into after this. It's all just so unclear at this point.
Conclusion:
If you've made it this far, thank you for listening. Just writing this was very cathartic. I am open to hearing advice on how I should proceed. Nothing in my life has prepared me for something like this.

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