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Meal planning is the process of organizing and preparing meals in advance, typically for a specific period, such as a week or a month. It involves deciding what meals to cook, creating a shopping list, and often prepping some ingredients ahead of time.
The benefits of meal planning include:
1. Time-saving: By planning meals in advance, you can save time during busy weekdays or when you have a hectic schedule. It eliminates the need to figure out what to cook each day and reduces the time spent on grocery shopping.
2. Healthier eating: Meal planning allows you to make deliberate choices about the foods you consume. You can include a variety of nutritious ingredients, balance your meals, and control portion sizes. It can help you avoid relying on unhealthy takeout or processed foods.
3. Cost-effective: Planning meals in advance enables you to make a shopping list based on what you already have and what you need. This reduces impulse buying and waste, as you only purchase what is necessary. It can also help you take advantage of sales and discounts.
4. Reduced stress: Having a plan for meals eliminates the last-minute scramble to figure out what to cook. It brings structure to your eating routine and reduces the stress associated with making daily food decisions.

When meal planning, consider the following steps:

1. Decide on the duration: Determine how long you want to plan meals for, whether it's a week, two weeks, or a month.
2. Gather recipes: Look for recipes that suit your dietary preferences, nutritional goals, and cooking abilities. Consider a mix of familiar dishes and new recipes to keep things interesting.
3. Create a meal calendar: Allocate specific recipes or meal ideas to each day. Consider factors like the time available for cooking and any special occasions or events during the planning period.
4. Make a shopping list: Based on the recipes you've selected, create a comprehensive shopping list of ingredients you'll need. Check your pantry and fridge to see what you already have and prioritize purchasing what you're missing.
5. Prep ahead (optional): If you have time, consider prepping some ingredients in advance, such as chopping vegetables, marinating meat, or cooking staple items like rice or quinoa. This can save time during the week when you're preparing meals.
6. Stick to the plan: Follow the meal calendar you created, cook the designated recipes, and enjoy the meals you've planned.
Remember, meal planning is flexible, and you can adapt it to suit your needs and preferences. It's a tool that helps you streamline your cooking and eating routine, making it easier to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
If you're intrigued by the concept of meal planning and eager to learn more, I invite you to visit my blog “What Is Meal Planning”. There, you'll find a treasure trove of information, tips, and resources to help you dive deep into the world of meal planning.

Hi guys! I am selling Diretide cache I & II as well as some Aghanim Cache. I am selling those sets because i have many extras and i don't play those heroes that much. Some of the sets are unbundled but still can be gifted, you can check my inventory to be sure. Buyer goes first no exceptions. If you don't trust me, i am okay with using a middleman. I have sold to many people before and i have many proof screenshots and recordings i can show. I can do discounts for bulk sales.
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• In order to gift/trade the items we need to be friends at least 30 days.
• I will trade dota2/csgo/tf2 items and tf2 keys worth the listed item's price.
• Because i don't want to waste anyone's time i require %25 (Min.1$) of the price for reservation.
• Reservation fee will be subtracted from the items total price.
• If you want to reserve/buy an item comment on my steam profile and add me on steam.
• If you have any questions feel free to add/message me.
• Reservation fee will not be refunded if you cancel the order.

Here is my steam profile: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198113120433
My steamrep: https://steamrep.com/search?q=76561198113120433
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DIRETIDE COLLECTOR'S CACHE I

Set name	Hero	Quantity	Price USD
Dark Behemoth (VERY RARE)	Primal Beast	0 LEFT (1 SOLD)	25$ ITEMS
Angel of Vex (RARE) (Comes with persona)	Invoker + Persona	2 LEFT (1 SOLD)	12$ ITEMS
Blue Horizons (RARE)	Marci	2 LEFT (1 SOLD,1 RESERVED)	10$ ITEMS
Dirge Amplifier	Undying	1 LEFT	3$ ITEMS
Forgotten Station	Terrorblade	2 LEFT (1 SOLD)	3$ ITEMS
Crimson Dawn	Phoenix	1 LEFT	3$ ITEMS
Trophies of the Hallowed Hunt	Ursa	1 LEFT	3$ ITEMS
Chines of the Inquisitor	Faceless Void	0 LEFT (1 SOLD)	3$ ITEMS
Spoils of the Shadowveil	Spectre	1 LEFT (1 SOLD)	3$ ITEMS
Starlorn Adjudicator	Dawnbreaker	0 LEFT (1 SOLD)	3$ ITEMS
Seadog's Stash	Clockwerk	1 LEFT	3$ ITEMS
Hounds of Obsession	Chen	2 LEFT	3$ ITEMS
Whippersnapper	Snapfire	0 LEFT (1 SOLD)	3$ ITEMS
Scarlet Subversion	Riki	0 LEFT (2 SOLD)	3$ ITEMS
Shadowleaf Insurgent	Hoodwink	0 LEFT (2 SOLD)	3$ ITEMS

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DIRETIDE COLLECTOR'S CACHE II

Set name	Hero	Quantity	Price USD
Brands of the Reaper (RARE)	Anti Mage	0 LEFT (SOLD)	20$ (SOLD)
Grudges of the Gallows (RARE)	Treant Protector	1 LEFT	8$ ITEMS
Bird of Prey	Legion Commander	0 LEFT (1 SOLD)	3$ ITEMS
Darkbrew's Transgression	Alchemist	2 LEFT (1 SOLD)	3$ ITEMS
Transcendent Path	Oracle	1 LEFT	3$ ITEMS
The Wilding Tiger	Brewmaster	1 LEFT	3$ ITEMS
Dawn of a Darkness Foretold	Doom	1 LEFT	3$ ITEMS
Grand Suppressor	Silencer	1 LEFT	3$ ITEMS
Withering Pain	Clinkz	1 LEFT	3$ ITEMS
Sacred Chamber Guardian	Huskar	1 LEFT	3$ ITEMS
War Rig Eradicators	Techies	1 LEFT	3$ ITEMS

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AGHANIMS COLLECTOR'S CACHE

Set name	Hero	Quantity	Price USD
Pyrexae Polymorph Perfected	Ogre Magi	(SOLD)	9$ (SOLD)
Days of the Demon	Axe	(SOLD)	10$ (SOLD)
March of the Crackerjack Mage	Rubick	1 LEFT	4$ ITEMS
Scales of the Shadow Walker	Phantom Lancer	1 LEFT	4$ ITEMS
Secrets of the Frost Singularity	Ancient Apparation	0 LEFT (1 SOLD)	3$ ITEMS
The Chained Scribe	Grimstroke	0 LEFT (1 RESERVED)	3$ ITEMS
Forgotten Fate	Mars	1 LEFT	4$ ITEMS

I've been trying to figure out where on reddit I should put this but here goes nothing; this is a throwaway account and it's going to be a very long one. For a bit of context I'm in a polyamorous "relationship" where there is also an extremely large age gap among the three of us. I (21F) met my partners, lets call them Collen (46F) and Doug (56M) the beginning of January 2021. My friends kept pushing for me to go out and meet someone and have some fun so I signed up for a dating app not expecting much to come of it because of my "unique" type romantically. I'm completely into the age gap relationship thing so I raised the age on my search to 30-50. and with my luck two swipes in and there she was; beautiful blonde with greenish-blue eyes a great smile. I swiped so fast I couldn't stop myself, and it came back saying that she had also swiped right on me too. I didn't exactly take the time to thoroughly read through the profile because after the mutual swiping I decide to read the profile a little bit more, and it turned out to be a couple. Maybe I should've backed out then but in my mind it was like yolo why not. They are both attractive and who knows maybe it'll be a fun fling to have from time to time until I feel ready to find someone to settle with. I'd never heard of polyamory or any of the things that come with it so I was basically going in blind. So we connected and initially It was just chatting with her through the app getting to know what they were looking for and things like that. She then suggested that I add him on snapchat so I could talk to him as well and do a video chat verification of myself. So I did and to my surprise I'd hit it off with him too. It was like I could talk to him about any and everything. Deep conversations came easily with him. They both reassured me they wouldn't force me to go too fast or do anything I don't want to do. Made me feel very comfortable from the get go. Eventually the whole conversation moved to snapchat they created a group chat and I could text them separately whenever. I mostly spoke with him separately and she would really only respond in the group. I met up with him about a month later. She couldn't come along as she had to stay home with their daughter but gave us her blessing to have fun and tell her about it tomorrow. It was a great time we talked sat by the water till almost 5am. Another month in they invited me over to their place so we could all be together and I of course accepted. When I got there I was shocked to have been greeted at the door by the two of them and their daughter. For another reference I love kids and have been helping my siblings and other family members raise theirs since I was 6 and I'd told them about that as well, But still it threw me for a loop because it'd only been 3 months they still don't know too too much about me and we all knew I wasn't exactly coming over to just "have dinner and watch movies" and it seemed strange to me. We had dinner and it was nice we laughed a lot and all got along pretty good. When it got later in the night Colleen put their daughter to bed and Doug and I went to their bedroom. She joined us and we got busy and in the midst of it I began to bleed as apart of this health condition I have which they were aware of, and they immediately stopped to care for me clean me up an make sure I was ok and insisted that I sleep over for the night. They grabbed a blow up bed and set it up in their room for me. That simple gesture did something in my heart. I come from a pretty fucked up broken abusive home some of which they'd also known about so no one had ever really taken care of me like that before until them. Immediately my heart was absolutely sure this wouldn't be a one time fling like i'd thought. Fast forward some time everything was going pretty well. We all talked, sent pictures etc in the group and then I'd come over their place again and we'd have a good time I'd either sleep over and go home, and the cycle just continued on like that. Now up until May there had never been a title placed on what we had going on, so I wasn't too hopeful it'd stay on the same track it was on. Then at about the end of May he asks me to be their girlfriend. Says it's something they both want and again blindly going through with it I said yes, but looking back I should've asked her myself if that was really what she also wanted and maybe I could've saved myself the heart ache. So now we are officially in a relationship and everything is going fairly well.. Fast forward to 2022 about end of July maybe early into August. She started to become... distant small stuff at first like not wanting to have sex because she wasn't feeling well which I completely understood never would I make her feel bad for that. Then it became not wanting to be in the same room as me. Like Doug their daughter and I would be in the living room watching a movie or something just hanging out and she'd leave and go into their bedroom and wouldn't come back out until dinner or it was time for their daughter to go bed so she could tuck her in. It started to make me feel... weird and I couldn't bring myself to ask her what was going on, but Doug would continue to reassure me that she was attracted to me she loved being with me. I wanted to believe him but I couldn't in my heart and due to past trauma I didn't want to face if she'd say no. Now don't get me wrong she and I spent time together just the two of us. Sunday's she and I would go out shopping but you could cut the tension with a knife during those rides sometimes. I wanted to say something but Doug had prior told me about a girl from their past who hurt her and left her emotionally stunted with women so I alway tried my hardest to make sure I didn't do that to her and didn't do anything to cause her any discomfort sort of letting her come into it on her own. Plus she showed her love in other ways with catering to me buying me things particular to what I love. She'd said I love you verbally to me on 2 separate occasions which she apparently doesn't do. So I just could never find the right time to do so. Then Doug started searching on the app again for other women to add to it. He liked to watch and they'd had foursomes with other women where he would watch them with Colleen and take videos that have been shown to me before. I didn't know how I felt about this so I just went along with to see where it would go. Luckily it has never gone beyond a texting conversation among them although we have come close a few times. Anyways end of October early November of 22. Everything was so completely off between she and I felt it every time I would go over to their house. I didn't know what to do or how to address it. It was starting to really take a toll on me mentally. And they were also planning to move to another state where her family is and that caused me to worry more then before because I would not be going with them, who is to say that they won't meet another woman or women on the app and brush me off to the side numerous thoughts went through my mind over this. Plus it would be close to her father and best friend so she is definitely going to want to spend a great amount of time with them and there would be no real way to explain who I am to them considering I'm hispanic and they are White so it wouldn't be easy to play it off and none of them know that she is into women and that they are apart of the lifestyle not even her best friend. (This information is important to my point) Then one night Doug was driving me back to my house and he told me she had cried in their bedroom that morning while I was still asleep because she is uncomfortable in her body and uncomfortable around me. Flat out my heart sank and in my mind all I could think was how could you love and be with someone but not be comfortable around them or even talk to them about it, and you're moving to a new state you pretty much are going to want nothing to do with me. This triggered my abandonment issues like nothing else ever could and they knew of this issue and my need for reassurance I thought they would understand my need to know especially Doug since he questioned constantly if I was happy with our relationship and the age gap and if i wanted to leave I reassured him constantly that I couldn't go anywhere. I cried that night and decided to open the app myself just to find someone to talk to or even distract me for a moment nothing extreme. It escalated and i did cheat emotionally and I kissed the girl but that was it at that time. I felt bad and I am terrible at lying so eventually the truth exposed itself. the day of it was like she could feel something was going to change she came out of their room to where I was on the couch and just made out with me out of the blue. I didn't know what to do. Let's just say the truth revealed itself on that drive home that night and we broke up... for 18 days. I tried to move on with my life because every one was telling me to since the age gap and a bunch of other factors as well so I did and ended up being set up to be raped twice. needless to say my faith in humanity is gone on that end. so I tried one last time to talk to him and work things out. I did and by Christmas we were back together and working on getting better. Now here we are June 2023 they've found a house they will be moving into in just a few weeks. I've been helping them clean and pack up their old home a few times during this process. Doug swears nothing will change but everything will especially considering technically I'm only now in a romantic relationship with Doug and Colleen and I.. I don't even know if you could call it a friendship. Things are hitting that weird point again and he has met another girl on the app he wants him and I to meet and play with its only been 2 days and she's basically giving herself up to him as a submissive which he loves and gave the both of them access to her remote vibrator to pleasure her with which of course he had to tell me about. Now with all o that back ground out of the way here comes the real reason for my post. Despite all of the things I said above there are many red flags about them that I continually overlooked because of the lovers gaze i had on them. Including and I'm not proud of it pedo.... and incest (they both swear they'd never really cross that line with their daughter but I am not 100% sure I believe especially after he told me why he lost his old job) Especially with Doug he even talks about how things would've been if they would've raised me when he would've started wanting to play with me. I'm not proud that I stayed and overlooked those things part of me knows I stay to protect their daughter from them, and the other knows I stay because I trauma bonded myself onto them and can't get away. I'm not even attracted to anyone outside of them yes it is that bad. Lately things have been so confusing and tossed up i am ready to call it quits. (I am a hyper aware person to a default so I know when someone is trying to manipulate and play mind games with me which is what she is doing and I let them think they are succeeding and him he is just attracted to how young and hyper sexual I can be when we are together.) but not before I set a few little fires. I've curated a plan to send a letter to her father, and best friend. As well as his siblings (his parents are diseased) detailing what they've done and thus ultimately outting her as bisexual to them which I know is wrong but after the emotional and psychological abuse they instilled upon me it seems appropriate. Before she married him She was having a fling with her bosses sister at her bosses house. I know the bosses name and have her information so I could send her an email with the detailed story. Of course that is not grounds to fire her but it will cause enough tension and discomfort in my eyes. She is also adopted and recently found her bio moms family; I have their information as well and plan to give them a thorough warning about their estranged family member and what comes with her since they do explicit talk about the family members they would fuck including children of their cousins etc.. It is a toss up considering her father and best friend may be completely supportive of her and not cause any harm there. This won't repair the abuse they've done to me or help me heal but I took the higher road and over looked so many things for 3 years. Someone has to stop them in their tracks so they never do what they did to me to another woman again. WIBTAH?

Hi, so I’ve been talking about all these symptoms to my doc and he simply doesn’t care nor help me try to find what’s wrong.
So I am 21yo and for years I’ve had a big flux (is this the term in english? i mean i am losing lots, like lots of blood) like I’ve always been using 2 protections at the same time because one doesn’t help. And even then, I still have leaks. Just today I’ve had to wear those Always Zzz period underwear that are night use and I’ve used 3 in 12 hours. There’s lots of bloods clots in it, and brings me lot of pain. Would not be the end if it would only be 7 days… no no the problem is that it’s a whole month at least if not 5- 5 1/2 weeks. Then I only have two weeks free before bleeding again.
So now, my doc had me check for PCOS… that was in january 2022. Still no answer on that only that i have a single kyst on my ovaries. Told me to use the contraception pill ; i had to go in the hospital because only two pills made me twist in horrible pain. Also my blood test all came freaking positive not even anemia which I’ve had sometimes younger.
I am exhausted, what are my solutions :(

Hello everyone!:) This is your monthly reminder that there is a Discord server for Robin Hobb fans! https://discord.gg/StV8mfc.
What is it? It's a server, or chat room, for discussing Hobb's books.
What happens there? We have conversations every day the Realm of the Elderlings books, as well as respectful debates about characters and discussions about other fantasy novels we are reading.
Who moderates it? We_are_pack created the server and serves as an admin. There are three other admin, Zephyrus, motleywolf, and TheLocalDialect, and three mods, ProfessionalShipper, Wawadji, and Armadillo.
Our regular event: We've been having weekly discussions since January 2022 as part of a community re-read, and on Sunday, June 3 at noon EST we will discuss the prologue through chapter 5 of Dragon Haven. Newcomers to the server are always welcome to join in. We encourage it!
Here are the rules:

1. Be kind and respectful of other users. Cursing is okay, but cursing out other users will not be tolerated. Doing so will result in a strike. Additionally, disagreeing is okay, but putting others down for their opinion is not. Doing so will result in a strike.
2. Racism, sexism, ableism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of bigotry will not be tolerated in this server. Expressing those views will result in an immediate ban.
3. Harassing, intimidating, doxing or otherwise abusing other members will result in an immediate ban.
4. Make it clear if you’re about to post a spoiler. The Discord spoiler mark-up ( on either side of the passage will help.
5. In general, please don’t post explicit content, but if a fanfic that is linked is marked NSFW, that is okay. Please keep NSFW discussion in the two NSFW channels, which are clearly marked. Violating this policy will result in a strike.
6. Please do not post pirated content. This harms authors and it will get our server banned. Doing so will result in a strike.
7. Do not send unsolicited messages asking other users for sexual content, do not post in any channel asking for that kind of content, and do not send unsolicited friend requests. We are not that kind of server. Doing so will result in a permanent ban.
8. Do not share AI generated art or writing. AI creations are harmful to creators. Doing so will result in a strike.

Our strikes system in this server is simple. One strike is a warning. Two will result in a time out. Three will result in a ban. We have had very few problems with people violating the rules. We've had to ban only a handful of people since the server was created in 2020, and we have not been forced to issue many strikes either. In general, our server is a welcoming community of Hobb superfans who never quite recovered after finishing the series.If FitzChivalry Farseer lives rent-free in your head too, you should join us!

If you're reading this, perhaps you're like me. You have most things you want in GTA Online. You've "done it all". And now you're bored.
But... have you *really* done it all? Turns out, most of us haven't. There's so much to do in this game, and it's easy to get stuck in old habits that prevent us from discovering everything there is to do in Los Santos!
So I began writing down all my ideas for having fun in the game, and basically use these suggestions as guidelines to always find something new to do. It has completely reinvigorated my joy for the game, and I hope it can help you do the same!
If you're having trouble with motivation or inspiration, then I suggest picking something at random from the list and just doing it! You might disccover that you love it, just like I did!
And if you have anything more to add, please share your comments so that we can all help build this list together. :)
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• Break Your Habits: Most people have a routine that they repeat over and over again until they get burned out and bored with the game! Your number one goal for having fun must be to break your old habits!
• Grind Less: If you've played for a long time, there's absolutely zero reason to grind big piles of useless money. People often develop bad habits where they finally grind so much that they forget to have fun. The "wonder" of the world completely vanishes when everything becomes about optimal times and optimal routes and optimal mission rotations. Relax! Start exploring everything that the game has to offer instead! Dare to do the "less optimal" routes, and have the courage to stop stressing about the "time efficiency" when you do the game's content. Sure, perhaps you can do a mission in 2 minutes with an Oppressor Mk2, but why not relax, put on a podcast, and do a relaxing 5 minute drive instead? Relax and have fun!
• Switch Off the Business Mindset: Why grind at all? Why do businesses at all? What do you really need the money for, whatsoever? If it feels like grinding, do something else that's more fun for you! Stop thinking about the money and start thinking about the real-world fun you're having! Start actually enjoying all the things you've previously grinded for! Perhaps you might enjoy treating GTA as a racing simulator where you mostly do challenges/race maps instead? There's so much more to do that isn't purely related to earning money!
• Accept All Invites: When you see invites to races, challenges, missions, etc, accept them! You will broaden your horizons about what you can do in the game, and you will often make the newbies very happy! Of course, if it turns out they're a hopelessly stupid newbie who keeps dying and never improves, then sure, I'd suggest leaving the heist to save your time and sanity. But most of the time, the other players will be smart enough to learn quickly. You can easily make great, new friends this way!
• Protect the Newbies: If you see someone doing a sales mission in a public lobby, why not fly over there in a powerful airborne vehicle (or heck, a missile-equipped Toreador car), and then follow them as their bodyguard against any griefers that may appear!
• Join People's CEO/MC: You can list yourself as "looking for work" via the interaction menu, which will alert other people that there's someone looking for work in the session. You can then join them and help people out with their missions, which is often a fun and relaxing activity for a while!
• Get a Crew: Look around for a crew of like-minded people. They exist. There are crews that specialize in heisting with competent players. There are crews that focus on racing. There are crews for Arena War. There are crews that only do LS Car Meet challenges/races. There's even crews specialized in doing sales missions together, by helping each other with business sales, if that's your thing! Finding a group of people with a compatible mindset and interests really pays off in the end!
• Switch Sessions: You can jump between multiple public sessions until you find one that matches your mood. Perhaps a nice, quiet sessions without griefers, perfect for doing sales missions? Or maybe one where there's a group of people that are actively doing something fun, which you can join in on? Don't just settle for your session. Explore what's out there!
• Do the Stupid Things: Grab your friends or some randoms, and challenge each other to do the most stupid and random things you can think of. The game is a sandbox. So start acting like it! For example, why not challenge each other with things like "everyone starts at the beach without any vehicles, your goal is to get to the Senora Desert convenience store, and you're only allowed to use stolen vehicles, the first person to reach the desert wins", or how about "everyone jumps from the Maze Bank Tower and your goal is to ride your parachute all the way to the ferris wheel". Is that even possible? Who knows! Let's find out!
• Become a Map Creator: If you've had fun making random challenges in freeroam, why not make them into more formal challenges, by creating actual maps? The map creator is very advanced. You can modify the world, add checkpoints anywhere you want, you could make a bicycle race, add pedestrians, enable weapon wheel usage, add parachute jumps, stunt jumps, survival modes, etc. Go wild!
• River Racing: The game has two epic rivers that start at the "Alamo Sea" (desert lake) and head west out to the ocean. Why not do a race with some friends? Get the Blazer Aqua amphibious quad bike and start at the desert, then race through one of the rivers, which is full of fun jumps. Next, decide on a destination (such as the Del Perro Pier) and do the rest of the drive on roads to see who gets there first.
• Stop Flying: Whenever a game lets you fly, you end up skipping huge amounts of content and world design and just flying directly above it all. That's nice if you want to get somewhere efficiently, but it really breaks the game's immersion. Try driving everywhere instead!
• Learn to Fly: Many players are awful at flying (especially the helicopters). Why not practice your flying skills? Perhaps try landing your helicopter at very tight spots, on rooftops, and other fun locations!
• Use Motorcycles: They're more thrilling than cars, because crashing actually has consequences. They're also very fast and agile, which feels awesome while driving through the city!
• Oppressor MK1: Fly around the map, trying to create your own challenges such as flying over the water or climbing Mount Chiliad.
• Climb the Mountain: Find various fun vehicles and attempt to climb Mount Chiliad in them. There's lots of fun to be had with motorcycles at the mountain!
• BMX Tricks: There are so many skate parks and BMX bicycle stunt locations in the city. Why not look at some BMX stunt videos for inspiration?
• Throw Away the GPS: Stop staring at the minimap while driving! This is super fun. Let's say that you need to get to Simeon's shop. Instead of opening up the world map and setting a map marker and following the GPS line like a lemming, try to train yourself to navigate the city! Drive the streets, look at the surroundings and actually navigate! It's so much fun and you'll feel way more relaxed. The city will also feel way more immersive. You can even modify the minimap via "Settings: Display: Radar = Blips", which hides the map so that you can't see the shape of the streets by glancing at the minimap anymore. You can even disable it completely, but unfortunately it also hides the healthbar if you do that.
• Use First Person: You can change the game's camera mode to first person, which is a really unique and immersive way to play the game. Steal some cars and go cruising! It will feel like an entirely different game when you get used to it!
• Take Selfies: Find beautiful locations and attempt to take great screenshots, with perfect framing and composition! You can use the game's built-in snapmatic camera, or you can use your regular screenshot key instead! Collecting photos of your adventures is a nice way to remember where you've been!
• Businesses: There are so many businesses in the game, and it's easy to forget about them after a while. Look at your businesses and begin doing their sourcing and sales missons again! Most of us quit them because they're very grindy, but after a long time away from them, they'll feel fresh again. And they'll feel much more relaxing if you vary between your different businesses and you only do one or two missions at a time, to never get bored.
• Nightclub: Do the promotion/popularity missions, which involve going around town and promoting the nightclub, or helping to remove unwanted or drunk guests from the club. All of that improves your popularity, which improves the passive income you're earning from the club!
• Get the DJs: The nightclub has multiple DJs. Why not unlock them all? Their missions are very fun, and you'll earn new music for your club.
• Bunker: Why not do some manual supply missions, just to relax and have fun? Sure, the optimal way to make money with the bunker is to buy the supplies and do "better" things with your time instead of sourcing supplies, but why does everything have to be about ultimate efficiency all the time? If you're a long-time player, you already have lots of money and you need new things to do!
• Contact Missions: So many people don't even know that you can get missions by calling NPCs on the phone. It's named "contact missions" and they can be very fun. I recommend calling Dax and doing "Request Work" from him, because his missions are very varied and after you've done enough you get various important rewards, such as upgrades for your Acid Lab business.
• CEO/VIP Work: When you're a CEO, you can start SecuroServ missions via the interaction menu. There's lots of fun ones! For example, why not get your favorite car, relax and do the Sightseer mission, seeing where the map markers will take you while you enjoy the relaxing drive? The mission gives you 15 minutes, which is plenty of time to take the scenic route.
• Terrorbyte Missions: Another forgotten relic! The terrorbyte has lots of fun missions which are very good for variation. They used to be the best "active" way to earn money in GTA. Most players who grinded those missions have only done the "optimal rotation", but how about actually doing all of the available missions for fun?
• Rockstar Jobs: There are so many high-quality maps, races and challenge modes in the game. Explore the official list of RockstaCurated jobs in the game's pause menu. There's a ton of them!
• Community Jobs: There's a ton of cool community maps in the game. Remember to favorite the ones you liked so that you can easily start the same again!
• Auto Shop: Do the customer car customization and delivery jobs, and do the heists! They can be done solo.
• MC Club: Do the customer motorcycle customization and delivery jobs.
• Vehicle Warehouse: Do the Import/Export car theft and sales missions. Be sure to use the trick that ensures you only get high-end cars (permanently fill the warehouse with every worthless sourced car in the game, then you will only get high-end cars after that).
• Acid Lab: The best passive income business in the game. Spend some time doing Dax's contact missions to fully upgrade your lab's efficiency and it will become very profitable. Then mix up your gameplay between both sourcing Acid supplies or buying them. And do the sales missions.
• Franklin's Agency: Do the Dr. Dre story missions, then do 201x Security Contract missions until you've unlocked the highest amount of passive daily income (it goes up by $100 every time you do a mission, capped at $20,000 after having done 201 contracts).
• Payphone Hits: They're unlocked after doing at least 3 Security Contract missions. Then you can pick up assassination contracts from ringing payphones. They're very profitable.
• Weekly Time Trials: Do the camotorcycle time trial and the RC car time trial every week, they're a good way to learn how to drive and they give a nice bit of money! Remember that you can hold a key to respawn at the start of the race before the time has ended, if you're sure that you won't make it in time.
• Daily Objectives: In your interaction menu, look at the Objectives and complete them. They're a good way to be inspired to do things you might not do otherwise.
• Daily Collectible Hunts: G's Cache (hunt for the hidden street cache), Kosatka submarine treasure hunt, Street dealer (find it and sell to it every day), etc.
• Get a Fresh Look: Create a new character outfit (clothes, hairstyle, tattoos, mask).
• Use Different Weapons: Challenge yourself to use different weapons than the same old, boring weapon you always use. For example, how about only using the Heavy Revolver? Make those shots count!
• Modify Your Weapons: Change their styles and attachments.
• Tune Your Precious Car: You might have a "perfectly tuned" car that you've been driving for years and that you're always using. Why not modify it a bit? Put a different livery on it, and some different colors at least? What felt "fresh" two years ago would just be contributing to a feeling of "staleness" today. Freshen things up!
• Ride of the Day: Most long-time players have around a hundred vehicles, but most of them collect dust. Why not set fun "challenge" rules for yourself, such as randomly selecting a vehicle and using only that vehicle on that real-life day?
• Outfit of the Day: Why not make it your goal to create a new character "outfit of the day" (or week) whenever you log in? It's a great way to get a fresh feeling every time you play!
• Minigames: How about some Golf, Tennis, Darts or Arm Wrestling?
• Gang Attacks: Find a gang and eliminate them!
• Stash Houses: Find the stash houses and raid them for resources for your businesses.
• Parachute: Go somewhere high up and do a parachute dive! Better yet, look for the Junk Energy Skydives challenges on the map, or do Dom's parachute challenge (which is a special skydive at a random location).
• San Andreas Flight School: Do the flight school challenges! They're at the Los Santos Airport, at the airplane icon!
• Gun Range Challenges: Complete the Bunker's and Ammo-Nation Gun Range shooting challenges!
• Gun Range with Friends: Challenge a friend to the gun range mini-games, where you compete to see who is the most accurate!
• MC Club Missions: Form a MC club with at least one friend, then ride in formation and start MC missions via the interaction menu.
• MC Businesses: Yes, they're the most hated businesses in the game, but why not do them a little bit? You could do a little bit of supplying and a few small sales missions, to ensure that you have small sales. Or, team up with friends and take turns helping each other do larger sales.
• Racing: Do Open Wheel, Stunt Races, Transform Races, and Regular Races. There are so many different kinds of races in the game! The transform races are the newest feature, and are very cool, since you might drive a supercar down the street to the airport, then transform into a plane and fly through the sky, and other epic things, all in the same race map!
• LS Car Meet: Do the challenges, races and rank up your LS Car Meet rank. Try to win the Prize Ride!
• Lobby Car Meets: You can try arranging car meets with other people in the lobby, to check out each other's cars! Just beware of griefers. You may want to do it in the LS Car Meet building to avoid the griefer explosions, or just switch to a lobby with cooler people.
• Arcade: Play the arcade games and try to beat them! Some of them have hidden rewards for completing the game or completing certain challenges.
• Achievements: Look at the pause menu's Stats - Awards section, and pick some award that you'll try to complete! There are so many fun challenges in there, such as attempting to parachute for more than 3 minutes, or robbing every store on the map (you can see the checkmarks on the map to know if you've robbed those stores).
• Stunt Jumps: There are 50 stunt jump locations on the map, which unlock a few rewards and are also really fun to complete!
• Unlock Vehicle Colors: You may have noticed that certain colors are locked behind challenges, such as winning a certain amount of races. Why not finally unlock those colors you've always wanted but were always "too lazy" to unlock? You'll get to enjoy some flashy, new vehicle colors!
• Arena War: Very fun, but unfortunately hard to get a group going for it. But if you can get a group, Arena War is super fun.
• Freemode Battles: Join a large lobby and just do whatever you want while you're waiting for freemode battles, which start every 20 minutes and will alternate between Business Battles and Freemode Challenges. Then attempt to win those battles! Events will only trigger when there are at least 4 players outdoors, and they cannot be in the same CEO/MC.
• Ride with Strangers: Pick your nicest car and then drive around and invite strangers to either ride with you or do impromptu street race 1v1 challenges.
• Freemode Map Markers: Look at the map. There are icons and glowing markers everywhere on the map/streets. Visit whichever icon is nearest your current location and see what's there! Remember that you can go "On Call" (queue) for public races/missions while you're waiting for them to fill up, which lets you stay in Freemode while you're waiting.
• Weekly Bonuses: Look at the Rockstar Newswire to see what the weekly bonus money is, and focus on doing that business/event for a while, to earn some money!
• Max Your Stats: Get all your stats to maximum! Most people haven't finished Strength, which can be gradually maxed for fun by simply punching every civilian you see.
• Invade the Military: Invade the military base at Fort Zancudo with some friends, and make it your mission to steal a Lazer jet plane.
• Heists: Do some heist preps or full heists for fun! Many of them can be casually setup while solo, which is very relaxing! Most of the newer heists can even be completed while solo!
• Change Your Heist Routes: You don't have to always do the same approach over and over again. Most heists have a lot of different approaches. For example, have you ever successfully completed the "Silent and Sneaky" approach at the Casino? Start exploring the different possibilities out there!
• Yellow Mission Markers: The yellow letters/markers on the map show the location of significant storyline missions (such as ULP, Agency, Acid Lab, etc). Visit those locations and start completing the stories that GTA Online has to offer!
• Do the Jobs: Go to "Online - Jobs" in the pause menu, and explore the available options!
• Answer the Calls: There are so many fun missions for English Dave, the various DJs at the Music Locker, the Casino staff, etc. In most cases, you'll also get some kind of reward if you finish them all! You might even get them to stop calling you when you've finished everything, which is a nice reward in itself!
• Check Your Texts/Emails: There's a lot of "mini missions" that arrive via emails/text messages. For example, Simeon asks you to steal certain cars every day. There's also an early game treasure hunt which starts through an email.
• Use Quick Join: There's an app on your phone named "Quick Join". It queues you for a rapid, random job. It's a great way to explore new content, meet new people and to help them with the queues for their own missions.
• Browse the Internet: There are a ton of funny parody websites in GTA Online's internet browser. Explore what's out there!
• Watch TV/Movies: Have you seen all the TV shows and cinema movies yet? If not, relax and have some fun! :)
• Customize Your Phone: You can change the theme, background, ringtone and other settings for your in-game phone. Why not change things a bit?
• Don't Be Annoyed: The phone calls and missions may seem annoying, but try actually relaxing and doing them. Listen to the phone calls. Call the NPCs. Do their missions! They are pretty nice and chill activities which gives you something to do in the game and some challenges.
• Use a Gamepad: If you're a PC player, you'll know that most of the game is too easy, since the aiming and enemy difficulty was balanced for console (gamepad) players. Try using a gamepad on PC! Not only will your driving and flying be massively improved, you'll also have a much more fun fun time when fighting enemies, since you can't just "360 No Scope" everything with your superior pointing device anymore. You'll even get immersive rumble that lets you feel the engine of your cars! How cool is that?! The game's options lets you finetune the sensitivity and aiming mode, and true professionals will use "Free Aim" which completely disables the auto-aiming.
• Meet Different People: If you're mostly a heist person, look for someone who loves cars and start hanging out with them to absorb some of their passion for another aspect of the game. You might learn to love car tuning too!
• Trade Prices: Many vehicles in the game have trade prices which give you a massive discount on the vehicle if you complete the challenge first. So set your eyes on a nice vehicle and do its challenges for fun! The discount you're earning will be like earning a huge sum of money that you put towards that specific vehicle. For example, a 2 million dollar discount on a vehicle you wanted is the same as if you had just earned 2 million dollars that you decided to spend on that vehicle! So don't sleep on the trade price discounts! They're a fun challenge with a very high monetary value!
• Bunker Research: If you have a bunker, try doing the research! You can unlock a ton of cool and super useful vehicle and weapon modifications! The explosive and incendiary ammo are must-haves.
• Mobile Operations Missions: The Mobile Operations Center is a forgotten business. It exists in your bunker, but you can request it via your Interaction Menu. Enter the truck's trailer, and then start missions from the computer in the command room!
• Avenger: Take your Avenger out for a drive! It's an extremely powerful, heavily armored aircraft and can be customized with various fun additions.
• Relaxing Yacht: Why not purchase or upgrade your yacht, and chill on it for a while with some friends? It even has lots of fun water vehicles parked in the water at the yacht, and helicopter pads for easy travel.
• Yacht Missions: You can start the fun "A Superyacht Life" mission series from the captain on your yacht. You'll even get a fun Yacht Captain outfit if you complete them all as host.
• Special Vehicle Work: The Vehicle Warehouse provides various epic missions whose "main" purpose is to unlock trade prices on various weaponized vehicles, but the missions themselves are fun too. Most players only do the specific missions for the vehicles they wanted to buy. Why not complete them all at least once, or play them again for fun?
• Collectibles: The map is full of collectible items, such as USB music sticks, playing cards, action figures, signal jammers (to unlock the best hacker for the Casino heist), etc. Why not relax and do them all for fun? They all unlock something fun or useful!
• Dream Vehicle: Relax, do some research about vehicles are available in the game, and set your eyes on a new "dream vehicle". Then work towards earning it and pimping it just the way you want it! Having a goal is fun!
• Test Drives: Check out the weekly test drives at the "Luxury Autos" shop, at Simeon's "Premium Deluxe Motorsport", and at the "LS Car Meet". You might find your new dream vehicle!
• Collect Vehicle Sets: You might have fun building specific collections, such as all Benny's vehicles in the game, etc. Setting goals for yourself about specific vehicle collections gives you something to strive for, and means that there's a lot of new things you'll need to buy and tune, which will keep you busy for a while!
• Sell Vehicles: Let's be honest, there are a lot of stinkers in your collection. Why not sell them? Just beware of the game's daily sell limit. The limit will be hit somewhere around 30-40 cars sold in 24 real-life hours. I'd suggest only selling 1-5 cars per real life day, which ensures that you'll never face the anger of Rockstar, and you'll have more time to make deliberate choices about which vehicles to get rid of. You'll also be getting roughly 50% of your previously spent money back for each sold vehicle! I'd recommend forcing yourself to drive a vehicle for a while before selling it, and looking at its customizations to see if you'd like it if you changed its style a bit, so that you're absolutely sure that you don't want it.
• Organize Your Vehicles: A lot of people have a complete mess in their garages. Why not begin sorting your cars, such as placing all your best cars at the premium display spots in your office garage? Perhaps organizing the floors by vehicle type? You can have lots of fun and you'll get a much better overview of your available vehicles.
• Relocate Yourself: If you've been staring at the same, old, boring spot for years, it could be fun to move! Most players choose the ugly, industrial, "optimal" locations. Why not relax and move to the beautiful beach instead? The Lombank office, the Insert Coin arcade, the Vespucci Beach MC clubhouse, the Del Perro Nightclub, the Strawberry auto shop, and the Vespucci Canals agency are all very beautiful locations with amazing interior and exterior design and great views! They're also very well placed for all of their business purposes!
• Browse in Person: When you're looking at real estate on the internet, things look very boring and impersonal. Why not take a drive around the city and look at the "real estate for sale" map markers in person? Perhaps you'll find a great new location for your home! However, if it's a multi-apartment house, I recommend checking YouTube for the various room views, to find the room with the best view before you buy it.
• Upgrade Your Properties/Businesses: If you haven't yet upgraded all of the equipment for a business, it's a great idea to upgrade it to improve its efficiency and safety. Or how about changing the interior design for fun, to replace the "same old daily view" with a fresh new look?
• Buy Every Arcade Machine: There are so many fun minigame machines for your arcade. Why not buy them all and pimp that place out? It's a nice place to relax, and even get some rewards for completing the games.
• Get All Passive Businesses: Why not work towards getting and fully upgrading all of the passive incomes in the game? Such as the Nightclub (which automatically generates money in the safe based on popularity, and generates MC business products to sell from its basement), the Acid Lab (which can be restocked with a simple phone call to Mutt, and has easy sales missions), the Arcade (which generates $5000 per in-game day when you've filled all of its interior slots with arcade machines, which can all be the same machine if you want), the Agency (which generates up to $20000 per in-game day based on how many Security Contracts you've completed), Street Dealers (finding the daily street dealer is much faster than regular sales missions, and they pay more than regular missions), Bunker (you can resupply it via one click with the Master Control Terminal in your Arcade, and then simply sell the product when it's still less than 25% full, thus guaranteeing a single sales vehicle every time). An added bonus of having passive businesses is the fact that they let you do other things in the game, such as doing racing and other fun challenges, while your businesses passively produce for you!
• Start Fresh: Did you know that your online account has two character slots? You can actually start fresh by simply withdrawing all of you banked money to your primary character, so that there's $0 in the bank. Then create a new character, which will begin at $0. Then relax and enjoy the ride of building a new empire. I suggest doing things differently this time. For example, if your primary character owns every business, why not just focus on a specific business this time, such as the CEO businesses (cargo crates), or just the vehicle warehouse, etc? Take this opportunity to simplify and avoid grinding, while still building a new playstyle to keep things fresh! Why not skip the Kosatka, so that you don't have the "easy Cayo Perico money" either? This slower, more deliberate, old-school way of making money will ensure that you have lots of fun, and you can set your own goals for what vehicles you want to save up money for on your new character! If you get tired of the grind, just switch back to your primary character again and enjoy the wealth. You can even delete your secondary character again to start fresh as many times as you want to.
• Spend Your Money: Having $100 million unused in the bank is just a completely pointless number, and is basically worth the same as having $0 in the bank if you aren't even using it. Unless your goal is to collect a specific amount of money for fun, I'd instead suggest that you actually start spending absolutely all of your money! Because if you can succeed in being perpetually slightly low on cash, you'll have much more reason to care about doing your businesses when you do want to buy something, which in turn drives your motivation to play again! Having a huge stash of money is bad for your motivation to play! Having a huge sash of money is like having an endless "Rich Daddy's Credit Card" in your wallet. Get rid of that credit card, buy a bunch of fun stuff, and enjoy the game more as a result!
• Play the Story: The vast majority of GTA Online players have barely touched the offline story. Why not relax with the story from time to time, gradually making your way through the epic offline story that started it all?
• Take a Break: If you're truly not finding any fun anymore, then take a break, perhaps a few weeks or a month is all you need to enjoy the game again! They also release content updates roughly twice per year, so you'll always have something new to return to in the future! :)

If you're reading this, perhaps you're like me. You have most things you want in GTA Online. You've "done it all". And now you're bored.
But... have you *really* done it all? Turns out, most of us haven't. There's so much to do in this game, and it's easy to get stuck in old habits that prevent us from discovering everything there is to do in Los Santos!
So I began writing down all my ideas for having fun in the game, and basically use these suggestions as guidelines to always find something new to do. It has completely reinvigorated my joy for the game, and I hope it can help you do the same!
If you're having trouble with motivation or inspiration, then I suggest picking something at random from the list and just doing it! You might disccover that you love it, just like I did!
And if you have anything more to add, please share your comments so that we can all help build this list together. :)
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• Break Your Habits: Most people have a routine that they repeat over and over again until they get burned out and bored with the game! Your number one goal for having fun must be to break your old habits!
• Grind Less: If you've played for a long time, there's absolutely zero reason to grind big piles of useless money. People often develop bad habits where they finally grind so much that they forget to have fun. The "wonder" of the world completely vanishes when everything becomes about optimal times and optimal routes and optimal mission rotations. Relax! Start exploring everything that the game has to offer instead! Dare to do the "less optimal" routes, and have the courage to stop stressing about the "time efficiency" when you do the game's content. Sure, perhaps you can do a mission in 2 minutes with an Oppressor Mk2, but why not relax, put on a podcast, and do a relaxing 5 minute drive instead? Relax and have fun!
• Switch Off the Business Mindset: Why grind at all? Why do businesses at all? What do you really need the money for, whatsoever? If it feels like grinding, do something else that's more fun for you! Stop thinking about the money and start thinking about the real-world fun you're having! Start actually enjoying all the things you've previously grinded for! Perhaps you might enjoy treating GTA as a racing simulator where you mostly do challenges/race maps instead? There's so much more to do that isn't purely related to earning money!
• Accept All Invites: When you see invites to races, challenges, missions, etc, accept them! You will broaden your horizons about what you can do in the game, and you will often make the newbies very happy! Of course, if it turns out they're a hopelessly stupid newbie who keeps dying and never improves, then sure, I'd suggest leaving the heist to save your time and sanity. But most of the time, the other players will be smart enough to learn quickly. You can easily make great, new friends this way!
• Protect the Newbies: If you see someone doing a sales mission in a public lobby, why not fly over there in a powerful airborne vehicle (or heck, a missile-equipped Toreador car), and then follow them as their bodyguard against any griefers that may appear!
• Join People's CEO/MC: You can list yourself as "looking for work" via the interaction menu, which will alert other people that there's someone looking for work in the session. You can then join them and help people out with their missions, which is often a fun and relaxing activity for a while!
• Get a Crew: Look around for a crew of like-minded people. They exist. There are crews that specialize in heisting with competent players. There are crews that focus on racing. There are crews for Arena War. There are crews that only do LS Car Meet challenges/races. There's even crews specialized in doing sales missions together, by helping each other with business sales, if that's your thing! Finding a group of people with a compatible mindset and interests really pays off in the end!
• Switch Sessions: You can jump between multiple public sessions until you find one that matches your mood. Perhaps a nice, quiet sessions without griefers, perfect for doing sales missions? Or maybe one where there's a group of people that are actively doing something fun, which you can join in on? Don't just settle for your session. Explore what's out there!
• Do the Stupid Things: Grab your friends or some randoms, and challenge each other to do the most stupid and random things you can think of. The game is a sandbox. So start acting like it! For example, why not challenge each other with things like "everyone starts at the beach without any vehicles, your goal is to get to the Senora Desert convenience store, and you're only allowed to use stolen vehicles, the first person to reach the desert wins", or how about "everyone jumps from the Maze Bank Tower and your goal is to ride your parachute all the way to the ferris wheel". Is that even possible? Who knows! Let's find out!
• Become a Map Creator: If you've had fun making random challenges in freeroam, why not make them into more formal challenges, by creating actual maps? The map creator is very advanced. You can modify the world, add checkpoints anywhere you want, you could make a bicycle race, add pedestrians, enable weapon wheel usage, add parachute jumps, stunt jumps, survival modes, etc. Go wild!
• River Racing: The game has two epic rivers that start at the "Alamo Sea" (desert lake) and head west out to the ocean. Why not do a race with some friends? Get the Blazer Aqua amphibious quad bike and start at the desert, then race through one of the rivers, which is full of fun jumps. Next, decide on a destination (such as the Del Perro Pier) and do the rest of the drive on roads to see who gets there first.
• Stop Flying: Whenever a game lets you fly, you end up skipping huge amounts of content and world design and just flying directly above it all. That's nice if you want to get somewhere efficiently, but it really breaks the game's immersion. Try driving everywhere instead!
• Learn to Fly: Many players are awful at flying (especially the helicopters). Why not practice your flying skills? Perhaps try landing your helicopter at very tight spots, on rooftops, and other fun locations!
• Use Motorcycles: They're more thrilling than cars, because crashing actually has consequences. They're also very fast and agile, which feels awesome while driving through the city!
• Oppressor MK1: Fly around the map, trying to create your own challenges such as flying over the water or climbing Mount Chiliad.
• Climb the Mountain: Find various fun vehicles and attempt to climb Mount Chiliad in them. There's lots of fun to be had with motorcycles at the mountain!
• BMX Tricks: There are so many skate parks and BMX bicycle stunt locations in the city. Why not look at some BMX stunt videos for inspiration?
• Throw Away the GPS: Stop staring at the minimap while driving! This is super fun. Let's say that you need to get to Simeon's shop. Instead of opening up the world map and setting a map marker and following the GPS line like a lemming, try to train yourself to navigate the city! Drive the streets, look at the surroundings and actually navigate! It's so much fun and you'll feel way more relaxed. The city will also feel way more immersive. You can even modify the minimap via "Settings: Display: Radar = Blips", which hides the map so that you can't see the shape of the streets by glancing at the minimap anymore. You can even disable it completely, but unfortunately it also hides the healthbar if you do that.
• Use First Person: You can change the game's camera mode to first person, which is a really unique and immersive way to play the game. Steal some cars and go cruising! It will feel like an entirely different game when you get used to it!
• Take Selfies: Find beautiful locations and attempt to take great screenshots, with perfect framing and composition! You can use the game's built-in snapmatic camera, or you can use your regular screenshot key instead! Collecting photos of your adventures is a nice way to remember where you've been!
• Businesses: There are so many businesses in the game, and it's easy to forget about them after a while. Look at your businesses and begin doing their sourcing and sales missons again! Most of us quit them because they're very grindy, but after a long time away from them, they'll feel fresh again. And they'll feel much more relaxing if you vary between your different businesses and you only do one or two missions at a time, to never get bored.
• Nightclub: Do the promotion/popularity missions, which involve going around town and promoting the nightclub, or helping to remove unwanted or drunk guests from the club. All of that improves your popularity, which improves the passive income you're earning from the club!
• Get the DJs: The nightclub has multiple DJs. Why not unlock them all? Their missions are very fun, and you'll earn new music for your club.
• Bunker: Why not do some manual supply missions, just to relax and have fun? Sure, the optimal way to make money with the bunker is to buy the supplies and do "better" things with your time instead of sourcing supplies, but why does everything have to be about ultimate efficiency all the time? If you're a long-time player, you already have lots of money and you need new things to do!
• Contact Missions: So many people don't even know that you can get missions by calling NPCs on the phone. It's named "contact missions" and they can be very fun. I recommend calling Dax and doing "Request Work" from him, because his missions are very varied and after you've done enough you get various important rewards, such as upgrades for your Acid Lab business.
• CEO/VIP Work: When you're a CEO, you can start SecuroServ missions via the interaction menu. There's lots of fun ones! For example, why not get your favorite car, relax and do the Sightseer mission, seeing where the map markers will take you while you enjoy the relaxing drive? The mission gives you 15 minutes, which is plenty of time to take the scenic route.
• Terrorbyte Missions: Another forgotten relic! The terrorbyte has lots of fun missions which are very good for variation. They used to be the best "active" way to earn money in GTA. Most players who grinded those missions have only done the "optimal rotation", but how about actually doing all of the available missions for fun?
• Rockstar Jobs: There are so many high-quality maps, races and challenge modes in the game. Explore the official list of RockstaCurated jobs in the game's pause menu. There's a ton of them!
• Community Jobs: There's a ton of cool community maps in the game. Remember to favorite the ones you liked so that you can easily start the same again!
• Auto Shop: Do the customer car customization and delivery jobs, and do the heists! They can be done solo.
• MC Club: Do the customer motorcycle customization and delivery jobs.
• Vehicle Warehouse: Do the Import/Export car theft and sales missions. Be sure to use the trick that ensures you only get high-end cars (permanently fill the warehouse with every worthless sourced car in the game, then you will only get high-end cars after that).
• Acid Lab: The best passive income business in the game. Spend some time doing Dax's contact missions to fully upgrade your lab's efficiency and it will become very profitable. Then mix up your gameplay between both sourcing Acid supplies or buying them. And do the sales missions.
• Franklin's Agency: Do the Dr. Dre story missions, then do 201x Security Contract missions until you've unlocked the highest amount of passive daily income (it goes up by $100 every time you do a mission, capped at $20,000 after having done 201 contracts).
• Payphone Hits: They're unlocked after doing at least 3 Security Contract missions. Then you can pick up assassination contracts from ringing payphones. They're very profitable.
• Weekly Time Trials: Do the camotorcycle time trial and the RC car time trial every week, they're a good way to learn how to drive and they give a nice bit of money! Remember that you can hold a key to respawn at the start of the race before the time has ended, if you're sure that you won't make it in time.
• Daily Objectives: In your interaction menu, look at the Objectives and complete them. They're a good way to be inspired to do things you might not do otherwise.
• Daily Collectible Hunts: G's Cache (hunt for the hidden street cache), Kosatka submarine treasure hunt, Street dealer (find it and sell to it every day), etc.
• Get a Fresh Look: Create a new character outfit (clothes, hairstyle, tattoos, mask).
• Use Different Weapons: Challenge yourself to use different weapons than the same old, boring weapon you always use. For example, how about only using the Heavy Revolver? Make those shots count!
• Modify Your Weapons: Change their styles and attachments.
• Tune Your Precious Car: You might have a "perfectly tuned" car that you've been driving for years and that you're always using. Why not modify it a bit? Put a different livery on it, and some different colors at least? What felt "fresh" two years ago would just be contributing to a feeling of "staleness" today. Freshen things up!
• Ride of the Day: Most long-time players have around a hundred vehicles, but most of them collect dust. Why not set fun "challenge" rules for yourself, such as randomly selecting a vehicle and using only that vehicle on that real-life day?
• Outfit of the Day: Why not make it your goal to create a new character "outfit of the day" (or week) whenever you log in? It's a great way to get a fresh feeling every time you play!
• Minigames: How about some Golf, Tennis, Darts or Arm Wrestling?
• Gang Attacks: Find a gang and eliminate them!
• Stash Houses: Find the stash houses and raid them for resources for your businesses.
• Parachute: Go somewhere high up and do a parachute dive! Better yet, look for the Junk Energy Skydives challenges on the map, or do Dom's parachute challenge (which is a special skydive at a random location).
• San Andreas Flight School: Do the flight school challenges! They're at the Los Santos Airport, at the airplane icon!
• Gun Range Challenges: Complete the Bunker's and Ammo-Nation Gun Range shooting challenges!
• Gun Range with Friends: Challenge a friend to the gun range mini-games, where you compete to see who is the most accurate!
• MC Club Missions: Form a MC club with at least one friend, then ride in formation and start MC missions via the interaction menu.
• MC Businesses: Yes, they're the most hated businesses in the game, but why not do them a little bit? You could do a little bit of supplying and a few small sales missions, to ensure that you have small sales. Or, team up with friends and take turns helping each other do larger sales.
• Racing: Do Open Wheel, Stunt Races, Transform Races, and Regular Races. There are so many different kinds of races in the game! The transform races are the newest feature, and are very cool, since you might drive a supercar down the street to the airport, then transform into a plane and fly through the sky, and other epic things, all in the same race map!
• LS Car Meet: Do the challenges, races and rank up your LS Car Meet rank. Try to win the Prize Ride!
• Lobby Car Meets: You can try arranging car meets with other people in the lobby, to check out each other's cars! Just beware of griefers. You may want to do it in the LS Car Meet building to avoid the griefer explosions, or just switch to a lobby with cooler people.
• Arcade: Play the arcade games and try to beat them! Some of them have hidden rewards for completing the game or completing certain challenges.
• Achievements: Look at the pause menu's Stats - Awards section, and pick some award that you'll try to complete! There are so many fun challenges in there, such as attempting to parachute for more than 3 minutes, or robbing every store on the map (you can see the checkmarks on the map to know if you've robbed those stores).
• Stunt Jumps: There are 50 stunt jump locations on the map, which unlock a few rewards and are also really fun to complete!
• Unlock Vehicle Colors: You may have noticed that certain colors are locked behind challenges, such as winning a certain amount of races. Why not finally unlock those colors you've always wanted but were always "too lazy" to unlock? You'll get to enjoy some flashy, new vehicle colors!
• Arena War: Very fun, but unfortunately hard to get a group going for it. But if you can get a group, Arena War is super fun.
• Freemode Battles: Join a large lobby and just do whatever you want while you're waiting for freemode battles, which start every 20 minutes and will alternate between Business Battles and Freemode Challenges. Then attempt to win those battles! Events will only trigger when there are at least 4 players outdoors, and they cannot be in the same CEO/MC.
• Ride with Strangers: Pick your nicest car and then drive around and invite strangers to either ride with you or do impromptu street race 1v1 challenges.
• Freemode Map Markers: Look at the map. There are icons and glowing markers everywhere on the map/streets. Visit whichever icon is nearest your current location and see what's there! Remember that you can go "On Call" (queue) for public races/missions while you're waiting for them to fill up, which lets you stay in Freemode while you're waiting.
• Weekly Bonuses: Look at the Rockstar Newswire to see what the weekly bonus money is, and focus on doing that business/event for a while, to earn some money!
• Max Your Stats: Get all your stats to maximum! Most people haven't finished Strength, which can be gradually maxed for fun by simply punching every civilian you see.
• Invade the Military: Invade the military base at Fort Zancudo with some friends, and make it your mission to steal a Lazer jet plane.
• Heists: Do some heist preps or full heists for fun! Many of them can be casually setup while solo, which is very relaxing! Most of the newer heists can even be completed while solo!
• Change Your Heist Routes: You don't have to always do the same approach over and over again. Most heists have a lot of different approaches. For example, have you ever successfully completed the "Silent and Sneaky" approach at the Casino? Start exploring the different possibilities out there!
• Yellow Mission Markers: The yellow letters/markers on the map show the location of significant storyline missions (such as ULP, Agency, Acid Lab, etc). Visit those locations and start completing the stories that GTA Online has to offer!
• Do the Jobs: Go to "Online - Jobs" in the pause menu, and explore the available options!
• Answer the Calls: There are so many fun missions for English Dave, the various DJs at the Music Locker, the Casino staff, etc. In most cases, you'll also get some kind of reward if you finish them all! You might even get them to stop calling you when you've finished everything, which is a nice reward in itself!
• Check Your Texts/Emails: There's a lot of "mini missions" that arrive via emails/text messages. For example, Simeon asks you to steal certain cars every day. There's also an early game treasure hunt which starts through an email.
• Use Quick Join: There's an app on your phone named "Quick Join". It queues you for a rapid, random job. It's a great way to explore new content, meet new people and to help them with the queues for their own missions.
• Browse the Internet: There are a ton of funny parody websites in GTA Online's internet browser. Explore what's out there!
• Watch TV/Movies: Have you seen all the TV shows and cinema movies yet? If not, relax and have some fun! :)
• Customize Your Phone: You can change the theme, background, ringtone and other settings for your in-game phone. Why not change things a bit?
• Don't Be Annoyed: The phone calls and missions may seem annoying, but try actually relaxing and doing them. Listen to the phone calls. Call the NPCs. Do their missions! They are pretty nice and chill activities which gives you something to do in the game and some challenges.
• Use a Gamepad: If you're a PC player, you'll know that most of the game is too easy, since the aiming and enemy difficulty was balanced for console (gamepad) players. Try using a gamepad on PC! Not only will your driving and flying be massively improved, you'll also have a much more fun fun time when fighting enemies, since you can't just "360 No Scope" everything with your superior pointing device anymore. You'll even get immersive rumble that lets you feel the engine of your cars! How cool is that?! The game's options lets you finetune the sensitivity and aiming mode, and true professionals will use "Free Aim" which completely disables the auto-aiming.
• Meet Different People: If you're mostly a heist person, look for someone who loves cars and start hanging out with them to absorb some of their passion for another aspect of the game. You might learn to love car tuning too!
• Trade Prices: Many vehicles in the game have trade prices which give you a massive discount on the vehicle if you complete the challenge first. So set your eyes on a nice vehicle and do its challenges for fun! The discount you're earning will be like earning a huge sum of money that you put towards that specific vehicle. For example, a 2 million dollar discount on a vehicle you wanted is the same as if you had just earned 2 million dollars that you decided to spend on that vehicle! So don't sleep on the trade price discounts! They're a fun challenge with a very high monetary value!
• Bunker Research: If you have a bunker, try doing the research! You can unlock a ton of cool and super useful vehicle and weapon modifications! The explosive and incendiary ammo are must-haves.
• Mobile Operations Missions: The Mobile Operations Center is a forgotten business. It exists in your bunker, but you can request it via your Interaction Menu. Enter the truck's trailer, and then start missions from the computer in the command room!
• Avenger: Take your Avenger out for a drive! It's an extremely powerful, heavily armored aircraft and can be customized with various fun additions.
• Relaxing Yacht: Why not purchase or upgrade your yacht, and chill on it for a while with some friends? It even has lots of fun water vehicles parked in the water at the yacht, and helicopter pads for easy travel.
• Yacht Missions: You can start the fun "A Superyacht Life" mission series from the captain on your yacht. You'll even get a fun Yacht Captain outfit if you complete them all as host.
• Special Vehicle Work: The Vehicle Warehouse provides various epic missions whose "main" purpose is to unlock trade prices on various weaponized vehicles, but the missions themselves are fun too. Most players only do the specific missions for the vehicles they wanted to buy. Why not complete them all at least once, or play them again for fun?
• Collectibles: The map is full of collectible items, such as USB music sticks, playing cards, action figures, signal jammers (to unlock the best hacker for the Casino heist), etc. Why not relax and do them all for fun? They all unlock something fun or useful!
• Dream Vehicle: Relax, do some research about vehicles are available in the game, and set your eyes on a new "dream vehicle". Then work towards earning it and pimping it just the way you want it! Having a goal is fun!
• Test Drives: Check out the weekly test drives at the "Luxury Autos" shop, at Simeon's "Premium Deluxe Motorsport", and at the "LS Car Meet". You might find your new dream vehicle!
• Collect Vehicle Sets: You might have fun building specific collections, such as all Benny's vehicles in the game, etc. Setting goals for yourself about specific vehicle collections gives you something to strive for, and means that there's a lot of new things you'll need to buy and tune, which will keep you busy for a while!
• Sell Vehicles: Let's be honest, there are a lot of stinkers in your collection. Why not sell them? Just beware of the game's daily sell limit. The limit will be hit somewhere around 30-40 cars sold in 24 real-life hours. I'd suggest only selling 1-5 cars per real life day, which ensures that you'll never face the anger of Rockstar, and you'll have more time to make deliberate choices about which vehicles to get rid of. You'll also be getting roughly 50% of your previously spent money back for each sold vehicle! I'd recommend forcing yourself to drive a vehicle for a while before selling it, and looking at its customizations to see if you'd like it if you changed its style a bit, so that you're absolutely sure that you don't want it.
• Organize Your Vehicles: A lot of people have a complete mess in their garages. Why not begin sorting your cars, such as placing all your best cars at the premium display spots in your office garage? Perhaps organizing the floors by vehicle type? You can have lots of fun and you'll get a much better overview of your available vehicles.
• Relocate Yourself: If you've been staring at the same, old, boring spot for years, it could be fun to move! Most players choose the ugly, industrial, "optimal" locations. Why not relax and move to the beautiful beach instead? The Lombank office, the Insert Coin arcade, the Vespucci Beach MC clubhouse, the Del Perro Nightclub, the Strawberry auto shop, and the Vespucci Canals agency are all very beautiful locations with amazing interior and exterior design and great views! They're also very well placed for all of their business purposes!
• Browse in Person: When you're looking at real estate on the internet, things look very boring and impersonal. Why not take a drive around the city and look at the "real estate for sale" map markers in person? Perhaps you'll find a great new location for your home! However, if it's a multi-apartment house, I recommend checking YouTube for the various room views, to find the room with the best view before you buy it.
• Upgrade Your Properties/Businesses: If you haven't yet upgraded all of the equipment for a business, it's a great idea to upgrade it to improve its efficiency and safety. Or how about changing the interior design for fun, to replace the "same old daily view" with a fresh new look?
• Buy Every Arcade Machine: There are so many fun minigame machines for your arcade. Why not buy them all and pimp that place out? It's a nice place to relax, and even get some rewards for completing the games.
• Get All Passive Businesses: Why not work towards getting and fully upgrading all of the passive incomes in the game? Such as the Nightclub (which automatically generates money in the safe based on popularity, and generates MC business products to sell from its basement), the Acid Lab (which can be restocked with a simple phone call to Mutt, and has easy sales missions), the Arcade (which generates $5000 per in-game day when you've filled all of its interior slots with arcade machines, which can all be the same machine if you want), the Agency (which generates up to $20000 per in-game day based on how many Security Contracts you've completed), Street Dealers (finding the daily street dealer is much faster than regular sales missions, and they pay more than regular missions), Bunker (you can resupply it via one click with the Master Control Terminal in your Arcade, and then simply sell the product when it's still less than 25% full, thus guaranteeing a single sales vehicle every time). An added bonus of having passive businesses is the fact that they let you do other things in the game, such as doing racing and other fun challenges, while your businesses passively produce for you!
• Start Fresh: Did you know that your online account has two character slots? You can actually start fresh by simply withdrawing all of you banked money to your primary character, so that there's $0 in the bank. Then create a new character, which will begin at $0. Then relax and enjoy the ride of building a new empire. I suggest doing things differently this time. For example, if your primary character owns every business, why not just focus on a specific business this time, such as the CEO businesses (cargo crates), or just the vehicle warehouse, etc? Take this opportunity to simplify and avoid grinding, while still building a new playstyle to keep things fresh! Why not skip the Kosatka, so that you don't have the "easy Cayo Perico money" either? This slower, more deliberate, old-school way of making money will ensure that you have lots of fun, and you can set your own goals for what vehicles you want to save up money for on your new character! If you get tired of the grind, just switch back to your primary character again and enjoy the wealth. You can even delete your secondary character again to start fresh as many times as you want to.
• Spend Your Money: Having $100 million unused in the bank is just a completely pointless number, and is basically worth the same as having $0 in the bank if you aren't even using it. Unless your goal is to collect a specific amount of money for fun, I'd instead suggest that you actually start spending absolutely all of your money! Because if you can succeed in being perpetually slightly low on cash, you'll have much more reason to care about doing your businesses when you do want to buy something, which in turn drives your motivation to play again! Having a huge stash of money is bad for your motivation to play! Having a huge sash of money is like having an endless "Rich Daddy's Credit Card" in your wallet. Get rid of that credit card, buy a bunch of fun stuff, and enjoy the game more as a result!
• Play the Story: The vast majority of GTA Online players have barely touched the offline story. Why not relax with the story from time to time, gradually making your way through the epic offline story that started it all?
• Take a Break: If you're truly not finding any fun anymore, then take a break, perhaps a few weeks or a month is all you need to enjoy the game again! They also release content updates roughly twice per year, so you'll always have something new to return to in the future! :)

This is primarily targeted towards newer players, who may not know some of the ways of getting crystals, but may be useful to older players as well(probably not). I will list every source of crystals earnable in-game categorized into major and minor categories. If I miss anything, please comment.

Major Sources

1) STORY STAGES
The story stages give crystals in 2 ways. Firstly, you can earn 15 crystals per stage by completing all 3 challenges shown prior to entering the stage, and are usually pretty easy. Secondly, each chapter divides the stages into multiple sections, with extra rewards based on how many total stars(challenges completed) you got in that section. If you complete all the challenges, you will get extra crystals, usually 30 crystals. While the number may seem small on it's own, it adds up to quite a high amount in the end. Naturally, this is only a one time thing. This also includes doing Expeditions for the first time.
Chronicles also fall into this category, but they differ in the fact that after completing all of the stages, a challenge mode is unlocked where you can earn even more crystals.
2) ACHIEVEMENTS
This is only applicable for new players, as you'll be unlocking a ton of achievements for doing pretty much anything. The amount you get overall is very high compared to the more consistent sources of crystals like abyss, but this is also a one time thing.
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3) ELYSIAN REALM
This is your most accessible and largest on-demand supply of crystals(besides your credit card ofc). However the amount of crystals you can earn entirely depends on how many characters you have unlocked that are actually in Elysian Realm. For every character you have in ER, you can earn 600 crystals, by completing Shallow Sequence with them, and leveling them to level 15(although this takes some time).
You can also get crystals by collecting signets for the first time. For collecting all 5 Elysia signets for a character, you can get 20 crystals. Collecting all the general signets for a flame-chaser will get you 20 crystals, and collecting all their enhanced signets will get you 50 crystals.
When upgrading remembrance vessels, you will unlock recollection logs. Each log you click on will get you 10 crystals, totaling to 1430 crystals.
Additionally, you can earn up to 500 crystals per week if you can get 18,000 score on Deep Sequence, however this will be difficult for new players without proper gear and understanding of ER.
4) ABYSS (Q-Manifold/Dirac Sea/Q-Singularis/Superstring Dimension)
This is your largest, infinite source of crystals. The amount of crystals you earn will depend on both your player level and performance. There are 4 brackets of abyss, determined by your level: 1. Beginners (25-55) 2. Elite (56-69) 3. Masters (70-80) 4. Exalted(81+)
Additionally, there are 4 brackets of rankings, determined by your performance: (This is for Exalted) 1. Sin 1, Sin 2, Sin 3 (190-220 crystals) 2. Agony 1, Agony 2, Agony 3 (280 - 420 crystals) 3. Redlotus (500 crystals) 4. Nirvana(hell) (520 crystals) There is also Forbidden, which is below Sin 1 and exclusive to Exalted Abyss(Superstring Dimension), but you'll never be there unless you stop playing the game.
I have no way of checking the crystals for brackets below Exalted, so I cannot list the crystal values for each. However, after getting multiple teams built fairly decently(which will take a long time for F2P but very achievable), you can expect to remain in Agony 3 and promote to Redlotus every once in a while, averaging 420 crystals per cycle(3 days). May you never enter Nirvana.
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5) EVENTS
Events are very frequent in Honkai, and offer very valuable rewards. Crystals aren't usually as valuable as the other rewards they offer, but the majority of the time you'll be able to buy every item in the event shop if you play the whole thing. Events usually award up to 500 crystals, but the amount varies greatly.
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6) OPEN WORLD MISSIONS (Sakura Samsara, Schicksal HQ, A Post Honkey Odyssey 1 & 2)
Every week you can gain access to 1 open world, however some of them only unlock at certain levels, and when you reach that level, the corresponding open world will unlock automatically for 2 weeks. Which means you may end up with 3 open worlds open at the same time, which will absolutely drain your stamina if you try to take up tasks for all of them. By playing through the open world story and completing missions, you will earn a hefty sum of crystals.
Additionally, for A Post Honkai Odyssey 1 & 2, you will gain access to a special supply costing special currency(keys) that you can pull crystal boxes from(you are guaranteed every reward from the supply eventually).
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7) SENSEI/CADET SYSTEM
Honkai has a mentorship system, where high level players can help out newer players and both can earn rewards. To find a sensei, go on the Friends tab on the bottom left, and then the Sensei tab on the right. There are 10 phases of rewards a cadet can earn for doing different things, totaling to 1740 crystals and 10 dorm supply cards.
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8) CODES AND NEW PATCHES
Every new patch, we get a code that gives 200 crystals and an additional 600 crystals as compensation for maintenance time. You can join Honkai's official Discord for codes.
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9) RETURNEE EVENT
If you haven't logged in for 45+ days, you will trigger the returnee system, and the next time you login you will get a returnee event. It gives a very large amount of both crystals and useful resources. Can't give a number on how much crystals exactly, but it's alot.

Minor Sources

1) DAILY 600BP
Earning 600 BP will net you 40 crystals per day, and while little compared to the major sources, it is essential you get this every day. Additionally, the "Weekly Share' mission will give you an extra 30 crystals per week.
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2) BATTLE PASS
The Free BP will get you 540 crystals, and you will level up your BP gradually just by playing the game normally. While 540 crystals is a large amount, that 540 will trickle in very slowly over the course of 3 versions(roughly 120 days).
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3) MEMORIAL ARENA
This only applies to Exalted(Lvl 81+), as only then are SSS bosses unlocked. Every week, you can challenge 3 bosses, 2 of which will be SSS. If you manage to achieve at least 38400 score on a SSS boss, you will get 20 crystals, totaling to 40 crystals per week for both. Additionally, you will get 100 crystals per week for beating at least 8 stages(which Arena Lite will probably cover on its own anyways). As a new player, it will be very difficult to do this, as you probably won't have the teams required for every boss and won't have good gear. However, achieving this once you get some teams fairly well built is very easy if you utilize Buffed Mode.
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4) ADVENTURE TASKS
Very rarely, when selecting your adventure tasks, you may get a task that awards 25 crystals. You should try to use all 15 refreshes when choosing your 5 tasks to maximize your chance of getting the crystal tasks.
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5) DORM ERRANDS
Rarely when running your Dorm Errands(although much more often than adventure tasks), you may see an S+ task appear, which gives 40 crystals. Sometimes you may not have the requirements to actually do the errand, in which case you can use your 1 daily refresh and hope for the best.
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6) ARMADA WEEKLY REWARDS
Every week you will get 25 crystals from your armada, provided they reach the weekly requirement for such(which should always happen anyways). You also get 60 crystals for joining an armada for the first time.
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7) CHARACTER TRIALS
If you go on the challenges tab(where you will see Abyss, MA, Mirage and ER), there's a blue arrow on the right. Press that and you will see the character trials. While these trials don't actually award any crystals, they award 1 FOCA card for completing the boss stage. Unfortunately most of the valkyries here are outdated and you are unlikely to even have most of them. If you do though, you can try to complete the boss stage for that 1 card. Do note, some boss stages are very difficult.
(I went on a new lvl 34 account and didn't see this for some reason, not sure if it unlocks at a certain level or something else)
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8) TACTICS CLASS
When a new character releases, a tutorial for them will release as well. Completing all stages will get you 60 crystals. Tactics class can be found in the Event tab(in the Attack section, not the button on the left of the home screen). Additionally, if you click on the Mechanics tab on the top right, you will actually see a bunch of gameplay mechanic tutorials that can net you 15 crystals each.
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9) DAILY CHECK IN
In case you didn't know, you can open this webpage everyday to get a small reward. Gives 50 crystals per month. Additionally, there are daily sign in rewards in-game, which total to 400 crystals and 1 dorm supply card every month.
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10) BIRTHDAYS
Whenever it's a character's birthday, they will send you an in-game mail with a cake and 120 crystals. If I recall correctly, you also get 100 crystals on your own birthday.
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11) COLLECTIONS
If you press your phone in the bottom right, you will see a "Collection" button. If you click on whoever is on the left, you will see the rewards for each score milestone, totaling to 1020 crystals, although it will take a very long to time get all of that. By acquiring more items in-game, you will increase your collection score. A good way to get more score is to craft dorm furniture and play story to unlock cutscenes.
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Thank you for reading! I hope this guide will be useful to newer players looking for ways to earn crystals. If I forgot any sources(I'm sure I missed at least 1), please mention it in the comments.

This is primarily targeted towards newer players, who may not know some of the ways of getting crystals, but may be useful to older players as well(probably not). I will list every source of crystals earnable in-game categorized into major and minor categories. If I miss anything, please comment.

Major Sources

1) STORY STAGES
The story stages give crystals in 2 ways. Firstly, you can earn 15 crystals per stage by completing all 3 challenges shown prior to entering the stage, and are usually pretty easy. Secondly, each chapter divides the stages into multiple sections, with extra rewards based on how many total stars(challenges completed) you got in that section. If you complete all the challenges, you will get extra crystals, usually 30 crystals. While the number may seem small on it's own, it adds up to quite a high amount in the end. Naturally, this is only a one time thing. This also includes doing Expeditions for the first time.
Chronicles also fall into this category, but they differ in the fact that after completing all of the stages, a challenge mode is unlocked where you can earn even more crystals.
2) ACHIEVEMENTS
This is only applicable for new players, as you'll be unlocking a ton of achievements for doing pretty much anything. The amount you get overall is very high compared to the more consistent sources of crystals like abyss, but this is also a one time thing.
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3) ELYSIAN REALM
This is your most accessible and largest on-demand supply of crystals(besides your credit card ofc). However the amount of crystals you can earn entirely depends on how many characters you have unlocked that are actually in Elysian Realm. For every character you have in ER, you can earn 600 crystals, by completing Shallow Sequence with them, and leveling them to level 15(although this takes some time).
You can also get crystals by collecting signets for the first time. For collecting all 5 Elysia signets for a character, you can get 20 crystals. Collecting all the general signets for a flame-chaser will get you 20 crystals, and collecting all their enhanced signets will get you 50 crystals.
When upgrading remembrance vessels, you will unlock recollection logs. Each log you click on will get you 10 crystals, totaling to 1430 crystals.
Additionally, you can earn up to 500 crystals per week if you can get 18,000 score on Deep Sequence, however this will be difficult for new players without proper gear and understanding of ER.
4) ABYSS (Q-Manifold/Dirac Sea/Q-Singularis/Superstring Dimension)
This is your largest, infinite source of crystals. The amount of crystals you earn will depend on both your player level and performance. There are 4 brackets of abyss, determined by your level: 1. Beginners (25-55) 2. Elite (56-69) 3. Masters (70-80) 4. Exalted(81+)
Additionally, there are 4 brackets of rankings, determined by your performance: (This is for Exalted) 1. Sin 1, Sin 2, Sin 3 (190-220 crystals) 2. Agony 1, Agony 2, Agony 3 (280 - 420 crystals) 3. Redlotus (500 crystals) 4. Nirvana(hell) (520 crystals) There is also Forbidden, which is below Sin 1 and exclusive to Exalted Abyss(Superstring Dimension), but you'll never be there unless you stop playing the game.
I have no way of checking the crystals for brackets below Exalted, so I cannot list the crystal values for each. However, after getting multiple teams built fairly decently(which will take a long time for F2P but very achievable), you can expect to remain in Agony 3 and promote to Redlotus every once in a while, averaging 420 crystals per cycle(3 days). May you never enter Nirvana.
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5) EVENTS
Events are very frequent in Honkai, and offer very valuable rewards. Crystals aren't usually as valuable as the other rewards they offer, but the majority of the time you'll be able to buy every item in the event shop if you play the whole thing. Events usually award up to 500 crystals, but the amount varies greatly.
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6) OPEN WORLD MISSIONS (Sakura Samsara, Schicksal HQ, A Post Honkey Odyssey 1 & 2)
Every week you can gain access to 1 open world, however some of them only unlock at certain levels, and when you reach that level, the corresponding open world will unlock automatically for 2 weeks. Which means you may end up with 3 open worlds open at the same time, which will absolutely drain your stamina if you try to take up tasks for all of them. By playing through the open world story and completing missions, you will earn a hefty sum of crystals.
Additionally, for A Post Honkai Odyssey 1 & 2, you will gain access to a special supply costing special currency(keys) that you can pull crystal boxes from(you are guaranteed every reward from the supply eventually).
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7) SENSEI/CADET SYSTEM
Honkai has a mentorship system, where high level players can help out newer players and both can earn rewards. To find a sensei, go on the Friends tab on the bottom left, and then the Sensei tab on the right. There are 10 phases of rewards a cadet can earn for doing different things, totaling to 1740 crystals and 10 dorm supply cards.
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8) CODES AND NEW PATCHES
Every new patch, we get a code that gives 200 crystals and an additional 600 crystals as compensation for maintenance time. You can join Honkai's official Discord for codes.
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9) RETURNEE EVENT
If you haven't logged in for 45+ days, you will trigger the returnee system, and the next time you login you will get a returnee event. It gives a very large amount of both crystals and useful resources. Can't give a number on how much crystals exactly, but it's alot.

Minor Sources

1) DAILY 600BP
Earning 600 BP will net you 40 crystals per day, and while little compared to the major sources, it is essential you get this every day. Additionally, the "Weekly Share' mission will give you an extra 30 crystals per week.
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2) BATTLE PASS
The Free BP will get you 540 crystals, and you will level up your BP gradually just by playing the game normally. While 540 crystals is a large amount, that 540 will trickle in very slowly over the course of 3 versions(roughly 120 days).
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3) MEMORIAL ARENA
This only applies to Exalted(Lvl 81+), as only then are SSS bosses unlocked. Every week, you can challenge 3 bosses, 2 of which will be SSS. If you manage to achieve at least 38400 score on a SSS boss, you will get 20 crystals, totaling to 40 crystals per week for both. Additionally, you will get 100 crystals per week for beating at least 8 stages(which Arena Lite will probably cover on its own anyways). As a new player, it will be very difficult to do this, as you probably won't have the teams required for every boss and won't have good gear. However, achieving this once you get some teams fairly well built is very easy if you utilize Buffed Mode.
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4) ADVENTURE TASKS
Very rarely, when selecting your adventure tasks, you may get a task that awards 25 crystals. You should try to use all 15 refreshes when choosing your 5 tasks to maximize your chance of getting the crystal tasks.
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5) DORM ERRANDS
Rarely when running your Dorm Errands(although much more often than adventure tasks), you may see an S+ task appear, which gives 40 crystals. Sometimes you may not have the requirements to actually do the errand, in which case you can use your 1 daily refresh and hope for the best.
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6) ARMADA WEEKLY REWARDS
Every week you will get 25 crystals from your armada, provided they reach the weekly requirement for such(which should always happen anyways). You also get 60 crystals for joining an armada for the first time.
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7) CHARACTER TRIALS
If you go on the challenges tab(where you will see Abyss, MA, Mirage and ER), there's a blue arrow on the right. Press that and you will see the character trials. While these trials don't actually award any crystals, they award 1 FOCA card for completing the boss stage. Unfortunately most of the valkyries here are outdated and you are unlikely to even have most of them. If you do though, you can try to complete the boss stage for that 1 card. Do note, some boss stages are very difficult.
(I went on a new lvl 34 account and didn't see this for some reason, not sure if it unlocks at a certain level or something else)
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8) TACTICS CLASS
When a new character releases, a tutorial for them will release as well. Completing all stages will get you 60 crystals. Tactics class can be found in the Event tab(in the Attack section, not the button on the left of the home screen). Additionally, if you click on the Mechanics tab on the top right, you will actually see a bunch of gameplay mechanic tutorials that can net you 15 crystals each.
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9) DAILY CHECK IN
In case you didn't know, you can open this webpage everyday to get a small reward. Gives 50 crystals per month. Additionally, there are daily sign in rewards in-game, which total to 400 crystals and 1 dorm supply card every month.
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10) BIRTHDAYS
Whenever it's a character's birthday, they will send you an in-game mail with a cake and 120 crystals. If I recall correctly, you also get 100 crystals on your own birthday.
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11) COLLECTIONS
If you press your phone in the bottom right, you will see a "Collection" button. If you click on whoever is on the left, you will see the rewards for each score milestone, totaling to 1020 crystals, although it will take a very long to time get all of that. By acquiring more items in-game, you will increase your collection score. A good way to get more score is to craft dorm furniture and play story to unlock cutscenes.
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Thank you for reading! I hope this guide will be useful to newer players looking for ways to earn crystals. If I forgot any sources(I'm sure I missed at least 1), please mention it in the comments.

We’re from Canada and had planned a trip to Las Vegas for my Bachelorette last week. Our first stop? Costco. We wanted food and breakfast for the next few days. Costco also turned out to be our only stop.
First off, oh my god! It’s so cool how the liquor is all in the same place. That was fun and we stocked uuuuupppp. And the Pringles had fun flavours we had never seen back home.
Second, we fell in love with the clothes… There were three of us shopping that day, and initially, my friends thought, “why are you looking at clothes here?” Well, let me tell you. I have a special talent of finding something wherever I am and we left with 9 clothing items, 3 items each.
Total we spent was $342.00 CAD (the conversion rate, ugh). We went to Costco on our first full day Vegas for my Bachelorette and we have no regrets.
Thanks to the sample ladies (which, btw, there were samples in almost every corner / aisle! BRB, I have to move to the States. I freaking loved it!!!) for the laughs, marriage advice, and putting up with us.
I love Costco. And I am hoping my local Costco will carry my new favourite pants because I want more colours.

Item Name:	Goyard Orange Plumet Crossbody Bag
Price:	$1,500.00
# of Spots:	100 @ $15.00/Spot
Price Justification:	Sold for $2,250.00
Price Justification:	Sold for $1,827.00 on 05/31/2023
Price Justification:	Sold for $1,700.00
Price Justification:	Sold for $1,500.00 on 05/29/2023
Price Justification:	Sold for $1,405.00
Call spots?	Y
Spot limit per person?	No
Location/Country:	CANADA
Will ship international?	USA/CANADA/INTL
Timestamp/pics:	Album + Timestamp
Escrow:	I am for willsvg
Description:	Here for raffle we have a Goyard Plumet messenger bag in the beautiful orange color way. The bag features a shoulder strap, a single interior pocket with card slots. The crossbody bag comes with 2 dust bags (1 for the bag and 1 for the strap) and the receipt. The item has been worn but is in good condition. Slight fading of the pattern on the flap and the back of the bag as excepted on every Goyardine item. Everything is shown in the album.

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I've made a script that is supposed to open a shop via a proximity prompt. When the prompt is opened, it enables the shop GUI and changes the camera to face a specific item. When the right arrow in the GUI is pressed, it switches to the next camera in numerical order, starting at 1. It works perfectly fine when you first enter it. However, if you exit the shop via the exit button and go back into it, it acts differently:
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1st time entering: Works perfectly
2nd time entering: Starts on Cam1 but only switches between Cam 3 and Cam1.
3rd time entering: Starts at Cam1 but cycles backwards (Cam4, Cam3, Cam2, Cam1)
4th time entering: Stuck on Cam1 and next button stops working.5th time entering: Loops back to 1st time.
Script (It is a local Script that's been inserted into StarterGui):

--Services local PlayerService = game:GetService("Players") local Player = PlayerService.LocalPlayer local ProximityPromptService = game:GetService("ProximityPromptService") local RunService = game:GetService("RunService") local Camera = workspace.CurrentCamera --Instances local AllCamsFolder = game.Workspace.World.Visuals.ForgeCams local AllCams = {AllCamsFolder.Cam1, AllCamsFolder.Cam2, AllCamsFolder.Cam3, AllCamsFolder.Cam4} --Camera locations local CamSub = workspace.World.Visuals.ForgeCams2.CamSub --Camera Subject local OpenShop = CamSub.Parent.ShopNPC.Head.OpenShop --Proximity Prompt local Current = CamSub.Parent.Current --Current Camera Number local CamSubDefaultLocation = CamSub.CFrame --The Cframe of Camera Subject before shop opened. --Shop ProximityPromptService.PromptTriggered:Connect(function(OpenShop, Player) Current.Value = 1 script.Parent.BruhShopGui.Enabled = true repeat wait() until Camera.CameraSubject ~= nil CamSub.CFrame = AllCams[1].CFrame Camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable Camera.CFrame = CamSub.CFrame --Next Button script.Parent.BruhShopGui.Next.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function() Current.Value = Current.Value + 1 if Current.Value > #AllCams then Current.Value = 1 end CamSub.CFrame = AllCams[Current.Value].CFrame end) --Change Camera RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function() if script.Parent.BruhShopGui.Enabled then Camera.CFrame = CamSub.CFrame end end) end) --Exit Shop script.Parent.BruhShopGui.Exit.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function() script.Parent.BruhShopGui.Enabled = false Current.Value = 0 CamSub.CFrame = CamSubDefaultLocation Camera.CameraType = "Custom" end)