Hpd building info

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So i'm building my first pc.
I did a lot of research and decided to ask a few people for options and i got 5 builds back. I did comparisons and asked even more around. SO after this i think i've pretty much made a choice.
This is where i would like to know what ive missed between all these builds.
So everyone except 2 had the following instructions - a price range which i cant really translate but lets say its around 1300- 1500$
Build for gaming and streaming
3 and 4 were told i prefer nvidia graphics, but thats just because they needed a starter point. I am not biased towards nvdia or amd
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Build 1 - friend 1 build
CPU - Intel Core i5-12600K 3.7 GHz 10-Core Processor
CPU cooler - Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler
MOBO - Asus PRIME B660-PLUS D4 ATX LGA1700 Motherboard -254 - jarcomputers
RAM - Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory
Storage - Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
GPU - Gigabyte GAMING OC Radeon RX 6800 16 GB Video Card
PSU - Gigabyte UD750GM 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply
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Build 2 - friend 2 build - Just had a price range
CPU - Ryzen 7 5700x
MOBO - Gigabyte x570s Aurous Elite AX
RAM - Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3600 C18 BK DC - 32GB -
Storage - Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD M.2 2280 - 1TB SSD - 1 TB - M.2 2280 (80mm) - PCI Express 3.0 x4 (NVMe) -
HDD - Seagate BarraCuda 2.5" ST2000LM015 Harddisk - 2 TB - 2.5" - 5400 rpm - SATA-600 - 128 MB cache
GPU - GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 EAGLE OC LHR - 8GB GDDR6 RAM
PSU - EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G6 - 750 Watt - 135 mm - 80 Plus Gold certified
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Build 3 - the choice for the moment -
MOBO - MSI PRO Z790-A WIFI /LGA1700
CPU - I7-13700F /2.1G/30MB/BOX/1700
RAM - 2X16G DDR5 5200 KINGSTON BEAST
SDD - KINGSTON SKC3000S/1024G PCIE4 GPU - PALIT RTX3070 GAMINGPRO OC LHR
PSU - PSU SEASONIC SSR-750PX PLATINU
Build 4 - the one that didnt get the price range - this one was statistically better when i checked everywhere
MAINBOARD - Gigabyte B650 GAMING X AX /AM5
CPU - AMD RYZEN 5 7600 3.8G 32MB BOX AM5
RAM - 2x16G DDR5 5200 ADATA HUNTER
FAN - MSI MAG CORELIQUID 240R V2
SSD - KINGSTON SNV2S/1000G M2 PCIE
VIDEO - GB N4070EAGLE OC-12GD
PSU - Seasonic PSU 850W Gold - G12 GC-850
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Build 5 - the first to make an offer
CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 5700X (3.4GHz)
FAN - Deepcool AG400 ARGB
MOBO - MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK
RAM 2x16GB DDR4 3200 Kingston Fury Beast CL16-20-20
GPU -ASRock Radeon RX 6800 XT 16GB Phantom Gaming OC
HDD -512GB SSD Kingston KC3000
SDD - 2TB SSD Kingston NV2
PSU - 850W COUGAR BXM 850
Look forward to more info! :)

This drama is mainly about the events of Season 7/World Championship 7 (WC7), the season of Battlebots that aired in 2023. Big spoilers for the season inbound, including the overall winner, along with spoilers of the outcomes and winners of previous seasons.
I will try my hardest to be unbiased which is hard because I am extremely biased and any attempt to be unbiased could only come across as enlightened centrism. I will simply try to keep the bias to a manageable level.

Battlebots

In case you don't know, Battlebots (well, combat robotics, but Battlebots is the most well-known and publicized event by an order of magnitude) is a... sport? Game? Hobby? Lifestyle? Where the goal is to throw two robots of a comparable weight against each other, with the goal to destroy each other. Battlebots itself is in the heavyweight category, with a 250 lb weight limit per robot. Other popular weight classes (relatively popular - heavyweight is the only televised one) are antweight (1 lb), beetleweight (3 lb), hobbyweight (12 lb), and lightweight (30 lb.) Battlebots itself airs on Discovery, generally with a main season and a spinoff season each year.
If you watched Battlebots back in the late 90s when it was on Comedy Central, you might remember robots that were basically big wedges pushing each other around a square and maybe occasionally taking a bit of armor off. That's not how it is anymore. Bots are destructive, powerful, and great spectacles to watch fight. Seriously, you should watch Battlebots. It's on Discovery+ and HBO Max. If you don't want to spend the money, Norwalk National Havoc Robotics League (NHRL) has competitions every few months that are livestreamed for free on Youtube in the smaller weight classes.
In case it's not clear from the write-up, Battlebots is filmed usually in the fall, and the season airs spring the next year. So all of the events in this write-up occurred over a 2-week period in OctobeNovember 2022, but only were public drama as the episodes aired January-May 2023. Much like any reality/game show, all the builders, production, etc. knew the outcome of the season before anything aired, there's just millions of dollars of NDAs.

The Culture

Something interesting about Battlebots that might surprise those unfamiliar with it is the culture. While teams work as hard as they can to reduce the other robot to splintered scrap in the box, back in the pits everyone is super awesome and nice and kind and helpful - a frequent occurrence is going to the pit of the bot you just took apart and seeing if there is any way you can help with the rebuild.
The classic example is in the 2021 season, when the iconic Witch Doctor's weapon disk kept breaking due to poor quality steel. They were scrambling to find material and resources to machine a new disk, when a ton of teams came together to save their season.
Team Sporkinok (yes, that's a trans Battlebot) lent them their pickup truck, to go pick up steel from a nearby supplier who was found by the captain of Team Blacksmith.
They needed to recreate the failure to figure out was wrong, so Team Shatter (the biggest, strongest hammer-bot in the competition) took their robot to the test box to try and break a disk.
They took the steel to the nearby build space of Team Chomp, who stayed up all night on their waterjet to cut new disks (the new disks worked well, by the way.)
After the season, they still didn't know for sure what the cause was, so they worked with Team Hypershock to create a dummy test robot, modeled after the very durable robot (and future 2022 champs) Tantrum, they could test the old disks on. They then sent the broken disks to a materials science lab run by a friend of the captain of Team Tantrum to perform materials analysis.
Many of these teams had fought Witch Doctor in the past, others would fight them in the future. But that doesn't matter - in robot combat, everyone is friends outside the box.
Right?

Riptide

Every year there are of course rookie bots competing for the first time. Sometimes from veteran teams and builders, such as last year's Blip (from the creators of Tantrum), or this year's RIPperoni, from former members of the teams behind Uppercut and P1, but just as often from new builders, at least new to heavyweight (almost nobody starts out with with the robots that can cost as much as a new car.)
One of these 'new-to-heavyweight' rookies last year was Riptide, captained by Ethan Kurtz (the guy with the "you know I had to do it to em" pose.) Ethan had found a good amount of success previously with the beetleweight Rival, and Riptide was basically Rival writ 80 times bigger. Riptide had a pretty good first season, winning 2 out of their 3 qualifying fights and making it to the quarterfinals before losing to the extremely good SawBlaze.
No real controversy, aside from a false start and early hit on HUGE in their first fight - written off as "I'm fighting a heavyweight on Battlebots for the first time" nerves, no hard feelings from anyone, not even HUGE. They also gave fan-favorite (formerly) indestructible brick Duck! such a bad thrashing that Duck! permanently retired after that fight (Duck! was having a bad year anyway, that fight was just the icing on the cake.)
Their success led to them co-winning Rookie of the Year alongside Glitch, who won an amazing 7 fights in a row, a feat only done before by 3-time championship winner and undisputed GOAT Bite Force (Glitch had to bow out of the tournament because their bot had taken irreparable damage despite the victories, but it's possible they could have extended it even further.) Riptide became well known for Ethan screaming "LET'S GO!" (or sometimes, "LET'S F------ GO"!", giving the censors a bit of a workout and annoying production) after big wins.
So coming into season 8, their sophomore year, hopes are high for Riptide and people want to see this breakout star do well, right? After all, there's no big controversy in their funding or anything, is there?

Stan Kurtz

Stan is the bald dude next to Ethan in the team picture. He's Ethan's dad, and also one of the main sponsors for the team through his company BeCourageous. Where did Stan Kurtz get his money to sponsor a big team? Well, he once had a company named RevitaPOP. RevitaPOP made vitamin B12 lollipops. If you know anything about 'alternative medicine,' this is where you say "oh no."
Stan Kurtz was once upon a time the president of Generation Rescue. Yes, that Generation Rescue, the Jenny McCarthy 'vaccines-cause-autism' one. He was instrumental in getting the 'movement' off the ground in the first place - I even seem to recall seeing a link to a talk he did where he said he was backstage for McCarthy's interview with Larry King, but I'm not about to sift through hours of his horrid talks and speeches to find it.
Stan Kurtz sold lollipops that he claimed cured autism, autism that he and his organization claimed was caused by vaccines. In fact, he claimed they even cured his son Ethan's autism! Remember this when you read about Ethan's behavior - it's not an excuse, but "autistic but prevented from going to any kind of therapy or anything because it would make his dad look like a liar" is certainly an explanation.
Let me divest into opinion for a sec. Stan Kurtz is evil. There is a direct line between the actions of Stan Kurtz promoting vaccine denalism and snake oil cures, and dead children. Fuck Stan Kurtz. Every other problem with Team Riptide could be overlooked if they did not have this dude as their primary sponsor (which necessarily would require replacing Ethan as captain, because you can't separate him from his dad financially.) Okay, back to the writeup.
But put a pin in "Riptide's captain and his dad are antivaxxers" - it's a surprise tool that will help us later.

Riptide in WC7

Fight 1: Glitch

Aside from that, people didn't have that much of an opinion on Riptide going in to WC7 (and even that wasn't too widely known until partway through the season.) Generally, there was a feeling of "let's see if they can keep it up" - often a lot of very promising rookie bots have weak second seasons. They started the season fighting Glitch, to see who was truly better. One hit, weapon-on-weapon, and Glitch fucking died. Upside down, weapon not spinning, no way to self-right.
Team Glitch asked Riptide to hit them again try to flip them back over, maybe knock some life back into the bot. Not an uncommon thing, but sometimes it backfires. Riptide did, launched Glitch across the box, and now Glitch was super-dead. Instant, extremely decisive knockout for Riptide. No drama yet.

Fight 2: MaD CatTer

Now on to the second fight. This one was against MaD CatTer, consisting of community college professor Martin Mason (goatee in the middle) and his students. Martin Mason is known for his intentionally cheesebally and over-the-top Macho Man imitation/homage, with lots of pointing at the camera and saying "Oh yeah!" Also by all regards the nicest man on planet Earth and one of the most beloved figures in combat robotics.
Of note is MaD CatTer's driver, Calvin Iba (guy beneath Martin's pointing hand.) Calvin Iba is one of the few builders better known for his smaller robot - his robot Lynx is the winningest beetleweight of all time, with an incredible 11 tournament wins, 8 undefeated, and an overall record of 86-11 as of December 2022 (and several events since then, but I can't find overall fight records of those events.) Now, Lynx is a very similar design to Rival (and therefore Riptide) - Lynx predates Rival by a few months, but the design is relatively generic and common at lower weight classes so it's not exactly plagarism.
This is relevant because Battlebots production tried to stir up drama, painting Calvin as angry that Ethan copied his bot and scaled it up to 250lb before Calvin could himself. For what it's worth Calvin did play into it a bit (he brought Lynx to the fight), but by all regards there aren't really any serious hard feelings about that. "Beater bars" (the weapon style of Riptide/Lynx/Rival) predate all three bots. Worth noting that Rival lost to Lynx in a brutal slugfest in the semifinals match of NHRL a few years ago, so maybe Ethan had a bit of a revenge arc more than anything.
On to the fight. MaD CatTer is a pretty serious bot - not most people's favorite to win it all, but a 'serious contender for semifinals' kind of bot - so nobody knew how this would go. It was back and forth for... about 10 seconds, then Riptide got one good hit and did not let up. MaD CatTer got taken apart like they never had before, left a smoking mess, stuck sideways against the arena wall, knocked out within a minute. Riptide then drove around a bit and punted pieces of MaD CatTer around the box, which got them a warning from the ref for being unsafe and for doing unnecessary damage to perfectly salvageable components of MaD CatTer. The team apologized later for that, saying they wouldn't do it again. Remember that.
Okay, two rapid knockouts against serious bots. Riptide is definitely not suffering from the sophomore curse. But in the post-fight interview, we did get a little taste of Ethan being a bit of a jerk - basically dismissed Calvin/Lynx as worse Riptide, and put his hand over Martin's mouth (without Martin's permission) as a way of saying "shut up wrestler man!" Could have been funny, but it came across as somewhat mean-spirited and Martin clearly was not cool with it (and Martin Mason is not a sore loser - he spends almost every post-fight interview gushing about how good the other robot is, even if MaD CatTer loses.) Production asked Calvin what he thought, and he said (while holding Lynx) "well, I designed this robot to be unbeatable, it's a great robot to base it off of. Good job." Good comeback.

Fight 3: Captain Shrederator

Captain Shrederator is a longtime veteran, being one of the few robots (alongside Witch Doctor, Hypershock, and Lock-Jaw) who has competed in all 7 seasons of the reboot. And they've competed for even longer - under various names and throughout various small tweaks, Captain Shrederator is basically the same robot as Phrizbee, from original Battlebots Season 3.0 in 2001. They're not exactly good by any modern standard, to be honest, but they're fun and an institution of the show. Worth noting that leading up to this fight, Nick Nave (son of Shrederator captain Brian Nave and a member of the team) had been hinting at possible controversy around this fight for a few weeks beforehand on the subreddit, so people were ready for some shit.
So going in, everyone expects Riptide to win. Here's a bot that made MaD CatTer look like a middleweight, versus a team with, at the time, a 6-18 career record. Riptide can't be complacent because even Shrederator can do some damage if you let it (by some metrics, Shrederator may have the most powerful weapon in the competition), but it's their fight to lose. Ethan Kurtz explains his strategy in an interview before the fight - get some big hits that flip Shrederator over. Once they're upside-down, they can't self-right and they'll be counted out. Makes sense, a solid, quick, safe, easy way to win. Well, watch the fight here if you can.
If you can't, I will summarize: It starts off with Shrederator dodging Riptide and spinning up, until eventually Riptide gets a solid hit that breaks a piece of Shrederator's shell off and destabilizes them. One more big hit from Riptide and Shrederator lands upside-down - it's over. Well, no. Riptide then goes in and hits them again before they can be counted out. And again. And again. And again. At this point Shrederator is basically completely dead, but it's still able to spin. Shrederator's team calls over to Riptide "yo, stop it we're dead already." Riptide hits Shrederator again. Riptide's weapon operator tells Ethan to hit him again. And so he does. And one more time, as sparks fly out of Shrederator's pulverized electronics. Riptide leaves Shrederator dead on the floor, as they go and, you guessed it, punt shrapnel around the box. At this point the referee has to physically take the controller from Ethan (while the rest of team Riptide tries to stop the ref.)
Of course this is a KO for Riptide, but in doing so they did around $10,000 worth of extra, unnecessary damage to Shrederator, and almost the entire bot had to be thrown out and rebuilt from spares. Riptide was not apologetic (and in fact later Ethan would gloat to the camera over how Team Shrederator hadn't even tried to rebuild their bot.) No members of Team Riptide helped Shrederator rebuild either, though one did offer. (It wasn't Ethan, Stan, or the weapon operator Sid.)
To say this was controversial to the community would be lying. Controversy requires some argument or debate. There was none - everyone thought Riptide went way too far. Riptide later tried to say "we interpreted their spinning as intent to keep fighting, and we couldn't hear them asking us to stop." Which was seen by most of the community as a load of crap, since Ethan had said to the camera that he didn't need to do those late hits just before the fight, and teams are bantering with each other in fights all the time. Riptide was formally warned by the ref again for this fight.
At this point, the editors I guess realized that controversy sells. In almost every remaining episode of the season, even ones where Riptide didn't fight, they had some clip of Riptide, or Ethan, or something else to rub in "these guys are really mean and have a good bot, wHaT iF tHeY wIn???" Very much a 'whenver Riptide's not on screen, all the other robots should be asking "Where's Riptide?"' situation. It got old very fast (read: instantly.)

Fight 4: Black Dragon

You want to talk about beloved teams, you have to mention Black Dragon. This Brazilian team is known for two things - their plush duck, which they won in a claw machine the first time they came to the US for a competition and have kept as a good luck charm ever since, and their durability - they had gone a near-record 24 matches without ever getting knocked out, winning all of those fights or losing by judge's decision. Leading up to this fight, Battlebots kept having segments showing how Black Dragon had almost surpassed Bite Force for the "most fights without a KO" streak (Bite Force was never KO'd in its entire 4-season career, going 26-1 with 1 lost JD.) Of course, then they had to fight Riptide.
This fight was probably the least controversial Riptide fight of the season - you can watch it here. Riptide went in and did not let up, unrelenting, leading to the Brazilian bot suffering their first ever KO in under a minute. Riptide was actually pretty chill in the post-fight interview, very respectful towards Black Dragon - I guess that ref warning stuck. For now. With that, Riptide advanced to 4-0 in the qualifiers, and ended up securing themselves the #2 overall seed (behind the undefeated Brazilian monster Minotaur, a favorite to win it all every season and the season 3 runner-up.)

Round of 32: Shatter

For those who don't know, Battlebots has a series of qualifying fights (this year, 4 fights per bot) to determine, out of the contenders (50 this year), which 32 get to compete in the tournament for the Giant Nut, and where they will be seeded. As the #2 seed, Riptide got to fight the #31 seed - hammer-bot Shatter, who you saw earlier helping Witch Doctor. Now, let me not mince words - Shatter was fucked. To paraphrase a comment I saw, "If Shatter drives like a god, gets the most perfect hammer shots ever, and in general is the best a hammer has ever looked in the history of hammers... they will still lose." There was no way Shatter could ever, ever win, barring some kind of catastrophic self-induced failure from Riptide. But damn it, Shatter captain Adam Wrigley was sure as hell going to try.
Now, for more info, the bots have rules that govern what you can do. There's a lot, but 2 are relevant - strict 250 lb weight limit, and the tip speed of a spinning weapon cannot exceed 250 mph. Bots are weighed before each fight to confirm the weight limit, and all bots with spinners have to do tip speed tests in the test box. After the weigh-in, you cannot modify or work on your bot in any way without the approval of production and safety. Not for anything. Maybe a sticker if you want.
So when a Shatter team member found Riptide working on their bot in the tunnel leading from the pits just before the fight, questions were had, and team Shatter demanded Riptide be reweighed and tip speed retested (there were rumors in the pits that they were spinning faster than 250mph.) The team later explained they were attaching a plastic hammer to the robot to mimic Shatter (teams doing funny decorative mods to their bot to mimic the other bot is a longstanding tradition.) All evidence seemed to point to that being the case, so nobody thinks they were lying about it, but it still warranted a reweigh. My opinion - that's fine, but tell production. If people think you're going to do something illegal, and you do something legal but in a way that looks illegal, don't be surprised when people think you're doing something illegal.
I will note that the show made a big deal out of how when Riptide was weighed before they were 'caught,' they weighed in at 250 lb, and the re-weighing said they were 248. There was some concern from Shatter about that, not helped by Stan Kurtz being kind of smug back to them. In response to one Shatter member asking "Why is it 248 now and 250 before?", Stan responded "You're right, there's something wrong. We made it lighter." Now, the thing with this is that there are multiple scales, they're not extremely precise, and if anyone has ever worked with industrial scales before you know how easily they come out of calibration. Some builders have said that whether or not the AC was on could add a pound of weight from the airflow. The "250lb" scale was not the same as the "248lb" scale as well. Generally, nobody really thinks there is something up with the weight, but working on the bot post-weigh-in absolutely warrants a reweigh, no matter who it is.
Riptide complained a lot about it, to the point where the word "whiney" comes to mind. You messed up, teams are meant to tell production before they add decorative stuff and you didn't, so you need to be reweighed. You've already pissed people off in the past so don't be surprised when they give you a bit more scrutiny. Take your lumps, apologize, act like adults, and maybe people will give you the benefit of the doubt next time. Instead, there was a lot of "oh boo is me, we're being discriminated against" - a direct quote from Ethan is "their paranoia is affecting our performance, I think it's really uncool that they did this." Granted, if the scale drifted the other way and they had to lose 2lb of armor to satisfy the arbitrary scale drift, I would get it more, but as it is they just look, well, whiney.
At this time, unbeknownst to anyone until they revealed it on a livestream, Team Whyachi (the team behind the powerful flipper Hydra, engine of (self-)destruction Fusion, and Comedy Central-era legend Son of Whyachi, who had the pit next to Riptide, was asked by production to put a spy camera up to make sure everything was above board. Allegedly they also began doing analysis of the audio and video of the actual fights, to make sure teams (read: one team) weren't cheating and spinning faster than the "maximum speed" they did in the test box.
However, aside from the (explainable, acceptable) scale drift, Riptide was not found to be cheating with tip speed or anything else. Shatter accepted this without complaint - they just wanted to be sure. So, that's out of the way. Ethan basically said "they are paranoid and are trying to ruin us so we will crush them" - fair enough, I suppose. Here's the fight (note: this video includes the entire 'weigh-in' drama before the fight if you want to watch it instead of just reading about it.) For what it's worth, Shatter lasted longer than anyone yet against Riptide - almost 2 minutes - but it went the way everyone expected. The most unexpected thing was in the post-fight, where Ethan basically said "Adam is a paranoid loser" (alongside, allegedly, some more personal insults that got cut), then went in for a "sporting" handshake. Unsurprisingly, Adam refused it.
Now, Adam is basically the "union rep" for the builders - he's the guy chosen (by the builders) to represent them when Battlebots is thinking about changing the rules. He is a very widely respected guy and is by all accounts very sporting and nice. So when you've pissed him off enough that he refuses the handshake (only the second refused handshake in modern Battlebots history, as far as I am aware), you know you fucked up. But either way, Riptide is on to the round of 16.

Round of 16: Hypershock

You saw Hypershock earlier. They're quite good - definitely a contender, though generally not going to be anyone's main pick to win it all. This year, they were the #18 seed after a rough set of qualifiers, fighting 2021 champs End Game, 2021 runner-up Whiplash, perennial contender SawBlaze, and the confusingly fast Claw Viper (seriously watch this, look how fast that boy is.) But after a solid win over #15 seed Lucky, they were on to the round of 16.
When I say Hypershock is a fan favorite, I mean they are the fan favorite - between their iconic style, aggressive driving, and captain Will Bales's humor and charisma, it's probably not wrong to say Hypershock is the most popular bot and team around. People love Hypershock, and people don't love Riptide, so this fight had a lot of "save us, O-Will Bales Kenobi, you're our only hope" energy with the community. Leading up to this, Will said in an interview that Riptide was good, but every team can't be good forever, and that someday Ethan will experience, in Will's words, a "humbling event."
But Hypershock wasn't the odds-on favorite here - Will Bales's flashy driving tends to lead to errors, and against something as nasty as Riptide, any error is death. The full fight isn't uploaded, but here's a clip of the post-fight highlight reel. Will started out doing a 'box rush' (charging straight at the other bot as soon as the fight starts), only to attempt to dodge to the side. Unfortunately, this led to him powersliding directly into Riptide's weapon, losing a wheel, and getting flipped over.
Now, the thing with vertical spinners in Battlebots is they spin 'up' - this means that the outer side goes up and the inner side goes down, so you can brace your own bot against the floor and send the other one flying. Now Hypershock is upside down, effectively spinning 'down,' so the energy from hits pushes the other bot down and themselves up. Riptide is spinning 'up' as normal. Both of these are extremely powerful weapons. Both want to send Hypershock into the air. So what happens when they collide? The energy of both weapons goes into sending Hypershock flying up over 25 feet and slamming into the ceiling of the Battlebox. Remember that that thing weighs 250 pounds. To quote Will in the post-fight interview, "nobody has ever been hit like that before." Much to the chagrin of Hydra captain Jake Ewert, who had the goal of being the first-ever bot to send another bot into the ceiling (and came within inches in their fight against Deathroll), Riptide made Battlebots history here.
The rest of the fight goes as expected at this point and Hypershock is KO'd, with Riptide moving into the quarterfinals. Sorry Will, you aren't the humbling event this time.

Quarterfinals: Copperhead

It's the final episode of the season - the quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals are all in one episode. People are spooked because Riptide is a incredible, powerful bot built and driven by shitty people, and nobody wants them to win but they might. But to go any further, they have to beat Copperhead.. This snake-themed bot is probably best known for getting a new captain almost every year, and this year it's Luke Quintal in charge for his first time. They just came off of an insanely dominant upset over 2021 champs End Game.
Luke has said that he was too focused on Copperhead to pay attention to the controversy, so he became aware of it when, leading up to this fight, builders kept coming up to him and whispering in his hear "dude, you have to beat Riptide. You have to beat them. You might be our last hope." He's just a first-year captain/driver, with the oldest bot in the competition (Copperhead has had the same two frames for its entire 4-year career - this is the longest any frame has competed in the history of modern Battlebots without replacement), who's had to have back-to-back fights against rookie of the year Ripperoni, 2018 Most Destructive winner ROTATOЯ, and End Game. No pressure.
Now, people have tried ways to beat Riptide. You can't just tank their hits with a durable bot (Black Dragon.) You can't outdrive them with fancy footwork (Hypershock.) But something nobody has been man insane enough to try is to go weapon-to-weapon on purpose to break Riptide's weapon. Copperhead just went weapon-to-weapon with End Game and broke theirs. Copperhead is durable enough to take those huge hits Riptide deals out. So their strategy is to just go berserk until something breaks. But there's one major plot twist left.
Remember how I said the Kurtzes are anti-vaxxers? Well, the pandemic is still going on. In order to get into the pits, you either had to be double-vaxxed or test negative every day. Well, there's no confirmation that Ethan was or was not vaxxed (but let's be real), but guess what? In the greatest Chekhov's gun in Battlebots history, he tested positive for COVID the day of the Copperhead fight. Riptide is out their driver for their biggest fight ever.
Other builders have confirmed that this was not the first or only time that team members had to miss days due to testing positive, but previous times either 1) did not involve the drivers, or 2) were in the qualifying rounds where fights could be postponed to following days. But neither was the case this time. Now, this is really a shitty situation for Riptide, and I do feel some degree of pity for them - what a thing to happen. But at the same time, lmao.
Riptide has to spend most of the day deciding who would drive the robot in the fight. The first person they ask? Jack Barker, driver of End Game and 2021 world champion. Jack agreed - can you blame him? Riptide is a hell of a bot, probably super fun to drive, and who knows, maybe he could win another Giant Nut. This got as far as Jack driving Riptide around the test box, before Luke found out and was like "hang on, no. He's not on your team. It's not fair that you can just go to the best driver in the pits and ask them to drive for you." Production agreed and hastily made a new rule where the driver has to be a member of the team. This all was not in the episode, and was only revealed by Luke Quintal after the season aired.
Team Riptide then deliberated between the several members of the team who might stand a chance. They eventually decide on team member Felix Jing, who's an award-winning Vex Robotics driver but has never driven a heavyweight before. Felix seemed to be a nice enough guy, and pretty humble. However, in the deliberations over who would drive, they lose time and are unable to replace their damaged weapon from the Hypershock fight.
So the fight. Riptide box rushes Copperhead, and the first weapon-to-weapon sends Copperhead flying. Luke's bot is still going, though, and goes in for another clash. This goes on for a few hits, until a massive hit sends Copperhead flying up and Riptide flying back - but when they come to, Copperhead's weapon is spinning... and Riptide's weapon is cracked down the middle, exactly what Copperhead was aiming for.
Copperhead does not let up and keeps hitting, eventually ripping about a quarter of Riptide's weapon off completely. However, the damage from the last 4 years of fighting added up. Those big hits from Riptide were the final straw - one of Copperhead's two wheels just falls off. Copperhead can still move, just about, on just one wheel, but suddenly this fight got a lot closer. They keep hitting Riptide, but it goes to the judges after the full 3 minutes.
It's a split decision. Battlebots is scored on an 11-point system - 5 points for damage, and 3 each for aggression and control.
All three judges gave Copperhead three damage points to Riptide's two and Riptide two control points to Copperhead's one.
The first judge scored aggression 2-1 for Copperhead. 6-5 Copperhead.
The second judge scored aggression 2-1 for Riptide. 6-5 Riptide.
The third judge scored aggression 2-1 for the winner...
Copperhead!
They did it, they saved the goddamn universe. We will not have to live in a world where the ur-anti-vaxxer and his dickhead kid win Battlebots. Everyone is fucking ecstatic. I cheered. The audience cheered. God probably cheered. And boy, did the pits cheer - some builders have said this was the biggest celebration in the pits they had ever seen. Tim Rackley of Monsoon (big lad with the flag) apparently was picking Luke up and carrying him around the pits cheering. Riptide is out.
It's a pity Ethan wasn't there to experience his 'humbling event' in person, but it happened. He was there on a video call on a tablet - apparently, production did ask him how he felt and he went on a 5-minute rant about how the team was being forced to face jealousy and adversity because they had to get reweighed. The entire rant was cut from the episode that aired. I've seen conflicting reports if he said "if I was there we would have won," but it would be in character if he did.
Team Riptide used their appeal (each team gets one) to ask the judges to re-review the fight - they did (absolutely fair - you have nothing to lose, anyone should appeal in this situation), and as though to rub it in even more, the sole judge who ruled for Riptide changed his mind about Riptide's aggression, giving Copperhead a unanimous JD. The saga of Riptide in WC7 ends here.

Aftermath

There was zero drama of any kind for the rest of the season (all 3 fights of it.) All the fights were great, clean fights between respected and respectful teams and robots. Copperhead ended up losing to HUGE in the semi-finals - no surprise or shame there, HUGE is designed to be invincible to bots like Copperhead. HUGE ended up facing the mighty SawBlaze in the finals, and in probably the best finals match in combat robotics history, SawBlaze managed to win a unanimous JD, giving SawBlaze captain Jamison Go the Giant Nut.
Literally zero people were unhappy with this - both Jamison and HUGE captain Jonathan Schultz are some of the nicest, most genuine, humble builders in the sport, and going into the finals it was very much a "no matter who wins we all win" kind of thing. Both bots are also "non-meta" - "meta" being the general form of bot that Hypershock, Riptide, Witch Doctor, Copperhead, etc. are, a compact vertical spinner - seasons 3-6 saw meta bots win both first place and runner-up, so people were excited to see a finals match with something new on both sides.
This was very recent, so no news if Riptide will be invited back next year. I would be shocked if they weren't, though - controversy sells, and regardless of how bad the team is, the robot is a killing machine that makes for incredible spectacles. There is allegedly a "sportsmanship rule" being added next year - it's a pity that something that has gone unspoken for decades has to codified in rules because of the actions of one team, but hopefully it will help. Between unethical sponsors, destroying fan favorite bots, being rude both inside and outside the box, cheating allegations, and a stunning lack of humility, Riptide really checked all the boxes in the 'bad guys' field this year.
I could say "the viewing community is willing to give Riptide one more chance to apologize and redeem themselves" but that would be a lie. For the most part, the subreddit, main Discord, etc. are all sick and tired of ever seeing the team again, and would love nothing more than for some cool, nice builder to hijack the bot so we can have cool robots and cool people. I don't know how the builders feel - I imagine that they're probably not quite as vehemently opposed to the team on average, but there's probably no love lost.
I enjoyed writing this up quite a lot, because it really was a classic "villain defeats the main good guys, but then the underdog comes out of nowhere and saves the day" story. Also Battlebots rules. Feel free to ask me anything about the show, or any bots, or if you want to see some cool bots that I didn't include. And seriously, watch Battlebots, it's so good. Check out /battlebots - it's the off-season, so the shitposts are about to get real good. I'm running out of characters so the collection of miscellaneous facts I originally had stuck on the end of this writeup is going to be in the comments.

Hi selfimprovement, happy to be here! I've always been someone who aspires to prioritize my mental and physical health, but I've never had the self discipline or motivation to follow through with my goals. I just turned 25, and as I get older, my unhealthy habits are starting to catch up to me. I'm not looking to be the most disciplined or fit person of all time, but I do need to start to taking better care of myself. I am doing very well in my career, have a great social life, and am in therapy which has helped my anxiety a lot. However, I struggle waking up on time and therefore spend the majority of my day running around frantically trying to get to things on time, have terrible eating and sleeping habits, don't exercise despite having a gym in my apartment building, and struggle a lot with sticking to a routine bc of aforementioned lack of self-discipline (I also have ADHD, but find routines are helpful... until i fall off the wagon). I feel overwhelmed trying to get my life together and have no idea where to start.
A bit of relevant background info and my goals:
- I struggle a LOT to wake up on time, especially if I don't have somewhere to be first thing in the morning. I set my alarm for 7:30 every day, but can't remember the last time i actually got up at that time except to like travel or something.
- I live in a large city and work in a creative field where socializing and networking is extremely important. The vast majority of my friends are also creative types, so many of my friends do freelance and/or don't have consistent work hours where they have to wake up at specific times. I work a 9-6 at a creative agency, 2 days in office, 3 days WFH— these days are flexible. Because I'm a creative, it's pretty acceptable to roll into the office late, which I've taken complete advantage of. I can't remember the last time I went into the office at 9am, I always stroll in late.
- I typically don't wake up in time to eat breakfast, literally can not get out of bed until the last possible second, and that sets the tone for the day— constantly running around forgetting things and stressing out about being late places.
- My night time routine isn't much better, I don't have a consistent bedtime. Because I don't have any personal time at the beginning of the day, I end up decompressing at night, which of course turns into procrastinating, staying up late reading or watching TV, feeling wired and gross and stressed and not actually relaxing. I don't spend my alone time working on my hobbies, even though I know it would feel better than laying on my couch doing nothing for hours on end.
- I feel amazing when I am going to the gym consistently and I know its good for my mental health, but I can not get myself to go. I'd LOVE to workout in the mornings 3 times a week before I start working on days I WFH, but... it just doesn't happen. I always feel disappointed in myself when I realize I don't follow through. I'm starting to notice that I'm squishy, I'm not super concerned with losing weight, but I want to be in better shape and a bit more "toned". I look and feel better when I'm exercising.
- I love cooking, but again, get lazy when I finish work and end up snacking or ordering delivery and then overeating and feeling crappy. I'd love to get into the routine of eating healthy, homemade meals when I'm alone, and save eating out for when I'm socializing. Again... I tell myself that and still end up ordering delivery or takeout.
- My social life is super important to me, and I'd like to leave 2-3 evenings during the week open to see my boyfriend or friends, or do something interesting like going out or going to dinner. I feel invigorated and much more motivated the day after I go out with friends, but I don't know how to balance after work socialization with a healthy night time routine because i literally have no bedtime routine at all.
This all leaves me feeling really drained and overwhelmed by the end of the week. I always end my week feeling like I'm behind on things or disappointed that I didn't workout, eat homemade meals, get on a good schedule, or working on my hobbies. It's a really upsetting cycle where I just can not seem to hold myself accountable. The issue I run into is that all of my "problems" compound on each other and I am so confused as to how to start. If I don't wake up on time, I don't do any exercise, which leads to me eating poorly, which leads to me feeling fatigued and exhausted and unhealthy, which leads to me sleeping in, which leads me to stay up later- except im mentally drained so im not doing anything with those hours... then the cycle repeats.
Help me get my life in order please!!!
TLDR; I have no clue where to start in order to get my life in order. I WANT to be productive and organized.

Im looking for some guidance on a project im working on. Im looking for someone with any relevant experience that could guide me on what this project would cost, or how many hours a developer will need to make this. I know the price range (and quality) will vary greatly from what developer i choose, but any guidance is greatly appreciated. I've tried to sum up the project in short, so if there is any missing information, please let me know.
Were mainly using elementor to build our site if that is relevant.
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Database of Partner profiles and organisations
- Profiles for single people and their organsations (see attached image)
- Users should be able to create their own profile. (Not open to every visitor, e.g behind a password)
- Assign themselves to a project.
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Frontend navigation page (Project Sites)
- Separate pages for projects and publications
- A description, pictures and relevant tags/info for the project
o Links to the local project page or external website
- Indexes and filters by given parameters
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An elementor widget (or a block that works with an elementor page)
- Prebuilt widget that gathers project information and displays “business cards” for the active collaborators for a project.
o Collapsible list for every organization, as relevant collaborators can reach >100
o Individually customizable to fit the current and changing website and project design
- User profiles can be viewed with more information by clicking business card
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I am required to take ENG 105 LEC to fill my English requirement. I was wondering what the difference between ELI 105 LEC and ENG 105 LEC is. Can I take ELI 105 LEC instead of ENG 105 LEC and still get the same credit? I am trying to build my schedule as a first semester freshmen and for some reason in the schedule builder there are no open spots for ENG 105 LEC but there are for ELI 105 LEC. Why is this the case? Thanks for any info.

What will you be doing with this PC? Be as specific as possible, and include specific games or programs you will be using.

Work and games, mainly Lost Ark/Diablo 4

What is your maximum budget before rebates/shipping/taxes?

$1400-1500

When do you plan on building/buying the PC? Note: beyond a week or two from today means any build you receive will be out of date when you want to buy.

Buying parts this week/next week

What, exactly, do you need included in the budget? (ToweOS/monitokeyboard/mouse/etc)

Tower

Which country (and state/province) will you be purchasing the parts in? If you're in US, do you have access to a Microcenter location?

California, USA. Don’t have access to a Microcenter location

If reusing any parts (including monitor(s)/keyboard/mouse/etc), what parts will you be reusing? Brands and models are appreciated.

LG34GP83A-B monitor

Will you be overclocking? If yes, are you interested in overclocking right away, or down the line? CPU and/or GPU?

No plans at the moment

Are there any specific features or items you want/need in the build? (ex: SSD, large amount of storage or a RAID setup, CUDA or OpenCL support, etc)

32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD minimum. Powerful GPU to accommodate the monitor (1440p ultrawide, 144 Hz). Wi-Fi as well

Do you have any specific case preferences (Size like ITX/microATX/mid-towefull-tower, styles, colors, window or not, LED lighting, etc), or a particular color theme preference for the components?

Mini-ITX, white and minimalistic. Lian Li Q58 and NR200 look nice, for example. Airflow is a concern I have. Don’t really care for a window and RGB.

Do you need a copy of Windows included in the budget? If you do need one included, do you have a preference?

No

Extra info or particulars:

N/A

Hi, a little info on me. I’m early 20’s and earn just shy of 50k a year salaried. I’m currently saving around £1200 a month but generally I end up saving £700. With £200 going to a H2B ISA and the other £500 into premium bonds. I know I should probably save more, but I also enjoy, enjoying my life, I do pay to rent my family who I live with and a car payment (PCP). I’ve just taken out a credit card strictly for fuel which I pay off in full every month to help assist in building my credit score. I guess I would like to start looking at moving out within the year. My girlfriend is at uni but is also managing to save into a H2B. She has one more year to go so moving out would probably line up with this time next year once she’s finished uni. Is there anything I should be doing differently? Am I being a dick with my money could and should I be saving more? Should I be utilising different accounts? I don’t really have anyone in my life to speak about financial advice so obviously I turn to Reddit. Would really appreciate peoples thoughts ok the matter. I know I find myself in a very lucky position for my age but I have worked hard for it. I just feel worried that I’m not doing what’s in my best interests regarding savings, investing and buying a house!

What will you be doing with this PC? Be as specific as possible, and include specific games or programs you will be using.

• I will be streaming and gaming, I mostly play rainbow six siege and Jedi fallen order and spiderman. For programs I don’t know I just would like to stream and play but have good quality and nice looking games I don’t wanna feel like I’m on my ps5

What is your maximum budget before rebates/shipping/taxes?

I’m looking to spend around 1k-1.2k the max I’ll wanna put is 1.5k

When do you plan on building/buying the PC? Note: beyond a week or two from today means any build you receive will be out of date when you want to buy.

• I’m tryna get this pc built pretty soon just don’t know what to get.

What, exactly, do you need included in the budget? (ToweOS/monitokeyboard/mouse/etc)

All I need is a mouse and keyboard idk what a OS is or tower

Which country (and state/province) will you be purchasing the parts in? If you're in US, do you have access to a Microcenter location?

• based in the US and I believe I do have access to a microcenter

If reusing any parts (including monitor(s)/keyboard/mouse/etc), what parts will you be reusing? Brands and models are appreciated.

• I would like to stay away from used parts but if it’s cheaper it’s fine and if it’s anything replaceable I’m okay with the used parts

Will you be overclocking? If yes, are you interested in overclocking right away, or down the line? CPU and/or GPU?

Idk

Are there any specific features or items you want/need in the build? (ex: SSD, large amount of storage or a RAID setup, CUDA or OpenCL support, etc)

• a large amount of storage would be fine

Do you have any specific case preferences (Size like ITX/microATX/mid-towefull-tower, styles, colors, window or not, LED lighting, etc), or a particular color theme preference for the components?

I really do want a all white Pc build with LED lights for the case I just want a nice looking one you know

• Replace this text with answer.

Do you need a copy of Windows included in the budget? If you do need one included, do you have a preference?

• I don’t know if I need one but if I do then yes

Extra info or particulars:

Hi I don't normally do this kind of thing but I'm not having any luck irl so why not try reddit anyways some basic info about me let's see 20 I live in Jacksonville Florida and my name is Isaac I'm a pretty nerdy guy tbh I love science and d&d and lotrs and video games and basically everything quote on quote nerdy I also have a lot of hobbies the the ones I do the most are reading, gaming, Drawing, movies and tv, playing d&d, voice acting, singing, writing, Cooking/baking bread, photography, and building Legos basically anything to fill my time my friend say that I'm a basically the father friend whatever that means lol 😅 anyways I'm sure that if you have made it this far you probably want to know what I'm looking for and honestly as long as you're around my age nice share at least a few of my interest your it I would prefer for us to be close but I'm okay with long distance as long as it doesn't stay long distance and if you made it to the end of this long post please dm I would love to hear from you thank you so much for reading this I hope you have a great day if I don't hear from you

Anyone have any info as to where I can find a drop for Sellenas Iron for my barbarian build? Thanks in advance!

Hi I don't normally do this kind of thing but I'm not having any luck irl so why not try reddit anyways some basic info about me let's see 20 I live in Jacksonville Florida and my name is Isaac I'm a pretty nerdy guy tbh I love science and d&d and lotrs and video games and basically everything quote on quote nerdy I also have a lot of hobbies the the ones I do the most are reading, gaming, Drawing, movies and tv, playing d&d, voice acting, singing, writing, Cooking/baking bread, photography, and building Legos basically anything to fill my time my friend say that I'm a basically a dad in a young guy form whatever that means lol 😅 anyways I'm sure that if you have made it this far you probably want to know what I'm looking for and honestly as long as you're around my age nice share at least a few of my interest your it I would prefer for us to be close but I'm okay with long distance as long as it doesn't stay long distance and if you made it to the end of this long post please dm I would love to hear from you thank you so much for reading this I hope you have a great day if I don't hear from you

Hi I don't normally do this kind of thing but I'm not having any luck irl so why not try reddit anyways some basic info about me let's see 20 I live in Jacksonville Florida and my name is Isaac I'm a pretty nerdy guy tbh I love science and d&d and lotrs and video games and basically everything quote on quote nerdy I also have a lot of hobbies the the ones I do the most are reading, gaming, Drawing, movies and tv, playing d&d, voice acting, singing, writing, Cooking/baking bread, photography, and building Legos basically anything to fill my time my friend say that I'm a basically a dad in a young guy form whatever that means lol 😅 anyways I'm sure that if you have made it this far you probably want to know what I'm looking for and honestly as long as you're around my age nice share at least a few of my interest your it I would prefer for us to be close but I'm okay with long distance as long as it doesn't stay long distance and if you made it to the end of this long post please dm I would love to hear from you thank you so much for reading this I hope you have a great day if I don't hear from you

So, I've done something I didn't know was possible: I've made Factorio crash, consistently. I have a rather large factorio base, and I've run into the problem where it crashes during save. This happens every time, both autosave and manual.
When I first noticed it, I noticed that it always happened during autosave, but I could manually save fine. I started tuning the save interval, to the point where I am now at a stage in the game where any saving will cause it to crash, indicating that my game world has reached a state causing the crash, or something to do with the save size.
I've turned on extra debugging, but as you can see the log doesn't really tell much: https://pastebin.com/JynfAb5M
One thing that I've noticed is that any attempt to save does begin to write a save file. There is some variation in the exact sizes of the leftover tmp.zip file, but it always crashes (and therefore stops to write) at around 1.1MB. The previous successful save is 312MB (326536729 bytes to be exact).
I've tried various versions of Factorio, and this happens in 1.1.80, as well as the never beta branches.
There is nothing spectacular happening in the game... I'm sitting still waiting for my bots to build more ghosts, sothing I've done numerous times before - Extend the main bus, and wait for my 30k construction robots to do so.
Any suggestions on how to proceed from here? I'd love to get some help in resolving this and resuming, as it's 630 hours into the game. I tried to turn off saving, and I can play just fine, I am just unable to save, which is obviously a dealbreaker. For modlist, see the debug file. All mod-files are up to date.
If I can provide any additional info, I'll gladly do so.
UPDATE: Somehow, the working savegame crashed once during loading as well. I noticed in the debug log that it crashed while the mod "Dynamic Robot Queue" was loading the bot construction queue. I disabled the mod, and now the world can both save and load just fine. It seems that the combination of huge queues and that mod was the culprit.
UPDATE: Nope, still crashing on autosave, at least. But it crashed while I had a strace attached to the process. Unfortunately I didn't output said strace to a file. Running again, saving it this time. Stand by for loads of debug data.
UPDATE: Eh, autosave and everything of course seems to be running smoothly now that I have strace running. stack trace is currently up to 151MB, so I can just let it run and hopefully produce something useful eventually. If not, at least my game doesn't crash as consistently anymore.

I just need a LITTLE help from knowledgeable Ubuntu package maintainers, please....
I'm new at dealing with package loaders, and I've recently loaded Ubuntu 20, which apparently is called "Focal ...", onto my arm64 type system. But its "doc-base" package has been giving me LOADS of problems from the very start. So I finally did this today:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove doc-base
followed then by a fresh installation of it on a seemingly error-free packaging system at this point via:
sudo apt-get install doc-base
But the installation of it claims that it is just filled with errors as shown below this here, so is this package really in this bad of shape and why, if so, hasn't anyone excluded it from installations until it's fixed, being that it had been loaded automatically during my installation? Isn't it possible to have packages automatically excluded when they aren't currently set up correctly? I'm new at learning all about this Debian packaging stuff so simply need some confirmation here that this really is a corrupt package and that I'm not otherwise doing something wrong, and that I should therefore simply purge it again and give up on it! (Thanks):
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove doc-base Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: doc-base* libuuid-perl* libyaml-tiny-perl* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 616 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y (Reading database ... 189410 files and directories currently installed.) Removing doc-base (0.10.9) ... Removing libuuid-perl (0.28-1build1) ... Removing libyaml-tiny-perl (1.73-1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ... (Reading database ... 189351 files and directories currently installed.) Purging configuration files for doc-base (0.10.9) ...
sudo apt-get install doc-base Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: libuuid-perl libyaml-tiny-perl Suggested packages: rarian-compat The following NEW packages will be installed: doc-base libuuid-perl libyaml-tiny-perl 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 121 kB of archives. After this operation, 616 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Get:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports focal/main arm64 libuuid-perl arm64 0.28-1build1 [15.5 kB] Get:2 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports focal/main arm64 libyaml-tiny-perl all 1.73-1 [25.2 kB] Get:3 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports focal/main arm64 doc-base all 0.10.9 [80.6 kB] Fetched 121 kB in 8s (14.8 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package libuuid-perl. (Reading database ... 189346 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libuuid-perl_0.28-1build1_arm64.deb ... Unpacking libuuid-perl (0.28-1build1) ... Selecting previously unselected package libyaml-tiny-perl. Preparing to unpack .../libyaml-tiny-perl_1.73-1_all.deb ... Unpacking libyaml-tiny-perl (1.73-1) ... Selecting previously unselected package doc-base. Preparing to unpack .../doc-base_0.10.9_all.deb ... Unpacking doc-base (0.10.9) ... Setting up libuuid-perl (0.28-1build1) ... Setting up libyaml-tiny-perl (1.73-1) ... Setting up doc-base (0.10.9) ... Registering 102 doc-base files... Error in /usshare/doc-base/users-and-groups', line 13: allFormat' sections are invalid. Error in /usshare/doc-base/nano-faq', line 10: allFormat' sections are invalid. Error in /usshare/doc-base/vim-usermanual', line 11: allFormat' sections are invalid. Error in /usshare/doc-base/shared-mime-info', line 12: allFormat' sections are invalid. Error in /usshare/doc-base/packet-filter', line 10: allFormat' sections are invalid. 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Thank you guys for hopefully some feedback on this situation because obviously something is VERY wrong here! :)

Hello friends
I was too slow to get all the information, but here is what we got so far friends.
VarguKronos/Pally getting changed.
Vargur +1 low -1 highKronos +1 midPally 5% per level range instead of 7.5% (MISSILES NOW WTF)
All m3 is cut in half for PI
Golem now has Hybrid bonus's to be in line with T2 Dread
Pally is a Missile ship to be in line with T2 dread
Core Temp thingys for caps has half the required materials
Isogen on every single ship i looked at had half the required amount
The system i was logged in, Kedama, had 3 Large Ochre belts, decent chance that Isogen rich ores are going to be VERY common in Low.
The new weird border nullsec ores, my friend scanned, had 500km3 per rock.....
All Capitals have about 20% less materials needed for cap components. Also less components needed per dread/fax/carrier
All carriers had a role bonus for application, 25%.
Bastion is 60 seconds
Siege is 2 mins 30 seconds
Please post below what you were able to find!
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Lower req for these
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M3 is half now
EDIT : Update as i get info from sources
All Marauder Mass is increasedSkill Req to build some cap mods has changed + added, more skill intensive to build caps now

I am new to the scene but haven't really found any good P2E groups except this one. I am part of a project called The Lamden Realm. I don't want to be SHILLing it. I just want to introduce it to more people so they can check it out. I really don't know what to say that doesn't sound like Shilling lol. It is in live now but is being constantly upgrades and the DEVs are open ears to the whole community. But here is some info about it.
Realtime 2D massively multiplayer online role-playing pixelart game with heavy focus on cryptocurrency and NFTs. Set in a real-time metaverse where players can immerse themselves in a world of adventure, battling monsters to earn tokens. You can buy Skins, Weapons, Battle for Loot, Map building coming soon, etc....
All the items and equipment dropped by monsters are NFTs, meaning each one is unique and has its value. Some are rarer than others, so players can trade these NFTs on the marketplace for higher prices. Features a big PvP aspect where players can compete against each other to steal loot.
Players can use various portals to travel to different maps where they will encounter monsters and other players. Killing monsters and completing quests will earn players tokens and loot, which they can extract to the blockchain by returning to the main social space. However, players must be wary of other players, as those who kill them will steal any loot that has not yet been extracted.
I didn't know if I could post any contracts or our Twitter, Website, Telegram, etc... here or not. So I left it out. The community is awesome and the game is addictive for sure. We hope to see many new players soon.

I learned through someone who works at our apartment building that this girl was into me. I've seen her around, but never talked to her just cause there was no way to know actually if it was her or not.
A month or so later I met her and formally introduced myself. It was very brief. She seemed really friendly and kind. We left the interaction without having exchanged contact info, but definitely seemed warm + friendly and that the door was open... Next thing you know she pops up on my Instagram suggestions feed, so I requested a follow...
I am 100% certain the follow request went thru and she rejected it? My profile does not look like spam it has me in the profile picture and username is my name. Further, I have like 100 followers/following.
I must’ve moved to fast and scared her off? I don’t have her number or anything.
I’d take it she no longer interested?
Now I’m worried it’ll be awkward if I see her. How would you handle this?

Iman Gadzhi has been completely blowing up, you can't avoid the guy.
I’m in the digital marketing space and word kind of gets around. The question that always comes up is "is / was this guy legit?"
After all he has, what I would say is BY FAR the most massive course on not just ads, but creating an agency with "no experience"
That has made me feel an obligation to share some of the facts I've accumulated from others in the industry, and also empirically, to restore some balance as most of his course marketing seems targeted heavily towards not just beginners, but to un-informed minors and teenagers
I'm not here to moralize about those points. I saw another post on Iman, but thought it had a lot of opinions in it. So my hope is to simply put this information out there and help people parse what’s true, by sharing what I've heard, sticking close to as facts as possible.
Lastly, I could still be off about certain things, so forgive for for that -- and feel free to add below -- but anyway let's get into it!
1. Iman's Agency IAG Media
Controversially, Iman shut down his own agency I believe last year. Or rather, "gave it to his CMO to run"
What happened in reality, is just a few days after this announcement, the calendar was offline on his website. In other words, they immediately shut down for new business.
Where it gets interesting. My friend's agency actually had worked with IAG Media in the past and had the following to say (and this is 100% verified). I have not seen this info anywhere publicly...
And it's interesting because it's like, "does this guy teaching in a course know what he's doing?"
“Is his agency legit? Here’s the story”:
a. When this client was onboarded, IAG media promised to re-build the client's entire website and funnel, but they literally never did it.
b. They also promised to do some specific training, but it never happened either.
c. IAG created just one batch of ad creatives at the very beginning of the deal, these creatives did not perform, and they were never replaced.
d. The "new targeting" with the client's existing creatives also failed completely.
e. When these issues were brought up, IAG's "CMO" doubled down and said actually overall sales were up
f. When they canceled the contract after 3 months (spending $15k and making negative ROI on ad spend) Iman said on the call "this is such a small contract for us, we actually don't even need your business"
2. Iman Gadzhi's YouTube
Iman knows how to juice the algorithm on YouTube and had pretty unparalleled growth.
His comment section may seem like bots, but the truth seems to be that Iman pays for these comments by posting an instagram story saying he will give a random comment $x.
This is not to my knowledge against any terms of service, however it does obscure any negative comments.
His biggest scandal has generally been around his two big video series, "Digital Renaissance" and "The Great Reset"
Generally, these were just huge marketing funnels for his course. Even if he wasn't pitching it directly in every video, you are now on his marketing email list, getting retargeted, and in his funnel.
There was a controversy around his action of taking down the "Digital Renaissance" video series. While he claimed these videos were removed by YouTube, he got caught red handed and had to make a (since deleted) apology video.
Worth noting, there were some large claims made in these videos about history and current events, though no direct citations or sources on any of the claims.
3. Gents Croquet Club NFT
Not that we care about NFTs here, or are they related to agencies or ads, but many people who start in Imans funnel end up becoming interested in his other "items" so it's worth a mention.
At the peak of the NFT bubble, Iman started marketing for "Gents Croquet Club", a membership club like Andrew Tate's War room, except membership was bought and sold as an NFT.
There was a fixed number of issued, and a 1:1 call to "vet for quality" but by all intents and purposes this was a sales call with commission being paid per signup.
This capitalized simultaneously the NFT hype because it was explicitly sold as not just an extremely expensive mastermind group, but an "investment" that would retain its value.
And for a while, it did, shooting up from its original purchase price of $4,000 and hanging out at around $10,000 for quite some time.
But since, it's crashed down to $3,300 -- 70% from all time high -- and it was crashed by Iman himself.
Since the NFT platform OpenSea changed their terms of service Iman to pay less royalties on every NFT sale, GCC was changed to be open to the general public as a yearly subscription.
Meaning no more vetting, no more scarce supply, now anyone could join for a fee.
Upon this news, the price crashed, meaning every holder lost around $7000.
Perhaps people got enough value to justify, even losing a bit of money on this investment.
However, in a since deleted video, one member complained they were not delivering on their promised features either.
First that the concierge feature was just a highly marked up version of another service which already exists.
And second, that the only real event in the lifetime of GCC was a meetup in Cape Town.
Iman himself was only at this meetup for about an hour or less, then left to go to a safari on a private jet with some friends.
4. Lifestyle
Just a few additional bullet points on Iman's lifestyle claims. Not trying to ad hominem attack the guy, but since its in all of his marketing, it feels like fair game.
-- He grew up with "nothing"
Self-admittedly, he grew up in the Knightsbridge neighborhood of London, in the UK it's known as "posh" basically fancy, but not just that, arguably the most fancy district in the whole country. He also went to a high school that was $50,000 per year.
From a 50/50 source he had a personal driver, some sources say a Rolls Royce to go to school.
His parents went through a divorce, however regardless of how things went down financially (he often claims his step dad stopped paying his internet bills), the fact is, both Iman and his mom were both well-off enough to continue living in Knightsbridge, and going to this expensive school school (until he dropped out)
-- Don't Worry Young Man, He pays the girls for those trips
Factually have confirmed this one is 100% true, and just a funny one here, often Iman is posting Dan Bilzerian-style vacations with tons of women on his instagram.
People ask him a lot about this and he will nonchalantly say "they're just his friends" and downplay it.
He directly pays a company called "Tilted" tens of thousands of dollars to organize these trips for him, and invite all the girls. These are mostly poorer girls from Russia and Ukraine.
You can Google for "Tilted Official" and you will see this is true.
So draw your own conclusions from this. That’s all I’ve got. Hope it didn’t come across as a personal vendetta, however I feel some obligation to share.
What I will say in summary, is you may be in the course, or close to buying it. You might be annoying with Iman saying "SMMA is the easiest business model for teenagers" but this this is a hard, ever changing game to get into. 99% of these students will fail over a 5 year period when they realize, oh, It's not that hard to close a sales call eventually, the hard part is retention.
That's it!