trying to come back to d2 with some guys that wanna try it out for the first time. im entirely fucking lost, i have no clue whats going on and over half of our powerful engrams are locked behind paywall... "free 2 play" my ass. to make this even worse, buying the expansions to play the content is over 200 dollars... AND now theres this confusion that we have to pay 40 bucks more for dungeon keys? that cant be serious right? theres no possible way this free to play game ACTUALLY cost 240 fucking dollars?
i guess the question is, do i have to pay an ADDITIONAL 40 dollars to play the dungeons that, for some ungodly reason, arent included with the same named expansion? if so, im sorry but thats the most money hungry absurd bullshit ive ever seen from a gaming company.

You want to learn how to fight and use nen from the Zoldyck family. Obviously you don't have a lot of money right of the batch to pay them. You are going to strike a deal with them.
You can answer just one scenario below or both.

1. You have the knowledge of HxH just like you have watched it like we all do right now. You can use this knowledge to strike a bargain.
   
2. You don't have any knowledge of HxH world like we do. You are just a regular side characters who happened to be born in HxH world and has just able to use nen (I mean get your aura nodes opened and maybe only know the basic Wing's exercises).
   

Looking for advice on what paths are available to me and what skills I need to develop. I am 26 and live in the US.
I have a bs in industrial engineering and previously worked as a process engineer in logistics. I left the field due to stress and work life balance. I'm currently working as an analyst for a healthcare organization. I create reports and dashboards, provide analytical support to business leaders, and train users on our data platforms. My main tools are excel, SQL, and power BI.
I like my current role but want to start planning my future moves. I want to make more money, work closely with business leaders, and be involved in complex problem solving.
Any guidance on what roles would be best suited is appreciated, as well as what skills I would need to be considered. I'm open to further education as well, I've considered a masters in either data science, industrial engineering, analytics, or operations research.

I’ve currently signed a contract for a property, settlement in 30 days.
The property has solar panels and it got me thinking whether the owner owns it outright or on lease / payment plans.
Is there any legal requirement for the seller to inform me or my conveyancesolicitor if there is any money owning?
Instead of asking the owner for me, the REA has told me “if they don’t own them outright, the solicitors will be notified”
Whereas my conveyancer tells me “there’s no way we can find that information other than asking the agent to obtain this information from the seller directly”
I’m a bit lost and would not want any surprises after settlement.
Any help would be appreciated!

I guess I really just need to get this out…
So I have a 5 (6 on the 12th) month old and I am a full time single mom and I also work a full time job. I live with my parents and older brother and his daughter. So it’s me, my daughter, my brother and his 4 year old daughter, my mom and my dad. My mom and dad have completely rearranged their lives for us to be here. Which makes me feel awful because now they’re having to sleep in a bed that isn’t big enough for both of them (most of the time one of them sleeps in the living room) just so my daughter and I can have our own rooms after sharing a room for 5 months. My sister is awful to everyone in her life and me and 2 other people called DSS on her because she treats her oldest child (13 f) like garbage and said some stuff that really was questionable. Since then she has made my life hell. He texted my grandmother and mom telling them I was harassing her, she texted my friends telling them I said things I never said, she’s called DSS on me 4 times claiming I abuse my daughter and refuse to feed her and saying she’s under weight and has no clothes (I spend at least $150 on brand new clothes every week because she’s 16 pounds and can’t wear any of her 0-3 month clothes), she even called my boss and told them I harassed her when she came into my job and tried to force me to let her see my daughter and then said I hit her 5 year old and almost made me lose my job. My daughters dad is just as bad. Calls dss every time I won’t let him see her or take her anywhere cause he is on drugs and has wrecked his car 6 times in the last 4 months because he was high as a kite, has shot up someone’s house, threatened to shoot me while I was pregnant, etc. I feel like I never spend enough time with my daughter because I’m currently working 39 hours a week but I’m about to go up to 44 hours a week just to be able to have some money. And my mom has her dinner and bath done and she’s in bed by the time I get home every night (I work 4pm-10pm). So I hardly ever get to see her before or after work with naps and her sleeping until 10-11 every morning. I feel like no matter how hard I try it’s never good enough and that my daughter hates me. She gets more excited to see my grandparents or my brother than she does when she sees me. It feels like she never wants me to hold her anymore. I feel like I’m failing as a mother because I’m trying to make life work and give her what she needs and wants. I don’t know what to do anymore other than lay in bed and cry. I’m on medication and going to therapy twice a week but nothing is helping.
Thanks for letting me get all of this out in a positive space…

As title says. Bought a house with someone and put down $34k each. Turned out I was being cheated on and broke up. They insist they want me to take the property and want to get off the contract. The house isn't completed in terms of the build and the money was paid to the developer to secure the block of land and build. There's no loan or finance yet, just the deposit. They want their half back, but financially I can't pay that and if I do I won't get approval for the home loan and would then lose twice that money on my own.
They don't want to hold it and sell, they want me to fork it out and let them move on.
Is there any way I can make them let go of the deposit and move them off the contract without paying out?
I'm in WA, Australia if that helps

I don’t get the gimmick of having extra lights on the back when you can’t see it and I don’t want to pay extra money for this. I rather want to have a standard version with less weight and longer battery life.

Please commission me, I really don't have other choice to get money...
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Preface… oh goodness, you know it is a long post if I have to write “preface” first thing. Thank you so much to everyone who stays and reads!!!I’ve been a TBM guy for nearly my whole life (I left when I was a super depressed teenager 9 years ago, went back 7 years ago). Baptized at 8, priesthood of Aaron at 12. Applied to go on a mission at 18, was “honorably dismissed” from serving due to passed anxiety and depression issues.
Married at 19 (3 months after mission dismissal letter, 6 months of dating before marriage), baby at 20, divorced at 21 (she just wanted a baby but not me. I don’t have to pay alimony, just child support, so hoorah!). To be clear, I don’t regret my beautiful baby girl (I’ll call her “A”), but I do regret that I didn’t wait longer to a - know my ex better before getting married, & b - to know my ex better after getting married to have a baby. But, the past is in the past and I am doing everything I can to be an amazing father to that little girl of mine. Fast forward to today, I am now dating an incredible woman (I’ll call her “V”) and have been for nearly a year. She and I are TBM at this point in the story.
My current beliefs: I believe in Jesus Christ, the Atonement, resurrection, and opportunity for everyone to live in Eternity with their loved ones. I have no idea what Eternity looks like because Jesus hasn’t spoken about it in the bible (at least, not the parts that I’ve read. I’m reading the NKJV for the first time because I never had the chance in the BoM church). I don’t believe there is any one person on Earth who has God’s power and allows us to use it. I don’t believe God will condemn anyone for being part of the “wrong” church. I think the only thing that matters is genuinely trying to be a good person. I have no issue with personal beliefs and practices of other churches, members of this church, agnostics, atheists, LGBT community, etc… I know a lot of people here are atheistic or agnostic. Just like I respect your belief system, please respect mine.
Story time… 2 months ago, I was at an Institute class with V (not my class, just visiting her’s) and A was with us for visitation. A was restless and wanted to run around and play in the church halls like any 2 y/o girl does. So, I took her into the hall and quietly chased her around. This is when I heard one of the teachers pose the question/statement to his students: “isn’t it so sad when people leave the church?”
This question seemed so off to me. First, I feel absolutely no sorrow when people leave the church. They are simply choosing to follow their own belief system and to be their own individual person. Wasn’t Jesus super accepting and loving of everyone? Second, it seemed manipulative to me for a teacher to suggest to these college students, who are just figuring out life, that it is automatically a bad thing when someone leaves the church.
Anyway, being a TBM at the time, I had no idea why someone would want to leave the church. My concerns with that question was the first red flag I actually noticed. So, being an incredibly curious person, I decided to google it. Queue the smug looks of every exmo in this community who know what I found, haha! All of my research came from a place of trying to disprove the exmos and anti-mos wrong, so I focussed on diving deep into any topic that concerned me. Each point of research includes exmo, neutral, modern LDS, and LDS archive sources to ensure I had all of the information. Everything in this post I validated from church posts or archives unless I explicitly state otherwise. The CES letter beautifully summarized (is 130 somethings pages actually a summary though?) everything I was feeling and also addressed something things I don’t actually find concerning about the church.
So, my concerns boil down to the following: *The First Vision accounts of who Joseph allegedly saw. Did he see an angel, just Jesus/God/spirit as one being (God), both Jesus and the Father, or both of them and a host of angels? Why did it take him 20 years to tell anyone about it? Why does the church teach that he immediately told people about it when he didn’t? Why did the church actively tell members that he did NOT see God or Jesus, but an angel, for ~40 years after the vision? Any other details of the first vision itself are of no concern to me as it feels like he was simply discussing different parts of what happened. Yes, I’ve read each account.
*Joseph started off his youth by treasure hunting and defrauding people of their money using his peep/seer stone. Sure, he could have just been a kid who didn’t know what it was he was doing (scams) but also… this goes against what I was taught about him being the most honest person you could meet (the phrase “more honest than honest Abe” comes to mind for some reason).
*He used his peep/seer stone to “translate” a large part of the BoM. Most of his translation efforts didn’t require the BoM to be visible or even be near him. I always imagined he held the Urim and Thumim over the plates to see the characters transcribed, much like live google translate. Additionally, his mother recalled him telling stories about the Lamanites and Nephites before the BoM was a thing (I don’t remember my source on this one or if I validated it with church archives). The BoM has many parallels with another book that it may be heavily based on (I forgot the name). The BoM lifts text straight from the KJV and includes non-JST verses that Joseph later “corrected” for the JST.
*He later “translated” the Book of Abraham from Egyptian Papyri which were just ancient burial records. He later “translated” the Kinderhook plates but they were fakes that some of his “disciples” pranked him with. His ability to translate seems fake at best… and a fake ability is no ability in my book.
*Polygamy and polyandry. Do I even need to list any details here? The fact he started the practices before the “revelation” to do so was received, had to manipulate Emma into “letting him” do it, was caught cheating at least once (Emma documented it), married teens, married already married women, wasn’t sealed to Emma until he was already sealed to 20-something other women, never sealed to his parents or children, etc…
*SEC fines. I thought my tithing money was being used to help the poor and needy. It’s frustrating to know it is actually being used to run a business. Yes, the choices the church made were shady but were also comparable to many other businesses. My biggest problem here is the lack of transparency and that my money wasn’t being used for the Lord’s work. If I want to support a business I’ll invest time or money. I prefer not to be scammed out of it by being told it is being used for service and providing for thosein need.
*BITE model. I won’t even start listing any of the items in the BITE model I have issue with. I think about 90-95% of the BITE model red flags are met by the cult. I mean church.
I spoke briefly with V about this a week or so ago, during a camping trip in which we got to share a tent. She was concerned we were sinning but I expressed to her I wasn’t worried about it. I told her I was struggling with the church’s history and current practices. Jesus didn’t teach not to sleep together, he taught not to cheat. She wasn’t ready to discuss it further so we decided to set it aside and we slept side by side in the tent anyway.
A couple nights later, she was feeling sick and wanted to stay with me. Normally she has slept on my couch but she chose to sleep with me in bed. I took care of her that night and the next day and we haven’t slept together since. We also haven’t had sex or performed any sexual acts together. I have no issue with pre-martially sleeping and/or having sex with her as it is a committed relationship that we both are committed to making last (obviously, this isn’t cheating).
Fast forward to 2-3 nights ago. She wanted to stay over again but was feeling guilty and anxious about it. I expressed to her I don’t want to make her feel guilty of anxious about sleeping with me. I gave her a standing invitation to stay whenever she wants but that I would support her in not sleeping together. Then the topic of my beliefs came up again. I told her slightly more but she wasn’t (and still isn’t) emotionally prepared to hear my concerns with the church. She’s concerned my leaving the church would cause her to lose her connection with Jesus (I told her I want to attend a non-denominational christian church with similar morals and beliefs to ours). She asked that we both speak with our bishops and I agreed.
I expressed my concerns to my bishop and it went slightly better than expected. He shared a story about when he was a missionary. Two months in, he met a super aggressive anti-mormon who attacked their beliefs for 30-minutes straight. They left without saying a word. Bishop says he has many questions still but has chosen to “shelve” them for now. He basically told me two things: 1 - to read a particular talk about dissecting difficult questions with V. 2 - that I would have to grapple with this and come to my own conclusion. He’s just grateful I have a strong belief in Jesus, regardless of if I leave the church or not.
V spoke with her bishop and he is convinced I won’t leave. He doesn’t know me very well. He also doesn’t know I would leave in a heartbeat if V would come with me. I know my TBM family would accept my decision. When I left as a teenager they still loved me. When my brother left they didn’t shun him one bit. I know they would do the same for me. But V… I don’t know.
We both got blessings tonight (I honestly believe anyone living a good life who is trying to follow Jesus can speak in his name) and I felt so much peace as I contemplated the direction I want to take my life in… except for the part of not knowing if V will accept me. The young men who gave the blessing stated that “my father in heaven is proud of me” and I believe that is in regard to my dedication to knowing the truth about Jesus, accepting everyone for who they are (including mormons), and forgiving the church as it is God’s place to judge them and not mine.
I adore V and genuinely want to spend my life and eternity with her. She’s the only reason I’m PIMO and not exmo. She clearly, truly loves me. She and I have dreams of raising a small family together, we often laugh together (even when discussing difficult topics such as these ones), and we are able to communicate very well. But, when I’ve asked if she would stay with me if I left the church she skirts around the question and tells me she is confident I’ll come back before I leave. She’s never been afraid to hear the details of why I am struggling with something, until I brought all of this up to her. I really want to tell her what I am feeling and why. I wonder if she won’t agree and choose to find another church together if only she would take time to understand.
She wants both of us to meet together with her bishop because he has a similar style of communicating as I do. I think she might maybe be willing to hear my side if her bishop is there. I’m not sure he’ll actually give me a chance to say my side though. If he does, I’m not really convinced she won’t be torn apart between me and the church. We have agreed to take this one step at a time and to try to figure it all out piece by piece. We’re still talking wedding plans or even eloping if we both still feeling confident in us (I won’t let any marriage happens if we aren’t able to reconcile these differences).
Anyway, I’m just really not sure what to do next. Help? :’(