Math symbol for average

I’m currently looking into wrapping my 1990 bmw 325i and prices are insane in LA. I get quoted about 4k-5k on average and one shop I found presented me with auto flex for about half the cost.
He showed me a piece they took off a car and it seemed thicker than 3m and said it would last just as long.
Anyone have any experience with this? It is a liquid wrap as opposed to vinyl.

Link to the Daily Challenge
This is a place for Reddit users to submit their scores for the official Daily Challenge (hopefully) without the results being tarnished by cheaters. This should be played as a [2] -- zooming/rotating, moving allowed but external assistance is prohibited. Feel free to leave any walkthroughs in your comments, concealed with a spoiler tag.
A bot will keep a leaderboard for the month. You'll notice two columns related to your scoring performance. The first of these columns is labeled Average and represents your average score among all games throughout the month. The second column is labeled Score and represents either: 1. The average of your top 15 performances, or 2. Your average score divided by 15 (if you have played less than 15 games). The leaderboard is sorted by Score. At the end of the month, the highest Score will be declared the winner, and the leaderboard will reset for the next month.
Why do we keep score this way? There were 3 potential options for scorekeeping:

1. Straight Average -- flawed because a player who only plays once but scores 25000 would likely win for the month.
2. Cumulative Total -- flawed because it unfairly favors those who are able to play every and is a severe disadvantage to those who miss even a single day.
3. Score of top 15 -- the method currently in use, it allows for some leeway for those not able to play daily, but at the same time, it's beneficial to those who are able to play more than 15 times. After 15 plays, each new score will bump out the previous lowest score.

The Daily Challenge resets at midnight UTC, which coincides with the time that this post will go live each day. So essentially, make sure that you're commenting your score with its corresponding post.
HALL OF FAME
Summary of top 3 performances:

	1st	2nd	3rd
June 2021	Ancient-Recover695	Grymmwulf	jackES62
July 2021	Grymmwulf	Ancient-Recover695	JLyons18
August 2021	LunacyEcho	197gpmol	Ancient-Recover
September 2021	LunacyEcho	Ancient-Recover	solarsensei
October 2021	solarsensei	197gpmol	LunacyEcho
April 2022	JackES62	LunacyEcho	solarsensei

Top 10 Individual Personal Bests All-Time:

	User	Score	Month
1st	Grymmwulf	24945	July 2021
2nd	Ancient-Recover695	24718	June 2021
3rd	JackES62	24714	April 2022
3rd	LunacyEcho	24714	April 2022
5th	solarsensei	24674	October 2021
6th	197gpmol	24572	October 2021
7th	JLyons18	24552	July 2021
8th	Werdok	24438	September 2021
8th	KeelsDB	24438	April 2022
10th	Kibachiyo	24403	April 2022

my roommate and i requested to be in the northwest neighborhood and were just assigned forest quadrangle, which is in the southeast neighborhood. this isn’t bad but it’s not ideal because it’s likely farther from most of our classes and from all the people we know who are going to iu. essentially i have two questions: is there any way we can request to switch rooms (such as with a roommate pair who requested southeast and were assigned to northwest, if one exists)? and if this isn’t possible, to any current residents, what is forest quadrangle like and about how far is it on average from most buildings on campus, so we can prepare ourselves for living there?

I regularly hear people (mostly at biglaw firms) talk about working or billing more than 8 hours per day, and some firms demand it (for example, some firms have a 2200 billable hours/year expectation which is 8.6 hours per day assuming a 5 day work week and no vacation).
I'm currently billing about 7 per day on average, productively working on about 17 cases per day, not working weekends, and feel like I'm running myself ragged and losing track of cases. I also do all of my own intake and our firm does block-billing since we're not going insurance cases. It does not seem like there are enough hours in the day for this sort of thing while still balancing food, exercise, rest, and sleep.
Are the people who bill that much on meds? Are they just burned out? Are their billing practices different? Are people really going in at 7 am and leaving at 9 pm? Is there something I'm missing?

Slowly tapered from 15mg starting 3-4 months ago. I went down by 2.5mg every 3-4 weeks on average. I was at 5mg for 2 weeks and then 2.5mg for 2 weeks. It's been 5 days from my last dose and these brain zaps are annoying the hell out of me. There has been an increase in anxiety, sadness, and negative thoughts, but they don't affect me too bad as I am in full awareness it is just withdrawal from a medication. This coupled with mindfulness practice I started recently has made the process bearable. But man, I could forsure do without them. I mean, they're not overwhelming, it's just how persistent they are. Any tips or suggestions on what I can do to lessen these effects?

This concern has come up in a couple Tyranids discussions related to the neurogaunts as bodyguards for the Neurotyrant. While these little critters will likely be cheap extra wounds to protect a tyrant, they come with a downside due to their low toughness. Specifically when the neurogaunt model count drops into low numbers, any unallocated wounds from an attack - which could be a lot thanks to their low toughness - get allocated to the tyrant.
The problem lies in the order of operations during an attack. Let's say you have 1 neurogaunt left bodyguarding a Neurotyrant. Your opponent rolls 12 hits with a strength of 6. Because the wound roll occurs before attacks are allocated, your opponent uses the bodyguard's toughness for all wound rolls. That's double the neurogaunt's T3, so they wound on 2s. That'll be 10 wounds on average. Your neurogant will usually fail its 6+ save, so it takes one of the 10 wounds and the Neurotyrant now needs to save against 9 wounds.
Let's say your Neurotyrant wasn't attached, however, and was targeted by the same attack. 12 hits with a strength of 6 now wounds on 5+. That would be 4 wounds on average - that's half the wounds rolled when it has 1-2 neurogaunt bodyguards.
Obviously the math becomes more or less deliterious with different attacker strengths, keywords, etc. But keep in mind that your opponent controls which of their units attack your tyrant and in what order, so they could attempt a near-wipe of the T3 W1 neurogants by attacking with a unit or two, and follow-up with a S6-7 attacker to exploit the leader-bodyguard toughness disparity.

I think I have said this story multiple times in comments. But because its consequence kept me awake last night I need to vent.
When I was a first grader, my teacher wrote to my parents that I'm an introvert and because they my parents are delusional that are so educated never asked. So imagine a little kid and her mom constantly telling her "your teacher said you are a selfish child". This is my primary school. How much whole my life even in my personal relationships sacrificed myself to prove I'm not a selfish person.
Then in high school I got into a school for gifted students. It was a public school. And I think my mom's colleague were jealous or she lied, idk, but she kept coming home and telling me how her colleagues think kids who study go into those programs or schools are "mental". Imagine calling g your child mental because she is accepted to a gifted students school.
Why does it damage my sleep? Because I'm in the process of job application and cannot get any interview. And I keep thinking I'm just a piece of shit that nobody wants to work with. I'm average. I'm not good enough. People don't even bother arranging an interview with me. Before going NC she was still telling me how every single person in the family is better than me. I'm 36 yo now. And I have worked with therapist to undo the damage. It is just not F possible. My life is ruined.

I was reading some depressing stats about the average person in America and it got me thinking about some of the things I see. Not exhaustive but these are a few things I noticed that makes it much more expensive to not have money:

1. Poor have worse credit: in my state insurance costs a LOT more if you have bad credit. This also means higher interest in loans and credit cards too making it harder to catch up when you get behind
   
2. No emergency savings: when your car breaks down or the dryer stops working buying a new one may require putting it on a credit card with 20%+ interest rates vs just buying a new one with cash
   
3. Utilizing credit card points: if you have money you tend to put everything on a credit card, often paying in full to get better discounts, but then pay it off at the end of the month. This gets better pricing and rewards points that convert to cash and free trips
   
4. ATM fees: many banks pay you back for ATM fees if you keep a large balance and the accounts are free. Whereas low balances tend to have monthly charges and charge you for overdrafts which can pile up.
   
5. Owning home vs renting: owning a home means a fixed payment and equity build up. Renting often increases each year making it harder to catch up.
   
6. Car payments: if you have money and are smart with it, you pay off a car note quickly which leads to more available cash for investing vs having a perpetual car note and constantly treading water financially
   
7. Taxes: this really depends on more factors but if you own a business or have a for profit side hustle, you can write off many of your everyday expenses such as mileage, home office space, and portions of your utilities which means you keep a higher percentage of your paycheck vs someone making the same amount of income via W2.
   
8. Groceries: this is overlooked but being able to buy in bulk tends to lessen the cost of things. Rarely will you spend less than $250-300 at Costco but you'll have food much more food than if you spent the same at regular grocery stores.
   
9. Child care: having 1 high income earner allows one parent to stay home and save on child care. Being low income, even with 2 paychecks means a large portion of your money gets used for childcare unless you have family to pitch in.
   
10. Car maintenance: if you buy newer cars you tend to have warranties and less issues. Older cars tend to need frequent repairs.
    
11. Maybe the worst of all is health. Having lower income means less quality food, more processed foods, more fast food, and higher stress levels. This leads to higher rates of diabetes and obesity. A lack of access of means to get quality Healthcare plays a part as well.
    
12. Investing: without extra money there's no way to invest. Even tightening your budget can only go so far, higher income is essential to getting ahead.
    

I'm sure there's a lot more sadly. Hoping this inspires some ideas in people.

So, i'm a soon to be professor of a graphic design course and I need to make a presentation about brand identity and guidelines.
I found this lovely project on Dribble that has a nice clean logo, patterns, symbols and the colors match the color of the school (extra points for matching).
This would be the perfect example for demonstrating how a brand system unfolds from a simple logo.
Is it bad or illegal if I use that work to show to my students? I would credit the studio in the Powerpoint of course.
​
PS: i cannot reach the studio via message.

Hey everyone! I hope this fits here, it'll be a longer one and I hope it fits here.
This happened a couple of years ago and it needs a bit of backstory because everything was really wild. Cast
Me, me obviously N., Entitled person R., Entitled person's ex K., Entitled person's brothers ex P., Entitled person's brother And EP, entitled person's parents M., Abusive Ex
I need to go back to 2008/9ish when my family moved from the home I grew up in into a smaller flat near to my grandparents. It was my last year of school and I was the new one. You can imagine how that was, I was bullied relentless but there was a small glimmer of hope. During the second half of the year a new girl was coming to my class and a couple of girls already knew her and seemed to hate her. So yes, I hope they would lay of their focus on me but on her so I had my peace.
Yeah that didn't happen. It got worse because she joined in the bullying of me. Used a compass from our math classes to constantly stab my right thigh since she was sitting next to me. For years I didn't have any feeling in my upper thigh because of that. I also was always 2nd or 3rd best in my class which was great for me because I wanted to move on and get a better education (which I have now but took me a longer route that it would have before). This is not taking place in the US btw. So, after she came in my grades plummeted and I didnt make top of my classes. She did. And I had to make other arrangements to get into university
Now we skip around 5 years.
One day I got a Facebook notification with N's friend request, I hate to say it even while she was bullying me she was kinda cute and had a crush on her for the first time when she was new and wasn't a total bitch.
We chatted a bit and she wanted to meet up, she completely forgot about everything she has put me through which. We talked a bit and she invited me home, if you all think we had sex, I'm sorry but no. Her boyfriend came later home we ate diner and that was that, we 3 somehow became really close friends and when I was really sick they were there for me and got me my medicine and brought me with them so I can sleep at their place. This became a habit, I stayed there over the weekends. It was completely surreal for me to be this thick with my school bully, she didn't really change as well. But we came to talk about stuff from her past and her abusive Ex. (Tl;Dr he was an actual psychopath, tried to beat me up several times, broke into her old flat hid in a cupboard with a knife and wanted to kill both of them, she talked him down and than he left as far as I know) We went gambling on multiple occasions, went to an old construction side trailer who was remodeled to be a bar. All in all great times!
Well until she finished school and went to university, her bf at that time helped her with a flat and she got 2 roommates. One of the roommates always picked her up and on the way to the flat had sex with her in his car, this went on for months until the third roommate told N's boyfriend R. R was devastated and texted me and K. We both drove to him and talked with him, played a bit videogames and it was fun. R. drove me home while K. went to her bf who was N's little brother P. who lived with them, can't remember why but he did.
So after I was home I texted N, that i wasn't cool with her cheating on R because he was a great guy and I'm really disappointed in her but I would be there for here if she needed to talk. (At this point I was just trying to be nice)
She blocked me and a week later R. drove to her and they got back together. Did I mention that this was not the first time she did it? Oh and also before all that K. knew about it since N. confided in her while they were having a couples night out and I was the only single so I wasn't there but from what they told me K did beat N a bit and they both got thrown out of the club they were in.
And now to the end and the actual titles thanks for sticking with me.
When R. and N. got back together they came to visit me, of course N. wasn't happy with me so my best friend then told me I was a worthless friend and scum for not being there for her and pity her since she had such a horrible time. R. was still in the car and did not speak to me ever again.
We got into a fight, which ended up me cussing her out of my life and dorm room. My neighbors heard everything and came out, I was the only non Russian guy on the floor so they were concerned of me being loud since I was the voice of reason on our floor most of the time.
My neighbors just said "Fuck that cunt, go to sleep and masturbate tomorrow is a new day"
I really tought it would be the end of it but no, it wasn't.
Her parents, who loved me, ignored me when we saw each other (lived in the same small city after I graduated and moved away) and N left R after 3 (!) Weeks of being back together. She went back to her abusive Ex. Thats right the psychopath who hid in her cupboard was back together with her but only for like a month. I know this because we had in my city a special Sunday late night sale night at the local mall (where I'm from usually the shops close at 8pm and are completely closed on Sundays and holidays).
There I was with a couple other friends (who were equally entitled and evil for a lack of a better word, which does not speak for me and my ability to find good friends for me) and we bumped into her and her parents and she did move on to ANOTHER guy entirely.
P. broke up with K. because N. manipulated P.
And last i heard was that she did try to go back to R.'s old friend group with the new guy but let's say the girls of the group burned a bra which seemed to be from her (I didn't really get that tbh) in front of her and all of them wanted to beat them senseless if they don't leave.
Last i heard from R is that he moved and was in a happy new relationship, he still ignored me after my many attempts to get in touch.
I was friends with K for like 2 more years but that also went into the extreme shitter and involved the other friend group. So if you want I'll give you another post, because this shit (after a couple of years) still bothers me and lingers on my mind.

I was reading some depressing stats about the average person in America and it got me thinking about some of the things I see. Not exhaustive but these are a few things I noticed that makes it much more expensive to not have money:

1. Poor have worse credit: in my state insurance costs a LOT more if you have bad credit. This also means higher interest in loans and credit cards too making it harder to catch up when you get behind
   
2. No emergency savings: when your car breaks down or the dryer stops working buying a new one may require putting it on a credit card with 20%+ interest rates vs just buying a new one with cash
   
3. Utilizing credit card points: if you have money you tend to put everything on a credit card, often paying in full to get better discounts, but then pay it off at the end of the month. This gets better pricing and rewards points that convert to cash and free trips
   
4. ATM fees: many banks pay you back for ATM fees if you keep a large balance and the accounts are free. Whereas low balances tend to have monthly charges and charge you for overdrafts which can pile up.
   
5. Owning home vs renting: owning a home means a fixed payment and equity build up. Renting often increases each year making it harder to catch up.
   
6. Car payments: if you have money and are smart with it, you pay off a car note quickly which leads to more available cash for investing vs having a perpetual car note and constantly treading water financially
   
7. Taxes: this really depends on more factors but if you own a business or have a for profit side hustle, you can write off many of your everyday expenses such as mileage, home office space, and portions of your utilities which means you keep a higher percentage of your paycheck vs someone making the same amount of income via W2.
   
8. Groceries: this is overlooked but being able to buy in bulk tends to lessen the cost of things. Rarely will you spend less than $250-300 at Costco but you'll have food much more food than if you spent the same at regular grocery stores.
   
9. Child care: having 1 high income earner allows one parent to stay home and save on child care. Being low income, even with 2 paychecks means a large portion of your money gets used for childcare unless you have family to pitch in.
   
10. Car maintenance: if you buy newer cars you tend to have warranties and less issues. Older cars tend to need frequent repairs.
    
11. Maybe the worst of all is health. Having lower income means less quality food, more processed foods, more fast food, and higher stress levels. This leads to higher rates of diabetes and obesity. A lack of access of means to get quality Healthcare plays a part as well.
    
12. Investing: without extra money there's no way to invest. Even tightening your budget can only go so far, higher income is essential to getting ahead.
    

I'm sure there's a lot more sadly. Hoping this inspires some ideas in people.

So I have an event coming up in September and am a bit worried about my bike gearing.
The event is 130km with about 2000m elevation total. Climbs seem to have an average gradient of 4% according to the RideWithGPS (https://ridewithgps.com/routes/29570425)
I have stock gearing on my bike 53/39 chainring and 11-28 cassette. From what I can read, at my lowest gear this would mean a ratio of 39/28 = 1.39 I believe I have Shimano 105 5800 groupset with a short cage rear derailleur.
Should I have lower gearing to make the climbing easier? If so, what's the most cost effective way of achieving easier gearing? I think my options are: 1. Get fitter. For reference, I'm about 60kg with a Zwift estimated FTP of 160. 2. Find a climb/hill with similar gradient and see how I feel. 3. Get a bigger cassette but would I need a new rear derailleur as well? 4. Change the front chain ring. Potentially a new r7000 chain ring will not be compatible with my current front derailleur
Appreciate any thoughts in advance.

For an ideology obsessed with seeing “reality,” red pillers are terrible at integrating new information. I(36M) say this as a man who has had a long, interesting and varied dating life, spanning numerous social scenes in a number of towns, cities, and countries. From struggling in my teens to thriving in my 30s, and everything in between, I find red pilled generalizations of women and dating to be comically divorced from my experience. I hardly ever find the kind of women you guys talk about or see the kind of treatment you think is average. Part of what makes subs like this so interesting to me is just that culture-shock, like doing anthropology on a totally foreign civilization. But when one illustrates with anecdotes from your own lives, I always, at least, believe them. I don’t assume they're making up fictional women to be villains in a story to convert me to red pill. I don’t believe they're pretending to be unluckier in life than you are to win the argument. Even if some probably are lying, it's not like they're inventing something that can't be true, is it? So I simply integrate their experiences with my own in awareness of the fact that it’s a big world where lots of things happen. Yet every single time I describe anything from my dating life here or make any observation about what I see between men and women around me, one of two things happen instantly. Either a fishing expedition begins for reasons why my story is an outlier (“You must be rich.” “Congrats on being tall”), or I’m just flat-out accused of lying, gaslighting, or LARPing. Every single time. Many just can’t integrate that information. Many can’t just say, “ok, well I guess that’s also a thing that happens sometimes as part of routine human interactions.” It has to be disavowed. I guess I don’t know how much the average person learns about cognitive biases, but I am shocked by just how often red pilled men will tell you, in advance, that they will not believe what they think you’re going to say. And look, this sort of thing is a problem for everyone in some way or another. Our brains are naturally busy doing pattern-recognition and data that breaks a pattern does raise a cautionary mental flag. That's fine and healthy. But if we’re knowingly and deliberately shutting ourselves off to anything we don’t want to hear, that same mechanism becomes a force of delusion. And I think red pillers, in particular, are vulnerable to this precisely because they see themselves as “red pilled”--that they believe they have been lied to their whole lives.
It’s not much different than the disavowal of a conspiracy theory—any evidence against the theory is part of the conspiracy!

Hi guys, I am a freshman in college and I’m interested in CS but I don’t have a background in it. So, I’m not sure if I’m good at it or not. But I did self teach myself some HTML just to try out an easier coding language and it didn’t seem hard for me to learn at the time. And I’ve been watching a lot of MIT’s Python lectures on YouTube etc during my free time and I do enjoy the material that’s being taught it definitely is intriguing to me and I would like to be somebody who can code but I’m just not sure if I should take the leap into tech or not. I mostly feel this way because I don’t have any background in IT and I’m okay at math but I’m also not great at it. Calc1 is the highest math I’ve taken and it was hard for me.
Anyway,
I noticed my college offers a AI/machine Learning associates degree. So my main question is would that be something worth pursuing?
Or,
Would pursuing a normal CS degree be more efficient in terms of landing a job in tech?

Mine is a hot shower. Sure, I like playing roleplaying games and watching stuff on streaming as much as the next guy, but hot water on my skin? That's where it's at. Sometimes you have to appreciate the simple things in life.
There are other things I like, of course. Aside from the aforementioned roleplaying games (see the second half of my username to find out which ones), I'm a big fan of technology, hockey, and animals. I have 2 cats and a bearded dragon, and am happy to share pics of any of them!
I haven't talked about myself professionally yet, and that's because there isn't much to say. I'm still in college, because I took a looong break from it and worked retail for a while because of mental health issues and later the pandemic. I'm in an engineering field and am hoping that'll go well. So no, my shit is not yet together, but when it is together, it'll be REALLY together.
So... politics and religion. Touchy subject which I'm approaching with all the grace of a bull in a china shop, but suffice it to say, I'm an atheist and I'm pretty far to the left. I staunchly refuse to date a conservative (not that they'd be particularly interested in my "child murder" supporting ass anyway), but I honestly don't care if you believe in a higher power, the universe, reincarnation, the flying spaghetti monster, whichever you like. Just keep in mind that I won't believe in them.
Oh, and one other important thing I won't do - reproduce. My bloodline dies with me, as a friend once told me. I don't hate children, though I do feel a certain discomfort around them (was the youngest growing up, never really had to change a diaper or whatever), like I don't know what to say or how to behave. But that's not the main reason I don't want kids. Mostly it's because I have mental health issues that I've been struggling with throughout my life and I think that even if I did want to have kids, it would be selfish of me to pass that on.
Physically, I'm 135 lb, five foot five inches, I have brown hair, blue eyes and I'm white. Picture will be available upon request. I prefer women who are average or slender like me. Oh, and you can be any height, I don't care, I only mention it because you likely do and I don't want an awkward situation where you start talking to me and find out I'm too short for your liking.
Penultimate paragraph. What I'm looking for right now is intimacy of any kind really. Long term would be nice, short term would be perfectly acceptable. I find it difficult to meet people using apps (I'm a 5.5 on a good day, and I know it), and IRL I'm surrounded by 18-22 year olds who are either A) too young or B) have no interest in me.
P.S.
I'd like to share pictures early, and ideally video call early. I have no patience for women with "broken phones" as I've encountered time and time again. I'm sorry, that trick is just not believable if it's been the case with 4 separate women I've talked to on here. if you're not willing to prove you are who you say you are, I have no interest in you.

Mine is a hot shower. Sure, I like playing roleplaying games and watching stuff on streaming as much as the next guy, but hot water on my skin? That's where it's at. Sometimes you have to appreciate the simple things in life.
There are other things I like, of course. Aside from the aforementioned roleplaying games (see the second half of my username to find out which ones), I'm a big fan of technology, hockey, and animals. I have 2 cats and a bearded dragon, and am happy to share pics of any of them!
I haven't talked about myself professionally yet, and that's because there isn't much to say. I'm still in college, because I took a looong break from it and worked retail for a while because of mental health issues and later the pandemic. I'm in an engineering field and am hoping that'll go well. So no, my shit is not yet together, but when it is together, it'll be REALLY together.
So... politics and religion. Touchy subject which I'm approaching with all the grace of a bull in a china shop, but suffice it to say, I'm an atheist and I'm pretty far to the left. I staunchly refuse to date a conservative (not that they'd be particularly interested in my "child murder" supporting ass anyway), but I honestly don't care if you believe in a higher power, the universe, reincarnation, the flying spaghetti monster, whichever you like. Just keep in mind that I won't believe in them.
Oh, and one other important thing I won't do - reproduce. My bloodline dies with me, as a friend once told me. I don't hate children, though I do feel a certain discomfort around them (was the youngest growing up, never really had to change a diaper or whatever), like I don't know what to say or how to behave. But that's not the main reason I don't want kids. Mostly it's because I have mental health issues that I've been struggling with throughout my life and I think that even if I did want to have kids, it would be selfish of me to pass that on.
Physically, I'm 135 lb, five foot five inches, I have brown hair, blue eyes and I'm white. Picture will be available upon request. I prefer women who are average or slender like me. Oh, and you can be any height, I don't care, I only mention it because you likely do and I don't want an awkward situation where you start talking to me and find out I'm too short for your liking.
Penultimate paragraph. What I'm looking for right now is intimacy of any kind really. Long term would be nice, short term would be perfectly acceptable. I find it difficult to meet people using apps (I'm a 5.5 on a good day, and I know it), and IRL I'm surrounded by 18-22 year olds who are either A) too young or B) have no interest in me.
P.S.
I'd like to share pictures early, and ideally video call early. I have no patience for women with "broken phones" as I've encountered time and time again. I'm sorry, that trick is just not believable if it's been the case with 4 separate women I've talked to on here. if you're not willing to prove you are who you say you are, I have no interest in you.

Silver Snow and Verdant Wind share a significant amount of content, it is a common complaint and well justified as the two routes share about half the content. While Silver Snow might have been drafted there are parts that were clearly written for Verdant Wind and hastily shoved into Silver Snow, much of early Silver Snow works much better for Verdant Wind than it does in Silver Snow. For example the joining with troops in Alliance territory or the whole scheme with stealing uniforms works better in Verdant Wind. However the Silver Snow parts in Verdant Wind are even more noticeable and conspicuous. Byleth has little connection to Rhea in Verdant Wind compared to Silver Snow and so Byleth's focus and constant worry for Rhea feels extremely out of place in Verdant Wind. The whole Embarr and Shamhala sections were also clearly made for Silver Snow. Edelgard and Byleth similarly lack a connection in Verdant Wind, and so, as much as Edelgard's line about how Byleth's "path lies across [her] grave" is my favorite line in the game, that line would have made much more sense direct at Claude in Verdant Wind given how at heart Edelgard and Claude are very similar people. Similarly The Shamhala section was more about Rhea coming to terms with her family's murderers, this was a very Rhea chapter, and it could have easily been re-framed to be more inline with Verdant Wind's themes, again here Byleth is strangely concerned with Rhea in a way that isn't justified on this route. Both Silver Snow and Verdant Wind contain content that was blatantly intended for the other route, and I just wish there had been a bit more time because these are relatively easy problems to fix.
To solve these problems not much would need to change really, most of the assets and content would be retained, almost all the maps could stay the same just some new dialogue and re-framing of scenes would be needed. Silver Snow needs relatively fewer changes. Instead of meeting Leicester reinforcements in Ailell have the Church regroup its lost members and have the map be a large one with lots of forest and rough terrain where you have to save multiple groups of Church members from Adrestian forces and Monsters. The Great Bridge of Myrddin could still happen and it would be better since Reigan would have more forces to contend Gloucester with. Fort Merceus could still work just find another reason, I mean Azure Moon did fine without having to impersonate Adrestian soldiers, could actually use the same reason as them of Leicester decided to help now that the Bridge is taken. Remove or change some of the lines that were very Verdant Wind, and that's really all that needs to be changed for Silver Snow the later half of Silver Snow works beautifully and is probably the best written part of the entire game.
Verdant Wind needs a little more work. The first thing would be to remove most of the references to how desperate Byleth is to find Rhea. In Silver Snow finding Rhea is Byleth's primary objective as they feel a personal connection to Rhea and its part of Byleth's existential journey finding out who they really are. In Verdant Wind finding Rhea is a side objective for Byleth and Claude because Rhea is one of the better sources of information on what the history of Fodlan really is and what are the forces determining the current situation. The early part of Verdant Wind can be kept as it is focused on the Leicester Alliance and Merceus chapter: "The Golden Scheme" is probably the most Claude chapter in the game. Changes start at the Enbarr chapters, I think it would be very interesting if Verdant Wind was the only route where the battle wasn't fought in the city center. Unlike in Azure Moon Edelgard isn't as desperate here, I think it is possible she would have chosen a fight outside of Enbarr, possibly in the plains to the north. Another idea which would be a nice parallel to Crimson Flower would be if Leicester launches a pincer attack from land and sea and so the map starts with you from one side and a group of allies on ships from another adjacent side. In the throne room Claude and Edelgard have quite a bit of interesting dialogue so while the scene where Byleth kills Edelgard was clearly written for Silver Snow, I do think it would still work if Edelgard addresses Claude more instead of Byleth.

Edelgard: Your ideals, I understand they're not so far removed from my own. But without sufficient knowledge of this land's suffering, I can't entrust Fódlan to you!
Claude: Perhaps. I daresay it's true that I don't fully understand the history of Fódlan. Still, I've seen many things in my life. Don't worry. I'll finish the job for you.

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Claude: Edelgard, give up! We don't want to kill you!
Edelgard: But...I must kill you. If I don't, the righteous world I dream of will never see the light. Come at me with everything you have. For one of us, this is the end!

For the last two chapters of Verdant Wind, the events should be rearranged. Nemesis was always a flunky, he was never more than a petty thief set on a path by the Agarthans so let me propose a different sequence for the same events. Claude starts scouting for the location of Shambhala but the Agarthans find out and release Nemesis along with their zombie army which like in "Fodlan's New Dawn" starts terrorizing southeastern Fodlan. Hearing that Nemesis The King of Liberation has risen from the dead along with the Ten Elites and is leading a zombie army Claude and Byleth confront Rhea like they do at the beginning of "Fodlan's New Dawn". Rhea seeing her mother's murderer within reach joins the battle and dies taking down Nemesis. This I'd argue is more poetic for Verdant Wind especially because there's less emphasis of Rhea's connection to Byleth. In Verdant Wind Rhea is even more stuck in the past, Rhea has spent so many centuries obsessing over Sothis, her death, and Nemesis. Seiros and Nemesis are both historical figures and so it is fitting that they end together, all these people that should be history, now finally are.
What to do about the new last chapter of Verdant Wind is the difficult question. The Agarthans make a very fitting thematically consistent final boss for Verdant Wind as they caused a large amount of the problems in Fodlan. The developers of Three Houses did a good job of making each final map of the four routes unique and grand and a capstone to the route. The problem here with a Shambala map would be how to make it different and more grand than the chapter in Silver Snow. One idea I have is to cave in the roof midway through the battle at which point the music would change from Shambala's dubstep to a remix of Claude's theme. Could always unleash some giant cyborg human crest experimentation monsters on the players. Could also make this a multi-commander map and hopefully Bias and the other named characters would get some characterization. I do like the idea that this is a rout map with many waves of reinforcements as the Agarthans refuse to give up and would rather die than live under those they see as subhuman. It would be nice if the Agarthans could be given more characterization because as bigoted as they are they do have several good points. They started out as the pro-human faction wanting humans to live freely and be able to decide their own destiny without having to be ruled over by dragons. There's hints that they are the remnants of modern real life humans between the ICBMs, the nuclear power warning signs written in Cyrillic, the United Nations symbol, and the mechs. There is a lot to make the Agarthans sympathetic and nuanced is only the game would lean into that. This could be spun in a way that's thematically relevant in that the downfall of the Agarthans was that they became isolated underground that isolation led to a cycle of increasing xenophobia, bigotry, and hatred. They got so stuck in their own ways that the world moved on without them. The end cutscene could be Claude and Byleth leading the army up to the surface as the sun rises or Byleth jumping on Claude's wyvern to see the sun rise.
Really the changes overall are quite small, minus a unique end cutscene this mostly uses existing assets because all I have proposed is reordering a few scenes and changing some lines, a mod could easily be made to implement this.

Can someone make a livable wage to take care of basic needs doing QHHT full time? As in, pay rent/mortgage, groceries, insurances (auto/health/home), and so much more?
I just started the QHHT level 1 course yesterday. The web site said you can make $100k+ a year. I didn't get into the course to only make money or based on some unrealistic expectation of riches. I realize the healing practitioners in the many modalities, as I, want to help people so it isn't necessarily about money. I'm very curious about how practitioners set their fees and if they are full time practitioners, retirees with pensions or other incomes?
Reading the range of QHHT session lengths (from Reddit posts of clients) of 4-16 hrs makes me wonder how QHHT practitioners sustain basic needs, schedule session lengths, and what their fees are. I know Dolores says you charge by the session not hourly.
To be clear I am terrible at math, so my calculations and perspective on how the following works out is likely WAY off. For example,:
$200/4 hr 2 sessions a day 8 hr "working" day 5 days a week
Is $104k/yr.
If you spend all 8 hrs or 16 hrs a day, that takes your earnings way down. Also, because sessions have to be in person, how realistic is it to expect 40 clients a month (2 per day @ 4 hr sessions)? Do practitioners travel as in mobile QHHT to peoples homes? I mean if I compare locations across the country, cost of living, etc, it doesn't seem like you can meet basic needs no matter where you are. I mean will $200/session fly in the Midwest vs. California or NY?
And what are typical fees practices have based on their level? I can't imagine a level 1 charging $200/session right away compared to a level 3.
When I told my husband I wanted.to do hypnotherapy as my next career, he said, "That's a hobby or side gig, that's not something you can consider a financially sustainable career." I was initially offended bec I didn't know enough about QHHT and though 1-2 hr sessions were the standard as with typical hypnotherapy. But breaking it down, I guess I should be happy to someday break even on my investments into the courses? (Especially if I move up to level 3 over the years).

You’ll have to excuse my complete lack of experience, I am utterly new to psychedelics.
I have a planned trip with a buddy two weeks from now, and I’d like to “prepare” myself for the wave ahead. We plan to take 2.5g’s each, he is experienced.
-What’s an “average” microdose?
-How can I prepare for the upcoming trip?
Thanks