With rising inflation, increasing preference for personal mobility, and soaring costs of new cars, the demand for used cars is on the rise. Whether it's due to budget constraints or the desire to hone driving skills before investing in a brand-new model, buying a used car can offer excellent value for money. However, it's crucial for buyers to be cautious and follow essential steps to ensure they get the best possible deal for their hard-earned money. In this article, we will discuss five key steps to help you make an informed decision and ensure you are buying a good used car.

1: Don't Give a Quick Judgment

When buying a used car, it's essential not to rush into a decision. With numerous models available in the market, it's easy to be attracted to a visually appealing car. However, it's crucial to take your time and thoroughly explore your options before making a final purchase. Remember, appearances can be deceiving, and not everything that glitters is gold. Even if a car seems perfect on the surface, it's important to dig deeper and conduct a thorough assessment.

2: Check the Car's Overall Condition

Once you have narrowed down your options, it's crucial to examine the car's overall condition. If you have technical knowledge about cars, you can perform the inspection yourself. Otherwise, seek assistance from a trusted person who is knowledgeable about vehicles. While a car may appear fine on the outside, a skilled eye can identify any potential cover-ups and determine its true value.
During the inspection, pay close attention to details. Check for paint damage, signs of rusting, and any hidden flaws. Inside the cabin, thoroughly examine the quality and functionality of the upholstery, music system, infotainment system, and seats. Inspect the tires for wear and tear, and carefully assess the wheel alignment. Additionally, scrutinize the engine for leaks, corrosion, and cracked tubes. Use a dipstick to check the oil and transmission fluid.

3: Test Drive, Multiple Times if Needed

Never finalize a deal without taking a test drive, whether you're buying a new or used car. A test drive allows you to assess the car's performance, functionality of various components, and how it handles different driving conditions. If you're not satisfied with a single test drive, take multiple ones. Additionally, consider having a trusted individual with automotive knowledge accompany you or conduct a test drive on your behalf. Spending a considerable amount of time driving the car will reveal insights that the seller may not disclose.

4: Check Maintenance Records

Obtaining the maintenance records of the car is essential to understand its history and any issues it may have encountered. Some car owners meticulously maintain records, keeping receipts and notes of servicing dates. Others may not be as organized. Regardless, it is crucial for you to review the maintenance history before making a purchase. This information will give you insights into the car's past care and potential maintenance requirements.

5: Calculate the Mileage

Verify the Registration Certificate and Other Documents Always check the authenticity of the vehicle's registration certificate (RC) before finalizing the deal. The RC contains important details such as the owner's name, engine number, and chassis number. Ensure that the RC is original and not a duplicate (marked as DRC). Discuss the DRC status with the seller and confirm where the car was registered. Your name should appear on the vehicle's RC before completing the purchase.
Additionally, review other important documents such as the original purchase invoice, insurance papers, road tax receipts, and pollution certificate. Pay attention to the Form 35 and the No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the financing company if applicable. Any modifications to the engine's displacement or changes in the vehicle's color should be specified in the registration certificate as well.

Conclusion

Conclusion Buying a used car can be a practical and cost-effective choice, but it requires careful consideration and attention to detail. By following these five key steps, you can ensure that you are buying a good used car that meets your needs and provides value for your money.
Remember to resist the temptation to make a hasty decision. Take your time to explore different options and thoroughly inspect the car's overall condition. Conduct multiple test drives to assess its performance and functionality. Checking the maintenance records will give you insights into the car's history and potential maintenance issues.
Also Read : The Importance of Calculating Your Car's Mileage: A Comprehensive Guide

I really liked the Smackdown! games for the PS1 and the dozen of them on PS2 as well. They were what I mostly played out of all of the wrestling games available in their time, ignoring the WCW games, ignoring other WWF games released on other consoles .etc
Because they were, to me, some of the richest experiences of playing a WWF game as a total package. The controls were easy to utilize, the modes were fun, the matches were engaging, the season/PPV modes were entertainingly good and it all completes what you'd expect out of typical WWF/E.
Though, I started to take off my rose colored glasses whenever I confront the fundamental flaw of these games, from WWF Smackdown! all the way to WWF Smackdown! Shut Your Mouth. That is, A.I and a mechanic.
First off, the A.I can be relentlessly difficult if you let it and these games really make it hard to put the opponent away because your opponent no-sells everything you throw at them. In WWF Smackdown! 1 and 2 for PS1, usually a finisher is all it'll take after you build up enough momentum to gain a special to use. Match over, once it's used. But if you don't pin the opponent in a few seconds, they'll magically get back up.
Which means you'll have to do it all over again until the next round and hopefully you'll win a match. Because they won't stay down until you use your finisher. In the later PS2 games, the developers would show some detailing like giving signs when your opponent is up there in how close they are to being finished in a match, whether they're groggy or showing fatigue. So it'll be easier to take advantage, however, the standards still somehow apply.
And if that isn't troublesome enough, it took the developers up until WWF Smackdown! Here Comes the Pain to perfect the countering controls. Because in the old games, WWE Smackdown! to Shut Your Mouth, you only had the square button to reverse.
Which sounds easy on paper, but difficult to master, because you only have so narrow of a time to counter a move that it just comes off as lucky that you'll manage it. Otherwise, expect to just chain moves together between you and the opponent as it's a race as to who'll get their finisher off first before the match is over. Which can be frustrating.
Thank god in Here Comes the Pain, it's far far easier to use the shoulder buttons, L2 for strikes, R2 for grapples.
Revisiting these old wrestling games were fun when I played them a lot, but turns out to be a chore today, it seems like.

Somebody knows an app or engine to search the most exactly color to the model?
I'm searching a very specifically tone of light blue and is very hard find a paint that meet the minimal conditions.

I’m thinking of customizing a couple figures, like a Super Saiyan Vegeta into an Ultra Ego figure by painting it. Which brand and colors of paints is best for customization?

Hi guys,
Need some painting advice.
I am trying to figure out the faster way to paint the Cadian infantry without compromising too much on quality.
Right now, it took around 4-5 hours per unit (after assembly) and I am using the standard color scheme:

• Zandri dust spray base coat
• Cloth: Highlight with Morghast Bone
• Armor: Castellan Green, highlight with Loren Forest
• Leather: Rhinox Hide, highlight with Mournfang Brown

Applying Castellan Green and Rhinox Hide took the most time as I have to apply multiple layers to completely hide the undercoat.
Any ideas to speed up the process? Or use alternative paint that don't need multiple layers?

TL;DR — Should I Pull?

New Players

Neither of these banners are better for a new player than Matriarch/Roc or Liz/Jo. I recommend new players skip these. If you already have Matriarch and Liz but you didn't get Jo whilst pulling for Liz, then pulling for Gustave and Kat might be a good use of jewels, but I think I still recommend waiting a week to see what's next before investing in that.

Veterans

Is... is that an average of two party heals per turn on Kat? 👀
Sorry! Sorry. I just got distracted by pink samurai healer girl. (Man, that checks so many boxes for me. 😆)
Probably the most noteworthy unit here is Goddess. Being able to shut down all shadow damage the enemies deal for 15 turns is basically a cheat code for certain content. Orlouge is pretty whatever for veterans, but Monika has some support things she can do and she bulks up to very defensive numbers so while she doesn't dispense Polka-levels of party heals or Matriarch-levels of stat buffs, she's an excellent supplement to either of those who doesn't require special attention to keep in the fight.
On the other hand, we have Kat and Gustave. Kat can reduce Skill damage to the party in the same way that Tsubaki and Gustave can reduce Spell damage, and that's not a small thing. Gustave, meanwhile, can dispense damage boosts and damage mitigation to the party while also acting as a BP support. So there's unique stuff on this banner, too.
Broadly speaking, I think I would recommend a skip if you aren't flush with jewels. Goddess is good, no question, but she's not really worth chasing on her own merits, and Monika's good but she's not great unless you have her previous bow style to inherit that S3 onto. If you have a good amount of jewels to spend but you don't feel like you can do pulls on both banners, then it depends on who you have inherits for. I can recommend Kat/Gustave's banner if you have the previous Spellbreaker Gustave style. I can recommend Goddess's banner if you have the previous Music Fest Goddess style and the previous Kids' week Monika style.
If you have all three of those styles and you can't afford to pull on both banners... I'm sorry. I would probably lean towards Goddess's banner just because damage immunity is so strong when it works.

Samurai Jack Kat — Romancing Festival Limited Banner

Katarina

Unit Summary

Kat can reduce skill damage to the party and heal them at the same time. And then she will heal them some more.

Unit Analysis

Well, it's not Pierce/Cold switch, but it'll do.
So the main deal here is Ice Fog Sword Ballet, which deals B-rank pierce and cold damage and then grants the whole party a defensive stance that reduces skill damage taken by 35% for 3 turns. Skill damage reduction is arguably not as important as the spell damage reduction that Tsubaki and Gustave can bring to bear, but there's undeniably a lot of skill damage out there for bosses to dish out, and Kat is the only source of this particular buff. Because of her Abundance Switch, she gains +2 BP and heals the entire party for a tiny amount when she does this. So even though it's a 10 BP skill, she can rotate it with her normal attack or her S1 quite easily and still dish out some heals for the party.
In fact, if she happens to hit a weakness, she gets +1 BP from that, so it's actually not implausible to be able to use her S2 a bit during her S3 rotation with her normal attacks if the enemy is pierce weak.
Why would you want to do that? Well, her S2 (Ice Impact) is a 7 BP C-rank AoE that deals pierce and cold damage, so it triggers that +2 BP and party-wide heal. Oh, and it has a 50/50 chance to hit twice, so it can actually deal decent amounts of damage for the BP cost. Oh, and it heals the party on each hit. So if Ice Impact gets 2 hits, she heals the party three times that turn.
Now, Kat's mitigation is contingent on being able to resist the enemy's attacks, so depending on the enemy in question she may be competing for equipment that you can't spare for her, which is unfortunate. And her damage output is mediocre compared to the likes of Goddess who's spamming a similar power skill as Kat but with significantly better damage boosts. But she still compares favorably to a lot of other styles that bring damage mitigation and/or healing for the party if you assume all of her stuff works. She's just a bit more conditional than a style like Final Empress or Macha.

Inherits

Kat has a lot of styles, but since this style relies so heavily on dealing either pierce damage or cold damage, not many of them have skills that are worth inheriting.
The only one I'm going to point out here is Glacial Sword, available on a couple of styles but most notably on Kat's second plat SS style (SS [The Real Reason] style), as that one is available from the Training Cave Ore exchange. Glacial Sword is 2 BP and deals cold damage, so it can trigger the party-wide heal and still net some BP recovery for the turn. It doesn't trigger the +2 BP from pierce damage, so it's either +1 BP for the turn if it doesn't hit a weakness or +2 if it does hit a weakness, which makes it a little weak as an option to rotate with Ice Fog Sword Ballet, but it's definitely useful to have the party heal on demand in the event that you need healing the turn after using the skill defense stance.
Or if you'd prefer, you can actually just spam Ice Impact and Glacial Sword to deal decentish damage and churn out a lot of party heals. Kat averages about two heals per turn this way if Glacial Sword hits a weakness, and with Glacial Sword amplified you're dealing at least C-rank damage every turn, which does actually help a bit as people who've been using Esper Girl can attest. This healing isn't quite as good as Thyme can manage with support from Emelia or as good as Chef Polka can accomplish with the Still Blade Phoenix inherit, but it is the strongest party-heal setup that guaratnees at least some healing every turn, which may be appealing in some content.

Gustave

Unit Summary

Attack boosts and defense boosts galore.

Unit Analysis

Where to start?
Well, first thing's first: bringing Gustave grants everyone in the party a 15% damage boost. Just for being on Gustave's team and not being KO'd. Well, OK, actually no one can be KO'd if you want the damage boost, but generally speaking you don't want your units just eating dirt anyway, so that's not a huge restriction.
His Let's Paint skill then grants the party a small Attack Boost and small Defense Boost for 4 turns. Let's Paint is 8 BP and Gustave gets 4 BP back every turn, so it's trivial to keep those boosts up. But wait! There's more! Let's Paint is a charge skill, locking Gustave into doing nothing the next turn and then using Pigeon Whistle the turn after that. Pigeon Whistle grants Gustave +2 BP and then grants the whole party a very large Morale Up and a medium Guard Up for 2 turns. Obviously you can't sustain that (because the Let's Paint cycle spends two turns waiting to get back to Pigeon Whistle), but they'll stack with those 4 turn boosts, giving the party pretty substantial boosts for 2 turns out of every 3 if you want to spam this cycle.
If you would prefer to spend that bonus BP, Gustave has Fighter Special, a 12 BP SSS attack (it's actually high on the SSS-scale, so it's not actually decent damage for 12 BP) which gratns Gus a very large Guard Up for 5 turns. With High Protect Tension, that Guard Up actually makes Gus pretty dang tough for a while. Or Gus has inherits. See below.
And if you want, there's also Sunder, an A-rank attack for 3 BP. This isn't the absolute strongest attack in the game that is also BP-positive, mostly because Gustave's damage boosts are not that great unless you're still inside the Paint cycle, but it's way up there.

Inherits

The most interesting thing you can do with this Gus inherit-wise is actually to inherit Let's Paint to a different style. [The Fated Hour Comes] Gustave trades Offensive Union for Scrum Guard, which is 20% damage mitigation instead of 15% damage boosts. Both shut off if someone gets KO'd, but it's not that hard to argue that the 20% damage mitigation is a bigger deal than the 15% damage boost. Scrum Guard Gus needs to land hits to gain +1 BP/turn, unlike Ocarina of Steel, but the +2 BP per activation of Pigeon Whistle can help offset that. So while you may end up spending nearly all of your time making sure that whistle cycle is up, it's a lot of party mitigation while it's up.
If you're set on keeping ArtsAndCrafstave in play, you can inherit Triple Crush from UDX Gustave 2.0. Triple Crush is Double Crush but Triple. It's 3 A hits for 13 BP, so it is an excellent BP dump.
Or if you would prefer to lean into Gus's damage boosting capabilities, you can inherit Brave Impact from Gusv7, which is 12 BP for an SSS attack that, instead of granting himself a Guard Up, grants bonus G. Sword damage to the party. G. Sword styles are not the heaviest damage dealers in the game, but it's certainly an interesting thought to try to turn a team of G. Sword attackers like Laura, Fancy Lass, Iskandar, and Gutave into a damage-boost steamroller.

Noel

Unit Summary

All-in slash farmer.

Unit Analysis

Noel gets a lot of damage bonuses on turn 1. Like, Souji levels of damage bonus. If you use Maple Storm, he actually peaks higher than that on turn 1. He deals recoil damage to himself, and all his BP generation is concentrated into the first 5 turns of battle, so you probably don't want to bring him to boss battles, but in short battles he truly brings the thunder, with Maple Storm dropping a train on a single enemy or Burst Blade being a strong [Fast] AoE for a kinda-spammable attack.
Where Noel falls short is that on turn 2, he loses 30% of his damage boost, and in fact takes a damage mitigation penalty, taking and extra 15% damage on even turns. Which is really, really weird for a character who has 8 BP attacks and generates enough bonus BP to use those 8 BP attacks on turns 1 and 2 back to back. You would think you would want him to burn out quickly rather than bounce back and forth between strong and weak turns. But, hey, it is what it is.

Inherits

Christmas Noel has a strong row attack in Twilight Flash, which you can utilize with his early game BP generation and odd-turns peaks to get a strong row attack on turns 1 and 3. It's [Fast], so it actually contends with Gray's charge attack for 1/3 row farming. His skill has a somewhat lower power than Gray's, but he gets much higher damage modifiers on the odd turns, so the damage is likely pretty comparable between the two for most situations.

The Most Powerful SaGa Beings... and Orlouge — Romancing Festival Limited Banner

(I kid. Obviously Monika transcends SaGa and is the most powerful being in the universe. Why else would she have gotten all the buffs on this banner?)

Goddess

Unit Summary

Trivializes content that deals significant shadow damage. And looks good doing it.

Unit Analysis

Light of Dawn is the main attraction here. The Goddess's Light costs 9 BP/1 LP and grants the party complete immunity to shadow damage for the next three turns, granting them a smol heal at the end of each of those turns to boot. Goddess gains +1 BP/turn, so it is trivial to maintain that buff until she is out of LP 15 turns later. Now, sure, once she's out of LP, she's not going to be doing nearly as much for the party, but fifteen turns of every-turn healing and negating a good chunk (if not all) of the enemy's damage is way more than you need when you're fighting any enemy that isn't named "Egg."
While she's building her BP back up for the Light, you will probably be spamming Burning Star, a 1 BP INT-based skill that deals C-rank sun/heat damage. It's only C-rank damage, sure, but it's BP-positive, and with Goddess's 70% passive damage boosts and stacking medium INT buff every turn, it's actually going to be dealing a solid amount of damage for a support unit.

Inherits

The big one is Heavenly Melody. From her Music Festival style, Melody is 10 BP, so it really does compete BP-for-BP with Light of Dawn, but it's also doing a lot so there may be situations where you may want to intersperse this with the Light. Its damage is just B-rank sun AoE, but it inflicts a small Morale Down on all the enemies it hits for 3 turns and it grants the party a small Guard Up for 3 turns regardless of whether it hits. So while it won't fully stack with the likes of Gustave's Pigeon Whistle or Aisha's Earth Thrust , it does a lot of work to reduce incoming damage for 3 turns if you haven't brought other Morale Down or Guard Up units.
Masamune+ from her original SS style is a B-rank slash/heat INT-based attack for 4 BP, which Goddess can spam forever for slightly better damage than Burning Star. You'd really only do this once you're out of LP, but it does improve her damage output once that has happened.
Alternately, if you'd rather keep using Burning Star and drop nukes once you've built up BP, her OG style also has Purging Light, which is SSS sun/heat damage for 10 BP. It's a little low on the SSS scale, but, again, it does improve her damage output once she's out of LP as opposed to just spamming Burning Star.

Orlouge

Unit Summary

Everything bagel ailment jammer.

Unit Analysis

I don't have a ton here to say. Drop from the Depths is a 10 BP AoE spell that just throws the whole kitchen sink of ailments at the enemy. Poison, sleep, paralysis, confusion, and charm, all at once. The way ailments work in this game, you will never see more than two of those on a single enemy at once, and one of them will always be poison if there are two, but it can be... convenient that this one style does all of them in a single spell.
When he's not overcoming his analysis paralysis by "¿porque no los dos?"ing it, he rotates between Shadow Drop, a 0 BP shadow AoE spell, and Rose Petals, an 8 BP spell that deals SS shadow damage and grants him 1 stack of Damage Block. Unlike most characters with Damage Block, it is actually significant that this stack of Damage Block does not have a turn limit because Orlouge can randomly evade all attacks in a turn, which would preserve the Damage Block stack for a later turn. This is doubly important because Orlouge gets +3 bonus BP any turn where he doesn't take damage, so if he gets an evade turn, layers a stack of Damage Block on himself, and manages to get off another Rose Petals next turn, he's got a pretty good chance of also not taking any damage that turn for even more bonus BP.
It... it's fragile, but when it works, it does do cool things.

Inherits

Well, if you just must have all the status ailments, Orlouge 2.0 has a single target Petrify (Mistress' Ice Prison) or AoE Stun (Purple Flames) you can inherit. Or he has Absorb from that style for a spammable small self-heal. (Remember, "small" self-heal actually means like 900+ HP at current stat values.)

Monika

Unit Summary

DEX buffehealeBow damage enabler.

Unit Analysis

Monika is trying to do a lot, here.
Firstly, she grants all Bow wielders a 15% damage bonus just for bringing a Bow to a S. Sword fight.
Secondly, she heats up to 80% damage bonus over the first 5 turns of battle. So she's trying to bring the damage. And actually, every single skill she has will buff at the very least her DEX. Whether it's the 0 BP DEX buff attack on Focus Fire, the party-wide DEX buff for 5 BP in Dancing Arrows, or the combination DEX buff/heal on Arrow Bloom, she's going to have her DEX buffed. So she actually does deal pretty serious damage once she's heated up.
Oh, did I mention that the heal on Arrow Bloom is "small" rank? So it's 1k like Still Blade Phoenix, not 200 like Kat's little heals.
Now, that's good because it's a 13 BP skill. Which, honestly, it needs to be because it's a party DEX buff, a small heal, and it's an SSSS attack. But Monika gets +2 BP when she hits a weakness, so she can actually rotate that at not-painfully-slow rates if the enmy is pierce weak.
She's juggling a lot of stuff, is what I'm trying to say. And she kind of can actually get all of it done.

Inherits

Back-inheriting Arrow Bloom to her baby style can potentially let her unleash the giant attac-plus-heal more frequently because that style can gain +3 BP when she gets hit. It's only a 25% chance per hit, but if the enemy is dishing out a lot of weak attacks, it can wind up being a lot of BP recovery over a long battle.
Back-inheriting Arrow Bloom to one of her S. Sword styles can also be useful for Remembrance battle purposes. Just as a thought.
Oh, wait, inherits this style wants? Oh. Uh, interesting. Maybe?
Gift Prick from the style that was on Liam's banner is a 2 BP attack with a small-rank self heal. Using that hurts the damage output of this style (misses a DEX buff) and makes BP cycling Dancing Arrow or Arrow Bloom harder (costs 2 BP instead of 0 BP), but it goes a long way to making this style harder to KO.
Present of Pleasure from... also that style... is a party CHA buff, Morale Up, tiny heal, and +1 BP recovery. It costs 7 BP/1 LP, so it's a very limited use skill, but the BP support angle of it can be useful for a style you are already bringing for DEX/heal support.
Pure Flower from the kiddo style is a 3 BP/1 LP heal with a little attack boost on heal. Nothing huge, but handy to have.
And that's kind of it. Monika has a ton of styles that you could inherit stuff from, but the fact that most of them are S. Sword skills means that they miss out on part of Monika's innate damage bonuses, and many of them will rotate awkwardly with the +2 BP/turn in the first place, making Arrow Bloom look better in comparison.

Okay, I want to make a 20-headed train with each head painted a different color to make a rainbow train. I want to know if it's possible to use LTN to make the rainbow train just wander around my rain network endlessly untill it needs to refuel.
If anyone knows how to make this work, I will give you a virtual hand-job. Please.

This is going to be somewhat of a long post, but bare with me. I just made a reddit account for THIS reason because I really need to get this off my chest.
I live with a 34 year old brother who is completely selfish. Ever since the passing of my late-brother (oldest one past away when he was 31), I have been taking responsibility roles after him for my parents (I am the youngest child and only daughter). Being a full-time STEM student and unemployed, I have time to accommodate my parents needs to get tasks done: everything from running errands, to the bank, making sure rent and utilities are due on time, groceries, scheduling doctor's appointments for my father, and picking up prescriptions. Life has been a train-wreck for me since 2018. My parents are immigrants with little to no English and helpless in navigating modernized, western culture. Since my oldest brother is gone, I have to take on the unspoken position to make sure everything is okay for my parents.
Second brother, he is the most selfish person I have ever encountered; definitely self-righteous and paints a picture for everyone to see that he is this humanitarian or philanthrope in person, but behind closed doors he emotionally and physically abuses my parents. Everyone who meets him, loves him, but I know his true colors.
My dad had fallen ill of last year, and I was his caregiver for some time while juggling with challenging STEM classes at my community college. It wasn't easy taking care of my father due to his condition without the help of my second older brother. (He help sometimes to take him to dialysis), but when it came to the important stuff, it was expected of me. I have cried, had mental breakdowns, and often thought about suicide because of the pressure I was being put in.
My father's retirement funds kick in every month (about $1k a month). When my dad was bed-ridden last summer, and I was too busy with college, my dad asked my second older brother to withdrawal money from my dad's account for bills, giving him access to the PIN number. Ever since then, my brother kept my father's debit card and had pocketed $300 every month without my dad's knowledge or consent. Found out, that was $3600 my brother stole from our sick, disabled father. He did this for a year. My second older brother does not pitch anything for rent even though he works full-time, taking about $4000 a month with a bonus from his VA benefits.
He cranks up the air conditioning unit really low during the summer, so my mother has to pay $200 or so during the time. He asks my mom for money so he can go to the local laundromat (how does he not have at least $20 to spare for clothes to be washed and dried as an employed man??), and he is always asking money from my uncle and aunt. All he cares about is money and cares little about helping the family. He even skipped my oldest brother's funeral because he was too "afraid" to see his brother lying in the casket (I was the only one organizing my oldest brother's funeral, by the way; that week was emotionally and mentally exhausting).
My brother has physically pushed my dad out of his bed one time during a family argument, poured cold water over my mom's head, whipped her with a belt, and when he is really angry, he brings out his guns and creates this threatening aura in the room, showing everybody how "powerful" he is with guns (he was in the army and is a huge gun collector).
A part of me fears for my parents livelihood with him here, leeching off mom and dad; disrespecting them even though they let him do anything. Both of my parents are too scared to confront him because he gets violent with the potential threat that he can pull a gun out on them. I have confronted him a few times, but it ends up pretty disordered and horrific (my head bumped pretty badly against the window one time, because we were in a car, and I was arguing with him, so he decided to drive violently on the highway).
Part of me wished that he was gone instead of my oldest brother; my oldest brother was the opposite of him despite his autism and social dilemmas. He was empathetic and cared for the family.
My brother, I feel like he is the bane of my parent's existence and will bleed my parents out to dry when it comes to finances. He refuses to move out because he wants to leech off of my parents, so that he can freely uses his paycheck however he wishes to.
Is there anything I can do? He is my blood brother and a part of me cares for him, still, but I honestly wish he was gone sometimes. This seems like a fatalistic thing to say, but things would be peaceful around the house if he was not around. I am too stressed about family life, my dad's illness, STEM degree that I am working on, and our financial issue to be dealing with my brother's rampage.
Any advice?

My husband asked if I had white nail polish to cover a chip in his bike’s paint and I said “of course, I have like 100 colors”. And then I looked and I DON’T have any plain white!
Help me fix that!? What’s the best white? I wish ILNP had one as I love their formula and brush, but no dice. Halo Taco? Zoya? OPI?
TIA!!

I would appreciate honest feedback on my openeing scene. Note: everything is subject to change.
EXT. LIVELY CITY PARK - DAY
The city park comes alive as autumn leaves rustle in the breeze.
Laughter and heartfelt conversations intertwine, blending seamlessly with the joyful shouts of children playing on the playground.
ROSE, a young, free-spirited, and lonely artist in her 20s, sits on a bench, surrounded by her painting supplies.
A paint-splattered blue apron partially conceals her black Nirvana t-shirt and blue jeans.
Her easel stands tall, holding an empty canvas.
Rose's gaze lingers on the couples in the park.
Lost in thought, Rose reaches for a light blue paint, squeezing it onto her palette.
She takes a deep breath.
Rose slowly hovers her hand over the canvas.
Her fingers tremble slightly.
Her gaze shifts between the untouched paint and the weight of her doubts.
Rose takes the leap and begins to paint.
She blissfully paints the sky.
A small mishap disrupts the tranquil sky she envisioned, and disappointment washes over her.
Her eyes fixate on the unintended mark and her heart sinks.
Rose inhales deeply, steadying her trembling hand.
She delicately transforms the mistake from a terrible blob to a puffy cloud.
She shifts her gaze away from the painting, surveying the lively park surrounding her.
Couples stroll by, hand in hand, lost in tender gazes and smiles exchanged between lovers.
Children's laughter fills the air as they playfully scramble over the playground equipment.
Rose's lips press together.
Rose delicately wipes the brush, treating it with the tenderness of a caretaker.
Rose carefully lowers the brush with an artist's finesse into the luscious aqua paint.
She unveils the painting - A cozy New York City apartment. The room is bathed in the warm, soft light of dusk. On the couch, a couple embraces. Their love is palpable in the quiet intimacy as they watch TV together. Rose wears a beautiful white blouse adorned with butterflies. In the foreground, vibrant yellow flowers bloom in red pots. Their children play with toys in the background.
Rose's eyes trace over her creation.
She tilts her head slightly.
She slowly runs her finger along a particular area of the canvas, feeling a slight unevenness in the texture.
Her gaze lingers on the imperfection.
The only response she can think of is to cry.
A teardrop lands on her extremely faded signature in the bottom right corner.
TITLE CARD: "THE MANY COLORS OF LOVE"

I think I can finally admit to myself that, even though it's self-diagnosed, I do, in fact, have a problem. I've known deep down that I've had one for as long as I can remember, but I just didn't want to believe it. "Just a new diet," I've said every time the problems changed... Truthfully, I think it started when I was 5. My mom always projected her insecurities onto my body, and, naturally, the rules and diets to fix them ensued. I know she didn't mean any harm, but it gave me a terrible self-image. There were so many nights I'd lay awake, unable to sleep because I was so hungry, and started sneaking into the kitchen for food. Eventually, it became every night. I put on a lot of weight, and my dad and his side of the family always made sure I was aware of it every time I'd come over. Just after I had turned 8, I was rushed to the hospital for my ruptured appendix. I learned 2 things after surgery. One, I was medically considered obese and my parents were hardly surprised. And two, I would have died if I arrived just an hour later... I felt so disappointed. "Why couldn't I have waited to say something?" "I ruined everything all over again... again." "Mom is going to need another job to pay for this and it's all my fault." "I took my parents' time away from my brother and sister, they're going to hate me." and so on. I hated myself for living. I decided that I would make it up to them. I'd make up for all the trouble I caused, make them see I was worth the trouble, then end it, I had to make things right... but I didn't. My mom dropped out of college because she'd missed so many classes, my sister's behavioral issues got worse, my step-mom left my dad, and everything was falling apart. On top of it all, I was bullied relentlessly for my ever-growing weight problem by both my schoolmates and my family. By twelve years old, I couldn't take it anymore, but I was too scared to die. I moved in with my dad and step-mom (returned a few years prior) and started what I thought was a normal diet, just to get where I was supposed to be. I was heavy into portioning out every meal, no snacks, hours of exercise every other night, vitamin therapy, and so on. People at my new school started noticing my weight loss and often made comments about it. It felt... euphoric. I finally did something right... but my brain fog was thick as sludge, and soon my grades reflected it. I realize, now, that it was a side effect of my "diet," but I didn't care. Yea, my parents hated it, but they loved my weight loss even more. My step-mom had her Jenny doll, and I was finally not the topic of conversation and the butt of every joke. But then I hit my plateau. No matter how little I ate, how much I worked out, how hard I tried, I couldn't shift the weight. Months went by and then there was no ignoring my faults - my bad grades, my attitude, my rebelliousness (which wasn't even that bad[?]) On my thirteenth birthday, I discovered "pro-ana/mia" Tumblr and lifetime movies. I became obsessed and soon found my new best friend. "Ana" helped me keep weight off, sure, but "Mia..." I could finally eat and lose weight at the same time. Purging became my new addiction. I could eat what I wanted, as much of it as I wanted, and deal with none of the consequences. I finally was able to shift the weight and gained back good graces with everyone. But then something changed. Suddenly, the scale started going up again. I couldn't believe it. I cried so hard when I realized. So I mixed them. I ate my old portions on non-fasting days, got sick on that, and stopped giving myself rest days from workouts. My addiction got worse. I started chugging water just to get sick so I could ride the high - to "feel pure." But it wasn't enough. I needed more of a release. So I started self-harming in a new way - cutting. It, too, got so bad I even did it at school... that was... until I got caught. My counselor called my dad, and he and his wife's responses? "You have no reason to feel this way." "You're so selfish." "You just want attention." and so on. So I hid it (the cutting) better, and they believed I stopped. Then high school came, and I was so sick and tired of being sick and tired, tired of lying, and hiding. I sought help because I couldn't stick to my "diet" as well and felt like crap all of the time, but my therapist just wanted me to tell my family - the same family that put me in this position in the first place; the same family that had to have known at least a little (I caught them listening to my being sick on multiple occasions, they watched me run to the bathroom after every meal, watched me cook 2oz of unseasoned chicken breast every night and never finish eating it for over 3 months, etc.); the same family that offered me ridicule instead of support when I was literally at rock bottom... She knew all of this, mind you. Not two months in and she threatened to call my parents when she saw how I looked without makeup (3 shades paler, no color to my cheeks, dry and cracking lips, dark circles, and so on) if I got any worse. I put on a full face of makeup, declared I felt so much better, and quit the next day. Every therapist I've had since just made me worse because I felt I had to prove my problems. So I stopped. Now, here I am, 20 years old, and I'm still doing the same shit. I don't want to. I know I'm just hurting myself and those around me. I feel incredibly guilty about my every thought and action and I'm not even sure they're my own anymore. I want to feel better, but I don't want to give up my goals. I know it makes me selfish and stupid. I just... I don't know what to do anymore. There are no support groups in my area and the hospital turned me away because "there was no way I was this weight with these problems." Truth be told, I don't think I actually want to get better though, so I guess it was for the best, but just, for once, I just want someone, anyone, to finally listen to me about my problems and help me validate that I actually have one as opposed to denying everything. I know this has been all over the place, so thank you if you managed to get this far. This is the most coherent I've been in weeks and was the best I could muster. I'm just tired of being the only one to know.

I’m not very good at introducing myself, but if you stick around past the awkward part we’ll probably get along
About me:
-I’m trans (he/him), (they/them) -I’m autistic and have ADHD and would love to meet others like me, but it’s not at all required
My hobbies include;
-Playing video games -Painting, drawing, coloring -Listening to music -Writing -Watching my favorite shows over and over
This is about all I can think about in the moment but don’t hesitate to reach out. We don’t have to have much in common, or at all I like to make friends with different kinds of people.

Im trying to deboss text into a model, and then paint the inset letters with the paint tool to be printed with a different color. Is it possible to do this in the slicer? I tried to export the model but always get hung up because negative volumes dont export. Im assuming the model needs to be modeled with the text debossed in another program and then imported, but just thought id ask in case im missing something.

Here's my PSA:
Most of the things you may think of as privilege, are not related to the actual definition of privilege.
A privilege requires two things:
1 that it is given to you by someone or something. 2 that it can be taken away or revoked by someone or something
Some examples of privileges that people enjoy.

• driving
• voting
• owning land
• internet service
• gainful employment.
• education (though in most places, education is a right, so this might not fit)

Here are some things that are not privileges (or privilege), which I've seen people say are.

• money / wealth
• power*
• family affluence
• tangible resources**
• skin color (really, folks?!)

: Except where such power is well regulated. \*: common goods in common law are a bit different in this case.
Note that the first list doesn't contain anything intrinsic to a person, but the second list does. Don't make the mistake of associating intrinsic qualities with privilege. Very often, it's not the case.
Point is, I'm tired of seeing XY-privilege. Most of the time XY isn't something that's privileged, and more commonly it's associated with the 5 items on the second list. Things that aren't even privileges.
So next time someone associates things with privilege, ask yourself "did someone give them this thing? Can someone take it away?" If the answer to either is no, it's not a privilege.

Recently I've been playing around with the magic mask on both the color and fusion tabs. Yesterday, I ran into a situation where I wanted to slightly widen the magic mask in one direction and it couldn't really be achieved by just adding more strokes. I wanted to just use a paint brush to extend the mask, but I don't think that's possible. My thought was maybe to have both a magic mask and a fusion mask and merge them together. Does anyone have some tips or ideas on how to modify a magic mask with a little manual touch up? Thanks.