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TheGreatestBanana126/30/2024

$5

Two of my things that have always been close to my heart are gaming and helping people. Gaming has always been a huge part of my life ever since I was young and it has made a huge difference to me and I have always had the belief of even the smallest gesture can make a huge difference to someone and that you should take every opportunity to make that positive difference for someone as you never know when they could need it , This is why I donate £6 every month to the Special Effect Gamers charity, it is charity that helps hundreds of people every year who are physically disabled who are not able to use conventional gaming equipment and make specially adapted equipment for each individuals needs and provide it freely to allow them to be able to have the joy that is gaming and have experiences that will have a positive impact on them and make them feel included. The Charity starts by assessing someones needs once they receive a request for help and then they go on to build a custom gaming set up on each individual persons needs to try help improve their quality life and increase inclusiveness

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Josh B6/30/2024

$5

Men's mental health is a growing concern in the UK but thankfully is becoming a more recognised epidemic within our communities. Suicide rates have soared in recent years and this has been in part due to the stigma around talking about our mental health.

Being someone has personally struggles with this aspect of daily life, it's something I am very passionate about sharing and helping to make people aware it's OK to talk about and seek help for.

There are a growing number of charities in the UK aiming to help spread the word on the importance of identifying men's mental health concerns and challenges, and providing a platform for men to feel comfortable talking about their mental and psychological challenges.

On such charity is Andys Man Club, but honestly there are an importantly frowning number that can offer support and advice for people, with online and face to face groups in local communities to help.

It's important to talk!

Raising Awareness | Andy's Man Club

From leaving our business card in a shop, to climbing a mountain for ANDYSMANCLUB, there are so many ways you can make a difference and help us spread the message that #ItsOkayToTalk.

andysmanclub.co.uk

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FirestormGamingTeam6/30/2024

$5

Content Creation

Whilst YouTube is swamped with creators, it is often obvious that people don't put a lot of effort into their creations, this is often sad to see, especially when you see very skilled gamers doing this.

Content creation is very special to me, because it enables me, to create content that reflects my views and my emotions into what I project to others. So let's take for example Eve Online.

In my opinion, Eve Online is a game that everyone should try once, but it is very difficult to get into and as time went on, four of us came together to make content for this game, we wanted to create videos that made the game easy to understand, to create as many videos as we could on every subject a new player might want information on.

How to do missions, explaining such things as loyalty points, standings, fittings, and how to fit ships so that activities became super easy and in-game money flows very easily. So as the channel grew, it became more and more important to me.

YouTube has become such an important thing to me, it is a big part of my life. it's something that is close to me and my heart and I think it will continue to be as the channel grows.

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Sturmer6/29/2024

$10

Photography: Rediscovering the World Through a Viewfinder

In today's world, everyone carries a smartphone in their pocket, capturing moments with a tap on the screen. However, I believe this convenience hasn't diminished photography as an art form. Photography isn't about megapixels or filters; it's about preserving moments, telling stories, and seeing the world differently.

I've noticed a significant transformation when people pick up a real camera and look through a viewfinder rather than staring at a screen and making hip-shots. The viewfinder isolates you, offering a unique opportunity to see subjects or scenery from an entirely new perspective. A simple rusty gate element can become art, or worn-out planks on a deck can reveal a unique pattern.

This is where the magic happens. Even the cheapest digital camera with a dedicated lens will produce a more professional result than any smartphone with artificial simulation. Physics doesn't lie; a sensor 35 times larger in area and up to 1kg of glass capturing photons will always yield more precise data.

Some think photography is an expensive hobby, but that's not true. You can start for as little as $200 and still take amazing pictures. I recommend grabbing a used full-frame camera like the EOS 5D or EOS 5D Mark II and a 50mm f/1.8 prime lens. The 50mm lens on a full-frame camera closely mimics the human eye, and a prime lens means fewer controls to learn. The f/1.8 aperture provides stunning bokeh, allowing you to isolate any subject from the background. Plus, this combo is fairly compact and light to carry around.

To learn, watch a few videos on shutter speed, aperture, and ISO controls, then take a walk with your camera. You'll be shocked at how many interesting things you missed right near your home. You don't need to travel to Africa or the North Pole to take great pictures; even a neighbor's old car, with the right lighting and angle, can become a desktop background!

In summary, holding a camera can unleash your artistic vision. Simple everyday things can be captured as art. You don't need a big budget to start, and photography gives you a great reason to explore and discover the world around you.

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Lanah Tyra6/29/2024

$10

Final Fantasy XIV - The old tank stance system

FFXIV constantly changes to keep up with the modern gaming style. Currently if you are playing as a tank, you have an ability which you need to use to generate enough enmity so the mobs are hitting you and not the rest of the party. This is just an on-off type of ability, so if you are the only tank, you switch it on at the beginning of the fight and then leave it alone. If there are 2 tanks, only the main tank has it on, and the other tank will use it if there is an additional mob which needs to be tanked separately or if the main tank dies.

But this was not always the case. Back in the old days, tanks had a defensive and a damaging stance, and DPS who had a high damage output had the ability to transfer some of the enmity they generated onto the tank, to prevent pulling the mob off them. But tanks also love to do damage, so often it was a very dangerous dance of the stances, where they stayed in their damaging stance as long as possible, and only switched on the defensive stance when they absolutely needed it.

I can see why this system got reworked, as it required a certain level of skill to manage your stances effectively, not die but also do enough damage (raids usually have an enrage timer, so certain amount of damage output is needed to complete the fight in time, and for this tanks and healers are also required to do enough damage).

Damage-hungry players pushed this system to its limit in one encounter, but to be able to explain this, I also have to tell you briefly about how the Summoner job worked back then. The summons had their own HP and you had a toolkit of heals and shields to keep them alive. One such summon, Titan, which was a tank-type summon was so strong, that in a specific encounter a Summoner was tanking the boss, so both tanks could stay in their damaging stance... or just do the fight without a tank and bring more DPS.

Here is a video from Mr Happy explaining how this strategy worked, but it's very heavy with FFXIV technical terms, so might only say something to those who are familiar with the game:

I wish I started to play the game sooner and could experience this era, as I think it gave a lot of variety to the game and enough entertainment for high-end players. Though as Mr Happy mentions in his video, it was also leading towards unacceptable behaviour in party finder, where people would exclude tank players from their groups and insist on bringing more DPS. Also by making the game more simple and streamlined helps a lot to bring in new players who are not hard-core raiders, but at the end of the day an MMO can only function until there are enough people playing it.

There is still one content where you can do such shenanigans, in Bozja, the big open-world field operation content you get special abilities, including one for DPS where they can get bigger HP and mitigations as well as a skill to provoke mobs off someone. The other is the new Variant dungeons, where you have similar abilities as well and you can even solo it on a DPS.

Hopefully the new field operations content we are getting in Dawntrail will have similar things again, it's letting people have fun and experiment with things while keeping the main game newbie friendly.

Hope you enjoyed today's Final Fantasy history lesson, will see how many of these I can come up with for this bounty :D