MikeHawk

Does anybody have advice on certain classes/characters that are worth using? I'm worried with all of the secondary weapon triangle changes, I'm going to train up characters that I shouldn't. I traditionally run magic-heavy teams, but it seems like magic classes got nerfed in favor of hidden weapons, at least in Birthright. I just don't want to roll with an Omnyoji, a Basara, and an Oni Chieftain and find out that I should have more dedicated magic users.

Another thing that is throwing me is that for the first time in FE history, the "dancer" class (Azura) and the early game pre-promote (Felicia/Jakob) actually seem good. Am I crazy to keep using them up through the end of Birthright or should I drop them before I waste too much time leveling them? I'm about to start Chapter 9 on Hard.

I will clarify a few things first:

@monkeyking1969: The person who previously lived in my apartment didn't smoke. Also, no furniture came with my apartment and I do not have pets.

@shindig: Regarding ventilation, I can't tell if the smoke travels through the ventilation shaft or around it. Either way, it gets past the carbon filters in the shaft and the foam that seals off the empty space in the shaft.

@cameron: I don't have asthma and my health hasn't been affected by it yet. My girlfriend did get noticeably sick from visiting me for a weekend. Do you think 3 months of slight exposure to secondhand smoke is enough to show up on an examination?

@milkman: I am beginning to get used to the smell and it scares me so much. When I came back to my apartment after being gone for 5 days, it had a very faint smokey smell that I didn't normally smell.

Lastly, I am probably only going to be in this area for the next 1-2 years. My current lease is up in August.

I see this situation going one of a several ways:

1. I suck it up and deal with the secondhand smoke as cheaply as possible. I use odor-fighting spray on my clothes, put a towel under the door, etc. All of my belongings will have a slight odor of smoke when I move after the 1-2 years.

2. I spend larger amounts of money to fight the smoke. I buy an air filter and/or an ozone generator, maybe paint my walls with KILZ. I have the means to afford it, but I also don't want to waste all my money on something that might not make much of a difference.

3. I force my landlord to pay for the things I mentioned in 2. They have been somewhat receptive to helping me out so far, but I don't know if they will be willing to drop a few hundred on me. Maybe go halfsies?

4. I move to a different apartment that the landlord owns. They have a pretty large selection of apartments. I'm just scared that if I move to a different one, there will be another neighbor problem (crying baby, drunk college kids, less parking spots), or worse, a smoker moves in near me a couple months later.

5. I move to somewhere that will guarantee me a smoke-free environment. Maybe I rent a small, cheap house so there aren't neighbor issues. I spend money breaking the lease if I can't get out of it from a medical excuse. I spend all of my free time for a few weeks packing up my things, hunting for a new place, and physically moving everything. I then hope that I can remove the remaining smoke smell from my possessions with more time and money.

Any of these seem better than the others? I'm kind of worried that I am going to either ruin all of my possessions, waste a lot of money trying to protect them, or both.

Hey guys, it's been a couple years since I've actually posted on the forums, but I thought someone might be able to give me some advice. I graduated college 6 months ago and took a job 5 hours away from my hometown. I didn't have much time to scope out apartments before I took the job, so I had to decide based on online pictures and chatting with the landlord. The apartment is not bad for my first apartment and the rent isn't outrageous.

The only problem is that everyone in the other 5 apartments in my building smokes. Some of them weren't living here when I moved in, so it wasn't very noticeable at the beginning. Specifically, my next-door neighbor (whom I share a ventilation shaft with) is the heaviest smoker of them all. It leaks through that shared ventilation shaft, as well as one of my power outlets and the door to my apartment. Although I found out that it is technically illegal in Indiana to smoke in the shared building area, the neighbors still spend enough time in the hallway that I can tell when one of my neighbors has recently walked by my door purely by smell.

I have tried nearly everything I can think of to solve the problem, but I'm running out of ideas and need help. I have placed carbon filters in the vent and have sprayed foam sealant in the vent and the power outlet. I have added additional weather stripping to my door. I have air fresheners in most of my rooms. I complained to the landlord last week and she talked to my neighbor, who apparently agreed to not smoke in her bathroom anymore. Whether or not she is still smoking in the bathroom, I smelled it coming through that vent when I went to the bathroom this morning.

I have never had to deal with removing or preventing smoke, so if anyone has ideas on how I should solve this problem, I'm up for it. I went to my parents' house for Thanksgiving and we could smell smoke on most of my laundry and even my pillowcase. I don't want everything I own to be covered in the smell of smoke just because my neighbor has bad habits. Do I need to find more ways to prevent the smell from getting in? Do I try to be more militant toward my landlord? Or do I cut my losses, break my lease, and find somewhere else where all of my neighbors don't smoke?

@stonyman65: This makes sense to me. Eventually, things like this just even out on their own. It's like the concept of white rappers. While I'm not a scholar on the history of rap, most early rap appears to be made by black men who weren't so concerned about being "forward thinking" and "open-minded." Eventually, enough white people began to enjoy black rappers that a few of these fans then went on to have successful rap careers and draw more white people into rap. Now in 2014, Iggy Azalea (a white Australian woman) can have a #1 rap hit and someone like RiFF RAFF can exist.

If people are so concerned about not having enough equality in video games and the gaming press, introduce your friends of that minority to the games industry and show them that there are games that they will like. My girlfriend (who rarely plays games) is really into art and design, so I showed her Tearaway and by the end of the week, she was begging me to bring my Vita over to her house so she could play it. If a few minorities enjoy a culture dominated by white men, eventually people from these minorities will show up in the industry (like they are right now) and inspire more people of minorities to become programmers, journalists, gamers, etc.

That's just my opinion. It seems like a more productive way to go about it than burning everyone at the stake who unintentionally offends you.

At the end of the day, I want Jeff and Giant Bomb to hire people who mesh well with them, whether that's Dan Rykert, Carrie Gouskos or my adopted black lesbian second cousin (That's not a joke, she really exists.)

I more or less do the same thing. I work from 4-8:30 two nights a week doing tech support with a couple other guys. We rarely get called. It's wonderful.

@cmblasko: Sadly, nope. For reasons that I don't know, R/B/Y and G/S/C aren't compatible with the 3rd generation of games and onward. Because of that, the oldest pokemon you can get into X and Y are ones from 10 years ago, which is still pretty impressive.

As some who has dislocated my kneecap four times, I think I can give you some good advice. Then again, I dislocate it all the time because I have loose joints. Anyways, walk on it as little as possible. One of the times that it went back in on its own after it popped out, I was at football practice. I took an hour break and tried to shake it off and get back to practice. By the end of the day, I couldn't walk on my own from all of the swelling.

Moral of the story is that you should do as little walking or bending as possible. My doctor would tell me to treat it with the acronym RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation). Also, once your knee pops out once, the chances of it popping out again soon are greater. I'm assuming that's because you just stretched all of those tendons and ligaments. Hopefully I helped!

They also put Animal Crossing up at midnight, so I would wait until 12:01, close the eshop app, reopen it and then it should be ready to download.

So did we confirm a time that this is all going down today?

@naru_joe93: Exactly. I really hate how people get to decide which race a mixed-race person is based on the situation. George Zimmerman is only half-white, but becomes full-white the second he's suspected of murdering a black person. People do the same thing to President Obama, too. He's also half-white, but Samuel L. Jackson and many others voted for him because he was black.

And for the record, I really don't know if Zimmerman should have been guilty or not guilty. I don't know all of the facts. I just think many of the people that cry "Racist!" in situations like these are the ones acting racist.