selfconfessedcynic

Honestly, even though we're only getting one side of this there's only a couple of rational paths forward.

- Definitely don't just close your eyes and keep going forward with the wedding. Shit isn't right and a wedding isn't a cure for relationship problems.

- Couples therapy CAN work but the more I look into it, the less stock I put into it. Think to yourself if you can live with this person for the months required to do the therapy (not to mention potential costs associated with it)

- Consider your motivations for staying. If it's just loyalty or fear of not finding someone else, leave. If it's something akin to love, maybe consider roughing it out a short while longer.

People change, and it's very possible that this girl is not the person you got together with anymore. BUT it is also possible that her depression is playing hell with her not having a job and feelings of guilt for how tough things are. Her behaviour could have an understandable root cause.

Your call, man.

Personally, I think she's acting like a damn child and not worth your time. Plenty of women out there especially if you're still young and hale.

Finished the series in one shot and holy cow it was way better than it has any right to be.

Highly recommend it! (And I never thought I'd say that about a karate kid spinoff)

It's probably God of War, but it was very close between that and Skyrim.

I think they got the boss balance just right with Bloodborne. Dark Souls 3 would probably be my 2nd pick, and overall I actually prefer it to BB.

I don't listen to many podcasts, but I've listened to literally 100s of audiobooks. I could go on for ages, but looking at your inclination, I'd recommend the following;

• The Martian by Andy Weir (if you haven't seen the movie - which is OK) is a perfect combination of comedy and sci-fi that I think is one of the best books of the last few years.
• Off To Be The Wizard by Scott Meyer is a very fun/funny "what if magic were real" series with an interesting twist and entertaining narration. The series itself is called Magic 2.0.
• Neither are British humour though - the closest thing to that I can think of that's actually good in audio is The Hitchhiker's Guide (if that's somehow slipped you by - it's even read by Stephen Fry).

If you just want really good audiobooks / fiction, some lesser-known (and thankfully complete) works are:

• Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson is one of the best fantasy trilogies ever, and the reader is superb
• If you like Battlestar Galactica, The Lost Fleet by Jack Campbell is an awesome sci-fi series

In Destiny 1 I would have said Titan (heck, I have 3 titans on my account). But, with the change they've made to the void subclass (lack of modifiers to ward of dawn) and the sunbreaker (no more melting point), Titan is kinda just OK now.

Id say Warlock is the new top dog.

wow, I wasn't expecting this kind of throwback.

I wonder how the VO'll be - or if they'll go Yakuza with it and have it subbed.

Just watched it all in one sitting and I was blown away. I wish more anime had English VO this good - AND writing this fun. The script was hammy, but in a good way I think - and the main cast was all really likeable, which is hard to do. Animation quality was solid too.

Loved it - can't wait for season 2.

OK. You dun fucked up. I think it's fixable though.

I have a few tips that MAY help;

1. Nope, you can't go back - once you went into a big tower where you have to collect crystals (tower of the dead), that was the point of no return.
2. During boss fights, abuse status buffs (some items you can mix and kimahri can cast Mighty Guard (or "Mighty G") which casts protect, shell and nullall on your whole party). Some mixes also have Super Mighty G and Hyper Might G results (which cast like regen and autolife on your party too). You can be pretty much unstoppable. At a minimum cast Cheer with Tidus (strength + defence up for the whole party) - especially if you don't deal enough damage for that turn to be spent elsewhere.
3. DON'T bother filling out the sphere grid. What you want to do is look for places in the sphere grid (generally Auron's area) with lots of HP+ and Strength+, then run all of your physical dudes through that area. That way you avoid high level lock spheres but retain all the benefits of levelling. For magic people, just look for the spots on yuna's path that have the most HP+ spheres and teleport them all there. Variety is something you need to leave behind since having new characters tread through Auron's grid will quickly make them survivable (and way more physically capable).
4. IF you have Warp spheres, use them very wisely (see below two before deciding to use them)
5. The best abilities in the game that lie at the END of each character's path - in case you really want to know - there's Double Cast (does what it says on the tin), Copycat (yes you can copycat people who use doublecast to keep doublecasting ultima or whatever), Quick Hit (great fast attack for physical dudes), Full Break (reduces all of an enemy's stats), Hastega (top tier), Auto-Life (prevents death... so pretty good) - and obviously the top end spells like Ultima, Holy and Flare.
6. Everything where you are gives quite a bit of AP so you're not too bad, you can do the following to help you grind (if you do indeed need to grind)
   1. Equip any AP multiplying equipment you have (check what Riku can customise into your weapons - you may be surprised. Some of the APx2 or APx3 items are things you may have easily stumbled across - put them on some weapons and you're good to go)
   2. IF you have the Overdrive -> AP option when customising, you can use the old AP trick where you take double or triple overdrive, overdrive -> ap, and double or triple AP and put them on a weapon for each character. After you do that, set your Overdrive to Comrade (so if your allies take damage you get overdrive, thus AP). After that, if you're being one-shot, happy days - you'll get SHITLOADS of AP every time your party takes damage. Back in the day you could get 99 sphere levels per fight and easily circumnavigate the grid this way, but I think they may have capped it a tad lower now.
   3. If you can use the above trick and only have weapons with enough open slots for some of your characters, congratulations - you have your new main party.
7. Only after doing the above (or trying to), would I use warp spheres to get the best abilities for your strongest party members.

Jecht and Auron are probably my favourite characters in the Final Fantasy franchise. They just get cooler and cooler the more of those spheres you collect and the more of their backstories you uncover.

But yes, FFX has problems but MAN I love that game too. Welcome to the brotherhood and I liked the write-up.