u/AbleKaleidoscope877

I am meeting with a builder today to discuss plans for having a 1200 sq ft ranch with full basement built in Maine.

This would nost likely be on undeveloped land. I'm not looking for estimates exactly...but moreso items that add to the overall cost that your average joe may not know about like surveyors, etc.

So far we have the cost of the house and basement...septic, well, electric, surveryor, lot clearing...what else am I missing, or what else should I ask about?

My goal is to get a rough estimate of everything so I know how much we can spend on land.

If any of you have any rough estimates for the costs of these things (generally speaking), i would appreciate it! Although im sure we will get that information from our builder as well. Thanks everyone.

I am trying to help my grandma navigate a situation but I am not in the country. She owns 100 acres in Clarksville and has had a well there for many decades. Supposedly, the city is telling her a municipal line has been run near her home and now she must connect.

She is in the beginning stages of dementia and has a caregiver, but I am not in the country currently so it has been difficult to handle this and get information. Is this actually a thing? From what I could gather, they supposedly mandated this in 2024?

I dont understand how this can be something they can force you to do. Do they pay for it at least? Are you charged for having the connection even if you do not use their water? Any help is appreciated.

Considering having a 1000-1200 sq ft home built on undeveloped land + basement in Maine.

What questions, if any, should I ask? We are meeting to discuss pricing, options, etc., and i am bringing a floor plan we like to the meeting to get his thoughts.

I am okay with going cheap on cosmetic things like trim and such as I am a a woodworker and going to replace it anyway...but the things I am interested in spending money on are the things that arent so easily replaced like good insulation, windows, etc. Can any of you think of other "buy once cry once" items that would go a long way for the home (that arent cosmetic)? This will be my first house.

I created a powerpoint with music that loops throughout the duration. I saved a copy as a powerpoint show and attached it to an email.

When my test recipient opens it, the music plays but the slides do not advance automatically despite me ensuring there is no requirement to advance on click.

I timed each slide specifically and it is set to present in "kiosk mode" but the powerpoint will not advance slides automatically according to the timing i have set.

I cannot figure out how to make this work.

Any help is truly appreciated!

Things i have checked:

It is saved as powerpoint show, set to kiosk mode, advance with click is turned off, each slide has a set time it should be displayed for before advancing automatically. The test recipient does not have any access that would allow her to edit the file or anything else.

Just curious if any/how many of you charge a fee to meet with potential clients about a new construction.

Should they decide to proceed, the money is used toward their balance, but is ultimately nonrefundable.

Is this pretty standard?

I am only level 45...but something feels off and i cant figure it out. I was previously using blessed hammer and was running penitent content without issue. I respec'd and swapped to shield bash to try it out and changed up my gear to fit the build as best i could but straight up my damage is TERRIBLE.

I had to go down an entire difficulty level and im STILL struggling to kill rare and even magic monsters. What the hell happened, and how can i fix it? Is shield bash just ass without specific unique items or something?

ive built around shield bash as best i could, increasing attack speed, crit, chose all the nodes that increase its damage, etc. and its still fuckin terrible. what am i doing wrong?

i barely had to put any effort into building around hammers and i was clearing entire groups of mobs by just walking near them. wtf?

I am mostly making wood and stone designs by hand currently.

I was interested in picking up a rotary tool but am not sure what would best suit me. I was thinking of going with a dremel 4300 + flex shaft attachment and speed control pedal.

While looking around i came across this sub and noticed a lot of people talking about micromotors and flex shafts. Im not really doing jewelry work..while some of my work is small (about the size of a nickel at the smallest) it isnt as small as jewelry.

Would the set up I described above suit me just fine? Or should i look into foredom micromotors? It seems the biggest concern or downside of the dremel + flex shaft attachment is the higher torque as opposed to the low torque the micromotors offer which i assume is just more ideal for fine jewelry making.

Thanks for any input.

How do you all go about the theme/message or symbolism throughout your story?

Do you have something in mind you want to convey to readers before you begin writing?

Or, do you have a story in mind and whatever themes develop over time are just what they become?

Something I struggle with is the overall plot. I can come up with characters, worlds, scenarios, and an infinite number of ideas all day long, but just homing in on the plot and theme of the story is paralyzing.

I find it hard to just write a fun story because if there isn't some importance behind it, I feel it isn't worth doing. Granted, it is incredibly unlikely I will have some awe-inspiring message that reshapes humanity or anything of that nature...but it's still just a part of who I am. This bleeds into my everyday life as well, but that is beside the point.

Do you strive for a specific theme or symbolism throughout your story, or just let it be what it becomes?

Just wanted to say this has got to be one of the best games of its kind. Although it isn't the same as something like Diablo 4 in terms of the hack-and-slash loot grind crawler aspects, I personally wish games like Diablo and PoE were closer to this than not.

The combat, the secrets, the weapon, armor, and skill variety... the synergy between skills.

In my experience, it is incredibly rare for a top-down ARPG to actually be difficult. At BEST they are only ever difficult due to increases in monster quantity, health, and damage. While increasing the difficulty for NRFTW does increase enemy damage and health, the combat is actually challenging itself and punishes you for mistakes and rewards you for paying attention. This is something that is nonexistent for PoE, D4, and many similar games. The vast majority of them come down to min/maxing BIS meta items and building around screen-clear abilities. As a result, they become incredibly boring incredibly fast.

I don't love the art style personally which made me hesitant to buy it, but they did such a good job with the game overall that I was able to look past that...I mention this because I can be incredibly picky when it comes to pretty much anything. Art styles in games, bad voice acting, even if there are character names i don't like in books i won't finish them.

One of the only complaints that I have is the resource gathering. I don't mind gathering resources, I guess I just wish it was done differently. Cutting down trees and mining ore becomes pretty monotonous pretty quickly...and no, giving me a better axe just to cut down a more durable tree that requires the same number of cuts as it did with my starting axe to fell a pine tree doesn't make it somehow more interesting lol. I'm hoping at some point there is just a resource farm I can go to or perhaps hire a servant(s) to gather materials for me (if they dont have either of these they should add them lol).

Other than that though, love the game and wish more top down ARPGs had actually challenging combat like NRFTW as well as exploration and secrets. They did a really good job with making you feel like you were exploring (and rewarding you for doing so), not just going from dungeon to dungeon mindlessly following a quest indicator around.