I am a HUGE Bloodborne fan! Am looking at this for a game to play out before Jedi Survivor release. Advice on not only should I buy, and if so, any hints /tips for this noob? Thank you kindly.

<< The flickering red lights felt like they had a soul of their own, the beat dropped and the boom resounded in every clubber’s soul, The concussion blasts reverberating through the ears of the hundreds of people either yelling "what" at one another, or pretending to hear what the other person actually said and laughing drunkenly. This club looked like any other club, it had its mosh pit of desperate souls holding out their cash at the bar hoping only one of the two bartenders would notice, it had its inevitable drunk who wanted to start a fight, and it had its fair share of drunk unconsciousness. Yet this club, “The Connection”, had a different feel, it had a strange and dark light to it, as if something in the air gave everyone this instinct of being submerged by the place’s aura, by this place’s stenching overwhelming aura.
It was wall to wall people dancing erratically, you couldn’t even see the floor, and what annoyed Diego the most was how hard it was to navigate this mass of people without sinking his teeth into someone. Most of all, the smell had a virulent effect on him. He squeezed his way through the mass and could notice scattered pairs of red eyes among the clubbers, some of these red-eyed guests gave nods, others gave blank stares, and the rest gave nasty looks. Diego wasn’t in a truly welcoming place since some of the “people” who go to The Connection didn’t have a nice appreciation of our man because of some unfortunate past event.
Eventually, Diego stopped in the middle of the club, as all the clubbers formed a cyclone of drunken dancing, he stood still in the middle… for he was enamoured. As his eyes were scanning the venue for something interesting, his eyes met the gaze of beauty itself. A pale woman with the most beautiful red eyes stood still just like him a few feet away, and she was staring. For a moment…as these two vampires who didn’t know each other stared at each other…time stopped. >>
Hey, I’m looking for a literate or semi-literate partner to roleplay with me in a story which takes place in a city full of opportunities and esoteric secrets. The setting is The World of Darkness universe, specifically Vampire: The Masquerade since I’m a big fan. In this setting, vampires live in secret amongst humans and, in the same fashion, the themes of this story will be tied to interpersonal horror. In addition to my personal favourite theme: unattainable toxic love.
I would like my partner to be able to create and manage multiple “NPC” characters since I will be doing the same. Also I would like my partner to have autonomy and to create plotlines as they wish. I am not a GM so please don’t expect that of me. I do not have any clear ideas of where the story goes, I only have my character figured out for now but I’m sure that we can come up with something good if we put both our visions together. Please message me only if you have a character in mind with a brief bio and ref pic. Not a big fan of "mushy" characters or pure and innocent characters who need to be babied around, I'm looking for someone to play a raw and experienced character who's been through it (hope it doesn't sound weird or condescending).
If this genre of supernatural sappy romance and dark contemporary fantasy interests you ; if stories of secret underground vampire courts fascinate you ; or if you’re, just like me, a big VtM fan, then this RP might be real fun and a nice writing exercise in the genre for you. So, come join me and let’s dive deep into the occult vampiric side of the city of Roth while desperately and madly falling in love with each other in a world that cannot allow it.

I wanna preface this by saying that I know that this will get me doxxed, but I genuinely don't care; feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn or follow me on Insta :) As such, this will be my one and only post, and I will not be responding to any hate but feel free to pm and I might respond ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Demographics

• Gender: Non-binary
• Race/Ethnicity: Burmese/Myanmarese
• Residence: TX
• Income Bracket: $100k+ (most schools didn't give me any aid)
• Type of School: Large public schools in the suburbs of a big city that often sends ~5 students to HYPMS (I literally learned this acronym today lmao)
• Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): LGBTQ+ (?) & Burmese/Myanmarese (idk if this this a hook lol, kinda new to this)

Intended Major(s): applied as anthropology (especially biological) but also expressed an interested in human rights and selected that as an alternate where available
Academics

• GPA (UW/W): 4.0/4.6 [104.4844 on the 100 point scale where Pre-AP is up to 105 and AP/Dual Credit is up to 110]
• Rank (or percentile): top 1% (out of a little less than ~600)
• # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc. & Senior Year Course Load:

Pre-frosh	Freshman	Sophomore	Junior	Senior
Honors IPC (counted as regular in GPA tho)	Pre-AP Eng 1	Pre-AP Eng 2	AP Eng Lang	AP Eng Lit
Honors Geometry	Pre-AP Alg 2	Pre-AP Pre-Cal	Communications (req class)	Multi Calc
Honors Algebra 1	Pre-AP Bio	AP CSA: Language	AP Calc BC	AP Chem
Honors Spanish 1 (counted as regular in GPA tho)	Regular World Geo	AP CSA: Math	AP Bio	AP Chem Lab
	Summer Health	Pre-AP Chem	AP Bio Lab	Theatre 1 (required)
	Summer PE	Pre-AP Spanish 3	AP Env Sci	AP Research
	Regular Spanish 2 (pre-ap not available)	AP CSP	AP Physics 1
	Pre-AP Comp Sci	AP Seminar	AP US History
	Regular Business Elective		Summer Dual Credit Econ
			Summer Dual Credit Gov
			Summer Dual Credit Sociology
			Summer Dual Credit Psych
			PE

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Standardized Testing
List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.

• SAT I: 1570 (770RW, 800M)
• AP/IB: couldn't take sophomore year APs because of housing instability
  • 5s on all the ones I took (AP Bio, AP Physics 1, APES, APUSH, AP Calc BC, AB Subscore, AP Lang)

Extracurriculars/Activities
List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.

1. CEO & Sole-founder of International 501(c)(3) organization
   1. Formed 30+ chapters, helped conduct tens of thousands of preventative care tests, helped tens of thousands of people across 19 countries, formed partnerships with a couple of UN bodies
2. Representative & Young Ambassador at the United Nations
   1. Spoke at a bunch of UN events, co-authored a couple of publications sent to the UN at the time of application, hosted a big UN event
3. Social Media Chair of Youth Branch of a State Wide Political Campaign
   1. Helped manage group of hundreds of members and lead social media team to reach 7 million people and gain 20k followers in a couple of months
4. Cancer Bio Research @ World's Best Cancer Hospital
   1. Just talked about my research
5. Suicide and Homeless Youth Hotline Volunteer
   1. Helped people escape abuse, rape, & grooming
6. School's First In-Class TA & Lab Aid for like all science classes
7. Family Responsibilities (caretaking)
8. Religious School Student Body President
9. Group of the rest of my research projects (medial, public health, social science)
10. Helping educate a group of refugees and nationals and providing them with education

Updates (what I think got me in)

1. Presented before and consulted for a major UN Committee on a specific issue before the Committee met with country leaders from which the issue focused on (I was the youngest person in the briefing)
2. Published a total of 13 first-authored papers between the time of applying and the time of decisions coming out (most were report based); all published before the White House, UN Women, WHO, UN Population Fund, UN Human Rights, Commission on the Status of Women, COP, etc.
   1. these were all individual updates as they got published
3. Progressed to finalist stage of a UN equivalent to the 30 under 30 (luckily decisions came out today -- I was rejected lol)
4. Won a $10,000 Competition
5. Finalist for a $5,000
6. Coca-Cola Scholar (also updated them about being a regional finalist)
7. Consulted for the governments of the UK, EU, and NZ (helped shape a couple pf laws-- a bunch of instances of these)
8. Hosted a big UN Event with a lot of attendees
9. Invited to some high profile UN events
10. Won a $1,000 scholarship
11. Won a $200 scholareship
12. Addressed Human Rights Council x7
13. Semifinalist for school-specific $400,000 scholarship (T20)
14. Finalist for school-specific $400,000 scholarship (T20)
15. Finalist for school-specific $250,000 scholarship (T20)
16. Finalist for a major LGBTQ scholarship
17. Vandy MOSAIC
18. $430,000 scholarship from global T20
19. Joined the largest pro-democracy coalition as the social media chair
20. Joined the youth board of the largest US global health charity and 4th largest in the world
21. Semi-finalist for $12,000 scholarship
22. Semi-finalist for $36,000 scholarship
23. Student Ambassador of one of the largest Human Rights Orgs in the world
24. Meeting with the head of a large UN agency
25. Co-author of a publication for my research work (to be accepted at a big journal -- think Nature, Cell)
26. Helped pass a law in my city
27. Interviewed and featured in a big magazine
28. Offered a $30,000 grant to have a segment of a TV show made about the NPO I founded
29. Working with the White House to organize and event
30. Meeting with a UN Ambassador and former head of state
31. Consulted for US government on asylum
32. Approved to host a UN side event

Awards/Honors
List all awards and honors submitted on your application.

1. Big role/position at the WHO and get to lead some of the largest NGOs on the planet and UN agencies in work on adolescent health
2. Big role/position at the UN refugee agency for my work to support the well-being of refugees in my area
3. UN award for community work
4. Patent pending on a device that uses salvation reactions to cook food so you don't have to use open-fire methods of cooking
5. Coca-Cola semifinalist

Letters of Recommendation
Research Mentor: "To simply put, [REDACTED] is extraordinary. He is a born leader. The best student and scholar I’ve interacted with over the past two decades of my academic training and research career."
APES & Pre-AP Chem Teacher: "His singular ability to lead those around him through compassion and overcoming so many obstacles in his life has truly defined him as the best student that I have had the pleasure of teaching."
AP Bio Teacher: I genuinely don't know. I've known her for a while and I serve as a TA for her class and have spend hours and hours before and after school, but I genuinely don't know-- could be okay or good.
Counselor: I've met her like twice lol probably generic and just a copy and paste of my resume lol
Interviews
Harvard: He was a really cool former teacher who I think thought I was interesting. Our interview was a couple of hours and it was really great, BUT I didn't talk much about my ECs, really just talked about my goals and perspectives rather than my accomplishments
Princeton: He was a cool guy. We talked for a couple of hours. He seemed really, really impressed by my UN work and seemed to like me.
Yale: Cool guy. Seemed to really like me and talked about how he saw himself in me as a fellow POC. Talked for a couple of hours.
MIT: Cool guy. Really impressive. I think he thought I was great, just not a great applicant to MIT. Asked me a physics question which I got wrong. Talked for a couple of hours.
Georgetown: My interviewer was like hella impressive. Former lawyer. We connected well. He thought I would be great for GTown. Talked for a couple of hours.
Rice: Terrible. I didn't prepare and didn't have great answers. Interviewer was very STEM (I'm not) and didn't seem too interested in my activities. Cut off interview at 30 mins.
Penn: I thought it was really good lmao. I had a lot of fun and we went way over the schedule time and she thought I would be perfect lmao.
WashU (scholarship interview): Timed interview but I felt great. Interviewers were super sweet; laughed at my jokes and made me feel great :)
Brown (video interview): Low key kinda funny; did like a day in the life where I made pancakes for my brother and had a big interview
Berkeley (special program interview): I was not prepared and it was during school hours so I kinda joined 1-2 mins late. I also kinda just read out my application essay as a response for a couple of questions. They didn't seem impressed.
Emory (scholarship interview 1): I got cut off by the virtual timer each time, but I felt quite prepared I think and I think I had great responses
Emory (scholarship interview 2): Really great group interview; gave some great responses. I thought I was resourceful and the interviewers seemed to like me too :)
Emory (scholarship interview 3): Also a group interview; we created something really great and wonderful. Went out of my comfort zone but created something many thought was great. I also met with 2 of my interviewers before and after and both thought I was very articulate and thought I was insightful during the interview.
Essays
Common App Essay: (11/10) I honestly loved it lol. It was a conflict of "he" vs. "they" and I thought it was great and really showed who I was. It was also really fun and engaging to read and not too long. Everyone I spoke to LOVED it A LOT so I guess that has to mean something lol
Supps: I really liked a lot of mine and put a lot of time into them. Many of them were really funny or really deep and conveyed the duality of my personality. I will say tho, in the application process, I applied to a bunch of schools I wasn't a fan of, and, as a result, my sups were very rushed. How much I cared about the school and spent on the supp really reflected my admissions decision (except for 1)-- see parentheses below for info on this.
Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)
Acceptances:

• Stanford
• Columbia (John Jay Scholar as one of the top 25-30 admits + likely letter)
• Brown PLME (I'm not pre-med lol-- applied a joke so this was a pleasant surprise)
• Vandy (MOSAIC admit)
• Rice (with $60k scholarship)
• WashU (full tuition scholarship)
• JHU
• Duke
• All the UC Schools (many regents, trustees, and the big scholarships)
• Emory (full ride scholarship + free week vacation + full funding for all summers)
• Georgetown (got into Walsh!)
• NYU
• Duke Kunshan (got a $145k scholarship without doing the essay and sleeping through the interview)
• UT Austin + 2 honors programs (didn't apply for scholarships)

Waitlists:

• UChicago (didn't want to go "where fun goes to die" so I copied my Harvard essay and applied a couple hours before the deadline)
• UPenn Wharton (I'm not a business girly and I forgot to change an essay about how much I love anthropology and philosophy so I was expecting a rejection lol)
• Northwestern (spend an hour on it and want't the biggest fan of the campus + academic environment)
• Dartmouth (decided not to finish app after getting a couple of early acceptances; not into the whole rural vibe)
• Cornell (wasn't into the rural vibe so I BS'ed this)

Rejections:

• Harvard (spent quite a bit of time on these -- kind of a bummer)
• Yale (wasn't a big fan of the school + location so I didn't care too much about the essays)
• MIT (spend 1 hour on the entire application because I'm not into the STEM lifestyle so I was accepting it)
• Princeton (heard a lot of bad stuff and I'm not into a super academic environment so I didn't try on this essay)
• USC

First I want to say, I haven't tested these yet gaming. I know, I know... It's technically a gaming headset. But I figure folks purchasing these are also very interested in using them for music as well as all the other aspects of the device. I will update this after gaming a bit more in the coming days.
Build quality: Solid. Much better than any headset I have ever had my hands on. In fact I'd say it's better than any headphones I've ever had as well. Very impressed. Ear pads are nice and thick but the material isn't as nice as other pleather materials and doesn't seem to breathe much.
Build Quality rating: 9/10
Comfort: Not great. The adjustment strap only has 3 settings and none of them work for me. There is no up/down adjustment on the head piece like most headphones and headsets have. I settled for using the middle setting on one side and the smallest on the other side. The smallest setting is way too tight on my head. the middle setting it feels like the headphones are sitting too low on my head with the tops of my ears touching the pads. Also, the headset is pretty heavy at around 500g. The pads are reasonably comfy and thick but they are made of pleather and get a little toasty. The clamping force depends on the strap setting and it apparent but not horrible. After a few hours this headset is way more comfortable than you'd expect after having read everything I just wrote. So while comfort isn't the best, it's not terrible either.
Comfort rating: 7/10
Features: Good but not the best. No ANC - that's fine, I don't need it. But competitors in this price range do have it. Sidetone works reasonably well and is an interesting addition. The built-in EQ settings are nice to have. The buttons and dials included on the headset are good - the dials have clicks and change in small increments. The buttons are solid. The Windows app is OK - pretty basic. Makes updating firmware super easy, has preset EQ. Would like to see something a bit more robust like SteelSeries Sonar though as I think this headset would benefit a LOT from parametric EQ tunes. Wireless works great and is very good quality.
Features rating: 8/10
Wireless: The wireless connection is solid but the range claim of "up to 3x traditional 2.4Ghz" is perhaps a little exaggerated. It cuts out in the same areas of my home that my 7 year old 2.4Ghz SteelSeries Siberia 800 does but it is still decent. The audio streaming quality is excellent as far as I can tell. no buzz, humm or background noise. The headset connects no problem to the USB dongle on both PS5 and PC. I have not noticed any significant audio lag which is a huge deal for me. Bluetooth to my phone and PC (not using dongle) is excellent as well.
Wireless rating: 9/10
Mic: Amazing for a headset. Noise suppression is good even without the active noise suppression turned on. Tested with a buddy that said I sound WAY better then with my old headset. Also ran a test and listened to myself. This is one the best built-in MIC's on a gaming headset I've ever hear. The mic is also detachable which is nice. Even the on-board mic's sound better than most gaming headsets I've heard.
Mic rating: 9.5/10
Audio: Excellent for a gaming headset. MUCH better than my old SteelSeries Siberia 800. I can tell immediately these are Planar Magnetic and not your run of the mill gaming headset drivers. However, I am comparing them directly to audiophile Planar Magnetic headphones that I have tuned with a parametric equalizer. So in that realm they are not nearly as impressive. For music I daily a pair of Sundara (2020 revision) running through JDS Atom DAC+/Amp+. I'm using Equalizer APO with Oratory1990's Harman curve profile with some minor tweaks. That setup, IMO, is amazingly good with imaging and clarity in every genre from the bass all the way through to the treble. Amazing mid presence without being "warm". It's hard to explain but suffice it to say I can jack up the volume on virtually any kind of music and not get fatigued, but even at lower volumes the detail is still there. The Maxwell is a totally different story. There seems to be quite a V-shape built into the tuning. The mids are suppressed quite a bit. The bass and treble are decent but the highs are quite fatiguing. I am not a true audiophile so it's hard to explain, but when I put on my Sundara I just get so much detail from the whole range whereas with the Maxwell I lose a lot of detail and a little clarity. It's not that the bass is overpowering or muddy which is the case with my Siberia 800, it's just that it gets beat to shit by my Sundara setup. To be fair, the Maxwell may EQ well but I don't see how to do that outside the tools Audeze has included as it's all built into the headset itself. There is no fine tuning the EQ in their app that I can see, only presets. Each preset seems to be a tweak of the default "Audeze" setting rather than a whole different tune. So Bass boost brings out more bass without impacting the rest of the sound while Treble boost does the same.
Compared to my old gaming headset the audio quality is amazing. Compared to my music headphones the audio is just OK. So I think if you're coming from any mainstream "gaming headset" to this you will be impressed. If you're coming from something like the HD58x, especially if you have that thing dialed in, you may not be quite as impressed. Not that the Maxwell isn't putting oujt good sound because it is. I think it's just the way it's tuned. Clearly the drivers are good and capable of very high quality audio reproduction. Not really a fair comparison I'm making but if you are expecting this superb audiophile wireless Planar Magnetic headphone out of the box and already have a high quality setup you may be a little disappointed.
Imaging - good but not greatSoundstage - mehTreble - good but fatiguingMids - lackingBass - good but not greatClarity - good, great in some ways, lacking in others
Also want to note that the wireless audio sounds a bit different than USB. Not sure what it is but I think wireless using the dongle sounds better than direct USB connection.
Audio rating: 7.5/10 compared to my Sundara setup. 9/10 compared to other gaming headsets.
There you have it. My initial impressions. I'm going to go play some games now and see how it is. As a gaming headset alone I think the Maxwell is already a fantastic option even before I play any games with them. I also haven't tested the 3D audio stuff but I am in the camp that simulated surround sound is sort of gimmicky. I always got better directional audio out of stereo mode than with any of the virtual surround stuff. And the Maxwell already has better imaging and soundstage than the vast majority of gaming headsets out there.
Just remember I'm comparing these to actual audiophile headphones that have been tuned for music. EQ may really bring these to life in terms of the audio quality. I'm not a huge fan of the Audeze tune. If I didn't have my Sundara setup I think my perception of the audio here would be skewed much higher but switching between them I am not nearly as impressed. Beats the shit out of my old gaming headset though.

I have been a huge fan of the Genji skin, Oni, since it was released and was the inspiration of me starting to main genji. I am just curious will the skin make a return since it was last seen available in OW with loot box and now most skins are only available in store now.

This is just a general message not really directed at any specific person in particular. It is also only meant for those who are downplaying Lokes' ban reasons, insulting the victims, or spreading misinfo. If you are one of these users, please shut the fuck up. You should not blindly speak about this situation if you are not in the server. To clarify what I mean by that, if you are curious and asking questions or discussing reasons why she was banned that's perfectly fine.
However, petty insults, mocking, and proclaiming that the victim 'was too sensitive' is not okay. If you do this, you're genuinely disgusting. You should ask yourself why your first reaction to hearing that a minor was groomed and Lokes did fuck all about it is victim blaming and doubting if it was 'really that bad'.
A quick note about my credibility - I'm a creator 3 and I've had that verified by the mods here. I am in the server, and I can tell you with absolute certainty that Lokes was a toxic and manipulative person. Her and the old moderators were the most lazy and incompetent people I've seen in a public server. Basically, they let predators, art thieves, and awful people stay in the server even after complaints from basically everyone else. The only time any action would happen would be if everskies banned someone, and even then it was a whole song and dance. I could cite several other situations that have happened over the history of the server but for the privacy of the other members you'll have to have to just use your imagination.
Now, for what happened specifically in this situation. Lokes had a minor come to her, saying that they were uncomfortable with the predator in the server and the language they would use, their actions, etc. What does Lokes do? Give a shitty acknowledgement, and never address it again. To be clear, this minor was being groomed. Lokes and the other staff never said shit, no updates for the victim, public announcements, nothing. The victim was completely in the dark and another non-mod user had to reach out to them and try and help them with the situation. The only time the predator had any action taken against them was when they were banned on everskies and finally removed from the server.
Besides this, Lokes has had a trend of problematic behavior on everskies. One creator in the server said it best, "Lokes is good at doing something wrong, acting clueless, letting a loooot of time pass to see if it gets brought up again, if it does she makes an apology and if it doesn't she goes on with her life and the cycle repeats." So yes, I'm sorry if you were a fan of her but she was a terrible person. When she got banned, she also tried to guilt trip several people and backpedal, acting like she didn't know what she was doing. Thankfully, these users didn't fall for her pitiful attempts at shifting the blame and manipulation. This ban has been a very long time coming. It was just a matter of time before all her actions caught up with her.
If anything I said doesn't make sense I blame my sleep deprived brain. After reading so many comments of ignorant users on es and here I got frustrated and felt like I had to say something. Feel free to ask me more about the situation. That's all, thanks for reading.