1) Whisper of the Dead

(Comparable to Diablo 3 bounties)
Screenshot:

• https://i.imgur.com/1LhK9Ul.jpeg
• https://i.imgur.com/EKLwVxO.jpeg

Completing various objectives (could be dungeons, open world events, world bosses, pvp bosses, pvp altar conversion, etc) will fill up your Grim Favors gauge (displayed at the bottom of the map screen).
The more rewarding objectives are displayed in a deeper red, the lesser in a pale pink. There is a daily/gated component to it, meaning you will run out of deep red objectives if you do them all day.
Once your Grim Favors gauge is full, you have to speak to the Tree in a small town (forgot the name) of Hawezar swamp region (south east of the map, there is a "skull with red branches" icon).
The Tree will reward you with experience and give you a bounty cache (you can choose amongst a few), the cache will have a high chance to drop legendary items and nightmare sigils, among other things.
Difficulty
Easy and chill. Can pick the objectives you want to complete since they are so varied.
Rewards

• Nightmare Sigils (actually a good source of them).
• Experience.
• Legendary items.

2) Helltide events

(Comparable to Diablo 2 terror zones)
Screenshots:

• https://i.imgur.com/ikCBCOb.jpeg
• https://i.imgur.com/m0fH72b.jpeg
• https://i.imgur.com/Jax6jFE.jpeg

A big area randomly and periodically becomes corrupted (appears red on the map). New and more dangerous monsters, bosses and events will spawn there, including a very strong roaming boss named "Kixxarth The Forerunner" that usually requires a group to be defeated (or a very strong build, to be soloed).
Killing stuff there awards Aberrant Cinders, which will allow you to open chests (Tortured Gifts) scattered in the region, those chests give a specific legendary (the type of which is indicated on the chest) and a unique crafting material called "Fiend Rose", which is not found anywhere else, allowing you upgrade your gear to the highest rank.
Difficulty

• Excluding the roaming boss "Kixxarth The Forerunner", the event is largely soloable and overall pretty easy if you have a half decent build, but it's more efficient to do in group. It may be moderately challenging early on at lower level or if your build isn't well optimized.

Rewards

• Fiend Rose (crafting material which allows you to upgrade your gear to the latest rank, can't be obtained anywhere else).
• Targetted Legendary items (can target farm the type of item you need, since the chests tell you what type of item is offered).

3) World Bosses

(Comparable to Loot Piñatas)
Screenshots:

• https://i.imgur.com/jx1gLi5.jpeg

In endgame CBT, World Bosses spawned every hour or so. When they are 30 minutes away from spawning, an icon will show up on the map with a countdown. (I don't know if they will change the frequency for release).
World Bosses always spawn on a timer, in one of their dedicated arena, an empty area on the map which stands out (there are a few scattered across the map), they never spawn randomly/suddenly just anywhere in the open world (unlike what some early official clips show).
If I remember correctly, the icon/timer will only show up on your map if you have explored nearby. It's a good idea to explore various corners of the map early on so you have a portal ready to quick travel to them.
Difficulty
Slightly challenging early on, very easy at high level with a half decent build.
Rewards

• Scattered Prism (used to socket your gear, can't be obtained anywhere else).
• Legendary items.

4) PVP area farming

Screenshot:

• https://i.imgur.com/mizBWSS.jpeg

Now wether you like PVP or not, the PVP area offers one of the most viable way to farm legendary equip (at least this was the case in endgame cbt).
There are a lot of monsters there, which you can farm for Seed of Hatred (or even regular gear, since density is pretty good). Seed of Hatred is a currency which, once converted via the PVP altars, allows you to gamble for gear (also offers a few cosmetics). In endgame CBT it was the most viable way to farm gear, and so most players didn't Bloodmark (pvp flag) themselves so they could cooperate and simply PVE farm.
Bloodmarking oneself allows you to attack anyone (including non-Bloodmarked players), it's basically "hostile mode", and doing so increases your Seed of Hatred rate, but you can choose not to Bloodmark yourself and cooperate with other non-Bloodmarked players to simply farm PVE monsters. This will not prevent you from being attacked by hostile "Bloodmarked" players though.
Difficulty

• Extremely variable depending on the hostile Bloodmarked players present. PVE monsters themselves are moderately challenging (easy with a half decent build). The roaming boss Khazra Abomination can be challenging and depending on your class/build, may not be soloed. Playing in group is more efficient and will give you a significant advantage.

Rewards

• Seeds of Hatred (allows you to gamble gear and buy a few cosmetics, can't be gotten anywhere else).
• Monsters also drop regular gear, including legendary. Density is pretty good.

5) Nightmare Dungeons

(Comparable to Path of Exile maps)
Screenshots:

• https://i.imgur.com/ytLwLuU.jpeg

Now I saved the most challenging content for last, and what some will call the "true endgame". Nightmare Sigil is a consumable (which can be found or crafted by the occultist) which allows you to corrupt a dungeon with certain affixes.
Once the dungeon is corrupted, you have to make your way to it by foot or horse on the open-world (but you can be summoned by players already there). You have a limited amount of revives inside the dungeon.
Edit: It appears you're now able to teleport directly to a nightmare dungeon:

Small update to note with nightmare dungeons you should note. In the alpha test late last year when you got a sigil you could use it to teleport to the dungeon so you don’t have to ride or walk there. Otherwise this is a good guide. -Thatdude446

The level of the monsters will depend on the tier of the Nightmare Sigil, for example a Tier 66 Nightmare Sigil will give you level 120 monsters.
The implicit dungeon objectives don't change (yep, you still gotta find the key, activate the switch or bring the stone to open the door, etc), monster density is increased, and some affixes may affect the way you play, for example there is an affix which makes a lightning bolt periodically hit you (it can one shot you), while there is an artefact following you around and periodically casting a dome, you have to go under the dome to not get hit by the lightning bolt. There are probably a handful affixes such as the Lightning dome, which stand out.
Difficulty

• Most challenging pve content by far. Difficulty goes up to Tier 100 (while open world content is limited to Torment, aka Tier 4) and reaching this high will require a very good, if not meta build. The Nightmare dungeons are soloable, but playing in group is more efficient, especially since it effectively gives you more revive (you can be revived by players, it doesn't decrease your revive count, so always wait before self-reviving).

Rewards

• Glyphs (I don't remember if it's the only source of glyphs).
• Leveling up Glyphs (the only way to do so, at the end of a nightmare dungeon there is an altar to level up your glyphs).

Glyph is an item which gives a huge passive bonus, similar to Diablo 3 legendary gems, which is socketed into the Paragon board (each board has 1 slot, and we're looking at 3~5 Glyphs per build).

Hi guys. I’m currently frustrated because my cpu is underperforming by a lot. It’s an i7 12700h in an Alienware machine so I didn’t think I’d have to bother about performance too much.
While my graphics card is absolutely fine (14163 time spy), my cpu profile benchmark is in the bottom 1% of all 12700h devices with (5100). For reference: top results score above 8000.
Cinebench tells a similar story:
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I’ve installed a fresh version of windows 11 pro 64 bit, laptop is elevated and fans are cleaned.
Do you guys know what I can do to increase performance? Is there any chance I can send it back to dell and tell them to replace it? (I’ve got basic warranty for 11 months left)

31F here, using a throwaway for pics. Yesterday I used Nair on my underarms, thinking I was in the clear because I had no reaction to the cream on my legs. However within 10 seconds of applying the Nair to my underarms, it began burning severely. I realized this wasn't normal and went to rinse it off - I maybe had Nair on for 40 seconds to 1 minute total, definitely way under the 3 min minimum & 10 min max. My underarms were in extreme pain, no matter how much I tried to rinse under cool water. It felt like scraping a terrible sunburn.
Looking in the mirror after I got out, I saw these long rash or burn like lines right at the fold of my armpit on both sides, although the right side was worse. I thought maybe my skin reacted badly just in that area and that the burning sensation would reduce with some cool cloth compresses. Unfortunately, it didn't really seem to get better. I applied some Neosporin and took naproxen hoping this would help. I couldn't bandage the irritated area due to the location.
I've been periodically applying Aquaphor and skipping deodorant. Even though it's been extremely painful whenever there's any friction or touch to the area, I thought I probably didn't need medical attention; I would just monitor the reaction and see how things were today. Unfortunately about 24 hours later, the irritated areas look worse and the pain is still just as bad. I can't move my arms up or down without pain. (I will post pictures in a comment.)
My skin can sometimes be sensitive, but the only known allergies I have are to dust mites and German cockroaches. I also have mild dermatographia. I'm not sure if these are chemical burns or some sort of allergic reaction-related rash, but this only happened on the fold of my underarm, not further up or down in the area and not on my legs. I had not applied deodorant for over 24 hours when I used the Nair either.
I couldn't really find a clear answer of what to do in this situation, so I have a couple of questions:

1. Should I seek medical attention or can I continue caring for this at home?
2. If you suggest seeking medical attention, should I just contact my PCP and see if they could get me in for an urgent same day appointment? If they're not able to see me today, can it wait for a day or two? I do live pretty close to an ER, but I would prefer not to have to go there unless you would advise it.
3. If I can just treat this myself, is there anything I should do beyond keeping the areas clean, applying Aquaphor and skipping deodorant until they heal?

Thanks so much for any help you can provide!

Yesterday while doing workout number 1 I was mind set on squats and my back locked up. Managed to finish my day and got some stretching in to help loosen it up. Managed to finish my whole day yesterday. I’m headed to chiropractor now but I’m afraid that if my back doesn’t feel better I may looking at an L today (day 3), it hurts to merely stand up it even sit down for too long. How would you guys go about this?

OK Blender world...I teach Blender in high school and there's a ton of ways to cheat. I have an obvious cheat today...this kid is not this good and also he submitted a square jpg. We haven't learned to adjust the scene and all kids turn in rectangle png's. So that's #1. Also, this is a scene that doesn't really match the assignment. Photo below.
Meanwhile...I'd just love to find the actual site he got it from. So far no luck, even with a reverse image search. Does anyone have any better search than my tineye? Just throwing it out there. Thanks!

Just something I randomly thought of.
Iterators have very weird names, but underneath these names there are some naming structures that seem to be fairly consistent, and iterators with similar naming structures tend to have close relationships.
For example, Sliver of Straw was good friends with Epoch of Clouds, both of them have a noun of noun name. So this got me wondering, what if iterators with similar names are built around the same time? (as geological correlation clearly doesn't work). So I tried to group the iterators based on these. And ended up with exactly three generations with four known iterators in each.
Generation 1, mischilenious and noun of noun
This generation consists of iterators whose name doesn't follow any observable pattern, presumably because they were built early on when the naming structures hadn't been invented yet. This includes looks to the moon and no significant harassment (I could be very wrong on this and they actually belong to two different groups that are not very common). As "local group senior", moon is clearly one of the older iterators, nsh's age is not really known though. It also includes the noun of noun iterators like the aforementioned sliver of straw and epoch of clouds, but more because they don't fit anywhere else than any definitive reason.
Generation 2, verbing noun
By far the most common we've seen, verbing noun has four members: Chasing Wind, wandering omen, pleading intellect, and gazing stars. I believe this is the second generation because wandering omen calls themselves old and chasing wind's communications were implied by a pearl to have broken down fairly early. They have enough members to be considered their own generation.
Generation 3, adjective noun and number nouns
Number nouns contains the infamous five pebbles, so their age is clear (suns also seem to be having less "issues" than most other iterators). adjective noun, on the other hand, are mostly speculative. Secluded instinct is very optimistic and seems quite young at heart, and a pearl states unparalleled innocence is a "project" "at the beginning of 1514.008 ". For context, the ancients have already left by 1591.290. Although I'm not really sure how long a "megacycle" is.
Also, a random question.
Do you guys think suns is in the local group or not? They've never been officially stated as such, but they've only been seen interacting with local group members. Chasing Wind also refers to their local group as the local group in a conversation with suns, but in that same conversation CW mentioned Unparalleled Innocence took pictures of pebbles' rot and made them public in the local group, but suns didn't see it, and cw expected so. Furthermore, pebbles seem to imply he didn't learn about sliver of straw until suns told him, so suns is not slow at gathering information and may be in sliver's local group. So I really don't know.
My personal headcanon, although I have zero proof for it, is that suns served as a connection between two otherwise distant iterator local groups, namely moon's and sliver's, but belonged to neither (at least in terms of network communications and administrations, they may still feel they belong to one or both of the local groups, which would explain cw's attitude).

I've had herniated L5-L4 and L5-S1 discs since 11/15/22. My sciatica as a result was the most excruciating pain I ever felt in my life. I'm 28 years old and in good shape, and my recovery was straight forward until an unfortunate situation.
Up until January 5th this year I was healing great through PT, until I rolled in my sleep the wrong way and it just got progressively worse. Come the beginning of March I'm on the max daily dosages of Oxycodone, Ibuprofen, Gabapentin, and Tylenol literally just to be able to move. Even then all those things only solved 50% of my pain. I also had a horrible lateral pelvic tilt that would put the crip walk to shame. I've been working with a chiropractor twice a week since 3/1 and I scheduled a discectomy with my surgeon on 3/14 still in the same condition as mentioned above.
Since 3/14 I've gotten down to just needing one dose of 300mg Gabapentin and 400mg of Inuprofen in the morning to start my day. With those pills in the morning, my pain for the rest of the day is now minor overall. If I had to, I could go for a mile run with minimal pain. All of this makes me want to push back my surgery, scheduled on 4/12, to see if I can rehab this thing via Chiro and PT. I think this sub can appreciate that a discectomy takes a lot of careful and life altering recovery that I'd rather avoid if I'm able to. Obviously I'm following up with my surgeon on that front, but my question is more of a case-by-case basis thing.
So basically; has anyone here experienced going from immobile/signifcant pain to minor pain in a span of a week or two? I know chiropractic work itself is a temporary fix, but the reduction in pain is so drastic that I want to see if this is fool's gold or not.
Thanks for the help.

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Full story: My mother died almost 5 years ago. My dad died about 20 years before that while I was just a teenager. They were both TBM but were both wonderful people and I miss them every day. I believe they were just products of the indoctrination and brainwashing of the Mormon church.
My family growing up was me, my younger brother, Mom, and Dad. Just 4 of us. Mom became very good friends with another woman (I'll call her Sharon) in the ward and soon their family and our family were all good friends. Their family was huge. 7 girls 1 boy ranging from early 20s to toddler. Almost just like the Nickelodeon show The Loud House, lol.
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When my wife and I left the church over a year ago it didn't take long for me to come out of the closet. My coming out story has been shared here before, but just a quick recap: I always knew I was attracted to boys starting in my teen years but I didn't know what it meant other than it made me embarrassed and ashamed to admit it to anyone. I was raised so sheltered that I barely had any concept of gay relationships. Seminary and the new Family Proclamation made my internal homophobia even worse. I was straight! I had to be! It's the only option in the Mormon church and I was a good Mormon boy, right? After my mission I struggled dating women. I was terrible at it and it felt so forced, and again I couldn't figure out why. But I met a tomboy girl in a college singles ward who I became friends with very fast and my family was so excited to see me with a girl, especially my mom, that we got pressured into engagement very quickly. Amazingly our marriage has endured and we've been together for 17 years now with 4 kids. My wife has been super supportive of me coming out and suspected my orientation for a long time. For now we are still co-parenting in the same home and separated by bedrooms to allow each other our own autonomy and privacy. We are ethical non-monogamous now and are free to date people if we wish. Our financial situation makes it difficult to seperate right now, but we are ok with staying together for now. We are, after all, still each other's best friend. Don't get me wrong, it was VERY rocky after I came out and it looked grim at times, but we're working though it. Counseling is helping too. She herself has come out as non-binary, still good with she/her pronouns and uses a gender neutral nickname when we hang out with LGBTQ friends. Even some of our kids are LGBTQ now.
Right after I made my big coming out announcement online to everyone I know, I (mostly) got lots of support and contacts from family and friends. Then I got a PM from someone I hadn't seen or heard from in decades. It was one of the kids from Sharon's family (I'll call her Megan). She called to let me know she supported me, letting me know she herself had come out as lesbian. Then Megan told me of a story that absolutely shocked me. Her mother Sharon told her when she came out and now she wanted to tell me.
Sharon and my mom were more than just good friends. They had romantic feelings for each other. One day one of them made a move (I was not told who made the first move and I'm not sure Megan knew either) and they made out. Then one of them hit the brakes and said we can't do this; this will destroy both our families. Realizing that they could not set aside the feelings they had for each other, the only solution they could come up with was to never see each other again, which meant the whole of both families unfortunately.
I was so floored upon hearing this news. I never knew! I thanked Megan for telling me and called my brother. I told him the whole thing. His response was equally surprising. "Well now I recall a memory that makes a whole lot more sense." he said. "I remember a night where mom and dad were fighting in the next room and the shouting woke me up. I remember lots of swear words" (which shocks me because I never heard my parents swear) "and then I heard Dad say 'well why don't you just go run off with Sharon then'. Now I know what that was all about." We were both just shocked. A piece of Mom's life we never knew.
So much more about her life makes sense now too. She was very "tom boy"ish. Not that that automatically makes someone queer but it can be a common trait. After Dad died she never remarried. There were even a couple of times where she deliberately rebuffed a couple of men. She had absolutely no interest in remarrying.
So now I just feel so much empathy for my mom. Megan told me how she went to go visit with my mom and tell her that she knew about her feelings for her own mom. My mom vehemently denied the whole thing, which just makes me so sad really. I never got the opportunity to come out to my mom. Would my coming out have given her the courage to admit her feelings? I don't know.
It frustrates me that as long as the church keeps cis-hetero marriage a literal required ordinance for access to the highest heaven, all queer members of the church will be forced to live with an outrageous amount of cognitive dissonance for their own feelings. It perpetuates internalized homophobia, self loathing, confusion about one's own gender and orientation, suicidal ideation, and on and on. The church can claim all they want that they love LGBTQ people, but until that marriage doctrine changes there will still continue to be untold damage done to queer members.

I just finished watching Jenny’s Evermore video. As a Pleasant Grove resident, I thought I’d share my POV, because 1) I’m possibly the only person in the universe who actually had MORE desire to go to Evermore because of Jenny’s video. 2) I feel annoyed that some of the people in those interviews kept accusing my area of “not being supportive of the arts” because their park is failing. In a twenty minute driving radius, Pleasant Grove has an annual storytelling festival, performing arts available at two Universities, indoor and outdoor play theaters, etc. The only thing we lack is density. If you want enough people to support a permanent, niche living art installation, maybe don’t plop yourselves down in strip mall suburbia. If you compare the populations of Salem, OR, which has the Enchanted Forest theme park, to Pleasant Grove, UT you’ve got a third the number of people.
Anyway, my family lives about five blocks away from Evermore. Jenny and her friends could have saved some money and stayed in my basement (speaking of creepy parasocial relationships...) I’m guessing that the scum on her hotel window is calcium scale. The water here is incredibly hard. Good for our bones, maybe, but not so much for things that get hit by our sprinklers. It could also be old smog residue. We sometimes get nasty smog because of the shape of the valley, though it’s not so bad now that the steel plant shut down.
Evermore came to my attention like this: Several years ago, builders started constructing two weird buildings in an empty field next to our freeway exit. They really piqued my interest. One of the buildings was a giant square block with no windows (I thought it might be a future Ikea-style furniture store). Next to it was a medieval-style chapel. My husband thought it must be some kind of event center for the nearby Hyatt, but I wasn’t so sure. I kept my eye out for news and eventually started seeing articles about a place called “Evermore.”
My husband and I are D&D players. I wear costumes to fantasy book signings. So obviously, we are the target audience. At first, I was excited. I was like “endless Renaissance Faire practically in my backyard? Sign me up!” And the big windowless building next to it, which became the GRID, actually started as the VOID, which, as you saw in the video, was a virtual reality thing. My husband loves VR. So I had happy dreams about dropping my husband off to play video games while I watched jousting next door.
The VOID opened first. Every time I wanted a gift for my husband–anniversaries, his birthday, Christmas–I’d go to the website and try to get us tickets. I don’t usually care for VR stuff but I really wanted to go because I thought VR + artifacts you could actually interact with sounded cool. I wanted to try it.
But despite being open, they didn't have tickets available for the public. I kept checking for months. The VOID would cycle through different experiences, but tickets only went to employees and testers. I tried for a year to get into this place and the website was always saying “check back later for tickets”. There was never anything emailed to me that I saw despite signing up for the list, no schedule posted of when things would be available. Nothing. It’s like they didn’t actually want my money.
Eventually, they did open up tickets for a Ghostbusters themed show, but I don’t really care for that IP, so I didn’t bother getting tickets, assuming there’d be a cooler one later since the VOID was working with Disney. Alas, I believe that the Ghostbusters game was the only public thing there ever was at that location.
The VOID later transformed into the GRID, which may have been why the space seemed poorly designed for go-karts. Then again, I see references to the GRID in early Evermore articles, so maybe it was intended to be a go-kart track all along, who knows.
Anyway, a while after the VOID opened, the Evermore PR articles started dropping. I kept seeing ads for it in the local paper, on billboards, and in the programs of various geek-adjacent events. But everything I saw was maddeningly vague. If I hadn’t driven past the park every day, I’m not sure the ads would have registered. And the feature articles in our newspaper focused not on the park, but on the park founder’s traumatic childhood. I’m not trying to downplay that, but his personal story wasn’t exactly the best marketing choice for a theme park. “My dad was a terrible human being, now come see our attractions?” It didn’t exactly inspire confidence.
Furthermore, they were obviously trying to keep the whole thing shrouded in mystery. Pretty much everything I saw just referred to Evermore as “an immersive experience” with no details about what I was going to be immersed in. Tickets on opening day were $30 per person, $16 for kids. But they didn’t release any details of what was going on in the park. Was the stuff they were doing going to be kid-friendly? What age groups? Was it doable if you have mobility limitations? What was actually going to happen to you during this “immersive experience” anyway?
You see, if they’d just told me: “You’ll see fire dancing, a scripted fight, some live bard music, an aerial silks performance, and go on a LARPing scavenger hunt” I probably would have ponied up the money for my family to go, but they didn’t say anything about that. They just were like “it’s a living video game but it’s so much more,” and I sat there thinking, “you want me to pay a hundred bucks to wait in lines and get sent on fetch quests? Is that what we’re doing?” They kept promising that every park-goer would be the hero of their own immersive story, but that just didn’t seem feasible. I didn’t believe it. And they made it a point to mention you might need to go multiple times to see the story unfold, so it sounded like I was going to pay $100 to catch an out-of-context snippet of some LOR ripoff.
While Jenny mentioned she could see OUT to the strip malls and office parks, she didn’t really cover the fact that the local people could also see IN. So the newspaper articles said things like: “Evermore will have the sixth-biggest water feature in the United States!” but when we drove by, we could see that it was just a dusty field with some half-finished buildings in it. Why on earth would I pay $100 to go to a dusty field full of half-finished buildings? Especially since I might be able to wait and see a more complete version later.
All the preview articles and ads also featured pictures of the awesome concept art. But because everything inside was so visible throughout the building process, locals could see that the concept art–like the face tree!--was not in the finished park. It almost felt insulting. They were trying to sell us on what Evermore could be, and not what Evermore actually was.
So I never went, despite being originally excited about it. I was actually pleasantly surprised to see that it looked as good as it did in Jenny’s video. It looks like there was more to do and see than I originally gave it credit for (I know that’s saying something, but the view from the street was really bad until they put the wall up). I do love a good boffing circle, so I might go someday, if I’m bored one weekend and it still exists.
I think one of the takeaway lessons is this: don’t rely on mystery for your advertising when that thing you sell is mostly visible. If Evermore’s creators had actually focused on the reality of what was there and not their concept art, maybe they would have gotten some more customers.
It’s also better to build granularly from the ground up. Admission to Thanksgiving Point, which Jenny briefly visited, only costs $40 (less if you only want to just visit one attraction). It has the botanical garden (which is not free–I think Jenny just wandered around the front grounds). Thanksgiving Point also has a dinosaur museum, a two-story science playground, a working farm with unlimited pony rides for members, and a butterfly biosphere. But they didn’t start with all of that. They built a thing, got more money, built the next thing, etc. If Evermore had started as a once-a-month weekend renaissance faire in an empty field, they could have built interest over time and scaled themselves to match the community’s spend-level. But they didn’t.
In conclusion, if the park’s employees hadn’t reported being so badly treated, I probably would actually visit Evermore after the video. They never advertised the price drop, so I assumed that it was still $100 for a family of four. At the current price point, it looks like a somewhat pleasant way to spend an afternoon as long as you keep your expectations low. But I’ll probably continue to skip because of their exploitive employment practices.

I have 2.5 year old goldendoodle who has been an absolute breeze since he was a puppy. Super chill, not high-anxiety, just goes with the flow and wants a lot of pets.
Over the past 5ish days he has been whining and pacing around the house, constantly. Nothing will stop it. He's eating and drinking normally, has tons of potty breaks, I've been taking him to the park and on walks, he has good energy, been giving him his favorite toys, nothing will make him stop. Should I be taking him to the vet? Is this an age thing?
I should note that he is not neutered - something I really wish I had done at 6-12 months old but we've moved several times in the last 2 years, and also had to shell out well over $5k in the past 1.5 years for vet bills because of stomach issues (inflammatory gut), so I just never got it done. He is not having any stomach symptoms currently, and never whined when he did. He is not a vocal dog at all unless someone is at the door.
Any advice on what I should do here?

I threw this together for a FNM Pioneer and somehow managed to pull off 3-0 against UW, Lotus, and Titans Nest junk. I know I'm not taking it to any RCQs, but I'd love some pointers and recommendations on how I could make it more efficient and effective against the field. In some ways it's just a worse Golgari midrange deck, but I'd appreciate some help on how I could sneak in some toxic wins in a casual play environment.
A few notes: - Very little thought went into the sideboard and I mainly geared it towards who I expected to see at FNM, so take that with a big grain of salt - Most choices for how many copies of something to include in the deck were based on what I had available, but I'd appreciate some more direction there. - I'm fortunate I didn't face a creature-heavy aggro or midrange deck or I would have been run over toast. Not much in the local meta, but if I play more I'll want to be a little more prepared. - Anything I'm blatantly missing?
Thanks in advance!
Poison Paradise 1.2 - SDP
Creatures 4 Bilious Skulldweller 4 Venerated Rotpriest 3 Cankerbloom 4 Fynn, the Fangbearer 4 Bloated Contaminator 3 Necrogen Rotpriest
Spells 3 Fatal Push 4 Thoughtseize 2 Abrupt Decay 3 Infectious Inquiry 2 Noxious Assault
Lands 4 Blooming Marsh 2 Boseiju, Who Endures 1 Castle Locthwain 4 Darkbore Pathway 1 Demolition Field 2 Hissing Quagmire 1 Hive of the Eye Tyrant 3 Llanowar Wastes 1 Mirrex 4 Overgrown Tomb 1 Swamp
Side 2 Duress 3 Pithing Needle 3 Assassin's Trophy 2 Damping Sphere 3 Tear Asunder 2 Go Blank

My client got a little antsy that I didn't update them for a day. This is day 3 of the comission. Day 1 had correspondence due to briefing, day 2's correspondence was to show a rough thumbnail sketch. They've messaged asking for updates, when I've literally not worked on it lol. I had a huge migraine yesterday and thought I could get away with one day off. This guy gave me no deadline, he's literally paid me in full without a deadline (or me asking him to!). I mentally planned a week to finish (usual time for what theyve ordered) and was hoping that would be enough to impress them, or is it something you have to update every day?