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I loved all the improvements to the gem system. Low lvl crafting felt good and the improvements, while quite small, we’re noticeable. It’s just a really bad pace for me. I never felt the dps ramp up at all. It never felt like i was killing anything faster or more efficiently and the “combos” while cool still involved just more clicking. I never felt like the game play improved. Just mechanics and graphics and polish.

I’m not a Souls person and i hated the extra hard mode they added to PoE1 so maybe the game just isn’t for me.

In typical poe fashion they are unrewarding and slow. They added dodge roll to a game and now I’m supposed to use it non stop. White mobs need to be ground down. And i get it, they wanted to slow shit down. They def did.

So I’m out of the business now and quota guidelines have changed to a quarterly system (?) so i could be talking out my ass.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/08/31/2023-18885/management-of-quotas-for-controlled-substances-and-list-i-chemicals

Rubber stamped might be over stating but shipment reports from registered manufacturers are reported, audited and archived for a long time. Records of shipments are constantly monitored between the distribution centers. How much active ingredient was also explicitly decided by the DEA iirc. So if a manufacturer needed to increase it’s output of a schedule 2 narcotic by a significant amount it must request the additional quota and it then goes through an approval process.

To go a step further and show just how significant quota is let me give you an example:

You have a shipment of product ready to go. Certificates of Exceptions/Assay/whatever paperwork you need to release. It’s been transitioned to the distribution center. You then find something that impacts that material and it needs to come back to the manufacturing (gmp) area. Once that comes back into the facility and then leaves again it will count against your quota. If 100kg of active leaves twice it’s 200kg as far as the DEA is concerned and you will have to destroy the left over 100kg you were provided and did not use.

They don’t think about if people can or can’t. They genuinely do not care. It’s such a small amount to the people making the decisions that no further thought occurs.

Beware the DEA kids. They knew about all the oxy all along. They knew about all the hydro. They knew every single major shipment going to Florida, Kentucky and wherever else this whole time. They knew about the opioid epidemic and they rubber stamped every shipment and quota request for the people making the drugs.

I just bought a case (6) of Green Spot and a case of Redbreast. I’ll make it.

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