The two easiest to understand effects are that bats will never hit you if they have another space they can go to (though if you walk into the only available space, they will still bonk you) and you'll always get an item from the Shrine of Chance.
As far as the "better items" thing I think all it does it cause the rarer items to show up in shops (and maybe containers?) more often. I'm sure somebody's extracted all of the percentages but I haven't really looked. It can be a double-edged sword if you're early on and/or don't have a lot of money, since the rarer stuff is usually harder on your coinpurse.
Basically every day, yeah. Still running weekly raids, doing progression on Ultimate Coils with main group.
In my opinion there's nothing unusual about having a crush/infatuation with someone you've only spoken with via text, but it doesn't really serve anyone to throw around things like "falling in love" if it's never gone beyond that. Talking through through text is much different than talking via voice chat, which is different than video, which is different than in-person, etc. You can't know your dynamic in those situations when all you have is text. Being a "hopeless romantic" may feel exciting or whatever but if you want to make something actually work with someone you need to be mature enough to realize the difference and put in the effort to elevate beyond a "text" relationship.
Not that I can recall.
I might get it at some point but pretty much all my gaming free time is spoken for at the moment.
Nah, not interested.
I know the series, I can't remember whether it was Oddysee or Exodus but I played a super small amount of one of the PSX ones. AFAIK they're pretty solid.
Feeling a little dumb every now and then is probably healthy actually as long as you don't beat yourself up over it. It happens to everyone eventually - we all make mistakes. If you feel that way about something it means you can use it as an opportunity to learn and grow so you can do better in the future.
I honestly couldn't tell you one way or the other. On YouTube? Probably not. If I actually start streaming more and get into that it's possible it could be done in a few streams but I'm certainly not making any promises.
To be honest, if I ever really get into doing any gaming video content again it would probably be on Twitch. The bottom is rapidly falling out of gaming YouTube anyway.
I dunno, just realize there's not really anything you can do about it. You do what you can in high school and you're either accepted or you're not.
Here's some stats:
http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=764
