Real DOGMAN or WEREWOLF caught on camera? (footage analysis)
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Hey guys, this is Nick. Welcome to another episode of StrangeSpotting. Today I have something different in store for you.
We’re going to take a look at a piece of footage allegedly depicting a Dogman.
I think I should spend a few words for those who are not familiar with this cryptid.
Although not as prominent as Bigfoot, this creature is featured far and wide in legends and folklore from many different countries, and there are more and more people coming forward, thanks to paranormal-themed podcasts, describing terrifying encounters with this creature.
The physical details and behavioral patterns emerging from the interviews I have listened to are very consistent.
This creature is reported as a tall, bipedal animal resembling a cross between a human and a wolf, not too different from the common portrayal of werewolves in various media, absent the moonlight-induced transformation.
Without further ado, let’s get started.
I really hope you will enjoy this video as much, or even more than I did making it.
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footage info
The original clip was published on November the 23rd, 2015 by someone who clearly wishes to stay anonymous, given the “john doe” moniker. The description reads: “The camera died during this filming. This is raw footage filmed on a Blackmagic camera (notorious for battery issues). The person that gave me this footage does not wish to be identified but has stated that he will interview and comment with his face blurred.”
Despite the last comment, the author of the clip has never been interview, at least to my knowledge. All we know is that it’s referred to as a “he”, and his camera brand, BlackMagic.
It’s important to notice that this is the only video ever published on John Doe’s channel, and there is no information available in the “about” section, no playlists and no featured channels. The other suspicious element is the supposed double anonimity, if we are to believe that the author and the publisher are two separate individuals. The only thing available for the analysis is the clip itself. Although this lack of information is certainly not sufficient ground for labelling this video a hoax, it is undeniably an element undermining its credibility.
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author’s behavior
The first reaction in watching this 12 seconds clip would be to dismiss the author’s behavior as essentially transparent, and therefore not an aspect to consider in the analysis. That’s what I’m concerned with, though. I have a few observations to make.
The first one is that the footage is shot at very close proximity. Unless it has been enlarged and cropped, we can infer that the camera-holder is a few feet away from the alleged creature. There’s no way to establish if the author is standing or crouched down given that the ground is never in the frame.
The second observation is that we have no way of knowing what happened right before and right after the recording.
If we assume for a moment that this is not a hoax, there are two possible scenarios.
Either the author noticed some some animal in the thicket and recorded it, only to run away right after realizing it was not a known species but something bizarre and possibly very dangerous, or they had the bravery to record, with a very steady hand, something they knew was an anomaly from before hitting the record button, and stayed until the battery allegedly died. This is possible, but a bit less plausible for a couple of reasons. I am aware that providing an explanation which implicitly acknowledges the existance of Dogman is contradictory and not good logic, but all the interviews I’ve listened to describe encountering a dogman as something utterly terrifying that leaves serious pasychological scars in the form of post-traumatic stress disorder. Even if the author had never heard of Dogman before, it must be truly distressing to see something so culturally and biologically unnatural.
The third consideration is that the publisher claims this footage to have been recorded with a Blackmagic camera with notorious battery issues. If that’s to be believed, given the absence of metadata regarding the exact model, the most likely candidate is the first issue in the Blackmagic Cinema Camera product line, released in 2012 in the US market with an initial price of 2,995 US dollars. I have no way of knowing if the author payed full price or a second-hand one, but this model was definetely not you typical run-of-the-mill device. It was an expensive, professional pocket camera with very good capabilities for the time, and I can’t help wondering why the author was recording in that particular time and place with that model instead of a simple cell phone or cheaper consumer model hand camera.
So far, the odds are in favor of a hoax hypothesis instead of a prank or real biological creature.
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footage quality and details
I’m going to spend a few more words on the topic of the camera model. The first Blackmagic Cinema Camera could record video in different formats, with an HD or 2.5K resolution, and could even record 2.5k lossless raw footage, which was not a common feature for compact cameras at the time. The clip under scrutiny has good video quality, but I’m inclined to think that, even in non-optimal lighting conditions, that device could have produced better quality than this. I wonder why someone with a great camera, who allegedly recorded a legendary cryptid and chose to divulge the video would choose to convert it to something with less details and quality. This discrepancy doesn’t make sense, in my opinion, and I tend to view it as another element playing against the legitimacy of this clip.
In the previous section I asked you to assume that this is not a hoax. Now I am going to ask you the opposite, therefore that this is, in fact a hoax. How did the culprit, so to speak, achieve this result?
Did they use CGI, animatronics or a simple suit?
Anyone acquainted with the process of computer graphics and visual effects knows that the act of combining real film or video footage with computer-generated imagery is called Compositing. The problem with compositing is that it provides the best results when the virtual object or character or light effect has a clear separation from the surrounding. Even today it would be hard to pull-off a good compositing with a digital subject being put in the middle of branches and leaves like this. This footage looks too natural to be a combination of a real thicket and a digital dogman, therefore the whole scene should be CGI, but the details of the branches and the leaves look too natural, in my opinion. As you can see from the leaves in the foreground, the footage was shot in daylight. Perhaps not broad daylight, but I think we can agree that this was not shot during the night. The reason why I’m pointing this out is that I find it very hard to believe that someone could fall for a prank involving a guy dressed as a werewolf, or an animatronic puppet hidden in a bush in daylight. For these reasons, I am going to dismiss the prank hypothesis, and consider only the remaining two, with the hoax hypothesis clearly overwhelming the real creature one.
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subject’s physical features
The subject is not fully visible, so we must work with what’s in the frame to hopefully shed more light on which hypothesis is more plausible. The first thing I want to point out is that.. we don’t actually know if this thing is a dogman or not, wether real or hoaxed, because the primary characteristic of Dogmen as reported by eyewitnesses is their bipedalism. There’s no way to say if the subject here is standing or not, and neither if it can ambulate on two legs. We’ll have to make do with the fact that the facial features seem to be a mixture of human and canine ones, although the last ones quite exaggerated.
I’m going to use a stabilized, sharpened and more saturated version of the footage, and move from easier to harder characteristics to detect.
First of all, the subject’s body frame is visible on both sides. Here is its right side, and here is it’s left side. The lack of significant envoronmental references and the subject’s body almost fully covered make any attempt at estimating size futile.
All I’m going to say is that it appears to have very broad shoulders, but that of course is a subjective perception and doesn’t matter for the analysis.
What I deem very important here is to extrapolate all the movements that happen in the clip.
The first, quite easy thing to notice are the ears. Both ears move. This is the subject’s right ear making an upward tilt, and this is its left ear making both an upward tilt and a slight rotation.
Now look at how the muzzle and mouth close, then open, then close again. Here is the right eyelid blinking, and here’s the left eyelid blinking.
I’ve increased the lighting dramatically to focus on something that, in my opinion, was the hardest thing to notice. Look at its left shoulder in this portion of the clip. What do you notice? The subject’s shoulder is moving due to the rib cage contracting and expanding. In other words, this thing is breathing.
Here’s the clip with different enhancements for a few last details.
It’s a bit hard to notice but the gums are visible here. As for the well-concealed elephant in the room, what makes the “guy in costume” explanation less plausible is the unnatural position of the head in relation to the torso. Here’s an outline of the subject’s body and head frame, and here’s an ultra-basic representation of the camera’s direction and field of vision, and of the spine and segmentation.
At this point, we have some elements that weaken all three types of hoaxes. The CGI is very unlikely, the movements of ears, mouth, eyes and the unnatural head-neck-body arrangement make the costume hypothesis extremely unlikely. The only plausible explanation could be animatronics, but the fluidity of motion in the facial features and the natural-looking breathing mechanics seem incompatible with it. I suppose such results are achievable today, but they probably would require Hollywood-level practical effects and great financial effort.
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motive
Before moving on to the conclusions, I think I should spend a few words about motive. So far, the only acceptable explanation is animatronics. Perhaps I have a tendency to over-rationalize things, but I find it very hard to believe that a vfx artist would spend a great amount of money (probably in the 6-to-7 digits ballpark) to create one of the most, if not the most advanced animatronics puppet in the world, capable of simulating complex and fluid facial movements and breathing mechanics, for a 12 seconds clip published with no information and no context on YouTube, which faded into obscurity, without ever taking credit for it?
FINAL THOUGHTS
In drawing things to a close, I’d like to go over the observations made along the video, in terms of positive and negative elements regarding the legitimacy of this video. We touched upon many different aspects and features, and I think I should do an ulterior breakdown for how a hoax could have been achieved.
First of all, the prank hypothesis was discarded for the following reasons:
if CGI was used, there’s no prank at all. If the hoaxer used a costume or an animatronics puppet, the notion that someone could fall for it in daylight is untenable.
As a general hoax vs real creature comparison, we observed that the footage was published by an anonymous individual, claiming to do it for another anonymous individual who said would answer to questions in camouflaged interviews but never did. This was the only video ever published on a channel with zero information.
The only pieces of info provided was about the camera brand, and the fact that the battery died while recording, but the footage quality is not consistent with what the most likely model for that time, the first issue of Blackmagic Cinema Camera, could generate.
As for the CGI hoax hypothesis, the only detail supporting it is some strange looking borders in the foliage. The detracting aspects are the extremely difficult composition for a mixed CGI effect, and the high level of details and natural look of the plants and of the lighting in the scene, which are inconsistent with computer graphics technical capabilities in 2015.
The costume hypothesis’ odds are greatly damaged by the ears, nozzle and eyes movements coupled with an unnatural downward tilt of the head and neck vs the spine.
The only tenable technical explanation would be extremely advanced animatronics, but the fluid facial movements and realistic breathing coupled with the great skill and money involved and lack of a clear motive diminish the odds of this hypothesis as well.
On the other hand, we don’t have enough elements to assign a great degree of plausibility to the “real creature” hypothesis,
but enough to consider it, in relative terms, the one with the highest odds among the four options.
In conclusion, I consider the “Real Dogman or Werewolf Footage” moderately plausible evidence of the existence of a cynocephalus biological species.

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TL;DR Probably. Yes.
As HEE prepares to close its doors can we look at the difficult question of what exactly it is. Or was.
Applicants to Specialty Training Programmes may be surprised to find that if they are successful they are not being offered a contract of employment. Rather, they are offered a 'training agreement'. And as the HEE website carefully explains:- "... you will receive an offer of employment from your employer ....The offer of employment is distinct from the training agreement. You may change employers several times during your training period.".
We can come back to the 'training agreement' shortly, but in the meantime what precisely is the role of HEE in the employer-employee relationship? Clearly they are acting on behalf of, but are not themselves, the employer.
An employment agency is defined by statute as a business that provides services ... for the purpose of finding workers employment with employers, or supplying employers with workers who will be employed by them. The law distinguishes between Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses - the latter term is used for finding 'temps'.
Employment Agencies are very strictly controlled and regulated. A few key points are:-
Employment Agencies are required to notify work-seekers of the location/hours of the work, and the type of work that they will do, within three business days of an offer being made.
Employment Agencies are prohibited from making their work-finding services "conditional upon the work-seeker using other ... services provided by you". As we know, HEE not only handles recruitment but also manages several other aspects of training, revalidation and education.
The confidentiality of work-seekers is protected by regulations stating that agencies may not disclose information relating to a work-seeker, without the prior consent of that work- seeker, except in very specific circumstances and with prior consent.
The law expects the Employment Agency, and not the Employer, to:

1. Obtain and verify the necessary professional qualifications and identity, and 2 references (and provide copies of these for the hirer).
2. Ensure that the work-seeker is suitable for the role.
3. Ensure that the DBS checks are done
4. Obtain information from the hirer on health & safety risks and PPE that is provided
5. Detail the minimum pay and likely deductions

When work-seekers want to change jobs, Employment agencies can not subject a work-seeker to any detriment on the ground that—

• the relevant work-seeker has terminated or given notice to terminate any contract between the work-seeker and the agency or employment business, or
• require the relevant work-seeker to notify the agency or the employment business, or any person with whom it is connected, of the identity of any future employer of the relevant work-seeker.

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With all these restrictions and stipulations it is hardly surprising that HEE have tied themselves in knots in order to avoid having to comply with Employment Agency legislation or clarify what manner of beast they are. An attempt in 2010 to explicitly exempt them (or Deaneries as HEE was then called) from the EA restrictions was blocked by the short-lived pressure group RemedyUK .
AND looking at the 'Specialty Training Contract' is a strangely empty experience - the sample version in the Gold Guide appears to be merely a rehash of "Good Medical Practice" , together with some random clauses from an employment contract. But nowhere in it does HEE specify that it will provide any training.
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So are HEE an Employment Agencies? HEE itself doesn't seem to know although it does begrudgingly acknowledge that if turns out that it is then it would adhere to the law. But it should be easy to find out because the law requires that "Every advertisement issued ... by an agency or employment business shall mention ...whether the services it advertises are those of an agency or an employment business."
Surely both the Employers and Employees would like to know the answer.
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DoI - I'm not an Employment Lawyer, and I was policy lead for RemedyUK. Some further reading for those that are interested:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/3319/made
https://www.gov.uk/employment-agencies-and-businesses
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/936515/eas-brief-guide-for-agencies.pdf

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Next up in my reviews is a season I knew as soon as I landed on it was one with a lot of negative feedback and opinions and was curious as to why. And after watching it, I both understand and also found myself going "Why is this so hated?!". I know the timing of it, being after a classic then and now in TAR history and being right before the next one aired, didn't help. A few good changes made to the format, as this was the first season to require teams to split the roadblocks evenly after we saw just in the season before this the massive advantage all-male or coed teams had as compared to all-female teams since they just had the guy do every roadblock. Also, they limited the number of yields, though why you would have a yield on a non-elimination leg is confusing to me. Another thing which was new for me was a clip show in the middle of the season, and it struck me as odd til I read after I watched the season that they had to make a sudden change to the plan, which was going to be leg 6 being a non-elimination point where the last place team would lose their money. But they found out way too late that begging is illegal in Hungary, which turned the non-elimination leg into a superleg instead (the way that went did seem kind of odd, this explains it). They also visited Sri Lanka mere weeks before it was devastated by a massive earthquake/tsunami, that had to be jarring for the teams that went there, they film this weeks later and they would have been there during that. One nickname for this season was 'The season of love' because of how many couples were in the race, though it is most remembered for several controversial and TBH abhorrent actions and statements which earned a ton of backlash then and even to this day. One of the last seasons before social media really began to take off as a big deal which would make these actions and words infinitely more devastating if they had occurred in the age of Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, which also maybe in a way makes this one of the last uncorrupted seasons where we see these teams as their truest selves and not an image they want to project and protect online. I DON'T see this as a bad season, I actually see it as one of the better ones honestly. But exactly how good? Let's see....
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Freddy/Kendra - The maligned winners of the season, though not for anything they did in the race, unless you count him flipping out after the fence crashed down on his face (if you saw his face in the days after, you realized he took a massive shot with a heavy steel gate though, ouch!). That whole segment was chaos; all those teams ran to the board in such a frantic way that they tackled the damn thing to the ground and sent the numbers flying everywhere, that is awesome competition IMO. They were a solid team the first few legs and then became a true contender once out of Senegal. Speaking of Senegal, after they have to go to a graveyard, in the middle of the night, in a third world country in a sketchy area, she talks of not feeling safe (which I think was understandable, sense of humor from the producers taking them from Scandinavia to this) and then later on in the leg: "This city is retched and disgusting. They just keep breeding and breeding and breeding! And this poverty, I can't take it!". And upon leaving and going to Germany: "It's a big difference from ghetto third world.". I found myself saying "Oh god woman, please just zip it, you're not helping your image here". And with that, they were cancelled, except this was before cancel culture, though it was not something which went over well obviously. Later on, upon going back to Africa, she referred to it as third world and ghetto again but said it was a poverty they seemed to like. Ugh, you're trolling right? I get the hate she gets, lots of snobbery and stupid statements, but I stop short of calling her racist. I live in a very narrowminded area of the US, I have seen and heard true racism, this wasn't racism nearly as much as it was elitism, classism and ignorance on her part. That doesn't make it right, still deplorable comments, but not everything is racism. She said postrace: "I was actually talking about the government and how they put people in these situations. They don’t give them opportunities for education or birth control.", which is true for a good deal of Africa TBH but that is a convo for a whole other subreddit and I didn't really buy it from her either, but a good excuse FWIW. Anyway, we got a perfect night and day comparison at the detour in Ethiopia at the mud huts; Freddy injures and bloodies his finger, and she is concerned and wants him to get it checked out, Victoria injures her hand and Jonathan completely ignores her cries of pain, earning yells from Kendra to check on his wife. And that whole segment earned some brownie points from me, as it showed her to not be this evil wench who looked down on everyone (kudos to the producers). She got major stomach issues not long after, and already had her dormant asthma pop up earlier, so this team suffered for their win. In the end, they survived a yield (which was so stupid of Adam/Rebecca and maybe cost them the race in hindsight) and win based on just getting a slightly earlier flight than Kris/Jon. Very divisive winners I know, but they were deserving ones, though not the best team of the season as that honor goes to either Hayden/Aaron or Kris/Jon. I know they went ahead and got married and had a few kids, but are now divorced sadly.
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Kris/Jon - Are they the best team ever to not win the race? Maybe, their composite average score is insane, and they were almost never in danger of elimination, 4 1st places, 4 other 2nd places. And in a season of tons of internal romantic strife, they were the one couple who got along great and they were just long distance dating. Saw they attended Hayden and Aarons wedding and they did indeed wind up getting married and have 2 sons, so they really were what you saw on there, a perfect match. I loved this team; they made it a mission to run it as just them as a team and no massive alliance or reliance on others, they said they wanted to run it the right way and unlike a few other teams I have heard say that, they really did. You saw he was infatuated with her several times, one that sticks out to me was when she was doing the salt roadblock where they had to go into the water and bring these heavy buckets of salt to shore and you couldn't surgically remove his smile seeing her stripped down and soaking wet as she was powering through this (and then the producers did a slo-mo on her lolol, they definitely knew they had a very photogenic female cast this season just saying). But he proved it wasn't just her being hot, he really had a love for her (as we can tell by now obviously). All throughout the race, they were very composed and didn't argue, in Sri Lanka they got a blessing of sorts from a monk and point out they are religious, but in another reason why I loved them there was no judgment or yapping about how their religion was the right one (seen that a few times) or proceeding to bring up their faith about 300 times afterwards. Some of that is thanks to editing, but let's face it, if they had been like that it would have been included. It was a shock to see them actually get pissed when in China due to repeated bad taxi drivers (was very common there, as I'll mention with another team) and he actually just tosses money at one in anger). But at this point, with how few teams are left and how long they've been going and how far they have already traveled, fatigue has to have set in. It's pretty obvious just looking at them at the start of the next leg, they were worn out with bags under the eyes and drooped faces, all of them were. It really showed just how taxing this show is without even saying a word or doing anything. How sad that they lose in large part due to a train crossing in Chicago keeping them from maybe chasing Freddy and Kendra down, that and taking a later by minutes flight out of Hawaii. Their reaction in real time as they are paused at the train tracks was truly an epitome of sweet, as they just take it in stride and kiss, thankful for each other (bravo to the producers for capturing that and the camera work, talk about award-worthy, did this season win an Emmy?). I think a lot of the negative reaction to the season would have been nonexistent if they had won.
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Adam/Rebecca - What a mess they were. Always at odds, more often than not closer to the bottom than the top and yet they made it all the way to the final. She started off stupid by putting diesel fuel in a non-diesel car but rebounded from that to take charge of the team, almost to the point of her just doing everything by herself and completely excluding him, mainly due to him being utterly worthless, screwing up everything he touches and being scared of doing anything. He lost his mind on her and like a child, said he would never talk to her again... over his sunglasses. And when he isn't being worthless, he is threatening to off himself in a passive-aggressive way to get her to not stop being in a relationship with him or whining he wants to quit and go home, he really earned her nickname of 'wussy boy' for him (if the fact that he had his mom clip his toenails for him still when they met hadn't already done so). Can you blame her for saying she wanted their relationship to be done because he makes her miserable? She really seemed inspired to this decision upon seeing Hayden/Aaron and Kris/Jons relationships, that's what a relationship should be and not whatever they had, and she was right to be fed up with their toxicity together. Not surprised they officially were broken up not long after the race. In spite of all that, they legitimately could have won if they hadn't taken so long at the key roadblock in China, as if they had finished sooner they could have gotten on the same flights as the other finalists from China to Hawaii and then we could have had the most unlikely winners for me since the Beekman Boys. And she was guilty of controversy herself, also involving Africa: "I'd love to get out of Africa. I can see why so many people escaped.". This was as they were on their way to the House of Slaves in Senegal... Yeah, they weren't escaping, they were captured and taken. Dunce cap fits well on you, though once again I don't see it as racism, just ignorance.
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Hayden/Aaron - The actors, who were my initial pick to win it all (going with the team that wins the first leg, really going out on a limb there I know). They stood out to me immediately as a threat though, and not just cause she was at times falling or popping out of her shirt 😜 (WHAT? I can't be the only one who noticed, I'm a sick pervy man like all the rest, sue me later lol). But it was apparent early on they were very opposite in terms of approach to the race and overall personality; she is very much someone who feels all the stress and takes everything dead serious and important, he is relaxed "We'll just go with the flow" and as a couple that works a lot better than as a team in a race. In retrospect, her nagging and seriousness went up in intensity after they fell from the front to the back due to someone telling them the wrong time the town hall tower opens in Scandinavia and later their vehicle breaking down and also missing an exit in Hungary. But they loved each other, pretty obvious in spite of her nagging (which she fessed up to being a fault of hers) and his occasional teasing of said nagging. As they got to China, I had them pegged as a finalist for sure and then they had the day from hell. Everything that could go wrong went wrong for them all on the same leg; their taxi driver goes the complete wrong way TWICE, TWO SEPARATE OCCASIONS. And then at the key roadblock, her key breaks in one of the locks and she has to go and get another one and then after a lengthy battle with it, once the third team got it she just gave up and took the 4 hour penalty cause she knew it was over, just a complete hell leg to end all hell legs. They were both to blame for the elimination here; the frustration and frantic nature of hers got out of control while he was just too chill about it all, she knew their taxi driver was a dumbass the first time and he was just like "Let it play out" and they just got more lost. They finally get to their destination and... he goes and has them get with the same driver as before, who gets them lost again! Anyway, the anger from both of them was real, he almost tosses his bag off the mountain but then she breaks down and his anger subsides and he just holds her, all the emotion crashing down on them at that point. But the big story is, they go to the pitstop with the exes, resigned to their fate, get eliminated, and then... he drops to one knee and proposes to her! WOW. Apparently, he had been planning to do this at the end of the race all along, though it was hoped by him to be at the finish line as the winners, she accepts and there is Rebecca watching this all heart-eyed and you know she is envious, since she has expressed earlier that she wanted the type of relationship that they and Kris/Jon have, which is what was a big part of the issues she had with her partner, more award-worthy material here on the season of love lol. And in retrospect, his relaxed attitude towards the race, stating there is stuff much more important than money when she asked him if he even wanted to win, the signs were all there that he had ulterior motives for being on here. And at last check, they got their happily ever after, marrying with Kris/Jon in attendance and Kristy as a bridesmaid and they have 2 kids. Awwww.
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Lori/Bolo - Not the first pro wrestlers I have seen, though in this case I don't have any idea who they are (there are lots of independent promotions out there, not everyone is on TV, not even close). They were immediately entertaining, wrestling on a glacier in Iceland was something I certainly wouldn't have been able to not watch lol. I know it looked like there was major temper issues with how they talked to each other, her moreso, and I don't doubt there was some temper but as a wrestling fan I recognized a lot of it as wrestling promo style talking. He was the reason for them getting so far, he was such the never give up type. In Germany was where it shined, she was so negative and he refused to believe they were done despite being at the back of the pack, never stopped trying and they wound up catching up and getting out of last place. Even got to 1st place after a fastforward and for a bit I thought they had a chance at least to make it to the end, but they made the common mistake of not reading the whole clue in Sri Lanka and she wound up having to come all the way back down to get what she needed and boy did she rip him a new one for that, which was sad cause they were both to blame. Seeing this massive guy be so dejected that Kris even came over and comforted him, which out of context is funny to see someone so big being comforted, was sad. I am glad that once they were officially out, she emphasized that they had their differences and got on each other, but she saw him as the love of her life and was thankful to have him. Found out afterwards that he had been in the military at one point, and that actually fit. Beyond that, I know nothing of their lives after the race.
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Jonathan/Victoria - Oh boy, oh boy. Here we go; the 'stars' of the season and not for anything good. And a reason a lot of people cried foul over this season, which as someone who has sadly been in a home with domestic violence and also seen it happen to a few friends I completely get, as it was quite triggering for me too. Immediately, you get 'off' vibes from this guy as he proudly states "I'm a dictator". Also immediately, you see that the other teams are not at all comfortable with them, with him specifically, and that just grows as the season progresses (who knows what they witnessed with this team?). He is constantly screaming at and berating his wife. The guys massive ego is always present, from his habit of taking his shirt off constantly and even stripping almost completely in Ethiopia because... no fucking idea actually, to actually congratulating and praising himself out loud or bragging about owning a Ferrari and acting like he's some Hollywood mega producer, the next Bruckheimer right here. He shoves her early on, which seems to be overlooked for the later event, he yells at one of the female roomies and makes her cry, he screams at the exes to stop following him, he yells at musicians at a roadblock. Whether she meant to or not, she is giving away that this guy abuses her with a classic line about how she knows how to stay out of his way. And then, in Berlin (which, if you look back at it is possibly one of the most controversial episodes ever along with the preceding episode due to this as well as comments from Kendra and Rebecca), in a footrace to the finish line she dared to pick up his bag and was freaking out (probably in fear knowing what he would do to her) and they don't finish first as a result of her falling way back due to carrying both their bags, and he very angrily shoves her. Remember we had already seen him push her before, he had actually reared back like he was gonna hit her once or twice as well, this was the cherry on the sundae of not just them but an ugliness-filled episode (which I believe is the main reason for all the negativity about this season overall). From what I have found digging into it deeper, Phil did not actually see the shove happen, though he knew from his anger and her tears upon reaching the mat that something bad was going on. At this point, I legit asked myself "At what point does the show step in?", cause he is obviously unstable, obviously abuses her (more than once you see her with bruises in various places, which further angered me), I know it's Reality TV but when do you say enough and stop the madness? He continued his antics afterwards, throwing papers at and berating a travel agent, pestering Gus incessantly over taking "his" flight, goes off on a taxi driver so much they kick him out. She is acting pretty insane herself at this point, always screeching like a banshee and making excuse after excuse for him. They are finally eliminated in Ethiopia when their combined psychosis caused them to misread the clue and have to go back. Holy shit, and it doesn't end there with these 2. They both went on Dr Phil, and also on Fear Factor where they both got eliminated after she punched another contestant for taunting her and then when the host scolds her, Jonathan attacks him, WTF! And dear god, they had a baby, that poor kid. They divorced in 2010, he has since remarried and apparently has custody of their kid, IDK what the hell is going on with her but she is obviously fit for a padded cell, or at least was at the time. He always was and likely still is. I mean, she had a voice which could crack glass at times, she was no angel, but this was a textbook case of battered wife and it was frustrating and painful to watch, I found myself seeing this as a tale of 2 seasons almost, before and after this ultimate dysfunctional couple, as I found the second half without them a lot more enjoyable. This wasn't an entertaining villain story; this was a deadly serious potential tragedy waiting to happen with this guys frame of mind and not just with her but other contestants as well. Fighting is one thing; this was so much more than fighting and IDK if the network thought it was entertainment for all to witness spousal abuse but if they did, they deserved some major backlash. Hopefully Phil didn't see this happen, cause if he did and just played it off that would definitely alter my opinion of him in a bad way.
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Gus/Hera - Alarm bells rang for me with them instantly due to him trying to forge some big alliance to eliminate everyone one by one ("NOOOOOOO!!!"), but then he turned out to be mediocre and one of his chosen allies was the first eliminated and that went out the window. This was not a team that was meant to last long, there was no reason they should have lasted so long, and they were one of the most confounding teams I have witnessed, as they somehow finished in the front of the pack more than once. I really don't get how; between him being really out of shape, his asshole talk of "My daughter will always obey me, my way is the only way" as their approach to the race and him chiding her for driving too fast and to let all the other teams pass them, you do know this is a race right? And he gave off hints of having a drinking problem in Berlin too; they have that detour with the beer and he keeps stopping and taking swigs of beer, even when they succeed at it, he wants to stay, in the middle of the fucking leg, so he can drink more beer. It would certainly explain his massive gut if he did have one. When they got eliminated, at least we got him finally viewing his daughter as a friend and equal. Some darkness postrace though, as years later her infant son died, and the father of the baby was charged with murder. Damn.
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Don/Mary Jean - The elder sweethearts of the season. I admit I was salty over them being there longer than the Mormon sisters, but they were not awful people or anything. They stated from the start they knew they would have to rely on smarts to succeed and survive, cause there was no chance they would be able to compete physically (which I'm sure they realized even more when they saw models and pro wrestlers among their competition lol), and they never did TBH, lots of bonehead mistakes. Early on, he just takes charge and doesn't listen to his wife (lots of that this season with guys and their female partners, maybe another reason for the bad rap this season has) but they work that out; though they admitted postrace that a lot of their conflicts were not shown, so it wasn't all lovey-dovey. And then, right out of a detour, they take Adam/Rebeccas car by accident. If you could have seen my face when that happened, I was almost as freaked out as Rebecca was lol. And Mary Jean didn't want to go back originally! Little question: what would have happened if they just said fuck it and went to the pitstop in their vehicle? Or if they had gone back and Rebecca/Adam had already left in their car or someone else's? And if it had been someone else's, would all the teams have just wound up in the wrong car? Would Phil and the producers just halt everything and say "ENOUGH! Let's try this again and this time make sure to take your vehicles only"? The possibilities make me laugh to think about. Anyway, seeing him cry cause he loved and respected his wife so much at the salt detour, as she had to take on the muscle-aching task since he got sick on the fishing boat prior, was the type of love to aspire for (I'm a sap, I know), plus seeing the locals give her a round of applause for succeeding at it (meanwhile, much younger and fitter Adam is squealing and crying like a toddler doing it SMH). They couldn't get out of their own way though with all the mistakes and came in last twice in a row, no surviving that. Sadly, old Don passed away last year. One real funny moment for me; them being caught in the middle of the fight at an airport between Hayden/Aaron/Freddy/Kendra and the wrestlers, they're all yelling at each other with the actors and wrestlers in front of them and the models right behind them and they just have this look on their face which says "I don't want to be involved in this, we've already raised our kids and have no interest in being parents to little kids again, which is how you're acting so please stop". I rewatched that a few times, cause as a body language observer you could read this is what was their dominant thought 😆
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Lena/Kristy - This one here is something which is in the annals of TAR history due to how they went out, which also pissed me off TBH. Early on, I thought they could go a long way, as they seemed to have good enough heads on their shoulders and were aware of certain things (they seemed to be among the first who deduced something was seriously wrong with Jonathan). They struggled in leg 2 due to going the wrong way to the detour before turning around and surviving, and they were a frontrunner in the next leg when they hit the hay bale detour. And they never left said detour. What a herculean effort by Lena; 8+ hours, approximately 100 bales of hay pushed and undone, and they never found the clue, never gave up and Phil had to come out and tell them they were eliminated. This kind of pissed me off, this wasn't a test of skill or speed, it was essentially a game of luck which eliminated them and honestly, especially considering a few legs later they had to merge 2 legs into 1 mega leg, they should have called another audible and made this a non-elimination cause they didn't finish last thru any fault of their own and were just victims of chance. Not to mention holy shit the work she put in there, no hysterics, no yelling or tantrums, she just kept going even when they knew it was over. They deserved to continue, and they deserved a second chance which they unfortunately never got. Found out afterwards that Kristy was a single mom of an 8 year old at the time and had recently moved to Denmark, since then she got married and expanded her family, plus she was a bridesmaid for Hayden and Aaron, I have no clue about Lena. They are in the history books though thanks to one of the most infamous roadblocks ever.
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Meredith/Maria - I liked them, get that out of the way first. But they sucked at this, sorry. In Iceland, they damn near go all the way to the next destination before realizing "Oops, we missed a clue". They then couldn't drive worth a damn in Norway, one of them broke down crying because of verbal abuse from cokehead Jonathan, they were crap at the detour and finish last despite one team just ahead of them getting a 30 minute penalty and another going the wrong damn way to the pitstop for a while. Nice girls, great friends, but they did almost nothing good in terms of racing sad to say.
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Avi/Joe - Nice knowing you lol. I actually was a bit surprised they were the first ones gone, one of them boasting in the intro how super-competitive he is and will run over anyone to win actually cost them in the end, as they didn't believe Gus/Hera when they said where the pitstop was and wasn't because he was so sure they were being screwed with. Not a ton more to say about them, but the only all-male team being the first elimination was maybe a harbinger of this being the season of couples lol.
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So, I for the most part loved this season. Sorry to those who hated it, but I found the general lack of drama and hate between teams, as well as lack of alliances, so refreshing. It didn't lack drama though, as it all occurred within the teams, which I know was a downside for some critics. Lots of romantic relationship squabbles, at times you felt like Dr. Phil or Dr. Drew could have dropped in with these teams issues and it would have felt right at home lol. And I'm not naive enough to think that the statements and actions of a certain few contestants didn't cloud the judgement of some when it comes to this season, and I get it. But the path, while somewhat stifled at times, was a good one regardless; with trips to Iceland, Scandinavia, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, a Mediterranean French island, China and Hawaii all being gorgeous trips (camping on top of a glacier? That church dug hundreds of feet into the ground in Ethiopia? Anything Hawaii? The mountain in China? Awesome!). There are some big negatives though to take into account and they are obvious ones; Jonathan and Kendra to pinpoint 2 specific people. His repeated actions of flatout domestic abuse was so tough to watch, and yes it is domestic abuse when you're shoving and smacking at your wife (and bruises were visible on her at times) and that doesn't even take the psychological torment he dished out. And the fact that none of the producers stepped in when it was so obvious and public is similar to them letting the cowboys many seasons later get away with blatant homophobia and homophobic bullying, which is a tough pill to swallow. And Kendras repeated classist takes on Africa, whether they were taken out of context or edited in such a way to make her look as awful as possible or not, were another black eye on this show, though I have already explained that I don't think she was saying it from a race viewpoint as much as classist and ignorant of those who live under less idyllic conditions. This is in the upper echelon for me thanks to a litany of teams I could get behind at least somewhat, the 'villains' being ousted at the halfway mark and a true sense of every team for themselves. And from a shallow perspective, we have to point out how photogenic the cast was this season with lots of attractive people (maybe my favorite group of women overall based on looks alone 🔥🔥) which I have to point out that if you look into their backgrounds you realize certain info was excluded from the tv presentation to avoid people going "How obvious what you looked at when casting". Hayden/Aaron were not the only actors, as Rebecca was one too and Victoria had a little experience there along with being a Playboy Playmate. And it being a very up for grabs season helped as well, as once it got to 6 teams, I legitimately said to myself "All of these teams can win this" and would be deserving too (though not necessarily make me happy in every instance). But those big negatives take it down a few pegs, seriously if Jonathan wasn't in this or had been eliminated earlier that probably gets it an extra .25 - .50 points alone lol. And that final stretch was the laziest and worst one I have yet to see; to determine the winner of a million dollars you have to... take a subway train to a tower and then eat a small pizza?! If that was all you were gonna do, you should have just ended it in Hawaii or China. It sucks that this season gets such a bad rap for the actions of a few (don't throw the baby out with the bathwater to borrow an old phrase), cause it is a great one filled with eye-popping locales, wall-to-wall competition from start to finish (the final teams looked so exhausted at the end, you could tell by that and their extremely easy frustration the final few legs they had been in a tight race and not one they were cruising through at any point) and a lot of good all-around teams who, while they have flaws as people are generally inoffensive (save for 1 or 2 certain ones), plus are great to look at (they had to swim across that pool in Sri Lanka for what reason other than to get these beautiful people to strip down and get soaked at the pitstop when they easily could have just stepped on the mat lol, another classic sight was seeing 3 teams all jump in there at the same time, competition is awesome!) so even if they frustrate you could just enjoy on mute lolol. I give this season a 4 out of 5, and it would be maybe my 2nd favorite season only behind S5 were it not for the ugliness of Jonathan/Victoria as well as Kendra, plus the worst final leg ever.
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Damn, this is a long post, my apologies for the lengthy read but I had a lot to say about this one.
Ratings:
S5 - 4.75/5
S15 -4.5/5
S13 - 4.5/5
S6 - 4/5
S1 - 3.75/5
S27 - 3.5/5
S25 - 3.25/5
S21 - 3.25/5
S23 - 3.25/5
S2 - 3/5
S19 - 2.5/5
S29 - 2.5/5
S16 - 1.75/5
S32 - 0.25/5

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I have a clear phone case and I just want to keep it simple. Yellow.
I have a samsung s20 ultra case, so the walls of the case are rounded. Would it be difficult to paint that?
Also what type of paint should I use? I saw that there are acrylic paints and oil paints and water paints. Which is best?
Also, I watched a video of a guy who painted the inside of his phone case and after a few weeks the paint started chipping and rubbing off. Should I expect this?
Also, is using a clear coat a good idea? If yes, are there different types of clear coats?
I'm a first timer so sorry about all the questions.

hi! how long does post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation last? So my cat has fleas and I got bitten all over my body! :( It all started in the first week of February. So can you guys recommend me a good product to completely remove my dark spots due to flea bites? My skin is light so it is VERY visible. I can't wear any shorts or skirts because of my hyperpigmentation. So please recommend me a good product, I am from the Philippines so if you are from PH pls comment down some good affordable products, if you aren't please still recommend me! Thank you so much <3
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OH! and btw I heard bio oil is good for these types of problems. Is it true? I am really desperate to remove the hyperpigmentation

Hi all.
Question in the title. This essentially means, that setup will be build around engaging and fun combat, monster diversity, bouty hunting, and, ideally alchemy.
Core mods (unrelated to witcher) are

1. Full Enai Suite (Imperious, Wildcat, Andromeda, Ordinator, Odin, Triumvirate, etc)
   
2. Vcin Trilogy (Because between-worlds traveling and overall grimdark).
   

What do I need to find?

1. Alchemy system or something that adds oils vs different types of monsters. So I have to prepare properly before fight and put my brains into it more.
   
2. Witcher-like monster mods. Obviously Mihail, but is there more aside his works on the topic?
   
3. Player house matching the aesthetics and with remote retrieval system (like in Aemer's Refuge) as my main base of operations.
   
4. Decent Triss Follower with custom voice from CDprojectRed.
   
5. Geralt or other fitting voice for PC Heaftracking and Voice.
   
6. Good set of different Witcher swords, that can be upgraded and have tiers. I remember using that in LE. Have no idea if it is on Se.
   
7. Good dodgeroll mechanic mod.
   
8. Maybe some suggestions for combat mods that can be used along/instead of Wildcat?
   
9. Anything other that may make game more Witcher-y.
   

Thank you in advance.
Oh, and, what I already have - music and sound mods and armor mods.

I have 4c low porosity type of hair and it keeps flaking. Trust I know it’s not dandruff. But anyways can anyone drop product recs or methods that don’t flake up your hair.
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My boyfriend now fiancé and I have been together several years . My monster in law of a future mother in law has never liked me and keeps making my life a living hell. Tons of melt downs, things I’m not invited to, and she’s constantly finding any way to talk shit about me. (Literally told everyone I ruined her birthday by showing up and that I was a c*unt) just because I wanted to have a date on vacation with my fiancé. She said I was taking away from family time.. when the trip was for me .. for my birthday not even originally a family vacation but she invited herself on it AND MADE US SHARE A ROOM for a WEEK. A lot of the time she acts like he’s her significant other. She has the expectation he needs to do things for her and only her and has made fun of him when he has gotten things done for me like an oil change or asks him why he does those things if we’re not even married yet . I understand son and mother relationships that are close so I’m not jealous of it when they go to lunch or the movies or anywhere close to home but she recently purchased tickets for JUST her and him to go out of the country for several weeks.
She has melt downs when him and I go out of down for a weekend get away for god sakes so I feel like I have the right to be upset, right ?
She has taken him away on the same main holiday all years we have been together, making excuses as to why I was not invited. Including birthday things she planned for him invited family and friends but not his girlfriend because she didn’t think I “would want a room to myself” as she said . She has had break downs about me and how I ruin her relationship with him but I honestly stay out of it and just don’t go around her because it brings me more anxiety than I can handle. I am a very if I don’t like you I don’t have to be around you and if I don’t want to deal with it, I won’t be around it type of person . If I feel fucked over I don’t give other chances but she has had plenty of time to fix things in the past but I’m exhausted and have zero interest in fixing it. She intentionally does things and says things about me to bother me .
I just don’t see how it’s okay for him to go but he doesn’t see it, am I in the wrong ?
Is it normal for mid 20s to travel with just their mom if their in a serious relationship or am I truly the AHole ?